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• - NOTICE: MR. RICHARDSON'S (the CELE BRA.TED TRAVELLER and PHILANTEROI'IST) TRAVELS IN THE GREAT DESERT OF SAY (n #l In Two Vols. Bvo., With numerous Illustration: WILL BE PUBLISHED TO-MORROW crq Bichard Bentley, New Burlingtoi Publisher in Ordinary to her Mal . :SDAY), DEC. 21. street, BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR THE YOUNG. In square Bvo., price is., embossed cloth ; Its. 6c1., full gilt. TUE JUVENILE VERSE AND PICTURE BOOK, with upwards of Seventy Illustrations and Ornamen tal Designs, each page inclosed in an elegant border. Beautifully printed on toned paper, prepared for the purpose. The above elegant and no eel publication forms a Companion Volume to the well-known edition of " Nursery Rhymes. Ta , es, and. Jingles," of which a Second EdPion is just published, illustrated by Cope, Dyce, Horsley, &c. N.B. A New Ornamental Catalogue of Popular Works for Pre sents, &c , may be had on remittance of two stamps. James Berns, 17, Portman-street. This Day is published, N W AN D THE N, By SAMUEL WARREN, Esq., F.R.S., Author of " Ten Thousand a Year," and " Diary of a Late Phys'- clan," in One thick Volume royal post Bvo., price One Guinea, half bound in morocco. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. To be had of all Booksellers. AGHORN and CO. beg to announce that ii their Firms in England, India, Brc., will CEASI4 on the 24th December next, the Peninsular and Oriental Company having super seded their Overland Parcel business. Mr. Wa,ghorn makes this an nouncement to the Public with the deepest regret, after having opened the Overlaid Route, and altar twenty years' service for their ad vantage. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Uhler the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will he performcd Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir An thony Absolute, Mr. Farren; Captain Absolute, Mr. H Farren; Faulkland, Mr. Creswick ; Acres, ir. Webster; Sir Lucius O'Trig ger, Mr. Hudson ; Fag, Mr. Rrindal ; Davit, Mr. Keeley ; Ira. Malaprop, Mrs. Glover ; Lydia Languish, Mrs. Nlsbett ; Julia, Misa 7011CSCIle ; Lucy, Mrs. Humby. After which the new Comic Drama, called THE ROUSED LION. Characters by Messrs. Webster, Howe, Wigan, H. Vanden itoff ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Seymour, and Mrs. Stanley. To conclade with HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS. Lovell, Mr. Howe ; Freeman, Mr. H. Vsndenhoff ; Philip. Mr. Rogers ; My Lord Duke. Mr. A. Wigan ; Sir Harry, Mr. Keeley ; Kitty, Mrs. Humby ; Lady Bab, Mrs. Seymour ; Lady Charlotte, Mrs. Caulfield. Stage Manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery , 2 s. ; Upper Gallery, ls. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. • • THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHI. Tinder the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be presented an entirely new Piece, entitled the PEARL OF THE OCEAN ; or, the Prince and the Mermaiden. Principal cha racters by Messrs. Waye, P. Bedford, Wright, Munyard, Glennaire, Cullenford, and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, MIAs Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, and Madame Celeste. To be lullowed by a new Farce entitled THE TIPPERARY LE GACY. Turnem Green, Mr. Wright ; Bob Gills, Mr. Munyard ; Lanty Scrimmage, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Chubblock. Mr. Cullenford ; Policeman, Mr. Sanders ; Lizzy Chubblock, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with the Farce, entitled TIIIS HOUSE TO BE SOLD Cate property of the late William Shakspeare), Inquire Within. Cha racters by Messr..i. Wright, Culleaiford, Worrell, 0. Smith, Paul Bed /I'M, Mrs. Laws, &c., &c. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 23. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at Halt-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of 3ladame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles 3lathews. THIS EVENING, Will be presented new Comic Drama, entitled THE TRA GEDY QUEEN. To be followed by a new Clinic Drama called PEGGY GREEN. kfter which, a Romance of Real Life, called ItOX and COX. Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Buckstone, and Mrs. Mac. Damara. To conclude with THE RING DOTES. Dress Boxes, is.; tipper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. No half-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office. No. 2, Wellington-street, is open t• the Public evcry day, from Ten till The Interior et the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. PRLSCE.SS'S THEATRE. Madame AN SA THILLON. THIS EVENING A new Comic Opera, entitled THE AMBASSADRESS. Duke de Ira'berg, Mr. Bodda ; Benedict, Mr. Barker ; Fertunatus, Mr. Lef fler ; Countess de Fierschomberg, Miss Tillars; Madame Barneck, Mrs. Selby ; Charlette, Miss Anne Romer ; Ilenriette, Madame Anna Thillon. To conclude with the Tragedy of .JANE SHORE. Dress Circle, 55.: Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. • FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street. THIS EVENING, Will he presented the Comedic Vaudeville of LB ?RIMIER lIALA.DE. Charles Durocher, M. Joaset. After which, a new Comedy, entitled UNE JEUNESSE ORAGEUSE. To conclude with the VaudeTille of UNE FILLE TERRIBLE. A detailed prospectus of the general arrangements, and of the pieces which will be produced during the season, may be had at Mr. MltchelP3 Royal Library, 83, Old Bond-street ; and at the Bex-office of the Theatre, which is open daily, from 11 to 5. Boxes, es.; Pit, as. 6 d.; Amp hitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 23 ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. F. Darldge, tic I, D a vidge-terrace, Kensington - road, Surrey. TH tS EVENING, the performances will commence with the celebrated Opera of MARITANA. Charles the Second, Mr. 11. Horricastle ; Don Coear de Bazan, Mr. W. Harrison ; Don Jose de Santarem, Mr. Berrani ; Marquis de Montetiori, Mr. Attwood ; Lazarillu, Miss Rebecca Isaacs ; Mardian', Miss Romer. To conclude with Shakspeare's Tragedy et' MACBETH. Duncan, Mr. H. Hornca.stle ; Macbeth. Mr. H. Hughes; Macduff, Mr. T. Fredericks ; Banquo, Mr. F. Vining ; Hecate, Mr. 11. Phillips ; Lam Macbeth. Mrs. W. West. A distilict entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have been. re-tatted). Private boxes may be had 'lightly or all the arincipal Librarians ; and et the Ilox-eflizz of the Theatre, which is open daily 'rem Ten r util Four. Boxes, ts. ; Pit, is.; Gallery, 6d. A.STLEY'S ROYAL AMVIII.I:IIEATEr., rr ~r tittor Intl Manager, Mr. William isaty. No Pel, r otMATlce on Friday and Saturday. Mr. liatty's performing Elephants. THIS EVENING The Grand Srectacle of THE CA3IP OF SILESIA. Entirciy new Sceiks in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the kst4ollo.ment. in tin. carbon modea of erptestratioti. To conclude with a new Domestie Drama, called THE WHITE FARM. In preparation, a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, which will exceed in splendour and effect all former productions at the Anspkitheatrc, Box-office open from 11 till 5 Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W West. WEATELEB.—Stni OFFICE, DEC. 19. TsznisomETErt, Lowest, 36 ; Highest, 46 ; Noon, 41 BAROMETER, 29.45.—W1ND S.W.; cloudy. DECEMBER 2.0. THURNoMETER, Lowast, :38; Highest, 49 ; Noon, 3; BAROMETER, 29.7 6.—WIND N.E. ; cloudy. WATER AT LONDON-13SLDGE THIS DAY. Morning.. 0 minates after •. I Evening .. 25 minutes after I?. • i f ., ...,,,:,.:: 1, 7 , 7 ,. p ..., at 4' 4. 