The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-01 00:00:00

o. 419.1 LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, J IN. 1, t 848. [3d.

SotrruAlirrou, DEC. 31.—Tbe Duke of Victory I
arrived here last evening front town, gad slept at the Royal
Hotel. This afteenomathe Spanish steamer Herida arrived
from Herrn, having Phi% in cargo at that port, and, about
four o'cloek, lisp, hie secretary, and two friends, em-
barked on issued lawrifor Spain. His arrival and departure
were eeedamett y. The vessel is bound for Corunns,
but ale will guisbeu Spaniard at Santander,
' and ha will - to Madrid to take his seat
in the Cortes, having tented as a representative for his
native place. u n•
'WRECK AT 'llllf OF THE ISLE Or WIGHT.
• --Cowie, FRIDAY, ay morning information was
1500
brought to the ratidaett -tweets that a large ship was on shore
iretteiHopaghLbecje of the island. Parties immediately
t,' when it proved to be the barque Lion
eyiiti bec, laden with a cargo of timber. It is
:late she went on shore at half-past one, cm., and there is
little doubt but she will become a complete wreck, her stern
being stove is, and she fall of water. To-day it is reported
that two of the islanders wore drowned ie attempting to
board her.
[TIIE NEW PRISONS.---We (Plymouth Journal) un-
derstand that the Secretary of State, Sir George Grey, has
r given his find approval to the plans for the Plymouth pri-
aoqs. Hitherto there hos been considerable difficulty in ob-
taining the assent of the government, owing to the endea-
vours of our neighbours at Devonport to effect a junction of
the three town,' for the erection of one prison, on terms that
should be sstisfactory to them, but which were not agreeable
to the town council of Plymouth. Now that the plans are
approved of, we suppose that there will be no delay on the
part of the council in commencing the work. At present a
portion of our prisoners are sent to Tiverton, and anther
portion remain here in a place oat fit for the confinement of
any human being. This state of things will doubtless soon
be remedied, as the local authorities have, for a long time
past, been most anxious to obtain a Welding more suitable
to 11.6 east" sod seqelsemaants of the age than that which
therat present peewee

