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friendly. They all had their bows and quivers with them. Finding a line drawn on the sand so usefel as a boundary for their approach at Wainwright's Inlet, I again had recourse to it, which t he y respected as before. I made them all presents, and returned to the ship in the evening just before she was enveloped in a dense fog. August 24—Weighed, with a light air from the north east, and clear (hot) wea ther. Running for Point Hope, where I intended to build another mark, if the Plover had not already done it. At one, P.M., sighted off the low land the Nancy Dawson yacht and the Owen. Mr. Shedden came on board, accompanied by Mr. Martin, the second master of the Plover, who had been sent back by Mr. Pullen in charge of the two large boats of the expedition. I learned from Mr. Martin that he had arrived at the anchorage off Point Hope on the 19th inst., in company with the yacht, and was preparing to start again north in the Owen, sending the other boats back in charge of the yacht to Kotzebue Sound. The boats, after !airing the Plover on the 25th of July, were detained a day or two by the ice before reaching Point Barrow; found the natives most friendly, and anxious to assist them in every way. The boats were accompaniei a 3 far as Point Barrow by the yacht. This vessel bad many escapes. She was preseel on shore mice; ran on shore on another occasion to the eastward of Point Barrow, and was only got off by the assistance of the native', who manned her capstan and hove with great goodwill. On another occasion she parted her bower cahe from the pressure c f the ice that came suddenly down on her, and had a narrow escape of a severe squeeze. She recovered her anchor and cable. Mr. Sbedden erected a mark in Refuge Inlet, where he also intended to have left some provisions, but the natives were too numerous to do so without their knowing. - Ile found another small inlet a short distance south of Merge Inlet, in latitude 71 deg. 5 min. where he turned from his own store a large cask oeflour and a Jorge cask of preserved meats. At Refuge Inlet he left information as to the position of these casks. Nothing could exceed the kindness of Mr. Shedden to those in the boats, in supplying them with every thing his vessel could afford, and in following them with considerable risk. His crew were, unfortunately, a most disaffected set. He had too many of them, for so small a vessel. The boats all reached Dease's Inlet on the evening of the 3d, but were detained until the sth, by strong winds. Their time, however, was well employed in stowing their boats and a baidar Mr. Pullen bought at Point Bar row. They were fairly away on the afternoon of the sth, having with them WO days' provisions, besides ten cases of pemmican ; this little expedition then con sisted of two twenty-seven feet whale boats, and one native baidar, manned with fourteen persons in all. I have sent their Lordship? copies of Mr. Pullen's letters both public and private, that have been received since his departere. From them they will gain more information than I could afford. Through these letters their Lordships will also see with what a noble and proper spirit Lieutenant Pullen undertook his voyage, being nevertheless fully alive to its dangers and exposures. I am quite sure their Lordships, when they appointed Mr. Pullen, were fully aware of his character and capa bilities. I trust, however, that they will not consider the following comments out of plate:— . I don't know any officer more capable of conducting with success such an expedition. •He possesses health, great bodily strength and endurance, ability and great decision of character. Coupled with all these good points in their leader, the boats had an open sea, and a fair wind, so that I have no apprehensions as to their reaching one of the Hudson's Bay establishments on the Mackenzie early in the season, though not sufficiently early to return to Kotzebue Sound this year. Drase and Simpson certainly made their voyage from the Mackenzie to Point Barrow and back, in one season, but then they travelled west, at the commencement of the season, and returned to the eastward at its close, when the winds prevailed from the westward. Our boats would have to return to the westward at the latter part of the season, which I believe to be impossible from the packing of the ice, the keenness of the westerly winds and currents. Mr. Pullea's letter says pre!ty plainly, that he will not return ; he will therefore be awaiting their Lord chips' instructions at York Factory. -August 24—We hove to off Point Hope towards midnight in very dirty weather. August 25—In the morning stood in ; sent a boat to the yacht to tell her I thought she was in a very dan gerous anchorage, with the wind as it then was from the S.S.E. Ordered the two longer boats out imme diately. Finding the weather still more threatening, I hoisted the Plover's boat in, being handier for my tackles than tlte Owen, determining to go myself north in the ship. Provisioned the Owen, and despatched her company with the yacht to Kotzebue Sound, supposing the Plover to have gone there. I desired Commander Moore to employ her in the examination of the Buckland river. We had a calm in the afternoon with heavy rollers (without any apparent cause). We fortunately were two or three miles off the land. Had the yacht - and boats remained at their anchorage they certainly would have be en driven on shore, without my being able to assist them. A fresh breeze from the southward released us from this unreeasant .peeition. We just scraped clear of the shoal off Point Hope, and bore up nottherly, parting company with yacht and Owee. August 27-13or.Coued to run to the northward until six A.u. cf this day, had an increasing breeze from smith south-east, with frequent snow-storms. Hove to for flee weather. By nine A.M. we were re lucei to a close-reefed maintopsail and staysail, having washed away - one of our quarter hosts. I have never seen so hollow or distressing a sea for a ship—no small-decked boat could have Jived in it. It was, therefore, fortunate • that I had arrived at Point Hope before the Owen stir e I again north, and that I had decided on sending her to Kotzebue Sound. I kept the ship heading in for the land, hoping that this ga'e like our former ones, would be o f s h ort dura tion, and that I might again look into Wainright's Inlet. The only alteration, however, in the weather was, that the gale from south south-east ceased in about twelve hours, and shifted to north-west and west, from which points it blew gales, bringing with them ex cessive cold weather, with strong squalls and heavy falls of snow. August 27 = In standing to the westward we 'ob served at 10 P DI. the ice blink was very strong from north to north-west, about 15 miles from us; wore, hoping to weather Blossom shoal at least 40 miles. August 28—Wore in 11 fathoms on the shoal this `morning, having nine fathoms before we trimmed. Had a current north 84 degrees east setting 36 miles in 18 hours. Wind west. Finding it impassible to remain on the coast, I began to work off with all the sail the ship :would carry. My crew were necessarily much exposed in making and shartening sail, and suffered a good deal from colds and rheumatism. I was also shorthanded, having been obliged to send ten men to the Plover, besides those I dischargsd at Oahu. On the morning of the 31st I again stood in for Point Hope, but finding no landing there, I bore up for Kot z :bile Sound. Passed Cape Krusentern on the morning of the Lt in a gale from the north-west, under third reefs of topsails and reefed courses. Before passing Ilotham Sound we were under sail, and anchored off Chanaissio Island it 9 30 P.M. Found the Plover and the yacht at anchor under Choris peninsula. The Owen was absent with Captain. big )re up the Buckland river, but expected daily her retusn on the 3d. After completing our water from the springs in Cha misAo; my people were employed assisting the Plover in preparing her winter quarters. The boatswain with a party and the carpenters building a house. Commander Moore having determined to winter in the Soued, and being very desirous to visit some chiefs who were reporte 1 to live in a considerable place up the river, I It mined to go there with a party sufficient to secure respect from noose people, although Captain Moore told me they vvre most friendly. Accordingly, on the 9th, I starteel with the Owen, the Plover's decked hos", Herald cutter, and two gigs, their crews and seve ral i,fficers. The first night we bivouacked at Elephant Point, and had 'the whole crew roaming over the ice cliffs for fossils, but could not find one of any importance. The ascend night we stayed at a large native village of 22 tents and abcut 150 people. We pitched our tents close to one extreme of them, had our coppers, pots, kettles, axes, saws, &c., on shore, but not an article was lost, although at times we had a third of their numbers about us. Even in their way they were not troublesome, when we told them we wished them to go away. They were all very fins men, but disfigured in appear ance by the labrets they all wean They brought us wood and water, gave us fish a n d ven i son and offered us whales' blubber and seals' flesh. ' Leaving a few of the men to take care of the boats, the rest came on shore for an hour. - The natives were highly amused, and joined in their sports of leaping and running. The sportsmen were always accompanied by some of them ; they were greatly surprised to see some of the young officers killing the birds right and left. The moment the boats started (until we got far up) WO were preceded by their little k'acks, sounding with tadir paddles to the channel. 