The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-19 00:00:00

Manchester staples are concerned, promise to be in some de-
gree counteracted by the moderate supply, and the large con-
sumption in other quarters promoted by present prices. In
Glasgow fabrics little has been done. Mule twist moves off
in moderate quantity without spirit at recent value. Metals
are not moving up to Mirzapore, but the moderate rates now
current have induced dealers here to supply themselves with
stock a little more freely.
Government Securities do not rally, and the general tone
of the money market is unsettled. Much uncertainty and
restriction in the free circulation of money are kept up by the
absence of any clue as to what the financial operations of
Government will be in providing for the expenses of the
Punjaub campaign.
Quotations of Company's paper are—
New Fives... per cent. rs. 1 Bto rs. 2 0 disct.
Sicca Fives... „ ~ 44t0 „ 412 „
Ce.'s Fours.. „ „178 to ~ 18 • 7,
Sicca Fours... „ ~ 19 oto ~ 20 0 „
Exchange remains quite stationary, at last week's rates,
for six months' sight bills, viz. :
Baring's Credits ls. 91d. to ls. 90. per rupee.
Document Bill
There have been few arrivals during the week, and the
rates of freight have been maintained at 51. per ton for sugar
to London.
Freights—The rates of homeward tonnage have been
steadily maintained, arrivals coming in very slowly.
Saltpetre .....•••• £4 12 6 to .E 4 15 0 per ton of 20 cwt.
Sugar .. 417 6to 5 0 0 ••
Rice ............... 5 0 0 to 5 0
Hides ............4 15 otoo 0 0 .. of 14 'Cwt.
Jute.............. 4 5 oto 4 7 6 ... of 5 bales.
Raw 5i1k......... 4 a oto4 10 0 ... of 10 cwt.
Silk piece goods
and indigo .. 4 5O to4lo 0 ... of 50 c. ft.
FOR LIVERPOOL.

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THEATRE ROYAL, TIAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.

Saltpetre ... ... £4 10 otoo 0 0 per ton of 20 cwt.
Sugar ... ... 4126„ 4 15 0 „ „

Rice ... 415 0„ 5 0 0 „
Jute ... ... 450„ 0 0 0
~ of 5 bales
FOR MAURITIUS.
Rice ... Co.'s r. 1 8 to 110 per bag.
Fos CHINA.
Cotton ... ... 3 dolls. per a aund.
Opium ... .. 7 dolls. to 8 dolls. per chest.

I ImpoßTs. .
Cotton Goods—There has been rather more inquiry for
some Manchester staples this week. Although there is
little business in progress for the markets westward of
Allahabad, the supplies of the more useful plain cottons are
so moderate that a tone of firmness is being given to the
market.

The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during
the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and the
whole re-decorated.

Benefit of the STREET ORDERLIES.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed THE WIFE'S SECRET. Sir Walter Amyott,
Mr. Charles Kean ; Lady Eveline Amy ott, Mrs. Charles Kean.
After which, THE PAS DE FASCINATION. Michael Brewsky,
Mr. Keeley ; Katherine Kioper, Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with Goldsmith's Comedy of SHE STOOPS TO
CONQUER. Mr. Hardeastle, Mr. Tilbury ; Sir Charles Marlow,
Mr. Rogers ; Young Marlow, Mr. H. Holl ; Tony Lumpkin, Mr.
Keeley; Hastings, Mr. H. Vandenhoff, , Mrs. Hardeastle, Mrs.
Glover; Miss Neville, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham; Miss Hardcastle,
Miss Julia Beniett.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL
Under the direction of Madams Celeste.

During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decerated, the
original designs by Digby Wyatt, Esq., executed by Mr. Sang. A
aew Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys-
tem of Ventilation, &c., Ice. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs
added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable.

TO CORRESPONDF.A TS.
Flo communication can be attended to unless authenti-
cated by the name and address at the writer.
dejected communications cannot be returned.

TUE WEATHER.—SUN 01170 E, DECEMBER 19.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 44; Highest, 48; Noon, 47.
BARCMETEB, 29.92.—W1ND N.E.; fine.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 45 min after S Evening .. 16 min. after 9

and shall entitle the party in whose favour it is given
to judgment, and in failure of such concurrence the
cause shall be a remanet."

