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To be had of all Booksellers. EPY S' DIARY—CHEAP RE-ISSUg. vol. I. IS NOW DE,s,DY, price Ga. This complete Edition of Pepys' Diary and correspondence con taining al: the passae3 restored from the original manuscript, and all the additional notes, will be published in Five Monthly Volumes, post 8vo.; with Portraits, &c., price 6s. each, bound. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready r.t all the Librarian, in :2 vols., post Bvo., W 0 0 D. A NOVEL. " The author, we are convinced, is young, otherwise we could hardly see displayed such fresh and enthusiastic sympathy in be half of his heroes and heroines. He is a writer of genius, inspired by a high standard cf morality and religion, and by a laudable love of the purest sort of fame. We gather this from the glowing lan guage In which he expresses his feelings, sentiments, and opinions on the subjects just mentioned. There are several chapters, in which links of the story are dropped, containing most eloquent essays on matters that are the prima mobilla of the actions which cha racterise nature's nobility. The writer evidently belongs, though he has marked per se peculiarities, to the school of the Disraells, Alan ncrses, and Smythes."—Observer. Silwood' is no ordinary work ; it contains passages of exceed ing beauty, and is written in pure and forcible language, with great good taste and power. It is one of the most interesting and en gaging novels which the present season has produced. Of the cha racter of Amelia Ross we have already spoken, and the extract we h we given above is the surest voucher of the truth of what we have said. The other ladies who play conspicuous parts in the tale are Florence Howard, an intellectual beauty; Jessie Gordon, a wild and impulsive genius, passionately fond of music and poetry ; and Julia M.-I.:stand, the nobleet and best of them all." —Morning Post. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. James Anderson. THIS EVENING, Will be presented by her Majesty's Servants VIE LADY OF LYJNS. Claude Melnottc, Mr. J. Anderson ; Pauline Deschappelles, Miss Vandenhotr. After. which an entirely New Grand, Historical, Emblematical, Lerostatical, Gastronomical, Metaphorical, Musical, Poetical, Vocal, Municipal, Juvenile, Pautomical Pantomime, by E. Fltzball, the po pular author of " Za-ze-zi-zo-zu," entitled HARLEQUIN and HUMPTY DUMPTY; or, Bobbin de Bobbin _ _ and the First Lord Mayor of Lun'un. Private Boxes, 31. 35., 2/. 12s. 6d., 2/. 23., 11. I Is. 6d., and 11. Is. To be obtained on application at the Box-office ; Mr. Sam's Libarary, St. James's-street ; Messrs. Mitchell Ebers and Co.;• Andrews and Alcroft, Bend-street; at Jullien's M usic Warehouse, Regent street • Chappell, New Bond-street; Lea d e r and Cocks, 63, New ond-street ; Ransford and Co., New Bond-street ; and Bailey and Moon, Carlton Library. Is, Regent-street. Stalls, ss. each. First Price—Dress Circle, ss. Od. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit. 2s. 6d. ; Lower Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, 6d.. Second Price at Nine e'Clock—Dress Circle:22. 6d. ; Boxes, 22.; Pit, is. 6d. No Half-price to upper or Lower Galleries. The Box-office open from I 1 till 4. It is respectfully intimated that seats in the Boxes cannot be reserved after the First Act ofthe Play. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. MR. MACREADY. THIS EVENING. The Single Act of the Second Part of HENRY THE FOURTH. henry IV., Mr. Macready. To be followed by the JEALOUS WIFE, in which Mr. Macready will appear. After which a new translation of THE SECOND CALENDAR and the QUEEN of BEAUTY who had the Fight with the Genie. Principal characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Selby, Lebarr, Buckstone, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Mrs. litzwilliam, Miss P. Horton, and Miss A. Romer. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new and original Drama, entitled JESSIE GRAY. Characters by sElessrs. Hughes, Boyce, 0. Smith, P. Bed forA, Madame Celeste, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. To be followed by a new Extravaganza called LA TARANTULA ; or, the Spider King. Characters by Messrs. Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Miss K. Fitzwilliam, Madame Celeste, Roc. To conclude with THE MARRIED BACHELOR. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Keaa and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the First Part of HENRY IV. FaLstrff, Mr. Bartley. After which a new Comic Christmas Pantomime, called ALONZO THE BRAVE AND THE FAIR IMOGENE ; or, Harlequin and the Baron all covered with Jewels and Gold. Clown, Mr. Fiexmore ; Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and Columbine, Miss Carlotta Le Clercq. Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. Massingham ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office, Oxford-street, from Eleven till Four o'clock. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will he performed THE HANDSOME HUSBAND. Alto which an entirely new and original Fairy Extravaganza, to be called KING CHARMING ; or, the Blue Bird of Paradise. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, Ilorncastle, Suter, Bellingham, and lionner ; Madame Vcstris, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Ellis, Mrs. C. Horn, Miss St. George, and Miss Martindale. To conclude with THE RINGDOVES, in which Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, Emil Baker, Mrs. F. Matthews, and Miss M. Oliver will appear. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Parrett. Great hit of the Romance of the Nose. THIS EVENING, Will be perbrmed A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS, sup ported by Messrs. G. V. Brooke, W. Farren, Leigh Murray, Comp ton, Diddear, W. Farren, jun. ; Mesdames Leigh Murray and Adams To conclude with PRINCE DORUS ; or, The Romance of the Nose, in which Messrs. 11. Farren, Compton, Shalders, Farren, Jun., Cooke ; Mesdames Louisa lloward, Ellen Turner, and Madlle. Adele will appear. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Extraordinary series of attractive novelties. THIS EVENING The Grand new Spectacle of KENNIIA‘ 011TH; or the Goldea Days of the Virgin Queen. with new and costly costumes. Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle, introducing the Magnificent Stud and Company of unequalled Artistes, also, for the first time in England, M. Ghelia, with his three highly-trained Steeds, M. Nicol° Plige, the great Barrel Equilibrist, and the Bro thers Francisco, from the Hippodrome, Paris. To conclude with an entirely new and original grand historical Equestrian Christmas Pantomime, written expressly for this Theatre, by the author of " Bluff King Hal," to he entitled HARLEQUIN AND O'DONOGIIUE ; or, The White Horse of Killarney. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE Tao DAT —Morning 39 min. after 6 I Evening 1 min. after 7 To-3foaaow-3lorning 26 min. after 7 g Evening 1 min. after THE W7ATHER.—S UN OFFICE, JAN !JAR!' 10. THERMOYMTER, IN THE SHADE. 41—highest since noon yesterday. 33—lowest this morning and during the night. 46 this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 2918. WIND S.W.—dull, rainy weather. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The static= are arranged in order of latitude. PLYMOUTH—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. BRIGHTON—Wind N.W., calm—cloudless. HAsTrsGs—Wind W., gentle breeze—cloudless. SouniumpToN—Wind W., gentle breeze--cloudless. FOLKESTONE — Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. TU:NBRIDGE—Wind W., gentle breeze—cloudless. BASIN4STOKE —Wind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. GRE ENWICH—Wind S. W., gentle breeze—cloudless. SWINDON—Wind W., light airs—partially cloudy. OXFORD—Wind W., gentle breeze—cloudless. LEIGHTON —Wind S., gentle breeze—cloudless. CO LC WESTER—W ind N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE—Wind W., gentle breeze—cloudless. RUGBY—Wind N.W., strong breeze—cloudless. BIRMINGHAM —Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. PETERBOROUGH—Wind SW., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. YARMOUTH—Wind W., strong breeze—cloudless. LYNN—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. CREWE —Win d W.N.W strong breeze—partially cloudy. LIVERPOOL—Wind N.lll, strong breeze—partially cloudy. MANCHESTER—Wind \V., strong breeze—principally clear. LEEDS—Wind N.W., hard wind—partially cloudy. LANCASTER—Wind S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. WHITBY—Wind N.N.W., strong breeze—principally clear. DA 1:1,0 GTON—Wind W., stormy—overcast. Snap—Wind N.W., strong breeze—snow. BEArrocE—Wind N.W., strong breeze—cloudless. BERwlcK—Wind N.