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London, England, 1835-12-23 00:00:00

stationed at Warsaw, and in almost daily intercourse

HAMBURG, DECEMBER, 1835.
THE TICKETS of the 67th GREAT LOT-
TERY of the STATE of HAMBURG, selling most
rapidly, and being neatly cleared off,
HEINEBROTHERS, the CONTRACTORS,
Beg to state that
NO TIME IS TO BE LOST
in ordering, if desired to be obtained before a •
RISE IN PRICE.
To those remitting a 10/. note without delay, they will, on execut-
ing the order, remit a surplus of 2/. by return of post. To those
remitting 201., they will return 4/..; and to those remitting 30/.,
they will return 61., provided they be in time for meeting atten-
tion. lint to any person coming too late, or after a Rise in th
Price of 8/., they will return his remittance, leaving the order un-
e
executed.

Drawing 13th of next month.
In the last 66th Lottery they sold
£7,200 to Liverpool,
£3,603 to Edinburgh,
and many other Capital Prizes to Dublin, Limerick, Liverpool,
Hull, and various places in England, Scotland, and Ireland.
schemes gratis.

HAMBURG, DEC. 18, 183 b.
a N approach of the 13TH of JANUARY,
'IP' the Day of Drawing of the 67th HAMBURG GREAT
LOTTERY,
HEINE BROTHERS, the CONTRACTORS,
Beg to recapitulate the Capital Prizes above 5001. which they sold
to England, Scotland, and Ireland, during th last Six Lotteries
61st Lottery. A Whole Ticket. Sold toe Edinburgh, £3,000
do. do. ' do. London.... 1,000
62d do. do. do. • Beverley.. 3,000
63d do. do. do. London ... 1,000
64th do. do. do. Aberdeen. 3,000
do. do. . do. Liverpool. 1,200
65th do. . do. do. Limerick.. 3,600
do. do. ' to a Hamburgh houseli 500
for account of a London house '
do. Liverpool. 750
do. Liverpool. 7,200
do. Edinburgh 3,600

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1535,

The Times of this morning, in an article full of
Jesuitry, affects to believe that Ministers are angling
for Lord STANLEY, the Duke of RICHMOND, and
others, to join the Administration, and would fain
have it believed that it is the precursor of a furious
quarrel with Mr. O'CONNELL. The Times speaks its
wishes, but these are not likely to influence the con-
duct of Ministers, any more than that of the party
which is now as much the theme of its adulation as it
was once of its rancorous bate. We do not see any-
thing wonderful in Lord MELBOURNE returning
visits of courtesy to his private friends (apart from
political pnrposes), for the Duke of RICHMOND is a
private friend of his Lordship, without such visits being
made the theme of political writers for factious ends.
The notices in the Court Circular are not always to
be depended on, any more than the assertions of our
Contemporary. A union between the two parties would
imply apostacy on both sides uutil the Irish Appropria-
tion Act is first satisfactorily settled; and even our Con-
temporary is shrewd enough to see this, but purposely
sets afloat the Report—throwing doubt on it, while all
the time he wishes it to be believed—because he thinks
it may tend to injure Ministers in public opinion. By
the way, what does our Contemporary mean by the " im-
modest. madness of the present Cabinet ?" Did he
ever hear of a bashful insanity ? The phrase, to us,
is perfectly unintelligible.

It is already known that a Military Commis-
sion of Enquiry has been for some time in
existence, and that, among other things the sub .
ject of corporal punishments in the army has
been under its most anxious consideration. The
sittings of the Commission were suspended not
long since, in order that, before their Report was agreed
to, the Commissioners might have the benefit of the evi-
dence of an officer of high rank not then in Europe.
That officer is now in England, and we understand
that the sittings of the: Commission will be shortly
resumed, so as that the Report may be presented
to the KING before the meeting of Parliament.

