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

TIIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. The eminent PANTOMIME THEATRE, and the FIRST PANTO- MIME COMPANY. THIS EVENING Will be performed Balfe's Opera, entitled THE BONDMAN. arquis de Vernon, Mr. Weiss ; Floreville, Mr. Rafter ; Morliere, ralorneastle ; La Valliere, Mr. Galls; Ardenford, Mr. Ilarrisen ; Mal-a-Propos, Mr. Harley; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer; Grisette, Miss Rebecca Isaacs. After which will be produced the Grand Comic Christmas Panto mime, bong a mixture of the historical and legendary, entitled HARLEQUIN AND ST. GEORGE AND TILE DRAGON. The Overture and Music composed by Mr. R. Hughes; the new and ex tensive Scenery by Mr. Grieve, Mr. Teibin, and numerous as sistants ; the Tricks and Transformations by Mr. Blamire ; the Ma chidery by Mr. R. Sloman ' • the Dresses by Mrs. Bovey, Mrs. Balls , and a host of auxiliaries. The whole produced under the superin endence of Mr. W. West. Scene 1. ABODE OF KALYBA. THE ENCHANTRIS3.—Date and lo cality not exactly known, but considered by the Antiquarian Society to have been discovered " somehow or other," " some time or other," near " somewhere or other." Kalyba (the Enchantress, not by Balfe, mistress of all the elements, except those of " Arithmetic," having quite miscalculated her power), Mr. 11. Horncastle ; Fiends and Fu ries (illustrating a common expression of speech, with anything but a common expression of countenance), Messrs. J. W, Morgan, Burt, Connell, and H. Payne; Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, (the four Ele ments, with a strong love of mischief), by Dealers in each; the March of Intellect (travelling "Incog." as " Young England," a true bit of British blood, by Intellect out of Industry, dam by Science, out of Perseverance, has never been beaten, and can be matched against anything), Miss Annie Payne.—How the March of Intellect pays a " flying visit" to Kalyba ; and how, being empowered by the Committee on National Education, he gives the old lady sudden no tice to quit, by as suddenly changing the premises to Scene 2. INTERIOR OF INFANT SEHOOL.--SehOOIMRSICF, Mr. Big wig, who, at the request of his " Illustrious Visitor," gives the boys a half-holiday on tha occasion. Scene 3. EXTERIOR AND BARBACAN OF COVENTRY CASTLE. — The Earl of Coventry (Lord High Steward of England, and his own into the bargain), Mr. Mazzoni ; the Countess of Coventry (a good housewife, and supposed to have been the inventor of the celebrated "Coventry Cake"), Miss Haines ; Head Nurse (with a good character from her last place), Mr. Cheel ; Master George (afterwards cele brated for a battle he fought with a dragon, but at present without any knowledge of " arms," except his nurse's), Miss Marks ; Masters Andrew, David. Patrick, Denis, James, Anthony (very youthful nights, but destined, with their " cousin George," to astonish the atives by and by as " The Seven Champions of Christendom"), Mas- ers Coyle, Sawn, Dix, Itrehh, Desborg, Francis.—How the y . outhful t. George is feted on his birth-day—how he makes his" first," and nearly his " last " appearance is public on the occasion—how his "cousins " Andrew, David, Patrick, Denis, James, and Anthony come to a ish him many happy returns of the day—and how Kalyba shows her " love of children" by taking the " whole brood under her wing." NOTICE.—" Nothinge material to our historic" occurring during a period of fifteen ye•irs, the author trusts that the audience will al low him to cut it, and come again to Scene 4. KALYBA'S HOUSE OF CORRECTION !—St. George of Eng land (a ruin'un to look at, but a rare'un to go), Mr. W. 11. Payne; St. Andrew of Scotland, St. David of Wales, St. Patrick of Ireland St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, St. Anthony of Italy (all pretty much of the same kidney!) Mr. Heath, Mr. Douglas, Mr. Marks, Mr. Chapino, Mr. Sanger, Mr. J. Ilaynes.—llow St. George and his bro champions (considerably grown since their last ap pearance in public) are kept in durance vile, and on " very short commons" by Kalyba—how Kalyba pops her affections on St. George who " can't abide her"—in short, how—but we won't anticipate— merely observing, that the upshot is the Downfall of Kalyba, and the Emancipation of the Seven Champions of Christendom ! Scene 5. DOVER ROADS.—IIOW the Seven Champloas of Christen dom set- out for their respective destinations—" the management having, in the handsomest manner," made special arrangements for that purpose with the various " Metropolitan Conveyance Com panies." Scene 6. BANKS OF THE NlLE.—Alinanzor, King of Morocco (his own Lord High Admiral, Commander-in-Chief, &e., on his way to King Ptolemy's Court, to court King Ptolemy's daughter), Mr. T. Matthews ; Ptolemy, King of Egypt (rather a remote ancestor of Ibrahim Pacha, better known as Abraham Parker), Mr. Priorson. Moorish Sailors, Attendants on King Ptolemy, &c. How Almanzor came to Egypt to be married—the Princess having a decided objec.; tion to their being " bound in Morocco ;" and how St. George, not Laving even " dipped" into the question of " lights," runs his steamer on shore, and saves himself on the funnel. Scene 7. GRAND BALL IN THE PALACE OF PTOLEMY THE FIRST, KING OF Ecarr.—The Princess Sabra, Mr. Hance. about to be mar ried to the King of Morocco, but patriotically devoting herself to the digestive organs of the Dragon (a gentleman, whose prodigious allowance of jaw enables hint to speak for himself ), Mr. Wieland. How this " marriage in high life" is suddenly interrupted by the Dragon, who, not only forbids the banns ; but elopes with the bride ; thereby plunging " her illustrious parents and several families of dis tinction at the west-end of the town into the deepest allliction," &c. (vide Morning Papers). ROYAL PROCLAMATION. " Who'll kill the dragon? " Or me he shall gorge ; I I, says St. George, l'll kill the dragon."—Ohl MS. Arming of St. George for the approaching Fight. Latest odds at the "Corner," 1,000 to 0 on the Dragon (taken). " May the best man win." Scene 8. TILE DRAGON'S lIAIINT IN TUE DESOLATE VALLEY. — How the Dravit introduces the Princess Sabra to his " country quarters ;" how St. George follows on horseback (the railroad not being quite finished); how he and the Dragon fall in, and then tall out. The Battle (for particulars of which keep your eyes fixed on 3lessrs. Payne and Wieland). How the result of the last round not my eleva:ea St. George to the " Crown" of Egypt and the " five hilling pieces" of England, but at the sante time introduces the audience to Scene 9. GRAND HALL OF CifIVALRY.—How St. George receives the " Battle Money" (alias the hand of the Princess Sabra). Re appearance of the March of Intellect. Introduction of Old Friends In New Characters. Harlequin—. Mr. Howell, I C10wn.... Mr. T. Matthews. Pantaloon..... Mr. Priorson. Columbine Miss Hicks. Scene 10. DEALER IN CURIOSITIES AND IRONMONGER AND CUT LER'S SHOP.—lmproved Surrgcal Instruments. "Holding the mirror up to nature." " Famhies furnished" on a novel principle. A loud Report on the New Houses of Parliament. A fashionable complaint files to the Clown's head. Scene l t. GORNCIIA;DL ER'S SHOP AND GRANART.—MOTO ways than one of being "in clover." Specimen of the very best "Britannia metal." Plenty of "game" in high preservation. Cabinet measures and corn measures. A lot of " chaff " in both. Harlequin gives Clown" the sack." Abundant specimens of the New Tariff. Scene 12. SIAMESE VILLAS AND NURSERY GROUND.—" To be let, to gether or,separate." Ethiopian Serenaders provided on the shortest notice. " Get out of the way, Old Dan Tucker," and make way for "patent elastic India-rubber boots." Effects of "putting your feet in It." The Spanish marriage horticulturally illastrated. Spanish nut and Orleans plum. " A plague o' both your houses." Scene 13. TINMAN AND Taikaa's Suors.—The original little Tin Kettle. Water always hot. A grate mistake. " Golng.out a shoot ing." Grand Experiments in Gun Cotton, ending in au awful Catas trophe. Scene 14. INTERIOR OF 13RITISII AND FOREIGN TOY WAREIIOUSE.— Toys for tle Million. Magic Cards. How to " cut and shuffle." Jack in the Box and out of it. First-rate teem and turn out. " See the Conquering Hero comes." Scene 15. corner. TIIE STATUE AS IT Is ; or, Wellington at llyde-park- Scene 16. THE STATUE A 3 IT WAS ; or, Wellington at Waterloo. Look here upon this picture, and on this." THEATRE ROYAL, II IYM AR K ET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Drama, called THE ROUND OF WRONG; or, a Firespie Story. Sir Arthur Foljambe, Mr. Stuart ; Lichen, Mr. Rogers; Reuben Gwynne, Mr. Webster ; Ducks, Mr. Buckstone; Harwood, Mr. Howard; Lady Charl4tte Willoughby, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Mary Ryland, Miss Fortascue ; Jenny, Miss Woulds.. During the evening the Band will perform the Overtures, " La Ilayadere," " Italians. in Algeria," " Guillaume 'fell," and a Po lonaise. To be followed by the Farce of MY WIFE'S MOTHER. Prin cipal characters by Messrs. W. Farrell, Hell, Brindal ; Mrs. Glover, and Miss Julia Bennett. To conclude with an Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza called the INVISIBLE PRINCE; or, the Island of Trancjui Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, T.liss P. Horton ; Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Juliat Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. TILLS EVENING Will be performed a Drama, founded on the New Christmas Annual of • Charles Dickens, Esq., and adapted to the stage (by the exclusive permission of the author, from the proof sheets) by Albeit Smith, Esq.. called THE BATTLE OF LIFE. Principal eha• racters by Messrs. Leigh Murray, Turner, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Meadows, Keeley ; Mrs. Wooßidge, Miss Daly, Miss May, Miss Grove, Miss Foster, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, the Farce of MRS. WHITE. Characters by Messrs. Turner, Kinloch, and Oxberry ; Miss Viliars, Mrs. Wiban, and Miss Arden. To conclude with a New Comic Pantomime, entitled TIIE BUT TERFLY'S BALL. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Clown, Mr. -J. W. Colier ; Pantaloon, Mr. (louzh ; Columbine, Miss Laldlaw ; Attendant Sprites, Masters. C. and F. Lanni. THEAT NE ROYAL, .DELPHI. UNDER THE: DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Drama, called. CO LOMRA, THE CORSICAN SISTER. characters supported by Maelam3 Celeste, Mrs. Yates; Messrs. _Wright, Worrell, Bedford, 0. Smith, &c. Between the pieces the celebrated ENTORTILATIONISTS, Mr. John Lees and his three Pupils—the Masters "[anions, will ex hibit their wonderful Jena Gymnastiques. After which a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA GISELLE, entitled TILE PIIINTOM DANCERS ; or, the Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be per - brined a Drama, in two acts, called L • LANCIIE DE YAL3IY. he characters will be supported by Messrs. Crauby, H. Hughes, J. Vining, S. Cowell, Ironner ; Mrs. Stirling, and Mrs. 11. Hughes. After which, a new and original Musical Romance, entitled THE SEVEN MAIDS OF MUNI ; or, The Ghost's Tower. Col. Bertrand, Mr. C. Fisher ; Capt. d'Armincourt, Mr. Allen ; Capt. Bellejamb^, Mr. Leffler ; Lieut. Adolphe, Mr. Wynn; Cornet rosdos, Mr. Compton ; Baron Bristle , ach, Mr. Walton ; Bumps, Mr. Bonner; Seven Maids of Munich, Misses Sara Flower, Rourke, E. Bonner, Ilineks, Millar, L. Marshall, Laporte ; Uriel, 3Ess Marshall ; Madame Groutz, Mrs. Foshroke. In the course of the evening Professor HEMMING and his ta lented CHILDREN will ge through their wonderful performances. Previous to the Pantomime the Band will perform " The Ame rican Polka," introducing " The Railroad Overture." To conclude with a new Grand Comic Chratmas Pantomime, enti tled Th.; ENCHANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE ; or, The One-eyed Geni. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Columbine, Miss Burbidge ; Sprite, Mr. 11. Marshall ; Clown, Mr. Flexmnore. FRENCH PLAYS. —ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will be performed the favourite Vaudeville of LA FAMILLE I MPRO VISEE. Characters by MM. Dumery, Dorgebret, David; Madame Grassau, Mdlles. Leyder and Celina Fouquct. After which will be produced the popular Vaudeville of LE SAVANT. In which will appear MM. Perlet, Langeval, Dorgebret, Pascal, Tourillon ; Madame Grassau, and Mdlle. Vallee. To conclude with the Comic Operetta of LES RENDEZVOUS BOURGEOIS. M. Dugravler, M. Cartigny ; Cesar, M. Dumery ; Charles, M. Heron ; Jasmin, M. Pagenier ; Bertrand, M. Tourillon ; Seine, Mdile. Fouquet ; Louise, Millie. Vallee ; Julie, Mdlle. Khin. Boxes, 65.; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THE:kTRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS (Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Gormon) will have the honour of repeating their Inimitable ENTERTAINMENT at the above Theatre, TO MORROW EVENING, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday during the Christmas Holidays ; doors open at Eight, and the Enter tainment commences at Half-past Eight. And will (by desire) give a GRAND JUVENILE PERFORMANCE, on Wednesday Morning next, Jan. 6 ; doors open at Two, to commence at half-past Two. Boxes, Is. ; 25.; Amphitheatre, 2s. ASTLEV'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. PatrJnised by her Most Gracious .Majesty the Queen, Prince Alt,ert, Prince of Wales, and Royal Family. Grind Christmas Holiday Fetes. THIS EVENING, a double rotation of Equestrian Wishes G y mna stic Novelties. Th e " D emOn H o rse ; or, The Twelve and the Charmed Bit." Herr Neuparte, the great Dutch Bottle Equllibrist. THIS EVENING Will be perfor.ncd a grand new Magical Equcstrisn Romance, el-I nlet' THE DE \ION NORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Clitrrined Bit. New and entire change in the SCENES of the CIRCLE. To ccnclude with the Grand Ghristmas Comic Fairy Pantomime, entitled THF, FORTY THIEVES; or, Harlequin and Ali Baba and t h e itot ber's Cave. Clown, Mr. Rochez ; Harlequin, Mr. W. liar veY ; , Pantaloon, Mr. Lailltrini ; Columbi ne , Miss Louisa Waite. ;, ,x-cilice open irom eleven till five o'clock.—lloors open at six en 31 roa ton mence at half-past six o'clock.-- - Stage Manager, M r. W. oc t. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, ➢lrs. Frances Davldge. THIS EVENING Will he pertbrmed an original Drama, entitled TIIE HAND OF CARD.4—GA ME, LIFE, STAKES, DEATH. The characters will he supported I y the whole of the talented Company. To conclu , le with a grand fairy Pantomime, called THE KING OF THE CASTLE ; or, Harlequin in the Land of Dreams. Har lequin, Herr Deulin; Pantaloon, Herr R.Dculin ; Columbine, Mdlle. Theodore ; Cl , iwn, Herr E. Dentin. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Ile 'action of Prices.—Boxes, ls„ Half-price, &I ; Pit, 6d.; Gallery, 3C.; Private Boxes, 2i. Mr._ N. T. Hicks as " The Black Doc tcr." Great success of the new allegorical Railway Pantomime. THIS EVENING Wll be performed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss Vin ce It, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, and Messrs. N. T. Hicks, Ed wares, Bird, Searle, Forman, &c., will perform. After which will be produced a grand Christmas Pantomime, en titled THE BIRTH OF THE STEAM ENGINE ; or, Harlequin • G c -a-Head," and Joe Miller and his Men. Clown, Mr. T. Barry; alOost, Signor o,4moncle ; Harlequin, 711. Lupin; Columbine, 7511:e. Adele Lauri. Now really, at all the Libraries, is 3 vols., T II E NEW ROMANCE "FATTIER EUSTACE." By M. TROLLOPS. " This work will awaken eager curiosity in certain circles. It will strike people with dismay; it will confirm tile creed of some, and disturb the opinions of others."—Atlas. Horny Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Itlarlbornugh.street. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MOR RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. TESSE.S. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY !ZHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to annalnce that tkcir Public Sales of Railway Shares, Aec. take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the lien of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully , uquestel to be aldressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day orerions to their being offered ; and advises of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds blame barely disposed of according to instrcetions. °Piece, Ha!l of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London. i IIE WEATHEIL—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 31. tHERMOMETER, Lowest, 23; Highest, 33 ; Noon, 28. BAROMETER, 30:57. WIND S.E., morning, frosty, cold, and foggy: afternoon, fine sunshine. 111011 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. !doming .. 32 minutes after 1. I Evening .. 36 minutes after 1. Am 4 LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1847. , A superficial glance through the American PRE SIDUNT'S Message to Congress will impress the mind of the reader with a feeling not far removed from admiration for its ability. A careful perusal will, however, very speedily expose its shallowness and divulge its sophistry. It is, from first to last, merely specious declamation. The whole document is essen tially what a black-help would call " a make-be lieve." Mr. PoLic. has evidently resolved to quash (if possible) the various accusations which have been levelled against his policy. He has been termed, almost in so many words, a blusterer; and he persists that his conduct has inva riably been modelled upon the principles of conciliation. With the remembrance of Mr. PAKENHAM'S treat ment fresh in our memory, he says that ! With the recollection of his behaviour towards lIERRERA and PAREDES still as vivid as occurrences of yesterday, he says it ! He is taxed with being avaricious of ter ritory, and he maintains that the American Govern ment has invariably, during his administration; evinced a magnanimous disinterestedness. Yes. Coahuila is nothing ; New Leon is nothing ; Tamau lipas is nothing; New Mexico is nothing; Texas is nothing ; California is nothing. Yes : the American Government has evinced a magnanimous disinterested . ness ! He is designated a national spendthrift, and he insists that his system of financial economy has amounted almost to parsimony. Almost—and he asks for a fresh loan of 23,000,000 dollars in this same message ! He is styled a promoter of war, and he avows that his heart has invariably yearned for peace ! No matter how unendurable may have been the insolence of his avowed agents at Vera Cruz ; no matter how churlish may have been his military representative at Santa Fe; no matter how insulting may have been Mr. Poex's own expressions in his preceding Messages—his heart has invariably yearned for peace ! 