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4 ott TATTERSALL'S.-THIS EVENING. s o'cLocs. OUSDLIC STEEPLICIAJIM. 7 to 2 agst Caritg 5 to 1 agst British Yeoman 6 to 1 agst Versa 6 to 1 agst Maria Monk METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 20 to 1 apt Elthiron 23 to 1 agst Kate 25 to 1 agst Wryncek colt 30 to 1 agst Haresfoot CHESTER CUP. 33 to I agst RingleadPr 40 to 1 agst Black Doctor—taken 40 to 1 agst Nar.cy 40 to 1 agst High Sheriff—taken 40 to 1 agst Knock Knoll 1,000 to 15 agst Clincher 1,000 to 15 agil Confesfor 1,000 to 10 agst Huresfoot DERBY. IS to I agA Kingston 25 to 1 asst Wormereey 30 to 1 agst Filing SWITZERLAND. The National Szcis Gazette contains the follow ing : On the sth December, when intelligence of the events of Paris reached Lausanne, several French re fugees drew up an appeal to the French people, and bad it printed. The conclusion of that appeal was, We are ready to perform our duty as you are ready to per form yours. To arms! Five Ls Republique Dense cratique et Seciale.'" That appeal WAS signed by A. Rolland, T. Thore, Boichot, L. Avril, Eugene Beyer, E. Kopp, and Ed. Pfieger. On the 26th December, the Federal Council having heard of that appeal, adopted the fol lowing resolution : " Whereas the signers of that appeal have attempted to effect an insurrection in France, and have thereby compromised Switzerland; whereas Rolland, Boichot, Avril, Beyer, and Pfieger were expelled from Switzer• laud by a Federal resolution of the 24th March, 1851, the Council decrees:-Ist. The above resolution is con firmed. 2d. Kopp and There shall likewise be expelled trom Switzerland. The present resolution shall be com municated to the Government of the canton of Vaud, and the Departments of Justice and the Police are charged with its execution. " G. MIINZINGER, President of the Federal Council. " S HIES, Chancellor of the Confederation." " The decree (continues the Gazette) will be carried into effect. It is time that Switzerland should cease to be made a cat's-paw. She will fulfil her international duties at the same time that she will maintain her inde pendence." DENMARK. The Prussian Government has informed the Duke of Augustenburg, that the Governments of Europe are decided to uphold te integrity of the Danish monarchy, and that the claims of the Augustenburg family will be compensated by an annual allowance of money. The Augustenburg estates will remain in the hands of the Danish Government. THE IMPOSSIBLE 7,439,216. Among the many extraordinary circumstances con• nected with the present revolution in France, it is not the least of such that M. Louis Bonaparte has been able to gull the people into the belief of his having received the affirmative votes of more than 7,400,000 persons. That he should seek to deceive in this, as he has in many other ways, should not surprise us; but that he should have so completely forgotten the prudent advice offered to a deceiver in the fable, to "keep probability in view," is extraordinary, since he has laid himself open to de tection in his falsehood by every one who will be at the 10C.1118 to examine his figures in connexion with the popu lation returns, which are free to the inspection of every one. The narnkrs advertised in the Moniteur as having voted on the question of his dictatorship, Oui or Non, are 7,439,216 /v on ... 640,737 Annitic . 3 ••• ••• 36,820 Total who voted ... 8,116,773 The total population of the 86 departments of France at the last census, in 1846, was 35,401,761 From which must be deducted the inhabi tants of Corsica, not included in the re turns of voters 230,271 32,171,400 Of this number one-fourth only are men 20 years old and upwards ... Deduct further the number given in the /stench tables as between 20 and 21 years 303,500 8,792,872 Leaving ... ... 8,439,372 as the greatest possible number inscribed as electors capable of voting, being only 372,502 beyond the number who are asserted to nave voted, and conse quently allowing only about 1 in each 100 of adult males to have soF.taiued from voting. More than one fourth of the above number, viz., 97,023, are stated in the census returns as being above 85 years of ago, and may on that account be assumed as unlikely to have voted. In addition to this, there are the sick, and those absent during the days of election from the district in which they were inscribed. A very moderate allowance on these accounts would more than make up the above named excess of 372,599, without reckoning any of the very numerous class whe, upon principle, a b s t a i ne d f rom voting on the question, and who, in the department of the Seine alone, are stated to have been 96,819 out of 394,049, the number inscribed in the department. If the proportion who thus abstained is assumed as correct data for the whole of France, then the number who did not rota would be 2,085,863; leaving the 6,403,509 as the extreme number whose votes were recorded, or 1,713,2 64 fewer than the number asserted by M. Bonaparte to have been given. The number of negative votes is stated in the ilioniteur to have been 640,737, of which number 96,511 were given in the single department of the Seine —about 1 in 3 of the total number said to have voted; whereas, in the rest of France, the adverse votes are stated to have been only 544,226, or only 1 in 20 of the alleged voters! Credut qui vult.—Examiner. SPORI IN G NOTES. No. CLXVI• ANALYSIS OF THE SEVENTY-THIRD DERBY. (Continued from No. CLXV.) TO THE EDITOR OF THE s UN. Six,--since dotting down my last remarks on the lsre Derby, I fi n d b y my l ast communica tion from w market, th at Esy o b servations concern i ng B u tler's stable were in several respects incorrect. As I before re marked, Hugo and Weathergago are not worthy any sane man's consideration for the great race now in hand, and Hesperus I mad e little or nu remark about. lam now in a position to state, that he is in gentle work, much improved since the close of last season, and that he will probably turn out to be the best of that stable. Labouring under the idea—from not having heard any thing about them—that Maidstone and Canterbury — two purchases from the Goodwood stable —were thrown out of training, I did not take their chances into con sultation in descanting iu my last letter on Butler's lot. Canterbury is doing no work; in tact, is out of training; and Maidstone, though doing gent l e exercise, and lookins: well, is by no means a Derby horse in any respect. I shall make a point of concluding the Derby article to-morrow, when I will give the summing up to the best of my judgment. Before closing this brio f note I will take a glance at the OUNDLE STEEPLECHASES. Th e principal one, marked on the list t o b e run at p twelve o'clock, will in all probability hav e some seven or eight starters, namely, the British Yeoman, the Ge neral, Isaac, Verax, Carrig, Maria Monk, and perhaps another or two. The Yeoman has on this occasion to concede a stone to his next-door neighbour, and considerably more to others in the race. This of course will militate much ° against his ?hone() ; I, however, think, that as the course it in anything but a light condition, the Ye o man , if run to win, will be one of the first three. The General, at lest. 41b., is held perfectly safe by Isaac, at a pound less. Venture, Miss Mew bray, Johnnie Barrie, Carrig, Cogia, Mischance and Gulnare, I have no holey for. Hinton's running is uncertain, so,I shall pass his chance over without comment. This weeding of the field leaves me the two cracks Verax and Maria Monk—with Isaac and the British Yeoman to dispute the palm of superiority. If I place M ARIA MONK and VERZX iu the first two positions, with Isaac and the Yeoman tolerably well up, I think my venture will not be very wide of the mark. The Selling Stakes, over three miles of country, I should book as a certainty for YOUNG LOTTERY or OUT CAST, with Bullfinch, Gulnare, and the Parson's Daughter in attendance. The latest betting on the Oundle events quotes Verax as the favourite at 7 to 2 (taken) , Maria Monk 5 to 1, Carrig 5 to 1, General 8 t o 1, Isaac 8 to 1, and th e Yeo man the same figure. For the Selling Stakes—Outcast is marked at .5 to 2, 3 to 1 taken freely; Young Lot tery, 4 to 1 ; Ormsby, Bullfinch, or any other, 6 to 1. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF, Jan. 12, 1852. THE NEW CHIJECEL AT lIAMP3TEAD.7—DIItiIT the heavy gale which prev.ileci on FriLlay morning the district of Hampstead suffered most severely. Amongst many other casualties was that of the blowing off nearly thirty feet of the spire of the new l y . erected district chureh. The edifice, built in one of the loftiest positions of that elevated neigh bourhood, from it s pecul i ar site and extreme height (being upwards of 200 feet) has b een an object of great a t traction . It was a moat tottnnate circumstance that the accident hap pened during the night; for had it occurred when the work men were in the church (the interior not yet being finished), the consequences must have been m ost f a tal, as the masonr y fell on the roof , dashing through to the body of the church. The damage is estimated at upwards of 1,300/. LEAP OF AN AMERICAN } loam --According to the Sunburg American, a horse near that place recently l eape d f r om one abutment of an unfinished bridge to another a dis tance of thirty-two feet; and on .a subsequent day, after into pieces and spilling smashing a buggythe driver and two ladies into the road, be Jumped twenty-three feet on rising ground, with the four wheels or the buggy attached. Th e Boston Transcript simply add " Iziachet we seen the story Inint we .shouldn't have btlteyed It." THE " PRESERVED" MEATS AT PORTSMOUTH. PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY.—At the eleventh hour the Admiralty have given orders to Sir E. Parry, at the Clarence Dockyard, Gosport, not to give any morein formation to the newspapers in reference to the exami nation of the tin cases of putrid matter supplied to the navy as " preserved meat, warranted to keep for for . five years." But the following short summary of t col lected by a gentleman on the spot, may be relied upon as authentic. Goldner, who was, and has been ever since 1845, the contractor for the supply of these provisions, was lately resident at Greenwich. The last contract consisted of 8,660 canisters, or over 73,0001b5. weight of food. The result of ten days' examination is, that , out of 6,671 cases only 189 have been found " good. For this contract Mr. Goldner was paid at the rate of sid. per lb. for the best beef and mutton. Mr. Goldner is or was also a contractor with the Russian Government for a supply of tallow, and for the L e- , duction of which he had a tallow factory at full work, in Galatz, inMoldavia; and there can be little doubt that the offal and refuse of this fac tory is the " preserved meat" which he has supplied to the English navy. About four months ago an agent of his was allowed to remove and take away 2,000 of these canisters from the Clarence Victualling-yard, in conse quence of a report having got abroad that their contents , we re emitting a very unp l( asant telour ; what became et these 0 000 remains a mystery, but they were included in the 8,660. Yesterday the examination came to an . abrupt close before ono u'elock; but it resulted the condemnation of two hundred tin cases, out of which not a single one was found " good;" but any person apply ing for information on behalf of a newspaper received a decided refusal until such time as some communication can be had from the Admiralty on the subject. However, it is now confidently asserted in Portsmouth that a large portion of this fceqd stuff wile put on board the ships of Sir John Franklin. Up to a late hoar last evening no communication of any sort had been received by the Board of Examiners either from the contractor's representative in London, or from his sureties, and nothing whatever is known of the contractor himself, beyond the fact that he ia no longer to be found in Greenwich. .Since last Tu es day week, the Board of Examiners ap pointed by the Admiralty to discharge the disgusting duty of revealing this foul fraud, have gone through their task as well and as long each day as their physical energies permitt e d. Th e o p e ration of forcing open the tin cans took place in a large empty store of the Clarence Victualling-yard, and it was simply this :—upon two empty barrels was placed a large board, around which stood the examiners, and as the cover was raised each and all present mechanically started back from the fearful effluvia emitted; but they went a step further; they emptied the can of its pollution , and finding i t to be that which its stench announc e d , put it back again and placed it in the yard. So they stood yesterday, arrayed in lines, of every weight, from 4 lbs. up to 32 lbs., and which no passer - by may approach in safety. Now, will not the public ask, bow is it possible that ever since the year 1845 Goldner should have had the contract, notwithstanding the competition and the many other tenders sent in? By what magic was it that he was always so fortunate as to be declared the contractor? Had Greenwich politics, or any individual high in office resident there anything to do with it ? The following explanation of the circumstances under which preserved meats were issued to sea-going ships, and likewise to the causes which led to the recent con demnation of those meats, which had been contracted for by the Admiralty,at Portsmouth, appears in the Ob server of yesterday. " The preserved meat is supplied in tin canisters of a certain dimension and strength, hermetically sealed. The supply is obtained by contract, and subject to examination—any canister on opened become un serviceable within twenty-four hours—it is therefore impossible to examine every canister, but a cer tain proportion, about five per cent,. is usually opened. in this examination it can be ascertained in the canisters actually opened, whether improper parts of the animal have been used; but where the proportion of improper meat in the whole supply is very small, it must happen that on some occasions breaches of the contract in this respect will escape notice, from the im possibility of examining every canister; but this is not the usual cause of the meats becoming unserviceable. If the air has penetrated into the canister, or was not originally entirely exhausted, or if there wa s a d e f ec t i n he original curing, meat which on examination appears , erfcctly good and is properly passed, would corrupt and e come unserviceable. Preserved meat was first issued to the navy, as an article of comfort for the sick, in the year 1815. It was also supplied in a limited quantity to Captain Parry on his Arctic voyage in 1819, and again to Captain Trotter's ships in the Niger Expedition in 1840. The reports in these instances were favour able ; still, as the article, from its comparative scarcity and cost, could only bo considered as one of luxury, its general use in the navy was not then contemplated. In 1840 a patent for preserved meat was taken out by Mr. Goldner, an d f ro m this time considerable improvement was made in the art of manufacture, and in the cost at which it could be supplied; and in consequence of this the Board of Admi ralty wore induced in 1846 to authorise th e i ssue o f pre served meat, experimentally, on a more extensive scale. The trial thus made appearing to be successful, the Board of Admiralty, by a circular of the 29th of April, 1847, directed that preserved meat should be introduced as an article of victualling into the navy, and issued to ships on foreign stations one day in each week, with preserved potatoes, in lieu of a salt beef ration. About the end of 1848, or in the beginning of 1849, it was re ported to the Admiralty that, iu addition to such occa sional condemnations of preserved meat as are common to salted provisions, parts of the animal nut fit for use had, in a few instances, been found mixed with the meat, and immediate steps were at once taken to re medy the evil. In the following year (1850) a new con tract was entered into with Mr. Goldner, and in 1851, increased quantities of preserved meat being re quired for the navy, a further contract was made with that gentleman for a large additional supply. It was in the course of examining the first deliveries under this contract that an improper substance was discovered in one of the canisters, and upon this the whole quantity under delivery, amounting to 22,3'251b., was at once re jected; and complaints at the same time reaching the Admiralty of the nature and quality of the preserved meat . then being ser ve d ou t i n s hip s a b roa d, or d ers were immediately sent to the commanders-in-chief on foreign stations; to stop the issue of such provisions, and to re tnrn the supply into store. The contract with Mr. Gold ner was then immediately cancelled; and, in order that the exact amount of penalty to which h e as contractor is liable may be ascertained, every canister in store, as well as those returned from ships abroad, is nowlbeinc , subjected to exam i nat i on. —l n j ust i ce to the contractor, ° however blameable his conduct, we are bound to state that a very small proportion of the caaisters examined is objectionable on the ground that improper parts of the animal have been employed. The principal proportion of those condemned may have become unserviceable from the other causes before stated. It appears, therefore, that the use of pres erve d meat generally was adopted after much experience—th at , on the fi rst compla i nts, imme diate measures were take n t o su pply a reme dy ; an d that this last extensive examination and condemnation has been occasioned by the determination of the Admi ralty not to permit improper meat to be supplied for the use of the navy. It is much to be regretted that this failure of the proper supply should have taken place; and in issuing the preserved meat the Admiralty were not swayed by any mo ti ve o f economy, but were de sirous of substituting a change fur the salt meat ration —a change which those only who have served long at sea