The Sun. — London, England, 1852-02-12 00:00:00

MARKET NEW:S.—(FI - HS DA ):) NEVZGATE .O..ND Z kLeaszrillitaa.. The gmerai dt mud was btesdy at our quotations. from 23 2d to 3s 2d; Muiton, 2s 6o to 3s 8d; Y °A 2s 10d to 3s 8d; Pork, 2s 4d to 35 8d per 81b5 by the earettie. HAY MATLICETS. SMITHFIELD.— Alead..w hay, 21 153 to 31 rs 6d; Clr , ver ditto, 31 53 to 41 6s; and Straw, 1103 to 116 s per load. A fair aveiragei :eupply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND —ille-enow flay, 2117, Oil to 41 Os Oil; Clov-r 3153 to 414 q and Straw, 1/ Is to 11 70 pf l load. Trade steady, at lull prices. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 15s to 3/ 18s Od; Clover di - ro, 31 54 to 417.; and Straw, 11 Os to 116) pet load. Supply gond, and trade dull. 111 EAT raa.stistarrs. BAILSRASY, FEB. 11.—Our market has ruled heavy at hardy st .tionaty prices. Beet, from 3s to 3s 10u; Mutton, 3 , 4 i to 4s 4d; Pork, 3s 2d to 3.. 6d per Sibs. ARUNDEL, FEB 10.—The general demand was very inactive, as follows:—Beef, from 3s to 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 48 4d; Pork, 3a to 3s 6d per 81bs. CHICHESTER, FEB 11.—Beef dull, and somewhat sow er from 2s Mutton and Pork support late rates. Beef, atom 2s 10d to 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 4d; Pork, as to 3s 6d per Sibs. SOUTHALL, FEB. 11.—Our market has ruled heavy ! c "dRY, and prices have not been supported. Beet, ._4o3als.la 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s to 4s 4d;Veal, 3 s 2d 8d; Pork, 3t to 3s Sd per Blbs, to s i n k t h e ofF s „RoniFoup, FEB. 11.—Beasts met a dull sale at a de °nue of 2d per Blbs. In other kinds of stock, only a moderate b us i ness was transacte d . B ee f , from 2s 8d to P ork, 6 d; Mutton. 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; V ea l, 3 s to 3 s 8 d ; 4- ,... 13 / 1 1, 35 4d to 3 s 8d p er Sib s . S uc kli ng C alves, 188 I " 21 s; and quarter ole store Pigs, 16s to 19s each. CORN AVERAGES I,_ GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN 'ur the Week ended Feb. 5, 1852, made up from the Returns of the In. • Peetors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, Per Imperial Quarter. p it 1C z . . w u rt s E EAT. 2d I r 2 4 9 I:LE B T d . I i o BB T l s i . d I 29 E ATE. d I z B , E s AN O EI ci I 2 P , E s A S . 0 d DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wl/... , , AT. I BARLEY. I TS. I EYE. BEANS. 1 AS. 4 . 0.1 Is Od is Od Is Od Is Cd is Od lb, QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD IN THE PAST WEEK. n'lleat, 105,853; Barley, 94,781; Oats, 27,292; Eye, 165; Beans, 7,074 ; Peas, 2,348 quarters. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) The Court sat at Nisi Pries at Westminster to-day, lid took P s ecial jury cases. During the mor n i ng i t was occupied brought with the case of Li s t e r v. T o dd, w h ic h was . rought to try the right to a patent for certain improve 4, pt, in machinery for combing wool and hair. The evidence was entirely of a scientific character, and pos 11:seed no feature of interest to the non-professional pub- TheB trial pro m i se d to ex t en d over t h e grea t er por 'oo of the day. SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY). (Before Mr. W. BURCHELL) CRITTENDEN V. BIRD. Z rh is Was an action brought to recover the sum of kei t% . guineas the balance of a bill of exchange, given to wh _ loan society. The main question in the case was ~,:_t b er the managers of a loan society could be deemed Ttso that one might be allowed to indor s e bills in raeB of himself a nd his co-managers. mg C r c l u e`tion was.lett to the jury, who, after consul the 815 E 0 e time, rktired, not being able to agree. c " 4 occupiei die whole of the morning. REsisnisc VSTREILT,—(TH IS DAY.) A BROKER. — Thomas Haddam. of Mu settin.ptreet, cooper, was charged before Mr. Hall with allattulting a broker and his wan It appear s th e J andlord put in yesterday a distress for and lett the complainant and his assistant in pos rf,"ion. The def en d ant was not at home when the nzu . re was made, a n d fi n di ng t h e two strangers in poa lou uhis he reuested know busty as i n n his house. return, The com q plainant to explained the rise, whereupon Heckler's demar:dr , d the pr. duction of authority to act as br.,ker under the landlord. He Bpd that answered that th ere was no au hor i ty in writing, none was necessary. He insisted that he was in bound to recognise the complainant as acting legally 40 th e capacity of a broker without the production of some autbori y, without seeing which he . could not tell Wh o ki . tntght be intruding themselves into his house in the I'utned character of brelers. He then attempted to J e u et and committed the assault complained of. 1 01 .7 tiALL said that the verbal authority of the land qui; 195 5 sufficient, and the defendant's conduct was unjustifi Eh l e. H e must pay a fine of 40s. or go to ()Use of Correction for fourteen days. to -84 Ttt OF LORD DINORDEN...--We regret to have t4tjeeord the death of Lord Dinorben, which took place bei;.eseuddenly on Tuesday, at 4 A sr., at Kinmel-park, aeized t ' A- B aPh, Wales. We understand . his Lordship was 4t, t,. Wh ile at dinner on Sunday evening with a paralytic .d e s 8 1 1 1 the effects of which his Lordship never regained dee% °ll3 nesa, and expired at the hour abovenamed. The r eel Med, Willi am L ew i s Hughes, Baron Dinorben, of J.Kitiond s.l4-„%arlre county of Denbigh, in the peerage of h lite t " ° rn• aves eldest son of the Rev. Edward . H t ug T e hes n and P. e.e ,' , keeond daughter of the Rev. Robert Lewis. he lBo late , Ch art flurried first, namely, on the Bth of March, ( 1 teko,;,°tte Margaret, third daughter of Mr. R. W. Grey, h an d kik 'Y . , in 1840, Miss Smythe, daughte of Air. Jim a a u r a a,tthe, of Ballynatray, and sister of the Princess Cp LT ous marriages his Lordship leaves issue—his son Willie . na . ea-witi , 1821, (who is, unfortunately.. - Pabl le of entering on the legislative duties of his position), ice i n • --.4d ~, -g to the title. The late Lord was in his 85th year, tioe ~..i ta a member of the House of Commons till his eleva the a'' ) t he Peerage in 1831. He was Major-Commandant of. 1:114-43glesey Militia, and was Aide-de-Camp to the Queen. It s late Lordship was a great personal friend of his late 1:I 4: ste t --Lighness the Duke of Sussex, and was one of the etxhe . Do or Tof that Prince. As. a landlord and benefactor to ttue 1 :le was highly respected on his large estates in adsW Kele loss will be deeply regretted by many faithful %sta. trie rt , 44 86 -4telATioriAti Co PYRIGirr.---The Lords Com- Co - ,,.. a era of her Majesty's Treasury having caused Mr. 0f.,.. r t rl : 4 ll Lewis to transmit for the information and guidance alai ,_;, n reeers of the Customs' department two orders of her aliiirY'lli Council, directing tlat Pre.nc.h authors, &c., dotohllitave the privilege of copyright within her Majesty's duties o . n . books, prints, and (trod:reducing tYa the dominions of .France, the ea, ounitidilliblished within I.ord,,tt`riers of the Customs have caused copies of th e i r „„ in Ceti 11; ,1 1, rnuni 'ation, together . with copies of the orders „ w ev n e t i r . ol ll l: ri i ' l 4 l lded th iP , t o . be transmitted to the collectors and geyer al 13°118 thr principal officers of the Custom s at the nm ent , oughout the United Kingdom for their future A.t., , 11 the matter. A Xeic eII,C,IIANT TRADERS SHIP, LOAN, A!ID .. IN B SUR- W.llliatp ofotrnse tbricle a -- .. I r AN T--Irtsterdav Master Sir liOttipai,°`" ot 2 5/. Per share on all the contributoriesthis ki d A.1,.",„.,8ir. Bagallay, who appeared for Lord Talbot the ''' winthrtip cl 'led exemption for i . tori Pend that thOugh al they might be liable adsebtountribu of the eeol;atito contribute in respect of the general s o RY2..Yet that, inasmuch as the call about to be made 'omit -- Llsfy the demands of the policy-holders, and the l ielas- law had alread , decided that Lord Talbot was not e 110,f in r eepect of these 3 the Master could not call upon the T Lord to Pay this 9 251. 'per share. Mr. Roxburgh, on T albo f t. °F the Off icial manager, Mr. Harding,. said that Lord . ele ue - - was liable to the policy-holder s to th amount of his itolder(24), and the call was only for this sum. The policy -41 th B en 'ad ' 0 claim beyond the amount of the shares taken ~C :1 l; i rn Pa,flY• The Master then overruled the objection 0 : 4 14 b . jk a gaday, who intimated his intention to contest the Pi tt , r e the court. ,_ey i t , - AT HINTLESHAM, NEAR IPsWICH.--OD Fri- Kr, e itzing a fi re b ro k e ou t upon the farming premises of ,li tr4„ll Smith, ilintlesharn. Shortly before seven o'clock ldit;„P ,eellid at the farm-house, and asked fora night's kked for 0 14 his request was not complied with ; he then ae o „, or u m b, 41. aw n - "ney, which was also refused, when the fellow ;tiled fi grUmbling. About seven o'clock Mr. Smith re 'etl •urrt Radlei hand had not nem home mere than b riunt„..„ before g , . . ? ks. I 'me he perceived flames issuing . from the „,..he 1 4r 4 a short time a cart-shed, cow-house, stabling, with ne ehrl and uotne corn which it contained, were desiro, ed. ,'Leatrolhlne ,froul Hintlei,harn Hall, the property ut ,r L. 11. 4f ielki -er ' 4,, q• (the present high sheriff for the cou..ty of - "Mee". wail soon on the spot. The property, we are hi lted at i t _L? not insured. The man who went to the house eiO4....la zop for il ti e•.et, has been taken into custody on suspi- , St. ittil\ A _ R IUTIO N O F A. RIFLE CLUB AT SOUTHAMPTON. elaectiengikt otfhteradßesmen and gentlemen of Southampton the' te wn i for the u Tuesday last in oYal George Ho,,e rifle o k i d tOtlemeo Present o? formi9g _ n icorps. Amongst elm .ejor O gden. It was% Captains a Wilianason and Lacy, t t l ist r ..., be formuedr.toßb epp - o i„ . itl e Club." es r eo e t,a s t o u l e v d ed ,, a .T t .h t e h em Southampton eetip g that a Dwiass ,!'