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reflect that decisive protests against this heinous
spoliation have been forwarded to Vienna by the
Cabinets of St. James's and the Tuileries. The pro-
test of Lord PALMERSTON, couched in those terms of
emphatic indignation which are the more impressive,
from their calmness and moderation, has been followed
by the protest of M. GUIZOT. This remarkable do-
cument, which is dated the 3d of December, has only
just lbeen revealed in the Parisian newspapers; and,
if we may estimate its character correctly from the
lucubrations of those whose position appears to be
some guarantee for the accuracy of their observations,
it would appear that the protest could not by
possibility have been in language more reso-
lute and authoritative. It were frivolous to
enter minutely into the examination of these singular
communications from England and France to the
Government of the Emperor FERDINAND ; it were
frivolous so to scrutinise their bearing before we have
weighed the chances of their causing any retractation
on the part of that imperial offender; and, having
weighed those chances, the case assumes so discou-
raging an aspect, that we are fain to tarry upon the
threshold of the investigation.
Has Poland a hope of revenging her wrongs ?—those
prodigious wrongs inflicted upon her by perfidy, by cow -
ardice, by the swords of the imperial robbers and the
duplicity of political parasites. Has Poland a
chance of emerging from her tomb, of reclaiming her
lost existence, of re-assuming her place among
the kingdoms of the civilised world ? We
should rejoice in that sublime resurrection.
It would be a day of solemn jubilation to the free
nations of the globe. The hearts of the lovers of
patriotism would gladden over the sorrowful memory
of KOSCIUSKO. But is there a possibility of effecting
any change of this miraculous description without
entering upon a campaign of unparalleled bloodshed
and of incalculable duration ? Are the despots of
Russia, Prussia, and Austria to be frightened into a
compromise, or flattered into a concession ? The
days of warfare are becoming less frequent with the
advancenient of knowledge. A battle is becoming an
abhorrence to those who have been nurtured under
the shadow of philanthropy. The multitude are
becoming. more averse to the policy by which
international affairs have been hitherto controlled.
They perceive that the settlement of an international
dispute by brute force, by pitting bands of soldiers
against each other, by encouraging rapine and pro-
moting slaughter—they perceive that this mode of
arriving at a decision is somewhat similar to the
odious trial of criminals by ordeal. From the prevalence
of these sentiments the probability of an European
war is wonderfully diminished. Nevertheless, the most
fastidious opponent of physical force, the most effe-
minate philanthropist, the most resolute opponent of
the species of heroics recorded by PLUTARCH, would
be chary of maintaining the principles of peace beyond
a certain limit. The systematic perpetration of crime
by an individual, or a nation, would unquestionably
justify even these sticklers for peace in striving,
whether by moral or physical force, for the preven-
tion of such criminal or criminals. Self-preservation
does not more thoroughly warrant a man in attacking
his assailant than it does a nation, in the event of any
violation of their rights or invasion of their territories.
There are other circumstances, indisputably, which
would authorise a people to engage in war, but
the foregoing are the most important and the most
prevalent.

be wore the testimonial of honourable distinction ac-
corded to him by his grateful country, for distin-
guished services on the sanguinary fields of Meeanee
and Hyderabad. His entire appearance and de-
meanour, and that of his distressed and helpless family,
appealed with a mute and touching eloquence to the
sympathies and commiseration of the bystanders, and
some trifling alms were bestowed, which at once at-
tracted the attention of a police-constable, who took
him into custody for an alleged breach of the law.
In his justification for the heinous offence of exciting
the public commiseration by his appearance, he made
a plain and unvarnished statement, that should have
procured his immediate liberation, with such assist-
ance as the state of the court poor-box admitted of.
He said, '" that he had served through the major part
of the campaign in Sinde under Sir C. NAPIER ; that
he was present at the battles of Meeanee and Hydera-
bad, in which he had received several gun-shot
wounds, which disabled him from further ser-
vice, and he was consequently discharged."
He had made application for a pension for his
wounds, but the only recompense he had
been able to obtain was a gratuity amounting to a
year and a half's pay, and as that " had been long
since expended in the support of his wife and child,
and as he was nearly crippled, and had no other
means of subsistence, he had been obliged to resort
to the course complained of, to save himself and
family from starvation." He then handed in the cer-
tificate of his discharge, formally signed by the
commanding officer of his regiment, and other docu-
ments corroborative of the truth of his statement. Mr.
BINGIIAM, although sympathising with his unfortu-
nate position, ordered him to be remanded, to enable
the officer to make inquiries as to the truth of his
story in the proper quarter.

