The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-06 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1847.

THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.
The state of the public revenue, as exhibited by
the returns for the year and quarter ending January
5, 1847, proves still further, if further proof were
wanted, the soundness of the principles of financial
and commercial policy which have of late years been
adopted by successive administrations in this country.
The Customs, the Excise, the taxes, the property
tax, the Post-office, all exhibit an increase, both on
the quarter and on the year. The Stamps ex-
hibit a decrease on the year of 220,7001., and on
the quarter of 51,7151. A decrease which can be
more than accounted for by the activity of rail-
way operations last year as compared with this.
But even allowing for the decrease en stamps, and
also a decrease under the head of miscellaneous of
38,955/. on the quarter, the increase on the revenue
for the quarter amounts to 19,8731., and on the year
to 13,0321., and this without the aid of the Chinese
ransom, the receipt of which tended to swell the gross
amount of increase as exhibited in former returns.
The amount of Customs' revenue for the quarter is
4,514,721/. ; for the year, 18,310,865/. ; showing an
increase on the year of 205,6591., and on the quarter
of 159,932/. The Excise shows an increase on the
quarter of 269,318/., on the year of 344,138/., the
revenue for the quarter being 3,608,155/., for the
year 12,521,250/. This is most satisfactory, as
showing that, notwithstanding the severe pressure of
distress, that pressure is merely partial, and that the
great bulk of the people are sufficiently prosperous to
be enabled to indulge in the use of those exciseable
commodities which constitute the luxuries of the in-
dustrious classes. The revenue derived from stamps
for the year is 6,931,414/., for the quarter 1,740,687/.,

showing, as we before stated, a decrease on the year
of 220,7001., and on the quarter of 51,7151. The
taxes show an increase in the quarter of 33,8481., and
on the year of 48,5661., the total amount received
being, for the year 4,272,4081., and for the
quarter 1,909,8991., a state of the revenue
that proves that the middle classes of society
are in a prosperous condition. The Property-
tax has yielded for the quarter, 450,219/. ; for
the year, 5,395,3911., showing an increase on the year
of 368,8211., and on the quarter of 63,2341. The
Post•office revenue still continues steadily on the
increase, and now that Mr. ROWLAND HILL is once
more restored to office, we doubt not but that each
quarter will show a much larger increase than here-
tofore, provided he is permitted to carry out his plans
unfettered by the bureaucracy of the department.
The increase under this head fur the quarter
is 14,000/. ; for the year, 85,000/.; the
total amount for the quarter being 203,0001.,
and for the year 816,000/. The Crown lands
show an increase on the quarter of 5,000/.,
the revenue derived from this source being, for the
year, 120,0001.; for the quarter, 30,000/. Under the
head of Miscellaneous there is an increase on the
year of 196,7731., and:a decrease on the quarter of
38,9551.—the total amount of revenue for the quar-
ter under this head being 29,657/. ; and for the year,
317,0901. The total amount of the ordinary revenue
for the year is 48,604,4181.; for the quarter, 12,486,331.
the revenue returned under the head miscellaneoui,
is exclusive of the China money. As no money has
been received from China during this quarter,
of course, a deduction must be made for the
amount received during the corresponding quarter of
last year, that deduction amounts to 475,2801. for the
year, and to 300,859/. for the quarter, we have also to
deduct 32,2001. for the quarter, and 131,397/. for
the year for imprest and other monies, and 408,5481.
for the year, and 101,7301. for the quarter, for the re-
payments of advances, yet, notwithstanding all these

deductions, we have an increase on the total national
income on the year of 13,032/., and on the quarter of
19,873/. Now, when we consider the great reductions
which have been recently made in the Customs and Ex-
cise duties, we cannot but consider the state of the
Revenue as most satisfactory, proving, as it does to
demonstration, the soundness of those financial and
commercial principles which Sir ROBERT PEEL laid
down and acted on in 1845 and 1846, and which
must henceforth form the basis of the financial and
commercial policy of this country. The surplus of
Revenue, after providing for the charges to the con-
solidated fund, and for the payment of supply ser-
vices, in the Quarter ending sth January, 1847, is
1,365,455/.

There are certain individuals who are the victims
of impatience, and who are not only victims them-
selves, but would willingly render the Governments
of the earth victims likewise, and thereby produce
national bankruptcies. The fabulist has told us of
the old gentleman cutting the goose open to get all
the golden eggs at once ; the persons to whom we
allude would have strangled the goose because it
didn't lay fast enough. If they were haymakers,
they would burn the grass out of sheer
vexation that it required something longer than
two minutes to ripen. If they were planters, they
would inevitably demolish the sprouts, from the cir-
cumstance of their not giving forth branches and
blossoms and fruitage in a twinkling. If they were
weavers, they would damage the threads for not
weaving themselves into an elaborate woof on the in-
stant. In writing thus we are not exaggerating in
the smallest particular. We are only forming some
illustrative hypotheses upon those disciples of im-
patience, who are unhappily so prevalent, and in
accordance with whose advice the whole framework
of society would be joltered into inextricable confu-
sion. After indulging in their own lugubrious
fancies, they are resolute in the promulgation of their
pernicious advice. They would say to Ireland,
" Your potatoes are liable to a periodical murrain—
therefore destroy the healthy seed which is still
remaining." They would say to the Legis-
lature, " The details of your Constitution re-
quire continual modification—therefore utterly
abandon the principles of that Constitution." They
would say to Sir ROBERT PEEL and Mr. COBDEN,
" Bread is by no means cheaper nor more plentiful since
the abrogation of the corn-laws—therefore let us be at
once restored to the Protective system." Dor SAY
to the Government of Great Britain, " Sinde has be-
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of the national treasury—look at the extraordinary
expenses entailed upon the exchequer by
paigns undertaken against the Seikhs. There'sm-a
pretty bargain ! Those are the advantages resulting
from territorial aggrandisement! Those are the

A very respectable and numerous meeting took
place on Monday evening, in the National Hall, High
Holborn, to consider the question of the abolition of
capital punishment. Resolutions were passed fas our-
able to the extinction of the present extreme penalty
of the law. It was announced that a similar meet•
ing will be held to-night, to be presided over by Mr.
liumn, M.P., at which, we doubt not, they will come
to a like decision. Though we cannot coincide
in the extent to which these gentlemen are prepared
to mitigate the criminal code, nor in the soundness
of their proposition, nor in the arguments by which
they support it, that the punishment of death is "inde-
fensible on the grounds of policy, morality, and re-
ligion," still it must be conceded that their resolutions
reflect the highest honour upon their feelings 01
humanity. The pure and benevolent motives which
govern their proceedings must necessarily engage a
large portion of public sympathy, and naturally and
in the most agreeable manner predispose every one
ariously to weigh every species of information which
may be elicited in support of the cause which they
philanthropically espouse. These meetings can do
no harm, and may be productive of much good. In
the discussion of the interesting topic of capital
punishment, a review of our criminal code in general
is necessarily introduced : in this way many crude
deformities and unnecessary severities, by which it is
at present characterised, come to be analysed, and,
by a seasonable exposition of them, the path is cleared
br reformation.

Any spontaneous effort to diminish the ten-
sive powers of punishment conferred by law,
with a due regard to existing circumstances, and a well-
established recognition of improved morals throughout
the community, cannot be too highly lauded. It
must not, however, be overlooked, that the task is one
of extreme
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society. We are not without the hope that we may
hereafter attain to a pitch of civilisation when, con-
sistently with the protection of life in general, the
infliction of capital punishment may be safely dis-
pensed with ; and that inferior penalties may, by
reason of the universal prevalence of more refined
feelings of morality, and their social reaction upon
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lows. But we cannot " lay the flattering unction to
our souls" that the existing phases of society would
warrant the State in depriving itself of the power of
subjecting the authors of heinous crimes to condign
punishment.
It must be remembered, that those who take
the opposite view enter the discussion with great
advantages. Most specious and popular argument
lie W ithin their reach, and of which they never omit
to avail themselves. The disputant can so inge-
niously arrange his premises that, if you once un-
warily admit them, there is no conclusion to which
he cannot drive you by force of abstract
reasoning. A well-turned sentence will often
cause a whirlwind of applause; but when
we come to test it by dispassionate reflec-
tion, we as often discover that approbation has
been injudiciously bestowed. Precisely such a sen-
tence was uttered last evening by Mr. C. GILPIN :
" Before man assumed the power of Omnipotence he
should possess the wisdom of Omniscience." This is
language that would captivate any popular audience.
Its value, however, is derived from the assumption
which is directly involved, and lies concealed at the
bottom, that capital punishment does not, for in-
stance, deter a man from committing murder. But
this is begging the whole question ; because, as-
suming, on the other hand, that man is deterred from
committing murder by the dread of capital
punishment, then, although we are certainly
neither all.powerful nor all-wise, yet it is
conceived we best exercise our limited power and
limited faculties, and work out the merciful ends of
PROVIDENCE, when we have thus, by virtue of our
laws, indirectly saved the life of an innocent man
from the murderous assdult of either his avowed or
hidden enemy. Other examples of a like spurious
tendency are contained in the speech of Mr.
FREDERICK ROWTON. " When, however," observed
this gentleman, " life was publicly taken it was im-
possible that life could be held sacred." Though
life is not held sacred, yet the words quoted do
not prove that life is not better protected 14y the
existing law than it would be without it. But this is
precisely the onus probandi that rests with Mr. Row-

blessings consequent upon the prowess and the wisdom TON. Again, " when the l'aw was guilty of public
of Sir C. NAPIER. Sinde, we were assured, would murder, where was the greater enormity of the
open to our enterprise the markets of Beloochistan; offence committed by individuals ?" This pseudo-
the possession of Sinde, we were told, would give our argument is vicious and dangerous in the extreme.
merchandize freer access to the cities of Caubul, it Moreover, it is nonsensical. The law can-
would enable us to advance from the Delta of the not be guilty of murder. Rightly or
Indus to the shores of the Persian Gulf, it would en- wrongly, as to the effect, the law proceeds
able us to find purchasers even in the citizens of upon a good motive—the better security of life by
Ispahan. Three years have elapsed since the occupa- the force of stern example. Can the same motive be
tion of Sinde—actually three whole years, and, assigned to the murderer ? These are speci-
instead of increased pecuniary advantages, we are mens of the fallacies into which the best-
-3,000,0001. out of pocket. Our increased territory has intentioned men are apt to fall. But, whilst
afforded us a decreased exchequer. In Sinde we we feel it to be our duty to guard the
only grasped a handful' of fairy gold ; our hand is public against being misled by such objec-
empty, the gold has vanished. From Kurachee to tionable methods of reasoning upon a most momen-
Bahawulpore, from Jullundur to Duree, and thence to tous subject, we would hail with delight the day
Tatta, the population have been during that calami- when " swords shall be converted into ploughshares,
tons interval the spectators of our delusion. The spears into pruning-hooks, and when man shall not
apple was blooming, but it has turned to ashes on our destroy in the whole of GOD'S universe."
lip. Let us cast from us this ruinous appendage, for ....
what is the utility of a further reduction of Sinde ?"
Those are the arguments employed by the individuals
whom we have already designated as the victinasof im-
patience. And never in the records of monomania were
arguments advanced more impregnated with foolish-
ness, more closely approximating to the utterances of
insanity, more indicative of a contemptible short-
sightedness. They have not even the redeeming qua-
lity of speciousness. What ! are men ignorant
enough to imagine that the riches of a country like
Sinde are to be diverted into a new channel with a
celerity like this ? Why, the smallest shopkeeper
in the meanest street in the poorest district of the
metropolis might give these dissentients a wholesome
lesson as to the time required between the first out-
lay and the first profit in any novel undertaking. It
is not in a single day, says the proverb, that Rome
was built. The wealthiest mine ever excavated re-
quires capital to penetrate into its veins of metal,
labour to bring its ore to the smelting-furnace, time
to put its whole machinery into operation. As well
might a person plant an orange pip in the ground,
and sit down until it has sprung into existence, and
borne fruit, as anticipate the immediate realisation of
commercial and social benefits from the occupation
of Sinde. Men cannot be reclaimed from barba-
rism in a lunar month, much less can the evils of
a spurious civilisation be eradicated from a
community like that dwelling upon the banks of the
Indus in three preliminary years. Besides this, is
the Government to be scoffed into the abandonment
of a territory so situated, so fertile, and so gained,
merely because there are persons sufficiently feeble in
intelligence, and sufficiently cursed with impatience,
as to murmur ever the tardiness of the remuneration
from that quarter ? Shall the fruitfulness of Sinde
be poured into the lap of another nation at the very
moment when it is about tumbling into ours ? Is the
blood which was shed so copiously upon the invasion
of Sinde to have Wen poured forth in vain ?
Is the prowess of our soldiers only to be the
precursor of our disgraceful retirement ? Is the
skilful generalship of Sir CHARLES NAPIER to be
followed merely by the withdrawal of our forces
from the land, for the possession of which that
skill was alone displayed ? Is a land situated as
Sinde is, to be forsaken merely at the quer-
rulous suggestion of a few malcontents ? Placed
in the very centre of southern Asia, with the
territories of Hindostan to the south-east, with the
sandy desert, Caubul, and the Punjaub to the north,
with Beloochistan to the west, and the Indian Ocean
to the south, Sinde affords us at once an almost
impregnable barrier against incursions from the
direction of Persia and the surrounding countries,
while it opens to us a new channel for the further
extension of our Oriental commerce. Beyond this,
it is an instrument for the diffusion of the blessings
of civilisation among the uncultivated intellects of
the East. Shall the good of millions be abandoned,
with Sinde, for the gratification of a foolish timid*"
and the nourishment of a diseased morality ?

