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Extensive Travelling Leave granted without extra Premium Moderate extra Premium for Residenea in Tropical Climates. EQUITABLE FIRE OFFICE. Capital-500,0 0/. (Incorporated under 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110 ) The leading principles of this Office ara —Moderate and equitable Rates of Premium for each class of risk—Annual division of Profits. The difficulty of collecting the elemrits on which to proportion Premium to risk in Insurance against Loss by fire has been so great, that the rates at present charged are more the result of guess than calculation. It has been found by experience, that the total annual losses of the different Established Companies have not been proportionate to the amount of annual Premiums received by each. It is of the highest importance, both to the Insured and Insurers, that such an anomaly should cease, and an approximation to the true risk be made. To secure this object the Equitable Fire Insu rance Company is established. The true rate of Premium for Fire Insurance can only be ap broached through Classification and Average, which has not hitherto been sufficiently acted en, or systematically applied. Whatever be the nominal rate, the bonus or return periodically to the Insured will determine the tree Premium equitably payable, as security against loss for so great a calamity as are, and the Insurer is largely interested in this question, and will consult his interest by supporting a system where, by a careful combination of Classifica tion and Average, the Premium will be proportioned to the risk. The Equitable Fire Office n ill, by a constant anal} xis of its own experience, from time to tin e, adopt such rates of Premium as the nature of the risk may justify, and will decline to enter Into arrange ments as regards tariffs with other offices. With this view an annual investigation will be made into each Class of risk, and a return of one moiety, or fifty per cent. of the nett excess will be made to all classes of Insurers whose Policies have bun in force for three years. Insurances against Loss by Fire are cffecteti by this Company upon every description of Property on moderate terms. Farming Stock insured at 3s. per cent, without the Average Clause. PrOspectuses, and every information may be obtained, on applica tion at the Office, or to any of its Agents. t Natiinal Loan Fond Life Assurance Society. • Equitable Fire t* Both Offices. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS. THIS EVENING. --- -- The LAST WEEK of the present season. The Directors have the utmost pleusure in annouacing that they Lave been enab'ed to secure the valuable services of ANGRI for a few Extra Nights. Spohr's New Grand Descriptive Symphony," The Seasons." The Grand Battle Overture, Lindpainter. Selection from the Opera of "The Seige of Rochelle." Grand Selection from llalevy's New Opera, " La Tempests e ' Angri, Miss Poole, Molique, Barret, Baumann, Blaygrove. AT ban, Zeiss, Winterbottom, Prospere, Frane, Remusat, and Richardson Musical Director, Composer, and Conductor—M. Bala. Conductor of La Musique de Danse—llerr Labitzky. . . . Promenade (admitting to the Half-Circles, Gallery 1 6 and Pit Stalls) •• •• The Doors open at Half-past Seven, and the Concerts will corn. mence at Eight, and terminate about Eleven. Boxes and Stalls to be had at the Box-office, where Programmes of the performance n ay be obtained. Mr. Thomas Mastes s of the Polytechnic Institution, the Coleseum, And Royal Botanic and Zoological Gardens, will supply the Refresh ments and Wines, &c., &c. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. MR. MACREADY. THIS EVENING, Will be performed KIN' JOHN. After which A RADICAL CURE. With LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new and original Drama, entitled JESSIE GRAY. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Boyce, 0. Smith, P. Bed ord, Madame Celeste, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. After which a new varce called THE SCHOOL FOR tioEßs • or, The Shilling flop. Captain Kitelyer, Mr. Boyce ; Major Stiff, Mr. Worrell; Mr. Panels, Mr. Wright; Alexander Panels, Miss Chaplin. To be followed by a new and original Farce, in the Vulgar Tongue, to be called JACK IN THE GREEN ; or, Hints on Eti quette. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the First Part of HENRY IV. Falstrff, Mr, Sea-Vey. To conclude with THE WONDER. 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, E Inn Eleven till Four o'clock. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Solo Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, • Will be presented FORTY AND FIFTY. To be followed by A DAY OF EBCKONING. With SIII4VE HIM RIGHT. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. THIS EVENING, Will be performed PHILIP OF FRANCE AND MARIE DE MERANIE. Characters by Messrs. G. V. Brooke, H. Farren, Norton, W. Farren, jun., Johnstone, G. Cooke, Dlddear ; Miss Ilelea Fauelt, and Mrs. L. Murray. Atter which COUSIN CHERRY. Cousin Cherry, Mrs. Stirling. To be followed with NOT TO BE DONE. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITEIEATRE. Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Patty. Extraordinary series of attractive novelties. 1 3 ..e:0ntl week of the Revival of TIIIIPIN'S EIDE to YOEli Tiffs EVENING. The Grand new Spectacle of KENNILII ORT11; or the Golden Days of the Virgin Queen, with new and costly costumes. Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle, introducing the Magnificent Stud and Company of unequalled Artistes. The whole concluding with the Equestrian Drama (ter the first time these five years) of TURPIN'S EIDE to YORK. Extensive Preparations are now being made for the production of a new and original Equestrian Comic PanLmime, written expressly for this Theatre, by G. 11. Rodwell, Esq. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. A WELL-EARNED COAIPLIMENT.—CAPT. BINSTEAD. n the 7th inst. Captain Binstead, R.N., received a letter from the secretary of the Royal Humane Society, informing him that the Court were pleased to " award hint the medal for his humane and noble conduct in recently plunging into the river Calder, and saving the life of a beautiful little girl." This intimation, couched iu such expressive language, cannot fail to be highly gratifying to the ga ll an t captain for the disinterested services rendered to an helpless child. It is not, however, the possession of this testimonial which has been presented to Captain Binstead that will prove the most enduring, but the satisfaction in feeling that lie has been the instrument in snatching from a watery grave a fellow- Creature, though it was nearly at the cost of his own life. It will be remembered that a child had, some time in October last, unfortunately fallen into the river Calder, near Wake geld; and would moat certainly have been drowned had not Captain Binstead come up at the moment, when he imme diately plunged, iu his clothes, into the water.—Doncaster Gazette. DEATH OF WALTER BAINE, Egg., OF GREENOCK —We learn, with pain, f terday, that our revered friend, G reew" Adrerlisor dyes- His public awfulness Walter Baine, of that town, is no more elected hberiulness was acknowledged by his townsmen, who successively to almost all rliameintosal, the offices of honour and trust at tlieirl is the representation of the burgh in Pa however, as a private gentleman, high-mindedt merchant, and and a liberal promoter of every charitable object, that a 2 loss will be deplored. He was a man of lofty integrity, of large and earnest sympathies, of most courteous and unas suming manners, and of superior literary taste. We do not suppose that Mr. Bathe has left behind him a single indivi dual acquainted with his fine character who will not long venerate his memory as one of the most upright, intelligent, and gentle-hearted of men.— Glasgow Citizen. THE CONVICT HACKETT.—On Friday afternoon information was received at the various metropolitan and City police-stations that Hackett, who has made himself so notorious of late by his daring escapes, had been seen in the High-street, Borough, walking leisurely along the pavement with a sword-cane in his hand. He was well-dressed, and is no doubt as to his identity, because the party who information the was formerly a fell ow -p ris oner Z i .. • .. -_ ..,... tt n Maidstone Gaol. This person followed him - - Ikseirra . distagce in Southwark, watching for a favourable ._. , opporturtitythecure the man and the reward, when Hackett, ...