The New York Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1849, Page 2

fafety fund bavk to be examined at r; such examination would vot then neo * then left to bi ng the examio knowledge that ruch examination would bs had the uncertainty of the time when, would rend greatly to restrain apy abuse and to ent fraudulent practions by the officers of the ban’. and could hardly fail to exert a salutary fafluence for the Denefit of the community The Comptroller wou'd ther-fore reapectfally recym- mend that the law be co changed ne to reqnire the Comptroller to cause every watery fund hank to be exemired at Jeast once # year and as mush oftener as he hail deew neceswry. avd ty publish the raault of such examination, ifin his opinion such publication will eubserve any wreful paroore Usexcisteneo CincvLation or tHe Savety Fuxo NK By the act of April 18. 1845, (chan. 218 p, 299.) every cbsrtered benk was required to take aa annoant of its cirevlation om the Ietday of July thereafter, aod re turn to the Comptrolier statement of the amount underoath, and when ruc’ utes were destroyed the Comptroller was to furnish to the bank an equal amount of registered notes to supply their plaoas Some of thore noter had been ixeaed many years ba- fore, and bave neverbeen returned to the bank. and more than five years having elap<ed. it ia probable that they are lost; but yet the bank oan farnish no evi dence to this department of their destruetion, except what arisesfrom lac of time Conrequently no re- istered notes can be farnikhed In their places It is therefore reapectfally rerommended to the Le- gislature, to authorize the Comptroller to issue regis ‘tered notes in lieu of any unregist-red notes of such Dank, an account of which has been returned to this department, when he shall be enti«fied from the facta etated by the Prerident and Cashier of such ban o eeth, that such unregistered notes are probably lost or destroy Fare Banks The Free Bank Fund courlate of bonds and mort- Gages and rtocks deposited with the Comptraller and moneys receive op the and held by him for the redemption of the circulating potas insured by banks and individval bankers under the general beoking of 1888, chap. 260, prge 245 ) jations ie fifty-three. (53) bankers {+ firty-one, (61) making im all one bundred and four, (104) whowm aggrazate olr Nation on the firat day of December. 1848, was $9, 903.762; afew of there are calling in their notes, and intending to close their business The securities of the above hanks in the hands o the Comptroller Deoember the 1st, 1848. consist of Now York State, 43% percent stock. $23.37 56 ne 2 431.879 86 “ % « DIE M0 00 « 6 Cd 1590 859 34 ie a. ee 83°47 00 ——-= $7,627,092 76 Dnited States 5 per cent stoo + $15.00 00 “ 6 EC 69,000 00 —— 1400 Wnois State 6 “ GIK945 OF rkaneas * 6 424000 0) indiana“ 236 & 5 6.0 010) Alabama « 6 « 84.00) 00 Michigan “ 6&7 222,008 00 ‘Tctal amount of $9,075,206 8) deposited... . i : 49908 00 Borda and mortgages : 1,814,979 65 ‘Total amount of securities Be: urities hi for arcoviations .. $7,227,691 04 individua: bankers, 3417490 81 ——-—— $10,649,182 45 Clrentating notes issued to ass-orm. font $9,992,762 00 Increase of securities from December 1, 1817, to De- ember 1, 1848:— New York State 53¢ per cont stock, * Illinois 6 be $28,609 00 639.198 84 279 ST ‘Total increare of securities, . * « $558,973 71 Decrease of eecurities from Teo. 1, 1847. to Has, 1, 1848 :— New York State ‘* percentstock ..... Cie 0 “ T : | Symes > eB Bonds ond mortgages » 44,382 75 ‘Total decrease of ecourities .. . =. $1,020,041 99 Deoreate of circulation from Dec. 1, 1847, to Dec. 1, 1848...... os seecgs areeee $372,792 00 * Intereat coupor 6 coi a, For the condition of these banks in detail—the time when they commenced business — their location—agents to redeem, nyt toad the statement annexed to this re- ed (( . ‘ociations and eight individual bankers have Commenced business during the year, viz.— Jasociations Bank of Rondout, Rondout. Ulater county. mden Bank Camden Oneida county. Fort Stenwix Bavk. Rome. Oneida couaty. Uties City Bank Utica. Oneida county, Individval Banks Bank of the Empire State, Fair Port, Chemung am Bank of Westfield, Westfield, Chautanque county. Cortlandt County Bank, Cincinnatus, Cortlandt county. Kniokerbocker Bank. Genoa. Cayuga county Northern Canal Bank, N. Granville, Washington eounty. Putnam County Bank, Farmers’ eounty, Village Bank. Randolph, Cattaraugus county. Walter Joy's Bank Buffalo, Erie county. The associations have depo ities. viz:— New York Btate 6. pat oon stock . “ 6 “ Bonds and mortgages . . Mills, Patnam uunty e following seou- $144 401 25, 1.109 0) W775 $ 5 « - 5399,499 00 Circulating notes issued on the above. : ual banks have deposited the followin The indi Securities, vi $59 270 12 Circulating notes issued on the abcvo ... , + + $525,278 00 Insorvent Fare Banks. Bince the paseare of the genera! banking law, thirty-one (31) of the free barks have heen clised by the Comptroller, whose agzre te circulation at the tine of failure wa eee BT AIT.545 OO ount redeemed by the Compuoiler, , ve Leaving the ovtetardi ireu'at’on, including $4,069 of Aclas Bar k certifi 60,121 00 Por rates cricdempt ) Of the nine bake oo ed by t cir o $25,404 of ‘their circulating notes is outs: Suing, as fol! Exchange Bank of Bochester $17 00 Farmery’ Bauk of Genev: 60 00 . 1,211 09 “ 7100 Farmers’ and Mec! 24419 00 anufacturers’ Ba’ LAIL 0 Notth American Hank. New 13 G2 Willoughby Bank, Brockiyn 49.0 Wool Growers’ Bank, New Yo: 183.0) S44 0) ere’ and Mechanics’s Bank of Ogdonsburgh haa, d tring eat TA Renclored ty its orn stiekhoders sud an em ant equal to the vntetanding circu ation (to redeem t'e rama) do get ‘the credit of the Comptroller, in the Albany Exchangs ik. ATLAB BANK OF CLYMER Comrn foiled in December of the some year. the time +f ite failure BASH, secvred by State stocks, and $12 -995 secured by Stato ida’ bond and mort are for $65, on realestate in Breoniyn. All were evld; bat, w-fortu w elv, the bond and mort- gnge were 90 lorgo. that few ovnld compete for them, avd x'ver Fevers) attemptr, they were finally gold for $35,000" that being {hemabest and only bid which coud bv o tuined. ‘Thenet pro ceeds of the securities pais 17 centeon the dollar of thore notes geourcd by stocks ony. ard 75.centeon the dolls of thoes secured ocke and the bond @ d mortgage, tabularetatement annexed to tie report and marked (N,) will show what progress his been made in tue relemption of the notes, BANK NOTH PAPER. ‘When the gereral banking law wene into operation, tbe year ISA thet omprirol'er purchased and t Of selecting the paper themsel-ey which was a amcurtremsivingon bend sone Tw thousand sheate have been ured for certinestes of stock,s.d the ba'acoe. beiag 75.1"0 shoots, the Comptreler hea vent to’ Jame- Van Norden. agent & the citylf Now York, to dispose of to ths beat adv Van Norden thirks it will be best to del v the sale till The tabular statement annexed to thin report, marked (O) ives in aocondensed 0 whoe operstion of ch ‘ riment. from its commencement, April '8 1838, te D cembar 7, 1644, in redarion to those barks which hae failed Tow fol Lowi: ¢ jen cummary ofeheir securities which have beon gold by epartment, viz — nono Ino 5 p,. stock, produced $2) 38! 