The Sun. — London, England, 1847-01-16 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. GRAND JUVENILE NIGHT. At the termination of the Pantomime the last two acts of THE BONDMAN will be played, and between the second and third acts will be introduced the most popular dances from tho celebrated Ballet of THE WAGS OF WAPPING. THIS EVENING Will be performed the first act of the Opera of THE BONDMAN. Marquis de Vernon, Mr. Weise ; Floreville, Mr. Rafter ; Morllere, Mr. Homoastle ; Ardenford, Mr. W. Harrison (his first appearance sines his indisposition); Mal-a-Propos, Mr. Harley ; Madame Co rinne, Miss Romer ; Grisette, Miss R. Isaacs ; Frivole, Mrs. Hughes. After whieh will be produced the Grand Comic Christmas Panto mime, being a mixture of the historical and legendary, entitled JEARLEQUIIt AND ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. The Overture and Music composed by Mr. R. Hughes; the new and ex tensive Sooners , by Mr. Grieve, Mr. Telbin, and numerous as sistants ; the Tricks and Transformations by Mr. Blamire ; the Ma hidery by Mr. R. Sloman ; the Dresses by Mrs. Bovey, Mrs. Balls, 11.1 a host of auxiliaries. The whole produced under the superin tendsace of Mr. W. West. Seen. 1. ABODE OF KALYBA, THE ENCIIANTRESS.—Date and lo cality not exactly known, but considered by the Antiquarian Society to have been discovered " somehow or other," " some time or other," near " somewhere or other," Kalyba (the Enchantress, not by Balfe, mistress of all the elements, except those of " Arithmetic," having quite misealcnlated her power), Mr. H. Horncastie ; Fiends and Fu ries (illastrating a common expression of speech, with anything but a common expitession of countenance), Messrs. J. W, Morgan, Burt, clonnell, and 11. Payne ; Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. (the four Ele men 11,with a strong love of mischief), by Dealers in each; the March of Intellect (travelling " ineog." as." Young England," a true Oiler British blood, by Intellect out of Industry, dam by Science, cutof Perseverance, has never been beaten, and can be matched against anything), Miss Annie Payne.—How the March of Intellect says a " flying visit" to Kalyba ; and how, being empowered by the Committee on National Education, he gives the old lady sudden no tice to quit, by as suddenly changing the premises to Scene 2. Itersatios OF INFANT SCHOOL.—Schoolmaster, Mr. Big wig, who, at the request of his " Illustrious Visitor," gives the boys a half-holiday on the occasion. Scene 3. EXTXRIOR AND BARBACAN OF COVENTRY CASTLE. The Earl of Coventry (Lord High Steward of England, and his own into the bargain), Mr. Mazzoni ; the Countess of Coventry (a good housewife, and supposed to have been the inventor of the celebrated "Coventry Cake"), Miss Haines ; Head Nurse (with a good character from her last place), Mr. Cheel ; Master George (afterwards cele brated for a battle he fought with a dragon, but at present without any knowledge of " arms," except his nurse's), Miss Marks ; Masters Andrew, David. Patrick, Denis, James, Anthony (very youthful knights, but destined, with their " cousin George," to astonish the natives by and by as " The Seven Champions of Christendom"), Mas ters Coyle, Savell, Dix, Welsh, Desborg, Francis.—How the youthful St. George is feted on his birth-day—how he makes his " first," and nearly his " last " appearance is public on the occasion—how his "cousins " Andrew, David, Patrick, Denis, James, and Anthony Come to wish him many happy returns of the day—and how Kalyba shows her " love of children" by taking the " whole brood under her wing." NOTICE.—" Nothinge material to our historic" occurring during a period of fifteen years, the author trusts that the audience will al low him to cut it, and come again to Scene 4. LCALTBA'S HOUSE OF CORRECTION !—St. George of Eng land (a rum'un to look at, but a rare'un to go), Mr. W. H. Payne; St. Andrew of Scotland, St. David of Wales, St. Patrick of Ireland St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, St. Anthony of Italy (all pretty much of the same kidney!) Mr. Heath, Mr. Douglas, Mr. Marks, Mr. Chapin, Mr. Sanger, Mr. J. Haynes.—How St. George and his brother champions (considerably grown since their last ap pearance in public) are kept In durance vile, and on " very short commons" by Kalyba—how Kalyba pops her affections on St. George who " can't abide her"—in short, how—but we won't anticipate— merely observing, that the upshot is the Downfall of Kalyba, and the Emancipation of the Seven Champions of Christendom! Scene 5. DOVER ROADS.—How the Seven Champions of Christen dom set out for their respective destinations—" the management having, in the handsomest manner," made special arrangements for that purpose with the various " Metropolitan Conveyance Com panies. Scene 6. BANKS OF THE NlLE.—lhnanzor, King of Morocco (his own Lord High Admiral, Commander-in-Chief, &e., on Ids way to King Ptolemy's Court, to court King Ptolemy's daughter), Mr. T. Matthews ; Ptolemy, King of Egypt (rather a remote ancestor of Ibrahim Pacha, better known as Abraham Parker), Mr. Priorson. Moorish Sailors, Attendants on King Ptolemy, &c. How A lmanzor came t* Egypt to be married—the Princess having a decided objec tion to their being " bound in Morocco ;" and how St. George, not having even " dipped" into the question of " lights," runs his steamer on shore, and saves himself on the funnel. Scene 7. GRAND HALL IN TIM PALACE OF PTOLEMY THE FIRST, KING or Eorrx.—The Princess Sabra, Mr. Hance, about to be mar sled to the King of Morocco, but patriotically devoting herself to the digestive organs of the Dragon (a gentleman, whose prodigious allowance of jaw enables him to speak fcr himself), Mr. WiePuid. How this " marriage in high life" is suddenly interrupted by the Dragon, who, not only forbids the banns - ; but elopes with the bride; thereby plunging " her illustrious parents and several families of dis tinction at the west-end of the town into the deepest affliction," &c. (vide Morning Papers). ROYAL PROCLAMATION. " Who'll kill the dragon ? I "Orme he shall gorge ; I, says St. George, I'll kill the dragon."—Old MS. Arming of St. George for the approaching Fight. Latest odds at the " Corner," 1,000 to 0 on the Dragon (taken). " May the best man win." Scene 8. THE DRAGON'S HAUNT IN THE DESOLATE VALLEY. Row the Dragon introduces the Princess Sabra to his " country quarters ;" how St. George follows on horseback (the railroad not being quite finished); how he and the Dragon fall in, and then fall out. The Battle (for particulars of which keep your eyes fixed on Messrs. Payne and Wieland). How the result of the last round not only elevates St. George to the " Crown" of Egypt and the " five shilling pieces" of England, but at the same time introduces the audience to Scone 9. GRAND HALL or CIIIVALRY.—How St. George receives the " Battle Money" (alias the hand of the Princess Sabra). Re appearance of the March of Intellect. Introduction of Old Friends in New Characters. Harlequin.... Mr. Howell, Clown •• • • Mr. T. Matthews. Pantaloon.... • Mr. Priorson. I Columbine Miss Hicks. Scene 10. DEALER IN CURIOSITIES AND IRONMONGER AND CUT- I.ER'S Sum—lmproved Surgical Instruments. "Holding the mirror up to nature." " Families furnished" on a novel principle. A loud Report on the New Houses of Parliament. A fashionable complaint dies to the Clown's head. _ _ Beene 11. CORNCHANDLER'S SHOP AND GRANAIII/.—MOTO ways than one of being "in clover." Specimen of the very best "Britannia metal." Plenty of "game" in high preservation. Cabinet measures and corn measures. A lot of " chaff "in both. Harlequin gives Clown " the sack." Abundant specimens of the New Tariff. Scene 12. SIAMESE VILLAS AND NURSERY GROUND.—" To be let, to gether or separate." Ethiopian Serenaders provided on the shortest notice. " Get out of the way, Old Dan Tucker," and make way for " patent elastic India-rubber boots." Effects of " putting your feet in It." The Spanish marriage horticulturally illustrated. Spanish nut and Orleans plum. " A plague o' both your houses." Scene 13. TINMAN AND TAILOR'S Snors.—The original little Tin Kettle. Water always hot. A grate mistake. " Going out a shoot ng." Grand Experiments in Gun Cotton, ending in an awful Catas trophe. Scene 14. INT - Eaton OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN TOY WAREHOUSE.