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CHEAP EDITION OF THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS. Now ready, complete in 1 vol., post Svo., with Illustrations, price 10i. 6d. bound, The EIGHTH EDITION of Mr. WARBURTON'S CRESCENT AND THE CROSS. Beviatd, with a New Preface. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had of all Booksellers. NOTICE. 20, Great Marltorough-street, Jan. 6. Mr. STLOIBItRL has the honour to announce that he will publish karneciateiy, in Four Top. Bvo., A New Series of the LETTERS AND DISPATCHES OF L ORD CASTLEREAG H. Edited by his Brother, THE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY. IV Immediate orders should be given for this important work. to prevent disappointment. Agents for Saotland : Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh. For Ire land: Mr. W. Robertson, Dublin. For Glasgow : Griffin and Co. Fpr Liverpool: Deighton and Laughton. For Manchester : Simms and Denham. 'tow ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., post Bvo., A NOVEL. 0 0 D. 1 . 1 The author, we fwe convinced. is young, otherwise we could hardly see displayed such fresh and enthusiastic sympathy in be half of his heroes and heroines. He is a writer of genius, inspired by a high standard if morality and religion, and by a laudable love of the purest sort of fame. We gather this trom the glowing lan guage in which he expresses his feelings, sentiments, and opinions on She subjects just mentioned. There are several chapters, in which links of the story are dropped, containing most eloquent essays on matters that are the prima mobilia of the actions which cha racterise nature's nobility. The writer evidently belongs, though he has marked per se peculiarities, to the school of the Disraelis, Man serses, and Smythes.”—Observer. "` Silwood' is no ordinary work ; it contains passages of exceed big beauty, and is written in pure and forcible language, with great good taste and power. It is one of the most interesting and en gaglrg novels which the present season has produced. Of the cha racter of Amelia Ross we have already spoken, and the extract we have given above is the surest voucher of the truth of what we have said. The other ladies who play conspicuons parts in the tale are Florence Howard, an intellectual beauty; Jessie Gordon, a wild and impulsive genius, passionately fond of music and poetry; and Julia Maitland, the noblest and best of them all."—Morning Post. Ri c hard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL,DRURY-LINE. Looms and Manager, Mr. James Anderson. THIS EVENING, Will be presented by her Majesty's Servants AS YOU LIKE IT. Banished Duke, Mr. Cathcart ; Jaques, Mr. Vaudenboff ; Adam, Mr. Cooper; Rosalind, Mrs. Nishett. After which an entirely New Grand, Historical, Emblematical, Aerostatical, Gastronomical, Metaphorical, Musical, Poetical, Vocal, Municipal, Juvenile, Paatomical Pantomime, by E. Fitzball, the po pular author of " Za-ze-zi-zo-zu," entitled HARLEQUIN and HUMPTY DUMPTY; or, Bobbin do Bobbin and the First Lord Mayor of Lun'un. Private Boxes, 31. 35., 2/. I 2s. 6d., 2/. 25., 1/. I Is. 6d., and IL 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 Alcrotl, Bend-street; at Jullien's Music Warehouse, Regent street ; Chappell, New Bond-street; Leader and Cocks, 63, New Stond-street ; Ransford and Co., New Bond-street ; and Bailey and Moon, Carlton Library. 12, Regent-street. Stalls, ss. each. First Price—Dress Circle, 55. Od. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit. 2s. 6d. ; Lower Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d.. Second Price at Nine o'Clock—Dress Circle, 21. 6d. ; Boxes, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. 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 titer the First Act of the Play. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, g•le Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. MR. MACREADY. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE STRANGER. The stranger, Mr. Ma *ready; Mrs. Haller. Mrs. Warner. After which a new translation of THE SECOND CALENDAR and the QUEEN of BEAUTY who had the Fight with the Genie. Priscipil characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Selby, Lebarr, Buckstone, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mies P. Horton, and Miss A. Ramer. 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 ford, Madame Celeste, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. To be followed by a new Extravaganza called LA TARANTULA ; er, the Spider King. Characters by Messrs. Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Miss 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. Seeley. THIS EVENING, Will be performed an entirely new Play called THE TEMPLAR. characters by Messrs. Ryder, Fisher, Belton, Addison, Vining, Ceth sart, Everett, C. Kean ; and 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 Carlotta Le Clereq. Private Boxes, tic., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. Maoingham ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office, Oxford-street, from Eleven till Four o'clock. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE HANDiOME HUSBAND. Atter which an e , ltirely new and eginal Fairy Extravaganza, to be called KING CHARMING ; or, the Blue Bird of Paradise. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, Horncastle, Suter, Bellingham, and Hoofer; Madame Vestris, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Ellis, Mrs. C. Hors, Miss St. George, and Miss Martindale. To conclude wit!; THE RINGDOVES, in which Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, Basil Baker, 11 , s. F. Matt'letvs, and Miss M. Oliver will appear. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Farren. THIS EVE N ING, Will be performed A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS, sup ported by Messrs. G. V. , rooke, W. Fart% n, Leigh Murray, Comp ton, Dtddear, W. Farren, jun. ; Mesdames Leigh Murray and Adams To conclude with PRINCE DORUS ; or, The Romance of the Nose, In which Messrs. H. Farren, W. Farren, jun., Cooke ; Mesdames Louisa Howard, Eden I urner, and Madlle. Adele will appear. ASI LRY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Ratty. Extraordinary series of attractive novelties. THIS EVENING The Grand new Spectacle of KENSILIs ORTH; or the Goldee Days of the Virgin Queen, with new and costly costumes. Together with patty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle, introducing the Magniflceat Stud and Company of unequalled Artistes, also, for the first time in England, M. Ghelia, with his three highly-trained Steeds, M. Nicolo Piige, the great Barrel Equilibrist, and the 13: o th, rs Francisco, from t,le Hippodrome, Paris. To conclude with an entirety new and original grand historical iiquestrian Christmas Pantomime, written expressly for this Theatre, by the author of " Bluff King Hal," to be entitled HARLEQUIN AND O'DONOGHUE ; or, The White Horse of Killarney. Box-office open from Eleven till your. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE Tata DAT --Sforn!n?, 46 min. after 4 I Evening 6 attn. after 5 To aloaaow—Morning 23 min. after 5 Evening 41 rain. alter i THE WEATHER —Say OrricE, J.Astr.tr.T 7. THERMOILETER, IN TEE SHADS. 41—highest since noon yesterday. 35—lowest this morning and during the night. 41— this day, at noon. BA.ROMETEI4 29 62. Woir) S.W.—Morning dull, hazy weather ; Aft.rnoon DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. PLYMOUTII—Wind S.E. gentle breeze—rain. • PORTSNIOUTII—W ind gentle breeze—overcast. BRIGHTON S.E., calm—overcast. asTINGs —Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. tiOUTIIAMPTON—Winti N. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Fem.:lt:STONE—Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast. N.W. calm —partially cloudy. BASINGSTOKE; - Wind gentle breeze—partially cloudy. GI: E EN 111 le El —Calm—foggy. SWINDON Wind E., light airs—frosty. CoLcupt3TErt—Wind gentle breeze—foggy. C.tmuntmg —Wind S.W., calm—cloudless. RUGBY—Wind E , gentle breeze—et udless. YARMOUTET—Wind W., gentle breeze— foggy. MANcHEsTER.—Wind N. E., light breeze- foggy. LANCASTER—Wind N., calm—toggy. WnrraY—Calm—liTgy- SLIAP—Wind N., calm - frost. BE.trrocK—Wind S.E., gentle breeze - partially cloudy. BEnwteK—Wind W.