The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-27 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. 'MIS EVENING Will be repeated it• Grand Opera, iu three acts, called MARI TA NA. eharles the Second, Mr. Borrani ; Den Caesar De Bazan, Mr. W. Harrison ; Don Jose de Santarem, Mr. H. Phillips ; Maritana, Miss Romer; Lazarillo, Miss Poole. After which, a new grand Christmas comic Pantomine, called HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, Giants and Dwarfs. The New and extensive Scenery under the direction of Mr. Grieve ; the Overture and Music by Mr. R. Hughes; the Tricks, Transformations, and rations by Mr. Blamire ; the Machinery by Mr. B. Sloman ; the by Mr. Bovey, Mrs. flails, and numerous assistants. This whole Pradesed under the superintendence of Mr. W. West. Al en* 1. Itrrialcin OF GuflamAx..L. Epoco—Lord Mayor's Day, —between the Dinner and the Bali. "'agog and Gog (the City Giant —onee at a premium, now at a discount), Mr. S. Jones and Mr. H. Horricastle ; Ge , eral Tom Thumb (a Dwarf, but causing a great panic lit the Giant market), Mi 29 Dale. " IVho'll kill the Giants? I, says Tom Thumb, As soon as I come, I'll kill the Giants."—Yankee Nursery Tale. The Genius of Pantoraine (Chairwoman of the " Christmas Funny Quin MiSs A. Pa 3 ne.—How Tom Thumb takes the Giants down a peglor two—" From words they'd almost come to blows"—lrinpire andßeferee, the Genius; of Pantomime, wlro gives her decision in a manner (it is hoped) satisfactory to her numerous patrons in boxes, pit, and gallery. Gene 2. COAST OP TILE ISLAND OF LlLLlPUT.—Discovered A.D. 1699. "Ater a storm comes a calm." Gulliver (having a passlon for travelling, high and dry on a rock), Mr. W. H. Payne ; Mrs. Gul liver (having a passion Mr her husband, in the same predicament), Mr. Hance. Extraordinary high tide, and great rush for places. Timely arrival of the Flying Island. Mrs. Gulliver leaves the rock to the time of " Here we go up, up. up"—Gulliver leaves the rock to the tone of " Here we go down, down, down." The tide having ceased to flow, naturally begins to ebb, and leaves Gulliver to asto nish the Lilliputians I Peasants (the real `• small natives"), Messrs. and Mesdames Tiny, Dumpy, Dot, Weebody, Speck, Short, Small, Trot, Littlejohn, &c. &c. ; Inspector of the A division of Lilliputian Police, Mr. stumpy ; Policemen, Messrs. Move-a-way, Clear-the way, Push-a-long, Walk. on, &c.; Engineer, Mr. Easer ; Stoker, 31r. • Hot-birth. How Gulliver, alias the man-motuitaia, is BOUND over to keep the peace ; and how, " by a long pull, a strong pull, and a pall altogether," he is carried away to the court of the Emperor L " And , s - asn't lie a dainty dish To set before the King ?" Old MSS. in the British Museum. 506110 3. HALL OF SCIENCE IN THE PALACE OF THE KING or LA rcre.—Hls iMejesty the King of Laputa (very deep in (Geome try—vide, Flappers at his elbows), Mr. T. Matthews ; Lord High Chancellor Parallelogram and Lord High Chamberlain .Equilateral (fond of " Figures," especially Bomber " One"), Mr. Howell and Mr. Johnson. Lords In Waiting, with their attendant flappers, pages, &c. Mrs. Gulliver makes her " first and only appearance at Court ;" and how, having lost her G , the Flying Island is placed at her disposal to recover the same. Scene 4. MARINg RESIDENCE OF THE EMPEROR OF LILLIPUT.— His " High" Mightiness Golbas to Momaren Mully Ully One, Emperor of Lilliput, Miss Turtle ; her " equally" High Mightiness the Em press of Lilllput, Miss Midgley. The Lilliputian Court (the " high est" families In the land), and Lilliputian Imperial Guard (at least 2 ft. 6 in. In their stockings), servants, policemen, cooks, setillions, &e. &e.—How Gulliver, having been let out of " durance vile," not only pockets the affront, but two policemen in the bargain. flow he kisses the Emperor's hand, and the Empress's lips. Inspection of the Lilliputian Imperial Guard. How Gulliver swallows his dinner, and is only prevented from swallowing a Lilliputian, by way of dessert, by the news of the arrival of the Illefascadian fleet. Gulliver re gains his freedom, by towing in the enemy's fleet. The Palace on fire. Arrival of the Lilliputian Fire Brigade. How Gulliver saves the Empress, and is then obliged to save himself, which he does by - - - taking a hop, step, and a jump into Scene 5. CORN-VIIILD IN BROBDIGNAO.--Longostretcho (a sub stantial Brobdignag tanner, and member of the Brobalignag Agri cultural Soeietj), Mr. Monster ; Long-in-the-stride (his wife), Mrs. Strapper; Brcgpligi Baby (in and out of a go-cart), Mis: H. Payne; A very riAtTid Robin (the mother of a very tine f.imily), Mrs. Redbreast ; Prize Pig (with sliver medal from the Brobkmag Cattle Show), Mr. snout. How Gulliver goes a bird's nesting, and gets the worst of it, and how, after paying all proper deference to the "great-uns," he pitches into the " little-tm" in the go-cart. Scene 6. BILORDIGNAO BED-ROOSt AND NURSISAY.—BrObdigIIfIg " Gemini" (Auglice twins), Masters James and Elliott; Brobdignag Kitten. Mr. Pussey. For further particulars of this scene apply personally to the principal performers, who can be seen in It every evening till further notice. Scene 7. COAST OF THE ISLAND OF lALLIPUT (45 Scene 2), and re-sppearanc.e of the Flying Island ; from which Mrs. Gulliver taken a flying leap into Gulliver's arms —" We may be happy yet." Our old acquaintance, the Rock, introduces another old acquaintance, the Genius of Pantomime, Transformation of the Characters. Harlequin 3fr. Wieland. I Clown Mr. T. Matthews. Pantaioon Mr. Howell. Columbines —Miss Hicks and Miss Lonsdale. Scene 8. LND OF COVENTRY -STREET, PICCADILLY.—Writing in Eight Lessons. The Experimental Squadron, with Hornpipe accom paniment. A Sudden Peep into Leicester-square. Wenham Lake Ito. Sliding made easy. A great Fall in Provisions—viz. fish, fruit and vegetables. Scene 9. CLOWN'S LODGINGS.—Bed and Window change sides, and Clown "goes down the middle and up again ;" great virtue In a blan ket. "To be well shaken before taken." The principle of elongation "Carried out." Clown is tossed up, and Harlequin comes down "heads." Scene 10. EXTERIOR OF GROCERS, FISHMONGERS, AM.) WINE MER CHANTS' SHOPS.—Two active lads, versus active clothes-horse. Cask of West India Produce and barrelled natives. Ladders ad infinitum, Putting up the shutters—the wrong shop. Try again. Ditto re peated. Great change on the premises, and " business removieg." Scene 11. Iltoncam-intr„ with extensive view of the neighbour hood of London. Railways remember the 30th November. Grand Railway Steeple-chase to the Board of Trade. Arrival of engines from all the country round. " A clear course and no favour." Off they go. Clown and Pantaloon in difficulties, and ending in a "dis solution of partnership." • Seigle 12. FLEET-STREET DURING TILE REPAIRS, with Glass Shop, Tinman's, and Railway Printing-office. Railway Prospectus and Provisional Committee; publishing made easy. Orders to any amount punctually attended to. The Great Guy for 1845. Great battne of stags ; "they come—they come." No thoroughfare. The shortest cut to the Board of Trade, producing a great smash among the crockery. Seene 13. EXTERIOR OF rii,a BOARD OF TRADE, and Probable Ge neral Railway Terminus. Scene 14. WATCHMAKERS' AND 1300KSELLERS' SHOPS.—Teaching the young idea how to shoot. illustrated London Noose. A " pinch of curry powder." Watch on a new movement. Queen's Visit to Germany, and all eyes directed to Scone 15. Tag CITY OF COLOGNE, as it appeared on her Majesty's arrival. Owing to this great attraction, immediate application should be made to JOHN' PARSONS, Box Book-keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will lie repeated an Original Comedy, called THE MAIDEN AUNT. Sir Simon Sage, Mr. W. Parrett ; Percy Sage, Mr. Hud son; Mrs. Saran Wilmot, Mrs. Glover; Catherine Wilmot, Mrs. Sieymoilr. To be followed by a New and Original Farce, called EAU - MIT BUBBLES. Gorman Hodson, lir. Hudson, Ellen Soytou, Miss Eeyton. To eonclude with a Grand New Extravaganza, entitled nir, BEE AND THE; ORANGE TREE; or, The Four Wishes. Principal Characters by Mr. Hudson, Mr. James Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mr. Clark, Miss P. Morton, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Caulfield, and Mrs. Stanley. THMATitE .A.DELYIII. THIS EVkNING Will be repeated an entirely New Drama, called TIIE LIONESS OP THE NoHilt, or, The Prisoner of Shlns,:elhourg. Alexis Romanouski, Mr. Webster; Triptoleinns lime, Mr. Wright; Eliza beth, Madame Celeste. After which, MOTHER AND CHILI) ARE DOING WELL. To conclude with an entirely New and Original Christmas riot tamime, celled HARLEQUIN AND POONOOWINGKEEWANG FLIBEEDEEFLOBEEDEERUSKEEBANG; or, The King of the Cannibal Islan‘ls. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland ; Columbine, 31iss Fleming; Chown, Mr. C. J. Smith; Pantaloon, Mr. Mitcheason. