The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENITIG, DECEMBER 31, 1850.

of the public anticipations be realized. Cause,
indeed, shall we have for exultation when the
true Peace Congress shall have been held in London,
and the representatives of all nations shall have met
together in peaceful and " twice-blessed" rivalry.
With this auspicious event in prospect, it is but
natural that 1851 should be greeted with even more
of hope and satisfaction than his predecessors. While
trusting in PROVIDENCE for the happy issue of these
expectations, let us remember, one and all, the old say-
ing respecting "good intentions"—good intentions
which are worse than fruitless, unless consummated
by good actions. One and all, rich and poor,
wise and simple, have their part to perform
in the drama of human life. None are
so insignificant as to be excused from their allotted
post. Such thoughts, which are always worthy of re-
membrance, are more especially suggested by the
arrival of the thirty-first of December. Both in a
public and private capacity, both as a nation and as
individuals, let us remember that it is useless to
lament lost opportunities, unless from that lamenta-
tion we are led to better performances. It is vain and
futile to build up castles in the air for the future, un-
less we at once set about laying their foundation
in the present. Chastened, but not depressed by
former disappointments, cheered, but not too much
elated by anticipated success, let us greet the new
year now about to dawn upon us. How many aching
hearts and weary brains are looking forward to that
new year for a solace to their suffering and repose
from their toil. To how many of the friendless chil-
dren who crowd our thoroughfares, and the sinking,
starving labourers who toil in the garrets and cellars
of our cities, will not the coming year be fraught with
good or evil, perhaps not only for time, but for eternity ?
A moment's pause in the giddy whirl of life, a
moment's contemplation of the state of so many of
our fellow-creatures and fellow-countrymen, cannot
...men and onnress every feeling heart and
thoughtful mind with a sense of overwue...-",
sponsibility. At the hands of every one of us will
their blood be required—those unhappy ones who die
in sorrow or live in sin, because when ignorant
children we have not taught them, and when strug-
gling, suffering men and women we have stretched
forth no hand to succour or to save them. Sad, indeed,
are the thoughts associated with New Year's Day to the
unfaithful steward—to the legislators, who forget
their primary duty, as the people's guardians, to the
masters, who impose unjust burdens, and forget that
the labourer is worthy of his hire ; in short, to one
and all, these periodical days of reckoning are
themes for reproach and repentance, for how many,
when weighed in the balance, are found not
wanting ? Solemn and serious as these reflections
are, they are not inappropriate to the closing hours
of the year, when the brightness of spring and the
bloom of summer have given place to_the darkness
and desolation of winter—

" Dead, alas ! are buds and blossoms—dead, dead
Like the blushes of a virgin they have bloomed and
fled;
In the dust the reeds are lying,
To their roots the sap is flying ;
Faint and feeble—all its beauty shed—
See the Old Year dying."

In society we ever find persons most eloquent in
deprecating the vices to which they are secretly in-
clined, and that eloquence will become absolutely
overwhelming if their favourite predilections happen
to be in any degree suspected. The " blackleg," who
gains an infamous livelihood by swindling the com-
munity, is continually speaking of "his honour,''
so that so far as mere words were concerned, you
would suppose him to be a model of integrity. He
would scorn to take any unfair advantage.
He would lay down life itself, before he would be
guilty of any act that could in any degree impair
his high and unblemished reputation ! He would not,
under any circumstances, postpone payment of his
gambling debts, or, as he would term them, " debts of
honour, even for a single moment; but, notwithstand-
ing all these professions, woe to the unfortunate dupe
that sits down with the worthy man to any game of
chance or skill, or enters into a match on the turf.
The cards will be marked, the dice loaded, or
the steed drugged ; or, even if these precautions he
dispensed with by,the " man of honour," he is enabled,
by the sleight•of--band and dexterity acquired by
long practice, to render it anything but an equal
match, so that the result of the play is certain.
Then, indeed, he is inexorable in enforcing the prompt
and satisfactory settlement of his unjust demand, and
GOD help the unfortunate debtor who is compelled
by the amount of his losses to seek any indul-
gence at his bands. He absolutely rises into
moral dignity in the power and strength
of his vituperation, or in the withering denunciations
which he hurls at the devoted head of the betrayed and
cheated victim !

