The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 18i7

val. As an incitement to yet greater assiduity in
the population in general, and in the legislators in
particular, 1846 may be most useful and mot
glorious in being the cause of emulation to the
(possibly) more useful and more glorious year just
dawning upon the world.

England this will be one, and that not the least,
of the benefits which- the discovery . of .SCIION-
BEIN will have conferred on the nation.

:VIONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. 1
- QUA TER TO THREE.
The Cotton marks t Lc. el puol tit x•cri: Las
about Ad. to id. per lb. The sales of the week are
31,810 bales, of which 20,000 bales were on speculation.
The stock is 438,970 bales against 885,480 bales at thiS
time last year. Shares were much the same.
The sale of Railway Shares yesterday, at Messrs
Lamond and Co.'s, was well attended, and a fair business
was done at good prices ; French Shares sold well.
The following are a few of the principal sales :
Warwick and Worcester
London and Manchester (Remington's) 0 9 6
Great Luxembourg
Madrid and Valentia 1 0 0
Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 10 6
Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Great Northern of France ..
London and South-Western, Tenths 5 7 6
Vale of Neath
Waterford, Wexford, and Valentia 0 6 0
London and York Extension, ex int 2 12 0
Northern Counties Union 1 13 6
Liverp. Manch. and Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2 9 0
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 11 0
Paris and Lyons 5 6 0
Manchester and Southampton 1 18
The principal points in the Bank of England state-
ment for the week to December 26, compared with the
previous week, are these:—
Notes issued
Increase

'The German Journal of Frankfurt has the follow-
ing from Vienna, Dec. 22 :
"M. de Rothschild is expected here to-morrow. The
Bourse is in a very excited state. Galicia is in a state
of anarchy. It is feared that the political fanaticism of
the masses will be transformed into one of a religious
character. All the peasants of one village left their
church in a body, becau-e their cure spoke to them of
the Decalogue. Their exclamation was, We do not
went so many laws.'"

We adverted on Thursday to the new Charter for
the Government of New Zealand, which received the
royal signet on the 23d ult. This is a great fact,
which will ever he remarkable in history. It will
al ways be instanced as one of the most signal bless-
ings of civilisation, that the extensive territories,
comprised in the New Zealand isles, whose inhabi-
tants, when first discovered, consisted only of barbarous
and wandering tribes, powerful in form, and brave
anti fierce in their rude art of war, were, within a
short period of their attachment to the British Crown,
subjected to a scheme of provincial and general legis-
lation, based upon the representative principle, in
which is involved the essence of the English
constitution. So speedy an attainment of the
choicest fruits of civilisation, so rapid an ac-
quirement of institutions, municipal, legislative,
and executive, in a country where, a few years since,
a hardy race of savages alone ranged free, igno-
rant of the sublime principles of their better
nature, is without a parallel in history.
This recent act of our Ministers, under
the authority of Parliament, will be regarded
by
surrounding nations as the strongest proof of the
reliance we have in the vigour and excellence of
our form of government, and of the confidence
we repose in the attachment and veneration
which our compatriots uniformly feel for their
native institutions, to what part soever of the
world they may be impelled by circumstances to
resort, and carry out the great work of universal
civilisation. Nor can the experiment be regarded
as a hazardous one. Frequent is the regret, and
severe are the strictures, offered upon the social in -
equalities which prevail within the United Empire,
notwithstanding that our power and progress as a
nation has been a theme of wonder and admiration
in every quarter of the globe. The uneven
distribution of wealth, co-existent with the
poverty and misery in many over-populated
districts within our native dominions, are evils,
which cannot be denied; neither can they be
too deeply deplored, nor too promptly ameliorated.
Nevertheless, the consolation for these social ex-
crescences is not inconsiderable, when we find our
great capitalists inviting the industrious and
intelligent of a redundant population to avail
themselves of their accumulated stores of wealth
and, embarking for distant lands, to civilise
the human race, to open up fresh sources of national
affluence, and augment the several fruits of the earth.
Thus, indirectly, and by reason of the social and ac-
cidental (but neither inherent nor incorrigible) in-
congruities in her system of polity, does England
gradually fulfil her noble destiny of disseminating
the seeds of civilisation to millions of ruthless and
benighted barbarians scattered in various parts of the
universe.

