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largsst amount of public sympathy in his motion. — (Hear, hear.) All these taxes were bad; but if he were to express an opinion as to which was the worst, he would say the stamp on newspapers wns.—(Cheers.) Powerful as the arguments were against the paper duty, ha thought those against the stamp not less cogent. He was for cheap newspapers.—(Cheers.) If competition w's good for the farmer, if it was good for the trader, why should it not be good also for the newspaper pro prietor?—(Cheers.) Let them have the power to enter into the hitherto unexplored field of those to whom a record of facts has as yet been denied—with cheap news papers, and communicate through them not only political, but social information.—(Cheers.) Statesmen might put off the question on financial grounds; but the fact was not to be disguised, that there was amongst many of them a latent fear of the spread of the know ledge of facts amongst the working classes.—(Cheers.) Why should there be this feat? What was to be appre hended? The stamp was intended to prevent cheap periodicals from containing the current events of the day. That could be the only reason, for the cheapest publications were allowed to exist, to be circulated, and to give theories, fictions, and some sort of information. But when it was proposed to allow penny publications — the only publications that practically , c )old reach the masses of the country—(Heer, hear) —to contain records of daily occurrences and events—to publish those facts which would give men a knowledge ef the laws and in stitutions which they were to live under—when it was proposed to do this, they were met by the most unworthy fears, and told that they should be flooded by an im mense torrent of trash, and that it would not be safe to leave an unfettered iiiscretion to such newspaper writers as would be called into the field if this tax were repeated. —(Hear, hear.) lie entertained no such fear.—(Cheers.) An enlightened people were the best supporters of laws and institutions.—(Cheers.) He believed there would be - no such effective aid of education as to allow facts which, after all, were the foundation of real knowledge, to be • circulated, cheaply in cheap publications, without let or hindrance. (Cheers.) Without that they had no free press.—(Hear, hear.) They may talk to the world about the free press of England, but they had no free press so long as there were previous restric- Lions by taxation and the vexatious proceedings at the Stamp-office.—(Fleur, hear.) There could be no free press unless men were allowed to print facts and com ments upon paper without previous restraint, making them only responsible afterwards for any violation they might commit, by libel or otherwise, of the laws of the country.—(Hear, hear.) If he were permitted, he in tended to submit his motion to the House of Commons in the same way he did before, and would ask them on br cad grounds of public policy to abolish all taxes which directly and specially impeded the advance of know ledge.—(llear, hear.) He did not believe that existing newspapers had any reason to complain of such a pro position, nor was there any real ground to fear that its adoption would interfere with newspapers of established reputation. They would retain their position, and the only change would be that you would have cheap pub lications circulating amongst the humbler classes who have no newspapers now, conveying to them valu able information, and recerdieg the current events of life.—(Hear, hear.) The Times—(Hisses and groans) paid a fine or tax every year to the Government of 95,0001.; 16,0001. paper duty, 60,0001. fur stamps, 19,0001. for advertisements. As far as my recollection serves, these were the figures it gave itself. Of these relative amounts, that for stamps was certainly the greatest, and it showed that it was the heaviest item to be paid, in order to carry on a paper of large circula tion.—(Hear.) He had no doubt but the repeal of the advertisement duty would he highly bsteficial to the ex isting newspapers. It would increase the number of advertisers, and, to quote an expression that had been usei, so put flesh on the bones of some of the news papers which now had a bard struggle to keep in exist ence.—(Laughter.) But not only would the great body of established newspapers be benefited by the repeal of the advertisement duty, but society at large would be materially advantaged by such a change.—(Hear, hear.) If the present question should come to a vote, though he was anxious to co-operate wit'i his friends near him for the repeal of the duty on psner, and would not do anything to prevent them from attaining the %.,13) set which they sought, yet, consistently with the course he pursued in the House of Commons, and which, if per mitted, he would again take next session, he should feel it his duty to give his vote for the amt.ndment.—(Cheers.) The res elution as amended was then carried. Mr. EDWARDS moved a vote cf thanks to the chair man, observing that the working classes rejeicsd to see such gentlemen as those now upon the platform coming among them, for then they heard from the mouths of the working classes themselves that they would not be satis fied with half mes.sures.—(Cheers.) The vote of thanks is the chairman having been car ried unanimously, was duly acknowledged by Mr. Cowan. Thanks were then voted to Mr. M. Glbion, who briefly returned thanks, and the meeting broke up at about a quarter past ten o'clock. REWARD FOR MRS. SLOANE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—l beg to enclose twelve stamps towards a suitable reward for the apprehension of Mrs. Sloane, with her accomplice, Louisa Devaux. I am a bar rister's clerk in the Temple ; and, following the mag nanimous example of "J. D.," whose letter you have justly praised, I would ply my brother clan with similar arguments to those which his zeal, intelli gence, and humanity so happily suggested to his mind, so as to stimulate them to !‘ go and do like wise." Why, Sir, if every barrister's clerk in the Temple were only to subscribe sixpence each in this laudable, Christian, and (mav I not add) incumbent duty, in a very short time - both Mrs. Sloane and Louisa Devaux would he in the grasp of that justice which is literally thirsting for the administration of its provoked retribution on the bazbarous heads of its three abominable enemies. I will at once make a canvass amongst my "learned trethren" the " Knights Templars," for their pecu niary aid in this urgent and important case ; while I trust that if any of them should see this letter (i. e , if you give it publication) they may be in duced to make you the almoner of their smallest (as well as their largest) contributions. I am, Sir, yours, &c., ANOTHER "J. D." Pimlico, Jan. 1. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. beg to hand you 3i., the collection of my self and fellow-labourers, towards the subscription for apprehending Mrs. Sloane ; at the same time we wish it to be understood it is not from any vindictive feelings we subscribe, but in the hope it may deter others of Mr. and Mrs. Sloane's propensities from in dulging in them towards the helpless and unfortunate of both sexes. I am, Sir, yours, &c., London, Jan. 2. W. D., a Labourer. HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE THIS PAT —Morning 27 min. after 2 I Evening 47 Mill. after 2 To.hfoiaow—Moraing 3 min. after 3 I Evening 23 min. atter 3 THE CASE OF JANE WILBRED. We understand that several very handsome donations have been forwarded anonymously to the Royal Free Hospital, for the benefit of that institution, since the ad mission of Jane Wilbred, in addition to the regular an • nual subscriptions in support of that charity. In conse quence of these additional funds the hospital authorities have been enabled to make very extensive improvements in the kitchen to that establishment, and also to open a new ward, capable of receiving about 40 patients. Mr. William Tindal Robertson, the resident surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, begs to acknowledge the re ceipt of the following donations for Jane Wilbred:-11. from " E.," 108. from " Tacker, Esq ," 2s. 6d. from " Robert Hawley. Esq.," and is. 6d. collected from the visitors to the " B" ward oa Christmas-day. Jane Wil bred is in the " B" ward. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, JAN. 2, 1851. Arrived from Havre, the American steam-ship Franklin, and at two o'clock this afternoon she got her anchor up, and was taken to the westward with the ebb-tide, but she did not get her head round to the wind till 2 . 