The Express. — London, England, 1852-12-22 00:00:00

Vie eVOreoo• TO CORKESPONDENTP. A word Mt= :C.' if; wrap ewistairr qte," V =Web= =wry Need= rd •erat, t tlw Ine pod. 111.ertweerwat•dmoded kW "Th• exprsis..toe Ida rmtaor wt be at Ow .Wllaa. 11. Ilasearia=== fr Two eke= IS OM dap ef rablirdoa. 111011 W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE tys• D..—Yormaig.lll. Ir s.. Arainoria. 11 1 • 4.11 A Te.Atoimr—R.aloc. N. ea. AkIRIMMas 01. LONDON, WED.YESDAY, DECEMBER 22. TOP ominous silence still maintained respecting the relative position in the new Cabinet of the Whigs and Peclites—to say nothing at this nio went about Itadicals—betokens, we fear, the likelihood, at all events, of a false position being assumed by that political section in which the Re formers have most interest. It should never be forgotten that the followers of Sir ROBERT PEEL can only be regarded as really Li beral upon the one,—now settled,—question of Free Trade ; and that to entitle themselves to reeognit• as positive friends of polit:eal progress they must at least give in their adherence to a sound plan of electoral reform. Hitherto they have been F"the Trade Tories, and in that character claim to be admitted to the Cabinet now being reared on the fall of the Anti-Free Trade Tories. The Carlton Club looks coldly upon them as no longer completely belonging to the Conservative set. — and naturally enoug'a, since it just now remains very doubtful whether they really adhere to the section which glories in Major BEILESFORD, or whether they may be enrolled in the more advanced class who belie .e in the wisdom of pro gressive reform. On this point they must decide, —and should decide quickly,—for upon that deci sion rests more than their own future political wel fare. If the Peelites advance honestly, they will pro- bably win what they have never yet really possessed —sympathy in their favour out of doors. Though now claiming ball the seats in a Cabinet, they number only about 35 rotes in the House of Commons, and are comparatively destitute of everything like populer weight in the nation. At present they are a clique—a clever clique perhaps—but still only • clique. Will they move on? Will they adopt another and a real Reform Bill? Will they bid for popular support by deserving it? If not, why should the House of Commons permit them to hold office? With whatsafety can Lord Jolts Russet 1. venture into alliance with them, if he desires to retain the support of those who have hitherto rendered b.im the moat efficient aid? The Whig leader can of course, if he plasm, give any parliamentary section the benefit of his experience, and of his voice and vote—he may carry to any opposite came the few followers who, from friendship, party sympathy, or old ties, may think well *o make his road their road. But the strength of the liberal Whig leader resides in the confidence others place in his judgment, and should that judgment fail in the present emergency, the veteran chieftain may expect to find himself very properly forsaken by those who have in many • former struggle been his strength is the fray, and the sharers of his victories. He must not forget that, having won his spurs as a simple psrlia men tare knight, he became an accredited and success ful leader of the host, through the grades of which he rose to chief co•nmand,—and should he now so far forget himself, his principles and his pledges, as to consent to play second fiddle in a mere predatory ; political army, he will surds- be playing false alike to his past charalter and to his future fame. With him Principle should alone be the spotless banner I under which he should take new parliamentary service. If he serves at all, he mast serve nobl3, and in a great national cause. He is pledged to Electoral ' Reform—he is pledged to advance religious freedom —he is pledged to the promotion of education—he is the author of a scheme for extending the franchise, with a view to making the House of Commons some thing more like a real house of the people than it I now is. To fall back from these pledges, by leaguing himself with men adverse to such reforms, would be nothing less than politi. cal suicide. Friends and foes would have to utter the fatal fall'n, fall'n;" and to mourn over the wreck of a political reputation and a historical name. If in a moment of fatuity any such step could be taken by the leader whom the Liberals have so often followed—those Liberals could only echo the regrets of his more immediate friends, and see that in his self-sacrifice they were not also swamped. If Whigs leap willingly into a Peelite abyss, it is incumbent on their allies not to follow so absurd and fatal an example, but to stand aloof till wiser men and sounder councils offer a lead that may be worthily followed. Whatever Ministry is formed will have leisure for maturing their measures; but it can scarcely be safe to leave for that season of comparative inaction the settlement of the basis of their propositions. The real Liberals in the new Cabi net can only be safe by the general subscription at once of at least two or three main prin ciples for future action. It will not be enough dust they should undertake to advance Free Tr/de by abolishing those Customs duties which give to the revenue little worth colleeting;--it is not enough they should employ the national sur plus in taking off such duties as those on paper, on soap, and on timber, in preference to the cheapening of beer, or each like schemes---it is not enough to say steps shall be taken to brim the whole sus raised by taxation et the esemby nadir the direct control of the Home et eimment oar is it enough that points like the letehmeat et tbe Cape Constitution --or of the Canada Chirp Mosrves dispute—or the abolition et tressepeetolisa to Vats Diesesn's Land— should Iss . pat lbeweed es sollsieM iodisation' ctpre ramin abgbaulth Mach deem as therre sesig mar timed mead. el seem% be tam Wr Wiest, bet mei blieelleas eased - be regarded as solielmet guarantees et prinegrar to justify the reten tion Opiate in times Eke the present. We must have Electoral Referee--we must blot out the infamies of Election Bribery. Intimidation, and Corruption—we must get rid or the system that sends more than a hundred went= esParliament with the accusations involved to *Min petitions hanging over them. What meld be said eyonist the Derby ites has been repeated efisa earegh ; what can be said for their seemieree bee still to be seen. The late Ministry 'were expelled because they were avowedly men of reaction ; their successors men take office only as men of progress. The greet question now to be solved is whether that progress will be sufficiently marked to justify popu lar union for their support, and to make Parliamentary government once more powerful by putting it in accord with the progress of national intelligence and the growth of national needs and national requirements. Tim farewell message of MILLARD FILLMORE to Congress,—like the floundering of our late Ministers in the debate on Me.VILLI Eas's resolutions—is the last sigh of Protection. The moribund PRESIDENT, like the defunct PREMIER, gently recommends a Protec tion in everything but name. Ho would impose duties on imported manufactures, for revenue it is true, but also to " encourage" the home mender.