The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-26 00:00:00

MANCHESTER AND RUGBY DIRECT Reformation. To that glorious revolution England
RAILWAY COMPANY, via MACCLESFIELD. owes much of her present prosperity and her high
The Committee of Management have, after anxious and mature
deliberation, come to the determination to dissolve this:Company as rank among the nations of the earth. It destroyed
empowered by their deeds, but they have arranged an amalgamation
on favourable terms with another railway company, which effects a the shackles of despotism ; it lessened the power
similar object, and by which the scrip holders in this Cc mpany may
of kings, freed the mind, in a great measure, from
have an equal number of shares in the other company.
Printed copies of the report from the Directors will be sent to the thraldom imposed by a wicked, selfish, and un-
every shareholder who has signed the deeds, and may be obtaimed
by the scrip holders on appldcation at the office. believing priesthood, and taught the people to look
Those shareholders who do not wish to take the shares in the
other company, may receive hack the amount of their deposits, to the Bible alone as the guide of their faith and
minus the expenses. conduct. The Puseyites have been labouring
By order of the Committee of Management,
for years to undo all these great blessings ;
JOHN DUNLOP, secretary.
19, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, Dec. 23, 1845. they have, by cunning, stealth, and every Je-
suitical scheme, been undermining the bulwarks
of the Protestant Church, and polluting the sources
whence all the established clergy and aristocracy, and
a vast majority of the middle classes, draw their lite-
rary knowledge, as well as their principles of belief.
The Bible and the Reformation are alike slighted
or condemned ; the traditions of the fathers and the
inventions of priests and designing men are preferred
to the great truths inculcated in the former, and the
latter is denounced as a great crime, from the dire ef-
fects of which nothing can save the nation but speedy
repentance and the adoption of the tenets laid down
as perfect by the infallible representative of ST. PETER.
The Roman Catholic Church is regarded as the only
pure church, and all the sects that have sprung from
the Reformation, including the Lutherans, the Eng-
lish Protestants and Presbyterians, and Dissenters of
every denomination, are denounced as Heathens and
unbelievers. For a time this Jesuitical sect retained
its position in the Church and the two Universities,
spreading its baneful influence around, and receiving
large stipends and salaries, appropriated only for Pro-
testants; but latterly the more scrupulous of the party
have become, from the universal indignation of the
public, ashamed of their perjury, and have openly
gone over to the Church of Rome. Large numbers,
however, still remain, acting on the principle, that it
is justifiable to do evil that good may come. Many
of our bishops are infected by the new doctrines, aud
have been striving by the most deceitful prac-
tices to bring over the people by degrees,
and pave the way for the full establishment of the
Catholic religion throughout England. The late ad-
dress of Dr. PEPTS, Bishop of Worcester, to the can-
didates for holy orders in his diocese, comes therefore
very appropriately at the present time, and forms a
striking contrast to the vague, timid, and we fear
Puseyite pastoral letters and addresses of such wa-
verers as the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, and
the Bishops of LONDON and EXETER. He leaves no
doubt whatever on the subject. He asserts, and
proves, by quotations from Catholic works and the
Thirty-nine Articles, that the doctrines of the
Puseyites are at direct variance with the reformed
religion, and the sacred oaths taken by such men as
PUSEY, and NEWMAN, and WARD. These
men, not only put tradition on an equal
footing with Scripture, but they give it a pre-
cedence, because the doctrines which it conveys
is derived from the Founder of our religion, while
those contained in the latter have no better
authority than the writings of the Apostles.
The sixth article, in which the Puseyites
expressed their firm belief at their ordination,
contradicts this dogma,:as he justly asserts, in the most
express and emphatic language. In like manner he
goes through the leading tenets of Romanism, and
shows that they are at utter variance with those of
the Reformed Church. The address altogether we
recommend to the attention of our readers, because it
cannot fail to produce a beneficial effect, and, as a proof,
has already excited the dire anger of a morning Con-
temporary, notorious for its hatred of liberty and the
noblest institutions of the country.

cate in her courts Brazilian subjects and vessels i
engaged in the traffic, she would not have sought to
obtain by Articles 2,3, and 4, special authority to
visit, search, and capture, the said vessels; to have
them adjudicated upon by mixed commissions, and
various other measures in the like sense." Sir
ROBERT PEEL disregarded Sir THOMAS WILDE'S
objections, and relied on the counter-opinion of his
own Attorney-General, whose opinion, he is pro-
bably satisfied now bears about the same relation of
value to Sir THOMAS WILDE'S as Mr. Baron PLATT'S
which, at the time, fortified the Attorney-General's,
does to that of the assembled Judges.
Though we cannot, in the absence of an Act of the
Brazilian Legislature, adopting Art. 1 of the con-
vention of 1826, legally proceed to treat Brazilian
slave- traders as pirates, and though we cannot make
the Emperor of BRAZIL responsible for the failure of
the Brazilian Legislature to pass such an Act, by
treating it as a casus belli, we are still entitled to
claim the exercise of all the influence of the Brazilian
Executive to get such an Act passed ; and it is but
just to say that the Brazilian Government does not
seek to repudiate this claim. After protesting in the
strongest terms against our late legislation, the
Brazilian Minister proceeds :

TO ALL THE LADIES.
MADAME TILEMAN, of PARIS, has just
invented a new hook, to which she has gives the name of
" Page," for its great convenience to ladies whilst walking, keeping
up their dress from the pavement without the trouble of holding it
with the hands.

