The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-24 00:00:00

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for that negligence in suffering a measure of such
importance to pass almost sub silentio, and without
any strenuous or decided opposition, they were most
decidedly in fault, and we do not desire to shelter
them from the censure they merit therefor ; but it
is unjust to cast it altogether upon their shoulders,
when it was the act of the Tory Administration, they
being the oca*pants of the Opposition benches. In
fact, a general hallucination en the subject prevailed
in the Legislature, and the remonstrances of practical
men, of the merchants and bankers, who so strenuously
protested against the measure, and so clearly
pointed out its probable, we might almost
say inevitable consequences, were alike disregarded
by all parties in Parliament.
The operation of that law, and of the subsequent
Act of 1844, its complement and corollary, which in-
troduced stringent regulations, for the purpose of
more stringently carrying out its provisions, is amply
sufficient to account for the calamities we have en-
dured—the extraordinary phenomena we have wit-
nessed. The bullionists may endeavour to turn our
attention from the real origin of our sufferings, to
ascribe those sufferings to the Irish famine—railway
expenditure--overtrading—or, in fact, to anything
that would not involve the condemnation of their
favourite system, but the people cannot now be hood-
winked, and the currency doctors will not any longer
be suffered to fritter away the prosperity
of the nation. with their theories. Let us look to
some of these results, as recapitulated by our Con-
temporary. We find that the minimum interest of
money at the Bank of England had been raised to
eight per cent., a rate higher than any that had been
known in England for a century and a quarter pre-
viously. We have seen the income of the country
insufficient to meet its expenditure, and a rapidly
decreasing revenue at the end of thirty-two years of
peace. There has also been a general stoppage of the
works on the railways in progress of construction
throughout the kingdom, and three hundred
thousand navigators suddenly thrown out of
employment, and, with their families, consisting
probably of at least a million of human beings,
deprived of food and reduced to a state of destitution ;
and not only the navigators, but also the individuals
employed in the various other branches of industry that
are connected with railways ; the stoppage of the one
description of work necessarily involves that of the

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Immediately, in 2 Tols., with Portrait, 21e. bound,
REMINISCENCES OF
FRINGE TALLEYRAND,
With
LXTRACTS FROM lIIS POETICAL WRITINGS.
"teary Coltrarn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

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is to every Englishman, especially when the belli-
gerents evince more than ordinary " pluck," and an
almost unprecedented amount of smartness, we are
perfectly satisfied that every generous heart in the
United Kingdom will lament that such hostilities have
arisen at this most inopportune moment between men
likeArehbishop 'WHALE and the Earl of Sultawsousr.
9n every account their simnel, their retorts, and their
Libmman acerbity have to be deplored. They have to
be deplored, because the munificent owner oom f Alton
Towers is about the very last person whany
or ecclesiastic, can
Roman Catholic, whether layman
assail with decency. -His devotion to the Church
which he believes in his heart to be the true one, his
signal generosity to its ministers, and his readiness to
co-operate in all those benevolent exertions which
have recently been made in England for the
purpose of ameliorating the condition of his
wretched co-religionists in Ireland, should have
protected him under all circumstances from the inso-
lence of a Roman Catholic, no matter if the shoulders
of that Roman Catholic were covered with the rags of
a mendicant or with the emblazoned cope of an arch-
bishop. Beyond this, the present misunderstanding
should fill every bosom with peculiar emotions of
grief, because it cannot but tend to confirm those
prejudices against the English Government and the
English people which have been so long promulgated
and so sedulously engendered in the sister island
by the lips of fanatical demagogues and the
ravings of political incendiaries. To the Irish
peasantry the epistolary war between St. Jarlath's
and Alton Towers will appear as the representation
of the sentiments, the jealousies, and the antipathies
rife in the islands separated by the waters of St.
George's Channel. The ignorant will see in the
missive of the Earl a symbol of that rancorous
loathing, and of that intolerable exercise of authority,
been taught to regard as the animus
which they have
and the practice of the British Legislature. They
will recognise, on the other hand, in the response
of the Archbishop that patriotic zeal, that
indignant civism, and that unyielding pugnacity of
opposition which they are told to regard as the only
line of conduct worthy of them as the descendants of
many Celtic generations. On every account, we
repeat it, these recriminations between Dr. APIIILs
and the Earl of SHREWSBURY are perused by our-
selves with profound sorrow.
Errors—as in most quarrels—there are unquestion-
ably on both sides. The Noble Earl was manifestly
to blame in writing with such empha,is against Fa-
ther A.l'Deassorr, and others of the Irish priesthood,
for making denunciations from the altar steps, and
against Dr. 'WHALE himself, and th
I other membnoters
of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in relaad, for
visiting those subordinate ministers with severe chas-
tisements of an ecclesiastical character—when the
guilt of the priests was unproven and the culpability
of the bishops, of course on that account, indisputably
dubious. Lord SmaEwsnuar was precipitate in writing
so churlishly upon the strength of a rumour. If, how-
ever,Lord SuREWSSUAT is reprehensible for the rashness
and austerity of his accusations, Archbishop 11PIIaLit
is singularly and enormously reprehensible for the
deliberate scornfulness of his manner and the very
dubitable bearing of his statements. Instead of
thoroughly explaining the erroneous nature of the
charges made against himself, his suffragans, and the
missionary priesthood, the Archbishop of TUAM in-
dulges in one of those philippics against Saxon legis-
lation, landlord despotism, and individual inter-
ference of laymen in religious matters, which he
is almost miraculously qualified to deliver in
language of the most acrid and vehement eloquence.
The letter which has just appeared is anything but
special pleading ; there is nothing specious about it ;
it is not distorted with sophism. It is only too plain.
Personal pique, wilful satire, and hideous misrepre-
sentation, are as visible upon it as the macule upon
the disc of the solar globe. Speaking as a Prince of
the Roman Catholic Church, the Archbishop re-
proaches his noble correspondent with all the energy
of a DROST and all the grandeur of an ATnANASIUS.
" Go, then, any Lord of SHREWfBURT ! " be
exclaims, " Go, and, for this grievous scandal
against the Church, do penance, and weep between
the porch and the altar." Speaking again as one
who is blinded by his preposterous hostility to Eng-
land, he accuses the present Cabinet of tainting itself
with the guilt of homicide, and of aiding famine by
its economy, when its charity has induced it to
saddle us with a serious increase of the National Debt,
has engrossed a vast proportion of its energies, has
drawn from it the beneficial advantages of a poor-
law, and the salutary assistance of an extraordinary
commissariat ! It were well if Joust, Earl of
SHRNWSBURY, had held his peace, and still better if
Jolts, Archbishop of TUAM, had maintained si-
lence.

MRS. 110 WITT.
Plat ready, In t vole. poe lye..
TUN FRAS,..SA-NIO4ND MS LANDLORD.
moil( Tie /MEDIAL
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*lbw Bow, Nov louttgtoa-sinet.

ItOTIL ITALIAN* OPERA. COVENT-GADEmet perfect;
THEATRE
per.
iihtabilaboil is 1847 for the purpose of r enderinßg a
Weaanee of the lyric; drams than had hitherto been attained in this
16lintri•
The Nobtl4y, °entry, Subseribers, sun Patrons of Muale ere re-
spectrally lottirmed that the SEASON (1840 will COMMENCE the
atilt weak In match, In the new and commodious edifice ecastructed
sot yeas.

