The Sun. — London, England, 1852-01-13 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND. The National R wiss Gazette contains the following : 1 "On the sth December, when intelligence of the events of Pale reached Lausanne, several Freuch re fuses drew up an appeal to the French people, and had it printed. The conclusion of that appeal was, We are ready to perform our duty as you are ready to per form yours. To arms! Five la Republique Demo cratique et Seciale.'" That appeal was signed by A. Rolland, T. Thore, Boichot, L. Avril, Eugene Beyer, E. Kopp, and Ed. Pfieger. On the 26th December, the Federal Council having heard of that appeal, adopted the fol lowing resolution:— " Whereas the signers of th at appeal have attempted to effect an insurrection in France, and have thereby compromised Switzerland; whereas Rolland, Boichot, Avril, Beyer, and Pfiefor were expelled from Switzer land by a Federal resolution of the 24th March, 1851, the Council decrees:-Ist. The above resolution is con firmed. 21 Kopp and There shall likewise be expelled from Switzerland. The present resolution shall be com municated to the Government of the canton of Vaud, and the Departments of Justice and the Police are charged with its execution. " G. MIINZINCIER, President of the Federal Council. " Scums, Chancellor of the Confederation." The decree (continues the Gazette) will be carried into effect. It is time that Swi;z:rlatid should cease to be made a cat's-paw. She will fulfil her international ruties at the same time that she will maintain her inde pendence." DENMARK. The Prussian Government has informed the Duke of Augustenburg, that the Governments of Europe are decidsd to uphold the integrity of the Danish jonarchy, and that the claims of the Augustenburg fitnily will be compensated by an annual allowan ce 01-* money. The Augustenburg estates will remain in the hands of the Danish Government. THE IMPOSSIBLE 7,439,216. Among the many extraordinary circumstai:Te, con nected with the present revolution in France, it is not the least of such that M. Louis Bonaparte has been able ro gull the people into the belief of his having received the affirmative votes of more than 7,400,000 persons. That he should seek to deceive in this, as he has in many other ways, should not surprise us; but that he should have so completely forgotten the prudent advice offered to a deceiver in the fable, to " keep probability in view," is extraordinary, since he has laid himself open to de tection in his falsehood by every one who will bo at the pains to exa mine his figures in connexion with the popu. baton returns, which are free to the inspection of every one. The numbers advertised in the Moniteur as having voted on the question of his dictatorship, Oui or Non, are Out •• ... 7,439,216 640,737 Annutes ... 36,820 Total who voted ... 8,116,773 The total population of the 86 departments of France at the last census, in 1846, was 35,401,761 From which must be deducted the inhabi tants of Corsica, not included in the re turns of voters 230,271 32,171,400 Of this number one-fourth only are men 20 years did and upwards ..• •.. 8,792872 Deduct further the number given in the French sables as between 20 and 21 years 303,500 Leaving 8,489,372 as the greatest possible number inscribed as electors capable of voting, being only 372,502 beyond the number who are asserted to have voted, and conse quently allowing only about 1 in each 100 of adult males to have abstained from voting. More than one fonrth of the above number, viz., 97,023, are stated in the census returns as being above 85 years of age, and may on that account be assumed as unlikely to have voted. I.; addition to this, there are the sick, and those absent , -ing the days of election from the district in which y were inscribed. A very moderate allowance on :e accounts would more than make up the above :: ~ ;:ed excess of 372,599, without reckoning any of the 7 numerous class who, upon principle, abstained from r ring on the question, and who, in the department of Seine alone, are stated to have been 96,819 out of 394,049, the number inscribed in the department. If the proportion who thus abstained is assumed as correct data fur the whole of Franca, then the number who did not vote would be 2,085,863; leaving the 6,403,509 as the ex -eme number whose votes were recorded, or 1,713,264 fewer than the number asserted by M. Bonaparte to have eeo given. The number of negative votes is stated in rh Moniteur to have been 640,737, of which number 96 511 were given in the single department of the Seine --‘nout 1 in 3 of the total number said to have voted; wh. teas, in the rest of France, the adverse votes are eated to have been only 544,226, or only 1 in 20 of the alleged voters! Cr eclat.qui cult.—Examiner. SPORTING NOTES. No. CLXVI. ANALYSIS OF THE SEVENTY-THIRD DERBY. (Continued from No. CLXV.) TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sat,—Since dotting down my last remarks on the ll?rby, I find by my last communication from New market, that ray observations concerning Butler's stable !re in several resrwets incorrect. As I before re marked, Hugo and Weathergage are not worthy any s,lae man's consideration for the great race now in hand, • Hesperus I made little or no n;inark about. lam now in a posiPiou to state, that he is in gentle work, touch improviA since the close of last season, and that no will probably turn cut to be the best of that stable. Labouring under the idea—from not having heard any thing about them—tlnt Maid: tone and Canterbury— two purchases from the Goodwood stable—were thrown at of training. I did not takf, their chances into con 1-11tation in de9csnting in my last letter on Butler's Canterbury is doing no work; in fact, is out of : - .hair;; and Maidstone, though doing gentle exercise, • looking well, is by no means a Derby horse in any • !pact. I shall make a point of concluding the Derby !icle to-morrow, when I will give the summing up to ,1 best of my judgment. Before closing this brief note I will take a glance at the OUNDLE STEEPLECHASES. The principal one, marked on the list to be run at twelve o'clock, will in all probability have some seven eight starters, namely, the Bri,ish Yeoman, the Ge neral, Isaac, Verax, Carrig, Maria Monk, and perhaps another or two. The Yeoman has on this occasion to concede a stone to his next-door n,ighbour, and coosiderebly more to others in the race. This of course will militate much against his chance ; I, however, think, that as the course i 4 in anything but a light condition, the in —man, if run to win, will be one of the first three. `II , General, at lOst. 41b., is bold perfectly safe by Isaac, pound less. Venture, Miss bray, J-Mnnie Lam e, Caricz, C a, Mischanco and Gulnare, I have ho!arny for. Hinton's running is oucertain, so I shall pass chance over without comment. This weeding of the leaves me the two credo Verax and Maria Isaac and the British Yeoman to dispute t palm of superiority. It I place 111a.rtrA MONK and YEatx th,, first two positions, with „Isaac and the Y ~vnan tolerably wail up I think my venture wi ll not 1,, v e ry w id e o f t h e mark: the Sellin g Stake', over three miles of country, I sliould book as a certiuty for YOUNG LOTTERY or UUT- C AST, with Bullfinch, Gula are , an d the P arson ' s D aug hter in attendance. The latest betting on the Otindle events quotes Verax as the favourite at 7 to 2 (taken), Maria Monk 5 to 1, Carrig 5 to 1, General 8 to 1, Isaac 8 to 1, and the Yeo man the same figure. For the Selling Stakes—Outcast is marked at 3 to 2, 3 to 1 taken freely ; young Lottery, 4 to 1; a ormsby, Bullfinch, or an & y other, 6 to 1. I m, Sir, yours, c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Jan. 12, 1852. THE " PRESERVED" MEATS AT PORTSMOUTH. - - FoRTSMOUTII, SATURDAY. —At the eleventh hour the Admiralty have given orders to Sir E. Parry, at the Clarence Dockyard, Gospor t, not to give any mor e in formt-Aim to the newspar:ers in reference to the exami wlti(4n of the tin eases of putrid matter supplied to the navy as " preserve d meat, warrant e d t o kee p for five ßut the following short summary of facts, col by a gentleman on the spot, may be relied upon as o._F,lientic. Goldner, who was, and has been ever since 5, the contractor for the supply , of these provisions, lately resident at Greenwich. The last contract consisted of 8,660 canisters, or over 73,0001b5. weight of food. The result o f t en d a ys' examination is, that out of 6,671 cases only 189 have been found " good." For this contract Mr. Goldner was paid at the rate of 6kd. per lb. for the best beef and mutton. Mr. Goldner is or was also a contractor with the Russian Government for a supply of tallow, and for the production of which he bad a tallow litetory at full work, in Galatz, in M o ldavia; and there can bo little doubt that the offal and refuse of this fac tory is the " preserved meat" which he has supplied to the English navy. About four months ago an agent of was allowed to remove and take away 2,000 of these eviistors from the Clarence Victualling -yard, in conse (ponce of a report having got abroad that their contents ere emitting a very unp leasant odour; what b ecame of t4ese 2,000 remains a mystery, but they were included in the 8,660. Yesterday the examination cam e to an l';rupt clo s e before one o'clock; but it resulted i n t h e adetanation of two hundred tin eases, out of whi c h not single o ne was f ou nd " good;" but any perso n apply for information on behalf of a newspaper received al ~ ,ocided refusal until such time as some communication can be had from the Admiralty un the subject. However, it is now confidently as'erted in Portsmouth that a large portion of this foetid stuff wiz, put un board the ships of Sir John Franklin, Up to a late hour last evening no communication of any sort had been received by the Board of Examiners either from the contractor'a representative in London, or his sureties, and nothing whatever is known of the :f , trneter himself, beyond the fact that he is no longer :u found in Greenwich. s=ince last Tuesday week, the Board of Examiners ap poiuted by the Admiralty to discharge the dis4tisag dn:y of revealing this foul fraud, have