The Sun. — London, England, 1851-01-04 00:00:00

DAILY WEATHER TABL State of the Wind and Weather at each, 4 owing places at Nine o'clock yesterday morni •.4. time are arranged in order of latitude. Yl` PLYMOUTH—Wind N., calm—foggy. T 1 PowrsmouTH—Wind W., calm—rain. ILtsTlNGs—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—rain. SOUTHAMPTON—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—rain. FOLKESTONE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—rain. TUNBRIDGE—Wind N. W., calm—rain. BASINGSTOKE -Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. GREENWICH—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—rain. SWINDON—Wind N., light airs—foggy. OXFORD—Wind N.E., calm—foggy. CoLcHEsrks.—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. ButmtHatt-pt ind W.,_calm— partially cloudy. PETERBOROUGH—Wind N.E., calm—scud. YARMOUTH—.Wind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. lloLyttnaH—Calm cloudless. MA NCHISTEE—Wind N., fresh breeze—overcast. LANCASTER—Wind E., calm—principally clear. WHITBY—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. SHAP—Wind N., gentle breeze—foggy. Catzustx —Wind N.W., gentle breeze—foggy. ElzArrock;-Wind N., gentle bream—principally clear. BERWICK—Wind W.—gentle breeze—cloudless. EDINBURG# —Wind S.W., calm-cloudless. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Thursday morning at nine o'clock : KixosToirg (DvELLN) —Wind W.`. W., gentle breeze— foggy. MULLINGAR—Wind W., calm—overcast. PooLE—Wind W , hard wind—scud, rain. LEIGHTON Wind S.W., heavy gale—overcast. CAMBRlDGE—Calm— foggy. PETERBOROUGH—Wind S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. CoNwAY—Wind W., gentle breeze—cloudless. HOLYHEAD'—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. LEEDS —Wind W., calm partially cloudy. LascAsTEß—Wind S.W., calm—overcast. DAELLwroze—Wind W.N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. SHAY—Wind S., calm—partially cloudy. WHITZHAVX:i Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR. OF EMILIA. WYNDHAM. Immedlate , y, in 3 vols. post Bvo., T I - ItfE, THE AVENGER. By the Author of "Emilia Wyndham," "The Wilmingtons," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlbo-ough-street. Orders received at all the Libraries. • THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. • Lessee and Manager, Mr. James Anderson. The Performances (d precisely Holidays) will commeam at Half past Si. Doors open at Six. THIS EVENING, Will be presented by her Majesty's Servants The Operatic Play of ROB ROY MACGREGOR ; or Auld Lang sync. Sir Frederick Vernon, Mr. Neville ; Rashleigh Osbaldistone, Mr. Cathcart ; Francis Osbaldistone, Mr. Rafter ; Rob Roy Mac gregor Campbell, Mr. Cooper ; Diana Vernon, Miss Nelson ; Helen Macgregor, Mrs. Tertian. After which an entirely New Grand, Historical, Emblematical, AerostaticaL Gastronomical, Metaphorical, Musical, Poetical, Vocal, Municipal, Juvenile, Pantomical Pantomime, by E. Fitzball, 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 Lull 'ina, Private Boxes, U. 35., 2d. 12s. 6d., 21. 25., 11. 11s. 6d., and 1/. 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 Music Warehouse, Regent street ; Chappels, New Bond-street ; Leader and Cocks, 63, New Mood-street ; Ransford and Co., New Bond-street ; and Bailey and Moon, Carlton Library. 12, Regent-street. Stalls, ss. each. First Price—Dress Circle, Is. Od. ; Boxes, 45. ; Pit. 2s. 6d. ; Lower Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d.. Second Price at Nine o'Clock—Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 25.; Pit, Is. Gd. No Half-price to Upper or Lower Galleries. The Box-office open from 11 till 4. It is respectfully intimated that seats in the Boxes cannot be reserved after the First Act of the Play. IILKATICE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THE 4 EVENING, . _ Will be performed EVERY ONE HAS HIS FAULT. Lord Norland, Mr. Rogers ; Sir Robert Ramble, Mr. Davenport ; Solus, Ruckstone ; Placid, Mr. Howe ; Irwin, Mr. Stuart ; Lady Elinor, Mrs. Warner; Mrs. Placid, Miss P. Ilorton ; Miss Wooburn, Mks Rey colds. 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. Fitzwilliam, Miss P. Berton, 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 G RAY. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Boyce, 0. Smith, P. Bed , 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, 31Iss Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Miss K. Fitzwilliam, Madame Celeste, &c. _ _ To Conclude with THE MARRIED BACHELOR, supported by Messrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, 0. Smith ; Mesdames Celeste, Wool gar, Chaplin, Fitzwilliam, and Collins. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock, Mr. C. Kean ; Portia, Mrs. C. Kean. 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. Flexmore ; Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and Columbine, Miss Carlottl Le Clercq. Private Boxes, ?cc., to be had of an the Booksellers, and of Mr. Massingham ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office, Oxford-street, from Eleven till Fear o'clock. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame VestriS. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE HANDSOME HUSBAND Attu 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, Horncastle, Suter, Bellingham, and Honner ; Madame Vestris, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Ellis, Mrs. C. Horn, Miss St. George, and Miss Martindale. To conclude with THE RINGDOYES, in which Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, Basil Baker, Mrs. F. Matthews, and Miss M. Oliyer will appear. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Farren. THIS EVE SING, Will be performed A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS, sup ported by Messrs. G. V. Brooke, W. Farren, Leigh Murray, Comp ton, Diiidear, W. Farren, jun. ; Mesdames Leigh Murray and Adams To conclude with PRINCE DORUS ; or, The Romance of the Nose, in which Messrs. 11. Farren, Campton, Shalders, W. Farren, jun.. Cooke ; Mesdames Louisa Howard, Ellen Turner, and Madlle. Adele will appear. ASTLEY'A ROYAL AMPLIITLIEATRE. Under the Patronage o 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 KENNILVI (MTH ; 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, also, for the first time in England, M. Ghelia, with his three highly-trained Steeds, M. Nicolo Plige, the great Barrel Equilibrist, and the Bro th crs 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 be entitled HARLEQUIN AND O'DON OGHUE ; or, The White Horse of Killarney. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. HMG WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE Ta►' DAY —Morning 3 min. after 3 I Evening 23 min. after 3 To-n.f °Rif:ow—Morning 39 min. after 3 I Evening 55 min. after 3 TIIE WEATHER —Sux OFFICE, JANUARY 4. THERMOMETER, IN THE Slums. 4i—highest since noon yesterday. 33—lowest-this morning and during the night. 45—this day, at noon. BAROME'rEV., 29-86. Win SM.—light airs and fine weather. gi> • hq ---2 :>•:‘ .0e.4 Ii" - • 4 1V 4.,.:7; :1%7; 7 „, • ' • • 60 0 ,•1 • •"1 ' • A \, TT 1 01,T. 4 ' . • at° Otttnina 4149.0' LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1851. • This is the season of the year when the labour of the Fiscal and Financial Reformers can be most beneficial, and it therefore behoves them to exhibit increased activity and energy in exposing the evils of the moat obnoxious imposts, so that the voice of pub lic opinio n may make itself heard within the recesses of Downing-street, and that the pressure from with out may be brought to bear upon a Ministry proverbially mad e of " squeezable materials." By this time the Chancellor of the Exchequer is enabled to form a pretty fair estimate of the national income and expenditure for the coming year, and to calculate with some degree of accuracy the amount which he can apply to the alleviation of Use public burdens by the remission or reduction of taxation. fie is already consideri ng the particular imposts which he can afford to dispense with, or the nature of the additional outlay which he may be pre pared to sanction. It is, therefore, a matter of the utmost importance that his attention should be forcibly directed to those fiscal grievances which constitute evils of no ordinary magnitude, not only to persons in any degree interested in any manu facture, trade, or calling, but to the community in general, as affecting its physical or moral health. We know by sad experience, the brick-dust budget afford ing a melancholy illustration, how Sir CHARLES WOOD would be inclined to act if left altogether to himself. We could hope