— TOys for the Million. Magic Cards. How to " cut and shuffle." Jack in the Box and out of it. First-rate teem and turn ont. " See the Conquering Hero comes." Scene 15. THE STATUE AS IT Is; or, Wellington at Hyde-park corner. Scene 16. THE ST►TUE AS IT WAS ; or, Wellington at Waterloo, "Look here upon this picture, and on this." THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET: Under the Nisliagr.m ,, t . of Arr. Tt Webster. cn 1 A T.PSRPD TIIIS EVENING Will be performed the popular Comedy, called MONEY. Lord Cilossmere, Mr. Hell ; Sir John Vesey, Mr. Tilbury ; Sir Frederick Blount, Mr. Brlndall ; 3lr,Benjamin Stoat, Mr, Buckstone; Evelyn, Mr. Stuart; Graves, Mr. Webster; Captain Dudley Smooth, Mr. Hudson ; Lady Franklin, Mrs. Glover; Georgina Vesey, Miss Hor ton ; Clara Douglas, Miss Fortescue. During the evening the Band will perform the Overtures, "La Bityadere," " Italians in Algeria," " Guillaume Tell," and a Po lonaise. _ _ . To conclude with an Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, called the INVISIBLE PRINCE ; or, the Island of Tranquil Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mra,Keeley. Triumphant success of Boz's new Christmas Piece. The new and splendid Pantomime every evening. A great hit. THIS EVENING Will be performed a Drama, founded on the New Christmas Annual of Charles Dickens, Esq., and adapted to the stage (by the exclusive permission of the author, from the proof sheets) by Albert smith, Esq., called THE BATTLE OF LIFE. Principal eha "meters by Messrs. Leigh Murray. Turner, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Meadows, Keeley ; Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Daly, Miss May, Miss Grove, Miss Foster, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by the successful Comedy of TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. In which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will appear. To conclude with a New Comic Pantomime, entitled THE BUT TERFLY'S BALL. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Clown, Mr. J. W. Collier ; Pantaloon, Mr. Clough ; Columbine, Miss 0. Hicks ; Attendant Sprites, Masters. C. and F. Lauri. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. TINDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Drama, called CO 10MBA, THE CORSICAN SISTER. Characters supported by ladame Celeste, Mrs. Yates ; Messrs. Wright, Worrell, Bedford, O. Smith, kc. Between the pieces the celebrated ENTORTILATIONISTS, Mr. John Lees and his three Pupils—the Masters Hanlons, will ex hibit their wonderful Jeux Gymnastiques. After which a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, 11r. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford,Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. 31. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Musical Romance, entitled THE SEVEN MAIDS OF MUNICH ; or, The Ghost's Tower. Col. Bertrand, Mr. C. Fisher ; Capt. d'Armincourt, Mr. Allen ; Capt. Bellejambe, Mr. Leffler ; Lieut. Adolphe, Mr. Wynn ; Cornet Groodos, Mr. Compton; Baron Bristlebach, Mr. Walton; Bumps, Mr, Honner ; Seven Maids of Munich, Misses Sara Flower, Rourke, E. Honer, Flincks, Millar, L. Marshall, Laporte ; Uriel, Miss Marshall ; Madame Groutz, Mrs. Fosbroke. After which a new Farce, entitled SCHOOLBOY FROLICS. Sir Gabriel Gabbleton, Mr. Granby ; Captain Masterton, Mr. Vining ; Albert, Miss Marshall ; John Wildgoose, Mr. Cowell ; Clara Montresor, Mrs. Hughes ; Matilda, Miss E. IL.,nner ; Mary Wildgoose, Miss Somers. In the course of the evening Professor HEMMING and his ta lented CHILDREN will go through their wonderful performances. Previous to the Pantomime the Band will perform " The Ame rican Polka," introducing " The Railroad Overture." To conclude with a new Grand Comic Chrstmas Pantomime, enti tled The ENCHANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE ; or, The One-eyed Geni. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr Paulo ; Columbine, Miss Burbidge ; Sprite, Mr. H. Marshall Clown, Mr. Flexmore. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. On MONDAY EVENING Will be performed LA MARE A.INE. M. de Jordy, lif, Mas guiltier ; Edouard, M. Berou ; Madame de -Neils, Mdlle. Vallee ; Cecile, Mdlle. Leyder. After which, the popular Drama of L'AUBERGE DES ADRETS. Robert Macalre, Mona. F. Lemaitre ; who will, during the Piece, dance "La - Valse de Faust." Boxes, Gs., Pit, as. hd. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATPE The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell' of flarr b ingt . on, White, Stanwood , an d Gormon, wil l have the honou r th e ir Inimitable ENTERTAINMENT at the above rTpheatitreng, Trils EVENING, and on Tu e s da y n e x t. Doors open at Eight o'clock, aid the Performance commences at half-past Eight ' • and will (by desire) give a Gran d Juvenile Performance on wedn"- ellay Morning next, Jan. 20. Doors open at Two o'clock. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 24.; Amphitheatre, 2s. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may he engaged at Mitchell's Ilbyal Library, 33, Old Bond-street; at all the principal Libraries an d Music-sellers ; and at the Box-office. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Tither/ISO by her Most Gracious Majesty the Q ueen, Albert, Prince of Wales, and Royal Family. Triumph Prince Triumphant suc cess of the Christmas Novelties. Upwards of 30,000 persons have witnessed the new Grand Comic Pantomime, pronounced to be nitequalled for magnificence and mechanical effects. The Boxes are nightly tilled by brilliant assemblages of rank, and honoured by the presence or Prince George of Cambridge, Earl of Strathmore, Lady Crewe, and a host of fashionables. TIIIS EVENING Will he performed a Brand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en titled TILE DEMON MORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Elt. To be followed by Batty's SCENES of the CIRCLE ; with the Performances of Laureatz Wain', the great Belgian horseman. fquestrianlairy Pantomime, To conicllitioderwoißttiTytheTsuirmessvfuEslC;otoriri,e Harlequin and Ali Baba and e Clown, r. Co ; iarlequin, Mr. W. Bar entitled Pantaloon, Mr. a arini ; o umbine, Miss L the Robber's Cav . L ff CI Louisa Waite. w a y ; ROYAL SURREY THE;;itv ',wee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. -D TIIIS EVENING b e performed an orig inal Drama, entitled The hTellE charactersll.i OF 111W IDS— GAME, LIFE, STAKES, DEA will ba ,upported by the whole of the talented Company. titer wkich, Moncrioirs Farce, called TOBIT'S DOG. Lord Roc 'hosier, Mr. Johnson ; Master Smith, Mr. Tindell ; Jacob Whit 'sing ton, Mr. Webb ; Jerrnyn, Mr. Lewis ; .Nym, Mr. Hawkins ; Lady Diar rat Clarges, Mrs. Saville ; Alice, Miss Terrey. To •conclude with a grand fairy Pantomime, called THE KING OF '1 'HE CASTLE ; or, Harlequin in the Land of Dreams. Har lequin Herr Denlin: Pantaloon, Herr R. Deulin ; Columbine, 3ldlle. Theod• Pre; Clown, Herr N. Deulin ; Punch, Herr E. Deulin. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Boxes,. • .13., Half-price, 6d. ; l'it, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d.—" The Black Doc tor" received by crowded audiences with thunders of applause, tear s, anal enthusiastic cheering; and the great " Go-a-Head Pan tom) tim e pronounced, by unanimous opinion and the public press, preduction of the seasoe. THIS EVENING - tv i l i be per formed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss Vin mu, 4 M. o. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, and M essrs . N. T. Hicks, Bow. rd, Bird, Searle, Forman, &c., will perform. Afi* r wiaieh will be produced a grand Christmas Pantomime, en %tied Tuo BIRTH OF THE STEAM ENGINE ; or, Harlequin gfid,"_aud tT9r mid hia Dien, Clown, Air. T. Derry, This Day, In foolscap /Ivo, price 6s. THE BATTLE OF NIBLEY GREEN : from the MSS. of A TEMPLAR ; with a PREFACE, NOTES, and OTHER POEMS; by J. B. KINGTON. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. 