The accounts received from Ireland every post, we
regret to say, still exhibit a fearful state of destitution
and distress existing in that unhappy land. The ex-

.raordinary exertions of the Government, the large

amount of money distributed every week in payment
of the wages of the men employed on the public
works, the assistance afforded by the several relief
committees and the poor-law unions, although all ex-

tremely valuable, are yet insufficient to meet the
emergency, and to provide such a moderate supply of
food and raiment as will avert the constant repetition
of deaths from famine and the inclemency of the
weather, or from pestilence occasioned by their com-
bined operation. These painful results are not re-
stricted to the poorer districts. True it is that the
west of the county of Cork and the county of Mayo
have attained a sad celebrity for the unprecedented
amount of human suffering that has unhappily fallen
upon the inhabitants of these localities ; but other and
hitherto more favoured counties have contributed

their quota to the tales of misery and destitution.
Even Armagh and Fermanagh have not been exempted
from the occurrence of deaths from want. A few
short months, and a statement, if sufficiently authen-
ticated, of a single life having been lost from such a
cause would have excited the public mind to the
highest degree, and stimulated every one possessed of
the commonest feelings of humanity to exert himself
to the uttermost to prevent the possibility of a
recurrence of an event so horrible in itself, and so
disgraceful to the entire community ; investigations
of the most searching character would have taken
place; every circumstance connected with the case
would have been minutely inquired into, and every
precaution would have been taken to guard against
the repetition of a similar event. But, alas ! the
frequency of such occurrences has considerably abated
the intensity of the feelings that are thereby awakened.
Not a day passes but accounts, not resting on mere
statement, but given by sworn witnesses, and con-
armed by the verdicts of sworn juries, of many deaths
from starvation are recorded in the daily press ; and
for every case that obtains such publicity man
_ _

others are passed by in silence, and the wretches
victims are consigned to their humble graves without
the causes of their premature end being extensively

known. It is, indeed, a frightful state to whicl our
Irish brethren have been reduced, and fearful have
been the straits which even the more fortunate have
had to encounter in their struggle for a precarious
existence. Who can picture the feelings of the strong
man worn down by degrees from the effects of inanition,
regarding the partner of his cares and sorrows, and
his helpless children crying for the food with which
he is unable to supply them, and finding his strength
ebbing away and gradually sinking, enduring day by
(lay the agonies of hope deferred, and protracted fa-
mine ? It would be impossible to do so. A veil
should be drawn over that to which expression could
not be given. It would also be vain to dwell on in-
dividual cases, when hundreds of a similar character
Are simultaneously occurring in many different parts
•f the country.

What, then, is to be done to mitigate, to remove
this fearful calamity ? The Home Secretary has
truly stated that it is impossible for any Government
by any means to meet all the eases of severe priva-
ion and distress that are to be found in Ireland. The
Ministry will do much, but they must be aided and as-
listed in their work of benevolence and charity ; publir
relief must be•tied down and restricted within certain
limits, within which it will be impossible for every
case to be included. A general, indiscriminate relief
afforded to every one, whether earned or not, would
lead to an entire disorganization of the framework of
society, would damp and check the exercise of
private charity and private exertion, and would
speedily lead to evils even greater than those for
which it was intended to provide a remedy. All that
can be done by the Executive is to afford employ-
ment on an extensive scale, and to grant funds in aid
of those that may be procured by private subscrip-
tions. And well have those now in office discharged
the duty they owed to the country. It would be ri-
diculous to expect that they could pour provisions
into Ireland sufficient to supply the wants of all,
and if they entered the field as competitors
they must do so, for that competition would at
once discourage the private trader, and prevent him
from dealing in a commodity in which he would
have to encounter so powerful an opponent—a rival
who would be contented not merely to reap no profit
from the speculation, but to sustain a loss that would
be ruinous to any possessed of less gigantic re-
sources. \Ve doubt not that the entire policy of the
Government with respect to Ireland will hereafter,
when everything can be more maturely considered
and calmly inquired into, receive universally the ap-
probation that has been accorded to it by those com-
petent to arrive at sound conclusions. The suggestion
well in England as in Ireland
of
of r Sir
raising
GEOItGa: Guar, " that means should be taken
contributions for the relief of extreme cases
bydestthiteutio
existingn poor-law, or
destitution, not capable of
beingnfwant
rnetliev andd
by the works in progress or hereafter to be sanc-
tioned," appears to present the most feasible means of
supplying the desideratum, and providing in the least
objectionable manner the required and necessary
e
assistance to the Government measures; and this, we
are happy to say, will take place on the most exten-
sive scale, and under the highest and most propitious
auspices. Already it appears that a committee is
being formed here of men of rank and benevolence,
some of them named by and on the part of the Go-
vernment, who will not only contribute themselves
largely, but from their character, influence, and the
prestige attached to their names, but above all the
sacred cause in which they are about to act, will
afford an ample guarantee for the judicious applica-
tion of the sums that may be collected, and secure an
amount adequate to the purpose and honourable
to the donors. The funds so collected are to pass
through a committee in Dublin of men of rank and
station of all classes, creeds, and parties, who will
distribute it through the relief committees, according
to the exigencies of their respective districts. There
will, therefore, be no possible excuse for any with-
holding of contributions from a fear that they may
not be duly applied to the purposes contemplated. We
will not so far wrong our countrymen as to doubt
that they will come forward speedily and efficiently,
that they will from their abundance spare a portion
to the unhappy and wretched. They may do so with-
out the necessity of an abstinence from any:of the com-
forts or necessaries of life : from their superflui-
ties they may provide necessaries for thousands
and tens of thousands of their fellow-creatures who
are now in the lowest state of misery and destitution.
By so doing, by acting in a manner worthy of Chris-
tian men, they will add a fairer page to their national
history than ever celebrated the triumphs of conquest,
or the acquisition of territory, by war or diplomacy.
That benevolence that
has been extended to the most
remote parts of the earth, that has soothed the afflic •
tions of the unhappy in every clime, that has pro-
vided instruction for the heathen, and struck the
fetters from the slave, that has
been extended to the
brute creation, and has endeavoured to prevent unne-
cessary suffering from b • emg in icted on any of
GOD'S creatures, will be extended to our Irish brethren
in this season of trial and sore affliction
. W e trust,
ere many days have 1 d
e apse , that it will be our pleas-
ing duty to record a general and liberal subscription
from all, according to their means.
Promptitude and
dispatch is all important; when once a collection is
in progress through all parts of the kingdom, a
QUEEN'S Letter may fairly be looked for in its aid,
and from what the Government has d a rea y done,
and what fell from Sir GEORGE GREY) in his letter,

we 'may predict, with the utmost certainty, that such
will then be granted. Let every person act as if the
mat ter depended on his individual exertions, and the
resu It will more than fulfil our warmest anticipa-
tions, and bring consolation to the abodes of misery
and destitution.

Accounts have been received from Portugal by her
MAJESTY'S steamer Rattler, which left Lisbon on the
27th, Oporto on the 29th, and Vigo on the 30th.
The intelligence she brings is important. On the
22d an action was fought at Torres Vedras between
the forces of BOMFIM and SALDANHA, in which the
former was totally defeated, owing principally to
the desertion of a portion of his troops (700 men),
and his forces completely dispersed. BONIFIM and
his staff were taken prisoners, together with 2,000
his followers. The action was well fought on both
sides, and BoMrsf and his officers were allowed to
retain their swords. The official dispatches of SAL-
DANIIA, announcing his victory, will be found in ano-
ther column. Of the QUEEN'S army there are 57
killed, 316 wounded, and 13 missing. Of BONIFINI'S
280 were killed or escaped, and the rest either surren-
dered or joined SALDANIIA. BOMFIM and his staff
were conducted to Lisbon, and he is now a prisoner
on board the Diana frigate, off Belem Castle. While
in the custody of SALDANHA the prisoners were
treated in the kindest manner, but since

they have been on board the Diana they have
been used with great harshness. Bomilm con-
trived to send off a dispatch to DAS ANTAS, Who

immediately commenced a retreat, at the head of 300
regulars, on Coimbra, to effect a junction with LOULE.
He sent dispatches to VASCONCELLAS, at Santarem,
who evacuated that place at the head of
2,500 men and 100 cavalry, having previously
spiked all the guns, and also fell back on Coimbra,
SALDANJIA having embodied in his army the 700
deserters from Bora:7l3l's troops, marched from Torres
Vedras on the 28th in pursuit of DAS ANTAS. It is
said that DAS ANTAS will, when he has
effected a junction with LouLE and VAS-
CONCELLAS retire on Oporto. Casa', has expelled
the Miguelite forces under M'DONNELL from Braga.
The Miguelites and Insurgents are negotiating a
junction. Things are in statu quo at Oporto. BOMFIM
has written to Sir W. PARKER, soliciting his good
offices to procure for his companions and himself
some mitigation of the sufferings they are en-
during. lie states that they aro crowded almost
to suffocation, the ship being already nearly full of
political detenus, and that they are fed upon brown
bread and the coarsest fare, and are not allowed to
procure for themselves, even with their own money
either food or beds to lie upon.
The Duke of TERCEIRA is still a prisoner at
Oporto.
Madrid papers to the 28th have arrived.
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The commerce states that a plan is in agitation
for a large increase in the steam navy, and that the
visits of the Prince DE JOINVILLE to the French sea
ports is connected with the carrying out this plan.
The receptions at the Tuileries, announced for the
31 January, have been postponed to the sth, in con-
sequence of a slight indisposition of the QUEEN of th•
FRENCH.

