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London, England, 1847-01-01 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE.

TESSE.S. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY
!ZHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends
and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and
to annalnce that tkcir Public Sales of Railway Shares, Aec.
take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the
lien of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place,
favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully
,uquestel to be aldressed.

All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day
orerions to their being offered ; and advises of results will be
forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds blame-
barely disposed of according to instrcetions.
°Piece, Ha!l of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London.

i IIE WEATHEIL—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 31.
tHERMOMETER, Lowest, 23; Highest, 33 ; Noon, 28.

BAROMETER, 30:57.

WIND S.E., morning, frosty, cold, and foggy: afternoon,

fine sunshine.

111011 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
!doming .. 32 minutes after 1. I Evening .. 36 minutes after 1.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1847.

, A superficial glance through the American PRE-
SIDUNT'S Message to Congress will impress the mind
of the reader with a feeling not far removed from
admiration for its ability. A careful perusal will,
however, very speedily expose its shallowness and
divulge its sophistry. It is, from first to last, merely
specious declamation. The whole document is essen-
tially what a black-help would call " a make-be-
lieve." Mr. PoLic. has evidently resolved to
quash (if possible) the various accusations which
have been levelled against his policy. He
has been termed, almost in so many words, a
blusterer; and he persists that his conduct has inva-
riably been modelled upon the principles of conciliation.
With the remembrance of Mr. PAKENHAM'S treat-
ment fresh in our memory, he says that ! With the
recollection of his behaviour towards lIERRERA and
PAREDES still as vivid as occurrences of yesterday,
he says it ! He is taxed with being avaricious of ter-
ritory, and he maintains that the American Govern-
ment has invariably, during his administration;
evinced a magnanimous disinterestedness. Yes.
Coahuila is nothing ; New Leon is nothing ; Tamau-
lipas is nothing; New Mexico is nothing; Texas is
nothing ; California is nothing. Yes : the American
Government has evinced a magnanimous disinterested-
. ness ! He is designated a national spendthrift, and
he insists that his system of financial economy has
amounted almost to parsimony. Almost—and he asks
for a fresh loan of 23,000,000 dollars in this same
message ! He is styled a promoter of war, and he
avows that his heart has invariably yearned for
peace ! No matter how unendurable may have
been the insolence of his avowed agents at
Vera Cruz ; no matter how churlish may have
been his military representative at Santa Fe; no
matter how insulting may have been Mr. Poex's
own expressions in his preceding Messages—his heart
has invariably yearned for peace ! 0 generous con-
ciliation ! 0 wonderful disinterestedness ! 0 amazing
parsimony ! 0 unequalled Pacificator!
President POLK is armed with his precedents. He
argues the point as a man convinced that it is logi-
cally demonstrable. President JACKSON is, in his
opinion, an indisputable authority. President
JACKSON, in the February of 1837, advo-
cated war with Mexico. Therefore—President
JACKSON being the oracle of justice and truth, and
President JACKSON having advocated war with
Mexico—war with Mexico was an imperative duty
upon the United States. Q. E. D. Mr. POLL would
no more hesitate to propound the most impossible
syllogism than would the gentleman in the story-
book, who undertook to prove that a chesnut-horse
and a horse-Chesnut were identical. Mr. POLL has no
eye for the reductio ad absurdum. The public look for
the most candid explanations at his hands, and he
gives them the most specious. Take, as an example
of this his arguments about the Nueces. The Go-
vernment of Washington, as is well known, insisted
that the Nueces were not the western boundary line
of Texas. The Government of Mexico, as is equally
well known, insisted that they were. And here comes
Mr. POLK, with a triumphant self-satisfaction, to prove
conclusively that the United States were in the right,
and the Federal Government of Mexico in the wrong.
" Our army," he says, in a tone of sublime victory,
" had occupied a position at Corpus Christi, west of
Nueces, as early as August, 1845, without complaint
from any quarter." There's a decisive fact for you!
American battalions had marched beyond the
disputed lire of demarcation " without complaint from
any quarter!" Why, an argument more exqui-
sitely puerile than this was never penned.
The Nueces were passed " without complaint
from any quarter !" No wonder there was no com-
plaint. The Russian Cabinet uttered no complaint
when the great army of the Emperor NAPOLEON had
passed the boundaries of the Duchy of Warsaw, and
was advancing upon Moskowa ; they concentrated
their regular troops, and harassed the invaders
with clouds of Cossacks. When JULIUS CXSAR
landed upon the Sandwich flats, the an-
cient Britons never complained; they mounted
their war-chariots and brandished their spears.
When CLIVE penetrated into India, lIERNAN CORTEZ
into Mexico, JUNOT into Portugal, Hoene into
La Vendee, their opponents never complained ;
they mustered all their available forces, and
prepared themselves by every means to drive
their assailants beyond the frontiers. That was
the course adopted by the Mexicans. They
tarried until the first fitting opportunity pre-
sented itself for wreaking their vengeance
upon those who had disregarded the barrier
of the 'lstueces. Besides which Mexico protested
altogether against the occupation of any portion what-
ever of Texas.

