The Sun. — London, England, 1847-12-13 00:00:00

NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " STORIES OF WATERLOO," &c. Ix 3 vols. post Svo.. BRIAN O'L INN; OR, LUCK IS EVERYTHING. By W. H. MAXWELL, Esq. Author of " Stories of Waterloo," " Wild Sports of the West," &c. IS PUBLISWED THIS DAY, And may be had at all the Libraries. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. WAGHORN and CO. beg to announce that their Firms in England, India, &c., will CEASE on the 24th December next, the Peninsular aad Oriental Company haying super seded their Overland Parcel business. Mr. Waghorn makes this an nouncement to the Public with the deepest regret, after having opened the Overland Route, and after twenty years' service for their ad vaatage. THEATRE ROTAL, HAYMARKET. Un ter the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir An thony Absolute. Mr. Farren; Captain Absolute, Mr. H Farren ; Faulkland, Mr. Creswick ; Acres, it, Webster; Sir Lucius ger, Mr. Hudson; Fag, Mr. Rrindal ; Davie, Mr. Keeley; Nirs. Malaprop. Mrs. Glover; Lydia Languish, 3lrs. Nisbett ; Julia, Miss Fortescue ; Lucy, Mrs. Hunsby. After which the new Comic Drama, called THE ROUSED LION. Characters by Messrs. Webster, Howe, Wigan, H. Vanden hoff ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Seymour, and Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a new and original Farce, called WHO'S MT HUSBAND ? Doctor Mall, Mr. Tilbury ; Daniel Tootles, Mr. Keeley ; Mrs. smith Thompson, Mrs, W. Clifford ; Sophonisba Mull, Mrs. L. O. Buckingham ; dally Starch, Mrs. liumby. Stage Manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. - J. T. Archer, Tiox-Oook keeper. Booms, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; 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 performed, the celebrated Comedy of PAUL PRY. Frank Hardy, Mr. Stoker; Witherton, Mr. Cullenford ; Somers, Mr. Wor rell ; Colonel Hardy, Mr. Lambert ; Mr. Stanley, Mr. Thomas ; Harry Stanley, Mr. Boyce ; Paul Pry, Mr. Wright ; Grasp, Mr. 0. Smith ; Eliza, Miss M. Taylor ; Marian, Miss Erama Harding ; Mrs. Subtle, Mrs Yates ; Pheebe, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by a new Farce entitled THE TIPPERARY LE GACY. Turnem Green, Mr. Wright ; Bob Gills, Mr. Munyard ; _ . Lanty Scrimmage, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Chubblock, Mr. Cullenford ; Policeman, Mr. Sanders ; Lizzy Chubblock, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with the Farce, entitled THIS HOUSE TO BE SOLD (the property of the late William Shakspeare), Inquire Within. Cha racters by Messrs. Wright, Culleniord, Worrell, 0. Smith, Paul Bed fard, Mrs. Laws, &c., &c. Boxes, 49. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. . _ Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven, ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestria. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will b. perthrmed a new Comic Drama called PEGGY GREEN. After which, a new Comic Drama, entitled THE TRAGEDY QUEEN. After which, THE itizi G DOVES. To conclude with a Comte Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND. Dress Boxes, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4a. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No half-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, Is open to the Dahlia 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. TIIIS EVENING Will be performed Shakspeare's Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Miss Cushman ; Mercutio, Mr. J. Vining ; Friar Lawrence, Mr. Ryder; Juliet, Miss Susan Cushman. To conclude with Coleman's comedy of THE POOR GENTLE MAN. Sir Robert Bramble, Mr. J. Gilbert (from the principal American theatres); Sir Charles Cropland, Mr. J. Webster ; L lent. Worthington, Mr. Hughes; 011apod, Mr. Compton ; Emily Wor thington, Miss Cooper; Miss Lucretia Mac Tab, Miss Winstanley. Dress Circle, Ss.: Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street. THIS EVENING, Will be presented the Comedie-vaudeville of MANCHE A MANCHE. After which, LE REVEIL DU LION. To conclude with LE CHEF-DCEUVRE INCONNU. _ _ A - detailed prospectus of the general arrangements, and of the pieces which will be produced during the season, may be had at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Boa-office of the Theatre, which is open daily, from 11 to 5. Boxes, 6s'. ; Pit, 3s. 4d. ; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. F. Davidge, No. 1, Da'vidge•terrace, Kensington-road, Surrey. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with the celebrated Opera of BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR. Edgar Ravenswood, Mr. D. W. King; Colonel Henry Ashton, Mr. M`Mahon ; Arthur Bucklaw, Mr. Rafter ; Raymond, Mr. S. Jones ; Norman, M. H. Hothcastle; Lucy Ashton, Mrs. D. W. King; Alice, Miss Collett. To conclude with Shakspeare's Tragedy cf MACBETH. Duncan, Mr. H. Horricastle ; Macbeth. Mr. 11. Hughes; Macduff, Mr. T. Fredericks ; Banque. Mr. F. Vining ; Hecate, Mr. H. Yhiilips ; Lady Macbeth. Mrs. W. West. A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have been re-fitted). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the arincipal Librarians ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from Ten until Four. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. AsTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager, Ar. William Batty. Mr. Batty's performing Elephants. THIS EVENING The Grand Spectacle of THE CAMP OF SILESIA. Entire; y new Scenes in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the .Kitablishment, in the various modes of equestration. To conclude with a new Domestic Drama, called THE WHITE FARM. In preparation, a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, which will exceed in splendour and effect all former productions at the Amphitheatre, _ Box-office open from 11 till 5 Acting and stage Manager, Mr. W West. MEETING Or PA RL LAMENT THE THIRD EDITIONS OF "THE SUN" CONTAIN, AS 17SUAL, THE LATEST PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE, AND ALL OTHER NEWS UP TO THE HOUR OF POST. ~,* Orders received by all Newsmen, and at the Sun-o . ffice, 112, Strand. -1. WEATHER.--SuN OFFICE, DEC. 12. THERM , METER, Lowest, 41; Highest. 50 ; Noon, 49, BAROMETER, 30.—WIND S.W.; fine. DECEMBER 13. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 40 ; Highest, 49 ; Noon, 48 BAROMETER, 30.07.—W1ND S.S.E.; fine. ti 1(;II WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. plornin.7.. 14 mint. Mgr 5. I Evenbiz .. 35 aliantes after S. -- 6 1 - P, 4-7, ....tAt , " -:".."-- Y 4 91, de , .0 4 ' ~,,,, OW •.4 4. ' ::-. - 1-- ' 4 l .- )."...., 4. , , • ,1". at , , .... , 'l ' \ ' -. ' Dfk V --" t ' ~ 4 2 . •)IOS s' - hitort -,` • -,,,.. _ , ebienTnit -""Ant• LONDON, MONDAY. DECEMBER 13, 1847. The Committee to inquire into the causes of the recent commerci a l di stress i s to be nominated this evening. At pres en t it i s i ntended that it should consist of twenty- six members. Many very able and influential persons are included in the list of which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has given notice. 'We regret, however, to find that a very large pro portion thereof consist of the most strenuous advocates of the Bank Charter Act of 1844„'while few, if any, of itA avowed opponents have been selected ; and although the anti-bullionists now number many Members of Parliament amongst their ranks, we believe that Mr. SPooNEx is the only person professing that class of opinions, or who has placed himself in decided opposition to the Act of 181 Q, whose name will be proposed to the House. 