25 oF 49.8 pe 6° 4 117 423: B © 49.15 © bed 103 445 1) * RATT 44 167 BO 4 7195 56 142 5 71 287 48 64 99 L281 OW * 67.71“ 79000 Alabama 5 “| e207 85 New York “0 2,985 Bonds and Mor'cagos, 780643, $1NOK9AL 58243 056 5 per cont stock ; $14 000 535 per cent stock; “total, erage pet cont on all stocks other than New York... ....84.0° Per centage on all other securities vold 22.6851 [Conclusion to morrow.) Movements of Individuals. The following arr yesterday, ut the principal hotels, exbibits i quantity, for the season of the year: Howard, Boston; JH Lumb, do; J. L Simmons do ; Or. Morgan, Virginia; G. W. Rows, Georgia, Dr. Vitchell, U.S. N: W Gibron, do) Aston —W W. Chapin, Hartford ; J. Trott, do; Rey P. Channery, oo; Frederick Flerp, Bremen; Frederick T, Kean ‘Liverpool; 3. H. Mills, Cinctonati; A Rust. Virginia; E. E King, Borton, Howan 0 Keller, Vienoa; F. Reider, ‘Wert Point; W Hincher. steamer Washington; Gao, Williems, Liverpooi; Ed Range. Bremen; Guo. Runger do; — Langenbeim Philadelohia. W Sanger, Bteamer Warhington: Gen Shaw Washington; G. Evart, Toronto; J. Hall, do; J. Hayes, do. Invina House (Howard’s)—Mr end Mre Elder, Montreal; M1. ‘Cooke,Porto Rico; J, H Smith. Baltimore. J R Raakio, Fickill; S. V Merick, Philatelohia; R OC Forter, “Tennessee; WR. Dempster. burlington; Gen. Ward, Bing Sing; Capt Cobb farrytown ; Copt Caltaa, U 8 Engineers; RH. Edy, Boston; W Haven. U 8.A.; Dr. Kearney. do; Alex Scott, Georgia, P.M Grrhem, Mobile. Aifred Kelly. Columbia Sineviar Fac Crpt. Hood, a well kaown citizen of Beetown, Dave ©o., had a litle ead taken sick, which, alter much suffering, and with I the usual indicatious of the fiual struggle with ath, received ite parents’ parting embrace ta the sence ot other friends. The glazed eyes of the itile sufferer were closed, aud a bviduge was np plied to support the under j-w, ae 18 customary. Altera lapse of some 20 180 mautes, a woman qn attendance, who was aiding im tie xblation aad laying ovt of the corpse, comme need by sorinkling some cold water on the child's face, | Stra to tell. the child opened its eyes, sroused, vegan to snd memow ie the evyment of taj th rec: NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEWENTS THIS EV&NING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Boavicea—Tvanine THE Tames, BROADWAY TUEATRE, Bivadway—Monre-Crisro, AL THEATRE, Chatham WacounTa—Ve es Qatite THOUPE-CONTaNTMEGE ve Bicuue -SPxe- ThE BripecRoom. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers streot—-Dommev anv $on—SLasHeR AND CRASHER—CsLivonsta GoLv Mivea, WECHANICS' HALL, Broadway, Near Broome—Onaury’s Movernna . SOCLE'V LISRARY, Broadw: GRAC6 SPRaNADERS, ALHAMBRA, Brosdway, near Prince—Sanvs, Lert & Cv's, ApuERICAN CikoUs, ZOOLOGICAL HALL, Bowery—Vam Amnvacn & Co's, es ronnie. MELODEON, Bowery —Wnites Senexacens, &o. KEMP'S LYCEUM, Chatham Square—Erwiorian Samewa- opps, ko., Ro. near Leonard—New On- New York, Tucsday, January 9, 1849, The publication of the Monnive Bex A‘. commenced, day a¢ @ quarter past 2, and finished at ha'f past six o'o THE CALIFORNIA HERALD, NO. 2 MAP OF THE BAY OF SAN FRANCISCO. bier, Ser, Ses Tur Carivonnia Henao, No. 2, is now ready for delivery. It contains all the additional intelligence from California, together with the movements throughout the country, of the migrating parties, &o. It is illus- trated with a splendid map of the Bay of San Francis- co, with all the soundings and islands therein, oare- fully delineated ; and a fine view of the town and har- bor, with verrels riding at anchor. This is a very valuable number to those whe are going by sea to the gold region, Agents are requested to send in theirorders. Single copies sixpence. The European News. The steamship Washington, with four days later news from Europe, arrived at this port yes- terday, inthe afternoon. Fuil details of the in- telligence which she brought, will be found 1n our columns. By this arrival we are informed that France has been ina state of profound tranquility since the election of Louis Napoleon to the Presidency. Confidence was being restored, commerce, and business of all kinds were reviving in Paris and throughout the departments; and though last not least, the quotations for the public funds were nising every day, and large bona fide purchases of this description of property for investment, were made, These, and other indications, seem to war- rant the opinion, that there 1s no danger of any outbreak or disturbance in France, and that the new republic is established on a firm basis. In this respect the intelligence coincides with what we had anticipated. There is no news of great importance from Rome. The Pope declined to receive the deputa- tion which was commissioned to wait upon him ard solicit his return; nor, indeed, as we learn, was the deputation allowed to enter the Neapoli- tanterntory. In the meantime the affairs of Rome are transacted by the provisional government, which was appointed previously. His holiness does not seem inclined to trust himeelt to the Ro- man population, or put himself at their mercy again. The Roman'people, if he do not return soon, will perhaps discover that they can get on as well without him as with him. If they find out this, the Pope’s temporal power will be at an end thenceforth. The rest of Europe 1s in much the same condi- tion as it was in at the last accounts. Reform of the City Government —Present- ment of the Grand Jury on Blackwell's Isiand. We have in type, and will publish to-morrow, a most elaborate and able presentment which was mage by the Grand Jury in the Court of Sessions, yesterday, describing