The Sun. — London, England, 1852-01-16 00:00:00

PARIS, JAN. 15.—The Magdalene, of Marseilles, from Calcutta to lieinion, was on shore on the south aide of Rochigney, 231 of October, bilged, and full of water. The Maupertius, Lepur, of St. Maio, from Mauri tius, was driven on the reefs of Pointe des JAulius, Re union, 23d October, end bilged ; mew and materials saved. OFF MARGATE, JAN. 15.—Wind S.W., fresh.—Alarm, Charleston. OFF DOVER, JAN. 15.—inns Mary, Sydney, New South Wales. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arra. Tay Steamer, Brazils. OFF TORBAY.—Florist, Buenos Ayres. LOSSEIMOUTH, JAN. 15.—The Swallow, of and from Sunderland for Taire, ran on the Findhorn Sliids, 9th and is full of water; expected off if weather mo derates, PLYMOUTH, JAN. 15.—Wind S.W.—Std. Propontis, Cape of Good Hope. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 15.—Wind S. to W.NW.—Arrd. William Large, Demerara. Sid. Iris, Africa ; Agnes, Gualequsyasbuc. Off port, Belmont. The Gladiator, from Danzig, h as arrived here leaky, having been in Contact, 9th inst., with the Clarence steamer, for Sydney New South Wales. CROMER, JAN. 15.—The Louisa, of Exeter, New castle to Portsmouth, got on Haslen Sands this morning, settled over into deep water, and sank; crew saved. WEsruort . r, JAN. 15.—The Grace Wright is on shore, and must discharge to be got off. SCARBOROUGH, JAN. 15.—The Two Brothers, of this port, is on the rocks behind the pier, and is breaking up; crew saved. HULL, JAN. 15.—The Blackett and Ridley, of New castle, has foundered in the North Sea; crew saved, and landed here. DEAL, JAN. 15.—Wind S.W. by W., fresh; 9.30 P M. W.S.W., strong.—Arrd. Palmer, Sydney, New South Wales; Albrotb, Lunt, Calcutta; Anna, Nielsen, St. Vincent, put back; Achilles, for Sydney, new South Wales; Glen Huntley, Adelaide, South Australia; Suc cess, Geelong; INTropo, Swan River; Science, Cape of Good Hope; Cybele, Demerara; Cato, St. Vincent; Lady K. Barham, Jamaica; St John, New Orleans; Vixen, Leghorn. FALMOUTH, JAN. 15.—Wind S.W., strong gale and squally.— Arrd. Fortunato Mimbelle, Marianople ; Fanny, Sanderson, Odessa ; Neander, Hutchinson, Ismail; Nimroud, hens, Constantinople; Archipelago, Mediterranean. BRISTOL, JAN. 15.—Wind fresh.—Arrd. Rotha, Morris, Mauritius; Pet, Plane, St. Michael's; Ada, Cus tance, Smyrna. MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY. Coastwise, a fair average supply of English Wheat -2,380 quarters—has been received up to our market this week; bat the arrivals of that grain fresh up, this morn ing, were very limited, and in fiddling condition, owing to the prevailing damp weather. The amount of busi ness doing in all kinds, arising from the thin attendance of buyers, was comparatively small; yet factors in gene ral were firm, and Monday's quotations were well sup- Ported in every instance. For forward delivery very little doing. Only 310 quarters of foreign Wheat have come fresh to hand. Fine dry qualities were scarce, and quite as dear. In the middling and inferior kinds, compara tively little was passing. Floating cargoes dull. The supply of Barley was very limited. Malting parcels moved off freely, on rather higher terms. Grinding and distilling sorts were firm. W e had a fair inquiry for Malt at full quotations. Oats, the arrivals of which were small, were in moderate request, at fall rates of currency. Beans and Peas commanded very little at tention; but Indian Corn and Flour were tolerably firm. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. I Wheat. Barley. I Malt. Oats. Flour. I Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. I Qrs. Sacla. Erie's' ....•• . 2,350 1,660 3,740 I 870 3,020 I 2, , 80 I , oreign .• •• ••j 310 i 3,140 830 aka 1 9,470 bla SMITHFIELD. Although the supply of Beasts on offer here to-day wits somewhat limited, and , for the most part, in very middling condition, the Beef trade was in a depressed "'ate, at almost nominal currencies. There was a fair average number of Sheep in the market. Pri me o ld Downs sold at full prices, but all other kinds were very " 11 at barely late rates. The Veal trade w as heavy, but we have no actual fail to notice in the q uo tations. , I _ l . Pigs, the supply of which was moderate , next to no -I‘Tng was doing, yet prices were mostly supported. !midi Cows were selling at from 141 to ls/ each, includ lOg their small calf. Per Sibs. to s s. d. to s 2 . d. lat erior Beasts— 2 6 lO second quality ••. • 3 0 3 2 I .:rirae largo Oxen.. 3 4 3 6 Prime Scots •••• •• 3 8 310 Large coarse Calves 3 0 3 6 orrlrassmall ditto .. 3 8 4 0 acklinG Calves —lB 0 22 0 Lambs .• . ...... . 0 0 0 0 Ink the offal. S. d. to s. d Inferior Sheep •• 210 3 0 Second qual. Sheep 3 2 3 8 Coarse-woolled ditto 3 10 4 0 Southdown Wether 4 2 4 4 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 C Large Hogs Small Porkers ...• 3 8 310 Quarter old Pigs l6 0 21 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. 792 Beasts. I gh"P. 1 Calves. I Pigs. 2,394 205 300 Beasts. 1 FOREIGN STR'PLY. 300 Sheep, I Calves. Pi g s. 40 93 ,1 A NEWC " 33 AND LEADENECALL. •-... full average. baein eea was t ransac t e d h ero t o -d a y, on the following terms:— At por stone by the Carcass. Reef, inf o e • ). s i d i to s. Mutton, 1. d. to s. interior .. 2 6 2 10 _ acid •••• 2 6 2 8 middling.. 3 0 8 6 ;Prthlelarge .• 210 3 0 -- prime •• 3 8 10 71; Plinio small .• 3 2 3 4 Pork,large•••• .• •• 2 6 3 6 ••• 3 0 310 - small 3 8 810 BOROUGH HOP PLARICEIT. Really fine New Hops ar e scarce, an d qu i te as d ear as last week. Middling qualities, as well as yearlings, are in fair request at full prices. The stocks held by the leading brewers are by no means large.—Sussex P i eckets, per c w t, 112 s t o 1 265; W eald of Kent, 126 s to a 413 3; hlid and East Kent, 140 s to 150 s. COLONX.BAL. Staaa.B.—There h as been a moderate business done in British Plantation, and prices have not varied. Barba does by auction realised 30s 6d to 31s for low yellow, h 348 to 37s for good mid to good, and 37s 6d to 398 for fine. e fined brown la has been in moderate dem an d, at 43s 6d to 44s r mps. __EAST INDIA.—The demand has not b een l arge, and Mauritius by auction has brought 29s and 308 6d for low and mid yellow, and 22s 6d to 28s for brown. Bengal has found buyers to the extent of 12,000 to 13,000 bags by auction, but at is decline; low to mid, 328 to 345; fine, 36t. to 375; fine grainy y e ll ow, 378 6d to 38s; good a nd fine like auritius, 318 to 32s 6d; Khaur, 203 6d to 223 ; and low to fine soft yellow, 24s to 305. Madras, about 1,500 bags went at 21s to 22s 6d for ord to good brown, and at 23s to 248 for low damp yellow. Voniamt.—Prices have receded a little, and the trans actions have been moderate. Yellow Havannah has been sold at 303 to 321 6d for low and good brown, 335 to 35s 6d for low and mid yellow, and 37s to 40s for good and n 'oe• o:ava, duty paid, realised 293 6d to 30s 6d for low greyish,. Porto Rico, ord to good brown brought 285 6d t° 30 a. and low grey and yellow 308 6d to 335, mid and R o od 34 a to 37s 6d. e ' r4 FEE.—The market has been dull privately, and Native 'Ceylon offered by auction has been sold at 385 to 39 ' 1 for good ord, being lower prices; other descriptions were lil tawise cheaper. Plantation Ceylon has been so l d 4t 48 a to 52 s f or low mid and mid, 45s to 47 s for fine an d 3 , ne fin's ord, 53 3 t o 59 3 6d tor p ea -b e rry, and 35s to 98 for trio ge. Costa Rica sold at 40s to 43s 6cl for ord to Rood o rd, and at 463 to 49a f or fi ne to fine fine ord . Bahia, nab brought 36 s t o 38s f or comm on kin d s , and 24 "i1l sold at 35 s f or ord, and 37s for goo d. Mysore sold , 38s 6d to 393 for good ord. Madras went at 408 to 46a f or good to fine ord, and at 308 for common tn.- g e r . sold at 68 s 6d f or m id, 62 s f or ord pea' RiYz„..and 35. to 428 for triage. made a,t 10Tsh6ediri 83 to 9 a Gcl for 1 arket has been firm, and sales have been toowl I s for.good bol 1 white Bengal, and 8s 6d 1.0 98 for bold grain, da maged. 'lowMadras and broken. Moulme in realised grain, and Aracan 5s to 8s for da -6d to 135 6d. and mid sound pinkey went a t 78 SPICES —Mace has prealized about previous rates, mid dark Is lld to 23 , white mid to good, ma t 8d; and black mid like Ma .epoper has been well supported, labar, 31d to 31d. Pimento has been firm, and for Nut au.igs there has been more demand , ood at 3FI, and mid scull at is 6d to 23. Jamaica ain g ger sold at auto 4 53 fot. small. .orS9atrPETRE.--Calcutta h as b een so ld at 25 s 6d to 26s I 'per cent, refraction, and at 26s 61 to 27s for 71 per cent ;refraction. kli a nE) ntto waooT.—St. Vi ncent ' s was taken i n at Sid for u Jamaica s o ld at 34d.; Bermuda at ls, and aztlian at 3id t o 4 d per lb. P e r cwt. 8441° ' — "Ease bold white has been sold at 22s 6d bu ye 4,-- At the p u bli c sales only 8,000 packages found ef the Went lower, 35,400 offered. Hyson and Gunpowder RUN varticle is " OTTON.V --Is dull T ALLONV.- - T ebrey little business has been done. 35 a 6d, °li d new 36ms6arIclforp. y ethasde .c cli . ned, old being about GREEN FRUIT--The market has been depressed this Week' Owing t o t h e weather being injurious to the sale, Well as most of the cargoes of Oranges landing out of Jaunt s three cargo es S t . Mi chael, sold by Keeling and Jaunt at public sale, went at a reduction of is to 2s per box. Lemons have declined Is per barrel. Some business has been done in Black Spanish Nuts at an h eld fora of is per barrel. S ev ill e sour Oranges are an improvement in ice. Grapes of all kinds dull. C hesnuts is to 2s per b arrel cheaper. }, " P RESENTATION OF EAST KENT.