'Ws have never anticipated much benefit to the nation, or indeed any practical results from the intended in vestigation. We have already had five Committees sitting (with a single exception) during five succes sive sessions. Vast r umbers of witnesses were exa mined ; upwards of fourteen thousand questions were asked, and answers returned ; and yet nothing what soever was done—the last Committee having stated, " in reference to the great question involved in the inquiry, that they felt it to be impossible, before the probable termination of the session, to give that consideration to the many im portant points suggested in the evidence which would enable them to report a well-grounded and definitive opinion to the House." Three years after wards the Act of 1844 was introduced on the re sponsibility of the Government of the day, without any opinion of opinion havin g b een pronounce d on t h e enormous evidence that was taken. The Committee now about to be appointed have a still more extensive field of inquiry before th em, and we can scarcely hope that any conclusive very considerable tim e . will be pronou nce d (if ever) f or ozdtei:able time. B u t even as it is, altho ug h the importantshl question of the present day has been thus for . an indefinite period—although the Financiale shelved dinister has evaded measures re the responsibility of introducing the the C um _ re nutted by the exigencies of the na g tion th mittee shall have made their report (probably on the arrival of the Greek Kalends), we should sired that the Committee had been different h l ave de. posed, and :that all varieties of opinion haYd com posed, thereon. Our monetary laws may n be maintained in their present condition unt i l another crisis:— a panic of still greater intensity, a more universal and wide-spread ruin, and a still greater depreciation of the value of every description of property—shall arouse the British people from their lethargy, and convince them, by too painful experience, of the absolute folly of sacrificing the national prosperity to the attempt to maintain a gold standard at a fixed and uniform value, or to have the! entire internal commerce of the country carried on with a wholly inadequate and insufficient cir culation, and a rate of interest so high as to deprive the manufacturer of the legitimate profits of his industry and enterprise ; bat it would be desirable that general confidence should be reposed in the impartiality of the Com mittee, from the result of whose labours some reforms might possibly be introduced. We do not desire to be understood as conveying any doubt as to the in tegrity of the gentlemen that are to be placed thereon, or that they will not return a report in accordance with what they believe to be for the best interests of the country ; but their sentiments are well known, and it will be almost hopeless to attempt to shake their deep-rooted convictions. It would not be very difficult to foretel the nature of the report that would be made by a Committee so constituted. Mr. WAILLET has given notice that he will move that the name of Mr. MUNTZ should be added thereto, when the Chancel lor of the Exchequer shall bring forward his motion ; and Lord GEORGE BENTINCK has stated that it is his intention to give notice of other names. We trust, however, that Sir CHARLES WOOD will accede to the suggestion of the Member for Finsbury, and that the addition of several new Members, more parti cularly of those who support the Scotch system of banking, may render any division unnecessary, and that all parties, being fully and fairly represented, the House and the nation may feel confidence in the conclusions that may be arrived at. On Friday evening a memorable event for the constituency of Stockport occurred in the Lyceum of that borough. On that evening their illustrious representative, Mr. COBDEN, took his farewell of those electors who first returned him to the Imperial Parliament. Happily, the retirement of Mr. COBDEN from the representation of Stockport has not origi nated from the impediment which was at one period anticipated. His constitution has been so far re invigorated by his continental pilgrimage as to enable him to resume his legislative labours at Westminster, and to sit henceforth in the House of Commons as Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire. There is, consequently, in this movement of our distinguished countryman matter for congra tulation, not merely for the electors of the most populous county constituency in the United Kingdom, and for the Liberal population generally, but even for the inhabitants of the borough town from the political interests of which the Honourable Gentleman is compelled, in a great measure, to disconnect himself by an irresistible concurrence of circumstances. In receiving the adieux of such a man as the Apostle of Free Trade principles without any manifestation of chagrin, but, on the contrary, with a certain degree of spontaneous enthusiasm, the enfranchised people of Stockport have shown that they have sufficient pa triotism to sacrifice their own local predilections whenever the advantage of the nation generally seems to be implicated in the selection. And in this particular they constitute a brilliant antithesis to the petulant citizens of Bath. At Bath the gratification of individual prejudices and the triumph of municipal partialities, has been considered as so far superior to the maintenance of a great prin ciple and the benefit of the community at large, as to lead to the rejection of a debater so eminent, and, in his way, so invaluable as Mr. ROEBUCK, and that, moreover, after fifteen years' service within the walls of St. Stephen's. Bath has proved itself to be as ungrateful and as unsteadfast as Stockport has just proved itself to be self-forgetful and patriotic. In the former a protracted interval of labour is overlooked by reason of its fickleness, and for the satisfaction of a petty and momentary displeasure. In the latter the admiration inspired by the intelligence, the ardour, the eloquence, and the industry, both physical and intellectual, of a re presentative of only five years' standing, survives his separation from them and his removal to another constituency of greater numerical importance. Such is the contrast afforded by the electioneering proceed ings of Bath and Stockport; such is the selfishness of the one and the magnanimity of the other ; such have been the different receptions of ROEBUCK and COBDEN,—the first sacrificed to the spleen arising from a sentiment of sectarian fanaticism, the la- t welcomed, even in his final appearance before them in his political capacity, with that respect to which he is entitled alike by his celebrity as an orator and his genius as a statesman. To all those gentlemen, dukes, lords, squires, and burgesses who are still devoted to the inanimate idol of Protection; to those pertinacious monopolists whom Mr. COBDEN mentioned in such felicitous terms as "curiosities and eccentricities ;" to Lord STANLEY, b Lord GEORGE BENTINCK, to Sir JOUN TYRRELL, to Mr. MILES, to Mr. NEWDEGATE, and to all the rest of those Parliamentary oddities, who either can't see the folly of their arguments, because of the innate obfuscation of their intellects, or won't see it, because of their intensity of reverence for party ties and party principles—we commend the plain and unanswerable remarks made by Mr. COBDEN, on the occasion of his farewell to the enlightened electors of Stockport. Each sentence is "a palpable hit." Each fact is a homethrust. There is no escape from the inferences drawn by the Mem ber for the West Riding of Yorkshire—inferences as overwhelming to the Protectionists as any ever enunciated by the same lips from the Opposition benches of the House of Commons, or from the stage of Covent-garden Theatre. After observing that there was nowhere discoverable, throughout the country, anything like a re-action in regard to the principles of free trade, and that " every man whom he believed to be a free-trader five or six years ago was a free-trader now," Mr. COBDEN reminded his auditory that those principles had not as yet re ceived any trial whatsoever. To the clamour raised by the Country Party, that freedom of commerce was already showing itself to be a most destructive chimera, Mr. COBDEN replied that freedom of com merce had not as yet been tested as the motive power of the mercantile machinery. When the Protectionists exclaim that so far from proving the redemption of the community, free trade has, at the very outset of its operation, led to a monetary panic, to a drain of gold 1 and to a diminutio n o f emp l oyment, Mr. COBDEN responds, Not so : these calamities are the results o thirty years of monopoly, coupled with the failure o the potato crop, the scantiness of two successive bar. vests, and the almost unparalleled destitution of Ire. and. Instead of having in any manner put the effi cacy of the free-trade doctrines to a trial, we have as yet, he continues, " only got through the half of the three years we are to have of the fag end