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" FREDERICK STRANGE." RETT'S SPIRIT HAMPERS, 20s. EACH. FREE OF CARRIAGE. These favourite little Packages contain such an exquisite assortment of Brandy, Rum, Geneva, and Ginger Brandy, as cannot be procured at any other house in the world. We undartake to pay the carriage on single gallons of BItAYDY at 18s., and on all orders for;WINES or SPIRITS amounting to 205., to any town in England having di rect commuitiaation with London. A pamphlet of particulars may be had (post free) upon a )plication. HENRY BRETT and Co., Old Furriival's Inn, Holborn. ER MAJESTY'S THEATIi E. THE GRAND _NATIONAL CONCERTS. The LAST WEEK of the present season. Two Farewell .Nights of Madile. ANGRI. Mr. BALFE S Benefit on MONDAY next. THIS EVENLNG. The Pastoral Symphonic Beethoven. °vertu: a to 3lassaniello, Auber. The Grand Battle Overture, Lindpainter. The Caliph's March, from the new Serenata, " The Sleeper Awakened, Macfarren. Grand Selection from Donizetti's Opera, La Figlia del Reggimento, L. Negri. Miss Poole, Molique, Al ban, Baumann, Barret, and Richardson. Musical Director, Composer, and Conductor—M. lialfe. Conductor of La Musique de Danse—Herr Labitzky. Promenade (admitting to the Half-Circles, Gallery and Pit Stalls)l 6 The Doors open at Half-past Seven, and the Concerts will com mence at Eight, and terminate about Eleven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. E. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. MR. MACREADY. THIS EVENING, The Single Act of the Second Past of HENRY THE FOURTH. Henry IV , Mr. Macready. To be folowed by the JEALOUS WIFE, in which Mr. Macready will appear. Ater which A RADICAL CURE. To conclude with MRS. WHITE . Peter White, Mr. H. Bedford. • THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. TILLS EVENING, Will be performed a new aol original Drama, entitled JESSIE GRAY. Characters by Ifessrs. Ilrghes, Boyce, 0. Smith, P. Bed ord, Madame Celeste, and MISS K. Fitzwilliam. After which a new Fqrte called THE i-;CHOOL FOR TIGERS ; or, The Shilling Hop. Captain Kitaflyer, Mr. Boyce ; Major Stiff, Mr. Worrell; Mr. Panels, Mr. Wright; Alexander Panels, Miss Chaplin. To be followed by a new and original Farce, in the Vulgar Tongue, to be called JACK IN THE GREEN; or, Hints on Eti quette. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Keaa and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the First Part of HENRY IV. Fa'still', Mr. Bartley. After which BETSY BAKER; or, "Too Attentive by Half." Characters by Messrs. J. Vining, Kecley, Stirs. Keeley, and Miss Murray. To conclude with TO PAZENTS and GUARDIANS. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame VestriS. Solo Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE IZINGDOTEb. To be followed by A DAY OF RECKONING. To A PRACTICAL MAN. conclude with ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. • THIDA EVENING. Will be performed HEARTS ARE TEIMPS. To be followed by ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA After which THE UNPROTECTED FEMALE. To eonlude with ALLOW ME TO APOLOGISE. AS'ILEY'S _ROYAL ..I.AirfIITILEATRE. Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Extraordinary series of attractive novelties. Second week of the Revival of TURPIN'S RIDE to YORK. THIS E VEN I NG, The Grand new Spectacle of KE.NNILSi ORTH ; or the Golden Days of the Virgin Queen. with new and costly costumes. Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle, introducing the Magnificent Stud and Company of unequalled Artistes. The whole concluding with the Equestrian Drama (for the firs time these five years) of TURPIN'S RIDE t o YO RK. , Extensive preparations are now being made for the production • a new and original Equestrian Comic Pantomime, written expressly for this Theatre, by G. 11. Rodwell, Esq. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. EMIL W.ATER Al LONDON BRIDGE. Tens DAT —Morning 47 min. after 12 1 Evening 11 min. after I To-slop-tow—Morning 32 min. after 1 1 Evening 54 Alin. after 1 THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER, la THERMOMETER, Di THE SHADE. 42—highest since noon yesterday. 29—lowest this morning and during the night. 36—this day, at noon. Those who were so long indifferent to the suffer ings of the industrious classes, who regarded as the triumph of legislation the mischievous and iniquitous enactments that imposed undue restrictions on the issue of bank-notes, thus rendering money scarce, and, of course, dear, are already startled from their propriety on discovering that the tide has already turned, and that there is every reason to suppose that owing to the abundant supply of gold from Cali ferule, to which we have already alluded, the idol which they have set up will be overturned, and that its votaries and worshippers will share in its prostration. The most ridiculous suggestions, worthy of a semi-barbarous age, ignorant of the first principles of econominal science, have already not only been thrown out, but seriously canvassed, and if the advice, freely tendered, should be followed, we should behold in the middle of the 19th century a repetition of the commercial absurdity by which the inhabitants of the Spice lelande en deavoured to keep up and enhance the pi ices of their commodities, by the wilful and deliberate cis struc tion of a great part of their produce. The Dutch colonists then decided what quantity of nut megs, &c., would b sufficient for the supply of the world on the scale suited to their own narrow views, and the remainder of the crop was solemnly burned in the presence of the authorities, thus neutralising the bJuntic s of PROVIDENCE for their own short-sighted purposes ; and their admirers and would-be imitators of the present day would, as far as practicable, follow their brilliant examp7e. " Protection to bullion" is now the cry, and that by persons who would not for a moment sanction protection to any of the natural pro ductions of their own country. Much has not as yet been said in England on the subject. As silver is only a legal tender to the extent of 405., and the change in its value has not as yet amounted to the enormous seignorage charged by our Government on its coinage, which, in ordinary times, when s il ver cou ld b e ob tained at 4s. 1] id. per ounce, amounted to more than 11 per cent., the pound troy of standard silver being coined into 66 shillings, or the ounce into ss. 6d., we have not as yet experienced the natural results of the change. It has not as yet become a pro fitable speculation to withdraw our silver currency from circulation, and export it largely to the continent. That period must, however, speedil y arrive, and then active measures will become es- BAROME rER, 29.47. WIND S. W.- cold breeze and fine. 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. KINGSTowN (Dumax) —Wind W.N.W., strong breeze— partially cloudy. PLYmouTn—Wind N.W., strong breeze—rain. Poaxsaitoura—Wind W., strong breeze —rain. BRIGHTON —Wind N.W., gentle breeze —partially cloudy. HASTINGS—Wind W., stronglbreeze—partially cloudy. SOUTHAMPTON—Wind W., strong breeze —overcast. FoLKESTONE—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. BASINGSTOKE —Wind S.W., strong breeze —overcast. READING—Wind S.W., calm —overcast. GREENWICH—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. SWINDON—Win,I S.W., gentle breeze —overcast. LElcirrox - Wind S.W., strong breeze —overcast. Cammunoz—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. RUGnir—Wind E., gentle breeze —partially cloudy. ParrnanonouGu —Wind S W., gent le breeze —partially cloudy. YARMOUTH —Wind W., bard wind—cloudless. CnEwE—Wind S.W., Iresh breeze— partially cloudy. CONWAY—Wind W.S.NV., strong breeze—partially cloudy. HOLYHEAD —Wind NV , hard wind—partially cloudy. LivEnrooL—Wind ger:tle breeze—cloudless. YORK—Wind S.W., gentle bri.eze —partially cloudy. LAICASTRIC—ti~'ind ti. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. WIIITItY—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. SHAY—Wind W., strong breeze snow. SUNDERLAND—Wind W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. Can.usiLE—Wind S. W., breeze—partially cloudy. BEATTOCK—Wind N., gentle breeze —overcast. BERWICK—Wind W. gentle breeze rain. EDLNEt:ItUII—Wind N., gentle breeze - foggy. Thu returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Monday morning at nine o'clock:— CORK —Wind W., strong breeze—h. , :avy rain. CARLoW—Wiud S.W., hard wiod—rain. The mean daily reading of the barometer at the Royal Ooservatory, Greenwich, was higheet on Sunday, Nviien it was 30232 inches; it was also above 20 inches on the two following days; the mean of the week was 29 . 