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" Nevertheless, the Imperial Government preferring
to all other considerations the noble sentiments ofjus-
tice and philanthropy, by which in all its acts it is ani-
mated and guided, will continue to employ all its efforts,
in accordance with the laws of the country, for the sup-
pression of the slave-trade ; and the Imperial Govern-
ment earnestly desires that the Government of her
Britannic Majesty may accede to an agreement which,
whilst it respects the interest of the legal trade of
Brazilian subjects, may obtain the desired end of causing
that commerce to cease, the existence of which is de-
plored and condemned by all enlightened and Christian
Governments."

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We believe that our own commercial legislation
has been the chief difficulty which the Brazilian Exe-
cutive has hitherto had to contend with in the Bra-
zilian Legislature ; and that the future settlement of
this question rests more with our President of the
Board of Trade than with our Foreign Secretaries.
Many proofs have been lately furnished by the Bra-
zilian Legislature of their disgust at our persevering
proscription of Brazilian sugar. The slave-trade
question was indeed in a fair way of settlement in
1841, when Lord PALMERSTON left the Foreign-
office ; and the policy of the new Government with
respect to the sugar duties in 1842—when the
insidious, and, as it has proved, illusory distinction
between slave sugar and other foreign sugar—changed
the dispositions of the Brazilian Government to nego-
tiate, and everything was unsettled. Free commercial
intercourse with Brazil would be an infinitely more
effectual means of promoting the cause of humanity
in that country, than treaties powerless against a war
of tariffs.

We have received Madrid journals of the 17th
and 18th. With the exception of the appoint-
ment of Committees to draw up the Address, in
reply to the QUEEN'S Speech, no business was done
in the Cortes. In the Senate all the members of
the Committee were supporters of Government, and
in the Chamber of Deputies only one, Senor SEIJAS,
belonged to the Opposition. The other Members
were ALCALA GALIANO, BRAVO MURILLO, MUNOZ
MALDONADO, Luis ARMERO, BENAVIDES, and J.
CASTRO.

On the 18th the Funds were not so firm. The
Three per Cents. closed at 39, and the Fives at
231, both for the account.

The accounts received in Paris, on Wednesday, of
,he failure of Lord JOHN RUSSELL to form an admi-
nistration, and the recal of Sir ROBERT PEEL, pro-
duced a favourable effect on the stock and share-
market at the Bourse. The Three per Cents. ad-
vanced from 81f. 95c. to 82f. 20c., and the Fives to
about the same amount. Most of the railway shares
also closed better. Owing to the severe weather and
a heavy fall of snow in the north of France, the Lon-
don papers of Monday had not reached Paris. The
storm on Monday night was very severe, and on
Tuesday morning came on a hurricane, accompanied
with a heavy fall of hail and much lightning and thun-
der. The Journal des Debats, however in the absence
of precise intelligence, takes for granted that Sir
ROBERT PEEL is the only man that can form a Ministry.
Most of the other papers contain articles on the
Ministerial crisis, but they are without interest.
The proposition of the Minister of Commerce for
reducing the import duty on iron has been the sub.
ject of deliberation in the Chambers of Agriculture,
Manufactures, and Commerce ; and on Monday
they met especially for that purpose. The following
is an outline of the proceedings, as stated in the
papers :—" The proposition effects two interests, the
maritime and the metallurgical. The councils, from
the commencement of the discussion, were unanimous
in admitting the necessity of placing the merchant
shipping in as favourable a position as possible. The
question, therefore, under discussion was merely to
ascertain the best means of aiding the merchant
shipping. In the last session M. BERRYER had pro-
posed as an amendment to the Customs' Bill, to grant a
premium of 15f. for every 100 kilos. of iron employed
in maritime constructions. This amendment had
been rej.cted by a small majority. It was again
taken up in the three councils by MM. C. DUPIN and
DARBLAY. The first-named gentleman proposed to
increase the amount to 20f., whilst the second,
though adverse to the principle in the abstract, pre-
ferred it to the present system, which the Govern-
ment seemed inclined to favour. M. TALABOT also
declared himself willing to support the system of
premiums, but he desired at the same time that other
measures should be adopted to insure freight to mer-
chant ves-els, and wished to see the transport of coal,
tobacco, and some other articles, restored to the
French flag. The seaports, represented by M. CLERC, Of
Havre, M. BETTING DE LANCASTEL, of Nantes, and
M. Ducos, of Bordeaux, gave the preference to the
free admission of foreign iron, and thought that the
system of premiums offered grave inconveniences.
M. ORTOLAN, of Toulon, was of the same opinion,
and wished to see the admission extended to the con-
structions of the military marine. M. Ducos, of the
Gironde, went further, and demanded a complete mo-
dification of the entrance duties on iron. AI. HORACE
SAY supported the same side of the question, appeal-
ing to the principle of commercial liberty. M. DUPIN
again addressed the Council in opposition to the argu-
ments of the last speaker. Messrs. VINTRY,
SCHNEIDER, and LEGENTIL, were also heard. The
custom is, in the meeting of the three Councils, to
Faye no vote in common, each voting separately.
The second meeting is to take place on Monday next,
when the first question on the order of the day is to
be the discussion on iron proper for the fabrication o
stee' "

