The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-26 00:00:00

ROYAL PROCLA3fATION

~ Whe'll kill the dragon ? " Or me he shall gorge ;
I
I, says St. George, l'll kill the dragon."—Old MS.
Analog or St. George for the approaching Fight. Latest odds at
the "Corner," 1,000 to 9 on the Dragon (taken). " May the best
man win."

Scene 8. THE DRAGON'S HAUNT IN THE DESOLATE VALLEY.—
How the Dragon introduces the Princess Sabra to his " country
quarters ;" how St. George follows on horseback (the railroad not
being quite finished); how he and the Dragon fall in, and then fall
out. The Battle (for particulars of which keep your eyes fixed on
Mows. Payne and Wieland). Ilow the result of the last round not
only elevates St. George to the " Crown" of Egypt and the " five
shilling pieces" of England, but at the same time introduces the
audience to

Scone 9. GLAND HALL or CIIIVALRY.—How St. George receives
the Battle Money" (alias the hand of the Princess Sabra). Re-
appearance of the March of Intellect. Isitrodaction of Old Friends
in New Ch.tract,ers.

Harlequin.. Mr. Howell, Clown.. • • Mr. T. Matthews.
l'antaloon.... • Mr. Priorson. I Columbine Miss Hicks.
Scene 10. DEALER IN CURIOSITIES ♦ND IRONMONGER AND CET-
LEA'S Snop.—lmproved Surg:cal Instruments. "Holding the mirror
up to nature." " Familes furnished" on a novel principle. A loud
Report on the New Houses of Parliament. A fashionable complaint
Pies to the Clown's head.

Scene 11. COINCHANDLEICI Silo? AND GRANARY.—afore ways than
one of being "in clover." Specimen of the very best "Britannia
metal." Plenty of "game" in high preservation. Cabinet measures
and eorn measures. A lot of " chaff "in both. Harlequin gives
Clown" the sack." Abundant specimens of the New Tariff.
Seine 12. SIAMESE VILLAS ♦ND NURSERS' GIIOUND.—" To be let, to-
gether or separate." Ethiopian Serenaders provided on the shortest
notice. " Get out of the way, Old Dan Tucker," and make way for
" patent elastic India-rubber boots." Effects of " putting your feet
in it.' The Spanish marriage horticulturally illustrated. Spanish
nut and Orleans plum. "A plague o' both your houses."
Seene 13. TINNAN ♦ND TAILOR'S Snore.—The original little Tin
Kettle. Water always hot. A grate mistake. " Going out a shoot-
ing." Grand Experiments in Gun Cotton, ending in an awful Catas-
trophe.

Scene 14. INTEEIOH. OF TIRETISPI ♦ND FOILIGN TOY WAREHOUSE.—
Toys for the Million. Magic Cards. How to " cut and shuffle."
Jack in the Box and o!lt of it. First-rate teem and turn out. •• Sea
the Conquering Hero conies."
Scene 15, Ms STATUE as IT Is ; or, Wellington at Hyde-park-
corner.
Scene 16. TIIE STATUE AS IT WAS ; or, Wellington at Waterloo.
Look here upon this picture, and on this."

THEAria: ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Crider tho Management of Mr. 11. Webster, sole Lessee.
THIS EVENING
Will he performed a new ant original Dram-1, called THE
MOUND OF WRONG. Sir Arthur Folitinhe, Mr. Stuart ; lichen,
Mr. Rogers ; Reuben Gwynue, Mr. %Vkbstcr ; Ducks, Mr. Buck-
stone; Harwood, Mr. Bowe; Lady Chariotte Willoughby, Mrs.
Clitlbrd ; Mary- Ryland, Miss Fortescue ; Jenny, Miss Woulds.
After which the New Comic Drama of STOii.I"FE LUNG ; cr,
Morel Effects. In which Messrs. Buckstone, Miss felhin,
sett Mrs. Humby wit appear.
To sonclu4e with (first time) an Original Grand Fairy Extrava-
ganza of the INVISIBLE PRINCE ; or, the Island of Tranquil'
Delights. Principal char4cters by Mr. James Bland, Miss P. Horton,
Mrs. L. S. Buckin;ham, Miss Reynoldi, and Miss Julia Bennett.

iIhATRE noYAL, I.IcEUN
Under the Matuwemeut of Mrs. Keeley.
Tills EVENING
Will be performed a Drama, founded on the New Christmas
Annual of Charles Dickens, Esq., and adapted to the stage (by the
exclusive permission of the author, from the proof sheets) by Albeit
Smith, Esq.. called THE BATTLE OF LIFE. Principal cha.
',niers by Messrs. Leigh Murray, Turner, F. Matthews, F. Vining,
Meadows, Keeley ; Mrs. Woo:lnge, Miss Daly, Miss May, Miss
(hove, Miss Foster, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with a New Comic Pantomime, entitled THE BUT-
TERFLY'S BALL. Harlequin (Ist time) Mr. John Lauri ; Clown, Mr. J. W. Co lier ; Pintaloon, Mr. Gough, ; Columbine, Miss Laid-
Llw ; Attendant Sprites, Masters. C. and F. Lauri.