—CANTER -la"; WEDNESDAY EVENING. —Mr. Plumptre, who has represented this division of the county for the last twenty t Y , ea r'' jUst, has j ust i ssued an address to the electors, resigning his s and informinm them that as soon as Parliament meets 'e intends applying for the stewardship of the Chiltern nundreds. Ile entered the House of Commons in 1832 as "as an un flinching reformer," 'out soon afterwards became, and since been known as, a " moderate reformer," of the peorauctical scool, a stanch supporter of the institutions of the P rotesta nt d devotedly attached to his Sovereign and the tires from church of England. He states that he now re on rati EdW a - r s d a j . w elt of a public as of a domestic nature. Sir c ontest th e ho Daring an d Si r Brook Br id ges, are i n the f i eld to tationnour of supplying the vacancy in the repre sen yet aof t y he count but the address of the former only has ppeared. , It has been stated that a student and a female, who Passed for his wife, committed suicide a few days ago, at their lodgings in the R ue d u Bac, by means of charcoal. As t he female was not kn own the body was taken to the Morgue, where it has been recognised by an American gentleman as that of a boarder in a convent of New York, who, it is sup- Posed, eloped with the student when he was in America last Year.--Gulignani. THE SUN, VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the Viee-Chatwelior GRAND ' TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY V. BRODIE AND OTHERS. In this case, in which an objection was taken yester day on the part of the clefendant4 by Mr. bolt and Mr. Selwyn to the reading of the deposition, on the ground that they were informally tak(-n, the inttrrog.tories being headed In a cause of the Grand Trunk li:ilway Company v. Brodie and others," naming them, but omitting the 1111110 of Harman, one of the defendants, The VICE-CLIANCELLOR, on taking his seat this morning, said that he had come to the conclusion that the objection was a good one, and the depositions were in their present form inadmissible. Mr. STUART, Cu behalf of tie plaintiff, suggested that the course most just sand fair for the plaintiff would be to allow him to amend tha title of the interrogiAories, and to re-swear the witnesses, most of whom were close at hand, and could be sworn in the course of half an hour. The defendants would even then be no worse off, for they would apply on motion for leave to suppress the depositions atter the alteration had been made. Mr. BOLT, for the defendant Brodie, had no objection to the course suggested by his Learned Friend, provided that the order of the Court included the payment of the costs of the hearing of the other side. he should also require that these costs should be paid by the official manager out of his own pocket, otherwise if they were paid out of the estate it would in fact be the defendants who were paying them. Mr. STUART had no objection to pay the costs of the day, and be would undertake, on behalf of his client, that the estate should not be diminished by the payment of these costs so far as the defendants' interest therein was concerned. After some further discussion, it was ultimately ar ranged that the plaintiff should have leave to amend the lettrr of the interrogatories, and to re•swear the wit nesses, on condition of his paying the costs of the day, fixed at 50L; and the hearing of the suit then to go on as before. (Before Vice-Chancellor PARKER.) HARRISON V. GOODALL. In this suit an application had bean made yesterday by Mr. Chandless, who stated that an infant a ward of the Court, having some time ego been apprenticed for five years, had recently enlisted himself in th© 60th Rifles, which regiment had been ordered to the Cape, and was about to sail there in a few days. The guar dian of the youth had expressed his willingness to pur chase his discharge, but he had expressed his deter mination if bought off to re-enlist at the earlist oppor tunity. The Vice-Chancellor then suggested that the hearing of the case should be taken in his private room, when the ward and his guardian should attend. This morning the young man appeared in the private room of the Vice• Chancellor, in charge of an orderly sergeant of his regiment. Mr. CIIANDLESS said that he should relinquish his intention of applying for a writ of habeas corpus, as he thought that as the young man was a ward of Court, the Court had power to deal with him without such autho rity. lie should therefore merely ask the Court to make an order in the matter. The VICE-CHANCELLOR said that he thought there would be no occssion even for this. Addressing the or derly sergeant, he begged him to acquaint his commanding officers that the young man, being a ward of the Court of Chancery, no person had a right to transport him out of the country, or deal with him in any way except by permission of the Court, which must be obtained in the usual way, either by motion or petition. We understand that to-day was fixed for the de parture of the detachment to which the young man be longs, and but for this application ho would now have been on his way to the scene of war in Kafraria. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) SAINSBURY V. PARKINSON. This action was tried before the Chief Baron at the last sitting, in London, when a verdict was found on the principal pleas for the defendant. Mr. CROWDER now moved for a rule for a new trial en the ground of misdirection. The cleheidant was sued on a promissory note fur 1001, of which he and two others were the juint makers. The defendant pleaded that he did not endorse the note, and that a fraud was committed by Smith, one of the parties to the note, for the purpose of c ore polling him to pay the amount. It appeared that Smith was desirous of his name not ap pealing in the action, and he went to the plaintiff, who is an extra clerk in the State-paper Office, and asked per mission to he allowed to mal:e him the nominal plaintiff. This the plaintiff consented to do, and the action was brought iu his name. Tne CHIEF BARON said the plaintiff was called at the trial, and he stated that he allowed his name to be used, bat that the bill was neither endorsed to him be tore the notion nor at any other time; and that he had nothing to do with the costs. Mr. CROWDER contended, however, that such evidence did not render the plaintiff incapable of bringing the ac tion and maintaining it. Mr. Baron MAR TIN o b serve d t h a t there was an action in which the circu ms t ances were precisely the same , where Mr. Baron Rolfe, a nd a ft erw ards the Court, held that the plaintiff had no prop e rty i n the bills, so as to en title him to sue upon them. Mr. Baron PARKE said that in order to sustain an ac tion, the plaintiff must have the bills endorsed over to him and delivered to him. In this way the property in the bills legally passed to a party. The COURT said it would grant a rule for a new trial, unless defendant would consent to a nonsuit being en tered.—Rule granted. SECONDARIES.—(THIS DAY.) There was only one case, Stace v. Gay, on a bill of exchange. The defendant had pleaded that he did not accept the bill, and was not indebted on the count for goods sold. With respect to the first plea, the defen dant had adm tted his signature to the bill. The plaintiff's Solicitor put in the Judge's order, and submitted that he was entitled to a verdict. The Learned Secondary (BoTTEn) said, some evidence ought to be given on the account stated. The Solicitor said that Mr. Baron Martin had held that it was not necessary. The Learned SECONDARY said it had been the prac tice to adduce evidence. Plaintiff's Solicitor said that the Learned Judge bad decided on a precisely similar case, whore the count for goods was merely to cover the bill. The plaintiff, of course would only take a verdict for the one amount. A verdict was entered accordingly. GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAY.) Messrs. Rolfe and Lyons, lately umbrella and parasol manufacturers in Cripplegate-buildings, were placed at the bar for fraudulent proceedings under a bankruptcy. It will bo remembered that the bankrupts had, under certain circumstances which appeared at the time to be justifiable, earl• in October last purchased a quantity of goons of Messrs. Pawson, wholesale drapers, of St. Paul's Churchyard. On the application for the fiat, a complaint was made that the goods were purchased when the bankrupts knew themselves to be in a hopeless state of insolvency. They were, therefore, charged under the sections of the Bank rupt Act, und after much testimony had been received, the depositions were taken for their committal to Newgate. There was an immense attendance of perLons of the Jewish race, as well as others who are actively engaged in this business. BOW-STREET--(THIS DAY). Four young men of respectable appearance applied to Mr. Jardine for assistance or advice under the following table circumstances: —. ln consequence of advertisements offer mg employ ment to respec young men of good edu cation, each of th e appl i cants was induced to wait upon the advertiser, M r . C har l es Willi a ms, at chambers in John-street, Adelphi, an d, a fter m tion, he undertook to find eac h an adequately negotia tion, remune rated employment within seven days, upon the condition of being pad 101. down. This condition was readily complied with. Before the fulfilment of Mr. Williams's engagerunt ho disappeared: from the offices in the Adelphi. But yesterday he was traced to a house in the neighbourhood of Golden-square. The applicants went there last evening, when they were told that he had just taken his departure for Scotland. It was stated by one of the police officers, that Mr. Charles Williams was one: of the company who carried on a like business of agency some time ago, under the Williams, and Co., and being convicted n of v.m yr e a s u t d if , Stanley, arising out of transactions such as those now charged against Williams, were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Mr. JARDINE said that Williams had very recently completed a term of six months' imprisonment for obtain ing money under false pretences. lie (the Magistrate) could give the applicants no further assistance at present, than to advise them, if they should meet with Williams, to give him into custody, when the matter could be fur ther inquired into. But he feared that there:was very little chance of their obtaining any other redre,s. C LERKEN WELL.