—strong breeze—rain. EDINBURGH—Wind N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Wednesday morning at nine o'clock : Coax —Wind S., light breeze—foggy. Mu LLINGAR— ind S.E., calm—frost. DUNDALK—Wind N. W., gentle breeze—frosty. POOLE —Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. L EIGHTON—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. PETEEROROUGH—Wind S.W., calm—partially cloudy. YARMOUTH—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—overcast. LIVERPOOL—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Limps—Wind N.E., calm—foggy. Max—Wind S., gentle breeze —overcast. DARL LNGTON—Wind W.S.W., gentle breeze—frost. tiL44 • ittli• je - 1 4,N -.N I , • . 4 • 24 0 :3.•:«z: 1 `; • -4-4.-011." Obetninit LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1851• Elsewhere, in our impression of this evening, wi ll be found a most interesting report of a vestry meet ing at St. James's, Piccadilly. To this important mee ti ng we would direct the especial attention, not only of the public generally, but, above all and be yond all, of the inhabitants of the metropolis. As will be observed from the very opening of the report, the discussion of the vestrymen of St. James's had re ference particularly to the evil consequences of that most, unfortunate enactment relating to the subject of extramural interment, against which we have so re peal,edly had occasion to inveigh. From the various observations made in the course of yesterday's inquiry in the neighbourhood of Piccadilly, it will be remarked that the sentiments of dissatisfaction we ourselves have from the first ex pressed respecting the Act passed last session through the Impe r i a l . P ar li amen t, are beginning to force themselves upon the conviction of the more reflective members of the community. Insomuch have these feelings of discontent increased that one of the speakers at the St. James's meeting insisted that the Metropolitan Interments Bill of last year:had proved most fruitful in ill-consequences instead of turning out beneficial for the population. October, 1849, was the period when the General Board of Health issued preremptory regulations for the closing of the over-crowded graveyards of the metro polis. October, 1850, witnessed the dissipation of the few good effects of that partial movement to wards the desired reform ; for no sooner was the measure of last session ripened into an enactment I than it was intimated to the local authorities at the different places of interment throughout the capital that they might go on burying in their churchyards as fast as possible. "As might be anticipated," said the gentleman to whose remarks we are directing at tention, "the graveyards which had been closed [few enough, GOD knows, at any time] were again opened, and all the horror of the deep grave system were revived." Those horrors are now being at this very time momentarily multiplying. Fresh corpses are being hourly committed to their unhonoured graves within the walls of the English capital, in the very thick of its swarming population, a few inches from the loosened surface of the earth—forming dense masses of cor ruption, the putrescent and pestilential influences of which are accumulating together at this instant the germs of an increasing mortality. In the foulest localities, namely, the grounds surrounding the sacred edifices of religion, grounds reeking with malaria and rotten to very loathsomeness, the atro cious practices of intramural interment are still being developed—even, be it observed, in those horrible dens of abominatiln which were long since held up to public abhorrence by Mr. GEORGE ALFRED WALKER, the first and the most formidable antagonist of the system, and, for that reason, entitled to the glory of being regarded as the originator of the entire agi tation in behalf of sanitary improvement. It is against the continuance of these detestable proceed ings in our metropolitan graveyards that the vestry of St. James's, Piccadilly, has raised its voice in tones of earnest indignation ; and eager shall we be to find that those tones are again and again re echoed from most, if not all, of the parochial districts of London and Westminster. _ A circumstance which imparted a peculiar interest to the meeting convened yesterday, near Piccadilly, was the presence of the distinguished advocate for extramural interment, whose name we have already pronounced. If we recollect rightly, - the meeting of the St. James's Vestry is the first public occa sion which Mr. G. A. WALKER has availed himself of, since the passing of the Act of last session, the first public occasion on which he has pro. nounced his opinions upon that pretended ef fort of amelioration. We have turned, consequently, to the examination of the remarks uttered by him yesterday with especial eagerness—sanguine that we should discover in them sound emphatic condem nation of the course recently pursued by the Legisla ture. Nor, in this, have we been any way disap pointed. At the very outset of his observations Mr. WALKER disclaimed any connexion whatever with the Metropolitan Interments Bill, and at the same time intimated that, according to his view of the matter, several of its clauses were in the very highest degree objectionable. Indeed the reality of this has become latterly sufficiently well demonstrated by the revival in all its atrocity of the very system against which the Act was said to be raised in opposition. "As things stand now," said Mr. WALKER, as if in terrible illustration of this, " the living population of London are every day walking over 5,000,000 dead bodies!" Yet, while these hor rible evils are being thus lamentably perpetuated, the means for their prevention are easily within reach of the Legislature. The truth of this was shown fully two years ago by the distinguished sanitary re former above mentioned, in a pamphlet published by the Messrs. LONGMAN. Vrom that pamphlet Mr. GEORGE ALFRED WALKER himself made yes terday a somewhat lengthened quotation, yet one so pregnant with practical suggestion, that we gladly reproduce it in our leading columns. "A general Act," said Mr. WALKER, in 1849, in his pamphlet (and remember he reiterates his views by their quotation in 1850), " A general Act for the establishment of cemeteries should at once be passed." Already it will have been observed that the Act of last session upon this matter, relating alone to the metropolis, even as a partial boon, is in his estimation anything but satisfactory. " Every city," he continues, " every town, and I may add, very many villages, in the United Kingdom, require suburban cemeteries. Any inquiry as to effects, viz., deteriorated health , premature death, and the poisoning of water from graveyards, which I have proved follow as a matter of course, is not only unnecessary, but a waste of time and money. All that is required is, to determine as to the condition of the soil, and the site of the projected cemetery. Every facility ought to be afforded by the Legislature, and every unnecessary obstruction removed. Separate Acts of Parliament, more especially when opposition is offered, involve often a great outlay of money, and an expenditure of time, which might be much better employed . Cemeteries ought not to be in the hands of joint-stock companies. They ought to be na tional institutions, or vested in corporate or town authorities, or managed by committees elected by the ratepayers, subject to the supervision of a general authority, free from local feelings and prejudices. Private speculations in burials, or any such ownership, ought never to have been permitted. I am aware that there are persons who approve of joint-stock cemeteries, and who disapprove of a com pulsory Act for the prevention of intramural burial. Yet, only three Acts for the formation of joint-stock cemeteries were obtained in the year 1846. It seems to me highly improper to leave a reform like this to local efforts, and then to saddle such efforts with im mense fees, extracted, it is true, in the first instance from the pockets of public-spirited individuals, who, in one instance, to my knowledge, believed that they had given rather than invested. Besides, the money so unnecessarily expended must be repaid (principal and interest) in the shape of increased fees,' by the friends of the deceased who may be buried in such cemeteries. The different ceme teries in the hands of companies should be pur chased from the shareholders, who would be equitably and even liberally treated with, and As they are situated in localities towards which dwellings have already approached, or may be expected to approach, they should be stringently regulated, with a view to their being closed before they, in turn, become nuisances. For the above paramount reasons lam decidedly of opinion that Government, under the change contemplated, should take on itself the charge of organizing and administering, or rigidly supervising, a general plan for the interment of the dead throughout Great Britain." Such were the senti ments entertained with reference to the most effec tual means of carrying out a general system of ex tramural interments by the man whose energy first