The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-31 00:00:00

THE WEATIIER.-SUN OFFICE. DEC. 31.

THERMOMETER, Lowest, 33 ; Highest, 41 ; Noon, 41

BAROMETER, 30.1.-WIND, N.E.

NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and
" Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the
Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at
32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on
Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and
" Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather
when the mercury falls below 30.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAT.
rnlng ... 44 minutes after 5 I Evening 5 minutes after 6.

winning over to their ranks no inconsiderable portion
. of the younger clergy, to say nothing of certain
ecclesiastical dignitaries who saw—or imagined they
saw—that their exertions had no other aim than to
increase the temporal and spiritual authority of the
Protestant Establishment. But gradually as they
felt their way, the Tractarian heretics began to adopt
a bolder course of conduct. The meekness and
apostolic simplicity that had at first distinguished
them slowly 'disappeared. They assumed a loftier—
a more decided—a more imperious tone. What was
at first mere zeal became downright fanaticism, as
their successive Tracts abundantly manifested, each
of which was of a more bigoted character than its
predecessor. Still, however, they forebore from dis-
playing the cloven hoof, or outraging public opinion
in too marked a Manner ; and it was not until the
appearance of the famous Tract, No. 90, when they
fancied that the pear was at length ripe, that they
boldly threw off the mask and displayed themselves
in their true colours. From that time to the present,
their course has been one continuous, systematic out-
rage on common sense and the great principle of re-
ligious toleration. They have endeavoured to degrade
the naked, straightforward, majestic simplicity of the
Reformed Faith, by engrafting on it a variety of
superstitious mummeries and showy ceremonial ob-
servances avowedly borrowed from Rome; and what
is far worse, they have recommended the revolting
practice of Auricular Confession, the worship of the
Virgin and the Saints, and similar Popish usages, the
attempt to enforce which cost JAMES the SECOND the
loss of three kingdoms. They no longer deem it
necessary to conceal their real sentiments. Not a
few of them have already gone over to the Church of
Rome; and of those who still keep within the pale of
the Establishment, sharing in its emoluments while
they disavow its tenets, several are constantly oc-
cupying themselves in sounding the praises of the
antagonist Religion, and boldly proclaiming in their
tracts, pamphlets, sermons, and reviews, that the
further we have wandered from Rome, the more have
we been mistaken in our estimate of the true Faith.
When these Tractarian heretics first began to awaken
public attention, we thought—in common, no doubt,
with the majority of our readers—that they sere a
set of mere recluse, simple-minded, unworldly theo-
logians, who meant well, and whose very excess of
zeal sprung out of the simplicity and integrity of
their character. But we no longer entertain this
favourable opinion of them. We have watched
their progress, and the gradual, artful development of
their intrigues with some attention, and are at no
loss to recognise in the whole course of their pro-
ceedings the presence of a subtle, jesuitical intellect,
essentially worldly in its character, well acquainted
with the springs of human action, and skilful and
ready in availing itself of some of those weak-
nesses to which all humanity is more or less subject.
With scarcely one single exception, all the moves of
the Tractarians have been made with the judgment
and dexterity of accomplished chess-players.

Madrid journals of the 23d have been received. M.
MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA presented on that day to the
Senate a Bill for carrying into effect the treaty con-
cluded with Great Britain in 183.5, for the suppres-
sion of the slave trade. This till renders offences
connected with the slave trade penal. The discussion
on the Clergy Dotation Bill was resumed in the
Chamber of Deputies. It was decided by 78 to 41
that the amendments of the Marquis VILLUMA and
others should be considered, not as amendments, but
as distinct projects of law. A proposition by M.
REINOSA, to refer them to a Committee, was rejected,
and the Chamber adjourned for the holidays. The
example of the Marquis de VILLUMA had been fol-
lowed by 17 Deputies, who had resigned their seats.
It would appear that the sons of Don FRANCISCO
DE PAULA are the destined husbands of the QUEEN
and her sister. Although the Queen-Mother advo-
cates the marriage of the QUEEN with Count 'IRA-
PANI, that event is stated to be no longer probable.

