The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-09 00:00:00

irioruilux*nm

LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1845.

and concludes with an utter condemnation of the
treaty with Morocco—the three questions which will
form the main subjects of attack on the Ministry
during the discussions on the Address. "With re-
spect to the first question," says this journal, "we do
not wish to repeat a history with which every one is
acquainted, but we cannot avoid referring to what
appears to be forgotten—that in the year 1841 the
Ministers signed spontaneously a treaty which ex-
tended the oppressive clauses of the Conventions of
1831 and 1833. The Ministers not only signed that
treaty, but defended it before the Chamber of Deputies.
The Chamber, however, signified an energetic disavowal
and added, Thus far you shall go, but no fat tiler ; you
shall not ratify the treaty you have signed.' And it
was not ratified. This, though much, is not all. The
Chamber unanimously demanded that negotiations
should be commenced for the abrogation of the con-
ventions of 1831 and 1838. The Cabinet resisted, and
declared that such an attempt would be either an act
of weakness, or of folly. But the Chamber was firm,
and the Cabinet agreed to commence negotiations.
As to the second question, the affair of Otaheite is of
more recent date. When the Moniteur announced
the disavowal of Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS, the
Chamber became excited and demanded explanations.
An amendment was proposed by M. Ducos, cen-
suring the resolution adopted by Ministers. The amend-
ment was not adopted, because M. GUIZOT demon-
strated to the Chamber that they could not judge
without more complete information. Wait,' said
the Minister, until the affair he concluded.' No-
thing could be more equitable. The Chamber refused
to condemn without full information. But did it
acquit the Ministers ? No ;it waited. The question
now comes again before it, complicated with new inci-
dents, which are much to be regretted. After the
disavowal of Admiral DUPETIT Tuouens there is
the blame inflicted on M. D'AUUIGNY and the
indemnity promised to Mr. PRITCHARD. There
has been blood—much blood—shed in Oceania,
in consequence of the intrigues of the man
to be indemnified. The affair of Morocco was
commenced and concluded in the interval between
the two sessions. It is a question new to the Cham-
bers. Will they consider that it was well done to
evacuate the Island of Mogadore before the ratification,
and contrary to the text of the treaty ? Will they be
of opinion that France is sufficiently rich to pay for
her glory when she is compelled to pay for the in-
sults she has received ? 'We have thus justified by
facts our previous assertion, that on many and on the
most important questions there is not between the
Chamber and the Cabinet that cordial understanding
which alone renders a majority durable. The Cham-
ber is not hostile to Ministers, but it reserves to itself
the right to examine their acts with perfect indepen-
dence. This is what it has done during four years,
and no one can contest its right."
But besides these points there is another on which
it touches, and which it appears to have imbibed from
the inspirations of M. THIERS, though disclaiming all
acquaintance with him. Peace with England it
reckons a mere delusion, and no Ministry that neglects
to prepare for a war ought to rule in France. These
are the deceitful sentiments of a writer who cannot
forgive England for abetting ESPARTERO in expelling
Queen CHRISTINA from Spain :
" We are the sincere partisans of the maintenance of
peace, and the systematic enemies of every intrigue.
If there exists one, it is without our knowledge. We
are the journal of a principle, whether true or false, which
we have never concealed. This principle is founded on
the profound conviction that peace will ever be but an
armed truce until the day when France shall have allies
in all States where their interests are common with
hers. On that day the bond which connects the Ger-
manic confederation will be loosened, in order to be
enlarged. Every where we shall see the number of regi
ments diminished and the number of ships increased.
It is towards the sea that every eye will be turned.
What others term a cordial understanding appears to us
but a dangerous lethargic sleep. We believe that the
moment of awaking will be terrible. Has it not nearly
been so twice at least ? Once in 1840, and again this
year, a few day s before the King's journey to Windsor.
This danger cannot be denied, because it is admitted in
the King's speech. But what has been done to guard
against it ? We have reason to fear that the cordial
understanding may conclude like an apoplexy, of which
it is said the first attack is a warning, the second is a
menace, and the third kills you. It is the last drop of
water which causes a veisel to overflow ; and the day
will come when a last concession will be demanded of
you without reciprocity, which either cannot or will
not be granted. It is the fear of such an event which
dictates our present language. During four years it has
not varied fur an instant."

from which it would appear that a strong and una-
nimous feeling prevailed among that class in favour
of a total repeal of the tax ; and at a special meeting
of the Warwickshire Association for the Protection
of Agriculture held at Warwick, on Saturday, the
following resolutions, amidst considerable opposition,
were ultimately adopted :

" That it is the opinion of this meeting that the malt-
tax is detrimental to the moral and physical comfort and
happiness of the industrious classes, and oppressive to
the agricultural interest generally. That the total re-
peal of the malt-tax would enable farmers to use the in-
ferior barley for feeding purposes in lieu of foreign oil-
cake and linseed, and thereby facilitating the means of
feeding cattle for the consumption of the increasing popu-
lation of this country.
" That, in order to carry out the foregoing resolutions,
this meeting firmly, but respectfully, calls upon the
county Members generally to support and advocate the
total repeal of the malt-tax, as being beneficial to ail
classes of society."