1' • VI 07 4 '' of .., ~ t LONDON, MONDAY. DECEMBER 20, 1847. The elevation of Dr. HAMPDEN to the episcopal see of Hereford has hardly carried more confusion among the Right Reverend " the Fathers in God," than has Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S proposition for the removal of Jewish disabilities among those honourable gentlemen who are perpetually chaunting the obsequies of Protection, either from the floor of the House of Commons or from the bucolic platform of No. 17, Old Bond-street. The division-list has fallen like a bomb-shell among the antagonists of the free-traders ; it has caused an explosion of political passions as sudden and destructive as that of a petard ; it has carried ruin, involvement, and desolation into the camp of the monopolists. By one conscientious vote of a partially religious and partially legislative character, the Noble Lord the representative of King's Lynn has resigned the leadership of the Protectionist Opposition. The talisman of his authority is broken. His statistical arguments will henceforth receive more attention at TA.TTERSALCS than at BELLA.siv's ; the eloquent and logical deductions of his stable mind will be hereafter regarded with greater reverence in the vicinity of the Corner than in the neighbourhbod of St. Margaret's. Alas ! for the evanescence of a dictatorship which promised a species of pastoral millennium—a millennium of ex perimental farmers, of cpulent turfites, and of specu lative tufthunters. The orb of DIANA has been ecclipsed. The phalanx of Arcadians has been dis persed. There is ind e cision among those who would revive restrictive imposts upon provisions and other articles of commerce. Protection as a party—at least that p ort i on of Protection which has hitherto flourished i n th e Lower House—is as headless as the goblin which perambulated the Sleepy hollow, and affrighted the s ou l of T ACEABOD CRANE from its propriety. It is melancholy to observe the despondent and agonized amazement with whi c h this t giversation on the part of the Protectionist leeardsr GEORGE BENTINCK and Mr. Disammo leaders reviewedrarie ofs (Lord by that one amongst our morning contemporaries, which may be conside red as the f oremost organ religious and mercantile monopoly. Like the spirit of unbridled and unstinted wrath displayed towards Sir ROBERT PEEL, on his first proposal for perma nently opening the ports, the indignation of our con temporary is lavished with a sort of magnificent extravagance upon the heads of the Noble and Ho nourable representatives of King's Lynn and Buck inghamshire. All sentiments ofgratitude are overlooked in the rage of sectarianism, not to say the insanity of fanaticism. What if Lord GEORGE BENTINCK has floundered into political notoriety by the sweat of his intellect, what if he has struggled through a chaos of calculations, and a quagmire of desultory rhetoric, for the purpose of upholding those principles which must otherwise have sunk into oblivion, from the want of some one of sufficient aiao'acity and reckless ness to become their advocate? What if the Noble , ~-_ _ r ~~, .. Lord iiiught for monopoly even after it was con -, aisLecl'and. troyo ? What if he carried the ragged banner of:9lE ntr,y P i arty \ w henjt as too soiled sariaN thrEehe -4 raisM.SOm Nhe ground - by another ? What if he led his .follOwers on in the very teeth of facts, common sense, and public opinion ? What of all this ? He has spoken for the admission of the Jews to Par liament ; he has voted with the lovers of civil and religious liberty ; he has-0 Heavens !—actually walked out into the same lobby with Sir ROBERT ! Let him be regarded henceforth as an outcast and a re probate, a moral poltroon, and an indefensible rene gade! Away with all previous panegyrics on the Private Secretary to GEORGE CANNING : he must be abused and caricatured without leniency or compunction. And Mr. DISRAELI, too I. What if the Hon. Gentle• man the Member for Buckinghamshire has redeemed the inanity of the speeches pronounced in favour of Protection by the dazzling singularity of his imagi nation, by the beautiful turns of his elocution, and by the brilliant enunciations of his satiric voice ? What, again, of all this ? What though the Country Party be in a peculiar manner bound to Mr. DISRAELI by the ties of gratitude, because he enabled them to number amongst themselves at least one man of very distinguished parts and of unquestion able genius ? He has spoken for the admission of Jews to Parliament ; he has voted with the lovers of civil and religious liberty ; he has—O, Heavens ! —walked out into the same lobby with Sir RO BERT ! Therefore is Lord GEORGE BENTINCK discarded, and scorned, and derided. Therefore is Mr. DISRAELI treated with so much matchless in gratitude ; and he who was formerly spoken of as one of the shining lights of the age, is nicknamed a "Parliamentary rabbi," a writer of unintelligible mysticism for the circulating libraries, a quibbler, and an Irvingite Such is the faithfulness, the moderation, and the gratitude of the Protectionists ! We shall be readily ac quitted from any charge of degenerating into the apologists of Lord G. BENTINCX and Mr. DISRAELI. But common justice impels us to demand whether any other conduct could have been possibly anticipated from those Members of the Legislature than that which has called down upon them this unconditional obloquy ? Could the Noble Repre sentative of King's Lynn, or the Hon. Representa tive of Buckinghamshire have acted differently without the most gross and outrageous inconsistency ? Mr. DISRAELI'S goodwill towards the Israelites is so universally known, that it has become almost a pro verls in literature ; and Lord GEORGE voted with the Whigs in 1833 exactly as he did on Friday evening, the 17th of December, 1847. And yet Lord G. BENTINCIC and Mr. DISRAELI are for this discarded by the ingratitude of their late panegyrists ! If unity is strength, so much for the weakness of the Protec tionists ! The interview which took place on Friday between the Secretary of State for the Home Department and the Chief Secretary for Ireland, on the one part, and the deputation of Irish Representatives, on the other, was of a very satisfactory character. The memorial, which after full deliberation, had been agreed upon and signed by no less than forty-one Members, was a manly and straightforward docu ment. There was no attempt to make any unrea sonable demand, or to require assistance, beyond that which it was the manifest duty of the Govern ment to afford. Every one will acknowledge that it is not only just and proper, but that it is the bounden duty of those whom our Most Gracious SOVEREIGN has selected to preside over the national councils, by every conceivable precaution, to guard against the possibility of any of our fellow-subjects perishing from the effects of famine and destitution. From whatever quarter the funds may in the first instance be obtained for the necessary expenditure, or whoso ever may ultimately be made responsible therefor, a recurrence of those frightful scenes, which unhap pily took place in too many localities in Ireland during the past year, must be averted. The Irish Members admit that it is just and reasonable, that before any recourse is had either to the liberality of individuals, or any further appeal to the aid of the State in the present emergency, the resources of the localities, which are now available by law for the maintenance of their own poor, should be proved to be insufficient, and they state their willing! ess " that it should be left to the Executive to determine when this state of things shall have arrived in any locality." The most strenuous opponent of Irish grants or Irish loans could not place the principle on a broader foundation. No aid is sought fcr until every local resource is exhausted. The Legislature, during the last session, made the property in every union responsible for the support of its poverty. No landowner can now receive any benefit out of his estate, either for his own use, or for the liquidation of the debts and incurnbrances by which it is affected, until provi sion has been made for the wants and exigencies of the destitute poor. In many districts, however, the existing means are not adequate for the support of their inhabitants although the whole produce of the soil were devoted to that purpose. The Govern ment acknowledge the existence of such a state of facts in twenty-two unions, and have expressed au intention of affording the necessary aid. This de claration is hailed with pleasure by the Irish Members, but they express their conviction that " the remainder of the districts in which such distress will prevail has been underrated." They therefore suggest " that sufficient resources should be placed in the hands of the Lord-Lieutenant to enable him to meet promptly the emergency in any locality where the poor-law had been proved unavailing ;" and feel confident " that any measure which may be proposed by the Government, to secure the repay ment of any money advanced for this purpose, will receive cordial support." The Home Secretary ac quiesced in these principles, and stated that the Go vernment , had, as they believed, at their disposal means sufficient to meet any case of distress likely to occur at an early period—(on a for mer occasion the Premier stated, for four months)—and which would not be provided for from local resources, and assured the deputation that arrangements had been perfected, in order to aid those districts in which the poor-law would be found in sufficient. After such statements, the injustice of those who