The French Government has just named two new
agents in China a King's Commissioner, M.
FORTH-ROUEN, formerly Secretary of Legation at
Lisbon ; and a Consul at Changhai, AL DE MONTIGNY,
formerly atttached to the Embassy of M. DE

1.4 AGRENE. In addition, M. LEFEVRE DE DECOURT
is appointed to the post of Consul at Canton, the
functions of which he has been performing for
some time. The same decison has been come to
relative to M. FABRE, lately carrying on the
business of the Consulate at Manilla. The salaries

for the French agents in China are said to be con-
siderable, the King's commissioner receiving 60,000 f.
a year, the consul at Canton 30,000 f., and the consul
at Changhai 20,000 f.; in all, more than 100,000 f. for
three agents.
A considerable falling off is stated to have taken
place in the cotton factories in the neighbourhood of
Rouen. A letter from the valley of the Andelle
states that several manafacturers have resolved either
Ito reduce the number of their men or to work short

A preparatory sitting of the Senate was held on
that day, at which the Duke DE CASTRO TORRENO
resided. A deputation of twelve was ap-
eointed to meet their Majesties the QUEEN and
the KING CONSORT on the 31st. A meeting
of about one hundred Moderado deputies was
held on the same day, at which Senor PACHECO an-
nounced his intention of opposing the present Minis-
try. A Cabinet Council was to be held in the even-
ing to settle the wording of the QUEEN'S speech, and
to decide as to who should be the Ministerial candi-
dates for the Presidencies of the Chambers.

The Three per Cents. were done on Sunday at
80f. 50c. for the end of January.
HAMI3URGU, DEC. 20.—Hamburgh-Bergsdorf; 97 ; Ham-
burgh-Berlin, 99; Altona-Kiel, 110; Copenhagen-Roths-
child, 73; Mecklenberg, 72k; Madgeburg-Wittenberg, 891.
FRANKFORT, DEC. 31.—Lous Bexbacb, 95; Frederick
William, 76%; Taunus, 372.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE, JANUARY 4.

Dutch Rhenish,4s—Luxembourg,3i—Northern of France
Constituted, —Orleans and Bordeaux, 85/—Rouen and
Havre, 261,—West Flanders, 3.

MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 28.—The Three per Cents,
were done on the 28th at 331 ; the Five per Cents.,
20 13-16 ; Passives, 6i ; Coupons, 19.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday

The New Year's-day addresses to the KING and the
Message of the President of the UNITED STATES are
the subjects of comment in them. In commenting
on the latter, the Journal des Dads, in strong lan-
guage, condemns Mr. Pomes attempted vindication
of the Mexican war. The Constitationnel says
that the Message is intended as a refuta-
tion of the charges brought against Mr. FOLKS'
administration by the Whigs, and sneeringly
adds—" It may be thought this refutation is more
long than conclusive." With regarded to the ad-
dresses, the Debats says—
"W e must call the attention of our readers,"
"to the address of the Nuncio, marked as it is
by a noble and frank cordiality, and expressing faith-
fully, we arc convinced, the real opion of all the nations
in Europe. The answers of the King produced an ex-
traordinary impression, particularly that addressed to
the worthy president of the Chamber of Peers. May
these wishes and these lessons, so appropriate in the
mouth of an old and great King, be heard by nations and
their princes ! May Europe escape, by the conciliation
of monarchy and liberty, from the double plague of
anarchy and despotism. France has given the world
cruel examples. The happiness which she enjoys under
a liberal monarch, under a prince who justifies every
day, by his profound wisdom, the choice of the nation,
will be, we hope, the most effectual of propagandisms.
We have never been amongst the number of those who
can only behold a vain ceremony in these solemn com-
munications between the Prince and all the bodies of the
State ; but if we had entertained that opinion, we should
not have held it any longer, after the speeches of Friday,
and the King's answers."

The Constitutionnel, in commenting on the addresses,
says that the address of the Nuncio was submitted to
the Marquis of NORMANDY, and was by him altered
_ in such a manner as not to compromise the English Go-
vernment on the subject of the Montpensier marriage.
The following is the article of the Coestitutionnel :
" The publication of the harangues presented to the
King on the occasion of the new year by the Pope's
Nuncio, and the Presidents of the two Chambers, was
expected with some curiosity. It was the first manifes-
tation of official sentiments in the midst of the grave cir-
cumstances in which France is placed. It was known,
besides, that the words which the representative of the
diplomatic corps was to pronounce had been the subject
of a sort of negotiation between the Nuncio and Lord
Normanby. According to established custom, the com-
pliments which one of the members of the diplomatic corps
addresses to the King on the jour de l'an and similar occa-
sions are not the object of any previous communication
between the various ambassadors. All deliberation on
this subject would seem to impart to such harangues the
character of a collective note, and might give rise to de-
licate questions amongst the Governments. It is, there-
fore, usually agreed that the speaker is to take counsel
only from himself, and from his ideas of' propriety, and
not to share with any one the responsibility of his words
But on this occasion the congratulations addressed to the
King by the Apostolic Nuncio relative to the Duke de
Montpensier's marriage, in presence of the representa-
tive of the Britannic Cabinet, who protested against this
marriage, might place Lord Normanby in a difficult
situation. It appears, at least, that he thought so, for
he demanded and obtained a previous communication of
the Nuncio's address. It is certain that, in con-
sequence of this kind of negotiation, a phrase
of the address relative to the Priqae's mar-
riage was suppressed ; and another war so modi-
fied, that it can be interpreted in all the ways that
may be applied to it. Whilst Lord Normanby was thus
making, in the name of England, corrections in the di •
plomatic address, M. Guizot ought in the name of
France, were it only by way of compensation, also to
have demanded from the Nuncio some changes and
erasures. The French nation, which has seen with so
mournful an indignation the suppression of the Polish
nationality, the fall of Cracow, the murders in Galicia
—all that slow agony of a generous people under
the blows of oppressive Governments, will not read
without astonishment this phrase addressed to the
King of the French It is with a profound satisfac-
tion that it congratulates you, Sire, on the maintenance
of the general peace, the admirable result of the wis-
dom of your Majesty, and of the other Sovereigns and
their Cabinets. It is the finest title to the grati-
tude of nations whose glory and happiness are promoted
by this happy harmony. To demand at the present
moment, for the Cabinets of Europe, the gratitude of
their people, to congratulate on their glory and their
happiness the oppressed who perish, to boast of the har-
mony existing in the world, and to say all this in France,
whose Government, on bad terms with all the Cabinets,re-
ceives or sends forth protests and complains of violated
treaties and of the contempt of sworn faith, is in sooth
to carry irony to excess. The Ministerial journal (the
esse) desires to consider the Nuncio's address as a
well-considered manifestation of the whole diplomatic
body. In that case it must be divided into two parts:
the silence on the subject of the Duke de Montpensier's
marriage as a renewal of the protest of England ;
whilst the amplification on the wisdom of the Cabinets,
and on the happiness of nations who owe so much grati-
tude to their Sovereigns, is a reply to the protests of
Franco against the destruction of Cracow. We have
but little to say on the other harangues. Those of the
Presidents of the Chambers are distinguished, as usual,
by ridiculous bombast, vicious style, and incorreetion.
One would imagine that one was reading some panegyric
of the middle ages. It is the same turgid, empty, cold,
but sounding language. Everywhere the remembrance
of Cracow is absent ; there are only in the King's reply
counsels to the European Cabinets in favour of liberty—
counsels which the destroyers of Poland are scarcely
disposed to follow."
The Moniteur contains various other addresses pre-
sented to the KING on New Year's-day. In his answers
to many of these addresses his MAJESTY made allusions
to the Montpensier marriage. To the Court of Ac-
counts, LOUIS PUILIPPE said, among other things :
—" I am equally touched with the congratula-
tions with which all the ' corps' of the State so
eagerly surround me on the occasion of my
youngest son's marriage. It is a great consolation

i:o me, and a happy addition to my family. This There is the case in a nutshell. and we think its settle;
marriage can but contribute to drawing closer the moot might be as brief as this description."
ties which unite France and Spain, without ever in so!nthtli\ev paper on the capital of proposals of
and
t e r
tnh, e Greatwrire r
lik e Western,likewise
andrecommends
Bristol
the slightest degree impairing their independence Exeter lines cosi::
and freedom." His MAJESTY likewise told the promise. We have in this numberw a chronicle of the
Prefect of the Sine, who had assured him of the result of the past session of Parliament, as far as rail-
great satisfaction the marriage had given to the way matters are affected, and a prophecy of the pros'
acts of the coming session—besides lists of contracts,
Parisians, that "it would draw closer the union I)
&c., and the usual railway intelligence of the month.
between two countries both enjoying constitutional
liberties, and which must more and more appreciate
their alliance."

TIJE MIRROR.
A new tale from the pen of Mr. Percy St. &hut
entitled the " Miser's Will," is commenced in this
number. In this tale Mr. St. John has abandoned hi°
stronghold of America, and has laid his scene in
England, in London. His power, however, is not
diminished one jot. In the present number we have
only four chapters, but the interest of the reader is
completely excited. His descriptions are as graphic/
his characters as completely individualized, and bio
reflections as philosophical in this as in any of V°
preceding tales, and he is quite as much at home in
the streets of London as in the prairies of America'
In the first chapter we are introduced to a stria)"
and eccentric rich man, who shuLs himself up in 111/
old house in the Borough, much after the fashion 0,,
the Colonel in Eugene Sue's tale of " Mathilde.
In the second chapter we are introduced to the hero.
" About the middle height, certainly not more than
one- and- twenty in age—his features were neutral
handsome, though the good effect of them was mach
marred, either by the effects of dissipation or of poor
had unwholesome living. His eyes, in which lurked*
hidden fire, were somewhat sunken, which with his
hollow chocks was almost proof sufficient of his povertil
if indeed his sudden interest in the beggar woman boo
not made the supposition almost a matter of certaintft
for none sympathise with the poor so readily as those
who feel the most. His hair was black, and fell in hug°
matted clustres over his shoulders, while a shabby bag,
rejoicing in a rim with no particular bias up or down.
but rising here and falling there according to fancy, wra,li
of very 'material assistance in rendering his naturalq
good looks of little moment. A blue Taglioni of 00'
quated fashion, in the pockets of which his gloveless
hands were thrust, plaid trousers, boots with more boles
than sole leather, completed his attire, save only a shirt
collar of large dimensions and very yellow tinge, whit
fell over a black silk handkerchief that encircled bas
neck.
"Such was Frederick Wilson, student-at-law, as be
called himself, reporter as his friends denominated hill'
while penny-a-linner was the highest epithet which his
enemies could ever allow him. Whatever his profession'
however, he did but little credit to it ; his whole appear'
ante was that of one whose breakfast was rare, will
dinner was matter of irregular occurrence, and who, 1„
he ever supped, did so at intervals of very great extent;
Wilson renders a service to a young girl, who is
going home alone, is by her introduced to her mother,
a Mrs. Cartwright, and it is evident that before they
part Wilson and Miss Cartwright are in love. Al;
apothecary, with whom the Cartwrights' lodge, waylar
Wilson, in order to pump him, and they adjourn to.
gether to a night tavern in St. Giles s, where the
author leaves them. There is one retrospective char
ter, detailing the revenge of a husband upon his Or
posed unfaithful wife, and with this adventure We
imagine that the Cartwrights and the mysterious
man in the Borough are concerned. This tale is illus'
trated by several wood. cuts. " The Eagle's Nest 15,
continued, and we have several other light and amusiob
tales. Among the papers of more permanent vaille
are an article on " Education in Greece,' in whic°,
free use has been made of the valuable and excelleubi
work of Mr. J. A. St. John, on the " Manners all
Customs of Ancient Greece." A "Memoir of Gene'',
Demetrius Kalerges," one of the liberators of Greece:,
and a review of "Lewis's History of Philosophy'
in which we are glad to find the reviewer taking .11P
the cudgels in behalf of Locke against Victor Cousin'
and Whe well. As to Victor Cousin, the reviewer
him accurately, when he says, " he is a De'
reasoner, and a bad writer, a faithless translator'
and a disengenuous commentator ;" while the se11(.
sufficient, vain, dandy philosopher of Trin. Ca,l
Cans., having first mis-apprehended and mis-state
Locke's meaning, applies himself vigorously
the refutation of his own mistake. Proffessor Whewell does very well as stage manager °ld
the British Association, but no superficial man shall
venture to meddle with Locke. The Mirror Lin;
proves month by month. This is the best native
that has yet been published.

MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED).
DOUGLAS J.ERROLD'S.
We are sorry to see, from an announcement on the
cover of the magazine, that the writer of a " History
for Young England" has abruptly brought his labour
to a premature close. As, however, the publisher
states that this series of papers will shortly be re-pub-
lished and completed in a separate form, we hope
that the " abrupt close" alluded to only concerns the
magazine, and the world will not be deprived of this
which promised to be an excellent abridgment of
English history. The illustrations to St. Giles and
St. James are also discontinued. Of the story itself,
however, we have the 35th chapter in this number,
which thus commences :
"We will not linger with Snipeton. For why cast
away sympathy—that essence of our moral being—upon
an old, money-loving man, gulled of his youthful wife ?
Wherefore pity him, made, by the lucky boldness of
hired knavery, retained and paid by scoundrel
cowardice, the living joke of the best society, shaking
its sides at the best of clubs ? Had the miserable man
been left upon the road, with out-turned pockets, and a
medicable bruise or gash or two, why, there would have
been no jest whatever in the dull mishap ; the
robbery and the wound might have passed among
the serious things that lengthen even careless faces.
But how different the casualty ! A man—an
old man—and the quintessence of the droll( ry lay in his
wrinkles—had been robbed of his other self ; had had
his very being rent in twain, and to think of his loss
was rarest comedy—to picture him writhing in the
agony of that forced separation was to crow with laughter.
Such was the compassion bestowed by men upon the old
'money-merchant, as rumour, like a wild-goose, cackled
as she flew. Therefore, for a time, we will leave Snipe-
ton at his solitary hearth. No; not solitary. For now
the figure, the features of his wife—the run-away; yes,
there was the horror; there the burning truth that poi-
soned the wound—were multiplied about him. It would
have been some relief to the tortured—a passing breath
cooling the damned—to think that beautiful mischief the
victim of violence: but no; she had clubbed her share of
cunninei she had played a free part in the wickedness;
she had fled from him; and lie could hear her laughter
at the trick. And then those very numerals—things
that in pleasant idleness of heart he had jotted
down, as fancied guards, and retinue of wealth,
to glorify and do homage to that idol of his home—
they rose in his brain like sparks of fire, and he
howled and whined like idiotcy. And at the same time,
as we have said, there was great laughter—very great
enjoyment at the clubs."
The scene then shifts to the house of Shoveller, to
which poor Clarissa has been abducted, and Shoveller
and Crossbone are congratulating themselves on the
cleverness with which they have managed the affair
when young St. James enters. Crossbone meets
him, and St. James is scarcely able to conceal his
disgust when he learns that Clarissa has been taken
off by violence, and is at that moment a prisoner.
Seizing the key of the chamber in which she is con-
fined, he rushes up to her prison, leaving Crossbone
alone in Shoveller's parlour, where he is soon joined
by the housekeeper, Mother Daws, an ugly bunch of
an old woman, who would in days of yore have been
burned as a witch. A new story, entitled " The
Dreamer and the Worker," which will be com-
pleted in the present year, is commenced
in this number. It opens with a description
of shipwreck, which is written with great power, and
which introduces to, as we suppose, the Dreamer
and the Worker—the Dreamer being Archer, a
passenger, in the shipwrecked vessel, who keeps his post
by Miss Walton and her aged father on the deck of
the shipwrecked vessel, and refuses to leave them ;
the Worker being Harding, a ship-carpenter, who
forms a raft, which he is about to launch, but is
restrained by Archer, who demonstrates to him that
the time for launching it is not yet come. The Worker
takes the advice of the Dreamer, delays his launch
until the proper moment, and both Worker anti
Dreamer, and Miss Walton, and her father, are saved
and hospitably received by the inhabitants of a
Welsh hamlet, near the spot where they are
cast on shore. Forty persons, however, have perished.
" Fables for Foolish Fellows" are continued ;" and
Paul Bell, in " Heads and Tails of Families," ad-
mirably satirizes the " unco gude," in the person of
Mr. Dabley, a man of substance and a pious man,
who always has " family devotions" at night, and
always occupies a handsome pew in the church on a
Sunday, but who is a domestic tyrant withal, and
makes his home such a perfect place of torment for
his children that they all quit it as soon as possible—
(the girls elope, one with a common soldier, and
another with a German adventurer)—and all turn
out badly. There are, we fear, too many Dableys
in the world. The " Pharisees of the Rail" is a
smashing philippic on the Sabbatical Directors of the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The following is
the concluding passage
"But, for the present at least, the pharisaical star is
in the ascendant. They have it as yet all their own way
—these modern representatives of the mad bigots of old,
who raised their Exeter Hall like brayings, when the
Founder of Christianity healed disease and rebuked
devils, and soothed suffering upon the Sabbath-day.
The four Scotch Popes are issuing their bulls, and ful-
minating their edicts, triumphing over the free exercise
of common sense and reason ; reviling the creeds, and
slandering the motives of all who attempt to stansi by
their own rights and those of society. How long shall
tifeir reign last ? How long shall these particular dogs
have their day ? Their overthrow is no doubt fast
coming. The sense of mankind is arming and mar-
shalling itself against them; but until the decisive mo-
ment is at band, be content, Scotsmen, to remain what
you are—the objects of the mingled pity and derision of
the civilised world; be content to be tyrannised over by
four Railway Directors; be content to hand yourself over,
body and soul, to Blackadder and Co.; though sickness
and death smite your friends, dare not to stir—you have
spiritural dictators—crouch and obey; keep the Sabbath
as you are ordered—attempt to think or act for your-
selves at your peril—lurk in your crowded Glasgow
courts—your loathsome Edinburgh closes: the country
air—the bright sunshine of the first day of the week,
were not intended by their Creator for you; or if they
were, four Railway Directors have decided that you shall
not enjoy them!"
The best of the light papers of the present number
is a graphic sketch of London skaiters, by Angus B.
Reach, entitled "Winter in the Parks."

SPIERS' UNIVERSAL ALMANACK and BOUP
-of GENERAL REFERENCE for 1847. of
The title of this book is an accurate descriptiorl „
its contents. It is an universal almanack and bo.o',
of general reference, and contains every species of 100
formation that those who refer to an almanack CY
expect or desire in such a publication.

COMMERCIAL MAGAZINE. f
In addition to the usual commercial intelligence
the month, this number, on the " Law and Equitablet
Mortgages," shows what the state of the law is
the present time, as laid down in all the recent cice'.
sions.

Hotel, Upper Bel'
o f ICTiasn aExcellency
itthee,
leftE arlEoafr
rEa Governor-Genersl.
graver-isetar a
.eet, on Monday, for Liverpool, en route f
THE TEA TRADE, JAN. 4.—The deliveries of
tef
last week were smaller, being about 350,0001 b.
The
market is quiet, though steady.
The first samples of sugar from Brazil, under
new law were exhited last week at the office of 11
Bramley Moore ; and as the sugar crop of this year
Brazil is most abundant, large imports may be expected'
—Liverpool Mercury.
pcol,l°
DESTITUTION IN THE HIGHLANDS.--A-
MEETING IN MussEniunan.—A meeting called by to
provost, magistrates, and council of Musselburghl /1,1,0
held in the Town-hall and Assembly-room there, on "o,
evening of Monday last, for the purpose of taking Om
snres to raise a sum towards the relief of those 10 to
Highlands and Islands of Scotland who are at prelhe
suffering from the want of the necessaries of life. Al is
meeting was one of the most numerous ever
these rooms. In the absence of the Provost, Olthe
Campbell was called to the chair. After prayer by
Rev. Mr. Beveridge of Inveresk, resolutions were Buie,
sively proposed and seconded by that Reverend Gesitiol
man, and by the Reverends Mr. Langhorn, EpiecLr 0
Chapel; Mr. Robin, North Esk; Mr. Glass, of the .rl-9,
Church; Mr. Robertson, Secession; Mr. Livingsteeo
Relief; Mr. Mann, Congregationalist; and by MI
Kemp, Esq., Robert Wilson, Esq., &c. Collecting co
mittees and a secretary and treasurer were appoietdo
The committee are to prosecute their labours on Mon 4
and Tuesday next. A resolution was passed that ti
amount collected shall be remitted to the Edinbertt,
committee for distribution. Owing to the want of el° to
ing also in the destitute districts, an appeal was made 0
the ladies to use their endeavours to collect as much"
possible of this necessary article, which the commitw"
will be happy to send off.—Scotsman.
'
ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE FOOLHARDY.—.. v a-11 la,
through the ice has the handsomest etcouragone"„o
Every gentleman who falls through the ice falls into tbb.
newspapers, with his name and address at full leog.slo
It is notorious that folks in France commit suite
merely for the honour of a mention in the jourettitl;
and more phlegmatic Englishmen may be tempted sit
GI
take a cold bath for the same sort of renown. "-
oPle
praise is given to the Humane Society for fishing pe
out of the water who would never have fallen into 0
except for the reliance on their aid. Where there 1514
Humane Society with its apparatus and its warm bat;
at hand, folks take good care not to venture on the leo
when it is no thicker than an egg-shell. We 01,
answer for it, that if the Humane Society withdrew
servants from one of the sheets of ice—the Serpenth4
for example, as the most dangerous, on that lea ,tviit
fewest accidents would happen, probably none. Pm,"
cl
due notice should be given that no help or assistance w—
to be had, and that no beds or warm baths were at be//
—Examiner.
IMPORTATION OF ORANGES.—Three vessels arrived
from St. Michael's, on Monday, at the Wharves adjoin'
ing the Custom-house, having together
1,477 arse
_
boxes, and 209 small boxes of the superior kinds of
oranges, the production of that place, and on the fol'
lowing day five vessels arrived from the same place,'
having collectively 2,201 large, and 267 small boxes or
l
this esteemed description of fruit, which are now jasS
becoming in a ripe state.
MUNICH, DEC. 25.—JENNY LIND.—Tn consequence
of the extraordinary sensation she created on her last
appearance, as Suzanna, in Mozart's Figaro, the rots,
management of the theatre, by particular desire, induced
this inimitable artist to appear once more in the saml
opera, on the 27th, to the delight and gratification of
lovers of the musical art. On Christmas eve, about fifty
admirers of the Swedish nightingale prepared a feast 86
the Odeon, in honour of the queen of song. On bet
entering the saloon, which was splendidly decorated, ec:
companied by the celebrated historical painter, KaulbseP
and his lady, she was taken by surprise, with a Weih:
nachtsbaun (the German Christmas tree) ornamented
with valuable presents. Among these was a most spier.
did troche from his Royal Highness the Duke of Bove;
ria. The entertainment was enlivened with toasts and
poetical effusions, in honour of the fair guest.
HUMANITY OF BRITISH SEAMEN.—LateIy, whilst
her Majesty's steam-sloop Bloodhound was lying at
anchor in the Bosphorus, a Turkish caick or small skio"
laden with pappucci, or slippers, was observed from O.
board the steamer to have capsized off the Seraglio
Point, and three men and a boy were seen buffetting
with the current. Half- a-dozen British tars, as though
with one accord, immediately plunged overboard to
rescue these unfortunate beings from a watery grave. 12'
stoker, of the name of Rowe, showed himself to be the
most expert of the party, being the first to reach the
spot, when he had the satisfaction of seizing two men by
the hair, whom he contrived to keep afloat until he
reached the steamer. The third man was also saved,
but the boy, from his diminutive size, was lost sight of hi
the seamen in the water ; not so, however, from the ves'
eel ;—Captain Phillips, seeing that there was not a racr
ment to be lost, threw off his coat, instantly jumped over"
board, and, making direct for the urchin, reached him
at the very moment he was sinking into a watery grave' .
This act of humanity was for several days the sole sub
ject of conversation in the Turkish capital ; but, strange
to say, his Highness the Sultan—by no means parsime:
nious in costly gifts for services of much less importanonc ;
—did not mark his sense of the gallant act in the w.
which it richly merited.