The plea upon which Mr. President FOLK has
endeavoured to justify his proceedings towards the
neighbouring republic is utterly inadmissible. He
has, in this Messgge, built up a fabric
of arguments apparently of adamantine strength,
but really of the most perishable brittle-
ness. It may resist the assaults of imbecility
and credulity, but it crumbles down at the mere

breath of Reason. It is gratifying to turn from the
loquacious folly of the bulk of the Message to the

sensible and plain-spoken remarks at its conclusion.

Upon the Mexican question, Mr. POLK is as gro-
tesque and extravagant as any dancing dervish ; upon
the free-trade question, lie is marvellously staid and
respectable. Referring to the recent triumphs over
monopoly in the two hemispheres, he observes:—
" By the simultaneous abandonment of the protective
policy by Great Britain and the United States, new and
important markets have already been opened for our
agricultural and other products ; commerce and navi-
gation have received a new impuse ; labour and trade
Have been released from the artificial trammels which
have so tor', fettered them ; and to a great extent re-
ciprocity, in the exchange of commodities, has been in-
.

trodueelint the same time by both countries,studgreatly
for the benefit of both."

And, beyond this, he remarks, very truthfully, but
very ungrammatically, that "it is confidently be-
lic2ved that other Powers of Europe will ultimately
see the wisdom, if they be not compelled by the pau-

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miscalled Protection as the Parliament at West-
minster has done. In England, we have already more
freedom of importation and exportation than that
enjoyed by the Americans ; and we have, moreover,
in England what they have not in America,
namely, a prospective guarantee for the realisation of a perfect emancipation to commerce. The Americans
blve lopped off the branches of the mercantile I.Tpas,
whereas we have torn it up, roots and branches. In
two years and a few months its last frag-
ments will be destroyed, and its existence virtually
tun-gotten. If President POLK only facilitate the in-
troduction of the full principles of free trade into the
American code, he will in some measure expiate his
previous conduct.

The dispatch which Earl GRET has addressed to
the Governor of New Zealand is, unquestionably, a