-(THIS DAY.) Charles and Louisa Morton, two respectable-looking persons, were charged with having made a disturbance last night at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, and with having committed an assault on the police. A policeman of the G division stated that last night, about half- past ten, he observed a large mob of persons assembled round the pit entrance of the Sadler's Wells Theatre, and upon going up be saw the mate prisoner behaving in a most violent manner. He asked him to go away (pie ty, but ho refused, and finding remo ns t rance o f no use, he took hold of him, when hi s w it o rushed up and stru ck him a violent blow in the face. In the course of the struggle his hat was knocked off and was kicked about and very much injured. He did not thi n k t h e fe male was drunk, but very much excited. The constable of the Sadler's Wells Theatre eaid the male prisoner during the performance was making a great disturbance, and violently assaulting his wife. H e was very drunk; and finding lie would not be quiet he turned him out, when the policeman coming up the wife rushed at him and struck him. The male prisoner, in defence, said lie was very drunk, and hop e d t h e M ag i strate wou ld look over it. Mr. Courtin stated that he should fine the male pri soner 53., and the female, for the assault on th© con stable, 1/. Afr.er an appeal from the prisoners, the fine on the female was reduced one hall.—The fine was paid. " LET UER BE." —A Detroit mercantile gentle man, who was travelling eastward a short time since, went to the clerk of one of the Ontario boats to be shown to his state-room, The clerk handed the applicant a key, at the same time pointing to a door at some, little distance, marked " B." Our friend went in the direction indicated, but opened the next doorto his own, marked " A," where he dis covered a lady passenger making her toilet, who, upon the strcnger's appearance, uttered a low scream. "Go away ! go away !" screamed the lady. " Letter 13," yelled the clerk. "I am not touching her at all!" shouted the indig- nant merchant.—Gateshead Observer. LONDON, THE BRAZILIAN MAIL. SournAMPFON, THURSDAY. The Tay steam-ship, Captain Chapman, with the Brazilian snail, has just arrived. She brings mails, and dates from the following places :—Buenos Ayres, Dec. 3 ; Monte Video, Dee. 6 ; ltio Jantiro, Dec. 15; Lisbon, Jan. 11. The Tay brings four hundred pounds of golddust, fifteen thousand pounds worth of diamonds, a tolerable freight list, and thirty-five passengers. We learn by this arrival that General Urquizs was to cross the Parana on the 15th December, to commence hostilities against Roses. Resas had collected an army of 30 ; 000 men. The Brazilian army was encamped near Monte Video, but had not fired a shot. Treaties had been concluded between the Brazilian Government, defining the boundaries of the two countries, and binding to assist each other in case of attack. Exchange at Rio, 28 premium. From Lisbon there is no further news of importance. The rainy season had set in. RIO M ARK ETS. Cuffe—The impulse given to this market by the advices received per Teviot (steamer) continued un abated till the latter end of last month, when the stock having been considerably reduced, and the receipts, chiefly of the descriptions most in demand, slowly coming forward, holders gradually drove up prices and forced purchasers to withdraw. Since then little or nothing has been done, the unexpected more favourable accounts from the United States having only excited considerable speculation amongst dealers, who are for the present unwilling to submit to any reduction, not withstanding a stock of 160,000 bags; our quotations must, therefore, be considered quite nominal. Supplies, in consequence of the high prices obtained, are coming in freely. The Serra abaixo districts have concluded sending forward their yield. Sales last month 230,000 bags, this month, so far, 8,000 bags. The clearances in November were 203,400 bags of coffee, of which 75,030 for the United States (against 82,595 bags in the same month of 1850), 9,200 for Al tona, 3,318 for Antwerp, 3,600 for Bremen, 5,845 for the Cape of Good Hope, 8,060 for Copenhagen, 11,450 for Constantinople, 850 for Corfu, 18,605 for the Eng lish Channel, 4,175 for Genoa, 3,377 for Gibraltar, 9,184 for Havre de Grace, 11,030 for Hamburgh, 380 for Liverpool, 1,091 for London, 4,388 for Marseilles, 3,577 for Portugal, 170 for the River Plate, and 30,170 for Trieste. Sugar—The arrivals consist of 262 cases, 21 boxes, 380 barrels, 600 bags Catnpos; and the sales of 140 cases, of which 20 for exportation, at 2,400 to 2,600 and 1,500 to 1,700. Stock on hand, 1,200 cases, 1,800 bar rels, and 1,600 bags. Hides—The market continues to be neglected, not withstanding the more favourable advices. The sales since our last are not worth noticing. Stock 58,000 hides, of which 38,000 Rio Grande. The shipments last month were 219,225 bags of coffee (against 159,030 bags in the corresponding month last year); 550 cases, 29 boxes, 4,487 barrels, 2,298 bags of sugar, 9,653 hides, 409 tanned half hides, 455 pipes rum, 1,751 rolls of tobacco, 599 bags of rice, 1,293 planks jacaranda, 1,630 barrels tapioca, 19,584 lbs. ipecacuauha, _ _ _ Freights—England, 355.; English Channel, 405.; Ant werp, 325. 6d. to 475. 6d.; Haniburgh, 30s. to 403.; Me diterranean, 355. to 455.; United States, 40e. to 70c,, nom. 5 per cent.; Havre de Grace, 40f. to 50f., nom. 10 per cent. MONEY MARKET, Discounts rule at , q to 5 per cent. Exchange opened at 38d. at 60 days, 28 1 ,0. to id. at 90 days upon London, on Ch ruled 284 d. to id., on sth and 6th at id. at 60 and 90 days, indirect bills having meantime been quoted at 284 d. On 10th and 11th, 28 days was the rate, bills having been negotiated both at 60 and 90 days ; at the latter sight business was likewise reported at 28 1 0. to Id , and at 28*d. for the River Plate bills. Upon France 334r5. was the quotation, on the 3d, 338 rs. on the 4th, and since 340 rs. at 90 days. Upon Uamburgh, 620, 625, and 630 rs. were respec tively quoted. Stock is shut, but business has been reported at 931 and 934. Small sales of provincial at 931 rind 94. Specie—A demand for re-export caused a rise in doubloons from dolls. 30 to 30 500, in dolls. from 1 875 to 1 900 doll:;. Shares—Sales of Bank of Brazil at dolls. 40 to 45 prem.; Commercial Bank at dolls. 645 to 650; Omnibus at dolls. 130. POSTSCRIPT, SIX P.M. Coffee—The dealers seem resolved not to accept lower prices; purchasers cannot comply with orders at the pre sent nominal quotations, and hence nothing has been done. Shipped since Ist instant, 44,066 bags; stock this day, 160,000 bags. EXCHANGE.—LittIe has been done at 27i to 28, 60 days, 28 at 90 days upon London; at 343 upon Paris. The business since the departure of the Teviot may be fairly estimated at 3201. upon London, 800,000 f. upon France, &c.; 380,000 mares banco upon Ilamburgh. Many deaths still occurred at St. Vincent's, from the disease that has so long ravaged the islands; but the medical officer sent out by the Portuguese Government declares that it is neither infectious nor contagious. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. CHESTER CUP. 35 to 1 agst Mr. J. Stanley's Confessor—take 40 to 1 40 to 1 agst Mr. Morris's Haresfoot—taken 45 to 1 agst Mr. Palmer's Goldfinder—taken DERBY. 9 to I egst Mr. Merry's Robbie Noble --taken 15 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Augur—taken 16 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's elaverhouse—taken 18 to 1 agst Lord Ribblesdalo's Kingston —taken 00 to 1 agst Mr. J. Stanley's Orelio—taken freely 1,000 to 100 agst Kingston and Lapidist—taken The two favourites were backed at the quoted odds for 501 each, Kingston freely at 18 and 20 to 1, Claver house in three or four quarters at 15 and 16 to 1 and Orelio at 20 to 1 to nearly 3 00 / . , bTELTHORNE COURSING MEETING. WEDNESDAY. The Spelthorne Stakes were divided by Mr. Chan dler's South-Western and Mr. East's Kathleen; the Vic toria Stakes were won by Mr. East's Trotzg ; the Nor folk Stakes were won by Mr. I3egbie's Regina; the Puppy Stakes by Mr. Cha n dl er ' s Fiy; the Palace Stakes by Ai r .Begbie's Music ; the Wolsey Stakes by Mr. Peter's Prima Donna; the Home Park Stakes by Mr. Begbie's Sylva; the Hampton Court Stakes by Mr. Socket's Midmast; end the Albert Stakes by Mr. East's Spel thorno Voltigeur. OLYMPIc THEATRE. A farce called An Organic Affection was produced here last night. The leading idea is new and ingenious. A drudge of a copyist, Mr. Bun, played by Mr. Compton, going to . the house of a popular dramatic author in pur suit of his calling, suddenly ascertains that he is left heir to a fortune, and his employer—who, although g i v ing a magnificent dejeline on th e occas i on o f a recen t d ra matic success, is very hard pressed—expressing a wish to sell his house, the enriched copyist buys it of hi m , then and there buys the breakfast, and offers to buy the guests, who sit down to table with their new host. One of their number is a good natured doctor, who, for esee i ng the scrapes into which the novas konto will be apt to fall, persuades him that he has disease of the heart, and that it is On ly b y r i g id abstinence from all sorts of excitement that he can live. The consequence is, that when an intriguing actress makes love to Mr. Bun, he repulses her by the infor mation that he is her brother; and again, when Pene lope (Miss Julia Glover), a pretty little clear-stqrcher who is fond of him, wishes to renew their familiarity, he pretends that ho is her father. The bewildered and horrified look of Mr. Compton, as, surrour.ded by every species of excitement, he endeavours to keep himself quiet, furnishes forth the stiple of the piece ; which ends by the Doctor, who knows Penelope, prescribing her to his patient as the best cure for a broken heart in the world. EXETER HALL THURSDAY CONCERTS. The third of these concerts took place last evening, on which occasion the hand of the Ist Life Guards was in attendance, and performed several pieces with their usual a pima) and accurary. The madrigals were excel lently well executed, and the audience seemed delighted. The solo performers were Miss Ransford, Mr. Swift, and Mr. Bocida. A Cabinet Council was held at twelve o'clock yes terday at the Foreign-office. Tle it DuhleeinoEirsgxte Grey, Earl present Sir Fran - , a were— Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the rqi(lrirsanof IL.iainles, Earl Grey, t r h e e y, E th ar e l C of ha A n li e n e t l o lo , s r ofl cis Baring, Lord Broughton , the Right lion. Henry Laboi: chere, the Marquis of Claur icarde, the Right llon. Fox - Alaule, and Lord Seymour. The Council sat three hours. COFFEE AND EATING-HOUSE -KEEPERS AsSOCIA- TioN.