unhesitatingly accuse the Government of disre garding the misery of the people, and suffering them to perish without an effort on their behalf, will be sufficiently apparent. Circumstances are now very different from what they were at the time when the mysterious visitations of PROVIDENCE blighted the only food of a large body of the people, and coin polled them to look to the charity of others for the support which they were unable to obtain from their own unassisted resources. Then, there was no legal means of obliging the proprietors of property to con tribute to the wants of their less fortunate neigh bours. It is but justice to say that many, very many, devoted their utmost energies to the praise worthy task, ,and gave most liberally from their diminished resources; but others acted in a very dif ferent manner, and a double burden was imposed upon those who were disposed well and truly to perform the duties incidental to their position. This can no longer be the ease. Every man must now bear his portion in the general charge ; and it will be appartnt that the best policy is that which will enable the parties to earn an independent livelihood by their own honest industry, rather than that they should be maintained in idleness in the workhouse. The sad experience of last year, too, will act as a beacon light to the autho rities in pointing out what is to be done and what is to be avoided. Greater certainty can be felt as to the amount that will be required, and when they de clare that they have means sufficient to meet any case of destitution likely to occur at an early period, the fullest confidence may be reposed in the assertion. h These, ho wever, are but temporary precautions, et and the future h o p e o f the sister island, misery, must dep en d on the speedy her rnptrroodsp uo r ti l o y n or o of " comprehensive and well considered measures for her permanent improvement." r t ~.. T_IIE SUN, A letter from Berne of the 13th gives the fol lowing : - --- " More rerelations ! You remember the h enry bo x es which Siegwart Mul ler had among his ba ggage arriving at Domo d'Oossola. The Sardinian police having examined them found that they contained .50,000 f. tirviii francs (75,000 france of France). When A Berlin letter of the 12th says— ' LONDON, MONDAY asked to whom the money belonged, Siegwart Muller re plied ; " To his Highness the Viceroy of the Lom bard Venitian kingdom. - I propose to go and deliver to him the money myself.' The police, however, sequestrated it, and were about to cause Siegwart Muller to be conducted by two of the royal carabi niers to Novare, when Kalbermatten, ex-generalissimo of the Valais, came up and put in bail for him, in conse quence of which he was allowed to proceed to Novare without escort. Another act of indiscretion : In a coffee house, at Arona, de Salis Soglio, Protestant general-in thief of the army of the Jesuits, has been heard to complain bitterly of Austria. The Austrian Govern ment,' he said, promised us 50,000 men, but we only received six officers.' In fact, it results from trust worthy documents that the political and military chief of the Sonderbund calculated positively—lst, On the armed intervention of Austria and France, which was solicited, and which they believed themselves warranted in considering promised. There exist certain docu ments which show how much those, who now offer their impartial mediation meddled with our affairs. 2d, On counter-revolution in the cantons of the majority, and on the refusal of the federal troops to march. But the Sonderbund was disappointed. There still remain some boxes of Siegwart Muller to be opened, but even without them we possess sufficient documents to establish the complicity of the Jesuits and other pro tectors of the Sonderbund, both in Switzerland and abroad." On the 15th the Legislative Council of Neufchatel unanimously resolved to pay the 300,000 f. demanded by the Federal Diet. The New Zurich Gazette states that the sum of 5,047,100 f., ordered to be paid by the Swiss cantons of the ex-Sonderbund, for the expenses of the war, are divided as follows .—Lucerne, 2,132,000 f.; Uri, 96,760 f. ; Schvvytz, 246,820 f. ; Unterwald (Obwald)i 90,640 f.; Ditto (Nidwald), 66,010 f.; Zug, 102,500 f.; Friburg, 1,525,200 f.; Valais, 787,200 f. A letter from Naples dated Bth December, says— " The Cabinet has just been partly modified. The Minister of the Interior, M. San-Angelo retires; M. Parisi is appointed Minister in his place, M. d'Urso, of Public Works, and M. Spinelli, of Commerce and Public Instruction. These nominations are generally approved of, the new Ministers are honest men and in the prime of life. M. Parisi was intendant of Messina, and M. d'Urso Procurdur-General at the Court of Accounts. The Ministry of Police remains as it was with the Mar quis del Carretto, so much dreaded by the disaffected, at its head. There arrived a few days back at Naples from Reggio, in Calabria, seventy individuals condemned, six teen to death, but whose punishment was commuted to the galleys for life, and the rest sentenced to hard labour at the hulks for various periods. They are to be sent from Naples to one of the islands in the gulf. The reply of the King of Naples to the Customs' League proposed by the three Powers of Italy, was, that having lately made commercial treaties and numerous changes in his tariffs, he had need of being fully acquainted with the bases of the plan' to decide whether it was possible for him to accede to it." The intelligence from Palermo is to December 3. After the manifestions already spoken of tranquillity was no more troubled in that city. At Messina, the population celebrated the nomination of M. PARISI, the intendant of that place, who was proceeding to occupy the post of Minister of the Interior, at Naples. On that occasion, there were some demonstrations hostile to General LANDI, who is far from enjoying the popularity which M. PARISI has been able to acquire. The following is an extract of a letter from Cag liari, dated Dec. 8 : " The Sardinian deputation returned to Cagliari on the 3d by the Imperial steamer Malfattone. Archbishop Marengin remains at Genoa, having been invested by the King with the grand cordon of the Order of the An nunziata. The deputation brought peas that his Ma jesty Charles Albert had granted the application of the Sardinian people ; in fact, Baron Sappa, Intendant- General of Finances, has arrived with the royal dispatch. The Malfattone, which as soon as she was in ht made a signal of the good news she brought by hotting four flags, had not entered the port before the whole popula tion was assembled to welcome the deputation on landing. It was received by the municipality, and attended to the royal palace with cries of Long live the King ! Long live Pius IX. ! Reform for ever r Baron Sappa showed the people that he was the bearer of the royal dispatch to the Viceroy. On reaching the palace the Viceroy came out on the balcony, and delivered the following address People of Sardinia, your wishes and mine have been entirely fulfilled by our Sovereign. All the earnest cares of his Majesty are devoted to your happi ness. You have the glory of having ever been faithful and attached to the throne. Leap with joy at the neble compensation conferred upon you by the great King Charles Albert, and join to your glorious and unspotted fidelity, to your respectful and final submission acid de votion to the King and the Royal Family, the full expres sion of your unbounded gratitude, and prove that as the Monarch is a loving father, you are also grateful children.' The Roy al Charter declares that shortly the island of Sardinia shall enjoy all the reforms granted to Piedmont ; —that all parts of the kingdom shall have their in termits so united as to form but one family. In the mean time, the export duties on wines and oil destined for the States of Sardinia shall cease to be imposed in Sardinia. On the 4th Tc Delon was chanted in the Cathedral, and in the evening there was a general illu mination, which was repeated for three successive nights. Since then the cockades have ceased to be worn. The towns are all quiet, hut not so the villages, which, wish• ing to profit by the circumstances of the moment, refuse to pay the taxes, end drive away the collectors who come to demand them." A letter from Florence states that an arrange ment has been come to between the Grand Duke of TUSCANY and the Duke of MODENA, by which Pon tremoli is, for the present, to form part of the States of Tuscany. The English squadron is still at Leghorn. Our letters from Rome of the Sth inst. mention • that General Count RADETSKY, the Commander- in- Chief of the Austrian army in Lombardy, had refused his sanction to the arrangement concluded for the evacuation of Ferrara ; and that Count LuTzovr, the Austrian Ambassador at Rome, had written to Vienna for fresh instructions. Monsignor FERRIERI, the envoy of the POPE to the SULTAN, was to embark on the 14th for Constantinople, in a ship of war, placed ai the disposal of his HOLINESS by the King of SAR DINIA. The Pontifical Government had condemned an English journal, entitled the Portuguese Protestant, edited by M. CORRE 1, and prohibited its admission into the Roman dominions. M. PIETRO FERRETTI, brother of the Secretary of State, displeased with the rather retrograde turn matters were assuming at Rome, had resolved to retire to Naples, where he formerly resided, and followed the profession of a banker. "Among the Poles condemned to death, Mieroslawski, Elzanowski, and Kienowski, have not only declined petitioning the King for mercy, but have even refused to appeal against the judgment passed upon them. Ko sioski, on the contrary, has followed the advice of his advocate, M. Crelinger, and petitioned the King for his pardon, which has been granted to him. What the commutation is to be is not yet known, the Ministry is charged with making the proposition to the King. It is said that the promptitude with which his Majesty complied with the petition from Kosinski had for its object to induce the others to make the same applica tion, and thus avoid a renewal of the pleadings before the Court of Appeal." The Universal Gazette of Prussia, of the 12th, states that the eight Poles condemned to death have had their sentence commuted to perpetual imprison• ment. A letter from Berlin states that the exportation of rye and other grain from Poland has been interdicted from the 13th of January next. This decision will, it is thought, cause great injury to the corn trade in Prussia, as that country imports from Poland, for its own use alone, 1,000,000 bushels of rye per annum, besides a large quantity of wheat, which it forwards to Holland by Dantzic. Madaid papers of the 13th inst. have arrived. The debate in the Senate on the:Address had not concluded. It was rumoured in Madrid that ESPARTERO was about to return to Spain. . . CHRISTINA, it is said, still continues her intrigues to substitute MON and PIDAL for NARVAEZ, and will, it is said, find an efficient assistant in M. PISCATORY, the new French Ambassador, who has been selected for the post by the especial recommendation of the Duke DE MONTPENSIER himself. The Afrancesado has, however, rec eived a heavy blow and a great dis couragement from the late Prime Minister Senor GOYENA. whose loyalty and integrity are pro verbial throughout iSpain. In the course of his speech ofl the Address, GOYENA declared to the assembled Cortes that the QUEEN had sent for him, and had earnestly solicited him to accept office to relieve her from the embarrassments and dangers with which she was surrounded. Ile described the intrigues, and the worse than intrigues, by which the tools of France were forced upon the reluctant QUEEN, as her Ministers and her advisers, and pro ducing a sealed packet, declared that all these scanda lous transactions could not at present be made public, but that the packet contained irrefragable proof of the truth of his assertion, and that proof sho uld , ah b na e forthcoming at as produced isow owing g atno immensethe the proper time. This it effect eff p e r c o t ug th t l h e r e o db hou yit t that the wily Louis PkiliarrE has postponed the EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1847. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool on Saturday was without alteration. Sales 3,000 bales, of which 2,500 were American at 44d. to 6d. per lb. Railway Shares again declined, with very little doing. A further arrival from Cape Town brings accounts of October 30, and, as regards the affairs of the frontier, they are of an important character. Sandilla, the most troublesome chief among the Kafirs, had surrendered to the English forces, together with eighty of his fol lowers, the condition being that their lives should be spared. The exercise of a vigorous policy may now effect a favourable settlement of the frontier question, and it is to be hoped the opportunity may not be lost. The accounts received from the manufacturing dis tricts are rather favourable, and although it was scarcely to be expected before Christmas, there ap pears to be increased employment for the operatives. At Amsterdam, Stocks, according to the accounts received this morning, were in more demand. Dis counts on bills of exchange, 5 per cent. It has been remarked that at this time last year pro duce became very flat, dealings immediately prior to the close of the year being naturally drawn within the nar rowest possible compass. After the holidays in 1847, however, there was more activity, and we hope the same will be the case next month. This being Christmas week, we are likely to have very little activity in the funds. Consols are marked 84i to 65 for the Account, being alternately buyers and sellers. Exchequer-bills are worth Bs. to 10s. premium, and East India Bonds under 1,0001. are 13s. discount. Bank Stock is firm at 188. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 86 to 86/, and the Three per Cents. 841 to 84k. The Foreign Bonds have been quiet, but as the prices come rather better from Madrid, there is a slight im provement here in Spanish Stock. The Five per Cent. Securities are 17i to 18; and the Three per Cent. Bonds 298 to 30k. Portuguese Four per Cent. Stock has been at 22i. Peruvian Bonds have been marked 30 ; and Chilian 881. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 56. The Railway Share Market is still depressed, except in special instances. The established lines appear to be least buoyant. BEITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock - 188 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 8 4 5,‘ New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anus B6 86 Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860... 8 9-16 India Bonds under 1,0001 l3 dis Consols for Account ...... ..... 85 5436 Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,0001. 5001. Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Chilian Bona, 6 per Cent .. 88 1 1 2 • Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent Ditto for the Account . 3O Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto for the Account 2 2 34 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 Ditto Passive Bonds B% Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent... Ditto for the Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 1 / 2 per Cent., 12 Guild 56 BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. rift slum Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. Ayrshire and Galloway Belfast and County Down .. 10 .. .. Birmingham & Oxford June... 20 Birmingham, W 01.,& Dudley 10 ... . 13% 1 / 2 to Bin/ling., Vol., & Stour Val. 10/.14s — Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction 7 3 /1 Boston, Stamf., & Binning... 5 Bristol and Exeter . BO Do., Thirds ......... ........ 20 - ...... to Buckinghamshire.. Caledonian ..... to Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 Chester and Holyhead 37% — Ditto, Preference 8 Clarence. Do., let Class, 6 per Cent lO Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 20 - Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 15 East Anglia, 25/.& L. , E. and L. &D. Ditto, 181., E. & H lB ..... Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & 11... 2 Eastern Counties .... 2O ...... 15 , 4 1 ,104 to 15 Ditto, ditto (B) Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,61. 13s. 4d... Do., do. N 0 . 9,6/. 13s. 4d... % dis to Do., York Extension Do., Northern & Eastern Do., Quarter Do., New Eastern). Union. .. 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares D — Thirds ,13s. 4d. Jitto., -ir, Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.) ... East Lancashire Ditto, New .... •—• • 13 Do., New Quarters East Lincolnshire ... 12 1 h ll% to Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 121 , 1 2. l l l4 to Edinburgh and Northern ... 221....... Ditto, New........ ......... ... 3% — ...... to Ditto, New port 9 l /. '2 — ...... to Ditto, ditto, New ... 2 1 4 — ...... to Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% Ditto, New _ .. _2% _ _ . Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..Bl. 6s. 8d .. ... to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 Ditto, New Do. 4 Shares (5 per ct. gua.) 12% Great Northern.