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Te be had of all Booksellers.' EPY S' DIA. R Y-CHEAP RE-ISSUE. Vol. I. IS NOW READY, price 6s. This complete Edition of Pepys' Diary and Correspondence con taining al, the passages restored from the original manuscript, and all the additional notes, will be published in Five Monthly Volumes, post Bvo., with Portraits, &c., price 6s. each, bound. Henry Collanrn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. N e w ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., post Bvo., D. SI L W A NOVEL. 0 0 *. The author, we are convinced, is young, otherwise we could hardly see displayed such fresh and enthusiastic sympathy in be half of his heroes and heroines. He is a writer of genius, inspired by a high standard of morality and religion, anl by a laudable love of the purest sort of fame. We gather this from the glowing lan guage in which he expresses his feelings, sentiments, and opinions on the subjects just mentioned. There are several chapters. in which links of the story are dropped, containing most eloquent essays on matters that are the prima mobilia of the actions which cha racterise nature's nobility. The writer evidently belongs, though he has marked per se peculiarities, to the school of the DLsraelis, Man nerves, and Smythes."—Observer. "` Silwood' is no ordinary work ; It contains passages of exceed ing beauty, and is written in pure and forcible language, with great good taste and power. It is one of the most interesting and en gaging novels which the present season has produced. Of the cha racter of Amelia Ross we have already spoken, and the extract we have given above is the surest voucher of the truth of what we have said. The other ladies who play conspicuous parts in the tale are Florence Howard, an intellectual beauty; Jessie Gordon, a wild and impulsive genius, passionately fond of music and poetry ; said Julia Maitland, the noblest and best of them all."—Morning Post. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessir, and Manager, Mr. James Anderson. THIS EVENING, Will be presented by her Majesty's Servants TIIE r .1111 Y OF LYONS. Claude Melnotte, Mr. J. Anderson ; Paultn, DeschaPpelles, Miss yandenhoff. After which an entirely New Grand, Historical, Emblematical, Aeroltatioal, Gastronomical, Metaphorical, Musical, Poetical, 'focal, MunielPal, Juvenile, Paratomical Pantomime, by E. Fitzball, the po pular author of " Za-ee-zi-zo-zn," entitled HARLEQUIN and if lIMPTY DUMPTY; or, Bobbin de Bobbin ;~~~~ r "+~'ri a . and the First Lord Mayor of Lun'un. Private Boxes, 3/. 35., 21. 126. 6d., 2/. 21., I/. I Is. 6d., and It. Is. To be obtained on application at the Box-office ; Mr. Sam's Libarary, St. ionise's-street ; Messrs. Mitchell Ebers and Co. ; Andrews and Aleroft, Bond-street; at Jullien's Music Warehouse, Regent street ; Chappels, New Bond-street; Leader end Cocks, 63, New Pond-street ; Pansford and Co., New Bond-street ; and Bailey and Moon, Carlton Library. 12, Regent-street. Stalls, ss. each. First Price—Dress Circle, ss. Od. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit. 2s. 6d. ; Lower Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d.. Second Price at Nine o'Clock—Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 25.; Pit, Is. 6d. No Half-price to Upper or Lower Galleries. The Box-office open from II till 4. It Is respectfully 12t h p tim f a t tedthat seats in the Boxes cannot be reserved after the First THEATRE ROYAL, HAY3fARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Broropton. MR. MAC It CADY. THIS EVENL.NIG. The Single Act of the Second Part of HENRY THE FOURTH. Henry IV., Mr. Macready. To be fol!ovred by the JEALOUS WIFE, in which Mr. Macready will appear. After which a new translation of THE SECOND CALENDAR awl the QUEEN of BEAUTY who had the Fight with the Genie. Principal characters by Messrs. J. Eland, Selby, Lebarr, Buckstone, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Mrs. Fitawilliam, Miss P. Horton, and Miss A. Romer. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRiI. Unde• the Management of Math me Vestria. ole Lessee, Mr. Charl:ss Mathews. THIS 'EVENING, Wilt be peri•rmed THE WEATHER.—Suw °MC'S, JANUARY 10. THERMOMETER, IN TIM SHADS. 41—highest since noon yesterday. 33—lowest this morning and during the night. 46—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29 . 95. Wrlen S.W.—dull, rainy weather. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELI'HI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, - Will be pet - romped a new and original Drama, entitled JESSIE fr.AY. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Boyce, 0. Smith, P. Bed fora, Madame Celeste, and Miss K. Fitzvrilliam. To be followed by a mot Extravaganza called LA TARANTULA ; o-, the Spider King. Characters by MessrP. Wright, P. Bedford, 0. S aith, Miss Wcolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Miss K. Fitzwilliain, llndame Celeste, Scc. To aonchsde with TIIE :ARMED BACHELOR. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. licaa and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the First Part of HENRY IV. Falstrff, Bartley. After which a new Comic Christmai Pantomime, called .4.LONZO THE BRAVE AND THE FAIR IMOGENE.; or, Harlequin and the B‘run ail covered with and Gold. Clown, Mr. Flesmore ; Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; anal Columbine, M'e' Cerlott !.e Clcrcq. el-trate lioacs, &e., V be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. Massingham ; of whom also places may to taken at the Box-office. Clierfrd-street. from Eleven till Faur o'clock. TTIE HANDSOME HUSBAND. After wh:ch an entirely new and ortinal F.Ary EXtrftV2l4arorn, bS called KING CHARMING; or, the Blmi Bird of Paradise. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, Horncastle, Suter, Bellingham, and Honner ; Madams Vestris, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss 15111 s, Mrs. C. Horn, M'ss St. George, and Miss Martindale. To conclude with THIS EANGDOVES, in which \lea^.s. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, Naall Baker, Mrs. F. Matthews, and Miss M. Oliver will appear. ROYAL OLYMPIC niErray. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Farrell. Great hit of the Romance of the Nose. TIIIS EVE SING. Will he - Sri:rmeil ♦ NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS, sup ported by Metiers. G. V. Brooke, W. FArri.n, Leigh Murray. Comp ton►, Diddear, A. Farrell, jun.; Mesdames Leigh Murray and Adams To conclude with PRINCE DORITS ; or, The Romance of the None, in which Messrs. If. Farren, Compton, Shablers, W. Farren, Jun., Cooke ; Mesdames Louisa Howard, Ellen Turner, and 31adlle. Adele will appear. ASTLSY'S ROYAL AI'APHITIITIATItE. Endflr the Patronage of her Majesty and his P.oyal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Extraordinary series of attractive novelties. THIS EVENING The Grand new Spectacle of KENNILV, 011TH ; or the Golden Days of the Virgin Queen. with new and costly costumes. Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle, introducing the Magnificent Stud and Company of unequalled Artistes, also, kr the first time in England, H. Ghelia, with hie three highly-trained Steeds, M. Kicolo Page, the great Barrel Equilibrist, and the Bro thers Francisco, from tlle Hippodrome, Paris. To conclude with an entirely new and original grand historical EquestrianChristrnas Pantomime, written expressly for this Theatre, by the author of " Bluff King ',la'," to be entitled HARLEQUIN' AND O'DONOGIRTE ; or, The White Horse of Killarney. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. HIGH WATIIIt Al LONDON BRIDGE TFIL9 DAT —sforning 39 min. after 6 J Evening 1 min. after 7 To-iloanow—Morning 26 min. after 7 I Evening 1 ftfin, after DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. PLYMOCTH—Wind N.W., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. BRIGHTON—Wind calm-ckwdless. llAgriNGs-Wind W., gentle breeze-cloudless. BouTiwarroN-Wind W., gentle breeze-cloudless. FOLEaSTONE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. TuNniatrioE-Wind W., gentle breeze-cloudless. BasrNe-s - roxF.- Wind S.W., gentle breeze-cloudless. GRE ENWICII -Wind S.W., gentle breeze-cloudless. SWINDON—Wind W., light airs-partially cl oud y . Osroao-Wind W., gentle breeze-cloudless. LEIGHTON -Wind S., gentle breeze-cloudlvs. CoLcwEsrran-Wind N.E., getitle breeze-partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE—Wind W., gentle breeze-cloudless. RuoilY-=Wind N.W., strong breeze-cloudless. BIBMINGHAM -Wind W., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. PE:TESBOROUG me -Wind SW., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. YARaortn-Wind W., strong breeze-cloudless. LYNN-Wind N.W., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. Cnswe-Wind W.N.W , stron breeze-partially cloudy. Lrvaaroot.