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NOTICE. MR. RICHARDSON'S (THE C NILEBRATED TRAVELLER AND rIIILANTHROPIST.) TRAVELS IN T HE GREAT DESERT OF SA HARA, In Two Vols. Bvo., With numerous Illustrations, 303., ARE PUBLISHED THIS DAY. And may be had of all Booksellers throughout the Kingdom. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her llajesty. ---------- ELEGANT LITERARY PRESENT, Nov ready, LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND, BY AGNES STRICKLAND, .1111eyen Volarnes, with Portraits and other Illustrations, price 10s. 6d 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."— Athemenm. Beery Colbarn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CLXXV., Is this day published. CONTENTS: - 1. LNMARTINE'S HISTORY of the GIRONDINS. 2. THACKER kY'S WRITINGS. 3. The DISCOVERER of the COMPOSITION of WATER — WATT or CAVENDISH ? 4. The STATE of the NATION. 5. HUMBOLDT'S COSMOS. 6. The IRISH CRISIS. London : Longman and Co. Edinburgh : A. and C. Black. NOTICE is hereby given that a COURT of SEW - ERA for the DISTRICTS known as The Westminster and Part of Middlesex District, The Hoiborn and FinsburyDivisions, The Tower Hamlets District, The Poplar and Biackwall 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 MIIILSDAT, the 30th day of December instant, at Ten o'clock in the Tornenoon precisely. LEWIS C. HERTSLET, Clerk of Orders, &e. 23d December, 1847. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMAREET. Diller the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Siz Peter Teazle, Mr. Farren ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Tilbury ; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. A. Wigan ; Joseph Surface, Mr. Creswick ; Charles Surface, Mr. Henry Farren ; Careless, Mr. H. Vandenhoff ; 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. Measent. To conclude with the new Comic Drama, called THE' ROUSED LION. Characters by Messrs. Webster, Howe, Wigan, H. "Vanden- Mir Keeley Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Seymour, and Mrs. Stanley. Stage Manager, , Mr. F an en; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Web.-ter. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, Ss. • Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2 s . ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Fialf-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE 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, Glennaire, Cullenferd, and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, and Madame Celeste. To be followed by a now Farce entitled THE TIPPERARY LE GACY. Turnem Green, Mr. Wright; Bob Gills, Mr. Munyard ; Lanty Scrimmage, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Chubblock. Mr. Cullenthrd ; 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. Smith, Paul Bed ford, Mrs. Laws, &c., &c. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Tors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. 'Gilder the Management of Madame liestris. vole 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 GREEN. To be followed with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Ruckstone, and Mrs. Mac Damara. To conelnde with the Comic Drama USED UP. Dress Boxes, as.; tipper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No half-price is any part of the house. The iiew Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every day, from Ten till Six. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Madame ANNA THILLON. TIIIS EVENING A New Carafe Opera, entitled TIIE AMBASSADRESS. Duke de Valberg, Mr. Bodda ; Benedict, Mr. Barker ; Fortunatus, Mr. Lef fler; Countess de Flerschomberg, Miss Villars; Madame Barneck, Mrs. Selby ; Charlotte, Miss Anne Romer ; Benriette, Madame Anna Thilton. To conclude with Shakspeare's Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. Nome°, Miss Gushman ; Mercutio, Mr. J. Vining ; Fria: Lawrence, Mr. Ryder ; Juliet, Miss Susan Cushman. Dress Oirele, 55.: Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. F. Davidge, No. 1, Davidge•terrace, Kensington-road, Surrey. TO-MORROW EVENING; THE DAUGHTER OF TILE REGIMENT. Characters by Messrs. H. Phillips, King, Horncastle, Rafter, AU wood, M'M ahon, and Miss Poole. To conclude with GUY MANNERING. A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have bees re-fitted). Private boxes may be had nightly •f all the wincipal Librarians ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which Is open daily trom Ten until Four. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. AS TL E Y'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Pronrietor and Manager, Mr. William Batty. No Performance on Friday and Saturday. Mr. Batty's performing Elephants. THIS EVENING The Grand Spectacle of THE CAMP OF SILESIA. Entirely new Scenes in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the Establishment. in the various modes of equestration. To conclude with a new Domestic Drama, called TAB WHITE FARM. In peeparation, a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, which will exceed in splendour and effect all former productions at the Amphitheatre, Box-office open from 11 till 5 Acting and Stage Aianiti;er, Mr. W West. WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 23. THERMOMETEII, Lowest, 31 ; Highest, 33 ; Noon, 32, BAROMETER, 29 92.