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SIR JAMES' MACKINTOSH'S WORKS IN ONE VOLUME. On Tuesday, January 7, will be published, in One Volume, square crown Bvo., uniform with " Mr. Macaulay's Essays" and " The Rev. Sydney Smith's Works," with Portrait engraved by Great bach, and Tignette, price One Guinea, cloth ; or 30s. handsomely bound in calf by Hayday. SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S MISCELL A NEOUS WORKS ; Including his Contributions to the Edin burgh Review. Edited by R. J. MACKINTOSH, Esq. A New Edition, complete in One Volume. London : Longman, Brown, Green, a nd Longmang. • MRS. JOANNA BAILLIE'S WORKS IN ONE VOLUME. On Tuesday, January 7, will be published, n One Volume, square crown Bvo., uniform with the New Edition of "James Mont gomery's Poetical Works," with Portrait engraved by H. Robin son, and Vignette, price One Guinea, cloth ; or 425. handsomely bound in morocco by Mayday, JOANNA BAILLIE'S DRAMATIC and POETICAL WORKS. Now first collected, complete in One Volume, and comprising the Plays of the Passions, Miscellaneous Dramas, Metrical Legends, Fugitive Pieces, and Ahalya Baee. LoSdon: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. NEW WORK EY THE REY. ERSKINE NEALE On T L - E; DA , Ja nuary 7, fa, will be published, on One Volume, fcp. Svo. with Wood Engravings, price 7s. cloth. THEEARTHLY RESTING PLACES of the JUST. By the Rev. ERSKINE NEALE, M.A., Rector of Rirton, Suffolk ; Author of " The Life of the Duke of Kent," "The Bishop's Daughter," &e. By the same Author, in 2 vole. fcp. gvo. price 12s. cloth, The CLOSING SCENE. New Editions of the First and Second Series, Which may be had separately, price Gs. each. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman;. DR. SCHMITZ'S ABRIDGEMENT OF BISHOP THIRLIYALL'S HISTORY OF GREECE. On Tuesday, January 7. 1851, will be published, in 1 vol. 12cn0., price 7s. 6d. ch:th, - _ AHISTORY of GREECE, from the Earliest Time to the Taking of Corinth by the Romans, a. c. 14G, mainly baser' upon Bishop Thirlwall's History of Greece. By Dr. LEONHARD SCHMITZ, F.R.S.E., Rector of the High School of Edinburgh. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans; and John Taylor. THE WIDOW of the late THOMAS BELLIS, of Birmingham, returns her grateful thanks to those kind Friends by whose exertions her child, THOMAS BELLIS, became a SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE for admission into the Commercial Travellers' School at the election on Saturday, Dec. 28, 1850. December 30, 1850. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. James Anderson. The Performances (during the Holidays) will commence at Half. past Six precisely. Doors open at Six. THIS EVENING, Will be presented by her Majesty's Servants HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. J. Anderson ; Ophelia, Mrs. Walter Lacy. After which (fourth time) an entirely New Grand, Historical, Em blematical, Aerostatical, Gastronomical, Metaphorical, Musical, Poetical, Vocal, Municipal, Juvenile, Pantomical Pantomime, by the popular author of " Za-ze-zi-zo-zn," E. Fitzball, entitled HARLEQUIN and HUMPTY DUMPTY; or, Bobbin de Bobbin and the First Lord Mayor of Lun'nn. Private Boxes, 3/. 35., V. 12s. 6d., 2/. 25., 11. I Is. 6d., and Pl. Is. To be obtained on application at the Box-office ; 31r. Sam's Libarary, St. James's-street ; Messrs. Mitchell Ebers and Co. ; Andrews and Alcroft, Bend-street; at Jullien's Music Warehouse, Regent street ; Chappels, New Bond-street; Leader and Cocks, G 3, New Bond-street ; Ransford and Co., New Bond-street ; awl Bailey and Moon, Carlton Library. 12, Regent-street. Stalls, ss. each. First Price—Dress Circle, ss. ed. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit. 2s. 6d. ; Lower Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, Gd.. Second Price at Nine o'Clock—Dress Circle, 2s. 62. ; Boxes, 25.; Pit, Is. Gd. No Half-price to Upper or Lower Galleries. The Box-office open from 11 till 4. It is respectfully intimated that seats In the Boxes cannot be reserved after the First ct ofthe Play. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. MR. MACREADY. THIS EVENING, _ _ _ _ Will be performed KING LEAR. King Lear, Mr. Macready. After which a new translation of TIE SECOND CALENDAR and the QUEEN of BEAUTY who bad the Fight with the Genie. Frincipil characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Selby, Lebarr, Buckstone, Mrs. L. S. Buainghatn, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Miss P. Horton, and Miss A. Romer. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will b• performed a new and original Drama. entitled JESSIE GRAY. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Boyce, 0. Smith, I'. Bed fora, Madame Celeste, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. To be followed by a new Extravaganza calle4 L.A. TARANTULA ; or, the Spider King. Characters by Messrs. Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Miss K. litzwilliam, Madame Celeste, &c. To conclude with THE MARRIED BACHELOR. ROYAL rraNcEss's THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Keaa and Mr. Keeley. THIB EVENING, Will be performed the First Part of HENRY IV. Falstrff; Mr. Bartley. After which a new Comic Christmas Pantomime, called ALONZO THE BRAVE AND THE FAIR IMOGENE ; or, Harlequin and the Baron all covered with Jewels and Gold. Clown, Mr. Flexmore ; Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and Columbine, Miss Carlotta Le Clercq. Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. Massingham ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office, Oxford-street, from Eleven till Feur o'clock. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATTCE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE HANDSOME IRTSBAN - D. Attcr which an entirely new and oeginal Fairy Extravaganza, to be called KING CHARMING ; or, the Blue Bird of Paradise. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, llorneastle, Suter, Bellingham, and Honner ; Madame Vestris, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Ellis, Mrs. C. Horn, Miss St. George, and Miss Martindale. To conclude with THE EINGDOVES. ROYAL OLYMPIC TIIF,ATRE. Re-engagement of Mr. G. V. Brooke. TIIIS EVEtiI)CG, Will be performed TILE STRANGER. To conclude with PRINCE Doßus; or, The Romance of the Noee. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Extraordinary series of attractive novelties. THIS EVENING The Grand new Spectacle of KENNILVt ORTH ; or the Golden Days of the Virgin Queen, with new and costly costumes. Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle, introducing the Magnificent Stud and Company of unequalled Artistes, also, (sr the first time in England, M. Ghelia, with his three highly-trained Steeds, M. Nicolo Plige, the great Barrel Equilibrist, and the Bro thers Francisco, from the Hippodrome, Paris. To conclude with an entirely new and original grand historieal Equestrian Christmas Pantomime, written expressly for this Theatre, by the author of " Bluff King Ilal," to he entitled HARLEQUIN AND O'DONOGIDLTE ; or, The White Horse of Killarney. Box-office open from Eleven till Your. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE Tilts DAY —Morning 46 min. MU? H I Evening 0 ann. after 0 To•Molsow—Morning 13 min. after 12 I Evening 36 rain. after 12 THE WEATHER.—Surx OFFICE, DECEMEER 29. THERMOMETER, LN THE SHADE. 43—highest since noon yesterday. 33—lowest this morning and during the night. 44—this day, at noon. Beim s, 30.23. WIND Westerly—fine cool breese, with occasional sunshine Afternoon, dull. MONDAY, Dic. 30. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 46—highest since noon yesterday. 38—lowest this morning and during the night. VS— this day, at nom. BAROMETER, 29 . 98. WIND W. - dull, cloudy weather. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock on Saturday morning.