OPERA.
Tor the production of the established works by the great masters of
evor7 school, for the effective representation of the repertoire of se-
venteen Operas mounted lag season, end of composit
for the first time In this country, engagemeula hare been already
made with the following eminent artistes :
PRIMI SOPRANI.
Mile. Grist, MN. Persian!, Mdc. Reticent, Mdlle. Steffanini, Mile
Castellan (her first appearance), Mdlle. Corbari, Male. Angiolina Zola
(of the Scila in Mllen, her first appearance iu this country)rand }ids.
Pauline Gateau Yiarde (her first appearanee).
CONTRALTO.
Mademoiselle Albont.
TENOR'.
Signor Marto, Signor Salvi, Signor Lave*, Signor Luigi Mer(frem
Ml, his first appearance in this country), and M. Ito4l (of the
a
cage Royale de Musice, and of the Opera Comique, ~ rani,
a first appearance in this sot
PIIIM.I it kSSI BARITONI-
Signor Tamburini and Signor itoncoui.
PRIMI BASSI FROIrOIi DI.
finguor Marini (the ratification of the engagement eSlgiar Cerredi
WV. she celebrated base., is daily expected).
BASSO COMICO.
Stgnor Agostino Rover..
ALTRI PRIMI BASSI.
Signor Tagliafico and Signor Polonini.
Seemed° Tenors—Signor Sold' (from the Scala).
Diroetrer of the Music, Composer, and Conductor—Mr. .
Costa
The Orchestra, oomprising the distinguished proles:ors of last
Mason, will be increased by additional artistes ; the names of the
instrumentalists forming the entire orchestra will be published in a
?attire ps)epectus.
The Military Band, which has also been inereased, will be
tinder the direetion of Mr. Godfrey, band-master of the Coldstream'
Guards.
The powerftil and aumerons Chorus of last year will be farther
strengthened by 24 chosen and experienced singers, and will number
t 2 voioes—namely, 40 ladies, and S 1 male voices. Chorus Master—
Signor Boacon.siglie. Poet and Translator of the Libretti—Signor
lir aggionl. Prompter—Signor Monterasi.
THE BALLET.
The mis which gave such satisfaction to the musical public last
Season, that no divertissement should be suffered between the acts of
?coral, will be strictly adhered to. The performances will terminate
with a ballet. During the season the following eminent dansenees
will appear :
Mde. Flora Fablsri (her first appearance), Mdlle. Leopoldine
Brussi (premiere danseuse of the Imnerial Theatre in Vienna, her
first appearance in this country), :Wine. Elizabeth Robert -01Ntintero
daneeir of the Academie Royale de Musique in Faris, her firs:.
afpo;
pear. •IME in this country), Mollie. Casnlile Ozer first appearance
Isar years), Iddlie. Thierry, of the Fenice, in Venice (clhieerr
firstrst aapp--
pesirance in this country), >Vile. ',anchor, of the Scala.
pearance in this country), Mdile. (I, lest Stephan, Wile. Honore (her
tint appearance), and lidlle. Lucile Grahn (her first appearance)
M. Silvain and M. Brain (their first appearances), M. Gontie, &c..
Mid a numerous body of Coryphecs, rromineuses and Fignrantes.
Maitse de 13ftllet Y. Appiani (trout the principal theatres in
Italy, Prenee, and Belgium).
ltegieseur is la Deal3for • O' Bryan.
Leader of the Ballet—, '..Alfred Mellon.
Composer —Signor Beletta.
The soenery by Messrs. Grieve and Telbin.
Premiere Artlate Ceastumiere—Mrs. E. Bailey.
zugsgementa are pending with other distinguished artistes for
opera and ballet.
A detailed erosPestus, with the arrangements for the aealem, will
he ready in a few days, and may then be obtained at the Box-office
(corner of Bow-street and Hut-street), and at the principal libraries
mid music publishers.
loyal Italian Opera, Covent-garden, dan. 22, 1141.

others.
The great marts of manufacturing industry are
also in nearly as deplorable a condition, and the mul-
titudes that will be driven out of bread in them will
not be less appalling than in the railway departments.
Our exports are reduced, because we are unable, from
the deficiency of our circulation, and the undue value
of money, to execute the foreign orders we have re-
ceived. And we also have the general depreciation
of every description of property and individual ruin.
Such are some of the deplorable consequences of our
monetary laws. We shall take an early opportunity
of returning to the consideration of the views of our
talented Coatemporary on this all-important topic.

TNI4ATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
IPs ter ate Management ef Mr. A. Webster, isle Lessee.
MR. AVD liRS. CHARLES
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a new and original Play, entitled Till Wlrv,,s
SECRHT. Lord Arden, Mr. Ilews ; Walter Amyett,
Charles Kum ; Tema Sneed, Mr. \V ter ; Ilarrin,gton. Mr. Uri,-
Sall ; Brouillard, Mr. ROWS ; Lady Kvellne krayutt, Mrs. Charles
Kean t Maud. Mrs..Ceeley.
After wht-h, a new Farce. called DEAREST ELIZ.kBETH. Mr.
Lionel Lax. Mr. Keeler ; Mr. Winch, Mr. losers ; Betsy, Mrs.
Keeley.
To aoudads with a New and Original Burlesque Spectacle eatitled
PMS UNDERGIMUI4I); sr, Ike Gelion Flute as tau
Brownie Water..
Waage Manager, Mr. Farren ; Acting kiapager, Mr. F. Web ;ter.
J. T. Archer, Itox-bank keeper.
Ilexes, Is. ; Pit, as.; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is.
Doers open at Halt-past Six, Performance to essmense at Saves.

A letter from Berne of the 18th says :
" You know that M. Bois le Conte has been at
Neufchatel some days, and the new note of which he
is said to be the bearer has not yet made its appear-
ance. I am enabled to give you the following
authentic information relative to that additional proof
of M. Guizot's friendship towards Switzerland :
About the 16th of December last M. Guizot sent to
Vienna the draught of a collective reply to the note
of the Diet of the 7th of that month, which M. Met-
ternich found by far too mild. The Nestor of diplo-
macy then drew up another, and sent it to Paris aid
Berlin, where it was slightly modified, and ultimately
approved by the French and Prussian Governments.
This reply was forwarded some days ago to M. Bois
le Comte, but with orders not to present it until the
termination of the debates on the Address in both
Chambers, lest the text of that new manifesto should
become known before the close of the Parliamentary
struggle, and impart too irritating a character to the
debates."
The Gazette de Bale, of the 19th instant, mentions
that Sir STRATFORD CANXISO had presented a me-
morandum to the President of the Diet, recommend-
ing the Swiss Government, in the most friendly
terms, to publish a general amnesty, and to observe
the greatest caution in dealing with the revision of the
Federal Compact. According to the Anti de la Con-
stitution of the 18th, M. Boss Le Count intended
shortly to return to Berne.
M. Boss LE COMTE has transmitted to the Presiaent
of the Swiss Diet a note, dated the 18th of January,
in which he states that the French Government,
acting in concert with Austria, Prussia, and Russia,
declares-1. That the cantonal sovereignty, Is hieh is
the basis of the Confederation, cannot.be considered
to be really subsisting in those cantons which are
militarily occupied by other cantons. '2. That it is
only when those cantons restored to complete in-
dependence, shall freely have constituted their re-
spective Governments, that the Confederation can be
considered as being in a regular state and in con-
formity with existing treaties. 3. That the re-
establishment on a peace footing of the military forces
in all the cantons is the necessary guarantee of the
mutual and general liberty ; and 4. That no change
can lawfully be made in the Federal pact, save by
the unanimous voice of all the cantons composing the
we
Confede ration.
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THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
Under the direction M Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING
e !resented at entirely new Piece, entitled tke PEARL OF
'VIZ OCEAN. ; or, the Prince and tko Mermaiden. Prd lincipal cba-
,
rasters Ty Meeiirs. \Yam P. ItedfSrd, Wright, Munyar, ieanalre
Calloaterd, and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, Mhe Emma Harding, Miss
Wien Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, aid Madame Celeste.
To Up followed by a aew Farce entitled Till TIPPMERARY
ard ;
LE-
sAcr. Tarns's' Green, Mr. Wright; Bob Gills, r. liany
I...anty Serimasege, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Chabhlock. Mr. Callenford ;
Eolioeinan. Mr. Sanders; Limy Chubblock, Miss Woolzar.
Te conclude with an Italian Pantomime, eatitled PIERROT
ellow ~ the
Married ; and POLICRINI..LLO, tae Gay Single F
Mixes, 41.; Pit, 2s. , Gallery. Is.
Peore epee at lialt-past Six, Performance to commence at levee.
_