of monopoly." As to the draining of gold from the country, that has arisen from the prolonged dearth of provisions ; and unless the gold had been remitted to America and elsewhere in exchange for the cereal produce of those countries, thousands of the inhabitants of these islands must have literally perished from starvation. As to the reduction in the amount of employment, it was very sententiously remarked by the representative of the West Riding of Yorkshire that " if there was a failure in the cotton crop of 1846, he would by no means undertake to assert that they would have every spindle running." The logic of tl is is obvious. Having demonstrated the absurdity of the accusations raised against the advo cates of unrestricted commerce, Mr. COBDEN shows how egregiously the monopolists were mistaken in their various predictions. " They (the Protectionists) declared," said he, " that when the corn-laws were repealed the farmers of England would be ruined, but they never were better off than last year ; the Protectionists told them that land would be thrown out of cultivation, but people never were more busy In cultivating the land than they were at this mo- We in Australia, bu 7 ment ; the Prot ec ti on i s t s sa id the ltanthdolosradmsewl-aonudld run away and se . lord s were gett i ng higher rents for their land." were the se th e only allus i ons vouchsafed tothe c N on o . l. ((tiered cause of Monopoly by the Victor of Free Trade. ito proclaimed that he still adhered to his opinion that, with free trade in corn, we shall have American flour at lid. per lb. ; and on being asked " When ?" replied briefly and distinctly, " When you get free trade !" That announcement is the last bitter thrust made by Mr. theCOBDEN shadow , in th e L yceum of Stockport, against y cause of P rotect i on. As representative ofentary the West Riding, h e can now resume his Parlia of his Ministerial colleague. Attempts have b;;;;7:::717c;tai quarte prevent the Poles wh o h ad been condem n ned to death to from appealing to the royal clemency. The news of the sentence reached Posen on the 3d, and the greatest excitement prevailed there in consequence. On the Ist of January a reduction will be an nounced by the Austrian Government on the duties upon raw cotton, sugar, and other colonial produce. The duty on cotton will be reduced from lfl. 40 to 40 kreutzers. The Austrian Bank is about to issue a new series of bank notes, and to call in those now in circulation. UHLICH, the leader of the new reformation in Germany, has sent a written notification to the con sistory of the church of the state, of his election as pastor of the new community, which now consists of 2,056 families. The Post Ampt Gazette, of Frankfort, says, that it was generally reported there that the Jesuits, and the members of other religious orders expelled from Switzerland, are to establish themselves in the con vents of Bruges, Ghent, Malines, Antwerp, Nivelles, and other places in Belgium. A letter from Vienna, of the 3d, states that the Jesuits have arrived from Switzerland in that capi tal, and met with a kind reception from Price MET TERNICH. The Austrian Governor of Cracow has published the following decree : " His Majesty the Emperor has thought right under the circumstances to ordain, by resolution of the 21st of November, 1847, that courts-martial shall try all per sons guilty of high treason in the following specified cases :-Ist. Those who shall excite others to revolt or insurrection, with high treason in view, although with out success. 2d. Those who shall resist, with an object of high treason the armed force. 3d. Those who being armed shall join a crowd, and not obey the authorities who may enjoin them to withdraw, or who, during a revolt, are seized with arms in their hands." The Emperor of Russia, in imitation of France, has deciding upon establishing, at Athens, a school to enable Russian subjects to study the Greek language. The whole of Sicily is in insurrection, occasioned by the rigour displayed by the Government. The people have risen in arms, and the soldiers have re fused to act against them. The following letter has been received from Naples : " NAPLES, DEC. 2.—Sicily is on fire. The Consti tution of 1812, guaranteed at the time by England, has been proclaimed in the whole island. The soldiers re fused to fire upon the people. The steamers expected from Sicily have not arrived. This intelligence, we are assured, arrived by the telegraph, and the interruption in the communication with Sicily must tend to confirm the account of the serious events which have occurred in that island, We have remarked with surprise that a large English steam-frigate, supposed to be the Terrible, approached our gulf, and, after taking soundings along the coast from Castellamare, put to sea again without communicating with the shore. The Terrible, no doubt, came from Malta and Sicily." The Florence Gazette announces that the King of NAPLES has accepted the resignation of all his Ministers, and that within a few days the public will, in all probability, be made acquainted with the accession of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies to the Italian Customs' Union. The Suisse of Berne announces that M. SIEGWART MULLER had arrived at Domodossola, in Piedmont, and that Sir STRATFORD CANNING arrived at Neuf chatel on the 7tb, on his way to Berne. The New Zurich Gazette announces that M. DE Sems SOGLIO, the late commander of the troops of Lucerne, and Prince DE SCHWARTZENEERG, who had served as a volunteer in the troops of that canton, have arrived at Milan. Madrid journals of the sth have arrived. The Minister of Marine has presented to the Con gress a project of law by which the Government is authorised to raise a loan, the interest and sinking fund of which are not to exceed fifteen millions of reals per annum, and the product of which is to be expended in constructing and repairing ships for the navy, and in purchase of timbers and other naval stores. In cases of urgency, or when the interest of the service requires it, the Government is authorised to construct sailing vessels or steamers abroad, and to introduce steam-engines and other effects indispen sable for the rapid increase of the royal navy, free from all duties, always making use in the first place of the means afforded by the national arsenal and manu factures. The Afrancesados are highly offended with NARVAEZ on account of the constitutional nature of his programme, and more especially on account of the eulogium he passed upon &TARTER°. PIDAL, the tool of the French party, has bitterly attacked the Ministry, and has proclaimed that resistance as identified with the very idea of Government. CHRISTINA was in a furious rage with NARVAES when she heard of his speech, and proceeded imme diately to the QUEEN, insisting that she should dis miss NARVAEZ, and appoint MoN and PIDAL to the Ministry. The QUEEN, however, stood firm, and as she has now NARVAEZ to back her, it is not impro bable that the busy, intriguing, unprincipled CHRIS TINA may be once more :compelled to seek re fuge in the Hotel de Courcelles. This affair took place on the ad, and NARVAEZ, as is usual with him after one of those exciting scenes, was on the day following so unwell as to be compelled to keep his bed. MARTINIS DE LA Ross has been re•elected Deputy at Alhuma. MADIUD BOLSA, DEC. s.—The Three per Cents. were done at 244 for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 15k for paper; and the Debt without Interest, at 41 for cash. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. Rumours of the approaching resignation of M. GUIZOT continued to be rife in Paris. He had, it appears, entered into an agreement with Prince METTERNICH to station an army of 40,000 men on the frontiers of Switzerland, while Austria, on her part, was to assemble an army of 80,000 in the Voralberg. This agreement he had entered into ithout consulting the Cabinet, and on the proposition being submitted to his colleagues, it was strenuously opposed by M. DUCHATEL, and M. GUIZOT found himself, to his surprise, in a minority in his own Cabinet. At the same time he learned the answer given by Lord PALMERSTON to Mr. OSMIORNE, on the subject of the Swiss intervention, and immediately set off alone for St. Cloud, where he had an inter view with the KING. On his return to Paris he appeared much out of humour, and, to add to his chagrin, received, on the same evening, the answer of the Swiss Diet to his note, and the intelligence that the public perusal of his note in the Diet had excited shouts of laughter, and an intimation that Prussia withdrew from the conference. He had an interview with M. DUCHATEL the same evening, which lasted for three hours ; and on Thursday morning he had another long conference with him. In order, however, to comfort him under his afflictions, it appears that his colleagues have permitted him to make some of the diplomatic ap pointments on which he had set his heart. The Moniteur announces officially that, by royal ordonnances dated the Bth, the following diplomatic mutations and appointments have been made, viz., M. DE BACOURT, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, to he Ambassador to the King of SARDINIA and Minis ter Plenipotentiary to the Archduchess of PARMA, in the room of Count MoanEa ; the Duke DE GLucics- BERG, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Spain, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary to the Court of Portugal, in the room of Baron BURIGNOT DE VARENNES, who is appointed in the same capacity to the Court of Denmark, in the room of Baron DE BILLING, who has been ap• pointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary to the Germanic Confederation ; M. PAGEOT, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, in the room of M. DE BACOURT; and the Duke DE 13Assesto, Secretary of Embassy at Brussels, to be Minister Plenipotentiary, and, in that quality, to be Charge d'Affaires ad interim at the Court of the Elector of BEssE. The Journal des Debals announces that the ordon nance, appointing M. PISCATORY Ambassador to Ma drid, was signed by the KING on the 10th. We read in the Presse—" It is confidently stated that, according to new notes received by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the three Powers of the North persist more than ever in their intention of interfering in the arrangement of the affairs of Switzerland, by proceeding as, in 1831, in the affairs of Holland— first, by the employment of protocols; and next, if necessary, by having recourse to force. The three neutrality. Preparations' are making for the opening of the Chambers. Al. SAUZET will, it is said, be re-elected President without opposition. M. LACATE LAPLAGNE and Marshal BUGEAUD are spoken of as new candi dates for the vice-presidency. The Ref urnw contains the following informa tion relative to the meeting of the directors of the Northern Railway, at which it was agreed to call for 75f. per share at the close of next February :- "Ten directors were present at the sitting which took place on Saturday. Five of the most info ential among them insisted on the call being postponed until July, and urged M. de Rothschild, as baniptiof the company, to advance the sum necessary to effect the payment due to the Government in January. M. Pereire is said to have himself strongly recommended to make no call, in order to relieve the market and afford ccin coerce time to improve. But M. de Rothschild wasin; exorable, and replied to all the entreaties addressed' to him, that he had no money, that he could lend nothing, and was obliged to reserve all hi s resources f or the jpay ment of the instalments of the last loan.' " The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Saturday, at 75f. 30c. ; New Loan, 76f. 40c.; the Fire per Cents., 1161. 55c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,191 f. 25c.; Rouen, 902 f. 50c. ; Havre, 472 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 543 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 553 f. 75c. ; Vierzon, 542 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 482 f. 50c.; Dieppe, 265 f. ; Basle, 162 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 406 f. 25c.; Nantes, 388 f. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, 3831. 75c.; Spanish Actives, 23i ; Spanish Threli per. Cents., 30*. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Dec. 11. Namur and Liege, 4 3 4-Northern of France, 1134-Or leans and Bordeaux, 54-Over Yssel, 24 dis.-Pans and Lyons, SN-Sambre and Meuse, 74. INSTITUTION OF THE ADULT DEAF AND DITMB.—(THIS DAY.) A meeting of the committee of management of the institution for teaching trades, and providing employ. ment for the adult deaf and dumb of both sexes, was held this morning at the board-room of the establish ment, No. 26, Red Lion-square, Bloomsbury, for the purpose of taking the necessary steps before presenting to the Corporation of the city of London the memorial decided upon at a previous Court, and signed by the chairman, William Evans, Esq., M.P. The signatures 'of the several members of the com mittee present having been attached to the memorial, the annual report of the society for 1847 was read, together with the minutes of the preceding Court, from which toPawslisaegthee the subject b e i ng o f r the deaf an d d um b instruction. arecwo e n sf e i ad z , el t yr r , aa capable eroe is followingtreceiving The CIIAIRMAN (W. Evans, Esq., M.P.), asked the secretary whether the officers of the institution were then upon the establishment, as he should like to exa mine them in order to ascertain the capabilities of the inmates to learn the trades carried on? Being answered in the affirmative, Mr. Barton, the hearinginsster of the shoemaking department was called, and in answer to the several questions of the worthy chairman, stated th a t h e taught the deaf and dumb the trade of shoemaking, and he did not find the task very difficult. Several deaf and dumb youths whom he had instructed were now journeymen at first-rate houses at the west-end of London. The youths who were at present under his management would be perk ct in their trade in the course of two years: those who had no previous knowledge of the business he could instruct in three years. The principal requirement of the deaf and dumb was kindness and attention, with which they could learn trades with a facility equal to those possess ing the power of speech and hearing. The HEARIN.MASTER of the tailoring department deposed to a similar effect. Some deaf and dumb youths were obstinate and difficult to teach, but a similar complaint could be applied to those who were not so afficted. By a regular and religious system of training their obstinacy was speedily replaced by submissiveness and attention. Mr. D. MURRAY, the superintendent of the establish ment, said the female inmates upon admission were very violent and bad tempered, but after remaining in the asylum a short time, they , became quiet and re spectful in their behaviour. Recently a youth was re ceived into the institution from a lunatic asylum, and the change of treatment had acted very strongly upon his mind. He was now one of the most attentive of the several inmates, and in the course of a short time he would be enabled to sustain himself by his own industry. Various specimens of the work of the deaf and dumb were exhibited, and their neatness °ailed forth many re marks of satisfaction and surprise. It was generally reported at the clubs last night, that Mr. Tancred or Mr. llayter, the oldest members of the Liberal bar who have seats in Parliament, will be appointed to the office of Judge-Advocate General, in place of Mr. Charles Buller. We believe that either of these appointments would give general satisfaction to the Liberal party.—Chronicle. The Hon. Robert Gore, R.N., lately appointed Consul at Monte Video, has instructions to await at Rio Janeiro the arrival of an envoy to be sent out by France, and to proceed in company with him to the River Plate, where both will appear in concert to enforce the terms of pacification agreed upon by the Governments of England and of France.—Obscrecr, Mr. W. H. Tinne, Q.C., of Lincoln's Inn, is to be the new M aster in Chancery, vacant by the death of Mr. Duckworth._ Observer. Lord Ebrington is to be appointed to the office of Parliamentary Secretary to the new Poor-law Commis sion, and Mr. Nicholls, the senior Commissioner of the "mmission now about to be superseded, is to be the permanent secretary. The present commission will ex pire on the day after the commission appointing Mr. Charles Buller the President is published in the Ga2eke. FIRE IN HotnoaN—On Saturday night, about a quarter to eleven o'clock, a fire broke out in a small shed occupied by a costermonger, in Smart's-buildings, Holborn. The engines from the various stations were quickly on the spot, but owing to a short supply of water, they c ou ld not prevent the total d estruct i on of the niture dealer. adjoining premises, occup i e d by Mr. S. Wells, fur- CANADIAN BUTTER.