It is probable that other agricultural associations
will follow the example, and Sin ROBERT PEEL and
Lord STANLEY will be compelled to throw these
gentlemen overboard, or yield to their wishes—that is,
curtail the revenue of about one-tenth of its amount,
repeal the Canada Corn Bill, and make the landed
interest, as in the days of PITT, the supreme arbiter
of national policy. Thanks, however, to the Reform
Bill, and the progress of free trade principles, these
days are gone by. A new race and a new era have
arisen. The aristocracy can no longer boast of their
pocket boroughs, and Birmingham, and Manchester,
and Leeds, and fifty other influential towns, have
now something to say in the great council of the
nation.

The detailed results of the Revenue Accounts for
he year and quarter ending the sth January, 1845,
confirm, in a remarkable manner, the anticipations
we have from time to time indulged in as to the in-
evitable benefits that would accrue from a more
searching and vigilant administration cf the depart-
ment of Customs; and as to the excess which the
property-tax would yield over the annual " three
millions to three millions and a half" at which Sir
ROBERT PEEL affected to estimate its product, when
he first submitted it as an integral element of his
financial " Ways and Means," for the sanction of Par-
ment. It will be remembered by the readers of The
Sun that for the last year and a half we have been in
the habit of contrasting the returns of both exports
and imports,—showing a progressive and enormous
increase of our foreign trade,—with the product of the
Customs' duties as reported from quarter to quarter,
The inference which we argued as legitimately to be
deduced from that contrast was, that, inasmuch as the
proportion of increase in the aggregate of the duties
collected bore no fair or reasonable proportion to the
increased aggregate of the trade on which they must
have been collected—the public treasury must have
been largely defrauded, in each quarter, of sums that
should have been paid in on account of Customs' dues.
We all remember.,how, in their first report on the
subject of the enormous frauds which had long been
habitually practised on the Customs, without their
having in any way detected them, the Commissioners
of Customs themselves congratulated the Treasury and
the public on the " fact," that the highest amount to
which those frauds could have been carried out was
fortunately then ascertained ; and that they did not
exceed altogether some four or five hundred thousand
pounds. The " Commission of Inquiry"—from
without —subsequently instituted (under the able
chairmanship, if we recollect aright, of Lord GRAN-
VILLE SOMERSET), speedily ascertained the existence
of enormous abuses and frauds still in daily operation
as to specific commodities ; and it opened up cases of
suspicion as to other and unknown imports, most of
which cases have since been probed until they have
more than verified (as in the articles of leaf tobacco
and manufactured cigars) the worst fears of that
Commission. The sum, large as it was, which the
Customs' Commissioners had affected to regard as the
" be all and the end all" of the delinquencies to be
proved against their OVVR official subordinates and
servants, or those shippers (agents and others) who
practised upon their credulity or their remissness—
this sum has long since been shown to be a mere
bagatelle, compared with the far larger cheats which
have been for a long time past annually, and still are,
successfully practised by artful traders in league with
confederate Custom-house officers, warehousemen, &c.,
in her MAJESTY'S "revenue of Customs." When we so
confidently asserted that, after some sagacity, vigilance,
promptitude, and resolution were put upon the scent,
which the slow hounds (they must forgive us for the
simile) had so utterly lost—the Customs might
soon be made to yield such a large increase of collec-
tion as to take from Sir ROBERT all pretence to call
upon the country for a property-tax, on the ground
of its being necessary to bring up the national in-
come to a level with the national expenditure; we
did not permit ourselves to reckon on so agreeable a
confirmation of our belief as that which the" Accounts"
before us supply. From these it appears that the
Customs, for the year ended the sth instant, have
rallied so much as to produce, in that interval, the
vast net total of 20,378,6721., being an increase on the
net produce of last year, in this branch alone, of
1,365,0001. Courage, Gentlemen Commissioners !
You have only not to resume your offical slumbers
at the Board in Thames-street, and to etjoy the be-
nefit of the Committee of Inquiry's vicarious energy
in your places, for another twelvemonth or so, and,
taking the product of 1841 and 1840, on the defi-
ciency of which the Premier raised up tht main sup-
port of his machinery for extorting a fax on pro-
perty out of the pockets of poor Joux 3uLL—you
will be able to return an increased net revenue from
Customs far exceeding the excess of the Public Charge
over the Public Receipt in those years of going-out
Whig Governments and incoming Conservative
Ministers.

