The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-15 00:00:00

THE SON, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JA constrained to appeal unto CA3AII." That appeal, we doubt not, will very speedily prove not to have been made in vain—and the removal of a great wrong will then amply repay the self-sacrificing toils of genitp, while it yields a tardy, yet still sweet and welcome consolation to a disgraced, an injured, but through all a true and right honourable soldier. We await with confidence those royal words of justice which will thrill through the heart of the whole nation, coming from the regal walls of Wind , sor, of Osborne, or of Buckingham. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received a communication. signed " A Constant Reader,"- on the subject of the prices cf Rail' ay Shares. Our corre3prnadent has nct complied with the ordinary rule t f lending his tame and address, which are required—not fir publication, but as a guarantee that he retlly is what he repre7ents himself to te. Should he choose to do so, his letter shall appear in our columns. dIGH WATER AT LONDON BULDGE. Tint DAT orning, 9 min. after 3 I Evening, 27 min. after 3 To-Nreasow —Morning, 41 min. after 3 I Evening, 58 min. atter 3 THE WEATHER.—Stm 0/FICE, JAN. 15. rEIERM _NETER, Lowest, 22 ; Highest, 27; Noon, 23. BAROMETER, 29.45. WIND N.N.E.—Morning, a slight fall of snow; Afternoon, dull hazy weather. What " Jew RoTnsculLD" (as B YRON called him) has refused to do, " his brother Christian BARING," led on by the auri sacra fames, has not thought it unbecoming his Christian status, or his character as an Englishman, to perpetrate ; the house of BARING Brothers (of which house, be it not forgotten, Sir FRANCIS THORNHILL BARING, the First Lord of the Admi ralty, is a partner), the house of BARING Brothers, the English house of BARING Brothers, the Christian house of BARING Brothers, has dared " to offer an outrage to the moral sense of the civilized world " by contracting for a Russian loan in the city of London. This loan for five millions is, it is pretended, for the completion of the rail road between S. Petersburgh and Moscow ; so state Messrs. BARING Brothers, on the faith of the assertion of the Emperor NICHOLAS. How ex ceedingly innocent, and simple-minded, and credulous Messrs. BARING Brothers are when it suits their convenience ; they are the very Corydons of Capel-court, the simple shepherds of the Stock-Exchange ; five millions, only five millions are wanted to complete a railroad already nearly completed and which goes through a country presenting no great engineering difficulties, and where there is neither land to be purchased nor compensa tion to be.paid; and Messrs. BARING Brothers believe this because it pleases the Emperor NICHOLAS to assert it. Verily we may be thankful that Sir FRANCIS BARING, who believes in Nicnoess, is not Foreign Secretary, or perchance the Cossacks would have been by this time at Constan tinople. And here we would remark upon the ex cessive inconvenince which must arise from appointing money jobbers and their connexions to high offices of state. Suppose a war were to break out between England and Russia, the interests of BARING Brothers would be opposed to those of Queen VICTORIA. It would be the interest of Queen Vic- TORIA to damage in every possible way the credit of Russia; it would be the interest of BARING Brothers to uphold it—to which of the two would. Sir FRANCIS Trioasintes. BARING pay his allegiance ? Would the First Lord of the Admiralty do his utmost to damage Russia ? Could he forget that he was a member of the firm of BARING Brothers ? This money is not wanted to complete the railroad, it is wanted for purposes of war—ef war to be carried on against the interests of England, perhaps against England herself; it is wanted to defray the expense of the Hungarian and Polish campaigns ; for admitting for the sake of argument that the money thus raised will be expended on railroads (a supposition so monstrous as to amount to a self-evident absurdity), still but for that Hungarian campaign the Emperor of RUSSIA would have bad funds sufficient to have completed his railroad without a loan—the money is wanted, as Mr. COBDEN justly observes in his admirable letter to the Secretary of the Peace Society, " to pay the savage instruments of the devastation el' Hungary," to pay the murderers of BATTIIYANY and of AULicH, it is blood-money that Messrs. BARING Bro thers have undertaken to lend—it is blood-money that they ask the capitalists of England to supply. To every man to whom they have addressed a circular, ask ing his subscription to this loan, Messrs. BARING Bro thers have offered a deliberate insult. We trust that no Englishman (BARING Brothers are, thank GOD, more American than English), we trust that no English man will be found sufficiently base to take part in this " unholyand infamous transaction ;" should there be any such, let bim be regarded as excommunicate and a castaway ; the blood of BATTEIYANT, the blood of AuLicu, the blood of the murdered of Arad and of Pesth, will be on his head ; his will be the guW, the shame, the disgrace of the woman-flogger. Never again be his red right hand grasped in friend ship ; let all mankind avoid him ; the subscription to the Russian loan will be as the mark of Cans branded on his brow. Bat we will not believe that England holds any man who will join the BARINGS in this infamous transaction. W e devoutly hope, for the honour of our country, that not one single application will be made to them from any English house, but that they will be permitted to monopolize the unhallowed gains, what ever they may be, as they will in that case the itifemy and guilt of this most unholy compact. We are rejoiced to find that Mr. COBDEN has taken up this question, and is bestirring himself to convene a meeting in the City as an indignant protest in repro bation of this " unholy and infamous transaction." There are many points on which we con sider Mr. COBDEN wrong, and we have never hesi tated to state as much whenever the occasion seemed to require it, but in this he is right, and every honest man will go with him cordially. Let the meeting be held without delay, and let it be followed up by meetings in every town in England. 42, -;=.-i•-•z , Aikk 2),,,„ • lllk. etrtidirta nit LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1850. A melancholy narrative is preserved among the archives of the National Library in Bloomsbury—a narrative scattered through many forgotten manu scripts, and through various printed pamphlets, ob scure, yellow, and worm-eaten. We have perused that narrative ourselves, and, unless the task be anti cipated, we know the hand which will ultimately invest those sorrowful revelations with their merited publicity. They constitute a record of the career of one of the most brilliant and ingenious of all the illustrious contributors to the Spectator. They afford materials for the biography of one of the most charming essayists in English literature, recounting the vicissitudes of that unfortunate man, who, before committing suicide near the starlings of old London bridge, pencilled those words, which have since been celebrated in the history of misfortune—" What CATO did, and ADDISON approved, cannot be wrong." Our own days have witnessed a persecution as deplo rable as that which led to the premature and aw ful dissolution of EUSTACE BUDGELL. Happily, however, both for the authors and the victim of this persecution, the endurance of the latter has surpassed ' that of his gifted predecessor in suffering, having nobly defied the influence of despair while submitting to the anguish of so many undeserved calamities. It required the hand of genius to pen an appropriate narrative of the miseries which have recently be fallen Captain GEORGE DOUGLAS, late of her Ma jesty's 16th Regiment, and happily that necessity has been fulfilled by the earnest and vigorous intellect which conceived the " Diary of a Late Physician." A letter, published in the form of a volume, addressed to the QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty, has just dis closed to the world, in its full and undisguised com pleteness, a story previously comprehended only in fragmentary passages. Although the work has been issued from the press merely within the few days that have already elapsed of this present January, we should have directed general attention to it even earlier than this evening's impression, but that we were solicitous to con its disclosures with due so briety and deliberation. Having at length risen from the perusal of the volume, our