The Sun. — London, England, 1851-01-16 00:00:00

NEW STORY OF SCOTTISH LIFE, by the Author of " MAEGATZET MAITLAND." New ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vole., 111 E It K L By the Author of A N D. " l'as,•ages in thz Life 9f Mrs. Margaret Maitland of Sunny Side." "Every page of this profoundly interesting book will be eagerly Perused by the thousands who have sympathised with the joys and sorrows of gentle Mrs. Margaret Maitland.'—Weekly Chroni'_ile. "No reader will charge us with indulging much exaggeration in saying that the Merits of ` Merkland' entitle it to rank with those unrivalled -works which have conferred enduring honour upon the country of the great author, by obtaining the emphatic name of ` the i..lt , )ttisii Novels.' In ' Merkland' we have abundance of incident woveu into an admirable story, and a group of characters as interest ing as ever were collected in ono tale."—Standard. Henry Cotburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. James Anderson. THIS EVENING, Will be presented by her Majesty's Servants Ist time, a new Comedy, called, THE OLD LOVE AND THE NEW. Sir Algenion Courtoun, Mr. Cooper; Major Stock, Mr. Emery; Captain Sidney Courtoun, Mr. J. Anderson ; Mr. Haythorn, Mr. Barrett ; Miss Trimmer, Mrs. Tvrnan ; Camilla Haythorn, Mrs. Nisbett ; Cherry Bounce, Mrs. Walter Lacy. After which an entirely New Grand, Historical, Emblematical, Aerostatical, Gastronomical, Metaphorical, Musical, Poetical, "focal, Municipal, Juvenile, Pantomical Pantomime, by E. Fitzball, the po pular author of " Za-ze-zl-zo-zu," entitled HARLEQUIN and lIUMPTY DUMPTY; or, Bobbin de Bobbin _ _ and the First Lord Mayor of Lun'tin. Private Boxes, 31.35., 2/ ►23. 6d., 2/. 23., 1/. 115. 6d., and 11. Is. To be obtained on application at the Box-office ; Mr. Sam's Libarary, James's-street ; Messrs. Mitchell fibers and Co.; Andrews and Aloft, Bt.id-street; at Jullien's Music Warehouse, Regent strset ; Chappets, New Bond-street; Leader and Cocks, 63, New 1:ond-street ; itansford and Co., New Bond-street; and Batley and Moon, Carlton Library. 12, Regent-street. Stalls, ss. each. First Price—Dress C i rcle, Od. ; Boxes, 45. ; Pit. 2s. 6d. ; Lower Gallery, is.; Cpper Gallery, 6:1.. Second Price at Nina o'Clock—l►ress Circle, 2s 6,1. ; Boxes, 25.; Pit, Is. 6d. No Half-price to Cpper or Lower Galleries. The Box-office open from 11 till 4. It is respectl uliy intl. - wed that seats in the Boxes cannot be reserved after the First Act of the Play. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. MR. MAC READY. THIS EVENING. Will be perfor.ned the Pl;tiof VIRGINIUS. Virginias, Mr. Ma cready. Atter which a new translation of THE SECOND CALENDAR and the QUEEN of BEAUTY who had the Fight with the Genie. Priacipal characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Selby, Lebarr, Buckstone, Hrs. L. S. Buckingham, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Miss P. Horton, and Miss A. Romer. TIIEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed an entirely new grand Drama.in 3 acts, entitled T.ELPHEGOR THE MOUNTEBANK ; or, The Pride of Birth. Duke de Montbazon, Mr. Hughes ; Count de St. Cyr, Mr. Boyce ; The Chevalier de Rolac, Mr. 0. Smith ; Guillaume, surnamed Bel phegor, Mr. B. Webster; Ajax, alias Mr. Merryman, Mr. Wright ; Captain Puffores, Mr. Worrell ; Madeliene, Madame Celeste ; Nini Flora Aphrodite Stilz, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by a new Extravaganza called LA TARANTULA ; or, the Spider 'Xing. Characters by Messrs, Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Miss K. Fitzwilliam, Madame Celeste, &c. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Keaa and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Shakespere'a nay of TWELFTH NIGHT. Characters by Messrs. Belton, Ryder, Addison, J. Vining, Meadow:, Keeley ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss r hillips, 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. Fiexmore ; Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and Columbine, Miss Carlotta Le Clercq. Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. Massingham ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office, Oxford-street, from Eleven till Feur o'clock. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vest's. sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE IIANDSOME HUSBAND. Alta' 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 RINGDOVES, in which Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, Basil Baker, Mrs. F. Matthews, and Miss M. Oliver will appear. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Farren. Great hit of the Romance of the Nose. THIS EVE SING. Will be perfor ned ALL THAT GMT TEL'S IS NOT GOLD. TO he followed by PRINCE DORUS; or, The Romance of the Nose, In which Messrs. 11. Farren, Compton, Shalders, W. Farren, ; Mesdames Louisa Howard, Ellen Turner, and Ms.dlle. Adele will appear. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Extraordinary series of attractive novelties. Madre. Gardoni on the Tight Rope. First Juvenile Night. - THIS EVENING To commence with an entirely new anti original grand historical 'Equestrian Christmas Pantomime, written expressly for this Theatre, by the author of " Bluff King Hal," to be entitled HARLEQUIN AND O'D OG HUE ; or, The White Horse of Killarney. Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle. To conc'ude with The Grand new Spectacle of KENNILNI ORTH ; or the Golden Days of the Virgin Queen, with new and costly costumes, Box-eMee open from Eleven - till Four. Stage Manager, Mi. T. Thompson. iilC.ll WATER Al LONDON' BRIDGE Tuts D —:darning 20 rain. after 12 I Evening 45 min. after 12 T9-Moanow—Morning 12 min. after 1 J Evening 36 min. after 1 T!fl WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JANUARY 16 THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 48—highest since noon yesterday. 3.s—lowest this morning and during the night. 4G—this day, at noon. BAII.OMETESC, 29-7. WZID S.S. W.—Morning. fine; Afternoon, strong breeze and cloudy. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following Place's at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. liixosTowx ( D cams ) —Wind S.S. E., strong breeze— overcast. PLY3torric—Wind S.E., heavy gale—overcast. PoitTsmot,Trr—W iful S. E., strong breeze—partially cloudy. liutufurol.;—Wind E., strong breeze—overcast. LIASTESGS.—Wind S., hard wind—partially cloudy. niUTHA3C'TON— Wind S.W.. strong breeze—partially cloudy. FoLuEs•ToNE—Wind S.. hard wind—overcast. TuNeitir •GE—Wind S.W., strong breeze —partially cloudy. I. l AsomesToKE Wind S., strong breeze—overcast. GRENTCAY ICH—Wind S.E. ' hard wind—partially Cloudy. Swrox)x—Wind S.E., fresh breeze—overcast. Ox}..c•itrv—Wind S.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy. iiRMTOL —Wind S.S.W., blowing a gale. CoLcizatirrErt—Wind S.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy. ConsuiDGE—Wind S.E., strong breeze—cloudy. Itty.inv—Wind S.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy. liritmiNC:ticit —Wind E., strong breeze—overcast. PETiousonouGH—Wind S.E., strong breeze—overcast. ARMOCIII—Wind S., hard wind—rain. CHEWU—Wind S.S.E., fresh breeze— cloudy. lAN - Et:Toot—Wind SE. strong breeze —*sanest. MAxmlEsTEß—Wind strong breeze— overcast. La ZIA— Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. Iroa-tzWind S.E., gentle breeze—rain. LAY cAsratt—Wind S.