The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-31 00:00:00

SECOND EDIT lON

THE SUN LONDON, WIEDNESDAY KVENING, DECEMBER 31, 184 .

Avignon and Marseilles 57f., Rouen and Havre 45f.,
Northern 40f., Boulogne 32f., and many others in
like proportion. The Three and Five per Cents.,
had advanced a franc and a half each. This buoyant
state of the money and share-market is attributed to
the prosperous condition of the country, the royal
speech, the adjudication of important lines of rail-
way, and the rise in the English funds.
On Monday the Chamber of Deputies met
to elect the Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secre-
taries. Two candidates were proposed fur the Pre-
sidency—M. SAuzET, the President of last session,
and M. DUFAURE, supported by the Opposition ; and
the former, as anticipated, was elected by a con-
siderable majority. The number of Members present
was reckoned at about 500—a very full House. At half
past three the ballot for President commenced, and at
five the following result was declared :

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER To TMREE.
In the Liverpool market yesterday about 4,000 bales of
Cotton were sold, all to the trade. Prices generally were
11/ d. per lb. higher, and Cotton was not very freely offered
at the advance. Railway Shares were not quite so brisk.
The state of affairs at the Cape of Good Hope, as noticed
in recent accounts, is certainly, politically speaking, not sa-
tisfactory; but there is reason to believe that the colonial
authoritigs are exercising more vigilance in respect to the Natal
settlement and the country beyond the old colonial boundary.
In agricultural and trading resources the Cape never was
richer, and it is much to be desired that all our subjects
should, if possible, be rendered politically happy. The fol
lowing letter explains, however, the feeling of the farmers :
" Orange River, 3d Oct., 1845.
" Thank goodness I have once more arrived safe at the co.
lonia' side of this river, after an absence of some weeks in the
country occupied by the emigrants, where matters are any-
thing but in a prosperous state: in short, I fear evil conse-
quences are likely to arise from the very unsettled state of
society. Many of the Caledon River emigrants have treked
further into the interior, and those at Windburg
are actually talking of attacking the Griquas, to
reccover their cattle and sheep, which have been
captured and given over to the Griquas, The state of things
is certainly bad, and unless some decisive measures are in-
stantly taken to restore the declining co. fidence towards the
Briti,l:, depend upon it another military force wid be re-
quit ed to take active steps to enforce clue obe, ience. The
emigrants at Windbutg say they are determined to have
their own laws and form of government, which they
are capable of administering themselves, and have
memorialised the Colonial Government to be allowed
to do so. They say they will not make any
open opposition until all their remonstrances have
been declined. And those emigrants residing near the
Riet River, who swallowed the oath of allegiance, and pro-
mised to behave like good boys in future, and evinced a wil-
lingness to pay a trifling quit rent for their farms, and every
thing else which they had been coaxed to do, are now
talking in a very different tone of language; they com-
plain bitterly of the daily thefts of the Griquas, and
their arrogant attitude towards them—no protection
whatever granted them; and the chief Adam Kok says he
will inquire into the cases, but the culprits are allowed to go
away, and never in one single instance has a case been
noticed. Such want of justice and protection has rekindled
that animosity formerly existing between the emigrants and
the Griquas, and ere long we may look far another
irruption, unless a person is speedily dispatched to
settle all the disputes in question. The Griquas are-
trying every measure to upset the emigrants' rights to farms
which they had hired to them ; and I hear the magistrate, who
is at Philippolis, has decided several cases in favour of the
emigrants. The uncertain tenure under which the emigrants
held their farms is another source of complaint. A report has
got afloat that 3,000 morgen is the extent, whereas they
hired from the Griquas twice that quantity. And they say, if
the Government intends taking from them what they hired
and bought from the Griquas, they will consider they have
very little justice to expect at the hands of the British Govern-
ment, and therefore, like many others, will be necessitated to
trek further into the interior, and thus avoid all future in-
terference on the part of Government. With such sentiments
and feelings as these, I dread the evil consequences should
they attempt to trek, for land they will and must have to
graze their flocks, and consequently will not be over particu-
lar as to the mode by which they obtain it.
" When at the Modder River a report had just reached the
emigrants that Masselkaats was advancing towards that
part of the country, joined by a vast number of Dingaan's
Zoolas.—that the natives were flying before him in
all directions, and the emigrants at Magaliesberg
were retreating from that part in great panic ;
so I may almost say, the whole territory between the Orange
River and Delagoa Bay was in a blaze, and the Govern-
ment will have to keep a watchful eye, for the country over
the Orange River will and ever must be an anxious burden.
Nothing less than a line of military posts from Orange River
to I'ort Natal will keep the country in subjection—and such
eventually must be done."
The Funds are steady to-day but there is not a great deal
doing. The most active securities are Bank Stock and Re-
duced Three per Cents. The former is worth 2041,4 to 203,
and the latter 951/8 to %. The New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. are worth 9714 to A. On Exchequer-bills the
premium is 265. to 28s.
The Foreign Bonds have not varied much. Spanish Five
per Cents are a little firmer at 294, and the Three per Cents
at 40. Mexican Bonds have been quoted 311/8 to 3114.
Chiller! are 98, and Peruvian 411/2 to 41%. Russian Stock is
quoted 1123(i. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents are at 96,
and Dutch /Four per Cents a'. 94 to 1%.
Shares are generally better again to-day.
BRITISH FUNDS THIg DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK..
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 203% 2041,% 203 204
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9514% NO6
New 34 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860 lot/2 9-16
Do. 30 Tears, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 lO 5-16
India Bonds 1,0001
Ditto under 1.000/ 33
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 13/4d, 11/2d.
I,eoo/.
5001.
Ditto Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Dan.sh Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent.... 8714
Granada, I per Cent. . ...... 21
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 31%1,i
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 4ll/s
Ditto for the Account. 41%
Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent 112%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 —
Ditto for the Account 2914 29
Do., 1838-40, div. fm. Nov., '4O 291
Ditto Passive Bonds 63A
Ditto 3 per Cent 4O
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 4 LA per Cent 96
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES Al ON P.
O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Aberdeen ••• 5
Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin... 21/2
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush
Aylesbury and Theme ...
Belfast & Count y Down
Bideford and Tavistock 1%.....
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ......
Ditto New Shares
Birmingham and Oxford
Junction
Birmingham and Leicester
Direct
Boston, Stamford, and Birm. 22s .. -