'We had pilots in each of the large boats, who remained constantly with us, and who experienced great concern when they unavoidably got tie on shore. I have teen the more particular in my remarks re lative to these interesting people, because their be haviour on the visits of Captain Beechey and myself have bean so very opposite. It may be accounted for in this way : we had an interpreter who could speak with then', through which they found out what our object was n going amongst them. .._ The Russian settlement has, also, t I . consider, been very iostrumentsl in causing this a' ion in their con duct. We found many of them with shirts, handker chiefs cf gaudy colours, cottons with walrus, reindeer, and ad the other animals that ' they k are . in the Imes, and habit c f catching ald representing in ivory, kettles—all these came from the Russian settlement. They were latterly very anxious to obtain muskets, and evinced no fear in discharging them. September I 1--We arri - ved . with th e b oats at a part of tbe fiver, 30 ini:es Up. perfe c tl y barred across with heavy rock, over which there was a fall of about thiz teen fuches. Here the heavy boats were stopp e d , b ut by - ' l nritrdit4g the lighter ones, we were enabled to haul them over. Wising myself to.return to the ship, a n d C ommander M, ore being still anxious to go on, I directed Mr. M. A. Qu.re (senior lieutenant to the Herald) to accompany him in my gig, For the purpose cf mutual protection (Laving one of the larger boats below the fall to wait eir ret;Us), X 40004 WA 19 lake 11 trileing 91 river as far as they might ascend it, and return to their respective vessels before the 23d inst. They ascended the river about thirty miles beyond where I left them. In this distance they met with but two natives. They passed several places where they were obliged to unload and haul these light boats over. They found, also, the pine trees scattered about in two's and three's a little distance from the bank. The rive*, from the mud and leaves banging on the banks, showed that, at same period of the year, it was at least ten feet above the level at, that time. The absence of spars and wood of any description on the frequent bridges of rocks across the river, on the Op of the many spots of sand, or on the - summit of the banks, which bear evident marks of having been over flown at some season, shows that the Buckland is not the source from which the enormous quantities -of wood found at Choris Peninsula is derived. We have never found a particle of wood on the eastern face of this peninsula—all is on its western. Commander Moore and his party returned on the 19th. We now commenced to prepare for our departure south ward. The Plover's house was nearly completed, and as much provisions as he could stow or take care of were placed on board her. September 26-13 y this day we were ready to start, having completed all the Plover's masts. She was not dismantled, nor did Commander Moore intend doing so until she was fairly laid up on the beach. In consequence of the illness of Mr. Shedden, of the yacht, and of my having previously removed his chief mate, I was obliged to direct Mr. Parsons (second master), of this ship, to take charge of her and navigate her to Mazatlan, where he might expEct to meet me. Early on the morning of the 29th of September I weighed from Kotzebue Sound, with a fair breeze from the north-east, yacht in company. At the time of our departure there was early snow on the low lands—the streams were 5t.,11 running. In fact, the whole month of September had been remarkably fine—generally with strong winds from the eastward. We experience,' very hard weather on getting out of the Sound; parted company with the yacht. Passed Behring's Straits on the morning of the 2d of October in a heavy gale from the N.N.W. October 11—At midnight passed the Alentian Group by the Straits of Amonkhta, in longitude 171 deg. W. These straits are thirty-five miles wide, perfectly safe and free from the races frequently met with in the other straits of this chain. On the 13th of October, in latitude 47 deg. 30 sec., and longitude 106 deg., we experienced a heavy northerly gale, with an unusual heavy sea, which broke on board of us and nearly swept our decks. On the 19th of October, in latitude 43 and longitude 106 we bad another gale at E.S.E. Between this and the 14th of November, when we anchored at the port of Mazatlan, there was nothing remarkable but the preva lence of north and south-east winds, which forced us to the coast, within 100 miles of San Francisco, before we got the north-west wind. At Mazatlan I found lying her Majesty's ship Amphi trite and the Nancy Dawson yacht, this little vessel having arrived the morning previous. I have endeavoured in this letter and the accompany ing documents to give their Lordships a detailed account of my proceedings while in the Arctic circle, which, I trust, will meet with their approval. And, in conclusion, I hope fur the consideration of their Lordships for the officers serving under my com mand, who have, as heretofore, without an exception, displayed uncommon zeal in their respective duties. I have the honour to be, Sir, your very obedient ser vant, HENRY KELLETT, Captain. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. COMMA/4DER J. C. D. Hay, OF THE COLUMBINE. —We have authority for stating that the promotion of Commander J. C. D. Hay, of the Columbine, 12, re cently engaged in service'against the Chinese pirates, has not taken place ; and that, however acceptable to his friends the confirmation hereafter of the incorrect report of some of our contemporaries may be, it is at any rate premature. We have little doubt, however, that whea the dispatches detailing the gallant conduct of Commanders Hay and Wilcox come in due course before the Board of Admiralty, their Lordships will as favourably appreciate their services against the pi rates as they did those of Captain Lyons, of the Pilot ; Captain Farquhar, of the Albatross ; and Commander Lockyer, of the Medea.—Herald. DEATH OF COMMANDER P. LE VESCONTE.—COIII mander Le Vesconte (1816), for many years British Consul at L'Orient, Brittany, died at that place on the 16th inst., aged 64. He was the son of a purser who lost a leg in Howe's action, and served 21 years afloat during the war from the date of his first entry into the navy, in 1794. " As midshipman of the Saturn (says O'Byrne's Biography'), he was pre sent in Hotham's partial action with the French fleet off the Hy eres Islands. In the Monarch, 74, Cap tain James Robert Mosse, Mr. Le Vesconte bore a part, and was wounded in the battle of Copenhagen, April 2, 1801; in consequence whereof he was pro moted, May 23 following, to a lieutenancy in the Glatton, 50. His next appointment was Sept. 6, 1803, to the Magnificent, 74, Captain William Henry Jervis, in which ship, when forming part of the in shore squadron off Brest, it was his misfortune to be wrecked, during a gale of wind, March 25, 1804. On being restored to liberty after seven years of cap tivity, ae find him joining, in the course of 1811, the Leopard, 50, armee in flute, and in August, 1814, the Queen, 74. He returned home from the Mediterranean in December, 1815, and has since been on half-pay." PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY. The Contest, 12, Commander the Hon. J. W. S. Spencer, arrived at Madeira, from England, en route to the coast of Africa, on the 10:h inst. The Dauntless screw steam-frigate, in dock, will be ready for the pendant about the Ist proximo, when it is expected she will be put into commission. The students of the Royal Naval College resumed their duties on Monday. THE SAILOR'S HOME —Captain Sir James Ster ling, of her Majesty's ship Howe, 120, in the Me diterranean fleet, has forwarded a donation of 51. (which will be continued annually) towards the above highly deserving and meritorious object, and con sented to become one of the vice-presidents of the institution. Commander Wilson, of the Howe, has also subscribed 51. towards the same object. PORTSMOUTH GARRISON.