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy. IV)l[ll3Y—Wind S., stror g breeze—foggy. DArrmturox—Wind S., strong breeze —overcast. V HAT—Wind E., strong breeze—overcast. CARLISLE—Wind S.E., strong breeze—overcast. lir.Awromc—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—rain. EDINBURGIL— Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Tuesday morning at nine t.'clock CORK—Wind S., light breeze—foggy. XINGsTow - x (Dtatux)—.Wind N.K., calm—overcast. Mr LLINGAII 5Y ind S.E., gentle breeze—principally cloudy D UNDALK—Wind S., gentle breeze —rain. P(x)LE—Wind S., hard wind—partially cloudy. LCITESTE Ft W i ud N.W., gentle breeze —partially cloudy. Cazwit—Wind S., strong breeze—overcast. "jostWAy—Wind W., gentle breeze—rain. tioLyttßAD—Wind S., hard wind—rain. LavEopooL—Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast. LzEns= Wind S.E., strong breeze—overcast. YORK —Wind S., strong breeze—overcast. Da.ut.nic.ToN—Wind S., strong breeze—overcast. ' ..z-", ~ • , 0 • ', 1 4/ L 0 - '=-L . - - ..,-t; 4 34 A., —I -bili it - 1,..5....Z.,. eilk alit '~, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUAi 16, 1851. From the shuffling character of the - report issued by the Select Committee, it stilt remrains doubtful whether the Legislative Assembly Will consent to pronounce either a modified censure on the Prince- PRESIDENT, or an indirect encomiun on General CHANGAUNIER. Such are the tendencies, at any rate, of the document referred to, that even under the most congenial circumstances the members of the Committee cannot expe'ct anything more decisive from the resolution of the., popular , :revresentatives. The report, in fact, asks nothing - further than this timorous kind of decision. It indicates a solicitude that the Legislature shall at the least betray some such feeble and timorous , determination. Under the pressure of its recent I di,couifiture more than this could scarcely be antici paree, supposing even that the Assembly were ap peal2d to under the most compliant phase of its tem perament. A more audacious proceeding than the one here indicated would hardly be judicious, considering the late decisive triumph achieved by the Executive. As it is, we cuuaGt but regird the suggestion thrown . o ut by the Commictee as in the highest degree men f.r that v,,ry re ason, in the highest degree repro b ens ib t?. It is proposed, for i ns t ance , according to the plrt•aseobgy employed in ti,e official report, that t he Assembly should recognize the indisputable privil,:ge of the Executive Authority to dis charge at pleasure any oticer whomsoever from eo•Lmtind in the military forces of the lt,publv;—lhilt it should 4t the same time, however, censure the 21inkterial coercion of that most impor- I tent prerogati ve ; and in addition to this, proclaim CuaNGARNIEn. to have been fully entitled to the ap probation prenouirced in his favour by the Legisla ture in i;3 well -remembered sitting of the sth of January. Any pro posals more erroneous in their character than these we are bold to say never before emanated from the councils of a Parliament. They assert in their very preamble the legality of the power used by the Executive, or, in other words, by the PRESIDENT, and then go on, forsooth, to blam e the exercise of that constitutional right by the Administration. Now, it should be clearly understood that the PRESIDENT i 3 punishable in case of mis conduct, but punishable only in one way, namely, by impeachment. Any intermediate censure is inappli cableto the first Magistrate of the Republic. Either his policy is in no respect reprehensible, or it is de serving of a formal impeachment, according to the corrective powers entrusted in his regard to the As. sembly. The Legislature, however, under present circumstances, has gone out of its constitutional course, in order to gratify its despicable and impotent spleen against the Executive. Unable. to vanquish LOUIS NAPOLEON in a bold and resolute encounter, the droit have resolved, if possible, to sati-fy their animosity in some measure by administering a furtive stab to his dig nity—they are striving, with all imaginable assiduity, to bring about his indirect condemnation. In this sinister endeavour we are sanguine that they may be frustrated. Our reliance, towards that end, is placed upon the love of fair play still surviving in the breasts of a large majority of the French repre sentatives. We cannot induce ourselves to imagine that the gauche will allow themselves to be cajoled by the sophistries of the Burgraves into a resolve beneficial only to the Orleanist-Legitimatist- Socialist-Cossack conspiracy. The accomplices in that atrocious intrigue, embracing, among other more ignoble persons, several of the most conspicuous statesmen in the Republic, have been hitherto foiled in their efforts to betray the cause of Democracy. At the very instant when they were exulting over the prospective downfall of LOUIS NAPOLEON and their own victorious elevation to the direction of the affairs of government, they found their expected vic tim transformed into their conqueror, and their sup posed hero turn out the veriest nobody in Christen dom. Even now they have scarcely recovered from the shock of their disappointment, yet al ready they are making preparations for the gratification of their vengeance. Deceived in their hopes, they are yet struggling to extract a bitter compensation from their despair. They are employ ing every imaginable strategy to persuade the bulk of the Legislative Assembly to aid them in di minishing the satisfaction of LOUIS NAPOLEON at his late brilliant success, and to offer some consolation, however inadequate, to his defeated subaltern, CHA'NGARNIEB. Taking for granted even that the report of the Select Committee will be accepted by the Legislature —an event which we regard as anything but assured —the miserable scheme of the Burgraves can tend in no effectual manner to realize their aspirations. On the contrary, the betrayal of so much spiteful impo tence by the hitherto boastful and intolerant body of intriguers, must inevitably result in their speedy and overwhelming defeat—a defeat so decisive, we mean, that the extinction of any sentiments of respect in their regard might be readily predicated. Already the confidence reposed by a considerable faction in the leaders of the " right" has begun to evaporate. The wretched falsification of their vainglorious as sertions as to the incapacity of the Prince-PRESIDENT to withstand the force of their intrigues and machina tions, has compelled the most credulous of their sup porters to moderate their enthusiasm in behalf of counter-revolutionary principles, inducing some even to withdraw themselves betimes from the perilous vicinage of a defeated conspiracy. That such should be the case in any country would not be surprising, but that it should be the consequence in France is an event that could alone be expected. From a falling house the rats fly instinc tively, according to the terms of a well-known adage; but especially and peculiarly in France it may be averred that the people are prepared on the instant to desert a political cause on the decline. The effect, therefore, of late events, can only be the rapid and perceptible enhancement at once of the power and popularity of the PRESIDENT. In the olden time much depended upon the venue in criminal prosecutions. The place where an act was committed was often considered as of greater im portance, so far as the issue was concerned, than the act itself. Drawing a sword, or other weapon of offence in any of the Royal parks or other privileged place, was regarded as a crime of no ordinary magni tude, which exposed the offender to the most stringent puni,hment, although a person might yield to the temptation which the possession of such an append age afforded in almost any other locality with per fect impunity. Indeed, is Whitefriars it was re garded as a laudable performance, which reflected great credit on the party. The distinction has long since been abolished theoretically, but it still exists practic in many districts. There are localities in which various propensities not warranted by law may be safely indulged in. The begging fraternity—the whole tribe of " cadgers"— know the townlands where they may practise their honourable profession. "His Worship" may be "a kind gentleman, who would never bring a poor man into trouble for asking a bit to eat, or a copper from those better off than himself." Other amiable weak nesses may also find sympathisers on the magisterial bench. The pugnacious in disposition should visit the land where, according to MAXWELL, " bating's char, and poteen is plenty." No impertinent inter. ference is there exhibited with the innocent pastimes of the people, and those who wish to dis play their bellicose propensitie3 may "fight it out in peace and quietness," without any tear of disturbance, or of sustaining any very severe punish ment if brokenheads should chance to occur. We have heard of a worthy " Justice," who, in every doubtful case, where the litigants were at all equally matched in sin and age, recommended the parties to adopt the " trial by battle," and caused them to be conveyed to a secluded• part of his demesne where they could obtain a speedy solution of the doubtful problem " which was the better man." There is, in fact, " a thus and place for every thing ;" and for those who choose to starve or flay their servant girls, we would suggest the county of Worcester as the place where they may indulge their amiable propensities without any fear as to the consequences. In The Sun of Tuesday we reported the proceed ings before a bench of Worcestershire magistrates which shows the mode in which " the great unpaid" of that favoured county are