By the same Author.

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed a rie;TOPera: entitled THE BONDMAN.
Marquis de Vernon, Mr. Weiss ; Floreville, Mr. Rafter ; Morliere,
Mr. Horncastle ; La Valliere, Mr. Galli ; Ardenford, Mr. Ilarriion ;
Mal-a-l'ropos, Mr. Harley ; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer ; Grisette,
Miss Rebecca Isaacs ; Frivole, Mrs. Hughes.

After the Opera, will be presented a new grand Ballet, called
THE WAGS OF WAITING (performed at the Academie Royale'
Paris, under the title of " Betty.") In which will appear Mdlles.
Sophie Fuoce, Louise, Benart, Madame Glubilei ; MM. Huguet,
Adrien, Petit, Tell; Messrs. Howell, Priorson, Sec.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAY3fARKET.
Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed an original Comedy, entitled LOOK BEFORE
YOU LEAP ; or, Wooings and Weddings. Mr. Oddington, Mr. W.
Farren ; Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. Hudson ; Mr. De ti ere, Mr. Holl ;
Mr. Brandon, ir. Howe ; Mr. Hardman, Mr. Rogers ; Jack Spriggs,
Mr. Webster ; Tom Tilley, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Brown, Mrs.
Glover ; Claribel Oddington, Miss Fortescue ; Mary Oddington, Miss
I'. Horton ; Elinor Mortimer, Mrs. Yaraold ; Fanny Hardman,
Miss Julia Bennett.

After which a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord
Courtington, Mr. Holl ; Sir Arthur Lovel, Mr. Howe; S.oraup,
Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham; Mrs. Scsreup,
Miss Julia Bennett.

During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, " Pre
aux Clercs," " Clementinen" (3fazourka); ‘4 Camelllon" (Galop) ;
the " Esterhazy" (Walzer); and a. New Overture.

To conclude with the Farce of HIS LAST LEGS. Characters
by Mesta's. Hudson, Holl, Tilbury, Mrs. Clifford, &c.
Box-otlice open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of
\lr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper.

On the following day the wife of the disabled
soldier entered the court with her infant in her arms,
and in great mental distress applied for assistance.
She stated that the scanty and precarious support on
which the family had depended had wholy failed
since her husband's incarceration, that she was now
reduced to the utmost extremity, and had not tasted
food since the day before. She had no means of pr9t
curing even the most miserable shelter; and her help-
less condition was aggravated by her wretched state
of health, three weeks only having elapsed since her
confinement of the child she carried. She obtained
some slight temporary assistance to support her until
her claim was admitted by the relieving officer of the
parish where she had last slept, to whom she was
directed to apply.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE,
THIS EVENING

Will be performed a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet
of LA GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the
Wilis Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford.
Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor,
Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws.
After which the original Domestic Drama, called TIIE WRECK
ASHORE ; or, The Bridegroom of the Sea. Marmaduke Magog,
Mr. Wright ; Alice, Mrs. Yates.
To conclude with a Bozzian Sketch, in one act, called MRS.
GAMP'S TEA AND TURN-OUT. PrincirTal characters by Messrs.
Cullenford, Worrell, Ryan, Wright, Mtuayard ; Miss M. Taylor,
and Miss Ellen Chaplin.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed an original romantic Opera, in three parts,
entitled THE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story of
" Giselle." The principal characters personified by Miss Geerglana
Smithson, Miss Rourke, Miss Sara Flower, Miss Somers, Misses
Marshall ; Messrs. Leffler, Allen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, Ilonner,
Peren, &c.
After which an entirely new Comic Drama, entitled THE TWO
RAINBOWS.
In the course of the Evening the Band will perform " The Perlen
Waltzes."
To conclude with Goldsmith's Comedy of SHE STOOPS TO
CONQUER. Sir Charles Marlow, Mr.: Wynn ; Young Marlow, Mr.
Vining; Hardcastle, Mr. Granby ; Tony Lumpkln, Mr. Compton ;
Hastings, Mr. Roxby ; Diggory, Mr. Cowell ; Miss Hardcastle, Mrs.
Stirling ; Miss Neville, Mrs. Hughes ; Mrs. Hardcastle, Mrs. Fosbroke