—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. KINGSTOWN (DUBLIN) —Wind W.N.W., strong breeze— scud. PLYMOUTH—Wind N.W., calm—partially cloudy. PORISMOUTII—IN ind S. W., gentle breeze—cloudless. SouTHAstrros—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—foggy. BasiNagroKE —Wind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. GREENWICH—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. SWINDON—Wind S.W., light airs—cloudless. OXFORD—Wind W., calm—partially cloudy. CoLcuEsTzs—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. RUGBY—Wind N.W., strong breeze—overcast. FICTEILBOROUGII—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. YARMOUTH—Wind N.W., strong breeze—cloudless. LYNN—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. CONWAY—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—cloudless. HOLYHEAD—Wind W.N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. LtvEnPooL—Wind W., calm—cloudless. MANCHESTER—Wind W., strong hreeze—overcast. WAITRY—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. DARLINGTON—Wind W., strong breeze—overcast. SUNDERLAND—Wind 4.W., strong breeze—clear. BEArrocK—Wind N.W., hard wind—rain. EDINBURGH—Wind W., hard wind—partially cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Friday morning at nine o'clock : CORK—Calm—heavy fog. Cae.now—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Blutnnyean—Wind W., calm—hazy. POOLE—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. HOLYHEAD—WiIIa W., gentle breeze—overcast. LEEDS Wind W.. strong breeze—partially cloudy. WiirrßY—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—principally clear. DARLDIGTON — Wind W., gentle breeze cloudless. CAALISLE —Wind S.E., breeze—overcast. V4_ ~, *".'. 441' *I jot . -(•""i".- , -: k , r , 4 1 • 340' • bRO 7 _ -,. N U.S. r• ' - ifl LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER ZO, 1850. The retreat of is large, Mrs. SLOANE has not as yet been discovered. She still at and laughs at those who speak of prosecutions while neglecting the obvious precaution so properly', insisted on by Mrs. GLASSE of " first catching their hare." Nor have any active exertions been made to render her amenable to justice and to ensure her presence at the time appointed for the trial of her husband. The warrant officer, it is true, oc casionally saunters down to Pump-court and inquires at the chambers whether she is at home. He may also ask a few questions of the porters and laundresses as to whether she has been seen in the neighbourhood, and receiving answers in the negative, thinks that he has done all that could be expected at his hands. Alderman liumrifEnx appears to be contented with, not a distinct assurance, but " being given to understand that Mrs. SLOANE will surrender at the Old Bailey to take her trial ;" while the guardians of the West London Union, who at the eleventh hour were induced to come for ward as prosecutors, did not receive with approbation THE SUN, the suggestion " that a reward of twenty ' pounds should be offered for her apprehension." Nothing, in fact, is done. The law is left to execute itself, and if Mrs. SLOANE chooses to come forward to abide the investigation into her conduct it must be altogether of her own free will and accord. We confess that we are not quite so credulous as Alderman HUMPHERY—We do not believe that she will make her appearance at the Central Criminal Court on the appointed day. Her friends, who have hitherto advised her to keep away from the police office, will think it desirable that the :opinion of a judge and jury should be previously taken on her husband's conduct ; and the learned counsel, who on the first hearing, when poor JANE WILBRED was in so precarious a condition, and when Alderman HUMPHERY issued his summons to Mrs. SLOANE to attend on the following week, made so many objections against the admission of evidence respecting matters that took place in the absence of his client, will see the great advantage of having an absent scapegoat to whose shoulders the principa atrocities may be transferred with impunity. We are, therefore, fully convinced that Mrs. SLOANE will not be forthcoming unless some more energetic steps be taken than any that have hitherto been tried. It is manifest that the Temple is the last place she is likely to visit, while desirous of re maining in concealment, and ROE, the warrant-officer, has no time to trace her out, from point to point in her wanderings—that is to say, if she has deemed it necessary even to leave the metropolis. If there be really any anxiety on the part of the guardians, or of the magistrate—whose singular leniency enabled her to make her escape—that she should be brought before a jury of her countrymen, the matter should be placed in the hands of the detective police, and a suitable reward proposed to stimulate them to the ut most exertion. We can only say that large sums have be en subscribed and offered for the capture of accused parties in cases of far less importance. The -proceedings during the adjourned examination on Friday principally related to attempted justifica tion by the guardians and by the presiding magis trate of their own conduct in the transaction. The former were desirous of showing that there was no want of alacrity on their part in vindicating the cause of the unfortunate girl who had been so long under their care and protection, the latter, of proving that he was not guilty of any oversight in affording an opportunity of escape to the female defendant. It is for the public to say whether they, or either of them, have succeeded in their objects. The case of the guardians is, that the first exami nation took place on Saturday, the 7th of December, the report of which was published in all the daily papers of the 9th instant. On Tuesday, the 10th, the usual :meeting of the board was held, and the case brought under their notice. " After* some delibera tion, they came to the conclusion that the matter was sufficiently important for the guardians to take it up" (this, be it remembered, is the statement of their own Counsel) ; " and a spe • cial meeting was called for the following Thursday." On theet day they entered into a correspondence with the Poor-law Beard on the subject, and determined " that their clerk should attend at the next hearing of the charge, and inform the magistrates of the great anxiety they felt with respect to their improper treat ment of the girl JANE WJLERED, and of their willing ness, .should it become necessary, to conduct a prosecu tion on her behalf, if they could legally do so (what reasonable doubt could be enter tained on this point ?) and that the Poor law Board had been communicated with, and their answer requested at the earliest possible moment." Even on their own showing there was no great alacrity exhi bited. There was, it appears, " some deliberation" bef(,ra the conclusion was arrived at that " the matter was sufficiently important for the guardians to take it up ;" and this with the full knowledge of all the hor rible and disgusting details contained in every public jJurmal of the Bth or 9th December ; and even then, in place of acting with the prompti tude and decision that might have been ex pected from any body of Englishmen, they only called a special meeting, at which they de cided on entering into a correspondence with the Poor-law Board to know whether they could " le gally" take up and conduct the prosecution against Mr. SLOANE. Alderman HUMPHERT, however, com pletely overturned this defence, such as it was, by showing that the original statements of Mr. PaILLI MORE and Mr. Far, •n applying for a summons, ap peared in the public journals of Thursday, the sth instant, the hearing of which took place on the 7th, but without any notice on the part of the guardians until the second hearing (ten days after the matter had been made public), and then they only sent their clerk to the office, but without any instructions save to be present at the hearing. We fear that the community will feel disposed to agree with the worthy Alderman, in thinking that, "to say the least of it, it showed a want of feeling on the part of the guardians." We cannot, however, say that Alderman Hum ?HERZ was so successful in vindicating himself as he was in overturning the defence of the guardians. All he said was, that " had he known that Mrs. SLOANE, was so • deeply implicated at first, he would have taken such precautions as would have insured her apprehen sion." We beg the Alderman to refer to the depositions or even to the published reports, to which he himself alluded, of what took place on the first examination (we shall not pollute our columns by a repetition of the revolting narrative), and to say whether every point was not brought out as clearly and distinctly against Mrs. SLOANE, as it has been at any time since. He cannot say that such was not the case, or seriously endeavour to justify himself against the charge of gross and culpable apathy. In truth, both Alderman and guardians have been singularly negligent, and we can only hope that they will by their future activity make the only reparation in their power for their Ormer omissions. At a season when the wealthier portion of the community is most charitably disposed, when the wants of the living are more generously cared for than at any other period of the twelve months, it may not be amiss to urge upon general attention the wants of the dead, or, in other words, the necessity of providing decent sepulture for the indigent. Hitherto no provision whatever has been made towards the