TBEATEE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
VICDER TILE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE.
TIIIS EVENING
Will ha
performed an original romantic Drama, called CO-
LOMBA, TIIE CORSICAN SISTER. characters supported by
Madame Celeste, Mrs. Tates ; Messrs. Wright, Worrell, Bedford,
0. Smith, &c.
Between the piecee the celebrated ENTORTILATIONISTS, Mr.
John Lees and his three Pupils—the Masters Hanlons, will ox..
Islblt their morlderful deux Gymnastlques.
Atte: which a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet
of LA GISELLE, entitled THE PHA.NTOM DANCERS; or, the
Willi Bride. Principal cl:asacters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford.
Mr. O. Smith, Mr. C lien:or.l. Madame Celeste, miss Marian Taylor,
Miss Emma :larding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws.

PR INC F:SS'S THEATRE, OX FORD-SIT E ET.
J. 31. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING
Will he per ormed a Drama, in two acts, called BLANCHE DE
VA TAIT. the characters will be supported by Messrs. Granby,
U. Hughes, J. Vining, S. Cowell, Homier; Mrs, Stirling, and Mrs.
H. Hughes.-
In the course of the evening Professor HEMMING and his ta-
hated 'HILDREN will go through their wonderful performances.
After which, a new and original Musical Romance, entitled
THE SEVEN MAIDS Ob' MUNI 211 ; or, The Ghost's Tower.
Col. Bertrand, Mr. C. Fisher ; Capt. d'Armincourt, Mr. Allen ;
Capt. Bellejarab Mr. Leffler ; Lieut. Adolphe, Mr. W 3 nn ; ernet
arosdos, Mr. Compton • Baron Bristlelach, Mr. Walton ; Bumps,
Mr. Bonner; Seven Maids of Munich, Misses Sari Flower, Rourke,
& Bonner, Hincks, 31111ar, L. Marshall, Laporte ; Ude]. Miss
Marshall ; Madame Groutz, Mrs. Fosbroke.
To cenclnile with a new Grand Comic Chrstmas Pantomime, enti-
tled Th 3 ENCIIIANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE;
or, The One-eyed Geni. • Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr.
Fault); Columbine, Miss Burbidge; Sprite, Mr. H. Marshall ;
Clown, Mr—lelexinore.

FRENCH PLAYS. --- ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Lessee. Mr. John 311tchell.
01 MONDAY EVENING Next
Will be performed L'ECOLE DES MARIS. Sganarellc, 31
Cartlgny ' • Valere, 31. Langeval ; Ergaste, M. Lucian ; Artiste,
Yrere de Sganareile, 3f. Dorgebret ; Un Commissaire, M. 31asquil-
Iler ; Un Notaire, M. Pagenier ; Isabelle, Mademoiselle Angele ;
FAeonor, Madame Fouquet ; Lisette, Mdlie. Khin.
MAtter n hich, LE PAItRAIN. 11. Durand Rentier (Le Parrain),
.
To conclude with MONSIEUR PIQUE ASSIETTE. Pique-
Assiette, Mom 'cur Periet.
&axes, Gs. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 25. Doors opened at
half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight.

ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
It is respectfully announced that this being Christinas--day,
there will bu no pertormanee; but this Inimitable Entertainment
will be resumed Tills EVENING, and continued every Tues-
day, Thursday, and Saturday ; and, in compliance with nu-
mesiotis applications, they wi►l give a GRAND MORNING PER-
FORMANCE on WEDNESDAY NEXT, commencing at half-past
Two o'Ciock.— St. James's Theatre, Dec. 25.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Amphitheatre, 2s.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL A m pll
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Pa'renisecl by her 3fost Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince
Albert, Prince of Wales, and Royal Family. Grand Christrws
Heiday Fetes. TO-MORROW EVENING (Bexing•N'ght), a
double rotation of Equestrian and Gymnastic Novelties. The
"Demon Horse ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit."
Hoer Neupartc, the great Dutch Bottle Equilibrist.

- THIS EVENING
Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en-
italed THE DEMON MORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the
Chlirmed Bit.
'ew and entire change in the SCENES of the CIRCLE.
To conclude with the Grand Gliristmas Comic Fairy Pantomime,
entitled THE FORTY THIEVES; or, Harlequin and Ali Baba and
the Robber's Cave. Clown, Mr. Rochez ; Harlequin, Mr. W. Her-
vey; Pantaloon, Mr. Laffarint ; Columbine, Miss Louisa Waite.
iiox-ottice open iron' eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six
and commence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W.
Broadfoot.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed an original Drama, entitled THE HAND OF
CARDS—G.IMM LIFE, STAKES, DEATH. The characters will
be supported by the whole of the talented Company.
To conclude with A grand fairy Pantomime, called THE KING
01' THE CASTLFE ; or, Harlequin in the Land of Dreams. Har-
Isquin, Herr Denlin. ; Pantaloon, Herr R. Deuliu ; Columbine, :Mlle.
Theodora; Clown. ll,rr E. DeWitt.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS
'frill he performed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss V."-
fit, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, and Messrs. N. T. Hicks, Ed.
wards, Bird, Searle, Forman, Ice., will perform.
Afterwhich will he produced a grand Christmas Pantomlra-,, en-
Wiest TRES rilicru OF THE STEAM ENGINE ; or, Ilfirlequin
" Go-a-Head," and Joe Miller and Ws Men. Clown, Mr. ''':. Barry ;
Pant:orn. Signor Oemonde; Harlequin, M. Lupin(); tolumidue,
Ardlle. Adele Lam&

