The Sun. — London, England, 1847-01-02 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. The eminent PANTOMIME THEATRE, and the FutsT PANTO. MIME COMPANY. THIS EVENING Will be performed Baife's Opera, entitled THE BONDMAN. Marquis de Vernon, Mr. Weiss ; Floreville, Mr. Ratter ; Morliere, Mr. Homcastle ;La Valliere, Mr. Galli ; Ardenford, Mr. 1) . ring; Mal-a-Propos, Mr. Harley ; Madalue Corinne, Miss Romer; Grisette, lass Rebecca Isaacs. After which will Le produced the Grand Comic Christmas Panto mime, be:ng a mixture of the histo rical and le g endary, entitled HARLEQUIN AND ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. The Overture and Music composed by Mr. R. Hughes; the new and ex tensive Scenery by Mr. Grieve, Mr. Telbin, and numerous as sistants ; the Tricks and Transformations by Mr. Manure ; the Ma cindery by Mr. R. Slonaan ; the Dresses by Mrs. Hovey, Mrs. Bails, and a host of auxiliaries. The whole produced under the supetin endence of Mr. W. West. Scene 1. ABODE OF KALTBA, THE EtedHANTRESS.—Date and lo cality not exactly known, but considered by the Antiquarian Society to have been discovered " somehow or other," " some time or other," near " somewhere or other " Kalyba (the Eachautress, not by Balfe, mistress of all the elements, except those of " Arithmetic," having quite miscalculated her power), Mr. 11. Horncastle ; Fiends and Fu ries (illustrating a common expression of speech, with anything but a common expression of countenance), Messrs. J. W, Morgan, Burt, Connell, and H. Payne ; Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, (the four Ele ments, with a strong love of mischief), by Dealers in each ; the March of Intellect (travelling " incog." as." Young England," a true bit of British blood, by Intellect out of Industry, dam by Science, out of Perseverance, has never been beaten, and can be matched against anything), Miss Annie Payne.—flow the March of Intellect pays a " flying visit" to Kalyba ; and how, being empowered by the Committee on National Education, he gives the old lady sudden no tice to quit, by as suddenly changing the premises to Scene 2. INTERIOR OF INFANT SeuooL.—Sehoolmaster, Mr. Big wig, who, at the request of his " Illustrious Visitor," gives the boys a half-holiday on the occasion. Scene a. EXTERIOR AND Ilaanacks 01 , COVENTRY CASTLE. The Earl of Coventry (Lord High Steward of England, and hls own into the bargain), 31r. 'Mazzoni the Countess of Coventry (a good housewife, and supposed to have been the inventor of the celebrated "Coventry Cake"j,Miss Haines ; Head Nurse (with a good character from her last place), Mr. Cheel ; Master George (afterwards cele brated for a battle he fought with a dragon, but at present without any knowledge of " arms," except his nurse's), Miss Marks ; Masters Andrew, David. Patrick, Denis, James, Anthony (very youthful nights, but destined, with their "cousin George," to astonish the atives by and by as " The Seven Champions of Christendom"), Mas ers Coyle, Sarah], Dix, Wel3h, Desborg, Francis.—How the youthful t. George is feted on his birth-day—how he makes his" first," and nearly his " last " appearance in public on the occasion—how his " COUgill3 " Andrew, David, Patrick, Denis, James, and Anthony come to a 'MI hint many happy returns of the day—and how Kalyba shows her " love of children " by taking the " whole brood under her wing." NOTICE.—" Nothings material to our historie" occurring during a period of fifteen ye9rs, the author trusts that the audleace will al low him to cut it, and come again to Scene 4. KALYR A'S DOUSE OF CORRECTION'—St. George of Eng land (a rum'un to look at, but a rare'un to go), Mr. W. IL Payne; St. Andrew of Scotland, St. David of Wales, St. Patrick of Ireland St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, W.t. Anthony of Italy (all pretty much of the same kidney !) Mr. Heath, Mr. Douglas, Mr. Marks, Mr. Chapin, Mr. Sanger, Mr. J. Haynes.—How St. George and his brother champions (considerably grown since their laststp pearance in public) are kept in durance vile, and on " very short commons" by Kalyba—how Kalyba pops her affections on St. George who " can't abide her"—in short, how—but we won't anticipate— merely observing, that the upshot is the Downfall of Kalyba, and the Emancipation of the Seven Champions of Christendom ! Scene 5. DOVER ROADS.—How the Seven Champions of Christen dom set out for their respective destinations—" the management having, in the handsomest manner," made special arrangements for that purpose with the various " Metropolitan Conveyance Com panies." Scene 6. BANKS or THE NILE. —Almanzor, King of Morocco (his own Lord High Admiral, Commander-in-Chlef, &e., on his way to King Ptolemy's Court, to court King Ptolemy's daughter), Mr. T. Matthews ; Ptolemy, King of Egypt (rather a remote ancestor of Ibrahim Paella, better known as Abraham Parker), Mr. Priorson. Moorish Sailors, Attendants on King Ptolemy, &c. How Almanzor came to Egypt to be married—the Princess having a decided objec tion to their being " bound in Morocco ;" and how St. George, not having even " dipped" into the question of " lights," runs his steamer on shore, and saves himself on the funnel. Scene 7. Gaaxv HALL IN TILE •PALACE OF PTOLEMY rue FIRST, KING OF EGYFT.—The Princess Sabra, Mr. Hance, about to be mar ried t.) the King of Morocco, but patriotically devoting herself to the digestive organs of the Dragon (a gentleman, whose prodigious allowance of jaw enables him to speak for himself ), Mr. Wieland. How this " marriage in high life" is suddenly interrupted by the Dragon, who, not only forbids the banns ; but elopes with the bride; thereby plunging " h.tr illustrious parents and several families of dis tinction at the west-end of the town into the deepest affliction," &c. (vide Morning Papers). ROYAL PROCLAMATION. " Who'll kill the dragon I " Or me he shall gorge ; I, says St. Geo rge , I'll kill the dragon."—Old MS. Arming of St. George for the approaching Fight. Latest odds at the "Corner," 1,000 to • on the Dragon (taken). " May the best man win." Scene S. THE DItAGON'3 HAUNT IN THE DESOLATE VALLEY.— How the Dragon introduces the Princess Sabra to his " country quarters ;" how St. George follows on horseback (the railroad not being quite finished) ; how he and the Dragon fall in, and then tall on:. The Battle (tin' particulars of which keep your eyes fixed on Messrs. Payne and Wieland). How the result of the last round not my eleya:es St. George to the " Crown" of Egypt and the " five billing pieces" of England, but at the same Gina introduces the andience to Scene 9. GRAND HALL OF CHIVALRY.—IICV St. George receives the " Battle Money" (alias the band of the Princess Sabra). Re appearance of the March or Intellect. Introduction of Old Friends in New Characters. liarlequin.... Mr. Howell, I C10wn.... Mr. T. -Matthews. Pantaloon.... • Mr. Priorson. I Columbine Miss Hicks. Beetle 10. DEALER IN CURIOSITIES ♦ND IRONMONGER AND CUT LER'S SlloP.—lmproved Surgical Instruments. " Holding the mirror up to nature." " ramifies furnished" on a novel principle. A loud Report on the New Houses of Parliament. A fashionable complaint flies to the Clown's head. Scene 11. CORNCIIANDLER'S Snot AND GRANARY.—MOTe 'MISS than one of being "in clover." Specimen of the very best " Britannia metal." Plenty of "game" in high preservation. Cabinet measures and corn measures. A let of " chaff " in both. Harlequin gives Clown" the sack." Abundant specimens of the New Tariff. Scene 12. SIAMESE VILLAS AND NURSERY GROUND.—" To be let, to gether or separate." Ethiopian Serenaders provided on the shortest notice. "Get out of the way, Old Dan Tucker," and snake way fur " patent elastic India-rubber boots." Effects of " putting your feet in it." The Spanish marriage horticulturally illustrated. Spanish lint and Orleans plum. " A plague o' both your houses." Scene 13. TINMAN ♦ND TAILOR'S SHOPS.—The original little Tin Kettle. Water always hot. A grate mistake. " Going out a shoot lug." Grand Experiments in Gun Cotton, ending in an awful Catas trophe. Scene 14. INTERIOR OF TIRITISII AND FOREIGN TOY WAREHOUSE.— Toys for the Million. Magic Cards. How to " cut and shuffle." Jack in the Box and out of it. First-rate teem and turn out. " See the Conquering Hero conies." Scene 15. THE STATUS As IT Is ; or, Wellington at Ilyde-park corner. Scene IG. TILE STATUE AS IT WAS ; or, Wellikgton at Waterloo. Look here upon this picture, and on this." THEATRE ROYAL, ILLY3IARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed a now and original Drama, called THE ROUND OF WRONG ; or, a Fireside Story. Sir Arthur Foljambe, Mr. Stuart ; Lichen, Mr. Rogers ; Reuben Gwynne, Mr. Webster ; Ducks, Mr. Buckstone ; Harwood, Mr. Howard; Lady Charlotte Willoughby, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Mary Ryland, Miss Fortescue ; Jenny, Miss Woulde. During the evening the Band will perform the Overtures, " La Bayadere," " Itallana in Algeria," " Guillaume Tell," and a Po lonaise. After which the New Comic Drama of STORY TELLING ; or, Novel Effects. In which Messrs. Farrell, Buckstone, Miss Telbiu, aed Mrs. Hamby w;11 appear. To conclude with an Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, called the INVISIBLE PRINCE; or, the Island of Tranquil Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Beynoldo, and Miss Julia Bennett. • THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. Will be THIS EVENING performed a Drama. founded on the New Christmas Annual of Charles Dickens, Esq., and adapted to the stage (by the exclusive permission of the author, from the proof sheets) by Albert Smith, Esq., called TIIE BATTLE OF LIFE. Principal cha• Teeters by Messrs. Leigh Murray, Turner, F. Matthews, P. Vining, Meadows, Keeley ; Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Daly, Miss May, Miss Grove, Miss Foster, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, the Farce ef MRS. WHITE. Characters by Turner, Kinloch, and °sherry ; Miss VWars, Mrs. Wigan, and Messrs. Miss Arden. To conclude with a New Comic Pantomime, entitled THE BUT TERFLY'S BALL. