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NOTICE. ADZ: RICHAR.DSON'S (THE CELEBRATED TRAVELLER AND PHIL A:CT ROPIST.) TRAVELS IN THE GREAT 'ITESERT OF SAHARA, In Two Frig. Svo- With numerous Illustrations, 30i., ARE PUBLI.4IIE'I' Tills J,Ay. And may be had of all Books Biers throughout the Kingdom Blehard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. • EI,EGANT LITERARY PRESENT, Now ready. L IVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND. -- • -- BY AGNES STRICKLAND, Eleven Volumes, with Portraits and other Illustrations, price 105. sd. each, either of which may be had separately.. " A valuable contribution to historical knowledge—to young per sons especially. It contains a mass of every kind of historical matter of Interest which industry and research could collect. We have derived much entertainment and instruction from the work."— Atheneum. Beery Colbitrii, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. T HE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CLXXV., Is this day published. CONTENTS :- 1. LAMARTINE'S HISTORY of the GIRONDINS. 2. THACKER AY'S WRITINGS. 3. The DISCOVERER of the COMPOSITION of WATER. WATT or CAVENDISH 4. The STATE of the NATION. 5. lIIIMBoLDT'S COSMOS. G. The IRISII CRISIS. Londont : Longman and Co. Edinburgh : A. and C. Black. NOTICE is hereby given that a COURT of SEWERS for the DISTRICTS known as The Westminster and Part of Middlesex District. The Holborn and FinsburyDivisions, The Tower Hamlets District, The Poplar and Blackwall District, The Surrey and Kent District, The Greenwich District, and The saint Katharine's District, will be held in a Committee-room of the House of Commons, on THURSDAY, the 30th day of December instant, at Ten o'clock in the Fornenoon precisely. . LEWIS C. HERTSLET, Clerk of Orders, &c 23d December, 1847. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 'Haler the Management et Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Si: Peter Teazle, Mr. Farren ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Tilbury ; Sir Beojamin Backbite, Mr. A. Wigan ; Joseph Surface, Mr. Cresivick ; Charles Surface, Mr. Henry Farren ; Careless. Mr. H. Vandenhotf ; Rowley, Mr. Gough ; Moses, Mr. Webster; Snake, Mr. Braid ; Sir Harry, Mr. Caulfield ; Crabtree, Mr. Rogers ; Trip. Mr. Brindal. Lady Teazle, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Candour, Mrs. Glover; Lady Sneer well. Mrs. W. Clifford ; Maria, Miss E. Messent. To conclude with the new Comic Drama, called THE ROUSED LION. Characters by Messrs. Webster, Howe, Wigan, H. Vanden- hoff ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Seymour, and Mrs. Stanley. Stage Manager, Mr. Fanen; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to eommence at Seven. TIIEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be presented an entirely new Piece, entitled the PEARL OF THE OCEAN ; or, the Prince and the Mermaiden. Principal cha racters by .Messrs. Waye, P. Bedford, Wright, Munyard, Olennaire, Cullenterd, and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, asd Madame Celeste. To be followed by a n.zw . Farce entitled THE TIPPERARY LE GACY. Turnem Green, Mr. Wright ; Bob Gills, Mr. Munyard ; Lanty Scrimmage, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Chubblock. Mr. Cullenford ; Policeman, Mr. Sanders ; Lizzy Chubblock, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with the Farce, entitled THIS HOUSE TO BE SOLD :the property of the late William Shakspeare), Inquire Within. Cha racters by Messrs. Wright, Cullenford, Worrell, 0. Sraith, Paul Bed find, Mrs. Laws, &c., &c. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. Tutors ♦pen at Halt-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. "rider the Management of Madame Vestria. sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be presented new Comic Drama, entitled THE TRA GEDY QUEEN. After which a new Comic Drama called PEGGY GRERIc. To be followed with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Buckstone, and Mrs. Mac. WlTharkt. To conclude with the Comic Drama USED UP. Dross Boxes, ss. ; Upper ilexes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, le. N. half-price to any part of the house. The Sew Box-office, No. 2, Welllngtou-street, is open to the Public every (lay, from Ten till Six. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell or the Colosseum. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Madame ANNA TGILLON. THIS EVENING Al new Conde Opera, entitled THE A3IBASSADRESS. Duke do Valberg, Mr. Bodda ; Benedict, Mr. Barker ; Fortunatus, Mr. Lef fler; Countess de Fierschornberg, Miss Villars ; Madame Barneck, Mrs. Selby; Charlotte, Miss Anne Romer; Henriette, Madame Anna Thillon. To conclude with Shakspeare's Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Miss Cushman ; Mercutio, Mr. J. Vining ; Fria: Lawrence, Mr. Ryder ; Juliet, Miss Susan Cushman. Dress Circle, 55.: Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. F. Davidge, No. 1, Davidge-terrace, Kensington-road, Surrey. TO-MORROW EVENING, THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT. Characters by Messrs. IL Phillips, King, Horucastle, Rafter, Att. wood, M`Mahon, and Miss Poole. To conclude with GUY MANNERING. di*tiaci: entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have bee* re-fitted). Private boxes may be had nightly •f all the Principal Librarians ; and at the Box-office of the Tkeatre, which is •pen daily from Ten until Four. Bo.xes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager. Mr. William /tatty. No Performance on Friday and Saturday. Mr. Batty's performing Elephants. THIS EVENING The Grand S'ectacle of THE CAMP OF SILESIA. Entire new Scenes in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the Establishment, In the various modes 01 equestration. To conclude with a new Domestic Drama, called THU WRITE FARM. In preparation, a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, which Will exceed in splendour and effect all former productions at the Amphitheatre, Box-office open f:om 11 till 5 Acting and Stage Mant.ger, Mr. W West. fill WEATHEE.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 23. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 31 ; Highest, 33 ; Noon, 32 BAROMETER, 29 92 .-, I IVIND E.S.E.; cloudy. .1: WA.TEI: AT 1.074D0N-n12.1001.1 DA.Y. Morning.. 82 minutes atter 2. Evening .. 53 - nlantes ,RA. 2 best feelings would willingly seek for all that is pious and good in the Catholic faith." " Can nothing," he asks, in a sub.equent part of his communication, "be done to remove from us so heavy a scandal ?" Such is the manly, zenerou4, and respectful letter forwarded to St. Jarlath's by the Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY —a letter which doubtless gives utterance to many of the sentiments which are uppermost in the bosoms of his co-religionists. To this important remonstrance the Archbishop of TrAM returns an epistle which is little less than a most courteous prevarication. It is true that there is not in the latter effusion any of that flagrant so phistry which characterised Dr. M'HALa's letter to the Prime Minister. The "Lion of the fold of Judah " no longer roars forth his extenuations of crime attributed to a APDERMOTT, or his sym pathy in the offence charged against Arch deacon LAFFAN. He no longer says with such unprelatic severity—" probably the reason why the Catholic clergy are arraigned is not because they have omitted the inculcation of the sixth com mandment, but because they have explained with rather too much theological accuracy the variety of ways in which persons may be guilty of its infraction." As if it were justifiable in any clergyman to expatiate from the altar steps upon the sins of persons altoge ther removed from their ecclesiastical jurisdiction ! as if it were laudable to follow up the adoration of the Godhead by the denunciation of one of his creatures !