The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-03 00:00:00

dressed to the House of Commons, we quote the fol-
lowing passage :—" We, your petitioners, have long
viewed the game-laws as a source of evils of the
greatest magnitude, and most direful in their opera-
tions on society, but particularly so to the rural po-
pulation of this country. Driven by distress, priva-
tion, hunger, and the promptings of parental
affection, tbsy are too often driven from necessity
to the act of poaching for a meal for their fa-
milies, for which offence against the game-
laws, if taken and convicted, they are consigned
to the gloom of a dungeon, to be the associates of
felons fur so many months, imbibing the felons'
worst principles and evil advice, so as to become
ruined men both in character and morals. During
their incarceration their homes are broken up, and
they are driven to their dernier resort, the Poor-
law Union, as pauperised families, whose fathers
linger in the prison's gloom, for having taken a hare
to sustain nature's wants." This is forcibly put, but
it is not the worst of the evils consequent on these
execrable laws, which are in direct violation of every
principle of justice. Suppose the poor poacher re-
leased from prison after a brief, or it may be,
a protracted incarceration. What follows as the
W inevitable sequel of his imprisonment ? hy, just
this—namely, that he is a ruined man—ruined in his
prospects, and—what is a far more hopeless case—
ruined in his own self-esteem 2 The sense of pride
and honour within him is fallen, never to rise again.
He sees himself abandoned by his former employers ;
he sees his discreet, respectable neighbours, who have
no notion of exhibiting disinterested sympathy for a
shipwrecked character who is obnoxious to the 'squire
of the parish, avoiding him as though he wore
plague-stricken; and seeing this —feeling, too,
that there is scarcely a hope of his being ably
to retrieve himself; he begins at length to
fancy himself the poor, lost, abandoned crea-
ture he is supposed to be—becomes desperate—
reckless—callous—takes to du wnright dishoneit
courses as a matter of necessity; and possibly winds
up his career by holding aloft the blazing torch of
" Swing," and standing on the scaffold, a spectacle of
mingled pity, horror, and disgust to thousands of his
countrymen I But for the atrocious game-laws these
things could not be. One of the worst temptations to
which he can possibly be subjected w ould be taken
away from the poor man; and our courts of session
and assize would not year after year exhibit such a
fearful muster-roll of crimes as has long been the case
with them. What is the leading principle of the
game-laws ? Not to do justice between man and
man—not to maintain unimpaired the undoubted
rights of property—no, but to establish the astound-
ing fact that a hare, or a partridge, or a pheasant is
of more value in the eyes of our country-gentle-
men legislators, than human flesh and blood! The
game-laws lay a trap for the conscience of the poor
man, and then persecute him for falling into it. In-
stead of removing, they place temptation within his
reach—under his very nose—and then punish him
for not nobly rising superior to it. Never yet did a
more dishonest—demoralising law deform our statute-
book. It reflects far more disgracefully on those
who framed it than on those who suffer under
it ; and a poacher—startling as may be the
assertion—is in our estimation a far less inju-
rious member of society than the bigoted, tyran-
nical squad of country Members who still insist on
upholding the game-laws. But not only is the poor
labouring man victiinised by these iniquitous
statutes, but the farmer is equally injured by
them. immense is the damage annually done
to his crops by the game in the 'squire's pre-
serves ; and yet he has no redress ; he must submit
in silence to his lot, and be thankful that it is
no worse. We have abolished slavery in the West
Indies, but in the game-laws we have a species of
domestic slavery which is nearly equally intolerable,
and which we cannot too soon get rid of in toto. Mi-
nisters, we have reason to believe, are at this moment
directing their attention to the subject ; and at the
Cabinet Council which is to be held on the 9th inst.,
a measure for the revision, if not for the entire aboli-
tion of the game-laws, will, it is supposed, be taken
into serious consideration.

passed, in a few hours, through all the forms
of a law, authorising the instantaneous expul-
sion of Mr. lIoAa from the State ; and he was,
without delay, expelled as an incendiary." To say
that we were absolutely unprepared, at the holds of
a State upholding the enormous crime of slavery, in
the midst of its own free national institutions, for
such an outrage as this, upon all international law,
upon the honour and dignity of an independent Con-
federate State, upon the inviolable character of its
' diplomatic service—would be to allow the zeal of our
indignation to exceed the limits of truth. For, it
seems to us, but the natural sequence of so ill-omened
an anomaly as a free society's tolerating the perpetual
slavery of a certain class of their fellow-creatures,
that they should be guilty of any excess of
unprincipled resentment, or insolent violence,
to which the first impulses of their pas-
sions or their prejudices may prompt them. The
sallies licentious arrogance which assumes, and in de-
fiance of the remonstrances and example of all free
civilisation, retains its chattel property in a slave po-
pulation, will prompt it, whenever the opportunity
seems favourable, to domineer over and insult even
the representatives of States equally free and lade-
pendent as itself. But we shall be surprised, indeed,
if, in this instance, the slave-trading infatuation has
not sealed its own fate. The whole federation of
the Union is bound to resent this flagrant outrage
on their authority and honour. The slave question
can no longer be blinked on secondary grounds,
such as those of temporary expediency, because
the outrage itself—the authority by which it
was sanctioned—and the circumstances under
which it was perpetrated—have all arisen
out of, and exclusively resulted from, the legal tolera-
tion of slavery in South Carolina. In reference to
the contemplated appeal to Massachusetts to the
Supreme Court of the United States, a New York
correspondent thus writes :—" Suppose the decision
to be against South Carolina, what then ? Why--
nothing." Not so! We cannot, and will not believe
it. There are men enough in the Supreme Tribunal
in question to dare to be just to the rightful demands
of a Confederate State for justice. There Is a citizen
of Massachusetts—a patriot and a statesman—who
will not be slow to vindicate, in those capacities, the
suggestions of his religious convictions as a Christian;
--of his social duties as a freeman. That man is Mr.
WESSTEZ. He cannot evade his responsibility for his
past career and his avowed opinions, if he would ;
and our unfeigned regard for him firmly assures us
that he would not do so, if he could.

of the Chamber of Deputies, when the Mioister of
Finance made the 'annual statement of the public
income and expenditure. It was on the whole favour-
able. Though there has been a considerable increase
of the salaries to public servants, and many new posts
created, the estimates are balanced, and the general
prosperity of the country is placed beyond all doubt.
The Chamber at its rising adjourned till Thursday.