- hirer, by enabling him to compete on equal terms with the foreigner. But the lame of power of the PRESIDENT who speaks thus—is out. The na tion at the Presidential election has by an overwhelming majority declared against his party ar.d its Protectionist doctrines. In a few weeks the Free Trade PRESIDENT elect will' be installed in office, to co-operate with a Free Trade Congress. One immediate advantage may be fairly anticipated from this change. The coquettish procrastination with which the overturn from Canada, and the other British North American provinces, for the removal of restrictions on their trade with the States of the Union, have been received at Washington, is not likely to be much lonrr persisted in. Free Trade— " unlimitted competition"—should become the eras instead of the exception over the when American continent north of Mexico. The Anglican race on both sides of the Atlantic henceforth recog nise and act upon the principles of Free Trade; there is no risk even of a brief relapse into Protectionist theories. It mast not be imagined that it would have made any permanent or essential difference in this respect even if the Presidential election had again fallen out in favour of any other American Whig. The limited powers of the chief magistrate in the Republic under it impossible fee him to stem the national will, whenever there is any important OW elide at issue. Bat • willing.,Free 'reader will go to work more pleasantly then a fettered Pep. , teetienist. The regulations for extending Fro Trade between the United States and the 4titish American provinces will pruyrra more smoothly, and conse quently more speedily, under President PIERCE than under President FILLMORE. ho far there is reason for congratulation in the triumph of the democratic party at the late election of President. It has con. med the ascendancy of rational views of commer cial policy. But everything human has its dubi ous or displeasing, as well u its fair side. No man, no set of men,—are right in all their opinions, or wrong in all their opinions. The Protectionist heresies of the American Whip are in part compensated for by their sound and reasonable opinions and sentiments re specting war and military glory. On the other hand, it is a sad drawback on the Free Trade comic tiorui of many democrats, that they are madly ambi tious of a fighting reputation for their country. The Whigs have ever been the advocates of a peaceable, non-aggressive, non-intervention policy. The demo crat orators arc but too fond of rounding. their periods with belligerent images, and worse still, they are as ready to strike as to speak of striking. We are reluctant to prejudge the PRESIDENT elect, who enjoys so fair a reputation among many nut the least intelligent and judicious of his country men; but keeping in mind the antecedents of his party, it is impossible to steer entirely clear of mis givings. It will be a great relief if the first Message of President Fleece is as rational on the subject of war as the last of President FILLMORE. The passages of the Message indeed which relate to foreign policy and war are the gems of the docu ment. They are expressed exactly in the sense of the father. of American independence--a sense too little appreciated by many of their descendants. Towards the close of the Message, President Flu: moue passes in review a number of topics to which circumstances have prevented his devoting so much attention as he could have wished on this and former occasions. The chapter on wars and foreign policy is the longest and most laboured of these supple mentary expositions, and its spirit is in every respect commendable. Mr. FILLIMORE reminds hiscountrymen of the high philosophic spirit in which the fouriders of their republic repudiated all but defensive wars, and refused to entangle themselves in the petty dynastic intrigues and diplomatics of old Europe. He points to the too prevalent disposition in many quarters to depart from this old and true faith, and warns against the silly ambition of emulating the monarchs of the Old World in their lust of territorial acquisitions, and of the exercise of influence in the councils of neighbouring states. And in exact conformity with this abstract reasoning is the tone and temper of that part of the Message which is devoted to the foreign relations of the United States. The rights and the dignity of Ame rica are asserted with the calm firmness of a truly brace man; but the pervading tone is pacific, and errors are freely admitted. No diplomatist of the Old World, hackneyed in the conventionalities of his trade, could have had the courage to confess an error in the handsome manner in which we find admission—so unpalatable to human vanity— made with respect to the title of Peru to the Lobos islands by the American PRESIDENT. The temper in which the fishery squabble with Great Britain is touched upon is admirable. With much intereit we have watched of late movements in the United States which seem to be sympathetic of the growth of a national party com bining some of the best features of the old democrats on the one hand, and of the old Whigs on the other. The great merit of the democrats has been their exemption from the mere hereditary conven tionalities of the Old World. Their minds have been more open to new and important truths. Hence their ready reception of the doctrines of Free-trade, codifying law reform, and the like. This exemption from prejudice has been attended by a swaggering affectation of contempt for all who did not partici pate in thiir views, an undue contempt fur the opinions of others, au over-readiness to substitute biome for argument. From these faults the Whigs, as a party, have generally been exempt. 'f hey have studied the graces and decorum, after the European fashion. But unfortunately this assertion of a dignified self-respect and this regard for the feelings of others has been accompanied with a dis position to adhere to old European superstitions in regard of protected trade, indirect and undue in fluence in elections, and the like. It would be a proud day for America if a new party, winnowing the wheat of both the old ones from their chaff, shall make the nutritious graia its own ; and it will be a proud day hereafter for President PIERCE if he shall have the discrimination and moral courage to make the principles of such a party his rule of action during the time that he fills the office of chief magistrate. This is a matter in which England has quite as deep a stake and interest as America. It 11 most desirable that these two great nations should in their dealings with each other approximate the maxims of their international law as closely to the dictates of natural reason and equity as possible. This will not only be conducive to their mutual interests in their dealings with each other, but will enable them to take the lead is the march of civilisation, and set an example to other states. It ought to be the mission of these two great nations to initiate anew and more rational policy, to shams the diplomatists of the Old World out of their traditionary trickery, their inces sant nibbling at small or illusory advantages by dis creditable means, by setting them a better example. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1852. SPAIN. The Madrid Oaattge of the lath publishes the royal decrees accepting the resignation of M. Bravo Murillo and his colleagues. and constituting the new ministry as we stated on Monday. The new ministers waited on the Queen and took the oaths of office on the evening of the 14th. The Heraldu remarks that not one of the new ministers belongs to the oppoei fon which contended recently with the greatest energy against the late ministry, but some of them completely disapproved of the projected tampering with the constitution. The same Journal says: "Just as we were going to press, we received notice from M. Ventura Diaz, that the Elvers, Diario Espanol, and Herald°, have been denounced; the two first for leading articles, and the third for publishing an address to the electors." The Madrid journals an nounce that M. Juan Gimenes Sandoval, Marquis de Where, now ambassador to Holland, is appointed Minister of Spain in Mexico, in place of M. Antonio y Zap& General Chacon, captain.general of Burgos, and Colonel Serrano, his eidede•camp, who was aide-de-camp to Eapartero, have given in their resir- ' nation!. The Queen of Spain hu issued a decree declaring that all merchandise coming into Spain in Spanish bottoms from Gibraltar, Portugal, Algeria, and the ports between the Gironde, inclusively, and the Widows, and from the frontier limit between Spain and France to Marseilles inclusively, shall only pay the duties fixed by the customs tariff for the native flag. By the decree of July 9. 1811, which is now revoked, merchandise from the points enumerated was subject to an increased rate of duty. THE NEW MINISTRY. Amid the suspense in which the formation of the new administration still hangs, attention is inevita bly attracted to rumours wearing the semblance of authmtielty, which at any other time would be die reses/6d as altogether groundless, or intrinsically inereallis. Men's ideis are apt to become confused, is WI whirl of vacillations and renunciations of old party ties incident to a state of things at once ano malous and unusual. In the ordinary fluctuations d may, public curiosity is limited to the inquiry Aides all who were of ficials before will return with Asir leaders to office again. But the perplexities of the pnwecat situat ion, as our French neighbours would term e more diversified and entangled. Anew cabinet it is said, is to be formed, not out of say we party or even out of any two sections of poll'' 's% but, if we am to believe certain of our who id to have peculiar inspirations Ms Vases. km three distinct and separate psalm 111.11 d which has hitherto prided itself upon its sevenity from both the other two. The Premier and *s Finance Minister, we are told, will be taken from Ile Peelites ; the leader of the House of Comma eni the Home Secretary are to be Whigs; and ere Mew cellars of England and of Ireland, we are aseurei, are to be Derbyites! We give the rumour as It runs : that is our duty ; and, however ludierewe ae lamentable it ma sound in our readers' ears, we should be ins were we to ignore it. For, in point el het, the real plight to which we are politically reansed, without a government, or the eertainty that we shall have any other than that which parliament Slid the nation generally have just hooted off the administration stage,—is more forcibly illustrated by the scandalous surmise above alluded to than by any sober statement probably we could name. Time-serving and tergiversation in high places have done their work. All loyalty to leaders, and, what is worse, all faith in professions, is shaken. Peclism, which is just now the pink of the bureau cratic mode, may be deflned to be a party conundrum to which the propersnswer has never yet been guessed by the uninitiated, or given by those who set the Whigism has oftentimes been subject to doubts as to its identity; but hitherto the ready test has ever been at hand of coincidence of opinion with certain distinguished chiefs, aid a disposition often times too rigid to exclude from confidence all who dwelt, h'swever sloe-, upon its borders. And so in like manner with Toryism. But the needle of con sistency no longer points true. Whigs and Peelites not eely meet together, but Derbyites and their destroyers are ready to sit beside each other. This may call itself the sublime of charity, or it n ay be called the abjectness of cunning. We shall con tent ourselves with designating it the worst calumny that can be flung upon the judgment and the honour of public men; foe we shall never believe, until we read the announcement in the Gazette, that men like Lord Joint Russzu. would mace to play ths part of a mum mer in such a masquerade as a Cabinet most be oonstituttd of the splinters and spars of to o Tory governments which 'in suocessios he has himself overthrown. Itejeetieg this disreputable idea, and assuming that the willingness of Lord ABISEDLEN and Sir JAMES GRAHAM to enter into cordial union with the Whig leaders for the purpose of forming au adminis tration rests upon, and will be avowed to rest upon, some positive and unmistakeable programme of policy, the question forces itself upon the mind of every thinking man—What is that policy to be? Is it to be stationery or progressive P Is it to be addressed to the sympathies of the living, or a superstitious incantatim of the spirit of the dead ? Are we to spend another year chaunting the glories of what has been accomplished —or will the trumpet cell go forth rousing all wise and good men to ac tion, and bidding them in this happy day of affluence and peace to Fut the constitution in thorough repair, • hile there is time, and the hour of trial and disaster is apparently not nigh at hand? The late govern- I ment have prepared for dangers from without; it will be the duty of the government now about to be formed to prepare against dangers from within. Indus- I try and intelligence, without rights or franchises in • country where discussion is free end the daily bread of millions may suddenly be suspended by the blight of a single crop in a foreign land, or the disruption of peace among the nations of the continent—this is a grave and so to speak a very pressing matter; one that requires s strong administration in point of vigour, and a trustworthy administration in point ut character. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. The Earl of Aberdeen continues busily engaged in the difficult task of forming an adniinistration. 