The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

shall now proceed to examine the various items in
detail, and to show where the great falling off has
been, and where improvements have taken place.
It was well known that the Chinese pay-
Ments had terminated ; the deficiency in that
respect, therefore, can occasion no surprise.
The repayments of advances, although an extraordi-
nary branch of the revenue, being merely the liquida-
tion of debts due to the nation by parties to whom
sums had been lent for the purpose of effecting
works which it was de,irable to have carried on, still
may be regarded as exhibiting in some degree the
general inability of debtors to discharge their liabili-
ties. The Crown possesses extraordinary facilities
for enforcing payment from its debtors, and if we sup-
pose that about the same amount of instalments
would have fallen due as in the preceding year, by no
means an extravagant conjecture, considering the large
advances that have been made, the decrease in these
payments would strongly indicate the extreme
monetary pressure and difficulties under which the
country has laboured within the past year.
We shall now take the ordinary sources of revenue.
The first branch, the Customs, shows the receipt,
within the past year, of 18,015,2981., while that of
the preceding year amounted to 18,310,8651., thus
showing a deficiency under this head on the entire
year of 295,5671.; that on the quarter, however,
amounts to no less than 402,8591., while the defi-
ciency on the quarter ending the 10th October last
amounted to 374,1911. We, therefore, find on
these two quarters a deficiency of no less than
777,0501., while on the former quarters there
had been an increase of nearly 480,0001. This may
be looked upon as the result of the compulsory mea-
sures adopted by the Bank to enforce the importation
of gold into the country. The Bank returns will
show the great increase of bullion that has taken
place in their vaults. Under the monetary laws
now, unhappily, in force the actual property of
the nation must be sacrificed to obtain that specie
to lie idle and unproductive in the Bank coffers, while
the importation of other articles that would give em•
ployment to the working classes is checked. The
next great branch, the second largest in the
amount it produces, the most important of
all, as it may be considered the barometer
of national prosperity, which indicates the degree of
comfort or luxury enjoyed by the great mass of the
population, shows a still more painful result; the
falling off on the year amounting to no less than
790,5041., and on the present quarter 361,2721., while
on the quarter ending the 10th October, it amounted
to 641,980/. ; the deficiency on the last half
of the year, amounting to 1,003,2521., while during
the former portion there was an increase of nearly
213,0001. The other branches under which deficits
may be discovered are the Crown Lands and Miscel-
laneous; the former showing a decrease on the year
of 43,0001., while there is an increase of 10,0001. on
the quarter, and the latter exhibiting a deficiency of
132,1641. on the year, and of 17,9111. on the quarter.
These, however, are matters of less importance, the
two paramount objects being the Customs and Excise.

peculiarly intemperate and inflammable that such a
man as the Earl of SHREWSBURY is forced to say,
when writing to his episcopal superior, the Bishop
of ELPIIIN, that, in his opinion, Father M‘Dmatorr,
by his denial, " adds the sin of tergiversation to his
other delinquencies." How different was the re-
joinder of the Rev. Mr. HuGlizs, the priest of Castle-
bar—a rejoinder which instantly silenced the voice
of his calumniators, and attested his innocence beyond
all denial

We are far from implying that enough has been
done to substantiate the accuracy of the Archdeacon
of arnits's contradiction, merely by the publica-
tion of the letter signed by twenty-eight of his
parishioners. So much has been said and written
upon the matter, that something more has become
requisite. Even the accused himself, we should
imagine, would be solicitous to court that investiga-
tion which has been so earnestly yearned for by
Lord BEAUMONT, by the Earl of SHREWSBURY, and,
most of all, by the Noble Lord the Earl of ARUNDEL
and SURREY. Some judicial, or, at the least, some ec-
clesiastical inquiry has become necessary for the
honour of Strokestown, for the re-establishment of the
good fame of the Archdeacon of arms, ani for the
glory of the whole body of the Roman Catholics of
Ireland.

Letters from Berne, of the Ist January, state that
Russia has absolutely refused to take any part in the
diplomatic congress about to be assembled on the
affairs of Switzerland.

The elections for the Grand Council of Valais are
over. The majority of the elected are Liberals.
The Ultramontane party are completely prostrate.
M. MAURICE DB BASMAN, a Liberal, has been elected
first deputy to the Diet for this canton.
The canton of Unterwalden having paid up its
contribution, has been evacuated by the Federal troops.