dragged to light the abominations of in tramural burials. Such are still his views, in 1851, as to the most desirable manner of carrying into effect the long-looked for improve ment. He still proclaims the burial of the dead in towns to be "the most prolific source of disease." He still maintains that by the system hitherto pursued we have been "manufacturing disease and paying for it in the shape of poor-rates." And, at the same time, he insists, as he has done throughout, that the remedy of the evil may be grasped with facility. " All that is requisite," says he, " is to get land and a cheap mode of transit." Both these requisites are easily attainable. At such a spot as Woking common the land may be found in abun dance, and dead bodies mi g ht b e conveye d thither for sixpence a piece along the line of the South-Western Railway. The facts here given can speak for themselves; and from their consideration the public may at once recognize the yet vast neces sity for improvement. In another column will be found a report of the P ro ceedings which took place at Gloucester on the presentation to P. B. P URN ELL, Esq., the respected and philanthropic Chairman of the Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions, of a testimonial of public r es p ect and gratitud e f or hi s unwearied perseverance in in vestigating and discovering numerous cases of appal ling oppression, cruelty, and injustice, perpetrated by the keepers of p r i vate l unatic asylums on the un fortunate persons pl ace d un d er their superintendence. Ne‘,er was testimo n i a l more r i chly deserved, and it is delightful to find that the public is not always altogether ungrateful to its greatest benefactors. In the face of the most unscrupulous, because the most interested opposition, Mr. PURNELL persevered and succeeded in releasing from torture the persons, and from plunder the property, of many an unhappy lunatic, and in restoring to liberty, or partial liberty, many an unfortunate who but for his persevering efforts would have been still kept chained to a cold s t on e floor, with only dirty straw to lie on, and left to wallow and roll in filth, like ill-tended swine, or kept perpetually strapped down to a bed, and there tortured by brutal keepers, or neglected by idle at tendants. Lord Chancellor COTTENUAM, in giving judgment in a case which was brought b,:fore him by the perseverance of Mr.PIJRNELL, and of the Alleged Lunatics Friend Society, bore testimony to the high merits of the Chairman of the Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions, whose untiring patience and perse verance, in endeavouring to alleviate the sufferings, the appalling sufferings, of those unfortunate persons who are confined in private lunatic asylums, have won for him the gratitude of every friend of hu manity. But, be it remembered, that this, the praise, the just praise of Mr. PUaNELL, is the utter condem nation of the Commissioners of Lunacy. How comes it that they discovered none of the atrocities which have been brought to light by the persevering efforts of Mr. PURNELL ? That they were aware of their existence, and from some unexplained senti ment of regard for the interests of the keeper of the asylum, passed them over, we cannot bring ourselves to believe. How comes it, then, that in their report for 1847, at the very time that the atrocities brought to light by Mr. PURNELL were in the course of daily and hourly prerpetration, the Commissioners should thus describe to the Lord Chancellor the state of the lunatic asylums throughout the country ? " The dwellings for the insane are no longer the gloomy pri,ons in which they were formerly confined; cleanliness, warmth, and ventilation have been provided; personal restraint is diminished, and even where still em ployed, its severity is greatly mitigated, and its application strictly watched ; the health and mental condition of the lunatic are more carefully considered, occupation and amusement are more generally afforded to him; and in all respects better treatment is secured; whilst an opportu nity is periodically given to him of representing any hardship to which be may have been sutjected, an ad vantage which it is found by experience many patients fully appreciate." The cases brought to light by Mr. PURNELL con tradict this statement in every particular, and we now ask the Commissioners—Did you, or did you not, during your visits to the various asylums in the county of Gloucester, see and converse with the un fortunate persons who, through Mr. PURNELL'S efforts, have been released from a life of torture? If the answer is in the affirmative, then we ask—How they could venture to make such a statement as that con tained in the above extract from their report for the year 1847 ? If in the negative, then they have been guilty of a neglect of duty of so gross a character as to show that the Commission, as at present constituted, is worse than useless. Indeed, the Commissioners themselves are now pretty well aware that their days are numbered, and, in common with the keepers of private lunatic asylums, look for ward with fear and trembling to the approaching session of Parliament, when a measure for the regu lation of private lunatic asylums will be introduced under such auspices as will, we hope, ensure its suc cess. Above all things the proprietors of private lunatic asylums dread any such alteration in the pre sent law as should render the verdict of a jury neces sary to legalise the incarceration of an alleged lunatic in an asylum. A writer on this subject in the Jour nal of Psychological Medicine says : " It was certainly proposed by the Amendments Law Society that the verdict of a jury should be substituted for the present order of admission and the two medical certificates; but we are satisfied that such a plan would be found wholly impracticable. We do not believe that any family buffering under such a calamity would will ingly permit a relative so aiiiicted to pass through the exposure of such an ordeal. It should be remembered that for many cogent reasons the sanctity of the do mestic circle should, under such distressing circum stances, be held inviolate." The writer forgets that " this wholly im• practicable plan" is invariably practised in every case in which it is sought to ad minister the lunatic's property, and that the only dif ference between the investigation proposed by the Amendments Law Society and that at present pursued before a Master in Lunacy, under a com mission de lunatico inquirendo, ie., that in the latter case the investigation does not take place until those interested in proving the lunacy have had every chance of driving a man mad by shutting him up among lunatics for six months, whereas the society proposes that the incarceration shall not take place until after public inquiry. As to the " exposure to such an ordeal," we have never found that where the management of the relative's property was to be obtained the " domestic circle" have ever shrunk from the exposure, and as the liberty of the subject is of more value than his property, so ought it to be more strictly guarded. It is no more a violation of the sanctity of the domestic circle to require the verdict of a jury to authorise the in carceration of an individual as a lunatic, than it is to require such a verdict to authorise his incarcera tion under any other circumstances. The inhabi tants of the United States guard the sanctity of the domestic circle as sacredly as we do ourselves, and yet we find in this very Journal of Psychological Medi cine the following description of the law of lunacy in the State of Ohio : "The laws in force, at present, in regard to idiots and lunatics, like all the preceding Aco, require the fact of insanity to be established by the verdict of a jury. The jury is required to set forth whether the person com plained against is an idiot, that is to say, a person na turally without mind;' or lunatic;' whether, in their opinion, he is so furiously mad as to render it dangerous to the peace and safety of the community that he should be permitted to go at large;'—' whether he is a pauper, or has any estate, and the supposed value and annual income of such estate'—and, also, whether the pauper has been a resident citism of the state a year." This we take to be a sufficient answer to all the twaddle about exposure ; the system which we advocate has been in existence in the State of Ohio for years, and is admitted by this very writer to have worked well ; and we think we cannot do better than adopt his recommendation to the medical officers of British asylums, and " follow the example of our American brethren." SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.-OUr Birmingham correspondent writes :—" Intelligence was re ceived here this (Thursday) afternoon, that an accident of a very alarming character had occurred to Sir Robert Peel. It seems that the Hon. Baronet IWO9 out hunting yesterday in the neighbourhood of Fazeley ; the horse stumbled, threw his rider, and fell on him in such a way el to seriously injure Sir Robert's head. He was taken up senseless, and this (Thursday) morning was in a very precarious state."