whole soul yet burn ing with the indignation kindled by its eloquence, we would forthwith, without any further delay what ever, utter some preliminary comments upon a pro duction which we may well designate a military romance, penned in language as remarkable for its persuasive simplicity as for its rhetorical excellence, and invested with a pathetic and enthralling interest throughout. Our previous allusiong to the sentence passed by court-martial upon Captain GEORGE DOUGLAS, late of her MAJESTY'S 16th Regiment, must have de monstrated with sufficient lucidity to the intelligence of our readers the cruelty of a punishment as harsh as it was altogether unmerited. We ourselves have frequently in these columns applied to the charges preferred against that officer the most elementary principles of logic, and, aided simply by the light of the facts revealed on the occasion of his trial, have shown beyond all controversy that in the publication of those facts alone his acquittal was virtually pro nounced. Nothing whatever, as far as our editorial judgment was concerned, could have been deemed in any degree desirable for the purpose of attesting yet more undebateably the innocence of this unfortunate but most honourable gentleman. The paltry nature of the accusations levelled against him ; the flimsy, shallow, dubitable, and utterly inadequate evidence by which those imputations were supported ; the ruthless, inexorable, and most extravagant sentence pronounced upon the prisoner by his judges, confirmed by the authorities at the Horse Guards, and ratified by the sign-manual of our Gracious SOVEREIGN— , were all as glaringly recognizable by the unpreju diced before as after the appearance of the present remarkable composition. What was wanting, how ever, has been nobly supplied by its burning and impassioned eloquence. Mr. WARREN has here written, in letters of phosphoric brightness and legi bility, a record of the damning facts out of which all this lamentable persecution has emanated ; he has revealed with a gallant indifference to the consequences the source of all this moral gangrene, the origin of this heartless assassination of character, the cause of this unmanly animosity and unsoldier-like turpitude. His voice, in breathing the tones of exculpation, has risen to those lofty accents which are appropriate to the lips of the tragic dra matist—and the tale he has told is in truth a tragedy —a tragedy not the less touching because its victims are a young mother and her new born infant, while the principal sufferer is their husband and father, a private soldier in the service of our beloved Sovereign Queen - VICTORIA. Detailed by the pen of SAMUEL WARREN, the story of this poor family, reduced in the midst of its unoffending obscurity to irredeem able desolation, is one of the most heart-piercing narratives ever written by the hand of a novelist — but, alas ! in this instance the gloomy phantoms o f romance have been exceeded by the dismal shadows of reality. Throughout, the various incidents trans piring in the island of Alderney are linked together by a striking and harrowing consistency. One cir cumstance follows another in this masterly exposure with a sequential significance beyond all possibility of misapprehension. There are perceptible from the very outset, the irritating relations in which the town-major of Alderney and the commander of the troop of the 16th Regiment*, then stationed in Alderney, stood in regard to each other— differences of opinion which appear to have so far affected the temperament of Colonel LE MEstatiEs, as to have resulted in many deplorable calamities. After examining the statement of the occurrences here submitted to the scrutiny of her is impossibleerMostEzeel lent MAJESTY by Mr. WARREN, it not to discern that the charges preferred against Captain GEORGE DOUGLAS were trumped up for the purpose of covering the dead bodies of MARY RILEY and her unfortunate offspring with the impenetrable pall of oblivion. Thanks, however, to the beneficent Nemesis of Christianity, the very effort made to hush up the double death of the wife and child of poor PATRICK RILEY has been the means of raising a voice which will resound throughout the length and breadth of the land, penetrating the innermost sanctuary of the Palace, and echoing through the chambers of the Legislature with the syllables of its avenging revelation ! With the intention manifestly of shrouding in forgetfulness the cruelties which led to the dissolution if a young mother and her new-born infant in the Old Canteen House, near the barracks at Alderney—a young and gallant sol dier, the representative of an ancient family, and a man of spotless reputatior, has been ignominiously expelled from the service of his QUEEN, on a trumpery charge of equivocating to a constable in capable of comprehending the meaning of our language and branded in the presence of his brother officer - , and of his fellow-countrymen generally, with con duct at once “ scandalous and infamous." Such is the crying wrong which remains to be expiated — and happily for the cause of justice, for the credit cf the army, and for the memory of the reign of VICTO RIA, the appeal for its expiation has been made by a voice so resonant in its argumentative eloquence. and addressed to a Monarch as clear in intellect as she is benignant in disposition. Touchingly and reverently has Mr. WARREN exclaimed—"l was Never, perhaps, has public opinion been more une quivocally exhibited in Ireland than recently on the great question of free trade. Never has a body of reactionary agitators been more signally discomfited than the Protectionists in the sister kingdom. The " grand demonstrations" that were so vaunt ingly announced by the Tory press, which were to have afforded the most striking illustrations of the unanimous decision of the Irish people of all classes and grades in society, have proved complete and un questionable failures. The monopolists have sus tained defeat after defeat. The black north, where it was supposed their greatest triumphs would have been achieved, has witnessed the total annihilation of their hopes. Downshire was regarded as the strong hold of the party ; in that county, where the princi ple of " tenant-right" is almost universally sanc tioned and recognised, where landlords and tenants are united by the strongest bonds of common interest, where the cultivator of the soil would really be benefited by high prices for agricultural produce, as well as the owner, the feeling in favour of free and unrestricted trade has been most clearly and dis tinctly exhibited. The sturdy yeomen of Ulster are not, however, to be deceived by the weak devices and glaring fallacies of the advocates of the re-impo sition of taxes on human food. They mustered strongly at the Court-house of Downpatrick, under the guidance of one in whom they well knew that the most unbounded confidence might be reposed—who in all the relations of life, public or private, had ever maintained the highest character. Mr. SHARMAN Caawroun—the kind-hearted and generous landlord, the intelligent and liberal politician—was a fitting leader for the shrewd and clear-headed farmers, who arranged themselves at his side in opposition to prin ciples which they believed to be deeply in jurious to the interests of their common country. He was wall qualified to expose the errors and mistakes of those who might endeavour to mislead the people, and induce them to give their voices in favour of partial and highly objectionable imposts for the benefit of a privileged minority. Under his generalship it was certain that the contest would be ably and skilfully conducted, and the free-trade force rendered fully available, and such was the case. The victory was indeed complete ; there was nothing to be desired or wished for. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, :Sole i.essee and Ntanttger. Oki Brompton. THIS EVENING, Will be presented an entirely new and original Comedy, entitled LEAP YEAR ; or, The Ladies' Privilege. Sir Solomon Solus, Keeley ; Captain Mouser, Mr. Selby ; Mr. Dimple, Mr. Buckstone ; William Walker, mr. Charles Kean ; Mrs. Flora Flower.ew, Mrs. Charles Kean ; Miss Sally O'Leary, Mrs. Fitz William ; Mrs. Crisp, Mrs. Keeley. After which THE NINTH. STATUE or, The Jewels and The Gem. Principal characters by Mr. Munyard, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. 