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London, England, 1847-12-21 00:00:00

Just ready, in 3 vets. post Bve.,
MILA W ARRENNE,
THE MEDICAL PRACTITIONER.
By the Author of
" ; Censtanee D'Oyley," " Margaret Capel," &e.
Diehard Bentley, New Barlington-street.

RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE.
ESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY
SHAB.E AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends
scud the Public for their continued support and patronage, and
to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c.,
take place every WZDNEZDAT. at One o'clock, (instead of Tuesday
said Friday, a.; hitherto), at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-
street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions
t with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed.
ill scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day
previous to their being offered ; and advices of results will be
g,,cwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds benne-
dietely disposed of according to instructions.
N.B. Sales and purchases of all descriptions of steak and share s
effected by private contract, every day, as usual.
maces. Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Valet the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee.
THIS EVENING
WWII' be Permed Shatspeare's Comedy of MUCH ADO ABOUT
NOTHING. Pedro, Mi. H. Vanelenhoff ; Don John, Mr. Brindal ;
Benedict, Mr. Webster ; Antonio, Mr. Tilbury ; Leonato, Mr. Ro-
gers ; Thigberry, Mr. Farren ; Verges, Mr. Keeley ; Friar, Mr.
Gough; Beatrice, Mrs. Nisbett; Hero, Mrs. Seymour.
To be tellowell Isy MY WIFE'S MOTHER. Uncle Fooelc, Mr.
Farren ; Mr. Budd, Mr. Holl ; Mrs. Quickfid,get, Mrs. Glover; Mrs.
Budd. Miss Julia Bennett.
To eenclude with a new and original Farce, called WHO'S MY
HUSBAND Doctor Mull, 31r. Tilbury; Daniel Tootles, Mr. Keeley ;
Mrs. Smith Thompson, Mrs, W. Clifford ; Sophonisba Mull, Mrs. L.
8. Rneliingtzam ; Sally Starch, Mrs. Ilumby.
Stage Manager, Mr. Farr en; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Web:ter.
J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper.
Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is.
Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING
Will be presented an entirely new Piece, entitled the PEARL OF
THE OCEAN ; or, the Prince and the Mermaiden. Principal cha-
racters by Messrs. Ways, P. Bedford, Wright, Munyard, Glennaire,
Callenferd, and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Emma Harding, Miss
Ellen Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, and Madame Celeste.
To be followed by a saw Faroe entitled THE TIPPERARY LE-
GACY. Turnem Green, Mr. Wright ; Bob Gills, Mr. Munyard ;
Lanty Scrimmage, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Chubblock, Mr. Cullenford ;
?oliceman, Mr. Sanders ; Lizzy Chubblock, Miss Woolgar.
To conclude with the Farce, entitled THIS HOUSE TO BE SOLD
(the property of the late William Shakspeare), Inquire Within. Cha-
racters by Messrs. Wright, Cullenford, Worrell, 0. Smith, Paul Bed-
ford, Mrs. Laws, &c.,
Boxes, 45.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is.
Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Sevea.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Ender' the Management of Madame Vestris.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,
Will be presented new Comic Drama, entitled THE TRA-
GEDY QUBEIL
To be followed by a new Comic Drama called PEGGY GRERIC.
after which, a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX.
Principal ammeters by Mr. Barley, Mr. Bnckstone, aad Mrs. Mae.
samara.
To conclude with A CURIOUS CASE.
Dress Boxes, is. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. Ne
half-price to any part of the house.
The .iiew Box-office, No. 2, IVellingtou-street, is open to the
Pablic every day, from Ten till Six.
The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W.
Bradwell et the Colosseum.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Madame ANNA THILLON.
THIS EVENING
A new Coml. Opera, entitled THE AIIBASSADRESS. Duke de
Valberg, Mr. Bedda ; Benedict, Mr. Barker Fortunatus, Mr. Lef-
fler; Countess de Fierschombarg, Miss pillar; Madame Bameck,
Mrs. Selby; Charlotte, Miss Anne Ramer; Henrietta, Madams
Alma Thillon.
To conclude with Shakspeara's Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET.
Romeo, Miss Cushman ; Mercutio, Mr. J. Yining ; Friar Lawrence,
Mr. Ryder ; Juliet, Miss Susan Cushman.
Dress Cirele, 55.: Boxes, 4a. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.