—The first of a series of lectures on military science, instituted by the Lieute nant-Governor of the District, to the soldiers of the garrison, with a view to their moral and intellectual improvement, will be given in the Queen's-rooms, Portsea, on Saturday next, under the patronage of his Lordship the Major-general Commanding. All the officers of the army and navy, and the non-com missioned officers and men, with their families, are invited to attend. Civilians will also be admitted by tickets, which may be obtained at the Town-Major's office. The expense of these lectures to the troops in his district will be defrayed by the Lieutenant- Governor, but as the lecture-room is gratuitously afforded, and the services of the lecturer rendered upon the same complimentary terms, together with the loan of the necessary apparatus for illustration by the Admiralty, his Lordship's purse will not, we hope, be drawn upon to any inconvenient extent. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 22.—Her Majesty's frigate Arethusa, 50, was commissioned on Sunday, by Cap tain T. M. C. Symonds, and is to have a complement of 500 men. This morning 86 privates, 3 corporals, 3 sergeants, and 1 lieutenant of Royal Marines, were detached from the division here and sent on board. Tne Captain of Royal Marines is not yet appointed. The Indefatigable, 50, Captain Stuart, is yet in the Sound ; her complement is not complete, and it is intended to send out draughts to join her at Lisbon. There must be something wrong in the discipline of the navy when a ship like the Indefatigable is de tained so long at home in a profitless effort to obtain a crew. The steam-frigate Terrible, Captain Hope, came in yesterday, from Portsmouth, and this time did not run aground. The steam-frigate Stromboli, Captain Lord A. Beauclerk, was off the port on Sunday afternoon, and having, signalised the Indefatigable in the Sound, proceeded down Channel, probably to overtake and assist Commodore Collinson in the Arctic expedition, which left the port the same morning. The Crane packet came in on Sunday from Fal mouth, and is gone up harbour to refit. The Diligence transport arrived on Sunday from Deptford. Wind, easterly ; light breeze. APPOINTMEXTS. Woo Lim n ., JAN. 23.—Chaplain—The Rev. G. E. Purchas, to the Arethusa at Devonport. Naval Instructor—G. F. Parker (1836), to the Arethusa at Devonport. The Volcano steam-vessel, 140-horse power, has been taken into dock to have her bottom cleaned and examined. Although covered with copper sheathing, it has been found covered to a considerable extent with shells and corals, several of the clusters being of nearly three inches projection, which must have greatly iui• peded her progress. CAPE OF GOOD Hor.E.—We have received Cape of Goad Hope pipers of the 15th Nov., at which date the convict question remained in much the same unsatis factory state as when the previous vessel quitted that shore. The Neptune still continued off the Cape ; and although petitions after petitions had been presented to the Governor, Sir 11. Smith, praying that he would order the Neptune away, he peremi Only refused, assigning as his reason that he would not commit "an act illegal, impolitic, and of dangerous example." The colony was quiet ; hut several of the shopkeepers who had fur nishe the Government with provisions were utterly ruined, the colonists having refused to purchase of them any longer. Threats of actions for damages had been made by some of the tradesmen so circumstanced ; but it was not expected that, if trial followed, the object sought would be obtained. Dispatches from the Governors of the North Ame rican Provinces were received yesterday at the Cole nial-office. Di s p a t c h es were a l so rece i ve d yes t er d ay from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. BUCKINGITAMSI3IIRE RAILWAY.-Of the 22 miles, 17 are now ncarly completed, and. it is expected that an engine will non be able to unlit ite way $9 >Bilubtuy. THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY -LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. JAMES ANDERSON. The Lessee respectfully begs to submit the fcllowing scale's f Prices of Admission for public approval: - Private boxes, 31. 35., 21. 12s. 6d., 21. 25., 11. 115. 6d., and 11. Is. Stalls, ss. each. 5. d. a. d. FIRST PRICE. SECOND PRICE. Boxes - - 4 0 Boxes - - 2 0 Pit - - - 2 0 Pit - - - 1 0 Lower Gallery -1 0 1 Lower Gallery -0 6 Upper Gallery -0 6 INo Half-price to Upper Gallesy. THIS EVENING, Will be presented, by her Majesty's Servants, The Operatic Play of ROB ROY MACGREGOR •, or, Anld Lang Syne. Sir Frederick Vernon, Mr. Diddear ; Francis Osbaldistone, Mr. Rafter ; Rob Roy Macgregor Campbell , Mr. Cooper ; Bailie Nicol Jarvie, Mr. Emery; Diana Vernon, Miss Rafter; Helen Mac gregor, Mrs. Ternan. To be followed by a New Grand Historical, Metaphorical, Allegorical, and Diabolical Pantomime, by the author of " Bluff King Hal to be called HARLEQUIN and GOOD QUEEN BESS ; 3r, MERRIE ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME, " Then the ladies with large ruffs, tied round about their necks so fast, Would gobble up a pound of beefsteaks for their breakfast. 0 1 the golden days of Good Queen Bess, Merry be the memory of Good Queen Bess."—Old Song. The Overture and Music entirely new, composed by Nobody knowswho, assisted by Mozart, Bishop, Rossini, Ware, Handel, Rod well, Haydn, and the Ethiopian Serenaders. The Rounds arc the mpesition of a select Circle. The Catches are by Locke. The Ballet Department under the superintendence of Madame Louise. The Scenery painted by Messrs. Bnmning, Jones, Wilson. C. Adams, and Assistants. The Properties, Magic Tricks, and Transformations inyeated and xecuted by Mr. W. Blamire. The Costumes 'by Mr. Palmer and Miss Biggs. The extensive Machinery by Mr. Adams. The whole produced under the Direction of Mr. T. Thompson. Istmoarats. Christmas, Mr. S. Jones; The Spirit of John Rich, Mr. Darcie ; The Spirit of High Tragedy, Mr. J. Parry ; The Spirit of Punch Miss Eunice ; Spirit of Mother Goose, Gulliver, Baron Munchausen ks., &c., by &c., &c. Iforril.s. Good Queen Bess, Mr. It. Romer ; Amy Robsart, Mr. G. Watson ; Her Lovely Babby, Master Butter ; The Great Earl of Leicester, M. Deulin ; The Little Earl of Essex, Mr. Henry ; The Unspeak able Lord Barleigh, Mr. Johnson ; The Rasher Lord Bacon, Mr. Harry; The Smoky Sir Walter Raleigh, Mr. Manderson ; The Dancing Lord Chancellor Sir Christopher Hatton, Mr. Chapino; Maids of Honour, Pages, Beefeaters, Guards, Morris Dancers, Testers, Wildmen, Dragoons, aid other Bores, by the rest of _the eozapany. CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONUS A YEAR, Bat although he comes in snow, he still hopes to meet with a warm reception—but where is he going ? Why, to pay his yearly visit to the Spirit of John Rich, in the GHOSTLY CITY OF DEPARTED FUlt This city is composed of the Tombs of the by-gone Pantomimes— " Who's dat knocking at der door ?"—Come and see—" J. Andersen's my Joe, John," and " I am Rich," that's mere than every one can say; we wish they could—How to make a Pantomime?—" that is the question"—bat the answer, it is hoped, will be satisfactory— Poor Tra-ge-dy meets with no clemency, so we fly by night" to A SPLENDID HILL IN THE PALACE OF GOOD QUEEN BESS. We now come to Historical Facts, therefore, as the Clown at &stley's would say, " Let as be serious." It is an historical fact, that the Earl of Essex loved, or pretended so, Good Queen Bess, therefore he hated the Earl of Leicester, and thence arose a conspi racy—Sir Walter Raleigh fears his pipe will be pat out—Bacon gets quite in a frizzle, and Lord Burleigh shakes his head—but there's nothing in that, whatever they may say to the contrary. It is an historical fact, that Good Queen Bess was assisted at her toilet by many of her noblemen, therefore the GRAND PROCESSION OF THE TOILETTE is introduced, in which the Royal Wig ! the Royal Raff 1 ! the Royal Blushes 1 I and the Royal Petticoat 11 I ! will make their first appearance on any stage, and trust to the " usual indulgence of a British Public." These are followed by GOOD QUEEN BESS en deshabille, as she is represented in a picture at Hampton Court. —What comes next will certainly follow—and then will be seen - GOOD QUEEN BESS is all her royal splendour.—lt is an Historical Fact, that Good 4aeen Bess, like " Young Susan"—" had lovers so many that she scarzely knew'mpott which to decide"—and it is an Historical Fact that the following were a few of them. THE REJECTED ONES : Philip of Spain, Prince Rupert, Prince of Sweden, Doke of Anion, Prince Alencon, Marquis of Winchester, the King of Sweden, Henry of Navarre, Archduke Charles, Earl of Arundel, Sir William Pickering, Charles Blount, and the Earl of Arran. Good Queen Bess appoints a meeting of these " woaderous proper men" at Kenilworth, bat declares, that on her way, " A hunting she will go" —and having got on the " High Horse," the story gallops on to CUMNOR HALL BY MOONLIGUT—WiIson. "Coming events cast their shadows before "—" Rest thee, my darling "—Ketchy, ketchy, ketchy —" Put out the light, and then "—enter the Earl of Leicester on his way to Kenil worth— He stops at Love's half-way house, the Robsar Arms—" Oh, Susanna," or rather " Oh, Amy !"