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LONDON, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 27, 1845.

whence all the established clergy and aristocracy, and
a vast majority of the middle classes, draw their lite-
rary auoieoge, no ~t" belle!.
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, aed
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
Puscyites are at direct variance with the reformed
religion, and the sacred oaths taken by such men as
Pussy, 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.

Brazilian Legislature, adopting Art. 1 of the con•
vention of 1826, legally proceed to treat trazilian
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 it 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 :

" Nevertheless, the Imperial Government preferring
to all other considerations the noble sentiments of jus-
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."

The protest of 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 WILDS. 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. WILD; and
affirmed by eleven of the Judges against twat—that
an agreement by treaty on the part of the Brazilian
Executive that Brazilian subjects carrying on the
slave-trade shall be deemed and treP:ted 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 hy English tribunals, to justify
interference by our oourts with Brazilian subjects or
their property.

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.

Fiat justitir:,, ruat calm. Deeply as we should
deplore an If diminution of power to suppress the slave-
trade, we are bound to discountenance any illegal
extrcise of power ; and, in admitting the reasonable-
/less 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-blooded 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,
and 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
be no longer lawful, ander any pretext or in any manner
whatsoever, fur 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
were inserted word for word in the convention, the seve-
ral articles and provisions of the treaties concluded be.
tween 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 vessel!, 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 treatei as pirates—which agree-
ment of itself is worth just nothing. We do not
suppose for one moment that the Brazilian Govern-
inent, 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
slave-trade was never contemplated. However, so it
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 lof 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 Legislature, but 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 considered
herself authorised by Art, 1 to capturo and adjudi-
cate in her courts Brazilian subjects and vessels
engaged i n the traffic, she would not have sought to
obtain by Article!. 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
RODERT PEEL disregarded Sir TIIOMAS WILDE'S
obj ections, 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 W'ILDE's as Mr. Baron PLATT.S
which, at the time, fortified the Attorney-General's,
does to that of the assembled Judges.

It is gratifying to find, amidst the general back-
asliding of our bishops in the cause of Protestantism
nd the defection of many clergymen to the Romish
Church, one bighop, at least, firm in his faith and
determined to maintain the great principles of the
Reformation. To that glorious revolution England
owes much of her present prosperity and her high
rank among the nations of the earth. It destro3rd
the shackles of despotism; it lessened the power
of kings, freed the mind, in a great measure, from
the thraldom imposed by a wicked, selfish, and un-
believing priesthood, and taught the people to look
to the Bible alone as the guide of their faith and
conduct: The Puseyites have been labouring
for years to undo all these great blessings ;
they have, by cunning, stealth, and every Je-
suiticArsclterritr; been undertnitiing- the bulwarks
pf the Protestant Church, and polluting the sources

Though we cannot, in the absence of an Act of the

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 QUERN'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 ARAIERO, BENAVIDES, and J.
CASTRO.

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

The accounts received in Paris, on Wednesday, of
the failure of Lord Joust 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 Fiver, to
about the same amount. Most 9f the railway shares
also closed better. Owing to the severe weather and
teary 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 Dibats, 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 Al.l3mtayEa 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
DARELAY. The first-named gentleman proposed to
increase the amount to 201., 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 vessels, and wished to see the transport of coal,
tobacco, and some other articles, restored to the
French flag. The seaports, represented by M. CLEEC, of
Havre, M. BETTING DE LANCASTEL, of Nantes, and
M. Discos, 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. Discos, of the
Gironde, went further, and demanded a complete mo-
dification of the entrance duties on iron. M. HORACE
SAY supported the same side of the question, appeal-
ing to the principle of commercial liberty. M. Dunn
again addressed the Council in opposition to the argu-
ments of the last speaker. Messrs. VINTRY,
SCIINEIDER, and LEGENTIL, were also heard. The
custom is, in the meeting of the three Councils, to
1-ave 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
I be the discussion on iron proper for the fabrication of
I steel."

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-
tiorenel, 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 Fittas. The war-
riors of this great tribe, it is said, seeing themselves
surrounded by our columns, and feeling great irritation
against Bou Mass, who was preparing to quit them, tell
on him and deprived him of lite. 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 amen is de
manded from all sides, and it is not granted on easy
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."
" According to the accounts from Algiers of the 17th
instant, Abd el-Kader does not appear to 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.
Liadleres.

