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MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOTEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., TOWN AN D COUNTRY. By MRS. TROLLOPE. " Its dashing portraiture of character, navel story, sustained ac tion, and knowledge of the world, will render this work as popular as allY of the author's previous productions."—Britannia. "We are inclined to consider ' Town and Country' as the most agreeable, if not the ablest of Mrs. Trollope's novels."—Atlas. Henry Colbuzu, Puollsher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW NOVEL. In 3 vole. post Bvo., WARRE N N E, THE MEDICAL PRACTITIONER, By the Author of " Margaret Capel," &c., WILL BE PUBLISHED TO-MORROW, DECEMBER 28. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. R THEATRE ROYAL, HAVIIARK ET. Un ier the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. TUIS EVENING Will be performod Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir An thony Absolnte, Mr. Farren ; Captain Absolute, Mr. H Farren ; Faulkland, Mr. Creswick ; acres, Webster; .Air Lucius O'Trig ger, Mr. Hudson ; Fag, Mr. Rrindal ; Devil, Mr. Keeley ; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Glover ; Lydia Languish, Mrs. Nlsbett ; Julia, Miss Tortescue ; Lucy, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with a New and Original Burlesque Spectacle entitled THE WORLD 'UNDERGROUND; or, the Golden Flute and the Brazen Waters. Stage Manager, Mr. Fallen; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, IL ; Pit, 3e. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to eommence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. 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, Glennaire, Cullenford, and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, and Madame Celeste. To conclude with an Italian Pantomime, entitled PIERROT, the Married Man ; and POLICHINELLO, the Gay Single Fellow. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. , Gallery, is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven,. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. bole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING Will 1)o presented new Comic Drama, entitled THE TRA GEDY QUEEN. After which, a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN BRANC 11. To conclude with a Comic Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND. Dress Boxes, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. N• half-price to any part of the house. The iiew Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is opea 1* the Public every day, trom Ten till Six. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be presented the Tragedy of TILE GAMESTER. Mr. De verley, Mr. Cooper; Stukely, Mr. Ryder; Lemon, Mr. Conway ; Bates, Mr. C. Fisher; Jarvis, Mr. Gilbert; Dawson, Mr. Norton; Mrs. Beverley, Miss Emmeline Montague ; Charlotte, Miss Susan Cushman ; Betty, Miss Somers. To conclude with a new Christmas Pantomime, entitled OLD FATHER TIME ; or, Harlequin and the Four Seasons. Dress Circle, Ss.: Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ROYAL SURREY THE.ATRE. Lessee, Mrs. F. Davidge, No. 1, D a vidge-terrace, Kensington-read, Surrey. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Tragedy of THE EARL OF WARWICK. Ring Edward, Mr. F. Vining ; Earl of Warwick, Mr. 11. Hughes ; Duke of Clarence, Mr. Constantine ; Earl of Pembroke, Mr. H. Horn castle ; Margaret of Anjou, Mrs. W. West. To conclude with a new Pantomime, entitled BATTLEDOOR and SHUTTLECOCK ; or, Harlequin Trap, Bat, and Ball. A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have been re-fitted). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the Drincipal Librarians ; and at the Box-stlize of the Theatre, which is open daily trom Ten until Four. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be presented an original Drama, entitled The CARPENTERS OF LAMBETH, in which Miss Vincent, Mr. Ricks, and Mr. For man wi I appear. Alter which, THE JACKET OF BLUE. To conclude with the grand scholastic and instructive Pantomime, entitled TME WORLD OF WONDERS ; or, Harlequin Caxton and the Origin of Printing, with wonderful scenery and decorative ap pointments. Clown, Mr. Paul Herring ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; Harlequin, M. Lupino ; Sprite, Signor Molino ; Columbine, Mdlle. Zitella. Boxes, is. ; Pit, 6 d. ; Gallery, 41. No Halt-price to any part of the house. Doors open at Six, to commence at Half-past Six. AsTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Pr.)prietor and Manager. 'dr. William Batty. Mr. Batty's performing Elephants. THIS EVENING, The Grand Spectacle of THE CARL' OF SILESIA. Entire:y new SCCII69 in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the ..stahlishment. in th;; various modes or equestration. To conblude with a Grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime entitled HARLEQUIN DOCTOR SYNTAX AND HIS DAPPER GREY MARE, in which those popular artistes Herr Denlin, Mdlle. Theo dore, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Bradbury, as Harlequin. Columbine, Clown, ann Pantaloon, which will exceed in splendour ant effect all former productions at the Amphitheatre. Box-office open from 11 till 5 Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W West. TBE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 26. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 34 ; Highest, 37 ; Noon, 35, BAIWNETER, 30,21.—W1ND S.E.; hazy. DECEMBER 27. Taitaxemrrma, Lowest, 30; Highest. 33 ; Noon, 32 BIuomETEB, 30.28.—W1ND N.N.W.; cloudy. HIGH WA.TEE AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning.. 20 palliates alter 5. 1 Evening .. 39 minutes titer 5 - 4 0,1 e ,aw4t.44 _ • „AFT - Er Olte-nim LONDON, MONDAY. DECEMBER 27, 1847. Thirty-three years ago the event which occurred on the 17th instant, at Parma, would have elicited signs of lamentation and woe from all the Courts of the European continent. Then the intelligence of the demise of the Empress MARIA Louisa, the con sort of the most puissant monarch, the most daring soldier, and the most extraordinary conqueror on the globe, would have been received in the different sovereignties of the eastern hemisphere (with the exception of England) with every token of sorrow and every expression of sympathy. The world would have seen in the event the death of a young princess, in the bloom of womanhood, whose brow had but recently been girt with the diadem of the wife of a greater than CHARLEMAGNE, whose throne was guarded by war riors as memorable as the fabled palladins of Aaxuua, whose sceptre was a sword more terrible than Joyeuse, and whose vast and almost miraculous empire extended among the shepherds on the Julian Alps and the fishermen on the Baltic. Now, however, the daughter of FRANCIS disappears -without arous ing any sentiment more worthy than one of the most supreme indifference. The glory which surrounded her for a fitful interval at the commencement of this century has long since vanished; she has successively dwindled from an Empress into an Archduchess, from the spouse of the Emperor NAPOLEON into the partner of a one-eyed Chamberlain, from the gran deur of an unparalleled pomp to the obscure gratifica tion of an ignoble passion ami lst the provincialkms of a petty principality. With an opportunity—than which woman never had a more golden one—of rendering herself illustrious to all time and in all history, by sharing the misfortunes of the wonderful man to whose destinies she had been bound by the consecrating hand of religion, MARIA Louisa so acted as to render herself the most contemptible actor in that drama of perfidy, meanness, and ingratitude. If any emotion could by possibility be excited by the information just received from northern Italy respecting the departure of the Archduchess or ex- Empress Manse Louisa, the emotion would be rather pleasurable than otherwise ; for by her removal one of the greatest obstacles to the adjustment of the Italian Customs' League is removed in like manner. According to the stipulations contained in the Treaty of Vienna, the triple principalities of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla, devolve upon the representative of the