can sufficiently value. The supply was obtained by contra ct—a mode which i s genera l ly preferred—but suchinstances as the one now under consideration show some of the inconveniences to which the system of con tract is liable." E. SILAS'S SONATA. (From the Musical World.) Sonata! what various and vivid emotions are excited iti our breast as we write the word. It recalls past times, pest excellencies, past performances, past rivalries, past friendships, with their many interesting azsocia tions, and from it we borrow a hope that a genius may yet arise to shed a beneficial influence over the atmo sphere of the musical world, and ditTel the crowd of dull spirits that now hang around the stalls of our great music-publishieg establishments. It is a matter of deep regret to must admirers of the art, that at the present period works dthere ar e uu p r oductions equal in excellence to the art i s i n of th e composers of the past. Some infer a state of - decline, others believe it to be merely i n a state of transition. Unquestionably, the public of En gland have now a better appreciation of the compositi ons ; yet the original of enter tained by the public . the great masters than that enter the previous quarter of this cen tury Coe classical for: musical press of Linraol compositions issued from the ductions of former da at the present day, do not pos or elevated character of the pro quarte.tts, concertos, tl s. „, In notturnos, fantasias, mazieirlareplace of sonatas, trios, satiated with caprices, morceaux caracteristiq ues, fa , n as t , romances sans paroles, oddities. Composers say the rac"giques, and such like has departed, but publishers high pretension, the public will not k o r e: o tif spirited publishers p a retension, and they accept mediocrity in works of lai a sonata, con position by a have the experience that professors oerto, or any other classical form of composition with modern composer, with as much alacrira cloyed appetite shuns the choicest viands. The as One The truth is, that time, the true propounder of excel lence, has so completely established the surpassing beauty of the sonatas , quartett e, and s ymphonies of Mczartand ß ee thoveen, that it is to be feared the portentouswords of Dante, "Lasoiate ogni speranzi, &c." may b e t oo significantly applied to all those who enter upon th e i r der artment of art. It may be objected that the sonatas of Clernenti, Dust eh, Steibelt, Cramer, Ries, H ummel, and other pianistes, wore a source of great profit t o com posers an publishers, but this must be attributed to the progress then making in the art of performing on the pianoforte. Composers were performers, each seeking to produce effect by new figures or forms of passages suited to his peculiar style of performance, and which were then quite as availls l .e to excite the admiration of an audienc e as t h e i m p oss ibilities of a modern fantasia by List, Dohler' ys 3 Dre - Then the sonatas of Beethoven were not well under stood, nor wore they so welladapted for great mecha nical display; their excellencies were spiritual, not Physical; time h as dulled the tinsel brilliancy of the compositions of the great pianiste s ,l - 1 it has exalted W II U the beauties of those of Beet'ideal The has out lived the material. Those w "v". on their s of the great pianistes which were in much demandeor and are now merely sought in illustrationtheir first publication, of the history of the art; while the sonatas of his ßeethoven, which may be said to have been dropt from unheeded and unnoticed, are now l witteden at i their birth into a reputa tion boundless and enduring as music itself.* - lot fora moment have in any i l at en • tiou to depieoitice * Some opinion may be formed of the relative estimate of Beethoven's works at the period of their publication and the present time, from the fact, that, out of the numerous editions that have lately appeared, a larger sum has been paid by a firm to an artiste in London for the mere revision of their edition than the composer, with a few exceptions, received for the copyright of the original. t As it may not be generally known, it is but an act of justice to state that this symphony was composed at the re quest of the Philharmonic Society, and the commission was endorsed by a munificent sum. AUSTRALIAN GOLD DIGGINGS. The following correspondence, dated August 20, from the new diggings at Buninyong, appears in one of the Melbourne papers received yesterday by the Honduras : "Buninyong, Wednesday Evening. 4 " The inhabitants of Geelong are becoming nomadic' —various tribes from Corio, Chilwelloind Ashby have sent their deputations, and the denizens of the western district may bo described ere long as dwellers in tents, as hewers of wood and drawers of water.' Geelong is going out of town and coming to Buninyong; bricks and mortar are deserted for tarpaulins, comfort for in convenience, ease for hardship, ordinary travail for hard labour, and all is set at nought and succumbs to the desire for gold, gold that is to be rent from the bowels of the earth. Neither rain nor storm overpowers the desire; the cry is still They come, they come.' First, a party of stragglers trudge through the slough with un tiring energy, some few with ' swag at back,' others shouldering guns and forming the advance party, a sort of picket to the baggage coming on; anon a solitary horseman rides through the township, and asks 'How far is the diggings?' and so all wend to the caravanserai at the foot of Hiscock's Diggings,' and swell the gipsy looking encampment formed there ; some sanguine, others desponding, according to temperament, but all hastening to the same point, with the same desire and object in view. En the evening the cradle rests, the dip pers and the tin dishes are thrown aside for the night, and horses are turned adrift, and the busy workers have retired to their tents, the line of which may be seen and traced by blazing fires. Tea, beef, biscuit, and damper, all or some of which form the evening refection are then partaken of, pipes follow, and a deep slumber ends the eventful day; but ero this period arrives it is necessary to ascertain the result of their enterprise. I will go to the nearest cradle first. Good evening, Mr. Bichard; what luck to-day?' 4 Well :I don't know; come and look at it; hero it is;' and Bichard pours out the water from a paunikin, and shows the gulden deposit at the bottom. How much do you say?' Well,l don't know; shall I say two ounces and a half? ' Don't say too much; suppose you state two and a quarter, and then you'll be within the mark." Be it so,' said I, 6 I want but the truth,' and so I write. " Messrs. Diehard and Wilson's party of six, horse and cart, three days work, 21 ounces, besides specimens in quartz. " Messrs. Pattison and HOVIG'S party of four, horse and cart, three days and a half work, about 1 oz. " Mr. Gundry's party of four, horse and cart, two days' work, 1 4 (5. " Mr. South's party of three, horse and cart, one day and a half's work, 1 oz. " I made inquiries of various other parties, but found that they had not completed their arrangements, or got their cradles into working operation, in fact the work is not begun. " Many are coming, and some few are leaving, and others grumbling, but r the above statements you msy rely up on ai official, eceived from the mouths of the parties themselves, and the quantities specfied seen with my own e yes; and, if they are not so prolific As many would desire, I think it is a gratifying fore taste of what may be anticipated from a fair trial c. the digging s , w hich anticipations the seven rich specimen s I f orwar d i n th e i r matrices will guarantee; but rich a s th ey are, there are many s till more so, which may be see n b y examining a perfect gem dispatched by t hi s mail to M essrs. Y oung and Shottun by Mr. Veitch. The specim e n s I forward w ill c h a llenge comparison with any yet found in the Pyrenees, or any other part of Port Phillip, and there are still finer specimens in the hands of parties n ow working on the ground. M any o f th em are found e ver y cradle working, and hence I think it may be deduced that ere lung r i d e a: ve in sometimes wil be hit two up 0 1 7 three in on© ~ The following locality : is another a ccoun t from the same " In my last I reported my arrival here, and gave what information I h a d b een enabled to collect at the late hour at which I arrived here. Since that I have been on the field and have spoken to nearly every one there, without finding a single per son that is doing good. Several or , only pot commencing, and of them nothing definite can be stated; one party of two had procured about a quarter of an ounce since Friday :last, inclusive, and this was tho largest quantity which I saw. The gold is very dense and pure, far more so than any other native gold I have seen, and it will, therefore, fetch a higher price in pro portion to its purity; but the people about here have most inordinate ideas of its value, and imagine that they will get a price equal to the current rate in London, and some state variously