" Count de Percy Monchamps, the last representative
inlNormandy of the noble house4which, after the con-
quest w..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 two 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 ext.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
have reason to believe that the engines have already
been ordered of Messrs. Cave and Schneider."
" The Dias 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 Me.

THE SUN LONDON, SATURDAY NIOnNING, DECEMBER, 27, 18,15

jetty took up his residence in the Palace Giustiniani, the '
seat of the Russian embassy, We extract the following
on this subject from the Quotidienne:—
" We have received letters from Rome of the 13th.
The Emperor Nicholas had arrived durieg the night; anti
in the morning at eleven he weht to the Vatican in the
carriage of M. de Bolitehieg 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 I3outenieff. 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 guess at the re-
sult of this interview. But we could read in the face
of the two Sovereigns rather an expression of friendshtp
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 t lie French Episcopacy, but the snare was
easily detected. The Ministry will not obtain the two
hats that it was desirous of."

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closed at 82f. 30c.; the New Loan, at 82f. 10c• the Five
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50c. ;
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St. Alban's, Fiatfield, and
Hertford Junction ...

Staines and Richmond... , 1
Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2% —
South Wales ..... ... 21,i 3l/sl4 3 31,i..
Taw Vale Extension ... - ••• •• •••••••
Teen and Dove Valley 1% %
Trent Valley
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke
Ulverstone and Furness 21/2......
Vale of Neath 2
Warwick & Cheltenham 1% ....• . .

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Warwick and Worcester 425.
W aterford and Kilkenny 3 —
Waterford and Limerick 7%
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin
W aterford, Wexford, and
Valentia
Waveney Valley 2 -
Welch Midland
West Cornwall ...... 2 ... ..
West Yorkshire
West London,Old Shares 20
West End and Southern
Counties
Wexford and Carlow
Wisbeach and St. Ives 2
Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth .. .... ..... 21ih
Worcester,Hereford,Ross,
and Gloucester 42s. —
Worcester, Tinbury, and
Ludlow 23/4 ....... ••••..
Worcester, Shrewsbury,
and Crewe Union ... .. 1%
Worcester and S. Wales 425..._..
Worcest er,Warwick, and
Rugby . 42e........ ...
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Ditto, New
York and Carlisle 23/4. 2!,(%... ........
York and Lancaster 254,
York and Nin th Midland 50 lOB
Ditts % Shares .. 25
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Selby
Do. Extension

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Bordeaux, Touloust , and
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Flanders ....., .. — ...... ...
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,

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1073/4
.. 53
- 531,4
~ 76
~ 29

10%

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8 4

East Indian ... _
Eastern Belgian Junctn. 21/2
Fampoux & Hazebrouk 2
oeat North. of Fniict
Constituted
5 ...... .a/4,4
Great Paris and Lyons 2
Great Western Bengal... ss.
Great Western Canada... 31%
Jamaica S.Mid. Junction
Jamaica North Midland 1
Do. Extension 1
Jersey
Louvain and Jemeppe... 4
Lyons and Avignon
Luxembourg...
Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... ..
Mauritius
Namur and Liege
North Jamaica............ 1
Orkaris and Vierzon 10 ...... 17 ...
Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... 111 A%
Over Yssel 413 s 4d
Faris & Lyom (Laftitte's)
Parts and Lyons (Gan-
neron'5)...
Paris & Lyons,(Calon's) 2 .....
Paris &Lvons (Sud Est) 2
['aril and-Orleans 2O .... 47%
Paris and Bouen
Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron's) .
Do. (Compe de L'Est) 2
Do (Avmard's)
Paris and St. Quent in
Rouen and Havre ...... 18 - •••• • ....... •
o•pal North of Spam ... 2 ...... ••• •
Sambre and Meuse ...... 6
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
St. Laurence & Atlantic
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Bassett...—. 4
Tours and Nantes(Mac-
kenzie's)
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Trinidad
Verona and Ancona... 3
West Flanders 4

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47%

21%

43/4

Real del Monte Unregd.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

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
" Wdod" on part of the frame, the others broken away, were
pafosed yesterday, Dunkirk bearing S.W., distant 12 miles,
by the Princess Mary steamer, from Ostend,
Bror,Fonn, 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.
PHA., Ds.c. 25 —lt 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, are; 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-
-card. _ _ _

MwronT, 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.
LivEnroor' DEC. 24.—The William and Charlotte, of
Prince Edward's Island, was passed 30th ult.' in lat. 45, long.
56, dMnasted, water-logged, and abandoned. The Howaro,
hence to Savannah, which was driven up the River Dec.
inst., has been towed round to this port, with loss of main
and niizen masts.

