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NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " STORIES OF WATERLOO," &e. . In 3 vols. post Bvo., RIAN O'L INN; 4. OR, LUCK IS EVERYTHING. By W. H. MAXWELL, Esq. Author of " Stories of Waterloo," " Wild Sports of the West," Sze. IS PUBLISI(ED THIS DAY, And may be had at all the Libraries. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. WAGHORN and CO. beg to announce that their Firms in England, India, &c., will CEASE on the 24th December next, tho Peninsular and Oriental Company having super seded their Overland Parcel business. Mr. Waghorn makes this an nonnoement to the Public with the deepest regret, after having opened the Overland Route, and after twenty years' service for their ad veatage. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. lln ler the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING _ _ Will be p erformad Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir An thony Absolute, Mr. Farren ; Captain Absolute, Mr. H Farren ; Faulkland, Mr. Creswick ; Awes, ir. Webster; Sir Litchis O'Trig ger, Mr. Hudson ; Fag, Mr. Rrindal ; Davis,Mr. Keeley ; Ma:aprop, Mrs. Glover; Lydia Languish, Mrs. Nisbett ; Julia, Miss Forteseue; Lucy, Mrs. Humby. After which the new Comic Drama, called THE ROUSED LION. Characters by Messrs. Webster, Howe, Wigan, H. Vanden laoff ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Seymour, and Mrs. Stanley. Te conclude with a new and original Farce, called WHO'S MY HUSBAND ? Doctor Mull, Mr. Tilbury; Daniel Tootles, Mr. Keeley ; Mrs. Smith Thompson, Mrs, W. Clifford ; Sophonisba Mull, Mrs. L. P. Buckingham ; Sally Starch, Mrs. Hamby. Stage Manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Rox-book keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to eommence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be performed, the celebrated Comedy of PAUL PRY. Frank Hardy, Mr. Stoker; Wltherton, Mr. Cullenford ; Somers, Mr. Wor rell; Colonel Hardy, Mr. Lambert ; Mr. Stanley, Mr. Thomas ; Harry Stanley, Mr. Boyce ; Paul Pry, Mr. Wright ; Grasp, Mr. 0. Smith ; Eliza, Miss M. Taylor ; Marian, Miss Emma Harding ; Mrs. Subtle, Mrs Yates ; Phcebc, Mis Woolgar. To be followed by a new Farce entitled THE TIPPERARY LE GACY. Turnem Green, Mr. Wright ; Bob Gills, Mr. Munyard ; Ltnty Scrimmage, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Chubblock. Mr. Cullenford ; Policeman, Mr. Sanders ; Lizzy Chubblock, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with the Farce, entitled THIS HOUSE TO BE SALD ;the property of the late Witham Shakspeare), Inquire With'n. CU racters by Messrs. Wright, Cullenterd, Worrell, 0. Smith, Paul Bed ford, Mrs. Laws, &c., &c. Boxes, 45.; Pit, as. ; Gallery, Is. Knorr open at Ilalf-past Six, l'erform ance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestrie. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Comic Drama called PEGGY GREEN. After which, a new Comic Drama, entitled THE TRAGEDY QUEEN. After which, THE RING DOVES. To conclude with a Co-lic Drains, c...11ed A ROUGH DIAMOND. Drees Boxes, 55.; Upper 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 to the Public every day, from Ten till Six. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Nr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. PRDTCESS'S THEATRE 'Tills EVENING Will be performed Shakspeare's Tragedy of ROMEO AND JITLII. T. Romeo, Miss Cushman ; J4ereutio, Mr. J. VIM 11:; ; Friar Lawrence, Mr. I:y(1er ; Juliet, :Iris Susan Cushman. To conclude with ColcmaL's comedy of THE POOR GENTLE- A.N. Sir Robert Bramble, Mr. J. Gilb;rt (from the principal American theatres) Sir Charles Cropland, Mr. J. Webster ; I Worthington, Mr. Hughes; 011apod, o;r. Compton ; Emily Wor thington, Miss Cooper; Miss Lucretia Mac Tab, Mi:s3 Winstanley. Dress Circle, 55.: Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. FRENCH PIAY.;'.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street. THIS EVENING, Will be presented the Comedic-vaudeville of MANCHE MANCHE. After which, LE REVEIL DU LION. To conclude with LE CHEF-DCEUVRE INCONNU. A detailed prospectus of the general arrangements, and of the pieces which will be produced during the season, may be had at Y, r. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-olce of tha Theatre, which is open daily, from 11 to 5. Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d.; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Galley. , 2s ROTAL SURREY TIILATRE. Lessee, Mrs. F. Daridge, No. 1, Thavidge-terrace, Kensington-road, Surrey. TIIIS EVENING, the performances will commence with the selsbrated Opera of BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR. ledger Ravenswood, Mr. D. IV. King; Colonel Henry Ashton, Mr. }l`Mahon ; Arthur Bucklavy, Mr. Rafter ; Raymond, Mr. S. Jones ; }Turman. M. H. Hematitic; ; Lucy A. , liton, Mrs. D. W. King; Alice, Illsa Collett. To conclude with Shakepeare's Tragedy cf MACBETFI. Duncan, Mr. 11. Ilorecastle ; Macbeth. Mr. El. Hughes ; MacdutT, Mr. T. Fredericks ; Banquo, Mr. F. Vining ; Hecate, Mr. 11. Phillips ; Lady Maebeth. Mrs. W. West. A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been male (which have been re-fitted). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the Principal Librarians; and at the Sox-eflice of the Theatre, which is open daily from Ten until Four. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITIIEATRE, froprletor and Manager, William Batty. Mr. Batty's performing Elephants. TIIIS EVENING The Grand Spectacle of THE CAMP OF SILESIA. Entirely new Scents in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the kletablishment, in the arioua modes 01 equestration. Te conclude with a new Domestic Drama, called THE WHITE FARM. _ _ . . _ . _ In preparation, a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, which will exceed in splendour and effect all former productions at the Amphitheatre, Box-office open from 11 till 5 Acting and ,A.age Manager, Mr. VT West. MEETING of PA RL LAMENT THE THIRD EDITIONS OF "THE SUN" CONTAIN, AS USUAL, THE LATEST PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE, AND ALL OTHER NEWS UP TO THE HOUR OF POST. .* Orders received by all Newsmen, and at the Sun-office, 112, Strand. t 11/I WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 12. THBII3IOMETEB, Lowest, 41; Highest, 50 ; Noon, 49. BAnomETEn, 30.—WIND S .W.; fine. DECEMBER 13. THzitmosnrran, Lowest, 40 ; Highest, 49 ; Noon, 48. BAROMETER, 30.07.—Wrxi; S.S.E.; fine. W.4.TEIt AT LONDOI , T-BRIDGE THIS DAY. g Nforninr.. 14 Wilde after i. Evening .. 35 minutes after 3. , • 4 - • r j a m . „„, 7 4., 4 t ;iii , :,!qi iTtrain 4 :7'.E')ltit. LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1847. The Committee to inquire into the causes of the recent commercial distress is to be nominated this evening. At present it is intended that it should consist of twenty-six members. Many very able and in uential persons are included in the list of which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has given notice. We regret, however, to find that a very large pro portion thereof consist of the most strenuous advocates of the Bank Charter Act of 1844,:while few, if any, of its avowed opponents have been selected ; and although the anti-bullionists now number many Members of Parliament amongst their ranks, we believe that Mr. Sroosusx is the only person professing that class of opinions, or who has placed himself in decided opposition to the Act of 1819, whose name will be proposed to the House. We have never anticipated much benefit to the nation, or indeed any practical results from the intended in vestigation. We have already had five Committees sitting (with a single exception) during five succes sive sessions. Vast cumbers of witnesses were exa mined ; upwards of fourteen thousind questions were asked, and answers returned ; and yet nothing what soever was done—the last Committee having stated, "in reference to the great question involved in the inquiry, that they felt it to be impossible, before the probable termination of the session, to give that consideration to the many im portant points suggested in the evidence which would enable them to report a well-grounded and definitive opinion to the House." Three years after