1.. S. Bnckirgham, and Miss K. Fitzwilllam. To conclude with BOX AND COX. The Box-oallce is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPUL . r.d‘r tt e T H direction ie Madame Celeste. IS EVENING Will be performed a new dcduestic Drama, called THE WILLOW C,, SE. Principal charactetii by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed , 0. Smith, Worrell; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. Atter which FRANKENi,TEIN" ; or, The Model Man. Franken ctein, Mr. Wright ; the What is It ? Mr. P. B edford; Zamiel, Tiddlewinca, Miss E. wraith ; Otto of Rosenberg, Miss NV° 6l g ar Chaplin ; Agatha, Miss Coven) , ; Undue, Miss E. Harding. To be , followed by a new slippery sketch called MRS. BUNBURY'S SPOONS. Mr. Highbary Barnes, Mr . P. Bedford ; Bob Twinks, Mr. awi r., Wright ; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith : Mrs. Bunbury, Mrs. F. ewa; Mrs. Ilighbury Barnes, Miss BrookS. SLOYAL LYCIUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madam' VeSte& F , ble Lessee, Mr. Charles MathewS. THIS EVENING, Will he nerfermed NOT A BAD JUDGE. After winds THE ISLAND OF JEWELS. To con lude with PRACTICAL MAN. Dress Dews ss. Upver iloxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery. la.- NO half-price to any part of the house. An applications for rrivate Boxes must be made to Mr. Alleroft, 15 New Bond-street. From the moment that the Court-house was opened no doubt could remain as to the result. The blank and desponding countenances cf the r€quisitionists formed a strong contrast to the bold and manly as pects of their opponents. The reception af forded to the different speakers removed every doubt, if doubt could have existed. The torrents of enthusiastic applause with which the Ho nourable Member for Rochdale was greeted when proposing his amendment to the first resolution, and the hearty cheers bestowed upon his lucid and bril liant oration, appeared to dispel any delusions under which the Protectionists might previously have laboured. They speedily became heartily ashamed of themselves, and of their ill-omened cause ; a rapid retreat appeared the only available course ; Sauve gui pent became the order of the day, and one by one sneaked, crest alien and broken-spirited, PRINCESS'S THEATC.E. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the English version of the Opera of LUCIA DI LA M mvotoon. To conclude with KING JAMIE ; or, Harlequin and Magic Fiddl e Harleruln, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Clown, Mr. Flex more ;'COTUtnlyine, Miss Fawcett, ASTLE ROYAL AMPHITIMATItE. f'-rcrictor, Mr. W. Batty. Ffrand Juvenile Night, commencing with the Pantomime, will take place on Thursday next. Ite-appearance of 3ladlle. Codone. EVEN! The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven, with a new Grand Spectacle of THE KNIGHT OF THE EAGLE CREST ;. or, The Tournay of Love, in which Mr. N. T. Hicks will appear. To be followed by a brilliant display of Batty's peerless scenes of the Circle, supported by the accomplished artistes of the establish ment. To conclade with a grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime, by Nel son Lee, called HAREQUIN YANKEE DOODLE, who came t o upon hiLlittle Box-0. .pea from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. from the scene of their discomfiture When the question was put on the original resolution, scarcely thirty hands were raised in its favour, while the amendment was carried by a decisive and overwhelm ing majority. The amendment itself was of so sound and practi cal a character, and so fully explained the views and feelings of the tenant-farmers of Ireland, and the line of policy necessary to render that unhappy country really prosperous, that we cannot refrain from giving it in extenso. It was resolved— " Th a we recognise with satisfaction the indications of improved manufacturing, commercial, and financ'al prosperity, which have Le,n exhibi‘el during the year 1849, under tie action of free trade; that as w e consider the abundance and cheapn ess of food to be the only true basis on which tt e happiness of the people and the pros perity of the nation can be founded, we do nut desire a return to the protective system; but we are of opinion that, in order to me >t the lowered prices of agricultural produce, and to compete with the growers of corn in foreign countries, it will be requisite for the farmers of t' e Unitel Kingdom to take means for incre %sing the productive powers of tk e soil, by improved systems of cultivation, and a larger exreadtture of labour and capi tal; and that, thetefore, it becomes more especially just and necessary that the rent of all lands let at the former high toile of prices should be reduced in conformity with tf e fall in the rates of produce; and that the tenant's right of property in all improvements created by his money and labour should be established by law, and the value secured to him according to the custom, of ' this country, known under the name of tenant-Tighe." The principles here enunciated are indeed just and equitable, sagacious and statesmanlike. " The abundance and cheapness of food is the only true basis on which the happiness of the people and the prosperity of the nation can be founded." A return to the protective system is not desirable, and the low ered prices of agricultural produce, and the full and fair competition with the growers of foreign corn, can only be encountered by increasing the productive powers of the soil, by an improved system of cultiva tion, and a larger expenditure on labour and capital. Former rents, assessed under a very different state of affairs, can no longer be maintained ; fair reduc tions must be made, in conformity with the reduced price of produce, and legislative security must be afforded to the tenant that he himself, or his family, will be permitted to enjoy the fruits of his skill and industry ; and that can only be attained by a Par liamentary recognition of the time-honoured custom of " tenant-right." The defeated Protectionists attempted to break their fall, by subsequentlyiholding a bore-and-corner meet ing in the 'county grand jury-room, and by passing in their privacy the resolutions which they had fondly hoped would have been adopted at the county meet ing. But the people will not be deceived, and these suggestions will go forth to the world as the vain and futile aspirations of a few disappointed land lords. We need not chronicle the other failures in Done gal, Monaghan, Meath, Wexford, or Clare. The results must satisfy the reactionaries, if, indeed, they are at all capable of understanding the signs of the times, that they may at once, and for ever, abandon the Dame Partington effort of attempting to stem the tide of public opinion with their Protectionist besores. " Constantinople, Dee. 31. " The past week has been occupied with active nt go tiations, with a view to the definitive solution of the question of tha Hungarian refugees. As I informed you in my letter of the 26th, the only difficulties which pre vent ?d the solution came from the side of Austrie. In these circumstances, Russia, who wished to close the matter, consented to sign the proccs-verbal of the re - sumption of relations with the Porte. Everything was regulated and settled between M. de Titoff arid the Divan, on the basis of which I have already informed you. The documents were signed on both sidis, and the only difficulty was that they could not be exchanged until Austria had on her side come to an understanding with the Porte. Russia was out of the affair, but still that was not a settlement of it; for either the exchange of tie documents was of no consequence, or it gave Russia the right of renewing the question if Austria should not succeed in coming to an understanding with the Porte. " The English and French Ambassadors have been very active in their endeavours to put an end to this provisional stage of things, and they have nearly suc ceeded in bringing about a definitive solution. The Porte, seeing the impossibility c f conquering the re sistance c f M. de Stunner, who stated that he was bound by his instructions, proposed a new wording of the clause relative to the insptisoneeent of the Hunga rians. The new clause states that after some months, when Hungary shall be pacific', the Divan, after having given notice to that effect to Austria, which will be ad wit•ed to present observations, may put an end to the imprisonment.' "This version, which reserves far the Porte its liberty of isetion, and makes it no longer, as Baron du Sturmer would have wished, a mere gaoler under the orders of Austria, has been accepted ad referendum by M. de Sturmer, who has sent it is his Government. " Upon this, M. de Titoff, being pressed by his col leagues, did not like to prolong any further a situation which weighs upon the whole world, and this day (the 31st of