-Wind N W., strong breeze-partially cloudy. BlANclissysus-Wind W., strong breeze-principally clear. LEEDS- Wind N.W., hard wind - partially cloudy. LANCA3TER-Wind S.W., strong breeze-partially cloudy. Wurrny-Wind N.N.W., strong breeze-principally clear. DA ELINGTON -Wind W., stormy -overcast. s N Ap-Wind N.W...strong breeze-snow. 1-4:A . rrocx - Wind strong breeze-cloudless. Bauwicx-Wind N. - strong breeze-rain. EDINBURGrI - Wind N. . strong breeze-partially cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on W ednesda y morning at nine o'clock :- Coax-Wind S., light breeze-foggy. Mum- oan-IYind S.E., calm-frost. DUNDALK—Wind N. Ws, gentle breeze-frosty. Poona-Wind S., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. LraciiTON-Wind S.E., gentle breeze-overcast. PETEanottocou-Wind S.W., calm-partially cloudy. Taitssourw-Wind N.W., gentle breeze--overcast. LivitarooL-Wind S.E., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. LEEDB-Wind N4E., calm-foggy. YoaK-Wind S., gentle breeze-overcast. DARI,DIGTON-Wind W. S.W., gentle breeze-frost. -;.. 42 • 41 4-4 • . 1 a '11":,) 4 4 4 , ' • 7 11 , lc! ' " ; ••••c , ; , •••- . : 4$••• 1 14.• ‘••••• • . ~; •._ • eVielthl ( 1 :111L LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1851. Elsewhere, in our impression of this evening, will be found a most interesting report of a vestry meet ing at St. James's, Piccadilly. To this important meeting we would direct the especial attention, not only of the public generally, but, above all and be yond all, of the inhabitants of the metropolis. As will be observed from the very opening of the report, the discussion of the vestrymen of St. J ames ' s had' re ference particularly to the evil consequences of that most unfortunate enactment relating to the subject of extramural interment, against which we have so re peatedly had occasion to inveigh. Fr om th e various o b se rvations made in the course of yesterday's inquiry in the neighbourhood of Piccadilly, it will be remarked that the sentiments of dissatisfaction we ourselves have from the first ex pr aed respecting . the Act passed last session through the Imperial Parliamen t, are beginning to force themselves upon the convictio n of the more reflectiv e members of the community. Insomuch have these feelings of discontent increased that one of the speakers at the St. James's meeting insisted that the Metropolitan Interment t Bill of last year:bad proved most fruitful in ill-consequences instead of turning out beneficial for the population. October, 1849, was the period when the General Board of Health issued peereaiptary regulations for the closing cf the over-crowded graveyards of the metro polis. October, 1850, witnN...,,01 the dissipation of the few good effects of that parthl movement to wards the desired reform ; for no sooner was the measure of last session ripened into an enactment than it was intimated to the local authorities at the different places of interment throughout the capital that they might go on burying in their churchyards as fast as possible. "As might be anticipated," said the gentleman to whose remarks 'we are directing at tention, "the graveyards which l'aad been closed [few enough, GOD knows, at any time] were again opened, and all the horrors of the deep grave system were revived." Those horrors are now being at this very time momentarily multiplying. Fresh corpses are being hourly committed to their unhonoured graves within the walls of the English capital, in the very thick of its swarming population, a few inches from the loosened surface of the earth—forming dense masses of cor ruption, the putrescent and pestilential influences of which are accumulating together at this instant the germs of an increasing mortality. In the foulest localities, namely, the grounds surrounding the sacred edifices of religion, grounds reeking with malaria and rotten to very loathsomeness, the atro cious practices of intramural interment are still being developed —even, be it observed, in those horrible dens of abomination which were long since held up to public abhorrence by Mr. GEORGE ALFRED WALKER, the first and the most formidable antagonist of the system, and, for that reason, entitled to the glory of being regarded as the originator of the entire agi tation in behalf of sanitary improvement. It is against the continuance of these detestable proceed ings in our metropolitan graveyards that the vestry of St. James's, Piccadilly, has raised its voice in tones of earnest indignation ; and eager shall we be to find that those tones are again and again re echoed from most, if not all, of the parochial districts of London and Westininster. A circumstance which imparted a peculiar interest to the meeting convened yesterday, near Piccadilly, was the presence of the distinguished advocate for extramural interment, whose name we have already pronounced. If we recollect rightly, the meeting of the St. James's Vestry is the first public occa sion which Mr. G. A. WALKER has availed himself of, since the passing of the Act of last session, the first public occasion on which be has pro nounced his opinions upon that pretended ef fort of amelioration. We have turngtd, consequently, to the examination of the remarks uttered by him yesterday with especial eagerness—sanguine that i we should discover in them sound emphatic condem nation of the course recently pursued by the Legisla ture. Nor, in thin, have we been any way disap pointed. At the very outiet of }xis observations Mr. WALKER disoLimed any connetxjon whatever with the Metrepolitan Interments Bill, and at the same time intimated that, according to his view of tile matter, several of its clauses ware in the very highest degree ohjpctionable. Indeed the reality ()f this has become latterly sndici. tly weds demonstrated by the re - ival in all its atrocity of the very system against which the Act was said to he raised in opposition. "As things stand now," said Mr. _ _ \\ -7. ALKER., es if in terrible illustration. of this, " the livißg population qf London are everg day walking over 5,000,000 dead bodies!' Yet, w aile these hor rible evils are b,i3g thus lainentaNy perpetuated, the means for their prevention are easi.'y within reach of the Legislature. The truth o► tieis WAS shown fully two years ago by the distinguiqxtd sanitary re former above mentioned, in a pamphlet published by the Messrs. LONGMAN. From that pamphlet Mr. GEORGE ALFRED WALKER bitnail made yes- terday a somewhat lengthened quotation, -jet one so pregnant with practical suggestion, that we gladly reproduce it in. our leading columns. "A general Act," said Mr. WALKER, in 1849, in his pamphlet (and remember he reiterates his views by their quotation in 1850), "A general Act fir the establishment of cemetf , ries should at once be passed." Already it wi.ll hive been observed that the Act of last session upon this matter, relating alone to the metropolis, even as a partial boon, is in his estimation anything but satisfactory. " Every city," he continues, " every town, and I may add, very many villages, in the United Kingdcm, require suburban cemeteries. Any inquiry as to effects, viz , deteriorated health , premature death, and the poisoning of water from graveyards, which I have proved follow as a matter of course, is not only unnecessary, but a waste of time and money. All that is required is, to determine as to the condition of the soil, and the site of the projected cemetery. Every facility ought to be afforded by the Legislature, and every unnecessary obstruction removed. Separate Acts of Parliament, more especially when opposition is offered, involve often a great outlay of money, and an expenditure of time, which might be much better employed . Cemeteries ought not to be in the hands of joint-stock companies. They ought to be na- Tonal institutions, or vested in. corporate or town authorities, or managed by committees elected by the ratepayers, subject tc , the supervision of a general authority, free from local feelings and prejudices. Private speculations in burials, or any such ownership, ought never to have been permitted. I am aware that there are persons who approve of joint-stock cemeteries, and who disapprove of a com pulsory Act for the prevention of intramural burial. Yet, only three Acts for the formation of joint-stock cemeteries were obtained in the year 1846. It seems to me highly improper to leave a reform like this to local efforts, and then to saddle such efforts with im mense fees, extracted, it is true, in the first instance "roca the pockets of public•spirited individuals, who, in one instance, to my knowledge, belie - -7.d that they had given rather than invested. Besides, the money so unnecessarily expended must be repaid (principal and interest) in the shape of increased by the friends of the deceased who may be buried in such cemeteries. The different ceme teries in the hands of companies shcuid be pur chased from the shareholders, who would be equitably and even liberaliy treated with, and as they are situated in localities towards which dwellings have already approached, or may be expected to approach, they should he stringently regulated, with a view to their being closed before they, in turn, become nuisances. For the above paramount reasons lam