The Sun. — London, England, 1847-12-30 00:00:00

Now Ready at all the Libraries, in 3.v015., 1? U S T A C or, THE STAGE OF LIFE. A NOVEL. • By T. J. SERLE, Esq. " The best written romance of modern life we have met with for a long time."—Britannia. " This work is one possessed of many sterling qualities which entitle it to be placed among the very best of the novels which have issued this season from the press. It is stirring, exciting, and full of Incident and. originality." Sunday Times. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great 3farlborough-street. • EMBELLISHED WITH FOUR ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. THE JANUARY NUMBER, price Halt-a-Crown, of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY WILL CONTAIN 1. The government Plan for the Defence of the Country. Com municated by J. A. St. John. 2. The Country Towns and Inns of France—lnns and Cafes of Lyons--Shows of Lyons—Limoges, &c. By J. Marvel. 3. The Lucky Grocer, By Abraham Elder. With an Illustration by Leech. 4. The Six Decisive Battles of the World. No. I. Marathon. By Professor Creasy. 5. Viscount Hardinge and our Recent Victories In India. With a Portrait of Lord Hardinge from a Picture by Ross. 6. Search after Truth. By Alfred Crowquill. 7. Para : Adventures on the Amason. By J. E. Warren. 8. Career of the Hero of Acre. With a Portrait of Sir Sidney Smio. 9. Captain Spike. By J. Fenimore Cooper. 10. Address to the New Year. 11. Fetes at Madrid on the 31entpensier Marriage. From the French of Dumas. 12. Visit to Rajah Brooks at Sarawak. By Captain McQuhae, of the Daedalus. With a View of his Highness' Bungalow. 13. An Old Man's Recollections of the Pastoral Cantons of Swit zerland. Edited by Mrs. Percy Sinnett. 14. Visit to the Haunt of a Poetess. By the Author of " Pad diana." 15. Rambles along the Kentish Reads. By Henry Curling. The December Number of the Miscellany contains a Memoir of the Rajah Brooke, wi h extracts from his Private Journals, given exclusively to this publication. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. lin ler the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of SPRING AND AUTUMN. ',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 Burlesque Spectacle entitled THE WORLD UNDERGROUND; or, the Golden Flute and the Brazen Waters. Stage Manager, Mr. Fan en; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to eommence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction o: Madame Celeste TIIIS EVENING Will be presented an entirely new Piece, entitled the PEARL OF THE OCEAN ; or, the Prince and the Mermaiden. Principal cha racters by Messrs. Waye, P. Bedford, Wright, Munyard, Glennaire, Cullenferd, and Wosrell ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, and Madame Celeste. To be tultoxed by a new Farce entitled THE TIPPERARY LE GACY. Turnem Green, Mr. Wright ; Bob Gills, Mr. Munyard ; Lanty Scrimmage, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Chubbloek, Mr. Cullenford ; Policeman. Mr. Sanders ; Lizzy Chubblock, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with an Italian Pantomime, entitled PIERROT, the Married Man; and POLICHINELLO, the Gay Single Fellow. • • Boxes, 45.; Pit, 25., Gallery, Is. boors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven, ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. 'Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING Will be presented new Comic Drama, entitled THE TRA GEDY QUEEN. After which, a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN BRANCH. To conclude with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Backstone, and. Mrs. Mac. Damara. Dress Boxes, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No half-price to any part of the house. The .Sew Box-ofEce, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public e vcry day, from Ten till six. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the Cclosseum. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-street, Portland-place. Madame ANNA TIIILLON. THIS EVENING A new Comic Opera, entitled THE AMBASSADRESS. Duke de Valberg, Mr. Bodda ; Benedict, Mr. Barker ; Fortunatus, Mr. Lef fler; Countess de Fierschomberg, Miss Villars; Madame Earneck, Mrs. Selby ; Charlotte, Miss Anne Romer ; Henriette, Madame Anna Thillon. After which, the popular Farce of FIGHTING BY PROXY. Characters by Messrs. Compton, Cowell, Conway, J. Vining, Ne ♦ille ; Mrs. Selby, and Miss Somers. To conclude with a new Christmas Pantomime, entitled OLD FATHER TIME ; or, Harlequin and the Four Seasons. Dress Circle, 55.: Boxes, 40.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. 33, Old Bond-street. ON MONDAY EVENING. Will be performed LA YE.NSIONNA.IRE MARIE. After which, ECIIEC ET MAT. To conclude with LA PREMIERE RIDE. _ 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 Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily, from 11 to h. Boxes, 6s. ; Fit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 28 ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. F. Davidge, I, — Davidge-terrace, Kensington-read, Surrey. THIS EVENING. THE DAUGHTER OF TIIE REGIMENT. Characters by Messrs. H. Phillips, King, Horncastle, Rafter, Att wood, M`Mahon, and Miss Poole. To conclude with a new Pantomime, entitled BATTLEDOOR and SHUTTLECOCK ; or, Harlequin trap, Bat, and sail. A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have been re-fitted). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the lrincipal Librarians ; and at the Box-ettice of the Theatre, which is open daily from Ten until Four. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be presented an original Drama, entitled The CARPENTERS OF LAMBETH, in which Miss Vincent, Mr. Wets, and Mr. For man wi l appear. After which, THB JACKET OF BLUE. To conclude with the grand scholastic and instructive Pantomime. entitled THE WORLD OF WONDERS ; or, Harlequin Caxton and the Origin of Printing, with wonderful scenery and decorative ap pointments. Clown, Mr. Paul IHrring ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; Harlequin, M. Lupin° ; Sprite, Signor Molino; Columbine, Millie. Boxes, is. ; Pit, sd.; Gallery, 4(1. No Halt-price to any part of the hou:ie. Doors open at Six, to commence at Half-past Six. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, tr.)prietor and :11 anager. .Ir. ‘Vdliarn Batty. Mr. Betty's pertorming Elephants. THIS EVENING, The Grand Spectacle or TIIE CAMP OF SILESIA. Entirely new SceilLs in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the - stahlti! - .meet, in tit various modes of equestration. To conblude with a Grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime entltleAl MARLEQUIN DOCTOR SYNTAX AND HIS DAPPER GREY MARE, in which those popular artistes Herr Dentin, Mdlle. Theo dore, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Bradbury, as Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, and Pantaloon, which will exceed in splendour and effect all former productions at the Amphitheatre, Box-office open nom 1 l till 5 Actin; and ,itage Manager, Mr. W West. WEATHER.-Svx OFFICE, DEC. 30. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 36 ; Highest, 35 ; Noon, 36. BAROMETER, 29 81.-WIND S.S.W.; rain. t-IIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Nfornin? . .. 27 minutes after 7. 1 Evening .. bi iTifyintes after 7, 4 ' • i ''. '‘ SI ; I' . ''''' ' 472 ''''''' % 0. .I' .l' ' q 17,,,, -- N ) : ‘ , , • ...„.. , _ __.... , , 3 ,,, • '1.. :3 Cgi l. ' ff . V . ,:11 1 / 4 %, ' ~ ~ ' 'N.; ) 7 4 %of, — r, iltm,,Y t4 w.t.- . a' t(.4.,.' DI FI , ' , nt ' '' ' ''...,,Elaill gr i 0 S "7 . 6i1 , ;i' -, 2 ''.. • . • 04..rning .iiit LONDON. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 30, 1847. Another session has opened on the Guiaot Admi nistration, and never, we may safely aver, has that Administration appeared before the representative Legislature in a position so peculiarly perilous. The Speech delivered by his Majesty the KING of the FRENCH on Tuesday afternoon is expressive in every syllable of the uncertainty with which Louis PHIL LIPPE is himself agitated by the state of political parties in his dominions. Language could not be more obscure ; allusions more indefinite ; inuendoes more vague ; anticipations more shadowy ; rhetorical flourishes more idle and profitless. Every sentence shows that the SOVEREIGN was conscious of the delicacy of the various questions to which he was compelled to make more immediate reference. Even with the guarantee which is at last afforded for the remission or reduction of the salt duties, there is associated the recollection of the continual obstructions hitherto raised against this concession to the wants of the community by a nig gardly and avaricious system of commercial policy. And in the promised diminution of the amount of postage demanded upon letters there is manifest only the intention of a partial improvement, instead of such a comprehensive innovation as the one effected in our own country by the intelligent suggestions of Row- LAND HILL. Other measures are enumerated by the MONARCH with a sort of grandiloquent distinct . ness, which would almost induce one to imagine that he anticipates of the from their operati on th e f u ll d eve l o p. " morality and welfare " of his people ! These measures being none other than bills upon commercial property, upon the mortgage system, upon sa vings-banks, and upon pawnbroking. As if the morality o f hi s kingdo,no cou . ld be insured by th e triple-balls of the Mont t de Pate f As if the evil 1 deeds of an unprincipled Cabinet were to be made I palateable by affording a tittle more security to a mortgagor, or by increasing, b y r a tew centimes, the casual profits of a mort gagee ! As if, indeed the ill repute acquired by Government his , were to be swallowed cam grano saris! Y et, it is to these dribblets of political reform and social improvements that Louis Puturez appends the magniloquent declaration — " It is my consta n t wish that my Government should labour, with your co-operation, in developing, at the same time, the morality and welfare of the people !" There is something as ludicrously inappropriate in the context of the paragraph as though Mr. BARNUM were to narrate in sesquipedalia verba the life and adventures of General Tom THUMB. It is the antithesis of Pa ~....:e• et'S .bathos—the sudden expansion of the petty to ( fr irlireeer--• the sublime, instead of the abrupt contrac -1 t • on of the sublime to the petty. It forms a worthy ,i - comiletkclium, however, to the recent seta of ::. • - * poli which would appear to draw its inspiration i ~~~} ~i~ -~. .1111 i 11 ks- E ; TOPHILES If his MAJESTY evinced this eagerness of expres sion when alluding to the internal administration of France, it might be conjectured how exquisitely in definite would be his observations upon the various circumstances of its relations with foreign states. Indefinite ! It is a verbal obscurity, like " darkness visible." It betrays a caution so consummate and peculiar that several of the most important movements on the European continent are not noticed even by a covert allusion. Of Belgium—just agitated by the throes of popular ambition—there is said nothing. Of Italy—awakened from the Circean sleep of slavery, and reviving the liberties and genius of its historic adolescence— nothing. Of Portugal—again dwindling from a constitutional monarchy into a mere estate of COSTA and JOSE DE CABRAL—nothing. Of Spain—placed in new perils as to its independence, its mercantile stability, its provincial quietude, and its very na tionality—nothing. In the reference which is made to the affairs of Switzerland there is, if possible, a still greater amount of circumspection than in any other portion of this most enigmatical address from the Throne. Hitherto the dream was that GUIZOT and METTERNICH were actuated by congenial sentiments regarding the claims of the Sonderbund. Now that the Royal Master of the Tuileries has pro nounced his anxiety to co-operate with England, Austria, Russia, and Prussia, in respecting the rights of all, and maintaining the basis of the Helvetic Con federation, it remains more than ever problematical in which direction the sympathies of his advisers are carried. Again, after congratulating the more speculative classes upon the removal of the mer cantile obstructions which have been so long tolera ted on the Rio de la Plata, and which removal will, in all likelihood, be accomplished before long by the energetic combination of France and Great Britain, the KING makes direct mention of his province in Algeria. He anticipates that now that his beloved son has succeeded " the illustrious leader who has so long and gloriously commanded in Algeria," a great epoch will commence in those African territories. Remembering the glory (Eheu LAMORICIERE !) of the days of the Due D'IsLY, his MAJESTY looks forward in like manner to the glory (pray GOD it be not of a like character !) of the days of the Due D'AUMALE. "I flatter myself," says the Royal Orator, " that under the direction of my Govern ment, and thanks to the laborious courage of the generous army that surrounds him, his vigilance and devotedness will secure the tranquillity, the good administration, and prosperity of our establishment." Such are the delusive aspirations, such is the inimi table caution, such are the feebly articulated senti ments of the KING of the FRENCH, on the re-assem bling of the Peers and Deputies, to decide the destiny of M. GuizoT and his colleagues. A letter has appeared in a morning Contemporary containing a most satisfactory sccount of the pro ceedings of the Practical Instructors in Husbandry, who have been deputed to visit certain districts in Ireland, and to point out to the occupiers the serious losses they are sustaining from the negligent and injudicious mode of cultivation which they have been in the habit of adopting on their respective holdings. It is well known that the soil in Ireland is of a far better average quality than the English. It is, un fortunately, too notorious that there is a far greater supply of agricultural labour in that country, and that that labour can be obtained at a much cheaper rate —in fact, less than one-half of what must be paid here ; and yet, notwithstanding these great advantages to the farmer, the produce is fully sixty per cent. less than we obtain from an equal quantity of land. Many different reasons have been assigned for this untoward result, and there have, doubtless, been many causes which have more or less contributed thereto; but one of the most glaring had been lost sight of until the public attention was directed thereto, and a remedy suggested, by the distinguished nobleman who now so worthily occupies the vice regal throne in the sister kingdom. It became ap parent to that sagacious statesman that a great deal ct the evil might fairly be ascribed to the ignorance that prevailed amongst the small farmers as to the most ordinary processes of agriculture, that steps absolutely essential to the production of an abundant and remunerative crop were neglected, merely be cause the people were not aware of their paramount importance. It became then extremely desirable to convey instruction to their very thresholds, to provide them with information that they would be willing to act on, to senl amongst them intelligent and well-intormed men, who would visit their cottages, point out their errors, and advise them as to the judicious management of their holdings. The experiment was well worthy a trial. If it succeeded, great advantages might be attained, and an increase of the working staff world speedily diffuse practical knowledge throughout every locality ; but if, contrary to expectation, it proved a tailure, and that the small farmers and cottiers re. fused to avail themselves of the benefits freely offered fur their acceptance, there could at least be no evil result. The necessary expenditure would be very trifling, and could be readily provided by private subscriptions. In accordance with this view, Lord CLARENDON about two months since, wrote to the Duke of LEIN-. STER, as President of the Royal Agricultural Society, suggesting the employment of such persons, and offering a donation of 50/. from his private purse, in furtherance thereof. The appeal was promptly re sponded to, and within a very few days the required sum was made up by a few patriotic individuals, the project was put into execution, and, for the first time, practical instruction was tried as a remedy for some of the social evils of Ireland. Ten persons were sent out to travel among the peasantry, to stimulate them to activity, and to teach them how their exertions might be