For M. Sauzet
M. Dufaure
M. Dupin
M. Odilon Barrot 1
Majority in favour of the Ministry --66

Previous to the election of President the Chamber,
at a private sitting, proceeded to appoint the mem-
bers of the nine standing committees, and in eight
of these the Government candidates were elected,
while the Opposition of course had only one, M. DE
SADE. Of the eighteen presidents and secretaries
of these committees, sixteen are supporters of the
Government, and only two belong to the Opposition.
The GUIZOT Ministry, therefore, appears to be stronger
than at the meeting of any former session since its
formation. The Siecle gives the following account
of the arrangements made by the Opposision for the
election of President :—" It was M. ODILON BARROT,
in the meeting of the Left, and M. THIERS in that
of the Left Centre, who proposed to their colleagues
M. DUFAURE as candidate for the President's chair.
Both afterwards addressed the meetings, for the
purpose of impressing on their political friends the
necessity of an accord, intimate, complete, and per-
manent, amongst all the fractions of the Constitu-
tional Opposition. 'I hey clearly showed that this
accord ought to take place for the double purpose of
raising the Government of our country, now so deeply
humbled, and of realising all those reforms the justice
of which has been recognised in Parliamentary dis-
cussions. The dispositions of thJ two meetings re-
sponded perfectly to the two speakers, and, in con-
sequence, the approbation was general." 'We regret
to find that the Minister of Commerce will be opposed
by the three Councils-General in reference to his
proposition for the admission of S wedish iron free
of duty, and that a great majority of the Councils
will declare against the measure. The French
monopolists are not at all prepared yet for making
any concessions. On this subject, their organ, the
Presse, says :
" At present it is a fact well demonstrated to all those
who have examined the question with attention, that
the proposal to introduce on more favourable conditions
that description of iron is not justified by any valid rea-
son. No person complains seriously of the existing
duties—neither the producer, who finds in France all
the elements necessary for the manufacture of steel ;
nor the consumer, on whom the proposed measure would
confer no advantage. It is, moreover, well ascertained
that this measure could not be carried into effect as far
as regards Swedish iron, inasmuch as the 36,000 quintals
produced in that country are monopolised for many
years in advance by the English manufacturers, who not
finding, like ours, on their own soil, the materials neces-
sary for producing steel, are compelled to seek elsewhere
the means of production of which they stand in need.
Sweden consequently is not interested in the matter.
Sweden has no iron to offer us, and consequently it is
useless for us to confer on her a privilege which she
does not demand. Whoever is well informed on the
proposed measure need not be told that under the name
of Sweden, and that under the cover of boisterous de
elamation in defence of public good, uttered by a certain
party, are concealed motives of private interest—in-
terests which are no doubt respectable, and which we
do not wish to deprive of the right to place themselves
in a ludicrous position, but which it is necessary to re-
duce to their value as soon as they attempt to usurp,
under the protection of the Government, that solicitude
and those favours which the latter owes only to the
country, considered in its fullest and most legitimate ex-
pression."