Madrid papers of the 30th ult. have arrived.
The Espanol says, that SALAMANCA alone of the
late Ministers will be impeached.
ESPARTERO, who has written a very friendly letter
to NARYAEZ, is expected in Madrid in the course of a
few days.
MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 30.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 281 at 50 days, and were 27 13-16 k buyers,
sellers for cash after the close; the Five per Cents.,
were done at 15 5-16 cash, and were 151 buyers
after the close; Passive Debt was done at cash,
and was 4i buyers after the close ; Coupons were
done at loir cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The case of ADD-ELe.K.A.DER is the subject of com-
ment in all of them. The organ of M. GIJIZOT hints
that the Government ought not to ratify the conven-
tion—in other words, that no faith is to be kept with
the Mussulman. M. GulzoT is an apt scholar, and
has soon put to profit the instruction he has received
in the school of his Jesuit friends of the Sonderbund.
The Presse, to its honour be it spoken, unhesita-
tingly declares that the Government has no choice,
but is bound by the convention entered into by the
Governor-General of Algeria.
A letter from Toulon, of the 31st of December,
says, " ABD-EL-KADER is confined in the Lazaretto,
under the guard of a company of the 3d regiment of
Infantry of the Marine. He is expecting orders from
Paris. The Emir hopes that the Government will
consent to send him to Egypt, but this appears to us
very doubtful."
The Constitutionnel, after urging the Government
not to ratify the convention, although it says such a
course would gravely compromise the Due D'AUMALE,
thus proceeds :
" It is however, said, that the Ministry on this
question, as on so many others, wants the courage
to adopt a straightforward open line of conduct.
We are informed that the Ministers have decided
that ABD-EL-KADER shall be for the present detained
in the fort of Lamalgue, at Toulon ; that a negotia-
tion shall be opened with the Pacha of EGYPT for the
transference of the Emir to Alexandria. But, ac-
cording to the manner in which certain influences
may tell on the Chamber, according to the disposition
which may be manifested by the majority, this nego-
tiation will have for its object, either to obtain in
reality of the Pacha a promise to guard our
prisoner for us, or secretly to urge Maus-
MET ALI to refuse to accede to our
request. Then ADD-EL-KADER will be forced to
remain in France, and our Ministers will have had
the appearance of having wished to carry into effect
the promises of the Governor-General."
There is every probability that some such course
will be adopted. It is the course of all others the
mot likely to suggest itself to the mind of such a
perfect master in the art of equivocation as
GUIZOT.
The remains of the Princess ADELAIDE were re-
moved from the Tuileries on Tuesday morning to
Dreux. The Dukes of NEMOURS and of MONTPEN•
SIER accompanied the funeral procession.

The other branches of the Revenue show a slight
improvement. Taxes—an increase of 62,153/. on the
year, and 4,8841. on the quarter ; the Property-tax,
strange to say, an increase of 55,4101. on the year,
and of 12,348/. on the quarter. We fear, however,
that this branch of the Revenue will present a less
favourable aspect on the. next return. The Post-
office, thanks to the energy and zeal of
ROWLAND BILL, and the successful results
of his system of a cheap and uniform
postage is also improved by 48,0001. on the year, and
.5,000/. on the quarter ; while Stamps present an
increase on the year of 28,1321., but a sad falling off
on the quarter of 175,8321., which may be accounted
for by the high rate of interest maintained, and the
extreme difficulty of obtaining discounts, which led
to a great diminution in the amount of bills of
exchange in circulation—another proof, if any such
were required, of the depressed state of our trade
and commerce.

The total income for the year amounts to 48,397,566/.,
for the quarter to 11,665,3581., to which if the final
instalment of the Irish loan, 575,7741., be added, it
will appear that the total income for the quarter is
12,250,729/., while the total charge is 7,207,632/., leav-
ing a surplus income fur the quarter of 5,043,0971., to
which if the amount of surplus on the 10th of October
of 729,195/. be added, it will leave a gross surplus of
5,772,292/. ; from this, however, the sum of
4,889,7441., being the amount issued during the
quarter in part of the sums granted by Parliament for
Supply Services, must be deducted; the surplus of
the Consolidated Fund will therefore amount to
882,548/.

Satisfactory steps are at length being taken to de-
monstrate whether or not any denunciations have been
uttered from the altar steps of the Catholic Chapel of
Strokestown, by the Very Reverend MICHAEL
APDeessorr, the Venerable Archdeacon of Elphin.
A document, subscribed by twenty- eight respectable
inhabitants of Strokestown, and published by our-
selves in another column, asseverates in the most
solemn manner imaginable—distinctly, deliberately,
and explicitly asseverates—the innocence of the ac-
cused clergyman. " We hereby declare," says this
document, " we hereby declare, without fear of con-
tradiction, and hold ourselves in readiness to confirm
this our solemn declaration by our sworn affidavits in
any court of justice, that we have been invariably
in the habit of attending at Mass on ull
Sundays and holydays in the year, in the chapel of
Strokestown—that we have a distinct recollection of
our having heard mass in the chapel of Strokestown,
on Monday, the Ist day of November, called All
.4aints' Day, being the day before Major Mallory
.vas murdered, and that the Very Rev. MICHAEL
‘IDERMOTT, our parish priest, did not open his lips
o address one a ord to his flock on that day. We
*urther unhesitatingly declare that we never heard
he Very Rev. MICHAEL M‘DERMOTT, on Sunday, or
mlyday, or saints'-day, or any other day, on which he
-ver addressed his flock from the altar, to denounce
he late Major MAHON, or to express the words attri-
euted to him in the reported speech of Lord
FARNHAM, or any such words, or any words of a
,imilar import or meaning." This is precisely the
contradiction which has been desired by Lord FARN.
IAM himself, required by Lord BEAUMONT, solicited
)y Lord ARUNDEL and SURREY, demanded by Lord
IHREWSBUILY, and which ourselves and our Contein-
esrariea have, again and again, insisted upon as
essential to the cause of truth and justice, and as
necessary for the removal of a frightful stigma from
the whole of the devoted priesthood, and the dis-
tinguished hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in
Ireland. A definite charge was made against the
Archdeacon of ELPHIN j he was accused of having
made an incendiary allusion to Major MAHON the
very day before that lamented gentleman's asst.ssina-
tion ; he was reported to have denounced that land-
lord
to his peasantry before the very altar consecrated
to the rites of Christianity, and while he himself was
still clothed in the vestments of his religion ; nay the
very syllables he was said to have articulated
were declared to have been these—" This man
is worse than Caomwm,L and yet he lives !" Here
therefore was a plain and even detailed accusation;
it required a simple and decisive refutation before the
parish priest of Strokestown could be exonerated from
all indirect participation or moral complicity in the
dismal and atrocious crime which bad so recently
rendered the locality notorious. Instead of this,
Father MTERMOTT on the 7th ultimo pens a letter
of such a violent character, that Lord FARNHAM is
induced to observe on the 16th ultimo, while address-
ing the House of Lords, that the reply appears to him
"to
breathe throughout the spirit of incitement to
murder." Corroborated as that letter now is by the
d,troktown, ocument signed by twenty-eight parishioners of
Strokestown, we can perceive the full force of the
es
emphatic declaration of Mr. isl‘Deemorr—" I have
now to assure the public, by the most solemn asseve-
rations a clergyman can utter, that the late Major
Ateflosi was never denounced, nor even his name
mentioned, from any chapel altar in Strokestown, or
within twenty miles of Strokestown, in any direction,
on any Sunday before his death." It must be ac-
knowledged that throughout this deplorable contro-
versy Father 111‘DestmoTT has had a bitter enemy
against him, but that enemy has been—himself. He
it is who rendered even this solemn asseveration inef-
fectual, he
colouringit is who imparted an additional
of probability to the assertions of his
accusers, he it is who rendered his own innocence
more than ever disputable by using language so