of Barley ; malting, 325. to 365. Oat!, 18a. to 25a. Begat,
42a. to 645. ; old, 565.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 31.-A limited quantity of Flour and
Oatmeal from Ireland, with a ecanty supply of grain coast-
wise, and of Wheat, Flour, Indian Corn, and Corn Meal
from abroad, comprise the bulk of arrivals into this port
during the last thr e days. The advice. from America to
hand this morning, lead to the expectation, that, in come-'
quenco of mild, open weather, the continuance of supplies
by internal navigation will admit of larger immediate ea-
ports than had been calculated upon, sod which the enhanced
value et money there would tend to facilitate. The trade
here has ruled firm, but rather quiet since Tueeley ; the
extent of deliveries from the growers in the counz
markets preveneng an advance an prices. As u
at the close of the year, very few buyers appeared
at our Corn Exchange to-day, and, in say department of the
trade little business was practicable ; holders of Wheat. not-
withstanding, adhered steadily to the current rates of Tues-
day, which, in the limited sales effected, were fully main-
tained ; while to all descriptions of Flour similar remarks see
precisely applicable. The few small lets of gialtiag
Seeley snit Malt specified below, are reported to have
been sold at our late quotations; and, both being wanted
by consumers, equal prices are anticipated for the
next arrivals. In Beans, the oily transaction noticed
today, is a cargo from Egypt, at 30.. per 480 lbs.
In Peas no change was apparent. Oats, although in
moderate request, were slightly depressed in value ; and
Oatmeal scarcely supported late prices. Indian Corn and
Corn Meal exciting little attention, were easier to purchase.
Tho following are prevent prices : British : Wheat, per 701 b.,
English, red, Bs. 3d. to Bs. 6d.; extra, Bs. 6d. to Be, 9t1.; white,
Si. 6d. to Bs. 9d. ; extra, Be. 9d. to 95. 3d. ; Irish, red, 711.6 d.
to 84.1 d. • extra, Be. Id. to Bs. 3d. ; white, Bs. Id. to Ba. 64.;
extra, Bs. Bd. to Ele. 9d. Seeley, per qr., Engleh. 33a. to 365.,e
Chevalier, 365. to 37e. ; Scotch and Irish, per 601b..,3.. 9.1. to
4s. Malt, English, per qr., pale, 58.. to 64e. Oats, English
land Scotch, r 451 b. eld, 3e. 64. toWelsh, old,
3a. 4d. to 3e. 64.; leitih, fine sorts, sew, 3e. 4d. ta 3a.5d.
old, 3a. 6d. to 3s. 74. ; general, new, 3s. to Is. 4441
old, 3a. 4d. to 3.. 6d. Bean., per qr., English, new, 42e. to
45e. ; old, 461. to 60s. ; Scotch and Irish, per 4801 b., new
401. to 425. ; 425. to 445. Peas, English, per qr., white,
new, 465. to 501. ; ditto and Irish, grey, 36e. to 38s.
Flour, per 280 lb., English and Irish, fine, 39a. to 40s. ;
superfine, 425. to 445. ; extra, 461. to 46e. Oatmeal, per
load of 240 lb., Irish, new, 28s. 6;1. to 295. 6d. ; old,
265. 64. to 26a. 6d. ; Canadian, old, 251. 6d. to 265. 6d.
Bran, per 241 b., Is. 11. to Is. 4d. Present prices of
Foreigu : Wheat, per 701 h., Canadian, red, 7s. Bd. to
Bs. ; white, 83. 4d. to to. 8d.;• United States, red,
Bs. 2d. to Be. Bd. ; white, Bs. 10d. to 9s. 2d. ; Dantsic, mixed
and red, Ss. 2d. to 83. 61. ; high mixed, Os. 6d. to 10.. ;
Lower Baltic and Hamburg, red, Be. 24. to Bs. 6d.; white,
Ba. 84. to 9s. ; Riga and Petersburg, red, 7.. 2d. to
7s. 6d. ; Archangel, 6s. 10d. to 7s. 21.; Odessa, common, red,
7s. to 72.4.1. ; Polish. 7e. 64. to Ts. 9d. ; French, Spanish,
and Italian, red, 7s. 6d. to 7s. 9d. ; white, 7s. 9,1, to 8.. 3d. ;
Bennet and Mariannpoli, red, 7a. 44. to 746 Rgyietian,
4e. 3d. to 41.9 d. ; Mediterranean, tic., hard, red, 6a. 6d. to
6a. 9d. Rye, per qr , Baltic, &c., 335. to 365. Barley, per
6131 h., 4s. to 4s. 3d. Oats, per 4.51 b., 3.. fkl. to 3s. 94. ;
Russian, 2.. ltd. to 3.. Beans, per qr., European, 42... to
465. ; Eeyetian, per 4501 b., 31e. to 325. Peas, per qr., Baltic,
&e., white, 4,55. to 435.; Canadian, 361. to 40s. Indian
Corn, per teethe 345. to 38s. ; Indian Meal, per barrel
of 196ib., to 16e.61. Flour, per MI. of 1961 h.,
Canadian, sweet, 29.. to 30.. ; United States, sweet, 29e.
to 31s. ; United States and Canadian, sour, 235. to 26e.
Arrivals into Liverpool and Runcorn, from the 28th Dec.
to the 30th Dec., inclusive: Wheat, 2,613; Barmy, 405;
Malt, 1.115 ; Oats, 297 ; Beans, 293 ; Peas, 121; Indian
COTE, 2,450qr5. ; Indian Corn Meal, 2,491 barrels; Oatmeal,
1,402 sacks; Flour, 2,051 lacks, 1,566 barrels.
MANCHESTER, Dee. 31.-East winds keep out supplies
to Liverpool and Runcorn, whilst from the interior, York-
shire and our own east coast, they are moderate. Fresh
arrivals of Flour of suitable quality have sold steadily