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FRIANCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street.
TO-MORROW EVENING,
Will be performed the Comedie of LA MARQUISE DE SEN-
'I,TETERRE. Ciriq-Mars, M. Montaland ; Le Marquis de Senneterre,
M. Fechter ; Le Commandeur, M. Cartlgny; Henriette, Mdlle. Bap-
tiste; Marion de L'Orme, Mdlle. De Varennes.
After which, LE CHEF-D(ELIVRE INCONNU. Maitre Michel,
M. Gt. Marie ; Rolla, M. Fechter ; Stephano, Mdlle. Baptiste.
To conclude with the Vaudeville of UNE FILLE TERRIBLE.
Anais Dumoulin, Mdlle. Lagier.
A detailed prospectus of the general arrangements, and of the
pieces width will be produced during the season, may be had at Mr.
Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bend-street ; and at the BOX-0111C°
of the Theatre, which is open daily, from 11 to S.
Boxes, se. ; Pit, k. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3e. ; Gallery, 2s

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessee, Mrsi. F. Davidge, Dig. l, Davidge•terrace, Kensington-road,

Surrey.
THIB BVENING, the performances will commence with the
celebrated Opera o!
THE DAUGHTER. OF THE REGIMENT.
Characters by Messrs. H. Phillips, King, Horncastle, Rafter, Att,
wood, M`Mahon, and Miss Poole.
To eon:dote 'filth Till BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Macheath,
Mr. Rafter ; Peaehum, Mr. Attwood ; Lockit, Mr. Maynard ; Filch.
Mr. H. Nomeastle ; Mrs. Peackum, Mrs. W. Daly ; Polly, Miss R.
Isaacs ; Lucy Lockit, Mrs. H. Mathes.
A distinet entrance to the private boxes has been made (which
have been re-fitted). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the
Principal Librarians ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is
open daily from Ten ivatil Four.
Boxes, Ss. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Frorrietor and Manager. Mr. William Batty.
IT* Performance on Friday and Saturday.
Mr. Batty's performing Elephants.
THIS EVENING
The Grand Spectacle of THE CAMP OF SILESIA.
Entirety new Scenes in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of
the Establishment, in the serious modes of equestration.
To conclude with a new Domestic Drama, called THIS WHITE
FARM:
In preparation, a Drew 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 stage Manager, Mr. W West.

TILE WEATHER.—Strx OPTICZ, Dsc. 21.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 35 ; Highest, 38 ; Noon, 35.
BAROMETER, 29.64.—W1ND N.W.; cloudy.

MOH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TAIb DAY.
52 rntrintes after 12. 1 Evening .. I.g minutes eter 1.

Mornin

the power of the Company in Asia was threat-
ened with tremendous and appalling perils at the
period when Viscount HARDINGE undertook the
affairs of their enormous and superb dominions.
Through all those perils he has carried the standard
of the Company, not merely without rent or abase-
ment, but with additional accessions of glory. Instead
of; danger along the banks of the Sutlej, there is
more of safety and stability on those frontiers of
British India than has been experienced under the
direction of almost any one of his predecessors.
As a testimony of the security which has been
insured by the policy of his Excellency, we may
mention that there has been a further reduction of
50 men in each regiment, on 150 Native Infantry
corps, reducing the muster-roll by 7,000 or 8,000
men, and diminishing the expenditure by nearly
60,0001. per annum. Remarkable as is this supple.
mentary curtailment, it has, nevertheless, left the
army stronger than it was ten years ago by nearly
45,000 men, and somewhere about 900 officers.

As a preparative to the administration of the Earl
of DALHOUSIE, nothing could be of a more serious
character as auguring a serious comparison between
himself and his predecessor than this wholesale reduction
in the standing army, preceded as that reduction has
been by so many brilliant achievements of a military
kind. Lord DALHOUSIE will have to advance in
spite of this alarming ordeal, but he will also find
that his course has been marvellously facilitated by
the skill, the valour, and the sagacity of the dis-
tinguished Captain in whose footsteps he must follow.
He will experience less obstructions from the warlike
races of Hindostan, but he will meet in the end with
a severer criticism from the mass of his fellow-
countrymen.