disposed to deal with transactions which they themselves declare to be "cases of great and unnecessary cruelty." A Mr. Joule LEE and his wife had been summoned to an swer before their worships for their conduct to an unfortunate girl, named HANNAH HINTON, whom they had hired as " nursemaid" at the statute fair or " mop," last Michaelmas, at the handsome wages of 2/. per annum. It appeared that the girl, who was sixteen years of age, was never very healthy or strong, but that she had be come much emaciated since she took up her abode with her new master and mistress. She is de scribed to have appeared "much emaciated," her " features pinched and careworn, and her general aspect that of a person much older than she really was ." On her examination she swore to " various castigations inflicted by her master and mistress,' but' especially by the latter." The master beat her "over the head with a pair of leggings," because she had not got the fire lighted at seven o , :clock in th e morn i ng, whil e ., "just before Christmas, Mrs. LEE exhibited a Christian spirit worthy of the "season," by styling her a " nasty hussy" and flinging her violently down stab sa, by which, according to her own statement, ' she was hurt badly all up her side, and her -arms' were bruised and as sore as could be." The tender-hearted couple were in the constant habit of " eurling and swearing at her," and chastising her on ti icy tunst trivial occasions. But the distinct as sault i E nd the ill language so frequently used were of far le is consequence than the total disregard of their duty I neg:ecting to provide the wretched child with a se a d -.ncy of wholesome food. They resorted to the " st o;,-vation system," giving but little of anything, and that .of the very worst description ; for " when she 'ear 1 e n k at or dripping on her bread, it was stale and .o . lfensh..e to the nose and palate." This startling evidence will corroborated by persons residing in the vicinity. Aft's. POWELL, a neighbour, had heard "a great nose on a Sunday evening, as of something fall ing dow a stairs, .a great cursing and swearing from Mr. and Dirs. LEs .and the girl crying," And the following morning she heard a detailed narrative of the transaction, and saw a large bruin on the thigh of the victim, " about the size of her hand." She also often heard Mrs. LEE threatening tc kill her ser vant, knock her brains out, and indulging in other little amenities of language. Poor lENTON, who, according to the terms of her contract, was to have received sufficient food, constantly complained that " she had not half enough to eat ;" and begged at one time " a bit of bread or a cup of coffee," at an other " a potato." MATILDA MUNN, a dressmaker, residing in the village, also deposed to repeated acts of cruelty by Mrs. LEE towards the wretched child, who frequently complained that " she was kept short of food, beaten, and ill-used," The witness " had known Mrs. LEE to beat the girl with a walking stick, and heard the sufferer screaming." She had also seen the food provided, which was " bread with something like lard upon it, which smelt very bad." The only defence set up was "a good character of the male defendant'th humanity" !!! But that was not sufficient to get rid of the distinct and positive testimony adduced. The defendants were accordingly convicted of an sssault, and after a severe lecture from the chairman respect ing the enormity of their conduct, fined 21. each and costs ! ! ! And this is considered by a body of English gen tlemen a sufficient expiation for a course of deliberate ill• treatment, of " great and unnecessary cruelty," where personal violence, bad language, and deprivation of food were habitually resorted to. No wonder that we should bear of, poor girls being half starved and re duced to a state of weakness, being assaulted and sub jected to the grossest contumely, if a fine of 21. is the only punishment inflicted in the event of a conviction. Something must be done to protect that helpless and suffering class, and nothing, perhaps, would prove more effectual than resorting to civil actions for damagea. The county courts have now jurisdiction up to 50/., which might be given to the victim of ill treatment. We have known, in the case of persons named HOLLAND, where husband and wife were cri minally tried, convicted, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment each, for cruelty to two orphan children—a boy and a girl—whom they had hired as servants, damages to the amount of 4001. given to each of the sufferers. If even the tenth part of that sum were given in a few such cases it would do far more to stop such disgraceful transactions than the most severe magisterial censure, accompanied by a fine of 40s. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Committee on M. DE ItEMUSAT ' S motion pre sented their report to the Assembly on 'Wednesday. It was read from the tribune by M. LANJUINAIS. It is as follows : " Gentlemep,—A few days back, in the sitting of the 3d of January, you approved of the reply of the Com mander-in-Chief of the army of Paris to.the interpella tions which had been addressed to him, and you ac _ cepted the homage which we paid to the right conferred on you'by the Constitution to dispose of the troops ne cessary tor your safety. " Tne next day the Ministry was dissolved, and, after eight days of laborious negotiations, it marked its re turn to power by the dismissal of General Claangarnitr. It was on these circumstances that M. Remusat, in the sitting of January 10, demanded explanations from the Ministry, at the end of which you adopted an order of the day Institut, declaring that the representatives should at once withdraw to their bureaux, to nominate u com mittee for the purpose of proposing such measures as the circumstances appeared to call for. " Your Committee, named on the evening of the 10th inst. was retarded in its labours by the printing of the prodis-verbaux of the Permanent Committee, and could only name its reporter last evening. After having heard several times the Ministers of War and the Interior, and deliberating d'urgence, your Committee not the less examined most materially all the questions connected with the constitutionsl relations existing between the great powers of the State. But you must comprehend, gentlemen, that the narrow forms prescribed to your reporter have not permitted him to present to you all the developments which are connected with this subject. However, as by their na ture, and the theatre on which the facts took place, a mistake may be made as to their importance, we hasten to say to you that in our opinion there is not any reason to carry back the responsibility further than the Minis try.—( Movement, which lasted some time.) 4 It is true that the President of the Republic, in his . _ Message of October 31, 1843, claimed for himself the general responsibility of the acts of his Ministers; but the Constitution, the nature of things, and the practice both before and atter the 31st of October, 18411, have maintained, and .4,11 . 1 always maintain, a real distinction between the Ministerial power and that of the President of the Republic. " The Constitution, in fact, declares in formal terms that the Ministers are responsible,' and that tut! Council of Ministers is a necessary authorily in the State.' 