So it is with the bullionists, they raise a parrot
cry of "keeping faith" with the public creditor, and
impute the grossest dishonesty to all who venture to
suggest that justice should be rendered to the public
debtor. They have " packed the cards," " cogged the
dice," and " drugged the race-horse" by their acts for
the restoration of cash payments, for the abolition of
small Dotes, and for the separation of the issue and
banking departments of the Bank of England, and
compelling the directors to keep a large amount of
bullion buried in their vaults, of no greater practical
utility than an equal weight of quarry stones. By
these artificial restrictions they have greatly enhanced
the value of the pound sterling, so that they have for
many years past been extracting from the pockets
of the industrious population of the country,
who, as a matter of strict and equal justice should not
be called on to devote any portion of their earnings
to the liquidation of debts contracted by their fore-
fathers, far more than they had any right or
any claim to receive, and yet the moment a word is
uttered respecting an equitable arrangement of the
outstanding liabilities, a torrent of low scurrility is
poured forth against the hardy aggressor, in
order to deter him and all others from
again offending in a similar manner—
something analogous to the " appeal to the pistol,"
the challenge to mortal combat, with which the
worthy " bonnet" answers the remonstrances of his
victim. Such arguments may, however, be carried a
little too far, and provoke inconvenient recrimina-
tions scarcely anticipated.
What, for instance, would the Times say if the
right of the parties, by whom the national
debt was contracted, to mortgage the labour
of their descendants through succeeding gene-
rations, were altogether disputed ? Our Con_
temporary (in its leader of the 27th instant)
says, " As we can recognize no distinction between a
private and a public debtor, we will take an indivi-
dual case." It then gives a sketch of the proceedings
of a certain Earl of ENTAILS, who, being engaged in
sundry lawsuits and divers speculations requiring an
extraordinary outlay, has fallen into the hands of
Jew money-lenders (and what a mine of wealth
does the unfortunate nobleman prove to
that estimable class, according to the showing
of our contemporary !), and grants bonds for 1001,
the real consideration received not being more than
301. It then asks, what should be his Lordship's con-
duct if, by some fortunate accident, he came into
possession of means sufficient to liquidate all his lia-
bilities to the uttermost farthing ? We accept the
new illustration, although we believe the case of Sir
GODFREY GREENHORN (a more fitting namefor the bor-
rower) was, in 1847, during the commercial panic pro-
duced by our infamous monetary code, the favourite
example of our Contemporary. W e shall,however, carry
the case a little farther. Let us suppose that the
Noble Lord has been gathered to his fathers, that a
hatchment is placed on the family mansion, and that
the eldest son (Lord FAIRPLAY) has succeeded to the
hereditary titles and estates, and a number of younger
children are left utterly unprovided for, the Noble
There
having lived up to the full extent of his income.
here is a sound of mourning in Israel—the goose
that laid the golden eggs, that paid 1001. for
every 301. borrowed, is no more. The new
Earl has succeeded to the wide-spread domains
without any incunibrance ; his father had but a lire
interest, as his usurious creditors well knew, and
they took care to charge him in proportion to the
infirmity of his title and the precarious and limited
nature of his tenure. The young Lord may, if he
pleases, set them at defiance. So far as the law is
concerned their bonds are no better than so much
waste paper, or, to use a stereotyped phrase of the
bullionists, " worthless rags." What will be their
condition if they institute legal proceedings ? or,
to adopt the langdage of our
_Contemporary " How

would[they fare in a court of justice ?" There can
be no difficulty as to the acswer. Their case would
be scouted out of court, and they themselves mulcted
in costs for their unfounded demand.

Bat, again, let us carry the case still further.
The portionless children have forgotten their aris-
tocratic birth; and condescended to earn an honest
livelihood by their own exertions. One has been so
fortunate as to obtain a seat in Parliament and a
Lordship of the Treasury, or some of those comfort-
able situations that reward the labours of statesmen
in embryo. Another may be a barrister in good
business ; a third a popular preacher, with:a fair pros-
pect of a mitre. The army and navy will have a
fourth and fifth ; and if the " detrimentals"—as we
believe the younger sons are termed in the
vocabulary of match-making mammas—be very
numerous, some may even condescend to
embark in trade, commerce, or manufacture. They
are thriving in their several vocations, and anxious to
redeem the memory of a revered, although an impro-
vident, parent from every imputation. There is a
family meeting to decide on what course to be
adopted. Would they be considered robbers and plun-
derers if :they proposed to pay the full amount ac-
tually contracted with reasonable, but not
usurious interest, to restore the thirty pounds
per cent., and to a fair usance for the
money ? Far from it, their conduct would be• con-
sidered beyond all praise; the creditors would bless
those whose high sense of honour led to so noble a
proposition, which would be gratefully and thankfully
accepted. The Times, then, should avoid such to-
pics, or those of whom it is the avowed organ may
have little reason to be pleased with its advocacy.
No question can be disposed of by using gross
or abusive language. It will henceforward
do well to observe the salutary caution of Mr.
MUNTZ, and " to avoid blackguardism," or it may
find that others can call things by their right names,
and place matters in a very different point of view.
Althougn no 'Amy, 7,
children the necessity of liquidating the debts of their
forefathers beyond the amount of assets which they
may have received from their ancestors, and
which were disposable, and could be alienated
by them, we do not desire to repudiate the national
debt, or, slight the claims of the public creditor. We
only wish to render equal and impartial justice to all
—to the debtor as well as to the creditor—and nothing
but such unfair and unjustifiable arguments as those
recently put forward on behalf of the bullionists can
endanger the rights of the latter; and we sin-
cerely hope that henceforward the matter may be dis-
cussed in a calm and temperate spirit, and that all
unnecessary violence of language may be avoided on
either side.