The Post-ampt Gazette publishes a letter from Thorn,
dated Dec. 29, which says
" The Government of Poland have just arrested cix
Roman Catholic priests for having clandestinely intro-
duced from Prussia sundry publications, amongst which
was the Polish Gazette of Posen. The Catholic clergy
find great difficulty in procuring passports from the
authorities. They are obliged, in the first place, to pro-
cure permission to travel from the superior ecclesiastical
authorities. It is said that the Government wish to pre-
vent them disseminating the doctrines of Christian
Catholicism."

The Augsburg Gazette of the 27th ult. publishes
the following from its London correspondent :
" Lord Palmerston will submit to the British Parlia-
ment immediately upon its opening a series of authentic
documents concerning the marriage of the Queen of
Spain and the incorporation of Cracow. These docu-
ments will, it is said, prove beyond possibility of con-
tradiction, the important part taken by Louis Philippe
in the direction of the foreign affairs of his Cabinet, and
reveal the impossibility of a renewal of the entente cor-
diale."

... £28,442,030
... 29,030
... 6,522
... 493 571
80,469

Rest increase ...
Public deposits, increase
Other deposits, inerease
Seven day and other Bills, in-
crease ••• ••• ••• 14,089
Notes, decrease ••• ••• 50,770
Rullion 15,066,691
Decrease ••• ••• 95,932
The later information obtained from India, rid Trieste
through the indefatigable exertions of Mr. Waghorn, is
in respect to political matters, of a more gratifying tenor.
Cashmere being tranquil, and a temporary lull in other
quarters—where the din of warfare hzs been heard so
long, being likewise observable. The market for im-
ported goods at Bombay had, however, become lulled
also, an .l prices were receding.
H. M. S. Daphne. from South America, furnishes no
news of interest, though it brings the large freight of
1,500,0001. in bullion and specie.
Messrs. Ferguson and Taylor, of Manchester, advise
us, in their monthly statement of the piece-goods trade,
that " the depression of this market, to which we ad-
verted in our last trade report, has continued unrelieved
to the present. Although the business transacted, as a
whole, has been very limited, yet quotations of prices, in
some ca es, exhibit a very large advance on the rates pre-
viou-ly current. This anomalous condition of things is the
result entirely of the speculation in cotton at Liverpool,
which, the date of our last, has been conducted
on a most extraordinary scale : in the three weeks end-
inc.. the 18th December, no less than 207,702 bags having
changed hands on speculation account alone, and in the
same time, prices were advanced lid. per lb. on the pre-
vious high rates. It is manifest that spinners and manufac-
turers could not sustain this continually advancing cost
of their productions, without some upward movement
being made in the value of manufactures, and they ac-
cordingly withheld their stocks, or refused contracts ex-
cept for higher prices; but notwithstanding the firmness
which their necessities rendered imperative, the advances
lon fabrics are not yet equivalent to the enhanced cost of
the raw material."
Much firmness has been displayed in the Consol
market this morning. The price for the Account has
just touched 94; for the Three per Cents. Reduced 94*;
for the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 95a; and
Exchequer-bills are at 9s. to 10s. premium.
The only business done in the Foreign Stocks this
morning has been in the Grenada Deferred, at the low
figure of 3i, in the Mexican Five per -Cents., for the
Account, at 25 in the Portuguese Four per Cents. at
36, in the Spanish Three per Cents. at 361, in the
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 59k, and in the
Four per Cent. Certificates at 93.
In the Railway Shares and Scrips a full average
amount of business has been transacted to day. In
several instances prices have risen, as the official list
annexed will show :

The Journal de St. Petersburgh, of the 6th De-
cember, publishes, in the shape of a letter, addressed
from London to the Augsburg Gazette, the following
defence of the conduct of the three Powers in relation
to Poland in general, and Cracow in particular. It
may be considered as the semi-official manifesto of the
Russian Cabinet.