The affair between M. DB MORNY and M. EmILE
DE GIRARDIN has been settled without bloodshed,
through the intervention of the seconds. The four
seconds met in the evening, and, after a conference
of two hours it was unanimously agreed that there
was not sufficient grounds for a hostile meeting, and
this resolution being communicated to the two prin-
cipals, they both assented to it, and the affair pro-
ceeded no further. The following document was
drawn up by the seconds :
" The seconds of MM. de Morny and Emile de
Girardin having mutually considered the altercation
which has arisen between these two gentlemen, con-
cur in thinking that there has been a misconception
of their reciprocal intentions, and that, in fact, there
are no grounds for a meeting. Submitting to the
opinion of those in whom he had placed his confidence,
M. de Girardin has declared that he did not intend to
offend M. de Morny personally; that he meant to
confine himself within the bounds of polemics, and
was willing to withdraw such expressions as might be
deemed offensive. On this candid declaration by M.
de Girardin, M. de Morny declared that he withdrew
from his letter everything that was offensive and
hostile.

" Marshal Duke D'ISLY.
" General DE PREVAL.
" LEON DE MALEVILLE.
" LAVALETTE."

" Paris, 4th January, 1848."
By the Coriolan, which has arrived at Havre from
La Plata, with accounts to the 30th of October, we
learn that ROSAS was making preparations for another
attempt upon Monte Video, hoping to obtain posses-
sion of it before the arrival of the new French and
English Plenipotentiaries.
PARIS BOUM; JAN. 5. —The market has been
to-day in a perfectly quiescent state, and at the close
the quotations varied but little from those of yester-
day. Threes were last called at 75f. 25c.; Fives, at
117 f. 30c.; and New Loan at 76f. 15c. for the end
of the month. The market closed as follows :
Three per Cents. for cash, 75f. 10c., for account,
75f. 25c. ; Five per Cents. for cash, 117 f. 20c., for
account, 117 f. 30c.; New Loan, 76f. 15c. ; Bank of
France Shares, 3,225 f.; Neapolitan, 102 f.; Spanish,
not quoted.

RAILWAYS.—The Share Market has also been dull
and heavy, and the closing quotations a shade lower
than yesterday. For cash, Paris and Orleans closed
at 12f. 15c.; Paris and Rouen, 905 f. ; Rouen and
Havre, 435 f. ; Vierzon, 545 f. ; Strasburgh and Bale,
161 f. 2.5 f.; Nantes, 892 f. ; Northern, 550 f.; Bor-
deaux, 487 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburgh, 412 f. 50c. ;
Paris and Lyons, 400 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 5.
Boulogne and Amiens, 1414—Dutch Rheni,h, 2%--
Namur and Liege, s—Orleans and Bordeaux, 5%.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE EUSTON•SQUARE
STATION OF THE NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COM-
PANY.—(Tats DAY.)—This morning, at about half-past
ten o'clock, an accident, which might have been at-
tended with very serious consequences, occurred at the
North-Western Railway Station, Euston-square. Our
readers are probably aware that, for some time past,
there have been erecting at the station extensive ranges
of new buildings for the use of the company. These
buildings are being erected by the Messrs. Cubitt,
and are now approaching their c9mpletion. This morn-
ing suddenly the whole of the side wall of the newly-
erected vestibule, which is nearly completed, gave way,
and fell with a terrific crash, burying in the ruins eleven
persons (men and boys) who were employed in its
erection. Assistance was immediately procured, and the
unfortunate sufferers having been extricated from the
ruins, were at once conveyed to the hospital. Three of
them were injured so slightly as to be able at once to
proceed to their homes, the remainder were taken into
the hospital; but we are happy to say, that only one is
considered to be at all dangerously injured.

THURSDA EVENINCi, JANUARY 6, iB4B.

NERVOUS DOCTORS.
TO THE EDITOAT OF THE SUN.