during the week at slowly improving rates; and for ell
articles there has been a lair sale, at prices rather tending
upward. New Year's-day being observed here more closely
as a holiday, than perhaps in most business towns. our
market again falls out of course. Fine samples of Wheat
bring rather higher 'Flees. Upon Flour the advance of the
week is about Is. per sack. Oats and Oatmeal Leith rather
dearer. All °tate articles firm at the rates of our
Wt; for each there is it fair demand fir censumption.
The current prices ; Wheat, per bushel of 701 be.,
English, white, Bs. 6d. to 9s. ; red, 8•. to Be. 61. Irish, white,
Ba. to Sc. 6d. ; red, 7.. 6d. to Bs. Barley, per bushel of 601b5.,
grinding, 3s. 6d. to 4.. Oats, per bugled of 461b5., English,
Scotch, and fine Irish, 3s. 54. to Is. 74. ; Irish kiln-dried
rano, 3s. 2d. to 3e. 4,1. Beans, per qr. of 6011b5., English,
small, 435. to Me. ; Tick, 41s. to 425. Peas, per
8 imperial bushel+, white, boilers, 445. to 46e. Flour, per
sack of 2801 be., English and 16th, fine, 40s. to 41e. ; super-
fine, 42a. to 435. ; extra, 445. to 461. Oatmeal, per load of
2401b'., English and Irish, 295. 6d. to 304. 6.1.
NEWMARKET; Dec 28.-We have had rather a dull at
tendance. A fair supply of grain to-day, with but little dis-
petition to purchase, at a decline of about In. per qr. on
Wheat. The Barley trade continues flit, and the little bu-
siness treenseeted has been at a reduction of from le. to
le. 641. per qr.
RIPON, Dec. 30.-We had a moderate supply of Wheat
at to-day's market. The Wheat trade was very inactive,
and only for superior samples could the previous week's
rims be obtained In Barley and Brans no alteration. Oats
rather degree. Wheat, white, 7s. to 7s. 9d. ; red, 6s. 3d. to
7s. 6.1. Beans, 7s. to Bs. per bushel. Barley, 335. to 3,55.
Oats, 21s. to 30.. per qr.
RYE, Dee. 29.-A very large market, and a great deal of
business dune in Wheat, at rather better prices than last
week. Oats aid grey Peas a better supply, and rather lower
prices. Other kinds .f grain about the same as last week.
SOPTHAMPTON, Dec. 31.-The attendance at our market
to-day was more numerous than is usual at this season of the
year, and there was a very moderate supply, both of Wheat
a..d Barley, from the growers ; the coudidon, however, in
many cues, being very indifferent. The farmers are looking
for high. r price., which checked business, and prices cannot
be queted higher than last week.
Sr. Neor's, Deo. 30 -Wheat and Barley la. lower ,• other
grain dull. Wh. at, 295. to 335. Peas, 295. to 31s. Beans,
old, 30.. to 32a. ; new, 2es. to 241. Barley, 295. to 325. Oats,
18s. to 265.
WAKEFIELD, Dee. 31.-Our arrivals of grain decrease.
We exeerience great firmness in the Wheat trade, and sales
are made at fully lest week's prices. Barley more plentiful
and very fins, heavy sorts quite as dear, otter descriptions
sell slowly. Oets anti Shelling dull sale, at previous rates
Bean and other snicks as before. Prices : Wheat, per qr.,
601 b. to the baahel, Suffolk, Essex, and Kent, red,
new, Me. to 565.; extra, 67e.; white, 565. to 583.; extra, 60s.
Norfolk and Hunts, red, 535. to 5404 extra, 66..: white, 525.
to 555. ' • extra, 675. ; Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, red,
50s. to 53a. ; extra, 655.: white, 51s. to 535. ; extra, 565.;
Yorkshire, red, .5.4. to 635.; extra, 565. ; white, 63e.
to 54.. ; extra, 665. ; Dantsic and Konigsberg, white, 524. to
6444.; extra, 605. ; Lower Baltic and Hamburg, red, 50s.
to 62e.; extra, 645. ; Mediterranean, red, 40a. to
445. ; extra, 50.. Old, red, 465. to 624. ,• extra, 645. ;
Barley, per qttarter imp., Norfolk and Snffollt, 335. to 34.. ;
extra, 365.; Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, 335. to 315.;
extra, 36.1. ; grinding, 23e. to 30s. ; foreign, 29a. to 30s. ;
Beane p r gnawer. 6311,. to the hu.hel, smell, flee, new,
40e. to 435. ; old, 665. ; Ticks, new, 395. to 40s. ; old, 535.;
foreign, new, 38e. to 40s. ; old, 525. Oats, per stone, meal-
iug, Ild. to 12d. ; new, 13d. ; feeding, I Id. to 111. ; extra„.
131 ; foreign, Ild. to 124.; extra, 1244. Shelling, per Iced of
2611b'., 30s. to 31e. ; extra, 325. Malt, per load of 6
hostels, 40s. to 41e. ; extra, 425. Peas, per imp. qr., blue
end white boilers, 48.. to 422. • extra, 415.; grey and feed,
36.. to 405. ; extra, 425. Rapeseed, per last imp., English,
261. to 281. ; foreign, 261. to MI. Linseed, per imp. qr.,
43a. to 47.. Imports during the week: Wheat, 7,095 qrs.;
Thrley, 3,144; Oats, 1,610; Beans, 710; Peas, 144; Lin-
geed, 29; Shelling, 450 sonde.