- t , - seeing fie- was followed, turned down a narrow alley and ..,' I, P macis,hhiAe,aile. t, .----- 0 A .a . ~ £fe LE xxxtcn. —lt is rumoured that a final 5: '0 , , ihiti .. 'I • . ion . li as.been come to that this arch Shall be erected A.!' , tat s .--; ~ , . ~ /., . - 7, t " -gate, Hyde-park. -- -- ' \'' -r -. . • NOTICE. THE NEW STORY OF SCOTTISH LIFE, entitled " MERKLAND," by the author of " Passag in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, of Sunny Side," wiLr, EE READY IMMEDIATELY, in 3 vols., and those who desire early copies are requested to send their orders immediately to the Libraries. Henry Co:burn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. YE MAIDEN AND YE MARRIED LIFE OF MARY POWELL, afterwards MISTRESS MILTON. Now first imprynted in one small booke. Price 7s. 6d., in fancy antique binding. " This littell booke containeth ye easaunt profittible Jour nail kept by the Hest wyfe of John Milton; it tnithfully reciteth her loving courtship, her unhappie marriage, her departure from her husband's home, and her return and perfecto reconcilement." London: (1011, Virtue, and Co., 25, Paternoster-row. NATIONAL LOAN EQUITABLE FIRE 26, CORNUILL, LONDON. FUND LIFE AND INSURANCE COMPANIES, DIREC t * T. LAMIE MT. RR.? *W. A. B. Bennett, Esq. *Hugh Croft, Esq. tElliotson, M.D„ I.R.S. *Ralph Gough, Esq. *M. C. Maher, Esq. *John Moss, Esq. !TORS. AY, Esq., Chairman. John Rawson, Esq. *John Shaw, Esq. **Edmund S. Symes, **Clement Tabor, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. **Augustus Vigne, Esq* AUDITOR. tProfessor Wheatstone, F.R.S. PHYSICIAN. *J. Elliotson, M.D„ F.R.S„ 37, Conduit-street. SURGEON. tn. S. Symes, Esq., 77, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square. ACTUARY. t t W. S. B. Woo'house, Esq., F.R.A.S., &c. SECRETARY. *D. T. Lyons Clanchy, Esq. SUPERINTENDENT. *W. A. Hawkins, Esq. BANKERS. tilttessrs. Glyn, Halffax, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS, illessrs. Sutton, Ewens, Ommanney and Prudence, 6, Basinghall• street. *W. Tatham, Esq., 22, Throgmorton-streat. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE OFFICE. CAPITAL-500,0001 The WITHDRAWAL TABLE of the Society affords to the As sured the greatest possible present and prospective advantages that can be conferred by Life Assurance. On this Table the Assured is entitled, at any time, to receive at interest an immediate advance, to the extent of one-half the amount of the paid annual Premiums, without security, personal liability, or deposit of the Policy, but by simple endorsement thereon ; or the half Premium may be with held during the whole cofltinuance of the Policy. Also, in the •event of the Assured at any time not requiring to continue the Policy, on its surrender one-hall of the annual payments will be returned by the Society. ' Lapsed Policies may be renewed without fine, on proof of health and.payment of arrears of Premium without interest. Notices of Assignment of Policies registered and acknowledged, so as to make them available as securities in the hands of third parties. No Entrance Fees or any other charge beyond the Policy Stamp. • The present annual income of the Society from Premiums is 463,000/. p the amount. covered by the Policies of the Society is .1,781,580/.; and the reserved profit, applicable to future bonus to the Assured, amounts to 82,454/. ss. 6d. At the last annual inves tigation, reported in May, ISSO, the bonuses declared to the As sured were, the option of a return of 15 per cent. on their Premiums in cash, or a reversionary addition to the original suns assured by each Policy varying from 20 to 65 per cent. EXAMPLES OF BONUSES ALREADY DECLARED. , Perms , Innual Polic3 , Bonus In nent Re- Age. at: Pre- taken , addition Bonus in duction of =7. rem. ant in ; to Sum Cash. Annual Assured. Premium. £ s. 4. A s d. A s. d. f 1837 292 6 9 139 l 6 9 22 13 1 1838 267 11 4 126 17 2 19 19 7 1839 241 18 6 113 17 7 17 8 8 IA I A s.d.l 1840 193 12 6 93 16 SI 14 010 GO 11000' , 74 34. 1841 189 12 6 89 510 13 811 I 1842 162 16 8 76 18 4 11 8 3 1 1843 115 10 10 55 10 10 81 10 1844 77 19 2 38 15 10 5 9 11 1845 66 15 0 44 10 0 4 10 I THE SUN, HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE. TUB DAT —Morning 38 min. after 11 Evening 0 min. after 0 To-Afentow—Mo:ning 2 min. after 12 Evening 22 min. after 12 THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, DECEMBER 15. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 48—highest since noon yesterday. 37—lowest this morning and during the night. 44—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29.41. Wan S.W.- stormy, with continuous but heavy rain occasionally, and dirty weather. MONDAY, DEC. 16. THERMOMETER, IN THE ►SHADE. 51—highest since noon yesterday. 36—lowest this morning and during the night. 44—this day, at noon. _ _ BAROMETER, 2321. The Barometer went down to 2895 since yesterday WIND S.W.—Morning, fine; Afternoon, showery. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock on Saturday morning.—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. I.I.NGSTOWN (DUBLIN) —Wind S.S.E., strong breeze— overcast. PLYMOUTH—Wind S.E. strong breeze—partially cloudy. PORTSMOUTH—Wind W., gentle breeze—overcast. BRIGHTON—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. HASTINGS — Wind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. SOUTHAMPTON—Wind S.W., strong breeze—foggy. FOLKESTONE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. TUNBRIDGE—Wind S.E., calm—cloudless. BASINGSTOKE — Wind S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. BRISTOL— Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. READING—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. GREENWICH—Wind S., strong breeze—partially cloudy. SWINDON—Wind S., light airs—cloudless. OXFORD—Wind S.W., calm—partially cloudy. LEIGHTON Wind S.W., gentle breeze— cloudless. CAMBRIDGE —Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. RUGBY— Wind S.W., strong breeze—cloudless. YARMOUTH—Wind W., gentle breeze—cloudless. CREWE—Wind S.W., breeze— clear. CONWAY—Wind S.W., storm—partially cloudy. HommEAD—Wind S., hard wind—partially cloudy. LIVERPOOL—Wind S., gentle breeze—cloudless. MANCHESTER—Wind S., fresh breeze— principally clear. LEEDS —Wind S.W., calm—partially cloudy. Yoax—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. LANcAsEER—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—principally clear. WurrDE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. DARLINGTON—Wind E. by S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Slur —Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. WHITEHAVEN —Wind S.E., gentle breeze - partially cloudy. SUNDERLAND Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. BEArrocK—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. BErnvicK—Wind W.—gentle breeze—partially cloudy. EDLNBURGII Wind S., strong breeze—partially cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Friday morning at nine o'clock : CORK—Wind S., strong breeze—rain. MULLINGAR—W ind S.W., stiff breeze—rain. DUNDALK—Wind S., strong breeze—overcast. POOLE—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially eloudy. CAMBRIDGE—Wind S. gentle breeze— cloudy. PETERBOROUGH—Wind S. W., gentle breeze—cloudless. CREWE— Wind S., breeze—partially clear. DARLINGTON—Wind E., strong breeze - cloudless. WHITZHAVEN Wind S. E., gentle breeze—overcast. CARLISLE —Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast. BERWICK—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. abroad, and " instead of imprisoning them on board a ship for two or thrEee years, giving them leave to go on shore on all proper occasions." The practical and really admirable character of the reforms proposed by the Admiral in regard to the management of the mari time service may, however, be most conspicuously shown by transcribing the following paragraph from his " Preface," containing, as it does, a variety of appropriate statements : " In 1816 I proposed to Lord Melville a system of re gistration, which was imperfectly carried out by Sir James Graham in 1830, and improved by a Bill brought in by Mr. 55 dney Herbert and myself; but it is very far from being perfect. I brcught in another Bill, obliging every apprentice in the merchant service to serve a cer tain period in a ship of war before he could become a regular seaman; but that Bill was not taken up by the Admiralty, and was in consequence lost. It object was to do away the bad feeling that exists against a man- of war in the minds of