The Sun. — London, England, 1852-01-02 00:00:00

Arrived from the River end sailed, Feronier, Bar badoes. Sld. Sydnry, New South Wales; Caroline Agnes, South Australia; Jenny .Lind, ilavre and Lima. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY•) CORN-EXC CrE—FRIDAY. Coastwise from Essex , Kent , and Suffolk th e arrivals of English Wheat, this week, have been moderate, viz., 2,390 quarters; but fresh up, to-day, by land carriage, tive supply was rmall. The show of samples of both Red and White being very limited, and the attendance of both town and country millers en the increase, all kinds of home-grown Wheat moved off steadily, at fully Monday's prices. Fur forward ch - livery very little was doing. The imports of Foreign Wheat have been 4,070 quarters, chiefly from the westward, and of in ferior quality. Fine Dantzie parcels were held firmly, at higher rates; but the amount of business doing was not large. Low and middling kinds were unaltered. For floating cargoes we had very few inquiries. With both English and Foreign Barley we were seasonably well supplied. Maltierr parcels unre. - 1 off steadily, at full quotations, hut grinding and distilling sorts com manded very little attention. We had a fair inquiry for Malt, at late figures. Good heavy and fresh Oats were quite as dear. Damp parcels met a slow inquiry. Beans and Peas wititout animation; but Indian Corn and Flour were very firm. The imports of the latter article are only 200 sticks. aiiItIVALB THIS WEER. Wheat. Barley. i Malt. Oats. EngILA Irish ....... Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks 2,390 3,580 3,450 2,550 1,130 6,150 Foreign 4,070 I 4,790 3,110 I 200 To-day's market was very moderately supplied with beasts, both as to number and quality. On the whole, the Beef trade ruled steady, at prices equal to those of Monday last—the primest Scots having realised 3s 10d per 81bs. Owing to the high rates demanded by the salesmen, the demand for Sheep was inactive. Never theless, the late advance was well supported. Prime old Downs sold at from 4s 4d to 4s 6,1 per Sibs, and a clearance was readily effected. Prime small Calves realised extreme currencies, Otherwise, the Veal trale was heavy. Pigs changed hands slowly. Mulch Cows were selling at from 141 to 181 5s each, including their small calf. _ _ _ Per Sibs. to S s. d. to s. d. Inteilor Beasts..... 2 6 210 Second quality •• 3 0 3 2 Prime lar,ge Oxen.. 3 4 3 6 Prime Scots •• •• 3 8 310 Large coarse Calves 3 2 3 8 Prime smallditto .. 310 4 2 Suckling Calves —lB 0 21 0 Lambs 0 0 0 0 TOTAL SUPPLY I Sheep. 3,002 FuItEIGN I Sheep. 403 Ink tho offal. s. d. to s. d Inferior fibeep •• •• 3 0 3 2 Second qual. Sheep 3 4 310 Coarse-woolleddittc4 0 4 2 Southdown Wether 4 4 4 6 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 Large llogs •••• • • 2 8 3 8 Small Porkers •••• 3 10 4 0 Quarter old Pigs •• 16 0 20 0 AT MARKET. I Calves. I Pigs. 190 I 330 SUPPLY. I Calves. _ P 70 10 Beasts. 797 Blasts. 12') NEWG.LITM AND Lt ADENUAL3.. These markets were tolerably firm fur each kind of stock, at very full prices. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. , s. d. to s. d. tecf, inferior."... 2 4 2 6 ;Autton, inferior .. 2 8 3 0 -- middling .... 2 8 210 ' middling.. 3 2 3 8 primelargo 3 0 3 2 prime .... 310 4 0 -- prime small 3 4 3 6 Pork, large.... •• •• 2 8 3 8 Veal.. •• •• 3 0 4 0 -- small .• •••• •• 3 8 310 CH RISTMAS BOOKS. ALICE LEARIIONT; a Fairy Tale. By the Author of " Olive." With Illustrations by James Godwin. Chapman and Ball. A genuine fairy tale, charmingly written, and most' gracefully illustrated, "Alice Learmont" is worthy of being classed among the most attractive of " Christmas books." The illustrations are singularly beautiful, and promise well for the future achieve ments of Mr. James Godwin. The tale, as the title page says, is a "fairy tale," and as such gives a full and entertaining account of the strange caprices and fitful vagaries of the "good people ." Alice Learmont, like many another young maiden, whether of high or low degree, has a divided heart and almost a divided existence. D welling from infancy among the deceitful splendour a nd heartless gaities of fairy land, but, unlike her elfin companions, possessed of a human heart, which now and then yearns with a strange intensity for the human love which en circles the humble hearth of her mother's cottage, Alice endures a struggle which, as we have said, finds its counterpart in many a youthful breast divided betwt,en the claims of Art and Nature, of FLAion and Home. To such and to many more " Alice Learmont" will not be without a moral, and its beautiful pictures of home affection, and especially the charming portrait of Marion Learmoat, the ideal of motherly love, entitle this fairy tale to a prominent place among the favourite Woks of the Christmas Flour. I season. THE FLORAL MONTES OF ENGLAND. By Jane E. Giraitd. Acltermann. " To all who consider the lilies of the fi id, how they grow, this wreath of England's wild flowers is dedicated," says the introductory page of this very beautiful volume, and to all those, and possibly to many others who have no opportunity of considering them as they grow, these graceful representatives of some among the most graceful of the flowers of the fiQld will prove most acceptable. The volume, which is in every particular as beautifully finished as are all the productions of the Messrs. Ackermann, contains twelve delicately-coloured groups of the principal wild flowers, &c., of each month, among the most beautiful of which are the pink and white hedge roses of June, and the red berried-holly and ever greens of December. A group of various mushrooms is the strange illustration for one of the autumn months, and contrasts well with its more elegant companions. FLORAL POEMS; with Pictures in the Flowers. The Poetry by F. W. N. Bayley. Ackermann. Another elegant adornment for the drawing-room table is this fanciful combination of pictures and verses, where delicate gossamer- winged ladies and gen tlemen disport themselves among the blossoms and leaves of symbolic flowers, most gracefully designed, and beautifully coloured. Mr. Bayley's poetic de scriptions appear to be designed to serve the purposes of valentines, fur which they aro eminently qualified, besides affording a very graceful interpretation for the various pictures. THE HUNCHBACK'S CHEST. By the Rev. W. Wickenden, 8.A., the I3ard of the Forest, Author of " Adventures in Circassia." A pleasing collection of prose and verse, consisting of several tales, a dramatic sketch entitled " Achilles and Cleone," and several short poems, which are very graceful; among them may be noticed " A Sea Chant" and a " Fancy Sketch." " Blethyn," the longest of the tales, is of the time of the Cavaliers. LADY FELICIA ; a .A'ovel. By H. Cochton, Office of the National Illustrated Library. Entertainment will be found in this tale, which is in conformity with the general purport of publi cations at this season. The heroine is very spirited and intelligent, and the miseries of her home and cruel treatment of her relatives furnish her with a sufficient excuse for taking a step that might else be censurable. Alfred, the hero, proves the power of perseverance, and the truth of the assertion that merit and prudence may overco me many obstacles and succeed to an almost i n credible extent. There is nothing heavy or solemn about the book, all is charac terised by briskness and vivacity. THE PATHWAY OF THE FA WN. By Mrs. I T. K. Hervey. Office of the National Illustrated 1 Library. 1 This is " a tale of the New Year," the scene is laid in Germany, and the plot, though complicated, • is interesting. Its chief object seems to be to show the effect of beautiful influences upon the mind. Why it is thus entitled is not clear, as the pathway of the fawn is but a name given to a path in the woods which is seldom referred to. The style is striking and poetical, in some instances almost too much so, yet the reader cannot fail to be fascinated by it. The following extract is taken from the com mencement, where a group of friends are awaiting the New Year:—" I do truly believe," was the answer of the young and enthusiastic Ernst, "that words involuntarily uttered at such a sea son as this whether around such a board or elsewhere ; whether spoken on the summit of the Brocken, or beneath the pitchy boughs of the Schwartzwald ; whether in the green depths of the Rhine valleys, or beside its winding waters—are alike potent from the lips that gave them breath ; nay, further, that while the worse spirits are at times per mitted to apply such terms in a strained or fatal sense—if at all ambiguous—on the other hand, the words themselves on the lips of the just may become words of power, controlling the designs of demons, and forcing them to work out the good of the utterer against their will. 