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NEW NAVAL NOVEL Note ready et all the Libraries, in 3 vols., rr H E PE TE A TALE OF THE SEA. By A NAVAL OFFICETI. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Ni.lW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF E3IILIA. WYNDHA3I. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THE W ILMINGTONS. By the Author of " Emilia Wyndham," " Two Old Men's Tales," &c, " The Wilmington' contains scenes which no living author save the writer Two Old Men's Tales' could have written so well. Few wilLbe able to escape from this new story'when they have once entered on it"—athenaeum. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough•street. On Thursday will be published, LACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. No. CCCCXII., for FEBRUARY. Price 23. 6tl. ; by post 3c CONTENTS. Goldsmith. The Siege of Dunbeg ; or, the Stratagems of War. Agrippa D'Aubigne and Madame de Maintenon. Memoir of W. Collins, R.A. The Green Iland—A " Short" Yarn. Part VIII. British Agriculture and Foreign Compe!ition. No. 11. Arrziquix. —Blackwood on the Agricultural Question, and the Newspaper Press, ' The Second Edition of No. CCC,CXI. for January is published. William Blackwood and Sons, 45, George-street, Edinburgh, and 37, Paternoster-row, London. Sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen " THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. JAMES .k.NDERSON. THIS EVENING, :mu be presented, by her 31ajesty's Servants, OTHELLO. Othello, Mr. J. Anderson ; lago, Mr. Tandenhoff ; Desdemona, Miss Lanra Addison ; Emilia, Miss Vandenhoff. To No- followed by a New Grand Historical, Metaphorical, Allegorical, ald Diabolical Pantomime, by the author of " Bluf' King Hal 'to be called HARLEQUIN and GOOD QUEEN BESS Or. MEIDeTE ENGLAND IN TILE OLDEN TIME, Pzivate boxes, 31. 35., 2/. }2s. 6d., 21. 28., 11. its. 6d., and 11. Is Stalls, ss. each s. d FIRST PRICE s. d. SECOND PRICE. EOY-!S - 2 0 Pit - - - 1 0 Lower Gallery - 0 6 No Half-price to Upper Gallery Mr. J. Povey. 13(“c.13 • - - 4 0 Fit - - - 2 0 Lewer -1 0 I Upper gallery - 0 6 Box-book-keev • THEATRE ROYAL, HAYBIARKET. Ur. 13. Webster, :Sele Lessee and Manager, Old Brampton. THIS EVENING, Will presentee; an entirely new and original Comedy, entitled LEAP YEAR ; or, The Ladies' Privilege. Sir Solomon Solis, Mr. Keeley ; Captain Mouser, Mr. ielby ; Mr. Dimple, Mr. Ilnekstona ; William Walker, Mr. Charles Kean ; Mrs. Flora Flowerjew, Mrs. Charles Kean ; Miss Sally O'Leary, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Mrs. Crisp, Mrs. Keeley - . Atter Which TEE NINTH STJ.TUE or, The Jewels and The Gem. Principxl characters by Mr. Manyard, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. L. S. Duckirghatn, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with YOUR LIFE'S IN DANGER. The Box-cfnee is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. TUE li.t.)lAL, ADLI,PIII. •'•- ctinn Madam- Ceßtete. THIS EVENING Will bc perfermed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW I.'ritteij,:ul characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed .tor " , 0. Smith, Worrell ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. krter which FRANKENSTEIN" ; or, The Model Man. franlzen- Mr. Wrigbt ; the What is It ? Mr. P. Bedford; Zarniel, Mr. 0. 31::=s Woolgar; Tiddicwincz, Miss E.*: ; Undiae, Miss E. Harding. by a new slippery sketcb called MItS. BUNBURY'S :1,1, Mr. P. Iled:1 - ,r1; Bob Twtnks, 0. Slinith; Mrs. Banbury, Mrs. F. iry Barnes, Miss Brooks. Ott , of Rose. [n A';•at 11 , isi ( Vrif'.l4 Mr. ; !I Y9. 1. P.C. - SYAL LYCI.E.M THEATRE. Unti.:T the Marlagement (IP Madame V:3lx l / 1 . :es e, Mr. °hark,: Mahe THISt EVENING, r"rfonneill - USED LT. After which TILE ' ISLAND OF JEWELS. 'o conclude with BOX AND COX. 3 Boxes 3-.. Uopc.ir 42. ; 28. ; Gallery, Is. 1.;:c rice to any part of the house. tons for rrivate Boxes must be made to Mr. Alleroft, 15 D hal -p Ntc! :ad-strect PRINCESS'S THEA'II:,6. I. M. Maddox, :ale Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, Will by performed a new comic Opera, entitled TIIE VALLEY OF ANDORRE. To conclude with KING JAMIE ; or, Harlequin and Magic Fiddle Harlequin, Mr. Bologna ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Clown, Mr. flea mare ; Columbine, Alias Fawcett. ST. JA3IES'3 THEATRE. FRENCH PLAYS AND OPERA COMIQUE. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the French Performances at the St. James's Theatre will commence THIS EVENING, LE MAITRE CHAPELLE. With (first time in this cwntry) a New Opera Bouffon, entitled LE CHID. The Box-office of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till Five. ASTLE f'S ROYAL AMVILITHEATRE. Pmurietor, Mr. W. Batty. A Grand Juvenile Night, commencing with the Fantemiras will take place on Thursday. kab E VENIN t,. The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven, with a new Grand Spectacle of THE KNIGHT OF THE EAGLE CREST; or, The Tournay of Love, in which Mr. N. T. Hicks will appear. To be followed by a brilliant display of Batty's peerless scenes of .be Circle, supported by the accomplished artistes of the establish ment. To eonclwle with a grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime, by Nel son Lee, called lIAELEQUIN YANKEE DOODLE,. who came to Town upon his little Pony. ttox-oalee open from Pleven till Fonr. lIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tnii DAT —Warning, 44 min. after 1 ► Evening, 10 min. after 2 To-Moaaew—:morning, 37 min. after 2 f Evening, 3 min. after 3 TriF WEATHER.—Srm OsricE, JAN. 27. TtEERWOMETER, Lowest, 24; Highest, 49; Noon 32. BARONETZIA. 30.55; an extraordinary rise of more than an inch in twenty-four hours-107 points. This is the most rapid we yet remember for years. WlN.. —The wind went in the afternoon of Saturday from variable at W. to N.W. to N.E., with a clear blue aky and a cold, cutting, frosty wind, at which it re mained until nine o'clock this morning, when it sud denly veered back to W., and by noon it stood at S.W., with a light breeze and fine sunshiny weather, which continued all day. The frost during the night was very intense, and was the more felt from its sud denness. JAN. 28. TgErs.7:7‘.),MTF.lt, Lowost, 28; Highest, 33; Noon, 38. 13A.RONETIM, 30.05; a fall of half an inch since yester day, the mercury going down nearly as fast as it rose. WIND S.W.—cloudy, dull, mild weather, with indica tions of a ;term in the Atlantic, the pressure of whieh has not yet reached here. t 4 1, - f 11 t. .';(::. 4 ;4 %N.1 1 ,...4 1 4 . ~A r "::',‘ , :.., A ,4t • ' .., ‘',...-- .z.,.' ... ,•-:,, . krif ' %1 1 ,:ct (r. ~......., "* i ; (1.7 ~ .!.!7'131.' ' ' ~...A t•' .' 1 ~4._,,z ~,,,z144N15,--'1 ' ''...,k. . .q..W. ~.,. , ig =.. zo4 Mg- s '; 'P '.l'' , ..-`c;-- 1 .'.--, - ;--',.., ,, ^W;-,- 6 -,-,,,,. ...,,&,.__ „...... js _ 4A . :ht ,, '4 r ' l / 4 1Z-I _,,...., - ...„.. ity,eirtimi a- it, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1830. On Thursday Parliament will once more have re aas.smbled. Another session will afford the Protec tionist minority a more available opportunity than it has hitherto possessed of impeding the progress of public business, and, while only damaging their own small repute, and conducing to their own more speedy discomfiture, throwing every possible and impossible obstacle in the way of the Government. From the noisy character of their recent demonstrations we may reasonably anticipate a series of vociferous and almost interminable discussions. For the defenders of an obsolete policy, the apologists of an abandoned system, the exponents of decomposed doctrines and decaying principles, have an obtuseness of intelligence similar to that of the fool mentioned in the proverb, who, convinced against his will, continues obdurately of the same opinion still, however logical or conclusive may be the refutation of his sophistries. We believe, on a moderate calculation, that every Free-trader in both Houses of the Im perial Legislature his been required, now by one party, and now by another to demonstrate upwards of a thousand times the reasonableness of his convictions —a thousand times, we mean, since the passing of the great measure which carried confusion among the monopolists. Yet, although the question has been argued to very nausea, though the folly, or rather the fatuous stupidity of Protection (so called) has been expounded with the clearness of a syllogism, so that not a blockhead in her MAJESTY'S dominions could fail to recognise the justice of the deductions made in favour of free trade, the Country Party have closed their ears, have shut their eyes, have