The protest cf the Brazilian Government, which we
printed at length yesterday, against the recent Act,
empowering our Admiralty Courts to adjudicate
Brazilian slavers, seized by our cruisers, has come by
no means unexpectedly ; nor can we say that the
Brazilian Government protests unreasonably. The
Act in question was passed at the end of last session,
in a hurry, against the strong remonstrance of Sir
THOMAS WILDE. Sir THOMAS WILDE'S opinion has
been confirmed by the recent decision of the Judges
in the case of the Exeter prisoners. The gist of the
protest is the point urged by Sir T. WILDE, and
affirmed by eleven of the Judges against two,—that
an agreement by treaty on the part of the Brazilian
Executive that Brazilian subjects carrying on the
slays-trade shall be deemed and treated as pirates is
not sufficient, without an Act of the Brazilian Legis-
lature, making the carrying on of the slave-trade
piracy, and liable to the punishments of ordinary
piracy, and punishable by English tribunals, to justify
interference by our Courts with Brazilian subjects or
their property.
Fiat justitia, real aelum. Deeply as we should
deplore any diminution of power to suppress the slave-
trade, we are bound to discountenance any illegal
exercise of power ; and, in admitting the reasonable-
ness of the important protest of the Brazilian Govern-
ment, we are no more justly open to the charge of
abetting the abettors of the slave-trade, than, when
we recently justified the reprieve of Mr. PALMER'S
murderers, we could have been supposed to be insen-
sible to the cold-bloiided atrocity of their conduct,
or to the sad, untimely fate of a brave and meritorious
young officer.
The terms of the convention with Brazil for the
suppression of the slave-trade are thus correctly and
clearly stated :
"By Art. 1 of the convention, concluded between
Brazil and Great Britain on the 23d of November, 1826,
.i.nd ratified on the 13th of March, 1827, it was agreed
that, from and after the expiration of three years from
the date of the exchange of the ratifications, it should
)e no longer lawful, under any pretext or in any manner
whatsoever, for Brazilian subjects to be concerned in the
carrying on of the slave-trade, and that the carrying on
of the slave. trade after that period, by any subject of
his Imperial Majesty, should be considered as piracy.
" By Art. 2 of the said convention the high contract-
ing parties agreed to renew, as effectually as if the same
wore inserted word for word in the convention, the seve-
ral articles and provisions of the treaties concluded be.
Lween his Britannic Majesty and the King of Portugal
on this subject, on the 22d of January, 1815, and on the
28th of July, 1817, and the several explanatory articles
which had been added thereunto.
" One of the conventions thus adopted and renewed
by Art. 2 of the convention of 1826, having been that
of the 28th of July 1817, which established the right of
visit and the mixed commission, and one of the expla.
natory articles likewise adopted and renewed by the
aforesaid convention of 1826, having been the separate
article of the 11th of September, 1817, by which the
right of search and the mixed commissions were to
cease after the expiration of fifteen years from the date
of the abolition of the slave-trade, it is evident
that the right of visit and search exer-
cised in time of peace, by the British cruisers
against Brazilian vessels, and the mixed com-
missions established for the adjudication of prizes made
by British cruisers, or by Brazilian cruisers, expired on
the 13th of March, 1845, the period at which were com-
pleted the fifteen years subsequent to the total abolition
of the slave-trade, conformably to article 1 of the con-
vention of the 23d of November, 1826, which was
ratified on the 13th of March, 1827."
The right of visit, and the mixed commissions
established by treaty, ceased on the 13th of March
last ; and all that remains is the agreement of the
Emperor of BRAZIL that it shall be unlawful for his
subjects to carry on the slave-trade, and that if they
do, they shall be treated as pirates—which agree-
ment of itself is worth just nothing. We do not
suppose for one moment that the Brazilian Govern-
ment, when it became a party to the convention of
1826, intended that it should thus come to
nothing, any more than we suppose that the
English Government made that treaty, with its
eyes open to the insufficiency of treaties for law-
making. Possibly the expiry of fifteen years without
the two contracting parties being able to agree as to
the machinery for carrying out the abolition of the

The accounts from Algiers are said to be favourable,
and some anticipate the speedy capture or death of
ABD.EL KADER. According to a letter in the Consti-
tionnel, his lieutenant, Bou MAZA, has been killed, not
by the French, but by one of the Arab tribes. The
following particulars are given, but we are not in-
clined to place much credit in them :

" The mail from Oran brings us an important piece of
news, viz., that the real Bou Maza has been killed. The
details are wanting, but one point appears certain, that
we took no part in this event, and that the famous
preacher perished by the hands of the Flues. The war-
riors of this great tribe, it is said, seeing themselves
surrounded by our columns, and feeling great irritation
against Bou Maza, who was preparing to quit them, fell
on him and deprived him of life. Other persons attri-
bute this act to the jealousy of Abd-el Kader, who
never acknowledged the chief as his emissary. However
he may have perished, his death will give the finishing
blow to the insurrection of the centre. The aman is de.
mended from all sides, and it is not granted on ea ,y
terms ; guns and horses are inexorably demanded from
the supplicants. M. de Bourjolly, appointed lieutenant-
general, returns to France, and in consequence the com-
mand of the column of Mostaganem has been conferred
on Colonel Pelissier. The fine weather favours our
expeditions, and it is probable that before the rains
commence all shall be restored to order. A long respite
will then be given to prepare, according to circum-
stances, for the invasion of Morocco or the conquest
of Jurjura."

slave-trade was never contemplated. However, so i

is : unforeseen difficulties have arisen, and the 13th
of March, 1845, has arrived without any new provi-
sior.s being agreed upon ; and we are now left with

only article 1 of the convention—a fine-sounding de-
nunciation of the slave• trade—and nothing to rely on
for rendering the denunciation effective except the
good faith of the Brazilian Executive in pressing its
own Legislature, and the willingness of the Brazilian
Legislature to give legislative effect to a treaty made
by the Brazilian Government.
The sanction of the Brazilian Legislature was
given to the right of visit, and to the courts of mixed
commission, established under the treaty of 1826.
But the Act of last session, giving jurisdiction to our
Admiralty Courts, was passed, not only without the
sanction of .he Brazilian LegislatureAut even without
the consent of the Brazilian Government. Well may
the Brazilian Government taunt ours with inconsis-
tency, in a sentence of the protest, which seems to
us unanswerable :—" If England had conkidered
herself authorised by Art, 1 to capture and adjudi.