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. THIS EVENING WILL BE PERFORMED THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH: A FAIRY TALE OF HOME. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. Emery, Mr. Meadows, Mr. F. Vining" Mrs. Keeley, Miss M. Keeley (her Fifth Appearance en any Stage), Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Dawson, Mk. Howard, Miss Forster, and Mina Turner. After which will be produced a New Grand Romantic extravaganza, entitled THE ENCHANTED HORSE ; or, Prince Fir•uz Schah of Persia and the Princeag of Bengal. Principal Characters by Me.-,N. Keeley, Wizan, P. Matthews, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, &c.; Mes dames Keeley, =ars, Hodson, Dawson, Howard, Arden, &e. PRINCH4IS'S TIIEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Extravaganza, entitled J EAMES, THE RAILROAD FOOTMAN OF BERK ELET-iQUARE. Jeames Plush, Air. Compton. To which will be added THE BRIGAND, To eoncluole with a New Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE KEY OF THE KINGDOM; or, HAR' EQUIN AND THE FAIRY BLUE BELL. Harlequin, Mr. W. II Harvey ; Columbine, Mis. Mullen; Clown, Mr. Ilesntore ; Pantaloon, Mr. I'. Hill. ROYAL OLYALPIC THEATRE. POLE I,FSSEE AND 3IANADEIZESS, MISS KATE HOWARD. TIIIS EVENING Will be presented a Domestic Drama of powerful interest, entitled THE LADY OF ST. TROPEZ. George Maurice, Mr. J. Browne; Count D'Aubr!eve, Mr. Brookes ; Hortense (the Lady of St. Tropez), Itliss L. Melville. To be followed by THE DAY AFTER TILE WEDDING. Col. ireelove, Mr. Walter Lacy; Lady Freelove, Miss L. Melville. ♦nd concluding with the new Pantomime, unapproachable for glee and grandeur, called FORTUNATUS ; or, THE MAGIC (:Al'. Fortunatus, Misa Hamilton ; Prince Megrim, Mr. Ceckrill ; Fairy Queen, Miss Bromley ; Harlequin, Mr. Smythers ; Pantaloon, Mr Charles; Clown, Mr. Jefferini; Columbine, Miss Laldlaw. ASTLET'S ROYAL AMPHITHPATRE OF ARTS. rROPRIETOX AND MANAGER, MR. W. BATTY . . THIS EVENING Will be performed the Popular Spectacle of MAZEPPA. Embracing the whole Strength of the Company, aided by a Double Stud. New Scenes of the Circle, combining the talent of the French and English Artistes. After whieh will be repeated a New Grand Comic Equestrian Pan tomime, called HARLEQUIN DON QUIXOTTE DE LA MANCHA ; or, Sancho 'Panza, and Dulcinea of Toboso, with uew Scenery, Dresses, Mechanical Changes, &c. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATER. THIS EVENING. RICHARD PLANTAGENET, in Three Acts, supported by Messrs. Osbaldiston, E. F. Saville, T. Fredericks, Higgie, Dale, Herbert, Searle, and Misses Vincent, Richardson, Eliza Terrey, Mrs. G. Lee. After which, Professor HEMMINGS and his SONS will give more unparalleled feats of Classical Gymnasia than ever yet has been ex hibited, and surpassing even the celebrated Risley himself. To conclude with a new gorgeous Pantomime, called TIPPITY WITCHEET; or, HARLEQUIN TIM BOBBIN and the COMICAL WITCHES of LANCASEIRE. Harlequin. Mr. Chapin° ; Colum bine, Miss Le Vite ; the Two Clowns, Messrs. E. Blanchard and M'Donald i the Two Pantaloons, Mr. Franklin and the veteran Tom Alaneharcl, the very King of Pantomime and Prince of Pantaloons. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed TIIR MENDICANT SON ; or, The Jew of Southwark. Supported by Messrs. Hughes., Johnson, Rogers, Cowell, Maynard, Lewis, Heslop ; Mesdames H. Vining, Martin, and Daly. After which, a new Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE OLD WITCH OF TEDDINGTON ; or, The Golden Days of Good Queen Bess. Harlequin, Mr. Corm ac k ; tlolnmbine, Miss Smithyss ; Clown, Mr. Paul Herring ; Pantaloon, Mr. Anderson ; Sprite, Mr. Stilt. THE WEATHER.—Sutt OFFICE, DEC. 27. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 34; Highest, 45; Noon, 4 BAROMETER, 30.20. WIND W., fine sunahiny weather. —.._ *ION WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning •• 0 minutes after 0 1 Evening .. 21 minutes after 0. • 4 4 , 4: ,s;. ' l Ai• •••• it tl i k4"%r. '4;; trienill ltn • " LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9 7, 1845. The greatest bustle and activity, it is said, in our docks and naval yards ; measures for havin g at command a large fleet whenever it may be wanted are adopted in every quarter ; ships are repaired, en gines for steam-vessels are ordered to be made within a limited period, and every symptom in these respects leads to the belief that the present Administration are resolved to " assert British rights, and prepared to maintain them." All the inanimate materiel of large and powerful fleets, in fact, is in the most for ward state of preparation, but how vain and decep tive the best built ships are, without they are pro perly manned, and plans are formed for supplying deficiencies, the events of the last war, and, indeed, of every war with France, for more than a hundred years, have sufficiently convinced our enterprising and THE SUN, LONDON, SA.TUR DA Y EVENING. DECEMBER 27, I 845: gallant neighbours. A victory to them brought little or no advantage, because lives were sacrificed which could not be replaced, and any disaster which might have befallen England was speedily repaired almost entirely from the vast resources furnished by her mercantile navy. Latterly, however, a power differing in every respect from France has sprung up, ready to compete at sea with any European state ; her merchant-vessels, and the number of her seamen, exceed those of every kingdom or empire in the world, except those of Great Britain, and they have, besides, all the qualities and superior advantages which long distinguished the brave defenders of these islands. It is utterly incomprehensible, therefore, how the British Admiralty can overlook these circumstances, and spend large sums voted by Parliament for the naval service, without taking into account the most important and, indeed, vital consideration in this great national question. At the present moment, though so few ships are in commission, the greatest difficulty in procuring able-bodied seamen exists, the Retribu tion steamer, and several other vessels required for service cannot make up their complements, and should a war suddenly break out, no remedy for this alarming evil can be found but one, which the nation generally, and more especially the mercantile classy would resist with the most determined energy to the last, Under the present system it is well known men can not be had in sufficient numbers ; one-half, nay one fourth that might be required, could not be obtained by legal and constitutional means. The system of impressment has now been dormant for more than thirty years, but without that or a radical change ; both in the mode of paying our sailors and in their treatment on board, we could not raise a body of sailors fit to contend with the American navy. In 1816, notwithstanding the fame attached to the name of PELLEW, and the prepossessions of the sailors in favour of Lord EXMOUTH, the fleet destined for the attack on Algiers was long detained at Spithead for want of men, and it was with the utmost difficulty that numbers, considerably below the usual comple ment, were at last collected for working the ships- Are affairs in a better position now ? The Americans, as, at the end of the last war, are making every exer tion to obtain our best sailors, by means of large pre miu►ns, large wages, and good treatment. The mer cantile navy is fully employed, trade never was in a more thriving condition; the demand for seamen, consequently, is good, and the pay better than in the royal navy. In the one service the engagement is made for a voyage, or a very limited period ; in the other the seaman is little better than a slave ; his period of service has no limit but that of his life or his ability to serve, or the wants and caprices of the Admiralty ; he is subject to the most degrading of all punishments. Neither he nor the soldier is tried, like the rest of his countrymen, by his peers, but by a body with despotic power, de sirous to repress, by the utmost severity, every act, nay, every word and look, that they consider offensive; he is ill-paid, and the only prospect of consolation he has is some trifle per day when his strength is worn out, or per haps a retreat in Greenwich Hospital, when he has lost a leg or an arm in the defence of his country. These are the men that saved England from many attempted invasions, and from the most recent and dangerous of all, that formed with so much care, and but for them with certainty of success, by BONAPARTE at Boulogne. Never did such reproach attach to a nation. England treats her best friends worse than enemies ; she admits that her wooden walls are her only protection, that without her sailors she could not exist as a nation, while the gal lant men who mount these walls are subjected to hardships and cruelties, compared