shrouded their consciences from the recognition of truths self-evident to everybody else, and demand again and again the repetition of reasons that are becoming proverbial, and of calculations that are growing mcstunrnistakeably tedious. It is the intermin able rolling and revulsion, the advance and retrogres sion of that stony error which can never gather the moss of common-sense under the hands of the political Sisyphus. It is dipping for water with a cullender, attempting anything like rational debate wi.h men who are indifferent to the force of the most un answerable demonstration. ./s.nd men such as these form the tatterdemalion regiment which become s scattered only to rally again round the old, worm eaten, threadbare, faded, abandoned, tarnished, and nearly forgotten banner of Protection. Every one is prepared for a last and desperate struggle for office on the part of the little Quixotic squad proclaiming itself the body guard of Agricul ture. Every one is prepsred, consequently, for the contention of the opposing forces on the floor of the Leeds and the Commons. The certainty that the self styled friends of the farmers will battle, so to speak to the life and to the death for the seizure of the red boxes, is the le flect;on which nielely tends to impart zlct to the pr os p ec t o ' th e approaching sess i on. AVIS txtrlyy fom tie it full appreciation of this tee Ire im at the memb rs of the Administra , r, 1 . 4 ed the most r e d ou bt a bl e of all th e f rade to move in the House of THE SUN, LONDON, mons the answer to the Address from the Throne. That selection we have already commented upon as most judicious, and as one reflecting the highest possible credit on the discrimination of the Cabinet. It afforded 11F, therefore, extreme satisfaction to observe the echo of the same sentiments, within a week of their publication, by the lips of the Hon. Gentleman the Representative of the 'Vest Riding of Yorkshire when addressing, on.a recent occasion, the intelligent inhabitants of Sheffield. We doubt not that the honour thus conferred on the Hon. CHARLES PEI... HAM VILLIERS by her MAJESTY'S Ministerial advisers has carried some slight sensation at least of dismay into the ranks even of men so self-satisfied of their indestructibility as the Protectionists. They cannot fail to perceive in the circumstance of the foremost champion of unrestricted commerce being chosen to inaugurate the proceedings of the new Parliamentary session a significant token of the staunch and unalterable adherence of the present Administration to that commercial policy which Sir ROBERT PEEL had the unfading glory of establishing. boards—we have already had quite enough of the " Poles," the " Freshfieldz," the " G. F. Youngs," and the " Mundys.” The lugubrious howlings of these distinguished individuals are stereotyped by every journal that may deem it expedient to record or chronicle such pure and unadulterated " humbug." They indeed may exclaim— " Qum regio in terris, nostra non plena laboris." Whether the agriculturists of Essex, the farmers of Surrey, or the sturdy yeomen of Kent be invited, the indefatigable FZESHFIELD, whose legal lore must be exceedingly valuable in teaching the most approved modes of culture, and the omnipresent "G. F. YOUNG" are at, hand to en lighten and direct the gaping multitude. 'We cannot, however, pass over an admirable specimen of that rara avis in terris, a " PROECTIONIST-MANUFACTURER." Mr. JOSIAH LEwls • (silk manufacturer) appeared on the stage. That astute individual informed his as tounded audience that "one of the strongest arguments against free trade was found in the fact, that Derby was prosperous !!" He discovered " that the staple trade in Derby enjoyed a certain amount of protec tion, and if that were withdrawn in the slightest de gree, every loom in Derby would be stopped, or they would have to reduce the wages of the labourer one half! !" The Honourable Gentleman seeing the astonishment which his erudite discovery occasioned in the minds of the auditory, found it necessary to make some modifications of his statement. He added, "He did not mean to say the whole of the silk trade was protected. Thrown silks were not protected, and what was the consequence ? Why the throwers were obliged to withdraw from that de • partment of the business which had been entirely abandoned to the foreigners !!" Now this is a die fillet and definite assertion, perfectly capable of being sustained by evidence, and we readily join issue with Mr. JOSIAH LEWIS thereupon. We believe that the great majority of the manufacturers of the district repeatedly petitioned Parliament for a repeal of the corn-laws, and, stated in their petitions ti:at " they required no protection f-r themselves." In fact, they always disclaimed protection, as their late representative, Me. STRUTT, declared, oa their behalf, in his place in • Parliament. It is admitted that the silk-thrown trade is not protected, but so far from being " entirely abandoned to the foreigner," we have it, on the most unquestionable authority, that it was never in a more healthy or prosperous condition, and that all the mills are not only working full time, but that it has been found ne cessary to give orders for work elsewhere. Let Mr. Izw is deny these assertions if he can ; and if not, how can he get out of assertions such as FERDINAND MENEZ PINTO might blush to father. Tire mode in which " unanimity" is secured at the reactionary meetings may be gathered from the fact that Mr. SAMUEL ROBINSON, a highly respectable and intelligent tenant-farmer, holding more than 400 acres of land, was hustled out of the meeting, and ejected, vi et armis, by these bludgeonists in the dis guise of decent yeomen. To those who desire an accurate account of such transactions we heartily commend the unsparing exposures contained in the columns of our talented and esteemed Contemporary ; the Derby and Chesterfield Reporter. No act, indeed, on the part of th; Government could by any possibility be more expressive of the depth of its resolution in regard to the detestation of mono poly. It is like registering a vow in the pre sence of the whole country to be loyal to that cause with which the name cf every member of the Cabinet has become assccieted and identified. Insomuch so, that, notwithstanding a large amount of bluster and fanfaronade, we con jecture that the Protectionists must be already medi tating the abandonment of their armour, and possibly before the year 1850 bas expired their rusty shields and broadswords may be hung up for ever in desolate halls of the agricultural Belelathe. It is calculated that the Commons on the occasion of their re-assembly will muster more strongly than could reasonably have been expected, not a solitary seat being actually vacant. Six vacancies during the recess have been filled up with new representatives : Kidderminster abandoning Mr. GODSON for Mr. BEST; Cork accepting Colonel CIIATTERTON in lieu cf Mr. CALLAGHAN; West Surrey exchanging Mr. E VEL YN for Mr. DENNISON ; Shoreheal replacing Mr. GORING with Lord ALEXANDER GORDON LENNOX ; Boston selecting Cep - fain PELHAM as the successor of Sir JAMES DUKE ; and Reading, on the elevation of Mr. Serjeant TALFOURD to the judicial bench, taking Mr. STAN FORD as its representative. Such have been the alterations made in the character of the House of Commons since the prorogation (.1 Parlia ment, four of the above vacancies having arisen from deaths, and the remaining two from other casualties. With a modification so minute in the actual position of parties in the popular branch of the Legislature, it cannot be difficult to estimate the preponderance of votes upon any one of the different questions already submitted to dieoussion. Hence, therefore, we are enabled to form something more than mere conjec tures as to the probable labours of the session now on the :eve of its commencement. The public are not inexperienced in the political creed of their present representatives, and hence they may comment upon the proportions of the division lists without much hazard of labouring under a delusion, either in the way of despondency or of over confidence. During three years the Prime Minister has been unremitting in his efforts to marshal in something like order and compactnesfs the mass of his supporters. It is consequently with no unpractised hand that he adventures upon the direction of the new Parliamentary campaign, but rather with a sense of his own greater aptitude for the conduct of affairs, and with a larger confidence in the consistency and vigour of the Liberal majority. From his experience, moreover, of