—WIND E.S.E.; cloudy. MOB WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Mornin7... 32 minutes after 2. Evening .. 53 minutes stte7 2 • 13e, so, i• le 7' t ke • 103, ' uTt - oi ' • F •It 0 1:1; .7 kmt ;aXtlt LONDON. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 23, 1847. Every Roman Catholic in her - MAJESTY'S dominions feel grateful to the Earl of ARUNDEL and BURREY for the noble-spirited letter addressed by him to JOHN 'roam, the " Lion of the tribe of Judah." With a chivalrous sense o Ibis own position, and that of his co-religionists a time whee 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 experiented 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'IIALE 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 immeasurably worse than that of merely " moral complicity," inin the most devillish of the agrarian assassination s . It calls to his recollection the fact that neither the Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY him self; nor any of his fellow-Catholics in this country, are so situated as to be able by any means what ever to substantiat e the accuracy of those appalling accus ations, and, in the event of their being erroneou s , of releasing them selves from the odium which thereby indirectly heart rutp thato n this he e a ttaches itself to the religion. It ex c l a i m point—how bitter it is to the writer's h cannot defend the Irish Church in his intercourse with his friends, or against the attack s o f violent opponents in the House of Commons. After re. minding Archbishop ...11sHALE that the enemies of Roman 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, or 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 man, but of those whose \;\t. PI;i; 4\ Jl.l, s THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1847. best feelings would willingly seek fcr all that is pious' and good in the Catholic faith." " Can nothing," he asks, in a subsequent part of his communication, "be done to remove from us so heavy a scandal ?" Such is the manly, generous, 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 TUA3I 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'HALE'S letter to the Prime Minister. The " Lion of the fold of Judah " no longer roars forth his extenuations of crime attributed to a 111‘Dzamorr, or his sym pathy in the offence charged against Arch deacon LAITAN. 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 CROMWELLy ankvet 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 circr in 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‘HALm 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 be has written to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of TUAM. We yesterday pointed out the manner in which goods are transferred from hand to band 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 bills 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 having a facility for exchang ing the bills, which he himself must accept from the parties to whom he 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 he 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 chief 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 deprved 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 1 ) -- , -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 sacred that everything else sacrificedodoubt i t l o ow its fa se r cu it r s it m y, ai r n d te i n t a i n s c a e sp is ec c ie o s m o . f must sacrilege be t patible with the prosperity, the security of the country. Accounts aye been sece• % — " .. ,:d' from Athens to the 9th inst. The Senate met on the 6th, and th e discussion so abruptly broken off on the 16thof Nov., respecti ng th e nomination of the new senators, was agai n mooted, but the result was another of those scandalous 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. TRlcourts, CLONA RES, LONDOS, 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 Petrie, 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 /are to be exchanged this day between the Pontifical Government and the Austrian Envoy." The Presse contains a letter from Palermo, i ef 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,"ksays the correspondent of theTresse," evinces an energy unusual to our modern Royalties. He is said to have lately made the following declaration : " •My relative, Louis XVI., would havel 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.' "ii.,-,x4 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 KING, 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 17th : " 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 TONNEY and VICZEY, 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. DE KAISEISFELD, 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. SIEGWART MULLER 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 created by a motion made in the Chamber of Deputies by Senor SRGASTI, 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 