The Sun. — London, England, 1852-12-18 00:00:00

tbirb iabitto SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock. THE AIINISTRY Nothing is known with certainty as to the arrange ments consequent on the resignation of Ministers. Lord Derby went to Osborne yesterday, and to-day a messenger arrived from him, bringing a letter, which the messenger had orders to deliver into the hands of the person to whom it was ad dressed, and not to tell any one with whom he had communicated. A meeting of the Members of the Derby Cabinet was held in Downing-street at three o'clock, to receive any in structions their chief might send, and himself on his return. Lord John Russell and Lord Aberdeen were walking together in the Park for some time this afternoon ; and Sir James Graham was sees about the same time. It is understood that Lord Aberdeen and Lord John Russell have agreed to serve with, or under each other, and that a perfect understanding pre vails between them. • Lord AVerdon visited Lord Lansdowne this day, FRANCE. It Is stated that no modifications of an important kind have been, or will be , made by th e E m p eror i n the project o f th e Senatus Consultum on the reform of the Constitution. The clauses on which the de liberations of the Commission especially turned are the 3d, 4th, and sth. In the 3d Article no change has been, it is believed, consented to. It gives to the `Emperor the right of modifying the tariffs of the commercial treaties. The 4th Article, giving the right of concession of all -public works, and stipulating that the Legislative Corps shall not vote the credits until after the concessions, has, I am in formed, been remodelled so far that the Emperor has still the right of indicating the parties to whom the concession shall be granted, but is to submit the amount of credits to the Legislative Corps previous to the commencement of the works. The 12th clause is to be maintained entire, with the excep tion, however that the Legisl a ti ve Corps shall, during the discussion, but not in the vote, ex amine the various ministerial services chapter by chapter, and not ministry by ministry. If this in formation be correct, as we are assured it is, the Emperor will still remain invested with powers of the most extensive kind ; and the modifications the project has received are rather imaginary than real. It is rumoured that the Senate will be convoked to-day (Saturday), for the purpose of voting the consult/um definitively. M. Troplong is charged with presenting the report in the name of the Com mission. Marshal de Castelane arrived in Paris on Thurs. day, from Lyons, and will no doubt take his seai in the Senate at its next meeting. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCIIESTER, DEC. 17. This clay week we had to report something like a panic among the holders of cotton in Liverpool, arising from increasingly favourable estimates as to the supply, and occasion ing a further decline from the quotations of the pre vious Friday, of not more than id. to ad. per lb. upon Americans generally, and Id. to 4d. upon Surats ; whilst a similar feeling in our market, produced an almost equal effect in the department of yarns, but not so great in that of goods. On Saturday, there were indications of a stoppage in this downward course ; and as the transatalantic advices, received two days afterwards, exhibited not only a less decline on the other side than had been looked for, but a tendency to steadiness, with a little ret urn o f b us i ness, on the last day, the steadying process both here and in Liverpool became more marked on Monday and Tuesday, and, on the whole, has been fully as manifest yesterday and to-day. BRADFORD, DEC. 1 6.—W00l : There is nothing worthy of comment since last week. Wools of all kinds are too dear for the spinners to buy freely. Noils and brokes are scarce and dearer. Yarns : There is no disposition to sell except for present delivery. There is less offer ing by the commission houses, from the fact that Devon shire tops, from which job yarns are usually made, are so advanced that there is not a fraction of margin between the cost of tops and the price which this class of yarns has heretofore commanded. Pieces : From the near approach of Christmas, merchants do not buy freely ; yet, notwithstanding the difficulty to sell goods, yarns continue to advance, and higher prices are impeititive in order to cover cost.—Bradford Ob server. NOTTINGHAM, DEC. 16.—There is not any inquiry for goods for home consumption of any description, and the Americans have nearly completed their purchases, so that what few goods are now changing hands are generally at a sacrifice ; indeed, those who can now buy goods, in expectation of a demand for them a month or two hence, expect to obtain an equivalent, or something more for their outlay : our advice is therefore to those who can hold on a little longer, to do so, and not to make any sacrifice upon their stocks. The hosiery trade still continues to be pursued without any complaint, and hands in all branches of it seemed to be well employed. The reduction that has taken place in the price of raw cotton in Liverpool has not yet had any effect on the price of yarn in this market, but the utmost reduction yet quoted would not make more than 6d. per 101 b. bundle.—Nottingliam, Journal. LEICESTER, Dec. 16.—Though orders in the manufac turers' hands are nearly completed, there is less slack ness in the general demand at this period than we have known for years past ; the consequence of this is that the operatives are generally well employed. Many hosiers have turned their machinery on cotton hose some time past, for which orders are in the market for delivery in the coming year. These yarns have experienced a considerable rise, and notwithstanding the reaction in the Liverpool and Manchester markets, prices remain firm and the demand exceeds the supply in useful numbers, particularly in blue greys. But little doing in worsted yarns ' • the hosiers ar e engage d i n working down stocks before Christmas stock-taking. Prices are firm, and if wools keep their upward tendency, of which there seems every probability, a further advance may be expected, as they are not equal to the present value of sorts and skin wool.—Leicester Journal. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) SUGAR.