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London, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

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THE HOMES AND HAUNTS OF THE
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WEDNESDAY, December 30, 1846, at Five o'clock precisely.
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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Last Night but One of Mademoiselle SOPHIE FUOCO.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed Balfe's celebrated Opera, entitled THE MAID
OF ARTOIS. Marquis de Chateau Vieux, Mr. Borrani ; Jules de
Montagnon, Mr. D, W. King; Sans Regret, Mr. Burdini ; Synnelet,
Mr. Weiss; Niuka, Miss Isaacs; Isoline, Madame Anna Bishop.
After the Opera, will be presented a new grand Ballet, called
TIIE WAGS OF WAPPING (performed at the Academie Royale,
Paris, under the title of " Betty.") In which will appear Mdlles.
Sophie Fuoco, Louise, Benart, Madame Giubilei ; MM. Huguet,
Adrien, Paul, Tell ; Messrs. Howell, Priorson, &c.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a new and original Drama, called THE
ROUND OF WRONG. Sir Arthur Foljambe, Mr. Stuart ; Lichen,
Mr. Rogers ; Reuben Gwynne, Mr. Webster ; Ducks, Mr. Buck-
stone ; Harwood, Mr. Howe ; Lady Charlotte Willoughby, Mrs.
Clifford ; Mary Ryland, Miss Fortescue ; Jenny, Miss Woulds.
Atter which, an entirely new Comic Drama, entitled STORY
FELLING ; or, Novel Effects. Dr. Hardenberg, Mr. W. Farren ;
Frederick Vandervelt, Mr. Caulfield ; Raps, Mr. Buckstone; Grab,
Mr. Rogers; Theresa, Miss 'l' elbin ; Rose, Mrs. Humby.
During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, " Cheval
de Bronze ;" " The Armen" (Polka) ; " Czarina" (Mazourka);
" Douro " (Walzer); and a New Overture.
To be followed by the admired Drama of GRANDFATHER
WHITEHEAD. In which Messrs. W. Farren, Stuart, Tilbury,
Rogers, Caulfield, &c. ; Mrs. E. Yarnold, and Mrs. Stanley will
perform.
To conclude with the Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord
Courtin ton, Mr. Holl ; Sir Arthur Lovel, Mr. Howe; S,2oreup,
Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup,
Miss Julia Bennett.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley.
THIS 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•
racters by Messrs. Leigh Murray (his first appearance here), Turner,
F. %latthews, F. Vining, Meadows, Kceley ; Mrs. Woollidge, Miss
Daly, Miss May (her first api earauce here), Miss Grove, Miss
Foster, and Mrs. Keeley.
After which, the laughable Farce of MRS. WHITE. Characters
by Mr. Turner, Mr. Oxberry (his first appearance in this company),
Mr. H. Butler ; Miss Arden, Miss Villars, and Mrs. Wigan.
To conclude with the successful Comedy of TO PARENTS AND
GUARDIANS.

by the Cabinet of the Tuileries, but this
denial is ostensibly a very paltry prevarica-
tion. It is already notorious that the pro
test forwarded from Paris to the Northern
Courts, in allusion to the recent incorporation of the
Cracovian Republic with the Austrian empire, has
been remarkable for its courtesy, or, more strictly
speaking, for its subserviency. It is well known that
that protest has been nothing more than a most
amiable remonstrance. Aware of their late
shortcomings in regard to what is called
the inviolability of treaties, the Ministers of
his Majesty King LOUIS PHILIPPE have evinced
their embarrassment in commenting upon the
later crime of the three Governments, already odious
by their partition of Poland. They have felt that in
insisting upon the culpability of Austria, Russia,
and Prussia, they have been thereby acknowledging
their own criminality. In speaking of Galicia, they
have unwillingly implied the Peninsula. In
alluding to Cracow, they have virtually referred to
Madrid. Their violation of the solemn engagements
of PHILIP of Orleans, has been the counter-part of
the violation of the compact of the Allied Sovereigns.
In the remarks uttered by the Guizot Administration
upon the Treaty of Vienna, the Treaty of Utrecht
has been, what grammarians would define, the
ablative absolute. According to the France,
however, the note transmitted by M. Gutzon contains
this preposterous observation :—After maintaining
that " no power can enfranchise itself from treaties
without enfranchising the other powers by the same
act," it goes on seriously to assert—" France has not
given any similar example of an attempt against the
policy of conservation and peace ;" and again, " It
is she (France), who, above all, is occupied in the
maintenance of the rights required by others, and in
respecting their independence !" We can scarcely
credit the report that such sentences are literally
contained in this official document. We can scarcely
credit that any Prime Minister could have
the moral impudence to propound such ridiculous
arguments. What ! France has maintained the
policy of conservation and peace ! Has she so,
indeed ? With one of her Royal Highnesses tra-
velling through Spain, attended by a pacific retinue
of chasseurs and artillery! With insurrections
fomenting in the northern and eastern provinces of
Portugal ! What ! France has continued to respect
the independence of others ! Is it possible that
any Minister of Louts PHILIPPE could utter this as-
sertion while MUSSON and DIETz are among the
living, without a blush ?

