The Sun. — London, England, 1852-12-10 00:00:00

__ NE FRENCH EMPIRE. th e tiTh Moniteur contains the following article : * e e Emperor has wished to inaugurate his reign klicts and acts of clemency. The suffering Gp t „„. s ,h..,ave been the first object of his solicitude ; lick "lie occupying himself with the poor, the ; g f i ' t slid the foundlings, his Majesty exercised his o ff pardon i n as l arge pro p o rtions as the autho lkak f the laws and public security permits. Re lerliehnrella Prison and from fines was accorded to all condemned for simple offences ; soldiers kt r ;i'll.ers were forgiven the punishments in lor brea c h o f di sc ipli ne , and deserters from 11 for and navy the punishments which awaited kloof,-rolitical prisoners and exiles couM not remain no from the benevolent dispositions of his Majesty; inserted in the Moniteur of the 2d left no 14 eti 1 ,1 1 this point. With the exception of su ch feeli ti - 'Lave been guilty of crimes which every moral r eproves, all those who suffer from the con kred L e s of our unhappy civil discords will be re tfit4.4.b.`" liberty, to their families, and to their kih t ilLwithout any other condition than that of 11 1414: 41 g, themselves to the national will, so clearly , hg eb i'eu at the late ballot, and to give an en the e llt henceforth not to do anything against S e ( , ) , v ernment of the elect of the country. The l ocie r will not require more, and good sense and lcessities say that it is impossible to demand T he dearest wish of his Majesty is to see : r aee of our former divisions removed ; he jes ' et aios of the past the remembrance of ser ri4 r eudered. It will not be the fault of the klio t a ce c e 'whom th e c ountry has just crowned, if it lind re b e any longer separated from any of its h 4 *" `k a h--(4 r lies with the Changarniers, Bedeaus, leres, Victor Hugos, and, indeed, all exiles k se `ged by actual crimes, to return when they ' the condition of acknowledging the IP h eror. kv e afcniteur contains a decree of the Emperor, k ttrn 'ed on a report from the Minister of Public 41 1ht 74 , IL icn, substituting a Chair of Institutes of Co ' 6ll , in the Faculty of Law of Paris for that r t s titutional Law, which is now vacant, and is ham suppressed. This decree is followed by ho appointing M. Charles Giraud, Member of F ns titute Professor of Roman Law at the h t Y e f Law of Paris. kih also announces that no more concessions of It,,Ys are to be made for the present. l a thelieved that M. de Germiny is appointed koo,, r of Finance, in place of M. Bineau, who (1)4;' es Governor f the Bank of France. Count oiput retires. to ilf Lenel Barman, Charge d'Affaires of the Swiss golf ration ' has presented his new credentials. t ent and and Piedmont have announced their in k °4 to ac k now l e d ge th e E m p eror o f the French. 'liatch from Madrid announces that the Que en Th ee egnised the Emperor of the French. fo rk e deputies in the Legislative Body were in teiveede before their departure that they are to re ter the f u tu r e an indemnity of six thousand 11 04 1 - i s a - year. The Union says :—" We have an -41)01:ed that the Staff of the National Guard is 4 ,eFif," t °, quit the Palais Royal. This Palace is u„tr o - ,„ eu to become the residence of the Prince 'rri, -6 and his son, who now bear the title of ices Francais." k k i e e •Patrie states that the departure of Abd-el the is postponed for some days. We read in -ratr te • incorrect account has been published of the Zr g i p! ° I the Journey ce Murat. of M. Lebel lt the authorised agent %,, is known that the ,lifiCl'4 f amil y Napoleon left by his will to Queen Caroline C , 4 1 ; !nt obj ects which had belonged to him. Queen _ by her will bequeathed to the Prince Joachim do tl i ,:',lter g randson, these objects, which have remained ' 141 1(18 of her executors in Italy, who have offered ttle k .e them up. M. Lebel goes to Florence to bring to Prince Joachim Murat, who intends to make a 111 1 ,, - 'aim to the Imperial Museum of the Louvre. e on them is the bed on which the Emperor Napo (lied at St. Helena." conferences of the postal congress of Paris says the Patrie, " far from being terminated. Si e t i t ugsburg Gazette, in announcing the day on Mthe treaty was t o be signed b e tween France e t hs Austro-German postal union was prema the its information. The sudden departure of bit e 74 en Commissioner, Baron de Reitzenstein, tol e i::r-General of the Post-office, was occasioned by the urgency of business in his depart eht 444: is prompt return will, we are convinced, the the solution of a question which intere sts Co rrespondence." 6 highest degree the development of our means T o °I tY - four soldiers undergoing imprisonment at tent to ~,1 4 1 1o n for different offences have been pardoned, regiments in Africa to continue their d oC t he Pays, apparently by authority, defends, on klimentary evidence, the propriety of the title t oit P ?lcoil 111. Argiling .that Napoleon's powers ki.. lllll ed after Waterloo, de facto, and that his were recognised by the nation as of full force 111 f a uthority, it first gives the act of abdication of the of his son, and then the acts of adhesio n tle Sen a t e an d Representatives.T" following is the declaration of abdication : " MONITELIR DIT IER JIIILET. " ADRESSE AU PIMPLE FRANCAIS. ' l4 fa ce -439 ais, — Les puissances etrangeres ont proclame ft l'Europe, ne s'etaient armees que contre ‘'t T °37 4 1 ,37; qu'elles voulment respecter notre independanc e eq s 'troit, qu'a toute nation de se ohoisir un gonvernement Zine 6, sea interets. n'est plus le chef de l'etat ; lui - m emo a re- N, e e trone ; son abdication a ete acceptee p ar vos r rttall,TAnts. 11 est eloigne de nous : son fits est app elle ft to a l i l3 !re par les constitutions de l'etat. Les sonverains ir, ) ,,, °e s le savent. La nerre doit done etre finis, si lea 4,hu e sses des r o i s ne sont pas vaines." n ot 4 .! resolution of the Chamber of Deputies need th e r given, as it is referred to and confirmed in °II -Owing vote of the Chamber of Peers. " MoNrrzua DU 24 Juni', 1815. 4, 13 " CHAMBERS DRS PAHL& sa seance du 23 au soir, la Chambre de Pairs a d u tte la deliberation de la Chambre des Representants et Iler ttr da,, ee jour, portaut que Napoleon 11. eat devenue Em , des Prangais par le fait de I'abdication de Napoleon q ,,". 6 constitutions de ?Empire.° tit V r e empire was proclaimed with all due pomp piZarseilles, on the sth. in a shouts of the populace, who were assembled t r erase numbers, were most deafening, and the ja r "as rent f or several minutes with " Vive rEm- Ilk: 1r , " Vive Napoleon 111. I" The troops then eh o in review, and as they approached the stand, lied out with strong and hearty lungs, " Vive -''Pereur !" Aft e r the proclamation, the Prefect, accompanied to ll ,'„ i _ e cure and military authorities, the foreign Pr o , - ,1; and most of the respectable inhabitants, Itilr, e Qed to the cathedral, where the bishop and a Pl b e tlapter chaunted a Veni Oreator. the evening there was a general illumination. Mt IS BOURSE, DEC. 9.—Closing prices : Rentes, . a 'ntl-a-Half per Cents., 105 f. 30 c. ; ditto , e e 2,9 00 f per Cents., 81f. 45c. ; Bank of France, THE CONTINENT. SPAIN. A tli at ce °lints from Madrid, dated the 4th inst., state Q uo General Narvaez had been received by the holirell, tion at a private audience, which lasted half-an 0-,P° - 151 -0 is one abi the of the sentsenators who have combined d o ri TLi the a e Madrid Gazette contains a royal decree or of that the budgets, prepared by the Minister Ill aclice for the Chamber of Deputies, which has thedissolved, shall be laid before the new Ole financial in March, and that, in the meantime, all th e -11 ancial operations shall continue subject to Plibil a , t ification of the Cortes. The Gazette also d tre it s Zes a royal decree prohibiting the periodical he fr om discussing the bills] of reform just pub' no 1 ,5 In order " that the vivacity of passion may for prevent the impartial consideration required vf:Tunents of such importance*" 46.17ri d Bourse, Dec. 4.—The Thre e p er Cents., E xchangeon London, 60 80 paper. GERMANY. The Cassel G aze tt e , under date of Dresden , 4th, " p is ."."