Spanish Bourbons, the Ex-Duke of Lucca, a Prince whose constitutional weakness may conduce to the political liberation of his people if his patriotism be not suffici en t t o p ro duce that guarantee of their happiness. iness. Brief as is the period which has elapsed this ruler abdicated from the sovereignty of the Lucchese, it may have been enough to convince him of the value of that authority which his previous policy rendered lain, incapable of retaining, and to compliance satisfy him that a servile with the wishes of Prince METTERNICEt can only result in his own degradation, or in the tumultuous assemblies and open rebellion of the It a li an be his decision, the consequence Whatever may , of thi s trans ference of the sway of Parma Piacenza, aiid o Guas t the talla, cannot prove otherwise than beneficial cause of the nationality of the Roman peninsula. Another of the old imped iments has di sappeared, the fate of those territories which are immediately con tiguous to Venetian Lombardy is narrowed, th e aspirations of Pius and the dreams of GIOBERTI are approaching nearer and nearer to their realisation. Even supposing that the successor of MARIA Louisa should still continue to evince his subserviency to the dictation of Austria, and that Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla should, like Modena, be dedicated in a more especial manner than heretofore to the interests of the Vien nese Cabinet, it were frivolous to anticipate any other consequence to such an irrational proceeding than such as are calculated to benefit the promoters of the popular movement. With Tuscany in one direction, and Piedmont in the other, and Sardinia in the Tit Ti rty tf 14 0 N II 0 N t MO W DA v _EN . 1N 6, DECEMfinn fri o 047, direction of the Mediterranean, and the Papal States skirting the shores of the Adriatic—with thousands prepared at the first signal to draw' the brand of freedom southwards in the dominion of the Two Sicilies, and north wards in those of Venetian Lombardy —lit were insane to look forward to any success atten dant upon the petty obstructions raised by the late Duke of LUCCA and now the Grand Duke of Paamht) PIACENZA, and GUASTALLA. Against the Italian Customs' League he would prove impotent ; with it, he might be of material assistance to the people. Events must speedily divulge his intentions, and under all circumstances render the cause of the mul titude triumphant. The many extraordinary circumstances con nected with the frightful homicide which has been known as the " Mirfield Murder," and for which two men are at this moment lying under sentence of death at York Castle, render it worthy of the most serious consideration. 'We have, first, the almost unparalleled atrocity of the crime ; secondly, that PATRICK REID, the principal delinquent, had already been tried and acquitted of the murder of one of the three parties, who were butchered almost at the same moment, and that the evidence applicable to the second case was exactly that which should have been produced on the former trial; thirdly, that M'CADE (one of the convicted parties) had been admitted as evidence on behalf of the Crown against REID, the other prisoner on the former occasion, when the acquittal took place, and that such a proceeding is generally supposed to act as a bar to any subsequent prosecution for the offence, and to protect the party who had given his testimony from the penal consequences of his guilt; and, fourthly, the confession of REID, who, previously to his conviction, confessed privately to his attorney, which he confirmed subsequently, when every hope of his life being spared had departed, that he was the only guilty party, and that APCABE had not in any degree participated in the offence, and that in fact, at this moment, an innocent man has been un justly convicted, and that he is now subject to the in fliction of the extreme penalty of the law for a crime of which he is guiltless. On the first point, a more harrowing and frightful affair can scarcely be found in our criminal records. In the middle of the day, almost at high noon, an aged couple, and their servant, were murdered under circumstances of the greatest brutality. The murderer having fractured their skulls with the deadly weapon (the soldering iron) with which he had armed him self, and with the kitchen poker, which he had seized when the first instrument was broken from the violence of his blows ; then rifling the pockets of his victims, and, to make assurance duubly sure, cutting the throats of the several parties with a razor which he had for that purpose removed from its case. What renders the entire case (if possible) more horrible was, that there was an entire absence of any motives that could have induced a feeling of revenge. There had been no dispute or quarrel ; there had been no ejectmeas or altar denunciations ; it was simply the desire of gain, the intention to plunder a trifling sum, that induced the wretched man to deprive three human beings of their lives—coolly and deli berately to shed the blood of his fellow-creatures in order that he might more easily carry his intended robbery into effect. The desperate determination with which the fearful act was perpetrated may be judged from the fact, that while the murderer was in the house, with his bleeding victims stretched at his feet, a knock came to the door, which, after two or three repetitions, he answered, and after opening the door and sending away the person who had knocked, he returned into the house, completed the robbery which he had commenced, found the razor, and with it cut the throats of the unfortunate couple and their servant, and then coolly washed and wiped his hands, divested himself of the marks of his offence, and on leaving the scene of his guilt locked the door, and threw the key and the instrument of murder into the well, and returned to his own house. It would, we believe, be impossible to find in the annals of crime a more atrocious or horrifying trans action. We shall now turn to the confession of the mur. derer and the exoneration thereby of his fellow-con vict, because, although we placed it fourth, it is more immediately connected with the facts of the case to which we have already adverted. The great point to be considered is, what faith can be placed in the statement that has been made—how far can its accu racy be relied on, and is APCABE actually either entirely innocent, or at most only guilty of having suppressed the truth and concealed his knowledge of the offence, which he accidentally attained, in order to shield the murderer from his guilt ? It is possible that a murderer might tell a falsehood and go out of the world with a lie in his mouth in order to save an accomplice—that being well aware that a full confession or a sturdy denial cannot have the slightest effect on his own fate—that for him all worldly prospects have closed for ever, and that he must shortly render up his forfeit life on the scaf fold, he may think he was committing but a venial sin in endeavouring to preserve his comrade from an ignominious death. Implicit credence cannot there fore be accorded to such a story, but it must be closely scrutinised in every particular. It must be ascertained how far it is corroborated by, or at variance with, the facts that have been deposed to by witnesses whose testimony is unimpeached—what intrinsic evidence of truth it possesses—how far it is probable or even possible ; and if after the strictest investiga tion into every circumstance of the case, and the most attentive consideration of the facts, the recent state ment is such as to awaken any reasonable doubt as to the actual guilt of the party declared to be inno cent in the disclosures of tlae acknowledged murderer, he should receive the benefit of that doubt ; and the benign principle of the British law being kept in re collection, " that it is better that ninety-nine guilty persons should escape than that one innocent man should be unjustly punished," the Home Secretary, on whom, in the absence of any tribunal of appeal, the question of M'CAnE's life or death now entirely depends, should either accord a free pardon, or at least commute the sentence to a punishment suited to any offence of which