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

CLERICAL, IADICAL, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. The Assured may resiiern most parts of the world, without extra charge, and in all parts by payment of a small extra pre- The small share of Profit divisible in future among the Share holders being now provided for, without intrenching on the amount made. by the regular business, the ASSURED will hereafter derive all the benefits oable from a Mutual Office. with, at the same time, complete from from liability, secured by an ample Pro printery Capital—thus combining in the same office al! the advan. sages of both systems. FIVE BONUSES have been declared; at the last in January, P 852, the sum of 131,1251. was added to the Policies, producing a bonus varying with the different ages, from 24% to 55 per cent. on :he Premiums paid during the fidia years; or irom 51. to 121. 10s. per cent. on the sum assured. The next and future Bonuses may be received in cash, or applied at the option of the Assured in any other way. On Policies for the whole of Life, one-half of the Annual Premi ums for the first five !years may remain on Credit, and may either continue as a debt oh the Policy, or may be paid off at any time. Claims paid in THIRTY DAYS after proof of death, and all Poll s les are INDISPUTABLE except in cases of fraud. INVALID LIVES may be assured at rates proportioned to the ..nereased risk. The Assurance Fund already invested amounts to £850,000, and he Income exceeds £136,000 per annum. The Accounts and Balance Sheets are at all times open to the nspeetion of the Assured, er of any Person who may desire to 'gables of Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained of any of .ie Society's Agents; or of GEO. H. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary. 99, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, London. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. F 'rowel' Season or Mr. Benjamin . Woster as Lessee and Manager. TIM; EVENING Will be performed the admired Petite Comedy of THE LIDIES' EATTLE. After which, the very popular and highly attractive Comedy of MARKS AND FACET; or, Before and Behind the Curtain—by Nicsors Benjamin Webster, — Leigh Murray, Stuart, and Parse Mri. Stirling, Miss Rosa .Bennett, Mrs. Leigh Murray, and Miss ?army Haskell. To be followed by the Farce of A CAPITAL MATCH. To conclude with JOHN JONES. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestrfs. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE GAME OF SPECULATION. Charac ters by Messrs. C. M athew., F. Matthews, R. Booby, Baker, Suter, norncastle. anti Roslere : Mrs. Horn and Miss Oliver. After which, THE PRACTICAL MAN. Mr. Cloudsley, Mr. C. Mathews. To conclude with THE JENKINSES. Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Ttoxby, and Butler; and Mrs. F. Matthews, Mrs. - .Manamara, Miss Baker, and Miss Foote. Sole Agent for the Private Boxes, Mr. W. Allcroft, 15, New Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Open for the Season. Proprietor, Mr. E. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, The popular new Drama of SLAVE LIFE ; or, Uncle Tom's abin—by Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Miss Harding, Miss f;011Ins, Miss Laura Honey, and Mrs. Keeley; Messrs. Allred IVigan, Emery, Cullenford, 0. Sitiltb, &c. After which, the admired Farce of A MODEL WIFE. To conclude with the Comic Opera of GOOD NIGHT, SIGNOR PANTALON. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean. THIS EVENING Will be performed the new and original Play, In five acts, by West iand Marston, Esq., entitled ANNE BLAKE. Principal characters !)3 , Messrs. C. Kean, W. Lacy, and Addison ; Mrs. Winstanley, Mrs. Daly, and Mrs. C. Kean. To be followed by THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Principal ~ .haracter by Mr. C. Real). To conclude with THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER, in which 21r. Wright will appear. ASTLET'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Great and unprecedented success of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which aleditly increases in popularity and attraction. THIS EVENING, Dec. 10th, and daring the week, the perror- Luances will commence with the new and highly successffil Eques trian Drama of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, with all its exciting and interesting Equestrian and Drnmat c effects. To be followed by Battyl Equestrian and Gymnastic Scenes in the Arena, supported by the first native and Continental talent. To conclude with the popular Fame of THE DEVIL TO PAY. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Doors open at Halt-put Six o'clock; Box-office open daily from Eleven to Four. HIGH WATER AT LONDI , ON BRIDGE. riilS DAY —Morning 35 min. after 12 Evening 0 min.aft. 1 To-Mom:ow—Morning 22 min. after 1 I Evening 48 min.aft. 1 _DAILY WEATHER TABLE. FRIDAY, DEC. 10, 1852. State of the wind and weather at each of the following , laces at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations arc arranged in order of latitude. HASTINGS—W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. SOUTHAMPTON—S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. Y OLKESTONE—S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. TUNBRIDGE—S.W. strong breeze—cloudless. STRooD—W., gentle breeze—cloudless. "SwINDON—S.. gentle breeze—partially cloudy. COLCHESTER—V I . gentle breeze—cloudless. CAMBRIDGE—S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. YARMOUTH— N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the state the weather on Wednesday morning at nine o'clock LIMERICK—S.E., gentle breeze—heavy rain. HOLYHEAD --S., gentle breeze—showery. LAWCASTER—S., strong breeze—scud —rain. WHITBY—S., gentle breeze—rain. DARLINGTON—E.S.E., strong breeze—overcast—rain. SULP—S.S.E., gentle breeze—rain. THE WEATHER. SUN OFFICE, Dec. 10. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 49 highest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and during the night. 52—this day, at noon. BAROIIETER, 29.56. WIND weather. UTE WELLINGTON SUN. ON THURSDAY TIIE 18TH ULTIMO, AN EXTRAORDINARY EDITION OF THE SUN WAS PUBLISHED, CONTAINING A SPLENDID PORTRAIT OF TUK LATE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, WITEI HIS AIINGRAPH, AND A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE GRAND NATIONAL FUNERAL, AND IS NOW ON SALE. ORDERS RECEIVED BY ALL NEWS AGENTS, AND AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. 4 - .3* re fi p . ‘ 4-.37N0p, ftuo.ki! " o l l rAt t 44,41.1/4 LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1852. A fierce opposition is about to be offered to the new Budget. It is not merely the alteration in the inhabited house duty—the arraying of town against county—that is objected to. The con templated modification of the Income and Pro perty-tax—the distinction so tardily recognised between permanent and precarious income—be tween fixed and fluctuating revenue—has excited the ire of the moneyocracy. And the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for the University of Oxford has rushed into the list, as champion of the injured (!) fundholder, to protest against any change in the system, which has already so strongly excited the just indignation of the people. Mr. GLADSTONE is not contented with declaring that the reconstruction of the impost is inequit able or inexpedient--it is far more, it is " uncon stitutional'—" a breach of faith" to the public '-'editor, to which he is resolved to offer the most Arenuous opposition from first to last. In this ii-teteranination, and in the views by which he has been, influenced, he is sustained and supported by pother Right Hon. Gentleman of considerable 41411 Cial experience, and Member for the sister tuiversity. The gauntlet has thus been thrown 1 " 1 2 and Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Sir CHAErES \ u the" h ave inti mate d an intention of taking part i m elee ; and it is more than probable that i.hey win array themselves under the banners of the challengers, and insist on the equal taxation o f all incomes, no matter from what sources de rived ; or whether the same b e wort h one or thirty years' purchase. Well, so b e it ! We are prepared for the contest, and care not if it be a the routrance. It is ju s t and proper that q bat uestion by com a far the most important raised by the CHANCELLOR of th e E xcu, _ WER—shOuld be fully discussed, and that it Sh ou l d receive the priority to which it is unquestionably entitled, can fairly There are two questions that must bedisposed of before the other propositions. taken It must be decided whether