the general irrita tion caused by the short-comings hitherto conspicuous in the course of the ruling Government, we are san THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of Saturday and yesterday. The Moniteur of Saturday publishes the following circular, on the suLject of passports, addressed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the French Consuls resident in Great Britain : " Monsieur,—The numerous complaints raised in England by the obligation imposed on Englishmen on their landing in France to exchange at the part of their arrival the passports which they bring wita them, and which were delivered to them by cur consuls in the United Kingdom for a provisional pass, have excited the particular attention of the Gm e - nment. It has thought proper, while maintaining the dispositions prescribed by the law relative to public safety, to modify in practice with regard to Eagland the state of things now exist ing. It has, then fire, thought that there would be no inconvenience in substituting for the :presentpassports a titre de voyage, under the name of pass, a model of which you will hind annexed. These passes, which will be valid for a month, will serve to go and return between France and England. It is this pass which you will there fore henceforward deliver to the English who may apply at your office previous to their leaving for France. You will not deliver them withcut de taching from them the marginal check, which you will preserve and forward direct at the end of every week to the Minister of the Interior. You will be pleased to take the proper measures, in order that all the consular agents placed under your orders shall be prepared to cor.f)rm immediately, like yourself, to these new ar rangements. For this purFose you will send them a sufficient number of copies of the new passes, with the necessary instructions. Yon will recommead to them the greatest, exactitude in immediately delivering the passes when demanded, in order that at the places of embarkation a traveller may always be able to procure that document between the arrival of the railway train and the del arture of the steamer. As it would be nei ther just nor proper that Frenchmen should be treated less favourably than English subjects, the present in structions will naturally a p p l y to such French subjects as may wish to return from England into France. The charge for these new passes will be the Fame as for the old passports—viz., 6t. 25c., or ss. I, moreover, autho rise you b give the present circular all the publicity which you may think proper. " Accept, &c., " General DE Lk UITTE, Minister of Foreign Affairs." The Jioniteur also states that the Minister of Fi nance, in order to avoid the delays caused in the sea ports by the inspection of the luggage of travellers, has given orders that that examination shall be made at the termini of the railway at Paris on the arrival of the trains. g uine that a beneficent impetus has been imparted to his ambition to secure his popularity yet further by the evidences of his enlightened statesmanship and the tokens of his undeviating patriotism. Hence it is that we look with hope, if not with implicit re iance upon the approaching labours of our hereditary ind representative legislators. The advocates of monopoly are taking full advan tage of the holiday season. In every practicable in stance the Protectionist leaders are endeavouring to induce their dupes to neglect the care of their re spective farms in order to attend meetings, and listen to the plaintive Jeremiads poured forth by the choson orators. Ewe are to believe these sagacious and longheaded gentlemen, the sun of England's prosperity has set for ever. No hope remains for a country where the blighting influence of free trade has been suffered to prevail. Nothing can bs expected but a national bankruptcy, in which all classes, the manufacturer as well as the agriculturist, will be involved in one common ruin. The only advantage which the former can anticipate is, that his destruction may not take place for a brief period after that of his rural brethren is accomplished. lie may obtain the privilege of Ovnr, and be the " last devoured ;" but the fate which inevitably awaits him cannot be averted. He must make up his mind to submit to the common lot. The proprietors of the soil may farm their own estates, while the farmers go to the workhouse and the paupers to —, a place not to be named to ears polite, but the factories will speedily be closed, and the operatives deprived of employment. The millowners will appear in the Gazette, the columns of which must be enlarged to ma ke room for the increasing numbers who must make up their minds to undergo the " whitewashing " process, and the cotton spinners and other hands, who— short-sighed and deluded individuals—now rejoice in the possession of " cheap and untaxed food," and that greatest of all popular fallacies, "a large loaf," will be unable to obtain funds to purclnse bread, although it may be at a merely nominal price, and all but given away. The trial of M EMILE DE GIKARDIN, for having republished in the Presse an article from La Reforme, for the publication of which the gerant of the latter journal had been tried and convicted, took place on Friday, and termir.ated in the acquittal of M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN, The Presse has the following obser vations on this trial : " Tf). - e cba-a2ter of justice is impassibility, that cf li berty is mobility—passion. The court cf law which Cadges liberty may strike it, but the blow which the court gives is always less violent than the count..rblow which it receives. Tho court which judges liberty ceases to be justice in all the majesty of that simple word ; it be comes political j ustiee—that is to say, uncertain, versatile, suspected, which all parties are entitled by turns to dis trust, for there is not one which has not by turns abused it, and caused it to fall into excesses. Will it be said that political justice, which pronounces on the crimes and of fences of the press,escapes thereproaches which we men tion, by the institution, so essentially variable, of jury men? Whoever says so is mistaken. To choose the jury to intervene in political matters is to weaken its autho rity in civil ones. 'The juryman who pronounces on the innocence or fault of a robber, has only his consci ence to interrogate; it is not the same with him who pronounces ou the innocence or culpability of a doubtful doctrine; in that case he must distrust his opinion, must fling it aside, must impose silence on it, in order to be sure that it will not speak more loudly than his consci ence—a formidable trial, to which it would be more prudent not to submit the juryman. What we asked be fore the decision which has acquitted the Presse, and what we ask now after that event, is the absolute sepa ration of what is in the domain of justice from what ap pertains to liberty. May this decision be the last in press matters. Let the law officers of the Republic be lieve us, and henceforward cease to prosecute journals; let them leave to them the care of contradicting and neutralising each other. They will perform the duty better than can do it all the substitutes who desire to become Advocates-General, all the Advocates-General anxious to become Procureurs-General." , Such, according to these modern Solons, are the calamities that await the nation, inconsequence of the grievous mistake in legislation that was committed in the session of 1 846—calamities from which nothing can preserve once fortunate and happy Eng land but a rapid retrogression in her commercial po licy, and a speedy re-establishment of protective or prohibitory duties on the importation of foreign corn and of every description of agricultural produce. The remedy is plain and simple nothing, in fact, more easy. The landlords, poor innocents ! have no personal feelings or motives in endeavouring to restore the national prosperity. It is solely for the benefit of the community in general that they are induced to labour, fur the farmers and agricultural labourers, nay, even the manufacturers and operatives, are included within the scope of their comprehensive and disinterested philanthropy, and yet, " 0 ccecai mens:mortalium," the besotted and deluded victims cannot discern who are their real friends and what is best calculated to promote their own welfare and happiness, but still obstinately cling to the " cheap loaf," and " heed not the voice of the charmer," charm he never so wisely. The proceedings at the various gatherings are so similar, both in the conduct and