—A material increase has taken place in the hom, trade demand for Colonial this week ; merchants have dis played confidence and moderately supplied the market, yel at present there is no general improvement to notice in the value. Foreign sells more freely both. for shipping and home consumption ; larger parcels have not been brought forward, and an impression exists there will be an advance shortly. A brisk demand has been experienced for West India from both refiners and grocers ; in all cases 6d adyance has been obtained, low to fine brown selling at 30s 6d to 335, yellow 33s to 395, and refining 31s to 375. From Tuesday to yesterday purchases were 2,466 hhds. &c., includ ing, at auction, 320 hhds Barbadoes, which went at steady prices, fine yellow at 38s to 39s 6d, mid to good 358 6d to 37s 6d, crystalised 35s to 39s 6d per cwt. Stock of West India is 3,800 tons less than last year. To-day West India Sugar was in fair 'demand for home consumption. For the week the quantity sold has been 2,838 hhds, and there is a rise of fully 6d per cwt, At auction to-day, however, 100; hhds crystalised Demerara were taken in at 37s to 42a :for mid to fine yellow, being rather above the valuation. • REFINED.—For home an extensive demand has been experienced for Refined Sugar, and there is an advance of 6cl to is per cwt. The market has been nearly cleared, and the rates obtained were, for brown lumps 44s t 4 ° 4 4s 6d; Titl ers , low* to fine, 44s 6d to 495, double 50s to sl -s; Hambro Loaves, 45s to 50s, double 51s - 28 ; and Standard lumps at 45s 6d per cwt. The market is firm f or B r iti s h crashed sugar, and several parcel s have been taken for shipping at 29s to 29s 6d. A Pod 'busines is do'ncr • D t hat 24s t 9 27s 6d, and extra 288 to 28s 6d 1 u e t o 28, fo r • Belgian has been sold to a fair extent at 24s 15s to 15 Zramon to fine. Treacle is wanted for export at 24s to 28 8 . bastards 21s to 225, wet lumps and pieces exporters isai lAc loaves many purchases have been made by 1 - t , o Nibs sells quotations are on the advance. Turkey, 355; Milers, at 428 to 455; Harabro', 6 to 151bs, 32s to 30s ; Dutch made to l 301bs, 31s ; Prussian, 40 to 451bs, Belgian 288 6d t o 2 9 : 4- es, 6 to 101bs, 31s to 32s ; and were desirous t o °per _ Per cwt. To-day home dealers firmly with a scant ; ~tte in refined sugar, and rates closed Brown lumps are 44s 6d, and low to fine grocery 2 4- • sto 48s .MAURITIUS.—At auction 6 7Cln . fine yellow at 368 t o 3 8 ,, , 'Jags were disposed of, 32s 6d to 335, fine brown 31., c mid r ,p, a d 33s to 35s 6cl, low to 315., inferior 25s to 27s 6d. , co " m " 4 : 48 6d, mid to good 28s to 375, grainy 35s to 39s for mid to °n fine refining 32s better sorts is 40s to 4 2 5, white ditt o to The value of and brown m atiritius ss tdia u n in the 33s to 34s Gd per cwt. Stock is 1,000 toe ?, t e s s• previous season. Several parcels of sold privately. At auction 451 bags found buy'Za.srlvieorwe yellow at 32s 6d to 33e, and fine brown 31s Gd to 32s 6d per cwt. EAST INDIA.—In Bengal larger purchases h ave been made, and full terms are obtained excepting for W hi te, which there is a small decline. At auctio p n 6,000 ba g , f ono `,l . buyers, Khaur at 20s to 275, mid to good date yell ow 31 , to 3 58 Gd, commo n t o m id white Benares 37s to 38s, good 3a s Gd to 395, fine to superior grainy yellow 39s to 41s 6d, ord to good 35s 6d to 38s. ' Stock varies little from this tim e last year. Penang is wanted, and keeps in small supply ; prices for brown rule at 23s to 31s, yellow ditto 31s to 355, greyish 35s to 335, and white at 3Gs 6cl to 388 Gd per cwt. This afternoon the public sales of 4,000 b ags Bengal sugar went with fair spirit at full rates. Bengres, fine white realised 39s to 3 98-6 d, good to fine grainy yellow 38s to 41s, low to mid 36s to 37s 6d, and soft brown 26s 6cl to 275. Madras is wanted, and form er At public sale, 7, prices are well sustained -, 70 0 bags selling for low to fine grainy yellow 34s to 33s 6d, white 41s to 42s 6d, and soft yellow 288 6d to 295. SPICES.—To-day prices declined 5s to 7s per cwt. for Cassia Lignea at a public sale of 1,200 chests, low to finQ quality selling at 107 s to 117 s. Of Pimento 1,000 bgs were in part disposed of at 4id to 54d for mid to good. The market for Pepper is firm, and at auction 800 bgs Malabar realised 4d to 4d for heavy. Of Nutmegs 11 cs sold at 3s 8d to 4s for fine brown, and 47 cs Malabar Ginger sold at 32s for mid cultivated. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY, The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsac at five o'clock. Very few Peers were present. The Ministry were represented by the Earl of Malmes bury, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Duke of Northumber land, the Marquis of Salisbury, and Lord Colchester. The Earl of Derby was not present. On the Opposition Benches were—Lord Truro and Lord Stanley, of Alderley. There was a numerous attendance of members of the House of Commons in the gallery reserved for them, among whom we noticed Lord John Russell. The Earl of LONSDALE presented a petition from the Mechanics' Institute of Whitehaven, praying to be furnished with Parliamentary papers. THE MINISTRY. The Earl of MALIVIESBURY then said—My lords, in consequence of what took place in the House of Com mons last night, with respect to the resolutions moved by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and in consequence of the unavoidable absence of the Prime Minister, who has gone to see her Majesty at Osborne, I shall move that this house adjourn until Monday next. The house then adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREET.—Two men named Thomas Penfold and Archibald M'Endrick, were brought up for final examination, before Mr. Hammill, charged with having been concerned in breaking into the premises of Mr. Samuel Wood, a pawnbroker, in High Holborn, and stealing therefrom a large quantity of jewellery and other articles, of the value of 170/. ; and Joseph Saun ders, a beer-shop keeper in Worship-street, and Cathe rine Watts and Emma Wilson, two women of abandoned habits, were charged with having received different portions of the stolen property. It appeared that shortly after twelve o'clock on the night of the 23d ult., as police-constable serjeant, E 120, was passing round his beat, he observed that the prosecutor's shop-door, which he had seen secure about an hour previous, was wide open, and having alarmed the inmates, it was discovered that the shop had been completely ransacked, and that a large amount of property, consisting of five gold and seventeen silver watches, sixty-eight wedding rings, a valuable diamond and a sapphire ring and two gold brooches, h a d been carried off by th e thieves. It was evident that the burglars had contrived to secrete themselves in the house before the closing of the shop, as neither the doors nor windows had been forced from the outside, and they had carried on their operations with such dexterity and caution, that although one of the shopmen occupied a bed