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Clown, Mr. J. W. Collier; Pantaloon, Mr. Gough ; Columbine, Miss Laidlaw ; Attendant Sprites, Masters. C. and F. Lauri. ----- THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Drama, called CO LOMBA, THE CORSICAN SISTER. Characters supported by Madame Celeste, Mrs. Yates ; ,Messrs. ;Wright, Worrell, Bedford, 0. Smith, &c. Between the pieces the celebrated ENTORTILATIONISTS, Mr. John Lees anti his three Pupils—the Masters Hanions, will ex hibit their wonderful Jeux Gyinnastiques. After which a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA (P.SELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the {Pills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, anti Mrs. Laws. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Opera, in three parts, Entitled THE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story of " Giselle." MC) principal characters personified by Miss Ceorgiana Smithson, Miss Rourke, Miss Sara Flower, Miss Somers, Misses Marshall ; Messrs. Lerner, Allen, Bodda, Walton, Homier, &e. In the course of the evening Professor HEMMING and his ta lented CHILDREN will go through their wonderful performances. Previous to the Pantomime the Band will perform " The Ame rican Polka," introducing "The Railroad Overture." To conclude with a new Grand Comic Chrsttnas Pantomime, enti tled The ENCHANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE; or, The One-eyed Gent. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Columbine, Miss Burbidge ; Sprite, Mr. H. Marshall ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore. FRENCH PLAYS.-- Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. Last Appearance bet Two of the eminent Comedien, PELMET. On MONDAY EVENING Will he performed a new Vaudeville, entitled LA DOT D'AIY YEEGNE. Pierre, M. Dumery; Jerome, M. Pagenier ; Madeleine, Mdlle. Fouquet ; Felicite, Madame Dumery. After which will be produced the popular Vaudeville of LE SAVANT. In which will appear MM. Perlet, Langcval, Dorgobret, Pascal, Tourillon ; Madame Grassau, and 31tIlle. To conclude with the favourite Comedy of LE PARRAIN. The characters by MM. Perlet, Dumery, Pascal, Pagenler, Priston ; Angelc, Madame Dumery, Mdlle. Celina Foncotet, Madame (;rassau, and Mdlle. Leyder. Boxes, Gs. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Stalls, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS (Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon) will have the honour of repeating their Inimitable ENTERTAINMENT at the above Theatre, THIS EVENING, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday during the Christmas Holidays ; doors open at Eight, and the Enter tainment commences at Half-past Eight. And will (by.desire) give a GRAND JUVENILE PERFORMANCE, on Wednesday Morning next, Jan. 6 ; doors open at Two, to commence at half-past Two. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Amphitheatre, 2s. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. Prince Albert. Prince of Wales, and itoyal Family. Grand Christm is Holiday Fetes. THIS EVENING, a double rotation of Equestrian and Gymnastic Novelties. The "Demon Horse ; or, The Twelve Wishes and tire Charmed Bit." Herr Neuparte, the great Dutch Bottle Equilibrist. THIS EVENING Will be perf ormed a grand Magical Equestrian Romance, en titled THE DEMON MORSE ; or, The T we l ve Wi s h es Charmed Bit. and the New and entire change in the SCENES of the CIRCLE. enti Totled conclude With the G rand Ghristmas Comic Fairy Pantomime, the Robber's Cave. TUE FORTY T HIEVES; or. H arlequin and An Baba and Clown, Mr. Rochez ; Harlequin, Mr. W. Her vey ; Pantaloon, M r. Lair/trim ; Columbin e . Miss Louisa Waite. Box •oftice open from eleven tin five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at half-p ast six o'clock. —St Broadfoot. a ge Manager. Mr. W. ROYAL SURREY Lessee, Mrs. Frances Dayidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original Drama, entitled TILE HAND OF CARDS—GAME, LIFE, STAKES, DEATH. The characters will be supported by the whole of the talented Company. To conc l u d e with a grand fairy Pantomime, called TIIE KING OF THE CASTLE ; or, Harlequin in tho Land of Dreams. Har lequin, Herr Doulln ; Pantaloon, Herr R. Detain ; Columbine, lldlle. Theodore ; Clown, Herr E. Dentin, ROYAL VICTORIA TnEA.I,/ Reduction of Priem—Boxes, Is„ Half-price, 6,1 ; l'it, 6d.; Gallery, ad.; Private Boxes, 24. Mr. N. T. Hicks AS " The Black Doc tor." Great success of the new allegorical Railway Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will he performed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which 3liss Vin cent, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, and Messrs. N. T. Hicks, Ed.svards, Bird, Searle, Forman, &e., will perform. After which will be produced a grand Chritmas Pantomime, en titled THE rum( ol"rilE STEAM ENGINE ; or, Harlequin • Go-a-Head," and Joe Miller and his Men. Clown, Mr. T. Barry ; Pantaloon. Signor °monde; Harlequin, M. Lupine; Columbine, Mlle. Adele Lauri. RUNNING MATCH. Yesterday, the quarter of a mile race between Mills, of London, and Baker, of Mitcham, came off at Battersea, for 20/. a side. At the start Mills took the load, which he maintained throughout, and after a good race the former came in the winner by ten yards, havinf; run over the quarter of 1 a mile in less than one minute's time. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1847. cilEAr RE-ISSUE OF " THE NELSON LETTERS." Now ready, price only 55., with fine Portrait, PART I. OF THE NELSON LETTERS AND DIS PATC HES. To be completed in Fourteen Monthly Parts, Price only Os. each. " The roost valuable gift that has yet been offered to the seaman— both as an inspiration, and an instructor."--Athenxnm. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. COPYRIGHT EDITIONS. Now ready, handsomely beund in half morocco, adapted for the Library, price de. 6d., with Portraits, VOLUME VI. of B ENTLEY'S MODERN LITERATURE. Completing THE LETTERS OF 'MACE WALPOLE. Any of the preceding volumes may be had separately, price Ss. 6d. each ; or in two Parts, price 3s. Gd. each. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. To be had also of all Booksellers. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAAIOND and Co., RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg t) thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support aad patroMago, and to announce that their Public sales of Railway Shares, &c. take place every TIIESDAY and FRIDAY. at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respeetflilly - equested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered; and advices of results will be brwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street, London. THE WEATIIER.—SuN OFFICE, JANUARY 2. TUER3IODIETER, Lowest, 30; Highest, 35 ; Noon, 32, BAROMETER, 29.93.—W1ND E., fine. MUD WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. horning .. 1G minutes after 2. I Evening .. 37 salnutts after 2. Its► LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1847. In reviewing the different events which have occurred throughout the world during 1846, we yesterday afforded sufficient testimony of the accuracy of our assertions as to the extraordinary character of the past twelve months. We did this, moreover, merely by an enumeration of circumstances taking place beyond the shores of the British islands. Our proofs were of a cosmopolitan rather than of a na tional species. We glanced over the more memorable European, Asiatic, African, and American occur rences, reserving those peculiarly connected with these dominions for a separate mention. A cursory reminiscence of what has happened during 1846 in England and its dependencies, must agitate every patriotic mind with anxieties and anticipations about the possible events of 1847. We remember the miseries which have befallen this empire during the old year, and we dread their repetition during the new year. 'We remember that during the old year the Parliament achieved moral victories over the evils of centuries, and we marvel whether the session of t'ae new year will be illustrated by comparable pro ceedings. We remember that the old year witnessed the disruption of parties, and we endeg.