—" We learn from a positive source that r Albert of Saxony went to Prague on e \V ° l' his betrothal with the Princess Carols of e bulletin published on the 6th of the health Are F in e° Charles of Prussia states that on the h a . i ons night h e h a d h a d t wo h o ur s ' sleep, b ut elPerienced much agitation and fever during h ad letnainder of the night. In the morning he li b ecome more calm. Ite1 ; ! German Journal of F r ankfort states, from p n t.tu 4 th :—" W e l earn th a t B aron d e Werner, of t 4 of M. de Metternich, a nd Under-Secretary tria. tate for Foreign Affairs will be appointed Aus is e ° Minister to the Germanic Diet. M. de Bruck ClPeeted here. It is said that the Austrian ver nrn t ' C a b,„ en wishes to open negotiations with our th e T,et on the Customs' question on the bases of biote-r-russian note of the 28th ult. Prussia in that di st °III Y demands that everything having the most tell. a nt resembl ance t o a cus toms' u n i on s h a ll b e ti te ° l , ll , l leed, and she res e rves to herself full and en 4-werty in m a tt ers o f t ar iffs." ile r'rEspondence from Vienna dated the sth, find the following t eed : ue negotiations on the Customs question are pro of _ rapidly, and promise to be successful. The idea is h i red that Customs group is altogether given up, and it c o d that an understanding will be arrived at . . in ac e with the interests of all parties. Positive in ver:ence has been received from Hanover that the Go pesiaellt of that country will not quit its observant n, till the Vienna conferences are concluded." 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The ancient history of Russia is but little known, St. and it is only from the casual mention, by ancient 20 classic writers, of the barbarians who were the ter ror of the frontiers of the civi lised world for cen turies before the Christian era, that we can obtain 31 any information on the subject. It appears from the best authority that the northern portions of 27_ Asia and Europe were inhabited by numerous No- madic tribes, known as Samarians and Scythians, 22 who, even before the time of Cyrus, made predatory St. incursions into the southern provinces between the 50 rivers Don and Dnieper. They, however, gave way 50 before the more powerful colonist, and the country 50 was successively overrun by the migratory hor des of 25 Alans, Huns, Avarians, and Bulgarians, until 25 the sixth century, when the Sclavonians a 25 race coming from the northern Danube--drove these tribes towards the northern and western 18 provinces, and becoming more civilised by their 29 intercourse with the southern States, became Christians, and founded in the country, afterwards 25 called Russia, the cities of Novogorod and Kiof, 25 which early attained a commercial importance. St But the wealth and prosperity of the new state 50 soon excited the cupidity of its neighbours, the St most powerful of whom were the Varangians, a St race of bold pirates who infested the coasts of the st Baltic ; and the Sd avon ians finding their case St desperate, offered the government of the State to ,T th e se warlike rovers as an only means of safety. In consequence of this, a celebrated Varangian chief named Rurik arrived in 862 with a body of si his countrymen in the neighbourhood of the lake 1: Cadoga and laid the fou ndation of the present 5( Russian Empire, by uniting his people with those who already occupied the soil. 2 , It is with this prince that Mr. Fowler commences 1, his history, and he states in the preface that he 5 is surprised that no complete hist or y has been 2 hitherto published of an empire which has lasted so many centuries. He finds half of the first volume s quite sufficient to detail, and that rather minutely, 2 all the events of importance which took place in that 2 vast empire up to the end of the seventeenth cen tury, when Russia first became a nation ; for until the master mind of Peter the Great first awakened 4 the dormant energies of the country, Russia was 9 but a wilderness, inhabited by savages. The life of Peter the Great, which occupies the latter half of this volume, is, of course, highly interesting, and abounds with anecdotes, of which the following are a specimen : " The Tzar, during one month's residence in London, saw almost everything that was worth notice ; he visited 1.1 the manufactories and workshops of _various artisans, and. made large purchases of things the most curious and use- ful ; amongst others, he bought `the famous geographi cal clock, made by Mr. John Carte, watchmaker, at the sign of the Dial and Crown, near Essex-street, in the Strand, which clock tells what hour it is in any part of the world, whether it is day or !night, the sun's rising and setting throughout the year, its entrance into the signs of the zodiac, the arch which they and the sun in them make above or below the horizon, with several other curious motions.' He was very particular in exa mining the mechanism of a watch, and it is said he could take one of these ingenious machines to pieces and put it together again, before he left London. " Peter was much amused at visiting the Courts of Westminster, constantly inquiring about the busy peo ple in black gowns and wigs, and what they were doing, and on being answered that they were lawyers — Law yers I' said he, with much astonishment, why, I have but two in my whole dominions, and I believe I shall hang one of them the moment I get home.' He was introduced to the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth Palace, to whom he expressed a desire to see the differ ent churches of the metropolis, and to observe the mode of worship. The Primate appointed Bishop Burnet to accompany his Majesty, from whom we have a long report of the Tzar's character and conduct in London, amongst which is the following He is a man of very hot temper, soon influenced, and very brutal in his passions • he raises his natural heat by drink ing much brandy, which he rectifies himself with great application ; he is subject to convulsive motions all over his body, and his head seems to be affected with these ; he wants not capacity, and has a larger measure of knowledge than might have been expected from his education, which was very indifferent. A want of judgment, with an instability of temper, appear in him too often and too evidently ' - he is mechanically turned, an d seems designed by nature rather to be a ship-car penter than a great prince. This was his chief study and ex ercise while he stayed here ; he wrought much with his own hands, and made all about him work at, his models of ships. He was desirous to understand our f ) ; doctrine, but he did not seem disposed to mend matters in Muscovy ; there is a mixture both of passion and se- verity in his temper ; he is resolute, but understands little of war, and seemed not at all inquisitive in that way. After I had seen him often, and conversed much St. with him, I could not but adore the depth of the provi- St. dence of God, that had raised up such a furious ma n to so absolute an authority over so great a part of the world.' 20 " The Tzar dined with the King at Kensington, when s t. he was prevailed upon to see the ceremony of his Ma- 15 jesty going to the House of Lords to pass some bills of Parliament ;he had a great objection to being seen, but 6, he must gratify his curiosity : they therefore put him on 6 the top of the house, where, from a window, he could see all that was passing, when his g rotes q ue fi g ure occa sioned so much merriment to the King and all below, that his Tzarian Majesty was obliged to descend quicker than 7' he intended. " The Marquis of Carmarthen acted as his guide to all places of public amusement; he went two or three times € only to the theatre, but, from not knowing the language, pc he took very little interest in what was going on. At a 2C ball at St. James's, to which the Tzar was invited, instead of mixing with the company he was put into a small room, where he could see all without being seen. His aversion to SI, the public gaze was so great, that he could not be pre vailed upon to go into the body of the House of Com mons to hear the debates, but looked down upon it from s a hole in the ceiling. Never was any monarch so shy as the great Tzar of Muscovy. His delight was, when S at Deptford, to get into a small boat belonging to the S dockyard, with Menzikoff and two or three others, when he would be the helmsman, and teach them how to com mand ships when they go home. Having finished their , day's work they used to resort to a public-house to drink beer and brandy peppered; brandy was the Tzar's fa vourite beverage. His Majesty was a hard drinker; — on one occasion, when coming from Deptford, he was I lodged at the house of Mr. Morley, where, for his morning entertainment, he drank a pint of brandy and a bottle of sherry, at dinner he drank eight more bottles of sack, and after that went to the playhouse." Business done — this Day. 50 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1852. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. On the motion of Lord COLCHESTER, the Com mons Inclosure Bill was read a first time. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Oaths in Chancery Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of the Earl of DERBY, the Bank Notes Bill was read a third time and passed. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—{YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at a few minutes to four o'clock. Mr. SPOONER presented a petition from Glouces tershire, praying that the grant to Maynooth be dis _ continued. Mr. J. W. FOX presented petitions from Wisbeach and other places against the taxes on newspapers ; also a petition from the Metropolis, in favour of the Crystal Palace being opened on Sundays. Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition from the Cham ber of Commerce at Dundee, praying that the laws of Scotland be assimilated to those of England, and also for an alteration of the banking and commercial laws of both countries. Lord STANLEY presented petitions from Ceylon, Jamaica, and British Guiana, complaining of the dis tress in those colonies, and praying for relief. Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Paisley, praying for a revision of the parochial school system in Scotland. Mr. HUME presented a petition from native inhabi tants of Madras, praying that the East India Charter should not be renewed until their grievances were inquired into by Parliament ; also a petition from Mr. Grantley Berkeley, praying for an investigation into the practices at the last election for West Gloucester, On the motion of Mr. GRANVILLE B ERKELEY, the petition was read at the table. The SPEAKER said he was of opinion that it was open to the same objection as the last petition, which was presented to the house on the same subject, as it questioned the vandity of the return of the Member for Vest Gloucester ; it ought, therefore, to have been presented by the day fixed by the house for the recep tion of election petitions. Mr. HUME did not see how they could close the door against petitions containing such allegations. Mr. HILDYARD thought if they received the pe tition they would depart from the salutary practice which had been adopted by the house. After a few words from Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, Mr. HUME consented to withdraw the petition. Sir J. PAKINGTON presented a petition from Liverpool, and another from Jamaica, complaining of the dreadful distress in that colony, and praying for relief. RETURN. On the motion of Mr. HUME a return was ordered with respect to the appointments, &c., of Judges of the Court of Session of Scotland. On the motion of the same Hon. Member a similar return was ordered in regard to the Sheriffs Courts in Scotland. THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. In reply to Mr. HUME in regard to the order in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer intended to move his resolutions, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—I un derstood it was the general wish of the house that the discussion should be taken on the whole financial scheme which would be laid before them. I understood that was the general wish of the house; it was certainly the wish of the Government. That was the reason why I placed all the resolutions on the table—that there should be placed before the committee the whole of the measures which we propose. It will be necessary, of course, formally to take the decision of the house on the first resolution. We shall look on the decision of the house on that reso lution as conclusive as to the general policy recommended to the house by the Government. Sir J. SHELLEY gave notice that to-morrow he would move as an amendment to the right hon. gentle man's first resolution, that the consideration of the whole subject of the Budget be postponed until after Christmas. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said there was a controversy the other night in the house whether the first resolution as to the house tax should be proposed in a committee of ways and means, or in a committee on the bill. Having consulted the highest authorities on the subject, he found that it might be considered in either committee. He therefore proposed to go into a committee of ways and means on the house tax, and subsequently on the tea duties to move to go into a committee on the act. REPEAL OF HOP DUTY. Mr. FREWEN gave notice that, when the Chancel lor of the Exchequer brought forward his motion for the reduction of the hop duty, he should move, as an amendment, that the duty be totally repealed. TEA DUTIES. Mr. MACGREGOR gave notice that he would move as an amendment to the proposed resolution of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the tea duties, the fol lowing resolution :—" That, in lieu of the duties on customs now payable on tea, the following duties shall, from and to the respective days herein mentioned, be charged on tea imported into the United Kingdom, when entered for home consumption— " For every pound weight of tea imported into the United Kingdom when entered for home consumption— To sth January, 1854, inclusive, Is. 9d. From sth Jan. 1854, to sth Jan. 1855, inclusive Is. 6d. From sth Jan. 1855, to sth Jan. 1856, inclusive ls. 3d. From sth Jan. 1856, to sth Jan. 1857, inclusive ls." QUARANTINE. In reply to a question, Mr. STAFFORD said the Admiralty had nothing to do with the quarantine of the steam-ship La Plata (as we understood), but she was kept at a sufficient , dis tance to be qnite out of danger. GENERAL SCREW STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY. Mr. WILCOX moved for copies of all correspon dence which has taken place between the Board of Ad. miralty, the General Screw Steam Shipping Company, and the General Post-office, relating to the application of that company for the substitution of Southampton for Plymouth as the port of departure for the steamers which carry the mails to the Cape of Good Hope and India : of all official papers which have been forwarded to, or sent from, the Board of Admiralty, within the last six months, in reference to the accommodation which the port of Plymouth affords for ships of the size and length employed by that company in the conveyance of these mails, and of the replies teereto : and of all reports connected with the subject which have been re ceived by the Board of Admiralty during the year 1852. TEA. Mr. GREGSON wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether any ar ran g ements had been made, and, if not, whether any negotiation is now pending, for the admission of tea into the United States of America via Great Britain on the same terms (duty free) as when imported direct from China, tea being admitted into Great Britain via United States on the same terms as from China direct. Lord STANLEY said the hon. member had given the house all the information he had upon the subject. Communication had been made to the United States on the subject, but no answer had yet b een received. THE BUDGET. In reply to Sir DE LACY EVANS, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was not his intention to make any important alteration in the details of the general statement that he made last week. not approved of by that interest which it was supposed the Government had heretofore represented, and he was therefore anxious to have the matter more definitively set at rest. It was a remarkable fact that ever since not fallen off, or only in a slight degree, that the hon. gen tleman should have dwelt on these results was to have been expected, but to say that our West India colonists had not suffered, was a statement for which ho was not prepared, and from which he must totally dissent. Personally ap pealed to, as he had been on this subject, he trusted he might be excused if he brought forward proofs of the tre mendous sufferings inflicted on our colonists—sufferings greater, ho believed, than any country in the world had ever inflicted upon any portion of its subjects. His diffi culty in approaching this part of the subject arose out of the mass of matter which had accumulated within the last few years. His duty had been to make a selection of the proofs which might best illustrate the extent of those suf ferings. He would begin with a pamphlet written by his noble friend the member for Lynn. He believed he had read this extract before, but what did his noble friend say? He said, " I