The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-09 00:00:00

• NOTICE ! THE yEW NOVEL-THE WIL MINGTONS, By the Author of " Emilia Wyndham," " Two Old Men's Tales," &c. IS NOW READY at all the Libraries, in 3 vOls. From the Morning a Of all the novels of the last twelve months, this beautiful story is, in our estimation, the best written, the most ingeniously con tinued, the healthiest in sentiment, and the most pathetic in in terest." From the Morning Herald. " This book is written in a truthful and healthitil spirit of morality that cannot fail to enhance its interest and value, while it extends still further the fame and public estimation of its popular writer. The story is wrought out with a vividness and reality which are absolutely startling." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY -LANE. -- Lessee and Manager, Mr. JAMES ANDERSON. The Lessee respectfully begs to submit the following scale of Pricei of Admission for public approval: - Private boxes, 31. 35., V. 12s. 6d., 2/. 25., 11. Us. 6d., and It. Is. Stalls, 51. each. 8. d. I s. d. FIRST PRICE. SECOND PRIC E. Boxes - - 4 0 lie", - 0 Pit - - _ 2 Lao - 2 0 Pit - - - 1 Lower Gallery - 1 7 35 , Low er Goner/ - 0 6 Upper Gallery -0 6 I No Half-prise to Upper Gallery. THIS EVENING. WM be presented, by her Majesty's Servants, Shakespere's Play of AS YOU LIKE IT. Duke, Mr. Cathcart ; Amiens, Mr. Rafter; Jacques, Mr. Vandenleff ; Orlando, Mr. James Anderson ; Adam, Mr. Cooper"; Touchstone, Mr. W. 11. Angel ; Rosalind, Mrs. Nisbett. To be followed by a New Grand His the author of " Metaphoßluricaff l, Allegorical, and Diabolical Pantomime, by Ring Hal ' 'to be called HARLEQUIN and GOOD QUEEN BESS ; or, MERRJE ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME, " Then the ladies with large ruffs, tied robed about their necks so fast, Would gobble up a pound of beefsteaks for their breakfast. the &den day s of Good Queen Bess, 0 I. of Good Queen Bess." — Old Song. Merry be the memo l 7' usic entirely new, composed by Nobody - The Overture and M Mozart, Bishop, Rossini , Wa re, Handel, Rod knovrswho, assisted by ian Serenaders. The Rounds are the well, Haydn, and the Ethiop inpssition of a select Circle. The Catches are by Locks. The Ballet Department under the superintendence of Madame Louise. T h e Scenery pa i n ted by Messrs. Brunning, Jones, Wilson, C. Adams, and Assistants. The Properties, Magic Tricks, and Transformations invented and executed by Mr. W. Blanlire. The Costumes by Mr. Palmer and Miss Biggs. The extensive Machinery by Mr. Adams. The whole produced under the Direction of Mr. T. Thompson. ImmorrALs. Christmas, Mr. S. Jones; The Spirit of John Rich, Mr. Darcie ; The Spirit of High Tragedy, Mr. J. Parry; The Spirit of Punch, Miss Eunice ; Spirit of Mother Goose, Gulliver, Baron Munehatuten, &c., &c., by Stc., &c. Mcnerias. Good Queen Bess, Mr. R. Romer ; Any Bobsart, Mr. G. Watson ; ger Lovely Babby, Master Butter ; The Great Earl of Leicester, a. eulin ; The Little Earl of Essex, Mr. The Unspeak ableD Lord Burleigh, Mr. Johnson ; The RasherL ord ' Bacon, Mr. Barry ; The Smoky Sir Walter Raleigh, Mr. Manderson ; The Dancing Lord Chancellor Sir Christopher Hatton, Mr. Chapin: Maids of Honour, Pages, Beefeaters, Guards, Morris Dancers, Jesters, Wildmen, Dragoons, and other Bores, by the rest of the company. CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR, But although he comes in snow, he still hopes to meet with a warm reception—but where is he going ? Why, to pay his yearly visit to the Spirit of John Rich, in the GHOSTLY CITY OF DEPARTED FUN. This city is composed of the Tombs of the by-gone Pantomimes— " Who's dat knocking at der door ?"—Come and see—" J. Andersen's my Joe, John," and "I am Rich," that's more than every one can, say ; we wish they could—How to make a Pantomime ?—" that is the question"—but the answer, it is hoped, will be satisfactory — Peer Tra-ge-dy meets with no clemency, se we fly by night" to A SPLENDID HALL IN TDB PALACE OF GOOD QUEEN BESS. We now come to Historical Facts, therefore, as the Clown at Astley's would say, " Let us be serious." It is an historical fact, that the Earl of Essex loved, or pretended so, Good Queen Bess, therefore he hated the Earl of Leicester, and thence arose a eonspi raey—Sir Walter Raleigh fears his pipe will be put out—Bacon gets nuitefrizzle, and Lord urielgh shakes his head—but there's nothing in that, w hatever they ß may say to the contrary. It is an historical fact, that Good Queen Bess was assisted at her toilet by many of her noblemen, therefore the GRAND PROCESSION OF THE TOILETTZ is introduced, in which the Royal Wig ! the Royal Ruff ! ! the Royal Blushes ! ! and the Royal Petticoat !! ! ! will make their first appearance on any stage, and trust to the " usual indulgence of a British Public." These are followed by GOOD QUEEN BESS en deshabille, as she is represegted in a picture at Hampton Court. —What comes next will certainly follow—and then will be seen GOOD QUEEN BESS In all her royal splendour.—lt is an Historical Fact, that Good lueeu Bess, like " Young Susan"—" had lovers so many that she scarcely knew upon which to decide"—and it is an Historical Fact that the following were a few of them. THE REJECTED ONES: Philip of Spain, Prince Rupert, Prince of Sweden, Duke of Anjoa, Prince Alengon, Marquis of Winchester, the King of Sweden, Renry of Navarre, Archduke Charles, Earl of Arundel, Sir William Pickering, Charles Blount, and the Earl of Arran. Good Queen Bess appoints a meeting of these " woaderons proper men" at Kenilworth, bet declares, that on her way, " A hunting she will go" —and having got on the " High Horse," the story gallops on to CUMNOR HALL BY MOONLIGUT —Wilson. " Corning events cast their shadows before "—" Rest thee, my darling "—Ketchy, ketchy, ket.Aiy—" Put out the light, and then "—enter the Earl of Leicester on his way to Kenil werth—He stops at Love's half-way home, the Robsar Arms—" Oh, Susanna," or rather " Oh, Amy !"—lt can't be said, " he makes no bones about it "—They part, " more in sorrow, than in anger," but, " being gone, Amy is herself again "—that is to say, a rather jealous young lady, who in her " deep despair," introduces her Lovely Babby, to whom she sings the following pathetic stanza : " Come my babby, come along with me We'll go to far-famed Kenilworth, Your naughty dad to see." And so they do. KENILWORTH CASTLE As it appeared on the occasion of Good Queen Bess's Royal Visit. For further particulars inquire of Sir Walter Scott. It is an histori cal fact that Good Queen Bess paid the Earl of Leicester a visit, and " paid the piper." This, his gorgeous fete, half ruined him ; there fore we pity his fate, but must admire his wondrous generosity, fir all he ever hoped for in return was—half-a-crown. The Earl fore stalls Shakspere, by discovering " that the course of true live never did run smooth," for here he meets with some twenty " competi teurs," and to him they do come " petit oars," for they prove per fect bears, or, more properly speaking, bores. A Lovers' Quarrel on a grand scale, a sort of " tiff for the million," takes place, which, although beginning in love, ends in war, and the total destruction of THE SPANISH ARMADA. By Warner's Fulminating Blow-up—Tragedy has now done his worst, and Rich finding that even Rich must become poor if war continues, proposes a" Peace Congress," and brings all to a close by making them all change their clothes— ic;(-6gn:Zin-e, Theodore. Alt we have further to say for Good Queen Bess is—Tivat Regina, and eff' she goes." " Welcome, Old Friends, 'Us long since we met !" " Here we are !" " How are you?" PRBSERTE AND PICKLE WAREHOUSE, AND RAILWAY OFFICE. Cupid and Clown—Butter and Butterflies—Hungarian Knock-'em- Downs, and German Toys—War to the Knife, and Terrific Explo sion—Railway Offices to Let—Pantaloon becomes Tenant—Shares at a Discount—Clown Cooks Accompts, and Railway King in Tribu- _ lation—Change to INTERIOR OF CATACOMBS ! SIMPSON'S DIVAN AND TAVERN, Strand. The most approved way of Cooking a Goose—Clown makes himself Welcome—the Waiters at Fault—a Transformation—Clown Pamled —Calf's Head for One—A Kitten Wanted—Save the Credit of tho Establishment—Police ! Police'.—and Change to EXETER HALL. Meeting of the Peace Congress—sow to get up a Rew—Prosylites Beware—Hunabug the Order of the Day—Embracing at a Premium, and Domestic Tableau of the Happy Family, POULTERER'S AND SHOP TO LET. Stick no Bills, in case you should Kill Sweet William. A DOWNRIGHT "HOBBY DANCE." - Heads Win the Prize. SMITHFIELD. Potatoes all 114—Toss and Buy—Three real Epping Sausages, and Bread, for One Penny—A Mad Bull—Pork versus Tabbies —A Re port for Enlarging Smithfield Market—Holloway's Purifying Pills— New Tariff—Gin i .reatly Reduced—Warranted 120 t to Produce Spon taneous Combustion—Puff, the Order of the Day—Punch and the City Nuisance—Go it, Bricks—and Sudden Transfix matiou to A SALUBRIOUS SPOT. STREET AND LOuGIXG•HOUSES. What will be seen here is of little use to those who have no eyes, —" Lend me your ears"—" Oh, what a falling off, my countrymen, when you, and I, and all of us, fell down."