alleviation, in this way, of the impoverished and in dustrious classes of the population. Last session, it is true, a Bill passed through Parliament with a view to prevent the indecorum of further burials in the me tropolis, and to provide for the humbler section of its inhabitants the advantages of economical interment. Unfortunately, however, by this time the utter ineffi cacy of that measure has become apparent. Instead of preventing in any manner the contamination of the atmosphere of London by the crowding yet more of its intramural churchyards with decaying masses of core ruption—it has taken to itself the shape of a kind of legis • lative shield under which that iniquitous system may still flourish. Several of the most pestilential of our metro politan pits of death—(pits of death, alas ! in more senses than one) —have been re-opened since the pas sing of the above-mentioned enactment; and in one or two instances the record of fatal cases of cholera in the vicinity has been the consequence. The reality of this is unhappily attested in the gloomy circulars of the Registrar-General. Such being indisputably the case, it must be sufficiently manifest, we presume, that precautionary arrangements must be adopted for the dissipation of a source of wretchedness so fruitful in its character by some means more efficient than a feeble and paltering effort on the part of the Legislature. The truth is, neither the Government nor the Parliament are as yet adequately im pressed with a conviction that the maintenance of the custom of intramural interment is destructive to the health of the living, injurious to the sacred associa tions connected with the dead, pernicious to the cause of public morality, and baneful to the interests of religion. Yet such it unquestionably is, and such it has long shown itself to be in the judgment of all true sanitary reformers. So important, in fact, are the evils resulting from the infrequency cf the patronage afforded to ex tramural cemeteries as the fittest place . for the repose of the departed, that some of the principal advocates of sanitary innovation have accorded to the reform of our system in this particular the most prominent place in the catalogue of their improvements. Neither have they in so doing been in any way mistaken, or carried away by an exaggerated sentiment of enthusiasm. Before any good can be effected for the living multitude some such benefit as the one here indicated must be secured to the remains of the dying multitude. To act otherwise would be in the gravest sense of the word reprehensible. So long, for example, as the spots selected for the reception of the departed were allowed to remain within the limits of our great cities, in the midst of the dwellings of the people, reeking with pestilential vapours and scat tering poison over the air inhaled by the surround ing inhabitants, so long would it be idle to attempt anything like a purgation of our crowded localities from the destructive influence of contagious and infectious maladies. It would be as it were healing one wound :at the moment of in flicting a variety of others. The truth of this, with the generality we are rejoiced to think, is by this time so obvious as to preclude us from the necessity of further argument. To the Go vernment and the Legislature, however, we have unfortunately yet to bring home a similar con viction. We have yet to force upon them a just appreciation of the stain we are solicitous to. aid in obliterating. We are compelled, for this purpose, to reiterate again and again assertions, the repetition of which has rendered them for some time past familiar to the mass of the population. Unsa tisfactory as this constant revival of a most painful theme must appear to many, we are sanguine that the remembrance of our pertinacity upon the subject may ultimately prove not unpleasing to ourselves. Nor can we induce ourselves to imagine that it wil t be different with our readers—with that earnest portion of them, at least, whose sympathies are in a olved in the progress of the sanitary move ment. Let them call to mind the man ner in which the most remarkable changes have been brought about in our social and political systems, and they will recollect that in all the means adopted by the successful Reformers have been invariably those of unflagging determi nation and inexhaustible perseverance. So it must be, we are conscious, with this long 'desired innovation. From the first we recognized the labours that would have to be accomplished, and the disappointments that would have to be incurred before the time of its ulterior acquisition. That time, we are satisfied, though long delayed, is now rapidly approaching. Many imagined that last session was the period in ques tion, and that from the passing of the late enactment might be dated the extinction of intramural interment. Those who have even cursorily watched our argummts on topics of a sanitary ten dency cannot but have observed that m e have sedulously kept ourselves aloof from the influence of any such illusion. Throughout the whole of the various stages of its progress through the two Houses of Parliament we protested against the Bill as one almost certain to be inopera tive, or, if in any way operative, operative only to the injury of the population. Scarcely a quarter of a year has elapsed since the legis lative transformation of the measure into an enactment, and already our predictions have been lamentably verified. They have been verified by the continuance of intramural burial in the metropolis, by the keeping open of those most unwholesome dens of abomination, which are not less curses to the contiguous multitude than they are insults to the sacred name of Christianity. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of Saturday and of yesterday. The discussion on Friday in the Assembly, of some amendments proposed by M. D'AaiLAT, in the Algeria Commercial Regulation Bill was interrupted by The Minister of the Interior, who regretted the neces sity under which he was placed to give some explana tions relative to a personal matter. A letter, signed by M. Pascal Duprat, appeared in one of the morning jour nals, in which that gentleman formally contradicted a statement of his respecting an alleged report, which ha (the Minister) declared on Saturday he had never re ceived or seen. That report described abuses occasioned by the lottery of the gold ingots, and which M. Pascal Duprat maintained had been addressed to him by one of the chiefs of his administration towards the close of October. The style of that document sufficiently demon strated that it could not emanate from his administra tion. Nevertheless, on his return to the Ministry, he directed search to be made in order to ascertain if any trace of that document could be discovered in his cffice. He had examined the chiefs of the different branches of the Home Department, and, being satisfied that it had never existed, he inserted a note to that effect in the Monitetr of Tuesday. Now:this morning a letter pub li,hed in a journal, and signed by M. reseal Duprat, asserted that the report had been drawn up at the request of the Minister, and affirmed that the latter had read it.—(Murmurs in the Assembly.) After reading that letter he ordered fresh investigations, and requested the Prefect of Police to make similar inquiries in his offices. An hour before the sitting the paper he held in his hand was disco vered. It was not a report, it was a mere note, ad dressed to him by Messrs. Dumartroy and Lasalle, who asked to be authorised to establish a lottery of 6,000,000 f., as a complement to the lottery of the gold ingots, the proceeds being intended to afford the emigrants means of subsistine , in California sifter their landing. That note had been a ddressed e i to the chief of his Cabinet, M. Mauroy, who after perusing it transmitted it to the Pre fecture of Police, with a letter stating that some useful information might be found in it respecting the lottery of the gold ingots. Now, he was justified in affirming that the document in question was not a report, but a mere petition, addressed to him by a speculator. (M. Duprat, here interrupting the Minister, said, " Name a jury of honour to examine the affair.") The Minister replied that the jury of honour he would appoint was the Na tional Assembly, to whose esteem he attached the greatest value. That mote had, no doubt, been given to M. Duprat by the man whose speculation had been de feated, and a colleague should hove considered before he ventored to direct an accusation against a man of honour and offered him an unjust, unmerited, and calumnious insult. M. Pascal Duprat maintained his original assertion, and said