wards the Act of 1844 was introduced on the re sponsibility of the Government of the day, without an y opinion having been pronounced on the enormous mes aof evidence that was taken. The Committee now about to be a ppointed o h ave a st ill more extens i ve geld of inquiry be hope that any conclu sivere hen;and we can scarcely opinion will be p ronounce d O f ever) for a veryc onsid erable time. B u t even as it is, although the most for a n importantindefinite questio n o f th e present day has b een thus shelved the has eva d e d period—although th e Fi nancial Ministeru the responsibility of introd uc i ng re quired by the exigencies of th e nation untilineasre the es mittee shall have made their rep or t (prob ably an o t rn h e . arrival of the Greek Kalends), we shou ld have de sired that the Committee had been differently co P osed ) and .that all varieties of opinion had been represented thereon. Our monetary laws may be maintained in their present condition until another crisis— a panic of still greater intensity, a more universal and wide-spread ruin, and a still greater depreciation of the value of every description . of property—shall arouse the British people from their lethargy, and convince them , b y too p ain fu l Ews v e vri i r p f e, of the absolute folly of sacrificing the --nationtl \ prosperity to the attempt to maintain a gad 2-**94 , }4rdikt a fixed and uniform value, or to have the 7 'f-~ entire internal commerce of the country carried on with a wholly inadequate and insufficient cir culation, and a rate of interest so high as to deprive the manufacturer of the legitimate profits of his industry and enterprise ; but it would be desirable that general confidence should be reposed in the impartiality of the Com mittee, from the result of whose labours some reforms might possibly be introduced. We do not desire to be understood as conveying any doubt as to the in tegrity of the gentlemen that are to be placed thereon, or that they will not return a report in accordance with what they believe to be for the best interests of the country ; but their sentiments are well known, and it will be almost hopeless to attempt to shake their deep-rooted convictions. It would not be very difficult to foretel the nature of the report that would be made by a Committee so constituted. Mr. WAXLEY bas given notice that he will move that the name of Mr. Muir zz should be added thereto, when the Chancel lor of the Exchequer shall bring forward his motion ; and Lord GEORGE BENTINCX has stated that it is his intention to give notice of other names. We trust, however, that Sir CUARLES WOOD will accede to the suggestion of the Member for Finsbury, and that the addition of several new Members, more parti cularly of those who support the Scotch system of banking, may render any division unnecessary, and that all parties, being fully and fairly represented, the House and the nation may feel confidence in the conclusions that may be arrived at. On Friday evening a memorable event for the constituency of Stockport occurred in the Lyceum of that borough. On that evening their illustrious representative, Mr. COBDEN, took his farewell of those electors who first returned him to the Imperial Parliament. Happily, the retirement of Mr. COBDEN from the representation of Stockport has not origi nated from the impediment which was at one period anticipated. His constitution has been so far re invigorated by his continental pilgrimage as to enable hi-n to resume his legislative labours at Westminster, and to sit henceforth in the House of Commons as Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire. There is, consequently, in this movement of our distinguished countryman matter for congra tulation, not merely for the electors of the most populous county constituency in the United Kingdom, and for the Liberal population generally, but even for the inhabitants of the )orough town from the political interests of which the Honourable Gentleman is compelle.l, :n a great measure, to disconnect himself by an irresistable concurrence of circumstances. En receiving the adieux of such a man as the Apostle of Free Trade principles without any manifestation of chagrin, but, on the contrary, with a certain degree of spontaneous enthusiasm, the enfranchised people of Stockport have shown that they have sufficient pa -riotism to sacrifice their own local predilections whenever the advantage of the nation generally seems to be implicated in the selection. And in this particular they constitute a brilliant antithesis to the petulant citizens of Bath. At Bath the gratification of individual prejudices and the triumph of municipal partialities, has been considered as so far superior to the maintenance of a great prin ciple and the benefit of the community at large, as to lead to the rejection of a debater so eminent, and, in his way, so invaluable as Mr. ROEBUCK, and that, moreover, after fifteen years' service within the walls of St. Stephen's. Bath has proved itself to be as ungrateful and as unsteadfast as Stockport has just proved itself to be self-forgetful and patriotic. In t . c.e former a protracted interval of labour is overlooked by reason of its fickleness, and for the satisfaction of a petty and momentary displeasure. In tho latter the admiration inspired by the intelligence, the ardour, the eloquence, and the industry, both physical and intellectual, of a re presentative of only five years' standing, survives his separation from them and his removal to another constituency of greater numerical importance. Such is the contrast afforded by the electioneering proceed ings of Bath and Stockport; such is the selfishness of the one and the magnanimity of the other ; such have been the different receptions of ROEBUCK and COBDEN,—the first sacrificed to the spleen arising from a sentiment of sectarian fanaticism, the la' t welcomed, even in his final appearance before them in his political capacity, with that respect to which he is entitled alike by his celebrity as an orator and his genius as a statesman. To all those gentlemen, dukes, lords, squires, and burgesses who are still devoted to the inanimate idol of Protection; to those pertinacious monopolists whom Mr. COBDEN mentioned in such felicitous terms as "curiosities and eccentricities ;" to Lord STANLEY, to Lord GEORGE BENTINCK, to Sir JOHN TYRRELL, to Mr. MILES, to Mr. NEWDEGATE, and to all the rest of those Parliamentary oddities, who either can't see the folly of their arguments, because of the innate obfuscation of their intellects, or won't see it, because of their intensity of reverence for party ties and party principles—we commend the plain and unanswerable remarks made by Mr. COBDEN, on the occasion of his farewell to the enlightened electors of Stockport. Each sentence is "a palpable hit." Each fact is a homethrust. There is no escape from the inferences drawn by the Mem ber for the West Riding of Yorkshire—inferences as overwhelming to the Protectionists as any ever enunciated by the same lips from the Opposition benches of the House of Commons, or from the stage of Covent-garden Theatre. After observing that there was nowhere discoverable, throughout the country, anything like a re-action in regard to the principles of free trade, and that " every man whom he believed to be a free-trader five or six years ago was a free-trader now," Mr. COBDEN reminded his auditory that those principles had not as yet re ceived any trial whatsoever. To the clamour raised by the Country Party, that freedom of commerce was already showing itself to be a most destructive chimera, Mr. COBDEN replied that freedom of com merce had not as yet been tested as the motive power of the mercantile machinery. When the Protectionists exclaim that so far from proving the redemption of the community, free trade has, at the very outset of its operation, led to a monetary panic, to a drain of gold, and to a diminution of employment, Mr. COBDEN responds, Not so : these calamities are the results of thirty years of monopoly, coupled with the failure of the potato crop, the scantiness of two successive har vests, and the almost unparalleled destitution of Ire land. Instead of having in any manner put the effi cacy of the free-trade doctrines to a trial, we have as