—Shakspere. BED-ROOM IN LODGING-DOUSE, Comfortable Quarters—Lola, and the Gallant Son of Mars—Clown's otion of Warm anti Convenient Arrangements—Good Night—Late Visitors—A Troublesome Customer—Mr. Walker, an intruder — Novel Mode of Expelling same—A Stormy Night—Clown and Pan t 4 loon in Great Alarm—lncantation Extraordinary—and General Chamber Polka. CHARING-CROSS AND STRAND. What's to be done ? —Buy the Lady's Newspaper. FRO-a FAIR ON THE THAMES. Ice Soup—Temperance Hotel, J. Frost. —N.B. Iced Champagne— Oh. the Roast Beef of Old England !—Sports of the Glacearum— " Plaisirs d'lliver"—Clown wants some Fish, but can only get kate, which ho finds rather tough ; it won't go down, though be does. FATHER THAMES' RE fitEIT, I , Tiddyball's Alley, in the middle of the Thames, with Brass Door and Gingerbread Knocker. General "Meeting of the Waters"—The Alarm—Summoning of the City Abominations—Arrival of the Resident Director of the " Silent Highways"—Fearffil Resolve—Marshalling of the Forces—Grand Attack, and Tableau of Interest. SOUTHAMPTON WATERS, WITH VESSEL For California or anywhere else. GRAN!) MOVING DIORAMA, designed and painted entirely by Brunning. Illustration of Her Most Gracious Majesty's Visit to Ireland, showing the following points Of interest : Departure for Osborne—Passing Cowes and approaching the Needles—The Royal Yacht passing through the Fleet at Portsmouth - -The Eddystone Lighthouse—Passing the Land's End at Sunset—The Royal Squadron by Moenlight—and Arrival at Queen's Town. Three cheers and a hundred more Scene the Last. THE PALACE OF PANTOMIME. Stage Manager, Mr. James Anderson. ♦cting Manager, Mr. W. Bennett. Treasurer, Mr. W. Dunn. Musical Director, Mr. G. H. Rodwell. Leader of the Band, Mr. J. W. Thirlwall. BAllet Mistress, Madame Louise. Scenic Artists—Messrs. Brunning, Jones, Wilson, C. Adams, and Assistants. Decorative Artist, Mr. W. Blamire. Machinist, Mr. W. Adams, Stage Director, Mr. T. Thompson. Prompter, Mr. C. Melville, Costumiers, Mr. Palmer and Miss Biggs. Box-book-keeper, Mr. J. Povey. F RENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the French Performances at the St. James's Theatre will commence THIS EVENING, by the production of a new Opera, in Three Acts, entitled LE VAL D'ANDORRE. Stephan, M. Lae; Le Joyeux, M. Chollet; Slam-nit', M. Lily Leroy; Jacques Sincere, M. Nathan; Theresa, Madlle. Gnishard ; Georgette, Madlle. Cotti ; Rose de Mai, Madlle. Charton. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, ~ a le lessee and Manager. Old Bromptob. THIS EVENING, Will be performed an entirely new aud original Play, entitled 'ITIB LOVING WOMAN. Wielfert, Mr. Rowe; Rosen, Mr. C. Kean ; Hermann, Mr. J. Wallack; Max, Mr. H. Vandenhoff; Ottillia, Mrs, C. Bean. _ . To be lbllowed by a new Lyric Dramatic Sketch, entitled ICING RENE'S DAUGHTER. King Rene, Mr. James Wallack Count Tristan, Mr, C. Kean ; Sir Geoffrey, Mr. Webster ; lolanthe, Mrs. C. Rear, After 'which THE NINTH STATUE or, The Jewels and The Mrs. 1 2 1 7: B l l ll oPal characters by . Mr. Munyard, Miss P. Horton, The Box-olfeiS- G ghlun, and Miss Y. Iritzwilliam. ela wider the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. 7:nder ,.....----- =PATRIC ILOYAL. ADELPHI. the direction of Madame Celesta. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW COPSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed fOrd. 0. Smith, Worrell ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. After which FRANKENSTEIN ; or, The Model Man. Franken stein, Mr. Wright ; the What is It ? Mr. P. Bedford; Zantiel, Mr. 0. ilmith ; Otto of Rosenberg, Miss Woelgar Tiddlewincs, Mi ss E. Chaplin ; Agatha, Miss Coven y ; Tndine, Miss E. Harding. To be followed by a new slippery sketch called MRS. B ob SPOONS. Mr. Highbary Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford ; Bob Tvrinks, Mr. Wright ; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith; Mrs. Banbury, Mrs. P. Matthews; Mrs. Highbury Barnes, Miss Brooks. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Ni .- 41 " rA is p .. i. the Management of Madame Vestri., 0....,,,,,........................_ ' .tole Lessee. Mr. Charl es Mello --, ~.., ~ THIS EVENING, ~.._ Wiltlisilt)/b.. , ed HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR.; After whim) 1, ISLAND OF JEWELS. To conclude ' a A PRACTICAL MAN. • .Drees: Bere s) ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2a . ; G a ll ery, le,, No t balf-fricer to a*, p tof the house. New Ben t.i t t. Xli appld -st ica tfree /asf r Private Boxes must be made to M r. Ancr o ft , 15, PRINCE:oiI; THEAIt. - --- Nr. J. M. M a dd ox , Aole Laney and auk* er. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original comic Opera called MINA. Principal characters by Messrs. W. Harrison, Weiss, Corri, Wynn, Mrs. Weiss, and Miss Louisa Pyne. To conclude with KING JAMIE ; or, Harlequin and Magic Fiddle Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; CloWn, Mr. Flex. morel Coluabine, IWO rillfC4tte C: k~/: , ~~: THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1850 ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor. Mr. W. Batty. A Grand Juvenile Night on Thnrsday, commencing with the Pantemime. THIS EV E Mr. BATTY has great pleasare in announcing that hz , has sac- needed in engaging Mademoiselle ANGELE, from the Hipp dreme, Paris, and who is the first Equestrian of the day, with her highly trained Steeds, " Senora" and "Bertram." Mademoiselle Angele is the same Lady that rode the celebrated English Steeplechase Mare, " Angela" over twenty-eight feet of water. She will make her ap pearance at Astley ß 's Ampitheatre This Evening. e-appearance of Madlle. Cadone. The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven, witha new Grand Spectacle of THB KNIGHT OF THE EAGLE CRES T; or, The Tourney of Love, in which Mr. N. T. Hicks will appear. To be followed by a brilliant display of Batty's peerless scenes of the Circle, supported by the accomplished artistes of the establish ment. To conclade with a grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime, by Nel son Lee, called HARLEQUIN YANKEE DOODLE, it ho came to Town upon his little Pony. Box-enlice open from Eleven till Four. -taste Manager, Mr. W. West. WATER AT LONDON BUIDGE. TiEI4 DAT —Morning, 8 min. after 11 I Evening, 40 min. after 11 To-Moscow —Morning, 0 min. after 0 I Evoung, 10 adn art , ' 12 THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Jew. 9. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 29; Highest, 34; Noon, 31. BAROMETER, 30 2. WIND N.N.E.—dull foggy weather. writer maintains very emphatically that the evil re quiring remedy in regard to the irrigation (if we may so express it) of the capital of England is, not the deficiency but the distribution of water supplied to the different dwellings of its inhabitants. And it must be remembered that the individual who utters this assertion bases it upon facts to which from the mere circumstance of their publication he challenges all contradiction. Besides it should be kept in mind that as Chairman of the Grand Junction and Southwark and Vauxhall Water Companies, Sir WILLIAM CLAY is peculiarly qualified to pronounce an opinion upon the matter under discussion. In direct contradiction, there fore, to the prevalent assurance that there are no less than 70,000 houses, containing from 600,000 to 700,000 persons, without any supply at all, the pamphleteer avers that, on the contrary, there is not in the world, perhaps,Uny - city so lavishly supplied with this essential element of existence as the metropolis of the United Kingdom. While the supply of water to Notting ham (with all its " breweries, dye-works, steam engines, inns, and other places of large consump tion,") may be estimated at an average of twenty gallons per head—while that of Glasgow is considered to amount to just thirteen gallons per head—while Greenock and Paisley are supplied at the rate of merely twelve gallons per head—while Philadelphia is enabled to consume at the rate of sixteen gallons per head—in one district of London alone a supply of twenty-eight gallons per head is given to the inhabitants by the Grand Junction Company. Alto gether, throughout the British metropolis, the average amount of the water supply may be moderately estimated at about twenty-three gallons per head to its population—and this, too, making every allowance for the enormous quantities of water consumed in watering the roads, in flushing the sewers, and in supplying the different manufactories. The mean quantity yielded to the inhabitants of London per month by the different incorpnrnt.d companies during the past year is stated