'HaI ha ha l' shouted Wilhelm von Fern, further than this the tide of superstition can scarcely run. But see,' he added, suddenly point ing to the dial plate, ' we have almost forgotten the watches of the night. It wants but a minute to the charmed hour. "That minute was one of the deepest hush. Every eye turned in the same direction, and became ravetted on the time-piece. Wilhelm von Fern arose, and treading the boards as if his steps would have disturbed some sleeper, turned to the window and noiselessly opened the casement to its full swilag, in order that the chimes of the distant cathedrea naigbt be distinctly heard. Still not a breath stirred not a star was visible. But down, far down the rocky steep lay the ancient city at its foot, with all her innumerable lights reflected in the waters of the darkened Rhine—so many witnesses of the anxious and breathless watchers that awaited the signal of another birth to time, a year for hope, for love, young voices and old graves." There are several songs introduced which are very graceful and pleasing, and the volume is altogether most attractive. LITERATURE. TRAVELS in TARTARY, THIBET, AND CHIN A. Office of the .National illustrated Library. These accounts are translated from the French, they are the records of a lengthened sojourn in the East by Messrs. Shee and Gabet. No one can fail to be mtereced in such minute details concerning nations about which so little is known and where so few have been able to penetrate. PICTURES OF TRAVELS IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE. By Alexandre Dumas. Office of the National Illustrated Library. It is truly observed in the pretace of this work, that no one should attempt to write on scenes so near home without being well acquainted with them. The principle points of interest and the historical associations connected with Lyons, Vienne, Marseilles, Fontain bleau, &c., tire commented on, and much valuable in formation is thus given. THE PICTORIAL SCRIPTURE ALPHA BET. By Miss Schroder. Ackermann. A aerie& of cards representing the letters of the alphabet. On each is a coloured design of some leading subject met with in the Bible. Very useful descriptions are given on the back, and a moral is sought for in moat cases from the texts which contain the words exhibited. But one thing sug. gents itself, that the children for whose use the letters proclaim it to be intended would never have the capacity to comprehend the abstruse reflections that appear. Indeed, there are many accounts given that those of mature years are doubtless unacquainted with, and they may here gain information which is in every way desirable. APPOINTMENTS TO OFFlCES.—Yesterday the At of Parliament to simplify the forms of appointments to cer taro offices and the manner of passing grants under the Great Seal (14 and 15 Victoria, cap. 82) came into force, re pealing the statute 27 Henry VIII., cap. 11, by which all writings to be passed under the Great Seal were passed through the offices of the Signet and Privy Seal by warrants. In every case where any gift or grant is required to be passed, her Majesty may - , by her warrant to the Lord Chancellor, cause letters patent to be passed, which warrant shall be a sufficient warrant for passing the letters patent, and no Queen's bill, Signet bill, or Privy Seal bill shall be necessary to the passing of such letters patent. The offices of clerks of the Signet and Privy Seal are by this Act abolished, and compensation to be given to the persons holding the offices. The duties of the Signet-office (not superseded by this Act) are to be performed in the office of the Secretary of State. The Treasury is to regulate the Pr iv y Seal offices, and to fix salaries. Rules are to be made for passing letters patent. Th e Act does not affect letters patent, Scc e not passed through the Signet and Privy Seal offices. The Act takes effect from the 31st December, 1851. SUPPRpSION OF THE CONVICT MUTINY.—The eighteen convicts who were separated from the other con victs on board the Warrior at \Voolwich Dockyard on Tues day last, and, after being heavily ironed, placed on board the Wye convict ship in the river, were taken on shore on Wednesday afternoon by order of Captain Whitty and con veyed in omnibuses hired for the occasion, in the dusk of the evening, to Millbank Penitentiary. The other convicts have resumed their labour under their guards as usual during the day in the dockyard; but, from information Captain Whitey has received, there are seven other convicts still among those at the dockyard whose conduct was very bad, and he lies considered it necessary that they should be flogged as an example to the others. The Royal Artillery have been ordered to take their turn of cosict guard duty with the loyal Marines. BOR.OUGH 710 P rezilIMET. Thera is rather more doing in Ea,t li , nt and Sussex pockets of the present year'.; growth, at very full prices. Otherwise, the demand is in a sluggish state. Sussex pockets, 5/ 8s to 6165; Weald of Kent, G/ 10,3 to 71 ss; Mid and East Kent, 71 to 121 per cwt. COLONIAL.. SUGAR.—There have been a tew private sales in yel low Havannah at full prises, and refined brown lumps have been sold at 44i. COFFEE.—Some demand has arisen for Native Ceylon for home use, good ord being 39s to 393 6d, and better kinds up to 41s. SALTPETRE.--Prices are firm. COTTON.—There is a steady market. TEA.—Ttte demand has improved within the last day or two, and higher prices are paid. TALLOW.-1). Y. C. is 39s 6d per cwt on the spot. GREEN Fnurr.—The market has been dull this week, owing to the dealers having fully supplied themselves with stock before Christmas. Two cargoes Oranges from St. Michael, one from Terceira, and one from Se ville, sold by Keeling and Hunt at public sale, went at a reduction from is to 25 per package. Lemons are is per case lower; other fruits without alteration. The complaint mentioned in our last against the Customs for detaining some cargoes of Oranges for increased duty, is undergoing investigation by the Customs authorities, 'with every probability of the evil being in future remedied. ROUTES TO SAN FRANCISCO—PRICE OF PASSAGE, 4(c. (From the .New York Herald) In answer to numerous ;letters from different parts of the country relative to the best route, price of pas sage, B tc., to San Francisco, we make the following statement PACIFIC MAIL STEAM-SHIP COMPANY.—M. O. Roberts, No. 177, West-street, New York ; Arm strong, Harris, an d C o ., N o . 43, N a t c he z - s treet, New Orleans, agents. This company have, in conjunction with the United States Mail Steam-ship Company, twenty-four steamers, ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 tons burden each, eight of which are kept in the line between New York and Chagres, and sixteen in the line connecting Panama with San Francisco. Their regular days of sailing from New York are the 9th, 11th, 24th, and 26th of each month. At Present they do not contract to carry passengers across the isthmus, the transit of which, however, can be e ff ecte d at a small cost to well and hardy Men. Parties at Chagres will contract to carry pas sengers from Chagres to Gorgona, with 100 pounds of baggage, for from 8 dolls. to 10 dolls. ; having ar rived at which point they have accomplished the whole of the river navigation, which takes about thirty-six to forty-eight hours, and they then have brit twenty-one miles of land travel, which is per• formed by about two-thirds of the passengers on foot in the space of twelve hours. If passengers desire to ride this distance they can do so at an expense of from 10 dolls. to 12 dolls. ; the price charged for mules does not vary much from this, either for packing, freight, or riding ; 2001 b. is a load for a mule, so that any one can calculate exactly what the expenses will be. If he goes with, say, a couple of changes of clothing in a travelling-bag— which, by-the-by, is all that any one should take— and walk from Gorgona to Panama (which is, in fact, preferred by many to riding a mule), it would not cost him over 12 dolls. or 15 dolls. Houses of en tertainment are interspersed throughout the route, where provisions can be had at a moderate rate. The steamers at Panama only await the arrival of the mails and passengers, when they are immediately dispatched, and no delay is experienced at any point throughout the route. They can calculate almost to a certainty of making their trip 3 through inside of 28 days, and when the railroad is fully completed, 23 to 25 days, will be all that is required. Passengers are found everything on board, and ex perienced ph ys i c i ans a tt en d t o any one who may be ill free of charge. There are three different grades of passage, for which, in comparison to any other line of steam ships, their charges are moderate. For first-class they ask 265 dolls. ; second, 215 dolls. ; and steerage, 150 dolls. ; each passenger being allowed 2501b5. of baggage free. For children under twelve they °barge half-price ; infants nothing. NICARAGUA LINE.—D. B. Allen, No. 9, Battery place, New York, agent.—This line is composed of three steam-ships, two of which leave New York, one on the 7 th and the other on the 22d of each month, connectin g by the Nicaragua Transit Route, having but 12 miles of land carriage. On the arri val of the steamer from New. York at San Juan Del Sud, the Pacific terminus of the Transit route, the passengers for San Francisco will be forwarded with out delay. By this line there are four different grades of passage, viz.:—State room on deck, 320 dolls. ; first cabin state room, 300 dolls.; second cabin, open berth, 250 dolls. ; steerage berth , 180 dolls. -- through to San Francisco. Baggage in the steam -1511131 25 0 pounds, free; across the I sthmus, 15 cents. perF P o und. Children under 12 y ears half-price ; nothing. The time by this route is 25 to 28 da ys, and the above charge covers the whole distance from N ew York to San Francisco. eitherAs agen eral rule the cost is about the same b y route, and the time one or two days less by the Nicaragua route than by that via Panama. THE BELPER MURDER. 