`• According to the accounts from Algiers of the 17th
instant, Abd el-Kader does not appear t§ have advanced
far into the interior of the province of Orleansville. On
the 11th he was encamped at 10 or 12 leagues from that
place, On the 12th, learning that Colonel St. Arnaud
had arrived with his column in the night, the Emir re-
treated with his goum towards the south,"
We subjoin miscellaneous extracts from the
papers :--;

" Their Majesties received on Monday evening the
Neapolitan Ambassador, the Portuguese Minister, Mar-
shal Soult, the Ministers of Justice, War, Finances,
and Commerce, the Count de St. Aulaire, Count Charles
de la Tour du Pin, Viscount de St. Priest, General Bau-
drand, Fabvier, and de Chabannes, M. Barthe, and M.
Liadieres.

" Count de Percy Monchamps, the last representative

THEITSUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVEN] NG, DECEMBER 26, 1845.

,n Normandy of th a noble house, which, after the con-
quest vt%.'s the stock from -which the Percys, Dukes of
Northumberland sprang, has just died at his estate at St
Clair, near Vire, aged 78.
" It is known that our steam navy has only tvi o frigates
of 540 horse power—viz., the Descartes, which is afloat,
and the Vauban, which is building. The Mogadore
frigate, which was put on the stocks in 1840, is the only
vessel above that power, which is in the'course of ex, cution,
and this is only advanced to the extent of 9-24ths. This
vessel will be of 640-horse power. If we are well-in-
formed, the Minister of Marine has given orders for the
building of two other frigates of the same class. We
do not know in what ports they will be built, but we
hare reason to believe that the engines have already
been ordered of Messrs. Cave and Schneider."
" The Diet io of Rome announces the arrival of the
Emperor of Russia in that city on the 13th instant, tra-
velling under the title of General Romanoff. His Ma-
jesty took up his residence in the Palace Giustiniani, the
seat of the Russian embassy, We extract the following
on this subject from the Qudidienne:—
" ' We have received letters from Rome of the 13th.
The Emperor Nicholas had arrived during the night, and
in the morning at eleven he went to the Vatican in the
carriage of M. de Boutenieff, who was seated at his
right, and alone with him. The aides-de-camp followed
in two other carriages. The guard at the palace paid
the honours shown to crowned heads. The holy father
went to receive the Emperor in his hall adjoining his ca-
binet. The Emperor bowed, and kissed the Pope's ring,
and then the two sovereignsembraced. After having made
some inquiries as to the Emperor's journey, the Pope
introduced him into his cabinet, where he remained an
hour and a quarter with him and M. de Boutenit ff. Car-
dinal Acton acted as interpreter. On leaving, the Emperor
presented to the Sovereign Pontiff the persons of his
suite, and after a few words the Emperor withdrew. It
is of course impossible to tell, or even gness at the re.
suit of this interview. But we could read in the face
of the two Sovereigns rather an expression of friendship
than distrust. We may also allude to the previous state
of things. It is known that the Emperor comes to solicit
a dispensation for the marriage of his daughter with the
Archduke, and it appears that he had never given any
orders which conld have authorised the recent persecu-
tions by a schismatic bishop, and had promised that
rigid investigation should take place, and the bishop be
exiled to Siberia, if the charges against him were proved.
On his side, the Pope had demanded that a nuncio
should be received at St. Petersburg, and that the
liberty of the Catholics should be acknowledged. Other
letters speak of the question of the hats, to which the
French Cabinet attaches so much importance. The
French Ministry had set a trap for the Court of Rome.
It was desirous in the choice of the prelates to obtain a
disavowal of the French Episcopacy, but the snare was
easily detected. The Ministry will not obtain the two
hats that it was desirous of."