to be exactly 1,355,790,047 imperial gallons—or at the daily rate of 51,979,171 gallons for six days in the week, Sunday supplies being only occasional and in termittent. Spreading the consumption, however, over seven days in the week, it is estimable at the mean daily rate of 44,573 919 gallons. After enumerating these incontestable facts in regard to what we have termed the " irrigation " of the metropolis, Sir W. CLAY takes into consideration two very important questions, namely—What supply is required for the wants of the inhabitants, and, by way of comparison, what the quantities supplied to other towns. Upon the latter particular we have already been suffici ently explicit. With reference to the former we shall, having an eye to the force of the point under discussion, allow the intelligent pamphleteer to speak for himself. Having quoted from the "Report of the Commissioners for Inquiring into the State of Large Towns and Populous Districts," to the effect that in all cases where an ample supply can be pro cured " it ought not to be calculated at a less rate than twelve gallons per diem for each individual of the population," Sir WILLIAM CLAY gives the follow ing result of an experiment made by himself with scrupulous regard to its accuracy : " In a large household in the country where, from the water required for daily use being pumped into the dwelling, not by manual labour, but by water-power, there is no motive for economizing the consumption, where there is a warm bath, and both hot and cold water laid on to the upper floors, the mean daily supply for ten weeks was at the rate of 13f gallons' per head. The number of inmates, including the members of the family and servants, was twenty-four." Thirteen gallons and a• half is here formally pro nounced to be ample supply per diem for any indi vidual, not only for using the water as a beverage, but also in the way of ablutions, even to the extent of diurnal baths. Thirteen gallons and a-half— and London is supplied with water at the rate of actually twenty-three gallons per diem for every individual ! Twenty-three gallons per day for every one of the inhabitants, and yet it is declared by many that the supply of water to the capital is deplorably insufficient—so deplorably insufficient, indeed, that 70,000 houses, and from 600,000 to 700,000 persons are conceived to be altogether with out any reasonable supply whatever. Prefixed to these arguments, Sir W. CLAY has and establishment of the various water com panies of London. According to this chapter of the brochure, it appears that the first water- works, the first structures capable of being so de signated, were built by a Dutch engineer near London-bridge, in the reign of Queen ELi- ZABETI. These works, having existed for 250 years, were purchased in 1822 by the New River Company, originally founded in 1613, during the reign of King JAMES 1., by Sir HUGH MYDDLLTON. In 1723 was established the Chelsea Company; in 1810 the York Buildings Company; in 1807 the East Lon don Company; in 1806 the West Middlesex Company; in 1810 the Grand Junction Company; in 1822 the Southwark Company ; in 1805 the Vauxhall ; in 1785 the Lambeth Company; and at length, in 1828, in consequence - of some serious inquiries into the quality of the water supplied to London, it was found neces sary for the different companies to construct enormous reservoirs for deposit and filtration. The result of all which movements has been that London is at this day supplied with water by five companies on the north and two on the south ; the former being the East London, the West Middlesex, the Grand Junction, and the Chelsea, the latter being the Southwark, and the Vauxhall. Now, the precise purport of the arguments ad vanced by Sir WILLIAM CLAY is this—not, of course, as may at length be conjectured by all those who have read the foregoing statements, that London is insufficiently supplied with water, but that the lavish supply already yielded to its inhabitants should be more equally distributed. The suggestions made upon this head by the pam phleteer are among the most valuable portions of the present effusion, and are of such a practical character as to deserve the consideration of all the land• lords of the capital. To them we especially would call under consideration the reasoning contained at the close of the second chapter. A due attention to the advice of the pamphleteer would, we are satisfied, prove advantageous at once to the pockets of the minority and beneficial to the health and comfort of the majority of the population. WYNTARD•PARE, JAN. B.—Lord Seaham continues as well as could be hoped for under his painful and distressing accident. The ball to the county on the 17th inst., the festivities intended, and the numerous visitors to Wynyard-park this month, have all been put off in consequence of the late unfortunate occur rence. The family remain in much anxiety and affliction. DEATH OF LIEUTENANT WAGEORN, R.N.—We regret to announce the sudden and unexpected death of the gallant pioneer of the overland route, at his red deuce, Golden- square, Pentonville, yesterday, in the 49th year of his age. Mr. Waghorn had returned only on Christmas-day from Malta, where he had been re siding a short time for the benefit of his health, which bad been considerably impaired by anxiety of mind, arising chiefly from pecuniary_ engagements, con tracted in his prosecution of the Trieste experiments in 1846, and which liabilities the devotion of all his means and the sacrifice of his entire property were inadequate to liquidate. Independent of the main incidents of his history in connexion with the Indian overland enter prise, which has imnaortalitd his name as one of the greatest praetical benefactors of the age, his career had been a moat extraordinary one, full of the strangest vi cissitudes, and abounding in evidences of character in every way worthy of enduring commemoration. Of the pension lately awarded him by CioVernment he lived to receive only one quarter's payment, but we make no doubt that the same considerate feeling which originally prompted that grant to so eminent a public servant will suggest the propriety of its continuance to his widow, whose now straitened Circumstances are principally attributed to her husband's high-minded endearouri to discharge, in tls private capacity, obligations incur red on the faitl of what he believed to be a permanent re tention, of his services by the Executive and on behalf of the community. His death was occasioned not so much by any specific disorder as by the general break-up of the system, though the wreck of his iron constitution, and his irrepressible energy, offered so great a resistance to the inroads of debility that it was thought to the last he would rally, andhis dissolution w as a t ten d e d with great pain an::, suffering. MAavatous ESCAPE.—A railway accident occur red on 1 4 'riday, in Messrs. Headford and Sage's of t r :.,;ames He a dford was n en the half past three o'clock h y u a r r i: d s , ,i l n j g pp ac e r r o E ss a t s h t7 ,;:i A le :o h train came by And struck him on the right shoulder, convoying him a few yards up the line, where he fell close to the rail. The whole train passed over his body, but luckily he escaped with a slight cut on the back of the head, a bruise on one shoulder, and some slight in juriessaessenseless, sfebi o ax n 9 of: but th s e : duei engine.o otfl quickly th recovered e f Wh ena ce, w h p; i picked el w id a wu s ep g ah r: se: wasehdsph p y q yu the ttoe say he is doing tol Mercury, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. It is admitted on all hands that on the La Plata question the Ministers have achieved a signal success, the more signal because M. DARU, the reporter to tl e Committee, rejected, in the name of the Committee, the order of the day motive proposed by M. DE RANCE, stating, as the ground for such rejection, that it bore too strong a resemblance to the plan proposed by the Government. The Ministry has therefore beaten, by a majority of 38, the coalition of the Mountain, the Legitimatists, and the Orleanists, supported as that coalition was on this question by the eloquence and influence of M. TIMERS. The Patrie announces that a force of 2,000 men will be sent to the La Plata to support the negotia tions with Rous. General LAHITTE, the Minister for Foreign Af fairs, has disavowed the note which appeared in the Napoleon ; he admits it was sent from his office, but it was sent without his knowledge or privity. The Committee on the budget met on Monday to receive the report of the sub-committee appointed to examine the Paris and Avignon Railroad Bill, pre sented by the Minister of Public Works. After M. BERETER read the report of the sub committee, the Committee resolved to propose to grant the construction of the road to one or two companies on lease for ninety-nine years; but