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Vndar the Nanagemest of Madame Yeatris.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING
~illl be ,
prooenteel new Comte Drama, entitle& TER TRA-
GEDY QUEEN.
After wisleh, a New Fatty Extravaganza, entitled TER GOLDEN
BRANCH.
To ounoludo with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX.
itriucipal eharaaers by lir. Harley, Mr. Bucketine, and Mrs. Mac.
itAMArI.
Dress Boxes, is.; tipper Boxes, 4s. ; Fit, 2e. ; Gallery, Is. No
half-price to any part of the house.
The .sew Box-oft:cc, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the
u,.cry day, from Ten till Biz.
The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by
Mr. W.
liredwall of the Cclosseum.
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PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-streot,
Portland- place.
Madame ANSA TitlLLus.
'rats EVENING
Ni 1 Its presented a new and original Operetta, entitled The
Tot:l7G GUARD. hon Gunnell, Mr. ft,clda; Don Ale trez, Mr.
B&Ker ; Donna Dimple, Iti.s Sara Flower ; Estella, Irtiaine Anna
T hillon.
After which, a new gamic Drama, called MT aISTER'A SECRET.
To be followed by a new Comic Piece, entitled THE SULTANA.
golymen, Mr. Ityder ; Osnlyn-, Mr. Compton ; Tuseph. Mr. Henry ;
Rotalaaa, Madaino Anna Thillon; Elmira, Miss Villars ; Ismena,
Mine Hodson.
To conclude with a new Christmas Tantomime, entitled OLD
FATME It TIME ; or, Harlequin and the Four fiCalleTlß,
Dress Circle, 55.: Ilexes, 45.; Pit, err ;Gallery, Gallery, le.

" Thirty Years of Liberal Legislation." Such is
the title of the first article of Blackwood for the pre-
sent month, which contains much in which we cor-
dially concur, and much to which we are us con-
scientiously opposed. Differing in many respects
from the political views of our contemporary, we
have ever acknowledged the great ability with which
it has maintained the opinions advocated in its pages.
We have respected it as a worthy opponent, and
have hailed it as a powerful and welcome auxiliary
when arrayed in the same ranks.
The writer of the article now under notice starts
with the assumption that "for the last thirty years
the Liberal party have had the almost uncontrolled
direction of the affairs of the nation ;" " that without
one single exception all their doctrines have be en
carried into practice," and "that the year 1847 ex-
hibits a fair, and, it may be presumed, average result
of the Liberal system when reduced into execution."
lie then sets down the various changes which have
taken place within that period, and to the operation
of which he ascribes the fearful disasters of the past
year. These are,-
Ist. The Act of 1819 for the resumption of cash
payments, by which the obligation was imposed on
the Bank of paying its notes, and consequently of dis-
charging all its liabilities, in gold.
2dly. The reciprocity system introduced by Hus-
kisson in 1821.
idly. The changes made in the government of Ire-
land by the concession of Catholic Emancipation, of
Parliamentary and corporate reform, remodelling of
the county magistracy by liberal Lord Chancellors,
the settlement of the tithe question, grants to May-
nooth, national education, &c., &c.
4thly. The carrying of the Reform Bill, and
settling the constitution on a new basis, in 1832.
Athly. The changes in our West Indian colonies
consequent upon the total abolition of slavery, and
the recent reduction of the differential duties
in favour of our colonial sugars, and the admission of
slave-grown produce, to compete with it, without any
protective impost being retained; and 6thly, and
lastly, " Free trade and a fettered currency."
We shall, for the present, content ourselves with re-
ferring to the first, second, and last of the measures above
enumerated, inasmuch as they alone can have any
bearing upon the causes of the commercial distress
and embarrassment that has unhappily prevailed in
this country. Whatever might have beets the result
ofth tthe Irish measures on the peace and tranquillity of
couutry, they can have had no part in creating
the embarrassments under which the kingdom in
general . has laboured. Even had they been iastru-
went
al in producing or increasing the distress occa-
sioned by the almost total destruction of the potato
crop, and the
consequent necessity for the Govern-
ment expenditure of ten
millions
increase of eight millions sterling to sterling,
our andnational the
debt, the writer himself has proved that such an
outlay and increase could have had but a very trifling
effect upon the British resources. The West Indio,
question, too, is one that should be di •
discussed by itself,
and which it is at present unnecessary more parti-
cularly to allude to.
Can the Act of 1819, the great cause of all the
evil, however, be regarded as a liberal measure' wo
think not. It was passed during the reign of the
ultra-Tories. It was brought forward by one of the
most rising members of the Ministry, from whom it
took its name. Unfortunately, the Liberal party did
not resist as they ought to have done the introduction
and progress of the fatal enactment. The only person
who expressed his dissent therefrom in either branch
of
the Legislature was Earl G RET, who was certainly
one of the most influential members of the Liberal
party, and who, on their subsequent
accession
to power,
was appointed to the highest post is the Govern-
ment. The fault of the Whigs was that of omission ;

FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street.
Last Night but Two of the Engagement of Mona. Itocage.
I'llls *.IVEN ENG,
Will be performed a New Vaudeville, eatitled LES IMPRESSIONS
DE MENAGE.
Afttn• which will be produced, a New Grand Play, entitled,
DIOGENE.
Diogeue, M. Beene (as oriisinally performed by Lim at the Thea-
tre Royal dr l'Odeon); Methlade, M. Feebler hyperboles, M. CRl'-
1101 ; ispaale, Mad. Rebut Fechter ; Lail, Mdlle. Lagier ; Phryne,
had. St. Anse.
A detailed 'gyro/meets% of the general arrangements, aud of the
pieces which will be proflueed during the season, may be had at Mr.
Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bend-street ; and at the Box-office
of the Theatre. which is open daily, from It to 5.
Doors *pea ,at Seven, to commence at a Quarter past Seven.
Roses, is.; Pit, 74. ild.; Amphitheatre, is. • Gallery, 2a

ItOTAL SURREY TIIILATILE.
rAmie,J, Xr4. F. Davidge, N.. 1, Ds,vidge-terrace, Kentlngton-read,
Surrey.

Under the Management of Mr. Bala.
ETNNING, the pertormances will commence with the
szAelAmiod Onera
DAUGHTER OF THE REIHMENT.
Characters by Messrs. 11. Phillips, King, ilernemtle, Rafter, Att-
weed. M`Mation, is Mlas Ptxlle.
To conclutle with a tow Pantom
Trap, ime, entaittled
and T,ATTLEDOOR ead
SH II TT L ECOCK ; or, Harlequin t, liall.
A ,11.tiect entrance to the private a
boxes hhas d
beeningh made (whichhe
been re-fitte+.l). Private boxes may be tly of all t
Irrincripal Librarians ; and at the ltox-oflize of the Theatre, which is
@don daily frera Ten mail Four.6d.
Ilexes, Gallery.
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ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING
Will lee performed THE LICIIITERNINN of BANKSIDE ; or, the
2rpliaa of Bermondsey. Characters by Messrs. Dale, Hea ndersoieso,
Uicks, A.earle, orman, niggle; Miss Vincent, titre. Lee, nd M
Berroughelifle.
1 €4 followed by the CROI,g-BOW LIETTER ; or, the Miller of
IT me. Kate Carraway, Miss Vincent.
To conclude with the xrand scholastic and instructiTe Pantotomn imeand
,
',titled TILE WORLD OF WONDERS; or, Harlequin Cax
he Origin of Printing, with wonderful scenery and decoratiyo ap•
rntrAonta. Clown, Mr. Paul Herring ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ;
M. Lupin° ; Sprite, Signor Moline; Celamblie, Mdlle.
•1 Pit, id. ; Gallery, 44, No 11,.11-price to any part
tk. .
a", 11 *pea at 51x, to, corameacc at Half-past si.X.