—Last night the annual ball in aid of the funds of this most benevolent and useful association took place at the Eagle Tavern, City-road. The association was es tablished. in 1837, and the object of it is to provide a fund for the per manent support of those of their own body, who, from reverse of fortune, might be reduced from a state of comparative prosperity to the alternative of dragging out a miserable exi , tence, immured within the walls of a workhouse. Not only does this institution contemplate the obviating such a degradation to its members, but likewise to extend its bene ficent influence to relieve their widows from the consequences of destitution, and to assist in bringing up their orphans so as to render them good citizens and useful members of so ciety. It is gratifying to find that an institution, in every point of view so praiseworthy, has met with extensive and we'l deserved support, and it is to be hoped that the result of the ball of last night, which was numerously attended, will add considerably to its funds. It is unnecessary to add that (lancing was kept up with great spirit till an early hour in the morning. NOTICE.—THE NEW NOVEL, " HORACE GRANT SIAM ; OR, TILE NEGLECTED Sow, " will be published to morrow by Mr. Shoberl, 20, Great Marlborough-street. Orders should be given immediately. Now ready, the new romance of " The Death. Flag ; or, The Irish Buccaneers," 3 vols., by the popul ar au th qr of " Geraldine of Desmond." _" A striki n g and a tt rac tif e story."—Morning Post. 3 . s u t t .n W ee :I p les i The new vol umes o f L or d C ast l ereag h' s •` Letters and oDis patches"__a (5 to 8), edit e d b y th e M a rquis of Londonderry. 1 N pier's " So u th ern Af r i ca, " 2 vo l s . 5. Henderson's "Newcket P S o o South oi v P for Wales," Directory volt'. London d Just ai r id ea i d t y s ', E ` n e °i ' r ß o Environs, n e' s 1852," 7s. Gd. bound. 7. Second Edition of Lord W. Len nox's " Perc y Hamilton," 3 vols. ROYAL A RTILLERY.—WOOLWICH TAN l'''' Captain Gambier's c battalion, '* * ').--- ompany 4th left Woolwich, to-day from the Arsenal station,'nine at o'clock, A.M., and proceeded to London by the - to Portsmouth, where the North Kent Railway, ell route company is to be stationed. Cap tain Cheethain's company, 11th battalion, Arsenal station at half-past twelve o'clockthe same arrived at the day, and joined at head-quarters to take the field to be vacated by Captain Ela;•ri- An effort is being made way between Elinburg s h and Peebles. , battery duty about bOra 3 Colllparly. to establish 'of • a line rail- EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1852. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—The political instruments commonly styled Constitutions which have heretofore fallen under our notice all professed either to define and limit the rights of the Severeigu prerogative, cr to establish and secure the rights of the people. The document just promul gat, d under a similar title by Louis Napoleon Bona parte differs from all such instruments, inasmuch as it omits or extinguishes all popular rights in theory and application, and establishes a political structure which is a mere engine for enfor c i ng t h e w ill of a single ruler. It contains, in short, no t race o f liberty, and no cbeck on despotism. The chief bodies in the State are all either dependent on the will of the ruler, or debarred from the exercise of the independent authority they may receive from the people; and the general guarantees of public liberty—such as freedom of the press, freedom from arrest, save under judicial process, trial by jury, religious toleration, &c., which have figured in the Freech Charters since the establishment of constitu tional government in that country, have now, as might be anticipated, entirely disappeared. In these re spects even the nugatory general provisions of the Constitution of the Year VIII. are not revived. The proclamation in which Louis Napoleon has attempted to explain to the French nation the method in which ho has discharged the duty confided to his care is a loose and rambling address, totally incomprebeesible, we should suppose, to the masses for whom it was written, and totally opposed to the more dignified and enlight ened sentiments of those classes in the nation which may h b ies dominion better able n d t to his understand 3 principles on which Louis Napoleon seeks to establish constituent l p d u i t e f a or iv th ap b o y ie h en im ien i n n e s s e o v f er l a s former rtom it. erthepowers publications, The ße v u. are assertionsonth d e sameia n from and a thesd Con stitution in 1851. He observes that France has retained i l n e her on. His s condition centralized a m largeadministration, trai t proportion on,hi o s f th a e rmy in stitutions conferred upon h er b y the Emperor Napo raised by conscription, hi s lucid system of finance and public accounts, th e U niversity of France , the Concordat, and Ci v il , the Code are institutions that have survived the convulsions of half a century. Why, then, he asks, should not the political institutions of the First Consul have the same duration ? and on no other ground he now re-imposes them upon the people. In other words, because France has retained whatever was thought sound, useful, or lasting in the Imperial institutions, she is now to resume the despotism which at the samo time gagged her, exha uste d h er , an d de amdministrative concep f It was not by military glory and with him. He fell g t i r o a n d a e d o h t e h r e . E . p a e n r y o r o f hadthe l g e r g e a a l t fall , y the hia ht t h h e ee e a m n ea t en h ,e a r t giye be f eo a pf l i l t , eh n i o s r o f d c i a d arle t i h e r e political institu tions were a denial of all the :civil rights of his country. He fell because he lived at war with the inte lect, the independence, and the honesty of the nation. He fell because he governed by the army and the police; and not a vestige of his political institutions sur ostfitut one ion who is now is to place a similarw s sur vived him, because they were all studiously contrived so power T orevive in the similaras to place the entire power of the state in hi s s ingle hand. neither re spected for his character, admi re d for his genius, nor dreaded for his power. It is false that " the present state of society in France is noug h t else than France re generate by the Revolution o f 1789 and organized by hands in the Emperor." Between the present time and the dates of events oscillating from despotism to anarchy, it implies a strange want of memory or of candour to omit altogether those thirty-five years of constitutional monarchy, which form the freest, the most prosperous, and the most pro gressive era in French history. Is it to be supposed, because the nation has been panic stricken in the last few months by the alter nate triumph of a mob of ruffians and a mob of soldiers over the laws and liberties of the kingdom, that every vestige of that long train of her patriots, orators, public writers, jurists, and statesmen has vanished? that nothing remains of France between the pike of a Jacobin or the bayonet of a Chasseur de Vincennes ? This Constitution is framed on some such hypothesis. It is calculated wholly for a nation tha t has f orgotten to be free; and, although it is possible that the terrors of the past and the illusions of the present may win the tem porary acquiescence of the country to its provisions, the reuse of human liberty and representative government is not so palsied and dead in France that it will not one day spurn and shako off restraints which no other people in Europe would submit to, save as the last and moat cruel necessity of armed subjugation. It is true, the Imperial institutions have survived in the administration of France, and the remains of those institutions are pre cisely the most active causes of the ruin of public freedom. That centralization which places the whole fate of the provinces within the grasp of any man who is lucky or bold enough to seize the mainspring of the engine—. that enormous standing army, raised by conscription from the peasantry—and that division of landed pro perty introduced by the Code Civil, which has robbed two generations of their testamentary rights, are all Im perial institutions. They have perpetuated a slavish dependence of the people on the Government, even dur ing an epoch of constitutional monarchy; and they now hand back to the empire, or its descendants, a race of men more prone to sink under the influence of such in stitutions than to struggle for the liberties of which they have now been deprived. The inference we draw from the series of revolutions through which France has passed is, not that she is incapable of freer and more popular government, but that the liberties she did enjoy were incompatible with that centralization and administrative despotism which are now quoted to justify the subversion of her political free dom. The responsibility to the people on which Louis Napoleon professes to found his dominion is a mere fiction, since every institution by which such responsibility could be enforced is robbed of all strength against the Government and directed with all its power against the people. The Senate and the Council of State, which are the two most important bodies in the Government, both emanate from the execu tive authority. Their deliberations are to be secret, and they have the exclusive power of originating and amending laws. The legislative body does, indeed, ap pear to retain a