and condensing with much industry and talent, the causes which have con- tributed to the mismanagement of that branch of the municipal affairs connected with Black well’s Is'and and the Penitentiary. We are compelled to leave it out to-day, to make room for the Comp- troller’s report and the foreign news. The docu- ment is the result of along and minute investiga- tion into these abuses, and was written by the foreman of the Grand Jury, Mr. R. J. Smith. It gives a deplorable, but just, view of the condition of things in that branch of our municipal economy. We recommend it to the careful perusal of the whole country 5 If a simillar investigation by the same body had been made into other branches of our municipal government, we have every reason to believe that greater abuses and deeper errors would have been disclosed, than those of Blackwell's Island. The streets, the police, the wharves, in short, every department in the municipal government, of this great metropolis, would present the like organized system ef corruption and mismanagement—which have gone on, from time to time, acquiring ad- dit.onal strength, and accumulating more intolera- ble abuses, deepite of all attempts ot every party to amend or remove them, The astonishing amount of taxes to be levied on the citizens for the current year, exceeding three millions of dollars, is a legiti: mate deduction from these shameful abuses, and the strongest evidence of the necessity of a thorough and radical revolution in our mu- nicipal government. But how is this to be ac- complished? The people of this unhappy and prosperous city have tried every party, without effecting any satisfactory result. The truth is, the error lies in the system of government more than in the depravity, the negligence, or the incapacity of the men who are elected to the office of ad- ministering it. We must have a thorough and sweeping revolution in the government of New York, if we ever mean to have our municipal affairs conducted with any degree of efficiency or economy. A more misgoverned city than New York does not exist in the civilised World, The Mayor s8 a mere nonentity, a sort of head police officer. All the municipal officers, who are the ageuts of the misgovernors, are without respon- sibility and without pay. Nothing but a Tre-organi- zation of the city government, on the same plan as that of the State and the Union at large, can ever effect a change or produce a wholesome retorm, How, then, is this change to be brought about? By an entire and thorough change in the system of government. We ought to have a Mayor or President, invested with full executive power and authority to make appointments for all the execu- tive offices, from the highest to the lowest. He theuld be assisted by separate and independent heads of departments, responsible for the faith- ful execution of their duty to the public, and paid liberally for their services. The Mayor, or executive governor should have four or five thon- sand dollurs a year, and the heads of depart- ments should each have a liberal compensation for their duties. Then, again, the two existing branches of our city government should be entire- ly aboushed, and an efficiest municipal legisla- ture, composed of two bodies, elected in their stead, on a different basis. The Senate, or higher branch, should be elected for three years—one. third going out, in rotation, every year; and they thonld be paid for their services. Their duty would be to pags on the nominations of the Mayor, as 18 dene by the Senate of the State and of Con* | grees, and also to transact the other matters that would come before them in common with the branch of the city council should be elected from diflerent wards, or electoral districts ; *nd the body should consist of seventy or eighty members, to meet in the day time for such certain periods a8 might be necessary, and each member to be elected for one year, and to be paid for his rervices in the same way as the members of the State Legislature and of Congress. By such a reform, or revolution in our city go- vernment, the two legislative branches composing the cny council would be rendered responsible, and there might be some reasonable chance for reducing the enormous taxation, simplifying our municipal government, and securing efficient Management in every department of our city affairs. The able document presented by the Grand Jury evuggests that for Blackwell's lsland aboard of commissioners or inspectors should be appointed; but the organization we now suggest would dispense with any separate board of that nature, and render the administration of that department, as well as of every other in our municipal economy, efficient and satis- factory. It would, in short, embrace similar principles, and apply them on a more enlarged and extended scale, commensurate with the importance and growing magnificence of this vast metropolis. Let the shtbboleth, therefore, of all parties henceforward be “a thorough and ra- dical retorm of our city government”? Nothing else can cleanse the Augean stable, and produce a change for the better. M’ie Trvrri’s Benerit at Tx [rattan Orrra, --M’ile Troffi takes her benefit for the season at the Astor House Opera, this evening, when she will appear in the leading character of If Giwra- mento. If any one attached to the theatre deserves a bumper from the patrons of dramatic music in New York, this amiable, excellent, and superb artist certainly stands most pre-eminent. She 18 one of only three or four others, who have ap- proached the very highest rank in dramatic opera in this city, for the last twenty years. Her voice, her power, her taste, her genius, her tragic accom- plishments, are all of the first order of excellence. We hope, therefore, that all the lovers and patrons of music in the wide community beyond the nar- row limits of the cliques, will crowd to the Opera House to-night, and give her one of the finest bumpers which ever graced the theatre in New York. In making this exception to Truffi, and it may be to one or two others when their benefits take place, we do not mean to abate one jot or tittle of the opinions we have always entertained con- cerning the incorrect principles on which the Opera has been conducted and managed in this city during the last year and the present. To its erroneous and absurd construction has been added, more or less, a wantof skill and a want of talent in the general management of the