If this admirable suggestion were adopted—if after
twelve hours spent in deliberation, the verdict of nine
jurors were accepted, and judgment recorded thereon,
we should no longer witness such scenes as those that
have recently taken place. The detention of the jury
twelve hours would ensure a calm and deliberate dis-
cussion of the evidence—it would prevent the possi-
bility of a hasty or ill-considered decision ; while the
concurrence of nine persona at least, on their oaths, in
the verdict would show that there must be due founda-
tion for the verdict. None would be coerced into a
verdict against their conscientious opinions, for all could
bear twelve hours' seclusion, particularly if a mode-
rate supply of food were allowed ; and there can
be no adequate reason assigned for the present com-
pulsory abstinence which often seriously affects the
health of gentlemen who are discharging their
onerous duties honestly and impartially.
We trust, therefore, that the recommendation of
the Commissioners, which has so long and so un-
accountably been overlooked, may be carried into
speedy execution. Then, indeed, there can no longer
be a necessity for telling any' to stand aside," and
there will be no grounds for the assertion that any
class of her MAJESTY'S subjects have been systemati-
cally excluded from juries for the trial of any des-
cription of offences.

The fluctuations of public opinion and the caprices
of popular fancy constitute a curious and interesting
study. The ebbing and flowing of the ocean is not
more invariable than the mutability of popular
preference. The favourite hero of to-day will to-
morrow be esteemed nobody. Some object of in-
difference or contempt at the present moment may
next week or next year be the "rage" and the fashion.
This characteristic inconstancy of public taste, some-
times injurious and sometimes beneficial in its effects,
has rarely been more strikingly manifested than in
the history of the British drama. It might have
been supposed that in a country so rich in its
dramatic literature, a country remarkable for his-
trionic excellence, above all in a country where the
plays of SHAKSPERE are original, the theatre could
never lei deserted, and the taste for dramatic litera-
ture could never decline. Experience has proved the
falsity of any such supposition. After a brief but
glorious period of public favour the popularity of the
stage decayed. Its YouNes, its KEANS, its KEM..
BLES, passed away, their successors were uncared
for and disregarded. Theirs became a thackless
task, they toiled without encouragement, they de-
served without ever obtaining applause. The temple
of the drama was deserted. The plays of SHAKSPERE,
exquisitely mise en scene, and admirably enacted,
were performed to empty benches. The temple of
the drama was desecrated ; crowds again thronged its
portico, and filled up every crevice of space to witness
the feats of the beast-tamer and admire the docility
of liens and tigers. The political orator drew eager
crowds while the eloquence of the dramatist was
wasted on the air. The opera and the ballet charmed
thousands and tens of thousands, and SHAKSPERE was
handed over to the student in his closet. This apathy
became too:universal to be disregarded, and the wise
puzzled their ingenuity in conjecturing its cause.
Some alleged the inferior merit of the actors, while
others declared this inferiority to be occasioned by a
for cause and effect are
want of encouragement;
here so inseparably intertwined that it is impossible
to say whether good actors draw full
houses, or full houses make good actors.
Be this as it may, the neglected condition of the
drama had long since become proverbial, and we only
refer to it at present because we are inclined to be-
lieve that the ebbing has at length been succeeded by
the returning tide. The popular enthusiasm evinced
some time back on the subject of SHAKSPERE'S house
fully demonstrates, that with the love of the drama
the love of SHAKSPERE has not diminished among his
countrymen. In reference to this enthusiasm, a re-
cent pamphleteer has proposed,* that the nation,
having purchased SHAKSPERE 'S house, should now
purchase a house for SHAKSPERE—a theatre, the
property of the nation, to be excrusively devoted to
SIIAKSPERE'S plays. Now, without going so far as
this zealous Shaksperian in this particular, we cer-
tainly agree with him, that " the human mind
receives most quickly and retains most durably im-
pressions made by dramatic representation," and
that it is consequently a matter of the deepest
importance that dramatic works of an ele-
vated character, more especially the works
of SHAKSPERE, " the world's great moral
teacher," should be worthily and constantly repre-
sented. Without recognising a necessity for the
purchase of a Shaksperian Theatre, especially at
present, we should rejoice fully as much as the en-
thusiastic Mr. WiLsoar in witnessing a universal
homage to the bard of ELIZABETH from the lieges of
VICTORIA. No reasons are so effective as those
which are indirectly given and unconsciously ac-
quired. The ears that would be deaf to the wisdom
of a preacher, or the eyes that would turn away from
the teachings of a homily, will eagerly look and
notice when the stage " holds the mirror up to
nature," and the listener's own faults and follies are
satirised and exposed. Can the ambitious man wit-
ness Macbeth without recognizing the vanity of human
ambition ? Can the passionate or the jealous watch
Othello without an apprehensive shudder ? Can the vo-
luptuary view the Tempest without a newly acquired
admiration for female purity ? Ankso on to the end
of the chapter. We might particularise all the
plays of the great Dramatist, and find some new
lesson inculcated by each. We are glad to believe
that a taste for the higher efforts of dramatic genius
is again developing itself among the public. Our
actors and our theatrical managers have done, and
are doing, all that is possible to enhance the attrac-
tions of the drama, and to render it worthy of pa-
tronage. Nay, more, Royalty has "set the fashion."
The tragic muse, after having been ignominiously
driven from her habitation, after having again and
again knocked vainly for admittance, after having
been despised and deserted by an ungrateful people,
is now, by a wonderful change of fortune,
to be presented at Court ! VICTORIA has invited her
to Windsor I Again she will watch with FALSTAFF
under Herne's-oak. Three centuries seem blotted
out from existence. How gladly will London wel-
come back the royal guest. How universally will
her hitherto unseen perfections be extolled ! her
MAJESTY could not possibly have invited any circle
of guests to enliven the festivities of Windsor Castle
whose presence could have been more beneficial to
themselves or to the public, or more honourable to
their royal hostess. The names of some of the
greatest Sovereigns are identified with their patron-
age to the histrionic art. ELIZABETH is celebrated as
the friend of SHAKSPERE. The Grand ilionarque
treated RACINE with more consideration than
he did his courtiers. NAPOLEON was ac-
companied in most of his progresses by the
Theatre Francais, and continually repeated a wish
that CORNEILLE had lived in his reign, " that he
might have made him a Prince." To the list of the
royal patrons of the stage the future historian will
add the name of VICTORIA. Her MAJESTY will have
no cause to repent of the amusement she has selected.
The chosen company of actors includes " all the
talents." It is invidious to particularise, where all
in their several ways are excellent. We gladly hail
this royal invitation as an omen that Welter days
are in store for the long-neglected drama.