with which the sufferings of the African race in the colonies, for whose freedom she paid'twenty millions, were absolutely no thing. Another session of Parliament cannot pass over without some remedy, some radical change in the whole system of manning our navy. We felt its effects during the last war with the United States ; the best of our sailors who conquered at Trafalgar, indignant at such treatment, and bribed by higher pay, fought against their country, and lamented their success. Are the same disgraces and calamities to be repeated, because the Government will not spend half a million more in paying our seamen, nor take the trouble of framing an Act of Parliament which may rescue them from indignities and sufferings which gallan men will not patiently endure ? Lord JOUN RUSSELL'S inability to form a free trade Government, and the obstacles which have still to be overcome before the free-trade question can reach a successful issue, not unnaturally suggest attention to the present state of the representation. If the Reform Act had indeed made the House of Commons the people's House, how long ago should we have got rid of the corn-laws ? If Lord 'Thum RUSSELL, not having a majority in the present House of Commons, had been able to rely on the result of another general election, as the true index of the people's voice, would he have hesitated for one moment as to accepting the trust tendered by her MAJESTY, or would he ultimately have yielded to the difficulties by which he was overcome ? It is undeniable that the system of nomination, which the Reform Act was to abolish, still prevails to a very great :extent in the House of Commons. Some notion of its extent may be gathered from the following facts, which we have derived from two Parliamentary papers of the year 1844 (Nos. 11 and 435). There are as many as 174 constituencies in tha United Kingdom having less than 1,000 electors each ; and these 174 constituencies return no less than 241 Members of the House of Commons. These 174 constituencies are made up as follows :-116 English boroughs ; 12 boroughs in Wales ; 13 Scotch counties, and 8 Scotch boroughs ; 2 Irish counties, and 23 Irish boroughs. Of the above 174 constituencies, there are as many as 82 which have less than 500 electors each—viz. 60 English boroughs, 3 boroughs in Wales, 2 Scotch counties (Bute and Sutherland), and 1 Scotch borough, and 16 Irish boroughs. These 82 consti tuencies, of less than 500 electors, return in all 110 Members of Parliament ; 28 English boroughs among them returning each two Members. The following boroughs return two Members each, and have each less than 300 electors :—Andover, Chippenham, Harwich, Knaresborough, Lyming ton, Marlborough, Richmond, Tavistock, Thetford. Tavistock is a single exception in this list to the general rule, that corruption and proprietary in fluence govern the returns of these miserably small constituencies. Thetford, the last on the list, is the smallest in point of numbers, having only 192 electors. It returns Sir JAMES FLowoa, the wisest of the wise, and Mr. BINGHAM BARING, the heir of Lord ASIIBURTON, and a member of the Government. Among the constituencies of less than .500, which return only ene Member of Parliament, Caine, Reigate, and the county of Sutherland have less than 200 electors (the constituency of the county of Sutherland being actually no more than 167 !) ; and Arundel, Ashburton, Dartmouth, Flint, Lyme, Mid burst, Northalierton, Wilton, and the Irish boroughs of Cashel, Ennis, Portarlington, and Tralee, have less than 300 electors. We have named 24 constituencies which have less than 300 electors. Of these twelve are, to all intents and purposes, proprietary boroughs. Here they are in a row, with the names of the virtual proprietors and their politics : Chippehham...Mr. NEELD Tory. Marlborough... Marquis of AYLESBURY Tory. Richmond Earl Or ZETLAND Liberal. Caine Marquis of LANSDOWN ...Liberal. Reigate „Earl SOMERS . ..Tory. Sutherland ..Duke of SUTHERLAND Liberal. Arundel Duke of NORFOLK Protectionist. Flint Sir R. W. BULKELEY Liberal. Midhurst Earl of EG3IONT... ....... ....Tory. Wilton Earl of PEMBROKE Tory. Thetford Lord ASHBURTON Tory. P ortarlington..Earl of PORTARLINGTON Tory. Andover, Harwich, Knaresborough, Lymington, and Lyme are known to be sinks of corruption. So much for seven out of the 24 constituencies of less than 300 electors. Large constituencies, with the ballot, furnish the only possible effectual security against nomination and corruption. Ballot by itself could do no good in such hole• and-corner constituencies as Thetford and Harwich, Reigate and Lymington. It might even increase corruption in constituencies so small that they may be taken in with one haul of a briber's net. We should much rejoice to see a revival of the efforts, which have been so long dormant, for further Parliamentary Reform ; and the statesman who should persevere till he triumphed, in endeavouring to reform the representation by introducing vote by ballot, and getting rid of all constituencies under 1,000, or even under 500 electors, would render an immense service to the cause of public morality and enlightenment, and need fear no imputation of revo lutionary designs. The Paris papers of Thursday have not arrived. During the whole of last night a violent storm raged, which probably has prevented any vessel from cross ing the Channel. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 26. Anglo-Belgian — Madrid and Valencia... Barba does Boulogne and Amiens.. 10% Namur and Liege 3% Bordeaux &Mediterran North Jamaica ... Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Vierzon Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Orleans and Bordeaux 11N, Do. (Mackenzie's) .. Ov er Y ase l ••• —. Callao, Lima, and Pa- Paris& Lyons (Laffitte) 2% cific Coast _ . Central of Spain .. Ceylon . — Ditto (Calon'a)-- Ditto (Sud Est) 2 l/ :8 Demerara Dendre Valley ...... 1 ,4 Dutch Rhenish Dieppe & Paris Juliet — Dijon and Mulhouse 1 7s East Indian Famponx & llazebrouk Grt Northern of France Constituted 15% Do. Pepin le Ilalleur — Great Paris and Lyons 2% Great Western Bengal IA Great Western Canada JamaicaS Mid. Junction Do. North Midland — Do. Extension Jersey — Louvain and Jemappe 2 Lyons and Avignon — Luxembourg Paris and Orleans 47V 2 ,Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron's) , Do. (Compe de L'Est) Do. (Aymard's) — Paris and St. Quentin — Rouen and Havre — Royal North of Spain — Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale Tournay,Jurbiso, Lan den, and Hasselt Tours and Nantes (M acken zie's) Do. (Lefebvre's) 2 Do. (O'Neill's) Trinidad ..... Verona and Ancona.... West Flanders We hear that Mr. Cardwell, at present Secretary to the Treasury, is to succeed Mr. Hope, as Under- Secretary to the Colonies. It is said that Mr. Charles Wood, who seceded with Lord Grey from Lord Melbourne's Government in 1839, distinctly refused to join in Lord Grey's re cent objection to Lord Palmerston as Foreign Se cretary. Hull and Selby SO Ditto 1 4 Shares Do. Half Shares Invernessand Elgin ..• 1 Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth Irish North Midland l% Isle ofAxholme 2% Killarney Junctions l l% Kendal and Windermere 1114 Lancaster and Carlisle... 30 00000 •••••• Larne, Belfast, and Bal lrmena 000000 ••••• Leeds and Carlisle Leeds and West Riding Junction Leicester & Birmingham 225. — ••• •• •••••• Leicester and Bedf3rd... 225. / r Leicester and Tamworth 425. Livery. and Manchester.loo ... Do. 1 / 2 Shares Do. Quarters 25 Liverpool& Leeds Direct 2% .. ... 2 1 , 8 ... Lpool., Mnchstr, & New castle Junction Landon and Birmingtimloo 224 222 224.... Do. Thirds Do. 14 Shares Ditto Fifths ••• ..... •.. Ditto Extension ...... 14(, London and Blackv••all. 161. 135.4 d 9%... ..... .... Do. New Ditto Extension Londoz. and Brighton Do. consolidated Bths... 40 ..... Ditto, Sixths L. adon and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 22% 21 3 4 .... Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. .. , Lon., Chel., 0x.,G10., and Hereford • Lendort and Greenwich 12115 s 4d... Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d — London Hounslow, and Western - Lora & S.Western 411 6s 10d...... 77 76 Do. New Consol. Bths 20 . ..... 35 Do. New Do. New London& South Essex 23/4 ...... _ ... London and Y0rk...... •.. 21/2...... 41 /8 London and Windsor ... 1 ••• London, Warwick, and Kidderminster ... ...... 21A 24 134 London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Londonderry &Coleraine 5 . ... ............., Londonderry and Ennis killen Lynn and Ely ..... ....... 5 Lynn and Dereham 5 — Manchester and Leeds .. 76 133 Ditto IA. Shares Do. Quarters 2 Do. Fifths 1 . .... 14 13 1 / 2 % ..... Do. Sixteenths ... 54 — Manchester and Birmin. 40 Do. Quarters Do. New Quarters Do. Continuation and Welsh Junction Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock 425....... 