30, and if we had not known her to have been a good one, we should have thought that she was afraid to show her breast to the gale. She I ' 4 ' l Ilea main and mizen topmasts struck, and steamed steadily down the west channel ; she had 30 passen gers. IV " have no wish to be one of the party down channel in such a keen south-wester, but we heartily wish them York. a q tli eli and agreeable p assa g e to New SHIPPING INSIDE THIS WIGHT.-011 Friday last there was not one ship either at Spithead or at the Motherbank, and only - gales this week have driven ward-bound merchantme7 fleet of out !: Cowes-rosde, but the in a large all ride well. t blows hard, but they ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 4t the monthly gaaeral meeting held yesterday, at the Society's Lancelot Hanover-square, Mr. Yar re ll, V . P ., in thecl 'louse in Dent, Esq., and James Cro w d y , Esq., were elected and E. W. Cox, Esq., Mansfield Parky n s, Es . fellows, llartree, Esq., were proposed as candidates for g the an f d ell Ny w ship. The report of the co unc il stated that the number of elections, daring 1830 nearly d ou bl e d i the average of the four years immediately preceding it, and that the total number of visitors to the gardens amounted to 360,402, ex ceeding the most successful year hitherto known (1831) by nearly 100,000. Upwards of fifty species of animals which had not been previously exhibited,have been added to the col lection ; and among them three of the most singular and hate resting in existence—namely, the Hippopotamus, the Wart. hog, and the Thylacine. Many new names have been added to the list of donors; and the prospects of additions during the ensuing season, both from this source and by purchase, are of the most promising character. The first part of the fourth volume of the transactions has been published, and a second, containing the anatomy of the rhinoceros by Pro fessor Owen, And other important papers, is in the preset. The income of the society, during 1850. exhibits an increas?. of 6,1861. over that of the preceding year. SAMBICK AND MEUSE RAILwAr.--At th , en half yearly meeting, of the Sambre and Meuse Railway Company yesterday s, report of an improved description was laid before the meeting, showin g a profit on the past half-year of I,' 32/. In the corresponding six months of 1849 there was a loss of 5851. 1109 traffic had been stopped by inundations in the valley of. the Sambre. The directors dwelt on the propriety of continuing the line in Vireme, so as to unite the Sambre and Ekeuse livers, and make the line profitable, the cost of w,faich would be 200,0001. The report was adopted, and the) directors were authorised to raise fresh capital for this QTPee.l 6 . ( . -,Plittoi\PosrrivE.—A correspondent of the Was _ crAtirtsikpleist i atsla n n r o ef a e n r esnocaercboolyL tell o whether r lls o assertion that t d h o a r t C I 7 ~ , :not , . _-1,4 think Lord Campbell labours under a .... _•Joup'ill believe that I am really married ; I keep 4 !._, . a nty.aptter idiaw and her three maiden daughters in the pm Of Aii v. ' '... ,•:' '. , !: N .... ) . _ . 1 t. .__ WA 1 , ',.. ' : " 'l C Y' A N Nji TIIE SUN, !low ready at all the Lib W raries, in 2 vols., post Svo., S I L A NOVEL. post D. " The author, we arc convinced. is young, otherwise we could hardly sec displayed such fresh and enthusiastic sympathy in be half or his heroes and heroines. lie is a writer of genius, inspired by a high standard cf morality and religion, an 4 by a laudable love of the purest sort of fame. We gather this from the glowing lan guage in which be expresses his feelings, sentiments, and opinions on the subjects just mentioned. There are several chapters, in which links of the story are dropped, containing most eloquent essays on matters that are the prima mobilia of the actions which chn racterise nature's nobility. The writer evidently belongs, though he has marked per se peculiarities, to the school of the Disraells, Man aeries, and Smythes."—Observer. ." Silwood' is no ordinary work ; it contains passages of exceed ing beauty, and is written in pure and forcible language, with great good taste and power. It is one of the most interesting and en gaging novels which the present season has pro.lueed. Of the cha racter of Amelia Ross we have already spoken, and the extract we have given above is the surest voucher of the truth of what we have said. The other ladies who play conspicuons parts In the tale are Florence Howard, an intellectual beauty; Jessie Gordon, a wild and impulsive genius, passionately fond of music and poetry; and Julia Maitland, the noblest and best of them all."—Morning Post. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Just published, in 1 vol. medium Svo., cloth, with Ten Coloured Plates, price is. 6d., -F. LE ME NTARY, ANATOMY, and PHYSI OLOGY, for Schools and Private Instruction ; with Lessons on Diet, Intoxicating Drinks, Tobacco, and Disease. By WILLIAM LOVETT. Darton and Co., 53, Ilolborp-hill. NOTICE is hereby given, that the ANNU M. GENERxI. MEETING of the AUSTRALASIAN COLO NIAL and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE and ANNUL FY COM PANY, consisting of the Shareholders, Assured, and Annuitants qua lified to vote at such Meeting, will be held at their House, in Lead • enhall-street, on FRIDAY, the 17th day ofJanuary instant, at Twelve for One o'clock precisely. By order of the Board, E. RILEY, Accountant, &c. 1 , Leadenhall-street, January I, 1851. L A W LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Fleet-street, London, Dec 20, 1850. Notice is hereby given, that a GENERAL MEETING of the Proprie tors of the Law Life Assurance Society will be held at the Society's Office, Fleet-street, London, on SATURDAY, the Ist day of February next, at Half-past Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, pursuant to the provisions of the Society's Deed of Settlement, for the purpose of re ceiving the Auditors' Annual Report of the Accounts of the Society up to the 31st December, 1850; to Elect a Trustee m the room of the RUM Hon. Lord Denman, who has disqualified ; to Elect Two Directors in the room of the Hon. Ch arles E *an Law, Q.C., .P., and Richard Preston, Esq., Q.C., both de :eased ; and for general purposes. The Directors to be chosen in the room of the Hon. Charles Ewan Law, and Richard Preston, Esq., will remain in office until 24th June, 1854. By order of the Directors, WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary. Business will commence at Twelve o'clock precisely. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. James Anderson. The Performances (during the Holidays) will commeee9 at Half. past Six precisely. Doors open at Six. THIS EVENING, Will be presented by her Majesty's Servants The First Part of HENRY IV. The King, Mr. Cooper; Prin e of Wales, Mr. J. Anderson ; Hotspur, Mr. Vandenhoff ; Falstaff, Mr. Barrett ; Lady Percy, Miss F. Vining. After which an entirely New Grand, Historical, Emblematical, Aerostatical, Gastronomical, Metaphorical, Musical, Poetical, local, Municipal, Juvenile, Pagtomical Pantomime, lay E. Fitzbail, the po pular author of " Za-ze-zi-zo-zu," entitled HARLEQUIN and lIUMPTY DUMPTY; or„ , Bobbin de Bobbin and the First Lord Mayor of Lun'un. Private Boxes, 31. 35., 2/. 12s. 6d., 2/. 25., 1/. Its. 6d., and 1/. Is. To be obtained on application at the Box-office ; Mr. Sam's Libarary, St. James's-street ; Messrs. Mitchell Ebers and Co.;Andrews and Alcroft, Bend-street; at Jullien's Music Warehouse, Regent street ; Chappels, New Bond-street; Leader and Cocks, 63, New Bond-street ; Ransford and Co., New Bond-street; and Bailey and Moon, Carlton Library. 12, Regent-street. Stalls, ss. each. First Price—Dress Circle, ss. Od. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit. 2s. 6d. ; Lower Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, 6d.. Second Price at Nine o'Clock—Dress Circle, 2s. Gd. ; Boxes, 25.; Pit, Is. 6d. No Half-pace to Upper or Lower Galleries. The Box-office open from 11 till 4. It is respectfully intimated that seats in the Boxes cannot be reserved after the First Act of the Play. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. MR. MACRF.ADY. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Play of VIRGINIUS. Virginias, Mr. Ma cready. After which a new translation of THE SECOND CALENDAR and the QUEEN of BEAUTY who had the Fight with the Genie. Principal characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Selby, Lebarr, Buckstone, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Mrs. Fitzwitham, Miss P. Horton, and Miss A. Romer. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new and original Drama, entitled JESSIE GRAY. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Boyce, 0. Smith, P. Bed ford, Madame Celeste, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. To be followed by a new Extravaganza called LA TARANTULA ; or, the Spider King. Characters by Messrs. Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Miss K. Fitzwilliam, Madame Celeste, &c. To conclude with THE MARRIED BACHELOR. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. tinder the Management of Mr. C. Keaa and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING. Will be performed the Fir.t Part of HENRY IV. Falstrff, Mr. Bartley. 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 Lc Ciercq. 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 Four o'clock. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vest's. sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be perfE,rined THE HANDSOME HUSBAND. After which an entirely new and original Fairy Extravaganza, to be called KING CIIA.RMING ; or, the Blue Bird of paradise. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, Horncastle, Suter, Bellingham, and llonner ; Madame Vestris, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Ellis, Mrs. C. Horn, Miss St. George, and Miss Martindale. To conclude with THE RINGDOVES. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. THIS EVENING, Will be performed A NEW — WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS, sup ported by Messrs. G. V. Brooke, W. Farr. it, Leigh Murray, (lump ton, Diddear, W. Farrell, jun. ; Mesdames Leigh Murray and Adams To conclude with PRINCE DORUS ; or, The Romance of the Nose. 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. THIS EVENING The Grand new Spectacle of KENNILV, ORTH; or the Golden Days of the Virgin Queen. with mw and costly costumes. Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle, introducing the Magnificent Stud and Company of unequalled Artistes, also, for the first time in England, M. Ghelia, with his three highly-trained Steeds, M. Nicole, Plige, the great Barrel Equidhrist, and the B. o thers Francisco, from the Hippodrome, Paris. To conclude with an entirely new and original grand historical Equestrian Christmas Pantomime, written expressly for this Theatre, by the author of " Bluff King Ilal," to he entitled ARL EQ (TIN AND O'DON OG HITE ; or, The White Horse of Killarney. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. THE WEATHER —SUN OFFICE, JANUARY 3 THERMOMETER, LN THE SHADE. 53—highest since noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night. 44 —this day, at noon. BARO3TETE.74, 30.02. WIND E.N.E - dull hazy weather, with drizzling rain. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. Purmarru—Wind S.W., gale —overcast. Pouxamouni—Wind S.W., strong breeze—rain. lagroGs—Wind S.W., strong breeze—cloudless. SouTHAmr-rox—Wind S.W., ITard wind—rain. FOLKESTONE—Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast. TuNnEtiDGE--Wind W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. BASINGSTOKE —Wind S.W., heavy gale—overcast. GREENWICH—Wind S S.W., hard wind—partially cloudy. SWINDON—Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast. OXFORD —Wind S., heavy gale—overcast. COLCHESTER—Wind N.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE —Wind S.W., strong breeze—cloudy. Birtluziomut —Wind S. strong breeze—rain. YARMOUTH—Wind S. W., hard wind—partially cloudy. CREWE— Calm—rain. LIVERPOOL —Wind W., gentle breeze—rain. 31.atgcnisTER—Wind W., light breeze—rain. WHITBY--Wind N., gentle breeze—overcast. BEArrocK—Wind S., gentle breeze partially cloudy. BERWICK—Wind W.— gentle breeze—overcast. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Wednesday morning at nine o'clock : CORK—Wind S.W., light breeze—foggy. MCILLINGAR—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. POOLE—Wind W ' hard wind—heavy rain. BRIGHTON—Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast. Hasroms —Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast. TusnmhGE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—scud. LEIGHTON - Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast. FETEABOROutatt—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. CREWE—Wind S.W. by W., strong breeze— cloudy. CONWAY Wind W.S.W., storm—partially cloudy. HOLYHEAD—Wind S.W., hard wind—overcast. LlvEnroor.—Wind S W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. LEEDS Wind W., strong breeze partially cloudy. YORK —Wind S., strong breeze—overcast. BEATTOCK —Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. BERWICK—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. frt 9:.1 • • • ' . • • : " ^ ",( l ‘ u , 1-11:71 " 6 • - ,„. eutnina aAsie. LONDON, FRIDAY, N .TrUARY 3, 1851. Yesterday we insisted upon the necessity of watching w ith more than ordinary vigilance the l ine of poli c y pursued by the Legisl a ture in reference to the ema nc i pat i on of knowledge. Other amelio rations scarcely a j less import an t, though of less intellectual —we s h ou ld rather say ofi a purely phy sicalcharacter —ar e requ i s i te to the community—so requisite, that we shall eagerly observe the disposi tion evinced by the Imperial Parliament in their re gard—solicitous that they may simultaneously p ass from mere expectations into actual enactments. Among these :we would especially particularise the long-desired refirms in the way of sanitary improve.. ment. So much has been said latterly in illustration of the evil tendencies of the existing system of things that it might almost be deemed superfluous to revert in any way to a necessity so fully recognized by every individual member of the population. Those who happen to be: interested, pecuniarily speaking, in the continuance of the filthy customs so pertinaciously carried out in our larger and raore populous cities, very naturally display a disposition to waivs all considerations of humanity, with a view to preclude themselves from the possibility of any losses whatever, no matter whether trivial or extensive. Very naturally, we say, from a remembrance of the principles engendered by an age of organized traffic and commercial specula tion. Sentiments nobler than those inspired by a mere anxiety for gain we still believe to be surviving in the hearts of a large proportion of the multitude, and to those sentiments more particularly is it that the sanitary reformers appeal in their arguments in favour of systematic innovation. Hitherto, it is true, the only response afforded to those arguments has been exclusively that of verbal sympathy—the aspi rations of the more sanguine leaders of the movement remaining to this very time unrealized. We have had lecturers innumerable. We have had pamphleteers in abundance. We have had discusidons on the platforms, and inquiries in the public newspapers. We have hal volumes from the press and speeches in Parliament—all tending directly to the same conclu sion, that sanitary reforms are absolutely requisite if we would decrease the mortality, disseminate mo rality, extend the decencies of civilization, and act up to the pure and lofty dogmas of Christianity. Yet, notwithstanding the energy of the endeavours thus made in furtherance of this benign cause, the people are left still to sigh after the boon they have so long and so earnestly desiderated. Fragments of the entire scheme of innovation have at intervals been offered as temptations to the community, in the hope of appeasing the popular appetite for change by se , curing its partial satisfaction. Specious foretastes of the ultimate improvement have been yielded with a niggardly hand, to the end that some, at least, might he deluded into the idea that the aim of the sanitary reformers was already accomplished. For instance, it was only during the course of last session that a testimony of this was afforded by the feeble and in efficacious enactment, against which we ourselves have so frequently inveighed—the Act ostensibly in tended to prevent the continuance of intramural in terments within the boundaries of the metropolis, Perhaps no more shameful imposture was ever at tempted than the one comprised in this very estimable enactment. In reality a mere sop to the clerical faction, it assumed to itself the beneficent aspect of a gratuitous benefit to the community. Several months have elapsed since it passed into a law of the land, by receiving the assent of the SOVEREIGN, and the impotence of the measure as an improvement has even now been demonstrated beyond the reach of de nial. Our sorrowful predictions in its regard have, un happily, been too fully and too speedily verified. Instead of putting a stop to the system of burial in our city graveyards, the Bill has enable