The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-07 00:00:00

AMUSING PRESENT FOR THE NEW YEAR. v, in small Svc, price 10s. 6d., elegantly bound, gilt = . .th a Portrait of t'le author, an lan Illustration by Phis, T LIE COMIC MISCELLANY FOR 1843. By JOHN POOLE, Esq. " Author of " Paul Pry." " a book of the season, tasteful to the eye, inviting to the hand, is filled with comicality, displaying keen perception, ori ginal liianotir, and a deep knowledge of the human heart."--Court Journal. " rail 7 .110 love mirth, served up with a neatness which is becom ing mr - zr and rarer in these superficial times, and seasoned with More sense than Is to be fOund in many an oration, cannot do better than Lily The Comic Miscellany' by way of board and fire-side pro- Vision far the year just come in."—Athem - eum. Hear/ Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. This day Is published, small 4t0., with a Portrait of Napoleon and o: the Duke of Wellington, price Two Guineas, handsomely bound, N APOLEON: an Epic Poem, in Twelve Books, By WILLIAM RICHARD HARRIS'. Loudon : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. THEATRE ROYAL, pRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Willbe repeated a Grand Opera Seria, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini - Andrea Comae, Mr. Borrani ; Moncenigo, air. Weiss; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrison ; Catarina Cornaro, Miss Rainforth To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Harlequin Ade, called PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, HARLEQUIN AND ROBINSON CRUSOE. Robinson Crusoe. Mr. \V H. Payne; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland ; Clown , Mr. T. Matthews ; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columbine, Miss Carson. . . . The Box-othce is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six Sh the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tlckets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. "tHIS EVENING Will fie performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD FIEA DS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. Si rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathes• s ; Tom Coke Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Darren; The Countess of t no•pion, Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthorn ldadame Vestrie; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia nennett. After which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. King Uxorious, Mr. J. Bland Princess Grazicsa, Miss Jul.a Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Norton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a Grand MOVING DIORAMA; or, PIC TORIAL TOUR IN S WITZERLAND. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each. l!ckets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, 11 - nn fen till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING _ Will Net repeated (hy special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.) a New Drama, entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck, Mr. O. smith ; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tugby, Mr. Wilkin son ; S r Joseph Bowley, Bart , Mr. Paul Bedford ; Will Fern, Mr. klud on ; Richard, Mr. Selby; Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue; Mrs. Chickenstalkcr, Mrs. Frank Nfatthews. After which, NORMA, in which Miss Woolgar, Mr. Paul Bed ford, Mr. Wright, and Miss Reynolds will perform. To conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic Christmas Pantomime, called C AT'S CASTLE ; or, Hailequin and the King of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland; Columbine, Miss Long.. dale; Clown. Mr C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. SanAcrs. Prompter, Mr. Gallat ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the Bsnd, M•. Mellon.—Box—oitice open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STRFET. LESSEE, Mr. J. Li. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE RENT DAY. Martin Heywood, Mr. Wallack ; Bullfrog, Mr. Compton ; Rachel Heywood, Mrs. Stirling To be followed by a new Divertissement, called LE TALON DE BA L. Principal characters by Mdlle. Caroline Rousset, Miss Marshall, Md.le. feresine, M. J. Rou-set, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Gilbert. To be succeeded by a New Comedietta, entitled THE WIDOW. BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs, Lorimer, Mrs. Stirling After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic, and rather Operatic Burlesque Ext ravag,inza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Grindoff. Mr Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry; Kelmar, Mr Granby; Itiber, Mr. Corri , Golotz, Mr. Walton; Claudine, Miss E. Stanley ; Ravina, Mrs. Fosbroke. :.age Manager Mr. H. 1. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden, M a chinist. Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, 58. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, al.; Gallo la. Half.price at Ni ne o ' clock — Dress Circle,2s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, IL; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Proses -3111/111 Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half ? ist• Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the 'r itatre. I HEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE Uudar the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal Characters by Messrs F'. Vining, Meadows, Diddear, F. Matthews, Collier, Finery, Turner. and Keeley; Miss Walcott, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO M MIRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker 14 , 15 s Arden, and Mrs. Wigan. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Historical, Romantic Pantomimical," Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keeley , MIN. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs Usher, James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF A DMISSION.—BaIcouy boxes. 43.; Upper Boxes, ile.; Pit, 25.) Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxt.'". Is. 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the lialcony Tier 'bolding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Cier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-HalL Private &me* on the Pit 'Ile: (holding six persons), One Guinea. 1' le t ox.o ticei s open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direr. tten of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Nightly Overflows t the Grand Christmas Holiday Novelties, and Treble Rotation of Entertainments at ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHII HEATHE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr, W. BATTY. Brilliant Success of the New Pantomime THIS EVENING Will he repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race- tior , e and Life's Course of Man and Steed; Introducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage knd in the Circle by living Foc and real Pack of Hounds, purchased b v Mr. natty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel production. Ei,sona aAces and other Sporting Features. _ . _ _ _ - 14eVrSce3es of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse. oianship. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime, r :Teel HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, the !st tcir Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, NIL T. Barry; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury. Acting ario Atage..amnager, Mr. W Broadfoot. I , o.x. , :tlice open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding Ly Mr. t Smith daily. _DAVI i,t31.11:5 ROYAL SURREY tHEA FRE. M Mal, the best Pantomime of the Season ! A more brilliant trimooh than ever before achieved ! ! Laughter, Wonder, and Delight !I ! Tr a Fast Pa,temimi, Performers of the Age, and Evcrythiug New ! ! ! ! Til IS EVENIN4 Will be repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End of Crime. Principal Characters by Mr Henry Corti (from the Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H Hughes, Neville, R Hoarier, I ewis. Heslon, and Seaman, Mrs. IL Horner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. W. Daly, an.! Miss Martin. Atter which, Herr Joseph Gouldsinith and Marie Gouldsmith, from the Teatre Berlin, will perform most woni'erful Gymnastique Feats on the horizontal corde and miraculous evolutions, suspended by a double rope. To conclude with an Orig;nal Worldly Comic Pantomime, called PoUNDs, HILLIN(IS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN b. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; flown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corri; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. ?'aces a id Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. mie freer Eleven to Four ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE Ex.raordinary Success of " Marianne; or, The Child of Crime," and the New Comic Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will be repeated MARIAN NE; or, the Child of Charity. Su, rortod b • Mr. Osb.ildiston, Hunry Howard, J. T Johnson, T. H. Higgie, J. Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent, Miss E Terrey, and Miss Treble. APer which, the laughable Drama, entitled WILFUL MURDER. To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN HOT COD LINS ' • or, The Little Old Woman and th e Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, H. Chaphio ; Clown , M r . Blanchard; Pantaloln, Mr. Coney; C,olumbbie, !thine ' Le cite THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 6. 