The Paris papers of Sunday have arrived, and from
lem it would appear that a Ministerial crisis is at
hand in France. Not only do the Opposition
journals treat the result of the Saturday's election for
Vice-Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies as a
triumph, but the Ministerial papers all but acknow-
ledge it as a defeat. On the first ballot, as we stated
yesterday, M. SALVANDT, M. BIGNON, and M. DU-
FAURE, were elected three of the Vice-Presidents,
and as neither of the other candidates had an absolute
majority a new ballot took place for the fourth. On
the second ballot taking place M. BILLAULT, the Op-
position candidate, obtained 150 votes, while M. DE
BELLEYME, the Ministerialist, obtained only 145.
The number of voters being 307, and the absolute
majority required 154, another ballot between the two
last-named gentlemen was adjourned to Monday. It
is considered that M. Guizor was only saved
from absolute defeat on this occasion by the
adjournment of the ballot to Monday. There is,
to speak in English Parliamentary slang, " a smart
whip " for that day. According to the Constitutionnel,
Ministers sent off couriers in the course of the even-
ing to require the attendance at the ballot of Monday
of all the Deputies on whose fidelity they could
reckon:
In the meantime the check of Saturday was pro-
ducing its usual effects. There were various rumours
of ratting, and although there is little doubt but that
the Ministry succeeded in defeating M. BILLAULT on-
Monday, yet, still their tenure of office must be con-
sidered as rather precarious, and it is not improbable
that they may be defeated on the first great trial
of strength. As one of the signs of the times, it may
be mentioned that Count MOLE, who has hitherto
afforded M. GUIZOT a sort of sullen support, has now
openly declared against him. He is stated to have
said, openly, at the Chamber of Deputies, that
" at no period since 1830 had the dynasty of July
received so severe a rebuff as at the royal sitting of
Thursday, and that the only person who was the cause
of it was M. Guizor, the most unpopular man in
France." In the Chamber of Peers, too, on the same
day, Count MOLE made a violent attack on the Go-
vernment respecting its policy in general, but
expressly with regard to Morocco. The part
taken by Count MOLE is the more signifi-
cant, as it may be considered in some measure
indicative of the feelings of the KING, who is
said to have felt severely the coldness of his reception
by the Chamber, and to have ascribed this negative
unpopularity to his protection of M. GUIZOT. The
following extract from the Journal des Debats shows
the disappointment and alarm of the Minister's friends
at the result of the ballot of Saturday :
" We will not affect to disguise our regret at this
result. Without any doubt it would have been better if
the majority were not divided, and did not give the
Opposition reason to doubt the union of the Conservative
party, and the hopes which, however, we have no fear of
seeing realised. We have no fears as to the result
of the scrutiny which will take place on Monday ;
but we think it necessary to put the majority on
their guard. Hitherto the evil done is not great.
M. Dufaure, in almost all great questions, has
voted with the Ministry, and has already been a
Vice-President of the present Chamber—that is to
say, of the Chamber which has always supported the
present Ministry. We may, therefore, consider the no-
mination of M. Dufaure as a homage paid to his personal
character, and to his incontestible merits. But the no-
mination of M. Billault would have quite another signi-
fication. Let the Ministerial party not deceive itself.
If in nominating M. Dufanre it has to a certain point
remained faithful to the line of policy it has always fol-
lowed, in naming M. Billault it would contradict that
policy, and would be making the amende for all the rotes
it has given for the last three years. M. Billault's p)si•
tion in the House does not make his nomination neces-
sary. His loquacity, which is sufficiently elegant, has
become eloquence only from the silence of the leaders of
his party. He has spoken a great deal because those
who pushed him forward chose to be quiet. M. Billault,
therefore, represents a party which, for four years, is in
a permanent minority in the Chambers and in the coun-
try : he represents opinions which hare been condemned
in the loudest manner on all the occasions that they have
been put forward, and which has prevented, to the
utmost of its power, the re-establisment of order at
home, and of peace abroad."
The Constitutionnel is in ecstacies at what it con-
siders as a severe check to the Ministry. It says----
"To convince oneself of that, it is only necessary to
compare the votes of this year with those of last. The
29th December, 1843, two ballots were sufficient for the
Vice-Presidents. The whole four were of the Conser-

vative party. Among them M. de Salvaudy and M.
Lepcllitier d'Aulnay represented to a less degree than
they do to-day the hesitations of the majority. M. Bil-
limit, who next to those elected had the greatest number
of votes, was still below them 43 votes on the first ballot,
and 31 on the second. This year two candidates only
on the Conservative lists have been elected. We will
not remind our readers that the first of these, M. Bignon,
has on more than one occasion caused a great deal of
displeasure to the Ministry by his reports on the
budget ; we will not say that the other, M. de Salvandy,
preserves a predilection for another Cabinet, but that he
certainly was not the candidate which the most devoted

friends of the Ministry would choose. It is sufficient to
say that M. Dafaure, the Opposition candidate, was
elected on the first ballot, and that M. Billault obtained
on the second ballot five votes more than his opponent,
M. de Belleyme. Six more votes in the first ballot, and
four in the second, would have secured the election of
M. Billault."

