The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-24 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING, DECEIVINP,Irt 24, 1840,

to whos t extreme civilization she mainly owes her _
ruin. t )ur object now—the oll,ect of all the sup- TUE FRENCH IMPUr.I3/ A
porters of the emigration scheme is, to
interpos e a saving hand and arrest the
sorely-tempted ones yet struggling on the abyss. Let
them ponder well this view of the question, they who
are disposed to chide its advocates as deluded enthu-
siasts. If to desire the preservation of the unprotected,
and not satisfied with so desiring to extend a hand
to their succour, be enthusiasm, then GOD preserve
such enthusiasts say we.
The scheme, however, so far from being visionary,
is most practicable and likely to lead to practically
beneficial results. Those who fear that it will not
be so have the remedy in their own hands, as we
have already Said. Let them add to the subscriptions,
so that the largeness of the amount may enable it
to be beneficially invested! This most logical in-
ference we commend to the candid consideration of
he opponents of the Emigration Fund.

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We have received the Parii journals of SAturday
and yesterday..

An intereqing discussion took place in the As
sembly on Friday, on the presentation of a Bill
auther;zing the 1.3an1; of Prance to increase its issues
from 452 millions to 525 million of francs.

In the course of the debate, M. Fould, the Minister
of Finance, said that the Bill would not have been
presented at all, had it not been absolutely called
for by the necessities of the moment. The public
demanded notes as more convenient for business then
specie; and, in consequence, as the metallic reserve
had increased beyond measure, it was found neces-
sary to favour the increased circulation which was
now required to suit the general convenience. The
Bank hitherto was allowed to issue 452,000,000 f. in
notes; by thelpresent Bill that sum was to be increased
to 525,000,000 f. Was that to be done under circum-
stances of danger for the Bank ? Not in the least,
since the metallic reserve was at present somewhat
over 420,000,000 f. There was, therefore, no danger
for the Bank, whilst there would be very con-
siderable advantage to the public. The Iloeourable
Minister then referred to the two sums of 50,000,000 f.
each, advanced by the Bank of France to the Go-
vernment after the revolution, and asked where
could the State hope at present to procure money on
such favourable terms? The first of these sums lent
against Bons du Tresor was given at 4 per cent , and
the other, forming part of the loan of 150,000,000 t.,
at 5 per cent. Could the State find anywhere better
conditions ? He then referred to the circumstances
under which the money bad been advanced, when, in
consequence of the dreadful period which succeeded
the revolution of February, the Provisional Govern-
ment would not have had money to carry on the
public service had not the Bank come forward to
afford its aid. Ile then pointed to the conduct of
England in 1847, when the Bank was permitted at a
moment of crisis to go beyond its legal issues in order
to afford relief to the commercial classes. Yet the
sum now demanded for the Bank only amounted to
73,000,000 f., certainly only a small increase, when
the immense amount of capital in its coffers was taken
into consideration. He believed firmly that the in-
creased issue now demanded would have the effect of
imparting activity to business, and he had little doubt
that the Assembly would look at the matter in his
point of view.
M. Sainte-Beuve thought that, if the present Bill
were adopted, the decree of the Provisional Govern.
ment, giving a forced currency to its notes, ought
to cease to be valid, and he should, in consequence,
propose an amendment to that effect. Ile looked on
the fact of the Government borrowing money from
the Bank as an unwise step, as by such step it did
nothing less than authorise the Bank to make paper
inoney.—(Murmurs of denial.) Assignats were marked
by three characteristics—they were in paper, were
guaranteed by no amount of specie, and were the
same as the present bank-cotes. The State gave a
piece of white paper to the Bank, which returned it
with a stamp and a signature, and took 4 per cent
interest.—(Agitation.) In two years more it would
be necessary to renew both the legislature and ex-
ecutive power; and the nearer came that period the
more would the agitation of the country increase.
Was it with such a prospect that sound financial tra
ditions were to be departed from ? The Honourable
Representative then argued that a forced currency
could never be a sound or safe one, and must lead to
depreciation. When paper was good, it was taken, he
said readily, without requiring to be imposed on the
public. He concluded by reading the amendment of
which he had spoken, and calling on the Assembly
to adopt it.
M. Leon Faucher said that what was now asked
was to continue what the Provisional Government had
before done—namely, to give a forced currency to
bank-notes ; and that had been done for the interest of
commerce as well as for that of government. The
only question to be considered was, whether the neces-
sity for such a measure still existed. In his opinion
it certainly did. It was, no doubt, easier to establish
a forced currency than to put an end to it when in
existence ; fur, after it had been long in use, it be
came a kind of necessity which it was difficult to re
move. An immense void had, he said, been made in
the circulation by the financial situation of the coun-
try ; it was not improbable, be thought, that a milliard
had disappeared from circulation since the revolution
of February. If the forced currency of bank-notes was
done away with, the Bank would be compelled to
double ite capital ; and that, it was evident, it could not
effect. The Government had, he said, made an excellent
bargain in its last contract with the Bank, for it had
borrowed money at 4 per cent. which it could not get
elsewhere at less than 6 per cent —(Cries of " La
cloture I la cloture 1") As far as his opinion went,
there could not be any valid objection brought against
the present Bill. It ought never to be forgotten that
the signature which M. St. ,Beuve appeared to treat
so lightly in fact represented the capital of the Bank
of France."
The President—The tribune is to M. Raudot
against the cloture.
M. Raudot considered that the question now under
discussion was one of great importance, and he re-
quested from the Assembly permission to say a few
words on the subject.—(Loud cries of " Eeough !
enough I" " La cloture 1")
The Assembly consulted, and decided on the dis
cussion being continued.
M. Ney de la Moscowa argued that the issues of
the Bank of France, far from being exaggerated,
were altogether insufficient.