for but little, if any, relief at the hands of " the model Minister of Fin ince," who has perhaps succeeded more perfectly than any man of modein times in d:vesting himself of all considerations of equity or policy, so far as matters of taxation are concerned, whose motto appears to be "non. nununus ;" for provided an impost brings in a handsome sum to the revenue, he is utterly indifferent as to its justice or expediency. All persona therefore who hope to at tain any b e neficial result during the approaching ses sion must depend altogether on their own vigorous and energetic exertions, and on a combined and organized agitation for the attainment of their object. The advocates for the abolition of the paper duty are, we rejoice to say, at length bestirring themselves, in order to bring the incalculable evils of this the most nefarious of the iniquitous imposts of the in famous Excise fully before the public mind, and to * " Patentable Invention and Scientific Evidence : with an Introductory Preface." By William Spence, &c., &c. Bvo., pp. 102. V. and R. Stevens and G. S. Norton. London : 135 l. THE SUN, obtain the general assent to the immediate remission of this the most objectionable of the " taxes on know ledge" and of the " taxes on industry ;" for the paper duty is a tax "both on knowledge and on industry. By increasing the price of books, of newspapers, and other periodicals, it "impedes the progress of knowledge and the educa tion of the people," and necessarily so, because it limits and confines the demand ; and, therefore, as a naturally consequence contracts the supply. And unfortunately it is the most useful and instructive publications that are practically prohibited from appearing by this intolerable burden. The progress of works mainly directed to the popular improvement, and combining instruction with amusement, is necessarily slow, and the pay ment to the contributors is assessed on a very different scale from that of a great portion of the cheap trash that is circulated throughout the country. Some persons contend that it is this latter class of publications that would derive the chief benefit from the change ; but we totally deny the assertion, and boldly join issue as to the fact. If there were a greater proportion of really good as well as cheap periodicals such as Eliza Cook's Journal, Household Words, and others of a similar description, we should see less of works that pave a demoralizing tendency, and which are only tolerated because the taste of the less wealthy classes has not as yet been sufficiently elevated to turn with disgust and loathing from the filthy garbage provided for their intellectual food. It is not " the Holywell-street" school of literature that would flourish by the reduction of the cost of the raw material for the manufacture of books ; on the contrary, we are fully convinced that that which may be considered the scandal and reproach of the country would receive " a heavy blo w and great discouragement" by the alteration. But it is not merely the amount of the duty which falls with greatly increased force upon the consumer, who has to pay a series of profits to all the interme diate bands through which the article passes, not only on the cost of production, but on the duty paid to the Government, that is the most objection able result of the tax. There are a number of the most vexatious regulations established by the Excise in order to insure the punctual payment of the duty, that seriously injure the manufacturer, and which must necessarily be taken into account in regulating the price of the article. Nets are spread at every stage to entrap the unwary into ruinous penalties. The paper must be labelled" and marked in a peculiar manner, and must remain on the hands of the manufacturer a greater time than is necessary for purchasing the rags of which it is made, bringing them to the mills, working them up, and sending them to market. All these things have most injurious consequences, and prevent the extension of the manufacture of an article the whole cost of which would be expended in labour. It also acts as a practical prohibition to the manufacture of papier macho articles, which might otherwise afford a source of employment to the unfortunate semp stresses, whose miserable condition excites our heart felt sympathies. On the whole, of all the obnoxious imposts demanding the immediate attention of Par liament, there is perhaps none having so many claims to its favourable consideration as the " paper duty," which we earnestly hope and believe will be abolished during the approaching session. Participating, as we have done ourselves, from its very commencement, in the earnest requirement of changes in the patent law of the United Kingdom— we are, nevertheless, anything but averse to listen to the arguments of a dissentient to our eagerness for improvement. Such an opponent to the present agitation we find in the author of a very able and temperate essay recently published on the subjects of "Patentable Invention and Scientific Evidence." An opponent we call him, because he himself chooses to be so designated; although, according to our thinking, we see in him no opponent at all, but rather one with whose opinions upon the question of Patent Law Reform ours coincide entirely. What Mr. SPENCE endeavours to deprecate with all the emphasis of a deliberate and unimpassioned judgment is that hasty and blundering legislation which has already so very frequently blurred the statute-books of this realm of England. Against all such precipitate and ill-con sidered interference with the law as it at present stands, we are as energetically inclined as himself—anxious as we must ever continue to preserve in their full integrity those great fundamental principles upon which has been built up the fabric of the constitution. Our, essayist premises at the very outset of his argu ment that he entertains a rooted " conviction of the paramount importance of treating patent law re form as a question relating to change of practice, rather than of essential law, believing the settled points to involve a body of legal doctrine amply suffi cient for adaptation by intelligent minds to the cases likely to arise." The declaration is significant enough and debateable enough we cannot still help believing, when we remember the abuses which are every day arising out of these very boasted doctrines. Fully du we agree with Mr. SPENCE at the same time in re probating the mischievous alterations made by in competent legislators in the laws built up origi nally with so much profound premeditation—assent ing :heartily .to the view taken by Sir EDWARD COME of most defective Acts of Parliament, namely, that their inefficiency in securing equitable,decisions arise in almost every instance from the fact of their being "overladen with provisoes and additions, and many times and on a sudden penned or corrected by men of none or very little judgment in law." No doubt this is the radical secret of the flaws and blottings of our statutes; and against the multiplication of such lamentable innovations every imaginable precaution should of course be taken. Yet, at the same time we should shun the growth of that equally pernicious timidity which may be inspired by a dread of these erro neous interpolations. Hardihood and decision are chief qualities requisite for the severing in twain of the stubborn laws afflicting the community. Remember those words recorded in Roman history as having been pronounced by the Augur when the KING told his dream about the flint-stone, —" Take up thy knife and cut boldly 1" So it must always be if we are to hope for wholesome reforms in our legislation. The ingenious essay to which we would here direct the attention of all those who are in any way interested in Patent Law improve. ments, though assuming to itself the air of a moderator of the present excitement, is in reality a most powerful auxiliary in forwarding the movement in behalf of the proposed innovations. It treats exclusively of first principles, and hence is, perhaps, the more welcome to the conscientious advo cate of the intended change, seeing that their argu ments have hitherto been almost entirely restricted to the evil consequence of the law referring to patent able inventions. " The present work," therefore, as the author himself avows, " does not interfere with the books already written relating to patents, but rather suggests points which may as sist in making them understoood." It may be regarded, in fact, as a kind of illustrative sequel or companion to the two important works upon patent cases produced, the one