On Monday the French Government received the
distressing intelligence of the total loss of the Papin
war-steamer off the coast of Morocco, near Mogadore,
and it is feared that out of 150 passengers only 76
have been saved. The Papin was of 160 horse power
and employed to carry M. MAREY MONGE, the

French Consul recently appointed to Mogadore in

place of M. HELLOYE JORREL, to his post. It is not
ascertained whether the Consul was among those
saved from the wreck. The Ambassador from Mo-
rocco, lately arrived at Paris, paid a visit to M. GUIZOT
at the Foreign-office on Sunday. The Journal des
Debuts gives the following particulars respecting this
perscmage:—

" The. Ambassador from Morocco is entirely satisfied
with his journey, and has not fur a moment departed
from those distinguished manners, that affability, digni-
fied simplicity, and religious liberality of character, that
from the first won him the favourable opinion of all who
became introduced to him. The largesscs left by him
for the attendants of the several hotels at which he
stopped might have had an appearance of ostentation,
and a desire to buy favour in men's eyes, but his ready
generosity to the poor shows a heart earnest in its desire
to fulfil that part of the law of God which recommends
charity as the chiefest of virtues. lie has brought with
him to Paris eight followers. Sy Lebredi, director of
the Customs, the Hadji el Arbi, and the young savant
are alone admitted to sit at table with him. All the
other officers take their meals separately. The hierarchy
established among these different persons is shown by
the manner in which they salute the Pacha every morn-
ing. The three personages who have the privilege of
being seated in his presence merely pronounce the simple
words of salutation, the two Raids kiss his forehead, ai,cl
the three other officers embrace his knees. Whenever
he leaves his apartment, these officers form a double line
for him to pass through, and bow before him, wishing
him health and prosperity. The seven other persons of
his suite did not leave Marseilles till three days after
him ; and, as they accompany the presents destined for
the King, they will travel by shortstages.',

Bridgewater and Minehead... 425......
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Ditto New 2 ...... 9
Bristol and Gloucester
Bristol and Liverpool Junct. 2% — to
Buckinghamshire... 42s. ...... 1 034 pto 11,E p
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
ambrian Gram. Junction ... 425.

Cambridge and Lincoln 1%...... 3%..... to
Ditto. New 1%...... 3% to
Cambridge and Oxford l% to
Canterbury and Dover 1%.. ..
Central Kent 2% — to
Chelmsford and Bury ..
Chester and Holyhead
Chester and Manchester
Cheltenham and Oxford ...... 2
Clydesdale Junction....— ...... 5

COrk,Blackreck,andPasssges 225. . ... ...... to
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford ll% —
Cornwall ...
Coventry, Nuneaton, bin,
and Leicester I V —
DArtmouth Torbav &Exeter 42.