'THERMOMETER, Lowest, 40 ; highest, 49 ; Noon, 49 BAROMETER, 30. 18. -WIND, W. NdTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. 'Water freezes at 32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on Barometers " Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and " Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather whet% the mercury falls below 30. EIIOH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ....7 minutes after 0 J Evening... Li minutes after 0 V; v. :,,,,,, ~,•...,,. -- T . 4r . 1 ti j .. .. _ , r.elt P.' 4 • ' AP I ‘'''' "47 4111 r1P 1 1111 ':.- 04 ,20,. DII,C . A , . , ,' ~..5 .' ,,,,,. r MO N v ," ,rwi . • n Ron . - . -'- ctUirnilt UAL - LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1845. We quote the following curious passage from the Post of Saturday morning :—" What right have the lay persons who meet together at Exeter or elsewhere, to give their opinion about Church matters, and to call for alterations, unless they consider themselves members of the Church ; and if they be members o' the Church, why should they be so utterly oblivious of the conditions of their membership ? It is mani feA that they never think of this—that they do not recollect that their undutiful conduct, in meeting and talking as they de, disqualifies them altogether from interference in Church affairs. Their mode of inter ference destroys their right to interfere. The mind that is in these people is the mind of mere Dissenters— latlY,tit is much more licentious than the mind which belongs to regularly organised bodies of Dissenters, for even they recognise some rules of church govern ment. Rut these stu/ti of Exeter, who meet to babble and talk and make a disturbance, seem to have no other idea than that clergy and Church are only to be held in respect while they are pleasing to them." 'We have been induced to qu o t e t hi s somew h at lengthy passage, because we consider it in its way as a cu riosity—as a s haughty, supercilious of do gma ti sm and supercilious intolerance singularly and amusingly a var i an ce with the tone of thought and feelingprevat lent in the present day and for many a long year and worthy of a journalist in the days of LALD, P o a r s sycophantic Court scribe during the brief tyrannical sway of JAMES the SECOND. Imagine indeed the ar rogance of a public writer denying the right of the laity to express an honest and :decided opinion on a matter that deeply concerns themselves—denying their right to make the slightest opplsition to innova tions that shock their feelings, disturb their sense of propriety, and degrade the established faith in their eyes-by associ,lting it with a variety of obsolete, worth less usages and .superstitious rnummeries, borrowed avowedly from an antagonist Church, which they ,and their fathers before them have been taught to hold in conscientious aversion ! The laity not justi fied in taking a vital interest in Church affairs! lVhy, the laity greAemselves the national Church, quite As much sOsteven the clergy l Such at least TwAs the opiniorf ethe late Dr. ARNOLD, one of the best, and wisest men that modern times have pro duced. Bat` not only are the laity, according to the Posts atttlioritalive dictum, bound to abstain from all s , • I interference with the Bishop of EXETER'S decrees; but they are bound, in addition, to receive them with thankfulness and humility, and pay to them the blindest and most unhesitating submission, no matter how rash, unsuitable, and absurd they may appear to them. All honest, rational freedom of opinion is to be scouted as downright contumacy. It is for the Bishop to issue what ordinances he pleases, and for his flock to obey in mute, obsequious silence. Such is our Contem porary's High-Church, LAUD-like theory, but such is not the theory of ecclesiastical government enter tained by the community at large. The people have outgrown the leading-strings in which they were kept for so many ages by priestly domination. They have reached the years of discretion, and will think and act for themselves. They will pay all becoming respect to the decrees of their spiritual pastors and masters, when those decrees are founded in reason, and do not run directly counter to long-cherished feelings ; but they will not sit tamely by while a set of idle ceremonial observances are forced upon them which have long since dropped into desuetude, simply because they were felt to be superfluous, not to say absurd. But we have not yet done with our arrogant, contumelious Contemporary, i❑ whom the spirit of Tractarianism is exhibited in its true colours Mark the insolence of his allusions to the " mind of mere Dissenters"—just as if Dissent were an undeniable proof of want of intellect, of liberality, of all that graces, ennobles, and humanises a man ! The " mind of mere Dissenters !" Why, some of the loftiest, boldest, and most sagacious spirits that England has known for centuries, were Dissenters. WATTS— DODDRIDGE—BA XTE R—the late ROBERT HlLL—the mild, conscientious WESLEY—the earnest, intrepid WRITEFIELD—aII these great men were Dissenters ; and the greatest of them all, Jour; MILTON, he, too, was a Dissenter ! 'We owe to the " mind of mere Dis senters" two of the most popular works that were ever penned—" Robinson Crusoe" and the "Pilgrim's Progress"—works that have achieved a European reputation, and will survive to instruct, amuse, and elevate humanity ages after the present generation shall have passed away into nothingness. But the Posts contempt is not confined exclusively to the Dissenters. No, our Contemporary is singularly impartial in his abuse, and designates all that portion of the Devonshire laity who have remonstrated against the rash decrees of the Bishop of EXETER, by the polite appellation of "ste/li," or fools ! Judging from his article of Saturday morning we should say that he ought to be a good judge of what constitutes " folly," though in the present instance his censure is singu larly inapplicable. It must be conceded to the Anti-Corn-law League, by its most determined opponents—even by those who are the stoutest champions of the claims for exclusive Protection to the " landed interests"—that the agita tion which that body has invited and maintained with so much energy, has benefited no class of the com ,nunity so much as the agriculturists themselves ! If this assertion " sounds," at first, " a paradox," a moment's consideration will establish its soundness. It affords us sincere pleasure to observe that awakened spirit of research and improvement which, in every great rural district of the kingdom, is sedulously Applying itself to the pursuit of agriculture as a practical science. In this fact lies the true secret of that amelioration which, in all human probability, the great primary and permanent occupation of mankind —the cultivation of the soil—is about to experience in this country. But again, we insist that, but for the stirring appeals of the League against monopoly prices for corn, there would have been little or no thing accomplished by this time, of all those important discoveries and -improved processes in tillage, hus bandry, and cereal economy which will stamp the year 1844 with a distinction more noble than that which any epoch can derive from multiplied victories. Determined opponents as we have ever been, upon principle, to class-legislation, which is bad, and to class-protection, which is worse, we have never undervalued the vast importance of agriculture, as a primary element of the grandeur and strength of nations. In this country, notwithstanding all the ad vances it has made within the last century, its move ment bore no proportion to the gigantic strides of our commercial, manufacturing, and mechanical, develop ment. What has been the reason of this sluggishness on the part of our agriculture ; simply that adherence to traditional practice, in defiance of scientific experi ment and demonstration, which the ignorance or irninity of prejudice cherishes as a meritorious ho mage to the " wisdom of our ancestors," in respect of so many arts and institutions in which we are most behind the progressing genius of our age. In agri .ulture, this is a principle which elevates mere tech nical imitation above the merits of the most enlightened liscovery, the value of the most improved agents, or the success of the most productive new combinations. In portions of the Metropolitan Counties, themselves, especially in parts of Middlesex, Kent, and Surrey, a system of slovenly farming, which would scarcely have discredited the primitive practice that may have prevailed under the lleptarchy, still attests the naneful influence of this " as you were" principle. better and a brighter day dawns upon us. Geo logical chemistry opens an inexhaustible treasury of really " useful knowledge" to the practical agricul turist. Chemical analysis detects and developes new priciples of fermentation, new combinations of gases, snd new modes of extracting ammoniacal salts 'from various substances hitherto unapplied or unknown for the important purposes of manure. In the foremost rank of those illustrious contemporaries, foreigners and Englishmen, to whom agriculture is most largely in debted for its improving prospects, we recognise the Admirable LitniG. lie has