—as if it were safe to say to a reckless and infuriated peasantry, " Such a man is like CROMWELL, and...vet he lives;!" But Dr. M'HALE forsakes for once his favourite style of disputation. The gentle but impressive epistle of the Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY has so far subdued the moral pugnacity of the prelate as a correspondent, that he answers the young Peer with extraordinary circvm. spection of manner, and unprecedented temperance of language. Still his reply is the very reverse of satisfactory, it is an evasion that almost degrades the writer at times into the apologist of criminal denunciators. Much as the spirit evinced by Archbishop M'HALE throughout these transactions must be deplored, sus picious as may be the quietude of the ecclesiastical authorities in Ireland, heinous and diabolical as is the infamy accruing to the Catholic tenantry from such bloody deeds of assassination, it is creditable to the re ligion when laymen can boldly pronounce their abhor rence of criminals whose continuance among them is an enormous disgrace to the priesthood—when Lord BEAUMONT can speak as he has spoken within the walls of Parliament, and when the Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY can write as he has written to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of TUAM. We yesterday pointed out the manner in which goods are transferred from hand to hand during the progress of manufacture, and that, according to the ordinary course of trade, they are paid for at each transfer by bills of exchange of the then value, and that by this means a species of currency is required to perhaps eight or ten times the value of the raw material, and at least three times the value of the manufactured article. It may be very easy to say that this is not a sound state of trade, that the actual capital is several times represented, or in other words, the labour, the only true capital, which gives the increased value to the article, is mortgaged three or four times over. But why is this the case ? Simply because the monetary code occasions an artificial scarcity of money, it prevents any kind of capital, save and except bullion, being represented by notes pay able on demand, or otherwise than by those hills of exchange. It would doubtless be much better if the various parties were enabled, on purchasing the goods from the former holder, to pay the cost price in actual cash, but it is utterly impossible that it should be so while the circulation is so inadequate to the wants of the country as it is at present. In the case which we yesterday selected as an example, the worsted spinner's capital is required to pay for the labour which he is forced to employ, to the amount of 5001. He accepts a bill for the 1,1001. to the woolsorter, because he relies upon being able before that bill becomes due to sell the goods at an increased price, which will not only enable him to pay that amount, but will reimburse him for the money he has expended in actual labour, and will also afford him that fair profit of his trade which he has a right to expect. He can only accom plish these objects by baying a facility for exchang ing the bills, which he himself must accept from the parties to whom h.? disposes of the produce, for money that will liquidate his own acceptance and enable him to satisfy his workmen for the labour that he requires in carrying on his manufacture. lf, by reason of any panic or want of confidence, he cannot effect such an exchange, or, in other words, obtain discount for his legitimate trade bills, he must suspend payment, discharge his operatives, and abandon his business ;or he must decline to sell on credit, according to the usual course of trade, and send his goods to the market to be sold, or rather sacrificed, for whatever ready money can be obtained therefor. The supply will then be found to exceed the demand, prices will be depreciated, it will require a much greater quan tity of his manufactured goods to be disposed of, in order to obtain a sufficient sum to satisfy his debt to the woolstapler than he had calculated upon ; he will find himself a serious loser, so that his capital will be sacrificed, and he must give up employing the people, or induce them to accept reduced wages. While so many fluctuations in the value of money take place, as must be the inevitable consequence of a currency wholly based on bullion, there must be a considerable risk to every person engaged in trade and manufacture, and that risk must be compensated either by an increase of price to the consumer, or by cutting down the wages of the workmen, or by a combination of both; the former method, however, cannot be made available to any great extent, so that the latter must be resorted to, and the industrious and hard-working man, whose only capital is his labour, becomes the chid sufferer, although every person in any manner engaged in trade participates in the evil to a greater or less degree. We have struggled earnestly and energetically for free trade, we felt the deep injustice of taxing the food of the people for the benefit of a class, and of preventing our manufacturers from obtaining markets for their produce, by forbidding them to exchange that produce for the commodities of other lands. We objected to the pernicious mo nopoly that was formerly sanctioned and tolerated, because it obstructed the creation of national wealth, and forbade the employment of the labouring classes ; but our monetary laws are, if possible, still more destructive to the national prosperity, still more injurious to the best interests of the people. Through the operation of the banking en actments, the people have been deprived of employment deprived of wages deprived of the means of subsistence—suffering the conse quences of a famine in the midst of plenty and abun dance, and submitting to the greatest privations at the very time when there has been a national thanks giving for the bounteous harvest with which we have been favoured. How long will the people submit to this lamentable state of things ?—how soon will they shake off their apathy, and earnestly and energetically agitate for a reform of the baneful system ? How soon will a COBDEN arise to direct their exertions, and to keep up an agitation which must eventually lead to a triumph ? The question must be made popular out of doors before we can hope that convic tion will be wrought in the minds of our Legislators. The bullionists attempt to smother discussion, to sneer down the arguments which they are unable to answer. Many causes are assigned for the national distress, but the principal one is kept out of sight. Inquiries are to take place, but if possible all investi gation into the working of the Act of 1819 is to be avoided. That of 1844 may be questioned, but that from which it is derived must be left untouched ; a metallic. standard is so sa-n-ed that everything else must be sacrificed to its security, and it is a species of sacrilege to doubt how far its maintenance is com patible with the prosperity, the security of the country. .CCOUII' Lave been received from Athens to the 9th inst. The Senate met on the 6th, and the discussion so abruptly broken off on the 16th of Nov., respecting the nomination of the new senators, Wa ag a i n mooted, but the result was another of • those scaadaicius 4 Znt. 7, 715. 'A " i c; ,- .' • • -- "JA - n 0 DIRU . r • MO , DRoIT • t r t 'I, • 'Aliening ;7-, Mt LONDON. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 23, 1847. Every Roman Catholic in her Ma,rasTr's dominions will feel grateful to the Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY for the noble-spirited letter addressed by him to Jour? TUAM, the " Lion of the tribe of Judah." `With a chivalrous sense of his own position, and that of his co-religionists, at a time when bloody murders are said to cry to heaven for vengeance against cer tain members of the Irish priesthood, who have profaned the holy day consecrated to the adoration of the Divinity by inciting the peasantry to deeds of brutality and violence, that young Nobleman has implored the Catholic Archbishop of TUAM to make such investigations into those charges against the sub ordinate clergy, as shall demonstrate either their guilt or innocence, and to exercise in all cases of proven delinquency the sacerdotal authority confided to him at the period of his consecration• Words could not be more impassioned or more pur suasive in supplication than those of the noble heir to the Dukedom of Norfolk ; they could not be more justifiable in their earnestness; they could not be more explicit in remonstrance ; they could not be more gentle or more definite as expressions of per sonal reverence and ecclesiastical obedience. It is such a letter as a HOWARD might have written to HILDEBRAND in the days of the Crusades. It enun ciates a want which must be experienced by every member of that Church among the English laymen of which the Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY is one of the most distinguished ornaments. It reminds Dr. M'HALE that the Roman Catholics resident in this island are just now subjected to a perpetual sorrow, because of their utter incapacity to vindicate the teachers of their religion in Ireland from the dismal accusations laid against them of being virtually murderers and the inciters of murderers. It explains to that prelate the anguish inflicted upon the heart of every conscientious Catholic by the reiterated charges made against certain members of the Irish priesthood, of being dyed with a guilt im measurably worse than that of merely " moral complicity," i n th e mos t d ev illi s h o f t h e agrar i an assassinations. It calls to his recollection the fact that neithe r the Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY him self, nor any of his fellow-Catholics in this country, are so sit ua t e d as to be able by any means what ever to sub s t ant i ate appalling ; accusations, the d accuracy of those of their being erroneous, an . the event f releasing them selves from the odium which therebyindirectly tthis attaches itself to the religi on . It exclaims upon point—how bitter it is to the writers heart that he cannot defend the Irish Church in his intercourse with his friends, or against the attacks of violent opponents in the House of Commons. Afte r re re minding Archbishop M'HALE that the enemies of Romaa Catholicism avail themselves of the oppor. tunity afforded by the indolence of the superior authorities of that religion in not bringing the sup posed offenders to an ecclesiastical tribunal, and visit ing them, in the event of their culpability being estab lished, with those punishments of sacerdotal degrada tion, ~ sr suspension from their duties as clergymen, which. are felt by a priest to be the most terrible and ignominious. "Oh, my Lord Archbishop," continues the Earl, " it is indeed severe to feel the justice of such remarks—not the remarks, be it observed, of thoughtless and uncharitable men, but of those whose VETE 817 N, LOW MN) THURSIYAT EVENING, DECP4MBViIt 1181 scenes of so common occurrence in the Senate. The President refused to allow any of the senators to address the assembly. In vain did MM. TRICOUPIS, CLONA.. RES, LOINDOs and MANGINAS, protest against so fla grant a violation of the regulations. The President replied by loudly demanding the installation of the new senators. The Ministers sat mute spectators of this scene. The greater number of the senators finally rose, and of the thirty-five senators present only fifteen remained. The President then adminis tered the oaths to the new senators, although the Senate was not in number, and the two secretaries had withdrawn. On the 9th the Senate met again, when the members who withdrew the previous day entered a protest against the proceedings that took place in their absence. The project of law voted by the Chamber of Deputies relative to the loan of 500,000 f. by M. EYNARD, was then adopted by a large majority. The Patria, Florence paper, publishes the following letter, dated Rome, 10th instant : " The question of Ferrara has arrived at a conclu sion. Matters remain in that city absolutely in state quo. This Government has maintained its rights with a firmness which does it honour. The principal praise devolves upon M. Massoni. M. Palomba, attached to the Austrian Embassy at Rome, returned yesterday from Milan with dispatches, by which Count de Fiquelmont announces this fortunate con clusion to the Ambassador. The official notes on the subject rare to be exchanged this day between the Pontifical Government and the Austrian Envoy." The Presse contains a letter from Palermo, of the Bth instant, stating that tranquillity prevailed in that city. Nothing new had occurred at Naples. Prince SCILLA still retained the portfolio of foreign affairs, which was considered a certain proof that the KING persisted in his resolutions. " His Neapolitan MA.• JEsTr, 7 %says the correspondent of the Presse, " evinces an energy unusual to our modern Royalties. He is said to have lately made the following declaration : " My relative, Louis XVI., would have''' escaped the scaffold but for his concessions. Weakness in political matters is a crime. I will never yield. It is not my intention to surrender my crown to the revolution. I will defend it whilst a single soldier stands by my side, and if I am to lose it, it will be with my head.' %cg. 46454 A letter from Naples of the 12th says—" On the 4th a political demonstration was to have taken place at the theatre of Catania, but the rumour having rapidly spread that the Krsto, in a conversation with his Ministers, had blamed these manifestations, stat ing that his people ought to rely on him, all the preparations were suspended, and at Catania, and in all parts of the kingdom, the people calmly await the acts which are to give a justification to these words." We read in a letter from Berne of the lfith The new grand council of Friburg assembled yes terday, and commenced its operations by completing its Legislature, by the nomination of ten Members, who are declared Liberals ; among them are M. CHA. TONNE/. and VICKET, members of the Provisional Government. The news from the other cantons is of little interest to-day." The Ami de la Constitution of Berne states that Austria, in addition to a loan of 300,000 florins to the Sonderbund, supplied it with 3,000 muskets. M. DR KAISERSFELD, Ambassador of Austria to the Helvetic Diet, who had retired to Bregunz in the Voralherg, has returned to Bale with his suite. A letter from Turin, in the Augsburg Gazette, states that the money taken from M. SiEGweaT AIuLLEs in Piedmont has been restored to him, as being his own property, and the functionary who seized the money has been dismissed from office. Madrid journals of the 16th have arrived. Some sensation had been ereated by a motion made in the Chamber of Deputies by Senor SEGASTI, for the production of the accounts of all the sums paid by the Treasury of the Havannah since 1844. A stormy discussion ensued, which had not been brought to a conclusion when the post left. We have received the Paris papers of Friday. The debates in the British Parliament on the sub ject of Jew Emancipation are commented on in all these papers, and the French, as they are justly en titled to d), take great credit to themselves for being I far in advance of England as far as the fundamental principles of equality of civil and religious rights are concerned, although they admit that we are in ad vance of them in the practice of constitutional liber ties. The Debuts says" France may be justly proud to behold her principles defended, and her example referred to in the British Parliament. Eng land is in advance of us in the practice of many con stitutional liberties, but we laid down and realized long before her the fundamental principles of equa lity ;" and the Constitationnel, in commenting on Lord MORPETIeS declaration that no difference of religious belief ought to exclude any citizens from the enjoyment of common rights and privileges,: asks with justice— " Is not this the very principle of the absolute poli tical equality of all citizens which was proclaimed by the French Revolution ? and is not the rapid progress made in the world by the ideas which the Revolution put forth, and which are the foundation of all our codes, the noblest homage that could be paid to it? Have we not some right to be proud —we, the sons of that glorious Revolution—when we see its principles penetrate into the midst of nations, when we hear them proposed by one of the members of that Eng lish aristocracy which maintained such a violent struggle against our fathers, and which