document of great ability and importance. As a '
colony New Zealand presents features of remarkable
interest to the contemplation of the Englishman. It
is rendered peculiarly striking by a consideration of its
points of close resemblance to those which are prominent
in the British isles. By its geographical and insular
position, by its geological characteristics and resources,
its capacious and excellent harbours, its healthy cli-
mate, fertile soil, and large afforested tracts of land,
New Zealand seems to have been marked out by na-
ture to fulfil tbe same glorious destiny in the other
hemisphere, which, in our own in particular—
not to speak of her national triumphs of civilisa-
tion in more distant parts of the universe—has
been so magnificently accomplished by the
imperial sway of Great Britain. Dependent
as we are for our national supremacy
upon the extent and strength of our colonies, the reck-
less indifference with which the home authorities
have at times regarded them, particularly during their
infantile state, is highly censurable, and scarcely to
be believed. The consequence has been that perplex-
ing evils of considerable magnitude have sprung up,
which could easily have been averted had the mother
country paid but ordinary attention to the solemn
duties naturally incident to, and coincident with, the
assumption of sovereignty over territories either newly
discovered or conquered by the sons of civilization.
Ce n'est ,;ne le premier pas qui route ; and had the go-
vernance of New Zealand, shortly after its attachment
to the Crown of these realms, been placed in the hands
of men well skilled in national jurisprudence, and
properly versed in the principles of our constitution
ue should have already been reaping the fruits of a
gradual, systematic, and felicitous development of the
physical resources and the social prosperity
of the numerous emigrants to this important
colony. Instead of this, we have throughout
only witnessed miserable distractions, and perpetual
heartburnings between the governors and the go-
verned of a kindred race. The truth is, that the Ex-
ecutive and the Legislature of Great Britain re-
mained culpably inactive with respect to the welfare
of New Zealand, and displayed naught but a sluggish
indifference to the establishment of any sound and
permanent bodies politic, till the genius and enter-
prise of the British merchant and capitalist had in-
vested her with an importance that effectually de-
manded the zealous attention of the responsible ad-
visers of the Crown to the growing wants of an ill-
organized yet rapidly increasing community. When
the home authorities had, by these means, been
quickened into action, a petty, piecemeal, and inter-
meddling spirit was exhibited in the place of any
comprehensive, well-digested scheme of colonial ad.
ministration. Nothing of vigour pervaded our
councils in Downing-street. No bold outlines of
policy were traced for extrication from past difficul-
ties and errors, and for giving stability to the
political progress of the English settlers.
Contrariwise, our State nurses resorted to
timorous, weak, and ineffective measures ;
ill calculated to dissolve anarchic factions and still
the swelling animosities between the aborigines and
the emigrants on the one hand, and the Government
and the emigrants on the other. In 1840 a charter
was granted devoid of symmetrical authority. • It
had the negative merit of distributing power between
the New Zealand Company an 1 the Colonial Depart-
ment, so as effi,saci msly to prevent all harmonious
operation for the advantage of the settlers. Anta-
gonistic forces were ingeniously planned and created
with so little of just correspondence to the object in
view, that all efficient control for colonial exigencies
was placed beyond the reach of either.

This unseemly and pernicious state of things was
happily put an end to in the last session of Parlia-
ment; the charter of 1840 was repealed, and an Act
, passed for the improved government of New Zealand.
By virtue of the latter her MAJESTY has just granted
a new charter, the precise nature whereof, and the
spirit in which it is meant to be carried into effect, is
accurately stated, and elaborately and most ably
elucidated, by the instructions contained in the dis-
patch of Earl GREY, to which we have, in the outset,
alluded. As we gave this, and its accompanying docu-
ments, in extenso, in our columns of the day before yes-
terday, suffice it, for a summary of them, that the
change about to be wrought is a fundamental one ; that
it adheres, as closely as circumstances will allow, to the
model of our English institutions; that, in one word,
it is framed upon the principle of allowing " the
settlers to participate much more largely in the
business of legislation and local self-government."
Independently of the intrinsic value of Lord
GREY'S instructions to the colony to which they bear
immediate reference, we derive intense satisfaction
from the reflection, that there are embodied in them
principles of colonial administration of such sound,
liberal, and comprehensive significance, that we feel
justified in congratulating the country that a new
colonial era is auspiciOusly dawning upon us.
To the fruitful topic of discussion—whether the ab-
original inhabitants of any country are entitled to
every portion of its soil beyond what they occupy, or
have been accustomed to use, vast and fertile
as the uncultivated remainder may be Earl
GREY has addressed his mind with consummate
ability, and (as it seems to us) with unequivocal suc-
cess. But as this is a subject in which .it would be
futile to expect an unanimous concurrence of opinion,
as it is one which, if it had been rightly understood
in the first instance by our countrymen in New
Zealand, would have saved them from many unhappy
and profitless dissensions ; and as it is one of the
greatest consequence to some of our existing, and may
be to many of our future dependencies, we shall take
an early opportunity of giving it a fuller considera-
tion than could be afforded to it within our present
limits.