that they have been offered 725., 755., and 775. per ounce for it; of course, I advised them to take the first opportunity of selling at either of these rates, which are very far beyond the real value. In the first place, at least 108. must be deducted by the buyer to cover the various expenses of transmission, freight, insuranc©, &c.,and the cost of reduction and assay; for I may state, for the benefit of the uninitiated, that gold is rarely, if ever, found in a state of actual purity, being always in combination with some other metal, as silver, iron, tellurium, Stc. ; so that the term pure' or impure es commonly used is merely relative. I hear a great deal on the spot of men who have collected large quantities of gold, but have not yet been able to meet with an y i ns t a nces, so that I feel strongly inclined to 'ignore the bill.' Lest, how ever, they should exist without my having seen them, I will give leave to move for a new trial, and shall make further inquiry, before I start, for lam going to have another race with tho in order, as before, to send you by the same post communications from two placoA, 40the same post. At present but little ground distant, by been turned up, and although persons have been marching in various directions, gold has hi therto only been found in the one limited spot. The Clones diggers, who came down here to inspect, won't look at the place, preferring their hard work, with com parative certainty, at the Deep Creek. The carpenters here are doing a heavy trade in cradles, on what they call an impro ve d c onstruction; but the plan is demon strmively bad, being based on erroneou s data." POLICE I NTELLIGENCE STREET. William Henry B aker, a constable of the H division, appeared before Mr. Hammill, at the instance of the Metropolitan Police Commissioners, upon the following charges: Mr. Daniels, the solicitor, stated the me for the pro secution, and c'slled Mrs. Anne Burnett, the wife of a grocer in Middlesex street, Aldgate, who stated,—On the Monday or Tues day evening before Christmas I was 'seising through Commercial street, Whitechapel, in company of my sister-in-law, when ese accidentally met a gentleman named Hart, well known to my family, and of whom, as ho had just returned from New York, I was anxious to make inquiries about one of whom is settled there. We had not been long in conversation when the defendant Came up and made an observation to Mr. Hart which implied that he might take indecent liberties with me, but neither of us liked to take any notice of the offen sive remark, and I and my sister-in-law, Mrs. Myers, were about to go home, when the defendant followed up his previous insult by making a disgusting noise with his mouth at us as we passed him. We had done nothing whatever to cause his interference with us, and, though natarally indignant at the insult I had re ceived, I did not then report him; but on passing through the same street again on Christmas -night, with my sis ter-in-law and ayoung lady named Phillips, the daughter of a neighbour, the defendant again came up to us, and asked if we were not the ladies who had insulted him a few evenings before? I then complained of his insulting me, and expressed my regret that I had not made a re port of him at the station, upon which the defendant, with apparent contrition, asked us what we would have him do? I told him, nothing but make an apology and go about his busin ess , u p on which he begged our pardons for the annoyance h e had caused us, and we were walk ing along perfectly satisfied, when my sister-in-law eau tieuod him to bo more careful whom ho so insulted in future, as she was both a married woman and the mother of six childr en. " Married!" said the:defendant, bursting out into a coarse laugh, " why, don't I know you, and haven't I taken y ou home drunk many times?" I then became so exasperated at his infamous conduct that I told him 1 would at once report him, and was hastening on for that purpose, when the defendant ran after me, seized me roughly by the arm, said I should not go that way, or if I did ho would lock me up for being drunk about the streets, and dragged me along for several yards just like a drunken woman, when be relaxed his hold of me, and I immediately went to the station and lodged a formal complaint of his gross mis conduct against him. The complainant most earnestly declared that neither she nor her friends had had any thing to drink upon either of the evenings they had been so insulted, and that all of them were perfectly sober. Mrs. Phoebe Myers, sister-in-law of the last witness, and wife of a general dealer in the same neighbourhood, gave a precisely similar account of the manner in which the former had been treated, and in describing the way in which she herself had been insulted, stated that the defendant not only declared that he bad taken her home drunk upon several occasions; which was totally false, but called her a disorderly character, and that upon her telling him how closely she was to her home, he loudly exclaimed, " Home, indeed? why I could have gone home with you my s e lf man y a night." Miss Abigail Phillips, a milliner, confirmed both the last witnesses in identical terms, with the addition that, upon the second complainant telling the officer she was a married woman, he roughly seized her also by the arm, jeeringly laughed at them, and told them he never saw such married women; he then threatened to lock up the first complainant upon the charge of being drunk and disorderly, and forcibly pushed her on for four or five yards. Upon seeing such violence witness indig nantly told him that he ought to be ashamed of himself to push a married woman along through the streets, in such an advanced stage of pregnancy as the complainant was, upon which the constable exclaimed, "D— her being in the f am ily way, I'll lock her up for three hours, if I can only catch hold of her." This witness also pro tested the perfect sobriety of all of them, and declared that she had never seen either of the complainants in the slightest degree affected by drink in her life. Mary Bevan, the wife of a shoemaker in Union-strset, Spitalfields, who was accidentally passing at the time of the second assault and insult by the constable, also de posed to the same facts they had done. Inspector Kendall, of the H division, stated that at eight o'clock on the night in question a gentleman en tered the station and complained of the officer 220, who, he said, was so drunk as to be unfit to take care of his beat, and that he had just insulted two ladies, both of whom he had known for some time, and knew to be re spectable women. The defendant returned to the sta tion shortly after, and was at that time perfectly sober. Mrs. Barnett, acc ompanied by her sister-in-law, had pre viously come to the station to complain of having been insulted both then and on a previous evening, and he must also state that the complainants were likewise per fectly sober, though very much excited. The defendant had only been a short time attached to that division, having been draughted into it at the close of the Exhi bition; but he bad always borne a very good character in the force, no reports whatever eaving been made against him, an d he was generally a steady well-con ducted officer. Egerton, the acting sergeant at the station, also de posed to the defendant's sobriety on the night in ques tion. In answer to the charge, the defendant stated that both women were intoxicated at the time referred to, to, and positively denied that he had conducted himself towards them in the manner they had described, but ac knowledged that he had no witnesses to call to confirm his statement; and Mr. theanuinn, after severely commenting upon his conduct, which he characterived as so gross a violation of his duty as not to be for a moment tolerated, and to call for the strongest conderanation, at once sentence d him to undergo a mo nth's imprisonment in the House o" Correction. the works of the pianistes !to whom we have above al- laded. Some were profound musicians, each advanced I the art, and all were composers superior to the acknow ledged pianistes of the present day. Honourable excuse may be pleaded for their inferiority to one who has no equal, and their defeat can bo acknowledged with a better grace by their admirers, through a conviction that the most illustrious composers, even Weber, Spohr, and Mendelssohn, have not approached the spirit of Beet hoven in this form of composition. The fate of the works of the eminent pianistes invites U 3 to warn future aspirants against the adoption of all con ventialities, popular forms, and mechanical expressions of taste, that are not founded on true principles of art. Few artistes, whether poets, painters, or composers, however illustrious, freely escape the prejudices and popular mannerism or their age. Among the works of departed genius, those of Sebastian Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, are most free from conventialities; they offer few or no examples of a style that may be termed old fashioned or obsolete; but