do, take great credit to themselves for being 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 'Mats says—" Franca 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 Constittaionnel, in commenting on Lord MORPETH'S 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 citiaens 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 Debatv, as if M. GUIZOT had before his eyes a wholesome fear of the Chambers;and that he is prepared, if necessary, to'cry " Peccavi" when taunted by the Opposition with his retrograde policy. The Debuts says— . " Italy offers at this moment the magnificent spec acle 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 almost 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 of 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 i mpor t ant enough to prove thel 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 Providence 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 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 pressis 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 Roma 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 judi ciously, may take confidence in itself and in the des tinies of the Italian peninsula. We canna 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. RODOwiCa has been appointed Plenipotentiary for Prussia. He is gone to Vienna to confi 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 France : "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 the 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 himself guilty of some act of a nature to trouble public order and tranquillity ? Is M. Ba kounine accused of that? Is it in Russia that order is menaced by his language ? Is it in France ? Can 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 llfonarchique 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 Samarang, 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 PONCELUT and Morspirr. 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, 657 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 585 f. ; Vierzon, 551 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 492 f. 75c. ; Boulogne, 375 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 263 f. 75c. ; Basle, 165 f. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 420 f.; Tours and Nantes, 400 f.; Paris and Lyons, 406 f. 25c. ; Spanish Actives, 241; Ditto Three per Cents., 30 ; Ditto Domestic Debt, 26-1-; Ditto Pas sives, 31. BUSINESS DONE 1N FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 22. Boulogne and Amiens, 14 1 4—Namur and Liege, 5 Northern of France, 12—Orleans and Bordeaux, 5A8 — Paris and Lyons, s%—Paris and Strasbourg, 4—Sambre and Meuse, 7—Tours and Nantes, 3. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was rather dull. Bahia was id. per lb. lower. In American and Surat there was no change. Sales, 4,000 bales. Railway Shares were rather better. There was less stock offer ing, and more inquiry, The Bank of England has just reduced the minimum rate of discount to 5 per cent. upon bills of exchange, Exchequer. 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 to- day. The Speech of the President of the United States on the opening of Congress 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 migkt safely assert—than if we had resorted to the "last argument" of man, instead of appealing to common sense and justice. London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ........ 1 1 4 .— Londonderry&C,lerainft ...... Londonderry and Ennis killen.. •.. ..... 23% — ••• ..... Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire ...100 Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 Ditto ditto (NO. 2)... 25 Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 7% — Ditto and Grimsby.— 25 — Ditto ditto . ... ..... 7 Ditto ditto .... 4% — ...... •••••••• Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 71,4,. " Manchyst. & Southampt. VA — ••• Mildand. Do. Consolidated Pref.loo Do. 401. Shares , Do. 50/. Shares Do. Bien., and Derbyloo Midland Consol. Brist. & Binning., 6 per cent. 100 ......119 119% 119% Alidind, Brist. &Glocstr. 34 ...... ..... ....•• ..• Ditto, ditto 71.9s Midlnd, Leicest. & Swan nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo ...... - Mid Grat Western Irish Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Do. Quarters 25 .... • Newmrket& Chesterford 18;4 — Do. Extension .........21. 12s — Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford 6 Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor 12% — ... ........ •••• Norfolk ... ..... .. ........ —IOO Do. New 201. .. 5 - ••• .....7 .6. - Do. Extensipn Do. Scrip, 1847, North of Norfo1k... Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 North British ........ ... 25 ' Do. Half Shared 12%...... Do. Quarters 4:% — ....• . Do. Extension - % — ...... .... .... Ditto Thirds Nortl - Staffordshire VA.— 6 % North Wales North Western Oxford, Worcester. and Wolverhampton Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Royston and Hitchin ... 1% — ... ........ .. Scottish Central Scottish Midland 17% — • .... Ditto, New ......... ..... 