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will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the united forces of the ex-Conde de Bomtim, of Mou- -
4,848,363 4,354,789 18,105,206 3,961,918 4,523,391 5,310 835 4,514 721 18 310
north. £ 1 £ £ £ £
Stamps. ..........
3,955,106 3,338,837 12,17,112 1,626,458 3,104 711 4 181'926 3,608155 12'521.;65 ' Custhm'
'• • •
£,
heir Excellencies Mons. and Madame Van de Weyer, sinho de Albuquerque, of the ex General Celesfino, andX X X £ I
' cise ............ 3444,138 ..4.. 2694,318
............. :: 1:,:714011,22:,561 ii,,,E,
1,780,175 1,792,402 7,152,114 1,685,868 1,730,495 1,174,364 1,740,68.7 6'931'4°1 'x The sale
his Excellency the Baron de Brunnow, the Lady in 205,659 .... 159,932 - Lamond am
Waiting of the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, Excise • •
of the guerilla-chief Fernando de Sousa Botelho, occu- customs
pied Alcobacht, and Caldas. Stamps.
.. 145,945 2,000,567 201,279 1,876,051 4,223,842 146,142 2,006,427 209,940 1,909,899 4 272'404 ' -
. Sall. „..1/1 and Sir Robert and Lady Peel. " I did not lose an instant upon receiving that corn- Taxes • •• • . 220,700 .• • • 51,715 mores pirit
in OP The band of the Fir. 4 Regiment of Ike Guards will munication which caused me so much pleasure, and Property Tax... •• • .... 1,905,711 90?,991 1,823,883 38C,955 5,026,570 1,963,882 1,009,162 1,972,128 450,219 5,395•39'1 faxes 48,566 .... 33,848 ____ Logue. The
red bil attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band will on ' I h d hf , dr my Command Post-office •• •• .•••••• •• •• •..... 178,000 150,000 209,000 189,000
the leth marched e wit a orce un e 35,000 30,000 30,000 25000 20,000
731,000 215,000 181,000 217,000 203,000 816,000', PropertyL Tax• •.. • • 368,821 ....
cost-office 85,000 •• • • 63,234 - Indian line:
Crown Lands • 45,000 - 14,000
45,00 30,000 120,000 ' Crown Lauds - sellers. The
;ere in ft
, erwards attend in the Castle. in the direction of Ca.ldas, my vanguard remaining for
3liscellaneous*. •• •• •• •• •• •.. 22,951 13,652 15,102 68,612 120,317 91,522 •• • •
18,001 177,910 29,657 317,090 ' Miscellaneou • ••
5,000 - Leicestel
is not the night in Tagarro and Cereal. In these
Madrid
NE hav• The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness •force the following
the Duchess places I united all my on
Lyle Total Ordinary Revenue 10,330,059 12,411,518 12,862,908 12,031,676 47,656161 9,735,790 12,573,187 13,889,103 12,486,338 48
China Money •• • • ...., 392,065 45%000 300,859 1,144924 440,000
•227,644 ,684,414 Total .....• • . 1,248.957 220,700 545,332 90,670
667,644 11 China Money •..• • • • Norther]
475,280 .... 300,859 Direct N
!ader i 1 Th of Gloucester yesterday.
The Commissioners for the of the National
morning, waiting for information, and for _iri,
• l h. •h I had sent forward
, result of the parties of cave ry w IC , , . Itepaymentso _ c .
4 preAt 'Moneys &c. •• ' 206,007 29,262 24,591 64,084 423,044
'.
- f k'lv•tuces' 418 545 182 354 473 881 404 179 1 478959 .;,'...,
52,929 73,939 33,815 01,004 192,.547 !I Imprest Moneys &c • -
, , , , • , • 456,4 I 3 111,607 199,882 302,449 1,070,411 ' ' ItepamntsofAdv'nes: •• • • 131,397 •• •• 32,200 Manche]
crailit Debt had a Reduction
• ..•• 408,548 .... 101,730
and by residence quarterly meeting yeeterday• at the official in the direction of Caldas and Bomberral. From Cenral
Total Income . •.. 11,366,676 12,623,134 13,811,380 12,800,798 50,601,988 10,245,172 13,198,733 14,3" - 1 BostonE
a 0,444 12,820,6,1 50,61.5,020 i
. of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Down- and Tagarro there are three roads. for Caldas, Cadaval, Total ........ London
1 1,248,957 1,235,925 545,332 525,459
of big log-street
- • The Governor of the Bank of England and and Candillios. After midday I acquired the certainty Amount applied to Con- - -
ll Liverp.
in.'ne in the Deputy-Governor attended. Mr. Iligham, Comp" that the enemy had taken I h leads from
the rota which solidated Final ...... 7,273,077 8,255,562 8,869,973 7,859,997 32,258,609 ' 5,468,335 8,476 ,134 7,617,435 8,615,894 30,177,822 - 1 234%925 i Deduct 525 459 [ Deduct North B
merit, troller General, was in attendance. Caldas to Torres Vedras, and I immediately marched .. 380 000 101,501 550,000 G 15,077 1 646 578 ' 14
Ditto, as Advances ....• •. , , , 0,000 91,501 472,500 837,500 1,541,501 i' Decrease ' ' Decrease. Great In
strap" The ratifi •
„ cation of a treaty of commerce and naviga- for Carlaval where the troops encamped. On fol. Date, as NN ays S. Means
the of the Year •.••• • • • • • 3 •713 599 I 4 266 071 4 391,407 4 325 724 16 696 801 463
, , ~ _ , , , „ , , 6,817 4,631,093 6,260,509 3,367,273 18,895,697 , Increase Increase Derby, S..
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the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday.
The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt had a quarterly meeting yesterday, at the official
residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Down-
ing-street. The Governor of the Bank of England and
the Deputy-Governor attended. Mr. Iligham, Comp-
troller General, was in attendance.
The ratification of a treaty of commerce and naviga-
tion, negoti..ted and signed at Athens by Mr. P. Del-
gatlni, Councillor of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to
his Majesty the King of Greece, and Dr. Patrick Col-
cluh"e, Hanseatic Plenipotentiary at Athens, were
exchanged on the 15th ultimo, in London, by Mr. Ralli,
Consul-General of his Hellenic Majesty, and Dr. Patrick
Colquhoun, on the part of the Venerable Senate of
Bremen.
Mr. C. K. Murray had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
Lord Monteagle had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
Street.
The Judges and her Majesty's Counsel will ne meet
at the Lord Chancellor's
residence on the first day of
the ensuing term.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor of New Zealand, and from
the Governor of Ceylon.
Lord and Lady Alan Churchill have left Parrance's
hotel for Blenheim.

SP
ORTING INTELLIGENCE.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.—NORTHAMPTON AND
PYTCHLEY HUNT, 1847.
Nominations for The Great Northamptonshire Stakes—
wghtstobedeclared 20th January, and forfeits on the
Istei of February.
Leopard, 5 yrs—Refraction, 5 yrs—Typhon, 3 yrs—Bro.
to Stitch, 3 yrs—Jenny Wren, 5 yrs—Black Strap, 5 yrs—
.!'a lentissimo, aged—Bokhara, aged—Halo, 3 yrs—Palma,
Yrs—Sheraton, 4 yrs—Pal, 4 yrs—Fort William, 4 vrs—
i'unch, 4 yrs—The Premier, 3 yrs—Tragical, 4 yrs—llyd-
angea, 4 yrs—St. Demetri, 4 yrs—Satyr, 6 "yrs—Secundus,
..
Yrs—Wolfdog, 5 yrs—Humdrum, 4 yrs—Queen Mary, 3
trra--Wild Roe, 5 yrs—Fugitive, 4 yrs—The Duke of
Cecilia,
4 yrs—Morocco, 4 yrs—Sting, 4 yrs—Lady
uecilia, 4 yrs--Comme it flint, 3 yrs—Turpin, 4 yrs—Rufus,
Yrs--Queen Anne, 4 yrs—Projectile, 3 yrs—Ennui, 4 yrs—
Spur, 4 yrs— br g by Young Cadland, 5 yrs—Tit-bit, 4 yrs—
. " hat, aged—Captain Phebus, 5 yrs—Giselle, 4 yrs—Sis. to
Pedometer, 5 yrs—The Best of Three, 6 yrs—ldolater, 5 yrs
--Moonlight, 5 yrs—Sister to Flambeau, 4 yrs—Morpeth, 6
Yrs—Diomed, 4 yrs—Reminiscence, 3 yrs—Chatterbox, 4
Yrs—Marquis of Conyngham, 4 yrs—Polka, 4 yrs—Roebuck,
5 yrs—Dulcet, 5 yrs—Milden, 5 yrs—lcicle, 4 yrs—Caprice,
4 yrs—Credential, 5 yrs-lloodkee,3 yrs—Wee Boy, 3 yrs—
Trojan, 6 yrs—Daughter of the Star, 3 yrs—Milliner, 4 yrs—
Crozier, 3 yrs—Counsellor, aged—Emmeline, 4 yrs—Cha-
mois, 4 yrs—Roderick, aged—Komager, 5 yrs—Vampyre, 4
yrs—Mendicant, 4 yrs—Euclid colt, Xyrs—Flitch, 4 vrs—Lo-
thario, aged—Alvanley, 6 yrs—Campanile, 5 vrs—Mirmillo, 3
Yrs—Romana,4 yrs—Princess Royal, 5 yrs—The Magnet, 5 yrs
--Lord Saltoun, 6 yrs—Alliance, 4 yrs—Lightning, 6 yrs—
Annandale, 5 yrs—Buttress, 4 yrs—Lancer, 3 yrs—Princess
Alice, 4 yrs—Golden Bee, 4 yrs—Best Bower, 6 yrs—Miss
Burns, aged—Camera Obscura, 4 yrs—Devil me-care, 3 yrs
--Sweetmeat, 5 yrs—Dgleful, 5 yrs—Watch Dog, 3 yrs—
Mistress Jean, 3 yrs—Headsman 4 yrs—Red Rover, 6 yrs.
NOMINATIONS FOR THE ALTHORP PARK STAKES.
Dacia colt, by Erymus, out of Equator colt, by Touch
atone, dam by Glencoe—Mother Carey's Chickens, f by Col-
wick, out of Vignette—Old Brompton—The Sheriff—Lucy
Ashton—lota—Glendower f by Buzzard, out of Layla—
Woodcraft—Fernhill—Little Red Riding Hood Beverla
--llanwell—The Hind of the Forest Hatherley—Chip-
Tway—Propeller—Protection-LSearoom Good Boy
▪ ectar Awkward—Publican.

CHESTER CUP.
The following names complete the entry of 177 horses for
this race :—Driffield b f by Colwick out of Quid's Dam. Sir
Martin, and No. 45. We ought also to add that in our
former list Fantastic and Emigrant were named twice, and
Banana called Bavaria.

IVIADRID and VALENCIA RAILWAY

COMPANY.
An adjourned 'special general meeting of the share-
holders in this undertaking was held yesterday after-
noon at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street ; Mr.
Chadwick, chairman of the English board of directors, in
the chair.