24104 p.... Manchester, Birin., and Mould Junction .. Manchester and Rugby Direct . 425. Manchest. &Southampt. 2 ...... 3 2 1 ,4 Midland 100 .....157 156 155 Do. riftlis 2 Do. New Midland, Birm.,Derby...loo 125 .., Midld. & East. Counties 2%...... : g P 2% 3% 224 654 2 p [55 Midland Great Western (Irish) Do. Extens. to Sligo 2 3 / 4..... ..... Newcastle and Darling ton Junction 25 ...... ..... ..... Do. New Brandling 2O INT Aveastle and Berwick 5 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Newport& Abergavenny 2 1 / 2 ...... New Ross and Car10w.., 22s Newry and Enniskillen 2% — ..... Newark, Sheffield, and. Boston ... .. .. ......... 2 5 % 8 ..... 2 3 4 4 % 2%..... Norfolk Extension 2 North British Do. Half Shares ..... 3 1 / z — ........ •• ••• Do. Exten. to Carlisle 1 1 A 2 3 /4 3 1 / 4 Do. Ext. to Dalkeith 25 Ditto ditto North Devon 2 .. ... North of Norfolk .. 2 : 3 /4 — ... ... ........ Northern and Eastern... 45 ....... Do. Scrip Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — Do. New N. Kent & Direct Dover 2% North Staffordshire 425....... 37i 4% p 4IA p North Wales North and South Wales and Worcester Northern and Southern Connecting Norwich and Brandon... 16 Ditto New 3 — Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Nottingham and Boston 1% l7l Nottingm., Erewsh.Val ley, and Manchester... 1% ••.... ..... Nottingham and Mans field 2% 2614 7.174 Oxford, Gosport, Ports mouth, & Southamptn 425. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, WTitney, and Cheltenham..., - Perth and Inverness ... 2% Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1 -.,... Portsmouth Direct ...... 33,E Preston and Wyre Do. % Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Richmond 5 Rugby, Derby, and Man chester ..•••• - 2 5/ — /a Rugby and Huntingdon 2 Rugby, Leamington,aad Warwick Rugby, Warwick. and Worcester... ... 425. Scottish Central Scottish Midland Do. Extension — Sheffield & Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Shrewsbury and Birm... 214_ Shropshire Mineral 425....... Shropskire Union 1 4 dis Shrewsbury & Hereford 2% Shrews., Wolverhamp , & S. Staffordsh. June. 2% Sligo and Shannon IX, Somersetshire Midland 2 ,, ,, •• ..... South Devon... — South Midland 425....... 3% 1 / 2 1 A% p.. 3% p South & Midlands Junc 425...... _ ... — South Staffordshire June 2% _ South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 38 . Do., No. 1 l2 Do., N.. 2. Do., No. 3 D0., Ne. 4 Southampton, Manches ter. & Oxford Junction 425......, St. Alban's, Hatfield, and Hertford Junction ... ...... Staines and Richmond,.. 1 ...... Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 / 4 ...... Q.outh Wales 2%••••.. 3 1 AN% Taw Vale Extension ... Tean and Dove Valley 1% ..... ... ...... .. Trent Valley 2 ..... • 18 171/ 2 Trent Valley and Holy head Junction Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke 54 — ............... Ilverstone and Furness 2 1 / 2 -- ............... Vale of Neath 2 ...... ........ ... Warwick & Cheltenham 1% ... .......... .. Warwick and Worcester 425. Waterford and Kilkenny 3 — .............. Waterford and Limerick 7% — ............ ~. Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin W aterford, Wexford, and Valentia Waveney Valley 2 - ............... Welch Midland West Cornwall ...... 2 ... - • ............. West Yorkshire West London,Old Shares 20 ..... West End and Southern Counties fiexford and Carlow Wisbeach and St. Ives... 2 Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton . 1 3a ...... ............ WHO, Somerset, & Wey- W in or o c u esHereford, thter,Ro-s's 2%..... 314 . ...". .. and Gloucester ' 42s. Worcester, Tilbury, and Ludlow 2% ...... \Vorcester, Shrewsbury, 7d Cr -- - am irewe Union ... .. 1,( 1 ... •• -- Worcester and S. 'Wales 425...... Worcester,Warwick,and Rugby Yarmuuth and Norwich. 20 ...... Ditto, New York and Carlisle 27 2%.....• ..—„, York and Lancaster 2 /8 York and North Midland 50 _... Ditto 4 Share; 25 Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do. Selby 2O — Do. Extension . 5 . 294 304 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. - - 17 di s 4 • 1 1 4 23 Anglo- Belgian - 4 Barbadoes 1 ...... Boulogne and Amiens lO --- 11 %•••••• - ..... Bordeaux & Mediterran 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cetti (Mackenzie's)... 2 - ••• Do. (Espelete's) ..... 2 •••• • Calais, Dunkrk, and West Flanders -•••---- Callao, Litna, and Pacific Coast 1 .. ... ... .. ......... Central of Spain ... Ceylon .......... .... .. ..- ss. Demerara 2 l /2 ... - Dendre Valley Dijon and Mulhouse Dutch Rhenish 5 - East Indian ... ..... .... ss. Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2% Fampoux & Hazebronk 2 Great North. of France Constituted ... 5 ...... 15% l5 Great Pari s an d L yons 2 Great Western Bengal... ss. % Great Wester n Canada.- 3 1 4 .....• Jamaica S.Mid. J unc ti o n 1 Jamaica North Midland 1 Do. Extension 1 Jersey Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . 2 1 4 Lyons and Avignon 113 2 1 4 Luxembourg... Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... Mauritius 1 Namur and Liege North Jamaica... ...... Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... 11 1 / 2 , Over Yssel 4/ 3s 4d l % lAi dis ...., Paris 8c Lyons (Laflitte's) 2 Paris and Lyons (Gan neron's) a Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 Paris &Lvons (3ud Est) 2 . Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron's) Do. (Compe de L'Est) 2 Do (Avmard's) Paris and St. Quentin Rouen and Havre ...... 18 - .... .••••••• Royal North of Spain ... 2 Sambre and Meuse ...... 6 Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 St. Laurence & Atlantic Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt....... 4 Tours and Nantes (Mac kenzie's) . 4 Do. do. ( Lefebvre's 1 2 Ditto (O'Neill's) 2 Trinidad Verona and Ancona... 3 West Flanders ...... .... 4 MINES —--- - - - Real del Monte Unregd. -27. 3N 114 IA dis 2% 47 1 2 LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 27.—Wind this day at noon, W., moderate breeze and fine. DOWER, DEC. 26.—The Rose, Volckmann, from Liverpool to Hamburgh, has put in here leaky, and with loss of sails and spars, and must discharge. COWES, DEC. 25.—A boat, marked " Star, of Sunderland, Mathew Atkinson," also a topmast yard, sails, and rigging, were picked up off the Spurn, 14th instant, and brought in here. The Emilio, from Liverpool to Kiel, arrived here 23d instant, is reported to be damaged. DEAL DEC. 26.—Wind W.S.W., strong and squally —Arrd. Emperor, Jones, Bombay. Arrd. f rom th e r i ver , f or Kd so, Hudson Calcutta ; Columbus, Losh, Bahia; Donna Carnie lita. Williams, St. Lucia, FALMOUTH, DEC. 26.—Arrd. Swift packet, Rio Janeiro, sailed Nov. 12; on freight about 11,0001. in gold and dia monds; Orestes, Porter, Belize; 574, Stubb, Wyburg, with loss of bowsprit, &c., having been in contact with a brig 22d inst. Put back, Jane, Thomas, La Guayra. BRISTOL, DEC. 26.—James, Salmon, St. John's, N.B. MILFORD, DEC. 25.—Arrd. Monarch, Brown, St. Lucia. CLYDE, DEC. 25.—Arrd. Euxine, Livingstone, Quebec. Sld. Favorite, Allan, Demerara; Springfield, Roy, Mobile; Sessotris, Mackenzie, Savannah. WATERFORD, DEC. 24.—Arrd. Nancy, Foran, St. John New Brunswick. SUNDERLAND, DEC. 26.—The Union, Lumsden of Seaton Sluice, was abandoned during the night of the 22d inst., in a sinking state, about 75 miles E.S.E. of the Spurn ; crew saved. ST. IvEs, Dec. 25.—The Mov, Murphy, from Newport to Limerick, has been brought in here much strained, and with loss of bulwarks, &c., and one man washed overboard. WexFoRD, DEC. 25.—The vessel wrecked at the Small Salter Island on the 21st inst., appears to be the Sarah Bease, of Cork, and not the Welcome, as yesterday reported. CORRISBAY, DEC. 22.—The Isabella, of and fur Sunderland, went ashore near Dunnet Head, this morning, and remains full of water ; crew saved. DOUGLAS, ISLE- or- MAN, DEc.24.—The Marchioness Douglas, ofand from Carlisle, took the ground on leaving Derby Haven, and has put in here, with considerable damage. WELLS, DEC. 26.—The Ellen, of this port, took the ground in putting to sea yesterday, and remains, without apparent damage. YARMOUTH, DEC. 25.—The brig Union, of Seaton Sluice, was passed on the 23d instant, in lat. 53 deg. N., lon. 4 deg. E , on her broadside, and aband, ned, by the North Briton. LONDON ' DEC. 27.—The Belmont, G ran t, arr i ve d i n the river from St. John's, New Brunswick, passed Dec. 7, in lat. 46 deg. N., lon. 44 deg. W., a barque of about 500 tons, waterlogged and abandoned, mizenmast and bowsprit stand ing; had a high poop, with a wooden rail; appeared to have been boarded and stranded. The name consisted of five letters, the two first partly obliterated, and the others ap peared to be " ake." MARYI'ORT, DEC. 25.—The Eliza, Beattie, which was on the North Pier 22d inst., has been got off and into the harbour. ILFRACOMBE, DEC. 25.