HOPS. Boaotrcu M
Mews. Pattenden and Smith,
market remains the same.
New '1134, K Kent., 41. a toSt. 12
New weal of Kent. 2 14 too 0
New 5ege:........ 2 10 tot 16
Fornbautt .... 4 4 to 6 12

[ARKET, 7h'. o' Clock.
Hop factors, report that the

Ye:trans Rente.p• 21.10 to V. 0
Yearling Sweet „ 7 sto 3 3
Old lloto ..... 1 10 to 2 0

WORCESTIR, Dec. 31.—The hoiden are not disposed to
take the pre.ent low prices, which keeps the market thinly
supplied. The following is the number of pockets of Hoi.s
that have 'ward the public scales between Christmas 1846
and 1847 :-1847'5, 1,03.5; 1346'5, 2,981; 1843'5, 29; 1844'5,
26 ; by auction, 260.

CATTLE, &C.—BIRMINGHAM, Dee. 30.--Our sap-
ply of Beef was short, and mostly of inferior description; the
best quality was in fair demand, at about 7d. per lb.; infe-
rior, 41c1. and upwards, hut not a brisk sale. Mutton was in
better supply than last week, and the demand was good, at
last week's priers; good Wethers and Theatres from 7d. to
71d., inferior Ewes, from 61d. to Md. • and a clearance was
ttfecied in good time. Pigs were in short supply, at a little
advance in price fur all descriptions for killing; good bacon
Pigs from Os 3d. to 95. 61; Porkers, Bs. Gd. to Os. ' • and all
sold out early. Store Piga were very scarce, and but little
in demand.
ROTHERHAM, Dec. 27.—We had an average number of
Beasts, and short show of Sheep. The general number of
buyers attending, all the Beasts were sold, but a few of the
Sheep were turned out unsold. Beet', 70. to 70. 6d. per st. ;
Mutton, 6/d. to 7d. par lb.
SALPORD. Dec. 29.—The oho's, of Beasts was fair today,
though the quality was hardly an average. The demand for
prime Beef and Mutton still good, and prices are fully sup-
ported. A number of inferior Beasts and Sheep driven
away unsold.
WAKEFIELD, Dec. 29.—We had a obi& supply of stock
at market this morning, of both defaiptions with a good
attendance of buyers, for the market after Christmas, and all
was veld. Beef, 6s. fid. to 7s. per stone. Mutton, 61d. to
7d. per lb.
Draws, Dee. 30.—The supply was limited, especially of
good Cattle and Sheep, which sold high, the former at fronr
64... to 60s. per cwt., and the latter 61d. to 7d. per lb. There
was no alteration in prices from the previous week in ordi-
nary kinds of Beef, which sold from 40s. to 505., and of
Mutton from 61d. to 6d. The number of Pigs were also
fewer than usual, and prices lower,. 401. to 43e. per cwt.
being the run for bacon Pigs.