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Summonses were issued yesterday from the Foreign-office to the Cabinet Ministers to attend a Cabinet Council, appointed to be held at three o'clock this afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The whole of the Ministers were expected to attend. PRIVY COUNCIL. On Monday next her MAJESTY will hold a Privy Council, for the purpose of settling the Royal Speech on opening the session of Parliament on the following clay. The summonses for this Council were issued to-day. The great meeting of the nobility, gentry, and landed proprietors of Ireland, which took place on Thursday last, must awaken the most lively feelings of pleasure and gratification in the mind of every one desirous of the well-being and prosperity of the sister kingdom. The monster grievance of Ireland the mutual distrust and jealousy that has so long unhappily prevailed amongst her children—was for once completely vanquished. No trace of its existence could be discovered; persons of all shades and varieties of political feeling, of all creeds and parties, were to be seen cooperating together, and carrying on their proceedings in the most harmonious manner, goodwill and fellow ship prevailed on every side, former animosities were forgotten, feuds were reconciled, and the only Contest appeared to be which could labour most zealously in behalf of Irc - land. As the Noble Chairman truly said, " they were assembled together as Irishmen, on Irish grounds, for Irish objects; their sole object was the good cf their common country, and the hatchet of political animosity was buried for that day at least." Let us hope that it may never again be raised from the tomb to which it has been so consigned, but that henceforth the calmut of peace may occupy its place, and that there may be an end of "Civil dissension, with its viperous tooth, That gnaws the bowels of the common wealth." The most gratifying part of the proceedings was the perfect unanimity that prevailed. No word was uttered, no sentiment expressed that could have given offence to the most fastidious ; the mere sugges tion that the pressing any point might, by a possi bility, occasion a difference of opinion, was sufficient to ensure its immediate withdrawal. Every one of the resolutions submitted to the meeting were unanimously carried, and the assembly separated, having passed all the resolutions prepared for adop tion by the committee. The exclusion of the 'press, on which we have already commented, was most properly abandoned, and the sanction of the meeting was given to the full publication of the proceedings. This is as it ought to be—a good cause should never seek conceal ment, should never shun the light. If the resolutions are good in themselves they will bear the freest dis cussion, the most rigid investigation. Any restric tion on the press carries with it prima facie evidence of something wrong or defective in that which is sought to be suppressed. We are happy to find that the committee discovered their error in good time, and that they candidly acknowledged it, and acted in obedience to their better judgment. It is a good thing when public men are thus ready to retrace their footsteps, when convinced of the propriety of doing so; it affords a propitious augury that they will be open to reason and argument, and will not adhere with blind obstinacy to any hastily conceived opinions. The first resolution proposed was that last adopted by the committee. It was in support of the formation of an Irish party, and contained a strong appeal to the representatives of the coun try to co-operate together cordially in Parlia ment, and to unite in advocating such measures as may appear calculated to raise the social, material, ' and moral condition of the people, to save society from the ruin by which all classes in the land are now threatened, and to pre serve the property of the country from confis cation : this was proposed by Mr. GEORGE ALEX. HAMILTON and seconded by Mr. O'CoNNELL, in short and pithy speeches, indeed there were no long-winded orations indulged in during the day. The speakers seemed to have adopted for their motto, " Acta non verbs," and thus exhibited a stronger proof of the sin cerity of their determination. It was on this resolution that the only cloud that appeared to threaten the harmony of the day appeared. Mr. OSBORNE, we think very injudiciously, asked whether the Irish party would pledge itself to oppose the Government if it refused to adopt some practical measure for the relief of the people. He, however, immediately withdrew the question on its impropriety being pointed out by Mr. MOUNSELL. Mr. OSBORNE is an Englishman, representing an English con stituency, so that the indiscretion did not pro ceed from any Irishman. It is, however, but justice to Mr. OSBORNE to say that he has fully and entrely identified himself with the country of his adoption, and in which he is now the proprietor of extensive estates, and that none of her children can be more devoted to her interests, more anxious for her welfare, or desirous of her prosperity, than he has shown himself to be. He has laboured indefati ga bly f or th e f orma ti on o f an Irish party, and he has seen the call re sponded to in amanner mo t s h t at sa c n ou g l u d in s e c . arce A ly lre h a a d v y e been hoped for by the nearly 80 Peers, and representatives of the people have enrolled themselves, have acknowledged their former errors, and pledged themselves to mutual o concessions and to unity of actio n , so far as the affairs of Ireland are concerned. It is im possible to overrate the advantages of such a combination, if judiciously pursued, and if there is B 9 attempt to carry it to extraordinary lengths, and to meddle with that which does not con cern it. Mr. OSBORNE'S suggestion, if adopted, would at once have taken away the efficiency of such a body, have marred their exertions, and have given origin to counter-associations. They should elevate Ireland to a full and perfect equality with England in every respect ; but they should seek no further, nor should they attempt to carry by their union any questions not relating to their country exclusively. The resolutions relating to temporary measures for the immediate wants and exigencies of the country were then proposed and carried unanimously in four separate resolutions. A suggestion was made by Mr. OSBORNE, in which we heartily concur, that it would not be right to ask the Government for seed, but that every landed proprietor should provide seeds for his own tenantry. This is certainly the most manly and straightforward way of meeting the difficulty. The permanent measures were then put and also carried, and we think the committee appear to have exercised good discretion, as well in the points selected as in those left untouched. We think they are better chosen than the temporary measures, and less objec tionable. Some of the questions are certainly of a doubtful character, but to the majority we give our adhesion. We are unable to advert to them snore fully this day, but shall probably examine ere long the several propositions in detail, and see how far they are calculated to attain the desired objects—to pro mote the prosperity of their country, to direct its surplus labour into beneficial channels, to develop its capabilities, and lay open its bidden stores. We trust they may do so. We can, however, have no fear for a country whose inhabitants appear to be animated with such a spirit as that which was universal on Thursday ; and we must again congratulate our sister kingdom on the result of that day's pro ceedings. With a few amongst the representatives of the people in the House of Commons it is the habit to correspond periodically with their individual consti tuencies—the correspondence not being, however, through the formality of epistle, but verbal, and even conversational. By these annual understandings be tween the Members and their electors the agitation for triennial Parliaments is so far rendered super fluous : the law with those constituencies does not ne cessitate the septennial nomination of a representative, the duration of Parliament with them is virtually restricted to twelvemonths. We honour this volun tary compact; it breathes the very spirit of independ ence, it is tantamount to rendering boroughmongering an impossibility. Whenever any political change, whether trivial or extraordinary, takes place in the opinion of a Member accustomed to these timely tri bunals, he can make a clean breast of it to the men who nominated him to his seat in the Legislative Chamber at Westminster. A common understand ing is preserved between the electors and their repre sentatives at St. Stephen's; amidst all the vicissi tudes and fluctuations of political belief their views are perpetually balanced; between them there can be no appreciable discrepancy. One of these Members is the Hon. Representative of Sheffield, the Secretary of the Admiralty. Vacation after vacation finds Mr. WARD in the Cutlers Hall at Sheffield, " balancing accounts" with its citizens. Hitherto the Hon. Gentleman has been enabled to enter fully and minutely into a consideration of every topic to which the popular attention was in any manner directed. Hitherto he has found himself at liberty to discuss the merits of the various questions submitted to the consideration of the Legislature, and even solicitous to explain his views upon those questions in the plainest language possible. On Thursday evening Mr. Wean again appeared before his constituency, but for the first time, since his election by that borough, the Hon. Member touched, with a delicacy that savoured almost of timidity, upon the different points of social reform requiring the aid