- gentle breeze —overcast. EDINBURGH—Wind N. W., calm - cloudless. The returns from tha following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Saturday morning at nine o'clock : Coatc —Wind S., light breeze—heavy rain. LtuElam—Wind S., strong breeze—heavy rain. Caniow—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—rain. MULLINGAR- • ind E., stiff breeze—overcast. Pools —Wind S.E , strong breeze—overcast. B ißmiNGf um -Wind S.W., calm—partially cloudy. world in the highest degree problematic. The stake is in the hands of the multitude. The competitors are eagerly awaiting its award the one sustained by the sense of great constitutional pri vileges—the other inspired by a dynastic ambi tion and en almost miraculous popularity. The decisive langusge in which the Prince Louis NAPOLEON recently expressed himself when (on. New Year's Day) receiving a deputation from the House &Legislature, and subsequently the represen tatives of judicial authority connected with the Courts of Cessation—indicates on his part a con viction in his own potential influence with the multitude. Meanwhile the resolute conduct of the Assembly in passing to the order of the day, when the Prince NAPOLEON BONAPARTE endeavoured to com pass the overthrow of General CHANG ARNIER, betrays among the antagonists of the PRESIDENT determination as vigorous as might have been antici pated from the representatives of a great democracy. The resignation of the BAROCHE Ministry im mediately afterwards attests the energy of the Assembly, and the uncompromising conduct of Prince Louis N APOLEON since that event displays his own impassable resolve as President. Each of the belli gerents imagined for the moment that his antagonist was checkmated, and both of them in so doing have been most egregiously deceived. The PRESIDENT when, authorising the late proceedings of his cousin and of the Patric, he fancied he had brought about the effectual discomfiture of CHANGARNIER! The As sembly when, in passing to the order of the day, and thereby necessitating the withdrawal of the Ministers from office, it imagined it bad utterly broken the power of the PRESIDENT ! Nothing could !possibly have been more erroneous or shortsighted in every way than the line of policy adopted throughout these transactions. Either no step whatever should have been taken on one side or the other, or the effort should at least have been rather more effec tive. As it is, the whole proceeding has been an abortive attempt to bring to a close the anoma lous state of things at present surviving the out break of the revolution. Every one recognizes and has long recognized the impossibility of maintaining the constitution of the French Republic in its existing form— where the chief authorities of the Government are mutually irresponsible, and equally averse to yield superiority to the other. Until this system is in some manner modified, until the prominent powers of the country are placed upon a more secure and inde pendent foundation, the people will continue to be perpetually liable to have their hours of tranquillity disturbed and their anticipations of political security disappointed. The urgency of this position is, in truth, the motive power in which the whole of the recent events have originated. And the necessity for ,he constitutional improvement alluded to must con tinue to exercise an irresistible influence over the course of occurrences in France until the period shall have arrived which shall witness the settlement of this enormous difficulty. It is not in reality a question about M. YON or about M. CARLIBR, about M. BA.• nocuz or about General CEIANGARNIER, about N. DUPIN or about the Prince NAPOLEON BONAPARTE—but it is a questio❑ as to whether the legislative and administrative powers of the Republic shall be reconciled and woven amicably together ; whe • ther, in short, the Assembly and the PRESIDENT shall afford each other mutual support and encouragement, instead of remaining always at "daggers drawn," ready at any moment to foment the passions engem. dering insurrection. Supposing this desired recon ciliation had actually taken place, the poisonous sting would have been extracted from intrigue—the bond of union would have been bound round the now scattered authorities of the Democracy—and that strength would have been at length secured to the Govcrnment which was once so admirably typified in the fable of the separate sticks and the faggot. Happy for France would it be if this modification of her Republican Constitution could be brought about without the necessity for those preliminary disputations which may result in all sorts of as yet unimagined disasters. To the records of the Assem bly and the official columns of the Moniteur public at tention must continue to be for some considerable time directed for some hints of the probable issue of the pending struggle. From the utter ances of the gauche and the droit, or from the decrees dated at the Palace of the Elyse., we can, yet awhile, alone obtain some glimmering notion of the relative proportion of the force of the belligerents. Thither, consequently, our observations must continue to tend until some more decisive end is attained by one or other of the disputants than the passing to the order of the day, or the change of an Administration. We are told that there is " A tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the thod, teals oat 3 fortune," and there have been, alas! but too many cases in which the misery and wretchedness of an entire life have been occasioned by the thoughtless folly of an hour. There are, we believe, few individuals who cannot from their own personal experience detail in- stances of " Great events from little causes springing." As with individuals so it is with communities. The elder DISRAELI has shown us how the destinies of nations have teen altered, and dynasties overthrown, owing to matters apparently of the most trivial importance; and there can be but little doubt that many striking illustrations escaped the notice of that talented author, and some may perhaps have occurred even since his day. Indeed, if matters were all referred back to their fountain and origin, we might find bow insignificant was the source from whence issued the streamlet that ultimately grew into a mighty river, bearing the comeaerce of nations on its ample bosom. In like manner a case of inebriety that was heard at a police-court on the day after Christmas- day, and the appeal of a prisoner to the magistrate to escape the iofliction of a fine of 5s the usual punishment of the offence of which he had been guilty, may hive the effect of directing the public attention to the entire system of imprisonment for contempt of court, or for debt, and procuring a large and com prehensive measure of reform that will no longer permit exasperated and perhaps vindictive creditors to become the sole judges in their own cases. In the case now under notice, a man named TAYLOR was taken into custody vino graoatus, or, in plain English, very considerably drunk. He exhi bited the usual independence of persons in that happy condition, snapped his fingers in the face of the police, and was finally locked up for the night, as much for his own protection as for the puni,hment of an offence that was regarded with some degree of leniency during the Saturnalia. When brought under the terrors of the magisterial power, and called upon to show cause why he should not pay the additional sum of ss. for his night's lodging, Mr. TAYLOR brought forward a very unusual plea, but one of irresistible force. He had, it appeared, been only just released from imprisonment, and had been celebrating his liberation after an uninterrupted incarceration for seventeen years under a contempt order from the Court of Chancery. And it would appear, from what fell from Lord CRANWORTH when ordering his discharge (for it appeared that his excuse was per fectly authentic), that he might have obtained his liberty at any time during the last fourteen Yaars, if be chose to have applied for it, or to have availed himself of the copportunities that were within his reach, at any time during that 1436°1 He was, of course, at once discharged, for he had too large a balance is his favour to be punished for any offence that could be expiated by mere impri sonment ; but his defence sunk deep into the public m of in s d ;m a p n a d thy ex fo c r it system un d er w hi ch t e h d e a s t u t ff h e e re sa r ine time a strong feeli n g con finement c-, u ld p oss ibl y such a case of protracted ha vs occurred, d apt h p e • e pears, however, from th e ev id ence of th r a r a n e t unimpeachable fooTAYLOR'Srt dhbscot aottu ar i it nm os tf witness, Sir E DWARD S ron s ic, C pr h is s o n n e m er e y n , t h w at a t s h n at o t t h al er t e og w e a th a e a r d o e w ta i inagert have h ad to otherwise h ,, i p m urg d s u a rin e g f t h h is e c g sh re t a e t m er pt, p ” ar h t e o w f o th u a ld t s t i t m il l e t , appeal to the Insolvent Court, and were i he seemed desirous of continuing in custody, avoiding the visitors who might have obtained his release— that he was, in fact, to all intents and purposes, a vo luntary prisoner, who would not accept the freedom which would readily have been granted at any moment. Although this statement may to a certain extent di vainiskt the pity we entertained for IdirLoA 14 Ant hearing the case, it will naturally lead to other in ► - quiries, which, if we are not