into consideration. the impost is to be temporarily r e n ewe d ; Peninitianently maintain e d or a whether it is to b e re tained in it s presen t obnoxious and inequitabl e form, or mod i f i ed to any an d what extent ? Questions of such importance—involving,. • ons of as we are prepared to pro ve , no l ess th an six millions pounds sterling per annum to the revenue—must if 6e settled, at least for some time, not finally, before any o th er fiscal measures are taken into consideration. It is obvious that if the Property and Income-tax be suffered to expire at the ter raination of the financial year, on the sth of April next, the proposed reduction in the duties on Malt, Hops, and Tea, cannot be carried into praetical operation, The revenue would exhibit a considerable deficiency. Even without any such remission, a deficiency far more than the contemplated increase in the House-tax would provide for, even if that unjust and impolitic pro position should unfortunately be acceded o. It would therefore be, to say the least of it, difficult, if not impossible, to come to any determination' on the other financial questions until the Income tax be first disposed of. We rejoice, then, that issue has been fairly joined on this vitally important subject. We can scarcely hesitate as to the verdict that will be re turned by the country. Indeed, we should have thought that it had already spoken out in plain and unequivocal terms, so that there could be no mistake or difficulty on the point. One Ministry has already been sacrificed for its perverse and obstinate refusal to listen to the voice of public opinion ; and nothing could prove more beneficial to the present Government, than that its exist ence should be staked on the result. As to the doctrine laid down by Mr. PITT, and so strongly relied on by Mr. GLADSTONE, it is wholly beside the question. We should, if neces sary, protest against the proposition that the nation could be bound by the opinion of any deceased statesman, however distinguished. We are happy to find, however, that the point does not arise ; and that we have not to contend against the high authority—as we readily admit it to be—of WIL LIAM PITT. We shall adopt his very words, as quoted by Mr. GLADSTONE himself, so that no dispute or difference can occur with respect to the premises on which the argument is to be sustained. He said, " I shall have no hesitation in submitting to the Committee, that when a general assessment upon income is to take place, no distinction ought to be made as the sources from which that income may arise. Whenever an idea has been started of imposing upon the stockholder separately and dis tinctly any sort of tax, I have reprobated the at tempt, as utterly inconsistent with the good faith of public engagement. But the matter is mate- rially reversed when a tax is to be levied on the income of every description of persons in the realm ; when it is no longer in the power of the stockholder to say, I could avoid this tax by re moving my property from the funds to landed security or to trade.' I should say to the stock holder, as one of the public, If you expect from the State the protection which is common to us all, you ought also to make the sacrifice which we are called upon to make. It is not peculiar to you ; it does not belong to the quality of your income ; but it is made general, and required from all.' " Now the only point here is, that the word " in come " should be qualified by the addition of " arising from property of any description." This is palpable from the context. If it were appli- cable to industrial incomes arising from labour— whether intellectual or physical -- there would have been no reference to the power of sub stituting the security. The fnndholder might " avoid the tax, by removing his property from the funds to landed security or to trade ;" but he could not, by the mere act of voli tion, enable himself to acquire income by the exercise of a profession or trade requiring either mechanical skill or mental cultivation. That would clearly be beyond his power ; and the com parison, therefore, manifestly relates to anything in which property can be invested without refer ence to the qualifications of the party—that might be held by a woman, a child, or even a lunatic, as well as by an educated and competent person. Money alone would enable a person to receive his dividends or his rents, or the interest on debts due to him—anything, in fact, which does not require a certain degree of skill or labour ; but it could not make a learned and dexterous barrister, an experienced physician, an accomplished artisan, a popular author, a man capable of entering into well-considered speculations in trade or commerce, a nice manipulator, or skilful artisan—none of these come within the line of his observations. It is to property, and property alone, that they are applicable ; and therefore the proposition of the CHANCELLOR of the ExcEEQur.B. does not in any degree interfere therewith. The first decision must be on the principle ; and that, we believe, will be decidedly in favour of Ministers, even though Lord JOHN RUSSELL should be so unwise as to bring up his forces as auxiliary to Messrs. GLADSTONE and GOULBURN. The next point will be on the details ; and there we concur with Mr. HUME, in thinking that Ministers have not gone far enough. If the pri ciple be correct—as we believe it to be—it shou be carried very much farther than suggested. It can scarcely be asserted that incomes derived from labour of any description, which would totally fail, not merely on the death of the reci- pient, but on a loss of health or even a.change of fashion, could be worth three-fourths of money in the Funds or in well-circumstanced ground-rents. This, however, is a minor consideration. The principle being once finally settled, the details and propositions will easily be disposed of. What, in the name of common sense, are they going to do with that miserable old bridge at Westminster? In answer to an inquiry on the subject addressed to him the other evening, in the House of Commons, the Noble Lord the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, men tioned something about erecting the new bridge on the old site. As if we hadn't "had enough of it I As if the ground just at that spot had not been proved, by a sufficiently expensive experi ence, to be altogether too rotten for any stable foundation ! Why, the thing is preposterous. If, in connection with the River Thames, any one fact is more notorious than another, it is that the present is about the worst site that could by any possibility be selected for a bridge spanning by stone arches from Lambeth to Westminster. Look at it ! Positively one of the most dis graceful structures in the metropolis. And why ? Simply because the bed of the river is giving way there under the pressure of the superincumbent masonry—until one arch settles down all awry, and another gets quite horridly lopsided, and the " parripidge," as Mrs. GAM? calls it, has to be taken down, and replaced by common hoarding, and the whole thing becomes at last prematurely ruinous, and an eye-sore, situated exactly cheek by-jowl with the gorgeous and beautiful palace of the Legislature. Yet, Lord JonN ALINNEns can coolly rise from his seat on the Treasury Bench, and, in answer to an inquiry on the subject, in form the House that the old site is still to be preserved (of course, as something precious) for the new bridge about to be commenced, for the convenience and adornment of Westminster. Ohe I Jam, satis. Enough at least for our selves ; and we should fancy, too, for the Honourable Representative for Montrose, that most vigilant as well as veteran econo mist. Unless some timely change be effected in the Cabinet in this particular, we shall have the dismay of quietly looking on while the contrac tom for the new bridge are leisurely playing ducks and drakes with the public money. Literally, it will be so, if an effectual effort be not made to alter the projects at present contemplated. Ac cording to those projects, a temporary bridge must be erected hard by the old site, for the con venience of the local traffic, while the old struc ture is being pulled down, and the new one erected. That will be an enormous and profli gate, because wholly unnecessary expenditure. Then there will be the supplementary expenditure of patching and bolstering up the new bridge when it is raised—mid surely, we know how ruinous that intermittent outlay becomes in the end, from the forize of a very heavy and bitter experi ence. Whei :eas, all this preposterous squander ing of the funds of the nation might easily kingdoms be