On subsequent investigation the story turned out
to be perfectly correct, save that the poor fellow had
overrated the bounty he had received, which was not
a year and a half's pay, as erroneously stated, but
sixpence a day for a year and a half-131. 135., paid by
instalments ; and this was the recompense for a dis-
abled arm, a broken constitution, and being rendered
incapable to gain his bread, which poor COTTON re-
ceived for his services from his grateful country. He
was discharged with an admonition not to be again
guilty of exciting the public sympathies.
And this, Englishmen, is the condition of one who
has fought and conquered on our behalf, who has risked
his life under a tropical sun, in an unhealthy climate,
against a ferocious enemy. lie is dismissed in ill health
and helplessness, with a medal, for his reward, but
coupled therewith is a gaol—the association with cri-
minals of every class and character for himself, the
tender mercies of a union workhouse for his wife and
child. Shame, shame that such things should be
suffered, that their continuance should be tolerated.
By the system adopted we take the best years of a
man's existence, and when he is totally unfitted for
any other species of employment, disabled by wounds,
or with an enfeebled and broken constitution, we dis-
charge him to linger out the residue of his wretched
existence in misery and want. There will, there
must be a speedy and effectual alteration. It is not
by such means, or for such rewards, that we can hope
to obtain a better class of recruits for our army.

FRENCII PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell.
On MONDAY EVENING
Will be performed the favourite Comedy of LE CODE DES
FEMMES. Paul Fauvel, M. Rhozevil ; Mignonet, M. Tourillon ;
Rotnain, M. Pagenier ; Louchon, M. Priston; Emma, Mdlle.Angele ;
Femme de Chambre, Mdlle. Leyder.
To be followed by the first Act of Moliere's celebrated Comedy of
LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME. M. Jourdain, M. Perlet ;
Nicole, Mdlle. Brohan.
After which a new Comedy, entitled LES TROIS CRISPINS
on, La Famille Poisson. Raymond Poisson, M. Perlet ; Marianne
Mdlle. 13rohan.
To conclude with the popular Vaudeville of UN MONSIEUR ET
UNE DAME. Un Monsieur, M. Dumery ; Une Dame, Mdlle.
Brohan ; Une Aubergiste, Madame Dumery.
Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at
naif-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight.

Does the condition of what was once Poland, does
the falsity of our recent allies of Russia, Prussia, and
Austria, does the occupation of Cracow, and
the violation of the treaty of Vienna—does
any one of these considerations, or do they all com•
bined, warrant the constitutional monarchies of
Western Europe in protesting against the late proceed-
ings with a strong arm as well as with a bold tongue ?
Without mincing the matter, that is the ultimate
question to be decided. The egotism of power in
the Northern Courts renders it extremely improbable
that any satisfactory arrangement will be effected by
diplomatic means. The matter will remain in abey-
ance longer than is expected.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of RICHARD THE
THIRD. Duke of Gloucester, Mr. J. R. Scott ; Earl of Richmond,
Mr. E. F. Saville; King Henry, Mr. Heslop ; Duke of Buckingham,
Mr. Fredericks ; Tressel, Mr. Johnson ; Queen, Miss Richardson ;
Lady Anne, Mrs. Saville.
After which a grand Military Ballet of Action, entitled LE REVE
DU SOLDAT. The characters supported by Mdlle. Theodore and
the Deulin Family.
To conclude with the New Drama, called PASSION'S SLAVE ;
or, The Outcast Son. Supported by the principal talent of the
Company.