THE PANTOMIMES, &c.
DRURI-LA2
Iler:cquin Gulliver, or Ci[ar s and Dwarfs, is
the taidng title of the Drury-laic t rutcznime, rnd
it is certainly one of the best It dared fur years.
alLeit Gulliver's travels have heim6 ii:••ished ma-
chinery for a pantomime, We recollect a llarkquin
Guilltra

Sr. Ives, DEC 23,—During a heavy gale from about north
this morning, the Dorothy Hulling, 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.
Sciu.v, 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. _ _ _

" In our yotilig tletg;
When George the Third was Kind;"
yet the adventures of the Surgeon-captain contain
materials sufficient to furnish from them many more
such, and the lisriegttfe list night teal
by no means a copy of his predeeesSa. The
opening scene is the interior of Guildhall On
Lord Mayor's day, 1845, between the dinner and
the ball. The City Giants, Gog (Mr. S. Jones)
and Magog (Mr. H. Horticastle),descend from their
pedestal to make merry with the remains of the feast.
They are just about to attack an American pippin,
when the apple opens, and out walks General Tont
Thumb, admirably acted by little Miss Turtle, who,
in the words of the playbill, " takes the giants down
a peg or two." From words they almost come to
blows, Pantaloon and Clown appearing and taking
part with the Giants, and a diminutive Harlequin and
Columbine appearing as the allies of Toni Thumb.
The Genius of Pantomime (Miss A. Payne) appears
as umpire, and ends their differences by determining
that giants and dwarfs shall each furnish their
quota towards the new Christmas pantomime.
The scene then changes to the coast of the island of
Lilliput, and Gulliver (Mr. W. H. Payne) and Mrs.
Gulliver (Mr. Hance) are discovered shipwrecked on
a rock and signaling and calling out for help; The
Flying Island appears in sight, and Mrs. Gullivet
taken up into it, while Gulliver himself tumbles oft
the rock into the sea, and is washed ashore on the
coast of Lilliput, where the inhabitants assemble round
the Great Man-mountain. The Lilliputians have
made, it would appear, great progress in civilisa-
tion, for we have a brigade of Lilliputian police who
disperse the mob and take Gulliver into custody, ands
Lilliputian locomotive, by means of which he is
dragged off to his place of destination. We are then
conducted to the Hall of Science of the King of
Laput (Mr. T. Matthews), where we find his Ma-
jesty attended by his flappers, who rouse him from
his mathematical reveries, and introduce Mrs. Gulliver
at Court, who obtains for her the line of the Flying
Island, to travel in search of her husband. The scene
then changes to the Court of Lilliput, where the
Great Man. mountain is introduced to his Lillipu-
tian Majesty, and drills the troops, making
them march between his legs, and creates a
famine by his enormous appetite, and captures
the Blifuscadian fleet, and saves the Empress from
the fire at the palace. This scene was admirable.
Payne's Great Man-mountain was one of the richest
bits of burlesque ever seen. His reviewing the
troops a la Napoleon, striding about and taking snuff,
was vastly funny. The Lilliputian army, too, went
through their exercise with the greatest precision;
and as to the fire brigade, at the burning palace,
they could not have acted more efficiently had they
been superintended by the great Braidvvood him-
self. At the conclusion of this scene, Guilliver
takes a hop, skip, and jump into Brobdignag,
and the Nobdignag men and women, and
children, and birds, and pigs, are capitally ma-
naged. Gulliver gets into all sorts of scrapes
in the Brobdignag nursery, and dances the polka
with a cat, in the most grotesque style imaginable.
Then comes Lilliput and the rock, as in scene the
first. The Genius of Pantomime, attended by a brilliant
cortege, appears, and the transformations take place,
Wieland being the Harlequin, Torn Matthews the
Clown, Howell the Pantaloon, and Miss Hicks and
Miss Lonsdale the Columbines. From this moment
the fun never flags. The pantomime is what it
should be—a running comment on the absurdities of
the year; and, albeit there are certain incidents
which are matter of tradition, and which one
expects to meet with in every pantomime,
yet they are introduced after a new fashion. For
instance, the street scene of a maie, during which,
the clown takes all sorts of hats, coats, cloaks, Sce•l
from the passengers, is here produced by the clown,
rubbing the pavement over with two large bloat; 01
Wenham Lake ice, and thus throwing down every
one who attempts to pass. As might have been
;ex-
pected, there are divers hits at the railwayreen
We hava a grand railway weeple-chase from
g _
Highgate to the Board of Trade, endl
in a grand blow up, the probable gene.ril
railway terminus. Mr. Punch is exhibited es till,.
great guy, nor did his Grace of Norfolk Paak s and
noticed. A placard, " VS, hat to eat, drie
avoid," is unfolded at a touch of the l!a,riedgolluibnl'es
wand, and we are told to eat roast beef, drink was
X, and avoid Norfolk curry powder. vi
This hit
received with shout; of laughter and applause'
which Here renewed by the Clown presenting Ps
an
taloon with a red hot poker as " something warm a
comfortable." The concluding scene is a most meg'
nificent diorama of the city of Cologne, as it ar
peared on her Majesty's arrival there last sull:per.
The city is first seen by daylight—evening cone`
on, fireworks are discharged from the boats on fb°,
Rhine, gradually the city becomes illuminated, an°
amidst the most gorgeous display of illuminated
buil'iings and triumphal arches, the curtain falls on
certainly the best pantomime that has been produceded
at Drury-lane for years. The house vlasticcri:athe
to excess, and the audience were enthusias
applause throughout the performance.