more popular character than had been ascribed to it; and, as far as we are acquainted with the proposed mode of election, it may possibly return men of eminence and independence. The vicious principle of Parliamentary stipends is happily discarded, and we hear of no express limitation on the candidates. In these respects it may be hoped that the hypothetical dis cussion of certain propositions connected with the draught of the constitution has not been wholly without effect, No doubt such an Assembly, freely chosen , if t hat be possible, may exercis e considerable moral power, a nd, as the Ministers will not form part of it, that power will incline rather to opposition than to the sup port of the Government. B u t i t w ill b e found that t he • of this guarded, a pplication power i s most j ea lously and limited to the narrowest objects. If a legisla tive body favourable to the Government can now be ob tained, its duration will be prolonged by law for no less than ten years—a lease of political power far beyond the average duration of French Governments or constitu tions. At any rate, if, contrary to all probability, such a body should prove refractory, it may be adjourned, prorogu ed, or dissolved b y the Pres id en t; and in that case the Senate would supply its most essential functions. Lastly, if all these precautions should be unavailing, and the voice of the nation should once more be raised against despotic authority, as it was raised during the 100 Days against the Emperor Napoleon himself, there cart be no obstacle to the repetition of a coup d'etat such as we have lately Witnessed, and the Councils or Assemblies, which Ow e their existen ce to the will of the President, can expect no greater security than an Assembly which had been constituted and elected the whole suffrage le In short, by . of the peop • this system of ostensibly government, copied from the organic laws of the Consulate and the Empire, is avowedly calculated to leave the actions of the head of the state " free and without hindrance;" in other words, absolute. Its moat evident purpose is to strengthen the coercive power of the state, and ao clear it from all resistance or opposition on the part of the nation. The political institutions of the empire were adapted to the indefatigable genius and activity of the ma n who comprised in his even person the arbitrary go vernment of France. and - -ey arc now renewed with a poverty of language and plagiarism of ideas that suffi ciently denote the differenc e in the first actor of this strange drama: They are renewed without the prestige Of glory, the terror of a devastating revolution, or the :leave support of the first men remaining in the country. They are viewed with indifference or aversion by all that is honourable or enlightened in the nation. They arc erected on the ruins of a vast edifice of freedom long possessed and enjoyed by Frenchmen; and it requires no spirit of prophecy to foresee that such a "constitu tion," administered in such a spirit and by such men, will afford no abiding restingplace for the people of France. CHRONICLE. -- worst anticipations of those who angured of the new French Constitution from the violent travail of its birth and the apparent passiveness of the nation under the autocratic dictates of its author, will scarcely be found to be realised in the documents which we publish elsewhere. Except so far as the unhappy circumstances which accompany the promulgation con stitute a auspicious gloss upon its text, the instrument preparei by Louis Napoleon is, perhaps, not much more open to objection than most others of the Constitution which revolutions has imposed on France. There is no very conspicuous departure from the spirit of that appeal to the people with which the President commenced his coup d'etat; and though the Constitution of the Year VIII. is expressly referred to, that colossal fraud has not been made an exact precedent for falsifying or evading pledges which the occasion had once made necessary. The privilege of Voting laws and im posts is lodged with the popular branch of the new Legislature! and the electoral body which nomi nates that Assembly is constituted by universal suffrage. Contrary to general expectation, the legisla tive corps is to debate on the measures submitted to it; but the debates are only to be published under the sur veillance of the President of the Chamber. The allusion of the introductory proclamation to the permanency (inarnovibilite) of the judicature is more satisfactory. The implied recognition of this principle as one of the still surviving institutions which bear witness to the Emperor Napoleon's genius, is a considerably better guarantee for its maintenance than would be any express provision to the samo effect in the body of the Constitu tion. The rights of the press receive no such homage. Apparently, this is one of the subjects to be regulated in the forthcoming series of organic laws. It is possible, however, to construe the single passage in which newspapers are mentioned as inconsistent with an intention to debar them altogether from criticism and remark. One principal novelty is the exclusion of the Ministers from participation in the busi ness of either Chamber, introduced with a cate gorical declaration that in future they are simply to be deemed heads of the departments confided respec tively to their directions. The practice of the Ueitecl States may be pleaded as an extimPle in point, and no exception can be taken to the formal reasoning of Louis Napoleon, alleging that the responsibility of the Execu tive Chief renders idle that of his subordinates, if the former be really enforced. What chance there may practically be of calling to account such a President as the existing one, is a question which our imaginations are left to unriddle. Another innovation is the prohi bition against publishing any report of the debates which is not cfficially sanctioned and certified--a rule which evidently may be turned to purposes of very gross de ception. The most startling change—and it is one so grave that it may probably require further consideration at our hands—consists in depriving the Lower House of the power of i n i t i at i ve an d o f th right of amending Government propositions, and in lodging these with the Senate. This is an exact reversal of the arrangements habitual with constitutionally governed countries, and it wears so little resemblance to known precedent that we can only judge of its operation by watching the actual experiment. To say that these documents are honourable or creditable to Louis Napoleon would be to employ terms which have no application in this connection. At the same time they throw a light on his character which exhibits it as somewhat differing from the vulgarly sel fish idiosyncrasy of a merely successful usurper. From the commencement to the close they bear witness to a mind absolutely enslaved by veneration for the Emperor, and completely, if conveniently, habituated to a confusion between the rights or claims of the mighty dead, and those of the individual who happens to boar his name. No peasant in France could profess the Napoleonian creed with more astonishing naivete than does the Presi dent of the Republic. And by the side of these convic- tions—and not in the least inconsistent with them—there seems to be an equally servile respect for the authority of the democracy in its widest acceptation. His seven millions of votes, and his relationship to Napoleon, ap pear to have inspired the President with a sort of belief in himself as the trustee of a Divine mission. Motives flowing from this belief are the most respectable that can be assigned for the many flagrant enormities in his con- duct since the 2d of lieceniber, and for the compara- tively few absurdities in the Constitution. Napoleon manacled the press—Napoleon swept the streets of Paris with grape—Napoleon transported Jacobites and Royal ists pell•mell to Cayenne. These examples, together with the poll of the 20th, have probably closed the Pre sident's breast against compunction for the cruelties which are scored against him in the conscience of the world. In the same way, between recollections of the Emperor's continual appeals to universal suffrage and his personal impression of its sanctity, Louis Napoleon has preserved the unlimited franchise against the advice of bis most devoted counsellors, whilst he has engrafted on his new institutions as strange an excrescence as the world has ever witnessed, in the shape of a perpetual right of extra-constitutional appeal to the people against the Constitution itself. Somebody has satirically defined the theory of Socialism as resolving itself into an infi nite succession of strikes. Louis Napoleon's idea of pro gress involves apparently an infinite succession of coups d'etat. The commencing paragraphs of the Proclamation strike us as highly characteristic and illustrative. The President asserts that every single one of the standing institutions of France was created by his uncle. " The greater portion," he writes, "of the measures which concern the progress of industry, of commerce, of litera ture, of science, and of the arts, from the statutes of the Thtiatre Francais to those of the Institute of France, from the institution of prisd'hommes' to the creation of the Legion of Honour, have been fixed by the decrees of that [the Imperial] time. It may then be affirmed that the frame of our social edifice is the work of the Empe ror—which has stood firm, resisting his fall and the shocks of three revolutions. Wherefore, since they have _ - the same origin, should not his political institutions have the same chance of duration?" This last question dis closes the fallacy which is misleading the President — fatally, we believe, and to his own dishonour. The Political Institutions of the Empire are out of date, because they were comprised in the genius of the Emperor himself, and the Emperor is no more. If Louis Napoleon can still the air at home with the rear of victorious cannon abroad—if he can absorb the in stincts of independence in the pride of domination—if he can tempt the eye which would be inquisitive in do mestic concerns to lose itself in the wide prospect of a conquered continent—he may govern France, though he accord to Frenchmen a much scantier measure of freedom than is guaranteed in his Constitution. Lie who can bend the hero's bow may enter upon his entire inheritance. But if this is beyond his reach—and com pass it he certainly caLnot—the people will turn his political contrivances against him as easily as they turned the Charter against Charles X. We are not pre pared to say that rational freedom is impossible under the new institutions • but if Louis Napoleon proceeds a step further in th e Imperial career of fraudulent usurpa tion, ho may be sure that the mechanical checks he cre ates will last just up to the point—which is always reached eventually—where public opinion becomes stronger than terrorism. _ _ _ POST.