---Among the most recent arrivals from North America have been some large im portations of butter from the Canadian provinces of that quarter of the globe. One vessel, recently arrived, has brought neaxly four hundred packages, and another about three hundred packages of that article of food, the pro duce of Canada. a , ORANGES.—Fr om t h e arrivals w hi c h h ave a l rea d y taken pla ce , imported this year ?J ill b e very l arge . it i s expected that the quantity of oranges Powers, it is said, have furthermore expressed a de sire that the town of Neufchatel should be the place fixed on for holding the conferences. It is asserted that the French Cabinet immediately replied in the affirmative to both propositions. Austria will be re presented by General Count DE COLLOREDO, Prussia by General RADOWITZ, who is, in addition, to be named Military Governor of Neufchatel for the King of PRUSSIA. The representative of Russia is not yet known. As to the choice of the French Government, it is certain that it will not fall on M. Bois LE COMTE, whose personal relations with M. OCHSEN BEIN are envenomed to the utmost possible extent. There is some question of entrusting this mission to M. DE LAGRENEE." The Union Monarchigue makes a similar an nouncement. Whatever may be the intentions of Austria and Russia, we believe that Prussia has withdrawn from the conference, and will observe the strictest This surmise receives corroboration from the fact that in the Journal des Debats of Saturday we find an attack upon the King of PRUSSIA for his delay in granting an amnesty to the condemned Poles. Those who sacrificed " for a consideration" Cracow to Austria, and who have acted as spies on the Polish refugees in France, sending accurate information of all their movements to the three Northern Courts, are not the most likely persons in the world to be seized with a sudden fit of generous enthusiasm on behalf of the oppre!sed. In common with the great majority of mankind, we have infinitely more faith in the humanity of the King of PRUSSIA than in the honesty of the Government of France. The following account of the submission of ABD• EL-KADER to the Emperor of Morocco appears in the Semaphore de Marseilles of the Bth: " The steam- packet Philippe Auguste, which left Algiers on the sth inst., entered our harbour last even ing. We have received by that vessel the important intelligence of the submission of Abd-el-Kader to the Emperor of Morocco. Bou Hamedi, who had been sent by the Emir to the Emperor to offer him his submission, returned to the deira with a Moorish envoy, who in formed him that Abderrhaman had rejected that offer, and would only consent to accept it on the express condition that A bd- el-Kader should immediately disperse his deira ; that the principal chiefs, -who remained with him, should pledge themselves to reside separately on whatever points might be assigned to them by the French Government and the Emperor of Morocco ; and, finally, that Abd-el-Kader himself should not quit the residence he was at liberty to choose. Our correspon dent adds, that Abd-el-Kader, whose situation had become most critical, bad accepted these conditions, and appointed a'place for his residence in the neighbourhood of Fez. The deira of the Emir was immediately dis persed, and his horses were hamstrung in the presence of the Moorish Envoy, according to the Arab custom." The Reform movement continues to make great pro gress in France, and the alarm of the Minister is serious and undisguised. At first these banquets were un noticed by the Ministerial journals, then they were ridiculed, but now, according to the Journal des Debats, they are revolutionary, incendiary, dange rous, and M. ODILLON BARROT, who says the Debats "has for four months dragged the Government from dinner to dinner to expose it to the ridicule and to the hatred of all political parties," is merely the pre cursor of a MARAT or a ROBES?IERRE. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was a very quiet Market for Cotton at Liver pool on Saturday. Sales 2,500 bales, without alteration in prices.—Railway Shares were quiet. There are advices to the 14th of August from Sydney, the 16th of July from Hobart Town, and the 10th from Port Philip. From Adelaide we have dates to the 14th of June. Affairs seem in a general point of view to be progressing satisfactorily in the colonies, and the chief thing needed now is an influx of labour. There is no dangerous speculation or fictitious prosperity in the Aus tralian settlements, but to the:small capitalist a prospect of steady accumulation, and to the working man, of good employment and remuneration are, perhaps, more than ever open. In this respect, therefore, we are glad that the Government here have funds adequate to promote at least a moderate amount of free emigration, and, consequently, a large number of parties are being sent out, The :tables relative to imports and exports show a great increase in the former at Sydney, and with. out a corresponding augmentation in the exports, although the latter do also exhibit an increase. The Commercial Bank of Sydney had been compelled to trench upon its reserved fund to make up losses sus tained by the dishonesty of one of its servants. The Port Phillip colony gets on well, but even pas toral occupations were impeded by the want of labour. Mining in South Australia progresses wonderfully, and two dividends of fifty per cent. each bad been declared within a few weeks upon the shares of the Mining Association. The smelting of copper will also, no doubt, be carried on to some extent hereafter in the cantles. The emigrant ships Trafalgar and Belle Alliance had arrived out with nearly 600 persons ou board, and the state of their health is well spoken of. The accounts received from the Continent state that money was rather scarce, and a few more failures had occurred in different parts. The market for the public securities has been very quiet this morning, and there is a firm tone observable. Consols are 86 for special Transfer, and 251 to for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 861- to Bank Stock is 184 Exchequer bills have risen to 6s. and 9s. premium, an indication of the greater abundance of money; and East India Bonds under 1,000/. are at 18s. discount. There is very little speculation going on. The Foreign Stock Market presents a mere blank, Not a bargain has been entered into in the Peninsular or South American Bonds, if we except Grenada ; De ferred at 3R ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 55; and Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 89. Railway Shares participate in the steadiness of the public securities, although the dealings have been limited. We quote Caledonian 37 to 37i; Eastern Counties, 16 to 161; Great Western, 99i to 98i; Brighton, 438; North Western, 1531 to 1521; South Western, 54i ex new; North British, 264 i; North Stafford, 7 to 7i; South Eastern, 31 to 311; and Northern of France, Ilk. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 186% 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ... 85 84% 3 per Cent. Consols Anns B6 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anas. 86 1 i 14% India Bonds under 1,0001 lB dis Consols for Account if.xchequer Bills. 3d. 1,000/. 500/. Small ,... 13 9p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Grenada, 1 per Cent. . Ditto Deferred ... 3% Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4% per Cent Dutch 2% per Cent.,l2 Guild 55 BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. rat SNAIL. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% to Ayrshire and Galloway Belfast and County Down .. 10 .. Birmingtiam & Oxford June... 15 Birmingham, W 01.,& Dudley 10 ... Wol., & Stour Val. k 01.148.... Birk en keail, Lancashire, and CheW.re - Junction 7 3 /4 130A09 4 ,§1pmf., & Birming... 5 Bristol and Exeter Do., Thirds ...... ..... 20 Bticklnghamshire lOl. 4s dis. to Caieddnian Ditto, Half Shares 3 3 / 4..... ---..