December) he went to pay a visit to the Grand Vizier. At the present moment the instruments have been exchanged, and the relations with Russia resumed. As regards Austria, she will not resume her relations until an answer shall have been received from Vienna, and until the point still in discussion shall have been definitively settled. "The Minister of Fiance sends off this very day the steam-frigate Le Prony, to inform the Government of the termination of the affair, and we have no doubt but that orders have been given at the same time to the two squadrons to return to Toulon and Malta, their presence i❑ these parts having no longer any object. ee" On Thursday last the Porte sent a courier to St. Petersburgh, with dispatches which announce to Fuad Effendi bis recal to Constantinople. Ahmed Velek Effendi, member of the bureau of translaion of the Porte, and one of the most iritellige it of the functiona ries of the Divan, replaces Fowl Effendi at Bucharest in the quality of commissioner. Bt fore proceeding to assume his functions he will go to Chumla, where the Polish refugees now are, to arrange everything con riveted with their being sent out c f Turkey." QUEEN'S THEATRE. Although the Queen's Theatre but seldom attracts the attention of the diurnal press its pretensions to public favour are of no mean order. Mr. James, the lessee, has always been considered an industrious caterer for the amusement of the play-going portion of the inhabitants who reside in the populous neigh bourhood of Tottenham-court-road, and he finds his reward in the overflowing audiences that nightly crowd his tastefully decorated house. Melodrama is the peculiar order of entertainment which he provides fur his patrons, and the attraction of the present moment is a piece called Jane Brightwell, abounding in hair-breadth escapes and thrilling incidents. Mr. E. Green performs the chief character, and succeeds in throwing a good deal of spirit and energy into the part. The pantomime which Mr. James has pro duced this season is entitled The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood or, _Harlequin and the Fairy of the Silver Waters. It is splendidly got up, and contains mane smart hits at the follies of the da y ; the last scene, the Realms of Bliss, is superb. Altogether the pan tomime at this little theatre, in point of beauty of scenery, vies with any other in the metropolis. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC The members of the Club of the Mountain have issued an address to the m asters of the Primary Schools throughout France, recommending them to resign their situations, as the only means cif escaping the persecution of " the prefects, the servile executors of the pleasure and the vengeance of the Govern- men b. The Napoleon announces the recal of the French fleet from Yourla. The National maintains, notwithstanding the con tradiction of the Cons titutionnel, that a small expedi tion has been ordered to be fitted out against Buenos Ayres. M. VITET has been named reporter of the Com mittee on the Paris and Avignon Railway Bill. The Opinion Publique, the organ of the parti- preen?, having stated that certain high personages have shared three or four millions gained by a forced rise of the Funds, and that they are now preparing a fall to profit by it in a similar manner, the Moniteur calls upon the Legitimatist journal to name:the persons to whom it alludes. There had been a heavy fall of snow in the south of F rance, which had prevented the arrival of the Madrid and the Italian mails. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK.-F.XCHAN GE, JAN. 14. Boulogne and Amiens, 716 —East Indian, 4 1 ,( 3 —Louvain la Sambre, 3 / 4 —Namur and Liege, 7%—Northern of France, 1% dis.—Orleans and Bourdeaux, 3 3 / 4 —Paris and Rollin, 23—Rouen and Havre, 9:y 4 —Sambre and Meuse, ALMANACKS. THE FINE ARTS ALMAN ACK ; or Artist's Remembrancer for 1850. Edited by R. }V. Buss. Mr. Buss has here supplied a want which has 134 en felt for some years by artists and amateurs. Whilst every profession and calling had its special almanack, devoted to its special service, and containing in a con densed form every species of information that could be required by its members, artists and amateurs have been hitherto without such a vade-mecum. The delay, however, has not been altogether produc tive of disadvantage ; had it not taken place, the task of compiling the Artist's Almanack might have fallen into less able hands than those of Mr. Buss, who, by taking advantage of the experience of others, has compiled the best special almanack that has hitherto I appeared. THE RE PORTER ALMANACK. New Edition. The proprietor of this most useful almanack, encou raged by the great patronage which has been be stowed on it, has brought out a new edition, hand somely bound in embossed cloth, and gilt. It is bound in various colours, and from the elegance of its appearance, combined with the beauty of its typography, the immense mass cf information it con tains and the admirable method in which the inf ,r -mation is arranged, there can be no doubt but that the Reporter Alnzanack will be found upon every drawing-room and library table, as well as in every counting-house and coffee-room. COCK'S 117U75-T—ICAL ALMANACK. The Musical Almanack of 1850 is a great improve ment upon its predecessor. It contains a calendar, in which each day is noted as the anniversary of sonic interesting event connected with music and icust cians ; lists of the organists of the United Kingdom ; of the various musical societies with their officers; of the different musical journals, besides a vast mass of interesting information on the subject of music generally. Every lover of music will be gratified by the information contained in the following extract from the Musical Almanack : "215th LlSZT.—Extract ,f a littn. from Germany:— Leaving Dresden, I proceeded on a visit no Lisz., at Weimar, for one day only. Ilis prolonged soj , ,urn during eight-en months in this little city excited my curiosity. I could not understand how this mar. gif ed with so much activity, and formerly so anxious of ob taining repute in his profassion, could condemn himself tans to retirement, and, in some degree, obscurity. My astutishrnent was dissipated after I had seen him, fer I had soon a very natural explanation of this mystery. Liszt has become a new man, but continues still to culti vate seriously that tut which during several years had obtained him such celebrity. Uuder his direction the chapelle of the Grand Duke of Weimar has improved, both as regards its members and its finished executinring n. Fatigued of his succes s as a pianist, he is pre pa himself as a composer, and has already produced a con siderable number of great works, amongst !which Iyar ticularly noticed two concertos for piano, entirely written and instrumented, and which I heard performed. The style is absolutely different and entirely new. The first part commences with an allegro moderato, the second by an adagio; in both, the piano dialogues with the orchestra, a system adopte d b y Mozart and Beethoven; but with these great 1. asters the éclat ef the principal Tart is lessened by the interest of the accompaniments, whilst Liszt has nct only given a great importance to the piano in his concertos, but has even scattered in abundance bold traits which give to them extraordinary brilliancy. These traits are of a new species. I would not make an analysis of any of these pieces on only bearing them once, but will content myself with saying that they are thoroughly new in style of compositior, and when pub lished will create much notice in musical circles." South Sea Stock COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY. The Queen, with their Royal Highnesses the Prin cess Royal and Princess Alice, drove to Frogmore this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting this morning, accompanied by Viscount Mandeville and Mr. Henry Seymour. Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps and Colonel F. 11. Seymour, were in attendance upon his Royal Highness. The Marchioness of Normanby is expected at the Castle this day, on a visit to the Queen and Prince. The royal dinner party this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent (attended by Lady Fanny Howard and the Baroness de Speth), the Marchioness of Normanby, and Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps. bpatash 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto, Account Ditto, Passive — Ditto, 3 per Cent Ditto, Account . 37 IA Venezuela Bonds, 2V I per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London, Dutch 2 1 ,4 per Cent., 12 Guild. Ditto, Account .,,,.. 