— .......... ... 10% 44% .. to Do. London & York Exten. 2 1 / 2 — ..... to Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35 Great /4rth of England - 100 Ditto, New 401. Ditto, New 301 ... 30 ... .. .. ... to Ditto, New 15/...... ... ...... 614...... ~ ... to Great Western Ditto, Half Shares .... 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths Do. New 17/ 7 ...... 7 5 4 1 "...... to lluddersfield and Manchester 22 .. ... Ditto, Thirds Hull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — to Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 15 Do. do. and Norwich Do., do., Extension Scrip (late (Camb. and Ely) 2%...... Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 Do., Thirds Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 ..... Ditto, ditto Ditto Half Shares - 38 Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths ... Ditto Sixteenths ... - to Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 101 . 4 s 6 dis.... to to Do. Liverpool and Bury... 34 Do. (Rudders. and Shelf.) 33 Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole 47% — Do., West Riding Union ...4/. 25..... 2% dis to Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9 Ditto ditto ...(8) 1 1 4 Leeds and Bradford 5O ..... 91 .. ... to Leicester and Bedford Leeds, Dewsbury, & blanches. 37 1 / — Do., Branch 1 ,4 Shares 1 2 1,4 ...... Ditto, New Branch (blue).. 2% — Ditto, Extension (green)... 2% — to Do., New Exten. (pink)... 2% — Leeds and Thirsk 36 Ditto, New Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent 3%..... 1%...... to Liverpool. Crosby, and Sout h port. Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction 2% to London 4 Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d 4% to Ditto New, No. 1.. Ditto New, No. 2 4/. 13s. 4d.... . .... to Do. Extension Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50 ... .. 4114 .. Do. Consolidated Eighths... 30 ...... Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 ...... Do. Pref. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... London and Greenwich... 121.155. 4d... Ditto Preference lB/ 17s 2d... ...... to London and North Western..100 Do. Quarter .....L. and B. 17 . Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2 Do. do. Fifths Do. Quarters ...... ... G. J. 25 Do. 40/. Shares.....L. & M. 15 Do. 401. Shares...M. and B. 40 ...... 59 Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 7% • ••.. Do. 10/. .. M. and B. (B.) 7% ll ...... to 11 1 4 Do. 101... 51. and B. (C.) 1 London and S. Western.... 41.. 638 d 50% to 49 Do. New Consolidated Bths. 40 Ditto New 501. Ditto New 40/. ... ..... .. .. 26 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 ...... Do Tenths (Consolidated) 40 Jo. Ditto, Thirds 6/ - . 13s. 4d... Lendon, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1% — to -- Londonderry and Coleraine... 27% — to Londonderry and Enniskillen 23% Manch, Buiton, & Matlock 3 blanchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto V I Shares (No. 1) ... 13 Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 Ditto, I,{ ; Shares (No. 3)... 7%...••• Ditto Grimsby Ditto, ditto. .. 7 - Ditto, ditto ... 4% — to Ditto, Sheffield, and Line. 7%•••••• Manchester and Southampton 2% ••• to —. Midiand 100 ....107 - Ditto, Consul. Preference... 100 Ditto, 40/. Shares Ditto, 50/. 5hare5........... 10 ... ~ 7 ...... to 7 Midland, Birm., and Derby...l o o ~, „. 79 14 to Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham 6 per cent...loo ll9 ...... to Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 34 Ditto ditto 71.95.... .. Mialand, Leices. and Swan nington (8 per ct. gna.)....100 ~„ , Midld. Great IVestern (Irish) 35 Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ....~ Ditto Quarter Shares Newmarket and Cheeterford 15% — to Ditto Extension 24 125. ... visit of the Duke DE MONTPENSIEE to Madrid. There cannot be a doubt but that an election at the present moment would give a Progressista, or, more properly speaking, a National majority in the Cortes. The Bank of San Fernando had 'remitted 80,0001. to London, to pay the dividend on the Three per Cents. due on the the Ist of January. MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 13.—The Three per Cents. were done at 28-i, at 50 days; the Five per Cents. at 16 for paper ; and the Debt without Interest at 5. We hare received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The Debats has a long article on Irish affairs, in which it exposes the blunders, mistakes, and quarrels of the Repenlers in the House of Commons. The article concludes in the following manner : " It has been always imagined that the contests which have covered Ireland with blood during centuries were fought between English and Irish. This is an error. They were above all civil wars. They were wars be tween Protestants and Catholics, but always between Irishman and Irishman. It is to be observed, that the Protestant party found itself naturally the English party. As it was the English garrison in Irelard, there was between it and England an offensive and defensive alliance, and it compensated for its inferiority of numbers with regard to the Catholics by its superiority of wealth, discipline, education, and, in fine, by all the advantages derived from the possession of power and the support of the strongest party. But it is precisely since the union between Ireland and England that this contest between Protostantism and Catholicity, this war between north and south, has ceased. The central power acts as a media tor between the belligerent parties. In place of being the auxiliary of one party against the other, as it has been during centuries, the British Government is now the arbitrator between both. But the old animosities, the ancient spirit of sect, of caste, and the antagonism of race, still exist in Ireland. If to-morrow the union of the countries was destroyed, the north and south would immediately take up arms and recommence their san guinary quarrels. That is all that Ireland could gain by the repeal of the union." We find in the Presse the following admirable com ment on the reply of the Marquis:of LANspowNE to Lord STANLEY, on the subject of the visit of Lord IN.llyro to Rome. Taking as his text the declaration of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE that it was monstrous that there should be at the centre of Europe a Court with which England could hold no communication, the writer thus proceeds : " Yes, it is monstrous, and the Government should have:the courage to cause to be abolished by a formal vote the absurd law, which places the head of the Catho lic Church, the spiritual King of several hundreds of millions of souls, beneath the lowest of the Rajahs of the Indian Archipelago. Thu, Mr. Brooke has been pompously accredited as the official representative of England, with the pirates without faith and without law, who dominate in Borneo ; and Lord Minto is to be looked upon as a man infected with the plague, for having breathed for a few weeks the same air with Pius the Ninth 1 These gross inconsistencies, these stupidities of a pretended religious fanaticism, can only be injurious to those who are guilty of them. Lord John Russell is going to bring in a Bill to relieve the Jews from the moral and religious degradation to which they have been sentenced by an antiquated legislation. This is well. But is there not on the part of the nation, which calls itself Christian, a ridiculous contradiction in allowing to subsist the absolute anathema upon the Pope, whilst it revokes that upon the Jews? If Lord John Russell were well inspired, he would, instead of temporising with the furious bigots of the University of Oxford, force them to be at length of their own century, and to admit civil and political equality for all religions. The time is arrived for the reform of all absurd exclu sions." Albeit the Presse is no friend either to England or to the English Minister, the advice here offered is sound andiwholesome advice ; it would be well that the Minister should follow it. In the same journal we find the following on the subject of the mission to the Buenos Ayrean Republic : " After having published the announcement by Lord Palmerston of the approaching - termination of the im broglio in La Plata, the journals have added that the new English agent, Mr. Gore, had orders to wait at Rio Janeiro the arrival of the new French envoy. 