The Sun. — London, England, 1851-12-29 00:00:00

It 0 Y k. L PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. ruder the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. Th i, ra v ening, Monday, Dec. 29.—The First Part of Shakspere's Play of Itenry IV.—and the Pantomime of Harlequin Billy Taylor ; or, t h e Flying Dutchman and the K i ng of Raritongo. Tuesday, 30.—The Iron Chest—Tender Precautions—and the Pan tomime. Wednesday, 31.—Merry Wives of Windsor—and the Pantomime. Thursday, Jan. I.—Hamlet—and the Pantomime. Friday. 2.—The Merchant of Venice—and the F antomime. Saturday, 3. —The Merry Wives of Windsor—and the Pantomime. CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENT TOR THE JUVENILES. HUNGERFORD-HALL, STRAND. UNRIVALLED COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIONS. ANIMAL MAGNETISM.—SOIREES LASSAIGNE every Eve ning (except Saturday) at Eight o'clock. Admission Is., 25., and 45. Stalls and Reserved Seats may be secured at Mr. Sams's Royal Library, St. James's-street ;at Mr. Ebers's, Bookseller to her Majesty, 27, Old Bond-street ; and at the Manager's Office, Hunger fOrd-hall. THEATRE of OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. " SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES," Juvenile Amusements, by M. and tadame Langlois, of Paris, and the celebrated Indian Juggler, DJalma, with Dissolving Views, Chromatrope, Ike., at Seven o'clock. Admission Is., Is. 6d., and 2s. 6d. DIORAMA. —Every Day, from Twelve to Three. Prices of Ad mission Is. 6.t., ls., and 6d. BAZAARS —Open daily from Ten a.m. to Ten P.N. Admission Free. MAGNETOID CURRENTS and the MAUNETOSCOPE. Dr. Leger's Philosophical and Experimental Lectures every Saturday Evening, at Eight. Admission Is. and 2s. On Saturday Evening, Dec. 27. M. Lassaigno and Madile. Prn deue will giv n Experimental Soiree in Animal Magnetism, at the Victoria or a Bull Hotel, Rochester, at Haltpast Eight o'clock precisely. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. This National Establishment, having u nder g one the most costly repairs and decorations throughout, a series of superb ernbell and i su ; ments having been introduced, a new gas apparatus laid dovrut a new centre chandelier suspended, is OPEN for the SEASON.. THIS EVENING, Will be per armed FAZIO. FAZIO, Mr. Anderson ; Glynn. arae, Oared To be followed by a New Grand Christmas Pantorr HARLEQUIN HOGARTH ; Or, The Two London 'Prentices. The whole produced under the superintendence of Mr. W. West. INTRODUCTION . SCENE I. THE HAUNTS OF IDLENESS How Idleness and Ignorance lay their heads together, and deter- How to check the further advance of IndustrY and Knowledge by the establishment of a manufactory' !pt . " fetters for the human iniel ' "stumbling-blocks in the way lect," "clogs on the understanding. als o the School of Idleness, " holyday all of useful knowledgp," Btc. • no work." How Industry and Know the year round," '% all pla ' l , make t heir appearance in the enemy's camp, and ledge suddenly produce -Bianca, miss SCENE 11. AN EXT ENSIVE CHANGE ON THE PREMISES. How the subject of the pantomime is resolved upon, and being re so l ve d upon. the " work goes bravely on" with the immortal Ho garth's Two London 'Prentices." SCENE HI. _ . CITY SIDE OF BCACKFRIARS-BBIDGE, 1751. How the " two 'prentices" made their way to the city of London, and at last arrived at thir aster's h:use, the Golden Tea Kettle, on Ludgate-hill. Depareture m of the Figsby family for the masquerade at Itanelagh-gardens and first introdqction of the " two 'pren tices" under the hospitable lid of the Golden Tea Kettle. CENE IV. DOUBLE-BEDDED-ROOM. How the " two 'rrentices" retire for the night, one to his virtuous bolster and the other to his vicious courses. Visions of the future, b h o wing the difference between a pleasaat dream and a nightmare. SCENE V. THIEVES' KITCHEN. How the idle 'prentice" falls into bad company, becomes a wayman and a gentleman, and takes the " oaths and his sea accordingly. SCENE VI. THE SLIM How the " indust ions 'prentice" oversleeps himself, but makes up for lost time by the nearest approach to " perpetual motion" ever witnessed. flow the " idle 'prentice" makes his appearance, and not only bolts with his master's till, but with his master's daughter into the bargain. Sczxz VII. CELLAIIS AND VAULTS. How the " industr ous 'preLtice," at considerable personal incon venienee, saves his master's cheese, then bis master's daughter, es whichand finally his own bacon. The result of al l this not only prov is the " better man," but also introduces the audience to SCENE VIII. THE FAIItY BEEgIVIE, With the Queen Pee and her Court. How the "'illustrious 'prentice" recciv,s the battle ,alias the hand of the fair Jemima. Re-appe a rance of Industry and K now . ledge, and introduction of old fri ends in new characters. • SCENE IX. BELLOWSMAKERa, FIREWORKMAKERS, AND FILTEIIMAKERS. Rockets warranted to go sky high—B.lloons ditto—the Water Question debated by the proper Authorities ; a regular Set of Pumps brand Pyrotechnic, Ilydraulc, and Aerial display. t3CENE X. a, nocus FOCUS, " ASTROLOGER, "MOON," OPTICIAN, AND SUN TAVERN. Clown turned Conjuror—Consultation with the Stars nightly— Set-to between the Sun and the Moon ; the former gets his " day lights" damned, and the natural result is a total eclipse of the sun, 1851. SCENE XI. MRS. BUDD'S SEMINARY FOR YOUNG GENTLEMEN. DOCTOR FROSI'S ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LADLE &c. Mr. Budd, washerman and nurse ; Mrs. Bloomer, tailor, &c. The world turned upside down—Flowers " all a blooming, all a blowing "—t change comes over the state of affairs—Babies taktn In and done for—A lesson for ladles. SCENE XII. STREET AT TUE WEiT END BY MOONLIGUT. Coffee always hot—Aatril,slon to the stalls gratis—Clown In his cups—" Set a thief to catch a thief "—Vegetarians at Christmas — Return from the ball—New midnight polka, and a Boxing-night revel in the streets of Loudon. SCENE XIII EXTERIOR OF THE BULL AND MOUTH INN. O'd English customs—The watch-box on the look-out—The pepper box not to be sneezed at—" Welcome, little stranger " A Christmas box that (tomes only once a-year, secured in a strong box. Scaxe XIV. THE GREAT PIZ-WHISTLE RAILWAY. Accidents and offences —Cheap travelling—Life Insurance Com pany -Paying dear for a whistle—" fallacies of the faculty" —The tnra:hiag machine of great service—Departure of the last train on the Fla-whistle Extension Railway. SCENIS XV. HABERDASHER'S SHOP AND COFFEEHOUSE. A lesson to shopkeepers - -' s Cut your coat according to your elota"— How to turn out of bed—Reaping machine—The danger of playing with loaded firearms (American ones especially) fully illus trated by a revolution in England—Here we go round, round, round, till we arrive at SCENE XVI. AND LAST. TRIUMPH OF INDUSTRY, One of the most elaborate and extensive scenes ever introduced on the English stage, arid which none but the resources of this theatre could possibly have prepared. Box-office open daily from 10 to 4. PRICES OF ADMISSION. The former scale of prices has been revised, and a rate of admission adopted suitable to the convenience of all classes of society:— Dress Circle - 60. Upper Boxes Pit.. • • Amphitheatre Gallery .. 29. 6d. lIA.LF Plii.loE Dress Circle upper Boxes Pit .• A m phitheatre •• • • • • .• -- G a ll er y .. • • • • .. Os. Gd Private Boxes, £3 35., 42 23., and £1 13. 6d. Orchestra Stalls, Bs. Stage Manager, Mr. I. M. MORTON. Director of Spectacle, Mr. W. WEST. The whole under the maaagPment of Mr. BIINN, LESSEE. Is. 6d. TILEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. TH IS NLN 3, 14t11 be performed THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain ikfacheath Mr. W. Harrison; Mat-o'-the-Mint, Mr. Weiss; Filch, Mr. Buck stone; Polly Peacham, Miss Louisa Fyne; Lucy Lockit, Mrs. Fitz william. After which a new Fairy Burlesque, called THE PRINCESS R&- DIANC AND THE STORY OF MAYFLOWER. Characters by Messrs. Buckstone, H. Bedford, J. Bland, Caulfield, Clark, Plimmeri, Mrs. Fitwilliam, Mrs. Buckingham, arid Miss Collins. To conclude with the Farce, called THE TWO BONNYCASTLES. Mr. Bonnycastle, Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. lionnycastle, Mrs. Buck ingham. To conclude with THE JACOBITE. - - - - - THEATRE ROYAL, tDELPHI. U tiler tte direction of Mr. B. Webster. The popular Comedian, Mr. Wright, having recovered from his in disposition, will appear This Evening. Haaormous success of the Yankee Comedian, Mr. Josh Silsbee. THIA EVENLIi 0, WM be performed the comic Drama, entitled TUE FOREST ROSEI and the YANKEE PLOUGHBOY. Jonathan Ploughboy, Mr. J. Sibibee• Bellamy, Mr. Worrell; Harriet Miller, Miss Col lins ; Sally Forest, Miss E. Chaplin. After which MT PRECIOUS BETSY. Mr. Bobtail, Mr. Wright. To conclude with a new and original Christmas Tale, called LIT TLE RED RIDING noon. Wolfram, Baron of Burliburg (sur named the Wolf of Biberich) : Mr. Paul Bedford ; Scraggenheitn, r. Butler; Trudehen *, (Common called Little lied Riding Hood), Miss Kathleen Fitz wiliiam. .40FAL FRISCESS'Ei TriZATItE,ORD-STREET.. T,lnder the Xanagententat Mr. C. Kean. BYE:NINO, Shakespere's historical Play of the First Part of TIENRT Principal characters by Messrs. Bartley , Keeley, A.Wigan, Harley, Meadows, J.Yining, Addison, Ryder, C. Fisher, GrOlam, C. Kean; Mesdames Keeley, and Frankland. With a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN BILLY TA.YLOR ; or, The Flying Dutchman and the King of Ra rttongo. Harlequin. Mr. Cormack ; Clow n, Mr. Flexmore panta loon, Mr. Paulo ; Sprite, Mr. Le Barr ; and Columbine, Miss Carlotta Leclercq. ...n:vue Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. ?ham ; of whom also places may be tak en at the Box-office, ''''street, from Eleven till Five o'clock. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the management of Madame Yestria. THIS EVENING, THE GAME of 0 Will be performed , ITCULA.TION. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews Horn, and miss 31. 01 ,,: r m ,. atthews, R. Boxby, B. Baker ; Mrs. C. , i t =lade with A new and original Fai4 entitled THE PRINCE op . a ltjav , aganza, by J. R. Manche, Esq., I LAND ; or, The Fawn in the Forest. Characters by Madara,Prestris, Miss St. George, Miss L a nza, Miss Martindale, Miss Gro, %Itlis Ellis, Miss Resina Wright, Messrs. F. Matthews, B. Ba ker, .miter, Ilorncastie, Butler, and Vernon ROYAL OLYMPIC TILED L es see and Manager, Mr. w THIS EyENINC4,....I4"en. „.. It ikRRI AGE . Lord Will be performed Trif CLANDESTINE Ogilby, Mr. W. Farren ; sir John Melville , ...,r. I ,_ Mr. Hoskins • Mr . It ( m ; Lovewell, Mr. W. Farren, jun. ; Brush, . fru ' • tirlin 2,1 Cooke ;Mrs. Heidelberg, M r s. Bartlett , es Stirling, - 4_ g , .r. G. E.. Phillips ; Fanny Stirling, Miss J. Glover. Varlet:F Fact, v lttion To conclude with RED RUFUS ; or, Fancy. Red Rufus, Mr. Shalders ; CloWn, Mr. Edwar d s ; nari,,,lrd in Mr. Forrest ; Pantaloon, Mr. Tanner; Columbine, Miss Lees. , PUNCH'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEA Lessee, Mr. W. It. COPELAND, Livefpool. The Warmest Theatre in London. TELLS EVF.NING, CIMES• Will be performed THE TWELVE LABOU RS OF lIER After which, BREAKFAST FOR TWO. To be followed by a new Chinese burlesque, called THE MANDA" RIX'S DAUGHTER , or, Willow Pattern Plate. Characters by Messrs. J. Reeve, Rogers, Romer, Attwood, Hudspeth ; Mesdames Marshall, Sanders, Bell, Eglinten, and Maskell. To conclude with a Farce, entitled THE FIFTH OF NOVEM BER, by Messrs. Tilbury, Rogers, Hudspeth, Misses Saunders and 31 askell. The prices of admission aro arranged as follow :—Orchestra stalls, 4s; boxes (first clime), as.; (second circle), 23. ; Pit, Is. Doors to be °Penal at Half-past Six, and the performances to commence at Seven Precisely. A second price Will be taken to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock —fast circle, 25.; second circle, la. Private BMWs One Guinea and a Half each. Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under the vatronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and 3fanager, Mr. W. Batty. The most sae.,..ti and popular Theatre in London. The last lux Nights of Azael. 2 111 3 EVENING, '" an `Vieectacle, from the pen of E. Fitzball, Will be produced new this establishment, entitled Esq., and written expres sly , tor AZAEL, in which will D "T:roced tha same highly-trained Horses and Camels that a cir the Opera at her Majesty's ike., the whole Theatre, with an addition oPfPosAstriticheinea4z.bras, 8,c., of the well known resources a _L-__lt has been pronounced by public opinion to be the most gOrgc. ..., a :fh , ctive production ever witnessed within the wills of a theatre, ststwl with magnificent scenery and brilliant costumes• the ler est With Batty's Grand Scenes of the Are , na, , _e_m r br_a_ e, c!na fish Equestrian Company in Europe, l i krElVS 7 Folip o4d f Pale Artists of superior talent. .. parteh l) ; ° n i t t i a ti of repregenteure:s;fo,:tz Ai,mript„:.- A' lacli. Blend Pantomime, written eXP -------7-1 . 5 - e4tre - irr - lson Lee, Esq., founded on t he ,,i ludicrous e .1--, 4,_" -- - ...... -. _ e __,L_ Ije,,v.s". sofac ously set forth by the inimita! , c._„ irth, Wit, and -i-5.,: , , f _ 3. - ana24ic . BRIGGS; or, Punch's Festival z. . _ ~ _,:,-1,-,ligc-r_; - '"le , Mr. Harvey ; Columbine, Mrs. fla.rvev , ranta '4; I li i;.,,:: l'u 3- M• lla rti an; Clown, Arthur Nelson, who will in Reeko , - i:.,-- 4- ' \I •.4*eac . keit ,: lay a number of favourite airs on the ... ~.e . ;. : • •••.• i---171 'C': I -- -;:---r- F--2 had at the Boa-office from Eleven till Font daily ' . Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thc. , mpioid. AI a /^ ^ , l ~/ ~: THE SUN, HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T JIB DIY —Morning 6 m in. after 6 I Evcning 2S rain altar 6 To-Moaftow--2praing 49 rain. after 6 I Eve nin g 13 min alter 7 THE WEATHER —SUN OFFICE, Dricslissn 23. i n g TnEF.moasrErt, Tas SuAPIL 36—highest since noon y esterday. ht. the ni 33—lowest this morning and dttr g 36—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30.39. WIND Easterly—fresh breez e and plenty of scud, with d r i z zling rai n. MONDAY, DECEMBER 29. TaFamoxticrElt, I TRH &tips. 37—`aighest since noon yesterday. 32—'owest this morning and during the night. 37---this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 300. wow N.E.—cold breeze, with dull weather. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nin o'clock on Saturday morning.—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. prxriouni—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. aeorillGs—Wind N., gentle breeze—overcast. SourfusinoN—Wind N., strong breeze—foggy. FOLKESTONE—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDG —W in d N., calm--partially cloudy. GREEN W ICH—Calm overca-st. SnooD—WMd W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. S wuti>ax— Calm —frosty. CAmmarpor.—Wind N., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. riumoum—Wind S. W , gentle breeze—cloudless. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Friday morning at nine o'clock Lodunicik—Wind S.. calm—scud, rain. CARLow—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—rain. MULLINGAR—Wind S., calm—rain. PORTRAITS OF SOIILT AND WELLINGTON, WITH MEMOIRS AND FAC-SIMILIES OF THEIR lIAND- WRITINGS. TIIE MOST SPLENDID LIKENESS OF SOULT EVER TAKEN, BY W YON, OR WHICH THE MARSHAL SAT SIX TIMES ; TOCVTIIE3 WITH A POltyr BAIT OF DUB OF WELLINGTON IS THIS DAY PUBLISHED, AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, THE PRICE OZVE SHILLING. IWBBER OF NEWSPAPERS. TEN POUNDS REWARD• a answer to the complaints of several Subscribers, whose papers are stol.en in periods of political or other excitement, we c.ln only renew the expression of our deep regret. In order, if possible, to bring some one of the robbers to account, we hereby offer a reward of Ttn Pounds for such information as may lead to the detection of the culprit, and Ten Pounds more on conviction of the offender. Sun Office, Dec. 1851. TO CORRESPONDENTS No communication can be attended to unless anthen• ticated by the name and address of the writer. itejected communications cannot be returnf,d. • . • , • NE , - • 12; ' _ ,h• 91jrl i T I LITA ez:)" LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1851. Malldrninistration of affairs in our more important dependencies has, unhappily, of late been observable in the system of our Colonial Government. This it is which has cast so much odium upon the policy of Earl GREY—embittering the feeling of the West Indian population towards the mother country, em barrassing the course of the local administration in Australia, jeopardizing the loyalty of the two Cana des, and bringing di , grace upon the national standard in southern Africa, by provoking an infamous and un eucceisful war with the barbarians of Kafirland. Any instance, therefore, which betokens a departure from this most melancholy course of proceeding ought, by right, to be regarded as a matter for earnest and profound congratulation. Experience, however, would seem to show that the unpopularity excited by the feeble and culpable admi nistrators cf our more remote and more remarkable possessions is as nothing to the unpopu larity excited by these whose genius has effixted miracles in the way of securing our conquests by the mingled humanity and vigour of their systems of government. Anomalous and incredible as this may appear, it is, nevertheless, a