a' voided, as any blockhead in the three . i r ow s gtni tn s a a m readily perceive and appreciate. brid ge Y have the at once be indicated. Erect the new the sou , difuelil i t iwhat lower down the river, and all the found i Pi v i doing duty • an of formatio/ a, be required Y tiort :s . at . once avoided. You will then so ni th y at of selecting good ground for the you will have the old bridge time its successor is in process o ex ra tr ry a o a u id tla o y f traffic between La mfberthtlaund Westminster. Besides all temporary at e al t l of havin g th e new b r i dge o swhich,u w a i tll: advantageextend so far a s materially to sit._ 1 le oui d enhance the picturesque effect of the Palace' of the Imperial Parliament—the old site crowding the present structure close up to the very corner of Sir CHARLES BARRY'S architectural masterpiece. We would seriously commend these considerations to the judment of Lord JOHN MAN NERS. We have such confidence in his sagacity that we do believe on reflection he must resolve to guard off this disgrace from the Administration. Eighty thousand pounds have been expended by his grateful country upon the obsequies of the late Duke of WELLINGTON. And forty seven years after our incomparable NELSON ex pired in the arms of Victory at Trafalgar, the capital of his un-grateful country continues to be disgraced by an incomplete testimonial. We are not grudging the old Duke one sixpence of the magnificent sum expended in the pomps of the re cent ceremonial. No ! He won the tribute well with his good sword in Hindostan and the Penin- sula. But we do lament from our hearts the very lamentable niggardliness, or, to say the best of it, the very mournful indifference displayed in refe rence to the national homage for the memory of HORATIO NELSON—the hero of St. Vincent, the Nile, and Copenhagen,—blind of an eye, maimed of an arm, prematurely old from the anguish of so many wounds, and carried away at last in a " flaming chariot of glory," yielding up his life for his fatherland in the splendid agonies of his last and greatest achievement. It was not enough that that glorious sailor died merely a Baron and a Viscount, while the departed soldier died not only a Baron and a Viscount, but an Earl, and a Marquis, and a Duke. It was not enough thai the one obtained in grants half a million of money from the Legislature, while the other was so poor that he had scarcely enough plate to take out with him when he last went to sea on board the Victory. It was not enough that these and a thousand similar contrasts in the same grand and memorable careers should be visible to every heart and intellect in Great Britain. But it was necessary, in addition to all this, that a pageant, costing altogether the sum of eighty thousand pounds, should pass on the 18th of November, 1852, through Trafalgar-square, bearing upon a car of state the body of ARTHUR WELLESLEY, Baron, Viscount, Earl, Marquis, Duke, at the cost, we repeat, for that one occasion, of eighty thousand pounds—immediately under the pedestal of that monument to HORATIO NELSON, a monu ment still glaringly incomplete, although his Im- perial Majesty the EMPEROR of all the RUSSIAS generously came forward some years ago with a contribution of 5001., to aid England in building up this one tardy testimonial. We put the case as simply as we can : and, having done so, we commend it to the gallant sailor at the head of the Admiralty, we commend it to the chivalrous heart of a PERCY, to the judg ment, the justice, and the patriotism of the Duke Of NORTHUMBERLAND. Our readers have , been amply supplied w lists, longer than they could have patience to read, of the elsewhere unheard of nepotism of the Ec clesiastical Courts. Such perfect " family Cabi nets" are they, that one involuntarily suspects that sympathy prevented the Whigs from trying their reforming hand upon them. We have no intention now of quoting from the return relating to Ecclesiastical Courts, which, though moved for by Sir BENJAMIN HALL, in August, 1851, has but just made its appearance, to tell of infants of three and five years of age, and females ! ap pointed as Registrars of Courts—of a pair of VERNON HARCOURTS, differenced by a G. or an E. prefixed to the well-sounding patronymics, the one Registrar in two Courts by the time he was six and-twenty, his office a perfect sinecure of nearly 2,000/. a year ; the other, since the same age, having enjoyed 1,4001. a year, for five half-days per annum in his Court—the two having already bagged, of good English money, not less than 96,3861. for doing nothing, or n ext to nothing. We leave these Ecclesiastical flowers for our readers to cull in abundance from the extracts which will appear from time to time in the public papers. There is another question, a more important one, that is—why are laymen to be plagued with Ecclesiastical Courts at all ? We should, indeed, be thankful to see them banished entirely from these realms. We have no wish to hand over " offending clerks" to their tender mercies, unless the said clerks desire it. Were we in the position of a clerical delinquent, we fancy we would much rather appear before one of her MAJESTY'S Civil Judges, and an honest Jury, than before the FUSTS or VERNON HAR COURTS, or the deputies of female infants three years of age, who grace our various Courts Christian. We should prefer, we mean, if we thought our defence complete or tolerable, to place it before those whose constant practice qua lifies them to act the part of a Judge, and those whose unsophisticated habits dispose them to decide a case upon its merits. If, however, as we anticipate, Archbishops and Bishops, especially, and perhaps the " inferior clergy" also, wish to settle their own matters between them selves, why let them do so. We would not for the sake of emancipating the cloth from a cherished slavery, risk the opposition of the Bishops in the Lords, and the noise and petitions of the clergy throughout the country. We of the profane laity only ask that we at least may not be forced, nolens volens, into these sacred Courts. Courts Christian we know they are called, but most of our grade, when we have had the mis fortune to be dragged or pushed into them, have been mulcted with what we have thought a most un-Christian burden of fees, and an equally in tolerable loss of our time. Indeed the reflection has occurred to us, that these Courts Christian obeyed the Christian precept of " Redeeming the time," on the principle that so much of ours as was spent in attendance within their holy precints, was time redeemed from the profane use we should other wise have made of it in our worldly callings. One case long ago set a going in them, the Braintree Church-rate case, bids fair to rival the longest de lays for which the ante-Sugden of Court of Chancery used to be notorious. Now as this is the hour of Law Reform, and as our Conservative Law Re formers have actually undertaken the reformation of these very Courts, we do put in our humble petition that they would leave nothing for their successors to do ; nothing, we mean, on behalf of us laymen. It is complained, and with too much truth, that their Budget was pervaded by no master-principle ; it was freely owned, on the contrary, that their Reforms of Irish Law Proce dure, though they might have gone further, were not open to this charge. That even the more complicated Reforms of Mr. NAPIER had their leading principle. Let, in like manner, a well-defined, sound, and popular principle be adopted in reforming the Ecclesiastical Courts, and our Cabinet will deserve and will enjoy the thanks of the present generation, and of all generations to come. There are but two sets of Courts in England now, in which the class interested in a conviction are made judges of Englishmen : these are the Church Courts and the Gale-law Courts. In the latter, the clerical game-preserving Magistrate or Squire deals out his practically irreversible sen tences against the criminals whom his own amuse ments have made such, and in support of his own selfish and feudal privileges. In the former, the man who enjoys Church fees, or Church emolu ments of various kinds, is made the judge of our offences against Church demands upon us—it may be of Church rapacity. We protest against such one-sided, interested judges. Perhaps many of us are Dissenters from the Church : we can expect no mercy from our theological adversaries trying us on questions of Church tribute, and disliking us as a practical denial of their right to such tribute at all. What we want, then, is, that no case of ours which affects our time, our property, or our liberty, should come under the cognisance of