- your to conjecture the consequences of that disrup tion in the futurity of the new year. From all then e conflicting considerations the re-assembling of the popular representatives and the Peers, at Westmins ter, on the 19th proximo, is looked forward to with the utmost curiosity. Foremost among the events of 1846 were the re peal of the corn-laws, and the consequent annihilation of monopoly. After a toil for the realisation of free trade, extending over a period which might la counted by decades, after a toil which at first pro— mised to be interminable and fruitless, the boon wens obtained, whereby the national commerce was invigos rated, and the national agriculture relieved from :a disgraceful and pernicious "Protection." Simultre neously with that brilliant success over the prejudice S 3 of many generations, the true principles of politic al economy were engrafted upon the mercantile code of England. The interests of the revenue were in t forgotten, while the perfect freedom of trade wn ensured. The ignorance or the covetousness of th ! so-called " country party " was repaid by the over e throw of their venerable fallacies, but a respite three years was at the same time conceded to them Then, again, the great Conservative party was de • • stroyed—the strong Government was splintered int e fragments —the Peel Administrations was compelled t c resign. Many of those who during somewhere abou a quarter of a century hail associated themselves wit' the late Premier, and who had ultimately, spon • • taneously, and deliberately selected him for thei political chieftain, took the occasion of his noble con .- version to the Free-traders to asperse his characte r with a revengefulness, a bitterness, a ferocity, and a; relentlessness to which the pages of HANSARD fur-. nish no parallel. Because he had the courage and; magnanimity to avow the mistakes of a long and honourable career, and to announce, on the floor or the House of Commons, and in the face of the whole! world, that, after a painful and laborious cones sideration of the matter, he had come -to thee conclusion that Free Trade was alone conso- • nant with the principles of Justice and the' laws of Nature, his quondam followers maligned him - with an acerbity more applicable to a malefactor than to a Minister of the Crown. For altering his opinion upon one question of policy, the Protec tionists declared that the whole life of the Premier • was odious, from his continual tergiversation. They asserted that his whole life was execrable and repre hensible from his conduct having been invariably modelled upon expediency. Supposing this assertion to • be correct, then does it recoil with redoubled impetus upon the very men who gave it utterance. For, if the life of Sir ROBERT PEEL was thus odious and thus execrable, sorry indeed must have been the character of the party who had wilfully selected him for their leader—poor must have been their combina tion of ability and integrity when they could only discover such a man to undertake their guidance— most miserable, most odious, and most execrable must they have been who were so long the obsequious followers of a man of such a shameless career ! On their own showing, the Protectionists are only worthy of distrust and contumely. But Sir ROBERT PEEL, when he invoked the hatred of a contemptible few, assured to himself the love and admiration of the million. By his proceedings in 1846 he has con signed his name to the grateful and perpetual remem brance of his fellow -countrym en , he has rendered it inevitable that that name will henceforth be uttered with expressions of gratitude "in the cottages of those whose lot it is to labour," he has assumed for ever a prominent place amongst the most pa triotic and the most illustrious of the statesmen of England. - Another Member of the Commons' House of Par liament has likewise, during 1846, attracted towards himself, in a remarkable degree, the admiration of the public. In the past year RICHARD COBDEN consummated that great struggle for commercial emancipation with which he will ever be so honour ably associated. In that year, also, he com menced a pilgrimage of civilisation through the various states of Europe —a pilgrimage more honour.. able, if possible, than all his previous exertions. In consequence of the acceptation of the free •trade prin ciples by the Legislature, the Anti-Corn-law League was dissolved. Another remarkable association of a peculiarly popular character had been already, namely, about the commencement of 1846, dis- e t . h e 1 n S s3 l c B i 4 et 6 y , solved in Diffu li s k io e n m of an u ne s r e — ful w moreover, the present Government, under t he e lCn in m e v a le n dg leadership of Lord Jous RUSSELL, was installed I in office ; and from the known disposition of the dif ferent members of the Administration every con fidence is reposed in the intentions and capacity of that Government. In 1846 the condition of Ire land became snore perilous ment of than at any p rev i ous mo first ar • se amon her history. In 1846 a m i sunderstanding tion H a • og the Itepealers i n Concilia ll. In 1846 the father of the ant' 0 , slavery agitation, THOMAS CLARKSON, died. In 18 AG , the entente cordiale was ruptured. In 1846 , „ Lir quarrel with the American Government was lax ort e lit to a satisfactory conclusion. In 1846 we had, fi ra i' a positive Ministerial promise of those san: 4 t ory an a educational measures which had been BQ long and : to ardently desired. Such have been the most co: 1- spicuous events of the bygone twelvemonth, such hal re been the advantages realised, the evils avoided, tl le calamities experienced during that memorable lute) ;.. • ffe' • ?•. erio•-c, A. • - • • • SECOND EDITION. val. As an incitement to yet greater assiduity in the population in general, and in the legislators in particular, 1846 may be most useful and mo=t glorious in being the cause of emulation to the (possibly) more useful abd more glorious year just dawning upon the world. We adverted on Thursday to the new Charter for the Government of New Zealand, which received the royal signet on the 23d ult. This is a great fact, which will ever be remarkable in history. It will always be instanced as one of the most signal bless ings of civilisation, that the extensive territories, co:nprised in the New Zealand isles, whose inhabi tants, when first discovered, consisted only of barbarous and wandering tribes, powerful in form, and brave and fierce in their rude art of war, were, within a short period of their attachment to the British Crown, subjected to a scheme of provincial and general legis lation, based upon the representative principle, in which is involved the essence of the English constitution. So speedy an attainment of the choicest fruits of civilisation, so rapid an ac quirement of institutions, municipal, legislative, and executive, in a country where, a few years since, a hardy race of savages alone ranged free, igno rant of the sublime principles of their better nature, is without a parallel in history. This recent act of our Ministers, under the authority of Parliament, will be regarded by surrounding nations as the strongest proof of the reliance we have in the vigour and excellence of our form of government, and of the confidence we repose in the attachment and veneration which our compatriots uniformly feel for their native institutions, to what part soever of the, world they may be impelled by circumstances to resort, and carry out the great work of universal civilisation. Nor can the experiment be regarded as a hazardous one. Frequent is the regret, and severe are the strictures, offered upon the social in • equalities which prevail within the United Empire, notwithstanding that our power and progress as a nation has been a theme of wonder and admiration in every quarter of the globe. The uneven distribution of wealth, co-existent with the poverty and misery in many over-populated districts within our native dominions, are evils, which cannot be denied; neither can they be too deeply deplored, nor too promptly ameliorated. Nevertheless, the consolation for these social ex crescences is not inconsiderable, when we find our great capitalists inviting the industrious and intelligent of a redundant population to avail themselves of their accumulated stores of wealth and, embarking for distant lands, to civilise the human race, to open up fresh sources of national affluence, and augment the several fruits of the earth. Thus, indirectly, and by reason of the social and ac cidental (but neither inherent nor incorrigible) in congruities in her system of polity, does England gradually fulfil her noble destiny of disseminating the seeds of civilisation to millions of ruthless and benighted barbarians scattered in various parts of the universe. Exception has already been taken to the principles laid down by Earl GREY for the acquisition and settlement of lands in New Zealand, and all future colonies in their inceptive state. It should be remarked, that the advocates for vesting exclusive rights of pro perty in the aborigines of any country, consist chiefly of two classes ; first, those who are actuated by the nicest sense of humanity, and are chiefly desirous to protect the native in his primitive rights from the rapacity and tyrannical abuse of power, into which even civilised man, largely