decidedly of opinion that Government, under the change contemplated, should take on itself the charge of organizing and administering, or,rigidly supervising, a general plan for the interment of the dead throughout Great Britain." Such were the senti ments entertained with reference to the most effec- tual means of carrying out a general system of ex tramurAl interments by the man whose energy first dragged to light the abominations of in tramural burials. Such are still his views, in 1851, as to the most desirable manner of carrying into effect the long-looked for improve ment. He still proclaims the burial of the dead in towns to be "the most prolific source of disease." He still maintains that by the system hitherto pursued we have been "manufacturing disease and paying for it in the shape of poor-rates." And, at the mame time, he insists, as he has done throughout, that the remedy of the evil may be grasped with facility. " All that is requisite," says he, " is to get land and a cheap mode of transit." Both these requisites are easily attainable. At such a spot as Woking common the land may be found in abun dance, and dead bodies might be conveyed thither for sixpence a piece along the line of the South-Western Railway. The facts here given can speak for themselves ; and from their consideration the public may at once recognize the yet vast neces sity for improvement. In another column will be found a report of the proceedings which took place atGloucesterontle presentation to P. B. PURNEL r, Esq., the respected and philanthropic Chairman of the Gloucestershire Quarter S ess i ons, o f a tes ti mo nial of public respect and gratitude for his unwearied perseverance in in vestigating and discovering numerous cases of appal : ling oppression, cruelty, and injustice, perpetrated by the keepers of private lunatic asylums on the un fortunate persons placed under their superintendence. Netter was testimonial more richly deserved, and it is delightful to fiLd that the public is not always altcgether ungrateful to its greatest benefactors. In the face of the most unscrupultu,, because the meat interested opposition, Mr. PURNELL persevered and succeeded in releasing from torture the persons, and from plunder the property, of many an unhappy lunatic, and in restoring to liberty, or partial liberty, many an unfortunate who but for his prc.vering efforts would have been still k' pt chaine I to a cold stone floor, with only dirty s`raw to lie on, and left to wallow and roll in filth, like ill-tended swine, or TRE SUN, kept perpetually strapped down to a bed, and there tortured by brutal keepers, or neglected by idle at tendants. Lord Chancellor COTTENHAM, in giving judgment in a case which was brought before him by the perseverance of Mr.Puareeet, and of the Alleged Lunatics Friend Society, bore testimony to the high merits of the Chairman of the Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions, whose untiring patience and perse verance, in endeavouring to alleviate the sufferings, the appalling sufferings, of those unfortunate persons who are confined in private lunatic asylums, have won for him the gratitude of every friend of hu manity. But, be it remembered, that this, the praise, the just praise of Mr. PURNELL, is the utter condem nation of the Commissioners of Lunacy. How comes it that they discovered none of the atrocities which have been brought to light by the persevering efforts of Mr. PURNELL ? That they were aware of their existence, and from some unexplained senti ment of regard for the interests of the keeper of the asylum, passed them over, we cannot bring ourselves to believe. How comes it, then, that in their report for 1847, at the very time that the atrocities brought to light by Mr. PURNELL were in the course of daily and hourly perpetration, the Commissioners should thus describe to the Lord Chancellor the state of the lunatic asylums throughout the country ? " The dwellings for the insane are no longer the gloomy prisons in which they were formerly confined; cleanliness, warmth, and ventilation have been provided; personal rests aint is diminished, and even where still em ployed, its severity is greatly mitigated, and its application strictly watched ; the health and mental condition of the i lunatic are more carefully considered, occupation and amusement are more generally afforded to him; and in all respects better treatment is secured; whilst an opportu nity is teriedically given to him of representing any hardship to which he may have been subjected, an ad vantage which it is found by experience many patients fully appreciate." The cases brought to light by Mr. PURNELL con tradict this statement in every particular, and we now ask the Commissioners—Did you, or did you not, during your visits to the various asylums in the county of Gloucester, see and converse with the un fortunate persons who, through Mr. PURNELL'S efforts, have been released from a life of torture? If the answer is in the affirmative, then we ask—How they could venture to make such a statement as that con tained in the above extract from their report for the year 1847 ? If in the negative, then they have been guilty of a neglect of duty of so gross a character as to show that the Commission, as at present constituted, is worse than useless. Indeed, the Commissioners themselves are now pretty well aware that their days are numbered, and, in common with the keepers of private lunatic asylums, look for ward with fear and trembling to the approaching session of Parliament, w hen a measure for the regu lation of private lunatic asylums will be introduced under such auspices as will, we hope, ensure its suc cess. Above all things the proprietors of private, lun:stic asylums dread any such alteration in the pre sent law as should render the verdict of a jury neces sary to legalise the incarceration of an alleged lunatic in an asylum. A writer on this subject in the Jour nal of Psychological Medicine says : It was certainly proposed by the Amendments Law Society th-st the verdict of a jury should be substituted for the present ardor of admission and the two medical certificates; but we are satisfied that such a plan would be lolled wholly impracticable. We do not believe that any faueil) suffering under mat a calamity would will ingly eennit a relative so afflicted to pisA through the exposure of such an ordeal. It eh )uld be remembered that for many cogent reaLons the sanctity of the do mestic circle should, under such distressing circum stances, be held inviolate." The writer forgets that " this wholly im practicable plan" is invariably practised in every case in which it is sought to ad minister the lunatic's property, and that the only dif ference between the investigation proposed by the Amendments Law Society and that at present pursued before a Master in Lunacy, under a com mission de lunatico inquirendo, that iu the latter case the investigation does not take place until those interested in proving the lunacy have had every chance of driving a man mad by shutting him up among lunatics for six months, whereas the society proposes that the incarceration shall not take place until after public inquiry. As to the " exposure to such an ordeal," we have never found that where the management of the relative's property was to be obtained the " domestic circle" have .ever shrunk from the exposure, and as the liberty of the subject is of more value than his property, so ought it to be more strictly guarded. It is no more a violation of the sanctity of the domestic circle to require the verdict of a jury to authories the in carceration of an individual as a lunatic, than it is to require such a verdict to *ithorise his incarcera tion under any other circumstances. The inhabi tants of the United States guard the sanctity of the domestic circle as sacredly as we do ourselves, and yet we find in this very Journal of Psychological -Medi cine the following description of the law of lunacy in the State of Ohio : " The laws in force, at present, in regard to idiots and lunatics, like all the preceding Acts, require the fact of insanity to be establi! , hed by the verdict of a jury. The jury is required to bet forth whether the person com plaaned against an idiot, that is to say, a person na turally without mind;' or lunatic;' whether, in their opinion, he is so furiously mad as to render it dangerous to the race and safety of the community that he should be permitted to go at large;'—' whether he is a pauper, or ha:, any estate, and the supposed value and annual income of such estate'—and, also, whether the pauper has been a resident citizen of the state a year." This we take to be a sufficient answer to all the twaddle about exposure ; the system which we advocate has been in existence in the State of Ohio for years, and is admitted by this very writer to have worked well ; and we think we cannot do better than adopt his recommendation to the medical officers of British asylums, and " follow the exempla of our American brethren." SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.