the operatic works of Handel are loaded with these imperfections—faults arising from his attempt to conciliate the taste of his fashionable audience. So damnatory have they proved, that the name of the mighty master, though encircled by a halo almost sacred, has not been able to redeem these works from contemptuous and merited neglect. Art in every degree, simple and combined, and all branches of industrial product, when remotely allied with art, are obnoxious to this failing. Nu furniture nor manufactured fabric, however ancient, will convey an impression of obsoleteness if the amount of art in volved therein shall have been fitly applied. More novelty and freshness are felt in a movement from one of Haydn's quartett's than can be found in any modern fantasia for the pianoforte. The costume of an ancient Greek or Roman appears not so much out of fashion as a dress of last season. The draperies of Phidias or Titian present a more recent mode than the Court gar ments of the present day. The Parthenon is less anti quated than most of the costly buildings in Europe of this century, and an Etruscan tezzs has more newness than a cup and saucer hot from the manufactories of China. The ideal or imaginative is the essence of art. They who possess it, possess it by nature, they who wish to understand it must study it; for the peculiar powers and propensities thereof are not to be fully appreciated upon a superficial acquaintance. Without the divine spark, as poets call it, none can hope for immortality in their art. Beethoven possessed it in a degree beyond that of any other composer. His position among mu sician is as high as that of Shakspeare among dramatists. It may be a question whether of the two individuals, he were not the more higly endowed. Certainly his works do not exhibit the faults committed by the immorial bard, and which have been justified by Schlegel, who had the moat profound comprehension of hie subject, in the belief that Shakspere employed there with the view of painting the actual tone of the society of his day; that they did not meet with his approbation; on the contrary, he clearly held them in derision. It would be instructive and highly interesting to elu cidate the affinity of the two sister arts, poetry and music, by a diligent and metaphysical inquiry into the various mental conditions and capacities requisite for the attainment of pre-eminence in either. To such a remarkable degree do the works of Shakspere and Beet hoven manifest identical powers and parallel resources, that the science, which determines the peculiar functions of each cerebral organ in the various operations of the brain, might have been advanced by a comparative exa mination of their intellectual organism. Both minds were imaginative and creative; their idiosyncrasies were homogeneous. Are the works of Shakspere characterised by sublimity and pathos, by grandeur and simplicity, by vastness and minuteness, by description and suggestion, by philosophy and nature? so are those of Beethoven. To each of these features, as they occur in the dramas of Shakspere, can a parallel—drawn by synthesis or analysis—be offered from one or other of the quartette of Beethoven—an assimilation, not merely in the inter pretation of isolated phrases or passages, but embodied tu entire movements. Such gigantic and boundless resources had Beethoven, that by the employment of four instruments, he presents images to the mind more stupendous in effect than the colossal proportions of Handel, when he moves with a thousand instruments and as many voices. It is rare to find a oritic who can elevate himself to th© comprehen sive contemplation of Beethoven's works; for his com positions, from the very depth of purpose displayed in them, have been especially liable to the misfortune of being misunderstood. As he advanced in his art his conceptions became deeper, more vast , ideal , and original. An opinion became prevalent that ho was a rude and wild genius, who poured forth at random, and without aim or object, his unconnected compositions. The diffi culty of understanding him rendered it impossible to perform his works with fidelity. His fame did not break forth into full glory till after his death. Since then it has but increased in lustre with the course of time. Even the rivalrous efforts of both opera houses, last season, did not yield a true representation of the Fidelio. Some time must yet elapse ere "a consumma tion so devoutly to be wished for," can be accomplished in this vast and wealthy metrop o li s . N or h as t h e Phil harmonic Society attained the glory of rendering a per fect performance of the " Choral Symphony," the last and the greatest of these works by the greatest man of this century. To the minds of some of the members of the Philharmonic Society, the " Choral Symphony" presents nothing more than a chaotic confusion of sounds, rudis indigestaque moles These obeervattuns have grown to such a length, that we must deter our analysis of Mr. Silas's work for a futare number. In the meanwhile, without exposing ourselves to the lues Bowel/lane, a disease said by Macaulay to infect those who, in admiration of sense idol, proffer their praise in such indiscriminate abun dance, as Boswell rendered to Johnson, we may con , sisteutly aver, that no sonata possessing the same high promise, and deserving the same claim upon the ottens lion of connoisseurs and artistes, has issued from the press since the publication of the sonatas of Beethoven. We sincerely hope that a composer so young, enriched with such large acquirements, and gifted with such rare powers and surpassing abilities, will neither seek nor shun distinction, and ch at his genius m a y fi n d f ame on ly as he can meet it in his progress to the highest attain ment of his art, for a few such works as this sonata must bear the name of the composer to a bright im mortality. S. K. E. MONDAY WESTRIIVSTER. --- Mr. John Wyatt , the proprietor -of the Crown and Sceptre, Chapter - street , Westminster, was on Friday summoned before Mr. Broderip for keeping his house open beyond the hour allowed by law on Christmas -eve. Willi am ' , hippo, 94 Ii ! stated t h at at 25 m i n utes past 12 on the night in question he was on duty street, and heard voices in defend ant ' s h ouse . H e knocked at the door, which was shut, wh en a vo i ce f r om within inquired who was there. i -is replied "Police," and was admitted, in company with anoth er cons t a ble, 255 B. He found four or five persons in f ront o f th e bar engaged had in conversation, but they i n Chapter no spirits or liquor of any sort before them. In the parlour he found six or seven men, some of whom were s mo ki ng p ip es . He did not see any of them drink, but t h ere was a q uart pot with some malt liquor in it upon the table. Defendant, who was at the bar talking w i t h t h e persons who were standing there, obser v i ng witness, said, " You may sum• mon the - and bed . " but, correcting him self, n observed, " I beg p ar d on _, . 5 i words were, ' And glory in it, and you may Put that i n your poc ket -book .'" In cross-examinati on by defendant ' s so licitor witness admitted that he had no difficulty i n getting into the The people in the house conducted themselves in an or quiet he should enter i t : derly manner. it parlour, and . --e had been on duty by the house for a fortnight, and had n o that he s aw nothing but the pot of beer. servo complain of it. Ile had had no dispute with Mr. Wyatt. Witness had watched the boas © ad had said that if it was not ,e and i o ff u e s n e e : e a r s o ccasion to h h e would 1 defendant out. The other constable was called in confirmation of Phipps' account. In do ence it w as declared t b a t Mr. W yatt was most desirous of clo s i ng e n om not moment. ucln tloired of his any thing after twelve his hens©, and had not drawn o'clock ; but it being Christmas-eve he could leave a e t con ni stable Phippi wholeertosho show the customers to hefeelingby which th was actuated, George Dawson, a young man living at 4, Chapter street. was called, and deposed that on the Saturday night previous to Christmas-eve ho saw Phipps and another constable facing defendant's, and heard Fhipps say "ore y ea BUN you heard voices ? because if you are we can go in directly, because it is past twelve." Witness hearing this, and being a neighbour, continued a to listen, and after conversation carried on in a whis per between the constables, b e ard Phipps say„" I should mmons or like to pull ( se inform against) the i• -. Witness communicated what he had overheard, Dud which he felt confident to Mr. applied Wyatt, to him the next morning, In reply to an i nquiry from Mr. BitODEBIP it Wag stated that there ban been no previous complaint of any kind against defendant's house. Mr. BRODERIP observed that after what bad been stated with respect to th® previous proper oonduct of the house he could not help regretting t h a t this case should have been sele c t e d by the police for prosec ution. They, however, acted upon their instructions' and the matter being before him h e must d i spose of it. There were, however, ingredients in the case which made it of great comeggenco ig another point o f view, 'or •191119 iill2o it was impossible to understand what was meant by the observation used by tho defendant to the constable Phipps, "You may summons the -," but the witness caned by the defendant cleared that matter by proving that he had communicated to the defendant tho filthy expression he had overhead. It was impossible to sup pose that that observation was not intended for Mr, Wyatt; that expression was so odious and offensive that any man making use of it was not fit to hold a situation in which temper and decency were both required. The law in the case had indeed been broken, and he should only inflict the penalty of ss. PRICES OF SHARES N BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM- PA.NIES' STOCK. From the Official List. tUBLISEED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9. NOINT-STOCX B.