that if he did not disclose the means by which that document had tome into his hands, it was for the sake of some public functionaries, two of whom, he un derstood, were now menaced in their existence. The report he alluded to had been deposited in the Home office on a Sunday, when the Minister was in the country. Three Honourable Generals, members of the Assembly, had taken the new lottery under their protection, and consented to become members of the coramitt!e. The Minister was fully aware of the petition, for ho had written from the country to demand a report upon it— that said report had been consequently drawn up at his special request—that he had read it, and that it must exist in the office of the Home Department. If it had disappeared, it was the duty of the Minister to order fresh inquiries, and for his part he declared and main tained that he had not produced at the tribune a forged document. There was no interest on his part, whilst there was one on the part of the Minister to deny having seen that document. His affirmation was as good as that of the Minister. M. Baroche, who followed, maintained that M. Pascal Duprat had positively declared that the note in question was a report emanating from functionaries of his depart ment, who protested against the immorality of the lot tery and, no doubt, of the Minister who had sanctioned it. Now he repeated that no such document existed, and that, consequently, he could not have ordered it to be prepared, nor read it. M. Duprat forgot the courtesy he owed him, not as a Minister, but as a colleague. Ile had gratuitously directed against him an accusation which be could not prove, and defied him to prove. The Assembly would judge. M. Pascal Duprat next rose, and contended that the note or report, as it might please the Minister to call it, emanated from his offices and not from a stranger to his department. M. Baroche contended that the document in question was in the handwriting of the individual who claimed the authorisation to establish the lottery. M. Pascal Duprat, in conclusion, declared that he ac cepted without fear the appeal the Minister had made to the country. M. Clary here ascended the tribune, but cries of "Enough! enough!" echoed on all sides, and the As sembly being consulted passed to the order of the day. M. Anthony Thouret, who had been called to order in the course of the discussion, begged leave to explain. lle had interrupted the Minister and asked him who had signed the article inserted in the Mwriteer. The law was equal for all, and :the depositories of power should be the tirst to obey it. M. Dupin, President, replied that M. Anthony Thouret had interrupted the Minister; that he had not to inquire into the quality but the fact of his iut3rruption— (Laughter)—and he had called him to order after he had thrice repeated his interruption. M. Anthony Thouret explained, after which the As sembly resumed the discussion on M. Darblay's amend ment, which was rejected. The Assembly then commenced the discussion of the various articles of the Bill, and consented, without a division, to the importation into France from Al. geria of horses, cattle, canes and timber, duty free. It was then proposed that corn should also be ad mitted duty free ; this proposition was opposed by M. BAZE, and supported by M. PASSY, and was carried on a division by a majority of 282, the numbers being for free importation of corn from Algerja 429, against it 147. In the sitting of Saturday the Ministers suffered a d, feat of a most damaging character, end one which will, probably, eventually lead to a modification if not to a change of the Mini try. It appears that on Thursday M. MAUGUIN, one of the representatives of the people, having been arrested for a sum of 1,093 f. 50c., urged his non-liability to arrest as a member of the National Assembly, and demanded to be taken en refire before the President of the Tribunal. The LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1850, President declared that the arrest was legal, the Constitution of 1848 not having reproduced the provision of the Charter of 1830, by which members of the legislative body were protected from arrest (luting the session, and for six weeks preceding and following it. On Saturday M. DE LAROCHEJAQUE LIN brought: the matter under the notice of the As sembly and denounced the arrest of M. MAUGUIN as a gross breach of privilege. Acting under the advice of M. DUPIN, the President of the Assembly, he addressed interpellations to the Ministry on the subject, contending that inasmuch as at the time of the enactment of the Constitution,inlB4B, imprisonment for debt was abolished, it was impossible that the Constitution could provide for protection against that which was non- existent, but that the Assembly, when it re-enacted that law, must be taken to have also re enacted the exceptions. M. ROUHER, the Minister of Justice, opposed the liberation of M. MAUGUIN, and was replied to by M. VATISMENIL, whereupon M. DE LAROCHEJAQUELIN moved an order of the day motive, ordering, in the name of the Assembly, the immediate liberation of M. MAUGUIN, and this motion, notwithstanding the opposition of the Ministry, was carried by an over whelming majority, Republicans, Tiers-parti, and Legltimatists all uniting in a vote against the Ministry. M. Dorm immediately signed an order for the liberation of M. MAUGUIN, and dispatched it by the principal usher of the Assembly to Clichy. This first direct collision between the Assembly and the Executive will speedily he followed by another, on the subject of M. YON, who still maintains the.ac curacy of the informations he gave to the Com mittee of Permanence lon the — subject of the plot of the Rue de Saussaies, and who is supported by M. Durnt. The following " communicated" note, v, hich appears in the Patrie, proves that this affair of M. YON is likely to become very serious : " M. Yon yesterday reproduced before the Correc tional Tribune of the Seine, affirming that he gave credit to it, the declaration of Allais that he had been received at a private audience by the President of the Republic. This assertion is completely false, and is a fresh and odious calumny. The President of the Republic has never seen Allais." The same journal says : " Tho journals of this morning announced that the bureau of the Assembly had met yesterday to deliberate on the question of dismissing or retaining M. Yon. This is an error. The members of the bureau met, in fact; but only the question of adjournment was discussed, and this was decided in the tflirmative. Now that the Tri bunal of Correctional Police has given its sentence in the affair of Allais, it was supposed that the bureau would no longer delay its decision; but we are just in formed that it has been postponed to Sunday, and that eight members of the Bur.,,au are of opinion that M. Yon should be maintained in his functions as commissary of police of the National Assembly." The Ministry demands the immediate dismissal of M. YON ; and M. CARLIER has dirt oted the Sergens de Ville not to obey the orders of M. YoN. The Assembly treat it as a question of privilege, and their decision in the case of M. Ma UGUIN proves how cer tain the Minister is to be defeated in any attempts he may make to curtail those privileges ; when we con sider, moreover, that ere long a fresh demand must be made from the Elyti-3 for money, and the neces sity, therefore, that exists for keeping the majority in good humour, the probabilities certainly are that ere long a change of Ministry, involving the retire ment of MM. BAROCHE, Rota - IER, and CAIILIER, must take place. ALLAIS has appealed against the decision of the Court against him. Thts following from the Siècle shows the effect produced on the French Money Market by the recent proceedings of the Bank of England Much astonishment has been felt in the financial world that England should take a resolution directly contrary to that r.f France for the sake of preventing an exportation of gjld. The determination taken by the directors of the Bank of England has been induced by the large exportation of gold into France by English speculators and merchants, who have been buying eagerly French goods, and particularly railway shares. These speculators hoped that by subsequently throwing those very goods end shares upon our market to obtain back a larger quantity of gold owing to the depreciation they expected to cause in the value of gold, and the consequent rise in the price of all articles. It is owing chiefly to this cause that there has been such a quan tity of gold sent lately to the Mint. Already has the measure of the Bank of England produced an effect, fur within the last two days the exchange on