The ballot of Monday is looked forward to with
great interest.
There have been several extensive failures on the
Paris Bourse. On this subject the Commerce has the
following paragraph :
" The Bourse is at this moment a prey to great
anxiety. It is known that one of the capitalists who
frequent it has failed to the amount of 700,000 francs.
It is to be feared that this is but the beginning of other
disasters when the impending settlement takes place.
The cause of this commotion is the great rise that has
occurred in the public funds after the adjudication of
the loan. Bitter complaints are made against the power-
ful banker who rules the market, and who is the
author of all these misfortunes. It is he, say they at
the Bourse, on every side, who had weighed on the
funds, and kept them down at low prices until lately:
it is he who, to prevent a rise which would naturally
have taken place, declared to all he spoke to that he
never would offer to take the loan at a high price; it is
he who, afterwards, gave such an impulse to the funds
that they reached three francs after the adjudication of
the loan. It is not our province to take up the cause
of speculators imprudent enough to struggle with 'such
an ascendancy; but these vicissitudes, and their ruin-
ous consequences, fall upon trade, and react upon its
transactions. Is it not deplorable that the Govern-
merit should, by its complaisances and its concessions
of every description, have suffered an influence to arise
powerful enough thus to keep public credit under its
dependence, to stop and make it recede one day, and
give it an impulse on the next."
The Journal des Debats rather conspicuously an-
nounces that Admiral DUPETIT THOUARB has arrived
at Brest in the Reine Blanche frigate, and that he
has immediately repaired to Paris. He had been
expected to land at Cherbourg, where the National
Guard intended to present him with a crown of laurels.
The Opposition prints state that the Ministers haVing
become acquainted with the intention of the Cher-
bouriens, M. de Macsax, the Minister of Marine,
dispatched positive orders to Admiral DUPETIT
TMOUARS to land at Brest, and not at Cherbourg.
On board the Reine Blanche came to France the
Neapolitan Prince-A(lmA and his bride (the Prin-
cess JANUAXII of the Brazils). Admiral DUPETIT
Tnowills arrived in Paris on Sunday, and immedi-
ately visited the Minister of Marine. The Reine
Blanche sailed from Rio on 24th October.

HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.—At this festive season
housekeepers should be on their guard against the
depredations of persons going about under the gu4v
of seeking for situations, but really with the intdn-
tion of stealing whatever they can readily lay thtir
hands on. Instances of this nature have come o

our knowledge, where articles have been miss,
when the stranger had departed. On leaving t
hall, it frequently happens that greet coats or min
brellas left there are stolen, and the loss is not di
covered till too late. The only remedy appears to
to watch the place-hunters, until they are fair]
" out of soundings," for they are a very crafty at
piratical crew.

THIS DAY'S NEW

SHERRIFIFS" COURT-(THIS DAY.

RYLES V. GARDNER AND ANOTHER.
There were this morning two actions under this namt',
in one of which Henry Ryles, in the other Charles
Ryles, was the plaintiff. In both cases the ground qf
action was the same, and in both the defendants wert
Wm. Gardner and James Thompson.
In the first case, in which Henry Ryles was the plain
tiff, the principal witness was Charles Ryles, the plain-
tiff's father, from whose evidence it appears that ht
(witness) and his son, the plaintiff in this action, have
been for some time in the employ of Mr. Ellis, a painter,
plumber, &c., in Tavistock-street, Covent garden, and
that on the 30th of October, 1640, they (witness an
plaintiff) had to carry two cans of linseed oil to the stall
of a salesman in Covent-garden Market, to whose father
they had been sold. They wire directed to place
them in one of the cellars under the market, and
having done so, they were accosted by the defendant
(Gardner), who is one of the clerks of the market,
and whose duty it is to take the tolls of the salesmen in
the market, and to see that the various rules of the
market are obeyed. The defendant thought that the
witness and his son had entered the cellar with some
sinister design; and not being satisfied with their expla-
nation, he desired the defendant, Thompson, to take them
into custody ; and he, Thompson, being the beadle of
the market, took them accordingly to Bow-street Police-
office. Having been confined for some time in the yard
at' Bow-street, they were taken before a magistrate, and
charged by rhompson with being found in one of the
cellars of the market, being unable to give any satisfac-
tory account of themselves. On their explaining the
cireurnstance, they were at once discharged, and the de-
fendant, Thompson, admitted that their explanation was
satisfactory. On being cross examined, the witness ad-
mitted that on leaving the police-office he went with the
defendant, Thompson, to a public-house, and they had
some bier together.
Policeman Carter, F 5, produced, and swore to, the
police-sheet of Oct. 30, 1840, which contained the names
of witness and plaintiff.
This was the plaintiff's case.
Mr. PETERSDORF, on the part of the defendants, briefly
addressed the jury, and pointed out to them the fact that
the plaintiff's father (the plaintiff in the next case) had
been on friendly terms with the beadle (Thompson) after
the assault and false imprisonment, which formed the
ground of action. He (Mr. Petersdorf) thought that
it had not been proved that either of the defendants had
exceeded their duty, but even if they had, the action,
should have been brought against only one of them, and
a second action might have been brought against the
other. Then Thompson could have been brought for-
ward as a witness for Gardner, and Gardner fur
Thompson. There was no one present but Gardner,
Thompson, and the two 'Wes. They had taken care
that they should be able to appear on behalf of one
another by bringing separate actions, but he thought
that the circumstance of the friendly conduct of Ryles
towwarda Thompson, taken together with this fact,
showed that they did not consider that they had a just
ground of action.
The UNDER-SHERIFF having summed up, the jury,
without retiring, found a verdict for the plaintiff—.
Damages, 101.
CHARLES RYLES V. GARDNER AND ANOTHER.
Mr. PETERSDORF, who appeared for the defendants in
this action also, proposed that the jury should not be
troubled with a repetition of the facts, but that a verdict
should be entered for the plaintiff, damages 101., as in
the previous action.
Mr. WILKINS, on the part of the plaintiff, assented to
this proposition, and the jury found a verdict accord
ingly.