We subjoin miscellaneous extracts from the

papers :

Derby, Gainsboro', and Great
Grimsby • • o -
Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stallid 2%......
Direct Manch. (Remington's) 21i 2VA... to
Ditto (Itastrick's) 5%...••• 4110/2... to
rirect Northern ... .........
Direct Norwich

"An Algiers letter of the 20th contradicts the report
oF the death of Bou iVlszl, but states that he has retired
in consequence of a quarrel with some of the Chi. fs of
the Flittas, and this, it appears, had led to the report of
his having been murdered."
" The Toulonna is of the 25th inst. announces that
Marshal Bugeaud, who had quitted Tiaret on the sth
inst. to proceed amongst the Chott-el-Cheuriqui, met a
considerable number of emigrants, who were flying from
General Youssouff. Having sent forward his cavalry,
he captured the entire—men, women, children, numerous
flocks, and an immerse booty. No further accounts
had been received of Abd-el linden"

Dublin and Armagh ...... 1% — to
Dublin and Belfast Junction 5 -

Dublin,Belfast,andColeraine 2

tb -••

Dublin and Galway
Dudley, Madely, & Broseley - to
Dundalk andEnniskillen .... .. 2% — to
_ _

Eastern Counties ......141. 165....231/11 2214 231 A to 223/4
Do. New 6/. 16s 8143/4 p to
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 6/.13a 4d ... .. to
Ditto, ditto, No. 2. —4l. 13s. 4d % p... to
East Dereham and Norwich 1

A letter from Lousanne, Dec. 25, says
" A great number of Vaudois families have gone to
Geneva to celebrate there the religious fete s of Christmas,
without
running any risk or being troubled in their devo-
tions. President Druey has been gravely imultei at
the theatre 13) the public of the pit and gallery. we
are in expectation of a communist disturbance, which it
is not likely that the Government, divided as it is, can
resist. Councillor Eytel, the personal adversary of
President Druey, is designated as the head of the move-
ment, and us the man whom the conspirators intend
placing at the head of the new revolutionary Government.
The transport of arms anti ammunition continues. Un-
easy as to the feelings ef the National Guards, the Council
of State is privately forming into corps men known for
their devotedness. Our authorities, who are at present
on bad terms with Zurich, the directing canton, reckon
in case of danger on the: aid which they may receive
from Berne."

Ely . and Huntingdon

Enniskillen and Sligo ... .. to
Essex and Suffolk l% — t•
Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth 428. ...... to
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 23%
Eastern Union

Ditto 14 Shares... ........ ... 24 .....
Ditto Extension
Ditto Ipswich and Bury ... lys
Ditto Extension toNorwich 21/2 — ... . to
Ditto Cambridge and Ely 2% — to

East Lincolnshire - 1
3A A... to
East and West of England... IN — ...... to
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O .. ... ~ ... to
Ditto % Shares
Ditto New % Shares 12% l9 ...... to
Edinburgh and Northern...... 11
Edinburgh and Perth ... ...... 1 V 2 — to
Gloucester, Aberystwith , and
Central of \Vales ...... 1 il IIA to
Goole and Doncaster 42s. *l%4 p to
GrandJ unction 100
Ditto 1/2 Shares ... 50

" A Swiss journal states that the Government of Lu-
cerne has not only seized on the property of Dr. Steiger,
but also on the pers,,nal property of Madame Steiger,
notwithstanding that the court of law of the district had
consented to admit a protest from the accused, and that
it had been proved that Madame Steiger had brought
from Friburg, her birth-place, the furniture of her
residence i❑ Lucerne. In addition M. Gubler, who has
been employed for some months in geqting in the money
due to the doctor, has been arrested." _ .