London has been returning to its former level. Paper on London is becoming more scare-, which is a sure indication of the approaching diminution of English sovereigns in our market." We find the following remarks in the Constitution :eel on the gold question : " Two measures which may interest us at the moment when the question of the gold coinage is agitated in France, have just Lem adopted, or are on the point of being so ; the one in Belgium, and the other in England. The first, voted by the Chamber of Representatives, and at present before the Senate, is the removal of gold from circulation, and the suppression of the legal cur rency of French coin in Belgium. What consequences may result to us from this ? Evidently none of a very serious nature. The removal of gold from circulation in Belgium will only throw the precious metals into com merce to the amount of 14 millions. As to our gold coins, the quantity in circulation is Belgium will be sensibly diminished by the suppression of their legal currency; their value beirg guaranteed by the French Government, the Belgians who use them have no loss to fear, and they moreover understand that they will be more useful to cir culation when Belgian gold shall be withdrawn. The other measure to which we allude is t'aat recently adopted by the Bank of England—the raising of its rata of discount from 2i to 3 per cent. Whilst the continental nations are alarmed at seeing the influx of gold into their states, England, on the contrary, seeks to prevent its exporta tion. From the accounts given by the English journals it appears that the value of gold bullion in the cellars of the Bank, which was last week 16,037,6901., has de creased to 15,820,0001.—a diminution of 2 17,560/. in only eight days. The advance in the rate of discount has no other object than to stop this exportation. The state of the gold market presents at this moment a per fectly exceptional character; it arises from the unusual fall which has taken place in the exchange between Paris and London. Within the last few days ,it has been so law as 24f. 80c., or $OO. below par; hence the profit which French merchants and capitalists derive from getting themselves paid in sovereigns, which they im mediately convert into 20f. pieces. The rise which has since taken place in the exchange on London to 24f. 90e., had for result to reduce the profits of this operation, and the measure of the Bank of England will tend to a fur ther rise." M. LACLAUDURE has presented the following amendment to the proposition of M. D'OLIVIER, for the observance of Sundays and Ake days : " Whereas, if it is just to grant to the daily workman a day's rest in the week, it is also just and conform able to the principhs of morality and religion to take precautions to prevent the workman and his family from being exposed to die of hunger during that day's rest. The undersigned proposes to add to Art. 1 of the Bill the following amendment All workmen by the day shall receive, for his day of rest, the same pay as he receives in the week for his day':; work.' We find the following in the Pregse:—" M. DE MONTILEMBERT, who at first formed part of the Parliamentary Club, recently founded by M. MODE, has just withdrawn himself from it. His retirement is attributed to some differences of opinion on ques tions connected personally with the PRESIDENT of the Republic. M. DE MOOSTIER, the father-in-law of M. DE MONTALEMBERT, continues to be one of the secretaries of this club." There was a considerable number of Bourse specu lators assembled in the passage of the Opera, but there was no business transacted. BUSINESS DONE. IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TBE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Dac. 28. Boulogne and Amiens, 8 3 4—East Indian, 12 —Namur and Liege, B%—Nortbern of France, 15%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3%—Paris and Rouen, 27,4—Paris and Stras bourg, 9 —Rouen and Havre, 11. caption of Baron PECHLIN, had arrived at Dresden on the 26th. It is said that Prussia and Austria are agreed as to the duality of the power, and that the policy of VON DER PFORTDEN, the Bavarian Mi nister, is losing ground. MANTEUFFEL and SCLIWART ZENBERG were to leave on the 27th for Berlin, where they were expected to arr've on the 28th. On Christmas-day the Holstein agent, Count RE VENTLOW. FARVE, bad audiences of Prince SCnWAR ZENBERG and M. VON DER PFORDTEN. He was in formed, it is said, in unequivocal terms-1. That further resistance to the demand made for disarma ment could only be regarded as a breach of the laws of the Confederation which could not fail to produce serious consequences. 2. That the Austrian Colonel GA BLENS, who had proceeded yesterday to Cassel on business connected with the Austro- Bavarian troops, had received orders to continue his journey to Kiel for the purposepf communicating to the Stadtholderate an order from the Confederation to reduce its army to one-third, and that in the event of resistance the joint commissioners, who are on the eve of starting, would adopt such measures as cir cumstances might require. Count REVENTLOW is said to have replied that Holland could not pretend to oppose resistance to overwhelm ing force, and that he should write and recommend submission, but could not answer for his advice being attended to. M. VON DER PFORDTEN is understood to have told Count REVENTLOW that the sympathies of Bavaria were always the same; but as two great Powers acting in the name of the Confe deration, had decided that the disarming should take place, nothing remained for him but to say—amen ! The same opinion has been given by representatives of small states. TEE SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS Railways. Paid. SO 8 6 8 13 14 0 100 17% 1 Nominal Prices. 178 6 8 6 13 4 6 13 4 1 1 0 8 6 8 2% 100 11 13 4, 47% 100 23% 11►% 15 11 6 3, Business done to-day. 10% 10 % dia. 3 2% 17% 10% % IA 16% 16 % 13% 4 P % die. 100 12 4 20 100 100 4234 25 7% 10% 11 55 56 19 12% % 17% % Mi 12 % % 39% % 4 2 01 129 16 0 78 77% 78 68% P 57% 58 57% 13 4% % 100 47% 6% X % 26 27 2 12 0 2 % % 5 3 9 12 3 50 25 17% 7% 22% SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 23d have arrived. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, PIDAL , refused to answer certain questions put to him in the Cham ber on ,the subject of the negotiations pending with Rome. The Committee on the Press Bill have resolved to recommend the granting to the proper authorities power to suspend the publication of any number of a journal when in its articles it brings into dispute or attacks the vital principles of Government; when it discusses questions affecting the royal family ; when it interferes with the private life of the citizens, or when it enunciates doc trines or publishes news of a nature to imperil the public tranquillity. In all these cases the authorities must deliver the printed sheets to the tribunals within twenty-four hours. The question of the tribunal be fore which the journals are to be accused has not yet been considered. MADRID BoLse, DEc. 23.—The Three per Cents., 35 Y-16 ; Five per Cents., 11Ii. Exchange on Lon don, 50 46 paper. GERMANY. The Elector of HESSE entered Cailel on the 27th, guarded by his household troops. 'Where was a grand review the same day of Prussian, Hessian, and Ba varian troops. In the evening there were some dis turbances, occasioned by the quarrels of the Bavarian and Austrian troops, and the Austrian Commission published a proclamation threatening to enforce martial law in the event of any disturbance arising. The ELECTOR has promised not to insist on the re cognition of the decree of 28th September. As a consequence of the differences between the Prussian and Austrian Commissioners, the Prussian corps under General TILTZEN has returned to the Electorate, and advanced to within two leagues ef Clsticl. The Prussian troops retreated, however, when a promise was given that the Bavarian gar rison of Cassel should be rednc€ d in numb:T. The Grand l)uke of lIEssE DARMSTADT has con voked the Chambers for the 15th of January. The whole of the Plenipotentiaries, with the ex- ITALY. Her Royal Highness the Princess of COUBL&ND, mother of CHARLES ALBERT, passed through Vinti miglia on the 17th, on her way to Nice. In its sitting of the 24th, the Chamber of Deputies of Turin passed the Bill for laying a tax on Church property by 100 votes against 36. The Minister of Finance announced to the Chamber that a reduction of 13 millions of francs would be made in the expendi ture of 1851. The Osservatore Romano of the 18th contradicts the statement that the PApal Nuncio at Paris had received orders not to sign passports of English travellers for Rome. The