0 generous con ciliation ! 0 wonderful disinterestedness ! 0 amazing parsimony ! 0 unequalled Pacificator! President POLK is armed with his precedents. He argues the point as a man convinced that it is logi cally demonstrable. President JACKSON is, in his opinion, an indisputable authority. President JACKSON, in the February of 1837, advo cated war with Mexico. Therefore—President JACKSON being the oracle of justice and truth, and President JACKSON having advocated war with Mexico—war with Mexico was an imperative duty upon the United States. Q. E. D. Mr. POLL would no more hesitate to propound the most impossible syllogism than would the gentleman in the story book, who undertook to prove that a chesnut-horse and a horse-Chesnut were identical. Mr. POLL has no eye for the reductio ad absurdum. The public look for the most candid explanations at his hands, and he gives them the most specious. Take, as an example of this his arguments about the Nueces. The Go vernment of Washington, as is well known, insisted that the Nueces were not the western boundary line of Texas. The Government of Mexico, as is equally well known, insisted that they were. And here comes Mr. POLK, with a triumphant self-satisfaction, to prove conclusively that the United States were in the right, and the Federal Government of Mexico in the wrong. " Our army," he says, in a tone of sublime victory, " had occupied a position at Corpus Christi, west of Nueces, as early as August, 1845, without complaint from any quarter." There's a decisive fact for you! American battalions had marched beyond the disputed lire of demarcation " without complaint from any quarter!" Why, an argument more exqui sitely puerile than this was never penned. The Nueces were passed " without complaint from any quarter !" No wonder there was no com plaint. The Russian Cabinet uttered no complaint when the great army of the Emperor NAPOLEON had passed the boundaries of the Duchy of Warsaw, and was advancing upon Moskowa ; they concentrated their regular troops, and harassed the invaders with clouds of Cossacks. When JULIUS CXSAR landed upon the Sandwich flats, the an cient Britons never complained; they mounted their war-chariots and brandished their spears. When CLIVE penetrated into India, lIERNAN CORTEZ into Mexico, JUNOT into Portugal, Hoene into La Vendee, their opponents never complained ; they mustered all their available forces, and prepared themselves by every means to drive their assailants beyond the frontiers. That was the course adopted by the Mexicans. They tarried until the first fitting opportunity pre sented itself for wreaking their vengeance upon those who had disregarded the barrier of the 'lstueces. Besides which Mexico protested altogether against the occupation of any portion what ever of Texas. The plea upon which Mr. President FOLK has endeavoured to justify his proceedings towards the neighbouring republic is utterly inadmissible. He has, in this Messgge, built up a fabric of arguments apparently of adamantine strength, but really of the most perishable brittle ness. It may resist the assaults of imbecility and credulity, but it crumbles down at the mere breath of Reason. It is gratifying to turn from the loquacious folly of the bulk of the Message to the sensible and plain-spoken remarks at its conclusion. Upon the Mexican question, Mr. POLK is as gro tesque and extravagant as any dancing dervish ; upon the free-trade question, lie is marvellously staid and respectable. Referring to the recent triumphs over monopoly in the two hemispheres, he observes:— " By the simultaneous abandonment of the protective policy by Great Britain and the United States, new and important markets have already been opened for our agricultural and other products ; commerce and navi gation have received a new impuse ; labour and trade Have been released from the artificial trammels which have so tor ' , fettered them ; and to a gr ea t ex t en t re ciprocity, in the exchange of commodities, has been in . trodueelint the same time by both countries,studgreatly for the benefit of both." And, beyond this, he remarks, very truthfully, but very ungrammatically, that "it is confidently be lic2ved that other Powers of Europe will ultimately see the wisdom, if they be not compelled by the pau- perim purs s ue anda similar of their ro tt:iioue.),.,, Itm e ust wded population, notbeoverlook t ed o , no t however so t „ h t o l a o t u e l. .l4 e eg ra i sl di a c t a u t e r e d of t thhee abuses United o S f t t a y t h e a s t h a i s s miscalled Protection as the Parliament at West minster has done. In England, we have already more freedom o f importation and exportation than that enjoyed by the Americans ; and we have, moreover, in England what they have not in America, namely, a prospective guarantee for the realisation of a perfect emancipation to commerce. The Americans blve lopped off the branches of the mercantile I.Tpas, whereas we have torn it up, roots and branches. In two years and a few months its last frag ments will be destroyed, and its existence virtually tun-gotten. If President POLK only facilitate the in troduction of the full principles of free trade into the American code, he will in some measure expiate his previous conduct. The dispatch which Earl GRET has addressed to the Governor of New Zealand is, unquestionably, a document of great ability and importance. As a ' colony New Zealand presents features of remarkable interest to the contemplation of the Englishman. It is rendered peculiarly striking by a consideration of its points of close resemblance to those which are prominent in the British isles. By its geographical and insular position, by its geological characteristics and resources, its capacious and excellent harbours, its healthy cli mate, fertile soil, and large afforested tracts of land, New Zealand seems to have been marked out by na ture to fulfil tbe same glorious destiny in the other hemisphere, which, in our own in particular— not to speak of her national triumphs of civilisa tion in more distant parts of the universe—has been so magnificently accomplished by the imperial sway of Great Britain. Dependent as we are for our national supremacy upon the extent and strength of our colonies, the reck less indifference with which the home authorities have at times regarded them, particularly during their infantile state, is highly censurable, and scarcely to be believed. The consequence has been that perplex ing evils of considerable magnitude have sprung up, which could easily have been averted had the mother country paid but ordinary attention to the solemn duties naturally incident to, and coincident with, the assumption of sovereignty over territories either newly discovered or conquered by the sons of civilization. Ce n'est ,;ne le premier pas qui route ; and had the go vernance of New Zealand, shortly after its attachment to the Crown of these realms, been placed in the hands of men well skilled in national jurisprudence, and properly versed in the principles of our constitution ue should have already been reaping the fruits of a gradual, systematic, and felicitous development of the physical resources and the social prosperity of the numerous emigrants to this important colony. Instead of this, we have throughout only witnessed miserable distractions, and perpetual heartburnings between the governors and the go verned of a kindred race. The truth is, that the Ex ecutive and the Legislature of Great Britain re mained culpably inactive with respect to the welfare of New Zealand, and displayed naught but a sluggish indifference to the establishment of any sound and permanent bodies politic, till the genius and enter prise of the British merchant and capitalist had in vested her with an importance that effectually de manded the zealous attention of the responsible ad visers of the Crown to the growing wants of an ill organized yet rapidly increasing community. When the home authorities had, by these means, been quickened into action, a petty, piecemeal, and inter meddling spirit was exhibited in the place of any comprehensive, well-digested scheme of colonial ad. ministration. Nothing of vigour pervaded our councils in Downing -street. No bold outlines of policy were traced for extrication from past difficul ties and errors, and for giving stability to the political progress of the English settlers. Contrariwise, our State nurses resorted to timorous, weak, and ineffective measures ; ill calculated to dissolve anarchic factions and still the swelling animosities between the aborigines and the emigrants on the one hand, and the Government and the emigrants on the other. In 1840 a charter was granted devoid of symmetrical authority. • It had the negative merit of distributing power between the New Zealand Company an 1 the Colonial Depart ment, so as effi,saci msly to prevent all harmonious operation for the advantage of the settlers. Anta gonistic forces were ingeniously planned and created with so little of just correspondence to the object in view, that all efficient control for colonial exigencies was placed beyond the reach of either. This unseemly and pernicious state of things was happily put an end to in the last session of Parlia ment; the charter of 1840 was repealed, and an Act , passed for the improved government of New Zealand. By virtue of the latter her MAJESTY has just granted a new charter, the