13 xLPElt, WEDNESDAY Emu/ea.—The adjourned in Quest was resumed this morning; and after the exa m nationof Miss Harrison, a lady visitor in the house , and e .e s srs. Evans and Lomas, surgeons, the jury imme diately returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against Anthony Turner, who was forthwith committed to take his trial at the ensuing March assizes at Derby. didculprit was present during the investigation , a nd not appear at all concerned at the awful situat ion in Which he was placed. Previous to the jury return in g their verdi c t h e amended a platform close by the side of , u the coron er , an d a ddressed the court at considerable ie egt e . He admitted that he had killed the deceased. iXhe su bj ect to w hi c h h e principally alluded was a Tag series of grievances against his victim—first, be rrase he kept en illegitimate child of Mrs. Ba rnes ' late other, with the promise from that gentleman that care W ould be taken of the infant in the will, which was not ; secondly, because Mrs. Barnes declined to accede to the violent and insulting demands for money on that b ehalf; and, thirdly, because she, his mistrees, had been guilty of exercising her own authority in the manage- Ment of her own affairs. This annoyed him, and the villain murdered his benefactor. The CORONER said he should not commit his state ment to writing, as it appeared more in the shape of an address to clear himself with his friends than a formal statement. The Court-house was densely crowded durin g the in 'veseigation, and a large mob aurrounding the building on the outside. When being conveyed away, he was yelled and hooted by V'e mob. There is uet the slightest ground for supposieg that the prisoner is insane; on tie contrary, he is perfectly calm and collected, and delivered his address with the greatest oprapogue and At MIMS. I, J ii ; sup, i e f ou pi the iO9l l l shore , cog° Mau' Mad* THE S N, LONDON, THE MAGAZINES. BLACKWOOD. Although the political article with which Black wood (Tens its number for January is, in arrange ment, somewhat serernbling and desultory, it is vigorous in its tone, and comprehensive in the range of its observation. Entitled "Political and Monetary , Prospects," it begins with an allusion to Louis Napo leon's coup d'etat of the 21 ultimo, and ends with a confident prediction (upon one proviso) of the aban. donment of the free-trade policy. We don't think the most ardent admirers of that policy would object to run the risk of the datne h er here implied by the realization of that householdsuffrage " the first effect" of which, according to the writer in Maga, would, " in all probability, be the restoration of Protection." By all means let us at least try the experiment. After the paper in question, comes a most genial review of , psemas by William Smith"—a name etranger for Plswbus to "chronicle in the rolls of levee," than even that of Amos Cottle, whatever Lord Byron might have thought to the contrary. It is amusing to witness the apologetic attitude assumed by the critic on presuming to commend a Mr. Smith as a poet—the generic title lasing as he himself acknow ledges the " very incarnation of 'Oesnc." Oddly enough another Mr. Smith is being just now an nounced to the world as a true son of the muses—his sponsors being the Eclectic Review and Critic—so that we are likely to be overrun with votaries of that god of poetry, Apollo, who, among his other names, oimself rejoiced in the kindred one of Sminthius! Sooth to say, the critic, in Blackwood, justifies to the very uttermost the generous warmth of his panegyric by some really exquisite, and [if we may so speak in regard to purely intellectual tastes] most appetiz ing quotations. Those who read his comments upon Guidone," upon " Crichton," and upon " Athelwold," will be disposed to turn, themselves, to the perusal of those dramatic compositions. The next composition is an agreeable chapter, descriptive of a visit to " Mont Blanc," written by no less lively a narrator than Albert Smith, the most enterprising of jokers, the man who, as Dr. Syntax went in search of the picturesque, has, on his part, gone in search of the humorous, penetrating, to this end, the solitudes of the Alps and the streets of Constantinople. After. wards we are treated to a delightful paper, recounting to us some of " The Rural Superstitions of Western France—followed by a fantastic, but important, article entitled "Husbands, Wives, Fathers, Mothers." Then comes the cus tomary charm and attraction to the pages of Black wood—" My Novel ; or, Varieties in English Life" —the personal pronoun no longer signifying Pisis tratus Caxton, but Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. The retirement of the Caxton family from any participa tion in the course of the serial is formally announced in the " initial chapter" prefixed to the present (the ninth) book of the narrative. Henceforth those de lightful prefatory gossips, in which the author establishes an immediate confidence between himself and the reader, will be restricted to abstract con siderations. This time the reflections heralding the continuance of the story have reference to the sub ject of public life. They are especially dedicated to the consideration of vestrymen and chairmen of quarter sessions. Riccabocca has removed to the vicinity of London, where Randal has all but com mitted himself to an alliance with Violante, when he discovers betimes that she is likely to prove to one such as himself a bride altogether penniless. Richard Avenel has fallen into the meshes of Baron Levy. Audley Egerton is on the eve of passing with his ministerial colleagues from the offices of Govern ment. Helen has returned to England, and is now affianced to her chivalric and gentle guardian, Harley L'Estrange, noblest and best of all these fictitious personages. The interview between the Count di Peschiera and Randal is admirably depicted, the two villains recognising each other, as it were, instinc tively. Poor Frank Hazledean is evidently dropping into a mesalliance with Madame di Negra—and as evidently the occupant of the Swiss•like cottage op posite Riccabocca's suburban residence, is the writer of the popular novel, and the writer of the popular novel is Leonard Fairfield. Among the most charm- ing characters in the story,Lafterall, is—Jetnima. The plot of the fiction has now become agreeably en tangled. After a magazine tale, called " Struggles for Fame and Fortune," Blackwood closes with a hasty but favourable notice of Mr. Disraeli's political biography of Lord George Bentinck. MERVYN CLIT.HEROE. No. 11. By W. _Harrison Ainsworth. Another portion of ➢ir. Ainsworth's new story only assures us more forcibly of the correctness with which we augured well from its commencement. The interest of the fiction has already become enthralling, and its readers will watch with eager curiosity for the destinies awaiting both Mervyn himself and his evil genius Malpes. Desolation has suddenly fallen on the hospitable rooftree of Netberscroft in the death of its mistress. The way in which this incident is described is beautiful and affecting—the readers curiosity being excited to a strange intensity of dread even in the midst of the Twelfth-night merrymaking in the barn at Farmer Shakeshaft's. The festivity here mentioned is the feature of the second number, and Phiz has felt this in his humorous and grotesque illustration. The interview with the gipsics, the incidents connected with Sissy, and the absurd officiousness of Pownall, the barber-surgeon, help to enliven the tale as it progresses. Before we close the present instalment we find Mervyn back again at Cotton borough—first at the Anchorite's and then among his schoolfellows. Scarcely has he returned to the latter, when his favourite, John Brideoake, is seized with a dangerous illness, from over-application, and the hero finds himself unexpec tedly face to face with one we feel sure will prove to be the heroine—Apphia Brideoake. Throughout all these homely and domestic events it is impossible not to recognise an extraordinory verisimilitude to nature —such as induces us to regard the scenery and many of the characters as owing their existence rather to memory than to imagination. From what we have Already seen of "Mervyn Clitheroe" we are prepared, fur many reasons, to find in it its author's masterpiece. EDITS ABOUT MECHANICS' IN STITUTES. The causes of failure we think are not far to seek. First, they have failed because the working people of this country have not yet been educated up to the point at which they can derive any large amount of benefit from Mechanics' Institute!. Secondly, among that part of the working class who have the desire for self-culture, there is a general reluctance manifested to enter a Me chanics' Institute, as at present constituted; because they feel that they are not placed on the same level as the other