approved himself the chemist of the soil. But let us be just to our own countrymen. If COBDEN had not "read " his poli deal lectures to our landowners, the land would have derived no benefit from the chemical experiments and discoveries of LIEBIG. The political economist first wrought the conviction in our agriculturists, that they must devise securer bases to rely on for their Future incomes than the average yield of the land, alder the existing system of tillage and dressing, and existing prices of produce, would continue to give. When they had once been induced seriously to ponder on this conviction, the chemist of the soil demonstrated by what means that yield might be so largely and economically increased as to go near satisfactorily to achieve the desired object. But in other tuarters, Mr. L. Fox, of Yorkshire, Mr. W. PITT, of Lymington, Scc , have shown how enormous a saving nay be accomplished in the aggregate of seed wheat annually sown in England and Wales, and how in •onceivable an increase may certainly be derived from libbling the corn at given and regular distances. We entreat the agriculturists to persevere in the .vise course of careful observation and experiment apon which so great a body among them appear to save embarked in good earnest. But they will greatly srr if they stop short at these improvements of system ,nd processes. Let them be up and doing for the re moval of such substantial grievances as they endure from the game-laws, and the preservation of game. Let them learn to see through the one-sided conces sions of selfish landlords—who offer, like Sir R. PEEL, to abandon their high " taboo" upon hares and rabbits m the express understanding, however, that the phea ;ants and partridges shall still be maintained, like he Praetorian cohorts of old, in a sort of fortified ;amp—and the insolence of a legalised impunity of a ( )articular body of men, who care nothing for the .acrifice of human life and liberty which follows on he practice of poaching—poaching being the inevita sle consequence of game-preserving. Let the agri :ulturists look to the county Members, and insist on their procuring the repeal of those obnoxious laws, under cover of which, as a Wiltshire correspondent of the Times has lately proved, a farmer may be sub iected,V pheasants alone, to the destruction of grow ing crops to the extent of 2501. or 3001. a year. We would fain hope that if the tenant farmers succeed in )cashing these social as well as professional improve nents, we shall hear no more of their emulating, in their turn, the tyranny of some great landowners (who are also game preservers), towards them, in straining the law to its utmost severity of tension tgainst the wayfaring pauper, or the wandering men licant for purloining a turnip or burning a faggot. These are moral ameliorations in which we feel at least as much interested as in those material ones, upon which they will soon have so muc h reason tc; upo congratulate themselves. The last news from Otaheite, though not destitute ,f some features of novelty and interest, does not present any aspects upon ) ; r :-,',,74 we deem it expedient at present, to offer any observations.. But, though further discussion may tend to prolcng angry feelings between the Governments of France and England, it must not be anticipated that the violence which has been offered by the French authorities to the native Princess who has appealed to our protection, and the insult which has been cast upon the dignity of the British nationality by their injurious treatment of Mr. PRITCHARD, will not very often be turned upon the wrong-doers, in the shape of a self-recorded case of political delinquency, which, like cases of moral delinquency, is sure in the end to entail upon the actors in it, its own punishment. Our present purpose is simply to express an ardent hope that the British Government, warned by the disastrous conse quences of such anomalous interventions in the affairs of remote, and barbarous or semi-civilized countries, as have signalised their shilly-shally, would-and would-not treatment of New Zealand and Otaheite, will turn its most prompt attention to a general revi sion of the whole condition of those scattered settle ments, which it has but recently acknowledged by specific acts of sovereignty, or which it still leaves to the same ambiguous constructions of possessory or non-possessory title, that in both hemispheres have been of such fatal development. We take leave rapidly to name a few, a very few, of these doubtful or " no-men's" lands, as to which, if the principles were to prevail that have been followed by all the other maritime nations of Europe in scores of instances, the title of our flag to paramount and primary authority cannot be questioned, if it be specifically and at once asserted. The exigencies of our com merce, and the political defences of our broken range of transmarine and colonial dominion, make this assertion an affair of momentous interest and in describable importance. The eighty or ninety years' postponement of the boundary line between the conterminous frontiers of British North America and of the United States ;—the north-eastern and north western lines of demarcation—the rights over the Oregon territory and the mouth of the Colombia River—the New Zealand districts, over which the title of aboriginal owners is not, and those over which it is, alienated or defeased :—these suggest a few of the more modern exemplifications of the luxury and safety of undetermined rights, unascertained titles, or unsurveyed possessions. We should like to know in what condition and under what settlement the lands, once the property of an African Association, and afterwards transferred to this Government, now are, on the Gold Coast ? Is there no conflict of pretensions between ourselves and Holland, or Den mark, as to any portion of them ? Do the stipula tions of our treaties with the Sovereigns of Ashantee and other neighbouring Powers expressly recognise us in the possessions we virtually hold ? Are our settlements on the Senegal Coast altogether aban doned; or, if not, are they in private British hands ? Have the pretensions of the French in the Portendic affair been finally conceded, since Dr. LUSLIINGTON retired from the House of Commons to the Admiralty tribune ? Do we retain any hold on the valuable gun trade, of which it may not be proposed, from a deficiency on our part of diplomatic recognitions, some fine morning, by one of the two French Chambers, to deprive us under the force of a string of " resolutions," after the fashion of Mr. President TYLER'S management ? Has Portugal been left without a loophole through which to rake us in our possessions on the eastern and south-eastern coast of Africa, where she still affects, in her political decrepitude, to trace the footsteps of her more vigo rous youth of maritime enterprise and discovery ? On the southern coasts of America, do we mean to retain as Crown possessions, or do we intend to aban don, the Falkland Islands, whose ill-understood value as a refitting and refreshment station for our navy about 80 years since, nearly victimised us for the purposes of Spain, practising on our ignorance or our credulity, our apathy or our rash ness ? Is it intended in the Indian Archi pelago to allow Holland to affix the seal of pro scription, stamped by our own unaccountable acqui escence in her crafty policy, on that decree of virtual exclusion by which she has so far succeeded in shut ting us from the richest markets in the Eastern World, after all that our courage, capital, and ad venture had opened and accomplished in these lati tudes during the last three centuries? We shall re turn to this subject on the occasion of entering into some examination as to the operation of our existing treaty with the Netherlands' Government, of the year 1824. 'We believe it to be a subject that, if not seasonably entertained, will be forced on the attention of our Legislature and Government next session. According to accounts from Madrid of the 29th ult., the QUEEN had published an amnesty in favour of the persons implicated in the late rising at Lo grono and Huesca, excepting, however, the general officers, public functionaries, and the leaders of the rebellion. On the 28th the Chamber of Deputies met, when the President announced that a number of Members had seceded, and given in their resigna tions. These resignations, which amounted to seven teen, were referred to the Minlster of the Interior. In reference to this step, which shows that the Members regard their attendance as useless, Senor OftENSE said the Ministry intended to govern with the co-operation of Parliament, for which it enter tained the greatest consideration ; and it would labour, as far as in its power lay, to organise the country in a becoming and definitive manner. The Chamber afterwards adjourned to the 2d instant. On the 28th ult. the Three per Cents. were done at 32 for cash, and 32 at sixty days ;Jthe Five per Cents. at 23 3-8 at sixty days ; and the Debt without interest at 7-1-, at sixty days. The Paris papers are entirely occupied with dis cussions on the result of the elections in the Chamber of Deputies, but as nothing certain is yet known respecting the fate of the Ministry, each party reckons on success—the Opposition from the small majority obtained by M. DEBELLEYME as Vice- President, and the Ministry from the vast majority obtained in the Committee for