—Thanks to the wonderful thought conductor which now links us with the Continent, and let us in justice add, to the energy and promptitude of the corre spondent who has rendered us before such signal ser vice in the same kind, we were enabled to publish, in our third edition of yesterday—within half-an-hour of its promulgation in Paris—the outlines of the Act by which Louis Napoleon has terminated so much anxious suspense, has silenced so many bitter slanders, and by which, to quote his own emphatic wordis, he trusts that " Peace will be assured at home and abroad—his ardent hopes be fulfilled—his mission accomplished." We also gave (exclusively), at an early hour in the day, the full and exact text of that remarkable proclamation in which the President of the Republic announced this Act to the nation. Our readers are, therefore, able to judge on what kind of foundation the trustee of such mighty interests has undertaken to re-constrict the political fabric—to regenerate the social system of France. The Constitution is, as the proclamation of the 2d December announced that it would be—based on the system and principles on which the magnificence and en during benefits of the empire rose out of the hideous ruin of those earlier days of revolution. The distinguishing character of this political framework is an Executive of strong action and comprehensive power, responsible through a Parliament to the country, by whose universal suffrage both are elected. It will be seen that to the Legislative body is secured that great constitutional check on the Executive, with which no despotism can Co exist—the exclusive power of voting the supplies of Go vernment. Thus the Constitution of 1852 preserves to the French people the great principle of Parliamentary government, while it gives them—what is now the chief want of France—an acting power in a position to effect the works of progress and reform, which, in the face of a jealous and ill-regulated Assembly, it could hitherto only propose. The fatal difficulty of all French government, since the great social disorganisation of half a century since, has been the profession to work in theory with materials that did not exist in practice—the continued attempt to govern, first by a throne, from which the only sound supports of monarchy had been knocked away; then through a re public, which was a mere hollow framework ofdemocratic institutions, the machinery of which, twined by a long process of centralization, was deprived of all real motive power. It would, doubtless, be presumptuous to an nounce as a certain remedy for the great evils which have so long afflicted France, the plan of her elected chief; but, as far as human foresight and calculation can extend, it does appear to us that Louis :Napoleon has, in performing his promise of the 2d of December, con sulted those great objects, the permanent attainment of which he has, from his first entrance on his groat mis sion, declared to be the end and purpose of his labours. In thus boldly and frankly adopting the form and spirit of the imperial polity tor the ba sis of the system by which he is to govern, the Presi dent has, we trust, secured to France the best and only guarantee of prosperity within, and of peace beyond her frontiers—a firm and strong Government — trusted by the people on all details of execution—re sponsible to the nation on all great questions of principle To have attempted a new Utopia—a theorised system, on principles elaborated from conjectured expediencies— would have been to tall at a more critical moment, and v.ith less hope of extrication, into the neseries and delu sions which made 1818 a year of ruin. To combine tried institutions with the absolute demands of the day was one part of the problem to be worked out; to unite a strong directing Executive with a body that should, preserve the essence uf the Parliamentary principle, and should represent the people's voice in the State, was the other. The Napoleonic system solves this problem in its powerful but responsible head—its or iginating Council of State—its controlling senate, and deliberative Parlia mentary Chamber. We have never cea!;ed to combat that black invention, so recklessly originated and so sedulously maintained in certain quarters of the English press, that the three years' struggle of the President has been one gigantic hypocrisy—his whole conduct and his every profession one enormous mass of falsehood and perjury. No lighter charge than this was involved in the suppo sition that all the efforts of Louis Napoleon to govern the nation which had made him its chief wore directed to the mere establishment of his own personal power in the form of a military despotism, and that such an establishment would be the sole result of the for cible but necessary acts of the 2d of December, the only manner in which its author would keep the pro mise of a constitution, which he then hel d forth to the nation as the close of its long era of r evo th u e i ne We had watched with au anxious and sirens the d hope the loyal and patient struggle of the Chief, en ce of State, and the increasing and confirmed cel4 the nation in his power and judgment; w those qualities, supported by that deserved, urence, rity of would supply to France the means and _the tru sted that ad the seche which it was prosperous development, by rescuing the principle of government from the dangers amid stud obeying in its perish ing, yet preserving in its full power,t full extent, that absolute sovereignty made the o n ly y of the national voice which the course of events has possible foundation and relianc e of authority. We red cognise in the now Constitution —in the reception b y the influential classes of the ne w form of Government—the strongest guarantee that t his hope will not be disap pointed. We look t o seeing in the_ ten years' extension of Louis Napoleon's power, the best sateguard of t h ose interests which have be en so long and so fearfully y an outline of en dangered. ADVERTISER. —We publish to-day the new Constitution of France, with the proclamation by which it is precede d. We shall be able to speak more fully and more the important document, when it is before us in extenao. In meantime, without expressing any judgment on the character of this new French Constitution, we are sure that not only England, but all Europe, will rejoice to find that the c onclusion of the pro c l amat i on b reat h es the most pacific spirit. " May this Constitution," says the President, " give to our country calm and prosperous days—may it prevent the return of those intestine struggles in which victory, however legitimate, is always d ea rly bought—may the sanction which you have given to my efforts be blessed by Heaven. Then--Peace will be assured at home and abroad, my ardent hopes will be fulfilled, my mission will be accomplished." DAILY NE WS.--The Autocrat of France has pro mulgated the constitution that might have been expected of him. It is precisely that constitution that the fa . vourite clown or charlatan of the day might have an nounced with enthusiastic applause to the audit nee that throngs before any theatre of the Boulevard du Tensple. is the very burlesque of representative government, the parody of every sy stem that has b een ser i ous ly es •• ! rayed in really free countr ies. Power without responsi bility, debates without publ i c ity, a Commons House without the faculty of orig inating a la w or mo dif y i ng a budget, an Upper House without hereditary dignity or elective right, a Government wh ich is nothi ng b ut a solemnly proposed , po lice, and a u a rmy whose duty is merely th at o f gen darmes—such is the political sys tem fur and to France in the m i dd le of the le th century. The consular constitution of the year - VIII., from which the mock system is borrowed, was, it is well known, an undisguised and complete dictatorship. The Council of State were the advocates whom the future emperor paid and consulted. The senators were his valets. The Tribunate, or Lower House, was com posed of his paid talkers, who, when they talked in any way that Government did not like, were pre cluded from talking at a ll. S oon a tt e r this constitution was originally granted, the tribunate, as the House of Be- presentatives was then called, chose to discuss and criti cise Napoleon's two measures of the code and the con cordat. The First Consul was indignant at their auda city, and w ithd rew t h ese l aws , g i v i ng th e tribunate nothing whatever to discuss. They had no power by tho constitution of originating a law or a motion, conse quently their functions were suspended, their place be came a sinecure, and they themselves became the laugh ing -stock of the Parisians. The same fate awaits the mock House of Commons of Louis Napoleon, if, indeed, he can get any Frenchmen above the rank of village schoolmasters who would so f ar d emean t h emse l ves as to wear the l ive ry , and r ece i ve t h e pay, of popu l ar re presentatives without the faculty of doing anything save what they wore bidden. Why not issue a decree, that the servants who wait behind the chairs of the guests at the Elysee shall take the seats in the morning, and vote the laws of