anathematized the doctrines which the Lansdownes, the Russells, and the Morpeths now avow and defend in the face of Anglicanism ?" It would appear from the following article on the affairs of Italy, which appears in the Debats, as if M. GUIZOT had before his eyes a wholesome fear of the Chambers, and that he is prepared, if necessary, to cry " Peccavr when taunted by the Opposition with his retrograde policy. The Debate says— " Italy offers at this moment the magnificent spec tacle of an active and intelligent nation, which, after several years of suffering, advances, with her princes at her head, in the career of Reform, which, con ducted alinost throughout -the entire country by the Conservative and moderate party (the only one which can guide nations in the road of real progress) pur sues, ardently and sagaciously, the amelioration of her social and political condition. There is no doubt but some impatient men would , wish to see a more active and rapid movement which might compromise everything by too much haste; but it must be said to the praise ct Italy, that those impatient characters are almost strangers —men who are ignorant of the grandeur and importance of the reforms accomplished. Those reforms are, in fact, quite important enough to prove the integrity and the good will of the Governments—to explain the enthusiasm of the population, and the feelings of grati tude which they have expressed for the. princes whom Proviklence has placed at their head. Thus, for example. without speaking of that which has been already realised in Tuscany and in the Roman states, if we study thoroughly the reforms of which King Charles Albert had given the signal in Piedmont, it may be comprehended why the Piedmontese have lavished so many proofs of attachment on him; and it may likewise be understood why, when they look back and see the advance made in so short a period of time, they must have full confidence in the intelli gence and goodwill of their Sovereign, inasmuch as the progress realised in a few months is for them a pledge of new and perhaps more important improve ments which they will owe solely to the wisdom of the King, without being obliged to purchase them by contests, crises, and those painful catastrophes, at the price of which they have been obtained elsewhere. It is thus that Piedmont has at present •arrived at a judicial unity, by the creation of a Supreme Court of Cassation—at civil equality, by the uniformity of the code and the abolition of the privileges of various jurisdictions, and by the separation of the judicial and administrative powers. The Piedmontese have ob tained a reform of the communal and provincial sys tem, in which the Liberal mode of election will here after perform a considerable part, and, in fine, a commencement of free government by the institution of a Council of State, which it is true has but a con sulting voice, but whose suggestions, supported by public opinion, cannot but exercise influence. Those f are important conquests which, if necessary, would be sufficient to justify the epithet of a reforming King bestowed upon Charles Albert. But this is not all. Although the press is not completely free, it has, never theless, been released from the most embarrassing shackles, and the choice made of the censors is a proof of the liberal intentions of the Government in that respect; and although the national guard, that excellent guarantee of order and liberty, has not been legally established throughout the kingdom, it is nevertheless known that the Government is preparing to organize it—that the staff has been formed, and that the muskets which are to arm it are ready in the Government arsenals ; and, in fine, it is known that the King's Government is conducting active - negotiations with Rome and Tuscany of which the object is to found a customs' league, the first step to union in Italy. When, in deed, we consult history, we ask ourselves, were ever such important results obtained in any country in so short a space of time ? and whether any princes ever gave their subjects such remarkable proofs of patriot ism and liberal goodwill? 'We cannot but applaud the wisdom of public opinion in Italy, and wish that the Conservative and ,moderate party which every where conducts the affairs of the country so j udi ciously, may take confidence in itself and in the des tinies of the Italian peninsula. We cannot but join in those feelings of gratitude with which it rewards benefits which it owes to the patriotism and the generosity of Pope Pius IX., the Grand Duke Leopold, and King Charles." It is said that the conferences on the affairs of Switzerland will be held in Paris, and that M. RODOWICH has been appointed Plenipotentiary for Prussia. He is gone to Vienna to conft r with Prince METTERNICH and with Count COLORED°, who will be the Austrian Plenipotentiary. The National has the following on the expulsion of M. BAROUNINE from Franca : "That M. Bakounine has displeased the Czar, we can comprehend. It is probable that the Imperial Government has other complaints against him, since he has been obliged to take refuge in France. But by what right do our Ministers constitute themselves *he executioners of foreign acts of vengeance ? M. Bakounine has only used in very fair terms the right which everybody enjoys on the soil of France of expressing his opinions. A law, voted in evil times, confers on the Government the right of expulsion ; but the refugee so expelled must have rendered public imsel oer and tranquillity ? Is M. Ba kounine guilty of some act of a nature to trouble kounine accused of that? Is it in Russia that order is menaced by his language ? I s it i n Fr an c e ? C an h there be an abuse of language to such a point, and can the text of a law be more arbitrarily travestied, by adding to exaggerated severity other severity absurd and uncalled for ? This is the state allotted to our renown of hospitality in the hands of the low valets of the holy alliance. It was desired to prepare the way to St. Petersburgh for the Marquis de Dalmatie, the new Envoy ; it is a friend of our country and of our ideas who will pay the cost of the welcome." All the papers except the Union Monarchigue ex press their unqualified approval of the proposed grant of a pension to Prince JEROME BONAPARTE. A royal ordonnance, dated the 19th, opens a sup- plementary credit of 500,000 f. to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, to enable him to con tinue to pay premiums as encouragements to the whale and cod-fisheries, the sum of 4,000,000 f. al lowed in the last budget having been found in sufficient. The Alice, which arrived at Havre on Sunday from Semarang, touched at the Isle of Bourbon, from whence she brings letters and papers to the sth of October. They, however, contain no facts of in terest, and are silent with respect to the disturbances which took place at St. Denis on the 15th of Sep tember, in consequence of the return of the two anti slavery priests PONCELET and MONNET. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tuesday at 75f. 60c.; New Loan, 76f. 80c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 30c. ; the Orleans Rail road Shares, 1,215 f. 75c.; Rouen, 912 f. 50c.; Havre, 478 f. 75c.; Great Northern, 557 f. 50c.. Avignon, 585 f. ; Vierzon, 551 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 492 f. 75c. ; Boulogne, 3751. ; Troyes and Montereau, 2631. 75c. ; Basle, 165 f. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 420 f.; Tours and Nantes, 400 f.; Paris and Lyons, 406 f. 25c. ; Spanish Actives, 24k; Ditto Three per Cents., 30 ; Ditto Domestic Debt, 26; ; Ditto Pas- _ sives, 31. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 22. Boulogne and Amiens, 14E4—Namur and Liege, 5 Northern of France, 12—Orleans and Bordeaux, 5% — Paris and Lyons, s%—Paris and Strasbourg, 4' 2 —Sambre and Meuse, 7—Tours and Nantes, 3E/2. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY. NIIWGAT3III AND LZIALDENHIS-LX.. Prime Beef sold freely at very high rates; otherwise the demand was steady, at full prices. Beef, from 3s 6d to 3s; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; Veal, 3s Bcl to 4s 8d; and Pork, 3s 10d to 5s 2d per 81bs, by the carcase. SAY IKAMLETS. SNITNTIEM—Meadow Hay, 21103 to 3/ 12s ; Clover, ditto, 3l 103 to 4/ 133 ; and Strew, 11 4s to 11 9s per load. Trado dull, at the above quotations. CUNIERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 103 to 3/ 133 ; Clover ditto, 31 rOs to 4/103; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 11 lOs per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31 12s; Clover ditto, 31 10s to 41 15s ; and Straw. 1/ 4s to 11 Cs per load. Supply good, a nd trade dull.ll sticlAT DICAIt..IIC2IICS. SOUTHALL, Dice. 26.—Prime Beasts, and Sheep, the supply of which was sm a ll, move d off steadily, at full pricer In other kinds of stock only a moderate busi ness was doing. Beet, from Ss 8d to ss; Mutton, 4s to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s to 5s Bd.; and Pork, 4s 2d to 4s 10d per 81b3, to sink-the offal. ItomFohte; Dec. 22 —We had a steady general de mand to-day, on the following terms:—Beef from 3s 8d to 5s 2d; Mutton, 4s to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 8lbs; Suckling Calves, 203 to to 28s; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 20s to 263; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 141 to 171 5s each. lbausuAN, DEC. 22.—For each kind of stock, with which we were moderately supplied, the demand ruled firm, at full prices. Beef, from 4s to 5s 4d; Mutton, 4s 2d to 5s 4d; Veal, 48 to 4s 6d; and Pork, 4s to 4s Sd per 81bs. ARUNDEL, DEC. 2 1.—Beef, from 4s to 5s Sd; Mutton, 4s to 5a 4.1; Veal, 4s to 4s 4d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6d per 81bs. A moderate supply, and a steady trade. CHICfrErrEE, DEc. 22.—We had a steady demand this morning, at our quotations. Beef, from 4s to 5s 4d; Mutton, 4s 2d to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6d per 81bs. S uc kli ng C a l ves, 20s to 275; Pigs, 20s to 245; and Mulch Cows, wgiutahrttehr-o their r l e d or w S si t ic e alf.? 141 to 171 each. COAL MARKE' Adair's Main l7s 9d Hasting's Hartley 2os Od Stewart's Hartley West Wylarn West Hartley Wall's End, Are 7, ..-YESTEIDAT. Het ton Grange Lyons ..... Lambton Lumley Russell's Hetton Sepping lss Od Stewart's .. Whitwell Richardson's Tees 2ls Od South Durham Tees West Pease at, 45—sold, 42. Acorn Close Hebburn 2lB 6d Hilda 2ls 6d Belmont 22s pd ' Braddyll's Hatton Haswell 22s 6d Ships at mark( CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Dec. 23, 1847, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. waxer. I Luray.' orre . I aye. I BEAM. I NEAL PRICE .. 52s 2d 1 30 s 7d I 211; 7d 34, 4d 41s 6d 485 2d The Duties onFereign Grain are now suspended. WINDSOR, n aDuEsnAr EVENING. Notwith standing the coldness of the weather to-day, her andMa jtesrtysome un t his e lloyal Hi g h ness t h e Prince Consort walked o n the Home Park, both in the early part of the morning and again in the afternoon. The royal children also took their accustomed exercise on the lawns, and in the sequestered paths of the Home Park. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and Royal Family and remained to luncheon, at the Castle this forenoon, The Duke of Wellington has left Apsley House for Strathfieldsaye, Hants. Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley repair there to-day from Conholt Park, where the Noble Lord and Lady have been visiting the Right Hon. Henry Pierrepont. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left Carl ton-gardens yesterday for Woburn Abbey, Beds, to join the distinguished circle vi-iting the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, who intend to receive a succession of visitors during the Christmas holidays. The Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Peel and family left town yesterday for Drayton Manor, Stafford shire, for the holidays. Tns TRIAL OF LIEUTENANT CROWTHER, OF THE 63D REGIMENT--The Court assembled again in the Court-martial room, Chatham Barracks, on Tuesday, to hear the defence of Lieutenant Crowther. Capt. J. P. Wood , Major of Brigade, who acted as deputy judge advocate, read the defence by the prisoner's desire, which, in courteous terms, refuted the charges brought against him. The sentence of the Court is deferred. DEATH or MAJOR-GENERAL STEELE. We, re gret to announce the death of Major-General Thomas Steele. This gallant officer was an old Peninsular offi cer. He served in the Peninsula with the Coldstream Guards, from January to July, 1809, and from February, 1811, to the end of that war, in 1814. He entered the army in March, 1804, was never a lieutenant, but was made captain in June 1, 1809. He was never major, but became lieutenant-colonel December 29, 1814 ; colo nel, Jan. 10, 1837 2 _- major-general. November, 1846. ROYAL PERE HOSPITAL.—SICKNESS IN THE ME.. TROPOLIB. Yesterd a • a Board of Governors of the above y charity was h e ld at the institution in Gray's Inn-road, Dr. Rice, D . D ., in the chair. The report stated that siekness was greatly on t h e i ncrease , th e num b er o f s i c k and destit ute poor who had applied for relief; as in and outdoor p at i ents, during the past week, being 2,168 a number unparalleled in so short a period in the an nals of the charity, which has been established about twenty years. The resources are so limited, that many urgent and distressing cases cannot be attended to. General Reschid, Envoy of the Bey of Tunis, ac companied by two officers and M. Roseau, interpreter of the French consulate at Tunis, arrived at Algiers on the 14th. The general was received by his Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumsle almost immt-diately after his landing. A WARRIOR'S EJECTMENT.—" My Lord !" ex claimed a farmer and private of yeomanry to his land lord-colonel, daring the Lancashire riots in 1819; " the enemy is in the fieldl" " Well, sir," returned the Noble Lord, with the coolness of a 'nun who knows there is 'no danger, " turn 'em out; its our field!"— Fan* Joe Miller. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW 63. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was rather dull. Bahia was id. per lb. lower. In AmPriem and Surat there was no change. Sales, 4,000 bales. Railway Shares were rather better. There was less stock offer ing, and more inquiry, At Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s sale of railway shares, yesterday, although prices were rather lower, yet there was a good demand for shares. We subjoin a few of the quotations:— Leicester &Bedford,Exchange Certificate £0 12 6 North Staffordshire Eastern Counties .......... • ... Boston. Stamford.and Birmingham. ..... 317 6 Leeds and Thirsk l9 0 0 North British, Quarters Eastern Counties. York Extension 7 14 0 Caledonian, Halves South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 0 12 6 London and Blackwell, No. 1 The Bank of England has just reduced the ?minimum rate of discount to 5 per cent. upon bills of exchange. Excheituer• bills, &c. A brief statement was made under this head yester day of the meeting of the creditors of the largest of colonial brokers, Messrs. Trueman and Cook. The full report of this suspension has been read with great interest by all merchants and others in trade this morn ing. As stated yesterday, the period over which the instalments are to be made extends to April 1849, but 15s, of the amount will be liquidated next year. The accounts were passed, and the resolutions offered to the consideration of the meeting were unanimously adopted. We are without any private colonial accounts today. The Speech of the President of the United States on the opening of Congres is looked for almost daily. It is not expected that any matters of importance will be contained in it that may tend to damage our com mercial or political relations with the Union, and in this respect there is. a gratifying contrast to for. mer years, when the Maine, the Oregon, and other questions were exciting topics. And yet here we are in this year of 1848, as good friends as ever, and, not one jot the worse off—far better, Indeed, we might safely assert—than if we had resorted to the " last argument" of man, instead of appealing to common sense and justice. The mail steamer from the West Indies is still due. At a meeting of the Canada Company now being held, the report of the directors was satisfactory as to the progress made of improvement and settlement in the Upper Provinces, especially in the Huron tract. The emigration, especially from Ireland, had been very large, but not productive, as so much ill health had prevailed. The company had sold and leased this year, up to the 24th of November last, 101,995 acres. A divi dend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum for the half year was agreed to. The Public Securities have been very steady this morning, and there was some buoyancy in anticipation that the Bank of England would lower its minimum rate of discount. Console have alternated from 85} to 851 for the January account. The New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. have been 86 to if, and the Reduced Three per Cents. 