most merchant seamen, and to teach the apprentices in their youth the different exer cises, so as they might be useful when called out in the event of war. Had that Bill passed, we should hav9 had between four and five thousand lads of eighteen years of age every year, and at the end of three years they would be at liberty to remain, or return to the merchant ser vice, according to the wants of the Navy. This, in my opinion, would have been the first step to do away im pressment. These lads, knowing the habits and customs of a man-of-war, would come forward more willingly than the merchant-seamen of the present day, who have a strong feeling against the Navy; that feeling is, I hope, passing away; but it will be a long while before it entirely disappears, and any attempt at impressment will bring it back in a tenfold degree." Another admirable suggestion is thrown out im mediately afterwards, relating this time to the in iquitous and ruinous manner of payment. The passage to which we allude runs as follows : " The system of register tickets is little attended to by the master and owners of merchant ships. Men are often embarked without tickets, and the Custom-house are not sufficiently strict. A few examples would go a great way to check this irregularity, and strict orders ought to be given to ships of war to muster the crew of merchant ships, and report all those who have seamen on board, without their tickets; but even these precau tions will be ineffectual, till owners are prohibited giv ing the men notes for their wages, payable after the ship has sailed. These notes are sold to the Jews for half their value, and the men consider desertion as no crime— quite the contrary, they think they are doing the Jew. 'rho shipowners lose nothing; the sailor leaves his clothes behind, fresh hands are shipped, and no trouble is taken to apprehend the deserter; whereas, if the sea man was paid in morey, it would become the interest of the ship-owner to apprehend and punish him if he de serted. What would be said, if the seamen in the Navy were paid by notes, which would not fetch half their value?" In addition to such subjects as those above particu• larized, others of a no less interesting and important nature are touched upon by Sir CHARLES Rarm a. in the volume under consideration ; the wasteful and ex travagant expenditure incurred in ship-building being particular:y and deservedly reprobated. As the cor respondence, however, in which these matters are brought under discussion, has been familiarized to the multitude by piecemeal publication in our own columns, and in those of some of our contemporaries, it would be superfluous at present to do more than thus distinctly and emphatically notify the circum.• stance of its collective republication. We have repeatedly directed the public attention to the imperative necessity of a great and combined exertion being made to obtain not only a considerable reduction in the enormous amount of taxation, under which the energies of the industrious classes are crushed and paralysed, but, also, a complete alteration in the present iniquitous system, so that every man should be required to contribute to the support and maintenance of the national establishments and the li quidation of the national liabilities, secundum statum et facultates, according to the position which he oc cupies, the means he possesses, and the stake he holds in the country. This is a matter of the plainest equity, the most simple justice. It is the constitu tional privilege of the British subject, but how grievously is it violsted, and how frivolous and inadequate are the excuses put forward by the Ministers of Finance oi every Government and every party, for the glaring inequalities which they call upon Parliament to sanction ! We are well aware that it is exceedingly difficult, perhaps impos sible, to make a perfectly equal assessment on every description of income, so that each man should con-. tribute his exact proportion to the national exchequer. But that is no reason why there should be no effort made to arrive at a more equitable approximation, and to getrid of the monstrous injustice now in daily opera tion—the gross anomalies that would not for a mo ment be tolerated by the inhabitants of any other free country in the world. The only argument adduced in support of the system is, that because perfection cannot be ob tained we must not look for any improvement ! That because we cannot accurately ascertain the capitalized value of an annuity on the life of an aged and sickly man, or of the fluctuating and pre carious profits derived by a professional man by almost incessant toil in the practices of his calling, that they are to be regarded as equivalent to incomes derived from the public funds, or the ground rents of real property. Or, in other words, that what may not be worth two years' purchase; what no bank or capitalist would accept as a security for the advance of money to any amount, should be assessed as highly, and bound to contribute as largely, as that which is well worth, and could be readily disposed of at, thirty years' purchase. This is a plain reductio ad absurdum, but what signifies any argument so long a, the people remain apathetic and indifferent to the question on which their own welfare and prosperity so greatly depends ? Before the last general election we pressed this most important subject on the attention of the various constituencies ; we showed that it was no party ques tion, but one for which men of all classes and parties, Whig and Tory, Conservative and Radical, Protec tionist and Free-trader—all, in fact, vs ho desired the full development of the industrial capabilities of their common country—might freely unite, and cordially co-operate together; and we strongly urged the pro priety of the fiscal question being made one at least of the tests by which the merits of the respectiv e candidates might be ascertained. There was a golden opportunity which, under our present system of septennial Parliaments, might not arise again for many years. But nothing could awaken the tax-payers from their dreamy slumbers. Other subjects of far less importance were dwelt on, dis cussed, and quarrelled about in due course, and with all the earnestness becoming the free and inde pendent electors, who were so fortunate as to be in he enjoyment of the franchise. But the questions that came home to the pocket of every voter—the medium or currency in which the taxes should be paid, and the manner in which the imposts should be levied, were treated with the most contemptuous dis- regard. The opinions of the candidates were scarcely inquired into on monetary and fiscal reform. Before many months had elapsed there were many bitter reasons to deplore this fatal indifference. Before the new Parliament had even assembled the commer cial crisis ensued, which brought the nation to the verge of bankruptcy, which levelled many of our merchant princes to the dust, and overturned firms which it had taken ages to elevate to the proud posi tion in which they were placed before the arrival of the day of ruin, which reduced the value of every de scription of property from 20 to 50 per cent., and entailed the most lamentable sufferings, the most painful privations on the industrious population of the country, on all who earned their daily bread by their daily labour. The statute that had fearfully aggra- vated the mischief, if it had not directly produced this untoward state of affairs, was necessarily suspended. A Parliamentary inquiry followed, a 3 a matter of course. But the representatives of the people were perfectly careless as to a topic respecting which no interrogatory had been exhibited on the hustings. An obedient majority recorded their votes in favour of Ministers, and the same infamous monetary code still continues unchanged and unaltered, to bring new sufferings and fresh ruin upon the country. In the same session the income-tax expired. It was shown to be unequal in operation, and unsound in principle, to inflict heavy and grievous injury on all persons deriving their incomes from limited estates, for lives or terms of years, or from the profits obtained from trade, manufacture, or commerce, or from the exercise of skill or labour in any pursuit. But the gross injustice was continued for a further term of three years, without change or alteration, and why ? Because the revision of the entire system of tax- ation was not insisted on before the Members were re turned to Parliament ; and Honourable Gentlemen having a long tenure of their seat* before thew could - • 1-1 4 14-4 1 I' t k .'4'l : le 0 ,, ftui 14 c : N ' ''• 1 ib';ii:•. . 