Mr. BEAUMONT has addressed a letter to a Morn-
ing ContempOrary, wherein he professes himself a warm
partisan of the present Administration ; but at the
same time, expresses his dislike of O'CONNELL as be-
greatest enemy of liberty." We cannot help
ing the
thinking there is some little inconsistency here ; and
that the plain speaking of the Hon. Member is more
to be admired than his sagacity. Surely he must be
aware—and if he be not, then is he a mere green-horn
in politics—that the present loud out-cry against
O'CONNELL is got up by the Tories, for the

sole purpoie of furthering the interests of their
Arty ! With the single exception of his hobby,
—the Repeal of the Union—and even that he
has wisely dropped—these men cannot bring one ra.-
tional charge against the Hon. Member for Dublin.
They cannot accuse him of republicanism. They
cannot accuse him of holding factious or revolutionary
opinions. They cannot accuse him of being inimical
to any one great principle of liberty. No : the only
charge they can bring against him is, that he is pos-
sessed of considerable influence—and that he exerts
that influence to further the cause of Reform, of which
the present Government is the representative and the
main-stay. Why then does Mr.BEAUMONT express such
abhorrence of O'CoNNELL ? A Tory may be con-
sistent in doing so, but scarcely a Reformer. As for
any direct alliance between O'CONNELL and the
Ministry, there is none—there never was any ; and
this it is that makes the Conservatives so outrageous.
Ministers have availed themselves of the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman's support, in the same spirit that
the Tories availed themselves of the support of HUNT,
and subsequently to a certain extent of COBBETT ;
yet what Tory with a grain of sense in his noddle,
would have endeavoured to sow dissensions among his
party for its wish to catch at such an alliance ?
Mr. BEAUMONT has acted indiscreetly, to say
the least of it, in railing so furiously against
Mr. O'CoNNELL. He must see that his sup-
port is of value to a liberal Administration, and
that by setting his face against such support, he is
only playingas Sir FRANCIS BURDETT has lately
done—the game of the Conservatives. A man in
these times must be either Reformer or Tory. There
can be no neutral course—no halting between the two
parties. It will be quite time enough to rail against
Mr. O'CONNELL, when it can be proved that his po-
litical conduct is at variance with the well-doing of
Reform ; but so long as he keeps within the pale
of the Constitution, and supports a liberal Admi-
nistration on Constitutional principles, he is enti-
tled to the respect of all conscientious Reformers,
and none will protest against his public conduct—
with his occasional intemperance of language
we have nothing to do—for that, concerns only the par-
ties interested—but those who are desirous of flinging
down the apple of discord among the Liberals. Is
Mr. BEAUMONT so green a politician as not to see
that the Tories would gladly avail themselves of the
support of the very man whom they now profess so
much to despise ? Does he imagine that the fable
of the sour grapes has no application here ? Why,
Sir ROBERT PEEL himself publicly confessed that
one great reason for his accepting the Premiership,
was the hope- that he might gain the support of
O'CONNELL, in consequence of the coolness that had
for some time existed between him and the Whigs.
Yet Mr. BEAUMONT, a Reformer, is reluctant to
acknowledge a support which Sir R. PEEL, a Tory,
would have welcomed with unfeigned gratitude. We
cannot understand such sickly squeamishness of con-
science, and care little for the support of the Re-
former who is subject to such infirmities. Those
who are really friendly Co a Liberal Government,
will do well, in a season of peril like the present,
to repress all personal dislikes, lay aside all minor
differences, and work together heart and hand, for
the fUrtherance of the common good. When the
enemy is at the gates, none but traitors will be squab-
bling with each other in the citadel. The first great,
sacred duty of all is, to repel-the foe. So should Mr.
BEAUMONT act. Let hirn not be taunting O'CON-
_N ELL, at the very time when both should be
• engaged in routing the common enemy. We say
this not in an unfriendly spirit ; but because we have
seen a desire lately on the part of certain over fas-
tidious Reformers to assert their own independence at
the expense of the cause in which they are enlisted,
by objecting to O'CONNELL'S alliance, when they
know, or ought to know, that if it had not been for
his disinterested support of Ministers last session, not
one single clause of the Municipal Reform Bill would
have been carried.