gone through tiivir task as well and as long each day as their physical energies permitted. The operation of forcing open the tin cans took place :n ale,rge empty s t ore o f t h e C larence Vi c tualling-yard, ard, and it was si mp l y t hi s: — upon two empty barrels was placed a large board, around which s t oo d the examiners, and as the cover was ra i sed each and all present mechanically started back from the fearful effluvia emittad; but they Went a step furth er; 'hey emptied th e Cs tit of its P - gilon, and finding it to THE SUN, be that which its stench announced, put it back again and placed it in the yard. So they stood yesterday, arrayed in lines, of every weight, from 4 . lbs. up to 32 lbs., and which no passer-by may approach in safety. Now, will not the public ask, bow is it possible that ever since the year 1845 Goldner should have bad the contract, notwithstanding the competition and the many other tenders sent in? By what magic was it that he was always so fortunate as to be declared the contractor? Had Greenwich politics, or any individual high in office resident there anything to do with it ? The following explanation of the circumstances under which preserved meats were issued to sea-going ships, and likewise to the causes which led to the recent con demnation of those meats, which had been contracted for by the Admiralty at Portsmouth, appears in the Ob server of yesterday. " The preserved meat is supplied in tin canisters of a certain dimension and strength, hermetically sealed. The supply is obtained by contract, and subject to examination—any can ister once opened become un serviceable within twenty-four hours—it is therefore impossible to examine every canister, but a cer tain proportion, about five per cent. is usually opened. In this examination it can be ascertained in the canisters actually opened, whether improper parts of the animal have been used; but where the proportion of improper meat in the whole supply is very small, it must happen that on some occasions breaches of the contract in this respect will escape notice, from the im possibility of examining every canister; but this is not the usual cause of the meats becoming unserviceable. If the air has penetrated into the canister, or was not originally entirely exhausted, or if there was a defect in he original curing, meat which on examination appears erfectly good and is properly passed, would corrupt and e come unserviceable. Preserved meat was first issued to the navy, as an article of comfort for the sick, in the year 1815. It was also supplied in a limited quantity to Captain Parry on his Arctic voyage in 1819, and again to Captain Trotter's ships in the, Niger Expedition in 1840. The reports in these instances were favour able ; still, as the article, from its comparative scarcity and cost, could only be considered as ' one of luxury, its general use in the navy was not then contemplated. In 1840 a patent for preserved moat was taken out by Mr. Goldner, and from this time considerable improvement was made in the art of manufacture, and in the cost at which it could be supplied; and in consequence of this the Board of Admi ralty were induced in 1846 to authorise the issue of pre served meat, experimentally, on a more extensive scale. The trial thus made appearing to be successful, the Board of Admiralty, by a circular of the 29th of April, 1847, directed that preserved meat should be introduced as an article of victualling into the navy, and issued to ships on foreign stations one day in each week, with preserved potatoes, in lieu of a salt beef ration. About the end of 1848, or in the beginning of 1849, it was re ported to the Admiralty that, in addition to such occa sional condemnations of preserved meat as are common to salted provisions, parts of the animal not fit for use had, in a few instances, been found mixed with the meat, and immediate steps were at once taken to re medy the evil. In the following year (1850) a new con tract was entered into with Mr. Goldner, and in 1851, increased quantities of preserved meat being re quired for the navy, a further contract was made with that gentleman for a large additional supply. It was in the course of examining the first deliveries under this contract that an improper substance was discovered in one of the canisters, and upon this the whole quantity under delivery, amounting to 22,3251 b., was at once re jected; and complaints at the same time reaching the Admiralty of the nature and quality of the preserved meat then being served out in ships abroad, orders were immediately sent to the commanders-in-chief on foreign stations to stop the issue of such provisions, and to re• tnrn the supply into store. The contract with Mr. Gold ner was then immediately cancelled; tied, in order that the exact amount of penalty to which he as contractor is liable may be ascertained, every canister in store, as well as those returned from ships abroad, is now being subjected to eximinatiou.—ln justice to the contractor, however blameable his conduct, we are bound to state that a very small proportion of the canisters examined is objectionable on the ground that improper parts of the animal have been employed. The principal proportion of those condemned may have become unserviceable from the other causes before stated. It appears, therefore, that the use of preserved meat generally was adopted after much experience—that, on the first complaints, imme diate measures were taken to supply a remedy; and that this last extensive examination and condemnation has been occasioned by the determination of the Admi ralty not to permit improper meat to be supplied for the use of the navy. It is much to be regretted that this failure of the proper supply should have taken place; and in issuing the preserved meat the Admiralty were not swayed by any motive of economy, but were de sirous of substituting a change for the salt meat ration — a c h an ge w4iich those only who have served long at sea can sufficiently value. The supply was obtained by contract—a mode which is generally preferred—but such instances as the one now under consideration show some of the inconveniences to which the system of con tract is liable." E. SILAS'S SONATA. (From the Musical World.) Sonata! what various and vivid emotions are excited in our breast as we write the word. It recalls past times, past excellencies, past performances, past rivalries, past friendships, with their many interesting associa tions, and from it we borrow a hope that a genius may yet arise to shed a beneficial influence over the atmo sphere of the musical world, and diipel the crowd of dull spirits that now hang around the stalls of our great music-publishing establishments. It is a matter of deep regret to most admirers of the art, that at the present period there are no productions equal in excellence to the works of the composers of the past. Some infer the art is in a state of decline, others believe it to he merely in a state of transition. Unquestionably, the public of England have now a better appreciation of the compositions of the great masters than that enter tained by the public of the prevh Ili quarter of this cen tury; yet the original comoositiuea issued from the musical prase of Europe at the present day, do not pos seas the classical form or elevated character of the pro ductions of former days. In place of sonatas, trios, quartetts, concertos, &c., we are satiated with caprices, notturnos, fantasias, mazurkas, romances sans paroles, morceaux caracieristiques, ,laniastiques, and such like oddities. Composers say the race of spirited publishers has departed, but publishers know the public will not accept mediocrity io works of high pretension, and they have the experience that professors avoid a sonata, con certo, or any other classical form of composition by a modern composer, with as much alacrity as one with cloyed appetite shuns the choicest viands. The truth e js, that time, the true propounder of excel lence, has so irompletely established the surpassing beauty of the sonatas, quartetts, and symphonies of Mozart and Beethoveen, that it is to be feared the portentous words of Dante, "Lasciate ogni spent zs, Sce." may be too significantly applied to all those who enter upon their department of art. It may be objected that the sonatas of Clementi, Dussek, Steibeit. Cramer, Ries, Hummel, and other pisnistes, were a source ot great profit to com posers and publishers, but this must be attributed to the progreres then making in the art of performing en the Pianoforte. Composers were performers, each seeking to produce effect by new figures or forms of passages suited to his peculiar style of performance, and which were then quite as available to excite the admiration of an audience as the impossibilieies of a modern fantasia by List, Dohler, Dreyschock, Meyer, and id genus °sine. Then the sonatas of Beethoven were not well under stood, nor were they so well adapted for great mecha nical display; their excellencies were spiritual, not physical; time has dulled the tinsel brilliancy of the compositions of the great pianistes, while it has exalted the beauties of those of Beethoven. The ideal has out lived the material. Those works of the great pianistes w hich were in much demand on their first publication, and are now merely sought in illustration of the history of the art; while the sonatas of Beethoven, which may be said to have been dropt from his pen at their birth unheeded and unnoticed, are now wafted into a reputa tion boundless and enduring as music itself.