in case it should be granted to two companies, the works on the two sections must be executed simultaneously. The State will guarantee interest on a capital of 260,000,000 f. at 5 per cent., and the profits are to be divided with the Government after the dividends shall have exceeded 8 per cent. The Committee charged with the examination of c t he omn c eur r su e i d r: i n t a s : sa f e o tmo r bt t ih h eed e pu c ru o i m nt p i lin neat Saturday, o of of the comet h accountstotm of th e Emperor, ab relative la definitet t iv e e reportas s haldecidedo l bf et h i t em h t ai ree t de h i a e mt e o el p my i nbdieoi. members st ro : . f buted to the Assembly, f thethe that minorc o u s r u t t j o yef Accounts, and d I the t w LUYNES. It is said that t h ewit h c u t n itt ee report e x o p f r e A s l s e . d D_E a wish to publish the rapt ? o f M. Viavurcri, th e archi tect or the monument, to the report of the Committee formed by M. LEDRU RoLmis, in March, 1848, but, on the advice of the President of the Assembly, it has confined itself to the publication of the documents pointed out in the vote of the Assembly. General LAaRIN died of apoplexy on Sunday. Admiral BAUDIN has arrived in Paris. The Assembly met yesterday, and M. Durxn resumed his seat as President. The Bill authorising the dismissal of primary schoolmasters by the Prefect came on for discussion, and was carried by a majority of 352 to 208. This is another Ministerial victory over the Mountain and Legitimatist coalition. The discus. sion of the separate articles of the law was fixed for to- day. In the course of the sitting General D ' HAUTPOUL, the Minister of War, laid on the table a Bill for increasing the pay of the non-commissioned officers in the army by twenty centimes a day. The PRESIDENT of the Republic, on the report of the Minister of Marine, has conferred the decoration of the Legion of Honour on twenty naval surgeons, as a recompense for their exertions and devotedness during the prevalence of the cholera at the various naval ports. " We have announced," says the Constitutionnel, "that General LAWCESTINE had taken his departure for Valenciennes. The fact is exact, but the General was obliged to stop at Douai, in order to proceed to Cambray, it being in that garrison that is quartered havetaken Cuirassiers. place, a l e r that t a re t g p im res e e n n t t so t m he e acts B r t e h gr r e e t g a i b m le entof bv fortunately all was confined to the misconduct of some non-commissioned officers. The facts are of such little gravity that General LAWCESTINE, although furnished with unlimited powers, has only proceeded to a general insp ec ti on of that regiment:' The following appears in the new journal, the Napoleon _ " - Of two things, one; either the republicans have de ceived the people, in preaching to it for forty years that the application o f t h e i r pr i nc ipl es would lead to the ces sation of all evil s an d o f all political complications; or they deceiv e it now , i n t e lli ng it th a t the application made by them of these great principles has changed nothing in the vices and abuses of the monarchical regiv4e. We defy them to get out of this dilemma. But the truth is, that for many the Republic was not an end but a means. How without that explain their conduct since Dec. 10? The republican opposition to the old Bourbons, these living types of Divine right, or to Louis Pnilippe, that representative of royal and Par liamentary usurpation, may be conceived, but it cannot be comprehended with respect to Louis Napoleon Bo esparto, elected, proclaimed, and recognised, as the head and President of the Republic. The reason is that the Republicans of the veille, not very consistent with their former convictions, are so with their rancour, and it is not without bitterness that they behold authority again in the ascendant, they who, after having seized et, consulted. Th e R e p u bli cans , di sappo i nte d but power by surprise, ker.iLllice bo eu u n u uts b irtm e riot to al waysnation struggling against universal suffrage, against a single Assembly, and against the responsible President, all of them things which were, however, their conquest and the triumph of their own ideas, pass without ceasing from one Utopia to another, until Socialism becomes at last the final expression of their chimerical ideas. Where is this struggle of the Republicans of the weille against the first universal suffrage which the Constituent Assembly and the Constitution gave to lead us? Against the second universal suffrage which gave us a responsible chief of the popular name of Napoleon? Against the universal suffrage which made the present Assembly as an amendment of February? Against France, in fine, which did not accept the Republic and the Repub licans but as an experiment? The acts of anger of the ambitious Republicans a ga i nst t h e President are so many political faults ; th e y complain of the reaction whichof to - day d they w crested oul by their ac t s o f yesterday, and their acts cal l fora monarchical restoratio n of some sort or other? Louis Napoleon Bonaparte could alone protect them against old remembrances and recent fears. But such is the passion of exclusive parties that they want to gain all or lose all. Washington and the First Consul Bonaparte mot with the same interested enmity. The virtue of the first disdained them ; the glory of the second crushed them. The difference be t t vvw w oei ill t Louis h models? e United NT Napoleon The ee Statesßepublican s np ub be i a fer n ae d ne s will decide." F t r o e anc h e oese h regulated etwetehne these diffe rent conduct of the:two great men , equally undervalued. The rise in the price of Public Securities made further progress at the Bourse yesterday. The Five per Cents. opened at 93f. 45c., and closed firm at 93f: 80c • the Three per Cents. closed at 57f 70c.; Orleans Railroad N Sh o a r r th es ern B , 2 4 o 62 ; f. sRoo c u .; e A n, v s ig B n 2 o f. n, s 2 ° 2 e o . 'f Basle, 115 f. ; Bordeaux, 420 f. v a i v e r r e z , l 2 n 4 , s 3 f 4 4 2 f. G s r o e c a . ; t ; Paris and Strasburg, 360 f.; Tours and Nantes, 2731. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-E-XCIIANGE, BJAN. 8. Namur an d Li ege, 7 4 —Or leans and Bourdeaux, 3% aris and Rouen, 2.31- Boulogne Amiens, s 2 ,n 734 1 _Dutch Rhenish, 1 4 Luxembourg,logne a SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 2d have arrived. The Espana and Heraldo of Madrid of the 2d attach no importance whatever to the alleged hostile expeditions of the Montemolinists, and they state that some of the chiefs said to have been appointed to commands are, from age or infirmities, unable to serve, and that others are unacquainted with the pro vinces to which they have been appointed. In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 2d, the President of the Council announced that the state of the QUEEN'S health would prevent her from receiving the congratulations of the Chambers, as usual, on Twelfth-day. The few Three days , presentation of the report of the C ommittee on the Budget has been postponed perin Cents we conse quence of certain modifications in the Ministerial departments. MADRID re div. for paper ; th e F our per Cents. at 121; the Five per Cents. at 131 ; t h e Debt done at Bo2L9st, ex. JAN. 2 for .— T a b without Interest at 41; and the Coupons at Bk. to take his oath to the Constitution. Baron PRO = KESH, the Austrian Ambassador, left for Vienna on the 7th inst. A telegraphic dispatch, dated Berlin, 7th instant (in the Kohler Zeitung), states that the crisis is over, and that a Royal message to the Parliament was expected, proposing several modifications of the Constitutional Charter, and engaging the KING'S word to the final acceptation of it. Another dispatch of the same date bears witness to the im• portance of the crisis, which, it would seem, is not yet over, for it states, that the Royal message was held back by some trifling obstacles, but that it was sure to be sent to the Houses before nightfall. The Minister of Home Affairs was at the time closeted with the KING. A third dispatch, of 8 o'clock P.m. of the same day, states that the message had not been sent. General LAMORICIERE and the other members o the French legation at St. Petersburgh, arrived al Berlin on the 6th inst. AUSTRIA. The Weiner Zeitung publishes a lengthy docu ment containing a Ministerial report on the EM PEROR'S sanction of the Constitution of the Austrian provinces and Crown lands. The Provincial Government of Bohemia was dis solved on the 31st. A Vienna letter of the 2d, in the Independance of Brussels, says there is no truth in the statements recently made of an insurrection having taken place among the Turks of Servia, and of the partial bom bardment of the town of Belgrade. The German Reform states that part of the gar rison of Vienna was, on the Ist, unexpectedly or dered to march for Hungary, but whether to put down disturbances in that country, or to proceed to the military frontiers, was not known. The Cologne Gazette states that the Austrian Lloyd's intends to establish steam communication between Messina and Malta, and that an English company is preparing to convey that part of the Indian mail destined for Holland, by Alexandria, Genoa, Milan, Switzerland, and Baden, that being the shortest rou t-_ The Provisional Government of Schleswig-Holstein has re-established postal communications between Hamburgh and Copenhagen, which had been, sus pended since the breaking out of the war, to the serious inconvenience of commerce. MONEY anti COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was quiet; prices, however, remained firm at Friday's quotations. The sales were estimated at 4,500 bales, principally American and Surat, 1,500 of which were taken on speculation.