—The bucy reported yesterday as having been towed into this harbour is marked " Helwick Swatchwav," and not " Alnwick," as then stated. OFF PORTSMOUTIL—SOpIIie, Adicks, Rio Janeiro, and sailed 23d for Antwerp. LITERATURE. NARRATIVE OF A MISSION TO BOICHARA IN THE YEARS 1844-45. By the Rev. Joseph Wolff, D.D., LL.D. The circumstances under which Dr. Wolff under took his last expedition to Bokhara, for the purpose of ascertaining the fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly, have been so recently and so fre quently detailed that it is unnecessary further to allude to him. The manner in which Dr. Wolff volunteered to undertake this dangerous adventure was so chivalrous, his whole conduct throughout so disinterested, th a t he appeared to us as not belonging to this age , but to the olden time, to the days when faith, and hope, and trust, and charity, and friend• ship, were not mere names, but great facts—to be one of those men whom Bayard would have cherished, and whom Tasso would have commemorated. Friend ship, such friendship as in these self-seeking days is sneered down as romantic, seems to have been the impelling cause to his braving the dangers of the desert and the wrath of the Bukhara despot. Conolly was his friend, and for the chance of rescuing that friend from captivity he was content to brave every peril, and to exhibit to the world an example of moral and passive courage, in the presence of which the highest efforts of mere physical courage must " pale their ineffectual fires." This narrative is written in a style so simple that it is at times, from its very simplicity, sublime. It is a complete mirror not only of the acts, but of the thoughts of the writer ; he shows how he was deceived—the characters of those wall whom he came in contact, and how, at length, by circumstances, he was led to the detection of the falsehoods which their craft had palmed off upon him. His description of the manner in which he was at first induced to trust Abdul Samut Khan, the Prime Minister of the King of Bokhara, and of the cir cumstances which gradually- opened his eyes as to the true character of this hypocrite, swindler, and mur derer, is admirable. There can be no doubt but that this man was the prime instigator of the deaths of Stoddart and Conolly. He thus describes that hor rible tragedy in a conversation with Dr. Wolff:— " When Colonel Stoddart arrived at Bukhara, his Majesty sent a whole troop of soldiers to receive him; he came to Bukhara, and to the Ark, just when Hazrat returned from a pilgrimage to Baba Deen Nakshbande (a holy man buried outside the town). Colonel Stoddart was on horseback. The Shekhawl, and several other Serkerdeha (grandee) went up to him and said, ' This is his Majesty, you must dismount.' But he replied, have no orders for doing so.' The Ameer smiled, and said he is a mehmoon (guest). When you, Joseph Woolf, made your salaam before the Ameer, the Slick hawl took slightly hold of your shoulders to make you bow down; you submitted with your book in the hand; but when the Shekhawl only touched Colonel Stoddart, he laid his hand on his sword and drew it. Nothing was said to this. The house of Toora, the same house in which you live, was assigned to him as his quarters. When a few days after the Rais (one of the mullahs who watch over the people, and have power to flog any one who does not observe strictly the Muhammadan reli gion) sent one of his friends to Stoddart and asked him whether he was an eljee (ambassador) or a sodagur (merchant)? Stoddart replied, Eat dung!' "His imprisonment upon this occasion the Nayeb passed over in silence, and continued, At last from fear, Stoddart said he would become a Mussulman, and accoriing to the hluhammedan religion, if a person says he will turn Mussulman, he must either do so, or die. He became a Musselman, an d a s h ort time after openly avowed again the Christian religion. At last it was agreed that he should write to England to be acknow ledged as the accredited agent of Great Britain at the court of Bokhara, and that the King of Bokhara should be the acknowledged sovereign of Turkistaun, &c.; and Colonel Stoddart promised that in four months an answer should arrive from the Government of England. Though at his (Stoddart's) request, japar khanas (post-houses) were established from Bokhara to Sarakhs, which did not exist either at Bukhara or in the land of Turkistaun from the time of Afrasiab, fourteen months elapsed, and no answer arrived. During the time that Colonel Stud. dart was at Bokhara, Captain Conolly went from Organtsh (Khiva) to Khokand, where he stopped a con siderable time, exciting both countries to wage war against the Anseer of Bokhara. He at last arrived at Bokhara, announcing himself as a British agent, without having any letters from the British Government; and whatever Colonel Stoddart had agreed to he upset, announcing to the King of Bukhara that the British Government would never interfere with the affairs of Turkistaun, and all that Colonel Stoddart had agreed to went fur nothing. Thus it was clear Colonel Stod dart was a liar. During the stay of Conolly and Stoddart they took every opportunity of dispatching, in the most stealthy manner, letters to Caubul; and on this account his Majesty became displeased, and both Captain Conolly and Colonel Stoddart were brought, with their hands tied, behind the Ark (palace of the King), in presence of Makhram Saadat, when Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly kissed each other, and Colonel Stoddart said to Saadat, " Tell the Ameer that I die a disbeliever in Mu hammed, but a believer in Jesus—that I am a Christian, and a Christian I die." And Conolly said, " Stoddart, we shall see each other in Paradise (Behesht), near Jesus." Then Saadat gave the order to cut off, first the head of Stoddart, which was done; and in the same manner the head of Conolly was cut off.' " Dr. Wolff's description of his detention at Bokhara, and of his hair-breadth escapes from what appeared certain death, both there and on his road home, until he reached Tabreez, is most interesting. His know ledge of Hebrew stood him in good stead during his captivity, for the Jews were permitted to visit him, and with Bibles open before them, they conversed together in Hebrew, in the presence of the Bok. hara spies, who imagined they were reading the Scriptures ; and thus Dr. Wolff was in formed of the plots which were laid against him, and was enabled to circumvent them. The conclusion we draw from reading this work is, that military officers are, of all others, the most un fitted for diplomatic employment in the East. They are unsuited to diplomacy by their manners, their habits, and their want of education, that is to say, of diplomatic education. As a proof of it, we would merely mention the fact that Stoddart and Conolly, who went to Bokhara with every prestige in their favour, were massacred, while Dr. Wolff, who went alone, without authority or protection, and with every cha nce aga i ns t him, accomplished the object of his mission, and returned unharmed. This proves that the whole of our diplomatic bureauocracy in the East stands in need of reform, and that, before we can have that influence in the courts of Central Asia which we ought to exercise, we must have a body of men specially trained and educated for the diplomatic service of the Eastern courts. It is the opinion of Dr. Wolff that an invasion of Bukhara from India might be easily accomplished, and that the people would be glad to see the Ameer, and his Nayeb, Abdul Samut Khan, punished for their treachery to Stoddart and Conolly. The name of Sir Charles Napier is well known in Central Asia, and is a name of terror to all who hear it. A Fakeer from Sinde thus described him to the caravan with which Dr. Wolff returned from Bokhara— " There is now a Governor in Snide, Lord Napier by name, who is like lightning flame. He has beaten one hundred thousand Pooiuj with four hundred men. The whole caravan exclaimed, " Allah, Allah, Allah ! They certainly will come here ; and if they come, we submit at once, for we Turkomauns will never fight against those who have the upper hand. We serve the most powerful, let them be Hindus, Christains, or Alus . sulmans. Those who give us keelaats (robes of honour, and tillahs (ducats), we serve.'" The terror Of Nailer's name, were he to undertake an expedition against Bokhara, would, in the opinion of Dr. IVolff, be sufficient to cause the inhabitants to deliver up the Ameer, without the necessity of strik ing a blow: the Ameer himself, it would appear, is in great terror of the vengeance of England. From the Persian and Russian ambassadors Dr. Wolff received every assistance ; indeed, but for the firmness of the Persian ambassador to Bokhara, it is very doubtful whether he