THIS DAY.)
BAN(BKefoRreUMPr.TCComYmciLer HoutoYD.)
IN RE CHARLES CASH.
In this case the bankrupt, lately an ironmonger in
Whitechapel, whose affairs have been frequently re-
manded, on the ground of the unsatisfactory nature of
his accounts, was again put back till the 11th February,
for a similar reason. The official assignee said that the
bankrupt himself was convinced that the statements in
his balance-sheet were not sufficiently explanatory, and
therefore craved a little time to amend them.
His HoNoun, under these circumstances, ordered that
the accounts, satisfactorily made out, should be in the
hands of creditors before that time.

SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. PUCKLE and a full bench of Magistrates.)
The general Quarter-sessions for the county of Surrey
commenced this morning, at the Court-house, St. Mary,
Newington. There was a very numerous attendance of
magistrates upon the bench, amongst whom we noticed
the county Members.
The calendar, although containing the names of only
33 prisoners since the last session for this county, was,
in point of the nature of the crimes with which the se-
veral prisoners were charged, what might be termed a
heavy one The various prisoners were classified in
such a manner as to present the respective degrees of
education possessed by each. Out of the 33 prisoners so
classified, only four could read and write well, 14 could
read and write very imperfectly, and the remainder were
wholly unable to either read or write. Thirty-one of
the prisoners for trial were charged with felony, the
other two being misdemeanants.
The grand jury having been sworn,
The CHAIRMAN briefly addressed them.
After the grand jury had retired the Court entered
upon the usual county business.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
William Benny was charged with attempting to stab
his wife. The prisoner, on the previous evening, asked
his wife to give him some money ; she declared she had
given him all she had. She lett the house, and went
into a grocer's shop, and was standing by the counter
when she felt a thrust at her side, and, on turning
round, saw the blade of a knife projecting from her
husband's hand.

The prisoner was held to bail for the sessions.
SOUTHWARK.—(THIS DAY.)
Elizabeth Hawes was charged with robbing a, very
sanctified-looking man, named Edward Davis, of a. 7purse,
containing a quantity of silver.
The complainant said he was walking home st eadily
the preceding night, when he was accosted by th o pri-
soner, who persuaded him to take her into a wine- vaults
and treat her to some liquor. It was entirely ,out of
good nature that he consented to her entreaties. "And,"
added he, with a subann shake of the head, " she after-
wards had the ingratitude to thrust her hand iitto my
pocket, and rob me of my purse and money."
Mr. TnAILL—Was the money found on her?
The policeman said that ho went to the spot on. hear-
ing the noise, but he found neither money nor pi arse on
the prisoner. The complainant was fuddled.—(Lau: gliver.)
Mr. TRAILL (to complainant)--You forgot tut, mate
you were intoxicated.
Complainant—Oh, yes, I forgot that ; but, I felt the
hand in my pocket.
Mr, TRAILL said that he should not co•Amit such t I

THE SUN, _LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEM BER 51, 1844,

case for trial, for if he did he knew he would be entail-
ing an expense on the county, and that she would get
acquitted. _ _