We cannot conelude without directing the attention
of our readers to an admirable article of our esteemed
and talented Contemporary, the Derbyshire Courier,
which will be found extracted into another part of
this day's impression. It will well repay perusal.

In another column of our journal of this day, a
statement will be found detailing the grounds and cir-
cumstances of a dispute which has recently taken
place between the Hon. and Rev. FRANCIS RICHARD
GREY, the Rector of Morpetb, and the :churchwar-
dens of St. Mary's, in that town, to which we invite
attention. It appears that the, churchwardens had
received from the Duke of MANCHESTER, as chair-
man of the National Club, a pamphlet containing
certain "suggestions" to laymen for putting down
Romanizing practices in the Established Church. For
some time past they, in common with others of the
parishioners, had been subjected to constant annoy-
ance by a system of chanting the psalms and prayers,
introduced by Mr. GREY into the service of the
church there, and they were resolved to make an
attempt to procure a discontinuance of those objec-
tionable practices. With this view they recently
sought, and obtained, a personal interview with the Rev-
erend Gentleman, and, with more ingenuousness than
worldly wisdom, directed his attention to the "sugges •
tions" transmitted to them by the Duke of MANCHESTER.
The request theypreferred to the rector was that he would
relinquish the chanting of the creed and the psalms
in the parish church on the first Sunday in the month,
and in St. James's Church every Sunday. During
the conversation, " Mr. Churchwarden KING" appears
to have made, or been entrapped into the admission,
that but for the publication of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S
famous letter to the Bishop of DURHAM, the church-
wardens would not have thought of asking the rector
to change the mode of conducting the service. Such
rare indiscretion, if it be true, on the part of " Mr.
Churchwarden KING," has, in our opinion, seriously
marred and retarded the very good cause he and his
colleagues were promoting. It is but justice, how-
ever, to that gentleman to say that he denies making
the infelicitous admission.

The day after the interview Mr. GREY replied by
letter to the request of theshurchwardens,in which he
announced his intention to make a trilling conces-
sion to them, but absolutely refused to discontinue
the choral service at St. James's Church. This
letter of Mr. GREY, however, is chiefly remarkable
for the defiant, and, we may be permitted to say, gra-
tuitous language which he holds towards Lord JOHN
RUSSELL and his Grace the Duke of MANCHESTER,
whom he designates " foreign extra-parochial agita-
tors." "I do not see," says Mr. GREY, " what right
foreign extra•parochial agitators, however high in
office or in rank they may be, have to interfere in my
parish. Ido not see why we should give their sug-
gestions' a moment's consideration. In plain words,
I do not recognise Lord JOHN RUSSELL as the Prime
Minister of England, or his Grace the Duke of
MANCHESTER as the chairman of the National Club, as
having authority of any kind whatever, ecclesiasti-
cal or civil, in the parish of Morpeth. . . I should,
however, be sorry to follow the example set by those
high in office and in rank, and to walk in the path
which they have pointed out—the path of agitation
and strife."

Now we take leave to say that, as respects Lord
JOHN RUSSELL at least, this is an extremely unmanly
and undeserved attack upon his Lordship, seeing that
it does not appear that his Lordship has ever in the
slightest degree, or in any manner whatever, inter-
fered in the parish which is blessed by the:Hon. and
Rev. Mr. GREY'S clerical oversight, and that the Rev•
Gentleman must have well known when he penned
the words we have quoted. We gravely suspect that
in these times the Premier of England has other fish
to fry than to seek to pervert the parishioners of
Morpeth from their allegiance to their rector. Even
supposing that the sending the printed " suggestions "
of the Duke of MANCHESTER to the churchwardens of
Morpeth,was fairly chargeable as an act of interference
in the Rev. Gentleman's parish, it was in the highest
degree disingenuous and unworthy so to construe the
letter of Lord Jolts RUSSELL to the Bishop of Dun-
11111,e1, for which his Lordship has since had "to blush
to find it fame."