truth no less notorious than lamentable. Otherwise we should not as public journalists have had to recount long since the conduct pursued towards one of our most illustrious Captains, who, after achieving a series of resplendent victories, added a veit and fruitful territory to our oriental dominions, binding the vanquished province indisso lubly to the empire by the energy of his scheme of ad ministration. In the treatment experienced by General Sir CHARLES NAPIER ever since his appointment on the 13th of March, 1843, to the Governorship of Sinde —of that Sinde which he had won by his sword at _ _ the great battles of Meanee and Hyderabad—are in. volved principles upon the ulterior recognition o which we believe, in our heart, that the maintenance of our Asiatic supremacy is dependent. Aware of this, we must ever remain solicitous until we see that miserable system abandoned against which the De stroyer of the Talpcor dynasty declared himself im mediately on his investiture with the powers of a Dictatorship by the command of his Excellency Lord ELLE?i n 3, B0:03G 11. It cannot by this time be for gotten,we are bold to say that it can never, while the history of the Anglo-Saxon race sur vives, be entirely lost to remembrance, how complete and almost instantaneous was the tran quillity restored to the province of Sinde under the line of administrative policy pursued by the con queror of the Ameers and the victorious antagonist of MOUAINIED, the Lion of Meerpoore. His triumphs of political organization proved, in fact, scarcely less rapid, scarcely less overwhelming, scarcely less mar vellous in every particular, than those military tri. umphs which broke asunder the iron authority of the Belochees, and in so doing invested the name of the victor with the glories of a new and enviable reputa tion. We are speaking here of occurrences the cele brity of which is already beyond the reach of misre presentation, the achievements of Sir CHARLES NAPIER having even now been inscribed upon imperishable tab lets by the hand of one of the most distinguished of living historians. It has not remained for us to announce that the annalist of the wars of the Penin sular has described not merely the conquest of Sinde, ,but its total political subjection in like manner," a ' ll, lEction accomplished by the abilities d is p l ay ed b y his I \ l l%trious brother in his scheme of administrative organiz, tiou Immediately after the memorable battle fought at Dubba, anak,, Nvn as the victory of Hyderabad, Sir cruBLES asserted that so far as arms were conce rned the conq uest of , . I,,vedtil S it i y n e:l a u e ae: w d: as in co s m om pl e et i e n d . . which that prediction Notwithstanding the events proved stances, even'the derision than ecord g: l r l'il e l cord • to was b e r e n c o e t i h v i e n d g , l the ese r of its verification. The influence hitherto exercised over the Uindoos by the warlike Beloochees crumbled away us quickly under the magical sway of the sceptre intrusted to the grasp of Sir CHARLES NAPIER, as the Power o f the Ameers had done before the thunder of his guns at Meanee. c avin g Indus at the head of only 2 c rossed the 600 men ; the British General had not only r outed an army of 30,000 strong on the 17 th of February, but with astonishing rapidity had crushed the strength of the tAmeErs, had captured the most rcdoubtable of the Sirdars, and had driven into the desert MOLIAIIED, the most :terrible of the Talpoorees. Victorious by the sword, he determined to be no less victorious * " History of Gencritl Sir Charles Napier's Adminis trati,in of Sinde, and Campaign in the Catch• e Hi 113." By Lieut.-General Sir William Napier, K.C.13., Kith Maps alit] Plustrations. Bvc., pp. 415. London; Chap man and hall, 1831. LONDON, by the sceptre of his proconsulship. And he was so. Not—remember—by adopting the obsolete and worn out ideas of the " Old Indians," of those who would regulate the conduct of a statesman by the notions of a shopkeeper, of men who would fain bring the ideas of the counting-house into the supreme councils of a Government. Alluding to the course invariably pursued by these men towards the warriors whe have so miraculously extended the boundaries of their dominions, the Conqueror of Sinde has himself observed, " the bravery and devotion of their troops, not their own commercial skill and enterprise, have expanded their original small settle ment on the Hooghly to a mighty empire ; and yet [he exclaims with a bitter sense of his own treatment] on every accession of territory the soldier has been treated as unfit to govern what his sword has won ; on each new acquisition a civil establishment has been fastened, incongruent with the military barba rism of the people to be governed, but fulfilling the conditions of patronage and profit which make the Direction an object of desire." Fortunately for the maintenance of English power in Sinde, the administration of the affairs of Hindostan was then presided over by a Governor. General with a genius adequate to his august and responsible position, one . capable of recognizing the peculiar requirements of the population, and not only of recognizing, but of acting also upon the dictates of that appreciation. The Conqueror of Sinde was consequently intrusted by Lord ELLENBOROUGH with the duty of completing his victories over the Ameers by a regular course of administration. To this end he was invested with the supreme authority of a military dictatorship. And Sir CHARLES NAPIER was happily by no means the man to employ that power rashly, or without due premeditation. In the masterly record of his rule, as penned by Sir WILLIAM NAPIER, will he found evidence, of the adroitness with which, blending rigour with clemency, the Governor of the Sindians contrived to secure in an almost incredibly short in terval the obedience of the vanquished population. Regarded with terror in arms by the Asiatics he was familiarly known as a kind of double to Fra Diavolo —while, in council, as adminstrator, as Governor, Sir CHARLES NAPIER received from them the honourable epithet of The Just Padishatv. Despotic and miltary hough his authority was, it was yet something more than regarded with terror, it was viewed with respect and with confidence. It mattered not that the people he had to deal with were unaccustomed to British domination ; that twenty thousand roving swordsmen were hovering on the wes tern frontier; that SHEER MOHAMED remained yet to be overcome ; that he, himself, was to a con siderable extent a novice in this gigantic and terrible form of government. Guided by his experience in Cephalonia, and following the direction of his own sagacity, Sir CHARLES NAPIER, within four months, had vanquished the difficulties of his position, had re moved the suspicion of the Sindees towards their British conquerors, had effected in a strange province, and under a variety of most disadvantageous and discourag ing circumstances, a complete and admirable system of political organization. Even the most redoubtable of the Sirdars had been disarmed by his magnanimity, their rich swords being spontaneously restored to those who made their salaam, as had already been done in reference to several among the Ameers. Belonging by right to himself as their conqueror, he nevertheless returned them to their original owners—for, says his brother, in recounting the cir • curnstance, " between gain and greatness it was never in his nature to waver"—cornmandiog their respect by his firmness while extorting their admiration by his munificence. It was by this bold and original course of policy, by the abrupt and total abolition of slavery, by releasing the debtors of the Am eers from all further liabilities, and by maintaining the native system of administering justice, with various additions and im provements, that Sir CHARLES 'Careen completed his conquest of a vast province by a most satis factory and effectual scheme of administration—a scheme so effectual that Sinde has since then con tinued firm in its obedience to English authority, and so satisfactory, that Mr. PRINGLE, the Company's civil servant, appointed to be ,his successor, has since then voluntarily proffered his acknowledg ment of the extraordinory capacity for civil go nernment evinced by Sir CHARLES NAPIER in his Sindian institutions. That some surprise and some little anxiety also should have been manifested by the " Old Indian" party, in reference to proceedings of a character soevigorons and unusual as those of Sir CHARLES NAPIER, was of course to be expected, " startled from their monotonous self sufficiency," as they were, according to the admirable phrase of the historian, " startled by the rustling wing of genius passing over their official