-Our Birmingham correspondent writes:—" Intelligence was re ceived here this (Thursday) afternoon, that an accident of a very alarming character had occurred to Sir Robert Peel. It seems that the Hon. Bironet was out hunting yesterday in the neighbourhood of Fzzeley ; the horse stumbled, threw his rider, and fell on him in such a way as to seriously injure Sir Robert's heap'. He was taken up senseless, and this (Thursday) morning was in a very precarious state."—Daily MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—GLASGOW, JAN. B. A fatal accident occurred here yesterday, which has excited a general feeling of regret. Lieutenant E. Clemison, of the 21st 11egiment, was in the act of mounting his horse, in the Infantry Barrack-square, Gallowgate, when the animal, hich was young and high...spirited, shied and threw the officer violently to the ground on his Wadi. As Mr. Clemi son's foot remained in the stirrup, the horde became still more restive ; and in the coarse of its plunging struck the unfortu nate gentleman more than once with its feet, and with great severity, on the chest and right side. Two sergeants, who were at hand, immediately rushed forward to the rescue, and the; surgeon of the regiment, who had witnessed the accident from one of the barrack windows, was also in in stant attendance, but Mr. Clemison had suffered such severe internal injuries that he was almost insensible when disen gaged from the stirrup, and died in a quarter of an hour afterwards. The deceased was about thirty yerrs of age, un married, and joined the 21st about twelve years ago, when on foreign gorvice, in the upper province of Madras. He was highly respected and beloved. The relations of the deceased officer reside in the neighbourhood of London, and were ap prised of the melancholy event the same night, by telegraph. ME.. MATHESON'S, OF THE Laws, ELETATION TO THE BARONETCW.—We have learned that this honour has been conferred by her Majesty on account of Mr. Matheson's distinguished merits, and the noble assistance which he gave to the inhabitants of Lews in a year of famine—a flattering mark of royal favour founded on the just and proper appli cation of public and private acts of enlightened philanthropy, DEPARTURE OF THE BRAzILIAN MAlL.—Yester day being the day for the commencement of the running of the Brazilian steamers under the new contract between the West India Company and the Government, the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's steamer Teviot, Captain Rerett, left Southampton, with the mails for Lisbon, Madeira, To neriffe, Pernambuco, Bahia, Brazil, Monte Video, and Buenos Ayres. The mails were much larger than were expected. The Teviot took out also forty-four passengers for the vari ous places on the route; amongst whom were Lord and Lady Eastnor, for Madeira, and Admiral Grenfell, for Rio. Her cargo consisted principally of specie, in gold and silver to the amount of 67,035/., chiefly for the Brazils. GALLANT CONDUCT.— SHIELDS, JAN. S.—James Hari (or Hedy), one of the crew of the Queen, 'Watson, of Dundee, arrived here from Taganrog, reports that on New Year's-day, during a severe gale at W.S.W., in Ist. 53 40 N., long. 3 l 0 E, when in the act of furling the foretopsail, fell off the ttarboard yard-arm into the water, but through the kind aad humane conduct of Mr. Watson he was saved. Mr. Watson was in the act of springing overboard, with the deep sea lead-line fast to him, when the man got hold of a rope at the forerigging ; Mr. Watson then sprang over the side, and held on the pcor man, at the risk of his own life, for some time, by which aid he was got safe on board ; and the seaman, overflowing with gratitude, declares, but for the master's conduct, his children now would have been orphans. Conduct such as Mr. Watson's is honourable to him as a man and a seaman, and not less honourable is the desire of the seaman to record his gratitude.—Shipping Gazette. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.— The High Court met. on Monday and Tuesday. Mary Finnon, or Murphy, charged with child murder, in having cast her newly-boru child into the River Nith, at R . Irkconnell, Dumfries-:hire, pleaded guilty to culpable homicide, and was sentenced to transportation for life. Mr. Robert Graham, from Dunblane„ was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation for having forged an d uttere d two bi:l 2 for ay. 10.. at the branch of the Bank of Scotl an d in Callender. The other cases w ere for thefts, robberies, and amulte.—Edinburgh Witness, LONDON, FRIDA Y EVENING, JANUARY 10, 18b1. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Ministerial crisis still continues, but the PRE SIDENT of the Republic shows himself equal to the situation, and has adopted the wisest, because the boldest, line of policy that he can pursue without making a coup d'etat or viohiling the Constitution. He has not only emancipated himself from the ty ranny of CHANGARNIER, but from that of the Bur gravee also. He sent for them on Wednesday, and they immediately repaired to the Elpee, prepared to offer to the PRESIDENT their advice, in other words, to bamboozle and to betray him, as they had so ofte❑ done before. On their admission, however, he told them that he had sent for them, not to listen to their advice, but to announce to them his determination, which was that CHANGAR NIER should be removed from his command. He concluded by saying that he was resolved to re spect all the prerogatives of the Legislative Assembly, but that he was also resolved to exercise the right which no power could deny him of dismissing a subaltern. The Judases of the Majority looked aghast at this an nouncement, all their fond dreams of a planche Napo lionienne vanished at once, and the detected conspira tors slunk out of the Elysee and repaired to the As sembly, where M. MOLE in dolorous accents declared that be had no reason to think that the resolution of the PRESIDENT of the Republic was otherwise than irrevocable. To add to their discomfort, the funds rose when it was rumoured that CHANGARNIER was dismissed, and the popularity of the PRESIDENT in creases in proportion as he separates himself from the Burgraves. The Patrie gives the following semi official account of the interview : " The President of the Republic assembled to-day, at half-past two, at the Elyt is, MM. de Broglie, Dupin, Mole, Berryer, Odilon Barrot, Thiers, Daru, and de Montalembert. In inviting this conference, the Presi dent c f the Republic had for object to come to an ex planation with these influential members of the National Assembly as to the true causes of the Ministerial crisis, and the unfounded reports which have been spread on this occasion. We think we can assert that in this con versation, which lasted more than two hours, the Presi dent of the Republic, whilst protesting his desire to avoid any confl:ct, his respect for the power of the National Assembly, and his decided resolution to remain faithful to the policy of the message, de clared that he intended to maintain intact the rights conferred upon him by the Constitution. In order to add to the authority of these words every constitu tional guarantee, the President, we are assured, declared to these Honourable Representatives that be was ready to accept, for the formation of a new Cabinet, the co• operation of such of them as shared his opinions relative to the modifications which had become necessary in the organization of the command of the army of Paris. On this subject, the President, alluding to the rumours which were current in the lobbies of the Assembly, is said to have observed to M. Dupin, 'lf Sou want troops you will have them; but as for ow lilies, I can promise you that you shall not have any.' We are convinced that the en tire ecuntry wilt approve of this llngusge, which is at the same time firm and concilietury, sad will support it with all the moral power of its adhesion to this line of conduct." The following description of the interview appears in the Evrnement The Pre , ,Ment listened with mute attention t the observations adariased to him by f,ech of the speakers in turn, who eurictiv ure-1 to prevail on him to lecall his project of dismissing General Changarnier. All, with a cuiple of exceptions, gave him to understand that per sistance in his dtt , :irmination could not fail of becoming a casus belli bttweeu the Execu'ive power and the Par liamentary majority. M. Mole was particularly em phatic. 