under the counter, he was not at all disturbed, and was found fast asleep on the entrance of the policemen. About three days after the robbery, Inspector Brennan of the G division received information which induced him to proceed to the house of the prisoner Saunders, and on questioning him as to whether he had lately received a quantity of jewellery, he at first denied that he had, but finding that the officers were about to search the place, he whispered to his wife, " You know where they are as well as Ido ; go ,up-stairs." The officers then followed his wife into an upper room, and saw her thrust her hand up the chimney, from which she pulled out an old stocking ; on securing and examining which they found it to contain a gold watch, fifteen gold rings, and a lady's pocket-book. The prisoner accounted for the articles by stating that they had been placed under his charge a few nights before, but on taking him into cus tody the officer Evans heard him enjoin his wife, in a low to ne , t o " say no thi ng. ' M' Endrick, and the two women were afterwards taken into custody by the inspec tor, who succeeded in tracing various other portions of the stolen property to their possession. Police-constable Garrod, N 213, stated that he appre hended the prisoner Penfold on the 3d inst., in Spital fields, and on communicating to him the nature of the charge, he replied, " Yes • it is quite true, and I'll t e ll you all about it ;" a ft er which he voluntarily entered into the following curious narrative :—Between four and live o'clock on the evening of the robbery, while passing lirough Holborn, he observed two or three men loitering bout in front of the prosecutor's shop, and, suspecting at they were after no good, he determined to wate, their proceedings. His intention, however, was sp ee dily discovered by the men, who ordered him away, but he r t efused to leave, and one of them then said, " The fact is, we are about to do a job here to-night, and if you keep it dark we will give you part of what we get ?" After a short interval, one of the men stealthily entered - the side-door of the house, which was accidentally left open, and shortly afterwards presented himself at one of the upper windows. He saw nothing more of the man for two or three hours, at the expiration of which time lie cautiously opened the shop door and admitted one of his confederates, and after a considerable lapse of time they both came out and handed to him a gold watch, three silver watches, fifteen gold rings, and the lady's pocket-book, to secure his secrecy. The prisoner added that he proceeded on the same night to the house of Saunders, which he was in the habit of frequenting, and he left the property under his charge. Several pawnbrokers were examined, who produced a number of rings, watches, and other articles which had been pledged at different times at their shops by M'End rick and the female prisoners, and the whole of which were identified by the prosecutor's foreman as a portion of the stolen property. The prisoners expressed their intention of reserving their defence, and were fully committed for trial. SOUTHWARK.—Three women of abandoned char acter, named Roach, Sullivan, and Gorman, were placed at the bar, before Mr. Combe, charged with assault and highway robbery. Mr. Henry Ward stated that he is a wine merchant, in the City, his private residence being at Peckham ; that on the preceding night he left the City about ten o'clock, but admitted that he was under the influ ence of wine. He proceeded over London-bridge, and when he arrived on the south side, in walking along Winchester street, near St. Saviour's Church, he was knocked down, and when he recovered himself he missed his watch and guard, and also a sovereign and a half in gold. He added that he was quite unable to identify the parties by whom lie had been robbed. A watch and guard were produced which he identified. He further stated that in the morning he found himself in the station-house, at the rear of that court, not being in a condition to proceed to his home after the outrage and robbery. Mary Reddington, an unfortunate girl, said as she was walking down Winchester-street she saw the complainant, who appeared to be very tipsy. He was followed by the three prisoners, one of whom (Sullivan) went up to him and thrust one of her hands into his waistcoast pocket, and pulled out a sovereign and showed it to Gorman. The latter immediately pulled out half a sovereign, the lomplainant made an ineffectual resistance, upon whicli orman ' a strong and powerful w oman , k noc k e d h im Roche then rushed forward and pulled his gold piard chain over his head, and snatched the watch out of his pocket. The three prisoners then made their es cape. down Mr. Combe—Then you stood by and saw this gen tleman knocked down and robbed ? Witness : It was through me the prisoners were taken into custody. Mr. Combe—Have you had a quarrel with them about the division of the plunder ?—Witness : No ; I remained walking about the streets until two o'clock in the morn ing, and then went to the prisoner's lodging, in Mint street, at seven o'clock, and saw them there and two men with them. Mr. Combe—Well, what took place there ; was there anything said about the robbery on the previous night ? Witness—Yes, I said, " Well, how about the gent's watch that you robbed last night ?" They all began to abuse me, and I left the house and went and gave in formation to the police of the robbery. Mr. Combe—Then you were disappointed in your ex pectations of sharing in the plunder, and that was the reason you "peached" on the prisoners. Witness—l thought that I had not been used well, although I had nothing to do with the robbery. Mr. Combe said that he had heard quite enough from the lips of this witness to justify him in placing her in the dock with the other prisoners, as having been pri v y t.o the assault and robbery. She had admitted that it was in consequence of her disappointment in not sharing in the plunder that she gave the information to the police. The witness was then ordered into the dock, and as her three fellow prisoners seemed desperately exasperated against her, Downes (the gaoler) was compelled to stand between them during the remainder of the examination, in order to prevent their laying violent hands upon her. that Policeman R ee d, 492 A , stated that while on duty of _ morning, a t seven o ' c l oc k , near St. George ' s u rnati reh, in .the Borough, Reddington gave him infor the robbery. He accompanied her to No. 7, had been s reet. She pointed out the three prisoners. On examining the room he discovered the watch and chain whited Up a They were piece of black gauze, the latter of and Gorman said tl founntsed as a mask to conceal the face. in the bed between the bed clothes, st r e fl e p t l , a a i n n a d n a t s assisted to was found the bed belonged to her. The ntchesostoantiaofntlrouthsee robbery Th . in the were remanded. e prisoners PRICE OF B RISTOL ER R . —The price of beer in this tennis sixpence per pot. A difference only of one half py on a quart in favour of the consumer, it is calcu lated, would arise if the malt duty were reduced accord ing —Feli x P arley ' s Bristol jou rn to a t i h . e Ministerial measure. MANSION-HOUSE.