meiubers of the Institute. They are excluded from all interest or share in the management. They are treated in a patronizing manner; and, generally speaking, working men do not like to be " patronized." Hence, they prefer forming themselves into what are called Mutual Improvement Societies, where they can meet on the same level, and manage their own affairs entirely by themselves; and this is the case even in those towns where some of the most thriving so-called Mechanics' Institutes are located. A third cause of failure is to be found in the fact, that the subjects which, of all others, interest intelligent work ing men in these days—namely, questions of political and sccial well-being—are excluded from Mechanics' Institutes. Another cause, and by no means an unim portant one, is the absence of amusement in Mechanics' Institutes generally; in place of which, the audience, not unfrequently, has to listen to a very heavy and un profitable lecture—on somebody's poems, or on some body else's novels, or on Shakspere's women or fools, or on cryptogamic plants. Such lectures are very apt to send a man to sleep, who has been working all day amid the whirl of machinery and the beating of hammers. It is really too much to ask an artizan to come and listen to such things. You must give him some entertainment that will at least keep him awake, and amuse if not instruct him. Not that sound infor mation should be excluded . to make room for amusement; but amusement and . attraction of some kind there must be, if not, the public-house and the easino will attract the operative as now, and not the Mechanics' Institute. -Eliza Cook's Journal, DISAPPEARANCE OF A YOUNG LADY.—A young lady, of highly respectable family, who has for some time past resided in the capacity of governess with . thp family of Mr. Andrew Duncan, Hatfield -place, near this city (Bath), is missing under alarming circumstances. The , young lady, it appears, accompanied one of M r. Duncan daughters to church on the morning of Christmas -day, but, befo service had been concluded, she rose frem her seat o leave the church, complaining of illness. Th e pew-opener ! t struck by her strange and excited air, invited her to go into the vestry ; but the young lady declined to do so, quitted the church, and has not been heard of since . Some other cir cumstances, unhappily, point to the probability that she has been drowned. We understand that not long after she had left the church the landlord of the Dolphin Inn, oppo site Twerton, observed a young lady answering to the de scription-of Mr. Duncan's governess walking along the bank of the river in a hurried manner, and within a few minutes after ho had lost sight of her another person saw a female struggling in the water. He immediately ran to get assist ance, but, on returning to the spot, all was quiet, and not a trace remained of the drowning person. The river has since hcen dragged, but without success, owing, it may be, to its being much swollen. There is no absolute certainty that the missing young lady and the person seen in the water are the same, though it is very probable, especially as the young lady had, for some time previously, been suffering from depression of spirits, to which, we arc informed, she was constitutionally disposed. Her friends, we need not say , ar e suffering great anxiety, being in a dreadful uncertainty whether she has wandered away, fallen into the river, or committed suicid e.—Bath Chronicle. OBSCENITIES' FROM CHINA,--A remarkable impor tation has recently taken place from China, consisting of a series of paintings, or, more properly, carvings of an elaborate character, painted and contained in a kind of frame, each having hinges inversely so as to close after the manner of a draught-board in the form of a book. On examination of this piece of mechanism it was found that each of these painted carvings formed a slide which discovered another carving of an equally elaborate description but of a grossly obscene character, the figures comprising these obscenities being carvings in ivory representing Chinese characters. it is believed that on no previous occasion has the skill of mechanical art been more grossly perverted to an improper purpose. The articles were, it seems, in transitu for France, but the authorities have given directions for these obscene cary ip s tc, be immediately and eatiroly destroyed. FRIDAY EVENIN(4, SPIRIT of tli JOURNALS. TIMES.—It is related that upon the arrival at Naples of the intelligence of the coup d'etat of the 2d of December, his Majesty King Ferdinand testified his joy by embracing the officer who brought this congenial intelligence, and conferred upon him a step of promotion in the Guards the very next day. There was for once common gladness in the Capo di Monte end in Carlton-gardens ; and the Monarch of the Two Sicilies recovered a flow of animal spirits which has been checked since the publication of Mr. Gladstone, s letters. We cannot wonder at the eruption of Royal satisfaction, for the proceedings of the French Go vernment have so far surpassed those of the Neapo litan autocrat that the latter appear light and liberal by comparison. In Naples charges have been made on corrupt evidence and tried by dishonest courts of justice ; but in France hundreds of political offenders have been condemned and punished—nay, even put to death—without even the formality of any trial at all. In Naples we karat that 2,000 political captive . s groaned in the wretched prn ons of that kingdom ; in France it seems that about the same number will be deported to Algeria and Cayenne. In Naples we have read of a catechism imposed by the priest, which makes abject servitude to despotic government the whole duty of man ; in France, the priests of the same church show equal alacrity in preparing fetters for the nation now handed over to their authority by the secular arm. Wherever an oath has been broken, wherever a constitution has been overthrown, wher ever military force has become the basis of govern ment, wherever law has been set aside, wherever the police have been let loose to track the nearest secrets of domestic life, wherever the press has been silenced, and even the diversions of society placed under the frown of a censor, France will henceforth be invoked as a precedent and en example for all that has hitherto been held most abhorrent to the rights and liberties of civilised communities. She differs from her fellows in oppression by one consideration only, which does not lessen the guilt of her oppressors so much as it lessens her own dignity and character in the world— namely, that these evils are to a great extent self-imposed, that she thanks the hand that has struck her, and has sanctioned the destruction of her freedom by eight millions of voters. • Her tyrants may exclaim, with the lawyep of Rome, Volenti non fit injuria, and it is their only defence. The emotion thus ludicrously expressed by the King of Naples on such an occasion was not alto gether unfelt by more dignified personages in other parts of Europe, and we have heard without surprise that the establishment of military despotism in France had been greeted with satisfaction by those who had fixed their minds and policy upon the impending terrors of democracy in the year which has just opened. But, if the first impression was that of relief to Eu rope considerationso From nespeciesof peril, the n ex t momen t brought with of increased gravity arising out of the new state of affairs. Whatever may have been the defects of the Republican Government in Prance, it had shown by experience that it was not an aggres sive Government; it had practically adopted the ter- ritorial limits of 1815 ; it bad faithfully respected the rigbts of foreign nations; it represented the most pacific elements in French society ; it had abstained from, and even opposed, revolutionary propaganda abroad ; and, as far as we are concerned, it bad wit nessed the happiest and most cordial period of union people eo t f policy En of the gland and the t p h e a o t p e le ve o r f Fexriasnteede.blevtwbettetenvtehre petbeospe re exe cutive power may at times have been, that of the National Assembly was clear, and it was strongly , opposed to war. That Assembly was, in our judg omfeDnte,ptuhteiems main ndas the Chamber peace, it was a power so constituted as to support . the Government in resist ing those popular and military impulses, which are always to be apprehended in such a country as France. That barrier is gone Lthose popular . and guaranteebeen before of t p , military impulses would now, if casually excited, prove irresistible ; for, however the Government may be prepared to exercise compression at home, it must give great latitude to the national passions or delu sions of the people towards foreign states, and it may even, under certain circumstances, direct and ex cite them. The eagles which have just reappeared on the standards of the French army are not, we presume, the tame eagles of Boulogne; or, at any rate, Louis Napoleon may be ready to prove that the bird has not degenerated by a few years of captivity. It is a thing not to be lost sight of b y any continental statesman or by our own Mini▪ s ters, that the true conservative element in France, which maintained peace upon