Ditto Quarter Shares...... 25
GrndUnion(Notting.&Lynn) 1% l% ..... to
Great Eastern and Western.. 21/2
1 GreatGrimsbyandSheflield... 5
1 Great South and W.(lrish) ... 15
Ditto Extension
Great Munster 21% — to
Great North of Scotland 2% — to
Great North of England 100 .220
Ditto New ......
Ditto New
Great Western
Ditto, tialf Shares .....~.. 50
Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 2%
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fareham, Portm& 21%2 — to
Harwich
Hull and Selby ... 50 lO3 ..... to 104
Ditto Quarters . .. ... ...... 12% — ...... to
Ditto Half Shares
Inverness and Elgin 1
Ipswich, Norwich, Yarmouth. 2 ......
Irish North Midland
Isle of Axholme
Killarney Junctions... IIA — to
Kendal and Windermere PA to
Lancaster and Carlisle
Larne, Belfast, & Ballymena 21,...... ....
Leeds and Carlisle
Leeds and West Riding June. 18 — ...... to --
Leicester and Birmingham... 225.
Leicester and Bedford 22s. ...... 1 p...... to 3/1 p
Leicester and Tamworth 42s. ..... 1/2 p to
Liverpool and Manchester ...100

" It appears by a Vienna letter of the 22d, that the
report of the palace of Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg
Gotha, in that capital, having been sold to Baron de
Rothschild, was utterly unfounded. The property in
question is inalienable."

On the Paris Bourse on Monday the Three per Cents.
closed at 1121. 90c. ; the Fire per Cents., 1191. 45c. ; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,238 f. Tic. ; Rouen, 1,025 f. ; Havre,
810 f. ; Avignon, 955 f. ; Vierzon, 685 f. ; Bordeaux, 6511.
25c. ; Boulogne, 5501 ; Troyes and Montereau, 435 f.; Basle,
250 f. ; Great Northern, 7571. 6pc. ; Spanish Three per Cents.,
40%.

The following are the quotations for other lines :

Paris and Lyons Railroad (Definitives), 527 f. 50c. ; Paris
and Strasbourg (Definitive), 530 f. ; Lyons and Avignon
(Talabot), 520 f. ; Ditto (Lecointe), 317 f. 50c. ; Ditto (Corn-
pagnie Meridionale), 507 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie),
502 f. 50c. ; Ditto (Espeleta), 510 f. ; Charleroy (Kysaens),
495 f.

LYON, DEC. 27.—Marseilles and Avignon, 900 f. ; Paris
and Orleans, 1,200 f.; Paris and Rouen, 970 f.; Orleans and
Vierzon, 650 f.

Mr. Gladstone, the new Colonial Secretary, is ex-
pected to arrive in town this day, from the seat of Sir
S. Glynne, in Flintshire.

POOR-LAW UNIONS (IRELAND).—A Parliamentary,
return was issued yesterday, respecting the number of per-
sons holding land in the Poor-law Uniuns in Ireland. A good
deal of information is afforded on the snbject of one hundred
and thirty unions in Ireland, showing the extent of lan.:,
occupied by the tenants. The return is a sorr
,ivhat
lengthened one, and has been made out in the r'" - •
Poor-law Commission at Dublin. The po
‘,...' the 130
ation
unions is stated at 8,174,029.0 t the
r

Ditto, Half Shares
Di',to, Quarter Shares .. 25
Liv(irpool and Leeds Direct.. 2% 2%7/8... to -,
Lirerpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Juncti0n.......... 2% 4434 ... to
London and Birmingham......loo 223 ... .. to 221
Do. Third. lO .. .
Do. Quartets
Do. Fifths
Do. Extension -

London & Blackwall...l6l. 13s. 4d 9%14— to
Do. New . l% 4 to
Do. Extension
London and Brighton ...... ... 50 ... 693/1 69 70 to 68%
Do. Consolidated Eighths 40
Do. Sixths 1,4
London and Croydon...l3/. 15s. 9d 2:33,i 23 to 24
Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 8 .
London, Cheltenham, Oxford,
Gloucester, and Hereford... IV
London and Greenwich... 121.155. 4d...
Ditto Preference
London, Hounslow, &Western 2 . ....