—Charles Smith, was brought up charged with having stolen ss. 94d. from William Apps, a countryman. The complainant, who had just arrived in town by railway at London-bridge, asked the prisoner, who was standing at the station, the way to Hackney. " I'm going that way," said the prisoner, "and I'll show you." As they walked along, the prisoner picked up a bag, which, upon examining, he said contained a gold ring, and he told the prosecutor that as they were together when it was found they would divide its value between them. The ring, which was worth about a penny, was wrapped up in a piece of paper appearing to be a bill for the article, amounting to 12s. 6d., and the prisoner banded over the treasure to the complainant for the ss. 91d., which was all the latter had. Anxious to turn the trinket to account, the countryman displayed it before a pawnbroker, who pronounced it to be dear at a penny. Next day the victim pointed out the finder of the ring at the station to a policeman, who, upon searching, found in the fellow's pocket two other rings, wrapped up in similar bills, and of just the same value. The prisoner said he had offered to return the com plainant his money if he suspected the genuiness of the gold. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER, 18, 1852. LORD CARLISLE ON THE POETRY OF GRA Y. THE LATE EDITOR OF "THE EDINBURGH PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of YESTERDAY. 4. REVIEW." The noble example which the Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle afforded to the peers of England two years ago at Leeds, when he gave two lectures before tile Me chanics' Institute of that town, has been followed by men of such exalted rank as the Earl of Belfast, the Earl of Ellesmere, Lord Montagu, and others, and it is understood that his Grace the Duke of Newcastle will shortly rank amongst the same class of aristocratic teachers of the people. The Earl of Carlisle has laid the mechanics' institutes of Yorkshire under additional ob ligations, by delivering at Sheffield, on Tuesday even ing, a lecture on the writings of the poet Gray. The meeting was in the lecture-hall of the Mechanics' Insti tute, and in addition to the members of the institution, there were present a great many of the principal inha bitants of Sheffield axd the neighbourhood. Amongst the audience we noticed Mr. James Mont gomery, the poet ; the Rev. Canon Trevor, the Mayor (Mr. Matthews), Mr. Alderman Dunn (the President of the Institution), the Master Cutler (Mr. Hunter), Dr. Holland. Mr. Fisher, sen., Alderman Pye Smith, Mr. Henry Jackson, Mr. Henry Newbould, Mr. Gains ford, Mr. John Newbould, Mr. Edward Smith, Mr. J. B. Brown, Mr. Badger (Rotherham), Mr. Alderman Carr, Mr. Solly, Mr. Bramley, Mr. Leader, jun., Mr. F. Hoole, &c. Alderman DUNN, who, as president of the institution took the chair, having introduced the noble lecturer. Lord CARLISLE then proceeded to read his lecture, the subject to which it referred being the poetry of Gray, an author, he said, who, in point of mere bulk, had proba bly written less than any other poet whose works were comprised in any collection of English poetry, but few had attempted a greater variety of styles, and these, too amongst the most difficult and lofty in the whole range of song. He had written odes which might be divided into the regular and Pindaric ; he had written elegiac verses ; he had written Latin heroic, Latin elegiac, and Latin lyric poetry ; he had written burlesque ' • he ' had written sati r e • he had written epitaphs ; he had written a sonnet ; he had written part of a tragedy ; and all he had written was not only excellent, but nearly perfect in its kind. His leading characteristic, and probably that which interfered mainly with his being a more prolific writer, was the nicety and purity of his taste. If he were forced to compare his style and genius with those of any other writer he believed he should select Virgil. He would back his own estimate of the poetical merits of Gray by the weightier authority of Sir J. Mackintosh, who said, "Of all English poets he was the most finished artist ; he attained the highest degree of splendour of which poetical style seems to be capable." He appeared to have laboured under an hereditary ten dency to gout, which closed his illustrious career in his fifty-fifth year, and which probably' gave to the whole of his sedentary and eventful life that disposition to a pen sive, but not morose, melancholy to which he frequently alluded in his correspondence, and which has left most distinct impressions even on his highly-polished and carefully laboured poetry. It was in that light he was represented in the following lines, written in a poem of the last century, " The Pursuits of Literature," by Mr. Mathias, a distinguished. classical and Italian scholar : " Go then and view, since closed his cloistered day, The self-supported, melancholy Gray. Dark was his morn of life, and bleak the spring, Without one fost'ring ray from Britain's king : Grants's dull abbots cast a sidelong glance, And Levite gownsmen hugged their ignorance : With his high spirits strove the master bard, And was his own exceeding great reward." Though the " dull abbots"" of Cambridge were spoken of with extreme irreverence by Gray himself, he spent, by choice, the greater portion of the last twenty-nine years of his life at that University ; and with reference to the want of " one fostering ray from Britain's king," in the first place he not only had the option of becoming poet laureate, Ibut had received the office of Professor of Modern History (which he feared he had made a sine cure) in the University of Cambridge, if not actually from George the Third, at least from the Duke of Graf ton with the king's conveyed assent. He imagined, moreover, that Gray, who never was a distressed man, would have shrunk instinctively from all the common appearances of patronage, and it should be recollected that when he travelled with the son of the most power ful Prime Minister England ever had, he quarrelled with him. One of the greatest readers, he w as one o f the most