these Courts. It is a good proposal to take tes tamentary matters out of their hands; but that is by no means enough. Every matter in which property is concerned, Church Rates, Easter offerings, Mortuary fees, Surplice fees ;.everything when a shilling could be demanded or refused, may come as easily under the jurisdiction of our Civil Courts, from the County Courts upwards, as the plaints now brought before them. In these Courts we should feel at ease. We, our selves, in simple cases, could tell our own tale, and our legal advisers, in the more difficult ones, could take for us a course which we could under stand, and of which we could see the beginning and the end. We could estimate the cost of re sisting an unjust demand, and our probable loss in event of failure in a more doubtful cause. This, then, is what we want to come to—Secular Courts for laymen. ,A jury of our peers, if we desire it ; and moderate fees for justice. All matrimonial cases also, especially now that mar riage is recognised by law as a civil act, must be placed entirely in the jurisdiction of the Secular Courts : neither must it longer be allowed that any Judge in holy orders shall have power at his own discretion to make a layman do , penance in the parish church. Poor BURNS has not been the last victim of clerical spite of this kind. In a word, we are willing to leave the clergymen to judge one another in theological and ecclesiastical matters, if such be their desire; but we demand for the laity, that no Ecclesiasti- cal Judge shall have power to touch a single hair of their head. Indeed, for the clergy themselves, we should also ask, that their own Courts should not be competent to inflict secular punishments of any kind upon them. They must be like the proposed talking and debating Convocations, entrusted with no other weapons than words. Spiritual weapons alone befit Spiritual Courts ; the property and liberty of the clergy themselves are not fit sub- Courts Christian. Th e i r be made, " a judge and a j v e o c i t y s of Master refused adjudication for very divider" in such matters. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Brabant, the Count of Flanders, and the Princess Charlotte of Bel gium, attended by the. Count de Briey, Lieutenant- Colonel de Moerkerke, and Sir Robert Carswell, took leave of her Majesty yesterday, and embarked in the royal yacht Fairy, at a quarter before two o'clock p.m., for Southampton. The Prince of Leiningen remains on a visit. THURSDAY. Her Majesty and the Royal Family walked in the grounds yesterday. His Excellency the French Ambassador, the Countess Walewski, and the Earl of Mahnesbury, arrived to-day on a visit to the Queen, having crossed over in the Royal yacht Fairy, which was waiting at Southampton to con vey them. On the arrival of the Fairy in Cowes Roads, her Ma jesty's ship Encounterfired a salute of 17 guns, in honour of his Excellency, who immediately landed, and pro ceeded in one of the Queen's carriages, which was in readiness to convey the party to Osborne. Count Walewski had an audience of the Queen, and was presented by the Earl of Malmesbury to deliver his credentials as Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of the French. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Cornford, Mr. Folkard, and Dr. King, with Mr. Slight, the clerk to the Brighton Town Commissioners, had an interview with Lord John Manners yesterday, at the office of Works and Public Buildings, Whitehall, on the subject of the proposed ap plication of the Public Health Act, 1848, to Brighton. - The Rev. Dr. O'Toole had an interview with the Earl of Derby, yesterday, at his official residence, in Down. ing-street. • Captain Shepherd, Deputy Master of the Trinity Souse, had an interview with the Right Hon. J. C. Henley, yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The Earl of Westmoreland paid visits yesterday to several of the Cabinet Ministers, to take leave on his departure (last evening) to Vienna to resume the duties of his Legation. Lord Portman and the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, had interviews yesterday with Mr. Secretary Walpole, at the Home-office. Mr. Drummond had an interview yesterday with the Earl of Derby. A deputation on the subject of the provisional order for Brighton, had an interview with Lord John Manners yesterday. The deputation consisted of Mr. Beedham, High Constable of Brighton ; Mr. Sharood, Solicitor for the petitioners for a charter ; and Mr. J. M. Clabon, Agent to the petition. Mr. Fagan, M.P. ; Mr. Maguire, M.P. ; and Mr. Jeffcott, had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley. Dispatches were received at the Colonialo-ffice yester day, from the Governors of Sierra Leone and the Gambia. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (Front Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS. The SPEAKER acquainted the house that he had re ceived Reports from the Examiner of Recognisances, stating that the recognisance to the election petitions respecting the following places were unobjectionable, viz..— Tynemouth. Coekermouth A thlone. Dungarvan. New Ross. THE DERBY ELECTION INQUlRY.—Yesterday counsel were heard for the petitioners and for Major Beresford. Serjeant Kinglake made a very powerful speech, which lasted till half-past four o'clock. The case being far con cluded without either Frail, Morgan, or Radford having been called, the committee issued summonses for these three persons to attend and give evidence on Saturday next, to which day the committee adjourned. OPPOSITION TO THE BUDGET.—Meetings were held last night in Marylebone, Lambeth, and Walworth, and petitions adopted to Parliament in opposition to the Budget. • NEW TREASURY MINUTE RESPECTING CHlCORY.—Yes terday an interesting document respecting the sale of chicory, and procured by Mr. Huine, was printed by order of the House of Commons. It a pp ears that in 1840 the Treasury made an order that chi cory m i g ht b e mixed with coffee. In July last the order was rescinded, and chicory was to be sold separately. The Inland Revenue Depart ment, on the 3d of August last, issued an order that if after three months coffee was mixed with chicory, the licensed dealers must abide by the consequences. It ap pears that 31 memorials have been presented to the Lords of the Treasury, containing 2,232 signatures, for rescinding the Treasury minute of July last. No memorial was pre sented against rescinding the Treasury minute of that date. To the Chancellor of the Exchequer 83 memorials have been presented for rescinding the minute with 1,920 signa tures. There have been three memorials presented to the Chancellor of the Exchequer against rescinding the New Treasury minute, with 90 signatures. THE NEW PALACE OP WESTMINSTER.—During the last few weeks great progress has been made in the com pletion of this building. F rom the Victoria T ower th e screen work to the private entrance to the House of Com mons has been greatly advanced. The screen will extend along the whole extent of Old Palace-yard, and will con nect the two most important a n d picturesque parts of the building. In New Palace-yard th e b u ilding rs also in a state of forward progress. The river wall of Westminster hall has been almost puned down, and a new face in keep ing with the style of architecture adopted in the New Palace is being erected. From Westminster-hall to the entrance to the strangers' and re p or t ers ' gallery a Gothic edifice is being erected, and is in a state of great forward ness. When finished it will give to the building an ap pearance of completeness which will greatly add to its beauty. ADELPHI THEATRE.—Mr. Alfred Wigan's . admirable farce, A Model of a Wife, has been produced here this week with great success, the clever author filling the princi pal part with his accustomed talent, supported by Mr. J. Rogers, one of our best low comedians, Mr. Cullenford, Miss Collins, and Miss Emma Harding. In the revived afterpiece, Good Night, Signor Pantalon, the role formerly taken by -Miss K. Fitzwilliam is now assumed by Miss Collins, who is becoming a great favourite at this house, and plays every characte r s h e un d e rtakes with marked cleverness and judgment. ACCIDENT IN TOTTENHAM COURT-ROAD.—About three o'clock, yesterday afternoon, an accident of a serious nature o ccurr ed near the end o f H anway-stree t , T o tt en ham Court road, by the overturni ng of a large heavily laden coal wag gon, by which a numb er o f wor k men na rrowly escaped being crushed to death. POLICE FORCE FOR AUSTRALIA.