* "A House for Shakspere; a Proposition for the Con-
sideration of the English Nation." By William Wilson.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF Music.—Yesterday the
annual election to the four King's Scholarships esta-
blished by his Majesty William IV., by the investment
of 2,2501., part of the profits arising from the Royal
Festival at Westminster Abbey in 1834, took place at
the Academy, Tenterden-street, Hanover-square. Two
of the scholars were selected from the pupils of the
Royal Academy, two being left open to the competition
of the public, and for which there were 30 candidates.
The names of the successful candidates will be announced
on Thursday next.
THE WESTMINSTER PLAY.—The second perform-
ance of Terence's Phormio, by the boys of Westminster
School, took place last evening in the dormitory, which
was thronged to the ceiling. The play was most effec-
tively put on the stage and well acted, and the applause
was sufficient to satisfy the desires of even a company of
amateurs.

new TURKISH. AMBASSADOR.—MS Excel-
lency Mehemed Pacha, !Ambassador from Turkey, at-
tended by a numerous suite, arrived on Saturday at
Folkestone, and, after partaking of refreshments at the
Pavilion Hotel, proceeded to the Turkish Embassy,
Bryaustone-square•

TI3E SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1848.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The following is given as the result of the'polling
for President, so far as the same was known yesterday
morning :

13ONAPAItTE
CAVAIGNAC
.. _

,
The returns from all the departments have been
received except from Corsica and from Algeria. It
is expected that Louis NAPOLEON will have been all
but unanimously elected in Corsica, and that in Al-
geria General CAVAIGNAC will be found to have a
very large majority. The following is declared by
the Committee •f the. National Assembly as the offi
cial result of the voting in twenty-nine departments,
the returns from which they have examined :---
Voters
Suffrages expressed 2,980,130
LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE 2,290,028
CAVAIGNAC
LEDRU ROLLIN ...
RASPAIL ... 30,051
LAMARTINB
About 10,000 votes were annulled, as being uncon-
stitutional or uncertain.