'The nature of things also ought at present to declare to you loudly that if the President was to be considered responsible for the details of the tion, it would be impossible for you to discuss them without causing attains to his consideration and disturb ing the harmony of the great powers. " With respect to the practice which has constantly prevailed, several examples prove that the Ministers ❑ave never pretended to be always protected by the Pre sident of the Republic. The discussion which is about to open will prove to you still more invincibly, that for the President of the Republic the responsibility is not to commence, unless the Ministry is insufficient to protect itself. At the commencement of our delib"rations, it ap peared to us that the act of January 10 was not of an isolated character, but seemed to ba connected with others of a similar kind; and that idea was contirmvd by the perusal of the minutes of the Permanent Commit tee, and by the answers given by the Ministers of War and of the Interior to the questions addressed to them by the members of the uoastaittee. `• It is impossible to shut one's eyes to the fact that for a long time there has been, on the part of the Executive Power, a tendency to place little confidence in our insti tutions, to consider as transitory and ephemeral the form of government under which we live, to disseminate among3t every rank of society doubts as to the future, to cry up the supposed benefits of an absolute government, and to aspire, within an undetermined time, after a sort of imperial restoration. " There is no one here who does not pay respect to great reminiscences, but that feeling ought not to dege nerate into intoxication, which leads men's minds astray, and prepares the way for new revolutions. " That, however, might take place if you should not endeavour to oppose a movement which appeared to have stopped short under the happy iniluence of the last Message of the President of the Republic, but since then has appeared to commence again with fresh intensity. " The tendency which we point out to you has not been opposed by the Government, and even has been encouraged by some of its acts. The seditious cries of Vile l'Empereur' were uttered at reviews, and a ge neral officer who resisted the impulse so given was dis missed. " The press, enjoying the privilege of being sold in the streets, has been full of insult and calumny against the National Assembly, apparently for the object of disparaging it, and undermining its moral power; and, in fine, a more important act, and ono which appears to us connected with the preceding ones—the dismissal of General Changarnier—has attracted your attention. "Each of these acts has been maturely examined in the Committee. The first, namely, the cry of Vive l'Em pereur,' not only was not punished, but even encou raged. The information collected by your Permanent Committee, and that in particular of the General-in-chief of the army of Paris, does nut leave any doubt as to the fact, nor on other facts of a nature to compromise mili tary discipline. " The Minister of the Interior has denied those facts; and to the acts which passed at Satory opposed the evi dence of what he saw himself. The Minister might be right on some particular facts, but so absolute a dene gation, whatever may bo the good faith of the person' making it, appears to us to depart from the truth."— (Great agitation.) In thii, continued the Hon. Gentleman, addressing the Assainbly, there is not the slightest contradiction. The Hon. Minister only saw one review, and four were held. Voices—Go on go on ! Read ! read ! M. LANSUINAIS continued the report— !`The dismissal of General Neumayer is a fact still encire grave, the circumstances of which you are ac 'qu'ainted with. That General being asked by an officer under him whether he ought to give his men orders to cry out, replied thlt 'silence under arms appeared to him the attitude most in conformity with military disci pline.' rhat was the only reason that caused him to he deprived of his command; and bis dismissal took place in spite of the cx , rtions to the contrary cf his superior officer, the General-in-chief of the army of Paris. ft" Can there be any doubt relative to this fact? The language of the Ministers, even their own assertions, do not allow us to doubt it. The Minister of the Ittteriur crafted himself to pointing to the rights of the execu tive potter; at,d the cause of Gt neral Neutrayer's dis missal being named to him, he referred to the answers which he had already given on the hubj, ct before the Permanent Committee, and declared that he h.d neither to deny nor admit that cause.—(Agitation.) lie added that the G.)verument had (milk-fled on General Neu mayor a higher post than that which he had been de prived of; and that, rn the application of the General to withdraw from the service, the Government had, by a special favour, kept him en disponibiii te. A member of the Committee having asked . the Min i ster of War it he would coment to communicate to the Committee the official correspondence which passed beta een him and the impulse rio g r iven refused the to cc that General, replied that be d id not co nsider it proper oibiity Minister of of to do so, as such a course would , i n his o pinion , consti tute an objectionable precedent. — ( Movem ent.) As to the that matter. li e d ec l are d that he did not reproach the heads of parti es w i t h t h e excesse s of their journals; that tolnterior Ministerialt the press, responsibility the ns THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. JANUARY 16, 1851. it would be unjust to do so; and he claimed the same justice for himself. He denied that he bad anything to say to any journal cr correspondence; he allowed only that the Minister of the Interior subscribed for a certain number of copies ef a Paris correspondence, which at all periods, had been favourably received by the Ge vernment, and which contained nothing against the Assembly. " Certain journals appeared to obey a sort of mot d'erdre, and used a lerguage disrespectful to the Assem bly; that could not be a question of chance. A reply of the Minister may throw some ltht on the subject. Desiring to show the good intentions of the Cabinet, he stated that its first deliberation had for its object to re press the extravagant language of a certain portion of the pie as against the National Assembly, and that to that effect be had given novice to the Prefect of Police to in form the editors of the privileged journals that they could not be permitted to sell their copies in public, if they centinued their attacks on the Assembly.—(Agita tion.) It is to be regretted that this measure was adopted so tardily. " It remains to us to speak of the act which led to the mission intrusted to us—the dismissal of the General-in- Chief of the Army of Paris. Two circumstances mark its charactsr—one. that this vet is correlative with the facts already mentioned; and the next, that it took piece the day arter the Legislative Assembly had given to Ge neral Ceaneurnier the testiminy of its approbation. " Your Committee has ttotteht that it is in those circumstances that must be aught the real sense of that act. The explanations; given by the Ministers have not clanged its opinion. They have certainly stared that, for some time before the 3,1 January, the ferrner Ministry had resolved to suppress the double commaial of the army of Paris and st the National Guard of the Seine, and to modify the conditions of the commend But the approbation given to the General by the Assem bly caused several of the Ministers to hesitate; than there were partial resignations, and next a collective one, des tined to leave to the President a greater facility for the formation of a new Ministry. Negotiations took place with several of the members of the former Cabinet on the basis of the suppreseien of the general command of the d i l l b s e h M ow in ed is there could, besides, that ter, army of t P h a a r t is s . up T pr h e e ss r i l o e u g . et s ia ai t not be obtained from one of the general officers, as was desired, the acceptance of the porttolio of the War De partment. These explanations would be plausible in ordinary circumstances. It is certain, in fact, that whether by its extent or by extraordinary powers with which he is invested, or by the movement of troops and ammunition, the general command of the army of Paris had condi tions altogether special, which the re-establishment of order could cause to be modified. But after having maintained it in circumstances so favourable to the public peace as those in which we are now placed, it appeared to us evident that this abrupt dismissal, just after the vote of the sitting of Jan. 3, had a political cause, which in its relation with the tendencies alluded to above, might interest the dignity of the Assembly, and in that resist( et fell within the domain of your appreciations. " Before closing our researches relative to these facts, we considered it our duty to interrogate the Minister relative to a rumour of a plot spoken of in the journals, and we demanded categorical explanations on the sub ject. The Minister applied in an absolute manner that if any facts constituting crimes or misdemeanours had come to his knowledge, he would immediately have ordered proceedings, but that nothing of the kind had taken place. " Such, Gentlemen, are the principal facts and expla nations connected with the resolution which you came to on the 10th inst. Doubtless the dismissal of the General commanding the army of Paris, thus characterised, is a serious fact involving the responsibility of the Ministry; but we are far from thinking that it can lead, as some persons have been phased to say, to collisions between the great powers. ."Ne loudly declare that there are two things equally