„..
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.
ATERFORD, DEC. 22.—The Kate, Callings, of Bristol,
from Liverpool, after discharging here, capsized, and sunk in
deep water; four of the crew drowned.
litmus'', DEC. 21.—The John Begg, of and from Galway,
has arrived in r: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.--Thar 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.
YAnmouTu, Disc. 25.—The Seville, Richardson, of Sun-
derland, from Hamburgh to London, has been towed in here,
with loss of bulwarks, stanchions, and part of cargo thrown
overboard. _ _

LOWESTOFFE, Dscc. 25.—The Oscar, Trapps, from Gothen-
burg to London, drove on the main, 23d instant, during a
hem y gale at N.N.V. to N.N.E., and remains full of water;
part of cargo saved.
MILFORD ISLAND.—The schooner, James Peacock, of Ayr,
for Ballina, parted yesterday, and went on shore in Trarnare
Bay, and expected to become a wreck.
SCILLY, 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. _ _ — .

ELLS, Disc. 23.... The sloop, W. T. R. Ducking, of Boston,
is ashore at Brancastet, but is expected off.
HAnwrctt, DEC. 25..—The Ashley, Nicholas, of Londor,
was stranded 23d, on the Heaps, and abandoned—since towed
in here with loss of masts, &c. ; crew, and part of cargo,
saved.

VM
DEAL, D7tc. 25.—Wind W., fresh.—Arrd. Bolivar, Tem-
vick, Bombay; Horatio whaler, South Seas; Jongi Aree,
Surinam. 24. Arrd. from the River, Robert Ilidelle, Baker,
Fernando Po ; Belle Creole, Muirhead, De. nerara ; Castries,
Hind, St. Lucia; Joseph Sums, Thompson, Hobart Town;
Guineaman. Stanfield, Africa; Isabella Wood, Naylor, Deme-
rara; Sir Charles Napier, Bingham, Mobile; Planter, Pettin-
g ell, New York. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Oriental
QQueen, Jeffery, Mauritius; Rapid. Jamaica. Sld. Blundell,
Calcutta; Simon Taylor, ditto; Varuna, ditto; Brunswick
Coppell, Aden and Bombay ; Navarino, Dalstoo, St. Helena,
Bolivar, St. Vincent's ; Ada, Jamaica ; Caroline, ditto ;
American, Samson, New York ; and the whole of the out-
ward bound.
POWIVIOUTIL—SId the outward bound ready for sea.