°_l(l honorary secret" ,Liartes to the eztablishanrientt , a solicitor of the town, eloktitsyti thtlattietewtoocea.s--ks 'CH Z A necessary pre ee has reached South ne containing about toogal sort. a nd the other about -roonth, picked up at se, one tY, have been brought into " °if Sho h kit_ re am, and which are te a k 7 1 oP from the wreck of the offs Weymouth, and the eoPposed to have been Amazon. One head of each lonf t°illi,fiigioofptehrfeecctioht h . e at " 11l Much burnt, showing th em ?ng tr - ' - era to have been exposed to Ff- -The Ritritil OR the cas4 a rezot hisiwo, pith, ditto; Niagara, ditt o; M an il a , Boston; Stafford-: • LITERATURE. hair:, ditto; G,:orge Hallett, ditto. Off port, Commo- IIISTORY of the ADMINISTRATION of dare stelut. r . DOWNINGs BAY, DJNEGAI., FEB. 10.—Th,-, DAring, S CLYDE under Sir CHARGESArAPIEII Sir William N ap i er , K.C.B. Chapman and the Ciyd e se C ro i x , i s ou s h ore i n t hi s bar, Eln, bedded in the sand, and partly full of water. • CowEs, FEB. 11.—Win , 1 N.—Sld. Victorine, Eiee, Although we have recently taken occasion to refer Pategeni a; A po l lo, Granada; J.:tiannn, Maria. St. Croix, more than onc e i n our l ead i ng columns to this, th ToRBAY.-810. David Lyon, Jamaica ; Waterwitch, latest cod not th e least iniportant am ong th e his- Magaci ore . " torical w r iti ngs o f Sir Williene Napier, we should PILL, FEB. 11.—Wind N.N.E.—SId Pomona and consider ourselves remiss in not expatiating some y, what more di rect l y upon those merit b which we Trinidad ; Jo se ph Wh ee l er , B ar b a does ; Luc ditto; St. Vi ncent, Jamaica; Admiral, Naw Orleans; con ce i ve i t i s rendered remarkable, an d even con Thetis, IstPw Orleans ; Eliza Ann, ditto, spicuous as a literary composition. Every one ac. NEWPORT, FEB. 11.—Wind N.E —Sle. Janet, St. - Thomas ; Meeienne, ditto; Westerwick, Havannah ; Eu-gametesa with the picturesque and perspicucus styl, terprise, Wil m i ngton . of our author w ill scarce l y need any inducement to LONDON, F EB . 12 . —Th e Harbinger s te amer , L an d o n examine the pa ges o f one w h o h as a l rea d y earne d f or to the Cape of God Hope, got in contact in the Ri ver himself th e di st i nction of being numbered in the with the brig Resolution, and stranded off Northfleet ; foremost r an k o f t h e m i l i tary annal i sts o f E ng l and. the latter san k ra pidly in deep water ; crew saved by Tney will bear in recollection the extraordinary the former which went ashore, and remained until ability diTlayed by him in the delineation of the Yesterday morning, whi n. she camp off with trifling shore complicated movements of a campaign. Thes damage, and proceeded for Plymouth to embark the will remember a multiplicity of instances in whiel his adroitness as a narrator has been revealed in TowNING, FEB. 6.—The Regi na li-llegina, the . manner `worthy not less of astonishment than at Balti c to Amsterdam, ha . s put in with cargo heated, and is disch al gi t g, admit ation when the technicalities of the . DAitTw,uTH, FEB. 11.—Wied N.E.—Arre. Penning- barrack and the bivouac have been invested ham, ALuritius. out 110 days, several of the crew sick, with an interest e v e n f o r th e c i v ili an b y t h e bou n d to London. graces of an eloquence. which brought even FALmonTri, FEB. 11.—Wind N.N.E.—SId. Leander, within the limits of their comprehension the Madras; Ri , ', Rio Janeiro; Jamos, Baibadoes ; ilelas, mo 4 involved and complex of warlike operations. To St. Thomas. his luminous style it is that the unprofsssional studete CLYDE.—SId. Pan'iwa, Batavia; Atalanta, Buenos in modern history is mainly indebted for the appre A} rat: ; E. Z , New York. cietion Of tee wars of the Peninsula—possessing, es C' tirecrerots. d FEB p 11.— Wind W.S.W.—Std. Chi e f ta i n Sir William Napier does, the very peculiar and verb Pe or Go. Hoe. admirable faculty of combining in equal proportions distinctness and elaboration. Than his sentences none. can be more ornate, and yet at the same time none can by possibility convey their meaning through a medium, so to speak, more diaphanous. He seems to have intuitively appreciated the truth which La Bruy ere hiss so wittily and elegantly inculcated— " " Les plus grandes chases n'ont hesoin que dare dites sirnplement, elle se giitent par (emphase ; it faut dire j noblement les plus petites, elle ne se soutiennent que par (expression, le ton et la maniere." Whenever he has had to recount "great things"—one has he not bad for this incalculable opportunities ?—Sir William Napier bas never failed to record them in language of befitting and elevated simpli city. Whenever he has had to fill up the in terstices between the principal events in his descrip tion with the mention of facts of a subordinate cha racter, he has invariably thrown over the enumeration of those facts the charms of his noble and alluring capacity as a rhetorician. It is to this perpetual adaptability of bis powers as a historical writer, that are, we feel assured, attributable the attractions of his various writings hitherto. In them he appears to have developed, almost without an effort, the skill of an innate aptitude for description—ut apes geo metriam. Perceptible, in no inconsiderable degree in his former volumes, these qualities are more visible than ever in the book which is here submitted to public consideration. Detailing, as it does, the whole of the extraordinary labours of the historian's brother in his character as an administrator, the work would seem, and not unnaturally, to have possessed for him a >value deserving at his, hands a more than customary attention even as to the manner of its composition • and fhe mode of its arrangements. Therefore we believe it is that we find so ninny evidences throughout the whole of these four hundred pages and upwards of the care with which Sir Wil liam Napier has endeavoured to acquit himself of the responeibility devolving upon him as the annalist of his illustrious brother's Scindian administration. Sir 'William has, at the same time, been manifestly insti gated to a more diligent employment of his energies in the compiling of the work under consideration by the remembrance of the melancholy recompense hitherto afforded to the victor of Meeanee and Hydera bad—the recompense consisting for the most part of the most flagrant ingratitude end of the most sys tematic misrepresentation. Seldom has it been the priVilege of the historian to recount the conquest of so vast a province as Scinde, and immediately after wards to relate the completion of a yet greater achievement at the hands of its conqueror, namely, that of its political organization. Such are, never theless, the themes selected by the writer of this volume and its predecessor—the annalist of the wars of the Peninsula having illustrated his own abilities anew by the narrative first of Sir C. Napier's Scindian tri umphs and then of his Scindian administration. Reading, moreover, the account here furnished by his gifted brother, it is difficult to decide whether the genius of this, eminent Captain shone the more conspicuously in his character as a military conqueror or in his character as a political administrator. Crossing the Indua at the head of merely 2 600 men, Sir Charles had unquestionably difficulties sufficiently appalling to overcome as commander in the field—yet, with less than 2,600 men (incredible as it sounds in the rela tion) he routed in the great battle of Meeanee a hostile army consis:ing of 5,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry! Astounding though the physical obstacles in his way were, the moral, social, and political obstacles, which afterwards presented themselves be- fore -him ro the obstruction of the operations of his civil government, were still more formidable of their kind, and in number still more extraordinary. Yet these also the vanquisher of Shere Mohninmed over came almost with as much facility as he had already overcome the terrible and renowned Lion of Meer poore, the hardiest and most redoubtable of the falpoories! • "Within four months of his crossing the boundaries of the province, within a quar t e r ofa year of his crowning vict or y o f Dabba, near Hydera bad, Sir Charles had brought the country and its in habitants wider the complete subjection of his govern ment. How he effected these marvellous, and at the time altogether unexpected changes, how adroitly he combined amenity with rigour, winning the admire tion of the Sirdars by his magn an i m it y , w hit e he awed them by a severity as daring as it was inexorable, will be found recounted in these pages with accents of truth and tones of eloquence. Thirteen chapters, a supplemental note, and twenty appendices, comprising a variety of most interesting, and some of them most valuable documents, relating to Sir Charles Napier's administration, form the constituent portions of a volume which may be designated something nobler and loftier than—what in one respect it assuredly is— his full and triumphant vindication. It effects more for the character of the distinguishedgeneral, and the no less distinguished statesman, than his exoneration from the 'charges directed against him by his assailants. It relates of him facts such as must for ever secure for him the homage and admi ration of his:fellow-countrymen. It reveals that in domitable energy of his which enabled him to carry on the affairkols an - administration beset with innu merable difficulties even at moments when prostrated by disease, when his life was despaired of by his physi cian's,' and when he was reduced to such debility that he was entreated (though vainly) to desist by his Ex cellency the Earl of Ellenborough. Due regard must be had, of course, in the perusal of this remarkable history, to the novel position in which the conqueror was placed when called upon to build up, in the then re cently vanquished province of Scinde, an entirely new system of . government. In reviewing his policy under these circumstances, it must be borne in re collection that he had to deal with an Asiatic and not with aii'European race; with men of the orient and not of the occident, with Seindians, with Hindoos, and wish Beloochees, not with French, with Spaniards, or with Englishmen. Sir Charles must consequently be viewed in his embarras sing situation through some other medium than such as is furnished by mere prejudice—allowance being made for the people he had to deal with, and attention being had more