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Preparing,

their parents in worship in the village churches, with
which all the recollections of their childhood are
associated, their self-opinionated religionists are car-
rying out their bigotry to an unbearable excess.
Employing vehicles themselves upon that seventh
day, they are indignant that the poorer classes should
be desirous of purchasing sixpenny railway tickets.
Looking to the religion of the thing, it is calculated
that several hundred individuals have been hitherto
enabled to attend the churches and chapels of Edin-
burgh, or of Glasgow, who, without the assistance of
a railway, would be altogether deprived of religious
instruction. Again, it is preposterous for the
directors to prohibit this Sunday travelling on
the plea of its immorality when the clerks upon
their establishment are employed during a consider-
able portion of every Sunday. A more preposterous
or more bigoted act was never conceived by any
similar association than this proceeding on the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway; it is calculated to
be prejudicial in a sanatory point of view, and, above
all, is inimical to the cause of true religion.

It is alike curious and interesting, it is, indeed,
useful as well as highly subservient to the ends of
morality, to note how frequently sinister objects, in-
tended to be reached, through the prosecution of
schemes skilfully devised and deeply laid, are hap-
pily crossed and rendered nugatory by incidents,
which craft and subtlety, and vigilant circumspection
oftentimes fail to foresee. The records of history are
replete with instances of the evil machina-
tions of states having been seasonably sub-
verted by the most trivial circumstances,
and most ordinary events. It is well for
the interests of the human race, that flagitious exam-
ples of national honour disregarded, of solemn treaties
contemptuously slighted, with the degrading conse-
quences they have entailed upon the countries, by
which such shameless acts have been authoritatively
sanctioned, should be stereotyped on the pages of
general history. They serve as great international
beacons to warn sovereigns and their ministers against
the inimical results of attempting, by a narrow,
crooked, and insidious policy, to deceive and
overreach neighbouring states, with which they
affect to maintain the most amicable and
honorable relations. Were history not pregnant, as
it is, with such high moral lessons, treachery would
be at a premium, and the code of nations nothing
better than a sickening digest of Machiavellian
duplicity.
The Peninsular intrigues to which the wily ICING
of the FRENCH, in a wary and underhanded manner,
has not hesitated to stoop, to effect a Spanish mar-
riage, not merely for the miserable object of grasp-
ing a considerable dowry for his son, not merely for
the contingency of his descendants mounting the
Iberian throne, but also for the purpose of gaining in
Spain, through the influence thus nuptially acquire 3,
in contravention of existing treaties for the conser•
vation of the balance of European power, a maritime
and commercial influence of an exclusive character,—
such conduct on the part of Louis PHILIPPE has been
deservedly rebuked, and taught us the propriety of
keeping aloof from the contaminating ways of his
faithless dynasty.
The accidental tour in Spain of one individual, in-
stigated to make it for the renovation of his health,
promises to be the simple and efficacious means
of thwarting one of the leading considerations which
doubtless prompted Louis PHILIPPE to bring about
the marriage of the Duke of MONTPENSIER with the
Infanta Dona LUISA. Mr. COBDEN, M.P., has
nobly sacrificed the repose needful to his deteriorated
health, and voluntarily entered upon a mission the
object whereof cannot be too much lauded. The
great reputation with which he left his native
shore has been, to his honour and their honour,
fully appreciated by the mercantile communities
of every Spanish province which he has happened
to visit. The homage that: has been every-
where paid to him, has been fully justified,
not only by the signal services he rendered to our
United Empire and other countries, through the tri-
umph he achieved this year for the principles of free
trade, but also by the enunciation of the soundest data
of political economy which, in his own peculiar, for-
cible, and felicitous language, he has never failed to
impart to the various civic banquets to which
he has been invited. That a general at.il
profound sympathy exists in Spain with the
great cause espoused by Mr. COBDEN is evidenced by
the welcome with which his presence has been so
enthusiastically greeted in all the leading cities in the
Iberian peninsula.

WATCHFULNESS ; the Present becoming Posture of the true
Church (Rev. xvi., 15 ; Zeph. 11., 3), showing the near approach of
the last great tribulation, as connected in Scripture with Vie restora-
tion of Judah, the drying up of Turkey, and the Divine rebuke
poured out on Satan. "Shall a trumpet be blown in the city and
the people not be afraid ?"
SIN and PIETY, viewed in Relation to the Universe. Enlar6ed
100 pages. Being an improvement of the discoveries of Lord Rome's
telescope.
A NEW DISCLOSURE ; being a Blast at Satan's empire. Gd.
Steel and Palmer, Paternoster-row.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.
Office, Easton Station, Dec. 12, 1846.

The Directors are ready to receive Tenders for Loans, on the
security of the Company's Debentare Bonds, for sums of not less
than 1,0001. each, at Four per Cent. Interest, payable half-yearly, and
for terms of from Five to Ten Years certain.

By order,

R. CREED, I Secretaries.
H. BOOTH.

RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE.
%J[ESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY
JAL rHARE AUCTIONEEItS, beg to thank their Friends
and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and
to annomce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c.
take place every TCEgDAT and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the
Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place,
favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully
,equestel to be addressed.

All scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day
orevious to their being offered; and advices of results will be
'iorttarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds haunt-
Nately disposed of according to instrizetions.
Offices. Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London.