10 - ........ ••• .• ........ Sheffield, Rotherham, knd Goole Slirewsbury and Birm... 6 - 71/8 Ditto ditto. Class B. 3 Shrewsbury & Chester ( Nor. W. Alin.) l6 Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 ...... .. ... .8% Ditto Oswestry ...,.. 12 - Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref. 5 Shrewsbury and Herefd. 2 ...... Shrupehire Union .uutfi Devon 4O Do. Preference South StattOrdshire 4 outh Eastern & Dover. 33% 3 0 14... 3O ou., No. 1 20 Do., Nc. 2. Do., No. 3 .. ..... ...... ;5 Do.. No. 4 South \Vales South Yorkshire, Don caster, and uroole Swans. & Loughor & Ca nm.on's Stin. C0a1 .... 4 ...... ......... •. ._, raw Vale Exteranou ... 4 ... Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath 5% 5 W atertord and Kilkenny 13 1 / 2 atertord and Limerick 40 Water! it, %V xtrd, Wicklw, and Dublin W eat Cornwall ...... 4 hitehayon & Furness 12 Windsor, Staines, and South Western . . ... 525. — Wilts, Somerset, & 'Wey mouth York, Newcastle, and Berwick. .... ......... 25 .. Do. Original New and Berwick Do. North Shields Pur. 25 Do. Extension No. 1. 10 Do. do. No. 2....... 10 G.N E.Preference 8 ...... York ansl North Midland 50 Ditto, Preference 10 327/ 4 - 111 h 27 1 4 Do. East and 1 V est Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 20 ...... 14A% ....... Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) ... 14 Central of Spain ... . ... 2 Ceylon .... ss. Demerara Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish • East Indian ... .„.. lx — Great Indian Peninsular ss. Italian and Austrian.... 4 ... Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Louvain ala Sambre ... Luxembourg ..... 6 Lyons and Avignon 5 Madrid and Valentin.... 2 Namur and Liege Northern of Prance. ..... .10 .. 1230 3 ll% Orleans and Bordeaux 6 Over Yssel 4l3s 4d Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleane 2O Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg 8 Rouen and Havre ...... 20 Sambre and Meuse ... .. 18 • Strasbourg and Basle... 14 Tours aa.d Nantes ...... 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt....... 16 West Flanders ...... .. 8 1 ' .. Az JOINT STOCK. BANKS. Australasia British North American 50 Colonial Provincial of Ireland Commercial of London 20 London Joint Stock lO London & Westminster. 20 National Prov. England. 35 Ditto. New ...... ..... 10 National of Ireland 22% Ditto New... ..... 10 Union of Australia ..... 25 Ditto,New... Union of L0nd0n......... 10 10% Union of Madrid 40 2% 4% 23 10% MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO ...... BrazilianCocaes&Cuiba 30 ..... British Iron Bolonos Scrip ..... . Galvanized Iron ...... 10 Ditto, New Heal Del Monte, Unreg. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY . ) LONDON, DEC. 23.—Wind E.S.E., li g ht a i rs , and dull weather. DEAL, DEC. 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 ; Blarche, Jamaica. Sid. Mary Rowe, Cuba; Britannia, Mobile. DOVER, DEc. 22.—Wind, E.S.E., P.m., 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. RAMSGATE, Disc. 22. Wind N.E. Sld. Ariel, Mauritius; Mathilda, Rio Janeiro; Constitution, New York. WHITBY, DEC. 22.—The Ann Gales has been got off shore, with little damage. The Mary and Jane steam frigate struck against the pier in assisting the above, and became leaky, and sank. The :heed timber laden ribbon, m b e r. FOWEY, DEC. 21.—A long boat, nineteen feet long by vvater-lo bent e t carveddi m Saltersb Eagle raaqrgculi search athpoefaClear, is the eight broad, painted black outsiden,,amweei was brought in here to-day The • l A a i d a S e r K y n Vessel ll .3 l a t e ß . E wrecked C D k e E d C at Gun Point WEXFORD, DEC. commenced with the letter brought to auhcahyonr gbnynseodmnewnfis.haesrtmhheeenhb an o da ff t a supposed to bulwarks 0t n w , oonf herhe were st ern unable aoncdaori ftvh t a o t esh h ewn n aa d m, h oe e f ; was painted n b t l e n d e s a t r b i p u e ff . • DFc . 21.—T Two ships' boats, yest b e o r t d t a o7 , t u e p n , b cHo l bottom,k ußTr:°ael in EinD:Ahi and blue sides, were passed miles S. E. of Arklow Lights, by the Richard, arrived here. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 2 1.—Sld. Broad Oak, Mauritius; Matthew Paiwboeuf, Amaica, Savan na h. 22. L a d y Arabella, lsnnoN, Baltimore. S r i he d. Reliance, Rio Janeiro. DOVER, D EC . Or). which Viscountess Canning,wa was stranded Pride, from London t o C ape Coast Castle, at Dymchurch 27th u was this day got off and towed into F o lk estone 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 Axrnouth ; 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 Beac h. WHITEHAVEN, 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 hitehaven, has been put on shore in Main Bay, but will be got off again; should the weather prove fine. MUMBLES, DEC. 20.--The Lavinia, Guavell, is on shore near the Mumbles Head, but is expected off next tide. BELLOW, Dac. 200—The LA.aa Paley, of a n d from Liverpool to Oporto, has been towed in here with loss of rudder, having been on shore near Carrie kfergus, and must discharge. SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.) JAMBS V. WOODHOUSE AND ANOTHER. This was an action to recover the sum of 281. 