934 inches. The temperature was lowest on Tuesday, when the daily mean was 32'8°, which is less by 6° than the average of the same day in seven years. It rose on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, when the mean was about 46°, or 6* above the average. The mean of the whole week was 40•1°. The wind was for the most part in the south-east on the first four days, and in the south-west for the rest of the week. It ' fq 4 4 C,...C4);.- 1 •.',":4 4 - q t 4. .. ..... • '1 r-ttr. l ,`, ' t t , i. 4 ";,:',‘' N t tfl ii .„ - - L ' ~,,,I 0 - V . 't i -r,.*'" lc -..".0. 'Ale . At - oP , - , ~"~" +~ sential. On the continent the question as to " the pro• priety of interfering by legislative means with the na tural results of the Californian discoveries" is already seriously discussed. In Holland the gold currency— the five and ten guilder pieces—have already been called in, and the double standard of value has been A more interesting, Message has never been sub.. abolished. A large sum, about 4,000,000/., has thereby mitted to the Americas Congress by the United been released, which will naturally find its way States' PRES/ =EDIT than the one published elsewhere is to England, the only nation in the world where gold our impression of thi s evening. More important do. is the exclusive standard. The greater portion of cuments of the like char ac t e r ha ve , doubtless, been the produce of California will eventually follow to issued before now, but none, we are bold.-to say , th e s ia'e market. Our coin will become seriously more peculiarly attr ac ti ve . B es id es b e i ng a dd resse d depreciates, its relative value with the currency of to a newly-elected Legislature, the official manifesto . other nations will ba completely changed. We con in; questio n p ossesses anot h er equally striking feature, fess hat we can l oo k upon this contingency without in the ci r cu ms t ance th at i t may be considered as the apprehension. Whe n go l d is clisap and plentiful our first decided inti ma ti on o f th e po li cy a b out to b e ad- foreign ccrr , spondents will no longer take it ventured upon by the new l y appo i n t e d c hi ef mag i s- 'in exlbarge for their commodities. In place tra4 of the great Transatlanctic Democracy. Ikis t rue , I o f i ns t ruc ting their agents to forward the amount to that immedi a t e ly on hi s e l evat i on to the rank of Presi- which they are ent i t l e d in gold th e y w ill receive it in dent MILLARD Faudoaz addressed a message t o th e our manu f a ctures, the prices of whi c h w ill rise in representatives of the Republic, announcing his nog , consequence, and so will every other article. The such a change on your part, is what I should have nation as the successor of ZACHARY TAYLOR. That least expected, and what I still 1 .13 know how to ac- Message, however, W 29 written, be it remembered, count for. You have promi se d i n yo u r l e tter to send me a further explanation, b u t a f or t n i g ht h a s elapsed with- hurriedly, in th e ex t raor di nary ex i gency o f the mo out my having received any. I can hardly persiaade meat, consequent on the melancholy event which de myself that you seriously mean what your letter asserts, prived the United States of the abilit and interit viz., that y ou mean t o th row me off becaus e anot h er y g y sweetheart, who I learn from your letter with sad sur - .conqueror of M ex i co . At l eng th t h e states prise was form er ly i n f a eeur, has now returned to his man selected to follow in the footsteps of old Rough allegiance. Surety, I, who have never departed from and Ready has been enabled to articulate his real that allegiance, have the most claim to your kindness, and I feel sure that when you come to consider the matter sentiments the Congress newly assembled at seriously you will allow me to resume that place in your Washington, with due time for serious and earnest esteem which you have permitted another to usurp. You consideration. Hence it is that we regard the say you should not be happy were ycu to keep your en- Message now published in our columns as the first gagsment with me, but in this I must differ from you, Veritable and I am firmly persuaded th at you would have a right eritable revelation of hi s v i ews i n regar d to t h e ve to expect happiness from the future consciousness of cessities of the Government. having fulfilled your duty towards me. Pray do not Comprehensive as the document before us is, un thinklghtly of this; reflect on the pain of mind you questionably, in its actual dimensions, MILLARD Fenn inflict on me, and remember that a young man seriously deprived of the hope to which he was adhering w i t h MORE has only bee n ena bl e d t o i n di cate b r i e fl y, an d fondness r ece i ves au i n j ury which is beyon the sometimes incidentally, his opinions in reference to surgeon's skill. I run not, my dear Mary Ann, the the various subjects therein passed under scrutiny—. coward for which you take me. Ido not give you up as hopeless, because you have expressed a sentiment differ- so numerous are the topics alluded to, and so peen ing from those which I have always heard from you. I liarly diversified in their character. Even a hasty am ready at once to perform my part of our engage- glance through the Presidential Message will be suf ment, and will take you, whenever convenient to your- ficient to show that several of its themes are self, and I hope a no unwilling sacrifice, to that altar which I would not approach lightly, and on which I of more than usual interest, and some of shall call you to plight your faith to me, and I promise them of a more than ordinary importance. carefully to guard the happiness which will be thus in- They relate to one or other of the different trusted to my care. I hope your last letter was candid; n deartments of the admini s tr a ti on . I n one i nstance , you distinctly say that th ere i s no ot h er reason for your - wishing to break off the engarment than that an old indeed, they even go beyond those widely-extended sweetheart has returned, and now stands in my place. limits ;we mean where the PRESIDENT recommends Answer me frankly, for if you are disguising the reason to the Congress the establishment of an agricultural you are not dealing fairly by me. If you have any ob jection to my person, or any dislike to my address or bureau in the Government. Generally speaking, the habits, you ought to inform me of it, that I might have language employed by him throughout is of a highly the opportunity of alterin g wh a t displeases you, and of satisfactory kind, gratifying as to the past and en becoming more agreeable to your taste. Do nct keep couraging as to to the future filling the minds of the me in suspense, as I h ave b een a l ong t i me without ; hearing from you as I expected. I accept your pretty American citizens with confidence in the intentions of purse, but I have not expended for you nearly as much his Government. At the very outset of his as you sent me. I have therefore a bal ance t o s t r ik e observations Mr. Funmonse intimates clean with you, but feel no disposition to be in a hurry a b ou t y it, as I hope cur future interview; will be lung, inti- enough his fixed and unalterable determina mate, and many.—l am, my dear Mary Ann, yours tion to abide i n a ll thi ngs b y t h e o b v i ous affectionately, principles of the Constitution. Insomuch, indeed, would this appear to be his resolve, that he announces his intention to submit all questions of a dubious de scription to the judicial decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, so that a guarantee will be thereby afforded to the public that in no case will the polity of the nation be marred by false precedents or by unnecessary encroachments. In the event, moreover, of any enactment passing through both Houses of Congress which may seem to him to be un constitutional in its nature, or an infraction of the pri vileges of any one department, the extraordinary powers of the veto, confided to the PRESIDENT by the Constitution, will, it is intimated, be employed by him for the purpose of guarding against any injurious consequences. Having satisfied his conscience by this bold and explicit declara tion, Mr. FILLMORE proceeds to the elucidation of his ideas in regard to the various points likely to be brought under the consideration of the Republican Legislature. He informs the Congress that in re ference to the subject of Foreign Relations little is left to be accomplished in the carrying out of the treaty, lately ratified between Great Britain and the United States, as to the construction - of a ship canal connec ting the Pacific with the Atlantic, and passing through the American isthmus at the territory of Nicaragua. Ile asserts, even, that that little may be said to refer merely to the indication and construction of a free• port at each end of. this canal, and the designation of certain boundaries from shore to shore, within which all belligerent