THE BOURSE—TurzpAT, DEC. 31
rice: Highest :..nve.
Price Price. Prtce
/Transit rive perCenta.• •••• 120 40 120 40 .. 120 20
Titres per Centa..• • • 44 -5 -a 98 44 e 0
Balk of France ..... •• • •.• 3195 .e 195
Lattitte Rank. 1,9001. Martel 92 50 .1,92 50 —1092 50
Belgian Bank..•• --••• •• • 630 630 650
1841
flebrian •• ••• • • • 1044 - 1,14 • :041
Hpantso Threes— .• •••• 484 38f •
28f
Active •• •••• • • 361 .. 361 - • 36:
Passive ••• • 64 • • 64 .. 64
Neapolitan.. • —••- 16 •• 96 .. 96
P.otbachildreecripta 99 85 .. 99 65 .. 99 85
Roman '044 1044 • - 1044

rice.
20 30
• • 4 95
135
.10 .2 SO

• 630
..1120
.o4i
3Ni

• • 5,9 85

RAILWAY 3ltAitittB.
Versaillee,R.B.•• •••• •• •••• 485 485 - 485
L.B.•••••• •••• •• 375 . 380 .. 378
Routs •• •••• ••••••• •• •••1047 50 1047 50 •1047 50
Rouen to Havre— •• •• •••• •• 822 50 e 22 !•0 . $22 AS
orhuu, ....... ..... . •• .1140 ••1135
Strasburg to Rale
Avignon to I.larseillei•• •• •• 930 •• 230 930
RAILWACIS TOIL THE ACCOUNT. JAM 3.
St. Germain • • 1017 50 ..1017 50 —lOl7 50 ..1017 50
Venhulles, MB. • • • • .• • • 485 .. 485 .• 482 50 .. 482 50
LB.
Rouen.••• •••• •• •• •
Rouen to Havre ..... • 827 50 .. 827 50 .. 821 25 •• 822 50
Orleans •
Ctrasburg to Bale•• •• •• 305 .. 304 25 .. 302 50 .. 303 75
Avignon to Marseilles— •••• 997 50 .. 930 • 922 50 • 922 50

495
3so
1047 50
922 SO
.1140
• 306 26
• 930

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.
Baussims, DEC. 30.—The Senate voted to-day, with-
out discussion, the project of law relative to a credit of
121,000,400 francs for the department of justice. The
Chamber then formed itself into a Secret Committee, to
deliberate on the treaty with the Zollverein.
'We are assured, that in consequence of the King's
indisposition (announced in ytsterday's Moniteur) his
Majesty's return from Paris may be delayed some days.
A letter from Carlsruhe, of the 21st of December, says,
" The Roman Catholic clergy of the Grand Duchy of
Baden have just addressed a collective petition' to the
Government, requesting it to forbid the plying of steam-
boats on the lake of Constance, and all travelling on the
railway in the Roman Catholic parts of the Grand Duchy
on Sundays. and holidays, that the devotions of the
faithful may not be disturbed." In consequence of this
step the shares in the railways and steamers have expe-
rienced a slight decline.
TRH HAGUE, Die. 28.—T0-day, at two o'clock, the
Minister of Finance went, in the usual form, to the
Second Chamber of the States General, to present the
triennial budget for the years 1846.7.
The Minister, in his speech, entered int* highly inte-
resting details respecting the state of our finances. We
are happy to announce that the favourable estimates
respecting our finances have not only been realised, but
that the result has even exceeded all expeefations; that
the budget of the eipendituie of 1846-7 presents a dimi-
nution compared with that of 1844-5 of three millions of
florins, and of nearly five millions compared with that of
1843; that the ways and means proposed to cover the
expenditure of 1846-7 may not only be considered as suf-
ficient, but that the service of those two years will be
closed With an overplus receipt. of 250,000 flories—in a
word, that our financial position is now definitively
brought to a regular and entirely satisfactory state.
THE Heats, 29.—AccOrding to the accounts of
the state of our rivers, they were , esterday all frozen
over, and the water was falhng. The dykes were every-
where in good condition ; in some places everything was
ready in case any accident sh..uld oee:tr.
A letter from Soerabaya of the 21st of August an-
nounces that his Majesty's schooner, the Zephyr, ham
arrived in tho roads of that town, and had taken tr, 'ors
on board for an expedition to Borneo and Macassa. This
expedition will take five or six months.
purees FUN M....ANIMUS/i, Dec 31.
, • .it
A. • per rent—. ....... ll4 Si%
Ditto, ditto, 3 per Cent.
Ditto, ditto, 4 per Cent. .............. fas 99
Dt[u~ ..
Amoit s.,vndie,44. per cent............ ........ "9% itto
Ditto, ditto, 3!:. per eent.................„.. 91% 9'114
Commercial Company. 4.. per cent......... .48 143%
Loan 1531, 43 per cant... ..... .....
Exchange on London, Onemonth
Two m0nth5......... 12 123
At sight l2 17),
Dutch Papers, Jan. I .
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BaxLII4, Dee. 28.
Bills. Money
St. Schutt! Sch., 33 per WU
Prussian English Bond=, 1530, 4 percent
Exchange on London . ......... ~. 6
Prussian Shag Gazette, Dee. 28.
LIAMBURGH SORSENHALLE, Dec. 29.
Sills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents,
Bank Shares IfittO
Anglo-Russian Lean
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certifirate 105% 105%
Inscription. Ist series
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series .
Ditto In Certificates
New 4 per Ce'nt. (1840) 9ll/4, 9114
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 43% 63%
Ditto 5 per Cent. —
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 37 85%
Spanish, New 3 per Cents. 2IU 213
relish Bonds
New Tickets —
Exchange on London.
kfaraburgh, One month
Two 13 •
SEL6IAN FUND3.—lrsousoaLo. Dxc. 30.
Actua Debt. ayi per Cent.. ....... .........
Rothschild 's Loan, Five per
Lean of Thirty Milions, Four per Cent., ... 94%
. • Three per Cent...........
Thirty-seven Milli ns,

Madrid papers of the 24ith ult. have been received,
but they bring no news. On that day the Bourse of
course was closed.