—Three sergeants and fifty constables have been selected from the police force in the metropolitan distri c t, and placed under th e char g e of Mr. Freeman, who is promoted to the rank of superinten dent, and they will embark at Plymouth, on the 18th in stant, for service in Australia. EXTENSIVE FIRE I N THE N EW KENT-ROAD.—Between dostruc• tive fire happened on th e the hours of seven an d e i ght yester d a y morning, premisei of Mr. Turner , a green grocer. - EAST INDIA M ILITARY C OLLEG E, ADDISDOMBE.— at Yesterday the exa m i nationof the gen tl e men cadets educated at the East Indi a C ompany ' s M ili tar y Seminary, Addis combo, near Croyd on, took place in the presence of Sir James W e i r H ogg, But. M.P., the chairman ; Russell Ellice, Es q ., the deputy -chairman; seve ral members of the visitors. Th e company Hon. Cou r t o f Di rectors, a n d a number of distinguished arrived at the college short l y before 11 o'clock, and p roceeded to the ha ll we re the cadets were examined in mathematics, fortification, enginee rin g , and other branch es o f study. .At the close of the e xaminat ion the following p r i zes were awarded :—First class, Mr. S. C. Trevor—The second prize in Hindustani, first prize in good conduct (an artillery sword), and the gold Pollock medal. (The prize of a swo r d has been established by the Court of Directors, for that gentleman cadet whose conduct has been exemplary during the entire period of his residence at the institution). Mr. G. Newmarch—First mathematics, military surveying, first Hindustani, French, and second good conduct. Mr. T. B ec kley — Second mathematics, Ind first fortification. Mr. J. L. Watts—Second fortification, second military drawing, and first. civil drawing. Mr. J. Beatty—First military drawing. Mr. F. Fitzroy—Geology. Mr. G. B. Traill—Latin. Mr. B. W. S. Pasley—Second military drawing. Second Class : Mr. J. Champain— Prizes iu fortification, military drawing, civil drawing, and Hindustani. Mr. R. Pemberton—Prizes in mathematics, Latin, and third good conduct. Mr. R. Home—Prizes in military surveying and French. Third Class : Mr. It. Walker—Fourth general good conduct. Mr. J. Le Mesu rier—Prizes in fortification, military drawing; military surveying, and civil drawing. Mr. J. B. 'Holland—Mathe matics. Mr. W. Hammond—Hindustani. Mr. P. Thomp son—Latin. Mr. E. Hill Tod—French. The Chairman then delivered an impressive address to the cadets. A luncheon was then served up in the house of the Lieu tenant-Governor, Col. Abbott, to the directors and visitors, and the proceedings terminated. OVERLAND MAIL. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] We have received the following dispatch in anti cipation of the Overland mail, dated " Trieste, Thursday : " The steamer Adria arrived to-day with the Indian mail. " The Hindostan, with the Calcutta mail of the 7th November, arrived at Suez on the Ist inst. " The Irrawaddy was no longer navigable for large vessels. " General Godwin was en route for Prome, with the second division. It has been decided to ad vance by land upon Ava. "The Chinese rebellion contiues gaining strength. " Exchange on London—at Calcutta, 2s. oil to 2s. ld." LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAV.) VICE-CHANCERY. PITZWILLIAM V. KELLY-JUDGMENT, In this special case as to the payments of fines on re newal of trustees, whether by the tenant for life or the remainderman, and as to the intention of the testator that leaseholds should be converted, his Honour, Vice- Chancellor Turner, this morning gave judgment, and stated that at the hearing several questions arose, which afterwards settled themselves into two—first, how certain sums of money were to be paid by the leasehold estates— and, secondly, how certain costs were to be borne. His Honour, after reviewing the facts at great length, and re ferring to several authorities bearing upon the subject, said he was of opinion that the sum of 2,0001. incurred in filling up certain trusts during the life of the testator, was to be borne out of the general residue, and not out of the other property. The costs incurred in this hear ing were also to be given out of the same fund, the gene ral residue of the estates. Judgment accordingly. THE POLISH BALL. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS,. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 3,000 bales, of which 800 American, and 400 Egyptian, were taken on speculation. The market again closed heavily, and prices of Ameri can were /d, and Surat and other sorts id per lb. lower. The sales comprised 2,000 American, 40 Ferman and Maranham at Gid, 10 Bahia at bid, 500 Egyptian at 6d to 10d, and 500 Surat at 31d to 4id per lb. Railway Shares were a shade better. The markets have been flatter this week for the principal staples, and there has been a disinclination to buy. Foreign Sugar has been at full prices, and other sorts have been neglected. Common Planta tion Coffee has been in some request. Cotton con tinues heavy, and tallow is less dealt in. Tea has attracted attention. The dividend upon the shares of the John Cocke rill Company at Seraing, for the year 1851-2, is fixed at 30 francs. The steamer with the West India and Mexican mails, supplies no very important news from the colonies. The following is from Jamaica "The Trelawny recommends that public meetings should be held in the several parishes of this island, at which memorials should be adopted for presentation to the House of Assembly, praying that the present Import Duties should be reduced. Our contemporary says :-- As the time is rapidly approaching when the Legislature will meet to proceed with the business of the country, we would recommend, that those gentle men who are of opinion that the present Import Duties ought to be reduced, do get up a requisition to the Custodes, or Senior Magistrates of the several parishes throughout the island, to have public meetings convened, without delay, for the purpose of framing and adopting petitions to the honourable House of Assembly on the subject. In calling upon the public to evince the demon stration that we have recommended, we would also suggest, that, in discussing the imposts to which we have particularly adverted, care should be taken to free the country, generally, of the over taxation with which the island is at present burthened. If the taxpayers will but arouse themselves from their apathy, and have public meetings held throughout the island as we have recommended, for the purpose of ex pressing their grievances, and demanding that those griev . ances shall be ameliorated, the Legislature will, of necessity, be compelled to award that justice which has been so disgracefully withheld for years past by the 'place-seekers,' who have dubbed themselves 'patriots' of the country. " The town of Falmouth has been free from rain during the past week, but the state of health in it has not been favourable. The Trelawny, referring to those circumstances, observes :—` The weather has been dry and pleasant during the week ; but we regret to state that we cannot make as favourable a report of the state of health. Fevers, accompanied sometimes with ague, and influenza, prevail generally throu g h ou t th e p ar i s h ; but, thanks be to an All-Merciful Creator, we are glad to inform our friends at a distance, that the prevailing sicknesses have not proved fatal, as yet, among those who have been attacked. We still continue to hear of a case of measles occasionally, occurring among the families both in town and country.' " The last week's Railway receipts ascertained up to this day are, in round figures, as under : 1852. 1851. Great Western £15,659 14,125 North Western 41,753 38,636 South Western 8,526 8,009 Brighton Midland South Eastern . 11,103 10,024 North Stafford 5,010 4,566 Caledonian Lancashire and Yorkshire York and North Midland Newcastle and Berwick Great Northern The advices from Mexico, received by the Com mittee, are very unfavourable. Revolutions were still breaking out, and the local treasuries were generally plundered. The remittance is 38,181 dollars. MARKET NEWS-(THIS D,.4.1.) CORN EXCHANGE. ljDuring the present wee k , th e arr i va l s o f English ve up to our market, coastwise, h ave a mounted to , 1 ' by quarters. Fresh up, to-day, the receipts of that gr alu Fer land carriage, were small, and in middling condition. to all kinds we had a firm market, at prices fully equ3 t h e those obtained on Monday last, and a clearance a stands was easily effected. 