yet, he continues, " only got through the half of the three years we are to hare of the fag end of monopoly." As to the draining of gold from the country, that has arisen from the prolonged dearth of provisions ; and unless the gold had been remitted to America and elsewhere in exchange for the cereal produce of those countries, thousands of the inhabitants of these islands must have literally perished from starvation. As to the reduction in the amount of employment, it was very sententiously remarked by the representative of the West Riding of Yorkshire that " if there was a failure in the cotton crop of 1846, he would by no means undertake to assert that they would have every spindle running." The logic of this is obvious. Having demonstrated the absurdity of the accusations raised against the advo cates of unrestricted commerce, Mr. COBDEN shows how egregiously the monopolists were mistaken in their various predictions. " They (the Protectionists) declared," said he, " that when the corn-laws were repealed the farmers of England would be ruined, but they never were better off than last year; the Protectionists told them that land would be thrown out of cultivation, but people never were more busy in cultivating the land than they were at this mo ment; the Protectionists said the landlords would run away and settle in Australia, but the same land lords were getting higher rents for their land." Nor were these the only allusions vouchsafed to the con wilier:Zia lyeered eau . se of Monopoly by the Victor of Free Trade. tradem e d in thatdeahr corn, , st w i I; shall adhered ha v t e o his At opinion neri. caa flourthat, per lb. - a n briefly and distinctly , ' That announceme n t at lid. on being asked " When ?" replied " When you get free trade !" Mr. COBDEN, i n the last bitter thrust made by is the of Stockport, against o th r e t s h h o a N d v o wes r c o a t n eetion. As representative shadowy Rcaiduisneg,°fhe far now resume his Parlia rnentary labours, not very of his Ministerial colleague. removed from the side Attempts have been ;:171;Tertain quarters t o t )revent the roles who had bee n condemned to death from appealing to the royal clemency. The news of the sentence reached Posen on the 3d, and the greatest excitement prevailed there in consequence. On the Ist of January a reduction will be an nounced by the Austrian Government on the duties upon raw cotton, sugar, and other colonial produce. The duty on cotton will be reduced from 1 fl. 40 to 40 kreutzers. The Austrian Bank is about to issue a new series of bank notes, and to call in those now in circulation. UHLICH, the leader of the new reformation in Germany, has sent a written notificatkm to the con sistory of the church of the state, of his election as pastor of the new community, which now consists of 2,056 families. The Post Ampt Gazette, of Frankfort, says, that it was generally reported there that the Jesuits, and the members of other religicus orders expelled from Switzerland, are to establish themselves in the con vents of Bruges, Ghent, Malines, Antwerp, Nivelles, and other places in Belgium. A letter from Vienna, of the 3d, states that the Jesuits have arrived from Switzerland in that capi tal, and met with a kind reception from Price MET TERNICH. The Austrian Governor of Cracow has published the following decree : " His Majesty the Emperor has thought right under the circumstances to ordain, by resolution of the 21st of November, 1847, that courts-martial shall try all per sons guilty of high treason in the following specified cases :-Ist. Those who shall excite others to revolt or insurrection, with high treason in view, although with out success. 2d. Those *ho shall resist, with an object of high treason the armed force. 3d. Those who being armed shall join a crowd, and not obey the authorities who may enjoin them to withdraw, or who, during a revolt, are seized with arms in their hands." The Emperor of RUSSIA, in imitation of France, has deciding upon establishing, at Athens, a school to enable Russian subjects to study the Greek language. The whole of Sicily is in insurrection, occasioned by the rigour displayed by the Government. The people have risen in arms, and the soldiers have re fused to act against them. The following letter has been received from Naples : " NAPLES, DEC. 2.—Sicily is on fire. The Consti tution of 1812, guaranteed at the time by England, has been proclaimed in the whole island. The soldiers re fused to fire upo•i the people. The steamers expected from Sicily have not arrived. This inteliigeace, we are assured, arrived by the telegraph, and the interruption in the communication with Sicily must tend to confirm the account of the serious events which have occurred in that island, We have remarked with surprise that a large English steam-frigate, supposed to be the Terrible, approached our gulf, and, after taking toundings along the coast from Castellamare, put to sea again without communicating with the shore. Ihe Terrible, no doubt, came from Malta and Sicily." The Florence Gazette announces that the King of NAPLES has accepted the resignation of all his Ministers, and that within a few days the public will, in all probability, be made acquainted with the accession of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies to the Italian Customs' Union. The Suisse of Berne announces that M. SIEGWART MULLER had arrived at Domodossola, in Piedmont, and that Sir STRATFORD CANNING arrived at Neuf chatel on the 7th, on his way to Berne. The New Zurich Gazette announces that M. DE SAMS SOGLIO, the late commander of the troops of Lucerne, and Prince nis SCIIWAILTZENBERG, WhO had served as a volunteer in the troops of that canton, have arrived at Milan. Madrid journals of the sth have arrived. The Minister of Marine has presented to the Con gress a project of law by which the Government is authorised to raise a loan, the interest and sinking fund of which are not to exceed fifteen millions of reels per annum, and the product of which is to be expended in constructing and repairing ships for the nary, and in purchase of timbers and other naval stores. In cases of urgency, or when the interest of the service requires it, the Government is authorised to construct sailing vessels or steamers abroad, and to introduce steam-engines and other effects indispen• sable for the rapid increase of the royal navy-, free from all duties, always making use in the first place of the means afforded by the national arsenal and manu factures. The Afrancesados are highly offended with NARVAEZ on account of the constitutional nature of his programme, and more especially on account of the eulogium he passed upon ESPARTERO. PIDAL, the tool of the French party, has bitterly attacked the Ministry, and has proclaimed that resistance as identified with the very idea of Government. CHRISTINA was in a furious rage with NARYAES when she heard of his speech, and proceeded imme diately to the QUEEN, insisting that sbe should dis miss NARVAEZ, and appoint MON and PIDAL to the Ministry. The QUEEN, however, stood firm, and as she has now NARVAEZ to back her, it is not impro bable that the busy, intriguing, unprincipled ens's- TINA may be once more :compelled to seek re fuge in the Hotel de Courcelles. This affair took place on the 3d, and NARVAEZ, as is usual with him after one of those exciting scenes, was on the day following so unwell as to be compelled to keep his bed. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA has been re-elected Deputy at Alhuma. MADRID BoLSA, DEC. S.—The Three per Cents. were done at 26 for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 15 for paper; and the Debt without Interest, at 4i for cash. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. Rumours of the approaching resignation of M. GuizoT continued to be rife in Paris. He had, it appears, entered into an agreement with Prince METTERNICII to station an army of 40,000 men on the frontiers of Switzerland, while Austria, on her part, was to assemble an army of 80,000 in the Voralberg. This agreement he had entered into without consulting the Cabinet, and on the proposition ' being submitted to his colleagues, it was strenuously opposed by M. DUCHATEL, and M. GUIZOT found himself, to his surprise, in a minority in his own Cabinet. At the same time he learned the answer given by Lord PALMERSTON to Mr. OSBORNE, on the subject of the Swiss intervention, and immediately set off alone for St. Cloud, where he had an inter view with the KING. On his return to Paris he appeared much out of humour, and, to add to his chagrin, received, on the same evening, the answer of the Swiss Diet to his note, and the intelligence that the public perusal of his note in the Diet had excited shouts of laughter, and an intimation that Prussia withdrew from the conference. He had an interview with M. DUCHATEL the same evening, which lasted for three hours ; and on Thursday morning he had another long conference with him. In order, however, to comfort him under his afflictions, it appears that his colleagues have permitted him to make some of the diplomatic ap pointments on which he had set his heart. The Moniteur announces officially that, by royal oFdonnances dated the Bth, the following diplomatic mutations and appointments have been made, viz., M. DE BACOURT, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, to be Ambassador to the King of SARDINIA. and Minis ter Plenipotentiary to the Archduchess of PARMA, in the room of Count MORTIER ; the Duke DE GLUCRS BERG, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Spain, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary to the Court of Portugal, in the room of Baron BURIGNOT DE VARENNES, who is appointed in the same capacity to the Court of Denmark, in the room of Baron DE BILLING, who has been ap• pointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary to the Germanic Confederation ; M. PAGEOT, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, in the room of M. DE BACOURT; and the Duke DE Bassario, Secretary of Embassy at Brussels, to be Minister Plenipotentiary, and, in that quality, to be Charge d'Affaires ad interim at the Court of the Elector of HESSE. The Journal des Debuts announces that the ordon nance, appointing M. PISCATOILY Ambassador to Ma drid, was signed by the KING on the 10th. We read in the Presse—" it is confidently stated that, according to new notes received by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the three Powers of the North persist more than ever in their intention of interfering in the arrangement of the affairs of Switzerland, by proceeding as, in 1831, in the affairs of Holland— first, by the employment of protocols ; and next, if necessary, by having recourse to 'force. The three Powers, it is said, have furthermore expressed a de sire that the town of Neufchatel should be the place fixed on for holding the conferences. It is asserted that the French Cabinet immediately replied in the affirmative to both propositions. Austria will be re presented by General Count DE COLLOREDO, Prussia by General RADOWITZ, who is, in addition, to be named Military Governor of Neufchatel for the King of PRUSSIA. The representative of Russia is not yet known. As to the choice of the French Government, it is certain that it will not fall on M. Bois LE COMTE, whose personal relations with M. OCIISEN• BEIN are envenomed to the utmost possible extent. There is some question of entrusting this mission to M. DE LAGOENEE." The Union Monarchigue makes a similar an nouncement. Whatever may be the intentions of Austria and Russia, we believe that Prussia has withdrawn from the conference, and will observe the strictest neutrality. This surmise receives corroboration from the fact that in the Journal des Debats of Saturday we find an attack upon the King of PRUSSIA for his delay in granting an amnesty to the condemned Poles. Those who sacrificed " for a consideration" Cracow to Austria, and who have acted as spies on the Polish refugees in France, sending accurate information of all their movements to the three Northern Courts, are not the most likely persons in the world to be seized with a sudden fit of generous enthusiasm on behalf of the oppressed. In common with the great majority of mankind, we have infinitely more faith in the humanity of the King of PRUSSIA than in the hone'sty of the Government of France. The following account of the submission of ARID EL-KADER to the Emperor of MOROCCO appears in the Semaphore de Marseilles of the Bth : " The steam• packet Philippe Auguste, which left Algiers on thestlLinst., entered our harbour last even ing. We have received by that vessel the important intelligence of the submission of Abd-el-Kacler to the Emperor of Morocco. Bou Hamedi, who had been sent by the Emir to the Emperor to offer him his submission, returned to the deira with a Moorish envoy, who in formed him that Abderrhaman had rejected that offer, and would only consent to accept it on the express condition that Abd- el-Kader should immediately disperse hip deira ; •that the principal chiefs, who remained with him, should pledge themselves to reside separately on, , shatevor points might be assigned to them by the French Government and the Emperor of Morocco ; and, finally, that Abd-el-Kader himself should not quit the residence he was at liberty to choose. Our correspon dent adds, that Abd el-Kader, whose situation had become most critical, had accepted these conditions, and appointed a place for his residence in the neighbourhood of Fez. The deira of the Emir was immediately dis persed, and his horses were hamstrung in the presence of the Moorish Envoy, according to the Arab custom." The Reform movement continues to make great pro gress in France, and the alarm of the Minister is serious and undisguised. At first these banquets were un noticed by the Ministerial journals, then they were ridiculed, but now, according to the Journal des Di;batx, they are revolutionary, incendiary, dange rous, and M. ()DILLON BARROT, who says the Debuts "has for four months dragged the Government from dinner to dinner to expose it to the ridicule and to the hatred of all political parties," is merely the pre cursor of a MARA? or a ROBESI'IERRE. Preparations are making for the opening of the Chambers. M. SAUZET will, it is said, be re-elected President without opposition. M. LACAYx LAPLAGNE and Marshal BUGtAUD are spoken of as new candi. dates for the vice-presidency. The Reforme Contains the following informa tion relative to tie meeting of the directors of the Northern Railway, at which it was agreed to call for 75f. per share at the close of next February:- " Ten directors were present at the sitting which took place on Saturday. Five of the most influ ential among them insisted on the call being postponed until July, and urged M. de Rothschild, as banker of the compsny, to advance the sum necessary to effect the payment due to the Government in January. M. Pereira is said to have himself strongly recommended to make ❑o call, in order to relieve the market and afford ccm merce time to improve. But M. de Rothschild was in exorable, and replied to all the entreaties addressed to him, that he bad no money, that he could lend nothing. and was obliged to reserve all his resources for the pay ment of the instalments of the last loan.' " The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Saturday, at 75f. 30c.; New Loan, 76f. 40c.; the Five per Cents., 116 f. 55c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,191 f. 25c.; Rouen, 902 f. 50c. ; 1 Havre, 472 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 543 f. fsc.; Avignon, 55gf. 75e.; Vierzon, 542 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 482 f. 50c.; Dieppe, 246 f.; Basle, 1621' 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 406 f. 25e.; Nantes, 388 f. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, 383 f. 75c. ; Spanish Actives, 28f ; Spanish Three per Cents., 30i. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 11. Namur and Liege, 4 3 4-Northern of France, 1134-Or leans and Bordeaux, 514-Over Yssel, 2 dis.-Paris and Lyons, 5%-Sambre and Meese, 714. • -- - INSTITUTION OF THE ADULT DEAF AND DUMB.