—Dally News. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—GLASGOW JAN. B. A fatal accident occurred here yesterday, which has excited a general feeling of regret. Lieutenant E. Clemison, of the 21st Regiment, was in the act of mounting his horse, in the Infantry Barrack-square, Gallowgate, when the animal, which was young and high-spirited, shied and threw the officer violently to the ground on his back. As Mr. Clemi son's foot remained in the stirrup, the horse became still more restive, and in the coarse of its plunging struck the unfortu uate gentleman more than once with its feet, and with great severity, on the chest and right side. Two sergeants, who were at hand, immediately rushed forward to the rescue, and the surgeon of the regiment, who had witnessed the accident from one of the barrack windows, was also in in stant attendance, but Mr. Clemison had suffered such severe internal injuries that he was almost insensible when disen gaged from the stirrup, and died in a quarter of an hour afterwards. The deceased was about thirty yerrs of age, un married, and joined the 21st about twelve years ago, when on foreign service, in the upper province of Madras. He was highly respected and beloved. The relations of the deceased officer reside in the neighbourhood of London, and were ap prised of the melancholy event the same night, by telegraph. MR. MATHESON'S, OF THE LEWS, ELEVATION TO THI BARONETCY.—We have learned that this honour has been conferred by her Majesty on account of Mr. Matheson's distinguished merits, and the noble assistance which he gave to the inhabitants of Lews in a year of famine—a flattering mark of royal favour founded on the just and proper appli cation of public and private acts of enlightened philanthropy.l DEPARTURE OF THE BRAZILIAN MAlL.—Yester day being the day for the commencement of the running of the Brazilian steamers under the new contract between the West India Company and the Government, the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's steamer Teviot, Captain Revett. left Southampton, with the mails for Lisbon, Illadeira, Te neriffe, Pernambuco, Bahia, Brazil, Monte Videe, and Buenos Ayres. The mails were much larger than were expected. The Teviot took out also forty-four passengers for the vari ous places on the route; amongst whom were Lord and Lady Eastnor, for Madeira, and Admiral Grenfell, for Rio. Her cargo consisted principally of specie, in gold and silver to the amount of 67,0351., chiefly for the Brazils. GALLANT CONDUCT.— SHIELDS, JAN. B.—James Harl (or Harly), one of the crew of the Queen, Watson, of Dundee, arrived here from Taganrog, reports that on New Year's-day, during a severe gale at W.S. W., in lat. 53 40 N., long. 3 10 E, when in the act of furling the foretopsail, fell off the starboard yard-arm into the water, but through the w at h so e kind and humane conduct of Mr. W a t son he was saved. nn then man sprang got hold over of a the Mr. Watson was in the act of springing over b oar d, w ith the rope e p a s e t a t l h e e a d fo - line r e r ig g fast g to; mr. hi . m N , v side, and held on the poor man, at the risk of his own life, for some time, by which aid he was got safe on board ; and the seaman, overflowing with gratitude, declares, but for the c onduct, his children now would have been master's orphans. Conduct such as Mr. Watson's is honourable to him as a man and a seaman, and not less honourable is the desire of the seaman to record his gratitude.pping Gazette. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.—The High Court met on Monday and Tuesday. Mary Finnon, or Murphy, charged with child murder, in having cast her newly-born child into the River Nith, at Rirkconnell, Dumfries-shire, pleaded guilty to culpable homicide, and was sentenced to transportation for life. Mr. Robert Graham, from Dunblane, was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation for having forged and uttered two bills for 391. 10s. at the branch of the Bank of Scotland in Callender. The other cases were for thefts, robberies, and assaults.—AWinburyh Witness, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Ministerial crisis still continues, but the PRE SIDENT of the Republic shows himself equal to the situation, and has adopted the wisest, because the boldPst, line of policy that he can pursue without snaking a coup d'etat or violating the Constitution. He has not only emancipated himself from the ty ranny of CHANGARNIER, but from that of the Bur graves also. He sent for them on Wednesday, and they immediately repaired to the Elysee, prepared to offer to the PRESIDENT their advice, in other words, to bamboozle and to betray him, as they had SO often done before. Oil their admission, however, he told them that he had sent for them, not to listen to their advice, but to announce to them his determination, which was that CHANG au- NIER should be removed from his command. He concluded by saying that he was resolved to re spect all the prerogatives of the Legislative Assembly, but that he was also resolved to exercise the right which no power could deny him of dismissing a subaltern. The Judases of the Majority looked aghast at this an nouncement, all their fond dreams of a planche Nape lioniennc vanished at once, and the detected conspira tors slunk out of the Elysea and repaired to the As sembly, where M. MoLE in dolorous accents declared that he had no reason to think that the resolution of the PRESIDENT of the Republic was other wise than irrevocable. To add to their discomfort, the funds rose when it was rumoured that CHANGARNIER was dismissed, and the popularity of the PRESIDENT in creases in proportion as he separates himself from the Burgraves. The Patric gives the following semi official account of the interview : " The President of the Republic assembled to-day, at half-past two, at the ElyE6e, MM. de Broglie, Dupin, Mole, Berryer, Odilon Barrot, Thiers, Darn, and de Montalembert. In inviting this conference, the Presi dent r f the Republic had for object to come to an ex planation with these influential members of the National Assembly as to the true causes of the Ministerial crisis, and the unfounded reports which have been spread on this occasion. We think we can assert that in this con versation, which lasted more than two hours, the Presi dent of the Republic, whilst protesting his desire to , avoid any conflict, his respect for the power of the National Assembly, and his decided resolution to remain faithful to the policy of the message, de clared that he intended to maintain intact the rights conferred upon him by the Constitution. In order to add to the authority of these words every constitu tional guarantee, the President, we are assured, declared to these Honourable Representatives that he was ready to accept, for the formation of a new Cabinet, the co operation of such of them as shared his opinions relative to the modifications which had become necessary in the organization of the command of the army of Paris. On this subject the President, alluding to the rumours which were current in the lobbies of the Assembly, is said to have observed to M. Dupin, 'lf you want troops you will have them; but as for enemies, I can promise you that you shall not have any.' We are convinced that the en tire country will approve of this language, which is at the same time firm and conciliatory, and will support it with all the moral power of its adhesion to this line of conduct." The following description of the interview appears in the Evenement:— " The President listened with mute attention to the observations addressed to him by etch of the speakers in turn, who endeavoured to prevail on him to recall his project of dismissing General Changarnier. All, with a couple of exceptions, gay() him to understand that per sistence in his determination could not fail of becoming a cases Belli between the Executive power and the Par liamentary majority. M. Mol(e was particularly em phatic. As soon as all had spoken, the President, in a calm and energetic manner, expressed himself in words of which the following will be found to be the perfectly exact sense:— " desire to continue in the most perfect harmony with the legislative power. For sake of obtaining such a good understanding between both powers, I am ready to make all necessary sacrifices. lam prepared to form a Ministry in the sense and according to the views of the majority, and even, if necessary, to renounce the dotation question. I will do all things but one, and that is to the sacrifice of the right which I hold to revoke a SUBALTERN. " The following from the National, which is signed by M. LEOPOLD DURAS, may be considered as an official declaration of neutrality on the part of the Repub licans : " An Elysian journal