" Lord Palmerston has forwarded to the Northern
Powers a protest against the incorporation of Cracow,
which will produce as little effect as the abusive language I
of the Ministerial newspapers of France. The Polish '
emigrants Existed as a political body, and continually in- 1
trigued. Applications were repeatedly made to those
two Powers, particularly to France; protests were ad-
dressed to them against the right of asylum, taken in so
wide an acceptation; the two Governments replied, that
it was • all right, and no change was pos-
sible. What were the three interested Powers
to do, under those circumstances, for their
repose and security? They are accused of having
violated the treaties I If those treaties were in reality
violated, they would merely have done against revolu-
tion what the French have accomplished in favour of
P, revolution. Have they not violated the treaties in Bel-
gium and Spain ? It is true that subsequently a new
treaty was concluded as respects Belgium, but this was
a long time after the fact had taken place, and was main.
tained with the consent of France. At Cracow it shall
likewise be maintained, but in this last case no treaty
has been infringed ' • the only Powers who concluded it
have alone changed it. As regards the possession of
Poland, respecting which so much is said, it is legiti-
mate, being guaranteed by a duration of sixty years and
numerous stipulations. If the English and French should
think otherwise, we will ask if the possessions of the
English in India, and those of France in Alsace and
Lorraine, were more legitimately acquired ? Sup-
posing that France declared to the Congress of
Vienna, and that her declaration had been inserted
in the protocol, that she intended, for instance, to erect
Colmar and its vicinity into a free state, what would
France do if there existed at Vienna a numerous party
of emigrants from Alsace and Lorraine, constituted into
a political body, holding regular meetings, publishing
journals, &c.? What would she do if a special military
school for Alsatians and Lorraines was established there;
if the Austrian Government publicly supported those
emigrants ; tent the pupils of that school for some years
to the Caucasus, in the absence of an Algeria, to acquire
warlike habits; and that, on their return, that Govern-
ment sent these men to Colmar, provided with resources of
all kinds, in order that they might excite from them a re-
volution in Alsace and Lorraine ? If France had ad-
dressed numerous reclamations to Austria, and been an-
swered that she could not prevent these machinations and
revolutionary projects ; if, finally, an insurrection had
actually broken out at Colmar, and extended throughout
Alsace and Lorraine, and been suppressed by the rural
population of the German portion of those provinces—if
all that had occurred in France, we should be curious to
know if the French, after witnessing those intrigues
during 20 years, would have suffered the republic of
Colmar, founded by themselves and without foreign co-
operation, to exist. Would they have allowed their Go-
vernment to wait for the adhesion of all the Powers of
Europe whilst those intrigues were going on at Colmar
and in Austria? The mere impartial and logical exami-
nation of the fact demonstrates the absurdity of all the
objections. Would all the obstreperous declamations of
Austria, Prussia, and Russia, induce France to re-
establish the Republic of Colmar? Well 1 all the noise
now making in England and France will produce as little
influence over the decision of the three Powers. This
event, it is true, strongly shakes the position of Lord
Palmerston and M. Guizot, and places those two Minis-
ters in a great embarrassment. Added to that, the Eng-
lish lose a valuable depot of smuggled goods, which were
fraudulently imported by Podgorze and Breslau into the
Austrian and Russian dominions. The English, it is
well known, are always dissatisfied when they export
one bale less than usual; and Lord Palmerston, on the
other hand, finds himself under the painful necessity of
making advances to re-establish the cordial understand-
ing. Nevertheless, whatever esteem we may profess for
the character of M. Guizot, and however we may regret
to create embarrassments for Lord Palmerston, such con-
siderations have exercised but a very secondary influence
over the resclntions of the thee Powers."