The CHAIRMAN stated that the present was the third
adjourned meeting of the company. At a former meeting
a resolution was agreed to authorising the directors to
ascertain if the company could not be dissolved accord.
ing to law, but it was subsequently ascertained that it
Could not be legally broken up. That was the exact
position of their case, and it was now for the share-
holders to decide what should be done. The directors
Would do their best to carry out the wishes of the scrip-
holders, and he was sure that the meeting could expect
nothing more from them.
Mr. BIGG protested that the legal opinion which had
been taken for their guidance was based upon an erro-
neous ease. The Spanish statutes by which it was said
ZY were to be bound were repugnant to the feelings of
.nglishrnan, while their provisions were trivial and
ailed in
f. 9gin"i• Besides, the Spanish board of management had
Performing their part of the contract; and he
contended, therefore, that they were free to break up the
e°llnera. The shareholders never authorised the directors
to agree to the stringent and partial powers given to the
Sp •
mush board by the statutes ; and be hoped the meet-
ing would not suffer John Bull to be duped by
self-elected Spanish confederacy. At all events,
lithe Spanish law would not allow them to break up
the concern, he was convinced that an English court of
equity would compel the directors to refund the deposit,
because they had entered into acts and deeds without
Span and proper authority from the $
cripholders. The
iards undertook to subscribe a portion of the
deposits. They had not done so, however,
and that was another ground why the Spa-
niards could not prevent their breaking up the
concern. He moved a resolution, in effect declaring
that the directors had concealed matters in the case they
had submitted to counsel, and had taken upon them-
selves the power of doing certain acts and deeds without
previously obtaining the consent of the shareholders to
do so.

The following is the official dispatches of Saldauha,
announcing his victory over Bomfim
"Sire,—When I received the intelligence that Lisbon,
from the brilliant state of the Volunteer Corps and Mu-
nicipal Guards, was believed to be in circumstances to
defend itself if the rebel forces should dare to attack it,
the united forces of the ex-Conde de Bomfim, of Mou-
sinho de Albuquerque, of the ex-General Celestine, and
of the guerilla chief Fernando de Sousa Botelho, occu-
pied Alcobactt, and Caldas.
" I did not lose an instant upon receiving that com-
munication, which caused me so much pleasure, and
on the lath I marched with a force under my command
in the direction of Caldas, my vanguard remaining for
the night in Tagarro and Cereal. In these
places I united all my force on the following
morning, waiting for information, and for the
result of the parties of cavalry which I had sent forward
in the direction of Caldas and Bumbarral. From Cereal
and Tagarro there are three roads. for Caldas, Cadaval,
and Candillios. After midday I acquired the certainty
that the enemy had taken the road which leads from
Caldas to Torres Vedras, and I immediately marched
for Cadaval, where the troops encamped. On the fol-
lowing day we arrived at Arnial, within a league of
Torres Vedras. There I acquired the certainty that
the enemy was in the latter town. The tempest during
these marches, and particularly,
the last night, was
horrible, and continued the same on the following
day. I was, therefore, still obliged to keep the troops
encamped.
On the 22d at half-past 18 o'clock in the morning,
we arrived at the position occupied by the enemy. The
lines of Torres Vedras, famous in the military annals
not only of Portugal, but of the whole world, where the
barrier which for the first time, checked the rapid
flight of,the French eagle. It was there that the armies
of Napoleon, for the first time, found an invincible ob-
stacle. Torres Vedras is itself the strongest part of
these lines. The heights of St. Vincent, covered by a
magnificent redoubt in very good condition, that of
Forca, and that of Saes, on the right bank of the river
Cezindro [in Napier's History and the map of the Lines
this is marked as the Zeandre'], are flanked by the fire
of the castle, which may be considered as the true cita-
del of these works, whose gorges it defends. Between
these heights and the town runs the Cezindro, which is
crossed by three bridges, approached by considerable
paved ways, which are all enfiladed by the fire of the
castle, and flanked by the fire of the redoubts. This
exceedingly strong position had been carefully occupied
by the rebels, whose leaders had frequently said to the
inhabitants f this town that, even though the forces
under my command were four times what they were, I
should be beaten it I dared to attack such a position. It
is not given to rebels to estimate the courage which
animates loyal breasts in the just and holy cause which
we defend. But, without the enthusiasm which ani-
mates us, without the conviction that the Queen's
crown is entrusted to our efforts, as well as the con-
tinuance of the dynasty and of the Constitutional
Charter, the assertion of the rebel chiefs would be of
perfect accuracy.
" At a quarter past eleven the rebels opened their fire.
On reconnoitering the position I saw that the victory
depended on the possession of the great redoubt in the
fort of St. Vincent; and after making the battalions of
the Ist and Bth Cacadores call in their skirmishers, I
ordered Colonel Mesquita a Solla, commandant of the
Ist brigade, to take the redoubt at the point of the bayo-
net, which was executed by the Ist brigade in the most
glorious manner. The fort was garrisoned by a batta-
lion of the 6th Cacadores, three companies of the Gth in-
fantry, and several guerillas.
" The horrible state of the roads had delayed the
march of our artillery, notwithstanding all the efforts of
Brigadier Silva Leao and the entire corps of artillery,
assisted most efficaciously by Major Carvalho, Comman-
dant, and the other officers of the brigade of Engineers
and corps of Sappers, and it was three o'clock before
they opened their fire against the enemy. I then gave
the necessary orders to attack the town, which was to be
executed simultaneously at four o'clock by the three bri-
gades of infantry supported by some cavalry.
" The Bth and 10th regiments, which had advanced in
line, supporting the battalion of the Ist Cajadores,
before the taking of the fort of St. Vincent, sustained
for a long time a fire, both in front and flank, with a
firmness and courage worthy of the greatest praise. To
these two bodies belongs the glory of having been the
first to enter the town by the central bridge with part of
the Bth Cavalry and Queen's Lancers. Colonel Mes-
quite a Solla, at the head of some of the Queen's Grena-
diers, and followed by his brigade and a force of the 3d
Cavalry and Queen's Lancers, with the greatest alacrity
made good the entrance by the right bridge. The 4th
brigade did not enter the town till nightfall.
" The enemy, beaten on all sides, having lost a great
number of prisoners and killed, and seeing the force
which occupied the redoubt of Force cut off, collected
within the castle all the force that remained, including
200 horse. The many soldiers who had been dispersed,
belonging to the several corps of the enemy, began to
come over to me, together with the three companies of
the 2d Regiment of Infantry, which garrisoned the re-
doubt of Forca.

Dr. BOWRING moved as an amendment that the vote
of the scripholders upon the 'question of dissolution be
taken by ballot; and if the majority were favourable to
a dissolution the directors be authorised to take the
necessary steps to break up the concern.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY opposed the amendment. At
their last meeting they were told that there
were some great capitalists prepared to take up
the shares of discontented shareholders, but
now they were told that, because he had hinted that
the majority of the holders would part with their scrip
at a loss of 6d. each, these great capitalists had
been frightened, and declined to have anything to do
with them. Who were these great capitalists ? Let
the chairman disclose their names, and if they were
really great capitalists, and would make a liberal offer,
there were, he was convinced, but few holders who would
refuse to accept it. He contended that the whole pro-
ceedings of the directors were illegal, and if they per-
sisted in holding the shareholders at defiance, they
would eventually have to refund the whole of the
deposits. He moved a series of resolutions to the
effect, that a committee of inquiry be appointed to pro-
tect the property of the shareholders from the injudicious
conduct of the directors, and each holder to subscribe a
ls. a share to defray the expenses.
After a few words from Mr. Wilkinson and Mr.
Richardson,

Mr. JAMES, the barrister, gave it as his opinion that
this company was a Spanish partnership, and it could
not be dissolved without tke consent of the Spanish sec-
tion of the shareholders.

" I immediately applied myself to cut off all the com-
munications which led to the castle, and thus we passed
the night. Before daybreak I caused two 6-pounders
and two mortars to be sent out of the town, and at 10
A.M. these were placed in position to play on the caste.
At 11 I caused it to be intimated to the c mimander
of the forces there assembled that he must sur-
render within an hour, at the end of which time
the cannonade would commence ; the only condition
which I granted being a guarantee for their lives.
The ex-General Valdez (Boman)) answered, that the
valiant manner in which his troops had conducted
themselves deserved that they shculd come forth
with military honours—the officers retaining their bag-
gage and the soldiers their knapsacks, which I conceded;
and at midday they came forth from the castle and laid
down their arms-900 infantry, 400 Cacadores, and 200
horse ; the ex-Conde de Bonifira, Mousinho de Albu-
querque (severely wounded), the ex General Celestino,
all the chiefs, and other officers of the sth and 6th Caca-
dores, and of the 2d and 6th Regiments of Infantry, and
the different corps of cavalry and artillery, with a great
number of guerilleros, such as Lauret, Fernando de
Sousa Botelho, Jayme de Vizeu, and other characters
conspicuous amongst the anarchists. Thus, by the per-
mission of the God of Battles, were crowned the efforts
of the faithful subjects of the Most Faithful Queen.
"It is absolutely impossible to convey an exact idea
of the valour displayed by our troops on this memorable
day without seeing the position and passing over the
ground on which we fought; and if it be possible to
enhance such conduct, it would be by a consideration of
the roads over which we passed during those four days,
and of the tempestuous nights during which we en-
camped. But this glory has cost us dear, as your
Majesty will see by the list of the losses which we
suffered, and which I have the honour to submit to your
Majesty. To-morrow I shall have the honour to submit
a list of the persons whose brilliant conduct merits your
royal munificence.

Mr. LINDO said the directors still had 345. per share
in hand, and he would urge the shareholders to accept
that moiety of their deposits, and let the thing drop.
In answer to a question,
The CHAIRMAN said the actual balance in hand was
66,0001.
Eventually the resolutions proposed by Mr. Bicc and
Mr. HARVEY were put from the chair, and carried.
The meeting terminated with the customary vote of
thanks to the Chairman.

-"
Sire, the holy cause which we defend has made a
decisive step through the victory of the 22d; but our task
is not concluded, and I can confidently assure your Ma-
esty, in the name of the brave men whom I command,
that we shall not rest till the legitimate authority of
her Majesty the Queen is re-established throughout the
entire kingdom, and that we only aspire, at the cost of
every sacrifice, to strengthen the constitutional throne on
so firm a basis that it will not be given to the caprice of
any party to shake it.

"Duke DE SALDANHA.

10,245,172
'hind None'

No. ll.—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth January, 1846, and the sth January, 1847.
Quarters ended Jan. 5. ti
Quarters ended Jan. 5.
• / . -N • I
INCOME, 1846 1847 I CHARGE. 1846 „..—------.
1847
Customs
X.
X. X.
......4,354,789 4,514,721 ,1 Permanent Debt ..... ..... , .......• •.••• . • . • . .................................................. .
5,660,472 5,651,250
3,353,440 3,622,151 11 Terminable Annuities . • 628,805 617,473
Excise
• 1,792,402 1,740,687 I Interest on Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund .
Stamps • •
1,876,050 1,909,899 Sinking Fund ........
.... .. .. ... • ... 1,314,075 445,415
Taxes • •
203,000450219 Other Charges 'Oil the Consolidated Fund •. .. .
386,985
• • . . . ..... 98,072 98,280
Property Tax • • • • . .
189,000
• • • • • ..
Post-office
25,000 30,000 For Advances .......... .
Crown Lands •
Miscellaneous • •• • • .
300,859 •• • • . Total Charge ..... ...
...
China Money .. • • • • .... •• • • • • .....
64,084 31,884 I The Surplus .. .
Imprest and other Moneys • • • • . • . • • •
404,179 302'449
Repayments of Advances . • • ..... • • • • I
12,815,400 12,834,667 I The Amount of Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the 13,015,400 12,834,667
Quarter ended
To Cash brought to this Account to be I Oct. 10, 1846, and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1847,
applied to pay off Deficiency Bills .. , 200,008 1 after deducting 650,0001., paid off out of the Sinking Fund •••••..•..•••.•••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 77,483
. The Amount issued In the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1847, in part of the sums granted by Parliament out of
13,015,400
.12,834,667 the Consolidated Fund for Supply Services ..
Ike Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1847 ..... •.• • ..... •. • • ....•• •• ..
1 The Surplus of Revenue, after providing for the Charges on the ConsOlklated Fund, and for the payments of
Supply Services in the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1847 ...... •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • .. .......... 1,365,455

dispositions her Majesty has taken with regard to the
said officers, they are ready to obey in everything her
Majesty's determinations, they having never failed in
their public acts to respect the person of the said august
Lady. "God guard your Excellency.
JOSE BENTO VALDEZ.
" Torres Vedras, Dec. 23, 1846."