The complainant, who appeared very-much disap-
pointed at the result, left the court very much
chap-fallen.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL WS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
There was a steady demand for Cotton at Liverpool
again yesterday, at firm rates. Sales, 5,000 bales.—
Railway Shares were supported, and a fair business
was done. Birmingham and Gloucester, with New,
100 101 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 43 ; Chester and
Birkenhead, 35 ; Eastern Counties, 151 4 ; Grand
Junction, 225 ; Ditto, Half, 1124 1131 ; Liverpool and
Manchester, Quarters, 51} ; London and Birmingham,
321. Shares, 39f; Ditto), Quarter, 274; London and York,
; Manchester and Birmingham, 521 ; Manchester
and Leeds, Half, 53 521 ; Midland Counties, 1151 ;
North British, 71. 13s. 9d. • Sheffield and Manchester,
97-1- ; South-Eastern, 401: 41 ; Paris and Lyons, 3i- ;
Paris and Rouen, 414.
There are no late arrivals to-day.
We are informed, in reference to our remarks upon
the new and expeditious mode of landing fruit cargoes,
intended for London, at the port of Southampton, that
the Railway Company has manifested decided indif-
ference to the interests of its proprietors, as, in order
to command the advantage of having fruit cargoes dis-
charged at Southampton, proper carriages for their con-
veyance were promised, and although thousands of
pounds have been voted since for other purposes con-
nected with the dock and railway, not a single carriage
has been built for this service ; the consequence of which
has been, that the sales of two important cargoes, adver-
vertised by Keeling and Co. on the 24th instant, were
completely frustrated by detention on the railway, and
great damage to the fruit was likewise occasioned by
the want of proper conveyance from the ter-
minus to Monument-yard. This has entailed a severe
loss to the importers, who, naturally indignant at pro-
mises been made and not fulfilled, decline availing them-
selves again of this mode of conveyance. until the Rail-
way Directors put themselves in a position to carry out
the promises earnestly made, to afford every facility for
this now important branch of trade. We may safely
leave the matter, it is to he hoped, to that universal
monitor—self-interest ; for undoubtedly the Directors
must sea that they are nipping in the bud a new source
of profit to the railway
The Funds have been rather flat again this morning,
Consols realising 1001 to 1001 only, and with but a
limited business doing. The New Three-and -a-Quarter
per Cents. have been 1031 to 1031. The Commissioners
continue their purchases. Exchequer-bills have ben
625. to 645. premium. Bank Stock is 210} to 2104,
being rather higher.
The Foreign Investments have rallied a trifle upon the
settlement of the account. Spanish Actives have been
27i to 28, and the Three per Cents. 384 to 1. Mexi-
can Five per Cent. Bonds have been 351 to 1 ; and the
Deferred 15} to 1. Peruvian Stock has been 29 ; Co-
lumbian, 14k; Buenos Ayres, 39i to 40; and Brazilian,
89. Dutch Four per Cents, have realised 971 to 1.
The Share Market bas been extremely quiet, but
holders generally ask higher rates.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock

3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities looii
New 3i per Cent. Annuties ... lo3ii
Consols for Opening
Exchequer Bills. lid. lid.
1,0001.
5001. ...
Ditto Small —
Ditto Advertised ........

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRUSSELS, DEC. 28.—Their Majesties the hint
and Queen w ill leave Paris on the 30th, and arvv"
at Brussels on the following day.
Count Dietrichstein, the Austrian Ambassador to
the Court of London, who leaves Brussels to-morrow'
intended to make a longer stay here, but has been
obliged to hasten his departure, because he has receiv
a
notice that her Majesty the Queen of England w°lll
receive the new Austrian, Ambassador on Monde!
next, for the presentation of his credentials.
At the commencement of the sitting of the Sell
to-day Viscount Alilley read a report on the project
of law relative to the treaty with the Zollverein. the
Committee, of which he is the organ, adopts 01,11;
mously this project of law, the discussion of whie
is fixed for Monday. The Senate then proceeded t°
the discussion of the articles of the project of law rei
lative to the provisional credit of seven millions °{
francs for the war department. After some obser
rations of the Count de Ribeancourt on the Pr°‘
motions in the army, which he considers as WI
numerou., the credit was voted by 29 to
The Senate then passed to the discussion of s°"if
other projects of law, all which were unanirn"sl
agreed to ; one of them related to the contingent °
the army, which is fi,ed at 80,000 men.
TURKISH FRONTIERS, DEC. 12.—We.learn I°,o
Bucharest that the Hospodar has given his con ant
the marriage of his eldest daughter to the son of the
President of the Divan of Wallachia, Alexander
Philippesca, as it was believed by the public that the
young Princess was intended for a son of the litt:
podar of Moldavia. The reports respecting th 3 (No
jest. of the meeting of the Princes at Fockshorn
gained ground. It was said that the two Princes in•
tended to moot at Fockshorn with a Russian WI
to deliberate on the necessity of a thorough reform
the existing organic statute of Wallachia,:or at least °b
the introduction of some new institution, by whit,
the defects of that statute might be amended.—Agr,.
mine Zeitung, Dec. 26.

FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 3544
Ditto for the Account ... 35R4
Ditto Deferred
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., MO 274 28
Ditto for the Account.
Ditto Passive Bonds 64
Ditto Deferred
Ditto 3 per Cent 3834
Ditto for the Account.
Dutch 24 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Ditto 5 per Cent....
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK,
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ...... 101 ...... to
Bristol and Gloucester
Cambridge and Lincoln
Churnet Valley
Eastern Counties
London and Birmingham ...100 230 to
London and Blackwall
London and 8right0n.......... 50 ...... 524
London and South Western.. 414 ...... 764
DittA)NewConsolidatedBths 6
Ditto,New
London and Croydon
London and Y0r1........ ...... 25 ... .. 54
Midland
Rugby
South Eastern and Dover ... 334
Ditto New
Trent Valley
York and North Midland ... 50
Ditto, Extension
Boulogne and Amiens 2 ...... 54 ...... to 5
Lyons and Avignon
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Rouen

MANCHESTE it STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 30.—We
have had a brisk market, at improved prices. Eastern
Counties, Perpetual, No. 2, 225. 6d. ; Manchester and
Birmingham. 53 ; Midland Counties, 115 ; Great
Nor.hern of France, 2 1-16 2 ; Birkenhead, Manches-
ter, and Cheshire Junction, 64-; Blackburn, Burnley, and
Accrington, 3i 9-16 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 2;
Churnet Palley, 3i; Huddersfield and Manchester BAH
and Canal, 4 9.16 ; Trent Valley, 10 -2.; Dundalk and
Enniskillen, 2i.