—(THIS DAY.) A meeting of the committee o f management of the institution for teaching trades, and p rov idi ng employ ment for the adult dea f and dumb of both sexes, was held this morning at the board -room of the establish ment, No. 26, Bed Lien-square, Bloomsbury, for the purpose of taking the necessary steps b e f ore present i ng to the Corporation of the eity of London the memorial decided upon at a previous Court, and signed by t h e chairman, William Evans, Esq ., M.P. The signatures of the several members of the com mittee present having been attached to the memorial, the annual report of the society for 1847 was read, together with the minutes of the preceding Court, from which we extract the following passage, the subject being of considerable interest as to whether th e d ea f an d d um b are fully capable of receiving instruction. The CHAIRMAN (W. Evans, Esq., M.P.), asked the secretary whether the officers of the institution were then upon the establishment, as he should lik e t o exa mine them in order to ascertain the capabilities of the inmates to learn the trades carried on? Being answered in the affirmative, Mr. Barton, the hcaringmsster of the. shoemaking department was called, and in answer to the several questions of the worthy chairman, stated that he t aug h t t h e d ea f and dumb th e t ra d e o f shoemaking, an d h e did not f i nd the task very difficult. Several deaf and dumb youths whom he had instructed were now journeymen at first-rate houses at the west-end of Lond on . Th e youths who were at present under his management would be perfect in their trade in the course of two years/ those who had no previous knowledge of the business he could instruct in three years. The principal requirement of the deaf and dumb was kindness and attention, with which they could learn trades with a facility equal to those possess ing the power of speech and hearing. The IIEA.RINQMASTER of the tailoring department deposed to a similar effect. Som e d ea f and dumb youths were obstinate and difficult to teach, but a similar complaint could be applied to those who were not so afflicted. By a regular and religious system of training their obstinacy was speedily replaced by submissiveness and attention. Mr. D. MURRAY, the superintendent of the establish ment, said the female inmates upon admission were very violent and bad tempered, but after remaining in the asylum a short time, they became quiet and re • spectful in their behaviour. Recently a youth was re ceived into the institution from a lunatic asylum, and the change of treatment had acted very strongly upon his mind. He was now one of the most attentive of the several inmates, and in the course of a short time he would be enabled to sustain himself by his own industry. Various specimens of the work of the deaf and dumb were exhibited, and their neatness celled forth many re marks of satisfaction and surprise. It was generally reported at the clubs last night, that Mr. Tancred or Mr. Hayter, the oldest members of the Liberal bar who have seats in Parliament, will be appointed to the office of Judge-Advocate General, in place of Mr. Charles Buller. We believe that either of these appoint ments would give general sat i sfact i on to the Liberal party.—Chroniele. The Hon. R o b ert Gore, R. N ., lately appointed Consul at Mo n t e Vi deo, has instruct i ons to awa i t at Ri o Janeiro the arrival of an envoy to be sent out by France, and to proceed in company with him to the River Plate, where b.)th will appear in concert to enforce the terms of pacification agreed upon by the Governments of England and of France.—Observer. Mr. W. H. Tinney, Q.O , of Lincoln's Inn, is to be the new M aster in Chance ry, vacant by the death of Mr. Duckworth. —Observer. Lord Ebrington is to be appointed to the office of Parliamentary Secretary to the new Poor-law Commis sion, and Mr. Nicholls, the senior Commissioner of the commission now about to be superseded, is to be the permanent secretary. The present commission will ex pire on the day after the commission appointing Mr. Charles Buller the President is published in the Gazelle. FIRE IN HOLDORN.—On Saturday night, about a quarter to eleven o'clock, a fire broke out in a small shed occupied by a costermonger, in Smart's-buildings, Holborn. The engines from the various stations wore quickly on the spot, but owing to a short supply of water, they could not prevent the total destruction of the adjoining premises, occupied by Mr. S. Wells, fur niture dealer. CANADIAN BUTTER.--Among the most recent arrivals from North America have been some large im portations of butter from the Canadian provinces of that quarter of the globe. One vessel, recently arrived, has brought nearly four hundred packages, and another about three hundred packages of that article of food, the pro• duce of Canada. - ORANGES. —From the arrivals which have already taken place, it is expected that the quantity of oranges imported this year will be very large. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was a very quiet Market for Cotton at Liver pool on Saturday. Sales 2,500 bales, without alteration in prices.—Railway Shares were quiet. There are advices to the 14th of August from Sydney, the 16th of July from Hobart Town, and the 10th from Port Philip. From Adelaide we have dates to the 14th of June. Affairs seem in a general point of view to be progressing satisfactorily in the colonies, and the chief thing needed now is an influx of labour. There is no dangerous speculation or fictitious prosperity in the Aus tralian settlements, but to the:small capitalist a prospect of steady accumulation, and to the working man, of good employment and remuneration are, perhaps, more than ever open. In this respect, therefore, we are glad that the Government here have funds adequate to promote at least a moderate amount of free emigration, and, consequently, a large number of parties are being sent out, The ;tables relative to imports and exports show a great increase in the former at Sydney, and with out a corresponding augmentation in the exports, although the latter do also exhibit an increase. The Commercial Bank of Sydney had been compelled to trench upon its reserved fund to make up losses sus tained by the dishonesty of one of its servants. The Port Phillip colony gets on well, but even pas toral occupations were impeded by the want of labour. Mining in South Australia progresses wonderfully, and two dividends of fifty per cent. each had been declared within a few weeks upon the shares of the Mining Association. The smelting of copper will also, no doubt, be curried on to some extent hereafter in the colonies. The emigrant ships Trafalgar and Belle Alliance had arrived out with nearly 600 persons ou board, and the state of their health is well spoken of. The accounts received from the Continent state that money was rather scarce, and a few more failures had occurred in different parts. The market for the public securities has been very quiet this morning, and there is a firm tone observable. Conso's are 86 for special Transfer, and 851 to exidiv. for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 861 to k. Bank Stock is 186 k. Exchequer bills have risen to 6s. and gs. premium, an indication of the grelter abundance of money; and East India Bonds under 1,0001. are at 18s. discount. There is very little speculation going on. The Foreign Stock Market presents a mere blank, Not a b ►rgain has been entered into in the Peninsular or South American Bonds, if we except Grenada ; De ferred at ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, are 55; and Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 89. Railway Shares participate in the steadiness of the public securities, although the dealings have been limited. We quote Caledonian 37 to 371; Eastern Counties, 16 to 16i; Great Western, 99i to 98i; Brighton, 4:311; North Western, 1531 to 152 k; South Western, 54i ex new; North British, 26; 1 i; North Stafford, 7 to 71; South Eastern, 31 to 311; and Northern of France, 118. ONE CLOSIN PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICE S Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Anne B5 84% 8431 1 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities B6 864 New 314 per Cent. Anne 8 6 1, 4 1 4 1 /4 86% Long Anns. to expire Jan.lB6o -16 Ditto, Oct. 10, 1859 ..... -16 India Bonds, 1,0004 ...__ ...... Ditto under 1,0001... South Sea Stock Consols for Account 8544 Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,000/. 5001. .. .. Small .. .. 