-. .. to Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 Chestei and Holyhead... 37%..... Ditto, Preference 8 Clarence. - Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent lO - 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. awl L. & D . Ditto, 18!., E. Si H Ditto, 31. 108., E. & H... 2 Eastern Counties Ditto, ditto (B) Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... .....• to Do., do N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., Quarter .... ........ ..... 12% — Do., New East ersn Union ... ••• 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 12% — to Ditto., Thirds l3s. 4d — to Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.) ... . — East Lancashire - •••• • to Ditto, New l3 Do., New Quarters - East Lincolnshire 12%...... 12% to Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 46% to 46 Ditto, Half Shales Ditto, Quarter Shares 1 2 14.. ll% to Edinburgh and NOrthern ... 22% — D . ' N 1374.. ✓itto, New 8 74 ..... to Ditto, New port.. ... ........ 9% — ...... to Ditto, ditto, New ... 2% — ...... to Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — to D' N 1%.. fat°, New ... Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..B4 64.8 d... .. to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 Ditto, New Do. IA Shares (5 per ct. gua.) 12% .—.— .. ... to Great Northern lO% — ... .. to Do. London & York Exten. 23¢ 3 /4 ..... to Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35 Great North of England 100 .225 Ditto, New 40/. 5 Ditto, New 30/. 3O ... , . .. ... Ditto, New 151...... ... 6 1,4...... . ... to Great Western Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths 2O Do. New 171 Buddersfield and Manchester 22 .. ... Di ttc, Thirds Hull and Selby SO Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% — to Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 15 Do. do. and Norwich Do., do., Extension Scrip (late (Camb. and Ely) 2%...... 1 1 h to Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 Do., Thirds lO Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 ..... to 1 )itto, ditto Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarters 14%...... Ditto Fifths ... 8 Ditto Sixteenths ..-.... ... 6 1 4 — Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 101.4 s — Do. Liverpool and Bury... 34 Do. (Hudders. and Sheff.) 33 Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole 47% — Do., West Riding Union ...4/. 25..... ..... Po., Preston and Wyre ... 25 Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9 Ditto ditto (B) 14 Leeds and Bradtord Leicester and Bedford l6s. Leeds, Dewsbury, &Mulches. 37 1 / — Do., Branch % Shares 1 2 14 '-- Ditto, New Branch (blue).. 2$ Ditto, Extension (green)... 2 Do., New Exten. (pink)... 2% Leeds and Thirsk ......... ..... 36 Ditto, New Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. .... hLiverpool. Crosby, and Sout- port. Liverpool, Manchester, and 1 1 Newcastle Junction 2% to London 1 5z Blackwall...l6/. 18s. 4d....... Ditto New, No. 1.. Ditto New, No. 2 4/. 13s. 4d.... • .... to Do. Extension ...... to Lond., Bright., & S ou th C oast 50 ... - to Do. Consolidated Eighths... 30 ...... Do. Guaranteeds per Cent. 9 Do. Pref. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d... Ditto Preference lBl 17s 2d... ...... to London and North Western..loo 152 153% to 152% Do. Quarter ... -..L. and B. 17 Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2 Do. do. Fifths Do. Quarters ... G. J. 25 Do. 40/. Shares L. &M. 15 ...... Do. 401. Shares...M. and B. 40 ...... Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 7 1 / 2 . .... Do. 10/. .. M. and B. (B.) 7% — ...... to Do. 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 Do. New ConaolidatedBths. 40 Ditto New 501. Ditto New 404 .... ..... .. Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 Ditto, Thirds ... 6/. 18s. 4d... ...... to London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1% — ...... to Londonderry and Coleraine... 27% — to Londonderry and Enniskillen 23% ..... to Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 8 Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto 1 4 Shares (No. 1) ... 13 Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 Ditto, % Shares (No. 3)... 7% ...... Ditto Grimsby 25 — to Ditto, ditto. ... i.. 7 Ditto, ditto ... 4% to Ditto, She ffi eld, and Line. 7 1 / 2 ...... MancheiterandSouthampton pi ..... to Midiand 100 107 1 ,4 to .10hl,i Ditto, Consol. Preference 100 ..... Ditto, 401. Shares 4O ....... 42% to Ditto, 501. Shares..... ...... 10 ... .. Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ... .. 80% to Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham 6 per cent.... 100 ......119% to Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 34 ....... Ditto ditto 71.95...... Midland, Leices. and Swan nington (8 per ct.gua.).... 50 .... . Mitild. Great Western (Irish) 35 Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ..-.. --- Ditto Quarter Shares - ...... to Newmarket and Chesterford 18% — to Ditto Extension Newport Abergy., and Ileref. I . Norfolk. 100 Ditto New 20/. 5 ...... to Ditto Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, N. of Norflk 2 Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 :Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor _Zorthern Counties Union .... 4 North British Ditto Halt' Shares. 1 2 1% l 2 Do. Quarters 4% 4A .. ...... to -- Ditto, Extension Ditto Thirds ... ......... -.... 2 North ,Statfordshire... .. ...... 7% r 7 (4%... to 7 North Wales North Western Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton ' Reading,Guildfd. & Reigate 7%...... 7% to Royston and Hitchin ..... .... 1%...... to -- Scottish Central Scottish Midland ... 10 17% 23%...... to Ditto, New Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole Shrewsbury and Birmingham 6 Ditto, ditto, Class B. 3 Shrewsbury and Chester ( Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 ... Ditto, Oswestry l2 Ditto (New) Shrewsbury and Hereford... 2 Shropshire Union South Devon ....... ...... ... 40 Ditto, Preference South Staffordshire South Eastern and Dover 33% BIM to Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, No. 2 Ditto, New, No. 3 ls Ditto New, No. 4. .. .. 7% — to South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal .. 4 Chatnes Haven Dock and Railway l7l/2 — to Paw Vale Extension Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 131,4...... Waterford and Limerick ... .. 40 ... .. Waterford, IVexford, Wicklw, and Dublin West Cornwall Nhitehaven and Furness l2 ... .. Windsor, Staines, and South • Western ... .. 525. Wilts,Somerset,& Weymouth 30 York, Newcastle, and terwick 25 ... . 34 Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 .. ... 30% 31 to 30% Do..NorthShields Purchase 25 .. ... Do. Exton. No.l (Y. & N.) 10 Do. do. No. 2, New &B. 10 Do. G. N. E. Pur. or P re f. 8 York and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Preference Ditto East and Westßiding Extension .... FOREIGN RAILWAY. Anglo-Belgian Barbadoes .. .. ....... 1 Boulogne and:Amiens 2O ...... 14% to ^- Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) Central of Spain ... Ceylon .... SB. Demerara. Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... . Datch Rhenish 7 East Indian Great Indian Peninsular..... 55....... •.- to Great Southern of Madras ... ss. Great Western Bengal . ss. Great Western Canada Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Louvain ala Sambre ...... ... 7 . „ Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon (Con stituted) Madras ... 1 Madras, Nellore, and Arcot... % — to Madrid and Valentis Namur and Liege . ..... 14 ... . to 5 Northern of France Orleans and Bordeaux ~... Over Yssel 4l3s 4d l'— ..... to Paris and Lyons: .. 10 Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen .. Paris & Strasbourg ... 8 Rouen and Havre ........ ...... 20 Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14 Tours & Nantes ... .... 8 l'ournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hasselt Trinidad.. ........ ......... ..... 2% West Flanders B% 1%%... to JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American .... 50 Colonial Commercial of London 2O — to --. London Joint Stock London and Westminster... 20 Ditto, New National Provincial of Engld. 