6 The imports of forei gn w h ea t h ave b ee n only' e t, quarters. Medium parcels changed hands to some n . " — e r mostly for country consu m pti on, a t an a d va nce of is P quarter, All other kinds were quite as dear. so ld Floating cargoes of wheat, beans, and Indian corn freely, and the quotations had an upward tendency. •og The supply of both English and foreign barley bel small, that article was somewhat firmer, at full Pric es ' no Malt sold somewh a t s t ea dil y. I n th e quo tations , change took place. We had a moderate inquiry for oats, the value of 91 was fairly supported. 4 ,, A of Beans, peas, and flour firm, and the extreme r s— Monday. English .. Irish .. Foreign .. 'Wheat. 1,320 ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. , I Barley. I Malt. 2,470 I ,Vi 0 Oats. 1 2 1 115 950 8,490 220 9,710 6,970 700 SMITHFIELD. b e There were several prime beasts on sale here to-sigAbe for Christ mas consumption ; but th e gene ral quality 01,. supply was by n o means fi rs t- rate. Most b ree ds w er :the improved r eques t, an d a good clearance was e ff ec ted, % v ./ extreme rates of M on d ay l as t . W e had a steadY.ill4 but for prime D own s h eep, at fully last week's currencies ;l Kents, half-breds, & c ., were very slow i n sale, at,l: ~re late rates. Calves—th e supp l y o f wh i c h was on crease—moved off hea v ily, a t a re d uc ti on i n the ce"siog• of from 2d to 4d per 81bs.. The pork trade was in gish state ; in prices, however, no change took plac e ,' s cb• Milch cows were very dull, at from 141. to 18/. , - including their small calf. Per Blbs to sink the offal. 1 s. d. s. d. A . d. % 6 Inferior Beasts ...2 2to 2 4 Mme Southdown 4 4 3 Second quality ...2 6 3 0 rge crse. calves 2 6 4.0 Prime krge oxen 3 2 3 6 Imo small do 3 8 3 6 Prime Scots, &c. 3 8 310 Large hogs 2 8 310 Inferior sheep ...3 0 3 4 Small porkers 3 8 0 0 Second quality ...3 6 3 8 S uc kli ng calves 19 I" gl 0 Primecoarse-w11d.3 10 4 2 Quarter old pigs 16 0 TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY' 90 , 961 Beasts ..................... 0 4,400 Sheep ..................... i g , 310 I Calves ..................... ...0 ' 300 I Pigs . . ... -•- ........ NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL. ( 1 , The supplies bei ng very ex t ens i ve, the general dolsl l ruled heavy, at barely stationary prices. Per 81bs by the carcase. d a. d. s. d. i. d. 210 . Beef, inferior 202 2 I Mutton, A A Inferior 2 8 3 1./ Do., middling 2 4 2 8 Do.,middling 3- 4 v Do., prime large 2 10 3 0 Do., prime 3 8 . 1 10 Do., do. small ....3 2 3 4 Veal 2 6 1 0 Veal 2 6 3 0 Do., small 3 2 ' Beasts . Sheep Calves Pigs BOROUGH HOP. f e e)t, Several parcels of hops have changed hands this ' l n ii on speculation ; whilst the demand for consul:00 1 6s; steady, as foll ows : —S ussex pockets, per cwt, 9 0 s to i 9 5 0 Weald of Kents', 90s to 108 s ; Mid and East Bents , to 1555. Yesterday, the Polish ball committee assembled at Guildhall—Mr. Deputy Holt in the chair. There was a large assemblage of the active supporters of the charity. Lord DUDLEY STUART said, he never had upon any occasion greater pleasure in addressing the friends of the distressed Poles than the present occasion afforded him. Formerly the Polish ball used to be our uphill fight. The Polish cause was misunderstood, and English benevo lence received a check which a more perfect acquaint ance with the subject was rapidly dispelling. (Cheers.) In the Court of Common Council there existed no diversity of opinion upon the proposition to grant the hall for the purpose of giving a splendid en tertainment in aid of the funds, .although the early part of the day w as di s ti ngu i s h e d by a most stormy discussion. The moment the application was made every ,voice was raised in favour of it. The feeling of unanimity pervaded the City and the public, and many of the prime opposers had become ardent friends. Amongst them was Alderman Sidney, who had not only retracted his opposition, but had presented the commit tee with a handsome contribution, and promised to attend with his family and numerous friends. Alderman Finnis, too, had expressed an altered opinion upon the subject. From the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs the most decided efforts for the benefit of the funds were expected, so that the City patronage, combined with the patronage of the dukes and duchesses of the West-end, would present a list not easily to be paralleled. (Cheers.) It was with great pleasure he informed the committee, that Lord John and Lady Russell and Lord and Lady Palmerston would be amongst the patrons and patronesses present ; and that numbers of those who used to be called Protection ists, but for whom, he believed, no new name had been conjectured, would also come forward in relief of the funds. (Laughter.) There was a delightful prospect before the many friends of the cause which, by having become at last perfectly intelligible, had excited un mingled sympathy. (Loud cheers.) The public were satisfied that the object of the promoters of the ball was not to promote idleness, but to relieve those who en dured unmerited distress, and who were overtaken by sickness amidst the other calamities of their exile. It was all very well to say the Polish refugees could return. If they could he should be the last man to encourage their stay.in England. But they could not return, and it was because they could not that he was desirous to give them the greatest benefit they knew could be con ferred upon them—that of enabling them to provide for themselves. (Cheers.) It was the greatest of errors to suppose that the unfortunate refugees could return to their own country. Driven from their houses by the tyranny of foreign Governments, by Russia and Austria, and he regretted to say by France too, they had no alternative but that which England gave them the privilege to embrace. If a Pole committed any offence of any kind, the punishment inflicted upon him in France was transportation to England, a great injustice to England, as well as the unfortunate sufferers. That object had been frequently alluded to in Parliament, but without effect. He knew that several had stooped to the misery of soliciting to be allowed to return from exile, and he knew too, that although 20 years had elapsed since they had offended, the condition of their return must be a trial by court-martial. It had been the fashion to complain of the long continuance of the re fugees in this country; but the complaint ought to be against those whose long-standing and unmitigated op pression had forced him there. (Cheers.) His lordship repeated, that the committee had reason to congratulate themselves upon the bright prospects of the 15th inst., when a ball, equal to any which had ever been given in London, would take place, and where the friends of the oppressed would have an opportunity of repaying them selves for their toil in the cause of suffering humanity, by witnessing the extraordinary success of their exer tions. (Loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN stated that the concert would be given on the most magnificent scale, and after some important arrangements, the committee adjourned. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—ln your paper of to-day a Mr. Willis, giving his address as of No. 4, Graham-street, Pimlico, is reported to have appeared at the Westminster Police Court, in answer to a very serious charge, the address given being that of the house iu which I reside. I beg to state that no such person is known here. May I, there fore, beg you as a favour to insert this note, as the report (without contradiction) is calculated very materially to in jure the reputation of my residence, and of your obedient servant, FREDERIC KINKEE ° 4, Graham-stre e t, Pimlico. Thursday, Doe. 9, 1.8r,2. SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.—The fineness of the weather during a great part of yesterday had an evident effect upon the number of visitors to the show, it being crowded in every part. THE WASHINGTON STEAMER, which left Southampton on Wednesday with the United States mail, has been ob liged to put back in consequence of encountering a heavy sea off Portland, which stove in her upper deck. It is ex pected that she will start again on Saturday. NEW BANK.—A new banking company has been brought out entitled the London Bank of Australia and India, which it is proposed to inco r p ora t e un d er a royal charter, limiting the liability of the shareholders. The bank will, it is stated, be conducted in London by a board of directors who possess practical experience, both by re sidence and business connection, of the trade of India and Australia ; and in order to avoid the evils that experience has shown to result from the pressure of local influence on colonial boards, there will be no local boards of directors, but the business in Australia and India will be conducted by experienced, responsible, and trustworthy officers, from whom ample security will be required, and whose manage ment will be under the constant supervision of competent inspectors, all being appointed by, an d amena bl e t o, th e London board. The capital of the company is fixed at 500,000/. ; but power will be taken und er l cua charter increase it to 1,000,0004'.11.