and supervision of the Ministry. The reason for that deli- cacy was obvious—it was more than obvious, it was natural and honourable. Since the period of his last public interview with his constituency, Mr. WARD had accepted office, and hence, from his position, was incapacitated from entering, as heretofore, into the very pith and core of those matters, the examination of whi,b, In a positive light, by one so situated, would render him liable to compromise the character and disposition of the Cabinet. Nevertheless, while morally shackled by his official engagements, Mr. WARD was enabled with some adroitness to satisfy the curiosity of his au ditors upon many themes of the highest importance and of the most immediate interest. His adroitness in this respect almost amounts to diplomatic subtlety. Without in any degree anticipating the disclosures of the approaching session, the Hon. Member still sur veyed what is expressively termed the political horizon; he indicated the broad course of liberalism, which the present Administration was prepared to follow, and enforced by his individual assurances the engage ments already made by the Prime Minister in the Guildhall of London. On this account, therefore, the observations delivered by Mr. WARD, on Thursday evening, are peculiarly entitled to attention and consideration. His address, which is printed in another column, while it is the least explicit ever addressed by himself to the electors of Sheffield, is unquestionably the most satisfactory. While it evinces a disinclination on the part of Mr. WARD to avow his anxiety for particular measures upon particular subjects, it is at the same moment most propitious, from its being composed of generous and propitious generalities. It is unnecessary to remark that the Hon. Member for Sheffield was welcomed by his constituency with that cordiality which his independent and inflexible conduct as a reformer has so fully merited for him since his entrance into the Imperial Parliament. Seeing that a merely garbled statement of the correspondence (touching the Montpensier marriage) between the several Ministers, Ambassadors, and Charges d'Affaires of England and France, has yet been officially published, we protest emphatically against the premature deduction of inferences there from prejudicial to the character of the Noble Lord at the head of the Foreign-office. It is neither con sistent with the generosity of honest journalism nor with the love of candour inherent in the popular mind, that the special pleading of a Cabinet so notorious for its duplicity as is the Cabinet of the Tuileries should be received as conclusive, and satis factory evidence against the rectitude of an ex perienced and honourable statesman like Lord PAL MERSTON. What, indeed, can be more derogatory to the judgment of any individual or of any newspaper than that pliability of opinion which can adapt itself with readiness to the assertions uttered by any conti- nental Government, however notorious. its dissimula. Lon, or however flagrant its chicaneries ? Since the nuptials of her Catholic MAJESTY and the INFANTA were celebrated by the Archiepiscopal dignitary o Madrid, the documents preliminary to that ceremony have remained under corer of the Ministerial portfolios, and the decision of the public, a s to the precaution or want of precaution evinced by Lord PALMERSTON in this complicated transaction, has been hitherto necessarily suspended. Upon the assembling of the Peers and Deputies in Paris, M. GuizoT, without any unnecessary procras tination, submitted that correspondence, or as much of it as suited his purpose, to the inspection and deci sion of the latter. From the circumstance, of the Parliamentary session in France preceding the Par liamentary session in England by several days, a very appreciable advantage has been afforded to the Cabinet of the Tuileries over the Cabinet of St. James's. M. GUIZOT and his colleagues have thereby obtained a priority of explanation. Without the risk of any im mediate contradiction, they have been enabled to pre judice the more credulous members of the communi ties in both countries by wilful mis-statements and plausible prevarications. If it were merely for this particular reason, it behoves every lover of justice and plain dealing to delay the utterance of his opinion until the opposite sides had delivered in its counter statements. There is an old English proverb—a golden proverb—familiar in the nurseries of Young England—but which appears to be altogether for gotten at this moment—" Fair play's a jewel." Let us, in the name of Common Decency, modulate our judgment in accordance with the principle contained in that fragment of the wisdom and probity of our ancestors; let us still further suspend our decision in r ;h e r n r e d g t o o tia te u h on c o o f nd th uc e t r o o f ya L l o m rd arr P ia A g L e M s E o ß f ST th ON e rdeunriniz,g: sula until the Noble Lord has submitted his version of those transactions to the deliberation of the Imperial Parliament, and to the scrutiny of the sovereign people. Otherwise we should be abusing our power as organs of that popular mind which should be as impartial as the Goddess with the sword, the bandage, and the scales. It would be no difficult undertaking to demonstrate the duplicity of the Guizot Administration from the very defence laid by them upon the tables of the legislative Chambers. There is such a multiplicity of malicious misconstructions interpolated in that defence !—here a voluntary misapprehension of the meaning of Lord PALMERSTON, here a positive hiatus in his dispatches, here, again, a discourteous distortion of the sentences contained therein. By taking the papers grouped together by M. GIJIZOT, piecemeal, paragraph by paragraph, sentence by sentence, and syllable by syllable, it were easy, in the fullest signi fication of that adjective, to show the utter absence of all honourable speaking on the part of the French Government. Begun with a shameless trick at the Chateau d'Eu, pursued with official falsities in the subsequent communications across the Channel, or beyond the Pyrenees, and consummated with a per fidious surprise in the Palace Chambers of Madrid, the Montpensier marriage is now defended upon a principle in accordance with the duplicity in which it was conceived. It is superfluous, however, to enter wearily into an exposition of the fraudulent behaviour of the Parisian Ministers throughout the whole affair, and more especially of the meanness of the pleas upon which they are now endeavouring to palliate their conduct to the Govern ment of Albion. Within a few days, we might almost say within a few hours, the documents pro duced in Parliament by her MAJESTY'S Minister for Foreign Affairs will accomplish that task, and any detailed anticipation of those documents is conse quently altogether needless and superfluous. We cannot, however, pass over one of the many preposterous insinuations made as to Lord PALMERS TON'S inefficiency in not preventing the Mont pensier alliance, without one sentence of com mentary. We cannot allow an insinuation so mon strously opposed to truth to go forth without uttering one word of indignant contradiction. Much stress has been laid upon the sentiments expressed by the late Minister for Foreign Affairs, under the Administration of Sir ROBERT PEEL, in his communications to the Due BE SOTOMAYOR, concerning the marriage of the Princesses of the Peninsula. An invidious distinction has been attempted to be drawn between the course pursued by Lord ABERDEEN and Lord PALMERSTON in this matter, when, in reality, there has been no re cognisable difference whatever between the course pursued by either, when, indeed, their policy, in re gard to Spain, has been almost identical! What Lord ABERDEEN wrote to the Dec DE SOTOMAT OR, Lord PALMERSTON subsequently wrote to the representative of his SOVEREIGN in Iberia. There was not a tardiness in regard to Spanish affairs on the part of Lord PALMERSTON, as has been disingenuously insinuated; -nor was there any reluctance in Lord PALMERSTON to cope with the subtle and wily diplomatists of the Continent. Both these facts are notorious to every one acquainted with the circumstances antecedent to the Peninsular nuptials. Scarcely had the Noble Lord taken office, in the middle of 1846, when he cordially upheld the policy hitherto pursued by his predecessors, and in black and white committed himself to the prosecution of the plans already mapped out by Lord ABERDEEN. Remembering these things, bearing in recollection the prejudiced aspect afforded to the transaction by the papers submitted to the French Chambers, know ing that within scarcely half a dozen