The Express. — London, England, 1853-01-11 00:00:00

Via erprexigc. TO )ILI:ESPONI)EN'iS, • •iceed !AMIN of Tr• Ewen; ent.ts:ausi tr.. ruse .•liarettr." u trOlutte.l silty lut.day sad Vrkday tkr• tor pert. A letettsemteat• atlantic " The I.apriee "Loa 'atn I...eatag laa.t be at the Otbee, B ,acerbe.strcet: two ..tort as the U 7 of pmt MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Pat—Mornind. 3a. Ca —...Afterttano. 31.14 m. laruaaew—Moratrg, 31. 4Saa -.....Afterasos. 4a. 9.4.. LONDON. WESDAY, JANUARY 11. THE Proctors of Doctors' Commons had, we hear, a meeting last week, to organise and prepare resistance to the cleansing out of their Augean stable. Hut it won't do. The Court of Chancery has giveu way before the march of human improvement—before the national revolution to have speedy and cheap justice, as well as good and substantial law ; the Common Law Courts have jielded up their monopoly to local tribunals; and the wind and storm before which Westrnicster-hali bent its royal head, will be power ful euough to penetrate and sweep through the epis copal purlieus of Doctors' Commons, old and strong though that Court may be. Some few years ago, the Sons of Zernialt, as Caustwe.u. described the lawyers of his day, were in our Cathedral Cities too strut% for common sense, and defeated a moderate measure of improvement introduced during Sir ROBERT PEEL'S administra tion, by the present Loan CHIEF BARON, then Attorney-General. Bat times have changed since then, and we, happily, have changed with them. The Proctors now may organise the profession as best they can,—may struggle and resist as they choose, —may try to alarm uud frighten us to the best of their power—fur that is their present line of de ence—but, wo repeat, it will not do. Reform of this sj stein of law and its administration there must be ; and the only reform worth accepting is, the consplete and utter destruction ,f the exists* jurisdiction. "Thorough and thorough—leas than thorough will not do it. The very title of these Courts tells the whole story of their unfitness for the present times, of their defective organisation, of their cumbrous machinery, and of their frightful cost. They are Ecclesiastical, or rather, Bishop.," Courts. They are part and par cel of that ecclesiastical system which the Reforms teen in this country did not sweep away, and which no succeeding generation has yet had the courage to destroy. It is the duty of the State, not of the Church, to provide justice for all the people of this realm : and to that fundamental point, above all others, law reformers must adhere in sub stituting a new for the present systemless system. Bishops Imo no more to do, on any sound principle of human government, with our wills or our effects left attests.° after our departure from this world, than they have with our banker's accounts or our daily bread while we arc living. They are just as little entitled to interfere with our domestic differences as with our family happiness;—to divorce men a ,nensa et Moro from their wives as to marry them against their wills;—or to collect our petty debts, as to enforce payment of Church-rates. The whole theory on which they once justified their power to do all these and a hundred other incongruous, anomalous, and monstrous things, has now no reality or force in human affairs. It stalks about, indeed, in Puseyite imagination the shadow of a shade ; but by the rest of the world, it is renounced, abandoned, and almost forgotten. Yet we continue to suffer from and to endure the ill effects in these Courts of a Theory Indefensible, that no rational being can defend. And if we desire fairly and completely to get rid of the frightful evil, we must make up our minds to have no Bishops' Courts in England, and to recognise none but tribunals of the Crown. So said Mr. Soli citor-General BETIIELL in his admirable speech at Aylesbury ; and so say we. The Bishops, it is true, derive for their families no little gain and advantage from these courts. Look to their officers; they are Bishops sons, Bishops' nephew., and Bishops' grandsons, not doing the work there is to do, but taking the fees that widows and orphans are robbed of, and leaving the work to others. But this is a consideration that ought to hasten rather than retard their destruction. For to allow episcopacy to be longer mixed up with such a system, is not only to cortupt it, but also to degrade it; and that we cannot afford ;—for so long as we have an Established Church, we must at least take care to have it pure and honest, and of good reptee. Courts, it may be urged, the bishops must have, for purposes purely spiritual and eccle siastical, such as induction to benefices, or dinations, and registries of livings and parishes. And these—if they choose to call them Courts—may be still loft the bishops, if only we can get away from their jurisdiction over our goods and chattels after death, our wives whilst living, and our persons when liable to Church-rates. The forms of Courts they may re tain, but the substance they must be deprived of. What the Proctors, as we understand their policy and plans, are going to say is—" Reform our courts, by all means, but do not destroy them. You must have tribunals to award probates of wills, or grant letters of administration of intes tate effects ; you must have courts to ad judicate on conjugal disputes and wrongs ; you must (have Church-rata controversies decided— alter, re-model, change our courts for these purposes as much as you please ; but don't, please don t, sweep them away . Now, we must entreat the public not to be deluded by this very penitent proctorial whim pering ; it simply means sham, not real, reform. For what recent improvements have demonstrated is, that we have too much and too various law,—too many courts—too many judges—too much conflicting autho rity. In the administration of English justice there is no harmony and no unity of action, no simplicity and identity of form and practice, no security for a common result in common cases. We have one legal profession at Westminster Hall, another legal profession in Lincoln's Inn, a third legal profession in our County Courts, and now the Proctors ask us to perpetuate a fourth in Doctors' Commons. The re quest is just as modest as if the Bankruptcy Courts in Basinghall-street, or the Insolvent Court in Por tugal-street, were to claim independence for them selves. No—what is wanted, and what is indispensable, is the absorption of Doctors' Commons, and of all other Ecclesiastical Courts, in one general system of legal jurisdiction. Wo admit we must have tribunals to award probate, to grant administrations, to decide on divorce, to capture us for non-payment of Church rates,—so long as Church-rates last. All this we admit the learned Proctors, who met on Saturday, we believe. But all these, we concur with Mr. Solicitor- General HETDELL in thinking, we could have much better from royal than episcopal judges,end in West minster Hall than in Doctors' Commons. And therein lies the gist of the dispute. It is lay against ecclesi astical justice; Queen's Courts against Bishops' Courts ; the law of England against the law of Rome ; juries against judges ; tribunals as bright as mid day against tribunal as dark as midnight. Theoretically the profession of the law in Bishops' Courts is as open to the public as the legal profession I. the Quxxx's Courts ; but practically there is no such close monopoly in England as Bishops' Courts. Bishops' sons and relatives monopolise the higher offices, Bishops' butlers and stewards the inferior berths.' And as for the advocates and proctors, their businesses are quite as