The manner in which the unfortunate "casuals''
who have to seek refuge even for a single night are
treated, in too many of the metropolitan workhouses,
has frequently been noticed and strongly commented
on. The officials connected with the various esta-
blishments seem to regard poverty as a crime of no
ordinary magnitude, and to believe that they are
authorised to treat the paupers placed under their
control with any degree of cruelty and oppression
that may gratify the caprice of the moment. The
" heads" of the wretched victims are the parts
chiefly selected for operations. A pauper has, it
appears, no right to retain his hair or whiskers, if
that high functionary, the Union barber, should choose
to order their removal. Many causes may induce
that important official to direct the operation. Time
may hang heavy on his hands, and a little job in
the shaving department may raise his depressed
spirits, and afford the necessary amusement. But
surely there are at all times chins enough to be
scraped, so that the barber need not long remain
idle. Chins, however, would not by any means
answer the purpose, for, in the first place, the shaving,
so far as they were concerned, would be rather grati-
fying than otherwise to the "shavee," and one great
source of innocent recreation, the chagrin and vexa-
tion of the "casual," would be wanting, and,
secondly, the barber would in such cases be a mere
gratuitous operator. No extraordinary fee would be
gained by shaving in its ordinary meaning. A fixed
salary or stipend is usually paid, for which the duty
must be performed. But hair cutting or shaving
human heads are extras, for which additional remu-
neration is received. To use the language of those
functionaries, shaving beads or cutting hair " does
pay," and in some degree makes up for the scanty
price allowed to the "shave beggar" by his regular
contract.

Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile, dulci. The
Union barber, we beg pardon, "hair dresser," coin-
bines business with pleasure by earning considerable
fees for himself, filling up his leisure time in an
agreeable manner, and also disgusting the paupers, so
that they will not again subject themselves to such
treatment, if it can possibly be avoided. It is well
known that there is no part of the prison discipline
so distasteful to the enterprising young gentlemen who
got themselves entangled within the meshes of the
law, as the close cropping which is technically termed
"the county cut." It remains for some time a con-
clusive evidence of the punishment to which they
have been subjected, and as a caution to the public
against the parties thus despoiled of the flowing
honours of the crown, "fenum habet in cornu."
A distinguishing mark is placed on the head of each,
that reveals the nature of his character and pursuits
to the observers at a single glance; so that a certain
degree of retirement is necessary until the hair has
grown to a respectable length. A governor of one
of the Houses of Correction tried the experiment of
cropping persons imprisoned under county court
warrants in a similar manner; but a verdict with
2.51. damages established the illegality of that prac-
tice, and the expensive nature of the amusement.
Paupers, however, supplied a new field for such ope-
rations, which it was supposed might safely be in-
dulged in.
A case which was heard before Mr. Alderman
CARDEN at the Mansion-house on Wednesday affords
the strongest illustration of the system, and the
extraordinary powers confided to the officials in
matters in which they are themselves personally
interested. An Irish family, consisting of husband,
wife, and Sve children, were brought up charged
with mendicancy. The children were sent, on the
arrest of their parents, to the West London Union,
to be kept for a single night, until they should
appear before a magistrate. After the case was
disposed of, the worthy magistrate's attention was
directed to the condition of the wretched children.
Their heads had been that morning shaved, with the
exception of a slight line of hair that would just
appear outside their bonnets or caps, and the report
says that they,presented mostpitiableobjectswhen their
heads were exposed ;" and that "in court there was a
murmur of suppressed indignation that they should
have been subjected to such treatment." The Alder-
man very properly determined to probe the matter to
the very bottom, and to ascertain how it was that
such acts could be committed in a public establish-
ment. Re directed that the matron should be sent
for, but that lady did not choose to attend, although
at the workhouse. A certificate was accordingly sent
with respect to her indisposition, but Mr. LEAD, the
hairdresser of the union, appeared in her place. He it
was who recommended that the heads should be
shaved, whereupon the matron, without any further
examination or investigation, gives the order in
accordance with the report of the hairdresser. It
came out in the course of the inquiry that Mr. LEAD
undertakes to shave the entire establishment,
from three to four hundred persons, for l's. 6d. per
week, and that he received a further sum of 6d. each
fur shaving children's heads, and id. for cutting their
hair, which he admitted "did pay." This, then, is
the temptation to that functionary to act in so truly
barbarous a manner. The situation, in fact, would
not be worth retaining but for the practice on the
" casuals." Can this system, however, be tolerated or
sanctioned P Must not a close and searching investi-
gation take place, and the parochial Corneys and
Bumbles taught that they cannot be permitted to
play such fantastic tricks with impunity, although
the victims may be merely casual pauper children,
who have no legal claim upon the union.

