The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-18 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. JAMES ANDERSON. The Lessee respectfully begs to submit the following scale of Prices Of Admission for public approval: - Private boxes, 31. 35., 21. 12s. Gd., 21. 25., 1/. I Is. 6d., and 11. is. Stalls, ss. each. s. d. s. d. FIRST PRICE. SECOND PRICE. Boxes - -4 0 Boxes - -2 0 Fit - - - 2 0 Pit - - - 1 0 Lower Gallery - 1 0 Lower Gallery - 0 6 Upper Gallery -0 6 INo Half-price to tipper Gallery. THIS EVENING, Win be presented, by her Majesty's Servants, Shakspete's Play of the MERCHANT OF VENICE. . . Duke of Venice, Mr. Diddear ; Antonio, Mr. Cooper; Bassani°, Mr. C. Fisher ; Salanio, Mr. Frazer ; Salvino, Mr. Everett ; Grattan, Mr. F. Vining; Lorenzo, Mr. Wiliam Montague; Shylock, Mr. James Anderson; Tubed, Mr. Barry : Launeelot Gobbo. Mr. W. H. Angel ; Old Gobbo, Mr. W. Davidge ; Leoaardo, Mr. Abbott; Balthazar, Mr. Henry ; Stephan, Mr. Ellar ; Clerk, Mr. Gough ; Antonio's servant, Mr. Priorson, Gaoler, Mr. Bowtell ; Portia, Mise Laura Aidison; Nerissa, Miss Clara Tel:ett; Jessica, Miss Fanny Huddart. To be followed by a New Grand Historical, Metaphorical, Allegoriabil, and Diabolical Pantomime, by the autiaor of " Bluff King Hal 'to be called HARLEQUIN and GOOD QUEEN BESS ; 9r, MERIHE ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME, " Then the ladies with large ruffs, tied round about their necks so fast, Would gobble ap a pound of beefsteaks for their breakfast. _ _ 0 ! 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 knowswho, assisted by Mozart, Bishop, Rossini, Ware, Handel, Rod well, Haydn, and the Ethiopian Serenaders. The Rounds are the mpuitlon of a select Circle. The Catches are by Locke. The Ballet Department under 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 sad Miss Biggs. The extensive Machinery by Mr. Adams. The whole produced tinder the Direction of Mr. T. Thompson. IMMORTALS. 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 Manchausen, &c., &c., by &c., &c. MORTAL 9. Good Queen Bess, Mr. R. RomerGore Mr. G. Watson ; Her Lovely Babby, Master Butter The at Earl of Leicester, M. Deulin ; The Little Earl of Essex, Mr. Her ; The Unspeak able Lord Burleigh , M E r. Johnson ; The Rasher Lord Bacon, Mr. Barry ; The Smoky Sir Walter Raleigh, Mr. Manderson ; The Dancing Lord Chancellor Sir Christopher Hatton, Mr. Chapino; ids of Honour, Pages , Bee f e aters, Guards, Morris Dancers, Inters, Wildmen, Dragoons, aad other Bores, by the rest of the company. CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR, But although he comes in snow, he still hopes to meet with a warm reception—but where is he going? Why, to pay his yearly visit to 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 knocking at der door?"—Come and see—" J. Anderson's my Joe, John." and " I am Rich," that's mere than every one can say ;we wish they could—How to make a Pantomime?—`" that is the question"—but the answer, it is hoped, will be satisfactory— Peer Tra-ge-dy meets with no clemency, se we fly by night" to A SPLENDID HALL IN THE PALACE OF GOOD QUEEN BESS. We now come to Historical Facts, therefore, as the Clown at Astley'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 conspi racy—Sir Walter Raleigh fears his pipe will be put out—Bacon gets quite In a frizzle, and Lord Burleigh shakes his head—but there's nothing in that, whatever they may say to the contrary. It is an historical 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 ha a picture at Hampton Court. —What comes next will certainly follow—and then will be seen GOOD QUEEN BESS In all her royal splendour.—lt is an Historical Fact, that Good ueen Bess, like " Young Susan"—" had lovers so many that she scarcely 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 Anjou, Prince Aleneon, Marquis of Winchester, the King of Sweden, Henry 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, but declares, that on her way, " A hunting she will go" —and having got on the " High Horse," the story gallops on to CUMNOR HALL BY 3100NLIGILT—Wi1sen. " Coming events cast their shadows before "—" Rest thee, my darling "—Ketchy, ketchy, ket-thy—" Put out the light, and then "—enter the Earl of Leicester on his way to Kenil worth—He stops at Love's half-way house, the Robsar Arms—" Oh, Susanna," or rather Oh, Amy !"—lt can't be said, "he makes no bones about it "—They part, " more in sorrow, than in anger," but, " being gone, Amy is herself again "—that is to sap, a rather jealous young lady, who in her " deep despair," introduces her Lovely Babby, to whom she sings the following pathetic stanza : " Come my babby, come along with me We'll 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 Visit. For further particulars inquire of Sir Walter Scott. It is an histori cal fact 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 some twenty " eompeti teurs," and to him they do come " petit ours," for they prove per fect bears, or, more properly speaking, bores. A Lovers' Quarrel on 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 TUE SPANISH ARMADA! By Warner's Fulminating Blow-up—Tragedy has now done his worst, and Rich finding that even Rich must become poor if war continues, proposes a " Peace Congress," and brings all to a close by making them all change their clothes — The Earl of Leicester puts on the motley garb of Harlequin, M. Deulin. Lord Barleigh that of Pantaloon, M. J. Deulin. The Earl of Essex that of Clown, Mr. C. Stilt, Aud Amy Robsart dons the Robe d'Amour of Columbine, Madlle. Theedere, AU we have further to say for Good Queen Bess is—Vivat Regina, 1111 , 1 off she goes." " Welcome, Old Friends, 'tie Ion; since we met !" " Here we are !" " How are you?" PRESERVE A N PICKLE WAREHOUSE, AND RAILWAY OFFICE. _ Cupid and Clown—Butter and Butterdles—Thing,arian Knock-'em- Downs, and German Toys—War to the Knife, and Terride Explo sion—Railway Offices to Let—Pantaloon becomes Tenant—Shares at a Disooint—Clown Cooks Accoamts, and Railway Kiag in Tribu lation—Change to • INTERIOR OF CATACOMBS! 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—Police Police !—and Change to EXETER HALL. Meeting of the Peace Co •gross—How to get up a Row—Prosylites Beware —Humbug the Order of the Day—Embracing at a Premium, and Domestic Tableau of the Happy Family, POULTERER'S AND SHOP TO LET. Stick no Bills, in case you should Kill Sweet William. A DOWNRIGHT "HOBBY DANCE." Heads Win the Prize. SMITHFIELD. Potatoes all Ilot—Toss andl34—Thrce , real Epping Sausages, and. Bread, for One Penny—A. }tad - Btfil—Pork versus Tabbies--A Re port for Enlarging Smithfield Market —Holloway's Purifying Pills— New Tariff—Gin .reatly Reduced—Warranted not to Produce Spon taneous Combustion—Puff, the Order of the Day—Punch and the 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, when you, and I, and all of us, fell down."—Shakspere. BED-ROOM IN LODGING-HOUSE, Comfortable Quarters —Lola, and the Gallant Son of Mars—Clown's otioe of Warm and Convenient Arrangements—Good Night—Late Visitors—A Troublesome Customer—Mr. Walker, an Intruder— Novel Mode of Expelling same-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 ?-11ny the Lady's Newspaper. FROST FAIR ON THE THAMES. Ice Soup—Temperance Hotel, J. Frost.—N.B. Iced Champagne -01., the Roast Beef of Old England I —Sports of the Glacearum— " Plaisirs d'lllYer"—Clown wants some Fish, but can only get Skate, which he finds rather tough ; it won't go down, though be does. FATHER TJJA ES' RETREAT, 1, Tlddybalrs Alloy, in the middle of the Thames, with Brass Door and Gingerbread Knocker. General "Meeting of the Waters"—Thc Alarm—Summoning of the City Aborainations--Arrival of the Reddent Director of the" Silent Highways"—Fearful Resolve—Marshalling at the Forces—Grand Attack, and Tablean of Interest. SOUTHAMPTON WATERS, WITH VESSEL For California or anywhere else. GRAND MOVING DIORAMA, designed and painted entirely by grinning. Illustration of Her Most Gracious Majesty's Visit to Ireland, showing the following points of ?merest : —Departure for Osborne —Passing Cowes and approaching the Needles—The Royal Yacht passing through the Fleet at Portsmouth—The Eddysto - le Lighthouse—Passing the Land's End at Sunset—The Royal Squadron by Moonlight—and Arrival at Queen's Town. Three cheers and a hundred morel Scene the La.st.• THE PALACE OF PANTOMIME. Stage Manager, Mr. James Anderson. ACt4ng Manager; Mr. W. Bennett. Treasurer, Mr. W. Dann. Musical Director, Mr. G. 11. Rodwell. Leader of the Band, Mr. J. W. Thirlwall. 