1! , .A soon as all had spoken, the President, in a calm and energetic manner, expressed himself in words of which the following will be found to be the perfectly exaot sena:. : "'I desire to continue in the most perfect harmony with the legislative power. For sake of obtaining such a good uaderstandfng betwzeu both powers, I am ready to makt., ttll necessary sacrifices. lam prepared to form a Ministry is the sense and according to the ♦iews of the majur.ty, aed even, if necessary, to renounce the dotation question. I will do all things but one, and that is to the saclifice cf the right wtich I hold to revoke a SUBALTERN."' The followirg from the National, which is signed by M. LEOPOLD DIMAS, may be considered as an official declaration of neutrality on the part of the Repub licans : _ " An Elyt6au jourcal pretends that a portion of the Republican Left had promised to support the Right in case the Assembly should choose to invest General Changarnier with the command of the troops destined for its security. We affirm that no such engagement has been taken. If the majority desire to avail them selves of the 32d Article of thP Constitution they Inuit, to ensure the support of the loft, make choice of a general, offering to the Constitution uni the Republic better gua rantees than can be furnished by Gcneral Changarnier." Gentral NEUMAYER has retuned to Paris: General RANDON has consented to accept the office of Minister of War in any new Cabinet that may be formed ; as such it will be his duty to countersign the order for the dismissal of CIiAIiGAANIEN. M. Duns held a levee on Wednesday evening, which was attended by all the general officers who are Members of the Assembly. An absurd rumour was circulated there that M. CARLIER was to be the new Minister of the Interior. It was considered probable that a Republican Ministry would be no minated. At the sitting of the Assembly yesterday M. Mou- LIN ascended the tribune to report on various pro positions submitted to its deliberations respecting the arrest for debt of representatives of the people. One of them presented by M. POUJARD, provided that members of the National Assembly might be arrested for debt, rf, in the delay of one month from the date of the notification of the judgment to the questure, they should not have satisfied their creditors, and in that case they should be considered to have resigned their legislative functions. Others, Messrs. FAUTRIER and SIMEON, extended the delay to three months, and if in that period the representative had not paid his debts, they asked that he should cease to belong to the Assem bly. M. Clime A re the author of another pro position, required a previous authorisation from the Assembly; and, finally, MM. EMILE Leaoux and GARNON proposed that, in commercial and civil mat ters, representatives of the people should be liable to arrest without any authorisation, and that they be declared to have resigned their sect in the Assembly, if, in the course of the month, they should not have recovered their liberty. The Committee, added M. MOULIN, had maturely exemined those propositions, and decided that they should be the object of a gene ral report. They had unanimously recognised their opportunity, resulting from the incident of the 28th of December relative to M. MAUGUIN, and the omission in the laws and constitution of a clause regulating that important point. They were also dseireus to avoid in future fatal discussions and deogeroue collisions between the powers of the State. Tile order of the day of ths2B , h December was not a precedent thst could be invoked for the future, and that fact, consequently, rendered the intervention of the legislators more necessary than ever. That de cision of the Assembly did not imply the principle of the absolute inviolability of the representatives, which must formally be inscribed in a law, owing to the silence of the Constitution. The 36th article, it was true, proclaimed it, but there was a principle supe ri sr to that inviolability, that is, equality in the eyes of the law, and civil equality. It would be an exorbitant privilege if a representative of the people could dispense from doing honour to his engagements, because of his legislative position. It would be the forfeiture of all honour, dignity, and justice. The committee had been of opinion to take the three first propositions into consideration, and recommended the Assembly to refer them for examination to a special committee. As regarded that of MM. EMILE LA... ROUX, and GARNON, the committee viewed it with less favour, because it was contrary to the decision of the Assembly of the 28th of December last. The Committee accordingly proposed that the first propo sition be taken into consideration durgerzcc, and that the proposition of MM. EesteE LEaoux and GeetssoN be rejected. THE NEW MINISTRY. It was rumoured last evening that the new Ministry had been constituted as follows :—M. Ditourri DE elitivs, late Ambassador to England, takes the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ; General REGNAULT ST. JEAN D'ANG ELY that of War; BAROCIIE, R0131113E, FOULD, and BINEAU retain their places. M. DUMAS gives up the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce to M. Ducos, and takes the department of Public Instruction ; lastly, the Ministry of Marine is offered to Admiral LEBLANC, who is, however, ex pected to decline it. This Cabinet comes in pledged to suppress the military command of General CIIANGARNIER. The Blurs() was much crowded, but there was very little business transacted. The Five per Cents. opened at 94f . . 55c., rose to 94f. 90c., and closed at 94f. 800. ; the Three per Cents. closed at 561. 95c. ; the New Loan at 94f. 75e.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 835 f. ; Rouen, 6801. ; Great Northern, 468 f. 750. ; Avignon, 190 f. ; Vierzan,3B6f.2sc.; 8a51e,136f.25c.; Bordeaux, 398 f. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 351 f. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 246?. 25c. IVISINFSS DONE IN FOIIEIGN . RAILWAYS AT TUE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 9. Boulogne and Amiens, 836—Luxembourg, 276—Namur and Liege, B%—Northern of France, 15 , 4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 37i f; ex!int.—Paris and Orleans, 33—Paris anti Rouen, 26% Rouen and liavre, 10 1 4 Sambre and Meuse, 2%. The Rev. Arlhur Rawsnn Ashwell, 11.1. A , late Echolar of Goiwille and Caiu3 College, has been elected to the Vice-Principalship of St. Mark's College, Chelsea. EFFECTS or ELOQUENCE.-3 country clergyman, preaching a dull sermon, set all his congregation asleep, ex cept a poor fellow who was generally considered deficient in intellect. At length the reverend orator, looking round, ex " What, ail asleep but this poor idiot!" "Ay," quail the tell: w, "and if I had not been an idiot I Should hove gene to sleep too." GERMANY. Oa the Bth the Prussian Ministry secured a ma jority in the Upper Houce. It was determined by 92 to 35 to drop the adjourned debate on the Address. In the course of the debate the Ministers announced their decided adhesion to a reactionary policy ; the Government, they said, had assumed a hostile position to all revolutions and revolutionists ; which, being interpreted, means that the King of PRUSSIA has consented to be like the Emperor of AUSTRIA, degraded from the rank of en independent Sovereign to that of a vassal of the CZAR. The following are the principal provisions of the new press law introduced by the Prussian Govern• m ent into the Upper Chamber :—" The draught of this new law consists of five chapters and 87 para graphs, and its provisions are by far more stringent and comprehensive than those of the provisional press law of the 3d of June, 1850. The first chapter pro vides that all printers, lithographers, and book and print sellers shall solicit a licence from the adminis trative boards of their repective districts, and that this licence shall be granted to them if they can satisfy the authorities of their good faith and of that amount of educa tion ea hich is requisite for their respective lines of business. Booksellers and printsellers are moreover required to prove that they have been regularly apprenticed to their respective trades. if the said persons be condemned for an infraction of the law the Administrative Boards are authorised to withdraw the licence. A copy of all printed papers, pamphlets, and books must be submitted to the police officer of the ditrict twelve hours before their publication. Every newspaper and periodical must have the name of a responsible editor on each copy, and none can be allowed to be named as such editors who are under age or afflicted with civil disabilities. Military men and public functionaries cannot edit any new paper or periodical without the express con sent of their superiors. The provisions of the depo sits or " caution money" are the same as in the provisional law of the 31 of June. The deposits must be paid in the current coin of the realm, and four per cent. interest will be paid on them. The penal part of the new law establishes three distinct classes of transgressions, viz.:-1. Press police transgressions which are punishable with a fine which shall not exceed fifty thalers and a term of imprison ment which shall not exceed six weeks; 2. Press transgressions, for which a fine of above fifty thalers and imprisonment of three years may be awarded. The third class is that of press-crimes, for which still severer punishments are provided, and the last named class alone will be submitted to a jury. The responsibility for the transgressions of a journal or pamphlet attaches alike to