111 E WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, DECEMBER 26.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 26; Highest, 30; Noon, 34,
BAROMETER, 30.29.—W1ND E., fin'.

wATEii, AT LONDON-isitLOUE Till:, DAY.
Morning .. 41 minutes after 7. J Evening .. 13 minutes after 8.

Our columns of to-day contain a report of a grand
entertainment to the Member for Stockport, at Ma-
laga. His speech will be re td with interest. An
entire perusal will alone do it justice. He again
enforces the broad, intelligible, and sound principle,
that for the purposes of revenue only, and not for the
exclusive beneSt of classes or private individuals,
ought custom-house duties to be imposed. " The
custom-house," observed Mr. COBDEN, "is alienated
from its legitimate object when it is made use of for
the purpose of rendering more lucrative the under-
taking of any private individual, and preventing
others from following the same trade. The sole and
unique object that can justify the creation of taxes
and duties, is, as I have said, the provision of a reve-
nue or resources for the state. This is the basis of

all our present operations in England." Mr. COBDEN
happily, and with becoming modesty, adverted to the
generous and confident spirit in which. England has
led the van in favour of commercial liberty. Fie ex-
horted his hearers to promote the discussion
of freedom of trade, which was certain of being
successrully adopted wherever the people were en-
lightened, and he expressed his conviction that the
mind of the Spanish nation would soon be animated
by a due sense of the inestimable advantages
attendant upon unfettered mercantile intercourse
between all nations of the earth. "Free trade,"
exclaimed Mr. COBDEN, "is the presage of peace be-
tween nations; this magic word, peace, expresses in
a thousand ways the progress of humanity and civili-
sation; and you, the people of Spain, will see, with
us, that the dearest interests of the great family of
the human race are involved in our prin-
ciples !" These ennobling truths were ap-
plauded to the echo in Malaga, as they were
in Madrid, in Cadiz, in Seville, and in Barcelona.
We rejoice to receive such gratifying intelligence.
With the spread of free-trade principles in Spain,
under the luminous auspices of Mr. COBDEN, the
crafty schemes of Louis PHILIPPE, for rendering the
commercial interests of Spain exclusively instru-
mental to the augmentation of those of France, will be
completely vitiated.

The King of DENMARK. has dissolved the Diet of
Schleswig. In the sitting of Dec. 14th, the Royal
Commissioner read the following letter from his
MAJESTY :

"From the minutes of the proceedings of the Diet of
Schleswig, I have seen with regret that the said As-
sembly, in place of being occupied with the Bills earnestly
required by the country, and with those proposed by the
Diet itself, has discussed certain propositions contrary
to the Act of May 28, 1831, and which tend to change
completely the constitution of the Duchy of Schleswig,
and to bring about its separation from Denmark. Al
though the Diet has several times been informed that it
is incompetent in this respect, it has not paid any atten-
tion to the information. The Commissioner having re-
ceived an injunction in conformity with paragraph 50,
not to accept the petitions of the Diet, the President
maintained that the right of petitioning was there-
by suppressed. There was every unwillingness to
attack in any way this right ; and if the Diet bad pro-
posed changes on the subject of the interpretation of
paragraph 50, regard would perhaps have been paid to
them. The President, however, insisted that the girder
of the day should be changed—the Commissioner for that
reason was unable to accept the petitions, which decided
the majority to quit, without any sufficient reason, the
hall where the sittings were held. This proceeding by
the majority, contrary to its duty, and the illegal con-
duct of the President, which has incurred our disappro-
bation, rendering all further discussion impossible, we
hereby declare the present Diet of Schleswig dissolved.
Pained as we are to find ourselves obliged to have re-
course to this sad necessity, we shall always be most
ready to give our dear and faithful subjects of the duchy
of Schleswig proofs of our unceasing paternal solicitude,
and to protect the independence of that duchy, its union
with the other parts of the monarchy, the rights estab-
lished, the Danish and German nationality of its in-
habitants, and to labour for well-being of each by useful
measures. With such views we commend it to the safe
keeping of God."

A Frankfort journal of the 21st states, on the au-
thority of a letter from Vienna, that the Austrian
Cabinet had not decided as to whether the answer to
the note of Lord PAI.MERSTON on the Cracow affair
shall be given in its own name alone or in that of the
three, Courts. It was supposed, however, that a col-

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY 14_1VENING, DECEMBER 26, 1846.

lective answer would appear semi-officially in the
Austrian Observer.

The Nuremberg Correspond nit, of the 17th, has
the following from Berlin :—" The judicial proceed-
ings which were commenced in consequence of the
late arrests are going on actively. The affair has
taken a very serious turn, and new arrests are made
every day among the upper classes. It is asserted
that several towns of the kingdom are compromised.
Amongst the new prisoners is one who is believed to
be an agent of the poet Paris and Switzer-
land form the central point of the machinations
These criminal attempts have had for object to revo-
lutionise the lower classes, and even seduce the sol-
diers from their duty, by the propagation of seditious
works in the barracks."