13 9 p ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK PRICES PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. - - Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. — Ditto Deferred Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, 4 per Cent — Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4 1 ,1 per Cent Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 55 Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates PRICES OF PAID BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES -' AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES Aberdeen Amber.. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2% Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2IA - - Belfast & County Down 10 - •••• 0000000 ..• Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 10 ... .. .... .... Birniing.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 101. 145.... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 7 3 / 4 o Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 5 - .............. Bristol and Exeter Ditto, Thirds Buckinghamshire 101. 4s. 2% dig. 3I ,A dis Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares. .... 3 3 / 4 — Ditto, Clydesdale June 50 ...... Chester and Holyhead... 37% Ditto, Preference .. 8 "". •••••• Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. lO ..... Dublin and BelfastJunc. 20 Dundalk & Enniskillen 15 East Anglia, 25/., L. & E. and L. and D......: 25 Do., 184, E. & H.... 18 Do., 3/.105., E. &H. 2 Eastern ounties Ditto _(B) 2O ...... Ditto,Extension, 5 per Cent, No. 1. 61.135. 4d... Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... Do., York Extension.. 10 ...... 8 Do., North. & Eastern 50 ...... ... .•• Do., Quarters Do., New - 23 Eastern Union , 5O .. ... ... ...... .. ... Ditto, Quarter Share,s 12% — Ditto, Thirds ... ....13s. 4d Do., (guar. 6 percent) — ........ ..... East Lancashire Ditto, New - ... Ditto, New Quarters... 3 3 4 East Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow 5() ...... 46% 46 ...... - Ditto Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% Edinburgh & Northern.. 22% — Ditto, Now Ditto, Newport ..... ... 9 1 A Ditto, ditto, New . .... 2;i — Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch. . 2% Ditto, New . Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle 84 62.8 d. — Glasgow, Kilinar.,& Ayr 50 ...... Ditto, New Do. Preference Consol. 12 1 ,4...... Great Northern l Ol Do., London and York 2 % 3 /4 Great South. and West. (Ireland) Great North of England..loo .225 Ditto, New 404 5 — Ditto, New 30/. 30 - Ditto, New 15/ . 6% — -. -- Great Western Ditto, % Shares ... 50 Ditto, 4 Shares Ditto, Fifths 2O Ditto, New 171 7 - ..... Huddersfield & Blanches. 22 Ditto, Thirds Hull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares.... 25 Ditto, 4 Shares....... 12% 4pswiel& Bury St. Edm. 15 Do., do., and Norwich 15 Do., do., Extens. Scrip (late Camb. & Ely) 2% 11,4 Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds lO •• Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 ...... Ditto, ditto Ditto 1 ,6 Shares . Do. Quarter Shares... 14% — Do. Fifths 8 ..... 8%..... ......... Do. Sixteenths 614 — Do. Thirds (Reg.)....10/. 4s. Do. Liverp. and' Bury 34 Ditto 14 (late Hud dersfield and Sheff.) 33 - Do.( Wakefield, Ponte fract. & Goole Do. ( W. Riding Union) 4/. 2s Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. % Sh, (A) - lazes ( 9 DittOditto (B) ... 1 1 4 Leeds and Bradford 5O Leicester and Bedford... 16s. Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 37% — ••••••..• Do., Branch % Shares 12%.. ... DoNew Branch( blue) 2% Do. Extension (green) 2%..... •••• Do.NovExten. (pink) 2% Leeds and Thirsk 36 ...... 20% Ditto, New 17% ........ ...... Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% — ...... •••••• - Liverpool, Crosby and Southport ..- .... 2 Liverp., Mnchstr& New- _ % 981 h 58% 163 776 54% 20% easile Junction 21 %2 ..... London and Blackwell-161.135. 4d. Do. New, No. 1 Do. New, No. 2 .. 41. 13s. 4d.... Do. Extension l 7 l /2 Landon, Brighton, and South Coast . - 5 O 5O Do. Consol. Eighths.. 30 Do. Guarant. 5 per et. 9 Do. Pref. Con. 5 per ct. 50 . London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d... Ditto, Preference ... 18/1;s 2d. London awl N. Western 100 ......152 153 1 / 2 152 1 / 2 152 1 4 Do., Quarters L. & B. 17 Do., do., New ... ..... 2 Ditto Fifths Do. 1 4 Shares (G. J.) 25 — Do 40/.Shares(L.M.) 15 — - 'Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40 Do. 101. (M 1 & B.) A. 7 1 / 2 ... .. ......... Do. 10/. (M. & B.)13. 7 1 / 2 Do. 101. (al. & B.) C. 1 ...... 5 % - % Load. &S. Western 41/. 6s. 8d 54% ex new ...54%x.n. Do. New Coml. Bths 40 43% 11 3 4 1%1 a s Do. New 501. ... ..... 32%.. .. 29 ex new Do. New 401 Do. Tenths (Consol.). 50 ...... 47 ex new Ditto ditto .. ......... 40 Ditto, Thirds 6/. 13s. 4d.... London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ..... 0... ....—.. 1%...... Londonderry&Cipleraine 27 V 2...... Londonderry and Ennis killen Man;thester,Buxton,and Matlock.-- ..... ...... 3 ...... Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire ...100 Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 714 Ditto and Grimsby.... 25 Ditto ditto . ........ 7 Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 7 l / 2... ~ ....., Manchest & Southampt 2 l /4 . . Mildand lOO lOB 107% 108 1 / 2 107 1 ,4 Do. Consolidated Pref.loo Do. 40/. Shares Do. 501. Shares lO Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Midland Consol. Brist. & Binning., 6 per cent. 100 ll 9 l /2 119% ilidlrid, Brist. &Glocstr. 34 Ditto, ditto ...... .....71.96 — ..... .... Midlnd, Leicest. & Swan nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo ...... Midland Great Western Irish 35 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Do. Quarters 25 Newmrket&Chesterfora 18 1 Do. Extension .........21. 12s — Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor 12% — .. ........ .... Norfolk ......... .......... —lOO Do. New 20/. .. Do. Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, North of Norfolk Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 — North British ... .... ... 25 ...... 26'jk 3 4 Do. Half Sharcs: l 2 l / 2...... 12 Do. Quarters 4 3 /1 4% Do. Extension % — ...... ...• •••• Ditt , Thirds 2 Nort. Staffordshire... •.. 7% ...... 7 1 / 2 1 4 7 North Wales North Western Oxford, Worcester. and Wolverhampton ... .. 35 ... Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Royston and Hitchin ... 1% • ........ •• Scottish Central Scottish Midland 17% — Ditto, New lO Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole Shrewsbury and Birm... 6 Ditto ditto. Class A. 6 Shrewsbury & Chester ( Nor. W. Min.) l6 Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 • . Ditto Oswestry ... .. 12 Ditto New Shrewsbury and Ilerefil 2 ...... Shropshire Union South Devon Do. Preference South Staffordshire 4 South Eastern & Dover. 33% 3 IV I .... ... Do., No. 1 Do., Nc, 2. - ... Do„ No. 3 .. ..... ...... 15 Do., No. 4 - .•• South Wales l5 South Yorkshire, Don- caster, and Goole Swans. & Loughor tk Ca meron's Still. C0a1.... 4 'raw Yale Extension ... 4 Thames Haven Duck and Railway .......... 171 / 2 ••••• Wale of Neath ..... 4 Waterford and liilkermy 131.. — Waterford and Limerick 40 Waterid Wxfrd, Wicklw, and Dublin - W et Cornwall ...... 4 ... . --. WhitehaYen & Furness 12 Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... ... 52s — Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth 3O York, Newcastle, and Berwick. .... .. 25 ..... 34 33% •• Do. Original New and Berwick .. ... 25 Do. North Shields Pur. 25 Do. Extension No. 1. 10 Do. do. No. 2. ..... ... 10 Do G.N E.Preterence 8 ...... 9M10.4 York and North Midland 50 Ditto, Preference, Do. East and W est Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Angio-Belgian.... 4 Bar badoes 1 ...... Boulogne and Amiens... 20 ...... 14%.. .., ...... .... 14% Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) ... 14 Central of Spain ........ 2 Ceylon Demerara Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish 7 East Indian ... ..... •••• 1;i Great Indian Peninsular ss. Great Southern of Madras sa. Great Western Bengal... ss. Great WestemCanada... 3 1 4 Italian and Austrian.... 4 Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Louvain ala Sambre ... 