55M 3 4 PRICES OF , : B USINESS DONE , tAILWAY SILLS.RES. ?Al " . AT ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen 5O Do. Preference Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 7%..- — Ayrshire and Galloway.. 7ih — '''''''''' '• elfast & County Down 28 ....• Barks & Hants Extens. (Gt. West. Per.s per et.) 6 hirmingham and Ox f( rd Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 - •• , Do, without guarantee 20 Binning, Wolverh'ton, and D , ulley, calls duly pd, cr with guarantee 10 ..... Do. without guarantee 10 Binming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley A deputation, consisting of Mr. Marryatt, Mr. M'Chlery, Mr. Macgregor, and Dr. Gutzlatf, had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial office. The Earl of Chichester had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home-office. Lord and Lady John Russell arrived at their resi dence in Caftham-place yesterday evening, from Woburn Abbey. . 3irkenhead Lancashire, an,: Cheshire June— 20 — i'r stol and Exeter 92 ..., .. _— Ditto, Thirds ' uckinghamshire ...... 17% Caledonian Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10 Ditto,Clydesdale June 50 hostor and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference l5 ...... Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per CL 10 Do. 21 Class, 5 per Ct. 10 ...... Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports mouth Dublin and Belfast June. 40 ...... ..• • Dundalk & Enniskillen 80 - •... ast Anglian, 251., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 Do. 181., E. & H.... 18 Do., 34 103., Pref.. 3 1 ,E i — •••.' Sir James Duke is to second the Address in the House of Commons. FIRE AT MESSRS. WIGRAM'S.—On Sunday morning, shortly after before o'clock, a fire that caused some alarm broke out in the extensive property belong ing to Messrs. Wigram arid Co., the ship builders, of Brunswick-street, Blackwell. Tho workmen and fire men in getting the flames subdued, but not until they had broken through the rout, and consider ably damaged the wood work of the fly- Nheels. We are requested to state that no day has yet been appointed for delivering tt e judgment of the Privy Council, in the vase of " Mr. Gurham v. the Bishop of Exeter." UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON.—The Council have appointed Dr. Allied Baring Garrod to the offief s of Professor of Materia avid Physician to the Hospital, lately held by Dr. Anthony Todd Thomson. • . affairs, however, appear not to have been of much itn- 31 , .NEY arpi COMMERCIAL NE W. , . Ditto, 71. 175., 7 per portance. CiTY. QUARTER TO THREE. Cent., Preference... 2 The intelligence of the settlement of the Raise- The sa'e3 ( f C••tt in et Liverpool yesterday were es- :, ast - o a-i. ,e Coneti vs... ..... 20 ..., Turkish differences is confirmed by the following tim.,t 'd at al) ,ut 5 000 hales, of which 1 000 w e•e tik.in D t:i;,,. 7 l , ,t ? ,i ti s„ 6 4, pe s r c e t ; 10 Cent., N0.1...'.... 11 6/. 13s. 4d... letter from Constantinople, published by the Journal on sp,culation. The f. ales c)mpriied 3,503 Arl-new , 500 Br ~& iat Od. t e - '.. 500 Eglptian zo 6P. to 9,1 d., Ditto ditto. No. 2-61. 13s. 4d - p des Debuts:— - 100 Surat at 4td. to 4-a , .., and 100 Sea Isluloi at ls. 20. Po. North. & Eastern, ti Is. 4d. per lo.—ln Railway Shares a good business 6 per Cent. .- ... 50 was transacted, at rath• r higher prices. Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 e have rcceiv. d from a r s/ty connected with the Do- New ... 43 .. : %V .... Railway Share Market some fart her remarks u p on its r aitern Union, Class A ... (late; E. U. Shares) 25 prospects, and we extract the following:— Ditto, Class A, ditto... 6 " The Money M .. arketis in such a state t” must necet- Do ., C lass B& C 25 ••. •• •• ..... Jib 6 • ........ 71 /A sarily, unless political disturbing causes intervene, en hance the value of all public securities, and, we believe, of railway property in particular. " Because there is not a doubt that railway deben tures will be in such request as will enable companies to borrow money at fully one per cent. below the rate c f interest they now pay. The high price cf Consols will also naturally induce many capitalists to invest in rail way securities. We therefore believe that the lowest prices have been seen, from which they will gradually recover, and to which railway securities, we hope, will ❑ever again recede. "I❑ our last we instanced Caledonian stock as a security perfectly safe to purchase at even double its present market price; and we grounded our opinion upon the fact of its traffic having increased during the last-half year at the rate of 36 per cent., and upon the expressed opinion of the engineer, Mr. Robinson, that during the current year, there will be an addional crease to the extent cf 20,000/. of mineral traffic on the line, and that a great increase will also take place in the goods traffic. Therefore, as the traffic during the last half-year has been increasing at the rate cf 90,000/. per annum, and if we assume only 50,000/. fir the additional merehandize and mineral traffic yet to come upon the line as anticipated by the engineer, the traffic will then be 140,000/. per annum in excess of the traffic prior to the Ist July last. The engineer expressed his opinion that the present cost of salaries and wages paid in all the departments, excepting the staff, may be reduced. " We have selected the York and North Midland Railway as one of the safe investments that we are pre pared to take upon ourselves the responsibility of re commending, because it has been most unduly depre ciated, and the 501. shares, which are now at 181. per share, we believe will be in a very short time worth 401. per share. It is one of those few railways, the accounts of which have been thoroughly investigated and are now reduced to a form capable of being understood by the meanest comprehension." No subject upon which we can write is cf more urgent and general interest than the contemplated Russian loan, which the Emperor, in his extreme condescension, has rendered easy to " the meanest capacity," by fixing the amount in English money, five and a half millions sterling in a 4i par cent. stock, to be taken at 93. Messrs. Baring Brothers, the contractors or agents, did not suffer an) - thing to ooze out until late yesterday afternoon, and it was net until after business hours that they forwarded to the City correspondents cf the several London papers a translation of the ukase. The course which The Sun has pursued in exposing the infamy cf . Aus tria and her ally, and in earnestly deprecating the loan proposed some time since for the former, will readily explain why we were not included in the list of those who received a copy, but as we value our independence far above courtesy, we feel relieved rather than otherwise by the omission. In the City, and among all impartial men, we have heard the most unteig❑ed regret expressed at this fresh attempt to outrage public feeling and national honour, but unfortunately there is ever a large class which values a pecuniary gain far above all other considerations, and consequently will be deterred by no mere qualms t f conscience from parti cipation. The interest upon the loan is to commence from the Ist cf January last, a slight temp ation or make weight given in, and at 93 the Stock will yield 4/. 