Six,-It is certain that nervous patients are con-
stantly drugged with the vulgar "hoaxes," opium
and cantharides, to bewilC ler and humiliate them.
Every method is used to he ighten their indisposition
to business; to discover any superstition or scruple
they may have inherited from grandmother or nurse ;
to irritate the irritable, to insult the high-minded, and
bully the mild-tempered; to construe every struggle
or remonstrance into a sympto a of disease, and call
the disease a crime; to indulge them with unwhole-
some food, the malady being ,lyspepsia, and absti-
nence the only cure; to exagg 7erate or invent pecu-
niary embarrassments, and by threats compel assign-
ments of large sums; with the crowning infamy that
their children, who should soo the them, are tempted
by promises of independence-- that is, of money—to
desert and defy them.
These remarks apply to all such establishments,
especially to private houses ; 1 sere the physician is
supposed to be a check, but hoe r can that be, when he
" goes snacks" with the emit able host, taking the
lion's share ? The attendants, excepting illness, are
almost as much to be pitied a s the patient, though
far superior to their principals;; they are bribed and
counter-bribed ; they common] y administer in public
asylums, simply by order of t he housekeeper, with-
out any reference to " skilfu I men," an immense
quietus of morphine in food or drink.
" Dura quietl preina a ferreo sonno."

This tyranny has a strong ► inalogy with the other
tyrannies which The Sun c.mbats with so much
honesty and success. Any I tot headed Peer might
wish to silence an individual, to have the manage-
ment of his property or possibly the care of his
daughters. The sufferer feels as if nothing but death,
which he intensely desires, ce.n relieve that erethism
of nerves from continued loss: of sleep and appetite,
compared with which all other maladies are trifling—
his reasoning faculties never were more sound, but
his agitation cannot always le concealed—he fondly
imagines that some of his friends will take care of his
business at whatever loss, and restore him to his
family if ever he should recover. The nobleman
rings his bell, the footman summons the medical or
legal adviser, these gentlemon's religion is to serve
themselves and their employer ; they ascertain his
wish, and give it as their opinion ; he gives their
opinion as his authority—perk unc eirculanz curritur ;
the victim has a gag, the exec utioner has a musk.
It is probable that George 111. was never insane.
In his private letters to Mr. P itt he mentions having
broken the key of a red box, perhaps from want of
self command, and the impoi Manse he attributes to
this accident, with reference to his own state of mind,
may show that he was misled. Lord Eldon " refused
to sanction measures which might induce the malady
they assumed." Compare this; with Lord Eldon say.
ins, " I never could imagine why George IV took
such a fancy to me." The E:ing could not silence
the Chancellor. Compare this also with the treat-
ment of Queen Caroline. Also, if there were any
irregularities in that family, th' a scrupulous conscience
of George 111. might expose him to the sting of rep •
tiles who had only the power--of betraying.
So that no rank of life is safe from nervous
doctors, unless the unshackled portion of the press is
determined to overawe them.

I am, Sir, &c.

AMERICAN NEWS.

Intelligence has been received of the arrival of the
packet-ship Zurich, Captain '_Chompson, at llavre, on
Tuesday, the 4th inst., at noo a, bringing files of New
York papers to the 19th of December—three days
later than the advices by the Liverpool steamer.
The political and commercial advices are not of
great interest.
The money and produce markets were dull.

LOSS OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP

AVENGiY,R.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
packet Pacha, Captain Olive, has arrived from Malta
and Gibraltar, bringing the melancholy intelligence
of the total loss of her Majesty's steam• frigate
Avenger.
The Avenger was c n her passage from Gibraltar
to Malta, and on the 20th of December struck on the
Sorelli Rocks, thirteen miles south-west of the
Island of Eoleba.

The Pacha, on her voyage from Malta to Gibraltar,
was met by a French war steamer coming out of the
bay of Tunis, the captain of which gave information
of the wreck, and offered to proceed with the Pacha
to the disaster.
On the arrival of the two steamers at the Sorelli
Rocks, on the 26th, the reef was found covered with
fragments of the wreck, but no vestiges of boats or
the crew were discernible.

The crew of the Avenger, consisting of 270 persons,
including officers and supernumeraries, are supposed
to have perished, with the exception of five seamen
and three officers, one the surgeon, who had reached
the African coast in one of the Avenger's boats.
The Avenger is a steamer of the first class of 1,444
tons and 650 , horse-power. She was built by Sir
W. Symons, at Devonport, in 1845, and was put into
commission for the Mediterranean station on the 20th
of last November.

We subjoin a list of her officers :—Captain C. E.
Napier (son of the Admiral); Lieutenants Hugh
M. Kinsman, Frederick Marryat (son of Captain
Marryat), Francis ltooke ; Master William Archer;
Second-Lieutenant of Marine Artillery H. S.
Baynes ; Surgeon James H. Steele ; Paymaster and
Purser Valentine A. Haile ; Assistant-Surgeon Ber-
nard Delany; Second Master William Betts; Clerk
Henry J. S. Walker.

The Jupiter is expected here every hour from
Gibraltar, and she may, perhaps, bring additional
intelligence.

LATEST PARTICULARS.

The only document relating to the loss of this ship
that had reached the Admiralty up to one o'clock this
day, is the following letter, addressed by Captain Du
Penhout, captain of the Lavoisier, French war • steamer,
stationed at Tunis, to the captain' of the Pacha
steamer, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam-packet Company, and forwarded by that
company to their Lordships :

TRANSLATION.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL .'SEW :7'.
CITY, QUAI?TEI? 7.11!jk:

The Cotton Market has closed steadily. Sales 4,000
to 6,000 bales, of which,3,soo were American, at 44d.
to 6d. per lb. Railway Shares were more active, espe-
cially Midland and Dover.