The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort, of the 19th,
has the following from Posen:—"Although the letters
from the kingdom of Poland announce nothing of
the app:oaching catastrophe, travellers from thence
report, in the most positive manner, that on the 13th
of next month the kingdom of Poland will cease to
exist, and will be incorporated with Russia."
A letter from Posen in a German paper says—" It
is certain that the Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen
are not permitted to take any part in elections for
Provincial Deputies. The Government has annulled
the last election in consequence of some Jews having
voted, and a new election has been ordered. The
Municipal Council, however, has resolved to suspend
the proceedings for a new election in order to give
time for a representation to be made to the Minister
of the Interior on the subject."

A letter from Berlin, of Dec. 17, says—" For
several years past the production of wool has become
so considerable in Germany, that this country at pre-
sent finds itself at the head of all those where this
branch of trade is carried on. The states of the Cus-
toms' Union possess 21,961,551 sheep, furnishing
each year, allowing a minimum of 221 b to 10 sheep,
48,500,0001 b. of wool. The Austrian states produce
each year 700;000 quintals of wool, two-thirds of
which come from Hungary, Transylvania, and the
military frontiers; the other third is produced in
Mora% ia, Silesia, Bohemia, and Gallicia. As to the
quality, the wools produced in Moravia and Silesia
are the best; next come those of Bohemia, Gallicia,
Transylvania, and the military frontiers."

Madrid Papers of the 16th have arrived.
The Esperanza, of the day before, had been seized
for having published an extract from the Paris Esprit
Public.

According to the Espanol, the Council of Ministers
has as yet come to no decision as to the time of their
resignation, although ISTURITZ, SANZ, and CANEJA,
have expressed their positive determination to resign.
The elections are nearly over, and the Tierapo gives
the following analysis of the new Chamber :
" DIODERADO CANDIDATES RETURNED.
" Members of the Ministerial majority in the last
Cortes
94
" Members of the Opposition in ditto (Pacheco
party)
32
" Deputies who did not sit in the former Cortes II l

to har that France and England should not draw closer
to each other. The alliance of these two free nations is
the only obstacle that she seriously dreads. The day on
which France and England should have fallen out irre-
parably, Russia would utter a cry t.f joy—she would
have attained the height of her wishes—civil:sation and
right would have lost their rampart ! Should the Rus-
sian alliance be worth to us a province, we should never
forget that such presents are not received from such a
power, but by becoming its feudatories ! Cracow will
cost dear to those who have accepted such a present !
We think that the tactics of the partisans of the Russian
alliance amongst us ought now to be understood ; to
separate France from England irrecoverably, and to dis-
turb everything in Europe. Such is their aim I It
ought also to be comprehended why, notwithstanding a
temporary difference with England, we remain firm to
our old faith of the English alliance. The English alli-
ance or isolation ! We know of no third position ho-
nourable for France."

The Bey of TUNIS arrived at Lyons on the 20th,
and left it next day on his journey to the south.
" The responsible editors of the Epoque, the Com-
merce, the Journal des Villes et Campaynes, the Gaz(tte
des.Francf, the Echo Francais, the Esprit Public, and
the Drcit, bad to appear before the Tribunal of Correc-
tional Police on Tuesday, to answer a charge of offend-
ing against the law, by inserting the advertisements of
foreign lotteries. The chief defence set up was, that
the parties had disposed of their advertising pages to
persons who had contracted for them by the year, and
that they could not, without a violation of their contract,
refuse to publish the advertisements which were brought
to them, unless they could have shown that they were
acting in defiance of the law. The Tribunal, in order
that the defendants might be able to plead a conviction
as a sufficient ground for refuting to publish such adver-
tisements, found them guilty, but inflicted, as punish-
ment for the past, only a fine of 10 francs each, and his
proportion of the costs of the prosecution."
Algiers papers to the 15th have arrived. They
contain no news. At that date the colony was in the
enjoyment of uninterrupted tranquillity.
COURS AUTIIENTIQUE.—PARIS, DEC. 24.—French Five per
Cents., 118 f. 85c. 50c. 60c.; Three per Cents., 80f. 70c. 60c.
55c. 60c. ; Bank of France Shares, 3,490 f. ; Treasury
Bonds, 3% 1 3 m., 314 3 6 m. Obligations of the City, 1,387 f.
50c. 1,385 f. ; Neapolitar. (Rothschild's), Detinitives,
103 f. 25c. ; Romans, 101; Belgian Five per Cents. (1840),
101 f. 100%8 f. 101 f. ; Belgian Five per Cents. (1842), 102 f. ;
Belgian Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 5534 f. ; Ditto, Bank,
930 f. Exchange on London—one montli,paper, 25f. 324 c. ;
money, 25f. 32%c. ; three months, paper, 25f. 221/2c.;
money, 25f. 221 h c.