o
COVENT OARDEN.—TAis Mornerig.—Th• mar-
-1 kat cowing,. to be well supplied with Vegetables. Winter
Fruit also is plentiful, but trade is dull. Pine-apples are
abundant and good, and Grapes are sufficient for the de
mind. Pears and Apples see plentiful, considering the
moon. Of the former, specimens of (flout Mormau, Ne
Plus Meuris, and Winter Nelis may be bought at from fie.
to 4s. per dozen. Oranges continue to immure in quality.
Nuts are sufficient for the demand. Filberts (etch 6d. per
pound. Walnut, are wane, bat Obeetwobs areerreenielit
abundant. Lemons ere riarient for the demand. Of
. Vegetables, Cauldlowers sad Broccoli are plentiful, and
Asparagus and Seakale may be obtained at last week's
prices. Carrots and Turnips are good in quality. Potatoes
realise good prices. Lettuces and other **lading are suffi-
cient for the demand. Mushrooms are cheaper. Out
Flowers consist of Heath', Pelargoniums, Gardenias, Chry-
santhemums, Camellias, Fuchsias. Moss and other Roses.
ntrITS.
Pine Apple. per lb., 3s to Se Lesions, per dos., Is to fa
Gropes, hothouse, per lb., Ss to Is Lemons, per 100, es to 144
Portugal, per lb.. la &kneads. par pores
Melees, thArml.h. per dos., 30stogis Sweet A !woods. per lb., to lb
Apples, &wort. per bioh., hs 6. Walnuts, per bush., 124 to las
kitchen. ditto. la lid tamed ti ate, Barcelona Per A. We to 3E.
Pram, per ht.sre., 'is Wlk Filberts, per 10(Pri., 901 toil..
Oranges, per doz., Is to 2s Cob. per 10011 e., XS to H's
per 100, 4s to its Ilrsrll, p:r bush., 12s to 14
-: bitter, per 100, 16. to lk Chestnuts, Ia to 61 per peck
VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, per 100. ts to Ts Shallots. per lb., 61 told
6.0)., per dos., 44 to Is tar lb.. ad to Is
Cabbages, perSplnaeh. per Pliit. 1. le le.id
Bed, per dos., la to 30 Peakale, per pu
per ,punnet, 6d to .4 6d
Greene, per dos. b., la 6d to Its 6tl Artichokes. Jerusalem. 11,1*.e.
Cauliflower., per dos., Ss to es is to la 64
Broccoli. per bundle, Sd to lb Lettuce. Cab.. per wore. bl to N
Brunel, Sprouts, p.b.ave. lotols6d Coo. Per wore. tb W
Sorrel. per hal/Were. ad to 9d Endive. per aeon, 1, to la
Potatoes, per ton, 19 a to lets Radishes, pur doz. bands. is
per ern., 6s Woe Turnip, p. dos. boulha Id kola
per Mabel, 2s rid to en Mushroom., per pottle, 9d to Is 3d
Kidney, per b., 3•64 to Is Rhubarb. jar bundle. is ,al to Sa
Turnip,. per domed, Is tid to Is eel Small Salads. Per Poinset. Ed to 3d
Red Beet, per dos- 94 to le Cd Fennel, per bomb, 2d told
Rona Heald), per bundle, la to 4. Savory, per bomb, 3d to 4d
Cucumbers, each, 1. to Ps Thyme, per hunch. 24
Leeks. per di...314,6d to Is Watereres, p. 12 entail bu.Ad to6d
Celery, per bundle, 641 to le 61 Parsley, per balfeieve, 1. to Is 6d
Garrote. per doe. bombes, to 44 loon., per band.. Is to Is 6d
Onions, per bushel. M El to 4s Mint green. per bunch, 441 to 111
Portugal, per dos. Is to 4 Marjoram, per bunch, Zd to 4d
pickling, per ht. sieve, Ste Is

for YesterdaVi 'larlaate see Mal Image.

SHIPPING.

- _
MAILS ARRIVED.—Dublin,3'; Waterford,2; Donaglades,
1 ; French, I ; Flanders, 1 ; Hamburg, 1.
LONDON, Jun. I.—Wind this day at noon, E S.E.,
light br,eze, fine wea'her.
Pankow" Koons, Dee. 30.—Arrived John Hutchins, of
Bideford, Bt. John's, N.B.
OFF ROLTHEAD.—losbella Hulett, from Calcutta.
SCARBOROCCH, Dee. 31.—The Ybuog Charles, of and for
Flushing, has foundered off this port; crew saved.
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 31.—Arrived: Coquette, Palermo.
H.M.S. Columbia, from Plymouth yesterdsy. 9 a.m., off
Portland, fell in with the barque Mary Caroline, of St.
John's, N. 8., from Hull, with has of foretopmem, maintop-
gallant mast, fore-yard, and bowsprit, having run down a
brig the night before, off the Snit, and Lou the crew on
beard; took her in tow till 2.30 poen.; she then making
better way, not her off; saw her this morninif 5 miles to
wiralward, with a pilot. boat alongside, making for the
Needles. The Nunn, of Sunderland, outward-bound, with
lose of mizenmsst, was spoken on the 25th Dee., in lat. 49,
long. 7, by the Coquette, arrived here.
CAMPBELL Town, Dec. 29.—The Olive, of Cardigan, has
been cut ashore at Cockney, twelve miles south of this place.
Bowttnovon, Dec. 30.—The Oak sailed from Newcastle
for Lowestoffe on the bth inst., and has not since been
heard of.
DEAL, Dee. 31.-8.8. W. to W.N.W., A.m. ; E.S.E., P.M.
—Arrived: Dillon, from St. John's, and sailed for Shields.
Arrived and passed to the river: Oriental Queen, from Mau-
ritious ; Heise, from Mediterranean ; two brigs (names un-
known), from Alexandria; Brick, from St. Mi hael's ;
together with Japans, and Lsdy Ashburton. Arrived from
the river and sailed: Governor McLean, for Africa • Cran-
ston, for St. John's • Azoriap, Ace of Trumps, Ilrosper
and Kate, all four ?or St. W heel's; Water Lily, for Ja-
male ; John Calvin, for Hobart Town ; Julians, for Algoa
Bay; Blonde, for New Orients ; Gertrude, for New York ;
Charles Kerr, for Cardiff and Cape of Good Hope; Una, for
Cardiff and Sierra Leone. Arrived from the river and re-
mains : Fame, for Honduras.
FALMOUTH, Dec. 31.—N.E., light, fair.—Arrived : Eliza-
beth, Marianypoli, and nailed for Cork; Otto, Kertch.
Sailed: Elizabeth, Constantinople; General Sir W. Nott,
Havannah.
PLYMOUTH, Dee. 31.—Sailed: William Bonham, Sierra
Leone.
BataroL, Dec. 31.-11.N.E., fresh.—Sailed: Samuel,
Africa; Otorge, St. Vincent's.
Nownoter, Dec. 31.—N.E.—Arrived : Janet, Miramlehl;
Urania, Quebec.
MUMBLES ROADS, Deo. 30.—Arrived: Alexander flat-
Teba
fiIICL.';ORD, Dec. 30.—N.N.W.—Arrived: Hannah, Que.
bee, and sailed for Mumbles.
WM/SHAVEN, DCc. 30.—N.W.—Arrived: Sarah Rayne,
St. John's, N.B.
CROOKHAVIN, Dec. 26.—Imbella, of Pince Edward's
Island, arrived front Charboth, fur Cork; Sprionflower,
from Quebec, for Cork, with loss of bu.warks. 27th, the
Hannah, from hlirenuchi, for Mumbler, has pot in here
baying sprung a leak 'during, a, heavy ale, and lost bul-
warks, Jib-boom, dm, god Mks been put on the mud to step
the leak.
HULL, Dee. 31.—S.E. to S.S.L.—Arrived: Andromache,
St. Andrew's, N.B.