MARKET NE S.-(THIS DAY.)

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bausans, Dcc. 21.
Actua Debt, 2% per Cent., --
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent -
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent... 9s
Three per C,ent.......... --.—
Thirty-seven Milli as, ditto ............. 78
.........-...-..-- (1844)..—.„... ..... Ige3
1844..... ...... .........—.......—.---. IW

BAT waltzE.:vs.

SMlTHFlELD.—bsTaxseSfeaTio7l7ii, 3/ lOs t 9 41 15s
Useful ditto, 41 16s to 51 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to
51 lOs ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 16s to
1118 a ; Wheat Str,aw, 11 18s to 1/ 19s per load. A fair
average supply, and a steady inquiry.
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3l 12s to 4/ 16s;
Useful ditto, 4/ 1i s to 51 5s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 6s to
5/ 12s ; Clover flay, 41 lOs to 5l 18s ; Oat Straw, 11 16s
to 1/ 18s; Wheat Straw, 1/18s to 2/ per load. Supply
moderate, and trade steady.
WMITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 108 to 4/ 106;
Useful ditto, 41 12s to 51 4s ; tine Upland ditto, .515 s to
5/ 10% ; Clover flay, 4/10a to 6/ 4s; Oat Straw, 11 15s to
1/ 16s; Wheat Straw, 11 17s to 11 18a per load. Both
Hay and Straw sold freely, at late rates.

MaceltriAL
The Colonial Markets re-open to-morrow, and it is
expected prices will rule firm, although there will be
tery little dsing till next week.
SUGAR.—Tho stock of British Plantation, landed last
week at the East and West India Docks, was 539 hhds,
41 barrels ; and there were taken for home consumption
643 hhds 75 tierces 34 barrels. The stock in the same
places is 8,969 hhds 1,048 tierces 1,673 brill.
Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 95 puns 4 hhds. There wore
taken for home consumption 122 puns 45 hhds, and ex-
ported 95 puns 20 hhds. The stock in the same places
is 10,613 puns 1,218 hhds.

Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent.
1832 --
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent --
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 51%
luueof 1841.,..„..„, ........... ... ..... ............._- --

........... • • • 00000 .•••••••••••••••••••••
—.Brussels Papers. Dee. 29.
AUSTRIAN FU NDS.—TiENYA, DEC 21.
Fire per Cents. Metalhques ...............
Four par Cents. •••••••••• .....................««....»..«...
Three per Cents.

Bank

...... 1652
...Yr' -....

Loan, 1634.
Ditto. 1839

.
TEA.—The market is very firm, and for Pouchong
there has been a speculative demand, owing to the di-
minished imports this year. The stock of Tea in the
United Kingdom is estimated at 39,500,0001b5. against
37,500,0001b5. at this time last year ; and the consump-
tion of the year is considered to be about 41,000,0001b5.
The importation has been rather above 46,000,0001b5.
Common Congou is about l ld per lb.
TALLow.-1'.1.C. is 40s 3d to 40s 6d per cwt on the
spot, and Town 43s 6d.

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tazy's Loan

COAT, MARKET.
Prices per ton at the dol.& of the market :—Taylor's
West Hartley, 27s ; West Wylatn, 26s ; Wylam, 25s ;
W. E., Bell and Robson, 28s ; NV. E., Reid, 28s ; W. 8.,
Kelloe, 30s ; W. E. Adelaide, 30s ; W. E., Brown's
Deanery, 30s ; Hunwick, 27s 6d ; W. E., St.
Helen's Tees, 28s 6d ; W. E., Tees, 31s 6d ; Garnant
Stone, 26s ; Graigola, 24s.—Ships arrived since last
day, 21.

RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand I74N
Gloggnitz ... ........... .........
Milan ll6
—4llgcmeine Zeitung, DEc. 24.