The Journal des Debats has the following on the
composition of the Cabinet of the new President :

" M. ODILON BARROT, who has at length deter-
mined to accept the appointment of President of the
Council will hold with it the Portfolio of Justice.
M. DROUYN DE LIIUYS will be Minister of Foreign
Affairs, M. LEON DE MALLEVILLE, Minister of the
Interior. M. HYPPOLITE PABST has definitively
accepted the Ministry of the Finances; M. ACHILLE
FounD, who had at first been nominated to this office,
and afterwards to the Ministry of Commerce, will not
take any part in the present Ministerial combinations.
M. LEON FAUCHER, whose special acquirements fit
him equally either for the Ministry of Public Works,
or for that of Commerce and Agriculture, will be
appointed to the former : his well-known opinions on
the question of free-trade having created a difficulty
which prevents him accepting the Ministry of Com-
merce. This last office will be conferred on a
young member of the Assembly, new to public
life, but who has on several occasions given
evidence of having devoted much attention to
the study of serious subjects—M. BUFFET.
It had at one time been intended to have given the
portfolio of Commerce to M. DE PARIEU ; but it was
remarked that M. DB PARIEU had become an object
of public attention, principally from a speech in which
he had supported with great talent a resolution, con-
taining a proposition for the nomination of the Presi-
dent of the Republic by the Assembly."
General RHULHIERES, it appears, has been ap-
pointed Minister of War; but as it is said that
General OUDINOT will not accept the Embassy to
St. Petersburgh, it is possible that the arrangements
for filling up this office may not be completed.
M. DE TRACY will be appointed to the Ministry of
Marine, and M. DE FALLOUX to that of Public
Instruction and Worship.
It appears certain that the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs was offered to ALREMUSAT and refused by him.
" We can state from a positive source," says the
Patric, "that General OUDINOT has refused to accept
either the post of Minister of War, or the Embassy
to Russia, his intention being, it is said, to devote
himself exclusively to the functions of representative
of the people, in the event of any new arrangement
depriving him of the command in chief of the army
of the Alps."
We find the following in the .Estafette
"M. Odilon Barrot has stated this afternoon that
General Cavaignac has consented to have his name
placed ou the list for Vice-President of the Republic,
with the names of M. Gamier Pagel; and M. Thiers.
There are three candidates for the portfolio of the Mi-
nistry of Commerce and Agriculture, refused by M.
Fould, viz., MM. Bixio, Victor Grandin, and Parieu.
It is stated that M. Parieu is the candidate preferred by
M. Odilon Barrot."

The same journal states that M. DUFAURE will be
the Ministerial candidate for the Presidency of the
Assembly at the next election.

The Moniteur announces the promotion of M.
VERNINAC (General CAVAIGNAC'S Minister of Ma-
rine) to the rank of Rear-Admiral.
The ilioniteur says :
" One of the journals has pretended that there was a
talk in the National Assembly of the resignation of the
Ministry. Such a statement hardly merits contradic-
tion. The present Ministry has declared its firm inten-
tion, up to the proclamation of the President of the Re-
public, to watch over the maintenance of order and the
laws, and nothing can induce it, until the legal expiration
of its mandate, to decline this mission of honour and de-
votedness."

Whe Constitutionnel mentions as a symptom of re-
turning confidence and prosperity that not less than
1,800 transfers of stock took place at the Bourse on
Saturday ; by 18 or 20 times more than the usual
daily amount, these transfers being for cash and not
for the account.

M. Bixo has been definitively appointed Minister of
Commerce. M. CHARLES BLANC, the brother of M.
Louis BLANC has resigned the office of Director of
the Beaux Arts.

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE left Paris on Sun-
day for London, having, it is said, succeeded in making
arrangements with the French Government for the
more speedy trangmissi'm of the mails between Par's
and London.

BOURSE-PARIS, MONDAY, DEC. 18.

THREE o'CLccK.—The rise in the price of of the public
funds continued to-day, and there is every appearance of
a further advance. The discounting has, however, greatly
aided the tile. There were 82,500 f. of Five per Cents.
Heroes, and 12,000 f. of Three per Cents. Reates dis-
counted to-day. The new Ministry gives great satis-
faction. The Spanish Three per Cents. were not quoted
to-day. Exchange on London (30 days) 25f. 40c.
421 c.; ditto (90 days) 27if. 30c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOKEIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, DEJ:IB.
Boulogne and Amiens, 9—Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzon), B—Luxembourg (7 1. ), Ni—Northern of France,
83g—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3—Paris and Rouen, 19—Rouen
and Havre, 9i/2—Sambre and Meuse, 3%.