impossible—the absorption of the two powers, legislative and executive, into one power, which would be the dic tatorship of one mar, or the domination of the Assembly; the Legislative Assembly and the President of the Re publics have the duty of remaining united, and labouring in common for the re-establishment of a regular Govern ment. On the day when one of them should atteck the other, it would effect its own suicide, even should an ephemeral success crown its criminal attempt, an inten tion which we impute to no one. " As to the Assembly, it does not wish to add to its powers; it will maintain with firmness and persistence the adhesion which it gave to the policy of the Message of the 11th of November, the basis of which is respect for the Constitution. " Our task, Gentlemen, is finished. We were not a Comme tee of Parliamentary inqury, we only had to judge of facts from documents and very limited expla neeions. Our conviction is nut the less firm. But, in order not to be wanting in impartiality, we are bound to say that the engagements of the Message have taken away a great part of the gravity from the facts which took place prior to the 11th November, and it is only on account of the tendencies recently reproduced, and par ticularly the act of the 10th of January, that they found a place iu our deliberations. "At the moment of drawing up a resolution your Committee was divided. Two Members voted for the order of the day pure and simple, and they de manded that Unir motives should be expressed in their report: they declared that the order of the day pure and simple which they would vote would not imply approbation of the acts of the Govern ment or of the a?ministration with regard to facts an terior to the last Message ; but that since that period th ,, y had seen nothing in the acts of the Executive Power of a nature to make them declare their refusal of co-operatien. or to create a conflict between the two powers, the harmony betrveen which apf eared to be us possible as necessary to the Republic.' " Three Members proposed a declaration of general distrust towards the present Cabinet. 'They declared that, convinced by the very facts of the discussion, of the inutility of their effsrts to obtain a report which should express their Mfrs, they co:Allied themselves to demand ing a summary insertion 01 their opinion. They de clared thee, placed in tin attitude of persevering .ipposi• tion with regard to the last Ministry, whose ects, po- Icy, and tendencies wore, in their opinion, always con trary to the principles and interests of the R,pubic,- they could not avoid sharing in the sentiments of dis trust which a part of the new Cabinet inspired. But it was only under that form and on those grounds that they would join in an expression of distrust or of blame against the Ministry. They would not consent to found that expression on the first act of the new Ministry, which had put an end to an irregular state of things, against which they had always protested. " The ocher Members voted for a formula of distrust conceived in the following terms The Assembly con vinced that the Ministers, in the acts for which they are responsible, have est at nought the conditions which ought to guarantee the union of the constitutional powers, so necessary to the maintenance of public peace, declares that they do not enjoy its confidence, and passes to the order of the day.' Several other formulas, ex pressing distrust, were brought forward, but were not carriod by a majority. At length, by eight votes to seven, the Committee adopted the following resolution, which it proposes to you e-- " • The National Assembly, while admitting the in contestable right of the Executive Power to dispose of the military commands, blames the use which bus been made of it by the Ministry, and declares that the ex- General-in-Chief of the Army of Yetis has preserved all his claims to the testimony of confidence which was given to him by the Assembly on the 3d January last.' The Reporter concluded by calling on the Assem bly to declare urgency on the measare. Urgency was then declared accordingly. Never since the days of the far-famed Mountain mother has there been so lame and impotent a conclu sign to such a grand beginning; the threats of Yin cennes for the PRESIDENT, and of an army of the As sembly, under the command of CiIANGIARNIEII, who was specially cast for the part of Moist, have all ended in a vote of censure on M. BAROCIIE, the renegade Re publican, who has ever since he has held office shown himself the most obsequious tool of the very men who are now hunting him down. It is said that even should the resolution proposed by M.LANJUINAIS be carried M. BAROCIIE will not retire, as the PRESI DENT will not sacrifice a Minister to please the traitors of Wiesbaden and Claremont, whom it is now abund • antly evident he can never conciliate. The resolu tion, such as it is, was only carried by the casting vote of M. DE BROGLIE; MM. FLANDIN, sad LAMARTINE were in favour of a simple order of the day, two other Members proposed a simple resoluti on o f regre t f o r the dis missal of CIIAsGARNIER, while the three Republican Members of the Committee, MM. Brno and Mo- RELLET, and General CAVAIGNAC, were willing to concur in a vote of want of confidence in the Mi nistry generally, refused to censure M. BAROCHE for that which they consider most justly as the most. if not the only, patriotic act of his Administration—the dismissal of CHANQAVNIER. It is by no means cer tain that the Assembly will agree to the resolution. The Republicans,jwho command in the Assembly 200 votes, will support a motion of general want of confi dence, such as that proposed by General CAVAIGNAC and M. Bizto in the Committee; but should the reso lution of M. LAN.TUINAis be put to the vote they will abstain, and leave the different fractions of the re actionary party to arrange their differences among themselves. The Republicans are of opinion that " the quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands." The Burgraves themselves are not unanimous in their support of the resolution. The members of the club of the Rue des Pyramides met on Wednesday evening, and MM. LEON -FAUCHER and LESIIIION DAIS wished to move a simple expression of regret fur the dismissal of CHANGARNIER ; M. L imns wished for time to consider, and M. PISCATORY de clared that he had received several letters from in- fluential persons in the department?, expressing in strong tmns their diiapproval of the. course adopted by the majority. The meeting separated without corning to any decision. The Ereuement has the following announcement— "There was a good deal of conversation in the lobby of the .A:ksembly to-day, on the subject of the no mination of M. DE LAMARTINE to the London Embassy, which had, according to the version of certain persona usually well-informed on such matters, kern decided on in Council." The Bourse was crowded almost to Euffoca- tion, and there was a considerable amount of business transacted. The Five per Cents. opened at 94f. 95c., rose to 95f. 30c., and closed at 95f. 50c ; the Three per C en t s . c l ose d at 57f. 10 c . ; th e N ew Loan at 95f. 10 c . ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 855 f. ; Rouen, 6751. ; Gr ea t N orthern , 468 f. 75 c . ; Avignon, nor. ; Vierzon, 390 r. ; Basle, 140 f.; Bordeaux, 400 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 352f.50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 247 f. 50c. BASIN) SS ooNE iN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 15. Boulogne and Amiens, SY R —Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 16—Great Indian Peninsula, 5 1 4 ex int.— Luxembourg, 23A—Nortbern of France, 1518—Orleans, and Bordeaux, 4—Paris and Rouen, 27 1 / B —Paris and Stras bourg, 91/. SPAIN. RESIGNATION AND FLIGHT OF NARVAE'Z. A telegraphic dispatch was received by the French Government yesterday, announcing the resignation of the whole of the Spanish Ministry, and the arrival of General NARVAEZ at Bayonne. The Madrid journals of the 9th which have arrived contain no notice of these facts. MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 9.—Three per Cents. 