111,,o.ngers ' are continually passing between U,boroe and the metro polis. A meeting of the leading members of the Peel party, in cluding the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and Sir J. Graham, took place yesterday, at neon, at Argyll- h ouse. Lord John Russell left his residence in Chesham•plsee et the early hour of 10 o'clock yesterday morning. His lord ship drove direct to Argyll-house, and remained in delibe ration with the Earl of Aberdeen for nearly two boors. The noble lord left shortly before the arrival of Sir Jape% Graham. After the meeting at Argyll-house the Earl of Aberdeen proceeded to Lansdowne-house, and had an icterview with the Marquis of Lansdowne. A Queen's messenger, bearing despatches from her Majesty addressed to the Earl of Aberdeen, arrived at the Waterloo terminus of the South Western Railway at one o'clock yesterday. The Queen's messenger retarned to o , ,bome with a second despatch for her Majesty by the train leaving the Waterloo station at 3 p.m. The Earl of Aberdeen is stated to be in a very delicate state of health. Dr. RoUond continue, in attendance upon the noble earl. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EYRNINO The most important piece of political news today is that the .1/oniteur of Stuttgard has flatly contra dicted a paragraph in the Moniteur of Paris on the subject of the recognition of the empire. The official journal of Paris stated some days since that the King of Wurtemberg had, through his minister, congra tulated the Duke of Guiche, the French minister of Munich, upon the accession of Napoleon HI., and announced that the official recognition of the new dynasty by his Bavarian Majesty might be expected immediately. The Wurtemberg Moniteur now says that the only congratulations offered to the Duke do Guiche consisted in a nos-official ex pression of satisfaction on the part of the Bavarian minister of foreign affairs at the peaceable profes sions of the present ruler of France, but that the King of Wurtemberg has not yet come to any reso lution with regard to the recognition of the empire, and that he will not decide upon anything until after he has consulted his allies. This incident imparts additional importance to the royal conference of Ber lin, the result of which is now looked for with in tense anxiety. At the hunt at Compiegne yesterday all the per sons invited breakfasted in their hunting uniform with the Emperor in the grand gallery. Several of the ladies, and amongst the rest Mdlle. do Montljo, Madame de Contades and Madame Drouyn de L'liuys were in official riding habits, green anti gold. A little before twelve the Emperor got into a hunting carriage drawn by six horses, in whi c h th e Princess Mathilde, the Countess de I'ersigny, Madame Drouyn de L'Hhuys, and other ladies took their places. Four other similar carriages followed with the other guests. The place of rendezvous was the carrefour du Coors Bourbon. The hounds were there thrown off, and almost immediately not lees than four stags were found. Three being abandoned, the fourth afforded a good run of two hours, and at last took the water in the Etang de Sainte Pcrrine, about five miles from Compiegne. It was there fired at several times, and after receiving three belle was at last killed by Colonel Ney, who, getting into a boat, cut the animal's throat in the water. At half past three the party got back to the palace, and the dinner took place at five. The eerie was effected by torchlight at eight in the evening in the court yard. A great number of spectators were allowed to be parent. Afterwards there was a soirée in the Emperor's private apartment for the specially invited. The College of Compiegne is to be called the College Louis Napoleon, pursuant to a request addressed to the Emperor, in a speech made by one of the scholars, and to which his Ma jesty acceded. To-morrow the comedians of the Gymnaze will proceed to Compiegne, to play the " File de Famille" before the Emperor. Marshal de Saint-Arnaud, Minister of War, has left for Compiegne. The ceremony of proclaiming the empire took place at Algiers on the 12th. The accounts of the official rejoicings on the occasion contain nothing worth soiree, except a speech made by the governor , oast General Hendee, in which the taking of t is alluded to in terms indicating that the French army . is leaking forward to many oppor trinities of gaining new laurels. The general said: Tbe army of Afrfees has been boggy In biiog airle, at the distance of 100 leagues from us, to inaugurale the empire by • victory. Lag v hont taken by storm, the breach mounted with ones of " in l'Empereur, _" the eagle of the Zouaves alpfewling its wino over the catboat of the town, that is the any la whin our militia troops led on by the brave Gene ral Palirier wrote the first page of the military history of the sew reigo. Let us, gentlemen, accept this happy pre sage of glory, whin will render Algeria still more dear to the Emperor, and in drink* his health, let us drink to the happiness of France. PARIS, MONDAY BYININO. New credits, to the amount of 1,000,000 francs, have just been opened by the Department of Public Works, for the execution of the railway du Centre, in the department of the Puy-do-Dime. The Ouistitudiotusel has the following remarks upon the Slintoms returns just published:— The publication of the Customs returns for the first eleven inenths of the present year proves the continuation of mansimenring sad oesamercial enterprise. The import anise have risen eamgered wicking pee from 107,000,0001 r. j is to 11/1,0040/•tr. sod gar the armesb of November alone the imesse le I . la Japer% settee has rata f rom IMMO n. etuintals; weal trees 167,000 to 274,1011 quintaki; ails. front MN is 7,000 quintols, G od few mile from 7,1N0 to 1000. Is took the isterease is MM n se 23.000 ladle, um MS same I. nun, Gypsy ote 76,000, sod dos MAIO to MUM. The impeetstiesof stehepsy tees ben 33,000 is RAO quin tal. The esosilmoblo imam is the mans of raw midestei show eissety the prosperity of our mentfactur lag Mitring. On expert trade, which fell of during moms maths, dispisys sew energy. Our agriculture sees the sal* of he eftse wed brandies increase. We still ex port cern, t in manse quantities, owing to the M erest* of pries le ow markets. Our manufacturing pro ductioas an Moro Wad Mrs sought for in foreign countries ; we may epasielly ousts silks, woollen, and cotton tissues prepared shies, ind Waft Th e 'sly sensible diminution M is woollen throsie, whisk my tesidy he explained by tits lospeosise el the Ire* od Stoolotes with Belgium, • treaty which is to be brat.. Ws Meet on the 13th of January neat. The simifillilli IMMINIMat is equal to the commercial one. The isasepe of vends entered rose from 2,026,000 to 2,264,01111081 that of weds sailed remained stationary at 1,714,000; bat t bat is a compared to the preceding MIONMW, which prom • diatin itioti, and is a new proof oldie resumption of our export trade. M. Frederick Lemaitre, the well-known actor, ap peared on Saturday before the Tribunal of Correc tional Police to complain of M. Bessolievre ' for having written, and of M. Villememant for ha ving published, on let August last, in the periodical called the Chronifue, of which he is the editor, on article charging him with subjecting theatres to heavy less by neglecting to fulfil hie engagements and