the President, in c l u di ng his own civil list and their expenses. It would be just as respectable and genuine a Hous e o f C ommons as the valetaille which the mock constit u ti on summons from the provinces. Odious as is a dictatorship, the least humiliating form of it is that which avows what it is, and which assigns reasons for its necessity. Bona parte, in 1800, was not without these reasons. The country had just recovered from civil war and from foreign war, from both of which he who claimed the dictatorship had saved it. The representative system had in a manner worn itself out. Its last manifestation was a reckless and exuberant royalism, that threatened to give up every boon and conquest of the great revolu tion. The excuse of Bonaparte was that he want ed to save the revolution, the benefits and the acquisition of this revolution from a reckless and criminal reaction. To maintain the revolution, to uphold in office, influence, and power, the ideas and the generation which it had produced, such was the idea of Napoleon. He was determined to save revolutionary Franca from the des potic subjugation of Europe, to endow France with new laws and with a social and political organisation in accordance with the state of things and of society that the revolution had created, and that the counter-revolution threatened to destroy. Liberal men admitted that there was some show of reason in these motives. And when Napoleon came forward with the code and the concordat and with his system of mixed education, they understood that he had not grasped power for purely selfish purposes, and that he made use of that power to place France superior to the other Eu ropean absolutisms, and free from the worst abuse of the old French absolutism. But is there one of these pleas —one of these excuses—that holds good, or can be seri ously brought forward for the present barefaced and inglorious and tricky usurpation ? Not one. There is all the tyr ann y, a ll t h e ass umption, all the imper tinent dogmatism of setting up as a legislator for a great nation, at a time when that nation has grown to manhood, inst ea d o f b e i ng , as i n 1800, in a po l i t i cal nonage. Th e r e i s rea ll y not hi ng t o do, nothing to change, nothing to enact. France is not menaced by ' the foreigner; and Fran ce i s menace d by no priestly or aristocratic reaction, which the p re sent tyranny does not rather flatter and yi e ld t o than set at nought. There is no disorder in th e p rov i nces, no d e f ects i n the adminis tration, which absol u t e p ower must no t in steadaggravate of reform. Th ere was a want o f beauty and of . a high tone of morality in public men. Will Louis Na poleon mend that? The provinces have been reduced to nullities, local intelligence and influence crushed: what can Louis Napoleon do but aggravate the evil? The army weighed on the country: it will weigh hence forth tenfold. Direct taxes took away half the revenue of the landed proprietors, the majority of whom are poor. To increas e di rect taxat i on w ill b e impossible— yet how avoid it, if th e sa l t an d drink dut ies be abolished? There is n o re f orm poss ible, no alleviation feasible in French taxation, except by means of economy. Can Louis Napoleon, or can any military chief, economise? There is, therefore, no t one pretence for setting up a dictatorship—one reason, save that this mode of go vernment alone suits the n e ph ew of Napoleon. As to the Constitution just promulgated, it is the most auda cious of humbugs, not deigning to take the trouble to cover with even a decent veil the nakedness of despo tism. All that it attempts is not to temper arbitrary power, but to associate and implicate with it all those notable or capable men, who consent to barterindepend ence for office, and who submit to wear the despot's livery in return for liberty, to share with the dictator the spoils of the state. No honest or upright man will take office under such a mock Constitution; and if a sufficient number of Frenchmen of education and capa city be found to do so, all we can say is, that this will stamp indeligiblo disgrace upon France, without adding to the durability or consistency of a government which is an anachronism to the age, and a disgrace to the country, in whose history it must survive as an indelible humiliation. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, JAN. 15. The following had the honour of dining with her Ma jesty last evening:—His Serene Highness Prince Leo pold of Saxe Cobourg, Chevalier and Madame Bunsen, tho Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl and Countess Granville, the Earl of Mulgrave, and Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood. The band of the Grenadier Guards was in attendance in the Castle during dinner, and played the following selection:— Overture, " Midsummer Night's Dream," Mendelssohti. Chceur, "La Cnarif 6" ••• Rossini. ••• ••• Duetto Buffo " Don Pasquale" Donizetti. Reminiscences from Le Said Thomas. Court Beauty Polka •• • ... W. Guernsey. Her Majesty's private band attended afterwards in the evening, and played the foll ow i ng .— Overture, " Cantemire" ▪ Fesca. Solo, Violin, M. Samton, "Adagio and Rondo Mazurka," ▪ Sainton. Selection, " Fra Diavolo" ••• Auber. The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Home Park this forenoon. The Royal children did not take their usual exercise this morning, o wing to the unfavourable state of the weather. Invitations have been sent to the following person ages, who are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day:— His Serene Highness Prince Nicholas of Nassau, Baron Hadsin, Baron Roggenbach, the Marquis and Mar chioness of Normanby, the Marquis of Granby, the Earl and Countess a Jersey, and Lady Clementine Villiers. M . r. Darling, Lieutenant-Go ve rnor of St. Lucia, had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colcnial officc.. Sir James Duke had an interview with Lord John ltutell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing street. The Marquis of Lansdowne, after attending the Ca binct Council yesterday afternoon, left town for his 5ea,,.., Bowood Park, Wiltshire. The Noble Marquis, as Lord President of the Privy Council, has issued invitations iu a grand dinner to the Cabinet Ministers and the great officers of the Queen's Ilonsotiol4l, on Saturday, the 31st of January, at Lansdowne House, for the purpose o f settling the roll of sheriffs for the present year. Earl Granville and the Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yesterday morning from Windso r e th , t i o for the purpose of attending the Cabinet Co unc il . S h ., L')rdship returned to and the Right lion. Baronet I Dispatches were received at the Colonial- office yester day Windsor Castle in the afternoon. from the Governors of Lliman, the G o ld Coast, and Gibraltar. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JAN. 14.—1 n a Congregation holden on this day, the first day of Lent Term, the following degrees we re conferred: — Masters of Arts- , Lev. , J ames M urray Richard Raw lins, Brasenose ; hev. James Lawrence, Brasenose ; W illi am Frederick Smith , St. John's ; Rev. Edward Fox, Fellowof New Coll ege. The R egius Professor of Pasto ra l Th eo l ogy i nten d s t o begin h i s course of lectures of the present term on Tuesday, the 17th of February. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. BALLIOL COLLEGE.—The Rev. 11. W. Sulivao, M.A., has bees presented to the rectory of Yoxall, Stafford shire. EX.ETER COLLEGE.—The Rev. R. W. Cleave, 8.A., has been appointed to the curacy of Batcombe, Dorset. QUEEN'ti COLLEGE.—The Rev. W. Mirrielees, 8.A., has been appointed to the curacy of Upton Scudamore, Wilts. The Rev. J. O'Brien, M.A., has been presented to the vicarage of Henfield. BRASENOSE COLLEGE.—The Rev. J. F. Brindle, 8.A., has been appointed to the curacy of Homington, Wilts. The Rev. W. H. Lucas, M.A., Fellow of this College, has been appointed to the endowed lectureship in the church of ktodborough, Gloucestershire. ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE.—The Rev. H. A. Bowles, M.A., has been presented to the rectory of Merrow, Surrey. WORCESTER COLLEGE.—The Rev. L. R. C. Griffiths, BA., has been presented to the rectory of Swindon, G loucestershire. MAGDALEN HALL.—The Rev. H. W. Brooks, BA., has been appointed to the curacy of Lyme-Regis. ST. EDMUND HALL.—The Rev. F. Cruse, 8.A., has been appointed to the curacy of Earl Stoke, Wilts. A memorial to the Lords of the Treasury has been agreed to by the Highland Society deploring the want of a museum of economic geology and chemistry in Scotland, and praying for Government aid for the establishment of a museum in Edinburgh, similar in constitution, character,and industrial objects to the Irish Industrial lnstitution,x Dublin ; and also that the geological survey sould be e tended to Scotland, THE SPEAKER.—There is not the slightest founda tion for the rumours, alluded to by a weekly contemporary, of the contemplated retirement of the present Speaker. FRIDAY -- rw) • . 