ASTLEY'A ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
i'atronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, ranee
Albert and Royal Family.
Notwithstanding the present concentration of novelties, and the ex-
pensive engagements entered into with the most eminent British
and Foreign Artistes for the Christmas Holidays, Mr. BATTY has
purchased the whole of Mr. White's trained Lions, Tigers, Leo-
pards, &c. Likewise in preparation, a splendid Comic FAIRY
PANTOMIME, with other Gymnastic and Equestrian novelties.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en-
titled THE DEMON HORSE ' • or, The Twelve Wishes and the
Charmed Bit. In which Mrs. Batty and the Equestrian Ladies will
appear on their trained steeds.
New and entire change in the SCENES of the CIRCLE.
To conclude with the grand Military Spectacle of THE BATTLE
OF WATERLOO. Napoleon, Mr. Gomersal.
itos-tyllice open Iron; eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six
an ! c ,rnmence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W.
Broadfoot.

Madrid papers of the 4th have arrived. At that
date the ISTURITZ Ministry was still in existence, but
the differences among its members had proceeded to
such an extent that it was not considered possible
the Cabinet could hold together.
MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 4.—The Three per Cents.
34 3-16 ; Fives, 21*. Exchange on London, 361.

The favourite argument of those who have hitherto
opposed themselves to the abolition of flogging in the
army, who have advocated the necessity of a con-
tinuance of punishments of an infamous and de-
grading character, and asserted the impossibility cf
maintaining discipline and preserving the efficiency of
our military service by any other means, has been,
that the British soldier is of an inferior class, and
less respectable in his character and conduct than his
fellow-subjects ; that he cannot be acted on by the
same motives and inducements that influence other
men ; and that he must therefore be subjected to the
operation of a code of extraordinary stringency and
severity, and must be deprived of the rights and
privileges to which he would otherwise be entitled.
The same persons will loudly eulogise the justice,
honour, and liberality of the nation ; they will main-
tain that the untutored and helpless savage may fear-
lessly deal with any parties representing our Govern-
ment; that no advantage would be taken of his
ignorance ; that a full and fair equivalent would be
rendered to him for any services he may perform ;
and that he may repose the most unlimited trust and
confidence in British integrity, and have no fear of being
cheated or overreached in any bargain into which he
may enter. And such, as Englishmen, we are proud
and happy to say has been ;the character long since
obtained, and invariably maintained, by our country.
man with the people of other climes, nations, and
languages. Would that we could claim credit for
acting in a like spirit towards our own countrymen,
whose services are required by State necessity, who
have freely shed their blood, and perilled their lives,
in our behalf; who have suffered hardships, braved
the vicissitudes of every clime, exposed themselves to
the dangers of disease and warfare, and in every
place, and under every difficulty, have maintained
the honour of the British flag untarnished, and raised
the interests of their country. To such men some-
thing more is due than the mere payment of the
stipulated wages during the term for which they have
served. Were the contract into which they have
entered one for a short and limited period, there
would be some appearance of justice—some scintilla
juris, although there would be little of generosity
or liberality in discharging them at the termination
of their term. But when we enlist them for life—
when, as the Irish soldiers express it, we induce
them to " sell their wind," it is gross
injustice to turn them, destitute and unprovided for,
upon the world without the means of obtaining their
daily bread, more particularly when they are ren-
dered unable to earn their livelihood by reason of
injuries sustained while performing the duties of
their station. We believe that there is not a single
member of our Legislature who would suffer any
man, who had for a series of years been in his employ-
ment, who had acted faithfully and efficiently
therein, and finally been disabled and rendered unfit
for any future useful occupation, from an accident
that happened while discharging the duties incidental
to his situation, to beg his bread from door to door,
or to see his family perishing before him for want of
the commonest necessaries of life. The case of such
a man would act as a living monument of the shame
of his ungenerous and heartless master. And yet we
daily see instances of that which each individual