- RISE IN THE PRICE OF -.DREAD.— es erday, in con sequence of the recent trifling rise in wheat and flour at Mark-lane, the bakers throughout the metropolis took ad vantage of it, by rising the price of the four-pound loaf one halfpenny. Tho beat wheaten bread at tho West-end, the Strand, and the City, is now charged, by the full-price bakers, Bd. to 84d. the 4lbs. The second-rate bakers charge 5Ad. to 6Ad. per 4lbs., weighed on delivery. In some of ale densely pop u l a td parts of the metropolis— Whitechapel, Clerkenwell, Blackfriars-road, Westminster, &c., good household bread may, however, still be obtained at U. to kid. the loaf. A further rise is expected before Christmas. PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.—A meet ing of the committee of the Institution for the Preserva tion of Life from Shipwreck took place yesterday at the office in the Adelphi, Mr. G. Palmer in the chair, when orders for the building of life boats on Mr. Peake's designs were given for Comlyn, Anglesea, and Aldborough. Silver medals were ordered to be presented to Mr. W. Barrett, R.N. of the Balbri ggan C oas t- guar d s t a ti on ; t o M r. W . Barrett, his son ; and to the Rev. A. Syng ; and Si. to five other men, for their services to the barque Young England. A variety of other rewards were ordered to be presented to various persons for similar services, and a sil ver medal to be g i ven t o J. M'C ar th y, chief boatmani of the Dundrum Coast-guard, for services to the crew of the schooner Martha Grace. A grant of 201. having been then made for repairs to the Bridlington life boat, the proceed ings closed. WESTERN DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OF THE SKIN —The first annual meeting of the subscribers and friends of this charity was held yesterday, at the Dispensary, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square. The chair was taken by the Rev. Canon Dale, the president of the institution. The chairman having opened the business of the meeting, called upon the secretary to read the report of the com mittee, which stated that, from tho 31st Oct., 1851 (the day on which the Dispensary was opened), to the 31st Oct., 1852, 283 patients had applied f or re li e f , 13 7 of which had been discharged cured ; the remainder were, for the most part, much benefitted, and still under treatment —no case having been discharged as incurable. Amongst the cured cases, the average duration of the disease had been about three years, and the average period of treatment about seven weeks. In one case the disease had existed more than 60 years ; in two cases more than 50 ; and in six cases more than 40 years. AN IMPUDENT IMPOSTOR.—One "Reverend Alfred Thomas Wood, D.D.," is in custody in Hull, on the charge of obtaining money by false pretences. He levied contributions on the charitable for the alleged support of a church in Liberia. He told one of the witnesses against him, that George and Eliza Harris, mentioned " Uncle Tom's Cabin," were " members of his church," and that Cassy died six weeks after her arrival in Liberia. "He attended her death-bed, and she died a very happy death," The Minister of Finance had, on the 28th Octo ber, applied to Congress for an extra aid of 1,336,000 dollars for the payment of the last July and the next January Dividend on the English Debt, but it was very doubtful whether the Con gress would, in the present circumstances of the country, respond to it in a proper spirit. In the meanwhile, he had had an interview with the leading capitalists of the city of Mexico, to sound them on the subject of a loan, but it had led to no result. All he could do, therefore, was to give Mr. Falconnet the most positive and solemn • assurances, that while he held the office, not a farthing should be taken from the revenues belonging to the Bondholders, and that whatever might have been taken from that fund to supply the pressing wants of the Government should be replaced with the least possible delay. San Blas and Mazatlan, however, continued in the hands of the insurgents, who, of course, appro priated all the revenue there. The Minister of Finance had most unaccountably expressed an opi nion to Congress adverse to any claim of the bond holders on the Mexican Government, for arrears of revenue belonging to the debt appropriated in 1850. On some other points the wishes of the bondholders would probably be complied with. The Funds are very steady, but not lively. Consols bring 101# for transfer, and 1 01ai for account. The receipt of over 600,000 dollars by the Mexican steamer serves to impart confidence ; but there : are political and other events on the tapis which appear to be of a threatening character, and should be taken into consideration by prudent men. In the first place, the projection of public com panies is proceeding at an accelerated pace, that must absorb a large amount of surplus mone se condly, the fate of the Ministry is s till i n the balance; and thirdly, several ships of war have been or dered to be got ready with all possible dispatch, at Portsmouth, destination unknown, but supposed to be the Mediterranean, in consequence of the coup d'euit in Spain, and the strong impression that the French Government has instigated it. The New 31- per Cents. have been 103 k to 104, and the 3 per Cents. look to Bank Stock is firm at 223 to Exchequer Bills have been quoted 655., and India Bonds, 83s. premium. The Foreign Market has been heavy ; Mexican Bonds have declined to 24k k ; Grenada Deferred are 13k to }. Spanish droop again, the Deferred being 24* to I. Shares are generally rather worse. Gold mines are supported with fair dealings. Australian Banks are rather heavy, except the Union. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. (Prom the Official List.) Business done. Bank Stock . 3 per Cent. R e du ce d Annuities looa i g 3 per Cent. C onso ls A nnu iti es New 34 per Cent. Annuities. ........ Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6i 7-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 12th Oct., 1859 -16 India Bonds, £lOOO — Ditto, under £lOOO B3 Consols for Account opening 18th Jan lOll i i Exchequer Bills 14d. March. Juno. £lOOO.. 65 60 £5OO Small . PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazlian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account Ditto 4i per Cent 9B 4 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 74 Grenada Bonds, 1i per Cent — DittceNew Deferred, 3 per Cent l3 4 13 11c:xicall 3 per Cent 4 Z-Ditto-Couverted, 5 per Cent., 1841 Portuguese 4 per Cent. 39 4 Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto Deferred, 3 per cent. Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 3/1 p c Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852. l4 2i p Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent. Dutch Exchange 2i per Cent Ditto 4 per Cont. Certificates.. 98} 8 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols 101# Ditto January Account SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATT ERSALL'S--THuRsDAv. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 1,000 to 25 agst Lucio (taken). 1,000 to 25 Corybantes (taken). 1,000 to 25 Sextus (taken). CHESTER CUP. 1,000 to 10 agst Babette (taken). 1,000 to 10 Bardolph (taken). 1,000 to 10 Newminster (taken). 1,000 to 15 Nancy (taken). 1,000 to 20 Muscovite (taken). 1,000 to 15 Weathergage (taken). 1,000 to 15 ---t St. Michael (taken). 1,000 to 15 Little Harry (taken). DERBY. 1,00 to 60 agst The Reiver (taken). 1,000 to 25 Brocket. SCHOOL FOR THE INDIGENT BLIND.— The half-yearly general meeting of the governors and subscribers to this charity was held yesterday forenoon, at the London Coffee house, Ludgate-hill, for the purpose of transacting the or dinary business of the corporation—the Right Hon. Lord Radstock, one of the vice-presidents, in the chair. The minutes of the last court having been read and confirmed, it was announced that Mr. Robert Sharp, who had been superintendent of the school for the last 32 years, had died on Wednesday, at the advanced age of 72, deeply regretted by all who had any connexion with him. The balance sheet showed the total receipts for the past year to have been 9,7271. 7s. 7d., and, after all the necessaryexple,ntshees had been defrayed, there was left a balance in hand o f 5421. 