The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1844.

father, by means of arsenic. The evidence adduced
on the trial ()This wretched woman puts the question
of her guilt beyond a doubt, and she has since made
a confession, wherein she explains her motives for
committing so dreadful a crime, and enters at some
length into the particulars of the revolting transac-
tion. The following is a portion of her narrative,
which we subjoin for reasons which the reader will
presently understand :—" I heard my half-sister one
day talking of a woman who had poisoned her
husband with arsenic, which she had bought under
the pretence of killing rats. The idea then
first entered ray mind of poisoning my fa-
ther, and I thought I should be at liberty to go
where I pleased, and do as I pleased. If I could have
opened my mind to anybody, and had received a little
good advice, I am sure I should not have committed
the crime. I did not think I should be detected."
The tone of cool deliberation—we might almost say
of nonchalance—that pervades this statement—is truly
extraordinary. The daughter, it seems, was instigated
to the murder of her father from the mere simple cir-
cumstance of having one day heard an account
of a woman who had poisoned her husband by
arsenic ! She needed no further stimulus. The
train was already laid, the match lighted, and it only
required that it should be applied. But then she
adds, if she could only have received a little good ad-
vice she would not have committed homicide ! What
maudlin, self-deceiving cant is this ! How
was it possible that she could have applied to any one
for advice, as to whether or not it was expedient to
murder the author of her being ? The very remark
shows the cool indifference with which she regarded
the crime of parricide. It was evidently in her esti-
mation an act to be consulted about, instead of an
atrocity to be shrunk from at the very first
whisper of the impelling fiend within her. We urge
these points from no desire to excite public indigna-
tion still more strongly against the wretched criminal,
but simply because we are anxious to expose the false
morality—the hypocritical cant—the whining mock-
humanity of certain individuals who have decided
on petitioning the QUEEN in favour of MARY
GALLOP. Among these are to be found
the Bishop of CHESTER, the Chancellor
RAIKES, and a great body of the clergy and gentry.
The reasons which these sentimentalists allege in
justification of a commutation of punishment are some
of them of the most unaccountable character it is
possible to conceive. First, we are told that pre-
viously to the commission of parricide, the prisoner
" had conducted herself as a teacher in a Wesleyan
Methodist school with strict propriety." Now, to
our thinking, the circumstance of MARY GALLOP
having been a teacher of children aggravates rather
than extenuates her guilt, for it proves
that if she sinned it was not at any rate
from brute ignorance, or from any unacquaintance
with the rules of virtue and morality. Secondly,
the petition states " that the dreadful crime which she
confesses of causing the death of her father does n( S
appear to have been long premeditated, but to have
been accidentally suggested to her mind by a person
in her company." Why, this circumstance, too, which
the petitioners allege in her favour, tells most de-
cidedly against her. What sort of a mind must that
have been which could have been urged to the com-
mission of the most awful of all crimes, from the mere
casual small talk of a neighbour ? But the
fourth reason stated by the petitioners is the
most extraordinary—" That should the QUEEN'S
mercy be extended to this miserable woman, she
might prove of great use in being employed in teach-
ing young persons in one of the schools in any place
to which she may be transported." Truly, the woman
of mature age and decent education who could com-
mit parricide from no stronger motive than that—
to quote her own words----" I should be at liberty
to go where I pleased, and do as I pleased "—is
admirably qualified for the sacred and responsible
office of an instructress of childood ! With what
earnestness and sincerity of heart must she impress on
her young pupils the commandment which says,
" Thou shalt do no murder." Children brought up at
the feet of such a mistress cannot but turn out exem-
plary members of society ! But the whole affair is of
so repulsive a character, that we have no wish to
pursue it further. Enough, therefore, to state that
the Bishop of CUESTBR, and all who have had a share
in recommending MART GALLOP to mercy for the
reasons we have just specified, have not evinced a
healthy spirit of humanity, but, on the contrary, a
maudlin, dangerous sensibility, that cannot be too
severely reprobated.