M. Raidot again ascended the tribune, and ex-
pressed his apprehensions that the situation would be
found exceedingly critical. For his part the present
Bill appeared to him nothing more than one of a
series of expedients which would in the end lead to
bankruptcy.—(Enough I enough !)
The Minister of Finance repelled with energy the
fears expressed by the last speaker. The situation,
he said, though tight, was not alarming; no deficit
was announced, and nothing whatever led to the idea
of bankruptcy, so often in the mouths of Hon.
Gentlemen.—(Cries of "La cloture 1")
The debate was then adjourned, and resumed on
Saturday, when the Bill was passed by a large
m jority.
The Reform has the following:—
" Yesterday morning a commissary of police, accom-
panied by three agents, presented themselves at our
offices with a warrant to search for letters, purporting to
have been written from Belle Ile, but which, it was said,
were fabricated. After a strict examination, the com-
missary retired, taking with him a document which had
been deposited with us, and which was a protest, sigred
by 98 of the transported prisoners who remained at Bele
Ile,l against the term repris de justice,' which had been
applied to therm"

'The Ordre, the organ of M. ODILON BARROT,
publishes a letter from a person on board the French
fleet at Ourlac of the 6th inst., mentioning the arrival
of the steamer Prony, with orders, as reported for the
recall of the fleet. The steamer had continued her
route for Constantinople. The writer regards the
recall of the fleeet as an error in policy, being calcu-
lated to offend England; who does not intend to with-
draw her fleet until all differences be finally settled,
which he thinks is far from being the case. Russia
seems determined, on the one hand, to maintain an
army in the Danubian provinces, while Turkey is
equally determined to repel such pretension, even at
the hazard of war. In conclusion, the writer thinks
that General AUPICIE will not sanction the recall of
the fleet, but will send home energetic remonstrances
against the execution of any such intention.
'1 he jury of the Gironde have acquitted eighteen
persons accused of being members of the Solida-
rite Republicaine.
It is considered probable that an expedition will be
directed to the River Plate against Rosas, whose
resignation of the Government is a farce, which,
says the Debate, has been annually repeated.
The Committee on Finance, in its report on the
supplementary credit demanded for paying the sub-
sidy to the state of Monte Video, thus speaks of the
state of relations between France and the States of
the Plate :

CHRISTMAS KISSING.
There's no great favour in a kiss
Which one may get to day—
That any man may have from Miss
Who woos the proper way 1

MINISTERIAL HOLIDAYS.—The Lord Chancellor
has left his mansion in Park-lane for his seat in Surrey.
The Noble and Learned Lord and family have been
placed in mourning by the demise of the Hon. and Rev.
Sir Henry Leslie, Bart. The Lord President of the
Council will remain at Bowood, Wilts, until the close of
the second week in the ensuing month. The Noble
Marquis and Marchioness have had a numerous circle
of distinguished visitors at their princely seat, the
guests including Lord and Lady John Russell. Via.•
count and Viscountess Palmerston, who are at Broad-
lands, his Lordship's seat near Romsey, will receive a
succession of noble guests during the Christmas holidays.
The Marquis of Clanricarde left town on Friday for
Brighton, where the Marchioness and family are re-
siding. The Earl and Countess Grey are expected to leave
town:on Monday (to-day), to:make a series of visits during
the Christmas holidays. The Right Hon. Sir George
Grey is to return to London the same day to suc-
ceed the Noble Earl as Secretary of State in town.
The Right Honourable Sir F. T. Baring left his
official residence at the Admiralty on Friday
for Stratton Park, Hants. The Right Hon. Henry La
bouchere left Belgrave square yestkrday for Stoke Palk,
near Windsor. The Right Hon. Sir J. Cam Hobhouse
will pass the Christmas at Erlstoke Park, Wilts, until ho
ores to town for the Parliamentary session. Lord
Campbell has left Stratheden House for the holiday,.
The Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood will
remain at Mickleton Park, Yorkshire, until the 12th of
the ensuing month. The Earl of Minto is not expected
in town from Minto, North Britain, before the 14th of
next month. Lord and Lady John Russell, and a nu-
merous and distinguished party, are expected to partake
of the hospitality of the Duke and Duchess of Bedford
sit Woburn Abbey this Christmas. The Right Hon.
Fox Manic has left town until atter the Christmas holi-
days. The Earl of Carlisle was to have left the Duke
and Duchess of Sutherland's seat in Staffordshire yes-
terday for Castle Howard, Yorkshire. Lord Eddisbury,
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has left
town for Cheshire for the Christmas holidays. Mr.
Tufnell, M.P., Secretary of the Treasury, is staying
with Lady Anne Tufnell, on a visit to the Duke and
Duchess of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, Bede.—Weekly
Chrohicle.