operations must terminate. He proclaims, in reference to the Slave Question, that the laws as they now stand shall be rigorously adminis tered, and accompanies the declaration with remarks of an admonitory kind, addressed to the conflicting parties in the United States, the Abolitionists and the Non-Abolitionists. He gives a satisfactory sketch of the financial condition of the Republic, pointing out a considerable reduction in the National Debt as having taken place since the last annual report from the Treasury department. He presents, likewise, a rapid outline of the contemplated Tariff, by which it is intended to raise a large portion of the revenue needful towards the support of the Government, by the levying of certain moderate duties upon articles of importation—expressing, at the same time, his preference for duties rather specific than ad valorem. Added to the foregoing should be mentioned one or two other intimations embodied in this remarkable Message of the American PRESIDENT. He suggests, for example, that a mint should be organized and forthwith established in California. Ha recommends a reduction of charges in the Post cffice department. He advises the extending of pro tection to American commerce in Asia. Ile avows himself favourably disposed towards various schemes of internal improvement, among which may be enumerated the creation of a pension -fund for the naval and military profes sions, and the construction of houses of refuge for those who have distinguished themselves by their pa triotic and meritorious behaviour. Throughout the whole document may be discovered an ever-present solicitude to fulfil, to the best of his energies, the vast responsibilities of his position —a solicitude which must prove the best safeguard from error and the most wholesome incitement towards reforms of a constitutional character. a*ittt LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1850. --......- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMB been generally favourable to the Royalist and Con servative party. TILE SHARE MARKETS. the gold of which we are the holders, of which there is some 16,000,0001. lying idle in the coffers of the Bank, and the further sum of 50,000,0001. now circulating from hand to hand, in consequence of our absurd prohibition of a small note currency will be reduced to about one-half its present nominal value. By our present laws we are prevented from using this bullion while its value remains, and it can only be relieved by the issue of notes of small deno minations, and the abolition of the restrictions as to silver. At present the Bank of England is limited in the amount of silver which it is allowed to retain on hand. The injurious Effects of the restrictive enact ment were painfully perceptible during the commercial critis of 1847, when a merchant, with a large quantity of silver bul lion, was unable to obtain an advance upon it or to sell it. This drove the silver, which is now likely to become so valuable, out of the country. A great and comprehensive measure of monetary reform is now clearly essential. The bullionists per ceive that necessity as clearly as any others in the community, and, therefore, there is every reason to suppose that the question will be brought under the consideration of Parliament during the ensuing session. The industrious classes must, however, be vigilant in order to guard their own interests, and to see that they are not again sacrificed at the shrine of Mammon by their ruthless tat•kmasters. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC \Ve have received the P.tris journals of yesterday. On Monday M. JULES DE LASTEYRIE presented he report of the Committee to which "as referred he proposition of M. VICTOR LEFRANC for an amend ment of the Electoral Law of the 31st May. The Committee recommend the rejection of the proposi tion. The report states that the law of the 31st May has disfranchised upwards of three millions of voters. The report was ordered to be printed and circulated previous to the debate. The mail train to Calais was blown off the line on Sunday night by the violence of the storm. A col lision with an up-train was the consequence, and several persons were seriously injured. On Monday a religious service was celebrated in the chapel of the Invalides, in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the bringing of the remains of the Emperor NAPOLEON to France. The centre of the chapel was fillEd with old soldiers of the Imperial army, and with servants of the family. Invalids, bearing their lances, formed a line from the altar to the principal gate, and along this the Marshal. Governor JEROME BONAPARTE passed, preceded by the clergy, and accompanied by Generals PETIT and GOIIRGAUD, and a numerous staff. He was re ceived on entering the chapel by the beating of drums and the music of the band of the litth Regi ment. Several Representatives of the People, among others M. ARDATECCI, M. NAPOLEON DARE, &c., and M. JEROME BONAPARTE, occupied the choir, and the galleries were filled with ladies, nearly all of whom wore deep mourning. When the ceremony was concluded the clergy conducted the Marshal to the chapel of Saint Joseph, in which the remains of the IstrE.Rott are provisionally deposited. Here some prayers were said, and many of the old soldiers present wept. The Marshal afterwards passed the Invalids in review ; also a number of old Imperial soldiers, who had assembled in their old uniforms. The Marshal distributed some crosses of the Legion of Honour, and he was greeted with shouts of " Vive le nom de Napoleon ! vive l'Empereur !" The Bourse opened dull, but after some time it became more animated, and Government stock closed more firm. The Five per Cents. opened at 94f. and rose to 9.5 f. 15c., at which they closed : the Three per Cents. closed et 57f. 30c. BUSINkSS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Dxc. 17. Boulogne and Amiens, 9;R—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 16A—Duth Rhenish, 3 1 ,4—Great Indian Peninsula, 2 —Namur and Liege, 8 1 ,4—Northern of France, 15 1 4 —Orleans and Bordeaux, 2 3 4—Paris and Rouen, 26 1 / 2 —Paris and Strasbourg, 9% Roue' and Havre, 10A — Sambre and Meuse, 3%—Tours and Nantes, 51,i. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 11th have arrived. NARVAEZ left Madrid that morning for AranjuEz. The Heraldo an official con t ra di c ti on e: publishes __ the rumour of a Ministerial crisis. BERTRAND DE Lis has been elected President, and GONZALEZ Ro- MEE° Vice-President of the Budget Committee. The Chambers did not meet on the 11th. On that day a sort of panic prevailed in the Stock Exchange among the holders of shares in the Bank of San Fer nando, in consequence of the Government having, it was said, resolved to suppress in the budget of the Minister of the Interior the 14,000,000 reals it has hitherto allowed that establishment; the fall was from 64 to 53 reals per share. The directors of the bank intended to make energetic remonstrances against the proposed measure. The English squadron, under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir WILLIAM PARKER, arrived at Bar celona on the 6th. MADRID BOLSA, 11.—Three per Cents., 34 15-16 cash, and buyers, 15 16 sellers, after the close; Five per Cents., with current coupon, 1.2 i ; Ciupons, 9 to 7; Passive Debt, 3; ; Exchange on London, 50 30. wages of labour will participate in the general im provement, and the pressure of taxation will be mate rially lightened. The drones in the national hive will alone be the sufferers. The income of the landholder will practically be diminished to one-half its present amount, but he will still receive as much as he was entitled to, according to the scale in operation when the obligation was con tracted. It must not be forgotten that money was abundant at the time the debt was incurred ; the bank-note was inconvertible ; the labour of the country was fully employed ; corn maintained an average price of 87s. lOd. per bushel. The pound note was practically only worth 13g. in specie, and the amount of the liability should, in common justice to the tax-payer, have been liquidated at the same rate. But the mcneyocracy were in the ascendant ; their influence prevailed in the national councils, and the Acts of 1819 and 1844 were passed, the effect of which, according to the admission of Sir CHARLES WOOD, was to double the purchasing power of the pound sterling, to give it a twofold command over necessaries and comforts, and thus to give double payment to the public creditor; or, to look at the reverse of the picture, to make the over-toiled artizan or operative, whose labour was mortgaged be fore he came into the world, work twice the number of hours, in order to satisfy the demands of the public tax gatherer. This gross and palpable injustice will at last be remedied, and