by Mr. WEBSTER and the other by Mr. CABPMAEL. As a labourer in the same intellectual field with those writers, Mr. SPENC E deserves to be welcomed with all earnestness, the more especially, perchance, from the circumstance of his venturing upon t h e cons ideration of the su bj ec t at a peri o d SO peculiarly opportune. His " proposals as ,to i m p roved practice in ion —are relation to scienti fi c ervidencer--forming the principal part of his lucubra tion —are scrutiny. peculiarly deserving of a careful and knowledges, " may occur A he ac that they would increase expense e u b r to some minds " n objection," the number ei witnesses at each trial ; " Y inere"ing but, he continues, 6 ' one answer to this i., that the arrang ement woul d ten d to lessen the gr oun d s f or new trial s first one more compl e t e than making the heretofore." To the cogency and reasonableness of the reply whatever can be said in objectio n . With asomew thi h a ng larger outlay at the comm encement, an ultimate method of t economizing in the end would be secured, Another sentence oecurring in the Introductory Preface is especially deserving of attention : it is this—" Patents," says Mr. SPENCE, "for a shorter term than fourteen years may be granted as the law stands, and the question of fees may be regulated by LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, competent authority." An opinion connected with the latter point, and impressed upon the mind of the reader quite as emphatically, mey be found articu lated further on in the body of the essay, to the effect that " the one realm ought to be covered by one patent." As we have already intimated, the reason which has produced the volume here referred to is a dread lest the present fervid agitation in behalf of patent law reform may result in some unfor tunately hasty and ill-judged innovations. As Mr- SPENCE himself explicitly observes at the very opening of his undertaking—"l am indeed anxious that per manent principles should not be sacrificed through any temporary feeling of excitement for the present un wholesomely stimulated by the prospect of the Great Exhibition." How far the excitement is unwhole somely stimulated by the advent of the Exhibition we cannot at all conjecture ; but in Mr. SPENCERS solici tude that "permanent principles should not be sacri ficed" we cordially sympathise. One of the happiest expressions contained in the whole of this luminous essay occurs where the author remarks that " a patentable invention," although according to the term of the original statute " a manufacture," is yet at the same time "an embodied principle." Altogether the work here commended to popular attention is one di!playing very large ability and an intimate knowledge of the subject treated of by the essayist. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Assembly met on Thursday, but, contrary to general expectation, no allusion was made to the New Year's-day scene at the Elysee. It was expected that General CAVAIGNAC and M. VICTOR LEIRANC would have addressed interpellations to the Minister on the subject, but after a conference with M. DUPIN it was determined to postpone the interpellations. There was a rumour circulated in the lobbies of the Assembly, that M. BAROCIIE had resigned the Ministry of the Interior; the Patrie, however, declares that it is totally without foundation. We yesterday gave from the Constitutionnel the Bonapartist version of the scene between MM. BONAPARTE and DUPIN on New Year's•day, we now give M. Dun N's version from the Journal des Debats "The rumours which have been circulated relative to the visit of M. Dupin to M. Louis Napoleon on New Year's-eve, which made that event one of great polii ieal gravity, have since lost much of their importance, or, to say the truth, the importance has almost entirely disap peered. In the first place, there was nothing of au offi cial character in the speeches, nor was the interview of that serious kind fur which one might imagine that both parties had prepared themselves; it was in reality a merely friendly visit, and the Conversation, which only lasted two or three minutes, was' carried on in such a low tone that not more than eight or ten persons could have heard it. This fact once stated, it will be under stood that we by no means pretend to give textually the words which were made use of on either side; but, nevertheless, according to our private information, and assisted by the recital given by several journals, we think we may guarantee the almost perfect exactitude of the following account, but at all events, we can vouch for its being the spirit of that conversation. Speaking, not in the name of the Assembly, nor even in that of the bu reau, but in his own, M. Dupin commenced by saying— ' Monsieur le President, I hope the new year may be a happy one for you, for France, and for us all.' " Monsieur le President,' replied the President of the Republic, I accept your wishes with pleasure, and lam persuaded that they are sincere. It is so important that the good harmony of the powers should not be dis turbed in the difficult times through which we have to pass.' Nothing is more desirable,' replied M. Dupin, and personally I have always done all that depends on me to maintain that good understanding, because without that welfare is impossible. The legislative power has no thing to gain from weakening the executive, and the ex ecutive power can only lose by attempting to weaken the legislative.' " Both you and I,' said M. Louis Napoleon, ought each within the limits of our attributions to seek to make the laws of the country and the authority given us by the Constitution respected without encroachment of one power on the other. I care nothing about the prolonga tion of my powers, but I am anxious that when I restore to the people the power which I received from them, it should be intact and respected. My conviction is that France desires peace and order, and she would consider the one of the two powers which should attack the other as in the wrong.' " I am entirely of that opinion,' replied M. Dupin, I think that the aggressors would be wrong, and expe rience has proved that he who would advance one step would be obliged to retreat four.: " Such is the truth, as exact as possible, of this con versation, which is creditable to both sides." The Legitimatist and Orleanist journals all echo the statement of the Dibats that the visit of M. DUPIN and the officers of the Assembly was not in their official, but in their private capacity. This is evidently the mot d ordre of the Inubbed ones, but it will hardly do, seeing that they were introduced as a deputation from the National Assembly. , Several of the journals of the Majority declare that the PRESIDENT will never have another opportunity of repeating the insult of New Year's-day, as neither M. LUPIN nor any member of the Bureau will again enter the Elyeee, neither will any more deputations present-congratulations to him. The Evenement says : _ _ _ " M. Dupin has been scurvily received by the Presi dent of the Repvblic. It is well. NV hat business had he at the Elyso4.l? Why did the Bureau of the Assembly go to the residence of M. Louis Bonaparte? Is not the Assembly a sovereln power? Is it inferior to the President that it should put itself out of the way to seek him? We are not aware that it ever en joined M. Dupin to drag its Members through the ante-chambers of the Elysese. If he went, it could only be because he himself chose to do so ; be, probably, was not sorry to soothe, by a visit of humiliation, the irritation which his conduct in the affair of Allais may have produced, and to conciliate those on whom the fate of the Procureur-General of the Court of Cessation depends. On this point, we would ask whether it is proper that the man who has the honour of presiding over the National Assembly of France should at the same time hold an office which places him in the power of the Government? Is it not an inconceiv able contradiction that the personage who in himself represents the Parliamentary Sovereignty should be at the same time the subordinate of a Minister whom a Parliamentary vote can dismiss? M. Dupin is the equal of M. Bonaparte and the subordinate of M. Rouher." The Siicle, alluding to the resignation of M. Yon, says :—" The resignation was accepted by the Bureau of the Assembly in terms highly honourable to M. Yos. You offer your resignation,' it is said to have replied, ' but it gives you a greater right to our esteem and to our confidence. You will retain your post until we shall have officially replaced you.' But will M. Yon be replaced ? Could he be so usefully for the Assembly in the state of things which the Prefect of Police has created ? Is not the office henceforth inefficacious? These questions are, it is said, to be the subject of mature consideration by the Bureau. In accepting in such terms the resignation of M. YON, the Bureau, it must be admitted, has done everything which suited the energy of the majority." M. FREDERIC BASTIAT, the celebrated political economist, died at Rome on the 24th ult. The Bourse was agitated and public securities de clined. The Five per Cents. opened at 95f. 30c., fell to 941. 