results, that one may be taken as the type of all. An attentive perusal of the report of a single meeting will render the reader completely au fait as to all. If then we allude to the transactions at one assemblage, a general insight will be obtained as to all. Some may be possibly ren dered a little more racy than others. It is not every county that can boast s a Mr. Bus- TEILD FBRRAND, nor can we hope to hear on many occasions such graphic and vigorous nar ratives of sanguinary encounters, - ending in the igno minious execution of one of the'rebel generals by the hands of en associate who had volunteered to fill the office cf " hangman," in order to preserve his miser able existence. No. Greece knew no second llostEß, and England hath no other*" FERNAND." We, there fore, pass by the gathering at York, as being in some respects sui generis ; and if we select the meeting of the South Derbyshire Protectionists for special notice we are influenced by no invidious motives, but because it may be considered a fair average specimen of the general lot, and partly because the clear and able commentaries of an esteemed Contemporary, the Derby and Chesterfield Reporter, have already exhie bited the entire affa . r in its true light, and exposed the secret machinery by which similar " demonstrations" are got up, and the voice of public opinion (public opinion indeed ! GOD save the mark !) is to make itself heard throughout the length End breadth of the lend The Constitutionnel publishes the following semi official announcement of the intentions of the Govern ment with regard to La Plata : " The most contradictory reports have teen in circula tion for the last few days with regard t) the intentions of the Government on the question cf La Plate. We are able to declare that the Government is, and - has always been, firmly resolved to execute all a at it pro mised when it accepted the amendment of M. Rance, to guarantee the honour and the interests of the Republic; to seriously protect French subjects against every even tualtty that may arise, and at the same time to maintain the independence of Monte Video, as stipulated in the Convention of 1840. The negotiations opened by Admiral Le Predour have nct been broken off; they will, therefore, serve as the starting point for the now nego tiations, as the Government clearly explained to the As vseerurnbmlye.ntlnshtohuilsdstwaitsehofAtdhminigrsalitrirsednoauturrtaol cthoanttitnhueeGthee general officer their a ss ti ns c fbe h i tey r e g n , a f a o inn r d e s e tw m ehv e ie n erh t y s , mission c on fid e d to him. The Government sends to that a white i i b l : e r n me a y b iet l nt e i tn him lhi y t m o , d ur F e d to e f s e e n c will furnish him with that moral liberty of which he stands in need as negotict m. This arrangement— simply protective of the interests of French subjects and completely independent of the eventuality of a rupture-- will give that weight to the negotiations which they bef )re wanted; and, on the other ra,n 4 , if they should be broken off, these forces will serve to occupy the city of Monte Video and the island of Martin-Garcia in order to maintain the status quo until ulterior decision. M. Goury du Roslan, First Secretary cf Legation, who has long resided in Spanish America, where he successfully filled the functions c f Charge d'Affaires under very difficult c'rcutnstances, has been sent out to Admiral Le Predour. Ile takes out to him detailed instructions, and is prepared to complete, in case of need, by verbal explanations, the expression of the iee.t which has in spired the determination of the Government." The Napoleon states that the naval force about to We shall not notice the outpourings of the noto rieties that appeared "starring" on provincial ! sail for the Plata will consist of two f r i ga t es , e i g ht !corvettes, brigs, gun-boats and steamers. Admiral LE PREDOUR is to keep command of the stetion. There are at present in the Plata one frigate, two corvettes, ar.d a brig. The same journal contains the following attack on General DE LAMORICIERE, who, it will be remem bered, proposed to vest in the Assembly the exclusive right of pardoning the insurgents of June : " General Lamoriciere has presented an amendment to the Assembly which is an open violation cf Ai Vele 55 of the Constitution. That article, as is well known, gives the President of tl e Republic the right to grant pardon after the previous advice of the Council of State. The General wishes to inveit the Assembly with the exclusive right cf setting at liberty the 468 insurgents of June still in custody. This attempt has caused deep surprise in a twofold point of view. No one, in the first place, is ignorant that General Lamoriciere belongs to that fraction of the Assembly which professes an extreme almiration for the Constitution. In the next place we cannot comprehend how a man who, only a few days since represented the President of the Republic at St. Petcrsburgh, could make the first use of his Parliamen tary initiative to bring forward a proposition which is an act of mistrust of the President. The small number cf votes given to it is a significtiti; o mark of tte opinion of the Assembly." The report on the Bill relative to the civil list and private property of the ex-King Louis Pninirral and his family has been distributed to the Assembly. It appears from the report that at the time of the re volution, on the 24th of February, the debts of the KING amounted to 33 millions cf francs, but the value of his property, independently of his claims on the civil list, was 100 millions, supposing that it could be realised at once at nominal prices. The amount already paid to the creditors by the sales which have been effected, and the money in band from the civil list, is 8,900,000 f. The Cenunittee are unanimously of opinion that, in order that the liqui dation may be continued without an improper sacri fice of property, the liquidator,' should be allowed till the 31st of December to complete the settlement. The Committee propose to maintain temporarily the decree of sequestration on the property of the ex- Royal Family, with the exception of that of the Duke D'AUMALE and the Prince DE JOIaVILLE, indepen dently of the &talon of August 7, 1830. The Bill introduced by General BARAGUAY D'Hinnints, repealing the decree of 19th July, 1849, by which education in the Polytechnic and Military schools was ordered to be gratuitous from the Ist Oct , 1850, was on Saturday ordered to be read a second time by a large majority, notwithstanding the opposition of General LAMORICIERE. The Estafette of - SUnday publishes the following important communication : ‘= A frequei t exct ange of dispatches has for some time been going on bi- twecn the Cabinets of Vienna, and Turin and the French Government. These dL patches relate, it is said, t ) a negotiation cf high im portance. Austria, whose financial r, sources are en. tirely exhausted, and who foresees fresh insune:tional movements in Lombardy, would be very glad to relieve terself from such dangerous eventualities, and at the same time replenish her exhausted coffers. In conse quence Austria feels disposed to cede to Piedmont a considerable portion of Lombardy for a large indemnity. Should t'lis project succeed, the boundaries of Sardinia would be puehcd to Cie Mincio. The French and English Governments have received communications on this subject from Austria and Sardine, with a request thet they would give us their opinion what sum Sardinia ought to pay for the ceded territory ?" Lord 13nouGnam has met with a slight accident in his eye, An instrument which he"was carrying home in his carriage struck him on the ball of the eye and injured it slightly, but there is no danger to the sight. Ills Lordship was to have left Paris for London to night, but in consequence of this accident he has been obliged to postpone his journey. He however hopes to be able to leave to-morrow. A very large portion of the space usually devoted to original articles is filled, in several of the journals of this day, with very long extracts from the intro duction to the fourth edition of the two first volumes of the " History of the Revolution of England," by M. GUIZOT. The Napoleon says, " The English journals still speak of an intention on the part of the French Government to contract a loan. We can assure the public that the Government is quite decided not to contract one." The same journal announces that Dr. Acuinet has arrived in France, having succeeded in making his escape from the dungeons of the Inquisition at Rome. Letters from Cherbourg of the 24th state that the steam-frigate Caffarelli arrived there from Brest to take on board three companies of the 2d Regiment of Marine Infantry, destined to form part of the expedi tion of La Plata. It will sail from Brest in the course of next month. The French Funds continue firm. Five per Cents. 