ANTICIPATED BREVET.—The report of an early
brevet daily gains ground ; indeed, when we look over
the army and navy lists, and recollect the ages of the
superior officers in either service, it becomes evident that
we need some younger men to be raised to the higher
ranks in both. In the navy, as we remarked last week,
there are scarcely five men under sixty years of age
among the first fifty on the list of captains ; and the
greater part of this number, it has been shown to us, are
above sixty-five. The same, we believe, may be said of
the next fifty on the list ; thus, it must be manifest that
the next promotion of flag officers, whenever it may take
place, will, as we have heard is the intention, include
the captains of 1810, which will be just forty-three,
even if it does not go lower ; and this number, former
precedents, together with the death of so many ad-
mirals (fifty, we think) since the last brevet, will fully
authorise its being extended to. In January, 1837,
the number of captains promoted to rear-admirals
was 70 ; in June, 1838, 20 ; in November, 1841, 41.
Hence, as upwards of three years have now elapsed
since the last promotion, we have every reason to expect
that the number of captains to be promoted to be flag
officers will at least amount to forty-three, even it it
does not equal the number that have died since the pre-
vious brevet. We might further remark, i❑ support of
I the necessity of making the promotion of flag officers
thus extensive, that out of the first fifty captains;on.uthe
list we have been informed that there are scarcely ten
who have commanded sea-going ships for any period of
time during the last twenty-five years and upwards; and
that, moreover, out of the first two hundred there are
full one hundred and fifty who stand in the same situa
tion. Thus, with every sense of the gallantry and for-
mer professional reputation of these officers, we humbly
think that after being from twenty five to thirty years
on shore, they would not desire to be again brought into
active employment at sea, where everything would ap-
pear so changed as to make their duties irksome and un-
pleasant to themselves, and set iously inconvenient to the
public service.—Naval and Military Gazette.
DEATH OF SIR MICHAEL Michael,
who received the honour of Knighthood, by patent, in
1839, died at George Town, Demerara, on the 17th ult.,
after a severe illness. He was a native of Sumnock,
Argyleshire.

HAMBURGH fORSENHALLE. Dec. 27. cf,
Sills. M°ll
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares ..1660
Anglo-Russian Lean ll4
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 105% I°ll
Inscription, Ist series lO5
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
•.. 99S
....'"
Ditto in Certificates ..... . ............. .............. NS al i 4
New 4 per Cent. (18-10)....... ................ ....... ~,i;
Dutch Actual Debt, 2.% per Cent. ... ...... ..... 63% °""'
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent.
Soainsh. New B per Cents.
..... •••• 2f2,3i S 6
Polish Bonds ...... .-
New Tickets ... _ .... .
Exchange on London.
Hareburgh, Ono month . ...... . 13 64
Two m0nth5..,....,, 13 8
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BitiLix, Dec. 24. .
Bills. }long,'
St. Schuh! Sch., 3% per cent.... ...... ...... 99% 99%
Prussian English Bondi,lB3o, 4 per cent. "'" oat
Exchange on London 6 23% 6 g7m
Prussian State Gazette. Dec. 24.

BURGLARY, AND CAPTURE Ur
THE THIEF UNDER EXTRAOIWINARY
CUMSTANCES.
In the morning of Sunday last, the 22d instant'
about one o'clock, the family of Mr. Robert Wit'
of Little Yeldham, were alarmed by a loud esp°.
sion in the lower part of the house, as of fire-
arms. Mr. It. Marsh, son-in -law of Mr. Cutler,
immediately got out of bed, and looking
.at a back window, perceived a quantity of ile,*6
Issuing from the back premises. He then arouseu
other members of the family, and ran down stairs
al-
most in a state of nudity, when he found the h sr.
o
full of smoke, and the back part of it on fire. Assisv,
ante soon being at hand, the flames were speediblyen.
tinguished, and but little damage was done• ht,
mates, now somewhat recovered from their kik
observed that the premises had been entered by a 13
i ;
win-
dow, which had been forced out, and that part °f t
e:
roof had been carried off from the effects of the expl
sion ; they also found a large pool of blood, and trace
nd
spots of the same to a cottage near, in the occupati°,,
of a man named Cook. On being called up, C 00"
stated that his boy Haggai had just arrived bottle
wounded, and nearly dead, alleging that he had sus'
tained his injuries from somebody who had shot at Oa
as he was coming over the Hall Green, but on Mr'
Cutler confronting the boy, he acknowledgedlblt
he broke into the house and caused the disaster
above described The boy's statement was, that
he and another lad, named Dearsley, had the even-
ing before been to a raffle in the village, and °n
leaving they agreed to break in and rob ale,
premises in question ; but they
•effected
window
entrance. into the back kitchen by cutting a
with a pocket knife, and removing a shutter; but,
having got so far, they found further progress
by bars and bolts, and finding nothing there to sul
them, were about to depart, when he (Cook) °id
" I'll see what's in the oven." In his search he flsritit
a canister, which he supposed to contain test #7,.s
instead of which there was in it about three-quar;
of a pound of gunpowder ; on pulling off the lid 1.1!
poured out a small quantity, which_ immediatelff
arrested
ignite) the whole. The explosion carried off part (Id
the roof of the building, forced out a window', al%
set fire to various articles in the oven, beLi"ei,
,
doing other damage • it also shattered the UviEj
thumb, carried away part of his tongue,
inflicted a very large scalp wound, his head, fah
and eyes presenting a frightful appearanc.:
A surgeon who was immediately sent for dressed in;
wounds, and although maimed as above described, he
is likely to recover, when he will be brought bell:
the magistrates upon the charge. Cook, althoug,
young in years, is said to be hardened in crime; h,
c-d
e„,/$
P
about 15 years of age, of diminitive stature, and
been several times brought before the magistrates an
committed for minor offences.—.Essex Herald.
Th