Exception has already been taken to the principles

laid down by Earl GREY for the acquisition and
settlement of lands in New Zealand, and all future
colonies in their inceptive state. It should be remarked,
that the advocates for vesting exclusive rights of pro-
perty in the aborigines of any country, consist chiefly
of two classes ; first, those who are actuated by the
nicest sense of humanity, and are chiefly desirous to
protect the native in his primitive rights from the
rapacity and tyrannical abuse of power, into which
even civilised man, largely tempted by self-interest,
is prone to degenerate ; and next, those who have
entered into extensive speculations, and, by a variety
of stratagems, have fancifully secured to themselves,
by inconsiderable gifts or trifling purchases, enormous
tracts of land, from either the original (but ignorant
and easily duped), or else pretended, possessors of the
same. For the first class, and their philanthropic
scruples, it is impossible not to entertain the greatest
respect. Their error lies in the head, not in the
heart. The honouraUle and deep-rooted apprehension
which they entertain for the present welfare of the
aborigines wins their mind over to a principle quite
incompatible with the establishment or maintenance
of regular government in countries where the rays
of civilisation have been but newly shed. For the
second class we have no such sympathies, because it
is against the interest of Government to disturb them
in their present or future territorial acquisitions,
provided moderate and reasonable sums have
been paid. So to act would only serve to
prevent the influx of capital, check every spe-
cies of enterprise, and dry up the springs of pros-
perity. On the other hand, where fair compensation
has not been, in the first instance, given for the pos-
session of land, where it has been obtained by fraud
and imposture, it is right that the controlling arm of
Government should be present to protect the natives
from delusive or imprudent concessions, and
to enforce justice and equity between the
emigrants and primitive inhabitants. So that,
in fact, even were it not consonant with
international and colonial law, the principle that wild
tribes of men cannot sell any land beyond what they
themselves occupy or use in countries, the sovereignty
over which has been effectually assumed in the name
of a civilised nation, is the most conducive to the
ends of humanity. The more civilised nations be-
come, the more jealous are they of their fame for
honour rather than of power, and are consequently
vigilant that this fame should not be tarnished by
any public acts of delegated authority. The
responsibility which governors lie under to the
authorities of the mother country, and the wholesome
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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICE:I.
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 941/8 94%
New 31/4 per Cent. Annuities 95%34 953/
bong Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 9 13-16 % 97/8
Consols for Opening 93% 94 94
Exchequer Bills, 10004 11Ad. ... 910— P 10 p
Ditto, 5001
Ditto. Small .. . 910 --, p 10 p
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK PRICES

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Granada Bonds, 1 per Ceat. —
Ditto, Deferred 3F4
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 ...... ..
Ditto, Account 25 25
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto, Account 361/2 361/2
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent. .
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 93 92%
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
R XILWAY SILARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber.. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%..... 23/4 x. int ... 23/4 ex in
Armagh, Coleraine, and

25 -

Porirnsh 1%.....
Belfast & County Down 4%
Birmingham and Dudley 425. ... .. 7%14 p 7'4 p
Birmin. and Gleuceater..loo .....
Ditto New
Birmingham azd Ox-
ford Junction.
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 23/4 —
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. 'Vs 1 p ...... ,
Bristol and Exeter 75
•• ••• ......
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester... 30
......
Bristol and Liver. June.. 2%......
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian ......... ...... 30 ..... 3014
Ditto Half Shares...... 21% 2M(4. •••• -
Ditto, Clydesdale June 25
Chester and Hob lead... 27% 253%
Churnet and Bly the 2
Chester and Manchester 425. —
Cheltexham and Oxford 2
Clarence
Do. Ist Class, €, per Ct. 10 —
Do. 2d Class, .5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent. lO .....
Cork and Kilian iey ... 2%
Cork and Water ford ... 1% —
Cornwall
Ditto, Half Slimes ... 2%...••• 1A
Direct Lincoln, East. Ret-
ford, and Sheird. Jnnc. 25/ — .
Direct Northern Scrip.. 334
Direct Norwich ~
Dublin and Bella* tJunc. 121/i—
Dublin, Belfast. , and
Coleraine .....
Dundalk & Erna iskillen 10
EastemCounties. l4/. 165....... 23% 23
Ditto New ......... 12/ 16s —
Ditto Perpet aa/ , 5 per
Cent, No. 1........ 6/.135. 4d —
Ditto ditto, ;`:;0•. 2... 61. 13s. 4d...
Do., York 117:tet ision.. 2 ...... 33/4
EastDereh'sn an cIIS -or'ch 1
Eastern Union . -
Ditto, Quarter; hares 10
Do. Exten.(Har with) 11
Do., Camb. and'. Ely.. 2% •
East Lancashire .. l4
Ditto. New ........ ..... 5 .. ...
Do., do. (late Pay :ston
and Orrnskirk). .. .. 5 . .....
Do., do., New Slot T... 114
East Lincolnshire .... 114. 4 33/4
East & West of Ei It' and 1%......
Edinburgh and GI ea• ;ow 50 ......
Ditto Half Shar es ... 10
Ditto, Quarter t ;IJ area 12%
Edinburgh &Nort hi hrn.. 12% —
Edinburgh and Pe rt h... 3
Ely and Hinatingd, n i ... 12% ...... .
Enniskillen and Si ig ;o ... 2% —
Exeter, Yeovil, & I ,). orset 2%
Glasgow, Duinfrii :s, and
Carlisle .
Glasgow, Kilmar., & Ayr 50
Ditto New .... ....... 15
Do., 14 Shares (:, per -
cent. guar.) . l2l/2 •
' Goole Doncaster, b .c. .. 2
Great Eastern &IV 'cistern 2% • ........
Great Northern (J -Aondon
and York Reg( 4.) • 2%••
Do. (Direct N trthern
Regd.) ....• ;•-....•• 3/4 —
Great South. am I West.
(Ireland)
Great Munster... —...... 2% ...... ...
Great North of S ottand 2%..„ _.....
...,
Great Northof En 0 and..100
Ditto New ..
Ditto, New . 0.
Ditto, New ..
Great Western B5 —