This correspondence is lamentable, as discovering
in a remote part of the kingdom, another among
the many attempts that have been made in recent
years to revive and engraft obsolete usages upon
the beautifully simple and devotional liturgy of the
Church of England, and so to pave the way, though
perhaps unintentionally, for that scheme of aggres-
sion originating in the insatiable lust for ecclesiasti-
cal domination which now assails the Constitution of
this realm in a vital part. But to find an attempt of
this kind made and promoted by one ennobled by
the illustrious name of GREY, and by family ties with
" the blood of all the llowanDs," indissolubly inter-
woven as these names are with the history of a series
of memorable struggles for political freedom and
human progress, had not:entered into our comprehen-
sion, and must be a humiliating consideration to
many who with ourselves have heretofore identified
the immediate ancestor of the Rector of Morpeth
with the advancement of liberty and civilization.

We regret to learn that early in the present week
Lord Dalmeny, M.E, was dangerously attacked with pleu-
risy, and lies extremely ill at Dalmeny Park, near Queens-
ferry, the seat of his father, the Right Hon. the Earl of
Rosebery.—Glasgow -Daily Mail.

The trustees of the late Colonel Cheape, of Gir-
genti, are now, in terms of his bequest, paying over to the
i❑firmaries of Edinburgh,Glasgow, Dumfries, Aberdeen, and
Inverness, the sums realised from his estate. It was ex-
pected that each of the charities would receive 2,0001., and,
though the whole of the estate has not yet been disposed of,
1,8001. has already been allotted to each.
CORNISH GRANITE TOR THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
—A very large block of granite, being more than twenty
feet long, of the finest quality and colour, has lately been
raised by the Cheesewring Granite Company, at their quar-
ries on the Cheesewring Hill, which iS intended to be sent to
the Urea; Lzbibition of 101.

THE FRENCH RIPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris jouaals of yesterday.
The " great party of order" is n a state of most
admired disorder, and the various fractions of " the
honest and moderate " are, in terrs the most vehe-
ment, accusing each other of dislonesty the most
flagrant ; the Ministry and tle Asembly are at open
war, and hitherto the defeats and the humiliations
have all fallen to the lot of the Minstry. On Satur-
day, as we stated yesterday, the Asembly, in despite
of the opposition of M. ROUHER, voted the immediate
liberation of M. MAUGUIN, At tIE conclusion of the
division, M. ROUHER declared to those around him
that he would oppose the executin of the order of
liberation by force ; how he =nod out his declara-
tion will appear from the follovvin; narrative, which
appears in the Be bats :
" After the vote of the Assemblyon Saturday evening
M. Baze, one of the questors, went immediately to the
Debtors' Prison, accompanied by several representatives
and by one of the ushers of the .assembly. He took
with him the order of the day moire, signed in form of
ex-equatur by M. Dupin. M. Bze -srderal the usher to
knock at the closed door of the prison, and to require
its being opened in the name of the National Assembly.
The door was opened, and M. Baas proceeded to the re-
gistrar's office. As the director wss absent he was re-
ceived by the registrar. M. Baza called his attention to
the entry in his hooks relative to l)1. Mauguin, and de-
manded that he should transelibe opposite to it the order
of the day motive of the Assembly. The registrar at
first pleaded the absence of his chief, but having been
warned by the questsr that the assistance of the armed
force would be called for if necessary, he no longer re-
sisted. and M. Mauguin was immediately set at liberty.
It is affiimed that M. Cheron, the creditor of NI. Mau-
guin, and at whose suit the latter was arrested, intends
to bring an action for damages against the director of
the prison for releasing his creditor. It appears that, on
his part, M. Mauguin has given notice of appeal against
the sentence of the Tribunal of the Sine, which placed
him under arrest. The affair, it is said, will come on
immediately before the First Chamber of the Court of
Appeal."
M. ROUHER, like Sir JOHN FALSTAFF, thinks " the
better part of valour is discretion."
But this is not the " unkindest cut" which the
Ministers have received. The dismissal of M. Yon
was demanded by MM. BAROCHE and CARLIER as a
credit,
ifsnetthe rilapienOPPe_ of their own
YON is the condemnation of MM. BAROCHE and
CARLIER. The demand for the dismissal of M. YON
was formally made to the Bureau of the As-
sembly by M. BAROCHE, and Monday was
fixed by the Bureau for the consideration of the
demand. So important did the Elysee consider
it to secure the dismissal of this officer, that all the
Bonapartist journals of Monday have articles on this
subject; the least violent of which, that of the Consti-
tationnel, declares that, " if, which however is impos-
sible, the decision of the Bureau should be in favour
of M. Yox,: it will be a blow not only to the execu-
tive but to the judicial power." That blow the
Bureau has struck, for it has decided in favour of M.
YoN. The Pcthrie gives the following account of the
decision :