0.A2-,•_11;?-rki ROY AL AMPHITHEATRE.
i.r
"'t. , and Manager. 'At'. William Batty.
ur• Ratty's performing Elephants.
Last Brand itILTIC):.
r..Zitht en Thursday Evening next, when the
Tremendous hit of 1..,v .0 wit be played first.
sawed the Bounding laft,i‘.ter Lee, the renowned double Leaner, cur-
same {he
Evening ii,CuiThil, greatest Jumper in the world will
qiuding kis astounding
he '.l! Gymnastic Exercises. In-
ieled .I,c. ,k. days or the celebrated
over twelve horses, a feat unparal•
Ireland.
Tata ie.v •
The Grand spectacle of Tim eLNING,
Entirely new Seems in the Art:P",OF SILESIA.
ties ,statdia..-.meat, in tli.. . allows males tae talented Artistes of
'To conclude with a Grand Equestriaxi 44 eptestration.
HARLEQUIN DOCTOR SYNTAX A.,?. :To r arson
entlthal
ALARM, in which these popular artistes Itetr3 "PP Eft G HET
dare, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Ptradbnry, as harlequin, Mdlle. Th"-
Chown, and Pantaloon, W.-Itch will exceed la .01_e'3?in. Columbine,
AL faller prQductlbn, at the Amphitheatre, `"ol,r and effect
Box-office open from 11 till 1
ACtilg and Stage Manner, Mr. V./ 'yeti,.
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OFIICE, JAL 23
b.ATIs Sox
puimonings, Lowest, 27 ; Highest, SO ; Noon,Llit;
13.A.Romn, 30.20.—WIND N.N.E.; slight snow.
JANUARY' 24.
THXRXOSWTEIR, Lowest, 29; Highest. 30 ; Noon, 32.
BAEoMRTER, 30.4.--WINP N.; fine.

WATER AT LONDON-lIRIDGF, DAY.
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declared he had proposed as a test of confidence or no
confidence in the Ministry, was passed by 148 to 37.
In the same sitting Senor MENDIZABAL brought
forward his Bill relative to the payment of the
clergy, and the maintenance of public worship, but
notwithstanding he supported it by a long and able
argument, it was, after a speech by the Minister of
Finance, rejected by 134 votes to $6.
General Nenvmsz had paid a visit to General
EBPARTZIO, as had also General FIGUIRNS, the
Minister of War, General CORDOVA, Inspector-
General of Infantry, and several other distinguished
persons. The officers of the garrison also called at
the General's home to pay their respects to him.
The Journal of Seville publishes the following
curious electoral, governmental, and population

triumphed in the Chamber. All that this in-
telligent and powerful country contains of in-
stincts and greatness, of elevated sentiments of sub
lime inspirations, are embodied in M. Guizot, whom
the 225 satisfied Members bear in triumph on his
shield! The Cabinet may clap its hands; we shall
break ours to pieces iu joining in the movement ; if it
has songs, we have hymns ; if its heart overflows,
ours is inundated ! Long live the Minister Cur-
tius!' Long live the immortal phalanx of the 215 1'
Let the same crown encircle their foreheads 1 Let the
same rays of light illumine their august faces! Let
them march together united and triumphant, like
those celestial hosts whose symbolical nudity is
adorned rather than covered by the unbound zones of
modesty and virtue We bless the heaven of our
country for having given us this rare and marvellous
spectacle. Honour to M. Guizot, who took into his
speculations the affair Petit I Honour to the 215 who
feel confidence !"
Even the I)eb,t3 and Conservateur seem ashamed
of the task of defending M. GUIZOT, and content
themselves with passing general eulogiums on his
policy, and declaring that the Opposition are mistaken
if they imagine they shall drive him from office.
The Presse says—" Yesterday evening there was a
good deal of talk of a resolution come to by the whole
Cabinet to withdraw from M. Durres—after the vote
on the Address—his functions as Procureur- General
at the Court of Cassation."
The difference between M. Ricnosoo DES Blurs
and M. GARNIER PAGES has been settled without a
hostile meeting.
The general debate on the Address commenced on
Saturday in the Chamber of Deputies. The
Chamber was addressed by M. BaaTILLE, an
Opposition Member, M. DARBLAT, a Con-
servative, and follower of Count MoLE, who
gave notice of the following amendment on the
paragraph relating to the Reform banquets :—" If the
agitation., v,liieh have talson place since the Chambers
last met, have produced in some quarters manifesta-
tions hostile to our institutions and to our social laws,
they have proved that the ancient majority of the
country, even in the dissentient opinions, are incon-
testably attached to them;" M. DUCHATEL, who
defended the Ministry, M. DesmousseAux DE GIVILT,
formerly a staunch supporter of the Ministry, but
who declared that he had no longer any confidence in
their policy, either foreign or domestic, and M.
Ducos, who has always been a consistent Opposi-
tionist. The general discussion was then declared to
be closed, and the discussion on the first paragraph
was ordered to be taken on Monday.
The Presse says—" For seve h
ral days te Bank
of France has been extremely circumspect in select-
ing the bills presented for discount, and has refused
many from provincial houses. The amount of its
discounts, however, since the beginning of the year
has greatly exceeded the average sum."
The same j ournal says that Messrs. ROTHSCHILD
Brothers have just concluded as agreement with the
Messageries to bring from England 600,000 f. or
600,000 f. per day in ingots, and gold and silver specie.
The Toulonnais states that, according to informa
tion obtained from a good source, it can announce
positively that ADD-EL- KADIR is not to remain long
at Fort Latnalgue.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT Till.
LONDON STOCK EICHANGE,,,Lcit. 22.
Boulogne and Amiens, 133/4—Northern of
P Franceand Roun,
, 11 ex
int.—Over Tasol, 2—Paris and Lyons, 51/iaris e
34" A —Paris and Strasbourg, 41,i—Tours and Nantes, S.

OVER

statistics :-
In Spain, with a population of scarcely 14,000,000
of inhabitants, no less a number than 279,374
viduals are in the pay of the Government. It must
be observed, however, that under this class are com-
prised 120,000 soldiers, composing the army, 9,468
under the ministry of marine; 28,884 of the secular
clergy, and 9,686 nuns. Amongst the 95,735 i
viduals under the other departments of the State and
comprised the pensioners, half-pay officers, and
monks out of convents.
The journalist then goes on to give the following
electoral statistics. The
129 total number of the consti-
tuency of Spain is 99,, out of a population of
14,000,000, and the number of electors in each
province is as follows :-
Alava, 300-Albacete, 1,320-Alicante, 2,800-
Almeria, 1,574-Avila, 837-Badajoz, 2,256-Ba-
leares, 1,904-Barcelona, 6.746-Burgos, 1,229-
Caceres, 1,999-Cadiz, 2,942-Canarias, 1,040-Cas-
tellon, 1,250-Ciudad Real, 1,754
-Cordoba, 2,298
-Corunna, 2,795-Cuenca, 1,675-Geronz, 2,19 g -
Granada, 2,698-Guadalajara, 1,081-Guipuzcon,
659-Jaen, 2,315-
450-lluelva, 1,255-Huesca, 2,
Leon, 2,383-Lerida, 1,627-Logrono, 2,058- Lugo,
1,639-Madrid, 6,968-Malaga, 3.363-Murcia.
1,417-Navarre, 1,554-Orense, 1,375 - Oviedo,
2,023-Palencia, 2,923-Pontevedro, 1,505-Sala
manca, 1,577-Santander, 968-Segov 730-Se-
ville, 3,534-Soria. .498-Tarragona, 2,267-Teruel,
1,322-Toledo, 2,669-Valencia, 3,221-Valladolid,
2,382-Vizcay*, 450-Zamora, 1,246-Zaragoza,
3,613-Total, 99,129.
Accounts had reached Madrid from Lisbon to the
10th. The Portuguese Ministry had been com-
pleted by the nomination of Baron FRANCOIS SOLLA
to the War Department. He is a decided Cabralist.
The Comte Da THOMAE had refused the appointment
of Minister to the Court of France.
MADRID BOURSE ON TEE 17TH.--Threes, 27/
Fives, 17 ; Exchange on London, 48 10.