that atrocious prac tice to be continued altogether with impunity—the promoters of this method of interment sheltering themselves under the cover of the said enactment. Dejected we unquestionably acknowledge ourselves to be, but at the same time in no measure surprised. For, from the first moment when the character of the Bill became known, we branded it in the columns of this journal as a humbug and a prevarication. We recJgnized the despicable manner in which it was made to truckle to the clerical influences, and the barefaced fashion in which it evaded the evil against which it impudently pretended to raze its head in opposition. Frequently, however, as the people have been dis appointed in their hopes of sanitary improvement, shamefully as they have been deceived from time to time by the Legislature, we nevertheless fail to see any reason for the abandonment of their aspirations fur this great scheme of popular improvement. Neither can we perceive any cause whatever for the diminu tion of their efforts in its regard; beholding, on the contrary, additional stimulants and, as it were, sup plementary incitements in the way of agitating its advancement. The very circumstance cf . the Me tropolitan Interments Bill, already alluded to, having been forced through both Houses of Parliament, we look upon as an assurance that with a certain degree of pertinacity the dream of the proposed innovation may be ultimately realized. Ineffectual as it is in its present shape, it is still good, as affording substantial testimony that the Legislature is prepared to obey the mandate of the popular cry for improvement The monopoly of interment—that most ghastly of all trades, thriving as it does upan the growth of the nationt.l mortality, and battening as it does on the corpses of the departed—may in the end, therefore, be broken ; that is to say if the sanitary reformers prove them selves staunch i❑ the maintenance of the beneficent principles they have undertaken to promulgate and render triumphant. Our solicitude to witness the termination of the present abominable s 3 stem of intramural interment is not restricted to a wish that the burials within cities should cease from this time henceforth. 'We should hope to see the abodes of the living unconta minated by the presence amongst them of those pita of decomposition. We yearn, in a word, to behold the approach of the day when the resting places of the dead shall no longer be allowed to continue in any single populous locality. As far as is practicable we would see the removal of the remains of the departed from their present temporary tarrying place to their final repose in the quietude of an extramural ceme tery. This removal on a very considerable scale has taken place without anything at all approaching to desecration, but rather with the most beneficial consequences. That it might again be attempted with happy results we are satisfied. For its repetition somewhat more systematically, therefore we shall continue sanguine until the period may arrive when our intramural temples of religion shall no longer stand over the pestiferous vents of the charnel-house, and when the dead shall moulder into dust without detriment to the living, lying each in their narrow place with their stark features ever turned upwards to the sky, as if indicative of their undying hope of a never-ending hereafter. " What shall be done with Cardinal WissmaN ?" • The question is one of the deepest and most vital importance, and the answer that must be given at the very commencement of the rapidly approaching session is awaited with intense anxiety by all classes of the community throughout the length and breadth of the land. Never, perhaps, has a stronger and more general sentiment of indignation been excited among the Protestant inhabitants of this Pro testant country than that awakened by the insolent aggression by which a foreign Potentate invaded the prerogative of our beloved SOVEREIGN, and usurped the privilege of conferring honours and dignities within this realm of England at his mere will and pleasure ; or, to use the language of the Papal bull, "of his own motion, on certain knowledge, and of the plenitude of his apostolical power." Party dissensions and party disputes were for once forgotten in the anxious desire to protest emphatically against this unwarrantable assumption.. An unparalleled unanimity was exhibited by the press and the people of Great Britain; even the Judges of the land spoke out plainly and distinctly, and the First Lord of the Treasury, the responsible bead of her MAJESTY'S Government, dis regarding the ordinary official reserve, expressed his views, and we may safely assume, the views of his colleagues in the Ministry, clearly and unequivocally. This declaration produced the mast beneficial results. It alleviated the popular excitement, for all were con tented with the voluntary pledge given by the Premier, "that the present state of the law shall be carefully examined, and the propriety of adopting any proceedings with reference to the recent as sumption of power deliberately considered." Public meetings were held for the purpose of giving ex pressioa to the voice of public opinion, and strengthen ing the hands of the Noble Lord who had so tho roughly identified himself with the popular feeling re specting the gross and unprovoked insult to the British QUEEN and the British nation. But the nature of the remedies to be adopted has not as yet been dis cussed. " What is to be done with Cardinal Wise- MAN ?" is still a topic involved in the greatest ob scurity, and the inquiry entered upon by an "English Journalist" is one in which t he communit y at lar g e is deeply i n t e rested. " The J ourna li s t" is manifestly a man of great ability, o ne well qualified "to make the worse appear the better reason ;" he is clearly one of the " What sh a ll b e done w i t h C ar dinal Wiieman ? An Inquiry by an English Journalist," Dolman, New Bone. street. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, ultramontane party, aad we may venture to assume that he has been deliberately selected for the efficient performance of the ardurAis duty. In his pars we see the best ar guments that can be put forward, not as apo'ogies for the act of the PONTIFF, but as assertions of his un questionable right to parcel out the English soil into districts, and invest the creatures of his own selection with territorial authority in this country. He, how ever, goes a little too far. He endeavours to carry the war in'o the enemy's camp, and heaps unmitigated abuse on everything that is Protestant in this kingdom. The expulsion of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in 1559,and the recog nition of the Church of England as the national reli gion, he regards as an "enormous violation of laws bath human and divine," * * " a work of vengeance originated by temporal authority for the purpose of gratifying its inordinate lute of pride and spoliation." Tie says, "At the pulling down of the Catholic hierarchy there was witnessed thoue,hout England one of those disastrous spectacles exhibited when the chief powers of a State instead of being the protectors become the robbers and ravagers of the community. The sacred edifices were given over to the services of a newly-invented ritual. The conse crated ves=ela were melted down into bullion to fill the coffers of an administration flourishing amid the spoils of sacrilege. The lands of the ancient Church were forfeited to the Crown and its accomplices. The monasteries were taken one by one from their rightful owners, and bestowed as tokens of the royal favour upon placemen and parasites. Every where was visible the effect of that calamitous ambition which set at defiance the rights of property, and cast to the four winds the impre scriptible privileges of religion." From the foregoing extract the opinions of the author are clearly perceived. He looks upon the Church of England as a modern innovation—. its ministers as usurpers and robbers of the in heritance of the Roman Catholic clergy, who are to be dispossessed whenever the fitting time may arrive for that purpose, whenever the Ultrantontanists may have sufficient power to carry their earnest de sires into execution. At present " might" has over come "right," but it will not always be so; the day of reckoning is manifestly approaching, when the Bishops and ministers of the Church will have to set their houses in order and surrender their possessions to the lawful owners; and the act of the PONTIFF he looks upon as one much required, in order to give legitimate claimants to the property of the ancient church." He contrasts the proceedings