particularly to the ulterior as well as the immediate results of his administration. Judged by these lights, the Conqueror tied first Administrator of Scinde will be found to have acted with incom parable protnpti undeniable humanity, and con s. uhuintite ability —the soundness of his judgment g sufficiently attested by to Kieantic enterprise, the the s h u r c ie c f es h s ut ofhis A sig nificant statement made by Sir William at the close of his preface to the present volume— t° successor, Mr. Pringle,His a Company's civil servant, zealous and o f a just disposition, n ackrnotwwloedgymeaerns; voluntarily proffered' a of f x t p h e e capacity for civil government • Charles Napier's, Scindian iestitnetviincel .rigenrecielt, by Sir b ß e ryo d l e id that scarcely any thing further . could sired in the way of eulogiuna on his manner of conducting the labou rs of government. Among the miscelleneoue subjects treated upon in the course of the narrative before w i l l mee t with strictures cal cu l ated, we fancy, tie, 'The u Old In tee di" w ill to a climax the most determined liver come plaint amongst them; while those who have an appeti. e for contention will discover ample materials for itsgrati fieation in the reference made more than once to " Lieutenant Colonel Outram's published Slanders." Besides the account here given of the Scindian ad-. ministration of Sir Charles, the reader will be grati th . d wiih'tbe briLient description the au thor subse - Elias ; and thi s de: ption we may o bserve, is ren dered yet:More comprehensible to such as are not of 'athe profe ss i on, " not merely by a hypothet i ca l p l an of the campaign in jts entirety: and by topographical charts remark a bl e for their accuracy, but by a variety of perspective vie i ws, twel ve i n num b er, some o f them Coloured in a manner n o t only novel of its kind, hut, in addition to this, eminently beautiful. Altogether the work now submitted to the consideration of Criticism is, to our thinking, deficient only in the peculiar style of its arrangement—req would .suggest with an eye to futurtiiyig (we e di editions) the . suhdivisieh o f t h e text i nto sections, lation of a n i n d ex, if only for the advantage sthaef in cormeeepel.- ence. Otherwise the volume appearsd toiminish i eve.ry way attracti ve , one which will not" • terest on a rep erusa l —deeies repetita placebit—n olnre, moreover, which appF-ara to us in nu respect worthy either f the fume of thd'ileto or of tir poolo urity of hip taletori4n.- SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. DAILY NEWS.—The new R form Bill of Lord John Russell hes met with a reception which promises its au:hor much success, unless that reception renders him too confie!snt in the full virtue of his plan. Whilst waiting the appearance of the document itself, men of each shade of opinion seem hoping for the best that can be built upon the plan sketched out by the Prime Mi nister in his speech on Monday. But the Bill itself may upset many of these hopeful visions, and render the pas sage of the measure difficult, if not impossible, unless its author consents to listen to the voice of the House of Commons, and agrees so far to modify his project as the character of the measure—and the proper demands of fhe people —may render wise. Apart from the vital question of the ballot, there is yet another portion of the subject on which very wide and important differences cannot fail to arise, Lord John has—in deference ap parently to the proprietors of the nomination boroughs —consented to bring forwarcl his Bill without adding to it any schedule A. There is to be no execution of Par !iamentary criminals; no ebolition of pocket boroughs; no holding up, in terrorcn the names of those towns where the local influence of individuals has hitherto been allowed to " appoint "—for " return" is not the proper word—to " appoint" the Members of Parliament for such places. The Dukes of ±3uckingliam tied Northumberland, and Leeds, and Grafter, and Bedfore, are still to have their snug bo ,r,of u p g a t r ie lia e m en e d n i t e . g It T f r e u m e b , e t e- h s e s t e o v t o o t w e n i i n a t r h e e additional number of voters imposed on them, upon the e C ac o h nlm to oli h s a il ve ou a s u e theory that they will thereby be made mere pure, and hue be fitted to elect proper men to the Assembly in which the business of this great notion must be trans scted. Bat on the mode by which addition will be 'made rests the whets question of whether or not the change will be one for the better. Let us go through vtio "Parliamentary Guide," and make out a list of the boroughs having at present each less than 500 voters; :and in doing so eve shall find a very striking difference in the electoral condition of these places. Counting ever the list, we find the names of just twenty-nine towns each returning two members, and twenty-nine other towns each returning only one member; all of them being alike in this respect, that each has less then tive hundred voters—the number fixed upon as too small by Lord John Russell himseP. Here are the lists show ing the number of electors in 1849-50, and showing also (hose which are nomination boroughs, and under whose influence they are. The catalogue might almost be needed "Towns to be affected by.the New Reform Bill." The small boroughs . sending one Member are:— Abingdon, number of voters in 1849-50-314. Arundel (Duke of Norfolk)-202 voters. Ashburton (Lord Cinton)-246 voters. Bewdley-375 voters. Caine (Lord Lansdowne)-159 voters. Christchurch-305 voters, Clitheroe-471 voters. Dartmouth-312 voters. Droitwich (Sir J. Pahiegton)-338 voters. Eye (Sir E. Kereisoe)— 351 voters, Frome-401 voters. Helstou (Duke of Leedr)-335 voters. Horsham (Duke of Norfolk)-346 voters. Kendal— 385 voters. Kidderminster-470 voters. Launceston (Duke of Northumberland)-367 voters. Liskeard-324 voters. Lyme Regis (Earl of Suffolk)-317 voters. Malmesbury (Lords Radnor and Ilolland)-316. Midhurst (Lords Digley and Egmont)-301 voters. I — v 2 o B t 2 er v s. otas. 0 4 d 2 ) N M o o r r t p h e a t i ll er ( t E on ar ( l L o o f r C d a i rli a s r l e e w ) Petersfield-358 voters. Reigate (Lord Somers)-213 voters. Thirsk (Sir R. Frankland)-345 voters. Wallingford-419 voters. Wareham (Calcraft) 403 voters. Whitby-448 voters. Woodstock (Duke of Marlborough)-362 voters. Here we have altogether twenty-nine boroughs, of which fifteen are directly in the hands of members of the aris tocracy. From these we may turn to another list of towns, each returning two members to Parliament, the voters in each being also under Lord John Russell's stan-. dard number of 500 voters: — Andover, number of voters 1849-50-252. Bodmin-381 voters. Buckingham (Duke of Buckingham)-376 voters. Chippenham (Mr. Neeld)-314 voters. Cirencester (Earl Bathurst) -467 voters. Coeltermonth-332 voters. Devizes-358 voters. Dorchester (Earl Shaftesbury)-4 2 7 voters. Evesham-352 voters. Harwich (Mr. Aetwood)-272 voters. Honiton-240 voters. Huntingdon (Lord Sandwich)-405 voters. Knaresborough-330 voters. Leominster-428 voters. Ludlow -446 voters. Lymington—(Sir H. Neale)-287 voters. Marlborough (Lord Ailesbury)-254 voters. Marlow, Great (Mr. Williams)-357 voters. Poole -498 voters. Richmond (E ar l o f Z et l an d)-262 vo t ers . R'pou (Earl d e . G rey )-36 voters. Tamworth (Sir R. Peel)-396 voters. Tavistock (Dake of Bedford)-336 voters. 'Tewkesbury_37B voters. Thetford (Duke of Grafton)-210 voters. Tiverton (Heetheote)-443 voters. Totnes-362 wort , . Wells -381 voters. Wycombe-346 voters. Here again we have twenty-nine boroughs, fifteen of them being under immediate influence, but returning just twice as many Members to Parliament as the places just bef ,re enumerated—though in each list the towns are equally unimportant and equally meagre in their muster-roll of voters. Understanding that these two lists must contain—as nearly as can be ascertained—the names of the boroughs to be affected by the New Re form Bill, let us ask Lord John Russell upon what prin ciple his measure can be worthy of the namo given it un less he does something to correct the anomaly the two catalogues present. Can a Reform Bill sanction anew t he retention of two Members by Andover, whilst Abingdon, with m ore voters, has but one? Why again should Bodnuin have two when Bewdley has but one?— and so on through the list. It will be answered that in both cases a new district is to be added to the boroughs —but the borough that has two members is not to have two districts; all Lord John's sixty- seven pl ace s are—so far as he has told us—te be tr ea t e d a lik e. Th ey are a ll to be linked with new parishes or towns. Abingdon and Andover, and the rest, are to bo saved from disfran chisement upon these terms—but nothing is said about the anomalous condition of their representation—not a hint is given of how we are to have redress for the un fair play that awards one collection of small towns twice the amount of representation enjoyed by the other. Points such as these demand the careful attention of Reformers. Lord John Russell declines to forma new schedule A--let us indicate for him a schedule B. We do not ask for disfranchisement, but would suggest that these boroughs in the two lists we have given be placed upon au equal footing the one with the other. Let each of these small towns return one member, and let the twenty-nine seats thus saved be given to the twenty-nine largest and most intelligent unrepresented towns that the House of Commons can select from the whole of the United Kingdom. Let England, Ireland, and Scotland take their share, in proportion as each may be able to indicate places where numbers, activity, and enlighten ment demand representation. The Members of the Liberal party—throwing aside minor differences—should unite to urge upon the Minister the adoption of some such proposition as the one we now shadow forth, and then—with the ballot—the measure of Lord John Rus sell may perhaps be rendered worthy of its title as a New Reform Bill. HEALTH()F LONDOIV DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Report.) The total number of deaths registered in the metro politan districts last week is 1,016, being nearly the