drawiilg up the Ad dress. It would be of no interest to the English readei to give lengthened extracts from the articles in these papers on the question. It is stated in some of the journals that M. ST. MARC GIRARDIN is to move an amendment on the Address, objecting to the terms of peace granted to Morocco, and that a dead heat between the parties is extremely probable. If the Journal des Debats, however, continues to take its tone from the Hon. Member as formerly, the report must he without foundation. According to that paper the Conservatives are as much united as ever, and the appointment of the last Committee is given as a proof. " A moment of indecision," says the writer of an article on the subject, " in the majority which sup ports the policy of the Cabinet had been near giving the advantage to the Opposition in the last ballot that took place for the formation of the bureaux. The Opposition was in too great a hurry to triumph, and if some persons had speculated on the division of the Con servative party, they will be obliged to:postpone their hopes. For our parts, we have never ceased to count on the good sense and good feeling of the majority. We had appealed from the secret ballot on proper names to the frank and open discussion on things them selves, and our expectation has not been deceived Yesterday the question of things had replaced those of persons, and the majority which intrigue had a moment shaken has been found as firm and com pact as ever. The Ministry did not refuse to answer any of the questions addressed to them, whereas it may be remarked that the most influen tial members of the Opposition, who in similar cases usually draw forth precise declarations from the Cabinet, have shown an intentional reserve, and refrained from speaking. After this first trial, the Cabinet can await with confidence the public discus sion. The Conservative majority has rallied, the former situation is re-established." The Globe takes rather a more serious view of the late divi sions, and in the following extract evidently alludes to Count MOLE and his friends, who had entered on a line of policy of which they seem now to repent : " The situation of things, over which the coalition had triumphed for a moment in spreading a mist, has just appeared to well-thinking persons in all its truth and clearness. They saw, in fact, that the question was not merely to change the Ministers, but to alter the present line of policy, which is a grave matter, particularly when this policy is that of order, ndustry, and peace. They perceived that the question was to break the English alliance which is at present the most solid support of good harmony in Europe, and the most efficient instrument of civilisation. These results alarmed the men who are seriously the friends of their countri, and their THE SUN', LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7, withdrew fi.om the midst of the intrigue, of which they constituted all the strength. We think that these well-thinking men ought to be thanked for what they have done, whilst, at the same time, they are warned of the grave shock they might give the interests of the country, in permitting themselves such fallings oft The most able and most efficient of go vernments could not do any good, if they who give it their support do not exhibit great firmness and con sistency. Months are required for a Cabinet to repair the evil done in a single day by an inattentive majority. TheSonservatives ought besides to bear in mind that the general work of the Cabinet is their work, and that all the blows which they allow to be given to this work recoil on themselves." A leading organ of the Opposition, the Courrier Francais, is sadly annoyed at the vacillation of the Chamber, which one day votes against Ministers and next day neutralises the vote, and says, if the old system is to be continued, it would be a hundred times better for the Chamber to adopt the Ministerial report as it shall be drawn up by M. HEBERT or M. DE PEYRAMONT, the only reporters possible in this pleiades of nullities. A discussion would only show our bebasement the more, and render us the fable of free nations. The National has as little confidence in the consistency of the Chamber, and as a proofs states the fact, that of 28 Conservatives who three days previously had voted against Ministers, 28 wheeled round like Jim Crow, and two only had the courage to maintain their previous opi nions. The Presse, so far from regarding M. GIRARDIN'S amendment as hostile, says he will simply propose an additional paragraph to the Address, if tho draught be not so composed as to give satisfaction to that portion of the majority of the Chamber which wishes for the maintenance of peace—which wishes for it earnestly, and who are ready to make every sacrifice for it, on condition that those sacrifices should be reciprocal, according to the expression of the Hon. M. SAssEY, in the speech he delivered when quitting the President's chair. M. GUIZOT could wish nothing better. The discussion in Committee on the Address commenced on Friday in the Chamber of Deputies, and it was expected to be presented on Thursday next. The Moniteur publishes the following returns from the Bank of France on Dec. 26, with the result of the operations for the last quarter of the year : " The specie in hand amounted to 245.096,8021.—the commercial bills to 142,612,6741.—0 f which 19,264,0)2f. were upon Paris; the advances upon ingots to 6,885,900 f. and upon public securities to 7,930,1661. The branch banks were indebted to the Bank 22,000,000 E for their capitals, and 54,728,426 f. for advances. On the other side, the notes in circulation amounted to 249.133,5001., and bills payable to order 741,1201.; the funds deposited by the Treasury in account current to 137,249.244 f.; other accounts current to 47,311,6291.. and certificates, payable at sight, to 1,656,000 f. The averages during the last quarter present some remarkable differences with the State at the end of the year. The average of discounts amounted to no more than 101,052,3001. ; those of the account current of the Treasury to 105,496,6001. The difference in this last item arises, no doubt, from the payments made on ac count of the loan. The average of the accounts current was 50,473,400 f. During the quarter the sum total of the bills discounted in Paris was 234,101,6041., and of those in the branch banks 102,038,634 f. The move ment of the caisses present some interesting results. The specie paid in was only 89,303,020 f., and the species paid out 106,925,550 f. The movement of the notes was 571,495,000 f. paid in, and 557,781,5001. issued. The general movement of the accounts current was 1,887,880,0001: The same journal contradicts officially the statements which have appeared in several of the Opposition jour nals relative to Admiral Dupetit-Thouars being at Ver sailles, &c., and adds, that immediab-ly on his arrival in Paris he waited on the Minister of Marine TIIE BOURSE—SATURDAY, JAN. 4. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. french Five per Cents•• •• .. 120 95 .. 120 95 .. 120 90 .. 120 85 Fours .... ....• ••• .. 108 .. 108 • • 108 • • 108 Three per Cents.— •. 85 10 •• 85 10 .. 85 .. 85 _ New Loan •• •• •• • . 86 60 .• 86 GO .. 86 60 .. 86 60 Bank of France •• 3225 50 ..3225 GO ..1225 50 ..3225 60 f arlitte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslloo ..1100 ..1100 •.1100 1161gmn Bank 635 .. 635 .. 635 .. 63:5 Belgian Fives, 1840 •• •• •• 104 .. 104 •• 104 .. 104 Spanish Threes•. •.•.• . • • 37 .. 37 .• 37 •• 37 Active 37 .. 371 •• 37 .. 371 Pa55ive.••....•...• .. 6 •• 6: .. Portuguese Five per Cents 5 1 •• 591 .. 59# .. 59 - 1 Neapolitan ............. gotinta ..... . RAILWAY SHARES. Ver5ai11e5,R.8............. 472 10 .. 472 10 .. 410 .. 470 L. 8....• •• 3.15 65 .. 365 65 .. 365 65 .. 365 65 Rouen.. Rouen to Havre...• • • 820 . 820 820 .. 820 Orleans • .....•.....1132 5O ••1132 75 ..1127 50 —1132 50 Strasburg to Rate.. •....... 306 25 306 25 .. 303 75 . 305 Avignon to ••• • .. 917 •• 917 50 .. 920 . 917 50 .. 920 RAILWAYS FOR TILE ACCOUNT, JAN. 3. St.!German ......... ..... 1020 ..1020 ..1020 Venial 480 .. 410 .. 470 375 •• 375 .. 360 Rouen . Rouen to Havre ....... . 825 .. 825 • • 815 Orleans .... •• ..... •• • • ....1132 50 ..1135 "1115 ..1020 .. 475 .. 370 -1035 .. 815 ..1133 75 Strasburg to Bale ••• • • • .... 306 25 .. 306 25 .. 302 50 .. 305 Avignon to Marseilles .... 925 925 .. 915 .. 920 EXPULSION FROM THE BAR.—It will no doubt be recollected that a few months back complaints were made against certain unprofessional practices of some members of the bar, and that eventually the subject of complaint was taken up by two or three of the inns of court. It now appears that the complaint against a barrae - r — of the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn h as b een established according to the judgment of the benchers of that society, and they have not, we are inform e d, shrunk from performing the painful duty of expulsion —from which decision the party has appealed to the Judges. A charge was also made against a member of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn for circulating a table of fees, and offering a commission for business. The benchers having instituted an inquiry into the circum stances, do no not find the complaint established. THE ROYAL VISIT TO STOWE.