94f. Rope. Three per Cents. 57f. 80c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JAN. 26. Boulogne and Amiens, 7 3 %—Dutch Rhenish, 1 1 / B —East Indian, 4% ex in.—Northezn of France, 1 1 A dis. ex in. —Sambre and Meuse, 314. ITALY. Cardinal FERRETTI, the brother of the POP?, ar rived in Rome on the 19th, and announced publicly, to a group of persons assembled at the gate cf . St. John of Lateran, that the POPE would soon follow The Courrier des Ales publishes the following eurous letter trout Rome, dated the 15th :—" A body of Austrian troops is shortly to advance upon Rome, under the orders of General Baron D'ASPRE. The object of this movement is to restore the impe rial and royal arms on the Palazzo di Venezia. Since the departure of his HouNnss, they had not been replaced on the residence of the Austrian Ambassa dor. They are to be hoisted at the very moment the POPE will make his entry by the gate of St. John of Lateran. It is believed the Pore will insist on the permanence of these troops in his capital. France, which evacuates Rome, partially:at least, will see no harm in letting Baron D'AEPRE place Austrian sentinels at the gates of the Vatican and the Quirinal. Thus will one of the difficulties be removed ; for the Sovereign PONTIFF must provisionally have a body of troops at his command, till one of the plans in con templation, viz., the formation of a Spanish or the revival of the Order of the Knights of Malta, shall have been put into execution." The Oloserratore Romero publishes a brief ad dress by the Supreme PONTIFF to Father VENTU RA, who in his letters to a Protestant has undertaken to prove the truth of the tradition concerning the journey of S. Peter to,Uoine and his subsequent stay in that city :—" Our paternal heart (says Pius IX. in his brief), has experienced true pleasure in conse quence of the public declaration you have printed and spread, announcing that you submitted to the decree of the Holy Congregation of the Index, invested with the right of judging by our Supreme authority." The Spanish General CuRDOVA. left Rome on the 14th. Letters from Perugia, in the Papal territory, of the 12th, announce the arrest of forty individuals in the environs of Spoleto, for having taken part in the late tumult caused by the restoration cf the malt-tax. The Wazionale cf Florence quotes ,a letter from Rome, of the 17th, announcing the arrival of an es taffette from Paris, and the departure, immediately I afterwards, of General BARAGUAY D . HILLIERS fJx. i Portici. It is asserted, says this letter, he had re ; ceiml precise crders from France to demand the ire ' mediate return of the PorE, and in the case of a refusal on the part of his TlouNrss, to establish a Provisional Government at llorre. A letter from Rome of the 20th inst. states that the courier bringing dispatches from Naples was stopped by seven armed men between the Pontine _Marshes and Velletri. The leader of the party com pelled three travel' rs to quit the carriage, which they searched carefully. They took possession of the letters, but touched nothing The Genoa papers state that great activity has been perceptible of late among the Jesuits, and that it is rumoured a meEting of the chief individuals of that body is to take ph:ce at Portici. The correspondence from Turin alludes to the rumours of the proposition made by Austria to cede to Piedmont its states in Lombardy as far as the line of the Mincio. The terms are said to be an in demnity of 400 millions, the de!truction of the for tress of Mantua, end the conclusion of an offensive and defensive alliance. Some difficulti2s had arisen between the Austrian and Tuscan Governments relative to the convention for the stay of Austrian troops in the Tuscan do minions. COUItT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SATURDAY. The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes and Windsor Paik. The Royal Family took their usual airings. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting this morning, attended by Lord Camoys, Colonel Hon. C. Grey and Colonel F. H. Seymour. The royal dinner party this evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, and Baroness de Speth. The Queen's private band was in attendance in the Castle E fcer dinner. SUNDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning on the Eastern Terrace and Slopes. The Royal Family took walking exercise in the Slopes and Windsor Park. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley officiated. Her Royal Highness' the Duchess of Kent also attended the service. The Duke of Cambridge attended at the British Museum on Saturday. His Royal Highness visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday after noon, at the Foreign.-olliv. The Ministers present were—Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir G. Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, the Right lion. H. La bouchere, the Earl cf Carlisle, the Marquis of Clanri carde, and the Right Hon. Fox Maule. The Council sat three hours and a half. Mr. Bogle Smith, Prime Warden ; Mr. P. N. John son, Warden of the Goldsmiths' Company, attended by Mr. Rayne, and by Mr. John Lane, Clerk of the Company, had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere on Saturday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Committee on Education of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council had a meeting on Saturday, which was attended by the Lord President of the Council, Lord John Russell, the Earl of ➢into, the Earl of Carlisle, Sir George Grey, and the Chancellor cf the Exchequer. The Hon. P. 11. F. Berkeley, M.P., Messrs. John Fisher and William Jordan, of Bristol; and Messrs. Anthony Dunlop and Alexander Dewar, of Londor, a deputation on the subject of the guaranteed Monte Videan loan, transackd business at the Foreign-office on Saturday. Mr. Horsfal had an interview on Saturday with the Right Hon. 11. LabouchEre. GUARANTEED CDILIAN LOAN.—A deputation of merchants, consisting of Messrs. Fisher and (Jordan, of the city of Biistol, and Mez ,- srs. Dunlop and Dewar, of the city of London, waited on Lord Palmerston on Sa turday, the 26th inst. The deputation was introduced by Mr. henry Berkeley, M.P. for the city of Bristol, and was moat graciously received Mr. Berkeley called upon Mr. Fisher to state the case, and he was ably fol lowed by Mr. Jordan. Mr. Dunlop also addressed his Lordship. In the course of Mr. Fisher's remarks he took occasion to say that he had lost some thousands, but he thought less of that than of the ruin which he knew hung over others, and ho hoped his Lordship would give them something more than a cold Ministerial reply. Mr. Berkeley having urged on his Lordship's attention the strong moral case brought before him, Lord Palmerston kindly, and laughingly, assured Mr. Fisher that he should have something more than a cold Mi nhterial reply; and, after a lucid statement, pledged himself to give every assistance he could with propriety to the merchants embarked in the Chilian loan, for the honourable adjustment of their claims. DEATH OF SIR FELIX BOOTH, BART.—An in quest was held at Brighton' at twelve o'clock on Satur day, to inquire into the death of Sir Felix Booth. It appeared that the deceased had arrived at the York Hotel, Brighton, on Thursday afternoon. He went to bed in his usual health at half-past ten o'clock. About three o'clock in the morning he was attacked with a fit of coughing, which disturted Mr. Laurence, a friend c f the deceased, who slept in the adjoining room. Mr. Laurence immediately went to the bedside of the de ceased, who died in about three minutes. Mr. Gavin Pocock, surgeon, gave evic?ence as to his being the usual medical attendant of the deceased, and expressed his opinion that Sir Felix had died from disease of the heart. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. Sir Felix was a WI althy distiller, and served the office of Sheriff cf London in 1828 1829; he was also distin guished for bis munificence, having presented Sir James Ross with 20,0001. to enable him to fit out his Polar expedition. In 1834 he was creatcci a baronet, with special remainder, in default of male issue, to his brother, Mr. William Booth, of Roydon-lodge, Essex. The de ceased baronet is succeeded by his nephew, John William Booth, born in 1805. THE RAILWAY BRIDGE ACROSS THE T WEED . Much apprehension has lately been excited for the safety of the temporary structure across the Tweed, lest by a sudden thaw in the river, au accumulation cf ice might effect its destruction; but we are happy to state that any danger cf such a result is now, fortunately,. re moved. Thee fears attained their climax on Wedne-- day evening, when about four o'clock in the afternoon, the ice began to float down the river in large masses, accumulating on the upper side of the bridge, and i n th e course of about three hours an immense body of ice was formed, extending nearly three-quarters of a mile up the river, and varying from three to six fret in thickness. Of course the utmost suspense was felt, the labours of the men employed to clear a passage being utterly fruit less. At length, aoout ten P.M., when the tide began to ebb, and there being a considerable " fresh" in the river, the ice began to break up with great noise, and gradua'ly cleared for itself a panage between the timbers without the least injury to the bridge. The whole danger is, therefore, now happily removed.—Bertviek Warder. r. JENNY LIND.—It is reported upon strong founda tion that this gifted vocalist is 'going over to America, the most princely terms having been offered her by Mr. Barnum, the former proprietor of General Tom Thumb. ne money, some 30,00(1., it is stated, is already placed in the hands of a third party. In addition to this, Jenny ie to have a proportion of the receipts afor a certain amount; and she is not to be fettered in the event of her wishing t) sing gratuitously for any local charity. Lenet;iet acid BeletLi accompany her. Wo have been ieferuied that the entire proceeds of this musical pre.- gress will be approprieted by the generous hearted vocalist to the erection and endowment of an hospital in Stockholm, her native city. MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 11350 1110.NEy COMMERCIAL NEWS. LL TY, QUARTER 7'o 711 !LEP. The sales of Cotten Liverpocl on Saturday were 6 000 bales, of which 2,00 e were taken on stn - eulation. Among the transactions were 5,510 American tt 60 to 8d; 200 Egyptian at 7d to; B¢d; 200 Surat at 41ad to sd; and 100 Sea bland at is Id to Is 3d per lb. —ln Railways only a limited business r' - as done, at rate er low r quotations. 'The Corn-t-ede in Mark-lane has been very dull to-day, wheat being is. to 2s. lower; and (Alter articles also generally depressed. Upen the state of the Iron-trade in Staffordshire, Ai is's Birmingham Gazette of tc-drey states :- 4 ` Some slight ietsrruption has been experienced in this, as in most other trades, from the late severity of the. to °ether; but hitherto a gratifying and determined tireene's in price has been adhered to, and most of works here are in full average activity. A:rears of or ders continue to he given out, and are now more readily accepted, as there appears little doubt that O. a trade will emain steady for the ensuing month. There exists by no means any press of demand to sanctiou a hasty adoption of higher figures, nor would the sitairnpt Ito sustained; but 1: ere is, as We have be fere ttateel, a cht crful feeling preiloreiner t regarding the future, that when the proper t me arrives f.r any movement at all, it will be one in the sight direction. There are circumstances that eppareetly justify such an expectation, among which are the arrival f considerable orders for rails, and the favourable recurrence of public attention towards railway itterests at home. With the prosperity and re verses of these wholezale market; fir its produce, the ebbs aed flows cf the iron trade must continue inti mstely blended. Pieces of Wet: h merchant iron, which vary with every treath, and so afford the earliest indication c f any tendency to change, certainly occupy an improving position, and Scotch pigs, although they have safferw i a slight reaction in price during the last fortnight, are again represented as being firmly .held. A 3 a set off to this it must no', however, be forgotten that in Scotland a large accumulation of stock is taking place without any discernible outlet in view, and the make of Welsh iron is pot tentuously increasing. This is the most favourable 'account that a careful investiga tion of whet is pasting in our own district, and an im partial observation of daily transactions, el allies us to offer. Upon what foundations those gaudy representa tions are supported that are continually issuing from a ce tan portion of the press we cannot at all wide:- stand." There are a good many arrivals from abroad, as the wind has changed, but neither the Australian, Mauri tius, and Rio receipts are so late as those which have reached us by the Overland Mail and the American steirears. With regard to the river Plate, merchants in . the City consider that rather too much has been made of Roses'. delay in officially receiving the En glish Minister, Mr. Set:therm Wo confess, how• ever, that from cur distrust of the Dictator ; we cannot form very sanguine expectations in this re • spent, and look upen nothing as certain in the foreign policy of the Argentine Rqeiblie, except perhaps that no permanently cordial relations are lit ely to t e lung maintained with European states while the present Go vernor rules. Tao commercial markets, it has for some time been augured, would be spoiled by a glut of goods, and without any interf renco with the internal dealings, the reaction that is advised as having occurred was only regarded us a question ef tine. The continental advices give us the Frankfort quota tions cf the 24th inst. The Austrian Metallies were 85 to f, and the Spanish Three per Cents. 29i. At Berlin en the 23d inst. the Prussian Three -and-.;-'tall per Cents. were 881. In the Amsterdam Bourse Dutch Stocks did not vary much, and South American were still in fair request. The appreanbing meeting of Parliament is looked for with greet interest in the City; and although the Pro trctionists are extiected to be rather more active, no apprehension is entertained that they can seriously im pede the business of the country, provided the free traders keep on the ales t. We understand that private letters from Lisbon speak confidently of the Count Them= maintaining his posi tion as First Minister of the Crown, whit+, from the confidence reposed in him by the chairman and com mittee of the foreign bondholders, as evinced at the last public meeting on his re-accession to power, cannot but prove most satisfactory as regards their future interests and prospcc!s. The Finance Minister, Senor Avila, is proceeding with great tact and judgment in various fi nancial reforms tending to the re-establishment of the credit of the country, as may be clearly instanced in the rate of discount ou paper, which, on his Excellency's ac cession to the office was as high as 48 per cent., and by the last accounts was reduced to 18 or 19. The English Funds have been rather fluctuating again, and although the anticipation a a favourable speech from the Throne inspirits some of the Bulls, the fear of a warm opposition from the Protectionists also emboldens many of the speculators for a fall, in con junction with the appearance cf matters in Germany and the Russian loar. There was a money sale by au influential broker soon after the commencement of business, and Consols, which were 96§ for Transfer dropped to 96. Time bargains have been effectel at 96 to and the more recent bargains have been at 96-1- to t. Bank Stock is shout 205} to 207. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have lh en quoted 981 to I, and the Three per Cents. 96i to *. Exchequer-bills have been 58s. to 605., and India Bones 90s. to 935. pi emium. A Most extensive business has been transacted in Foreign Securities, principally the South American. Perevian have risen to 72 and 73k, Equndor are Imo . ) ant at 4i , Grenada at WI and Venczuels at 32. Mexican have been 29i R, Buenos Ayres are a littla !latter, being .53i to 64k. Portuguese !bur per Conte. have realised 361 to 37, and Spanish Three per Cents. 3ii. The half-yearly balance sheets of the various railway eompanies are being issued preparatory to the meetings. The North Stafford is unsatistactury, and the London shareholders seem ardently to desire an entire charge of management, being.nut only greatly disappointed at the traffic and the unrealization of the promises held out, but likewise considering the expenditure to be excessive, and the management defsetive, while the raising or fur ther capital is regarded as being likely to swamp the whole interest on the original shares. The East Lance- Aire report exhibits a profit of 45,113/. for the 6 months, and it is proposed to pay. at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum on the original 251. sharer, and to distribute 4,257/. on the quarter shares. To pay the 2 per cent. above-referred to, 5,6.341. has to be taken from the re served fund. We are glad to see these aecounts signed and approved by a public accountant. The Railway Share Market is not quite so good either in respect to prices or demand. BUJ Tl6ll it'UNim 1111 b DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Anna ..... New 3% per Cent. Anu5......... 