Do we deceive ourselves in hoping that there is not
a freeman in England and Wales indifferent to the
" organic change " which the Municipal Reform Acti
which comes into operation on Saturday next, may be
made the instrument of effecting in the practical Go-
vernment of this country ? Are we mistaken in be-
lieving that the great mass of the citizens will do their
duty on this occasion—that they will practically demon-
strate to the Conservative Clubs that they arc qualified
to exercise those privileges which the Whig Govern-
ment has conferred upon them ? Ought we to appre-
hend a charge of being over-sanguine when we give it as
our opinion that the freemen will convince the' Tories
that they regard themselves as the securest trustees of
their own property, and the most efficient disposers of
their own Corporate funds ? We may possibly be
be wrong in a few instances—but we entertain no sue-
picions with regard to answering these questions in
the negative. The freemen will do their duty. They
will proceed to the election of the new Town Councils
with a full conviction that on their integrity, must,
in a great measure, depend the constitution of
the next House of Commons. This is a most
important consideration, and one which ought
never to be absent from the minds of the
freemen: Were the local Government of the
different cities and, boroughs alone to lie affected
by. the New Municipal Reform Act, it would be only
necessary to remind the freemen of the duty which,.in
a pecuniary sense, they owed to themselves ; but when,
besides this duty to themselves, they are placed in a
position which gives them the-ultimate controul of the
Government of the country, we regard it as mostim-
portant that they should be apprised, that on their
honesty depends the political character of two hundred
and sixty-five Members of the House of Commons—
more than half the Members returned by the counties
in which the new Law is destined to operate.
As every pains has been taken on the part of the
Government, the Commissioners, and the Press, to
disseminate among all classes of citizens, 'a knowledge
of the duties which they will be required to perform,
under the operation of the New Act for the regulation
of the Municipal Governments, we may fairly presume
that none are ignorant of the nature and extent
of those services which they are about to render
to their country. Now is the time for the Liberals
to exert themselves. All will depend upon the first
impulse that is given. Should the Tories succeed in
nominating the nominees of the old Boroughmongers,
and Noble Recorders, to fill the Town Councils, there
can be no doubt as to the political characters of the
new magistracy, and the political sentiments of
.the borough Members which shall be returned
to the next House of Parliament—a Parliament
which if Tory, will repeal the very Act under
which its borough Members shall haye been re-
turned. Our fears—as far as we can be said
to entertain any—are not for the results of the opera-
tion of the new Act, among the more numerous bodies
of English freemen. All that we look to with any
apprehension is the smaller boroughs--for centuries
the mere tools of -Tory. Lords, and the neighhOuring
landed aristocracy. To these we say—Dare. for once
to do your duty, and your country is for ever delivered
from the clutches of the Tories.

The Journal des Debats of Monday contains an
able article, in reply to the strictures made upon its
articles of the 11th and 13th ult., by the Journal de