—The Duke of Bed ford, the Duke of Somerset, Lord Carrington, the Earl of Buckinghamshire, Lord Nugent, Sir John Dashwood King, Sir T. Aubrey, Sir W. Clayton, Sir Henry Verney, Sir George Nugent, the Duke of Buckingham, and the Marquis of Chandos, are among the nobility and gentry who have affixed their names to a requisition to the High-Sheriff of the county of Bucks, requesting him to convene a county meeting, for the purpose of agreeing to a loyal and dutiful address, to be presented to her Ma jesty the Queen, on the occasion of her Majesty s in tended visit to Stowe next week. The meeting has been appointed to take place in the County-hall, Aylesbury, on Saturday next. ADVENTURES OF AN OFFICER IN THE SERVICE OF RUNJEET SINGEL, BY MAJOR IL M. L. LAWRENCE.— This curious work bids fair to become one of the most popular of the class—of mingled fact and fiction—to which it belongs. The Britannia, in reviewing it, ob serves :—" These volumes resemble Anastasius 'in general design. The adventures of a soldier of fortune are made the medium of conveying to the reader spirited descriptions and faithful portraiture, while there is sufficient connection and incident in the narrative to give it the interest of a fiction. The country of the Punjaub, the character of Runjeet and his Ministers, and the dis position and habits of the natives, are forcibly delineated. The Adventures' themselves are boldly told, and have a lively air of reality. In its mingling of fact with romance, the book is one of the most successful of its kind." EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNT OF PROPERTY TRANS FERRED BY A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL.—A curious and (not a little) interesting document has lately been pre sented gratuitously to the select friends and clients of Mr. George Robins, also a large body of the agricultu rists, and such persons as are deeply interested in the transfer of property. 'We have been favoured with one of these reports, and have read through it with unmixed pleasure and satisfaction; as a matter of reference only it will prove invaluable. It states the quantity of pro perty that has changed hands through Mr. Robins's in strumentality from the year 1815 to 1842, (and it avoids noticing any of the estates he has sold at or under 2,0001. ; ) but it details the situation, extent, and rental of each property, and the county wherein it is situate, &c., with the name of the estate affixed to it. From this condensed history we gather the following facts: That, during a portion of Mr. Robins's professional pur suits, he has sold Seven Hundred Thousand Acres of Land, the rentals upon which were Eleven Hundred Thousand Pounds a-year, and the aggregate amount Eleven Millions and Four Hundred and Seventy-three Thousand, Two Hundred Pounds. It is said the pro perty sold at and below 2,000/. si•ould exceed another Million of Pounds sterling. A. cur ious fact is appended to this unpar a ll e l e d result. In the year 1824, Mr. Robins presided over the Sales of the Marquis of Or monde' s vast Estates, for which he obtained 477,0001., independently of timber; and he valued the remaining portion of the Lands and Estates of the late Duke of Atholl (not sold during Mr. Pitt's Administration), to gether with his sovereign rights to the government, for 530,000/. Either of these occurrences (as it regards the extent of the amount) are without a precedent; but, occurring as they did in one year, are not in dread of having a parallel case to oppose them.—Brighton Herald, Jan. 4. . _ SELF -MUTILATION.--A very handsome young wo man, named Jessie M'Kenzie, who is only nineteen years of age, the daughter of highly respectable parents, was on 'Thursday last conveyed to Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, a confirmed maniac, under the most distressing circum stances. For many months past the young woman has devoted herself to the reading of the Scriptures, and had become extremely melancholy; while in this state she committed an act of s e lf- mut il a tion almost unparalleled. The unfortunate l una ti c was at t h e ti m e lying in bed, her mother and aun t b e i ng i n the same roo m. Suddenly the relatives w ere h orror - struck right eye completely by perc e iving a human eye lying at th e i r f ee t. T he mother ran t o her daughter, and was app a ll e d a t perceiving that she had torn her pletely out of" its socket. The young woman, who betrayed no agony, said our Saviour had whispered to her the worcls, "If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out ," and she consid e red she was only fulfilling har Divine Master's will by doing so. The poor creature afterward.; became much w 4 ", 4nd it was found necessary to remove her to Bethlehem Hospital. From this place she was discharged as incurable, and Sir Peter Laurie then procured her admission into the 04111 Llluatin Asidgni UNITED STATES. ONE DAY LATER FROM AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY EVENING.—The fast-sailing ship Ne.v York, Captain Cropper, arrived at this port this afternoon, from the port after which she is named, with papers of the 16th ultimo, one day later than those received by the Caledonia. She has also brought seven passengers. The papers contain a few interesting items of news, from which we extract the following : (From the New Ycrk Herald, Dec. 16.) AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON.—Our accounts from Wash ington begin to be extremely interesting. It is only ne cessary to read the correspondence from that capital, which appears daily in our columns, with regard to the Mexican diplomacy—the Texas question—and the policy of Mr. Calhoun, to perceive the greatly growing inte rest which these subjects are acquiring. The course of events at Washington is, indeed, now of the utmost im portance to the whole country, and especially to the com mercial interests. According to the last accounts, the special messenger from Mexico had arrived at the capital with dispatches, but nothing has as yet been revealed in addition to what we had already received by way of Vera Cruz, Galves ton, and New Orleans. Our latest correspondence, how ever, intimates that a most important communication will soon be made to Congress by the President, con taining all the recent unofficial correspondence on the subject, and pointing out to that body the probable course of action which ought to be adopted in the pre sent emergency of our relations with Mexico. Accord ing to the best information we can find, it is believed that the President, in his message, will recommend the strongest measures fur carrying out the annexation of Texas, and for the recovery of the instalment due by the Mexican Government. We should not be at all sur prised to see a war message sent into Congress, recom mending that body to renew the negotiations with Mexico, not on the Texas question at all, but on the subject of the last instalment of the indemnity, in a way much more energetic than what that country expects. It will be recollected how the French Government nego tiated with Mexico a few years ago, by sending a fleet with a minister—the one to enforce the correspondence of the other by more persuasive means than written argu ment. We should not be surprised if Mr. Tyler were to re commend something of the same kind in regard to Mexico —that is to say, the renewal of the negotiation for the pay ment of the indemnity, accompanied by a fleet to the port of Vera Cruz, with instructions, if every dollar and cent were not paid at once, according to the stipula tions of the treaty, to enr.ree payment as the French formerly did. At all events, a few days will reveal to us what may be the pi übable action of the Executive in the present extraordinary position of affairs between this country and Mexico. It will be seen, therefore, that the Texas question ab sorbs all other questions. And bound up with this question is the fate of Mr. Calhoun himself—he being the principal negotiator in the recent Texas diplomacy. A powerful combination is preparing in both Houses of Congress for the purpose of defeating Mr. Calhoun, and to prevent the possibility of his retaining a cabinet posi tion in Mr. Polk's administration. On the other hand, a prodigious effort will he made by the present Adminis tration and its friends, to annex Texas to this country at once, without any further reference to Mexico, and to compel the Mexican Government to pay the last in stalment of the indemnity still due. It will be seen from this critical position of affairs, that the question of peace or war hangs on a single thread, and that every thing coming from Mexico, New Orleans, and Washing ton, as also from England, as soon as the returns are received from that quarter, will be extremely interesting to our readers. We have a stirring winter before us. (From the New York Sun, Dec. 16.) PROGRESS OF THE REVOLUTION IN MEXICO.—INTE RESTING AND IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE.—The rumours of further revolts against the present Government, which we alluded on Saturday-, are fully confirmed. By the Southern mail of Saturday afternoon, we received letters and papers from Vera Cruz, of date 21st ult., being one day later. We give our correspondent's letter, viz.:— 815. return to the Cambria, which has been built, like her predecessors in the Clyde, by the same able hands and clear heads that have already turned out so many chef.. d'ceuvre. If there is skill in augury, she will Outstrip ail that has gone before her. We had intended to have entered into a minute description of the vessel's appear ance—the beauty and symmetry of her form—the vast power of her complicated and elegant-looking machinery, engines, boilers, and fittings—the magnificence of her saloons, with all the appointments for the comfort and happiness of the passengers —the accommodations on deck, studiously arranged, to combine safety with ele gance ; but after some consideration we have deemed the labour superfluous. We entered upon such a de scription in the case of the Hibernia ; and making some allowance for the superior tonnage and capability of the new ship, the same remarks apply to both. The Cam bria's performances will be her best test—her own advertisement. She is commanded by one who is every inch a gentleman and a sailor; her passengers, we have no doubt, will be right merrie fellows,' and in her maiden efforts to annihilate time and space, on the broad and swelling bosom of the Atlantic, our best wishes—fears we have none—go with the good ship Cambria, her gallant crew, passengers, commander, and all ! Vivant the Cambria !" FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, JAN. 3.—The Moniteur of this date pub lishes the ratification, by the King of the Belgians on the one part, and of the King of Prussia and the other Princes, members of the Zollverein, on the other, of the commercial treaty concluded on the Ist of September, 1844, between Belgium and the Zollverein. JAN. 2.—The public in this city, as well as in other parts of the country, have felt a very natural anxiety about the indisposition of the King. The information which we have obtained enables us to say that almost during the whole of his Majesty's stay at Paris he suffered from the effects of a cold and catarrh. His Majesty, however, presided this morning in a Council of Ministers. His Majesty, immediately on his arrival at Lacken, on Tuesday evening, had a conference with M. Goblet, Minister of Foreign Affairs, on the royal sanction of the treaty with the Zollverein. Yesterday (New Year's-day) his Majesty received at the Palace of Lacken, the persons belonging to the royal household. To-day, at noon, Count Woyna presented to his Ma jesty his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary, or Minis ter Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the Emperor of Aus tria at this Court. His Majesty also gave audiences to the Ministers of Great Britain and Hanover. Baron Alexander Von Homboldt, who has been here for two or three days, sets out to-day for Paris, where he has been expected for some months, to be present at scientific experiments of the highest importance, on a new mode of locomotiion by means of compressed air. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, JAN. 3. Actual Debt, 21 per Cent — Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent — Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 98% Ditto Three per Cent Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto — Ditto, ditto 1840 Ditto, ditto 1844 Ditto of the City, 1843 10 2 .* —Brussels Papers, Jan. 4. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, DEC. 28. 5 per Cent. Metalliques 4 per Cent. Ditto lOO% 3 per Cent. Ditto 7B Bank Shares 1648 Esterhazy's Loan 57 MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEW S CITY, MONDAY EVENING. The English Market went back a little this afternoon, Consols being 10041. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. were 104; and the Three per Cent., Reduced, 1008. India Stock, however, was rather better, being 288 to 289. Spanish Bonds continued rather drooping, the Five per Cents. being 278 -I; and the Three per Cents., 361 i• Mexican Bonds were flat at 34/1 as it appears that Santa Anna seized at Vera Cruz 340,000 dollars of the Customs' duties belonging to the bondholders, 100,000 of which at least would otherwise have come forward by the Forth. Remonstrances, however, had been made upon the subject, and it was promised the sum should be restored in time for the April dividend. Colombian Bonds were 14i. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were 634. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these:—Bristol and Exeter were 6; Cambridge and Lincoln, 4; Direct Northern, 4; Dublin and Belfast, 21; Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 51 5 ; G reat Western, 86 ; Ditto, Half, 46 ; Hull and S e lb y , 20 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 41; Birmingham, 129; Brighton, 2 ; Ditto, Loan Notes, 21 ; South-Western, 36i to ; Croydon, 24 to i; London and York, 2; Lynn and Ely, 14; Newcastle and Berwick, 6f; North Kent, i; Ports mouth, Direct, 4 ; Trent Valley, 8; York and North Midland Selby Scrip, 50 ; Lyons and Avignon, 8 ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 58 4 ; Paris and Orleans, 24 to 23i ; Paris and Rouen, 20 1 ; and Rouen and Havre, 24 premium. Midland, and Birmingham, and Derby, have been 14 discount. (Frei: The Sun of Last Night.) There was only a moderate demand for Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday, but prices continued firm. Sales 3,000 bales.—Shares were in good demand, and fully supported :—Bristol and Gloucester, 41 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 381 98 ; Dublin and Belfast, 5 ; Eastern Counties, 154 ; Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 1 ; Glasgow and Greenock, Ili • Grand Junction, Quarter, 174 ; Great North of England, New, 214; ; Great Western, Half, 92 ; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 384 ; Churnet Valley, 48 4 ; Direct Northern, 3/. Is. 6d. ; Lynn and Ely, 24 ; Manchester and Leeds, 126; ; Manchester and Leeds, One-Sixteenth, 41 ; Midland Counties, 1158 1141 ; Ditto, 401., 51 4 ; Newcastle and Berwick, 7-a ; North Union, 1471 ; St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap, 221 ; South-Eastern, 41$ ; Ditto, New, 144 ; Trent Valley, 91. 18s. 9d. ; Ulster, 38 44 ; Lyons and Avignon, 2; ; Paris and Lyons, 3/. 13s. 6d. ; Paris and Orleans, 404 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 74; Northern of France, 61.15. 60.; Bea logne and Amiens, 5/. 41. 18s. 9d. file official statement of the produce of the revenue in the quarter just concluded, as well as the comparison with the year ending the sth inst., are held to be of a most satisfactory character. The very large increase in the receipts of the Customs fully bears out the oft-re peated remarks under this head as to the revival of trade. At the commencement of the new year we are usu ally favoured with circulars of the trading brokers in all the principal departments of trade, and the first that has reached us is that of Messrs. Wright and Young, of the port of Hull, the commercial prosperity of which, we are glad to state, is rapidly on the increase.; We extract two paragraphs from the document before us:— " We commence the year before us under favourable auspices, and in the confident anticipation that it will prove a year of prosperity, equalling, if it does not sur pegs, that just terminated. Much will depend, however, on the state of the money market, as affected by the host of railway schemes at present before the public. If the Government wisely recommend Parliament to sanction so many of the best lines (and no more) as will be sufficient to absorb the legitimate surplus in the money market, the prosperity of the country for the en suing year would seem to be placed on a reasonably solid and stable basis. The advantages already accruing from LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. increased means on the part of all classes of the commu nity, are of th emse l ves i mportant . O ur produce mar- The British and North American Mail steam-shiP kets are in general well supplied, and, looking at the Cambria, Capt. Judkins, left the Mersey this after- prospects abroad, likely to continue so. Provisions are noon with the mails and passengers for Canada and plentiful and c h eap , an d, see i ng h ow f avourable a seed time we have h a d, th ere i s a l re ady some prom i se of an the United States. Her mails were the largest ever other good wheat harvest. We may also look forward taken from this port ; she had 60 passengers, and t t o o o a u c r onti labouring population being fully employed, and continuance of the present improved rate of wages, steamed away in beautiful style, firing her guns as as also to a well supplied and easy money market (in the she passed down the river. She is a new and magni- even t of a not un f avoura bl e h arvest), all very influential ficent boat, built in Scotland, and is thus described in considerations. " We have, in addition, a reve nue so f ar exceed i ng the Willmer and Smith's European Times, a paper pub- national expenditure, as to place at the command of lished at Liverpool, for dispatch by steam-ships which Ministers a sur pl us su ffi c i ent to enable them, in the leave Liverpotsl and Southampton : ensuing session, t o ma k e a f urt h er and considerable re duction in our import duties, a measure more generally "We transmit the European Times to-day by the new expected and desired by the mercantile world and splendid steam-ship Cambria, which makes her than any remission of the income-tax. Some of our staple maiden trip across the Atlantic, under the pilotage of articles mot comprehended in the former modifications of that able commander and excellent-hearted seaman, our tariffs, are still subjected to a very oppressive impost. Captain