same amount as in the previous week. In the ten cor responding weeks of the years 1842-51 the average number was 1,060, which, it increased in a certain pro portion to the growth of population, will become 1,166. Last week, therefore, there was a decrease of 150 on the corrected average. The returns of the last two weeks are not only similar in the aegregate number of deaths, but approach nearly in the results referred to some of the leading classes of disease. In the previous week 215 deaths were caused by epidemic diseases., in the last the number was 201; in the previous week the number ascribed to diseases of the respiratory organs was 176, now the number is 171. ‘. Diseases of uncertain seat"—viz , dropsy, abscess, 'lke, numbered respectively 39 and 40; and amongst these produced dweinektahnedtwlBo weeks n ee t k he s complaints tbla o feutr i tmce l t t ec t ler ew ssl. soicioslsuccessively bluen3aesb' organs eol a t e rfBl b c o t 9l s uc h: e al eaar;nr respiration i s ehd d g p rio2 e s i si t :s en h e a 6 t a a i t Bo;t v it eh o e f sde nt ti h hsc ei e s a organs,smheesteai mortality heart, t a f l a t tn 3 y l ahssdei considerably nervous r as eo n3 rma d - b 4 iy 6 ; diseasesu n s d and e - r m av e e n r i a m e o e r , a a t t ie th n e d er cc t r h e e a l s u e i ng s s, m w o h st decided iehus fatal pnalleau st week in only 53 eases, while in corresponding weeks of the last tell years it ranged from 69 to 129. In the preceding week the deaths registered as caused by small-pox Isere 43, the number has declined to 30 ; measles was fatal last week in 10 cases, scarlatina in 32, hotiping-cough in 38, croup in 10, thrush in 4, diarrhce in 13, dysentery in 1, scurvy in 1, ague in 1, remit!ent f i e v ee nr r a t i n unt: 2 lle , ter i or n i f i e o i w it i i t le lg fever in 1, typhus in 43 perpetual ( 2 b 2 e l s , ides other 5 deaths in women after child birth),l rheumatic fever in 1, erysipelis in 7, syphilis in .6 cholera infanotuftna death was registered from cho notherhithe-street, on 28th January, o days)."master the daughter I s considerably, the of m mo thoughon r t t h a s - , d by zymotic diseases generally is not y diffe e from the averag e , . widelprpuetxmeprereretat SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAnwn.y.—Traffic for the Week ending Feb. 8, 1852 . Passengers (6,652), parcels, horses, and carriages ... - Goods, cattle, ... £7P3 10 2 ..• ..• 853 18 7 Total . 1,587 8 9 Corresponding week in last year... 1,447 6 8 Perth, Feb. 11. 1852. DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN SKYE.—This is a start ling announcement to make, but we do so on the authority of the following note from a gentleman on whose veracity w e January 30, 18,52.—The place perfect reliace : people of Skye are 'in the greatest state of excitement at - present, a gold mine having been discovered on the banks of the river Stenschol, in Wateruish. A travelling tinker of the name of Stewart has converted some of the gold into rings. I have not seen any of it myself, but from the de scription given by those who have seen the metal, 1 have no doubt that it is gold. This statement is quite correct, and_ you may insert it. Samples of the n 14411 1 1 01 b een ben t to Ldiaborgla.",—invernesz THE S ITN, LONDON, Pl' ETItSbA PRIVY COUNCIL. WINDSOR, FEB. I I. The Queen held a Privy Council at half-,past two o'clock this afternoon, at the Castle. It was attended by his R , )yal Highness Prince Albert, the Marquis of LlDE &vale (Lord President), the Earl of Minto (Lord Priv) Seal), Lord John Russell (First Lord of the Treasury) Sir George Grey (Secretary of State for the Home De partment), Earl Granville (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), the Earl of Carlisle (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster), the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere (Pre sident of the Board or T rade), the Marquis of Clanri carde (Postmaster-General) the Marquis of Breadalbane (Lord Chamberlain), and the Duke of Norfolk (Master of the Horse). Her Majesty in Council was pleased to appoint the the Right Hon. Henry Edward Lord Stanley of Alderhy Vice-President of the Committee of Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and foreign plantations. The lion. William Bathurst was the clerk cf the Conceit in waiting. The Queen gave audiences to the Marquis of Lans downe end Lord John Russel!. At the Court, Mr, Charles Barry was presented to the Q Teen, and had the honour of knighthood conferred upon h im by her Majesty. The Queen was attended by Lord Edward Howard Vice Chamberlain ; the Earl o f M ulgrzve, C ornptro ll tr of the Househ o ld ; L ord Waterpark, Lord in Waiting; and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting. The noblemen and gentlemen of the Queen's Court were served • with luncheon in the Castle previous to the Council. At a quarter-palt four o'clock the Marquis of Lans. downs, Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Clauricarde, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Earl Granville, the Earl of Carlisle, Sir George Grey, L ord Edward Howard the Earl of Minto, the Ri g h t Hon. Honry Labouchere, the Hon. William Bathurst, and 8:r Charles Barry left the ', Castle for the station of the Great Western Railway in Windsor, and returned to Londo n by a special train. 1•••••••o•••••••••:......- COURT CIRCIILAR. The Earl of Mu/grava and Lieutenant -Colonel F. Seymour have left the Castle to-day. Vice-Admiral Elliot. Yrcsaient of Montserrat, had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial ofEce. Lord John Russell returned to his residence in Cho& ham-place yesterday evening, from attending the Counci at Windsor Castle. At the we e kl y SOCIETY . OF ARTS. meeting of the society, last ev en i ng, a lecture was d el i vered b y M r . H. iiensu mo , C. E., on Civil Engineeri ng an d M ac hi ne ry in connexion with the Ex hibition of 185 1 . D r . Lyon Playfair was i n t h e chair, and there was a large attendance of members present. The lecturer enumerated the principal objects of inte rest in the machinery department of the Exhibition, and pointed out the novelties and improvements dis played in each. In summing up the general effects of the Great Exhibition upon those branches of industry more particularly dependent upon the progress of me chanical discovery, ho stated that a remarkable impulse had been given to inventors, which had already made itself felt, and which might be expected to dead to im portant results. Previous to 1851 there had been a pretty general diffusion of knowledge respecting each remarkable discovery made in this country, but there were no means by which we could become accurately acquainted with the progress of other coun tries; and it was iu this respect especially that we were likely to derive advantage from the collected specimens of the industry of all nations. There was one circumstance which had caused much surprise and regret to the jurors, namily, that :hue were so few improvements in machinery exhibited by the class of working men. That was partly to be explained by the fact, that considerable doubt for some time prevailed whether adequate protection would be . afforded to in veuton,. But it was also attributable to the deficient education of the working classes, w he, even when means of in. traction were provided for them in mechanics' in stitutions, generally preferred devoting their leisure to works of light literature, than to severe study. Dr. PLASFAIR observed that the ill success of me chanics' institutions arose from the desultory, snmethe dical system on which they were sometimes conducted, and also from their mi xe d character, rather than from the repugnance of th e wor k ing classes to difficult study. A cr'urc;e of lectures on scientific subjects had been corn nvneed the preceding we, k, at the Government S c h oo l of Mines, and no few e r th an 1,500 working men had of fered to pay the fe e requ i red for admission, but accorno dation could be given to only 500, who listened to the lectures with the g reatest attention and interest. exp A le t in th ed e c t o o n t c h l e us m io e n te o b f e t r h sea veral small steam- mg i nes visitor s m n e d etin g M r. t l h i e en d s e m ts s i n is kin explained exhibited on the table. and other models which were SOUTHWARK SOUP KITCHEN. Philosophy has ad m i tted that mankind, and not the symbols of human authority, practically govern the world, and following th at comes the inevitable necessityfor studying the whole family of man a nd his condi tions. Take, for instanc e , t h is great metropolis, and b y far the greater part ar e li ving in the most abject misery and poverty, and until l ately little has been done to al leviate their wretched ness. We are now, however, making some progress in the right direction, for o f the poor we see springing up modelll sides, for the be nefit and washhouses, and lastly soup kitchens. One of these, lately established in Gravel-lane, Southwark, through , lodging-houses, boas the exertions of Mr. J. Brady, of the Blackfriars-road, has done much to ease th e distress felt by that portion of the labouring and unempl oyed wor ki ng c l asses o f London. This soup kitch en was first established in the early part of January, and s i nce then some thousands have been recipients of th e from actual starvation. We yesterday witnessed the distribution of soup and bread to some hundreds of Poor people at this establish bounty, and many moat, and it would have moved the heart of a misan thrope to see the number of destitute and hungry saved peop l e who were obliged to be turned away in conse -ne---c'cecY of funds to meet the worthy. itinucerecacaeodf tdheemarild. ffillowever, th e great this charitable institution have been carried out by show ing the public at large that a vast amount of good purposes of might be accomp l ished b the combination of the many at a nominal expense too d -onators, and indeed it re quires only that the attention of the charitable and ha the scenes of distress to obtain their co-operation to a °polls should be directed to .11.1.....00.1..........