would have returned alive. Into the con troversy, as to the conduct of Colonel Shi e l an d the Foreign office of this country, and more particularly as to the policy of Lord Ellenborough's letter to the Ameer of Bokhara, assuring him that Stoddart and Conolly were only innocent travellers, they having previously represented themselves as Official envoys of the English Government, we shall not now enter. That is a subject which will no doubt be fully investigated in Parliament, and having as yet heard only one side of the question, we have not the materials for coming to a deliberate judgment on the matter. These volumes are illustrated with a number of curious portraits of the principal personages of the Courts of Bokhara and Persia, beautifully colour e d ; and the work, taken as a whole, is the most interest ing narrative of personal adventure that we have read for years. A WORLD OF WONDERS. By Albany Poyntz. Among the busiest and pleasantest of the contri butors to Bentley's Miscellany, one Albany Poyntz has for a considerable time past held a very promi nent position ; and it is agreeable to find him at length breaking from the tutelage of periodical lite rature and coming before us in the shape of a sub stantial volume like the present. As a combination at once of amusement and information, we know of no other work of recent publication with which it can be compared, forming as it does a kind of modernised Sir Thomas Brown. Unfortunately, the writer has selected topics which, only four years ago, were ably treated by Charles Mackay, in his " Me moirs of Popular Delusions," yet Albany Poyntz has infused into them so much of his peculiar smartness and bon homnzie, that although they in some measure lack novelty, every page is sprinkled with novel facts, given in a novel manner. Besides this very excellent characteristic, the book embraces almost all the " popular superstitions" that can be named, strips them naked one by one of the mysterious veil with which they are usually enveloped, and holds them up to our derision, as mere scarecrows of idle ingenuity. It is customary, now-a-days, to con gratulate; ourselves upon the enlightenment of the present generation, but our gratulations are surely somewhat premature, when, according to our own recollection, men are found so credulous as to advance the old wives story of the "dowsing rod" in et trIT ambition ON'S CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. 8 ler Cent. Reduced .. 95 1 4% 95 1 A New 3 1 4 per Cents.... 97436 97 97,6% 974 LongAnnuitiestoexpireJan.lB6o 10% 9-16 10 9-16 India Bonds, 1,0001 Ditto under 1,0001.. 37 pm Console for Opening 9474% Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d 25 23 Ditto 5001. Ditto Small 37 pm 95 pm. 23 pm. 23 pm. 26 CLOSING PRICES ONE RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK Brazilian Bonds Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 — Ditto, Account Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 4114 Ditto, Converted 5 9 1 /2 Ditto, Account 6l Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto. 3 per Cent 'Ditto, Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch, 2 1 / per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 93% 93% PRICES OP BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Aberdeen,Banff, & Elgin 2% Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Aylesbury and Theme.. 1% Belfast & Count 7 Down 2 1 /2 — Bideford andTavistock... 1% — Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 127 Ditto New 17% ..... ... Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birmingham & Leicester Direct 42s. — Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. — Bridgewater & Minehead 425. ... .. Bristol and Exeter 7O Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester 3O ..... . Bristol and Liver. June . 2 1 ,x...... % p Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Extension ... Cambrian & Grand Jane 42s Cambridge and .Lincoln 11 / 2 3% 00. New Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% — ... ..... Canterbury and Dover.. IA , Central Kent 2 l /2 Chelmsford and Bury ... 1% — Chester and Holyhead... 15 Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltenham and Oxford 2 Clydesdale Junction 5 Cork :Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney ... 2 1 / u — Y• Cork and Waterford ... 1% — Cornwall Coventry, Nuneaton, Bi r . and Leicester l l /.1 ...... Dartmou th , Torbay, and Exeter Derby and Crewe....... — — Derby, Gainabro', and Great Grimsby l% Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Direct Manchester (Remington's) Ditto (Rastrick's)...... 61T ...... 4% ... ......... Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and Armagh 1N..... Dublin and BelfastJunc 5 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway..... 4 Dudley, Madely, and Broseley Dundalk & Enniskill en 2 1 / 2 Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 21% 21 Ditto New 6/. Ns...—. 7 1 / 2 1 % p... Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1 6!.135. 4d.... Ditto ditto. No. 2... 4/. 13s. 4d... , EastDereh'E andNoech 1 Eastern Union 25 .. ... Ditto, Quarter Shares 3 3 % — Ditto Extension Do. Ipswich and Bury 4 — Do. Ex ten'n to Norw'h 2% Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2 1 4 East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1%...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..... Ditto Half Shares ... 5 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 ' .....• Ditto, New ... 7% — Edinburgh & Northern.. 1 1 4 — ••• Edinburgh and Perth... 1 1 1 2 . ... . . - ...... .. ...... Ely and Huntingdon ... 5 ..... Enniskillen and Sligo ... 21,E — Essex and Suffolk .. ... 1% — Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Exeter,Yeovil,& Dorset 2 3 4 Glonc.,Aberystw i th, and Central of \Vales 1%...... ••• Goole and Doncaster .. 425. Grand Junction ...100 Ditto Half Shares 5O Ditto Quarters 25 Grand Union l% 1%% Great Eastern &Western 21...... ......... ... GreatGrimsby and Shef field Great South. and West. iSOM (Ireland) - •• ••" ..... .•• Ditto Extension ...... 12 1 / 2 Great Munster ... 2 1 A ...... Great North of Scotland 2%..... Great North of England..loo Ditto New Do. New .... .. Great Western BO 162 160 Ditto 1 A Shares 5O Ditto 1 4 Shares 2 l /2 lB 17 1 / 2 18 1 / 2 .. Ditto Fifths 2O Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 5 Harwich 31.14 41 1 A, 59% 61 404 40 A P 141,( 2 31/i 2 3 164 4' :2 21 VA p 2 1 4 Z AP ..... 1 5 11 160 93 18% MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was steady. Sales 4,000 bales, without change in prices. There are accounts of a fair commercial character from Rio Janeiro this morning. The packet has a valuable freight of diamonds, principally the produce of the newly-discovered mines in Bahia. The " water "of these precious stones is of a very variable quality, and not, as we are informed, likely to meet a ready sale among the more wealthy people cf this country. It is not by any means likely that the present large supply, and which, if kept up to the fullest extent anticipated, will materially diminish the present value of the finest samples of the articles that can be of fered for sale. The general trade of the Brazils is represented as being in a satisfactory condition. The bank returns for the current week give the following results upon a comparison with its predecessor : An-increase in the circulation of 193,040/., or to 26,819,390/. An increase in the amount of the Rsst of 6,040/., or to 3,221,6361. An increase in the public deposits of 72.3,670/., or to 9,408,044/. A decrease in the other deposits of 374,0381, or to 8,715,667/. A slight increase in the Seven Day Bills, or to 960,094/. In the Banking department there is an increase of 261,995/., or to 6,768,340/. The Bullion, by the last return, amounted to 13,268,771/. ; and by the present it stands at 13,378,3431, exhibiting an in crease of 109,572/. Not a great deal of business bas been done in the Funds this morning. Consols for the Account have remained at 94% % ex the dividend ; Reduced Three per Cents., for transfer, have realised 95 1 ,4 1 4 with the interest; and the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have fluctuated from 97 to 97%. Exchequer- bills have been sold at the prices of yesterday. Scarcely half-a-dozen bargains have been made in the Foreign Stocks this morning. Spanish Threes have realised 40 1 4 %; Peruvian, 41 1 A ; Portuguese Converted, 59 1 / 2 ; and the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 61 1 ,4 1 4. In the Railway Scrips, on which comparatively small de posits have been paid, there is an inclination shown this morning to do business, and prices are more firm. High valued shares have been bought with caution. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY 22 1 / 2 41i 1 78 9 1 2 37 8 - 1 17% Priscner—l shan't pay it. I can't pay 55., or 203. either. Mr. TWYFORD—Then go to prison for seven days. The prisoner was then removed. CLERKENWELL.