MONEY and COMMERCIAL SEWS
CITY, QUARTER To THREE.
The markets at Liverpool and elsewhere were closed y( s-
terday. We have therefore no information to communicate
upon the subject of the wholesale departments of trade. The
contents of the mercantile advices, in the aggregate, may be
said to favour the idea that business, as soon as the festivities
of the year have Lerminated, will be conducted on a scale of
increased vigour. At the same time, it must be observed,
that much will depend upon the propositions of the Ministry
as to the corn-laws.
The National Securities are extremely firm. Consols for
Account have just advanced from 94% to 954 ; but the rate
is now 4 per cent, lower. The premium upon Exchequer-
bills is firm at from 235. to 255. Bank Stock has advanced
to 204, and the Reduced Three per 1 ents. to 954 to %.
Much firmness bas been displayed in the Foreign Stock
Market to •day. The Portuguese Four per Cents. have ad-
vanced to 60, the Spanish Five per Cents. to 29%, the Three
per Cents. to 40% %' the Dutch Four per Cents. to 94, Pe-
ruvian to 42, Buenos Ayres to 41, and Mexican to 31%.
Generally speaking the Railway Share Market is firm this
morning, with a fair sprinkling of business.
BRITiSH FUNDS I'lllB DAY Al' ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock • 204
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ... 95% 95 95%14
New 34 per Cent. Annuities .... ...... 96% 97%4
Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860—
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 3859 10 5-16
India Bonds 1,0001 37
Ditto under 1.000/ 37
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 13/41 I%d.
1,000/.
5001 ..... .... ...... 25 23 26 pm.
Ditto Small — .. .. 23 26 pm.
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent... 41
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent ...... . .
Ditto Deferred Stock 63
Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent 87%
Granada, 1 per Cent. . .... ......
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 31%1/2
Ditto Deferreu
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 42
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account .. 6l
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent ll3
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 283/4
Ditto for the Account 29 28% 29%
Ditto Passive Bonds 63/4%
Ditto 3 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account. 40% %
Venezuela. Bonds, 2 per Cent 42
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto 4 ner Cent. Certificates .. 93% 94
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE
O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHAM
Aberdeen •......... 5
Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin... 2%.....
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% to
Aylesbury and Thame ...... ... 1% —
&
Belfast County Down
Bideford and Tavistock .. ... 1%..
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 .....,127 ...... to 125%
Ditto New Shares
Birmingham and Oxford
Junct ion
Birmingham and Leicester
Direct 42s
Boston, Stamford, and Birm. 22s .. . -.-
Bridgewater and Minehead... 425......
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New 2 ..... 8
Bristol and Gloucester 3O ' — ... .. to
Bristol and Liverpool Junct. 2%
Buckinghamshire 42s. .....
Ualedonian
Ditto Extension
Cambrian Gram: Junction ... 425. —
Cambridge and Lincoln
Ditto. New l% ...... to
Cambridge and Oxford l% to
Canterbury and Dover
Central Kent 2% — to
Chelmsford and Bury ..
Chester and Holyhead
Chester and Manchester
Cheltenham and Oxford
Clydesdale Junction.-- ...... 5
Cork, Blackrock, and Passages 22s . ... to
Cork and Killarney 2% . . .... to
Cork and Waterford 1%...... • to
Cornwall
7 to
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.,
and Leicester 1
Dartmouth, Torbay, & Exeter 425.
Derby, Gainsboro', and Great
Grimsby l% ...... to •
Derby, Uttoxeter, and Staff'd 2%
Direct Manch. (Kemington's) 23/4 — ..... .to -
Ditto (Rackstrick's) ...... 54- ...... to -
rirect Northern ... ......... .. 21,(2 l% to -
Direct Norwich -
Dublin and Armagh .... l% — to -
Dublin, and Belfast Junction 5 -
Dublin, Belfast, an d Coleraine 2% — to
Dublin and Galway 4
Dudley, Madely, & Broseley 2% — ..... to -
Dundalk and Enniskillen...... 2% — to
Eastern Counties
Do. New 6/. 16s 6% p... to 7%
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 6/.13s 4d ... .. to
Ditto, ditto, No. 2. ...4/. 13s. 4d — ...... to
East Dereham and Norwich 1
Ely and Huntingdon
... to
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% — ..
.. to
Essex and Suffolk IA to
Exeter,Dorchester,and Wey-
mouth .
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 23A
Eastern Union
Ditto U Shares
Ditto Extension
Ditto Ipswich and Bury ... ljB — .
.... to
Ditto Extension to Nonvich 21/2..... ... . to
Ditto Cambridge and Ely 21/ — to
East Lincolnshire ll4 ...... ...... to
East and West of England 1%... .. ...... to
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O . ... • ••• to
Ditto 1/ Shares
Ditto New % Shares 71,4 — ...... to
Edinburgh and Northern.-- 14 — ...... to
Edinburgh and Perth l%
Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central of Wales.. l% to
Goole and Doncaster 425.
Grand Junction 100
Ditto 1,4 Shares ... 50
Ditto Quarter Shares...... 25
GrndUnion(Notting.kLynn) 1% l% to
Great Eastern and Western.. 21,E
GreatGrimsby and Sheffield... 5
Great South and W.(lrish) ... 15
Ditto Extension
Great Munster 2% to
Great North of Scotland ...... 2% 3 - to
Great North of England...... 100 .212
Ditto New ........ .... 5
Ditto New 2 — to
Great Western BO ...161 160 164 162 to 165
Ditto, Half Shares ......... 50
Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 21/ ...... 18 17% to 18%
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fareham, Portms, 21,4 — to
Harwich
Hull and Selby 5O 102% ..... to
Ditto Quarters ... ... ...... 12% 2184 ...... to
Ditto, Half Shares
Inverness and Elgin
Ipswich, Norwich, and Yar-
mouth -
Irish North Midland l% to
Isle of Axholrne 2% ...... 2%... ..
to
Killarney Junctions ll4 — to
Kendal and Windermere l% to
Lancaster and Car1i51e......... BO ...... ..... to
Larne, Belfast, & Ballymena 2%......
Leeds and Carlisle .... 2% — to
Leeds and West Riding June. 1% — ...... to
Leicester and Birmingham... 225.
Leicester and Bedford 22s.
Leicester and Tamworth 42s. .....
Liverpool and Manchester... 100
Ditto Half Shares SO
Ditto Quarters ..... ...... ... 25
Liverpool and Leeds Direct... 2%
Liverpool, Manchester, and
NeweastleJunction
London and Birmingham ...100 222
Ditto Thirds
Ditto q Shares
Ditto Fifths
Ditto Extension
London & Blackwall... 161. 13s. 4d 94.- to
Do. New.. ... iiA 3%% .. to
Do, Extension
London and Brighton
Ditto Consolidated Bths 40
Ditto, Sixths 01,4
London and Croydon 13/. 158. 9d. 2212 to 2234
Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 8
London, Cheltenham, Oxford,
Gloucester, and Hereford... 1%
London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d lO% to 10
Ditto Preference
London, Hounslow,&Western 2 . ....
London and South Western.. 41,‘ ...... 76
Do. New consolidatedBths- 20 ...... --to
Ditto New ... ...... ... ....... 71/2.. ... 17 ..... to 18
Do. New ....- . 6 ......
London and South Essex ..... . 234 .....
London and York... ..... ...... 2% ...... 4% 4 to --
London and Windsor .... ... 1
Lon.,Warwck,Kiddermnster 2% — to
London,
Salisbury, & Yeovil 2% — to
Londonderry
and Coleraine... 5
51attehestei and Leeds 76 .. ...191
Ditto Half Shares .34 ...... to
...... to
Ditto Quarters
Ditto Fifths
Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 5i•••••.
Manchester and Birmingham 40
Ditto Quarters
Ditto New Quarters ...... ... 2
Do. Contindation & Welsh
Junction ... 1% — to
Manch. Buxt in, & Matlock 425.... . 2%% pto
Manchester Birmingham, and
Mould Junction
Manchester & Rugby Direct 42s — "' .. to
Manchester and Southampton 2 •2% to 3
Midland 100 .. ...155
Ditto Fifths
Ditto. New l2 ...... 281 AA to 31
Midland, Birm., and Derby...lo ... ..122
Midland and Eastern Counties 20 % —%...... to
to
Midld. Great Western (Irish) 2% — to
Do. Extension (No. 1) 23/
Newcastle &Darlington4une. 25
Ditto New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO
Newport and Abergavenny. .2% — to
New Ross and Carlow 228.
Newry and Enniskillen ...... 2%......
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston 2%...... 2% to
Norfolk Extension . ••••• .....
North British .. ... .
Ditto Half Shares . 3% 74— .. to 7
Do. Extension to Carlisle... 14
Do. Extens, to Dalkeith ... 25
Ditto ditto 5 ....
North Devon
North of Norfolk
Northern and. Eastern 45 - ...... to .....