precise nature whereof, and the spirit in which it is meant to be carried into effect, is accurately stated, and elaborately and most ably elucidated, by the instructions contained in the dis patch of Earl GREY, to which we have, in the outset, alluded. As we gave this, and its accompanying docu ments, in extenso, in our columns of the day before yes terday, suffice it, for a summary of them, that the change about to be wrought is a fundamental one ; that it adheres, as closely as circumstances will allow, to the model of our English institutions; that, in one word, it is framed upon the principle of allowing " the settlers to participate much more largely in the business of legislation and local self-government." Independently of the intrinsic value of Lord GREY'S instructions to the colony to which they bear immediate reference, we derive intense satisfaction from the reflection, that there are embodied in them principles of colonial administration of such sound, liberal, and comprehensive significance, that we feel justified in congratulating the country that a new colonial era is auspiciOusly dawning upon us. To the fruitful topic of discussion—whether the ab original inhabitants of any country are entitled to every portion of its soil beyond what they occupy, or have been accustomed to use, vast and fertile as the uncultivated remainder may be Earl GREY has addressed his mind with consummate ability, and (as it seems to us) with unequivocal suc cess. But as this is a subject in which .it would be futile to expect an unanimous concurrence of opinion, as it is one which, if it had been rightly understood in the first instance by our countrymen in New Zealand, would have saved them from many unhappy and profitless dissensions ; and as it is one of the greatest consequence to some of our existing, and may be to many of our future dependencies, we shall take an early opportunity of giving it a fuller considera tion than could be afforded to it within our present limits. A letter from Rome of the 18th says:— "An excessive cold, accompanied by snow, has suc ceeded here the inundation. The population is themore sensitive t o th ese variations of temperature that it is not accustomed to them. A commission has been appointed to distribute aid to those in want of it. The Pope has contributed 2,000 Roman crowns. At one of the late visits of the Pope to the church of the Holy Apostles, the students presented to his Holiness two requests— one, to let the library remain- open on Thursday, the day on which they have most time to study ; and the other, to create two new professorships —of political economy and legal medicine. The Pope at once granted the first, and promised to take the other into conside ration. The first number of the Contemporaneo, a journal destined to promote ideas of progress, made its appearance hero on the 12th. It is to appear every Saturday." At Florence, on the 19th, there was a heavy fall of snow, and the ice was so firm that persons were enabled to skate. The Frankfort Journal contains a letter from Ber lin, dated the 21st, which says : "It appears that the rumours relative to several changes in the constitution of the kingdom, rumours which have been repeated so frequently, will be realised this year to a certain extent. We learn from a good source that the documents relating to these changes are to be published in the beginning of the new year. They relate principally to new enactments concerning the concurrence of the provincial states in financial questions and the vote on the budget, without, how liver, prejudice to the royal prerogative. The march of the Central Government will be facilitated by the concurrence of the representatives of the country. A second document, to be also published at the beginning of 1847, is the edict relating to religion. This docu ment is said to be remarkable for the spirit of tolerance which animates onr Government with respect to all creeds, without, however, affecting or restricting the dominant religion of the country." The Chambers of the States of Hanover have just addressed a petition to the KING, beseeching him to extend the civil rights of the Jews, and parti cularly to abrogate the Impel ial law, passed at Augsburgh in 1571, forbidding Jews to pass to Christians such credits as they might have on other Christians. Madrid papers of the 234 have arrived. The Gageta publishes the agreement entered into between the Government and the Bank of San Fernando. The substance of this agreement, which consists of above twenty articles, is that the Bank will advance to the Government, in the year 1847, the sums re quired for the public service, to the amount of those which the approaching Cortes shall vote. The 3d article of the convention stipulates, that in addition to 67,000,000 reals thus to be monthly supplied, the payment of the half-year's interest on the Three per Cents., due in June, 1847, shall be secured by the bank. The differences in the Cabinet have been, it rs said, pate7aed up for the present. It is rumoured in Madrid that the Carlists are actively stirring in the north and east of Spain. The Heraldo says that all is quiet in Navarre, in the Basque provinces, and in Catalonia, but the Clamor Public° states that large bands of Carlists are scouring the vicinity of Gerona. MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 23.—The Three per Wits. 34, money ; Four and Five per Cents., 21, money ; Debt without Interest, 6i money. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. The Journal des Debats publishes the following, which may be considered as the Ministerial pro gramme for the approaching session : "We need not observe that the question which is about to commence on the 11th of January will excite considerable interest. Foreign affairs will form a pro. minent figure in it. With respect to internal matters, we see only the question of railroads likely to command the attention of the Chambers. We shall first say a word on this subject. Every one now admits that we en deavoured to accomplish too much at a time. The ques tion will then be asked, whose was that fault?—a ques tion that appears to us to be perfectly idle. We have no self-love engaged in it, and we are quite ready to incur our share of the blame, if fault there be. We shall be in good and numerous company, fur who is there amongst the Opposition, as well as amongst the Ministerial members, who has not demanded a railroad? For ten years we proceeded too slowly, or rather we did not move. Thanks to the ma noeuvres of political parties, ten years were lost; and when. at last, the Opposition perceived that it was impossible longer to refuse the country a means of civilisation and strength, of which the least progressive Gcvernments began to avail themselves, a general avidity succeeded to languor and inertness. We do not com plain too much of that. That aridity was perhaps necessary in order that the work should be commenced, and it will be at present more easy to regulate and to moderate the movement than it was to give to it the first impulse. Every one, or at least every sensible and impartial man, admits, further, that if we wish to finish what has been commenced, we must offer the com panies less onerous conditions and more certain advan tages. A year since nothing but enormous profits were seen in conjunction with railroad speculations. These profits assumed incalculable proportions in certain imaginations, and hence it was sought to anticipate and to clip the gains which the companies were to realise. In fact, many adjudications could not take place, the companies not having presented themselves. Each party made its calculations, the profits vanished as if through enchantment, and the conditions terrified the most hardy speculator. The greater numbest of the railroad com panies are more or less in a suffering state. We do not wish, at present, to enter further Into the questlon - ; but it is manifest that something must be done. It may be said, that we are defending the interests of the bankers and capitalists ; but we regard not that. We believe we are now defending the interests of the public, who require railroads, and railroads well constructed, well maintained, and well served. As to the bankers and capitalists, we never could discover what the public or the Government could gain by rejecting or ruining them. This is the question of internal order which demands an urgent solution, and as hich will necessarily take its place in the legislative deliberations of this 'year. We are aware that other questions had been placed on the order of the day during the last session—such as a postal re form, a reduction of the stamp duties, and the salt-tax. We ourselves, a year since, believed that some of those reforms were ripe, and we trusted that the session of 1847 would not pass without an attempt being made to realise what has been so long demanded, and which was so successfully attempted in England —we refer to a postal reform. A bad harvest and the deplorable inun dations of the autumn compel us to abandon that expectation. Any experiment would be rash. We cannot think of diminishing the public revenue at a moment when the Treasury is called on to pro vide for the disasters caused by the inundations and the dearness of provisions. A financial :kites quo is required by the most ordinary prudence. A crisis exists less pro found, we believe, and less alarming than certain