- nevolent of this great metr cause at once so glorious and itah raial c 0 n t.avee been t a ken PibUon.Pßttnoll:utai between HARBINGER six o'clock, , a lV d ELN , E tr s o D u .s. s v e . ei r s t 4l/1. SHIP ' COLLISION (cii pE ) WITHSC 1ER77171718----c'l3 a ri f v tGe e r r il , nearly abreast of Northflecist,inn evening, shortly took place on the 1 whichstht eta hln .e _ ended s h Capei p p i ne i o n f fi ce a n rb t i h ng e e H r at i: 11 ° comm s a h n e de i r s , a a n e d . the founderirg of the latter and t a i t ' a bi e n e g a e l r . lsacdreenwbsrtiega called -1 i steamer for several hours as h ore. l it,: casting of the one of the fleet of the General Scre w e Company, and in the course of the hr d o t : dusk pre r a s u e e t t x i t o i P ri n e g s - East India Docks at Blackvrall, and proceedede, terhooo left the river on her way to Plymouth, whioti down the nounecel to leave on the 15th instant 1 .! ) . °11 With the Good Hope mails. She had on board i r n ie s rt h e e ed h p o i i l e o te ts d , t a h n e cl u it su wju li ld appear that two t with the r(daut arrived with Admiralty gi acci r d e e g n u t. lati o en n , s a te ti a 4 g m h tadoptedsg :Oen" b.. " 1 more e Reach, in a thou i t (lilueetin(wico,irrattithhi crowd u e N r a i ry rt w e h( a ) i t ifrneed:.ti. colliers,a ierd which possible,s l )e P e P i d r :N s a V i a le a a i ti f i leit t g°°l o .in the town, s II o with a view of avoiding coming many craft which studded that the Thames. In trying to pick h er 13art of ever, she struck the brig Resolution, wh r aY, how anchor in about mid-channel, and is stated t(i)eilll was at deeply laden, and was forced so heavily against av e been the ebbing tide that the brig's hull yielded to her ,by sure, and she rapidly went down in deep wate the pres. most prompt attention was directed to the preser• The of the brig s crew, and several boats which Werervhadon ing to the stern of the Harbinger put off to theiranS- The whole of them were rescued. aid. As quickly as practicable after the collision the m binger dropped her anchor, bu t unfortun ately, in swir r ing round, tailed ashore, and all efforts at th e time failegcl in getting her cif. She remained. in that position until early this morning, when, the tide having flowed, she floated, and was brought up abreast of this place. was then ascertained that s he had sustained not, mama It except to a boat and a light s p ar, and M three o'cle g c e l; this afternoon she re-started for Plymouth. In the course of the day Captain Fitzroy, R.N , 0n of the directors, came down fo r the purpose ot. .inquiring I into the disaster; and we beli eve he ca me to the 8 m opinion as to the cause of the a ccident as the above ar e ticulars may convey. The brig is state d to have been ' 6 0 years old. The wreck lies ne arl y in tiid.chantci and the h a rbour-master of the p ort of London has ' already given the necessary in struction s for her re moval. Bln the event of her not b ein g Weighed h 0 will be blown up by means of gunpowder. Minister of At arine Peer of Franc e , di ed atlIN underTh a Lot tla x r Marquis de and J f : r u ni c er ou ly r seat; 41 the Seine-et-Z.4lrue, a fey/ diva ago, aged 91. W INDSOR, FEB. 11. g Her Majesty and his Royal Hi attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the Prince A household, wont to an evening party las t night (the 10th inst.), at her Royal Highness the Du c h ess of Kent's, Frogmore hness lbert, House. Present—tier Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Marchioness of Douro, the Anna ßaroness y ness de sp Ma e r t i b a , Har.oLnu,cyLisideyrrtz A Francis mßerluiacemur , Mur ray, Lord Watorpark, Colonel Hon. Charles Grey, GLaenoodrrdgmeGeorge Lennox, the Lieut.-Colonel Hon. A. Gordon, Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, a n d M r , B . ulißpu.eiret,c Bolted, Lady ,pce ro: rhlnier Ca roline.l eymour, Colonel Seymour, E L e r u l t 0 . Lieut.-Colonel ti o; i ir l sas : ei Barrington, d m u r l p s li; G Sir r e Py E th re e i H ly o s n e . y C m . o B u . r, a ra nd ldy M , rms.iss,hipps, Colonel and L.dy lMel‘sli,sisssthe Princess Royal, and the tabnerdrMe Missesris).r Henry ncceu sot,f av andvnda Moore. S Princess Alice joined the dance for a short time during the early part of the evening. Her Majesty's private band was in attendance. This morning the Queen walked in the Home Park and Slopes. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the younger members of the Royal Family took their accus tomed pony and walking exercise. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out hunting this forenoon, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. A. Gordon. FEBRUARY 12 3 1852. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS, (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons. WEDNESDAY, FED. 11, The following'Railway Bills were ordered to be brought in : Cork and Bandon. York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Deviation of Bishop Auck land Branch, &c). York, Newcastle ' and Berwick (Deviation of Thi rs k and Mahon Branch, &c). Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan. South-Eastern and Reading, Guildford and Reigate. The undernamed Railway Bills were presented, read a first, and ordered to be read a second time : Londonderry and Enniskillen. Londonderry and Coleraine. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. ' The undernamed Bills are appointed to be read a second time on Monday, Feb. l G : Aldborough H rbour of Refuge and Improvement. Athlone Markets and Customs. 13e;fast Gas. Forth and Clyde Navigation. • Great Western, Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Shrewsbury and Chester, Shrewsbury and Hereford, Birkenhead, Lan ca:liire, and ,Cheshire Junction, and Hereford, Ross, and Glbucester Railway Companies, Ipswich Duck. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (No. 3). South Stafflrdshire Railway. South Wales Railway. Sunderland Waterworks. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS, From the Vacs aid _Proceedings of the House of Commons, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11 . NEW RIVER COMPANY (TO IMPROVE THE SUPPLY OF WATER, Order for Second Reading read; Motion made, and Ques- tion proposed, " That the Bill be now read a second time :" Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day six months :" Question put, " That the word 'now' stand part of the Question." The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 80. Baring, Sir F. T. Hastie, Archibald Renton, John C. Bell, Jacob Ilatchell, John Romilly, Colonel Blair, Stephen Heneage, G. 11. Scobell, Captain Bramston, T. W. Hey - worth, L. Seymour, Lord Bremridge, Richard Hindley Charles Shatto, R. D. Brotherton, J. Hope,:H. T. Smith, John B. Brown, William Howard, P. 11. Smollett, A. Burke, T. J. Hume, Joseph Stanfield, W. R. Charteris, FranciS Kershaw, James Stanton, W. H. Clay, Sir W. Lewis, G. C. Staunton, Sir,G. Cobden, Richard Lockhart, A. E. Sttutt, E. Cowan, Charles Loveden, Pryse Stuart, Lord Dudley Dawes, Edward Mackie, John Tancred, H. W. Divett. Edward M`Gregor, John Thompson, Colonel Dodd, G. Martin, C. W. Thornely, T. Duff, James Melgund, Viscount Trelawny, J. S. Duncan, George Milligan, Robert . Tufnell, H. Ellis, John Moffatt, _George Tyler, Sir G. Fergus, John Morgan, H. K. Vane, Lord 11. Fitzroy, lion. 11. Morris, David Walmsley, Sir J. Frewen, C. H. Newdegate, C. N. Williams, W. Fuller, A. E. Norreys, Sir.D. Willy ams, 11. Geach, Charles Osborne, Ralph Wilson, Matthew Gore, W. R. 0. Owen, Sir John Wyvill, Marmaduke Goulburn, Henry Pakington, Sir J. Graham, Sir James Patten, J. W. Greene, John Pakington, Sir J. Greene, Thomas Powlett, Lord W. TELLEB.S. Colebrooka, Sir T. Alcoa, Thomas • MINORITY—NOES, 54. Arkwright, George Du Pre, C. G. Napier, Joseph Beresford, William Forbes, W. Pechell, Sir G. Best, John Fox, W. J. rigor, Francis Blewitt, Reginald Goold, Wyndham Prime,ltichard Boldero, H. G. Gordon, Admiral Repton, G. W. Booker, T. W. Greenall, Gilbert Rice, E. R. Boyle, Colonel Grogan, Edward Sandars, George Brocklehurst, John Hardcastle, J. A. Scholefield, William Brown, IL Henley, J. W. Smyth, John George Buxton, Sir E. Hildyard, R. C. Spooner, R. Chatterton, Colonel Hope, Sir J. Stafford, Augustus Christopher, R. Hughes, W. B. Stanley, Edward Clerk Sir G. Lockhart, W. Strickland, Sir G. Codrington, Sir W. Lygou, General Sullivan, Michael Collins, Thomas Masterpian, John Wawn, J. T. Cubitt, William Milton, Viscount Willoughby, Sir H. Davios, D. A. S. Moody, C. A. TELLERS. Dundas, Sir David Mullings, J. R. Cowper, W. F. Dunne, Colonel Mundy, William Mackenzie, W. F. THE ENGINEERS' STRIKE. We have heard of no fresh men going into shops yes terday, and a deputation of mathematical instrument makers called in the afternoon at the centre! office of the Amalgamated Society, Little Alie-street, Whiteehapel, and stctcd that two men, w h o on Tuesday entered l 3 Limehotne, as turners, were members of h and that steps w ere a b out to be taken to expel them in consequence. their society, shop' The sums received yesterday at the general office cl the Amalgamated Society for the support of the men out of employ amounted to about 2001., making a total of about 1,500/. since Monday, inclusive. The following letter will show the state of the strike in 'Manchester, according to the views of th e men:— " 5, Hanley-street, Manchester, F e b. 10. " Dear Sir,—We have been very busy all day, an d the general Liclief is aat the strike will not last long. Pairhairn and other employers have sent for deputations from the men, but the men arc, staunch. Parr, Curtis, and Madtley's foremen have refund to sign. Tory, th e manager of Patricrofr, has also refused; but we lit.ve beard that four foremen at Whitworth's have signed. A number of turners were engaged at Sharp's esterday, but thtiy were discharged in the aftemoon, and the gine was stypped. _ " thib,..half of the Dlsputo Committee, " GEOLGE Maoris, Secretary. " 11Ir. W. Allen, Secretary .