concern. The first great error committed (and this error, we believe, originates in the opera committee, which, behind the curtain, directs the ostensible mansger of the day) wag the weak and imbecile attempt to introduce into the numerous and equal circles of such a city as this, the con- ceited, exclusive, and insolent pretension which prevails in the aristocratic and worn-out circles of European society. An opera founded upoa an exclusive subscription list 18 too narrow and mo- nopolizing, and 18 a sort of insult to the rest of the community—treating them as vulgar and canuille. This one great error lies at the foundation of th» toubles and difficulties which have assailed the Ttalian Opera in this city. Another error was the ignorant attempt, at the commencement of the last season, to ostracise and repudiate the newspaper press. Even in London and Paris, the newspaper press always, receives the courtesies of every opera mansgement—cour- tesics which are well understood to be anything but compromising the independence of criticism in the journals of the day. Under Sanquirico’s imbecile and weak management of last year, the opera committee made the first false step, by a general repudiation of the usual courtesies to the press, a step which they were obliged to retrace to acertain extent in less than a week. The bad management of that season broke down the Opera, when only two-thirds of the eubscription nights had been given, by which the subscribers were cheated out of ore-third of their money, which they had paid at the beginning of the season. During the present season an effort has been made to bring full houses and attract the people at large, without whom no Opera can succeed in New York. Yet the management has exhibited symptoms of weakness, imbecility and folly, equal to that of the previous season. The same error still exists in the construction of the Opera; the same standing insult to society at large, by a particular clique and section of persons putting themselves up as exclusives, and Iooking upon the rest of the world around them as vulgar and low- bred, and thus creating all feeling in a community, which, if it had been treated with proper respect, would be generous and liberal in its patronage of 80 refined an amusement as the Italian Opera. By all these mistakes of management (with the ex- ception of some special nights, in which there was a row in the green-room, or speeches before the eurtain, or émeufes in the parquette—attractions which the laughter-loving people of this city can- not resist)—except on such occasions, the houses have been by no means remunerative, whereas under other management they would have been altogether different te what we have seen dur- ing the last few weeks. We might proceed at great length, and point out other deficiencies and blunders in the manage- ment, but it is unnecessary. Our purpose was to call the attention of the liberal and generous peo- ple ef New York, to one of the main pillars of the Opera, in the person of Mlle. Truffi, an artist of the highest merit, and one of the greatest personal worth. We hope that all prejudices against the ill- fated management of the Opera, will be suspend- ed on this night, and that this deserving lady wilihave a thumping bumper to reward her for her talente, skill, and general tragic excellence in the lyricel dram: ° Comrrro.-Er’s Rerort.—We give in this day's paper a portion of the annual report of the Comp- troller of this State. The balance we shall give to-morrow. Jt is as able as it is voluminous, and being the firet and last from the present incumbent, will be interesting to those connected in any way with the finances of the State. The differen, public funds and trusts are arranged under appro. priate heads, and the position and condition of each clearly and distinctly given. Imrortant Notick—Maiis yor Evrorg.—For the next three months, or until the ratifications of the new postal treaty are exchanged in London, the American postage on letters by the mail steam- ers trom New York will be one cent, and by those from Boston five cents. The rate on newspapers from this port will be one cent. Mrs°acr or rig Governor or PRNNSYLVANIA.— The Message of Governor Johnston, of Penasylva- nia, has come to hand ; but we are under the necersity of leaving out a eynopeis of it, in conse- quence of the foreign news, and the Comptroller's report, &e. Tue Steamer Evrora will leave this port to morrow, for Halifax and Liverpool. Aprorntments ny THE Presipent —Lewis Cass, jr., to be Chargé d’Affuiree to the Papal States, the plave of Jacob L, Martin, decensed. Consal Fdward Porter. of Virginia, for Tabatoo, Mexino; Hewry A. Homes, of New Yor for Lavuns do Tor: mince, Mexico, in the place of Kneas Mol aw . cone d; VP Game, of Penneytvan’ Eeveder. in the piace of seth Willem H J. Anson, of Thomar © MoDowell San Salvador. i for of Pennsvivania, 1, im the place of A. Hf T Joseph Grebam, of Ohio. for Buenos Mexico. rn LG J. sisdetd, deosased, ARRIVAL STEAMS HIP WASHINGTON, FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE, he, &e. be. The Ocean Steam Navigation Company’ ship Washington, Captain J. Johnston, jr., al yesterday, biiaging four days later news from all parts of Europe, than we received by the Europa, from Liverpool. The Washington left Bremen on the morning of the 16th ult., and arrived at Southampton oa the | 18th; and after taking on board, at the latter city, her coals, mails, passengers, \c., finally departed on the 20th, .t3 P.M. She hasthus made a voyage , of 19 days from Southampton to Sandy Hook. She brings about 60 passengers, 900 tons of mer- chandise, from Bremen ; 800 packages of va'uabie merchandise, from Havre, shipped at Southamp- ton, and a fuir quantity of freight,on English | account, Our ordinary advices from the French capital extend to the evening of the 18th inst. Paris en- jeyed uninterrupted tranquillity. There was a continuation and an increase ot confidence percep- tible amongst the moneyed and commercial classes of the metropolis, and of the departments. Large bona fide purchases of the French funds had been made, which were still on the rise, the latest prices being for Three per Cents, 48f. 40c.; Five per Cents, 791.; New Loan, 78f.90c.; Railway shares also looking up. The new President of the republic was to be proclaimed on the 2lst, and the new Cabinet would be announced im- mediately afterwards. There were about eight millions votes polled in France at the election. The actual returns from sixty-five of the eighty-six departments, show the following result:— Louls Napoleon Bonaparte. . Ledru Rollin. . Lamartine. Raspail. . 