4-z .„,..,...........11. ...zit., e c . . i .„...,..,_„.,,,,i. _...45..... „,... e , ..,..,.,, If: I , t, i .. • ' -1.,...",,, r ....0,-Al;'''"'! :0 T" 1 , --at 11141,. 41i Mina LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1850. England being any day open to invasion—as was first demonstrated by his Grace the Duke of WEI, LINGTON—it becomes a matter of no inconsiderable interest to listen to every reasonable suggestion of defence, whether it be military or maritime in its character. The reality of our perilous position is by this time beyond the reach of doubt or contradiction. The fact has been proved indeed not less by the absence of all argument to the contrary, but by the cogency of reasoning which has characterized the lucubrations of every individual following up the opinions of the Commander-in-Chief. From the ex plicit manner in which that illustrious soldier pointed out the danger as at present existing, it would have been but a miserable pretence, evading in any way the difficulties of our insular position. If the Duke himself spoke out thus plainly—what reason could exist for any one else to maintain silence, or speak only in inuendos ? The reality of the evil having become already so notorious—why on earth should the recommendation for its removal be regarded as a pe rilous exposure ? Manifest, however, as these things have been all along, it has nevertheless been objected that the very mention of our indefensible state as a kingdom is something little short of being actually treasonous. The objectors not reflecting that the reverse would on the contrary be the case, and that he would veritably be the traitor who should venture to gloze over the existing situation of England among the powers of Christendom. Quietude and timidity upon the subject, we maintain, would have been in the very highest degree culpable; and, hence, conse quently, we cannot look, as many do, upon the argu ments of Sir FRANCIS HEAD as ill-timed, or upon those of Sir CHARLES NAPIER as ill-judged, seeing that the simple fact upon which all those arguments are built up was long ago proclaimed by no less a personage than Field-Marshal his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON. Referring at the present moment expressly and exclusively to the course of proceeding in reference to this great and all-important question, which has been hitherto pursued by Rear-Admiral Sir CHARLES NAPIER—we would here direct especial attention to the letters ad dressed to various parties upon the subject during the last few months by that distinguished officer, ;hose documents having very recently been collected together and published in the form of a substantial volume.* Under any circumstances a work•from the pen of the NAPIERS wculd be certain to secure to itself our attention and respectful consideration ; but, considering the peculiar circumstances under which the present one makes its appearance, considering the time chosen for its issue, considering the importance of the subject and the experience of the writer, it assumes to itself a mere than usual interest, and possesses a more than ordinary attraction. Added to the fact of the correspondence comprised in this volume on "The Navy—Past and Present," being written by Admiral Sir CHARLES NAPIER, it has the additional merit of being edited by General Sir WIL, LIAM NAPIER, the historian of the Peninsula. Con sequently the work comes before us invested with a twofold authenticity—signed by a naval hero, and countersigned by a military annalist. On the very frontispiece, as it were, of the production, the editor takes occasion to administer a vigorous blow on that part of our defensive administration to which much of the existing evils and embarrassments are attributable. He exposes the profligate expenditure required in the erection of public works, or in their subsequent renovation, by reason of the exorbitant charges made in consequence of the estimates of the Ordnance department. Demanding, as they do, five times the money for any given work which would be asked for by private contractors, the officers in this department entail the most ruinous outlay upon the community, without yielding for that outlay anything like a corn- pensative advantage. In illustration of the disastrous system here referred to, we commend pages iii. and iv• . of the "Introduction" to the moat serious consideration of our Financial Reformers. Reverting, however, to the arguments put forth by the author, and not merely by the editor of this im portant book on naval administration, we would briefly allude to the peculiar right of Admiral Sir CHARLES NArint to come forward as the advocate of innovation. Tbat right or privilege we insist upon in his behalf, not because of this or that achievement performed by him in his professional capacity, when leading on the mariners of England off gt. Jean d'Acre or off Lisbon, but simply and briefly because of the wholesome improvements already suggested by himself in the arrangements of the national service, and since then carried into effect to its manifest benefit and development. Among these should especially be borne in recollection his advice to discontinue the barbarous system of flogging round the fleet, and of , ul)jt.cting petty officers to the igno miny of corporal punishment, Loth of which recom mendations have been at length happily carried into effect. Besides which, it is not t) bo forgotten that Sir CHARLES has in like manner exerted himself ener getically, with a view to aid in anaeliurating the con dition of the seamen employed in the Royal Navy, some of his most excellentsu ggestions having ultimately been realized, such as that of paying the sailors * " The Navy: its Fast and Pre sen t S tate. " By Rear-Admiral Sir C. Napa:, K.C.B. Edited b y m a j or . General Sir William Napier, K.C.8., &e., & c . Bvo. pp. 239. London: Jr. and D. A. Darl ing. 1851. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, afford to disregard the opinions and feelings of their constituents. Now, again, a golden opportunity will arise. The infamous, oppressive, and inquisitorial impost to which we have alluded will cease to exist in 1851. Parliament has attained its middle age, and the wishes of the people must now be respected. If there be a combined and energetic movement, it must be successful, but sloth and apathy, if exhibited, will meet their just reward, in the perpetuation of the iniqui tous system. It is for the people to choose for them selves, and they may rest assured that they will have deep cause to rejoice at or deplore their conduct before many months have expired. We at !east have the consolation of knowing that we have not shrunk from our duty, but that we have placed the topic in its naked enormity before our friends and the public. We shall not relinquish our exertions; and we trust that we may at length elicit a fitting response from the oppressed and ill-treated people. 'We cannot conclude without calling attention to an excellent communication from " An Old Annui tant," which will be found in another part of our im pression, and which will well repay perusal. Our correspondent only touches on one part of the evil i but he does so clearly and well, rather understating his case than otherwise. There is certainly no ex aggeration, no straining after effect, but a plain and simple narration of unquestionable facts. We rejoice to say, too, that others are bestir ring themselves. A tried and consistent reformer has announced his intention of delivering an address at the Theatre, Lincoln, on Friday evening, the 20th instant, on the subject of " Taxation as it is, and as it ought to be." This is as it should be ; if every town and district possessed a Jowl Notrrox to arouse the dormant energies of the inhabitants, and to en lighten them on subjects of pressing interest, we should not despair of speedily obtaining a full menure of justice for the oppressed and impoverished people. Most heartily and sincerely do we wish all success to "honest Jowl NORTON" in his laudable effort. Let others who have the ability "go and do likewise." THE FRENCH REPUBLIC We have received the Paris journals of Saturday. The Coastitutionnel publishes a long article, ex tending over nearly a page, the object of which is to show that the Republic, with the renewed Presi dency of Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, is at the present moment