should be then and there developed to the Court and
jury. What would be thought of Lord DENMAN, if,
upon the opening of a trial to-morrow morning, of
the merits of which he might have happened
to hare become casually informed, he were to brow-
beat the counsel, telling him that both he and his
client were mad for attempting to submit their case
to a jury ? Such conduct could not be suffered for
one moment without producing severe remonstrance ;
and how childish would it not be thought for the
Chief Justice to contend that such monstrous extra-
judicial remarks could not have any weight with the
jury ! Men are but men ; and it is notorious what
an influence is likely to be imparted to the minds
of jurymen by judicial, or extra-judicial dicta.
It was very honourable in the foreman to reject the
belief that the verdict of himself and his colleagues
would be in any degree swayed by what the Chief
Baron had let drop. Still, the foreman could only
answer for himself; and the very vehemence with
which he expressed himself argues the probability
that he was not in a frame of mind dispassionately to
discharge the important duties the law had imposed
upon him. The fault lay with the judge. That his
Lordship meant well is not to be doubted; but that
a greater legal indiscretion was ever manifested on
the bench, it is almost impossible to surmise. What
makes the matter worse is, that a letter has since
been published by the solicitor to the
defendant, alleging that, but for the extraordinary
conduct of the judge, they meant to have
called witnesses who had never appeared at the
first trial, and whose testimony would have given a
different complexion to the entire case. But, of
course, they naturally enough considered that any
evidence would be of no avail for the purposes of a
fair trial when they had been stigmatised in the
outset, in open court, by the presiding judge, as being
little short of insane. Even without this evidence
the report runs, that the judge summed up emphatically
in favour of the insane parties. This, of itself, was a
piece of judicial conduct highly inconsistent, to say
the least of it. If it were meant as a sort of " anzende,"
it signally failed ; the mischief had been irreparably
committed; the jury heeded not the judge, but im-
mediately gave increased damages.
We resign this subject with feelings of deep regret
that the Chief Baron should have suffered himself to
lapse into so serious an error. Distinguished an
advocate as Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK proved himself
at the bar, it is much to be lamented that he has
shown himself, at times, to be grievously deficient in
the high qualifications indispensably necessary to con-
stitute an efficient judge, particularly where he is
appointed to be the chief of his court. If Sir
FREDERICK POLLOCK be desirous of standing well in
public opinion, we recommend him to dispense largely
with that dogmatical loquacity for which he has
already acquired an unenviable distinction. A
grave and dignified deportment is of no mean
account in a judge; but the habit of fre-
quently interrupting the counsel, by bawling
out in stentorian tones, will never conduce to the
desired demeanour. If Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK be
ambitious of improving himself, let him turn his eyes
to the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, and he
will be readily supplied with a model he would do
well to imitate.

It appears that the ambassadors from the Northern
Powers to the Swiss Republic have determined to
quit Berne for Zurich as soon as the Government of
the former enters on its directive duties. This is re-
garded as a protest against the new Bernese constitu-
tion, and as a prelude to intervention in the internal
affairs of Switzerland. The English Ambassador
will, we are happy to say, remain at Berne, but the
French Ambassador accompanies the northern diplo-
matists to Zurich. Under these circumstances, the
following passage from a letter written by the Neuf-
chatel correspondent of the Journal des Debats, is
somewhat suggestive :—"An entente of a somewhat
grave character has recently broken out in the Ber-
nese Jura, on the occasion of the installation of a new
prefit. The general desire of the inhabitants of this
portion of the country, -particularly in the Catholic
localities, and where French is the language spoken, is
to be separated from the canton of Berne." Is Swit-
zeriznd to be treated like Poland, and partitioned
among her more powerful neighbours ? Is France to
take, as her share of the spoil, the Jura provinces,
where French is the language spoken ? If so, we can
understand why it is with only "bated breath and
whispering humbleness " that M. GuizoT protests
against the annexation of Cracow.