The French Opposition journals are loud in their
exultations over the speedy downfall of M. Gtrizor.
This result they regard as certain, but what other re-
sults are to follow, they do not state. Little is said
abut M. I malts, but a great deal about Count Moms,
who is the ostensible agent in this movement for dis-
placing the " Man of Ghent," and who has been em-
boldened to take this course, not from the strength of
his own party, but from an amalgamation of all .the
discontented and disappointed Members in the Cham-
ber, including men of all shades of politics, from the
extreme Right to the extreme Left. A change of some
kind appears absolutely necessary to give life t ) the
Parliamentary proceedings M. GUILOT has • re-
mained in office far beyond the usual period allotted
to Prime Ministers of France, having guided
the destinies of the country for nearly four years,
a circumstance • without precedent during the
reign of the Citizen KING. He will not, however,
resign without a struggle—at all events without a
speech in• defence of his policy, and, judging both
from the qualities of the orator, and the course of
events during his administration, it will be a speech
of no ordinary interest. Since Louis PLILLIrrE
ascended the throne so many remarkable events, all
honourable to France and creditable to the Ministry,
have not occurred, we will not say in the same period,
but during all the other years ;of his reign. Public
credit has greatly increased ; additional impulses have
been given to trade and commerce ; the war in Africa
has been, at least to all appearances, concluded ; the
differences in Morocco have been settled, in a way
redounding both •to French bravery and modera-
tion; the KING), chosen by the people, has
done what no French King ever did before
paid a friendly visit to an English Sovereign ; and
what is a greater proof than all of GUIZOT'S vv ise ad-
ministration, the whole of France enjoys the most
profound peace and security. How Count MOLE,
with a firebrand at his back in the shape of MIER;
will mend matters, we cannot see, but if the Members
'of the Chamber wish to make the experiment, and
think a coalition of literogeneous politicians prefer-
able to a Cabinet whose principles they know, no one
has a right to object to their choice. The leading
Ministerial journal, the Globe, says Count MOLE is
the soul and end of the coalition, leaving
little TIIIERS entirely out of view ; but the
most ominous fact admitted by that journal is
the backwardness of the usual Conservative sup-
porters of Guizur. According to that journal
not fewer than 119 were absent from their posts at
a very important crisis—either " snowed up," like
the Conservative Members in 1834-35, or waiting
for promises of place or preferment. This journal,
apparently apprehensive that M. Guizor will be
beaten, justly maintains that the policy of the new
Cabinet will remain the same. The following are
the remarks of the Globe on the present crisis :
" 11i. Debelle3 me has been nominated Vice-President of
the Chamber, but only by 172 votes to 168 given to M.
Billault. This result is grave ; we do not wish to dis-
semble it; but we think that it is necessary to explain
it. First dull, we cannot impute it to the Conservative
party, properly so called. The number of voters was
yesterday 340, so that there were 119 üb.ente.-s.
But, out or these 119, an account drawn up
very correctly shows that there are 80 Depu-
ties notoriously supporters of the Ministry. They
have been much in the wrong not to be found
at their posts, in the combat where the duty of defending
their principles called them; but, in fine, it must be
declared that the Conservative party is by no means
dissolved, notwithstanding the sad defections which
might be witnessed yesterday, and that it still reckons
172 votes present, and 80 which will soon arrive, forming
altogether A tolerably nice total, for which M. Billault
would willingly exchange his 168 coaliaed votes. Yes,
M. Billault had only coalised votes; and every one knows
at the Chamber that Count Molt is the soul and end of
the coalition. It appears that, atter having cursed coali-
tions, Count Mold has been reconciled to them, and has
thought fit touse them for his own account. Legitimatists,
Radicals, Left, di-contented, or, in other words, unplaced
Conservatives, all have precipitated themselves into the
lap of the President of April 15. Now this is the little
calculation of those gentlemen. To attack a Ministry
like the present openly in the tribune, is net advisable, for
several reasons. First, because the speakers who attempt
it come off with great damage; next, to ask the Chamber to
condemn the Speech from the Throne,which this year is, in
its essential parts, only an expose of the foreign policy, is to
d. wand from the majority to condemn the policy upheld
by themselves fur four years. But such a thing it is
impossible to obtain. Besides, if the policy of peace,
concord, and the entente cordiale was blamed, the follow-
ing Ministry would have a war programme ready traced
for it; and, without any doubt, the King, the Chamber
of Peers, and the country, would not allow that. There
wet.- therefore, nothing but dangers aad impossibilities
in a frank and open struggle; and, on that account these
' gentlemen had formed the project of strangling the
' Cabinet during the preliminaries of the session. Un-
luckily, these gentlemen forget that the representative
Government is not a regime of mutes. A mask may be
applied to it, but a gag cannot be placed in its mouth.
The attempt has, therefore, completely failed ; the in-
trigue is going to be named and defied in the tribune.
Certainly it would have been a very convenient thing to
dispense with giving explanations, and to have ballotting
balls in the place ofreasons. This year, in particular,
the declamatory speeches will be poor. Otaheite is thread-
bare ; Pritchard is worm-eaten; New Zealand, Monte
Video, and the exequatur are become antiquities—theto
is not, in fact, the smallest novelty to offer the public.
It was, therefore, a capital invention to overturn the
Cabinet by a silent vote on the election of a Vice-Presi-
dent, and to conquer without fighting ; but, once more
we say ti.e trick has failed, and it will not be commenced
a second time."