4s. 6d., under the following circumstances. The de' Pendants formerly held a bill of exchange of the plaintiff's for 341. 48. They declined to renew the bill, but agreed to take 14/. 14s. in cash, and another bill for 201., protecting th e p l a i n tiff ag ainst th e original bill ; but, instead of doing so, they allowed an action to he brought, on which a verdict was re' coverd, and plaintiff had to pay the money. Th e present action was brought to recover the a mount paid to defendants, and the costs in the action brought on the bill. The jury gave a verdict for the amount, wami!Att v. SHACKELL.---FALSE IMPRISONMEN T. This was an action to recover damages for fe l3 . e imprisonment. Th e d e f en d ant a t fi rst p l ea d e d fication ; but having withdrawn the plea, judgment now went by default. Mr. Sergeant Chadwick Jones appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and 3lr. 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 t o a Mr. Young, an aucti oneer , & c ., i n Tottenham- court road ; defendant is a retired licensed victualler. ,r May 26th plaintiff was sen t t o the house of a ' f r. Clarke, at Hammersmith, t o t a k e some goods to Nr Young's warehou s e. H e wen t w i t h two men, end ba d laden the waggon with the goods, when they were fun d into custody for steali ng some paper, w hi c h wa s rolled up in a hearth rug. The defendant gave th en ; in custody on a charge of felony, but plaintiff the discharged the next morning, it appearing thst7 s defendant was present at the removal of the 1 0 7, i i but did not state that th e p ro p er t y was hi s , and ti-,1 plaintiff and the men took th em un d er th e directi on of Clarke. Mr. Young was called, and proved the order for removal having been given by Clarke. In cross-examination by Mr. Sergeant WILa - „ s he admitted that he had been applied to by a Pe r .„ — d named Gutteridge, to get possession of the key, " - it ; he agreed to do so if paid his expences ; and het"; mately obtained it, and was paid 41. 10s., and a fur'', sum of 101. for his own expenses. The goods : le ; watched on behalf of other persons claiming ta e— .. He took part of them to his own lodgings, and o '4 were seized by the sheriff for rent. Ultimately 1 11 ,,, t er goads were seized. H a d f ormer l y remove d ( l e property for Clarke from Nor woo d, but did not any proposals to get the key in that case. lie h r ns s been solicited by Shackell t o ge t th e t h ree so"ai (by plaintiff and the tw o men ) se t t l e d , an d be It-. that he thought he cou ld d o so f or s i x t y poop Defendant said no rent was due from Clarke. o Re-examined—H a d n o id ea th a t t h e goo d s hael uvi o removed clandestinely, and he was not attempting conceal the goods. By the UNDER-SHERIFF—He took a pl ac e, in Ca i n i rd ming-street expressly t o h o ld th ese goo d s, but pd not leave them, as he f oun d h e was watc hed, ! isle , considered himself b oun d t o protect them, if; polu aw re ,. A person named B ro th er t on, w h o ass i ste d la b s t moving the go o d s , was ca ll e d, an d a d m i tte d thsb, jo the police-office several persons atte n d e d to wafts, they had been sw i n dl e d ou t o f t hei r Shackell was present at the removal of the peoPef to but did not say th a t th e p a p er was hi s t ill he gal i s the station-house. There was no secresy •bierveutho removing the paper, and Shackell was there sl i time. thi°l Amey, a carman, was called, and corroborati— ho ie and denied that he was told that if they gave uP b e authority for removing the go o d s th e y should discharged, nor did he say t o pl a i n tiff an d the 0 71 , as they went to the station-house, " Now, win d Ybe give your right card here." Plaintiff said thstnor was removing the goods by ord er o f his gore l ,i t . (Young), and said where he could be found. the ness did not know that there was any harill at time he was removing the goods. f r Mr. Sergeant WILKINS addressed the jury- -°f di' fendant, and urged that the smallest amount of yip, wages would meet the justice of the . case , I t s , ,„ a re evident the plaintiff and the witnesses were a" aw are they were assisting Clarke in unlawfully rem the property, which he undertook to prove by sere' witnesses. report left.) (The case had not conclud e d when our MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) STEIXTGATE AND LEADENIIALL. Prime Beef sold freely at very high rates; otherwise the demand was steady, at full prices. Beef, from 3s 6d to 6s; Mutton. 3s 8d to 4s 8d; Veal, 3s 8d to 45 8d; and Pork, 3s 10d to 5s 2d per 81bs, by the carcase. EAT MARKETS. SMITNFIEILD.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 3/ 12s ; Clover, ditto, 31 lOs to 41 13s ; and Straw, 11 4s to 11 9s per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to Si 15s ; Clover ditto, 3/ 105 to 41 lOs; and Straw, 115 s to 11 lOs per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. WAITECHATF.L.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 3/ 12m; Clover ditto, 3/ lOs to 41 15s ; and Straw, 1/ 4s to I/ as per load. Supply good, and trade dull.s _ zwinam MARKETS. SOUTHALL, Dec. 26.