—lt can't be said, "he makes no bones about it "—They part, " more in sorrow, than in anger," but, " being gone, Amy is herself again "—that is to say, a rather jealous young lady, who in her " deep despair," introduces her Lovely Babby, to whom she sings the following pathedte stanza : " Come my babby, come along with me We'll go to far-famed Kenilworth, Your naughty dad to see." And so they do. KENILWORTH CASTLE ►s it appeared on the occasion of Good Queen Bess's Royal Plait. For further particulars Inquire of Sir Walter Scott. It is as histori cal fact that Good Queen Bess paid the Earl of Leicester a visit, and "paid the piper." This, his gorgeous fete, half ruined him ; there fore we pity his fate, but must admire his wondrous generosity, fir he ever hoped for in return was—half-a-crown. The Earl fore stalls Shakspere, by discovering " that the course of true love never did run smooth," for here he meets with some twenty " competi tears," and to him they do come " petit ours," for they prove per fect bears, or, more properly speaking, bores. A Lovers' Quarrel on a grand scale, a sort of " tiff for the million," takes place, which, although beginning in love, ends in war, and the total destruction of THE SPA—NISH ARMADA I By Warner's Fulminating Blow-up—Tragedy has now done his worst, and Rich finding that even Rich must become poor if war continues, proposes a " Peace Congress," and brings all to a close by making them all change their clothes— The Earl of Leicester pits on the motley garb of Harlequin, M. Devlin. Lord Barleigh that of Pantaloon, bf..T. Dentin. The Earl of Essex that of Clown, Mr. C. Stilt, And Amy Robsart dons the Robe d'Amour of Columbine, Madlle. Theodore. Al we have thrther to say for Good Queen Bess is—Vivat Regina, aad of! she goes." " Welcome, Old Friends, 'tis long since we met 1" " Here we are 1" " How are you?" PRESERVE ♦ND PICKLE WAREHOUSE, AND RAILWAY - . _ OFFICE. Cupid and Clown—Batter and Butterflies —Hungarian Knock-'em ')owns, and German Toys—War to the Knife, and Terrific Explo 'on—Railway Offices to Let—Pantaloon becomes Tenant—Shares , t Discostnt—Clown Cooks Accompts, and Railway King in Tribu lation—Change to INTERIOR OF CATACOMBS! SIMPSON'S DIVAN AND TAVERN, Strand. most approved way of Cooking a Goose—Clown makes leimsclf Welcome—the Waiters at Fault—a Transformation—Clowa Puzzled —Calf's Dead for One—A Kitten Wanted—Save the Credit of the Establishment—Police I Police I—and Change to EXETER HALL. Meeting of the Peace Congress—How to get up a Row—Prosylites Beware—Humbug the Order of the Day—Embracing at a Premium, and Domestic7ableau of the Happy Family, POULTEREIt'S AND SHOP TO LET. Stick no Bills, In case you should Kill Sweet William. A DOWNRIGHT "NOBBY DANCE." Heads Win the Prize. SMITHFIELD. Potatoes all Hot—Toss and Buy—Three real Epping Sausages, and Bread, for One Penny—A Mad Bull—Pork versus Tabbies--A Re port for Enlarging Smithfield Market —Holloway's Purifying Pills— New Tariff—Gin (ireatly Reduced—Warranted not to Produce Spon taneous Combustion—Puff, the Order of the Day—Panch and the City Nuisance—Go it, Bricks—and Sudden Transformation to A CALUBRIOUS SPOT. STREET AND LOuGING-HOUSES. What will biSeetThereisof little use to those who have no eyes, Lend me your ears"—" Oh, what a falling oft my countrymen, when you, and I, and all of ns, fell down."—Shakspere. BED-ROOM IN LODGING-ROUSE, _ _ _ _ _ Comfortable Quarters—Lola, and the Gallant Son of Mars—Clown's Nation of Warm and Convenient Arrangements—Good Night—Late Visitors—A Troublesome Customer—Mr. Walker, an intruder— Novel Mode of Expelling same—A Stormy Night—Clown and Pan taloon is Great Alarm—lncantation Extraordinary—and General Clamber Polka. _ CHARING-CROSS AND STRAND. What's to be done ?—Buy the Lady's Newspaper. FROST FAIR ON THE THAMES. fee Soup—Temperance Hotel, J. Frost.—N.B. Iced Champagne— Oh, the Roast Beef of Old England I —Sports of the Glacearum— " Plaisirs d'lliver"—Clown wants some Fish, but can only get Skate, which he finds rather tough ; it won't FATHER THAMES' RETR go EATdown, though he does. , I, Tiddyball's Alley, in the middle of the Thames, with Brass Door and Gingerbread Knocker. General "Meeting of the Waters"—The Alarm —Summoning of the City Abominations—Arrival of the Resident Director of the" Silent Illighways"—Foarful Resolve —Marshalling of the Forces—Grand Attack, and Tableau of Interest. SOUTHAMPTON WATERS, WITH VESSEL For California or anywhere else. GRAND MOVING DIORAMA, designed and painted entirely by Brunning. Illustration of Her Most Gracious Majesty's Visit to Ireland, showing the following points of interest :—Departure for Osborne—Passing Cowes and approaching the Needles—The Royal Yacht passing through the Fleet at Portsmouth—The Eddystone Lighthouse—Passing the Land's End at Sunset—The Royal Squadron by Moonlight—and Arrival at Queen's Town. Three cheers and a hundred more Scene the Last. Tag PALACE OF PANTOMIME. Stage Manager, Mr. James Anderson. Acting Manager, Mr. W. Bennett. Treasurer, Mr. W. Dann. Musical Director, Mr. G. H. Rodwell. Leader of the Band, Mr. J. W. Thirlwall. Ballet Mistress, Madame Louise. Scenic Artists—Messrs. Brunning, Jones, Wilson, C. Adams, ani As ilitants. Decorative Artist, Mr. W. Blamire. Machinist, Mr. W. Adams. Stage Director, Mr. T. Thompson. Prompter, Mr. C. Melville. Costumiers, Mr. Palmer and Miss Biggs. Box-book-keeper, Mr. J. Povey. FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the French rerfOrmances at the St. James's Theatre will commence TO-MORROW EVENING, by the production of a new Opera, in Three Acts, entitled LE YAL D'ANDORRE. Stephan, M. Lac; Le Joyeux, M. Chollet; Saturnin, M. Silly Leroy; Jacques Sincere, M. Nathan; Theresa, Madlle. Guiehard ; Georgette, Madlle. Cotti ; Rose de Mai, Madlle. Charton. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENING, . Will be presented ai entirely new and original Comedy, entitled LEAP YEAR ; or, The Ladies' Privilege. Sir Solomon Solus, Wr. Keeley ; Captain Mouser, Mr. Selby ; Mr. Dimple, Mr. Buckstone ; William Walker, Mr. Charles Kean ; Mrs. Flora Flowerdew, Mrs. Charles Kean ; Miss Sally O'Leary, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Mrs. Crisp, Mrs. Keeley. After which THE NINTH STATUE or, The Jewels and The Gem. Principal characters by Mr. Munyard, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with the successful and laughable Farce, called an 4.LARMING SACRIFICE. Bob Ticket, Mr. Buekstone ; Susan 4weelapple, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. The Boz-offtse is wider the direction of Mr. I. T. ♦rcher. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW COPSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed fore, O. Smith, Worrell; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. After which FRANKENSTEIN ; or, The Model Man. Franken stein, Mr. Wright ; the What is It ? Mr. P. Bedford; Zamiel, Mr. 0. Smith ; Otto of Rosenberg, Miss Woelgar ; Tiddlewincz, Miss E. Chaplin ; Agatha, Miss Coveny ; trndine, Miss E: Harding. To be followed by a new slippery sketch called MRS. BUNBURY'S SPOONS. Mr. Hlghbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford ; Bob Twinks, Mr. Wright; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith; Mrs. Banbury, Mrs. F. Matthews; Mrs. Highbury Barnes, Miss Brooks. !LOYAL LYCEUM THEATBE. • Under tho Managemeat of Madame Vettria. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed PATTER Tennis CLATTER. ♦fter which THE ISLAND OF JEWELS. To conclude with BOX AND COX. Dress Boxes 55.: Upper Boxes, es. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. ; No half-price to any part of the house. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a now and original comic Opera called MINA. Principal characters by Messrs. W. Harrison, Weiss, Corri, Wynn ; Mrs. Weiss, and Miss Louisa Pyne. To conclude with KING JAMIE ; or, Harlequin and Magic Fiddle Harlequin, Mr. Bologna ; Pantaloon, Mr. Pawl° ; Clown, Mr. Flea more ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett. ♦STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. A Wand juvenile Night, commencing with the Pantomime will take place THIS EVENIN::, The performance will commence ate Quarter to Seven, with a grand Equestrian Comic PaAtoll3iMe, by Nels on L ee , called EAR. LEQUIN YANKEE DOODLE, v. ho came to Town upon his little Pony. To be followed by a brilliant display of Batty's peerless scenes of /he Circle, supported by the accomplished Artistes of the establish- went. To conclide with a new Grand Spectacle of THE KNIGHT OF THE EAGLE CREST; or, The Tourney of Love. in which Mr. N. T. Hicks will appear. >aoa•oface open Pm =even till sour. NOTICE. NEW EDITION OF EVELYN'S DIARY, AND CORRESPONDENCE. REVISED WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONAL NOTES. Uniform with the New Edit on of Pepy's Diary. In 4 Monthly Volumes, price 10s. 6d. each bound. THE FIRST VOLUME will be ready on the 30th inst., and those who desire copies on the day of publication are requested to send their orders immediately to their respective booksellers. A New Edition of this interes ing work having been long de manded, the greatest pains have been taken to render it as complete as possible by a careful revision, and by illustrating it with such annotations as will make the reader more conversant with th e numerous subjects referred to by the Diarist. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlbough-street. In a few days, in 3 vols., A DVENTURES of a GOLD FINDER. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. Henry Colbum, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. MOD WATER AT LONDON BRUV4E. Tim DAY g, 54 min. after 9 I Evening, 34 min ;Mel 10 To-Monaow—M 15 min. alter 11 f Evening, 48 ann. after 11 ti E WEATHER.—SUN OIFICE, JAN. 24. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 29; Highest, 38, Noon, 35. BAROMETER. 30.36. WIND W.S.W.—dull hazy weather. triening nit ' LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1850. During the last few months the British Squadron, commanded by Sir WILLIAM PARKER, in the Me diterranean, appears to have been rapidly moving hither and thither along the northern and eastern coasts of that inland sea, for the purpose of awing the different powers into some sort of subserviency to the policy of the English Government. When the Italian movement of emancipation convulsed the whole of the Roman peninsula, from the mountain ous frontiers of Germany and Switzerland to the most southern recesses of the Abruzzi, the naval force placed under the authority of that distinguished Admiral was continually on the alert to proceed, at a moment's warning, in any given direction. When the banners of CHARLES ALBERT were shaken to the winds, and the clarion of war was sounding through Piedmont and Lombardy, and finding a responsive echo in the Venetian territories and among the ma rine palaces of the Adriatic, the maritime energies retained by England _in the Mediterranean were directed with unusual vigilance towards those northern provinces of Italy were disaster after disaster was falling upon the Austrian soldiers under RADETZKT. When a separate movement of an insurrectionary character manifested itself among the Genoese, Sir WILLIAM PARKER turned his attention forthwith, almost exclusively, in the direction of the Sardinian dominions- 'When the musketry of the lazzaroni was desolating the streets of Naples, he watched with a scrutinizing regard the progress of the dispute between King Boatnz. and the Neapolitans, When the Sovereign PONTIFF was bombarded in the Quirinal, and was ultimately induced to fly before the presence of those who were preparing the way for MAZZINI and GARIBALDI, namely, before such men as CANINO and CICBROACCIIIO, seeking a shelter at Gaeta, and sub sequently proceeding to Portici, the British Admiral allowed not a single event then transpiring in the Eternal City to pass unnoticed, and himself arranged that an English vessel should cell tinue in the vicinity of the spot where the POPE had taken refuge, accom panied by the Foreign Ambassadors. When a noble and patriotic demonstration was being made by the Sicilians, he kept a steady gaze on the pro gress of occurrences at Palermo and Messina from the time when the star of RUGGIERO SETTING was in the ascendant until its eclipse by the evil vic tories of 71LANGIBRI. When LEOPOLD HMS ignomi niously driven from his palace at Florence, the Medi terranean squadron hovered in the neighbourhood of the coast of Tuscany, prepared for any emergency that might arise to require the interposition of Great Britain in favour of one of her most faithful and en lightened allies. On the transmission of the crusad ing forces of the French Republic to Civita Tecchia, her Britannic ISIAJESTY'S naval representative in the Mediterranean observed with unwinking attention the advance of that remarkable enterprise from its outset up to the period of the restoration of the Pontifical authority by the combined forces of France, Spain, Naples, and Austria. Subsequently, on hearing of the insolent demand made by the AUTOCRAT upon the Sublime Porte for the instant extradition of those Hungarian refugees who had taken shelter within the boundaries of Turkey, the British squadron, under Sir WILLIAM PARKER—as cannot be very easily forgotten—proceeded with singular promptitude to the mouth of the Dardanelles fur the purpose of encouraging the young Sultan ABDUL-MESCHID in his heroic and magnanimous re fusal ; and but for the reluctant withdrawal of the ultimatum presented by M. TITOFF to the Divan, the guns of our war vessels would have pro tectively surrounded the Golden Horn, and effectively have obstructed the passage of the Bosphorus against the Russian fleet approaching from the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmora. Accordingto the most recen t intelligence from those quarters, it would now appear that the same active squadron has proceeded from Cape Colonne in the direction of the Piraeus, with a view to test the accuracy of certain rumours to the effect that Greece was about to commit some act of iggression against one of the smaller islands depen dant on the lonian States. Even from this rapid and incomplete retrospect of the doings of Sir WILLIAM PARKER and the import ant squadron under his authority, it will be sufficiently manifest that neither that eminent officer, ner his subordinates, have been in any respect indolent during the progress of the great events which have agitated the world, but more especially Europe, dur ing the anni mirabile IE4B and 1849, up to the com mencement of the new half century. On the contrary, it requires no very great effort of an argu• mentative nature to demonstrate that the presence and the proceedings of the British naval force in the Mediterranean have exercised a peculiar and benefi cent influence over those gigantic occurrences. Tne principal characteristic of that influence, in deed, must be regarded as having been decidedly corrective—corrective in the way of restraining, in a great measure, the arm of power when raised over the ruins of either monarchical or republican misfortune. But for the respect inspired by the contiguity of the war-ships of England, under a commander so energetic and so observant as Sir W. PARKER, the bloodshed throughout the Italian Pe ninsula would, doubtless, have been yet more ter rible than it was in reality. Nor is it idle to cal culate that the presence of the Mediterranean squa dron materially diminished the force of those expiative punishments inflicted upon the subued Genoese by the Sardinian SOVEREIGN, upon the conquered Lombards by the German Generalissimo,upon the panic-strick en Neapolitan: ;by the Bourbon BOMBA, upon the Ro mans by OUDINOT, and variously also upon the Sici lians, the Tuscans, and the Venetians. low far the approach of Sir WILLIAM PARKER and his naval armament towards Constantinople induced the main tenance of the CALIPH'S defiant attitude towards the AUTOCRAT, it needs not any one to indicate. For it is notoriously self-evident that but for the timely appearance of that force at the entrance of the Dardanelles, the Ottoman Porte would, in all human likelihood, have been com pelled to yield to the requisition of so formidable an opponent as the Russian Essrenos, notwithstanding the moral support afforded to the first determination of the SULTAN by Sir STRATFORD CANNING and the French Ambassador. Such a supposition is more than justified by the recent revelation of a fact, proving the fierce and ruthless policy directed against the humane intentions of ABDUL..MESCIIID by the Russo-Austrian Coalition : considering that it has lately been discovered by no less credible a personage than Sir T. NEAL, the British Consul at Varna, that a conspiracy had been formed at the instigation of M. DE STUEMEB, the Austrian Internuncio, whereby a band of Croats were to proceed to Shumla far the purpose of assassinating the leaders of the liungarian revolution. KOSSUTH, in particular, it has been declared, to have been eurificed .4.1 4 d e , , r• -). , r _JO 4,16, •1, 't , ::4 r S.. 