7 ... Luxembourg.. Lyons and Avignon 5 — Madras 1 Madras. Nellore, and Arcot NI - Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... — Namur aad Liege , l4 ...... N orthern of France...... 10 .• ... 11% Orleans and Bordeaux 6 Over Yssel 4l 3s 4d . ... Paris and Lyons .. 10 Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen Paris and; Strasbourg 8 Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse ..... 18 Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 Fours aad Nantes ...... 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt. l6 Trinidad West Flanders ...... JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American 50 Colonial Commercial of London 20 London & Westminster 20 MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO — British Iron Real Del Monte, Unreg. • ~, LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 13.—Wind this day at noon S.S.E., light breeze, and fine clear weather. MARGATE, DEC. 11.—The Dronock began discharging her cargo yesterday. An anchor and two chains, sup posed to belong to the brig Rambler, have been picked up and landed here. LYMINGTON, DEC. 10.—All the wind bound vessels rode the gales out well off the Creek. WEYMOUTH, DEC. 12.—The wreck of a large ship, apparently American built, burnt to the water's edge, came on shore 10th inst. on Kinmeridge Ledge ; upwards of 200 bales of cotton have been saved in a damaged state. OFF MARGATE.—Arrd. 10th, Acadia, Dunn, Halifax; Ith, Mary Ann Henderson, Evans, Africa, with loss of bulwarks; Royal Saxon, Calcutta; Nonpareil, Lisbon. 'DEAL, DEC. 12.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W., moderate.— Arrd. 11th, Prince of Wales, Wilson, Calcutta; 12th, Lima, Yule, Sydney, New South Wales; Royal Saxon, Charlsworth, Calcutta ; Thomas Blyth, Thompson, Mauritius; Mary Ann Henderson, Africa; Constance, Quebec; Waltscove, ditto. Arrd. from the River, 11th, Africanus, Flight, Cape Coast Castle; 12th, Sir G. Pol lock, Thornhill, Calcutta; Star, Hogg, Antigua; Ann Kenny, Baldurin, Charleston ; Isabella, Hinton , Leone; Morayshire, Stamp, ditto. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Independence, New York (supposed). LIVERPOOL, Dec. 11.—Wind W.N.W., 12, S.S.E.— Arrd. 11, Esk, Crockett, Pernambuco, sld. 31st Oct.; Lady Milton, Quebec. 12, Countess of Sefton, Wheeler, Valparaiso; Creole, Pringle, Monte Video; Thomas Mellor, Bruce, Leghorn; Wanderer (supposed Laguna). Sld, 11, Mary, Black, Africa; Regina, Lamb, ditto; John Dunlop, Morris, Philadelphia. 12, Queen of Britain, Fitzgibbon, St. Lucia; Mafalcofar, Havannah; Bridgetown, Wilson, New Orleans ; Erin's Queen, Davidson, ditto; Digby, Faber, New York; Virginia, Calvert, ditto; John Fielden, Strang, ditto; Constitu tion, Britton, ditto; Taskar, Chapman, ditto; Cam bridge, Peabody, ditto ; Palos, —, Boston; Great Britain, Hulme, St. John's, New Brunswick. A heavy gale,. with violent squall, was experienced on the 6th inst., m lat. 30, lon. 12, by the Esk, Crockett, arrived here. A westerly gale, with a heavy sea, was experienced on the 6th instant, in lat 47, lon. 26, by the Lydia, since arrived here. A brig lying to,:and a ship, under reefed foresail, were passed, running to the S.E., by the Esk, Crockett, arrived here. BEAUDIARD3, DEc.llO.-214 Amelia, Atkinson, from Eastport to Liverpool (not the Emily, from St. John's to Liverpool, as previously reported), which was driven on the sands on the 7th instant, has been towed into the harbour to-day, and is now high and dry south-west of the pier. It blew a heavy gale from south-west last night, which caused several of the shipping to drift a consider able distance. An Irish schooner went on shore, and is likely to become a wreck. WEXFORD, DEC. 9.—The whole of the cargo of the Eliza and Anne, on shore at Carne, has been saved, partly damaged. The vessel was floated off yesterday, but got on shore again about a mile from her former situation. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 11 AND 12. Wind S.W.-11. Sld Mediator, Stalk, New York ' - Claret, Bordeaux. COWES, DEC. 11 —Wind W.S.W.-10. Arrd. Hoppet, Juselius, Kertch, leaky. 11. Volu-ia, Mauritius. W.N.W. DEAL, DEC. 11.—A tremendous gale from was experienced on the 6th the D o ns ; and a vessel's cutwater, t he _ Thomas yss Blyth, Thompson, arrived in cutwater, with white bust head, a nd se veral buckets, h e e s r. Gibb, Minicbin, painted P L rm y e ll o w , o ' w r, DEC.er wer e also . T a s h s e e dJbay322 18 dis 94 1 Ai 854 8% 17% 22 1 . 4 17N 55y 5 85 15 101/a 21 1 % 12 1 4 46 12 3 % 11% from Quebec to London, with loss of wheel and four men, round-house stove in, and other damage, arrived here yesterday. The Superb, Gatchell, from Rotterdam to New Orleans, put back to this port, from lon. 10 %V., very leaky, and must discharge. The Maria, Ufland, from Rio Janeiro to Christiania, which arrived here 10th instant, and the Elizabeth, Hastie, from Liverpool to Philadelphia will discharge. The weather still remains very unsettled. MARYPORT, DEC. 9.—The Christian, Robinson, from Strongford, has been assisted in here, having broached to while entering the harbour, and got on the south side of the woodwork, where she beat heavily for some time, and lost bulwarks, stanchions, bowsprit, main boon, &e. TOBERMORY, DEC. 7.—The Majestic struck on a sunken rock off Loch Don, 22d ult., during a strong gale from the S.S.E., but was got off, after throwing part of cargo overboard, and laid on the beach for re pairs. The Pilgrim, Flood, from Quebec (not the Pilgrim. Flood, from St. John's), which was on shore near Rano gate, was got off this morning without apparent damage, and proceeded for London in tow of a steamer. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) 8 80% 81% ..._ 13%2 26% 19 4% 19% 2 1 / 4 31% 16 8 11V 2 9% CORN EXCHANGE-(MONDAY.) Coastwise, as well as by land carriage and sample, the arrivals of all articles of home produce up to our market, last week, were on a very limited scale ,• while the receipts from Ireland and Scotland were trifling in the extreme. The imports from abroad were, taken as a whole, small, viz., 3,257 quarters of Wheat , 42 ditto of Barley, 5,675 ditto of Oats, 5,235 ditto of Beans, 799 ditto of Peas, and only 20 barrels of Flour. From Kent, Essex, Cambridgeshire, &c., a moderate, and certainly an increased, quantity of Wheat (compar d with that received on several preceding Mondays) arrived for our market this morning ; still, however, the stands were by no means well supplied. The attendance of both London and country buyers being good, the de mand for all descriptions of Wheat of home produce was somewhat active, at an advance in the quotations obtained on this day se'nnight of from is to 2s per quarter, and at which a good clearance was readily effected. With Foreign Wheat we were not to say ex tensively supplied, and a considerable portion of it was of very inferior quality. Fine dry samples were in good request, at is per quarter more money. In alt other kinds a moderate amount of business was trans acted, at full prices. The show of Barley was an 3a , ll. Fine Malting parcels were in good request, at a r's a , in value of is per quarter, and the currencies of Grinding and Distilling sorts had an upward tendency. Foreign Barley was certainly dearer. The quantity of Malt being scarcely adequate to meet the wants of the brewers, that article was firm, at fully , but at nothing quotable beyond, the prices paid on Monday last. There were scarcely any Oats in th e market. Fine dry parcels moved off steadily, at a trifle more money, while the middling and inferior kinds were quite as high as last advised. Owing to the large im ports, the sale for Beans was heavy, at a further re dliction in the quotations of is per quarter. In Peas , the supply of which was small, exceedingly little wee doing, at late rates. Indian Corn was dull, but India n Meal, as well as Rye Flour, supported previous quota tions. Fur Flour, we had an improved demand, but we can notice no actual improvement in value. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. iViteat—Eases & Kant, Malt—Chevalier.. • • .. 618 tO 6 20 Red. .... •• • • 478 to 545 Oats—Yorkshire and AU Ditte,Whlte, New 51s b9s Lincoinsh., recd. 2. , 8 , 7 . Norfolk and Lin- Potato .••.• • • • • • 255 '- coin, Red.. •• • 46a 498 Toughal and Cork, 168 SON Ditto, White- •.