"The Bureau of the National Assembly met to-day to
come to a resolution relative to the demand for the revo-
cation of M. Yon, addressed to it by the Minister of the
Interior. The discussion commenced at noon and lasted
till five o'clock. The Bureau decided by a majority of
eight to six that M. Yon should be maintained in his
functions as special commissary of the Assembly. The
votes were divided as follows :—For the revocation, MM.
Limn Faucher and Paul Daru, Vice-Presidents; Lacaze,
Berard, Peppin, and Beckeru, secretaries. For the
maintenance—MM. Dupin, president; Bedeau and Be-
ncit d'Azy, vice presidents; Chapot and Arnaud (de
l'Arlge), secretaries; Leflo, Baze, and de Panat, ques-
tors. This decision will certainly produce a painful and
profound sensation in the country. We can already
affirm that it was received with equal regret and surprise
iu the Salle des Conferences. It was stated that a con-
siderable number of representatives propose to bring the
question before the Assembly in public sitting."
It is evident that the whole matter must now come
before the Assembly, and that MM. BAEOCHE, CAR-
LIER, Yorr, and D UFIN, and the pilgrims of Wiesbaden
and of Claremont, must make clean breasts of it. All
the intrigues in which the reactionaires have been
engaged, from the moment of the proclamation of the
Republic, will now probably be exposed, and the
honest men who have been made the victims of the
most unscrupulous knot of police conspirators that
ever retailed perjuries per order of the Prefect, re-
stored to their proper positions in society. " The
rogues have fallen out."

PARIS BOURSE, DEC. 30.—Latest Prices—Five
per Cents., 94f. 95c. ; Three per Cents., 56f. 90c. ;
Bank of France, 2,237 f. 50c.

BUSINESS DON_E IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 30.

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Anglo-Mexican(is. 5/. p.) 100 ..
Asturian .... • • • • • . • • • • 15
Australian •••• • • • • 4 334 3
Barossa Range .. ••• • • 113 0 —3%
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal 50 ..
Bolanos Scrip •• • • • • —.•
British iron.. ••..•• • • • • 13 5 • • —• •
Brazilian Imp (is. 51. p.) 243{
Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba 30 •3% 314
Do. St. John del Rey• • 15 14% 14%
Cobre Copper ...... • • 40 32% —35
Copiapo ..... •• • —• 5% 5
Genera 1................ 20 13% 13%
Real Del Monte, Unreg. 1i %
Do. Black Debentures. • •
Do. Red Debentures .. • • • •
Santiago de Cuba ...... 10 9 —7%
Tin Croft .............. 7 10% 11
United Mexican— • 28 28% 61A —5% 5% 56
MISCELLANEOUS.
Canada •• •• •.•• 32% 4234 —44
Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 263 —27
Penin. & Oriental Steam. 50 891 —BB
Royal Mail Steam .. •• .. 60 73 —74
[We cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Lists, and
will not be influenced by interested con espondents.]