St. Petersburg of the 3d inst., with respect to the
speech of the Czar of MUSCOVY to the Municipality
of Warsaw. As the article, published by command
of the CZAR in the Petersburg Journal, has already
appeared in our columns, it is quite unnecessary to re-
print it ; but the commentary upon it in the Debats is
too important to be omitted. For once the Russian
Cabinet is likely to discover that it mistook its forte
in assuming the pen, instead of having recourse to the
old expedient—a diplomatic menace. It is a bitter
satire on the policy of the EMPEROR, to contrast the
ribaldry of the tone of the official articles published in
the Journal de St. Petersburg with the cold; urbane,
diplomatic courtesy of the castigations adMinistered by
the writer in the Debats. In the official manifestoes
of the AUTOCRAT we discover something approaching
to a talent for licentious scribbling ; whereas, in the
cool but powerful arguments of the Journal des De-
bats, we have all the evidences of a disciplined political
thinker, accustomed to inquire as closely into the mo-
tives of actions as into their details and consequences,
The following is the Debats' commentary on the official
article, published in the St. Petersburg Journal by
command of the CZAR :--
We have faithfully translated the lines which have just
been read from the text as published, in the Berlin Go-
vernment Gazette of the 13th of December. After this in-
troduction, the St. Petcrsburgh Journal reproduces the
articles from the Journal des Debats of the 11th and.l3th,
with, our version of the Imperial Speech. We have al-
tered nothing, we have concealed nothing ; we would not
be less sincere or less honest than the Emperor Nicholas.
He has ordered' the insertion of our articles in his jour-
nal, and we insert his in ours with great goodwill. He
has'had his motives for doing so, and we understand
them. As for us, we have
.no other object than that of
laying all the parts of this extraordinary. proceeding be-
fore the eyes of the European public. Let it be well
understood, however, that this is not a suit between us
and the Emperor of Russia. God forbid_ that we should
have the vanity to think of raising ourselves to the
stature of our adversary. The suit is between parties of
more importance—it is between Russia, on the faith of
treaties signed by all Europe, and humanity itself, violated
in all that is most holy, in the respect due to the weak
and the unfortunate—violated, we say, in the speech of
the Emperor Nicholas at Warsaw ; it is between the
abolition of the kingdom of Poland, proclaimed there by the
Emperor Nicholas, and the maintenance of that kingdom
as ordained by the treaty of Vienna. These, then, are the
parties to the suit. It is seen that we disappear in the dis-
cussion, and that we are but one voice among the thousand
to which public opinion has given utterance. Yes, we are
nothing but simple writers, who speak in the name of
treaties entered into by France, to which she is subject, and
the maintenance and accomplishment of which she has a
right to demand.
We do not deceive ourselves then! You are pleased to
have no adversaries but the writers in a public journal, and
you attach so little value to our words that you order them
to be repeated in your Gazettes, in order to expose them to
the ridicule or the anger of your people ! But remember,
it is not our words which you thus repeat, but the very
words of European treaties, and the text of public law.
They are the words also of your brother and your benefac-
tor, who promised that Poland should be respected and re-
stored. There are greater martyrs than us, then, whom
you throw into the circus, sacred contracts, at the foot of
which are the signatures of kings. You have deceived
yourself in your disdain, which has been thrown up to a
higher level than ours ; for as to us, who are neither kings
nor ministers, and who wield no weapon but the pen of
a
public writer, what have we to do at this moment but to
make use of it for the purpose of telling all Europe that we
have appealed to the faith Of treaties, and that when so ap-
pealed to, they have been handed over to the ridicule of
the people of Moscow ? We have said that which was
desired and ordained by the compact signed at Vienna in
1815, and the infringement of. that compact, thus faithfully
cited, has been made a subject of vain-glorious boast in the
eyes of the people of Russia ! We have said that the
treaty of Vienna has been violated, and in answer, our re-
proaches are adopted as a title of honour! What, then,
is it that is despised ? What is the subject matter at issue
in this new proceeding ? Is it the Journal des Debats, or
.the treaty at Vienna ? .
And what is it that the journal of the Emperor Nicholas
would reproach us with ? That we are in contradiction
with the principles of order and stability, which, according
to him, we have been for some time defending ? In truth,
we do not very well understand. In France we defend the
charter, which is order and stability ; and in Europe we