On the Paris Bourse, on Wednesday, the Three per Cents.
closed at 82f. 30c.; the New Loan, at 82f. 10c; the Five
per Cents. 118140 c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares,l,lB7f. 50c. ;
Rouen, 972 f. 50c. ; Northern, 735 f. ; Havre, 777 f. 50c. ;
Avignon, 9051 ; Vierzon, 6401 ; Bordeaux, 6221 50c. ;
Boulogne, 512 f. 50c.; Troves and Montereau, 4251 ; Basle,
2371 50c. ; Fampoux, 562 f. 50c. ; Lieppe, 470 f. ; Spanish
Three per Cents., 39%.

The following are the quotations for other lines :
Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), Bf. 50c. premium ;
ditto (Caloi), 71. 50c. ; Union, 18f. ; ditto (Ganneron), 7f.;
ditto (Lapinsonniere), 7f. 50c. ; Sud-Est, 5f.; Ardoin, 5f.;
Messageries, 71.; Receveurs-Generaux, 91. ; Paris and Stras-
bourg (Ganneron), no quotation ; Lyons and Avignon
(Talabot), 161. 25c. ; ditto (Lecointe), 10f. ; ditto (Corn-
pagnie Meridionale), 5f.; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie),
; 500 f. ditto (Espeleta), Bf. ; Charleroi (Kysaens), 4951.
The Lyons Definitive Shares sold at 90f. premium ; the
Strasbourg ditto, 251. ; Tours and Nantes, 55f.

Sir Robert Peel is expected to return to town on
Monday, from his seat, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire.
Mr. Gladstone is expected to arrive in town the same
day from Wales. Sir James Graham is expected
early in the week, and others of the Ministers are
also expected to assemble in the metropolis.
Air. Gladstone's appointments will require him to
vacate his seat for Newark, where it is understood
that his re-election will be opposed by the Duke of
Newcastle. It is confidently stated that the same
Duke intends to carry his principle of " doing what
he likes with his own " so far as to oppose the re-
election of his son, Lord Lincoln, for South Notting-
hamshire.

TIIE EARL OF CARLISLIL—The 'Morning Chro-
nicle state' that a report had been received in town
of the death of the Noble Earl, to which it attached
credit, but we cannot, on inquiry, trace the report to
any authentic source. No account of the kind had
been received at the Reform Club.

FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, DEC. 23.—The average price of wheat
in the week ending on Saturday, the 20th December,
was 23f. 81c., and that of rye 18f. 33c.
The exportation of wheat flour is now permitted
on the payment of a duty of 25 centimes per 1,000
kilogrammes. Mr. Hart has just completed a medal
of very large size, which will be struck in a few
days, in commemoration of the passage of the Queen
of ngland to and from Germany. On one side is
the head, which is an admirable likeness, with the
inscription, " "Victoria, reine d'Angleterre ;" on the
reverie, round the arms of the city of Antwerp, in
the style of the renaissance " Debarquement de la
Reine, 10 Aout, enl'arquement 6 Septembre. Anvers,
184,5." The execution is no less remarkable than
the likeness.

A letter from Antwerp of the 22d informs us that
the Princess Victoria steamer, which left London on
Sunday morning, at ten o'clock, did not reach Ant-
were till six o'clock on Monday afternoon, in conse-
quence of the bad weather. She had on board thirty
passengers, among whom was Mr. Janssen, of the
department of foreign affairs, with dispatches for the
Government.