was prepared for desolation, but not for wha I saw. The whole land was strewed with ruins of houses and mills, and those not old, but new buildings." He then goes on to say, after a ll u di ng to other matters with which I will not trouble the house, and remember this statement was not made at a distant period—it was made with regard to what he saw in 1850. He would now read another ex tract from the pamphlet, again referring to British Guiana in which he said, and he believed the substance of this was taken from a very important report presented by certain Commissioners in British Guiana, which gave a most gloomy account of the condition and prospects of that island. The pamphlet went on to say,—" Of a total of about 600 estates now or formerly existing in British Guiana, the commission reported of 80 as having been placed under sequestration between 1847 and 1849. I have it on private authority that in the last year 19 more have been placed on the list, while 33 have been disposed of by execution sale. In one month seven estates were sold. Their collective value at one time was upwards of 170,0001. Their price last year was between 14,000/. and 15,0001. (Hear, hear.) Then Lord Harris, in an important dispatch, referring to what the hon. gentleman had dwelt on so much to-day, namely, the increase of the exports, said, " Notwithstanding, it can be shown without much difficulty, that not only has there been no profit during a term of years on all the estates together, but, on the et n trary, there has been a dead loss of British capital to the amount of at least a million sterling." This was the evi dence of Lord Harris, referring to the effect of increased exports. He would not dwell now—though it must be fresh in the recollection of the hon. gentleman—on the fearful events that took place in the Mauritius in 1848, which almost ruined that country, which, he was happy to say, had almost passed away, and given way to much better prospects. He would now take the liberty of reading a letter ; and, as it was a private communication, he would not mention the name of the writer, but would give it is the hon. gentleman. The writer was a respectable planter in Jamaica, and he said—" So utterly do I despair of this colony rising from the load of distress under which she has suffered, and still suffers, that lam now offering, quite voluntarily on my part, to give up my estate for a debt of less than one-fifth of its value, while my parental estate in this land is abandoned, though still in my own hands.* This was a letter dated June of the present year. He now turned to another extract of tho same kind ; and here again he would not mention the name, but he also was a pro prietor. He said, "In 1819 these estates netted the pro prietor 22,0001." An HON. MEMBER— In one year ? Sir J. PAKINGTON—Yes, in one year. The writer proceeds to say—" They now return no income whatever ; and this is the case with thousands." And here let him add that that very morning he had'received a letter from a gentleman with whom he had no acquaintance, but he pre sumed he must be a large proprietor, for he told him that he had 32 properties in Jamaica belonging to him, and that if some change did not speedily take place, it was his in tention to write out by an early packet to abandon the whole of these 32 properties. Now he appealed to the house whether the hon. gentleman was justified to take such a view as he had done of the effects of this legislation. Be it just or unjust, be it beneficial to the consumers at home or injurious, he said the hon. gentleman was not justified in attempting to helt, out that this legislation had not pro duced a most frightful ruin of our West India colonists. He would now read an extract from a letter to a gentleman of very great intelligence who had come lately to this coun try from Jamaica. He came here about six months ago in an official position, and he would give his name to the hon. gentleman if he wished it. This was a letter received a few days ago by his brother, describing what had taken place in Jamaica since his departure. He said—" I have duly received your welcome letter of the 21st ult." This was dated the 21st of November, 1852. "It found me in low spirits. You can form no conception of the depression, day by day, going on here. You have not yet been away six months, and the change would alarm you. Our lower orders are becoming daily more reckless ; putting aside all decency ; and vice and crime are walking the streets. Our better classes are losing all hope, and the aspect of things is truly distressing." The last evidence with which he would trouble the house on this part of the subject—for he thought the house would believe that evidence was not wanting—was an official paper. It was headed " A return of public taxes, rates, and dues lately raised or to be col lected for the coming year, 1852." It was a general state ment of the rates and taxes to be levied upon Jamaica generally, and the first column showed the value at which the property of Jamaica was assessed for the purpose of taxa tion. It gave every country and every parish, and the result was, that in the year 1851 the rateable value of Jamaica property by this return was 9,499,7901. ; but the rateable value of Jamaica property in the precedng year, 1850, was 11,556,3791. (Hear, hear.) Now, he asked the house if ho could adduce a more painful proof of the hor rible distress in which their boasted legislation had involved the West India colonists, than by showing them th a t i n one year the value of property in Jamaica had decreased up wards of two millions,of money, and two-elevenths of the whole of the property of the country. The hon. gentleman said the effect of the act of 1846 ought to be seen in five years. He quite agreed with him, and thought he had shown them the effect of the act in five years. But the hon. gentleman talked of unrestricted competition, and he was astonished to hear such a momentary forgetfulness of the facts. Instead of five years of unrestricted competition, these five years had been years in which, though they had admitted slave produce to a great extent, they had, neverthe less, been years during which the British grower had been protected by a high, though a gradually descending pro tective duty ; and at this moment, when the hon. gentle man talked of unrestricted competition, they had, in fact, a differential duty in favour of the colonial grower, of up wards of 30 per cent. During the whole of the present year, British Muscavado sugarlhad been admitted at a duty of 10s. per cwt. (Mr. Wilson here made a remark which was not heard in the gallery.) Ho begged the hon. gen tleman's pardon • he spoke of unrestricted competition; but whether he did or not, it did not affect the facts. It was not unrestricted competition. (Hear, hear.) While British Muscovado sugar had paid a duty of 10s. during the present year, foreign sugar from the Ist of January to the sth of July paid 15s. 6d. and now was paying 14s. 6d. Consequently, at this time the British producer was protected, and had, throughout the present year been protected, by a duty amounting to con siderably upwards of 30 per cent. The hon. gentleman spoke of adopting this policy once and for ever, and he boasted of the policy of 1846. Now, he must say that, if there was ono thing which ho had learned from his expe rience in that house, it was to disavow, if not to treat with ridicule, any idea of final settlement by Parlia ment of groat financial and commercial speculations. (Hear.) In matters of indisputable principle, on great principles of right and wrong they might come to a final settlement ; but when they came to deal with matters concerning the comforts of the people, with fiscal arrangements, he said that final settlement was an absurdity; and what was more, that if Parliament were to attempt to arrive at final settlement, it would be binding the first functions of the Legislature. Why, it was their duty to consider the de mands of the people—it was their duty to consider in these fiscal and commercial matters what the interest of the country mainly required. He was not now speaking of any of the questions of the present day more particularly. He was only laying down a rule, that he thought every sen sible man, whatever his feeling might be, must subscribe to. He said, they must shape their legislation, from time to time, as the necessities of the country required, and as the comforts of the people required.. Why, was there not to make them very cautious how they embarked in final enough in the proceedings of Parliament on this very sub jectwhen he proposed this measure in declared settlements ? Why, the noble l ao r fi d n t l h Bl e 4s zie te m lxe b mp e re r ensits fo lv r a L n o d nd h o o n w , that he did it with a view to long did ititlalsvta9s.