THE CORN CROPS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

HAYMARKET.
At this theatre last night there were three pieces
produced one of them, A Cure for
ache, was got !up and gone through in a style of
elegance and efficiency worthy of the Haymarket.
Hudson was brisk, happy, and attractive, as usual ;
and his many little gratuitous but well-timed hit'
told with unmistakeable effect. Farren's best part
was his endeavours to make a speech, in which h;
was invariably interrupted by causes the rflo f
the Heart._
unexpected and annoying; but the yawning °
his audience—that is, the tailor and. his OP
—called forth such observations' as, "Oh ! rug
yawn as if you had been accustomed to beef,
speeches in Parliament." Hudson also went thr°,ug„a
his many girations of lover and grateful fr'e"te
in his own happy way; and his attempts to extrics h
himself from his manifold dilemmas, in each of vviiLier
he was detected while on his knees, by him or '4l
whom of all the world he would least wish or exile
to see, were such as to keep up an almost unipterci
rupted course of applause. Grandfather Whitehee
'
followed, and though it was a piece of short durath°
and one not containing much to interest or amuse'
yet Farren's Grandfather was such a perfect personv
ficatiun of the natural feelings of one placed as he wssi
that it was received throughout with those marks °
favour which hia " old men " cannot fail to elicit'
Then came the grand piece of the evening, Th° Bide
and the Orange Tree. This was got up upon the o
fairy tale of that name; but it was got 01}
most exquisitely, and was made the medium•
conveying many happy hits against the present from
way mania. The scene opened with a chorus fr°ll3.s
" Old King Cole," and when it had concluded, ill
Majesty announced the manner in which he meant to
portion off his royal scions, to the third of whom
declared
For thee, I've nothing now left but my prayers,
Unless, indeed, some forty railway shares.
Th.e dutiful son declined to lessen the royal treasurit
because, he said,

Siß,—We have of late been favoured with the
reports of a certain Commissioner on the social state
of Ireland, and I think, Sir, that if it could be
afforded, you or some of your contemporaries would
be doing good service in sending a Commissioner
into Wales. The abject state of the agricultural
population in this portion of the kingdom, both as to
education and personal comforts, is pitiable; and the
same wants sifting by some skilful hand. The small-
ness and bad qualities cf the crops will, it is expected,
press fearfully on the population before another har-
vest, and I hear that in one or two of the border
counti,s some of the farmers are already beginning
to purchase grain for their own consumption, and
that they also express their conviction that the sliding-
scale should be abolished. The Welsh landlords are
continually inflicting scourges on the country in en-
closing and frittering away the common lands, in the
face of the fact, that the land already under cultiva-
tion is not, nor can be, half cultivated by the occu-
piers; and, besides, the continual enclosure of com-
mons engenders bad feelings in the minds of the
small landowners and cottagers ; the system is
fri.ught with mischief, and should by no means be
encouraged by the legislature. When the high
rents of the Welsh tenant farmers, and their heavy
pa) ments in the shape of rates, taxes, and tithes, are
looked at, it is no wonder that the march of agricul-
tural improvement is so slow in the principality.
I roman, Sir, &c.,
Gwent, Doc. 24, 1845. VERITAS.