'qx" 1,4 - ,- e - 4r • 's,:r‘.. t. 4 . r to this dastardly machination, being furnished' with facilities for escape, and then atrociously murdered as soon as his flight should be commenced. Nay, it would even appear that this most execrable plot had so far progressed that several of the person; more particularly inculpated in it have been arrested by the Turkish authorities. Such being the chara-Aer, of the fiendish policy opposed to the beneficent inten tions of the SULTAN CALIPH, it is not difficult to comprehend the danger in which the latter stood of being forced to yield at last to the demand of 'extra dition, had not the British Admiral and the Uritish Squadron afforded a timely and powerful support to the noble recommendations previously made by the British Ambassador. Every consideration, therefore, connected with the career of our fleet in the Mediterranean tends incon•• trovertibly to show that the maintenance of a war establishment during the days when we still continue at peace is no mere squandering of the public money upon an useless panoply, but that it is the chief, if not the sole security fur the restoration of European tranquillity, and for the preservation of our amicable relations with the rest of the great powers of both hemispheres. One single retrospective glance of this kind is sufficient to dissipate all the sophisms of the Peace apostles, those Quixotic sticklers for arbitration. With this view we have taken this opportunity, before the re-assembling of Parliament, of referring to the great and brilliant services performed to Eng land, and indeed to Europe generally, by ,Sir WILLIAM PARKER and the British Squadron in the Mediterranean. The letters of allotment for the new Russian loan were issued yesterday to the various applicants. A single hour had not elapsed before many were offered for disposal on the Stock-Exchange, and it is said that several sales were effected at prices ranging between 2i and 4 premium. The speculators did not even wait for the result of their applications, for a brisk business was transacted the previous day at rather higher rates than could subsequently be obtained. We never doubted but that every possible exertion would be made to bolster up the market, and to induce the gudgeons to bite freely. It would never answer the purpose to let the original allottees suffer, they should be well rewarded for their share in the dirty work, or similar operations could not be conducted with facility on other occasions. There was no great danger, however, for if the quotations were unfavour able, and the stock were brought out at a discount in place of a premium, there would have been no difficulty in repudiating the contract, and de clining to pay up the requisite instalments. The proceedings of the year 1845 have not as yet been so completely involved in oblivion as to per mit it to be supposed that any qualms of conscience would intervene, or that the favoured applicants would have considered themselves bound in honour to perform their engagements if attended with pecu niary loss. So long as the letters of allotment could be disposed of at a profit all went on smoothly enough ; the applicants were the very souls of honour, and the most satisfactory references as to their solvency and respectability were freely offered, but the moment that the bubble had burst, that the public could no longer be duped, and that the tempting letters were not to be got rid of at any price, then, indeed, the morality of the Stock-Exchange became apparent, and the most piteous appeals from the promoters were treated with the most sovereign contempt. Is it not manifest that the precedent thus afforded has not been forgotten ? that the great majority of those who rushed forward so eagerly, that (as we were informed) " the contractors were embarrassed by applications for at least twice the amount of the loan they had to dispose of, and the transaction effectually completed within a few hours of its announcement," had no bond fide intention of seeking permanent investments ? that they only sought a stock that could easily be got rid of, which, like the razors with which the country bumpkin was taken in, were not designed " to shave but to sell ?" It signifies little to those high-minded speculators what may be the future prices of the stock. If the public can only be induced to bleed freely for a brief period—if favourable quotations can be maintained for even a single month—few, if any, of the original allottees will remain in possession of the scrip which they obtained, and they will be quite as ready to become "Bears" as they are now anxious to continue "Bulls." Under any cir cumstances, the public, the credulou', confiding public, will be the only sufferers. They are the flocks who come forward periodically to be fleeced and shorn with the most exemplary patience and re gularity. For some little time past they have held aloof. Tne last cropping was so close that the shearers were compelled to allow the timid sheep to recover from their panic, and the wool to grow again so as to afford some degree of warmth. No inviting projects have been brought forward the shares in which were sure to come out at a high premium. A few attempts, indeed, were made, but without success. No money lord " mighty on 'Change" came forward to lend the sanction of his name to a new undertaking. No Leviathan house engaged itself, whose connexions alone were sufficient to create a market ; minor fry only were implicated, and they could easily be crushed as a salutary lesson to warn them against poaching on the preserves of the magnates. If any new project were announced there was no lack of warning voices to cau tion the people against being once more de ceived, or to point out the dangers of withdrawing large sums of money from the legitimate channels of trade. How often have the panics of 1825 and 1847 been alluded to 1 How often have the fatal results of the " railway mania" been reiterated, usque ad nauseam i ht ion might v e n have if t neduced part i es a m There were, indeed, som e re d eem i ng po i nts a b out r a o il y ableno r o i r g e i n favourable s w i d y er s y e r s a that inte rested in the project sh ou ld no t reap l arge pecu • mary profits, the community i n genera l was mater i a ll y o benefited by the outlay. Increased facilities of transit were given ; time and space were practically annihilated, and persons of every grade and rank in society, more especially those en gaged in trade and commerce, found the vast advan tage derived from the change. Besides, there was no bullion sent out cf the country to occasion a mone.- tary panic and suspension of credit. Employment was provided for our labouring population, who were enabled to becotne large consumers, and to create a valuable market for native manufactures. These results were, however, to be deprecated. Far better that the hordes of able-bodied men should be supported in inactive sloth in the gaols and prisons of the country, than that they should live in comparative comfort, working hard and having sufficient food and clothing to satisfy their utmost desires. That state of affairs should be summarily suppressed. An ocean of ink was lavished in the contest, and hosts of scribblers were engaged, delivering the most gloomy vaticina tions as to the ruined condition of the country and the criminality of the speculators. Why, we ask, 'are those prophets now silent ? Why do they refrain from uttering their plaintive Jeremiads and hoarse croakings ? " Where are those dreamers now 7" Surely there is no redeeming point about the present transaction to assuage their well •grounded apprehensions ? The objects of the outlay are not so laudable as to change their entire feelings, to consider that praiseworthy which a short time since was so censurable. Bullion must go out of the country ; the coffers of the Bank musty be reduced, and yet not one word of remonstrance has been delivered. The silence is truly strange, ominous, and hard to be accounted for, save on one supposition, which we are indeed unwilling to believe of our brother journalists. We must, however, at least ex hibit the interrogatory. Has mi g ht y wERIIERIJS been appeased with a slice of the good things going ? Has the Russian ANEAS evaded the vigilance of the guardian by a proper application of the golden branch ? We believe we may announce with certainty that the decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Couucil has been made, and is against the Bishop of Exeter. His Lordship has, of course, received a command to institute Mr. Gorham to the rectory of Brampford Speke. At present we shall say no more than that the Church of England has been saved from convulsion, and probable destruction, by this truly righteous and providential judgment. —Herald. The Earl of Minto (Lord Privy Seal) armed in town on Tneaday evening, from SootlAud. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of3esterday. But little progress was made on Tuesday in the Assembly by the Bill relating to the transportation of the insurgents of June to Algeria. When the ex- I citement had in some degree subsided, in conse quence of the angry altercation between M. JuLEs PAYEE and M. LEON FAUCHER respecting the propor tion of blame attaching to the re-actionists and to the Provisional Government, the first article, as proposed by the Committee, was t a k en into consideration, and uitimately adopted. Previously, however, an amend ment by M. DENAYROUSE, to the following effect, " The prisoners who were not arrested at the moment of the promulgation of the decree of the 27th of June, 1848, shall be, if there be motive for it, sent before the legal tribunals," was put from the chair, and re jected by a majority of 358 to 244. At a quarter past six o'clock the discussion was formally ad journed. - It is said that the PRESIDENT of the Republic has received a very flattering letter from the Emperor of Russ's—a favour which Louis PHILIPPE was never able to obtain—a report which seems to be corrobo rated by the appearance of the following most re markable "communicated" note in the Patrie : " After the revolution of 1830 al ukase was issued prohibiting the granting cf passport} to Russians for France. Tf e prohibition was renewed after the revolu tion of 1848. It has just been removed by order of the Emperor." Yesterday morning, in consequence of a violent altercation in the Assembly during the discussion which took place on Tuesday on the Deportation Bill, a meeting took place in the Bois de Boulogne be tween M. DE COISLIN, the youngest member in the House, a Legitimatist, and M. TESTELIN, a member of the Mountain. It appears that the im mediate reason for their meeting as belligerents was the circumstance of the former having plumply told the latter that he was a liar. The weapon was the broad sword. The affair lasted only a quarter of an hour, when it was found that M. DE Commis had received a severe wound in the head. They were immediately removed from the ground, M. TBSTELIN being unhurt. A letter from Valence of the 20th inst. states that several fanatical Socialists have been arrested in the department of the Drome whilst selling political tracts without a license. Accounts from Toulon of the 19th inst. announce that several transports had been dispatched from that port with provisions for the French fleet at Omlac. A grand ball is to be given by M. DUPIN on the 26th, at the Palace Bourbon. M. Dorm is literally besieged with demands for invitations. All the re presentatives, even those of the Mountain, wish to be invited. M. DUPIN has limited the number to 1,800, and is said to have exclaimed, " I am quite willing that my ball should be democratic, but 1 do not wish it to be social." PARIS BOURSE, JAN. 23.