" Head-quarters at Torres Vedras, Dec. 25, 1846."
The following are copies of the dispatches which
passed between Salhanha and Bomfim in reference to the
capitulation :
" His Excellency the Marshal Duke de Saldanha
has commissioned me to intimate to the commander
of the forces stationed within the castle of
this town, that he must surrender within the
space of one hour after receipt of this, with the
single condition that the life of every individual is gua-
ranteed. and that the private soldiers will be permitted
to continue in the service of her Majesty the Queen; it
being understood that the artillery is already in position
by which the castle will be cannonaded, unless it sur-
render bofore the period stated. His Excellency makes
the said commander and the other leaders responsible
for all the Portuguese blood which their obstinacy may
cause to flow. His Excellency commissions me also to
transmit the enclosed copies of the communications in-
tercepted last night. By the Marshal's order I certify
to the said commander that the fire will positively com-
mence at the period stated, unless the surrender shall
have taken place.

ARREARS OF CASES IN THE COMMON LAW COURTS
On Monday next Tillery Term commences, wheat he I
common law courts will proceed to dispose of the arrears
of cases. The lists have just been made out, and, with
the exception of the Court of Queen's Bench, there are
but few arrears. In that court the arrears have, by the
exertions of the learned judges, been considerably dimi
nished. A year or two ago the list of new trials in the
court presented a formidable appearance—some applica-
tions remaining unheard for eighteen months or two
years ; but now the earliest
i rule obtained was in No-
vember, 1845, so that there s every probability, in the
ensuing term, the delay on rules will be brought within
a year. In the special paper of the Court of Queen's
Beench there are five cases for judgment and 48 for ar-
gument. In the new trial paper there are 71 rules for
argument, which, with the exception of seven, were
moved in the year 1846 ; so that the first roll in the list
was not obtained earlier than November, 1845, and, with
the exception of 14 rules, the cases have not been de-
layed longer than last Easter Term. There are, in ad •
dition, 17 rules for the judgment of the Court. In the
demurrer paper of the Court of Common Pleas there are
17 cases, and in the remanet paper five enlarged rules.
In the new trial paper there are 37 rules for argument,
the earliest of which was obtained in Michaelmas Term
last, and 11 for the decision of the Court, including a re-
gistration appeal argued in the last ti rm, in addition to
which there are 11 registration appeals to be heard, in-
cluding two from the City of London, and one from
Westminster. In the Court of Exchequer there are 13
rules for argument, the first of which
was moved in No-
vember last. In the special paper 32 rules appear, seven
of which are for judgment • and in the new trial paper
there are 50, of which number' two are for judgment,
and, with the exception of one rule, the matters were
moved in last Michaelmas Term.
Sir Henry Roper, the late Chief Justice at Bom-
bay, has arrived in town from Marseilles.
A NOBLE LECTURES. At Leicester, Lord Cour-
tenay delivered a lecture, in the Literary Institute, on
the state of Ireland. The Rev, Mr. Courtenay presided.

" Baron DE SAAVEDRA.
Head-quarters in Torres Vedras,
Dec. 23, 11 A.M., 1846."
BOMFIM'S ANSWER.
"All my life I have served with honour, as well as the
General, chiefs, and officers, and all the soldiers whom I
have the honour to command. To accept the conditions
which are now proposed to us would be to stain the
honour of the Portuguese army, in which we have
performed so many services for her Majesty the Queen
and for the country ; neither could we have expected
such a proposal from those who saw us fight yesterday.
But I would have no hesitation in surrendering, with all
my force, within an hour, provided the accustomed
honours of war be conceded to us, which I cannot do
otherwise than expect from his Excellency Marshal
Saldanha, by whose side we have so often gloriously
fought. For the reasons stated we reckon on a capitu-
lation being conceded to us, the officers of the line and
of the national battalions, retaining their swords, horses,
baggage, and the troops their knapsacks.
" God guard your Excellency.
" Conde DO BOMFIM.
" Castle of Torres Vedras, Dec. 23, 1846, noon."
SALDANH A'S REJOINDER.

ever they become brought in; which they get known
and make known to others.

" That provisions, firewood, water, by the long time
on the voyage, are scarce on the ship is heard by this,
and will be given.
" Upon this order the ship has to leave with speed,
and not stay in close here, but return directly to his own
country."

SUDDEN DEATH from IMPURE AIR
On Monday evening an inquest was held before Mr. W.
Payne, City coroner, at the Red Lion, Shoe-lane, as to
the death of a man, name unknown, aged about 50, who
was found dead in bed, at a miserable lodging at 26,
Field-lane, on Saturday morning last.
The deceased, it appeared had lodged as above about
two months, paying regularly every night 4d. for his
bed. He was subject to a bad cough, and about five
o'clock, after a violent fit of coughing, was shortly after
found dead.
Dr. Lynch stated that he was called in by City police-
constable 235. Found deceased lying on his back, the
extremities cold. Tried to bleed him; only a small
quantity of dark-coloured blood flowed. Looked
around and saw suite sufficient to account for death.
It was impossible in the room to give proper accom-
modation even to one individual; the fireplace was
closed up, as were also the doors and windows; four
people had slept in the room, when there was evi-
dently insufficient ventilation for one. Most of the
lodging-houses in that locality were very defectively
ventilated; most of them were built over cesspools, and
from the chimneys, doors, and windows being kept con-
stantly closed, the poor creatures who lodged there were
obliged to breathe their own respiration over and over
again, and the effect was the same as breathing the va-
pour of charcoal, as used sometimes by suicides in
France. No doubt the impure air had caused a fit, by
which deceased had perished. It was well known, that
for health, a man required a room containing 1,000 cu-
bic feet of atmospheric air, and therefore a room should
not be less than 10 feet high, and from eight to ten feet
square, and the chimney open, while in this instance,
that, the only means of ventilation, was closed, and such
was the case in all the lodging-houses in Field-lane and
vicinity. Tho room in which deceased expired was not
ten feet square.
The CORONER, in summing up, observed if a fever
should break out in such places, the effects might be
dreadful.

The jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased died
from natural causes, accelerated by the want of pure
♦entilation. The jury at the same time recommend
that the attention of the authorities be drawn to the
subject, so that there be a proper supervision over lodg-
ing-houses."
THE L

" Pacts cannot be denied. It is u fact thst the Portu-
guese troops on both sides fought honourably; it is a fact
that the troops within the castle of this town deserve
military honours ; but it is also a fact that I cannot go
counter to the determination of her Majesty the Queen.
I therefore require a clear and categorical answer, in
which I shall be informed whether it is understood by
the officers retaining their swords that they are to re •
tain their commissions also, in which case I cannot con-
sent. But if it be sought to retain their swords only as
a military honour, I have not the least hesitation in con-
ceding it, as well as the baggage and knapsacks to those
who so well deserve them.

ATE lilt. HEUGH AS A
PREACHER.

As a preacher he enjoyed a very large share of popu-
larity. His demeanour in the pulpit was calm and dig-
nified, his actions solemn and graceful, his enunciation
distinct and pleasing. His delivery was ever accompa-
nied with that gravity and warmth that became one who
prays men " in Christ's stead." His personal appearance
aided his manly and animated elocution. He took a clear
view of his subject, selected its most prominent ideas,
surrounded them with apt and homely illustrations,
and gradually brought them to bear on the duties, rela-
tions, circumstances, and prospects of his audience.
Flights of oratory for mere embellishment, scenes of
pathos created for mere impression, he never attempted,
All was easy and natural ; the plainest truths came from
his lips with striking solemnity. The popularity of his
preaching was not its deep grasp, original illustration,
striking remark, laboured argument or vehement appeal,
but its plain statement and lucid reasoning, imbued
with deep and unaffected earnessness, clothed in simple
and forcible language, and delivered with easy, elegant,
and impressive dignity. He never dazzled or surprised.
The light he diffused was clear and sunlike, such as re-
freshed and directed the spiritual vision ; and the won,
der his hearers felt was, that they had not before appre-
hended the plainness and,felt the power of such truths
as were brought before them—truths that now appeared
so scriptural in their basis, so reasonable in themselves,
so important in their hearing, so harmonious in their as-
pects, so practical in their results. His was useful
preaching, for it always afforded instruction and excite-
ment. It was not exclusively of one cast of character.
It always connected faith and practice, creed and expe-
rience. His expositions of Scripture were prepared with
conscientious fidelity, and he laboured to give them a re-
semblance to Scripture itself—to make them " profitable
g
for doctrine, for reproof, for correction. for instruction
in righteousness." Dr. Heuh's style, which appeared
so pleasing when spoken in his own silvery tones, was
not so attractive when read in a printed discourse, yet it
was always clear; no one could mistake its meaning. No
haze rested upon his paragraphs; and though it had not
the beauty and polish of classic refinement, it was good,
hearty, correct English. Out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth spake.—Eclectic I?eview.

COLONIAL BANK.

The usual half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of
the Colonial Bank took place yesterday at the London
Tavern, in order to receive the report on the proceed-
ings of the corporation, and for the election of five di-
rectors and one auditor. Mr. Caulfield took the chair.
The SECRETARY having read the advertisement con-
vening the meeting,
The CIvAIRMAN said that he was happy to say that
the report which would be submitted to their notice was
a very short one, but, short as it was, it would show that
the affairs of the company were in a very satisfactory
state.

The SECRETARY then read the report, from which it
appeared that the debts due by the bank were—
Circulation ..• ... ... ... £206,425 11 8
Deposits, &c. „. ~. ... ... 713,951 15 9
Paid-up capital ..• ••• ..• •.• 500,000 0 0
Profit ... ... ~. ... ... 19,486 13 9

£1,439,864 1 2

"Duke DE SALDANHA."

Total
And the assets were—
Specie
••• ••• £263,346 13 0
Due to the Bank, on bills purchased and
discounted in the colonies 716,598 9 6
Due on cash credit in the colonies
... 147,636 0 5
Due in London, on bills remitted
... 240,349 3 10
Balance of bad and doubtful debts ... 51,231 19
Bank premises and furniture ... ... 18,295 16 7
Balance of preliminary expenses ... 2,505 18 7
The balance of bad and doubtful debts was much on
the decrease, and it was proposed that out of the
19,483/. 13s. 9d. profit, 7,000/. should go to pay a divi-
dend of 11. 10s. per cent. for the half-year ending June
30, 1846, which would give a dividend of 3 per cent. per
annum on the paid-up capital. The remaining sum it was
proposed to place to the account of bad and doubtful
debts, in order that the total might be reduced as much
and as soon as possible. It afforded much gratification
to the directors to be enabled to say that, in spite of
many adverse circumstances, the profits were still in-
creasing, and bad every appearance of continuing to
do so.—The report was unanimously received.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed that the dividend
should be payable on and after the 11th inst., which was
agreed to.
The CHAIRMAN then said that the directors who re-
tired in rotation were—J. A. Hankey, Esq. ; Wm. T.
Hibbert, Esq. ; Chas. M. Gavel, Esq.; Thomas Master-
man, Esq.; Abraham J. Roberts, Esq. ; Henry Barkly,
Esq., auditor. These gentlemen being eligible, had
again offered themselves for the vacant offices.