—Prime Beasts and Sheep, the supply of which was small, moved off steadily, at full pricer In other kinds of stock only a moderate busi ness was doing. Beet, from 3s 8d to ss; Mutton, 4s to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s to 56 Bd.; and Pork, 4s 2d to 4s 10d per 81bs, to sink the offal.". RONFORD, DEC. 22 We bad a steady general de mand to-day, on the following terms:—Beef from 3s 8d to 51 2d; Mutton, 4s to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork; 4s to 4s 8d per 81hs; Suckling Calves, 20s to to 28s; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 20s to 255; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 141 to 1715 s each. ILAILsaAm, 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 Ss 4d; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per Slbs. ARUNDEL, DEC. 21.—Beef, from 4s to :is 21; Mutton, 4s to 5s 4..1; Veal, 45 to 4s 4d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6d per 81bs. A moderate supply, and a steady trade. CHICHESTER, DEC. 22.—We had a steady demand this morning, at our quotations. Beef, from 4s to 53 4d; Mutton, 48 2d to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s to 43 6d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6d per Sibs. Suckling Calves, 203 to 275; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 20s to 243; and Mikh Cows, with their small Calf, 141 to 171 each. COAL BIARKE' Adair's Main ••••••••• 17s 9dl Hasting's Hartley 2os Od Stewart's Hartley West Wylam West Hartley _ 20s Od %-YIOSTERDAY. Het ton Grange Lyons ..... 22, Od Lambton Lumley Russell's Hetton Sepping lBe Od Szewart's Whitwell Richardson's Tees 2ls Od South Durham Tees West Pease at, 45—sold, 42. . Wall's End, &c. Acorn Close Hebburn 2ls 6d Hilda Belmont 22s Od Braddvll's Helton Haswell . '22s 6d, Ships at mark( CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Dee. 23, 1547, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WCLAT. BAILEY. OATS. I HEE. BEANS. I PEAS. PRICE .. 1 52 s 2d 1 30s 7d 1 21s: 7d 34s 4d 141 s. 6d 48i 2d The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY EVENING. - Notwith standing the coldness of the weather to-day, her Ma jesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort walked for some time in 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 at the Castle this forenoon, and remained to luncheon. The Duke of Wellington has left Apsley 'louse 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. llenry Pierrepont. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left Carl ton-gardens yesterday for Woburn Abbey, Beds, to join the distinguished circle visiting 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. THE TRIAL OF LIEUTENANT CROWTHER, or 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 OF MAJOR-GENERAL STEELE. -- W@ 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 ; major-general. November, 1846. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.—SICKNESS IN THE ME TROPOLIB.—YestArday a Board of Governors of the above charity was held at the institution in Gray's Inn-road, Dr. Rice, D.D., in the chair. The report stated that sickness was greatly on the increase, the number of sick and destitute poor who had applied for relief, as in and out-door patients, 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 aro 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. Rosseau, interpreter of the French consulate at Tunis, arrived at Algiers on the 14th. The general was received by his Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumale almost immediately after his landing. A WARRIOR'S EJECTMENT.—" Lord !" ex claimed a farmer and private of yeom anry to his land lord-colonel, during the Lancashire riots in 1819; " the enemy is in the field!" " Well, sir,' returned the Noble Lord, with the coolness o f a man who knows there is no danger, " turn 'em out; its our field!"--- Fontila Jos Miller. 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 aeres. 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 :hat the Bank of England would lower its minimum rate of discount. Consols have alternated from 85/ to 85i fur the January account. The New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. have been 864 to I t , and the Reduced Three per Cents. MI to 85. Exchequer-bills have been 9s. and lls, premium. Bank Stock is 1864 to 188. In the Foreign Markets the dealings have been very limited. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 181, and the Three per Cents. 301. Portuguese Four per Cents. are 22 to 23. Brazil Stock has been 79 to 81, and Mexi can Bonds are at about 17i to 18. Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents. are 56. Railway Shares have been Viet, but rather firmer, especially the French lines. ONE CLOSING ,'RICE s OF liItITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 84% 85 84 3 4 843 New VA per Cent. Anns 864 % 86% Long Anns. to expire J an. 1860 -16 8 11-16 India Bonds, 1,0001. Ditto under 1,000/. .... .. 