" That the present state of things cannot be main-
tained ; that our situatiou in the Plata is onerous, undig•
nified, and cannot lead to any result ; that the treaty of
Admiral Le Predour contains clauses which cennot be
accepted ; that there is little hope of obtaining any mo
dification of it by the pure and simple means of negoti
ation ; that the new arrangements will not contribute to
raise our moral authority, or our influence; that it is
necessary to decide on a plan of action, either to abandon
all or to replace:the present,mode of intervention, the pay-
ment of a subsidy, by a more efficacious and diff.rent
one; that it is for the Government to examine and decide
on such measures as are moat comformable to the public
interests, and to present them to the Assembly."
La Patrie announces that it is the intention of M.
Dumas to convoke without delay the conseils generauz
of agriculture, manufactures, and commerce. The
last convocation of these councils took place at the
end of 1840, under the Ministry of M. CUMIN

The Moniteur of yesterday contains the decrees
appointing. the several new ambassadors.

General CASTEL BAJAC is named Envoy Extra-
ordinary and Plenipotentiary at St. Petersburgh,
vice General LAMORICIERE ; M. DE LA Coua to the
same post at the Court of Vienna, in the room of M.
DE BEAUMONT. M. DE PERSIGNY is appointed to
the came post at Berlin ; but being a member of the
Assembly, is described as such on an extraordinary
mission.

M. DE BASsANO, hitherto Ambassador of Baden, is
appointed to the Embassy of Wurtemberg.
M. BERNARDO D'HARCOURT, Secretary of Legation
at Madrid, is appointed Ambassador at the Court of
Baden.

M. MArtu,scALcui is eprointed First Secretary o'
Legation in London, and M. MONTILEROT Secretary
of Legation at Madrid.
The Toulonnaise of the 17th announces the de-
parture ofateamera for Civita Vecchia to take troops

The Earl and Countess Grey left town on Satur-
day for Ilatehford, Surrey, on a visit to the Earl of
Ellesmere.

—some for Algeria and others for France—so as to
reduce the army of Italy to 20,000 men.
The Refornw says—
The eandldature of the P.•icce de Joinville, at the
approaching elections is much t.dlied of. This candi-
dature i 3 to be proposed and patronised by a celebrated
journalist, who, independently of a large morning journ
(La Presse), publishes in the evening a small one (L'
Evencinaz.9, in which he intends to advocate the claims
of the Prince."

The Three per Cents. were done yesterday in the
Passage de l'Opera at 91f. 70c.