35 Ditto New .. to - National of Ireland Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New .. lO Union of Australia Ditto, New 2% to Union of London ....... . ...... 10 Union of Madrid MINES. Anglo Mexican .. 100 Astrian Mining Company ... 11 Australian ... Blaenarvon Iron and Coal ... 50 Bolanos Scrip '' t• British Iron Brazilian Imperial ...,. .. ... 21 - Cobra Copper Galvanized Iron Real del Monte, Unregistered . .. 84 to LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 13.—Wind this day at noon S.S.E., light breeze, and fine clear weather. MARGATE, DEC. 11.—The Dronock began discharging her cargo yesterday. An anchor and two chains, sup posed to belong to the brig Rambler, have been picked up and landed here. LYMINGTON, DEC. 10.—All the wind bound vessels rode the gales out well off the Creek. WEYMOUTH, DEC. 12.—The wreck of a large ship, apparently American built, burnt to the water's edge, came on shore 10th inst. on Kinmeridge Ledge ; upwards of 200 bales of cotton have been saved in a damaged state. Henderson, s A vvax r i r no d dn . ca 10th,.lEwc Calcu t ta ; Acadia,tnat Nonpareil,s Af ri ca , . w D , un m n o , f Dtb o r huE, A e wl : kr ys n E ; G CAR a . 0 T 0:23 E . a . o Arrd. 1 Ith, Prince of Wales, Wilson, C . alcutta eiL ; :hais l t Halifax; be2loo.trlns Lima, Yule, Sydney, New South Wales; Royal Saxon, Charlsworth, Calcutta ; Thomas Blyth, Thompson, Mauritius; Mary Ann Henderson, Africa; Constance, Quebec; Waliscove, ditto. Arrd. from the River, 11th, Africanus, Flight, Cape Coast Castle; 12th, Sir G. Pol lock, Thornhill, Calcutta; Star, Hogg, Antigua; Ann Kenny, B a ld ur i n , Ch ar l eston; Isa b ella, Hi nton , Sierra Leone; Morayshire, Stamp, ditto. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Independence, New York (supposed). .LIVERPOOL, DEC. 11.—Wind W.N.W., 12, S.S.E.— Arrd. 11, Esk, Crockett, Pernambuco, sld. 31st Oct.; Lady Milton, Quebec. 12, Countess of Sefton, Wheeler, Valparaiso; Creole, Pringle, Monte Video; Thomas Mellor, Bruce, Leghorn; Wanderer (supposed Laguna). Sld, 11, Mary, Black, Africa; Regina, Lamb, ditto; John Dunlop, Morris, Philadelphia. 12, Queen of Britain, Fitzgibbon, St. Lucia; Mafalcofar, Havanstah; Bridgetown, Wilson, New Orleans ; Erin's Queen, Davidson, ditto; Digby, Faber, New York; Virginia, Calvert, ditto; John Fielden, Strang, ditto; Constitu tion. Britton, ditto; Milker, Chapman, ditto; Cam bridge, Peabody, ditto ; Palos, —, Boston; Great Britain, Hulme, St. John's, New Brunswick. A heavy gale, with violent squall, was experienced on the 6th inst., in lat. 50, lon. 12, by the Esk, Crockett, arrived here. A westerly gale, with a heavy sea, was experienced on the 6th instant, in lat 47, lon. 26. by the Lydia, since arrived here. A brig lying to,:and a ship, under reeled foresail, were passed, running to the S.E., by the Esk, Crockett, arrived here. BEAHMARIS, DEC.IIO.---TI,F Amelia, Atkinson, from Eastport to Liverpool (not the Emily, from St. John's to Liverpool, as previously reported), which was driven on the sands on the 7th instant, has been towed into the harbour to-day, and is now high and dry south-west of the pier. It blew a heavy gale from south-west last night, which caused several of the shipping to drift a consider able distance. An Irish schooner went on shore, and is likely to become a wreck. WEXFORD, DEC. 9.—The whole of the cargo of the Eliza and Anne, on shore at Came, has been saved, partly damaged. The vessel was floated off yesterday, but got on shore again about a mile from her former situation. WESTPORT, DEC. B.—The Peter Senn, lying at an chor in Innistyre Harbour, drove ashore 6th instant, but it is expected she will be got off without much da mage. BELFAST, DEC. 9.—The Parsborg, of this port, ran foul of the Synwald (steamer) in the Lough this morn ing, and is now ashore off Green Island. The St. Mungo (tug steamer), sunk off Green Island, near Car rickfergus. WHITSTABLE, DEC. 9.—Arrd. Margaret Adams, Sea ham, with loss of an anchor and chain. DUNGENESS ROADS, DEC, 10.—Arrd. Paragon, Brown, Stockton, Carthagena. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 11 AND 12.—Wind S.W.-11. Sid - Mediator, Stalk, New York ' • Claret, Bordeaux. COWES, DEC. 11 .— Wind W.S.W.-10. Arrd. Hoppet, Juselius, Kertch, leaky. 11. Volusia, Mauritius. DEAL, DEC. 11.—A tremendous gale from W.N.W . was experienced on the 6th inst. by t he Th o mas vesss o Blyth, Thompson, arrived in the Do wns ; d a c ut ate r, with white bust passed by her.ad, and sev eral a buckets, painted yellow , PLYMOUTH, DZC. 12.—The James Gibb, from Quebec to London, with loss of wheel and four men, round-house stove in, and other damage, rrrived here yesterday. The Superb, Gatchell, from Rotterdam to New Orleans, put back to this port, from lon. 10 W., very leaky, and must discharge. The Maria, llfland, from Rio Janeiro to Christiania, which arrived here 10th instant, and the Elizabeth, thistie, from Liverpool to Philadelphia will discharge. The weathtx still remains very unsettled. MARYPORT, DEC. 9.- , --The Christian, Robinson, from Strongford, has been assisted in here, having broached to while entering the harbour, and got on the south .ide of the woodwork, where she beat heavily for some time, and lost bulwarks , __ stanchions, bowsprit, main boon, &C. TOMERMORY, DEC. 7.—The Majestic struck on a sunken rock off Loch Don, 22d ult., during a strong gale from the S.S.E., but was got off, after throwing part of cargo overboard, and laid on the beach for re pairs. _ . - The Pilgrim, Flood, from Quebec (not the Pilgrim, Flood, from St. John's), whi c h was on s h or e near Rams gate, was got off thi s ruorn i ng w i thout apparen t damage, and proceeded for London in tow of a steamer. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAFT•) CORN EXCHANGE.—(MONDAY.) Coastwise, as well as by land carriage and sample, the arrivals of all articles of .home produce up to our market, last week, were on a very limited scale ; whi le the receipts fro m I re l an d an d S cot l an d were trifling ill the extreme. The impo r t s f rom a b roa d were, taken a s a whole, small, vi z ., 3,257 quarters o f Wheat, 42 ditto of Batley, 5,675 dit to o f O ats , 5 . 235 ditto of Bean s, 799 ditto of Peas, and only 20 barrels of Flour. From Kent, Essex, Cambridgeshire, &c., a moderate, find certainly an increased, quantity of Wheat (compared with that received on several preceding Mondays) arrived for our market this morning ; still, however, the stands were by no means well supplied. The attendance of both London and country bul ers being good, the de mand for all descriptions of Wheat of home p roduce was somewhat active, at an advance in the quotations obtained 011 this day se'tinight of from Is 10 2s per quarter, and at which a good clearance was readily etreet'ed. With Foreign Wheat we were not to say ex" of very inferior quality. Fine dry tehsively supplied, and a considerable portion of it was good request, at is per quarter more money. In e ll other kinds a moderate amount of business was trans acted, acted, at full prices. The show of Barley was sin g ! Fine Making parcels were in good request, at s rr of in value of is per quarter, and the currencies Grinding and Distilling sorts had an up" r . samples were i n rd tendency. Foreign Barley was certainly dear% The quantity of Malt being scarcely adequate to re, e , e _ the wants of the brewers, that article was firm, at fun) , but at nothing quotable beyond, the prices paid ° I ; Monday last. There were scarcely any Oats intria ta; market. Fine dry p arce l s move d o ff stea dily. a t a more money, while th e m iddli ng an d i n f er i o r kinds were quite as high as la s t a d v i se d. O w i ng to the larg e l el , ports, the sal e f or B eans was heavy, at a furt her re daction in the quotations of is per quarter. In Pee t ': the supply of which was small, exceedingly little:l:s doing, at late rates. I n di an C orn was dull, but in note- Meal, as well a s Ry e Fl our , supporte d previous (le tions. For Flour, we h a d an i mprove d d e mand, but w can notice no actual improvement in value. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. to 6 14 Wheat—Essex & Kent, M a lt—Chevalier ..... . ils Red. .... .... 478 to 54 s Oats— Yorkshire and o ß ln e , d. Red........ .. — 4 6 s s — 4 9: Ditto,White, New 51s 593 Li T h sh e White • ... .. 50s 54s Norfolk and Lin- Potato .