331 ; Five per Cents., 12k. Exchange on London, 50 65 paper. GERMAN Y. Accounts from Cassel, of the 10th, state that all the arms had bt-en given ❑p, and the city was per fectly trtquil. The soldiers were no longer quartered on the inhabitants. DENMARK. AND TliE DUCHIES. The resolution to submit was (=Tied in the As sembly by a majority of 47 to 28. The Stadtholder BEsiEnEs, who was opposed to it,ianediately resigned and left for Altona. The following is the proclamation issued by Count REVENTLOW and the members of the Government:— " KIEL, JAN. 12. . . . _ " Sehlesw•ig•llolsteiners,--The treaty of peace of the 2d July, 1850, again recognized the rights of our coun try, and left it to the duchies to protect those rights with their own arms. " After the German Confederation had resolved to mil out the peace, and promised to support the rights of Holstein and the old prescriptive relations between Holstein awl Schleswig., the Statthatlerschaft felt bound to order the suspension of hostilities, and to place the rights of the country under the protection of the Ger man Confederation. " Toe Statthalterschaft return the army and navy their thanks for their glorious proofs of bravery and honourable perseverance. They thank )ou all for the ready willingness with which you have submitted to the heavy sacrifice. " The Government of the country feels itself bound to arrange for the introduction of a new Government, to be appointed by the German Confederation, and will, after the same shall be installed, lay down their power. " Sch!eswig-Holsteiners l you will further preserve your reputation for order and legality of conduct. " The Statthlterchaft of the Duchies, REVENTLOW, REEHOFF, F. IiANKE, FONTENAY." KnotiN, (Signed) The Austrian and Prussian Ministers are at Ham burgh, engaged with the Ddnisb Commissioners in organizing a new Government for Holstein. ITALY. Letters from Rome of the 2d state that the Papal Court looks forward with anxiety to the opening of the British Parliament. Lord and Lady FEILDING, and the other Noble Perverts vv ho are in Rome, are looked upon with the greatest contempt by the Roman people, who would many of them become Protestants Out for fear of the Inquisition. The per secution of Protestants in Rome still continues—no religion is tolerated save the strictest Papacy. The Gazette of the Empire says there is little doubt but that the definitive organization of Lombardy and of Venice will shortly take place, judging. from the appointment of Count STRASSOLDO as Lieutenant of Lombardy, and of Chevalier TozzENnoußG as Lieu tenant of the Venetian Provinces. The publication of the general Italian constitution may be soon looked for. The Genoa Gazette of the 10th states that Genoa is in a very tranquil state, no trace of the late dis• turbances being observable. The Piedmontese Go vernment, the same journal states, has entered into a very advantageous treaty of commerce and navigation with Portugal. The Chamber of Deputies at Turin were still discussing the budget of the navy. OVERLAND MAIL INDIA AND CHINA. We have received our letters and papers by the Overland Mail, via Marseilles. The dates of the advices brought by this arrival are—Bombay, 17th December ; Calcutta, 7th December; and Hong- Kong, 28th November. 1 summary of the political and military intelli gence contained in our dispatches has been already published in a telegraphic message from Trieste. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. BOMNA.Y, DEC. 17. A conaiderable amount of business ha; been done, but this has been chiefly owing to the large supplies of goods received from Euglaroi and Bengal, and Ke re gret to observe that the prices have, in consequence, sane n off. Money continues to increase in value, and is in such great demand that the batiks have raised their rates of interest another one per cent. all round. Tk►e tightness is earlier than n,ual this year, owing to the great inducements to remit held eus by the high rates of exchange on London which have for some time been current. Go vernment securities and Bank Shares are ail arfecttd by this state of things, and cannot be reported in any de mand. The current quotations are—New Fives, 98; Sicca Fives, 102 to 10`i; Company's Fours, 82; Sim, Fours, 85; Transfer Loan, 110; Bank of Bombay, 19 per cent. premium; Oriental, 17} per cent. discount; Commercial, 12 per cent. discount; Agra, 1 per cent. discount. Exchange on London may be quoted at 2a. 2id. to 2fd. for China drawn 6 months' sight bills, and 2s. 3d. tor local drafts with shipping documents. On Cal cutta there is little doing, and rates are nominal at 97 60 days' sight, and 98 sight. Freight have for some time been at 21. 10J. to Liver pool; to London ss. more; to China not more than rs. 9 per candy is at present procurable. Ia 40. inch gray shirtings about 12,000 pieces at rs. 3 10a. to rs. 54 have been sold, but a decline on former prices have:been submitted to to the extent of 6 to 8 per cent. To nearly the same extent have 45-inch shirtirga been sold at prices between re. 4 14 a. to rs. 6 14 annive. There is a very 5m3.11 supply of gray madapollams, and they seem to maintain their value. Gray jacconets have not been much inquired for, and a decline of about 1 anna per piece has taken place, and about 13,000 pieces have been sold. There has been (very little inquiry for Domestics: some of the heavier qualities have declined in price, and we near that nearly 100 b ties have been sold at about qrs. Th• better kinds of T cloths have been sold to some extent, but from our list of sales it will be perceived that prices have given way. Bleached Shirtings have declined about 4 annas a piece; the sales are not to any extent. Bleached Jacconets are very heavy in stock, and the sales made show a reduction of about 1 to annas per piece. Prints are still very depressed. The sales in other kinds of coloured goods are small. Cotton Twist—About 500 bales of mule and about 400 hales of water have been sold. There has been a better demand for orange twist, and 34 bales have been sold. Beer—An offer of re. 75 has been accepted for tho whole remaining portion of Bass's beer, say about 200 hhds. A good quantity of the last October brew of Bass is already shipped, and may be expected to arrive at tna.rket some time sooner than it usually does. Cotton—Since the lust mail left a slight advance has taken place. Dbollera is now worth rs. 126, Coaiptah rs. 120, and Surat and Broach rs. 123 per candy, equal to id. to 4 5-16 d. and 4 7-16 d. per lb. laid down in Liverpool. DAY.)—This morning, about eight o'clock a fire broke out on the premises in the occupation of Messrs. M'Corquodale and Co., printers, situate in the rear of Cardington-street, Hampstead-road, and near to the Euston station of the London and North-Western Rail way. Considerable damage was at first apprehended, from the circumstance of the building in which the fire occurred being surrounded by workshops containing property of an inflammable character. The prompt arrival however, of the engine belonging to the North-Western Railway Company, followed by several others from the Fire Brigade Establish ment, arrested the progress of the devouring element; but not before the entire destruction of the contents of Messrs. M,Corquodale's establishment was completed. The fire is supposed to have originated from a piece of lighted paper having accidentally fallen on the floor during the operation of lighting a fire in one of the offices. We were unable to,ascertain if the premises or con tents were insured. MONSTER LUMP OF ZINC ORE FOR THE EXHIBI TION.—ci New York paper says—" An enormous mass of zinc ore, from the mines of the New Jersey Exploring and Mining Company, Sussex County, passed through the city yesterday to the Navy-yard, Brooklyn, to be sent to the great London Exhibition. it is the pure red osyde of zinc, which is found nowhere else in the world but in Sussex County, New Jersey. The dimensions are five feet long, and between three and four feet broad and deep, the weight being 16,4001 b,, or nearly eight tons. We understand it took a week to bring it over the m oun t a i ns f rom the mines to Dover, on ono of the large s t s i ze d truc k s, with a 12 - horse team, and, in emming down th e n o • un t a i ns , blo c ks and tackle, fastened to the trees, wer e requ i re d to h o ld i t b a ck. In cont. ing down from Dover, on th e M orr i s an d E ssex Eailr. , ad..on Saturday, the car it was on b ro k e d own, an d it did not reach Jersey City till ye s te r d a y morn i ng. W e r ather think it will take the premium at th e woild's Fair." COMMISiAR IAT D EPARTMENT . — W under stand that reduction in thi s b ranc h o f t h e s ervice is to be c4,nti ruled, and not on l y are no new a pp o i n tments of clerks to take place, but every o pp or t un i t y f or r educing them will be taken o advantage ut: SIXTY POUNDS STOLEN FROM A RAILWAY CAR MAGE.