By letters from New York, dated the 14th ult.,
we learn that " a very pretty quarrel" is on the eve
explosion between two of the most important
States of the Union—namely, South Carolina and
Massachusetts. Although the first and noblest right
of our common nature and the dearest interests of
iminanity are deeply involved in the ground of the
ipproaching rupture (for to a rupture the affair is
manifestly tending), there are sonic circumstances of
such absurd inconsistency, moral and polii ical, in
the affair, that we shall endeavour to regard it, as
much as we can, in the less grave of its aspects. It
seems that South Carolina, a few years ago, passed a
law prohibiting free negroes, under certain severe
pains and penalties, from "coming into that State."
Not having the original American statute before us,
we cannot say what was the cause of its enactment
assigned in its preamble. Whether the paternal
Legislature of Carolina was alarmed lest the evil
example of its slave-trading institutions should ex-
tend beyond its own boundary—or the contagion of I
slave emancipation should pass over and within them,
from other members of the Union, our readers may
conclude for themselves. But it must still remain a
marvel how a body of men, so proverbially acute as
the Carolinian planters, could have overlooked the in-
evitable occurrence, in the ordinary course of busi-
ness transactions, of daily cases (as it were) in which
their statute must be violated, or their external trade
he annihilated. When the Carolina legislators, in
the plenitude of their superiority as white castes
promulgated their penal and disabling statute against
..ree blacks, they forgot that Nature, when she tinged
the skins of negroes with an indelible colour, had
omitted to affix any badge of nautical disqualification
upon that unhappy race. By an equally unpardon-
able obliviousness, many Eundreds of blacks, settled
n various portions of tho Western Hemisphere, are
aabitually given (it seems) to imagine—first, that
.hey have a right to purchase their freedom, when
:hey can find money enough for that purpose, and
.nasters who will accept it; and, secondly, that, being
free, they have a right to turn sailors when they can
it'd captains to engage them at stipulated wages. The
•esult of this discrepancy between the abilities of
freedom, and the disabilities of slavery—this collision
between the laws of South Carolina and the laws of
Nature—has been, that, on different occasions, " free
blacks employed as seamen have been brought into
the latter State." The humane custom has been,
that "they were immediately imprisoned, and kept
,t 1 prison until the sailing of the vessel to which they
*long." We write this in the year 1845 ;—and it
is true I Fortunately for the honour of that portion
iif the human race—(about as essential an integer, in
its relations to the whole, by the way, as " that in-
!elligent and important part of the earth, called
Europe"—.5,0 condescendingly noticed in President
TYLER'S last Message)—that portion which is not
incorporated into the Carolina Legislature, that some
these black u'itenus were fellow-citizens of such a
,nan as Mr. Secretary WERsTea, and are, therefbre,
reclaimed by their native State of Massachusetts.
the Legislature of that State, having nominated a
Commissioner to proceed on its behalf to South
2arolina, in order to ascertain the precise state of the
Facts, the gentleman nominated, immediately on his
arrival, notified to the Governor of the slave-holding
State the character of his mission, and apprised his
Excellency that its object was to "try the constitu-
tionality of the Carolina law in the Supreme Courts
of the United States."

11444.......•.•»••••.....•«.....••••••••••••• (11
Loan of City, 1833. Four per Cent. 102;
1832
•••••• .....
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Coat.
'lank of Belgium, Five Per Cant. ............. 57%
Glue of
—llrosieele Papers. Deo, 31,

HONEY AND COMMERCIAL NE S
CITY, TIIIJESDAT EVENING.
The Stock Market became rather more animated
this afternoon, and Consols improved to 1001 1. Bank
Stock was 211 to 211 f. The New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. were 103} 4.
The Foreign Bonds were dull, and there were no
further bargains in Spanish. Peruvian brought 29 ;
Austrian, 113; French Scrip, 11; and Belgiau, 1 pre-
mium; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 631.
The additional transactions in the Railway shares
hare been these : Birmingham and Gloucester were
51 to 6 ; Bristol and Exet, r, 8 to 10 ; Chester anti
Holyhead, 1 ; Churnet Valley, 21 ; Eastern Union, 11;
Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 5 ; Greta
Western, Half, 411 ; Birmingham, 129 ; Brighton, 11 ;
uth-Western, - New, 3i to 4 ; Cr")(1-n, 31
i
London and York, 2 ; Lynn and Ely, 11 ; Manchester
and Leeds, Half, 24 to 241 ; Midland, 151 • Newcastle
and Darlington, 371 to 38 ; Northern and iastern, 121;
Ditto, Quarter, 4; Norwich and Brandon, New,
; Westl)it ;Ditto, Cornwall,
Scarborough3to Branch,; 213 ;
se;
49 ; Nutt, Extension, 11 ;ons
ht:chtuond and West-end, l ; Rugby, 1
y;orgkonatnhd.
Ditto,
s n
: ,r Midland,eNw
bey,lo}srsl4p;
and Avignon, ; Paris and Lyons, 1I; and Paris and
Strasbourg, 1 premium. Direct Northern have been
ft
Eastern Counties, 91 ; and West London,
..isceunt.
Portsmouth Direct were 1 discount to par; London and
5 were 6i ; and Union of
The South Sea Company proprietors, at a meeting to.
AWuessttrma
inas, t e2r
rßiraeninkiumS.hark
day. resolved to consider at their next meeting the pro-
priety of dissolving the concern, unless the directors
can make the Government allowance pay all expenses.
(Fron Th. Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were only
1.500 bales, owing to New Year's Day.—Shares were
firm, with a considerable business doing. Birmingham
and Gloucester, 1053 ; Bristol and Exeter, 701 ; Ches-
ter and Birkenhead, 361 ; Eastern Counties Perpetual,
No. 1, 235. ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 18s. 6d. ; Grand
Junction, Half, 1131 ; Great Western Half, 903 to 91 ;
Lancaster and Carisle, 14 ; Liverpool and Mane
cheater, 217 ' • Liverpool and Manchester, New, 374 to MIL
London and York, 5 41 ; Churnet Valley, 31 ; Man;
cheater and Leeds, 125 126 ; Ditto, Halves, 55 ; Mid.
land Counties, 117 ; Preston and Wyre, 18 • South-
Eastern, 414 ; Ditto, New, 14} ; Trent Valley, 10 ;
Paris and Lions, 70s. 71s. 6d. ; Paris and Strasburg,
410 s. ; Northern of• Franco, Cl. ss. 6/. 33. 9d. ; Boulugne
and Amiens, :if.
The fact of the re-occupation of the New Royal Ex-
change by those to whom it most especially belongs
ought to be generally recorded. To a partial extent
the opening occurred yesterday. As this is holiday time,
there was not that bona fide attendance of " the mer-
chants of the city of London" that might naturally hare
been espected. The "grand show" will be to-morrow,
which is " post day," and when no question the attend-
ance will be full indeed.
From the circular of the Messrs. Ferguson and
Taylor, of Manchester, just received, we extract the
following:—
" A very steady business has prevailed throughout
the month, and the extent of sales has been quite up to
the expectations of the manufacturers. Prices have con-
tinued almost without any change, with the exception,
of 40 inch 66 reed skirtings, weighing about 71b., which.
declined as low as 7s. 3d. As the production of this
finality has been considerably lessened, the price has,
rallied, and is now firm at 7s. id. Stocks of every
description of goods are light, and as the demand is
expected to become active early next month,
many manufacturers are already calculating upon
an advance in prices, and are refusing con-
tracts until the turn of the year.. Symptoms
of an improved , demand, also hare shown themselves
during the past week. We have no doubt varselves that
prices will rule higher during the next two months. The
Cotton market within the last fortnight has been rather
more active ; both the trade and speculators buying
rather freely. An advance of about id. to id. per lb.
has been thus effected. Whether this improvement may
be maintained, or otherwise, will depend, in a great
measure, upon the business operations in this neighbour.
hood after the turn of the year. Our stocks are light,
money is yet cheap, and, from all we can learn, the pros-
pects of most of the Foreign Markets, as well as our own
home trade, are encouraging ; we are, therefore, in-
clined to the supposition that a good trade will be done
here at the beginning of the year, and prices will, doubt-
less, be advanced."
There are accounts a day later from Buenos Ayres,
but they add nothing to our previous information.
The Stock Market continues quiet, but, on the' whole,
firm. Consols are 100* ; Np 4 'three-and•a-Qtartir
per Cents.. 1033 to
l ; and the Three per Cents., 1001 1.
Bank Stock is higher again, viz., 211 to 2114. Ezekie-
quer Bills obtain 6305. to 655. preru. ; and India Bouds,
775. prem.
The Foreign Investments are without any particular
alteration. Speuish Five per Cents. realise 27i and
the Three per Cents. 363 to Portugueia CouTerted