dormitories." That surprise, we repeat, and even, indeed, some degree of anxiety should have been displayed by the old and obsolete faction referred to was precisely what might have been antici pated, but it must be avowed that we were altogether unprepared for such fl)grant and in famous ingratitude as that which has been evinced to wards the Conqueror and first Administrator of the pro vinces of Sinde. Further time and a later oppor tunity is required to demonstrate the heinousness of the treatment thus accorded towards one of our greatest soldiers and one also of our most illustrious Proconsuls. warned magistrates and jurors of We the havedangerrepeatedly of yiel ding too easy credence to the hasty and inconsiderate evidence so ;frequently brought before them. The summary jurisdiction which the former are enabled to exercise, induces them, in too many instances, to dispense with juries, and to inflict stringent punishment, destructive of the future prospects in life of the victim, en testimony that could not possibly satisfy twelve m en on their oaths, and bound to give the prisoner the bene fit of any reasonable doubt. Imprisonment with bard labour, for one, two, or three months, as the case may be, appears to be considered by the modern Justice SHALLOWS as a matter of the most trivial im portance, which may be inflicted on mere suspicion. His Worship will possibly retire to lunch with excel lent appetite after having condemned an innocent youth to the demoralizing influences of compulsory association with the most depraved and guilty wretches for a considerable term, during which his feelings of honesty will be considerably blunted, until he is prepared to yield to the first temptation after his discharge. That temptation will not be long wanting. He has been turned loose on the world, with tainted character, deprived of the means of earning an honest livelihood, and unable to obtain employment in the locality where his incarce ration is known, and his guilt assumed as a matter of course. That magistrate may bear the character of a man of high honour, of religious and charitable feelings; but we tell him that if he has so acted, through carelessness or negligence, he has been guilty of a deeper and more heinous offence against society than any one of the miserable wretches who have tremblingly awaited the doom he was about to pro nounce. He has, perhaps, ruined the temporal rand endangered the eternal happiness of a fellow-creature, and must be utterly unfit for the arduous and im portant duties of the office in which he is placed. A case has lately been stated, under the head of "hasty evidence," in a morning contemporary, which, if well founded, affords a painful proof of the accuracy of our assertions. It is said that on the last Lord Mayor's-day a youth mingled with the crowd in order to see the show ; while thus occupied, he was taken into custody by a detective policeman, on sus picion of being the accomplice of another lad who was caught picking pockets close by. When brought to the station be was placed with others charged with similar offences, to await his examination. Two handkerchiefs were found lying on the ground in his neighbourhood, which he was at once supposed to have dropped, although some of wereer i o received e s o h e i t ve a d t his companions were well - known pickpockets , and four stolen handkerchiefs had been found in the 13 : had stas 1 °nllotofd r e o e p e p ed of the ee party. handkerchiefs il a assertions by the officials with the greatest derision, he was bantered in a most unbecoming obtaining jeered rnaun ander,and finally locked up ' for the night, ~ w i t h ou t being frordeci_ n com municating . w ith his friends, ayopportunity or the f professional P ,ttistallce, or " ,evidence as t o c h ar which was so essential. the neat morning h e ' was brought before the LORD M A y ort. The Detective declared that he was ' covering „ the thief. Ir. is further atated that i , t h e boyhad hopes of being heard in his own Defence, MON DAY but the opportunity was not gra Wed, and after a trial of little more than Aso mi► It des he heard himself sentenced to a month's imiat isonment in Bridewell, whither he was at once cony 3 yed." It is further stated that h e. had no opportunity of informing his parents of t he situ ttion in which he was placed, and that 1 a remained a fortnight in confinement before ifs ar ocious family could ascer tain the cause of his nyste tious disappearance. A new investigation was then ds mended. It was shown that the lad had always maintained an irre proachable character, that It e was the master of a small business, which he, had conducted with industry and assiduity, so that there was every reason to suppose 'A - Ist he was incapable of the conduct attributed to hill, wi :He the keen Detective, on being re-interrogated, a cknowledged that "he might have been mistaken." Under these circum stances—and there being m longer any reasonable doubt of his entire innocence—hews.a discharged from custody, but, unfortunately, he found the fearful results of the error that had been cowl fitted. Ills business, in which he was going on )?z osperously, was totally ruined, and his poor mother, from the distress and anxiety occasioned by hip u n ccountable absence from home, had become a lunatic, I saving, to use the words of the narrator of this melancholy tale, " gone completely out of her mind." Now this case should be rigidly and closely inves- tigated. It is a mistaken Id odness to the unhappy victim to conceal his na me. His conviction will continue regie , ,terea against him, to quicken the " suspicions" of other Detectives, and induce other magistrates to believe in his guilt. llis full and complet a exoneration should re ceive equal publicity, that ti:ose who have heard of the one should also hear of th 9 other—that the " an tidote" might be partgkon of s s well as the " bane." It should also be known vs hr.) was the quicksighted Detective who exhibited such :undue zeal in his voca tion, and such a lively sense 0 ! guilt on the part of the accused. He should receii - ve an emphatic caution as to the impropriety of d'o. tinctly and positively swearing to the truth of a tin Inaction in which " he might possibly be mistaken." Again, the police in spector should be informed, of the impropriety of jesting with, or holding up toi ridicule persons charged with offences, or permitting hers in his presence to do so, and also of the necee.it y of affording prisoners every reasonable facility fo:r communicating with their friends, arid preparing their defences. But, above all, the LORD MAvon of London should, in justice to himself, insist on the most stringent inquiry. We can scarcely credit the assertion that his Lordship should not have afforded a party charged before him an opportunity >of being beard in own defence, or of bringing forward his friends to show that h* was not the friend and companion of thieves or reputed thieves. It would of course be unjust to suppose that his Lordship could have acted in such a manner without the most convincing evidence of the fact; but the charge has been publicly put forward in the columns of the Times, and it should :at once receive either a prompt denial, or a clear aid satisfactory expla nation. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Mari ; journals of Saturday and of yesterday. The total result of the teens in 74 departments complete is as follows : Yes 6,316,519 No The Moniteur publishes the following, under the head of "communicated :"—" Y üblic opinion has been for some days occupied with tl.e question of the con version of the Five per Cents.., and on that point the intentions of the Government have been commented on in the most false and mel e volent manner. Ab surdity was carried to the long tei of declaring that the Government thought of conv(l tin,g the rente, or of arbitrarily reducing the interest. It is useles to refute a supposition so absurd, and et) contrary both to the most elementary principles of public credit and to those of good faith. As to the conversion, it is matter of notoriety that it cannot be proposed except with the option of reimbursement. But that measure, whio h, by alleviating the charges of the tax-payers, c ught to lower the rate of interest in all transactions, and ensure the deve lopment of credit, will not be p•ossiblo until order and confidence are completely re,lit lured. In presence of the erroneous or malevolent .comments which may mislead public opinion, it is 4;i] e duty of a loyal and provident Government to re-Pis sure private interests, whilst reserving its right for the future. The Itioniteur contains 1 report from M. DE MoRNY, stating that it would be advisable to take measures for