—Not e two m g y h e t a r b s 0 . p I e t r v i s m a t s t i e ) ( a l s o s e d e i o n i n A a u g un new t w , 1846, and word—unfinalised in July, 1848. In 1848 it was found that the Legislation of 1846 was no longer tenable, and his r ight hon. friend the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, w as obliged to come down to that house and propose an im portant modification in the bill of 1846, but the distress, the very great distress, which had previously existed, did not pass away. The alteration of the law, however, had a great effect. In 1848 the price had fallen to an amount lower almost than it had ever been. It fell to 235. Bd. per cwt. The quantity of foreign sugar retained for home con sumption had risen under the new act to the enormous amount of 1,120,783 cwts., and the consumption of colonial sugar had fallen to 3,500,381 cwts. The result of the change of the law in 1848 was to check this groat consump tion of foreign sugar, and to give an encouragement to home-grown sugar. He found that in 1849 the figures e materially altered. The foreign sugar consumed at home amounted amounted to 496,475 cwts., while tho c_o_n u sw i m n p ti l e o oar o l n n r ose y th te e eolonial sugar had risen to 4,054,981 owls. B t ti 1850 this state of things was again Chang u e4 foreign sugar retained for home to 3,786,000 cwts. It 820,967 cwts., and colonial sugar fell great distress of these was in this year, 1850, that his, no Parliament. He joined colonies was no longer a member of honourable wasa Buxton, in pressing the matter this house, Sir Edwardgfariinenpdreosfsedh s then defeated, but he saw no on Government. H© vas he then took. The year 1851 reason to regret the renewed effort, except that at the passed by without any he himself pressed upon the ho in close of the session as he then thought, and still thought, the strongest terms, co mists, and that to the British they the injustice done the adopt the plan which Chancellor of the Ex chequershould consented to adopt, namely, that the ' • had cense _ British refine • b grower should be allowed to bond . This was the only movement which was made in that session. He now came to that which had been pointedly commented on, and very justly said—he made no complaint—by the hon. member, namely, the notice which he himself gave at the close of the session of 1851, that at the commencement of the session of 1852 he should draw the attention of Parliament to this subject, and press upon them the necessity of modifying the law of 1848. The hon. gentleman had stated, with perfect truth, that at the commencement of last session he renewed that notice, and at the time when the present Government came into office that notice was standing in the order book in his name as a dropped notice. After he came into office he gave explanations which the hon. gentleman had advert - ed to why it was not his intention to bring it forward last session, and he was now prepared to say why he gave that notice, and why he concurred in the announcement made by her Majesty's Government now. The state of things as regarded the sugar trade at the commencement of the last session was this : The foreign sugar entered for home con sumption had risen to an amount entirely without prece dent ; it had risen to 1,297,041 cwts., and the consumption of British sugar had fallen to 3,596,868 cwr•Theythus found an immense increase in the o co a nstua on of falling l off in colonial iarel slave-grown sugar, and a sim ultaneous the end of 1851 sugar. But that was no t all. Towards the price had fallen to an extremely low amount, an amount at that time ' without precedent , and far lower than the price which had ca used such panic and distress in 1848 . b •of that year, the highest • ar, price In November and December of any week was 21s. 10d., the lowest price 19 s. Well, what took pla ce at the commencement of 1852 ? Why, tl They ranged from 225. to 21s. in February ; in the first two weeks in March they fell to and in the last week the price was 20s. The first week in April it was 18s. 5d., the lowest price that sugar had ever been known iu this coun try. This was the state of things in which he was pre pared to move in the spring of last year. The year 1851 had been distinguished by three circumstances of the g ravest importance connected with the sugar trade of the country, namely, an increase of foreign sugar, a simulta• the war the consumption of sugar had remained almost stationary, and he thought that fact sufficiently proved that something had been wrong in the laws which regulated the supply and demand of the article. The consumption of sugar in the three years preceding the passing of the existing law was consider ably less than what it was in the three years subsequent to the passing of the act. The consumption of British sugar had increased nearly fifty per cent. during the last three years ; and that fact, coupled with the stationary nature of the previous consumption, was a satisfactory woof that the act of 1846 had been successful. But it was argued that the increased supply had been obtained from the Mauritius and the East Indies ; but if the house would look to the returns, it would find that there had been as great an increase in the produc tion of the West Indian colonies. The avera g e produc tion of the West Indian colonies during the five years preceding the adoption of free trade was 216,000 tons a year ; but after the adoption of free trade, taking the average of five years, dating from 1847, the average production had been 266,000 tons, showing an average increase of 50,000 tons per annum. It was unnecessary for him to go further to establish the efficiency of the present law, but if they looked at the returns of the British sugar colonies during the time of slavery they would be found to he not equal to those of the last five years. For instance, the average pro duction of the five years from 1831 to 1835 was only 221,000 tons per annum, while during the five years succeeding the adoption of free trade, the produc tion had averaged 266,000 tons per annum. It was true, also, that there had been a large increase in the production of the slave growing States, but that increase was not attributable to an increase in slave over free labour, but to the increase of machinery, which had been exported to those States from this country ; and it was to be regretted that the delusive hopes which had been held out to the British colonies had pre vented their making use of similar means to increase their production. But in spite of all the diffi culties which the British producer had to contend against, he had surpassed the foreigner considerably ; for while the produce of the slave-growing states had only in creased 25 per cent. during the last five years, that of the British Sugar Colonies had increased 38 per cent. It was, therefore, preposterous to argue that free trade had proved ruinous to the latter ; it had, on the contrary, greatly assisted the West Indies, while it had supplied increased employment for our artizans at home. Nor had the revenue suffered from the change in the system, for whereas the revenue yielded by rum and sugar previous to 1846, when free trade was first applied to the West Indies, was 5,981,0001. a-year, while in the present year it was 5,446,0001., showing a very slight falling off indeed, when it was considered that the change had saved the people something like 12,000,0001. a year in the price of the commodities of rum and sugar. He made these remarks with a view of showing the house that the subject had not been neg lected, and that every pains had been taken to extend to the colonies the privilege of refining in bond. If however, the right hon. gentleman could satisfy himself, for he admitted it was a matter more for the details of a department than for legislative interference as a principle —if they would safely introduce refining in bond, with out imposing any serious difficulty or inconvenience upon the refiner, he thought it would be attended with advan tage—in oft, be a great boon to the colonists. He apologised to the house for making this somewhat length ened statement, and would not have done so had he not thought that, in the peculiar position in which the ques tion now stood, it was the duty of the house to vindicate, not