There may be even among Englishman, though
we doubt the fact, about as many individuals as there
are Southern States in the Federal Union, who will

attempt to justify the conduct of members of the
" model Republic"—the palladium, as it has been
called, of human freedom—the stronghold of consti-
tutional liberty—the refuge, from tyranny and law-
lessness, of the oppressed of all the world—in fostering,
within their own bosom, openly and unblushingly,
that foulest opprobrium of human institutions—negro
slavery. These very individuals will be the first to
echo the confident, unhesitating boast of every white
citizen of those Southern States, that, whatever be
the merits of this slavery question, their political con-
dition is faultless. They will tell you that, above all
things, unlimited freedom of discussion is permitted
by their Legislature. This sounds well in theory.
Its practical truth is thus damaged by the New York
letters :—" The Legislature of South Carolina
being in session, the Governor transmitted
to that body the communication of Mr. Bois,.
Upon its receipt a Bill was introducei and .

The following are the remarks of the Preset on the
same subject:—

" The discussion on the Address may change the
disposition of men's minds ; bur to triumph over it, it
will not be sufficient for the Ministry to display groat
talent in the tribune, they must prove that they have
reason on their side, and that they are wanting neither
in sincerity, ability, nor firmness. The vote for the
nomination of the four Secretaries has scarcely been less
significant than that for the four Vice-Presidents, for the
candidate who obtained the greatest number of votes
was M. Lacrosse, and M. Havin only wanted three to
reach the absolute majority. The Chamber will seek, in
its bureaux on Wednesday, to appoint the Committee on
the address. It is not supposed that the discussion will
open before January 15. Ere that period comes round,
the 110 Deputies who are absent will have time to ar-
rive. Under present circumstances, all negligence on
their part in attending would be a grave dereliction of
duty, for which the country would have right to call
them severely to account."

On Tirscis7 M. SArar took his seat az President

THE 8U N LON.OO S, FRIDAY MORli I k:i GI JANUARY T 3, - 1.84fi .

are 60 to 59.. t. Mexican have been 331 1,
14k, ned P. ru••ian, 291. Duteo Tw• •., ke:r
Cents. are 634 A.
The Share Market is buoyant to-day, and there is a
fair business doing. Great Western and Bristol and
Exeter are very firm, and South• Western Old Shares
have rallied. French are not quite so good.
PRICE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock
. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities looi4l
New 3,} per Cent. Annutiea
, Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860
'inns Bonds 1,0001. — pm.
Ditto under 1,0001 77 inn.
Bank Stock fur Account.
Consuls for Opening
Exchequer Bills, lid lid.
LOOK
5001•
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised ..... pm.

•
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 351/
Ditto fir the Account ... 351
Ditto Deferred
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent
Ditto fur the Account
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account 6Ol 59/
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1340 2731
Dittu for the Account.
Ditto Deferred
Ditto 3 per Cent —
• Ditto for the Account.
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PIM SHAM
Aberdeen
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 .....: 105'
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian 5 4/
Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 1/
Citurnet Valley
Dublin and Ifelfmt Junction 2/ ... .. 5
Eastern Counties
Eastern Union
Great Western - 75 155
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto Fifths
Lancaster and Carlisle
London and Birmingham ...100 228
London and Blackwell
London and 8right0n.......... 50 ...... 521
London and Greenwich .... 121 ...... 9i
London and South Western.. 411 ...... 75
Ditto, New
London and Y0rk........ 2/ ..... 444 i to
Manchester and Leeds 7O 12.51
Ditto / Shama
Midland 100
Newcastle and Berwick -1/ 7i to
North British -
i 2 71 ..... to
Norwich and Brandon 8 ...... 14 ...... to
Rugby
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2/
South Eastern and Dover ... -33/
,to
Ditto New
Trent Valley
West Cornwall ll ... 4/ - - to
York, and Nortla Midland ... 50 ......
Ditto 4 Shares
Ditto, Extension
Boulogne and Amiens
Lyons and Avignon
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Orleans 2O ..... 44
Paris and R0uen........ 2O ...... 41
Paris and Strasburg 2 ...... 2/ ...... to 3
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DEC. 31.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto Money —
3 per Cent. Reduced —
3# Stock lo2}
Ditto Money —
3/ per Cent. Debentures ' 95
Long Annuities —
Bank Stock
Royal Canal Stock
Grand Canal Stock —
Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent —
Ditto, 4 per Cent —
4 per Cent. City Debentures —
4 per Cent. City Debentures, New.
4 per Cent. Ballast Office Debentures —;
4 per Cent. Pipe Water —
Kingstown Railway Debentures.