* Not for a moment have we any intention to depreciate the works of the pianistes ;to whom we have above al luded. Some were profound musicians, each advanced the art, and all were comp osers su p erior to the acknow ledged pianistes of the present day. Honourable excuse may be pleaded for their inferiority to one who has no equal, and their defeat can bo acknowledged with a better grace by their admirers, through a conviction that the most illustrious composers, even Weber, Spohr, and lYfendelssohn, have not approached the spirit of Beet hoven in this form of composition. The fate of the works of the eminent pianistes invites Insular forms, us to warnfature aspirants againat the adoption of allcon vent ialities, taste, that are not founded on true principles of art. however illustrious, freely Few artistes, whether and mechanical expressions of poets, painters, or composers, popular mannerism of their escapeae. Among the works of Beethoven, are most free from conventialities; departed genius,and P the prejudices and those of Sebastian g Bach, Mozart, they offer few or no examples of a s tyl e that may be termed old fashioned or obsolete; bat the operatic works of Handel are loaded with these imperfections—faults arising from his attempt to conciliate the taste of his fashionable audience. So damnatory have they proved, that the name of the mighty master, though encircled by a halo a lmost sacred, has not been able to red eem these works from contemptuous and merited neglect. Art in every degree, simple and combined, an d all b ranc hes of industrial product, when remotely a lli e d with art, failing. N o f urniture nee mancient, will i b o r u i c s to h 0 w t this a r convey impression of o bsoleteness if the amount of art he a manufactured n o r cbdil obnoxious voleed therein shall have been fitly applied. More novelty and freshness aro felt in a movement from o ne of Haydn's quartett 's than can be found in any modern fantaida fur the pianoforte. The costume of an ancient Greek or Roman a ppears not so much out of fashion as a dress of last season. The draperies of Phidiae or Titian present a more recent mode than the Court gar ments of the present day. The Parthenon is less anti quated than most of the costly buildings in Europe of tide century, and an Etruscan iazzt has more newness th a n a cup and saucer hot from the manufactories of Chins. The ideal or imaginative is the essence of art. They who possess it, possess it by nature, they who wish to understand it must study it;. fer the peculiar powers and propensities thereof are not to he fully appreciated upon a superficial acquaintance. Without the divine spark, as poets call it, none can hope for immortality in their art. Beethoven. poss esse d it i n a degree beyond that of any other composer. His position among mu sician is as high as that ot Shalespeare among dramatists. It may be a questima whether of the two individuals, he were not the mgra higly endowed. Certainly his works do not exhibit the faults committed by the immortal bard, and which. have been justified by Schlegel, who had the most prafound comprehension of his subject, in the belief ths; ;": 313 oksPere employed ;Um with the view LONDON, of painting the actual tone of the society of his day; that they did not meet with his approbation; on the contrary, he clearly held them in derision. It would be instructive and highly interesting to elu cidate the affinity of the two sister arts, poetry and music, by a diligent and metaphysical inquiry into the various mental conditions and capacities requisite for the attainment of pre-eminence in either. To such a remarkable degree do the works of Shakspere and Beet hoven manifest identical powers and parallel resources, that the science, which determines the peculiar functions of each cerebral organ in the various operations of the brain, might have been advanced by a comparative exa mination of their intellectual organism. Both minds were imaginative and creative; their idiosyncrasies were homogeneous. Are the works of Shakspere characterised by sublimity and pathos, by grandeur and simplicity, by vastness and minuteness, by description and suggestion, by philosophy and nature? so are those of Beethoven. To each of these features, as they occur in the dramas of Shakspere, can a parallel—drawn by synthesis or analysis—be offered from one or other of the quartette of Beethoven—an assimilation, not merely in the inter pretation of isolated phrases or passages, but embodied in entire movements. Such gigantic and boundless resources had Beethoven, that by the employment of four instruments, be presents images to the mind more stupendous in effect than the colossal proportions of Handel, when he moves with a thousand instruments and as many voices. It is rare to find a critic who can elevate himself to the comprehen sive contemplation of Beethoven's works; for his com positions, from the very depth of purpose displayed in them, have been especially liable to the misfortune of being misunderstood. As he advanced in his art his conceptions became deeper, more vast,ideal,and original. An opinion became prevalent that he was a rude and wild genius, who poured forth at random, and without aim or object, his unconnected compositions. The diffi culty of understanding him rendered it impossible to perform his works with fidelity. His fame did not break forth into full glory till after his death. Since then it has but increased in lustre with the course of time. Even the rivalrous efforts of both opera houses, last season, did not yield a true representation of the Fidelio. Some time must yet elapse ere "a consumma tion ao devoutly to be wished for," can be accomplished in this vast and wealthy metropolis. Nor has the Phil harmonic Society attained the glory of rendering a per fect performance of the " Choral Symphony," the last and the greatest of these works by the greatest man of this century. To the minds of some of the members of the Philharmonic Society, the " Choral Symphony" presents nothing more than a chaotic confusion of sounds, rudis indigestaque molest These observations have grown to such a length, that we must defer our analysis of Mr. Silas's work for a future number. In the meanwhile, without exposing ourselves to the lues Boswelliana, a disease said by Macaulay to infect those who, in admiration of some idol, proffer their praise in such indiscriminate abun dance, as Boswell rendered to Johnson, we may con sistently aver, that no sonata possessing the same high promise, and deserving the same claim upon the atten tion of connoisseurs and artistes, has issued from the press since the publication of the sonatas of Beethoven. We sincerely hope that a composer so young, enriched with such large acquirements, and gifted with such rare powers and surpassing abilities, will neither seek nor shun distinction, and that his genius may find fame only as he can meet it in his progress so the highest attain ment of his art, for a few such works as this sonata must bear the name of the composer to a bright im mortality. S. K. E. * Some opinion may be formed of the relative estimate of Beethoven's works at the period of their publication and the present time, from the fact, that, out of the numerous editions that have lately appeared, a larger sum has been paid by a firm to an artiste in London for the mere revision of their edition than the composer, with a few exceptions, received for the copyright of the original. As it may not be generally known, it is but an act of justice to state that this symphony was composed at the re quest of the Philharmonic Society, and the commission was endorsed by a munificent sum. AUSTRALIAN GOLD DIGGINGS. The following correspondence, dated August 20, from the new diggings at Buninyong, appears in one of the Melbourne papers received yesterday by the Honduras : " Buninyong, Wednesday Evening. " The inhabitants of Geelong are becoming nomadic' —various tribes from Corio, Chilwell, and Ashby have sent their deputations, and the denizens of the western district may be described ere long as dwellers in tents, as hewers of wood and drawers of water.' Geelong is going out of town and coming to Buninyong; bricks and mortar are deserted for tarpaulins, comfort for in convenience, ease for hardship, ordinary travail for hard labour, and all is set at nought and succumbs to the desire for gold, gold that is to be rent from the bowels of the earth. Neither rain nor storm overpowers the desire; the ery is still ' They come, they come.' First, a party of stragglers trudge through the slough with un tiring energy, some few with swag at back,' others shouldering guns and forming the advance party, a sort of picket to the baggage coming on; anon a solitary horseman rides through the township, and asks 'How far is the diggings?' and so all wend to the caravanserai at the foot of Hiscock's Diggings,' and swell the gipsy looking encampment formed there ; some sanguine, others desponding, according to temperament, but all hastening to the same point, with the same desire and object in view. In the evening the cradle rests, the dip pers and the tin dishes are thrown aside for the night, and horses are turned adrift, and the busy workers have retired to their tents, the line of which may be seen and traced by blazing fires. Tea, beef, biscuit, and damper, all or some of which form the evening refection are then partaken of, pipes follow, and a deep slumber ends the eventful day; but ere this period arrives it is necessary to ascertain the result of their enterprise. I will go to the nearest cradle first. Good evening, Mr. Bichard; what luck to-day ? " Well 1 .1 don't know; come and look at it; here it is;' and Bichard pours out the water from a pannikin, and shows the golden deposit at the bottom. How much do you say?' Well,l don't know; shall I say two ounces and a half?' Don't say too much; suppose you state two and a quarter, and then you'll be within the mark .' Be it so , said I, ' I want but the truth,' and so I write. " Messrs. Bichard and Wilson's party of six, horse and cart, three days work, 21 ounces, besides specimens in quartz. " Messrs. Pattison and Howe's party of four, horse and cart, three days and a half work, about z oz. " Mr. Gundry's party of four, horse and cart, two days' work, 1 or. " Mr. South's party of three, horse and cart, one day and a half's work, 1 oz. I made inquiries of various other parties, but found that they had not completed their arrangements, or got their cradles into working operation, in fact the work is not begun. 