the principles of en lightened public interest and duty, has been de molished to make way for the Imperial symbol of force and ambition. The Government of Louis Na poleon has hitherto abstained from any general pledges or professions of its views on foreign policy ; but we believe that four confidential diplomatic agents, two of whom have lately filled the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs, are about to be dis patched to the several Courts of Europe for the pur pose of explaining the intentions of the French Cabinet, and of obtaining some further insight into the disposition of Europe towards France. Never, certainly, was a more important mission confided to the servants of any Government, not only as regards France, but as it involves the common interest of the world. If the object of these missions be simply to claim the recognition of foreign Powers for a successful military Government, adopted by the people, and resting upon the public engagements of the French nation, no doubt can be entertained of their entire and immediate success. But we are not ignorant that, on some former occasions, the ostensible objects of Louis Napoleon's diplomacy have been accompanied by other proposals, kept back even from the knowledge of his own ambas sadors ; and that, even when the control of peace and war was not absolutely in his own hands, he showed a propensity, if not a desire, to purchase on any terms the a ssen t o f one or more o f the Continental Powers to particular p ro j ec t s o f his own. These were the motives of M. d e P ers i gn y's missions into Ger many in 18 49 and 1850, when his overtures were politely listened to, but rejected. In some form or o ther, but more pro b a bl y i n diff eren t f o rms at di▪ ffe rent Courts, we expect that the same policy will shortly be renewed ; for, without any definite system, Louis Napoleo n must endeavour t o es t a blish closer relati▪ ons with some portion of Europe at the expense of the other part. It is one of the disastrous effects of the late revolution in France, that it has a tendency to kindle a n d i n fl ame , by the triumph of bad ambition and illegal violence there, what ever sparks of the same nature are lurking else where. The defection of France from the general o rder of things established in Europe for the com mon benefit would at once pa lli a te and facilitate any other infraction of the conditions of peace. She may hold out to Russia the lure of aggrandisement in the East ; she may att empt to rev i ve i n P russ i a th a t f a tal riv▪ alry of Austria which brought the Germanic Confederation to the verge of hostilities but a few months ago ; she may see k to ca j o l e A us t r i a by sa crificing the neutrality of Switzerland and the inde pendence of the Sardinia n d om i n i ons . We judge of the foreign policy of Louis Napoleon by the porten tous example o f his uncle , which he has placed before his eyes, by his policy and instruments at home, and by some of his °Ai previous negotiations. Ere many weeks have elapsed the old tempter of Erfurt and of Schonbrunn will be abroad, and the principles of European Governments in their relations to each other and to the general p eace may b e expose d to t h e hard est trial they have y e t [ susta i ne d . W e trust by all that is sacred and precious to the first interests of manki▪ nd, that in whatever form such temptations may come, they will be firmly and uniformly re sisted—that no negotiation will be opened or enter tained by any Power with reference to the territorial distribution of Europe which shall not at once be communicated to all the Courts, and that no states man intrusted at such a crisis .with the conduct of affairs will allow any secondar y quest i on or separa t e interest to divert him from from the most hearty and steadfast adherence to that which i s th e common in terest of all. In comparison with what may now be at stake, how paltry and contemptible are the leaser considerations that have divided or united Cabinets and Courts! What can now be weighed against the only thing of which we were sure, namely the prin ciple of common respect for all the rights established by treaty throughout Europe P What security would remain for any portion of that compact if , b y any bli▪ nd connivance with its adversary, one essential point in it be broken down ? The history of Napo leon's victories lay in the divisions he succeeded in effecting in Europe ; that of his defeat in the union of all. Neither in his hands, nor in those of his nephew, will France provoke the calamity of univer- I sal war, unsupported by an accomplice or an ally COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS ocnooLs.—A dinner, attended by several ladies and gentlemen interested is the above-named excellent institution took place on Monday evening, at the London Tavern, at the conclusion of the half yearly election of children. The object of the meeting was to present Mrs. J. R. Cuilley with a testimonial to comme morate her zealous and benevolent exertions in aiding to found, and subsequently in promoting the prosperity of the charity referred to. The testimonial consisted of an elegant silver salver and tea service, and the chairman in presenting it, and several other gentlemen, bore testimony to the value of the services rendered to the institution by Mrs. Conley. The proceedings appeared to give the highest satisfaction to all present, and after an evening spent in the greatest cor diality, and in the interchange of friendly sentiments and mutual resolutions to promote to the utmost the prosperity of the schools, the party dispersed. Da N y, E th W e Y cu E sto ß rna s ry giftsDAl—Yesterday b e i ng N ew Y e ar's were distributed to the deserving poor in the metropolitan and suburban parishes, by the churchwardens and overseers in their respective districts, the donations consisted principally of coals, bread, and potatoes ; but in some localities, where meat was not given at Christ mas, a supply of that article was issued. The inquests in the various wards throughout the City have supplied large quan tities of coals, &c., to the poor inhabitants in the several . precincts; the begnests to the poor in the various parishes were distributed by the trustees in accordance to the wills of the testators. JANUAItY 2, 1852. IRELAND. DUBLIN, TIIURSDAY. ntocatEss OF BIBBOStISM. The murderous Ribbon conspiracy thrives apace— even in the presence of an increased constabulary force, backed as it is by a strong party of soldiery. Dundalk has been the theatre of another bloody tra gedy. On Monday evening a bailiff was shot, and, it is apprehended, mortally wounded. Dr. Brunker, the medical gentleman who has charge of the wounded Mr. Eastwood, was called to the aid of the unfortu nate bailiff. This last atrocity was perpetrated in one of the proclaimed districts of the county Louth, in the immediate locality in which the attempt to murder Mr. Eastwood was committed, and but four days after that atrocious deed. The tenant-right paper of the district gives the following details : On Monday evening, as a respectable man named John Overend, was returning home to the village of Louth, from the market of Dundalk, he was met by two men at a place called lincckbridgc. Having passed by him, they suddenly turned round, when one of them discharged a pistol at him, lodging the contents (slug,) in the 5111411 of his back. Overend fell to the ground immediately, and the miscreants, believing they had taken his life, decamped. We understand that ho had a pistol in his pocket at the timo; bat from the suddenness of the attack he was unable to use it. The slags have since been extracted by Dr. Brunker, and we are happy to state that Overend is not very dangerously wounded. He was employed as a bailiff on the estate of the Rev. Arthur Clive, in this county, of which Gra ham Johnston, Esq , of Dundalk, is agent. Two persons have been arrested on suspicion by the Louth police, and lodged in Dundalk gaol." Three persons have been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the attempt to murder Mr. East wood. The Newry Telegraph calls upon the Lord Lieu tenant to issue a special commission for the counties of Louth and Armagh, to try the prisoners already in custody charged with Ribbon offences. HIGH SHERIFFS FOR 1852. The following complete list of the High Sheriffs for Ireland for the present year, is from Thom's Al mama, just published : ANTRIM.—Robert Smyth, Lg., of Gaybrook, Mul lingar. ABSIAGIL—Marcus Sinnott, jun., Esq., of Ballymoyer House, N ewtownhamilton. ClLRLOW.—Clement Wolsley, Esq., of Sandbrook, Tallow. CARRICKFERGUS K. Martin, Eeq., Carrickfergus. CAVAN.—Samuel Winter, Esq., of Agher, Summer Hill. CLARE.—Edmund John Armstrong, Esq., of Willow Bank, Ennis. CORK.—John Courtney, Esq., of Ballyedmond, Middleton. CORK ClTY.—Franois Bernard Beamish, Esq., Cork. DONEGAL.—Thomas Alexander, Esq., of Ahilly, Bunerana, Down—Samuel Delaoherois Crommelin, Esq., of Carradore Castle, Donaghadee. DROGHEDA Town—George Harper, Eeq., of Killi neer, Drogheda. • DUBLIN.—John Edward Venables Vernon, Esq , of Clontarf Castle, Clontarf. DUBLIN ClTY.—Thomas Wilson, Esq , of Temple street. FERMANAGIL—John Gerard Irvine, Esq., cf Rock field, Ennitkillen. GALWAY.