most profitably applied at the present period. An additional advantage was also derived from their mission, for weekly reports that might be depended on were obtained, setting forth the present state of affairs in the several districts, and the prospects of the coming year. Many were at first disposed to sneer at the plain and simple character of the undertaking. They would not be persuaded that any great advantages could be derived from such an ordinary pro ceeding. They desired that miracles should be performed ; that millions should be la vishly expended, and that national pros perity should be immediately arrived at; by some magical process. The farmers, _however, who were aware of their own deficiencies, received their visitors with open arms, eagerly listened to the advice they offered, and strove, by every means in their power, to carry their suggestions into effect. They pointed out to the farmers the advantage of dig ging and turning up the land, so as to expose it to the effect of the frost during the winter; for, strange to say, in many localities the importance of this process was not known, and the land was left untouched until the arrival of spring. On their re turn to the scene of their labours they found the land was turned up, and that the occupiers, although in many instances obliged to submit to very serious privations, readily employed themselves in the manner which they were told would, on a future occasion, return them the rewards due to their industry. The co-operation and assistance which, we rejoice to say, was everywhere afforded by the Roman Catholic:clergymen mainly contributed to this happy result, and furnishes a fa vourable augury of what may be hoped for from an extension of the system, and its introduction on an enlarged scale into every part of the country. In compliance with the request of the Executive Council of Berne, the Swiss Diet, in its sitting of the 24th, resolved that the Bernese contingent should not undergo federal inspection in 1848, as a mark of re spect for the eminent services rendered by Berne in the recent campaign. After a debate, a delay of five years was allowed to Unterwalden for the payment of its portion of the expenses of the war. On a propo sition for terminating the military occupation of that canton, the Diet resolved that the Directory should, with respect thereto, make what use it may think right of the powers which have been conferred on it. The monks of St. Bernard have, in consequence of the defeat of the Sonderbund, retired into the Sar dinian territory. TAE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3O, p 847. from the political creed of MACCHIAVELLI, or from the subtle and insidious promptings of MEFHIS- The Augsburg Gazette of the 24th instant con tains the following letter, dated Berlin, the 18th: " Seven of the Poles, capitally convicted, who had appealed to the mercy of the King, have obtained the commutation of their penalty to imprisonment for life. It is, however, probable, that in a few years they will be amnestied. Mieroslawski alone refused to address a similar request to his Majesty, but his advocate bad taken on himself to invoke the Royal clemency in his favour. The situation of the accused, who after being acquitted were claimed by Russia, excites general sympathy. The police arrested them immediately on their leaving the prison. In order to escape their wretched fate, they have entered an appeal against the sentence, and demanded that the Court should pronounce their entire liberation. The President (M. Koch) ordered them to be conveyed back to prison, where they will wait the result of the decision of the tribunal on their appeal." The Patria of Florence states that the PopE seems inclined to sanction the resolution of the Consulta, that its debates should be public. His Holiness held, on the 17th, a secret consistory, at which twenty Spanish archbishops and bishops were nominated. This is the first time since the death of FERDINAND VII. that his Holiness has performed this ceremony. His Holiness opened the consistory with a discourse relative to the state of the Church in Spain, Russia, and Switzerland. With regard to Spain and Russia, he expressed feelings of joy at the favourable turn religious affairs had taken, but he spoke with deep regret at the defeat of the Catholic union in Swit zerland. The sentiments expressed by the POPE in this discourse appear to have created considerable uneasiness among the Liberal party in Rome, who imagine that his Holiness is no longer so ardent an admirer of reform as he was supposed to be a few months ago. The process against the leaders of the detnonstra tion, which took place in Rome some time ago, in favour of the Swiss Diet, was about to commence. One of the persons compromised in this affair is the son of the celebrated CICERONACCHIO. It certainly does seem somewhat remarkable that the POPE should thus take part in Switzerland with those who in Italy have been his bitterest enemies. Has his Holiness found Jesuit intrigue and Austrian domination such blessings to his own country, that he would fain impart them to Switzerland also? or does he seek to overthrow temporal tyranny merely to establish sacerdotal domination in its place ? Surely the Liberals of Europe have not been labouring all this time under a delusion, and mistaken a mere Ghibbeline for a patriot ! The Journal de Constantinople of the Bth says that VELENTZAS, PAPACOSTAS, BALATRO, DIMITRI DAIG ADJIII, and YANI CONDOYANI, who, as is well known, held high ranks in the Hellenic army, and were in insurrection against the Tzavellas iklinistry, have left the Greek territory with 163 of their partisans, and have presented themselve before the local autho rities of Larissa, from whom they demanded per mission to serve in the Ottoinan army, declaring themselves desirous of becoming subjects of the Porte. The Governor-General of Thessaly, residing at Larissa, MAHIB MEHEMET PAULA, has confined himself to receiving the deserters with kindness, granting them hospitality till the Imperial Govern ment shall have determined what reply their demand should meet with. Madrid papers of the 22d have arrived. The Gage/a publishes a decree appointing General Ros DE OLANo Captain-General of the Spanish pos sessions on the Mediterranean coast of Africa. The Governor of Ceuta, General Aprroxio ORDONNEZ, is made Deputy Captain-General, and the government of Melilla is conferred on General IGNACIO CHACON. It was reported in Madrid that the Minister of Finance, Senor ORLAND°, had resigned, and that his portfolio had been confided ad interim to Senor BELTRAM DE Lis, the Minister of Marine. MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 22.—The Three per Cents. were done at 28 1-16th, at fifty days; the Five per Cents., at 16, at forty-nine days; th. Debt without interest, at 5, for paper; and the Coupons at 101, at forty-nine days. We have received the French papers of Tuesday. The King's Speech, of course, is the great subject of comment. There was a ,slight fall in the funds when the contents of the Speech became known on the Bourse, occasioned by the more than usual vagueness of the announcements made by the KING. The passage alluding to the proposed measure of postal reform was received with marks of approba tion, and that relating to Switzerland with profound silence. The paragraph announcing the appointment of the Due D'AUMALE to Algeria was received with loud cheers, as was the concluding paragraph of the Speech. The Ministerial evening journal, the Moniteur Parisien, thus comments on the paragraph in the Speech relating to Switzerland— " The paragraph relative to Switzerland sets forth and maintains the true principles of that important question. Those principles are those which the France of July and her Government have invariably proclaimed and asserted in Europe every time any serious difficulties presented themselves. It is not only through respect for the maintenance of treaties, it is also for the preservation of order in Switzerland, that France, in accord with the other great European Powers, offered to the Helvetic Confederation her friendly mediation. If France condemns and deplores events solely calculated to produce fatal, or, at least, sterile agitations, she will, on the other hand, be ever ready to promote with her good wishes and her