would blush to be guilty of, perpetrated by the nation
at large.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The most interesting article in them is the follow-
ng from the Presse, on the subject of the opening
he trade to Japan :
" The voyage of Rear-Admiral Ceeille to Japan, and
he reception which the French squadron there met
is-, in part, explained by a very remarkable fact, of
which we had heard before the arrival of the last mail
from the Red Sea, but which appeared to us to need con-
firmation. It is now averred that a short time before
the conclusion of the peace between England and China,
in 1843, the King of the Netherlands addressed to the
Emperor of Japan a friendly letter, having for object
the abolition, in that distant kingdom, of the exclusive
system practised for the last three centuries with respect
to foreigners. His Majesty enumerated with much de-
tail the events which have forced the Chinese empire to
multiply in spite of itself its points of contact with all the
nations of the world ; and inferred from this new state of
things that, as Japan, from the vicinity of Hong-Kong and
Chusan, could not escape a similar fate, it would be pru-
dent to anticipate a crisis by means of concessions which
would satisfy Europeans and prevent all unfriendly col-
lision with them. As a natural consequeace of this
prudent course, the King of the Netherlands en„e•aged,his
cousin, the Emperor of Japan, to extend to all foreign
Rags the faculty, hitherto enjoyed by the Dutch exclu-
sively, of trading with Nangasaki, and further to open
on the same general footing two or three other ports
either the great island of Niphon, or an island of gesso'
The letter was sent in the original to M. Beck, the chief
of the Dutch factory at Nangasaki, who succeeded, after
some difficulties of form, in having it conveyed to
Jeddo, the seat of the Court. It is very rare for the
communications of the Dutch to be placed under the
eyes of the Emperor ; they are regarded as too unim-
portant for the leisure of so great a potentate ; on this
occasion, however, the question appeared to be of too
grave a nature for the Misters to take upon them-
selves the responsibility of a solution, and M. Beck ob-
tained the certitude that the letter of his Sovereign had
reached the Japanese monarch. Two years passed
without any reply being given. It had been remarked,
that on several points of the coast the most open to a
landing more activity than formerly was displayed in
the works of fortification ; but this was generally
attri-
buted to a belief of the Japanese that several English
vessels, which had been driven into these latitudes by
storms, were come to invade the country. At length„.
however, the Emperor of Japan has sent to the King of
the Netherlands a reply, of which the following is the
substance:—' I have watched with attention the events
which have brought about a fundamental change in the
policy of the Chinese empire, and these very events,
upon which you base the advice which you give to me,
are for me the most evident proof that a kingdom can
never enjoy a durable peace without the rigorous exclu-
sion of all foreigners. If China had never permitted the
English to establish themselves on a large scale at Canton
and to take root there, either the quarrels which caused
the war would not have taken place, or the English would
have found themselves so weak that they would have at
once sunk in the conflict. But from the moment when
China allowed herself to be touched on one point she
rendered herself vulnerable on others. This was the
reasoning of my great ancestor when he granted you the
faculty of trading with Japan, and, but for the proofs of
friendship which you had frequently given to our coun-
try, it is certain that you would have been excluded, as
all the nations of the west have been. Now that you
are in possession of this privilege, I am willing that you
should continue to enjoy it ; but I will take care not to
extend it to any other nation, for it is easier to maintain
a dyke in good preservation than to prevent the enlarge-
ment of the breaches which are permitted in it. I have
given orders to my officers:in consequence, and the future
will prove to you that our policy is wiser than that of the
Chinese empire."
We do not place implicit reliance on this statement
of the Presse, which, be it remembered, is the organ
of the Russian autocrat, who is closely connected by
intermarriages with the King of HOLLAND. Holland
has always been jealous of any attempts at interfering
with her monopoly of the Japan trade, and we doubt
much whether the representations were made to the
Japariese Government in the manner stated. It is
no reason, because the French and Dutch have failed,
that the English should not succeed, and we hope
that no time will be lost in sending a proper Embassy
to Jeddo.