50c., and closed at 94f. 75c.; the New Loan closed at 94f. 70c. ; the Three per Cents. closed at 561. 75c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 860 f. ; Rouen, 6721. 50c.; Havre, 2671. 50c.; Great Northern, 480 f.; Avignon, 192 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 401 f. 25c. ; Basle, 136 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 400 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 353 f. Tsc. BUSINESS DUNE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 3. Boulogne and Amiens, 9—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), I6 l 4—East Indian,l2—Luxembourg, 2%—Namur and Liege, 8. 1 / 4 —Northern of France, 15 1 ,x—Orleans and Bordeaux, 4 ex div.—Paris and Rouen, 27 1 4—Rouen and Havre, 114—Sambre and Meuse, 3 1 / B —Tours and Nantes, 6!4. sitting by reading a programme, which explained the views of the Imperial Court seith respect to the *re% the grounds, and the starting point (anTangs pent) of the present negotiatiens. (This programme las been already communicated to the public.) The con• elusion of the discourse of Prince Schwartzenberg gave M. Beust, the Saxon Plenipotentiary, an opportunity, not only in the name of his Majesty the King of Saxony, but of the Government, to express his thanks for the high honcur conferred on the city by making it the place where the conferences are held. The Saxon Government felt itself in consequence so much the more obliged to promote councils of peace; the choice of Dresden for a meeting place seemed to betoken an auspicious result; it was the city where traces of those unhappy days remained in which enthusiasm fur the unity of Germany contracted elements of disorder; and was now the place of assembly for men who were called upon to banish those destructive elements out of our German Fatherland, and to restore it to peace and har mony. This seemed to be quite providential. The Prussian Minister Manteuffel followed (his speech is already communicated). M. von Pfortden expressed thanks for the honour done by the invitation, as a now proof of the friendly feeling that subsisted between the members of the Bund, and their anxiety for the welfare of the Fatherland. He thought, speaking in the name of the Bavarian Government, that the conferences shculd begin their sittings with this resolution, and only so far to regard the past as they might draw lessons from it for the advantage of the fu ture; in every other respect to banish it into oblivion, in order that, by an harmonious co-operation, they might lay the foundation of a work whereby the real wants of the present time might be satisfied, and the welfare, peace, and power of Germany might be established for a durability through future ages. Thereby all the prin ciples of order, and especially the monarchic4l principle, would be strengthened; at the same time, however, gua rantees, which the age demanded, should be given for the full enjoyment of civil freedom. In this spirit the Assembly might address themselves to their task with joy ful hopes of success. Upon this Prince Schwartzenberg rose and said—You will all, gentlemen, be satisfactorily convinced, from the foregoing declara tion, of the perfect agreement of sentiment that pre vails among us. The 3d and 4th articles of the Vienna treaty declare the Diet (Bundesacte) to be the fundamental convention, and the first fundamental laws of that established union, and confer on the collective members of the Bund the authority to develop and carry out that establishment in any manner that the objects proposed may make necessary. As we have to deal with the development, completion, and amelioration—in a word, with a revision of the'firat fundamental laws of the Bund, there will be, as I have had the honour already to declare, at once the base and the starting point of our delibera tions. With respect to the form of our proceedings, those observed in the year 1820, by the plenipotentiaries of all the German Governments, having the same objects that we have now, recommend themselves to our adop tion. I take leave, however, to recommend the forma tion of committees (sectionern) for the consideration of points which may be afterwards referred to the whole Assembly; and with respect to their powers, a friendly understanding is to be preferred to a formal voting and scrutiny. It would be, perhaps, most convenient if the plenipotentiaries will so far confide in Austria and Prussia, that these powers should draw up a plan for the composition of these committees, which can be laid before the Conference at their next meeting, after the Christmas adjournment. Besides these committees, ano ther should be formed for the drawing up of the protocols. And I now propose M. Thierry as president of this section, in the hope of meeting with an unanimous consent to this proposition. With respect to the verification of powers I would request the Saxon plenipotentiaries to undertake this task, and then tc make a report of the result. It only remains to me, now, gentlemen, to call your attention to this point ; that it would not only be beneath the dig nity of the high Assembly, but might compromise the important purposes for which we met, if the transac tions which here take place should be known to the pub lic press, as they would thereby become the subject of newspaper polemics; and, under such circumstances,our deliberations would be subjected to the judgment of the multitude. We should, therefore, be particularly careful to observe a strict secrecy with respect to all that may be said or done here. Towards our respective Govern ments the same secrecy should be maintained. The following is the list of the various committees with the objects of deliberation referred to each : " Committee No. 1, ten members.—States—Austria in the chair), Prussia, Bavaria, Saitony, Wurtemberg, Hanover, both Hesses, Frankfort, Saxe-Weimar.—Ob jects of deliberation—Organization of executive power, territorial questions connected with Arts. 1,4, 5,6, 7,8, 9 of Acts, and 6,* 7,8, 9 of concluding Acts. " Committee No. 2, nine members.—States—Prussia (chair), Austria, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Baden, Strelitz, Schwerin, Holstein, Bernberg.— Objects of deliberation Supreme Federal organ; relation of the Confederation to individual States, and of these one to the other; Arts. 7, 10, 11, 13 of Acts, and 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 65 of conclud ing Acts. 71 Committee No. 3, ten members.—States—Bavaria (chair), Austria, Prussia, Saxony, Hanover, Wurtem berg, Baden, Coburg, Hamburg, Oldenburg.—Objects of deliberation—Commerce, customs, navigation, and all material interests; Arts. 6 and 19 Acts, 64 concluding Acts. " Committee No. 4, seven members.—States—Saxony (chair), Hanover, Nassau, Brunswick, Bremen, Schaum burg—Objects of deliberation—Judicial matter; Arts. 20 and 24 concluding Acts. "Committee No. 5, four members.—States—Hanover (chair), Prussia, Saxony, Sixe bleiningen.—Objects of deliberation Arrangement of minutes or protocol, which, as already known, is placed under the direction cf Baron Thierry as protocolist." Accounts have been received from Cassel to the Ist. The Prussians are greatly irritated at the manner in which the. Austrian commissioner in Hesse, Prince DE LEININGEN, is proceeding ; he, it appears, gives orders and publishes proclamations and decrees with out, having any communication with the Prussian commissioner, General DE PEUCKER, or allowing his name to appear. As might have been expected under the semi-bar barian rule of the Red EMPEROR, anarchy, robbery, and violence, are the order of the day at Cane!, and murder and woman-flogging will follow in due course as they did in Hungary, the Hessian HATNAU being nu doubt anxious to emulate the fame of his more notorious brother. A permanent court-martial is established. Major- General SCHIRMER, of the Hessian army, has been appointed to the command of Cassel. Frequent arrests are taking place, and the refractory citizens are subjected to corporal punishment. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The Precurseur of Antwerp contains a letter from Cologne of the Ist, stating that the Prussian and Austrian Commissioners to the Duchies are to demand an immediate submission. Should this be refused, Prussia and Austria are to act in concert to bring them into subjection, Prussia occupying Ham burgh, and a force, composed of equal numbers of Austrians and Prussians, proceeding to take fictive measures in the Duchies. On entering the Duchies the Commissioners, Count M. MENSDOEFF POUILLT and General DE THORNE; will issue a proclamation, announcing the precise terms of their mission. A letter from Copenhagen states that the law to abolish lotteries on and after January 1 was pro mulgated on the 22d ult. The Commission sent by the Government to examine the mineralogical condi tion of the Danish colonies in Greenland has dis covered at Julianahaab a copper-mine, yielding 66 per cent. of pure metal. TilE SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS Railways. Paid. .80 8 6 8 13 14 0 178 6 8 25 50 25 15 1 1 8 6 8 23 100 12% 50 11 13 4 Nonthial ?ricos. Business d one to-day. % dls. 10% % % 47% 100 23% 11% 100 H 100 12 15 4 20 100 100 42% 4 2 0! 134 % GM 34 11 10% 19 124 % 29 16 0 1830 U 7 6X 7 11X 12X 100 47 34 79 1 4 71% 34 58% 57% 4 % M 3 % % 3 2 12 0 •X 9 SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 28th ult. hare a rrived. The Gageta publishes the treaty of friendship and commerce concluded between the Shah of PERSIA and the Queen of SPAIN. The treaty was signed at Constantinople so long ago as the 4th March, 1842, during the Regency of ESPARTERO, but it was only ratified by the Queen of SPAIN on the 20th May, 1850, and the ratifications were not exchanged until the ] 3th November last. The Duke of Lucca, who is an Infante of Spain, was expected in Madrid in the course of a few days. On the 28th, the discus sion in the Cortes was on the application for leave to levy the taxes in the interim of the budgets. The Minister of Finances defended himself with great talent against some attacks of the Opposition, and was much cheered by the majority. General NARYAEZ, who had been unwell, had quite recovered, and presided as before his illness at the Cabinet Councils. MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 28.—The Three per Cents., 354.; Five per Cents., 12k. Exchange on London, 50 60 paper. GERMAN Y. Pi ince SCHWARTZENBILRG arrived at Dresden on the morning of the 31st ult., but was not accompanied by the Prussian Minister AIANTEUFFEL, who was to remain at Berlin until after the opening of the Prus sian Chambers on the 3d. The following is the official protocol of the sittings of the Conference of the 23d December : PROTOCOL OF TIIE MINISTERIAL CONFERENCES HELD AT DRESDEN, IN TuE BEMIL PALACE , DEC. 23, 1850 . " Accordi ng to the invitat i ons i ssue d from Austria and Pru ss i a to the collective members of the Cirman Build on the 12 t h inst., to send plen i potentiar i es to a Ministerial conference to be opened at Dresden, on this day were assembled at the Brhul Palace (here follow the 'allo). The Prince of Schwartzenberg opened the TURKEY. A letter from Constantinople of the 15th ult., states that in order to compensate for the loss of the Nehri Shevket man-of-war, which blew up some time ago, great activity is displayed in preparing to launch the Mahmudie of 142 guns, the Peiki-Messeret of 94 guns, the Sheid•Sadb steam-frigate of 16 guns, and two sailing frigates, one of 54, and the other of 62 guns. It is said that they will be afloat in the course of two months. The officers of the Turkish navy are receiving daily instruction under the direction of Captain SLADE. The letter adds that the SULTAN has issued a firman granting the same privileges to the Anglican Church as those enjoyed by the Roman Catholio creed. DEATH OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL TO THE FORCES. It is our painful duty to state that the fears we enter tained (in our First Edition) of this gallant officer's ap proachiag dissolution have been too soon verified. Sir Willoughby Gordon died this morning at a quarter before eight. The deceased officer entered the service in 1783, and obtained his Lieutenant-Colonelcy on the 21st of May , 1801; Full Colonel of 1810; Major-General, 1813; Lieut. . General,lB2s ; General in 1841; and was apposntedColonel of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusileers on the 23d of April, 1823. In 1 - '93, he served in Lord Hood's fleet as a volunteer, at the siege of Toulon, and was present at the taking of the French when they landed at Bantry Bay in 1796. As Lieutenant-Colonel of the 85th Light Infantry, he took possession of and occupied Madeira. As early as 1812, the Duke of Wellington appointed him Quartermas ter-General to the forces in the Peninsular, and he was with the British army at the capture of Madrid, at Bur gos, and the subsequent retreat to Portugal. As Colonel Gordon the deceased rendered essential ser vice to his late Royal highness the Duke of York, and was mixed up in the discussions and the proceedings in relation to Mrs. Clarke. During the Parliamentary inquiry into the Army expenditure and organization, sine tiftt en years ago, it was decided that the office of Quartermaster-General, was unnecessary; but the office was nevertheless; continued. Looking at the tone of the larrst inve,tigation of the Select Committee, it is not improbable that the office, dying with Sir Willoughby Gordon, will not be re.uwed. Sir Willoughby was much Pstet med for his urbanity and soldier like quali ties, and was a valuable colleague of his Grace the Duke of Wellington.— United Service Gazette. Everybody ha s his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, proprietor, playwright, scene-shifter, box keeper, door-keeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain. —Eliza cook's Journal. LORD DALMENY.—W e (Scotsman) have much pleasure in learning that his Lordship, who, as we mentioned in our last, had been attacked with pleurisy, while at Dal meny Park, is greatly better, and is considered by his medi cal attendants to be going on favourably. Aberdeen • . Do. Preference • • • • Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juncion Ayrshire and Galloway • • Belfast and County Down Berke and Rants Eaten., (Great Western Per- petual 5 per cent ) Birmingham and Oxford Junction, calls duly paid, or with a guar...l Do. without a guar... Birming., Wolverhamp-' ten, and Dudley, calla duly paid, or with a, guarantee .. • • • . Dc'. without a guar... Binning., Wolverhamp., and Stour Valley Birkenhead, Laneas., and Cheshire Junction • • Bristol and Exeter.. • Buckinghamshire • • • • Caledonian .. • DJ. 10/. Preference .. Do. Clydesdale June... Chester and Holyhead .. Do. Preference .. Clarence .• Do. Ist Class, 6 per et. Do. 2d de., 5 per cent. Do. Gov. Loan,4 pr. ct. Direct Lond. and Portsm. Dublin and Belfast Junct.l Dublin and Kingstown.. 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 per.cent. No. I .. .. .. Do. No. 2 .. .. .. Do. New 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, guaran. 6 per cent. .. .. East Lancashire .. .. Do. New quarters .. Do. 6 per cent. pref. quarter shares.. .. East Lincolnshire, gua. 6 - percent - • • • • • • Edinburgh and Glasgow Edin., Perth, 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 et. 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. . Great Western .. • • Do. Nov, 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. fit ths . Do. P. 20/. .. Do. new, guaranteed 6 per cent. .. .. .. DO. Pludders. & 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. 6 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.. De. preference, 5 p Ct.l Do. preference, cony. per cent., 1852 .. DO. new gUaranteed, 61 per cent. .. London and Greenwich . Do. preference .. London and N.-Western Do. do. new quarters . Do. fifths Do. 101. eh.. 31.&B (c) London and S.-Western . Do. new 50/. Do. new 40/. .. Do. new preference .. Londonderry & Coleraine Do. half shares Lowestoft, guar. 4 per ct. Do. do. 6 per cent. .. Londonderry and Ennis killen... .• Do. half shares • • .. Manchester, Buxton, and, , . Matlock .. .. Blanchester, Sheffield, Lincolnshire • . Do. quarters, No. I Do. new, 101. preference De, 61. Preference .. Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union ali idland • • . • • . Do. consolidated pref. Do. 501. shares .. . DO, Birming & Derby Do. Consol. Bristol & Birming., 6 per cent. Do. Bristol & Glouces. Do. do. do. • • Do. Erewash Val. pret. Do. Leic. & Swanning. 8 per cent. guar. .. Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) Middlesbro' and itedear, 6 per cent. guar. .. Newcastle and Carlisle.. Do. quarter shares .. P ewmarket • • .. .. Do. extension scrip • • Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford . • • • Newry & Enniskillen .. Newry, Warrenpoint, & Rostrevor • • .. • • Norfolk .. .. .. .. Do. New 20/. shares..l Do. Extension .. t.o. guar. 5% per cent. Do. Waveney Valley.. Northern Counties Union North British Do. Preference • . North Staffordshire North-Western .. • • Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. • . Preston and Wyre Do. Halves (A) .. • • Reading, Guildford, and • lZeigaie.. • • . • • . Royston and Malin .. Shepreth Exten.• • Scottish Central .. Scottish Midland .. .. Do. new . Sarewsbury & Birming. Clasi A.. •• Do. Class 8.. • . .. Do. New Guarantee.. Shrewsbury & Hereford Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. 31in.) Do. Halves Do. Oswestry Do. New.. _ Do. 8 per cent. Pref. . Shropshire Union .. .. South Devon .. Do. Preference .. .. South Staffordshire .. South-Eastern .. .. Do. do. 4)6 per cent South Wales.. .. South Yorksh. and.Riverl Dun Sheri., Roth., and Goole, N. Div., guar. 5 p cent. Do. do. South Div. • • Swansea & Loughor, &c., raw Vale Extension •• rharnes Haven Dock and Railway .• • • Vale of .Neath .. • Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick Waterford, Wex., Wick., and. Dublin •• Wear Valley, 6 percent. guaranteed .. Do.. do. do. .. Do. do. do. West t e 'ornwall •• Whitehaven and Farness Windsor, Staines, and Western .. • • .. Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth • • . • • • • • York, N ewcastle, & Ber• wick .. _ .. Ditto and Newcavtlel Extension Ditto G.N.E. purchase or preference .. Do. • • • • •• •• Do. •• •• •• •• Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway .. .. York and North Midland Do. Preference .. .. Anglo-Italian (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 V alentla Namur and Liege .. • • Northern of France • • Orleans and Bordeaux .. Paris and Orleans • • .. Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg .. Itoucu and llavre Sambre and Meuse • • Strasbourg and Basle .. Tours and _Nantes • . Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Ilasselt • • West Flanders .. • • Australasia ............ British North America.. Colonial .... ••.. • ..... Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock .... London and Westminster National Provincial Eng. National of Ireland .. • • Provincial of Ireland • • • • Union of Australia .. Do. New • • Union of London ...... Union of Madrid •• .. •• 10% to 10% % 1 ,-i Ws 5% —5% dis. - 1 p. 29 -30 27 -23 8- 9 p -7 - 8 p 10% -11% 76 -77 17% - 18 10% - 10% 5% -5% 16 -17 13% - 14 24 —22 d 3% -3% 2% -2% Ix-ix 1 -1% x - 1 6 -6% % N P li dig. % P 10% - 11 55 -57 55 -57 4 -6 p 634 -7 • 4% - 5 • 19 -1934 12 -12% 2% - 2% 31% -3IN 28 -- 29 6 -7 li - 3i 18 - 18 q ”i - 7 11 -11% 1234 - 12% 38 -40 34 - P• 1 242 - 245 783‘ —79)4 4 —334 tlia. 99 101 4934 —50% 22 —23 68 —7O 5 34 6 34 P. 26 —27 p 57% 58% 10% 1014 die 73 9 7 die. 1 34 1 34 dim. 128 - 132 6 534 dis.l 96 —97 13 -14 334 —2% dis. 334 3 dis. /If, % dis. Nl 1 P 6% -6% U - 86% 10% - 11% 57 -GO 57 -60 137 - 139 11 - 12 23 - u 454. 1244 -12534 3% - 4 p. p. 2%- P. 79 -811 1l —lO dis.l 10 9 die. 2X —2 34 P. 1 •• - •• 13 -15 45E 4 dla.l 26 -27 11 - 12 i• - 10% %- 5i P 3% a die. 474 4854 19 Is 3 dia. 24 -- 26 128 - 130 •• •• 2% - - 3 22 —23 15 —l4 die. 16 —l7 4% —4% sib 47( s —5% 8% 8 dia. •• • 173 —lB 41% 42% B yy p. 18% - 19% 7%- 754 . 1 ., - . 1% p. 13% 7 - 8 5 -53 5% —5% die, 4% —4% die, 9% 10 12 —l3 6 634 9 —lO 13,( 1 die. 13% 14 3% —3% dii. 14 —l6 11 13 3% —3% dia. 23% 23% 22% - 23 3 -2% tUS.I . • . • 9 7 dis, 7% i 34 die. 3 5 1634 18 2034 --21% .• - •• 8 -S)4 44 -45 19 —193 € -5% dig, 3 —2% dia 16 —l7 3 % 43( 22% 23% 1 Ws. 2 -254 87 -9% 16 - 16% ~ 414 .181 die. h —1% Pm. ;4 34 Pm. % % Pm. I -IM 214-2% 83( 9 15% —1514 4 3i dis.x.d 34 —36 27 —27% 6 —5% 10X 3 —3% .• •• 10 —9. X ..% - 176 - .. 1 K. BANKS. 28 -30% 424 - 43 9% - 10 25 - 25% 18% - 19% 27% - 23% 17% - 18 42 - 43% 15% - 15% 34% - 35 •• - „„ 12% --43% --. •e, •34 Sii 4 54 x.int. G 13 41 6 13 41 15 11 6 3 13 5 3 9 12 3 paid ap 6 13 4 90 JANUARY 4, 6% 88% 89 [124% 124% 125 20h [79 79% 34 79 NO di,. 484 46 % [47% 164 9 % % 1$ 171( $ 1% sy dia. dill. 2334 %, % 443 19 34 IN 14 22% Ci 9% :IGN. 1851 MINES. Paid. Nominal Prices. 8t7,•;1.Ps done to-L1,:; Anglo4 , lexican(is. 5/. p.) 100 .. Asturian • . 15 .. Australian .... 4 3% 3 Barossa Range .. • • .... 113 0 3% —3% Blaenarvon Iron anclCoal 50 • • Bolanos Scrip ........ • • • • —• • British 1r0n............ 13 5 .. —• • Brazilian Imp (is. Si. p.) 21% —.• Do. Cocaes and Culaba 30 3% —3l 2 Do. St. John del Rey.. 15 14% 14% Cobre Copper 4O 32% 35% Copiapo • • 14 Genera 1........ •• 20 13% 13% Real Del Monte, Unreg. Do. Black Debentures • • —• . Do. Red Debentures .. —•— •• Santiago de Cuba ...... 10 9 Tin Croft • • 7 10% 11 United Mexican .......128 28% 6% MISCELLANEOUS. Canada .. 32% 42% —44 Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 26% 27 Penin. & Oriental Steam. 50 78% 80 x.d ex. all Royal Nall Steam •• .. 60 73 —74 We cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Lists, and will not be influenced by Interested correspondents.] MONEY anu CUIVIIVI_LtiIIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about 5,000 bales, comprising 3.500 American, 300 Pernam and Maranham at 81d. to 84d., 200 Bahia at 81d. to 200 Egyptian at Brl. to 9id., and 500 Surat at 5d to 6d. per lb. The market was tame without alteration in p►ices.—Railway Shares were quiet but firm. The reduction in the amount of bullion held by the Bank of England during the week to the 28th ult. is as nearly us possible the amount that was anticipated, and had it not been for the arrivals from America, the total diminution would doubtless be 1,000,0001. The active circulation was increased a little, large additional ad vances having been made upon securities. The fact that bullion was taken in preference to notes sufficiently in dicates the purpose for which the accommodation was obtained. The public deposits rose again, and the other deposits were rather diminished, owing to the higher value or money. The comparison of the items with those of the previous week is as follows: Notes Issued ... ... 26,351,720 Decrease ... ... 378,010 ..„ ... 3,107,784 Increase ... „, 5,988 Public Deposits ... 11,022,817 Increase ... ... 239,009 Other Deposits ~. ... 9,147,039 Decrease ... ,„ 54 595 Seven Day and other Bills ... 1,252,151 Increase ... 32,984 Government Securities ... ... no alteration. Other Securities ... 14,459.608 Increase ... ... 696,811 Notes 9,777,970 Decrease ... ... 455,740 Bullion ... 14,963,681 Decrease ... ... 395,895 Active Circulation ... 18,573.750 Increase ... 77,730 Rest The negotiation of Bills of Exchange on the principal continental cities was, according to expectation, effected at higher rates, viz.. for 90 day's paper 25 20 to 25 on Paris, 11 171 to on Amsterdam, 13 5i to 64 on Hamburgh, and 1171 to 118 on Frankfort, but Antwerp declined to 25 20 and 15. The exports of the precious metals direct from London during the week to Thursday last were as follows: Gold to Belgium 10,000/., to France 3401. and 2,000 ounces, to Hamburgh 200 ounces. Silver, to Germany 351,684 ounces, and to France 21,000 ounces. ' The accounts received this morning from Lancashire and Yorkshire are satisfactory. The Funds have been very firm this morning. Consols realize 96j- to 97i, and the New Three•and-a-Quarter per Cents. 99 to The Reduced Three per Cents. have been 971. Bank Stock is 213 to 214, being per cent. higher. Exchequer bills have been steady at 58s. to 615., and India Bonds at 745. premium. Consols now are 964 to 97. Fureign Securities have been dull. Mexican Bonds have realized 35$ I-, and Peruvian Deferred 35. Portu guese Four per Cents. have been quoted 34, and Spanish Five per Cents. 174. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have been at 964 ex-dividend. Railway Shares have been well supported, although the dealings are very moderate. QUARTER TO THREE. Console ... Ditto Account ... 961 THREE O'CLOCK. The Board of Trade returns just out for the month to the sth ult. give the total exports thus:- 1850 £5,362,319 1849 ... 4,691,161 £671,158 Incregue ONE PRICES OF BRITISH N'UNDs O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 ue Cent. Reduced A nna. Lna VA per Cent. 99 99 1 4 L Ong Anna. to expire Jan.lB6o 7% India Bonds, 1,0004.. .• Ditto under 1,0001.» 