Giornale di Roma announces that besides the three ordinary arrivals from France by sea, on the 3d, 13th, and 23d of every month, there will hence forth be three more—on the Bth, 18th, and 28th. A letter from Naples of the 15th states that the prosecution of the persons accused of forming part of the sect of the Unita italiana is drawing to a close. As it has already lasted six months, in which case the Neapolitan law provides that the proceedings shall be broken off and recommenced anew, the prisoners were in danger of seeing their case prolonged ibdeth.itely. To obviate this, the KING has decided that in this particular case the proceedings shall continue without interruption. The public prosecutor, therefore, has been able to make his requiitory, and the case fur the defence, which will take eight sittings, was to commence immediately. It was expected sentence would be pronounced before the end of this month. The letter edds that a cool ness has arisen between the Courts of Turin and Naples, and that it was even suppos , 2d that their re spective diplomatic agents would be recalled,; but that hopes were entertained of en amicable arrange ment. Naples is full of foreigners ; M. DE TOCQUE. VILLE and M. AMPERE are at Sorrento. GUILDHALL -(T.HIS DAY.) FINAL COMMITTAL OF MR. SLOANE FOR TRIAL, This morning, contrary to all expectation, long before the usual hour for commencing business at ibis court, Mr. George Sloane was brought up, in the custody of Roe, ttse warrant officer of the court, from Giltspur street Compter, and placed at the bar for final ex amination. This course has been adopted at the suggestion of Al. derman Humphery, a repetitioh of the scenes of Friday lest being apprehended. So profound a sesret has the proceeding been kept, that even the officers of the gaol and those in attendance at the court were unac quainted with the fact, and the inquiry was conducted with closed doors, the only persons present besides the alderman and clerk, and Roe, the officer, being the solidi tors on the part of the defendant and the prosecution. Tho defendant, accompanied only by Mr. Roe, left the prison about half- past ten, and succeeded in reaching the office without being recognized. Mr. Wood, the Chief Cierk, then said, as the whole of the depositions had been read over, signed, and sworn to by the several witnesses, with the exception of those of Jane Hill and Jane Wilbred, taken on Friday, it would not be necessary to read them over again. The depositions of Jane Hill and Jane Wilbred having been read over, Mr. Wood said that would complete the whole of tho depositions, which would be returned to the Central Cri minal Court. Alderman HIIMPHEILI, addressing the defendant, said, Mr. Sloane, it is my duty to read over to you the form prescribed by way of caution, you are not beund to say anything, but whatever you do say will be taken down and used against you on your trial. The defendant said he should reserve his defence until the trial. Mr. Alderman HUMPIIERY—Then it is my duty to fully commit you for trial at the next sessions at the Central Criminal Court. Mr. Phillips (defendant's solicitor)—l presume you will not refuse to accept bail. Alderman HUMPHERY—It is understood that the same bail will be taken, two sureties in 2501. each, and the defendant himself in 5001,, to appear and answer the charge at the next sessions. The bail having been duly recorded and put in, the defendant entered into the required recogniesnces; they were Mr. Henry Phillips, of Sise-lane, attorney, and Mr. Robert Vass, of Pendenson-terrace, Bethnal-green, who acted as the defendant's solicitors. Neither Mr. Clarkson nor Mr. Huddlestone were present. Mr. Alderman HUIVIPHERY asked Roe, the officer, if he had done anything further to execute the warrant on Mrs. Sloane?—Roo said he had been unable to obtain the slightest clue as to where Mrs. Sloane wan, but he understood from Mr. Sloane that she was kept out of the way by her friends, but that she would be forth coming and surrender on the day ( f trial. It was intimated to Alderman Ilurnphery by the de fendant's solicitor there was no doubt Mrs. Sloane would appear. Alderman HUMPHERY said of course Roe would hold the warrant, and do all in his power to execute. The subject then dropped, and the defendant was discharged, and immediately let the court wholly un recognised. BOW-STREET'.-('HIS DAY.) A thick-set, sturdy- looking young man, named Wilson, was charged with assaulting his fattier. A lodginghouse-keeper in Drury-line, stated that about one o'clock this morning he WAS awoke out of his first sleep by a cry of " Murder," proceeding from his second floor, and on hastening up there, he found the prisoner holding his father on the ground, and swearing that he would pitch him over the Lanisters. Ile en deavoured to get the father away, but this only served to increase the exasperation of the prisoner; and before witness could get away the prisoner seized him, and literally tore his Aid into ribbons. Witness thought this was too bad, and running to the window he called in the police, and gave the prisoner into custody. The father excused his son's conduct because he had been slightly touched in his head ever since he was a child, and whenever he got a little dridk he was furious. Prisoner—l never has no drink, but father there he gets drank every night, and if I followed his example it would'nt be no great harm. Mr. • was afraid drink was the cause of the mad ness, and therefore a visit to the House of Correction would do him no harm. The father hoped his Worship would not adopt that course. - - Mr. HALL said if he really were insane he could not be allowed to rove about like a mai dog, nor could he be suffered to give vent to his fury if it arose from drunkenness, and he must pay a fine of 205., or go to prison for a fortnight. The father paid the fine and the prisoner was liberated DARING BURGLARIES.--TWO men were appre hended on Friday on suspicion of having committed, in the early part of the week, two burglaries on the borders of Essex and Herta, which though not serious as regards the property carried off were of a most daring character. The first was in the house of a person named Law, at Furneauz Pelham. Law is in the employ of a lady near by, and in consequence of the alarm of robbers which prevailed was staying at her house to help and protect it if attacked. At midnight his wife was called up and summoned to open the door fer the gang, and on her refusal the window w as smashed in and two men entered, who forced her to her bed, and nearly smothered her beneath the clothes and pill ows , which they heaped on her to prevent her giving an alarm. They then ransacked the house, carrying off a quantity o f food and apparel and some money. The next night (Tues day%) they attacked the house of the farm bailiff on the estate of Mr. R. Dawson, at Allbury, openly smashing in the front door and ransacking the rooms. On their leaving the bailiff endeavoured to give an alarm from the window, wh en t wo guns were discharged at him. NEW CHURCHES IN WESTMINSTER. — The Bishop of London has given instructions to the contractors of the new church being now erected in Peter-street, W estm i ns t er, to push forward the works, in order that it may be ready for consecration early in the ensuing spring, by which time it is expected that the church being now erected by the lady of the Venerable Archdeacon Bentinck, at Vauxhall-bridge, will also be ready. As the foundation stone of both churches were laid:on the same day (Nov. 8, 1849), it is intended if possible to consecrate them on the same day. The Bishop of Durham has presented 1,0001. to wards the erection of a new church at Blyth, Northumber land, provided that 4,0001. more are subscribed for the pur pose.— Carlisle Patriot. INCENDIARY FIRE.—LITTLE PAXTON.—A. destruc tive fire broke out in the ricicyard of Mr. John Cross, farmer, about half-past six o'clock in the evening of Christmas-day, which consumed several stacks of wheat, barley, and beans, estimated value about 6001., no doubt the act of some vile but yet undiscovered incendiary. The Polytechnic Institution was visited on 'Thurs day last (13,xing-day) by no fewer than 3,C00 persons. This speaks well for the interest taken in works of art by the lower orders. 10IA to 11 % % dis. 5% —5% dis. 34i - 1 P. 29 -33 27 -28 8- 9 p 7- 8 p 1.0% - 11% 75 -77 IN - 18 10% -10 X 5% -5% 1634 - 17 13% - 14 •• •• 23 —2l Ells. 3% -33( 2% -2% 1 %- 1 36 1 —l% Ys —1 6 —6% 3i % P i i i dis. 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BANKS. 