The division among the Catholic priesthood in Ire-
land on the subject of the Charitable Bequests Act
appears to be a more serious one than we had at first
anticipated. At a meeting of clergymen of that per-
suasion, which was held on Tuesday last at the
Cathedral of Tuam, and at which Archbishop:WHALE
presided, the following energetic—perhaps we ought
rather to call it intemperate—resolution was passed,
among several others of a:nearly similar character :
" Resolved, thst on considering the hideous front of Pro-
testant ascendancy which this law exhibits to a Ca-
tholic ration boasting of its growing wealth and in-
telligence, we know not which is most calculated to
excite our wonder—the insolence of the Ministry
that proffered, or the degradation of those Catholics
who court its adoption. And that the infatuation of
both can only be accounted for by the sinister
ascendancy exercised by those cringing creatures of
which the history of every country as well as Ireland,
alas ! at present furnishes instructive examples, dis-
tilling their political poison into every ear with which
they come in contact—fit disciples of the school of
CROMWELL, the minion of lIENar, and, like him, am-
bitious to rise to a bad eminence on the ruins of their
religion." This is harsh language, but how is it
justly applied to those who have given that support to
the Charitable Bequests Act, and professed their
readiness to assist in earrying its provisions into exe-
cution ? These individuals, some of whom are of
high station and superior intelligence, cannot possibly
have acted but from the most disinterested and con-
scientious motives; and there is not an Irish Catholic
endowed with the slightest power of reflection, and
whose judgment is not wholly perverted by his poli-
tical prejudices, but must at once acknowledge the
common sense that has dictated their course of pro-
ceeding. The truth is, the Act in question is a
wise—a salutary—a liberal measure—though, as Arch-
bishop MURRAY truly observed the other day, it is
defective in some of its provisions—and being, there-
fore, likely to win the favourable suffrages of the
more moderate and enlightened portion of the
Catholics, it has been vehemently denounced by the
Repeal party, in whose eyes a Step in the right direc-
tion on the part of Government is a step decidedly
adverse to the question of the Repeal of the Union—
is, in fact, another heavy blow aimed at its popularity.
• In another resolution, which was passed at this Tuam
meeting, it is stated that the policy pursued by certain
mercenary intriguers—who these are we are not in-
formed—in striving to induce ecclesiastics to become
members of the Board of Charitable Bequests, and
thus corrupt the religion and crush the hopes of the
Catholic people of Ireland, must utterly fail. There
is a wilful perversion of the truth in this statement
that cannot be too warmly denounced. In what
way do those who support the Act in question
tend to corrupt the religion, and crush the
hopes of the Irish Catholics ? The Bequests
' Act is simply one to put the Catholic cha-
rities of Ireland on a secure, and, therefore, on a
better footing, than they have been. How, then, is it
a religious question, or what are the means by which
it tends to corrupt the prevailing truths in the sister
country ? The Archbishop of Tu.km and those of his
clergy who adopt his view of the case, must have
been hard pressed for valid objections to the act in
question, when they resorted to such unmeaning
abuse as this. Another resolution of a still more ob-
noxious character than that on which we have been
commenting, was passed at the Tuam meeting. We
quote the opening sentence of this resolution :
That we would view with the utmost alarm any
plan of education which, without reference to the
distinction of creed or the restraints of religious dis-
cipline, would mix Catholics and sectarians together
—a plan which could only originate in a spirit kin-
dred to that from which the Bequests Bill has ema-
nated." The intolerant spirit of this passage need
not be pointed out, for it must be obvious to the most
obtuse capacity. While such is the spirit that per-
vades a large portion of the Irish Catholics—though
e do hope that the majority are more liberal and en-
lightened in their ideas—we fear that the period is
yet distant
to b
whene education on a rational basis can
be expected
generally popular throughout Ire-

land. The Repeal agitators have much to answer for
in their systematic and continuous opposition to every
Government proposition that does not exactly accord
with their own extreme views.