11411 et Mistress, Madame Louise. Scenic Artists-Messrs. Brunning, Jones, Wilson, C. Adams, and As istants. Decorative Artist, Mr. W. Blamire. Machinist, Mr. W. Adams. Stage Director, Mr. T. Thompson. Prompter, Mr. C. Melville. Cokuiniers, Mr. Pslmer and Miss Biggs. Box -book-keeper, Mr. •1. Povey. FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the French Penformances at the St. James's Theatre will commence THIS EVENING, With Herold's Opera, in Three Acts, entitled ZAMPA ; on, La Fiancee de Marbre. Zampa, M. Chollet ; Alphonse de Monza. M. Hilly Leroy ; Danienapuzzi, M. Soyer ; Dandolo, M. Chateaufort ; Camille, Madlie. Charton ; Ri'ta, Madlle. Ouichard. The Box-office of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster. :Sole f.essee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENING, win be presented an entirely new and original Comedy, entitled LEAP YEAR ; or, The Ladies' Privilege. Sir Solomon Solus, Mr. Keeley ;Captain Mouser, Mr. Selby ; Mr. Dimple, Mr. Bnekstone ; William- Walker. Mr. Charles Kean ; Mrs. Flora Flower,iew, Mrs. Charles Kean; Miss Sally O'Leary, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Mrs. Crisp Keeley. After which TILE NINTH STATUE or, The Jewels and The Gem. Principal characters by Mr. Munyard, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. Ito conclude with the successful and laughable Farce, called an ALARMING SACRIFICE. Bob Ticket, Mr. Buckstone ; Susan Sweetapple Mrs: The Boa -office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. • THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPll e t ate. Under the direction of Madame o THIS EVENING Will be Performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW COI'SE.- Principal characters by Messrs. HUgheS, Wright, P. Bed 10T, 0. grnith, W orrell; Madame Celeste, and M i ss W oo l g ar. Atter whiEli FRA.NKENSTEIN ; or, The Model Man. Franken stein, Mr. Wright ; the What is It ? Mr. P. Bedford; Lamle], Mr. a Smith ; Otto of Rosenberg, Miss Woolgar ; Tiddiewinez, MN B. Chaplin I Agatha, Miss Coreny ; lincline, Miss E. Harding. To be followed by a new slippery sketch called MRS. BijNBURrS SPOONS. Mr. Highbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford ; Bob Tiyinks, Mr. Wright; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith: Mrs. Banbury, Mrs. F. Matthews ; Mrs. Highbury Barnes, Miss Brooks. ROYAL LYCI-1151 THEATRE. under the Management of /Sulam.: Vestr' Sole Leasee, Mrs Chariel Mathews. THU, EVENING, Will be performed' BOX AND COX. After which THE ISLAND OF JEWELS. To con' lude with A PRACTICAL ITAN. half-price to any part of the ress 'loxes &LI Upper house xes 4s. ; ptt, 2 3 , ; Gallery, I L ,. No Ali applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Aileron, 15 w Bond-street. E ROYAL AMPRITHEATRZ. , prietor, Mr. W. Batty. 14; Ee-app ante of Madlle. Codone. "1. IS EVENING, 7 rk-Thei leTrornbance *EY Commence at a Quarter to s own, with a . .nekid utt`A•eatekle_,efiKNlGHT OF THE appear. ' etYLII Lave' which Mr. N. T. Hicks will , 1 3];‘,p , ' ant display of Batty's peerless scenes of • e accomplished artistes of the eat a b l i ah : e t nelnw grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime, by /441. i on d LEQLTIN 'YANKEE DOODLE, nl2O came to Town upop his little Pony,. /Sox-office openfrons Eleven till rour, Stage hisasprdlCh W: West. PRINCESS'S THEATitE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the English version of the Opera of LUCIA. DI LAMI4ER3IOOR. To conclude with KING JAMIE ; or, harlequin and Mag c Fiddle Harlequin, Mr. Bologna ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Clown, M Flex. more ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett . TWENTY-FIFTH REPORT OF THE LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK. At a GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS, held at the Banking-house of the Company, in Princes-street, Mon ition House, on THURSDAY, January 17, 1850, GEORGE SCHOLEFIELD, Esq., Chairman. GEORGE TAYLER, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. DIRECTORS, Wm. Biotin', Esq. Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.B. Sir Felix Booth, Bart. William James Lancaster, Esq. Sir Georgo Carroll, Alderman. Sir John M`Taggart, Bart., M.P. William Miller Christy, Esq. George Meek, Esq. William Curling, Esq. Ambrose Moore, Esq. George Holgato Foster, Esq. John Timothy Oxley, Esq. William Ormsby Gore, Esq., M.P. George Scholefleld, Esq. Henry Grace, Esq. William Shadbolt, Esq. Archibald Hastie, Esq., M.P. George Taylor, Esq. The MANAGER—George Pollard, Esq. SOLICITORS—Messrs Tilson, Squance, Clarke, and Morice. The following report was presented : It will be seen from the annexed accounts that the amount a net profit realised by the Rank, during the half-year ending 31st De c mber last, is 25,1321. 10s. Bd., vi hich, with I i,433/. l 4 Id. carried forward from June, makes a total of 40,5661, 4s. 9d., which Is ap propriated In the following manner-18,0001. for a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum ; 22,5001. as a bonus of 7s. 6d. per share ; and 661 4s. 9d to the credit of the Guarantee Fund, now amounting - to 132,7231. 3s. Bd. The Dividend and Bonus, free from income-tax, will be payable on and after FRIDAY, the 25th instant. The Directors who retire by rotation are Archibald Hestia, Esq , M.P. ; William Mitcalfe, Esq.; Ambrose Moore, Esq.; John Ti mothy Oxley, Esq. ; and William Shadbolt, Esq. ; of whom Mr. Nagle, Mr. Moore, Mr. Oxley, and Mr. Shadbolt only offer them selves for re-election. The Directors regret that, owing to ill•health, Mr. Mitcalfe is unable to tender to the shareholders a renewal of his services. To supply this vacancy, the only shareholder duly qualified who has given notice that he is a candidate, is Alderman Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P. The preceding Report having been read to the maeting by the Se cretary, a - dividend for the h If-year ending 31st December last, after the rate of 61. per centum per annum, and a further dividend of 7s. 6d. per share out of the net profit of the year ending as above, were de clared by the Chairman. Resolved unanimously,—That the report now read be received, and that it be printed for the use of the shareholders. Of the five Directors who had retired from office by virtue of the provisions of the Deed of Settlement, the following four were re elected, viz., Archibald Haste, Esq., M.P. ;- Ambrose Moore, Esq. ; John Timothy Oxley, Esq. ; and Wm. Sha :bolt, Esq. ; and Alder- Man Sir James-Duke, Bart., M.P., was elected • a Director of this Bank in the room of Wm. 3iitcalfe, Esq. Resolved unanimously,—That this Meeting desires to record its acknowledgment of the past services of Mr.-Mitcalfe, and their sin cere regret for the cause of his retirement from the Direction of this Bank. - - - - Resolved unanimously.—That the best thanks of the shareholders are due, and are hereby given, to the Chairman- and-Directors, to wham they are-so much indebted for the prosperity of the affairs of the Bank: Resolved unanimously,—That the cordial thanks of-this Meeting he given to Mr. Pollard, the Manager, for his unwearied exertions in promoting the Interests of the Bank and his general courtesy to the customers.- - -GEORGE SCHOLEFIELD, Chairman. Extracted from the minutes. - - F. IIEW-ETT f Secretary. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " A Friend to the Poor, Ripon."—We duly e_timats the kindliness and liberality of our Correspondent, but his proposition is - not, in our opinion, calculated to effect so much benefit as Mr. Sidney Herbert's very oxcelient plan, which we recommend to his generous attention. THE SUN, LONDON, HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tn DAY °riling, 46 min. after 4 1 Evening. 5 min. after 5 Te-Monaow—Morning, 24 min. after 5 Evening, 41 min. after 5 TiiE WEATHER.—Sin Omcz, JAN. 18. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 28; Highest, 35; Noon, 32. BAROMETER, 29.95. WIND variable from S.E. to S.W.—gain and sleet. V • , s orß CM • et . • g , - *Mk .k , 4 • 4 1.. 