28 -314 42 -43 9% -10 25 -254 18 % -19 ©%-2 17 -18 42 - 43V 4 15% - 15% 34y, 35 12% - 13% 19 111% 111% 14 1374 231,4 274 9 $} % Aberdeen.. Do. Preference •• • • Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. juncion Ayrshire and Galloway• • Belfast and County Down Berks and Hants Esters.l (Great Western er -1 petual 5 per cent.) • • Birmingham and Oxford Junction, calls duly paid, or with a guar... Do. without a guar... Birming., Wolverhamp ton, and Dudley, calls duly paid, or with a guarantee • . • • • • Do. without a guar. •• Birming., Wolverhamp., and Stour Valley Birkenhead, Lancas., and Cheshire Junction • • Bristol and Exeter.. Buckinghamshire • • • • Caledonian • • • • • Do. 101. Preference .• Do. Clydesdale June... Chester and Holyhead .. Do. Preference Clarence .. • • .• • • Do. Ist Class, 6 per et. Do. 2d de., 5 per cent. Do. Gov. 1.0an,4 pr. et. Direct Loud. and Fortorn. Dublin and Belfast J unct. Dundalk and Enniskillen East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) •• • • Do. (181. E. & .. Do. (31. 10s.) 6 per cent. Preference • • Do. (51.) 7 pr. ct. Pref. Do. (71.175.) 7 p. c.Pref. Eastern Counties .. Do. Exten., 5 persent.l No. 1 • • • • Do. No. 2 .. • • • • Do ..New Preference, 6 per cent. .. • • • • Do. North. and East. 6 per cent. Do. do. 5 per cent .. Do. do., New • • • • Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shares • • Do. do. do. .. Do. do., 14 & C shares Do. do., scrip, guaran. 6 per cent. • • • • East Lancashire . • • • Do. New quarters • • Do. 6 per cent. pref. quarter shares.. • • East Lincolnshire, gua. par cant •• • • •• Edinburgh and Glasgow Edin., Perth, and Dundee Do. Newport .. • • Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch. Exeter and Exmouth .. Gissow and South- West, Do. pref. consolidated' Do. do. G. D. & C. stock Gloucester & Dean Forest Great Northern .• • • Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, D, 614er ct. Do. 5 per cent. pref..• • Great Southern and Western,bo. eighths Ire.h.tnd.. Great North of England . 1 Do. new 40/. .. Do. new 30/. •• •• Do. new 15/. • .. Great Western .. •• Do. New, 171. .. Hull and Selby • • Do. half shares .. .. Do. quarter shares .. Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds • . • • .. Lancaster and Preston .. Lancashire and Yorkshire Do. gßarter shares .. Do. Mills .. • .. Do. F. 201. .. •• .. Do. new, tuaranteed 6 1 ycr cent. .. .• Do. Mudders. & Shed. Do. Wes t Riding Union Leeds and Bradford • • Leeds and Thirsk • • • • Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 1 Do. pref. 6 p et., No. 2 Do. pref. 6 p et., No. 3 Do. pief. qrs., 1818 .. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .. • London and Blackwall • . London, Brighton, and South Coast • • • • Do. guarteed. 5 per ct., late Croyden thirds• • Do. preference, 5 p et. Do. preference, cow,. 5 per cent., 1852 .. Do. new guaranteed, 6 per cent. .. London and Greenwich . Do. preference . • • London and N.-Western Do. do. new quarters . Do. fifths Do. 101. sh., M. &11 (c) Londoa and S.-Western . Do. new 50/. .. Do. new 40/. .. • • Do. uew preference • • Londonderry & Coleraine Do. hall shares .. Lowestoft, guar. 4 per ct. Do. do. 6 per cent. Londonderry and Ennis killen. .. •• •• Do. half shares • • -• Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock • • .. Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire • • • .. Do. qdarters, No. 1. • • Do. new, 10/ preference Do. Manchester and' Lincoln Union • • NI inland • • • • • • • • Do. consolidated pref. Do. 50/. shares • • • • Do. Binning & Derby Do. Consol. Bristol & Birming., 6 per cent. Do. Bristol & Glouces. Do. do. do. .. Do. Erewash Val. pref. Do. Leic. & Swanning. 8 per cent. guar. .. Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) Middlcsbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. .. Newcastle and Carlisle.. Do. quarter shares .. Newmarket • • .. • • Do. extension scrip • • Newport, Abergavcnny, and Hereford . • • • Newry & Euniikillen • • Newry, Warrenpoint, & Itosinvor • • • • •• I Norfolk .. Do. New 201. shares • • 1)o. Extension • • • • I ). guar. S)A per cent. Waveney Xorthern Counties Uxion North British • • • • • • Do. Breference • • • • North Staffordshire •. North-Western • • • • Oxford, W.rcester andl Woh'erhampton.. Preston and Nyyre Do. halves (A) • • • • Reading, Guildford, and Reigate.. • • •• • • ito:.ston and Hitchin Do. Shepreth Exten... Scottish Central Scottish Midland _ Do. new • • • • S hrews bury & Birming. Claf, 3 A.. • • • Do. Class 8,. Do. New Guarantee.. Shrewsbury & Hereford hrewsbury and Chester (Nor. IV. MM.) Do. Halies Do. Oswestry Do. New.. _ Do. 8 per cent. Pref. . Shropshire Union .. South Devon .. Do. l'reference South Staffordshire .. South-Eastern Do. do. 4.% per cent... South Wales.. South Yorksh. and Rlyer Sheft., Roth., and Goole, N. Div., guar. 5 p cent. Do. do. - South Div. Swansea & Loughor, &c. raw Vale Extension •• Fhantes Haven Dock and Railwfly • • Vale of Neath • • • • Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick Water:el d, Wex., Wick., and Dublin , •• •• Wear Valley, 6 per cent. guaranteed • • •• •• Do. do. do. .. Do. do. do. .. Woet Corrwall • • Whitelimn and Furness Windsor, Staines, and S. Western .. • • .. Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth • • • • •• • • York, Newcastle, tr Ber- wick .• • • • • • • Ditto and Newcastle Extension .. .. Ditto G .N.E. purchase or preference •. .. Do. • • .• .. .. Do. Do. Hartlepool • Dock and Railway .. .. York and North Midland Do. Preference •• .. Anglo-Italian (lato Ita lian and Austrian) • • Boulogne and Amiens • • Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) • • Demerara . • • • • Dutch Rhenish •• •• East Indian •• • • • • Do. do. do. • • Great Indian Peninsula. • Ditto ditto • • .. Louvain ala Sambre .. Luxembourg • • •• • • Ditto • • • • • • • • Madrid and V alentia Namur and Liege Northern 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, Lan- den, and Hasselt •• West Fluaders .. • Australasia. • • • • • British North America.. Colonial .... ••••• • • • • • Commercial of London.. Loudon Joint Stock .... Lomion and Westminster National Provincial Eng. Do. New .. • • • • • • • • • • National of Deland .• •• Preitncial'Of Ti•6laud • -• • :Do. - • Union of. Australia Do. Now . • • • Union of London ...... Union of Madrid ...... FOREIGN. 6 13 4 20 MINES, Paid. Nominal Prices. B us i n ess done Anglo•Mexican(iF. 57. p.) 100 .. Asturian •• • • 15 .. Australian 4 3 1 4 — • 3 itarossa Range .. • • .... 113 0 3% Blaciuu•von Iron and Coal 0 Bolassos Scrip ........ • • British Iron.. .• .... 13 5 .. Brazilian Imp (is. 51. p.) 24% —• Do. Cocacs and Culaba 30 314 De. St. John del Itey.. 15 14% 14 Cobrc Copper • ..... . • • 40 32% 35 35 Copiapo ............ 5% 5 General .• • • ...... • • 20 11% 13% Real Del Monte, Us reg. } t , Do. Black Debentures. .. Do. Red Delsentt.res Santiago de Cuba ...... 10 • 9 Tin Croft .... •• .... • • 7 10% —ll United Mexican— •• .• .•, 28 28% 614 —55 5% MISCELLANEOUS. Canada ••• • • • 32% 42% —44 Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 26% 27 Penin. & Oriental Steam. 50 89% —B9 88 Royal Mail Steam .. •• .. 60 73 —74 [We cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Lists, and will not be influenced by interested correspondents.] - - • MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were estimated at 5,000 bales; comprising 4,000 American* 200 Pernam sad Maranham, at Btd. to Sid.; 300 Egyr tian, at Sp. to 10d.; 100 Bahia, at Sid. to Sid.; and 100 Sea Island, at ls. 2d. to Is. 41d. per lb. The market closed steadily.—The Railway Share Market relied con siderably, and closed firm. The American advices are favourable as regards the money and mercantile markets. From Quebec we are advised:—" The returns of the shipping engaged in the trade with Great Britain, show a steady increase since 1847, for which year and preced ing it, the arrivals were unprecedentedly numerous. In 1848, 1,044 vessels arrived at the port, of the burden of 426,968 tons; in 1849, there were 1,061. of 431,953 tons, while in 1850 there were 1,079, of 434,294 tons burden. These figures include the vessels passing to Montreal, and the consequence is that of the number mentioned for 1850, only 1,054 cleared from this port. The number of vessels engaged in the trade wh the lower provinces has increased during the past fire years to a very great extent. There is a decided improve ment this year in our connexion with the United States, through our inland navigation, in spite of our being denied the privilege of using foreign vessels in the trade. In shipbuilding, too, there has been a steady increase for the past three years, although we have not yet reached the amount of tonnage built in 1847. The amount of shipbuilding, it is likely, will be largely increased this year, as 30,000 tons are in course of construction assn' s time—nearly us many as during the whole of la st y The navigation was all but closed, and in another week all the steamers wolf(' probably be laid U. T he season had previously been very mild. At Amsterdam, on the 28th instant, the Bourse Wag in a less favourable position, owing to the decline in the London exchange. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were 57 1-16th. The gold coinage of Belgium, to the amount of 14,646,025 francs, according to the original issue, is t?, be received at tho Government treasury at it s nomina l value for a given period, to be notified by the Govern ment, after which it will cease to be a legal tender. The following letter, dated 26th instant, has been received from the Secretary of the York, Newcastle, and Bernick Railway:— " To avoid misapprehension, I am instructed to inform you that the dividend for the half-year ending 31st De cember, 1850, cn the Si. per share paid upon the Gre hatis North of England purchase shares in t company (which will henceforward be at the same rate as the dividend paid upo n the origi nal shares of the company), will be payable at the same time as the ordinary half-yearly dividend , and to those parties who are on the reg ister when the tramfor books close. But that the guara nteed dividend of 4/. per cent. upon all sums paid on su ch shares be yond the 8/. per share will be paid as usual about the end of January next; and in this last case those slat o are is gittered in the books of the compa n y on the 11l December, 1850, will be entitled to the dividend." There is not quite such a firm market for public Se curities, but the speculative business done is of no im portance. Consols have been 961, and since 96i. The New Three- and-s• Quarter per Cents. are 98/ to 1, and the Three per Cents. 97 to /. Bank Stock is 213 to 2131, and steady. Exchequer-bills are 58s. to 628. premium, and India Bonds 735. premium. In the Foreign Market, the transactions have bcen of no importance. The settlement of the account takes place to-morrow. Mexican Bands have been 3bl for Transfer, and 35i for Account. Spanish Five per Cents. are 17x, and the Three per Cents. 391. Russian Four-and-a-half per Cents. are 981 j. Venesuels Steck is at 31 for the Two-and-a-Quarter per Cents., and at 11 to 1 for the Deferred. Belgian Four-and -a- Half per Cents. are 90i, and D utch Four per Cants. 901 to 91. The Railway Share Market has been rather fluctuat ing on account of the arrangements for the settlement which takes place to-morrow. Some of the old lines are lower, North-Western and Great Western, for example, but Midland, South-Western, and South-Eastern, with York and Berwick, have been fairly maintained. QUARTER TO THREE. Consols ... Ditto Account 96i i ox d. CLOSI)Z PRICES. 213 98,fi 97_, ONE riticKS OF BRITISH /cusps O'CLOCK. Bulk Stock ... .. 213% 218 8 per Cent. Redneed Anne. ... 97VA 97 N ~/ 3 per Cent. Anne.............. 98%%,6 India Bonds, 1,000L._..... .. Ditto under 1,000/............. 73 p Consols for Account • 96%% Exchequer Bills. I 'A i d. & 2d 1,000/. June 62 58 p 5001. June 73 P 96ie 58 P 58 P &8 P CLOSING PRIC ES. 8% ..... 34 3 4 35 Si Wail, June 62 58 p ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Equador Bonds Mexican, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons,— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons 35 85% Ditto, Account Pe -uvian Bonds, 4 1 ,Q per Cent — Ditto, Account Ditto, Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Russian Bonds Ditto, 4% per Cent Spanish 5 per Cont. 1840 l7h Ditto. 3 per Cent Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent Ditto Deferred Dividends on the above payable in radon. Beligan, 41. E per Cent. ..Len 2':4-• per Cent.. 12 Guild. tto, 4 r.ser Cant. Certifigates 9l 90% LLOYD'S SHIPYIN (i.—( THIS DAY . ) LONDON, DEC. 30.—Wind at noon E.W., light and cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 28.—Wind W. to W.N.W. Off port Christine and Marie, Buenos Ayres for 13reraerli byprus, Quebec. DuiLua, I)EC. 28.—Wind W.N.W. — S I d. New (Means, QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 28.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Allegrs' Demerara ; Adler, Laguna. Sld. Catherine, Sharer, San Francisco. Off port,Stratford, Mauritius. LIMERICY.—Arrd. Anna Maria, New York. SUNDERLAND.—Arrd. Henrietta Sophia, Quebec. DEAL, DEc. 29.—Wind W. to W .N.W. and W.S.W. —Arrd. Bombay, Singapore; Dublin, Trinidad; Rohrer, St. Vincent; Victoire and Elise, Sr. Domingo; Transit, Tatmagouche; Spartan, Jamaica. Arrd. fr om the River, William Watson, Bombay; Paul, Rio Janeiro; S o p hist Jamaica; Adele, Demerara; Tom Cringle, Cuba; S 0 1 1" bandar, Calcutta; Laurence, Oporto and SydneY , 14 :,1 1 South Wales; Dida, ditto; Carnbyses, Jamaica. ohm' Margaret West, Batavia; Ann, Cape of Good in Hopei Vallisneria, Cape of Good Hope; Catherine Elabeth, St. Vincent. CLNIDE, DEC. 18.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. James Hunt, Berbice; Mary arid Ann, Demerara; George, Cha rleston. HULL, DEC. 29.—Wind S.W.--A rrd. Fredericka, San Francisco; Chunee, Quebec. Sld. Tamarac , Bomb* LIVERPOOL.—Arrd. Nell, Calcutta; Richard, p er ; nambuco; Gipsey, Maraham; Areturus, Laguna; Sar a ,. Mobile; Gondar, Philadelphia; Liverpool, Nor yors : : Aruca, ditto; Asia steamer, ditto; Sutton, Prince gc.l ward's Island; Sandbush, Demerara. MobileAta steamer, New York. The Kitty Cordes, to that port, which put into Charleston in distress, after being on shore, had discharged, and would repair. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DA CORN EXCHANGE—MONDA-1',.. Most of the country markets held on Saturday Wei; fully supplied with English Wheat , for which the ' es mend ruled heavy, at drooping prices. E ven the fineere Barley was very dull, and all kinds gave way " P to quarter. Malt, Oats, Beaus, and Peas w ere lower purchase. No material change took place in Flour. . Letters from New York to the 18th inst . state the ; the demand for Flour had improved, and tbst had an upward tendency. In France, the trade is sti v a ctive; but, in the leading grain—shipping Pert . ' l ' er ' few transactions have taken place of late. Moto our market last week, the arrivals of Beg -- , 5 grain were moderate. From abroad we received 18, '" e quarters of Wheat, 1,750 Barley, 4,479 Oats, 9 48 Be n ti s e l 1,940 Peas, 360 Tares, 5,833 Linseed, 2,055 Rapes— °f 244 sundry Seeds, 11,219 sac ks and 1,534 barre ls Flour. The supply of Wheat received fresh up to this 111 %1, ing's market f rom E ssex was un usually small, owing to th e c h ange able state of the weath er , of very middling quali t y. From Kent the receipts were 03°43e fer rate. By land carriage and sample the supply 7 ° , 5 w as from exten s i v e and the general show of sample' w as comparatively limited; nevertheless the demand for or , , descriptions, notwithstanding that the atten d anc e ,-os country millers was tolerably good for a holiday 11he day, was dull in the extreme, and in some instances to value of the middling and inferior kinds gave via Yf o ll per quarter. Selected qualities were mostly held el the prices. The heavy pressure cf foreign Flour, prospect of depression further extensive above tensil noticed . T importations, producedthe daoubtlesS suppl ied. With foreign Wheat we were but moderat el y of Fine samples were almost nominal, at the cu rrencies this day se'nnight ; but all other kinds were certaintl Is per qik.:rter lower to purchase. Thcibulk of the sail plea wsi ex granary, as some of the miller s are st" importing on their own account. The quantity of forAp Barley off-ring Was n ot bu , thAt, (1) w t on Le i..er. , !u;e. M pies-ruled very dull, ac a. tall of leper quarttr. 1,1r.,•"0. ing. and distilling sorts commanded very littl e 4tteel';:el We had a very slow inquiry for Malt; decline was submitted to by the factors. [123% 124% 1243( 125 20X 33i 75 79) 77 [79% dill. 48% Ni 41% 15% 8% 17% IS 65% 6% dim 5 4% dis. 9% 14% % 12 23 U 274 3 314 14 11N 1 % lii 111% I) IS 3U, 8 24 U 11 a l b 3i 6 x.d R .... /4 tma t , t trira ft 1 41 x, Plit t 144 The Fo r Plied 1 „.. o f full illOv e d til led 1 tt eerozi rah Pri 7 Pec. Siac roN ri T i l le Po r r e t 4 nd of eet,th, Y orksh Sto to, s b ea brid g ; °Ni g , t i noolt S Onr , of Net, 81611 Pri ce , 81 12; Pock et , i o k f Xer Dar: . ro ;ere I tn ti tionie fr on ; - I tettcly, Notl f or - Ntr 36 3 64 Ae~sli stock tip Nee of D elive ry a ntto frc bitt al drriv In' 0 lic e et, Sla, eB tt e 4 re ader itt e tk Bider , Sir, i ; I eau Sloan A that algal at Ir. and in I Whei i kye t / eltrle kali. c S eei eles Turn! kuatz V Tares, 0 Canal R9O a Clove' Trefoi cue rived havii reap( 892; Pr( Antes Rotte Rath Ni eu Pordt vaten Tot Th tinder