“ malgaccaVd Sociciy." INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. On Tuesday, James Meadows Rende!, Esq , Presi dent, in the chair, the paper read was " The Construc tion and Duration of the Perm anent Way of Railwaysin Europe, and the modifications most suitable to Egypt, India, &c.," by Mr. W. B. Adams. This paper was an historical record and critical exaa mination of the various parts, together forming the " Permanent Way," and of the numerous chan ges t h at it had undergone. The requirements that had been gradually developed, as necessary for accomplishing this object, were enumerated, and may be concisely stated to consist in a well-drained substructure, regu lated, as regards strength, according to the weight of the engines and the ausonnt of the traffic, firmly seated in the ballast, the rails being stiff enough to resist de flection, sufficiently hard not to laminate, and so broad as not to crest,;—smooth, so as to cffer the least fricion, and properly inclined, especially on curves, so as to fit th e wheels, and the joints so arranged as to make the bars continuous, ants yet to admit of contraction and esersthion. The different kinds of rails, from the fiat tiro 'bar and edge-rail, us. (1 on colliery lines at the time of the intro duction of railways —to the parallel and bridge-shape rails tiocv g e nerally adopted, were examined; and also the gi,,ter-t ails, for doing away with the sleepers and other the sddl extr aneous means of support, in the hopes of eff sting a savirg i n t h e cost of inaintenence Of the girder ra ils, arlow, M. Inste.-ha pattere, introduce'd by Mr. W. H. known; but it see C.e.kE., wa s th e one most generally s suggested, there would be some eilfii though the draught might celty in tbe packing ce this rail, and if, as was asserted, it renfly was A ri:sid girder, be i tsst - 45, 0, th e tyre of the wheels would roll down the rails to a correspondi ng s ir o, With themselves. The mode of connexion of this rail, by a piece o f nearly similar teetton. to %%hie n. it was firmly r i vetted, was ob jected to, on the grouted of their being no allow ance for expansion and cont ract i on; the strength of the joints depending entirely up on that of the riv e t s . sW with a rail, or rib, on Many modifications in the form of th e girder-rail were sugg e upper surface. suggested; inor g them and a a T section, ion eb fo r running the vertical portion below, gs e - ballast ing e stiffnes s, gsin s a t . n d forming asolid The supports for the rails were next considered, and the reasons for abandoning store blocks were attributed in some degree to their hardness and rigidity, which caused much noise, but principally to the difficulty of packing and maintaining the way, owing to their depth, to their chairs cutting into the stone, and the spikes working loose. The adoption cf timber sleepers, first on newly made embankments, afterwards universally—. their size and number to each length of rail, and the proportionate area to the length of bearing —to the ne cessity for their being sunk into the ballast, and yet to have such an amount under them as to prevent their being depressed in the ground, was also treated of, and a comparison instituted between cross-sleepers and longi ' tudiesl timbers, from which it appeared that when their bearing surfaces were equal the quantity of timber used in each would be the same, and, provided the quality was similar in both cases, which it ought to be, the cost of this portion of the way would also be the same. The longitudinal system certainly afforded great stiffness to the rail, and offered great facilities for packing; but, on the other hand, the timber was more crushed than in the cross-sleepers, the fastenings were less effectual, and were more difficult of access. For the purpose of ob taining greater durability in this portion of the way, and at the same time to preserve the elasticity afforded by the timber substructure, Mr. Reynolds had designed a combination of wood and iron, the wood, to which the rails were attached, being placed in a cast-iron trough, triangular in section, with the apex downwards. This system, however, did not meet with much favour, and more recently various contrivances had been suggested, and in some instances tried successfully for doing away entirely with the timber work in the substructure. In the " dish cover" cast-iron sleeper, in vented by Mr. Greaves, of Manchester, and now, it was said, about to be used in the Egyptain Railway, the packing was accomplished froth the surface, through two small holes; and, in the system introduced by Mr. P. W. Barlow, the rail was held in two cast-iron vices, which formed so rigid a road, that there was not the slightest elasticity in it. A modification of this plan by Mr. W. IL Barlow, in which the sleeper was cast in one piece, with a chair-head on it, and into which the rail was secured by a wooden key, was a slight improvement on the previous method. Mr. Samuel had proposed, that the rail should be held in a compressed wooden cushion, or vice, set in a cast-iron sleeper, or trough, but not con tinuous; and Mr. Hoby, that the sleeper should consist of an elongated chair of the ordinary form, the rail b e i ng fastened in it by means of a pair of folding wedges. From what had beau done, it might safely be concluded, that cast-iron might be advantageously employed, pro vided it was in large masses, and formed a continuous support; unless, indeed, the rails were so strong in them selves as to be non-deflecting. The different modes of fastening the rails in the chairs at the joint, so important to prevent deraillentent, were then alluded to, and the failure of the wooden keys, at first used, was attributed to their being ridiculously small; iron spikes were substituted for them, but they were also obliged to be abandoned, when larger wooden keys were again adopted; in some instances they were compressed, like the treenails, by the process of Messrs. Ranseme and May, who likewise had introduced a chair to be used with them. The last point to be noticed in the formation of per manent way, was the establishment of a firm connexion I etween the rails, so as to form them into one continuous bar, and to remove all the evils uttending had joints. On the Blackwell railway the ends of the rails were origi nally testfed—thst ties previous to the use of locomo tives on this line—but 'this weakened the ends and re duced the available length of each rail. Sunsequently, the addiden of tidies on bath sides ut the rails aas pro posed; various modes of accompl ishing the same object were given; at first of cast, afterwards of wrought iron, ted then only to touch at the top and bottom; these fishes were hid in tee channel nt the rail; and, in the first plsce, were supported at the ends by chairs, but, ~ f res h eastings had to he made to receive them, it was thought better to have holes in th e ra i ls cod tish ' es, and to pass a bolt through all, the holes in the rails using made larger than those in the Si tips, bo as to allow of ex pulsion and contraction. To meet the o bj ect i on to increasedthe cost of this plan, Mr. Samuel, i n 1849, pro posed that a chair should be cast with only one jaw to fill one channel of the rail, the other being occupied by the fish. In Egypt the dry heat of the atmosphere was fatal t o timber, and the soil along which the line would be car ried, would vary from the extreme moisture of it tegated Therefore the deeper the founds land to parched dust. tions o other, tee ravages of the s ev l i i l n s e ha d d u t r o in b g Maeguiarded ag a i nst; s be pre vente ar chance s s n c o r e n t t i b n e u r o e u s w a l e o e t p t e h r e - fr o a r d e m could u g b fi e r m p l . ac e l d a , ly sea sons, i f the het f te whitett h h e e o fi n a e t t:p ant,ishr t we s h t fl i i f oc l ah n ti d mn i g a i gthumpto possibly s ibly mber d by crec bwuats th u i s s e , d i ; n dry weath er , would be liable smoutecah timber; a b sence of anything which could be eeeily to be fired either by hot coke, or the burning sun. And in both these countries, as well as in the Australasian colonies, where luxes and police could not area be main great desideratum; there Should be few tvas aub u ra s i t p t e ,,.) d s s i t b h l a e, t parts, 80 as to require little Pt main tained, 1 fnee e rd s z i c , r da s 'n e w tt a s s nearly arly a un - , torte temperature it skilled labour, where such labour would be dear. and easily put together, Under all these circumstances, an iron girder-rail, of simple construction, hll under the extreme variations of temperature between 0 OW, So as most efficacious, the simplest, to pr d a and night, would oe tee sad I, eventually u t n h c e e d c htehaapt ;It o . W ay of Railways" would be fully subject of the "Permanent meet would be reads--e` sseecetta,.ofdiscussed at the of Tuesda, Feb. 17th, when the following paper river Bother, at 1-ty,; , a . S wing Bridge over the Mr. C. M on the line of the Ashford and klestings Branch . m ~. of the Bouth.Eastern Railway," by a3a s . Inst. C.E. CUR V- - '''-"---- p 1: 4 1 T ) U RE 01% HORIZONTAL iu_(Jl, AR LINES IN GREEK AR- ClilTE CTUI?E. V jauvius is the earliest writer who alludes to the curvature of what are usually considered horizontal lines, and he points out that the stylobate (or substructure ou which the columns rest) should rise gradually from the ends towards the centre (" as it ?reald otherwise appear like the bed of a channel"), and that, the capitals of the calumns should not be pl ~ ccd in the same horizontal level, but should deviate from the straight line in pro portion to the addition given to the centre of the stylo bate. The first notice of the fact in Athens was made in 1837, when Mr. John Pennethorne, an English archi tect, discovered the curvature, and afterwards published t his t a s o:ace; r r y a swell i o -t lines of the columns of the Parthenon, was established by Professor Cockerel! in 1810, and the inclination of the columns, by Pro sininthethueprighr of a Pro fessor Denaldson about 1829. It is singular how few of us olserve even what we see! It is not unreasonable to suppose that those travellers who have wondered why the fronts of the Greek buildings were so much less "dry and hard" than cur imit at i ons of them, mus t have felt (however unconscioualy) the beauty of the horizontal curvature. Without the entasis the outlines of culumna seem concave instead of straight. It was applied so deli cately, however, by the Greeks, that it is scarcely appre ciable, except by its indirect effects. The Italian archi tects of :he Revival, magnified it very absurdly, tacking the diameter of the column at about one-third of its height actually l arger t h an at th e bese. In no one of the Athenian profile of the column even perpendicular at the base-- examples, except Jupiter °lymph's, is the the enta s i s is kept subordinote to the diminution. ki r. Gi-jeku"of Penrose found the entasis in every case so nearly re sembling one of the forms of the fi Conic Section., viz., the hyperbola, that he is Aatis ed this was the curve used in the Athenian structures . Tt• the moulding s ? a wl vaitety of llght aud b n , prednees a WM , a e.