the conduct of a party—not those who were instru mental in bringing forward the measure, but the Parlia ment of Great Britain, in dealing with our colonial pos sessions. He hoped he would never see the day when that house could be justly charged with indifference to the interests of the colonists ; and did he not sincerely believe that the policy which we had adopted in 1846 was calculated, eventually, to benefit the colonies them selves, as well as the whole of the empire, he, for one, would never have sanctioned it. (Hear, hear.) The motion having been put and seconded, Sir J. PAKINGTON complimented the hon. gentleman upon the extensive knowledge and great accuracy of detail he had displayed in addressing the house ; and proceeded to say that the hon. gentleman had so pointedly referred to the course which, for some years, he (Sir J. Pakington) had taken on this question, that he hoped the house would listen to him while he offered some observations in reply. The hon. gentleman had said that his motive on this occa sion was to vindicate the policy of the last five years, and he (Sir J. Pakington) asked for as great an indulgence while he defended the view ho had taken during that time in regard to that policy. Ho did not wonder that the hon. gentleman should have taken every advantage for the pur poses of his argument, of the remarkable circumstances of the sugar trade in the present year ; but with regard to the present state of this most important subject, and with re gard to the prospects of the sugar colonies, he (Sir J. Pa kington) would endeavour to speak with the most perfect candour. He was never disposed to shrink from an avowal of his opinion, or of a change of opinion ; and he thought that the part a public man should be really ashamed of was any hesitation in the confession that in any former view he had been mistaken. But in this instance, in jus tice to himself, and after reviewing all that he had said or done on the subject, he was bound to observe that he was not now disposed to retract anything. He admitted frankly that the figures which marked the sugar trade for the cur -1 rent year were figures which ho had not expected to have seen • and, on the other hand, he thought it p robable that if he had asked the hon. gentleman himself twelve months ago, or oven so late as last February, whether he antici pated such figures as those which bad been referred to the other evening by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he would have considered them as very extravagant. The hon. gen tleman had recited on this occasion the objection urged by him (Sir J. Pakington) and his friends to the policy of the noble lord the member for the city of London : those ob jections being that in the first place the act of 1846 would encourage the slave trade ; next, that it would stimulate the produce of sugar produced by the instrumentality of slaves ; and thirdly, that it would injure the interests of our own sugar-producing colonies ; and the hon. gentleman had contended that in every one of these respects the pre dictions had been falsified. Here he joined issue with the hon. gentleman ; and he would maintain that in each in stance his predictions had been fulfilled. First, as to the slave trade. The hon. gentleman mentioned the circum stances of the slave trade in m 1846 ; an on in d he then ap de pea during to the great and gratifying nuti ti the last year (1851). Bet the hon. gentleman neglected two important points. Ho did not advert to the condition of she slave trade previous to 1846 ; and he made no reference to the state of the slave trade during the years which inter vened between 1846 and 1851. All that the hon. gentle man had said, in the w a y of distinction, was, that the import of slaves into Brazil in 1846, although large, was not to be taken into calculation, inasmuch as that was the year in which the legislation in question took place, and hence the circumstances of that year could not have been affected by our legislation. But there was a Parliamentary paper on the table which showed the whole facts very conclusively. In 1812 the import of slaves to Brazil was 17,405 ; in 1843, 19,095 ; in 1844, 22,849 ; and in 1845, 19,453. He passed the year 1846 as not in question, and he came to 1847, in which the import was 56,173 ; i n 1848, 60,000 ; in 1849, 54,000 ; in 1850, 23,000. The difference, therefore was prodigious; and it was impossible to resist the conclusion, looking to the nature of our legislation, that the act of 1846, introducing slave produce into this country, had given an enormous stimulus to the slave trade, and had been the cause of that rapid and startling increase which the figures he had read would show. In 1851, how ever, as the hon. gentleman pointed out, the import into Brazil suddenly dropped to 3,267. He stated the fact with great pleasure ; and in the present year it would be found, he was glad to know, that the slave traffic to Brazil had al most ceased. But he hoped the hon. gentleman would not think he was very unfair if he stated his suspicions that the glut, as he might call it, of the slave market in Brazil in 1851, and the almost complete cessation of the trade in 1852, were not wholly unconnected with the enormous number of slaves forced into Brazil in the four preceding years. The circumstances of the traffic in tho t r e r i l r oc a Nn a ll years were such as, he be lieved, had Government some alarm , so that a s udden fall in the num bers imported took place ; would confessed he was not a sanguine that future years be marked by the same s ab n senc l e of a slave trade to Brazil which distinguished the present year. In regard to Cuba, much the same hon circum stances and results were observable. (The right . gen g tleman here read the figures illustrating his argument.) The number imported into Cuba had fallen from 8,749 in 1849, to 5,000 in 1851; but the hon. gentleman was no d ou bt aware of the fact, which it was melancholy to state, that in the present year the slave trade to that island had been increasing, and the new Captain-General of Cuba was not, it was to be apprehended, by any means disposed to discourage the trade. Putting the whole of these facts to gether, he thought he had said enough to show that on this point the results had borne out his and his friends' predic tions. He came, then, to the second argument urged against the act of 1846, that it would tend to give a stimu lus to the production of slave-grown sugar. Here he had in some degree to complain of the figures used by the hon. gentleman, though no doubt the hon. gentleman was en titled to use those figures which best assisted his own view of the case. But, here, again, he was prepared to show, as far as an inference could be drawn from facts, that the act of 1846 had given an enormous stimulus, as a consequence of giving a stimulus to the slave trade itself, to the produce of sugar grown and manufactured by means of slave labour; and that while this country had been making prodigious efforts to suppress this disgraceful traffic, this unhappy le efforts of 1846, as he would still insist on calling i i o t o had had the effect to the greatest degree that reduced by could have, of forcing the growth of su s y slave labour. The hon. gentleman was no.fidaroruebstperacwtatroe that the information which was obtained with subject from Brazil, was given in oregaarnat; "casks " and and ho (Sir J. other quantities little known in B gi Pakington) had therefore reduced the t 4 r t e a t t u:n o s f t t b o o s c l w i g t a s r . The hon. gentleman had not tout had only admitted the market of Brazil prior to 1846 great uhed But attention to the figures great increase since 1846• The average exports of the which represented the state of things previous to 1846 in Cuba was also very necessary. 4 years ending 1845, f from Cuba, were 3,191,706 cwts.; and the average exports rum Cuba in the four years ending 1850 (passing ove r the transitiv e y ear 184 G) were 4,945,814 cwts. He would now show the house the aggregate re sults, taking the p r oduce of these two slave growing coun tries. The a verage exports of the four years to 1846 were 4,290,841 cwts., and of the four years ending 1850 were 6,266,7 70 cwts., s h ow ing an increase in the latter four y ears of 1,975,839 cwts. Well, he thought he might appeal to these figures with the same confidence that he did to his figures on the slave trade, to show that the effect of the legislation of 1846 was to give a great stimulus to the pro duce of sugar by slave labour. He now came to the third p o int --namely, the effect on our sugar producing colonies. Now, the hon. gentleman had met this part of the subject, he must say, with great coolness. That the consumers in this country had derived great benefit he was perfectly willing to admit. 