—On Thursday last part of the receipts of the previous day; at th e E as t Lancashire Railway station, amounting to nearly Ea, was put into a bag, and the bag and contents were put into a carriage', for the purpose of being conveyed to Lary. The person who put the bag into the carriage had occasion to leave for a minute or two, and when lie returned lie found the bag had been abstracted. No clue has been left which may lead to the capture of the thief or thieves.— Preston Chronicle. tiE SHARE 'MARKETS. 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X die 10 10% paid up paid up 12 —l4 6 ._ 7 9 % 10% 1 die. 134 13% 3% —33 y 14 —l6 11 —l3 3% 3 die. 2340 23% 1 21% - 22% 3% 3 die. • • -• • • '4 - --7 7 die, ry 634 dill. 3 5 16% —lB • .. ~.. • • •• % .--21 ••••• •• 20% •• - •• 8 -8% 43 —44 x.d. 18 % - 19 F% 6 djs. 16 3 — 2 % dig 17 ' 3 % —4% 1 100 • —.. 50 224 22% 10 14 las. x.l. FOREIGN. 20 I 8% 936 15% - 16% —4% dig. I p. x.i . % - 34 p x.l 16- % P lA. I Ft% NT FTC I -1% 2X -2X BU, —8% 15 —I3M 4% 3 db. 34 35 27 27% 6 —5% dia. 10% 1 3 10 1 4 9h dls. 1% hANKS 28 —M4 42 1 4 42% x.d' 10 25 25% 18% is 21% —28 X 17 ii - 18 42 -43 15 3 i - 15% 34 34 - 35 12 -133( •• Railways. Aberdeen.. .• • • • • Do. Preference •• ! Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juncion Ayrshire and Galloway • • Belfast and County Down Berks and Hants Exten.l (Great Western Per-1 petual 5 per cent ) Birmingham and Oxford Junction, calls duly paid, or with a guar. .. Do. without a guar... Binning., Wolverhamp ton, and Dudley, calls duly paid, or with a guarantee • • • • Do. without a guar. •• Binning., Woiverhamp., and Stour Valley Birkenhead, Lancas., and, Cheshire Junction ..I Bristol and Exeter•• •• Buckinghamshire •• •• Cakdonian • • • • • D.J. I o/. Preference • . Do. Clydesdale J nue. • • ! Chester and liolyhead Do. Preference .. Clarence .. Do. Ist Class, 6 per et. Do. 2sl de., 5 per cent.l DJ. Gov. Loan,4 pr. et.! Direct Loud. and Portsm.i Dublin and iteltastJunet. Dublin and Kingstown-1 Dundalk and Enniskillen, East Anglian (251. L. /54' E. and L. & D.) Do. (181. E. & H.) .. Do. (31. 10s.) 6 per cent. Preferance • • Do. (51.) 7 pr. et. Pref. Do. (71. 175.) 7 p. c.Pref. Eastern Counties .. 1)u. Exten., 5 per cent. No. 1 • • •• • • Do. No. 2 .. .• Do. New Preference, 6 per cent. .. • • • • Do. North. auu East. 6 per ^ent. • • .. 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. l 6 per cent. .. East Lancashire .. Do. New quarters Do. 6 per cent. pref. quarter shares.. .. East Lincolnshire, gua. 6 per cent Edinburgh and Glasgow Edin., Psrth, and Dundee Do. Newport Exeter and Exmouth .. Glasgow and South-West, Do. pref. cons , ,lidated 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/. .. 1)o. new•ls/. - . Great Wesbern - Do. New, 17/. - -. Hull and Selby - Do. half shares .. Do. quarter shares .. Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds .. Lancaster and Preston .. Lancashire and Yorkshire 1)o. quarter shares .. Do. fifths .. Do. F. 20/. .. Du. new, guaranteed 6 per cent. .. • Do. ?Bidders. & Sheff. Do. West Biding Union Leeds and Bradford .. Leeds and Thirsk Do. pref. 6 p et., No. 1 Do. pref. 6 p et., No. 2 Do. pref. 6 p et., No. 3 Do. pref. qrs., 1846 .. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport London and Blackwall London, Brighton, and South Coast .. Do. guartecd. 5 per ct., late Croyd•n thirds.. Do. preference, 5 p ct. Do. preference, couv. 5 1 per cent., 1i352 DO. new guaranteed, 61 per cent. .. London and Greenwich . Do. preference . London and N.-Western Do. do. new quarters . Do. fifths Do. 101. sh., M. 5411 (c: London and S.-Western Do. new 50/. Do. new 401. Do. new preference Londonderry & Coleraine Do. half shares .. Lowestoft, ;guar. 4 per ct. D 3. do. 6 per cent. .. Londonderry and Ennis killen. •• 1)o. half shares • • .. Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock • • Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire Do. quarters, No. 1 .. Do. new, 10/ preference Do., Gt. Prefereuce • • Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union • . idland • • • • • • • • Do. consolidated pref. Do. 501. shares .. Do. Binning & Derby Do. Consol. tristol & Binning., 6 per cent. Do. Bristol & Glouces. Do. do. do. t! Do. Erewash Val. pref. Do. Leic. & Swanning. El per cent. guar. Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. .. Newcastle and Carlisle.. Do. quarter shares .. Newmarket Do. extension scrip .. Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Newry & Enniskillen .. ewry, W arrenpoiut, & Rostrevor • • .. • . Norfolk • • • • . • • • Do. New 20/. shares.. I o. Extension • . Do. guar. 5% per cent. Uo. Waveney Valley.. Northern Counties Union North British...... Do. I - reference • • • • North Staffordshire North-western .. • • Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. • . rreston and Wyre Do. Halves (A) • • !Leading, Guildford, and l;eigate.. • • •• •. lloyston and Hitchin Shepreth Exten... Scott fah Central .. Scotush Midland .. Do, new Shrewsbury & Binning. Clasf A.. •• if°. Class 8.. . Do. New Guarantee.. Ahrewsbury & Hereford Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) .. Do. Hal - ces Do. Oswestry .. Do. New.. .. Du. 8 per cent. Pref. . Shropshire Union .. South Devon .. Do, Preference .. South Staffordshire .. South-Eastern Do. do. 4% per cent... South Wales.. South Yorksh. and River Dutt Shell., Roth., and Goole, N. Div., guar. 5 p cent. Do. do. South Div. Swansea & Loughor, &c. Paw Vale Extension Thames Haven Dock and Railway .. Vale of Neath • Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick W ater:oy d, Wex., Wick.,, and Dublin .. •• Wear Valley, 6 per cent. guaranteed .. Do. do. Do. do. West ,lornwall do. .. do. .. West London . • • • • Do. I of Class Prof. (101.) Do. 2d Class do. (par) White , laven and Fumes. Windsor, Staines, and S. Western .. • • • • Wilts. Somerset, & Wey mouth •• •• •• •• York, Newcastle, &Ber wick .. •• •• •" Ditto and Newcastle Extension •• Ditto G.N.E. purchase or prefereuco Do. • - Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway • • York and North Midland ] Do. Preference •• Boulogne and Amiens .. Central of France (Or. leans and Vierzon) Demerara Dutch Rhenish ~ East Indian .. Do. do. do. Great Indian Peninsula.. I)itto ditto .. Louvain a la Sambre Luxembourg .. .: Ditto .. Mad, id and Valentia . Maria Antonia .. Ditto, New Namur and Liege . Northern of France Orleans :old Bordeaux Paris and Orleans .. 'aril and I:nue-IV Paris and Strasbourg .. Coven and Havre Sambre and Meuse Strasbchrg and Basle .., Tours and Nantes .. Tournay, Jurbise, Lan der., and Hasselt West Flanders .. .I Australasia British North America.. Colonial .. •• •• • Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock • • Lon(4on and Westminster National Provincial Eng. National of Ireland .. • • Provincial of Ireland • • • • Do. cw .. •••• • • • • Union of Australia .• • • 1)a. New •• • • •• •• •• • • Union of London ...• •• Union of Bladrid • • 6 13 4 6 13 4 Business done to-day. a .n dia. x. inl 10% % 5% 3 % % 17 16% 12% j 31% 32 x. inl 1734 36 14 6 11% % 12% % 79 78% 79 563 % 4 9634 96 91% 1244 % 123% 20% 16% 3% 78% 78 die. 48 15% % 157 Ir ) % % Ms. die. 103( 23M % % 18t Ti 131 i 2234 M 27,1 2 x.d. & b. MI F';S, Business done P.lfd. Nominal Prices. to -day Anglo-Mexican(is. 5/. p.) 100 .. Asturian ..... 15— Australian ....... ..... 4 34 — • 3 Barossa Range .. • ..... 113 0 334 Blaenarvon Iron andeoal Bolanos Scrip ........ • • British Iron.. • ... • • .... 13 5 .. Brazilian Imp. (is. 5/. p.) 24% • Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba 30 3 1 4 Do. St. John del Rey.. 15 14% 14% Cobre Copper ...... .• • 40 32% 35% Copiapo ..... • • .... •• • 14 5% 534 General.. •• . Real Del Monte, Unreg. 1i Do. Black Debentures Do. Red Debentures • • Santiago de Cuba ...... 10 9 734 Tin Croft • • j 7 lON —ll United Mexican........ ,28 2 81i —bay 514 MISCELLANEOUS. Canada • Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 26% 274 eX.I III Benin. & Oriental Steam. 50 78)4 —76 x. all Royal Steam 6O 73 7334 rWe cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Lis% ai' d will not be influenced by interested correspondents.] NiONEY and COMMEsit'.o [AL NE WS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday Wer . about 3,000 bales, of which 600 Surat were taken for, export. The m a rket c l ose d h eav ily, an d prices of all kinds were id. per lb. lower than on Friday last.