printer, publisher, agent, editor, and author. The Post• office can refuse to forward any paper which has been punished for an in fraction of the law. It is criminal to offend the Sovereigns of foreign States (provided reciprocity is granted), Members of Parliament, and of public boards, civil and military functionaries. Blasphemy, aspersions against the Christian Church or the mem bars of any incorporated religious society, attacks cia) matrimonial and family relations, property, and public morality are likewise to be punished with fines of from 20 to 1,000 thalers, and confinement of from 14 days to 12 month!. The Deutsche Reichs Zeitwig states from Cassel that the two Commissioners are still actively engaged in breaking the opposition of the functionaries and citizens by means of quartering large detachments of troops upon the refractory. It appears that the mea sures of compulsion are divided into four different grades, and that the number of soldiers which are quartered upon one domicile varies, according to cir cumstances, from ten to fifty. These numbers are doubled whenever the persons so efilicted presume to complain. The soldiers thus quartered on the citi zens are entitled to board and lodging, and to a pecu niary remuneration, which is fixed for a private at four groechens per day, fur a sergeant at eight, and for an officer-at sixteen grosclaens. A part of the executive troops destined for Holstein arrived at Cassel on the sth, under the command of General LEGEDITSCEL. The Elector of HEIISE has excluded the following journals from the electorate:—The Berlin Constitu tional Zeitung, the Kladderadasch, the National Zei lung, the Deutsche Reicks Zeitung, the Weser Zei tang, the Kolner Zeitung, the Frankfort Journal, the Augsburg Allgenzeine Zeitung, the Vereins Blatt for German Operatives, the Turnblatt of Schwalm, and the Nord Deutsche Zeitung. i'Ve have received advices from Vienna cf the stb. The treaty with Russia regulating the navigation of the Danube has been renewed. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The Federal Commisisioners had a conference with the Holstein Stadtholderate on the 7th. The Copenhagen journals of the 4th publish the following official report from the Danish Minister of Wnr On the 31st of December a superior body of the enemy's troops attacked our outposts at Holm, Mehl hcrst, and Kochendorf, but were repulsed, r.fter lengthened struggle, by the 10th battalion. Oar loss in this very honourable engagement with a very superior force of the enemy, was—one officer, Captain Von Douglas, mortally wounded; four privates killed and four wounded, all of the 10th battalion. "The loss on the enemy's side muse have been consi derable in this engagement and the one at Kropper Bu:ch and Haidbringc. On the Ist January we took 22 prisoners." THE HERZEGOWINA AND BOSNIA. The rebel leader, CAVAS PACUA, has thrown him self into Mostar, and driven out all those who pro posed to surrender. The Seraskier, OMER PASHA, has sent troops to Hairaddin. The new Vizier is still at Bosna Serai. ITALY• The celebrated CICERACCHIO has been sentenced by the Consulta of Rome to fifteen years' hard labour for having fought for the Republic. His Holiness the POPE, in order to facilitate the transmission of specimens of Roman industry in arts and manufactures to the Great Exhibition in London, has ordered that all productions approved of by the commission appointed for that purpose shall be sent into England at the expense of the Government, which, however, will not hold itself responsible in any other respect. A subterranean passage has been constructed from the Castle of Angelo to the Vatican for the passage of troops, and in case of need to afford the Pons means of escape from his palace without condemning him to the nece3sity of disguising himself as a flunkey. TUE SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS 8 6 13 13 14 0 !78 6 8 6 13 4 6 13 4 25 • 50 25 15 1 1 0 8 6 81 100 11 13 47y 2 100 DEATH OF GENERAL BEM. Letters from Turin of the 4th state that General Bern died a short time since at Aleppo, and was buried with the military honours accorded to the general officers in the Turkish service. DEATH OF TUE B IRON DE VERNEVIL. — Died at Paris, en the 19th of December, 1851, in the sixtieth year of his age, the Baron F. T. A. Chatriz de Vernevil, A.M., a man of varied talents, extensive learning, and varied ac complishments. H 2 was educated at the University of Paris, where he took the degree of Master of Arts at an early age. In the course of a life of great literary and scientific labour, and much travel, he was decorated by various Sovereigns and universities with orders and titles of high dignity. He was Knight of St. John, Knight of the ;Order of Charles 111., F.M.S. of Spain, F.S.A. of France, F.R.S. of Saxony, In spector of the Studies in the University of Paris, and one of the Directors of the University of Madrid. A few years ago his eyes were injured by an explosion during a chemical experiment, and for a long time before his death he was totally blind. But this calamity did not diminish the acti vity of his mind or the zeal of his studies, in which, to the last, he was as indefatigable as in his youth. Much of the latter part of his life was occupied in propagating and per fecting, with the co-operation of Mr. J. F. Hoskins, Member of the Royal (now National) Conservatory of Music in Paris, the new theory of Geneuphony, invented by that illustrious patriot and scholar of Spain, the General Don Virnes y Spinola ; and he had the gratification, after great difficu:ty and greater per severance, to witness the success of his distinguished friend's system of musical science, entitled Geneuphony, in a fair way to universal adoption, it having received the especial patron age of Prince Albert, taken as the text-book in the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, and stamped with the unqualified approbation of the great Ros sini, who testified his app:eciation of this disco very of the natural laws of music, by composing an elaborate canon to illustrate the application of the goneu phonic principles. The Baron had been in declining health for a considerable time, and had some pecuniary difficulties to contend with; but he died in comparatively easy circum stances. BISHOP PORTEUS o?.i A REVISION OF THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICI,EB.—" At the close of the year 1772, and the beginning of the next, an attempt was made," says the pious Bishop Porteus, " by myself and a few other clergy men, among whom were Mr. Francis Wollaston, Dr. Percy, now Bishop of Dromore, and Dr. Yorke, now Bishop of Ely, to induce the bishops to promote a review of the Liturgy and Articles, in order to amend both, but particularly the latter —those parts which all reasonable persons agreed stood in need of amendment. The answer given by the Archbishop of Canterbury (Cornwallis), February 11, 1773, was in these words, I have consulted severally my brethren the bishops, and it is the opinion of the bench in general that nothing can in prudence be done in the matter that has been submitted to our consideration.' " Works of Dr. Porteus, Bishop of London ; Ca de?l and Davies,lBl6. Vol. i., p. 38-40. DEATH OF A CHARTIST LEADER.—On Friday Mr. John Skevington, who had for many years past been the leader of the Chartist body in the neighbourhood of Lough borough, expired. Apart from his adherence to the princi ples of the Charter, Mr. Skevington was an uncompromising friend to civil and religious liberty, and as such his loss is much regretted. About twelve months ago he retired into more quiet habits of life, and it is believed settled down with the Wesleyans, and became a decidedly Christian man. We are happy to add his end was peace.— Nottingham Journal. THE LINEN DRAPERS', SILK MERCERS, &C., Iti- STITUTION.—The ball usually held at this season in aid of the funds of this, the first established of the metropolitan trades' institutions, took place last night at Willis's Rooms, St. James's. A list of stewards, well sa!ected from the load ing houses, ensured a good attendance, and the whole of the arrangements afforded perfect satisfaetiqn ti a com;,snv of nearly . 400 lemons, who, with the aid of Adams's band, and Messrs. Willis's excellent catering, kept up the festive meet ing until a late hour. Mr. Henderson tsciated as matter of the ceremonies. Railways. Aberdeen.. Do. Preference • • • • Ambergate, Nottingham, 1 Boston, & E. Juncion Ayrshire and Galloway • • Belfast and County Down Barks and Rants Exten. (Great Western Per petual 5 per cent ) Birmingham and Oxford Junction, calls duly paid, or with a guar... Do. without a guar... Binning., Wolverhamp ton, and Dudley, calls duly paid, or with a guarantee •• Do. without a guar. •• Wolverhamp.,l and Stour Valley ••'i Birkenhead, Lanca.s., and! Cheshire Junction • • Bristol and Exeter • • - Buckinghamshire • • • • Caledonian • • • • • • DJ. 101. Preference • • Do. Clydesdale June. • • Chester and Holyhead .. Do. Preference .. • • Clarence .. • • .. • • Do. Ist Class, 6 per ct.l Do. 21 de., 5 per cent.' Do. Gov. Loan,4 pr. cid Direct Lond. and Portsm.i Dublin and Belfast Jima. Dublin and Kingstown.. Dundalk and Enniskillen, East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) • • Do, (181. E. & II.) Do. (31. 