otherwise attacking him in his professional capacity. After going into the matter the tribunal omdemned M. Norelievre to 300 f. fine, M. Villtmessant, who made default, to 500 f. fine, and both jointly to I,ooof. Aga' ITALY. The Piedmontese Semite continued, in its sitting of the 16th, the discussion on the Civil Marriage Bill. Chevalier Boncompagni, Minister of Justice, supported the bill, declaring that he was a friend of liberty of conscience, that the spiritual church could not exert its salutary influence so loog as it made common cause with the temporal privileges of the clergy, because in that case the public would think it hostile to liberty. It was certainly to be desired, ho said, that the misunderstanding with Rome should cease, but only on condition of mutual inde pendence. The Archbishop of Angennes attacked the bill in a speech from which it would appear that the orator did not consider marriage in the light of a contract at all, tot even when blessed by the church. M. Della Marmon thought tho law inex pedient at the present moment. M. do Cavour, in support of the bill, contended that an institution which was not condemned by the church either in France, or Belgium, or any other catholic country, could not be looked upon as hostile to the church. Civil marriage had nut rendered the present gene ration of France more immoral. Either the bill must be supported, or the supremacy of the church admitted, in which case all reform would be impos sible. M. Riccardi followed on the same side, and expressed his surprise that laws of such deep inte rest to families as well as to the civil state should meet in Italy with an opposition they had not en countered elsewhere. A good law on such mstters could only be founded on the distinct separation of the civil and ecclesiastical powers : else one element would always have the upper hand over the other. The discussion was adjourned to the following day. Letters from Florence, in the Augsburg Gazette, state that a person named Guarducci has been arrested at Florence for having been found in posses. sion of an Italian Bible, and that a search was made on the 11th by the police in the apartments of the chief editor of the Speranza, but without effect. SWITZERLAND. In its sitting of the 16th the municipal council of Genoa unanimously adopted the proposal of the Chamber of Commeroe, to contribute six millions of francs towards a railway going from the Sardiuian frontier to the Lake of Constance, along the valley of the Rhine. M. James Fazy, the chief of the radical party, has given in his resignation as vice president of the Council of State of the canton of Geneva, but con tinues to sit in the Grand Council. AUSTRALIA. GOLD IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—THB 1 ECIIUNGA DIGGINGS. We announced a few weeks ago that a gold dis trict had been discovered in South Australia, and favour ably situated at no great distance from Adelaide. Adelaide papers of September 11th give the following particulars re spcfting these diggings : The Echunga diggings are about twenty-three miles to the east-south-east of Adelaide, and they are pieced on the skirt of the stringy bark ranges, which stretch far away to the north and south. The whole of this line of hills is pro bably auriferous, but whether gold will be found in them in such quantities as to make them more attractive than Mount Alexander, remains to be seen. At first the Victoria diggings were confined to Ballarat, and they were then scarcely more attractive or important than the Echunga diggings. Time and chance, however, lid to the development of the auriferous treasures of Mount Alexander and Bendigo, and the Ballarat diggings were superseded. The same good fortune may, probably, one of these days overtake us, and the chances are that it will, inasmuch as it is unusual to find gold so generally distributed over the surface, as in the neighbourhood of &bungs, without its being accompanied with great underlying cleposita. From two to three thousand persons bare visited Echunga within the lan three weeks, either in the capacity of workers or lookers on, bat at no time has there been any gnat number of men st eadily! at work. Perhaps one hundred to ons hundred and fifty would ba near the mark. Still, all that are working are making it pay, and, if there have been no large ' finds,' most of them go on under the hope that this will be the ease, when the weather Glean up, and they are able to get down to the rock. Some fine nuggets of Echanga gold are eaustaatlyahowa about town, but they an usually small, the largest of them not exceeding half an ounce in weight. No true estimate of the quantity of gold raised at &linage can yet be obtained, the parcels being so small, and in so many hands. Perhaps 30 lbs. weight would be rather ander than over the mark. The general belief in Adelaide is, that when the fine weather sets in, and the ground admits of sinking, gold will be found in as great abundance at Echunga as Mount Alexander. If so, the rash from Adelaide will be tremendous, and those des, who are com pelled to stay behind, shall have to shift for ourselves as wo best can. What with those who have gone, or are now going to Victoria, and those who will be attracted to &lungs on account of the greater nearness of these dig gings, the whole available labwir of the colony will be with drawn from its socastomed channels, and absorbed in the solitary pursuit of gold digging. THE INDIAN AND AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE. The schedule showing the proposed movements of the contrast mall steam packet, of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company a the bi-monthly postal asinine with India, China, Australia, sic, for the year 1863, which has been anticipated with so much inter es t by the commercial public, was published yesterday. According to this schedule the India end China mails will be despatched from Southampton ea the 4th and 20th of each month neat year; and the Australian mails en the 4th of every alternate month. The first India and China mail, under the new contract, will be despatched from Southampton on the 20th January nest, and the first Aus tralian mail on the 4th of March next. The first mail from India and China will be due at Soathiunpton on the 20th of February next, and the first Australian mail on the 6th of April next. The first mail, under the new contract, will leave Hong Hong on the 28th of this month, and Calcutta on the 6th, and Sydney on the 20th of nest mouth. The new mail packet scheme, as developed in the sche dule, is divided into four main lines and a branch line. Line lis called the Alexandrian line. Line 2 the Suez and Calcutta line. Line 3 the Bombay and China line. Line 4 the Singapore and Sydney. The branch line belongs to line 1, and is called the Marseilles and Malta line. The following are the ports at which the Peninsular and Oriental mail packets will touch under the new contract, viz , Southampton, Gibraltar, Marseilles, Malta, Alexan dria, Suez, Men, Gallo, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Batavia, King George's Bound, Adelaide, l'ort Philip, and Sydney. The time occupied in a letter reaching Gibraltar by the new schema will be 6 days, Malta 10, Alezaudria 14, Sues 17, Aden 22, Ceylon 34, Madras 38, Calcutta 42, Penang 40, Singapore 42, Hong Kong 50, Batavia 46, King George's Bound 68, Adelaide 64, Port l'hilip 67, and Sydney 70 days. The blarstilles and Huila packet will leave Mane ill!. on the llth and 27th of each month, and Malta aboat the 10th and 26th of the month . --- ili;iii will ;;;Alombay about the 2ed and 18th of each month, and will be despatched from Bombay about the Ith and 20th of the month. ELEcTIoN REcooNtsANcEs.