&ZULII. game of Company. Dividend Per Amoan t Of Share. Paid. Annum• Price. Australasia Britsh North American Commercial of London Colonial .. •• .• Gloucestershire • • • • • • lonian .. • • • • .. • • .• • • London and County .. Londn and Westminstr London Joint-Stock ... Provincial of Ireland.. l)itto, New... • • • • • • National of Ireland .. Nat. Provncial of Eng. Ditto, New. . • . •• Oriental Bank Corpora. South Australia Union of Australia.... Craioß of L0nd0n..... 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THE CANCER HOSPITAL, CANON -ROW, WESTMIN nEIt,_The generous offer of Mrs. Wobridge, of Reading, to contribute fifty guineas to the above hospital, before the end the ensuin g month of March, has bean already re ofoed to by four benevolent persons ; aid we have n o u do bt the entire sum will be realised ere the time expire s . Of all the maladies which human flesh is subject to, none is more deserving the sympathy of the affluent public than cancer. FATAL STAB BY A BAILIFF'S FOLLOWER....—FOUF men, who were employed by the bailiffs of the Liverpool County Court, were on New Tear's Day engaged in the levy ing of a distress in Collingwood-street. On arriving with their horse and cart in Great Homer-street, the horse refused to draw; at that moment two nightmen, named finks and Clarke, emerged from a spirit vault, and the occasion drew forth some smart chaffing, in which the horse was invidi ously contrasted with the officers, as to the part be bore in the execution. One of the bailiff's men, named Gallagher, commenced a fight, which soon became general. The night men's implements were taken from them, and Gallagher, who had seized a fork, made a rush with it at 'links, and stabbed him in the abdomen in so frightful a manner that the poor fellow's bowels protruded. Surgical assistance was itaravdi gely rocgeti) but the initiry tualizteci i tally. Z i. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 22 10 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 COMMERCIAL DOCKS. LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY. A special general meeting of this company was held on Friday at the offices in Fenchurch-street, for con sidering certain new wurks to be undertaken by the company in cousequenco of the increase of its business. Robert Carter, Esq., took the chair. Mr. SMIIHERS, the secretary, read the following re port:— s. " Your directors have the pleasure of stating that the Bill which they were authorised by the court of pro prietors of the 20th December, 1850, to introduce into Parliament, received the R o y a l Assent on the 3d July last, under the title of • The Commercial Docks Act, 1851.' In pursuance of the authority of the court of proprietors of the 10th January, 1851, and of the pro visions of the above-named Act, your directors paid the purchase money of 40,0001. as agreed for the East Coun try Dock, and obtained a conveyance and possession of the premises on the 7th November last. The deal yards, sec., in that dock, are entirely filled with goods, and the wart houses fairly occupied, paying a present rental which yields a good rate of interest on the purchase money. It has been the policy of the directors for many years past to keep up the premises in a high state of efficiency, au average amount of about 5,0001. per annum having been de voted to that object, out of the earnings of the company, during the last fifteen years; and the whole of the premises are now in so perfect a state of repair that but little expenditure" will be required upon them for some years to come, exct pt for the purpose of afford ing additional facilities to, and saving expense in, the transaction of business in the docks. Your directors have anxiously and carefully investigated the plans and estimates prepared by their engineers, Messrs. Walker and Burger, for rendering the recently acquired pre mises available for the extended scale of business which they contemplate; and they have also inquired with equal care into the probable increase of revenue, to compensate for the proposed additional outlay; and they now pro ceed to commuuicate to you the conclusions at which they have arrived. The plans proposed for present adoption comprise an enlarged entrance from the river into the East Country dock, suitable for ships of the largest tonnage; the extension of that dock, now contain ing only about two acres, to a deep-water dock of six acres; a cut or communication from the same to the Com mercial Dock; and a railway extending from the Deptford branch of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway into the dock, along the quays, and to the warehouses, as may be found desirable. The estimates fur executing these works, including the necessary purchases of land, and the alteration of roads and sewers, amount to 132,0001.; add for purchase of East Country Dock, 40,0001.; Parliamentary expenses and contingencies, S,0001.; making a total expenditure of 180,000/. Of this sum, as explained in the directors' report to the ordinary general court of proprietors, 26,0101. is pre posed to be provided out of the company's rest; and if ,he proprietors shall approve of that recommendation, ,here will remain the sum of 154,0001. to be raised for ,he completion of the works. Your directors have en- tered into communication with the directors of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Com pany, who aro so thoroughly convinced that a con nexion with the Commercial Docks would add ma- terially to the traffic along their line, that they have not only agreed to provide locomotive power and trucks for the conveyance of goods to and from the docks at the same charge to the public as from their own wharf at Deptford, but also to allow to this company a pro. portion of their charges for carriage. It is calculated that the receipts from this source —from the wharfage, &c., of goods passing to and from the Docks along the South Coast and South-Easter❑ lines of railway—from the wood imported in large ships, now lost to the docks in consequence of the defi ciency of depth of water at the entrance lock—from the warehousing and other charges on goods other than those now brought into the docks, but which will be attracted to them by the superior facilities, and the saving in expense, which they will afford to the public— and from the additional business connexion acquired with the East Country Dock—together with the saving of expense in lighterage and management, will produce an ample return upon the proposed outlay, by which the future dividends of the proprietors will be increased. Your directors, therefore, do not hesitate to recommend that this court do give them full authority to carry out the improvements suggested by Messrs. Walker and Burgess; whereby also a security will be given to the premises, from the possession of two entrances, which has long been desired. In cousidericg the most eligible mode of raising the additional capital required, your directors have been desirous that the advantages from the new works should be confined as much as possible to the present proprietors, and they pro pose to offer them a stock at par, to be entitled to a preference dividend in perpetuity, a t t h e rate of tour per cent. per annum, and to participate with the old stock in the increased dividends which are anti cipated; and in the event of the whole amount required not being taken up by the present proprietors, your directors recommend that they should be authorised either to dispose of the remainder to the public, or to borrow a sufficient amount to make up the total sum required, on mortgage or debentures, or otherwise, as they may deem most to the interest of the present pro prietors." The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report, which led to a short discussion, in which Mr. Josiah Wilson raised some objections to the railway portion of the scheme, which he considered would be unprofitable to the company. Mr. Gould, Mr. Dawson, the Chairman, and other di rectors persisted in looking upon the railway as likely to bring great benefits to the docks. The report was then adopted, and the directors