16s. 9d. per can•. per annum to the subscriheri. A deposit of 20 per cent. is to be paid down, the rest in monthly instalments of 10 per cent. up till June, and then the balance ; but the hypocrisy of the thing lies in the allegation that the money is wanted for the St. Petershurgh Railway. And so it may be, but only t °cause the fonds destined to that purpose have been diverted from their proper object, and have gone to liquidate the expenses of the iniquitous war in Hungary. If we are not mistaken this loan will be found inadcquut , , and another within twelve months may come upon its heels. At all events, let the fact be recalled to mind, that in the regulations for the last Russian loan, a sinking fund was included, and that although the bonds stood at 121 i❑ the year 1844, and in virtue of the terms of the loan, could have been redeemed at par, no attempt to draw and cancel them was ever made, a striking proof of the great liking which the Emperor has or his gold, and of his determination to give us the piper instead. Mr. Cobden's recent exposition of the fallacious opinion cf Russian stores cf the precious metals in the fortresses of St. Peter and St. Paul, should now lave still greater weight, and his promptitude this morning i❑ calling upon the Peace So ciety to have a public meeting and protest at once against the lean, affords much satisfaction in the City, because it is jusCy esteemed the most legitimate interference that the Peace Society can originate. The English Funds are very flat upon the Russian loan, and our remarks yesterday upon the policy of the Bank of England are now convincingly proved t) 1a• e been correct, inasmuch as the real cause of the advatxed terms demanded for leans uron Consols was no doubt the rumour of a Russian loan. How quiet the project was kept may be inferred from the circumstance that the enhanced demand was only known on Saturday afternoon, and not the cause, even to those who applied fir loans. If we were asked our opinion upon the probable success e f the loan, we should say that we expect about half may be taken here and the rest in France, Holland, and Germany, consequently in six months we may have to part with one or two millions of specie, silver chiefly, and the rest may be sent in teerchandize, including railway iron. No doubt we can spare the money, and twice as much, but how useful would it not have proved in aiding the Chen:- cellor of the Exchequer to effect some saving upon the debt, and in giving an impetus to the value cf railway property. Consols have been 96i to 96i, but the " options" are coming off about this hour, and the " cads" have made the quotations a little stronger, viz., 96i The New Threc-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been quoted 98i to 99. Bank Stock has been fully sup ported at 208 to 209. Exchequer-bills are 575. to Gls. premium. in answer to inquiries made by the Committee a Spanish American Bondholders, Messrs. Schneider intimated that they want 10,367/. to complete the dividend, whereas in October last the) stated that only 6,987/. was required. This arise?, we presume, from the commission which the firm charges upon all remittances, and although latterl+ the bulk of the money has been paid into the Bank of England, six months' notice or the removal of the agency is claimed, end the Moxican Government probably find it a difficult mattir to get out of the dilemma. It is obvious, however. that the money of the bondholders is not the fund out f which this claim should be met. Mexican Bonds have ra. , ,ged trout 289 to 291. St anish Three per Cevt , . are 36 7 2 to 371 rt ,, d Pot tuguese Four per Copt , . 35i. DetA T w ,...a,L0-a-Half per CeAs. have hen 551 to 551.. Railway Shares are not in all cases su good as yes terday, but the market is buoyant. ONE (, r .01 ,i . U:S1) O'CLOCK. I , T( f , S ank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced AMIS.... .... 96% 97 96 5 X 96% •Cent. Consols Anouities pl.f 96 $4, A 4 964 , ,, N ew 3M per Cent. Ann 5......... Loo J Anna. to expire Jan.l860 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860. B; j4 8 3 / 4 India Stock — hulls, Bonds, 1,0001. Ditto under 1,0001.. ....... .... 97 100 p 100 p 7% .- -P 31% 15% G% 12 41. Ditto Old Annuities Consuls for Account 9 6 3 / 4 4 E; 4.xchequer Bills. 1%. , . & 2d 1,0001. June 57 61 59 p 59 p 500/. June Small. June 57 61 59 p 59 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FIIPIDI3. OIXE I,OSIINA O'CLOCK. PRICES 96% 96% _ sti Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent. — Ditto 5 Der Cent.... Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. .nexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex. Jan. Coupons ... Ditto, Account 2 9 14 2OA Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Russian Bonds ... [Ol 16% Dovou Do. Preference ,Oath 1111 brthhire...... 854 , uutL Eastern 30 - ••••••••.•• ••• Du., Registered No. 4 10 1)o., Scrip No 4 W ales ... 43 orashire, Don caster, and Goole S:, itotLerlibm, Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. ... 16% — .............. Do. do (Sou. Div.) ••• 5 ....••......... S wane. a Lougnor & Ca meron's Stu'. Coal. ... 7 :aw Vale Lxtenaion ... 8 I. mes Lir..zr et; D , wk and Railway ..... 17 1 / 2 -- ........ . ...... Vale of \ -NAT b .. 10 Waterford and Kilkenny 2 ............ YV utenurcl and Limerick 4; 1 ,4 ............••• icalw . and Dublin W ear V alley 6 per Cent. Guarant , icd .... • ••• •• .... •• • •• SPA [O9 19% 3% 36% 3714 55 3 / 4 CLOSING PRICE:.. ,7% 8 x . i. 11% ON ......... BrazilianCouteiSieuiaba 30 Do. St. John Del Rey 15 Australian J 0 IN ' I'OCK BANKS. ~. ..ounercial of Landon 20 London Joint Stock Do. Scrip (f percent.) 20 aa a . a East Lancashire 25 Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters 6 1 4 — Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 6 1 4 East Lincolnshire ...... 25 .dinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto, Half Shares .. 25 ....... Edinburgh andNortheru 25 Ditto, Newport Exeter.Yeovil, & Dorch Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. Dunitrils, and Carlisle ....... ••• -81.65. 8d ..»»......... lasgow,Kilnaar.,& Ayr 50 ..... Do. Preference Consol. Gloucester & Dean Forest 12% — Great Northern A Doferred Do., B 6 per Cent... 7% — Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. I2 l h reat South. and West. ( eland) - r , at Noi th of En gland.loo ......232 Ditto, New, 401 4O Ditto, ditto 35 Ditto, New, 301 3O r)itio. New.ls/ l5 .. .. Great Western 10 0 ...... 65 65 1 ,4 64% 66 Ditto, % Shares 5O Ditto, % Shares Ditto, 20 Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... a . a . ..... Hull and Seiby ...... 50 Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ..... Do. Quarter Shares... 12 1 h — ..... Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds Lancashire& Yorkshire WO Ditto, ditto , Ditto, 1 / 2 Shares Do. Quarters Do. Fifths... lO Do. Thirds Do. New Guaranteed • 6 col. Cent. ..... ..... 10 Ditto (Huddersfield and Shelf.) 5O Do. (W. Riding Union) 10 ..... 3 1 h Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. % Shares (A)... 10 ...... Leeds and Bradford 5O lO3 102............ Leeds and Thirak ...... 50 Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% — Do., do. No. 2 10 Do., do. ...... No. 3 5 ~ — Do., Pref. t,tuar., 1843 9 Li v (.1'1:0(4, Cr 0.,:),)• Stiuthport London tit Blackwall...ll 1. 6s. 3d... London. Bri,bton, sad 103 Do., New Si., guaran teed 6 per Cent.. ..100 lio.Guar•to, a per .t.. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 Ditto ditto., .. 1 , 4..2 50 ,__ 1.• n don and Greenwich 12115 s 4d — . Ditto, Prefer.... . 20 L ei,:e and N. Western 100 ll5 114% 115% Quarters.. 12 to. Fitt . ... 12 I.Jo. o /. '4late , ( L. ~5 _ io M & B.) C. 1 London -S W item ....100 .. 68% 67 68 Do, New 501.......» 42% ••• Nee Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. .. 5 on , lenocer, ekt.,,,eraine 25 ...... Do. 1 4 Shares ~... 5 ........ ondooderry and Ennis kitle- .. ...... 25 ...... ........ Do. % Shares 5 ...... Lowestoff, guar. 4 per ct 20 ...... Ditto (6 per ct.) ..... 13 ~ ,r .Buxton,and Matlock. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo Do. Quarters (No. 1) 25 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 ...... „••••... Do. l% Shares ( No. 3) 12% Do. New 101. Pref..... 10 Ditto, Gt•Grimsby ... 50 Ditto ditto . ......... 20 Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 25 . ... -- Do., Grimsby Dock 25 ..... „ Do. Llanchester and Lincoln Union. 4/. 2s. Midland ...... ........ 45 45$ Do. Consolidated Pref.loo „ Do., do., 501. Shares 30 ..... 7% 1 4 ex.int 7A Do.Birm., and Derby It 0 Do.Consol.Bristol and Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 Ditto, Brist. & Glocstr. 42 Ditto ditto ........... 22/. 78 — Do.,ErewashVal.,Pref. 50 Ditto, Leieest.& Swan nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo Midland Great Western Irish 47l / 2 ..... Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and Carlisle.loo Do. Quarters Ntwmarket Do. Extension N ewport, Abergavenny, and Hereford • 6 ....•• Newry and Enniskillen 7 ...... arrenpomt, and Rostrevor Norfolk ........- ....... ....100 bo. Now 201. Do. Guaranteed 5 p et. 20 Do. Guaranteed s%pc. 5 Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 .. jrth British ........ ... 26 .... „ 11 11% .M Ditto, Halves .. Ditto, , 2uarters Ditto, i'hirds 81 ..... Ditto P . eterence .. 5 North Sta 'ordst ire ... 171, North Wales . „ ...... 31,E North-Western . 13% ixterd, Worcester, and Wolverhampton 60 eg. r.widiord, Reigate l5 .... %• R ditann 4.. ... Scottish Central oCO i'u iuiend Ditto, New Sh iwsbury and a i3irm Ditto ditto. Class B. 8 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 . 00 shrewsbury and Herod. 5 ...... Sidewsbury & Chester t Nor. W. Ain.) lB Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 Ditto Uswestry .. 