—Railway Shares were very inactive. The Corn trade in Mark-lane to-day is dull, at Mon day's rates. The steamer Hibernia. from New York has been telegraphed, and her advices are expected in the course of an hour. By telegraph we learn that the President's Message was of a pacific character in reference to the Nicaragua and other questions, but we regret to find the protective tariff policy in favour with the Government. Congress probably may take a more enlightened view of the matter, and the comparative success of free trade here will not a little assist the ad vocates of low duties. Private letters concur in stating that there was seldom greater prosperity in the United States than there is at present. The Hamburgh mail of Friday last advisev us of the contitauar.ce of speculation in coffee, which was again at fuller rates. Sugar also was firm. Money was abun dant, and bills of exchange on London were in demand at 13 85, and scarce. Funds and Shares were steady. The Swedish troops were preparing to evacuate Schleswig. At Frankfort, on the sth inst., Austrian Bonds were quoted 854; and at Vienna, on the 4th, the Metallics were 95 3 16. At St. Fctersburgh on the 27th ult. business was dull both in imports and exports. A statement of the two great Brussels banks makes the note circulation 46,916,995 francs, and the discount of the three leading establishments amounted on 6,794 bills to 6,833,272 francs. The present aspect of affairs in the City is still favourable to buoyancy and confidence, and the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury have given notice that the actual surplus revenue of the United Kingdom for the year ended the 10th October was 1,211,845/. 58., and that, including the sum arising rom donations, &c., the Commissioners for theßeduc.ion of the Debt will have at their disposal 306,748/. 9s. 10(1. to be applied during the current quarter to the redemption of stock. It is a significant fact to which we would call the attention of radars,our thot Btvulb. is to be purchased and not Exchequer-bills, even in part, as on many former occasions. These little signs are worth attending to by such as take an interest in the anticipated reduc tion of the interest on the Three per Cent. debt. The favourable accounts from France and America, the renewal of purchases of stock for the Sinking Fund, some Savings Bank purchases, and the general abun dance of cash, with the fact also that a leading broker, who sold largely eight or ten days since, and was expected to deliver on the account day, yesterday afternoon took in some amount of stock, and paid a comparatively high rate of "continuation," give still greater confidence to the Bulls. One of the first discount houses is indisposed for the present to take in any further lodgments of money even at If per cent., but it is still a matter of controversy whether the Bank of England will to-morrow re duce its minimum charge. It is in reality of no importance, for the Bank is affording accommoda tion at present in a private way, and by loan, at less than its official minimum for discounts. Consols have been 974 4 for Transfer, and 975 for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have touched par, and the Three per Cent. Annuities have been 974 to 4. Bank Stock has further advanced, being 207 to 209. India Stock is 262 to 260. Exchequer-bills have been quoted 59a. to 625., and India Bonds have touched 1008. premium. The mana ger of the Royal Bank of Scotland has arrived in town, and the speculators in the funds interpret his visit into one connected with the investments of the cor poration. This of course must be mere surmise. In the Foreign Market prices are naturally buoyant after the example of our own funds. Spanish Five per Cents. have realised 194 4, and the Three per Cents. 374 ie Portuguese Four per Cents. are 364 to 37. The intention of the United States Government to insist upon payment of the sum claimed of Portugal for mercantile losses, is certainly unfavourable to this security. Brazilian small Bonds have let en quoted 885 4. Equador Stock has been 34. Peruvian has advanced to 62i to 63, and Mexican is up to 29i 4. Buenos Ayres has realised 50 to 4. Russian Bonds are worth 111. French Five per Cents. are 94 50, with the exchange at 25 40. Dutch Four per Cents. are 86 to 4. Railway Shares are still comparatively inactive, but there is greater firmness in the quotations. BRITISH FUNDS rilib DAI AT 0N.14 O'CLOUB. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 207 209 J per Cent. Reduced Annuities 971 / 4 % ' 5 A1 7 4 3 per Cent. Consols Anne New 3 , 4 per Cent. Anne. 99 3 / 4 % 100 9 3 / 4 Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 8 11-16 8% Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 B% Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 8 5 -16 8 7-16 India Stock 265 962 Do. Bonds, 10001 97 100 p Ditto under 1.0001 Consols for Account tGachequer hills. 1 thd. za. March. June. 59 62 p 59 62 5v 62 p 1.,060/. 500 i Small k,r r vnlLil=ly r u.v lJO ,11 VIN vel.Outt Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Small Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto Account Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per Cent Equador Bonds ... 33f, ;.i.exican bonds, 1846,5 per Cent., Coupons Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto for the Account... 2 9 1 / 2 34 Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto for the Account Ditto Deferred .. . Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 4 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 37 36% Russian Bonds. 1822,5 per Cent lll Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o Ditto Account . Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto Account Dividends on the above oayable in London. French Rentes, 5 per Cent. Exchange 2sf. 40c. Dutch 2 1 ,i i per Cent., 12 Guild Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Ditto for the Account .... BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES ♦T 0118 O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. rem. Psi Siena. i,erdeen Ditto, Preference B/ die. to - 1m btr., N otting., Boston, &c. 6ii s.yrshire and Galloway ...... 71/ 2 - to - Belfast and County Down .. 28 .. .. - to -- 3erks and Hants Extension (Gt. West. Perpet. 5 per ct.) 6 .« .. to MIR iirmingnam & Oxford J unct., calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 - to - Do., without a guarantee... 20 ... - - 3irmingham,Wol., & Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 ..... - - Do., without a guarantee.., 10 - .. .• • U. ....• dinning., Wol., & Stour Val. 131.14 e - - iirkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshir. Junction.: - ...... to - iristol and Exeter - - Do., Thirds - ..... to iuckingharnshire..- - 17 1 ,4 - - ;aledonian - Ditto, New 101. Preference 10 ...... 7% to - Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 - to - )hester and H01yhead......... 50 ..... - to - Ditto, Preference - :I arenci.... - 7 B/ 7B/ - ...,.. to Do., Ist aims, 6 per Cent... 10 - • ••• to D0.,2d Claso9s per Cent... 10 - Do., Goy. Loaf• 4 per Cent. 10 - ...... to Direct London & Portsmouth 5 1 A - Lublin andßelfa.qt J 5% tounction.. 40 - Jundalk and Ennsi ., illen ... 30 to ~ ast Anglia, 251. L. & E . , aid L. & D . Ditto, M., E. & 1:1„....,.. 18 .., ..... Do, 3/ 13 6 Ct. Pre , ` . 3% — . s 2 9 p • . to Do, 71. 171., 7 per Ct. Prof. Eastern Counties Do. New Guarant. 6 per Ct. 10 ...... 11 1 4 to Do.Exten 5 perct.No. 1 6/.135. 4d.. p to Do., do Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 _ _ Do., 5 per cont. Ditto, New 4 .'astern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) ... .. 25 Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 6 - - Ditto, do, Class B& C 25 ...... ...... to ...-. Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 20 East Lancashire ... 25 Ditto, New ... .......... .... . 25 Do., New Quarters Do., 6 per Cent. Preference Quarter Shares East Lincolnshire 25 ...... ....