A letter from Rome of the 18th says:—
"An excessive cold, accompanied by snow, has suc-
ceeded here the inundation. The population is themore
sensitive to these variations of temperature that it
is not
accustomed to them. A commission has been appointed
to distribute aid to those in want of it. The Pope has
contributed 2,000 Roman crowns. At one of the late
visits of the Pope to the church of the Holy Apostles,
the students presented to his Holiness two requests—
one, to let the library remain- open on Thursday, the
day on which they have most time to study ; and the
other, to create two new professorships—of political
economy and legal medicine. The Pope at once granted
the first, and promised to take the other into conside-
ration. The first number of the Contemporaneo, a
journal destined to promote ideas of progress, made its
appearance hero on the 12th. It is to appear every
Saturday."
At Florence, on the 19th, there was a heavy fall
of snow, and the ice was so firm that persons were
enabled to skate.

The Frankfort Journal contains a letter from Ber-
lin, dated the 21st, which says :
"It appears that the rumours relative to several
changes in the constitution of the kingdom, rumours
which have been repeated so frequently, will be realised
this year to a certain extent. We learn from a good
source that the documents relating to these changes
are to be published in the beginning of the new year.
They relate principally to new enactments concerning
the concurrence of the provincial states in financial
questions and the vote on the budget, without, how-
liver, prejudice to the royal prerogative. The march
of the Central Government will be facilitated by the
concurrence of the representatives of the country. A
second document, to be also published at the beginning
of 1847, is the edict relating to religion. This docu-
ment is said to be remarkable for the spirit of tolerance
which animates onr Government with respect to all
creeds, without, however, affecting or restricting the
dominant religion of the country."
The Chambers of the States of Hanover have just
addressed a petition to the KING, beseeching him to
extend the civil rights of the Jews, and parti-
cularly to abrogate the Impel ial law, passed at
Augsburgh in 1571, forbidding Jews to pass to
Christians such credits as they might have on other
Christians.

Madrid papers of the 234 have arrived. The
Gageta publishes the agreement entered into between
the Government and the Bank of San Fernando.
The substance of this agreement, which consists of
above twenty articles, is that the Bank will advance
to the Government, in the year 1847, the sums re-
quired for the public service, to the amount of those
which the approaching Cortes shall vote. The 3d
article of the convention stipulates, that in addition
to 67,000,000 reals thus to be monthly supplied, the
payment of the half-year's interest on the Three per
Cents., due in June, 1847, shall be secured by the
bank.

The differences in the Cabinet have been, it rs said,
pate7aed up for the present.
It is rumoured in Madrid that the Carlists are
actively stirring in the north and east of Spain.