pretends that a portion of the Republican Left had promised to support the Right in case the Assembly should choose 'to invest General Changarnier with the command of the troops destined for its security. We affirm that no such engagement has been taken. If the majority desire to avail them selves of the 32d Article of the Constitution they must, to ensure the support of the Left, make choice of a general, offering to the Constitution and the Republic better gua rantees than can be furnished by General Changarnier." General NEUMAYER has returned to Paris. General RANDON has consented to accept the office of Minister of War in any new Cabinet that may be formed ; as such it will be his duty to countersign the order for the dismissal of CILANGARNIER. M. D eris held a levee on Wednesday evening, which was attended by all the general officers who are Members of the Assembly. An absurd rumour was circulated there that M. CARLIER was to be the new Minister of the Interior. Is was considered probable that a Republican Ministry would be no minated. At the sitting of the Assembly yesterday M. Mou- LIN ascended the tribune to roport on various pro positions submitted to its deliberations respecting the arrest for debt of represi:otatives of the people. One of them presented by M. PouJARD, provided that members of the National Assembly might be arrested for debt, if, in the delay of one month from the date of the notification of the judgment to the questtre, they should not have satisfied their creditors, and in that case they should be considered to have resigned their legislative functions. Others, Messrs. FAUTRIER and SIMEON, extended the delay to three months, and if in that period the representative had not paid his debts, they asked that he should cease to belong to the Assem bly. M. CIIASSAL, the author of another pro position, required a previous authorisation from the Assembly ; and, finally, MM. EMILE LEROUX and GAR:sox proposed that, in commercial and civil mat ters, representatives of the people should be liable to arrest without any authorisation, and that they be declared to have resigned their seat in the Assembly, if, in the course of the month, they should not have recovered their liberty. The Committee, added M. MOULIN, had maturely examined those propositions, and decided that they should be the object of a gene ral report. They had unanimously recognised their opportunity, resulting from the incident of the 28th of December relative to M. MAUGUIN, and the omission in the laws and constitution of a clause regulating that important point. They were also desirous to avoid in future fatal discussions and dangerous collisions between the powers of the State. The order of the day of the2Bth December was not a precedent that could be invoked for the future, and that fact, consequently, rendered the intervention of the legislators more necessary than ever. That de -1 cision of the Assembly did not imply the principle of the absolute inviolability of the representatives, which must formally be inscribed in a law, owing to the silence of the Constitution. The 36th article, it was true, proclaimed it, but there was a principle supe rior to that inviolability, that is, equality in the eyes of the law, and civil equality. It would be an exorbitant privilege if a representative of the people could dispense from doing honour to his engagements, because of his legislative position. It would be the forfeiture of all honour, dignity, and justice. The committee had been of opinion to take the three first propositions into consideration, and recommended the Assembly to refer them for examination to a special committee. As regarded that of MM. EMILE LA RC:KIX, and GAILNON, the committee viewed it with less favour, because it was contrary to the decision of the Assembly of the 28th of December last. The Committee accordingly proposed that the first propo sition be taken into consideration durgence, and that the proposition of MM. EMILE LEROUX and GARNON be rejected. THE NEW MINISTRY. It was rumoured last evening that•the new Ministry had been constituted as follows :—M. DnourN DE L'Huys, late Ambassador to England, takes the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ; General REGNAULT ST. JEAN D'ANGELY that of War ; BAROCHE, RounEß, FOULD, and RINEAU retain their places. M. DUMAS gives up the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce to M. Ducos, and takes the department of Public Instruction ; lastly, the Ministry of Marine is offered to Admiral LEBLANC, who is, however, ex pected to decline it. This Cabinet comes in• pledged to suppress the military command of General CLIANGARNIEE. The Bourse was much crowded, but there was very little business transacted. The Five per Cents, opened at 941.55 c., rose to 94f. 90c., and closed at 94f. 80c. ; the Three per Cents. closed at 56f. 95c.; the New Loan at 941. 75c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 835 f. ; Rouen, 680 f. ; Great Northern, 468 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 190 E ; Vierrm, 386'. 2.5 c. ; Basle,l36r. Bordeaux, 398 f. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 351 f. 25e. ; Tours and Nantes, 2.46 f. 25c. BUSINt SS I)U:4E 11% FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIM LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 9. Boulogne and Amiens, 8;7; 3 —Luxembourg, 27—Namur and Liege, B—Northern of France, I.sl 4 —Orleans and Bordeaux, 3qy ex int.—Paris and Orleane, 36—Paris and Rouen, 26 Rouen and Havre, 10 3 4 Sambre and Meuse, 27's. The Rev. Arthur Rawson Ashwell, M.A., late scholar of Gonville and Caius College, has been elected to the Vice-l'rincipalship of St. Mark's College, Chelsea. . - - EFFECTS OF ELOQUENCE.—A country clergyman, preaching a dull sermon, set all his congregation asleep, ex cept a poor fellow who was generally considered deficient in intellect. At length the reverend orator, looking round, ex claimed, "What, all asleep but this poor idiot!" "Ay," quoth the fellow, " and if I had not been an idiot I should leave gone to sleep too." GERMAN Y. On t'he Bth the Pritssian Ministry se.eured a ma jority. in the Upper House. It was determined by 92 to 35 to drop the adjourned deb:►te on the Address. In the course of the debate the Ministers announced their decided adhesion to a reactionary policy ; the Government, they said, had assumed a hostile nasiti„n to all revolaions and revolutionists ; which, being interpreted, means that the King of Pitussu has consented to be like the Emperor of AUSTRIA, degraded from the rank of an independent Sovereign to that of a vassal of the CZAR. The following are the principal provisions of the new press law introduced by the Prussian Govern ment into the Upper Chamber:—" The draught of this new law consists of five chapters and 87 para graphs, and its provisions are by far more stringent and comprehensive than those of the provisional press law of the 3d of June, 1850. The first chapter pro• vides that all printers, lithographers, and book and print sellers shall solicit a licence from the adminis trative hoards of their repective districts, and that this licence shall be granted to them if they can satisfy the authoritis of their good faith and of that _ amount of educa _ tion which is requisite for their respective lines of business. Booksellers and printsellers are moreover required to prove that they have been regularly apprenticed to their respective trades. If the said persons he condemned for an infraction of the law the Administrative Boards are authorised to withdraw the licence. A copy of all printed papers, pamphlets, and books must be submitted to the police officer of the ditrict twelve hours before their publication. Every newspaper and periodical must have the name of a responsible editor on each copy, and none can be allowed to be named as such editors who are under age or afflicted with civil disabilities. Military men and public functionaries cannot edit any new paper or periodical without the express con sent of their superiors. The provisions of the depo sits or " caution money" are the same as in the provisional law of the 3d of June. The deposits must be paid in the current coin of the realm, and four per cent. interest will be paid on them. The penal part of the new law establishes three distinct classes of transgressions, viz. :-1. Press police transgressions which are punishable with a fine which shall not exceed fifty thalers and a term of imprison ment which shall not exceed six weeks; 2. Press transgressions, for which a fine of above fifty thalers and imprisonment of three years may be awarded. The third class is that of press-crimes, for which still severer punishments are provided, and the last named class alone will be submitted to a jury. The responsibility for the transgressions of a journal or pamphlet attaches alike to printer, publisher, agent, editor, and author. The Post-office can refuse to forward any paper which has been punished for