-- Buildtr. ......................... hyperUolic or parabolic curyes In .• ie. in November, ,_.,lnst., aged 41 4. e-s„ B ART.--SiT Edmund Thomas died in Ireland, on the‘6th• ' DEATH OF SIP. EDMUIcD S. TuDi t ,---. B in the 69th regiment, bec,:trie a lieu' , -1 2 8, as an ensign ienant in lel in 183.5, and a in2jor in 1846. He purchased , a captain cow missions in this regiment, with r hiL all his Indies and New Brunswick. In years. Re entered the army he served in the West father vs the scvPrith baronet, and I S-11, he succeeded his army. The late Sir G. Thomas i • in 1850 retired from the by his half-brother, now Sir Godfreys succeeded in the baronetcy THE DERBYSHIRE P k R Thomas ' ' , will remember that on the lz- PlGHT.—vur readFrs named John 19th of December a noted pe destrian, Wilkinson, of NowHandley, was apprehended by Ser geanthim with having been ng•hani, under a warri:nt charging place between Paddock present at a prize fight which took the way to the police.st and Paulson a short time since. On the officer, and was not aticu he managed to escape from ing, w h en h e was a met with again until Saturday even.. ing, Parliament-street. by Inspector Raynor, i n Robert Wade, was leant Wilkinson, in apprehended on the came charge by Scr day 49ming. ,_ Charlotte-street, Nottingham, on Tues day y9uela9ugllc tclDealiewVat'S/ fa EtCl47. VENTILATION, &e, OF THE HOUSE. Motion made, and Question proposed, " That Dr. Reid be authorised to complete such temporary arrangements as are imperatively necessary at present for the maintenance of a better atmosphere during the Sittings of the House :" Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " the ventilation, warming, and lighting of this House be referred to the Noble Lord the First Commissioner of Works," in stead thereof:—Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question." The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 96. Archdall, Captain Greenall, Gilbert Norreys, Sir D. Arkwright, George Gwyn, Bowel O'Brien, Sir Lucius Bailey, Joseph Hamilton, Geo. A. Packe, C. W. Blair, Stephen Hamilton, J. 11. Paget, Lord George Booker, T. W. Hamilton, Lord C. "'echell, Sir G. Booth, Sir R. G. Hardcastle, J. A. Peel, Sir Robert Brisco, M. Henley, J. W. Perfect, Robert Brocklehurst, John Heywood, James Pilkington, James Brown, W. Heyworth, L. Prime, Richard Bruce, C. L. C. Ilig,gins, George Renton, J. C. Buck, Lewis W. Hildyard, T. B. T. Roche, E. B. Burke, Sir T. J. Hindley, C. Sanders; George Cholmeley, Sir M. Horsman, E. Scholefleld, William Cobden, Richard JoWife, Sir W. S. Scobell, Captain Collins, Thomas Keating, Robert Seymer, Henry Sec Cowan, Charles Keogh, William Shaft°, R. D. Crawford, W. S. Kershaw, James Sibthorp, Colonel Davies, D. A. Lennox, Lord A. himyth, J. G. ()awes, Edward Locke, Joseph Stafford, A. Duncan, George Lockhart, A. E. Staunton, Sir G. Dunne, Colonel Lopes, Sir Ralph Strickland, Sir G. Evans, William Loveden, Pryso Sullivan, Michael Fitawilliam, G. W. Mackie, John Thompson, Colonel Foley, J. 11. Macnaghten, Sir E. Tyler, Sir G. Forbes, William Megan, W. 11. Wakley, Thomas Fox, W. J. Masterman, John Walker, Richard Frewen, C. 11. Milligan, Robert li almsley, Sir J. Fuller, A. E. Moore, G. H. Wawn, J. T. Galhvcy, Sir W. P. Mo:,c, , an, 11. K. G. Williams, John Gaskell, J. M. Morgan, 0. Williams, W. Geach, Charles Morris, David TELLERS. . Gould, Wyndham Mailings. J. It. Osborne, Ralph Grace 0. D Mundy, William Hume, J. % MINORITY—NOR 6, 68. Acland, Sir T. Dodd, George Napier Joseph Adair, It. A. Du Bre, C. G. Ogle, S. C. Adderley, C. B. Ellis, John Patten, J. W. Aicock, Thomas Elliot, John E. Powlett, Lord W. Armstrong, Sir A. Evans, Sir De Lacy Rom illy, Colonel Bagot, lion. W. Fitzroy, Henry Sheridan, R. B. Baring, Thomas Fordyce, A. 1). Slaney, It. A. Bell, Jacob French, F. Sotheron, T. Beresford, William Gore, W. It. 0. Spooner, Richard Best, John Goulburn, Henry Stanley, Edward Bowles, Admiral Greene Thomas ' Stanstield, W. H. Boyle, Colonel Hardinge, C. S. Stauton, W 11. Bramston, T. W. Harris, Captain Strati, E. Brockman, E. D. Hatchell, John Thornely, Thomid Brotherton, Joseph Howard, I'. H. Wall, C. B. Banbury, William Hughes, W. B. Willoughby, Sir IL Carter, J. B. Inglis, Si it. Wilson, James Chatterton, Colonel Lennox, Lord IL G. Wilson, Matthew Clay, James Lewis, Sir T. Wrightson, W. B. Cobbold, J. C. Lushington, C. W odehouse,Edmund Codrington, Sir W. Mackenzie, F. Crowder, it. B. Matheson, Colonel Cubitt, William Maule, Fox Divett, E. Moffatt, George RS. Lewis, TE G LLE eorge C: Dundas, Sir D. THE BALLOT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Brn,—From the speech delivered a few days ago by Mr. Fox Maule to the electors of Perth, lied reported in your journal of last evening. it has now become quite clear, beyond all doubt, that, whatever may be the spe cific measures which the Government intend to propose in the new Reform Bill, vote by ballot is not to be one of them. Although the ballot is admitted to be "a fa vourite question with the House and the country," it seems that both are destined to experience disappoint ment, and if the reasons which the Right Honourable candidate has given againit the adoption of it cannot be received as satisfactory by the country generally, they must, certainly, be regarded as somewhat novel and ex traordinary. Is it not remarkable that the Right Hoe. Gentleman could be so far impressed with the necessity of applying the ballot as a remedy for a particular incon• venience, which heliad probably felt, as to be induced on one occasion to vote for it, and yet not perceive that it was equally expedient to protect a much more nume rous and respectable class than mere feggot-voters— persons who are duly qualified as bond fide voters, of great intelligence, and desirous of acting in accordance with the dictates and impulses of a conscientious pa triotism, but, who might find, that in doing so, they would expose themrelves and their families to injury or perse cution. It appears, however, that as the extinction of " faggot-voters'' is to be otherwise provided for, there can exist no other evils of sufficient importance to justify the use of the ballot, which has "never served:the pur pose for which it was intended." As we are not to have universal suffrage, neither, of course, can we reasonably expect the bailor, as it might be used to delude the non electors, who ought to know for whom each elector gives his vote. This mode of argument unquestionably seems more designed to hoodwink the non-electors, who may be deprived of the privileges of the franchise, than to satisfy common sense, or candour, for, if those who are excluded from the power of voting for a Parliamentary representative are so excluded on the pretext of igno rance, where is the fairness, or propriety, of making the intelligent voter directly and specially responsible to the most ignorant and debased? Is it not rather a new de- ' vice for conserving what is sometimes called the " legi timate influence of property."—l remain, Sir, &c., AN INDEPENDENT ELECTOR. Thorparch, near Tadcaster, Feb. 10. TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sitt,—lt appears to me the plans for defending the country aro far too shortsighted. Is there no fear that those deadly foes of civil and religious liberty, Russia, Prussia, and Austria, will seize the Dutch and Danish fleets end be over? Why not watch them with arsenals at Heligoland, Holy Isle, Yarmouth, Harwich, &c. Why rot fortify Jersey so as to overawe a French enemy, Poole, Lyne, Bridport, Blandford, dud Shaftesbury, t o prevcmt their marching from the west to London; Ilan, Caldy, Tenhy. and Lundy, with squadrons to gnaw] the Bristol and Irish Channels; Birdsey, Fishguard, an d every litdo point especially in Pembrokeshire, to prevent our position being turned; H ereford and Chepstow, and Oxford, Bath and Clifton, with the va les of L l 4ndiney, the Teifi, and the Tow', to prevent the INssians from the north joining the French in the south; Gn‘m;trthen, Cardigan, and Lianelly might be defended by tions. averfordwest and certain high pl aces ii;T:edct+- . .i. militia Pembroke and Carmarthen might be made defexllibl n Tho colonies are,sadly exposed, especially u erg _ ii e. surrounded by powerful foreign fleets. A lar ge in .rgt force might be rendered profitable there and here if em ployed in public, works. And let us , lay in s t ores of ui , M to Provisions, arms, and a mmunition. I doubt theprud,ence of e sporting any weapons. Even horses may ride down the a rmies of Belgium and Port)! be they, as constitutional countries, stand by Britain, nal should everything is done to guard every . ViThen aperture, , from invasion, then, but not till then etery crevice, the enemies of our religious and political' may we answer previously ascertained that every, faith ( having inter redressed). —I remain, si r, 40 internal grievance , is PEDRO Tit AN " Feb. 7, 1852. APOS VALDEY, .—.......