sparing of writers, and when he consented to the publication of his immortal Elegy, he requested it should be without his name, and expressed an almost ludicrous degree of horror at the notion of its being pub lished with an engraving of his own head prefixed to it. Lastly, and most conclusively of all, when late in life he authorised two editions of his works in England and Scotland, he expressly mentioned that he ws,s to receive no remuneration for them. The same sensitive and' fas tidious delicacy which pruned every expression of his pen, guarded every action of his life ; and they were told by his editor and friend, the poet Mason, that he even assumed an appearance of effeminacy and delicacy to ward off persons whom he did not wish to please. His existence, on the whole, was that of a scholar and re FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 17. The literary world and a wide circle of affectionate friends have sustained a serious loss by the death of Pro fessor Empson, which took place at Hayleybury on Fri day last. Few men of our time have discharged educa tional duties with greater zeal and conscientiousness. He considered it a high responsibility to form the minds and to direct the studies of young men, who might at some future time be called upon to discharge the duties of the magistracy and of the bench of justice in India. To those who have considered, with an admiration not unmixed with surprise, the questions in moral philoso phy, metaphysics, and the elements of general law, which are answered by the native students at the Ma hommedan and Hindoo Colleges at Calcutta, it is fully apparent that a new race of Asiatics is rapidly growing up, capable of appreciating the knowledge and capacity of the Europeans called to administer high civil functions among them. Any deficiency in the qualifications of the European civil servants, when compared with natives, will be a severe blow to a power which peculiarly rests on opinion. By no other were these truths more fully recognised than they were by William Empson. Acting on this conviction, no professor could endeavour more faithfully than he did to render his lectures efficient for their true endand object. Going far beyond common-place and elementary teaching, his lectures opened large his torical views, the principle s o f mora l ph i losophy and of international law. Paley, Kent, Story, Wheeton, Wild man, and Sir William Scott, were his text books as much as " Blackstone's Commentaries." This was pecu liarly important where, as in India, local jurisdictions exist equal in area to European states, and where com plicated and ill-defined rights and systems, different re ligious faiths, contrasted ties of sovereignty, protection, and alliance, render a knowledge of the differing princi ples of jurisprudence absolutely necessary as a guide through an otherwise impenetrable labyrinth. Those who will take the trouble of looking carefully over Pro fessor Empson's Examination Papers will perceive how well fitted was his system of instruction to convey the knowledge required for Indian magistrates and judges. lie . ,not only possessed knowledge, but the art of com municating it, and an art still rarer—that of obtaining and exercising influence over the hearts of his pupils. He showed a genial interest in the students of his class, which won their confidence and affection. In this he resembled his distinguished friend and fellow Wykemist, Dr. Arnold. An interesting proof of his success will appear from the following occurrence, which will not be thought trivial to those who have studied the characters of the young. The students at the East India College have been accustomed to celebrate the close of their term and of their studies by an annual festival ; but on the last examination, on learning the approaching end of their friend and instructor—then suffering from ttie rupture of a blood vessel, of which, in a few days after, he died —they spontaneously gave up their accustomed festival, as being inconsistent with their anxiety and grateful affection for him. And well they might do so. Though in a most enfeebled state of health, and fully aware of the risk he ran in the cold College hall, he would not shrink from his duty as examiner, and within less than half-an-hour of the close of his functions he was struck with that fearful attack to which in a few days he fell a victim. Yet even during this rapid sinking by decay of bodily strength, he would not neglect the last duty he could perform to his young friends. He carefully went through his examination papers, and assigned to each student his rank and Position. No man ever fell more truly in the field of duty. Succeeding to the professiorial chair of Mackintosh, occupying what had been the home of the gentle Mal thus, and having lived in intimate friendship with Lebas, if he did not possess the metaphysical subtlety and uni versality of the first, if he did not leave behind him so great a work as the justly celebrated Essay on Popula tion, if he was not a deep theologian, he surpassed Mack intosh in his industry and his enlarged and practical wisdom, and he equalled Malthus in his love of truth and courage in asserting it, and Lebas in his deep and sincere piety. In addition to his functions of Professor of Law, William Empson held another office, which is often a painful pre-eminence. He was editor, as since the year 1823 he had been a contributor, to that leading critical journal, the Rdinburyh, Review. His genial kindliness of nature rendered him an indulgent administrator of those functions to which he was officially sworn in the verse of Publius Syrus, "Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur." At all times he preferred praise to blame, and would rather have given a wreath of laurel than " Luke's iron crown." Those are indifferent observers who will not admit that refined criticism is not as much shown in discriminating praise as in severe invective. Indeed, the former requires greater skill and delicacy, and appeals to less vulgar elements of success. The generous feeling which distinguished William Empson as an editor was shown in his reception of an interesting and justly economiastic article on Robert Southey, whose opinions on many points, and on politics more especi ally, were so opposite to his own. We may observe, in passing, that in the case of the Tory poet laureate and his son, the Rev. Cuthbert Southey, well merited praise to the one, and the gift of a church living to the other, came from a Whig Review and from a Whig Lord Chan cellor, in acknowledgment of high literary genius ; while a bitter and discreditable attack appeared in that Quar terly Review which