on what he terms " the building up again" of the Catholic hierarchy with those which occurred on its " pulling down." He says, "No such flagrant acts of injustice ar e witnessed. No church hinds are seized, no chalices or sacramental baskets are broken in pieces over the smelting-pot. No revenues are unlawfully appro priated. No deanery is encroached upon. No ad vowson is disputed. Not an acre of ground ; not a tithe ; no* surplice has been either coveted or pur- loined. The work of renovation has evidnoced itself solely by the publication of an ecclesiastical ordon nance, and by the performance of religious cere- monies." And what may we thank for this singular mode ration ? Is it the power or the will that was wanting to do all these things? How deeply grateful should we be to the PONTIFF for his tender consideration for our prejudices. We may, in our ignorance, not be aware of these things, but " Tne Journalist" is resolved that we shall be fully enlightened on the subject. We have heard of instructions to counsel which only said " We have no defence—abuse the opposite attorney." The champion of the Vatican seems to have received a somewhat similar brief, for he is unmeasured in his vituperation of all persons and classes who oppose his views. The me mory of Queen ELIZABETH is assailed with the utmost virulence, and obsolete calumnies revived in all their unmitigated atrocity. Lord Jolts RUSSELL, too, comes in for a fair share of reproach; but it is on his brethren of the press that " The Journalist" pours forth the vials of his wrath. They are no longer " the leaders, but the slaves of public opinion—the helots of bigotry, the bonds men of the rabble." Their " claim to in depend( ace has crumbled away," they are " pu sillanimous ;" " with scarcely more than one solitary excep!ion, they have trampled under fiat every possible consideration except that of pandering to the more despicable predilections of the community." We can afford to smile at this torrent of vitupera tion, which only proves the weakness of the writer's cause, and the singular unanimity by which the press and the public were actuated. We commend this able but mischievous pamphlet to the Protestant community, that they may discover the real sentiments of the advocates and supporters of the recent act of the PONTIFF in establishing a Roman Cathc.lic hierarchy with territorial authority in England. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC We have received such of the Paris journals as were published yesterday, but as New Year's Day is always observed as•a holiday in France, the greater number of the newspaper-offices were awed, It appears that the PRESIDENT rode through Paris nn New Year's Day, and was very well received. The official Moniteur was not published yesterday, but the following, which appears in the Constitutionnel, may be considered the official account from the Elys&s of the scene which occurred between MM. BONA PARTE and DurtN, on the presentation of the depu tation of the Assembly to the PRESIDENT of the Re public. After a few introductory observations, the Constitutionnel thus reports the conversation : "M. Dupin—Monsieur le President, I bring you the sincere wishes of th• Bureau— " The President of the Republic (interrupting him) — Monsieur le President, I receive the wishes which you bring me, and I doubt not that they are sincere. It is important that the good harmony of the powers should not be disturbed in the times of difficulty through which we have to puss. "M. Dupin—All the acts of the Assembly, all those of the Bureau, are inspired by a deep attachment fur your person, and the warmest desire to preserve a good understanding between the two powers of the State. " The President of the Republic—l am willing to be lieve it, Monsieur le President, since you tell me so. You and I, each, within the limits of our attributions, ought to attach ourselves to making the laws of the country, and the authority given us by the constitution respected, without one power encroaching on the other. Ido not care about the prorogation of my powers, but am anxious when I deliver up to the people the power which I have received from it to return it intact and respected. My conviction is that F,atiee th - sires peace and order, and it will consider that of the two powers which should attack the other as in the wrong. _ _ _ " Dupin—lt has always been so in our country, You may rely upon the sentiments which I express to you. " The President of the Republic—lt is fortunate that there are epochs which separate, as it were, the past trees the future. One era has just finished—another commences. Let us hope!" The Dibals says it shall not report the proceedings which occurred until it shall be better instructed ; and as the Dibats is the organ of the Orleanist Bur graves, we may expect to see M. Doris's version of the matter in that journal. Oi one fact there can be no doubt, the PRESIDENT of the Republic snubbed the representatives of the people; and in commenting on this fact the Presse reminds its readers that the last instance on record of a similar insult being offered to the representatives of the nation was just before the revolution of 1830, when CHARLES X. made use of severe and even threatening words to M. ROYER COLLARD. "A. few days afterwards," adds the Presse, " CHARLES X. was expiating on a foreign soil and in an eternal exile the misfortune of having spoken as a master before a free people." The following is the proces verbal of the liberation of M. MAUGUIN from the prison of Clichy : " In the year 1850, the 28th of December, at half-pakt seven o'clock in the evening, M. Bar., member of the National Assembly, presented himself and showed u+- Ist, An extract from the minutes of the sitting, de claring that M. de Larochejsquelein having addressed interpellations to the Minister of Ju.tice concerning the arrest of M; Mauguin, a member of the Assembly, the Assembly, after having heard the Minister and MM. de Vatimesuil and Laboulie, adopted an order of the day motive, proposed by M. de Lar, ehe jsquelein. 211 y, An order from the President of the Assembly, thus worded—' The President of the Na tional Assembly, looking at the order of the day adopted by On National Assembly, to have M. M , uguin, repre sentative of the people, unduly arrested, inarnedkteiy set at liberty, delegates to M. Baze, the questur of the Assembly, all power, even that of demanding the public force, if necessary, to effect his being set at liberty.— Dupla. Half-past six in the evening, Dec. 28, 1850.' M. Baze then called on the greffier, whose name is be low, in the absence of the director of the prison, to at once set M. Mauguin at liberty, declarirg that, in case of refusal, he would call in the armed force and break in the doors;' to which the greffier replied, that in pre sNico iyf so formal an injunction, ho c3uid oniv obq th °Hors of till Assembly.' In ennsecpumen M. Mauguin was it ones set at liberty. (Signed) Baz-; Pcnigny, Usher of the National Assembly ; The Bonapartist journals are exceedingly wrath with tug authorities of Clichy for not having re,isted the execution of the mandate of the Assembly ; and in relati. - ,n to the threat of M. BAza to use mil Vary force, the Patric publishes the following five of the six-and--twenty regulations issued by the Commander in• Chief of the Army of Paris to the troops :- 1. Not to attend to any requisition until orders shall have been issued by the Lieutenant-General for so doing. 2. Not to pay any attention to the representatives. 4. To immediately shoot all traitors. 20. Every order which does not proceed from the General-in-Chief is null. All orders from other officers are to be disregarded, the ord-rs of the General-in-Chief and of his regular agents are alone to be executed. 