MONEY and COIVIMI,Ai.CiAL NEWS

CITY. TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 were taken on spe-
culation. The market closed steadily.—ln Railway
Shares only a limited business was done, and prices had
a downward tendency.
The Colonial Markets re-open to-morrow.
The Foreign Exchanges are expected to exhibit some
improvement this afternoon, though there al e parties
who feel sceptical as to whether the alteration will be
permanent. The abolition of the gold coinage in Bel-
gium may cause some amount to be forwarded hither,
but there is no silver here at present to give in barter.
As supplies come in from the United States, si • shall
readily be able to dispose thereof for gold.
The fall of the exchange against England at Paris
from 25 27, on 26th July, 1850, to 24 85, on 91st Dec.,
1850, and the similar fall at Hamburgh from 13 71, on
26th July, 1850, to 134, on 21st Dec., 1850, was of ne-
cessity occasioned by a superabundance of bills en
London offering at these places—that is to say, the bill
for 11., which would sell for 25 27 in July,
would sell for only 24 85 in December, be-
cause more £.'s were offering at the latter than
at the former date. This increased quantity of bills on
London appears to have been occasioned by the desire
of foreign brokers and others to obtain silver. The first
- nn Loudon sai at Paris, turned his bill
into silver at once. ine Zt at a pro-
portionate price for the purpose of remittance to London
did so, in a great number of instances, with a
direct view of having the proceeds of the bill returned
to him from London in silver. Hence the rapid fall of
the exchange on London at Paris, and hence, also,
the rapid fall in the premium on gold at the
same place, in spite of the non-arrival there of
any gold from England. The exclusive and
enormous demand for silver rendered gold an
ineligible mode of remittance until the time should
arrive when, the fall of gold to par at Paris, combined
with the state of the exchange, and the privilege of
using gold in France as a legal tender, should at length
render gold so much dearer in Paris than in London as
to justify its exportation from hence. That time has now
arrived ; gold has began to flow into France, and the
probability is, that the recent anomalous state of things
will be speedily corrected. When that correction has
in some measure taken place, -and the extraordinary de-
mend for silver on the continent has ceased, the quota-
tions of the premium on gold at Paris will be watched
with much interest. If that premium should permanently
disappear, or be replaced by a discount, there will be
stronger grounds than there are at present for supposing
that the Californian mines are beginning to disturb the
relative value of gold and silver to each other. In the
meantime, we may rest content with the assurance that
the, real exchange between this country and the conti-
nent, as regulated by the trade in commodities, is not
against but in favour of England.
At Hamburgh, last Friday, the rate of exchange on
London was 13 Of, being f lower again.
The quotations at Frankfort on the 28th inst. were
731 for Austrian Metallics, and 341 for Spanish.
The English Funds, are very inactive. Consols have
been quoted 961 and the New Three-and-a• Quarter
per Cents. 981 Bank Stock is worth 213. Ex-
chequer-bills are 58s, to 625., and India Bonds 78s. prem.
The Foreign Investments have been heavy. Mexican
are 341 > for the Five per Cents. for Money, and 354 for
Account. Spanish Five per Cents, are 17k, and the
Three per Cents. 394. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. have been 59.

In the Share Market the account is Bullish, and
high rates of " continuation" being demanded, many
parties have preferred to sell. We believe, however,
that the speculation is by no means so enormous as has
been asserted, and that full advantage is taken by those
having capital to make borrowers pay handsomely, in
consequence of the advance in discounts at the Bank
of England.

Consols ...
Ditto Account

QUARTER TO THI?Eg.

... 96i it ex d.
CLOSING
PRICES.
213
97%
985
73/4
75p
78 p
961 A,

ONE
O'C LOCK.
. ..... 213

PRICES OF BRITISH rinms
B ank Stock
3 po, Cent. Reduced Anna.
Sew 314 per Cent. Anna ...... 931%
Long Anna. tnexpire Jan.lB6o .. 7
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 7
fir& Bonds, 1,000/...
Ditto under 1,000/......
Consols for Account 961,2%
Ex_eileolD-3r 11/id. & 24
1,000/. June .
5m4.11. Juue 5B 62 p

_
62 p
CLOSING
PRICES.

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
M ,xican, 5 per Cent.lB46; with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons 34% Ai%
Ditto, Account ..... •.. 3514
Spanish 5 per Cont. 1840
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London
French Rentes, 5 per Cent 9sf. 50c,
Exchange
Butch 21/44 per Cent., 12 Guild.
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certifleates —