The Heraldo says that all is quiet in Navarre, in
the Basque provinces, and in Catalonia, but the Clamor
Public° states that large bands of Carlists are scouring
the vicinity of Gerona.
MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 23.—The Three per Wits.
34, money ; Four and Five per Cents., 21, money ;
Debt without Interest, 6i money.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
The Journal des Debats publishes the following,
which may be considered as the Ministerial pro-
gramme for the approaching session :
"We need not observe that the question which is
about to commence on the 11th of January will excite
considerable interest. Foreign affairs will form a pro.
minent figure in it. With respect to internal matters,
we see only the question of railroads likely to command
the attention of the Chambers. We shall first say a
word on this subject. Every one now admits that we en-
deavoured to accomplish too much at a time. The ques-
tion will then be asked, whose was that fault?—a ques-
tion that appears to us to be perfectly idle. We have
no self-love engaged in it, and we are quite ready to
incur our share of the blame, if fault there be.
We shall be in good and numerous company,
fur who is there amongst the Opposition, as well
as amongst the Ministerial members, who has not
demanded a railroad? For ten years we proceeded too
slowly, or rather we did not move. Thanks to the ma-
noeuvres of political parties, ten years were lost; and
when. at last, the Opposition perceived that it was
impossible longer to refuse the country a means of
civilisation and strength, of which the least progressive
Gcvernments began to avail themselves, a general avidity
succeeded to languor and inertness. We do not com-
plain too much of that. That aridity was perhaps
necessary in order that the work should be commenced,
and it will be at present more easy to regulate and
to moderate the movement than it was to give to it the
first impulse. Every one, or at least every sensible and
impartial man, admits, further, that if we wish to finish
what has been commenced, we must offer the com-
panies less onerous conditions and more certain advan-
tages. A year since nothing but enormous profits were
seen in conjunction with railroad speculations. These
profits assumed incalculable proportions in certain
imaginations, and hence it was sought to anticipate and
to clip the gains which the companies were to realise.
In fact, many adjudications could not take place, the
companies not having presented themselves. Each party
made its calculations, the profits vanished as if through
enchantment, and the conditions terrified the most hardy
speculator. The greater numbest of the railroad com-
panies are more or less in a suffering state. We do not
wish, at present, to enter further Into the questlon-; but
it is manifest that something must be done. It may
be said, that we are defending the interests of the
bankers and capitalists ; but we regard not that. We
believe we are now defending the interests of the public,
who require railroads, and railroads well constructed,
well maintained, and well served. As to the bankers and
capitalists, we never could discover what the public or
the Government could gain by rejecting or ruining them.
This is the question of internal order which demands an
urgent solution, and as hich will necessarily take its place
in the legislative deliberations of this 'year. We are
aware that other questions had been placed on the order
of the day during the last session—such as a postal re-
form, a reduction of the stamp duties, and the salt-tax.
We ourselves, a year since, believed that some of those
reforms were ripe, and we trusted that the session of
1847 would not pass without an attempt being made to
realise what has been so long demanded, and which was
so successfully attempted in England—we refer to a
postal reform. A bad harvest and the deplorable inun-
dations of the autumn compel us to abandon that
expectation. Any experiment would be rash. We
cannot think of diminishing the public revenue at
a moment when the Treasury is called on to pro-
vide for the disasters caused by the inundations and the
dearness of provisions. A financial :kites quo is required
by the most ordinary prudence. A crisis exists less pro-
found, we believe, and less alarming than certain persons
are pleased to represent. Still, however, we must not
incur the risk of increasing it by attempting any hezard-
ous project. The best rer :tens, in order to succeed, re-
quire to be opportune. Consequently no reform can be
attempted this year. The qu stion of our foreign rela-
tions remains to be consid red We have no need to
direct public opinion to their imp atance. All Europe is
still excited by the destruction of Cracow, and every on,
is aware that the Spanish marriages have caused a dif-
ference between the French and English Cabinets, which,
in fifteen days, will be publicly discussed. The almost
simultaneous meeting of the two Parliaments will be a
solemn moment. We do not dread it; we rather expect
it with impatience. There are certain persons who believe
and who hope, perhaps, that those debates will contribute
still inure to render a rupture between the two countries
inevitable, but we believe and trust the contrary. We are ,
coevinced that facts will gain by being investigated, and
that the difficulties will diminish at the tribune, and that
the real interests of the two ecuntrics, the causes and the
permanent reasons which tend to bring them together,
having only to combat a passing irritation and frivolous
dislike, must easily obtain the advantage ! A great ex-
periment is about to be made on this occasion before the
eyes of all Europe. Two Parliaments are about to find
themselves engaged. The feet has already been proved,
that the greatest liberty of discussion is not incom-
patible with public order. On this occasion it is be-
tween two Governments aed two nations that a debate is
about to commence. Shall this discussion be compatible
with the maintenance of external peace ? Shall it serve
to embitter or to calm the passions ? Shall it demon-
strate, in favour of absolute Governments, that diplomatic
and international question in order to arrive at a forte
nate conclusion, must be treated between oric,Gallicet
and another ill the shape of Along ; or,
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it is a solemn trial, on which, perhaps, depends the liberty
of Europe. We are firmly confident that the result of
the trial will be in favour of liberty. A great session is
preparing, the greatest, according to all appearance
which we have had during 15 years. Foreign politics
will predominate over all other questions. An immense
task is imposed upon the illustrious man who directs our
Foreign Department. We answer for it beforehaed that
he will be found equal to it. With M. Guizot for her
Minister,France has not to fear any competitor at the
tribune, nor any rivalry of reason or of eloquence 1"
The announcement in this article, that the state of
the revenue is such as to render necessary the post -
ponement of all the projected measures of financial
reform, and the admission, by the Ministerial organ,
of the existence of a financial crisis, have produced
a feeling of uneasiness on the Bourse and a great fall
in the French funds.