We have received the Pais papers of Saturday
and Sunday.
The affair of M. Payer, in which a corrupt traffic
in places was traced directly to M. GUIZOT himself
and to his secretary, M. Game, was on Friday the
subject of discussion in the Chamber of Deputies.
The matter was brought under the notice of the
Chamber by M. ODILLON BARJOT, who laid particu-
lar stress on that part of the letter of M. 131111TIR to
M. PETIT, in which he says, " I shall transmit to
you the verbal answer of M. GUIZOT, as he could
not do it in writing." M. GUIZOT did not attempt to
deny his guilty knowledge of this affair, but contented
himself with saying that he had received a chequered
inheritance from his predecessors ; that such a sale of
offices should not happen again ; and that some of the
statements of M. PETIT were false, and others insig-
nificant. He, however, cautiously abstained from
giving a direct denial to any single allegation, wind-
ing up by his usual threat of resignation. There-
upon M. ()DILLON BIEROT rose, and made the follow-
ing crushing reply :
" He-said—that after the speech which they had
just heard from the Hon. Minister, the discussion
could scarcely be prolonged. He had long been
aware that they could not agree with regard to
politics, but he now found that they could not do so
on questions of honour and morality.—(Murmurs from
the Centre). He had brought forward facts in such
a manner, that he believed it impossible for the
Government to escape the alternative, of either de-
claring them false, •or accepting the responsibility
attendant on them. But such was not the case.
But no,' said the H on. Gentleman, turning towards
M. Guiaot, you call these ;acts insignificant, you a
political man, raised to the Presidency of the Council,
representing the Government in its highest degree, you
dare to style insignificant the fact of having sought
out a third party, who would purchase the resignation
of which you stood in need, and of having repaid that
third party with a place in the Finance. Such a
fact has taken place in your office, through the
agency of him who represents you, and you think n"
more of it. The whole Chamber has been already
moved, not by an act of direct complicity, but by one
of simple tolerance, and when the act of complicity,
which we now denounce, is accomplished with your
concurrence, with your approbation, and even at your
office, after the solemn discussion which had taken
place in this Chamber, after the solemn engagement
which that discussion drew from you, w hat signifi
the language which you-use to-day P—(Loud appro
bation from the Left.) The engagement which you
have taken does not doubtless signify that you will
not participate in the bargain ; one does not engage
oneself to be an honest man and a loyal Minister.—
But the members of the Court of Accounts who
have accepted these bargains have not participated
in the pecuniary sacrifices which the movetnent has
caused.—(Hear, hear.) It is a third party who paid
for them, and that third party has been repaid with
a place which should have been the legitimate reward
of old and honourable se. vices--and yet these you call
insignificant facts!—(Hear, hear.) Believe me, you
will require all your moral force in order to with-
stand the trials that await you. You entrench your-
self in your pride ; but when the Government is con-
cerned, set your personal pride aside, for it has
nothing to do here. Permit me to tell you that you
put the majority to a very cruel trial. You buildthat
on
the confidence you imagine you inspire ; but
confidence, allow me to tell you, has in it something
very insolent.--(Great agitation.) All you
Continue
to vote for me as hitherto, and ell will be well
!'—
(Loud approbation from the Left.)"
M. Dorm, M. BILLAULT, M. Timis, M. Du-
LUCRE, all the ex-Ministers in the Chambers in fact,
declared that during the time they had held office no
tuch corrupt practices had existed, and that at least
they had not left M. GUIZOT an inheritance of cor-
ruption ; and M. LACITE LEFLAGNII, who was
Finance Minister under M. GUIZoT at the time this
corrupt sale of a receivership of the finances took
place, declared that he never knew of this sale of
offices for money, and that if he had been aware of
the existence of such a practice he would hare de-
nounced it.
LIIHREITTI9 then moved the following reso-
lution :
" The Chamber, without approving of the explana-
tions given by the President of the Council, and in
reserving the rights which result from the Ministerial
responsibility, passes to the order of the day:'
Whereupon M. GUIZOT repeated his threat of re-
signation, and then M. DB PEYEAUONT, coming to
the rescue of the Ministry, moved the following order
of the day :
" The Chamber, relying on the wish expressed by
the Government, and on the efficacy of the measures
to be taken to put an end to a long-standing and
objectionable abuse, passes to the order of the day."
M. ID/IMLAY, a former supporter of 11. GUIZOT,
proposed a third order of the day as follows :
" The Chamber, afflicted and dissatisfied, closes the
debate on the incident, and passes to the order of the
day."
M. GUMv considered the order of the day pro-
posed by M. DI.IIILAT as precisely similar to that of
M. LUEIMETTS, and rejected it for the same reasons.
M. LIIEREETTE declared that he should unite his
order of the day to that of M. DARELAY.
The Chamber then proceeded to vote on M. DAS-
SLAT'S order of the day, when the numbers were—
Against it • • ... • 225
In its favour
Majority .... • -----79
M. DARILAT'S order of the day WAS consequently
rejected.
That of 11. DE PBTRAIIONT was then adopted by
a show of hands.
Gilmer has thus gained another Trost damaging
victory. The Opposition papers are indign
against this servile majority, which is willing to vote
whatever M. Glamor may command them to vote.
The Natiosa/ says—
" The 225 satisfied members presented themselves
yesterday, 1.4 they did last year, to amnesty the stig-
matised Ministry. Last year, after an accusation,
proved to be true of 100,000 f. exported for a theatri-
cal privilege, there were 225 satisfied ! This: year,
after a complicity in the sale of finance situations
had been demonstrated to the world, there were 225
confiding deputies Let France hold up her head
with pride I Morality, justice, and truth have

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
M. JU WEN.
The following letter appeared in yesterday's Sunday
Times

" TO THE EDITOR.
" Sir,—ln the absence of M. Jullien from London,
I feel it my duty alike to him and the public to take
the earliest opportunity of contradicting certain
groundless and malicious reports which have been
most industriously and insidiously circulated to his
personal disparagement, and to the injury of the grunt
establishment over which he presides.
" As his personal friend and prof,•ssional adviser,
and one intimately acquainted with the real state of
his affairs, I beg most emphatically to deny that
there is an execution either in Drury-lane Theatre or
in his house in Harley- street, or in any other pre-
mises of his whatever. I deny als.a that he has fed to
Paris, or left London for any other purpose excepting
that of carrying on his ordinary series of concerts
throughout the provinccs, which from the very effec-
tive mode in which they have everywhere been per-
formed and appreciated, are certain to prove (as they
have hitherto done) highly remunerative, and more
than sufficient to countervail any present weekly loss
from the scenic representations of the Theatre Royal,
Drury-lane.
"M. Jullien, in making his calculations, never
anticipated for the grand opera an immediate success
in a pecuniary point of view, in consequf the
immense outlay for the repairs and decorations of
the theatre, and for putting the lyric drama and bal-
let oa the stage on a scale of unequalled completeness
and magnificence. But from the patronage he has
already received (and which he has endeavoured most
strenuously to deserve) he feels confident that he will
ultimately be rewarded for all his labour, anxiety, and
expenditure.
" May I beg that you, Sir, with your usual can-
dour and liberality, will give insertion to this com-
munication, from,
" Sir, your very obedient servant,
" C. LEWIS.

" 9, Grosvenor street, Bond -street,
January 21, 1848."

lIAYMA.RKET THEATRE.
A new, original, piquant, witty farce, intitled
Dearest Elizabeth, was produced here on Saturday,
with the most deserved success. The dearest Eliza-
beth, who is the heroine, is Betsy (Mrs. Keeley),
servant in the household of Mr. Lionel Lax (Mr.
Keeley), who, albeit a married man, sets up as a lady
killer, and, like all lady killers, has the greatest
aversion to married servants. Betsy, however, has
contracted matrimony with Humphery (capitally
acted by Mr. Clark) her fellow•servant, and having
got hold of a letter of her master's, addressed
to " Dearest Elizabeth," she keeps possession of
it, and holds it over him in terrorem. He
pretends that she herself is the Elizabeth to whom the
letter is addressed, and while giving her a kiss,
snatches the letter from her.: Humphery becomes
jealou4, the letter sets everybody by the ears, and,
to appease Humphery, Lax persuades his friend Mr.
Winch (Rogers) to declare that the letter had been
written at his dictation, to a dearest Elizabeth of his
(Winch's) own. At this juncture Mrs. Winch
enters, and Lax, to his surprise,: recognizes in her the
"dearest Dizabeth'',of his bachelor days—the genuine
heroine of the letter. She .is at first outrageous at
finding that Winch has been writing to
another Elizabeth, but a whisper from
Lax calms . her, and the unfortunate letter is
burned just in time to prevent Mrs. Lax from being
acquainted with the story of " Dearest Elisabeth."
The piece was admirably performed. To say how
richly unctious Keeley was in Lax, and how de-
lightfully vulgar and independent Mrs. Keeley was
as Betsy, is unnecessary ; every playgoer will know
the treat that is in store for him, and as to Mr. Clark
all we can say is, that his acting was as perfect, after
its kinel, as the acting of the Keeleys—it was perfect.
The house was crowded.