defend the treaties which are the charters of the civilized
world, and these again are order and stability. The Con-
gress of Vienna has created and established an Europe,
which we, as Frenchmen, might very well be pardoned for
not being much in love with. It is this Europe, however,
so constituted by treaties, which we defend. In what,
then, do we abandon our principles? When it pleases the
Emperor Nicholas, without the consent of the contracting
Powers, to erase an article from the treaty of Vienna, and
to extinguish one of the kingdoms which made part of
Europe, we complain in the name of the stability of Euro-
pean order. Arid where should we be, if it depended on
the caprice of an absolute King to declare that such or
Each a kingdom had ceased to exist ? It was thus that the
partition of Poland was effected—that
sect of injustice so
fruitful in ,troubles and revolutions ; for where justice is
thrown down and buried by brute force, it remains in a
state of agitation from the bottom of its volcano, and heaves
up the weight which oppresses it without having the power
to crush it. It was thus, with this abrupt and haughty
tone, that Napoleon announced 'the annexation to France
of such or such a state. To what does all this lead ?
Without to the maintenance-of treaties, within to respect,
to the laws. This is order and -stability—such as we un-
derstand them, such as we defend, and such as we have
always defended.
We are not surprised that the Emperor should have
thought of making known to Russia the reproaches which
his speech at Warsaw has drawn down upon him. They
are so many pledges given by the Emperor to the Musco-
vites, with which they - ought to be )pleased. ." See,"
he says, " how much Russian I am, how I detest Poland,
how I blame my brother's moderation with regard to it,
and how I brave all Europe and the treaties which form
the law of nations." All this may be delightful to Russia,
since it proves that its Emperor partakes its hatreds and
sympathies with Muscovite nationality, if not with civiliza-
tion. A party in these northern regions has often been
spoken of, which rails against European civilization, and
which murmurs against the introduction into Russia of thg
manners and habits of foreigners. It is this party which
the Emperor has for some time evinced a desire to
conciliate.. It is to it that he gives guarantees. It was
to please it that, two years ago, be forbade the residence
of Russians in foreign countries ; and now, again, it is to
please this party that Poland is insulted. Thus Autocrats
themselves are submissive to the people, so that their
omnipotence does not relieve them from concessions.
For this purpose it is necessary to warm up the worst
feelings, of the nation, and to deck it out -with the hatreds
and the jealousies which-would seem to be equally. forbid-•
den by the prudence and the dignity of the chief of a i
great nation. It is for this alio, when these jealousies and
hatreds have excited the indignation of all Europe, that ad-
vantage is taken of the very reprOaches they have,provoked.
Should the Emperor be desirous - of making. te'' Merit" to
himself in the eyes of his people of what is sailf aht thisimin
foreign Countries, we would recommend to hit
moment, to translate and publish freely froui the English
newspapers.
. We•shall return to -morrnroawl to theivmeddifii the
dedit;iomnplevhroe
which
Emperor's
the St. Petersburgh Journal
speech, and to the sentence which we are accused of having
designedly omitted. What we wish to verify td-day is,
that we have done nothing more than republish the terms
of treaties signed by all -Europe, and that it is therefore to
these treaties, and not to any language of ours, that the
Emperor's contempt is. addressed.. We. wish to make it
manifest that the Warsaw speech declares the kingdom of
Poland to be abolished, and that the treaty of Vienna pro-
vides for the maintenance of that kingdom. -
One way remains by which the EMPEROR, without
relaxing his severity against the Poles, may silence the
Debats. It was devised by the Grand Duke CON-
STANTINE in 1825, and all but carried into effect in
the case of the Editor of the. Constitutionnel, who had
the misfortune to incur the anger of that Prince. The
remedy we allude to is to employ certain trustworthy
emissaries in Paris, to seize upon the person of the
writer in the Debats, and convey him forthwith to
Russia. Strange as it may appear, CONSTANTINE
succeeded in thus kidnapping several German writers
of note, who were never afterwards beard of, but of
whom it is believed that they perished in the trackless
deserts of Siberia. A similar fate was intended for M.
CONSTANT, and even the secret emissaries of the Duke
' had reached Frankfott on their way to Paris, when certain
tidings reached the Grand Duke, which constrained
him to order their recal before they had reached the
French capital. This fact is related, on the authority
of an officer of high rank in the Imperial Guard then