—Their names were then separately put to the meeting,
and carried without opposition.
Mr. J. Fletcher having been elected a director in the
room of P. M. Stewart, Esq., M.P., deceased, Mr. Ellice
was elected auditor in his room. This closed the busi-
ness of the day.
Mr. HARRISON, a proprietor, expressed his satisfac-
tion at the conduct of the directors ; as did also other
proprietors, and a vote of thanks having been given to
i the chairman the meeting separated.

THE REV. MR. KING.
TO TEE EDITOR OF THE MORNING ADVERTISER.
t
—Your
buryurcolu, mans hsfeursnuipshpeod
furnished an a
account of the con•
duct of the Rev. Bryan King, of St. George's, East, in
refusingSil— t
coroner's jury had decided otherwise.suilce
It is requisite
a
esi t
that your columns should refresh the memories of your
readers, by telling them this is the same gentleman who,
for the last three years, by his " Puseyism" has dis-
turbed the entire congregation, and driven nearly all
from that beautiful structure. The consequence has
been, a neglect of nearly everything connected with the
establishment. Not a shilling can be get beyond what
the law allows him to enforce ; in fact, nothing has
stood by him but the church clock, and as neither he nor
the parish will pay for its being wound up, the clock has
stood at twenty minutes past eleven for about three
years. We know what sortyooufrs: man the Mr.
King is : I think we have a right to ask what sort of a
Bishop we possess, who should regulate his conduct ?
Jan. 2 1847.

uc
rt ei
ad l thatfe e
fees
recollected itzl
Br
rar:::::The)e magistrate o
• THE REV.
appointed for the funeral. The
this gentleman stated to • . • . , n
Saturday last, that
(11:1(:
ilihNeAblile—velrt received i vbee dr
funeral service over
for the performance of the . _ ~ _ , the body
of Susan Whelan, who committed suicide in the London
Dock. It appears, however, that the fees were paid in
the usual manner during morning_ prayers, at half-past
coroner's warrant for the interment of the body was at
the same time handed to the rector. The hour named
eight o'clock, on the day
for the burial was half-past three o'clock in the after-
noon. A quarter of an hour before that time the rector
sent a message to Mr. Cook, an undertaker, who is also
the
sexton
burial se rvi of the pace rishover, that he did not intend to perform
h
t_ e body of the unfortunate
woman who had committed suicide. A t
-.-• iew minutes
afterwards the mother and sister of the deceased went to
the rectory- house, and requested that the burial rites
should be conducted in the usual manner. The rector
was
was then,e
to make other ar ran and would notcomplg y with the request, It
would have been interred elsewhereements,
or the corpse too lat.
All the mourners
were assembled, and there was no alternative but to con-
sign the coffin which contained the body to the ground
prepared for its reception, in St. George's Churchyard,
which was done without any funeral
parish
clerk, who received the burial fees for the rector and
churchwardens, and who entered the amount in a book
kept for the purpose, will, at the proper time, offer to the
Rev. Bryan King his portion of them.

Tun FIRES or 1846.—0 n Monday forenoon Mr.
Braidwood, the superintendent of the London
establishment, laid before the committee of the brigade
his annual report of the fires which have occurred in the
metropolitan district during the year 1846. The report,
which is very voluminous, contains an alphabetical list
of the various tradespeople and private individuals on
whose premises fires had taken place during the year,
from which it appears that the total number of work-
shops, warehouses, and private dwellings that were en•
tirely destroyed and considerably damaged by fire was
258; the total number of similar buildings that were
slightly damaged by fire, water, &C., was 576, making a
total of 834. The number of chimney alarms was 69,
and false alarms 119, making in the whole 188, which
shows a grand total of 1,022, a larger number than has
ever taken place since the formation of the establish-
ment. Out of the above, there were fifteen outbreaks
which were attended with loss of lite, and the total
number of lives lost was 23.

BOMPINI'S REPLICATION.
"I have the honour to reply to your Excellency's
dispatch, in reference to the proposed capitulaton, and to
communicate to your Excellency that I am authorised
by General Count Bomfim, in the capacity of his Chief
of Staff, to declare that by the officers under his com-
mand retaining their swords is only meant the conces-
sion of the honours of war, since in respect of whatever

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of last Night.)
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was quiet
though firm, and prices of American and Surat were
well maintained, and without change in any other
kind. The sales amounted to about 8,000 or 10.000
bales, of which 6,000 were American on speculation.
The sales consisted of 200 Surat, at 4 d. to 5d.; 70 Sea
Island, at 19d., and the rest American at bid. to 74d. per
lb. Railway shares at Liverpool were rather higher
yesterday.
The sale of Railway Shares to-day, at Messrs.
Lamond and Co.'s, was well attended, and went off with
more spirit than usual, on account of the small cata
logue. The biddings were firm, and at advanced prices.
Indian lines are looking better, as there are not many
sellers. The following are a few of the principal sales :
Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate £0 11 0
Madrid and Valencial 0 0
Northern Counties Union .............. 2 1 0
Direct Northern (scrip) 2 12 6
Manchester and Southampton 1 19 6
Boston,Stamford,and Birmingham ... .
London and South-Western, Tenths 5 9 0
Liverp. Manch. and Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2 10 0
North British Extension
Great Indian Peninsular
Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire, New 0 12 0
Taw Vale Extension and Dock 2 17 6
Leicester and Bedford
The difficulties anticipated by some of our con-
temporaries to result from the aid given by the
Bank of England to the Bank of France have
passed away, and the basis of the business is
however, sufficiently understood. In our money market
apprehensions (if any existed, and if so, only in a slight
degree) upon the subject have entirely ceased, and the
Three per Cents. Consols keep steady. But it has been
urged that est of doors (this means ex bankers and dis-
count firms) Bills of Exchange cannot be " done" at so
low a rata as was the case a few months since. This is
not generally the fact, good paper is now most readily
discounted at a fraction above the rate demanded by the
Court of Directors of the Bank of England.
At a meeting of the proprietors of the Colonial Bank
(whose operations extend over the whole of the
West India Islands, &c.), held this morning, a
dividend at the rate of 11 per cent for the
past half-year, was declared. The bank's affairs
were most promising, and should matters go on as favour.
ably for the future, in two years a dividend equal to 7
per cent. might be calculated upon almost with certainty.
The public securities are scarcely so firm to day, but
the tone of the market will be better tested upon the re-
opening of the transfer books, as the dividends are pay-
able to the public on Friday next. Consols are
931 s for account ; Exchequer Bills have been marked
12s. premium ; and the New Three-and-a-quarter per
Cents. 95! *. Bank Stock has been worth 205 to 206.
The foreign securities have been rather more ani-
mated, and there is a slight improvement in the quota-
tions of some of the bonds. Portuguese Four per Cents.
have been 39k; Spanish Five per Cents., 26i ; and the
Three per Cents. 36f. The accounts from Lisbon cer-
tainly read favourably for the Government, if much re-
liance can be placed in them. Mexican stock has been
firm at 25 to 25k; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are
iei i•
The prices of Shares in most of the principal lines of
railway come rather higher from Liverpool, and one or
two other of the provincial markets, and at Edinburgh
and Glasgow also there appears to have been a great
deal doing at advanced rates. It is yet much doubted
whether any amicable arrangement will be effected
between the Great Western and North-Western Railway
companies, though all parties approve of the experiment
being made. As to the railway " calls" falling due this
month we believe there will be no other month of the
year so heavy, therefore the worst pinch will soon be
over, and if further branches be sanctioned in
this session of Parliament, it is not at all likely that
any money will be called for until the year 1848.
The market here is steady this morning. The London
and York are in favour ; the North Western have
touched 202, and the Manchester and Southampton are
par to discount.

NE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock .206 205
3 per Cent. Reduced Anus 94 93%
New 34 per Cent. Annuities 95%% IA
CongAnnwities to expire Jan.lB6o 9 13-16
Consols for Opening 93% VA
Exchequer Bills, 10004 11Ad. ... 12 —— p
Ditto, Small

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 42
Equador Bonds
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 —
Ditto, Account 251,E 25
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 394
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent
Ditto. Account ..... ... .....
Russian Bonds . llll
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account . 26%
Ditto 3 per Cent.

CLOSING
PRICES.

93%
95%
9 13.46
93%
12 p
8p

CLOSING
PRICES
42
3M

25
394

38
11114
26%
36 54

Diiidends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21,E per Cent. .
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 9314 93
PRICES OF AT, BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush 1%...
Belfast & County Down ......
Birmin. and Gleucester..loo
Ditto New 171,E —
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley 425...... 7ti p
Birming., Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Va11ey..... 42g.
1 Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 2% —
Boston, Stamfd, & Bina. 225. ll% 1,•••• •
Bristol and Exeter 75
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester... 30
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto Half Shares 214
Ditto, Clydesdale June 25
Chester and Holyhead... 27
Cheltexham and Oxford 2 ......
Clarence lOO
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Cork and Killarney ... 2% —
Cork and Waterford ... 11,x, —
Cornwall
Ditto, Half Shares
Direct Northern Scrip.. 33/ 2%
Direct Norwich
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 121
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dundalk & Enniskillen 10
Eastern Counties 141. 16s. .... . 231,4
Ditto New l2/ 163 7 4 p
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....... 6/.135. 4d...
Ditto ditto, N 0.2... 61. 13s. 4d... %',4 p
Do., York Extension.. 2 ...... 3%3/4
Eastern Union
Ditto, Quarter Shares 10
Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 21A • • ••••
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Do., do. (late Preston
and Ormskirk)...
Do., do., New Scrip... 114
East Lincolnshire
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 78 th
Ditto Half Shares ... 10

11%

6% p

1/ p

par
30 WI
2

.....
253/4

3/4'
2i
5%

23%
7% P

%
3%

17%

-
3%

Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ...... .
Edinburgh & Northern.. 12% — .••
Ditto, New
Ditto, Newport
Ditto, ditto, New . .. ] % —
Edinburgh and Perth... 3
Ely and Huntingdon ... 121/2
Exeter,Yeovil,& Dorset 2% —
Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle
Glasgow, Kilmar., & Ayr 50 —
Ditto, New
Do., 14 Shares (5 per
cent. guar.)
Goole, Doncaster, &c
Great Eastern &Western 21,x...... ........ .•• ••
Great Northern (London
and York Regd.) 2%..... 31%
Do. (Direct Northern
Regd.)
Great South. and West.

(Ireland)
Great Northof England...loo
Ditto New 5
Ditto, New .
Ditto, New
Great Western. B5
Ditto %
Shares SO
Ditto 1% Shares
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New ... 2
Huddersfield & Manches. 13
Ditto, Extension 3
Hull and Selby
Do. Half Shares 25
Ditto % Shares
Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 14 ~.....
Do., do., and Norwich 5
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
Do. New
Leeds and Bradford 3O
Leicester and Bedford... 165.......

44

33/

Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 22% —
Do., Branch (Blue) ... 2% —
Do.Extension(Green) 2%•• ...
Leeds and Thirsk 17%
Ditto, New
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% —
Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport ... .••
Liverp.,llnchstr& New
castle Junction 2 %
_ _. . .•• ........ •.•

2%

31:%
8

107:ri
......
231;4

514
5

London and Blackwall. 16/. 13e. 4d 9 ...............
Do. New
Ditto Extension 7% • ........
London, Brighton, and
South Coast 5O .. 5914 58% ......
Ditto, Fifths
...... .........
Do. Consol. Eighths lO
...... 143/4 .........
Da. Guarant. 5 per et 9 ......
London andG'reenwich 12/ 1554 d... .....
Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d ...... ..............
London and N. Westernloo ...... 209
Do. Quarters ......... 2 ......
Do., do., New ......... 2 ...... 16
Ditto Fifths ..... ...• .. 21%
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Do. 401. (M. & B.) ... 40 .
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) A. 5 ...
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Do. 10/. (1.11. & B.) B. 5
Do. 10/. M & B.) C. 1
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Cheltenham
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