—Tho followiog are 'sported u being unobjectionable :—Cork election, Carlow eouety, Ennis election, Liverpool election, Westmeath election, Sligo and Sligo county election, and Louth election. :lit Court. OSBORNE, TUESDAY. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the l'rince of Lei minima, and the royal children were out in the grounds yee. rday. The Court will leave Osborne to-morrow for Windsor Castle. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the North American Provinces and the Governor of Victoria. (IPROM LAST OAZETT2 FonkioN-orrice, lire. 10.—The Queen line been graciously pleased to appoint Wyndham Moreton Dyer, Esq., to he her Majesty's Consul at Mobile. FOIMIGN-OFFICE, Dee. 14.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Bridges Tajlor, Esij , to be hie Majesty's Consul for Denmark and the ()resound ; also beers graciously pleased to appoint George Harris, Esq., to be her Msjestes Consul General in the Lombardo-Venetian filmes and the Austrian territories on the Adriatic. FORZION-OFFICE:i/EC. 16. 1 fi1741;;;7;a4 been grsciously pleased to appoint (Jorge Canning Backhoww, E.q., to be her Majesty's Judge in the Mined Court est.ib. balled at the Havanna. under the treaty of the 28th June, 1815, between Greet Britain and Spain, fur the abolition of the slim trade, in the room of James Kennedy, Eq., retired. }ORM:N-OMM DEc. 20. —The Qum' has been pleased to approve of Mr. Juba Oreig as consul at the Cape of Good Hope for the Sublime Ottoman Porte. DOWNING-STRIiET, Lac. 2l.—The Queen has been pleated to appoint Adam Murray Alexander, Esq., to be Second Pulsar Judge of the Colony ut British Gui.na. NEW DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS. Towels HAMLETS. Major William Lewis Grant. BERKS. Robert Gibson, Esq., and the Hon. George William Bar rington. MID-LOTHIAN. The Right Hon. Henry Viscount Melville, K.C.B. THE BREAK-DOWN OF THE ADELAIDE STEAMER. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY, A P.X. The Adelaide has been tower` from the Sound to Hammes. Her defects are to be made goad at the ltoyal Dockyard by Thursday at noon. NAVAL ADMIRALTY, DEC. 21.—APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut. H. A. Clavering. to Ere,llerd. Mates I'. R. Sharpe, and Clerk 0. H. Walker, to Cringer; and T. M. Croke, to Insperieuse. Paymasters E. A. Williamson, to Prince Regent ; and H. W. Rowlstone, to Firebrand. ADMIRALTY, Due. 20.—The following are the appoint• merits for Monday, Dee. 20, and which, owing to their length, did not corms out until yesterday (Dee. 21) :—Corn moulder R. Purvis, to Argus. Lieutenants W. A. P. Roue, to Firebrand; McLeod, B. Cockraft,W. H. Phipps, and H. J. Blonsfield, to fesperseuse ; B. G. W. Nicholas, and J. C. Campbell, to Amphion ; T. H. Collingwood, to' Berracosita; R. Bradshaw, to Medea; A. J. Thrupp, to Cringer ; W. Swinburn, to London; T. J. McDonnell and E. M. W. Carrington, to Odin ; T. Tyne, to Argus ; and C. 8. Dunbar and A. T. J. Bullock, to /desperate. Mutest and Pilots W. J.B. Hilliard, to Amphion; S. W. H. Free. man, to Barracouta ; F. Wise, to Medea; J. Wallis, to Arras ;W. Byford, to (Desperate ; and G. Marsh, to tire. brand. Paymasters C. 8. Giles,toAlispAiovi F. C. Dusantry, to Harrocouta; 11. R. Jones, to Medea; T. M. Homage, to Odin; A. A. Speed, to Argus:C. 11. Niblett, to Desperate; and D. Stapleton, to Aruounter. Mate: D. B. Pace, to Odin. Clerks: E. Edwards, to Amphion ; C. M. Balfour, to Horror-rota; W. H. .1. Browne, to Medea; F. J. G. Oranshaw, to Odin; J. Tooley, to Argus ; and U. T. Harris, to Desperate. 0. Owen and C. Moore to be Assistant-Engineers of the first class in her Majesty's fleet. J. W. German to be Acting Asaistaet-Engineer of the second class in her Majesty's fleet. Boatswains : E. Mann, to Firebrand; J. Rice, to A mphion ; N. Brood, to Barra. wrists; C. Blackadore, to Medea; R. Knight, to Odin; J. Budd, to Argos; and J. Ward ; to Desperate. Gunners: H. Limn, to }'iretwand; S. Sharp, to Harrocoista; W. G. W , to Medea; W. Nevill, to Odin; R. Thompson, to Argos; and R. Ellis, to Desperate. Carpenters: J. Reading, to Firebreuld ; G. T. Speen, to Amp/ion; W. (licker, to Barrocouta ; S. Ray, to Medea; J. Read, to (Min; B. Worn, to Argus; and J. Standfield, to Des perate. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 21.—Vice-Admiral Sir T. J. Cochrane, the newly) appointed Comcoanderin-Chief at this port, will hoist his flag on board the Victory, in tt is harbour, on Thursday nest.—The Porcupine, 3, steam vessel, arrived at this port to-day from Sheerness, and came into harbour to coal.—The Cyclops, steam.frigate, sailed this afternoon with a party of Marino Artillery, and war. rant-officers, and seamen gunners for ships fitting at the Eutara ports.—The Echo, steam-tug, took out a party of convicts to the St. Vincent, convict-skip, at Spitbead, to day, for conveyance to Hobart Town.—The Royal Prue • sian corvette, Mercur, put into this port yesterday evening, on a voyage from Swinnemuude to Rio, with stores for the Gillen aad Amason, Prussian men-of-war on that station. She saluted the flag of the garrison, and the Port Admire), which the former returned to-day. Her Captain, Herrmann, landed, and accompanied by L. A. Vandenburgh, Esq., vice-consul at this port, paid his respects to the Commander-in-Chief and Lieutenant- Governor this morning. PRIZE MJNEY. (Prom last oimlat's (azette.) Tun Hgeta.—Noties is given, that the account sales of the proceeds arising from the capture of the slaver, name unknown, by her Majesty's ship Heels, E. H. Beauchamp, Esq., Commander, on the 28th day of Juue, 18,51, will be registered in the High Court of Admiralty on or after the 28th instant.—WOODHISD and Co., agents. THE SKl:MR.—Notice is given to the late officers and crew of her Majesty's ship Spider, J. W. Tomlinson, Esq., Commander, that an account of bounties, tie., received for the capture of the America, on the 20th day of September, 18.50, will be forthwith deposited in the registry of the High Court of Admiralty.—Ooonz and Co., Agents. MILITARY. ROYAL MILITAIIIIACADEII77 WOOLWlCH.