4 1 ••• = 4.. „ 4" . ....f 111 rt ' ebriening .."" LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1850. Once more before-the opening of Parliament occu pies public attention, with purely political matters, we would recommend to the consideration of our readers the claims of that very excellent remedy for a gene rally lamented evil—the Female Emigrant Fund. Three subscription lists have already been made public =--the' slims subscribed amounting to more than sixteen thousand pounds, and the subsnribers' names, including individuals of all classes, from her MAJESTY to the humble artisan, and of all opinions, from the Marquis of Gaannr to Baron ROTHSCHILD. Yet, notwithstanding the great success which has attended the opening of the subscription, the sum obtained, large as it may appear—large indeed as it is—is not enough -to carry out the work as it should be carried out. A few thousands more will effect an almost incalculable difference, and taking the merits of the case into consideration, we can _ hardly believe that those few thousands will be re 'r fused. Unfortunately, however, it has been attempted to give a political bias to a matter of a purely social charkcter, and moreover avowedly of only a tempo- rary ratre. The case is so simple, and its beneficial properties so- obvious, that it is difficult to enter into the prejudices of its opponents. The case is briefly thus—the benevolent public have been repeatedly distressed by cruel accounts of the arduous labours and inadequate earnings of the needlewomen of the metropolis. At one time - those sufferings formed the theme of an exquisitely pathetic ballad— again and again they have filled the columns of newspapers, and have continually excited the commiseration of all. Finally, a meeting of the un happiest of the sufferers took place, and a fact, long suspected, was publicly announced in a daily paper. It was told how, in an enlightened age, irr the midst of a wealthy, a philanthropic, and a religious people, in the reign, moreover, of a woman—a young, pure, kind-hearted woman—girls and mothers, once as good and :as gentle as that Royal Lady, are compelled, literally compelled, under peril of starvation, to em brace a life of ignominy and sin. Many there are who turn from the consideration of this subject with a careless indifference, but few, we believe, very few, actually examine into and ponder over its details without groaning in spirit over the contemplation of so much and such bitter anguish. We should all of us be wiser and better if we were more accustomed to extend the narrow circle of our sympathies. We should, undoubtedly, become more grateful for the blessings we ourselves enjoy, and more compassionate for the wants and wishes of others, if somewhat oftener than at present we turned our attention to that other half of the world of whom we know so little. We teach our children the manners and cus toms of foreign nations, we lament over the cruelty and immorality of the heathen and the infidel, but we neglect to inquire if it be true that, in our own land, at the doors cf our many churches, and under the shadow of our stately hospitals, haggard wretches with wasted frames and depraved hearts, in their days of fruitless toil and their nights of miserable sin, again and again re-echo that pitiful ejaculation— " It's 0 to be a slave Along with the barbarous Turk, Where Woman has never a soul to save, If this is Christian work!" It is not our purpose now to recapitulate these hor rors ; happily, they have been set forth in a manner which cannot have failed to move the hearts of all who have met with that most melancholy revelation. These evils had been long recognised and generally deplored when Mr. SIDNEY' HERBERT first ventured to give a practical turn to the general com miseration. What avail is it to pity the sufferings without helping the sufferer ? Some few unthink ing philanthropists threw the whole blame of the workwomen's sorrows upon their niggardly paymas ters, but those who reflected upon the case saw at once that the evil chiefly arose from the terrible mul • tiplicity of hands. To reduce that number appeared the simplest and most efficacious remedy ; at the same time it is notorious, that among the crowd now seeking their fortunes in the New World the female emigrants are few and far between. Since the days when CANNING . fint exclaimed with boastful exultation, " I called a new world into existence to redress the balance of the'old !" that magnificent boast has never been more felicitously realised than it has been by Mr. HERBERT'S proposition. Who can w on d er t h at that proposition has met wit such immedi a t e and proposition so feasibl e i n universal approbation—a execution, and so doubly advantageous in its effects ? The rich and the benevolent are solicited not for an almsgiving productive of only evanescent benefit—they are asked to prove the reality of their benevolence by putting a stop' to an intolerable evil here, and at the same time effecting a remedy to a social grievance in the colonies. They are asked to arrest the sup plies whence are furnished the miserable victims of a miserable and vicious trade, and, by stopping those supplieS ivhile yet uncontaminated, to turn their course and direct them to where they may be productive of social virtue and individual happiness. This is what the subscribers of the Female Emigrant Fund propose to do, and this can only be efficaciously accomplished by an adequate Aura being provided. Give, then, while there is yet opportunity, all you who have been loud in your phi lanthropic lamentations! Heed not the plausible remonstrances of the political economist, who may tell you that this is not the right way to go to work. Reply to him that this is a temporary means to overcome a present evil. We are well aware that a wider and a deeper system of reform is required to purify the under• current of our social system; and such reforms we intend to have before long. But in the meantime there is an existing and intolerable evil (who can deny it ?) to remedy which future reforms are ineffectual. A means is before us of alleviating it—again we say, who can deny it ? and why then shall we hesitate to make use of it ? Our facetious contemporary Punch, whose ordinary humour only gives additional force to his occasional pathos, has recently contrasted the luxurious profusion obtained by " Pin-Money" with the beggarly produce of " Needle-money," and again he has showed us side by side the starving workwoman rushing into " the streets," (as must be her fate if— "0 it is pitiful In a whole cit3ful, Friends she has none,") and the same, or a similar sufferer, happy in a do mestic home beyond the seas, as may be her fate and the fate of thousands, if rescued by the timely succour of the Emigrant Fund. h not the experiment at least worth the trial ? Much has already been given—a little more, and incalculable blessings may be its result ! Towards the close of the year 1848 a feeling of deep sympathy was excited on behalf of a much in jured man. After enduring the most heartrending sufferings for more than four years, Mr. WILLIAM HENRY BARBER was at length restored to his family and friends, with an untainted character. An act of tardy (can we call it) justice was performed, and the unfortunate gentleman was at length permitted to revisit his native land, from which he had been so long an exile, and where his entire innocence of the offence for which he had been erroneously convicted had been fully and completely established. From the defective state of the law, there was no tribunal by which he could be reinstated in his former position, and the mistaken decision of the jury reversed. No appeal is allowed in criminal cases so far as the " facts" are concerned. Although the innocence of the criminal may be rendered clear as light, although no doubt could remain in any ra tional mind on the subject, the fatal verdict must remain for ever recorded. The decision of the jury is indeed final and irrevocable. One remedy, and one only (but, oh, how inadequate !) remains to the victim. He who has undergone unmerited persecutions, who has much to forgive his fellow-men, must be contented to receive, with all humility, his pardon for an offence of which he was never guilty! The losses, the misery he has sustained must be forgotten. He can claim no re compense for the days and nights of sleepless agony, for blighted prospects and vanished hopes. Pardon is all he can demand, too happy if his claim be even tually recognised. That pardon, free and unconditional, was awarded to Mr. BARBER after a long and weary probation. It was even rendered more valuable by being accom panied by a letter, in which the Home Secre tary, after " full and anxious consideration," expressed his belief that the victim was " free from any guilty participation in the frauds of which he had been made the instrument." Seldom, indeed, have such acknowledgments