The Madrid mail had not arrived in Paris on
Thursday.

\\T® have received the Paris papers of Thursday.

The Journal des Debats, in a temperately written
article, replies to the attacks of the Presse, and con-
tinues more strongly than ever its advocacy of the
English alliance, without however abandoning the
smallest portion of the position it has taken up on the
subject of the Spanish marriages. On that subject it

says—
" We are content to calmly maintain the right of
France. But shall we now proceed to increase the irri-
tation which may still exist in England, and change a
quarrel of self-love into a subject of national division ?
No, a thousand times no I Let others assume that odious
task ; we shall rather endeavour to appease men's minds
in England, and to enlighten them. We shall not fear
appealing incessantly to the reason and wisdom of the
English people. We shall seize on all occasions to set
forth the profound motives which command England and
France to remain united- for the advantage of peace and
of humanity ; and we answer that, in doing so, we shall
give proof of true patriotism, true independence, and
true dignity."
The Presse, in an article on the short time ques-
tion, applauds the agitation of Messra. OASTLER and
FERRAND, and expresses a desire that they may suc-
ceed. One of the reasons given by the writer for this
desire is, that by their success England may lose sonic
commercial advantages. " But this consideration,"
adds the Presse with unnecessary candour, " affects us
but little."

The experiments performed by Mr. MONTAGUE
L. PIIILLIPPS on gun-cotton, an account of
which, copied from the Brighton Herald, appears
in another column, are most important. We fear
the authorities have been somewhat too precipitate in
deciding against the adoption of gun-cotton as an
explosive power, inasmuch as Mr. PUILLIPPS'S
experiments go to show that many of the
objections to its use as applicable to fire-arms may be
obviated. One objection was, that in consequence of
its heating the barrel, coupled with its facility of ex-
plosion at a low temperature, its use could not be
continued for any length of time. Mr. PRILLIPPS, how-
ever, has shown that gun-cotton, properly prepared
does not heat the barrel at all, and therefore this ob=jection is exploded as easily as the gun. cotton itself.
Another objection was that the acid adhering to it
would rust the barrel, but, prepared according to
Mr. Pummel's' formula it is entirely deprived
of acid, and, so far from rusting the barrel, a gun
which was for a month used with gun-cotton, was
found at the end of the month quite clean inside. His
discovery that grease or oil deprives the cotton of its
explosive qualities is as valuable as it is curious, and
his proposal for making snuftiess candles is
well worth the attention of the manufacturer.
His proposition for using it as a motive
power is worthy of consideration, and will, we trust.
be submitted to the test of experiment. And here we
would call the public attention to a want
which has long been severely felt, and which,
ias, we are convinced, prevented us from
eriving all those national advantages from chemical
icoveries which, under a better system, we might
ye derived from them. It cannot be expected that

Unpleasant rumours on the subject of the KING'S
health were again circulated in the political salons,
and it was even said that his MAJESTY would be
obliged to receive the complimentary visits of the
Ambassadors, &c., on New I ear's-clay seated.
The Courtier Francais says—
" We are informed that orders have been given for
embarking a quatity of warlike stores, in a corvette,
bound for La Plata. This indicates that the Govern-
ment does not consider the conclusion of a peace so near
at hand as has been said."
The weather continued to increase in severity in
Paris and its neighbourhood. At nine o'clock on
Thursday morr.ing the thermometer (Fahrenheit)
marked 21 deg. ;at five o'clock, 27i. The rise in
the temperature was attributed to the approach of
snow.