some of the fetters struck off from the limbs of the "English slave." Yes, " slave," for what is a slave but one who is compelled to give his labour for the benefit of another, to toil and work at the direction of his taskmaster ? But England will in one respect be a heavy loser— GERMAIN Y. Accounts from Berlin of the 15th state that Baron WILYLEMEN kiss refused to accept the seals of the Home-dice. Vienna letters of the 13th state that RADETZIEY has at length obtained leave to return to Lombardy. Cuunt IlicoL has been appointed Austrian Minister at the Dresden conferences. The Bavarian army is to be reduced forthwith. The Bavarian troops have refused to march from Frank. fort. In Hesse-Cassel they have advanced to Mel sungen, within fifteen miles of Cassel. General PEux.En, who has been appointed Prussian Commander in Hesse, has declined to accept that office. Count LEININGEN, the Austrian Commissioner, has left for Rotenburg, in llesse. The Government of Wirtemburg has no intention of opposing the treaty of °limit& The editors of the New German Gazette of Frank fort, who have just heen expelled by the police from that city, have been forbidden to approach it within twenty miles. This measure is the first of the kind adopted since 1148 ; it was taken on the demand of different German States. The Gazette has ceased to appear. The names of the editors are Dr. GUNTHER, Dr. KUNING, and Dr. WEYDEMAYER. The Poil Gazette of Frankfort, of the 14th, states that the Alinister of the Elector of HESSE in the Ger manic Diet has proposed to reduce the Federal troops in the Electorate, which were increased in conse quence of the intervention of the Prussians, to the number originally fixed. The German Journal an nounces that the 7 th:corps d'armile of Prussia is to pass the winter in the Electorate. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. A rumour that it was the intention of General VON DER HOST to make a general attack on the Danish lines having prevailed at Berlin on the 13th, the Prussian Government, on the 14th, sent a confi thutial diplomatic agent to the Lieutenance, to in form them that, in the case of such an event, the Cabinet of Berlin could no longer be guarantee for the preservation of the rights of the Duchies, nor hinder the Danes from occupying Holstein. A new defeat would place the Duchies at the conqueror's mercy. SWEDEN. A letter from Stockholm announces that the elee ions of the Committees of the S wedish Diet have BRITISH RAILWAYS BOSNIA. ----- MORE TRACTARIAN RESIGNATIONS.---A report reached us last night that the Rev. Mr. Dodsworth had ten dered his resignation to the Bishop of L on d on, as incumbent of 'Trinity Church, Albany-road, Regent's -park, and that the resignation, as was to be expected, had been accepted. From the quarter whence the information reached us we are inclined to believe it is correct. Before the week is out, the resignation of Mr. Richards, of Margaret-street, and Mr. Murray, of St. Andrew's Church, Wells-street, may also, we are assured, be expected.—Morosing Advertiser. THE EXHIBITION OF 1851,..THE CARRIAGE AND FOOTWAYS.— The subject relative to the carriage and foot ways around and approaching to the Crystal Palace, which appears to have been hitherto overlooked, has latterly be come a matter of consideration, as the old roads and paths, however appropriate they may have proved for all the pre vious traffic to which they have been subjected, are not ex pected to be equally so for the aceonnnodation of the antici pated myriads of visitors from the probable annoyances of clouds of dust in dry weather, or of mud after heavy rain. Paving has been recommended, but objected to on the ground that it would destroy the usual characteristics of a park, while asphalte is equally disapproved, on account of its general dingy colour. Attention has accordingly been called to some footpaths which have been laid down during the recent extensive alterations and improvements at the Zoological Gardens, Regent's -park. These aro laid with a material which, while it has all the brilliant colour and plea sant pebbly surface of the best garden gravel, imbibes no moisture, and canna! by the greatest wear and tear be so disturbed as to create dust or mud, either when used as a carriage or footway, and this material it is believed will be adopted by the Commissioners for the purposes of the Exhi bition. HATS.—Men, in their dress, are stiff to an excess. There is not a particle of taste displayed in modem male clothing. The coat, with its swallow tails swinging about behind, is a hideous invention, and so is the pilot sack, in which we are wont to conceal ourselves in winter. The latest paletot is only an exaggeration of the ugliness; and this the ladies have borrowed. The fair sex certainly have retained some grace in their clothing. The shawl and scarf afford a beautiful drapery when neatly assumed —as, for in stance, by a Parisian woman. And the beauty of their oval figure cannot be altogether concealed. But that horrid paletot ! What is there about it but ugliness and comfort I Ah ! the secret is there, we fear. English ladies love to be comfortable as well as fashionable. But what good word can be said of the modern Golgotha, the male hat? Look at it! Straight up and down, stiff, er ec t, h ar d , and black, of most uncouth shape, whether its rim be narrow or broad, cramping to the head, which it marks in front by its pressure, uncom fortable, and stupid : the sooner its crown is kicked out, and a more graceful and comfortable covering obtained for the human head, the better. The only worse thing that we know of in the way of headgear is the Albert tile, which is certainly a disgrace to the otherwise excellent taste of the Prince Consort. Cannot our artists invent something mere becoming? Let us have a cap, a bonnet, or a turban, so that we escape from the stiff castor now in use. Even a " wide-awake" is infinitely preferable —more soft, comfort able, and defensive. Indeed, wide-awakes have taken " a run" of late, nor do we wonder. Anything rather than the erect, modern, black funnel We see it suggested by the Atheneum that the exhibition of 1851 should include new in ventions in the way of dress, and we hail the idea, longing for an improvement on the hat. Anti-h at societies are also said to be springing up in England, and we wish them success. Till a better covering for our head has been devised, we shall certainly continue to sport our " wide-awake," hoping that some ingenious artist may yet be able to invest it with the gracefulness of a Greek cap.—Eliza Cook's Journal. THE GREAT COAL FOR THE EXHIAITION OF 1851. —A few days ago this large block of coal was drawn out of one of the pits in the !lenge Colliery, Tividale, near-Tipton, belonging to Mr. Daniel George Round. Upon the first at tempt being made, such was the great weight of the coal that the niche ring upon which th e rope i s wound broke through in two places, it being cast-iron, six inehes broad and one inch thick. A new niche ring being put on, a second attempt was made, when, amidst great suspense, the coal was brought to light up the shaft, 200 yards deep, in the space of three minutes. The wagg ons b e i ng run over the pit the coal was lauded amidst the shouts and cheers of all assembled. The coal was then transmitted, by an inclined railway, about 300 yards, to the wharf, the colliers holdi ng it back by roues. It had to b e brought to the bottom of the pit some considerable distance, the ponderous mass at *.times breaking the cast iron rolls and sleepers forming the rail road, as it moved slowly along. The weight of the coal itself, exclusive of any chains, &c., is about five tons, ascertained by means of steelyards. When lifted to be weighed the 1 hook by which the coal was s uspended broke through, being of wrought iro n , 1 inch square. Th e sine is 6 feet high and 18 feet in circumference, necessarily of a circular shape to admit it up the pit shaft; the largest size that could possi bly be produced, and probably the greatest weight ever at tempted to be drawn out of a mine, and must have been at tended with great risk to the machinery and ropes. No other than the 30-feet or thick coal-seam of South Stafford shire could allow of such a large piece of coa l b e i ng pro duced. Its height, u p on the skip and waggon is nearly 9 feet. It is a fi ne coa l, remar k a b ly bright and clear. We iilywor in Londo n , where of remark, thy are glad to learn that no : acc id en t occurred to any of the men. There can be no doubt it w ill f orm a very interesting addi ttihoen to se the a coal is great Exhibition, principally used. especially ci that the servi ces o f t h e twee were gratuitous in getting the coal, and sending it from the mine to the wharf, thus showing the good feeling existing between Mr. Round and his work men.