LAST PRICES OF IRISH SHARES.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SITARS.
Dublin and Kilkenny Railway lOO 215
Drogheda Ditto 7 6O 724
Great Southern aid Western
Ditto Scrip
Ditto Extension 24
Dublin and Belfast Junction 24
Dublin and Cashel a1t024
Mullingar and Athlone Railway 24
Belfast and Ballymena 24
Waterford and limerick
Dundalk and:Enniskillen
Wexford and Carlow 24
Hibernian Bank 254
Royal Bank lO 134
National Bank
National Insurance
Patriotic ditto lO lO4
Mining Company of Ireland 7 l4
Wicklow Copper Mines 5 lB4
City of Dublin Steam Company
Ditto Ditto, 1836 5O 534
Steam Ship Building Company
British and Irish Steam Company.... 50 ssk
Limerick Extension Railway ' 24
Peninsular and Oriental Ditto 5O 664
Irish Great Western, Dublin to Galway 24
Dublin and Glasgow Steam Company 50 44
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock_ . .

3 per Cent. Reduced
New 3} per Cent ........... 103}
Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 12i
India Bonds, 1,0001..
Ditto under 1,0001.
Bank Stock for Account...
Consols ...
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., lid.
Ditto 500!.
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Dutch, 2i per Cent ....
Ditto, 5 per Cent 99
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester, 100 paid
Ditto New Shares, 1711, paid
Bristol and Exeter, 70. paid

. .
Chester and Holyhead, 5 paid .... 54
Churnet Valley, 2 paid 4l
Direct Northern, 24 paid
Eastern Counties, 25 paid...
Eastern Union, 10 paid.....
Great. Southern and Western (Ireland), 5 paid liii
Great Western, 75 paid —
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock) ... ..
London and Brighton, 50 paid
London and South Western, 411 paid —
Ditto New
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. paid ... 17
London and York, 24 paid 4i
id

Lynn and Ely, 14. paid
Manchester and Leeds. 70 paid
Ditto, Half Shares, 30 paid ... .. 54
Midland, 100 paid
Newcastle and Darlington:Junction, 24 paid 62
Northern and Eastern, 45 paid 584
Ditto Quarter Shares, 14 paid
Norwich and Brandon, 8 paid —
Ditto New, 1 paid
Portsmouth Direct, 1 paid
Richmond and West End Junction, 1 paid 2l
Rugby, 1 paid li
South Eastern and Dover, 3.34 paid —
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid - - • • 1.
West London, Old Shares, 20 paid
West Cornwall 1i paid
York and North Midland, 50 paid
Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid 3li
Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid
Ditto Extension.. .. .• .. 11

Lyons and Avignon, 2 paid
Paris and Lyons, 2 paid
Paris and Strasbourg, 2 paid ... 24

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" Who runs may read."