hereditary as those of French notaries. Their very names betray their monopoliPs. There they STS—JEZINERS, BATFORDS, CLARKSONS, DOD SOSIS,SWARETS, PECKLES, ADDAMSES, DYKES, HARTS, IBEETSONS, and IOOULDENS, from " time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary." And there, too, they will remain until not a wreck of the "Commons" be left;--all excellent, learned, sad trustworthy, though costly and chargeable Ad vocates and Proctors, no doubt ; but the closest of all dose monopolists, notwithstanding; breeding, if they will allow us to say so, in and in; rearing their eldest sons to be Doctors of Civil Law, their younger eons to be Proctors, and living occasionally to see some of their children Queen's Adv oca t es an d Judges of their own courts.To speak the plain truth, there is no advan tage to the nation in thus setti ng apart a race of i Proctors, as f we were living under tho Mosaic Dis pensation, and required a tribe of Levites to keep as right tad straight ecclesiastically. Attorney-at- Law and Counsel Learned in the I.aw are necessary, bat Proctors and Advocates are unnecessary evils. The one set of inflictions human weakness will not allow us to slake off; and the pressing quest ion is whether we are men enough to fling away the other., The present session of Parliament win' probably decide the question. IT is stated in the Piedmontese journals that death has terminated the sufferings of kRANCISCO MADIAI, —that after many months of rigorous captivity, he has at length perished in prison. Previous.ac counts of his declining state had in some degree prepared us for the announcement. A 1 peals, founded on considerations of public justice, having failed to move the inexorable tyranny and stupid bigotry of the Tuscan Government, remonstrances had more recently been offered, on no other grounds than those of policy and humanity. The Grand Duke and his advisers were expostulated with by the representatives of England, Prussia, and Holland,on the imprudence of keeping alive a source of so much scandal and odium throughout all Pro testant Europe, as the protracted incarceration of a man confessedly charged with no other crime than that of reading the sacred Scriptures in his own tongue; and every method was exhausted, whereby the persecutors of this most deeply injured man might, it was hoped, have been tardily brought to a sense of remorse, for the fatal cruelty of which their victim was likely to become the subject. No im pression, however, seemed to have been made. l'he afilicoed husband and wife, convicted of the same offence against absolutism in matters of conscience, continued to be immured in separate cells, without any mitigation of the barbarous sen tence that had doomed them to remain there for the period of four years. If the account given in the Turin papers be correct, death has come to rescue one of them from his misery, and has thus baffled his in human tormentors in a portion of their purpose. How soon the believing wife may be carried to the grave which contains her uufaltenng husband, none can tell. • But wherever there remains in Europe, or through out Christendom, free speech or a free press, a loud and bitter cry of execration will be raised against the actors in this detestable drama. The day is gone by when educated men will pause to argue whether, among the prerogatives of despotism, is to be reckoned the right to inquire into matters of religious belief, and to inflict punishment in the de secrated name of law, for nonconformity to the established creed. Time was when, in almost every land now calling itself civilised, heresy was treated as sedition, and in its more active form as treason. A century ago Calvinism was pun ishable with banishment in France, Catho licism visited with confiscation in Ireland, and the belief of possessing supernatural powers wu actually punished with death in the United States. Intolerance has been, unhappily, the sin and shame of nearly all sects and churches where they formerly possessed unbridled sway. But we had hoped that Ithe days of despotism in matters of belief had passed away in all regions as completely as amongst ourselves and our neighbours of Western Europe and our kinsmen in the New World ; nor should we have believed the tale of the indictment, convic tion, sentence, and doom of the MADIAI had it been told as a narrative of facts seven years ago. It would seem, however, as if the absolute powers had lost in the panic of 1848 all the little sense of justice they had been slowly learning pre vious to that memorable epoch. The cold sweat of fear is upon them still; and in their blindness they are daily and hourly aggravating the dangers whose returning shadows are already outspread over them. If ever governments were busied with the fatuous work of digging their own graves, those of Italy are so. With a population almost unanimously attached to the Roman Catholic ritual, and, for the greater part, too illiterate to be reached through the medium of printed works of a controversial character, with French and Austrian garrisons to repress revolt, and an irresponsible police to watch and thwart all propagandism of dissent, which with them is ac counted sedition—there never was a country where severities ter conscience sake were so unmeaningly wanton, cruel, or insane in a political point of view. No object of commensurate importance is to be gained even for the hour by a system which outrages the feelings of all enlightened communities, and makes even the more sagacious despots of other countries ashamed. Louts NAPOLEON loves to display his power over the Church by sequestrating the revenues of Bourbonist bishops, and by imperiously requiring from the Vatican as many Cardinals' hats as he chooses to bestow on his partisans among the Gal lium prelates. But he is too shrewd to add to the number of his difficulties and dangers those which spring from interference with matters of faith, or questions of speculative opinion. The rigours of his system of repression, great and oppressive though they be, are essentially limited to practical objects. With the dream of the enthusiast, the consolations of the devout, or the hope of the heretical after death—NAPOLEON gives himself no concern. He wants to reign in security if he can, and to die in kis bed, if it be possible, "EMPEROR of FRANCE:" and he knows that his chances of arriving at such a consummation would be infinitely lessened if, to all the enemies be has already made on political grounds, he were to add those which religious persecution, like that carried on in Italy, would infallibly raise up against him. Will the bereaved survivor of her husband's fate be still detained by her ruthless persecutors in her present solitary dungeon? Can nothing be done to rescue the widowed wife of the murdered 111kDIAI from her present lamentable position ? Is there any popular or intelligible use in diplomacy? When Lord MALMESBUIVE was Foreign Secretary he was reproached that he bad failed to exert himself on the behalf of these humble, but not unhonoured objects of national sympathy. The seals of the Foreign Office are now in much better hands. What will Load Joii Itussua. do? MMit THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EYBNING, JANUARY 11, 1853. official report gives a more favourable aspect than wee visible at the close on Saturday, the ntimbeeer a lorpt r i i o ce n e s a tha re t in h d t a ve ti te o n f .Uff in ec yt t i el nic nt u da t y at t far ic price. aee indicative of inything but that re staled confidence which. Was so confidently predicted on Friday and Saturday. The First President and the Procureur - General of