The accounts received by the electric telegraph to-
day have not influenced in any way the Public Securi-
ties. From the colonies we have not had any arrivals.
Among other interesting reviews of the state of com-
mercial affairs during the year just concluded, we may
notice the following paragraphs, as part of a statement
by Messrs. Franks and Millard. They observe—
" The commercial disasters have been even of greater
magnitude than during the memorable years of 1825 and
1826. There is scarcely an article of the least import.
ance but which merchants have been selling at a severe
loss; even manufacturers also have been compelled to
press their goods upon the market under the cost of
production, in consequence of the decreased demand, and
the difficulty of obtaining money to enable thew to carry
on their business.

" It is calculated that merchants will be sufferers upon
th 4 importation of goods and bread stuffs to the
enormous amount of nearly eight millions sterling for
the year. What a contrast this is with the previous onel
It cannot be denied, however, that our system of cur-
rency tended to produce the unfavourable state of
affairs, for there has this year been a vast increase is
the arrivals of produce from all quarters of the world,
whilst a great de►aand prevailed for cash to carry out
railway schemes and other undertakings in the United
Kingdom. Still our currency is placed under the same ro-
strictior►s as when our imports were..f less magnitude than
during 1847. There can be no doubt, however, that the
numerous failures, combined with the low and unreinu-
nerating prices, will operate against shipments of
nearly all articles to this couutry in the ensuing season,
and as we shall not want a supply of bread stuffs from
abroad there will, in a few mouths, be a vast accumula-
tion of cash, and the rate of interest cannot fail to rule
low, as the demand will be less than it has been this
year. It is calculated by parties well versed in mo-
netary affairs that the rate of discount for first-
class bills will be under four per cent. That we are on
the eve of a better order of things is quite apparent, as
the time is not far distant when there will be a material
increase in the demand for colonial produce, and some-
thing like remunerat:ng rates must prevail. For goods,
the result of British industry, the time is fast approach
ing when export orders will be large, and au advance
will take place in the value. Thus will the mills that
are swirling i►ile be enabled to resume work, wh►ch,
coupled with our excellent sanitary regulations, will ha
the means of providing employment for vast multi
Ludes; thus creating a large demand for goods and
manufactured articles, and placing the country in a state
of prosperity nearly equal to that of 1846."
A very considerable amount of business has been
transacted in the Public Securities this morning, as pri-
vate tracsfers are allowable, at the ordinary fee of
per cent. until the books are regularly opened. Consols
for the Account have advanced from 851 to 851, Ex-
chequer-bills to 19s. premium, India Bonds to 10s. pre-
mium, Bank Stock to 189, and the New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents, to 861
There has been a rather better demand for the Foreign
Stocks to-day. The Portuguese Four per Cents. ad-
vanced to 241, the Spanish Five per Cents. to 201 L, the
Three per Cents. to 29i-, the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. to 541 -I, and the Four per Cents to 851.
In but a very few instances have the Railway Shares
improved to-day, as the official list will best show.

ONE CLOSING
rItICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Anne.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities. B5 1/24,i %xd 85 }ii xd
New 314 per Cent. Anns
New 5 per Cent. Annuities 108 1/2xd 108 1/2 xd
Long: Awns. to expire J an. 1860
Ditto, Oct. 10, 1859 .....
India Stock 227xd 227xd
India Bonde, 1,0001.
Ditto under 1,0001. .
South Sea Stock
Consols for Account B5: 1/4 % 8614
Exchequer Bills. 3d.
1,000/.
5001.
Small

. RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, Account — 804
Do., New, 1843 ..........
Equador Bonds
Niexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 — 173/4
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto,4 per Cent 24% 24%
Ditto, Account
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840,
Ditto. Account — 20
Do., Coupons
• Ditto, Passive
Ditto. 3 per Cent 293/4 29%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch, 2 % per Cent., 12 Guild 54'4 %xd 544 xd
Ditto. 4 Der Cent. Certificates 854 8.5%
i.RICE 01'
PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
R A ILW A..Y SHARES AT ONK O'CLOCK, PRICES
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%.....
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2%
.. elitist & County Down 10 ...... .... ........
isirminghain and Ux-
fard J unction
Birmingham, IV elver-
han3pton, and Dudley 10 ..... ... .... .....
Birming., NV olverieptou,
and Stour Valley ......101. 145....
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 73%.
Boston, Stamtd, & Birm. 5

"At sea, in sight of Galiti, on board the steam
corvette Lavoisier, stationed off Tunis, 11.30 A.M..
Dec. 26, 1847.

" Sir,—l begin by thanking you for accompanying
me. We are now at the most two miles from the
Rocks of Sorelli, according to observations and
soundings.
" The particulars given to me by the Vice-
Consul of France at Goletta gave the place
when the steam-frigate Avenger, Captain Napier,
was lost on the 20th December, according to the
declaration of an English officer, arrived at Tunis
with four men, to the British Vice-Consul, there
were six men (of whom two were officers) drowned
in the boat, in which that officer came, in taking the
shore. An English sailor told the French Vice-
Consul that when the boat left the frigate the latter
was dismasted of her lower masts and her
boats broken, which induces the belief that this
unfortunate accident is complete, the crew not having
any means of escape. I think after our search you
may continue your voyage. The Lavoisier shall pass
by the north of Galiti, and I will not leave that island
without the certainty of there not being any of the
survivors there.