MONEY am] COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool ou Saturday were
estimated at 8,000 bales, including 3,000 taken on spe-
celetion. The sales comprised 6,000 American 600
Pernana and Maranham, at 64(1. to 6/41,; 600 Bahia, at
5-P. to Cid.; 100 Egyptian, at 7d. to 7id.; and 600
Surat, at 4d. t 441. per lb. The market was rather
excited, and price:, of American were nearly p. per lb.
dearer.—Railway Shares were dull, at lower prices.
The Corn market is steady today.
The steamer Dee has arrived from the West Indies,
but at the hour of our writing, her letters, &c., are net
in town. It appears that she has nearly two millions of
dollars in specie, including 65,998 for the dividends.
The outline of the intelligence makes us aware of the
continued determination of the Jamaica House of
Assembly to effect reductions of salaries, &c. The re-
ports of the crops are favourable from all the windward
blends as well as from Demerara, and at Havannab,
likewise, the prospects were good.
Cape of Good Hope accounts, of November 3, have
been received by the ship Essex. The transportation
q ucation still threw every other into the shade. The
criminal sessions, with a population of 30,000 persons,
wore over in about four hours. Efforts were making to
resuscitate the Chamber of Commerce, which had almost
ceased to act.
The Hamburgh mail of Friday brings the quotation
for bills on London, at 13.9, being lower. Not much
was doing. Money was still in request. Stocks were
firm, and coffee had again been very active.
From St. Petersburgh, under date of the 13th inst.,
we learn that owing to the want of snow, the inter-
course with the interior was difficult. Very little busi-
ness was doing either in Russian products or imports.
The Antwerp letters advise several shipwrecks be-
tween that place and Dunkirk, and one or two English
vessels had suffered.
The quantity of sugar on the Ist December in first
hands, iu Holland, Belgium, Hamburgh, Trieste, Havre,
and London, was 3,231,000 cwt., including all descrip-
tions, against 2,869,000 cwt. at the same date last year,
and the price of British %Vest and East India Mascovado
is 265., against 225. in December, 1848. The stock of
coffee in the places named is 911,000 cwt., and on the
Ist of December, 1848, was 1,297,000 cwt. The price
of Jamaica is 425. to 505., and last December was 28s.
to 31s. per cwt.
The following are some particulars from Messrs.
Witherby and Hanson's report of the present state of
the dried fruit trade:—
" The clearances of currants of late for home c3n-
sumption at this port, and at Liverpool, have been nearly
the same as last year. At London, from the 20th ult.
to the 15th inat., they have reached 1,750 tons against
1,720 tons in 1848, and against 1,550 tons in 1847 (at
both which periods currants, particularly old fruit, were
cheaper than at present), and against 850 tons in 1846,
when the article was 20 per cent. dearer. At Liver-
pool the clearances of the four weeks, ending the 11th
inst., were 725 tons against the same quantity in 1848.
" The summary of our reports for currants since Sep-
tember amounts to this fact, that we have received as
yet 950 tons less of new fruit than to Christmas, 1848,
and that the clearances of the eleven la:t weeks have
been about 100 tons more than those of the correspond-
ing weeks of 1848. As the stock of old fruit was about
the same at the commencement of both seasons, the pre-
sent London stock will be found to be about 1,000
tons less than at the close of 1848.
" As regards raisins there is a deficit in our importation
into London so far this season of 1,750 tons, and a
deficit of 200 tons and 600 tons, as compared respec-
tively with the two previous seasons. Of currants and
raisins together we have as yet received 2,700 tons
less than to the 21st December last season. The ar-
rivals of Valentias at Liverpool have not been far short
of those of 1548 season.
" There has been since our hitt more animation and
excitement in Valentias than has been expe-
rienced for some years past, and the price ad-
vanced from 465. to 48s. before the end of
November. It has since gone back to 475., at which
there are sellers, but no purchasers to any extent. The
arrivals of Turkey fruit have been limited to boxes.
Elemes are held at present quotations. Muscatels con-
tinue scarce, and are likely to be so through the season,
with high prices. Black Smyrna Raisins are held at
365.
" It is needless to remark, with a large diminution in
the supply of Valentin Raisins, and, as we confidently
affirmed two months ago would be the case, a moderate
direct supply of Turkey fruit, and with but little falling
off in our clearances, the stock of Raisins in the port of
London is very different from that at the close of 1848,
when of Valentias alone the stock at the wharfs was
1.600 tons. There is, therefore, both as regards raisins
and currants, ample room for any supply which might
possibly reach us in consequence of the alteration in our
navigation laws, which will come into forco on the Ist
January next."
The English Stock Market is very quiet, and the
paucity of business prevents either fluctuation or elas-
ticity, and may be expected to continue throughout the
week. Consuls have been 96 to 96h- i; the New Three-
and-a Quarter per Cents. 97/ i; and the Three per
Cents. 96 to f. Bank Stock is firm at 204 to 203 i.
Exchequer-bills have been 555. to 58s; and India Bonds
86s. premium.
In the Foreign Market also there is decided flatness,
and from the same causes. Spanish Five per Cents.
have been 181 and Portuguese Four per Cents. 361.
Equador Bonds are 3L and Peruvian have been 544.
Mexican Stock is 281 to 281. Danish Five per Cents.
have been done at par, and Dutch Four per Cents. at 844
to 85
In Railway Shares there is very little doing, and they
have not sustained any particular changes.
Certain holders of the Canal or Preference North
Stafford Shares have, by circular, announc.d a meeting
to be held at Stafford, on the 24th instant, " for ta
purpose of taking into consideration an opinion given by
counsel, which will be laid before the meeting in favour
of their claim to the full dividend, as stated in the
last half-yearly report of the directors to be then pay-
able; and of deciding whether any, and if any, what
steps shall be taken with a view to obtain the full
dividend."

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, DEC. 22.
. .

Boulogne and Amiens, 7%—Namur and Liege, cg
Orleans and Bordeaux, 3 '44 —Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon ), 13 Luxembourg, 2 nof France,
dis.—Paris and Rou n, 21 —Rouen and Havre, 9

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 17ch inst. have arrived.

The Guceta contains a notification that the interest
on the Three per Cents. falling due on the 31st inst.,
will be paid on the 2d January.
MADRID BOLSA, DSc. 17.—Three per Cents ,
30 13 16 account; Four per Cents., 12 paper; Five
per Cents., 12. i; Coupons, 7,1 paper; Bank of St.
Ferdinand, Si paper; Exchangt) on London, 50 35.