been made by official person ages to convicted prisoners, and it is greatly to the credit of Sir GEORGE GREY that he so far departed from the ordinary rule. It proved that he was thoroughly convinced that no lingering doubt re mained—that guilt was not only "not proved," but that clear, palpable, and unquestionable innocence had been established. There were, indeed, few persons competent to form a judgment on the case who did not feel a similar convic tion. Perhaps no man had ever previously succeeded, under such circumstances, in bringing forward a body of evidence so powerful and conclusive. There was not only the confessions of the real criminals, of those who bad succeeded in deceiving Mr. BARBER, as any professional man might have been deceived, but there was a consistency and verisimilitude in their statements, agreeing completely with his own un varying assertions and declarations ab initio, that must have fully satisfied any unprejudiced inquirer. The conduct and demeanour of the unfortunate gen tleman powerfully strengthened his case. There was a meekness under persecution, a mild and patient fortitude, which nothing could confer but a mind conscious of its own rectitude, a deep and fervent spirit of religion, and an humble hope that the period would at length arrive when all would be cleared up, and the true state of the case be made apparent. d whh h oe e mmb w eh i lehi n eefc t h aownl e f ae r st e hi s npe p l e atc c oeo t tenad a tl : d ca(t,bf, e :wen t n e lhl e co m etei leoeorf certified t in the unf or t unate affair, but even unhesitating u w nnl i yd t h edr w i the wretched knowledgetfyrn r ts e so tched and degraded beings with whom he was associated looked up to him as one of a different order from themselves; he was "with them, but not of them." While they were expiating guilt, and sus taining the punishments due to their respective crimes, he was undergoing much greater privations, and an intensity of suffering far beyond theirs. " Much greater," we say, because his former position had been widely different from theirs ; and the very association with the outcasts by whom he was sur rounded has in itself a misery and a degradation of no ordinary magnitude; and all this he was enduring although free from guilt and unstained by crime. It might be supposed that, when liberated from confinement, and once more restored to the society of freemen, every assistance would have been rendered to enable him to resume his former position. He had been carried away from England at the public expense —a free passage home at least should be accorded, and ample resources placed at his disposal, to enable him to reach his native land with ease and comfort ; but no such aid was in store. His conditional pardon (for a conditional one only was first granted) was announced, and he was directed to deliver up his pri son clothing, without any other being supplied to him, and to find his way as he best could, naked and penniless, to Hobart Town, to receive the official document. What the mercy of the Govern ment denied was, however, rendered by those who had lately been his fellow-captives, who gladly con tributed a portion of their clothing to relieve the ne cessities of the " innocent convict." Mr. BARBER WAS subsequently enabled to return to Europe by the liberal and munificent subscriptions collected at Syd ney and Madras ; and, as we have already stated, he reached his home in the month of November, 1848. Here, at least, there should have been an end of oppression and persecution ; here, he should have been freed from any unpleasant consequences resulting from the mistaken verdict of the jury. His first desire was to resume the practice of that profession by which he bad formerly realised a considerable income, and to the very highest ranks of which he was rapidly ascending when the untoward circumstances occurred which brought ruin and d& solation upon his hearth. But here, again, an unex. pected obstacle has been interposed, which bas corn- gelled him to remain another year in compulsory idleness, unable to engage in professional pursuits. By the Attorneys and Solicitors Act (6 and 7 Victoria, cap. 73, section 25, and by Rule of Court adopted Easter Term,. 1846) it is necessary for an attorney who has omitted the renewal of his certifi cate for twelve months to apply for liberty to do so to the Court or to a Judge at Chambers. Desirous of the utmost publicity, Mr. BARBER applied to the full Court, having previously given the usual notices, which expired on the last day of Hilary Term, 1849. No evidence was then brought forward to show that his petition could not be granted ; but it was suggested on the part of the Incorporated Law Society that some inquiry should he made before the renewal of the certificate should be granted ; the matter was accord ingly referred to the Master, in whose office it long remained, moving on according to the mere will and pleasure of the Incorporated Law Society. AU things, however tedious, must have some termination. The report of the Master was actually finished, and on the first day of the present term Mr. Sergeant W 11.81149, on behalf of Mr. BARBER, applied to the Courkto fix a day for hearing the arguments, and the 26th instant was accordingly appointed for that purpose. Here then has this unfortunate gentleman already been delayed nearly fifteen months, from the time of his arrival in England, and the matter is still unsettled, and to this moment he knows not what new difficulties may be interposed to dash the cup from his very lip. The sole reason why the matter has at all been brought before the Court is, that Mr. BARBER omitted to take out his certificate for more than twelve months. This discontinuance was occasioned by his arrest and im proper conviction. But for the obduracy of the then Government who refused to take the entire circum stances of his case into consideration, and the difficul ties with which he was studiously surrounded, his innocence could have been as fully established in the few months that intervened between his trial, and deportation to Norfolk Island, as it has sub sequently been, and in that case he would not only have been spared the fearful sufferings he subse quently endured, but he would have had no occasion to have come before the Court, but could have obtained his certificate as a matter of course, as in former years. It is somewhat hard, that because his sufferings had been aggravated by a voyage of four months in that horrible floating dungeon —a prison ship, and by nearly three years captivity in that ocean hell—Nor folk Island, to say nothing of being unjustly de prived of a lucrative and increasing practice, and of six years of the prime of his life, that he should now be subjected to this harassing and wearisome struggle for his certificate. It would seem, indeed, to be a matter of the simplest equity, that after the palpable and unquestionable error which carried with it such fearful and heartrending results, the unfor tunate gentleman should be placed—legally, at least— in the same position in which he stood previous to the charge now universally acknowledged to have been groundless. Everything opposed to that broad prin ciple is merely adding additional injuries to those which be has already undergone. The only issue we submit that remains for the Court to decide is this: whether matters have been brought forward which would in themselves be suf ficient to warrant the removal of Mr. BARBER'S name from the roll of attorneys and his expulsion from his profession. If this be true, why should such unnecessary delays be tolerated—delays which carry with them the deepest injury to the ill-treated applicants ? THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The discussion on the Education Bill was resumed on Wednesday and again adjourned. pay of the non-co mm i ss i one d T h fu e r C i o n m er m ea i s t i t e ee g t t h o e which the Ministerial proposi tionofficers in the army was referred has chosen M. Pis- CATORT as reporter, M. ODILON BARROT having declined the office. According to the Journal des Debats, the Committee has decided by a majority of 15 to 12 to report against the proposition as pre sented by General D'HauTrouL, and to present another of a more general nature, and which shall ex tend to corporals and privates. The Evenement states that a new Parliamentary club is about to be formed under the direction of the Duke DE BROGLIE, NIM. TIMERS and PISCATORY. It is further stated that a new Parliamentary