There is really so much probability of the matter
being thus more than balanced, and in the most legi-
timate of manners, that we can scarcely imagine our
Premier, with all the credit we give him for plausible
collectedness—we will not call it assurance—venturing
to solicit the Legislature next year to continue his
most odious, most unfair, most disproporionate, ill-
appropriated, and worse assessed impost. An increase
f 1,363,0001. odd on Customs, and of 3E6,000/. on
Excise, in one year, will surely abash him into a
mood of sufficient modesty to abstain from demanding
a property- tax, which, allowing for the decrease of
37,000/. on last year, as compared with 1844, brings
him in 5,191,000/. ! 'We do not look even upon First
Lords of the Treasury as more than mortal men, and
we doubt whether Premiers are really angels. If, there-
fore, Parliament should allow the process of notices,
returns, and collections for this detestable tax to be
resumed next spring, we are not so fanatical in our
political enthusiasm as to look for one tingle shilling
of remission out of all this prodigious product at the
hands of Sir ROBERT PEEL or Mr. GOULBURN. A
Norway canoe, thrown up from the Maelstrom,—after
being absorbed in its vortex,---with all its lines, gear,
fishing-tackle, sails, cordage, and fishermen to match,
unhurt, unbroken, entire, alive, and "fresh as paint,"
would be a less astonishing reversion than a five-
pound note returned from the Treasury under cover,
to some astounded rate-payer, as having been "con-
tributed in excess." We do trust that Members of
Parliament will lay these, or some other such consi-
dt-rati(.ns, seriously to heart. Let the yield of Cus-
tcras and Excise be assigned some definite point,
which, when it has been passed, shall determine the
immediate appropriation of the excess collected, in
substitution for such a war-tax as the property-tax.
At least let the Premier, who was so mealy-mouthed
at first as to look for but some three and a half mil-
lions, be kind enough to tell us at what amount of
excess over that sum he is prepared to be so generous,
as to cry—" Hold—enough !"

The Constitutionnel, in some remarks on the state
of M. VILLEMAIN'S health, infers that he has been

driven to madness by anonymous letters, addressed to

him either by the Jesuists themselves or their paid

agents. This is not at all probable. .141. VILLEMAIN
was not a man of a weak mind, and none but weak

minds could be in the slightest degree disturbed by

anonymous letters. The article concludes in these
words, which, we fear, contain more truth :—" There

are not wanting persons who already repeat to their

stupid circles that the Minister has been struck by
the anger of GOD, for not ha►ing drawn up a Bill
favourable to the Jesuits. These folks know what

Never was there a more hopeless or more absurd
agitation than that got up by certain landed pro-
prietors and farmers throughout England for the re-
peal of the malt-tax. As if land was not sufficiently
protected already by the sliding-scale and many im-
munities from burdens to which personal property
are liable, these gentlemen, born to consume the fruits
of the earth, cry out for more exemptions, under pre-
tence of benefiting the poor, while in reality their
only object is t o add to the grievances of the corn-laws.
The benefit to the poor or the community at large is
mere moonshine; and with what face can the country
gentlemen come forward and advocate cheap beer,
when one of their great themes at quarter sessions
and in Parliament is the mischief caused by beer-
shops? According to them beer is the great source of
poaching, smuggling, stealing, and Sabbath-breaking.
There is hardly an evil under the sun that is not at-
tributed to drinking malt liquors ; yet these Solons
would reduce the price of this article of consumption,
all for the good of the people. But putting this
mockery aside, we ask how is a deficiency of between
four and five millions sterling t') be made up ? Is theincome-tax to be made perpetual ? Is there to
be no reduction in the import duties on the necessa-
ries of life, and especially on sugar, tea, and corn
Are all the rest of the community to suffer that
prodigal lords and squires may be able to keep up
their vast establishments, spend 19rge revenues in
foreign countries, and make suitable marriage settle-
ments for their sons and daughters ? Th,
manufacturing towns—great and small—the shop-
owners, the merchants, and, above all, the
opponents of the corn-laws, would cry out against
such an act of injustice, and an impulse would be
given to the operations of the latter body, which in a
very short period would put an end to the sliding-
scale and the tax OR bread together. This is not the
object of the agitators, but they know not what they
ask ; and, were their prayer granted, they would be
the very first to exclaim against its consequences.
The more rational portion of the landowners
seem aware of these truths, and are not at all
disposed to concur in the agitation ; but the repealers
have a great majority. At a meeting of the Central
Committee, held on Monday, for the purpose of ob-
taining the sense of the country—that is, the agricul-
turists—letters were read from many local Committees,

The Paris papers continue to be occupied with dis-
cussions on the forthcoming debateon the Address,
and the prospects of the Ministry. The only article,
however, which possesses the slightest interest is one
in the Prese, a journal of Conservative principles,
and, according to its professions a supporter of the
Conservative majority in the Chamber. If it sup-
ports the majority, however, it throws AL Guizor,
their leader, overboard, and makes animadversions on
the entente cordiale, the right of search, and the affairs
of Morocco and Otaheite, in as bad a spirit as any of
the Radical and Legitimatise journals. While making
such remarks, it disowns all knowledge of any coali-
tion formed against the Ministry—at all events ittakes
no part with them, and attacks M. GUIZOT on the
ground solely that he has not kept his word
with the majority in the Chamber on two questions—
the right of search and the occupation of Otaheite.
On these two points it makes the following remarks,

they say, for it is they who themselves partly effee
,he vairaclo."