21. Every requisition, summon!, or demand ema• na'ing from any functionary, civil, judicial, or pun- tical, is to be disregarded. - Upon this text the Patric preaches of the dangers which might have arisen had M. DAZE proceeded to order out a military force to lib-rate M. MAUGITIN, hut the organ of the. E'y , ea forgets that (I,.neral CHANGARNIER voted in favour of the liberation of M. M4UGUIN, and would, therefore, as Commander-in. Chief of the army of Paris, have given the requisite orders to carry out the decree of the Assembly—a fact of which no doubt the authorities of Clichy were aware, when they yielded such a ready obe dience. The whole affair, however, will even tually be again litigated in another form, for M. CUEaON, at whose suit the representative M. MAUGUIN had been arrested, has given formal notice to the governor of the prison of Clichy that he in tends to proceed against him for the loss incurred by the illegally setting his debtor at liberty. The adjudication of the two millions is much commented upon to the advantage of the Finance Minister. The Bank of France has issued a notice that it will take the new stock as follows :—" The Bank will operate for the hearers of coupons of the loan adjudged 313 t Dec., 1850, who will demand the payment of the 2d, 31, and 4th term, upon being remitted the coupons relating to these terms, and against the lodgment of the fifth of the value of rentes represented by each of these coupons. These coupons will be converted by the Bank into rentes inscribed in its name." There was not much business transacted at the Bourse, but prices were firm at an advance on Tuesday's quotations. The Five per Cents. opened at 94r. 85c , fell to 94f. 75c., and rose subsequently to 95f. 10c., at which they closed; the New Loan, 95f. 25c. ; the Three per Cents. closed at 57f...;_0r• leans Railroad Shares, 862 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 672 f. 50a ; Great Northern, 481 f. 25c. ; Basle, 136 f. 25e.; Bor deaux, 40f. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 355 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 250 f. BUSINESS °ONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TBE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, 2. Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 16 —Namur and Liege, 8 3 4—Northern of France, 15 11 4—Orleans and Bor deaux, 4 ex div.—Paris and Strasbourg, 9 ti— Tours and Nantes, 5. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have arrived. It is said that Grn+•ral FIGUERAS has resigned the War Ministry, and that General SANz will be his successor. MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 27.—The Three per Cents., 34i ; Five per Cents., 121. Exchange on ,London, 50 60 paper. GERMAN Y. The German Journal of Frankfort of the 31st ult., states that the marriage of Prince GEORGE of Mecklenburg-Strelitz with the Grand Duchess CATHERINE of Russia, will b 9 celebrated at St. Petersburgh towards the end of March. Count HARTIG, Austrian Ambassador at Cassel, had left for Dresden, and M. DE NosTlz, and M. ZAENCHENDORF, Minister of Saxony to the Germanic Confederation, was to leave on the following day. The King of PRUSSIA gave a private audience on the 30th ult. to M. ARMAND LEFEBVRE, who deli vered his letters of credence as Ambassador Extra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the French Republic. The young Prince ALEXIS PASKEWITCH passed through Vienna on the 26th for Rome, the bearer of an autograph letter from the CZAR to the PorE. Tile Cologne Gazette states that the Austrian army, under Field• Marshal LEGEDIXSCR had left Fulda en route for the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein. Count LEININGEN, the Fed.?ral Commissioner at Cassel, has issued the following proclamation : " Since the Permanent Committee of the Hessian Diet has, in its present composition, placed obsta-iles in the way of a recogniti:in of and obedience to the Elector's decrees of the 4th, 7th, and 28th of SeptF,mber, and since that board hal used its rights of impeaching public functionaries in a manner which was calculated to pro duce, and which, indeed, has produced, the most lament able consequences, I have, in obedience to my duty as Federal Coulmi•aioner, and on the strengh of the powers plenipotentiary which I hold, thought proper for the present to prohibit to the said committee every official meeting and activity. Any act of disobedience against this decree of mine will meet with immediate punishment according to the forms and provisions of the existing state of war. " COUNT LEININGEN, " Cassel, Dec. 26, 1850." `• Federal Commissioner." The Kolner Zeitung states from Cassel, that there can be DO doubt as to the reasons why the Federal Commissioner has thought proper to suspend the standing committee, for that, according to the pro visions of the Hessian Constitution, it will within a few weeks become the duty of the Government to convoke a Diet. If the Diet be not convoked it is the duty of the committee to impeach the Minister of the Interior, and as it is not the ELECTOR'S intention to convoke a Diet it was thought convenient to remove the possibility of another impeachment. On the 27th ult. the Elector of HESSE received officially all the authorities civil and military. The Prussian Stoats Anzeiger of the 31st ult. says : "M. von Manteuffel will go — t , ) Dresden only in the event of the return of Prince Schwartzenburg to the conferences, and this appears to be decided upon. The best understanding appears to prevail between the Courts of Vienna and Berlin; the reception given by the King, as well as by the great men of the kingdom, to the Austrian Premier is most 11 steering, and everything seems to argue for the favourable solution of the present state of things " Accounts from Vienna are to the 27th ult. It is said that various communities of Botsen have presented petitions to his MAJESTY, requesting him to invoke the regular Diet, in conformity with the statues of the constitution. _ _ The Silesian National Committee has adopted the proposal of an address to the Emrmtoit for the imme diate convocation of the Silesian Diet by a large majority. Intelligence has been received at Vienna, by tele graph from Zara, that in the Herzegowina the new S'adtholder has addressed a proclamation to the inha bitants of Mostar, and there was every prospect of an amicable settlement of the affairs of the Herzegovina. Accounts from Dresden are of the 30th. The various Committees met on the morning of that day, but there was no general meeting. It; was said that M. DE LAGRENE was expected in Dresden to watch the proceedings as Special Plenipotentiary fur the French Republic. The Dresden Chambers re-assembled on the 30th. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The Free Press of the North, under date of Nor derstapel, 26th ult., says, "Yesterday, a skirmish took place near Wohlde, at the distance of a league from this place. It is said that the Danes, though their force was very superior, were compelled to retire with considerable loss." J ANEJARY 3, 1851. ITALY. In the sitting of the senate of Turin of the 26th ult., the President read a letter from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, accompanying the official deed by which her:Royal Highness the Duchess of GENOA renounces her right of succession to the throne cf Saxony. The members of the Casino of the city of Cagliari, having offered to give a ball to Rear-Admiral Sir W. PARKER and his officers, the former wrote on the 18th ult. to the President of the Casino, regretting that the immediate departure of the fleet rendered it impossible for him to accept the invitation, and ex. pre4sing his warmest thanks to the Government and inhabitants of Cagliari for their kind and friendly reception. The treaty concluded between Tuscany and the Papal Government for the better repression of con traband trade has been published by the Giornale di Roma. By this treaty eight custom-houses only are maintained by each of the contracting powers on the common frontier. The transit of goods is guaranteed on either side on payment of about 25 centimes per huadred weight. Bonded warehouses on the frontier are abolished. REDUCTION OF TAXES.—Wti have good reason to believe that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, judging from his present available resources, and the financial prospects of the new year, feels confide t that he will be able to reduce the taxation of the corn try to the extent, in round numbers, of 2,009,000/. It is worthy of observation, that the remis sion of the window duties, and the repeal of the tax on ad vertisements, would, together, cause a loss to the revenue of, as nearly as may be, t his sum. We may add, that there are persons generally wtil informed as to Ministerial purposes, who feel assured that these 'will be the two taxes which the Right Hon. Gentleman will repeal in the coming session. Advertiser. THE CASE OF THE SLOANES AND JANE WIL 'RED. —Yesterday the board of gaardians of the West Lon don Union, with a view of carrying out the resolution passed at the meeting of the board on Tuesday last, caused printed placards to be issued and circulated at the various police stations and throughout the metropolis, offering a rewar 1 of 201. for the apprehension of Mrs. Sloane, who is described as being about forty-five years of age, five feet eight inches high, rather thin, and of a fair but sallow complexion. TEE SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS Railways. Paid. Nominal Prices. Aberdeen.. Do. Pretbrence • • • • Ambergate, Nottingham,' Boston, & E. Juncion Ayrshire and Galloway • • Belfast and County Down! jerks and Hants Exten. l (Great Western rer- petual 5 per cent ) Birmingham and Oxford Junction, cats duly paid, or with a guar... Do. without a guar... Wolveihamp - ; ton. and Dudley, calls, duly paid, or with a guarantee .