tempted by self-interest, is prone to degenerate ; and next, those who have entered into extensive speculations, and, by a variety of stratagems, have fancifully secured to themselves, by inconsiderable gifts or trifling purchases, enormous tracts of land, from either the original (but ignorant and easily duped), or else pretended, possessors of the same. For the first class, and . their philanthropic scruples, it is impossible not to entertain the greatest respect. Their error lies in the head, not in the heart. The honourable and deep-rooted apprehension which they entertain for the present welfare of the aborigines wins their mind over to a principle quite incompatible with the establishment or maintenance of regular government in countries where the rays of civilisation have been but newly shed. For the second class we have no such sympathies, because it is against the interest of Government to disturb them in their present or future territorial acquisitions, provided moderate and reasonable sums have been paid. So to act would only serve to prevent the influx of capital, check every spe cies of enterprise, and dry up the springs of pros perity. On the other hand, where fair compensation has not been, in the first instance, given for the pos session of land, where it has been obtained by fraud and imposture, it is right that the controlling arm of Government should be present to protect the natives from delusive or imprudent concessions, and to enforce justice and equity between the emigrants and primitive inhabitants. So that, in fact, even were it not consonant with international and colonial law, the principle that wild tribes of men cannot sell any land beyond what they themselves occupy or use in countries, the sovereignty over which has been effectually assumed in the name of a civilised nation, is the most conducive to the ends of humanity. The more civilised nations be come,ihoaniolau nr t t h r a t ahmt that t o e more rt e h hs ajealousnfaumfe power, aresobwoeurtl,dh and n y ndo o f are rh t ee h eetioarnr tarnished dn for v ar a en n s y tphoenr p si u ti bi b ei l al ic itoyf the a N c v t i s of d r nd eehth mother country, ya, al ni a ed u t t h uh o ne r d it e y r . wholesome t Tthh ee influence of public opinion, which, no matter the dis tance, is now-a-days happily wafted on the wings of the f e r e b e es p t r p e r s e s , v e w n h t i e v r e e s v e a r g ß a n r i s t t i s t h h institutions ui. inflictions p o r f e t v y a r i l a , n a n r y e in all its hideous shapes, and the surest guarantees for the spread of liberty, the mainspring of human felicity. We shall resume the further consideration of this subject. Th le experiments performed by Mr. MONTAGUE .1 PRILLIPPS on gun-cotton, an account of hich, copied from the Brighton Herald, appears it another column, are most important. We fear tt ie authorities have been somewhat too precipitate in ciding against the adoption of gun-cotton as an n 'plosive power, inasmuch as Mr. PUILLIPPS's n .periments go to show that many of! the of Jjections to its use as applicable to fire-arms may be o bviated. One objection was, that in consequence of .ts heating the barrel, coupled with its facility of ex :-plosion at a low temperature, its use could not be continued for any length of time. Mr.PHILLIPPS, IKENV•• I ever, has shown that gun-cotton, properly prepared ' does not heat the barrel at all, and therefore this ob jection is exploded as easily as the- gun•cotton itself. Another objection was that the acid adhering to it would rust the barrel, but, prepared according to Mr. P/lILLIPPS' formula it is entirely deprived of acid, and, so far from rusting the barrel, a gun which was for a month used with gun-cotton, was found at the end of the month quite clean inside. His •discovery that grease or oil deprives the cotton of its te xplosive qualities is as valuable as it is curious, and 12 1 's proposal for making snuffless candles is I'( 11 worth the attention of the manufacturer. III; f proposition for using it as a motive pO - s ter is worthy of consideration, and will, we trust. be i .übrnitted to the test of experiment. And here we wof ild call the public attention to a want s rh ich has long been severely felt, and which, I , we are convinced, prevented us from 3,e: :lying all those national advantages from chemical Exit coveries which, under a better system, we might have.' derived from them. It cannot be expected that any kidividua I should carry out experiments of this nature at his own expense. It is sufficient that he gives to the nation his ideas, and the nation, which profits by them, should surely be at the expense of performing the preparatory experiments; but, unfor tit nately, we have no public body in this country ana -1(1 :ous to the Academie des Sciences of our neighbours, to which scientific individuals can communicate their ide as with a prospect of having them fairly carried out , or to which Government can refer for information as to the real value of alleged important inventions. An At wdenzie des Sciences would have years since set at rest ti le vexatce questions of the long range and the ex- plosive shell, and would have either convinced Cap tain WARNER of his mistake or have rewarded him as one of the greatest benefactors of his country. If these experiments upon gun-cotton should lead to the establishment of an Academie des Sciences in England this will be one, and that not the least, of the benefits which the discovery of ScuoN BEM will have conferred on the nation. The German Journal of Frankfort has the follow ing from Vienna, Dec. 22 : " M. de Rothschild is expected here to-morrow. The Bourse is in a very ex3ited state. Galicia. is iu a state of anarchy. It is feared that the political fanaticism of the masses will be tram-formed into one of a religious character. All the pataus of one village left their church in a body, becau-e their cute spoke to them of the Decalogue. Their exclamation was, We do not went so many laws.'" The Post-ampt Gazette publishes a letter from Thorn, dated Dec. 29, which says " The Government of Poland have just arrested six Roman Catholic priests for having clandestinely intro duced from Prussia sund r y p u bli cat i ons, amongst which was the Polish Gazette of Posen. The Catholic clergy find great difficulty in procuring passports from the authorities. They are obliged, in the first place, to pro cure permission to travel from the. superior ecclesiastical authorities. It is said that the Government wish to pre vent them disseminating the doctrines of Christian Catholicism.' The Augsburg Gazette of the 27th ult. publishes the following from its London correspondent : Lord Palmerston will submit to the British Parlia ment immediately upon its opening a series of authentic documents concerning' the marriage of the Queen of Spain and the incorporation of Cracow. These ducu ments will, it is said, prove beyond possibility of con tradiction, the important part taken by Louis Philippe in the direction of the foreign affairs of his Cabinet, and reveal the impossibility of a renewal of the entente cor diale." The Journal de St. Petersburgh, of the 6th De cember, publishes, in the shape of a letter, addressed from London to the Augsburg Gazette, the following defence of the conduct of the three Powers in relation to Poland in general, and Cracow in particular. It may be considered as the semi-official manifesto of the Russian Cabinet. " Lord Palmerston has forwarded to the Northern Powers a protest against the incorporation of Cracow, which will produce as little effect as the abusive language of the Ministerial newspapers of France. The Polish emigrants existed as a political body, and continually in trigued. Applications• were repeatedly made to those two Powers, particularly to Prance; protests were ad dressed to them against the right of asylum, taken in so wide an acceptation; the two Governments replied, that it was all right, and no change was pos • sible. What were the three interested Powers to do, under these circumstances, for their repose and security? They are accused of having violated the treaties ! If - those treaties were in reality violated, they would merely have done against revolu tion what the French have accomplished in favour of revolution. Have they not violated the treaties in Bel gium and Spain ? It is true that subsequently a new treaty was concluded as respects Belgium, but tl.is was a long time after the fact had taken place, and was main tained with the consent of France. At Cracow it shall likewise be maintained, but in this last case no treaty has been infringed ; the only Powers who concluded it have alone changed it. As regards the possession of Poland, respecting which so much is said, it is legiti mate, being guaranteed by a duration of sixty years and numerous stipulations. If the English and French should think otherwise, we will ask if the possessions of the English in India, and those of France in Alsace and Lorraine, were more legitimately acquired ? Sup posing that France declared to the Congress of Vienna, and that her declaration had been inserted in the protocol, that she intended, for instance, to erect Colmar and its vicinity into a free