had derived its illumination from the brilliancy of Southey's genius. William Empson contributed upwards of 60 articles to the Review between the years 1823 and 1849, on law, the condition of the poorer classes, negro slavery, do mestic politics, poetry, and general literature and bio graphy. No questions appeared more congenial to his nature than those wluch denounced oppression and tyranny, whether political or ecclesiastical, and those which, in reviewing the lives of the good and the great, excited a train of moral feelings. One characteristic of William Empson's editorship is to be traced equally to the times in which we live and to his own nature and opinions. Religious pugnacity appears now on all sides. Our controversialists enter the lists with strange wea pons. Mitres and crosiers, and other offensive instru ments and symbols, stolen from medieval armouries, are flourished by vehement and indignant combatants. The population which lives between Carfax and Magdalen bridge seeks the help of the Romans against the inroad of what they consider the Saxon barbarians. The assist ance of most able fellow -labourers was obtained by William Empson for this new contest ; and his own mode of treating questions of this description is beauti fully shown in his review of the Life of Arnold, by Arthur Stanley, contained in the January number of 1845. Throughout this most able series of articles on religious topics the right of private judgment and the scriptural foundation of our faith have been well de fended ; and the assertion of freedom of conscience and freedom of inquiry has been made to rest on a founda tion of humble belief and of deep and unaffected piety. Such are among the many claims which William Emp son possessed on the esteem and gratitude of his con temporaries. In private life he was most happy in his associations. The friendships which he brought with him from Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge, and which were extended in the world, and completed among his estimable colleagues at Hayleybury, were un broken except by death. How he was loved and valued by those who knew him most intimately is shown in the family Cragg by the emphatic his delightful letters of Lord Jeffr e y. • T o hi s i n ti macy w i t h that most captivating man Willi am E mpson owe d t h e happiness in marriage. H e iw c i o ias m sp p e l n e completion i on of his th in e ail con unchan g eablefriendships. Pope concludes words—" And he lost no frie n d." N ever was a h uman being more entitled to Pope's p ra i se t h an th e su bj ect of the preceding sketch. He died age d 62 ; an d never did inister a calm and trusting death afford more conclusive ev dence of a life pure, useful, and benevolent.— Times. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Fre derick Doveton Orme, Esq., now Paid Attaché to her Majesty's Legation at Frankfort, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Copenhagen. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Captain the Honourable Edward Alfred Harris, R.N., now her Majesty's Consul for Denmark and the Oresound, to be her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General in the Republic of Peru. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint James Baker, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Vigo, to be her Majesty's Consul at Barcelona. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Were Giffard Nicolas, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Mobile, to be her Majesty's Consul at Vigo. CROWN OFFICE. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Dec. 15. Borough of Lisburn.—Roger Johnson Smyth, of No. 32, Castle-street, Lisburn, in the county of Antrim, Esq., in the room of Si r J ames E merson Tennent, who has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Manor of North stead. Dec. 16. - - - Borough of Merthyr Tydvil.—Henry Austin Bruce, Esq., in the room of Sir Josiah John Guest, Bart., deceased. WAR OFFICE, DEC. 17. 2cl Dragoons—Andrew Nugent, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Twysden, who retires, Dec. 17. 10th Dragoons—Honourable Matthew Fitz Maurice Deane, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Webster, promoted, Dec. 17. Ist or Grenadier Foot Guards.—Honourable William Francis Forbes, Page of Honour to her Majesty, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, without purchase, Dec. 17. 3d Foot—Willi am J ames Newton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Sidebottom, promoted, Dec. 17 ; Wil liam Roger Snow, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Coussmaker uromoted, Dec. 18, - _ 6th Foot—W prt, illiam Charles Frind Burlton Benne, Gent., t 6 be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bartley, promoted, Dec. 17. 7th Foot—Lieutenant Bobert Hely Hutchinson Keight ley, from the 76th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Dixon, ap pointed Paymaster, Dec. 17. 22d Foot—Ensign John Holme s H ous t on G amme ll , f rom the 76th F oo t, t o be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Parks, who retires, Dec. 17. 24th Foot—Alfred William Adcock, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Burns, pro mo t e d, D ec . 17 . 25th Foot—Robert Chadwick, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice O'Hea, p romo t e d , D ec. 17 . 30th oot—Lachlan Macpherson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gibson, p romo t e d , D ec, 17 . 39th Foot— Thomas Westropp Bennett, Gent., to be En sign by purchace, vice Boycott, who retires, Dec. 17. 48th Foot—Richard Eyre, Gent., to be Ensign by pur chase, vice Bolton, appointed to the Ist Dragoon Guards, Dec. 17. 49th Foot—John Maxwell Macneill, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Bond, prom o t e d, D ec . 17 . 52d Foot—Lieutenant 2 Charles Cornwallis Ross, to be Captain by purchase, vice Corbet, who retires • Ensign John Arthu r B ay l ey, t o b e Li eutenant by purchase, vice Ross ; Ensign Arthur James Fremantle, from the 70th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Bayley, Dec. 17. 55th Foot—Charles George Wingfield, Gent., to be En sign by purchase, vice Hume, promoted, Dec. 17. 59th Foot—Robert Staveley Shinkwin, Gent., to be Ensign, by purcha se , v i ce Th ompson, promoted, Dec. 17. 61st Foot—Ensign Robert Richardson Daly to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Kempe, who retires—Charles John Griffiths, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Daly, Dec. 17. 611 Footibradney Todd Gilpin, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, v i ce Ad eane, promoted, Dec. 17. 63d Foot—Adrian Wm. Fraser, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Hay, who se a pp o i n t men t h as b een cancel led, Dec. 17. ? 