The last accounts from Madrid are of the 18th inst.
The Chamber of Deputies had commenced the debate
upon M. MON'S project of law for the conversion of
the outstanding debts of the Government into Three
per Cent. Stock. Several members spoke in opposi-
tion to M. MoN's plan, and M. Mom replied, after
which the debate was adjourned.

The Paris journals of Tuesday, in the absence of
any stirring aspects to break the monotony of their
political horizon, are unusually grave and didactic.
The Debats, alone, devotes its columns to miscel-
laneous features of foreign news, such as that news is.
On the subject of Turkish affairs, we find this para-
graph :—" The Morning Chronicle, for some days
past, recurs with affectation to a pretended collision
of influences, a rivalry of direction which is said to
have recently developed itself at Constantinople be-
tween Sir STRATFORD CANNING and our Ambassador,
immediately prior to the departure of the Baron
DB BOURQUENET. The fact itself is as unfounded as
the consequences which the Morning Chronicle de-
duces from it. France, equally with England,
England equally with France, desire the triumph
at Constantinople of those principles of mo-
deration which alone can guarantee the existence of
the Ottoman Empire ; and the Ambassadors of both
Powers have always laboured together in that mutual
good understanding which is based as much upon the
reciprocal esteem inspired for one another by their
mutual characters, as on their perfect cognisance of
the intentions of their respective Governments."
The Times having lately announced, on this side
of the water, that considerable activity prevailed in
the dockyard at Deptford, struck a chord to which
the National, as might have been anticipated, is not
slow to respond. "At the end of this month," pro-
ceeds the National, quoting his authority, "a steam
war-frigate, of the first class, and of 800 horse-
power, will be launched. Her measurement will be
upwards of 1,800 tons. Another frigate, to be called
the Odin, is being built in the same yard. Two
war-steamer brigs, of which the Times publishes the
names, are at the same time to be constructed at
Deptford, and will contribute a new reinforcement to
the British navy. Every time that the press reveals
to us the efforts made by our neighbours to increase
their naval force, we are compelled to deplore the
inaction in which our dockyards, and our building-
yards for all classes of shipping, are suffered to re-
main. This inaction might have accomplished but
little in 1840, but, since then, it has accomplished
nothing at all. Admiral JOINVILLB might have truly
said six months since, that France could not engage
in a maritime war because we had not a fleet to supply
our losses, even in a case of a viztory: He declared in
print that our forces and those of England were too
much disproportioned to risk a contest.' Nevertheless,
this disproportion is suffered to increase every day. A
moment will, however, come when England, already
so insolent with respect to us, will forbid us to fish
on our own coast, without our being permitted to
offer the least remonstrance. Our Ministry, which
sends our seamen to the other end of the world to
seize all manner of islands and islets, in order that
our flag and its best officers may be insulted there,
appears to see with pleasure the British navy in-
creased with new ships, whilst our own dues not
continue even stationary. Yet, notwithstanding all
the deceptions that are practised upon us, we still
hope that the Chamber will refuse to succumb, in
this particular, to the anti-national action of our
Ministry, and that it will, as in duty bound, take into
its careful consideration these continual extensions of
our neighbours' forces."