• • • Ih without a guar. Binning., Wolverhamp., l and Stour Valley .• ' l3 Birkenhead, Lancas.,and Cheshire Junction Bristol and Exeter•• • 1 Buckinghamshire • • • • Caledonian • • • • DJ. Preference •• Do. Clydesdale June. • • Chester and Holyhead ..! Do. Preference .. Clarence .. ••78 6 8 Do. Ist Class, 6 per ct. 10 Do. 2d de., 5 per cent. Lc) Do. Gov. Loan,4 pr. Direct Lond. and Portsm.', 5 LA Dublin and Belfast Janet.' 45 ''' Dublin and Kingstown.. i 100 Dundalk and Enniskillen 3 0 East Anglian C 251. L. &I E. and L. & •• •• Do (181. E. & IL) •• Do. (3/. 10s.) 6 per cent. Preference • • Do. (51.) 7 pr. ct. Pref. Do. (71.175.) 7 p. c.Pref. Eastern Counties .. • • Do. Exten., 5 per , cent.] No. 1 • • .. •• Do. No. 2 .• - • • • .New Preference, 6 per cent... • • • Do. North. and East. 6 per cent. • • • • Do. do. 5 per cent • • Do. do., New • • • • Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shares • • Do. do. do. • • Do. do., B & C shares Do. do., scrip, guaran. 6 per cent. • • • • East Lancashire • • • • Do. New quarters • • Do. 6 per cent. pref. quarter shares.. • • East Lincolnshire, gua. 6 per cent • • • • • • Edinburgh and Glasgow Edin., Perth, and Dundee Do. Newport .. • • Exeter and Exmouth .. Glasgow and South-West, Do. pref. consolidated Do. do. G. D. &C. stock Gloucester & Dean Forest Great Northern .. • • Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, B, 6 per et. Do. 5 per cent. pref. • • Great Southern and Western, Ireland • • Do. eighths .. Great North of England . Do. new 401. Do. new 30/. .. Do. new 151. . Great Western .. Do. New, -• Hull and Selby Do. half shares • • .• Do. quarter shares .. Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds • • • • • • Lancaster and Preston .. Lancashire and Yorkshire Do. quarter shares .. Do. tiiihs .. • • • Do. F. 20/. .. •• .• Do. new, guaranteed 6 1 yer cent. DO. Mudders. & Sheff.' Do. West Riding Union Leeds and Bradford • • Leeds and Thirsk • • • • Do. pref. 6 p ct., No Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 2 Do. pref. 6 p ct., go. 3 Do. pref. qrs., 1848 .. Liverpool, Crosby, and - - Southport .. .• London and Blackwall • • London, Brighton, and South Coast • • • • Do. guarteed. 5 per et., late Croyci in thirds • • Do. preference, 5 p et. Do. preference, cony. 5 per cent., 1852 .• Do. new guaranteed, 6 per cent. .. • • • • London and Greenwich • Do. preference . •• London and N.-Western Do. do. new quarters . Do. niche .. • . •• Do. 101. sh., M.& 1.1 (c) London and ti.-NS extern Do. new 501. .. Do. new 40/. .. •• Do. new preference .. Londonderry & Coleraine Do. hall shares Lowestoft, ,:nar. 4 per ct. Do. do. 6 per cent. .. Londonderry and Ennis killen. .. .. • • • • Do. half shares • • .. Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock • • .. .• Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire • • .. Do. quarters, No. I • • Do. new, 101 preference Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union • • idland • • • • • • • • Do. consolidated pref. Do. 50/. shares • • • • Do. Binning & Derby Do. Consul. Bristol & Birming., 6 per cent. Do. Bristol & Glouces. Do. do. do. • .• Do. Erewash Val. pref.' Do. Lelor& Swanning. 8 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 .. Newry, Warrenpoint, & Rostrevor • . .. • • Norfolk • • • . _ • • Do. New 201. shares.. Do. Extension 1"o. guar. 5% per cent. Waveney Valley.. Northern Counties Uaion North British • . • • • • Do. Preference • • .. North Staffordshire • . North-Western .. • . Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. • . Preston and Wyre Do. Halves (A) • • • • Reading, Guildford, and Reigate.. • • • • • • Royston and Hitchin Do. Shepreth Eaten. • • Scottish Central .. • • Scottish Midland .. Do. new . • • • • S'arewsbury & Birming. Clas3A.. •• •• •• Do. .11ass 8.. • • • • De. New Guarantee.. , stirewsisury & Hereford S'irewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) .. Do. Hal#es .. • • • • Do. Ossvestry • • • • Do. New.. Do. 8 per cent. Pref. . Shropshire Union • • .. South Devon .. • • Do. Preference .. South Staffordshire .. South-Eastern _ • • Do. do. 4% per cent...' South Wales.. _ 1 South Yorksh. and River! Dun . • .. ' Shell., Roth., and Goole, N. Div., guar. 5 p cent. Do. do. South Div. .. Swansea & Loughor, &c. Paw Vale Extension • • [tames Haven Dock and Railway _ Wale of Neath .• • Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick W aterord, Wex., Wick., and Dublin • • Wear Valley, 6 per cent guaranteed • • Do. do. Do. do. West ,Joruwall . • • • Whitenaven and Furness Windsor, Staines, and S. Western • • • • • • Wilts, Somerset, & Wey meuth York, Newcastle, & Ber wick • • • • • • • • Ditto and Newcastle Extension .. Ditto G.N.E. purchase or preference .. • • Do. • Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway • • • York and North Midland Do. Preference • • Manchester, Sheffield, done at 04. do. .. do. • • Anglo-Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian) .. Boulogne and Amiens .. Central of France (Or. leans and Vierzon) Demerara Dutch Rhonish East Indian .. Do. do. do. .. Great Indian Peninsula.. Ditto ditto .. Louvain ala Sambre .. Luxembourg • • .- .. Ditto • . • . .. .. Madrid and V alentia .. Namur and Liege .. .. Northern of France .. Orleans and Bordeaux .. Paris and Orleans .. .. Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Rouen and Havre .. Sambre and 51euae Strasboxr,g a, d Basle .. Tours and Nantes .. Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt West Flanders .. • • Australasia .... British North America.. Colonial ....... Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock .... London and Westminster National Provincial Eng. Do. New .... • • • • • • National of Ireland .... Provincial of Ireland • ... Do. New .. • •..• Union of Australia .. •• Do. New • • .• •• • • Union of London .. •• .. 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Prefe FOREIGN. 2 -2% 8% - 9 16 - 16% 4% 4 3 1 dis. 34. —1 pm. !‘ - % pm. % - % Pm. 1 -IM -98 15 15% clia.x.d 31 36 26% 27 1 4 6 10% 11% 10 - - 9i . ells. xcll 1%-1 !K BANKS. 28 -3114 424 -43 `{%-1i) 25 -2514 18 %-194 35 27 % - 2814 17 N - 18 42 -4g;4 15% - 15% 34"% -35 •• ....... 12 % - 13% • • -- 6 13 4 6 13 4 25 50 25 15 1 1 0 8 6 8 2% 100 12% 50 11 13 4 47% 100 23% 11% 15 11 6 3, 100 12 lb 4 20 100 100 42% 4 2 0 '29 16 0 100 47% 2 12 0 13 5 9 12 3, paid up 6 13 4 20 -8 14 [NT STI T aid. Nominal Pricer. to-day. ----.. Business done Angio•liexican(is. Si. p.) 100 .. —.. Asturian •...•••• .. • • • • 15 .. —.. 1 übtrul ian —..••• • • • . 4 I .3 Ni, 3 i , :IT ossa Range .. ••.• • . 1 13 0 3,% —3% Illueti.irvoi, Iron and Coal 50 .. - .. Bolan! s Scrip ........ • • .. —..- I , ritish iron.. • ... ••.• • • 13 5 .. —•• Brazilian Imp. (is. Si. p.) 24% .. —.. . Do. Cocaes and Cuieba 30 3% —3% Do. St. John del Rey.. 15 14% 141,i Cobre Copper ...... .• • 40 32% —35 35% Copiapo ........... •• • 14 5% —5% General... ....... .... • • 20 13% 13% Real Del Monte, Unreg. 14 —Ns Do. Black Debentures. • • —.. Do. Red Debentures .. • • —• • iantiago de Cuba ...... 10 9 —7% Tin Croft .............., 7 1(1% 11 United Mexican- ..... ••28 2 8% 6% —5% MISCELLANEOUS. Canada •....... Gen. Steam Navigation Penis. & Oriental Steam 5O 78% —l , O x.d ex. d. Royal \1 ail Steam I 74 f We cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Lists, and will not be influenced by interested correspondents.] viONLY and COMNIERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales or Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 6,000 ba e;, comprising 4,500 American, 600 Pernam and Nlarentiara, at Sid. to Bid ; 100 Egyptian, at 81. to 8i,r1,; and t.OO Surat, at gd. to 6d. per lb. The market was steady, but tame, and prices were about O. per lb. below the rites of Friday last.