were authorised to take measures fur raising the necessary capital. The half-yearly meeting of the Commercial Dock Company was then held; Robert Carter, Esq., took the chair. The report of the directors was ready, from which we make the following extracts:— " The wood business at the docks during the past year has been more extensive than at any former period, the tonnage of wood-leden ships entering the docks in 1851 having been 180.414, against 130,150 tons in 1850; 139,652 tons in 1849, and 132,406 tons in 1848. The stock of word goods on the premises has been large throughout the season, and at present exceeds that on hand at the close of any previous year. Notwithstand ing the reduction made in the charges on wood goods in the early part of 1851, your directors have reason to believe that the net profit in this department of the com pany's business will surpass that of 1850, while the re ceipts for dock dues oa ships will be considerably in creased. The company's warehouses have been only partially occupied during the past year, in consequence of foreign corn imported having generally been taken from the ship for immediate consumption. The stock in granary is now less than at the corresponding period of last year, and there will be some falling off in the company's profit under this head. Your directors recommend that a dividend for the half-year be declared, of 21. per cent. (free from income•tax), upon the capital stock of the company, and that the same be payable at this office on and after Monday, the 26th inst., between the hours of 11 and 3—Fridays and Saturdays excepted. It was stated to the proprietors, in the directors' reports of the 14th June, 1839, and the 14th January, 1843, that they had erected two new ware houses, with the intention of appropriating their earn ings for rent to the gradual extinction of t heir cost. This course has been pursued to the present time; and . while the general revenue has been consi d e rabl y benefited by the profits on receiving and delivering . goods into and from these warehouses, the net re nt received thereon has amounted to 10,2431. 14s. 11d., by which the original cost of 12,5021. 13s. Bd. has been reduced to 2,2581. 18s. 9d., at which sum these warehouses stand in the cora , pany's books. Your directors have considered it advis able, under present circumstances, to anticipate the period at which this balance would be paid off; under the original arrangement, .and have directed the above sum to be charged to premises recount," The report was adopted, and a dividend of 2 per cent. for the half year was agreed to, payable on and after the 26th instant, A cordial vote of thanks was then passed to the chair man, deputy• ; their services c d h u a r fm ng a t n h , e a p n a d s d t i y r e ec a t r o_rs A of d j th ou e r c n ozany for TILE CO UN TIN LIVERPOOL, JAN. 10.-P, B. d, s. d Y Mr' a AKETS. , d, d• •ice 6 were as fol ly Wheat, per 701 b 1 English, white 6 0 to 6 Do. red .. 5 8— 6 0 Irish • • ~ .. 4 8— 5 4 Manx, red and wh. 5 4 5 10 Dantsic, high mixed Do., mixed • • .. 6 0— 6 6 American & white 6 0 6 3 Canadian, /red 5 4 5 g Rostock, Ste • • .. 5 10 6 4 llamburgh, &c. • 6 4 5 8 Rh e nish .• 510 6 0 French • • .. 510 6 0 Danish & nol,tein 5 4 5. 6 Odessa, Polish 5 2 5 6 Do., common .. 5 0— 5 '2 Do, hard • • • • 4 9—4 10 Egyptian •• 4 0— 4 8 Flour, English & Irish, per 28018 30 0 32 0 Do., extra fine 32 0 —35 French, fancy • • 35 0 —3B 0, Do., superfine . 31 0 —35 0 , Richmond, choice 23 0 —24 0 Philadelphia, &c. 21 0 —2l 6 Canadian • • .. 21 0 —22 0 Indian corn, per llarley, English, pr imperial quarter 29 0 —3O 0 Irish, Scotch, and Manx,per 601 b.. 3 8— 3 10 Foreign, grinding 3 2 3 6 'Lye, per 601 b .. 36 3 9 Beaus, English, pr imPerial quartr 31 0 —3B 0 Irish and Scotch, per 4801 b .. •• 27 0 —3O 0 Dutch •• •• 30 0 —32 0 Egyptian •• .. 25 11 —26 Peas, English, per imperial quartr 36 0 —3B 0 Foreign .. 33 0 —35 0 Oats, per 451 b English, Scotch, and Welsh, old Irish, ue- . test mealing .. • • 2 8— 2 9 Do., feeding .• 2 4 2 6 Do., foreign .. 3 0 3 2 Oatmeal, English, & Scotch, pr 2401 b 24 0 — 25 0 Irish, new .. 22 6 —23 6 Do., pinhead .. 24 0 — 26 Canadian . 20 0 —22 0 Malt, per imp. qr. 53 0 —56 2 4 - 3 6 480Ib, white .. 30 0 —32 0 1 Irdian Corn Meal, per 701 b .. ..' 15 0 —l6 1;) MANCHESTER, JAN. 10.--The trade throughout the a w o e u e r k b h u a s s i continuedliess has beento maintai nchecked high =dons of holders, but at a further advabnycetohf 6d per sack sales to a tolerably fair extent were effected. Other articles sold more freely at previous rates. With the exception of about 8,000 loads of oatmeal from Ireland. the ire ports thence and coastwise iuto Liverpool and Runcorn are this week scanty. From abroad the arrivals of wheat and beans are to a liberal a mount, but only moderate of flour. At our market this morning there was only a limited business passing in any article. Nevertheless, wheat was steady at the currency of this day se'nnight. Flour firmly supported the amendment obtained during the week, and we raise our quotations accordingly, I n white barley,wheat, oats or oatmeal no change i o _ w G a e s observable. Good _ a Englishg .Malting 3 1 6 8 1 / 4 V: i e t it o rc : b : :g :d ;it p 'a e nj r d bU r.e sh d el bushel ; and f'r distilling h 8a 9J New English beans, 3 s 6d to 3s Bdper3s to bushel; old, 4s o ats, 2s 9d to 3s; Irish, 2s 6u 6d p t o 4s 2d; and foreign, 3s . to o r 2 bushel. v v i Nw n t e er Englishvetches, 3s 6d to 4s. White peas, 3s 6d to 4 s grey, 33 od to 3 s There 8d per bushel. • and e was a good supply of gr ain at Kidderminster market ou Thursday, but busi ness was dull at a general advance of lo per quarter upon last week's rates. Beans and peas, however, barely maintained the currencies of lust week. We cannot quote try alteration in the val4o of oats. Stourbridgo market, on Friday, was well attended, and transactions in wheat were at an improvement of la per quarter on last week's rates. Barley also found pur chasers at an advance of is per quarter. Peas also realized rather more money. In oats and peas the demand was limited at about the rates of this day se'nnight. At Stratford-on-Avon new market, on Friday, prices ranged higher, with an animated trade. Best samples of English wheat brought 16a per bag fur white, and 15d for red descriptions. Barley advanced fully is per quarter, and even more for malting qualities. Average price, 27s per quarter. Very little doing in oats, but prices higher where sales were made. Old beans brought 123 64 to 13s 6d per bag; and new (English), from 103 to I Is 6d per hag. Wolverhampton market, this week, was held for the first time in the New Corn Exchange. English wheat met a ready sale at an advance of 6d per bag. English white wheat, 53 4d to 5s 64 per 62ib; red, 5s to 5s 2d. Malting barley was about is per quarter higher, but the sale was dull. Other barleys ut stationary rates. Old English beans, I2s fid to 133 6d per ten score; new, Its 6d; and new French at about the same price. English oats aro without. change in value; price, 21s to 22s per 3121 b. Irish, 19s to 20s. GLASGOW CATTLE 111AKET, JAN. B.—At our market to-day the numbers were—oxen 905; sheep 2,115; Owing to the large supply of both oxen and sheep silks were very slowly:effected. B:st ox beef 45a, current 42a to 435, inferior 34s to 403. Top price of mutton 60. current 4,id to sd, inferior 31d to 4d. At the close of the market of both cattle and sheep a clearance was not effected. DALREITII, Ja N. B.—The relative weight per four bushels of the three prices of wheat were INst 101 b, lbst 11b, and 17st 31b. Oats, 13st 01b, 11 st 81b, and lOst 131 b. Barley, 16st 41b, 1 sst 111 b, and lost 01b. Peas and beans, 19st 21b, 18st 71b, and 18st 61bs. Qrs. Beet. Current. Inferior. ::92 Wheat ... ...... £2 1 6 £1 17 6 £1 12 0 457 Oats 727 Barley 28 Peas and Beans 1 13 U 1 10 0 1 6 0 Average of wheat 38s Od. CORK, JAN. 9. We have not any arrivals from abroad during the week, and our receipts of home grain are small, the supply for the week amounting to—wheat, 324 brls, at 17s to 21s 6d per brl; oats, 3,530 brls, at 9s to 103 6d per brl; barley, 1,281 brls, at 103 6d to 12s 3d per brl. Wheat ii 6d dearer o❑ the week. Barley is firm, but oats are 2d per barrel lower. In foreign wheat a con siderable amount of business has been done, and last week's prices have not only been readily obtained, but in some instances rather higher rates have been realised. At all events holders are very firm, end demand higher prices, which they are very confident they will shortly obtain. We quote the market brick with an upward tendency. Barley continues very firm, and the demand brisk. Primo samples are scarce, as indeed they have been throughout the season. Oats continue very dull , and the business passing in them is altogether nominal. The stocks here, however, aro by no means large, so that with any little stir at the English aide we might naturally look for an improvement here. We have steady consumptive trade in flour, but, though higher terms are looked for, we cannot quote any actual advance in prices. The stocks of the article in factor's hands are very light, and barely sufficient for the requirements of the market, so that no speculative sales can be made. Coarse flour continues in brisk demand. Indian corn still meets a very dull sale, and we look upon this grain as having given way a little in value, say to the extent of 2s 6d per ton on the week. We quote the extreme value of Galatz 61 12s 6d per ton. Barrels. Currency. 