he may undoubtedly be guilty. We shall on a future occasion resume the conside ration of this subject, and we think that we shall be enabled to show that there is at least such a reason able doubt, and that in M'CABE's case the capital sentence should not be carried into execution. The Austrian Observer of the 17th contains a long article on the reply made by the Swiss Diet to the notes of the Cabinets of Vienna, Berlin, and Paris. This article is remarkable for the tone of bitterness which pervades it throughout, and for the decided hostility which it manifests for the principles on which the reply of the Diet was founded. The per sonal allusions in it, when referring to the chiefs of the Federal party, are also of a much stronger cha racter than any hitherto made in this semi-official journal. The writer denies the right of the Diet to dictate to the cantons, which he declares are all sepa rate and independent sovereigns, and characterizes the war, on the part of the majority, as a display of force without any of the rights which would render it legi timate. The Swiss Confederation, says the Austrian Observer, is not, as the Diet pretends, an indivisible republic, and the Diet is not a central government. On the question of the Jesuits, the Austrian Observer says— " The Jesuits were only made a means of dividing those who resisted, and to make an ally of the opi nion of the day, which was opposed to that order. The T)iet was but too successful on this point with the mass, who do not reflect, and easily receive im pressions. But as regards public right, was the war, undertaken on such a pretext, and which has ended in the preponderance of the radical aggressors, justifiable?" In another part the writer, after observing that the intrigues of the Radical party in Switzerland can only be continu©d so long as Austria, Prussia, and France may be pleased to tolerate them, says — "The Radical note (the reply of the Diet) boasts of the friendly reception which the Diet has met with from its friends in the conquered cantons ; but when these cantons shall have been evacuated by the troops of the Diet, and wh en guarantees shall have been given by the majority a ga i nst a similar attack upon 'the public peace, we shall see whether the people of primitive Switzerland have received this kind of li berator with the general joy stated in the Radical note." -• The article concludes by alluding to that p art of the reply of the Diet, in which it denies the right of , intervention by the great Powers in the affairs of Switzerla., I. The right of intervention is insisted upon horn the fact, as the writer says, that ere Fede ral Government has given no guarantees to the can tons of the minority for the maintenance of their independence. This independence, he says, is stipu lated by the federal compact, and, having been violated, the cantons of the minority have a right to form a defensive league for their own security. He says — "The violators of the compact may consider them selves the legal and acknowledged representatives of Switzerland, but it must be permitted to the Great Powers of Europe to entertain a different opinion. If, with a numerical superiority of six to one, the Diet has trodden under foot the Catholic league, that changes nothing in the character of the affair consi dered in point of right, and the Helvetic Confedera tion of 1815, the neutrality of which was guaranteed by the Congress of Vienna, no longer exists. Europe will now decide to which of the two elements into which Switzerland is di vided this political privilege is to be accorded." It is evident from this passage, if the Austrian Observer is on this occasion the organ of the Cabinet, that it is really intended to insist upon guarantees from the Diet as regards the sovereignty and independence of the cantons of the ex-Sonderbund, and to insist upon the right of intervention on the ground that the Diet has violated the conditions on which the independence of the Helvetic Confederation generally was gua ranteed by the great Powers in the Congress of Vienna. Letters from Berne of the 22d state that the canton of Neufchatel, instead of paying the 300,000 Swiss francs, in obedience to the decree of the Diet, in money, had sent bills of various descriptions to Berne, and only 120 francs in money. The Diet had ordered all these bills to be returned to Neufchatel, and had demanded bullion instead. Unterwalden having paid its share of the expenses of the war, had had its Federal garrison reduced. Friburg had de clared its inability to satisfy the demands of the Diet at present. Dr. STIEGER has been elected Deputy of Lucerne. Sir STRATFORD CANNING gave a grand diplomatic dinner on the 21st to the officers of the Directory and to the Foreign Ministers. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 20th publishes the proclamation of the Parma Ministers notifying to the people the death of the Archduchess MARIA. LouisA, and the accession of the Infant CIIARLES LOUIS DE BOURBON (the ex-Duke of Lucca), to whom a courier has been dispatched. It would appear that the day after the death of the Archduchess the people gathered before the palace, crying " Viva Deform and that a deputation went up to the Regency and pre sented an address, demanding a new constitution, with various reforms, and the organization of a " National Guard." The Regency are stated to have answered that nothing could be decided upon in the absence of the new Sovereign. The Piedmontese Gazette also states that a serious riot took place at Lucca on the Bth. The English squadron is stated to have left Leghorn on the 18th. Disturbances are said to have also taken place at Modena, owing to the Duke's refusal to enter the projected Italian Customs League. At Naples, on the evening of the 16th inst., a riot of a political nature took place, which required the interference of the military. Several of the rioters were severely wounded; two gendarmes were seriously hurt ; another had been killed ; a police soldier had also been slain, and two more were suffering from dangerous wounds. At Messina great agitation prevailed. Marshal LANDI had retired to the fort, and the troops had scarcely any more inter course with the inhabitants. The Duke DE SERRA CAPRIOLA arrived at Naples, from Paris, on the 16th. A letter from Rome of the lath says— " The Sovereign Pontiff has this day received Vice- Admiral Parker and the English General Adam at a private audience. They are to return to-morrow to the Bull& g, which is at present stationed in the port of Civita Vecchia. In reply to the expression of sentiments of admiration and respect felt towards him by these gentlemen, Pius IX. said that he was proud of the sympathies which his Government had met with in Great Britain. These sympathies, joined to the love of his people, and to the loyal and sincere co-operation of all good citizens, would, he trusted, give him strength to overcome all obstacles, and to accomplish the task which he had commenced. I walk with God,' he added, and I shall therefore succeed l'" A letter from Turin of the 16th says—" Important measures are expected for the new year. It is though t that a general amnesty will be pronounced. The KING has solemnly promised it, and nothing warrants the supposition that he will violate his word. It is stated also that the Jesuits are to be expelled, but this is doubtful ; as is the assertion that a constitu tion is speedily to be granted. This latter event is very seriously spoken of, and it is affirmed that CHARLES ALUERT said to Lord Alirvro, 'lf I were absolutely free in my acts, I should long since have been a constitutional King.'" • - London committee. The dignified but affecting reply of the Prince produced such emotion as to cause many of the persons present to shed tears. The presentation of the medal was to have been fol lowed by a dinner to be given to the Prince at LE MARDELAY'S, in the Rue Richelieu, and about 20 Poles had assembled there to do honour to the septua genarian patriot, when, an hour before the banquet was to be placed upon the table, the police prohibited the meeting, and the Prince and Princess on their arrival found the doors closed against them, M. GUIZOT not having had the ordinary