days the coun ter-statement of Lord PALMERSTON will be laid before Parliament, and impressed with the considera tion that judgment should never be pronounced until both parties have been heard, we again protest dis tinctly and emphatically against the prejudging of Lord PALMERSTON upon this delicate and important matter. On the 22d of last month it became our painful duty to offer some very severe strictures upon the unfor tunate loss of judgment and temper evinced by the Lord Chief Baron, in the Court of Exchequer, in the case of GoLnyryyTT 9/ - BRACT", Mr. COOTCPTTYLN in consequence of his having been told by the Judge, Sir FREDERICK PoLLocx, in the presence of the jury who were to try the cause, that the mode in which he meant to conduct his client's defence " was little short of insanity," and in conse quence of his having failed the next morning to in duce the Judge to postpone the trial, on the ground that such an impression militated thej against ury t c h o e uld en n d o s t ofbut ju b s e tic th e, ere t b h y atthemisof prejudiced—im mediately retired from the Court, the cause was tried as an undefended one,that u and the jury gave heavier damages, by 1001 ., than had been ob tained upon the first trial. Under ejusticen s r theseeul o g i ze athd a mtt the easc miscarried c r aeo c rnu u r irmbes by the h 0 Chiefug h a e d 13t ed b 3• B''- s t an ces, we thought it our dut y to Baron. We counsel,ouNsv efrel and error ot r to into which one of the highest functionarie s had unguardedly fallen; that, f or the mutual honou r of the Bench and the Bar (which have deservedly mer ited such high repute in this country), as wel l for th e sake of the people to whom the imparti al admin istration of justice is of vital importance, thi s matter could not be suffered to drop; and we adde d, that " i t was almost impossible to surmise whether a g reater legal' indiscretion had ever been manifeste d on the be nch." On Thursday Mr . COCKBUR N moved for a new trial a t on the strength of the circumstances above narrated. All the Barons concurred in the propriety of granting the application, and Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK, at the close of the deliberation, observed :—" I may say un feignedly that I willingly assent to any course which will best tend to justice in this case, and I am far from thinking that where the judge has committed an indiscretion the defendant is to be debarred of his rights." This is a candid admission, and highly honourable to the Chief Baron. We only wish he had begun and ended with what we have just quoted. He would then have saved himself from palpable con tradictions, and from a sharp stroke of wit adminis tered by Mr. CoexnunN• SIT FREDERICK POLLOCK, it seems, could not rest satisfied with his own con fession of error, but intimated that the judicial in discretion had been followed by another on the part of the Learned Counsel for the defendant." Mr. COCKBURN at once aptly rejoined—" If, my Lord, I committed an indiscretion, I can only plead that I was accessory to a principal." This smart sally con siderably excited the risible faculties of the audience. We were fully prepared for a slight exhibition on the bench of an esprit du corps, to soften the features of the mishap of their venerable compeer. There is an old saying, " the least said the soonest mended," which the judges would have done well to have borne in mind. The Barons PARKE and AL DERSON were not very felicitous in their remarks. Baron PLATT alone best represented the character of an English judge on this occasion, who said, with great nobility of mind, when the counsel admitted the application he urged was without precedent—" If it be necessary to make a precedent in order to ad minister justice, a precedent ought to be made." Mr. Baron PARKE, it would appear, thought it highly nconvenient to take away from the judge the dis cretion of expressing his feelings during the progress of a cause. Mr. COCKBURN well reminded him that it was of graver importance, that a judge should not be allowed to prejudice any case. It surprises us, that a judge of the extraordinary abilities which Mr. Baron PARKE possesses (and who, if judicial talents alone —which unfortunately they do not—de termined the appointments to the chief seats of jus tice, should long ago have been Chief Baron) should imagine, that the precedent which, in this case, has been most properly established, can have the effect of depriving the judges of offering discreet remarks during a trial. We admit it to be desirable that the judge should be suffered to exercise a discretion, but then it must be couched in measured terms. The value of the precedent now set on foot will consist in this, that h erea f ter no judge will presume to insinuate to a counsel, and particularly in the presence of the jury, that he has advised, and is acting, like a madman, or little short of one. But we protest, broadly and generally, against any judge making any remarks (especially in the outset of a trial), however measured may be his language, upon the line of defence proposed to be followed by counsel. such a course cannot be taken without a ten- dency more or less calculated to compromise the spirit of impartiality in which justice should be most jealously administered. The judge who lends him self to such a practice immediately drops the ermine, and sinks into the advocate. Not the least detracting circumstance, in the case under considera tion, from the confidence which some people might place in Sir. F. POLLOCK ' S judgment, is, that he had a whole night to reflect over the language he had used, and yet the next morning insisted that the trial should be proceeded with. Again, on Thursday last, the Lord Chief Baron stated that " what he said was said only to the counsel, and could only be under stood by a member of the bar, and could not have the least effect upon the minds of the jury.' But, at the ,time when Mr. COCKBURN pressed to have the trial put off, Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK attacked him for so far underrating the intelligence of a London jury as to suppose they would be prejudiced by the expressions he (Sir F. PoLLocx) had used. This is a palpable contra diction. In December, he upholds the intelligence of a jury, when it was clear they understood what passed between the bench and the bar, for the fore man spoke out very warmly upon the subject ; in January, the Chief Baron represents the jury could have no such intelligence. We regret to be compelled to make these comments. For Sir F. POLLOCK indi vidually we entertain a very great respect; but our personal feelings are altogether merged in the vene ration we feel for the high office he holds, the love of justice, and the good of the nation. Intelligence has been received from Friburg to the 10th. The Grand Council has conferred full powers on the Council of State, authorising it to adopt all necessary measures for the suppression of the insur rection. M. FRJELICHER, ex-Attorney-General of the canton, and Dr. SCHALLER, a son of the late Avoyer, are among the persons who have been ar rested. Fifteen prisoners taken at Morut have been brought in chains to Friburg. Colonel COURANT, of the Neufchatel militia, who was formerly an officer in the English army, is one of these unfortunates. Madrid papers of the Bth have arrived. The Gavela publishes a decree appropriating 30,000 reals to the construction and repair of public roads. The Herald° notices, without contradicting it, a rumour of an approaching change in the Ministry, and adds, that the change will not take place until the Cabinet'Rhall have presented its measures to the Cortes. Senor CORTINA has arrived in Madrid, and taken his seat as a member of the Chamber. Senor OLOZAGA arrived at Pampeluna on the 3d, but, ac cording to the Clamor Public°, " in such a state of health that it was considered necessary to call in a physician, who declared that it would be dangerous to confine him in the citadel ; but, notwithstanding this opinion, a room was being prepared in the citadel for his reception. The Tiempo states that General PAvrA has been appointed to supersede General VILLALONGA as Go vernor of Gallicia. The Foment() of Barcelona announces that the Junta of Direction of the Mataro Railroad had contracted with Messrs. MACKENZIE and BRASSIE for the con struction of the line for 120,0001. MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 7.—The Three per Cents. were done at 321 for cash; the Five per Cents. at 20 ; the Coupons at 181-; the Vales at 88; and the Debt without Interest at 61. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The Debats has a long article laudatory of the con duct of M. GUIZOT in the affair of the Spanish mar riages. It is merely a rpfaciamento of M. GUIZOT'S voluminous note, mingled with much bitter personal vituperation of Lord PALMERSTON. The Epoque has an article which is the echo of that in the Daats, and the Presse is equally exaggerated in its praises of M. GUIZOT, and excessively violent in its abuse of England. The National is of course delighted at the quarrel, which by its sarcasms—and certainly some of them are most telling—it endeavours by every means in its power to aggravate. The National says— "We have read with great attention the diplomatic documents laid before the Chambers by M. Guizot. They are very far from being complete, and although they may suffice at a pinch to enable one to form a judgment on the conduct of the Cabinet, we think it our duty to reserve our opinion until we have before us the publica tions which, on his slap, Lord Palmerston will make known. Another reason, which imposes on us this re `serve, is, that the second note of the English Minister is not a discussion against M. Guizot, but rather against the King. Lord Palmerston imagined, in his profound ignorance, that M. Guizot had been only a cleric, and he treats him somewhat as such ; it is no longer against the Cabinet, but against the Court, that he inveighs— an unworthy profanation, which the French Minister repels with a certain pride. But the refutation involves the accusation, and as Lord Palmerston inhabits a con stitutional country, as he ought to b e aware to w h at a point inviolability is a principle full of modesty, we do not understand how he has thus brought forward the King's person, the King's will, and the King's engage ments. It appears to us very necessary that Lori Palmerston should explain what had urged him into so wicked a mode of argument, and his official communications will perhaps state it. What we have sought in vain in the papers presented by M. Guizot on the affairs of Spain, is a reason of any kind for the marriage of the Infanta with the Duke de Montpensier. There really is not one. To accept, without doubt, in all its extent the resolution of M. Guizot for the Queen's marriage, to approve highly of the policy meant to prevent England from obtaining success for the Coburg, nothing could be better. But to conclude from thence that it was absolutely necessary to unite the son of Louis Philippe to his cousin, that the solu tion was pressing and indispensable; and there was no other possible and better, even in the point of view of M. Guizot—there is not a word or motive in any dis patch to justify this pretension. And is it not evident how much stronger would the French Government have been to reject the Coburg , if the Court of the Tuileries had been as disinterestedfor the hand of the Infanta as for that of the Queen ? The more the dispatches are read, the more it will be seen that they do not contain a single reason justifying the marriage that has been con cluded." The National, however, offers M. GuizoT its assist ance, on condition of his adopting the Bonapartist policy of aggrandisement and conquest:— "Is ili. Guizot firmly resolved to pursue, without wavering, the policy which would ensure the preponder ance of France in the Mediterranean ? Let him say so, and above all, let his acts respond to his sayings. Let him announce to the Chambers and to Europe that the time has come to turn the Mediterranean into a French lake, let him combat with energy the influence of Eng land whenever she impedes our action, and we shall for get both the family intrigues, and the fault committed. lie will himself feel that, for nations as for individuals, friendship is given in exchange for services rendered, for mutual respect, and tried devotedness. He will seek in Spain not what passes away, but what lasts—the true interests of the people, its desires, its wants of liberty, good administration, regular progress ; he will know how to cultivate and find public approbation I This is the capital point which, in our opinion, ought to prevail in the Spanish question ; and if SI. Guizot pla ces himself at that height, ho may allow all those who desire to re-establish the English alliance, at the cost of the eternal interests of our country, to agitate themselves at his feet." We give the National credit for its honesty and boldness. It would obtain openly and by force what M. GVIZOT seeks to obtain covertly and by intrigue. That all future attempts at converting the Mediterranean into a French lake will fail, as all former attempts to do so have failed, there cannot be a doubt ; and if, as the National desires, the cause of progress in Spain be not impeded by French intrigue, the chances of turning the Mediterranean into a French lake will be more remote than ever. At the same time, it is well to have this avowal openly made, an avowal which is a most triumphant justification of the policy of Lord PALMERSTON ; and which is alone sufficient to demonstrate to any unprejudiced mind the utter impossibility of ever renewing the entente cordiale —an understanding, the essence of which consisted in sacrificing every where English interests to the personal interests of the KING of the FRENCH and his Minister. The Constitutionnel thus points out an unworthy piece of diplomatic trickery practised by M. GVIZOT in the publication of these dispatches : " It will be seen, in perusing the documents published by the Ministry, that M. Guizot founds nearly all his arguments on a certain dispatch, addressed by Lord Pamerston to Mr. Bulwer, dated the 19 th of July, 1846. The Ministers for Foreign Affairs of England and France aro at variance respecting the actual character and meaning of that dispatch. One affirms that it had for its object to recommend the Prince rin e c t e he o r f Saxe-Coburg us the English candidate, whilst t maintains that it contained, with re g ard to that candi dature, the meta mention of a lion en ;and that, on the f nr contrary, a preference fol. Prince part of the British Cabinet, was clearly Eique manifested'on the by the recal of the instructions previously given to Mr. Bulwer by Lord Aberdeen. Now, M. Guizot, instead of publishing i that dispatch in full, only extracted two sen tences from it. The Chambers will, no doubt, desi re a more compete communication of that document, and will not wait the, determination of the British Government itself in that respect." In relation to the Cracow papers, the Constitu tionnel says— 6s A s respects the documents, relative to Cracow, we will confine ourselves to observe that no dispatch is to be found among them between the dt;t:': of the 3d of April and the 6th of November. It was precisely in that interval that the German journals revealed, with so singular a unanimity, the d&iberation of the Three Powers in respect of the annexation of Cracow. This complete absence of dispatches during the months of July, August. September, and October, confirms us in our opinion, that either M. Guizot connived at the mea sure, or that he was guilty of the strangest improvidence. We will, moreover, ask, why the reply of Prince Met ternich to the protest of M. Guizot, which was commu nicated to the latter on Monday last, does not figure among the documents?" The schism between M. TITTERS and the BILLAULT and DUFAURE section of the Opposition is now avowed. The Courrier Francais says— " A numerous meoting of the Opposition Deputies took place on Tuesday evening at the residence of M. Billault; the schism which had been talked of so much for some days previously was the subject of a long and serious converation, and we may say that, from this moment, it is a _fait accompli. MM. Billault and Dufaure laid before their colleagues all the points of their political programme. All the questions, either of home or foreign policy, have been clearly and explicitly treated on by the two orators, and they have both manifested their formal intention to have done with the petty Parliamentary strategy, the war of inn igue in which the constitutional Opposition has weakened itself, and lost its consequence in the suite of M. Thiers. The explanations of MM. Billault and Dufaure obtained the complete approval of the meeting. The two Hon. Deputies had not to form the conviction of the conscientious and sincere men be fore whom they expressed their intentions and their principles ; that conviction had been long before ac quired, but they decided on manifesting it openly, and it may now be said that the new Opposition, which has nothing in commovvith M. Thiers, is fully constituted. The meeting, whirl had its first sitting on Tuesday, will henceforth regularly assemble at the residence of M. Billault; the second conferenoe has