8q to 85. Exchequer. hills have been 9s. and I Is. premium. Bank Stock is 1861 to 188. In the Foreign Markets the dealings have been very limited. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 184, and the Three per Cents. 301.. Portuguese Four per Cents. are 22 to 23. Brazil Stock has been 79 to 81, and Mexi can Bocds are at about 171 to 18. Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents. are 56. Railway Shares have been quiet, but rather firmer, especially the French lines. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) _ _ _ 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 84% 85 84 New 3 1 4 per cent. Anis. 8 6 14 Long Annuities, Exp. Jim. sth, 1860 8 9-18 India Bonds under 1,0001...... ....... 11 dis South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities 82% Consols for Account . Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,000/. 500/. Small ... 14 10p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o ... 18 , 4 Ditto 3 per Cent 3 O ll Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 1 A per Cent., 12 Guild 66 Ditto 4 Der Cent4Certificates BUSINESS DONS IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. Pia Seuzz. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% — ...... to —.- Ayrshire and Galloway - Belfast and County Down .. 10 .. .. Birmingham Ss Oxford June... 20 Birmingham, WoL,& Dudley 10 ... Binning., Vol., & Stour Val. 101.145.... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction.. 7% — ...... to Boston, Storni, & Birming... 5 - Bristol and Exeter - Do Thirds Buckinghamshire.. Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 Chester and Holyhead 37% ..... Ditto, Preference 8 Clarence. Do., let Class, 6 per Cent Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Got. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 20 Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 15 ...... East Anglia, 251.& L. , E. and L. &D. ... 25 ...... Ditto, 181., E. kLI l6 . .... Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H... 2 Eastern Counties ..... . Ditto, ditto (B) .20 . .... Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... par Do., do ...N0.2,61. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., Quarter .... .. ........... 124... Do., New Eastern Union. 5O Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 12 1 ,E — Ditto., Thirds .. ......... ...13a. 4d — to Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.) ... East Lancashire Ditto, New Do., New Quarters East Lincolnshire 12%...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O — ...... to Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 1 2 1,4 — Edinburgh and Northern ... 22 1 ,4 ...... - Ditto, New g% —. ...... to Ditto, New port 9'4 — ...... to Ditto, ditto, New 2 % — ...... to Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2.?, --...... to Ditto, New Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle-81. 61.8 d... .. Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 Ditto, New Do. % Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12% .— — ..... to Great Northern lO% 4 14..... to Do. London & York Exten. 2% — ..... to Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35 Great North of England 100 .226 Ditto, New 401 5 Ditto; New 30/ ... 30_ ... to Ditto, New 151............... _6 l / 2 ...... . ... to Great Western 8 1 13 : ...... t t too o 6 4 Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares l6 Ditto, Fifths Do. New 171 Huddersfield and Manchester 22 .. Ditte, Thirds Hull and Selby 5O ...... 99 ...... to Ditto, Half Shares - Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12% — to Ipswich & Burs- St. Edmunds 15 Do. do. and Norwich Do., do., Extension Scrip (late (Camb. and Ely) 2% — ...... to Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 Do., Thirds lO ...... Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 Ditto, ditto Ditto kialf Shares Ditto Quarters 14% to Ditto Fifths 8 Ditto Sixteenths ..-....... 6 1 4...... to Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 104 4.5 --to Do. Liverpool and Bury... 34 Do. (Rudders. and She.) 33 Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole 47% Do., West Riding Union ...41. 2e..... Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 ...... Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9 Ditto ditto (B) PA ..... 1% to Leeds and Bradford 5O ..... .. ... to Leicester and Bedford Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manches. 37% to Do., Branch % Shares 1 2 14 — to Ditto, New Branch (blue).. 2% — ' to Ditto. Extension (green)... 2% — to Do., New Eaten. (pink)... 21 % — ...... to Leeds and Think .......«..... 36 Ditto, New ..... ..... .. 20 . .... Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%..... Liverpool. Crosby, and Sont h- port. Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junct.on. ...... ... 2% — to London 6; Blackwall...l6/. 138. 4d....... Ditto New, No. 1,. - Ditto New, No. 2 4l. 13s. 4d.... . .... to Do. Extension Load., Bright., & South Coast 50 Do. Consolidated Eighths... 30 Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 ..... Do. Pref. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d... Ditto Preference 18 1 ,17s 2d... ...... to London and North Western..loo 147 148... to 141 1 4 Do. Quarter .....L. and B. 17 - Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2 Do. do. Fifths Do. Quarters ......... G. J. 25 Do. 40/. Shares L. &M. 15 . ..... ...... to Do. 40/. Shares...M. and B. 40 ...... to Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 7 1 ,x. Do. 10/. .. M. and B. (B.) ...... to Do. 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 .... 4 3 ,4 to London and S. Western.... 41.. 638 d... Do.NewConsolidatABths. 40 ...... 37% to Ditto New 50/....... . ..... . to Ditto New 401. • 26 ...... Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 Ditto,Thirdi ..61.18x. ...."to "n" Landon, Salisbury, & Yeovil 11,4 — ...... to ....•• Londonderry and Coleraine... 2714 — Londor.derry and Enniskillen 23,/, — Manch Bu'Eton, Sc Matlock 3 blanchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto 1 ,4 Shares ( No. 1) ... 13 Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 23 . __ Ditto, IA Shares 3)... ..... . . Ditto Grimsby Ditto, ditto. Ditto, ditto ... 4%... .« Ditto, Sheffield, and Line. 7%...... Mancheeterand Southampton 2 1 4 — •• to blidtand 100 ......106%. to 107 Ditto, Consol. Preference 100 Ditto, 40/. Shares Ditto, 50/. Shares ..... ...... 10 ... . G 3 / 4 to 7 1 4 Midland. Birm., and Derby...loo ..... 80% to Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham 6 per ceat....100 ll9 ...... to 119% Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 34 Ditto ditto 71.95.... .. ...... to Miuland, Leices. and Swan hington (8 per ct. gua.) 100 .... . 11.1idl(l. Great Western (Irish) 35 Nestle and Carlisle lOO ..... Ditto Quarter Shares Newmarket and Chesterford 18% — ...... to Ditto Extension Newport Abergy., and Heref. 6 Norfolk • • • .. Ditto New 201.... b ...... to Ditto Extension Do. Scrip, 1847,N. of Norflk 2 w Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor iorthern Countisa Union gorth British Ditto Half Shares - Do. Quarters VA to Ditto. Extension Ditto Thirds .... ...... 2 ..-.. -- North Staffordshire... .. ... ... 7% North Wales North Western Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton ... . .. 