18% Ditto New Do. ti per Cent. Fret ihropshire Union $214 114 3 4 13% 13% 2 lii 68 593' 7% i i~ l ..4 g6V Do. do. do. ... 25 Do. do. do: ... 15 vv est Cornwall ..... ... 6 si hitehaven & Furness IS - .............•• ,V indsor, Staines, and South Western..... ... 14 - ........ N ilts,Somerstt,& Wey mouth York, Newcanle, and Berwick..... .. ......... 25 Do. Newcastle Exten, 20 Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 ... -'- 3% ex.int ...... Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway lOO ...... -- .- ......... ... York ano North Midland 50 t; t.. 9 Preference ...... 10 k utiElliN RAIL WAY b. knglo Italian (late Ita- Tian and Austrian).... - 514...„„„ _ .... • Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or- / leans and Vierzors)... 20 Demerara ... 17%...... . .......... .... / Dutch Rhenish ,.. 8 ..... ......... .... / East Indian i.e... Ditto 2 3 0k...... —..... ........................... ~.1 Great Indian Peninsular 5 ............ •• ''' Do. Do. ... Louvain io, la Sambre ... 7 1 ,4 — ............... ". Luxembourg Ditto Madrid and Valentia... 10 ' 2 1A : " ......................::.: 5 41 - 1 N ainur and Liege Northern of France l4l. es... —die ........... 0.. Urleaus and Bordeaux 7 ...... SMil "'i n 00 .. .. Maria and Orleans / l'aris and Rouen 2O ......, 23%... .. -• ...... ifl Paris and Strasbourg - ...... ...•• 0 a ()nen and Havre ...... 20 Sain'ore and Meuse 2O ... .. 236 .......... /-' Strasboulg and Basle Lours and Nantes l3 ...... ••••••....... ...1 Tourney, Jurbise, Lau- / .......... den, and Hasselt West F1ander5............ 8 3 / 4 - ........... / MINES. . 0,4 SO' ~l~tl ~ ~~ t THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE.- Lessee and Manager , M r. JAMES ANDERSON. The Lessee respectfully be;s to subnilt the fcllowing scale of Prices of admission for public approval: - Private boxes, 31. 38., 2r" 12s. 63., V. ss., 11. Ils. 6d., and 11. Is. Stalls, ss. each. s. d. s. d. FIRST PRICE. 4 SECOND PRICE. - ° Boxes - - 2 0 Boxes - - 2 0 Pit - - - 1 0 Lit - - 1 0 0 Lower Gallery - 0 6 Lower Gallery • Upper GalleTy - 6 No Half-price to Upper Gallery. THIS EVENING, Viral be presented, by her Majesty's Servants, ShakesPere's Play of AS YOU LIKE IT. Duke, Mr. Cathoart ; Amiens, Mr. Rafter; Jacques, Mr. Vandenkoff ; Orlando, Mr. James Anderson ; Adam, Mr. Cooper • Touchstone, Mr. W. H. Angel ; Rosalind, Mrs. Nisbett. To be followed by a New Grand Historical, Metaphorical, Allegorical, and Diabolical Pantomime, by the author of " Bluff King Hal 'to be called HARLEQUIN and GOOD QUEEN BESS ; or, MEERIE ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME, Then the ladies with large ruffs, tied round about their necks so fast, - Would gobble tap a pound of beefsteaks for their breakfast. ! the golden days of Good Queen Bess, Merry be the memory of Good Queen Bess."—Old Song. The Overture and Music entirely new, composed by. Nobody knoswho, assisted by Mozart, Bisho Rossini, Ware, Nandel, Rod- Nobody well, Haydn, and the Ethiopian Seren p, aders. The Rounds are the mpasition of a select Circle. The Catches are by Locke. The Ballet. Department ender the superintendence of Madame Louise. The Scenery painted by Messrs. Brunning, Jones, Wilson, C. Adams, and Assistants. The Properties, Magic Tricks, and Transformations invented and executed by Mr. W. Blamire. The Costumes by Mr. Palmer and Miss Biggs ' The extensive Maehinery by Mr. Adams. The whole produced under the Direction of Mr. T. Tho m p son. Dome:ram. Christmas, Mr. S. Jones; The Spirit of John Rich, Mr. Darcie The Spirit of High Tragedy , Mr. J. Parry; The Spirit of Punch Miss Enniee ; Spirit of Mother Goose, Gulliver, Baron Munchen:Jen die., &c., by &c., Moirrat.s. Scot Queen Bess, Mr. R. Romer ; Apiy Robsart, Mr. G. Watson Ner Lovely Baby, Master Butler ; The Great Earl of Leicester, M. Devlin ; The Little Earl of Essex, Mr. Henry ;The Unspeak able Lord Burleigh, Mr. Johnson ; The Hasher Lord Bacon, Mr. Barry ; The Smoky Sir Walter Raleigh, Mr. Manderson ; The Dancing Lord Chancellor Sir Christopher Hatton Morris , Mr. Chaplin): Maids of Honour, Pages, Beefeaters, Guards, Dancers, Jesteesters, a nd other Bores, by the rest of the rs, Wildmen, D ra g oon% eonipay. CFIRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR , Bat although he comes in snow, he still hopesto his yearly visit to meet with a warm recept i on —but where is he going ? Why, pay the Spirit of John Rich, in the GHOSTLY CITY OF DEPARTED FUN. This city is composed of the Tombs of the by-gone Pantomimes— " Who's dat kanicking at der door ?"—Come and see—" J. Andersen's my Joe, John," couldn lam Rich," that's mere than every one can say ;we wish they —How to make a Pantomime l'—`• that is the question"—but the answer, it is hoped, will be satisfactory — Poor Tra-ge-dy meets with no clemency, so we fly by night" to A SPLENDID HALL IN THE PALACE OF GOOD BESS. We now come to Historical Facts, therefore, as the Clown at A.stley's would say, " Let us be serious." It is an historical fact, that the Earl of Essex loved, or pretended so, Good Queen Bess, therefore he hated the Earl of Leicester, and thence arose a conspl racy—Sir Walter Rale gh fears his pipe will be put out—Bacon gets (mite in a frizzle, and Lord Burleigh shakes his head—bat there's no thing in that, whateve r the y may say to the contrary. It is an historica l fact, that Good Queen Bess was assisted at her toilet by many of her noblemen, therefore the GRAND PROCESSION OF THE TOILETTE is introduced, in which the Royal Wig ! the Royal Ruff!! the Royal Blushes ! ! ! and the Royal Petticoat ! ! ! ! will make their first appearance on any stage, and trust to the " usual indulgence of a British Public." These are followed by GOOD QUEEN BESS en deshabille, as she is represented in a picture at Hampton Court. —What comes next will certainly follow—and then willbe seen GOOD QUEEN BESS in all her royal splendour.—lt is an Historical so many Fact, that Good Queen Bess, like " Y o ung Susan"—" had lovers that she scareely knew upon which to decide"—and it is an Historical Fact that the following were a few of them. THE REJECTED ONES : Philip of Spain, Prince Rupert, Prince of Sweden, Duke of Anjoa, Prince Alengon, Marquis of Winchester, the King of Sweden, Ilenry of Navarre, Archduke Charles, Earl of Arundel, Sir William Pickering, Charles Blount, and the Earl of Arran. Good Queen Bess appoints a meeting of these " wonderous proper men" at Kenilworth, bat declares, that on her way, " A hunting she will go" —and having got on the " High Horse," the story gallops on to CUM NOR HALL BY MOONLIGAT—WiIson. " Coming events cast their shadows before "—" Rest thee, my darling "—Ketehy, ketchy, ket.:hy — " Put out the light, and then "—enter the Earl of Leicester on his way to KeOhnil worth— He stops at Love' s half-way house, the Robsar Arm he s— makeS no , Susanna," or rather " Oh, Amy !"—lt can't be said, " bones about it "—They part, " more in sorrow, than in anger," but, " being gone, Amy is herself again "—that is to say, a rather jealous yoang lady, who in her " deep despair," introduces her Lovely Babby, to whom she sings the following palliate stanza " Come my tabby, come along with me Well go to far-famed Kenilworth, Your naughty dal to see." And so they do. KENILWORTH CASTLE As it appeared on the occasion of Good Queen Bess's Royal Visi. For further particulars inquire of Sir Walter Scott. It is an histori cal fast that Good Queen Bess paid the Earl of Leicester a visit, and " paid the piper." This, his gorgeous fete, half ruined him ; there fore we pity his fate, but must admire his wondrous generosity, for all he ever hoped for in return was—half-a-crown. The Earl fore stalls Shakspere, by discovering " that the course of true love never did run smooth," for here he meets with e som twenty prove " com p p er tears," and to him the y do come " petit oars," for they fect 'bears, or, more properly speakiug, bores. A Lovers' Quarrel en a grand scale a sort of " tiff for the million," takes place, which, although beginning in love, ends in war, and the total destruction of THE SPANISH ARMADA I By Warner's Fulminating Blow-up—Tragedy has now done his worst, and Rich finding that even Rich must become poor if war eontinues, by making proposes a " Peace Conress," and brings all to a close them all c hange their cglothes— The Earl ef Leicester puts on t De he motley garb of Harlequin, M. tain. Lord Burleigh that of Pantaloon, Ti!. J. Dentin. The Earl of Essex that of Clown, Mr. C. Stilt, And Amy Robsart dons the Robe d' Amour of Columbine, Madlle. Theedore. All we have further to say for Good Queen Bess is—Vivat Regina, and off she goes." " Welcome, Old Friends, 'tis long since we met 1" " Here we are l" " How are you?" PRESERVE ASD PICKLE WAREHOUSE, AND RAILWAY OFFICE. Cupid and Clown—Butter and Butterflies --Hungarian Knock-'em- Dowas, and German Toys—War to the Knife, and Terrific Explo sien—Railway Offices to Let—Pantaloon becomes Tenant Tribes— at a Discount—Clown Co oks Accompts, and Railway King in lation—Change to INTERIOR OF CATACOMBS I SIMPSON'S DIVAN" AND TAVERN, Strand. most approved way of Cooking a Goose—Clown makes himself Welcome —the Waiters at Fault—a Transformation—Clown Puzzled —Calf's Head for One—A Kitten Wanted—Save the Credit of the Establishment—Poli EXETER re ! PHALolice !