• • • 508 54s Black . Irish, Red ........ —8 —8 Cork, White .•• • • 195 2 7. Ditto, White . ... --a —5 Scotch, Feed. •• • • 255 4 6. Rye—Old •••••• • • • • • • —5 s Beans—Tick ... • • .... 378 . . .... 248 295 Peas—GreyPi 495 New. —••—• • • • • • 31a 34s Barley—Grinding 4os geons .. .. • .. .. .. .. .. 4 4 0 0 : 438 Malting . ........ 30a 31s Maple ...••• • • • • • 365 435 440 Chevalier .... •• • 328 33s White .••••• • • • • • AO tfalt—Suffolk and Nor folk • 675 59s Flour—Town-made .•• 418 ,n 5 36 . ..... Brown . ... • .... 54s 568 Su ff olk •.••• • • • • • 40 Kingston and Ware 59e 618 Stocktn & Norfolk 368 _ Boilers ......... 468 465 SMITHFIELD, CHRISTMAS CATTLE MARKET. For a number of years past the holding of what is termed the Great Christmas Market has excited a degree of curiosity and interest seldom, or never, attached to similar exhibitions held in any other portion of the United Kingdom. We can, however, perfectly under derstand the principle which has given rise to those feelings, and fully appreciate the motives by which all are interested in the production of such wonderful sei male as those we saw collected here to-day. The density of the population of this great metropolis necessarily, involves the consumption of an i mm ense quantity of animal food, and to keep pac e w ith the almost dailf increasing demand, of thend, requigrering community. saztheeontinualexereise of th e skill and energy T thoe period has arrived wh e n it i s a b so luttly necesstnarz in produce such food at the lowest possible c:ist , a d adequate abundance, in order to place it within the re a f c or of all classes, is a truth which no one can deny ; what stronger evidence can we adduce of our nationa l wants than the comparatively slight effect s which th e immense imports of live stock from abroa d have as yet , had upon the prices in this and our other f at stock markets? It is quite true that those importati ons ha ve prevented any very serious rise in the quotation s, which would, without a doubt, had it not been for the forei g n h supplies, have been long ere this above the ordinary level ; but a comparison of the prices ruling here during the present with several previous years proves, notwithstandi the system now becomi n g too general of "foreig n' animals for the butcher—that home production is not in excess of the demand. Stall feeding is, doubtless, very necessary when the beasts have arrived at a certain degre of maturity in the pas tures ; but we are not disposed to agree with some persons that any benefit can result to the consumers from sending forward either Beasts or Sheep in a half fat condition without age. So long as this plan is con tinued, and which must have the effect of lessening to some material extent the actual supply of stock in the country, so long will there be, in our judgment, a great disparity in the value of really prime and inferior meat. The market, this morning was a scene of great anima tion ; yet from the comparatively good arrangements made by the city authorities for the reception of the stock, there was very little of that confusion which has been observed o some former occasions, although, as f ! matter of course , a large portion—or more than o ne-bah —of the Beasts were exhibited in "rings," from the want of sufficient room to tie them up. Throughout the entire day, immense number of persons, residing in Lon don and the provinces, were present, not a few of whom expressed their astonishment at the admirable condition in wh i ch thestTocku BULLOCKwasbrou s htt n o o g w. ether. MERITS W consider in detail th e re l at i ve m erits ofthebe e as s itr o for sale, and from w hi c h man y important inferences may be drawn of th e progress made in th e productionenof ! I ffe now fat and well-pr o p or tioned animals during the pres en t year, for, unquestionably, no t a few of the graziers pres en t it a point to send hither some of their best stock at .. thi . s particular period. I n l oo ki ng car efully over th e Buc k portion of this great exhibition we were much gratified to find that the supply of pure Downs, as to numb Th.erl.; was nearly or quite equ a l t o that of last seaso n. breed has hitherto shown p o ints well calculated for the butcher, and today there was a slight improvementthle their weighing qualities. Although we have giveethat Devons a priority of notice, it must not be inferred . of we regard them as exceeding all other breeds in poial_sep, general excellence ; forward as holding the first rank in point of the num ber of pure stock offering by the salesmen. Having giv,_erl our opinion as to the Devons, we shall next allude be t ne short horns. As might be expected, from this ing the time of year when the largest supplies f o r this market are invariably derived from the northern g razing districts, vise, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire , Northamp tonshire, &c., the show of the latter breed was very large. Last season we had to report a decided im provement in its quality, but this morni n g it far surpassed anything of the kind we have ever before witnessed. The northern graziers must have made con siderable exertions in improving their stock, as the show most clearly proved. The short-horns of the present day are of a much better character than formerly . Instead of those defective animals, which they certainly were some years since, we have symmetry and weight, with a decreased quantity of bone. Since they are becoming more and more in favour with the buyers. Some of this breed were of a surprising weight, and well de served the encomiums passed upon them by prac tical men. With Herefords, we were not quite , so largely supplied as at the corresponding market day in 1846. In tho quality and condition of that particular breed, however, there was no falling off. We observed several most excellent North Devons on sale, most of which were heavy weighers. From the eastern counties about 400 noble homehreds and short-horns were re ceived, and which added materially to the supply; whil e the arrival of Scots from Aberdeen and other parts of Scotland was seasonably extensive. The Welsh aorta formed a by no means unimportant portion of the show, and the number of Irish beasts, fed mostly in the mid land counties, was a full average one, with a decided improvement in quality. There were very few old Sussex beasts in the market, but their condition wag exceedingly prime. The various other breeds, including the fattened cows, require but little commentary 1 . 1' 03 us. In generalising the foregoing observations we have W intimate that the actual quality of the different breeds of Beasts, taken collectively, was not quite equal to that which we have sometimes witnessed; while the total number in the market was much smaller than in 1841 and 1846. The principal falling off in the numerical strength of the supply was from the north, from which , however, as we have already observed, scarcely any in' ferior stock came to hand. The following statement shows the numbers exhibited on the great days " dur ing the list eight years, and the prices at which Beef was ruling at the stated periods: — Years. Beasts shown Prices. 1839 ... 5,074 ... 3s 4d to 5s Od 1840 ... 3,528 ... 4 s 4 d — s s 8d 1841 ... 4,500 ... 3 s 8d 5s Od 1842 ... 4,541 ... 3s 4d --4 s 8d 1843 ... 4.540 ... 2s Scl —4s 4d 1844 ... 5,713 ... 3s Od — 4 s 6d 1845 ... 5,326 ... 3s 6d — 4 s 8d 1846 ... 5,470 ... 3s 6d —4s 6d Tim Snow OF SHEEP was an exceedingly good one, especially that of the Downs and Gloucesters. Mr. Weall had on sale 80 very superior Gloucester Eris°, the property of Mr. Rowland, of Creslow , 30 of the same breed belonging to E. F. Whittingstall, Esq., or. Langley, Bury, and several remarkably fine Downs, sent by S 4 Addams, Esq., of Ware. These Sheep, which bold at very high prices, may be justly ranked amongst the very best in the collection. STATE OF THE TRADE.—The supply of Beasts being what may be termed a moderate one, and the attendance of both town and country buyers, large, the Beef trade was somewhat active, and, in some instances , the quotations ruled very high. The primest Sot s ' Devons, and Herefords sold readily, at (VP/ 31 1 4 30% 131 12 1 ,‘ 9 , 4 76 15% 281/2 2% 6% 11% WA 19 714 - 11-h 1 15 441 A 231 h - 314