—Yes terday the following gentlemen cadets, having been duly examined, were passed for commissions in th e R o y a l Artil lery and Royal Engineers, subject to their approval by the Maater-Gineral of the Ordnance :—Francia Tewry Adenine Law, John Henry Stockinet Carter, William Frederick (Why, Mayor Francis Dwane*, James Bevan Edwards, Albert Cheeks Hoge Light, Francis Henry William Nisbet, FalWood poem Mermorrea Warren, Heal Clement Swimmer"' Th eme Lloyd Still, Joseph y Hanwell, Joshua , Francis Eveleigh Savage, John Kelly , William Frederick Moore, Maurice Henry Pitallasies, Wilbraham Digby Milano, Arthur Richard Ittabiassa, Henry Richmond Martin, William Alexander Paid* Wyllie. THE MILITIA. --- The following commissions have been signed : Janie* Scott Walker, Esq., late a captain in the SBth Regt. of Foot, to be captain of • company, rice Collard, de coated, in the Tower Hamlets Regiment of Militia. Wyville Thomas CharloiThomson, gent., to be ensignorice Hood, deceased, in the Berwickshire, &c., Regt. of North British Militia. CIIILD MURDER AT MANCHESTER.—An inquest was held yesterday, at the Charlton Union Workhouse, Manchester, before Mr. Herford, borough coroner, on the body of a new-born male child, which bad been baptised John Stott, but whose parentage was unknown. On 'I burs day week, late in the evening, a woman named Ann Fox, living in Stott-street, Helms, heard a strange cry at the back of her house. The noise continued at intervals, until a neighbour named Ellen Lane came and told Mrs. Fox that she though: there was something in the ashpit behind a house occupied by Mrs. Hall. The two women took a candle, and opened the door of the ashpit, the hinge of which was at e top, and found an infant lying on the ashes. It was trying, blood was issuing horn its mouth, and there were marks about the neck as if it bad been pinched with the fingers. Mrs. Fox washed and clothed the child, but did not feed it, and it was then taken to the Chorlton Town hall Iby a policeman. From there it was taken to Mr. Gotland, surgeon to the Manchester police, whose residence is in George-street, and then to the Charlton Workhouse, in Stretford-road, where it arrived about half-past 12. It gra dually became worse, and died last Wednesday. It was observed that the child had great difficulty in swallowing, and on Saturday it vomited its food. Mr. Gramm, the surgeon at the workhouse, said the child appeared to have been born about 12 hours when it was found. He made a post morass examination, and found all the organs in a healthy state except the ereophague, which was extremely congested orposite the seat of the external marks on the throat, which he had no doubt were caused by the pressure of fingers. This accounted for the difficulty of swallowing. There was inflammation of the lungs, which he believed to have been the immediate cause of death, and attributable to cold and exposure. The jury found a verdict of Wilful murder against some person unknown." Notwithstanding the vigilant inquiries of the police, no clue has been obtained to the child's parentage. RAILWAY LEGISLATION.—The committee, consist ing of Mr. Henley, Mr. Hume, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Labou. chore, Mr. Strutt, Mr. Patten, Colonel Mure, Captain Jones, Mr. Deedes, Mr. Milnes, Mr. Deni*on, and Mr Wren, appointed to consider the principle of amalgama tion as applied to railway and canal bills about to be brought under the consideration of parliament, end to con sider the principles that ought to guide the house in railway legislation, have reported that in their opinion all railway hills introduced into the house during the present session Arista se a general rale be made integral in themselves, and SO the peateggeention should be exercised in admitting lain them, otherwise than by specific enactment, provisions which repeal, continue, or catend the powers of former acts, and that the attention of committees on private bills should be directed to this point. ANOTHER MEANING OF THE INITIALS " W. /3. ° —Wholesale bribery.-I'sescA. THE WARDMOTES. ALDERSOATE. A wardmote was held yesterday at the City of London Literary and Scientific Institution. Alder,ptt. ',tree, for the purpose of cLoosing the illlititPt and eleetis a ward Akers for the year ensuing; Alderman Sir Laurie, Kat., wan in the chair. The war.l ufliro n wh o were re-elected were J. Lockin, .1. Wood. If. j t y., R. °odium, R. J. Chaplin, J. Norris, J. Wu ww. r d . 0. Stacey having retired, Mr. James Ward was them ill his place. BISHOPSGATE WITHIN AND WITHOUT. 11 YPeterllßY, at the .hO. Mr. held Aithrmi, c oPLLANI,, la: 1 1. r . man of the ward, presiding, when the common coma:lieu-a o niin t! t M e of the °receding year were re-elected, with th e exeept,,, .1 1 e . hu. annualti tree w n- a s of Mr. Thomas hall, who retires in favour of Mr.Edrinstaa. The list now stands u follows.—Messrs. William Stev.t,,, Henry l'atten, William Jones, Thorns. Seamider Owilto, Metcalf llopgood, Richard Owl Limb., James Warite, Walter Andenon Peacock, William Humphery Packer, James Rowland Carr, Richard Ashby, Charles Gilpin, George Taylor, and Edmiston. The other officers, inquest men, &c., of the ward having been elected, . . Mr. Viten:ion proceeded to move " That, notwitlitteel. ing the representations that were made by the ' , musters of the street orderly system of street cleatisoig, that the iest of cleansing the City by their plan would not exceed th e amount under the old method by more than about 2,0001 per annum, it appears the actual increase has been 0,910 e new system having coat 12,1001., while that of eh-ethane every street, court, an I alley, once a day, was performed at a cost of 5,1601." The speaker COMTI11•11Ce d by assetti bg that the system had been fostered on the grounds of philae. throphy, which philanthropy was in his opinion a humbug. (Hear, hear.) In his opinion the sound political economy was to benefit the "greatest number" at the smallest pee ' %Me expense to the minority. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) This philanthropic street cleansing cost the City 6,0001. a year, and was warranted to keep thesis free tram dust. He would consider the question of dust first ; and lit could assure the Warelmote that having gone rosiml the putrycooka and other shopkeepers, lie had aseertaine : the amount of dust going in at the doors to he greater tha t . ever. Was the philanthrophy then worth the expense : (Energetic cries of ".No.") Then the ittrects were at slippery as a glacier. lie had lived in the ward for years, and had seen more accidents during the last yisr than during the whole 25 previous. Itut, forsooth, it, v must submit to all this to gratify the philanthropist. Ile defined a modern philanthropist to he a man who could I a for 12 months on an offt naive smell, and for whom a a ,.. authenticated ease of "death by starvation," would b.