ghe erpregg._

MAILS

The Went India Mail*, excluding Bermuda, Kaman, Havana,
Llunduras, New Oilcan*, Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Porto Rico, and
Including tbove for Madeira, Jacmel, Within; Manta Martha,
Chaem, Panama, Weet Coast of South America, and St. Irian-de-
Nicaragua, will he made up on the coming of the let January.
The overland mode for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and China, via Southampton
sill he made up on the morning of the 3rd January.
The malt. for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernem.
the* Bahia, Madeira. and Buenos Ayres, will he mad. ap on the
greening piths 4th January.
The awls for Vigo, ()port°, Lisboa, Madeira, Cadia, and Gibraltar
will be made up on the mormog of the 7th January.
The overland clouts mail% cis Maryville*, to the Mediterranean
cgypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong Kong, ate, will be mad* up on the
adenine of the 7th January.
Tt v mail. for Itntith North Ameries, &emeriti, and the United
will I e made ap on the craning of the 14h January.
The mails for New South Wain, Van theasen's land, aad New
Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 31st January.

To COIMESTON MINTS.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 1.

EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN had little
to recommend it. That year was one of neither
glory, nor prosperity, nor plenty, nor discovery,
not wisdom. It was productive of nothing, be-
yond the saddest aid strangest materials for ex-
perience, materials too, which, sphynx-like, even
oow more perplex than enlighten. Never was a year
during which a statesman could have less liked to
wield power; the consuls, who affix their names to
1847, have purchased that honour in heart-and-head-
throbbings incalculable.
The melancholy year, of which we seek to
write the epitaph, followed a year of • very
different aspect, a year of great promises and great
achievements. 1646 had its Irma enwreathed with
the laurels of the Indus and the olive branch of the
Oregon. It was great in war, magnanimous in peace;
whilst its parliamentary achievements were not less
striking or less glorious in having established the
principle of free trade in the great necessary of life,
which so powerful a body were interested to mono-
polise, and the setting free of which must prove as
imports t is social as in economical results.
1847 could come but as a dwarf to creep after the
stride of such a giant predecessor. But the dwarf
was not a common dwarf. It distinguished itself in
its own way, by an extravagance of misery, a luxury
of woe, by squalor, want, and disease. It was the
ideal of mendicancy, the very poetry of indigence.
The men and the ministers of 1847 have at least one
feat to record, one virtue to boast. They faced this
famine with determined, vigilant, lavish humanity.
It may be said that little profit came of the expendi-
ture—that the magnitude of the charity aided in the
disorganisation of Ireland—and that in providing for
the subsistence of the day but little thought was taken
of the state which was to ensue .on the morrow. It
is, however, something for an age to have shown
itself greatly humane; and providence may be ex-
pected to send wisdom wherever men find charity.
The miseries of 1847 were however not confined to
the lower classes, or to one region of the empire.
The year was equally trying to the carers for private'
fortune, as to the managers of the public weal. Fate
seemed to have broken in every man's hands the
peculiar staff upon which he leaned. If the Irish
peasant found rottenness iu lieu of his potato, the
English manufacturer found the material of his in-
dustry beyond his reach, the commercial man found
his credit dwindle to a reed, which to lean upon was
to break, and all men had become traders, for the
savings of all classes, of the wealthy landlord as of
the poor mechanic, had gone into the great ma-
chinery of speculation, to be ground and returned
tenfold. Here, too, political wisdom was at fault, and
institutions, richly endowed and paid for the mainte-
nance of credit, were turned irate instruments for its
annihilation.
The mission and duty of 1848 seem to be to solve
the difficult problems that the disasters of 1847 have
bequeathed. It has Ireland not merely to terrify
and castigate, but to organise. It has some new
laws of credit to devise ; for it surely cannot
go on, as at present, creating and encouraging
credit in prosperous days, merely for the sake of
crushing it at the moment when credit is most re-