persons are pleased to represent. Still, however, we must not incur the risk of increasing it by attempting any hezard ous project. The best rer :tens, in order to succeed, re quire to be opportune. Consequently no reform can be attempted this year. The qu stion of our foreign rela tions remains to be consid red We have no need to direct public opinion to their imp atance. All Europe is still excited by the destruction of Cracow, and every on, is aware that the Spanish marriages have caused a dif ference between the French and English Cabinets, which, in fifteen days, will be publicly discussed. The almost simultaneous meeting of the two Parliaments will be a solemn moment. We do not dread it; we rather expect it with impatience. There are certain persons who believe and who hope, perhaps, that those debates will contribute still inure to render a rupture between the two countries inevitable, but we believe and trust the contrary. We are , coevinced that facts will gain by being investigated, and that the difficulties will diminish at the tribune, and that the real interests of the two ecuntrics, the causes and the permanent reasons which tend to bring them together, having only to combat a passing irritation and frivolous dislike, must easily obtain the advantage ! A great ex periment is about to be made on this occasion before the eyes of all Europe. Two Parliaments are about to find themselves engaged. The feet has already been proved, that the greatest liberty of discussion is not incom patible with public order. On this occasion it is be tween two Governments aed two nations that a debate is about to commence. Shall this discussion be compatible with the maintenance of external peace ? Shall it serve to embitter or to calm the passions ? Shall it demon strate, in favour of absolute Governments, that diplomatic and international question in order to arrive at a forte nate conclusion, must be treated between oric , Gallicet and another ill the shape of Along ; or, public discus sf ahvno is t o h f e free t n at mode s , 0 tf f have become envenomed from int stery ? We repeat that hat concludingt the light the h o e d a i fficultics which it is a solemn trial, on which, perhaps, depends the liberty of Europe. We are firmly confident that the result of the trial will be in favour of liberty. A great session is preparing, the greatest, according to all appearance which we have had during 15 years. Foreign politics will predominate over all other questions. An immense task is imposed upon the illustrious man who directs our Foreign Department. We answer for it beforehaed that he will be found equal to it. With M. Guizot for her Minister,France has not to fear any competitor at the tribune, nor any rivalry of reason or of eloquence 1" The announcement in this article, that the state of the revenue is such as to render necessary the post - ponement of all the projected measures of financial reform, and the admission, by the Ministerial organ, of the existence of a financial crisis, have produced a feeling of uneasiness on the Bourse and a great fall in the French funds. The Presse is highly indignant with the English in general, and with Lord PALAIERSTaN in particular, because the Count DE MONTEMOLIN has not been treated in England after the fashion in which he was treated in France. Surely the personal experience of the KING of the FRENCH ought to have taught him that, whatever may be the custom of his own country men, the English, at all events, show deference and respect to the misfortunes of fallen Princes, and are more punctilious in according to them a reception due to their rank when they are under a cloud, than they are when they visit the shores of England as sovereigns de facto. The Courier du Havre announces that the Minister of Finance has signed a contract with the Company Herout and Handell (subject to the ratification of the Chambers) for the establishment of a service of correspondence between Havre and New York, by means of four steamers furnished by the Govern ment. It is said that the KING of the FRENCH has as: ured Lord NORMANEY that no allusion shall be made to the Blontpensier marriage in the reply to the address of the Corps Diplomatique on New Year's-day. The Three p er C en t s . c losed on t h e P ar i s Bourt:e, on Tuesday, a t 8 0f. 55c. ; the F i ve per Cen t s., 1181 45c. ; the Orleans R a il road Shares, 1,262 f. 50c • Rouen, 923 f. 75c, ; Havre, 683 f. 75c.; Great Northern, 652 f 50c. ; Avignon, 882. f. : 50c.; Vierzon, 6151. ; Bordeaux, 568 f. 75c.; Troyes and Alontereau, 3401. ; Basle, 221 f. 25c.; Paris and Lyons, 5121. 50c ; Lyons and Avignon, 4851. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 450 f. Spanish Actives, .14 ; Ditto Three per Cents., 381 ; Ditto Dome tic Debt, 32 3 / 4 . DlAinsmr.t.ss, DEC. 24.—Marseilles and Avignon, 8851.; Northern, 645 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 5101. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEcrmnEn 30. Great Western Canada, 312 Luxembourg, 3 / 4 —Northern of France Constituted, 104—Orleans and Vierzon, Orleans and Bordeaux, 8 1 4—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 84—Paris and Orleans, 49 -1 7 —Paris and Rouen, :3C—Rouen and Havre, 261/2. RIMY LANE. —The unwearied xertionq of Mr. Bunn have been most liberally rewarded. St. George and the Dragon has proved a trump card to the treasury. In conjunction with Balfe's successful cp2rl of The Bondman, the h ouses are crowded, not only with hilarious juveniles, but with delighted children of a larger growth. The pantomime, from the pen of One ef the best authors of the class, promises to be one of t h e most successful that has appeared for many years. All concerned do their spiritings gently, and densely crowded audiences nightly reward the manager's liberal efforts. The new drama at the Adelpbi of CoZomba, or the Corsican Sister, increases nightly in attraction, cotm blued with the wonderful performances of Lees and his pupils, and the delightful seri° burlesque of The Phan tom Dancers. By-the-way, the beautiful little pony, Comi Bacliee, which perkrms so cleverly in the drama of Co!oink is the pet pony of Master Benjamin Webster, the lessee's eldtst son, and is one of the true Shetland breed. . _ CHEAP RE-PUBLWATION OF IMPORTANT WORKS. —Mr. Colburn has this dly published Part 1. of the cheap re-issue of " The Nelson Letters and Dispatches," to be completed in fourteen monthly parts, price only ss. each. The " Nelson Letters," (observes the Globe) will het eafter be the manual of the sailor, as the sister service has found a guide in the Dispatches of the Duke of Wellington. The first part of tie re issue of Burke's " llistory of the Landed Gentry," to be com pleted in ten monthly part s , p r i ce 55., is also now ready. Thi s is a work in which every gentleman will find a domestic interest, as it contains the fullest account of nearly every known family in the United Kingdom. Lord Stanley has issued cards to a distinguished circle of Protectionist Peer:;, inviting their presence at a grand banquet, to be given by his Lordship on the even ing of the 18th proximo, the day before the opening of Parliament. „..:. . .Neer . , - • lila'', ~ , , .6,ii, 4., - ,',„ ! , _... . 1 1lPllpA n ,, ~,,, xe , , ,, 1,... ...,, t e - ,:t - ,‘ , / , , ,, •• z ...., -•-• • , itc, ~, .W.. ',... 0 ,7 , - ..J.V09 . ast, dr , . .\,, ”. :-.''''';7; 47 •MO ";',O ~,,;',.- ~ • • , 2 , .v . ....t.: ) 0 16 --,-..i. - 4 4!--,- ''' " 4 " .' '''''.... ING, JANGARY 1 , 4817 ERICAN N W:3. ARRIVAL OF THE CALEDONIA. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING. Th.!)yal Mal steamer Caledonia, Captain E. G. t, Avith the u-ual mails and thirty-three passengers, arrived in the River late last night. We have by her New York pipers to the 15th, and Boston the IGth inst., her day of sailing. In its summary of news for the . steamer, the Net, York Colrier says the President's: Message will have been read by most of your readers. In commenting on its contents, the Courier arid Inquirer ob serves—The cost of the war is, and is likely to be, according to the estimates of the Message, smaller considerably than was apprehended. The proposition to impose duties on tea and coffee, as a war measure, which was anticipated by our remarks by the last steamer, will doubtless be acceded to by Congress, and will add nearly three millions of dollars to the revenue. In other respects the tariff will re main untouched. Indeed, at this session of Congress, which terminates, by its own limitation, on the 4th of March, there will not be time for any other than indispensable legislation, and the usual quantum of talking. The deficit in the finances until the close of the financial year in June, 1848, and supposing the war to con tinue until then, is estimated, over and above the receipts from new duties and the old ones, at about nineteen millions of dollars—which it is proposed to borrow for a term of twenty years. This sum, it is estimated, w ill allow, if the estimates from other sources turn out accurate, a sum of four millions of dollars to remain at all times in the Treasury, as a security against any sudden de mands or unforeseen contingencies. The ex penditures for the present fiscal year, ending 30th June, 1847, are estimated at fifty-five and one half million of dollars—the receipts at fifty and one half millions, of which ten millions from 1, ans and treaury notes. The