• to Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto, Half Shares Edinburgh and Northern ... 25 ...... Ditto, New port l5 ...... •••••• to Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — ••• .. to Exeter and Exm0uth......... 21s. Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..B/. 6s.Bd — ..... to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 .....• •••••• to Do. Preference Consolidated Gloucester and Dean Forest.. 11 - ••• .4 to ...• Great Northern Do. I/ 2 A Deferred ..... ... 12 1 ,E — ..... to Do. 14 B_ 6 per Cent. Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 50 — to Great North of England 100 Ditto, New 40/.............. 40 Ditto, ditto Ditto, New 30/. Ditto, New 151.-- ... ...... 15 ...... . Great Western Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths 2O Do. New 17/ Hull and Selby 5O Ditto, Half Shares .. ...... 25 ~ 4B ...•. to -- Ditto,Quarter Shams ..12 1 A — . ..... to Lancaster and Car1i51e........ 50 Do., Thirds - ...... to --- Lancashire and Yorkshire lOO .•.... to Ditto, ditto ...... to Ditto Half Shares .... 49 ...... : Ditto Quarters 23% _ to Ditto Fifths lO .... _ .... t o Ditto. Thirds 16% — Do., New Guar. 6 per cent. 10 Do.( P‘ l v l r u eess d tt d oß e n r i 12% to to D0.,!1 ' andinagnwdU n: r i h o e e n ff : .:): 25510 .... . : .. to D0.,t0 Do., do., Half Shares (A) 10 Leeds and Bradford 5O ..... )9 1 J 4...... to Lced4 and Thirsk 5O 4ifre • • 4 . , opd 4,t 11 0* , , „1 ) • °'' "'" 114 Zirti' , • - u - • . 4 • s. • '4 ‘ 4 GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. FRANKFORT. The Frankfort j ourn als of the 6tb state th a t t h e majority of the C ons tituent Assemblyof Frankf or t intends 'draw up a protest against its dissolution by the Senate. The police had taken possession of the hall of the Assembly. SAXON Y• The Second Chamber of Saxony voted on the 3d, by 86 votes to 38, an increase in the land and per sonal taxes and in licences. In the course of the debate It was stated that, in 1846-7-8, the expenses of the country exceeded those of the three preceding years by 1,826,000 thalers, and that the budget of the war department has been exceeded by 600,000 thalers. PRUSSIA• Letters from Berlin of the sth state that serious apprehensions of a Ministerial crisis were entertained, owing to the probable success of the extreme Con servative party in persuading the ICING not to swear fidelity to the Constitution. The Ministry were anxious that the K ING s h o uld take the oath of fidelity , and in the eve n t o f hi s &dining were resolved to resign. all thi4 hAd occasion,.? a considerable agita tion at Berlin. ; ... - " , iner Zeitune These rumours are co nfirmed by t h e 1 that - of the Bth instant, i n w hich we it Etat, Count BRANDENBURG and his colleagues sent h. , their resignation to the KING on the 2d instant, in consequence of an apparentdisinalination his MAJESTY evinced against swearing to the Constitution. Se veral Cabinet Councils were held on the 3d and 4th instant; on the sth it was known that the KIN CI had peremptorily refused to accept the resignation of Ministers, while he pledged his word Ottening ,_;)11111. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1850. An esteemed correspondent, whose views on the currency question differ in some respects from our own, has recently inquired whether we have consi dered " the effect which a paper currency, or any great increase of the circulating medium, would have on the condition of the labouring classes, by inoreao ing the price of provisions, Sec. ?" adding, as his own conclusion, " whereas it would be difficult, if not impossible, for them to obtain generally an equivalent advance of wages." As we are anxious to satisfy all bond fide inquirers on a subject of such paramount importance, on which the welfare and prosperity of the great body of the people are so completely de pendent, we willingly respond to the interrogatory. We have considered anxiously and maturely the effects of the monetary code established by the fatal Act of 1819, and rendered more stringent and in jurious by the subsequent legislation of 1844, on the condition of the industrious population of the country in the most extensive signification of the phrase, from the highest merchant or manufacturer to the humblest man who earns his daily bread by his daily labour, of all, in fact, save those fruges con sumers nati, who live without toil or exertion on the dividends or interest of realised property, or on fixed annuities or rent-charges ; and we have no hesita don in stating our perfect conviction that, with the above exceptions, they would be materially benefited by the adoption of a well-devised system of paper currency, which would supply that greatest of all blessings, a circulating medium adequate to the wants and exigencies of the country. Such a currency may be regarded as the life-blood of industry, by which a stimulus would be afforded to every description of production, and by which full and remunerative em ployment would be provided for every person able and willing to work. Cheapness is undoubtedly a great blessing, but it must be considered relatively to the means of pur chasing and the resources at the disposal of the great body of consumers throughout the empire. It would but little avail the industrious operative if prices were reduced to one-half the present scale, and all the necessaries of life were to be obtained at almost nominal prices, if the sources of employment were dried up, and he was unable to obtain a market for the only commodity which he has to offer in exchange —his labour. Never, perhaps, were articles of every description to be obtained on nominally cheaper terms than in Ireland at this moment, and yet the entire population are suffering deeply and severely, are actually enduring the greatest privations in the midst of plenty and abundance. But the cheapness is only nominal—the purchasing power, unfortu nately, is wanting. The abundance is comargsties4 I articles of which they have a superfluity for o th ers which they may desire to obtain in return. if the country were in a state of nature, ;if there were no public or private debts to he liqui dated, it would be of little consequence whether the circulating medium amounted to one million or to one hundred millions of pounds sterling. In the former case one shilling would procure as many of the necessaries and comforts of life. as could be obtained in the latter for live pounds, or, in other words, something less than .; twopence-halfpenny would go as far as a sovereign. But we are placed in a highly artificial state of society. The labour of the many is mortgaged for the benefit of the privi leged few. The interest of the public debt must be duly satisfied, twenty-eight millions of pounds per annum must be paid to the fundholders, and every diminution of the circulating medium increases the pressure of that grievous burden. The great organ of the bullionists has recently admitted that a sovereign will now procure twice as much of necessaries or luxuries as it could have procured some years since. In other words, that twice the quantity of produce must now be given in return for a pound sterling that would have been required at the close of the late war, and before the resumption of cash payments by the Bank. Is not the consequence, then, that the burden of the national debt is also doubled, and that the eight hundred millions now due by the country, is equivalent to what sixteen hundred millions would have been in 1815 ? Each person is, therefore, obliged to bestow twice the amount of labour as his con tribution to the public burdens, and the intensity of the pressure is such, that it deranges our entire social system, and renders employment scanty and precarious prevents the real capital contained in the thews and sinews of the labouring men from being rendered fully available, and thus produces the greatest distress and misery amongst the industrious classes—the persons whose interests our correspondent, as well as ourselves, is so anxious to promote. At first, perhaps, the !Isere labourers do not obtain the full advantages of an increase of circulation, and a consequent increase of prices generally, but they certainly reach them eventually. At first his wages may procure less food for his family, but he will speedily find that he can obtain more certain and constant employment. Something will be found to be done at times that would otherwise be spent in useless idleness. The hours that would be spent at the public-house, or wasted in listless apathy, are profitably occupied; in rainy days, or the winter season, when he would be dismissed, in time of cheap ness he can still earn something, so that the balance will be found to incline to his favour; but ultimately the wages of labour will be found to accommodate them. selves to the pri ces o f o th er commodities. T will