'We learn that this mission is entrusted to our Charg d'Affaires at' Bogota, Baron Gros, who goes with instructions conformable in every point with those of the *English agent. and with orders to bring this in terminable and ridiculous question to a reasonable con clusion. There is hut one efficacious means of arriving at this end, and of proving to the Argentine Govern ment the sincerity and serious character of this negotia tion, and that is to follow the line drawn by Lord Howden; but, be it understood, with this difference, that the main question, the only one of any importance to be solved, be not complicated by raising accessory questions, generally ill-conceived, offensive in their na ture, and of minor interest to u., such as the question of Paraguay and the navigation of the Parana. We believe, indeed, that the new instructions are drawn up in this sense, and with Ministers who have some consistency in their ideas, and some firmness in their resolutions, we may be confident of at last seeing the curtain fall on this sad spectacle, which we have for ten years been ex hibiting to the people of South America." M. GUIZOT continues faithful to his old Absolutist propensities, which induced hint to "go to Ghent." He would now, to curry favour with the Northern Courts, g,) much further than Ghent, if that were necessary. The Patrie says— "At a general meeting of the Polish emigrants, which took place at Paris in the evening of the 29th ult., M. Bakounine, a Russian refugee, pronounced a speech against the oppressor of their common country, the Em peror Nicholas. M. Guizot has given orders to M. Ba kounine, through the Prefect of Police, to quit Paris in twenty-four hours, and France within the snortest pos sible delay. 'We denounce to 'the indignation of all honest men this inhospitable and inhuman act of M. Guizot, and this base condescension of our Ministry for the tyranny of the Czar." It is said that the Duke DE MONTEBELLO ' , hill succeed the Duke DE BROGLIE in the English Embassy. We read in the Siicle " It appears that the Directory of the Bank of France has determined at length to reduce the rate of discount. The period and the amount of this reduction have not yet been fixed. The majority of the Council, it is said, is inclined to allow the present state of things to con tinue to the 15th of January. But in admitting such a delay, will the rate of discount be then lowered to four and a half or four per cent ? This question has given discussions ; but no resolution has yet this circumstance, as on all occasions, we i i c t il ual indecisi on o f th e B an k." b r e s e e n s ene t o d v toh very r t y ehd l . lively The Akhhar of Algiers of the 12th, has the follow ing from Tunis, dated the 4th :-" The projected bank will not be established, England having signi fied to the Bay that she did not understand that British subjects settled in the regency were to he sub ject to the reserve of four per cent., as a condition attached to the re-imbursement of the notes of that bank, the circulation of which was to be obligatory. The Semaphore de Marseilles of the 15th instant contains the following notice :-" The Chamber of Commerce informs merchants and mariners that the sanitory measures to which the vessels arriving from France in the Roman states were subjected since the 26th of Nov ember have been suppressed. Official advice of this suppression has been addressed to the Chamber in a letter of the Consul of France at Civita Vecchia, dated the 7th inst." The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Saturday at 75f. 6.5 e. ; New Loan, 76f. 75c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 20c. ; the Orleans Rail road Shares, 1,208 f. 75c.; Rouen, 9131. 75c. ; Havre, 475 f. ; Great Northern, 5551. ; Avignon, 5681. 75c. ; Vierzon, 551 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 490 f; Dieppe, 260 f. ; Basle, 1621. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 418 f. 75e.; Tours and Nantes, 3981. 75c.:; Paris and Lyons, 3921.50 c. MARSEILLES, DEC. 14.-Marseilles and Avignon, 5581. 75 c. ; Great Northern , 5421. 50c. LYONS, DEC. 16.-Paris an d Rouen, 910 f. ; Avignon a n d M arse ill es , 585 f. 75c. ; Vierzon, 546 f. 25c. ; Northern, 551 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 392 f. 50e. ; Orleans, 1,197 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE .1 LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 18. Boulogne and A m i ens , 144( —Luxembourg, ' l 4—Namur and Liege, 5 Northern of France, 11 1 / 2 —Orleans and Bor deaux, s '/--Paris and Lyons, sq—Paris and Stras- bourg, 4—Sambre and Meuse, VA —West Flanders, 11{2. Lord Shelbur ne i s to be the new Lord of the Admiralty, to succeed Lord Ebrington, who has ac cepted the office of one of the secretarivs to the Poor law Commission.—Observer. The barque Oromocto, Kinney master, from St. John's, New Brunswick, bound to the port of London with a cargo of timber and wood goods, having got ashore on the Noss, permission has been given by the principal officers of the revenue at Ramsgate to the agent to discharge so much of the cargo as may be necessary to float the vessel into barges, in order that they may proceed ther ew ith t o London, in continuation of the original voyage. The craft, with the portions of the cargo alluded t o , h ave a rrived in the West I ndia D o cks. Lo l r V d e c aortteehnahpaptnyhtaosbdeecaibdleedltyo s t a te that the health of Lord Brou g h am l e aves Grafton -street improve. d on 'Wednes day for Paris, en route to his Lordship's chateau near Cannes, where the Noble and Learned Lord is expected to remain until th e re -assembling of Parliament after the recess. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS (DOWAGER) CATHCART. —We regret to have to record the demise of the above venerable Countess, who expired at Cathcart House, the family seat in Renfrewshire, on Tuesday last. The Countess was on the verge of her 90th year. Newport Abergy., and Ileref. 6 Norfolk IOO Ditto New 20/. 5 . Ditto Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, N. of Norfik 2 Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 Newry and Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor .;orthern Counties Union .... 4 North British Ditto Half Shares. Do. Quarters 4 3 /4 3% to -- Ditto, Extension Ditto Thirds ... ........... .... 2 North Staffordshire... .. ...... 7% 6 3 /4 ji 3 / 4 to North Wales 3 l /2 - , .... to North Western Oxford, Worcester, and Wol- __ verhavopton Reading,Guildtd., & Reigate 7% — ..... to Royston and Hitchin Scottish Central ... 20 Scottish Midland Ditto, New Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole 5 - Shrewsbury and Birmingham 6 Ditto, ditto, Class B. 3 Shrewshury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 ... .. . Ditto, Oswestry l2 Ditto (New) . 1 Shrewsbury and Hereford... 2 Shropshire Union South Devon ....... ...... Ditto, Preference 'lo ...... South Staffordshire South Eastern and Dover 33% Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, N 0.2 l7 Ditto, New, No. 3 _. . _.. DittoNew,No. 4. ...... ...., 7% s!g to South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Swans, and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. C0a1... .. 4 Thames Haven Dock and Railway 1712 — Taw Vale Extension Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 1 3 1,1 ...... Waterford and Limerick ... .. 40 ... .. Waterford, Wexford,Wicklw, and Dublin West Cornwall Whitehaven and Furness l2 ... .. Windsor, Staines, and South Western Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 30 York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 ... . 32 1 / 2 to Do. Original New & Beeck 25 .. ... 291i 2 IA Do. North Shields Purchase 25 .. ... 1)o. Exton. No. 1 (Y. & N.) 10 Do. do. No. 2, New & B. 10 Do. G. N. E. l'ur. or Pref. 8 York and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Preference lO Ditto East and West Riding • Extension .... FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...••• 14 4%... to Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) Central of Spain Ceylon Demerara. Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... . Dutch Rhenish 7 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 ...... 514.... to Northern of France.... Orleana and Bordeaux ... .. 6 Over Yssel 4l3s 4d - - 7. Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans... 2O Paris and Rouen .. Paris & Strasbourg ........... 8 ...... Rouen and Havre ... 20 Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale l4 Tours & Mantas ... .. .. 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hasselt West Flanders B IA — to JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia - British North American .... 50 Colonial OOO .•• Commercial of London London Joint Stock .... ...... 