On the frightful condition of Spain the National
speaks out with much energy and eloquence :
" The impudent correspondence which the Spanish
Government addresses to the Paris journals, after it has
passed under the eyes of the French Ambassador, at-
tempts to justify the reactors in the atrocities which
they have committed. The only answer we shall give is
a summary of the list published by El Clamor Public()
of the ♦ictims who have been struck within the last
twelve months. This journal has taken only the
public documents, and, quoting the Madrid Ga-
zette, enumerates the persons who have been
put to death by this obdurate Government. The
total amounts to 214. All have been shot without
trial, except about a dozen. Their identity once estab-
lished, all have been mercilessly murdered; and that in
virtue of no other authority than a royal order. Two
hundred and fourteen Spaniards killed in one year for
political acts! Such is the exaggerated energy assumed
by this moderate Government with which M. Guizot
avows his sympathy. Add to these all those who
have fled is order to escape vengeance—add the
persons proscribed, the men imprisoned or put under
arrest, and an idea may be formed of the
boasted moderation of these reactors, who have
Narvaez for their chief, and De Meer, Breton, Roncali,
Villalonga, and the rest for their instruments. They have
not been satisfiad with killing men—they have sue-
ceeded in destroying the institutions. What they have
done with the Constitution of 1837 is known; and it is
also known that they have left no remains of those gua-
rantees for the liberty which the Spaniards hoped they
had won and secured at the price of their blood. The
ancient municipalities have become no more than a vain
and empty name; the provincial deputations are made
subordinate to the caprices of military authority; the
Cortes represent no more than the sentiments of the
Government which has nominated them; the freedom
of the press is deprived of the trial by jury ; the execu-
tive power being invested with the right of putting its
own construction upon all the organic laws, the monarchy
is dispensed in future with annually convoking the
Cortes ; the sale of the national property is suspended,
and those who have already become purchaser 4, are
threatened with being deprived of what they have
bought ; all rights are thrown to the ground, and
trampled upon—all interests are given up to the mercy
of military despotism, without control, without the
slightest check."
The National thus continues :

" Such have been the disorders which Spain has ex-
perienced in her political sytsem ! But the disorders
she has sustained in her financial system have been, if
possible, still greater. The public treasury has lite-
rally been given up to plunder. Since TORTINO'S
Government, its dilapidation has never been more scan-
dalous. By two mere decrees, the Spanish Ministry of
Finance has created national liabilities to the enor-
mous amount of 750,000,000 rials. All the resources
of the State have been alienated. All offices sold by
auction, as it were ; all public transactions and busi-
ness concluded to the detriment of Government, on
payment of certain moneys to the Government func-
tionaries; and, by means such as these, immense for.
tunes, shamefully realised, are paraded, from night
till morn, without a blush before the public eye. NAR-
VAEZ, who entered Spain with no possessions beyond
his sword and his cloak, has thus amassed a fortune
of two millions in a few months. Every individual
who is connected with this venal power trafficks in
every kind, and acquires his share of the booty. Cor-
ruption ascends and descends through every stage.
daring, unrestrained, insolent, unblushing. The Go-
vernment is its spoil. The ~S'iecle says :

" The announcement of the ominous project of M.
Lacave Laplagne with regard to the Savings' Banks is
already bearing its fruits. Less money is deposited, and
more is drawn out, showing the mistrust excited by the
proposed measure of the Government. The Savings'
Bank of Paris received on Sunday and yesterday, from
3,903 depositors, of whom 449 were new, the sum of
580,189 f., but the amount taken out was much higher,
being 893,000 f. The results have been similar for se-
veral weeks past, and they aro evidently becoming more
and more intense."

The Bill confirming the commercial treaty con-
cluded by the Belgian Government with the Zoll-
v erein continues to be an engrossing subject of
interest in Paris. It appears to have been passed by
the Belgian Chamber of Deputies, and is thus noticed
by La Presse :
" Many persons have been astonished to see that seven
voices only declared themselves opposed to a treaty on
account of which the Ministry was kept in check during
ten long days. M. Devaux, one of the most determined
adversaries of that treaty, had previously explained this
anomaly by declaring, that if the treaty was again to be
made, the Opposition would prevent the Ministry from
concluding it ; but that, having been signed and ratified
by the King, it imperatively demanded the legislative
sanction, and that the Chambers could not refuse that
sanction without causing the most deplorable perturba-
tion in the relation of the country with foreign coun-
tries. A number of Deputies yielded to that considera-
tion, and thence the result of the division."
Street robbery and murderous midnignt assaults
seem to prevail in Paris with frightful impunity.
The somewhat tardy vigilance of the police and the
superior authorities, appears to be at length aroused
to the serious increase of these crimes. Misery
among the poorer classes, too, has attained an appal-
ling pitch.
" The transactions at the savings' banks of Paris on
Sunday and Monday last (writes a correspondent of the
Times) indicated a considerable falling off. The sums
withdrawn exceeded the deposits by upwards of 400,000
francs. Referring to this fact, the Siecle observes, that
the announcement of the unfortunate resolve of M.
Lacave Laplagne to deal with the deposits in the savings'