with the Grand Duke.
The only news of any importance contained in these
journals will be found in our extracts from them.
There are no direct authentic accounts from Spain.
PARIS, DEC. 21.—News of the morning.—The journals
of London, Toulon, and Marseilles had not been received
at the time of our going to press.
" We (the Indicateur ) have received letters from St. Se-
bastian of the 15th. The siege of that city had not been
been resumed, as was said ; but the Carlists, whose num-
ber, from Ernani to that place, does not amount to a bat-
talion at most, have placed an 8 pounder near the convent
of La Antigua, which is opposite the entrance of the port,
in order to try to intercept the arrival of vessels. A few
eannon shots from the fortress had destroyed the mound
which the Carlists had made to place their cannon, but
they repaired it in the night of the 14th.
" On the 15th, in the morning, a French chasse-maree
was forced to put back, being hindered from entering by 8
balls from that one piece. On the same. day the French
steam-boat !tfeteore arrived from Passage. The Carlists
fired a ball at it, which the Commander of that vessel af-
firmed was not aimed at him.
" The town was in a very good state of defence, and the
inhabitants felt. no fear whatever, since the arrival of the
four thousand English, and the great number of artillery,
with Congreve rockets, &c. Complaints, however, are still
made of the supineness of the Governor, who with a few
men might not only repulse the enemy, but destroy their
works and take their artillery.
" The two mortars which the Carlists employed against
St. Sebastian, and which they took to Tolosa, remain there
damaged. On the other hand the garrison of St. Sebastian
has received two 32 pounders from the Castor English
frigate, which were immediately placed on the ramparts.
Provisions are extremely abundant in St. Sebastian."
We have the following from the banks of the Bidassoa :
" To-day, the 15th June, musket shot were, as usual, ex-
changed between the Christinos and the Carlists. The
cannonade, which we hear on the side of St. Sebastian,
really proceeds from that place to destroy the quarter of
St. Martin, outside of the town, and the works of the Car-
lists in the trenches.
The besiegers have placed a four-pounder at Antigua,
which renders it still more difficult to quit the port.
The Gazette de France says—An interview took place
on the 9th at Briviesca between the Count d'Almodovar,
Cordova, and Colonel Evans. After they had eoncerted
together, Cordova went to Logrono, and the Minister of
War and Evans to Vittoria.
The Minister of War will fix his office at Briviesca,
where he will be sooner informed of all that passes.
Twelve Cabinet messengers will be always ready to carry
despatches.
It is affirmed that Cordova has received orders not to
engage, except in case of urgent necessity. The Minister
of War intends to send at once into Navarre six columns
of 10,000 men and 2,000 horses.
The environs of Burgos look like a field of battle.
Troops are daily accumulating there, and the number of
soldiers of the new levy already collected there is 30,000
men. Battalions of volunteers, organised by the Juntas of
Arragon have also just arrived there.
The 4th Battalion of the Royal Guard has arrived at
Logrono.
The Queen's troops still-occupy the same position. Ge-
neral Mendez de Vigo is to prevent the Navarrese from
making any new attempt on Arragon and Catalonia.—
Men!. des Pyrenees.
We are still without news from Algiers. The Journal
des Debats attributes this delay to the small number of
steam-boats that Marshal Clausel has at his disposal.
The Courrier Francais says, private letters from Peters-
burg state that there had been a warm altercation between
the Emperor and Lord Durham. If this be true, the En-
glish Ambassador would have nothing left but to demand
s passports.-Ifessager, Dec. 21.