soon be a scarcity of hands at harvest time, or at seasons when numerous orders have been accepted by manufacturers ; he asks for and obtains better wage s for the busy time, which speedily becomes the rule throughout the entire year, and his condition is per manently ameliorated, and that in no inconsiderable degree. fA great " appreciati on " i n t h e value of money has a directly opposite tendency—f or a b r i ef period the labourers may be congratulating themselves that the shilling will go further than it did a short time pre viously; the period is approaching w h en many of their class will be turned adrift and obliged to seek refuge in the tender mercies of the autho- rities of the union workhouse ; and wages will fall generally, in consequence of the diminished demand for labour. We ask, then, our respected correspon dent, in the integrity and honesty of whose opinions we repose th e utmost confidence, which state of af. fairs has the most beneficial effect cn the condition of the labouring classes ? Thanks are especially d ue to Si r WILLIAM CLAY admirable pamphlet on the supply of water t'..l the metropolis, just published from his manuscript*- a pamphlet of a most authentic character and repl rte with inestim a bl e information. In this brochure the * 77 ii;;;;is o n t i --- ',7i, a , ,pplyaLond,,, Sir William Clay, Bart., 11. P. Bvo. pp. 108. Rid rawa.Y. L9ndou; 1849. SWITZERLAND. By the postal treaty between France and Switzer land a single letter of 74 grammes (about a quarter of an ounce) is to cost 40c., of which 15c. are for Swit zerland and 25c. for France. By a clause similar to that already introduced into the postal treaty with Belgium letters are to circulate within a distance of 30 kilometres (181 miles) from the frontiers for 20c., to be equally divided between the two countries. As to letters sent to or from the ports of the Mediterra nean, where France has postal establishments, they are to cost 1 f. for each single letter. TURKEY. By the arrival of a steamer at Trieste on the 30th December nevss has been received from Constan tinople to the 22d December, which is characterised by some of the Vienna journals as highly important. According to these rumours the Russian Govern ment is said to have declared that it could only treat with the Porte on the express condition that England should not interfere in any manner what soever in the negotiations. The Divan had met three different times without coming to a decision on the reply to be made to the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh. The British squadron, consisting of five ships of the line and five steam-frigates, was still at anchor in the waters of Musconisi, where it had taken up its winter quarters. The French squadron, of six ships of the line, one frigate, and three steamers, was at anchor at Vourla. ITALY The POPE has published veryvery lengthy and a very violent encyclical letter, in which he anathematizes Socialism, Republicanism, and, above all, Protestant ism, as the root from which every other evil ism springs. The Commission of Cardinals bas thrown into prison fifty priests, for having administered spiritual consolation to the wounded Republicans in the hospital during the siege. A letter from Rome of the 30th ult., in the Con stitutiennel, says—" A few nights back, simul taneously in all the principal towns of Romagna, the druggists' shops were broken into and all the poisonous substances carried off; nothing else was touched. The quantity of poison thus taken is sufficient to kill all the inhabitants of the Pontifical States, and great apprehensions have been produced by the act. An arrest has, however, just been made, which may lead to a discovery of the ..props concerned in the matter. The Advocate to Ancona. There were found at his residence an enormous packet of cockades, two tricoloured flags, several pairs of pocket-pistols, a great number of poniards, three of which were prepared to receive poison, and lastly, a correspondence in cipher with the chiefs of the Italian revolution." In the sitting, on the 3d, of the Piedmentese Senate, Senator CIBBARIO moved the address in answer to the speech from the Throne. A commis sion was named to examine it. The Senate also named the two Commissions of Agriculture and Commerce and of Finance. The Minister of the In terior presented a Bill for the annexation of Menton and Roccabrana to the Sardinian States. In the sitting on the 2d, of the Chamber of Depu ties of Turin, M. NIGRA, Minister of Finance, presented the budgets of 1849 and 1850. The bud get of 1849 gives a deficit of upwards of 55,000,0001. That of 1850 shows a deficit of above 82,000,0001. The extraordinary war expenses of 1648 and 1849, including the indemnity to Austria, amounted to 225,849,3161. The ordinary budget of 1850 shows a deficit of 24,000,0001., which must be met by new taxes. The Minister also proposed to the Chamber to authorise him to issue 4,000,000 of rentes during the last six months of 1850. PRIVY COUNCIL. The Queen held a Privy Council at one o'clock at the Castle. It was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Marquis of Lansdowne t Lord President), Sir George Grey (Secretary of State for the Home Department), Earl Grey (Secretary of State for the Colonial Department), the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere (President of the Board of Trade), the Marquis of Breadalbane (Lord Chamberlain), and the Duke of Norfolk (Master of the Horse). The Marquis of Lansdowne had an audience of the Queen previous to the Council. At the Council Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued from Wednesday, the 16th of January, until Thursday, the 31st of January, and a proclama tion was ordered to be issued, summoning Parliament to meet on the said 31st of January for the dispatch of public business. The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Sir George Grey had an audience of her Majesty. Her (Majesty •held a Court, at which the Right Rev. Dr. Hinds had an audience of the Queen in the Royal Closet, and did homage on being appointed Bishop of Norwich. The Bishop of Chester (Clerk of the Closet), and Sir George Grey (her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment), assisted at the ceremony. The Right Rev. Dr. Oliphant had an audience of her Majesty, and did homage on being appointed Bishop of Llandaff. The Bishop of Chester and Sir George Grey assisted at the ceremony. Luncheon was served to the noblemen and gentle men attending the Court and Council. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert drove out this morning, attended by the Maids of honour in Waiting, and the Equerries in Waiting, Lord Charles Fitaroy and Colonel Seymour. The Royal Family took their usual airings. The Earl of Liverpool and the Rev. James Cart mell are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day, on a visit to her Majesty and Prince Albert. The royal dinner party this evening includes her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Earl of Liverpool, Sir George Scovell, and the Rev. James Cartmell. The Earl of Listowel has relieved Lord Elphin stone in the duties of Lord in Waiting to the Queen, and Colonel Hon. R. Boyle has relieved Colonel Berkeley Drummond in the duties of Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. After attending her Majesty's Court yesterday afternoon, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Grey, the Eishop of Chester, the Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop of Llandaff, Sir George Grey, the Marquis of Breadalbane, and the Hon. William B a th urst, l eft Windsor by a special train on the Great Western Railway, and returned to the Paddington terminus. The Right Hon. LI. Lahouchere left Windsor for Stoke, and the Dul:e of Norfolk also took his depar ture from Windsor Castle. A deputation from the Board of Directors of the Oxford, Worcester, and Woiv-Thampton Railway Company, consisting of Mr. Francis Rufford, M.P. (chairman), Messrs. 'William Mathews and Michael Grazebrook (directors), Mr. Charles Bedford (soli e;tor), and Mr. N. T. Smith (secretary), had an into: view with the Commissioners of Railways yes terday at the Board of Trade. Ij sr 0 : A MOUSTAC ISIE.—The editor of the Medical Times, referring to the moustaches of medical students, assures a correspondent that " moustaches amo ng the most important, they have their uses ; and . , t the idlest, the vainest, and are considered to point o: obably, tho mo. t dissolute most self-conceited, if not, P- - „., b ehoon g to warn others." in tho clads. They Do. , do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. to mo Ditto, ditto... No. I 7% — ..«.. to Ditto, ditto ..... No. 3 6 Do. Pref. (,) u arters,:lB4 8... 9 Liverpool, Crosby, and South- port.. - 10 I.ondon & Blackwall ......11/. 6s. ad..-- ...... to -- Loud., Bright., & South Coast 100 ..... 