banks is producing its fruit. There is less money de-
posited and more withdrawn.' The Moniteur states that
the investments in the savings' banks of Paris, on the
22d and 23d inst., amounted to 550,189 francs, and the
reimbursements to 893,000 f."

" The terror inspired by the audacity of the hordes
of robbers and murderers assembled in the metropolis
has, it seems, awakened the attention of government to
the defenceless condition of the inhabitants, and occa-
sioned a display of activity and a means of repression
calculated to check those miscreants in their career. The
Opposition journals • despair,' however, of any perma-
nent amelioration so long as the entire military and
police forces of the capital and its vicinity are solely oc-
cupied with the preservation of the King.'"
The Three per Cents. closed at 85f. 50c. ; the New
Loan, at 86f. 75c.; the Five per Cents., at 120 f. 65c. ;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,129. f. 50e. ; Rouen, 1,045 f.;
Havre, 812 f. 50c.; Spanish Three per Cents., 38i;
Passives, 6f.
The Revue de Paris states, that there was no truth
in the report that A/1D -EL-KADER had re-appeared
on the frontiers of Morocco.

The approaching meetng of the Chambers was
looked forward to, in Paris, with very considerable
interest, but it does not seem necessary to transcribe
the conjectures hazarded there about the probable
contents of the Royal Speech.
THE BOURSE--TUESDAY, DEC. 24.

First Highest Leweet Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
Frenth Flys per Cents.. •• •• 120 20 .. 120 40 .. 120 10 .. 120 40
Four-and-a-Half •• 113 .. 113 113 113
Three per Cents •• 85 40 .. 85 50 .. 85 35 .. 85 50
Bank of France ••3275 ••3275 —1275 ..3270
La.ffitte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslllo ..1115 ..1110 ..1115
5,000 f. SharesboBs —BO9B —5085 ..5090
Belgian Bank.... ..... 620 .. 620 .. 615 .. 620
Belgian Fives,lB4o .• • • 1041 104+ 1041 .. 1041
1842 •••• • • • • 1061 • • 1061 .. 1061 106:
Apanish Threes.. ••
Passive .••••••• •• •• 61 .. .. 61
.. 61
rortngueso Five per Cents • • 581 • 681 581 581
Neapolitaut •••••••• • • • • • •• 55 95 .. .. 95
Malan • •
... 1041 .. 1041

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain' ..... —.lOlO ••1010 ..1010
Versa'lleg,lt.B. •
L.B.•••••• ••.• •• 390 .. 390 370
Rouen •• •• •• •• •• •••• ••••8)35.. • 1045 ..Ic3i

Rouen to HATTe •
Orleans . • • .... • • • • • • • • .... 1125

1520 .. Sl5
..1126 25 ..1120

..1010
.. 495
.. 385
..1045

.. Sl5
..1125

Strasburg to Bale•• •• •• •• .. 306 25 .. 308 75 .306 25 .. 308 75
kvignou to Marseilles•..... 920 .. 925 .. 920 .. 925

RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, JAN. 3.
it. Germain
Versailles, MB..
L.B 4OO .. 420 .. 385 .. 400
Rouen •• • . • ........ 1047 50 ..1050 ..1030 ..1045
Rouen tolliavre•• ••••• 820 .. 825 .. 805 .. 805
Orleans
Strasburg to 8a1e..••...... 310 .. 310 .. 300 .. 307 50
Avignon to Marseilles•..... 923 925 . 917 53 .. 517 50

THIS DAY'S NEWS

IIONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEW S
my, QUARTER TO THREE.
Yesterday having bees a close holiday at Liverpool as
well as here, there was nothing done in the Cotton or
Share markets.