means for the following year, ending 30. h June, 1848, are estimated at 32,000,000 dolls., of which 28,000,000 dolls. train customs. The ex penditures are estimated at 45,781,000 dolls. The deficit of the two years amounts, it Will be seen, to about eighteen millions of dollars. This will be diminished by the amount of the new duties that shall be received from tea and c , ffie; but on the other hand, as the estimated expenditures du not include any extraordinary appro priations except for the military and naval service, whatever beyond this be appropriated, will pro tunic in crease the deficit. Of the war, there ere no new incidents of special in terest to be narrated. At the date of the 14th ultimo, General Wool's army was quietly encamped at Mon cloys. Saltillo has been taken possession of without resistance by General Worth and his brigade, and Gen. Taylor, after leaving garrisons at Monterey and Saltillo, was, it is said by the latest accounts, to the 19th ult., about to march to Tampico, leaving San Luis de Potosi unapproached. Already a military garrison, from Point Isabel, and from New Orleans, occupied Tampico, of which the unresisted and bloodless capture by our naval forces, has been heretofore communicated. Concerning General Scott. who left this city some fortnight ee-o, to take the command in chief of opera tions in Mexico,' there are not yet any tidings, nor is the field of his future operations at all ascertained, al though opinion points out Vera Cruz and the Castle of St. Juan de Ulloa as the objects he will first reduce by land operations. From Santa Fe the dates are to the 21st Oct. The city was quiet, and American possession acquiesced in, if not eppruved. A portion of the garrisemi was about to march to the Navijo country, lying between the hurl waters of the Del Norte and those running to the Pacific, with a view to bring the hostile natives to terms. After that the main body, eaving a sufficient garrison at. Santa Fe, are to march on Chihuahua. In cammeicial affairs there is considerable activity. Cotte n, since the last dates from Europe by the Cale donia to the 19th ult., have steadily advanced both in prices and in demand, while for Bread Stuffs, the prices have declined—but the demand is still great, and very conside ruble shipments have been made and are making, to Europe ; and more will go forward during e the winter and lux , . spring, if prices in Europe shall not recede materially curing the interval. Money is in demand, but not scarce. There is timi dity among the banks, mainly because of the operations of the law which exacts coin in payment of all dues to the United States, and locks it up while in the Treasury. This takes from the banks the command of coin, and of course exposes them, in the event of any sudden calls, to difficulties. Until the law be repealed or suspended, there will be distrust in our Money Market. The modifications proposed to this law lie , the Secre tary of the Treasury, of using bills of exchange on Eng land, as a means of obtaining coin in Mexico, and of resorting to drafts in remittances of money from point to point within our own territory, instead of displacing specie each time, will, if sanctioned by Congress, strip it of some of its injurious tendency ; but while the clause remains in force exacting specie for all payments at the Custom-hou:e, which specie is to be withdrawn from circulation and Leked up until needed, there will be un easiness among business men. The exchange on England ranges from 6 to 61 ; though there have been transactions at si. The ex pectation still is, that a considerable amount in coin must necessarily, in such a :Awe of the exchanges, find its way hither from England. CONIMERCIAL NEWS. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, DEC. ILL The Stock - mai ket was heavy this morning, and but little disposition wa , manifested to operate. Foreign Exchange was in fair request, and bills on France sold freely. The supply, however, was ample, and the market generally shows no improvement in rates. Flour, &c.—Western Canal is held at 5 dolls. 37ie. to 5 dolls. 50u. The sales to-day have been limited, as shippers will not give the advance asked by holders. Southern Flour is held within the same range. Before the close of the business "on 'Change," about 5,000 barrels of Western Flour sold at 5 dollars 37k cents. Genesee Flour is held at 5 dolls. 50c., but we do not hear of any important sales at that price. A few lots of Ohio, &c., have been sold at 5 dolls. 371 c. ; George town, &c., is held at 5 dolls. 37kc. to 5 dolls. 50c. 10 000 bs i skets of Barley sold at 60c.; 3,000 bushels new Southern Corn 61c. a 6lic., measure. 190 hhds Cuba Muscovado .Sugar sold at Bc., on the usual time. Ashes—Steady at Saturday's prices. Cotton—We have no alteration to notice in the market. The sales are moderate. Provisions are in limited demand. Mess Pork is held firmly at 9 dolls. 50c. ; rrime, 8 dolls. Beef is dull at Gi dolls. to 7 dolls. 50c. for mess, and 5 dolls. 871 c. to 6 dolls. 25c. for prime. Lard, 71 to 71c. in barrels and kegs. Butter and Cheese remain without alteration. Naval stores remain perfectly inactive in consequence of the high rates of fteight, valich are—To Liverpool, 7s. 6d. fur Cotton in spare, and ss. Bd. in round bales ; Turpentine, 55.; and Flour, 4s. 6d. per bbl.; Grain, 15d. per bushel. To London—Naval stores, ss. 6d., and Flour, ss. per bbl. To Havre—Cotton, lie. to lic. per lb.; Ashes, 10 dolls. to 12 dolls. per ton ; Rice, 12 dolls. Fer ton. Flour, 1* dolls. to 11 doll. per bbl. Since the dispatch of the accounts by the packet ship Ashburton, the packet-ship John It. Skiddy, Captain Luce, has arrived in the Mersey with advices feom New York to the 13th inst. inclusive. The run was made in the remarkably short space of 16 days, and const quer.tly the advices momentarily expected by the mail steam-ship Caledonia will be but two days later than those now received. The present accounts are not unimportant. The general aspect of the war had undergone no material change. The operations of the American forces had been chiefly confined to an advance against Satan°, the investment of Monclova, and the garrisoning of Tampico; while in Mexico, if we may judge from the indistinct and almost incredible statements con tained in the American journals, fresh disorders have broken forth, to prcstrate the country still deeper before its enemy. Our accounts from Washington extend to the close of the 10th instant. The proceedings of the Senate since the opening of the session on the 7th had been almost or entirely confined to the transaction of ordi nary business; and a resolution of instruction to the Military Committee to inquire into the propriety of granting 160 acres of land to each volunteer serving in the war, and of increasing the pay, had been adopted, and a Bill had been introduced to organize a territorial government over the Oregon. The pro ceedings of the House of Itepresentittives were more i►.teresting, and a sharp discussion upon the Mexican war took place on the 9th instant, upon a motion of Mr. Davis, calling upon the President fur copies of all orders to generals and commodores relative to the establishment of civil governments in territories con quered during the war. The question upon the adop tion of this resolution having come up, Mr. Harolson, of Georgia, presented, as au amendment, the words— " if not incompatible with the public interests," as the publication of the official correspondence might prove detrimental to the national interests, by giving the enemy possession of the views and plans adopted in the prosecution of hostilities. Mr. Davis, dis claiming any such intention, then proceeded to speak at length, to the effect, that if it appeared the President had acted contrary to the constitution, he (Mr. Davis) was prepared for such ulterior mea sures as the integrity of the constitution and the safety of the Union might demand. Mr. Douglass, of Illinois, then rose, and invited a full investigation of the conduct of the Executive.• If by " ulterior measures" Me. Davis and the Opposition contem plated the impeachment of the President, they would have ' full latitude. In ordering the es tablishment of temporary governments in con quered territories the President had only per formed his duty. Mr. Davis replied, that power to establish military regulations for governing posses- s 7( ns held by right of conquest was admitted, but there was no right to establiah civil governments in such possessions, and he challenged the President to roduce such a right. Mr. Rhett, of South Ca rolina, remarked that the occupation of Califor nia and New Mexico being merely military, the conduct of the G overnment was perfectly justi fiable. Mr. Harolson withdrew his amendment. Mr. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, denounced that portion of the Message in which the justice of the war is advocated, and the boundary of Texas de• fended. Mr. Vinton, of Ohio, moved to amend' the resolution so as to inquire whether any part of the conquered territories belonged to Texas. Mr. Holmes, olSouth Carolina, followed in defence of the Go vernment. Mr. Darragh, of Pennsylvania, obtained the floor, when the house adjourned. On the 10th the discussion was resumed, the motion being so modified as to make further demandsof the President, calling on him to state, through the Secretary at War, whether the present war with Mexico was wapd with a view to conquest, or to what extent he designed to prosecute it. It was also added, that the information communicated should he received with closed doors. Mr. Darragh spoke in favour of the resolution. Mr. Stanton, of Tennessee, contended that the resolution had for its object designs much deeper than appeared on the face of it, and he de fended the course of the President. The question under consideration was answered in the Message The war was not one of conquest, but was solely to enforce justice on Mexico. Other speakers followed; and, finally, the question was informally passed over, and the House ad ourned to the 14th instant. This attack upon the Executive was thought to be the prelude to a more serious onslaught at some future and not distant Sate. The American forces, since the last advices, had gained some trifling advantages. Accounts from .Tampico to the 28th ultimo, containing indistinct accounts from the interior of Mexico, had been re ceived at New Orleans, by the St. Mary' s . Th e y are thus given in the New York journals : The St. Mary's sailed from Tampico on Saturday, the 28th ult , at three P.m., arrived off the Rio Grande del Norte at five A.m. cn the 30th; landed Adjutant Austin, 3(1 Artillery, at Brazes, at ten A.M., and sailed for the Belize, where &re made the light at South-west Pass at one P.M., D, , c. 1. The stea:ner Neptune arrived at Tampico, Nov, 22, with 450 regular troops, under the command of Colonel Gates. The steamer Sea arrived with more troops on the 23d, when the town was handed over to the army. Fort Orondaga was immediately garrisoned under the name of Fort Connor, and armed with two long 8-pounders. A battery of two 42-pounder carronades was called Fort Ann, in honour of Mrs. Chase, lady of the late American Consul at Tampico. This lady behaved most nobly, showing to the world that she was a patriot under all circumstances. When our small vessels were about. to approach the town of Tampico, she ran up our flag in defiance of the alcaide and other officers. Some time before Mrs. Chase wrote to Commodore Con nor, informing him the place could be taken, and gave drawings of the harbour. Besides the cannon above-mentioned, some field pieces are mounted on the house-tops. The Neptune sailed from Tampico on the 24th ult., and encountered a norther, was driven back, and wrecked on the bar. All hands saved. The vessel is a total loss. The town of Tampico is already in a state of defence. Reinforcements are arriving daily. Saltillo has been abandoned, and there is no doubt that it is now in possession of the adranct d guard of the army under General Worth. The condition of Mexico is represented to he even worsc than it has ever been. Sante Anna late ly made an address to his troops, ap • parently to extrect from them an invitation to reinstate himself at the head of the Government. lle was disap itited, however, at finding that his oration was received in profnuel si le nee ; and immediately afterwards he started with his cavalry on a secret expeditien. Some think it was to cut off one of the divisions of our army, which h' will not be 1 kely to find. The most probable conjecture is that he is gone to Mexico to cen tred the action of the new Congress. The St. Mary's left over the bar of Tampico the Potomac, the Princeton, and the John Adams, with some small vessels off the town of Tampico. She left the steamer Sea ashore abreast of the town on a mud bank. She passed the Mississippi 60 miles north of Tampico, bound out. The officers of the St. Mary's are all well. A letter from Pensacola, of the 7th of December, to the _Picayune, says,—that Captain Tetuan, with the steamer Spi.fire, had gone up the river 60 or 70 miles from Tampico, and taken possession of two towns, at one of which he captured 10 large cannons, and a he avy quantity of ammunition, which had been re ceived from Tampico, when the Mexicans retreated from that city. The two reciments which evacuated that place revolted when they got to San Luis Potosi, and were disbanded. They were opposed to Santa Anna. Great dissensions prevailed at San Luis Potosi. The army, about 16,000 strong, were in a state of star vation. There were four different factions. The United States brig Porpoise, Captain Hunt—ar rived at Pensacola on the Ist of December, about seven o'clock, in eight days from Tampico—reports the squa dron all well. There was nct the shadow of a Mexican in arms to be seen; no opposition of any kind. Troops were art-is:rig daily, and armaments of all kinds landing at Tampico. The inhabitants seem perfectly satisfied with the change. There were a great many merchantmen with assort( d cargoes in port. There was a severe gale on the 18th ult., and the John Adams, St. Mary's, and a British man of-war brig, the Darien, were blown off the coast; they have, however, returned, without sus taining any damage. Captain Ingraham came passenger in the Porpoise, and is bearer of dispatches to our Go vernment at Washington. An attempt was made by the captain of the Darien to claim the gun-boats and schooner of the Mexicans as British property, and he persisted in it until admonished by Commodore Connor, when he reluctantly yielded, and abandoned his absurd pretensions. The streets of Tampico were thronged with American citizens. All was bustle, and business brisk. Accounts from the Army of the Left at Monterey have been received to the 11th of November. The orders of the Government disapproving the armistice reached there on the 3d, and immediately General Taylor dispatched Major Graham to Saltillo, to confer with the Mexican camp, and inform them that each party was at liberty to act as it might think lit. Not an officer nor a soldier was to be seen at San tillo. Major Graham had an interview with the Governor, and informed him that the armistice was at an end, and requested him to dispatch the intelli gence to the Mexican Commander-in-Chief at San Luis Potosi. The Governor desired Major Graham to proceed to San Luis and deliver his messag ; but that officer's instructions being peremptory; he re turned to Monterey ; and on the 13th General Taylor, with General Worth, 1,000 regulars, infantry, a bat talion of artillery, and two squadrons of cavalry, left for Saltillo. S'To opposition was anticipated, and General Taylor was expected to return to Monterey, after ascertaining the prospects of an advance for the main force along that route to San Luis Potosi. Re ports were current at Matamoras that a Mexican force had appeared at Victoria, and it is stated in some journala that an American force had been dispatched against them. American settlers were commencing to locate on the northern bank of the Rio Grande. From the Army of the Centre, we learn that on the 30th the Mexican town of Monclova was quietly invested. The Governor and a number of the prin• cipal citizens formed an escort, and met General Wool about four miles from the city, welcomed him as a friend, and placed at his disposal for his head-quarters one of the best houses in the town. The army was •in excellent health. Reports had reached Monclova that the city of Chihuahua also had been invested by a detachment of the Army of the Right from Santa Fe, under Colonel Doneghan. The American journals throw doubts upon the last statement. The latest accounts from the Army of the Right are dated Fra Christobal, 205 miles south of the capital of New Mexico. From Santa Fe we have advices to the 20th of October. The Mormon levy had arrived, and left on the 18th for California. The city was in a frightful state; scarcely a day passed without the perpetration of some outrage by the Americans, and signs of Mexican retribution were not unfrequent. Supplies were becoming extremely scarce ; and, en route from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe, a train of 30 Government waggons had been totally plundered by the Indians. At Bent's Fort there were, however, considerable quantities of stores. From the Pacific, or the interior of California. here are no later accounts. The miscellaneous accounts bearing upon the war are interesting and numerous. Many manifestations of increased energy upon the part of the Govern.. ment were being — made. Several merchant ships and vessels had been purchased by the Government for the national service. Commodore Stewart, it was stated, would shortly proceed in the line-of-battle ship Ohio to take command in the Gulf, with a view to operate against Alvarado, or probably San Juan de Ulloa itself; and the volunteer regiments were almost all completed. That Pennsylvania had, in fact, set out for the scene of war. Great fears were entertained that the Atlantic would be filled with privateers. Letters confirmatory of these fears, it is stated by the New Orleans journals, had been received in that city from Havannah. The recom mendation of the President that Congress should im mediately provide by law for the issue of letters of marque and reprisal had been received with great disapprobation in New York. The New Orleans merchants had opened large trading operations with Tampico. The journals of that city state that several cargoes had sailed, and that others were preparing to leave. The Yucatan schooners Ven tura and Joaquin), recently captured as prizes, had been released at New Orleans, by order of the Go vernment, on the ground that the neutrality of Yucatan. had not terminated at the time of their