carrying into e ffi:et a number of local Bills which had been introdu c e d into the Legislative Assembly, but not voted, in 00 nsequence of the dis solution of that body. A dec re o from the PRESIDENT of the Republic follows, declaring that, as it is of importance to give the departments and the communes the means of meeting the calls on them, and of fa vouring the execution of publ LC works, the loans and imposts voted by the departments or towns, and which required the sanction of the Legislative As sembly, can be authorised by spacial decrees issued in the form of administrative reg7tdations. The Univers, the organ of the Jesuits, the Union, the organ of the Legitimatrsts, the Assembles Na tionale, the organ of M. Gel2:or, and the Debats, the org t a h n e o d f i t s h mi e s O sa r l lea o n f ist L s, o a rd RSTON. The re• ll songs of triumph" at joicing of these different parties over the fall from office of Lord PAresteasTosi Well teach the people of Egland to value more than ever the patriot statesman who is thus honoured by the hatred and the fear of the obscurantists, the absolutists, and the fa/tors of corruption (teste TESTE) who h ate England because the is not as they are. The religious ceremony at the cathedral o f N o tre Dame as a thanksgiving for the el e cti on o f L ouis NAPOLEON is dEfinitively fixed to take place on the 2d of January. It is to be conducted with great the . een invited to att e nd. magistracy, and the con pomp. The Mairies of the ca pitals of arrondisse ments have been summone d to Pa ris for the purpose of taking part in the cerem on y , ail(' all the members of h a b v e e e removed from the Com n b the corps diplonzatique, stit i‘ u l t . e i3 d E a n u ß t y h hastornities, mittee of Surveillance of the caisse d'ammortissernent. The Moniteur Parisien contains the following : " Whatever may be the o p in ion expressed in France and in England as to the p roba b l e causes of the fall of Lord Palmerston, we can affir m that the real motive of it is the frank and s pontaneous adhesion which the tNicosblleacLt which orddid,ia, a ccomplished in France on the 2d not, h es itate to declare to the great poli- December." It is announced that the PRESIDENT of the Re public will no longer receive on Monday evenings. For the future there w ill be no fixed days. The PRESIDENT of the Republic has addressed the following letter to Admiral JACOB : " Admiral,—l received with gratitude the:exprevion of your good wishes for the success of a cause which is that of France. The services which you have rendered to the country, and which I have not forgotten, render more precious to me the declaration of your sympathy. I thank you for it, and offer you, Admiral, the assurance of my distinguished sentiments. °LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE." The Consultative Committee assembled on Friday in order to commence the examination of the electoral returns. In order to facilitate this operation, it divided itself into sections, each having six members. At this sitting the votes of 29 departments were ex amined, and admitted to'be perfectly regular. There will be another sitting to-day. The Patric says—" The decree of December 8 continues to be energetically acted on. Already 500 liberated convicts, arrested in rupture of ban, have been forwarded to Brest, where they are to be placed on board ship for Cayenne, at which place a penal settlement is to be established. This measure will remove from France a most dangerous body of men, and society ought to rejoice that circumstances have permitted the Government to take it." We read in the Gazette de France—" From pri vate information which has reached us, we can affirm that M. TRIERS has not proceeded to London, as has been announced by some journals, but has taken up his residence at Brussels. He occupies an apartment at the Hotel de Bellevue, where he receives a number of visitors, but we are assured that his wish is to preserve a strict incognito. The Courrier de Lyon says :—" The mayor of Lyons had written to the PRESIDENT of the Re public, thanking him for having given to General DE CASTELLANE the title of General-in -Chief of the army of Lyons ; ho had the honou r of receiving the following reply : " Ely:44, Dec. 20. " Monsieur le Maire—l am happy that the city of Lyons, whose sentiments you express, has received the event of December 2, with a sentiment which leads it to foresee favourable results for the future, and that in the measure destined to recompense loyal services it has found a new proof of interest in its favour. It is not mistaken. In grave circumstances I have always been seriously solicitous about what could ameliorate the po sition of its workmen, and increase its prosperity. If .Te mey be permitted to hope for colen, r days, your city will be one of the first to feel their sp.lutary influ ,?nce. Receive, Monsieur le Maire, with my thacks, his renewed rissurence of my distinguished sentiments. "Lours NaPoLLox BoNareitTE.' Oa the proposition of the Minister of War the dis- EVENING, •DECEMBER 29, 1861. tribution of France into 21 military divisions, which prevailed before 1848, is restored by a decree. Each department will form a sub-division. The Courrier de la Dro me publishes the following letter from the Abbe FORGET to a friend, in which he gives an interesting account of the events of which he was a witness, while, with several other priests, he was in the power of the insurgents marching on THE Sf Crest : " At the time when the tocsin sounded, on the 6th December, I was at the house of the cure of Crane, in company with himself, his vicar, and the cure of Mon teleger. At the first alarm we threw ourselves on our knees, and repeated the Veni Creator and the Mdmorare. Scarcely had we finished the prayer when the house was invaded by a number of men armed with every kind of weapon, who came, they said, to search for arms. We held up our brevia ries and the crucifix, telling them that those were our only weapons. When they found that there were no arms, they retired; we followed them to the bottom of the staircase, entreating them to refrain from violence. On reaching the door, ono of their chiefs ordered us to come with them to the market-place. We remonstarted, but without effect; they would not even allow me to fetch my hat, but threw it out of the window to me. While proceeding to the market-place, which was the place of general muster, the ringleaders went into the houses of those they called the whites, and compelled them to join them unarmed. On our passuge we met with no sympathy, even the women exulting at seeing us in such a position, and exclaiming that the rioters had acted properly. Wo eagerly inquired what was to be done to us, but could obtain no answer. All this time the tocsin kept sounding, When all the insurgents had assembled, we lett the place to join those of Chabrellan. We were pieced at the head of the column. After effecthg the junc tion we took the road to Crest. in number about 500. The cur es of Grane and of Montleger, with an other old man, were put into a cabriolet. I begged them to allow the cure of Grams to return home on ac count of his age and infirmities, and theft he might at tend to his sick, &e. The answer given me was that the sick might get well or die—that they wanted to have nothing more to do with priests, and that this would be our last procession. A number present were well dis posed; they knew nothing of what they were to do, hav ing been forced away from their labour by others under threats of violence. On reaching the bridge of Crest, we found it was in possession of the military, who saw by the light of the moon the column advancing with the priests at its head. The usual summons to disperse was made, after which three discharges took place. The rioters, who had just before talked so boldly, immediately took to flight, tumbling one over the other, their muskets going off as they lay on the ground. I was in the midst of this tumult, and by a miracle escaped unhurt. My colleagues Rho had remained in the cabrio let stood the first fire; they a f t er- wards alighted and took refuge under a bridge of the canal. After wandering about the fields for some hours I crovsed the Dromo over the ice, and about midnight reached an asylum, from whence in the morning I was enabled to rejoin my colleagues within the walls of Crest." _ . M. LEVILLAIN, the curs of Neuvy-sur-Loire (Nievre), who was shot by one of the insurgents while endeavouring to persuade them not to make resistance to the troops which were arriving from Nevers, has just died of his wounds. He was treated with the greatest cruelty by the wretches, who, after he was wounded, threw him into the prison, and it was only by the