10 London and Westminster... 20 Ditto, New National Provincial of Engld. 35 Ditto, New National of Ireland 2214 — .. to Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New Union of Australia Ditto, New 2 1,„4 Union of London ... 10 Union of Madrid MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO — to Astrian Mining Company .... 11 - Australian Blaenarvon Iron and Coal ... 50 Bolan os Scrip British Iron - Brazilian Imperial ..... .. ... 21 ...... 011 ire Copper Galvanized Iron ... ......... ... It) Real del Monte, Unregistered . .. II! ! to LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 20.—Wind N.E2, light brerze and dull, hazy weather. DEAL, DEC. 18.—Wind S. by W., strong and squally; 19, S. to S.S.E.—Arrd. Framjes Cowasjee, Edwards, Calcutta; Warlock, Bell, Mauritius; Pearl, Richmond, Sierra Leone; Arcadia, Dunn, Richibucto. 19, Eclipse, Austin, Mauritius; Cosmo, Aulerbridge, New York; Hartland, Rudolf, Quebec, leaky, &c; Sophia, St. John's. Std., Aunty, Hall, Sierra Leone; Dana, Boston, with several of the outward bound. Arrived from the river, and sailed, Isabella, Sierra Leone; Queen, China; Co lumbine, Mauritius; Benjamin Buck, Greene, ditto; Martha, Algoa Bay; Cuba, Cape Coast Castle; Scottish Maid, Callao; Catherine Stewart, Forbes, Barbadoes; Dublin, Trinidad; Barbara Gordon, Tobago; Hopewell and Sarah, Jamaica; Wataja, New Orleans; Victoria, New York. SUNDERLAND, DEC. 19.—The Camilla, Adeline, of Bordeaux, was wrecked at the entrance of the harbour yesterday; crew saved. The William Charles, of Yar mouth, and the Belford steam tug have been wrecked. The brig Ann, of this port, is sunk. CORK, DEC. 17.—1 t has blown a heavy gale at South during the night and this day. The Henrietta and Mary, of New Ross, Quebec to Liverpool, which was abandoned waterlogged, on the 11th instant off Cape Clear, drove on the rocks yesterday, and it is supposed she went to pieces during the night, as part of her keel, &c., - has come on shore. LIMERICK, DEC. 18.—Tba Energy, of this port, from Miramiehi, drove on shore under Kilcaixill Battery, during the gale of the 16th instant, and is likely to be much damaged. A steamer has gone to her assistance. RAMSEY, ISLE Or MAN, DEC. 17. The schooner Bessv, of Prince Edward's Island, Liverpool to Douglas, has seen run on shore here leaky. CLONAKILTY, DEC. 17.—The Kate, of and from St. Ives to Leghorn, is totally wrecked in this bay ; crew saved. And also the Nancy, of Waterford, Thrall to Cork, yesterday ; cabin boy only saved. CoRK, DEC. 17.—A gale.—Arrd. Maple Leaf, Locke, Quebec, for Bristol. SUNDERLAND, DEC. 19.—The following vessels have received more or less damage :—Louisa Ann, Emma, Leo, Falconer, Newton, Content, Miriam, Exertion, Ex press, Betts, Camilla, Seaflower, Lady Peel, all of this port, and the Stephen and Nautilus, of Wisbeach, and the Elise, of Stetten. OFF DOVER.—Princess Royal, Van Zuilecom, New Zealand and Sydney. SOUTHADIPTON, DEC. 19.—S1d. Washington steamer, New York ; Erin steamer, Constantinople. MILFORD, DEC. 17.—Wind S.S.W ~ strong gale ; 18th, light and variable.—Arrd. Midas, New York, for Southampton. FALMOUTH, DEC. 19.—Put back, Seagull packet, for the Brazils, Sze. BELFAST, DEC. 19.—1 t has blown a hard gale at S. to S.S.E., during the last twenty-four hours, but is new a calm. The Mary, of Liverpool, for Africa, came on shore yesterday, but is expected off. The Alexander, of Liverpool, the Leon, and the Ann Paley, are all on shore near the same place. KINSALE, DEC. 16.—The Henrietta Mary, from Que bec to Liverpool, waterlogged and abandoned, was fallen in with to-day, bearing from the Old Head of Kinsale, S.S.E., distant 22 miles, by the revenue cutter, Hamilton, arrived at this port—her three lower masts and bowsprit were standing, and rudder gone, and the heavy sea running at the time, which was making a breach over her, prevented her being boarded. STRANRAER, DEC. 17.—The Four Sisters, of Mary port, parted her chains in Cairnryan Roads yesterday, and was run ashore at Rattling Bay, the cargo (pig iron) is heavy, thrown overboard to lighten her, when she is expected off next tide. WIVENHOE, DE, 19.—The Earl Vane, of and from Sunderland for London, was wrecked on the Gunfleet Sand last night; crew and salvors saved. The crews of twelve smacks had been on board of her for two days. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 18.—Wind W.N.W., 19th, S.E.— Arrd. 17th, Lady Rowena, M`Donald, Valparaiso; Jessie Miller, Crowder, Monte Video; 18th, Hibbert, Pernambucco. Sid. 18th, Caledonia, steamer, Boston ; 19th, Maid of Islay, steamer, Sierra Leone ; Dalores and Meg Merrilies, Havana; Inconstant, New Orleans; Montezuma, and Sardinier, New York; Artunas, New foundland. Off port Petrel, Bonny;: Louisa, Callao; Standard, Demerara; Lehigh, New Orleans; Robin Gray, and Sphy nx . 19th, The Mary Black, hence to Africa, put into Belfast Lough, 16th inst., and drove on shore the following night near Carrickfergus, by which she sustained considerable damage, A steam tug pro ceeded from Belfast to her assistance. Several colliers drove on shore near the same place yesterday morning. The steam tug Flambeau, and one of the Woodside:Ferry steamers, were in contact this morning off the Albert Dock, and the former sunk; crew saved. SALCOMBE, DEC. 17.—Several bales of cotton, part of a ship's wheel, ladder, bulwarks, &c., have been picked up by the coast-guard here. The Ceres, Trale, arrived here to-day; lost bowsprit, rigging, and sails, off the Bolts, passed a great deal of floating wreck, and some balk timber. 19th—The Star, Hogg, of Belfast, from London to Antigua, came on shore at the entrance of this harbour yesterday, and has become a complete Wreck; one roan drowned and eight saved. _ . DRIsTOL, DEC. 18.—Soveral casks. supposed . C,O) 1.• tain palm oil, were passed on the 13th instant, ik t „. 4 7 long. 10, by the Fruiterer, arrived here. CARDIFF, DEC. ',7.—The Bristol sailed on thi 4t h instant for Hull, and has put back with three feet, ater in the hold. MILFORD, DEc. IG.—The Jane, Richards, frol t he Clyde to Charenk, is leaky, and must discharge. DURT.Itg, DEC. IG.—The Sister Anne, Galata to Lon. don, has put in here leaky, and must discharge. The Betties, of Dublin, is on shore at the Bar at %Vic ;Low with a hole in her bottom, and will be removed with much difficulty. WATERFORD, DEC. 16.—The Mystery, Ibrai 'la to Galway, struck between this town and Rabbit Bi crow this morning, and has since become a total s+ 'eck. Several dleals and some bags of guano have been p 'eted up in Tratnore. RETALLA (COUNTY DowN), DEC. 16.—The E urovaa, .`Pherson, of Quebec, from Liverpool to Greemock,got upon the North Rock, near this place, yesterday rntrn ing, during a hard gale from S.S.E., and will probaly become a wreck if the weather continues broisterot; crew saved. The Ganges, Smith, from Li-verpOol o New Orleans, continues to ride in the same dangerots position as when last reported. BELFAST, DEC. 18.—The Ganges, Smith, of and !rem Liverpool to New Orleans, drove on shore near Green Isles this morning, and is likely to become a wreck; crew saved. WEXFORD, DEC. 16.—The Mary, of and for Mary port, from Newport, sunk 14th inst., 15 miles from the Smalls, master and three of the crew saved. TORIAY, DEC. 18.—The Anne, London to St. Michaels with mainmast sprung, loss of bulwarks and. other damage has put in here. The Rival, Lond:in " Belfast, has put in here leaky and with damage, bt ivirLg been on her beam ends. DEC. 19.