the Imperial Court of Lyons, and the Procureur- General of the same court at Bordeaux, took the oaths on Sunday at the Tuileries. Four new Legitimist resignations are announced. The frigate Pundore arrived at Toulon on the 4th from the Pincus, where she left the Gomer, the MONTENEGRO. A letter from Vienna of the Gth inst. announces the departure of Baron Kollner de Kollenstein, adju tant of the Emperor, for Trieste, where he would arrive on the evening of the sth, and embark imme diately on board the war steamer Taurus, for Cat taro, to watch the march of events in Montenegro. The Austrian civil and military governor of the Banat has given a first warning to the Srbski Dnevink, a journal which has of late contained seve ral articles on Montenegro. no governor says that while Slavic writers of newspapers content them selves with expressing sympathy with cognate races the Austrian authorities will not look narrowly into their productions, although no good subject can well , forget the innumerable robberies, ineendiarisms, and murders which Montenegrine bands have yearly committed on Austrian soil, for which their ruler has offered little or no satisfaction. But as the writer in the Srbski Dnerink has gone so far as to encourage the Montenegrins to rebellion against their sovereign, to whom they have long been legally subject in virtue of treaties, as well as in point of fact, and falsely states that the independence of Montenegro has been acknowledged by Austria, the government will not permit a continuance of such writing, and warns the journal accordingly. As it is not likely that the governor of the Banat has entered into these somewhat gratuitous explanations without previous knowledge of the dispositions of his supe rion, it may be inferred that Austria does not deem it prudent to proceed openly in the encouragement of the Montenegrin revolt. Chaptal, and the Sentinelle. The latest official prices on the Bourse are thus reported :—Three per Cents., 80f. 70c.; Four-and-a- Half per Cents., 105 f. 70c. •' Bank Actions, 2,845 f. The following are the latest quotations of the Continental and Peninsular exchanges posted in Paris to-da7 Berlin—three-and-a-Half, 941; Banque, 1101. Vienna—Fives, Aletallique, 95 1; New, 951. Madrid—Three per Cents., 42, 1„ ex div.; New ditto, 231. Amsterde Fours, 971. -Two-and-a-Half, 661; Threes, 78; [Our usual French despatches had not arrived at the hour of going to prow] SPAIN. The electoral committee of the moderate opposition which started into life with 106 members, has been reduced mainly by the blandishments of the Itoncali cabinet to d 4. The residuary number of the com mittee have prepared an address to the Queen which concludes thus: The undersigned therefore supplicate your Majesty that benignantly receiving this humble petition, you may deign to derogate the royal order of the ith of De cember: last, and to direct that the right and legitimate custom of freely hold ing electoral meetings, private or public, may be main tained, those who promote the latter giving due notice to the local authorities. May the Almighty preserve the im portant life of your Majesty for many long years for She good of this monarchy ! ' Signed by the Marques del Duero, Duke of Rivas, Duke o Sotomayor, Leopoldo O'Donnell, Joaquin Francisco Pacheco, Pedro Jose Pidal, Francisco Serrano, Manuel de Selma Lozano, Luis Gonzalez Bravo, Claudio Moysno Sams aiego, Alejandro Mon, Manuel Moreno Lopez, Luis /doyen°, Saturnian Calderon Cullantes, Candido Nocedal, Andres Borrego, Antonio do los Rios Rosa." With respect to the defections front the Moderado camp, the Espana, which is tho court organ, says : According to news which we consider trustworthy, va rious persons have separated from the Moderado election committee, or have ceased to follow its intimations; and among them aro mentioned the Count of San Luis, Gene rals Cordova and Roe de Olano, Senors Zaragoza, Bermudez do Castro (Manuel and Salvador), Esteban Cotlantes, Cala pomayor, and Augustin Altar°. ITALY. PIEDMONT. An interesting debate was sustained in the Sar dinian chamber on the 6th inst. on the subject of the national navy. M. Valerie deplored the decadence of the Sardinian marine, and appealed to the Minis ter of War for confirmation of his views. M. de Viry was anxious that the naval force of the country should be augmented. " If," said he, "in 1848 we had had a good fleet, the war would have had a different issue; by taking Trieste, we should have inflicted a fatal blow on the enemy." The Minister of War admitted that the national marine was not so well organised as that of other countries, but de nied that it was declining ; on the contrary, the materiel was greatly improved, and the arsenal such as other nations might envy. M. de Cavonr, Minister of Finance, undertook to demon strate that in point of ships and stores, the navy never stood higher. In the course of the present year a 64-gun screw frigate would be launched. The hon. orator then proceeded to justify some recent promotions which. had been chal lenged; that of the Commander of the Governol had been most spoken and written against. Yet a few days after the storm of indignation had burst, the same officer entered the Thames without pilot, and was the admired of all. The discussion was then closed. In the same sitting, M. Cadorna laid on the table a bill for a railroad to be made by an English Com pany from Novara to Lake Maggiore. GERMANY. Orders have been given to the agents of the Aus trian government in Hungary no longer to desig nate M. Kossuth and his compatriots in official pub lications as agitators, but roundly to call them traitors, and their proceedings not agitation but treason. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, JAN. 7. The election of the president in the Second Cham ber to-day ended in the defeat of the government party. The former president, M. Uhden, had de clined the candidature. The conservatives set up Kleist-Retzow ; the liberals, Count Schwerin • the catholics, Von Waldbott. The requisite abs olute majority was 157. In the first scrutiny there were 147 votes for Kleist, 117 for Schwerin, 42 for Waldbott, 6 for others. In the third scrutiny, when all but the two first names had been struck off the list, the majority of the catholic, had joined the opposition, and the numbers were 154 for Kleist, and just as many for Schwerin. The candidates had therefore to draw lots, and luck was against the go- 1 vernment. Count Schwerin, rather unprepared for this issue, returned thanks in brief terms. In the First Chamber an animated but fruitless debate was raised on a motion made by the liberal party for deferring the repeal of the communal law of March, 1850, till the new bill prepared by the go vernment shall have passed. The liberals prefer the organisation, as prescribed in the law of 1850, to the previous state, which the reactionista want to restore. And as both parties would wJlinFly reject tho new government' bill, the party question is, what order of things shall thqn be recognised as legally obtaining. The Empress of Russia is expected at Venice by the end of this month. The success of Ira Aldridge's second performance of Othello was even more brilliant than that of the first. His acting made deep impression even on per sons who understood not a word of the language he spoke. FRANCE. PARIS, SONDAY Evrante. A paragraph, originally appearing in the broil, and which has since gone the round of the French and English papers, stated that an Englishman callins himself Cavendish, now an inmate of a French pn eon, had committed a vast number of frauds in dif ferent parts of Europe, had been known