reiterated entreaties of one of the sisters of charity that she could have him conveyed to his home. It results from an account recently taken, that the war materiel of France at the present time is esti. mated at the sum of 459 millions of francs, divided into seven categories—provisions, 22 millions ; hos pitals, 17 millions; clothing and camp equipage, 45 millions ; general remount for cavalry (72,800 horses), 52 millions; forage, 15 millions; artillery, 268 millions ; engineering material, 11 millions. France possesses 4,967 pieces of heavy artillery of different calibre in bronze, and 3.411 in iron ; 3,800 field pieces in bronze, and 2 ; 975 mortars ; 4,382 howitzers for siege and field operations ; 17,674 gun carriages of different kinds and sizes, and 229 swivel guns in bronze. There are in the military arsenals 6,091,234 balls, 935,360 bombs, 1,600,000 shells, 212 ; 215 grenades, 177,588 boxes of balls filled for cannon and howitzers, 16,000,000 kilogrammes of balls, 25,000,000 kilogrammes of powder, 99,000,000 of cartridges of different kinds, 96,000 bags filled with balls for cannon and howitzers, 4,622 cannon car fridges, 28,000 kilogrammes of powder contained in hollow shot and shells, and 450,000 kilogrammes of powder manufactured, and of the necessary ingre dients for manufacturing it. In 35 years of peace the war materiel has cost 13z millions of francs. The State besides possesses 2,903,801 flint and percussion lock muskets, in the hands of the national guard and the army ; 151,021 carbines, and 184,336 pistols. The Union du "Far says :—" The insurgents who have devastated our department have retreated in crowds towards the frontier, and several of them, after great efforts, have succeeded in crossing the Esteron and the Var, flattering themselves that they should find a aura asylum, and a hearty welcome from the Democrats, near Nice. On the other bank of the river, however, they were met by a body of gend armes and troops stationed along the frontier, who arrested them, and marched them into the interior, to Mondovi, Oneille, and Novarra. DirrEiL, and two other of the insurgent leadcrs, were arrested at the village of Oscros by the Piedmontese gendarmes. On being interrogated as to who they were, DUTEIL replied that he was General-in. Chief of the Democratic army of the Var; another that he was Chief of the Staff of that army ; and the third, that he was the Chief Surgeon. These general officers were marched off to Oneille. As they went along, they sang the chorus of the well-known Italian song— "Fiera schiera dello lepri. Alcommando d'un coniglio"— (Valiant battalions of hares commanded by a rabbit.) BANK OF FRANCE .— The metallic reserve has in creased 4i millions in Paris, and 1 millions in the branch banks. The discount-accommodation has in creased nearly 3i millions in Paris, and declined something more than 1 million in the provinces, the amount of the former being 54,906,1371, and of the latter 72,289,99 01 . The amount of money ad vanced on French Securities has increased from 8 929,926'. to 12,062,876 g. On the side of the liabilities, the notes in circulation have increased in Paris 11 millions, and fallen off in the provinces threesquarters of a million. The account current of the Treasury has declined 121 millions, the present amount being 57,768,844 francs. Private accounts•current have increa se d i n Paris nine millions, and declined in the departments about a quarter of a million, the amount of the former being 110,415,9871., and of the latter 31,215,2781. The whole amount of the metallic reserve is now 569} millions to 5911 millions of notes in circulation. The Bank of Fence has announced a dividend of 50F. per share for the second six months of 1851, pay able on and after the 2d January next. BUSINESS DONE IN , FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Dic. 27. East Indian, 20 7 4 4 Luxembourg, 3—Namur and Liege, 6% —Northern of France, 167,4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 5% Paris and Strabbourg, Rouen and Havre, 9. 1 / 2 —Tours and Nantes, 8 ex int.—West Flanders, 2,AL. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 221 have arrived. The Gageta contains a decree ordering the Budget of 1852. The ordinary expenses are fixed at 11,410534/. sterling. The extraordinary expenses are fixed at 157,0801. Another decree opens a credit at 60,000/. to the Minister of Marine. A third de cree grants an amnesty to certain classes of offenders in consequence of the QUEEN'S delivery. The last bulletin status that both the QUEEN and the infant are " going on well." MADRID Boise, DEC. 22.—The following are the prices of Stocks :—Three per Cents., 38,+, ; Five per Cents., with current Coupon, 17 Coupons, 8i to ; Passive Debt, 5 9-16. Exchange on London, 50 70. GERMANY. The Hanoverian Government has refused to send a plenipotentiary to the Customs Congress at Vienna. A report circulated in the newspapers, to the effect that the Prussian Government had protested against the admission of Hesse Cas sel to the Diet as long a s M. HASSENPFLUG remained Minister in that State, has not been contradicted by the Hessian journals. It will be remembered that M. HIssENPFLuu was lately condemned by a Prussian court to three months' im prisonment on a charge of embezzlement. Madame SCHROEDER - DEVILIENT,NOW Baroness VON BOCK, the celebrated prima donna of the Dresden opera, who was charged with being implicated in the last insurrection in that city, has been pardo ne d by the King of SAxoNT , on condition of her paying the gs commenced against h e r. coats of the proceedin ITALY. In its sitting of the 23d the Chamber of Deputies at Turin adopted the budget of Public Works, in cluding the railway section of that department, with a reduction of upwards of three millions of francs in the expenditure. The question of an electric tele graph to Paris was again taken up and the principle adopted, but the discussion ended in a political dis pute between some members of the Opposition and the Minister of Public Works, who was accused of partiality towards engineers of his own party. The answer of Signor PALEOCAPA to these imputations was received with approbation by the Chamber. A letter from Leghorn of the 22d, in the Piedmon tese Gazette, states that the court-martial of thar town has condemned 39 persons to death for having be longed to a secret society, the object of which was the overthrow of the Grand Ducal Government, and the establishment of a Republic in Tuscany. Eight per sons more, accused of the same crime, were ac quitted. The punishmenf, of death ba., .however , , been commuted into various periods of impluonment. DpiTRY-LANE formed 01 Lhe ext.lit and beauty of the new pahLuninhe of Harlequin lloyarth, when its production is said to have ex ceeded 1,5001. dt i§ the most succe§sAtl f9r yearn Put! RKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Paid. Nominal Prices, Railways. Aberdeen.. Ambergate, Nettir_gham, Boston, & E. Juncion Belfast and County Down Birming., Wolverhamp., and Stoar Valley • Birkenh., Lan., & Chesh June., late 331. 6s. 84.. Do. Cheat. & Blrkenhd., 801. &251. Consolidated Do., do., 20/. Bristol and Exoter• • , • • Caledonian • . • • • • Chester and Holyhead .. 0 ablin and Belfast June. Lublin and Kingstown.. Dundalk and Eknlskillen Dundee, Perth,andAber- teen Junction .. • • Do.. New .. Eaat Anglian (251. L. & _ _ _ _ E. andi. & E.) . .. Do, (181. E. & H.) • • Eastern . Counties .: Eastern Union, class A. late E. U. ellares •• do. . Do. do., B & C staaree East Lancashire • • • • Da. New quarters • East & West - Ind la Docksl and Birm. June. .. East & West York. June. Edinburgh and Glasgow Edna., Berth, and Dundee Glasgow and South-West. Do. do. G.D. & C.stack Great Northern • • • Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, 14, 6 per et. Great southern and Western, Ireland .. Great Western .. Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do, thirds • • .. • • Lancaster and Preston .. Lancashire and Yorkshire Do. quarter si ores .. Do. fifths .. • • • Do. West Riding Union Leeds Northern .. Liverpool, Crosby, and • Southport .. .. • _ _ London and Blackwali Do., Tilbury Ext. scrip London, Brighton, and South Coast .• • • London and 17.-Wostcrn Do. do. quartsra Do. fifths .. Do. 101. Bh., M.& B (0 London and S.-Western . Do. new 501. . Do. now 401. .. .- M,uichester,Bnaton, and Matlock •• Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire .. Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union •• Midland .. Do. 50/. shares • • Do. Birming & Derby Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) Newcastle and Carlielo•- De. quarter shares . evr mark et • • .. . Newport, Aborgavonny, and Ilireford Nev, - ry and Enniskillen - !lewry, W arrenpoint, & Rogrovor • • .. • • orfol_k • . . • Do. Nsw 901. shares•• Northern Counties Union "Torth r; ri lah North Devon • . North Staffordshire •• North-Western North & Sth.