THE BOURSE--MONDAY, JAN. 6.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price• Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents l2l .. 121 25 .. 121 .. 121 25
Four-and-a-Haif ll3 .. 113 .. 113 .. 113
Fours ••• • • • 108 • • 108 .. 108 .. 108
Three per Cents.• B5 20 85 95 .. 85 20 .. 85 20
New Loan .
Bank of France....... 3270 —3290 ..3270 • • 3290
Couin Bank. I,ooof. Shares 1100 ..1100 •. 10 .. 1097 50
Belgian Bank-- ••• • • • 685 .. 635 .. 635 .. 635
Belgian Fives,lB4o .... • • 1043 i 104 4.. 104 .. 104%
1842 lO6 .. 106 .. 106 .. 106
Four-and-a-Half— 1035 .. 103% 193% •• 103%
Dutch Two and-a-Half.— 62 10 69 10 .. 61 30 .62 40
ripanish Threes.. ••• • •
Active •••••• .• •
Portuguese Five per Cents •
Neapolitan 96 30 .. 96 35 .. 96 30 .. 96 30
Roman 104 .. 104 .. 104 .. 154

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain . •1010 ..1010 ..1010 ..1010
1, ersallles,R.l3 ...... 472 54 .. 490 .. 472 50 .. 482 50
L.B.•••••••• .• •• 365 .. 377 30 .. 365 .. 377 50
Rouen •• •• •• •• —1047 50 . 1047 50 ..1045 ..1045
Rotten to Havre— •• •• •• 818 75 .. 8114 75 .. 818 7S .. 818 75
Orleans
Strasburg to 8a1e•••....... 305 .. 305 .. 301 . 303 75
Avignon to Marseilles...•••L922 50 • • 925 . 922 50 .. 925

RAILWAYS FOR TIE ACCOUNT, JAN. 16.
VCrlaillea,R.B. ..
L.B
Rotren .......... •• •••• • 1040 ..1050 ..1037 50 ..1045
Rouen t011ane.....
Orleauis
Strasburg to Bale, ..... ... 300 .. 305: .. 300 .. 802 50
Aviv lon to Marseilles.. 920 .. 925 .. 920 .. 925

Bra /floc, JAN. s.—About half-past five this morn-
ng a fire was discovered in the rear of the King's Arms
Inn, Hide-hill, occupied by Mr. E. Davidson. The pre-
mises o n fire comprised a large and lofty building, of four
storeys, , containing the assembly-room of the inn, with
corn lin d hay-lofts above ; the back part of the building
contain' !ol the theatre, with dressing-rooms above. The
Corp( al ition's engine was first on the spot, and was fol-
lowed shortly after by the engines belonging to the bar-
racks, but, from the quantity of inflammable materials
•n the premises, all their efforts to subdue the flames
were u tnavailing, and by nine o'clock the four walls alone
remair ted. The Mayor was to have held his first ses-
sional .dinner in the assembly-room in the afternoon,
and s to ves had been used some time previously for
heatini ; the room, but the origin of the fire has not yet
been a: ertained. A lofty granary intervening betwixt the
premiss es on fire and the inn, the strong gable wall of the
former p revented the flames spreading any further in
that dive ction. The premises, we understand, are in-
sured.— -. From a Correspondent.
MUN 1: t'ICENT CHARITABLE BEQUESTS.—By the will
of Miss . Ann Dimsdale, which has just been proved in
Doctors .'- commons, the following bequests are made to
charital )11 r and other institutions, principally in Bristol:
—To t h e Dorcas Society, 5001. ; to the Misrecordia
Society, 5001; to the Guardian Society or House, 500/.;
to the Lying-in Society, 5004; to the Refuge Society,
500/.; t n the Strangers' Friend Society, 500/.; to the
Infirm:Ll 500/.; to the Prison Discipline Society, 5001.;
to the B t itish and Foreign Bible Society, 1,000 L; to the
Moravia n Missionary Society, 1,0001.; to the poor of the
parish o.f Mangotsfield (Gloucester), 5001.; and to the
ten of this above-named societies, on the death of some

annuitant i, the further sum of 20,0001, making a total of
26,0002 1 eft to charities. The deceased was a member
of the S a .iety of Friends. Erratum—ln the account of
the will of the Duke D'Angouleme, last week, it ap-
pears th at the deceased " left legacies to the amount of
22,000 f. ru. ncs." It should have been 223,000 francs.—
Britann, ;a.

THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON'S NEW NOVEL
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of 'tali! ox, French, and English society, such as no
writer o f the day except Lady Blessington has the
courage to paint, and at the same time has the ability
to execute. Her portraitures are full-length, each trait
being as fu -mly marked as though fresh from the hand
of Vandyke ; her groupings are bold and dramatic; her
dissection 0; ' the human heart is scientific and unsparing.
In ' Strathe ra ' Lady Blessington has given her genius
unbridled xi vay, and here we have exhibited in one
work all the se essential attributes that peculiarly belong
to the mina, and all the attractive graces that distinguish
the pen o,E this accomplished novelist. Pathos, senti-
ment, roe- Lai ice, wit, humour, satire, ridicule, by turns
rule the h Ow .."—Morning Post.
The k ;ad of Cardigan has appointed the Rev.
William t, farm Jenkins, 8.A., Fellow of Balliol College,
Oxford, t( , b„ „,,,N,l of his Lordship's domestic chaplains.
THE % VI, LTHlVZ.—According to Murphy's Alma-
seak,est prd ~ay WO predicted to be the
coldest of the
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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1845

'NITED STATES.