by a great many aliases, and had married four wives, who were all simultaneously confronted with him in prison, when he had tie audacity to deny having ever seen them before. An English lady, now in Paris, who claims to be the only person to whom the prisoner was ever married, asserts that the greater part of the story told by the Droll is pure fiction. She has re quired that journal, as well as those that reproduced the article, to insert the following letter; with which requisition they have thought fit to comply : Paris, Jan. 4, 1853. Sir,—ln your number of the Droit of December 31, you have published an article in which, regardless of the situa tion of a man who is at the moment in prison, and cannot yet defend himself, you have made most serious and de grading accusations against my husband, Mr. henry Ca vendish. It is difficult for me, sir, to repress the feelings which such an article has excited in me, and you will give me credit for not qualifying it u severely as I might do, when justice has not yet intervened, and when my husband has not yet been called before a judge of instruction, who would let him know of what he is accused. My husband has been kept au &a re! for three weeks. lie has not been allowed to receive me or his advocate, and I may well in quire by what right you can give an account of confrontings which, according to you, have occurred in the prison. It wtrelong, sir, to explain how it happens that my hus band is now subjected to a fresh accusation. I will not even, to refute the accusation which your journal had taken upon itself to prefer against him, anticipate the ex planations which he is anxious to give to a justice. All that I will say here is, that I protest, in the name of my husband, against all the details that you give about the se cret investigation which you pretend to have taken place. You have thought fit to introduce my name into your tale, and by so doing you have given me the right to send you this letter. All that you have said concerning me is com pletely false. From that fact the truth of the other allega tions of your article may be judged of. I request, and if ne cessary, I require you to insert this letter in your next num ber, while reserving, as I do, all the rights of my husband sad myself with respect to the publication of the article complained of.—l have the honour, etc., ELLEN Cava*. DISH. _ _ Clic Court. WINDSOR, JAN. 10. Mr. Thorburn attended at the Castle to-day by command of her Majesty to take the first sitting for a por trait of the Princess Adelaide of lioheulohe. Lord Byron has relieved Viscount Basra:den as Lord•in- Waiting to the Queen. Earl St. Germans had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday at his official residence in Downing street. Mr. John C. Ring, from Victoria, bad an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday at the Colonial-office. A deputation, consisting of Mr. R. M. Fox, ALP., Mr. Rolt, M.P. Sir Herbert Maddock, M.P., Mr. .H. Brook ing, Mr. R obert Gillespie, Mr. Robert Carter, Mr. Robert Lamont, Mr. Robert Gillespie, jun., Mr. J. W. Wooldridge, Mr. Wm. Prineep, and Mr. S. J. Wadeson (solicitor), had an interview with the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell yester day at the Board of Trade. Lord Dudley Stuart had yesterday an interview with the Duke of Newcastle. Mr. Boyd had also an interview with his gray at the Colonial-office. The Lord Advosate of Scotland bad yesterday an inter view with the Earl of Aberdeen. Captain Donates O'Brien, Director of Convict Pri-ons, is doing the daty of private secretary to Sir James Graham, waiting the return from abroad of Captain Henry O'Brien, Royal Artillery. Mr. Caird, of Baldorn, had an interview with the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The Earl of Aberdeen had a dinner party yesterday, at his residence, in Argyll-street. I Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the West India Islands, and also from the Governor-General of Canada. The report of the death of Sir Charles Lemon is premature. Sir Charles has bad a severe attack of para lysis, but the accounts received yesterday are more fa vourable, u he has been able to sit up a little, and his friends naturally hope for his recovery. ELEMENTARY DRAWING A BRANCH OF NATIONAL EDUCATION. A circular has recently been issued from the Com mittee of Council on Education to the authorities of the several training schools under inspection, calling their at tention to the steps which have been taken towards cage ' exiling local means of instruction in drawing as part of ele mentary education. The circular proceeds to state that " It has occurred to my lords of the education com mittee, and to their lordships of the Board of Trade, that the various training schools for masters and mistresses which are under inspection are the points at which the most effectual impetus can be given to the promotion of the object in view. My lords have felt cure that the autho rities of the institutions in question appreciate the im portance of this object, and will not have been slow to avail themselves of the means already rat their disposal for obtaining supplies of apparatus, and the services of com petent instructors." And an intention is announced of causing an inspection to teas place into the system of drawing which may be pursued in the training schools. The circular goes on to say : " My lords would contemplate it as one of the results to follow in time from this step, that evidence of a certain proficiency in drawing should be afforded by each student on account of whose examination the training sehool receives a grant, and their lordships would ex pest each training school, desirous of receiving Queen's scholars, to make adequiite provision for imparting this branch of instruction. In like manner my lords might, sooner or later, regard it as improper to sanction the sp. prentieeehip of pupil teachers to masters or mistresses who had neglected to profit by the means now about to be made generally available for squiring • practical knowledge of elementary drawing. You will observe, that elementary drawing is mentioned both in the minutes of 1846, and in the earliest document explanatory of them, as one of tho subjects in which an apprentice ought to be instructed, and as one of the attainments to be expected in a certificated teacher. My lords would, how ever, be most careful not to enforce any requirements of this nature until ample time had been allowed for making the necessary provision to meet them. They desire, how ever, emphatically to reeord their opinion that the power of accurately delineating the forms of objects ought no longer to be regarded as an accomplishment only, or the result of some rare natural aptitude, but as an essential part of education." This circular was issued before the late change of ministry, but there can be no doubt that the intention will be fully carried out under the present government. THE ELECTIONS. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. OXFORD, MONDAY. The supporters of Mr. Gladstone have again rallied round the right hon. gentleman, and, despite the Carlton Club's threat of overwhelming him to-day, have increased his majority on the gross poll to 111, and on the day's poll 24. The legal point relative to the duration of the poll has not yet been settled. It will certainly be kept open until Wednesday evening. SIXTH DAY. =SVEN O'CLOCK. __ - - Gladstone 602 Pseeeval Majority for Gladstone 95 PIJAIITZB TO TRILTI. Gladstone 622 Penned Majority for Glad tone lO4 QUARTER-PAST TIVELTI. -----_ Gladstone 631 Perceval Majority for Gladstone lO2 QUARTZR-PAST ONI. --____ ____ -. Gladstone 637 removal Majority for Gladstone IaIJARTEA•PAST TWO. Gladstone 652 Pereeval Majority for Gladstone lOl MALT-PAST TWO. Gladstone " 667 Parma! Majority for Gladstone lO5 HALF-PABT THEIII. Gladstone ------ 682 Peroeval Majority for Gladstone lO9 QUARTER TO POUR. Gladstone 702 renewal GREECE. We have advices from Athens of the 27th ult. At that date it was believed that an important ministe rial modification was imminent. The retirement of M. Riga, Minister of the Interior, was anticipated with certainty. The country was in a state of tran quillity. The Minister of Finance had presented the budget for 1853, the expenditure of which was for once balanced by the receipts. TURKEY. We have advice from Constantinople of the 26th ult. The nine steamers which, according to former advice', should have left for the Adriatic coast, were still at Constantinople. It was believed, however, that as the Porte was fully determined to act with energy against the Montenegrins, the vessels would leave at once, and that strong reinforcements would be sent by land to Omer Pacha. Nafiz Pacha, former minister of finances, had been summoned before a council of ministers, and informed that, as the de ficit of the customs farmer, Djezaerli (amounting to 6,000,000 francs) had liken place under his administration, ho would be held responsible, to the last farthing o f: his property. On the 18th of De cember, M. de Lavalette notified the Emperor's essamion. In the Journal de Constantinople of Dee. 24 we read :—" The exchange on Europe, which bas ktely been inordinately high, is again becoming PARIS, MONDAY ArrEeNocnc. somewhat more regular. At the Bourse the day There has nothing transpired here of telegraphic before yesterday the fall averaged 1 per cent. importance since the last post. The political atmo- Exchange on London fell from 117 to 116, and the sphere is decidedly hazy, and the commercial is by !general opinion is that the movement will continue no means clear, while a hurricane is blowing in the in the same direction. By an imperial ordonnance Channel, so that the mail boats cannot cross from t of the 20th ult. Ali Glushb Paella, son of Reschid Calais to D.ver. The various government securities Pacha, is dismissed from the office of councillor of have today fluctuated considerably, and although the state." Majority for Gladstone M. QUARTER PAST FOUL Gladstone 712 Perceval Majority for Gladstone ll4 SI.VI O'CLOCK. Gladstone 721 Pereeval Majority for Gladstone lll Number polled 1,331. Amongst the supporters of Mr. Gladstone to-day were Rev. W. L. Pope, Travers Twits D.C.L., Rev. It. C. Powlca, Professor Donkin, Right Hon. Sir David Dundee, Sir Charles Wood, M.P., U. Bethel', Esq., M.P., Mr. \V. S. Degdale, T. K. Chambers, D.M., Rev. \V. Sewell, 8.D., Rev. H. J. Dyson, Rev. W. C. Page, Rev. T. Hen derson, Archdeacon Thorp (Durham), Mr. J. Conington. The Bishop of Moray and 'toss paired for Mr. Gladstone with Archdeacon Bouverie. Amongst the supporters of Mr. Perceval were Sir James Buller Host, Rev. J. Blotch, 8.D., Rev. J. Smith, 8.D., Thomas Farley, D.D., Rev. It. Michell, S.D., J. W. Crary . LLD, C. A. Ogilvie, D.D., C. Lempriere, D.C.L. SlGPWRECK.—lntelligence reached Liverpool on Sunday night of the total loss of the new ship Vanguard, of and from St. John's., N. 8., laden with timber fer Liver pool. The Vanguard had experienced very boisterous weather for several days, and sprung a leak on the 16th December, when she ultimately became waterlogged. All the crew kept constantly at the pumps fbr nine days. The water gaired upon them, and they abandoned the vessel on I the 26th in lat. 10 N., lon. 54 W., and were picked up by the L•idy Sole Irom New Orleans, which arrived at Liver. pool on Suiut.y. The Vanguard belonged and was con• signed to hlessr. f faruock, Bibby, and Co., of Liverpool. MCNIFICENT ESIDOWNIENT.—Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Bart., has endowed the church at Greenock with 3001. per annum, et..d 1001. for a curate, on condition that daily aerricy shall never cease to be paTorMed. - . caps, whil e most were r scribed witl Tho females with various depended lo borne 16 var tho union yi one of the 1p midst of the groom, who the proces surmounted reaching th by order of F F. riage c etera was John C married to At the cone Rev. Minim declaring t 1 introduce 8 partcd in tl laughter, a iSA,It MS.—(Siiivini-LAc) m•) First prize, A. F. Jones, Bedford; second prize, Mrs. J. I:girlie. others ,tc.ah h op u su r , Church, some hansi spec io3m,,cii dependedscribedmast w r e itloh p n o , 1 I soo k ow. AY WOO LICUU , O4, LIUIVIIVUr, i rsrc,vas was fully determined to act with Mr. Selby, midshipman, still at hospital. CLASS 36.—First prize, Mr. J. C. Adkins; second prim, he Montenegrins, the vessels would Majority for Gladstone lll John Kevin, R.M.A., still at hospital. ditto ; third prize, 31r. T. R. Edwards, Lyndhurst. QUARTER FAST TOUR. Thomas Wrens , stoker, still at hoapital. POLAND FOWL.—(GOLDEN WITII RLFIS OH SHARDS) I that strong reinforcements would Gladstone 712 Samuel Talbot, R.M.A., still at hospital. CLASS U.—First prize, Mr. J. C. Mapplebeek ; second o Omer Pacha. Nafiz Paeha, former removal mees, had been summoned before a Charles Knight, gunner's mate, still at hospital. Street, near Clastoubury . with various s G. V. SIYKOIIII. Ors, and informed that, as the de- Majority for Gladstone ll4 (Signed ) street, CLA toms farmer , Djezaer li (amounting PM O'CLOCK.Sil iu 3 l 9 l. .—First prise, Muter G. Homer, Charlottes borne 16 vario Gladstone 721 POLAND FOWL.—(GOLDBX Tremor? arm OR MIDS.) ince) had awn place under his Perceval o would be held responsible, to the SlLlPWitECK.—lntelligence reached Liverpool on ham; second prize, Miss E. S. Perkins, Sutton Coldfield. midst of these his property. On t 18th of De- Majority for Gladstone lll Sunday night of the total loss of the new ship Vanguard, I CLASS 41.—First prize, Mr. W. Cutler, Batliampten I groom, who, t Lavalette notified the Emperor's umber polled 1,331. of and from St. John's, N. 8., laden with timber far Liver- second prise, the lion. Mrs. Finch, Berkhampton. the processic he Journal de Constantinople of Amongst the supporters of Mr. Gladstone to-day were pool. The Vanguard had experienced very boisterous POLAND —" The exchange on Europe, which Rev. W. L. Pope, Travers Twits D.C.L., Rev. IL C. weather for several days, and sprung a leak on the 16th CLASS 42.—First ;prize, Messrs. Baker, Chelsea; wend reaching the nordinately high, is again becoming December, when she ultimately became waterlogged. All Towles, Professor Donkin, Right Hon. Sir David Dundee, f. pr ize, Mr. C. Sir Charles Wood, M.P., K. Bethel', Esq., M.P., Mr. the crew kept constantly at the pumps fbr nine days. TheLlti ke ; third prize, Mr. G. Vivian. CLASS 13.—First prize, Mr. G. Vivian ; second priers by order of th aev. F F. Si regular. At the Bourse the day \V. S. Dugdale, T. K. Chambers, D.M., Rev. \V. Sewell, water gaired upon them, and they abandoned the vessel on lilaster G. Horner. the fall averaged 1 per cent. 8.D., Rev . H. J. Dyson, Hey. W. C. Pave, Rev. T. Hen- the 26th in lat. 40 N., lon. 54 IV., and were picked up b y PuLAND FoWL.—(SILTBIt, wrrwove 1111111/ OS 111A1iot) was John Cle 'Rion fell from 117 to 116, and the derson, Archdeacon Thorp (Durham), Mr. J. Conington. the Lady Sole from New Orleans, which urrived at Liver. l CLASS 44.—Second init.:, Mr. C. J. Mould. married to El Pool on Suoul,y. The V anau.ird belonged and was con• BANTAIIs.