A letter from Civita Vecchia, of the 111th, states
that—
" The Neapolitan war-steamer Charles 111. had
left Naples for Syracuse, where it was supposed that
an insurrection had taken place. On the 11th the
people of Messina made a maniftestation in favour of
the King's attorney, M. Vignale, who had been re-
moved to an inferior station because he had refused to
execute the rigorous measures enacted by General
Landi against the population •f Messina with all the
ardour that officer desired. In the morning of that
day a gigantic allegorical figure, representing the
city of Messina in tears, was exposed on the public
square. A crowd of inhabitants collected in silence
round the figure, when the police brutally interfered,
and a partila collision ensued, in which three soldiers
were either wounded or killed. This affray oc-
curred at three o'clock in the afternoon. A few hours
afterwards the entire population filled the streets,
carrying tri-coloured flags and various other patrio-
tic emblems, and shouting vivas ' for Italian inde-
pendence, the. Pope, the Constitution, &c. This
demonstration, during which the troops remained
consigned to their barracks, lasted until ten o'clock
at night, and was repeated at the theatre, with-
out order being in the least disturbed. In the even-
ing, when the people were retiring to their homes,
two sentinels, alarmed no doubt by that extraor-
dinary movement, fired upon a group, and wounded
two persons. On the following day the city resumed
its usual calmness." " The Government, however,"
observes the correspondent of the Constitutionnel,
" should not trust to that apparent serenity, for the
irritation of the Sicilians is at its height, and the least
spark might produce a conflagration.'
The Italia of the 15th inst. announces that the stu-
dents of the University of Pisa had voted by accla-
mation an address to the Civic Guard of Leghorn,
to congratulate them on their conduct during the
recent disturbances in that city. The Marquis Ri-
DOM, Minister of the Interior, returned to Florence
on the 14th. Leghorn was then perfectly tranquil.
A funeral ceremony had been celebrated in the church
of the Lombards, at Rome, for the Milanese killed by
the Austrians on the 3d. The /bore had permitted
that demonstration, which the Austrian Ambassador
had vainly endeavoured to prevent.
Accounts from Naples stets that Palermo was in
full insurrection ; the streets were barricaded, and
the people had killed sixty of the troops. An attempt
had been made by the authorities to arrest a Sicilian
nobleman in the British consulate, and in the scuffle
the arms of England had been torn down by the Si-
cilian authorities. On the receipt of the news at
Naples, 4,500 troops were dispatched to Palermo in
nine steamers.
The Journal dee Debuts announces that letters
from Turin of the 18th say that a number of the
persons compromised in the recent disturbances at
Leghorn have been arrested, and that important
papers and considerable sums of money were found in
their posse,sion. The papers are said to prove that
a foreign Government excited the rioters in favour of
the last branch of a dethroned dynasty.
The Italia of Pisa publishes a letter from Rome, of
the 13th of January, which states that the Cardinal
Massimo, the Minister of Public Works, died of
apoplexy on the 11th, after an interview with the
Pore, in which MASSIMO, as the organ of the College
of Cardinals, had expressed his disapprobation of the
mole proprio of the Porz of the 30th December.

In consequence of the Austrian Ambassador declin-
s
ing to represent the Tuscan affairs in this country, it i
said that it is the intention of the Grind Duke to send an
Ambassador to our Court. The expediency of this measure
is too obvious to need comment.
IMPORTANT JUDGMNNT.— In the City County
Court, on Saturday, an action was brought by
,s M
tilr.
Hewitt against .iiessrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co.,
well-known bankers, to recover the amount of a crossed
cheque, on account of Knapp and Co., bankers, of Abin%
don, and who had become bankrupts. The frbt'nwdon
these:—The money had been paid into
laigntiff,
d CIO. The
who applied next day to Messrs.
p Williams
tcaheque drawn
Bank, and advice thereof was given to then
plaintiff not applYing
evening, andthe
was in on the stone
was not paid ~
by Williams and Co. tiipl;m- tehrBZelves wan " crossud"
Spooner and Co. (Itivheirpl
ma 1 su "ff
and'6 Cboa.nrkeefruss) d torr he
honourcheque
next day 31-"5"'" iia
and Co. had become bank
on the ground that Knapp
having money in , .
thebyaud(WwilelirnerncsraeitonddCros..),
Hisso f
a r
rupts, and t Honourhat
said the evidence bore out th '
admitted fact, but the def
theiendr lia-
ants,
by giving their cheque, had legally
bility to pay the amount, and they had also admitted
roliratbulnea,
that if the cheque had been presented before "clearing
thhemadselvilens
hours" it would have been paid, according to the custsin
1 1 JANii
1 ::
41
4 . T—} 108
judgment must be for the plaintiff. t ealnyd the
Ifiji!ilaNlGbuloiertinDs lailr a i issuedA. Z iL.—
dailyCo P Itu-i
consequence of the continued state of the inflammation in
the arm, from which his Majesty has suffered for several
oirf
AiGbix,ai;nNk, themselveser' Ii n The this
case, defendants
made
days, The bulletin of ibis morning states—" His Ma-
jesty has had some hours' quiet and unbroken sleep.:The
swelling and inflammation have increased,but the foyer
continues the same."
Lord John Russell, who his been slightly indis-
posed, will return to London from Richmond, with his
family, to-morrow for the season.
On Saturday after-
noon the Noble Lord received a visit from the Chancellor
of the Exchequer.
Their Majesties the King end Queen of the Bel-
gians are e::pected to arrive at Windsor
intendoCSltlei On
sit
a
visit to her Majesty, on Monday. This dvi
had before been announced, but has been unavoidably
postponed by the lamented demise of the Princess Ade-
, !side of Orleans, her liajesty't aunt.

Madrid papers of the 16th have been received.
The Bill for collecting the texts, which NszvAzz

LAND

as we have heard of, and the prices of the day ate as
quoted :-150 candies Mangal,re, at 81rs. ; 450
candies Compta, at 85rs.; 150 ditto, ditto, at 84rs. ;
100 ditto, ditto, at 84irs. per candy.
Sheep's Wool—There have been purchases during
th© fortnight to the extent of 400 candies of all kinds,
at 105 rs to 107 rs per candy for Khorassan ; 75ra
to 80rs for Meckran, and 11Ors to 123 rs for Per-
sian. The last named description is much mixed this
season, and altogether inferior in quality to what it
used to be.
Opium—None of the new crop is yet here, and
the price of the old is quite nominal—say 750 to 850
rupees per chest.