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On Monday the King of the French presided at a
Council of Ministsrs held at the Tuileries.
On Tuesday M. Sauzei: took his seat as President of
the Chamber of Depipies, when the Finseice
brought forward the budget.
The receptions at Court on the occasion of the new
year will be as usual. The diplomatic corps will hr re-
ceived at four o'clock. The grand receptions for ladies
and gentlemen will be on Friday and Sunday evenings,
at halt past eight o'clock.
Several of the journals announce the arrival of Admi-
ral Dupetit-Thouars in Paris. Two or three of the Op-
position journals, however, say he is at Versailles, and
remains there en carte privet (in seclusion) by order of
the Ministry.
The Constitutionne/ says:—" The nomination of Cardi-
nal de Latour d'Auvergne, as head of the Chapter of St.
Deets, is given as positive. It is added that he is named
Grand Almoner, and that the ordonnances will appear
on Jan. 2."
Thu sale of the splendid collection of paintings belong-
ing to the late Cardinal Fesch is to commence at Rome
on the 17th of March.
There are at present 1,430 medical men practising in
Paris, being 340 more than in 1833.
A Constantinople letter, of the 13th inst., says—" For
very many years we have not had so long a continuance
of bad weather in the Mediterranean or Black Seas. The
wind has blown with such violence for a whole fortnight
from the north-west, that nearly all the numerous steam-
packets that traverse them have been delayed, some four
some five days.
A letter from Barcelona states that the excessive
cold which reigned for some time in that neighbourhood
was put an end to on the evening of the 21st by a violent
tempest, which caused considerable damage. So much
rain fell that some quarters of the city were completely
inundated. The gardens between Barcelona and Mont-
juich were covered with water of several mares' depth,
and the inhabitants of San-Beltran were taken off in the
middle of the night in boats. All the parts of the forti-
fications, which had been undermined last year, fell
down with great noise. The lost sustained is estimated
at several hundred thousand francs.
On Wednesday the tragedy of Werner was to be per-
formed by the English Company at Paris, Mwoready of
course playing the part of Werner.
AND POLICII.
Sir John Dodson sat in the Admiralty Court, and dis-
posed of assignations. This was the default day after
last term.
Dr. Daubeney sat in the Consistory Court, and heard
assignations, this being an extra Court day.
At the Surrey sessions Ann Winter and Ann Wright
were indicted with having unlawfully uttered and put off,
at Croydon, two counterfeit half-crowns, well knowing
the same to be false and counterfeit. The prisoners,
who belong to a well-known gang of coiners, residing in
the low haunts of Westminster, offered nothing in their
defence, and the jury, without hesitation, returned fi
verdict of guilty. Sentence twelve months' imprisonment
each and hard tabour at Brixton House of Correction.
'Sir James Duke presided at the Guildhall, and re-
manded fur further examination Charles Richard Are
stead, late a collecting clerk at Mr. Hubbard's, a tobac.-
conist in Barbican, charged with embezzling moneys
received on account of his employer ; andi James
Dixey, the overlooker of the porters at Messrs.
Meeking and Co.'s, drapers, Holborn-hill, charged with
embezzling various sums, amounting to 301.
A young man, named Ashford, respectably dressed,
was brought up at Bow-street, charged with breaking
into the house of Mr. John Henry Jewell, solicitor's
clerk, of Alfred-street, Tottenham court-road. The.
prisoner alleged in his defence that he found the door
open, and could not resist the temptation to walk in and
help himself. Mr. Twyford committed him for trial.
James Horne, charged by Mr. Jelin Cox, of No. 9.
Gibson-square, Islington, with having burglarioualy
entered his dwelling-house, and stealing various articles
of silver plate, was fully committed from Clerkenwell.
Robert Pratt was placed at the bar at the Lambeth Po-
lice Court before Mr. Henry, on a charge of grossly ill-
treating his ,on, Richard Pratt, a child five years and a
half old. The prisoner had for many months been in
the habit of ill-treating the child, and at length the
neighbours determined to interfere. On one oc-
casion the child was hanging from the Innis.
ters by a rope which was tied round his neck, and
would have been strangled had not a neighbour cut him
down. The poor child was in a shocking state from the
barbarous usage he had received. Mr. Henry, address
ing Dunn, one of the beadles of Lambeth, said the case
was one which should be prosecuted by the parish, and
he should therefore request that the vestry-clerk should
be informed of the particulars, with a view of prosecut-
ing the prisoner at the sessions. To afford the necessary
time for this, he should remand the prisoner until Mon-
day next. The prisoner was accordingly remanded.
At Marlborough-street Mr. Hardwick received the fol-
lowing letter. It relates to an individual who was under
examination at this Court about six weeks ago, charged
with having given cheques to various parties in payment
of goods, well knowing there were no funds at the
bankers to meet them with:—
" 14, Chester-square, Dec. 30, 1844.
" Dear Sir,—ln conformity with orders received frOm
my Government, I take the liberty to request your
obliging assistance in giving publicity to the tact, that
by roj al ordinance, dated Dresden, December 12, and
published in the Leipsic Gazette of the 20th December,
the name of M. Moritz Dam Van der Ptorte (see police
reports of the 11th and 13th December), has ceased from
that day to be on the list of the Gentilhommes de Is
Chambre of his Majesty the King of Saxony.--I have
the honour to be, dear Sir, your most obedient humble
servant, " DE GERSDORFF.
" Minister Resident of his Majesty the King of
Saxony.
" To J. Hardwick, Esq."
At the Thames Police-court two men, named William
Smith and Edward Smith, brothers, were brought before
Mr. 13roderip, charged with keeping a private still, in an
unentered place, where the apparatus fur conducting dis-
tillation on a large scale was discovered. The evidence
having been gone into, Mr. Broderip said it had been his
let to hear a gaod many cases of this description, but he
never knew one clearer than this, and he convicted the
peisoia.rs under the 7th and Bth Geo. IV., cap. 53, and
sentenced them to p.ty a flue of 301. each, and in de-
fault to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three
calendar months. The prisoners were committed.

'file Deli And Couniet,s Limerick are daily expected
to arrive in this country from New South \Vales, intel-
ligence having been sent to his Lordship some time since
• ut the demise or his brother, the late Lord Glentworth, by
which lie became heir apparent to the Earldom.
Tt.e. Dowag,r Lady Holland is passing the Christmas
C a 9 In tosvo
The Ma qu:s Marchioness of Donegal have
ut Hord, Brighton, from Bath.
Ui-ie Marquis 906 Marehi4lesx of Sligo and the Ladies
Lir,wile have arrived in Ma.isiield-street.
The Earl snd Connie:4 of WerWiek have left Patter-
son's lintel for Warwick Castle.
The Marquis of Lansdowne lies been entertaining a
large parts-at Bowood this. Christmas, Mr. Moore, the
poet, and Mr. Albany Fonblanque have been among the
visitors.

The Earl of Auckland and Lord Alvanley have been
among the distinguished guests at Bre tby Park during
the Christmas festivities, where a large family circle have
Bern partaking the hubpitality of the Earl and Countess
of Chestertietd.

The Duke of Devonshire has left Devonshire House
for Chatsworth. The superb presents recently sent to
his Grace by the Emperor of Russia have been removed
to Chiswick.

The Cuuut and Countess de Jarnac will not leave for
Paris so soon as was expected. It is probable they wal
prolong their sojourn at Alivart's Hotel threo weeks
longer.

ZdiIiC23MAN NOUS.
The Duke of Wellington has already sent out the invita-
tions for the opening dinner of the session of Parliament,
which it is expected v. ill be very fully attended.
The Rev. R. B. Paul, M.A., formerly Fellow of
Exeter College, Oxford, has been presented to the per-
petual curacy of Kentish-town, St. Pancras, Middlesex.
Value 260 g. Patron, the Vicar of St. Pancras.
The thick ;fog which overspread the metropolis on
on Sunday appears to have extended over most of the
country. In Manchester the darkness on that day and
on Monday rendered artificial light necessary, and in
Scotland also the fog was equally dense.
It will be recollected that a short time since a meeting
of the leading counsel practising at the Chancery, Rolls,
and Vice-Chancellors' Courts was held for the purpose
of devising some plan to lessen the evil and inconveni-
ence of the separation of the Vice-Chancellors' Courts
from the other equity judges, in Westminster-hall, which
has taken place since the creation of the two new Vice-
Chancellors. A communication was made to the Lord
Chancellor on the subject ; the consequence is, that two
temporary Courts are being erected in Palace-yard, close
to the entrance of Westminster-hall, which are in a very
forward state, and will probably be finished by next
term. This arrangement vk ill get rid of a great deal of
the evil, though it can hardly be a permaeeut one, as
there will be means of communication to the other Courts
from these.