1 . Many are coming, and some few are leaving, and others grumbling, but the above statements you may rely upon as official, received from the mouths of the parties themselves, and the quantities spccfied seen with my own eyes; and, if they are not so prolific as many would desire, I think it is a gratifying fore taste of what may be anticipated from a fair trial of the diggings, which anticipations the eeven rich specimens I forward in their matrices will guarantee; but rich as they are, there are many still more so, which may be seen by examining a perfect gem dispatched by this mail to Messrs. Young and Shotton by Mr. Veitch. The specimens ,I forward will challenge comparison with any yet found . in the Pyrenees, or any other part of Port Phillip, and there are still finer specimens in the hands of parties now working on the ground. Many of them are found every day, sometimes two or three in one cradle working, and hence I think it may be. deduced that ere long a rich vein will be hit upon." The following is another account from the same locality : "In my last I reported my arrival here, and gave what information I had been enabled to collect at the late hour at which I arrived here. Since that I have been on the field and have spoken to nearly every one there, without finding a single per son that is doing good. Several are only just commencing, and of them nothing definite can be stated; one party of two had procured about a quarter of as ounce since Friday last, inclusive, and this was the largest quantity which I saw. The gold is very dense and pure, far more so than any other native gold I have seen, and it will, therefore, fetch a higher price in pro portion to its purity; bat the people about here have most inordinate ideas of its value, and imagine that they will got a price equal to the current rate in London, and some state variously that they have been offered 725., 755., and 775. per ounce for it; of course, I advised them to take the first opportunity of selling at either of these rates, which are very far beyond the real value. In the first place, at least les. must be deducted by the buyer to cover the various expenses of transmission, freight, insurance, &c., and the coat of reduction and assay; for I may state, for the benefit of the uninitiated, that gold is rarely, if ever, found in a state of actual purity, being always in combination with some other metal, as silver, iron, tellurium, &c. ; so that the term ' pure' or impure' as commonly used is merely relative. I hear a great deal on the spot of men who have collected large quantities of gold, but have not yet been able to meet with any instances, so that I feel strongly inclined to 'ignore the bill.' Lest, how ever,should exist without my having seen them, I will they give leave to move for a new trial, and shall make further inquiry before I start, for lam going to have another 'race with the mail,' in order, as before, to send you by the same post communications from two places, 40 miles distant, by the same post. At present but little ground has been turned up, and although persons t have hert obeoenl tie r el i foun dil n va in riou th s e di o r n ec e ti l o im ns it , ed go s l p d ot h . as T h n i e - Clunes diggers, who came down here to ins p ect, won't look at the place, preferri n g their hard work, with com parative certainty, at the D eo p Creek. The car p enters here are doing marching in a heavy trade i n cradles, on what the y call an improved construction; but the plan is demon stratively bad, being based on erroneous data." mo D ud i a s y m e E ve ss c i in 7 , ford station, at seven r.m , William Rowe, a lad of about 17 l g T. the M On ut - years of age, son o f the station-master, was stan din g on the as A the c c u p g E g N a g T e tr AT train sv L as °W p n as sT si ° n platform with a lantern, when unfortunately the light went out, and the night being dark, he walked over the edge, falling on the rails before the approaching train, which does not stop at that station. He was immediately missed by his father, who was standing near, and who was attracted to the spot where he lay by his groans. Upon being picked up and placed in the station-house, it was fOlind that the wheels had passed over both legs in an oblique direction, frightfully crushing them from the foot as far as the knee joint, and nearly severing them. Medical aid was instantly procured, and he was removed to the Lowestoft infirmary, where it was found necessary to amputate both limbs above the knee joint, the poor lad having been previously placed under the influence of chloroform. Up to the preoat time 501110 'lopes a re euyertitiaed of rectrwy. TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY l3, 1852. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Jan. 12. The sittings of the Court for the January General Quarter Session was resumed this morning, at the Guildhall, Westminster, by adjournment from Clerken well, before Mr. Sergeant Adams, Assistant Judge; Mr. Witham, Mr. Alderman Moon, and Mr. Thompson. The calendar contains 83 cases for trial-9 of misdemeanor, and 74 of larceny. The Learned JUDGE, in his charge to the grand jury, referred to the alterations now in progress for the im provement of the court, and stated that he trusted tbat before he again had the pleasure of addressing the grand jury there those improvements would be approaching completion. The Learned Judge then proceeded to ob serve that four months only had elapsed since the altera tion took place in the business and arrangements of the court, under the statute passed for reducing the expenses of criminal prosecutions; but from returns that had been prepared, it appeared th at already the saving had been nearly 2,5001., as far as the county of Middlesex was concerned, whilst at the same time the loss of time and inconvenience to which prosecutors and witnesses were formerly subjected had been greatly lessened. He said it must be most gratifying to the inhabitants of Westminster to find that the onerous duties they had voluntarily undertaken—of serving as jurors at these sessions—had proved so beneficial to the county at large; and in refereuee to the calendar of prisoners for trial at this session, remarked that it was a heavy one, and he regretted to say that crime was on the increase. He was very glad that the ancient jurisdiction of the Court had been restored, and that the change had been productive of public benefit, by enabling the minor cri minal cases to be disposed of expeditiously, at little cost and loss of time, whilst the more serious andimportant cases were sent for trial at the Central Criminal Court. the aid he had received from Mr. Turner,jng the Learned Judge said it was a g t arrangements would-be made referenceulti mately to the discharge of the duties of t y:W h eaf e itttteethi l a ay e mb n awec c ak h i seenntn ; hd; n ivi d then, having given them the usual Manner in which the business could got through, as far as they were concerned, he di sm i s sed the grand j ury to t h e i r d u ti es . Eli z abeth Stainer, 13, an d Ell en M'Koy, 13, were in dbierebce directions as to the dieted for having stolen the sum of 141., the money of Charles Clay Carter, from his person. Ballantine Mr. appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Poland appeared for the prisoners. The prosecutor, an e ld er ly man , w as a m iller at Mal den, in Essex, and it appeare d t h at on t h e a f ternoon o f the 4th ult., he met the two prisoners in the New-road. Stainer, who pretended to be in great distress, earnestly Purchase of her a box of matches, and him er L o t, worse for what he had been dri nking, and consented to accompany them to a house n New - road. The prisoners had some gin, for w eee h Prosecutor paid, but whether he partook of it with them he could not tell, though he knew that at solicitedhbiandirogi which hr, lrather the that time he had in his pocket a leather purse containing 141. or 151., and he left the house within five minutes of company. They left also about the same time, for they it , not wishing to remain longer in such out of his sight, he missed his purse. He tried to follow and directly afterwards, before they had got ph th ais e s ue seen , dt b eh u rii t inu c g liuld not in consequence of the drink he had had and an injury he had received in the back, and he could not swear that the money had not fallen from his pocket whilst he was in the house. The prisoners got off, and at seven o'clock in the evening of the same day, a carpenter, named Goodey, noticed them passing down Whitehall, and heard Stainer say to the other prisoner, " I've got 31. now " to which Melioy replied, " You are very lucky, but I have more than that." Stainer then turned round, and noticing that Goodey was listening, said to " That man is watching us.'?. This ex cited his Suspicion, and be followed them until he met a policeman, who having heard what they had said, took them into custody, a nd found on Stainer 31. 9s. and a bundle of ne w clothes, and on M`lioy 9/. in gold, other money , and a quantity of articles, which evidently had just been found pu they rehissed, had spandounpt, made up the amount, w i t hi n inquiry it was found t h at it was so. Th e mone y found upon them, and the sum it a shilling or so, which the prosecutor had lost. The prosecutor swore that he took no liberties with either of the girls, and that no impropriety of any kind took place whilst they we re i n the house. Mr. POLAND, f or the pr isoners, contended th a t t h ey ought to be acquitted, as they might have picked up the purse. b fe r l o t it el to to be w his h h io duty these to two girls had taken the prosecutor, the sum of 101 ., f or wos kept he the th prisoners. The jury s returned a verd ic t of G uilty against both The Learned JUDGE sentenc ed e ach of them to six months' hard labour. Mr. BALLANTINE then aitd mention that a person who wa s then i n court, acting as attorney for the prisoners , a nd who had, in that capacity, instructed his friend, Mr. Po land, had obtai ne d from a man named Banks, who the purpose of keeping him out of the case, in order that he ight not run the risk of being prosecuted as abrothel m keeper. The Learned JUDGE asked where that person was ? A person who was stated to be managing clerk to Mr. Shaltock, the attorney for the defence, was here pointed out. Mr. POLAND said he had been instructed by Mr. Shaltock, and the individual pointed out had acted as Mr. Shattock'a clerk. The Learned JUDGE having asked on what grounds it was said that he had received the 101.