club is about to be opened in the interest.of the PRESIDENT, and that it will hold its sittings in the Palais National. La Presse states that at a Cabinet Council, held on Wednesday, it was resolved almost unanimously that no intervention in the affairs of Monte Video should take place even should the Government of that Republic offer to pay the expenses. The Moniteur contains the following announce. meats : " The Procureur of the Republic has ordered the Liberte to be seized at the Post-office and on the premises of the journal. The gerant is pursued, first, for publica tion, in bad faith,' of false news cf a nature to trouble the public peace; salondly, for exciting to hatred and contempt of the Government,of the Republic. The pro secution has be en provoked by three articles which f ellow in succession, the first cf which is entitle 1 Organiser la Resistance." "The journal La Liberte of the Bth cf January pub lished an article in which there is mention of a gratuity of 1,500,000 francs, 'that a company which offers to undertake the railway from Lyons to Avignon, has con sented to pay down in ready cash.' The Procureur of the Republic has ordered inquiry t i be made regarding the facts alleged by the Liberte. The gerant of the jour nal will be summoned before the magistrates charged with this inquiry, to give precise explanations as to the facts or the source from which he derived them," The Reforme has again been seized. The " clerical party" has been carrying on a war of slander, calumny, and insinuation, against the PRESIDENT of the Republic ever since, by the publi cation of his letter to M.EDGATID Nnr, he informed the world that he would not permit himself to be the instrument of their blind hatred. Their eff its to debauch the soldiers have been as persevering as they have been unsucces'ful, and they are now en deavouring to accomplish a coup d'etat, by deposing the PRESIDENT, and appointing General CHANGAR NIER as the French Haynau to do the behests of a camarilla of priests, The Assembler Nationale, the organ of this party, assumes that there exists an intention of appointing General MacsiAN to the command of the garrison of Paris, in the room of General CHANGARNIER and thereupon this organ of the party of " order" and " legality" declares that the Assembly would in such case not hesitate to choose General CHANGARNIER President of the Assembly, and set him up to depose the PRESIDENT of the Republic. The article thus concludes : " At the side of the chair of the Presdent cf the As sembly there is a dictatorship, and no one will deny that a President of the stamp of General Chargarnier could not, in a moment of crisis, abaadon the chair except to receive from a vote of the Assembly the supreme aad sovereign formula—Caveant Consules." It is well that at length the truth should be known ; it appears clear then from the avowal of the " clerical party" that they are determined, even at the risk of civil war, to do their utmost to reduce France to the by y otal despotism. On forcing h e r t o su b m it t o the levelof h e ly ari t r i a e l g tyrannypa Spain, a sacerdotal the subject of these repeated rumours of intended coups d'etat, we find the following in the Constitu tionnel : " It-ports are again current relative to coups d'etat. It is a kind of attack which the present Opposition keep permar clay on its order of th e d ay. We have just ° trd that procee , !ings have b een or d ered against a jour nalth e Presidentwhich f denouncedthe Republic,sma prep aratory wor k d one by to sound the fe e ling s o f the army on the proclamation of an empire. General officers had been summoned and interrogated. If the imperial enterprise were to be attempted, General Mag• nan would replace General Chargarnier in the command of the first military division. These are circumstantial details. As they have no kind of foundation, the Go• vernment has naturally thought that they were of the nature of those false reports and lying news, which hav ing fir their object, or at least for their effect, to alarm public opinion and interests, and to cause an injury to public fortune, which are provided against and punished by the penal code. As journalists, we do not judge this prosecution brought against a journal. But we can understand that the Government, driven to extremities by the systematic perseverance in such unjust charges, should employ new means to put an end to it. The Pre sident of the Republic, since the 10 t h D ecember, has victoriously replied to these calumnies by the invariable loyalty of his conduct; he has only made use of the force with which he has been armed by public opinion and passing events, to impose on alt, and to religiously practise hiniselF, a respect for the laws." - A meeting took place on Tuesday at the residence of General CAVAIGNAC. Among those present were Generals DE LAMORICIERF ' BEDEAU, LEF LO , an d LEBRETON. A good d e al of discussion took place on the subject of the recent rumours of a coup d'etat, and the general feeling expressed was that no at tempt of the kind was to be feared for the present. The " clerical party" are at length throwing off the mask. The following, which appears in the De mocratic Pacifique, furnishes an admirable example of what the " liberty of teaching" is for which the prelates and priests of France have been calling out for the last two years : " There has been for many years at Bergerac a boarding-school for Young ladies, which has acquired a high fame, and which is directed with much success by the sister of lane of the most reactionary members of the Council-General of the department. The fame of this establishment attracted several Protestant pupils, the parents of whom requested the governess, whose orthodox Catholicity is well known, to engage an assistant belonging to the Evangelical faith. This very natural condition was accepted, and carried into execution to the satisfaction of all parties, when M GEORGE, Bishop of Perigueux, caused it to be noti fied to :Madlle. G. that if she continued to keep in her establishment an assistant who was a Protestant, he would forbid the exercise of the Catholic worship to herself and her pupils. She has therefore been obliged to dismiss her Protestant governess. The circumstance has created a great sensation at Ber gerac." Thi s s p ec i men o f t h e t o l e rance exercised by Catholicity i n th e ascendant speaks for itself." It is stated, in quarters gene Roman affair s , th a t a difficulty has arisen relative to the Pore's r e t urn to R ome. I t i s sa id th a t the P OPE has consented to return to his capital, but on condi tion that he shall be accompanied by the King of NAPLES, General BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS, Baron D'ASPEE, the Commander-in-Chief of the Austrian troops in the Legations, and General CORDOVA,. Commander of the Spanish troops. "MO farther requires that on his arrival at FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY lB, 1850 the Vatican the Austrian flag, which had been torn down and insulted by the Republicans, shall be hoisted and saluted by the French troops with twenty one guns. It is said that General BARAGUAT DILL- Lnos,'who has male great concessions to conciliate the Sovereign PONTIFF, is not inclined to accede to' these conditions. There was but little business transacted on the Bourse, and the fluctuations were insignificant. The Five per Cents. opened at 94f. 15c., and closed at the same price ; the Three per Cents., closed at 57f. 70c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 830 r.; Rouen, ' 585 f. ; Havre 245 f. ; Great Northern, 4611. 25c. ' • Avignon, 215 f. ; Vierzon, 3311. 25c. ; Basle, 116 f. 25c.; Bordeaux, 4151. ; Paris and Strasburg, 3581. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 2751. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JAN. 17. Boulogne and Amiens, 7%—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 12% ex in.—Dutch Rhenish, I%—Madrid and Valentia, Y R —Northern of France, 1 . 1 : i dis. ex in.— Orleans and Bourdeaux, 3% ex in.—Paris and Rouen, 23 Paris and Strasbourg, 0,4 ex in.—Sambre and Meuse, 3. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 11th have arrived. It is stat€d that although the Committee has re ported in favour of the authorization demanded by the Minister for the collection of the taxes of 1850, there will be a strong opposition to the measure in the Chamber. Several Members, it is said, have determined to propose a vote of censure on the Mi nistry for asking for this authorization. _ _ MADRID BoLSa, JAN. il.