—Thomas A, Joyce, Esq , of Rahasan Park, Craugkwell. GALWAY Town—John Ireland, Eeq., of Eyre-square, Galway. KERRY.—The Hon. Deyrollcs B. De Moleyns, of Burnham House, Dingle. KILDARE.—Robert Borrowcs, Esq., of Gilltown, Kilcullen. KILKENNY.—George Bryan, Esq., of Jenkistown, Kilkenny. KILKENNY ClTY.—Edmund Smithwick, Esq., of Kil creene, Kilkenny. KING'S COUNTY.—John Gilbert King, Esq., of Bally lin, Ferbane. LElTRlM.—Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Wm. Story, of Riversdale, Ballinamore. LIMERICK.—John Low, Esq., of Rockbarton, Bruff. LIMERICK ClTY.—William Gabbett, Esq., of Strand House, Limerick. LONDONDERRY CITY AND COUNTY.—Leslie Alexan der, jun., Esq., of Foyle Park, Derry. LONGFORD.—Henry B. W. Slator, Esq., of Whitehill, Edgeworthstown. LOUTH —J. Murphy, Esq., of Castletown, Dundalk. MAYO.—J. Knox, Esq., of Greenwood Park, Ballina. MEATH.—Edward Rotherham, Esq., of Crossdrum, Oldcastle. MONAGHAN.—CapeI St George, Esq., of Dromore, Omagh. QUEEN'S Courur.—William Kemmis, jun., Esq., of Kildare-street, Dublin. Roscommon—Christopher I Frencb, Esq.,'' of Clene quin, Tulsk. SLIGO.—John Irwin, Esq., of Raheen, Elphin. TIPPERARY.—Sir Thomas B. Dancer, Bart, Modreeny, Clougbj ardan. TYRON.—William L. Ogilby, Esq:, of Tirkeenaghan, Donemana. WATERFORD.—Thomas St. John Grant, Esq., of Kil linurry, Fermoy. WATERFORD ClTY.—Charles Newport, Esq., of Wil liam-street, Waterford. WESTMEATH. -- John Malone, Esq., of Darlington Lodge, Ballymore. WEXFORD. —Wm. Jacob Blacher, Esq., of Wood brook, Enniscorthy. WICKLOW.—The Right Hon. James Grattan, of Tinnehinch, Bray. THE UNIVERSITY.—The Rev. W. Digby Sadleir, D.D., son of the late Provost, succeeds to the Senior Fellowship of Trinity College, vacant by the promo tion of Dr. M'Donnell. THE LISBURN ELECTION.—The election for the borough of Lisburn will take place on Saturday ; Sir E. Tennent is pursuing his canvass. Although opposition is threatened, there very little doubt of the success of Sir Emerson. Emporium IN KING'S COUNTY.--A party of five armed men attacked the dwelling-kouse of Thomas Hoolahan, a farmer residing at Ballywilliain, in the parish of Eglish, near Parsonstown, on Friday night last. All the family had retired to bed except Hoolahan ; the loud barking of his dogs caused him to go to his kitchen window, from whence he observed five men approaching his house, A shot was immediately fired through the window, and be heard a voice say, " Have nothing to do with William's land." A second shot was then fired into a bed-room window, the ball perforated a tray which was placed against the window, and lodged quite close to the bed where Hoolahan's wife had been sleep ing. Hoolahan, and his wife and sister saw the five men going across the yard into the fields, and heard the leader of the gang, who was armed with a long gun, " order numbers 1 , 2 , 3, and 4 t o marc h on . On the following morning a notice was found in one of the windows, ordering Hoolahan to have nothing to do with either the widow Carry's or John William's land ; a coffin was at the bottom of the notice, and it was signed " Captain Fireball." The persons whose lands were referred to in the notice have been evicted, and their former holdings adjoin Hoolaban's farm. Sa turday night constable White and a party captured five persons, who were brought before Captain Pollock, R.M., on Sunday, and remanded for examination until Monday, on which day an inquiry was held at the court house, by Captain Pollock, assisted by John Warbur ton, Esq., J.P., and John Julian, Esq., Crown solici tor. Several witnesses were examined; Hoolahan, his wife, and sister, identified three of those arrested by constable White—namely, James Duffy, Andrew Carry, and John Carry, and they have been fully committed to abide their trial at the ensuing assizes. Duffy formerly lived as servant with Hoolahan, but latterly he has stopped with a farmer on an adjoining townland, in whose house two guns were found, a long gun and a double-barrelled gun, the former ap peared to have been recently discharged, and one bar rel of the other was loaded, and there was an exploded cap on the nipple. This (says the King's County Chronicle) is the third time of Hoolahan being attacked within the last few years. Sometime ago every per son in his neighbourhood refused to labour for him, and the local magistrates sent their ploughs, horses, and servants to till his farm under police protection. The cause assigned for the last attack is, that it was supposed in the country he would take the evicted land. E LE CTRIC TELEGRAPH.—Mr. Jacob Brett, whose name is so creditably identified with the Dover and Calais submarine telegraph, is making arrangements for introducing to the Irish public a plan for carrying out a similar mode of communication between Kings town and Holyhead. Mr. Brett had an interview _ with the Lord-Lieutenant on the subje ct on Monday at the Viceregal Lodge. of Messrs. FIRE AT LIZIERICK.—The corn stores Myles, at Limerick, were accidentally burned on Tuesday evening. The store, which was filled with ed. The grain to the value of 1,0001., was 1 Company, destroy were also property was insured in the The aabbett,premises, which belong to Mr. Pe (32 insured in the West of England Office for 500/. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—.An inquest was held at Caher yesterday on the body of a young man, a b ou t killed 18 years of age, who was on the previous day by a lorry belonging to the Waterford and Limerick Railway, passing over him- The verdi c t was aCCI • • dental death, but the jury added that there was not proper care taken by the company to preserve the lublio from injury. OOLOGIC AL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the monthly genera l meeting, held y es t er d a y, a t th e soc i e t y ' s house, i n Hanover - square, Mr. Broderip, vice-president, in the chair, Messrs. A. B. llope, M.P., J. D. Gordon, and G. E. Gray were elected fellows, and Messrs. J. H. Gurney, T. Lacy, G. Gillett, R. O'Brien Jameson, and Miss B ur d e tt Coats proposed as candidates for the fellowship. The report of the Council stated that the total number of visitors to the gardens during the year 1851 had been 667,243, and ex hibited an increase over 1850 of 306,841. The most impor tant additions to the menagerie during the last month con sisted of an apteryx, presented by Lieutenant-Governor Eyre, which had been brought from New Zealand by Cap tain Erskine, R.N.; a weka (ocydromus Australis), also from New Zealand, which had been presented by Captain Stokes, 11. N., late of her Majesty's ship Acheron; and two Ispecimens of boa diviniloqua, presented by Li eu t e nant For- PIAP I Of hetUajefity'4 t3tstiA Aegiuteut, NAVAL GENE PORTSMOUTI7, JAN. I.—The Champion, 14, Com mander J. M. Hayes, arrived at Spithead from the Pacific and the Brazils this evening, at five o'clock, bringing 668,273 dolls. on merchants' account, which Messrs. E. and E. Emanuel, freight agents and bul lion merchants, of this port, have the carriage of to the Bank of England. She left Valparaiso on the Ist of October, leaving there then the Portland, 50, Rear-Admiral Moresby. The Thetis, 36, Captain Kuper, C. 8., and Gorgon steam-sloop, Commander Paynter, had sailed for Coquimbo to blockade that port, provided Captain Kuper thought it expedient. The Driver steam-sloop, Commander Johnson, was at Valparaiso, The Daphne, 18, Captain Fanshawe, had been to Vancouver's Ireland with the Admiral. The Amphitrite, 26, Captain Frederick, was off Cen tral America. The Cockatrice schooner tender, Master-Commander Dillon, was about to sail for Central America, and wes going thence to the Islands. The Daedalus, 20, Captain Wellesley, full up with storee,.had gone to the northward to supply the ships with necessaries which are looking after the Franklin expedition. The Swift, 6, Commander Oldham, bad been left at Honolulu by the Portland at the time she sailed for Valparaiso. The Champion arrived at Rio on the evening of the 4th of N ovember, and sailed on the Bth. Rate of exchange 29i to 29k. Rear-Admiral Henderson, in the Centaur steam-frigate, had gone to the River Plate to meet Rear-Admiral Reynolds and to relieve him. The Cormorant steam-sloop, Com mander Chamberlain ; the Plumper steam-sloop, Commander Nolloth ; and the Harpy, tender to the flag ship, were at Rio. The Southampton, 50, Rear- Admiral Reynolds, was then expected on his way to England. The slave trade was to all appearance ex tinct. The Pumper, however, bad started on the same day the Champion left, in search of something she had received secret information about. The Con flict steam-sloop, Commander Drake, arrived at Rio on the 6th of November from Bahia; she had been blockading some time, but the day after the Conflict left the spot the vessel she bad been watching for landed her cargo. The Virago steam sloop, - Com mander Stewart, arrived at Rio from England on the 6th of November. Outside of Rio the Champion saw the Grecian, 16, Commander the Hon. D. Keene, going out on the 4th of November. The Champion has been in commission four years, and will now be paid off. She has proved herself a most comfortable and wholesome vessel, and in a trial of sailing with the Asia, 84, and Amphitrite, on a wind, the Cham pion had a decided advantage ; but off the wind, the larger ships beat her. But she signally beat the United States' corvette St. Mary, a fine new vessel of 1,000 tons. The examination of the preserved meat in store, supplied under Mr. Goldner's contract, commenced at the Royal Clarence Yard yesterday. Up to the present time about 1,420 canisters hare been examined, of which 1,300 having been found to be bad were thrown overboard at Spithead ; and the remaining 120 being considered fit for food, were given away to the poor of the neighbourhood, as directed by the Lords of the Admiralty. DEVONPORT, WEDNESDAY.