Both Houses of Parliament have adjourned their
sittings, and the labours of either branch of the Le-
gislature are suspended until the 3d of February
next. On the vitally important question of the dis-
tress which is so prevalent in all parts of the country
nothing of the slightest value, or from which an im-
provement in the condition of the country may be
hoped for, has taken place. A Committee, indeed,
has been appointed to inquire into the causes thereof,
and how far they have been affected by the laws for
regulating the issue of bank-notes payable on de-
mand, but we have already pointed out the utter
inutility of such a Committee, the impossibility
of their making their report within any reasonable
time, so as to hold out any prospect of an improve-
ment in our monetary code for many years to come,
or of a circulation adequate to the wants and exigen-
cies of the country. Meanwhile the Act of 1844,
which so fearfully aggravated the panic and increased
the difficulties of the nation, is revived in all its
stringency, and although its temporary suspension,
or rather, we may say, the general knowledge, that
the directors might violate its. provisions, and trans-
gress the limits thereby assigned, if any necessity for
such a proceeding should arise, was attended with the
most beneficial results, and it became manifest
even to the Char.cellor of the Exchequer that
its continuance must have occasioned the most
fearful consequences—the country is again subjected
to its baneful operation, and no provision has been
made to enable the Government to sanction an in.
creased issue by the Bank, if circumstances should
render such a course expedient. The remonstrance
of the bankers of the metropolis, who in 1844 pointed
out to the then Premier the dangers that might arise
from the absence of such a provision, is still neg-
lected, although their opinions respecting its probable
results have been so painfully verified.
" We are apprehensive that the absolute limi-
tation of the issue to 14,000,0001., without any
power of expansion being reserved, whether that
amount be in itself a proper amount or not, will
create a general feeling of uneasiness throughout the
country, and, by preventing the satisfactory recep-
tion of the measure, will deprive the scheme of many
of the advantages it possesses, and interfere with its
success. We respectfully submit that the effect of
such an absolute limitation, will be to restrict the
business of the country, by leading to a general with-
drawal of legitimate accommodation, unless some
power be reserved by the Bill for extending
the issue with the sanction of the authorities
above alluded to, in cases of emergency,
to be made apparent to such authorities."
Such was the statement bearing the signature of
every banking firm in London (with a single excep-
tion), which, on the 11 th of June, 1844, was pre-
sented to Sir ROBERT PEEL ; but the warning was
disregarded, a species of insanity had seized the
Legislature, and despite of the protests of those whose
avocations and experience eminently qualified them
to form a sound judgment on the point, the fatal
enactment was carried, and, we regret to say, is still
maintained in all its stringency.
We are rejoiced to find that the Member for
Stamford has announced his intention of " bringing
forward the subject on one of the earliest days after
the re-assembling of Parliament." The embarrass-•
ments under which the manufacturers are now
labouring, and the depressed condition of the arti-
sans and operatives throughout the country, were
depicted by the Right Hon. Gentleman with much
force. He stated that two-fifths of the working
classes in the manufacturing districts were at present
out of employment ; that of the remainder a portion
only were in full employ ; and that a large number
of factories and mills were working short time, and
no inconsiderable number were not working at all.
If to these things were added the fact that merchants
abroad are purchasing cotton at a lower price than'
our merchants, and carrying away to foreign
countries produce which ought to be in the hands of
our own operatives—it proves that the most anxious
deliberation, not only of the Government, but of Par-
liament itself, is required." This is most assuredly
the case. What topic can be more worthy of consi-
deration than the means by which the national re-
sources may be fully developed—the national labour
fully and beneficially employed. The real wealth,
the real capital of a nation, consists in the quantity
of labour it possesses, as we have repeatedly pointed
out; accumulated capital of any kind is really no-
thing but "hoarded labour," and the first
object of any Government should be to afford
every facility for the occupation of every
man in the country able and willing to
work. At present these facilities are withheld.
From the want of a sufficient circulation, and the
consequent high rate of interest at which money is
maintained, production is checked, a more than rea-
sonable proportion of the profits are taken from
the manufacturer by the money-lender, and prices are
also depreciated to an alarming degree. He cannot
keep his factories open without a serious loss. His
workmen are discharged, and obliged to await in
idleness the approach of more propitious times, and
become a burden on the resources of the:kingdom,
in place of being the producers of national wealth ;
and all this is occasioned—the prosperity of the
country sacrificed—and the great body of the people
compelled to submit to the greatest trials and pri-
vations, that an abstract theory may be maintained-
The safety, and happiness of the nation is made to
give way to the security of the metallic standard.