—Birminghaat Journal. FORCE or CONSCIENCE,—A letter bearing the Devonport post-mark, and ccntaining4s. 6d. postage stamps, was received yesterday by an artisan in the dockyard, stating that the writer picked the pocket of his son eleven years since, when employed as a weeding boy, of half-a-crown, hi s week's wage s , an d t h at it rested so heavily on his mind that he returned the above as an atonement.—Plymouth Journal. FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE.—A man named John Lam bert, who resided at 39, Holyrell- street, Westminster, took a dose of poison, and before the sane had time to operate he cut his throat from ear to ear, nearly severing the head from the neck, and died yesterday at the Westminster Hospital. MR. HUDSON'S SPECULATIONS.—It is confidently stated that within the last few weeks Mr. Hudson has cleared from 40,000/. to 50,0001., by speculations in the Lan cashire and Yorkshire Railway.—Advertiser. SOUTD DEVON RAILWAY.—It is stated that Ply mouth is likely to be the port of departure and arrival for Government packets, instead of Southampton ; and this be lief is connected with the rise which has recently taken place in the South Devon Railway shares. A MODERN HEncur.Eso—There lives on the banks of the Dee-side, immediately opposite Balmoral Castle, her Majesty's Highland home, a farmer, well known by the name of Street of Monaltrie, who is renowned in that mountainous district for his astonishing feats of strength and agility. Our informant tells us that he has witnessed him raising on his shoulders the heaviest horse (equal in size and weight to our own farm hoses) in that locality, and elevating him nearly two feet from the ground. It was under this same indivi dual's roof that her Majesty the Queen, on her last visit, par took so cheerfully of his hospitable fare, cakes and milk, and preo'd his bottle of " Royal Loch-na-Gar," after enj ,, ying his facetious remark, " that she would ha'e nae better than that at hame."—Scottish Guardian. There are in the world three kinds of things-11'e valuable, the non-valuable, and the invaluable; and it is a long lime before we decide in our minds which of them we have been endeavouring to obtain. —Eliza Cook's Journal. WHEAL CURTIS COPPER MINING COMPANY.--ThiS company is the first which will be wound up under the Joint Stock Companies' Winding-up Act. The per centage due in lieu of all fees, in respect of all proceedings under the Act, has been paid into the Bank of .England, to the credit Qt the Suiten' ree-filiad. Letters from Zora, of the Bth, announce that the revolt of lierz,g - ovine has been completely put down, in consequence of a decisive batt!e which had been fought near Fava. The SULTAN'S troops have made 600 prisoners ; about 1,300 men have fallen on both sides. Mostar still hokls out. ITALY. A letter from Rome, of the 3d, in the Risorgimento of Turin, announces that the Austrian troops were on the following day to resume all the positions they had formerly occupied at Perugia, and other places of Umbria and of the Marches. The persons accused of having burnt several confessionals in the latter days of the Roman revolution have been sentenced to fif teen years' bard labour. CICERUACCHIO, who has absconded, is one of the condemned. The affair of the burning of several cardinals' carriages is not yet concluded. The Osservatore Triestino, a semi-official paper of the Austrian Government, quotes a letter from Ancona of the 29th ult., containing some very severe remarks on the last Papal decrees, on the organization of the communes, which are considered as the completion of the promises made in the motu-proprio of the 12th of September, 1849. The following passage, under the circumstances, is worth quoting : "It may, therefore, be concluded that the rules constituting the principal bases of political, financial, and municipal administration are nearly the same (except in some non -essential parts) as those which governed the Papal States in the remotest times and which are insufficient to pacify th e inhabitants of that country, whose irritation daily increases on account of the heavy taxes to which they are subjected by the Government. Such is the deplora ble situation of the Government of the Holy See, which, believing itself secure for the present at Rome and in the Comarca on account of the presence of the French troops, and in the rest of the Romagna, the Marches, and part of Umbria, because of their occupation by the Austrian troops, forgets the past, neglects the present, and does not lonk to the future." Tne Statute of Florence states, from Leghorn, that on the 7th the apartments of the sculptor GuEnnAzzi, advocate FRANZI, and Signor BISCARDI were searched by the police, but without any further result. SICILY. The news of the outbreak of an insurrection in Sicily and of the victory of the Patriot troops over the mercenaries of the usurping King BOIVIBA, is con firmed, with this important addition, the Swiss troops have refused to act against the Sicilians. The Paris Evenement says that it has received accounts from Sicily which confirm the news of the disturbances said to have broken out in that island. At the de parture of the courier a band of 600 men was as sembled on the mountains of Suacca. Smaller bands were Been every day in the neighbourhood of Barleona and St. Gueseppo. In the first attack en the insur gents the Royal troops were driven back, but General Paordo had since left Palermo with some regiments of the line and artillery. The correspondence of the G vernment and some Government money had fallen into the hands of the insurgents. The Swiss troops had refused to act. 'I he latest intelligence is given by the Croce di Savoia of Turin, which publishes a letter from Palermo, of the 26th ult, stating that three carts full of wounded soldiers arrived at Palermo on that day, from the valley of Gigenti, where 600 insur gents are said to hold out against the Government troops, who, it would appear from this statement, have suffered a second defeat. Rail ways. Aberdeen.. .. • • • • Si Do. Preference •• •• 8 Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juncion Ayrshire and Galloway.. Belfast and County Down 3 ! Berks and Hants Eaten. (Great - Western Per petual 5 per cent) Birmingham and Oxford Junction, calls duly paid, or with a guar... 21 Do. without a guar... 2( Birming., Wolverhamp ton, and Dudley, calls ) duly paid, or with a, guarantee • • • • • • 11 Do. without a guar. •• 1( Birming., Woiverhamp., and Stour Valley •• 13 1 , Birkenhead, Lancas., and Cheshire Junction •• 21 Bristol and Exeter— •• 101 Buckinghamshire • - • • 1, Caledonian •• • • • • 5( Do. 101. Preference •• 11 Do. Clydesdale June... 5( Chester and Holyhead 5( Do. Preference .. • • 1, Clarence • • •• 78 Do. Ist Class, 6 per et. 11 Do. 2d de., 5 per cent. D Do. Gm Loan, 4 pr. ct. 11 Direct Lond. and Porten). ; Dublin and Belfast Junct. 4; Dundalk and Enniskillen 31 East Anglian (251. L. h E. and L. & D.) •• • • 21 Do. (181. E. & IL) .. Do. (31. 10s.) 6 per cent. Preference • • Do. (51.) 7 pr. ct. Pref. ; Do. (71.175.) 7 p. c.Pref. Eastern Counties .. • • 21 Do. Exten., 5 percent. No. 1 • • 6 1, Do, No. 2 •• • • • • 61; Do.lrew Preference, 6 per cent.., • • 1( Do. North. and East. 6 per cent. •• • • 51 Do. do. 5 per cent .. Do. do., New • • • 4, Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shares • • 2, Do. do. do. .. Do. do., I& C shares 2, Do. do., scrip, guaran. 6 per cent. • • • • 2, East Lancashire • • • • 2, Do. New quarters • • , Do. 6 per cent. pref. quarter shares.. .• East Lincolnshire, gua. 6 per cant • • • • 2 Edinburgh and Glasgow 5 Edin., Perth, and Dundee 2, Do. Newport .. • • 1; Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch. Exeter and Exmouth .. Glasgow and South- West, 5( Do. pref. consolidated• _ Do. do. G. D. &C. stock 8 I Gloucester & Dean Forest 1( Great Northern • • 21 Do. halves, A, deferred l' Do. halves, B, 6 per ct. 1! 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, 17/. .. • Hull and Selby .. Do. half shares .. Do. quarter shares .. Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds .. •• 11 1 Lancaster and Preston .. 4 Lancaihire and Yorkshire 101 Do. quarter shares .. 2; Do. fifths .. • • - 1 Do. F. 20/. .. • • i Do. new, guaranteed 6 r.er cent. .. • • •• I 10( Do. fludders. & Shelf. 5c Do. West Riding Union' 11 Leeds and Bradford .. 59 Lceds and Thirsk • • • 50 Do. pref. 6 pct., No. 1 9 Do. pref. 6 p et., No. 2 17 Do. pref. 6 p et., No, 3 5 Do. pref. qrs., 1848 .. 10 Livei pool, Crosby, and Southport . • London and Blackwall • • 11 London, Brighton, and South Coast .. • • 1, Do. guarteed. 5 per ct., late Croydon thirds.. Do. preference, 5 p ct. SI Do. preference, cony. 5 per cent., 1852 .. 5 1 Do. new guaranteed, 6 per cent. .. .• • • 101 London and Greenwich . 12 1, Do. preference .. • • 21 London and N.