The proceedings at Worship-street Police-court, on
Monday and Tuesday last, demand the serious consi-
deration of the public generally. The causes that
have led to results so unhappy to indivi-
duals, and disgraceful to the nation, should be
closely investigated, and the voice of public opinion
should loudly proclaim that a total change must be
effected in the system ; that there should be a radical
and searching reform, and that measures should be
introduced by which the possibility of any of our gal-
lant defenders, who have faithfully served us in the
hour of danger, being driven to mendicancy for the
means of preserving a precarious existence, should-be
obviated. On the first of these days, WILLIAm
COTTON, described as a well made, sunburnt man,
dressed in the Euniform of the 22d Infantry, was
placed at the bar on a charge of medicancy. The
unfortunate soldier had put forward no petition, had
uttered no word of supplication, had implored no
charity, but merely stood with his wife and children,
all of whom presented the most deplorable appear-
ance. The sleeve of his coat was ripped up, exhibiting
a disabled arm, which bore the marks of many
wounds. On his cheek was the cicatrix occa-
sioned by a severe sabre cut, and on his breast

The affair of the French Consul in the Mauri-
tius is the subject of comment in most of these papers.
tThe Nationca says, after quoting the account
which we gave yesterday—
" Such are the facts as they aro reported. Hitherto
the offence appears ,crvidG ntly to have been given by an
English agent to a repret tentative of France, and yet
England has been the fir, st to complain; for we are
dssured that M. Guizot ha s received from London a
ispatch, couched in vow,/ Sts ong terms, demanding the
recal of M. Barbet de Jo- tiy, A .nd threatening, in case of
delay, to withdraw his es e ltur, which is saying, in
fact, that he shall be turn: don tof this land. It is thus
shown that Lord Palinp-.9 ton ecgerly seizes all a
dower i^ ,di. But this
oppor-
tunities, good or ' ":„ excite misunderstanding and
create a quarr-' "-• rime neither a marriage nor
-ah he spends his ill-
hum,- ~in question, and, thoi.,, '-iced that he will
,Air upon another affair, ho is emu..

THE SUN, _LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1846

find M. Guizot as yielding and accommodating as he
was haughty, stiff, and tenacious in the matter of
30,000,000 f."

The Quotidienne which, like all the Legitimatist
organs, is of course but too happy to have an oppor-
tunity of finding fault with English officials, corn -
ments upon this occurrence in the same strain, and
lauds the French Consul to the skies. In remarking
on the demand of Lord PALMERSTON for the recal of
M. BARBET DE Jour, the Quotidienne says—
" The answer to this imperious demand would he easy
for other men. Has not England a consul at Algiers
without any regular exequatur, and whose residence
there has been for sixteen years a living protest against
the glorious conquest of the Restoration, an insult sub-
mitted to with marvellous patience ? But it is mu.;ll
more in conformity with the temperament of the systeme
to recal M. Barbet de Jouy. His name will be inscribed
on the long and honourable list of the disavowed, which
was opened with the name of Admiral Dupotit Thouars."
The Debuts has a long article on the affairs of
America, in the course of which it rejoices at the fall
of Mr. rola, which it anticipates cannot be much
longer delayed. It speaks, indeed, of his defeat as of
un fait accompli, and adds :

" Mr. Polk has been beaten because he deserved to be
so, for entering upon. an unjust war, perilous not only
for the honour of the American arms, but for the very
institutions of his country, and for carrying on this im-
politic war with great rashness and great want of finan-
cial foresight."

Almost all the journals comment on the wording of
M. GUIZOT'S protest against the annexation of
Cracow, which we gave yesterday from the Prcsse.
The Opposition papers all consider it as a very tame
affair, utterly deficient in that energy which it wa s
said it would exhibit, and concerning which the
organs of the Ministry have recently made such a
flourish.

It was rumoured on the Bourse on Thursday that
the Spanish Ministry had resigned.
COURS AUTRENTIQUE.—PARIS, DEC.lo.—French Five per
Cents., 118 f. sc. 10c. ; Four per Cents., 105 f. 60c. Three per
Cents., 80f. 80c. 85c. 80c. 85c. 90c. 85c. ; Bank Actions,
3,195 f. ; Rents de Naples (Rothschild's), 102 f. 50c. ; Romans,
100; Belgian Five Per Cents. (1840), 100 k ; Five per
Cents. (1842), 101; Spanish, 33. Exchange on London—
one month, money, 25f. 45c. ; three months, money, 25f. 30c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 11.
Anglo-Belgian, 3—Dutch Rhenish, 4N—East Indian, %
—Jamaica South Midland Junction, lilt—Luxembourg, 3/4
—Orleans and Bordeaux, B—Paris and Lyons Constituted,
s—Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 4—Sambre and Aleuse,
41—Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hasselt, 6%—West
Flanders, .