the only possible Government for France. It is addressed principally to the Legitimatists and Orlearists, advising them to co• operate in the establishment of a reasonable and acceptable Repub lic, which should have the effect of inculcating a love of order in the public mind, and that respect for good institutions, without which neither branch of the Bourbous, if it were to recover power, could long retain it. The writer does not believe that either the Celia DE CHAMBORD or the Count DE PARIS has much chance of a throne at present ; but he does not wish to fill them utterly with discouragement. What he desires is, that, for their own sake and for the good of France, both branches should conform to circumstances, and think of society before they occupy themselves with questions of personal ambition. The Assembly, on Friday, rejected the first clause of the Usury Bill by a majority of 336 to 293. The clause w as as follows: " Any stipulation, which, in a loan at interest, has for its object to exceed the amount fixed by law, con stitutes the offence (d&it) of usury, no mater what may be the combinations employed for the sake of dis guising it." _ _ _ - M. DE ST. PRIEST announced that, notwithstanding the main feature of the Bill was destroyed, he should still proceed with the other clauses. The Committee on the Western Railway Bill are nearly unanimous in support of the Government pro posal to give the line on a 99 years' lease, with all the works now made. The guarantee of 4 per cent. to the company alone excites some doubt. The follow ing are the names of the committee :—MM. Saint Beure de Beaumont, Combarel de Leyval, Lacrosse, Berryer, Tanin de Mouchy, Dupre, Chazelles de Tal houet, Daru, Gustave de Beaumont, Freney, Gouin, and Cursal. M. MARTIN D'Aucu, the only surviving Member of the first Constituent Assembly, and the only one who, at the oath of the Jeu de Paume, refused to sign the declaration of the tiers-parti, has just died at Castelnaudary. In DAVID'S well-known picture, M. MARTIN D'Aucn is represented with his arms folded on his breast, and refusing to join his colleagues. The Tote Universel was seized yesterday for the publication of an article entitled "La Loi de l'Usure," and of a feuilleton called " Les Contrats Sociaux, au XIX. Siècle. Les Petits Enfans." The responsible editor is to be prosecuted under the double charge of attacks on property and of exciting hatred between the different classes of citirms. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Dec. 14. Anglo-Italian (late Italian and Austrian), 2%—Boulogne and Amiens, 84—Central of France (Orleans and Vi erzon), 16%—East Indian, 12—Great Indian Peninsula, 2 Luxembourg, 1— Ditto, 21 4—Namur and Liege, 734—North ern of France, 15—Orleans and Bourdeaux, 2%—Paris and Strasbourg, LOA—Rouen and Havre, 10A—Sambre and Meuse; 3. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 9th have arrived. There was a rumour which, however, did not obtain much credit, of the approaching retirement of NARVAEZ. . MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 9.—The Cents. were at 12f to 124. Five PORTUGAL. Accounts have been received from Lisbon to the 9th. The new Cardinal was enthroned on the sth with much pomp. A grand banquet was given on the occasion, to which the British Ambassador and the officers of the squadron were invited, but they declined the invitation. GERMANY. The following is the memoir addressed by Prussia to the Princes of the League on the subject of the Olmutz Convention : " MEMOIR. " Berlin, Dec. 3. "The thought which formed the bases of the Olmutz punctuation ' on the part of Prussia is, that Prussia's political position demanded t h e acknowledgment that ' no German question can he decided without her par ' ticipation ; and that, consequently, neither the Electoral Hessian:or Holstein questions could be &ally determined or parte (einseitey) by the Governments assembled at Frankfort in the name of the Confederation. Pros ' sia's military position demands that no foreign army shall be established either between two portions of the monarchy, or at the back of the same, without a cor responding deployment of her own military forces in these very quarters. If both, or either of the two, re fused, war must ensue. The sacrifices for this war would be justified by Vie country, and the war itself justified by Europe. " Oa the other hand, were both secured—were the acknowle dment guaranteed, not only in principle, but in fact—were the withdrawal of the Prussian troops not demanded—then no concession is made on the tempo rary occupation of Hesee by foreign troops, called in by the Sovereign, and no danger whi c h m i ght j ustify war in the eyes of the country and of Europe. " These radmissions] have been allowed by the Olmutz punctuations.' "The Ist section contains the recognition of the prin ciple. In this paragraph the said pi inciple receives prac tical application by the establishment of a joint commis sion, in which Prussia and her allies, on the one side, and the Gevernment assembled at Frankfort on the other, stand side by side in co-legal parity. "By the 3d section, the passage of the march routes is secured through explicit guarantees on the part of Austria and her allies, and under the provision that the march routes themselves shall be held henceforth by Prussia, so long as the security of her milit ar y i nterests demand it. To that must be added the joint occupation of the capital, with the assent of the Sovereign, without which such a measure would be a direct violation of his sovereign rights. "On the other hand, Prussia concedes that the forces called in by the Sovereign shall, for the time being, and without prejudice to future decisions, reinstate his au thority, which—it can with difficulty be denied on any side—is de facto destroyed (vernichtet). That [authority] will be, in fact, restored, whilst the legal decision [thereon] will be reserved. "This legal decision has hitherto been claimed by the so-called Diet in Frankfort, and all participation on the part of Prussia refused, unless under federal forms. " The same may be said of the Holstein question, in which the Diet desired to negotiate alone with Denmark, and to decide on its propositions in the name of the Diet of Frankfort. " Prussia, however, demanded that in both cases de cisions should be elaborated by a commission, appointed on the one side by Frankfort Governments, and on the other by Prussia, and her allies, and legalised by the as sent r f all German Governments. Prussia already pro posed this mode in regard to Hesse in September, and in regard to the duchies repeatedly; and lastly and for mally, upon the 17th of October. This demand was formerly rejected. It is now admitted by the 2d section of the Ohnutg punctuation.' Thus, that is now ob tained which was denied in September aad October. "In opposition to this admission arises the question of, whether war should ensue on account cf the tern pora:y advance of the troops called in by the Elector? A war, the consequences of which Would be incalcalable—a war carried on by Germans against Germans--a war which certainly, under favourab!e circumstances, wou'd place Prussia at the head of Germany, but which in all cases would weaken and split up Germany, which must be carried on open the soil c f Germany —a war that would annihilate ail Lopes of a peaceful solution to the German constitutional ques• tion, whereas now this peaceful solution is kept in view. The King's Government, after receiving every guarantee for is political and military position, could trot assume - • * c e •LW-1, - • • 4 DECEMBEit isbo. 7, - tsar), to have sec.:rod by eac„ al that the honour and power of Prussia can require. " The state of affairs is now as follows:-- " 1. Generally speaking, the claims of the Diet to an es pule settlement of German questions is abandoned, and attributed to German Governments in common. Preparations for the same are made over to a commis sion equally furnished with full powers by both pa , tles. In this commission Prussia and her allies will take part as a co-legally acknowledged whole, opposed to the v hole of the remaining Governmrnts which have hitherto laid claim to exclusive right of decision. This decision will not be taken either by one side or the other, but by all collectively. Prussia has not demanded more, and more she had no right to demand. " Should the commission, as there is every reason to presume, be composed of men as emiLent and skilful as prudent, then it will offer forlunato