-Wcst.Janc. Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton... .. Scottish Central 4 cottlab Midland .. Do. new .. .. • • Shrews. & Birm., Class A Do. Class 8.. •• •• shrews. & Hereford., Old Do., do., New •• shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) • • .. Do. Halves .. . • • - Do. Oswestry Do. New.. .. • • Shropshire Union • • • • Do., A, B, C, & D, fully paid up at per cent • • South Devon • • .. South-Eastern .. • • South Wales.. • • 4,outh Yorksh. and River Dun .. • • • • Shoff., Roth., and Goole, South DiVIMOM • . .• ling £nd D 4 nfermline Stockton and Hartlepool Tp.ff Vale .. • • • • • • Taw Vale Extension .. Thames Haven Dack and Railway .. • • Vale of Neath .. • • Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick, Waterford, Wex., Wick. and Dublin • • . • West Cornwall • • •• Whiteharon and Farness Y o rk, Newc., & Berwick Ditto and Newcastle Extension .. DiTtiG.N.E. purchase York and North Midland znwrs LE.an AT FIXED ILE IN T.A.115. Leasinw Business Railways. - raid. Nominal Prices. Companies. done to-day. llcdf. & Bletch ley .• -• Lon. & all P.irming.: & Ox ford Juneion, guaranteed • • Gt. Western all 28 —3O Do., without a guarantee .. Da .. • • all 28 —29 irm., Wolver., & Dudley, gua ranteed .. Do .. all 8 —lO p Do., without a guarantee .. Do • • • . all 7 —9 p Buckinghamsh. Lon. &N. W. all 17 - 18% Clydesdale June Caledonian all 41 —43 E. Lin., Guar. 6 Per Cent. •• G. Northern all 3234 —33 Gloucester and Dean Forest Gt. Western 25 134 2 34 p Hartlepl Dock c Yrk, New., all —• • and Railway an 1 Ber. Hull and Selby Yk. &N. M. all 104 106 Do. Shares Do .. all 52 —63 Do. 54 Shares Do .. all 243 2536 Leeds and Brad. Midland • . all 101% 10234 10234 Lon. and Green. S. Eastern .. all 11% 123( Do., Pref. .. Do .. all 24 —25 Lowestoft, Gd. 4 per Cont. .. Norfolk all 14 115 Da.. 6 per cent Do .. •• all .. ^•• Middlesbro' and liedcar, 6p. ct Stockt.& Dar all •• •• N. & East, 6 per Cent. •• E. Counties . all • Do., 5 per cent. Do. .. .. all 64 —53 56 55% Do. New .. Do • • .. 43 4 —6 p Preston and IL.& N. W.l all wyre L &s La.& Y. 3 Do. 3G Shares ADo .. • • 11 8 14 9 34 1 ) Read., Guild., and Reigate .. S. Eastern all 2 1 % 21% Roy. & Ilitchin G. Northern all 77t 856 , o. Shop. Ex.. Do .. •• 534 1 2 p. Shot., Roth. and Goole, 5 per ct. Lane. & York 18 11 South Stafford!. Mr. M'Clean -- dig. Wear Val. 6 par Cent. gua. Stock.& Dar. all Do. do. •• Do . • • • 25 28 —29 Do. do. •• Do • .• • 26 Wilts &Somers, Gt. Western 100 92 9234 Napless " to-daT• raid. Agua Fria •• •••• • • Arlen t 'alifornian • . Ave Maria ... •.•• • • Australian •• •• ••• • • • larossa Range .. Brazilian Imp, (is. 5/.13.) Nominal thaw!. De. Cocaes - arid Cuiaba. Do. St. John del Bey • • Cobra Copper . • . • • Copiapo ........ General. •• . ......... Mexican & S. American NcuVeaU Monde.. . Real Dcl Monte, Unrcg. Do. Black Debentures. Do. Red Debentures .. Santiago do Cuba ...... Tin Croft .. • • • • • • • • • • • • United Mexican—. West Mariposa .. • • .... 701N3 antralasia .... • • • • • • • • British Nort h America.. Colonial .....• .. ••• • • • Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock .... London and Westminster National Provincial Eng. De. New National of Ireland .. • • Oriental Bank Corporat. Previneial of Ireland... • Do. New ... •....... Union of Australia .. • • Union of London Union of Madrld nix! Canada •• .. • • • • Gen. Steam Navigation . Pepin. Oriental Steam. - 1 - P - I .• --- • lai — 2% IN —• 3% •• ioN •414 —3% 7 ()% 8 28 28% 3 — 2 1 1 — % BTO CIL ZANIES. all 39 --;9% 50 46% - 49 25 10% 11 20 25 -2 6 U 16 18% -- 17% 20 28% 29% 35 •• •• 1 13 0 24% .• 19% 21 33 --- 34 S 6% —7% vs% 14 airi —4% 1 —1% % —% ••••. 611 Ditto ditto Royal Mail Steam .. • • .. Settling days in the nto: 2 7 •• IVA - 4 43 -4 5 15% -16 Si 35 - 3 6 Nt 3 - 8 4 14% ex.d. 39 x.a ;CET.: 32% tered shares, 15th [We cannot be answert will not be influenced by LIINECITS. 914 V% —2S 74 —75 173 i 18% 79% 80% )eceinber. Ticket day d s for reel' Account days, 16th and 31st. be errors of the Offi cial US% An Ki correspondents.) nth of D ad 30th. able for a interestei -- MONEY and COII4IVIERCIAL NB"' CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. t There is nothing new to report of t he Liverpool Coe ton market. Wheat is up Is. per quarter to-day. The Hamburgla mail of last Friday brings th was e changeex u., on London at 13 4i, beieg i higher. 2eloney with° e alteration. The German BelgiumL eo ug m i m d e t r u ci r a e l o t f reaty , ge nt to German River&n states have given their cou the treaty between Holland and the Zollverein, but have added a reserve clause concerning the "-Ist of tolls at rei, the Rhine. Eas voted the acceptance with H o teme, b y 57 to 30. The arrival of the steamer from America wit h a farther large amount in specie-01er 1,000 000 dollare--:: has led anew to considerable discussion as to this is to end, or, in plainer terms, what the etre(); will sued is be upon flee money market. The 13ank of Epg lending money on stock as low as 2 per cent., and mess very soon bring down its rate of discount, such will be the plethora of cash. A telegraphic dispatch from New Orleans announce; arumour of the failure of the house of Dill, bl`Le ee ' e fie Co.,C fi of that city. This is one of the most the _ hr rms in New Orleans, largely engaged in the c(!tte!! Where ,1111 i kerage business. The rumour COBUCCIS the failure with the proceedings taken by the United States Gover.p;: ment to recover an ell judgment of nearly doing an extols., againet J. K. Smith, a note broker, business in New Orleans. e re' In cot:sequence of several failures which W it Foreig__ cently occurred, of parties connected with the Exchange business, in a small way, and the losses 170 people have experienced, arrangen3ents have been rn e ith by Messrs. Baring and Brothers, of London , f a r' Messrs. Grinnell, Minturo, and Co., of this city, to to nish bills of exchange for five pounds and uPwardn'tic. emigrants and qthers, on either side of the Atlaliiieo These bills will be for sale by the agent s , q i , t the 300,000 doi) 0 houses in any city in the "Union, and ,'"" are United Kingdom of Great BritaiD. ''''' n a we rangement of this kind has long been wanted , tle •ons escort It 0 have no doubt this will put a stop to the practised upon a certain class of the comlnun it Y;As iti stated that, by a recent failure in Liverpool, Pe-r...eir the United States who had made remittances to we friends and relatives in Europe, to enable them to reach ii this country, were losers to the amount of si%iY ° eel° dollars. : t btO The English Stock market has been very gl ue., co further advanced prices have been obtained, Cloy being quoted 97i to i. The easy rate at iv 101 l can be borrowed is au encouragement to the sPec-cots. for a rise. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per.apdaced have been 99 to *, and the Three per Cen t ' "-- 55th to Annuities 98 to - 4 1 . Exchequer-bills are 5 3 e• premium. e ica o Foreign Securities have been generally firm. h le bees have risen to 27k i. Brazilian Old Bonds bo le o r done at 95. Spanish Five per Cents. have tr eo rot' ported at 21i i s and the Three per Ce nts at 411rDanish tuguese Four per Cents. have been dull at 3 3 e a d pet Stock is worth 78k. and Russian Four-a061;67„,s bee° Cents. are 1021, being steady. A bargain, - Lot the effected in French Five per Cents. at 100 621,,.. "'„ e re exchange at 25k. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per t i ee . 60 to i. Sardinian Bonds are 841 to 84. f a ir broleeel Railway Shares are all higher, with a .030* ai ne ou s n h t ar o e f s ., ar c e al l a u , i , e doing. The foreign lines participate in the itePr ° ' Go T ld he M a i ._ 00 0106 m month uc h o i f s tlh9el,GB Great Western eaclusiv e Companyof 20 Pe s y s f°c g re u et s ti :en ti t P e ° e c n e o fi Upon railway per cent. stock, as may be issued. There are no upon foreign lines. he Clae e In making a call of 21. 105. per share on t- - ~ o f IP (late thirds), duo 6th proximo , the secretor; - to Eastern Union writes:— „jog '' I am to add that the directors intend pr 0 1 ).