THE WEATHER AT BOULONGE.—The wind has
been so high since Saturday, that for three days no boat
could enter the harbour. Early on Sunday morning
the Queen of the Belgians arrived, after a most boisterous
passage of above three hours, conveying the extraordi-
nary courier of the Times, with the third edition of that
paper, of Saturday, published at half•past three o'clock
in the afternoon, and with great difficulty succeeded in
reaching the harbour. The Queen of the French ar-
rived later in the day, and having struck against the pier,
breaking her bowsprit and knocking off her figure-head,
made two more ineffectual attempts to enter the harbour,
but finding it impossille to do so without sacrificing the
vessel, and in all probability the passengers on board,
tacked about and returned to Folkestone, to the great
dissatisfaction of the crew. A scene of the greatest ex-
citement prevailed on the arrival of the Times' courier at
Boulogne with a copy of the Queen of Spain's
speech, which appeared in the Times of Monday.
The directors of the steam-boat company used
every endeavour to prevent the captain from
leaving ; but his reply was, "Is the Times' courier
disposed to go ? if so, push her off.' " Consequently
she started, and atter having had everything washed off
her deck, reached Folkestone in safety. The wind had
somewhat abated about half-past three, and the couriers
arriving with the overland mail dispatches, the Ondine
left, and 20 minutes after the Queen of the Belgians.
We regret to announce that the Ondine suffered very
much from the journey, and was obliged to go to Dover
to be repaired. The opinion entertained here is, that
the Ondine is by no means a fit boat for a rough sea,
and I believe she does not intend to start again unless
the weather is propitious. The Prince Ernest arrived
from Dover on Wednesday night, and announced her
intention of returning on Thursday morning, at six
o'clock, at which hour 75 passengers embarked, and the.
vessel left. She made two ineffectual attempts to get
out of the harbour, and after starting the third time
suddenly stopped, her engines having broken. The sea
was very high at the time, and had she been half a mile
further out the vessel and passengers must have been
all sacrificed. The Queen of the Belgians arrived from
Folkestone about this time, landed all on board with
every possible speed, and relieved the Prince Ernest of
her passengers, conveying them to Folkestone. Too
much cannot be said in praise of the intrepid conduct of
Captain Jenkins, Captain Mont er, and Captain King,
and the Steam Packet Company are most fortunate in
having such able men to conduct their vessels.— Times.
NARROW ESCAPES FROM DROWNlNG.—Thursday
afternoon, between one and two o'clock, as two young
men were rowing in a boat nearly opposite the Peniten-
tiary prison, one of them let loose his scull, and in en-
deavouring to regain it he overbalanced himself and his
companion into the river. The accident was observed
by two lightermen, named Shard and Jessop, who put
off from shore in a skiff, and reached the two youths
just time enough to save them from being drowned.
Lord Metcalfe, has left town fur Lis seat, Fern
near Windsor. •

" To rob you, Sire, of such, would be a crime, ~
We can have but one railway king, Sire, at a time'
TLe scene then changed to a ma-shore cave, where
an ogre lived, and lived on nothing but railway
directors, secretaries, and surveyors. This ogrft
in his metrical address to the audience, defended 1119
cannibal propensities upon many grounds, such as
" Sempstresses who live to die by slow decay, „
May let their bones be picked in any other way.
And
" To eat up men and wives would be less cruel
Then let them slowly starve on water gruel."
Then followed a series of hits of the like kind, ever,'
one of which was directed against the present
rallWay
system, and all of which told admirably, and were
loudly applauded. Altogether the entertainments
afforded the highest amusement to the audience:
which was very crowded, and the novelty of the 10'
piece was duly appreciated.

ADELPIIL
The Adelphi Theatre has at this festive season
greatly extended the reputation which former success'
ful years had earned for it, for the spirited directress,
Madame Celeste, not contented with merely furnisb.
ing an original pantomime to the play-going page,
has added to it the no less welcome gift of a ile:q
historical piece of more than average merit, and 'ln
l°
order we suppose to give the holiday folks full ca
for their money, a farce pleasantly filled up the in'
terval between the drama and the pantomime, afford,i
ing the mercurial Wright, and his bulky and gifte
friend, Paul Bedford, an opportunity of approving
their well- earned position as the first of humoristsl
by the plaudits and hearty laughter of a crowded
house. Yesterday g
evenin s amusement commence
with the drama, entitled I'he Lioness of the North.ti
or the Prisoner of Shlusselbourg. The scene is 181
in Russia, and the period chosen is that succeeding
the death of the Ist Catherine, and when Elizabeth
worthily filled the throne of Muscovy. The incident:
are in themselves few, and the interest of the piece
rather depends upon the development of the fillet
passions, than on the dramatic character of the pini
as fitted for stage representation. Count Shuoln t
(the Minister of Police), gr. Selby, suspecting tit
Alexis Romanowski (a young cavalry officer),
Webster, has had an intrigue with his wife, confine;
him in the prison of Shlusselbourg, where he find
another lady-love to console him in the persoo
Feedora (Miss Chaplin), daughter of Mayor Puffer
dorff (Mr. Lambert), the commandant of the I(4'