ONE CLOSINU
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

cristoi and Exeter
Ditto, Thirds - ........ •....
Buckinghamshire 101. 4s 2,A dis. x. int... 2% dis.
Caledonian
Ditto, Halt Shares 33/4
Ditto,Clydesdale June 50 ......
Ch.ster and Holyhead... 371,i — ........ ...„.
Ditto, Preference .. 8 ~ — ...... —
Clarence
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10

Do. 2d Class; 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Dublin and Belfa.stJune. 20
Dundalk & Enniskillen 15
East Anglia, 25/., L. &
E. and L. and D. ...... 25 ......
Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18
Do., 3/.105., E. &H. 2
Eastern Counties
Ditto (B) 2O ... ..
Ditto,Extansion, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....... 6/. 13s. 4d...
Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d...
Do., York Extension.. 10 ......
Do., North. & Eastern 50 ...... 50% 50
Do., Quarters
Do., New
Eistern Union
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%
Ditto, Thirds ... ..... 13s. 4d —
Do., (guar. 6 per cent)
East Lancashire .
Ditto, New
Ditto, New Quarters... 334
East Lincolnshire
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 44
Ditto Half Shares ... 15
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ..-.. -,-
Edinburgh & Northern.. 22',4 — . .•• -
Ditto, New
Ditto, Newport ..... ... 9 1••••••
Ditto, ditto, New . .... 24
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch. 2%
Ditto, New .. 2%......
Glasgow Dumfries, and
Carlisle 8/. 6s. 8d _
Glasgow, Kilmar., & Ayr 50
Ditto, New ......... .. 40 ......
Do. Preference Consol. 12 %......
Great Northern lO% 414 ex int 4%x. int
Do., London and York 2 %.....
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Great North of England..loo .230
Ditto, New 401. 5
Ditto, New 30/. 30
Ditto, New 151 6% 22% .. 22%
Great Western B 5
Ditto, % Shares
Ditto, 1% Shares ...... 17% l9 % % l9;e
Ditto, Fifths • 20
Ditto, New 171 9% lO% 1034
Huddersfield & Manche& 24 ...... ....... ....•
Ditto, Thirds .... 8
Hall and Selby 5O .. ... .. ..... -....—
Ditto, Half Shares 25

Ditto, !‘ Shares .. 12% '
I pswiclAk Bury St. Edm. 171/2 Bl4 ••• ............ 84.. i vie
Do., do., anti Norwich 15 ...
Do., do., Extens. Scrip
(late Camb. & Ely) 2%..•.. 1% l%
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashic.: & Yolk:shire 93 —
Ditto, ditto
Ditto 1/,'• ;;hares . ••• 38 ......
Do. Quarter Shares... 14 I/2 ......
Do. Fifths 8 ..... 734 734
Do. Sixteenth). 614 ._
Do. Thirds (Reg.)....101. is. ... 5 dis 5 dis.
Do. Liverp. and Bury 34 —
Ditto l‘z (late Hud-
dersfield and Shed.) 33
Do.( Wakefield, Ponte-
tract. & Goole
Do. ( W. Biding Union) 4/. 2s
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25
Do. !4 Shares (A) 9
Ditto ditto (B) ...• 1!.1
Leeds and Bradford 5O
Leicester and Bedf3rti... 16s.
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 42%

" I beg that you will make use of these accounts by
maliing them public.—l am, &c.,
(Signed) " DU PENHOUT,
Captain of the Lavoi'ier steamer.
" P.S.—lt:was by mistake that this letter did not
reach you."

We have great pleasure in announcing that Lord
Auckland has, in the most flattering terms, offered the
naval command of the North American and West Indian
Stations to the Earl of Dundonald. The veteran Ad-
miral has accepted the command, and will thus, in the
evening of his days, enjoy an honour, too long deferred,
to which his unrivalled exploits havo so justly entitled
h i m.— ?ivies.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.--Mr. Arnott has
been elected into the Court of Examiners in the room of
the late Mr. Litton.

GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. - GLASGOW, TUESDAY
EVEMING.—This afternoon Mr. Mure, of Caldwell,
M.P., who recently succeeded, or rather supplanted Lord
John Russell in the office of Lord Rector of the Univer-
sity of Glasgow, was installed into office. The formal
part of the proceeding took place in the S,nate-hall,
where the new Lord Rector was clothed in the robes of
office. lie then proceeded to the Common-hall, accom-
panied by the Earl of Eglinton. Lord Robertson (one of
the judges of the Court of Session), Sheriff Alison
(the Historian of Europe), the Principal, and almost all
the Professors. The hall was crowded by students,
citizens, and many eminent strangers from a distance.
The galleries were occupied by a gay assemblage of
ladies. After prayer by Principal Macfarlan, the Lord
Rector delivered his inauguration speech, and the pro-
ceedings concluded.