"Whit* our heartfelt blessings, and—why should I
conceal it—while my tears accompany Ferdinand the
Good to Bohemia's Itoyal palace, whither he has retired
to the quiet of private life, let us at the same time offer
our homage and our eternal obedience to our new Empe-
ror Francis Joseph I.
"Soldiers, you know him—you know our youthful
Emperor; for in your ranks he lately commenced his
military career as a soldier. You beheld him, calmly and
unflinchingly, expose his breast to the enemy's cannon—
with you he has shared, in a cheerful spirit, many an
hour of hard endurance. lie will love his army, and we
will return his love with love—with that invincible
fidelity which has for centuries bound the warriors of
Austria to the throne of the Emperor and King.
I make this solemn vow in your name, in the
presence of Almighty God, whose protecting hand has
upheld the throne of our Emperor in stormy days like
these in which we live. Under the dominion of Francis
Joseph our venerated country, our monarchy, will be
gloriously and powerfully developed under the protection
of liberal institutions commensurate with the require-
ments of the times.

" Anarchy will be overcome and disappear at home,
and the bravery of the army will prove to the enemy
abroad that the Austrian Monarchy is irrevocably fixed
upon a sure foundation.
" Long live our Emperor Francis Joseph I.
" RADETZKY, Field-Marshal."

Among the recent changes which have taken place
in the higher departments is the appointment of the
late Councillor of State, M. VON PIPIT; as Vice-
President of the General Audit Directory, and the
recall of M. VON HUMMELAUER from London.

A heavy cannonade was heard at Vienna on the
night of the 13th, in the direction of the Hungarian
frontier, and on the morning of the 14th several
wounded were brought into Vienna. It was said
the Hungarians were beaten, that Polsberg had been
taken by the Imperialists. These reports, however,
are exclusively Austrian reports, and therefore require
confirmation.

PRUSSIA.
The two following addresses have been presented
to the KING :

" Berlin, Dec. 14.

" Sire,—Recent deplorable events have demonstrated
the impossibility of, for the time being, arriving at the
construction (aufban) of the constitution through the
medium of vereinbarung (mutual accord). We deeply
lament the facts which ultimately led to the dissolution
of the National Assembly. An aberration (verirrung),
such as the refusal of taxes pronounced by
the people's Representatives, could only produce an irre •
vocable separation between the nation and those whom
it appointed for a work of peace, not for one of
destruction. To acknowledge this is commanded by our
duty and consciences. Your Majesty has accorded to
your people a constitution which is to be submitted to the
revision and colaboration of the new national represen-
tation. The principle of vereinbarung is thus maintained.
A foundation is also obtained thereby, whereon our
noble Fatherland may, after withstanding past internal
tempests, construct itself again, and joyously acknow-
ledge events which will raise still higher the grandeur
and glory of the dynasty of Hohenzollern.
May our hopes and faith meet with fulfilment!
" The MAGISTRATES and TOWN COUNCIL of Berlin."
" Breslau, Dec. 13.

" Sire,—The State trembled to its very foundation
beneath the violent storms of internal discord. The un•
holy darkness of distrust, of destructive errors, and of
enslaving passions, had spread over the people, all
anxiously craving for a free constitution. From this most
extreme danger the country could be saved by the King
alone, and it has been saved by a high-merited deed of
your Majesty—for your Majesty has freely accorded to
the people all that was dear to them, and has realised
and converted into truths all promises, through the con-
stitutional manifesto of the sth of December. Thus
Prussia's people are now enrolled in the ranks of the
most free people, and placed upon the beaming path of
wholesome progress in real liberty. It will now revive
in all its rich and noble strength, and will feel itself re-
elevated through the joyous conviction of security i❑ ac-
knowledged rights, as well as through its well-grounded
confidence in its constitutional King. Accept, there-
fore, Sire, our most respectful thanks, which we offer
with loyal hearts, and with, at the same time, ardent
wishes that the royal labours may, in unison with the
best of our people, arrive at a full and vital maturity.
" Your Majesty's faithful and most obedient,
" The MAGISTRATES and TOWN COUNCIL of Breslau."
The KING will not return to Berlin until the state
of siege is taken off, but the Princes will pass Christ-
mas in the capital.
It is well known that negotiations are in progress
with the King of PRUSSIA to induce him to accept
the dignity of chief of the empire, and that his
MAJESTY will accept it if assented to by the Sovereign
Princes of Germany. The King of HANOVER, it is
reported, will not give his assent.

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