greatly mistaken, will elicit answers by no means favourable to the system. What, we ask, could have induced such a state of mind as to render a person desirous of continuing the inmate of gaol for fourteen consecu tive years, when at a single word his fetters would have been burst and the bolts at d bars stricken off the gates of his prison-house ? No person in the en joyment of liberty would remain a voluntary prisoner for so long a period. But TAYLOR, had been detained for three years previously. During that time a total change had arisen in his thoughts and feelings. He had become accustomed to confinement and unfitted for an active out-door life by the pernicious indolence engendered by a prison life. He could no longer hope to earn a livelihood by his own exertions. Better to continue to dwell in the prison, where he had a shelter provided gratuitously, where an income of 3s. 61. a week might be relied on, and where he had, perhaps, a further source of income by " letting lodgings," acting as keeper of the racket-ground, or by a variety of ways and means known to the inmates of "the Bench." In fact, he clung to his cell and resisted eviction as resolutely as an Irish peasant would an ejectment from his scrap of potato ground, held at a rent three times the amount of the actual value, and we should not feel greatly surprised if, like an emancipated canary bird, he again sought the cage which, how ever repugnant it might appear to those fitted for freedom, was yet a place of refuge and shelter for the victim of imprisonment. But why should a system be tolerated that pro duces such results? There is a❑ existing prejudice in favour of the right of imprisonment for debt at the mere will and pleasure of the creditor• At the other side of the Atlantic it is thought a gross invasion of the liberty of the subject if he is not permitted to wallop his own nigger, and here there would probably be an equal outcry at any interfe rence with the privilege of the creditor of " impri soning his own debtor, if he thought proper." He may be certain that the debtor cannot pay, that it is poverty and not his will prevents him ; and yet, though a kind hearted man in othe respects, he will incur heavy expenses in order to have the satisfaction of locking him up, and there de taining him until he is discharged in due course. This may not be so very easy as it is supposed. We believe that there are many men detained simply be cause they are too poor to be insolvents!!—because they have not funds sufficient to meet the expenses of passing through the court. The system must be changed—the public mini must be brought into a healthier tone. We have but little doubt that such will be the case in some few years, and that the present practice of imprisonment without a special order of a judge will be regarded with as great horror as that of retaining property in the flesh and blood of our fellow-creatures is at present regarded ; and perhaps that time may be expedited by the fortunate temptation to which Mr. TAYLOII yielded on the evening of his emancipation from his incarceration of seventeen years' duration. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Ministerial crisis still continues. The Paine sacs— ---.; ‘‘Ncthing is as yet decided; propositions have been made by the President of the Republic to several poli tical personages, but the difficulties which stand in the way of composing a Ministry which shall be sure of a majority in the Assembly have hitherto prevented these propositions from being brought to bear practically. The negotiations still continue." The same journal states that the Club of the Rue des Pyramides had determined to support the PRESI DENT of the Republic. Among other rumours current it was stated that MM. BAROCHE and FOULD would retain their port folios. We find the following in the Constitutionnel on the subject of the Ministerial crisis:— " The Journal des Debats asks itself, why the Minis try should have considered it its duty to resign because the Chamber re'usel to postpone the interpellations of Napoleon Bonaparte ? It pretends that such a severe resolution on a question of so little importance has caused a general movement of surprise, in which it unites. We will reply to the Dibats what we &Lid )esterday. The refusal of the po.tpcnement was not the cause, but the occasion of the resignation. The Cabinet was, in fact, after the sitting of Friday, to use the expression of the Dtbaig, what it was a month since. That is precisely why it retires, and those who are to-day astonished at seeing it adopt that mea sure, would feel more surprise, in a few days hence, if they had not done so. The Ministry, in fact, as certain journals say, should have retired sooner. The reason why they did ❑ot do so was, that we were at a period of the year when commerce had acquired extraordinary act vity—when business transactions were in course of settlement, and when calm and confidence were more than ever indispensable. We may aid that it was on the eve of contracting a loan. Would it have been preferred that the Ministry, in order to withdraw itself from the systematic attacks of which it was the object, should have compromised so many public and private in terests ? The Ministry mist not, therefore, be re proached with its precipitate retirement. It should, on the contrary, be praised for having delayed it, in order not to check the great movement of business and the negotiations for another loan." We read in the Pays :—" According to the ru mours in circulation yesterday, nothing has been yet decided for the formation of a Ministry. The follow ing list appears to have the greatest chance of suc cesss :—MM. Leon Faucher, Interior ; de Flavigny, Foreign Affairs; General Magnan, War; Fremy, Public Works; Fortoul, Public Instruction; Michel Chevalier, Commerce; Fould, Finance; Baroche, Justice; A. Daru, Marine. According to another version, M. Abbuttucci is to be appointed to Foreign Affairs, M. 0. Barrot to Justice, and M. de Germiny to Finance." - - - - The Debats says :—" From information which we have received, we believe we can state that M. 0. BARROT, being sent for yesterday to the Elyse,•, made hip appearance there in the evening. The conversi tion between the PRESIDENT and that representative turned solely on the general features of the situation. No offer of a portfolio has been positively made to M. ODILON BARROT." _ _ _ It was reported that Count MOLE had been sent for by the PRESIDENT. The Assembly met yesterday, but none of the Ministers were present. The following is one of the many lists of the pro posed Ministry handed about in political circles : Foreign Affairs—The Duke of Bassano. Interior—M. Leon de Malleyllle. Finance—M. Behie. • 'War—General Carrelet. Marine—Admiral Leblanc. Public Instruction—M. Fourtoul. Commerce— M. Greterin. Prefecture of Police —M. St. George. Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Paris— General Magnan, vice General Changarnier. The Journal des Dibals publishes the following as the " Instructions to the troops in case of combat," issued by General CHANGARNIEII, and which the General was prepared to read from the tribune : " Paris, May 4, 1850. "In case of insurrection, the troops will not take up arms or be put in movement except to engage in combat. " If the troops have not received orders before hand, such of each corps as may bo disposable will be imme diately assembled, and will march to the place of combat, leaving behind the number of officers and sub-officers necessary to bring up the absent as they may come in. " One or several detachments shall afterwards be formed, which shall be directed on their respective posi tions, in good order, and with all the precautions which circumstances may require. " At the moment when they shall arrive at their posi tions, the troops will be reminded that no one must leave the ranks; that the law punishes with death any soldier who, during action, absents himself out of con sideration for his personal safety, and that severe punishment also hangs over those who commit acts of pillage. " The corps will go to their posts in military order, without drums or band; they will be preceded by an ad vanced guard, and followed by a rear guard; they will not allow any person to walk on their flanks, and still less to penetrate into their columns. " The corps or detachments will march very rapidly and without paying any attention to mu►ket shots which may be fired at them. When at their post, and have leisure to attend to them, they may send small detachments, energetically commanded, who, when they shall have executed prompt and severe justice on the wretches who shall have dared to fire on the troops, will return at double quick time. The troops, when arrived at their positions, will not permit any one to approach them; a lino of sentinels will keep at the distance of at least 160 yards, not only