state, what would France do if there existed at Vienna a numerous party of emigrants from Alsace and Lorraine, constituted into a political body, holding regular meetings, publishing journals, &c.? What would she do if a special military school for Alsatians and Lorraines was established there; if the Austrian Government publicly supported those emigrants ; sent the pupils of that school for some years to the Caucasus, in the absence of an Algeria, to acquire warlike habits; and .that, on their return, that Govern meat sent these men to Colmar, provided with resources of all kinds, in order that they might excite from them a re volution in Alsace and Lorraine ? If France had ad dressed numerous reclamations to Austria, and been an swered that she could not prevent these machinations and revolutionary projects ; if, finally, an insurrection had actually broken out at Colmar, and extended throughout Alsace and Lorraine, and been suppressed by the rural population of the German portion of those provinces—if all that had occurred in France, we should be curious to know if the French, after witnessing those intrigues during 20 years, would have suffered the republic of Colmar, founded by themselves and without foreign co operation, to exist. Would they have allowed their Go vernment to wait for the adhesion of all the Powers of Europe whilst those intrigues were going on at Colmar and in Austria? The mere impartial and logical exami nation of the fact demonstrates the absurdity of all the objections. Would all the obstreperous declamations of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, induce Franco to re establish the Republic of Colmar? Well I all the noise now making in England and France will produce as little influence over the decision of the three Powers. This event, it is true, strongly shakes the position of Lord Pelmerston and M. Guizot, and places those two Minis ters in a great embarrassment. Added to that, the Eng lish lose a valuable depot of smuggled goods, which were fraudulently imported by Podgorzo and Breslau into the Austrian and Russian dominion 4. The English, it is well known, are always dissatisfied when they export one bale less than usual; and Lord Palmerston, on the other hand, finds himself under the painful necessity of making advances to re-establish the cordial understand ing. Nevertheless, whatever esteem we may profess for the character of M. Guizot, and however we may regret to create embarrassments for Lord Palmerston, such con siderations have exercised but a very secondary influence over the resolutions of the thtee Powers." The Madrid mail had not arrived in Paris on Thursday. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The Journal des Dthats, in a temperately written article, replies to the attacks of the Presse, and con tinues more strongly than ever its advocacy of the English alliance, without however abandoning the smallest portion of the position it has taken up on the subject of the Spanish marriages. On that subject it says-- " We are content to calmly maintain the right of France. But shall we now proceed to increase the irri tation which may still exist in England, and change a quarrel of self ove into a subject of national division ? No, a thousand times no I Let others assume that odious task ; we shall rather endeavour to a.ppease men's minds in England, and to enlighten them. We shall not fear appealing incessantly to the reason and wisdom of the English people. We shall seize on all occasions to set forth the profound motives which command England and France to remain united for the advantage of peace and of humanity ; and we answer that, in doing so, we shall give proof of true patriotism, true independence, and true dignity." _ _ ThePre sse, in an article on the short time ques tion, applauds the agitation of Messrs. OASTLEIL and PERRAND, and expresses a desire that they may suc ceed. One 01 the reasons given by the writer for this desire is, that by their success England may lose some commercial advantages. " But this consideration," adds the Presse with unnecessary candour, " affects us but little." Unpleasant rumours on the subject of the KING'S health were again circulated in the political salons, and it was even said that his MAJESTY would be obliged to receive the complimentary visits of the Ambassadors, &c., on New Year's•day seated. The Courtier Francais says— " We are informed that orders have been given for embarking a quatity of warlike stores, in a corvette, bound for La Plata. This indicates that the Govern ment does not consider the conclusion of a peace so near at hand as has been said." The weather continued to increese in severity in Paris and its neighbourhood. Atonine o'clock on Thursday morning the thermometer (Fahrenheit) marked 21 deg. ;at five o'clock, 27i. The rise in the temperature was attributed to the approach of snow. The Paris Bourse was again flat on Thursday. It was stated that for the last three weeks the Bank of France had been selling Government securities, and it was repeated that new overtures had been made by that establishment to the Bank of England to obtain succour in the shape of bullion. Thursday The Three p er Cents. closed on the Paris Bonne, on a.; 80f. 4pc. ; the Fi ve per C ents., 118 f. 30c. ; t h e Orleans R a il road Shares, 1,257 f. 50c ; Rouen, 916 f. 25c, ; Havre, 6771. 50c.; Great Paris and Northern, 645 f. ; Avignon, 8751. ; Yierzon, 6071. 50c.; Bordeaux 565 f.; Boulogne, 4421. 50c. ; Strasburg, 4881. The. Paris and Lyons, 510 f. ; Lyons and Avignon, 485 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 451 f. 25c. ; Spanish Domestic Debt, ;12%. LYONS, DEC. 29.—Paris and Rouen 918 f. 75c. ; Avignon and Marseille s , BRStr --- . 5 c.; Vierzori, 6121. 50c. ; Northern, 652 f., 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 5121: 50c. ; Orleans, 1,2701. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 1. . Boulogne and Amiens, 15%—East Indian, %—Luxem bourg, 14—Northern of France Constituted, l3k,—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 8 14---Ilouen and Havre, 26%. TUE CABINET.—Lord John Russell is expected to arrive in town this evening from his residence at Chor:ey-wood. All the other Cabinet Ministers are expected to assemble in town in the course of next week. FATAL FALL THROUGH INTOXICATION. -On Tear-y hutsde ard, Clare-mar y night last, etan elderly f ema l e, residing in Bk, returnel home to her lodgings at a late hour, very much intoxicated, and while ascending the stairs she w as heard to fall, by some of the lodgers, on the landing, but no notice was taken of it till yesterday morning on o when one of the i nmates was going o day m who,Opening his room d oor, discover( d by the fall. the deceased it lifeless corpee, she haying brok en h er neck I ONEV and COMMERCIAL NEWS. I (;A E I'o T P , he Cotton market at Liver puol this week has ranted about Ad. to Id. per lb. The sales of the week are 31,810 bales, of which 20,000 bales were on speculation. The stock is 438,070 bales against 835,480 bales at this time last year. Shares were much the same. The sale of Railway Shares yesterday, at Messrs ',mond and Co.'s, was well attended, and a fair business was done at good prices ; French Shares sold well. The following are a few of the principal sales : Warwick and Worcester £o 5 0 Lond,n and Manchester (Remington's) 0 9 6 Great Luxembourg Madrid and Valentia Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 10 6 Shrewsbury and Birmingham .... 5 3 9 Great Northern of France London and South-Western, Tenths 5 7 6 Vale of Neath 1 7 6 Waterford, Wexford, and Valentia . 0 G 0 London and York Extension, ex int....... 2 12 0 Northern Counties Union 1 13 6 Liverp. Manch. and Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2 9 0 South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 11 0 Paris and Lyons 5 6 0 Manchester and Southampton 1 18 0 The principal points in the Bank of England state ment for the week to December 26, compared with the previous week, are these:— Notes issued £28,442,030 Increase ••• •.• 29,030 Rest increase ... 6,522 Public deposits, increase ... 493.571 Other deposits, increase 80,469 Seven day and other Bills, in crease ••• ••• ••• 14,089 Notes, decrease ••• ••• 50,770 Rullion ... 