9 8 .% Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, la6o B . s it 8 11-16 D 0.30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859 Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 8 5-16 India Stock Do. Bonds, 10001 .. 90 b 3 p Consele for Account Exchequer hills. %(.1. 2d. karch. June. 58 CO p 61 58 p CO 61p unto, Half ,hares 2s •• ..• --- - -- (. 11 / 2 bruglL end Northern ... 25 ...... 121 i to. New fort.. - . to -• - -'0 , . - et.Q., Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% - . ••.• _. ... .. to -- Exeter aod Ils month— 2lB. i- inv., Dumfries, 6 Carlisle..Bl. 68.8 d — ..... to -- ( 41aPgew, Kilmar cock & Ayr 50 • -.- .. .... to --" Do.PreU_A-nee Consolidated • to • ••••., •• ••• to •-• Gloucester aEd Dean Forest.. 12% ~. . . •• Groat Nert . helr . 20 - Do. 1 / 2 , A Deferred ..... ... 12% — •••••• t o --- Do. 1 4 116 per Cent. ...... 7 1 ,4 374...... to - Do., .5 per Cent. Pref. ...... 12j 2 ll ...... to I.* (3t. South. & WE;•4. (Ireland) 50' - ~r.at North of England . 100 - Ditto, New 40/.... ...... .. .. 40 - Ditto, ditto Ditto. New 301 ... SO ... .. ...... to --- Liao, New 154 to .... Groat Wcstern Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 25 . l6l-A..... to 1101 DiLo, Fifths Do. New 171 ... - (lull and Selby 5O lG3i ..... to Ditto, II alf Shares .. ...... 25 ...«. 51 • •••• to *- Ditto,Q=rtA - ,r l...:'litres . . 121 -«•••••• to --' ~ ..?neat, t er and C%ir1it1.?.,... ~.. 50 - Do., Thirds .-- I tnes:thire p..nd 1 orlimhirs —IOO Ditto, ditto - Ditto 11Af . Shares - 49 ...... . ......• to --. Ditto (-Norters ..... 23% _ ...... to --- Ditto Fiilhe ... Ditto. Tiiir:3 Do., New Guar. 6 per cent. 10 -- Do. (Lluddeti. and 'Shoff.) 50 Do., Wei Riding Union... 10 ..., .. ••• t° Do., Preston r.nd Wyro .. 25 Do., do., Half Shares (A) 10 0 ...... 0 10534, ..-* _, Leeds andßradiord Leeds and Thirsk ...... 50 - 50 .....104% ..... . Do.,do.,Prelor., 6 per Cent 3%..... to ••• ••••• Ditte, ditto... - Ditto, ditto ........ No. 3 5 Do. Prof. Quarter?, 1848... 9 - Livcfrool,Crusby, andSouth port. . London & :81a01cwa11......11/. 6e. Scl — ...... to ---,, Lond.,Bright.,& South Coast 109 Do., Nr3IN U., gua. b pr Ct.loo •••• •to -- .. ~„ to --- Do. Guaranteedsper Cent. 9 _ _ . - De, Preferential, 5 per Ct., Lo :...- .. ... .. to Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... ...... to --- London and Greenwich... 121.155. 4d... ...... to ""-- Ditto Preference - ..... London & _North Wcetern.....loo 116 k 115 1 / 4 to 1161/4 Do. New Quarters. l2 ... ... to -- Do. Fifths to --- to '''' th .-- ..... Po. 40i.Sharm....L. & M 55 12 ..." 14 ... Do. 10/.... M. and 13. (C.) 1 - London and S. We5tern.......100 Ditto, New 504.-- r..... 42%...... ....• to --: Ditto, New 40/ 34 Po., New Scrip, 1848, Fret 7 o'n . Cent - to ".. London dnrry and Coleraine... 25 ...... - to "•"' Do. Halt Shares Londonderry and Enniskillen 25 D,...,11:a1f Shares L westoff, guar. 4 r er ct Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 13 Sancti Buxton, & ,Matlock 5 Manchr, Slic,ffield, and Linc.loo - ...... to' Ditto V Shares (No. 1) ... 25 •• ••• to '"*" Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 ...... to ' Ditto, % Shares (No. 3)... 124 - Do., New 10/. Preference.. 10 Ditto, Grimsby & Sheffield 50 ...... to ' Ditto, ditto. - ..... to ' Ditto, ditto ... Ditto Sheffield and Line. 25 .•...._ ...... to --- Ditto, Grimsby Dock 25 - Ditto, Man. & Lin. Union 41. 2s — ...... to -- llidl Ind . ..... .... ........ -.100 - Ditto, Consol. Preference...loo ...... to ••••• Ditto, 501. Shares ..... ...... 30 ... .. to -- aid: , znd, iii; u:., and Derby...100 itidland, Canso]. Bristol and Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100 lidland, Bristol and Glouc. 42 ... - Ditto ditto 221.75. ... - ..... . to ••••• Ditto, ErewastiVal., Pref... 50 Midland, Leices. and Swan- Hington (8 per ct.gua.)....100 .......... to aa idid. Great Western (Irish) 47% — .....• to t• - • Middlesbro' and Redcar. 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ...... ...... to """ Ditto Quarter Shares 25 ... .. •••••• to "" Newmarket ...... Ditto Extension Scrip... 21. 12s — ...... to --- --- Newport Abergy., and Herat. 6 Newry and Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint, and ..."' P.ostrevor .... . ..... ....a... 20 ... .. to Norfolk lOO ..... --- .••... to --- Ditto New 201. l 5 ....• Ditto Extension . .. 20 --- Do. Do. 51 . E 5 per cent to --" Do. do. Waveney Valley 2 Northern Counties Union ... 4 Forth British .. - ... . . .... . 25 ...... .....• to ee* Ditto Halt Sharer, ..... ..... 12% — ...... to "... Do. Quarters Ditto Thirds . -- B§ , ... - Ditto, Preference 5 - North Staffordshire... .. ...... 17 1 ,4 --M.... po North Wales North Western 1 3% ...... to - (,'2l.ford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton - Reading,Guildfd.,& Reigate 15 ...... 111% 1 A - Royston and Hitchin - Scottish Central ......... ..... 25 ... . 117 i to Ib t 4 cacottish Midland 25 - Ditto, New......... ........... 22 1 / 2 — Shrewsbury and Birmingkana 12% x. i. to •-• Ditto, ditto, Class B. 6 - Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 - Shrewsbury and Hereford .. 6 Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. lain.) - Ditto Halves, Ditto... 9 ... .. - Ditto, Oswestry lB% — .... to --- Ditto (New)... Ditto t 5 per Cent. Pr0f....... 10 o ---...".. Shropshire Union 6%... .. 3%....•• to --- South Devon - Ditto, Preference 25 - South Staffordshire 81,( 4 3 /4 Ai --- to South Eastern: ..... ... 33% 2O ...... to Ditto, No. 2. ...... to Ditto, No. 3.! 3O Ditto, Registered No. 4.... 10 10 .. E Ditto, Scrip No. 4- South Wales - ...... South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole (N.D) Gua. 5 wet. 16% — ... .. to ...,"". Do. do. (South Dila) 5 Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ..... ... . 7 . .............. . to Taw Vale Extension ..... ... 8 Thames Haven Dock and Railway 4: 17 0 % . . Vale of death aterford and Kilkerny 2O .... . . 7: W : Waterford and Limerick ... - ... . ...... to n''.. °) Waterford, Wasford,Wieklw, to and Dublin .. 3 Wear Valley 6 par Gant. Guaranteed Do. do. do. 25 o ''' Do. do. do. - . t ...... ..... Wait Cornwall 7% — ...... t o ... itThitehaven and runless lB ... .. ..... to Windsor, Staines, and South Western.... o ...; Wilts, Somerset,&Weymoutk 45 !ark, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 Do. and Newcastle Exten. 20 Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8 Do. Hartlepool Irk. & Rly. 100 - • .... - York And North:Midland .. 50 Ditto, Prefereace FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo Italian (late Italian and Austrian) Boulogne and Amiens Central of France ( Orleans 205511' ... ---i:::::: tt: .......°.. and Vierzon) ... i to ""qa Demerara. ...... ......... ... 17%. .... -- to ..... - lio Dutch Rhenish .. -.. 8 ...... 2 ...... to East Indian ......"" Ditto . 20 ...... „... Great Indian Peninsular b ...... ..... to . - Do. Do los. ..... t 0.... Louvain ila Sambre ........ 7% — ...... t° ....• Luxembourg Ditto . . - 10 .• ... - ...... to Madrid and Valentia .. - Namur and Liege . 2O ..... —..-- w ..• Northern of Feance ...... 14/ Fa .. ... die ..• to - Orleans and Bordeana ; ... .. 7 ...,_ x.i..• t ° ...,. Paris and Orleans.... 2O Paris and Rouen Paris & Strasbourg -.... ..... 12 Rouen and Havre 2 2 0 0 ...... _9% ............ to Sambre and Meuse ~....5 Strasburg and Bale ..... Tours & Nantes ... . .. 13 - ....• to "" Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, to "1, and Hasselt .. e. •• .4. 20 •••••• .... •....• West Flanders B% —. ••••J. t 0 1,009/. 5001 •••• 000000000 ••• Small — erticE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLoCb . Buencs 1 , ..0 . Qs Bonds, 6 per Cent... 511 53 1 A Ditto for the Account Equador Bonds .... Grenada, 1 per Cent. . Ditto Deferred 111exican 80ni5,1846,5 per Cent., Ck,upons Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto Account Ditto, Small 29% Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Ditto for the Account . ... 