- 3 provision for life. (Cheers and laughter.) Mr. Procter continued to object iit a serkseoinie straits to various ikno in Mr. Cochrane's arrangements, especially to the icri.v.e tion in phraseology by which "scavenger's carts" had tele transformed into " sanitary contractors." Mr. Pruett, concluded by reading the terms of his resolution. Mr. MAUTIN wooded the motion, and said that pi s experience proved that there bad not been such an improve. went in the cleaniatt of the streets as was commenters:. with the expense. fhe street in which he livid was in a worse condition than it was before the street orderly gym.. Ile thought if more money was spent on II star rate, and the stree a were cleaned once a day before breakfast, it would be far better. The resolution was carried unanimously. • Mr. BATEMAN then rose to re feat his motion of last year with respect to enuni;:ipal reform. De complained of the conduct of their representatives with respect to the bill a last year, and feared that the public interests had biro so. crificed to jobbery. They wanted it more extended (ran. chiae, triennial election of aldermen, and a more rigid eco. nomy of expenditure. The speaker thin diverged to the tardiness with which the City improvement. were carried on, especially that portion of the plan which referred to the widening of Broad.street. As Cato of old 11-4 finished every speech with " Delenda ikt Carthago," he would finish every speech he made in that waribuote with " Broad street must be widened" until that most important object was effected. (Loud cheers.) Mr. PROCTOR occoaded the resolution. Mr. GiLMIN expressed, on behalf of himself and his eol leagues, their determination to do everything they could to promote the reform of the corporation, which he bclievid had been obstructed only by the livery companies. Be thought the expenses of the corporation were too large, sad he wan decidedly of opinion that the constituency should he extended. Mr. Deputy STEVENS agreed generally with the resold. tion. With regard to something which had been said about the expenses of cumulate. and the mune ? spent on their dinners, he wished to explain that committees only had a dinner once a month. There was, however, a practice which had recently crept in, to which he was decidedly opposed, and that was the giving chairmen of comini tees pieces of plats out of the funds prosided for their expenses. He had once received an intimation that all the members if the committee should have a "twelfth cake " out of the funds,but he refused totake his. ("Hear, - I and laughter.) The chairman of one committee agreed is the tlrst instance to receive a piece of electro (laughter)—but, as expected, tho nest year the sham plate became real silver. (Hear, hear.) He had no objection to giving piece. of plate to chairmen of committees if therm. mittee paid for it out of their own pockets, but he (betted to their being paid for out of the corporation funs. lle fully concurred in the nectmity for corporation reform, and the only doubt he bad was as to the triennial election of aldermen, which he thought required consideration. After some further discussion the resolution was adopted, and with a vote of thanks to the alderman, the business concluded. BREAD-STREET. Yesterday, the annual wardmote was held at Cord. waivers'-halt, Distaff-Line, W. Lawrence, Esq , the sl.cr. man of the ward, presiding. No subject of public iup'r• t►nes was brought under discussion in this ward, and the old members were returned without opposition, viz. --Mr James (Deputy). Mr. W. Itawtrey, Mr. J. Millard, Mr II Laurie, Mr. N. Maughan, Mr. J. rottitsnell, Mr. F. May and Mr. W. Paltva. BASSISHAW. In this wardmot;:ii;." -- AltCiman Farocomb took the c►air, in the vestry-room of St. Michael Beanbag% After the election of inquest men, and formal busme , s. the following gentlemen were proposed as common councillor:. —Messrs. John Britton, NI illiam Lister, John Wilson, C. B. Fuller, Hyde Clarke, and Anthony Locke. The two latter were new eandidates, the ward returning tour emia- Milo". The show of banis being in favour of the o'd members, a poll was demanded, and tined to tale place to-morrow (this day). • BROAD-STREET. The electors of this ward assembled in the school. rooms, London-wall, under the presidency of Alderman Sr John Musgrove, when the retiring couueillurs, Mr. Driaty Carney, Mr. C. Warier), Mr. I. W. Foster, Mr. S. Baker, ' Mr. H. Brown, Mr. J. Humphreys, Mr. W. Con, and Mr. T. Abraham, were all re-eleoted without opposition. BRIDG This wardmote was held in the vestry room of SI. Magnus the Martyr, London•b•idge, coder the presidency of Alderman Sir Chapman Marshall, when Mr. Deputy Pawnees, and Mean. Knott, Hill, Matthews, Lore, Wbitham, Arnold, and Johnson were elected without op punks*. Attention wu called to the icereued end increasing traffic of Thanies.etreet, which it woo send required widening in some runner or another. A some what novel point was raised on the swearing of impost men, three gentlemen being nominated to that office who were not freemen, and one of them especially (Mr. Payra) objected to be sworn, on the ground that if be did so he would have to present himsell u a •• non.freemen. which he felt he ought not to be called upon to do. The objection was, however, °reunite], and the gent4o men were all ultimately sworn. A vote of thanks to to common councilmen and the alderman concluded the pro• needing*. BILLINGSGATE. This wardmote was held in Fellowship-hall, St. Mary at Hill, Mr. Alderman Sidney presidimg. when the whole of the old mernbirs were returned without error tion, tit., Mr. Deputy Bower, and Messrs. lfobeel Phillips, Williams, Barnes, Causton, and Graves. Atlas short conversation on matters of local interest, and 3 pet , ' tion bring agreed to in favour of corporation reform. Ite usual votes of thanks were puma, and the menu ng <irk rated. CHEAP. In this ward, Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.r. , took the chair at one o'clock. After the election of ir quest men, &c., the following gentlemen were reelected s representatives of the ward for the ensuing year gt. Deputy Eugenius Fcnninr, Mr. Edward NI atson, Edward Hickson, Mr. George Oliver, Mr. Robert Gov ., Peed, Mr. Wm. Barnes, Mr. Jonathan Thorp, and N i Lucas Houghton. CORDWAINERS. This wartimote was hold in the church of R. Maryldiot., Cheapside, Mr. Alderman &lonians is ,th t chair. The w ar d returns 1 1 1 representat i ves to the Ll' mull Council, and on this occasion the old members —w T. Lott (deputy), Mr. T. Joyce, Mr. W. Croucher, 4r H L. Taylor, Mr. It. Tress, and Mr. A Clark, and n nee rit didate, Mr. Chatfey—were put iu nomination. Alle"IL: discipsion, the show of hands was declared to be in t.o'sj of the first sin gentlemen, upon which a poll we,. 414 ma on behalf of Mr. Chalky, which was appointed 1 , ! - morrow (this day). Some ronvenation took piste n4' t _,'" to the removal of Smithfi e ld mar k et , w hi c h, i t wa`• would, no doubt, take place with all possible dopitch.sw, be tubstituted by a mark e t w hi c h wou ld prove au ka`' to the city. The votes of thanks closed dor . ceedings. CASTLE ItAYNAItI). This wardmote was held in the .Vc.embly . fO li. Sermon.lane, under the presidency of :qr. Aid''s?: Wilson. The retiring comm'n caunei:nun, Mr. l‘rZ t s : Hick., Mr. J. Hoppe, Mr. J. Bailey, Mr. F. F;lr r " . It. Muggei idge, Mr. J. A. Adlard, Mr. W. Barber, ar.6 • 61; C. Hawkins, were re-elected. COLEMAN - STREET. Alderman Hunter presided at this wardow : t which was held yLsterday, for the election of eigh: mat , : to the Court of Common Council. There were two cies occasioned by the retirement of Itlt,gs. lt. Je ' L' • .1