15,066,691 Decrease 95,932 The later information obtained from India, ma Trieste, through the indefatigable exertions of Mr. Waghorn, is in respect to political matters, of a more gratifying tenor. Cashmere being tranquil, and a temporary lull in other quarters—where the din of warfare has been heard so long, being likewise observable. The market for im ported goods at Bombay had, however, become lulled also, and prices were receding. H. M. S. Daphne, from South America, furnishes no news of interest, though it brings the large freight of 1,500,0001. in bullion and specie. Messrs. Ferguson and Taylor, of Manchester, advise us, in their monthly statement of the piece-goods trade, that " the depression of this market, to which we ad verted in our last trade report, has continued unrelieved to the present. Although the business transacted, as a whole, has been very limited, yet quotations of prices, in some elves, exhibit a very large advance on the rates pre viou- ly current. This anomalous condition of things is the result entirely of the speculation in cotton at Liverpool, which, since the date of our last, has been conducted on a most extraordinary scale : in the three weeks end ing the 18th December, no less than 207,702 bags having changed hands on speculation account alone, and in the same time, prices were advanced 14d. per lb. on the pre vious high rates. It is manifest that spinners and manufac turers c uld not sustain this continually advancing cost of their productions, without some upward movement being made in the value of manufactures, and they ac cordingly withheld their stocks, or refused contracts ex cept fur higher prices; but notwithstanding the firmness which their necessities rendered imperative, the advances on fabrics are not yet equivalent to the enhanced cost of the raw material." ' Much firmness has been displayed in the Consol market this morning. The price for the Account has just touched 94: for the Three per Cents. Reduced 944; for the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 95i; and Exchequer-bills are at 9s. to 10s. premium. The only business done in the Foreign Stocks this morning has been in the Grenada Deferred, at the low figure of 3/, in the Mexican Five per Cents., for the Account, at 25 in the Portuguese Four per Cents. at 36, in the Spanish Three per Cents. at 364, in the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 59k, and in the Four per Cent. Certificates at 93. In the Railway Shares and Scrips a full average amount of business has been transacted to day. In several instances prices have risen, as the official list annexed will show : BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9417, New 3 1 % per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Jan. sth, Expire 1860 9 13-16 Consols for Opening Exchequer Bills. I%d. I,OOW. 60W. Ditto Small I - RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCE. Granada, 1 per Cent. . ••• Ditto Deferred Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent Ditto for the Account 25 Portuguese 4 per Cents 36 ex div • Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 — Ditto 3 per Cent Ditto for the Account .... Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 93 UTISLNESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. nun). PER Swam. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% 2% x. int. to Armagh, Coleraine, & Portrueh 1% — to Belfast and County Down .. 4% .. .. Birmingham and Dudley 42s. ... . 7v,4 pto - Bo mnigham and Gloucester 100 ...... Do. New (its. at 7 1 ,4 die.).. 17% — Birmingham th Oxford June... 2 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshirs Junction 2% — ..... to Boston, Stamf , & Birming... 225. Bristol and Exeter Do., New Bristol and Gloucester Bristol and Liverpool June... 2 1 / 2 . _ . - Buckinghamshire.. Caledonian Ditto, Ilalf Shares Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 25 Chester and Holyhead... `27%..... 25% to Churnet and Blythe Chester and Manchester 42s. Cheltenham and Oxford Clarence. lOO Do., let Class, 6 per Cent... 10 Do„ 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 - to Cork and Killarney Cork and Waterford I I,E Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares Direct Lincoln, East Retford, and Sheffield Junction.-- 2% to Direct Northern Scrlp 2%...... ...... to Direct Norwich ... 1 Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 12 1 / 2 Dublin, Belfast, & Coleraine 2 1 / 2 ...... to Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 10 Eastern Counties 14/. 16s 23%..... to 23 Do. New l2/. 16s Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... Do., do. N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d. Do., York Extension East Dereham and Norwich 1 Eastern Union ... •. .. 40 Ditto, Quarter Shares Do. Extension to Harwich 1% — to Do. Cambridge and Ely ... 2 1 ,4 - 2 — ...... to East Lancashire Ditto, New ... .......... .... . 5 Do. ( late I'reston & Ormsk.) 5 ..... Do., do., New Scrip ... im 3 East Lincolnshire l l4 4 ..... to 3% East and West of England... lA ..... ...... t o Edinburgh and Glasgow so to -- Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares l 2 l /a — to Edinburgh and Northern 121, •gk ... ••• Edinburgh and Perth Y i — to— __ 3 to Ely and Huntingdon Enniskillen and Sligo 2 1 / 2 Exeter Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — ...... to Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle.. 5 ____ Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 — to Ditto, New Do. IA Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12 1 ,E Goole, Doncaster Sheffid., &c. 2 Great Eastern and Western... 2 .4 — to Great Northern (London wad York Regd.) ... 2% 3% to Do. (Direct North.R?gd.) 3 3 4 — , Gt. South. & West. (I):elii . nd) 27i,-4 — . .... to Great Munster ....., ... ... 2 1 / 2 — ...... to Great North of Scctland Great North of EJJ gland 100 ...... Ditto, New Ditto, New............ Ditto, New.. Great Western B5 — to Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths Do. Now . . ... ... ...... 2 ...... 8 Huddersfield and Manchester 13 --.— to Ditto, Extension 3 — to (lull and Selby, 5O Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% — t o _ Ditto, Half Shares Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 14 Do. do. and Norwich Lancaster and. Carlisle Do. New 5 ...... 10% to Leeds and Bradford 3O ..... _ Leicester and Bedford l6s. —, Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manches. 22 1 et _. to Ditto, Branch (Blue) ...... 2 1 Ditto, Ext( insion (Green).. 2 A — to Leeds and Th irsk ......... ..... 17%...... Ditto, New ....„, _ ..... .. 5 . .... _ Do., do., Pre fer., 6 per Cent.. 3%. .... Liverpool. Cros by, and South port. ... 2 Liverpool, Ma: achester, and Newcastle Junction. 2 1,4 2 5 / ( t.... . to —, London & Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d — Do. New - Do. Extension. ~ Lond., Bright.,' & South Coast 50 Do. Consolidated Fifths.. 40 Do. Consolid ate d Eighths... 10 ...... to Do. Guarant Red sper Cent. 9 ...... London,Houn: ,low,&We,stent 2 . .... London and N o':th Western..loo ......196 1 Do. Quarter shares ...... ... 2 Do. do. Nev, r ....... .... ...... 2 Do. do. Fift' tt: 3 Do. Quartets Do. 40/. Shp re a.....L. &M. 8 Do. 40/. Sh:creo ...M. and B. 40 ...... Do. 10/.... M.. • and B. (A.) 5 . .... 12% to -- Do. 10/, .. }L and B. (B.) 5 Do. 101.... M.. and B. (C.) 1 - London, Oxford„ :and Cheltm. 1%...... London and ;:.: ... li.restern.... 411.6 s 10d 64 1 / 2 ...... to Do.Newco) Isoli datedBths.. 40 Ditto New ...... Do. New.. _ .......,. .. 18 Ditto Ten dal 5 ...... 5% 1 / 2 ... to Ditto TeL the Ditto Seri p. Ditto ditt q„ 4 - ...... to London and Greenwich... 121.155. 4d... D's tn Parer:-n v 1811 7 ,: 2d... ...... tc, London and York..., .... ....... 21 Ditto Extension London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2% — ...... to Londonderry and Coleraine... 15 Londonderry and Enniskillen 15 Lynn and Ely 20 Lynn and Dereham Manchester and Leeds B2 .....112 Ditto Half Shares .... 38 ...... Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 63( 11%...... to Do. Extension Do. Liverpool and Bury... 24 Do., do., Fifths Manch. Buxton, & Matlock 425. PAN p to Manchester and Southampton 2 Midland lOO Ditto Fifths Ditto, New 24 Ditto, New Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ..... Midld. Great Western (Irish) 15 Newcastle and Berwick Do North Shields Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ...... Newmarket and Chesterford 5 Newport and Abergavenny. . 2% — to Newry and Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor NTorfolk Do. Half Shares .... ...... 9 Ditto Extension Do. Scrip,lB47, N. of Norflk — to Do. do. Waveney Valley... Northern Counties Union .... 2 1 ,¢ 1 %%... to North British Ditto Half Shares.. Do. Quarters lil t 3%:% .. to Ditto, Extension Ditto Thirds ... ........... .... 1 ...... N erthern and Eastern SO Ditto Scrip (iss, at 5 dis.)... 50 . Ditto Quarter shares Ditto New North Staffordshire............ 5 North Wales 3% ..... North. & South. Connecting 2 5 /..... North Western . 2% — to Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Oxfd., Witney, & Cheltnham 1%...... Portsmouth 1 )irect Preston and Wyre Ditto, Half Shares ... .._ ... Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 81. - 125.... dis. ... to Richmond Royston and Hitchen 1%...... 1% to Scottish Central Scottish Midland ... ... 12 1 / 2 1 4 14 ...... to Sheffield and Manchester ...100 Ditto I x f Shares 8 Do. and Lincolnshire Junct. It 4 ...... Do. and Great Grimsby ... 10 Do. do. do. Extension... 425. Shrewsbury and Birmingham 3 Ditto, ditto, Class B. IIA — to Shropshire Union ... 425. South Devon ....... ...... . 40 South Staffordshire Junction _2% — to South Eastern and Dover 33 lA..—. ..... to Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, N 0.2 Ditto, New, No. 3 ls Ditto New, No. 4. 214 3 14 to it. Alban's, Hatfield, and Herttbrd Junction Staffordshire and Shropshire 2% — to _ South Wales Swans. and Lougkor and Ca meron's Sun. Coal ...... ... .. 2 raw Vale Extension - Vale of Neath Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Warwick and Worcester 425....... ...... to Waterford and Kilkenny ll ...... - - _ .... Waterford and Limerici..... 