—The Rapid, 8, Com mander Blane, which put back to this harbour on Sa turday last, has come into harbour to repair defects. Her bowsprit will be put on board to-morrow ; the other defects will be completed in a day or two, when she will be again ready for sea. Impregnable, 104, Captain Arthur ,Lowe, bearing the flag of the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir J. A. Ommanney, was paid off to-day, and will be re commissioned to-morrow (Thursday), by the same officers, with a complement of 208 officers and men. Vesuvius, reserve steamer, has been taken out round the Eddystone this day to exercise her engines. The troops at present occupying Cumberland, Frederick, and Ligonier barracks, have received notice of removal prior to the clearing of the sites for the proposed new barrack accommodation for the troops stationed at this place. DOCKYARD.—The hired ropemakers and lab6urers entered for the purpose of completing the store of yarn in this establishment, having completed their task, were this day discharged. The principal portion of them, however, were retained to fill the vacancies for labourers. Twelve ropemakers and six labourers only are leaving the establishment. APPOJNTMENTS. WOOLWICH, JAll I.—elerks—Thomas W. Wells (1848), to the Britannia, 120, at Portsmouth; Harold Millett to the Queen, 110, flag-ship on the Mediter ranean station. The Sprightly steam-vessel arrived at Woolwich on Monday last, and went up to Deptford to land about 60 old chronometers, which have been brought round from vessels recently paid off at the eastern ports. She also conveyed the party of Royal Marines who, had been serving in the Havannah, 19, on the Australian station, from Plymouth, the port where the vessel was paid off, to Chatham, to join the head quarters of their division. The Sprightly will leave Deptford and Woolwich to•morrow, and will take round to the eastern ports a number of new chro nometers for the vessels now fitting at them for sea service. The Dee steam-vessel, Lieutenant- Commander William J. Crowder, arrived here at half-past three o'clock P.m. to -day from the Cape of Good Hope, and shortly after went down the river to show the state of her engines to the engineers of the steam factory. The Dee is to be paid off here, having been in, commission since March, 1848. ROYAL ARTILLERY. Deputy Adjutant-General's Office, Woolwich, Dee. 30, 1851. Her Majesty having been pleased to sign the com missions of the Gentlemen Cadets promoted to be Second Lieutenants (the names appeared in the Gazette of this evening) in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, they have been appointed to the following companies, viz.:— Second Lieutenant Thomas Bland Strange to Captain F. D. Cleveland's company, 12th battalion. Second Lieutenant Francis Lyon to Captain W. J. Smythe's company, 6th battalion. Second Lieutenant Markham Le For Taylor to Cap tain C. Sandham's company, Ist battalion. Second Lieutenant Raynsford Cytherus Longley to Captain J. R. Domvile's company, Ist battalion. Second Lieutenant Edward Keate to Captain A. F. W. Papilon's company, 11th battalion. Second Lieutenant Thomas Wright Blakiston to Major T. P. Flude's company, 7th battalion. Second Lieutenant Arthur Lister Kaye to Captain H. W. Montressor's company, 6th battalion. Second Lieutenant Jones Julian Smith to Captain J. W. Fitzmayor's company, 3d battalion. Second Lieutenant Eardley Maitland to Major Shut , tleworth's company, 2d battalion. Second Lieutenant Maurice Edward Covey Stocker to Major J. G. Walker's company, sth battalion. Second Lieutenant William Arnold Burrowes to Major Markland's company, 4th battalion. Second Lieutenant John Lardner Clarke to Captain C. R. H. Kennedy's company, 7th battalion. Second Lieutenant Algernon Purling Joy to Major St. J. T. Browne's company, 4th battalion. G. ion. second Lieutenant Henry Thornhill to Captain C. Dunlop's Company, 7th battalion. reatwicke Second Lieutenant Arthur Thornt on Pearce to Major H. Poole's company, 2 d batta lion. Second Lieutenant Thomas Priau lx Carey to Ca p ta in G. Graydon's company, I st batt alion. . Second Lieutenant William Francis Walker to m a j or J. Hill's company, Bth battalion. - general. J. E. JONES, Colonel , Assistant Adjutant Dated December 17, 18 51 . Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Do wnman, , t g de order-b oo k, of , dated Deoem b K,C.H., Commandant of the garrison, has caused the following to eCommandant t obe enteredin he dreoro-sbook b ein commen cing the new year with as clear a list of defaulters of their crimes will admit of, be gs commanding officers of battalions, &c., will explain to the • non-commissioned officers and men that he is induced to take this lenient step by the general exemplary conduct of the regiment in garrison for a long time past; he therefore directs that men under confinement in the garrison cells and at punishment drills be released on the 31 t • t,. withthe exception s ins t. , exception of those h w ose offences and general character their commanding officers do not consider worthy of this indulgence." HORSES POISO NED w-.DRIEFIELD — Mr. Thomas Wilberfoss, of Wetwang,. has lost three ' valuable draught horses, under circumstances at present involved in mystery, though there is no doubt that their deaths have been caused by poison. A fourth horse is also in a very precarious state, and not likely to recover. The stomach of one of the horses has been sent to a chemist in York for analyzation of its contents. It is not said that any one is suspected to have intentionally or otherwise administered the poison. There is, however, a very reprehensible practice among farmers' servants of drugging their master's horses for the purpose of making their skins look sleek and smooth and in good condition. Many of the waggoners have no little pride in having their horses prim when they go to deliver corn. They tie up the animals' tail 3 and plait their manes with gay ribands. Several old cads and jockies are said to be going about the country selling to farmers' servants receipts for horse " constitution balls," and other nostrums for drugging horses, and the waggoners get these prescriptions made -up at druggists at their own expense, the ingredients being often of a very dangerous nature, and highly injurious to the horses. It is not long since that a farmer in this neigh bourhood detected one of his servants in this practice, and very properly summoned him before the magistrates for Lis conduct, when he was severely dealt Ad vertiser. MUSIC AND DANCING-ROOMS IN THE METROPOLIS: —With the view of insuring good order and proper regula• tions in places licensed by the magistrates of Middlesex for music and dancing in the metropolis and its vicinity, they have passed a standing order requiring the clerk of the peace annually to transmit a list of the persons making aP" plication for music or dancing licences, under the statute of the 25th George the Second, cap. 36, to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and to the police courts of the districts in whih the houses occupied by such persons are situate, . for the purpose of ascertaining whether any and what c om p laints have been made against them during the year; and that the answers from the Inland Revenue Board , a nd the p olice authorities be laid before the Court of Magistrates when such licences are applied for, or for the renewal of licences already granted. THE FRENCH PRESIDENT By the voice of the people, as well as by force of arms, Louis Napoleon is proclaimed ruler of the des tines of the French nation. An overwhelming ma jority places him in supreme power for ten years. And be it observed that this result is obtained not by the suffrages of the arrondissements of Paris, but by those of the departments ; not only by those of the working classes, but by those of the merchants, the capitalists, and the clergy. A large majority of the French people, and a large majority of the various classes of the community pronounce for the Prince President. In doing so numbers doubtless believe that they are supporting the cause of order against anarchy, and of constituted authority against licentious tyranny. Can we be surprised at thou sands of Frenchmen saying—Give us peace at any price. In fact, this fiery and hot-spirited people seem to be subdued by suffering into a contempt for theoretical liberties, in the attempt to attain which they are ruined or starved ; and a desire to secure, by almost any political sacrifice, their material well being, and the librrty to live by honest industry. Unlees Louis Napoleon is e. less astute man than we give him credit for being, he will now endeavour to pro mote the physical comfort and welfare of the