-(T HIS DAY.) Richard James Glynn and Michael Fox were charged with cutting and wounding police-constable Stratton, 47 G. A certificate was produced stating that the constable was in a very dangerous condition in the hospital. Police-constable Payton, 142 G, deposed that on the previous night, at half-past eleven o'clock, he was on duty in Gray's Inn-lane, when he heard cries and screams from Fox-court ; be ran up, and saw Stratton endeavou ring to raise himself from the ground ; his face and the upper part of his person were covered with blood. Fox was standing by him with a sword in his hand, and Glynn had the officer's truncheon, which, after flourishing in the air, he was in the act of striking the constable with on the head, when witness seized his arm. A struggle took place, but both prisoners were at length secured. The 'constable had a terrible wound on the head, from which the blood was streaming, and in that condition he was removed to the hospital. Stratton identified the prisoner as the person who had wounded him. A man named Hale, gave similar testimony, and the prisoner was remanded on tho charge of cutting and wounding. Friday night, FIRE IN T HE JUNCTION DOCK.—On at a quarter to nine o'clock, a fire broke out on board of the brig Royal William, Captain Kruger, belonging to Messrs Priest and Son, shipowners, of this port, which, but for the prompt attendance of a large body of police and several fire engines, might have been attended with an enormous loss of property, owing to the extremely crowded state of our docks. 'lie fire originated in the after-cabin, and is supposed to have been occasioned by the over-heating of the stove. Happily it was discovered before it had made any great progress ; and by the promptitude with which the engines from the different stations were brought to bear upon it, the flames were extinguished before any part of the deck was con. sumed. In fact, it was not suffered to extend beyond the interior of the cabin, to which as much injury was done by those employed in extinguishing the fire as by the devouring element. Great exertions were made to remove all vessels in the vicinity of the fire to a safe distance, and, had it been found necessary, preparations were made for scuttling the Royal William. The fire was wholly extinguished, and every apprehension of danger removed, by ten o'clock.—Hull Advertiser of Friday. FREE-TRADE • MEETING AT EXETER.--A free trade meeting was held at Exeter on Wednesday evening. Now, as the Western Times observes, Christmas-eve is a time of social gatherings in Exeter, and it was about the most unpromising evening of the whole year for a public meeting; notwithstanding, about 800 persons were present, which shows the perfect inoculation of the city with free trade doctrines. Resolutions in favour of free-trade were enthusiastically agreed to. COVENT-GARDEN. We bad a full average supply of Fruit and Vegetables on sale, yet the demand ruled heavy, at our quotations. Pota toes from 33 to 8s per cwt ; Turnips, 10d to 2s ; Carrots, 4s to 63 ; Greens, Is 6d t• 2s 6d ; and Leeks, 8d to Is 4d per dozen bunches; Onions, Is 6d to 2s 8d; Apples, is 6d to 349 d; Pears, 48 to 6s; and Spinach, is 6d to is 9d per half-sieve; Pine-apples, 6s to 8s; and Filberts, 8d to is per lb ; Red Cabbages, 45 to 6s ; and Savoys, 10d to is 3d per dozen ; Celery, is to 2s; Brocoli, Is 3d to 25 6d; and Horse-radish, 2s to Ss per bundle; Oranges, 7s to 12s; Lemons, 8s to 12s; and Walnuts, 8d to is 2d per 100. ZUNGER.FO N.D. We bad only moderate supplies of most articles on sale, yet the general demand ruled heavy at barely stationary prices. 271317/"041.1EM AND LEADMICEIA3GX. Each kind of prime Meat moved off freely at full prices. Otherwise the demand was in a sluggish state. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 33 4d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 4s to 5s ; and Pork, 3s 10d to 5s 2d per 81bs. Turkeys, 4s to 16s ; Geese, 4s to 6s 6d; Ducks, Is 6d to 2s 6d ; Tame Rabbits, Is 4d to is 8d; Wild ditto, 6d to 10d; Pigeons, 6d to 10d; Roasting Pigs, 8s to 10s each ; Fowls, 3s 6d to Os per couple; Pheasants, 3s Gd to 4s 6d; Partridges, 2s to 2s 9d ; Hares, 2s to 3s 6d; Leverets, 2s 6d to 3s ; Woodcocks, 2s 6d to 3s ; Grouse, Is 6d to is 8d ; Snipes, 9d to Is ; Teal, is 3d to Is 6d ; Wild Ducks, 2s to 3s; Widgeons, is 9d to 2s ; and Plovers, 8d each. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s Iod to 3s 8d ; Mutton, Ss 4d to 458 d ; Yea] 4s to sa; and Pork, 3s 10d to 5s 2d per Sibs. ZILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 7s to 16s; Cod-fish, 2s to Ss ; Crabs, 6d to 2s 3d ; Lobsters, 8d t• 3s; and Whitings, 4d to 8d each; Soles, 6d to 3s Od per pair; salmon, Is 2d to is 6d; and Eels, 4d to is per lb. ; Sprats, 5s per bushel. WILETECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 8d to Zs 8d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s Ed ; Tea 4s to 5s ; and Pork, 35 2d to is per Sibs. DREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the inetrepelis are from 9d to 90; of Household ditto, 7sl to 80 per elbs loaf. HIDE MAREET. Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, 24d to 3d per Ils ; do. 641 b t• 721 b, 2 3 4 d to 3 1 Ad ; do. 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 3 1 ,4 d; Flo. 101 b t. 831 b, ; do. 881 b to 961 b, 3 1 / 2 d to 4d ; do. 961 b to 1041 b, 4d to 4id ; Market Calf Skins, each, 3s to 6s 6d ; Hors Hides, I3s ; Polled Sheep, 4s to 5s 6d; Half-breds, 33 4d to 4s 2d; Downs, 2s 6d to 3s 4d ; Lambs, 3s to 4s 6d. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DA Y.) Michael Clayton, a powerful-looking man, who de scribed himself as a bricklayer's labourer, was charged with an assault on an Italian " organ•grinder," named George Mentin. The complainant, who was examined through the medium of an interpreter, deposed that he was playing his organ in Beaumont•place, New-road, last evening, when the prisoner, to whom he had given no provocation whatever, gave him a violent blow from behind, and knocked him down. He fell upon his organ, and was very much hurt at the time, but, to use his own expres sion, " not enough to hurt him much to-day." The organ was not injured. Policeman E 143 said, that he saw the prisoner, who was very drunk, go behind the complainant and knock him down, as described. On seeing witness at a little distance, he called out " Custody, custody," by which witness understood that he wished to give him in cus tody. Witness took him in charge, and he went quietly to the station-house. Mr. TIVYFORD said he was very unwilling to fine the prisoner as he thought he deserved, because he thought it Would fall more heavily on his wife than on himself. However, it was one of the consequences of being mar ried to such a man, and it could not be helped. He would fine him 205., and in default seven days' imprison ment. a scientific journal within the past twelvemontll bruit forth the hoary fiction as a realityVe nt e la quists, without doubt, are not buriat alive se were in the sixteenth century; and I\l"arter r. C pummel his lions or tigers without being p un with an ignominious death for a supposed co l !: with the darker powers ; yet ignorance and c redo are still far from being entirely dispelled : " d i e; with the intention of assisting in their dispel lion Albany Poyntz has written his "World of Wo adeil ti There is something curious and laughable in theee. natural explanations given to many of our ant io bugbears—as the goblin, on a closer exam is a„, resolves itself into a finger-post or a mile-stwlei Thus, through the a saaectacles`pf science we allee ° a that the showers of biood mentioned by Pliny Solinus were simply masses of Fain water impr e g n f, with red earth. As an unra\'el'er of these esig w ; Albany Poyntz proves a delight: companion, r - 0 doubtless to many people his revelations will p ro ' startling as the style of narration is agreeable. sri only, for example, does he explain the v iej°l3 existence of the Wandering Jew, and chow , bey d question, that Justinian never put out t:le e 3 tole' Belisarius, but he very clearly testifies that t he brated Pope Joan was only a cnimera of the iantla tion of some factious enemies to the Papal C oa f that her name is not uttered by a single contemP° the historian ; and that "not till sixty years afte r od period assigned as that of her adventures, do O w the monk Radulphus relating the scandalous, e i v ee 4 nicle of her pretended pontificate." While, 1nu . , 0 ( we may permit ourselves to cherish the more rib less fables of poetry, such as the suspension of ffis.a s met's coffin, or the reality of centaurs and merneht, it is but due to common justice and raaional en u g ia enment that such fabrications as the ono abn ire d 0 ferred to should be utterly laughed to scorn; a n . . 