—The Three per Cents., 28 5.16; Five per Cents, 121, both paper. Exchange on London, 50 30. GERMANY. Accounts have been received from Berlin of the 15th. The Committee of the Second Chamber were proceeding to consider the amendments proposed to be introduced into the Constitution. They have adopted the proposition according to which all mat ters of finance are to be introduced in the first instance into the Second Chamber, and that by which the electoral law of May 30, 184, is to be provisionally maintained. The First Chamber of Hanover, on the 11th, adopted, after a long discussion, the resolution of the Second Chamber on the German question, conforma bly to the wish of the Ministry. Count BENIGSEN, Minister for Foreign Affairs, made several commu nications to the Chamber upon the relations of Hanover with the confederation of the three Kings. Accounts have been received from 'Vienna to the 11th. The Wiener Zeitung of that day publishes the project of the Minister of Justice, VON SCHMER LINO, for the complete and efficient carrying out of the fundamental principles of the judicialorganization of the Crown lands of Hungary, as sanctioned by the EMPEROR. A correspondent from Stuttgard, of the 13th inst., in the Kolner Zeitung says : " The King of Prussia's Message to his Parliament has made a great sensation in our country. It Ras by no means welcome to the friends ( f the Prussian League, for there is no country in Germany more averse to the privileges cf rank and station than the kingdom of Wurternberg. If Prussia were to crate an hereditary peerage she would destroy her ground in this country." MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yett , ..reay were esti mated at from 7,000 to 8,000 bales, ef which 3,000 American were taken for export, and on speculation. The sales compri se d 900 B raz il at 6 a 1. to 711., 300 Egyptian at 71 , Y. to 8.1 d., and 500 Surat at 4D. to 41d. per lb. The market closed firmly for all deacril tons except Surat, which were a shade) lower.—Railway Shares were st, , ady at full prices. The Grain market is heavy, to-day,'but the arrivals cf . foreign wheat do not exceed 1,960 quarters. 01 foreign barley there are 7,570 quarters and of oats 6,580 quarters. - There is scarcely more unanimity of opinion upon the question of produce and Consol prices to be expected in the City than there is agreement among doctors, so con flicting are the interests, so warped the judgment, or so strained the reports transmitted from abroad. Here cce at once see the legitimate sphere and utility of an impar tial public writer, watching the varying features of the markets, sifting and reconciling as far as may the adverse or favourable opinions given, and presenting the resu't in a succinct form. All who are attentive to such matters have heard for some time past of the continuous rise in coffee, bat it has now gone so far as to excite the idea of a reaction. We Lelieve that coffee was a few months back much too low, whether in reference to the supplies or the fair remuneration to the colonial planter, hut whether such a wholesale advance is justified may he disputed. Some brokers contend that it is; others that a speedy reactio❑ is coming, and as we have for merly quoted the Belt's, we may now fairly give a hear ing to the Bears, without Leing hell responsible for the extreme views on either side. Messrs. Franks and Millard request us to notice their impression that " the coffee trade after many months of extraordinary excitement, and a rapid advance in prices, amounting to something like 100 per cent., is, we think, about to assume quite a different appearance. A material diminution has been apparent in operations during the last few days; holders likewise ere losing confidence, and are pressing sales at reduced rates. The home trade, throughout, have acted with caution, and only purchased sufficient for their im mediate wants, founded on the well-grounded fact that prices have been driven up by artificial means. There is no scarcity of coffee, and accounts with respect to the present crops have been misrepresented. In Java and in the Brazils production will not be quite equal to last season; in other ports there will be a larger yield, and of Ceylon there will be a heavy crop, a large prc portion of which is likely to consist of celery mountain kinds. The re ader will at once be convinced of the artificial position of the market, when we state the re cent weekly sales of Ceylon at from 30,000 to 60,000 cwt., whilst deliveries for all purposes have been only from 3,400 to 8,000 cwt. weekly fir home use and ex port, acid are now below the latter rate. The stock, which two months hack was 194,000, is now 200,000 cwt., notwithstanding the late immense opera tions of speculators. There can be no doubt that a further diminution will take place in con sumption this season by an increased adulteration with chicory, which the grocers will be compelled to use for the purpose of vending a cheap article t) the public." During the present week coffee has sensibly declined in price, but holders endeavour to buoy it up by with holding supplies. Sugar has been in favour. Spices have had a steady sale, and Rum, Saltpetre, Tea, and Tallow are rather looking up. Accounts of February 15 from Frankfort quote the Austrian Metallics at 87, and Spanish Three per Cents. at 30i. At Amsterdam on Wednesday the general tone of the stock market was feebler. The Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents, were 55i to 55 5-16ths. Information had been received by the Committee c f Spanish Ameri can Bondholders at Amsterdam, from Baron Grovee tins, the Dutch Ambassador at Madrid, to the effect that M. Bravo Muril!o had given a positive a-surance that in the course of the present session a project for the regulation ( f the debt shall bo presented to the Cortes. The meeting at the London Tavern upon the subject of the Russian loan has attracted an immense audience, and thinned many of the usual places of business resort. The English Stock marker, although still fluctuating, is firmer than it wag, and there is a better feeliing. Consols have been 96 to f for Transf .r, and 96f to ft.r Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cente. have been 98f to 98k, and the Three per Cent. Reduced 96h- t) India Stock has been firm at 265. Exchequer bills are 55.. to 61r. premium. Foreign Securities generally are rather pile`. Mex!- can Bonds have ['eon 28i to 29h. Peruvian have risen to 664 and 67k. Buenos Ayres Stock is worth 50, and Brazilian 88/. Russian has bean at 1071 t 1081. French Five per Cents are worth 94, with the exchange at 25 .50. Shares are good. ONE 0,L0.,E,G P ! ,:. 4 , •itlTl6ll - UNT.)s O'CLOCK. PRICES. dank Stock ...... . ........... .......... 207 1 / 207 1 % 3 ~er Cent. Reduced Arm per Cent. Consols Annuities........ 96 l is v, 96 96 1 / s 96A . ti ,w 3 1 4 per Cent. Anns.- 9 BV/41 98 5, 4 Long Anna. to expire Jan.lß6o Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 -16 8 7-16 Ditto 30 year:, Jan. 5, 1860. 8 7-16 8 7 -16 India Stock udia Bonds, 1,0001 .... . ... 95 98 p 98 p Ditto under 1,0001.. ....... ....-.... 95 93 p 98 p South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities onsols for Account 9 6 , A 1, 4 1/ 0, 96% x chequer Bilk. 1,000/. June 5B 61 p 500/. June Small. June ' 58 61 p 61 p 61 p 61 p rILOSIN' PRICES 8814 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. oicE O'CLOCK, :razillan Bonds Ditto, Sinai! Ditto, sew, 1829 and 1839 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 5O Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. Ditto Deferred Guatemala Bonds ... 30 32 2S e.exican, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ......... Ditto, Account 28% 29% Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto. Account ...... 67 67 1 /06 3 / 4 67 1 A 674 Ditto Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto,4 per Cent. rtussian Bonds ps,niel! 5 per Cent. 1840 .. 19% 19 3 4 Ditto. 3 per Cent Ditto, Account. 36%% 36 %8 Dividends on the above payable in London French Rentes, 5 per Cent 94f. 941. Exchange Dutch 2 4-. per Cent., 12 Guild. .. Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificate: — 87 1 4 50 14 56 1 ,4 I•NICES OF rAm. :BUSINESS DONE CLOSINu l ATLWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. k b er d een Do. Preference —'dis. — dis, mber. Nott., Bobten, and Eastern Junction 7114 ,`.yrshira and Galloway.. 