The Senate, in its sitting of to-day, heard several
reports. Baron Stapart presented a report on the
supplementary credits for the budget of the public
debt and the dotation, and on that for the department
of j ustice.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Batisms, DEC. 24.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent • •
Ditto Three per•
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto —
Ditto, ditto, 1840 • • ...
99%
Ditto, ditto, 1842• •• • • ......... .. •• • • 101%
Ditto, 1844. •••• • • • • ....... • 97%
Ditto, 1838 • • .• • • ••• • . ........... 74
Ditto of the City, 1833 ...... • • • . 102%
Ditto, 1843 ••••••• • • • •• •• ....... • • 100
Bank of Belgium• • •• • • • 779
Brussels Papers. DEc.

2 ...... ...... to

r Ditto Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.)... 35
Ditto Quarter Shares
Diu,' New - ° 1
North Kent & Direct Dover -)1/2 24,V1 to
North Staffordst • '2.

_.„.. otatlbrus.
North Wales
North and South Wales and
Worcester
North. & South. Connecting 2%
Norwich and Brandon
16
Ditto New
Northampton, Banbury, and
Cheltenham
Nottingham and Boston l%
Notting.,Erewsh.Val.,&Manc. 1% l7.i
Nottingham and Mansfield... -
Oxford, Gosport, Portsmouth,
and Southampton... 42s.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton
Oxfd., Witney, & Cheltnhcm 1%.. ...
Perth and Inverness
Pilbrow Atmospheric
Portsmouth Direct . 33/4 —
Preston and Wyre
Ditto, Half Shares
Reading, Guildford, & Reigate 425. —
Richmond 5
Rugby, Derby, & Manchester 2% — ......
Rugby and Huntingdon
Rugby, Leamington, ant
Warwick
Rugby, Warwick, and Wor- •
cester
..•
..
Scottiz h Central
Scottish Midland ... ......... ... 5
Ditto, Extension
Sheffield and Manchester ...100 -
Ditto 114 Shares 8
Shrewsburyand Birmingham 21,2...... 44 to •
Shropshire Mineral -
Shropshire Union ... 425. ... .. 3,1 dis... to
Shrewsbury and Hereford ... 2%.....
Shrewsbury, `Wolverhampton,
and S. Staftordsh. Junction 21,2.....
Sligo and Shannon
Somersetshire Midland
South Devon
South Midland 42s.
South and Midlands Junction 425.......
South Staffordshire Junction 21,x ......
SouthjEastern and Dover ... 33%...... 371 3/ to 37
Ditto, New, No. 1
Ditto, New, N 0.2 7 - to
Ditto, New, No. 3
Ditto New, No. 4............. 2% 3!4 ...... to
Southampton, Manchester,
anti Oxford Junction. ... 425. ...
St. Alban s, Hatfield, and
Hertford Junction
Staines and Richmond....
Staffordshire and Shropshire 2% — to
South Wales
Taw Vale Extension
Tean and Dove Valley l% % to
I'rent Valley
Trent Val. & Holyhead June. 2% — to
Tring,Reading,& Basingstoke 514 —
Ulverstone and Furness ...... 2% — t.
Vale of Neath
Warwick and Cheltenham ... 1% — to
Warwick and Worcester 425.......
Waterford and Kilkenny
Waterford and Limerick 71.....
Waterford, Wexford,lVicklw,
and Dublin
Waterford, Wexford, and
Valentia -
Waveney Valley
Welch Midland 2%
West Cornwall
West Yorkshire
%Vest London, Old Sh'itles ... 20
West End & South. Counties 11/2 —
Wexford and Carlow
Wisbeach and St. Ives
Wilts, Somerset, & Sthamptn 1%.....
Wilts,Somerset,&%Veymouth 2%...... 3
Worcester, Hereford, Ross,
and Gloucester
Worcester,Tinbury, & Ludlow 23% to
Wrster, Shrews. & Crewe Un. 1%
Worcester and South Wales.. 425. —
Worcester,Warwick,& Rugby 425. —
Yarmouth and Norwich ...... 20
Ditto, New... ............ .. ... 17 . —
York and Carlisle -2% £4%... to
York and Lancaster 2% to
York and North Midland .. 50 ......108
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Scarboro' Branch
Ditto, Selby
Ditto. Extension

hire 42s.
_.. 32

,• to --
,• to

co
to
to

....,. ... to

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

~ to 14%

to
to
to
to

Anglo-Belgian
Barbadoes - to -
Boulogne and Amiens lO .....,10% 11... to 10%
Bordeaux and Mediteranean 2 - to -
Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette
(Mackenzie's)
Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette
( Espelete's) - to
Calais, Dunk, & W. Flanders - - to
Callao, Lima, & Pacific Coast 1 ...... -
Central of Spain - to
Ceylon - to
Demerara. - to
Dendre Valley
Dijon and Mulhouse 2 ... 1%...... to -
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian -
Eastern Belgian Junction.... DA - -
Fampoux and Hazebrouk 2 - to -
Great Northern of France
Constituted -
Great Paris and Lyons -
Great Western Bengal ss. -
Great Western Canada - -
Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 - to -
Jamaica North Midland 1 - to -
Ditto Extension -
Jersey 1
Louvain and Jemeppe
Lyons and Avignon 2
Luxembourg
Madrid and Valentia - to -
Mauritius 1 - -
Namtr and Liege - 4 -
North Jamaica.. - to -
Orleans and Vierzon -
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 ..... 113 E A to
Over Yssel 413 s 4d.... - -
Paris and Lyons(Laffitte) ... 2 -
Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 3 ... -
Paris and Lyons (Colon's)... 2 . - -
Paris and Lyons (Sud Eat)... 2 -
Paris and Orleans... ... 20 -
Paris and Rouen 2O -
Paris& Strashurg(Gannern's) 2 -
. ... .. to -
Do. (Compe de L'Est) 2 -
Ditto (Aymards) 214 - to -
Paris and St. Quentin ...... ... 2 - to -
Rouen and Havre . lB -
Royal North of Spain 2 - to -
Sambre and Meuse -
Strasburg and Bale l4 -
St. Laurence and Atlantic.... - - to -
Tournay, Jurbise, Landen,
and Hasselt
Tours & Nantes (Mackenzie) 4 - to -
Ditto Ditto Lefebvre's)... 2.. .. 2M -
Do. (O'Neilrs) ... ........ ... 2 .. ... - -
TrinithAL. ........ ......... ..... 2% - to -
Verona and Ancona 3 - ...... to -
West Flanders -
MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered -

- to

LOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY

LONDON, DEC. 26.—Wind S.W., fresh b• eeze and cloudy.
DOVER, DEC. 25.—The quarter-deck and stern frame of a
vessel, having a round-house painted yellow, with the letters
" Wood" on part of the frame, the others broken away, were
passed yesterday, Dunkirk bearing S.W., distant 12 miles,
by the Princess Mary steamer, from Ostend.
BIDEFORD, DEC 24.—The Ness, Nicholas, from Demerara
to Bristol, was stranded at the entrance of this harbour yes-
terday morning, and is full of water; crew saved.
PILL, DEC. 25.—1 t has blown a strong gale since yesterday
from N.N.W. to N.N E.—A barque from Gloucester to Car-
diff has been driven ashore to the east of Portshead, but lies
well on soft mud. A frow loaded with coke, and a schooner
from Lidsey with coals, arc reported to be sunk at Ports-
head ; crew saved. The Lady Douglas, from Liverpool to
Africa, has been forced up the Channel, with loss of fore-
yard.
NEwronY, DEC. 25.—The Silurian, of :and from this port
for Hull, got on shore on Cardiff Sands, and has put back
with loss of anchors and cables, and making three feet
water per hour, and has gone into dock to discharge.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 24.—The William and Charlotte, of
Prince Edward's Island, was passed 30th ult., in lat. 45, long.
56, dismasted, water-logged, and abandoned. The Howard,
hence to Savannah, which was' driven up the River Dec.
inst., has: been towed round to this port, with loss of main
and m.zen masts.
ST. Ives, DEC. 23,—During a heavy gale from about north
this morning, the Dorothy }lolling, of Sunderland, from
Newport to Goole, went on shore in the eastern part of the
bay in a very perilous situation; crew saved and cargo ex
pected to be.
SCILLY, DEC. 23.—1 t has blown a strong gale with heavy
sea for several days past, particularly on the 20th inst., when
the Pomona, Rees, from London, parted her cables, and was
run on the beach at Port Mellen.
WEXFORD, DEC. 22.—The Welcome, of Cork, from Liver-
pool, was wrecked on the south side of Small Salter Island,
during the night of the 21st inst.; crew saved.
WATERFORD, DEC. 22.—The Kate, Callings, of Bristol,
from Liverpool, after discharging here, capsized, and sunk in
deep water; four of the crew_drowned.

XILRUSII, DEC. 21.—The John Begg, of and from Galway,
has arrived in catlarie Roads, leaky.
HOLY ISLAND, DEC. 23.—The John Crosley, Taylor, of
Glasgow, got on shore this morning, inside the Partin Steel,
at this island, but expected off.
WHITBY, DEC. 25.—The Jane, of North Shields, went on
shore last night, and sunk near Robin Hood Bay; crew saved.
BLAKENEY, DEC. 23.—A boat, marked Young Adam, was
picked up here this morning.
YARMOUTH, DEC. 25.—The Seville, Richardson, of Sun-
derland, from Hamburgb to London, has been towed in here,
with loss of bulwarks, stanchions, and part of cargo thrown
overboard.

LOWESTOFFE, DEC. 25.—The Oscar, Trapps, from Gothed-
burg to London, drove on the main, 23d instant, during a
heavy gale at N.N.W. to N.N.E., and remains full of water;
part of cargo saved.
MILFORD ISLAND.—The schooner, James Peacock, of Ayr,
for Wins, parted yesterday, and went on shore in Tramare
Bay, and expected to become a wreck.
Scrnur, DEC. 23.—The stern-post of a vessel's long-boat,
marked on the outside " Agnes Ewing," was picked up hare
yesterday; also the mizen-mast of a large ship.
CARDIGAN, DEC. 23.—The Louisa, Forbes, of Perth, from
the Clyde to Gibraltar, Messina, and Malta, was thrown on
shore in this bay this, morning, thumped heavily, and filled;
crew saved.

WELLS, DEC. 23.—The sloop, W. T. R. Ducking, of Boston,
is ashore at Brancastei, but is expected off.
HAftwicif, DEc. 23. --The Ashley, Nicholas, of London,
was stranded 23d, on the Heaps, and abandoned--since towed
in here with loss of masts, &c. ; crew, and part of cargo,
saved.

DEAL, DEC. 25.—Wind W., fresh.—Arrd. Bolivar, Tem-
viek, Bombay; Horatio whaler, South Seas; Jongi Aree,
Surinam. 24. Arrd. from the River, Robert Hidelle, Baker,
Fernando Po; Belle Creole, Muirhead, De nerara ; Castries,
Hind, St. Lucia; Joseph Somes, Thompson, Hobart Town;
Guineaman, Stanfield, Africa; Isabella Wood, Naylor, Deme-
rara; Sir Charles Napier, Bingham, Mobile; Planter, Pettin-
gell, New York. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Oriental
Queen, Jeffery, Mauritius; Rapid, Jamaica, 51d.