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MONEY AND CoMMERCI 4. F ."41-. *A" S
CITY, WEDNESDA.Y „EVENING.
The transactions in Stocks throughout the day have
been comparatively limited, and Consols have been at
1003 I. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. were
1043 3. Exchequer Bills remained as in the morning.
The Foreign Bonds were steady. Spanish Actives at
273 3, and the Three per Cents. at 3633. Colombian
were 143, and Buenos Ayres 40k. Portuguese Con-
verted improved to 604.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Direct Northern were 3; Dublin and Bel-
fast, 23 ; Dublin and Mullingar, 3 ; Great North of
England, 464 ; Ditto, New, 201 ; Great Western, Half,
49 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 44 f; Birmingham, Thirds,
373 ; Ditto, Quarter, 25 to 1 ; Croydon, 21 ; London
and York, 2 ; Midland, 17 ; Newcastle and Darlington,
39 ; Ditto and Berwick, 61 ; Northern and Eastern,
134 to 14 ; North Kent, 3 ; Norwich and Brandon, 6 ;
Richmond and West-end, 13 ; South Devon, 53 to 6 ;
South-Eastern, 8 to 3 ; South Wales, 3 ; York and
North Midland, Scarborough Branch, 223 ; Ditto, Selby
Scrip, 12 ; and Boulogne and Amiens, 23 premium.
Eastern Counties have been 93; Bleckwall, 91; Green-
wich. 23- 3 ; and West London, 13 discount. British
North American Bank Shares, ex div , were 5 discount.
(Fror. The Sun of Last Night.)
There was a quiet market for Cotton at Liverpool yes-
terday, and prices were rather in favour of buyers.
Sales only 2,000 bales, viz.. 120 Bahia at 53d., 200 Surat
at 23d. to 24d.. 10 Egyptian at 7d. ; the rest American at
33d. to 53d. per lb.—Shares generally were dull. Cam
bridge and Lincoln, 58s. 9d. ; Chester and Birkenhead,
37 364; Dublin and Cashel, 53; Eastern Counties, 153;
Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 2, 235. 6d. ; Grand
Junction, 227 ; Great Western, Half-Shares, 953
Liverpool and Manchester, New. 383 3 ; London and
Brighton, 52 ; London and South-Western, New, 5 ;
London and York, 43 ; Churnet Valley, 43 ; Direct
Northern, 214 : Manchester, Bolton, and Bury. 1223 ;
Midland Counties, 1154 4; Newcastle and Berwick, 73;
Newcastle and Darlington, 624 ; North British, 73 ;
North Union, 1474 ; Scottish Central. 6/. 1 ls. 3d ;
Sheffield and Manchester, 993 ; South-Eastern, New,
133 14 ; Lyons and Avignon, 2f ; Paris and Lyons,
735. 6d. 33 ; Paris and Orleans, 43 ; Paris and Rosen,
403 ; Rouen and Havre, 243 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bor-
deaux, 74 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 43 ; Northern of
France, 51. 19s. 51. 16 s. 3d.
There are no late accounts to-day from any quarter,
except the New York advices, which do not add anything
material to our previous information.
The Stock Market is tolerably firm to-day, as the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the Debt are to
invest, during the current quarter, 242,068/. I Is., in
the purchase of stock, and 600,000/. in the redemption
of Exchequer Bills. The dividends, however, have not
yet fully come into play. Consols for immediate
transfer are 1001 $, and for time about 1003 4. The
Government broker is increasing his daily purchase
taking both New Three-and-a-Quarter and Reduced
Three per Cent. Stock. The former have been quoted
104 to 3, and the latter 1004 to 3. Bank Stock is worth
212 to 2123, and India Stock 289. Exchequer Bills are
635. to 655., and India Bonds 795. to 765. premium.
The Foreign Market continues very quiet. Spanish
Five per Cents. have been 274 4, and the Three per
Cents. 363 I. Portuguese Converted are 593. Mexican
Bonds are quoted 343 1, Buenos Ayres 403, and Bra-
zilian 893 to 90. Danish Bonds are 894. Dutch Two-
and-a-Balf per Cents. are marked 63i. Business in
Railway Shares is not very active, but prices are firm.
PRICE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 2121,
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
100 100? N
3 per Cent. Consols Anna
4%
New 34 per Cont. Annuties
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 3416
India Stock 289
India Bonds 1,000!
Ditto under 1,000! 76 pm.
Bank Stock for Account.
Consols for Opening
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 1124
1,000/. ............ ...
500/. .. ......... —
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised ........ — pm,
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. 343/4
Ditto for the Account . . 34%
Ditto Debentures . 154
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Converted 5914
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 —
Ditto for the Account.
Dutch 21/2 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SRAM%
Birmingham ant Gloucester 100
Ditto, New.. -
Bristol and Gloucester 3O
... to 40
Cambridge and Lincoln
Chester and Holyhead
Churnet Valley
Eastern Counties
Great Western
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Fifths
Lancaster and Carlisle
London and Birmingham ...100
London and 8right0n.......... 50 ...... 51% 52 to 51%16
London and Greenwich ...... 123
London and South Western.. 4136 77
Ditto,New — ..,,.. 51,/a to
London and Croydon
London and Y0rk........ 2 ... 4% to
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto 16 Shares 3O .. ... 53% to
Midland . 100
Newcastle & Darlington:iunc. 24 ....• 64 651/ to 641‘
Newcastle and Berwick
North British
Norwich and Brandon
Ditto New 1
Portsmouth Direct
Richmond and West End June. 1
Rugby ... 1
South Eastern and Dover ... 331,4 404 to 414
South Wales
2, ...... 3
West Cornwall 14... ..
York and Norti Midland ... 50 ......106
Ditto Selby Scrip
Ditto, Extension