agitators, but those attracted by curiosity; they will not allow any groups to form, however inoffensive they may apparently be; any attempt to break the line of the troops is to be opposed by force. Posts will be established in tte neigh , bouring houses situated at the corners of the streets, and more particularly in those from whence a view to a dis tance may be obtained, and particularly in the direction of important points of communication. " The troops beieg in position, or even engaged, fre quent beats of the drum are to be made, and the greatest attention is to be paid to prevent any man from leaving his ranks to enter a wine shop. " From their respective positions the troops must en deavour to place themselves in communication with the detachments stationed near them. This is to be It cjg, 4 t 4 t i -1 7: ThZ:r.. o r k 46 t• A ientg ui; LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1351. Political affairs have once more arrived at a crisis in France. A serious contention spri n •i nto gradual importance has estra nge d the ch ief p g u p w o f the State from each other, and in so d o i ng has attesteders the accuracy of the predictions made as to the germs of this pernicious rivalry being latent in the very form of the Republican Constitution. Between the Legis lative Assembly on the one hand, and the PRESIDENT of the French Democracy on the other, a struggle, long p vc-astinated but ever preparing, has at last commenc ed, and the result of.this momentous trial of strength must before long be manifested in some extraordinary catastrophe. It is impossible for even the most in. different tin look on without being moved at a dispute oulcuhsted in any event to prove so peculiarly memo rable-8T dispute, upon the issue of which the desti nies of more than thirty millions of the human family are dependent. Considering, moreover, that the events of this remarkable enmity are transpiring in France, of all countries in Chestendom —the consequence has about it all the uncertainty of a lottery and all the eacitement of speculation. For instance, it would be somewhat difficult to conjecture what may :be the sequel of past occurrences, or how far the population of Fratce may allow themselves tobe carried away by their confUcting sympathies for the disputants. Whether the Assembly is to be invested with a greater au thority than was ever exercised even by the Long Parliament', or whether the PansiontsT is to be en veloped, as Emperor, in the attributes of a permanent Dictatorship, must remain an alternative as dubious as Any questions which hive hitherto appeued to the THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JAN VARY 7, 18b1. effected by means of strong patrol", marching rapidly, and without allowing any obstacle to be formed on their way. " In case barricadei are raised, a distinction must be made bt tween two hypotheses; if the first barricade to be taken does not present any gnat soliAty, a t-tna!l number cf men dashing rapidly forward would probably be able to become masters of it, as insurgeLts in gem rat do not defend any obstacles but those which completely shelter them; it would ba necessary to take the precau tion of showing in the neighbourhood detachments of troops echeiloned at short distances. The fall of the first barricade witl be soon followed by the abandonment of the others erected behind. "F, on the contrary, the barricade is solid, and of such a nature as to reEder any attack on it difficult and sanguinary, the course to be adopted is resolutely, and without paying any attentiela to the complaints of the inhabitants, or to the injury that may be caus"cl to their property, to enter the houses running along the line of the barricade, to ascend into the garrets, and proceed along, making a passage through the walls, which are of no great solidity at that height, until a point be arrived at from which the rear of the barricade may be commended. There is no fear tint the barricade can hold out long after that period. "The most active men can easily, by proceeding along the roofs, arrive ai positions from which tbry can take the insurgents in the rear; and this means ought to be adopted each time that it is practicable. "It will often occur that the barricades can be com manded either on the flank or the rear. These move ments, executed with judgment, wiil frequently put an end to a disturbance previously deemed formidable, and ' they ought to be a!tempted in all cases where the nature of the spot will permit of their being effected. " The General-in-Chief has no doubt that when once the struggle has commenced, the generals and heads of cArps will know how to justify the entire confidence which he puts in them ; and that, assured in advance of his complete approbation of the most energetic measures that they can deem it advisable to take, they will be prepared to meet every eventuality, and assume the offensive in as vigorous a manner as possible without waiting for orders trom him, and which it might not be at all times easy to succeel in placing in their hands. (Signed) " CHANGARNIER, Gt•neral-in Chief." The Patric still declares that the instruction which it published is authentic, that it is not contra dictory to but goes further than the one published by the Dobai, and that it is officially communicated to every officer of every regiment whenever it is ordered to form part of the garrison of Paris, and that it was by an officer of the garrison that it was communi- anted to the Patrie. - The Bourse has seldom been so crowded. There was a tolerable amount of business transacted. The Five per Cents. opened at 94f. 15c., rose to 94f. 40e., fell subsequently to 93f. 90c., and closed at 94f. 15c.; the Three per Cents. closed at 56f._250. Or- leans Railroad Shares, 850 f. ; Rouen, 678 f. 75c. ; Havre, 268 f. 75c. ; Great Northern, 467 f. 50c., ex dividend; Avignon, 190 f.; 390 f. ; Basle, 136• 25c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 351 f. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 2471..50c. - BUSIMSS ot.).:NE I.LN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 6. Boulogne and Amiens, 8% Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 15%—Great Indian Peninsula, 23/4—Luxem bourg, 244—Namur and Liege, 8 3 /—Northern of France, 15 —Orleans and Bordeaux, 4 ex int.—Paris and Roues, 27- -Rouen and Havre, 107 , 8 —Sambre and Meuse, 3—Tours and Nantes, 5. GERMANY. Accounts have been received from Berlin to the 4th. The Lower Chamber re-elected Count SCHWERIN as their President by a large majority. SnuaoN and LENSING were elected Vice-Presidents. The Ruse adjourned without transacting any business of importance. The Ministerial j ,urnals all censure severely the speech of Count RITTBERG on the opening of the Chamber. A further reduction of the Landwehr has been ordered. Accounts from Vienna of the Ist state that General SCIIONHALS, RADETbKY'S favourite Secretary, has been forced by the Government to retire on a pension. Baron KUBECK has been ordered to propose a finan cial scheme to the Government ; and KRAUS, the Finance Minister, is to undertake no financial opera tions without the approval of KUBECS. Affairs in Hesse Cassel remain in statu quo. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. It was reported at Hamburgh on the 4th that the Stadtholderate would resign. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Cape of Good Hope journals, to the 18in Novem ber inclusive, hare reached us. Tranquillity pre- vailed on the frontier, and the Kafirs exhibited the apparent disposition to live in peace under the mild government of Sir H. Smith; but many p°rsons en tertained the notion that as soon as his Excellency should have returned home some attempts would be made to effect an outbreak. A proclamation had been issued by command of Sir H. Smith, stating that the Chief Sandilli having failed to appear at the late meeting, or to account satisfactorily for his absence ; " now be it known that I hereby d-pose the said Sandilli from his rank as a Chief, and that I appoint Charles Brownlee, Esq., Commi-sioner for the Gaika trihe, to assume the direct control of Sandilli's tribes (whose loyalty I have no reason to doub'), under the instructions of the Chief Commissioner of British Kafraria, Colonel Mackinnors." By a notice dated King William's Town, Nov. 6, 1850, and published by command of his Excellency the Governor, it appears that a number of Gaika Chiefs met his Excellency on the previous day and acknowledged that Sandilli had deserved his punish ment—they would sot even attempt to justify him; and Sutu, the mother of Sandilli, who was also pre sent, said " he was not fit to be any longer a chief." Superintendent Davies, of the Kafir police, re ported that he had succeeded in apprehending a Kafir named Umtyopo, who had for some time past busied himself in spreading reports of an impending war amongst the farmers in the neighbourhood of Fort Beaufort. When sufficient evidence should have been obtained to make out a case against this man his Ei cellency would deal with him in such a manner as to prevent his again perpetrating mischief, and as would serve as a warning to others. His Excellency had called upon the inhabitants of the frontier towns voluntarily to form themselves into some sort of a mili.ia , for their defence, as in the event of a Kafir invasion he would take all the troops with him into Kafirland. The Hon. W. Menzies, the first Puisine Judge, died on the Ist November, and was buried on the 4th. R-ports stated that Mr. Rowley, the Registrar of the Supreme Court, would succeed to the vacant seat on the bench. _____ The first number of a new paper was published on the Bth of November, called the Cape Monitor, and is intended to support the Government interests in opposition to the Radical party, headed by Mr. Fairbairn and his political friends. His Royal Highness Prince Albert has most kindly yielded to the solicitations of the managers of the Windsor and Eton Savings Bank, and has accepted the honourary office of president of this institution, in succession to the late Duke of Cambridge. LORD MACDONALD.