quired, in adverse ones. We need not enumerate the
other tasks of 1848, all pacific, reflective, deliberative
ones. The mind of the epoch seems well fitted to
such tasks. It is singularly calm, unusually tolerant,
loblivions of party, contemptuous of passion. The
ravings of Irish orators fill it with disgust. Bate-
TINCI'S party speeches are out of place. STAN-
LIM'S rancour, meal welcome in the Lords, would be
led at in the COMMIS& Aad even the eloquence
et 1848, if such mist, must be of the ratiocinating
kind. Another characteristic of the time is the greet
power of government, or of those who , look on
things from the point of view of a government.
The union, however tacit, between the great
political leaders of moderate toryism and moderate
whiggism, renders any such meaeares, es both shall
resolve upon, quite itresistible. And, strange to my,
the ultra-liberal party of the House of Commons has
considerable confidence in both one leader and the
other. Thus the very semblance of a liberal opposi-
tion has disappeared from parliament, and renders the
consideration and discussion of great domestic ques-
tions likely to be resolved in a spirit of truth and justice,
not, as usual, in a spirit of temporary expediency.
All this betokens, if not a brilliant, at least a profit-
able year. We fear, indeed, the resolution of too
many questions in too governmental a sense. We
fear to see the currency settled and taxation in-
creased more according to ministerial ideas of exi-
gency than to the rigid notions of public and popular
economy. This makes us regret the absence of what
might call itself a popular party. Bat we have still
great confidence in the thoroughly liberal spirit of
the Premier, as well as in the equally liberal and en-
lightened principles of the greater number of his
colleagues.
This hasty retrospect and prospect over the past
and the coming year would not be complete, if exclu-
sively confined to these countries. The fate and for-
tunes of Europe are too closely interwoven with our
own, for us not to cast a look as to how and whither
they are progressing. And what we see, upon directing
our view towards the continent, is of a nature most
powerfully to excite interest and awaken sympathy.
Europe has often struck us, as one of those large
asd frozen manses which mariners encounter in the
northern seas, and the formation of which has pro-
bably been the work of ages. Examining the surface,
one finds that the only portions of the iceberg which
seem to feel the sun, or which show symptoms of
dissolving and of assimilating to a milder element,
are the extremities which jut into the sea. So has it
been with Europe. The only countries of it, on which
liberalism has hitherto had any sensible infbience, aro
the extremities, the islands and peninsulas., which
stretch into, or are surrounded by, the ocean. Ancient
civilisation melted the two great peninsulas cf Greece
and Italy, long since refrozen from their proximity to
the great icy centre. In modern times the western
shores of Europe have alone felt the genial ray ; but
with the exception of our own ocean-girt isle, the
melting of despotism even along that western line has
been slow interrupted, and unsatisfactory. •
The grand diteolution of the mountain of ice is,
indeed, not to be achieved by the mere seftenir ; of
the extremities. It is when the centre begins to clack,
and when the sun's rays and the rising temperature
begin to tell upon the body itself—it is then that we
may expect to see the great mass break up, sever,
crash, and finally disappear.
It is impossible now to look at central Europe, and
listen to the sounds which come from it, without
perceiving the symptoms of the great break-up, and
hearing the cracks, which portend the final rending
asunder of the ice of despotism. From the Baltic to
the shores of Sicily, athwart and in the midst of the
very centre of Europe, the whole surface is now in
motion; one continued earthquake communicates its
shocks from north to south, and from south to north.
Prussia, Saxony, Bohemia, Bavaria, all the southern
German states, are breaking from the despotic system.
Switzerland stirs more energetically still ; and Italy,
need we depict its state ? That Austria should start,
panic-struck, at what is taking place ,does not eery: hie
us; but that France should be alarmed, and e' mild
show repugnance, is indeed startling. It only peeves
that the men who rule the destinies of France are
not alive even to the great phenomena of their age,
ald that, shrewd in small things, they are idiots in
great. This is the curse of selfishness. Absorbed in
petty objects, avaricious graspings, party trinmphs,
the court and cabinet of Paris seem blind to the signs,
' and with their faces set against the current and the
events, of the times.
We will do our own cabinet the justice to say that
they seem fully aware of the critical pushier of
Europe, and that our minaters have wisely and
' liberally judged the attitude which it behoved Eng-
land to take. We are not for intermediling or in-
terfering, but the moral countenance of this courtly
is of great power. And it is the more important,
both to our own honour and to European progress,
to bestow it justly and liberally, at a time, when
countries calling themselves constitutional, and even
revolutionary, are found, like France, tied to the tail
of despotism, and playing the basest and most
treacherous part. In despite of such treason to the
best and most sacred of causes, the new year opens
full of hope for Europe, and of peaceful glory for
England in relation to it.