31,804 ———1,862 712 Napoleon over alle... sss essere 3,143 623 ‘Total vote in the sixty: five departments, 6,042,076 On the 18th, the returns from all the departments but three had been received by the National As sembly. The sot disant friends ot President Napoleon Bonaparte were (it was reported) already subject to some digappointments and disagreements, and expressed their belief that the Prince, in his at- | The money market feverish, and government se- trated, and pot much time ere an engagement would take place. ‘There was every probability of the Pun- Janb being annexed to and incorporated with the English dominions in Iodia. ‘The united army, 35.000 strong, would be ready for action on the 20th of December, At Calcutta, trade was not quite so geod; exports nod imports rather dull. would elapse curities gone down, ling. Bombay markets firm. Import goods steady- Stocks small, and eupvlies moderate. Some d+- scriptions of manufactured goods had advanced. Seme forged notes of the Bank of Bombay had been diservered, which cansed quite a pante in the Bozaars. Opium had greatly fallen in price, both in the Bembay, Calcutta, and Canton markeis. At Hong Kong’ there had been a good deal of business doing both in articles of import and teas. Abbas Pacha, the new Vice Roy of Egypt, had assumed the reing of government. Egypt was perfectly tranquil. In mercantile matters, no change. Trade good. Freights to London £5 ster- Whe French Kepublic, Pans was profoundly tranqnil on the 19th. M. Bixio, late President of the Nationa! Assem- bly of France, had been appointed Minister of Commerce. Gen. Oudinot had declined going to St. Peters- burg as Ambaseador. M. Emile Girardin did not appear in the con- templated cabinet. Marshal Bugeaud was to be appointed to the command of the army ot the Alps. General Cavaignac was to receive the elevation of a Marshal of France. According to the latest returns, Louis Napoleon would have received 5,500,000 votes; Cavaignac, 1,500,000; Ledru Rollin, Raspail, and Lamartine, 500,000 between them. It seems generally admitted that M. Odillon Barrot wWilloccupy @ very preminent position. M. Thiers, Marshal Bugeaud, and Couut Mole. for prudent pur- pores, will not take part in the Mivistry, although they assist ad interim in the preliminary discussions respect - ing it, The Ministry of War having been proffered to and accepted by General Rulhieres, is again the subject of contention, and probability points to General Oadinot, commander of the army of the Alps, or General Peval, ex-peer of France. M, Drouise de 1’ Huys (a man of no promise, and less capable than even Bastide) is given Foreign Affairs— one of the most intricate departments in the cabinet. All reports agree in giving the Interior to Leon de Malleville. ‘The most popular selection, however, is that of Min- ister of Finances, which has been given to Hippolyte Passy, but which it was feared would h: been grant: ed to M. Leon Faucher, or M. Achilles Fould, the emi- nent banker—both of whom, from their speculative ten- dencles, were not the choice of the commercial com- tempts to propitiate the existing party, (the repub- licans de la Veille) would displease the most de- voted of his own adherents. M. Odillon Barrot was to be at the head of the new government, and M. Lamartine was spoken of as likely to be put in nomination as Vice Presi- dent of the Republic. M. de Beaumont, Mimater of the French Repub- lieto England, underthe Cavaignac administration, left London on the 18th, having resigned his post in consequence of the election of Prince Lows. M. Corcelles, the French Envoy to the Pope had returned to Paris, after accomplishing his mission. The Pope was still at Gaeta, with the King of Naples, but his Holiness had assured M. Corcelles of hsintention eventuelly to take refuge in France. In the meantime, a provisional government was proclaimed at Rome. Our advices from Havre, of the 18th, mention that business continued to improve daily, since the election of Bonaparte; and prices of staple articles were on the advance. The sales of cotton for the previous week were about 11,000 bales, at an ad- vance on previous rates of six francs. Onthe 18th the market was very brisk; sales 3,000 bales. Se- veral cargoes had been sold, to arrive. At Mark Lane, on Monday, the 18th Dec., Eng- lish corn fell 18. to 2s. per quarter, 1n consequence of large supplies of foreign wheat, which also de- clined. Flour was a turn “more in favor of the buyer, also arising from large arrivals ; for Indian corn little demand. At Liverpool cotton market, December 18th, there was a renewal of the extensive demand for cotton, so that sales to the extent of 12,000 bales were made, including 3,000 taken by speculators. Rather better prices were paid for American and Surats on the 19th. The demand still continued good, sales 7,000 bales, prices very firm. The affairs of Italy every ot became more in- volved and menacing. King Charles Albert had been obliged to yield to the ultra liberals, and to commission M. Gioberti to torm a cabinet. The contemplated Italian league would necessarily give umbrage to Austria, and might be attended with mott lamentable circumstances. The Popestill remained at Gaeta, surrounded by diplomausts. No less than 29 cardinals were as- sembled to give their advice to His Holiness. An extraordinary meeting of the Chamber of Deputies of Rome, was held on the 8th December, con- voked to heara report of the deputation sent to Gaeta, from which it appeared that the members of the deputation were stopped at and not p-r- mitted to enter the Neapolitan territory. The members then forwarded a letter to Cardinal An- tonelli, requesting permission to wait on the Pope, to whicha rely was returned, stating that his Ho- liness had left Rome of his own accord, that he could not receive the depu at.on, but that he con- tinued to pray the Almighty to bestow his mercy on Rome and the Roman States. The deputation not having been enabled to accomplish its mis- sion, returned to the Roman capital. Our Vienna despatches of the 14th December in- form us that a Russian fleet has appeared off Tri- este, for the purpose of suppressing the liberties of the Venetians by a blockade of the city. The ac- counts from Hungary