11 dis South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Consols for Account 8 5 % 14%4 85IA Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,0001. 500/. Small ONE BICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto. Account ........ ...... Ditto, Passive Ditto. 3 per Cent 3 0 14, Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 56 Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 851 11 dig 11p 10p CLOSES 0 ?RIC E. 79L /2 13 1 4 18 1 A 4 ti 3014 85 1 4 BUSINESS DONE CLOSING PRICES OF PAID. RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES 45 Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%...... AirsiiireandGalloway.. 2f; — ......... ...... _ Belfast & County Down 10 Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 10 ..... ....... Birming.,Wolverlepton, and Stour Valley 101. 145.... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.— 7% Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 5 — , . Bristol and Exeter BO ••• Ditto, Thirds Buckinghamshire 101. 4s. 3 2% dis 2% din Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares..... 3 3 / 1 Ditto, Clydesdale June 50 Chester and Holyhead... 37% — ••-•• -- Ditto, Preference .. 8 Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. lO Dublin and BellastJunc. 20 Dundalk & Enniskillen 15 East Anglia, 25/., L. & E. and L. and D. ...... 25 Do., 181., E. & H.... 18 ••• .... Do., 3/.105., E. &H. 2 Eastern Counties Ditto (B) Ditto,Extinsion, 5 per Cent, No. 61. 13s. 4d... par Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension.. 10 ...... Do., North. & Eastern 50 Do., Quarters Do., New Eastern Union Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 / 2 — Ditto, Thirds ........13s. 46 — Do., (guar. 6 percent) ~ ast Lancashire Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters 3 34 East Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... Ditto Halt Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 ,4 ..... Edinburgh & Northern.. 22 1 / 2 — ••• Ditto, New Ditto, Newport ..... Ditto, ditto, New . 2i4 Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch. 2% — Ditto, New Glasgow, Dumfries, and h 1.6; 1% 15% Gantt:le Jrlasgow,Kilin,:r.,&Ayr 50 New ......... 40 . — Do. Preference Como!. 12 1 / 2 — Great Nurtkern IOI AI 414 Do., London and York 2 1 / 2 Great bouth. and West (Ireland) 12 1 4 4 1 A Great N ortli of England..loo 225 Ditto, New 401 5 Ditto, New 30/. 3O Ditto, New 15/ ....... ... 6% 2 — u reat W este' n. .... Ditto, 4 Shares Ditto, IA Shares ...... 15 Ditto, fifth 5............ 20 ..... 22 Ditto, New 17/ ...... ...• 7 Huddersfield & Stanches. 22 .... . . Ditto, Thirds ... 50 .. Hull and Selby .. ..... ...... ~ Ditto, Half Shares 25 ............... Ditto, 1 4 Shares..... Ipswich& Bury St. Ed= 15 ...... .... Do., do., and Norwich 15 Do., do., Extens. Scrip (late Catulb. & Ely) 2 1 ,4 - ._ .. . _ . .......... Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 - 54 Ditto,Thirds .. 10 Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 Ditto, ditto - Ditto ii:, Shares . Do. Quarter Shares l 4 l/i — Do. Fifths 8 ...... 7% Do. Sixteeaths ...... .. 6 , 4 -- Do. Thirds (Reg.)....101. 4s. Do. Liverp. and Bury 34 Ditto i z (late Hud dersfield and Shelf.) 33 Do.( Wakefield, route tract. & Goole ...... 47 1 ,4 — Do. ( W. Riding Union) 4/. 2s — Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 . , ... , _ 7% Shares (A) 9 Ditto ditto (B) 1 1 41 1 4 Leeds and Bradford 5O .... 1% Leicester and Bedford... 163. Leeds, Dewsbury, 37 1 ,4 — Do., B: 111 Sh. 121/ Branch 14 , mares ;6•• Do. New Branch(blue) 2 1 / 2 PAO. • • Do. Extension (green) 2 1 / 2 .• Do. New Exton. (pink) 2 1 / 2 Leeds and Thirsk Ditto, New 20 Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3 1 / 2 — Liverpool, Crosby and 1% . _ Southport .... . 2 Liverp., Mnchstr& New castle Junction 2 1,4...... •••••••• ...... London and Black wa11..16/. 13i. 41 ........... ... Do. New, No. 1 Do. New, No. 2.. 4/ l3s. 4d... .............. Do. Extension 1 7 1,i — ... ............ London, Brighton, and •_ South Coast 5O - ............... Do. Consol. Eighths.. 30 Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 Do. Pref. COD. 5 per ct. 50 - ... ••"•• ••• Ditto, ditto ......185'2 50 - ••• - ...... .. ..,... London and Green w ich 12/ 15 3 4 d — Ditto, Preference ... 18/17s 2d... London and N. Weiter n 100 ••••••147 14 . ....... 4 .. 6 . ...... .. Do., Quarters L . & B. 17 Do., uo.. New ... ...... 2 -- •• ......... Ditto Fifths ..... .... 2 ... . . . 10 3 , 4 / ............ -- . Do. Shares (G. J.) 25 .4 Do 4ui.Shares(L. M.) 15 ...... ' (M. & B.) 40 ........ -- Do. 40/. (M. Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. VA ••• ............. 'O/. (M. & B.) B. 7 •• ......... Do. 10 1 . (m. , N , .3., - ,1 / 2 - ............... - C. 1 . Lond. & b. VC estern 41/. 6i. 8d — • "" Do. New ConsoL Bths 40 Do. Now 50/. ... ..... 3214. • .. Do. New 401 . 26 ...... Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50 ...... Ditto ditto - 40 44 Ditto, TtLixds .61. 