There are advices a few days later from the Cape of
Good Hope, the Mauritius, and accounts also to Oct. 23,
from Rio de Janeiro. At the Cape nearly all the in-
terest of local affairs is confined to the events on the
frontier, and at Natal, where matters seemed to be
tolerably quiet, the Governor, after his personal visits,
having established regular posts, so as to ensure a com-
munication direct between himself and the authorities in
Kafirland, and appearing at the same time resolved to
exact compliance with existing treaties. The
improvements going on in the colony afford very de-
cided evidence of the enterprise and intelligence of the
settlers, and the improvement of the navigation of the
Kowie river was a point taken up with much zeal. The
Governor had offered a reward of 2001. for the appre-
hension of the natives, about three or four in
number, who murdered Do Lange, the Dutch
farmer. Throughout his progress the colonists
gave Sir Peregrine a very excellent reception ; and
this was the more gratifying, as the thinly scat-
tered population can support none of the usual establish-
ments of" the old country," for the accommodation even
of the poorest travellers, and private hospitality is the
necessary substitute.
. _

The kauritius and Rio papers contain nothing of ge,
neral interest.

The Committee of Spanish American Bondholders
are persevering in their endeavour to bring M. Mesquera
to book, by obtaining from him a statement of the
amount remitted for the New Granada Bondholders,
and there hare hopes, as Lord Aberdeen has interfered,
that the attempt will eventually be successful.
The Public Securities have been ♦ery quiet to-day,
but they are firm, Consols having reached 1004 f. Ex-
chequer Bills have given way a trifle, being 665. to 635.
premium. Bank Stock has risen to 210 and 2101. The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 1031 to 104
and the Three per Cents. 1001 to 100 i.
The Foreign market has been buoyant again, although
there is not so much doing. Spanish Five per Cents.
have been 27i to 28, and the Three per Cents. 38i to t.
Portuguese Converted Stock has been marked 601 to
for Money, being an advance again. Peruvian Stock
is 291 to 30. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are
; and Belgian Four-and-a-half per Cents., 1024.
Russian Bonds are 120.

There is rather an active market again for railway
shares, but prices are fluctuating, as the account day is
approaching. The quotations below given will show
that some lines have improved, while others have gone
back a trifle.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities looili
New 4 per Cent. Annuties
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2k
Consols for Opening
Exchequer Bills. lid, lid.
1,0001.
53
ppm:
Ditto
FOREIGN m
64 63 pm.
500/.
Ditto Small
66
THIS-- ......
_ __..
DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent. 40k
AdvertisedFuNDs
Danish, 3 per Cent ... B9
Prussian Bonds, 4 •

_.... ,fonds, 4 per Cent.
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Converted ... ..
......
Ditto for the Account 604
Russian Wilds ..........
120
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 274
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive Bonds 64
Ditto 3 per Cent 384
Ditto for the Account 38144
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent
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.
Bristol and Gloucester....... 30
39 ...... to
Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 15
Chester and Holyhoad ......... 5
Churnet Valley
Dublin and Galway ..... .. ..... 24 ...... 24
Eastern Counties ............... 25
Eastern Union ............ ... 10
Great South andW. (Irish)... 5
Great Western .................. 75 1504
Ditto, Half 5hare5......... 50
London and I3irminghara _pop 2274 to
London and Brighton.... ..... 50
London and Greenwich ...... 124 ...... 94
London and South Western.. 414 ...... 754 76 to 754
London and Croydon
London and Y0rk.......
Manchester and Leed5......... 70 l2l
Ditto 4 Shares
Midland lOO 1134
Newcastle & Darlington June. 24 ...... 624
North British
North Kent -
Norwich and Brandon
Ditto, New...
South-Eastern and Dover... 335
Ditto New
Trent Valley.
York and North Midland... 50 ......
Ditto, Extension —
Boulogne and Amiens
Orleans and Bordeaux...... 9
Paris and Lyons -
Paris and Orleans 2O ...... 43114 .. to
Paris and Rouen.
Strasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14... l2i ,13... to 125