10s.) 6 per cent. Pr:leiemu •. Do. (51.) 7 pr. et. Pref. Do. (71.175.) 7 p.c.Pref. Ea..teni Counties Do. Exten., 5 per cent. Do. No. 2 .• • • • • Do. New Preference, 6 per cent....... Do. North. and East. 6 per cont. •• • • Do. do. 5 per cent .. Do. do., New • • • • Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shares • • Do. do. do. .. Do. do., Bic C shares Do. do., scrip, guaran. 6 per cent. • • •• East Lancashire • • • • Do. New quarters • • Do. 6 per • cent. pref. quarter shares.. .. East Lincolnshire, gua. 6 per cent .. Edinburgh and Glasgow Edin., Perth, and Dundee Do. Newport .. • • Exeter and Exmouth .. Glasgow and South- West, Do. pref. cons dldated Do. do. G. D. & C. steckl Gloucester & Dean Forest Great Northern . • • • Do. halves, A, deferred Do. - halves, B, 6 per ct.l Do. 5 per cent. prof. • • Great. Southern and _ Western, Ireland • • Do. eighths .. • • Great North of England. Do. new 101. •• Do. new 301. .. •. Do. new 151. • •• Great Western •• Do. New, 17/. .. • • Hull and Selby • • • • Do. half shares • • .. Do. quarter shares .. Lancaster and Carlisle .. Paid. I Nominal Prices. Do. thirds • • • • •• '1 Lancaster and Preston Lanca,hire and Yorkshire Do. quarter shares .. Do. fifths .. • • • Do. F. 201. .. •• • • Do. new, guaranteed 6 per cent. .. •• • • Do. Rudders. & Sheff. Do. West Riding Union Leeds and Bradford •• • • Leeds and Thirsk • • • • Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 1 Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 2 Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 3 Do. pref. qrs., 1848 .. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .. • • • London and Blackwall • • London, Brighton, and South Coast .. • • Do. guarteed. 5 per ct., late Croyd.n thirds • • Do. preference, 5 p ct. Do. preference, cony. 5 per cent., 1852 • • Do. new guaranteed, 6 per cent. .. London and Greenwich . Do. preference . London and N.- Western . Do. do. new quarters . Do. fifths .. Do. 101. sh., M. & 11 (c) London and 8.-11 estern Do. new 50/. Do. new 401. .. • • Do. new preference • • Londonderry & Coleraine! Do. halt shares .. Lowestoft, guar. 4 per ct. Do. do. 6 per cent. Londonderry and Ennis killen. .. .. • • • • Do. half shares • • • • Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock • • .. • • Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire • • .. Do. quarters, No. 1 . • • Do. new, 101. preference Do., 61. Preference • • Do. Manchester and Linooln Union • • Midland . • • • • • • • Do. consolidated pref. Do. 501. shares . • • • Do. Birming & Dgrby Do. Consol. Bristol & Birming., 6 per cent. l Do. Bristol & Glouces. Do. do. do. .. Do. Erewash Val. pref. Do. Leic. & Swanning. 8 per cent. guar. • . Midland Gt. West. (Ire.). Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. .. Newcastle and Carlisle.. Do. quarter shares .. Newmarket • • .. Do. extension scrip .• Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford • . Newry & EnntskMen Newry, Warrenpoint, Rostrevor • • .. • • Norfolk .. • . .. •• Do. New 201. shares..l Do. Extension Do. guar. 5% percent. Do. *aveney Valley.. .1 4 forthern Comities Union North British . • • • • • Do. Preference • • .• North Staffordshire • . North-Western . •• Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. • . Preston and Wyre • • Do. Halves (A) • • • • Reading, Guildford, and Reigate.. • • • • • • Royston and Hitchin Do. Shepreth Exten.• • Scottish Central .. Scottish Midland Do. new . • • • • Shrewsbury & Binning. Clas3A.. •• Do. Class 8.. • • • . Do. New Guarantee.. Abrewsbury & Hereford Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) .. Do. Halves Do. Oswestry Do. New.. Do. S per cent. rref. . Shropshire Union South Devon .. Do. Preference .. South Staffordshire South-Eastern .. Do. do. 4% per cent... South Wales.. .. South Yorksh. and River Dun • • • • • Shed., Roth., and Goole, N. Div., guar.s p cent. Do. do. South Div. • • Swansea & Loughor, &c. raw Vale EXt431161011 •• Thames haven Dock and Railway • . • • • • Vale of Neath • • • • Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick Waterford, Wei., Wick., and Dublin • • • • Wear Valley, 6 per cent. guaranteed • • • • • • Do. do. do. .. Do. do. do. .. West f_lornorall • • West London . • • • • Do. lot Class Pref. (107.) Do. 2d Class do. (par), Whitegaven and Furness Windsor, Staines, and 8. Western •• .. •• Wilts, Somerset, & Wey menth • • • • • • • • York, Newcastle, & Ber• wick .• •• • • • • Ditto and Newcastle Extension .. Ditto G.N.E. purchase Or preference • . • . Do. „„ .. Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway .. .. York and North Midland, Do. Preference .. .. Boulogne and Amiens .. Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) Demerara .. Dutch Rhenish .. East Indian .. Do. do. do. .. Great Indian Peninsula.. Ditto ditto .. .. Louvain ala Sambre .. Luxembourg .. .. .. Ditto • • • Madrid and Valentin .. Namur and Liege .. Northern of France . Orleans and Bordeaux .. Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen • • • • Paris and Strasbourg .. Rouen and Havre .. • ' Sambre and Meuse • • Strasbmirg and Basle .. Tours and Nantes • • • • Tournay, Jurbiss, Lan- den, and Hasselt • • West Flawlers .. • • Maria Antonia Int, Australasia • • • • British North America.. Colonial .... ••••• • • • • • Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock .... Lyndon and Westminster National Provincial Eng. Do. New . • • • • • • • • • • • National of Ireland l'rfrdlici& of .. • . Union of Australia .. • . 10%:to 10% ss dis. 6 —5% dis. jiii - 1 p. 29 -30 97 -28 8- 9 p 7- 8 P to —ll 76 -78 17% - 18 10% - 10% 5% -5% 16 -17 144-14% .. .. 24 —22 dis. • • .•'• • • 3% -3% 4 5i - 2XI I'-14 1 -14 -1 6 -6q %—lin 1 / 4 dis. % P 100 12 15 4 20 100 lox 11 55 -57 55 -57 4 -6 p 5% -6% •3 % - 4 15% - 16% 12 -12% 2% -2% 32 -33 28 -29 5% -61 A •• •• % •-••- % 17% - 18% -6% 11!,4 - 11 , %; 12% - 12% 39 -41 1 34 - ii p• i 242 - 245 78% 79 4 —3% dis. 99 101 49} 50% 22 —23 63 —7O 5 % — 6% p. 26 —27 p 57 —5B 10% 10 1 4 dis. 7% 7 die. I% 1 k clis. 4 2 01 !29 16 0 2 12 0 5% - 4 % - 10 - 9% - 1 - 1354 - 3% - 3' - 23% - •• •• 22 -- 23 334 - .• 9 - 7% - a 16% - 18 20.. -.. % - 2134 •• --- •• S - 834 44 -45 18% - 193( FM - a . - 16 - 3% - FOREIGN. Do. Tow Union of London Lint= a Madrid •• • • 128 - 132 6 —5% dis.l 95% 96% 12% 13% 3% die. 3% 3 dis. 7 dis. P 'i% ---- "i% 88% - 89% 10% - 11 57 -60 57 -60 138 - 140 11% - 12 23g - 241•4 -125 3X —4 p. 4%-4% p. 2% p. 78% 79% 11)4 10% dis 10 —9% dis. 2% —2% p. •• •• 13 -15 4 1 ,4 - ax dig. 26 -27 11 - 12 11% - 11 %- % P 3% - 4S - 3 die. 49 19 1834 dls. 24 —26 128 - 129 3 -3% 22 —24 15 —l4 dlfi. 16 —l7 43 5 8•X - 5 - g % - 5 8 dig, 17 - 17% 42 -43 7 % - 8 % P. 19 - 19 1 4 - 77 1 - 13N - 14 7 - 8 6 -63 5% dis. 4% dls. 10% 1 dLs 3% die, dIS.I 23% 3 dia. 7 dia. 6%d.1 5% dls. dis. 23 % die. I 8% - 9 15% -15 S 5 411 die. % —1% pm. U - % Pm. - % pm. I;4 - 1 % 23,-2% 15 —1 4% 4 (11s.x.in 31 —36 25% -- 2 7 GI% 576 dls. 10% 11 27 15 11 6 3 100 42 100 100 4734 13 5 3 9 12 3 paid np paid up 50 25 17% 7k been qui NT ST+ Business d one to-day. 10% 94 die. 1:i 2 % % 16% % le% li 58% 55% 5 % X 17 ii % % % 6 Xt 11 l o i 11 }i 12X, 34 40 3914 % 78% 34 13% 13 57 % 131,4 A X 14 89% 3' 24 124 34 124 10% % dig. 48% 16 Ys 3 % X 4 8 3( % 16106 17 16% 42 5% N dis. 4% dis. 23% 3 4 187 % 22 %% 9 87 2% 7 S gU % % io% 'Lint. in % 2% 10•• —•• % 10 db. 1% IN I )ted 6% ; Ditto, Now, 2%. 1K BANKS. 28 -31 424 - 42% x.(l 0% - 10 25 - 254 18% - 19 , A 27% - 284 1714 - 18 42 - 34% - 35 42% 19N - 13% •• -7":. .. Contols ... Ditto Account Business don, Bald. Nominal Prices. to-d 27. Angio•Mexlean(is. 5L p.) 100 .. Asturian .... •• • •• • • 15 .. Australian 4 34 3 Barossa Range ....... 113 0 3% —3% Blaenarvon Don and Coal 50 .. Bolanos Scrip .......... British Iron.. ••.. • • .... 13 5 Brazilian Imp. (Is. 5/. p.) 21% Do. Cocacs and Cuiaba 30 3 34 —34 Do. St. John del Rey.. 15 14% 144 14% Cobre Copper • • .... .• • 40 32% 35% Copiapo ..... • • .... •• • 14 5% General ..... • • 20 is% 13% Real Del Monte, Unreg. Do. Black Debentures .. Do. Red DeLentures .• Santiago de Cub". 10 9 —7% Tin Croft • • 7 10% 11 United Mexican • • 28 2 8 , 4 —5% 5% MISCELLANEOUS. Canada 32% 42% —44 Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 26% —27 eT al Penin. & Oriental Steam. 50 7854 711 a. all Royal Mail Steam GO 73 —74 74% rive cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official will not be Influenced by interested correspondents.] MONEY and COMMERCIAL CITY, TWO O'CLOC A Y The sales of Cotton at Liverpool were es timated,, 5,000 bales, comprising 4,000 American, 300 Pere"; and Maranham, 81d. to 811; 250 Egyptian, at 8 ,;1 and 300 Surat, at sd. to 6d. per lb. The market CO heavily.