(From the Liverpool Times.)
By the fast-sailing American ship General Parkhill,
Captain M‘Kown, we have several days' later dates from
Charleston than those previously received. She left the
Bar on the 16th ult. The news from Liverpool by the
steamer Caledonia, of Nov. 19, reached Charleston on
the 12th ult., as appears from a paper of the 13th ult.
We give an extract of some interest :
SPEECH OF JAMES K. POLK.
The Nashville Union of the 30th ult., gives the fol-
lowing report of a speech delivered by the President
elect, Colonel Polk, on the previous day, on the occasion
of his reception at Nashville. In reply to an address
from Mr. Nicholson, he rose and replied as follows :
" I return to you, Sir, and to my fellow-citizens
whose organ you are, my unfeigned thanks for this mani-
festation of the popular regard and confidence, and for
the congratulations which you have been pleased to ex-
press to me, upon the termination and the result of the
late political contest. lam fully sensible that these con-
gratulations are not, and cannot be, personal to myself.
It is the eminent success of our common principles
which has spread such general joy over the land. The
political struggle through which the country has just
passed has been deeply exciting. Extraordinary causes
have existed to make it so. It has terminated—it is
now over—and I sincerely hope and believe, has been
decided by the sober and settled judgment of the Ame-
rican people.
" In exchanging our mutual congratulations with each
ether upon the result of the late election, the democra-
tic party should remember, in calmly reviewing the con-
test, that the portion of fellow•citizens who have dif-
fered with us in opinion have equal rights with our-
selves ; that minorities as well as majorities are enti-
tled to the full and free exercise of their opinions and
judgments ; and that the rights of all, whether of mi-
norities or majorities, as such, are entitled to equal re-
spect and regard.
" In rejoicing, therefore, over the success of the de-
mocratic party, and of their principles, in the late elec-
tion, it should be in no spirit of exaltation over the de-
feat of our opponents ; but it should be because, as we
honestly believe, our principles and policy are better cal-
culated than theirs to promote the true interests of the
country.
" In the position in which I have been placed, by the
voluntary and unsought suffrages of my fellow-citizens,
it will become my duty, as it will be my pleasure, faith-
fully and truly to represent, in the executive department
of the Government, the principles and policy of the
great party of the country who have elevated me to it ;
but, at the same time, it is proper that I should declare
that I shall not regard myself as the representative of a
party only, but of the whole people of the United States ;
and I trust that the future policy of the Government may
be such as t• secure the happiness and prosperity of all,
without distinction of party."