politeness to in form Prince CZARTORYSKI that the banquet would not be permitted to take place. In order further to show how completely he is the very obedient, humble servant of Austria and Russia, M. GUILOT has de prived sixty of the Polish refugees of the allowance voted them by the Chamber. The excuse given for this is that they occasionally corresponded with their friends in Poland. M. GUIZOT is a bold man thus to brave the public opinion of the French people. As we conjectured ABD-EIACADEIi has not sur rendered. The Ministerial print, the Conservateur, says— "We learn by our private correspondence from Africa that his Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumale has left Algiers for Oran. This unexpected depature has just given rise to many conjectures. It was said at Algiers that Abd-el-Kader had definitely refused to submit to the conditions which the Emperor Muley Abderrha man desired to impose on him. We have made these conditions known to our readers, and we have always believed that they were in fact unacceptable. Ab-el- Kader appears resolved to attempt anew the chances of a struggle against the Moors. One of his soldiers had been to the camp of General Lamoriciere, and had there given the assurance that the ex-Emir was decided to commence the attack during the night, and to fall unexpectedly on each of the separate camps, in such a manner as to overthrow them one after the other, being too weak to keep the field against all his enemies united. Our readers will understand that in such a conjuncture the presence of the Governor- General may have a decisive influence on the events. On the other hand it is said, it is true, that Lieutenant- General Lamoriciere was shortly to leave for Paris to take part in the labours of the session ; and that the Duke d'Aumale had to proceed to Oran, in order to come to an understanding with General Cavaignac, who will be charged ad interim with the government of the province. This reason is no doubt excellent, but we do not the less believe that it is not it which has most contributed to hasten the departure of the Prince." MM. DE COLLOREDO-WALLSECII and RADOWITE, the Austrian and Prussian Ambassadors to the con ferences on the affairs of Switzerland, arrived in Paris on Friday. The Toulonnais of the 21st instant contains the following : "The crews of the ships of the Mediterranean squadron are being completed. Several ships of war have already arrived at Toulon, bringing a sufficient number of men to replace those of the class of 1840, who have been paid off. The Government appears disposed to maintain the squadron on a proper foot ing, and we cannot but approve its resolution. We should, however, recommend it to augment our armaments in the Mediterranean, where England is now concentrating an imposing force. We have several ships in commission, and amongst others the Hercules and Jemappes, which, it is true, might com plete their armament in a very short period, if there were men enough in the depots. Certain points of the Mediterranean coast may soon become the theatre of serious events. The political situation of Italy, the recent insurrection in Greece, and the serious nature of the differences existing between that kingdom and Turkey, are so many facts calculated to produce com plications which ought to be foreseen." Lord RuouGnam had arrived at Paris on his way to Cannes, where he intends to pass the month of January. The French Three per Cents. were done, in the Passage de l'Opera, Paris, on Saturday, at 75f. 75c. MARSEILLES, DEC. 21.—Marseilles and Avignon, 570 f.; Northern, 556 f. 25c. MONE Y - and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE, The Liverpool Cutton Market was closed on Satur. There is very little news in the City this morning, but the steamer from the West Indies is telegraphed, and the letters may be delivered this evening. Business in nearly all departments is expected to be inactive until after the commencement of January, when many are sanguinely looking for better times. The Money Market is gradually becoming easier, but will probably be somewhat tightened just before the close of the year. NVe shall then shortly have the dividend payments to afford relief, and as a great many railway companies pay their interest in January, this will go in part liquidation of " calls." The scarcity of first-class bills of exchange will limit greatly the opening for the employment of a large amount which was ordinarily lodged with the discount houses. There is very little doing in the Public Securities, but prices are firmer, owing to the generally improved tone of feeling and the advance in prices at Paris. Consols are 851 to 85i for January. The Reduced Three per Cents. realise 85i and the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. 861 4. Exchequer-bills have been at 9e. to 12s. premium. The Foreign Securities are steady, but not brisk. Portuguese Fotrr per Cents. have been 22-1, and Mexican Bonds 18k. Dutch Four per Cents. are 851, and the French Three per Cent Rentes 76, with the exchange at 25f. 50c. The Railway Share Market is bettor, and holders seem inclined to ask higher rates. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B5 Li. 4 New 3 per Cent. Arias. B6 Consols for Account ... 85 % 34 Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,000/. 5001. Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent lBll Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent -- Ditto for the Account 2 2 s ii Dividends on the above payable in London. French Eentes, 31 per Cent 76f. —c. Exchange 2sf. 50c. Dutch 2►/. L per Cent.,l2 Guild — Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAT SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RALLWAYB. PAID. Pis Ssive. Aberdeen Amber., Notting. Boston, &c. 2% % ...... to Ayrshire and Galloway Btlfast and County Down .. 10 .. .. Birmingnain & Oxford Junc... 20 . 22%%% to Birmingham, \Vol., & Dudley 10 ... . 14 Birraing., Wol., & Stour Val. 101.140.... - Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction.. ... 7% — to Boston, Stamf., & Birming... 5 Bristol and Exeter Do., Thirds - ...... to Buckinghamshire lO/. 4s — to Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Ditto. Clydesdale Junction 50 Chester and Holyhead... 37% 20% to Ditto, Preference 8 Clarence. - Do., let Class, 6 per Cent Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 20 - Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 15 East Anglia, 251.& L. , E. and L. &D. Ditto, 18/., E. &11 ls ..... Ditto, 31. 103., E. & H... 2 Eastern Counties .... Ditto, ditto (B) Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1, 64. 13s. 4d... Do., do. N 0.2,61. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension ...... 10 ..... 8 Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., Quarter .... ....... ...... 12 % — ...... to Do., Ne w 23 — .. ... to East ersn Union ... .. .. 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 12% — to Ditto., Thirds l3s. 4d — Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.) ... ~.... East Lancashire Ditto, New .. ........... .... . 13 Do., New Quarters East Lincolnshire 12%...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 6O Ditto, Halt Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%. Edinburgh and Northern 22i-A ...... Ditto, New ..... ..... ...... to Ditto, New port 9 1, 42 •...•• to Ditto, ditto, New ... 2 1 4 ...... to Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — to Ditto, New ..... ..... Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..B/. to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, is Ayr 50 ...... ...... to Ditto, Now _ _ Do. , A Shares (5 per ct. gua.) 12% ..... .. ... t. Great Northern I O I, IE — ..... to -- Do. London & York Exten. 2 1 ,i — ...... to Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35 Great North of England 100 224%...... to Ditto, New 401. 5 Ditto, New 30/. Ditto, New 151............... 6 1 ,4 2 2 1,4. ... to Great Western Ditto, Half 5hare5............ 5() Ditto, Quarter Share.. Ditto, Fifths Do. New 17/. fludderofield and Manchester 22 .. .. Ditto, Thirds Hull and Selby SO Ditto, Half Shares - ...... to Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12% — to Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 15 Do. do. and Norwich Do., do., Extension Scrip (late (Carob. and Ely) 2% — ...... to Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 Do.,Thirds.. ... Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 ..... Ditto, ditto Ditto Half Shares - 38 Ditto Quarters 14% ...... Ditto Fifths - Ditto Sixteenths ... ... 0A...-. Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 101.4 s — Do. Liverpool aad Bury... 34 Do. (Hudders. and Sheff.) 33 Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole 47% - Do., West Riding Union ...41. 25..... Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 ...... 35 Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9 Ditto ditto ........ ......(B) 1 k to Leeds and Bradford 5O ..... .. ... to Leicester and Bedford Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manchus. 37% — to Do., Branch 14 Shares 12% ...... Ditto, New Branch (blue).. 2% — to Ditto, Extension (green)... 2% — Do., New Exten. (pink)... 2% — ...... to -.- Leeds and Thirsk ...-... ...... 36 Ditto, New Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. .... Liverpool. Crosby, and South port. - Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction 2 1,4 - ...... to London )t 131ackwa11...16/. 18s. 4d — to Ditto New, No. 1.. Ditto New, No. 2 4l. 13s. 4d.... . .... to Do. Extension - Loud., Bright., & South Coast 50 Do. Consolidated Eighth5... 30 Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . ..... Do. Prot. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ..-.. Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... London and Greenwich... 121. 155. 4d... - Ditto Preference lB/ 17s 2d... ...... to London and North Western.. loo l4B Do. Quarter .....L. and B. 17 Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2 2 ..... 10 3 / 4 111# to 10 3 / 4 Do. do. Fifths Do. Quarters .... ..... G. J 25 Do. 40/. Shares L. &M. 15 ...... Do. 40/. Skares...M. and B. 40 ...... 59 - Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 7%..... Do. 101. .. M. and B. (B.) 71 / 4 — ...... to Do. 101... M. and B. (C.) 1 London and S. Western.... 41.. 618 d... Do. New Consolidated Bths. 40 Ditto New 504 ...... Ditto New 40/. .... ..... .. .. 26 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 •••••• ... _ , Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 Ditto, Thirds 61.135. 4d... ...... to London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1% — ...... to Londonderry and Coleraine... 27% — to Londonderry and Enniskillen 23:yi — Manch. Buxton, & Matlock 3 Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto Vi Share.s (No. 1) ... 13 Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 Ditto, 1 / 8 Shares (No. 3)... 7%..... Ditto Grimsby Ditto, ditto. Ditto, ditto ... 4% to Ditto, Sheffield, and Linc. 7%...... Manchester and Southampton 2 1 4 — .. .- to Midiand 100 lO9 108... to 109 Ditto, Consol. Preference...100 Ditto, 401. Shares Ditto, 501. Shares..... ...... 10 ... Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ..... Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham 6 per ce*t....100 Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 34 -• Ditto ditto 71.9....... Miuland, Leices. and Swan nington (8 per ct. gna.)....100 .... . - Midld. Great Western (Irish) 35 Newoastle and Carlisle lOO ...... ...... to Ditto Quarter Shares Newmarket and Claesterford 11th — ...... to Ditto Extension to Newport Abergy., and Here!. 8 Norfolk IOO Ditto New 201. - Ditto Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, N. of Norflk 2 Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 - Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor ..dorthern Counties Union gorth British Ditto Half Shares.. ....... .. 12% ll% to -- Do. Quarters 4 3 /4 — ...... to Ditto. Extension ............ Ditto Thirds ... ......... —.... 2 ....„ North Staffordshire—. .. ...... 7% 7% to North Wales 3% ••••• ..... to North Western • 6 Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Reading, Cruildfd. , & Reigate 7 %•••••• . .. to Royston and Ilitchin .7 . ... to _ Scottish Central Scottish Midland .... ....... .... 17% — .. . ... to -- Ditto, Now... Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole .... 5 Shrewsbury and Birmingham 6 ':,12% ..... . to Ditto, ditto, Class B. 3 — - Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves, Ditto 8 . ... to __. Ditto, 06wesiry Ditto (New) - to Ditto 6 per Cent. Pref 5 ...... Shrewsbury and Hereford ... 2 Shropshire Union . 4 .. 144...... to -- South Devon ....... ...... 40 Ditto, Preference South Staffordshire South Eastern and Dover 33 1 4 Ditto, New, No. 1 ..... Ditto, New, N 0.2 l7 Ditto, New, No. 3 Ditto New, No. 4. ...... ... .. 7% 5% to South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Sttn. Coal 11ames Haven Dock and Railway l 7 l /2 — law Vale Extension Vale of Neath . , 4 Waterford and Kilkenny l 3 l / 2...... - Waterford and Limerick ... .. 40 ... .. Waterford, Wexford, Wicklw, and Dublin West Cornwall Whitehaven and Furness l2 ... .. ..... to —. • Windsor, Staines, and South Western Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 30 Vork, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 ... . 33 - Do. Original New & Ber'cit 25 .. ... 30 1 /0,4 % to 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. 8 York and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Preference Ditto East and West Riding Extension .... .. ...... 20 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...... 14 1 / 1 to Central of France ( Orleans and Yierzon) - Central of Spain Ceylon .... 53. Donierara. - Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... . Dutch Rhenish 7 ...... 2V i ...... to -- East Indian _ . . Great Indian Peninsular Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Louvain ala Sambre ......... 7 Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon (Con stituted) Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege........ l4 ...... ... to Northern of France. - Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 Over Yssel 4l3s 4d — to Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans... 2O ...... to Paris and Rouen ... Paris & Strasbourg ...... ..... 6 Rouen and Havre 2O Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale l4 Tours & Nantes .. ... .. 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Landau, and liasselt West Flanders 8 .4 — to JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American .... 50 Colonial Commercial of London London Joint Stock ...... 10 London and Westminster... 20 National Provincial of Engld. 35 Ditto, New National of Ireland 2 . 2 1, E — ... .. to Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New Union of Australia Ditto, New 2 41 — Union of London .. 10 Union of Madrid MINES. Anglo Mexican 100 A.strian Mining Company ... 11 . — Australian Blaenarvon Iron and Coal ... 50 Bolar.os Scrip British Iron Brazilian Imperial .... 2l ...... ...... t• Galvanized Iron ... lO ••• •• • t• - Ditto, New Real del Monte, Unregistered . .. 1%. to 2 LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 27.—Wind this day at noon N.N.W., light breeze and fine. DEAL, DEC. 24.—Wind E. to S.E. 25.—Wind E., fresh. 26.—Wind E. to E.N.E., fresh.—Arrd. from the River and sailed, 24th, Mary Ann, Calcutta ; Lady Hilda, Bar badoes ; Commodore, Jamaica. 25.—Pene lope, Tobago. 26.—8e11e Vere, Ceylon ; Osbert, Do minica. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 24.—Wind E.S.E. 25.—Wind E. 26.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Mischief, Lewis, Mauritius. 24.—Nizam, Rigby, Calcutta ; Oxnard, Check, New Orleans, 25.—Bland, Hoskin, Calcutta ; Golden Fleece, Palethorpe, Macao ; John Horton,: Cunningham, Deme rara ; Harvey, Galbraith, Laguna ; Lima, Redman, ditto ; Venice, Salter, New Orleans ; Ann Welsh, Fur ber, Mobile ; Monanguhela, Whipper, Philadelphia ; Star, Brown, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Howard, ditto ; Sir R. Jackson, Down, Montreal ; Ann Ding wall, Brown, ditto ; Mary Welsh, Newfoundland. 