--(GOLD-LACRD.) At the condo I that the movement will continue The Bishop of Moray and 'toss paired for 31r. Gladstone with Archdeacon Bouverie. signed to Mean.. (Saruock, Bibby, and Co., of Liverpool. CLASS 48,—First prise, Mr. G. C. Adkins ; wand pliSet ROT. Minister lion. By an imperial ordonnume Ali Chad) Pacha, son of Weald Amon g st the su pp orter ' . of Mr. Perc eval w ere Gir James MtIiIPICENT ENDOWMENT.—Sir Michael Shaw Mr. H. T. Leigh, Turnham-grelia. declaring the Buller Oust, Rev. J. Blatch, 8.D., Rev. J. Smith, 8.D., Stewart, Bart., ha. endowed the church at Greenock with ISANTAMS.—(SILVIIR-LACIM) introduce Sk i ed from the office of councillor of Thomas Farley, D.D., Rev. It. Michell, 8.D., J. W. Cary 3001. per annum, ei.;.l 1(101. for a curate, on condition that i First prize, A. I. Jones, Bedford; second prize, Mrs. I. parted in the D.D., C. A. Ogilvie, D.D., C. Lempriere, D.C.L. daily service shall never cease to be performed. . I:girlie. Uughter, ant .5 RAVAGES OF THE YELLOW FEVER. THE DEATHS ON BOARD THE MAGDALENA. Madame Carregeot, the Mexican passenger who died on board the Magdalena of yellow fever, was a French girl of about 22 ?ears of age. A young Mexican merchant met her in Faris, and becomine enamoured, took her about two months ago to the city of Mexico to his friends, with the intention of marrying her. His friends, who are of the highest respectability, objected on account of her inferior rank and character, and sent her to Europe. They, how ever, treated her with great kindness while she was with them, gent a person with her to take care of her as far as Vera Cruz, paid her passage to Southampton, and gave her 3,500 dollars. It was understood that she received that money 4 cash, and when she died her boxes were examined and it was found that the money was in the form of • draft on one of the first Mexican mercantile houses in l'aris. It was discovered by her papers that Carregeot was an assumed name, sad that she had an extensive correspondence with the frequenters of theatres, and many of the gay ones of Paris. Mr. Stautiu, or Halm, or Stahu, for his name is spelt all three ways, who also died onboard the Magdalena, was connected with one of the first hardware establishments in the city of Mexico. He was excessively nervous, and would often rise from table on 'Ward ship, quite annoyed and displeased when the yellow fever was spoken of slightingly or jokingly. Mr. Spantin, another of the victims on board the West India packet, had been storekeeper on board the Great Western steam ship, and had ran away and settled in Navy Bay, and there, in the midst of the orgies of that place, one of the most de moralised in the world, he fell ill, and was coming home as • distressed britir.h subject. Amongst his papers were letters from some Southampton clergyman who, it appears, teak interest in his welfare, and tried to reclaim him from his vicious career. Persons afflicted with the yellow fever are as yellow as • guinea. The black votait (the usually fatal symptom of the fever) is a substance discharged from the stomach, some. thing like what is called coffee grounds. Persons have been known to recover after the black vomit. During the fever the 'valeta becomes delirious, and conceives unna tural antipathies. Oftentimes during this state the body becomes black, and decomposition commences. A horrible circumstance is connected with the illness of an officer whose death in the West Indies, from yellow fever, was recorded ye,terday. He was a very fine, strong, young man. During his delirium he took a vio lent antipathy to a medical gentleman, named Jelly, who out of kindness volunteered to attend him in his illness, and with his arms perfectly black from incipient decomposition, he arose from his bed, and squaring away in a fighting attitude, struck the doctor down with a terrible blow. Commander Langton, the Admiralty agent of the Magdalena, describes many of the incident' on board the packet on her homeward voyage as very distressing, a person with whom you bad dined with, or spoken to, one day, would be struck down, and you would be called upon soon afterwards to hear the funeral service read over the lifeless remains of that person, or accidentally see his or her coffin thrust out front the stern hold, and all the clothes, and everything likely to retain infection, thrown out afterwards. Commander Langton came up from the Gulf of Mexico to join the Magdalena. He had been left ashore three weeks at Tampico, owing to the weather, and was present in that city during the revolu tion. During his voyage home in the Magdalena a sea came over the stern, and carried him from the binnacle to the forecastle. His escape from death, or drowning, was a miracle, and it was a marvel how he was carried by the funnel mast without being dashed to pieces. Oa his arrival at Southampton he found his commission as commander awaiting him. By his promotion he retires ftom the mail packet service. lie has been connected with the port of Southampton ten years, where he was highly respected for his intelligence and gentlemanly conduct. DEATHS FROM FEVER ON BOARD HER MAJESTY'S SHIP DAUNTLESS. The following nominal list of cases of fever and death of officers and men of H.M.S. Dauntless, from Nov. 8 to Dec. 6, 1852, has been issued by the Admiralty : Arthur C. Cowper, mate, Nov. 17, yellow fever. St. George C. S. D avis,i assistant engineer, 2nd class, Dec. 2, ditto. William Yates, boy, 2nd class, recovered. John Last, boy, Ist class, ditto. James Buist, captaiu wizen top, Nov. 17, died on way to hospital. Thomas Wilding, A. 8., Nov. 14, died abroad. Thomas Williams, carpenter's crew, Nov. 13, ditto. Henry Scott, R.M., Nov. 14, ditto. Edward Conroy, R.M.A., recovered. James Baxter, R.M. ditto. John Luppben , It.af., ditto. Mat. Eagan, Nov. 15, died abroad. Nichard Neale, R.M., recovered. Henry Allnutt, A. 8., Nov. 17, died at hospital. James Arthur, sick boy attendant, still at hospital. John Smith, A. 8., Nov. 19, died at hospital. John Strugnell, boatswain's mate, recovered. William liebditch, It.M., Nov. 14, died abroad. George Weston, ordinary, recovered. John Hallandale, ordinary, recovered. • Daniel Colson, A.B , recovered. John Stag, boy, 2nd class, Nov. 17, died at hospital. Mr. A. Cowper, mate, Nov. 17. died aboard. Mr. W. Simpson, mate, Nov. 17, died on way to hospital. William Evans, A. 8., recovered. William Elsay, ship steward's assistant, Nov. 16, died on board. William fucker, R.M., Nov. 16, ditto. William Howard, ordinary, still at hospital. Charles Allerton, Nov. 16, died aboard. Henry Elliot, ordinary, Nov. 17, died at hospital. William Croaman, boy, Ist class, recovered. William Bird, boy. Ist class, Nov. 17, died aboard. Denis Coglan, A. 8., Nov. 18, died et hospital. James Lightfoot, blacksmith, Nov. 21, ditto. Robert Wilson, It M Nov. 17, died aboard. Robert Braine, boy, ind class, recovered. Thomas Williams, A. 8., recovered. Mr. J. Crispin, midshipman, Ist Dec., second seizure, died at hospital. Mr. Starr, Ist lieut. R.M.A. Mat. Hogan, boy 2d class, 18th Nov., died at hospital. Wm. Leverott, boy 2tl class, 20th Nov., died at hospital. Mr. A. Langland, chief engineer, 22d Nov., ditto. Charles Day, stoker, 20th Nov., died at hospital. Duncan Manson, leading stoker, recovered. Jem. M'Carthy, A.B. recovered. Thomas Head, ship's cook, Nov. 21, died at hospital. Henry Allen, caulker's mate, recovered. Mr. 11. Neale, lieutenant, Nov. 22, died at hospital. Benjamin Webb, ordinary, recovered. Mr. Seccombe, clerk, ditto. Ambrose Archer, boy 2d class, Dee. 1, died at L'apital. Patrick Sullivan, ordinary, recovered. Mark Arnold, A. 8., ditto. Pat. Driscoll, ordinary, ditto. Sam. Johnson, A. 8., ditto. William Swaine, sailmaker's crew, Nov. 24, died at hoop. Edward Spearing, A. 8., recovered. Henry