moral support, ameliorations tending to increase the empire and blessings of civilization, when effected in an orderly manner, and by the combined efforts of nations and their Governments." The Conservateur has the following on the changes which will probably take place in Italy consequent on the death of MARIA LOUISA : " The death of the Archduchess Maria Louisa, Duchess of Parma, will have, according to all pro bability, important consequences for the affairs of Italy, although that Princess had personally no po litical importance. We explained in one of our recent 'lumbers the strategic value of the position of Pontremoli; it is the key of the passage between the states of the King of Sardinia and those of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. In 1815 Austria employed all its efforts to have the possession of Pontremoli awarded to it. The Congress of Vienna refused that; it would not consent that Austria, already so powerful in Italy, should, by establishing herself in a military manner in that position, keep in perpetual check the kingdom of Sardinia and the grand duchy of Tuscany, and thereby, in fact, reduce both of them to the state of simple vassals. The Congress even refused to award Pontremoli to the duchy of Modena, or to that of Lucca, from the fact that Austria had a right of re version of those two duchies. In virtue of the decision of the Congress, Pontremoli and its territory were there. fore awarded to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, although geographically separated from the states of that Prince, and surrounded by those of the duchy of Lucca. We have already had occasion to make known how, in virtue of subsequent arrangements between Austria, Tuscany, Lucca, and Modena, Pontremoli was to be incorporated in the latter duchy, when Lucca should pass to Tuscany, and how the Duke of Modena hastened to demand this incorpora tion when recently the Duke of Lucca ceded his prin cipality to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Our readers know the extreme repugnance which was manifested by the inhabitants of Pontremoli at the idea of be coming the subjects of the Duke of Modena. All Italy echoed their protests. One might have feared at one moment that the people, hastening from the neighbouring states, to preserve them from the lot which threatened them, a war would break out on that almost imperceptible point of the Peninsula, which war would have soon extended to all its surface. It is _ ..- that which causes the d es ti ny o f th a t little district to have now so much importance, and it is that which makes the death of the Duchess of Parma a matter of general interest for Italy. Accord ing to the opinion of the King of Sardinia, who was chosen as arbitrator in the difference relative to Pontremoli, which arose between Tuscany and Modena, the possession of Pontremoli ought to be ' awarded to the Prince who is called to the heritage of the Duchess of Parma, that is to the Duke of Lucca. The Grand Duke of Tuscany and the Duke of Modena have already adhered to the proposition of the King of Sardinia; it only remains to obtain the adhesion of the Duke of Lucca and of Austria. The Duke of .Lucca cannot make any difficulties, since he gains by the arrangement. Austria, it is true, may desire to oppose both, in the hope of one day possess ing Pontremoli, if it should remain awarded to the duchy of Modena, on account of the right of rever sion which it has to'that duchy. But it is permitted to us to hope that its spirit of wisdom will induce it not to sacrifice to this distant and uncertain hope a combination which must contribute to assure the tranquillity of Italy. The influence of Austria will still remain sufficiently great in Italy—greater than even the Congress of Vienna desired. As to the in habitants of Pontremoli, they will no doubt regret to exchange the domination of the Grand Duke of Tug- , cany for that of the Duke of Lucca, or, to speak more correctly, of the Duke of Parma; but they will have some consolation in thinking that they escape that of the Duke of Modena." The Paris Chamber of Commerce mat on Monday, and the Prefect of the Seine made to them his annual report of the administration of the affairs of the city of Paris during the year 1847. 9,000,000 f. had been expended by the city during the 11 months the municipal council found it necessary to vote funds for the distribution of bread tickets. The number of the latter amounted to 33,000,000, and no less than 464,000 persons were relieved. Another million has been granted to different charitable institutions. In addition to those supplies, considerable sums had been employed to procure labour for the working classes. Thus 1,600,000 f. were laid out in constructing the hospital of Louis Philippe; 400,000 E in repairing and extending the hcspitals of La Pitie, St. Antoine, La Charitie, Necker, &c. ; 700,000 f. in building new schools; 1,800,000 f. in repairing edifices belonging to the city of Paris, churches, markets, barracks colleges, &c. ; 6,000,000 f. for the improvement of the streets and the opening of new ones, &c. On the Ist of December the tolls levied at the gates had produced 34,300,000 f., or 1,200,000 f. less than in 1846, partly owing to a reduction in the tax on meat. The savings banks were seriously affected by the crisis. During the first eleven months of 1847 the lodgments were only 29,600,000 f., whilst they had amounted during the corresponding period of 1846 to 34,200,000 f. The withdrawals, moreover, exceeding those of 1846 by 3,000,000 f. The exports of the city of Paris declared at the Custom-house not only maintained themselves, but even presented an increase of 4,000,000 f. Down to the Ist of December last the ordinary exports amounted to 82 ,709,929 f., and those with premiums to 72,442,693, forming together 155,000,000 f. The sum total for the entire year will be about 174,000,000 f. Previous to 1830 the exports never exceeded 80,000,000 f., and in 1831 they had fallen to 60,000,0001'. Notwithstanding that prosperity of the Parisian trade, the failures had augmented in a con siderable proportion, owing in 'a great measure to the sudden variations in the prices of the public stocks and shares. On the Ist of December their number was 1,204, or 368 more than in 1846. The new daily postal communication between Lon• don and Paris is to commence simultaneously to morrow, as well through Boulogne as through Calais and Dover. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tuesday at 75f. 40e. ; New Loan, 76f. 60c. ; the Five per Cents., 1171.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,214 f. 25c. ; Rouen, 908 f. 75c.; Havre, 4551.; Great Northern, 551 f. 25c.; Avignon, 5751.; Vierzon, 552 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 4901.; Dieppe, 265 f.; Basle, 162 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 412 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes, 3951.; Paris and Lyons, 401 f. 25c.; Spanish Three per Cents., 31 ; ditto Do mestic Debt, 26k. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Dnc. 29. Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 15 1 / 2 —Northern of France, 12—Paris and Lyons, 6%. BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner Evs.m.) IN RE W. B. AND C. G. BRODIE. - . • This was a meeting. for proof of debts, and last examination of these bankrupts, who had carried on business as bankers at the Salisbury Bank. A great number of proofs were admitted, but were chiefly on notes of the bank. Mr. PAIN, on the part of the assignees, objected to a proof tendered on behalf of Mr. Bouverie, on a joint bond given by one of the bankrupts and a third party, and it was contended that as the other obligor was solvent, he must be called on, and compelled to pay before any proof could be admitted against this estate. On the part of Mr. Bouverie, it was urged that the money was paid to Mr. Brodie, who paid interest on it. His HONOUR held that the bond was a joint bond, and, therefore, that the proof could not be admitted whilst there was a solvent obligor. The accounts not having been yet filed an appli cation was made for an adjournment of the last exa mination, which was granted. Since the issuing of the fiat several Crown extents have been put in on the property, but which have been paid out. SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY. ) The cases this morning were of no interest, being chiefly of bills of Exchange, the principal cases having been withdrawn. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) Abraham Stewart, lately in the service of Mr. Daggan, a contractor, was charged with stealing a load of bricks. It appeared that on Monday week the prisoner was employed to cart a load of bricks from a barge lying at fluogerford to a house in Newport-street. It was shown that up to half-p as t eight o'clock that morning he had not delivered them, and that at a quarter-put eight he had already returned to the wharf with the empty cart. Up to the time the prisoner was taken into custody he insisted that he had delivered the bricks. He was committed for trial. iIIARLBRO' - STREET—(THIS DAY.) Robert Watson, a licensed victualler, residing at No. 90, Berwick-street, Soho, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with assaulting his wife, Harriet Watson. The complainant, whose face wcs dreadfully bruised, said on the preceding• night, about nine o'clock, she was standing in the bar, when defendant, without the least provocation, struck her a tremendous blow in her face. She called out, and he struck her again, and blackened her eyes. Her mother, who was in the bar parlour, hearing her cries, came to her aid, and the defendant was given into custody. The defendant admitted the assault, and said he was very much aggravated by complainant and her mother. Mr. BINGHAM said the prisoner had been guilty of an unmanly and covrardly assault upon a defenceless woman. He should fine him 51. for the assault, and ordered him to find two sureties to keep the peace towards his wife for the next three months. THAMES.—(THIS DAY.) Andrew Manquin was charged with cutting and wounding Mary Manquin, Ms wife, with intent to d o her some grievous bodily arm. The prosecutrix refused to press the charge against the prisoner, but Mr. Ballantine said these murderous assaults had latterly become of such frequent recur rence that he was determined such ruffians should no longer escape because their unfortunate victims would not press the charge against them ; and accordingly Police-constable H 51, having been sworn, deposed that last night his attention was attracted to 18, Wills-place, Gower's-walk, Whitechapel, by hearing loud screams of murder and police. Some women, too, came running out of the house, and said a man was killing his wife. On entering the house and proceeding up-stairs, he found the prosecutrix lying on the floor, and her face was completely covered with blood. She said her husband had done it all with the leg of a table, and she wished him to be taken into custody, which was done, and she herself was conveyed to the London Hospital. The constable concluded his evidence by handing the magistrate a certificate from the house surgeon of the hospital, which stated that the woman's face was very much lacerated. On their way to the station-house the prisoner broke away, and again struck his wife. Mr. BALLANTINE said he was determined, if pos sible, to put an end to the disgraceful assaults of men on their wives. He should order the prisoner to find two good and substantial sureties to keep the peace towards his wife. Not being provided with the requisite bail he was locked up. THE CHOLERA.--A letter from St. Petersburgh of the 14th instant states that the cholera had not yet sub• sided at Moscow. Between the 29th of November and the 6th of December there occurred in that city 231 ' cases, and 112 deaths ; in all, since the appearance of the scourge, 2,795 cases, and 1,419 deaths. The epi. demy, however, appears to be stationary, and to have lost much of its intensity. Thus, in the government of Twer it was confined to the district of Torschok ; it completely ceased at Kazan on the 23d, and at Situbirsk on the 24th of November. In the Government of Oremburg it still prevailed in the localities where it originally manifested itself. In the districts of the Go vernments of Mohilew, Tschernigow, Kiew, and Pol taws, which ar e watere d by t h e Dnieper, the cholera presented a more epidemical character. MATRIMONI AL DIFFERENCES.--A yacht has arrived at Portsmouth within the last few days, the owner of which is mar r i e d to t h e daughter of a Noble Lord of much celebrity in the naval service. He has been in the Mediterranean some considerable time, and has now re turned minus his lady, who absented herself, unknown to the husband, at the last port the yacht touched at. The father of the gentleman was many years Member for a county in the south-west of England, but is lately deceased, and the marriage was contracted contrary to the wishes of the parents. BOLTON.--THE INTENDED TURN-OUT.—We are very glad to state that the general turn-out, which was expected to take place to-day, in consequence of a re duction of wages, has been avoided by the hands agree ing to take 10 per cent. less than they have hitherto re ceived. The mills, therefore, are all at work.—Man cheater Guardian, MONEY and COMMERCIAL SEVV. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday closed with a considerable degree of firmness. Sales, 5,000 bales, of which 4,000 were American, at 4id. to 6d. per lb. The qualities of American, under 4id. per lb., have advanced id. per lb. since Friday last, and those at about 4id. have risen id. per lb. In other sorts there was no alteration. Railway shares improves! again, and a fair business was doing. The sale of railway shares yesterday, by Messrs. La mond and Co., was quiet, with a fair business. We sub join a few of the quotations:— North British, Quarters London and York Extension London and Blackwall, No. 1 Great Northern Buckinghamshire ... 7 4 0 East Indian, Reg North Staffordshire Madrid and Valencia Great Luxembourg The Biitannia steamer from New York has not yet arrived, but we have accounts two days later by a line of packet ship. The prospects of the Cotton crop were still satisfactory. One party writes:— " The fine weather that we have experienced for the last two months still continues, and up to this date, we have had no important frost in the Gulf regions. The unusually late period of the latter, unexpected as it has been from the collateral circumstances of the season, and the fine opportunity that planters have enjoyed for saving the crop, must exercise some influence upon the final field. This will not be, however, to the extent that is generally imagined. Public impression is very apt when it takes a particular direction to run into ex • tremes, and now looks only to a long spell of fine wea ther, overlooking the disasters of the past. In making estimates of the crop, however, both should be taken into the account, and at least a proximate value given to the real effects of each, It is not to be forgotten that up to the Ist of October, there was but little cotton saved, particularly in the regions east of the Mississippi river, and that the month of October has been the only period in which picking could go on with any degree of success. The indications, however, would now seem to warrant an estimate higher than that I have previously made, and under the state of things that now exists, it is not improbable that the crop may exceed my previous views to the extent of 100,000 or 150,000 bales. Should such prove to be the result, it will have been occasioned entirely by the prevalence of an unexpected season of fine weather, and an exemption from frost that has had no precedent. The crop will now be entirely gathered, and on many plantations pick ing has entirely ceased, and if the injury had not been so serious during the most important period of its growth, it would have proved equal to the largest that the country has ever produced ; but experience has de monstrated that it has proved impracticable to recover the damage it sustained at the period." Concerning the Money Market, we are told, that cash had been loaned at a rate of interest equal to 20 per cent. per annum for short periods, and the banks were drawing in the sums due, owing to the exports of :specie. The New York Herald states that— " Stock speculators are patiently waiting the deve lopments of the approaching week. It will be fraught with big events, and give a complexion to financial and commercial affairs for some time to come. Within the next week we shall have the steamer's news, with fifteen days' later intelligence from all parts of Europe; the meeting of Congress, the President's Message, the re ports of the various departments, the most important of which will be that from the Treasury department. The President's Message will cover the whole ground relative to the affairs of the country—to the war, to the pros pects and probabilities of a peace, Sze.; but the reports of the secretaries will give the details." There is very little news out of doors, and the Stock Market is flatter, owing to the decline at Paris. Con sols have fluctuated from 851 yto 851 and are now again 851 -a, with a moderate business doing. Exche quer-bills have been 9s. to 12s. premium, and India Bonds, under, 1,0001., are at par. Bank Stock has re alised 186 to 1871. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 861 to 861 ; and the Three per Cents. 84i to 851. The Foreign Securities have been dull again. Mexi can have receded to 18 and 17i ; Spanish Five per Cents. are 18, and the Three per Cents. 30. Brazil stock has been at 804 ; Dutch Two-and-a• Half per 551 to 551. Railway shares are flatter, and there is a slight de cline in the quotations of most of the English and foreign lines. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) _ _ Bank Stock - 186 187% 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ...... ... B5 84 85 1 4 New 3 1 ,,,i per Cont. Anus. Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 B% 11 7 ,16 Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 8 7-16 India Bonds under 1,0001....... ....... .... par Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,000/. 500/. Small .. 13 11 14p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, per Cent Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent lB 17% Spanish Bonds, 5 per C0nt,1640 Ditto 3 per Cent BO Venezuela Bonds Do. Deferred lO Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent.,l2 Guild 551/ Ditto ler the Account 55% 56 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates BUSINESS DONin: IN RAILWAY SHARER AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAY/. PAID. Pu SUM. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2 3 / — to Ayrshire and Galloway Belfast and County Down .. 10 .. Birmingham & Oxford June... 20 Birmingham, W 01.,& Dudley 10 ... . Birraing., Vol., &Stour Val. 10/.145.... - Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction 7% — ...... to Boston, Stamf., & firming... 5- Bristol and Exeter Do., Thirds ... ..... .. 21 -to Buckinghamshire.. Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares - ... .. to Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 Chester and Holyhead-. 37%..... Ditto, Preference 8 Clarence. Do., let Class, 6 per Cent... 10 . ... to Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 . Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 - to Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 20 Dundalk and Enniskillen ..: 15 East Anglia, 251. L. & E., aid L. & D. . . 25 Ditto, 18/., E. Sz H l6 ..... Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H... 2 Eastern Counties Ditto, ditto (B) Do. Perpot., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... Do., do N 0.2,61. 135. 4d... Do., York Extension lO ..... Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., Quarter .... ........ ..... 12%... Do., New East ersn Union. 5O Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — to Ditto., Thirds ...135. 4d — to Ditto (guar. 15 per cent.) ... ...... East Lancashire Ditto, New Do., New Quarters East Lincolnshire 12% — to Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 43 Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shama 1 2 1,E ll ...... to 10 3 / Edinburgh and Northern ... 22 % — ..... to ......,4 Ditto, N 0w..... ..„.... ...... 83A — ...... to Ditto, New port 9I,E — •••••• to -- Ditto, ditto, New 2IA — ••• ••• to _ Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% .... ...... to _ Ditto, New Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle-8/. 6s.Bd ..... to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 — Ditto, New Do. IA Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12% ... to Great Northern lO% ' 4 14..... to Do. London & York Exten 2% %% ••• to Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35 Great North of England 100 Ditto, lit w 40/ Ditto, New 301 3O ... .. .. ... to Ditto, New 151. 6%..- . ... to Great Western Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths Do. New 171 Huddersfield and Manchester 22 .. -. Ditte, Thirds Hull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — to Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 17% — to Do. do. and Norwich Do., do., Extension Scrip (late (Camb. and Ely) 2% 1%...... to Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 Do., Thirds lf ...... Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 Ditto, ditto ... 32 Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarters 14% .. :. .. Ditto Fifths Ditto Sixteenths ........... 614...... Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 101.4 s — Do. Liverpool and Bury... 34 Do. (Hudders. and Slieff.) 33 Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole 47% — Do., West Riding Union ...4/. 25..... Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 ..... to Do., do., Half Shares (A) 0 to Ditto ditto ........ ......(B) lIA Leeds and Bradtord Leicester and Bedford 165....... Leeds, Dewsbury, & Munches. 37%...... - Do., Branch % Shares 12%...... Ditto, New Branch (blue).. 2% ...... to .... Ditto, Extension (green)... 2% — ...... to —. Do., New Exten. (pink)... 2% - -. ..... to ...... Leeds and Thirsk ........ ..... 36 Ditto, New - Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3 %. .... _ .. o , .. to Liverpool. Crosby, and South port. - Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Juncti0n.......... 2% London Pic Blackwall...l6/. 138. 4d 4% to Ditto New, No. 1.. .. • " Ditto New, No. 2 4/. 13s. 4d.. ~ to _ , Do. Extension -- Lond.:Bright., & South Coast N .. 42 Do. Consolidated Eighths... 30 ...... Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 Do. Pret. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 Ditto, ditto 1832 50 ..... London and Greenwich...ll2/. 15s. 4d... Ditto Preference lBl lis 2d... ...... to London and North Western-100 l4B Do. Quarter .....L. and B. 17 Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2 Do. do. Fifths Do. Quarters 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 London and S. Western.... 41.. 63 8d... 50% to 51Ai Do. New ConsolidatedBths. 40 Ditto New 50/ Ditto New 40/........ .. -. 26 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 ...... Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 . _ Ditto, Third;. . 6l. Iss. 4d... 2 dis.... to 1 3 / dis Lennon, Salisbury-, & Yeovil 11,4 — Londcnderry and Coleraine... 27% — ...... to Londoz.derry and Enniskillen 23 3 / ..... to Manch Buxton , & Matlock 3 , ...... to Shetßeid, and Linc.100 Ditto Shares (No. 1) ... 13 . Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25. Ditto, % Shares (No. 3)... 7% ...... Ditto Grimsby 25 — to Ditto, ditto. Ditto, ditto ... 4% to Ditto, Sheffield, and Line. 7%...... Manchosterand Southampton 2 1 4 — .. ... to blidJund lOO ......108 ...... to Ditto, Consol. Preference 100 Ditto, 40/. Shares Ditto, 50/. Shares lO ... —7% to 8 Midland, Bimt., and Derby...loo ..... Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham 6 per ceit....100 Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 34 Ditto ditto 71.91. .. to Midland, Leices. and Swan aington (8 per ct. gua. )....100 .... . M idld. Great Western (Irish) 35 Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ...... Ditto Quarter Shares Newmarket and Chesterford 18% — ...... to Ditto Extension Newport Abergy., and Heref. I Norfolk 100 Ditto New 201. 1 Ditto Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, N. of Norfik 2 t. Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 N awry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor .. A ortliern Counties Union .... 4 North British Ditto Half Shares Do. Quarters 4% — ...... to Ditto. Extension Ditto Thirds ... ......... —.... 2 ..... 1% North Staffordshire... .. ...... 7 1 h 7 14 to 6% North Wales 3 1,4, North Western Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 7 1 % ...... Royston and Hitchin ... ...... 