The Presse is highly indignant with the English
in general, and with Lord PALAIERSTaN in particular,
because the Count DE MONTEMOLIN has not been
treated in England after the fashion in which he was
treated in France. Surely the personal experience of
the KING of the FRENCH ought to have taught him
that, whatever may be the custom of his own country-
men, the English, at all events, show deference and
respect to the misfortunes of fallen Princes, and are
more punctilious in according to them a reception
due to their rank when they are under a cloud, than
they are when they visit the shores of England as
sovereigns de facto.
The Courier du Havre announces that the Minister
of Finance has signed a contract with the Company
Herout and Handell (subject to the ratification of
the Chambers) for the establishment of a service of
correspondence between Havre and New York, by
means of four steamers furnished by the Govern-
ment.

It is said that the KING of the FRENCH has as: ured
Lord NORMANEY that no allusion shall be made to
the Blontpensier marriage in the reply to the address
of the Corps Diplomatique on New Year's-day.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourt:e, on
Tuesday, at 80f. 55c. ; the Five per Cents., 1181 45c. ; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,262 f. 50c • Rouen, 923 f. 75c, ;
Havre, 683 f. 75c.; Great Northern, 652 f 50c. ; Avignon, 882. f.
:
50c.; Vierzon, 6151. ; Bordeaux, 568 f. 75c.; Troyes and
Alontereau, 3401. ; Basle, 221 f. 25c.; Paris and Lyons, 5121.
50c ; Lyons and Avignon, 4851. ; Bordeaux and Cette,
450 f. Spanish Actives, .14 ; Ditto Three per Cents., 381;
Ditto Dome tic Debt, 323/4.
DlAinsmr.t.ss, DEC. 24.—Marseilles and Avignon, 8851.;
Northern, 645 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 5101.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEcrmnEn 30.
Great Western Canada, 312 Luxembourg, 3/4—Northern
of France Constituted, 104—Orleans and Vierzon,
Orleans and Bordeaux, 814—Paris and Lyons Constituted,
84—Paris and Orleans, 49-17—Paris and Rouen, :3C—Rouen
and Havre, 261/2.

RIMY LANE.—The unwearied xertionq of Mr.
Bunn have been most liberally rewarded. St. George and
the Dragon has proved a trump card to the treasury.
In conjunction with Balfe's successful cp2rl of The
Bondman, the houses are crowded, not only with
hilarious juveniles, but with delighted children of a
larger growth. The pantomime, from the pen of One ef
the best authors of the class, promises to be one of the
most successful that has appeared for many years. All
concerned do their spiritings gently, and densely
crowded audiences nightly reward the manager's liberal
efforts.
The new drama at the Adelpbi of CoZomba, or the
Corsican Sister, increases nightly in attraction, cotm
blued with the wonderful performances of Lees and his
pupils, and the delightful seri° burlesque of The Phan-
tom Dancers. By-the-way, the beautiful little pony,
Comi Bacliee, which perkrms so cleverly in the drama
of Co!oink is the pet pony of Master Benjamin
Webster, the lessee's eldtst son, and is one of the true
Shetland breed.

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Lord Stanley has issued cards to a distinguished
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grand banquet, to be given by his Lordship on the even-
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