GERMANY

AND

ThtE NORTHERN STATES

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

The Breslau) Gazette says that intelligence of a
very grave character was received at Vienna, on the
16th. In the Tyrol at Salzburgh, an obstinate con-
flict took place between the troops and the National
Guard, occasioned by the attempts of the former to
disarm the latter. The troops were repulsed.
In the Slovack country the agitation is constantly
on the increase, and the greatest animosity exists
against the newly instituted Gendarmerie.
The latest accounts from Vienna are to the 20th,
on which day intelligence was received of the out-
break of a military insurrection in Servia, in conse-
quence of the attempts made to reduce the pay of the
troops. Several lives had been lost. It is said that the
Servians and Croats, having discovered how they have
been deceived by the Austrian Government, are en-
deavouring to enter into some arrangement with the
Magyars whom they had assisted Austria to crush ;
and the military outbreak in Snvia will, it is said,
be the signal for the rising of the Czechs in Bohe-
mia. In Italy also an outbreak is expected, and
Austria, by sending 60,000 Honveds to be incorpo•
rated in the army of RADETZKY, is obligingly for.
warding reinforcements to the Italian Liberals.
RADETZKY is, it is said, offended at the neglect with
which the army of Italy has keen treated, while
honours have been showered in profusion on the army
of Hungary, which was invariably defeated, and which,
but for Russian assistance, would ere this have been
annihilated. "But for the victory of Custozza where
would Austria have been ?" asks RADPTZKY ; but the
courtiers tell him that be only saved the empire, while
HarisAu saved the dynasty, and the EMPEROR is of
course of much greater importance than the empire.

ONE :1,. ,t-. 1 r• a
ritICE OF RITISii FUND:, O'CLOCK. PRICES.
wank Stock .................. .. ....„ 2021/2 2031/2 2031/2
8 ;:er Cent. Reduced Anns 96 v 6,4 96'4
New 314 per Cent. Anns.... 971/2.7% 97 •N
Long A nns. to expire Jan. 1860 - S 3
li,dia Bonds, LOOK .......
Ditto under 1,000/ .... ..... 88 p 88 p
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 11,4 d. tk 2d
1,000/. June 55 58 p
500/. June
Small. June 55 58 p
oirE
O'CL 00E.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.

58 p
58 p
53 p

OLO:;!Ilk
?RIC ES
98

Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent .. ...... ... 98
Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. —
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Equador Bonds ..
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ... 28% 28%
Ditto, Account
Peruvian. Bonds, 4 per Cent
Ditto. Account
P.otuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
panish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto, Account
Ditto, Passive 3% 4 4
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Ditto, Account . — 38%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 5614 G 614
Ditto. 4 per Cent. 'Certificates 84% 85 841,E 841/2
rItICES OF ,AID .BUSINESS DONE OLOSIN:•
,AILWAY SHARES. ' • AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
• berdeen 5O
Do. Preference
A mber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 63/4 ..—.
kyrshire and Galloway.. 7%
Belfast & County Down 28
Berks & Hants Extens.
(GLlVest. Per. 5 per ct.) 6
Birmingham and Ox-
f,rd Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a guaran. 20
Do, withoutguarantee 20 ......
iirining, Wolverteton,
and Dridley, calls duly
pd, cr with guarantee 10 .....
Do. without guarantee 10
Birming.,Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley 131. 14e ... ...
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 20
_ . _ _

........ ...„..
3ristol and Exeter 92 ... ..
Ditto, Thirds .... . . ... 213 i
ttuckinghamilire
Caledonian .......... 50
Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10 ...... 7% %
Di tto,Clydesdale June 50
hester and Holyhead... 50

Ditto, Preference l5
Clarence
Do. Ist Clam, 6 per CL 10

Do. 2d Class, 5 Per Ct. 10 ...... --
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Direct London & Ports-
month
Dublin and Belfast June. 40
Dundalk & Enniskillen 271,E
ast Anglian, 251., L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25
Do. 18/., E. & 11.... 18 ....
Do., 3/. 108., Pref... 31h
Ditto, 71. 175., 7 per
Cent., Preference... 2 . ....
Eastern Counties........ 20 ...... ......
Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. 10
Di t to,Extension, 5 per
Cent., No.l 61.135. 4d.... p
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... ......
Do. North. & Eastern,
6 per Cent.
Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50
Do. New
Eastern Union, Class A

54%

2534

11
73%

93/4

-
OA

_it

(late E. U. Shares) 25
Ditto, Class A, ditto... 6
Do., Class B & C 25
01.1
Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 _
East Lancashire . . ....... 25
Ditto, New ... 25 ......
Ditto, New Quarters 61,4 — .. .....
Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-,
ference Quarters ... 6 lA__ _
.......,
East Lincolnshire ...... 25
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ......
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 .. ..
Edinburgh and Northern 25 —
Ditto, Newport
Exeter.Yeovil, & Dorch 25, — ..... ...
Exeter and Exmouth... 21s.
GlRsgow, Dumfries, and

l•••• •• --

C............ 81.65. 8d....
Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50
Do-Preference Consol.
Gloucester & Dean Forest 11 •.. ... ...-
Great Northern
Do., I/2 A Deferred ...