10s. 4d. Appended to the balance - sheet was a state ment which showed that, on the3 B lst . D 9s ec . :ber lm Three-and a corporation was possessed of 4 7,2911. 7s. Bd. Th roe per Cent. Consolidated Annuities, 28 , 54 81. 168. 2d. Three er Cent. Reduced Annuities, and 1,3 u Quarter per Cent. Annuities. The report having b een re. calved and adopted, a vote of thanks Was chairman, and the meeting separated, s Puled to the COLONIAL. r lf SUGAR.—Tho demand was tolerably good in the bo o part of the week, except for West India, which ha„S, for dull throughout. Mauritius sold briskly at 36s to • , '", 0 ,1 good and fine yellow, and at 33s 6d to 35s Gd for low s° mid. • mid. and fine brown realised 30s Gd to 335. 13 ,i to has been sold to a small extent, by auction, at 34 0 o id. 35s Gd for good mid, yellow, 31s to 32s 6d for ord ts grey, and 26s to 30s for low to good brown. unr i but fine white Benares partly sold at 38s 6d to 39s 1.. ;110s f grainy white was taken in at 41s to 445. Superior Y. O A t brought 995. Yellow Havaunah was mostly taken J in ja, full prices ; ord. to fine brown, 335, to 355. Gd ; 'lo w a 01 yellow, 36s to 37 s 6d ; an d fi ne, 40s. per cwt. Re fined been cheaper, brown lumps being 43s to 445 per civt„..• ,tiro COFFEE.—There h as b een an i nactive market. " c wt. was taken in early i n th e week, at 478 6d to 488 Pe r sd Plantation Ceylon b e i ng in demand, however, at 5 , 3 , 0 ,0. for fine ord, an d a t 57 s 6d to 638 6d for mid to goo " Since then, good ord Native has been sold at 4 6 ° for 475, and Plantation has been taken in at 52s to 9. 3 V cr y, fine ord pale triage realising 42s to 51s 6d, and pea ue , o oll 63s to 658 per cwt. Mocha was taken in at 85s for 6 C 0 5.1 garbled. Mysore was withdrawn, at 498 to 50 etsBo Rica sold rather lower, fine ord to fine fine ord 10 7. 0 01' to 525. Java was taken in at 54s for old brownis h pan)'s. for COCOA.—Trinidad has been taken in at 330 to 35°"1 mid. and good gre y, an d 37 8 6d to 40s for mi d . and b red. WO' RICE.--The market ha s b een fi rm. Bengal good) I AI O white was taken in a t 12 s , an d M oulmein sold at I. o a '- for paddy to fair peeled. SALTPETRE.—The demand has imp rove d, an d ra-oil been firm. Bengal sold at 29s to 29s 6d for 5i to 3X g and fine, and at 25s for mid., 12i per cent. refractinn'ogii SPlCES.—Ginger has b een in rather less demand thid, at previous rates. Calicut 30s to 358 for ord. and n 441 old but very wormy. Pepper sold at 7/d to 7id for,S4. mid. old Singapore, an d a t 30 for mid. and grey bar. Nutmegs were taken in at is 7d for Dutch lina.„7 oo . COCHINEAL.--There has been a fair demand, and dnras has been sold at 3s 8d to 3s 10d. COTTON.—This article has been dull, at about the P rr vious rates. TEA.—There has been a good deal of excitement in, oo l. market, and, pending th e d ec i s i on o f P arliament, the? to era have refrained from paying duties. Congou at is le lid has been in good demand, and common at P" 10/d to 10N. TALLovv.—This article ha s b een dull, at 46s 9d t ° per cwt. on the spot. °. GREEN FRUIT---A kit better dem an d ex i s t s f or all •- 00 Two cargoes of oranges from St. Mi c h ae l h ave arr ived, , , of which, sold by Keelin g an d H un t at public sale, reaPrip a high gure. Lisbon ar e l ower. Th e stoc k o f °P° ~,le. light, and one ca rgo o f S ev ill e Chi na remain for -or Lemons are in request. Nuts likewise, w ith the 40 00 , tion of Barcelona, which are ls. per b ag cheitper. A hn o t• grapes scarce, 30 s . to 40s. per barrel being the prices tainable. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. STAG HOUNDS. 01 Bath.--Tuesday, Lansd own ; F r id ay, Shoe • 11 Marshfield—at half-past eleven. Hon. G. Petre's.--Thursday, Leaden-bridge—a # 110 past eleven. FOX HOUNDS. Atherstone—Monday, Gopsall ; Wednesday, , V 411 15 ,on Village ; Frid a y, Th ree Pots ; Saturday, Aru ll ' ,4 quarter to eleven. Badsworth. Tuesday, Barnsdale-bar ; Thurs ci t o , Purston-bar; Saturday, South Hiendley, at half-pas t ' fic i; Duke of Beaufort's.—Mond a y, H are and Ot il ; Wednesday, Ch r i s ti an M a lf ord ; Thursday, Si 9- Saturday, Lacock Village. Bramham Moor.—Monday, Harewood ; Wedneel, Bramham-park ; F r id ay , Ch urch Fenton ; Sattir Woodhall. rfnef r Burton Hunt.—Monday, Langworth-bridge ; to n day, Linwood by R asen ; Wednesday, Brant Broug ll o l- Village ; Thursday, M ag i n - moor ; Saturday, StsPl ef° moor—at eleven. • Col. Conyers's.—M on d ay , M y l ess; Wednesday, - B lac more ; Saturday, Matching-green —at half-past to' j,y, Cottesmore. Monday, Colsterworth ; T ues tor Wardley Toll-bar ; Thursday, Burley-on-the-bill ;P P day, Owston Wood—at eleven. Craven.—Monday, Aborne Chase ; WednesdaP_ A t villes ; Friday, Fieldridge ; Saturday, Shaw-house a quarter to eleven. ired' Crawley and Horsham—Monday, Turner's-hill ; A nesday, Field Common ; Friday, Horsham Toll.oto a quarter to eleven. , JsY' East Essex.—Tuesday, Pebmarsh-street ; Mark's-hill—half-past ten ; Sat ur d ay , the Green P ° —at eleven. South Essex.—Tuesday, Hutton Malting ; Sati n West Tilbury-green —at ten. Fri Essex and Suffolk.--Tuesday, Artl e i g h C r own; day, Hintlesham Park Gate —at a quarter to eleven' 0 0. Mr. Farquharson's.—M on d ay, Melcomb-park '- day, Kingston Russell ; Wednesday, Coke's-wood4 e cl. Earl Fitzwilliam's.—Monday, Ashton Wold ; tee , nesday, Bythorn Toll-bar; F ri d ay , W a l cot - par k- -3 ," fte s' Mr. H. G. Greaves's.—Monday, ClaythorK i lio a' day, Holbeck ; Thursday, Hainton ; Saturday, " wood—at eleven. i rler Herefordshire.—Tu es d a y, P ontr il as ; Friday, 'Th gate—at half-past ten. - Holderness,—Monday, Burton Agnes ; Tuesday, side-house, Londesborough ; Thursday, Sproatley ; day, Cranswick Toll-bar—at a quarter to eleven. „„ 40 0. Mr. M. Ingrarn's.—Mond a y, Ch art l ey - cas tle ' • 1 -",, t day, Drakelow ; Sat u rd a y, N ew -i nn, N ee d wo ocl --- " quarter to eleven. Fr idal' Ledbury.—Monday, Duke of York, Berrow ; Ham-bridge —at half-past eleven. Mr. Lumley's.—Monday, Scrooby-inn ; Tue?„,i, Sparkin-hill ; Th urs d ay , Arrathorpe-village ; Grove—at half past eleven. Mr. Lushington's.—Tuesday, Leeds-castle ; Fr' Long-mile —at eleven. t ire Monmouthshire.—Monday, King of Prussia; day, Ragland—at half-pant ten. c; Mr. Morgan's.—Monday, Lodge-g a t e , P e na Thursday, Pitland-corner—at half-past ten. orel l Pytchley.—Monday, Sywell - village ; Tuesday, ; Brampton ; Wednesday, Crick ; Frid a y, Nase Saturday, Dodford—at a quarter to eleven. Rufford.—Monday, Hardwick -hill ; Tuesday, oo d stone; Thursday, Cocking - moor; S a t ur d ay , Nor —at half-past ten. Duke of Rutland'usn.rnd—Monday, half-past Tuesday , - ton Toll-bar ; Wednesday, Piper-hole Y ; ; Friday, SO v park—at half-past ten. to; 13. 0 0 N Vr Monday, ° r . fi w ri r d e s a l ; 1 Y - :o a V o t d u i 1 rb;duealrr Strawberry t h y ; i t. e rseT n id . u Wh aeys,decy,;(oolo; 00' hill h ol 3(1 8 1 o u ; h d r r r s ; doApaFys Wednesday, r i h , s i d A r ma e c y . o h n M p, —at elevn ic . down.— Mondaßatton Friday, Friday, Southdown. —Monday, Somersetout Suffolk.— Tuesday, -tSPeuanbi e —at Subs cription. —Tuesday, u — and T p u el e .o s tg d o a ; y a e Y , lT : hv ß uenr u s ar . n d c a e r o y n ni ; : ne bsll o i t ilP ite g st l eo : t y, ; — mill - , a at t b h . ma l i f l - l p ; askt Saturday, Ousden-hall— at a q uart° _ l v ei eleven, for the Sir R. Sutton's.—Monda Sixth Mile-stone, on --- d road —at eleven ; Tl y iesda IC y, egwoi at twenty minutes past eleven ; Wednesday, -L' ir . din er hall ; Thursday, Thorpe Satchville 7 Friday, " 1 pool Inn —at eleven, wed' Sir Tatton Sykes's.—Monday, Birdsall-house ; 4 ten• nesday, Welham ; Friday, Acton-wold—at half-pae: jo r, Warwickshire.—Monday, Bedlam's-end ; l ue t ziec -th S v . 1 0E 0 ; 0 1 o , Weston-house; Thursday, Frankton-wood; Friday) - 1 7 1 , to ton-kennels ; Sautrday, Suitterfield—at a quart eleven. wilier Wheatland.—Tuesday, Oicibtul ; Friday, parik 7 M 12.31f-pnot ten. k t ke e 1 qifelL the , 6 l ll %to Nkkleo,6B ini tr„ e ll . th % t i: . l4;: a gitB. 4r,, 1 1, 3 1 ' 4 r I,,Ne, rent, j ne es roi 4111,Q,reolutic o Av ing ., v ‘,ll k t ik i ßi BIL ri6 a (1 4 e .s er rr, 'l l e " k b 4 lll l ) ire 1 i Rho es, air Xke 1,1:W8 uts 4 , 1 Il k% nu Ott T rent fo in Vi r ev i, ' A 4I,Z, out w 1 Aft ‘lll , th e t th • (:{ e pr , lir s on _ tißi lle e lite a 11111 e0 1411 to d t 1 4 4 te A t he I. ei Ai tt eV 4)4 ver C 4 41 1, , tita I C 4l l 4 t tit p kem k t l :ll ' c); 1 R ti c4l j ll4 -i tla t I,4'ee tilb, r 4 .di 1 .4 Lq 11 1 1 / 4 1 :atifi e ea l a t l tic fr otri li cit 4, d to t AN °I kk e 4 4yoni 41e, ,411,1 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING:7DECEMBER 10, 1852.