to Civil Tribunal of the Seine was occupieua jiin
Tuesday with a case in which Lady Dorothea Cam
of the Rue d'Aguessem, 12, was plaintiff, en° —;„;
Rohaut de Fleury, her landlord, defendant. The Pr,
to be decided was simply whether a tenant hauht,
right to have carriages enter the court-yard at rukff
in giving balls or soirks. It appears that the plaintit
has fur a short time inhabited her present apartraen
at a rent of I,ooof. a-month. She is in the habit of re-
ceiving company every Friday evening, and no objet
tion was at first made to the carriages of her frie°,o
entering in the usual manner into her court-yard '
set down company until about three weeks ego;
when the landlord issued a prohibition to preveri_
any carriage entering the court, or going out, °err
twelve o'clock. This step was taken at the instigation c!
a Mme. Sarland:ire, a lady keeping a boarding-house of
the same premises, and whose inmates complained (.),
the noise made every Friday night. A servant of abl.
person was placed in the porter's lodge, to the exclusion
of the old servant, who had filled his office for tweetY"
eight years, and when the carriages arrived he IPTSI
vented them from entering. The result was, that lAal,
D. Campbell's guests were obliged to alight in her
street, and cross the court-yard on foot, to reach c.
apartment. Her Ladyship remonstrated ; but, finain;
all her efforts at an amicable arrangement useless, 55
herself obliged to bring an action to establish her rig'?
After the case had been thus stated for the plaintiff,
counsel was heard for the defendant and
Sarlendiere. The advocate for the former declarrA
that his client had done all that was in his power t.°
conciliate matters ; he had offered to construct at
own expense a tent in the court-yard, to enable ).
D. Campbell's guests to arrive at her apartment and ed
cover ; he had proposed also to put down a carpet ; la
it had been agreed, on his suggestion, that straw 511011
be strewed under the gateway and in the yard, i,
order to deaden the noise of the carriages. This arrange-
ment, however, had afterwards been broken by .14,,J
I). Campbell, and the suit brought on. For
Sarland:ere it Ns as stated that, if the soirees PI
alluded to were continued, she must be utterly 'line
as she had laid out 50,000 francs in founding a boarding:
house, and all her boarders would leave her if their rest
was disturbed every Friday night from nine at nig1.412
until five in the morning. The plaintiff's counsel,
reply to these observations, stated that the noise of Oa;
carriages would be heard in the street just as well he
in the court-yard, by adame Sarlandiere's boarders, t
rooms of all of whom were on the street. But the Court
had nothing to do with the feelings of these persoo9;:
however respectable they might be ; the question 11,tt
as to the right of a locataire to have carriages enter tu,",
court-yard when a soh ee or ball was given. The Court
after having deliberated, dec dt d that Lady D. C"1.91:"
bell's right was incontestible, and in consequence On'
demned the defendant to the costs of the suit.---.Galir
;vibes Messenger.
General Nott is rather better, though still in it ory
weak state. The present severe weather is a great draw;
back on his recovery, but it is condently expected tha
with the return of mild weather hiss trength will increase*
—The Welshman.
Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker Bart., G.C.8., 19
appointed to succeed Sir Edward Owen in the Mediter-
ranean command, and will hoist his flag on board the
Monarch, 84.—Hampshire Telegraph.
s'sol
The Lords of the Treasury have granted '
part of the Parliamentary grant for public walks, f
or
to the Corporation of Sunderland, in aid of a plan „..f
providing a place of recreation for the inhabitants ;
only condition of the grant being, that the ground, when
.
purchased, shall be legally and permanently secured tr
a place of recreation fur the people. It is intended ti°
purchase and lay out Building The estimated cos;
is about 3,0001., the remainder of which will be r'l
by public pubsctiptioa,

BRUSSELS, DEC. 27.—The Senate, in its yesterday's
sitting, after an animated debate, adopted the project of
law on corn, by a majority of 20 to 13.
There has been a meeting at Ghent of the men em-
ployed in the sugar houses, for the purpose of drawing
up a petition to the Chamber against the proposed law
on sugar duties. The petition has above 800 signatures.
THE HAGUE, DEC. 26.—According to the preli-
minary report of the Central Section on the projects of
law relative to a modification of the first book of the
penal code, thirty-three Members declared in favour of
solitary confinement as well by day as by night, with
hard labour ; thirty-five Members desire the introduc-
tion of the penalty of transportation to ono of our
colonies,

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