are most contradictory. It apreared certain that no decisive battle had been fought, although there had been much skirmishing on both sides, with equal disadvantages. The gen- eral inactivity of the Imperial troops continued— the Hungarians were meanwhile burning down tieir own towns and villages and destroying all means of communication, in order to cut off the invading Austrian army by cold, tever, or starvation. The settlement of the Neapolitan and Sicilian question, was far trom being arranged, inasmuch as fresh difficulues had arisen; the chiet hine drance was a demand from the Sicilians for aa army to be raised trom their own island. This gave umbrage to the pla who was determined not to agree to such a condition. The Emperor of Russia had refused to acknow- ledge the Queen of Spain, and the Envoy from oe was to leave St, Petersburg on the 17th C ‘The Spanish Carlists had received some slight Teverses ; Gui, generally, the cause of the Conde de Monte molin was prospering. General Saunders, the United States Minister at Maorid, was on the eve of proceeding to Andalu- sia for the winter, the Madrid climate proving tod severe for his children. The United States frigate St. Lawrence, Capt. H. Pau ding, was still lying at Southampton when the Washington letc. The Ripon sailed about the same day and hour Southampton, with the East India and China The West India and Colonial markets were very steady, at a slight advance in sugar, coflee, and produce of the British posseesious. Owing to an immense accumulation of bullion inthe Bank of England, (amounting to nearly £15,000,000) to the favorable appearance of politi- col affairs in France, and to the tendency to a slight improvement in the manufaeturing dis- tncts, the English funds has risen near- ly one per cent, having gone up to S39} ex dividend, equal to 90 with the dividend on fall of ope-ball per cent afterwards took place at the close of business en the 19th, the last price of the Three per Centa being 8§ to48j. Exchequer Bills, 40 to 43 premium; Bank Stock, 190 ro 192. Foreign Stocks were firm at a slight advanee; Mexican Bonds, 22} to 224. In railway shires a considerable rise had occurred; but the market had gone back a hue afterwards, ariviag from the desire of speculators to sell for realization i This was likewise the case with Eag- The overland India and China mail reached London on the morning of tae 19th ult, with dates from Bombay, November 16; Madras, Nov. tta, November 6; Hong-Kong, October 8 mail brought no decisive news trom the ne againet the r. bellious Moolray of Forces were bewmg rapidly concen+ munity. M. Leon Faucher takes the Portfolio of Public ‘Works. There is much indecision regarding the Ministry of Commeree and Agriculture. It is certain that it ‘was offered to M. Achille Fould, who, it is said. owing to being hurt at the refusal of the Finance depart- ment, declined it, M. Buffett = -o»ng member of the zon Asrembly, was next taiked of; but the present impres- sion is, that to effect a fusion with the moderates, M. Bixis, one of the present vice presidents of the Assem- bly has been given it. M. de Falloux, the champion of catholicity, has been given the Portfolio of Publio Instruction. This sppointment does not pleace the protestant party. Thete are all the members ol the Cabinet. Indepen- dent of them, there are several other parties spoken of for important offices. No less than sixor seven candidates are spoken of for tho Vice Presidency. Among them we observe, Thiers, Bugeaud, Lamartine, Arago, Dupont del’ Eure, Garnier Pager, and Cava‘gnac, the latter ot whoa, re- port eays, will have the support of Louis Napoleon, should he allow himself to be put in nomination. M. Dufaur»’s position is, as yet, undefined. General Changarnier is named as Commander of the National Guard and garrison of Paris, The Governorship of Algiers has net been disposed of, though € ignec was thought of at one ti The Ministry of Marine, waich should hi bee nouiced amongst the inet, is accorded to M Tracy; and M. Amadee Thayer succ: Etienne go at the post office, Thu latter appointment wants confirmation. The Prefect of the Seine is allotted to M. Berryer, and the Prefect of Police to M Rebillot, ‘Theee are al! the accounts which can at all be relied on regarding the new appointments; but those even | are varying eo often that it is mot unlikely fresh changes may take place. The chief diftoulty lying in the way of the future for Lovie Napoleon is the Assembly itself, four-fifths of which would have voted against Louts Napoleon, had they bad the opportunity. It is assumed, that to bring the powers of the State into accord. the Assem- bly must be dirsolved, but no power save itself can dis- solve it. To force it to dissoive itself, therefore, varivus expedients are afloat. Addresres are got up ia various departmente, urging their respective representatives individua!ly to resign. If thie manoeuvre be succens- ful,te any considerable extent, the Assembly might see itself compelled to dissolve. The only item of interest inthe proceedings of the Astembly. was an announcement made by M Marie on the 18th instant. that the Gazette de France had been d, and would be prosecuted for asserting that the onal Aseembly had proclaimed the republic con- N trary to the will of the people, The committee appointed to revise the Presidential votes hed received the complete returns cf 67 deoart- ments. out of the 86, on the 8th Corsica and Alzters will not likely come to hand before t tallation of the President. There is rome difoulty in satisfying M. Girardin of the Presse with » ministerial appointment, M. Coreelles, the envoy to the Pope, who has lately returned. saye that hie Holiness is profoundly discour- aged. The Pope will not come to France. If he can get French government to join Austria in maintatning bis power fu the Roman states. He deepsirs of blog able to return to Rome otherwise than by foraign in- tervention. There wasa meeting he 17th, of the religious party ot the Asrembly. at ioh VM. Moote- lembert presided the object of whic! to prepare an address tothe Pope. A committee appointed for the purposs ‘The Princess Mathilde Demidoff. cousin of Louis Na- y iM do the hovors of the Preddenoy. It is eaid that M. Thiers proposed an addrens. to be delivered by the new President on the occasion of his inauguration, but Louis Bonaparte objected to this, and Me his intention to prepare the address him- self. Thiers