Do., 1/, B 6 per Cent... 71,¢
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 10
reat z-r.ontli. and West.

w. 20.
4%

( Ireland)
re at. North of Eng] and 100 ...... - ...
Di i t..i, New, 40/ 4O - ••• ••••
Ditto, ditto - ...••••••• ••
Ditto, New, 301 3O -
Ditto. New .15/ l5 .. -
Groat West ern 100 57% 58 ...
Ditto, I,‘ Share, 50 .....
Ditto, 1, Shares
Ditto, Fifths ... 20
Ditto, New 171........ 15 ..... 64.••••••••••••••
Hull and Se:by ~ ...... 50
..... -
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... - ...... -
Do. Quarter Shares... 121 - .... ...
Lancaster and Carlisle... 5'3 ...... - .... ... -
Ditto, Thirds - -
Lancashire & Yorkshireloo ..... - 41.•
Ditto, ditto •
Ditto, 14 Shares ...... 49 ... .. - -
Do. Quarters ......... 23% - .. ..... ......
DD. Fifths...
Do. Thirds ...... ..... ... 16% - -•
Do. New Guarant:ed
6 ler Cent .
Ditto (Huddersfield
and Sl' eff. ) 5O - •• •• . .....
Do. (W. Riding Union) 10 - ..... ~. ...... --
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 -
_.-
Do.lh Shares (A)... 10 ...... - -.
Leeds and Liradtord 6O - •••. ..... •••••10 ..."..
Lek-ds and Thirhk
Do., Prefer., G per Ct. 814 - ....« -, -
Do., do. No. 2 .7% 2% 2%
Do., do. No. 3 5 ..•••• - ••• ........ •• -
Do., Pref. Quar ,18-13 9 ...... ••••• —
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport . lO - ••••••
L indon & Black wa11...11/. 6s. 3d... - ....•
London, Brighton, and
South Coast... .. . 103 - • ......... •• ••
Do., New 5/., guaran-
teed 6 per Cent..... 100 132%
Do.Guarant. 5 per et.. 9 ".... -
De.; Prefer. 5 per cent. 50
Ditto ditt0...... 18fi2 50 .. -
L. •n don and Greenwich 12/1554d - ... ..... ....
Ditto, Prefore.e. .. . 20 -
Unadon and N. Western 100 llols 110
Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 -
Ditto, Fifth,
...
Do. 401.Shares(L.M.) 35
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) C. 1
Lond.& S. Western ..... 50 .. ... 29% 3014 .
Ditto, New 501.....« 423(....... - -
Do. New 40/. . 34 -
Do., New Scrip, 1848,
ref. 7 per Cent. ... 5
Londonderry &Coleraine 25 - ..... -
Do. 1/ Shares ~... 5 - .............« -
Londonderry and Ennis=
killtn 25 ....... .... -
Do. ~', Shares 6 ...... -
Lowestcff guar. 4 per ct 20 ...... - -
Ditto (6 per ct.) ..... 13 - - • •••
Manchester,Buxton,and
Matlock 6 - .. -••
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire...loo -
Do. Quarters (No. 1) 25
Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 - ... -
D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12 LA _.-, --
Do. New 101. Pref lO ..... $
Ditto, Gt. Grimsby ... 69 ' - -
Ditto ditto . .••...... 20 ••••... -- ..•••••••••••••• .--
Ditto ditto - ...... .....•••• .-
Ditto Sheffieid end
Lincolnshire 25 . ••• ..-
Do., Grimsby Dock.- 25

- • • • 00000
Do., Manchester and
Lincoln Union. 41. 28.

1114
thy,
7

79%
18214

11014

302

Midland ... .. --le nu.... 4534 46 45%... 46
Do. Consolidated Pref.lUt -
Do., do., 501. Sheres St Emu 8 73/4 8 3
Do. Birm., and Derby 100
Do.C9nsol. Bristol 2r d
Birming., 0 per ct.... 100 -• Cleo. OW. 0. .""
Dlte, tirlSt. & Glocstr. 42
Ditto ditto 22?. 75...... ... 4.....
Do.,ErewaShVal.,Pref. 60
Ditto, Leieest.& Swan-
nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo -
Midland Great Western
Irish
Middlesbro' and itedcar,
6 per cent. guar. - ... male
Newcastle and Cerlisle.loo um.
Do. Querters
Ni wmarket ..
Do. Extension 24 12&...
N ewport, Abergavenny,
and Hereford 6 •••••• ...... ....
Newry and Enniskillen 7 — ... ..... ....
Newry, Warrenpoint,
and RostreVor 2O - .. ........ .... ---,
Noriolk ........... ...100
Do. New 201.
Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20 - •... ... ---
Do. Guaranteeu o%pc. 5
Do. do. W aveney V al. 2 -
N,:rthern Counties Union- 4 ...... ....
North British ..........--20 ....., 5 ..... ........ 5
Ditto, Halves ..
Ditto, Quarters
Ditto, thirds .... .. .. 81 .. .. ...-
Ditto Preterence -
North Staffordshire ... 17% 7%
North Wales ... . ... 3 -
7%5A
North-Western ..... 13%.
...... .....
Oa ,i u, Worcester, anti
Wolverhampton
I.esaling, unit...llord, and
.dmiguce
iwy.to•• and Hitehin ... 4%..... 4% ••••••••• 416
, cottlan Central
:"..CUttle.ll Midland
Ditto, New
;,hiew:suu.y audßilni.... 12
Ditto uitto. Uass B. 8 —
Ditto, New Guaranteed 8
.7,lirt-Wsbury and Herod. 6 ......
Shrewsbury & Chester
(Nor. W. Alin.)
Ditto Halves ... ditto 9
Ditto Uswestry ... .. ISLA — -
Ditto New -
Do. 8 per Cent. Pref
3hropsihre Union
>outh Devon -
Vu. l'reierence
... ... . .