By the Levant mail we have received advices from
Constantinople to the 2d December, and from Malta
to the 11th.

The Porte has officially announced the entire paci-
fication of Albania.

The Turkish local paper announces that the SUL-
TAN has ordered the construction of three military
institutions for soldiers, aged from twelve to twenty
—one to be established at Adrianople, a second at
Brussa, and the third at Damascus.
The intelligence from Malta is important. At the
moment of the departure of the packet the news
reached that island by a steamer from Corfu, " that
a revolution had broken out in Greece; that there
was hard fighting in Patras, in the garrison ; and
that the Governor was a prisoner in the hands of the
insurgents." It is said that GRIVAS was at the head
of the rebellion.
Intelligence had also arrived at Malta of an insur-
rection at Tripoli. The PACHA. had been defeated
by the insurgents, and had applied to the SULTAN for
assistance. The British
protect Admiral hadßri t
is
h dispatched
ship of war to Tripoli, tointerests.
The insurrection, it is said, was planned in Tunis.

Madrid papers of the 14th have arrived.
The debate on the Address was still proceeding in
the Senate. Great savings are to be proposed by the
Finance Minister in the Budget. A reconciliation

(in all probability a merely temporary one), has been
patched up between CHRISTINA and NARVAEZ.

MADRID BoLSA, DEC. 14.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 28, at 50 days ; the Five per Cents. at
16, for paper; and the Debt without Interest at 5.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.

The Journal des Debats, the Presse, the Na-
tional, and the Miele publish what may be consi-
dered as the manifestoes of the various parties they
represent, preparatory to the opening of the session.
There is nothing remarkable in these declarations of
political faith, save an indignant disclaimer on the
part of the National of the charge of favouring com-
munism, which had been brought against it by the
Debats.

The Constitutionnel has the following on the ex-
pulsion of M. BAILONNINE from France:—
" We have announced the expulsion of M. Bakonnine,
a Russian refugee, for having delivered a speech at the
meeting held on the 29th November, at Paris, to cele-
brate the 17th anniversary of the Polish revolution. We
are assured that AL Bakonnine, during the three years
that he has been a refugee in France, has never done
anything Ror said anything which did not show
his profound respect for the laws of our country.
It is, then, absolutely contrary to truth to say, as
has been said in the order of expulsion, which
was noticed to him, that his presence in France was
calculated to compromise order and public tranquillity.
Besides, M. Bakonnine having demanded at the Prefec-
ture of Police what acts contrary to public tranquillity
were ascribed to him, was answered that the Ministerial
order, in virtue of which he was expelled, set forth no
motives. In vain did M. Bakonnine apply to the
Minister himself to ascertain what facts were alleged
against him—he has been obliged to quit France without
obtaining any reply. In reality, there was nothing to
reproach him, but having delivered a violent speech
against the Russian Government as the oppressor of
Poland. In this speech M. Bakonnine, cursing the
Government of Russia and its Sovereign for the yoke of
despotism which they cause to weigh as heavily as they
can on Europe, protested energetically against the divi-
sion and the oppression of Poland; against the occupa-
tion of France, by the Cossacks, in 1815, &c.; and he
at the same time painted in the darkest colours the state
of servitude in which the Russian people groaned."
Letters from Oran, of the 12th, announce the sub-
mission of ABD-EL,KADRR to the Emperor of MO-
ROCCO. The French troops stationed on the fron-
tiers had, in consequence, been ordered to return
to their quarters.
The Moniteur contains a notice of the Charge
d'Affaires of Spain in Paris, informing the holders
of Spanish Three per Cent. Stock that his Govern-
ment had placed at the disposal of the London and
Paris committees the sums necessary to pay the
dividend due on the 31st of December.

The Three per Cents. were done in the Passage
de l'Opera on Sunday at 75f. 65c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 20.

Boulogne and Amiens, 14%—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 151,4—East Indian, —Namur and Liege,
1% 5 —Northern of France, 1134—Orleans and Bordeaux, 5%
—Paris and Lyons, 51.E—Rouen and Havre, 181/2—Sambre
and Meuse, 63i.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Guildhall, before Lord DENMAN and Special
Juries.)
BUNN V. LIND.

It was expected that this case would be tried at the
sitting of the Court this morning. But as it stands
lourth on the list of to-day, it is possible that the trial
may not take place until late to-morrow or Thursday.
We were informed, however, that it was very possible it
might not be tried this term.

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