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)
CORN EXCHANGE.
There are moderate arrivals this week, and a fair return o'
Flour. There was very little doing this morning in any an
tick, and the prices remain without alteration. Flour unvaried,
ARRIVALS.
Wheat amley. Oats. I Immtr.
5.50 qrs 7,070 qrs. 4,550 qrs. i 4,730 ,arks
Irish
. -500 --- 8,010 I
=
Fareign

THE FU?I-13S-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
We have no arrivals this morning of consequence—not
even the French Mail, with the express of Monday—no
ship letters.
Information may soon be expected from two important
quarters, viz.—America and Russia. In regard to Spain,
the season has so far advanced as not to admit of much
more fighting at present.
It appears, by recent accounts from St. Petersburg, that
the Emperor of Russia, being much disappointed at the
Congress of Toplitz in his allies, and more particularly in
respect to Austria, has determined to rely upon his own
strength, and thus counteract the check he received. Ac-
cordingly he is using every effort to put his maritime force
in the highest state of organization, to which he attends in
person ; and the ports of the Baltic and Black Sea are ri-
valling each other in their activity. The Cabinet is con-
stantly assembled, and the couriers dispatched are multi-
plying daily to the various Courts.
The information from America is still of a vague de-
scription and cannot be relied upon ; but in a few days
we shall be in possession of the President's Speech, which
will no doubt determine the important question of peace or
war between France and the United States.
THE FUNDS.
Consols opened this morning at the price they left off
yesterday-911 for the Account, very little doing ; Re-
duced, 901 ; Exchequer. Bills, 13 15 ; India Bonds, 2 4 ;
Bank Stock, 211 212 ; India Stock, 256-257.
In the Foreign Market, owing to the non-arrival of the
French Mail with the express from Paris, little or no acti-
vity prevails. Spanish Active Bonds which closed yester-
day at 481 49, continue at the same price ; Portuguese,
831 841 ; Three per Cents.; 551 ; Columbian, 321 ;
Mexican, 371 38 ; Dutch Two and a Half per Cents.
55/ 4 ; Five per Cents. 100/ 101/.
HALF-PAST ONE.
M. ARDoIN, the Paris banker and contractor of the
Spanish Loan, arrived in London last night, for the pur-
pose, it is said, of making some financial operations in the
Spanish Debt, and it is believed that the deferred part will
be the first to be looked into by the Minister of Finance.
Great anxiety is felt for the arrival of the first packet
front Lisbon, as many persons expect that the Lisbon Bank
will -withdraw its supplies to the Government when the
news arrives at Lisbon of the Government Bills having
been protested here. It ought to be borne in mind that
the Bank of Lisbon and the Government are not identified
as they are in this country, having more particularly to
look to the interest of its own proprietors.
Since the early part of the morning, the French mail has
arrived with the express from Paris.. We understand it
does not bring any news from Spain.
The prices' of the French Funds are—Five per Cents.,
108 30 ; Three per Cents., 79 45 ; Spanish, active 471 ;
passive 144 ; Coupons 241; an improvement of about 4
per cent. on Spanish, and 15 cents. on the Frenelr Three
per Cents.
Consols, which were in the early part of the morning
911 1 for the Account, have receded to 911 4. Exchequer
Bills, 13 15 ; India Bonds, 2 4 ; Bank Stock, 2111 ; Spa-
nish Bonds, 481 ; Portuguese, 834 ; Three per Cents.,
55 ; Colombian, 32 ; Mexican, 374 38 ; Dutch, 24 per
Cents., 56.
Consols for the Account, 911 1.

THREE O'CLOCK

RAMSGATE, DEC. 22.—Owing to the stormy state I
of the weather, the Belfast steam packet, on her passage
from London to Calais, was obliged to take shelter in the
harbour of Ramsgate on the evening of the 21st instant.
There were upwards of seventy passengers on board at the
time. The most remarkable circumstance attending this
delay was the birth of a fine boy on board, a few hours
before the vessel entered the harbour. The lady who gave
birth to the child is a Mrs. Huff, who, together with her
sisters, were passengers on board the steam vessel. Both
the mother and child are doing extremely well. The pas-
sengers are unanimous in stating that great praise is due to
the Stewardess for her firmness, and to the Captain, for his
delicate attention on this trying occasion. In fact, it is
impossible to estimate too highly the attentions which those
who have the management of steam vessels are in the habit
of paying to invalid passengers. The name of the Stew-
ardess is not known to us, but it deserves to be recorded.
SERIOUS ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, be-
tween eight and nine o'clock, John Stollard, porter to Mr.
Scoles, proprietor of the Elephant waggon warehouse, in
Fore-street, was crossing the end of Redcross-street with a
heavy load upon his head, when he slipped down, through
treading on a piece of peel, and broke his right thigh hone.
He was conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
There has been a great fail of snow in the county of
Kent, and the roads in the neighbourhood of Chatham,
• Canterbury, and Dover, are nearly impassable. The night
coaches from London on Sunday were detained several
hours at the top of Lyddon-hill, about five miles from the
latter place.
An enormous cod fish has for the last two days at-
tracted great attention at the fish warehouse of Mr. Gorton,
the eminent collector of rare fishes, in Gutter-lane, behind
the General Post-office. The weight of the fish was some-
thing over 481bs. We understand it was sent as a present
to his Majesty.