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
MALT DIANNSTS.
SMITHFIELD.—Course Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4/ 16s ;
Useful ditto, 4/ 17s to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to
51 lOs ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 14s to
1116 s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 163 to 11 18s per load. An
average supply, and a sluggish demand.
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 12s to 4118 s;
Useful ditto, 5/ to 5/ 5s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 8s to
61 128 ; Clover Hay, 41 103 to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 143
to 11 16s; Wheat Straw, 1116 s to 11 18s per load. Trade
throughout dull, at the above quotations.
WILITECRAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3116 s to 41155;
Useful ditto, 41 16s to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to
5/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 4110. to 61 4s; Oat Straw, 1/ 13s to
1/ 15s; Wheat Straw, 11 16s to 11 18* per load. Supply
good, and trade rather dull.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN.
For the Week ended Dee 21, 1844, made up from the Returns of tke
In pcctor, in the different Cities and Tewm is England and Wales,
rer Imperial Quarter.
Vb, hest 450 3d I Oats ..... 2ls I Beans 55s Ild
Sado), ..... 34s 2d Rye ...... 32s Od I Fes" ..... "' 35s 44
AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS.
Weeks ending WiaIiAT..II.IILELI DATIL I RYE. 1 BEANS. I ?EAU.

35 9 V
as 2
35 1
34 9
34 5
34 2

-
Nov. 16 '46 4 21 9 34 13 38 4. 35 7
tM 45 13 21 8 1..0 2 38 6 36 2
SO 45 4 21 8 32 9 38 0 35 11
Dec. 7..» 45 2 21 10 31 1; !37 5 36 4
14 .....
21
.3 i 21 10 32 0; 25 11 35 4
IMPERIAL •OGREGATE AVERAGES Or THE SIX WEIRS
Whriat......... 451 64.1. f Oats ......... 21s. 9:1.1 8ean5.........314 61
Marley.... ..... 341 111.1 Rye ......... 925. Id. Peate.........35a. 114.
DITTIES ON FOREIGN coital.
Wheat •••••••••20a. 0,1. Oats .....
Barley
.. 10. 6d.li Pease ........ 74 6•

MISS CLALa SETTON.—We have just seen an ad-
mirable portrait of this very talented artiste, which is
published by M`Lean, of the Haymarket. It is one of
the happiest efforts of Vbroolnoth, the great dramatic por-
trait itpainter. The likeness is admirable, and what is
better still the characteristic expression is completely
preserved. It is not a mere expressionless fac-simile of
the features. It is in every sense of the term,a highly
intellectual portrait.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING -(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, DEc. 26.—Wind N.E., light.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 24.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Concord,
Oporto for London. Off, Anna Robertson, Munro, Ma-
dras, left Sept. 3, Cape of Good Hope Oct. 25 ; Queen
of the Ocean, London for ; Portley, Reed, 'Mauri-
tius, sailed Sept. 30 ; Bland, Callan, Calcutta and Cape,
left Cape of Good Hope Oct. 23.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 25.—W hid S.E.—Arrd. Lady Clarke,
Lawrence, from Calcutta, left July 25, Cape of Good
Hope Oct. 26 ; Constantia, from New Orleans in 40
days. Ski. Universe, London ; Great Britain, Economy,
and Galina, ; Mermaid, Hope, Liverpool and Co-
romandel.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 25.—Wind N.E., fresh.—Off,
Flora, Levegne, London, and sailed for Jamaica ; Vic-
toria, London, and sailed for New York ; Jamaica, Lon-
don, and sailed for Antigua. Sld. Avon steamer,
Southampton, after repairing.
PENZANCE.—Off, Repulse, Margins, Calcutta, left
Oct. 19, Cape of Good Hope Nov. 2.
BRIXIIAM.—Off port, Vigilant, Steel, Cape of Good
Hope, Oct. 25.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 24.—Wind E.S.E., moderate.—
Arrd. Reis Effendi, Sutherland, Nassau ; Speedy, St.
Michael's ; Dido, Alexandria ; William Rathbone,
Africa. 25. Wind S.S.E., light.—Sld. Harkaway,
Nicholson, Philadelphia; The Duke, Manger, New Or-
leans ; Duncan, Henderson„Mobile ; Roger Sherman,
Boston ; Victoria, White, Ichaboe. 25. Arrd. Burley,
Frazer, Rio de la Hague ; Nathaniel Hooper, Churchill,
Charleston ; Roscious, Eldridge, New York ; Vesper,
Dalhousie ; Slater Rebaw, Furze, St. Michael's ; Prince
Royal, Calcutta ; Swordfish, Green, Miramichi. Sld.
the Whitney, Savannah. 24. Sailed Wallace, Main,
Mobile ; Independence, Allen, New York ; Scio,
Beyrout ; Essex, Rice, Azores.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 25.—Her Majesty's steamer Cor-
morant, with Mr. Pitt Adams, the British Minister, on
board, arrived at Arica on the 2d of September from
Islay, and, not being allowed to water, fired shot and
shell upon the town; after which, permission was con-
ceded.