•••• • • • • Ditto, N l D r e l i t w t o . , .I . V . h . i . t . e .. .. .. .. .. .. 3 - 1 2 : Youghal and Cork, . 62 goo Black .••• • • • ;., 2111 Cork, 'White . • • • • 1 0, Barley—Grinding ... .. 24s 2 3- 9 45: R Scotch, Feed. •• • • 2 ,°, 1 4 6 g Beans — T i ck Pigeons.n c n s . .. ...... .. F : .: .: ... d .... . 4 ° 4 52 0 0 5.1 1 :1 11 4 4 22 9 : Malting . .... .... 40, s Maple. • • • • • • " • • 44 . 430 il Chevalier .... ... 323 33 8 302 31 3 Peas—Grey ........ 362 White. •• •• •• • ' 460 0 Sialt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers .. •• •• 46 0 folk •••••• • • • • • • 57 s s9 s Fl our —T ow n-msde .• • :I ° 40: Brown .••.-. • • • • • 54s 56s Suffolk ••••• • • • " - ' 40 Kingston and Ware 59s 61 s Stocktn & Norfolk 364 I ... SMITHFIELD, CHRISTMAS CATTLE MARKET. For a number of years past the holding of what is termed the Gre a t Christmas Market has excited a degree of curiosity and interest seldom, or never, attached to similar exhibiti ons h e ld i n an y o ther portion of the United Kingd om . W e can , h owev er, perfectly under derstand the principl e w hi c h has given rise to ther e ? feelings, and f u lly apprec i ate t h e m otives by which a ll are interested in the production of such wonderful a.nt rnals as those we saw co ll ecte d h e re to-day. The dens ity of the population of this great metropolis neces sarily . involves the consumption of an immense qu antity .o f animal food, and to keep pare with the almost dai l y increasing dem an d, requires the continual exercise of t h e skill and en erg y o f the grazing commun it y . That t he period has arrived when it is absolutt ly necessattory in produce such food at the lowest possible c ist, adequate abundance, in order to place it within of all classes, is a truth which no one can deny . ; f _ what stronger evidence can we adduce of our national wants than the comparatively slight effects which th e y immense imports of live stock from abroad have as ye! had upon the prices in this and our other ,fat, steel( markets? It is quite true that those importations have the re _ o n e prevented any very serious rise in the quotations, whiz would, without a doubt, had it not been for the foreign supplies, have been long ere this above the ordinary level ; but a comparison of the prices ruling her e during the present with several previous years proves, notwithstanding the system now beeo lnieg too general of "foreign " animals for the butcher—that fheoeing is, doubtless, very necessary me production is not in excess of the demand. Stall feeding when the beast s have arrived at a cer t a i n d egre o f matur i ty i n the par tures ; but we aro n o t di s p ose d t o agree w i t h s ome persons that an y b ene fi t can resu l t to the consumer s from sending forward e ith er B eas t s or Sh eep i n a half fat condition without age. So l ong as thi s pl an i s con tinued, and which must have the effect of lessening to some material extent the actual supply of stock in the country, so long will there be, in our judgment, a g reat disparity in the value of really prime and inferior Mee t ' The market, this morning was a scene of great anima tion ; yet from the comparatively good arrangemen ts made by the city authorities for the reception of the stock, there was very little of that confusion which hes been observed on some former occasions, although. as I matter of course, a large portion—or more than one-hall —of the Beasts were exhibited in "rings," from the want of sufficient room to tie them up. Throughout the entire day, immense number of persons, residing in Lon don and the provinces, were present, not a few of whom expressed their astonishment at the admirable condition in which the stock was brought together. MERITS OF THE BULLOCK SHOW. --- We shall new consider in detail the r e lative merits of t he beasts offered for sale, and fro m w hi c h many important inference ; may be drawn of the progress made i n the productionenot fat and well-proportioned animals during the r p s r m es eke year, for, unquestionably, not a few of the best stoc k a t this it a point to send hither some of their uest particular period. In looking carefully over the Bulilofi ated portion of this great exhibition we were much o number , ck to find that the supply of pure Devons , as t was nearly or quite eq fual to that of la st season. hies breed has hitherto shown points well calculated or ot 1; 2 butcher, and today there was a slig ht improve . rn e e o th i e their weighing qualities. Although we have we regard them as exceeding all other breeds in p it _ t hem prominel ly Devons a priority of notice, it must not bein.egrruidetsthost. general excellence; we havethus brong,.t t Having gives of pure stock offering by the salesmen. et allude to the our opinion as to the Devons, we shall nest forward as holding the first rank in point of the number short horns. As might be expected, •r" M this being for t . his the time of year when the largest supplies market are invariably derived from the northern grazing districts, via. Lincolnshire, .Leicestershire , N ortharnr tonshire, &c., , the show of the latter breed was ITO' large. Last season we had to report a decided ttn provement in its quality, but this morning it tar surpassed anything of the kind we have ever before witnessed. The northern crosiers must have made con siderable exertions in improving their stock, as the show most clearly proved. The short-horns of the presept day are of a much better character than formerly Instead of those defective animals, which they certainly 'were some years since, we have symmetry and weight, with a decreased quantity of bone. Since they are becoming more and more in favour with the buyers. Some of this breed were of a surprising weight, and well de served the encomiums passed upon them by prac tical men. With Herefords, we were not quite so largely supplied as at the corresponeing market day in 1846. In the quality and condition of at particular breed, however, there was no falling off th . We observed several most excellent North Devons on sale, most of which were heavy weighers. From the eastern counties about 400 noble homebreds and short-horns were re' ceived, and which added materially to the supply; While the arrival of Scots from Aberdeen and other parts Scotland was seasonably extensive. The Welsh aorta formed a by no means unimportant portion of the show, and the number of Irish beasts, fed mostly in the t,id; land counties, was a full average one, with a deciee,,7 improvement in quality. There were very fee, °its Sussex beasts in the market, but their condition w e exceedingly prime. The various other breeds, including the fattened cows, require but little commentary from u a In generalizing the foregoing observations we have -i f ntimate that the actual quality of the different bre eds 0 Beasts, taken collectively, was not quite equal t o that which we have sometimes witnessed; while the Oat number in the market was much smaller than in 1841 and 1846. The principal falling off in the numerics strength of the supply was from the north, from whifb' 'l3: however, as we have already observed, scarc el y any . ferior stock came to hand. The following ststerne'' shows the numbers exhibited on the " great do a "jur ing the last eight years, and the prices at which Beef wo s ruling at the stated periods:— Years. Beasts shown Prices. 1839 ... 5,074 ... 3s 4d to 58 Od 1840 ... 3,528 ... 4 s 4 d — ss 8d 1841 ... 4,.500 ... 3s 8d — s s O d 1842 ... 4.541 ... 3s 4d --4 s 8d 1843 ... 4.540 ... 2s id —4s 4d 1844 ... 5,713 ... 3s Od —4s 6d 1845 ... 5.326 ... 3s 6(1 —4s 8d 1846 ... 5,470 ... 3 s 6 d —4s 6d THE SHOW OF SHEEP was an exceedingly good Ve, especially that of the Downs and Gloucesters. Weall had on sale 80 very superior Gloucelter the property of Mr. Rowland, of Creslow, 30 of Pi; same breed belonging to E. F. Whittingstall, Esq. , s Langley, Bury, and several remarkably fine Downs, sent by S.Addams, Esq., of Ware. These Sheep, which sold at, very high prices, may be justly ranked amongst the Ye*" best in the collection. STATE OF THE TRADE.— The supply of Beasts b eing what may be termed a moderate one, and the attendance of both town and country buyers large, the Beef t rade was somewhat active, and, in some instances, the quotations ruled very high. The primest Sent r°* Vevonap and Herefords sold rea dil y , at o