Do., Branch I,i Shares 12%—.. ...
Do. New Branch( blue) 2% — .
Do. Extension ( green) 2 I/2.. -

Du. New Extenjpinic) 2
Leeds and Thirsk 36
Ditto, New 20 — •••••••• •—•••
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3%.•••••

, . .
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport .... .... ...... 2
Liverp., Mnchstr & N ew-
castle Junction 2%.••.••
London & 131ackwal1.16/. 13s. 4d....
.....
.....
Do. New, No. 2 .. 41. 13s. 4d....
Do. Extension 17% ......
London, Brighton, and
South Coast .... ..... 50
Do. Consol. Eighths.. 30
Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9
Do. Pref. Con.s per ct. 50
Ditto, ditto
London and Greenwich 121 15s 4d...
Ditto, Preference ... 18/1;e 2d... 20

A 15LEAsAINT REMEDY.—A stiff tumbler of egg flip,
,as a night-cap, ie said to be a cure for influenza.

L,-itdon and N. Western 100 1491/2 149 l5O
Do.,Quarters L. & B. 22
Do., 00., New ...... 2
„3 7%
Ditto Fifths ... .... 2 ...... 11% II A,
uo. t 4 Shares (G. J.) 25
Do 40/.Shares(L.M.) 15 —
1)o. 40/. (M. Sr B.) ... 40
58
Do. 10/. ( M. & B.) A. 7% .. .. .........
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 7%
Do. 10/. ( Ji. Sr B.) C. 1
••• ••• 4%
Len 1. & S.Wesu.rn ...411.65. 80.... 53 ..... .. ..., 5:,4,2
/o. New Consul. t— tats 40
Do. New 50/. ... ..... 321.:2..
Do. New 40/. . 26
•••••. .........
Do. Tenths (Consol. ) 50
....
..
Ditto ditto ....• .... 40
Ditto, Thirds .........S/. Gs. 8d.... ... —
Landon, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ,. . ... •.. 1%••• •• .......
Londonderry&Culeraine 27% • —... _
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen
Manchaster,Buston,ani.
Matlock 3 ......
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire ...100 ...... ••• ......•••••
Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13
___ __ .._

Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25
Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 7% —
Ditto and Grimsby.... 25
Ditto ditto . ......... 7
Ditto ditto -
Ditto Sheffield and
Lincolnshire 71,4

)Stanchest. & Southantp t. 2i-
A —
hildand lOO llO 109 110% 111
Do. Consolidated Pref.loo
Do. 401. Shares
Do. 501. Shares
1)o. Birm., and Derbyloo
Midland Consol.Brist. S:
Binning., 6 per cent. 100
7olitlir.d, lirot. B:Glociir. 36
Ditto, ditto ...... .. 111.35. 6d...
Midlnd, Leicest. & Swan-
nington, 8 per ct.p.uar.loo ...„.
Mitiktid great N‘ eaten
-Irish
Newt astleand Carlis1e...100

Do. Quarters '2s ... .
Newmrket&Chesterford 18%
Do. Extension .........21. 125....
Newport, Abergavenny,
and Hereford •—.
Newry and Enniskillen 7
Newry, Warrenpoint,
sod Rostrevor .. 12% — .. •••.•.•...•. .....
lorfolk lOO
Do. New 20/.
Do. Extension
Do. Scrip, 1847, North
of N0rf01k.....

Do. do. Waveuev Val. 2
Northern Counties-Union 4 -
.Nortli British .......... 25
Do. Half Sharts
Do. Quarters 44/4
Do. Extension
' Ditt , Thirds —
Nort' Staffordshire 7%...... 7%4 714
North Wales
North Western.,:
' word, Worcester. and WM
Wolverhampton ...... 35 ..... 19
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate 714 -
. __

Itoyston and Ilitchiu ... 1A •• •••••••• •• -
bcottish Central
Scottish Midland 2O
. ••.. ....
Ditto, New
Sheffield, Rotherham,
and Coole
Shrewsbury and Birra... 6
Ditto ditto. Class B. 3
Shrewsbury & Chester
( Nor. W. Min.) l6 —
Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 ...... .. ....
Ditto Oswestry ... .. 12 -
Ditto New
Do. 8 per Cent. Pref. 5 ......
Shrewebury and Ilereld. 2
Shropshire Union
south Devon 4O
Do. Preference
South Statibrdshire
.7. outti Eastern & Dover. 33% 3l 30%

Do., No. 1 2o—
Do., Ne. 2.
Do., No. 3 .. ..... ...... 15
Do., No. 4
South Wales
z,outti Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Goole
Swans. & Loughor &Ca-
meron's Stm. C0a1.... 4 ...... ........ ..
Taw Vale Extension ... 4
Thames Haven Dock
and Railway .... -
Vale of Neath ... .. ...... 4
W aterford and Kilkenny 131%..... .. —
Waterford and Limerick 40
Waterid,W xfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin
W est Cornwall ...... 4 ..„ . -..
.....
W iiiteh.tYen & Furness 12
Windsor, Staines, and
South Western ..... ... 525.
W ilts, Somerset,& Wey-
mouth
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. .... .
Do. Onginail New and
Berwick ........ ...... 25
Do•NorthShieldsfur. 25
Do. e.xteusioK No. 1. 10
Do. do. No. 2. -..... 10
Jo. (4.NJE.Preterence 8 ...... 9% iii 9%
York and ,;ortli Midland 50
Ditto, Preference ...... 10
1.1.;. East and West Hid-
ing Extension
FOR ERIN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20 ...... 14
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) ... 14
Central of Spain ... .... 2

Cey10n....?.........
.. .... ss.
Demerara —
Dendre Valley
Direct Bombay and
... ..