an in fraction of the law. It is criminal to offend the Sovereigns of foreign States (provided reciprocity is granted), Members of Parliament, and of public boards, civil and military functionaries. Blasphemy, aspersions against the Christian Church or the mem bers of any incorporated religious society, attacks on matrimonial and family relations, property, and public morality are likewise to be punished with fines of from 20 to 1,000 thalers, and confinement of from 14 days to 12 months. The Deutsche Reichs Zeitung states from Cassel that the two Commissioners are still actively engaged in breaking the opposition of the functionaries and citizens by means of quartering large detachments of troops upon the refractory. It appears that the mea sures of compulsion are divided into four different grades, and that the number of soldiers which are quartered upon one domicile varies, according to cir cumstances, from ten to fifty. These numbers are doubled whenever the persons so tiMicted presume to complain. The soldiers thus quartered on the citi zens are entitled to board and lodging, and to a pecu niary remuneration, which is fixed for a private at four groschens per day, for a sergeant at eight, and for an officer at sixteen groschens. A part of the executive troops destined for Holstein arrived at Cassel on the sth, under the command of General LEGEDITSCH. The Elector of HEssE has excluded the following journals from the electorate :—The Berlin Constitu tional Zeitung, the Kladderadasch, the National Zei tung, the Deutsche Reichs Zeitung, the Weser Zei lung, the Eolner Zeitung, the Frankfort Journal, the Augsburg Allgenzeine Zeitung, the Vereins Blatt for German Operaitves, the Turnblati of Schwalm, and the Nord Deutsche Zeitung. We have received advices from Vienna of the sth. The treaty with Russia regulating the navigation of the Danube has been renewed. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The Federal Commissioners had a conference with the Holstein Stadtholderate on the 7th. The Copenhagen journals of the 4th publish the following official report from the Danish Minister of War : "On the 31st of December a superior body of the enemy's troops attacked our outposts at Holm, Mohl horst, and Kocherriorf, but were repulsed, after a lengthened struggle, by the 10th battalion. Our loss in this very honourable engagement with a very superior force of the enemy, was—one officer, Captain Von Dougla:, mortally wounded; four privates killed and four wounded, all o' the 10th battalion. "The loss on the enemy's side must have been consi derable in this engagement and the one at Kropper 'Lich and Haidbringe. On the Ist January we took 22 prisoners." THE HERZEGOWINA. AND BOSNIA. The rebel leader, CAVAS PACIiA, has thrown him self into Mostar, and driven out all those who pro posed to surrender. The Seraskier, OMER PASHA, has sent troops to Hairaddin. The new Vizier is still at Bosna Semi. ITALY. The celebrated Czcotaccnio has been sentenced by the Consulta of Rome to fifteen years' hard labour for having fought for the Republic. His Holiness the PorE, in order to facilitate the transmission of specimens of Roman industry in arts and manufactures to the Great Exhibition in London, has ordered that all productions approved of by the commission appointed for that purpose shall be sent into England at the expense of the Government, which, however, will not hold itself responsible in any other respect. A subterranean passage has been constructed from the Castle of Angelo to the Vatican for the passage of troops, and in case of need to afford the POPE means of escape from his palace without condemning him to the necessity of disguising himself as a flunkey. DEATH OF GENERAL BEM. Letters from Turin of the 4th state that General Bem died a short time since at Aleppo, and was buried with the military honours accorded to the general officers in the Turkish service. - _ - DEATH OF THE BARON DE VERNEVIL.—Died at Paris, on the 19th of December, 1851, in the sixtieth year of his age, the Baron F. T. A. Chatriz de Vernevil, A.M., a man of varied talents, extensive learning, and varied ac complishments. He was educated at the University of Paris, where he took the degree of Master of Arts at an early age. In the course of a life of great literary and scientific labour, and much travel, he was decorated by various Sovereigns and universities with orders and titles of high dignity. He was Knight of St. John, Knight of the ,Order of Charles 111., F. 51 S. of Spain, F.S.A. of France, F.R.S. of Saxony, In spector of the Studies in the University of Paris, and one of the Directors of the University of Madrid. A few years ago his eyes were injured by an explosion during a chemical experiment, and for a long time before his death he was totally blind. But this calamity did not diminish the acti vity of his mind or the zeal of his studies, in which, to the last, he was as indefatigable as in his youth. Much of the latter part of his life was occupied in propagating and per fecting, with the co-operation of Mr. J. F. Hoskins, Member of the Royal (now National) Conservatory of Music in Paris, the new theory of Geneuphony, invented by that illustrious patriot and scholar of Spain, the General Don Virnes y Spinola ; and he had the gratification, after great difficulty and greater per severance, to witness the success of his distinguished friend's system of musical science, entitled Geneuphony, in a fair way to universal adoption, it having received the especial patron age of Prince Albert, taken as the text-hook in the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, and stamped with the unqualified approbation of the great Ros sini, who testified his appreciation of this disco very of the natural laws of music, by composing an elaborate canon to illustrate the application of the geneu phonic principles. The Baron had been in declining health tor a considerable time, and had some pecuniary difficulties to contend with; but he died in comparatively easy circum stances. BISHOP PORTEUS ON A REVISION OP THE THIRTY-NINE AILTICLIS.—" At the close of the year 1772, and the beginning of the next, an attempt was made," says tue pious Bishop Porteus, " by myself and a few other clergy men, among whom were Mr. Francis Wollaston, Dr. Percy, now Bishop of Dromore, and Dr. Yorke, now Bishop of Ely, to induce the bishops to promote a review of the Liturgy and Articles, in order to amend bo.ll, but particularly the latter —those parts which all reasonable persons agreed stood in need of amendment. The answer given by the Archbiemp of Canterbury (Cornwallis), February 11,1773, was in these words,' I have consulted severally my brethren the bishops, and it is the opinion of the bench in general that nothing can in prudence be done in the matter that has been submitted to our consideration.'"— Works of Dr. Foams, Bishop of London ; Codell and Davies,lBl6. Vol. i., p. 38-49. DEATH OF A CHARTIST LEADER.—OH Friday Mr. John Skevington, who had for many years past been the leader of the Chartist body in the neighbourhood of Lough borough, expired. Apart from his adherence to the princi ples of the Charter, Mr. Skevington was an uncompromising to civil and religious liberty, and as such his loss is much regretted. About twelve months ago he retired into more quiet habits of life, and it is believed settled down with the Wesleyans, and became a decidedly Christian man. We are happy to add his end was peace.—Nottinghanz Journal. THE LINEN DRAPERS', SILK MERCERS', &C., IN - sTirunoN.—The ball usually held at this serson in aid of the fends of this, the first •established of the metropolitan trades' institutions, took place last ni g ht at Willis's Rooms, St. James's. A list of stewards, well selected from the lead ing houses, ensured a good attendance, and the whole of the arrangements afforded perfect satisfaction to a company of nearly 403 persons, who, with the aid of Adams's band, and Messrs. 'Willis's excellent catering, kept up the festive meet ing until a late hour. Mr. lieudersou officiated as master of the ceremonies. TS. Aberdeen.- Do. Preference • - • 1 Ambergate, Nottingham,l Bo3toa, & E. Juncion Ayrshire and Galloway • • Belfast and County Down Becks and Hants Exten. (Great Western Per- petual 5 per cent.) .. I Birmingham and Oxford ' Junction, calls duly paid, or with a guar... Do. without a guar... Binning., Wolverhamp ton, and Dudley, calls duly paid, or with a! guarantee • • •• Do. without a guar... Woiverhanip., and Stour Valley • • Birkenhead, Laneas., and Cheshire Junction .• Bristol and Exeter.. •• Buckinghamshire • • • • Caledonian • • • • • • 10/. Preference .• Do. Clydesdale June. • • Cho3ter and Holyhead .. Do. Preference .. ..1 Clarence .. • • .. Do. let Class, 6 per ct.l Do. 24 de., 5 per cent. Do. Gov. Loan,4 pr. ct. Direct Lond. and Portsm. Dublin and Belfast Janet., Dublin and Kingstown.. Dundalk and Enniskillen East Anglian (251. L. E. andl. & D.) •• • • Do. (181. E. & IL) • • Do. (31. 