TORBAY, DEC. 24.—Off port, Vigilant, Holt, Cape of
Good Hope; King William the Fourth, Tjilatzop.
SALCOMBE, DEC. 24.—Arrd. Albatross, Dania.
GUERNSEY, DEC. 22.—Arrd. Isabella, Rio Janeiro.

JERSEY, DEC. 23.—Arrd. Ocean, Newfoundland.
BRISTDL, DEC. 24,—Arrd. Pannelia, bavannah.
GLOUCESTER, DEC. 25.—Arrd. Jupiter, Montreal.
SWANSEA, DEC. 22.—Sid. Arrieta, Ellis, Cuba.
SHIELDS, DEC. 23.—The Brancepeth Castle, has put
back leaky, and must discharge.
HoLTHEAD, DEc. 23.—The Nicholas, Bavin, was got
off this evening, and brought into the harbour.
BLYTH, DEC. 23.—Several ships spars, marked "Eric,"
two logs of wainscot, and a box, containing hams,
&c., has come ashore near here.

DEAL, DEC. 25.—Wind E.S.E., steady breeze.—
Arrd. Amelia, Mulholland, Mauritius ; Centurion,
Africa ; Brokesby, Thompson, Manila ; Catherine and
Elizabeth, St Vincent's; John Willis, Demerara. Sld.
Flora, Jamaica; Ann, Calcutta; Penyard, Park, Hobart
Town ; Lord Wellington, New Orleans ; Anna Maria,
Hobart Tow❑ ; Passenger, Cluna, and Victoria, New
York; Britigh Isles, Demerara; Arachne, Ichaboe.
The French brig Modeste, Gauley, from Bordeaux,
got entangled in the Goodwin Sands, but extricated her-
self without assistance and proceeded.
MILFORD, DEC. 24.—Arrd. Millicent, Richards,
Prince Edward's Island.

WIVENHOE, DEC. 25.—The barque James Barley, of
Scarborough, Doveday, from London to Hartlepool, has
been assisted is here by four smacks from off the G
fleet Sands. •
TO THE SHIPPING INTEREST.

QUARANTINE REGULATIONS ABOLISHED BY
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TWO SICILIES.
PALERMO, DEC. 5, 1844.
Sir,—We 'have the pleasure to inform you that, in
consequence of a royal decree lately published, all
quarantines from England, Gibraltar, and Spain, are
abolished in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, conse-
quently all vessels arriving from said countries are now
admitted to free pratique on arrival.—We are, Sir, your
most obedient, humble servants,
LLOYD'S AGENTS.
To William Dobson, Esq., Lloyd's.