Judkins, whose triumphs in the Hibernia are A further and liberal diminution of the tax on sugar, for familiar to our readers on both sides of the Atlantic. instance, if made with a due regard to our colonial inte- With every succeeding ship built by the spirited and rests, could not fail to be attended with the best results enterprising Company to which the Cambria belongs, to the commerce, and ultimately to the revenue itself ; new triumphs have been achieved—triumphs of mecha- recent experience having fully demonstrated that low nism, of skill, of taste, and of improved a cco mmada- duties with th e i ncrease d consumpt i on they create, are tions for the comfort and convenience of the voyageur. in the main more conducive to this end than high duties. The career of this Company has been brilliant, but the In the political world,also, appearances are satisfactory." outlay has been great, and the wear and tear make sad Among the merchants and others connected with the inroads even upon. a princely capital. Unassisted by the Russian trade, much satisfaction was expressed this Government, the splendid fleet of steamers (of which the morning at the contents of a communication inserted in Cambria is one) could not pay, and even with the pecu- the Times, relative to the safe position upon which the niary allowance for conveying the mails, the return upon paper currency of the empire of Russia is apparently the invested capital is, we understand, limited. T placed. But we are bold enough to think some facts we can readily believe, from the past and present expe- in this statement is the puff preliminary to a new rience of the enormous expenditure peculiar to ocean loan. The reserve of gold and silver bullion steaming. The French Government talked some time in the possession of the Government treasury is we ago of running steamers between Havre and New York, question 11,000,0001. or thereabouts. A Committee ap but, appalled by the expense, seem to have given up the pointed for the purpose ascertained the fact, but no project. Mr. Tyler suggests, in his Message, the es- constat to be depended upon is supplied as to the whole of tablishment of a fleet of steamers between Europe and the State paper out for the supplies of the various and the United States. The more the merrier, say we. But vast dominions of the Emperor of Russia. We are of if the President for the time being is anxious to have a opinion that the all but ex parte statement of the bullion surplus income over expenditure, he will pause before in the treasury at St. Petersburgh should be received lie makes the experiment, for assuredly it will prove a with caution, if the project of a fresh loan be broached. blister upon the finances of the country. The commit- This morning Messrs. R. Raphael and Sons received nication is at present so rapid and direct, that improve- from the Hague a royal decree of 2d January, which went seems hardly attainable, and the embryo steamers contains the following information : must be able to compete in speed and in build with the `• To afford the holders of the remaining Five per hitherto unsurpassed excellence of the steam-ships at Cents., being now 37,383,400 guilders, another oppor present navigating the Atlantic. Again, the prejudice tunity of voluntary conversion to Four per Cents., books which prevails in this country respe c ti ng Ameri can are opened from Wednesday, Jan. 8, 1845, till further steamers, owing to the frightful accidents and explosions, notice, or till twenty million guilders are subscribed, but of which every arrival brings an account, must be over- at all events not later than Tuesday, Jan. 28. come. We do not mean to say that the United States " The price of the Four per Cents, (with interest from cannot produce ocean steamers equal to those of any the Ist of October lasL) to he given in exchange for Five other nation—far be it from us to libel in this way the per Cents. so converted, is fixed at 98; per cent. The ingenuity of a clever and scientific people—we are merely holder receives out for each 100 guilders, 14 guilders in stating a fact. Continued success and time would pro- I money, and 4 per cent. for difference of interest from bably wear out the prejudice to which we refer ; but in ' the Ist of October to the Ist of January last," the interim, the waste of dollars, in establishing a cha- The private accounts received from the West Indies ranter, would not be trifling: compared to it the Presi- this morning are generally of a most satisfactory nature. dent's salary and the whole travelling expenses of Con- The impartation of hill coolies, at an expense of about gress—would a mere flea-bite. If the projeet mice , 50,0u01, Was all but settled, and not a doubt was enter determined upon by the Ateerieen Government, we have ' tamed that it would prove most advantageous to the colp no doubt it will be spiritedly carried out, albeit, it does n;es. At Jamaica trade was dull. The prosaseeSs of the appear unseemly for a nation to appear as the cempeti- planters were cheering. tors of private enterprise, especially when the transit The only quotati o es of (consols for Account thi s between Boston and Liverpool is not unfrequently per- reers4ng, isae been 1 - 00 i. There have been prices to pr formed in a dozen days. .But no consnisrelal transfers in the Three per Cents. Consols, for the firs can find fault w4ll the communication, 11,ing too frequent time s:nce the books were: shut, at 1004 arid ex the i s also quoted without the dive_ or too rapid. The only fear we have is. !hat an ill -con- dividend ; Stoels eoe ted or id-digested scheme may—as it utiquc.tionqt,ly de l ta, yi 9Eis. Rp . duce4 'Vireo "" " - • 11 . will—reAllt in ft4ilttre and disappointnient. ' 109 ; 411,4 t h e Frgat this tilir9ssiqg on. 4tl anC'q ccni§, X 6 wi 19 " Vera Cruz, Nov. 21, 1844. " Dear Sir,—Since mine of yesterday morning we have received the most astounding intelligence. more than confirming the reports from the interior then detailed. Couriers were arriving here yesterday evening and last night, announcing revolt after revolt. Seven depart ments or states have declared against Santa Anna, and he is reported to have take❑ flight for this city, on his way to the Island of Cuba, where he will probably seek a temporary asylum. I am not without hope that we may be able now to restore the constitution of 1824, overthrowing the present union of Church and State (which is sucking our life blood), and obtain a Govern ment more like that under which you of the north re pose in happiness and peace. God grant that we may be successful. The States now against Santa Anna are— Guanaxuata, Xaliseo (or Guadalaxara), San Louis Potosi, Zacetecas, Durango, Queretaro, and Mechoacan, being the seven principal states of Central Mexico. " The states of Mexico an.l Vera Cruz, garrisoned as they are by Santa Anna's favourite troops (whom he has paid well and taken good care of, each soldier being provided with a mistress), have declared against the re volution. We have yet to hear from the 'south, north, and north-west. With valiant and patriotic Yucatan, Tobasco, and Chiapas in the south ; Chihuahua, Sonora., and Siaaloa, New Mexico, Santa F 6, and California in the north and north-west, the revolution will be com plete. Ido not think there is a doubtful state among them. While on his way to Jalisco, to put down Paredes, intending to march through the city of Mexico, Santa Anna received the accounts from the interior, and with it the report that the army of the revolution numbered thirty thousand men. This intelligence, with signs of discontent greeting him in every direction, probably caused his retreat. " The Committee of Investigation ix Congress, to which was referred the charge against him of embezzling five millions of dollars from the public Treasury, have not yet reported. In anticipation of that report, he had re solved upon testing the strength of his opponent, dis charging Gen.Arista from the command of the northern division of the army, threatening Paredes with a court martial, and courting their opposition with the hope of gaining new laurels in a war of extermination against all who opposed him. Returning to Mexico as a con queror, he expected to be able to bring Congress into his views. Should the fates be against him, he will re tire to Spain, or perhaps to England, where he has in vested five or six millions of dollars upon which he can live comfortably for the rest of his days. 4, *** ,, " M. Y. Beach, Esq." NEWS FROM CANADA.—We have Montreal papers of the 10th of December. There is very little news of con sequence. After a long debate in the Provisional Par liament an address to the Governor-General was agreed upon, by a vote of 42 to 36, showing a decided Govern ment majority. Mr. Farrier was elected Mayor of Mon treal, on the 9th of December, by a vote of 10 to 6. TROUBLE IN ST. LUClA.—Advices to the 31st October state that insubordination among the labourers continued. One man was shot. This, it was thought, would have the effect of making all submissive. DEPARTURE OF THE CAMBRIA. .... are at ,-,ind-a-Quarter per are at 635. to 655.; and India Bonds at 775. premium ; Bank Stock is AC: 212; wad India Stock at 259. • In the Forein Stock market, the value of _Mexican Bonds has receded about 1 to 1 per cent., the news by the West India mail from the Republic being anything but satisfactory. Only about 6,000 dollars hsve come over fur the dividends. The price now is 3.0 2 - 4. Spa nish Stock is flat ; 27 . 