—and Change to L. Meeting of the Peace Co.,gress—How to get up a Row--Prosylites Reware—Humbug the Order of the Day—Embracing at a Premium, a nd Domestic Tab:eau of the Happy Family, POULTERER'S AND SHOP TO LET. Stick no Bills, in case you should Kill Sweet William. A DOW.NRI " NODDY DANCE." Heals Win the Prize. SMITHFIEL Potatoes all Hot—Toss and Buy—Three real Epping Sausages, and Bread, for One Penny—A Mad Bull—Pork versus Tabbies--A Re port fox Enlarging Smithfield Market —Holloway's Purifying Pills — New Tariff—Gin .reatly Reduced—Warranteduot to Produce and Spothen taneous Combustion—Puff, the Or der of the Day—Punch City Nuisance —Go it, Bricks—and Sudden Transformation to A SALUBRIOUS SPOT. STREET AND LO ~GING-HOUSES. What will be seen here is of little use to those who have no eyes. —" Lend me your ears"—"Oh, what a falling off, my countrymen, w en you, and BEDROOM of us, fell down."—Shaltspere. IN LODGING-ROUSE, Comfortable Quarters—Lola, and the Gallant Son of Mars—Clown's otion - of Warm and Convenient Arrangements—Good Night—Late Visitors —A Troublesome Customer—Mr. Walker, an Intruder — Novel Mode of Expelling fame—A Stormy Night—Clown and Pan taloon in Great Alarm—lncantation Extraordinary—and General Chamber Polka. CHARING-CROSS AND STRAND. What's to be done ?—Boy the Lady's Newspaper. FROST FAIR ON THE THAMES. Ice Soup—Temperance Hotel, J. Frost.—N.B. Iced Champagne — Oh, the Roast Beef of Old England I —Sports of the Glacearum— " Plalslrs d'Hiver"—Clown wants some Fish, but can only get Skate, which he finds rather tough ; It won't go down, though he does. FATHER THAMES' RETREAT, t, Tiddybail's Alley, in the middle of the Thames, with Brass Door and Gingerbread Knocker. General "Meeting of the Waters"—The Alarm—Summoning of the City Abominations—Arrival of the Resident Director of the" Silent Itighways"—Fearful Resolve —Marshalling of the Forces—Grand Attack, and Tableau of Interest. SOUTHAMPTON WATERS, WITH TESSIIL For California or anywhere else. GRIND NIOVING DIORAMA, designed and painted entirely by Brunning. Illustration of Her Most Gracious Majesty's Visit to Ireland, showing the following points of interest :—Departure for Osborne—Passing Cowes and approaching the Needles—The Royal Yacht passing through the Fleet at Portsmouth—The Eddystone Lighthouse—Passing the Land's End at Sunset—The Royal Squadron by Moonlight—and Arrival at Queen's Town. Three cheers and a hundred more Scene the Last. THE PALACE OF PANTOMIME. Stage Manager, Mr. James Anderson. Acting Manager, Mr. W. Bennett. Treasurer, Mr. W. Dunn. Musical Director, Mr. G. H. Rodwell. Leader of the Band, Mr. J. W. Thirlwall. Ballet Mistress, Madame Louise. Ecenis Artists—Messrs. Brunning, Jones, Wilson, C. Adams, and Assistants. Decorative Artist, Mr. W. Blandre. Machinist, Mr. W. Adams. Stave Director, Mr. T. Thompson. Prompter, Mr. C. Melville. Costumiers, Mr. Palmer and Miss Biggs. Box -book-keeper, Mr. J. Povey. F RENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE, T. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the French Performances at the St. James's Theatre will commence 70 -MORROW EVENING, With Herold's Opera, in Three Acts, entitled ZAMPA ; on, La Fiancee de Marbre. Zampa, M. Chollet ; Alphonse de Monza, M. Billy Leroy ; Daniel Capuzzi , M. Say er ; Dandolo, M. chateauod ; Camille, Madlla. Charton ; ta, Guichard. GERMANY. The Central Government at Frankfurt has just published the report of the budget for the German fleet for 1850. For the term of the interim it ap pears to include only the maintenance of the existing material and staff of the fleet, with such improve ments only as are indispensable ; among which is a marine school, for the purpose of thoroughly training seamen. The budget is fixed at 40,000 florins. The Hanoverian Chamber has voted the following resolutiou by a majority of 42 to 34 : "In consideration that the fundamental principle and object of the movement of 1848, and of the poitcGermanliai union of all GermanNationalAssembly, are the material and races, and as this prin ciple must be maintained, and a s so me States, by not adhering to the formation of a Federal Union, have rightfully thrown obstacles in the way of the Govern ment, and as the adhesion of the Government to the convention of the 30th of May was a necessity im posed on the Government, and as thi s a dhesion noway infringes any rights of the Chamber or State, the House passes to. the order of the day on the documents laid before it by the Go vernment, at the same time the establishment of a Constitution corresponding with the wants of Ger many is urgently required. The Chamber requests the Government to pursue this object with energy, candour, and self-abnegation, and especially to pro mote the convocation of a German representation, which may labour in concording this Constitution, through the medium of an electoral law which carries with it the confidence of the German people." The Berlin Reforme, of the 11th, announces, that with regard to the Prussian Constitution, the Go vernment is determined to stand or fall by the KING'S Message. It is stated in letters from Dresden of the 7th, tha the Prussian Government has refused to comply with the request of the Saxon Government, to allow Prus sians of the Zollverein to take part in the Exhibition of Manufactures which is to be held at Leipsic in the spring, alleging as a reason that it cannot do any thing to prom ote the national interests of Saxonernment has been beaten upon every Saxon y' , after the attitu de assumed b y its Government in the the Chambers, and it i s supposed t iea h on e nSa S qx: raise du ax u3 o t r Gi i ° C °nivn. hambers will disapprov e o f the ciGthueaTertsmht con duct of the Government in refusing to give orders for the election of Deputies to the Parliament of Erfurth. Prince ERNEST of Hesse-Philipstal died recentl y , at the age of 79. of the 6th says :—«All the intelligence which arriv es from the Servian Woye wodia represents the pro vinces in a state of p rofound agitation. The pretensi ons of the population are so un reasonable that no Gover nment in the world could satisfy them. Consequen tl y , the Cabinet is pre p ared fvoiarnaslideevmeanntudalities. nothing Among th ong an t oth o er b t e hinga the allowed,Ser with their brethren on the other side of the Save, to form a state which shall be tributary to Austria. But if they were but once masters of the soil, they would d sa r y iv , e p a o w ss a e y ss tnhoeriAglhatgsytaorrsemanadin.9ermans, who, they The Emperor of AUSTRIA, says the Lloyd's, has ordered that all the cloth and articles of dress re quired for bis household shall be of Austrian manu facture. The Cardinal _Archbishop of Salzburg (Prince SCHWARZENBERG) has been nominated Archbishop of Prague and Primate o f Bohemia. The Austrian Lloyd's states that the Diets of the Austrian provinces are to be convoked in next autumn, and that the General Diet of the empire may constitutionally assem ble in May, 1851. Within the last few days fu rther reinforcements have been sent to the Austrian corps d'armee in Bohemia, and the Austrians now occupy the villages close to the frontiers of Saxony__ DENMARK AND SWEDEN. A letter from Hamburgh of the Bth, addressed to the bidependance of Brussels, states that marked coolness now exists between the Governments of Denmark and Sweden , caused principally by the reluctance of the latter to intervene by arms on be half of Denmark in the Schleswig affair, and by its having given orders to its troops to leave the duchies immediately on the termination of the existing armistice. TURKEY AND RUSSIA. The St. Petersburgh Journal of the 2d records en gagements in different parts of the Caucasus, in which the Russians are stated to have been successful. The j~~~.,. L 1.. 0 Loki With ve DEA: I D LY Arrd. for Bre e . °g Abe ` ;° %nai ,"(Itr s .4 h er tnd e yon 1 4, Ca p , li Io td : ' e at i d ittO, . 43'1(1. 1 0 1 / 41. it The tsn r gtla 'Neu p v Thi 4%rd 1