,
London and South Western.. 41N 77
Do. Ne w consolidated Bths.. 20
Ditto New ..
Do. New . . 6
London and South Essex 23% to
London and York... ..... ...... 24 41,4%... to --7
London and Windsor ..... .... 1

Lon.,Warwek, Kidderm inster 2l,x ...... to
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2% • 2% to
Londonderry and Coleraine... 5
Londonderry and Enniskillen 5
Lynn and Ely

Lynn and Deiehatn
BlaneheiLei and Leeds 76 .....136
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Quarters
Ditto Fifths
Ditto Sixteenths ........... 514

Manchester and Birmingham 40 77% to 78%
Ditto Quarters
Ditto New Quarters .. 2
Do. Continuation & Welsh • _ _

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

Junction l% 1%%... to
Manch. Buxt3n, & Matlock 42s 3% p... to 31,4 p
Manchester Birmingham, and
Mould Junction —
Manchester & Rugby Direct 42s — ... .. to
Manchester and Southampton 2
Midland 100 .....157 158... to 156
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New l2 ...... 323/4 to 32
Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo. ... ..

idlandan d Eistern Counties. 25,6
-- --- f

blidld. Great Western (Irish) 21h — to
Do. Extension (No. 1) ... 2% — to
Newcastle &Darlington oune. 25 — to
Ditto New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick
Newcastle and Carlisle

Newport and Abergavenny. . 2% — to
New Ross and Carlow 225.
Newry and Enniskillen
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston 2% 2%...... to 3%
Norfolk ExtensiOn . 2 — to
North British -
Ditto Balt Shares ' 3% ...... 814 734 to 8%
Do. Extension to Carlisle... 11/4... 3% %% % to
Do. Extens. to Dalkeith ... 25 ......
___._

Ditto ditto
North Devon
North of Norfolk
Nerthern and Eastern
Ditto Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.)... 35
. Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto New
North Kent & Direct Dover 21/s 3%1/2... to _.
North Staffordshire............ 425.
North Wales 3l/2 ....
North and South Wales and
Worcester
'forth. & South. Connecting 2% to
Norwich and Brandon
Ditto New 3 .. ... 6 ...... to
Northampton, Banbury, and
Cheltenham
Nottingham and Boston l % 2l/2 ..... to
Notting_Erewsh.Val.,&Mane. 1%
Nottingham and Mansfield... ..... .. to

Oxford, Gosport, Portsmouth,
and Southampton .. ;... 425.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton
Oxfd., Witney, & Cheltnham 1%.....
Perth and Inverness
Pilbrow Atmospheric
_

Direct Direct
Preston and Wyre

Ditto, Half Shares
Readirg,Guildford,& Reigate 425. —
Richmond
Rugby, Derby, & Manchester 2% — ...... to
Rugby and Huntingdon
Rugby, Leamington, auu
Warwick

Rugby, Warwick, and Wor-
cmer

Scottish Central
Scottish Midland
Ditto, Extension l% to
Sheffield and Manchester ...100
Ditto Vt Shares 8
Shrewsburyand Birmingham 2% 5l/4 to
Shropshire Mineral , 425. ...
Shropshire Union ... 425. ... .. Al p... to
Shrewsbury and Hereford ... 2%.....
Stirewsbui y. ' `rolverh am pton,
and S. Staftordsh. Junction 2%.....
Sligo and Shannon
Soroersetshire Midland
South Devon
South :Midland 425....... 41A p... to 4 p
South and Midlands Junction 425.......
South Staffordshire Junction 2% 3% to
totith Eastern and Dover ... 33%...... 40 to
Ditto, New, No. 1
Ditto, New, N 0.2
Ditto,New,No. 3 10.