4 honour Albany Poyntz for the candour and displayed in this instance. Some, however, of the arguments we conceive might be classed an: lo4 o a number of "self-evident propositions," as i' l L o ter dente of which we may particularly name his eLwerval upon the capacities possessed by negroes form tee and moral improvement, the whole of which el o P o r might have been summed up in the mention of hea r saint L'Ouverture individually, and the presen!,o stitution of St. Domingo collectively, as pra ctiesl_ a rOf that the blacks may be moulded to any deVtie civilization. On other points the writer is, el l l ye contrary, sometimes very incomplete; thus, i ° instances which he adduces of what is ( " oil ers'!! in g garded as the prophetic language used by if people, he snakes not the slightest allusio co°1: sibly, the most remarkable instance on rn, refer to the death-bed of Charles Bonaparteels, of of the Emperor, who, when raving in the delirls"oo his dissolution, called out for Napoleon to Imo with his " great sword," and beat off the P h r t aae of death at the bed-side, Napoleon being at th e . s aos many miles away, and a mere boy. The die ser ' be upon the fickleness of popularity, which Illaae identified as one of the finest passages in the / c old before us, forms an excellent homily against trisij ambition, and will amply repay even the Pettit vatt the worldly-wise ; while it is delightful to moored bf sentiments so genial and humane as those utte '" s . our author, when defending from stripes an c lea the cution an animal which he calls aptly en on g'ae r war-horse of the poor "—the ass. Before, e f e el ever, we take leave of this production, por it imperative on us to stigmatise onearroP tion of the book as frivolous and nsecijos minded to the last degree ; it is t he „ t he devoted to a sickly and atrabilious attac k bete" temperament of the French as a people- icr atiti-i with submit the paragraph in question to theciir o• of the reader, appealing to the national wing to oe°r. his disposition to reply whether the folloritrier 0 4 tences are not as applicable to ourselves a s neighbours : ral " The prevailing weakness of the French, 0 ° $ and individually, is to esteem themselves the t i f ti ve,,ir ie model of perfection ; the standard by which the ; s ell; ought to be regulated. An Italian author onee co t , that the face of man was not made after t dthat o sp e i . 4 but that the face of the Creator was to be imag i "; it tOn that of man. The French consider all that Pi them right ; all that differs from them wrorthetber prejudice entitle s f ore i gners to laugh at them, `' unjustly or not." I'lei°o4 ais ° Yet, notwithstanding this littleof -A m orsel of s i bigotry towards a great nation, on the part de p'' $ Poyntz, we consider hi; " World of O° useful book, a good book, and an amusing 13°4. _ MEMOIRS OF THE JACOBIT E S. 2 B, Mrs. Thomson. the Although English hi s tory has bee nric ea Dy • f the struggle °, di e most copious details descriptive o th e calamities, the l o y a lty, the devotion and daunted perseveran ce of the adherents to the 02d, n e dynasty, from the flight of James the See°l 1688, to the Battle of Culloden, in 1746, thi) ..,srO l hitherto remained a gap in the annals of thl c o bite ihe names and • the various actions of the r l i o ver: leaders are undoubtedly to be found scatter e " . ti vast number of volumes, but, until the rooltidm the present work, no succinct account produce brated and unfortunate men had ever b een atte - o iisis' From the mass of bi ogra phi es a n d s t a t e Do ri ; - to° and scarcely legible manuscripts which hi" oh' sifted before any accurate knowledge could be tamed of facts, and from the conflicting opinions cold had to be balanced before any just conclusiore °_ll be arrived at, the labour of such an undertaking _non have been very considerable indeed; but , 11 PI her pages we obtain a correct view of the Pe ery Mrs. Thomson acquitted herself of the task. filrerttlio, nages who rendered themselves the most 'J js meV spicuous among the partizans o f br a g bb and his family. From the subtle and Wili est Earl of Mar to the lawless freebooter, Rob Raal,l ict ioo character is analysed with care, and that in u p re' which, if not in every instance well-chos en, cab er markable for its perspicuity. if we reuse that rightly, it is T er t u lli an w h o som ewhere obseroetoricsl the historical pa s t i s b u t an i n dex to the i IiA L 4 cor, future; wheth e r thi s p r i nc i p l e i n the abstract ' ds et rect or not, there are circumstances in the reotrs' nations which bear t o eac h o th er th e most l e O t t nary analogy, a n d among th ose perhap s ; a" l singular re sem bl ance i s tracea bl e i n the d° the tbe subsequent vicissitud es o f th e Stuarts a both Bourbons. Charles I. and Louis XVL r el io P g° annihilated by revolutions t , which merge" tbese States into that political chaos—anarchy; bcP""f for; revolutions were r e d uce d t o or d er by s oldiers fi tune ; both the f am ili es o f Oli ver Cromig e ' e ar Napoleon Bonaparte were driven from their v o f the acquired dignity by a temporary restoration cote old dynasties. Ch ar l es 11. was f o ll owe d in igigilf.in succession by his brother James IL, Louis t he direct succession also by his brother Charles .1..;,a $ two dynasties being then again a bolished , the collateral branch in b o th cases raised tf a irs s kingly office. Throughout these wonderful oT ts elfr on either side a faction developed r ipe which by its mi s f or t unes , it s long' o f it. 4 and its constancy, challenged the syniPa t t., bitt s ; bitterest opponents— o n th e one h an d the " -° c loill" on the other the e m i gr e s or re f ugees . Without ilea the motives by which these two parties were in i Ff e tbo, varied according to the position or moralitY"). of individuals concerned in them, and the mater lA og ie this political combination were, in truth, s o il. pure, some base, some noble, some mean and * HO lating." To disclose the motley characteristics o'ot. former faction, to commemorate the virtuous cl i i . l3 o . of ency, or cover with opprobrium the mere cupic t i l t iet its principal actors—to collect together in some g q vi to the gleanings of a we ll- reape d fi e ld—t o demon . i t o' the reality of facts that had been hitherto 000 0 .itli verted—and to discriminate between authorities be pt impartiality and judgment, were duties ince -ylthese upon the historian o f J aco biti sm , an d of all eti duties has Mrs. Thomson acquitted herself in 13 to able manner. The wor k i s a necessary additOorp the many singular epi so d es i n our E n glish hil ot it and the book-shelves devoted to the memoirs most celebrated country men , canno t be constlu e complete without these-two volumes. THE POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECT°S' for 1846. o .e 0 0 This work has now rea c h e d the forty-se'the annual edition, and, to the credit of Mr. Kelly, 10 proprietor, who has spared n o ex p en se or labo er 4j the compilation, keeps progre ss w ith the titneStre'ot marks, more than any similar publication, the g itt changes which have taken place, not ne l l o ce our trade and commerce, but in the aPPe ti 'iloe and extent of this vast metropolis. No other O h o could furnish materials for such a work, and to of is the compiler partly indebted for such a tria,;o s useful information, useful, not to a few % he re only, but to the whole community. . 1 0 13 not one class in the community to some of the directions are not absolortgeo, necessary. A mere outline of the most :s triking' t he tures will confirm our statement. It embracei Oo whole of the metropolis, including the environs, t°o, extent of fifteen miles from the Post-office, and cc 'i r j , prises, besides a . great deal of other copiou s ,„ - f if formation, an official directory, a street dire" - a commercial directory, a trades directorf±..4 law directory, a Court directory, a Parliame nw o o directory, a postal directory, a City directory, e veyance directory, and a banking directory. I t A d tends to 2,074 pages, printed i n a cl ose , but clear ' te , bold type, and is accompanied by a beautiful, miri j o g, and, as far as we have had an opportunity ofjl.l4 ‘ i t y a correct map of all the streets of London, Wit' a ell names of each distinctly marked. The P c it directory will be found of the greatest servicev has been greatly enlarged and imp rove d, and ''Ett rashes the hour of the delivery of London letter s 0; every town and village in the United Kingdole. c ii which there is a post-office, and the time at W hi / the letter-box from London closes at each P l3ce ,ol also the distance of each from the post t 0 through which the London letters are mitted. We may state that no other eg i 5