3434
354

17-A
39%

59
903/4

LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.—( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, DEC. 31.—Wind at noon S.W., light breeze,
and dull boxy weather, with drizzling rain.
DEAL, DEC. 30.—Wind W.—Arrd. Rotterdam, Ness,
Batavia for Rotterdam . Arrd. from the River, Magnus,
Bahia; Cornelius Grumell, New York; Tom Cringle,
Cuba. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Lancastrian,
Port Philip.
BRISTOL, DEC. 30.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Stratford,
Mauritius.
NEWPORT, DEC. 29.—Wind W.—Sld. Cambria, New
Orleans.
Hum., DEC. 30.—Wind W.—Sld. Tamarae, New
Orleans.
CowEs, DEC. 30.—The Alfred, Newcastle to Malaga,
has put in with damage from contact with a brig off the
W ight.
LIYERPOOL, DEC. 30.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Courier,
Towerson, Calcutta; Roderick Dhu, Williams, West
Coast; Laura, Campbell, Miramichi; towed round from
Waterford, Queen of England, China; Anne Melheusb,
Calcutta; Robert Pulaford, ditto; Navigator, Buenos
Ayres; Andover, Ceara; Erin-go-Bragh, New Orleans;
F. B. Brune, Baltimore; Vanilla, St. Stephen's, New
Brunswick; Albion, Richibucto; Hindoo, Quebec; Gip-
sey, Prince Edward's Island. Sld. Reindeer, Hong-
Kong; Lanercost, Valparaiso; Rajah, New York. Put
back, Jeasee, Savannah, leaky, bore up from long. 9.;
States Rights, New York, towed back from Queenstown
with loss of topmasts. The Hants, from Africa to this
port, lost main and mizentopmast, &c., in a squall on
the 18th inst., lat. 37, 10ng.:34.
SHEERNESS, Disc. 30.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Wil-
helmina, Honduras.
FALMOUTH, DEC. so.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Crane
Packet, Rio Janeiro, left 12th Nov.; on freight about
10,0001. in gold and diamonds. Possedone, Odessa,
with rudder damaged and bows stove, had been on her
beam ends 23 inst. off Cape Finisterre.
HULL, DEC. 30.—The Pearl, Shields to Carthagena,
has put in leaky, having struck the bar in leaving the
former port.
YARMOUTH, DEC. 30. —The Bernard, Newcastle to
London, makes 13 inches water per hour, having been
on Carton Sand, but will probably proceed with extra
hands. The Phenix, of and from Montrose to London,
has put in leaky, having been on Barber Sand.
ALMERIA, DEC. 10.—The Constantine, of Sunderland,
Alexandria to Liverpool, went on shore four mil€-Et off
Itquetas Point during a severe gale at W. yesterday,
struck very heavily, came off, filled, and was abandoned;
crew and one passenger saved and arrived here this
morning.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
111.1.4411111:ITilsi.
;-A*IITIEIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 8s to 3/15a; Clover,
3l Os to 4/ Os ; and Straw, 1/ is to 1/ 7s per luad.
A full average supply, and a dull trade.
CUMBEILLAND. Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 3/ 16s ;
Clover, 3/ Os to 410 s; and Straw, li Is to 1/ 8s per load.
Trade dull, at the above quotations.
WHITECHAPEL. Meadow Hay, 2/ 8s to 3l 15s;
Clovcr, 3/ Oa to 410 s; and Straw, 1/ is to 117 s per load.
Supply good, and trade dull.

SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DAY.)
The Epiphany Quarter Sessions for the county of
Surrey commenced this morning at the Sessions-house,
Newington-causeway, before Thomas Puckle, Esq., and
a full bench of magistrates.
Tho calendar contained the names of 45 prisoners for
trial.

The grand jury having been sworn,
The CHAIRMAN briefly addressed them, and dismissed
;hem to their duties. •

BO W-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
A young man named Charles Durden, the landlord of
the Somerset-house beer-shop in John street, Totten-
ham-court-road, was charged with having stabbed a
policeman.
Police-constable A 332 deposed as follows:—About
half-past one o'clocl! I was on duty in Middle-row,
Holborn, when the prisoner, who was standing by the
pump, flew at me and knocked me against the shutters
of a shop. The prisoner then said, " Where am I?"
and I replied, " You are in Holborn; get on home. You
are not so drunk as you pretend to be." He retort( d ,
6, I tell you what it is; I have got a stiletto here, ari'.-lih-
strument you know nothing about, and I will put itfiito
you as far as I can if you come near me." He then
went along Holborn flourishing a large knife, and vow-
ing that he would stab every b-- Englishman he came
near, A boy named Crow, who saw that I ryas afraid of

the prisoner, came up to me and asked, " What can I do
for you?" I replied, "You run and bring the nearest
cons,atie you can find." He did so, and in a few minutes
he returned with Caleb Davis, 22 F, who asked what
%t as the matter. I said that man there, point-
ing to the prisoner, has got some weapon in
his hand. I did not know what it was then,
rind sid he must be very careful with him. The
prisoner then turned round to go in another direction,
%Olen we rushed behind him, and each of us laid hold
of either arm.
Mr. HENRY—Had he the knife still open in his hand?
Witness—He had, your Worship. I got he'd of his left
arm and 22 caught hold of his right, and while I was
trying to take the knife away from him, I said to Davis,
" Mind, my lad, or he will stab you." Davies replied.
" By God, he has done it already," and then dropping
the prisoner's arm, he said, " I feel the blood trickling
down into my boots." The boy Crow then took hold of
his right arm, while Davies picked up the knife, which
the prisoner had thrown down, and then sprang his rattle.
A third constable then came up, and the prisoner was
with some difficulty carried to the station. On the way.
there he conducted himself in a very frantic manner, and
kept swearing and cursing, declaring that he knew what
b-- Englishmen were, and he would let somebody
know it, for he had got something else up his sleeve
which w.uld do for them.