Ditto New, No. 4. ...... 2% 3 % 't/4 to
Southampton, Alacchester,
and Oxford Junction. .. 425.
St. Alban s, Hatfield, and
Hertford Junction
Staines and Richmop.d.... .... 1
St.; tfordshire and Shropshire 2%
_ _

South Wales
Taw Vale Extension
Tean and Dove Valley l% II to
Trent Valley
Trent. Val. & Holyhead Junc. 2% — to
Tring,Readings Basingstoke 54 — ...... to
Clverstone and Furness
Vale of Neath
Warwick and Cheltenham ... lAi —
Warwick and Worcester 425.......
vt aterford and Kilkenny
Waterford and Limerick 7l, to
Waterford, \Vexford,\Vteklw,
and Dublin
Waterford, Wexford, and
Valentil
Waveney Valley
Welch Midland 2%
West Cornwall
West Yorkshire
West London, Old Shares ... 20

West End & South. Counties 11A —
Wexford and Carlow
\Visbeach and St. Ives ... 2
Wilts. Somerset. & Sthamptn 19... ..
Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 2%...... 4
Worcester, Hereford, Ross,
and Gloucester
Worcester,Thiburv, &Ludlow 2:(1 —
Wrster, Shrews. & Crewe tin. 1%
Worce,ter and South Wales.. 425. —
Worcester,Wanvick,& Itugby 425.
Yarmouth and Norwich ...... 20
Di:to, New... .. ... 17._ —

. , ...
York and Carlislo
York and Lancaster 2,/s — ...... to
fork and North Midland .. 50
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto. Scarboro' Branch
Ditto, Selby
Ditto, Extension

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo-Belgian
13arbadoes ......... 1

LONDON, DEC. 31.—Wind, pleasant lireeze from the south
and westward, and fine.
DEAL, DEC. 30.—Arrd. John Dugdale, Kelleck, Singapore;
Mary Stewart, Renwick, Saldanha Bay, with loss of sails
and Jibboom ; Broad Axe, Newfoundland. Arrd. from the
river, Malacca, Shettler, Madras, &c. ; Tanka, Medainet,
Rio Janeiro. The Borderer, Willis, from Shields to Aden,
struck on the Goodwin Sands yesterday morning, but got off
without apparent damage, and is now in the Downs. The
Rapid, Thomas, from London to Jamaica, got on shore on
the Muir near Dymchurch this morning, but was assisted off
without apparent damage, and brought into the Downs.
PonTsmounr, DEc. 30.—The Thorwaldsen, Handguard,
from Copenhagen to St. Thomas, was in contact 28th inst.,
off Beachy Head, with the Aurora, from Riga to Bordeaux,
latter cut through amidships and turned bottom up; crew,
except one, saved. Former put in here with loss of sails,
bowsprit, &c.
SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 30.—The Transit steamer, arrived
here from Havre, reports the supposed loss of the St. David
steamer from Havre to Liverpool, the body of the engineer
having been picked up, and a trunk, known to have belonged
to a passenger, also sundry cases forming part of cargo.
NEWPORT, DEC, 30.—The Minerva, Rowland, laden with
iron for Liverpool, broke adrift, and drove athwart the bridge
and received damage. Will be surveyed.
BIDEFORD, DEC. 28.—Arrd. Three Brothers, Quance,
Prince Edward's Island.

ILFRACOMBE, DEC. 28.—Arrd. Caroline, Breton, Prince
Edward's Island.

LivEsiroor, DEC. 30.—Wind N.W., a gale.—Arrd. Jose-
phine, China; Palatine, Wilde, Calcutta; Mermaid, Madras;
Lady Flora Hastings, South-west Coast of Africa; Susan,
Laguina ; Llura, Snow, New Orleans; Clifton Ingersol, New
Orleans; Raja, Eldridge, New Orleans;' Walpole, Thomas,
New Orlears ; Albania, Wise, Mobile; Eli Whitney, Dyer,
Savannah ; Sarah and Arsilia, Balerman, Charleston ; Britan-
nia, Coulthart, St. John's, New Brunswick; Ann, Holt, St.
John's', New Brunswick; Indus, Strickland, Halifax; Ann,
Prince Edward's Island. Off port, Monmouth, New Orleans;.
Tyron, Spear, Charleston.
MARYPORT, DEC.. 26.—Arrd. Hannah, Kenzall, Quebec.
RAMSGATE, DEC. 30.—The Oceano, Lauri, from St. Pe.
tersburgh to Naples, and the Eugenio, from Newcastle to
Messina, which put in here yesterday, have become very
leaky.