MAIL

INDIA. AND CHINA.
(From the Herald.)
We have received by extraordinary express our
files of papers arid private correspondence, in antici-
pation of the overland mail, from Bombay, of
Dec. 15 ; Calcutta, Dec. 7 ; and China, Nov. 28.
The most important news brought by this ar-
rival is that supplied from Calcutta, which repre-
sentm the truly disastrous effects of the late corn•
mercial embarrassments in London upon the mer-
cantile community in that Presidency. Nine highly
respectable firms had been compelled to suspend pay-
ment, and it was impossible to calculate how far the
serious consequences of these failures would extend.
Credit and confidence," says the Bengal ffurharu
Price Current, " were at once annihilated, and buzi-
tovss in every branch reduced to cash transactions.
The acceptances of no European house could be dis-
counted in the bazaar."
The intelligence from Bombay is of no political
importance. The Punjaub and Sinde were tranquil.
Lord Hardinge was expected to leave Calcutta early
in this month (January). Commercial matters bad
assumed a more healthy aspect, with an appearance of
a gradual improvement.
The accounts from China are entirely of a peace-
ful nature ; and the feelings of the people of that
empire towards the English authorities is evidently I
partaking of a more pacific character. His Excel-
lency Sir John Francis Davis had returned to Hong-
Kong from his mission to the coast of Cochin Chine,
where he had gone for the purpose of accomplishing
some commercial arrangements. Trade was in a
very depressed condition, and prices had generally
declined.
(From the Bombay Times, Dec. 15, 1847.)
SIM/MARL—A cold season and no wars was till
last year an anomaly in our annals. The former
exception now promises to become. the rule. We
have at present around us the bright spectacle of
peace and contentment throughout all our domi-
nions. The Punjaub is as quiet and peaceful as
any of our own provinces, and more prosperous
than most of them. The Seikh Government has
determined to give 30,0001. a year for the construc-
tion of roads, and double this sum as soon as
they can afford it. The lesser of these is more
than twice what is bestowed by Government
on roads throughout the whole of the Bombay and
Madras Presidencies together. At Lahore, y ardena
have been laid down by the European soldiers ; these
will supply them at once with recreation and with
food, and become schools of instruction for the Seikh
Cultivators. Colonel Lawrence left Lahore on the
2d December, on his way to Calcutta, from which he
embarks with the Governor-General. Sinde is tran-
quil. One regiment is to he withdrawn from it, leaving
betwixt 16,000 and 17,000 troops behind. Colonel
Dundas, commander of the forces on the Indus, is
at present on a tour of inspection. The order for the
formal annexation of the country to Bombay has
arrived from England, but has not as yet been pro-
mulgated. Mr. Clerk, Governor of Bombay, pro-
ceeds to Sinde about the first week of January.
He will remain for some weeks with the Com-
missioner, when considerable changes are ex-
pected to occur. Till then, matters will remain
probably much as they were under the late Admi-
nistration. There are still some disturbances of
no great moment in the Goornsoor country, and
the usual amount of clamour from the Niaam's
capital, Hyderabad. The story about the Nizam's
brother having built up his wife and her slaves in the
palace, with a view of starving them, seems one of
those fictions which gain currency from time to time
when a native chief is in bad odour, and there seems
some prospect of his territories being appropriated.
Such things afterwards form the grounds on which
war and conquest are justified ! The late commercial
intelligence has proved most calamitous in Calcutta
—in Bombay only one house has fallen, and that
through no blame of its own ; no other failure here is
apprehended. The festivities at Lucknow in honour
of the Governor-General are over, and his Lordship
himself by this time in Calcutta. lie leaves early in
January. Lord Dalhousie is expected to spend a
neck with his relative the Marquis of Tweedale at

TONNAGE.
Freight has been, and is scarce, and with some
arrivals of vessels since our last, rates have receded
to all parts. By going ships 41. has been paid for
small quantities to Liverpool, but in vessels to receive
cargo in a week hence tonnage can be had at 81. 12s.
6d., at which a small quantity has been engaged. To
London, 41. 10e. was paid for dead weight in the
early part of last week; but since then an engage-
ment has been made at 41., and cotton is now to be
had at this rate. To China the rate is 16 rupees per
candy, at which a vessel has been taken up.
EXCHANGI.

The local binks;redia;ing upon London at
is. 9d. for two months, ls. 9id. three months, and
Is. 10d. six months sight; whilst what is considered
unexceptionable mercantile paper is to be had at
Is. 100. for the latter usance, and which are the
rates fur this read.

Bombay Times (Nice, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1847.
Freights—To London, 31. 135. to 41.; to Liver-
pool, 3/. 12s. 6d. to 31. 155. per ton; to China, lars.
per candy.
Exchanges—London, at six months sight, per
rupee, Is. 100. to Is. lOid. ; at three months' sight,
Is. 94d. to ls. 9d.; at one months sight, Is. 81d.
China, at sixty days' bight, per 100 Sp. dolls., 210 rs.
Madras, at thirty days' sight, 904 rs. Cllcutta, at
sixty days' sight, per 10Ors., 910 f to 994r5. ; at
thirty days' sight. 99irs.; at sight, 100ini.
Prices of Bullion—Sovereigns each 11 rs.; i
annas.; sovereigns, dragons, each 11 rs.: 2 annas;
Bank of England notes, per pound, II : 4 annas.;
Spanisl d liars, per 100, 2224 ; German crowns, per
100, 2 6; Sycee silver, per 100. tola, 1034 at 104;
gold leer, per tola (range of quality) 16! at 17f.
Bank Shares—Bombay Bank, 364 rs. per cent,
pm.; Oriental Bank, 1,000 re. each (500 paid up)
174 rs. per cent. pm.; Commercial Bank, 41 rs. per
cent. pm. ; Agra Bank (500 rs.), 39 rs. per cent.pm.;
1 Bank of Madras (1,000 rs.), 11 per cent. pm.
Government Securities.—Five per cent. transfer
lean, 110 rs. per 100 sicca nl.; five per cent. loan
1825-26, 1024 rs. per 100 siccar five per cent loan
1829-30, 103 k rs. per 100 sicca; four per cent. loan
18t2 33, 894 rs. per 100 sicca; four per cent. loan
835-36, 86 rs. per 100 co's.; five per cent. loan
841-42, 994 rs. per 100 co's.; four per cent. loan
842-43, 86 rs. per 100 co's.

CALCUTTA. • -
(From the Bengal Ilurkuru of Dec. 7.)
At Calcutta during the past fortnight there has .'
been little to distract public attention from the effects
of the commercial disasters in England and the anti-
cipations of further evil on the arrival of this mail of
the 25th of October. Up to this morning, however,
little had transpired beyond what we hinted at in our .
last—namely, the suspension of payments by some
seven or eight firms which we did not then consider
it proper to name. These were Messrs. Saunders,
May, Fordyce and Co., Cockerel' and Co., Lyall,
Matheson and Co., Church, Lake and Co., Lake, Ham-
mill and Co., Shearman, Mullens and Co., Hughes-
don Brothers and Co., and Euing, Aird, and Ander-
son. It was publicly stated that Mears•
Smith, Cowell, and Co., had also stopped payment ;
but it was subsequently announced that they had
resumed business, and at a meeting of creditors held
since that time, it was resolved that the house should
be allowed to carry on business under inspectors the'
appointed.
Yesterday the Haddington was announced with the
snails of the 25th of October. and the greatest excite-
ment prevailed throughout the town. It was only
this morning, however, that the news arrived, and
that by the Bombay Expreas, which came in about
eight o'clock. The intelligence thus received is dis-
astrous enough, and likely to cause further casualties
here, but as yet, of course, it would be quite unsafe
,o predicate its effects.

Madras.
A disastrous fire occurred at Matagon on the
evening of the 13th, and destroyed the contents of an
extensive woodyard ; this is the second time within
this ten mouths that the same sput has been the Fcene
of conflagration.

MILITARY INTELLGENCE.
Ca%ualties by death in the armies bt India, reported
since the departure of the mad of Ist December.
MADNtAS.—Brigadier J• Blair, Nixam's Army, at
Feu, on the 12th August.