ARCNDEACONRY OF CORNWALL.—In consequence
of the death of the Venerable Archdeacon Sheepshanks,
this county, under the provisions of the Ecclesiastical
Commission, will be divided into two archdeaconries.
The Rev. W. Gee, of Week St. Mary, has been appointed,
by the Bishop, Archdeacon of East Cornwall, but the
name of the future Archdeacon of West Cornwall has
not yet transpired. It is rumoured that the two parishes
of Gluvias and Buduck, which have hitherto been held
together as one living, will now be disunited and become
two separate benefices.—Falmouth Packet.
LADY GLENORCHY'S CHAPEL.—EXHUMATION OF
THE BODY OF THE FOUNDRESS.—Our readers are aware
that this building, situated at the eastern extremity of
the valley which separates the Old and New Towns of
Edinburgh, formerly the Old Botanic Garden, has been
sold to the North British Railway Company, and is now
about being taken down. About nine o'clock, on New
Year's-day morning, the remains of the foundress, Lady
Glenorchy, were exhumed from a catacomb under
the floor of the chapel, which was covered
by several large flags, on one of which a large
plate of brass indicated who lay below. At the
bottom of a flight of steps, and in a narrow
catacomb, the coffin was found, which had rested
there in darkness for nearly sixty years. The coffin, in
the first attempt of the labourers to remove it from its
place, parted longitudinally a-top, and the remains of
Lady Glenorchy were deposited within a new shell pre-
pared for the purpose. The plate above bore, in cha-
racters still distinctly legible, that the remains were those
of Lady Glenorchy, the foundressof the chapel, and that
she had departed in July 1786, in her forty-fourth year.
The cover of the new shell was then screwed down over
both the mouldering skeleton and the coffin ,to which it
had been consigned so long before ; and after it had
been removed to its place in a hearse which was in
waiting the vehicle moved slowly away for re-interment,
followed by a few gentlemen, members of the Free
Church, who, in accordance with the terms of her Lady-
ship's will, were the trustees of the building.—Caledonian
Mercury.
RAILWAYS.—The railway world will be disap-
pointed in their expectations, for the Board of Trade
makes RO second appearance last evening in the Gazette
It is natural for those who have embarked their capital
or taken shares in the proposed lines to wish for dis-
patch—to expect that every Gazette will dispose of a
portion of expectant applicants for leave to proceed with
their schemes—and that they may thus be relieved from
the anxiety of suspense, from the exhaustion which is
experienced by those exposed to the suffering of " hope
deferred." But natural as this feeling may be on their
part, we are well pleased, nevertheless, to find that these
hopes have been disappointed. It is right for the rail-
way department of the Board of Trade to take time for
their work. They are charged with the execution of a
most onerous and important office, involving an immense
amount of capital and public interests of a vast and cen-
flicting character. It is therefore essential to the proper
performance of such arduous and difficult duties that the
decision of the board in every case should be the result
of ample care and previous deliberation. Persons of
some experience in railway business say that the board
could not examine properly into each proposed line
before them without twelve months' preparation. We
do not give way to that opinion, because we be-
lieve that many of the lines do not call for much
Others consideration. Some of them are of manifest public
cthrougho m utility,competition.
trituohn. Onen o ahleiitis again may be disposed of on groundsngnes they intersect, and not exposed to
a proper direction as main trunks
equally conclusive, although very opposite. In neither
of these classes can the Board of Trade be much at a, loss
bbl to
yi .
pay
the of some of the lines
board have given notice that, as the requisitehe promoters attention to the in-
terestshow to act, nor is it likely that they will differ in opi-
nion. The difficulty rests in deciding the question of
competing lines, and so to decide as to do justice to the
alreadypartparties,
of
rejected and
e also
the decision was not aecompanied, " by any reasons in
justification of such a course, the provisional committee
will " not relax" their efforts. The committee of the
Cornwall and Devon Central Railway has made intima-
tion to that effect, while the favoured, or at least the
fortunate, line front Falmouth to Plymouth concisely
observes, on the other hand, with much self-satisfaction,
that " the Board of Trade having reported in their
favour, any communication in reference thereto" may be
addressed to their committee, in Broad-street-buildings.
No reasons, we suspect, would have satisfied the parties
who have been thrown overboard, and any reasons, or
none, were equally acceptable to those who received a
verdict in their favour.—Chronicle.

FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens
Great Northern of France ... 4
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Rouen . 2O . . 40,3... to

CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN RAILWAY.--A rumour
having become prevalent that the promoters of the pro..
jected Cambridge and Lincoln Railway intended to pull
down the church at Chesterton, we have the highest
authority for stating that there is no intention to touch
the church or the church-yard, but to keep as far away
from both as possible. We apprehend this unfounded
rumour arose from the fact of notices having been given
to the patrons, incumbent, and churchwardens, in com-
pliance with the standing orders, which require that such
notices should be given to all owners and occupiers of
property within 100 yards of each side of the intended
line.—Cambridge Chronicle.
ROYAL SOUTH LONDON DISPENSARY.—Tuesday
evening the annual meeting of the subscribers to the
above institution, which is situated in Laurie-place,
Westmiaster-road, directly opposite to the Blind Asy-
lum and Bethlem Hospital, was held in the board-room
of the establishment, Mr. Meymott, sen., in the chair, sup-
ported by *feral subscribers, &c. The dispensary was
established in the year 1821, in consequence of the great
inadequacy of medical relief to the large population
which lies on the Surrey side of the Thames. The re•