The Paris Bourse was again flat on Thursday. It
was stated that for the last three weeks the Bank of
France had been selling Government securities, and
it was repeated that new overtures had been made by
that establishment to the Bank of England to obtain
succour in the shape of bullion.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on
lOiralye aren,s
6Railroad77 f .
50c. S; hares,o ret
12 Thursday at 80f. 40e. ; the Five per Cents., 118 f. 30c.; the
Vierzon, 607 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 565 f.; Boulogne, 442 f. 50c. ;
Paris and Strasburg, 488 L 75c. Paris and Lyons, 510 f. ;
N'osr7t e r5n0,c64;
Lyons and Avignon, 485 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 451 f.
25c. ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 32%. scß;ouAevni,o9oln6f:
827552
;;
LYONS, Dix. 29.—Paris and Rouen, 918 f. 75c.; Avignon
and Marseilles, 888 f. 75c.; Vierzon, 612 f. 50c.; Northern,
652 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 512 f. 50c.; Orleans, 1,270 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 1.
Boulogne and Amiens, 15%—East Indian, %—Luxe-
bourg, I,,—Northern of France Constituted, 13%—Parmis
Constitute=
and Lyons Rouen and Havre, 26X.

.. 237

___
Ditto % Share: L.. ' 50
14
Ditto Sharer r
Ditto Fifths
...
Ditto, New .... .. ....... 2
Huddersfield &M au ches. 13
Ditto, Extensi, m.
Hull and Selby. . ...
Do. Half Sharer,
Ditto 1% Shares
Ipswich & Bury St.. Edm. 14
Do., do., and Inc rr with 5
Lancaster and Cat Ii 310... 50
Do. New
Leeds and Bradfc rc i 3O - ••••• ...... .
Leicester and Be 1.4 3rd... 169.
Leeds, Dewsburi r, &c.... 2214 — .. ...... ...,
"'"133.. Branch ( cl ine) ... 2% — •••
Do.Extensior i( Green) 2%.• ..•
Leeds a* d Thin A.......... 17% — , ,
Ditto, New . ;.., ........ 5
Do., Prefer., 6z er Ct. 3% —
Liverpool, Cr( ,sbj -, and
Southport.... .. ~,,... 2
Liverp., Much; tr.& New
castle Juncti eeL.
Loudon and T.l.lacltl ,all. 161. 135.4 d
D 3. New
/Os ....... ••• •• ...... .......•.. •
Ditto Ex tensicin ~.... 7 % ......
London, Bright()m, and •
South Coast --
Ditto, Fifths . ...... 40 ...... ••
Do. Consol. 'iii tO the.. 10
D. Quaran• i.. 51 er ct. 9

y individual should carry out experiments of this
nature at his owl expense. It is sufficient that he
gi,;es to the nation his ideas, and the nation, v% hick
pr Jilts by teem, should surely be at the expense of
performing the preparatory experiments; but, unfor-
tv, lately, we have no public body in this country aria-
lox los to the Academie des Sciences of our neighbours,
to /v.i. ‘ich scientific individuals can communicate their
i dens with a prospect of having them fairly carried
o ut, 0
,* to which Government can refer for information
as tot 1:le real value of alleged important inventions. An
Ac 12(1e, ntie des Sciences would have years since set at rest
the ve xatce questiones of the long range and the ex-
plosive shell, and would have either convinced Cap-
tain 'W ARNER of his mistake or have rewarded him as
one of the greatest benefactors of his country.
If these experiments upon gun-cotton should lead to
the es; *lament of an Acadamie des Science; in

THE CABINET.—Lord John Russell is expected to
arrive in town this evening from his residence at
Chorley-wood. All the other Cabinet Ministers are
expected to assemble in town in the course of next
week.

FATAL FALL THROUGH INTOXICATION. —On
an elderly female, residing in
last,
returned home to her lodgings
a
late hour, very much intoxicated, arid while
ascending the stairs she Was heard to fall, by some of the
lodgers, on the landing, but no notice was taken of it till
Bear-yard, eh aul-sydaaryd , night
Clare-market, lar e - r
yesterday morning when one of the inmates was going
out to work, who, on opening his room door, discovered
the deceased a liff.less corpse, she having broken her neck
by th 9 fall.