—CLOSING PRICES.—The Five per Cents. closed at 94f. 35e.; the Three per Cents. closed at 57f. 65c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 830'. ; Rouen, 585 f: ; Havre, 2501.; Great Northern, 4601.; Avignon, 2151.; Vicrzon, 3301.; Bale, 115 f.; Paris and Strasburgh, 3581. 75e.; Tours and Nantes, 273 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JAN. 23. Dutch Rhenish, 2—East Indian, 41( 3 ex in.—Luxem bourg, 1 1 / 8 ex in.— Ditto, 2 1 13 ex in.—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3%—Sambre and Meuse, 3 1 / ( 3 —West Flanders, 11 3. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 17th instant have been received. During the discussion of the Congress on the pre ceding day, the amendment of M. MARON was re jected by a majority of 147 to 83. The Minister of Finance opposed it in an eloquent speech. On the 17th, the Chamber was occupied in discussing another amendment to the Bill, brought forward by M. Corr. A, for effecting a reduction of 50,000,000 reels in the land-tax. It would, it was believed, be rejected. When the Minister of Finance was speaking on the 16th, a man in one of the public tribunes cried in a solemn voice—" This Assembly is a disgrace to the Spanish Monarchy !" This na turally created great sensation, and the man was im mediately arrested. He was recognised as a poor madman who has the pretension of overthrowing the Government. The Pais says that General LERSUNDI, who had just arrived in Madrid, was the bearer of propositions cf the Pontifical Government, relative to the forma tion of a Spanish legion, to hold garrison at Rome. The Three per Cents. closed at the Madrid Stock Exchange, on the .17th, at 29f paper ; the Five per Cents. at 121 paper ; Coupons, 71 paper. GERMANY. According to the latest intelligence received from Vienna, it would seem that rumours were afloat of the speedy renewal of the diplomatic relations between Austria and Turkey. The Pesth Zeitung contains 43 sentences which have been published by the Court-martial at Arad. All those condemned were Austrian officers who had fought to the last in the Hungarian army ; 23 of these unfortunate men who were sentenced to death have had their punishment commuted to 16 years' imprisonment; the others will be confined in a for tress for 6, 10, and 12 years. Letters from Berlin of the 20th state the, up to that date nothing had been done towards the arrange ment of the difficulties between the Crown and the Chambers relative to the Clnstitution, but it was hoped that the intervention of M. RADOWIIZ would have a sati4actory effect. M. lianownz possesses great influence with the KING. BELGIUM The King of the BELGIANS has conferred the Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold on the King of PRUSSIA. SWITZEItLAND. Geneva has recently been the scene of some very serious disturbances, the clubs and the Government being continually in opposition. From a letter dated the 18th inst., it would appear, however, that public tranquillity has again been established. Elections for the renewal of the cantonal councils have just taken place in the cantons of Thurgau and Argau, in Switzerland, and have resulted in the re turn of a great many Conservatives. In the canton of Zug the Conservatives have succeeded in excluding every Democrat. RUSSIA. We commend the following tit-bit of gossip to those very credulous gentlemen who - have ventured to accept shares of the Russian loan :—" In conse quence of the diminution cf the gold and silver cur rency in Se. retersburgb, the EMPEROR has ordered a sum of live millions of roubles, in coined money, to be taken from the depot in the fortress, to be replaced by the same ♦alue in gold bars." ITALY, New rumours are afloat again, as to the return of his HOLINESS to Rome. The Bologna Gazette of the 16th states, in a postscript, that letters from Rome of the 12th, in which it places implicit credit, announce the speedy return of the Pon to his states, if not to Rome. His HOLINESS, according to this statement, intends fixing his residence provisionally in the Legations, and probably at Bologna. A letter from Venice announces that the Countess DR MARNES, daughter of Louis XVI., arrived two days before- in -that city, where the Duchess DE BERRY and the Count and Countess DE CHAMBORD had already arrived. LEOPOLD of Tuscany appears to have been con ferring ranks in the army on his young sons ; ac cording to the Tuscan Mon tore, the Archduke FER DINAND has been created a major, and the Archduke CHARLES a captain, in the regiment of Velites. LADY JOHN RUSSELL'S SOIREE.—Lady John Rus sell gave the first of a series of assemblies last evening at the private residence of the First Lord of the Tre M aury, in Chesham-place. Among the company who honoured her Ladyship with their presence were the Prince de Schomberg, his Excellency the Turkish Am. bassador, his Excellency the Russian Ministei, his Ex cellency the Portuguese Minister and the Viscountess Moncorvo, his Excellency the Belgian Minister and Ma dame Van de Weyer, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, the French Charg‘ d'Affaires, the Earl and Countess Grey, the Earl Granville, the Earl of Minto and Lady Harriet Elliott, the Countess Flahault and Mademoiselle de Flahault, Viscountess Palmerston, Lord Monteagle, Lady Duff, rin and Lord Dufferin, Lady Dunstanville, Lady Eddisbury and the Hon. !Miss Stanley, Lady Cottenbam and the lion. Misses Pepys, Lady Hislop and Miss Elliott, Lord and Lady Milford, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary Wood, Hon. John Elliott, M.P., Hor. A. Elliott, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. F. Elliott,-Mr. Tufnell, M.P e and Lady Anne Tuf nell, Mr. G. C. Lewis, M.P., and Lady Theresa Lewis Sir Denis le Marchar.t, Sir Frankland Lewie, M.P., and Laiy Lewis, the Accountant. General and Mrs. and Miss Rte 3: elt, M. C. Romilly, Miss E!phinstone, Mr. J. Abel Smith, M.P.. and Mrs. Smith, Mr. Gibson Craig, M.P an d Mrs. Gibson Craig, Mr. Henry West, Miss Cornea all, Mr. W. Grey, &c. Lady John Rus sell's second assembly will take place on Wed nes d ay next. EGYPTIAN HALL —BAN VARD S Of the numerous panoramas and paintings now exhibiting we know of none to excel the magnificent one by the celebrated Banvard, of the Ohio River, showing Cine cinnati, the queen city of the West, and the beautiful scenery of the Ohio to the great Mississippi, thence to New Orleans. It would be impossible to describe the beauty and splendour of each succeeding view, and the enthusiastic applause of the audience testified their ad miration of the efforts of the eminent exhibitor. We can confidently recommend a visit, and at the same time rest secure that all who visit Banvard will leave his exhi bigor, M Tie did, pleme4 beyond oxpeciotivo. • M 4 tNEY alt( COMMERCIAL NEWS' CITY, QUARTER TO THREE' The E a'e ( f Gott ,n at Li%erpool yesterday were - C67 timated at from 8,000 to 9 000 beci, of which 2,000 were taken on spt.:eu'atiort. The sales comprised 6,000 Arne' rican, 800 Pernom and Maranham at 6p. ti 7419 s°° A Pahia 6.P. to 7d., 500 E g yptian a t 6:ld. to 7id•' 800 Surat at 40. to per lb. The mark, t was brisk :aid closed stead:ly. Ptices of all kinds Here id. per lb. dearer.