0, -N jjN • .mr Pt W. , ;71, „ INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. , On Tuesday, the 13th Jan. (James Itendel, ';47 President, in the chair), the proceedings of the even-r-i ing were commenced by au address from the Presi dent on taking the chair, for the first time, after his election. After thanking the members for the h onour con ferred on him, and requesting not only th e i r indul gence but their active co-operation, in maintaining the interest of the meetings, and the dignity and good name of the profession, the President proceeded to notice the principal works terminated, or in progress, and even the new projects in which engineering skill had been employed, or was required. The Great Exhibition was prominently noticed, at tention being drawn to the fact of so much of the raw material, and of the manufactured article being shown, with so little of the means of manufacturing, and thus the greatest portion of the lesson had been unproductive. CivilTur Eninnggineteorst,hwe h m ic o h re h i a m d m b e e d en iat s e ty o l e e e d u , p , a T ti h o e n A of pp t l b i e . cation of Mind to Matter ;" it was sought to be en forced, that all undertakings should be examined, not only with respect to their engineering possibility, but to their social and political influence on society. The vast increase of private communication was noticed, four hundred millions of letters being now delivered annually, instead of seventy-six millions, as before the establishment of the penny post system. Steam alone could have conveyed such a mass of correspondence. The increase of population in England decrease in Ireland afforded an opportunity for point ing and the out the fine field off ere d b y the latter country for the ameliorating effects of engineering works. Claussen's flax process, emigration, che a p b ranc h lines of railway, drainage, and other topics were then discussed and reasoned on. The genera l ra i lway system was examined and traced, givin g the principal statistical facts connected with the railways 9f Great Britain, the Continent, India, and the United States, in connexion with which latter the name of General Gibbs M'Neill, the pupil of Telford and George Stephenson, was mentioned as having constructed a great extent of lines. The length, direction, and purposes of the railways were given, with the princi pal statistical facts connected with them. _ _ The principal ports, harbours of refuge, and general civil engineering wor k s i n G rea t Britain were men tioned, with some points of interest connected with each. The electric and submarine telegraphs, with the wonderful effects they were calculated to produce on commerce and the political relations of nations, were descanted on. The strength of the royal steam navy and the won derful progress of the commercial steam-power of England were given, with details of the statistics of several of the principal companies, and the value of auxiliary steam and screw vessels was pointed out, with the great change now operating in the collier trade of the north. ----- The drainage of land and its influence on rivers, the reclaiming of lands from the sea—new modes of raising water in the fens—the sanitary regulation s as applied to all large to w ns—agricultural engineering, its union with chemistry—increased power for water supplies to the metropolis and the principal c ities of Great Britain, and th e new m i ne r a l og i c al discoveries of iron ore near Middlesbro'-on-Tees and North ampton, furnished topics for a brilliant display of statistical research and sound reasoning ; and the President, before closing his able address, thus ex pressed himself with respect to the strike of the ope rative engineers : "At a period of such regular employment for almost all classes of artisans, and a general absence of complaint, it is unfortunate that any symptoms of dissatisfaction should have been exhibited by a body of men, whose experience, intelligence, and attain ments on most subjects, induced the belief that they would be the last to listen to the evil counsels of de signing agitators. Disunion between employers and the employed must ever be productive of evil to both ; but it invariably ends in permanent injury to the men, whose occupation is the construction of machines by which manual labour is only apparently super eeded, whilst civilization is invariably advanced, by affording mankind increased powers over the mate rials of the world. " The result of the present contest between em ployers, who have invested several millions sterling, in tools, machinery, and buildings; and artisans, who cannot now execute work without the aid of those machines, whose sphere of utility they seek to limit, cannot for an instant be doubtful; and it must be very pernicious influence that could render a body of such intelligent men so unobservant of the true laws regulating supply and demand as to imagine they could control the prices of the labour necessary to produce those very labour-saving machines of their owu manufacture, and which it is evidently their true interest to see multiplied. If their avowed ob jects were attained, the only result would be such an increased cost of machinery, and such uncertainty in its production, that either the trade would be driven to other countries or the factories here must be manned by skilled foreign workmen, whose produc tions are, even now, scarcely second to our own. " It is to be fervently hoped that the men will dis card the erroneous notion that capital is the foe of labour ;' and that, as the employers have expressed their willingness to consider any individual represen tations, made in a fitting manner, this unhappy dis pute may be arranged without prejudice to either party. The meeting was addressed by Mr. Scott Russell Mr. Locke, M.P., V.P., and General Gibb M'Neill, on the topics touched on by the President in his address, which was ordered to be printed. At the monthly ballot the following candidates were duly elected :—Messrs. T. Brassey, E. A. Cow per, P. Parsons, and Captain T. W e bb , R . E , as associates. The following paper was announced to be read at the meeting ot. Tuesday, January 20th 011 the Alluvial Formations and the Local Changes of the South-Eastern Coast of England. Second section— from Beachv Head to Portland ;" by Mr. J. B. Redman, M. Inst. C.E. TIL T fEEEas,sr. SPRING CIRCUITS. e s select c a, t yt :e t s h s o e an i their NoRTs The follows: respectiveo h oID e u t d c. r— e cL a Luoiotrsrd.d yesterday ccahnsiehpf bos lufil:ntasinasceledmjmaberl Jervis v.a d jinjsug t uas o estnrati ideceemr. M M 1 1 1 00 1 Bmsrro.nßPaarrokno Mr.Aldt.Lio Coleridge. justibe n and Mr. Justice WigLt a m n a d n ar? a t n in d . Mr. Baron Platt. QXFORD..—Mr. on Taltourd . E N.—M T. Justice E ar i CresdwTell. Justice OUTII WALES.--Mr. Chambers. remain in town and attend when I say that money S ROSPERITY.--.. called upon Mrs. directions; f e e a o n t i N o v o h s e n ; hi was announced. Ido not exaggerate KEAN IN 111 P -------- T ---- l g v u it i h nea r s ic ( h th e e u n ri a ' the s b p e r n es e h e fi n a t t . Mr. C. Kean, then a fine little boy, K . was quitei remember bewi bewildered was lying about the room in all heaps eti rlv as abl p e l , ay a in nd g curling g ar coin) on the floor; bank notes were in with sofa ; a s some e p o s o c r o r b e ir o: uons.with plans of the house and applica erthree ladies being introduced, who ap proached Mrs. K. as if s h e were a divinity. L i tt l e Charles had deserted this guineas, and mounted himself on a large wooden horse with stirrups. " What a sweet child," they whispered, and eyed him as if he had hem a young Prince. I think the receipts of that benefit amounted to 1,1501. Mrs. K. was a warmhearted, affectionate, good woman, and devotedly attached to her husband.—Lffe of Kean. MATRIMONIAL PROJECTS OF LOUIS NAPOLEON.— For some time before the late coup dotal, says a well• in formed contemporary, communications had been going on between the President and Queen Christina of Spain, with a view to a marriage between himself and one of the daughters of her Majesty by her second husband, Munoz; and if we are not misinformed some pecuniary advances had actually preceded this matrimonial contract. However this may be, the negotiation has now been broken off, the money repaid, and the elect of the 20th of December now looks for a consort among the legitimate issue of the crowned heads of Europe. The court to which the attention of Louis Napoleon has been naturally directed is that of Sweden, for the Queen of Sweden is a daughter of Eugene Beauharnais, married to King Oscar, the son of Bernadotte; and their daughter, the Princess Charlotte Eugenie of Sweden, is said to be the ob ject of this proposal. We have grounds for believing th at, in The P r incess is in her 22d year, and may be considered t o be F r ench in her descent from both father and mother.—.2tiorn this instance the negotiation is actually on foot. ing Paper. SAMBRE AND ME USE IZAILWAY.—Tbe report OF the directors of this co m p an y w as y e sterday submitted to the English shareholder s , at their offices in London, Etil was unanimously adopted. This line of ra ilway (which is, as regards mineral traffic, one of the m ost im p ortant in Belgium) has been only partially com pleted, for want of th e capital necessary for so doing; a port ion has, however, been le in work since 1849, and the traffic has, under many disad vantages, more than carried o ut the anticipations of the pro jecto branches,es. r h e e ct o o b r j s ec t now o f proposecomp titnog the entire line an d its raise 400,000/. i n t h e following manner :—The 200,00/. necessary to com p l ete the main line to be raised in 20,000 shares of 101. each, en titled to a preference dividend of 5 per cent. per annum, p rn it m al en in t to be called Class 13. The 200,000 /. for the branches to be ,vienstecdonisnidethraiatiolnineo,f and raised in a similar manner, to be called Class B, and to be en titled to a dividend of 4 per cent., under the guarantee of the Belgian Government,opvayable on the completion of each o p f el f: i n an glis u capital of importance to the great mi • - aware o lung interests of that not country, have undertaken only to guarantee cent. on 200,0001., but in every way to ~ assist the directors in carrying out the undertaking, the b la r r an ge ch a . mo T an h t e value of which must en tirely depend upon its completion in those districts from whence the largest amount of traffic will be derived, namely, t h e great mineral country l • Ying Letween the Sambre and Meuse rivers in Belgium. TRE AMERICAN PRESS.—The low estimate placed by foreigners on the New York press is scarcely undeserved. Take their own estimate for truth, and there is not a viler lot of scamps outside the state prison. According to th. Express, the editor of the Herald is "a viper." According to the Herald, George Wilkes, of the Police Gazette , is "a felon." Colonel W e bb , of the Courier, says that Willis is " a seducer, and, ' morally speaking,' a murderer ;" while the Day Book and a rascal." charges Colonel Webb with being " a rogue i