—A correspondent of the Inverness Advertiser writes: —"Lord Macdonald hasexecutod a trust-deed in favour of James Brown, Esq., accountant in Edinburgh. It is understood that his debts, secured over his properties in Skye and Uist, amount to upwards of 200,0001. North Uist will not bring more than 80,0001. of that sum." Scotsman. To PREVENT TOOTHACHE.—Rub well the gums with a hard tooth-brush, using the flowers of sulphur as a tooth-powder, every night on going to bed, and if it is done after dinner it will be best. This is an excellent preservative for the teeth, and void of any unpleasant smell.— People's Medical Journal. " I shall be most happy," said an expiring husband to his wife, who was weeping most dutifully by the bed. side, " if you will only promise not to marry that object of my un ceasing jealousy, your cousin Charles." " Make yourself quite easy, love," 'said the expectant widow, "I am engaged to his brother." -------- The keenest abuse of our enemies will not hurt us so much in the estimation of the discerning, as the inju dicious praise of our friends. —Eliza Cook's Journal. Mr. Sirrell bas commenced legal proceedings against Mr. Lund, of the metropolitan detective force, for compensation for loss occasioned by reason of closing bis premises. CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. —The Board of Customs have by minute appointed the fol lowing gentlemen for special duty in Hyde-park during the ensuing grand Industrial Exhibition : - Mr. Rolls, of the Landing Surveyor's office, as chief; Mr. T. Fairman, searcher, comptroller of accounts; and Mr. M. D. Crosbie, chief clerk. A numerous staff of clerks, weighers, &c., will also be connected with the department for the purpose of examining the goods, &c., transmitted from'foreign coun tries. It is intended that the duties of the department shall commence on Feb. 1. ACCIDENT AT TUE EXHIBITION, HYDE-EARE.— Yesterday an accident occurred at the building for the Ex hibition in Hyde-park to two of the glaziers, named J. Butt and W. Greenlaw. The men were engaged at work on the machine, or swinging stage; they were pitched out, and fell with the scaffolding to the ground. They were conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where it was ascertained that they had received most extensive injuries, having struck and bounded from girder to girder in the fall. They now lie in a very dangerous state. JOHN ROBINSON'S CASE.—In our last we reportei the trial, at the recent Yolk Assizes, of John Robinson, mas ter of the Wadsley Bridge station, on a charge of felonious assault, preferred Dy Miss Eliza Newton, of Foxhill. The case had excited unusual public attention before the trial, and it has been further increased by the circumstance that Mr. Justice Patteson's remarks, in passing sentence, were in direct contradiction to the finding of the jury, and confirma tory of the defence made by the prisoner from the moment of his apprehension. We understand that the Learned Judge, immediately after his return to London on Friday last, dispatched a communication to Mr. Noble, the Governor of York Castle, remitting that portion of the sentence which imposed hard labour on the prisoner during his two years' confinement. This change in the sentence will probably lead to Robinson undergoing the period of his imprisonment in York Castle instead of the Wakefield House of Correction. It is intended to get up a memorial to Sir George Grey, Se cretary of State, for a commutation of the sentence. Sheffield Independent. rtiE SHARE MARKETS, Rail Ways. BRITISH RAILWAYS Aberdeen.. .. •• 50 Do. Preference •• •• 8 6 8 Ambergate, Nottingham, !I Boston, & E. Juncion 834 Ayrshire and Galloway • • 73.4 Belfast and County Down' 32 Berks and Hants Exten.l (Great %1 estern Per • petual 5 per cent ) •• I 6 Birmingham and Oxford; Junction, ca'ls duly' paid, or with a guar... 20 Do. without a guar... 20 Birming., Wolverhamp ton; and Dudley, calls, duly paid, or with al guarantee • • • • •• I 15 Do. without a guar. •• i 15 Woiverhamp.,' and Stour Valley 13 14 0 Birkenhead, Lamas., and Cheshire Junction •• 26 Bristol and Exeter • • • Buckinghamshire • • • • CaledoniaH •• • • •• j 50 Do. 101. Preference • . 10 Do. Clydesdale June. • •', 50 Chester and Holyhead 50 Do. Preference •• L 15 Clarence .. •• _ .! 78 6 8 Do. Ist Class, 6 per ct. Do. 2.i de., 5 per cent„ Do. Gov. Loa,n,4 pr. ct. Direct Loud. and Portsm. 5 Ni Dublin and Belfast Junct. 45 Dublin and Kingstown 100 Dundalk and Enniskillen 30 East Anglian (251. L. Is 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. 1 • • • • • • 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, guiran. 6 per cent. • • • • East Lancast.ire • • • • Do. New quarters • • Do. 6 per cent. pref. quarter shares.. East Lincolnshire, gua. 6 per cent • • • • • • Edinburgh and Glasgow Edin., Perth, and Dundee Do. Newport .. • • Exeter and Exmouth .. Glasgow and South- West,, Do. pref. cons Ablated De. do. G. D. & C. stock Gloucester Sr. Dean Forest Great Northern • • • • Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, B, 6 per ct. Do. 5 per cent. pref. • • Great Southern and Western, Ireland • Do. eighths .. . Great North of England Do. new 401. . Do. new 301. Do. new 151. Great Western Do. New, 171. .. - Hull and Selby • • • Do. half shares • • • Do. quarter shares - Lancaster and Carlisle . Do. thirds .• • • ••' Lancaster and Preston .. Lancashire and Yorkshire Do. quarter shares .. Do. fifths .. • •• I Do. F. 201. .. • • .. Do. new, guaranteed 6 per cent. .. Do. Rudders. & Sheff. Do. West Riding Union Leeds and Bradford . • Leeds and Thlrsk • • • • Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 1 Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 2 Do. pref. 6 p ct., no. 3 Do. pref. qrs., 1848 .. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport • • • • London and Blackwall • • London, Brighton, and South Coast • • • • Do. guarteed. 5 per ct., late Croydsn thirds • • Do. preference, 5 p ct. Do. preference, cony. 5 per cent., 1852 .• Do. new guaranteed, 6 per cent. .. • • London and Greenwich . Do. preference .. • • London and N.-Western Do. do. new quarters . Do. fifths .. • • Do. 101. sh., M.& B (c) London and S.-5% estern . Do. new 501. • • Do. new 401. .. • • 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 Mattock • • • . • • M anchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire • • • . De. quarters, No. 1 • • Do. new, 10/ preference Do., 61. Preference • • Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union • • Midland • • • • • • • • Do. consolidated pref. Do. 501. shares . • • • Do. Bit ming & Derby Do. Consol. Bristol & firming., 6 per cent.l Do. Bristol & Glouces.' Do. do. do. .. 1 Do. Erewash Val. pref. I Do. Leic. & Swanning. 8 per cent. guar. • • Midland Gt. West. (Ire.)l Middlesbro' and Redcar,l 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and Carlisle.. Do. quarter shares .. N ewmarket • • • • • • Do. extension scrip • • Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford • • • • Newry & Enniskillen • • Newry, NV arrenpoint, Sc Rostrevor • - • • • • Norfolk • • • • • - • • Do. New 201. shares • - ()O. Extension • • • • Do. guar. 5% per cent. Waveney Valley.. Northern Counties Union, N orth British...... Do. I reference • • North Staffordshire • • North-Western . • • • Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. • • Preston and Wyre •• Do. Halves (A) • • • • Reading, Guildford, and Reigate.. • • • • • - Royston and Ilitchin Shepreth Exten.• • Scottish Central .• • • Scottish Midland .• • • Do. new . • • • • S arewsbury & firming. Clas 3 A.. •• .• • • Do. Class 8.. • • . • Do. New Guarantee.. Shrewsbury & Hereford. Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) • • .. Do. Hal/es .. • . Do. ()west* , • • • • Do. New.. • . • • • • Do. K per cent. Pref. . Shropthire Union • • • • South Devon • • • • • • Do. Preference • • • • South Staffordshire • • South-Eastern • • • • Do. do. 4% per cent... South Wales.. . • • • South Yorksh. and River Dun Shell., Roth., and Goole, N. Div., guar.s p cent. Do. do. South Div. Swansea & Loughor, &c. raw Vale Extension • • Thames Haven Dock and Railway .• • • • • Wale of Neath • • • • Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick Waterford, Wex., Wick., and Dublin • • • • Wear Valley, 6 per cent. guaranteed • • Do. do. Do. do. West Cornwall .. Whitehaven and Furness Windsor, Staines, and S. Western • • • • • • Wilts, Somerset, & Wey naetith York, Newcastle, & Ber wick .• • • • • • • Ditto and Newcastle, Extension Ditto G.N.E. purchase or preference • . .- Do. • • .. Do.• Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway .. York and North Midland Do. Preference .. 4 2 0! 29 16 0 do. .. do. .. Boulogne and Amiens .. Central of France (Or• leans and Vierzon) • • Demerara . .. • • Dutch Rhenish • • • • East Indian • • • • Do. do. do. • • Great Indian Penlnaula•• 100 47% 2 12 0 Ditto ditto • • • Louvain ala Sambre .. Luxembourg .• •• •• 13 5 3 9 12 3 paid up paid up Ditto • • • • •• • • Madrid and V alentia Maria MAORI* Ditto, New .. •. Namur and Liege N orthern of France .. Orleans and Bordeaux .. Paris and Orleans .. Paris and Rouen • • • • Paris and Strasbourg .. Rouen and Havre . Sambre and Meuse •• Strasboarg and Basle .. Tours and Nantes .. Tournay, Jurbise, Lan- den, and liasselt West Flanders . Australasia . . • • .• • • • • • • British North America.. Colonial ...• ••••• • • • " Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock .... London and Westminster National Provincial Eng. IT F,TI _ Do. New •••••••••••• N a tional of Ireland •• Provincial of Ireland.... - Do. New .. • •• • • .... 1:Inion of Australia .... ...__ _ Do. New Anion of London ...... VniOA of ArAdlici ......, raid. 100 17% 6 13 41 6 13 4j 10 to 104 % 1 dis .. _ .. 3 % , - 1 p. 29 -30 27 -28 25 50 25 15 1 0 8 6 81 8- 9 p 7- 8 p 2% 100 10 —ll% 76 -77 17% - 1 8 10% - 10% 5 -‘”,i liS -17 13% - 14 3% -3% 2% -2% 1%-114 1 -1% x -1 i -6% 10% - 11 55 -57 55 -57 4 6 p 6 -7 .. - .. 4% -4% 18% - 19% 12 - 12% 2%-2 32 - 32% 28 -29 6 - 7 4 - % 17% - 18 b% —6% 11 —II4 12% 12% 11 13 4' 47% 100 23% 11% 128 - 132 57 -60 100 12 15 4 137 - 139 114 - 12 -IV: 100 42% .. - .. 13 -15 25 7)6 FOREIGN. 5% —5% dig. 2i -22 % N P % dii. % P 3 4 2 4 2 --- 2 4 4 0 53 p• 77% —78% 4 dis. 99 101 49% 50% 22 —23 6i —7O 5% —6% p. 26 —27 p 56 —57 10% 1014 dis. 7% 7 dis. 1% 1!4 dls. 1 - 3% dls. 93% 26% 12% 13% 3% —2% dbl. 3% 3 die. i~—'die. 35 •• ,-.- • 6% -• 6S 8734 - 8834 10% - 11 57 -60 2351, -_24N 3% -3% P. 4 -4% p. 2% -2% p. 78 -79 i 2 —ll Ws. to% —9% dis, 2 p. 4% 3",'i, dis.l 26 -27 11 - 12 10 -10% % - % P 3 die. , 46 4734 19% —l9 dis. 24 —26 1 128 - 129 .. ... • • •• .... •• 2% -. B}i 22 —24 15 —l4 dle. 16 —l7 4)4 5 2% 5i 614 % P PM 10x % 8% —9 4% —5% 8% —B% die. 17 -17% 41% -424 7% - 8 34 D• 18%-19M - 8 1 - 1M p. 13% - 14►% 7 - 8 5 - 534 51( —5% die. —4% dis.' 10 —lO% 12 —l4 6 9% 10% 1% 1 dia. 13% 14 3% —3% dli. 14 —l6 11 —l3 —3% db. 22% 23%, •• -- •• 22 --- 23 3 2 K db. .• • • 9 7 dls. _7% —6% dis. 3 5 16% 18 .. ,•, • • .. - .. 20% 21 - % S - 834 44 -45 18N - 19 fli 6 dis.l 3 —214 dia. 16 —l7 33i —4 22% 1 % dis. 8% -9 15% - 15% 4% itli, die. S I% Pm. 1 4 - 34 Pm. % - 14 Pm. I -1U 2% -2% 8% 9 14% 15 144 ..._ 374,1111.24.1 n 34 —36 261 , 4 27 4 6 , —si, dls. 10% —II% 2%--aye Business done to-day. 1656 !3)t 14IA 137 (14% 17X 18 17% 634'4 78 % P 57% % 57 13 1 ,4 % 6U % 87 881 s 24% 123% % 123 20% 78 79 78% die. 47% ji 48 16 IA 15h 2% 3 s(% 9% 1734 17 U 14 1 A 714.8 5% 34 Ms* 4 lij dit. 23% Ai 3 les 14 ii 13% 7 6% 22% % % 9 Sy s 14% % 3% mint. 9 8 10% 236 3 10% - - 9 . 7 . 4, Ws. IlVe cannot be answen Rill not be influenced by Consols ... Ditto Account 47 b .. - .. IN - 136 !K BANKS. 28 -30% 42% -43 9% - 10 25 -25% 18% -19% 27% -28% 31 42% . x,d. 17% - 18 42 - 4”4 '15% - 151( 34% - 35 12% - i 134 Paid. Nominal Prices. Business do. . 1 to-day. --- Anglo-l'd exican(is. 5L p.) 100 .• —•• Asturian .... •, • • ...... 15 .. —.. Australian .. .. •••• • • .. 4 3 1 4 3 Barossa Range .. •.... 113 0 3% —3% Blaenarvoll Iron and Coal 50 • • —.. Bolanos Scrip ........ • • • • —• • British Iron.. • ... • ..... 13 5 .. —• • Brazilian Imp (is. Si. p.) 24% .. —• • Do. Cocacs and Culaba 30 3% 3 1 4 De. St. John del hey. • 15 14% 11 1 ,4 Cobre Copper • .... ... 40 32% 35% Copiapo ............ • • 14 5% —5% General.. •............. 20 13% 13% Real Del Monte, Uureg. % % Do. Black Debentures .1 .. —• . Do. Red Debentures .. • • • • Santiago de Cuba ......1 10 9 —7% Tin Croft .. • • • • • • • • ! 7 10% 11 United Mexican —••.• • • '2B 28% 6 —s3i 5% MISCELLANEOUS. / Canada .... ••• • • ..... 32% 42% —44 Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 26% 27 Penin. & Oriental Steam. 50 73xi —bo x. all ex.al Royal Alan Steam .. •• .. 60 73 —74 174 3% [We cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Lists, and will not be influenced by interested correspondents.] MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yeaterJay were esti mated at 5 000 bales, all to the trade, comprising about 4 000 American, 350 Egyptian, at 841. to 9d.; and 300 Surat, ut 51 to 61. per lb. The market was quiet at previous rates —Railway Shares were dull and heavy at rather lower prices. The steamer America has arrived with the United States and Canada mails. There had been no variation in quotations for foreign exchange since the departure of the Arctic. Drawers were firm, but the demand bad not been very active. Tee quotations were—on London, 105 to 104 per cent. premium; on Paris, sf. 114 c. to sf. 10e.; Amsterdam, 414 to 414; Hamburgb, 364 to 37; Bremen, 794 to 80. The exports of specie from New York, for the week ending the 21st ult., amounted to 355,104 dolls., nearly two-thirds of which were silver. Total export for 1850, 9,221,191 dolls. Respecting the market for American State Securities, we are advised from New York, that " with one or two exceptions prices do not range higher than at this time last wt ek, while the favourable appearance of political affairs in Europe is certainly equal to the advance realiz.d on the exceptions alluded to. It is possible that in view of the favourable news from the other side, an advance in most of the fancies will be re. aliza; but we hardly conceive it possible for that advance to amount to more than two or three per cent. at the utmost. It present prices are sustained, it is a great thing gained, and as much as holders can expect at this season of the year. It prices go on improving as they have for some time past, we cannot see what mar gin there will be for the " spring rise," even in the event of political events continuing tranquil. The spirit of speculation runs as high at this moment as at any previous time this year; and there appears to be no let up to the excitement. It is, however, pretty certain that fancy stocks generally are accumulating in Wall. street; that they are becoming concentrated in the hands of brokers, who will doubtless find it difficult to get rid of them again unless at a depte,:iation. If the advance in prices continues long at the rate realised to-day, there must be a collapse of a most disastrous character. The rise has been too rapid to be permanent, and a reaction of some importance, will, without doubt, be the result. Accounts of December 12th from Porto Rico state that abundant mists had prevailed throughout the island, and the prospects for the coming crops were very flat tering. A small parcel of new sugar had been sold on the north side at 54c. for St. Thomas, It was generally supposed that Sugars would open at 3 dolls. to 4 dolls. as per quality. Molasses 10c. to 12e. per gallon. Nothing had been doing in Coffee, the picking of which had been much retarded by the heavy rains. Considerable excitement had lately prevailed on the island, occasioned by the report of an intended invasion by Narcisso Lopez from Hayti, and heavy detachments et' troops had been ordered to Mayaguts, the nearest point to Ha) ti. The St. John's New Brunswick courier states:— " Since the alteration of the navigation laws, allowing foreign ships to carry cargoes between the colonies and the mother country, there bare been up to the present date 50 foreign vessels loaded at this port for Great Bri tain with timber, deals, &c., the total tonnage of which amounted to 21,609 tons. Of these, 21 vessels belonged to the United States, 10 to Prussia, 10 to Norway, 6 to Germany, 1 to Denmark, 1 to Austria , and 1 to Naples." A paragraph in the Newfoundland Times gives an ac count of a very strange phenomena which recently oc curred in the neighbourhood of Conception Bay. It says that the