—Railway Shares were heavy, and prices . had 6 downward tendency. The sales f Wheat in the markets which govern-00 official average prices were last week above the average: comprising 112,603 quarters of Wheat, and 104, 790 °` Barley. _ Th-e letters from the United States give $ ll ur r favourable estimate agai n o f t h e co n in crop, and this has once more set our speculators alive. A deficieneY, of 100,000 or even 200,000 b a l es , nevert h e l e ss, should scarcely have much further influence on prices after 6 steady rise of 60 to 80 per cent, within a few months, if we can be sure of a c r o p o f 2,000 , 000 t o 2,100, 000 bales, and it is certain that only the change of weath er recently had reduced the estimate to that quantity. Accounts of December 17th have been received from Pernambuco. A trifling disturb ance lad occurred, bu t was speedily suppressed. The produce market bad been animated. The rate of exc h ange on L on d on wa s 27V Cotton and Sugar were active and at advancing rat es ' Ships were plentiful. The accounts giving the estimite ef the Coffee crop, as received from Rio, state " Th t ° , holders are very firm, se e i ng so many A mer i ca n Tess in port, and the arrivals of coffee from the interior eYeri day dimini_hing. Many are of opinion that after th e Ist of January very little will remain to come forsee rw We estimate the result of the crop as follows:--• Expoit from July 1 to Dec. 1, five months of crop, 1849, Lags Estimated export for December..... Estimated export for January, February, and March, 1850, 50,000 each Estimated export for April, May, and June, 1850, 70,000 each 210, 000 Total export of crop of 1849, bags 1,080 0 °,, Ditto ditto 1848, bags 1,620 , 0°' Deficiency in 1849, bags 540,0 Ditto 1848, bags 185,0& Total deficiency in two crop s , b ags or pounds 116,000,000 " We cannot, therefore, look for any decline in prie th although still much above European or American fl ut fi r : tations, but rather anticipat e hi g h er ones, as the ciency is more apparent, es p ec i a ll y as there are WO/ unlimited orders and as unusually large number of Arn e t rican and European v esse l s express l y f or co ffee must be loaded. Many are leaving only partly blade, and many others will have to leave in ballast 04 ' Our latest dates from Europe are to the 20th of Octobe r ' by steamer." The remit'ances by the Honou ra bl e E as t India C uirla pany have, from the 6th to the 23d inst., been large* The English Stock market is quiet, and prices °'`i comparatively steady. Consols have realised 961 to for Transfer, but are now called 96* tot Time ne„, r g„ 6 , e . have been entered i n t o a t 96i to The New -I-Te and-a-Quarter p e r C en t s , h ave b een 98 1 to Three per C e nt s . 96i 3. Bink Stock is 3, again, viz , 206 to 207 i, and India Stock has be en (1 at 266. Exche quer -bills have been quoted 589. to ,1,., and India Bonds 935. to 965. premium. as The holders cf M ex i can B on d s h eld a very n ow° t 0 meeting yesterday, an d, as we f u ll y expecte d, calve the wise resolve of fo rm i ng a spec i a l c o mm i tte e to )3 5 perintend their affairs only, quite apart from tbl e ,bat the other South Am er i can S tates. W e un d ers tand there is every . probability that the mosi•infitl eti jee parties, who will b e requeste d to a d on 'be new committee, will accept . An office is t o opened where the b on dh o ld ers can within r ed soluble business . hours apply for inforrael l o a paid secretary is to be appointed; and we ttl iuk e t,oo gentleman who hag acted with the late conio' without remuneration will deserve hereafter a o bi : no a , tial acknowledgment o f hi s serv i ces . All communica ti on of interest are to be posted as soon as poss ibl e sf A t er go c t ceipt in the office and at the St oc k E xc h an ge, and 'apt round to the newspapers. A meet i ng en of the bondb ol must be ca.led every six months, and may be of ten m if necessary ; and measures r taken to secure th e p a y ment o f t h e remanet t . Messrs. Schneider. Mr. Robertson also read ace n3 , l - 04 cation, which he had just received from an influenti al ric e well unformed party, to the effect that the new F irr t o e Minister had written to the Government agen don, stating that he was not opposed to the Robertson convention, and there is every probability of a sat is our e tory and honourable settlement, not the least fal di ly able circumttance being, that the dollars come gess. to England, and a member of the old committee st et eats at the meeting yesterday, something interesting ou rs , have to be communicated to the bondholders of th e _igh suit of the interview, the evening before last, w, Lord Palmerston. Amer'i The Foreign Stock market is lively for South , L ' can Bonds. Peruvian Four per Cents. have been 693 4 d 13 and tle , ferred 26i. to 24. Equador have from 43 to 4i. Buenos Ayres are 55, Venezuela s . and Grenada 17 to Mexican 29 to 291. Portugli e P'r Four per Cents , have been 37, a n d Sp an i s h Three Cents. 36k. Dutch Four per Cents. are 851 to I. „ c d Railway Shares, though not quite so active, are nerally supported at yesterday's values, and a fair W . ness is doing. The week's railway receipts as far as made up , are ° under:— Nor th Western . South Western Caledonian 1850. £37,473 7,147 5.667 5.776 18.438 7,730 ONE O'CLOCK. .. 207% 206 Brighton Midland South Eastern ... x , 13 ink Stock 612,0 0 ° 101,00° 36, 55 ; . 8 " 5. 943 1 6 0r 556° jure.-• 20 6 „ 96r 3 er Cent. Reduced Arns ..... 96V4 96% .- ~: er Cent. Consols A nnui ties... 9 6' 4 1/z 993/tl .-, 3 1 ,4 per Cent. Anne... ... . 98 % 74, /5311 . • ,ne Anne. to expirs J art.lB6o - Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 Ditto 30 yearn, Jan. 5, 1860.....•• 8% 2 68 India Stack 266 9; P edia Bonds, 1,0001 ... Ditto under 1,0001. ... ..... ....- 96 p 964 onsols for Account .............. 96%3' x chequer Bills. 1 1 /01. & 2d 60 P 1,0001. June 5B 61 b 8 p 0 1 11 5001. June Sma11. June , INF, PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS, t lipo i,g. , O'CLOCK. rioc 1 58 4azilian Bonds — 88 1 Ditto, Small Buenos Ay res B on d s, 6 per Cent 55 44,3 Equador Bonds Grenada Bond s , 1 per C ent. - reEt Ditto Deferred Guatemala Bonds ........... Mexican, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons— 29 Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ..... Ditto, Account 2 9 14% 29 Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent - • 70.,. Ditto, Account ......... 69%% 25 1 4 2511 ' Ditto Deferred Portugaeee 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Ditto, Account . 37 1 09 4 Russian Bonds ...... Ditto Scrip 334 4 31 2 3 / 4 P 181 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 1 8 54 19 i Ditto, Account Ditto, Passive VA ...• Ditto. 3 per Cent Ditto, Account Venezuela Bonds, 2% per Cent Dividends on the above p a y a bl e i n L o ndon. 85,, Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 85% Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 8 55 ,4% „boil PRICES OF :BUSINESS DONE uIOP , AILWAY SHARES. PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. ' A'lerdeen 5O — ..• •.... , .... . — dill*Do. Do. Preference Amber. Nott., Boston, ... and Eastern Junction 7% •— kyrshire and Galloway.. 7% — .............. ..• elfast & County Down 28 -. ............... Berks & Hants Extens. (Gt. West. Per.s perct.) 6 ~; rminghara and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 - x. i.........• Do, without guarantee 20 Binning, Wolverh'ton, and Dudley, calls duly ~ pd, or with guarantee 10 Do. without guarantee 10 Birjning.,Wolverh'pton, .0. and Stour Valley 131. 14s ... .............. . Birkenhead, Lancashire, ..• and Cheshire June 20 ...... Bristol and Exeter 92 ...... ............... .-• Ditto, Thirds .... .............. , , ~. ruekinghamshire Caledonian 50 Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 Ditto,ClydesdaleJunc 50 ..., I,nester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference Clarence .. 78} ..... Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 ..... Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, •••• 4 per Cent. 10 •••••• --• ..w........... Direct London & Ports- ...0 mouth Dublin and Belfast June. 40 ...... 6 ... ........... ..., D indalk & Enniskillen 30 ast Anglian, 25/., L. & 1 E. and L. and D...... 25 ~..., Do. 18/., E. & H.... 18 -• ........ .. ..... ..„ Do., 3/. 1os., Pref... 3% Ditto, 71.175., 7 per •••• Cent., Preference... 2 . Eastern Counties... Do. New, Gua.6 perct lO ...... 11 3 /q ............ •• Ditto,Extension, 5 per P 3.3' Cont., N 0.1.. ..... 6/.135. 4d.... p x.i. ...... Ai ~... p Ditto ditto, No. 2.-6/. 13s. 4d... p ..........•• Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. .... Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 Do. New Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... 6 ••.. ...... ..• . 0 , i. Do., Class B& C 25 — ... .. ........ .... 0. Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ... et. i. ..... ... 04 East Lancashire Ditto, New ". 25 •••••• ......... ••••• ..... Ditto, Now Quarters 6 1 4 — .. ....••••.. Do., 6 per Cent. Pre- .. ference Quarters ... 6 1 4 East Lincolnshire ...... 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 .. Edinburg4 and Northern 25 — ............... ..... Ditto, Newport 1 5 .• •„„ .... ............... ...so. Ezteter.Yeovil, & Dorch. 2% . a. i....•.•..• or KNOW MA Alll:494tibros 21C room ...1 /11!10/1111e11111111 6%* 4 JO' - i qi 1 4 1 L„ . Ibl Ztiti 11, 1 I),k On Saturday will be published, in 3 vole. post Bvo., ELLEN CLAYTON; Or, TIIE NO3fADES OF THE WEST. A Romance. By S. D. HUYGLUTE. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, __ JANUARY 24, 1850. , ( ( I l kip 14, ' t 411 L ~a~ tai .D