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Mr. MILLER wished to ask the Secretary for the Colonies, whether Mr. Enderby had been recalled from the Auckland Islands ; if so, the circumstances under which his recal had taken place ; and whether the right hon. baronet has any objection to place upon the table of the house the correspondence relating thereto, to gether with a copy of any grant, lease, or charter made in relation to the Auckland Islands, either to Mr. Enderby or any other p ersons. Also, whether it was the ineention of her Majesty's Government to appoint any other Governor in the place of Mr. Enderby, or to take any steps with a view to the colonisation of the said islands. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON said Mr. Enderby had not been recalled, buthehad been deposed as it were by the Company, and the result was now under investigation by the Government. HOP DUTY. Sir J. V. SHELLEY wished to ask the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer a question on the subject of the hop duties. The instalment of duty due on the growth of hops in 1852 did not become pay able until November, 1853, and he wanted to know whether it was intended to remit any portion of that duty. He wished secondly to know whether Govern ment had it in contemplation to abolish the vicious system of allowing six months credit in the first moiety of the duty and 12 months' credit on the second moiety. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the general subject of the credit system was now under the consideration of Government ; but, with regard to the other question, he could only state that he was in communication with the hop interest, and he should not be able to answer it until to-morrow. - - - BRITISH SUGAR COLONIES: Mr. J. WILSON called the attention of the house to . the effects of the Sugar Acts of 1846 and 1848 upon the British Sugar Colonies, and upon the sugar trade of the United Kingdom, and moved for the following papers : —Copies of reports made by the Board of Inland Reve nue in 1848 and 1849, in reference to the refining of sugar in bond ; and, return of the quantities of sugar, molasses, and rum, and the amount of duties re ceived thereon, in the year ending the sth day of July, 1852; also, of the average price per cwt., of Muscovado sugar, exclusive of duty, from the London Gazette, and the average prices per cwt. of Havannah s ugar (ordinary yellow), exclusive of duty, from the London Mercantile Prices Current for that year (in con tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 296, of Session, 1852). The hon. gentleman remindoll-he course which the Government had taken on this subject. Last evening the right hon. gentleman the Secretary for the Colonies, gave notice of his intention to call the attention of the house to the whole subject, but when the right hon. gentleman came into office he stated that the sub ject would be postponed until the present session, and now it was said Government intended to abandon the subject altogether. Now this latter determination was BRITISH RAILWAYS. IZAILwArs. Closing Prices this Day. 32 - 33 61 - 10A - 11 7 —6 c 1 21 —21 i 3/ 2 d 107 —lO9 691 691 24. 25. 19 19_ 2 1d 9 - , . '-' •• • LOO jAbordeen .... . • • B?,Ambg. Nottug. Bost. & Eastn. June. all IBlrmngTifolverh. & Stour Valley...- • •- 28 Birkeuhd . Lanesh. & -- Cheshire - .Tuna.. .. all Do. Chesh. & Birk. , £5O & £25 Cons.... 18i Do., £20.. •••••••• 1.00 Bristol &Exeter...... 100 Caledonian. all Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon.... 45 Dublin&Belfast June. all Dundee Perth &Aber. deep Junction all Do. New ......... • all East Anglian (£25 L. & E. &L. all Do., (£lB E. & all Eastern Counties all Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. Sh 6 Do., do.. . all Do., B. di 100 East Lancashire all East & West Ind. Dk Birming. June 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 100 Edinb.Prth. &Dundee 100 Glasgow & S.Western 100 Great Northern Stk 100 Do., A. Stock 100 Do., s B. Stock all Great Southern and . Western (Ireland) 100 Great Western 11 Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlisle.. 11i Do., Thirds ... 100 Lancash. &Yorkshire 15 Do., Fifths ..... 11i Do., Wst. Riding Un. all Leeds Northern... . . all Liv.Crsby. &So utlpi. all London & Blackwal -- i Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. 100 Lond.Bright.& S.Cst. 100 London &N. Western 12 Do. Fifths _ - 1 D0.,10/.5h.,M&8...0 100 London & S. Western 42i Do., £50...... ...... . . 34 Do. £40.. ........ . all La —. ndrry.&Cgleraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch.Shet&Lineln.l Do., Man. &Lin. Un. 100 Indian(' . ..... .. 100 Do. Birming. & Derby 47 Midland G.West.(lr.) 17 Do. Shares .. . all Newcastle &Carlisie.. 100 Newmarket... 14 Newpt.Abergill — tid. 7i Newry & Enniskilleal all Newry Warrenpointl & Rostrevor 100 N0rf01k............ all Do., New 31 Northn. Counties Un 100 North British 13 North Devon, No.l 61 Do., No. 2... . ... - all Do., 1 A Deferred 5 0., 4 B Guaranteed 171 North Staffordshire all North Western.. 81 N. & S.Westru. June. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton 100 Scottish Central 100 Scottish Midland...... , 100 Shrewsbury & Birmg. 100 Do., L. & N. Westn. Guaranteed Stock... 8 Shrewsby. & llerefd. i all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.)...... ___ _ all Do. Halves, do 20 Do. Oswestry 6, Shropshire Union . Do., A.B.C.&D.fully paid up at p. c all South Devon 100 South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yorksh. River Dun 5 D 0........ . ... .. . .... 161 Stockton & Hartlepl. 19 Thames Haven Dock and Railway 17 Vale of Neath.. all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick 13 West Cornwall all West London .1 Woodford 100 York Newctl. & Berw. 20 Do. Extensions 10 Do. G.N.E. Purchase 100 York &N. Midland PREFEREN 100 !Aberdeen .. A Boy LOST UNDERGROUND. —Last week, a little 12 boy, named William Withers, who works with his father, St at the Blaina Works, in one of the mine pits, went to his work as usual with his fathe r, but, on arriving at the St 5° pit, found that he had forg otten his lamp, and returned for the purpose of getting it and following his father into the works. As he proceeded along the road under- St. ground, however, the boy lost his light, and after that St, missed his way, getting into some old works. From that time he was not seen or heard of until Monday morning, 50 when he was found by the hauliers in a very weak state. He was at once taken home, where he is now doing very 12 well. The poor little fellow had but his Friday's dinner in his bag for the whole of the time. He states : " After 12 I lost my light I found that I was lost, and in a strange " „, road. I could hear my fathe r at work all da y on Friday. I knocked the side, and made as much noise as I possibly lu could, but no one answered me. They all went out that 6 night, leaving me there ; I cried very much. I thought 12 I saw the stars two or three times, although I was 100 12 yards underground. I saved my dinner as much as I 12 could, eating a bit at a time, not knowing whether I St. should ever be found or not. The pit broke on Saturday St morning, consequently there was no work until Monday morning. The whole time I had been wandering about in the dark, when I heard the hauliers, and I made my way to them." It appears that the father made search all through the neighbourhood, thinking the boy had not followed him into the pit, but that he was loitering about with other boys on the top of ground. The poor little fellow did not know what day it was when he was asked at the time he was found he thought he had been there seven or eight days.--Hereford Times. • SWEDISH LAWS WITH RESPECT TO INTOXICATION. — The laws against intoxication are enforced with great A rigour in Sweden. Whoever is seen drunk , is fined, " for the first offence, three dollars ' • for the second, six ; 10 for the third and fourth a still further sum ; and is 25 also deprived of the right of voting at elections, and 10 of being appointed a representative. He is, besides, 1.0. publicly exposed in the parish church on the following Sunday. If the same individual is found committing St. the same offence a fifth time, he is shut up in the House 20 of Correction, and condemned to six months' hard la- 12 bour ; if he is again guilty, to a twelvemonths' punish- went of a similar description. If the offence has been St com mitted in public, such as at a fair, an auction, &c. , - the fine is doubled, and if the offender has made his al)- 17 pearance at a church, the punishment is still more severe. 