been fixed to take place immediately after the discussion on the Address in the Chamber of Peers." The Standing Committees of the Chamber met on Thursday, to elect the Members to draw up an address in answer to the KING'S Speech. Eight Com missioners had been chosen—viz., Messrs. d'llausson ville, Muret de Bord, de Bussieres, Sannac, de Came, Vitet, Peyramont, and Desmousseaux de Givre—who had all expressed their approbation of the conduct of the Ministers in the affair of the Spanish marriage, and also in respect to Cracow. The leaders of the different political sections of the Chamber all took part in the discussions, with the exception of M. TUTERS and his friends. The Chamber of Peers has appointed Count MoI.E as president and M. BARTHE as reporter of the Commission of the Chamber of Peers appointed to draw up the address in answer to the speech. " The new dispatch from Lord PALMERSTON," says the Presse, which the Marquis of NOBMANBY read on Tuesday to M. GUIZOT, is not more concise than his two former dispatches of 22d September and 31st October last, nor is it . more peremptory. It is said to repeat the same arguments, the same facts, the same complaints, under a different form. Faithful to his system of publicity without restricti m, M. Guizoz will assuredly distribute copies of this new document to the members of the Chambers, with the answer of Prince METTERNICH to the dispatch of De cember 3. This answer, while maintaining the divergence of opinion existing between the three Northern Courts and the Court of France as to the interpretation of the treaties, so far as they relate to the independence of Cracow, ex presses a hope that this difference in interpretation will not cause any change in anterior relations. It concludes with a protestation in favour of the respect due to treaties." The Commerce says " The'Council of the Bank of France has determined on raising its rate of dis count to 5 per cent. Some members of the Court consider that this me asure wculd not be sufficient to bring back specie into the coffers of the Bank, and proposed to limit the length of date of bills admissi ble for discount to sixty days ; this latter measure has, however, been reserved for more difficult con junctures. Since the month of December the cash in the Bank has still further decreased; it is now, it is said, no more than fifty-seven millions." The ex-President of the Republic of Bolivia, General SANTA CRUZ, has arrived in Paris. The price of corn still continues to rise through out France, and although the bread riots at Rennes have been suppressed, yet it required the presence of a large military force to re-establish tranquillity, and the riot was not suppressed without bloodshed. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at 79f. 35c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 80c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2371. 50c. ; Rouen, 888 f. 75c. , Havre, 6821.50 c. ; Great Northern, 6281. 75c; Avignon, 8521. 50c. ; Vierzon, 585 f. ; Bordeaux, 552 f. 50c. ; Troyes and Mon tereau, 3401. • Basle, 216 f. • Paris and Strasburg, 4771. 50c. ; Tours and :Nantes, 4801:•, Paris and Lyons, 503 f. 75c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 487 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 450 f. ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 30k. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 15. Boulogne and Amiens, 14%—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 12 1 / 2 —Dutch Rhenish, 5 3 / 4 —Luxembourg, 2%—Namur and Liege, 3 1 4—Northern of France, 12 ex d.— Orleans and Bordeaux, 7 1 / 2 ex d.—Paris and Lyons, 7A — Rouen and Havre, 264—Sambre and Meuse, 41/2. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. THE DERBY.—Iu our Tattersall's report in yesterday's paper, we alluded to a report, that Christopher was likely to go into Chifney's stable. We have since heard from good authority, that he has been sold to Mr. Seymour Conway, for the sum of 1,500 guineas, and that he will remain in Mr. Scott's stable. The stallion, Erymers, died at Moulton Paddocks, near Newmarket, on the 9th inst. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BATH. STEEPLE CHASES.--FnrDAT. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, and 50 added. Four mires. Mr. J. Barrow's Carlow (olliver) Mr. Morgan's Compton Mr. Bennett's Mr. Simmonds Mr. Price nd Tavistock Several others ran. Won easy by three lengths. The second race was won by Mr. Oakey's Emperor. The Burton Constable Steeple Chase, on Friday, for 401., was won by Mr. G. Wray's grey horse, aged (Mr. John Lamplugh), beating three others easily. MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY. Not a bet made to-day. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Mr. Horndon's hds., Mon., Callington Muirside ; Thurs., Chapman's Well-10 . Brighton hrrs., Mon., Patcham ; Wed., Racecourse; Fri., Dyke—i to 11. Brookside hrrs., Mon., Newmarket Hill; Thurs., Tels combe-tye-101/2. Findon hds., Mon., Parham Park ; Wed., Washington Common ; Sat., Saddlescomb-11. Crawley and Horsham hds., Mon., the Star, Horsham Com mon ; Wed., Monk's Gate ; Fri., Belcombe Village. Eastbourne hrrs., Mon., Lighthouse, East Dean; Thurs., Snap Hill; Sat., Willingdon Old Mill—% to 11. Glyndbourne hrrs., Mon , Short &irate (a deer); Fri., Weirhaven Barn. _ Worcestershire hds., Mon., Copcut Elm; Wed., Hewell ; Fri., Bransford Bridge-11i. Ludlow lids., Tues., Kennel. Ledbury hds., Mon., Somers Arms, Eastnor ; Fri., Colin Park-10 1 / 2 . Lord Redesdale's hds,, Mon., Bowern ; Wed., Tar Wood ; Fri., Eyford ; Sat., Barrington Park-10i. llolderness hds., Mon., Brandes Burton ; Thurs., Withern wick ; Sat., Sunderlandwick—i to 11. Shrop: hire hds., Mon., Chetwynd Park ; Wed., Albrighton ; Fri., Adderley—i- to 11. Wheatland hds., Tues., Stanley ; Fri., Spoonhill. Essex Union hds., Wed., Tipton Windmills; Sat., Har leigh Hall-10i. Mr. Roe's lids., Wed., Coyton ; Sat., Seven Stones-19. Tiverton hds.,,Mon., Tucker MOor, Csakforn ; Thurs., Rock Inn, Eixton ; Sat., 3d milestone on the Bampton New Road —lO l / z . Montgomeryshire lids., Tues.,Guildstield ; Fri., Abermule. Thanet hrrs., Mon., St. Nicholas ; Wed., Cliff's End; Fri., Hengrove-10 Cheshire hds., Mon., Astle ; Wed., Wrenbury Village; Thurs., Hawkelow ; Sat., Ravensmoor Windmill. Sir W. W. Wynn's lids., Mon., Queen's Head ; Tues. Plas Teg ; Thurs., Peutre Bycham ; Fri., Penley Hall ; Sat., Carden-10i. North Staffordshire lids., Mon., Sugnul Hall; Wed., Tren tham ; Fri., Black Brook-101. East Essex hds., Tues., Hellion's Bumstead ; Thurs., Mark's Hall; sat., St. Ann's Citstle-10 1 . Mr. Locke's lids.. Tues., Bratton Castle ; Thurs., Hen cope-11. Duke of Beaufort's hds., Mon., Hall Avington ; Wed., Ave fling Village ; Fri., Hawkesbury Upton ; Sat,, Compton Basset. Mr. A. Smith's hds., Mon., Thoddesdon Gate; Tues, New Mill; Wed., Wherwell Wood; Thur s ., Wil s t er Wood; Fri., Everleigh; Sat. , Rooke Court-11. Sherood hrrs., Tues., Lyndhurst Farm ; Fri., Parliament Oak-11. Mr. Lumley's hds., Mon., Gringley ; Tues., Osberton ; Fri., Grove; Sat., Berlborough-10;2. Rufford hods., Mon., Dean Hall; Tues., Orton Village; Thurs., Cocking Moer ; Sat., Rufford Abbey-10i. Quorn hds., Mon., Theddingevorth Hall; Tues., Bunny Park; Thurs., Stanton Wyville ; Fri., Brooksby Hall-11. THE CONDE DE MONTEMOLIN.—The Conde de Montemolin and suite visited, on Thursday, the library of the British Museum, and felt so highly interested with the different valuable ancient works put into his hands that he spent the major part of the day there. One of the things that struck the illustrious Prince most was the vast and pre cious collection of Spaaish manuscripts he saw, among which was the original codicil to the will of Charles V., and often expessed his astonishment how persons could be found ca pable of selling such national treasure. TIIE CHAIRMANSHIP OP THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY.—There is no truth in the rumour which has prevailed in the City during the last f ew d ays , to th e effect that Mr. Hudson, M.P. bad ceased to be the Chair man of the Ea s t ern Counties -M.P., Company. Last night, about seven o'clock, whilst Colonel Sibthorp's carriage was standing at the door of Messrs. Lam bert and Rawlings, silversmiths, Coventry -street, waiting for its gallant owner, some expert thief, seeing the coach man's back turned, took the opportunity of opening the carriage- door, and stealing a great coat, a railway wrapper, and a pacer parcel containing letters and documents of an important nature. MONEY and COMMERCIAL N.SWS• CITY, QUARTER TO TIIRE.&. The C,,:t in sales at Liverpool this week have been 29,250 bales. The stock is 421,000 bales , sg st . 