people. His plans for engaging the working classes in rail ways and public works show that he is alive to the importance of securing remunerative labour for them. We trust also that the PreAent is by no means ignorant of the infinite advantage of attempting to raise the moral character of the French schools, sad the means of reli g ious instruction will not, we have reason to believe, be neglected by him. We failed to perceire, amidst the torrent of abuse poured ui.on the President by a large porti on o f th e P ress c f thi s country,any sound reason or hi g h pr i nc i p l e f or t h e i r unmitig a ted denunciation. Every abusive epithet 1131)s—ittlage--we will not transfer s been a ppli e d b y th em t o g c E o l n u g m l n th e e a m rly to in o t u h r e a man placed in most difficult circumstances, and con tending against a most unprincipled and reckless op position by parties agreeing in nothing but hatred of the strong hand that held them in check. Again, none can deplore more than ourselves the excesses committed by an infuriated soldiery ; but the dreadful experience of former revolutions has manifested that any half measure towards the ruffian mob of the bar ricades is mistaken, and in the end calamitous, mercy. Many an act of desperation committed by the troops will be as much regretted by the President as by any man. We repeat that we are not yet in possession of facts which can justify public writers who have ever professed the doctrine of non-inter ference with the domestic affairs of other nations, in those violent attacks, calculated to do the greatest possible mischief, at a critical time, to the French governing power. The inexpediency of destroying all friendly feeling on the part of the man who is, let him be what else he may, the chosen of the French people, towards ourselves, is also self-evident. And if the resignation of Lord Palmerston, which we this week announce, is attributable, as is rumoured, to his disap. probation of the strong line of opposition adopted by some of his colleagues towards the French President, we incline to think that that experienced and far sighted politician—to whose policy we have at times been considerably opposed—will on this cccasion be found on the right side of the question.—Derbyshire Courier. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 400 to 10 each laid agst Kick-up-the-Dust, Elthiron, and Follow-me-Lad. Nothing else mentioned. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STARES. 5 to 1 laid to 101. agst Hobble Noble, and 50 even between Vortex and Claverhouse. DERBY. No change, except in Claverhouse, against whom as much as 25 to 1 has been offered at the Clubs. He is, in fact, almost friendless. CHESTER CUP. The following are the entries in London, at Chester, and York, up to eight o'clock last night:— Dutch Lady—Old English Oak, 3 yrs—Retail, 6 yrs —Nancy, 4 yrs—Maid of Lincoln, 3 yrs—Trickstress, 4 yrs—Truth, 4 yrs—Timid Fawn, 4 irs—Cockcrow, 4 yrs—Barley Sugar, 3 yrs—St. Michael, 3 yrs—Knaves mire—Alonzo, 5 yrs—Finesse, 4 yrs—Duc-an-Durras, 4 yrs—Allegro, 3 yrs—lndian Warrior, 3 yrs—Sister to Fencer, 5 yrs—Koh-i-noor, 3 yrs—Bushbury—Ulrica, 3 yrs—Diamond, 3 yrs—Thunder, 3 yrs—Chief Justice, 5 yrs—Elthiron, 6 yrs—Hippolytus, 4 yrs—Abbess of Jerveaux, 5 yrs—High Sheriff, 3 yrs—Marlborough Buck, 4 yrs—Justice, aged—Ephesus, 4 yrs—Gholab Singh, 4 yrs—Newminster, 4 yrs—Lough Bawn, 4 yrs —Cyclops, 4 yrs—c by Cotberstone out of Wryneck— The Countess, 4 yrs—King of Trumps, 3 yrs—Harp, 4 yrs—Tancred—Lady Evelyn—Prince Patrick, 3 yrs— Lancaster, 3 yrs—Neasham, 4 yrs—Story Teller, 4 yrs —Confessor, 4 yrs—Breba, 4 yrs—Ballet Girl, 5 yrs—Gold finder, 4 yrs—Payment, 4 yrs— My Fancy, 3 yrs—Rhesus, 6 yrs—Jessica, 3 yrs—Back biter, aged—i by Itburiel out of Sorella'a dam, 3 yrs— Lizzy—Burndalo, 4 yrs—Ebor, 5 yrs—Black Doctor, 4 ' yrs—Woolwich—Bro to Russborougb, 3 yrs—c by Melbourne out of. Sally Warfoot, 3 yrs—f by Lana cost cut of Jemima, 3 yrs—Russborough, 5 yrs—Red mond O'Hanlan, 3 yrs—Clincher, 5 yrs—Water Lily, 4 yrs—Vampyre, aged—Bardolph, 3 yrs—Young Troublesome, 4 yrs—Candlewick, 5 yrs—Athena Pal las, 3 yes—Sir Rowland Trenchard, 4 yrs—Rachete, 3 yrs—Miss Ann, 6 yrs—Mary Azn, 3 yrs—Masham, 3 yrs—Paddy Bird, 3 yrs—Raby, 6 yrs—Galvanism, 3 yrs—Richard Prince—Mark Tapley, yrs—Tom Holtby, 4 yrs—Surprise, 3 yrs—Ellar, 3 yrs—Gladiole, 5 yrs—Herbert—Earl of Warwick, 5 yrs—Marquis, 4 yrs—Teddington, 4 yrs—Mendicant, aged—Kate by Auckland, 3 yrs—Proudfoot, 3 yrs—Lord of the Manor, 4 yrs—Lady Amyott, 3 yrs—Young England, 5 yrs —Cr seas, 4 yrs Captain Flash, 3 yrs Daniel O'Rourke, 3 yrs—The Castle, 4 yrs— Tophana, aged—Nutshell, 5 y ears —M oun tain Flower, 3 y r s—King of Oude, 5 yrs—Urbanity, 3 yrs—John of Berwick, 5 yrs—Uncle Sam, 3 yrs—Lamartine, 4 yrs— Cardinal Wiseman, 4 yrs—Terpsichore, 4 yrs—Constan -GGrosvenor,re y T om Tommy, ti ne , 3 yrs—Poodle,3 yrs—MOUse, 5 yrs—lngratitude, 4 yrs—Dulcet, aged—Kick-up-the-Dust, 4 yrs—Cossack, aged—Trousseau, 3 yrs—Kathleen, 5 yrt—Officious, 5 yrs —Little Harry,3 yrs—Mountain Deer, 4 yrs—Stamford, yrs--- . p! a q r iptta, 4 yrs—Shadow, 4 yr y s_ rs —Telistetdh,°3rPy7s-4 yrs —yse—Rs salty, 3 pre-. 33f yy b rr y ss__ Ra Aß ta ier n hm , yirn d ag a ni tis ha: 7 4 5 3 yrs—Poetess, 3 yrs—Vermuth, 3 yrs—Aphrodite, 4 yrs yrs—f by Pantaloon, out of Fug eman's dam, 4 yrs -I!arry, 3 Pitsford, 5 yrs—Joe Miller, 5 yrs—Grand Duke, 4 yrs yrs—Wildflower, 4 yrs—La —Sophistry, 3 _ Fiancee, 3 yrs— D a lton, J 3 yrs - -Calculator, valculator, 4 yrs—. 54yrs— e Otuf, 5 yrs—Consolation, 5 yea —Mrs. Birch, yrs—Benita, 4 yrs—The Niece, 4 yrs _Woodlark, 4 yrs—c by Harkaway, out of D ue-an- Durres' dam, 4 yrs Durres' dam, 4 yrs — Merry Bird, 3 yrs—Hungerford, 4 yrs—Happy J oe, 3 yrs—The Settler, 3 yrs—Vatican, Dolly's rae, 6 yrs—A-Larefoct, 4 yrs—Sir Charles , 5 yrs—Sir Charles N a pier, 3 Ts -3 3 Alfred the Great, 3 yr s —Young Haw thorn, yrs — Knock Knoll, 4 yrs—e by Priam—Exeter, 4 yrs—Equal, 3 yrs—Delia colt, 3 yrs—Corypt s 4 yrs—Recruit 4 yrs—Broken-hearted Lady (late Cheer ful), 6 yrs—Musician, 5 yrs. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. Nominations up to eight o'clock last night. Peter Simple, Silent Friend, Maria Monk, Miss Mow bray, Carrig, Perjury, Lamienne, View Halloo, Royal Blue, Bourton, Hinton, Ringdove, De Ginkle, Sir John, St. Helier, Bullfinch, Maley, Half-and-half, Odin, Forest Lad, Vainhope, Joan of Arc, La Gazza Ladrs Abbot of St. Lawrence, Chieftain, Little Queen, iac lon, James, Everton, Bedford, Vulture, Lord George, Fern hill, A gis, Postilion, Maria Day, British Yeoman, Ven geance, ir Peter Laurie, Hardwick, Lucy Neale, Maid of the West, Viotress, Scavenger, Oscar, Abd-el-Kader, Duc-au-Durras, Warner, Kissaway, Peter. EPSOM SPRING MEETING. The following are, as near as we have been able to ascertain, the acceptances for the Metropolitan Han dicap:— Age at. lb . Elthiron Landgrave The Ban 4 8 5 Misa Ann Backbiter Age st. l'i. Curl .. ~ . . Perjury Bardolph 8 t. 11 blarcsfoot Old Rowley 3 5 7 Sally Warfoot colt 3 5 6 Joe Miller Raby Mark Tapley Cock Crow Ciamus Ingratitude 4 5 5 Janina 3 5 5 Cyclops Follow-me-lads Burndale .. 3 5 2 Stamford .........••• 4 5 , 1 Snow J drop ......... 3 1 Ethelwoif ...... . ... 3 5 0 Sir Charles Napier 3 4 12 4 1 2 Kate Captain u a t . y . F . . I . a . . 5 . h . ...... 3 :1 4 1112 Wryneck colt ...... 3 4 11 R R ii oc a ny t a : : : y fi .. . 1 ........................... 3 33 4 44 1 6 1 6 JO:Lanni filly ...... 3 4 6 Czarina ............ 3 4 6 Barbara Bell ...... 3 4 6 Uncle Sam • 3 4 6 Ellar ,Snarry 3 4 0 Hess® Homburg:— 4 7 31 Officious _ 5 7 3 Grand Duke Calmar Kick-up-the-Duet 4 6 12 , Hungerford 4 6 12 John of Berwick 5 6 10 Achyranthes Grey Tommy 3 6 7 Knock Knoll Sister to Cloth worker 5 6 7 Kathleen 5 6 6 Candlewick 5 6 4 Letterpress., 4 6 0 Masham Pelopidas 3 5 1 3 4 5 13 Ischia Young Trouble aome ............... 4 511 -............. FEMALE EMIGRATION.--The Committee of the , under tho auspices of the Right i dty ig i r le ti rrer F t, u l l i l a d ve, we understand, engaged the fine E u phrates to convey a party of sixty females to Sydney. The vessel is to leave the river on the 12th inst. The emigrants sent out by this committee now number nearly 700, most of whom are doing well in the Colonies, where the demand far servants continues to be very great. Femaleivs l By this emigration the colonists are benefitted by an influx of respectable females, whilst the mother country is at the same time relieved of a body of, in most cases, extremely destitute individuals. The advantages held out to them by this benevolent society are open to acy young woman in London of good moral character and industrious habits, and the class of slopworkers and domestic servants earning low wagts, do not appear slow to avail theinelves of these ad. vontageons opportunities. - • VALUE OF GAME TO TILE HIGULAND. S . — TheVaitia of grouse shootings have increased greatly in Athold thiii ng the last ten years. The game on an estate now in the mar ket, which let for many seasons at 100/, and the high es t 1201., is now on a lease at 2601,, independent of the grazing rent. This is equivalent to an enhancement of 3,0001, on the YAW of tllc property.--.Punda Adrortisers sit ,ye he oe• red For ore ocl. full % d 4 Y•) air& rtso r