72% 72 73 Ditto Deferred Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent 82% Ditto 4 per Cent. Ditto Account Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent... 109% Ditto Scrip ... 4 3 7, k Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,1840 . ... 18 18% Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent......... Ditto for the Account 13 6 34 Venezuela Bonds ... Do. Deferred 12% %8 Dividends on the above payable in London French Rentes, 5 per Cent. Exchange. 2sf. 45c. BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAIL PAID. PER SHARE. lberdeAn Ditto, Preference Mfaber.,Notting., Boston,&c. 7% •— .... . to kyrshire and Galloway Belfast and County Down .. 28 •• •• derks and Hants Extension (Gt. West. Perpet.s per ct.) 6 Birmingham & OxfordJunct., calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 Do., without a guarantee... 20 . Birmingham,Wol.,& Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 ..... •••••• to Do., without a guarantee... 10 Binning., Wol., & Stour Val. 131.14 s — ...... to Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshiri Junction 2O Bristol and Exeter D0., Thirds Buckinghamshire... 17% 17% .. .. to 17 Caledonian Ditto, New 101. Preference 10 ...... 7% to Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 Chester and Holy-head 5O ..... ...... to Ditto, Preierer c 3 (;!artrco. . 7B/ Do., let Class, 6 per Cent... 10 - • ••• to • D O.. e )y. 0.,cl `olts o s a , n s , per Cent... 10 D 4 per Cent. 10 Direct Lor. don & Poi tsmouth 5,4 — to —• Dab", and Beast Junction.. 40 Dundalk ng a i r. : ad, 2 E 57. L. 411 & E., 11en... 30 ...... Ea amd L. & D ~.. 25 - Ditto, 181.,E. &ET lB ... .. Do, 3/. 1:) , .,6 p. C.. Pre. 3% — ..... to •—• Do, 7/. 175., 7 p),: CZ. Pre:. 2 Enst , n a Counties Do. New Cif-lrant. 6 )er Ct. 10 to Do.Ext:,n.,sperct.l\o.l,6/.125.4d.. p ~..• to Do., do N 0.2,6/. 13f. 4d... p..to Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do„ 5 nor cont. 5O , ..... 59 Ditto ? New „„.... t o _ Eastein Ur 'on, C'l3B A (late E. U. Shares) ...... Dit '23, ditto, Class A. ditto 6 Ditto, do, Cii.ss B & C..— 25 ...... Di+ to Scrip (f i .i.a. 6 per ct.) 20 ...... 15 7 4 to East Lauer 'la' - a .... 25 Ditto . N9;7 ... ......... . ~ 05 - ..,... to Do., New Qum : cro ... 6V — ,•—• to Do., 6 per lent. Preference Qu al :,er Shares 6!ii..... East Linc&nshire Edinburgh and crl , g ,, yr JOINT STOCK BANKS. to Australasia 4° •••• ...... British .North American to Colonial ............» 25 ..... -- Commercial of London 2O London Joint Stock - ,.... Loiidon and Westminster... 20 National Provincial of Engld. 85 . to Ditto, New National of Ireland 2 2 IA - •• to Provincial of Ireland , ' tO Ditto, New tO Union of Australia ....... Ditto, New - Union of London ........ 10 13 ..... Union of Madrid 4O ...... ...... RINE& to, Anglo ilexiean lOO ...••• --- ..... to 10 , Asturian /I .....• em. . ........ ..... Australiar ...... 4 - " ... o '''' Barrossa Range 285....... .•-• •"' to •••*" Blaenarven Iron and Coal - .. Bolanos &Ho —. - British 1 -0 n....... Brazilian Imperir'. ..... ..... 24% —_ ,•'''' to .'" Ditto Cocaes and Cuiaba... SO Ditto St. John Del Rey ... 15 - Cobra Copper General - • " to "". Real del Monte, Unregistered ..... *— ** .. tO ".. Do. Black Debentures — Do. Led Debentures ... ..... .-- •••••• to --.• Santiago de Cuba......;. , lO ...... -- *" * to - United Mexican _rd., -----` FLOGGING INVEST KENT.--The Earl °I 1 :1O1 3 °' ney is 2ttempting to revive, at the West ICentSeescs'-sioo the practice ~± flogging grown men. Not o pea psl e L 3 without kt3ltpa pri3oners being 00,„,usri s to „ q) scour cc?. At the West ICent 1 1 .- fife :53i°r.S. last year, his c r dship seDtenee" a f o r 17 , 7 o u f ,:.; . :s ‘ ovaavre,s- ofv s 24 to 3(5, to be f T gg t tl e e los ~,,,,,in, i ; varying from i fl e.Sloll3 ho sentenced tlbvoreamden“,t al)ggercitfil2r4d'alt33Jo► t°0311: 2gged for staling The revival of this punishment is peculiar to Yi re° ' —Maidstone Gazette, a gallon of potatoes frora s t sop E L, SPAIN. Madrid journals cf the 21st have arrived. The discusion on the Bill authorising the Minis ters to collect taxes was still continued, but no doubt was entertained of the passing a the measure. MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 21.—Three per Cents. 291, account ; Five per Cents. 12 9-16, paper. Exchange on London, 90 days, 50 35. GERATANY. The difference between the King of PRUSSIA and the Chambers, on the subject of the Constitution, still continues. During the course of the sitting of the 25th the Minister MANTEUFFEL announced to the Second Chamber that the Royal Message of the Ith inst. was not to be considered as precluding all dis cussion ; that the Government would see with plea sure all its propositions adopted, but that the Bth Article concerning the Peerag e , and the 10th relative to the exceptional tribunal, would alone be considered as Cabinet questions. The Central Election Committee for the Erfurt Parliament, has presented an address to the KING, to which his MAJESTY has returned the following answer : " I thank you for the expressions of fidelity and at tachment you have sent me at tho commencement of the new year. In return I fully recognise the.importance of your activity in the elections fur th• German Parliament. You act in concord with ray opinion if you'are guided by the conviction that the hon our and power of Prussia a-e the beet guarantees of the renown and greatness of Germany. "FREDERICK WILLIAM." The German Gazette of Frankfurt says that the Austrian Embassy at Dresden recently refused to grant a passport for Prague to a citizen of the United States, stating that his Government had interdicted the entrance into the Austrian territory to all Ameri can citizens. The Austrian Government published on the 19th he Constitution for Bohemia. The German journals again announce the arrival of large reinforcements to the Austrian troops in Bohemia and the Vorarlberg, and add that the disso lution.of the reserve battalions of the Austrian regi ments, resolved on some months ago, has been countermanded. The cholera is again raging violently in Prague. The Wiener Zeitung of the 18th publishes the ministerial regulations of the income-tax, imposed by an Imperial edict upon all the Crown lands of Aus tria, except in Hungary, Transylvania, Sclavonia, the Servian Waywodi, and the Banat of Temeswar, Dalmatia, and the kingdom of Lombardo -Venice. It was reported in Vienna that Boat. bad died from poison on the 2d. - The Cologne Gazette states that on the 20th the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies passed the first three articles of the law on associations. By these the right of association and of pacific unarmed meetings was allowed ; political meetings must be notified 24 hours beforehand to the local police ; meetings in th e open air may b e pro hibit e d b y th e police. The Augsburg Gazette, the Wurtemburg Gazette, the Frankfort Pest Gazette, and other journals, state that Hanover, Bavaria, Saxony, and W urtemburg have resol ve d, i n con j unc ti on w ith Austria, to pro mulgate a new constitution for Germans, in oppositi on to that of Pru ss i a a b ou t t o b e carried into effect at Erfurt. One of the journals asserts that the King of PRUSSIA is personally not unfavourable to this pro jected new constitution. According to the Augsburgh Gazette, Prussia, Austria, France, an d th e Central Commissi on o f Frankfort have entered into communication on the measures to be taken with respect to the Swiss Con federation, and the right of asylum as exercised by it. The support of Russia, adds the Gazette, for any measures that might be deemed necessary was calcu lated on ; and it was believed that England and Sar dinia would adhere to the resolutions taken, or, if they should not, their opposition would not be regarded. RUSSIA. 1 letter from the Russian frontier, in the Cologne Gazette, states that the Emperor of Russia has ordered the establishment of a line of fortresses on the frontier of Prussia, in order to be able to concen trate a large military force at the western extremity of his empire. The only fortress Russia has at pre sent on the Prussian frontier is that of Zatnosk. DEATH Or LORD JEFFERT.—We have received by electric telegraph intelligence of the death of Lord Jeffery, one of the Judges of the Court of Session, but better known by his share in the establishment of the Edinburgh Review, and his long connexion with that celebrated publication. The melancholy event occurred at six o'clock on Saturday evening. Dispatches were received on Saturday at the Cu. lonial office from the Governors of Ceylor, South and West ARstralia, and the Cape of Good Hope,