7 1 A 3 — !elfast & County Down 28 ...... —. l3erks & Hants Extens. (Gt. West. Per. 5 per ct.) 6 Birmingham and Ox t‘ rd Junct., calls duly paid, or vvith a guaran. 20 Do, without guarantee 20 _ tiirrning, Wolverh'ton, and D. , alley, calls duly pd, cr ',vita guarantee 10 ..... Do. Withoutguarantee 10 Birming.,Wolverh'pton , and Stour Valley 131. 14s ... B rkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 20 ..... _ .. Bristol and Exeter 92 ... .. 62 .. . Ditto, Thirds 17 1 4 "uckinghamvhire Caledonian Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 Ditto,Clyclosdale June 50 . . . .... hostel - and Ho!yhead... 50 Ditto, Preferewa l5 Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Porte mouth Dublin and Belfast June. 40 ...... Dundalk & Enniskillen 30 ast Anglian, 251., L & 44E. and L. and D...... 25 Do. 181., E. & H.... 18 Do., 3/. 10s., Pref... 3 r Ditto, 71. 175., 7 per Cent., Preference... 2 . r.astern Courtier,— ..... 20 Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. 10 Ditto,Exteu.sion, 5 per Cent. No.l 61.135. 4d.... p x.i. -p x.i. • Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... p... l4 p Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. ....,..... 50 ...... Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 Do. New ... 43 - Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, a itto... 6 Do., Class B & C 25 — Do. Scrip (6per emu.) 20 ... .. ..... East Laucashire - Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters 6; A I. ...... '" Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 6 , 4 ...... East Lincolnshire ...... 25 .. ..... 28% x. i... 2 8 14 x. i. dinhurgh and Glasgow 50 ...... .. Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 - .• Edinburgh and Northern 25 Ditto, Newport l5 .. ... e:xeter,Yeovil, & Dorch. 2 5 ,,, —x. i —x. i . Exeter and Exmouth... 2Is. (.I!sgow, Dumerios, and Carlisle ........•• -81. 69. 8d.... Glasgow,Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 7% 111,E ..sg. Do.Preferenee Consul. Gloucester &Dean Forest 12 1 / 2 — ire,at Northern , _ 1 9 o o .. : A , t 2 I A . 1 t Di peref e Deferred n 1 t ll l i t ... •• ;rDeaol.,sswl::tetr,..Caen.ndt.‘ly.'ers,,tf... 12'4 ..... -- (Ireland) . - .,roat. Noi - tb of Enghind 1C,!1 ......232 ................232 Ditto, New, -iil/ -i0 Ditto, ditto. Ditto, New, 301......... 3i) Ditto. New,1.51... ...... 15 .. .. —.— Great Wester: , 100 ..... 6-11; 63 Ditto, t. Shares 5O Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares Ditto, Fifths - ~. 20 - Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... . 81.... ...... 8% Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ......100 , / 2 lv% Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... 50 1 4_ 50% Do. Quarter Shares... 121, - Lancaster and Carbee... 50 ...... .... •-•---- Ditto, Thirils Lancaehire& Yorkshire 100 56 Ditto, tlitt9 Ditto. 1 !, Shares ...... 49 ... - Do. Quart/4! s ... ...... 23% — .. ..... Do. Fifths... ......... ... 10 Do. Thirds ........ Do. Ntw Guaranteed ft i - er Cent.-- lO ....•• 12% ...... .••—••• Ditto (filiddorsfteld and Shoff.) ... 50 Do. (W. Rifti ng U n i on ) 1 0 ..... Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 D 0.% Shares (A)... 10 - LeAs and Bradford 5O lO3 ......... ...... Leeds and Thirsk Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct 3%..... Do., do. No. 2 10 Do., do ......No. 3 5 - ... ........ .. Do., Pref. Quar., 181 S 9 Liverpool, Crosby and Southport lO Lindon & Black wa11...11/. 6s. 3d... Lonion, Brighton, ar d South C0ait...... 100 ...... 83% 83 .... Do., New 5/., guaran teed 6 per.Cent.....loo l3B ... Do.GuArani. o per et.. V — Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 ••• • Ditto ditt0...... Iri:,2 50 ..... Li radonand Greenwich 12/1534d... ... .... . Ditto, Prefemn , P .. . 20 ...,.. L indt , n and N. We:?tern 100 115%% 116 115 Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 Ditto, Fift'i . ~... ...... 12 ..... 14 14 , 4 14 . Do. 40/.5h. , re5(L.7.. 4 - 1 ..) 35 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) C. 1 London &S VT-stern -100 .... .. Do, New 50/. . ....... 42%...... Lo. New 40' 34 Do.. New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. ... 5 Londoaderr3 & - k.)oierainti 23 ...... Do. 1 h Shares . .. 5 Londonderry and Ennis killen Do. % Shares 5 ...... ............« Lowestoli, guar. 4 per et 20 ...... Ditto (6 per ct.) Manchester,Buston,and Matlock 6 -- MAnchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo - .... Do. Quarters (No. 1) 25 Ph 125 116% 13% 67% Ditto ditto (r O. 2)... 25 D 0.% Shares (N 0.3) 12% — Do. New 10/. Pref..... 10 8%% Ditto, Gt.Grimsby ... b 0 Ditto ditto . 20 .•••••••••••••. Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 25 . ••• Do., Grimsby Dock 25 .. . . Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union..... 4/. 2s. — Midland . ....... iJo. Consolidated Pref.loo 8% 44% .... f si Do., do., 501. Shares 30 ••• -. _ . 63i mi - Do. Birm., and Derby 1(0 Do. Consol. Bristol and Binning., 6 per ct.... 100 Ditto,finst. & tilocetr. 42 - .............• Ditto ditto ... 22/. 7s. •• ••• De.,Erew.asfaVal.,Pref. 50 Ditto, Leieest.& Swan ningtun, 8 per ct.guar.loo blidiand Great Western Irish 474 ****** ....•.......ii Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and Carlisle 100 ....... Do. Quarters Quarters Ntwmarket ..... . 23 Do. li.xtension - Newport, Abergavenny, ,:nd Hereford 6 .•..•• N - ewrs an d Enniskillen 7 . - i ewry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor .. 20 Norfolk •••••• •••• ....... .•••100 Do. New ZUG. .... Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20 Do. Guaranteed sje 2 pc. 5 Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 • Northern Counties Union 4 North British ........ ••• 25 .... , Ditto, Halves .. —... 12% — .. Ditto, Quarters Ditto, Thirds .... 8i .. .. ...... Ditto Preference North Staffordshire ... 17% 7 :%4% North Wale.. North-Western .... ()shard, Worcester, and Wolverhampton .... 60 g - ading, Gundtord, and Reigate t..oyeton and Hitchin ... 44..... 5%... .• ...... ••• 14 % 3cottish Central Scottish Midland Ditto, New Shrewsbury and Bina... 1.2 1 A . — x. i.... .. .. Ditto ditto, Cass B. 8 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 ...... Shrewsbury and Herald. 6 ..... Shrewsbury & Cheater (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 Ditto Osweary ...... 18% — Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref fkihropsnite Union South Devon Do. Preference South ::31;731.fOrCighir 3 B% — •••.• ....... .. South Ea.ttra Do., N 0.4. - ......•....... Do., No. 3 ..... ...... 30 Do., Registered No. 4 10 Do., Eon) N.) 4 - ••..•• ••... •.. iouth Waio3 .. 43 6 , L,t,, Yorkshire, Don ,;aster, and Goole l2 ........ Si sffield, Rotherham, i% Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. ... 16% — Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 5 Swans. & Long hot. & Ca meron's Stria. Coal. ... 7 alv Vale Extension .. 8 i kmnes Haven Dock ;i ... .- x• I _. x•i 1 - SP• 2O and Railway ..... ... 17 1 h ...... Vale of Neath ... .. ...... 10 ..... A aterford and Kilkenny 20 . -. .. ...• WAter!urct and Limenck 47% ...... 4 aterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw .., and Dublin - ...... Wear Valley 6 per Cent. ..- Guaranteed ... ... ..... 50 ...... --. .... 2 1 Do. do. do. ... 25 -••-•...... ...... , Du. do. do. ... 15 • - ..... ........ . 4 , lf est Cornwall .... ,V hit - al-wen & runless IS indsor, Staines, and .... South Western. .... ... 14 ...... ...... - ..... •. `,..: i ..t. s, Son:, Ir,i , t, ',.: We, - o q t Si g month • Lux, Now, ....le, isliki 11% Lerwick.... .. .. ..... ~., 2f - ; i.u. Newcastle Exten, 20 Do. GN.lL.Viei t -r,..c e 6 ... - -••• x.I. •••• Do. Hartlepool Dock ...., and IZailway lOO ...... —.-... ••• jB4 York anc. Nortb Li gland 5' ' ...... /sq... ..... .. .. „, L %. b I) - ;.t, Pre:crer.cs ... ... . .. . r OhEluti RAIL itiail:". 3 ..r10 It:lian (late ha- ... Tian and Austrian).— WA — ~.-• Boulogne arid Amiuna... 20 Ce:J..., (a trance (Or leans •.• and Vierzon;... 20 ...... .... . ....... .• , 0 „.• f1at.,,,-ra that h Rhenish Ea , t Indian ...• ...... ..... 8 1 4 ... x. i. ...... -• Ditto ... ........ ... ... 20 Great Indian Peninsular 6 Do. Do. ... ... 10s. . — ...... ... ...... ... Louvain ito eambre ... 7% — Luxembourg .. Ditto •••• Madrid and Valetitia... 2 •••••• ......... 8 NatiAir anti Liege ...... 20 ... .. 7.3/4..........•• ..... f it! Northern of France l4l. 85... dia. x.i ...... pi Orleans and £ordeaux....7 Maria and Orleans ...... 20 ....• .... ...... .• . 