7834 to Do., New 51., gua. 6 pr Ct.loo Do. Guaranteed sper Cent. 9 De. Preferential, 5 per Ct., 50 - to Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... - London and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d... Ditto Preference 2O - London & North Western 100 .110% to -- Do. New Quarters. ...... 12 Do. Fifths Po. 40i. Shares...„L. & M 85 ...... ..... to Do. 101.... M. and B. (C.) 1 London and S. Western .......100 Ditto, New 50/........ . ..... 4214...... - Ditto, New 40/. ... . I )0., New Scrip, 1848, Pret 7 per Cent ••• 5 • ••• •"•• •to —• :,ondonderry and Coleraine... 25 Do. Half Shares . ..... ..... 5 .. ••• .. ... to i•ondonderry and Enniskillen 25 - ..... to -. Do., Half Shares - ••• ••• to MO L.westoff, guar. 4 per et 2O Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 18 ...... - ' , Tamil Buxton, & Matlock 5 Ilanchr, Sheffield, and Linc.loo - Ditto Shares (No. 1) ... 25 ...... - Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 — to -- Ditto, V s Shares (No. 3)... 1254 — ' to -- Do., New 10/. Preference.. 10 ..... Ditto, Grimsby & Sheffield 50 ...... Ditto, ditto. ..... .... - •«.•• to ••••• Ditto, ditto ......... . 1254...... - mi.., to .... Ditto Sheffield and Linc. 25 ...... ....,. to Ditto, Grimsby Dock Ditto, Man. & Lin. Union 41.25.... —. Midland......• • •••• ........ ...100 ditto, Consol. Pretereaco...loo - Ditto. 501. Shares .. . ... 10 - Birm., and Derby...l9o to Consol. Bristei and Birmingham. 6 per cent.... 100 12 4 14...... to 125 "idland, Bristol and Glouc. 42 ... Ditto ditto 221.75...... Ditto,ErewashVal., Pref... 50 ktidland, Leices. and Swan _ _ _ nington (8 per ct.gua.)....100 .... . : idld. Great Western (Irish) 474 . to --. `iliddlesbro' and Redcar. 6 per cent. guar. Sewcastie and Carlisle lOO ...... Ditto Quarter Shares . .... 25 ... .. Newmarket eeeeee Of. ••••••••• inor 23 Ditto Extension Scrip... 21. 12s — to Newport Abergy., and Heret. 6 - Newry and Enniskillen - 'Cowry, Warrenpoint, and _ Roarevor .......... ........ 20 N'ortolk lOO ...... •••... to Ditto New 20/. ' 15 ...... ...... to --- Ditto Guaranteed 5 per ct. 29 Do. Do. 5% per cent 5 .. ..• - Do. do. Waveney . Valley.. 2 Northern Counties Union ..: 4 - NTorth British —.. ... Ditto Pall Shares 12% 4% to Do. Quarters s. IN .•.... ••.... to Ditto Thirds -- ........ 81. s ... - Ditto. Preference 4artb Staffordshire... .. ...... 171,E ..... North Wales l4 4e ....••• , ...• to North Western 13% — „.,„. to .... +xford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 15 Royston and Hitchin Scottish Central, 25 ••• ... 14 ••• ea to f 1... ~ cottish Midland .... ....... - Ditto,New... -brewsbury and Birmingleam 12 — ..• .. to Ditto, ditto, Class B. 8 - Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 - shrewsbury and Hereford .. 5 Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. ~fin.) - Ditto Halves. Ditto 9 ..• .. ••• .0 to ...... Ditto, Oswestry 181(...... ...• to "'"" . - ..•••• Ditto (New)... - Cer ' Fret Ditto 8 per int. Pref..... 10 4hropshire Union 64..... ..... :to •-• , outh Devon . - Ditto, Preference ...... .. Aonth Staffordshire B% 5 ...... to .... South Easterr: ..... ••• 33% 1914..... W "".. Ditto, No. 2. Ditto, No. 3. ... 3O - Ditto, Regustered No. 4.... 10 - Ditto, Scrip No. 4.... lO .. - -loath Wales 43 South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Gool• -heffield, Rotherham, and Goole (N .D) Gua. 5 perct. 16%. — w ••• Do. do. (South Div.) 5 ..... •••• t. swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ..... . 7 ...“. •-• Caw Vale Extension .••..... 8 «tom •••••• to Thames Haven Dock and Railway .... 17%.„••• --- Vale of Death .... Waterford and Kilkenny 2O ...... Waterford and Limerick.- „ '47%..... Waterford, Wexford,Wieklw, and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ....-. ..„. ...... 50 ...... Do. do. do. Do. do. do. West Cornwall a, ..0 uhitAhavon e..ar........• .... Windsor, Staines, a n d So uth Western..... te .." Wllts,Somermet,&Wey mou th 45 •-• to .-" ; ork, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 Do. and Newcastle Eaten. 20 ..... 111% to Do. G. N. E. Pun or Pref. 3 ...... . , to .".' Do. Hartlepool Irk. & Rly. 100 ...... . York ana North:Midland .. 50 ..... 17% Ditto, Prefe rence to "" FOREIGN RAILWATS. st ~...• Anglo Italian (late Italian and Aastrian) 61 ,2 ..... Boulogne and.Araiens 20 „ ... ...... to natal at France ( Orleans and Vierzon) Dornerara. ........... ........... 17%. .... --. Dutch Rhenish ............ ...... 11 ...... 11i...- to "" East Indian ... .............. ... ni Ditto ... . .................. ... 20 ...„ „ to "" Great Indian Peninsular 5 ...... -- ...... to "" Do. Do ..... .... ....... ... 10s. - to Louvain Ala Sambre ......... 7% — ...... to ""' Luxembourg ... 7% ..... Ditto ....... ... 10 .• ..• ..- Madrid and Valenti* Namur and Liege.... •••••• 20 ... Northern of France 14/ 85.. ... dii ... 10 """ Orleans and Bordeaux ... 7 ... — Pans and Orleans.... Paris and Rouen Paris & Strasbourg ..... ..... 12 Rouen and Havre 2O .•.... -- Sambre and Mense Strasburg and Bale ..... ....„ 14 Tours & Nantes ... . „18 — ...... to "" TOlllllll,y, Jurbise, Landon, ..„, .... and Hassell.•. ...... .. 20 ...... ....... ..- West Flanders B B4 — ...... to •". JOINT STOCK BANES. Australasia - British North American .... 50 ...... Colonial .... .. .. 25 ..... . Commercial of L0nd0n....... 20 London Joint Stock ~.., lO ...... ....- to ". London and Westminster 2O ...... ...... to "" National Provincial of Engld B5 ..„.. Ditto, New -..... .... 10 ...„ ..... to ' National of Ireland . ..:.«.. .. 22% — .. .. to .." Provincial of Ireland a 25 ...... ex.div to •••• Ditto, New 2O .• „, — ..... to ''''' Union of Australia 25 011 •••• 28 1 ,4 to "... Ditto, New .. 2% ...... -- Union of London .. 10 ...... , Union of Madrid ......... .._.. 40 MINE& Anglo Mexican 1 00 ••• ••• * ONO t ° . . • Asturian ........ .... ••• Australian 4 '••••• to ...••.,•• to .."' d" . Barrossa Range . Blaenarvon Iron and Co a l ... 60 Bolanos Scrip British Iron Brazilian Imperial ..... .. ... 24% .... to •••• Ditto Cocaes and Cuiaba... 30 Ditto St. John Del Rey ... 15 . 121,4 %.. to Cobra Copper .... to .."" General Real del Monte. Unregistered . — „ ~.. to •••• Do. Black Debentures — Do. Red Debentur es ..... .... ..... to Santiago de Cuba lO ...... ... « to United Mexican ....... 28% — ... .to """ COURSE O Amsterdam .... •• •• •• 12 2I Ditto, at sight .... •• 12 0 Rotterdam .....• •• •• 12 2% Antwerp— ............ 25 67% Liamburgh —•• • •11./3. 13 12% Parts, 3 days'sight • 25 42% Ditto, 3 months .. •• 25 65 Marseilles ••—••• • •• •• 25 65 Bourdeaux.... •• ... • 25 65 Erankfort on Maine.... 122 pewrsburgh, Sil. Itble•• 37g EXCHANGE. Gibraltar.. • • •• 30 86 Leghorn ...• .. • • •30 Genoa •• ••••••• • • • • • • • 24 .,, Milan •• • • •• •• 0-, Venice... ••••• • • • • 401 Naples ..• ••••• • • • •• Palermo, perm. ••• • •• 12110 Messina ...... • • 03 Lisbon.— •......... 314 0p0rt0............ • • Rio Janeiro •• .• •... • • Buenos Ayres .....• • • New York, 21 days'aight Philadelphia • ........ micas op artareigl Foreign Geld In bars.. £3 '• 0 P ortugal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0 S panish Doubloons .. 0 104 New Dollars •• •• 0 4 4 11 Silver la bars ........ 0 Vienna, effec. 80...—. 11 21 Trieste,. P1at0.... •• .. 11 21 Madrid • • •• • • ........ 49% Cadiz •• •• ••••••• • • • • • 49% Bilbao.. •••• .• •••• •• Barcelona • • .. •• • • •• •• ••••• Revtllo.• •• •• •..• •• • . ) LLOYD'S &4HIPPIN G—( THIS Di* LONDON, JAN. i. — Wind at noon N.N.E ., oder"- breeze and dull hazy weather. DEAL, JAN. B.—W ind N.N.E., fresh and squanf,c; Arrd. Ratcli ff e , PhiliNon, Calcutta. A rr d. I r om ' River and sld., Prince of Wales, Launceston. %e'er COWES, JAN. B.—Wi n d Hendrik, ter, Batavia. OFF THE START, JAN. 7.—. Kate, END, New York' ri LIVERPOOL, JAN. B.—Wind S.S.E. to S.S.W., v v o r i o , foggy.— bld. Mogul, Valparaiso; Ann, ditto; 03 ; Buenos Ayres ; L eger d ema i n , dit to; Regulus, Maranbo k . Lauriston an d A nn , Di ngwa ll , V era Crux; S i r R. Jgalop son, Charl t s t on • Climatic, Savannah. Off port, G il i t g l ei f let, Buenos Ayres. 9th, Hibernia (steamer), York NEWPORT, JAN. B.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Commer ce, Alexandria, United States. NEW RUNNEY, JAN. B.—The Oust (sloop), to Newhaven, is stranded on the Sound. Should the weather continue fine she will probably be got of d os BRIDLINGTON, JAN. B.—Th e Klara liaturks, l' On a ot. to Aarhuus, has put in dismasted , and with decks To FOLET, JAN. 7.—A b oat ' s stern, originally mark° oti yellow letters " Tullymet, Perth," but painted out re-lettered " Tullymet, Dundee," and a watch, ma r k on the outside ca se , " W m. Marham, " have been pick up here. Mdlle. Clara Novello, who quitted the stage 01 1. 1 10 marriage with a gentleman of rank and fortune. .7 0 returned to h er p ro f ess i on—she is engaged as Pr' dmna at Run.