12 White wheat 21s 6d to 00s Od 00s Od-20 stone 51 Red wheat lBs 3d to 19s 9d 00s Od-20 do O Ditto oos Od to OOs Od O Ditto oos Od to OOs ('d 88 Barley Bs Od to 12s 2d O Ditto OO3 Od to ON Od 12s Od—l6 do 0 Ditto 0 Bere oos Od to Os Od Os Od 109 Oats Os Od to 9s 8d) 342 Ditto 261 Ditto los Od to lOs 4d) 35,1 Pigs 26s Od to 30s 6d 28s 6d per cwt Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:- 0 barrels white wheat; JO red ; 48 barley; 0 bere; 82 oats; 4 pigs. Clnantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week c Wheat, 3SI. Barley, 1,136. Oats, 3,468. Pigs, 959. PRICES OF BUTTER. CANT. CURRINCT. First quality Second quality Third quality Fourth quality Fifth quality Sixth quality Return of Cattle sold for week ending Jan. 3. • Pigs, 937. Sheep, 175. Cows, 82. CORl.—Flour—First I 1 s 6d to 131 Od; extra 131 6d; seconds, 10s Od to Ils 6d; households tis to 10. Od; thirds, 7s tool per cwt. Oatmeal 10s 6d to 11s; Indian meal 6s ltd to 7s Od; wheat meal, I's 6rl to 101 per cwt. Idian corn 615 s Od to 61151 Od per ton. Bran 85s to 90s Od per ton. Hay—Farmers 29s to 30s; average 00s; dealers 34s to 40s Od; average 36s per ton. Straw—Farmers 17s Od to 22, Od ; average 00s ; dealers 301 Od to 001 Od; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf bid to 6d; household loaf 41d to 5d per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to 10d per lb. Eggs-5s 6d to 6s Ud per hundred. Coals-. Newport 151 Od ; Lydney 16s ; Landore 00s ; Calm. 13s Od per ton. Tallow 383 Od to 401 per cer' Whisky, 25 o. p., b. 9d per imperial gallon. Moat —Beef 4d to 61d; mutton 5d to 61d; veal 4d to 6d ; pork 4d to 06 ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausages bd per lb. Hops 818, to 9/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates 2117 s 6d to 3101 per ton. Bark—Barhery 71 Os to 810.; Valonia 151 to 01; French 6/ Os ; Spanish 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 14s to 151 per stone. Hemp 29/ to 3 , 11 per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 19s to 00s; red ditto, 243 to 00s per barrel ; Newfoundland, 10/ Os to ill per ton. Timber—Memel, 70s per ton ; red pine, 31 51; yelloe ditto, '2l 15, per ton; deals, lb/ to 181 per 100. Hides--• Market 21s to 30s; salted 22s to 30s per owt ; calf skins 3d to 31d per lb. Potatoes, white 7d to lld ; Minions, Cad to 00d. Guano— Peruvian, 11/ 101; Ichaboe, 81 to 9109 per too. Tar—Arehanuel, 191 per barrel. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 10. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The share market has been dull and inactive to-day, with little business doing. Prices are all lower. The transactions were as follow : Caledonian, 154 —Kendal andWindermere, 10 „—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 7 11-16 dis.—London and North-Western, 116 1 4-- Ditto, New Quarte rs , 3 IL—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin colnshire, 6/. New Preference, 9-16 p.—Midland, South-Eastern and Dover, 21 1 4—York and North Midland, 23 Great Southern and Western, Preference, Eighths, T;i i . MANCHESTER, JAN. 10. STOCK EXCIIANGI.—There 1,23 been a tolerable amount of business done to-day, but prices were generally weaker. The transactions were as follow :—Ambergate, 3 1 ,4 dis. Caledonian, 16—East Lancashire, 15. 7 4—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 617i 3 —Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June tion, 12 dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 33% —South-Eastern and Dover, 21. BIRMINGE4 kM, JAN. 10. STOCK EXCHANGE.—During the last week the abate market has been extremely dull, but there has been little alteration in prices. Among the closing quotations so-dal were—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, buyers 3 sellers 2 7 / a dis.—Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, buyers 9%, tellers 10% —Great Western, b u yers 80 4 , sellers 871 4—London and North-Western, buyer, 1161 i , sellers 11 7 1 4—Dittto, Quarters, buyers 3 1 4, sellers V 4 p.—Midland, buyers 57 3 A , sellers 58 1 4—North Staffordshire/ buyers 8%, sellers 8 dis.—South Staffordshire, buyers* 04/ sellers 1% dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) , buyers 6 ja, sellers 6 1 . / —Ditto, ( B), buyers 4f. 13s. 9,1.• sellers, 41. 16s. 3d —Shropshire Union, dis. buyers 3%, sellers SEABORNE MAILS. [N lignites that tho mails aro sent from the General Feat-office by the night—and M by the morning—elispateh.] When made np la From what PLACES.. General Post-ofilce , port dis- When London. I patched. due, ----------.1 America (by pkt.)N Jan 15 .. .. Liverpool • • J an. 13 America (by Bu•ris t. • P• It ) N Jan. 27 .. .. (Liverpool .. Jan. 21 ~ America (by U.S. pkt.) MI .. ..!Bouthampt. J an. 9 Attica (West coast)•. N•l4th of the month Plynio a th Feb. 3 Al ex andria* •••• • • • • N 19th & 30th of mo. Dover .. Jan. 18 Belgium .• .. • • N Daily • • • • .. Dover .. Daily Brazil .. , • •• M of the month iSOuthampt. Jan. 16 Buenos Ayres • • .. /119th of tho month Southampt. Jan. 16 California(viaChagree)M , 2d & 17th of month ' Southampt. Jan. 20 Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth.. Yob. 3 Constantinople. .. •• Ni7th 17th 27th of too Dover .. Jan. 10 Central America .. M2d & 17th of mo n . , S outhampt. Jan. 2 0 Channel Isles • • .. NIMon., Wed., & F r i . ' S outhampt. Ta. T h. SI" Chili .. •• •• . 111117th of the month r Southampt. Jail. 20 Franco .. .. M &NTwice daily .. .. Dover • . Twiceelaili Greece. .. .. • • *7th 17th27th of mo Dover •• Jan. 10 Hemburgb • • .. *Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Eat. Holland •• •• .. MWednes. & Satur. London .. Moa.Thur llonduras .. .. • Nll7th of the mouth'Southampt. Jan. 20 Ireland .. .. AI & N Twice daily .. .. Holyhead.. Twiceda ll ,l India (via Southamp.) MlOth of tho month Southampt. Jan, 23 ladia (via Marseilles) N Mb& 24th of monthiDover .. Jan. 13 Mediterranean (via ISouthampt. l Jan. 23 Southampton) • • M;2lOth of tho month Mediterran ean (via I Marseilles) .. N Bth & 24th of month Dovor .. J an. 13 •• themonth.. Southampt. 'Feb. 11 Mexico •• •• •• 31'2d of month Southampt.lJa n . 16 Madeira .. .. i•if a .. M 91. 11 ° tri— - l 9th 27th r 7th, • • ' Dover Jan. 14) Malta* .. .. 1 & 30th of month N sth 15th 25th otme Dover • , Jan. 12 IT*Ples * • • .. .. N sth 15th2 5 th of= Dover •• J an . 14 Papal States. •• •• 7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt 116 .. M . !,Jan. rellinsular • • • • .• m 17th of the month Southampt. Jan. 90 Peru • • • • •• •• N sth 15th 25 Lh of MO D o v er • • Jan. 12 Tuscany * • • •• West Indies • • .. M 17th of the mouth So u th ampt. Jan. 20 In dies (except bleat cr...,anna & Nassau ) 3112 d of the month .. Southaiant_. V ah. 5 Naples* .. Papal States* .• • N Peninsular.. • • .. M Peru .• Tuscany* • • •• • • West Indies • • W es t Indies (except Flavaana tip Nassau) /Hi * The mails to those c French packet yt Muni The direct Havre mail month will be made up t 12d of the month . ountries thus marl ISouthaaipt. E o d (*) are c IF el). 5 onveyod 11 from London sda lace times a week uthampton only, instead during WA of dailY• BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 7th inst., at Ince Blundell-hall, the wife of Thomas Weld Blundell, Esq. On the Bth inst., at West Brompton, the wife of T. B. Macquoid, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 3d inst., at Cranley Rectory, th• Hon. Mrs. Sapte• MARRIED. On the Bth inst., at St. Giles's Church, Reading, the Rev'• Septiinus Lloyd Chase, youngest son of Samuel Chase, Esq. , of Reading, to Eleanor Sophia, third daughter of Captaiii Purvis, of the same place. On the Bth inst., at Chelmsford, William Coeur°it Kort right, eldest son of W. Kortright, Esq., of St. Leonard's, Essex, to Augusta Jane, eldest daughter of the Re♦ Carey( Anthony St. John Mildmay, rector of Chelmsford. DIED. On the 6th inst., aged 86, William Hunt, Esq., M.A. , Senior Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Assessor to the Chancellor in the University Courts. On the Bth inst., at Southwick-crescent, Hyde-park, Geor• giana Frances, youngest (laughter of the late Sir George Crewe, Bart., of Calke Abbey, Derbyshire. On the Bth inst, at Taunton, Mr. George Van Sommer late of the Stock Exchange, aged 72. On the Bth inst., at Hayes, Middlesex, Sarah, relict of the late J. B. Butterfield, Esq., formerly of her Majesty Customs, aged 82. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, °I . No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, Na 11i, Strand. in tha Precinct of the Savoy, in Om conztr of 141(4110oz! blonclay, January 12, lea, THE SIIN, LONDON, 12, 1852.