South StatDirdshire...... 854 — ..... 4%
Sos-tai Ea_tora - .• ...• --
Do., No.:-0. -
Do., No. 3 ........ 30 ......
Do., Regittered No. 410 .. ... — .., •...
1)o., Scrip No 4
~.
South IN aies -
South Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Boole l2 -
Sh 3ltield, Rotherham, oz.
Goole (N. Div.) Gua-
rauteed 5 per cent. ... 16541 —
Do. do (Sou. Div.) 5

...) •••..•
Swans. & loughor &Ca-
meron's Stmt. C0a1.... 7
Taw Vale Extension ...
Thames Haven Dock
and Railway ........ 17 lAt -
Vale of Neath ...... 10
Waterford And Kilkenny 20 .
Waterford and Limerick 47 —
Wsteifd,Wxfrd,Wicklw -
and Dublin
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed ... .. 6O
Do. do. do. 25 ... 257 k ...... 25%
Do. do. do. ... 15 -
Iv-est Cornwall ......... 6 ...
ry hitehaven tk Furness 111/
Windsor, Staines, and
South Western........ 14 ......
Wilts,Sornersel,B/ W ey-
mouth
1 ork, Newcastle, and
Berwick.
Do. Newcastle Exton. 20 ...... 114.....• lig
Do. Cr.N.E.Yreferoace 8 3LA 354
Do. Hartlepool Dock
and Railway .. 100 ......
York sat Nuth Midland 5U 17 1611 17% .. 17%
Preierence 10 ...... .

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Angj, Italian (late Ita-
lian and Austran).... 5%...... -..
Boulogne and Anuens... 20 ...... 8 8% g
Cenctal of France (Or-...
leans and Vierzon)... 20 ..... . 13
Demerara ...... ...... ..... 1VA...... -
uu_ch Rhenish ......... 8 .....
F,,,,i Irdian
Ditto ...
Great Indian I eninaular i __

..., •••• 0000000 Nall
Do. Do. ... ......103... -
Louvain Ila Sambre ... 7% —
Luxembourg
Dit,o ....
Madrid and \ alentia... 2 - -
Namur and Liege ..... 20
Northern of France l4l. 85... 1% Adis l% di'
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7
Paris and Orleans ...... 20 ... .... ...... .. '""
Paris ard Rouen 2O so.. -
Pune and Strasbourg ... 12 •••••
Rouen and Havre ...... 20 ..-.. Vi 9!di
Sambre and Meuse 2O •.... 2k . . 2%
Strasbourg and Basle
Tours and Nantes .. 13 ......
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt ..».. 20
West Flanders 8%.• ... 4..... ••••

MINES.
BrazilianCocaes&Cuiaba 30 ...... 10,6%14 lOl4
Do. St. John Del Key 15 ......
Santiago de Cuba......... 10
United Mexican 28% 47 ...........

LLOYD'S: SHIPPIN G-( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, DEC. 24.---Wind at noon W.S.W.O light air
and frost.

LITERPOOL, arc. 23.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Mensieir
Sprowell, China, left ;St. Helena 13th ult.• Sir Georges
Ferress, New York; '
Argyle, Irving, St. John's, New
Brunswick. The Neptune, on shore near Leasome Light,
has got off, and arrived here. Sid. Prospect, New Zvi'
land; Arexa, Shanghai; Neptune, Singapore; Dads
Calcutta; Elizabeth, Alobile; Albion, Apalachicola; Net
World, New York ; Novelly, Itio Janerio ; Robe)!
Finnic, Bahia; Josefino, Havannah ; Huron, Charlestollsk
Off port, 24, (telegraphed) Lancashire from Savannah.
OFT MAGENESS.—Humphrey Perington, Gwen',
New Orleans, for Rotterdam; Joseph Bushby, Sparks,
China; Stanguard, Richiucto; Celebes, Ryl; Batavili
Batavia; Nirichou, ditto, both for Rotterdam. _

POILTBMODTH, DEC. 23.—Wind d. Hod'
let, M'Laren, Manilla for London; Nicholas WitseV,
Lang, Surinam, for Taxa]; Corfu, Shaw, Pernambunnf
Argentina, Prince, Port-au Prince; Argyle, Devisee.
Saguenay; Ortilus, Damara. New York, for AntwerP:
The Churruca, St. Jago de Cuba to Bremen, was tows.'
in here to .day leaky, and loss of foremast and sails, 140'
The Thotis, Newcastle to Constantinople, has put 10
leaky, having been aground off Yarmouth.
DEAL, DEC. 23.—Wind E.N.E., very strong...4o'
ral pieces of wreck, a gaff with a white burue and nall,
in the centre, a drum of figs and some oranges, part 0,;
a vessel's stern, and frameosarked Rodesdolor