-Western 101 Do. do. new quarters . Do. fifths • • 1! Do. 101. sh., M,SDB (c) London and S.-Western . 101 Do. new 50/. .. . • 4' Do. new 40/. .. • • 3 Do. new preference • • I Londonderry & Coleraine 2; Do. half shares .. •• Lowestoft, guar. 4 per ct. Do. do. 6 per cent. Londonderry and Emlls killen. .. • • • • 21 Do. half shares • • .• Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock .. • • 1 Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire .• • . 101 Do. quarters, No. 1 21 Do. new, 10/. preference 11 Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union 4 Midland . • • • • • IC , Do, consolidated pref. 101 Do. 501. shares .• • • 3( Do. Binning & Derby 101 Do. Cousol. Bristol & Birming., 6 per cent. 101 Do. Bristol & Glouces. 41 Do. do. do. ••29 D Do. Erewash Val. pref. 51 Do. Leic. & Swanning. 8 per cent. guar. .. 104 Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) 4' Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. .. 5( Newcastle and Carlisle.. 104 Do. quarter shares . 21 Newmarket • • .. ••. 2l Do. extension scrip •• 2 1! Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford • • • • 1 Newry & Enniskillen ' Newry, Warrenpoint, Rostrevor .• .. •• ' 2( Norfolk .. .. • . . • 101 Do. New 201. shares.. D Do. Extension .. • • 2 Do. guar. 534 per cent. Do. Waveney Valley.. Northern Counties Union North British.. .• • • 2 Do. Preference • North Staffordshire 1 North-Western .. • • 1 Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton,. .. 5 Preston and Wyre .• 2 Do. Halves (A) .. • • 1 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate.. .• Royston and Ilitchin Shepreth Eaten... Scottish Central .. 2 Scottish Midland 2 Do. new .. .• .. 2 Shrewsbury& Birming. Clas3A.. .. 13 Do. Class 8.. • • 9 I De. New Guarantee.. Shrewsbury & Hereford hrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) • • .. Do. Hal. es .. Do. Os•.yestry Do. New.. .. 1)o. 8 per cent. Pref. . Shropshire Union .. South Devon .. Do. Preference • • .. South Staffordshire .. South-Eastern Do. do. 4 per cent... South Wales South Yorksh. and. River Dun Shelf., Roth., and Goole, N. Div., guar. 5 p cent. Do. do. South Div. .. Swansea & Loughor, &c. raw Vale Extension .. Thames Haven Dcck and Railway .. Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick Waterford, Wex., Wick., and Dublin Wear Valley, 6 per cent. guaranteed .. Do. do. Do. do. West Cornwall Whitehaven and Furness Windsor, Staines, and S. Western Wilts, Somerset, & Vrey m6zith York, Newcastle, & Ber wick Ditto and Newcastle Extension .. Ditto G.N.E. purchase do. . do. . or preference • . .: Do. .• .. •. 1 Do. llartlepool Dock •• ••I -1 lO and Railway 101 York and North Midland 51 Do. Preference .. .. 11 Anglo-Italian (late Ita• Ilan and Austrian) • • Boulogne and Amiens Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) •• Demerara .. Dutch Rhenish •• East Indian .. Do. do. do. Great Indian Peninsula.. Ditto ditto Louvain ala Sambre . Luxembourg ••. Ditto • • • • • • Madrid and Valenti* .. Namur and Liege .. Northern of France Orleans and Bordeaux .. Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg .. Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse .. Strasbourg and Basle .. Tours and Nantes .. Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Ilasselt West Flanders .. OIN! FOREIGN. lAustralasia British North America.. Colonial .... • • ...... Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock .... London and Westminster National Provincial Eng. National of Ireland .... Provincial of Ireland.... Do. New .. - ........ Union of Australia Do. New Union of London 111110 U of Madrid Nominal p r i ces I Busin , to-d iiu to 1136 um M ii —)4 dia. %) 4 7% IN .5% —5% dia. 3 % 6 1 Si -1 p. 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L73i I • • -- • • 15 13 20r .. -.. •• 3 - •• •••• .. •• •• )0 121 —ill l 5 15 —l4 dle. 20 15%--16% 5 4% 4}6 •a ISN —9li I 9 % 5 47 —ssfi b 436 754 8% —7% dia. 9% I I 18% 15 42 -43 10% 734 - 8 p. 19IA 18 18 18%- 19 6% 7% -7% 15 13% - 12%N P . 13%5; % % I 5 3 N —5% EL 12 3 , 34 . .. , 5 die. 1% ii 9% 10 20 11 —l3 10 5% —6% 20 83% --9% 1 1 5C 1 Ms. 10 13% 144 6% 34 3 di.. 50 13 —l5 15 11 —lB 11 15% % 11 9% —2% 84 30 10 234 23% 22% 23 $0 23% —24 28% ,5 34 dia. • ••• • • lV 9 34 9 -- dia. 17% [3 3 —3% 4 10 1634 18 SO 41 - 4036 15 19 -21 173 .. - 241% 1% it - 'B'36 i 0 14334 - 44% 144 15 1 18% ism 1 3 is . 114 —5% db.' 13% 917 15 3% 15 N clisl 5% 5 334 4 23% 23% 24 1% —lsi die. $54 A 13 1 2 -2% 10 9 -IN If% 8 16% 7- 16% 4% —4% die. A I% ran. 11% 12 34 34 Pm. % % pm. 1 34 1 :: 7g . _ 8 I 1 -IM 0 2 -23. BN, —8% 15% 15% 3 4% 35% 4 dls. 204 — sad 5 % —5% dim, 10% 10% 3% -3% 26% 4 10 9% % It li 3% % .9% . 9% dls.l x iN 7 ik ITOCK BANKS. (0 28 - 304 50 424 - 43 15 9% - 10 10 25 - 254 0 18% - 18% ! , 0 27% - 2754 22 17% 18 25 42 43% 10 15% 15% 25 34% —.35% 23 •• —.. 10 12% la 10 .• .... . 4 12% R la, 185 0. Af TN'YS, Le, done Anglo.Nexican(is. Asturian .......• . 1634% dia. Australian Barossa Range Blaenarvon Iron and Coal Bolanos Scrip itriti,:h ron Brazilian Imnp (is. 51. p.) Do. Coeaes and Culaba Do. St. John del lley.. Cobre Copper ...... Copiapo •••• •• • General.. Real Del Monte, Unreg. 3 - 3 1 4 I 3A 3 34 -3% 3% a 14% 16% 32% 33% 5% IS% 13% Do. Black Debentures Do. Red Debentures .. Santiago de Cuba ...... 10 Tin Croft .. • . • • • .. • • 7 United Mexican .... •• 28 2 8 MISCELL 3234 Canada Gen. Steam Navigation . Penin. & Oriental Steam. Royal Mail Steam .. •• [We cannot be answers ,ble for ti will not be influenced by hateresto QUARTER TO THREL Consols ... Ditto Account ••• 961 i ox d. ONE CLOSING 'KXCES OF BRITISEI ruND3 O'CLOCK. PRICES. L auk Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced .E. n -,s. 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities — 97 :Y ; 1 .ST o , 4 , 3 1 4 ( per Cent. Anus .. ... ........ 99 9874 98N stig Anns. to expire Jan.lBBo 7 13-16 7 13-16 India Stock 271 2^' It dia Bonds, 1,000/.......... ..... . Ditto under 1,000/........ ....... C , mauls for Account 96 :% % % E Li3hequer Bills. I%u. & 2d 1,000/. Juno ........ C 4 67 64 p 500/. June .................... ... 64 67 64 p Small. June ........ .. .............. 64 67 64_ p PRICES OF FOREIGN F ONE UNDS. O'CLOCK. tazilian donds ................. Bonds 6 per Cent M )xican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan, Coupons 36 Ditto, Account ..... Peruvian Bonds, 4% per Cent-- - Ditto Deferred .......... Portuguese b per Cents. Oitto,4 per Cent. Rassian Bonds ................. 36% Ditto, 4 1 .,4 pQr Cent - 97% Spanish ' per Co, t. 1840 Ditto Account ........ 18% Venezuela 13onds, 2 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 per Cent., 12 Guild. 58 A Ditto, 4 per C ent. Certificates — COURSE OF =stud= .... 11 144 Ditto, three months.. 11 15% Rotterdam .... ••.. • . 11 1554 Antwerp •• • • .......... 25 20 Brussels ••• • • . ....., 25 20 224 , s Hataburgb •. • M.B. 13 5 &Ilona ...... .• ••• • . Paris. 3 days'ai g ht 24 92% Ditto. 3 months 25 17% Marseilles ••••• • • • ...• 25 20 ire nkforton Berlin. _ Vie Ina, effee. fSp.. •.• 12 50 Trieste, ditto 12 50 Pet( re burgh, 811. Rble.. Madrid Cadiz, EXCLIANGE. Gibra1tar.............. Leghorn .............. , Genoa Venice.... Naples .. ............ Palermo, per0z........ Messina • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 0p0rt0.... Rio Janeiro Eluettos Ayres .. New York, 60 days'sight Philadelphia • nicks OP BULLION, PER oz. Foreign Gold in bars.. XII 17 9 Portsgal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanith Doubloons .• 0 0 0 New Dollars •• 0 4 11% Silver bars ....... 0 5 1% •• •• •• •• •• •• 50 BO•rea:Oha • •• •• • Sevillte•• •• •• •••• ••• -- --- , OYD'S SHIPPING.—_( THIS DA Y.) LONDON, DEC. IB.—Wind at noon S.W., and hazy. LrvxarooL, DEC. 17.—Wind W. to N.W.—Arid. Euphrates. Madras ; Mariane, Campbell, Bombay ; Charles Chaloner, New Orleans ; Sarawak, Philadel phia. ; Rosetta, Richebucto ; Clara, Wheeler Now Or leans ; Elizab e th Bruce, Mobile ; Lord Ashley, Pug wash ; Vi ctory , Nodlaud. Sld. Grecian steamer, Con staratinople. A barque was seen on shore on the Tor togas, 23d iNovember, a wreck, and others alongside. The schooner Cremona, of this port, dismasted in a squall, December 13, and in tow of another schooner, was passed 11th, off the Saltees. Off port, Mary Stew art, Lord George Bentinck, and Cromwell. LOWESTOFT, DEO. 17.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. 8r0„.„,,, „.„,,, there, Simp son, St. Andrew's. The whole of last night '"" it blew a violent gale from W.S. W. Many vessels have parted their anchors. The Jane, of Sunderland, is on the Newcome, stud remains. DEAL, DEC. 17.—Wind W.S.W., variable, fresh, and $B% squally.