Doggett, stoker, Nov. 24, died at hospital. John Dorey, carpenter's crew recovered. Rev. Mr. Edwards, chaplain , ditto. Mr. Nuttall, second master, Nov. 23, died at hospital. Mr. Richards, assistant engineer, Nov. 24, ditto. orry Sumpter, boy, Ist class, Nov. 25, ditto. William Lyall, stoker, Nov. 25, ditto. Thomas Joyce, ditto, still at hospital John Wakeham, A. 8., recovered. Joseph Irwing, R.M., ditto. William Porter, stoker, still at hospital. Mat Booth, boy, first class, ditto. William Pass, R.M., ditto. Mr. Floud, Lieutenant, Nov. 25, died at hospital. Jahn Flynn, ordinary, Nov. 25, ditto. Wm. Fowl, A.M., still at hospital. Mr. Parker, master, still at hospital. Mr. Martin, assistant engineer, Nor. 25, died at hospital. Mr. Ilenweod, ditto, Nov. 18, ditto. Charles Yanam, boatswain's mate, still at hospital. John Kinchin, R.M., Nov. 25, died at hospital. Mr. O'Connell, midshipman, recovered. Joseph Williams, ordinary, still at hospital. John Spriggs, R M., ditto. Robert Higginson, R.R., Nov. 26, died at hospital. Thomas Fleming, R.M.A., Nov. 29, ditto. John Reed, fifer, Nov. 29, ditto. Henry Frampton, A. 8., still at hospital. Mr. Twiss, midshipman, ditto. John Page, sailmaker's mate, Dec. 2, died at hospital. James Venablos, captain's steward, still at hospital. Mat. Fitzgerald, mid.'s steward, Dee. 2, died et hospital. Mr. Davis, assistant engineer, Dee. 2, ditto. George Barber, R.M., still et hospital. Mr. Kent, lieutenant, Dec. 2, died at hospital. Samuel Robson, N M., still at hospital. Mr. Armstrong, lieutenant, recovered. Freeland Levett, stoker, still at hospital. Peter Sheridan, ordinary, Dec. 5, died at hospital. Robert Roberts, A. 8., still at hospital. John Jones, A. 8., ditto. William Payne, caulker, ditto. William Thorne, boy 2nd class, still at hospital. Mr. Death, clerk, Bth Dec., died at hospital. Francis Lehy, ordinary, still at hospital. William Oliver, boy 2nd data, ditto, second seizure. William nassett, R.M., 6th Dec., died at hospital. James Murray, stoker, still at hospital. James Strugnell, captain mizen top, 6th Das., died at hospital. Mr. Selby, midshipman, still at hospital. John Kevin, R.M.A., still at hospital. Thomas Weem, stoker, still at hospital. Samuel Talbot, R M.A., still at hospital. John Sullivan, stoker, still at hospital. Charles Knight, gunner's mate, still at hospital. (Signed) G. V. SITYOIIII. THE GREAT METROPOLITAN EXIIIBITIOS OF POULTRY. there isanc,ulooegihrerioo:o4.ba. There was a _private view of this e n x ot hi e h z i e t more than one visit to the Baker street Bait e r for th e pose of witnessing fowls in a plac e . where the recurrence's terday evening. Undoubtedly Christmas was associated with animals of a largLr gro wt h . It is not easy to exhaust the merits of 3,000 speci men s of the feathered tribe. No one who is at all conversim witk natural history can fail to find abundance of material f a , an hour's instruction and amanita!): ; and it will not hi the fault of the birds themselves . if their merits do 11,4 as the y do, c ob cart, t j a u with s ous sufficient music,i notice, , n na t roiwetTi n of ßolo, 0 m r gnaaoinwn c in ertainly autrdn,. yei°edaedrel any other department of the animal kingdom. The g ees , ral character of the exhibition hat been already indicated. but this is one of those was in which nu description, h e y: ever elaborate, can supply the place of personal halite. tion. All that can be usefully added, therefore, is a ft, words on two or three of the leading and most noticeable features of an exhibition,which, if duly fostered by the tic, will no doubt be the fir 4 of a lung series of feathered gatherings. To begiu with the class which, after an, i s most interesting, because most numerous awl useful, it mei he remarked that Mr. l: girlie, of Cheveley-park, is the ea. hibitor of a pen of Scotch fowls, which in the south ate; novelty. They are imported by that gentleman from Ayr. shire, and arc called Scotch dummes, in consequence of tea extreme shortness of their legs, the lega being, in fa c c„, short as to remind one instantly of the Scotch terrier. we b ther this peculiarity is to be accounted for by 4 reference to the climate is a question which mete be left for the consideration of the mituralist. The attired has light speckled plumage. Of the Wino, pigeon it is i ce . possible to speak too highly : it is a moat interesting natural curiosity. The animal is as large as a coalmen fewl,ah oe o its shape clearly assigns it to the pi geon species; aed whether the beauty of its plumage or the fantastic elegance of its crest be considered, it is undoubtedly a most attractive object. Near this bird may be seen some beautiful sped, wens of the Australian pigeon, which fully supports the reputation of the birds of that golden region far debut, and elegance of form and dress. To those who have me previously seen it, the Capuchin pigeon also will prove highly interesting ; while, if in a mercy mood, tea visitor may indulge in a laugh at the close reaemblatice of the bird to its ghostly namesake. In the d► partment of turkeys will be seen a very remarkable specimen, whether its sire or its plumage be regarded. The weight of his bird is believed to be out much less tale 301bs. This is not the only instance, however, of giguei e development. There is a pen of three geese weighieg 481bs. ; and among the Cochin China birds are to be fouail hens which, in the period that forms the usual boundary chicken life, have attained a weight of 7110, or bibs. Of the value of these birds it is difficult to speak without calling forth expressions of incredulity. It is evident that there ie a mania in bird fancying so in other things. Thus, for es. ample, there is a single fowl to which is affixed the once. mous money value of 30 guineas ; two Cochin China birds are estimated at 2d guinese ; and four other birds, of the same breed, a cock and three hens, are rated in the aggro. gate at 60 guineas —a price which the owner confidently expects them to realise at the auction sa l e on Thursday. A farther illustration of this ornithological enthusiasm site be found in the fact, that at a sale on Wednesday last, le lots, comprising 110 Corbin China birds, all belonging to one lady, realised 3691.1.. Gd. ; the highest price realised for a single one being 20 guineas. In addition to the birds there is a Rood show of rabbits, which have been brought to a state of development rarely witnessed in that con. partitively well-cultivated department of animal pre. duction. Subjoiued is a list of the prizes awarded in the several departments: POI:LILLY, SPANISH. CLASS I.—First prize, Captain Hornig, Knowsley -tot. tage, near Brecoti, Lancashire ; second prize, Mr. Fox, Skinner-street, Snow-hill ; third prize, Mr. Thomas Jones, Vale-place, Hammersmith. CLASS 2.—First prize, Mr. Thomas Fox, Skinner-street, Snow-hill ; second prize, Mr. J. Jones, Vale-place, Ham. mersmith ; third prize, Captain Hamby. CLASS 3.—First prize, Captain Hornby; second prize, Mr. John Taylor, Sheppard's-walk. DORKING (SINGLE-COMBED). CLASS 4.—First prize, Mr. J. Lewry, Hundcross, Cram ley ; second prize, Mr. J. Boys, Biddenham ; third prise, Captain Hornby. CLASS s.—First prizo, Mr. J. Lewry ; second prize, Mr. John Fairlie, Cheveley-park, Newmarket ; third prise, Mr. F. Noyes, Salisbury. DORM:W.-0501:11LE OR ROSE-COMM.) Class 6.—liist prize, Sir J. Cathcart, Coupeet-hill, Chertsey ; secoud prize, Mr. J. Thorn, Mawley-home, South Lambeth. CLASS 7.—First prize, Mr. Thomas Rice, Great Bradley. hall, Newmarket; second ditto, Mr. John Fairlie. Donnus - o.—(llunitk Ott SINGLE COMBED.) CLASS B.—First prize, Captain Ilornby ; second prize, Mr. John Boys. Highly commended.