35 Reading, G'uildfd., Si Reigate Ph - -tb Royston and Hitchin Scottish Central -.. 20 Scottish Midland ... ........ .... 1754 — Ditto, New lO Sheffield, Rotherhara. and Goole 5 - Shrewsbury and Biriaiinghans 8 Ditto. ditto, Class B. S Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves, Ditto $ ... .. . ... to Ditto, Oswestry Ditto (New) Shrewsbury and Hereford ... 2 Shropshire Union ... 4 South Devon ....... ..... .... 40 Ditto, Preference South Staffordshire 4 South Eastern and Dover 33 1 4 - Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, N 0.2 Ditto, New, No. 3 ... 15 Ditto New, Ne. 4. ...... ... .. 7 1 4 5 14...... to South Wales South Yorkshire, Doneaster, and Goole 2 Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Goal ...... ... .. 4 rhames Haven Dock and Railway l7'4 — raw Vale Extension Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 13%...... Waterford and Limerick ... .. 40 ... .. Waterford, Wexford, Wicklw, and Dublin West Cornwall ' Whiteman arid Furness l2 ..... —.—.• to --• Windsor, Staines, and South Western Wilts,Somerset,&Woymouth 30 York, Newcastle, and Berwick 24 .... 33 Do. Original Now & Ber'ck 25 .. ... Do. North Shields Purchase 25 .. ... Do. Exton. No. 1 (Y. & N.) 10 Do. do. No. 2, New & B. 10 Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. • fork and North Midland .. 50 ...... 7$ to Ditto, Preference lO Ditto East and West Riding Extension.... FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...... 14%%... to. Central of France ( Orleans and Yierzon) Central of Spain Ceylon. .... ss. Demerira. ............ ........... 6 Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... . -- Ditch Rhenish 7 - to -- East Indian Great Indian Peninsular . 55....... ...... to Italian Ind Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Louvain i la Sambre Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon (Con stituted) Madrid and Valentin Namur and Liege... . l4 .... .. ... .to Northern of France. lO ...... 1290 i.. to Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 Over Yssel 4l3s 4d — to Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans.... Paris and Rouen .. Paris & Strasbourg ..... $ .—.. 4% to Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale Tours & Nantes ... ... ..... .. 8 — Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hasselt West Flanders VA — ...... to JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australaiia - British North American .... 50 Colonial Commercial of London London Joint Stock London and Westminster.~ 20 National Provincial of .Engld. 85 Ditto, New National of Ireland 22% ... .. to Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New Union of Australia Ditto, New 2 IA4 — Union of London ... 10 Union of Madrid MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO — Astrian Mining Company ... 11 —.... Australian Blaenarvon Iron ant Coal ... 50 Bolanos Scrip British Iron Brazilian Imperial ...,. .. ... 21 --- to Cobra Copper Galvanized Iron Ditto, New Real del Monte, Unregistered . —1% to 2 LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LoNDorr, Disc. 23.—Wind E.S.E., light airs, and dull weather. DEAL, Disc. 22. Wind E.N.E. Arrd. Velocity, Darrell, Jamaica. Arrived from the River, and sailed, Ann Milne, Port Philip ; Euphrates, New South Wales; Royal Shepherdess, Ceylon ; Monteo, Monte Video ; Amy, Sierra Leone ; Charles Brooke, St. Vincent's ; Blanche, Jamaica. Sid. Mary Rowe, Cuba; Britannia, DOVER, DEC. 22.—Wind, A.M., E.S.E., N.E.— Arrd. Lind, Osterlop, Rio Janeiro, for Bremen. HOLYHEAD BAY, DEC. 21.—Arrd. Mary, Welsh, Newfoundland, for Liverpool. LIVERPOOL, DEc. 22. Wind S.E.—Arrd. Henry Winch, Williams, Calcutta ; Hyperion, Wheeler, Macao ; Inglewood, Smith, Calcutta ; Duke of Lan caster, Wakeham, Bombay ; Lady Mona, Perkins, Val paraiso ; Isabella, Webster, New Orleans ; Hebrew, Badger, Mobile ; Richard Anderson, Baltimore. HARTLEPOOL, DEC. 21.—Wind S. by E.—Arrd. Pa triot, Miramichi. RAMSGATE, Duc. 22. Wind N.E. Sld. Ariel, Mauritius; Mathilda, Rio Janeiro; Constitution, New York. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 22. Wind N.E.—Sld. R. J. Knight. New York. Duaux, DEC. 21.—Wind S.E.—Sld. 20th, Palinder, St. John's, New Brunswick. FALMOUTH, DEc. 22.—Sid. Isabella, Sierra Leone; Creole, Dominica; Eleonore, Port-au-Prince. WATERFORD, DEC. 21.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Jessie, Gorman, (2114 m WurrnE, Dec. 22.—The Ann Gales has been got off sh , re, with little damage. The Mary and Jane steam frigate struck against the pier in assisting the above, and became leaky, and sank. FOWEY, DEC. 21.—A long boat, nineteen feet long by eight broad, painted black outside, with a red ribbon, was brought in here to-day. SKIBBEREEN, DEC. 20.—The name of the timber laden vessel wrecked at Gun Point, Cape Clear, is the Mary Jane. WxxronD, DEc. 21. The water-logged barque brought to anchor by some fishermen off the Salters is supposed to have gone down, as the boat sent is search of her were unable to find her. She had a carved Eagle on her stern, and the name commenced with the letter E. The inside of the bulwarks was painted a buff colour, and the canvas was of cotton, with a blue stripe. D RO GHEDA, Drc 21.—Two ships' boats, bottom up, black bottom, and blue sides, were passed yesterday, ten miles S. E. of Arklow Lights, by the Richard, arrived here. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 21.—Sld. Broad Oak, Mauritius; Matthew Paimboeuf, Amaica, Llstannah. 22. Lady Arabella, Baltimore. Titoos, DEC. lg.—Sid. Reliance, Rio Janeiro. DOVER, DEc. 22.—The Viscountess Canning, Pride, from London to Cape Coast Castle, which was stranded at Dymehurch 27th ult., was this day got off and towed into Folkestone harbour, with comparatively little damage. LITTLEHAMPTON, DEC. 20.—The Atalanta, Sole, which was on shore to the eastward of this place, has been got off, and brought into harbour. LYME REGIS, DEC. 21.—A balk, spar, and several pieces of bulwark, have come on shore at Axmouth ; also a fir balk, partly burnt, at Franscombe, and a balk, and piece of large mast, apparently belonging to a ship of 500 to 600 tons, at Charmouth Beach. WHITELIAvEN, DEC. 21.—The Britannia, Corkhill, which was on shore near Warrington, has been got off with little damage, and towed in here. STRANGFORD, DEc. 20.—The Dispatch, of this port, from W hitebaven, has been put on shore in Millin Bay, but will be got off again should the weather prove tine. Lavinia, Guaveil, i s on MUMBLES, DEC. 20.—The shore near the Mumbles Head, but is expected off next tide. BELFAST, DEc. 20.--The Aim Paley, of an d from Liverpool to Oporto, has been towed in here with loud rudder, having been on shore near Carrickfergus,' and must discharge. SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY•) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL•) JAMES V. WOODHOUSE AND ANOTHER. This was an action to recover the sum of 2sl. 41 - 6d., under the following circumstances. The d e ' fendants formerly held a bill of exchange of the plaintiff's for 841. 4e., They declined to renew the bill, but agreed to take 141. 14s. in cash, and another bill for 201., protecting the plaintiff against the. original bill ; but, instead of doing so, they allow ed an action to be brought, on which a verdict was ra• coverd, and plaintiff had to pay the money. Th e present action was brought to recover the amou rs paid to defendants, and the costs in the acti on brought on the bill. The jury gave a verdict fo r the amount. WALKER V. SHAOKELL.