means for the pre servation of all rights. if Prussia's allies remain faith ful to her, then their co-operation in carrying out all important questions will be secured. The union of Prussia with them is not abandoned by Prussia. Its abandonment is not demanded by Austria. On the con trary, its existence for general negotiation is practically recognised by tha Olmufa punctuation.' " 2. The assistance of the troops called into Electoral Ilesse by the Elector will not be impeded in the first place in carrying out the same; but the final and legal settlement of the whole affair will no longer rest in the hands of the Diet, but will be referred to a commission to be appointed, representing all German Governments as the sole legal and supreme authority of the Con federation. " 3. In Holstein, it will no longer be a commissary of the Diet who will lay down the law for the land, but, in the first place, Prussian and Austrian commissaries will summons the Stadtholderate to observe conditions which are calculated to preserve the Federal territory from all assault, and which are based on the fundamental laws of the Confederation, and upon the treaty of the 2d of July. "It cannot be justified by the rights of nations that, whilst the Confederation has concluded peace with Den mark, an authority (the Stadtholderate) appointed by the Confederation, should carry,on war outside the Fe deral territory. The demands made upon the Stadthol derate are based upon this principle. The reduction of the army is in the interest of the land, and is, as often times formally declared by the Stadtholderate, of little importance, provided Denmark also reduced (her army), of which there is every prospect. "Should the Stadtholderate reject these moderate de mands, instead of a ono-sided execution on the part of Austria cr the Diet, conjoint measures only can be adopted by Austria and Prussia, relative to which the commission named in section 2 will have to determine. There can arise no danger in this, either to Prussia or to Austria.f" " The fur they settlement of the question will likewise no longer be undertaken ex parte by the Frankfort Govern ment but by all German Governments. Prussia and Aus tria will defend conjointly the rights of the Confederation, as well as those of Holstein. The commission to be ap pointed will, as a committee of the whole of the German Governments, take all preparations and negotiations simultaneously in hand. " The Duchies, as well as foreign powers, may rest assured that this conjoint proceeding of Austria and Prussia will not infringe any just right whatsoever. Prussia, whilst defending the causes of the Duehies, will no longer stand alone in regard to foreign states (dem anslande). A medium has been found, whereby the long denuded action of the whole Confederation can be re stored without Prussia abandoning an thing of its stand. ing point. " This is, generally speaking, and as regards the two burning practical questions, the basis on which rests the Olmutz punctuation.' Upon this basis the Prussian Government thought it might maintain peace, and it opines that it has herein discovered the point of con nexity, when- by, throne h the honourable and well-in tentioned efforts on both sides, this peace can be ensured and a salutary development of German relations ren dered possible. The free conferences are destined for the latter object. These will take place forthwith, and, in fact, according to the desire of Prussia, at Dresden. " Desires have been expressed on divers sides that, prior to the assembling of the same, the bases should be established on which the revision of the Germanic Confederation is to rest. It is regarded by many that the non-determination of this in the Olmutz ' punctua tion' is an omission. " Mature consideration of circumstances will show that this reproach is unfounded. " The meeting at Olmutz, limited by the urgency of the moment, in a few hours could not, from the very nature of the case, have for its object the definition of the basis of a constitution, for the projection of which Germany has two years vainly laboured. It could only be directed to the handling of the burning questions, menacing immediate conflict, and to the decision of whether there should be war or peace." The Frankfurter Gazette states that the Minister of War of Hesse has just recalled to service the greatest part of the soldiers who had been sent away on leave. The Cologne Gazette contains a letter from Cassel of the llth, which says :—" To. day the federal troops which have passed the line of occupation on every point, are to occupy Rotenburg, and the Prince of Toua and Mutts is to fix his head-quarters there." On the afternoon of the sth, the Hotel du Roi de Prusse, at Carlsbad, was surrounded by a detachment of hussars, and immediately afterwards a commissary of police entered the house and arrested a young Frenchman named BOURLENOT, or, according to one account, LABOLAGE, who had arrived from Vienna in the morning of that day. He was immediately placed in a post-chaise, and under the escort of the commis sary set off for Vienna. This arrest caused some sensa tion in Carlsbad. The Cologne Gazette states from Berlin, of the 11th, that M. DE RAUMER has accepted the place of Minister of Worship. General DR Guonow was the day before received in private audience by the KING and PRINCE of Prussia. He is to be charged with a secret mission for the Court of St. Petersburgh. A letter from Vecha of the 10th, in the German Journal of Frankfort, says : • " The gleatess part of the Prussian troops have now evacuated the line of occupation and the frontiers. Ac cording to the new orders, they will not be replaced, or if they are, by only a small body of men." A letter from Hanau of the 11th states that the day before a revolt took place amongst the prisoners in the gaol, in consequence of their trials having been postponed to another session, owing to political events. They did much damage, and it was found necessary to call in some of the troops to restore order. The head of the revolt has been placed in soli tary confinement. A BRITISH RAILWAYS ra;d. Nominal Prices. 80 8 6 8 lON to 11% IY2 I &is, 5% —5% die. 3tl - 1 p. 28 34 2934 27 —2d 8- 9 p 6 % 7 ii P 13 14 0 100 17% 10 -11 78 6 8 74 -76 17% - 18 10% - 10% 5% -5% 16% - 17 13►,4 - 13% —2l die. 6 6 7 8 T RUSSIA. The St. Petersburgh Gazette of the Ist publishes the following ukase, suppressing the customs' line between Poland and Russia : "In cur constant solicitude for the development of commerce and industry, we have judged it advisable, in order to facilitate as much our own commercial relations with the foreigner as those of between cur faithful sub. jects of the empire of Russia and the kingdom of Poland, to publish for both a general tariff of customs' duties, and at the same time to abolish the intermediate customs' line, which has hitherto existed between the empire of Russia and the kingdom of Poland. "We have consequently given our approval to the general tariff drawn np by the kingdom of Poland, and the governor of the Caucasian provinces, and reviewed by the council of the empire and the committee of the Caucasus, and we ordain, while transmitting this tariff to the executive senate: " 1. That this tariff stall come into operation in the empire, as well as in the kingdom of Poland, on and after the Ist (13th) of January, 1851. " 2. The simultaneous abolition of the intermediate customs' line existing between the empire and the king dom, and the introduction into the latter of the Russian customs' administration. "3. The application :of these new duties to such merchandise as shall, on the Ist (13th) of January, remai❑ in the warehouses of Russia or Poland, and shall not have 3 et paid tax, but to apply to such merchandise the old duties, if those of the new tariff are not high enough. " The executive senate will take the measures neces sary tor the carrying out of this ordinance." ITALY. Letters from Rome of the 7th state that the anti- Papist demonstrations in England had created great alarm among the directors of the Obscurantist con spiracy, and that orders had been sent to Cardinal WISEMAN to abstain from taking any further pro ceedings in the matter until the affair should have somewhat blown over. The French garrison is to be diminished to a battalion idthe Castle of St. Angelo, and two battalions at Civita Vecchia. The military posts in the country are to be occupied by Neapoli tan troops. The Tuscan Monitore of the 7th publishes the terms and the ratifications of the postal- treaty lately con cluded between Austria and Tuscany. Besides this treaty, a special fundamental convention has been signed between the two Governments for an Austro- Italian postal league, which all the other Govern.. ments may join. On the 9th the Court of Appeal of Turin acquitted MM. BIANCHI GIOVINI and ROMBALDO, both editors of the Opinione, who had been condemned by the lower tribunals to a fortnight's imprisonment and a fine of 300 francs, for an article on the Roman question, which had been considered insulting to tha POPE. THE LATE WOLVERHAMPTON STEEPLE CHASE.