74th Foot—Robert Frederick Martin, Gent., to be En. sign, by purchase, vice Yonge, appointed to the 61st Foot, Dec. 17. 76th Foot—Lieutenant Matthew White, from half-pay Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment, to be Li eu t enan t , v i ce Keightley, appointed to the 7th Foot, Dec. 17. 79th Foot—Robert Francis Henry Macgregor Skinner, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Scott, promoted, Dec. 17. 82d Foot—John Frederick Pilkington, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, v i ce L uar d , promoted, Dec. 17. 85th Foot—Captain John William Grey, to be Major, by purchase, vice Blackburn, who retires ; Lieutenant George Warde to be Captain, by purchase, vice Grey ; En sign John Athorpe, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Warde, Dec. El. 89th 'Foot—Barnes Slyfield Robinson, Gent., to be En sign, without purchase, vice Conyers, promoted, Dec. 17. 92nd Foot—Maunsenficham, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Thorold, who retires, Dec. 17. - Rifle Brigade—Leonard Neill Malcolm, Gent., to be Se cond Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tryon, promoted, Dec. 17. 3d West India Regiment— John Alexander Gordon Pringle, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hnme, promoted, Dec. 17. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Henry Edward Watson, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Blackie, who retires, Dec. 17; John Codd Conington, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Baker, appointed to the 10th Light Dragoons, Dec.lB; Simpson Hackett Hobbs, Gent., to be Second Li eu t enan t . b y purc h ase, vice Sillery, promoted, Dec. 19. BREVET.—Captain Orfeur Cavenagh, of the 32d Regi ment Bengal Native Infantry, to have the rank of Major in the East Indies, Aug. 10. HOSPITAL STAFF. —William Collingwood. Howatson. M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, Dec. 17. MEMORANDUM.—The commission of Captain William Ross-King, of the 74th Foot, has been ante-dated to 30th July, 1852, but not to carry any back pay. cluse, pursuing varied walks of learning, many of which he mastered, if not with the massive completeness of a German student, yet with the refined diligence of an English gentleman. In addition to his own captivating art of poetry, he was keenly alive to the excellencies of music, painting, and architecture ; and, though there would appear to have been no trace of his ever having been in love—(laughter) —his heart was open to the warmest emotions of friendship. Nor is it easy to re member a more congenial union of tastes and feelings than distinguished the too brief intimacy between him and his accomplished friend, Richard West. His affec tion for his mother was tender, constant, and practical, as proved by the inscription which he placed upon her tomb— OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 15. Royal Regiment of Artillery Brevet-Major Ashton Ashton Shuttleworth to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice H. Williams, deceased ; Second. Captain Murray Octavius Nixon, to be Captain, vice Shuttleworth ; First Lieutenant George Leslie, to be Second Captain, vice Nixon ; Second Lieutenant Edmund Penrose Bingham Turner, to be First Lieutenant, vice Leslie, Dec. 7. MEMORANDUM.—The date of the Promotion of the un dermentioned Officers has been altered to Nov. 11, viz. : Lieutenant Colonel T. A. Shone ; Captain R. H. Crofton ; Second Captain G. Barstow ; First Lieutenant H. R. Porter. "In the same pious confidence, Beside her Friend and Sister. Here sleep the Remains of DOROTHY GRAY, Widow, the careful tender Mother Of many children, one of whom alone Had the misfortune to survive her." He exhibited a most becoming tone of religion, and ap peared to have always spoken with the utmost repug nance of Bolingbroke and Voltaire. In one place he thus pointedly described himself— "No very great wit, he believed in God." As a letter writer, he held a middle station between Horace Walpole and Cowper ; and with respect to his different notices of scenery, Sir James Mackintosh says, "I am struck by the recollection of a sort of merit in Gray, which is not generally observed ; he was the first discoverer of the beauties of nature in England, and has marked out the course of every picturesque journey that can be made in it." His descriptions of Italy placed the reader in the midst of it, and every word of them showed that the intention was to show off the scene, and not the writer. His Latin poetry was not uniformly out of the reach of even modern criticism ; they had it for the most part rather in small fragments, as well as in a g rea t var i e t y o f form, but it was on the whole extremely beautiful. The ode on "The Spring," his earliest English production, written in his twenty-sixth year, was as nicely polished and as carefully finished as almost any of his subsequent com positions. In it a hot noon is pourtrayed with much truth : ADMIRALTY, DEC. 13. Brevet Major John Tatton Brown to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Tothill, retired on full pay. Brevet Major Edward Augustus Parker to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Whitcomb, retired on full pay. First Lieutenant and Quartermaster Henry Charles Penrose Dyer to be Captain, vice Brown, promoted ; First Lieutenant William Barnham Thomas Rider to be Cap tain, vice Parker, promoted. Second Lieutenant George Gill to be First Lieutenant, vice Dyer ; Second Lieutenant George Brydges to be First Lieutenant, vice Rider. F - " Still is the toiling hand of care ; The panting herds repose; Yet hark ! how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed spring, And float amid the liquid noon." (Cheers.) He did not feel called upon to pause over the next "Ode on the Death of a favourite Cat, drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes." (Laughter.) Having spent six years of his life as a boy at Eton School, they must excuse him for exclaiming with filial fervour— " Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade !" (Cheers.) He might mention that he felt so strongly the kind of identification which this brief ode gave to the muse of Gray with the memory of Eton, that upon a proposal being lately made that a collection of busts of the prin cipal worthies of Eton should be placed in the large school-room, he requested permission to present a bust of Gray. It might be stated that of the six last Prime Ministers of this country, four had been Eton men ; and not long after the poet had cast his desponding glance upon the boyish group assembled there, among those who disported on " the margent