crime against liberty. We may at any hour see revived
against us a coalition, at all events a diplomatic coalition
of all Europe. In the meantime our pecuniary resources
are engaged for the next ten years, the financial crisis
perpetuates itself like a slow fever, and we are so far
from enjoying either glory or grandeur, that we have not
even prosperity or security."
The writer concludes by recommending the law
authorities to impeach the real authors of these mis-
fortunes, the Ministers, instead of getting up legal
proceedings against proprietors of newspapers.
The severe frost which had prevailed for some
days in the French capital had been succeeded by a
rapid thaw.

The Three per Cents. were done at TORTONI'S, on
Sunday morning, at 80f. 80c., but, on the arrival of
the London papers of Friday, announcing increasing
firmness on our Stock-Exchanges, prices rose to
801. 9*.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 21.
Luxembourg, 34—Namur and Liege, 34—Northern of
France Constituted, 10%—Orleans and Vierzon,
Paris and Strasburg Constituted, 4%.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS,
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton-market at Liverpool yesterday was very
quiet. Sales 3,000 bales, half of which was on specula-
tion. Prices were id. to id. per lb. lower than last
Friday. The sales included 2,000 bales American at
sd. to 7d. ,• 200 Pernam at Bd. to 81d. ; 100 Bahia, at
74d. to 84d. ; 100 Egyptian at Bid. ; and 400 Surat at
4d. to 44d. per lb. Shares were firm, but Birmingham
and Oxford Junction did not advance quite so much as
here, being 9 to 91. premium.
It would appear from the accounts received yesterday
from Portugal, that the financial affairs of that country
are more favourable. The value of the Portuguese Stock
has consequently rather improved
At a meeting of the General Committee for the relief
of the sufferers by the great fires at Quebec of 1845, the
Treasurer laid before the Assembly the amounts received
which were 160,313/. 9s. Bd.; the amount expended is stated
at 150,240/. 3s. sd. The balance in the treasurer's hands
is 10,073/. 6s. 3d. It was resolved—" That the president
of this committee shall make a report to the General
Committee on the petitions of the different public
charitable institutions, informing them that, since the
receipt of their petitions they are unable, in consequence
of the various sums voted by the General Committee to
the ministers of the different religious denominations
in this city, to grant the assistance requested in
their petitions, and that it is the opinion of this
committee that a portion of the monies, so voted by the
general committee, should be employed in restoring the
efficiency of the said public charitable institution
through the instrumentality of those who have been
chosen by your committee to hold the said monies in
trust and to distribute them at their discretion.
The :Public Securities have been firm this morning.
Consols for the Account have just been quoted at 93t,
and the same for M oney, with the half year's interest
taken off. The premium upon Exchequer-bills is some-
what heavy, at 8s 11s. Reduced Three per Cents. have
been sold at 94i; India Stock for the Account at 2544;
and Long Annuities at 9 15-16.
A few sales have just been made in the Old Portu
guese Five per Cents. at from 82 to 83. The Four per
Cents. are at 38 to 384. For Spanish Consols the value
is 261 ; for the Three per Cents., 37i 38 ; for Dutch
Four per Cents, 93 ; and for the Two-and-a-Half per
Cents ,
There have not been any alterations of importance in
the Railway Shares or Scrip-market to-day.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
pj)er Cent. Reduced Annuities ... 94% 94
New 314 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Jan. sth, Expire 1860 9% 15-16
India Bonds 1,0001
Ditto under 1.0001
Consols for Opening
India Stock for Account 254% ex div
Exchequer Bills. 11/2d.
1,0004
500/. ......... Bll pm.
Ditto Small
... 12 pm.
I RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent 23% %
Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent B2 83
Ditto 4 Der Cent.
Ditto for the Account 3Bl/2
Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent lll
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 26%
Ditto Passive Bonds 5%
Ditto Deferred
Ditto 3 per Cent
Ditto for the Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 4% per Cent 95%
Dutch 21/2 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 92% 93