London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d...
P-crerc,-•
Western

i o idon and N. WetternlCo . ..... 196% 197 199
Do. Quarters ..
Do.. d0., New
Di to Fifths
Do. 1A Shares (G. J.) 5
Do 401.Shares(L.M.) 8
Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) A. 5
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 5
Do. 10/. Al & B.) C. 1
London, Oxford, and
Cheltenham
Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 641/2 63%
Do. New Consol. Bths 40
Do. New
Do. New
Ditto Tenths
Ditto Tenths ... ..... 4
Ditto Scrip
Ditto ditto
London and York 214 — ...... •••—•••
Do. Extension
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ......... ........ 21,4......
Londonderry &Coleraine 15 - ~.

Londonderry and Ennis-
killen ... 15
Lynn and Ely 2O
Lynn and Dereham l5
Manchester and Leeds 82 ll2

EDitto IA Shares . ... 38 - ••••• .... .
I 'Do. Quarters l2 ....
Do.:Fifths 5 . . 11% ll%
Do. Sixteenths 6lz
/4
Do. Extension 42s. — p ..... ..........
Do. Liverp. and Bury 24
Do. do. Fifths 1
blan;:hester,Buxton,and
Matlock 423....... VA% p l% p
Manchest. & Southampt._2

Midland - 100 —
Do. Fifths 2
Do. New
Ditto, New
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo
Midland Great Western
Irish l5
Newcastle and Berwick 20
Do. North Shields ... 25
Newcastle and Carlisle-100
Newmrket &Chesterfrel 5
Newport& Abergavenny 24......
Newry and Enniskillen 7
Newry, Warrenpoint,
and Rostrevcr
Norfolk
Ditto Half Shares .. 9.
Do. Extension
Do. Scrip, 1847, North
of Norfolk —

Do. do. NVaveney Val.
Northern Counties Union 2% %

North British
Do. Half Shares ll
Do. Quarters
Do. Extension
Ditto Thirds
Northern and Eastern 5O
Do. Scrip (iced. 5 die.) 50
Do. Quarter Shares... 121,E —
Do. New
North Staffordshire i ......
North Wales
Northern and Southern _

Connecting
North Western 2%

Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton

Oxford, Witiiey, and
Cheltenham..~
Portsmouth Direct ...... 33/4
Preston and Wyre
Do. % Shares
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate 3/. 123. — dis.
Richmond
Royston and Hitchen ... 1% ITB
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland l2lll 1414 .
Sheffield & Manchester 100
Do. Quarter Shares... 8
Do. Lincolnshire Junc. 114 —
Do. & Great Grimsby. 10
Do. do. Extension 425.
Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 ....
Ditto ditto, Class B. 114 —
Shropshire Union
South Devon...
South StatfordshireJunc. 2%
oath Eastern & Dover. 331 A, —
Do., No. 1 . 20
Do., Nc. 2.
Do., No. 3
Dr No. 4 . 2% 3l/

St.Alban's, Hatfield,and •
Hertford Junction ... 425.
Staffordsh. & Shropshire 23/1
South Wales ..... 5
Swans. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stm. Coal. 2

Ai • • •

Taw Yale Extension ... 3
Vale of Neath ..• .. ...... 2
Wakefield, Pontefract. &
Goole ..... 2214 — ... ......... ...
Waterford and Kilkenny 11 . .
Waterford and Limerick 271,
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin
Wexford, \), aterford,and
Valentia
Waveney Valley 2
Welsh Midland
West Riding Union 42s. 214 p
West Cornwall
Wexford and Carlow
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
York and Newcastle. . .. 25
Ditto New

1)o. Preference
York and North Midland 50
Ditto 1,4 5hare5........ 25
Do. Selby
Do. Extensiox.
Ditto, Preference ...... 2
Do. East and Vest Rid-
ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

Anglo-Belgian 4 —
Barbadoes 1
Belgian Eastern Junctn. 21/R
Boulogne and Amiens... 18 ......
Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 —
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 ... ... ..