. TUB NEW METEOPOLITAN BUILDING. ACT.—Wed-
nesday this important Aet, some of the previsions of
•which have been separately noticed in The Sun, came
into operation. There are 120 clauses in the new law,
And 12 schedules. The various objects specified in the
preamble are worked out in the numerous provisions and
schedules annexed. The officers mentioned in the Act
have been appointed since the Ist of September last by
,a special provision. There are two Aidal referees named
by the Government ; and surveyors, with their districts
assigned, have been nominated by the magistracy of the
City and the several localities comprised in the eurisdic-
.tion of the metropolis. The Act extends on the north
side of.the Thames from Fulham to Shadwell, and on
the south side of the river from Woolwich to Wands-
worth, including the other suburban districts. The Le-
gislature by the 4th section anticipated that building
speculations would be carried on beyond the prescribed
limits Of the statute in order to evade the law, and there-
fore gave power to her Majesty in Council to extend the
operation of the same to any parts within twelve miles of
Charing- cross. It is required that notice of such intention
to consider the limits shall be given at least one month
prior in the London Gazette. Numerous buildings
have been lately commenced to prevent the immediate
operation of the law, as by the construction clause
it is declared that the term " already built," used in
reference to buildings, is to apply to buildings built before
the Ist of January instant, or "commenced before that
- - .„, .
day," and covered in and rendered fit for use within
PRINCE ALBERT'S HARRlERS.—rrince Albert
~ _
twelve months thereafter ; and the term "hereafter to hunted with his harriers yesterday morning, attended
be built" to apply to all buildings to he built, or "cue,-
Colonel 13ouverie and Mr. Anson. The meet was in the_
menced after that period, or which being commenced
neighbourhood of Slough, where from 30 to 40 yeon3eu
woo
shall not be covered in within twelve months." Notice
farmers gave his Royal Highness the meeting. -1
_i
must now be given of all buildings to be commenced to
hares were found and killed, after which his ROY`,
the registrar-general appointed, under certain penaltiest
Highness returned to the Castle, leaving Colonel 13011
and all buildings must be erected according to the direc-
eerie in charge of the hounds to continue the sports.
cote
lions of the Act, otherwise the workmen, as well as the
PI
road Christmas- day, the
owners, will he subjected to penalties, and in default of
psyment to imprisonment. The Act has reference io the woc d road was thron,:ed to witness a series of foo_t.:
racee. The first was contosted by Rt. Angus, of Ne:',
future drainage of houses, and it is declared that the
castle, atui Jos.•ph Bi,:ke,
the
drainage has been so bad as to endanger the health of ,
;verde, for 51: a-side. The Newcastle man was ,se.,
the inhabitants. The width of streets and alleys is to be i of Menkseaton, distant Jo`'
winner by about two yards. The- next race was.
_"..„,
increased, in order to obtain a proper ventilation, and to
tween R. A. 'Martin and John Bucten, of Whickntn
prevent the risk of fire from the close contiguity of
houses opposite. Another portion of the new law reiates distance 130 tins:];, le- a like amount. After a
,11$. ro
, strag,;le 3,;artitt was the vict,:r. Anot!-:er race, of lila
to dwellings for the poor. Alter a certain pillntl ,_ciia.r.;, ' TURN-OUT of Pop/Eli-Loom WEAVE/M-0B Fri- yard,. for :31 a sido, wa., rut hy Frailt P4•06°11 e` pi
or lower reems, are not to by used unle,s elteree to admit thee /net te, 1,„,a..,-eit of fe, eee -leorre wearer., at the, t'-.1-er M - , ~s /deb ended in a dead heat. Other ra-ii
proper drainage and eentilasiou. Ruirsou4 and dangerous e"tt..ti-mill or M.,.st--:. TAttert,wll sad Mellor, ti'. Mt.l. , ere -.lc-, .... 1-• ..t • et. , owe er a •pirants for sodestrig
hue dings eau now be r'-paired or pelted down by pariski Oidilata, fermata ed, tistA 111114tri..:,/ml)g c' ....k...:0 fr, e e tit e,. T. -e- •• ct, y. s
large
officers, after notice to the nwnera, and proceedings the hands f. oil. the (11,,"7,t, :n'-'le i'ur gas. T.U.. tejeet uf Ear! FiTz .I,;ia.n i; at preaent entertaining a
nt
adopted to reeoker the, expenses incurred either from the the strike eas to ebtaie an advance of et ages ; and the !mull I,,rt V.,C:lliii, ii Park, Northatcptiinshire. Viscouth
owner or the landlord. The other portion has reference etetuption from the chutge for gas will be equivalent zo futd Viscount: .s Al ilton, the lion. George Wen""rre
to the officers to carry the law into force, to consolidate use an increase of about sixpence a week for each pair of Fitzwilliani, and sir. and Lad). Mary
provitioul, slid to auperiutend the erection of buildup. , 1
1 aoots.--Afwichater-Guardiax.
i %Awn the pegs azzeubled at the mansion.
Thompson, $

50 to
50 to
50 to
50 to
30 to

Application having been made to the Commissioners
of Customs, from Cowes, complaining of the delay and
inconvenience occasioned in ascertaining the we.ght and
charging duty upon samples of coffee landed from
vessels arriving at that port, and waiting for orders as
to their ultimttte destination, the Board has decided that
samples imported in raokages as such, nut exceeding
half a pound weight each, rua) be passed duty free, pro-
vided that the °file:Ts shall be satisfied that they are in- !
tended for samples only.
An order has been issued by the Commissioners of
Police, for the better regulation of the carts and wag-
guns gt4ing to Coy: nt-gat-tt•n mark-t ; and the police-
constables are twpoilitcol to see that they draw up Ili the.
centre of the strtets, bo as to allots a free passage on ,
each side, and a clear space over the crossings. Amy
person offending is liable to he taken into custody, and
subject to a fi.:e of 40s. fur each offence.