" Total Moderados of all shades... 237
" Progressistas returned
" Absolutists
4
" DistricU for which 2d elections are to take place 29

322
" The total number of Deputies, including the Canaries,
&c., is 350."
Up to the 16th 163 Deputies had been returned who
did not sit in the last Cortes.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The Commerce gives the following version of the
affair of Al. BARBET DE JOUY, the French Consul
at the Mauritius :
" M. Barbet de Jouy has thought proper to quit his
residence, and thus anticipate the decision of Ministers,
who, it is said, in order not to displease England, have
appointed him Consul at Honolulu, in the Sandwich
Island 4. M. Barbet, who has been brought up in the
good principles of the Conservative policy, knows all its
ins and outs, and could not therefore delude himself as
to the fate reserved for him by the Cabinet of the
Pritchard indemnity, and of the disavowal of Dupetit
Thouars. By the Palladium, which has arrived at
Havre, from the Island of Bourbon, with letters of the
lath September, we learn that M.l3arbet had been for
some days at Bourbon, where he was waiting for now in
,tructions. We now extract from the Journal du com-
merce of Bourbon, tha account which it gives of the facts
which led the agents of England to put so gross an in-
sult upon one or the representatives of France. The
account is as follows M. Barbet de Jouy, the French
Consul at the Mauritius, had thought that at the levees
of the chief officer of that colony there was an inclina-
i ion to refuse him the precedence to which he was en-
titled b.) his rank and position, but, as the question was
Ine of mere ceremony, he did not make any remon-
Ararce. At an official dinner, given by the Governor
on the 24th of June last, M. Barbet was much offended,
as he had a right to be, at seeing that the health of the
King of the French was given only ac a fifth toast, after
queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales, Prince Albert, and
the Duke of Wellington, and he resolved no more to ex-
pose his dignity, as representative of the King and Fraace,
to such a forgetfulness of what was due to propriety.
Another dinner having been given at the same place, in
honour of the arrival of Admiral Dacres, M. Barbet was in
vited, but would not go. Neither did he think that, as
Consul of France, long established at the Mauritius, it
was his duty to pay the first visit on the arrival of the
Admiral. The officers of the frigate in which Admiral
Dacres had hoisted his flag gave a ball a few days ago,
to which M. Barbet was invited in his official quality.
On the day following that on which the invitation was
delivered, M. Barbet received the visit of two officers of
the who came to declare to him that the invita-
tion had been sent by error, and that the Admiral not
having received from him any manifestation of polite.
ness, could not meet him at the ball. Whether this
unjustifiable proceeding was the result of premeditation,
or the accidental consequence of the will of the Ad-
miral, it is in either case a grave offence; or, to use the
particular language of Sir Robert Peel, a gross outrage
upon tho functionary who has the charge of the French
flag at the Mauritius. All that we can add is, that the
si.p of the face received by M. Barbet has been re.
turned, and remains."
It is evident, from his own account, that M. BARBET
DE JOUY is a captious and ill-bred person, whose man-
ners may, perhaps, be suited to the society he is likely
to meet with at Honolulu, but who is certainly most
unfitted to represent French interests in any civilised
community.
The Journal des Debats contains the following
masterly reply to the miserable defence by the Presse
of the conduct of Russia :
" We are aware that for a long time there has re-
mained to unfortunate Poland only an empty name, a
shadow of existence, which the treaties of Vienna had
desired to secure to her. Russia, we also are aware,
has laughed at her-engagements, and has forced Poland
to endure all that barbarous force can inflict on weak-
ness. Notwithstanding the cry of indignant Europe, the
Pules have been dispersed, their property confiscated,
and their children carried off ! Not only have they lost
all their political guarantees, but an attempt has been
made to make them forget their ancient language,
to adopt new customs, to abjure the religious faith
of their fathers. It is against these abominable acts of
violence that our Chambers protest every year, and
their protest, whatever they be said to the contrary, if it
des not prevent the fact, maintains the right—the right
written down in treaties—the right against which exile,
confiscations, and cruelties can do nothing ! No, pro-
tests are not a vain formality, and Russia knows it well,
as her acts prove. The nationality of Poland will still
sabAst in spite of all that cunning and barbarity have
done to destroy it, as long as there remains in Europe a
free tribunal to protest in the name of treaties against
the annihilation of that nationality! A day will arrive
sooner or later when these protests, which persons now
affect to despise, will rise up all together, and
constitute a terrible condemnation against Go-
vernments reckoning only on force ! What is it
that the journal which laughs at the protests
of France and England desire to prove? That for
fifteen years Russia, by her violence and attacks,
more or less plainly manifested against treaties, has
placed herself outside the pale of public right and civili-
sation? We allow this without any difficulty. In fact,
all that could be destroyed of Poland has been destroyed,
its constitution, its Chambers, its army. There is, how-
ever, a last step to pass, and that step is to all appearance
something, since Russia, notwithstanding all the desire
she feels, has not taken it. Poland has lost everything;
there only remains to her her name; hut that name has
not yet been ventured to be taken from her; and the
day on which Russia shall declare that there is in the
world a Russian province the more, and a kingdom of
Poland the less, it will be seen whether right is nothing,
even when violence has reduced it to a vain shadow, a
mere word. The republic of Cracow fora length of time
had only preserved an almost ridiculous shadow of inde-
eonraßt Senate tremblede
eu
rn.der
Thereeth aisumthoorrei tiy.r
eoefdtohme
of Cracow was only a word ; every one knew it ; and
arotewiSle(tisetPnFtue. sratlrbtisuarg h than there was at Cracow. The republic Sn
yet the day when the Northern Powers scratched out
this word, this vain word, all Europe felt deeply shaken.
Treaties were being eluded ; they were openly and
audaciously violated ; and there was not a free man in
Europe who did not consider himself attacked in his
rights by the same blow ! One power alone can rejoice
at these attacks against the faith of treaties and against
civilisation, and that power is Russia. For the accom-
plishment of her projects on Poland and elsea here, she
wants Europe to fall into a universal confusion, and that
force should rule over right. For Prussia and Austria
the destruction of Cracow has been an enormous fault—
for Russia alone it is the game stroke, the finishing touch
of success I She wanted accomplices, and she has them.
There are no more treaties—so much the better ! that is
what Russia wanted. But it is, above all, important

MARLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Henry Robert Ealy, aged 15, was brought up before
Mr. Long for robbing the till of his employers, the
Messrs. nter and Co., Berkeley-square, of 31. 18s.
Thcmas Foreman, an assistant in the shop of Messrs.
Gunter and Co., said the till had been robbed on a pre-
vious occasion. and late on Thursday night, with a view
to discover the party, he put a particular mark on each
piece of money in the till, there being in all 41. in silver
there. He then locked the till and laid the key on the
usual place. Every one connected with the shop knew
the place where the key lay. Yesterday morning he
found the till locked, and the key where he had left it,
but on opening it he saw that the whole of the money
was taken out except two shillings.
Police-constable 115 C, said he was called into the
Messrs. Gunter by the last witness yesterday. He
called all the men and apprentices into a back room.
They first searched the apprentices, and the prisoner,
who is one of them, gave up the key of his drawer, and
conducted him (the constable) into his bedroom. On
opening the drawer he discovered 3/. 18s. in silver,
which the former witness identified as the same that he
had marked the previous evening, and put into the till.
Mr. Bishop, one of the partners of the house, begged
that the magistrate would remand the prisoner till
another day, in hope of discovering the boy's accom-
plices. He produced two letters found in the same
drawer with the money, the contents of which were not
made known, but which were of a na'ure to implicale
others not at present in custody.
Mr. LONG said the case against the prisoner was clear
and complete. If the applicant could state to him any.
thing against others on evidence upon which be could
act, he might then remand the prisoner, but in the
absence of that he saw no reason for granting the
application.
The prisoner said be felt very sorry for what he had
done, and he had never been in a cell before.
Mr. LONG committed him to Newgate to take his trial.
After the morning charges were over, John Calf,
the landlord of the Round Table Tavern, St. Martin's.
court, craved the indulgence of the magistrate, while he
complained of a report which had appeared in the
Globe newspaper of Tuesday last. In the case of Charlotte
Long, a woman committed for drunkenness and dis-
orderly conduct, that newspaper had stated, in the evi-
dence of the policeman, that " the prisoner had just
been turned out of the Round Tower Tavern, in the
above court. It was a ccmmon occurrence with the
landlord of that house to let such characters as the pri-
soner stop in the house till they got in a beastly state of
intoxication, and then to turn them out. There were
generally three or four turned out in that state every
night." Mr. Calf said the report was utterly false, even
by the testimony of the police themselves, who had in-
variably given his house a good character for quietness
and order. He had besides the signatures of most re-
spectable gentlemen to the same effect ; and he felt sorry
that anything so libellous should have found its way into
4. public print, as it must very seriously injure his
house.

Mr. LONG said he heard nothing but the evidence, and
he could not interfere in the case.

Mr. Calf hoped the reporters would notice his app
cation, and then retired.

MARYLEBONE_(THIS DAY.)
Sarah If ikocks, wllo was dismissed by Mr. Long a
few days since, was again brought up the day before
Mr. Rawlinson, on the same charge of having robbed
her master, Mr. Joseph Patten, of one dessert spoon, one
dessert fork, a jack towel, and a cut-glass tumbler.
The prisoner was taken into custody by 126 S, at the
house of Mr. Russell, 16, Worthington-terrace, where
she had been engaged by means of a false character.
A duplicate was found in her basket, and the articles it
referred to were produced from the shop of Mr. Crad-
dock, pawnbroker, Tottenham•court-road, and identified
by the prosecutor as forming part of the property ho
had lost.

The prisoner, who offered nothing like a defence, was
committed for trial.

Joseph Lebo°, who described himself as a weaver, re-
siding in Camden-street, Bethnal-green, was als..) com-
mitted for trial, on a charge of attempting to pick a
lady's pocket last Thursday evening, at the Paddington
station of the Great Western Railway Company. The
prisoner was observed twice by Nash, a constable at-
tached to the railway, and also by Mr. Adams, one of
the clerks, to attempt the robbery of the lady, a Mrs.
Msry Knatts, of 58; Torrington-square. Nash collared
the prisoner the second time, but he had not suceeeded
in abstracting anything.
Mr. Robinson, who attended for the prisoner, wished
the case to be disposed of summarily; but it having been
intimated to the Bench that the Company were desirous
to prosecute,

BAWLINSON, who also was of opinion that such
was the proper course, ordered him to be committed.