WE have little pleasure in recurring to the HAMP-
DEN disturbance, which has been proceeding with
fresh vehemence during the last week. The Dean of
HEREFORD'S letter to Lord Joins RUSSELL will have
gone far to deprive him of the sympathy which his
conscientious scruples may in some quarters have ob-
tained for him. The memorial to the Queen was
drawn up in a temperate and formal manner, which
gave a legal colour to the utter miaappreheasion of
the law involved in the dean's hesitation to obey the
condo d'llire. We have already shown that the formal
election of bishops by the chapter is, as the statute of
EDWARD VI. observes, mere shadow, colour, and pre-
tence : that the nominal electo-s are ministerial offi-
cers, with no more right to discuss the merits, of the
appointment which they are required to carry into
effect, than a sheriff pessysSee to criticise a judgmeat
on which a fi. fa. or ca. sa. directed to him
is issued. Scruples of conscience, as we observed
before,wiil not stand against a mandamus. No man has
a right to feel scruples in obeying a compulsory law.
Church-rate martyrs mistake their duty ; but decanal
martyrs mistake it more unjustifiably ; for all who
have properts must be rate-pavers—but no man need
be, or need remain, a dean. The English church is
exceedingly Exastiau by constitution, as well as by
character ; bat it is not for her dignitaries to affect
horror at the power of the crown, when it happens to
be exercised in a manner of which they disapprove. Dr.
MEREWETRER took his deanery subject to all the legal
liabilities of deanship; of which one of the most con-
spicuous is the duty of obeying a rongf d'ilire issued
by the moat heretical or anti-ecclesiastic minister, in
favour of tho most unpopular of divines. his very well
for the clergy to amuse themselves with a fictitious
belief of their own importance, as in the twaddling
dialogue quoted by the dean, between two old women,
who, assuming the dramatic names of Philmbaus
and Ortlughaws; agree that " if the King do nominate
a worthy person, according to oar laws, as oar
kings have used to do, and give them authority
to choose him, there is no reason why this
may not be called a free election, as there is no
force or violence used." The only question is, whether
there is any use in calling an election free, which is
absolutely dictated by a superior authority. U clergy
or laity, however, take plea.ure in talking nonsense,
let them enjoy their pastime. It is only when they
act on false assumptions that the public has a right
to complain.
The inconclusive and incoherent character of the
dean's reasoning is shown by his first argument,
which is actually drawn from his matriculation oath
at Oxford, which bound him to observe all the sta-
tutes and customs of the university. It seems there-
fore that, independent of his character as dean, he is
bound to resist Dr. liestroEsi by his casual idle-
giance to a corporation wholly unconnected with
Hereford Cathedral, and without any authority in the
church : and that as the university once declared that
it had no confidence in Dr HAMPDEN ea its Rev.
Professor, he interprets the decree to mean that .
HAMPDEN shall not be a bishop. If Dr. MERE-
wrrnER had a vote for the borough of Tamworth,
we presume teat he woi.ld be prevented by the same
matriculation oath from giving it to Sir .....14.13ERT PEEL,
because in 1829 the University declared its want of
confidence in its former representative.
The doctrines of Dr. HAMPDEN, according to the
dean, will be peculiarly formidable to those who " by
reason of use have not their senses exercised to dis-
cern both good and evil,"—in other words, to those
who are incapable of understanding them; a body of
judges so competent to decide on the merits of abstruse
theological propositions, that we shall not venture to
dispute their authority : but we really cannot under-
stand how the dean is bound to resist Dr. Ileurenine

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