— The veterinary surgeons appointed to examine Vain hope's mouth have declared " that he is five years old." The Rosal West India Mail Steam Paciset Com pany will, we understand, be prohibited by the Government from taking passengers and cargo for Lisbon by their Bra zilian packets, in order that they may not interfere with the trade of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's mail steamers. The object of the Brazilian packets calling at Lisbon is to secure the traffic between Portugal, the Cape de Verds, Madeira, and the Brazils. THE MAIL. FOIL THE CAPE OF GOOD ITOPE.—On the occasion of the dispatch of the first mail for the Cape of Good Hope the people of Plymouth intend to make a grand demonstration by a procession, a grand dinner, &c. 'The corporation of Plymouth and Devonport will iteet the direc tors of the company to which the steamers belong, and pre sent an address. DEATH OF THE ZION. AND REV. ROBERT WILSON. —This lion. and Rev. Gentleman died at Ashwell Thorp Park, Norfolk, on Thursday, in his forty- ninth year. Railways. London and Greenwich Do. preference .. London and N.-Western Do. do. new quarters . Do. fifths .. Do. 10/. sh., 34.&8 (c, London and S.-Western Do. new 50i. Do. new 40/. Do. new preference .. 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. Manchester and Lincoln Union Di idland Do. consolidated pref. • De. 501. shares .. Do. Birming & Derby Do. Consol. Bristol & Birming., 6 per cent. Do. Bristol & Glouces. Do. do. do. • • Do. Erewash Val. pref. Do. Leic. & Swanning. ti per cent. guar. Midland Gt. West. (Ire.), Middlesbro' and Redcar, , 6 per cent. guar. —1 Newcastle and Carlisle.. Do. quarter shares .. Newmarket • • Do. extension scrip Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford • • • • Newry & Enniskillen .. Newry - , Warrenpoint, & Rostrevor • • .. • • Norfolk . - • • .. Do. New 20/. shares.. Do. Extension Do. guar. 5% per cent. Do. Waveney Valley.. Northern Counties Union North British.. .. Do. Preference .. . North Staffordshire North-Western Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton., ,„ Preston and `Pyre „ Do. Halves (A) .. .. 1 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate.. • . Royston and Ilitehin Shepreth Exten... Scottish Central ScAtish Midland Do. new Sarewsbury & Binning. Clas 3 A.. Do. Class 8.. De. New Guarantee.. Shrewsbury & Hereford htewsbury rnd Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Hal,es 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. and River Dun • .. • . Sheft., Roth., and Goole, N. Div., guar.s p cent. Do. do. South Div. .. Swansea 4 . ..; Loughor, &c. Paw Vale Extension 'lames haven Dock and Railway .. Vale of Neath • • . Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick Waterfoid, Wex., Wick., and Dublin .• • • Wear Valley, 6 per cent. Varanteid 1)o. do. Do. do. West tJoniwall Whitehaven and Furness Windsor, Staines, and S. do. . do. . Western .. .. .. Wilts, Somerset, & Wey. month • • • • • • •• York, Newcastle, & Ber wick .. Ditto and Newcastle Extension .. __ ... Ditto G.N.E. purchase or preference .. .. _ •• . .. Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway York and North Midland Do. Preference .. Anglo.ltallan (late Ita ban and Austrian) Boulogne and Amiens • Central of France (Or- leans and Vierzon) Demerara . Dutch Rhenish. East Indian Do. do. do. Great Indian Peninsula.. Ditto ditto .. Louvain ala Sambre .. Luxembourg .. Ditto .. Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege Northern of France .. Orleans and Bordeaux .. Paris and Orleans .. Paris and Rouen .. •• Paris and Strasbourg .. Rouen and Havre . Sambre and Mcuse .. Strasbourg and Basle .. Tours and Nantes.. Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and liasselt • • West Flanders .. • • Australada ............ British North America.. Colonial .... ••..•• • • • • Commercial cf London.. London Joint Stock London and Westminster Notional Provincial Eng. National of Ireland ..., Previncial of Ireland.... Do. New .. •• • • Union of Aus:ralia Union of London Union of Madrid Aberdeen.. .. Do. Preference .. Arnbergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. d uncion Ayrshire and Galloway.. Belfast and County Down Berks and llants Exten.l (Great Western Per petual 5 per cent) 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... Binning., Woiverhamp., , and Stour Valley .. Birkenhead, Lancas., and, Cheshire Junction ••1 Bristol and Exeter.. Buckinghamshire • • • • Caledonian Do. 101. Preference Do. Clydesdale June... Chester and Holyhead Do. Preference .. Clarence • • Do. Ist Class, 6 per ct. Do. 2d de., 5 per cent. Do. Gov. 1.0an,4 pr. ct. Direct Loud. and Portsm. Dublin and Belfast Junct. Dundalk and Enniskillen East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) . . Do. (181. E. & II.) .. Do. (31. 10s.) 6 per cent. Preference Do. (51.) 7 pr. ct. Pref. Do. (71.175.) 7 p. c.Pref. Eastern Counties .. Do. Eaten., 5 percent. No. 1 Do. No. 2 .. Do. New Preference, 6 per cent... Do. North. and East. 6 per cent. .. 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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. 6 p et., No. 3 Do. pref. qrs., 1848 .. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .. . London and Blackwall London, Brighton, and South Coast .. Do. guarteed. 5 per ct., late Croydln thirds.. Do. preference, 5 p ct. Do. preference, couv. 5 per cent., 1852 .. Do. new guaranteed, 6 per cent. .. 3 % - 3 % 2% - 2.4 1% - ix 1 -Ili 36-1 bk; —6% 7% - 7N X 4 3 -514 •• .... .. 31 -32 28 -33 6% - 7 - 15 - 7 - 804 - 87% 57 -GO 57 -60 •• --- .• 12 -14 263 - 27% 11% - 1236 10% -11 129 - 131 .. - . 2% - . 3, •• •••• .. 3 -3% 4 -. 5 15 - Icq 41 -40% 19 -21 • - • • 8 -834 4 3 -44 8 % -19 x 23% 24 1 4 1% —l% din. 2 - 254 8% 8% 16% - 16% 4% —4% di a. 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Nominal Prices. to -day. Anglo•Mexican(ls. 51. p.) 100 Asturian .......... •• • • 15 .. —• • Australian ...... . 4 3 3q Barossa Range ..... 113 0 3% Blaenkrvon iron and Coal 50 • • Bolanos Scrip . ..... • . • • British Iron .• .... 13 5 .. —• • Brazilian Imp. (is. Si. p.) 24% Do. Cocaes and Cniaba 30 3 De. St. John del Rey.. 15 14% —16 X Cobre Copper .• . 40 32% 33% Copiapo • • 5 5 General.. • • 20 13% 13% Real Del Monte, Unreg. X !ti 1)o. Black Debentures.; .• ••• 1)o. Red Debentures .. • • —• • Santiago de Cuba 10 9 Tin Croft 7 16/ I 1 United Mexican........ 28 28% 6X 534 5% % MISCELLANEOUS. Canada .............. 32% 42% —44 Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 26% —27 89g Penh]. & Oriental Steam. 50 89% —9l Royal Mail Steam ...... 60 86% —7O [We cannot be answerable f o r th e errors of the Official LlstS, and Will not be influenced by interested correspondents.] 3IONEY and COMMERCIAL NI CITY,The sales of Cotton atverpo Two o o °' were Saturday estimated at 7,000 bales, of which 1,200 were taken e' speculation. The sales comprised about 5,500 AMer ie l . 200 Bahia, at Bd. to 81(1., 150 EgYpti a n at 8d• t e a 1,000 Sur a t a t sd. to 6i., and 20 Sea Island at to Is. sd. per lb.—ln Railway Shares a large WWl ea was done at higher prices. In the Grai n M ar k et , t hi s morn i ng, th e re has no t be r much doing, and about previous rates have been tained. There are various arrivals from Australia, the C a g e of Good Hope, &c., b u t t h ey d o not gene rally hringl64l news. The political advices from abroad are satisfsotorS and at the principal Stock Markets prices had cd v g; to The Frankfort quotations on the 18th ult. were '" b ' r ee 74 fer Austrian Metallics, and 33 / I for Spani sh - per Cents. a nd By way of Trieste we have accounts from Illw„A' of China in anticipation cf th e ma il. The expert t r e f tt• Bombay and Calcutta was brisk and imp:Alto re digo commanded high prices, sugar was to ac t " fi r m• quest, and saltpetre was sought after. Rico as wore Imports were gettin g b r i s k, as the Indian h o lidaYs nor • over, and the exchanges were favourable. listyed chasers arrived from the upper province, an inP iloal" state of business was anticip a t e d. Freights from bay to London or Liverpool w ere 21. 