Mr. HENRY—What became of the constable who was
stabbed? ¶1 itness—He was brought to the station in a
cib, and Ire m thence he was Wit to King's College
Hospital.
Mr. liEnny—llave you seen him this morning?
Witness—Yes, Sir; he was still bleeding very Innen,
and the surgeon would not allow him to leave his bed.
The prisoner said he had no questions to put to this
Inspector Dodd said I was on duty at the Bow-street
station between one and two o'clock this morning when
the charge was brought in, F 22 came in and said to
me, " This man (pointing to the prisoner) has stabbed
me in the thigh with this knife," handing me the knife,
which I now produce. (It was a long sharp-pointed in-
strument.) The prisoner said nothing, but being very
drunk he behaved in a wild, ridiculous manner, vowing
vengeance against all h— Englishmen, I directed F
22 to return to the cab and go off directly to the hospital,
where the wound, which was a large one, and had it been
an inch or two deeper, Wetuld have caused instant dead),
way dressed, and the constable was put to bed. 11° is
still suffering, and will not ate able to leave his bed for
some days.
Mr. HENRY asked the prisoner if he had anything to
.
say in answer to the charge, giving him the usual caution
that what he did say would be taken down in writing'
and might be used against him on his trial? The Pri-
soner, who had deep black hair, and a dark sallow cots;
pitxton, Milt] I um, orry for what has occurred, but
have not the slightest knowledge of it—l am very sor
indeed.
Mr. HENRY—Do you mean that you were so drunk
that you have no recollection of what occurred? 13
soner—l have no recollection whatever of it.
Mr. HENRY—I must remand you until the wounded
constable is able to attend. I will remand you till ss-
tnrday, in the hope that he will be able to attend then.
The prisoner was then removed in custody.

THE LEICESTER-SQUARE SOUP
KITcHEiv.
We are happy to inform our readers that the under.,
mentioned tradesmen most liberally contributed towards
the dinner of roast meat and plum pudding given at the
Leicester-square Soup Kitchen to the poor on Christuia6
Day, as well as to the ragged schools in the neighbor
ing parishes :—Meat Salesmen and' Butchers—,11%,
Cooper, 54, Great Portland-street, 1501bs. meat,
Messrs. Slater and Cooke, 47, Jermyn-street, 1511354 lirci
J. Moore, Marchmont-street, 151b5.; Mr. Payne, Oxford
Market, 20ibs.; Mr. Anstee, Oxford Market, 6110
P 4
llen Or'
Hawkins, Oxford Market, 221b5.; Mr. Snow, o'
street, Hanover square, 121b5.; Mr. Homes, Silver-!treets
561b5.; Mr. Cooper, Newport Market, 481b5.; Mr. Bl!neli
Church-place, Piccadilly, 101bs.; Mr. J. Bannisters
Threadneedle-street, 36ilbs.; Messrs. Saul, Nerigat4P.
Market, 201b5.; Mr. Prentice, Newgate Market, 'fibs"
Miss Ward, Rose-street, Newgate Market, 12110.$
Messrs. Duckworth and Kennedy, Newgate Market
201b5.; Mr. King, Leadenhall Market (13"11
meat), 70Ibs. ; Mr. Jeffties, Leadenball Market,
1841b5.; Messrs. Stubbing and Son, Leadenhall Market'
401bs. Bakers—Mr. Adams, 7, St. James's-strees
flour 2 bushels; Mr. Barker, 3, Bury-street, baked Pe.
pudding; Mr. Cook, 50, Duke-street, plum pudding; suf .
Davies, 19, George-street, Portman-square, plum P""
ding; Mr. Crufte, 188, Piccadilly, flour two quartern_ll!
with ingredients for a plum pudding; Mr. Bragg, Z.:
Wigmore-street, large baked plum pudding; Mr. We"
ber, 81, Lombard•street, bread 1001bs. Tea Dealers.--
Messrs. Stericker and Co., Fenchurch-street, tea 112
lbs.; Messrs. Bennett, Brown, and Co., Cannon-Alvah
Leicester-square, tea 51bs.; Messrs. Mansell and Co..
Bucklersbury, tea 6lbs. The tradespeople serving the
kitchen also contributed towards the dinner. We t2O;
derstand the committee is now about to carry out its
project of putting a stop to destitution and mendicanci
in the metropolis; and as much depends on the supPorli
in contributions of food, it receives from charitable an
benevolent householders and tradespeople, we would re
commend that, whenever the " collecting basket" of ale
Leicester-square Soup Kitchen is passing their doors,
they would throw in a loaf of bread, piece of meat. "
any broken food which might be at hand.