26. Allegro. Thorpe, Africa ; Tinamara, Webb, Maranham; Mary Ray, Ellwood, Demerara ; Louisiana, Barston, New Orleans; Monument, Trot, ditto; Columbus. Brown, Quebec. Off port, 26th, packet, St. Domingo; Brenda, Honduras. Sld., 24th, Workington, Cape of Good Hope; Lancashire Witch, Monte Video; lcune Albcrt, Senegal; Emelie, Rio Janeira; Andes, Brazils, Alexander Grant, New Orleans; England, ditto; Mili cete, New York; 25th, Duchess of Clarence, Calcutta; Eck, Brazil; Emily, Taylor, Boston. RAMSOATE, DEC. 25 AND 26.—Wind E.N.E., fresh.— Sld. Sette de Maggio, Brazils; Eliza, Deerks, Surinam; Lady Constable, New Orleans. DOVER, DEC. 25 AND 26.—Wind E., fresh.—Arrd. Lorenze, Mulenroth, Africa, for Hamburgh. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 26.—Wind, N.E.—Arrd. Salacia, Marshall, Rio Janeiro, for Antwerp. Sld. Zenobia, Cape of Good Hope and Calcutta. CowEs, DEO. 24. ♦ND 25. Wind N.E. Arrd. Emelie, Ranpach, Perto Rico, for Hamburgh; 25th, Caernarvon, Ellis, Sydney, New South Wales; Apen rade packet, Kemmet, Pernambuco and Parisi Virginia, Johanson, Gothenburg, for New Orleans, with damage to hull and rigging, having been is contact with a brig on the North Sea. Sld. Orestes, Havannah. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 25.—Wind E.—Arrd. Lovely, Martin, Montreal for Kirkaldy. LIVERPOOL, Dire. 26.—The Angola, of New York, England to Philadelphia, went on shore on the 29th ult. north of Barnegol, and it was feared would be a total wreck. DEAL, Dm. 24.—Arrd. Falcon, Algoa Bay. Sounismrrox, Dac, 27.—Arrd. Trent steamer. West Indies. Std. 24th, Orestes, Bermuda. EXMOUTH, DEC. 22.—Arrd. Speculator, Quebec. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 24.—Wind E.N.E.—SId. Enmore, Adelaide, South Australia; China, Drineker, China. FALMOUTH, DEC. 26.—Wind N.E., strong.—Arrd. 15th, H.N.M.S. Samarang, Batavia; Edouard, Masser, Martinique; Bremen, Gusken, New Orleans. SWANSEA, DEC. 26. Wind E.—Arrd. Berenier, Randen, Adelaide, South Australia; Alderman Pirie, Cuba. MILFORD, DEC. 25.—Arrd. 24th, Albion, Driscoll, Quebec. Sld. 25th, Lady Sale, Cape of Good Hope. RAMSGATE, DEC. 26.—The Frithiof, Arbman, from Copenhagen to Bahia (out two months), short of pro visions, and with loss of two men overboard, put back to-day, after having drifted off the Coast of Iceland, where she experienced very rough weather. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 24.—The Susan, of Ipswich, and the Quiz, of Jersey, were in contact, when the crew of the former, with the exception of the mate and a boy who is missing, got on board the latter, which arrived at this port with damage. The Susan, also damaged, has been assisted in. FALmourrn, DEc. 24.—The Fear Not, Darmouth to St. Michaels, totally clismasted, wreck all cut away, having been struck by a heavy sea on the 22d inst., in lat. 49, lon. 6, was towed in here, by the Brilliant, St. /yes, for Leghorn. DOUGLAS, ISLE OE MAN, DEC. 22.—The Betsey was run ashore leaky on the lith,inst., near Ramsey harbour; crew saved; has since been got off and brought into the harbour. Madrid papers of the 18th and 19th have arrived. At a meeting of the Moderado Deputies, held on the 17th, it was determined, by a majority of 105 to 14, to impeach SALAMANCA for his administration of the finances. Many of SALAMANCA'S adherents voted for the impeachment, as the ex-Minister himself courts a public inquiry into his conduct. MADRID Boma, DEC. 19.—The Three per Cents, were done at 271, at fifty days; the Five per Cents., at 15i for paper; and the Debt without interest, at at 5, for cash. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. On the subject of the KING'S health we find the following in Galignanis Messenger of Friday _ _ "The report which has been current for the last two days of the King being seriously unwell is, we are assured, destitute of truth. His Majesty has, it is true, been attacked by a cold with hoarseness, to which' he is very subject at this season of the year, but which is never of long duration ; and, we under stand, that o❑ the present occasion, notwithstanding the prevailing influenza, the symptoms are so mild as not to excite the slightest uneasiness. Generally speaking, his Majesty does not, when under the in fluence of these attacks, feel it necessary to change his ordinary habits, but as his present hoarseness might, if not removed, render it painful for him to deliver the Speech at the opening of the session, repose has been recommended, and therefore his Majesty did not, on Tuesday and Wednesday evening, receive visitors. The Queen, however, received as usual." The Debats of Saturday announces that the health of the KING is completely re-established. The Court will go into mourning twenty-one days, on the occasion of the death of the Archduchess MARIA LOUISA. The unexpected demise of the krchduchess will seriously complicate the !affairs of Italy. The Constitutiomzel says— " The unexpected death of the Archduchess Maria Louisa causes a new complication in the affairs of Tuscany. The treaties of 1815, explained by one of 1844, stipulated that on the death of the Archduchess the Duke of Lucca should abandon his states to Tus cany, take possession of the Duchies of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla, and receive Pontremoli and its territory from Tuscany. When the Duke of Lucca, in anticipation of the heritage of the Arch duchess, ceded his duchy of Lucca to Tuscany, for a revenue cf 1,200,000 livres, it was agreed that Pon tremoli should remain attached to Tuscany until the decease of the Archduchess should bring about the case foreseen by the treaties. The inhabitants of Pontremoli rejoiced at an arrangement which main tained them for some time longer under the authority of liberal and enlightened Prince. This joy will not have been of long duration, and the sudden death of Maria Louisa renders inevitable the change of Go• vernment against which the inhabitants of Pontremoli had talked of rising in insurrection." A large body of Poles assembled on Friday at the Hotel Lambert, to present to Prince CZARTORYSICI the medal which the Polish Historical Committee has had struck in homage to the eminent merits of the Prince, and in commemoration of the important services he has rendered to his country. The Prince, surrounded by his family, received the deputations from the Literary Society, from the Historical Com mittee of Paris, and from that of London, which readily concurred in this national manifestation, The remnants of the old army of Poland, as well as of the Polish Diet, who were present, represented the struggles of Poland, her sufferings, and her rights. A group of young Poles, brought up at the Hotel Lambert, and the pupils of the school at Chaillot, were also present. M. T. MORAWSKI, Vice-Presi dent of the Historical Committee, formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs, having presented the medal, M. RAVRYKOWSKI, formerly a member of the national Government, read the address of the Literary So ciety of Paris, and Colonel SCIRUSA. that of the WEST INDIA MAIL. The Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company's ship Trent, Sturdie commander, bringing the West India Mails, has arrived at Southampton. Her dates are :—St. Jago de Cuba, Nov. 17 ; Jamaica, 23 ; Puerto Rico, 27; Demerara, 17; Tobago, 18; Tri nidad, 18 ; Barbadoes, Dec. 1 ; St. Vincent, Nov. 24 ; St. Lucia, Dec. 2 ; St. Thomas, 4 ; Fayal, 18. The mails came in charge of Lieutenant Strover, R.N., Admiralty agent. By this arrival we learn that the West India Islands generally were healthy, and the weather genial. The steamer encountered stormy weather on her passage home. The commercial advices by this arrival are not 01 much interest. Passengers, 30. Amongst other goods she brings on freight bars of silver, value sterling 1,870/. ; dollars, on merchants' account, 17,000 ; casks of coffee, 35 ; bales of sarsa parilla, 177 ; and 52 packages of sundries. The mails will be forwarded to London by the eleven o'clock train. The Trent left St. Thomas four days later than was appointed.— Times. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) Edwin James Mitchell, a well-dressed young man, was placed before Mr. Bingham, charged with steal• ing nineteen yards of sattinette, value 3/ 103., the property of his employer, Mr. William Owen, silk mercer, 78, Oxford-street. Mr. William Marchant, pawnbroker, 413, Oxford street, said, on Friday eYening last the prisoner came into his shop and offered the piece of sattinette in pledge. Witness asked him whose property it was. The prisoner said it belonged to his father, who 3e sired him to pledge it, and that the reason he (his father) could not come himself was, that he was very ill. Witness told him to bring a note from his father to that effect, and he would take the property in pledge. The prisoner left the shop for that purpose, and witness took the precaution to send a lad to fol low him. The prisoner subsequently returned, and presented a note, purporting to be written by his father. While Witness was reading the note, his lad came in and informed him that he had seen the pri soner go into a stationer's shop and write the note. Under these circumstance witness sent for a constable and gave him in charge. Mr. William Owen, of the firm of Rumball and Owen, 78, Oxferd-street, said the prisoner had been in his employ for 10 months up to Friday last. To the best of his belief the sattinette produced was his property, and had not been sold in the regular way of business. The prisoner, in defence, said the sattinette was his own property. He bought it some months since at Luton, Beds., of a commercial traveller, who unfor tunately had lately destroyed himself. Police-constable E 7 produced several duplicates relating to pieces of satin and other articles, which, no doubt, would be found to have been stolen. Mr. BINGHAM remanded the prisoner till Thursday next. The remainder of the morning was occupied by the Court in disposing of no less than 40 drunken charges, the result of the Christmas festivities. Nearly all the parties concerned were discharged with a caution. WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) Henry Smith, alias Jonev, was charged with break ing into the dwelling house of Mr. Charles Little, of 43, Compton-street, Hackney. Mr. Little stated that he left home on Christmas eve, at about five o'clock. Previous to his depar ture he double-locked the street door. - Witness returned at about half-past six o'clock, and found the prisoner inside the passage of the house, endeavouring to pull out from the lock of the street door the key (a skeleton one) now produced. Witness asked him what he want e d, and the prisoner replied by asking him "if Mrs. Gregory was at home?" No such person, however, resided there. Witness was some what taken by surprise, but quickly recovered him self, and, seizing the prisoner by the collar, cried out " Help, police." Police -constable Zinzau, 62 N, took the prisoner tato custody. Prisoner said he had found the street door open, when he went in to make the inquiry alluded to. Mr. HAMMILL committed the prisoner to gaol for three months, as a rogue and vagabond. The Lord Chancellor (Lord Cottenbam) is at present residing at Torquay, by the advice of his phy sician, who recommended this queen of watering places as likely to prove beneficial to his Lordship's lyealth.— Western Times. DICK TURPIN OUTDONE.--OR Saturday (3vening, the 10th instant, a horse took fright and ran av ►ay with a cart on the Basingstoke road, about half a m He from this town. On coming to the Whitley toll-gate t, which was closed, the animal took a brilliant leap, and actually cleared the gate, without injury to either; from thence he ran down the hill, and mePovlth no wcrst mischance than breaking his trace on his way to Graz eley Lodge, the place of his destination. In leaping Ihe gate the animal had the advantage of starting fru m a descent, but that with a cart by no means light ht should have been able to clear it without the least dap loge is really extraordinary,—Berkshire Chronicle. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY. CORN EXCHANGE.—MONDAY. On the whole a full average supply of English Wheat arrived in the port o f London last week, while th at of a ß i a i r o le th y e w r articles asext of ensilethat of Malt good, b u t th at o f home produce was small. Scarcely any grain came to hand from either Ireland or Scotland. The imports from abroad consisted of 3,905 quarters of Wh ea t, 25,838 ditto of Oats, 582 ditto of Beans, 2,108 ditto of Peas, and 453 sacks of Flour. From Kent a good supply of English Wheat came fresh to hand this morn ing, but the receipts from Essex, Cambridgeshire, &c., were small. Comparatively speaking, the stands were moderately supplied with sample s of both red an d white, the quality of whi c h, f rom th e favour able change in the weather, was somewhat im proayseids. ge N ne o r tw al i ly ths th ta e nd c i a n s g e , otnheaathtoeiniddaay M on day—was of buyers _ small, selected parcels of white commanded a very steady demand, and, in some few instances, the quota tions ruled rather higher than on this day se'nnight. In the middling and inferior kinds a fair amount of business was transacted, at fully last week's prices. At the close of the market a good clearance was effected. For fine dry qualities of Foreign Wheat—the quantity of which on offer has very small—we had a steady in quiry at extreme rates. Otherwise the Foreign Wheat trade was heavy, but we have no depression to notice in value. The supply of Barley being large, and more than adeqnate to meet the wants of the buyers, the trade was very dull, at a decline in the quotations of from is to 2s per quarter, at which very little progress could be made in sales. With Malt we were well supplied. Fine Ware parcels were is, all other kinds 2s per quarter cheaper than on Monday last. Very few English Oats were brought forward, but the supply of foreign was large. The best potato qualities were quite as dear, but all other kinds were 6d yer quarter lower, with a heavy demand. The show of Besns was not large, yet the trade was in a sluggish state at barely stationary prices. In Peas very few sales took place. The quotations, however, under- wpm. no ebange. Indian Cc 1 regiL st at full c.,rrenciel. • Idy ficut at late irniirt.vel tint: r. CURI:ENCY PER IMP] Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red. • • 47s tobSs Dltto,White, New sls 61. Norfolk and i.in coin. Ited.•• • as 50‘ Ditto, White.• • • • • sls 54s Irish, Red ...• • . • • —8 —s Ditto, White —3 —s Rye—Old ............ —s s New... ..... 31s 34s Marley—Grinding..... 24s 28. Malting ......... 29s 32s CheYalier 32. 33. &falt—Sntrolk and Nor folk 57s 59. Brown 54s SB. Kingston and Ware 60s 62s ern and M 4 al wero in fair The Flf , ur trade was tolers !went in valui. No really 'EttIAL MEASURE. INI alt—Chevaller • • • ••• 62g to 631 Oats— Yorkshire and Lincoinsh., iced. 20e 22 4 Potato ... 25$ 2 64 Youghal and Cork, Black 163 193 Cork, White. 180 21 1 Scotch, Feed..... 241 26 11 Beans—Tick ......... 351 44 i Pigeons 3ll 46 e Peas—Grey 381 42 Maple 36e 40, White . • ... • . 36s 40 g Boilers •• • • ... 4.40 4 4 , Flour—Town-made .•• 4il 48, RulTollt • ... 37e 41, Stockta &Norfolk 37s 41 , sraximrszmn. The imports of live stock from abroad, into London, last week were as under : From whence. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves Harlingen .. 7O ... 950 23 Rotterdam Antwerp 6 Total .. 311 ... 1,971 ... 51 125 Very few arrivals have taken place at the outports, and it is generally considered, as the navigation in Holland will be shortly closed, that the importations during the next three or four months will be very small. With Foreign Stock we were very scantily supplied to day, there being only about 160 Beasts, 700 Sheep, and 2 0 Calves on offer. The quality, generally speaking, NY!' better than we have observed for some time past. ThiS being what is termed a holiday market the supply of home-fed Beasts was small, but there were about 800 head more on sale than at the corre.ponding period in 1146. Although the attendance of buyers was by no means large, the Beef trade ruled steady, and last week's prices were supported in every instance. Prime Scots soli without difficulty at from 4s 10d to 5s per Sibs. At least two thirds of the Beasts were beneath the middle quality. The droves from the northern grsaing districts consisted of about 900 short llorns. From the western and midland counties we received 100 Herefords, runts, Devons, and Irish Beasts ; from other parts of England, 500 of various breeds ; and from Scot land 120 horned and polled Scots. There was i very moderate number of Sheep offering, and the quality of that description of stock was by no means first-rate. Prime old Downs, which were very scarce, moved off freely, at the extreme rates paid on Monday last, or front 5s 2d to 5s 4d per 81bs. Otherwise the Mutton trade was steady, at full prices. Scarcely any Calves were in the market, and the Veal trade was firm at full prices. Prime small Porkers moved off readily at extreme cur• rencies. Other kinds of Pork were quite as dear. AO the close of the market a good clearance was effected. Per tabs. to sink the offal. s. d. to I. d. s. 4. to s. ll Inferior Beasts-- 3 4 3 8 Second quality ditto 4 2 4 6 Second quality •..3 10 4 4 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 Prime large Oxen.. 4 6 4 8 Southdown Wether 2 2 2 4 Prime Scots .. 