4 fur the Actives, and at 23i for the Three per Cents. Russian Bonds are a shade lower and Dutch rather better. The Railway Share market is rather heavy, but sti a good deal of business has been transacted thiS morning. PRICE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 2ll 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities New 3 1 % per Cent. Annuties Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2ll 1-16 India Stock 2BB India Bonds 1,0001 ... 77 pm. Ditto under 1,0001 — pm. Bank Stock for Account. Consols for Opening India Stock 289 Exchequer Bills. 1 3 / 4 d. 1 1 4 d. 1,000/. 500/. Ditto Small — Ditto Advertised........ — pm. PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 34 3 / 4 Ditto for the Account 3 4 3 / 4%4% Ditto Deferred Portuguese Bonds, —.5 per Cent Ditto Converted 593 / 414 Ditto for the Account 6 0 14 1 / 2 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1> 40 — Ditto for the Account. Ditto, 1844 23 Ditto Passive Bonds 6% French Rentes, 5 per Cent. Exchange. Dutch 2 1 / 2 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RA TIWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham anal Gloucester 100 lOO 98 1 ,2 to 99 Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian .. Churnet Valley Cornwall .. ThrectNorthern 2 21/ / I 3 r B ... to /2 - - I 6. Dublin and Belfast Junction 2 1 / 2 SIA: - to Eastern Counties Great Western BO 163 Ditto, Ilalf Shares Ditto, Fifths Lancaster and Carlisle London and Greenwich ...... 123} l O l /s to 10 London and South Western.. 41%...... 77 Ditto, New — ...... 5 44... to 514 • London and Croydon London and Y0rk....... 2 l /‘ 4 14%... to ,i` Manchester and Leeds 7O 125 Midland - 100 ... 116 1 ,4 15 1 / to 116 Newcastle&llarlington,i'unc 24 ...... 62% 1 4... to Newcastle and Berwick Norwich and Brandon 8 ...... 13p...... to 14 Ditto New 1 - Portsmouth Direct Richmond and West End June. 1 - Rugby South Eastern and Dover ... 3314 Ditto New Shares South Wales West Cornwall 1 1,4... .. 44 1 A... to York and North . Midland ... 50 ......105 Ditto I Shares Ditto Scarboro' Branch .3. Ditto, Extension Boulogne and Amiens Paris and Lyons Paris and Rouen 2O ...... 40 ...... to MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 4.—OUT VIEW' ket continues firm. Eastern Counties, 15k ; Mancha/ 6 : ter and Leeds, Sixteenths, 5; Midland, 401., si; Sheffiela , and Manchester, 100 ex interest ; Gr ea t Northern Of 1 France, 6; Sambre and Meuse, 2i; Blackburn, BarnsleY , and Accrington, 3i ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 2 t 1 Churnet Valley, 4 ; London and Worcester an d Rug I and Oxford, 31s. 3d.. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced .... 1007 3 per Cent. Consols: 10 0 1,4 New 3% per Cent Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 12% Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 1136 Indian Stock 289 India Bonds, 1,0001.. Ditto under 1,000/. —. ...... Bank Stock for Account 212 Consols India Stock for Account ...... 289% Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 1%d.... 63 pm. Ditto 5001. Ditto Small ... 65 pm. FOREIGN FUNDS. Columbian Bonds 6 aer Cent 1 45 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto 3 per Cent. Dutch, 2% per Cent . _ SHARES. Bristol and Exeter, 70 paid Cambridge and Lincoln, 1 1 / 2 paid Chester and Holyhead, 5 paid _... 7 52 6 i1 Direct Northern, 2 1 / 2 paid 214 I tublin and Belfast J unc ti on , 2 1 / 2 paid ... 5 f Great Southern and Westerne(lreland), 5 paid 10 Great Western, 75 paid 166 Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid Hull and Selby, 50 paid _ _ 7O Lancaster and 10 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) ... .. London and Brighton, 50 paid ;. 4 Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid l 2l London and South Western, 41a paid ... 77 1 / 4 Ditto N oW , London and Croydon, 131. 15s. ?,._./, r a id ...... ... 161 London and York. DX, pai , .l ... 4l Lynn and Ely, 11 A 7.`clid 2, Midland, Biminglam, and Derby, 100 paid B6 N moist te ard Berwick, 1 paid :North Kent, 23% paid Portsmouth Direct, 1 paid Trent Valley, 2 paid lO York and North Midland, 50 paid Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid Lyons and .% vi 4. iv n, 2 paid 274 Orleansan , Vii '4 , n. 2 paid 4 7 3? Paris and Orleans, 20 p a id Paris and Rouen, 'lO paid 4O Strasbourg and Bale, 14 paid GAS MONOPOLY AT SHEPTOS MA L' .LET. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. for SIR,-If you have sp ace i n your va l ua bl e journal 0. exposing this monstr ous mono p o l y , you w i ll much o blig° your readers here by inserting the following. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A DAILY READER. Considerable dissatisfaction has prevailed in this tel amongst the consumers of gas for the last two years, .`„" consequence of the exorbit an t c h arge t h at bas bee," made for gas, viz., 12 s . 6d. p er th ousan d f eet, besides 10' per annum for the use of meter. Three memorials, respectably signed by the inhab i :, tants; have been sent to the Directors, soliciting the' to reduce the , price to 10s. ; b u t a ll t o no purpose. j last of these was to the effect, that un l ess t h e pr i c e vi tl i reduced to 10s. at the commencement of the prese° year, they should discontinue burning it. This theDirec" tors, who call themselves men of business, took no noti ce c , of, although it w as s i gne d b y upwards of forty of P most respectable tradesmen in the town ; they had o° , even the courtesy to a c k now l e d ge i t . Th e cons eque°,,ce was, that last Thursd a y a b us y scene ' took place in town, through the remo va l o f th e C ompany s meters to the station, where the greatest part were delivered sa f e m before the evening, much to the astonishment o f self-styled men o f t business, some of whom talked ge li things, and made m an y th rea t s . Th e greater pa rt d the shops are no w ill um i na t e d i n t h e goo d o ld sy tle 0 0 lamps, candies, &c., and will continue so, unless the s i monopolist men of business choose to reduce the price their gas. The p r i ce o f coa l s h ere f or making go , I not more than 7s. or Bs. per ton. too_ LONDON SESSIONS.—OD Saturday, at the Loo:Pi General Sessions, Mr. E. Griffin, an undergraduate Oxford U n i vers ity, was i n di c t e d f or v i o l ently assau ltill William Wren, waiter at the King's Arms Hotel, e , Snow-hill. It appeared that Mr. Griffin during the i ll ; cation, usually put up at this inn, and gave very dinners to his fellow collegians. On Saturday tb_ n te e weeks he gave one of these dinners, chan3l o6 4, and bottled stout being the usual draught o n tso, Wren was waiter at table, and Mr. Griffin recillir`f e excellene some stout, asked, " Where's the porter ?" Wren plied, " Oh, he's down stairs ;" on which Mr. called him by one or two flash terms, and, tasi; t l him by the collar, pushed him down stairs and kick him. Mr. Griffin, who was dressed in the first fashiel; admitted only the pushing him down stairs ; he most impud en t wa i ter . M r. J . R . Brasse, of New '" 0 .- Hall, Oxf or d, an d M r. J. Wi tc h er, o f Perry Hall, Ham shire, corroborated this statement. The landlord of e inn, Mr. H o ll owa y, gave W ren a very unfavo urev' character. Mr. G r iffi n h a d comp l a i ne d o f hi s CO on which he di s ch arge d hi m nex t d ay . Th e wa it e r c°7, 1 1 plained that th e ki c k h a d di sa bl e d hi m . Th e jury f°ll7, the defendant g u ilty o f th e assau lt, accompan i e d by utia necessary violence, and the Recorder sentenced hiai i . o4 , pay a fine of 101., an d fi n d suret i es t o k eep t h e pe ace • a twelvemonth. The fine was paid. 4 0 1 THE ACCIDENT ON THE NEWCASTLE A ND CARI' I %, I RAILWAY.—Through the acti ve exer ti ons o f the c ° 1 0 ; mittee of Director): appointed to superintend the w °r je .. t in progres s on th e N ewcas tl e an d C ar li s l e Ra il wa y, conded by the unremitting labour of the contractors A pr a ti men employed, the tunnel at Corbridge, which fell few days ago, h as b een re - opene d , so that wagg:it, drawn by horses are n ow ena bl e d to pass t h ro ugo b j e tl The enlarging of the tunnel is a work of co nsider t he oil skill, a drift above it b e i ng to b e dr i ven, by w hi c h fr u , I t. wider arch is made before the old one is removed- e at kt shifting some of th e mac hi nery by the contractors tof a hole was unluckily made through the present r before the new one was finished, which let down soul° the superincumbent earth, and stopped the pasaage r t)).05.0 I SOUTHAMPT ON , J AN . s.—The Royal West mail-packet th e F ort h , Captain Chappell, arrived! Rlll, moorings here this day, at 10 a.m., and lauded thow.. l- : t,r‘ tt from the f o ll ow i ng places and dates ;,----Tatxtglo° 115, Vera Cruz Dec. 1, Havannah , 00 difill ' l P Nov. 21, J ama i ca Dec. 9, eartbagena Dec. Dec. 4, Tri n id a d Barbadoes, ' ,,, 21, Dela, St. o i Ti i i e °m F a o s rt l b h i,L a a s GuaYra Grenada 9,1• 9th Tl 24 21, and Bermuda Dp i pOl h 6h t. British coin. e assengers, 107,147 dollars, ; 1 ‘ 11,,, oz. of -,437 oz. gold dust and doubloons, !t . ' o f Ztlki silver bullion, 431bs. of platina, 600 L ' , W i ll i e 21% pearls, 22 serons of jalap, and 19 of cochineal. *4 `l mail will be forwarded to L on d on by the two a...1v...f 1a y * to-morrow. The Royal Tar, with - the Penimatilar I " • is hourly expected from Gibraltar.