Madras ..
53. ...... ...... .• ... .
Dutch Rhenish 7 • — .•• —
East Indian ... ..... .... 114
Great Indian Peninsular ss.
Italian and Austrian.... 4 —..—
Jamaica S.M id.J unction I
Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... . T5ai.......
Luxembourg ..... ..... .. 6
Lyons and Avignon 5 -
Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... ..

Namur aad Liege
Northern of France...... 10 ..... 11% 12 ... ..„ 12
Orleans and Bordeaux 6 - ... 51/.1,
Over Yssel 4/ 3a 4d •••...
Paris and Lyons ... 10 ...... 5%
Paris and Urleani 2O
Paris and Rouen ...... .. 20
Paris and Strasbourg 8
Bonen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse ....• 18 • — ............V
Strasbourg and Basle... 14
lours a•d Nantes ...... 8
"Isournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt....... 16
West Flanders ...... .... bl/
MINES.
Anglo Mexican ....... ..100

BrazilianCocaes& Cuiba 30 ..... ......
....
....
British Iron
Bolonos Scrip .. .........
Galvanize:t Iron ...... .. 10
Ditto, New .
Real Del Monte, Unreg.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
Lorinosr, JAN. 6.—Wind N.N.W., light breeze and fine
clear weather.
DEAL, JAN. 5 —Wind S.S.W. to S.W., strong.—Arrd.
Stuithalmley, Jennings, China; Nautilus, Thomas, Cal-
cutta; Elizabeth Hughes, Hallin, Berbice; Charles, ditto;
Brohtes, Curtis, Matanzas, for Antwerp. Arrd from the
river and sailed, Rio packet, Cape ; Coast Castle,
W, hampoa, Demerara. Put back, Himalaya, for Hobart
Town; ; Tamar, ditto; Bolton, Adelaide, South Australia;
Parsee, merchant, Ceylon; Primula, Cape of Good Hope;
Maria, Callao; Sandwich, St. Lucia; Sir Charles Napier,
New Orleans, and others.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. s.—Wind S.S.W. to W.N.W.,
squally.—Arrd. Johannes Hoge, Rio Janeiro.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. s.—Wind W.N.W.-4. Arrived
Richard Cobden, Leadbetter, Bombay; Mary Campbell,
Camaroons; Rime Mouney, Callao; Carena, Woodinas,
Barbadoes. 5. Celt, Wilson, Laguna; Kingston, ditto;
Chapmans, Aitken, Bahia; Greenock, M'Kay, St. Do-
mingo and Bermuda; Selina, Hamilton, Berbice. Off
port, Ann Best, —.
HULL, JAN. s.—Wind S.S.W., fresh.-4. Arrived
Achilles, Taylor, Quebec; Indus, Morris, ditto; Hype-
rion, Rich, ditto. 3. Sid. Conquest, St. John's. 4. Put
back, Clyde, Halerow, for New Orleans, having been on
shore near Yarmouth.
PWLHELI, JAN. 4.—The Christian, Sterling, from
Demerara to Liverpool, came on shore this morning near
Port Gylan, six miles to the westward of Portynllen, a
derelict, and will probably become a total wreck ; part
of stores, and a few casks of rum landed.
Her Majesty's steamer Avenger, from Gibraltar to
Malta, was lost on the Sorelli Rocks, near the island of
Eloeba, 20th ult. ; crew supposed to have perished, with
the exception of five seamen and three officers.
DEAL, JAN. s.—The Isabella (ship or barque), of
Liverpool, was passed dismasted and waterlogged 26th
ult., in lat. 46 N., long. 22 W., by the Broites, Curtis, in
the Downs.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. s.—The Luizia, from Rio Grande,
had put into Bahia previous to the 17th November,
leaky ; had discharged, and was hove down.
WEXFORD, JAN. 4.—The schooner Pilgrim, of Water-
ford, from Cardiff, came on shore at Bagan Bar, near
Fithard, yesterday morning.
SHIELDS, JAN. 4.—Some more vessels have put back
to-day, having struck on the bar, while proceeding to
sea. sth, a sloop or schooner is sunk a few miles to the
southward of this place.
HARTLEPOOL, JAN. 4.—The Queen, which arrived
here yesterday from Cronstadt, was in contact, Ist
inst., of tridlington, with the Heart of Oak, Jones,
from Cronstatit to Lynn, when the latter foundered;
crew saved.
BRIDLINGTON, JAN. 4.--The Friends, Thompson, of
and from Sunderland, which arrived here yesterday nu
leaky, has been put on the ground.

ROYAL ARTILLERY AND ROYAL SAPPERS AND
MINERS.—The General Palmer, hired transport ship,
embarked detachments of the Royal Artillery at the
Royal Arsenal yesterday, for a passage to Malta and
Corfu. Second Captain W. B. Gardner embarked at
the same time to join Captain Shone's company, Bth
battalion, at Malta ; and First Lieutenant H J. W.
Jervis, to join Captain Stow's company, 6th battalion, at
Corfu. The 3d company of Royal Sappers and Miners
embarked in the same vessel for a passage to Corfu,
under the command of Captain Ogle, and large detach-
ments also to serve in the companies at Gibraltar.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

DIEWGIVZ.Z. A t i zjaLitzErc,r,ALL.

We had a very steady demand here to-day, and prices
were well support/A. Beef from 3i 4d to 4s 40; Mutton,
3s 6d to 4s 6d; Veal, 49 4d to 5s 4d; and Pork, 2s 10d
to 5s 2d per Ellbi by the carcase.