10s. to a 1 " 9 60 ge The proposal for affording in the Royal cl •og lo bli some better protection to the merchants 00° 3 ce of the area every afternoon has secured the acquiesce:ore a very large pumber of the frequenters, and,the The signed a memorial in furth erance o f the cbJe c- ; o3 ilar Antwerp merchants, it appears, are making a ll have, movement, and it is not unlikely that they 7.,r y being their Exchange entirely co vere d i n , the wes l 7 ; j; inclement. A moveable g l ass roo f m ight P °sl " swer thStpoe uose. The ck rp Market is rather firmer, but still wit; much doing, Consols being 961 to 97 for the o f s. ex dividend. The New Three-and-a-Quarter pe r m 971 have been 98i to 99k, and the Three per O en-. very to 1. Bank Stock has been at 213 to 1 which ar e t . to full rates. The premium on Exchequer ' -bill s is „ 6 - 7 0 - u . -re 685., and on India Bonds, 84s. to 88s. Vl° -11. to $ stance of the transfer-books being closed leads curtailment of business. stal e The Foreign Market is infl uence d mainly by „,--e flrot of the account, whi c h h as t o b e a ' tasted s om e Mexican Bonds have ralli e d, though s ubject 111 3 . a nd fluctuation. For Transfer they have realised 3uirondo 35k, and for the new Account 36i Eva der ."" stoe lt have been 31, and Buenos Ayre s 53. Pert ivi ri e P er has been at 81i 1 to 82i. Spanish .& -v d the Cents. have been quoted 18i to .19 s i ° ha r d Three par Cents. 401. R us sian Bon o ! I flai been marked 1081 to 109. B e l g i an Four-an - ;:eadi per Cents. are 894 to 90. Danish have been at 101. ,sot, The Railway Share Market is extremely i 101°J a r of o and the settlement of the accoun t is all n • -1 ostri prices, as there appears to be a d e terminatio n t 0 int o on the operations for a rise, an d to direct OP" this channel. QUARTER TO TARES• alf• - i ° 4 96 97 0 ••• ••• ••• e r,oo o , IC 4 ~ PRICES OF BRITINII FUNDS O'CLOCK ONE . VI 21 s Bank stock 1 ia. Cent. Reduced Anus A ;iv, ...- N.rcw 3 1 4 per Cent. Ann 5......- ...... 98A 9 9. 4 3 85 p India Bonds, 1,0004__....... — 91 Ditto ender 1,0001.-..... ....... .... 84 88 p Consuls for Account 96% % 97 Exchequer Bill 2. 150. & .2d 0 p 63 P 1,0001. June 64 68 p 0 p 500/. June Small, June 64 68 p PIG Cg co s os. oNE 1 A PRICES OF FOREIGN ruNDs. O'CLOCK. P.- Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 oer Cent.... 53 1 . 014 Danish 80nd5,1825,3 per Cent. .. B,e Do., 5 per cent Equador Bonds mlican, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons--' ?„/,, 860 i 64 Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ... 1% Ditto, Account Peruvian Bonds, Oh per Cent BI:Y4 _ 1 09 Ditto, Account Rissian Bonds o , .. . 108 3 / 4 lu' 18A Ditto, 41 . 4 par Cent S,:anish 5 per Cent. 1840 ....,, Ditto Account ... Consols ... Ditto Account Ditto. 3 per Cent Ditto, Account 4O Venezuela Bonds, 2!, f i, per Cent Ditto Deferred London, Dividends on the above payable in Beligan, 414 per Cent. mach 254 per Cent., 12 Guild. 4 1 I, i f 39 684 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS P '' LONDON, DEC. 14.—Wind S.W. P ile ' BRIDGEWATER, DEC. 14.—Wind S.W., stro ng Se° St. Jo —Arrd. Thom as H an f or d, Di cro ll, % tl Joh n ( Brunswick. dtt° l tcP d FALMOUTH, DEC. 15.—The Eppreir, Mister -ma Leghorn, which p u t i n h ere on the sth of D eeete t leaky, has been surveyed, and is discharging., ~.. hides 1 WESTPORT, DEC. 14.—A large barque. wabas , her 1 and abandoned, sa il s flyi n g adrift, and most ° I o ff rigging gon e , was b oar d e d by the Coast salt° • et rd nod b E y ri b sk er en fu l r sl s a u n m d e on tim th e e , Bth of but ] the she was again ab an d one d. 1 BALLING DEC. 14.—The Coro mandel, of and bo!1° to Liverpool, from Quebec., timber laden , w as picked fii 1 off Eagle Island previous to the 18:h of December, r • carried into B r oadhaven Bay , water-logged an Dweicuedm comingber , off f f r the land ! l derelict, but has since drifted out to sea again. „d e , BELFAST, DEC. 14.—The Earl Grey, from Nevre!'"oo arrived here this afternoon very leaky , havin g bee °,.„,a shore on the Brigg Rocks on the 13th December, assisted off. The Jane, of this port, from LiverposTine Mobile, is still in the Lough; and a great many ~° have put in here wind-bound, names not aicertaine;fir, HARWICH, DEC. 15.—1 t blew a heavy gale a t se' last night, which has continued throughout the noY;',ae companied by heavy rain.—The John Dunn, of been t e b a e st j le e , tu w i a m s a i , n u c f o N nt u a r c t t wbsibthiealdbsr)igla(sstu_pupiogabetd, t t h o e nn e n ijee Light bearing NV.; crew saved, and landed here.,„i e bt . A brig was tot a lly l ost en t h e Gunileet Sand la s ' ~,l'a l ly The Clara Jane, of Sunderland, with loss of bow "ete cutwater, &c , havin been in contact wit h a brt,• loo .. longing to Blyth, wa g s spoken Bth December, off •• • borough Head. About 300 sa il of vessels are h° under the Co c k Sa n d, W S- Ti. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 14 AND 15.--Wind W. tO ' sie —Arrd. Patna, Benson, Sh ang h a i ; Abeona, - fate , Grande; Sobraon, Hetherington, Demerara ; fo ols Leicester, La G u ayr a; Mi rza p ore , Garnock ; i d o va , Sanderson, Wilson, and C anna t a , Tillson, Cs estl 4 Nimrod, Bowers, Fairfield, Hughes, Ferozepore,,, fon Bombay. Lord Elgin, Africa, towed in disci:lo%oloa Waterford; Sultana, Talcah u ano ; Albion , i'''' Jaho Para; R. 1). Shepherd, Davies, New Orlean s li gala' Currier, Charleston; Mary Pleasant, Micbael , , an , jasl l ' mayoo, Savage, Philad e lphi a; N ew World, Xntg""%i. to berton, Williams, William Nelson, Ch ee rer 11 - i J oe, Shepherd, Ainsworth, New York; Anne ar an u ar itiae; Smith, Singapore; British Isles, Robinson, .01,5",00oot Perseverance, Lamb, Rio Grande; Regalia, 1 1 71eat ls; Demerara; Nathaniel Thompson, Murphla New L ia aolit Arlington, Bryan, Essen; Welsh, JO'S; B ° ' - 6rlo ll ' Charleston; Olive, St. John's, New Brunswick} Orton' ditto; Handrost, L e p s ki n , Halifax; Esaela ro lere' Quebec. Off port, M a ri a nne, B om bay; Witw e ha eitle' Old Calabar, Lady F ran klin, N ew Y o rk; Jessi e "- 0 0 ' Put back, Thomas Fielden, for New Orleao ° ° gam Thomas Mellor, Murphy, Pernambuco; Ann , Job be Marauham ; Baltic steamer, Comstock, N,,warorks•opor Queen, from Calcutta, arrived here to-day, lif ter ing the ground outside the lighthouse. p i f 13e g i'. CHATHAM, DEC. 15.—The Sir Robert re- -, • ° ise Off fast, Liverpool to Bombay, foundered in the Cape de Verds on the 9th of September; crew 6 (See Portsmouth paragraph 9th of September.) Liver' PWLLHELI, DEC. 13.—The Star, of Ip swich, to ocid pool, stranded 19th Nov. near this has been place, as she lies. , f V I : BRIDLINGTON, DEC, 13.—The True Br i ton' ye- . mouth, which was on shoreat Fl b rough ileti terday, has been assisted off am ° Ab er ; BERWICK, DEC. 13.—The Plo el of and ft' o ,,,° 3 1 ,, o ff deen ,to Newcastle, struck o u- ' ' 0 r ' e O s ' n the Nave Stoll North Sunderland yesterday, b ecom e y, and has wreck. , a 02 0 :1 0 1 SI RANCIPORD, 10.—A box containing are con l e handkerchiefs,• DEC.* was picked up in Doughty WY' • " B M —A. 422." It was in a perishable state' to /ogl e d ' STRANCFORD, DEC. 11.—Picked up at V °r „, rlte a flurries aced, Cloughey Coast Guard station, a boom, an o ar - f e l oPe it r ' " Mey lin," and a water cask branded " S. 13 ° 1 "Pe e o. ° '-", Liverpool," and on another part " A. Thir OD" aat ette" piece of a large vessel's lower mast and part of r o od with a part of heavy rigging attached to it, ° l '',. for /1 iron chain plate;painttd red, with iron slivq, ive or lower yard, have been brought in here to day' ste adeP sex head of cattle were pas se d outside the bar 9,e P ort' Some large vessel must have foundered near thraytien, PARIS, DEC. 14.—The Marie, Havre to Cal 32 daraoge, which put into Cherbourg, 6th December, "i th vi n eeog ° has been surveyed, and must discharge. The a or Gioberti, Constantinople to Marseilles, has baeo dernned. r fr °° DUBLIN, DEC. 13.—The Albatross steam i t it 10 Liverpool, is aground o ff the Pigeon noo se ' t d i a arag e l expected, will ci me off o n the flood, with out iced up A boat, marked " Urgent, Bristol," has been Pn' at Clower Strand, near Arklow. , ne soa DEAL, DEC. 14.—Wind S.W. to W. strong ' squally. 15. Wind W. to S.W., fresh; glue r. , '" - -.% 'e` .. 1.‘...5. 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