0 . Paris and Rouen 2O ....... ... •• I ....... .0. Paris anti Strasbourg Rouen antl Havre ...... 20 Sambre and Meuse 2O ..... 8 % ..., ..... •••••• .„.. Strasbourg and Basle Tours and Nantes l3 ...... -..• Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Ilasselt ...... 20 % est Flanders 8%..... 1%. .............. MINES. ... i 4 Anglo-Mexican Asturian Mining Com... 15 Australian S 4 .... Bassora Range ... ... 28s. - ••• ••• •• ,•••• Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50 ... Bolonos Scrip ...... .. .. British Iron ... ..., Brazilian Imperial ...... 244 — BraziliauCotaei&Cniaba 30 ............... ...• 14 Do. St. John Del Rey 16 ...... 14 »M •••• Cobre Copper ...... ..... 40 General Real Del Monte, Unreg. .... Do. Black Debentures — •••• ••••Do. Do. Red Ditt o ... ..... ............... ~„.. Santiago de Cuba United ..ii exican JOINT STOCK BAN ILS. 0 A Australasia British North American 50 LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS D l , tll ol LONDON, JAN. 18.—Wind, Sit noon W., light or,: dull hazy mild weather. The frost has entirely 8,1,4 DEAL, JAN. 17.—Wind N.E. to N.N.E.—Ar t ;',, a - ilell, Sale. Lilly, Africa. Arrd. from the river env', "Tor' Natal; Rother, Cape of Th(ti , , Sydney; Sisters Ceylon, &e.; Earl 1 1" • titil Sisluttus, Ilavanuah; Loyalist, B i arbadoes• Evans, New York; Ranger, A frica; Forester, ' l 4 e bi' LIVERPOOL, JAN. 17.—Wind „ nog .. Good Ho e• Jamaica, Ant'gores Harbeck, New York. SR. Elizabeth Moore , °t ill pore; Junior, ditto; Zion's Hope, Calcutta; M sry iio vannah; Africa, Champion, Vera Cruz ; Je° °l t Baltimore; Shannon, New York; Yorkshire, FALMOUTH, JAN. 17.—Wind N., moderste•- Pritief sA Charlotte, Valparasio. yr, .1 MARGATE, JAN. 17.—The Providence 4 - -- ,_ irr r eps. London, is high and dry on the sand; cargo'diiiicili'' in a damaged state. CLYDE. —641. Asia, Calcut a. o f s" ARKLOW, JAN. 16.—The misr, crew, of the Hottenguer havzt perished. Ore r° that tt,ken from the wreck this morntieng,.an:t is fea eight 0 ow; but little of the property will be saved. COP W I VENHOE, JAN. 17.—The smack JosePh, ef d. cheater, has beer. wrecked on the coast of Scotlanworl‘ LCNDON, JAN. 18.—An immense quantity of n tt . was scen on the River, an d a sc hooner sunk on Gunfleet, with masts and yards standing, by the of s teamer, arrived in the Ri ver , f r om Hull. YABMOUTD, JAN. 17.—A scroll from the h the headrail of a vessel, suspended on a gilt Wart iri s 1, 111. word " Camcera" carved thereon in gilt letters on ground, was washed ashore on the beach, Jan. 1 1 . 0 .10 4 BRIDLINGTON, JAN. 17.—A ship's headbosalW:ooo "Prosperity," has been washed on s hore peet ftw TURKEY. Letters from Smyrna of the 30th ult., in the Vienna Lloyd, state that the English and French fleets are still in their former moorings, but that Sir W. PARKER is expected to leave the Bay of Musko nissi for a more favourable position. Letters from Belgrade or the Ist inst., in the Wanderer, state that 500 Poles are at Shumla under the command of Colonel ZIKOWSKI ; that they are comfortably equipped, and constantly kept in military training. Tne Russians in Moldavia and - Wallachia, continues the writer, do the same, just as if they in tended to strike the decisive blow early in spring. IRELAND. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) THE GREAT PROTECTIONIST MEETING. DUBLIN, THURSDAY EVENING.—The Great Na tional Meeting of Protectionists was held this day at the Rotunda. The chair was to have been taken at eleven o'clock, but, owing to the thinness of the attendance it was fully an hour later. The Marquis of Down shire then took his seat, and even at that time the round room was not one quarter full. There were, however, a fair sprinkling of the nobility and gentry present. The Eirl of Rcden was greeted ` with immense cheers, accompanied by "Kentish fires." The movers and seconders of the resolutions were the Earl of Glengall, Mr. Mac Carthy, Mr. Butt, Q C., the Marquis of •Vestmeath, the Earl of Shannon, the Hon. Mr. Preston, Mr. •Tames Martin, Lord Cle ments, Colonel Dunn, M.P., BAH of Mayo, Mr. J. Ennis, the Marquis of Drogheda, Colonel Chatter ton, M.P., the Earl of Bandon, Mr. T. M. Redmond, the llon. Colonel Verner, &c. The first resolution recommended a petition to the Queen, setting forth the misery and distress to which the country has been reduced of late years. The second cal ed for remedial measures to stay the downward progress of events. The third urged that a committee take instant steps to lay the petition before her Majesty. The fourth declared all Irish interests to have been sacrificed by the imperial policy, the only remedy for which was a return to protection. The fifth was condemnatory of the Irish poor-law. The sixth demanded the development of the great resources of Ireland. Tne seventh was favourable to an adjustment of the relations between landlord and tenant. The eighth called en the Irish Members to sup port no political parties who would not listen to their just demands for redress. The ninth urged the propriety, in the event of the prayer of the petitioners being disregarded, of peti tioning the Queen to dissolve Parliament. The meeting had not terminated in post time. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert drove to Frogmore this morning. The Countess of Charlemont, the Hon. Miss Kerr, Colonel Hon. R. Boyle, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel F. 11. Seymour, were in att en dance upon - her Majesty and his Royal Highness. His Royal Highness the Prince of \Vales (attended by Mr. Birch), the Prince Alfred, Princess Royal, Princess Alice, and Princess Helena, also went to Frogmore. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the gen tlemen in attendance, enjoyed the diversion of skating upon the ornamental water in Frogmore grounds. The Hon. and Rev. Henry and Lady A. M. Cust will have the honour of joining the royal dinner party this evening. The band of the Ist Life Guards will attend during dinner, her Majesty's private band attending after wards. The Countess of Charlemont has relieved the Mar chioness of Douro in her duties as Lady in Waiting to the Queen. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign office. The Ministers present were Lord Juhn Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir G. Grey, Viscount Palmerston Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. Sir Francis Baring, Lord Campbell, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, the Earl of Carlisle, and the Marquis of Clanricarde. The Council sat two hours and a half. A deputation from the Light Dues Association, consisting of Mr. Matthew Forster, M.P., Mr. W. j. Hall, Mr. Phillipps, Mr. Ogilvie, and Mr. Morgan (secretary), had an interview with the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere and E irl Granville yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Gillespie had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Down ing-street. Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday. Mr. Henry May hew had also an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Baronet, at the Home-office. Capiain Henderson had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting yesterday. The Earl of Carlisle arrived in town on Wednes day from his seat, Castle Howard, Yorkshire, and in the evening joined the Cabinet Minister's assembled at Lord John Russell's residence in Chesil; km-place. Lord John Russell gave a dinner last evening to a number of the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, at his residence in Chesham-place. TnE COMTE DE NEUILLY.--A very genera 1 rumour prevailed last evening, to the effect that the ex-King of the Frc , nch had expired suddenly yesterda y morn ing, at Claremont. In contradiction of the report, we are enabled to state thAt Dr. G. -le Nussy,, who is the chief medical attendant on the ex-King, arrived at his residence, in 13erkeley-square, at noon yester day, from Claremont (where he had passed the pre vious night), „having left Louis Philippe in perfect health, and that up to nine o'clock .last night a o intel ligence of the ex-King's indisposiiion bad • reached Dr.Nussy. Th ere can, therefore, be fittle dot tbt that the rumour is altogether unfounded. A VERY RAW MATERIAL—Mr.Disr€Ie li tys that the land is the landlord's raw material; and Bo it. is. But landlords have a much rawer material in tide'nds of those farmers whom they delude into continu;a3g to p a y' excessive rents under the fallacious hope of w• re-vp 14t went of OW coril-htwo,---Punch.