DUNGENESS, DEC. 29.—The bodies of three men have been
picked up here, and part of a vessel is on shore to the west-
ward. A great deal of wreckage was passed on the 28th. A
ship's register, No. 109.141, issued at Newcastle, bearing the
signature of John Oliver, has been picked up here.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 29.—The Norton, Johnson, got on shore
on Point Beech, but is expected off next flood, without
damage.
lAA-Era-om., DEC. 30.—The Hectorine, Graham, from
Drumore to this port, was driven ashore at Formby, 27th
inst. ; mate drowned. The Richard, of this port, from Lland-
dlas, is on the rucks at the back of the Hilabre Island ;
crew saved.

LONDON, DEC. 31.—The brig Eliza, of Newcastle, supposed,
to have been commanded by Captain Oliver, or Captain
Fleming, ran on shore on Jury's Gap station, near Folkestone,
28th inst., and became a wreck.; crew supposed re bc drowned.
A ship's spare topmast, painted lead-colour, length 40 feet,
and diameter 14 inches, was picked up 25th inst., off Folke-
stone, and a wreck, apparently of a brig, was fallen in with,
floating on her broadside, top side painted with a broad white
streak and large black ports, South Foreland, bearing
N.N. by N. 9.

Boulogne and Amiens
Bordeaux and Mediteranean 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette

( Mackenzte's)
Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette

( Espelete's)
Calais, Dunk, & W. Flanders
Callao, Linia, & Pacific Coast 1 ......
Central of Spain ...
Ceylon .. ss.

_.
Demerara.
Dendre Valley
Dijon and Mulhouse 2 • ... ...... to
Dutch Rhenish ... ... 6
East Indian

Eastern Belgian Junction.... 2% ......
Fainpoux and Hazebrouk..... 2
Great Northern of France

Constituted
Great I'aris and Lyons
Great Western Bengal ss.
Great Western Canada
Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1
Jamaica North Midland 1
Ditto Extension
Jersey
Louvain and Jemeppe
Lyons and Avignon
Luxembourg
Madrid and Valentia
Mauritius

Namcr and Liege
North Jamaica 1
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 ...... 12 .....- to
Over Yssel 413 s 4d....
Paris and Lyons( Lattitte) ... 2
Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 3 ... .. -
Paris and Lyonse(Calon's)... 2 ....
Paris and Lyons (Sud Est)... 2

Paris and Orleans

Paris and Rouen
Paris&Strasburg(Gannern's) 2
Do. (Comp., de L'Est) 2
Ditto (Aymards) 214
Paris and St. Quentin 2
Rouen and Havre
Royal North of Spain 2
Sambre and Meuse
Strasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14
St. Laurence and Atlantic.... -
Tournay, Jurbise, Landen,

and ifasselt - 4 ..... ...... to

Tours &Nantes (Mackenzie) 4
Ditto Ditto Lefebvre's)... 2 ..
Do. (O'Neill's)... ... 2
Trinidad.. . ..... .........

Verona and Ancona ..-
West Flanders 4
MINES.
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Lord Metcalfe who, we are happy to say, continues
to improve in his health, and is now much better than he has
been for some time past, under the able professional skill and
advice of Sir Benjamin Brodie and Dr. Martin, who was his
Lordship's physician in India. and to consult whom was the
cause of his Lordship's leaving his government, has deter-
mined not to leave London. A further addition to his staff
arrived at Mivart's Hotel yesterday, from Canada.
A LADY BITTEN BY AN ADDER. Yesterday
morning, between eleven and twelve o'clock, Mrs. Jameson,
a lady residing at Petersham, Surrey, was crossing the mea-
dows from that place on her way to Richmond, when an
adder, that lay,conc, aid in the gr,s,., bit her on the foot, aid
by the time :he reached h, q' atiu,tior, it had swehed tu,st
alartniogly. Mrs. Jameson obtained medical assisam., at
the nearest surgeon's in the town, where the usual antidotes
were applied with success. She is going on favourably.