00 897,000 bales at this time last year. The q uot i ltl be . have ruled much the same, but the speculators have come more shy. Shares were all depressed. , eo f We have accounts to November 18 from the 0 1 . 4 Good Hope. A sort of truce appeared to exi st on 1d frontier, but there was no expectation that the war , c a u; be said to have terminated, and the Governor wof no . ing supplies towards the territory which it will " v t d e . cessary to occupy hereafter, or upon which at leas ~.., tacht d forts must be raised. Great efforts were !nap to ascertain the facilities at Waterloo Bay a nd Maitland for the landing of stores, &c. e 0-dall Consols for the Account have been very heavy t bills at from 92i to 92i ; the premium upon Exchequeriank have fallen as low as 55., but are now at 91 1 . ; 2 0. Stock, - on the contrary, has advanced from 206 to India Stock is at 264. Mexican Stock has this morning been quoted et 221; Russian at 112 ; Portuguese Four per Cents. , for m. Account, at 36; Spanish Three per Cents. at 35 t° ' lli and Dutch Two-and-a-11alf per Cents. at 58i f• to In the Railway Market there is a general tends l the decline, owing of course to the heavy markets fo r ed. British Securities. The official quotations are 11 1111° 1 TBI C cLOS,„, II ' ONE PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. 2 0 . Bank Stock .206 207 93 3 per Cent. Reduced Ann 5........ 92% 93% 92 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 92 1 , 41/ Q 9 4 New 3 1 % per Cent. Annuities 94% %!,,j 25 4 India Stock 254 ... India Bonds, 1,0001 — • 12, Ditto under 1,0001... Consols for Account 9 2 3/104 9P Exchequer Bills, 1000/.1%1 ... 9 5 9 P 91 1 Ditto, 500/ Ditto. Small np02 114 ONE _.„ 00 0 eRICES OF FOREIGN fUNDS. O'CLOCK 7 of Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 2 2 3% - 39,4 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — .** Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 353' Ditto. Account .......-..... 36 11 2 1 Russian Bonds ........ 112 ...., ' Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account ' 25% ... Ditto 3 per Cent. Ditto, Account 35% 35 Dividends on the above payable in London. 584 Dutch 2 1 4 per Cent. 101 PRICES OF PAID . BUSINESS DONE p C OC— ' RAILWAY SHARES —AT ONE O'CLOCK. " .... Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, 6 and Eastern Junction 2% 2%%...........• Belfast & County Down 4% Birmin. and Gleucester..loo Ditto New 17% Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 425...... 5 1 / p........... Birming., Wolverlepton, and Stour Valley 5 ...... ........... ...- Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June-- 2 3 / i — . .............. Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. % p• .. - ..... Bristol and Exeter 75 •• ••• ......... Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester 32 •••••• ....... .. ...... Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares 2 1% — „... ... ....• Ditto, Clydesdale Jane 25 Chester and Holyhead... 27% — .............. Cheltenham and Oxford 2 • ... ....... Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, .... . 4 per Cent. '"• ..............• ••• • ........ ...... - . .............. Pii ...........••• I' Cork and Killarney ... 214 ............... Cork and Waterford ... 11 ,4 — . ........ •••• Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares Direct Northern Scrip.. 2% — Direct Norwich Dublin and BelfastJunc. 12% — ... ........... Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 Eastern Counties 2O ...... 22% % •• Ditto New.. .. .. Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....... 6/. 13s. 4d — ............... ' Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13 s . 4d % p ............ Do., York Extension.. 2 Eastern Union 4O .. ... ... ......» Ditto, Quarter Shares 10 .......... . .... , Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1% ............•• Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2 1 4-- ............... East Lancashire Ditto. New Do., do., New Scrip East Lincolnshire ..... 11 4 — ............... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% Edinburgl_i & Northern.. 12% — Ditto, New Ditto, Newport • Ditto, ditto, New .... .1% — Edinburgh and Perth... 3 • — Ely and Huntingdon ... 12%....... 13% 13 Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 2% Glasgow, Dumfries, and ' Carlisle Glasgow, liilmar.,& Ayr 50 Ditto, New Do., % Shares (5 per cent. guar.) ... Great Northern (London and York Regd.) VA.. ... 2% 3 Do (Direct Northern Regd.) Great South. and West. (Ireland) GreatNorthof England..loo Ditto New 5 ..• ........... Ditto, New . Ditto, New Great Western B5 127 129............ Ditto % Shares. 5O Ditto 1 4 Shares 12% . ............. Ditto Fifths Ditto, New . 4% •••• ••• .. .... Huddersfield &ManehEs. 13 Ditto, Extension Hull and Selby 5O ..... •• ...... Do. Half Shares 25 .•• ........... Ditto 1 4 Shares Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 14 Do., do., and Norwich 5 Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 DO. New ••• •••• •• .. Leeds and Bradford Leicester and Bedford... 16s. Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 27% •••• ..... ...••• Do., Branch 1 4 Shares 2 1 / — ............ •• "'Do., Branch (Blue) ... 2% — ...... Do. Extension( Green) 2 1 / 2 .. ... .......... • Leeds and Thirsl- 17% 1 5 1%.....•••••• Ditto, New Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% 4% ...... .... ..... Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .... .......... 2 Liverp., Mnchstr &New castle Junction 2 1,6 ...... 2% 1 4 ........ ••• London and Blackwall. 161.185. 4d. ........... .. • Do. New . Ditto Extension ~ 7%, .. ........ ... London, Brighton, and South Coast 5O .• .. 56%% Ditto, Fifths Do. Consol. Eighths.. 10 Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 LondonandGreenwich 12/ 1584 d Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d — •• London and N. Westernloo 196 194%.......•• Do. Quarters . . - V •• Do., do., New Ditto Fifths ..... .... 2 ...... ... ......... ••• Do. IA Shares (G. J.) 10 Do 40/. Shares(L. M.) 8 — Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) A. 5 — Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 5 — Do. 10/. M. & B.) C. 1 London, Oxford, and Cheltenham Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 63% Do. New Consol. Bths 40 Do. New Do. New Ditto Tenths . .. 5 Ditto Tenths ... ..... 4 Ditto Scrip Ditto ditto ....... .... 4 London and York Scrip 2 1 ,4 Do. Extension London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .......... ........ 2%.....• ... L Indonderry & Coleraine 15 Londonderry and Ennis killen ... 15 ...... Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham ...... 5 ...... iffanchester and Leeds 82 .. ...... • Ditto % Shares . ... 38 ... Do. Quarter 5............ 12 ..... Do. Fifths ............. .. 5 .... . .... Do. Sixteenth s 6ll P% Do. Extension ......... 425. 1 ,06 p... ...... ~.. Do. Liverp. and B ury 24 •••• Do. do. Fifths Ditto 1 4 (late Hud dersfield and Sheff.) 23 — Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock .. 425. %3/1 p......... Manchester, Sheffield, .. and Lincolnshire 100 ...„ Do. Quarters (No. 1) 8 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 2% — Ditto and Grimsby.... 15 Ditto ditto Ditto ditto . ... ..... 1% — Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 2% — .... ...... ....;SA, Handiest. & Southampt. 2 ...... 1% 3 4 ........ ••• 124 Midland .....100 126 125% ..... ••• ...- Do. Fifths Do. Nqw Ditto, New Do. Birm., and Derbyloo lO2 ........ .• ..... Midland Great Western , Irish Newcastle and Berwick 20 ......... „. .. NewcastleandCarlisle...loo ....... .. ..... , Ditto New 2O ...... ...... •••• •••• ••••- Ditto Quarter Shares 6% _ ... Newmrket &Chesterfrd 5 ... Do. Extension 2/. 12, ............... Newport& Abergaveuny 2 1 4.-- .............. .... Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, •••• and Rostrevor lO Norfolk Ditto Half Shares .. 9 ll2-9 •••••111:11:::::".:::: 11-°9654 Do. Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, North of Norfolk — Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 2% 1 %....., ......... •• • 000000000 •• ••... 4~~ j i • 15 ;93 4 i 4 4 S 560 50 150 ci4 ..., .•••• ....... 16A 1~ i 4 9 -- 34 1 ,4 ..-- ............ 0...... ..... ~..,... ............. /,.. ,-. ..- l. ~ ~~ kal del Mont e t r :t Y a : a i it ß e 1 . 4 :1 ,c:rhjcp, i„erdet:heod::ii!. 1) , Castle • ItTsmou T 4r e, New Y p e owEs, JAI r edgen, s Orr PENZA for An t ape. ,bOITGLAS, 17 0 1 dismasted 1,, 11 towed it irLes came a ' e a,,cl and De O v:T~1GIIA Iv or lll* by 10, 1 „ n; ,, c),.! fro al hea( 79tit, have IpErrn, JA! 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