—FALSE IMPRISONMENT. This was an action to recover damages for fals e imprisonment. The defendant at first pleaded just': &talon ; but having withdrawn the plea, judgm ent now went by default. Mr. Sergeant Chadwick Jones appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Char' nock for the defendant. Mr. Sergeant JONES stated the plaintiff's case. Th e plaintiff was, in the month of May last, a clerk to a Mr. Young, an auctioneer, &c., in Tottenham-cant road ; defendant is a retired licensed victualler. On May 26th plaintiff was sent to the house of a fir ' Clarke, at Hammersmith, to take some goods to jr . Young's warehouse. He went with t wo m e n, andhn" laden the waggon with the goods, when th e y were el into custody for stealing some - paper, w hi c h was fnan rolled up in a hearth rug. The defendant gave the m , in custo iy on a charge of felony, but plaintiff .viL discharged the next morning, it appearing than defendant was present at the removal of the goul but did not state that the property was his, and 'Di a plaintiff and the men took them under the direetina of Clarke. Mr. Young was called, and proved the order for removal having been given by Clarke. In cross-examination by Mr. Sergeant Mat he admitted that he had been applied to by a Pe ts named Gutteridge, to get possession of the key, 1 , 4 - he agreed to do so if paid hi s ex p enees ; an d be a k .'":, mately obtained it, and was paid- 4/. 10 s ., an d a furt'S sum of 101. for his own expences. The goods We' watched on behalf of other persons claiming that' He took part of them to own lodgings, and thee. were seized by the sheriff for rent. Ultimately all goads were seized. Had formerly removed an property for Clarke from Norwood, but did not rall k sd any proposals to get the key in that case. He been solicited by Shackell to get the three actiw.' d (by plaintiff and the two men) settled, and he .se l Ag. that he thought he could do so for sixty noun Defendant said no rent was due from Clarke. • 0 Re-examined—Had no idea that th e goo ds had bee ,,„ w removed clandestinely, and he was no t a tt e mptioll ' conceal the goods. By the UNDER-Smatiirr—lle took a place in Cum ming-street expressly to hold th ese goods, but wo a d 0 4 not leave them, as he found he was w atched, . 1 0 considered himself bound to prot ec t th em , if pesal b ; A person named Brotherton, who assisted in. 1.- s t moving the goods, was called, and admitted that,, A , the police-o ffi ce: several p e r sons a tt en d e d t o coMPS that they had been s w i n dl e d ou t o f th e ir Shackell was present at the removal of the proPe3; but did not say that the paper was hi s till he g_i(ll. in the station-house. There was no secre s y ebserY,7oo removing the paper, and-Shackell was there ao time. d this, Amey, a carman, was called, and corroborate and denied that he was told that if they gave uP tt— ba eit authority for removing the goods they discharged, nor did he say to plaintiff and the _p 1 : 1 ,; as they went to the station-house, " Now, minu yha give . your , right card here." Plaintiff said ,tbst was removing the by order' gdo'ds of his ErV, it , (Young),- and- said where he could be found. , he !less did not know that there was any harm• at time he was removing the goods. • ehOuld • Mr. Sergeant Wiraciris addressed the jury: for I s e : fendant, and urged that the smallest amount, 1' mages would meet the justice of the case, as I are was evident the plaintiff and the witnesses were' all aw they were assisting Clarke in unlawfulll T eal "' og the property, which he undertook to prove by severs' witnesses. (The case had not concluded when °di' report left') MIDDLESEX SESSIONS• (THIS DAY.)' tor William Butler, r/tegro seaman, was %dicta f or stealing three sovereigns, a coat, trousers, seve r shirts, and other articles, the property of 11 xt hi, P Woodling. Both the prisoner and the prosecutor be longed to an American vessel. It appeared that the prisoner had access to all 0 0 stores - of - the prosecutor, who was mate, and upos missing the above articles and money, the killer gall information to the police, who disoote'red 'that the, prisoner had pawned some of the articlei,, and one 01 the shirts was found on him. - The prisoner said he was entrusted with the cloth e ' to pawn by the prosecutor, who said he wanted t° raise money to go to Liverpool. A verdict of Guilty was returned, and the Ar 61STANT-JIIDGE sentenced him to six months' it° . prisonment, with hard labour. James Sazerey, a private in the Grenadier Guard s ,' was indicted for robbing Richard Jones of a si lver watch, value 61., in Holborn, on the morning of tl3l 16th inst., at four o'clock. The prosecutor stated that as he was passing . sl e° ,,f. Holborn on the morning in question, the 1)1 15 ° 0- made snatch at his watchguard, which he broll; and drew the watch from his waistcoat pocket. i c ,. l attempted to make his escape, but he seized him the belt and gave him into custody, when the wstc was found in his possession. A sergeant of the prisoner's com an and said the prisoner had borne Ilent charac ter during the eighteen years he had been in the cl ient ment. obedient ment. He had been a very regular soldier. made The prisoner said that the prosecutor luau . - indecent proposals to him. D v mune fOrWarat Thejury found the prisoner Guilty without a ment's hesitation. nfe e The ASSISSTANT-JUDGE, in passing se-- 4 -° , he did not believe one word of this rnen'T„ °s i nade horrid charge against the prosecutor, of ha v :Z s the indecent proposals to the prisoner. If s f t o lu th - e. lice case, it was he who should have called Ul in' instead of the prosecutor. He had made quiries, and he found there wa s not the shg t he foundation t e foundation for anything of the kind. Of 6 way courses that could be adopted by a prisoner, by. ble of defence, there was none more truly abornintlot than that of making such charges as those a g ar ht prosecutors, and he felt great doubt whether h e oug . ° _, not to transport him at once. His conduct was CII9, graceful to him as a man and a soldier , an d he ho p e, when he got back to his regiment, after the ex p ire' tion of his term of imprisonment , h e would be marked man for his present disgraceful condu ct ' The sentence of the Court was, that he be iinprisone do and kept to hard labour, for 12 months. lihtest BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) We are reqw,sted by Mr. Henry to acknowledg e the receipt of a donation of 101., for war d e d to hi this morning for the poor-box of the office, from t" e. Goldsmiths' Company. THAMES.—(THIS DAY.) Thomas Ellwood way charged with having s n ; mit Charles r ev e da d e iranceStepneycoffins, r adjacentaand marine ot lee r churchyard,offered h store-dealer, church, broken torhrc eh: ner d le ew a a d al uesrpf,ocrrhaeasnrsi charged a n :. W receiving Ita the same, ppeared tha knowing tyesterda i to be yesterday evenisntgole. s Bngroes, et officer of the detective force, observed the prison climb over the palings of St e pn e y churchyld , l l : proceed to the shop of the prisoner Butler. Il e returned to the churchyard, an d a ft e r a short inci terval proceeded to B u tl e r' s s h o p. BarnesitsketA Butler what the prisoner Ellwood had br" g icl there for sale. He appeared confused, an d s 1 ~ " Only a piece of old iron." Barnes 11,, sisted on searching the premises, and und erneiaf the counter he found 2 cwt. of lead, which had eel, dently belonged to the coffins in Stepney yard, as several of the inscriptions were still legibiei One, which he produced in court, from its Bre s t antiquity, excited a great deal of curiosity. Thell, of the inscription legible was—"•Richd. Good. 162 Aged 60." Barnes instantly took Ellwood into custody, and on his way, to the station-house he c on: fessed to having broken up the coffins in the churcho yard. The inspector subsequently ordered Butler t churc.ll be taken into custody. Mr. B A LLANTINE considered this a most seriouto affair, and before he would attempt himself to adjudi cate upon it, directed Barnes to proceed to the paro.' chial authorities to ascertain if they intended indicting the prisoners, and in the meanwhile ordered them to be locked up in the cells. WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) James Shaw Foster, late a clerk in the service of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, was charged with obtaining money by false pretences from trade s men transmitting transmitting and receiving goods b y that line °I railway. A clerk in the grain department at the goods station, in Brick-lane, Spitalfields, named Fearn, deposed that the prisoner, prior to the 7th (I the present month, was also a clerk in the same (17 partment of the company. It was the prisoneF duty to make out from the invoices duplicate copses of tickets for grain sent by the c armen for delivo!r) to houses in town, and in consequence of its WOWS