THE BOMBAY MARKET.
FROM THE 15T TO TOR 14TH nEcEmnek, 1847.
We had the pleasure, in our last, of reporting on a
very steady market for imports, and we have now the
further satisfaction of advising increased briskness,
with every prospect of a gradual general improve-
ment throughout the season. The
ved here only Overland
this morning, and although the accounts are less
favouralsle than we had hoped for, still there is
nothing in them that can in the least degree affect

COMMERCIAL REPORT.
(From the Bengal Hesitant Price Current of Dec. 7.)
The effect of the home commercial crisis on our •
mercantile community has been most disastrous.
Painful as had been the previous rumours, and
gloomy the forebodings generally indulged in, the
reality exceeded the worst anticipations. Nine com-
mercial firms of this city have been compelled to
suspend payments, though in some instances not with-
out a confident expectation of being enabled nide •
metely to meet all their liabilities. It has been
deemed desirable for the present to hay, the affairs of
most of these housee vested in trustees, for the benefit
of the concerned.
Such extended disasters—involving so many is-
terests, and so widely spread in their effects—have, of
course, been productive of the most serious conse-
quences to the whole commerce of the country.
Credit and commerce were at once annihilated, and
business in every branch reduced to cash transactions.
The acceptances of no European house could be dis-
counted in the Bazaar. The whole mechanism of out
trade, internal and external, was for the time alike un-
hinged, and all engaged in business endeavoured to
curtail their operations.
There were serious apprehensions of tke crisis ex-
tending to the Bazaar. It is, however, satisfactory
to state that the effects there have been lees important
than might have been expected from the discredit at-
taching to all agency drafts, and the loss and incon-
venience experienced by the holders of paper on the
houses that have been compelled to suspend payments.
The healthy action of the trade with the interior has
for the time been impeded ; bat should the accounts
by the steamer at all tend to the revival of confidence,
the interruption is net likely to be otherwise than
temporary, unless the money market should become
much more tightened,
It was nearly a week after the receipt of these event,
ful tidings before the excitement which they .pro•
duced allowed of almost any resumption of business.
The export trade was dull, and holders being naturallf
rather anxious sellers, the market tended to a lower
scale of prices. Latterly, however, there has bees
more inquiry, although business has not been rewrite(' •
to any considerable extent, and the demand Las been
confined to a few staples. The inquiry has beet'
chiefly for remittance purposes, and would probabli
have been more considerable, were it not for the
scarcity and dearness of tonnage.
The indigo season has scarcely opened, only Os
sale of consequence having been made. Sugar hes
latterly engaged more attention, a slight decline ill
prices inducing remitters to purchase more freeli.
Silk remains neglected,;and Corahs, though now lace
in stock, find no buyers. Saltpetre is taken freelio
for America, and sales for England and France to
moderate extent have also been made. There is some
o
demand for tonnage for the new rice crop, but ,litt,;•
of the grain has yet coma to market. Jute Sel't
largely. Linseed is rather higher. There is a fss
demand for America for other staples, as lac

this market.
Our Produce Market is in a state of great depression,
and must continue so until more settled intelligence
comes forward from Europe.
Cotton Piece Goods—The
re month opened with a
pretty general demand for
lacye goods ,amount of business
which has been
well sustained since ; a g
having been done, and a further advance on prices
of such description.; as have been more particularly
sought after established; and and 1
again
consist of shirting, maddapolam and jacconet, of
low to medium qualitythe ' advance on the first
named being annas 4, and on the other two 2 or 3
per piece, low quality in maddapolam, and medium
in jacconet having the advantage. Long clath for
dyers' purposes, as well as coarse heavy domestic,
continue to be inquired for at full rates • but the finer
makes of the latter are still somewhat of s drug
in the market. The same may be said also of
36-inch of all makes. The inquiry for shin in
nag
m ed
em-
braces 45 as well as 40-inch of the qualities
,
and the former has also participated in the improve-
ment equally with the other. Higher qualities, though
occasionally inquired for, do not in either widt
uch h com-
mand any advance. Bleached goods are m the
same r s before. Shirting steady in price, and low qua-
lity only sought after. Of jacconet the same may be
but for the latter better
said, as also of maddapolam ;
the better qualities of all
prices are offered, whilst
are neglected. In fancy goods there has been a fair
inquiry for book muslin, as also for pine dresses, and
dyed mulls ; but la-ppets, mulls, and Swiss lappets,
dull of sale. The demand for plain cloth and
are
twill in Turkey red dye has been good, and advanced
prices are now offered for both descriptions in all
widths. Prints, as before, dull of sale.
Cotton Yarn—Again we have to report a quiet
market for grey with limited sales, but prices are
steady, and for 303. mule, an advance of
k anna per
lb. has been obtained. Orange dye is in request, and
holders are demanding higher prices. The best qua-
li`y of Turkey red is also looking better, but infe-
rior is quite neglected. The following comp rise
such transactions in all kinds as have come to our
knowledge.
20 bales water twist, No. 20, at As. 7 per lb.
155 ditto mule, in 3001hs. bales, No. 30, As.
No.. No. 50, 40, As. 7i ;
As. 9 ; No. 60, As. 9i
per lb.
20 bales mule, in 201 b. bales, No. 30, As. 7i
per lb.
Woollens—Still very diffieult of sale, and with the
exception of a small parcel of lost ..scarlet save list
cloth, at a slight improvement in price, we have heard
of no transactions.
Cochineal—No arrivals of this article have taken
place since our last, and the price quoted is, therefore,
quite nominal. A fair supply appears to be on the
way out.
Saffron—The only transaction reported is one of
751 b., at rs. 12 per lb.
Beer—No supply here; cones uently nothing doing
q

hides, ginger, gunny, bags, &.c.
The first opium sale of the season was held on the
29th November, and passed off very quietly,.afforui
ing a remarkable contrast to the proceedings at tb°
opening sale of last year. The drug sold dearer the
had been expected, the average of Patna beillt
1,020r5., the lowest price it has been sold at
ip
Goverment sale since June, 1842, when the avereb
was 881 rs. The market has since been quiet. 10
The import trade has been inactive. The wil°o
system by which the commerce of the interior, 0
carried on is disorganised by the general prostratl.°o°
of credit. There has also been a natural expeotati,,,
that holders would in some degree be compelled ;
force their goods on the market, which has not, h°ll'l4
me, as yet been the case. For cottons the deoo,i
has been languid, but rather more dispo 1$
sition to b..,we
has latterly been apparent. Of mule twist some 1),
sales were made soon after the arrival of the 0:3,
and for the season a fair inquiry has been maintaiobto
II
Woollens are in rather less request. For metals `l3,
demaml has been less brisk, and sales have bean
imlortant. tsts
It is a favourable circumstance in the present Ito.
of affairs that the money market is still in a coirefrioa
tively easy position. There is, however, much cisn'oot
shown on all sides, and no disposition to loan It
funds except on undoubted and tangible se turd,
The Bank of Bengal rates of business are unsite'ye
and it has been announced that loans would 0
granted by the Bank on deposit of opium scriVelito
practice now revived after having been some
in disuse. The position of the Union Bank in *iett
flexion with the recent failures created much sn%-icP
and was the subject of many rumours. Shares 41.101‘
under the pressure of a run upon the bank 103 ;c1 $9
to 200 to 250 rs. per share, have since adlanc"
170 to 300 rs. per share. %te
Exchange transactions have been limited in
e o
and though there is still a considerable rOgoorti
quotations, the rates have latterly been rather,
sib
settled at about the following for six months
lid
paper :-Ist Class with clods., ls. 101 d. to 11'
per rupee; lst ditto without ditto, ls. 11(1.0 ls• ,
ditto ; Baring's Am. credits, ls. 11 id• to le.il3)gli;
ditto. Tonnage has been scarce, arrivals tort Diael,
slowly. The rates of freight have consequent`Jo 7
I well maintained. For sugar awl rice 0. 10*
have been paid to London and Liverpool.

in it.
ether are we enabled to report
Marine Stores—Ni
any transactions under this head ; prices are much the
same as before.
Spirits Brandy continues dull and difficult of sale;
and in the absence of transactions, the price is quite
nominal.

IXPOITS.
Cotton Wool—The dull and declining state of the
market for this staple, reported in our last, has con-
tinued through the fortnight, though we have had
somewhat more doing in it, the decline in prices and
rates of freight that have taken place having induced
parties to operate to a limited extent both for England
and China. The stock in the place is as yet moderate,
and the range of selection confined, but large supplies
are looked for from the Compta districts, which,
yhile they will add to the former, will not increase
the latter. 'lb. following is a list of soh purchases

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