133. MIDDLESEX SESSION'S• (THIS DAY.) William Butler, a negro seaman, was indicted Al stealing three sovereigns, a coat, trousers, Asever il ., shirts, and other articles, the property of •Arth to Woodling. Both the prisoner and the prosecutor be, longed to an American vessel. It appeared that the prisoner had access to a ll the stores of the prosecutor, who was mate, and upon missing the above articles and money, the latter gall information to the police, who discovered that ill prisoner had pawned some of the articl es , an d on e "; the shirts was found on him. The prisoner said he was entrusted with the-clotb° to pawn by the prosecutor, who said he wanted t° raise money to go to Liverpool. A verdict of Guilty was returned, and the A B , SISTANT-JUDGE sentenced him to six months' 11- ni prisonment, with hard labour. James Sawrey, a private in the Grenadier Guar y d e s ; was indicted for robbing Richard Jones of a I !` sbe watch, value 51., in H o lb o rn, on the morning 01 16th inst., at four o'clock. The prosecutor stated that as he was passii4.oll Holborn on the morning in question, the prio n ice , made a snatch at his watchguard, and drew the watch from ,his waistcoat pocket' attempted to make his escape, but he seized hun atc h the belt and gave him into custody, when the iv was found in his possession. e forward, A sergeant of the prisoner's company ca ln , c harge' and said the prisoner had borne an exceh!n-gie charge' ter during the eighteen years he had been in A n tedieut ment. He had been a very regular alb' soldier. has Made The prisoner said that the prosecutor indecent proposal 3 to him. t ' l3°- wilich he bro io The jury found the prisoner Guilty withou t ment's hesitation. s aid ..ntebO e ' The A SSISSTANT-JUDGE, in pa s sing 0---,,trous and he did not believe one word of this or n ti . v ing ma de horrid indecent proposals ag to the ainst the pprisone rrcsecutor, o u c h was t- e If dethe police case, it was he who should have called fo ull la' instead of the prosecutor. He had s iighteet quiries, and he found there was not ~ the foundation for anything of the kin-• courses that could be adopted by a p r ' ison l e p r f :4 l l ::b a f f e of defence, there was none more truly aboutnet than that of making such charges as those alia s ht prosecutors, and he felt great doubt whether he ` ou t, , not to transport him at once. His conduct was dl _ A _ graceful to him as a man and a soldier , and he ho r: when he got back to his regiment, after the explr" a tion of his term of imprisonment, he would be t marked man for his present disgraceful concil . d, The sentence of the Court was, that he be ingiri.4o o and kept to hard labour, for 12 months. ---- BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY. ) We are requested by Mr. Henry to acknow ledge the receipt of a donation of 101., forwarded to tb „ this morning for the poor-box of the office, fo rt 2 Goldsmiths' Company. THAMES.—(THIS DAY.) , ered Stepney churchyard, broken u t Thomas Ellwood was charged with haviog -P o i Charles leaden coffins, and offered the lead p for s, ii ! e r y, ; ff I ' l Butler, a marine store-dealer, reslu' — „ l ',„ l • lll h . mediately adjacent the church, was charg ed -.lt receiving_ t the same, knowing it to be stolen- I appeared that yesterdayevenin g Barnes, nn • oile r officer of the detective force observed the pro d climb over the palings of Stepney churchyard, 00 proceed to the sho of the risie Butler. churchyard the p (A r short i n ‘ returned to the church yard, and after a s ke d terval proceeded to Butler' Barnes ti - 3 shop.lit Butler what the prisoner Ellwood had brougia there for sale. Ile appeared confused, and it, " Only a piece of old iron." Barnes l' bh sisted on searchi the 'ng premises, an a number and d undernest ' the counter he found 2 cwt. of lead, which had I I I : dently belonged to the coffins in Stepney chunc,e, yard, as several of the inscriptions were still legiv!fit One, which lie produced in court, from its T h e pert antiquity, excited a great deal of curiosity. The P . f t. of the inscription legible was—" Richd. Good. 16„ Aged GO." Barnes instantly t ook Ellwood jot, custody, and on his way to the station-house he C O fessed to having broken up the coffins in the c hurel L yard. The inspector subsequently ordered Butler to be taken into custody. affair, and before he wou ld attem p t himself to adjusli' Mr. I3ALLANTINE conside red this a most serlons cate upon it, directed Barnes to proceed to the parir chial authoritieb to ascertain if the intended indic ting the prisoners, and in the meanwhile ordered them t ° be locked up in the cells. WORSHIP-STREET,(THIS DAY.) James Shaw Foster, late a clerk in the service d the Eastern Counties Railway Company, was charge d with obtaining money by fake prete nces from trade', men transmitting and receiving goods b y that lino of rail way. A clerk in the grain department at the good ° station, in Brick-lane, Spitalfields, named Ws Fearn, deposed that the prisoner, prior to the 7th ° the present month, was also a cler k in the same d partment of the company. It was the priscnef° duty to make out from the invoices duplicate coP l _, el ' of tickets for grain sent by the carmen for d elis r; to houses in town, and in C000%116110 Of ito 411°g