—it was stated that Banks had been in court, but could not then be found, and that he had a receipt for the money signed by Mr. Shaltock's clerk, which receipt had been seen by the pro secutor'e brother. The Learned JUDGE asked where the receipt was? Mr. BALLANTINE said it had been sent for. The Learned JUDGE said he could do nothing until the receipt was forthcoming, and ordered the clerk to be detained in court until it arrived. Some time after, The clerk, addressing the Court, wished to know why he was not allowed to leave, The Learned JUDGE then asked some questions of him, in answer to which ho said a clergyman, named Braswell (as wa s unders tood), had instructed Mr. Sbal tock to defend the prisoners on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Young Females, and that he had acted as Mr. Shaltock's clerk. The Learned JUDGE—Now, what do you say to having got la to keep Banks away? The clerk said he cer tainly had 101. from Banks, to prevent his being brought into the case. Ho would admit having done so. Mr. SISALTOCK said he had never authorised his clerk to receive the 10/. for any such purpose, nor indeed for any other. The person was his clerk. The clergyman referred to stated, that he had re questedShaltockto defend thed d soli cited Mr. girls, an a subscriptionsfor the defence. The Learned Junes then said, after the admission of the clerk he had no doubt as to what he should do, and that would be to order him to be taken before a magistrate for obtaining the money under false pre tences. Mr. BALLANTINE suggested that the matter might be treated as a contempt of court. The Learned J [MGR said he should most certainly send the man before a magistra'e for getting the money by false pretevees —and he should have thought an end would have been put to this system, after the ceryination of the other case; bat he wished it to be well understood that it was the fixed determination of the Court to deal with till these caecs in the some manner, and ho trusted that the matter would be brought before the notice of the Law Society, which ought to do its duty. If that Court, as far as it could, endeavoured to do its duty in stopping this system, and if these things were not put an end to, now was it to be expected that the bar should remain free from all reproach? The clerk was then removed in custody. POLICE INTELLIGENCE 130 W-STREET. George Henry D avid son, a young man respecta bl y connected, surrendered upon his recognizances, charg ed with having, on the mo rning of the 21st of Dece mber, inflicted wounds , w i t h a stiletto, on the person of Ja mes Quillen, a law-writer. Tho particulars of the m e a pp ea red immediately after the occurrence. A L request was yesterday made that the prosecutor , wu ° had been kindly treate d b y the prisoner's friends, might be allowed to withdraw fro m the case. The MAGISTRATE ,Upon looking at the evidence, could not sanction this course; and the prisoner was remanded, still on bail, to answer the c h arge . CLEitir EN WELL. Nicholas Quirk, a powerful Irishman, was charged by John Costello with ha ving assaulted him and bitten his wife, and Martin, their Quirk, and Mary , his nose off. Martin and Catherine Baggott, husband and son ! John wife, were also charged with being concerned in a daring outrage and assaults. John Costello appeared in the witness -box in great agony, with his face plastered and bound up, and said that he resided t la prisoner Catherin e corning, between twelve and one o'clock, he was Sunday in his house ill bed when he was awoke by a row, and all on a sudden a. Aso. 13, George-yard, Islington. On his bedroom door was burst open by the and the other Prisoners entered the room, and made an attack upon Baggett, who with Nicholas Quirk Nicholas Oairl, L out of bed in order a lodger named Kinnahan. Witness got spring forwards had a struggl e the arms, the to prevent mischief being done, when - *hocked him down. They afterwards and fell down Itogether, Quirk being un dermost, and wh il st w i tness was holding him down by Prisoner lifted up his shoulders, made a prisoner , and bit his nose clean off with his teeth, not boon for the wa s given into oust... . The and said, "Take that, you thief." Witness bled pro fusely, and hastened to a surgeon, who dressed the wound, and the witness added that th e co nduct of all the pris. , •rs was so desperate towards himself and Kinnahan, that had it Thomas House, 111 N division, and other officers, who secured them, murder prompt and courageous conduct of Would inevitably have been committed. Kinnah an an d William Costello , son of the injured man, ga ve con fi rma tory evidence. Both these Y witnesses were s everely b r uised. Mr. COR RIE said a more l a wless proceeding never took place in a ci v ili sed country. (To Nicholas Quir k ) —l t hall commit y ou to Newgae tor trial. The dep os i t i ons were then ta k en , and he was fully committed for t r i a l . Mr. CO RRIE asked if he wishe d t o say anything in his defence? P r i soner (coolly)— If I did bite his nose off I was drunk at th e time, or I would not ha ve done it. I hope you will i n fli ct a fine upon me. Mr. CoßßlE— Certainly not. It is too serious a case, and ought to b e tried by a jury. It de serves more se vere punishm en t than I can i n fli c t by dealing with it in a summary way. The Mag i s t ra te fined Mrs. Baggott a , or two month s ' , i m p r i son ment , and Ws. for the dama g e to the door ; doe Q uirk , 3/. . on e m onth; Martin B a gg ott the younger, 10s., o r a fortnig h t; a nd Mary Quirk, 10 8 . or or six weeks; Martin Baggott, 21, or a fortnight. The prisoner s ( w i t h t h e e xception of the younger Baggott, who p a id hi s fi ne ) w ere all committed $0 gaol in Walt 9f payment, ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. A very numerously attended meeting of this society was held last night at their rooms in Waterloo place, at which several interesting communications were made with reference to the efforts now in progress tor the dis covery of Sir John Franklin's expedition; Sir Roderick Murchison, as president, took the chair, and among those present was Ibrahim Khan Bahadour, accompanied by his secretary. The following letter, addressed by his Excellency Baron Brunow to the President, was first read:— " Ashburnhatn-house, Jan. 2, 1852. " My dear Sir Roderick,—ln wishing you with all my heart a happy new year, I shall begin it by commu nicating to you the enclosed paper o❑ a subject in which I know you feel deeply interested, By the perusal of the copy of the letter from Count Nasselrode to Sir Hamilton Seymour you will perceive the earnest desire evinced on the part of the Imperial Government to co operate in the measures already taken to discover, if possible, traces of Sir John Franklin's expedition. You will also learn with great satisfaction how willingly and cordially the Imperial Government has entered into a mature deliberation as to the measures contemplated by Lieutenant Pim for the accomplishment of his object. But, at the same time, you must not be surprised to hear that serious doubts have arisen at St. Petersburgh in re gard to the possibility of carrying into effect Lieutenant Pim's noble enterprise. These doubts are more than mere conjectures; they amoant almost to a certainty, as you will conclude after the perusal of the statement of facts which accompanies Count Nesselrode'a letter to Sir H. Seymour. " Under these eircunritances, it was not to be ex pected that the Imperial Government should be induced to put in jeopardy the life of a British officer, sacrificing his safety to a bold experiment, without any reasonable chance of success. " On the other hand, you will be gratified to hear that the Imperial Government has at once suggested to put Lieutenant Pim in communication with your friend Baer and Middendorf, in order to ascertain what can be done towards the discovery of the traces of Sir J. Franklin's expedition, in as far as further means can be adopted on our part to meet the generous wishes and zealous en deavours of her Majesty's Government and the British public. " You may depend upon it, my dear Sir Roderick, that your own honourable advocacy in this good cause has been sincerely appreciated by the Imperial Government, and that the strong interest you have taken in Lieut. Pica's journey to Russia has been an additional ground for securing the ti.vourable and friendly reception ho has met with on all sides in my country. " Believe me, with the highest esteem and regard, " Faithfully yours,_ " BRUNOW. " To Sir Roderick Murchison, President of the Royal Geographical Society." The statement of the Imperial Government alluded to in his Excellency's letter, commences with a notice of the lively interest which the Emperor has not ceased to take in the generous efforts made by the British Govern ment to discover traces of the Franklin expedition, as evinced by the co-operation of his Imperial Majesty; distinct orders having been given to his officers and people on the coasts of Asia and America to assist in every way the British explorers, while instructions have been given to obtain any information of shipwrecks on the northern shores of Siberia. The report then pro ceeds— " With similar sentiments of sympathy, the Emperor heard of the expedition proposed by Lieutenant Pim, of the British navy. But unfortunately, between the con ception of such a project and its realization physical dif ficulties and insurmountable obstacles exist, which Mr. Pim, guided bp his generous devotion, does not seem to have sufficiently foreseen, and concerning which it is the duty of the Russian Government to enlighten him. "It is easy to trace in the map of the world, across the immense wilderness of Northern Siberia, an itinerary which might lead to the end desired to be reached by Lieutenant Pim; but in executing such a project it must not be forgotten that, in addition to the enormous dis tances to be traversed, vast deserts must also be passed over, which, buried under eternal snows, offer neither means of transport nor provisions—unexplored regions, in which tribes of savage people are