took umbrage at this, but MM. Mole and Bugesud supported the Prince The Elyreés Bourbon palace ts being fitted up for the new President. The employces of the Garde Meuhle ave been engaged in eupplying the necessary furni- ture, This palace hes many interesting associations connected with the Bonaparte family. It fe said that the forthcoming oabinet intends to pore a supplement to the ealary of the President, tod see the expenses of receptions and official tertainments. dept. and the general revival of confidence, oon! te produce rapid rise at the Bourse. The throes closed on the 18th 48 betog a rine of 115 00 Se turday’s pr! closed at 76 90 being © rie of two france Bak shares touched 1.80), clored at 1,790. being @ rire of 90f Oa the 9th last, the day before the election. the threes ware 42 their price to-day in, therefore. a rine of 15 par oaat almost. {be rise in fives is nbout the name, "Ou the tb, back ebares were at 1,470; the rise om these ts therefore 320f The Conatituiionnel, of the 18th, mentions. ase symptom of returoing confidence aod prosperity, thet uot less than 1 840 trapefers of stock took pincs at the Bourse. on the previous Saturday, by 19 or 20 times more than the usual daily amount, these trancfors being for cash, and not for the account Spain. By the latest accounts from Madrid, preparations were going forward Jorths masting of the Cortes. Enough members had alroady arrived to form houre, and business would at «moe be proa-aded with, Count Miraflores was expected to be Provident of the Senate. ster of Finance had ordered to bs sent te defor the haif-yearly dividend of tne chroe's, v ibmitting throughout Catalonia, 4d Duchess of Montpensier had meta magnificent reception at Jeres. A royal deeree nominates the Prince de Azions and the Duke dw Veragnes Vice Pr-sidents of the Senate In all probability Signor Seijas Lozano will be #leat- ed President of the Chamber of Deputies. He is sup- ported by the ministry. A postal convention is about being formed between Spain and France. At Igualda, on the 10th, engagement took place between the Queen's troops and 400 or $00 of the Car- lets, in which the latter were routed, It was exproted that the Carlista were about to raise the standard of revolt in Navarre. and that the 2uth of December would be about the time they would rise M Salamanca was ut Bayonne on the 15th. The Progressistas are not likely to make @ move unlesscon- jointly with the Carll-te. Senor Mon is about to introduce ao tariff bill,ia which a reduction of duties will be proposed to some extent, but cotton goods will furm an exception. Some alterations are contemplated in toe arrange- ments whio! proscat exist betwsen the bank and the id his forces were at Sabadell at the last intr, Madrid Bourse, December 12 —Three per Cents, 20%; Five per Cents, 10‘ ; Exchange on London 45 a 60, Pruss! The news from thie country is only important so far asit corroborates the teodercy manifested to place the king at the head of the German empirs Ic ta well known that negotiations are carried on with the Kiog to induce him to accept the dignity of Chief ot the Empire, and that his majesty will accept 1t if assented, to by the sovereign princes of Germany. The Kiag of Hanover, it is reported, will not certainly give bis consent, and this statement seems corroborated by the return of the Hanoverian minister, after a prelonged abrence to Berlin. Many of the oltixens of Berlin had requested per- nission of General Wrangel to hold meetings for th» oboice of candidates to the Assembly, but no reply had been received. The King was not expected to return to Berlin til! after the seige was taken off, This would probably be ~ previous to the elections The Prince was to pass Christmas in Berlin. The magistrates and town councils of Berlin and Breslau have severally forwarded addresses of g: tude to the hing, for the liberality of th consti. tution, and it is poe suppored ¢! radical ng. th F vote refusing to pay telling against them, ‘aldemar ir recovering. A royal decree, published on t! toto, all stamp dut: or foreign. 11th, abolishes in upon the political press, native The ceneerebip, however, bas been established in those parts of Silesia which have lately been placed in te of lege. arrested in Westpha- Na, ie toflaence —editors of Rewanapers. members of town councils, councillors of justice, teachers; clergymen, and even military offic-rs, "The ostenrible groun# Of their arrest are that they formed part of a congress av Munster, havingia view the carrying out of the decision of iu3 Nstional 4s. sembly reepeoting the non-payment of taxes; but it is surpected that by imprisoning these demoeratical leaders, government bopes to prevent them from exer- citing any influence on tho forthcoming elect The arrest of the editor of the Westphalia Mercury, the referendary Lober, ‘ave rise to an alarming riot a¢ Paderoorn. Barricades we ‘oted in various piaces, but chiefly for the purpose of preventing any furthee attacks on the part of the military. who had employed Unvecessary violence in dispersing the crowd assom- meas the prison in which Herr Loher was oon- ned. Wrangel bas prohibited all meetings of the ex Bur- gher Guard. having i view the election of deputies to the approaching Congress of Civic Guardsmen at Bres- Frankfort, The principal feature of ne is the departore the Austrian Deputies, wi have quitted the Assembly en masse, owing ts the trigues guing forward with Prussia. Sohmerdui aleo rerigved in coneequence thereof. and othur resige nations wei oken of. Von Gazen has accepted of- fice, and the whole Diet seem Prussian-mad, Austria. Honstilities have commenced in esrnest in Hungary, on the part of Austria. Gn the 8th o. Decembur, the Imper alists had taken possession of the Castie of - Schiosshoff, three German miles from Prosburg, Jellachich and his army had arrived on the banks of the Leitbe. The E~uperor bas appointed Herr Rueskefer, (Cheva- Her von Wellentbal,) to the pont of Under Seoretary of State tor Commerce, Trade and Pablic Works, Austria has refused to acknowledge the new German. law relating to bills of exchange; the expence of building a Geri allied the Austrian Commissioner at the Customs’ Com grees in Frankfort. The Emperor has subscribed the sum of 200000 flo- rine, (C. M.,.) towards the relief of the poor in Vieaus. T! thorities of the capital have iss ting forth that persons charged lowing offences, willstill be tried by