THE COLOSSEUM.—The division of prices at this
delightful exhibition is a great boon to the public, and
a great advantage to the proprietor. A great boon to
the public inasmuch as it enables an individual for one
shilling to see any one portion of the exhibition. For
instance, the Museum of Sculpture and the Panorama of
LondoubyDay may be seen fur one shilling. The Con-
servatory, Aviary Views, and Swiss Scenery may be
seen for a similar sum; or if the visitor is desirous, like
Richmond, of penetrating "into the bowels of the land"
for his shilling, he may visit the Stalactite Caverns
at Adelsberg. It is a great advantage to the proprietor
because, like a diminishing duty it brings with it an
increased revenue, and for the same reason.
Many who really cannot afford to pay more
than one shtlling at a time have hitherto
been kept away from the Colosseum. These visitors
pay their shilling, and delighted with what they have
seen, return again some months afterwards and see
another portion, and a month after that, return and see
the remainder, bringing with them a party each time.
These visitors are, however, few in number, compared
with those who enter the Colosseum determined only to
see one shilling's-worth, but who are so delighted with
that that they are tempted to pay another, and do not
leave the building until they have seen the whole. The
Colosseum was this morning crowded with visitors of
this class, and so delighted were they with what they
saw by day that not a few of them audibly expressed
their determination to revisit the Colosseum at night, in
order to see how the various objects look when illumi-
nated by artificial light, and they are right. The day
and the night exhibitions are perfectly distinct; they
no more resemble one another than day resembles night,
and no one can form an idea of the wonders of the Co-
losseum who has not seen both.

INSTITUTION.—Th a hasty
glance which we were enabled to give this morning at
this splendid temple of science, we were delighted to find
that it was crowded to excess. There are many novel-
ties in the dissolving views, and in the lectures of Dr.
Ryan and Professor Bachoffner. Important as all these
are, they appear trivial in comparison to the " great
fact," that there are so many thousands in London, as
were seen there to-day, capable of that highest enjoy-
ment, the utile dulcie. The institution will be open this
evening, being the first Saturday since its establishment.
CITY OF LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.—
The first ordinary meeting of the above Society is to be
held at the London Tavern on Wedesday, the 6th of
January.
STEALING THE ENTIRE FURNITURE OF A HOUSE.
—Yesterday information was forwarded to the police,
that during the temporary absence of the inmates of the
house No. 11, Ayliffe-street, New Kent-road, the pre-
mises had been stripped of the entire household furni-
ture. It was openly placed in a van and carried off ;
and though a reward has been offered, no clue at present
can be obtained to the perpetrators of the act.
SPECULATION BY SHEFFIELD GENTS.—It iS con-
fidently expected that a company of Sheffield gents. are
about to undertake the carrying out of the Morewood
Sough, Eyam, which unanimous opinion states will drain
the lead mines in Eyam Edge of water, a result that
would be attended by the attaining therefrom immense
mineral wealth.
CITY ImrosmoNs.—At a recent meeting of the
Ward.of Bridge, it was stated that any person landing
below London-bridge from foreign steam-boats was
obliged to pay Is. the instant he put his foot on the
shore. This imposition was said to have the effect of
driving passengers to land at Blackwall. All the mem-
bers
of the Court of Common Council for the ward pro-
mised to do their best to put an end to it.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

In the Liverpool Cotton market this week there have
been sold 21,310 bales. Prices arc fairly V. per lb.
lower, and in some cases more, as compared with Friday
last. Stock, 424,600 bales, against 890,200 bales at this
time last year. There was, of course, no Share market
at Liverpool yesterday.
The return of the assets and liabilities of the Bank
of En ,;land for the past week gives the following
changes :

Notes issued £28,413,000
Increase 2,265
Public deposits, increase 662,272
Rest, increase
Other deposits, decrease
7 Day and other Bills, decrease 18,556
Other securities, increase.... 24,324
Notes, increase
Bullion .... 15,162,623
Increase 9,110
The directors of the Bank of England are pur-
suing, in this respect, the same course as for some
weeks past. They diminish their note liabilities,
although their bullion and securities are increasing. On
the other hand, however, they have to meet the continued
withdrawal of other deposits, which, although balanced
by the present increase of public deposits will not long
continue so to be, inasmuch as the dividends and official
salaries will soon trench upon the latter. The year,
however, is expected to close without any pressure for
money in the discount market, and soon after the open-
ing of the New Year we shall have money perhaps more
abundant.

The importance of the railway interest renders the
eighth edition of " Tuck's Railway Manual" a most ac-
ceptable work for " city " men, because the constant
changes in railway property necessitate periodical cor-
rections. The statistics given of the traffic, receipts,
prices of shares, &c., are so ample, that it is almost use-
less to attempt extracts. We may observe, however, that
about four years are expected to elapse before the Bills
sanctioned in 1846 can be completed, and that the ex-
penditure will be about 25 millions per annum. a part of
which amount will actually be obtained by the employ-
ment of the surplus capital which quick communication
affords, considering the rapid circulation of money paid
away for wages, kc., there cannot at any time of the
year be a million unemployed in the coffers of the
bankers receiving " calls" for the various companies.
Consols for the Account have been very steady this
morning at 94, the Three per Cent. Reduced at 944
the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. at 96, and
Exchequer-bills at 12s. to Bs. premium. The attendance
of dealers and jobbers today is extremely thin, most of
them keeping the holidays.
Abcut a half a dozen bargains wt re made in the Fo-
reign Bonds this morning. Portuguese Four per Cents.
have been quoted only at 374, the French Rentes at 118,
Exchange 25f. 50c., the Dutch Two and-a-Half per
Cents. at 61, and the FOur per Cents. at 924.
In the Railway Share Market there has not been any
movement of importance to-day.

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. FRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns....- 944% 941/2
New 31% per Cent. Annuities 961/8 96 96
Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 9% 9',7i
Consols for Opening 941/8 941,4
Exchequer Bills, 10001. 1',4d.... 912 8— p 8 p

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