27 1 / 2 ... .. 'Waterford, Wexford, Wicklw, and Dublin Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia W aveney Valley Welsh Aiidland 2 1, /2 West Riding Union , 42s. West Cornwall 2 - Wexford and Carlow W isheaeli and St. lves„ Wilts,Somerset,&Weyrnouth 15 ...... 10 1 / 2 ....: to 10 York and Newcastle... Ditto, New.. .. .. 5 .. ... .. Ditto, Preference 2 .. 8 York and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, half Shares Ditto, Selby Ditto. Extension Ditto, Preference ditto East and West Riding Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian Barbadoes ..... .... 1 Belgian Eastern Junctiosi.. .. 2% Boulogne and Amiens...... Bordeaux and Mediterranean 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette ( Mackenzie's) Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette ( Espelete's ) .. 2 Calais, Dunk, & W. Fla Iders 2 Calcutta & Diamond Harbo ur 79. ..... Callao, Lima, & Pacific Coast 1 ...... Central of Spain ... Ceylon ..... 55. Demerara . - Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... . Dutch Rhenish .... 6 East Indian ... 53. Fampoux and Hazebrouk..... 4 Great Indian Peninsular..... 55....... 14%... to Great Western Bengal ... ss. Great Western Canada .. 3 1 A ...... Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junctic n 1 Jersey Louvain ala Sambre .. 6 - ...... to -- Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon 2 Madras - Madras, Nellore, and Arcot... V s Madrid and Yalentia Mauritius Namur and Liege... 8 ...... --- Nn. of France Constituted ... 8 North Jamaica 1 Orleans aad Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux ... .: 6 ...... Over Yssel 4/ :3s 4d.... - Paris and Lyons Constituted 8 Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen .. Paris & Strasbg. Constituted 6' Rouen and Havre 2O 26% to Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale St. Laurence and Atlantic .... Tours & Nantes Constituted 5 Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Ilasselt Trinidad.. ........ ......... West Flanders JOINT STO OK BANKS. Australasia British North American .....50 Colonial Commercial of London London Joint Stock ...... 10 London and Westminster... 20 National Provincial of Engld. 35 National of Inland 2 2 1 /2 — ... .. to Provincial of Ireland Union of Australia Union of London .. 10 MIZ TES. Real del Monte, Unregistered COURSE OF EXCIIA Amsterdam .. ...C.F 12 4 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2 tr l2 434 Antwerp.... Hamburgh ......M.B. 13 1034 3 1 / 2 to S . GE.-(YESTERDAY.) G1ibra1tar.............. :Leghorn ..... 30 55 Genoa .. •• .. 25 90 Milan .. . . • — VVenice ..... Naples • . • • 40m Palermo, per 0z.... )20% Oporto. ...... • • . • 43% Rio Janeiro .. .. 26 Bahia - Buenos Ayres ...... New York. 2l days' sight Philadelphia • ..... Paris, 3 days' sight .. •• 25 55 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles • ... • . 80urdeaux......... Frankfort on Maine l2l Petersburgh, 3 Us Berlin .... Vienna, effec.flo • . • . • . 10 5 Trieste, ditto • .. 10 5 Madrid • • .. • • ........ 35% Cadiz . • ... : ........ 36 Bilbao.. • ....... ...„ Barcelona ............ YBICF.2 OF BULLION, PEE 02, Foreign Gold 12 bars ...£3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 New Dollars .... • • 0 4 103( Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Silver la bars ...• .. • • 0 6 036 Revi11e.......... .... LLOYD'S SHIPPIJ LONDON, JAN. 2.—Wind I hazy, mild weather. PoaTsmourn, JAN. I.—Wind E.N.E.—Acrd. her Majesty's ship Daphne, Valparaiso, sailed Aug. 29, Rio Janeiro Oct. 17, with 1,250,000 dolls. ; her Majesty's ship Athol, Bermuda • Belle Creole, Muirhead, Demer are. Sid. Carnatie, Madras. LlyErtrooL, JAN. 1. —Wind E., light.—Arrd. Sandbach, Risien, Demerara ; Alliance,. Tucker, Charleston ; Isaac Newton, Philadelphia ; Joseph Porter, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick ; lanthe, Robins, ditto ; Margaret, M`Donald, Prince Edward's Island; Atlantic, Quebec; Emanuel Burns, ditto ; Capricorn, Rudd, Montreal. Sld. Patriot Queen, Roddock, Calcutta ; Swithamley, Jennings, Bombay ; Fanny High, ditto; Mary M`Dougall, Africa; La Belle Barberie, Baxley, ditto; Eliza Johnston, Donaldson, Bahia ; Sir C. Napier, Huntress, New Orleans ; Thetis, Hall, Charleston ; Rosalinda, Hay, ditto ; Unicorn, Boyd, Philadelphia ; Waterloo, Allen, New York ; Runnymede, Steele, New foundland. The Pavilion, of and for jersey, from Paspeluac, was abandoned in lat. 45, lan. 44 ; crew taken off by the lanthe, arrived here. The Windsor steamer, from Belfast, has put back with trifling dsartage, having run foul of the Wellington, from Quebec, which also received damage. The Salus barque, leaky, was spoken in lat. 24 by the Queen, Leary, arrived here. The barque Resource, from Quebec to London, was abandoned 26th ult. in lat. 48 lon. 13, with six feet water in her hold; crew taken off by the Georgians, arrived here. N G-( T HIS DAY.) 4.N.E., light airs, and thick, DOUGLAS (ISLE OE Melt), Dire. 30.—The Minerva, Far. quhar, from hence 18th instant, was lost in the gale of the 26th ; crew drowned. BRIDLINGTON, DEC. 31.—The Hand of Providence, Tal ley, and the .Etna, Storey, on shore at Flamborough Head, have got off and proceeded. YARMOUTH, JAN. I.—The brig Elizabeth, of Stockton, is on shore on the Scroby Sand, but expected off next tide, after partly discharging. DARTMOUTH, JAN. I.—Wind E., strong.—Arrd. Clarisse, Daniel, Bahia for Havre; Highland Chief, Prince Edward's Island ; John Hutchinson, Rowntree, Quebec. OEN SALBOMBE, JAN. I.—Wind E.—Republic, New York. CLYDE, DEC.3l.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Ravenswood, ]'Kel lar, Porto Rico; Ava, Caird, St, John's, New Brunswick; Sylph, Waltham, Montreal. Sld. Constellation, Trinidad. DEAL, JAN. I.—E. to E.N.E. fresh, P.M.; E.S.E., ditto.— Sld. Comte (le Flandre, Shotto, Bathurst; Geemanshoop, Batavia ; Kingsdown, Nicholson, 't. Leas ; Navarino, Daiston, Hobert Town; Sea Witch, Baker, Fernando Po; Alof Wvk, Cooper, Rio Janeiro ; Active, Hutchison, remam lucio ; Prince Charles, Rogers, Belize. WAitnxm , orxr.— Arrd. 31. John Bunton, Thorne, St. John's, Nev Brunswick. HULL, JAN. I.—Wind light and variable.—S.me,,,et.h;"' I'ENzANcE, 1/Ec. 81.—The Martha, Williams, from Liver- • pool to Svra and Salonica, has put in here, with loss of fore mast and cargo; supposed I o be damaged from stress of weather. The Santiago, I'arkins, of Plymouth, N.S. from New York, to Brest, has been towed in here with masts cut away, and hull and cargo damaged. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT—GARDEN. Pine Apples, 5s to is ' • Hot-house Grapes, 4s to 6s per 1b; Dessert Apples, 6s to 8s per half-sieve ;• Kitchen - ditto, 1.8 to Os per bushel; Oranges, lOs to 16s; and Lemons, 1 03 to 16s per 100; English Filberts, 25s to 100 s per 1001bs; Cabbages 8d to Is 6d ; Red ditto, 2s to 4s ; and Broca, Os to 12s per dozen ; Potatoes, 4s 6d to 8s 3d per cwt; Horse radish, 2s to 4s per bundle; Turnips, 2s to 4s; and Carrots, 4s to 7s per dozen bunches; Celery, 2s to 2s 9d per bundle; Onions, 53 to 8s per bushel ; Mushrooms, is 3d to 2s per pottle. NEVTGATE AND MEADENEIALL. Prime Beef and Mutton sold readily, other kinds of meat slowly, at our quotarions :—Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 10d; Mutton 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 10d per Blbs by the carcase. Turkeys, 5s to 12s ; Geese, 4s to Cs 6d ; Ducks, is 6d to 2s 6d ; Tame Rabbits, is 3d to 2s; Wild ditto, 8d to is; Pigeons, 6d to 10d each; Stirrer Fowls, 6s to 9s; ditto Chickens, 4s to 5s 3d; and Barn-door Fowls, 3s to 6s per couple. Eggs, Eng lish, 15s to 18s; Fresh Butter, is ld to is 3(1 per lb; Pheasants, 2s 9d to 3s 6d ; Partridges, is 3d to 2s 9d; Hares, 2s to 3s; Woodcocks, 3s to 3s 6d; Snipes, 6d to ; Teal, is to is 3d; Wild Ducks, Is 2d to 2s ; and Plovers. Is each. NEWPORT. Beef, from 3s to 3s 10d; Mutton, 4s to 4s 10d; Veal, 4 0 :o 43 8d ; and Pork, 4s to 48 lOd per Blbs. BILLINGSGATE. We had only a limited supply of Fish here, to-day, And which sold at very irregular prices. NITEXTECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 8:1 ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 3s lod to 4s Sd ; and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 8d per Blbs. HUNGERFORD. The supplies of most articles on offer were by no means large. Generally speaking, the demand was inactive, at but little alteration in value. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are frota 9d to 9 1 / 2 d; of Household ditto, 7d to B%d per 41bs loaf. HIDE MaitILET: Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, 3d per lb; do. 641 b to 721 b, to 3 1 ;0 ; do. 721 b to 801 b, 3 1 - 2 d to 3 3 4 d; do. 801 b to 881 b, 3VI to 4d ; do. 881 b to 961 b, 4 1 /0d to 5d ; do. 961 b to 1041 b, 5d 0 6d ; Calf Skins, each, 4s 6d to 6s 6d ; Horn Hides, 13s; Polled Sheep, 4s 6d to 5s 6d ; Kent and Half-breds, 4s to 4.s 10c1 1 and Downs, 3s to 4s. _ HAT IVIARRETS. SsimtFIELD.-11.1eadow Hay, 215 s to 3l 16s; Clover ditto , 315 s to 41 16s ; and Straw, 11 8s to 1/ 12s per load. Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly at barely late rates. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 215 s to 41; Clover ditto, 3/ 8s to 41155; and Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 13s per load. A Lao' derate supply, and a sluggish demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 8s to 31155; Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 51 ; and Straw, 1/ 8s to 11 12s per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade dull. GUILDHALL. -(THIS DAY_) The case of Keys, the messenger to the Court 0 ' Bankruptcy, came before the Court this morning. Nothing material was added to the evidence already given, although it was understood th a t o th er cases c ould be established against the prisoner. The depositions having been read o ver a t great l engt h, h e was f u ll y can' milted for trial. BOW-STREET—(THIS DAY) , 7 howls Johnson was charged before Mr. Jardine wit: stealing a looking-glass, the property of John English' a broker, in Great Earl-street, Seven Dials. The prosecutor stated that he was going towards Il ij own house, having been o ut on b us i ness; h e me t the prisoner coming out of his shop with a looking-glass his hands, looking at himself in it. The prisonerP s ' it under his arm and vent on, and witness passed hi!' and went into the shop. Ile asked his wife what sl had sold the glass f or ? an d s h e re pli e d th at s he 130., sold no glass ; but as one was gone f rom th e s hop h must have been stolen. Witness immediately ran aft er the prisoner, and overtoo!( him a short distance o ff. Th e prisoner said he had bought it. The prosecutor's wife was examined to prove that ill had nut sold the glass, and also to identify it as her husband's property. She had placed it in the winds" but an hour before. Mr. JARDINE, after giving the prisoner an opportun% of sending for a witness to prove his defence (which f declined, saying, that he could not, as he did know th e number), committed him for trie.l. A young man named Essmond, a messenger at 1 1 1' General Post-office, was charged, on suspicion On partly on his own confession), with stealing a Iseg o l quantity of valuable property, chiefly consiAing jewellery, from letters which had passed through bands. Matthew Peake, constable at the Post-office, s — t , that yesterday morning he took the prisoner, who!, tempted to make his escape, i n c h arge . O n search's' him witness found two gold rings, two gold pencil-csse: two purses, and a gold chain. He said he had tsU e them out of letters at various times, and had tbrov io o the letters into the water-closet. In the Pile 4) were 14 foreign silver coins and one gold coin (Enghti, of the reign of William and Mary and on going to Y - 0 1 lodgings this morning, he found there a quantity . property of a similar description to th a t f oun d o n DP , "' including a number of gold rings and pins. Thomas Thorns, plumber at the-Post-office, exa.--•" 111 ;, 4 0 • the letter-carriers' water-closets, and bad found 4 .. tr letters, one directed to " Miss E. S. Matth ews , Bans end, Ailsworth, Gloucestershire," and one dated r Tottenham-court-road, and signed "Emma," the , en' o f lope of which was lost. The letter contained meatless a purse enclosed. ed t ill The prisoner, who made no defence, was remand Tuesday week. CLERKEN WELL.—(THIS DAY•) t b An old man, named Henry Allen, was charged assaulting and wounding Alfred Bloom, a boy, about years of age, under very aggravated circumstances. , e t It appeared from the evidence of the police and oP' s witnesses, that yesterday evening the prisoner was v e il s drunk, and by his conduct attracted the attention r e number of idle boys, who followed, hooting and O t4 ^ tp wise annoying him. He made several atteroo 9 ,a catch them, but without effect, when the lad Ow:4 chanced to pass on an errand, and was immedis" 4 seized hold of by the prisoner, who raised him up It j dashed bim again to the ground, when he commeno, kicking him about the head and face in the most 0 5 / 1 .19 manner, until he was at length dragged away by no men who fortunately came up at the moment. urie raising the poor boy he was perfectly insensible, $ .. .1 bridge of his nose was broken, and there were seven, severe wounds about his eyes and side of his best caused by the iron in the prisoner's heavy nailed bc, He was removed as speedily as possible to St. Bartho mew's Hospital, where he now lies in a very bad stet a , The prisoner urged in his defence that he was e° stantly annoyed by boys. Mr. GREENWOOD said he should remand th e prisolle . for a week, when the lad might be able to leave e „l. hospital ; however, as there seeme d t o b e no i m medi danger, he should accept bail for the prisoner's apPe l/1" ante until the next examination. MARLBRO'-STREET.-(THIS Mai Francis William Schultze was brought up before lei Long, from Leeds, charged with having feloniously sto le 93 Bank of England notes, of the value of 6901.,,1 e sides divers •gold and silver moneys,_ amounting in ell d , about 8001., the property of the University Life Ass";" ance Society,24, Suffolk-street, Pall-Mall East. It appears that the prisoner, who was formerly a cl ay „ on the Eastern Counties Railway, but lost his situani became a clerk in the employ of the Secretary of University Life Assurance Society. On Christmasl he got into the office, broke open the safe and cash -b e and abstracted a large sum of money and ab s cond ..A , Information was given im me diat e ly a t S co tl an d-ye and Shackle, inspector of the detective police force, s e e P e out a Hue and Cry into different. di s t r i c t s . R ea d,i i chief-constable of Leeds, after r ece i v i ng t hi s h an d-P heard of a young man wh o h a d been changing Bank.; England notes in paym en t o f purchases at differe'e shops in Leeds. Read traced him to the hotel where b o t was staying, and took him into custody, and found 6 9 in possession of the prisoner. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Humphrey's clerk, attenel 4 , for the defence, and Mr. Talb o t, so li c it or , for tli" prosecution. Charles M. Willick, secretary and actuary to the Uoi' versity Life Assurance Society, said the prisoner We i employed by himself, as a clerk, at his own prive t: house, next door to the company's offices. Witne placed about 700/., part notes, part gold and silver, i,„ O small tin cash-box, and enclosed within a deal boil. saw the money safe about four o'clock on the 24th Dcr,i last. On Christmas-day some money being roio; from a drawer, led him to inspect the He found the outer deal box locked ; but cash-boa opening it the small cash- box was gone. H e :ate/leer: l j 4 found it in a bed room at the top of th e h ouse , occ uPi t by the prisoner, with the bottom partly punched 0 and the money gone. Edward Read, chief-constable at Leeds, said he O c t the prisoner into custody a t t h e R oya l H ote l, Leeds, be Monday last, in conse quence o f i n f ormat i on w hi c h had from the landlady of the hotel. The consta ble found the prisoner in his bed-room, and on the dressier table loose silver to the amount of 124, and a bag e ° ,t d e I taming 320 sovere i gns. The w i tness described ' search institut e d— t h e finding of various large stung money in th e pr i soner ' s b oxes an d poc k ets, and of /; tides of jew e ll ery an d c l o thi ng recen tl y purchased 011 the money stolen by the prisoner. William James, superintendent of police at Lee t l searched the prisoner's room at the hotel, and fotle_ A several sums of money, and also a key, which open the safe in the office in Suffolk street. George William Spencer, chief clerk to the Life M: surance Society, deposed to having received at Messy : ' Drummond's bank, on the 24th December, in Pi; merit of a cheque, and certain Bank notes, which P a saw deposited in the cash• box which locked itself, an t placed in a deed-box, which was also locked, and the was afterwards locked in the safe below. Th e key of t ilt , safe lay in a drawer beneath the counter, which could. b opened by one of the keys found on the prisoner, wil ie key was not the proper key of the drawer. The prison er had no acces to the keys whatever. William Spratt, clerk to M essrs . D rummon d, t h e h bankers, deposed to having given the la s t witness t ‘ ;' f , notes in question, the numb e r s o f w hi c h h e gave• v ie could not give the dates of notes without returning the bank. -.--- - 0 Mr. Clarkson begged, on th e p ar t o f t h e pr i son er tl3 , 0 the case might be rema n d e d. Th e sess i ons wou ld c°,: s on on Monday, and ther e h a d actua ll y b een no tu to inve-stigate the case on the part of the defence. jo g Mr. LONG at l eng th consente d to t h e prisone r V ea, remanded, and ord e r e d hi m t o b e b roug h t up on Sat" day next. lion s carrie by Ja su rer , 1 4 in( Sin InUlle ACCoI the 1: eaten, Will i Ilinaol cf the the D e consid E artiller 'entry, leaving When Zomba these 1 force s 6 ,500 s. left a of ne: duction remain the Pa: cost u TIP ; fr( tailitar; balance once n rive p E created is talk( been f i The vi of the Ellenb, unles s finan ce Inereas the i nc accoun dur Dc quitted vay ba GOVerri 48 also tion o f °UVOTT a°nrcien Ar ouim 4asseri aba c i, i, faction Lis car of a s rc , Indi; dull, at 13 - p i the L o the 27 begun (Froa I 7; 171 the f is n c rend her, turb l to q thei r react