—Railway Shares were firm. to The markets for Colonial and Foreign Produce li l been pressed upon by heavy supplies of the prie c T j e goods, espcially Sugar, and the t xpectationa of t'h bye who looked for higher prices and a brisk demand ,ribe been thus far disappointed upon the re-opening of market. There is still reason to conclude, however) tb ;11 the grocers and others will ere long corns in more ire n'ir as buyer:, and it m%) , be that the importers will th euv , tain bettor terms. Compared with this time lest Y e l p several staples rule high, and an enhancement l il e,sl value of money would probably have a prejudicial emho oa prices for a short time, though we cannot believe gust any permanent reduction will occur, taking into se e 0 _,,4 the steady consumption goin on, and the vastly incre):,, wants of the strangers who will this year visit our shorii. The Coffee duty question is not likely to:slutnber I nv session of Parliament, for the serious decline in the c o gumption shows that both the public and the Gelipt merit suffer. Messrs. Franks and Millard tell 06 o r "Coffee is the only article—the only article at least ° fi lo portance—which has the incubus of differential due upon it without a term being fixed for its being rel e lp from the burden; and the consequence is that it be languished both in quality and popularity; it " I f it come at once bad and dear, and the consumption e lsr has of course been progressively decreasing. W 11 8" wl could have been expected? When a differed ip duty compels us to use an indifferent article to , preference to a better one, the use of it Will fife rally be abandoned; and even the bad &rack) ear become worse under its protection from fair lie petition. Toe well-cultivated Coffees of Ceylon c o come :career every year, bt cause the native, or 8 0 11/3 , 8 0 wild, groe th can find a market here against. the an d Rica, Leguayrs, Lc., with the heavy differentialtato almost prohibitive, duty laid upon the latter. , if s what is supposed to be for the protection of our lip, colonies is actually by degrees working their r oot ' Ceylon is capable of being made to produce Coffee Poll enough in curality and sufficient in quantity, to„0 the present (teamed of the whole world; but tle", r Io injudicious system that beautiful island is relepoi 4 - a wilderness. "We should, therefore, for the sake of our le colonial dependencies alone, advocate the it 00394 101 abolition of the differential duty on Coffee. It "Ibeil been found to conduce either to their profit or civilisation." code of Late advice* from Turkey state that the nevi `, tbt commerce had been arrangfid, having receic e4 , anxious attention cf the commission aointed to I r e it, but th at the formation of tribunals of coo ° 011 owing to their clashing with the laws of the cogs could not, for the present at least, be carried out. f oll The English Stock Market has not been so tit is' as yesterday, but there is a fair business doing. telligence from Paris is still rather a check upon Pr'ot Consols have been 961 fur Transfer, and 961 fc/f 16th instant. The New Three-and-a-Quart er o„oo Cents. ha%e been 98i to 99, and the Three pet ‘ 1 " 97i to Bank Stock has been stead , ' of 2131. Exchequer-bills are barely so good, 1343 .,„ i tird to 61s. premium. The loans obtained from the P — beei England while the transfer books were closed W e repaid. v The f 'reign investments are heavy, and ei°P: to} with Cousols. Spanish Three per Cents have been 3- 00 ! and Portuguese Four per Cents. are 344 to 3 5 1 f ir ofi nally. Mexican Bonds have receded to 341 00 0 Stock is at 89i. Russian Four-and-a-Halt pe r 0 0 1 have been 96.1 ex div., and Danish Five par Cep"' Dutch Four per Cents. are 90i to 91. 0! In Railway Shares there has been moderate t oter tione, without any important fluctuation in. prices. t Northern, however, have suffered materiaNy by g v he r d ing off in the week's traffic. Midland look well. Shares much the same. TRH aS. • QUARTER 62' TO -- in. e% li ( ••• •• ••• cy I to' ONE PRICES OF BRUISE' raNDS O'CLOCK. PitgOl Balk Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced E nns. .., 97% thAa 9 61 _ 3 per Cont. Consols Annuities 96N% % 9 ,, New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anna.......- .; 98 1 .4 99 98% ip , 7 a ,l Long Anne. to expire J an. 1850 73 A3 7 h 1 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860. — • India Bonds, 1,0001... t.onsols for Account 96%14 Exchequer Bills. I%d. &2d 8 1 I,eoo/. June ........ 59 61 58 p 6 1 5001. June Small, June 59 61 -56 p 10il li ONE Viil'o9ti PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. brazihaz bonds DIA 4 9 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent — Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent ..... Ditto,l3 per Cent... ...- Danish 80nd5,1825,3 per Cent. Do., 5 per cent Equador Bonds — Grenada Bonds, 1% per Cent — Ditto Deferred Maxima, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto, Account ....-... ...... . Russian Bonds Ditto, 4% per Cent, 96% S,latitith 5 per (Ant. 1840 — Ditto Account ..... .. ..... .. Venezuela Bonds, 2 1 4 per Cent Ditto Deferred Dividends on the above payable in London' b i Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 90% 91 95 i 5 1 1) 3 6 / 11) LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.-( THIS o)4' LONDON, JAN. 10. Wind at noon S.W. 0 01 DEAL, JAN. 9. — Wind W. to N. Bstnvia fir Rotterdam; Asia, Sydney, New 0 1) Wales; Iron Gem, Calcutta ; Heroine, Callao ; 'olo Callao. Sailed, Frowning Bauty, Valparaiso ; Ada Buenos Ayres. Arrd. from the River, Briton,Pao; South Australia; Alliance, A ngo l a; T urne r, Al e g" d° Two vessels of about thirty or f or ty t on s burlo their beatnends, apparently a b an d on ed, sad 1;0 washing over them, were passed 6th instant, bl Seven Stones; also a raft, but no one on it. LivenrooL, JAN. 9.—lt blew very hard 1 0 , t ,bl/, J from the westward, but moderated t ow ards daYlll ,A; 1 0 Arrd. Prince of Orange, Bombay ; L uce rne, , e '" Adler, Laguna. Off port, W a shi ng t on , Mobi e ,' rea r Chieftain, Charleston. Put back, William o t Tor Boston, with cargo shifted, l oss o f sa il s a nd ce' injured ; bore up from long. 24; out thirty dart n e nt BBDCA.R, JAN. 9.—Wind N.W. by W. o p The Lord Coke, of Boston, Rotterdam to Stool" - ; Tees, got on the Sands this morning ; crew sal e d exp ected off should the weather moderate. tr. —dr POWEY, JAN. 9.—The Albion, from Llanelli' ° dr a ea Charlestown Pier, 6th instant, received damage' full of orate bed" RMYL, Jew. 9.—The schooner Clader, of A with, is on shore in Llandendon Bay. ee" PILL, JAN. 9.—lt blew strong at S.W. to -' last night.—The Berbice, Demerara to Aberdeey' r ec,' on shore, filled, and is expected to become a If ie crew saved. The Hazard brig, from Messiest Aer shore, but appears to be doing well. The Jour Maria and William, foundered; crew saved. 0 0, 11) BELFAST, JAN. ii.—The schooner Nunes, 6 10 g $ 0 /14 Oporto, is leaky and received damage ' w from a il " a brig, off the north and South Rock. sr , 6 r / YARMOUTH, I. W., JAN. 9.—Wind boat, marked " Isabella, of W lathy, lensi has been picked up off the Galloper Light. o f 4‘) PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 9.—A ketch-rigged vessel of; to 50 tons is sunk at the edge of the Woolstene r v e ' 10", posed to have foundered in a heavy gale it Sn'oPi night. A small skiff, marked " Cheelssa Sayler /004 zance," end presumed to belong to the ketch, Wit, V on Hayhng Beach, and it is feared the ere 0/ drowned. 0 FALMOUTH, JAN. 9.—lt has blown one o f t i ci° t b# A violent gales to-day from S.S.W., veering 0 I" 0 . has been experienced for many years; it abatedo P.m.—The William Frederick, of and from Ne w . ,P ;( l ° eo /ii Pernarna, got in contact with two vessels, and L"`" siderable damage, and got on shore. f dot c) ; ' CARDIFF, JAN. 9.—The schooner Sophia, 0- rgs tsoo Teignmouth to Gloucester, has put into Penarth - • with consid e r a ble damage in the gale Of 'last nig ht ' brigantine has eunk on the Cardiff Sands. n titf d BALRANALA, NORTH UM; DEC. 23,:- 7 -A Vs- t iter timber, and some pisces of the wreck of a large,, Qd have washed on shore, and a name-board' m arked romandel." A VI OFF HASTINGS, JAN. vo...Ann Bobertiont A j i g ° oo e i , FALMOUTH, JAN. 9 sue Vb .••••••6iu• . o r Rio Janeiro. The Artie, Troon, for Constaoll grounded on the Northern Bank yesterday. 111 ' CLEVEDON, JAN. 9.—A cask marked L iget.;ovi 24-1 2 18," and branded Ford & M within , a ur evo" 11 59 (cooper's mark), a piece of wea therbearu'd 0V painted, black outside and green in, with moulding 01 long and diamond fa:biou, apparently belongltigeool schooner or smack, and a small boat (Stone), 115/ ' on shore. 5 S., r il„ ILFR &CONDE, JAN. 9.—lt blew a hurricane at from five to seven o'clock last night ; when the pelf' veered to W.N. W. and blew a gale all - night. It fl '",,;1 0 / 1 two p e e., moderate and clear. —The John schooner, Newport to Plymouth, shipped a heal,' e ` ts .s e In. • in to the. 1,,,E1,0t1j,r0. Li , a the ',vette over her de.; 4 0 SALTFLEET, JAN. 9.—The sloop Ant, of Bost on, o h d shore et Somercotes, has discharged . her cargo, e l expected off with to-night's tide.