—Railway Shares were dull. The Corn Market is very dull. The Colon al Markets have been very inactive this week, sod Sugar and Coffee rule at about previous rates. The following are some further particulars of interest from the trade circulars. Messrs. James, Gordon, and Co., of Liverpool, referring to . the Hide and Skin mar kers, state:— "From the above tables it appears that the import of River Plate and Rio Grande Salted Hides is below the average a the last seven years, and if compared with lad y ear only, shows a falling off of 30 per cent. The stocky also, it will be observed, are very far below the average. Prices have advanced considerably, and are now higher than at any time since the beginning of 1847, as stated above. They are, however, id. to J. lower than in the greater part of 1846. Notwithstanding the very consi derable advance which has taken place in Hides,• it does not appear that Leather has by any means improved is a corresponding degree. The light kinds and inferior descriptions have risen considerably, but the better kinds and heavier are not much higher. There is, how' ever, every reason for expecting an advance in these before long, for, besides the above-mentioned decrease in the import of Salted Hides, an unusually large quantity has been exported, say 100,00 0 British and 50,000 foreign from this pot t alone. The tanners, consequently, must have a smaller quantity of leather in course of preparation than usual. The consumption of leather, consequent on a prosper .. ous state of the manufacturing districts, must be very' large. The stock in the factors' bands are unman,' small. The stock of hides in importers' hands is a were trifle, and the draught at Buenos Ayres will have the effect of postponing the season for slaughter two months, all of which circumstances have a tendency to raise prices both of the raw and manufactured article. If it is also borne in mind that a war betwixt Buenos Ayres and Brazil now appears imminent, and which, if de clared, will have the effect of curtailing the supplier, both from the Plate and Rio Grande, to a very great extent, it is by no means impossible that prices may take a range, in the course of next year, such as has not bees known for a very long period. The entire stock of River Plate and Rio Grande salted hides in importers' handle in the kingdom, is not at this time more than three weeks' cousumpton." The screw-steamers are coming daily into more ex tensive use, and have proved very serviceable to dir. ferent branches of commerce, but more especially to the fruit trade. This season fruit has been brought from the lonian Isles, Sicily, and Smyrna, and an entire cargo of 2,000 barrels of chesnuts has been received by' Messrs. Keeling and Hunt from Roche St. Bernard. At no distant day we may reasonably expect that screw' pe Rulers sill almost wholly supersede sailing vessels for the conveyance of perishable articles, and with modifies .. tions and saving in the consumption of fuel, numerous merchant ships will have this auxiliary power for occee sional use, as in the event (.f being becalmed. The Foreign Exchanges have improved at Amsterdam and Hainburgb, and it is fully expected that there will be a rise here this afternoon. There are accounts of Nov. 2 from the Cape of Good Hope, and they read most favourably. The Governor'r sudden appearance in Ksfirland had scared the inalcort" tents ; and his Excellency, in a proclamation to the farmers, assures them that there is no danger of a war, and that the farmers might setely return to their house& In the Amsterdam Stock Market, on Wednesday,,thr* was not much done in Dutch Securities, and they Man" tained about previous rates. Mexican Bonds were better. The English Funds have been very firm, and with limited business doing. Consols have been 961 to 91 for the Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 981 to 99. Bank Stock has been marked 213 g. Exchequer-bills have improved to 58e• and 625. prem. Tee Foreign Securities are rather brisker. Mexicali Bonds 35i and Peruvian Deterred 35. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 171 l e and the Three per Cent 38f ex. div. Portuguese Four per Cents. are 341. Dutch Two-and a-Halt par Cents. bring 58f ex. div. Railway Shares have been generally higher. • QOAUTER TO TARES. Consols ... Ditto Acocult ... 96} 97 ONE CLOSIO rRIcES OF BRITISII ruzwi O'CLOCK. PRICIi_t; B .n. 14. Stock 21" .... 97% 1 ,4. 3 / 4 979 3 ..e ; Cent. Itedneed t n is: . ..... 213/ Seri :3t por Cent. Anus .. ............. .93 3 3 99 99% 'n 9.4 Bonds, 1,000/..4;••••••••• .. ..... 74 P Ditto under 1,000/.... ... •••• 78 p 78 P cow. t:.; for Account 96% 3 % 97 97 Exchequer Bills. iIW6. - & len I,toot. June...... ... . . ..... 59 62 53 60 p 500/. June Small. June 59 62 58 6J p ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent ..... • 01.000 0 PRICES• 861,4 .iiiian nOllll3 (3 pin Vt.., ....- ----- Ditto,P per Cent... .... 64 . 44 M ~cAn- !, per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— ....... Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ......-. 35% 81i% Ditto, Account ......... 35%%% 359(1 Pe-uvien Bonds. 4U t per Cent Ditto, Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. .- ....... - Ditto,4 per Cent. Russian Bonds .., ~.. -- Ditto, 4% per Cent S)anish 5 p ar Cant. 1840 — .. --,/ Ditto Account ..... .. ..... - Do., Coupons 8 1 Ditto. 3 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Lonap.. Dutch 2 1 4 per Cent., 12 Guild. ~ cl• Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 9l 91% 91)ii LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.—( THIS DAY•) LONDON, JAN. 3.—Wind-at noon: N.E., light braes• and dull hazy weather, with drizzling rain. BELTAST, JAN. I.—Wind S.W.—Sid. William Price, New Orleans. SZIELDI, JAN. 2.—Wind W. to W.N.W., modes t' —Arrd. Pearl, St. John's, New Brunswick; Emily' Quebec. PILL, JAN. 2.—lt blew a gale from W. to W.S.W. last night. The shipping rode well.; The Emanuel, Cardip to Ramno, has come in with damage from contact with brig in Pensrth Roads. Eiustsana, JAN. i.—The Daring, Naples to the Clyde► stranded on the Blaishaw BAIA, Solway Firth, is" night; lies in a bad situation, and is full of water; crew saved. BEAUMARIS, JAN. 2.---The Hibernia, of Workington , drove on the beach at the Friars during a violent ple last night. WHITBY, JAN. 2.—The Sheraton Dale, of this port. Dannio to Grangemouth, bus arrived in the roads leak!, with cargo shifted and short of provisions. The Sarah and Eleanor, of this porr, from Denali; has put into Flekkeffurd, Norway, leaky, and must discharge. DEAL, JAN. 2.—Wind W.S.W., fresb.—Arrd. Dewar, Sydney, New South Wales; Forfarshire, Whoa poa; Seediest, Calcutta; Susan Crisp, Mauritius; Edgar. Algoa Bay; Sea Bird, Honduras. FALMOUTH, JAN. 2.—Wind S.W.—lt blew a violent gale last night, with tremendous squalls from S.S.W. W S.W.; has since moderated. The shipping all ride well. Arrd. Caroline, Schenk, Pernambuco. The Arminiuse from Alexandria, took the ground this morning, and has sprung a leak. OF7 MARGATE, JAN. IL—Devonshire, Singapore; Att*ood, Bathurst. COWES, JAN. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Union, Banta Martha. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 2.—Wind S.W.—Sid. Severs steamer, West Indies. TOREAY, JAN. 2.—The Roelfina, which went on shore on Berry Head, Dec. 19, has been got off after discharging and towed in here on her beam ends. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 2.—Wind W.—Acrd. Swordfish, Pernambuco; Earl of Liverpool, West Coast; Fanny', Gonaives; Refuge, St. Jollies, New Brunswick; Enre" lope Halfax; Eliza, Prin ce Ed wa rd's Island. Sid. Pea' ningham, Cape of Good Hope; George Glyn, Ceara; Virginia, New Orleans. Off port, William Penn. The Freeman, for Jamaica, went on shore at Crosby Point last night, has lost tier rudder; but makes no water; will be lightened. WATERFORD, JAN. I.—The James Moran will die charge to stop her leaks. ELSINORE, DEC. 24.—Part of the cargo of the Louise, Batavia to Copenhagen, on shore on the Swine' bottoms, has been saved. The vessel is reported to be 'ull c f water. The Lessoe and Anholt, light vessels, left their stations 21st inst. _ _ CUXHAVEN, DEC. 20.—The Falran sloop brig, from LlfLvtAnnah, is on shore on a sand bank. off Gluckstadt• FREDRIKSHAtiN, DEC. 23.—The Brownfield, Cal' lioadaarg to London, has conic in here to repair, having grounded off Hettshohn 21st inst. PARIS, JAN. 2.—The Theresa, Marennes to Cameret cud Morlaix, has been taken to Audierne, 26th Dec., a derelict; crew supposed to be drowned. A new Exhibition, which has been for several months in preparation, will shortly open, at her Majesty's Concert room, Haymarket, now to be styled the " Tourist's, Gal lery." This great moving diorama will illustrate the grand routes of a tor throughout Europe, the production of which has been entirely superintended by Mr. Charlis Marshall, assisted by several of the most talented English and forvilA artistes. X 914 78% 79% 11% 58% 5i 97 9G}i 88 87% 88M 124% 34 125 21 16% die. 4814 163 16 2% x 3i 9% % 17% % % 5% 3i dis. 43 dis. 2 3% 16 M 19 4li 23% 2% 9% :renoe has been 9 8% 9 161,‘ 4 8% 15 %36 4 N, x. d. 27% 3i 11 % 3 % % 61 P co P 60 P dis 6 M 79 3 st,i % Pr La Pri Mu, Lt aof u