Do. (Espelete's) ..
2 .... . .....
Calais, Dunkrk, audWest

Flanders
Calcutta and Diamond
Harbour ....... ..... 75.......
Callao, Lima, and Pacific
Coast 1 .. •• • ••• •. .... ....
Central of Spain ...
Ceylon
Demerara
Dendre Valley
Direct Bombay and
Madras
Dutch Rhenish 6
East Indian ss.
Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4
Great Indian Peninsular ss.
Great Western Bengal... ss.
Great Western Canada...
Italian and Austrian. ... 4 ...
Jantaica S.Mid. Junction 1
Jersey
Louvain ala Sambre ... ....
Luxemb0urg............. 4

Lyons and Avignon 2
•
Madras
Madras, Nellore, and
Arcot - ...** ".
Madrid and Valentin.... 2 ~, ~
Mauritius ..
Namur and Liege
Nn of France Constituted 8 .. ... m ....
••••
North Jamaica 1
Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 ...,,,
Orleans and Bordeaux... 6
Over Yssel 4135 4d —
Paris &Ly-ons Constituted 8
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen

Pans and Strasbourg
Constituted
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse
Strasbourg and Bale
St:iiiiciurence & Atlantic
rfurs and Nantes Con-
stituted ........-..... 5
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt....... 8
Trinidad 2l/2
West Flanders ...... .... 6

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JAN. 2. —Wind E.N.E., light airs, and thick,
hazy, mild weather.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. I.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. her Majesty's
ship Daphne, Valparaiso, sailed Aug. 29, Rio Janeiro Oct. 17,
with 1,250,000 dolls. ; her Majesty's ship Athol, Bermuda;
Belle Creole, Muirhead, Demerara. Sld. Carnatie, Madras.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. I.—Wind E., light.—Arrd. Sandbach,
Risicn, Demerara ; Alliance, Tucker, Charleston ; Isaac
Newton, Philadelphia ; Joseph Porter, St. Andrew's, New
Brunswick ; lanthe, Robins, ditto; Margaret, I4PDonald,
Prince Edward's Island; Atlantic, Quebec; Emanuel Burns,
ditto ; Capricorn, Rudd, Montreal. Sid. Patriot Queen,
Roddock, Calcutta ; Swithamley, Jennings, Bombay; Fanny
High, ditto ; Mary M'Dougall, Africa ; La Bells Barberie,
Baxley, ditto; Eliza Johnston, Donaldson, Bahia ; Sir C.
Napier, Huntress. New Orleans ; Thetis, Hall, Charleston ;
Rosalinda, Hay: ditto ; Unicorn, Boyd, Philadelphia ;
Waterloo, Allen, New York ; Runnymede, Steele, New-
foundland. The Pavilion, of and for jersey, from Paspeluac,
was abandoned in lat. 45, lon. 44 ; crew taken off by the
lanthe, arrived here. The Windsor steamer, from Belfast,
has put back with trifling damage, having run foul of the
Wellington, from Quebec, which also received damage. The
Sales barque, leaky, was spoken in lat. 24 by the Queen,
Leary, arrived here. The barque Resource, from Quebec to
London, was abandoned 26th ult. in lat. 48 lon. 13, with six
feet water in her hold; crew taken off by the Georgiana,
arrived here.
DOUGLAS (ISLE OE Max), Dxc. 30.—The Minerva, Far.
quhar, from hence 18th instant, was lost in the gale of the
26th; crew drowned.
Bnini.iscToN, DEC. 31.—The Hand of Providence, Tal-
ley, and the ~Etna, Storey, on shore at Flamborough Head,
have got off and proceeded.
-YARMOUTH, JAN. I.—The brig Elizabeth, of Stockton, is
on shore on the Scroby Sand, but expected off next tide, after
partly discharging.
DARTMOUTH, JAN. I.—Wind E., strong.—Arrd. Clarisse,
Daniel, Bahia for Havre; Highland Chief, Prince Edward's
Island ; John Hutchinson, Rowntree, Quebec.
OXF SALBOMBX, JAN. I.—Wind E.—Republic. New York,
CLYDE, DEc.3l.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Ravenswood, BPKel-
lar, Porto Rico ; Ava, Caird, St, John's, New Brunswick ;
Sylph, Waltham, Montreal. Sid. Constellation, Trinidad.
DEAL, JAK. I.—E. to E.N.E. fresh, P.M.; E.S.E., ditto.—
Sld. Comte de .T!landre, Shotto, Bathurst.; Geemanshoop,
Batavia ; Kingsdown, Nicholson, Leas ; Navarino,
Dalston, Hobert Town; Sea Witch, Baker, Fernando Po;
Alof Wvk, Cooper, Rio Janeiro ; Active, Hutchison, remain-
Wei° ; Prince Charles, Rogers, Belize.
WARRENPOINT.— Arrd. 31 Jvha 13 tip:am), Thorne, St.
jpbu'OlNcr 13xamyficli.