74 p Console for Account 97 96% 97 1 ,E Exchequer Bills. t'4d. & to 1,000/. June 500/. June ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. M wean, .5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons-- Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto, Account ........... 35%% Peruvian Bonds, 4 1 ,i per Cent—.... Ditto, Deferred Portuguese 6 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Ditto, Account 34% Russian Bonds Ditto, 4 par Cent Spanish 5 per Cont. 1840 Ditto Account ..... Venezuela Bonds, 2 1 4 per Cent Dividends on tne above payable in London. Dutch 2 1 per Cent., 12 Guild. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates — COURSE OF Amsterdam .......... 11 16 1 Ditto, three months 11 17% ktotterdain .... • . .. 11 17% Antwerp.. •••••••• „ • • • 25 26 Brussels.. • • •• 25 25 Llamburgh .... • • M.B. 13 6si A1t0na............... Paris, 3 days'sight .. • . 25 0 Ditto. 3 months 25 25 Marseilles ............ 25 27)4 80urdeaux......... • frankforton Maine.... 117% Berlin •• .. • • ...... • • • • Vienna, are°. flee 12 45 Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 12 46 Petersburgh, 811. Rble.. 37)4 Madrid .... • • ........ 49 7‘ Cadiz . •• ••••••• • • • •• 60 Barcelona • • •......... Setrille•• •• •• •• • ...... - CLOSING PRICES. 214 9 7/ 99 73/4 61 p 61 p CLOSING PRICES. 96 1 h ex d EXCHANGE. Gibraltar • • • • •• • • •• •• •• Leghorn • • •• •• •• •• 10 85 Genoa .• •••••••• •• • • .• 25 65 Milan •• •• .• •• •• •• •• Venice • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • Naples .• •• •• •• •• 41% Palermo, peroz 124% Messina •• •• •• .. •• •• .. 124% Lisbon.• •• •• •• •....... 5 34 Oporto .• .. • • .... • • .. • • 134‘ Rio Janeiro Buenos Ayres ........ Now York, 60 days'sight Philadelphia .... • • .... CRUMB OF BULLION, PBS 08, Foreign Geld in bare.. 43 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars •• . •• 0 4 11% Silver In bars ........ 0 5 1% LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 4.—Wind at noon S., lightairs and fine. TORBAY, JAN. 3.—Wind N.—Arrd. Vere, Jamaica. LEITZ.—Arrd. Idalia, Callao. Sid. Symmetry, Ade laide, South Australia. HARWICH, JAN. 3.—Wind E.N.B.—Arrd. William and Ann, St. John's, Newfoundland. MALDON, JAN. 3.—A brig, apparently a collier, was reported yesterday to be upon the Shoeberry Sands full of water. BAYONNE, DEC. 31.--The John, of Bideford, is leaky, having been on shore. CORIINNA, DEC. 25.--The Florence, of Liverpool, is at anchor off Chamon Beach, about twelve miles west of this place. The Rising Sun and a Government steamer will proceed to bar assistance. DEAL, JAN. 3.---Willd S.W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Manilla, Manilla; St. Abbe, Shanghai; Persia, Calcutta. Sld. Tamarac, New Orleans. Put back, Ryswick, Val paraiso. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 3.—Wind E. to S.E.—Arrd. Francis Barclay, Valpar a i so • Willi am Patten, New York; Nep tune, Munsooreottah; William Penn, Philadelphia; Breadalban_ ,e Wallace, N. S. Sld. Mary Ray , Sings , pore; Sir Henry Pottinger, Calcutta; Ceres, Natal; England, and Undaunted, Valparaiso; Risk, Buenos Ayres ; Premis, Rio Janeiro; Sobraon and Indian Queen, Barbadoes; Haleywood, Porto Rioo; Bell, Hayti ; H. H. Boody, New Orleans; Harriet Augusta, Charles Cbalmer, and European, ditto. The Free man, for Jamaica, has been assisted off Crosby Point making much water. LYME REGIS, JAN. 3.—A vessel, supposed to be the A nge lina, was lost, with all hands, yesterday morning, two miles to the westward. MARYNORT, JAN. 2.—The Ann, Wigtown to this port, went on shore between Harrington and Workington, 2sth ult., and is expected to become a wreck. FA.LMODTH, JAN, 3 —The Armenius is discharging her cargo, in a damaged state, and she falls with the tide. CARDIFF, JAN. 3.—The Royal Rose, Newp or t f or Havanuab, and the Laertes, from hence, were in contact yesterday in Penarth Roads; the latter received consi derable damage, and has returned to dock to repair; the farmer proceeded on her voyage. SToRNowAY, JAN. 2.—The Protheroe. Sligo to Lin 17th ult., leaky, &c. don, put into Loch Bernersy MARKET NEWS.--(T HIS DAY.) CO VENT-GAUD . Full average supplies of both Fruit and Vegetables were on sale here to-day. On the whole, the demand ruled steady, at unaltered quotations. Fruits—Pine Apples, 4s Od to 6s per lb; Hothouse Grapes, 3s Od to 6s; Portugal, 8d to is Od per lb; Pears, Is Od to 3s Od per dczen; ditto, 6s to 1.5 s pet halt sieve; Apples, dessert, 3s 6d to 8s per bushel ; cooking ditto, 3s 6d to 6s Od; Oranges, 6s Od to lOs per 100; Lemons, 6a to lOs per 100; Pomegranates, 3d to 6d each; Almonds, 64 Od to Os Od per peck; ditto, sweet, 2s ed to 3s Od per lb; Walnuts, is Od to 2s Od per 100; ditto, 12, Oil to 24$ Od per bushel; Barcelona Nuts, 20s Od to 22a Od per bushel; Brazil ditto, 12$ Ott to 143 Od per bushel; Filberts, 60s Od to 70s Od per 100 lbs. Vegetables—Brussels Sprouts, Is Gd to 2s Od per halt sieve; Savoy Cabbages, Gd to Is per 1 . 1 ..z , n; Greens, is 6d to 2s 6d per dozen bunctu s; Csuli. flowers, is 6d to 4s Oil per dozen; Brocoli. 6s 01 to 10, par dozen bundles; Potatoes, 6Cts to 100 s per ton ; ditto 3s Od to 5s Od per cwt; ditto, is 9d to 2s 9d per bushel; Turnips, Is Od to 2s 3d per twelve bunches; Cucumbers, Gd to is each; Leeks, Id to 2d per bunch; Celery, 9d to is 6d per bundle; Carrots, 2s Od to 66 Od per dozen bunches; Spinach, Os 9d to is 3d per half sicv,; Onions, is 6d to It 9d per halt sieve; Spanish ditto, 160 d to 18$ Od per box; Jerusalem Ar tichokes, is 6d to 2, Od per hall sieve; Eudive, is Od to Is 6d per score; Horseradish, Is Od to 4s Od per bundle; Red Beet, 6d to is Od per dozen; Mushrooms, is 3d to is 6d per Pottle, NEVTGATIZI AMMO 7.. - 37.14a3=11111.0 4 .L.7. • Turkep, 4s to 123 Geese, 4s 01 to 83 Od; Ducks, 9:i to 3s Od; Tame Rabbit:;, Is 0d toll 9d; Wild ditto, Sd Ocl; Pigeons, 6d to 9d; Roasting Pigs, 4s 6d to 8s tv.,eli; Surrey Fowls, 68 to 10i Od; ditto Chickens, 4s Od to 6s Od; tiarn-door Fowls, 3s 6d to 7s Od per couple; English Eggs, lls Od to OA Od; French ditto, lOs Od to 0 , ; and Irish ditto, 9s 3d to Os Od: per 100; Fresh But ter, is to is 2d per lb; Partridges, Is 3d to 28 Od; Hares, 2s Od to 3s Od; Leverets, 2s Od to 3s 3d; Grouse, 2s Od to 3s Od; Pheasants, 2s 9d to 4s Od; Teal, 6d to Is; Snipes, 9d to is; Wild Ducks, is 6d to 2s 3d; Wid geons, 9d to 2s Od; Plovers, 6d to ls; Ptarmagan, Is 6d to 2s 6d; and Woodcocks, 2s 6d to 3s each. NEWPORT. Beef, from 23 4d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 10d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s Od; Pork, 3s Od to 4s Od per Sibs. VITHITECELELPEI. Beef, from 2s 2d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 10.1; Veal, 3s 2d to 4s Os]; Pork, 3s Od to 4s Od per 81bs. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 6s Od to 15s Od; Brills, ;Ci to is 6d; Soles, 6d to 2.30 d per pair; Haddocks, 10d to Is 6d; Flounders, 6d to 2s Od per dozen; Cod Fish, 3s Od to 9s Od each; Whitings, 3s Od to 6s Od per 15; Eels, 6d to 10d per lb; Lobsters, 2s Od to 4s Od each; Crabs, Is Od to 3s Od each; Herrings, 2s to 4s Od per 100; common Oysters, 6s to 12s per bushel; Smelts, Is 3d to 2s 0 per doz• Salmon, is 6d to 2s Od per ib; Salt Fi s h, 2s Od t o 3 s Oti per lb; and Sprats, is Od to 3s Od per bushel. BELEILD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis aro from 7d to 71d; of Household ditto, 5d to 6id per 4lb loaf. HIDE MAIIHET. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 14d to 2d; ditto, 641 b to 721 b, 2d to 21(1; ditto, 721 b to SOlb, lid to 3d; ditto, 801 b to 881 b, 3d to 3-id; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 34d to 4d; ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, 3d to 4d; ditto, 10416 to 1121 b, Od to Od. Calf Skins, light, is 6d to 3s 0:1; ditto, lull, 4s to 6s Od; Horn Bides, 6s Od to Os Od; Lomb Skins, 0:3 Od to Os Od; P o lled Sheep, 5s Od to 6s 6d; bents and Hall-breds, 48 6d to 58 6d; Downs, 3s Od to 4s 3d each. II Y razazzavra. SMITHFIELD.--Meadow Hay, 21 105 to 410 s; Clover, 3l Os to 4/ 2s ; and Straw, 11 Is to 11 8s par load. Supply but moderate, and trade dull. CUMBERLAND. - Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 41 Os f Clover, 3/ Os to 410 s; and Straw, 112 s to 1/ 9a per load. Trade dull, at barely stationary prices. W HITECHAPEL. - Meadow Huy, 21 8s to 41 Os ) ; Clover, 310 s to 4145; and Straw, 1/ Is to 1185 per load. Both Hay and Straw sold slowly, at our quotations. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) The young man, Charles Darden, the landlord of the Somerset House beer-shop in Tottenham Court-road, who stands churgt-d with having stabbed the policeman Caleb Davis, F 22, was brought up on remand this morning. Mr. HENRY asked if the wounded man was in at tendance. Inspector Dodd replied in the negative. The man was not sufficiently recovered to make it safe for him to be present. kr. HENRY—Is he in danger? Inspector Dodd—The man who is sitting up with him. came to me last night and said he was suffering very much from the swelling of the leg near to the wound. .I immediately sent for the surgeon, who re-dressed the wound, and told me that though the injury the man had received was serious, and would trouble him for some time, there was no immediate danger. I am, how ever, afraid that he will not be able to attend here for a week. Mr. HENRY —I must therefore remand the case again. Let the prisoner be brought up for re-examination this day week. ___ Mr. Wontner, who appeared for the prisoner, applied to the magistrate to admit him to bail. The prisoner was a highly respectable man, and before he entered business he was in the service of Lord Digby and other gentlemen of distinction. It was quite absurd to sup pose that the prisoner had contemplated murdering the policeman, for he was almost in a state of drunken in sensibility when he was betrayed into the act of stabbing. Mr. HENRY had no doubt whatever that it resulted from drunkenness. There was nothing in the evidence to show malice, or that the prisoner had meditated over the offence previous to its committal. Mr. Wontner hoped, under these circumstances, his Worship would have no objection to admit the prisoner to bail. Mr. HENRY had none whatever, but the bail must be substantial and good. Mr. Wontner — said the parties who were ready to be come the prisoner's sureties were men of substance and respectability. The bail - was forthcoming, and approved of in the course of the morning ; and the prisoner, who was re manded for a week, was liberated. WESTMINSTER.—(THIS DAY.) Caroline Smith was charged with stealing, from a Mr. Breschley, some tobacco and other articles. The prosecutor stated that he kept a beer shop, and the prisoner was in the habit of coming to his house to sing in the taproom. Last night, about half•past ten, he suspected that she had stolen some tobacco, and he asked a policeman to watch her. He saw her take from the window some eatables that were exposed for sale, and put them in her pocket. When searched at the station. the articles were found in her possession, as also some tobacco. The prisoner, who pretended to be deaf, said that she did not want to go to prison, and would pay for the ar ticles she had taken. Mr. BURRELL then committed her for trial. [ADVERTISEMENT.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. London Ducks, January 4, 1851. Sia,—ln your police report of last evening, as to an examination of two men, named Clarke and Collins, at Bow-street, James Burton, a discharged foreman from the London Dock Company's service, is represented to have asserted " that he bad authority and directions from me to abstract goods from ships' cargoes." I beg to contradict this in the most direct and positive manner; and shall be prepared to prove, when the the proper time arrives, that the assertions he has made are both in spirit and letter untrue, as I never gave soy such directions, nor do I believe that any such were given, either to James Burton or any other person what ever.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, J. S. NORTHCOTT, Deputy Warehouse-keeper. COMMUTATION OF TITHES. (From last night's Gazette.) Return stating what has been during seven years, ending on the Thursday next before Christmas•day, 1850, the average price of an imperial bushel of British wheat, barley, and oats, computed from the weekly averages of corn returns. Published pursuant to an Act passed in the 6th and 7th year of the reign of Wil liam IV., intituled " An Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales." WhEat Barley Oats ... 6s. 50. ... 4 0 ... 2 8 GEORGE JOYCE, Comptroller of Corn Returns. Corn Department, Board of Trade, Jan. 2, 1851. Mr. Love, the Polyphonist, is at present sojourn ing professionally at Stanwick Park, the residence of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland. Mr. Love's extraordi nary vocal peculiarities are nightly hailed with every de. monstration of admiration and applause, by large audiences, chieily composed of families of the surrounding country. On the evening of New Year's Day he gave an entertainment before a party of about three hundred, and on the following night appeared before a still larger audience. For the better accommodation of the recipients of his Grace's hospitality. the apartment in which Mr. Love's entertainments take place has been fitted-up with an elevated stage, a gallery capable of seating about two hundred and fifty visitors, and other conveniences, after the manner of a temporary theatre. INCENDIARY FIRE.—On Wednesday evening last, as Hodge, the policeman of Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, and Stamford, one of the night-watchmen, were going their round in the outskirts of the village, about half-past seven o'clock, and passing by some stacks belonging to Mr. 8. Clear, they all at once saw a light at the stacks, as though caused by the striking of a lucifer.match. In an in4tant the stacks began to blaze; the constables made towards the spot, and saw two persons running towards them. Hodge crouched down, and allowed one of the men to run into his arms. The other, seeing his confederate captured, ran away, was chased by Stamford, and ultimately captured. The fire, in the meantime, spread rapidly, and destroyed two straw ricks and a large quantity of haulm, but no corn was con• turned. The captured incendiaries were both youths of the place, named Howes and Rowlin, and have long been sus pected of being concerned with others is causing the many calamitous and devastating incendiary fires that have taken place in this parish. This is the third fire Mr. Clear has had; for in May, 1849, the valuable homeatall, with live and dead stock to a large amount, were destroyed ; and in September, 1850, several stacks of corn were consumed. On Thursday, the two young men were fully committed for trial to the next assizes by the Rev. Messrs. Law and Fendall. One is aged 16, and the other 18. They have made a lull confession of their guilt. METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS.—A meet. ing of this body took place yesterday at the court house, Greek-street. Mr. Foster read a report on the drainage of Peckham, proposing the drainage of 400 acres by 10,935 feet of pipes laid down in Rye-lane, Peckham, and the neigh bourhood. The report was adopted, as also another relating to the drainage of Lower-marsh, Lambeth. He that places h'lnself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.—lliza Cook's Journal. ALARMING STATE or THE DUKE C‘F NEW CASTLE'S HEALTH.- -We exceedingly regret to state that within the last few days the bright and sanguine hopes which had been entertained for several weeks of the Noble. Duke's health being temporarily restored, have, humanly speaking, become for ever blighted. In consequence of the sudden and alarming change in his Grace's health, a mes sage was dispatched on Saturday evening to Windsor for the Right Hon. the Earl of Lincoln, who arrived at CIUDI.. her House on the Monday morning following. Up to the time of our writing (Tuesday evening) his Grace lies in a most precarious stare ; and we are informed it is th e o pi n i on of Joh n D et hi c k , Esq., the Duke's family surgeon, and others, that he cannot possibly survive much longer.- Worksop Correspondent of IVotts Guardian. ANOTHER DARING BURGLARY NEAR FRIMLEY.—• On Thursday morning, about three o'clock, the mansion of the Misses Farncoinbe, called D.,wnland House, near Uck. field, Sussex, was broken into by seven armed men, whose faces were disguised with nightcaps and crape. The fellows secured the ladies and their servants in one of the upper rooms, and whilst some of them kept guard tle others pro ceeded to ransack the premises. They remained in the house nearly two hours, regaling 'themselves with ham, cheese, bread, wine, and porter, when they took their de parture, getting clear off with their booty, consisting of silver plate marked " F," value 2001., two gold watches, a quantity of costly jewelery, gold snuff-boxes, &c.; one 101. and seventeen Si. Bank of England notes ; and about 50/. in gold and silver. A reward of 501. is offered for the discovery of the robbers. This daring burglary was committed at no great distance from Frimley, where the Rev. Mr. Holiest was so recently murdered. SMAL: INJI CUR :NT S! 9% It 56 74 p 96% - 351/2 34% 17% 31% 90 1 /,