—Ur. W. Harrison, liayworth-park; Messrs. Chelsea. DURILING.—(WHITE.) B. CLASS 9.—First prize, Mr. J. Jennens, Moseley ; woad prize, Mr. James Oldham, 1.... mg Laton, Derby; third prise, Mr. Nathaniel AntiU, Portsea. Highly commended.—Mt Oldham. CLAS, 10.—First prize, Mr. Joseph Jcnnens, Moreley; second prize, Mr. H. Forster, Margate-street, DunstaWe. Highly commended.—Mr. Oldham. _ COCHIN CHINA.—(CINNAMON AND Burr.) CLASS 11.—First prize, Mr. John Hattie, Newmarket; second prize, Mr. J. Potts, Kingwood-lodge, Croydon; third prize, ditto. C Lass 12.—First prize, Mr. T. Potts, Kingwood.lodge, Croydon ; second prize, Mr. T. Potts, Kingwood.lodge, Croydon ; third prize, Captain Squire, Bdi ton-place, Eli. denham. Highly comniended.—Mr. J. laton, Thurlow-lodge, Lower Norwood; Mr. 11. Collinsen, 47, Castle-street, Southwark. Commended.—Mr. J. C. Adkins, Egbaston, lair. minghamj Mr. G. Peters, Moreley, Worcester. COCHIN CHINA.—(I3Rows AND PAHTUIDUR FEATHERED.) CLAss 13.—First prize, Mr. John Chater, Haverhill; second prise, Mr. Thomas Bridges, Bridge-cottage, Croydol; third prize, —. CLASS IC—First prize, Mr. Thomas, York. COCHIN CHINA.—(CINNAMON AND Burr, OR BROWN CLASS 15.—First prize, Mr. John Bidewell, Guildford; second prize, Mrs. George, Chalden Coulsden, Surrey; third prize, Captain Squire. highly cammended.—Res. C. Hall, Durham-cottage, Uxbridge ; Mr. J. Fairlie ; Mr. IL Wilittiugham, Woodford-bridge, Essex. Commended.— Rev. J. G. Hodgson, Croydon ; Mrs. George; Mr. 'Thomas Potts ; Mr. W. 44,. Morris, Deptford, Kent ; Mr. C. Cooper, Guildford. COCHIN CHINA (WHITE). Class 16.—First prise, Mr. J. Fairlie ; sewed prize, Mr. E. L. Preston, Great Yarmouth. CLASS 17.- 7 Fiat prize, Rev. Dr. Allen, Engle&id-green; second prize, Mr. G. C. Adkins, Egbaston. MALAY. CLASS 19.—First prize, Mr. S. Soames, Stepney, Middle sez ; second prize, Mr. . Oldham, Nether hiteaers. GAME FOWL (WHITE AND PILES). CLASS 2U.—First prize, Mr. 11. Thurnall ; second prise, Mr. W. G. Vivian Singleton, Glamorganshire. CLASS 21.—First r t r ue, Mr. W. Orson,, bat, Norfolk; second prise, Mr. H. Wilson, Noon.pluce, Stamford-le- Hope. GAME FOWL (BLACK-DREASTED AND OVUM REDS). CLASS 22.—First prize, Captain lioruby ; second prize, Mr. F. H. Powell, Hillingdon, Middlesex ; third prize, Mr. A. Connell, Criugleford, Norfolk. CLASS 23.—Fir t prize, Mr. M. Wilson ; second prin t Mr. Tickell, dl, Doddington.grove. GAME FOWL (BLACKS AND BILASSY-WINGED, 11XCEer Guaira). . CLAIN 25.—Fint prise, Mr. W. Deven Seekinglone Warwickshire; second prize, Mr. It. W. Wil(4011. GAME FOWL.—(DUCILWINGS AND ()TILED GNATS ANN taxis.) Cuss 26.—First prize, Mr. H. Thurnail, Royston, Cuer bridoeshire; second prize, Mr. E. A. Lingard, Birmingham; third prise, Mr. J. C. Adkins. CLass 27.—First prize, Mr. It. W. Milson; small prise, Mr. R. G. Milson; third prize, Mr. C. SWIM Ainsworth. _ GOLDEN PENCILLED HAMBUIION. CLASS 28.—First prise, [Mr. J. 13. Chune, Colebrook• dale; second prize, Mr. J. L. blapplebeek, Highgate, (Bete: ; third prise, Mr. T. Acle, Norfolk. CLASS 29.—Firs: prize, Mr. H. Worrell, Knotty Ash House, Liverpool ; second prize, Mr. I'. B. Ade, Norfolk. GOLDEN SPANGLED IIAYBUROH. CLASS 30.—First prize, Mr. G. Adkins; second prise, Mr. Lightfoot, Markgate-stzeet; third prize, Mr. 1. G. Adkins. CLAss 31.—First prize, Mr. J. Mould, Makimey-houst, Belper ; second prize, ditto. SILVER. PENCILLED HARETRGII. CLASS 32.—Fint prize, Mr. E. Howe Lromloy, Middle sex ; second prize, Mr. F. Archer ; t hird prise, Mr. B. Hi ens, Egbaston. CLASS 33.—Fins prize, Mr. 0. M. Cann, Malian I second prize, Mr. J. Mapplebeak. SILVSU SPAXOLED CLASS 34.—First prise, Mr. J. Whilock, Birminghari second prize, Mr. W. 0. Chambers , Port s mouth; th 24 prise, ditto. _ _ Ciass 35.—First prize, Mr. E. Simons, Dale's-end, BiP. min ; second prize, Mr. J. Whilock. POLAND FOWL.—(BLACIL WITH WHITS CHIVY.) CLASS 36.—First prize, Mr. J. C. Adkins; second prin t ditto; third prize, Mr. T. It. Edwards, Lyndhunt POLAND FOWL.—(GOLDEN WITII RUFFS OH REARM) CLAss U.—First prize, Mr. J. C. Ilapplebeck ; second prize, Mr. W. G. Vivian ; third prize, Mr. C. Clarks, Street, near Clutonburp. CLass 39.—First prize, Muter G. Homer, Charlotte. street, Hull. POLAND FOWL.—(Clotmsw wirmotv RUM OR RIMINI) CLASS 40.—First prize, Mr. J. E. Mapplebeek, Birmiur ham ; second prize, Miss E. S. Perkins, Sutton Coldfiehl._ . _ Cz y ksal 41.—fFirs't prize, Mr. W. Cutler, Bathamptoni second prise, the lion. Mrs. Finch, Berkhampton. POLAND FOWL.—(SILVER, WITH nt PY9 Olt DIAIIDS.) CLASS 42.—First :prize, Messrs. Baker, Chelsea; second prise, lir. C. Clarke; third prize, Mr. G. Vivian. CLASS 43.—First prize, Mr. 0. Vivian; rescind prises Master U. Horner. PULAND FOWL.—(SILTHIt t wrnrove 11111116 OH HISAASS.) CLAW -W.—Second init.:, Mr. C. J. Mould. IIANTAIIS.--(I3OLD-LACILD.) CLASS 46,—First prise, Mr. 0. C. Adkins ; wand prissy Mr. B. T. Leith, Turnhamitrems. First prize, the Joseph Dutton. First prize, 1% BAN T First prize, M' . BAN First File. MI PROPOSED INSTI' A public me, and district was Weal lustitutiot ing the desiral: Literary and i comprehensive sc of science, litivat nity. It may ap ciated with the and many mine, day, and in whit ciation have bee s rr o c P ? dtets . i nertdr 6 e,y t tvidblß 0 :1 . tn roe : a dcirmooLt : tveno ti; ti by nua t sen,,, . ne: a ootnd: Irons Lord Darts their absence ; Charles Dickens, Christmas to ret hall, the procce , tution. The Mayon b ILticitis-o mittee formed i ture of the ; meat it appeu ciety shall orl spacious buitcliin the proposed SU about I 9,000!. — corporation (vrhc Public Libraries taking. In this theatre. The pl the first of whicl the industry of specimens, &c. ; facturiug proces different dates u and models. chemical labor:it reading room w ference ; aud, ments, a large sculpture, or oth neighbourhood i be made sufficioi a public gallery mining records strata in the did may be mention classes or artist main features of to confer no ci conclusion, recd of the meeting. Lord LYTTEL' society accordio, admitted its MO tended that the sibility. The 20,00 W.; and iv ham and the rei as nothing. Mr. Luctoca unanimously. Several speak solutions, appol Archdeacon Si James, Mr. W. latter gentlemai of the money re of South Stdll after two o'clec A NEW INI Mr. James the celebrated c steam-hammer sketch of a new devised, and wl stroying in an enemy. The ti meat of destroy or Short Range fair trial of its which he comm DLSCItI MUM t The chief lea these : 1. A ' , hell of se. the instant enemy's ship. 2. Tho mean: tact with the en ber of a gient 1 prow of our des being six feet h so far part nud about GOO tons comes into ploy the reaction col touch-and-go of would be all th of our floating e&•ct from the 3. By reason the vessel, on t and the thickat to ten feet, ant interior, when be perfectly it or cold shot, the vessel it face favourable propulsion wou of the most sim merged some tt and machinery 4. As respe'cl of the melt P form of a huge rifle ball, con baying a self-e: so arranged in erushing action being brought self-eaploding breech of the contact with ti way, leaving a to the enemy 1 The instant engine, so as ti merited fate. The shell ease, so that it tar, and remsi without injury was wanted. Were our ha floating mortal limo with half wading enemy attempt on ha charge troops from the first • A very few complete and E ceaa of this pr from all loved will be airerile of the officicnc and service of Bridgewatei near Ile EXTRAORI a most estrace St. Peter's, small building ally occupied the followers of this band, s advisable to bi cock, said to Accordingly, ston was torn Church, some others a spec