court-martial:— “ Concealing and nop-delivering weaponn. “ Bxciting the military co 8 violataa of duty, “ Creath g or taking part in tumulta “ Retusing to withoraw from tumultuous assemblages at the first cummins of the pubic authorities. Appearing in arms at any riotous gathering.” A native of Vienna, named Heizerath. has been sen- tenced to five years’ in light irons. for being conoerne Tevolt He was sea- tenced to be banged, but the reatence wa: commuted, “ beosuse he dip not take immediate part in the in- surrection. with arms in a? from the Diet avy cannon- in the di Hawbu indi- cat Place with the Hopgerans. [twas already reported by some that Ka- bea, and ty others that Presburg, was occupied by the ial tr 3 The May; Rep which was informed by Kossuth of the abdication of the Emperor, had every where ta- ken up 0 defenrive position Raab is completely eur- rounded entrenchments. Kossuth’s army amounts to about one hundred and sixty thousand men, Cholera had ap) d in Ofen, Pesth, and the upper part and fortress of the Blocksberg. Great preoau- tions are being used against the unwelcome visiter. Italy. Tn no part of Europe are there more stirring inol- dente going on t Rome - The Px veral times to of Rome at yn too late provisional goveroment had ben formed at Rome com- the Senators for Rome and Bologna, and the jonier of Ancona ‘The Pope bas been ral power The Mints: citizen H 4 of all tempo- dressed the # Pope alone, under the t Felloux, the new Minister of Public Tastras- then bout to propore a projent of Iaw upon the liberty of instruction. the object of which Il be te | reconcile, an far as possible, the views of the clergy with thore of the university M Vernioac prerent Minister of Marine, has been raired to ravk of Rear- Admiral | The iveteilation ¢ President will take vlace on Thoredsy, (to-morrow form+i!¥ aanoanced Cavaignne bas received @ recond insect Of thanks from the Pope. in which the Ponttf? holds out distant hopes of returning to France, though he declines for the prerent to visit it. M Jerome Bonaparte is spoken of ds likely to be appointed Governor of the Invalides, and Gonersi Petit as Chancellor of the Legion of Honor. There will probably be a general election at thi of February or the beginving of March. Ap attempt into be made to dissnive the present As- sembly after the passing of three organic laws. vi That with respect to the responsibility of the dent ; that with rerpeot tothe judiciary organi Hi and the electoral | | Another party of Communteta forty or Atty | in number, bad arrived in Havre, on their way to New | ‘he expedienc; barked at Maraeill published the exposé des motifs of the budget for 1849 Thie denument commennes by giving an account of the real state of the biteet of FAR, avd declares that. whether from the differeat caures of augmentation in the expenses or inansaracy in the estimnaten, the d-folenay in the your te 530 mil- Hons. For 1849 the following modifications are held out an probable :—An augmentation in the ransints of 268 millions {a looked for. viz: 99 millions in the taxes lately propored; 23 millions in the direot taxa; 88 millions in the indirect taxes; 7 millions in the fo: rerta: 9 millions In the anme to ba paid by the North. erp Railway; 36 millions in the reserve of the sinking In addition, it i# exowoted to creatine 175 economy In the expenses, viz: 79 millions in the war department; 46 milliona in that of the In- terior; 22 millions in the navy; U1 millions in the Fi- : 24 millivwa to public works ‘The nccounta of the Bank of France for the wask ending 14th December. show that ‘he metallic reserve 4 jag abont 600 O00f mora on nd about 2000 000F mnoreon the branch banka, The amonnt of overdue hille has fallen off about 100- C00f ;and of protested bills about 400.0001, Th ances in the ehape of discounts remain nearly the mame im Paris, and have Increased about 700000 in the de- partments On the ide of the liahilities. the notes in cireulation show an increase of about 3.00 000F, being 600,000 more in Paris and 3000,000F lens the branch banks The acewint current of the tr fury bar diminished shout 270.0001 In the week. being at prerent 26 2724/2" The whole amount of the me tallio reserve In now 2491 millions to about 406 millions of notes In circulation _ he pieadily imctoesing m2jo:ity for the now Proal- right the Cardionin and Pre! strictly prohibited from entering the city. ‘The people, in their enthosiaam, ran about the tt nme “ Death to the Pope,” “ Death to th * Garibaldi has been called to Rome by th tr, From Bologna, we learn thet Zacohi and Car! Bevi- Tacqua bave eccepted the memberships ia the provi- sional government ynatituted by the Pops at Gusta, Nov. 27, Zuecht intends residing at Spesiae, At Turin the new minttry has been formed as fol- Jows:— Giobertt, Protd ancl). without pors- folio; Sineo, Minister of Justice; R: Rice}, Finances; Monteyemolo. Public Wo Comm-ree; Bixio, Public nd om bat Giobert! will dissolve the Chamber, tothe nati mber of Turin, on the 14th anton of the duchies of nd Reggio, te 3 adopted. Disturbances took place st Genoa on the 13th; bat the National Guard being placed under arms, they were soon quelled Rumors of an approaching ceunter-revolation im Rome are very prevalent Our Liverpout Correspondence. Liverroor, December 19, 1848-4 P. M. Our corn market to day has been extremely dull— nothing doing. The finest yellow Indian corn was freely offeriog at 33s., and very little was bought at that price Wind at Holyhead north, light breeze, 4-30 P.M. No tidings of the Cambria yet. The Washi will, however, probably take out the nows of her ar- rival, as it will probably be announe+d at Southamp- ten to. morrow. previous to her departure, The America will eail punctually on the 80th inst. at 11-16 A M, The sales of cotton today are estimated at 6,000 bales We have had» quiet bat vory firm market to- day, at s slight advance en Saturday's prices. The Corn Trade In Engiand, Since the deparvure of the seam-nip Barops, Capt. Lott, another decline bas taken place 1a the valae of mort desoriptions of bread tulle At Mark Lane, oa Monday Tart, Deo. 18, English aad foreign wheat -old as 8 decline of Is, a 2s per quarter, Froar sold a 36 44s per ruck. and 274 0208 per barrel. Listie cone in lréian Cord, A0d prices were quoted wt 334 258 per querter; avd Indian meal at I74 6d = Iie ‘at Liverpool. on Tuveday, Deo 19. che market wan dally ord wheat receded %>. pet basbel; and flour,