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 7.—We have
no particular change to notice in our market to-day, a ntode-
rate husineiis has been done at the following prises :
Manchester and Birmingham, 5314
South-Eastern, New Creation, 1214
Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 3 11,16
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 3%
Cambridge and Lincoln .461. 461. 3s.
Churnet Valley, 4 3 151116
Dublin and Belfast Junction, 4X
Huddersfield and Manchester Rail and Canal, 4%
Leeds and West Riding Junction, 35,;,
London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 1 9-16
Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 81,4
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Juction, %-
West Yorkshire, 57i 3/4
Great Northern of k ranee, 6.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols: looy,
New 314 per Cent
Long Annuities to expireJan.lB6o 12 3..16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859
India Stock for Account 289
India Bonds, 1,0004.
Ditto under 1,000/. ............... 76
Bank Stock for Account 2121%,
Consols .. . . ..... 100%
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 11/2d.... 65 pm.
Ditto 500/.
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent 4Ol,
Columbian Bonds 6 per Cent l4l
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto 3 per Cent. ... .. ...... 36
SHARES
Pirect Northern, 2% paid 2%
1 Lublin and Belfast Junction, 2% paid ... 5
Dublin and Mullingar, 21/ paid 2
.34
Eastern Counties, 25 paid..
Great North of England, 100 paid 146,,i
Ditto, New Shares, 5 paid 2514
Great Western, 75 paid •
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid . 99
Lancaster and Carlisle, 10 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock) ... ..
Ditto Quarter Shares, 2 paid
London and Blackwall, 16%
London and Greenwich, 12% paid
London and Croydon, 131. 1.,.. 9_l. r aid .. 161/8
London and York. 21/2 paid
Midland, 100 paid ..
Newcastle and Darlington:Junction, 24 paid 63
:si ewoamtte and Berwick, 1% paid
Northern and Eastern, 45 paid 59
~. orth Kent. 23/4 paid
Norwich and Brandon, 8 paid
Portsmouth Direct, 1 paid ... ......... ......
Richmond and West End Junction, 1 paid 2l/2
South Devon, 10 paid
South Eastern and Dover, 33A paid 41%
South Wales, 2% paid
West London, Old Shares, 20 paid 7
York and North Midland, 50 paid
Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid 32IA
Ditto Extension ....... ..... 12
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and A miens, 2 paid
Orleans and Bordeaux, 2 paid 7l ‘
...* 4

port for the past year stated that during the year there
had been a considerable increase in the number of pa-
tients, the total being 4,904, those for the year previous
4,323, and for 1842, 3,983. About 3,600 had'been relieved

and cured, and there remained under care about 600,

According to the report it appeared that the receipts
amounted to 6581. Os. 6d., and the expenditure had in-
creased so, on account of the addition of patients, that
the institution remained in debt to the amount of 4341.
The funded stock amounts to 2001. A long discussion
took place regarding the description of drugs to be con-
sumed for the purposes of the charity. It was re-
marked that the increase in the amount of experiditure

had been oaused:by the —subscribers recommending more
patients for assistance than they were entitled to do by
the amount of their annual subscriptions. It was re-
solved that they should be requested to increase the
same, and thereby render facility for further extending
the operations of the dispensary, which is the only one
of the kind situate in a large and populous district. It
appears that more than 25,000 patients hare been re-
lieved since its establishment.

Q---.—....
..,INGULAR PROCRIDING Al A FUNERAL.—The
wife of a labouring man, named William Keetch, died
at Kempston, near Bedford, last week. Keetch is a
Wesleyan Methodist, and not being able to produce a
certificate of his wife's baptism, the Rev. Foster, the
minister of the parish, informed him, that " of course he
could not expect her burial to be attended to in the
usual way," and the husband clearly understood it to
be a positive refusal to perform the accustomed ceremo-
nies. The society of teetotallers at Bedford, denomi-
nated Rechabites, being informed of the circumstance,
and Keetch, belonging to their order, about thirty mem-
bers went from Bedford to Kempston on Sunday last,
the sth instant, to attend the funeral, and to perform the
burial service according to the forms of their own order,
and the funeral procession proceeded to the church ac-
cordingly. After they had sung a hymn outside the
churchyard, and were proceeding with their usual ser-
vice, which was read by Mr. Hill, the clergyman in-
quired if the procession was "coming forward, as he
was waiting ;" he also inquired of the husband if he in-
tended haling "his wife buried in the usual way." The
husband replied that he should leave it to the brethren
of his order. The chief ruler of the Rechabites then
said to the minister that, in consequence of the first re-
fusal, and not being aware till then of any alteration in
his determination, they now objected to his performance
of the service of the Church. The Rechabite ceremonies

having been completed, the corpse was taken into the
churchyard, and deposited in silence in the rrare, and
the funeral party then quietly returned.

The hour appointed for holding the first Cabinet
Council previous to the meeting of Parliament is three
o'clock this day. It is expected all the Ministers will b.
present.

EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF TOBACCO BY TUN Cam•
TOES' OFFICERS.—On Saturday last a large quantity of
tobacco and cigars was discovered hidden beneath some
packages on the quay at the St. Katherine Docks,
which, it was supposed, had been surreptitiously landed
from a vessel now discharging her cargo, to await the
opportunity of removal from the premises with some
goods about to be shipped into craft to be landed else-
where, which was immediately seized by the Customs'
officers. On Monday afternoon a further quantity, con-
sisting of about forty pounds' weight of manufactured
negrohead tobacco, done up in the same manaer, and of
exactly the same description as that discovered on the
quay on Saturday, was found concealed behind the door
of a shed adjoining the place, which was also seized by
the same parties. No clue has yet been obtained as to
the actual source from whence this tobacco was landed,
though suspicions are entertained on the subject.