% t hat, the shareholders at the next half-yearly.itle etiel get b e from the Ist of July next a preferential iii te ware c o a ll l o is w in ed id u e po t n he t r b e c o s n e asrheardeuelyeopnaiddi.t,i,onally that t he r 0 14 : Te followin notic with respect to the Feb,, - : Gres- Half h per Cent. g Stock, e, has been i ssu ed b y the Western Company, : tis " e _ " Applications may be made for investmen fined dii. dend of 4i per cent. per annum , Great Western Preference Stock, bearing a e eri The application should specify the amount 0. s by in' quired, which may either be paid up in f o il °r oippir stalments, according to the convenience of P ie r tie n t, Ole ing for it. The said Four-and-a-Half per v e 7be err; Stock is entitled to priority of dieVeli d ever d sad nary stock of the company, and has been create the provisions of the Acts of Parliament." watiO, QUARTER To 1 ,7*. e% dif . Consols for Opening, Jan. 16 .-- 97 , 1 1 c s ipe s " BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONg "'" i From the Official List.) 98 u 3 par Cent. Reduced Anisuities ***** 4i 4 ~ New 3i e f per Cent. Anus. ***** • •-• "' -4 44 5 7° Consols for Account ****** - ******** 9 , ie e ETCh9qLlBl' Bills **************** . *** t lee- - , payable hecelfge,i, re. 55 p 1,0001.... — en. — 53 P 5 3 51 P , ,,g i rvelivu' Small - NT F, o' o ?RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT 0,---0 Brazilian Bonds. 5 per Cent ...... st 4 Danish Bonds 1825, 3 percent.... :,.,LA Di , x , car Bonds. 1846, ex Jan. Conpong f,,.Ciii Ditto Account ... .. ............... -4 ' l'i 33 eortuguese Bends , 5 per Cent ...... Ditto 4 ner Cent. ................. Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent''' 1025 4 % Ditto 4 1 ,y per Cent .........•••••'B5 l Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent .........•••• ‘,1,44 ,panisb Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o Ditto Passive Bonds... .................. ,N 34 :Ipanisn Bonds, 3 per Cent. .....• ~viderki.a on the above payabl. lu 100 f. 1' 65 ' French Rentes, 5 per Cent. ..... 25f. 2e. Exchange ..................... ••• 60 I A Dutch 2 1 ,4 per Cent., 12Guild ••• 90 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates - A LONDON, DEC.so;lo,osero L an lj ß d R O d I u s Y T H O D L 7: S D ' h tE ,..— Ce.r.29.—w d ---:...... 00Au :ci. Hardwick, Welcome, Africa; ES:l2P7.—PiVin:indGat .--( I.l4ll6i;:b7reez° r b, Earl of Havannah; r Urgard, Guile' 6'•..rbodees; Messuri van Gvv n L a Ao h u ; Li' :is :E N :l , i c : e a u : du i , ' , ce, Alexandria. SW. Luq, is;000, Quebe T c ,E . Mani:lll:7:r. i's2,:c.e—hwrfiosutinTadnilluia,nici:Tadbittiteci,; ''s6 311- BLIN D 13, Dr D i:Ec c c s .w . 226i c6 2 :. 7_ 5; , —: r d r d s . . 4 E v v l i z . a t b o e s t .n b .',. 1. 1 00 . A a u ra , %elYE:Nil:Ail Hill St. Ii ,„ I : N Ii G , S .s7NOOeR:Dr: E. to N N ' W,— ap OOP W . ind E.N.E.—Arra' A 00 2 D 7 o t r h us 1 cl l sv . Free Trader, and Constance, Callao; uoro, , Co; Stephens, Pero; jam on ai l c in a ef r n h ; DEC.) n d John, 2B : G Y•I Li.: )E a d i l r nd a bt :t er IPzEial3'v:2l:l:le: eil g s wiacc 1 1 E :1 13: 1 % V. :: :: ( 11 ; ;11' itir:l; John's,DEC..c 26,—Arrd, Mew, ~.11,:r ocid:riti.; andri; Felilo, ; Spartan, OEET Off oAenansn, mPoarrtaenrb,nultiunter, Ciii;b:o Hobart Town. • 112 ..;,.. t... . , Arr d . BAT, DEC.,i;i;J —Winda2mB.aica.sisrer.B7,B,s)tsr:rl3o7,lrb,•.f,, I, : n_yw E j e c L k., , , DEC. 27.—Wind N.W. to N.N.E.; °Ntberili-e! to E.—Arrd. Corsair's Bride, 13lyth, Madras; , poico er t)'' rie• St. Domingo; Mary Wilson, Hunt :won 0 Ski. Sophia Andrew's; Terany Ernst, Muller, Al.„, $e 11 and Anganus Rio Jane V'ul,il";:haerol orleans; Julius, Accra, Vi'vid, and A zorian, s,t..74—airee°' Favourite, Taganrog; Herald, Oiessa; 13°11 14,ghorn. < 5.14'15. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 27.—Wind E ; 28tb, ,--• tc)vate:l4 Alexandria;DAll el, A i: te r iEn, i t lcehh . i G nioc, : o e Aja f b aNr u mi cy i aa n mi : cp S alhv a : r o i nz p ici s is o nao n ytre , a, k ; 1 e s w a 0 1 t ( r , r l e n t I , : 0 s ; 01);:u;cogirt : oa l : ei : s L E a li d z y a ISchevilti7rn, Callao; Naiad. Williams, il ''' ' t,..1. 1 ' 0'. 'arrow, Az , r ; Sophia, St. Thomas's; Marathon, New orleensi •"" i A Oriel)" zas, Philadelphia; Liverpool, New York. CHATHAM, DEC. 27.—Wind N.W.---Arrno. e a snc;d3EmrblerhiCambria il Charles,t srtcet I:l:3mdlie:Ew:a pare; a Janeiro; 3ftebonenislsenil 33ii;:;6011;;Aginiji tothAe:erlertli:l3; Gordon, Grrifewald; Cheerful, Cowie. SL';ckb° $0'....' DOVER, DEC. 27.—Wind N. ; 28, SE. to Arrd. Urkinger, Chesrne; Rebecca, Portland. „ a I.l ' FA.LMOUTH, DEC. 27.--WiLd variable ; . r;,031116' 'freth. bte,zo.—Arrd. Amelia and Henrietta, . e '', l L • Pe' Sid. Onward, St. Uichaels ; Primus, Ale il " ' ~ Leghorn. ci INfer o P PENANCE, DEC. 27. — Wind N.111.--Arr I Harvey, 13elizo. c Sid. 41° • O F) andli O L l j Y y li r a n n A O D , , Ma I DEC. ta. 27.--Wj,ri d E. to ..,--- ~, g F. ......1,17;r0 oLAssoN i cc}c, T ANCAsTER, pfe 2 7 . 50 TO °ll =,,,:.1..„......,,,.. L. , ; . ;3:. Arrd. ANNAN WATERFooT, CARLILE.-- Hargraves, St, htia's, New Drunswick• :NC: .2.7. , .....rm: snAams. Railways. Pal 4 Nominal Price. Business done to-day. Aberdeen •• all 23- 1% dis. OS. Aberdeen, No. 2, 7 pr. ct. 234 -. • • Ca l e donian 101 • • • • 10 8 Chester and Holyhead .. all 15x —16 u, Mind. Per. & Aber. June. all 1 —% d. East Anglian (31. 10s.) per cent. , all 2% 2% Eastern Counties Exton., IS per cent. No. 1 •• all % % p Pra Do. No. 2 % p pm Do . New 6p. cont. Stock 10 10% —ll Eastern Union, Scrip guaran. 6 per cent. .• all 9 %- 10 Do. 101. Dsben. Shares . East Lancashire, 6 per cent. quarter shares .. all E. &W. York. June. sths all Edln. Per. &Dun.sl p.ct. all 1% 1 dis. Glasgow & A.-W. Consol. 100 • • —•• Gt. Northern, 5 per sant. all 13% 13 % 13 % Do., sp. c. Redeem. Scrip 6 3% 34 % 6 % Ai Great Seuth. & Western (Ireland) eighths all 1% 134 p, Gt. Western ( [larks and Hants Ex., 5 por Cent.) 6 .. P. Lancashire and York shire, P. 201. 6 • • dis. Do. 6 per ct. Stock .. 100 133 135 Leeds Northern, 6 par cent., No. 1 .. _ 11 P Do. quarters, 1848 .. 9 .. —•• P London, Brighton, and S. Coast, guar. 5 por et. 100 •• Do. prof., 5 p et. 5k,1851 100 .• —• • Do. new guar., 6 per ct. 100 142 145 Lon. & N. West. (Coy. & Nuneat.) 5 per cent. .. 133! • • London &S.-W., new •• 5 434 —2% p. Manch., Sheffield, and Linc., quar.shrs.,No. 1 all 103 113 113% Do, new, 101. .. all 1234 12% Do., 6/. • • • • • • • • 3 % P Midland Con. 6p. c. stock 100 • • —• • Do. Camel. Bristol & 134 Binning., 6 per cent... 100 132 134 Do. Bristol & GlouCes. all •• —•• Do., Leic. & Swanning., 8 per cent. guar. . • 100 • • Do., Preference • • 5 % dis. Norfolk Extension • • all 11 34 —lt % Do. guar. 53S per cent. all 4 North British • • .. 5 5 0::f. Won &Ny 01. 151.6 p.c 8 % dis Shrews. & Bin, now guar. all 0 % Iv "I• Shrews. and Ches. (Nor. 1534 16 W. Min.) 8 per cent. a ll 11 13 South Devon • • • • • . all S o uth-Eastern, 4% p. ct, 1 0 •• •• York, Nowc., and Bervr., 153 16% Gt. N•ot E• Pul• •• 3% —4% Do. York and North Midland 11. and 8. Purch. 10 1 %. (11 8. Wavency Valley, %. BOalOg7lo and Amiens •• Central of Franco (Or leans and Visrxon) •• Dutch Rhenish •• •• East Indian •• •• Do. do. do. •• Great Indian Peninouls.• Ditto ditto •• Louvain ala 's4= We .. Luxembourg •• I)itto (Railway) .. Ditto (Canal) .. Maria Antonia •• VOREIGN. au 10% -107 i 19 —19% 4% —4% dlB. 2% 3 p. .. - % Ditto, New •. •• Namur and Liege Northern of Franca .. Orleans and Bordeaux .. !AXIS and Orleanr, •• Paris anal Mourn •• :'Aria and StraElx,,,i, Rouen and Havre Barabre and Mena:, st. \ n rew's obe. (A ) 27168 8d 8% all 3 -3% 2% - 31,6 ii - % 6 - 6% 16% - 1i au —3;4d. 40 -42 25 -2S //Ay, , _a; Lu den, +lid Hulalt We,lt lividQra t all 8% -2Vis. !3% 3 —4 10N X 3' 64 17 li U 3i 5% c 5 ,4 I; 154, u iS ~y '4% 2% all 8% 37% 11 1 4 to 1134 5 % —5% 9 -10 .. -- .. d. • • .... •• __ 79 —Si 16i 16% 20% 21 23 —2l d. 6 .- 7 3% — 3% 2% bS 4% -5% 3% -3% 15% - 15% 49 -51 96 -28 5 -5% 18% - 19 536 -6% 13% - 13, 351 -859 86 -87 78 -80 -8% P •• -- •• 59% - 60 8 —73 i d. 6 —5% cl. 14%-15% .• 0.. • 6X - • 71,6 95 -96 [IC -% —11714 a% — 3 %p 2% 2 %P. 1%-I\p 86% —B6 8 7 db. 7 6 Ma 2 - 2 32% - 33% 334 .. 23( dia. b7•X —t5X 28 —29 • •• 8 -8% 5% SM, dia. - 22 14 1 4 13%, alp 9 dis 7% —7% dis.' par 1514 1511( - 14%. 9 9 )(3 114 8 6% —6% 3 34 die, 14 —l6 7 8 10 —ll % % di& 3%-3%d. 14 -16 21 1 4 - 21% 28% - 29 3i —2% d. 85% 9 -10 11 -13 149 - 150 16 —l5 dls. •• .... •• . • —• • db. 18•• .... •• % - 18% I —6% d. 3% —214 i 22% 23 18% % 1334 b)4 22% Mi 23 Business done to-day. 11 n 12 5% % i 4% % % 20% % 7 67 15% % 76S 19 6 13% 8714 87 X 15 3 95 96 L 17% % 3 3% 'A 34 ini 100 all all 50 25 too 8 6 8 13 4 47% 100 42% 4 2 0, 100 100 47% 21% 25 9% 17% 19 .3% all all all I 6% 21% % 29% 16 2-3 126 OfIXNZEI rr .; 4ucil DE c Cot w' DE J. kl1 0 ,;"ng, St. Ca;,"'rtara 144.0ZItevz 441tx.1 Sc attrn _ z o at S te] 29 10 rld "851. Asa i ltto, al and 011 Barg,94 t.tt4 NA O N , :ilia 1,', 14 1e S °4l. t 4 1 ' 111 %. °111 eoa tk it ' t •,4111,(4 an t i Si k: kt,l c tnc. y -, tll ~,4 t . 01 - 4 kivai rig 0 4 , 4 eB, e ltiot t Dr iD VNAritiat tet , k Itt) ttt qut CO 53 M 7% % 944 %