scattered at wade intervals—people over whom the Russian power exer cises only the slightest influence, and whose warlike character, barbarous customs, and hatred of strangers are such that the Imperial Government would find it impossible to guarantee the personal security of Lieut. Pim and his party. " To give an idea of the difficulties that such a journey presents it is well to call to mind the expedition under taken some years ago by Admiral Wrangel. Prepared during two preceding years by the local authorities, this expedition, though undertaken on a scale of research much less extensive than that now contemplated, had to be diminished in consequence of a disease among the dogs employed to drag the sledges, and yet 50 sledges and 600 dogs were required. "From this exarapte, it may be easy to judge of the fate which would attend Mr. Pim and his companions in the endeavour to execute a journey almost treble the ex tent of that accomplished by Admiral Wrangel, and in which the British officer, having to be accompanied by interpreters must be provided with more considerable means of transport. " To define more precisely the nature of these difficul ties, and to establish the basis of an approximate esti mate, it is sufficient to remember, that as Admiral Wrangel was compelled to employ 50 sledges and 600 dogs (each sledge being supplied with from 50 to 70 salt herrings per diem), Lieutenant Pim's expedition would call for from 1,200 to 1,500 dogs, and provisions in pro portion. Now, these animals are only kept in sufficient number for the use of the inhabitants, and it is doubt ful if it would be possible to collect such a quantity o dogs, even if the complete ruin of the natives,,which musf ensue, were entirely put out of the question. " As to the idea of setting on foot such a journey at present, and without having made the necessary preparations, the Imperial Government does not hesi tate to view it as physically (' materiellement') impos sible." After some observations upon the improbability of the expedition of Franklin having been shipwrecked in the glacial sea to the north of Siberia, without some information of the event having been conveyed to the Imperial authorities by the natives, the report concludes by stating that the Imperial Government, having it at heart to neglect nothing which might contribute to the work of humanity which tho British Government has followed up with so much perseverance, seizes the op portunity of proposing to Lieutenant Pim to have fur ther communications with M. Baer and M. Middendorff in order that any ulterior measures may be indicated by which tidings may bo obtained of the missing expo ciition. After this statement was read, Sir RODERICK MURCHISON observed, that Lieutenant Pim had assured him by letters from St Petersburgh that he had been most cordially welcomed by all the Russians to whom he had been addressed, but that all the persons most conversant with the tracts to be ex plored considered his scheme impracticable, saying, that if he went on with it they should never see him again. Still, when he last wrote, but before the formal decision had been announced to him, Mr. Pim had not abandoned his hope of pro ceediug; and Sir H. Seymour in writing to Sir R. Mer ebiaon, had thus spoken of that gallant officer:— "If exertion will enable Mr. Pim to procure the necessary permission for his expedition, you may be sure he will proceed. I never saw a man more intent on carrying through what he had undertaken." In one of his letters from . St. Petersburgh, addressed to the President, Mr. Pim thus expressed himself;—" You cannot imagine how anxious I feel, and how I look forward to my interview with the Emperor. I shall use every endeavour to per suade his Majesty to share my confidence, and to allow mo to proceed." To this letter Sir Roderick replied, repeating the injunction he gave to Lieutenant Pan at his departure, that he must not think of prosecuting his design if the Russian authorities deemed it impracti cable, and that when such intrepid and experienced men as Aujon and Matinshkin (the companions of Wrangel) had assured him they never would see him more, he must abandon it; though ho ought to remain in Russia with'the view of co-operating in any other project that might be considered feasible by the:Russian geogra phers. had Th e n e 1. er Presidentled him to that suppose his that own Frank lin specula tions could have reached so far westward as the longi tude of New Siberia ; but he had long thought that the expedition might have been frozen up to the north of the distant lands described by Wrangel and Kellett beyond Behring's Straits. It was to those lands that he looked chiefly as the ultimate destination of Lieute nant Pim's journey, and it was to the same tract that Captain Beatson now proposed to endeavour to proceed in his own small screw steamer—a project to which,7 in common with Admiral Sir F. Beaufort, he gave his hearty approbation, and which be hoped would meet with the public encouragement due to so nohleandge nerous an enterprise. Sir Roderick then called atten tion to a sketch-map illustrative of a which had been communicated to Lieutena nt affording the the Russian geographers, as probablyl ds to the north of readiest means of reaching planef p re y s m ear b ch y the tha n t n an expedition should Behring's Straits. It su ggests reach the hilly grounds north, to endeavour thence o that such seen in the distance. The President be mentioned seme way combined i h n e g t u b p e p t e l upper nd extremity to a pointof the almostG u due u o e f Anadyr,a n proceed exploration b a y ed s , to iyge hr traversing in thus by such efforts directed from the east in conju nction Admiralty to follow the of the enterprise directed by the possibly from the west through and witbtberenewal Wellington Strait, an exhaustive survey might be com pleted p t with supposed s h o e d voyage track of o C f a F P t r . a .B nk ea li t n s conclusion, he hoped that any efforts like those Al/Lieu tenant Pins and Captain Beatson, or others which y po p s Q iii s b a l i e bi s e u m pp is o e r c t , e n d etr b e y et o ie u n r which would be will worthy of the cause. In might proceed from the independent geographers of Admiralty, on this point, he took this occasion to state, and he was sure the society agreed with him, that in the tracts they had been ordered to examine the officers and men of the m ta i i r n a , lt w y, on a l n d d b , e tO a p s rev f e r nt a a s n exploring vessels sent out by authority had made the most noble exertions. At the same time, he reminded the meeting that when Sir John Ross was given up as lost it was the Royal Geographical Society which led the way in dispelling despondency, by subscribing to send out a vessel to the rescue ; and he would now only add, that he had the honour of presiding over them when the gallant Franklin and his companions left the shores of England, eo it would be the happiest moment of his life if any good tidings should be heard of them while he was again in the chair of the Royal Geogra phical Society. - Dr. Stew, the secretary to the society, then read the following interesting communication from Captain Beat son, proposing a new plan of search for the missing ex pedition:— " 36, Moorgate-strcet, Jan. 12, 1852. "Sir,—The subject of Searc h f or S i r J o h n Franklin bwfin beau so xequeuttY ciiicwiled by tile rumbas of this scientific society and others well acquainted with the navigation of the Polar regions, I think it would be pre sumptuous in me to attempt an explanation of my reasons for commencing the search from the north-west et 13a ring's Straits. I believe that many are of opinion that a high northern latitude may be reached through the open water seen by Wrangel, and that subsequently an east ern passage may be forced by a screw-steamer. I may, .however, be permitted to mention that this is no hasty idea of mine, but one which I have had in contemplation for above two years. On my arrival from Africa at the close of 1849, after the return of Sir James Ross, I began to think seriously of the probable causes of Sir John Franklin'a detention, and while in Russia last winter, in speaking upon the subject with some officers of the Imperial navy who bad been in the Arctic Seas, I found that their opinions were exactly the same as mine, namely, that Sir John would pass to the nortnward of the Parry Island, and never think of turning back till in the meridian of Behring's Straits. They were also of opinion that when he arrived thus far he would be prevented getting to the southward by a chain of islands extending far to the westward—a continuation, in fact, of the Parry Islands. Supposing, however, Franklin to have succeeded in getting so far to the westward, and being stopped there, it cannot be imagined that he would relinquish the at tempt to get through this last barrier to all his hopes, and the realization of the passage into the Pacific, to re traco his steps from a point which may have taken years to reach. What would a brave man do in such a case? Certainly not to retreat in two or even three years : par ticularly if, as we hope, they have met with sufficient aiiimal food to support them. I believe Sir John Franklin to be somewhere to the north of Behring's Straits, and certainly not far to the eastward, and in that belief I wrote to Lady Franklin in October last, stating my plan, and soliciting her assistance, which, I am happy to say, was immediately given. I have since then exerted myself in selecting a suitable vessel, which I have purs , hased, and which is now in dock undergoing the necessary alterations. She is a schooner of nearly 200 tons, but capable of carrying a much larger quantity. I intend fitting her with three separate engines of 8-horse power each, with separate boilers, by which arrangement I can effect an immense saving of fuel by only working one or more engine, as circumstances may require. In addition to this I take a steam-launch, with an engine of 5 -horse power. My craw will consist of only 15 men and myself. I shall, by a careful selection of provisions, be enabled to take enough for five years. The whole of these arrangements I expect to have