25 Whoever is convicted of having induced another to in toxicate himself, is fined three dollars, which sum is doubled if the person is a minor. An ecclesiastic who falls into this offence loses his benefice ;if it is a layman — 4 who occupies any considerable post, his functions are 1( suspended, and perhaps he is dismissed. Drunkenness 11 is never admitted as an excuse for any crime, and who- 1 ever dies drunk is buried ignominiously, and deprived of the prayers of the Church. It is forbidden to &nye, and • more explicitly to sell, any spirituous liquors to students, w o r kmen, servant s, a pp rentices, and private soldiers. 2 Whoever is observed drunk in the streets, or making a 50 20 noise in a tavern, is sure to be taken to prison, and de- 50 10 tained till sober, without, however, being on that ac- 100 20 count exempted from the fines. One half of these fines 100 36 go to the informers (who ars generally police officers), 20 10 the other half to the poor. If the delinquent has no 50 22 money, he is kept in prison until some one pays for him, 25 all or until he has worked out his enlargement. ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT WALHAMPTON.—Two men 105 have been committed on the charge of attempting to 10 5 murder the aged gardener of the Rev. Sir George Bur rard, at Walhampton, in the parish of Boldre, and who, it is surprising to state, is in a fair way of recovery, after receiving the most brutal treatment. Mr. Pilbeam, superintendent of county police, obtained such evidence as led to the commitment of two notorious characters, belonging to the same neighbourhood ; named William Smith and George Perkins. 161 20 5 2 all all 25 20 ~ 0 I 21 ail Do., No. 2, 7 p. e... .00 Bristol & Exeter 4p, cent. Stock 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 51 per cent 34 Cork&Bandon 5i p.c all Dundee Perth&Aber- deen Junction all lEastAnglian (£3108) 6 per cent ......... . all Do. (£5) 7 per cent. 2 Do. (£7l7x) 7p. et. all !Eastern Counties Ex, tension, 5 p. c. No.l all Do., No. 2. all Do., New 6p. c. St.. all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent.... all Do., Ixlo Deben. Sh. 100 EastLancash. 6 p.cts. all East&WestYorkshire Junction, Fifths..... all idinb.Prtit.&Dundee 100 Glasgow & S.Western guar. 5 per cent.... 100 Great Northn. 5 p.c. 100 Do. sp. c., Redeem., at 10 p. c. prern all Gt. Southn. &Westn, - - (Ireland) Eighths 6 Gt. Westn. (Becks 4; Hants Ex. 5 p. c.) 100 Great Western, fixed 4Aper cent 6 Lancash. d; Yorksh , F. £2O. 100 Do., 6p. c., Stook... 13 Leeds Northern, 6p. cent., No. 1 ......... 17 Do., No. 2...... . 5 Do., No. 3.... ...... 9 D 9. , Quarters, 1848. 100 London and Briglitonl Guaranteed 5 p. c... 100 Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. l all Do. Convertible, 5 p.. c., 1852 •• 100 Do. New Guar. 6 p c.l 100 Lon.&N.West.Cov dal Nun., 5 p. c. Stock. 6 London &S. Western, Con. Thirds 10 Londonderry& Color. , 1 Shares ...... ... all Londndry. & Ennisk. . Shares all Manch. ,Shef. , Shares, No. 1 . all Do. New, £10......... 3 Do., £6 . . ...... all Marypt.&Carl. 4p. all Do. 4A per cent .. 81 Do .. .. . ..•... . 100 Mid. Consol. 6p. c.Sts 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent..... 5 Do. Pref. 4 per cent. all Norfolk Extension... all Do. Guar. 5i per et.. all Do. Waveney Valley 5 per cent 100 North British all North Staffordshire.. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. £15,6 p. c. 6 Do all Shrewsbury & Binn. New Guaranteed__ all Shrewsby. & Chestca (Nor.W.Min),B p. c. 10 Do. 5 per cent all South Devon Do. New all S. Eastern (Readim: Ann. ,) of £1 Os.6d. 100 Do. 4 per cent all S.Yorksh.4p. c. Guam. all Stock.& Hartl. Guar. sp. c. till 1 July ,1856 3 Waterfd. 6p. c. 100 York Newcastle and Berwick,4 p.c.Prof. 5 Ds 10 York& N. Midland H S. Purch JOINT-STO I Australasia _ British N. American Colonial Commercial of Lon- don English Scottish a ad Australian Lond. Chart. Bk of Australia London and County.. London Joint Stock:.. Lond. & Westminster National Prov. of Eng. Do. New National of Ireland-. Oriental Bank of Corporation 5 Do. New (Provincial of Ireland Do. New 'Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Importing Company Union of 'Australia Do. Now Union of London. Union of Madrid . 6i -- 4$ 13 -- 11 - 13 89 9 "7 - 79 59 60 79 - 81 30 - 32 60 - 62 84i -85 J 47 - 49 122 - 124 1071 -- 084: 96 1 4 -- 97 6t -- 7i 88 -- 90 114 -12 p 86 -- 86 1 3i -- 3b d t 7- 2t d 18§ -- 19 9 -- 9 -- 1i p -- 110: 127 -- 127 4 -- 4 p -- p 94 -- 95 8A -- 2hd 2i -- 2 d 13 -- 13! 21 -- 22 31i 36 -- 3 d 801 -- , 47 -- 49 52 54 2i 3i d 91 si 59 61 8 —9 3 —2k d 41 42 GA 6i d 2i -- d 4 -- 3i d 9 -- 9k 3i —4p 54 -- 55 94 -- 98 67 -- 69 67 -- 69 78 82 11 d 20 21 10 —10 A 15 16 3 2 d 24i 2N 80 81 39i 40 14 15 4a - 5 2i - 2i 12t - 13, 10 - 10, 27 - 28, 10, 74i —75 i 64 6 d 2i -- 2 d 614 624 SHARES. .o 9 lb` 111 105 - 19 —19 A id ip 6 -6. f 3 - 3a 3. - 4 - liP 11 - 2 p n P 14i- --15i1 18 - 18. *i 27 - 129 1112 - 113 9 - 9. - - 1 pi LO9i 11.0 par I P 152 55 ... --- • ... - •' ... - ... -- ... - • ... si 4 p 8i 8i 131 -13 i 11 9 - 10 - 11 - P 4 - 1 P 1 150 -- 151 236 --364 == i 1 - 2i 102 - 101 254 - 26 23 -2k pi 111 111 17 —17 i 17 i — l ib par i P 25 - 26, 14 -- - io par 4pin 102 - 104 -5; BANKS, 58 60 41i i 1 13i f 80 78 791 40 391 80 a 40 75 44 13 i 1 7 62 1054 6 191 1.10 91 _5-1i 5 261 6 191 I 7889 63 5i q.l 69i, Si (.) 18i 511 2 xn LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(?HIS DAY.) LONDON, Dec. 10.—Wind at Noon, S., moderate breeze, with cloudy weather and rain. DEAL, Dec. 9.—Wind, W.S. W._Arri red— Sophia, China ; an American ship, do. ; Eliza Th.Drnton, Bata via ; Catherine Stuart Forbes, Bencoolen. ; Charlotte, agasear, do. ; Anna Markt, Mauritius ; Calcutta ; Mad Hellespont (s), Africa; Siren, M on te Video ; Hercules, Quebec ; Miram ichi, do. Arrived from the River, St. Vincent, for Hobart Town ; Woodstock, Port Philip ; Blundell, do. ; Sultana, Cape Coast Castle ^ Albion and Ocean Queen, Jamaica ; Florence, New Orleans. Put back, African River Gambia, with damage from contact with a foreign bark off Beachy Head—Abbots, Reading, Helen, Maria, Arabella, Astracan, and many others. Dec. 10.—(Per Electric Telegraph)—Arri vled, Nightin gale, China. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 9.—Wind, W. to S. A rrived—Jum na, Robina Mitchel, and Anne Armstrong, Calcutta ; Nemesis, White, Madras ; Elizabeth arid Lychia WHenry, Bombay ; Ensign, Walker, Doraiy, Stately, Tullouch, Etoile de la Mer, Rio Grande' Uniad, An tones, Bahia ; Willia m Russell, Shetford, Macao ; Bal. chitha, Paraiba, Lapland ; Simpson, N.3'w- Orleans ; John Rutledge, Charlestone ; R o b son, br ew . York ; Ida, Winfield Scott, and Devon, St. John's, N.B. ; Indian Queen, Miramichi ; Albion, Sco'itt, Quebec ; Warner, Robertson, Alexandria ; Pizarro, T arragona. HARTLEPOOL, Dec. B.—The Victoria of -this port has sunk in the Humber, bearing mr.s.w., dlitant twenty five miles ; crew saved. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 9 . — Sailed —Severn. (s), Brazils ; Eclipse, Madeira. P LYMOU TH, Dec. 9.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Rose, Moon, Quebec ; Sa rah and Ann W augh , Co runna. SHIELDS, Dec. 9,—The Eliza Caroline of this port came ashore on the Herd Sand last night ; crew sup posed to be saved. JERBEy, Dec. 7,—A large vessel i s reported the Minquars on the night of the 2d ; part Aot the wreck is said to have been carried into La Roeque ; she is stated - to lie in eight feet of water. FLEETWOOD, Dec. 9.—Arrived—Willi: tan Botsford, - Brown, Quebec. Off Port—Briton, Cochrane, Quebec. COWES, Dec. 9.—Wind, S.W. Arrived', Denmark, Stubbekioling, for Liverpool, with quarter tttove, having been in contact. Put back—Washingt;o n (s), New York, with damage forward, having been struck by a sea the previous night. BRISTOL, Dec. 9.--Wind, S.W. bagow, Webster, Quebec. ANTWERP.—Dec. 9.—The August; Dieppe to Ro. chelle, has been totally lost. Arrived, Lesma. [ADvE4TisEnnurr.]The Era, Family, T'N3atrical, and Sporting Newspaper (established 1837), ( to-morrow, will contain Original Articles upon the B a dget--Pros pect of Ministers—London Graveyards F —The Cab Question —The Trafalgar Life Assurance— ;Air. 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