-- Railway Shares were flat. The six weeks' average price of Wheat in the markets which make official returns is 395. id. per quarter. The arrivals to day . do not generally bring later now °o and there is an absence of continental news of so ell ing character, if w e exce pt t h e a d v i ces f rom Idadri which render it doubtf u l w h et h er G enera l N arv aez is not wholly out of favo ur . U nconst i tut i ona l as ma ny co n ' eider the administr a ti on o f t h at m i n i s t er to have been , it seems to bo a d m itt e d th at hi s E xce ll e ncy 115 s displayed great ability i n k eep i ng th e country tranquil, that grad ua lly it may recover its agricultural and commercial prosperity, both so griev ously impaired by former reverses, but so steadily im proving since 1845. The great fault of Narvaez's polici• apart from its despotic tend enc y, h as b een a n excess i v. leaning to the army, and the m a i n t enance o f a costly an a unnecessarily large force. It' mercantile profits are to be measured by those 01 the joint-stock banks, they must during the past year have been very con s id era bl e . Th e di v id e nd sn bonus declared yesterday at the London and Weettn ia :i liter Bank meeting was equa l toll per cent. per 111111110]. to-day at the half-yearly meeting of th e London Joi n : Stock Bank, the usual divid en d, at th e rate o f six pe r cent. per annum was d e clared, t oge th er w i t h a bonus 0 3s. 6d. per share, atter the payment of which the gua rantee fund would stand at 137,1091. 11s. 3d. During ( the discussion as to wh a t o ug h t to h e t h e m aximum ° the guarantee fund, which s t i ll wen t on i ncre asing, th e directors stated that i t cou ld not at present be fixed a t any amount as a maximum. Th e report of the meeting will be found in another column. The English Stock Market has been weaker, aa a money upon the settle men t o f t h e accoun t, which , Bullish, has been scarcer. There have been reports 0 the Bank of England having shown greater reluctanee . to grant loans upon stock, an d it appears t h a t the„ii °b ,,,, hers are disappointed a t t h e resu lt of t h e •"optionb, , stock having been c a ll e d f or t h an was exptcted. Th ere t are injurious reports als o concern i ng the turn th i l the exchanges will tak e on F r id ay , b u t on tu point we doubt if there be any real cause for apprehen' sion. Consols have been quoted 96i fur Trans fe „ r : being now 961 and 96i t, and now 964 for Aoe°°, s %. Exchequer-bills have b een quote d 5.5.1. to 595., b e lower. Bank Stock is at 2144. The New Three -and' a-Quarter per Cents. arc 984 to 98i. Foreign Securities have been very inactive. Mexi cBl 4 l , Bonds have been quoted 33 to ex div. Spanish RI % per Cents. have been 171, and P or t uguese Four P e Cents. 35-4-. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have ' been at 571 to 58. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. are 96 4 1 - to Shares are flat, with very little doing. The last week's Railway Receipts, ascertained 1 1 1 ) this day, are in round figures as under:— 18 50 1851. Great-Western £ 14, 4 39 £12, 529 North-Western 38.064 ... 37 ,; 6 4 4 South-Western 8 ,226 ... 10 9 6,66 Brighten ... Midland e. 7 03 ... South-Eastern North Stafford 4,407 .. 5,7 0 Caledonian 5 ,953 ..• QUARTER TO TRRI 4 R• Consols 96 Ditto Account ... ... ... 96 CLOSING pitICEo• PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK;ONE 21 , 44 BAnk 6tocs. 3 ,u, cent. Iteduaed A nas. 3 per Cent. Consols Aunuitles... —.. 96% 5 4% 7s 98 % IsTaw 3 1 4 per Cent. Anna_ ... ........ 98 ka %76 74 L ng Anns. to expire Jan. 1860 7%. 268 India Stock 268 73 P iiiii , bonds, 1,0004 .. .. 73 P - South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Consols for Account 9 6 3 / 4% Exchequer Bile. 1 1 4 d. of , 2d 1,0001. June. 5001. June Sin zIL June 56 59 55 57 p 57 p ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 ... Ditto, New, 1843 Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. .. Do., 5 per cent Equador Bonds .. — M ixiettn, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons — $3 It d• Ditto, Account ....... Portuguese 5 per Cents Ditto, Converted, 1841 ... 36 1 / 4 -- vitt , Cent. Jittu,4 per at. Ditto, Account R mum Lion& 101 Blis 85 1 ..-- . .Al ponds - .- 1 96 Ditto, 4'4 ••• ...."' 9 per Cent : % 3 /4 0 Ditto, Small S 141116 t, L per Clcint. 16i-u Ditto Account D 38% itto. 3 per C ent t)lvoientls on the above pi , yable in London. 90 % Belgian, 4 1 ; 4 per Cent. 58 'uteri 45 per cent., 'llt G u ild . Ditto, 4 oer ! 'ant.. Cp , rtitwateg 90% % LLOYD'S SHIPPING.- ( THIS DA Y') LONDON, JAN. 16.—Wind at noon S., light breast, and fine. ALICANTE, JAN. 6.—The Courier, of Plymouth, fro._ l ! Malta, pu t i n t o Al t i a I st i nst . l ea ky an d w ith rudti, damaged, and is expect e d will h a ve to discharge part off cargo. STANLEY, ie v l' rpoi,which pu ALK u L Am DIS LAN t D i S ri , N o v . B. " ret, from Liverpool , here on the T h 2 e 4 t M h l O r g e C s , very leaky, having encountered severe weather off Cap e Horn, must lighten, and will be surveyed. YoUGHAL, JAN. 14.—The Yandew, Bowther, from Jamaica, arrived here to-day very leaky, much straine d; and with loss of sails, epareyard , anchor, and warp, gal h l' Ichaving been thrown on h er b eam en d s . t". brig,w;terlogged and with s t ern carried la denaw away' with deals, painted ports, and bl ac k mast -head, was passed in lat. 48 N., and lon. 31, b y the above ve„.sliel*A" LIVERPOOL, JAN. 16.—Wind S.E. t o S.S.rd:7 Ql - Hong• Ko ng; J o h n M oore, Bombay; M arl' Bombay; Mary Caroline, Mobile; Olive, Savannah; Sarawak, Philadelphia ; Jenny Lind, Halifax. Th e agents in this port of the Baltic steamer, hence to 01 York, have not rece i ved any account of that Iroise having been on shore at Provincetown, as reported, al though she had arrived at New York several hoa r ' previous to the departure of the Africa. FALMOUTH, JAN. 15.—1 t blew a violent gal e ! lil t _ night from S.S.E., veering to S.S.W. about daylig" The shipping all appear to ride well. WZOTOWN, N. 8., JAN. 14.—The Matilda schooner, of ,this port, Garliestown for the Isle of Whitebait b ss ben. wrecked on the rocks under Crugiton Castle; crew EPCAR, JAN. Ili —The Happy Return, of Yarmouth, Lowestoft to Shields, got on the rocks off this last nigh t ! assisted off making much water, and intended puttig l e into Hartlepool. RAILSGATE, JAN. 15.—The Thomas and Elisabethe Dordt to Liverpool, put in here to-day very lea* having struck heavily on the outer harbour. DEAL, JAN. 15.—1 t has blown a gale at S.W. ,! ( 1 : S.S.W. The out war d-b oun d ro d e out the gale if" 2) two anchors down. an l'oarsmounr, JAN. 15.—1 t bl ew a ga l e a ll n i g ht continues from S. to W.S.W. The outward-bound rode safely. PLIMOUTH, JAN. 15.—Wind S.S.E. to S.W., stroOf gale.—A tot eigu brig is reported to bo stranded " Seaton, near Whelesand Bay. HOLYHEAD, JAN. 15.—Wind S. to S.E , strong gale•"' The Nautilus steamer, Dunkirk to Liverpool, struck 011 the Platters, near the Skerries, and went down; ni ne persons drowned, five saved. HARWICH, JAN. 15.—1 t blew II strong gale all nigh 4 and has continued throughout the day from S.S.W. BRISTOL, JAN. 15.---A schooner an d a F renc h lugger ." have been 1c st, with all hand s , on the rostra of Lun dy Island during the late gale. LONGHOPE.—The Agnes s!oop, of Irivercesa, Lo ck ' Sax;ord to Banff, has b een total l y wrecked near Turo e r ' Point; crew bevel MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) NWW'GATE AND MEADENELAZU These markets Were very i nacttve to-day, but we halo . no change to not i ce i n pr i ces.—Beef, from 2s 2d to 3s 41: Nlutcon, 2s Gd t o 3 s 10d ; V ea l , 3s O d to 3s 10d; P a r k 2s Gd to 4s per Blbs, by the carcase. 3.141.1 r rielia.4llLNlTll. Z -',ll lTllFlELD.—hlettilow Hay, 21 tis to 31155; CLOT 3/ Os to 41 Os ; a n d St raw, 11 O s to 11 7s per 10' A full average supply, and a slow trade. Ci'MRFILLAND.— M. flay, 2/ 8s to 31 1 75 i Clover, 3/ O s to 410 s; Enid Straw, 1/ i s t o 1/ 7 s pe r load • Trade dull, at our quotalions. WHITE:CHAPEL. Meadow flay, 21 8s to 31 15 5 ; r, 3/ Os to 4/ OS; and S traw, 1/ O s to 1 1 73 pe r loa • Supi , ly good, and trade dull. MEAT IVIII.IL3EZTEI. SouTHALL, JAN. 15. Our mat kct has ruled very I I " activo to-day. at barely last week's prices.—Beef for 2s 61 to 3s 8d; Mutton, 2s 10(1 to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s to ° I 8d; Pork, 3s 4d to 3s per Whs. to sink the offels. ROMFORD, JAN. 15.—Prime Sheep moved otf stealilit at full currencies. In other kinds of stock very ha le was doinv.—Beef from 2z; 8d to 3s 10d; Mutton, 39t° 4s 4d; Veal, 3s to 3s 8d ; P or k, 3 s 4 d to 3s 8 i per B,ug• Qum t..r. old store Pigs, 16s to 203 each. HAILSBAM, JAN. 15.—Although our market to day has been scantily supplied with stock, the general de" fe4, ah,