-____ Barrister-at-Ls ,w. Mr. West, ALP., had an • ' yeitexclq roruiD interview with Sir Gore Greyg at the U9Dae-petice, EVENING, NDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAIL WAY, ' No railway company can leave itself in a position to have unreasonable conditions enforced at any moment, even against the better judgment of its own men, by the threat of a strike, in obedience to the order of a com mittee who have openly announced their determination to rule the destinies of the trade,' and who have already commenced by issuing a regulation respecting overtime and piecework, whi c h every man in the company ' s em ployment must feel to be, in our case, altogether un called for and unwarranted. " Accordingly, the directors now appeal to the good sense of the men, and to their experience of the treat ment which, for many years past, they havo received from the company, wlactlaer they are satisfied to go on amicably, under the existing system, remaining neutral in the present contest, or whether they are determined, at all hazards, to support the principle of combi nation?' " Ia the former case, the directors are quite prepared to remain neutral a!so, and to make no ch:,nge in the sykte in, which his hitherto been found to give satisfac thin. In the latter case, the men :rust hold thertuvives fairly warned that the directors will consider them selves at liberty to take whateiver steps may appear necesshry to make the company independent of ioteign dictation. By order of the Board of Directors, " FRED. ELIOUT, Secretary. " London Termins, 911 February, 1152." THE LONDON INS7'ITUTION. • Yest:rday evening Prokeor Miller delivered a lecture at this institution on she subject of the c ater supply of Loudon, to a very numerous nuiience. After enumeratirg the various sources—natural Finings, well, rivers, and others—from which water was to be dniveni, he we - it on to contrast the advantages and disadvantages which different kinds exhibit. lie showed the uniiorm cool ness, and the freedom from sewerage impurities, which recommend spring water, but at the same time remarked upon its liability to fluctuation in quantity, as against it. The artesian well water, he saie, was by means sopure as it at first sight appeared. As to. that; from rivers, lie noticed, first, the f ac ili ty of procuring it, but, as an ob jection, mentioned the frequency of its fluctuations in j temperature, and its want, in warm weather, of any grateful coolness to make it palatable. The Thames and Lea afforded a very uniform quality of water; but the Thames had a peculiar liability to contamination which, unfortunately, increased with the increase of the population, and which, moreover, filtration—powerless for the removal of either saline or organic matter, when dissolved—could not prevent. Coming next to the sta tistics of the question, the lecturer said that the daily supply of water brought into town by the nine metropo litan companies was between 50 and 60 million of gal lons. Of this the Thames afforded about half, the New River giving perhaps 16 million gallons. Of the 60 mil lions thus introduced into London, about the one-hun dreth part be took to be used for dietetic purposes—in other words, allowing each person to consume a quart in twenty-four hours, it would require 600,000 gallons daily to supply them all. The lecturer, after making some allusion to the influence of lead upon the water which passed through it, entered into seine scientific de tails, which be illustrated by exp , riments and charts. He was much applauded at the conclusion of his lecture. THE LONDON AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY.-- THE DirtEcrioN.—The directors who retire are Mr. G. C. Glyn, DI.P. (the chairman), Mr. Thomas Smith (the de puty chairman), Mr. Rotherham, Captain Carnegie, Mr. Benson, and Mr. Rathbone. The two last-named gentlemen do not offer themselves for re-election. We understand that the directors will recommend Mr. Gill (the deputy chair man of the Yorkshire and Lancashire Railway) and Mr. Creed (the late secretary of the old London and Birming ham Railway) to fill up the vacancies occasioned by the permanent retirement of Mr. Rathbone and Captain Carne gie. The appointment of Mr. Gill will more closely cement the friendly relations between the London and No r th - Western and Yorkshire and Lancashire Companies, and in to tend to neutralise the effect which any approaches' on the part e art of the Great Northern Company towards the Yorkshire and Lancashire Company might otherwise have; and the re commendation to elect Mr. Creed must gratif y th and North-Western shareholders , while it cannot f e Lo ail ndon strengthen their well-merited confidencethe board o f di will We have no d be unanimously elected oubt that Mr. Gill and Mr. Creed le Shrewsbury and A a gree d I, to do what the Lon- LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN A ao_viz have throughout con arigtoht to tit • " Ti " SHRE WS' Birminghamri t: t Y A B c in o m m t p x a s n iit y A h 3 a r v l e lA n l o Lz i d n o li the and Act,N a o n r t d h w - N h V i e c s h t e i r t m is Comp a n y allege the spec g i o al Court of e h r e s contained have ceased by virtue of tChancer y ended t hteoy prove Nvere bo theirun to po w t, the agreement which the former with the Great Western Cam have made to amalgamate will lead to an early Company It is probable that this Railway—that is, if the Shreopening tf the Stour Valley pany consent, as they most likely will, not to force their way SUDDEN DEATH decis ion of the Court.—Herald. Early yesterday OP A LIVERPOOL MERCHANT. — Exchange, _morning an announcement was made on the that Mr. James Brancker, brother to Sir Thomas hall, Maghull, near en y expired at his country seat, Manor death was awfully Liverpool. It appears that Mr. l3rancker's Liverpool, a sudden. On Tuesday the deceased was in health. apparently in the enjoyment of his accustomed In the course o f the af ternoon he returned home, where where he had '-' invited a dinner party of gentlemen. Shortly after his arrival at home, however, the deceased, as we are informed, was seized with a fit of apoplexy, and expired in a few minutes, medical aid, which wps almost immediately at and, bei ng entirely unavailing. The deceased was a guest at an of dinner given by the mayor, at the town-hall, ou Thursday evening last. Mr. Brancker was for many 3 - oars a partner in the firm of• Messrs. T. and J. Braucher, West India merchants. The house was always well known as one of the most respectable and influential hi the t own. Some years ago the deceased retired from business, and since that period up to the time of his death had resided at Maghull and at another seat in Westmoreland. Mr. liranclzer, who was about sixty years of age, was a gentleman highly respected. MunnEn or A G AMEKEEPE R. -- Iniortration has been received of a most barbarous murder having been com mitted on the estate of Mr. B. 1.v.• N a ynne, in the neigh bourhood of Garthewin and Ll anfairlathaiarn, Denbighshire, in the course of Thursday night or Friday morning. The unfortunate creature who perished was a game-watcher, named William Davies. It appeared that he went on duty at the usual period on Thursday night, an d nothing more I wa s seen of him by his friend s unt i l th following morning, i when his dead body was found in a field adjacent to a wood 1 on Mr. Wynne's propertr. His skull was found to be 1 ears was co mpletely cut off , , frightfully fractured, one of his . and his body was generally shockingly bruised. It was evi dent that the poor fellow had been assailed by some murder ous gang , and killed. The result of the coroner's inquest has not trauppiretl, Secretary's Office London, Feb. 11, 1852. The secreta-y preßenis ' hiL c nal . )i.ments to toe Editor of The Sun, and begs to forward a copy of a circular which has been izsueLt this day to the men in the cora psa) 's workshops:— "London, Brigh'on, and South Coast Railway, " The present state of things, arising out of the con test between th e A ma l gamated Societyut Afechanics and the employers, appears to the directors to make it ad visable for them to address cs few words of friendly warning and advice to the men employed in the caul pany's workshops. " They are very unwilling that anything should occur to disturb the good understanding which has hitherto existed, and they consider that in the present crisis a frank statement of the views entertained by the directors is due to the workmen, before any steps are taken which may lead to unpleasant consequences. " The directors are on principle opposed to ' com bination' of any description for the purpose of in terfering with the natural course of trade. They think that masters and men should be left in every establishment to settle their own terms, and arrange their own differences, without foreign in terference or dictation. They have always endeavoured to deal fairly and liberally with the workmen in their employment, and a reference to the books will show that no attempt has ever been made to beat down wages, to work unnecessary overtime, or to enforce any stringent and unusual regulations. Indeed, it is admitted by the men themselves, that they have not a complaint to make with the system of work as carried on in the company's workshops, and that it would be unreasonable to at tempt to enforce a rale requiring in every C4BO double pay for such a limited amount of overtime as is occa sionally required to meet the necessities of the traffic. " This system the directors have no wish to alter. They have no intention of making any change, or of enforcing any new regulati ons , un l ess compelled' to do so in self-defence. On the contrary, their wish is to stand strictly neutral, to make no change in their pre sent system, and to leave other parties to fight their own battles, if the workmen in their employment are content to take the same course. But if the men, who admit that they have no complaint to make in regard to their even establishment, insist upon taking an active part in the contest whioh is going on, by subscribing to support those who are thrown out of em ployment by disputes with which this company has no thing to do, they must be prepared to take the conse quences of such a course. "If it is the settled determination of some of their workmen to support a system of combination,' by which the conditions of labour are to be settled, not by fair and amicable arrangements in each case, but by the die tation of a council of sewn men, sitting in London, it must be evident to the plain understanding of every one that it is the duty of the directors, acting as trustees for the inter es t s o f others, to take such ' step] as may be ne cessary to render themselves independent of such a system. I