1%.....,, .., t o Scottish Central Scottish Midland ... 17% — ...... to Ditto, New... lO Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole 6 Shrewsbury and Birmingham 6 Ditto, ditto, Class B. 3 Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. MM.) Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 ... Ditto, Oswestry l2 ...... Ditto (New) Ditto S per Cent. Pref 5 ...... ...... to Shrewsbury and Hereford Shropshire Union . South Devon ... .... ......... 40 Ditto, Preference 2O ...... ...... to South Staffordshire ... South Eastern and Dover 33% 2 9 1 4 1A% to Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, N 0.2 l7 Ditto, New, No. 3 Ditto New, No. 4. 7% 5 34 to South Wales South Yorkshire, Doneaster, and Goole Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ...... ... .. 4 Thames Haven Dock and Railway l 7 l, — to 'Taw Vale Extension Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 13% Waterford and Limerick ... .. 40 ... .. Waterford, Wexford, Vicklw, and Dublin ' 2 West Cornwall Nhitehayen and Furness l2 ... .. Windsor, Staines, and South Western s2s. Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 30 York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 ... . Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 .. ... Do. North Shields Purchase 25 .. ... Do. Exten. No. 1 (Y. &N.) 10 Do. do. No. 2, New &B. 10 Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 5 York and North Mitlland .. 50 ...... 73 . Ditto, Preference Ditto East and West Riding Extension .... FOREIGN EAILWAYb. Boulogne and Amiens Central of France ( Orleans and Yierzon) Central of Spain ... Ceylon Demerara. Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... . Datch Rhenish East Indian Great Indian Peninsular . Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Louvain ala Sambre ..... .... 7 Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon (Con stituted) 'Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege l4 ...... ... . to Northern of France l6 ...... 12 Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 - to Over Yssel 4l3s 4d - Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans... 2O - Paris and Rouen ... Paris & Strasbourg ...... ..... 8 Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and 8a1e........... 14 Tours & Nantes ... .... 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Louden, and Ilasselt West Flanders B% l% to -- JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American .... 60 Colonial Commercial of London 2O - London Joint Stock ...»..... 10 London and Westminster... 20 - to National Provincial of Engld. 85 ...... __ to 22% ...... --- --- Ditto, New National of Ireland Provincial of Ireland ...... ..... to Ditto, New Union of Au5tra1ia............ 25 Ditto, New ..................... 2l— Union of London ........ ...... 10 to Union of Madrid ............... 40 ...... to .-- Anglo Mexican .. MINES. —. Astrian Mining Company ... 11 .....• Australian Blaenarvon Iron an Coal ... 50 Bolar,os Scrip — British Iron Brazilian Imperial ..... ..... 21 Galvanized Iron A Ditto, New Real del Monte, Unregistered . .. 1 3 4 to 2 LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 30.—Wind S.S.W., light breeze, and dull Lazy weather, with rain. DEAL, DEC. 29,—Wind S.S.E. to S.S.W.; S. W., very strog.—Arrd., Justina, Leshaw, Madras; Favourite, Valparaiso, and sailed for Shields; Wilton, Wilson, Rio Grande; James Cruikshanks, Sayers, De• merara. DOVER, DEC. 29.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd., Garonne, Christoffers, Cuba, for Bremen. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 29.—Wind S.S.E. to S.W.—Arrd. Samaraog, de Staur, Batavia, for Rotterdam. OFF THE START, Dac. 24.—Oendyung,. New York. COWES, DEC. 29.—Wind S. to S. W..—Sld., Pietura, Batavia. LIVERPOOL, DEc. 29—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd., Huron, Weeks, New Orleans. Sld., Golden Eagle, Nassau; Ben Nevis, Mobile; Lady Milton, Mobile; William Penn, Philadelphia; Elisha, Denison, New York. Off Port, Lydia, New Orleans; Heart of Oak, -- PLYMOUTH, DEC. 28.—Wind S.—Off port, Prince .: Thomson, Prince ce Edward's Albert, Meyer, New York , sailed 7th instan t. BRISTOL, DEC. 26._wind S.S., remssho. Arrd. Elizabeth, Hancock , P rince Edward's Island. Sid. Moha wk, Africa.lsland. Off pJrt, Bellon Sid. Helen, Ja N nli w ca P° fo ß r T' Gl p ou E c c e . st e2r9 ; —CoWluimndbus, Napier, Havannah; Columbus, C. Kalling, Havannah. DUNMORE EAST, Duo. 27 .—Arrd. Bolivar, White, Si c . A n drew's, oltx,DEc. for winGdlovuacreisatbeire. .—Arrd. Middleton, Millichan, Callao. BELFAST, DEC. 2 7 .—Arrd. Briton, Pinkham, St. John's, New Brunswick. STOCLTON, DEC. 29.--Wind S.W.—Arrd. 97, Cowslip, Bruce, Quebec. HULL, DEC. 28.—Arrd. Johan Christopher, Peter son, Porto Plata for Hamburgh. Sid. Clyde, for New Orleans. Semaioaouou, Drac. 28.—A sloop, name unknown, has sunk oil Foley Bridge, bottom upwards. SALcomBE, DEC. 28.—The Speedwell, Vincent, from Serville, which arrived here to-day, had lost forestay and bulwarks. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 28.—The Minerva, Fleetwood, from Gothenburg to Bahia, which arrived here leaky, must discharge. BRISTOL, Dzc. 29.—The Elisabeth, Ebbetts, from Cardiff to Jamaica, run into the Elizabeth, Hancock, from Prince Edward's Island, at anchor at Breaksea Point, this morning, lost bowsprit, cutwater, received considerable damage to hull, and must come to this port to repair. Cenbirr, DEC. 28.—The Bristol, Potts, which put hack here leaky, has transferred her cargo to the Ann, Tedbury, of Bridport, not being considered seaworthy. JACKDEIL, SOUTH UIST, DEC. 22.—The Pictou and Boston packet, Russell, of and from Limerick to Glas gow, woe towed in here on the 20th iustut, with piunpi choked, cargo shifted, and five feet water in ber hold; in coming in, she got on the rocks and suffered much ; the cargo is discharging, and will be sold. STRANGFORD, DEC. 27. A mast was picked 'up a few days since, near this place, about 47 feet long, painted green above the deck, bright varnished middle, and white mast head. DOVER, DEC. 29.—A boat, much damaged, • marked " John Pearson," came on shore near Cornhill Coast guard station this morning. PORTSHOUTE, DEC. 29. The Stadt Berlin, froui Dantzic to Shoreham, which put in here yesterdays leaky, has ben surveyed, and must discharge. IsLE ORNSAY, SKYE, DEC. 25.—The schooner Sarah, of Ramsay, from Liverpool to Montrose, was driven 0 11 the Callick Rock, 23d inst., and cannot be got off until next spring tide. PETERHEAD, DEC. 27. —The master and crew of the Johannes, from Lubec to Leith, have been landed here by the Maria, Breckwoldt, from Hamburgh, having abandoned their vessel in a sinking state, near Bludden Point, and shortly after went di wn. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) MEAT MARMETS. SOUTHALL, DEC. 29.—We had oily a moderate suppli of stock here to-day, and which met a lair demand, 00 the following terms :—Beef, from 3s 8d to 4s 8d; Mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 2d; Veal, 4s to 4s Bd.; and Pork, 4s 2d to is 8d per CI) to sink the offal. ROMFORD, DEC. 29.—Prime Beasts and Sheep, which were in short supply, moved off readily, at full prices. The business doing in other kinds of stock was by no means extensive. Beef from 4s to ss; Mutton, 4s to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 5s per 8lbs; Suckling Calves, 20s to to 265; Quarter-old Store Pigs► 90s to 255; and Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 141 to 171 each. LEWIS, Duc. 28.—Beef from 4s to ss; Mutton, 4s 2d to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s 2d to 4s 6d; and Pork 4s 2d to 4s 8d per Blbs. A moderate supply, and a steady trade. NENVGATE AND L•EADENBA&M. Prime Beef and Mutton were in steady request, at full prices. Otherwise, the demand was in a sluggish state• Beef from 3s 2d to 48 4d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d; Vol, 35 8d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 3s 8d to 5s 2d per 81b5; by th° carcase. MELT BTAXICETEI. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 3/ 128 ; Clover, ditto, 31 lOs to 41 14s ; and Straw, 1/ 48 to 11 9 1 per load. Trade dull, at our quotations. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 103 to 3l 15s ; Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 4110 s; and Straw, 115 s to 11 108 per load. A full average supply, and a heavy demand. WHITECHAPIAL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 1015 to 3l 136; Clover ditto, 31 48 to 41 15s ; and Straw, 1/ 44 CO 11 9s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. COAL MARKE' Carr's Hartley New Tanfield lBs 6d Ord's Redheugh Pontop Windsor South Peareth Tanfield Moor ..... 19s Od Wall's End, &c Bewicke and Co 24s Od Northumberland Washington Bell Braddyll's Hetton 24s 6d East Hetton Haswell 2ss Od Hetton Lambton Stewart's .. Ships at mark 4 7.••• YESTERDAY: 'Whitwell Hudson's Hartlepool 243 6d High Thornley South Kelloe 241 Od Adelaide , 248 8 4 Denison ... 228 Od Seymour Tees South Durham 248 04 Tees Tees Hetton - 203 6d West Hetton 238 6d West Pease Whitworth 2O. o fl Brancepeth , 1 Cowpen Hartley Killingworth ' 215 1)4 it, 68—sold, 60. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN „.. for the Week ended Dec. 30,1847, made up from the Returns Ow - Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Earland and Wa lt. per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. I BAILEY.' OATS. I WU. I slim. riAlr, PRICE .. 531 Od 31s 3d 218: 3d 31s Id I 40s 6d 1441 The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BRIGHTON STEEPLECHASES.—WzDNEsnaI.„ These steeple chases came off to-day, and were wel l attended considering the severe character of the weather' The course was nicely adapted for the purpose, and in good condition. The leaps were twenty In number,_ and among them were three or four of a d angerous kind. At three o'clock the following started, for a A Sweepstakes of 151. each, 10 ft, with 30L added for the second horse. H.W. Four miles. (10 entries.) Amateur riders. Mr. Cornwall's g h Chartist, lOst 81b... (Owner) Mr. Campbell's b g Eagle, llst 71b ••• Mr. Wesley's c g Albert, list 31b Mr. Preston's b h Ould Ireland, lOst 41b . -.• Mr. Camerall's b g Cossack, lOst Mr. Lewis's b m Victoria, lOst 71b ••• ••• Mr. Campbell's c h Major, lOst 121 b ••• Mr. Hall's b in Celeste, lOst ••• Mr. Gordon's br g The Duke, lO s t - Chartist was freely backed against the field at 6 to 4, and Eagle, Albert, and Victoria, had each , thei r friends. The race was uninteresting. Chartist ridden with care, having victory in his reach all the waY (barring accidents), finished an easy winner by twenty lengths. The speed was very good, the ground being got over in eleven minutes. Mr. Cornwall, after the race, sold the 'whiner for the foreign market at a high price. At four o'clock the second contest took place, for A Sweepstakes of 34 each, 2 ft, with 25Z added. H.W. Three miles. (8 entries.) Mr. Drake's Bangalore, lOst 121 b ...(Mr. 1 Mr. Cornwall's Legacy, 12st ... Mr. Mess's Faith, 9st 71b ... • ... Mr. Drake's Scarlet Runner, llst 31b ... ••• 0 Mr. Mess's The Queen, list... - 0 Mr. Ball's Brighthelmstone, lOst ••• Mr. William's Duke of Richmond, 9st 71b.... •• Faith was favourite, though Bangalore and Lego/ were backed with considerable spirit. The r ace Will • very exeelleat one, Bangalore gaining the laurels and the prize by three lengths, after a hard contest, 10 which all the horses.were well up. Time—nine minute,' two seconds. Though there were several falls We ° re happy to say no one was injured. A pony match wound up the amusements. SAYINGS BANKS. The National Debt Comm' sioners sold, on account of the trustees of savings baek a between the 16th o f J une , 18 47, to t h e 9t h of Deeewher;' j the following conso lid ate d an d re d uce d stock : —C o esol- - dated Three per Cents., 380,000/. ; Reduced Three P er hich Cents., 745,0004; total, 1,125,0001. The amount.w„,--,„ June,pric e and varied B ol f 7 r s o . m6d 6d, rec eive d the Commissioners received was 951,9101. 25.6 d. received on th e 4thono f t h ic e o 3 e o o r eisvs.ed'bet'. No Exchequer -bills were sold during the period. bog s DRY MEA SURE .—A n ama t eur performer, 11:"of delivery was chiefly remarkable for the p ro l o ngatio n the syllables of s u c h wor d s as h e w i s h e d to ma ke Pa' cularly emphatic, performed Othello one night in before a crowded gallery and a very thin pit and boxes; On coming to the passage, " I'll wear my heart te rd my sleeve for dawn to peck at," he laboured very to make a " point" on the word " peck," and dwelt on its first letter, p-p-p-p, so long, that an impatient dei t l called out from above, " Hallo, Blackey, how Infi n i pecks to the bushel ?"—Family Jo Miller. r r he EXAMINER OF RECOGNIZANCE* OFFICE.-r-", following is the list of counties and boroughs in wh' ° the seats of the sitting members are petitioned spiel The sureties in all of them have been perfected, vet the exception of Athlone :—Great Yarmouth heO n g Lord A Lennox and Octavius E. Coope r ;_ Montgono r g borough, Hon. H. Cholmondely and D. Pugh, double return; Stockport borough, James Heald and Alderman publi c Kershaw; Maldon borough, David Waddington and B. Lennard; Cheltenham borough, Sir Willoughby Jones, Bart.; Gloucester county, western division,44. Hale and Hon. G. F. Berkeley; Great Marlow hos:ought T. P. Williams and Lieutenant-Colonel B. W. Knox; Kinsale borough, Richard Samuel Guiness; Abingdon borough, Sir F. Thesiger; Lyme Regis borough, Thos. Neville Abdy; Carlow borough ; John Saddler; West bury borough, James Wilson; Lancaster boroughs Samuel Greyson and Thomas reene; Peebles count . William Forbes Mackenzie; Leicester bor oug h, Sir Walmaley and Richard Gordon; Drogheda borough, Right Hon. Sir W. M. Somerville, Bart. ; Bodmin borough, James Wyld and Henry C. Lacy; Carlisle city, John Dixon and W. N. Hodgson; Bolton borough, W. Bolling. en John Bowring, L.L.D.; Aylesbury hundreds J• Deering, Lord Nugent; B ewdley borough, T.J. Ireland; Stafford county, northern division, C. B. Adderle/ an Viscount Brackley; Nottingham borough, John Wait e ' and Feargus O'Connor; Harwich borough, John Big . show and John Attwood; Andover borough, William B. Coles and William Cubitt; Lincoln city, Colonel Sib; thorp and Charles Sealy; Ilythe borough, Edsve,,,,r ° Drake Boorkmen; Essex county, n or th ern di v i s ion, or. J. Tyrrell a nd M a j or W. B eres f or d ; C o l c h ester b o rou gh Sir G. Smith and Joseph A. Hardcastle; Newcastle . under-Lyme, Samuel Christy and William Jack s ° l2 ; Walsall borough, Hon. E. R. Littleton ; Dundalh borough, Charles Carroll M`Tavish; Derby borough , Hon. E. Strutt and Hon. F. L. Gower; Monmouth county, C. S. Morgan and Lord G. Somerset; Pbitli n city, Edward Grogan and J. Reynolds; Horsham b o ; rough, John Jervis; Sligo borough, John Petr ie l Somers; Athlone borough, William Keogh ; Longter" county, Major W. Blackall and R. M. Fox. We have been requested to state that Miss Bill" Stanley, the report of whose death we contradicted.Y ee. terday, has been pronounced by her medical attendants quite out of danger. To-day (Thursday) his Royal Highness the Prince Consort intends to honour with his presence the per tormance of the Addphi by the Westminster scholars' For this purpose his Royal Highness will come to London by a special train from the Slough station of the Great Western Railway, at tour o'clock in the after noon, accompanied by the Marquis of Abercorn, and tended by the Hon. Colonel Grey and Colonel BouVerin- The royal party will dine at Buckingham Palace ce their way to Westminster, and after the performanc e they will return to Windsor Castle the same evening bi the old turnpike-road, through Breutford. Hounslow , 36 1; The Earl of Burlington and the youthful Lord Cavendish have arrived at the Earl of Carlisle's, Castl e Howard, from Holkar Hall, Lancashire. 'Viscount Mc" petb, Lady Dover, Viscount Clilden, and a numerous family circle are passing the holidays with the venerable Earl and Countess. Lord Brougham was to leave Paris on Tuesday last, for Cannes, in th e sou th of F r ance. The Noble an d Learned Lord, after a sejour of four weeks on his es ti° there, returns to London by the 4th of February. A company has just been formed at Copenhagen, for establishing steam communication between Denmark , the Faro Islands, Iceland, and Scotland. The cominn . : nications, which will take place every fortnight , ere ! be commenced on the Ist of April. The Govern me ntt has accorded a reduction of port and anchorage duties to the steamers which may undertake thera..