500/.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUA/?TER TO TH'.EF:.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 22,000
bales. Surat and American were both taken on
speculation at advanced rates. Shares were somewhat
firmer.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool this week have
amounted to 121,000 lbs.
The Great Western steamer is still due.
The sale of railway shares, yesterday, at Messrs. La-
mond and Co.'s, went off much better, and firmer. East
Indians had improved ; and more buyers being present,
a good business was done at fair prices. The following
are a few of the principal sales :
Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush £o 5 6
Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire, Nevr 0 16 6
Taw Vale Extension and Dock
Vale of Neath 1 9 0
Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certficate 0 10 6
Shropshire Union and Canal
Churnet and Blythe
East and West India Docks and London
and Birmingham Junction
Eastern Counties, York Extension 3 11 0
Paris and Lyons
•••
Great Western of Bengal 0 5 0
East Indian
Liverp. Manch. and Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2 5 0
Northern Counties Union .... ........ 1 2 0
Newport and Abergaveuny
The Bank of England Directors have diminished the
issues of notes to some extent again this week, and
within a fortnight the circulation has been circum-
scribed to the extent of about 350,000/, although the
bullion has increased nearly 80,0001. Is this prepara •
tory to making money scarcer, and raising the terms for
accommodation in Threadneedle street? The features
in the return from the 28th ult. to the sth inst. are
briefly these:—
Notes ssued • £28,269,105
Decrease 44,440
Rest decrease 47,764
Other Deposits increase
Public Deposits increase
Seven Day and other Bills increase 3,128
Other Securities increase 290,390
Notes increase ... 76,555
Bullion T 15,002,873
5,259

Decrease .

The transfer books being now closed, there is but little
scope for business in the English securities, and the
ma:ket is dull. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. are 96 to ; and the Three per Cents. 94k.
Bank Stock is worth 2061 207 ; and India Stock 258.
Exchequer-bills have been I Is. to 14s. premium, being
well supported.
The Foreign Bonds have been quite neglected.
Mexican are at 23i for the Actives, and the Small
Bond) have been marked 24. Spanish Stock is nominal,
and Portuguese is called only 361 to 37fr, at which rates,
however, there have been no bargains. Brazil Bonds
are 87.
Shares are steady this morning, but with limited sales
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 2061/2 207
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9414
New 314 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Jan. sth, Expire 1860 9%
Do. 30 Tears, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 9 11-16
India Stock 258
India Bonds 1,0001 22
Ditto under 1.000/
Consols for Opening 933/476
Exchequer Bills. 110.
1,000/.

11 14 - - pm.

Ditto Small
I-RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent B7
Cuba, 6 per Cent
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account 235A%
Ditto Sm'all
Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent llll/4
Ditto for the Account
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 —
Ditto for the Account 26 IA
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21/s per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Aberdeen

Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% 25g—... to
Armagh, Coleraine, &Portrush 1% —
Belfast and County Down .. 43/4 .. ..
Birmingham and Dudley ..... 425. ... .
Birmingham and Gloucester..loo ......128
Do. New (iss. at 7% dis.).. 17% —
Birmingham & Oxford June... 2
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction 23/4 — ..... to
Boston, Stamf , & Birming... 225.
Bristol and Exeter
Do~ New
Bristol and Gloucester