10s.) 6 per, cent. Preference • • Do. (51.) 7 pr. ct. Pref. Do. (71.175.) 7 p. c.Prep Eastern Counties .. Do. Eaten., 5 per cent.! No. 1 .. .. • • Do. No. 2 .. • • • • Do .liew Preference, 6 per cent. .. • • • • Do. North. and East. 6 per cent. •• .. Do. do. 5 per cent .. Do. do., New • • • • Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shares • • Do. do. do. .. Do. do., B & C shares Do. do., scrip, - guarau. 6 per cent. .. East Lancashire .. • • Do. New quarters • • Do. 6 per cent. pref. quarter shares.. • . East Lincolnshire, gua. 6 per cent • • • • • Edinburgh and Glasgow Edin., Forth, and Dundee Do. Newport .. • • Exeter and Exmouth .. Glasgow and South-West, Do. pref. consolidated Do. do. G. D. &C. stock Gloucester &Dean Forest Great Northern • . • . Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, B, 6 per ct. Do. 5 per cent. pref... Great Southern and Western, Ireland .. Do. eighths Great North of England . Do. new 40/. .. Do. new 30/. Do. new 151. Groat Western Do. Now, 171. .. Hull and Selby .. Do. half shares .. .. Do. quarter shares .. Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds .. Lancaster and Preston .. Lancashire and Yorkshire, Do. quarter shares .. Do. fifths ..1 Do. F. 20/. .. Do. new, guaranteed 6 per cent .. Do. itudders. & Sheff. Do. West Riding Union Leeds and Bradford .. Leeds and Thirsk Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 1 Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 2 Do. pref. G pet., No. 3 Do. pref. qrs., 1848 .. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .. . London and Blackwall London, Brighton, and South Coast Do. guarteed. 5 per ct., late Croydon thirds.. Do. preference, 5 p ct. Do. preference, cony. 5 per cent., 1852 .. Do. new guaranteed, 6 per cent. .. London and Greenwich . Do. preference . • • London and N.-Western Do. do. new quarters . Do. fifths Do. 10/. &B (e) London and S.-IVestera Do. new 50/. Do. new 401. Do. new preference .. i Londonderry & Coleraine Do. half shares .. Lowestoft, guar. 4 per et. Do. do. 6 per cent. .. Londonderry and Ennis killen. .. .. •• Do. half shares • • • • Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock • • . Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire Do. quarters, No. 1 • • Do. new, 101. preference Do., 61. Preference • • Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union • • At idlat id • • • • • • • • Do. consolidated pref. Do. 501. shares .. • • Do. Birming & Derby Do. Consul. Bristol & Binning., 6 per cent. Do. Bristol & Glouces. Do. do. do. .. Do. Erewash Val. pref. Do. Lelc. & Swanning. 8 per cent. guar. .. Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) Middleobro' and Redear, ; per cent. guar. .. Newcastle and Carlisle.. Do. quarter shares .. Newmarket .. Do. extension scrip • • Newport, Aber,gavenny, and Hereford . • ; Newry & Enniskillen .. Newry, Warrenpoint, Rostrevor • • .. • • Norfolk • • • • .. • • D 3. New 201. shares.. Do. Extension • • • • D. guar. 5% per cent. Do. Waveney Valley.. Northern Counties Ualon North British...... Do. I'reference •• North Staffordshire •. North-Western .. • • Oxford, Worcester and - . Wolverhampton.. • . Preston and Wyre .. Do. Halves (A) • • • • Reading, Guildford, and iZeigate.. •• •• •• Royston and Hitchin Do. Shepreth Exten.• • Scottish Central .. . • Scottish Midland Do. new • • • • •• Shrewsbury Sc Binning. Clas3A.• •• •• Do. Class 8.. • • .• 1)o. New Guarantee.. Shrewsbury & Hereford Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) .. •• Do. .. • • • • Do. Oswestry •• • • Do. New.. .. • • • • Do. 8 per cent. Pref. . Shropshire Union South Devon .. Do. Preference .. South Staffordshire .. South-Eastern _ • • ._. Do. do. 4% per cent.. South Wales.. .. . South Yorksh. andßiveil Dun „. Sheff., Roth., and Goole, N. I)iv., guar.s p cent. Do. do. South Div. Swansea & Loughor, &c. raw Vale Extension Thames Haven Dock and Railway .. • • Wale of Neath .. . Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick WaterMtd, Wex., Wick., and Dublin • • • • Wear Valley, 6 per cent. guaranteed • • Do. do. do. .. do. • • Do. do. West (loniwall .. • • West London . • • • • Do. Ist Class Pref. (10/.) Do. 2d Class de. (par Whiteqaven and Furness Windsor, Staines, and S. Western .. • . Wilts, Somerset, & Wey. month •• •• •• • • York, Newcastle, & Ber wick .. •• •• •• Ditto and Newcastle Extension • • • Ditto G.N.E.yurehal or preference •• Do. Do. Hartlepool • Doel and Railway • • York and North Midi= Do. Preference • • „ Boulogne and Amiens .. Central of France (Or• leans and V ierzon) Demerara • .• Dutch Rhenish • . •• East Indian • • Do. do. do. .. Great Indian Peninsula.. Ditto ditto .. Louvain a la Sambre Luxembourg • . • . .: Ditto • . .. .. .. Mad! id and V alentia .. Namur and Liege .. Northern of France .. Orleans and Bordeaux .. Paris and Orleans .. Paris and lioness .. Paris and Strasbourg .. Rouen and Havre .. . Sambre and Meuse .. Strasboarg and Basle .. Tours and Nantes .. Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hassan .. West Flarclers .. • . Maria Antonia hal Australasia .. •••••• •• . liritish North America. Colonial Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock .... Lonelon and Westminster National Provincial Eng. Do. New .......• • • •• National of Ireland .. • • Provincial of Ireland... Do. New .. • .. Union of Australia Do. New •• • • • • • • •• • • Union of London Union of 11144.1114,1 .... • • FOREIGN. 2% % 15% x.lnt. 10% % Paid. Nominal Prices Business dons to-day. —.— ......... Angio.Mexican(is. 5/. p.) 100 .. —.. Abtnrian .... ..... ..... 15 .. Australian .... •••• • • • • 4 31A 3 ilarossa Range .. • • ... 113 0 3% —3% Blaenarvon Iron and Coal 50 .. —„. Bolatios Scrip ........ • • • • —• • • British Iran_ .. „.. Brazilian Imp. (is. 57. p ) 24% .. —.. Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba 30 3 % —34 Do. St. John del Rey.• 15 14% 14 1 4 14% Cobre Copper ...... .• • 40 32% 35% Copiapo ............ General.... ..... Real Del Monte, Unreg. % Do. Black Debentures. • • —.. Do. lied Debentures Santiago de Cüba Tin Croft United Mexican 2B 28% G% —5% MISCELLANEOUS. Canada 1 Gen. Steam Navigation Benin. & Oriental Steam 5O 78% —79 x. all ex. al Royal Mail Steam {We cannot be answerable for tile errors of the Official Lists, mid will not be influenced by interested correspondents.] HONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. _ _ The sales of Cotton at Liverpool were estimated at 5 000 bales, comprising 4,000 American, 300 Pernans and Maranham, at Bed. to 81d.; 250 Egyptian, at Bkd.; and 300 Surat, at sd. to 6d. per lb. The market closed heavily.—Railway Shares were firm. The markets for Colonial and Foreign Produce have been pressed upon by heavy supplies of the principal goods, especially Sugar, and the expectations of those who looked for higher prices and a brisk demand have been thus tar disappointed upon the re-opening of the market. There is still reason to conclude, however, that the grocers and others will cre long come in more freely as buyers, and it may be that the importers will then ob tain better terms. Compared with this time last year, several staples rule high, and an enhancement in the value of money would probably have a prejudicial effect OR prices for a short time, though we cannot believe that any permanent reduction will occur, taking into account the steady consumption goin on, and the vastly increased wants of the strangers who will this year visit our shores. The Coffee duty question is not likely to:slumber this session of Parliament, for the serious decline in the con sumption shows that both the public and the Govern ment suffer. Messrs. Franks and Millard tell us that "Coffee is the only article—the only article at least of im portance—which has the incubus of differential duties upon it without a term being fixed for its being released from the burden; and the consequence is that it has languished both in quality and popularity; it has be come at once bad and dear, and the consumption of it has of course been progressively decreasing. What else could have been expected? When a differential duty compels us to use an indifferent article in preference to a better one, the use of it will natu rally be abandoned; and even the bad article will become worse under its protection from fair com petition. The well-cultivated Coffees of Ceylon be come scarcer every year, because the native, or almost wild, growth can find a market here against the Costa Rica, Laguayra, &c., with the heavy differential, and almost prohibitive, duty laid upan the latter. Thus what is supposed to be for the protection of our own colonies is actually by degrees working their ruin. Ceylon is capable of being made to produce Coffee good enough in quality and sufficient in quantity, to supply the present demand of the whole world; but under this injudicious system that beautiful island is relapsing into a wilderness. "We should, therefore, for the sake of our own colonial dependencies alone, advocate the immediate abolition of the differential duty on Coffee. It has not been found to conduce either to their profit or their civilisation." Late advices from Turkey state that the new code of commerce had been arranged, having received the anxious attention of the commission appointed to frame it, but that the formation of tribunals of commerce, owing to their clashing with the laws of the country, could not, for the present at least, be carried out. The English StOck Market has not been so buoyant as yesterday, but there is a fair business doing. The in telligence from Paris is still rather a check upon prices. Consols have been 96i for Transfer, and 961. for the 16th instant. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 98i to 99, and the Three per Cents. 97. to .. Batik Stock has been steady at 2131. Exchequer-bills are barely so good, being 58a. to 61s. premium. The loans obtained from the Batik of England while the transfer books were closed have been repaid. The foreign investments are heavy, and sympathise with Consols. Spanish Three per Cents have been 38 to It. and Portuguese Four per Cents. are 341 to 35f nomi nally. Mexican Bonds have receded ,to 34... Brazil Stock is at 891. Russian Four-and-a-Halt per Cents. have been 96k ex div., and Danish Five per Cents. 1001. Dutch Four per Cents. are 90i to 91. In Railway Shares there has been moderate transac tions, without any important fluctuation in prices. Great Northern, however, have suffered materially by the fall• ing off in the week's traffic. Midland look well. French Shares much the same. QUARTER TO THREE, 962 ex in. Consols Ditto Account BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Rank Stock - 213% 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuitiei , ... .. 97 % 1,4 %X o per Cent. Coneol3 Arms New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anus. 98% 99 98 3 % ;:.ong Annuities, Exp. J an. sth, 1860 7% India Stock — Do. Bonds, 1000/ 74 p ''on.aola for Account 96%% E (chequer BillP. 1 %d. 2d. March. June. 1,0601. 500!. Small — 59 61 58 P PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds. 5 per Cont. 8914 Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent.... Ditto, 5 per Cent 109,; M ixican Bon4s, 1846,5 per Cent., Coupon Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto Account . 34% % I Russian Bonds, 1622, 5 per Cent — Ditto 41 . E per Cent. 9 6 14 x d. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent 1 7 1, x 54 Venezuela Bonds 3l Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild Ditto 4 Der Cent. Corbileates LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 10.—Wind at noon S.W. DEAL, JAN. 9.—Wind W. toN. W.—Arrd. Canton, Batavia for Rotterdam; Asia, Sydney, New South Wales; Iron Gem, Calcutta ; Heroine , Callao ; Sarah, Callao. Sailed, Frowning Bauty, Valparaiso ; Celo, Buenos Ayres. Arrd. from the River, Briton, Adelaide, South Australia; Alliance, Angola; Turner, Mogadore. Two vessels of about thirty or forty tons burden, on their beamends, apparently abandoned, and the sea washing over them, were passed 6th instant, off the Seven Stones; also a raft, but no one on it. Lirrausom, JAN. 9.—lt blew very hard last night from the westward, but moderated towards daylight. -- • Arrd. Prince of Orange, Bombay; Lucerne, Jamaica; Adler, Laguna. Off port. Washington, Mobile. Slcie Chieftain, Charleston. P u t back, William Sturges'', Boston, with cargo shifted, loss of sails and cutwater injured ; bore up from long. 24; out thirty days. ENDCAR, JAN. 9.—Wind N.W. by W., strong.. — * The Lord Coke, of Boston, Rotterdam to Stockton or Tees, got on the Sands this morning; crew saved ; expected off should the weather moderate. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 9.—Wind N.W.—Sld. TWO/ steamer, Brazils. FOWEY, JAN. 9.—The Albion, from Llanelly, struck Charlestown her, 6th instant, received damage, and is full of wate Ram, JAN. 9.—The schooner Clacler, of Ateryst• with, is on shore in Llandendon Bay. JAN. 9.—lt blew strong at S.W. to W.N.W. last night.—The Berbice, Demerara to Aberdeen, went on shore, filled, and is expected to become a wreck ; crew saved. The Hazard brig, from Messina, is on shore, but appears to be doing well. The sloops Anna Maria and William, foundered; crew saved. BELYAST, JAN. S.—The schooner Nunes, Glasgow tO Oporto, is leaky and received damage, from contact with a brig, off the north and South Bock . YARMOUTH, I. W., JAN. 9.—Wind S.W.—A fie-built boat, marked " Isabella, of Whitby, Henry Kuaggss" has been picked up off the Galloper Light. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 9.—A ketch-rigged vessel of 40 to 50 tons is sunk at the edge of the Woolsteners, sup posed to have foundered in a heavy gale at S.E. last night. A small skiff, marked " Charles Hayle, Pen. , :once," and presumed to belong to the ketch, was found on Hayling Beach, and it is feared the crew are drowned. FALMOUTH, JAN. 9.—lt has blown one of the most violent gales to-day from S.S.W., veering to W., that has been experienced for many years; it abated at 4 P.M.—The William Frederick, of and from Newport for Pernama, got in contact with two vessels, and did con siderable damage, and Rot on shore. CARDIFF, JAN. 9.—The schooner Sophia, of Padstow, Teignmouth to Gloucester, has put into Penartb Roads. with considerable damage in the gale of last night. A. brigantine has sunk on the Cardiff Sands. BALRANALA, NORTH UIST, DEC. 23.—A quantity of timber, and some pieces of the wreck of a large ship. have washed on shore, and a name-board marked " CO' romandel." OFF HASTINGS, JAN. 9.—Ann Robertson, Algos Bay. FALMOUTH, JAN. 9 —Wind W.N.W.—SId. Harmer Rio Janeiro. The Attic, Troon, for Constantinopls• grounded on the Northern Bank yesterday. CLEVEDON, JAN. 9.—A cask marked L Meal--11 24-1 2 18," and branded Ford & M within, a diamolla 11 59 (cooper's mark), a piece of weatherboard, fresh painted, black outside and green in, with moulding of ob.. long and diamond faihion, apparently belonging to * schooner or smack, and a small boat (Stone), have come on shore. ILFRACO3IBE, JAN. 9.—lt blew a hurricane at S.S.W; from five to seven o'clock last night, when the win ( ' veered to W.N.W. and blew a gale all night. It is noire two P.M., moderate et ,d clear. —The John Daniel, schooner, Newport to Plymouth, shipped a heavy sea 014 Padatow, and has come in to the inner harbour in rs sinking state, and lies with the water over her decks. SALTFLEET, JAN. 9.—The sloop Ant, of Boston, is 00 'shore at Somercot?s, has discharged her cargo, and is expected off with to-night's tide. CREWIERNE•—TIII MILDNESS OF THE SEASON."'" On Old Year's-day a blackbird's nest, containing three eggs, was discovered in the neighbourhood of Corscombe, near tl4 l town.; CORaS Ajthou 'pals o f u al', the 1 4411 , an( ' , ere in al 14 1 4 E 1 1 to middling 1,000 qua uerrth of tho se al we hate Fi ne Ba darn —1) 1 , sal .".41 thol ho t l y 'al wai not 11 bfan). ligllsk I rish cot eb, •• , ***** Notwit 14; 4 , 44 'eriptio n f "yearabi excessive "Umbe r c try', wu IPetilty ow n , w h h u PPIY, ai -eat t o kt from Inf erior Eta ptki (m a i cooe ri tue p ose e ou 3 14 44 7 1 0 CI Be ano 579 Il east! 24 8% 04 1S• Te ri lo w gq la g k te e , , nudau prime: Vesa.v."4l...e de C 2 4r tn E mAto 114411 8 T e r ad, 10 Gl re X 1 56 $ t o o '4 r'cket s, ; Kek et 8, 1, (Bef, re \, ~" 1 1 11 E SHARE MARK BRITISH RAILWAYS Railways. Paid. 50 8 6 8 13 14 0 78 6 6 6 13 41 6 13 4 , 25 50 25 15 1 1 0 8 6 81 2% 100 II 13 4 47% 100 Nominal Prices. 128 - 132 6 —5% dis. 95% 96% 12% 13% 3% 2 dia. 3% 3 dls. % dis. % 1P .44 :: .61; 8834 - 89% 10% - 11% 57 -60 57 -60 138 - 140 1134 - 12 .23; -_204 -125 3% —4 p. p. 2% 27 p. 78% 79% 11% 10% die. 10 —9% dia. 2% p. 13 -15 4 1 ,6 - 2G —27 1 12 lei(-11 % % 3'i 3 dis. 48 49 19 18% dis, 24 26 128 - 129 3 -3% 22 —24 15 —l4 die. 16 —l7 4% —5 5 —5% 814 8 dis, 17 -17% 42 -43 734 - 8 % r. 19 - 194 7% -7% 1 - 1U p. 13 7 % - 14% - 8 5 - 5% 5 1i 534 die. 4% 4% db. 10 —1034 12 —l4 6 7 9 34 10% I!‘ I dis. 13% 14 3% 3 1 4 dls. 14 —l6 11 —l3 3% 314 dis. 23% 23% 22 -23 3 db. .i .. i dle. - 6)4 3 - 5 1634 - 18 20% - 21% .. - •• 8 - B}4 44 -45 18% - 19►,( F}(-5% die. 16 3 - 214 - 17 3% - 43( 2234 23 1 dis. 8X - 9 15% - 15% 5 di; dts. X — 1% pm. 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'A p 100 12 15 4 20 100 10% - 11 55 -57 55 -57 4 -6 p 5% -6% 3% - 4 • - 164 12 -12% 2% -2% 32 -33 28 -29 5% -6% X- 17% - 18 6% -6% 11% - 11% 12% - 12% 100 42% 4 2 01 29 16 0 100 47% 2 12 0 13 5 3 9 12 3 paid up paid up 20 8% been qu, [NT S' 10%;to 10,6 ii —li Mc 6 5.‘ dis. • • •••••• • • 21 •-• 22 tll5. 39 -41 % - %P• 242 - 245 7834 —79 4 —3% dis. 99 101 4934 50% 22 —23 68 —7O p. 2G —27 p 57 —5B 1034 10 1 4 dis. 7 dis, 1)4 dis. 27% 21% Business done to-day. 10 1 4 X dis. 10% X 57 % 17 % % 4 ”i % 11 1 4 11 % 12% % 40 39% 7844 34 13 13 13% 3s 8934 34 24' 124')( )4 124 dls. 48% dig. 4 % dis. THE SUN, _LONDON, FRIDAY EVENnsTG 3 JANUARY lO, lB5l. VIA E