—1 t has blown a strong gale at; to S.S.W., during the last 21 hours; 5 P.M, , S. moderate. MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DALY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-MOND A.Y. During last week the arrivals of English V rTheat for our market, coastwise, were tolerably good, an d those of Barley were on the increase. Of all other kin(' Is of grain of home produce, as well as Flour, the receipts were ° II a very moderate scale. From Ireland and Soo tland very little grain of any description reached us ; and front abroad the imports were only 4,038 quarters of Whottl 150 ditto of Barley, 7,316 ditto of Oats, 1,687 ditto Beans, and 855 ditto of Peas. No foreign Fl tour came to hand. Fresh up to-day the supply of W heat from Kent was moderately extensive, but that frt )m Essex' Suffolk, &c., was very small. Owing to the prevailing damp weather most of the samples were greatly out of condition. By lend carriage scarcely any corn was repotted. Notivith standing the show of samples of both red and white vO 9 , larger than for some time past, the demand for the fine s ' qualities of Wheat for home produce was firm, at an eel' ranee on the quotations obtained on Monday last of 11 per quarter. In the middling and inferior kinds, a for, average amount of business was transacted, at fe prices. As most of the millers and dealers in attendanc e were very short of stock, a good clearance was effecte d previous to the close of business. Fine dry samples , foreign Wheat were in moderate request, at full last week's currencies ; but the middling al"" out-of-condition parcels, which formed the hulk of the supply, commanded very little attention' though we cannot call them cheaper. A few parcel s , changed hands for export to Holland. The .fine s t malting Barley moved off steadily, at last week's prices; but grinding and distilling sorts were heavy, at a fall i ll value of is per quarter. There was a moderate sale f ° ' , Malt, the holders of which were firm. In prices we hate no alteration to notice. Notwithstanding the supply ° Oats were very small, the Oat trade was in a 5 10 5 . gish state, yet the quotations were mostly support e The sale for all kinds of Beans was heavy, and the r ate : were barely supported. White Peas sold at late figur e d but other kinds were the turn lower. Indian Corn in Meal were quite as dear. English Flour was quotad : 6 48s as the nominal top price. The best American le ; held at 28s per barrel. The business doing was no t tensive. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. ° ..t 65 1 Wheat—Essex & Kent, 31 alt—Chevaller .• . • i•- Red. .... •• • • 47s to bss Oats—Yorkshire and . A . 22 1 Ditts,White, New 51s 6ls Lincoltish., Feed. . Of Norfolk and Lin- Potato coin, Red..... 48s 50s Youghal and Cork, i ,, 19 1 Ditto, White .... 51s 54s Black .••• • • • -31 s Irish, Red ••..•• • . —s —a Cork, White .•••• ' 2 , " 365 Scotch, Feed. •• • • .!: 44s itto, Whte ••• • • • —s —s Eye— D Old • • • • •i •••••• • • —s —a Beans—Tick .•.• • •• ••• ;;; 461 New. •• • • ........ 311 34s Pigeons .... ••• • • ;ii - .428 Barley—Grinding . .... 25s 30s Peas—Grey .. ••• • " ••• ;is - 401 Malting .—•• • • • • 31s 33s Maple. .. ••• • • " 3 6 8 40$ Chevalier •• . • ... 333 34s White ....• ••• ". . 4 " 441 Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers •• • ",:• . 3 480 folk .... .... .... 58s 60s Flour—Town -lug"' '.: ;7: 411 Brown ....• ...... 54s 58s Suffolk ••••• • ' • • ••• 415 Kingston aud Ware 60s 62s Stocktn 1.7, Norfolk 3i s SMITHFIELD. The imports of foreign stock into London last week were as under : From whence. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calvet Hamburgh 72 ••• ••• rzR Rotterdam - Harlingen Total 331 ... 1,617 ... 18 ... 68 At the outports the arrivals have been on a very limited scale, viz., 620 head, chiefly from Germany, and which have arrived much out of condition. They have with difficulty found buyers, even at very low prices.; The numbers of foreign stock in the market, to-day, were small, via., about 120 Beasts, 400 Sheep, and 30 Calves. The sales proceeded slowly, yet last week's prices were mostly supported. For the time of year the supply of Beasts on sale from our own grazing districts, was ex' tensive, there being upwards of 1,000 head more than At the corresponding period in 1846 and 1845. Althougih there were several exceedingly well inade-up WM": offering the general T iality of the arrivals was by 11oou , means first-rate. Tl:e attendance of buyers bein g g the Beef trade ruled st?ady, and last Friday's quotation! were well supported ; the prirce , t Scots, flerefords , Devons producing from 5s to 5s 4d per sibs withotlt difficulty, and a good clearance was effected. From t h e i. north we received about 1,000 short horns ; fro m western and midland counties, 700 Herefords, ro ot ", Devons, &c. ; from other parts of England, 800 uci avariouss somewhat Scots.ni breeds ew hrar ; th a ei n in d np , urm f o r vb o ee m dr ci S ou c fa o l t is l tayhn.ede,pFlAos,reOr most o o rs r o pcl etrh : / Asc.:, bree"" the demand was firm, at prices fully equg l rho s° on Monday last. Prime old Downs sold at from mod© Ass 5s 2d to 5s 4d per 81bs. In Calves only business was doing, at late rates. The Pork tra ( ! e vl l 6 O slow. In prices, however, we have no alteration notice. Per Elbs, to sink the offal. 4. t• S • a• s. d. to s. d. 6.4 6 Inferior Beasts..... 3 8 4 0 Second quality ditto 4= 6 0 i•icond quality 4 2 4 6 Coarse-woolledditto 4 / Prime large Oxen.. 4 8 410 Southdown Nether 5 / •••', Prime Scots ...... 5 0 5 4 Ditto out of the wool 4 • Large coarse Calves 3 & 4 6 Large Hogs .. b Prime small ditto .. 4 8 410 Small Porkers • • Suckling Calves ..20 029 o Quarter old Pigs lB 0 0 Inferior Sheep •. . 3 8 4 0 Lambs •••••• • • 0 SUPPLY Al' MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I c.hv e s. i pie' SO 2,661 17,650 159 17MNIVGATE AND LBADZNsazy bi j;en An increased arrival of country-killed meat has la t he place for these markets during the past week ; an h oe supplies on offer, slaughtered in the metropoli s, ,iitf. been seasonably extensive, but of very middling ( 4,, n " For prime Beet and Mutton we have had a stu d s, of mand, at improved currencies. In all other k in fel meat only a moderate business has been dnill,g' e lga prices have been well supported. The show of for meat has been comparatively small. At per stone oy the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. d. t ° 7 6 B 2 eef,inferlor...... 210 3 4 Mutton, Inferior .• 3 4 0 - middling .... 3 6 3 8 middling.• 3 '„ 4 6 - primelarge 310 4 0 prime .... 4 4 - prime small 4 2 4 4 Pork, large.. • •• 3 " Veal ••••• • • • • ..• 3 4 _ - small ... •• 4 Lamb. Os Od to Oa Od. SPITALPIELDO. : Of Rishe7,:rethGebneeanr AND small,i v il a l D s se'nnightCoal3stOw obfutpotlitaotsoeesbysinrcaeilwtahl'i hart been somewhat extensive.. From abroad aboutfies tons have arrived in very middling condition. t i l er samples are in good request at full prices. In ?ifork kinds very little is doing at our quotations: Igo; Regent's, 120 s to 140 s ; ditto, Shaw's, 1105 to , 00 5; Scotch Reds, 105 s to 110 s; ditto, Whites, 905 to ' O4 to Dutch, 103 to 90s ; Kent and Essex Regents, 1 . / 05 i to 130 s ; ditto, Shaw's, 110 s to 120 s; ditto, Blues. ' , 1 1'e• 1 1 0 10 5s s; to di i t i to os 1 ; ii d d i n t e to y , s ki 1 d 2 n O e s ys t , o 1 1 0 3 0 0 i s t i o A i l l i o s s b ; e d ti c i t h o f ,A e t e fiw 0 1 90s to 105. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. o f Ist!' On the whole this market is more steady tha n :iiee 113 but we have not the slightest improvement to nraeo• the quotations. The supply of Hops on offer ' 5 sittoo Sussex Pockets, 21 16s to 313 s ; Weald of 11 :e 1 21105. 31 to 3/105 ; Mid and East Kent ditto, 3/ 55 to D 6 '. WOOL. ha" The past week's imports of Wool into Loud° from consisted of about 730 bales from Sydney, 160 ditt'koga• Smyrna, 60 ditto from Hamburgh, 32 ditto frool La t he dore, and 100 ditto from various other q uarters an d 10 private contract market the demand is hcavY 9 r d tor some instances the quotations have a dow n 11d; dency. Down Hoggets, ltd to Is; Ewes, 1 0 5 9 1d; Half-bred Hoggets, lid to is Oid; Kent F le lZ, O l, 5d to 100 ; Combing Skins, lid to 9d; Blanke t to 8d; and Flannel ditto, 8d to 10}d per lb. - ' , TALLOW. Although the stock is by no means large, is somewhat heavy, and the late advanc e 1 uant it f larger tations is with difficulty supported, as a the spot' of Tallow is now close at hand. P. Y. C., 0 ! 1 __ , he first is selling at 46s 6d to 475, and for delivelr i" .. 0 per - ' t. three months of next year, 45s to 45s grA Ro gli Town Tallow is 47s to 48s per cwt. net cash, 'l's Fat 2s. Sid. per 81bs. E NT,IA KILLARNEY AND VAL ..„.., .tnhitshtriirktioe: RAILWAY COMPANY.—(THIS DA'" / o f t his rliament, this companylwas held, according to Act of aFaern, Cornhill, The first general meeting of the s-hareholders (lay, at the George and Vulture T v orn ___.,, , e re- J. Atwood, Esq., the chairman of the c pa.' = siding. After the usual preliminaries,Over- The SECRETARY, A. Ligh t°n ' Fsq"' read nof re dire tisement, stating that it was the intenh%oin tors to propose an adjournment of t q se 10th of February next. d Mr. Bnow. ~ Mr. G. 11. ATWOOD proposed, an which was ns'3s conded a resolution to that effect, • largo mously carried. s a very The CHAIRMAN observed, that be wa eeting to On b ir under erative. Pse t taking would turn out well and reroun at the ne s lieyed the communication that would be made st _beciero. shareholder, and was quite satisfied that t e ..... b tor The meeting then separated. meeting would be very satisfac yto the eh 6 ~~,.~