Bristol and Liverpool June... 2%
Buckinghamshire..
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares
Cambrian and Grand Junct.. 425.
Chester and Holyhead 27%.....
Churnet and Blythe..
Chester and Manchester 42s.
Cheltenham and Oxford
Clarence. . 100
Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10 . ... to
Do„ 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10
Do., Goy. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10
Clydesdale Junction
Cork, Blackrock, & Passages 225.
Cork and Killarney 2l/2.— to
Cork and Waterford l% —
Cornwall
Ditto, Half Shares
Direct Lincoln, East Retford,
and Sheffield Junction...... 25,6 —
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich 1
Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 12%
Dublin, Belfast, & Coleraine 2% — ...... to
ablin and Galway ...
Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 10 ...... .
Eastern Counties 141. 16s 22%.... . to
Do. New l2l. 16s —
Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,61. 13s. 4d... . .
1)o., do N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d...
Do., York Extension 2
East Dereham and Norwich 1
Eastern Union 35
Ditto, Quarter Shares
Do. Extension to Harwich 1,
Do. Cambridge and Ely ... 2% —
East Lancashire
Ditto. New .
Do. (late Preston & Omsk.) 5 ... .. 9% to -
Do., do., New Scrip -
East Lincolnshire ... 114 l% to 2
East and West of England... 1% — to
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto, Half Shares

Ditto, Quarter Shares
Edinburgh and Northern ... 121/2...•.•
Edinburgh and Perth
Ely and Huntingdon
Enniskillen and Sligo 2l
Exeter Yeovil, & Dorchester 514 —
Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle.. 5
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50
Ditto, New

Do. IA Shares (5 per ct. gua.) 12% — .. ... to
Goole, Doncaster, Sheffid., &c. 2
Grand Union (Nott. & Lynn) 1/ — ••• .. to —/
Great Eastern and Western... 2% — —•••• to
Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 27% 29 to
Great Munster 2% — ...... to
Great North o Scotland 2%......
Great North of England 100 ... • -
Ditto, New
Ditto, New
Ditto, New 1%•••••• .. ••• to
Great Western
Ditto, Half Shares .........••• 50 ...... to
Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 10
Ditto, Fifths .................. 20
.
..... . to
Do. New ...................
..
. ..
to
Huddersfield and Manchester 13 ,„ _
...... to
Dittc, Extension ..........• 3
Hull and Selby .................. 50
.. .. to •
-
Ditto, Quarter Shares l2q ......
___
Ditto, Half Shares
.... 53% ..... to
Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 11%....„ •
Do, do. and Norwich
...... 2A//' to
Lancaster and Car1i51e....... 50
...... 2•••
Do. New 5 • ...... to
••__ -

... -- ...... to
Leeds and Bradford 3O ..... 75!4 ...... to
Lei ester and Bedford 22s.
_.
Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manches. 221/ ......
Ditto, Branch (Blue) ... 21
Ditto, Extension (Green).... ... ..

~.
Leeds and Thirsk ...... . ....... 2% ...... to
17% l5l
Ditto, New ..... .. .. ....... .. 5 . .... •• ••• to
Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent . ....
Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction. ...... . 2% —
London & Blackwall...l6l. 13s. 4d
Do. New.......
.
Do. Extension
.... ........ 7% —
Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50
Do. Consolidated Fifths.. 40

Do. Consolidated Eighths... 10 ...... --
Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 '•• to
......
London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d...
Ditto Preference lBl 17s 2d...
London, Hounslow,&Westem 2 . ....
London and North Western..loo ......193
Do. Quarter Shares
Do. do. NeW ...... .... ...... 2
Do. do. Fifths
Do. Quarters
Do. 401. Shares.....L. &M. 8
Do. 40/. Shares... M. and B. 40 ......
Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 5 . .... 12% to
Do. 10/. .. M. and B. ( B.) 5
Do. 10/.... M. and B. (C.) 1
London, Oxford, and Cheltm. . .....
London and S. Western.... 41/. 63 10d 63
Do. New consolidatedBths.. 40
Ditto New .... .. 2214.. ..
Do. New lB
Ditto Tenths 5 ...... 5% to
Ditto Tenths
Ditto Scrip 5 ...... 5%1A% to
Ditto ditto
London and Y0rk............... 21% 2% to
Ditto Extension
London and Windsor
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 21/2 —
Londonderry and Coleraine... 15
Londonderry and Enniskillen 15
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham
Manchester and Leeds B2 .. ...
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Quarters
Ditto Fifths
Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 614.... 7i to
Do. Extension
Do. Liverpool and Bury... 24 ...... . to
Do., d0., Fifths
Manch. Buxton, & Matlock 425.
Manchester and Southampton 2
Midland 100 1264...... to 126
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New .................... 24
D4%1%11117. ......... ........ 2