completed and be able to leave England by the end of next month, and to proceed direct to the Sandwich Islands, whence, having filled up with coal, &c., to push on for the Straits, which I hope to be able to enter by the middle or latter end of July. When there, of course I must be guided by the condition of the ice. If there is a possibility of getting to the north, on or about the meridian of the Straits, I shall do so; other wise, I intend pushing my way to the north-west till I arrive at the open water seen by Wrangel, when, per haps, I may be able to get to the north and then to the east. Should I not succeed in getting so far along the coast this year, I suight employ the spring (before the breaking up of the ice) in an attempt to reach that land seen by Captain Kellett from Herald Island, and thus be enabled to perform one part of the scheme proposed by Lieutenant Pim. I would next in the spring push away to the north and east, in which direction I believe I shall eventually find some traces of our missing ships. I consider it would have been desirable (and, in fact. it was my first intention) to have had another smaller screw-steamer as a tender, and of far greater power. I am sorry to say that lam not able to accomplish this, but am, nevertheless, determined to go in the best way I can. " I have the honour to be, Sir. " Your obedient humble servant, " DONALD BEATSON. " Sir R. Murchison, President of the Royal Geographical Society," Captain Fitzroy, Sir Woodbine Parish, the Presi dent, and Mr. White addressed some ob ,, ervations to the meeting, in all of which a hope was expressed that Franklin and some at least of his brave companions might still be alive. The plan of Captain Beatson was most favourably re ceived, and a resolution was unanimously adopted," That his generous and noble devotion deserved the counte nance and support of the society." It was announced that a subscription list in aid of Captain Beatson's undertaking would be opened at the society's rooms, and that handsome contributions had been made by Lord Ellesmere, Admiral Beaufort, Mr. Barrow, and others. The chief cost of his enterprise will, however, fall upon Captain Beatson himself. Colchester Harwich Leigh 437 Malden • 69 - 1100 77 - 85 - 0 rsi 12 0 READING, JAN. W.—Wheat, per qr, 32s Od to 48s ; barley 23s to 30; ; oats, 15s to 22s Od ; beans, 28s to 341; PeP' 29s to 35s per qr; average price of household wheats, O s to to Os. Poultry—Fowls, '2s 6d to 4s Od ; ducks, 330 d to 4s 0 t 1 ; geese, 5s Od to 61 Od ; turkeys, each, 8s Od. Butter, 11 t ° Is Id. Eggs, 10 to 12 per Is. CHELMSFORD, JAN. 9.—Prices to-day were as follow:" ... Wheat, white, 4211 to 47s ; red, 36s to 40s ; barley, 25; to 2M; chevalier 28s to 32s ; grinding 22s to 268; malt 53, to NV, chevalier 54s to 56s ; oats 188 to 25s ; peas, partridge, , n 2" to 30s ; white, 28s to 30s ; boiling, 29s to 32s ; du n , new, -0 " to 2es ; beans, tick, 26s to 295; harrow ticks, 27; to SOsI mazagan, 24s to 275. COLCHESTER, JAN. 10.—Wheat, white 42s to 46s ; red 3 6 11 ,. to 408 ; oats, 18s to 21s ; beans, mazagan 26s to 28s; mid& ' and small 26s to 30s; peas, white 303 to 321, grey, new 28 0 w 30s ; barley, 26s to 32s per qr. KIRRALDT, JAN. 10.—The following are the quotatiolls for grain : Wheat. I Barley. First 423 6d 26; 6d Second 40s Od 24s 6d Third 34s Od 22s Od Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs HADDINGTON, JAN. 9.—Th( grain at our market to-day : Wheat. 1 _ First l 41s Od Second ......... 37s Id Third .. .. 33s Od Total quantity of Wheat in Do• Barley Do• Oats Do. Beans COAL MARK Prices of Coal per ton at Bate's Weat Hartley 133 Huddle's W. Hartley 14s 6d Burnhope Carr's Hartley ..... 14s 6d Howard's W. H. Neth. 14s Od Longridge'sW.Hartley 14s 6d North Percy Hartley l3s 9d Ravensworth'sW. Hart 14s 6d Bavensw,rth Pelaw Redheugh Main lanfield Moor Butes l3s 3u West Wylam Wylam Wall's End, &c. Harvey Wylam 14s 3d Lawson Ships at market, Oats. 21s Od 'l9s 6d 17s Od imperial, 3 followinj Barley. Beans. —s Od —s Od —s Od 28s Od to 3 are the Oats. peat, uu (xi --5 to --5 to 800 Od 278 (id 1 203 6d 311 '' ~j 24s lld 118 a lid 275 ~i 21s 6d I 183 ('d 263 v market 582 qrs., 446 501",,j do. do. 2 3 97 2 6 8 4 qq q 1 ; : 5 .. . , , , 92 1 64 4 5 0:0 0 1 1 do. 'X.—YESTERDAY. the close of the market :-- I!.den Main 163 Braddyll Helton Lam bton N.Hetton Lyons 1 63 Fenster Whitwell Denison l6s Hunwick South Kelloe 1.65 9) Whitworth West Cornforth 6 1 DorwentwaterHartley 14s 0- Nixon's Merthyr and n , Cardiff S 4 Sold, 37. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS• LIVERPOOL, JAN. 12. A STOCK EXCHANGE.— The share market has been O i l ll and inactive to- day, with little business doing. Prices are 11 ,, lower. The transactions were as follow : Caledonian, 1 5 ,7 4 —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 61 , h—Ditto, Fifths, 7 11-16 ut; —London and North-Western, 115 3 4—Ditto, new Quart p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 33% - land, .57 —South-Eastern and Dover, 2ON —York and Notc h Midland, 2235. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 12. STocK EXCIIANGE.—Th ere was little or nothing done to the share market to-day, and prices were barely maintaiLl e South Staffordshire shares were in request, and were M I at about last quotations. FIRE IN TH E B OROUGH.— O n Sunday i n t h e for e' noon shortly before [I o'clock, a fire broke out in the bakery °' Mr. Uronhart, 6, Trinity-street, Trinity-square, Southwark' near to Vrinity Chapel. The proprietor had heated the ov en ; for the purpo se o f b a ki ng di nners , after which he proceeded to his sitting-room, where he had not been many m inuto_ when he smelt a strong smell of smoke. Immediately afte r this discovery he saw a fire burning in the bak e h ouse , t flames travelling up the staircases with much rapidity. he instantlybig family, rescun who were above stair`' and who,an almost bedridden female above 70 years of age made their escape through the trap- door in the roof. Owing in a great measure, doubtlese, to the flap of the door baying, in the excitement of the rne: ment, been left open by the inmates, the fire travelled with gave having an succeeded alarm to an intensity and rapidity seldom witnessed, destroying everything in its course, and burning through the roof to less than twenty minutes. Several brigade and other el l ; g ines were soon upon the spot, but t h e work of intern e' destruction was well nigh complete before the services of t b : firemen could be brought into successful requisition. h fire, however, was prevented from progressing to any conel~ derable extent beyond the house in which it originate"' The building is said to be insured in the Union Fire Odie°' and the contents in the Legal and Commercial Office situat• in Cheapside. Fortunately no one was injured. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills for the Car e of Liver Complaints, Indistion, and Disorders of the Sto mach.—Mr. Richard Hanesyn, of her Majesty's Dockyard I. Plymouth, for several years had not had the enjoyment of day's good health, constantly suffering from indigestion a n , liver complaints. He had the best medical advice from ho t " army and navy surgeons, but the disease yielded not to thei r treatment, and various other remedies were tried with a 10 0 result. At last he began to use Holloway's Pills, and this fine medicine has so strengthened the tone of his stomaeh, and ir'; vigorated his constitution, that he is now perfectly cured, an d enjoys th e b es t o f health. —Sold by all Druggists and a t pro' lessor Holloway's Establishment, 244, strand, London. .BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 7th inst., at Carlton•gardens, Lady Lytteltoa. f On the 10th ins!., the wife of John C. Milner, Esq., ° Thurlstone, Yorkshire. On the 9th inst., at Hintlesham-hall, Suffolk, the M rs . H. Lloyd AHstrUther. OF A DAUGHTER. On the Bth inst., at Easton Grey, Rev. W. S. Birch. On the 10th inst., the wif e o f W . Potter, Esq., of Cadog n°- place, Belgrave-square. Wilts, the wife of t he On the Bth inst, at Horbury-terrace, Notting-hill, th e wife of Thomas G. Philpot. MARRIED. On the Bth inst., at St. Joha's, Paddington, Sherse Osborn, Lieutenan R.N., late in command of H. DI. Pioneer, to Hiden Harriet Gordon, eldest daughter of the late John Hinxman, Esq., of Queen Anne-street, and Sudburr grove, Middlesex. On the 10th inst., at St. Margaret's Church, Wes:min Bt f e y r ' John B. S eaman , E sq ., t o L ou i sa , thi r d , d aug ht er o f b"' W. Taylor, of the Home-office. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. A large steam-frigate, with troops (supposed to be the Megasra), ender trysails, standing W. by S., was pas se d during a heavy N.W. gale, and seeming to make good weather of it, on the 9th inst., in lat. 48 57 N., long. 6 45 W., by the Brilliant, at Southampton. Rear-Admiral Deans Dundas's flag-ship Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith, at Portsmouth, it is expected, will be fully manned in the course of ten days. She has all her petty officers, and nearly all her A.B.'s. She rc quires ordinary seamen and smart boys. It is believed that the Gallant Admiral will hoist his flag about the 3d of February. Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sri. F. P. Berkeley, C. 8,, who will succeed Admiral Dundas as senior naval lord, has returned to the Admiralty. _ _ It was reported yesterday that Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C. 8., and Captain Kellett, C. 8., will command the Arctic Searching Expedition of 1852. Captain Horatio Austin, C. 8., the ex commander of the late Arctic searching expedition, it is reported, will commission the Sanspareil, 81-gun screw-ship, at De. vonport, as superintendent of the steam department at that port. It is also said that he is to have the first vacant Good-service Pension. Rapid, 8, Commander Blanc, having bad her defects made good, was towed into Plymouth Sound on Saturday by the Confiauce, steam-tug. She hoisted the Blue Peter, but as the weather set in foul she held on, and very wisely, as it blew a gale in the night from S.W„ with torrents of rain. On Sunday the wind hauld in to N.W. at times, but it remains very unsettled. Tweed, 18, Commander Lord F. Russell, is being fast dismantli d, and will be paid off in a few d..ys. Tortoise, lighter, Shearman master, sailed from Devon' port on Saturday evening, for Falmouth, with the fur niture of Rear-Admiral Reynolds, taken out of the Southampton; but put back again on Sunday morning. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 12.—0 n Friday last the Board of Examination at the Royal Clarence-yard (Mr. John Da vies, RN., master-attendant; Mr. Joseph Pinhorn, store keeper ; and Dr. M . Kechnie, of Haslar), opened 219 cases of preserved meat, out of which number only 37 were considered good enough to distribute for consump tion ; 282 contained similarly offensive matter to that previously condemned, and were thrown overboard at sea. To-day the examination has not been resumed, the whole of the canister in the lower store having been disposed cf. To morrow the stock in the upper stores will be commenced upon. Orders have been issued to the executive of the Royal Clarence-yard to recommence the manufacture m miean for the supply of the new Arctic Searching Ex - pedition. Awful weather has visited these shores during t'ie past four days and nights. The Southampton, 50 gun frigate, carried away her mainyard, and has been waiting at St. lielen'a for another, which was sent out to her by the tug this afternoon. Captain Kincaid, inspector of factories for Scotland, has appointed Mr. S. Kincaid, surgeon, R.N. (late uf her Majesty's ship Helena), a certifying surgeon of fact)riea pro tern , with the sanction of the director-general. SEABORNE MAILS. [N signifies that the mails are sent front the General Post-office by the night—and hi by the morning —dispatch.] When made up in ' From what When London. pat c h e d . PLACES. General Post-office port dig- -- duo. ----, I -- ----- America (by Brit. pkt.)N Jan 15 .. .. Liverpool • • Jan. 13 America (by U.S. pkt.) N Jan. 27 .. .. Liverpool .. Jan. 21 America (by U.S. pkt.) M •• .. Southampt. Africa (West coast).. N 14th of the month Plymouth Feb. 3 Alexandria. —.... .. N 19th & 30th of mo. Dover .. J an. 18 Belgium •. .. •. N Daily .... Dever ••DidlY Brazil .. • • .. M 9th of the month.. Southampt. Jan. 16 Buenos Ayres .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Jan. 1 2 6 0 California(viaChagres)M 2d& 17th of month SouthamPt: . I ; a e n b. • 3 Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth:. 0,,, : ,, 20 Constantinople •••• N 7th 17th 27th ef mo Dover Central America . j T a' a n. T 2 ll o . Sat Channel Isles ..Jan. 20 Chili •• • • •• . M 17th of the month ISouthamp ~ . . .... IsNi Mon.,2d&l W 7th od o ., f B, nici F n ri .. Dover .. IWicedally France • .. .. M&N Twice daily • • .ISoS"utikhamarnpil fro Dover .. Jan. 20 Greece* •• •• .. N 7th 27th o o N Tuesday Friday ,*- London .. Toes. S at. Hamburgh • • • •IL M ' ' hur .. on.l Rolland .. •• .. M W ednes. & Satur. .., London Honduras .. •• N 17th of the mouth Ibout h ampt. Jan. 20 • Ireland •• iti& N Twice daily .. .. Efolyhead .. Twicodaily •. India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the month Southampt. Jan, 23 India (viaMarseili ea) N Bth& 24th efmonth l Dover • • Jan. 13 Mediterranean (via I Southampton) M'2oth of the month Southampt. Jan. 23 Mediterranean (via I Marseilles) .. .. N Bth&24th of month Dover • • Jan. Is Mex i co .„ .„ .. 24 2d of the month.. ISouthampt. Feb. 5 M a d e i ra •• .. .. M 9th of the month ISouthampt. Jan. 16 r 1 7th,17 t h,19 th,27th ••i Malta* .. & 30th of month 1 Dover Jan. 18 Naples* .. .. .. N sth 15th 25th °fine 'Dover . Jan. 16 . j a n 12 Papal States* .. .. N I s th 15th 25th of mo Dover I' , . -- Peninsular. .. .. 31 1 7th 171127th of mo, SoutharnP t Jan. 12 Peru • • .. •• •• M M 17th of the month Southampt. Tuscany* .. .. .•N sth 15th 25th ofmolDov Pt. Jan. 20 West Indies .. .. 111,17 th of the month er •• Jan. 12 West Indies (except Southampt. (Jan. 20 Naples* N Papal States* N Peninsular.. .. M Peru •• •• • Tuscany* •• •• •• West Indies • • •• Mi West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) 25f2d of the month ..ISouthampt.:Feb. 5 * The mails to those countries thus marked ( 5 ) are convoyed b y French packet via Marseilles. The direct Havre mail from London via Southampton during this month will be made up three times a week only, i ns tead of daily. CALlvoitma. — Mails to and fr om C al i fornia, via the United States are now despatched an d d ue by every A mer i ca n paelLe 'CONVICTION OF BIJEGLAR3 —At Plymout h, on Saturday, thr ee b rothers—Georg e P ears e, 21, James Pearse, 18, Edw ar d P earce, l6—and James Perry, were arraigned before Thomas Phinn Esq , Q.C,, th e newly-appointed re corder, charged with breaking ' and entering the dwelling house of l‘lr. William Row, jeweller, Fore-street, Devon- PrO, and stealing therefrom a vast quantity of jewellery. The prosecutor, from the excitement produced by attending the trial, committed suicide. The implements used by bur glars for facilitating their depredations were found in a drawer of the prisoners' house, together with a large quan tity of the stolen property. They were all found g u ilt y of the charges preferred ag ainst them, and Geor g e Pea r 2 e was sent en ced to fourteen years trarsportption. J ames P earse to ten years' transporta tion, Edward I earse to twel ve mont h s ' ...AmrSTEAD.--During the imprisonment , a nd Perry to nine T_r month:,' imprisonment. Tim :NEW C HURCII AT heavy gale which prevailed on Friday morning the district of H am pstead suffered most severely. Amongst many other casualties was that of the blowing off nearly thirty feet of the spire of the newly.erected district aura. The edifice, built in one of the loftiest positions of that elevated neigh bourhood, from its peculiar site and extreme height (being upwards of 200 feet) has been an object of great attractions It was a most fortunate circumstance that the accident hap pened during the night; for had it occurred when the work-' men were in the church (the interior not yet being finished), London: Printed and Published by ryI.IIRDO the consequences must h ave b een most f a t a l, as th e masonry Ne- 112 . Strand , Printer, at The Sun Office, :No. ba n; fell on the roof, dashing through to the body of the church. 1 Strand, in Oa Precinct of the Savoy, its the Olga The damage it estizatiti at upwarde of 6500/. Taeslay, January 18, 1852. DIED. On the 11th inst., aged 66, Sir Benjamin Smith, late ° f Regent -street, Portland-place, and of East Heath -lodg e ' Berks. At Regent's-park-terrace, on the 10th inst., Alfred A' Fry, Esq., of the firm of Thomas Do La Rue and Co., aged 64. On the Bth inst., at Portland-place, the Rev. James Lec l9 W. Venables, 8.A., aged 3 t. On the 9th inst., the Rev. T. B. Hill, M.A., per petes' curate of St. Stephen's, Islington, aged 47. On the 9th in,t., Mrs. Sophia W ain, of Piccadilly, wid° v( of the late J. \Vain, Esq., of Hammersmith, aged 72. • On the 7th inst., at Rose-hill, Brighton, aged 82, Capta in Gaillard, formerly of the Hon E. I. Co.'s service. On the 6th inst., at Hampton Gay, Oxon, aged 97, Cordeli3 M. Bayley, relict of the late Mr. J. Bayley, of Bl e tchingtot l % On the 9th inst. , at Worplesdon Rectory, Anne, the Vilw of the Rev. G.Bethell, Fellow of Eton College. ____.:4-31,11•Yenahriomee BANK OF FRANCE. The followin , is a return of the situation of t Bank of France on J an. 8: ASSETS. Cash in hand ... f. 459,136,. St! 9 6 Ditto in branch banks ... 105,068,t 64 '0 Bills past due ••• ••• 301,4 18 91 . Bills discount e d, b u t not yet due, of which; 15,559,0591. Oc. were received from the Branch Banks 58,954,087' 'B 9 Bills in the branch banks ... 75,975,815 Advances on coins and ingots... ... 639,700 • 0 Ditto by the branch banks ... 2,636,191 ; ° Ditto on French public securities ... 24,429,07 6 10 Ditto by branch banks... ... 3,267,615. 0 Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,0 W/ Ditto to the State on the Treaty of 30th June, 1848 75,000,000 ° Advanced to thi , City of Paris on the Provisional Loan of 20 000,0001. ... 10,000,000 Rentes of the reserve fund 10,000,000 0 Rentes, disposable funds ... 42,647,621 2& Investments of the new branch banks in the public funds ... ••• Hotel and furniture of the Bank Real property of the branch banks ... Interest in National Discount Bank ... Ditto branch banks ... Expenses of administration of the Bank Ditto of the Branch Banks Miscellaneous ... 12,952,725 74 4,000,000 3,418,1601 0 200,00(► 0 103,00') 0 29 2 .2 5 46,8 JO ° 4,523.674 1 6 C 943,302,061 2'. 8 LIABILITIES. Capital ... Ditto of the Branch Banks Reserve fund ... ... f. 67,900,000 4 ... 23,350,000 1 ° ... 10,000,000 0 Ditto of the branch banks 2,980,750 14 Iteserve•immobiliere ... ... Notes to bearer, in circulation ... Ditto of the branch banks ... 4,000,000 ... 470,092,200 11 129,216,150 @ Ditto to order (post-bills) 7,625,512 29' Account-current with Treasury creditor 57,825,863 3 0 ' Various accounts current ... 126,919,920 8 Ditto in branches ... 26,202,738 Bills payable at sight ... Ditto at branches ... Dividends payable ••• • • Liquidation of the Algiers Bank Expenses anticipated Discounts, interest, and expenses Ditto of branch banks Re-discounts of the last six months Ditto in branch banks •• ... ~, Interest on protested bills ... ••• Iscellaneohe ... 0.326,500 0' ... 3,540,978 0 2,693,440 2 0 6,790 0 • 395,460 2 9 163,863 7 6 232,437 41 168,450 240,432 ° 114,070 4' 406,505 36 f.943,:302,061 29 Certified by the Governor of the Bank, It appears from the preceding account p tic A at ila the V ori l. sh, in band has decreased by 3,600,000 f. Th e commercis` bills discounted have increased by 4,700,0001. 'rh o Bank notes in circulation have increased by 3,300,0 01 ', The balance to the credit of the Trea sur y h as incre ase d by 5,600,0001. The sundry credits have increased by 8,700,0001. The cash advanced on a deposit of French public securities has increased by 11,400,0001. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. The following is the official statement of the quantiti corn, &c., received in the port of London from the /301 Essex, from the sth Jan., 1852, to the 10th Jan., 1 both inclusive : ies 01 r 9 if' itsb2, R • ~,. k