whole island is in all probability rising out of the ocean, with a rapidity which threatens at no far-off period, materially to affect if not utterly destroy many of the best harbours on the coast of Newfound. land. A series of observations, made by a number of scientific gentlemen at Port-de-Grace, it is asserted, proves beyond a doubt that the sea level in the vicinity is being rapidly displaced. The Montreal Herald publishes a table of the move ment by canals, upwards, during the past season, which presents a most gratifying picture of the increasing value of the canals. The amount carried is more than 50 per cent. larger than in 1849, the quantity in that year being 40,479 tons, while this year it is 60,566 tons. In salt and coal there is a reduction; 4 214 tons salt and 1,178 of coal, rgainst 6,1 4 1, both united in 1849, but in every other article there is an increase; of rail road pig iron, and broken castings, there was carried in 1849, 11,439 tons, while this year there was 23,466 toes; of fish there was 1,074 tons, against this year 1,768 tons ; of earthenware, 1,769 tons, against 1,047; in sugar and molasses there is an enormous increase, 3,431 tons, against 990 tons in 1849. This shows the much larger amount bought of these articles in Montreal, than during the previous year, and the consequent decrease in the trade with the Sates. Of castings, bar iron, and nails, 5 565 tons against 10,262 tons in 1950 ; and, of general merchandiz,, 14,223 tons in 1849, against 14,492 during the past year. Accounts from Leipsic announce the preparations for commencing the fair, but up to the Ist inst. the number of merchants who had arrived was small. At Ht►mburgh last Friday the exchange on London rose schilling. Coffee was very quiet, but raw Sugar was in more demand. Grain was (lull. The Funds opened with rather au improving appear ance, but a supply of money stock, this being the first Transfer day, has occasioned a reaction, and the oppor tunity has been taken to circulate a report that Louis Napoleon and Changarnier have had a quarrel. Consols were 964 and are now 964 Exchequer-bills have been 59a. to 625. premium, and India Bonds 754. to 78s. premium. Bank Stock has risen to 213 and 214. The National Debt Commissioners will invest 868,7881. this quarter in Three per Cent. Reduced An nuities. Foreign Securities have been heavy owing to the de cline in Consols. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been quoted 344, and Spanish Three per Cents. are nominally 38 to I. Mexican Bonds aro worth 34i to 354, being aho lower. Brasil Bonds have realised 894. Railway Shares have maintained about previous values, and there is more confidence, although the dealings are by no means large. The Colonial Bank proprietors have held their meet ing to-day, and have received a tolerably favourable re port. The dividend declared is the same as at the last meeting. QUARTER TO 96 THREE 96i ONE CLOSING "RILES OF BRITISIII , UNDi O'CLOCK. PRICES. B A 11.4. Stoca 3 :.or Cent. Reduced A nqs. ....... ... 97% 1 A 97 1 4 1 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities «... 96%34 1 % 96% ex d. New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anus.. ...--•••••• 98 %31% 98 3 4 Long Anne. to expire J an. 1860 ...... 7 3 / 4 7 3 / 4 fruiiB Bonds, 1,000/..... ..... .. .......... 75 78 p 73 p Ditto under 1,0001.—..... ....... .... 75 78 p 1,78 p Consols for Account ................. ... 96 3 4 y a % 96% Exchequer Bills. 1 1 4 d. & 2d 1,000/. June .............. 500/. June Small. June 59 62 p 62 p G 2 p 62 P CLOSING PRICES. 89 1 / 2 88% 87 87% 105 65 17% ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Lrazilian Bonds 89% Ditto, Small Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 Ditto, Small Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent .... lO5 Ditto,l3 per Cent — Grenada Bonds, 1 1 / 2 per Cent M ,xican. 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto, Account ....—.. Peruvian Bonds, 4 1 A t per Cent-- Ditto, Account Ditto, Deferred Po. tugueee 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent. R issian Bonds Ditto, 4% per Cent Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent Dividends on the above psyible in London Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. Ditt , ). 4 per Cent. Certifiv,ates — 90% 351 1 4 34% 8 79% 34% 34 3 4 110 f% 96 x d 3112 LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.—( THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 7.—Wind at noon S.E., light breeze and fine weather. WATERFORD, JAN. s.—Wind S. to S.W. and W.N. W. —Arrd. B , njacnin Boyd, Camaroona. KENMARE RIVER.—Arrd. Elizabeth, Trinidad, for the Clyde.. BERWICK.—Arrd. Johannes, Callao. MALAGA, DEc. Charlotte Maria, of Poole, Liverpool to Brindisi, put in, 24th, making twelve inches water per hour; it is supposed roust discharge and be hove down. YARMOUTH, NOVA SIOTIA.—The Sarah blilledge, of Galway, Liverpool to St. John's, New Brunswick, put into Shilhurne on the 13th Dec., in a leaky condition, having struck upon the Brazil Rock, near Cape Sab!e; fell off during a snow :quail on the 11th; has been sur veyed, and will discharge. QUEBEC, DEC. 20.—The weather hai been very cold for the last few days, and th• 9 river is full of ice. THEDDLETHORPE, JAN 6.—The Carnerten steamer, Rotterdam to Hull, is on the Rose Sand, off Saltfleet, but expected off. OFF DUNGENESS.—Quebec packet, Cape of Good Hope. OFF THE WIGHT.—Sir Robert Peel, Chadwick, New York. DUBLIN, JAN. 6.—A red buoy, marked " Saud% Ark low Bank, " bas been picked up and taken on to Jack's Hall Coast Guard station. FALMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Wind E.S.E., strong gales.— Arrd. iirvtagno, Arica, for Havre. ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT, JAN. s.—The starboard side of the main deck of a vessel, of about 160 tons burden, Apparently American built, and *bout six years old, which has not long been in the water, bas been piest. ui• here.; th, companion I,i painted green, and the cab::. whit ,14ainq the deck. BEAUMARIS. JAN. s.—The Hibernia, Workington to has been got off the Friars LIVERPOOL, JAN. 6.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Delhi, Cal cutta; Ben 14 , ,m0nd, Bombay; Reliance, Demerara; Lancaster, ditto; Princeton, New York; Montezuma, ditto; Warrior, ditto; Meg !Jennies, Manilla; Mon trose, Calcutta; Lady Bruce, ditto; Jane Ham mond, St. Stephen's. Put back, Pl-cenix, Maranhsn. The Moat(zum e, arrd. here from New York, reports having encountered heavy gales on the 25th December at W.S.W., and Ist January from W. Arrd. other yes sell, report equally heavy weather about those dates. It hlew a violent gale at New York on the 23d December from S.W. to N. The Zion's Hope, from Calcutta, encount( red a high and dangerous sea from the eastward, with only a strong breeze blowing, 26th October, in lat. 33 S., long. 31 E., and the following day, the tea still continuing very high, with but little wind, the ship's head was pat to the Eastward. Itwas feared that a heavy gale was raging mar the ship's position. The Jeremiah Garnett, arrived here from Shanghae ,fell in with two canoes, containing 19 persons of a dark eopp 'r colour, 7th September, off the coast of Guinea, who bad been blown off the land 13 days previously, and were in a state of starvation. They were all, except one. who died on board the ship, landed at St. David's Island. SHIELDS, JAN. 6.—The Nymph, of Teignmonth, and the John, of Scarborough, have bea❑ in collision, and both received damage. FALMOUTH, JAN. 6.—The Ilenriette, Region (Hano verian schooner) Newport to the Cape de Verda, foundered Ist inst. let 46 N., long. 9 W.; crew saved. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) 2/43Y INICAZOILNITIC. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31155; Clover, 31 Os to 41 Os ; and Straw, 1/ Os to 11 6s per load. Supply good, and trade very dull. CUMBERLAND. Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31 17s I Clover, 31 Os to 410 s; and Straw, 11 11 to 11 7s per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. WRITECHAPEL. Meadow Hay, 21 5a to 31 15e Clover, 310 s to 410 s; and Straw, 1/ Is to 116 s per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. COLONLAM. Sue:wt.—British Plantation is firm, and the transac tions amount to about 600 hhds, including 160 Barbadoes by auction,which sold briskly at 41s to 445, being nearly 6 , 1 dearer for the lower kinds. Mauritius went off with spirit at about a similar improvement; good strong grey ish refining at 395 6d to 41s. Bengal mostly sold at full prices; grainy white, good to fine, 45s to 50s; low to mid white Benares, 41s 6d to 43s 6d, and brown at 318 6d to 325. FORElGN.—Transactions are limited to 200 hhds Porto Rico, at 385 to 445. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 772 hhds 11 trcs 216 brls. There were taken for home consumption 940 hhds 82 tree 107 brls. The stock in the same places is 7,215 hhds 738 trcs 1,470 brls. CuFFEE.