capture. A third schooner had been seized ; it was anticipated that she, on the contrary, would be irre coverably " annexed." Th• Washington Union states, that since the battles of May laq, no 1 , , , t‘.5. than 800 ; 000 volunteers bad proinred their services in the war. Mr. Calhoun ha d been re-elected to the United States Se mate for a tern of six years, from the 4411 of March nett, by the Leghdature of South Carolina. The Virginia Legislature assembled on the 7th instant. The finances of the state, according to tue message of the Governor, were in a satisfactory state ; the expulsion of all free persons of colour is recom mended, and internal improvements, in point of rail roads, to develop the riches of the great south western valley of Virginia are urged. The Mexiciui war must not terminate, " except by concessions of territory by the offending power." The freedom of commerce is maintained. The Mormon disturbances had been quieted. The Secretary of the Treasury had decided, that the operation of the new tariff commenced on the Ist instant. Commercial accounts are interesting. We annex below the usual reports of the New York and other markets. The Caledonia reached Boston on the sth, and her accounts were published in New York on the morning of the 7th (Monday). We extract from the Albany journals the following table of flour, wheat, barley, and corn at tide water, during the fourth week of November, in the years 1845 and 1846: Flour. Wheat. Corn. Barley. 1846, 144,450 bls. 122,759 Mi. 42,518 bu. 41,295 bu. 1845, 179,350 bls. 197,269 bu. 1,400 bu. 80,021 bu. Decr. 34,900 Ws. 74,590 bu. Then 41,118 bu. Deer. 38,726 bu. The aggregate receipts of the same articles at tide water, from the commencement of navigation in 3845 and 1846, to and inclusive of the fourth week of November, were:— Flour. Corn. Barley. 1846, 3,003,050 bls. 2,923,664 bu. 1,586,631 bu. 1,421,147 bit. 1845, 2,487,587 bls. 1,581,492 bu. 33,778 bu. 1,151,90 k bu. Incr. 515,463 bls. 1,342,172 bu. 1,552,853 bu. 269,238 bn. The comparative excess of wheat this year over the supplies of the correspondent period •of 1845, being thus equal to 783,897 barrels of flour. "It will be seen," says the Argus, " that the receipts of flour at tide water exceed the estimate we made a few weeks ago of 3,000,000 barrels. The receipts at tide water of flour alone will exceed those of last year V over 500,000 barrels, those of 1844 by over 800,000 barrels, and those of 1843 by over 1,000,000 barrels. The gross receipts at tide water last year were : Flour, 2,506,125 barrels; wheat, 1,477,125 bushels; corn, 33,778 bushels; barley, 1,134,646 bushels. The exports of breadstuffs, &c., from New York during the week ending Dec. 3, inclusive, were as follows TO BEAT BRITAIN. Flour ••• •• 30,350 barrels ...... • Corn Meal ... ... ... 1,196 „ Pork 502 „ ••• • • ... Hams 56,010 lb. ••• Beef ••• ••• ... 451 tierces Beef ... ... ... 276 barrels Peas ••• ••• 4,001 bushels Lard ••• ••• 65,882 lb. Corn ... ... ... 44,746 bushels Cheese ... ... ... 248,676 lb. Tallow 19,320 „ Butter .. ... 64,918 „ ••• Theft ••• ••• ... 157 tierces Wheat •• • 44,876 bushels ••• ••• Leather ••• ••• ••• 8,200 lb. Hemp ••• ... 129 bales Whale Oil- ... 8,085 gallons ••• Cotton ... . . ... 2.046 bales To; pntine ... ... 1,910 barrels Hides ••• ••• ... 42,000 lb. Hops ••• •" 21 bales Apples ... ...- 141 barrels Wool ... ... ... 4 bales R. , sin ••• ••• ••• 200 lb. Clover sced .. ... 8,566 „ TO FRANCE. Flour ~, ... ... ... 7,701 barrels Rice ... • • ... 188 tierces Lard ... ... ... 207,4:33 lb. Pork ... ... ... 10 barrels Wheat • ... 17,501 bushels Cotton ... ... ... 2,609 bales ; and a numerous list of miscellaneous articles of cow. merce. Considerable supplies were also forwarded to the West Indies, &c. The following is a tabular statement of exports from Philadelphia during November : TO ENGLAND. Flour Corn Meal Pork ... Beef ... Bread ... Wheat . . Corn Lard ... Tallow ... Butter ... Ham • ... 10,152 bowls ••• ... 5,550 „ ••• •.• 119 •• ••• 48 710 14 „ ▪ ... 40,338 bushels 47,350 „ ▪ 168,824 lb. • ... 130,656 „ ••• ... 5,250 „ 20,250 „ TO F▪ RANCE. Flour . Wheat . ... ... 5,334 barrels ••• ••• 7,422 bushels TO BELGIUM. Flour ... 3,132 barrels. Large supplies were also forwarded thence to the West Indies. Havannah dates to the 25th November had been received in New York by the Spanish war steamer Leon. The Leon visited New York for the purpose of repair, but the journals do not publish any mtzelli' gence. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the New York Journal of commerce.) NEW YCJIK, DEC. 11, HALF-PAST Two, r.lO. Cotton, sales 1,800 bales at 3.8 ct., th e a d vance oss last week. Flour better, 6,000 barrels, from mixed Michigan to Genessee, at 5 dolls. 12ic., to ship; 20,000 bushels were sold yesterday at 5.06 dulls. to 12ic. Wheat 100 c. to 115 c.; rye, 78c. to 80c.; 2,000 bushels new western corn at 61c. in the slip; barley and oats steady. Ashes 4 dolls. 75e. and 5 dolls. 621 c. not brisk. Whisky 21e. to 2l c., tending up. Whalebone is held at 37 and 40c. Linseed Oil is offered at less than 57c., but at present there is no disposition to buy. 200 barrels Lelands Dutches Co. Pork brought 1 3 dolls. 50c., ditto lard, 90. per lb. Pork rather better, say 9 dolls. 37c. to 50ca, and 7 dolls. 75c. sales. Spirits turpentine sold at 43c. in bad order, and at 45c. in good order. The tea sale was well attended, and showed a slight 'improvement all round. Turpentine is nominally 3 dolls., but there are no buyers. Exchanges flat, fancy stocks down, because the Trete sury report does not propose to alter the Sub-Treasury so much as was expected; freights steady. DIEM :SC.—Sales of cotton, 2,000 bales or more ; prices closing to cent. better than last week. Flour-1,000 barrels fancy Genesee sold at 5 dolls. 25c, ' and the sam e was o ff ere d f or l arge parce l s more ; 5 dolls. 12ic. was offered for common brands to P"Y extent; 600 barrels of Howard-street flour sold two days ago at 5 dolls. 1210.; 2,000 bushels of good barley at 55 to 56 cents. Freights are quite firm; engagements were made at 4s. 9d. for flour to Liverpool. NEW ORLEANS, Dl:c. 2. Cotton—Arrived 13,741 bales; cleared for Liverpool 611 bales, Genoa 475, New York 368, Boston 1,238, Philadelphia 139—together 8,331 bales, leaving on hand 122,081 bales. Markets closed heavily, as the advanc ing tendency in freights and declining exchanges pro duce an tinfavourable influence. Present stock from good middling to middling fair, and a decline in these descriptions of * of a cent.; qualities below good mid. Wing are comparatively scarce , f or w hi c h i nqu i ry prin cipally centres, well sustained, also, good fair to fine; sales three days 3,000 bales; middling 9 to 9 4 -1-, good mid. 9i to 9f, mid. fair 9i to q, fair 10 to NFL good fair 11 to 111-. Sugar—Lass animation. Sales, 900 labds.,.. prices rather in favour of buyers, market dull, with an =creas ing stock and downward tendency. Occasional parcels , of very inferior sold at something under; very superior by the " new process," command 7 4 1 c. to 7ic.; Lulk of the sales for the north ; arrived 1,549 hogsheads, ecles,red for New York 271. Molasses—Very good demand; sales three days 1,300 barrels at 23 to 231-; arrived 1,192 barrels, cleared for New Ycrk 241. Tobacco—Without interest ; cleared for Genoa& 105 hogsheads ; stock 4,524 hogsheads. Flour—Monday, Ohio, &c., at 4 dolls. 87ic. to 5 dolls., shippers offering the highest rate, at which the market closes very firmly ; sates of the three days nearly 22,000 barrels ; arrived 15,605 barrels, cleared for New 'York, 414 ; Boston, 2,416 ; Havannah, 606 ; Liverpool, 2,607; London, 7,768. _ _ ' Pork—Good inquiry both for mess and prime, 800 , barrels former at 8 dolls. 70c. to 9 dolls. ; bulk of ;sales at 8 dolls. 30c. to 8 dolls. 900. ; 1,500 barrels prime to a ' shipper at 7 dolls. 50c. to 7 dolls. 80c. ; stock nearly all in the hands of one operator ; stoc k cear 183 barrels ; mess, 6,832 ; MO, 436 ; soft mess, 152 ; prime, 2,596 York, 115 ; Boston, 495 . total, 12,666 barrels ; arr i ve d 1 , 330 ; c l eared for New Beef—Market nearly bare, sales confined to small lots ; arrived 270 tierces ; cleared for Boston 180. 7,c. to 51- c. sid es ; 3 c. to 31 c. for Bacon — Large receipts caused a decline, 450 ca s k s tit 4 shoulders ; hams Sc..to 5; 4 1 c. fur b are , an d 6c. to Bc. f or canvassed and extra sugar. cured. Export demand for lard has been brisk ; prices are supported ; sic, to 70. ordinary to prime, strictly prime 71-c. ; arrived 156 tierces and b arre l s an d 107 k egs ; cleared for New York 939, Boston 2,819, St. Thomas 200. Gunny bags—Demand very moderate ; no large sales ; quote 17c. to 18c. 2i bushels. Whisky—No change ; arrived 1,955 barrels. Corn—Animated; shippers have taken about . 40,000 bushels from 67e. to 70c. for prime lots of yellow or white; market closed with firmness; arrived 2,400 bar rels and 11,255 sacks of corn; cleared for Liverpool, 14,315, Sligo, 4,342 . sacks of c orn . H em p—necorts very light, only sale 168 bales supe rior dew-rotted, at 75 dolls. per ton. Lead—Arrivals rather heavier; most of the lots re ceived arc either for shipment or held at prices which cannot be obtained ; sale 1,250 pigs lower mines at 4 dolls. Lime—Cargo, 1,500 casks Camden at 80 cents. Hay—Without improvement. Tallow firm at 7i to 7i. Exchange—Less inquiry for foreign; sterling 5 to 6 f I I toi feu 1.1