—A rr d. L ouise, Hanseman, Calcutta ; Eliza Sharp, Darling, Singapore. Louisa Christina, Peters, Surinam, for Amsterdam, leaky, and with loss of sails, and other damage ; Matela Luckie, Berbice ; Clydes dale, Thompson, Cuba ; Helen, Quebec. Come down, I. T. Foord, for Port Philip ; Ayrshire, for Aden. A ship, with loss of topmast, and apparently also bowsprit, steering W., was passed off the Western Islands, by the Golden Spring, arrived in the Downs. QUEENSTOWN, DEC 16.—Wind W. to N. W„ squally. —Arrd. Katharine, Newcastle, for Valparaiso. Put 54 back, Isabella, Thompson, for Valparaiso, with loss of , 15 bulwarks, &e. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 17.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Gil ;6 Blas, Havre, for Buenos Ayres; Mary Wilson, Liver ,„ „ pool, for St. Th omas , w i th damage to rigging. George gi - i i . Hudson, Sunderland, for Naples, put back from 7 W., leaky; Isis, Yarmouth, for Trieste, with loss of foremast, d sails, &e. NEW YORK, DEC. 4.—The James Parnell, from Li verpool, has arrived at New Orleans, with loss of mizon mast, sails, boats, foremast sprung, &c., boats store, and other damage, having bee. in a squall, Nov. 15_, lat. 26, long. 89. Th e A ustr i an b arque Gragiata, from New Orleans to Trieste, was lost on Florida Reef, Nov. 10 ; cargo saved by wreckers and taken to Key West. It blew a very heavy gale at Pietou, N. S., prior to Nov. 23, and only two vessels out of sixte en that were against the harbour on the 21st had made the port; the coast was strewed miles of the lighthouse. wrecks, eight or t en within as many FALMOUTH, DEC. 17.—Wind W.S.W., fresh gales, with violent squalls.—Arrd. Rokeby, 'Trotter, Mauri tius, with loss of master and chief mate, longboat, galley, bulwarks, &c., baying been truck by a heavy sea Dec. 9 —7% 10%( 11 6 —e ANEOUS. 42% 44 26% 27 89% 893 693 66p, 70 74 he errors of the Official Lists, an d correspondents.] MONEY and Cu ittivitaiClAL NE WS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool esterday were 12,000 to 14,000 bales, of which 2,000 American, 100 Egyptian, and 500 Surat were taken on speculation, and comprised 9,000 American, 1,500 Bahia, at Sid. to 84d.; 1,500 Egyptian, at 74d. to Bd.; and 1,200 Surat, at sd. to kid. par lb. Prices of all kinds were I,d. higher, and the market closed firm.—ln Railway Shares there was a slight variation, and prices were declining, Some of the Continental mails are behind time this morning, and there is nothing from Belgium or Hol land. The Paris accounts are merely such as are con tained in a telegraphic dispatch. The letters by the American steamer have been de livered this morning, and they furnish a few additional items from Canada. The Montreal Herald states :—" We learn that Mr. Jesse Joseph has insured the cargo of the Cyrus, from Montreal to London, at 3i per cent., for part of the cargo, and at 2 per cent. for the remainder—the latter /isk against total loss only—the ship to sail on or before the 25th. This insurance has been effected with the same 'underwriters as the Pearl, and it is, we are informed, a great reduction on the usual rates. We believe that the _present coat in England would probably be 10 per cent." This suggests the probability of very keen 'competition with the underwriters at Lloyds', sup posing the version to be correct. We are further advised from Montreal that—"As the weather con tinues open, merchants are busy getting off goods before 'the close of the canals, which may now shortly be ex pected. The stocks in market must be getting consider ably diminished, if we may judge from the quantities of goods sent to the canal for transport since the opening of at on the 14,13 inst., after the repairs. The quantity of Bar and Heavy Iron especially sent to Upper Canada this tall is very considerable." The business of Lake Champlain, chiefly the lumber trade, has increased six hundred per cent. within four years. For 1846, the number of vessels entering from the Chambly Canal, was 426. The present year, up to November, was 2,581 ; and the total lumber exports, Suring the same period, amount to the large quantity of 51,706,941 feet. Arrangements arc in pregiess for en larging the Chambly Canal very materially. The editor of the St. John's News, in recording the reminiscences of an excursion, says that he recently visited the establishment of Messrs. S. T. and (G. IZ. Wilkt, at Chambly, the principal portion of whose cloths is sold in the Montreal market by Messrs. Seymour, and Whitney. The factory cc nsumes Linut 2,0001b5. of wool weekly, yielding about I_Boo yards of cloth of various texture and finish, afford g constant employment to 25 operatives; the chief supply of wool is derived from the eastern townships, an d in quality is pronounced to be equal to any obtained in Vermont. Messrs. Schroeder and Mummy's Circular, dated New Orleans, Nov. 23, states that for Rio Coffee there to a fair demand at the ruling rates of the market at 10} to 104 c. The importations since our last consist of the o(lawingcargoes, viz , per Creole, 3,557 sacks; Chu f;onia Wright, 3,100 sacks; Kremlin, 5,770 sacks; and iz ipsy, 4,000. The last nan:cd cargo, per Kremlin, Ihrts just how been sold for the West at 10 c. per lb. Fit cck, 15,000 sacks. Imports, since Ist September, 1850, 2;8.,217 sacks, against 8,870 sacks, last year. The English Funds are much the same as they ruled yr( sterelsy, and there is no large amount of business do ing. Consols for Account have been 964 to 964. The New Three-and-a-Quarter p: , r Cents. have 13.. , en 9'B s to 99, and the Three per Cents. 97/ to 4. Bank Stock has been steady at 213 f, and India Stock at 271. Exchequer- bills have been a shade lower, viz., 6r4.5. to 675., and India Bonds have realised 84s. Consuls. 'sow are 96i 4. In the Foreign market the transactions have been isaore limited. Spanish Five per Cents. have been fit toted 184, and Portuguese Four per Cents. have been done at 35. Mexican are not quite so good, oe ing 35e to 36/ for Account. Russian Four-and-a -l:141f per Cents, have realised 97f, and Dutch Two-and .s-.Half per Cents. have been 584 to 4. The further advanced prices of y: sterday in the Rail -Iva y Share Market have induced sales, but there has been an extensive business done. Among the lines wtdch have reacted are Great Northern, Lancashire and Yorkshire, East Lancashire, North Stafford, North IV astern, South Western and Caledonian, South Eastern, and Oxford and Wolverhampton. Bristol and Exeter, Aberdeen, Blackwell, and York and North Midland, aro fairly supported. Foreign Shares continue in favour, but Boulogne and Amiens are scarcely so good. Paris and Rouen, Sambre and Meuse, and Rouen and Havre, have been higher. Nominal Prices. I Busine ' to -c % % % li m [57% 583 5! 4% BS% (1Z 126% 21 7734 7' 126 26 dis, 48 473, ; 48% ITN 14 22 ii K 5i ~~( 3f N~ 1 13 0 13 5 214 30 117 N ---- 00. 11, ''. LO Y. 12 W. Oa' co:1, 14, Dc.oi:pott, is done ke: ze, America. for Hall e. • le, ay. PRISTOL, DEC. 17.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. so p h Even tt, GLOUCE New Brunswick. heti, STER, DEC. 16.—Arrd. Ireland and ENO-- both from Quaec. FF THE WIGHT, DEC. 14.—Gratitude or Gertrade' Bat:4via, for Botterdm. i 1 fo r d A o n n 3 , to l o u s T s n o f R b o o A w ns. —. A &c.,ri d. Eden, c o ot , t o w E i o-I t n h ' a French sehoon s e ) r rit, • having e ell ta PETERHEAD, DEC. 13.—Arrd. Elizabeth, Da" - ' O O B Nt wcastle, with dimage, having been in contact, . sk ucheness, with a schooner with a white and figure-head. , r AbO ° YARMOUTH, DEC. 16.—The wreck of a vessel o. - ace 200 tons, apparently a brig, with one mast abotitio feet above water, was passed, Dec, 12, the Sand .„_ lot aria g S.S.E. six miles, by the Manchester, arriod 130°: LOWESTOFT, DEC. 16.—The Wave, from the Teo I paint Oro' London, grounded on the Holm this morning, bil l iff ° off' without assistance, and anchored in the Wads. KIRKCUDBRIGHT, DEC. 16.—Arrc/. Ann, gl ebec. etr CLYDE, DEC 15. Arrd. Thomas tied B e ery, hac k kins, Quebec. 16. Renfie h• bee. F l 4 '."- , liamill3, Mitchell, for Hong- w K s on ir g e . ' Qtie r 'VI KAMSGATE, DEC. 17.—Arrd. Charles, Ostend f° verpool, with pumps choked. 'feudal' s°. OFF THE NORTH FORELAND . —Canton PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 17.—Wi n d W.N.W. t° W. ac lo SOUTHAMPTON, D EC . 17.—Wi n d N.W.- - S ld 'ln - diefl; steamer, Chin a ; M e d way steamer , West A" Montrose steamer, Gibraltar. gate, f °ul3 ,,, g ' TORBAY, DEC. 17.—Wind C W 3 Cuba, with loss of sails, bulwarks, '. — &c.; l iiv " A other Arr • , _ A migo Newcastle for Alexandria, with loss of sails °II " - damage.. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS k It• v s Al r CORN EXCHANGE—WEDN—f.dO The supply of English Wheat on sale in n - free IV market was very limited, and of middling qur im ,,`'' . the attendance of bath town and country 1n i f,7, 0 pro" small, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of ',Tao I° , duce ruled very inactive, but we have no nu a p c l notice in prices. Fine foreign Wheats wer e , in gioe° previous rates. In th e m iddli ng an d i n f er ior deon'iloief very few transactions took place. Fine 1 3 1 ° 04 was quite as dear. Li g ht samples command ed no t Ist' any attention. M a lt, th e supp l y o f w hi c h was ba d changed hands slowly at last week's currenoi• Oat" 11/ a steady, though not to say brisk, inquiry I nf e weavie r° very full prices. Be ans , Peas, and all other sr"" dull in sale. ARRIVALS THI 84 p 9G 64 p 64 p .. . 64 P 87 1 ,4 02_% 36 1./a 34 57 1 /' 4 18 7 / A 31% 58 3 4 89 30 96 25 80 53% 53% S WEE: MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. THIS DAY. Mr. Witham, in the ( absence of ) 6' th Assistant - t f il t "' Age, sat this mo rn i ng . of Mary Ll o yd was i ndicted for stealing 42 yar d / flannel, the property of Charles Longman. pri. the It appear e d t h at, on the 2d of this month, 'the soner, in company with another woman, went in to t he passage of the shop, when she put her cloak ove r t he flannel and walked off. She was followed, and drop s flannel. The other woman was not apprehended. t hat Mr. HORRy, w h o appeared for the prisoner sa l " l • some bullocks were pasing at the time, and ,1 the r i bs goner, in compa n y w i t h several others, took refug e ,l a n she door, when the flannel was k noc k e d d own, and ?on. was stooping t o pi c k i t up she was accused of stei l 7l e it o° a' - Witnesses were call e d, w h o gave her an wa ll meter. Mr. W1T73131 having summed up, 110 The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and 13'-c Co' sentenced to six ca l en d ar months ill th e House 0 ' motion, with hard labour. 1 INDIA HOUSE. —(THIS DAY' ) he A quarterly gener a l C ourt of the proprietors elfoslo East India Compa n y was h e l d this morning at the f cli. House, Captain Sh eppar d , chairman of the court ° rectors, in the chair. The minutes of th e prev i ous meeting were rea d 00 .- confirmed. RA/A OW simutA. iiio n The CHAIRMAN said he understood that Mr. Se" t o wished to put a question to the court of directors o , e ,•„ a a subject of the R a j a o f S attara. Perhaps Air, Sau l ' would be good enough to ask it now. Or' Mr. SuenivAx said he was obliged to the ge e tdo g able Chairman for giving him this opportunity of pu,-;i ly the question. It would be remembered that in "L e d , last (as we understood) the Government of India 1 4 — . 0c 1 to make a certain allowance to the Raja of Sattars, „7,,d what he wished to know was, whether any been received to the communication which was sen t , n O O to India on the subject, lie understood that as ye'7 4 a single shilling had been allowed to him, and be n ° remained in a state of beggary and starvation. • cill The CHAIRMAN said with reference to the questl„ that had been asked by the Honourable Proprietor , m a had to inform him that certain papers had been received from India, but so very lately, that the directors bad n ro answer ePtit had time to consider them, so as to bring them be' the present Court. VACANCIES IN THE INDIAN ARMY. Mr. M. LEwnr moved that it was expedient on vi v i cancies occ urr i ng i n the army of India, in the officie ° Commander-i n -Chi ef, that such vacancies be given in a just prop ort i on to the military servants of the E ast 0 India Comp any, unless it could be shown that the% were not men in India really fit for the service. could see n o reason whatever that any high apfleie t. ments in India s h ou ld b e g i ven to the Queen ' s troo ps ' and no such high appointments should be conferred on the troops of the Company, Mr. SULLIVAN seconded the motion, on which a de: sultory and somewhat personal discussion took :Piee" which resulted in the motion being withdrawn. The Court then adjourned. SP ORTING INTECLIGENCE. EPSOM SPRING MEETING, 1851. The Metropolitan Stakes. Additional entry—Champion 5 yrs. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TuEsnAIr• Only one bet laid -600 to 50 sgst Newmirster for Derby. ---tg• ..../',.; Wheat. Barley. Malt.. ° 3 _ _ _ ........_...-- 5 Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. 01' 16 - 0 English ....•• 1,150 1,760 1,680 3,030 '. ..• Scotch— .. _ _ Irish 7,39 0 3,2 10 —— 00 Foreign .... •• 3,V,0 1,310 6 ..„. BOROUGH HOP MAXROI% state' 011 1 w Our market continu es i n a very i nac t i ve 10 ._ 11 ,1_ some instances the quot a ti ons are a l mos t nomi nal " DI WITHITECHAPEZ. tie' • The general demand continues very ina c , A notlc e ,' prices, however, we have no material change "" ss S i e . BeFf, from 2s to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 4c l , t i , c) .. by the Veal, 2s 8d to 3s Gd; Pork, 2s 6d to 4s per 8, "" carcase. _ . DAYL QUEEN'S BENCH. 'THIS i. — k OOP he Lord Campbell and a Special Jury were ~ the the morning, at Guildhall, i n OPT re' cause of Laming v. Adams, which was an action anir cover the price of 300 cas k s o f b utter, and vit'°'' teresting to any but the parties concerned. INSOLVENCY. —(THIS DAY'S HAYNAU'S RETREAT.—I N THE MATTER °V WI BENFIELD, Pli° This insolvent, th e l eseper o f the George Pu'isic.oo at Bankside, wh ere M ars h a l H a y nau re treate d anttr' attack by the draymen, whose case was before on a former occasion, aAain appeared on his aPP under the Prot ec ti on A ct. Th ere was n o O P, c P ° ore" It will be rec o ll ec t e d t h at t h e insolvency hea"-anori..' in consequen ce o f th e crow d s attracte d to the ;moat', and the absenc e o f t h e regu l ar customers i n 00°9into'. of such attendance. It was un d erstoo d t hat tiw i fie vent received nothing for sheltering the 18161 1 3 : b i tia tb s 94 stated on the present occasion that he was still public-house, selling beer and spirits, until the ' 6- w as could let the premises. CHIEF COMMISSIONER—I thought so; and P ri georie are the landlords? The insolvent replied-- Manvers, the brewers of Whitechapel. h i It was stated th a t on th e f ormer hearing • - S e ar ler, who held a bill of sale on the property at th e was examined, the ea se The CHIEF Comm issrowEa as k ed whether e. had been opposed, and was answered iu the liege ° , His Ilatsoun granted the i nso l vent hi s final ord er CRIMINAL COURT—(THIS /-111".) OLD COURT. p A (Before Mr. Justice WI GHTMAN and Mr. Bare , „ - - • tb- The second editi on o f t h e C a l endar, publishe."ag, ft; 31 morning, contains th e names o f 162 prisoners, bel more than appeared in the first edition. W et ; POST -OFFICE BOBBERIES.—Andrew Ednejh re a r* , ably-dressed m an , age d 33, and described 694 ;, r ,g Pf ° was indicted f o r st ea li ng a post letter conteary watches, the property of the Postmaster-Goner:I:000r Mr. Clark son an d M r. Bodkin appeared for cution, and Mr. Ballantine defended the prisevern. Oral The prisoner had been a messenger in the ''', lo -13 0 to Post-office, and it was occasionall art of las t assist in stamping letters. On the r eh of April Gear, a watchmaker in N ewgate - street,Plec e , d s r - r iit ; silver watches in a box, and, covering the i'`i er v ieliel paper, he directed it to Mr. S. Waltenburg, J, 9 ap etto Lytham, Lancashire, and then posted it at th le e tt ;;;! ci l o t: Post-office in St. Martin's-le-Grand. This its enclosure, never reached its destination, and stig s Pi Xoe t having fell upon the prisoner, Beak, the detective s. engaged i n th e P ost-office, went to his lodgings' tclis 16, VVindsor-terrace, City-road, where he found 6 - which afterwards turned out to be one of those ivb s ic e s li nfil' Gear enclosed in his letter of the 6th 01 `;:i6ce The prisoner was directed to attend at the po st s — ao o , the next day, which he did; and when he was aske" n d of he came by the watch, he replied that towards the f - ped' last April he was in Southampton, where he met a 110' lar named Levis, who was well known in th e V ° gif' From this man, he added, be purchased the wei e "' ;rah ing an old one and 2/. for it, but although careful s e ; 0 was made in Southampton for him, no such per g %or that described by the prisoner could Co found. n quently transpired that the other missing watch • • et the possession of M r . Willi am Mitchell, the landle',b i t the Eagle Tavern, Wandsworth, and it turned out: of the prisoner presented the second watch to the Mr. Mitchell; and that circumstance, coupled with ebe fact that the pri soner was on d ut y a t th e time whet . ; ts letter was post e d on t h e 6t h o f A pr il, i n d uce d the r-, 0 office authorities to g i ve hi m i n cu stody on the prase charge. Mr. BALLANTINE having addressed the jury fo r defence, and called several witnesses to character, Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN summed up, and The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. ate d The Counr sent en c e d th e p r i soner to b e transP-- for ten years. CLOSING PRICES. I I Paid,