—Native Ceylon sold at a decline of Is to is 6d per cwt. Plantation Ceylon was in moderate de mand, at prices ranging from 60s to 635. Cocos. is firm at previous quotations. Rum continues in good demand, and small parcels 0 ' Jamaica, Demerara, and East India, sold at fully pre vious rates. The quantity landed last week at the Bait and West India Docks was 254 puns 37 hhds. There were taken for home consumption 335 puns 22 hhds, and er ported 20 puns 27 hhds. The stock in the same places is 14,271 puns 1,423 hhds. RICE.—A limited business only has been done in this article, the demand being almost exclusively for smell West India orders. SALTPETRE.—A large business has been done at so improvement or 3d to 6d per OWL TALLOW.— P.Y.C. is 37s 3d to 37s 6d per cwt on the spot, and Town 398 6d. TEA.—The deliveries have been to a fair extent, bu t the market is not very active. 15 11 6 3 Nominal Prices. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY)' OLD COURT; (Before the RECORDER.) Moses Barnett, a Jew, about forty-five years of age' was placed at the bar and indicted with feloniously citing one Henry Sellers to steal 6 1 bs. of indigo, and w i t : afterwards feloniously receiving the same, well known* it to have been stolen. The prisoner, who was defended by Mr. Huddlestoo e, pleaded not guilty. Mr. Ballantine conducted the pro' secution. Henry Sellers, the prosecutor, said—l am fifteen rei r° of age, and live at 5, Brown's-buildings, with my . fatbq' who is employed as a workman in the East 1 01 ! warehouse. I was in the service of Messrs. Wfn`" Newman, and Co., indigo-brokers, as an errand-OP nine months before I saw the prisoner. I saw the prig °. ner for the first time in October last. I was in Mincing; lane with another errand boy. The prisoner called O a " Boy," and beckoned me to him. I left the other boy . 141) ,„ went to the prisoner, who met me half-way, and tnv" we walked back to the pavement where he was beforl He asked me if I was not in the indigo trade, and I NI/ I was. He then asked who my employers were, an' replied Messrs. Newman and Co. He asked me if lb% were not relatives of Wych and Gadsbury, of G e7 ,f Toner-street, and I said they were. He asked my master had any old indigo samples for sale, er th o told him he had not, as master always r e t u rnee samples to the warehouse. Ile stopped to c oneide& arid I asked him what he wanted with me. He asi tc ; me whom I let have any due., and I told him I had tr. perquisites. Sometimes the indigo dust is the perqui/ l id of buys. He asked me if I received high wages. 1 tn i o him I did not; my n ages were ss. a weak, but I lc ; sometimes employed on " sale days," and I then, go! more. He said that was very low, and he knew Aid who were not so old as I who got more money. I Ag e I was satisfied , the wotk was light, and my master o very kind to me. He said he could , r Le p a rue how I could get more money. 1 nn - o , him how that was, and he replied " Your master Wl' great many indigo samples, say 100, and if you ta r in g square square out of each, you will have 100 ounces, and b , r n i os them to me, and I shell buy them of you." He di d t? then say how much he would give for them. I told 1 1 1 . I could not do it, and that an honest penny was w° rl silver shilling; and then the other boy came up, and sandWych, I am going," (we go by our masters' names) , t e , I said," Good bye, Wood;" that's his employer's 111 / 1 i ) , He then went through the sale room, and Barnett ( se e prisoner) left me, and followed him. I did 11 1 : 4 , 00 1 whether the prisoner followed him. That was nu , 0 half-past ten in the morning. I saw the prisoner next day, and frequently between that time and the December, perhaps three times a week or more, bu tiv shunned him as much as I could. He always cam e os to me, and asked me if I bad made up my mind* p e t) Friday, the Bth of Dectmber, I saw him bets e t Hart-street and Crutched Friars. The sales were °' o then, and I was out of employ, and had hed. ra g work during the whole of the week, and was slap a l thinking, and he came up to me and asked what I I/ 01 breaking my head about when the golden ball 1v 11 , 9 0 ,1 near my band? I told him nothing. He then ask e d if I had made up my mind, and I said yea; and I n 6 .4 him if I would bring him dome down on Saturday' , n o o he said " No, that is my Sabbath; but let me 50 1 0 0 down on Monday morning as early as possible;" ns"., o s the Monday I went to my m as t er ' s to see if there " 0 ,1 any thing to do. I went a b out n i ne i n t h e mor niog,ll, I took down 51b, of indigo and weighed it. On the day the prison e r t o ld me w h ere h e li ve d. I took * s e indigo out of a chest, and put it into two brown P n P t ill parcels, one in e ac h p oc k e t, an d too k i t to 13ntlite.-01 house, which is an old cl o th es ' s h op , I go t there ab le • a quarter to ten, and Mrs. Barnett was standing ti t 01 door. She opened the door and let me in, and c alled ( ./ co " Barney." There was a servant in the kitchen , W i e l h i efl is behind the s h o p. B arnet t ( t h e pr i so ner) crime out of the parlo ur on th e o th er s ide of I s l, o passage. He looked round and saw the servant io h . of kitchen, and h e th en sa id, " Oh, you want 133,;" trowsers," and he put a pair of t r o w sers in my !W I T be looked at them and did not know what to say at ben said " Oh, th e y d on ' t su it y ou; come thi s way," and 'po; he took me behind his counter. The servant could a i see us th en . Th ere were som e sca l es on th e floor, 6 , 1) 01 , took the indi go ou t of my pockets and ga ve it to P o d He untied the strings and put the indigo in the scale , o id said there were only 31bs., and I looked down and; there were slbs., and he said, " Oh, ah, I have no sole mistake," and he gave me four shillings and tit° 0 10 pences. I then left. On the following day I f 4lbs. more, and brought it to bin to 16, Grace's-111 e Wells -street, nearly opposite the Seaman's Home. t ,O was at the door when I got there, and when we we n Of he showed me a meerschaum pipe, and I asked him for price of it, and he said he would take 61bs. of indig ° o o4 it; he afterwards said he would take 41bs. for it', trust to my generosity for the rest.—(Laughter' ) 6e told him he wanted too much —be wanteu.; o o l for a pipe I could buy anywhere for 2s. 6d. He P r "4 l4 up the pipe, b u t I g ot off by telling him I did not el! 3 • 01 Ile gave me 4a. for the indigo. The wife came in ;a asked me whether I could get any saffron, and I e s o o would see. She wanted the saffron to colour soup ' . d 110 saffron was sold at 325. per lb., and the p r isoner an t o l would give me a good price -4d. an ounce. I went „ "btss day to my master's and looked out for some saffro n ' for could get none; but I brought 41b. of cochillen" dei which I got 43. from the prisoner. On the following et' I stole 51b, more of the i n di go an d b roug ht it $ ( , / 0 nett, and he said " Y ou are go i ng on any w ay ' l it ( 1° maid drinks."—(L aug h ter. ) I to ld hi m I cou ld nn t i any better. I sp o k e i nso l ent l y to hi m , b ut Ido 110 ..0 O r collect the very wor d s use d , an d b e sa id " Take ca r 0t split." On the following morning I stole rie • n , 101 b. mor e o f i n di go; I was d etecte d that 0 , dip was going into the counting-house, and the 113 0 0$ was in my pocket. I cut slits inside nif s iva to put the indigo in. An officer was then u ed in, and the indigo taken from me was 2 ° 0 1. 0 with an A. I left one bag behind, and took t he - Vie to the prisoner's house. He was at the door', its officers came behind me in plain clothes. I gav e un to% digo to the prisoner and he tot kit behind the n n i h ad and gave me 45., which I kept in my right hand. c oo only a penny with me when I went in. I then the out and gave a signal to the officer , and gave bu n mo Cr os ney the Pr s-examined by Mr. HUDDLESTONE for ewe soner—l ens in the employ of Mr. Hoperof t, agent, before I went to Messrs. Wych, but I wa ' r turned away by him. I never told my master g o ner' father father and mother of the conversation with the Prig of!, becatpre I thought I had sufficient strength in my A I fortitude to keep away from him, and because gn etr I t-_ , ld them they would have the Jew taken up. g lijoit' the money in pastry, tobacco, apples, nuts, And nese. I smoked. v iii Frederick George Woodgete, boy who last witness, confirmed his testimony RS tO the V .- e yes' beckoning and speaking to Sellers en the &et $lO Witness's employers were also indigo brokers* a 4 0' prisoner had spoken to him three or four times w peal Jived the r M for to w hone foul Part Cr had I empl T 1 TI 'Bone 311011 Ber g Mag TI Jc tixt] Ste thre llStic pear band Urge A obta sellii non] dire( &eta oh sr the icon whc the] *I fr e NI