410 5 0 Ditto out of the wool — • - " A Large coarse Calves 3 I 4 8 Large Hogs ...... 4• 4 Prime small ditto .. 4 8 410 Small Porkers .... 4 Suckling Calves —2O 0 29 0 Quarter old Pigs .. 20 • 36 0 Inferior Sheep .. . 3 8 4 0 Lames I I 0 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. I 2,337 13,840 30 210 N211377G1LT11 AND INZALDZINEC.4I.I.I6. During nearly the whole of the past week these markets have been very heavily supplied with both tows and couatry killed meat, the quality of which has proved remarkably fine. Still, however, the general demand must be considered active ; and really prime Beef has sold at unusually high prices, the value of other, kinds of meat being well supported. The coldness 0 1 the weather having induced the butchers to purchase extensively, good clearances have been effected. Scarab' any foreign meat has appeared on sale. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to IN Beef,inferlor...... it 6 4 0 Mutton, inferior .. 3 4 5 ; - middling ••• • 4! 4 4 middling.. 3 8 4 ` - prime large •. 4 6 4 8 prime .... 4 fa 4 6 - prime small .. 4:10 5 0 Pork, large.... • ... 3 4 9 Veal ••• • • • .... • . 3 8 4 8 - 5ma11........ 4 5 Lamb. Os Od t. Os Id. BOROUGH AND SPITALPIIILDS. A somewhat increased supply of potatoes has sr' rived coastwise and by railway during the past week" and from Holland and Germany, about 300 tons bare reached us. On the whole, the trade is very firm. " lc prices are well supported in every instance.—V r Regent's, 120 s to 140 s ; ditto, Shaw's, 110 s to 10 " Scotch Reds, 110 s to 120 s; ditto, Whites, 100 s to 110111 ditto, Caps and Bluer, 105 s to 100 s; Hamburgh, 100 s i° 110 s ; Kent and Essex Regent's, 120 s to 130 s; ditto• Shaw's, 1106 to Ms; ditto, Blues, 120 s to 130 s ; beach, 100 s to 120 s; Dutch, 70s to 80s. BOROUGH HOP MARHET. The best East Kent Hops command a steady sale, AC the late advance in the quotations. With all other kind. —the supply of which on offer is not quite so large as 3 was a short time since—an improved business is doing• at full prices. New Hops: Sussex Pockets, 2116$ to 3160; Weald of Kent, ditto, 31 to 31 103; Mid and East Kea ditto, 31 6s to 51 12s per cwt. WOOL. The past week's imports of Wool have consisted of 1,200 bales from Sydney, 200 - ditto from the Cape, 200 ditto from Hamburgh, and 100 bags from Lisbon. In the private market a large quantity of Wool is on alert and the general demand is in a very depressed state, IS barely stationary prices. TALLOW. For present, as well as forward delivery, the demand is heavy, and prices have a downward tendency. P. Y. C., on the spot, is quoted at 46s 3d to 46s 6d; and for delivery during the first three months of nett year, 44s 9d to 45s 3d per cwt. Town Tallow—the supply of which is by no means large, for the time of year—is a slow sale, at 46s 3d to 47s 9d per cwt. Del cash, and Rough Fat 2s. Sid. per 81bs. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Heythrop hds. ' Wed., Sturdis Castle; Fri., Farm ing* ton Grove; Sat., Northleigh-10i. Warwickshire hds., Tues., Mitford Bridge; Thurso Clifford Chambers; Fri., Shuckburgh Park ; Se' Goldicote-104. Mr. Farquharson's hds., Tues., Milborae Manor S ou s" Wed., Fifehead Neville; Fri., Ashley Wood. 13. V. H. Tues., Chesilborne Down; Fri., Buckhgla Mr. Trelawny's hds., Tues., Flete Western Lo d g e ,' t. Mr. Deacon's harrs., Wed., Shaugh Village; Downsland Barn-10. Mr..Horndon's hd s ., Th ur s., Ch a p ma n's W r e ll- 7 1 9tke Brighton harry.; Wed., Thunders Barrow; I. ' l —lo.i. • • Brookside harrs., Thurs., Teiscombe Tye- 14 11. Glyndbourne harry., Fri., Alfriston Race Cor se.-- Cheshire hds., Wed., Tarwin; Fri., Tatton-- 101 A Sir W. W. Wynn's hds., Wed., rtling; Fri. , " c shut; Sat., Whittington-10i. NvybUir North Staffordshire hds., Wed., Betley; Fri., - bury-104. Tiverton hds., Wed., Cove Bridge; Sat., Kennet--11 Pytchley hds., Wed., Misterton; Thurs., Sywell _, e Fri., Dingley-104. GERMAN PAPERS. THE CHOLERA.—The Lemburg Gazette salr: affirm We can arm that hitherto no trace of the ch eie' has appeared in Galicia, and that the general stste health in the kingdom of Poland (except in the 10"; however, sian Government of Kieu, where, it iS °- the decline) has not given any reasoilto be *NI pensive, nor has any precipitate precautionary tile sures been adopted. MossuL, OCT. 31.—Just as we were thinking °la ° selves safe, the cholera has broken out among us , : s „4 - the persons attacked have almost all immediately ' n The Pacha has at once forbidden the sale of fill' A t i -15 the barracks, and has removed the troops to some —l , l° tance from the town; under tents. The appee r , : a° : of this pestilence fills all men with consternate especially as we have scarcely any medical men. fact, in Mossul itself, there are only two. o f MUNICH.—THE SWISS FUGITIV B S. The King ls Bavaria has issued an order, that during the 1 11,6 month collections shall be made in all Roman Catholic churches for the Swi ee , f t i ri tives who have fled from the canton (31 ,„,, , , or who have been expelled, as well as for the s'"- and orphans of those who have fallen in battle. s , RHENISH PROVINCES.—STATE OF THE Vt ir tr ilrE ei —The tributary streams of the Rhine be 19th e' such quantities of ice hither, that on the 19th D o i cember the bridge was carried away here. It utS that the communication between Cologne a nd . " ta ro is to be kept up during the whole winter, steamers. VIENNA, DEC. 21.—We have received intelligence from Parma, which gives the most unsatis factits% account of the state of the Duchess of Par ma's Indeed there appears to be little hopes of her IloP e ' Highness's recovery. e u s° CHOLERA.—The Universal Russian G azette the following report of the state of the cholera in it be r sia :—From the 29th November to the 6th 1 12 231 persons were attacked in Moscow, of who'll o f r t be e died; although on an average the daily nurnb cases (33) is rather greater than last week, P t t he number of deaths is gradually decreasing. Sinc e 00 first appearance of this epidemic in Moscow Otto 6th December, 2,795 persons were attacked, ef 1 . / oj e 1,419 died. In the government of Tiver the cbl e _ t i is confined to the town of Torschok, where it is ,` O lf mild. The reports from the government of Chac%a state that the epidemic is evidently coming to se.'_ e j there ; in fact, the accounts which have been sec f r om here at St. Petersburgh during the last week, , c o, various parts of the kingdom, are of a calming Del 0 The epidemic has scarcely spread further, sil,,e3 everywhere decreased in intensity. It disAPPero entirely in Kuscan on the 23d, and in Sitnbir"en. the 24th of November. In the government of d yrto burg the cholera has not p asse d over the bounsbrer of the circle of the Dneiper, vie., Mohile ro, Tsc nigoff, Kiero, and Poltawa, where it is spresaw..7 further in some districts. The greatest number, '4 cases in these parts occurred latterly in the cit ies' e sp u i Kiero, Mohilero, and the Dneiper, Krementschreg, and these cities are in fact the J , ,cc 2er % of the epidemic for the whole e mpire. le . 1 ';'. 138 , and Krementschreg it is now on the decn.,o In Jekaterinoslow and the government of. same name it is evidently coming to s t e e r d • nation. In Cherson the epidemic has assugL oe , Neschin,. mild character ; in Simpheropol it is _more rate d and about the 20th of November it assume 4