green" was Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. (Cheers.) The hymn to Adversity stood next, and amongst his unfinished poems was found one headed " An Ode on the Pleasures arising from Vicissitude." He now came to the two great odes which more particularly represented the varied, though not irregular structure and fervid tone of that form of composition not improperly termed Pindaric, and which signally developed the genuine ore in the poetic vein of Gray. It was to these and to one written later, and not unworthy to be associated with them, that they must mainly refer the expression in the stanza inscribed by Mason as an epitaph on Gray's monument in Westmin ster Abbey : (From the Scotsman.) With much pain we make an announcement which will be received with no' slight nor affected sorrow through Ali the circles, and they were large and various, in which the editor of the Edinburgh Review and the son-in-law of Lord Jeffrey was known. Professor Emp son had long been in so mew h at d e li cate h ea l t h ; .b ut symptoms of serious or immediate danger did not appear till about a fortnight since, from which period 'he gra dually sank till he expired on Friday last. This melan choly event took place at his residence at the East India College, Hayleybury, H efts, where Mr. Empson, we need scarcely mention, act e d as P ro f essor o f L aw , be sides carrying on, since th e d eath of Mr. Macvey Napier, the editorship of the Edinburgh Review. Mr. Empson married the only child of Lord Jeffrey, and it was at Hayleybury that Mrs. Jeffrey's death took place soon after that of her illustriou s husband. Besides his emi nent general abilities, Mr. Empson was a man of great scholarship in his profession and in metaphysics, and possessed of an exquisite amiability of character. " No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns ; To Britain let the nations homage pay ! She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." (Cheers.) " The Progress of Poesy" stood first, and was chronicled by genuine poesy herself ; though the next of the Pindaric odes, " The Bard," was far more generally popular, and familiar to their recollection. The noble lord gave several extracts from both poems, and entered into a spirited refutation of Dr. Johnson's harsh criti cism upon them. Having spoken in favourable terms of Gray's unfinished tragedy of Agrippina, he concluded by referring to "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," of which Dr. Johnson himself approved—of which General Wolfe on the night before the capture of Quebec, said, " Well, gentlemen, I had rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec ;" and which, at the request of the great American statesman, Mr. Webster, was read to him when lying upon his bed of-death. THE ORLEANS PROPERTY.—The forest of Breteuil, lately belonging to King Louis Philippe, was sold yes terday morning, by auction, for 3,810,000 f., and the fine forest demesne of St. Dizier was sold during the, day to a rich capitalist of Rheims. "The demesnes of Arc and Chateauvilain, belonging to the Prince de Joinville, and that of Randun, bequeathed by Madame Adelaide to the Duke de Montpensier, are also, says the Assemblee Nationale, on the point of being sold. A contract has, it is said, been already signed for the former with the company, consisting of landowners, wood-merchants, and sportsmen, and for the latter with a rich foreigner, who already has considerable property in France. By these sales, the Orleans family will have submitted to the obli gations of the decree of Jan. 22, before the expiration of the delay granted them for that purpose."—Ga/ignani. ironmonger, first dividend of 10 d., in the pound, payable at 76A, Basinghall-street, on Thursday, Dec. 23, and three subsequent Thursdays. Augustus Alexander Lackersteen, of 2, Broad-street buildings, merchant, first dividend of ls. in the pound, payable at 18, Aldermanbury, on any Monday. John Whittaker, of 5, Park-place, Mile-end-road, draper, first dividend of 3s. 9d. in the pound, payable at 18, Alder manbury, on any Monday. Mackness Branson, of Stratford, Essex, stationer, first dividend of 3s. 3id. in the pound, payable at 18, Alder manbury, on any Monday. Joseph Mitchell, of Camden-street, Camden-town, car penter, first dividend of ls. 9d. in the pound, payable at 18, Aldermanbury, on any Monday. Henry Med worth, of Wisbeach, St. Peter, Cambridge, grocer, second dividend of ls. 2d. in the pound, payable at 18, Aldermanbury, on any Monday. Herbert Ashton and Stewart Spriggs, of Aldermanbury, warehouseman, first dividend of 6s. in the pound, payable at 1, Sambrook:court, Basinghall-street, on Saturday, Dec. 18, and three subsequent Saturdays. Leon J. Nerinckx, of 44, Great P or tl an d- s t reet, l aceman, second dividend of lid. in the pound, payable at 12, Ab church-lane, on Saturday, December 18, and 3 subsequent Saturdays. James Morison Wilson, of Eton, bookseller, first divi dend of 3s. Bd. in the pound, payable at 12, Abchurch-lane, on Saturday, December 18, and three subsequent Saturdays. James Bateman, of Southampton -buildings, agent, second dividend of 2id. in the pound, payable at 12, Abchurch lane, on Saturday, December 18, and three subsequent Saturdays. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. R. Wilson, Cambridge, grocer, Jan. 13, at one—R, Whittaker, Landport, Hampshire, outfitter, Jan. 10, at eleven--W. M. Hark er ; Little oorfields, currier, Jan. 14, at eleven—W. Wellington and R. Butterfield, Brighton, lacemen, Jan. 11, at one. In the Country. R. C. Sharp, Manchester, merchant, Jan. 10, a t t we l ve , at the Court, M anc hester--G. C. Paulin ; , Manchester, merchant, Jan. 10, a t t we l ve, a t th e Court, Manchester — T. Staley, Stockport, grocer, Jan. 10, at twel ve , a t th e Court, Manchest er —A. and E. Newbold, Birmingham, drapers, Jan. 18, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham— C. H. Canning, Birmingham, draper, Jan. 10, at ten, at the Court, Birmin g h am —E . Ni c h o ll s, Stourbridge, 'or cestershire, licensed victualler, Jan. 15, at ten, at the Court, Birmingham—W. K. Broadhurst, Fenton, Staf fordshire earthenware man u f ac t urer , J an. 8 , a t ten, at the Court, Birmingham—R. Shelton, Wellington, Shrop shire, saddler, Jan. 10, at ten, at the Court, Birmingham. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. R. Johnston, Macclesfield, Cheshire, silk manufacturer, certificate of the second class, after three months, from Dee. 14—M. Holmes, Bilston, Staffordshire, victualler, certificate of the second class—S. Boyle, Fenton, Stoke upon-Trent, china and earthenware manufaoturer, certifi cate of the second class, after six months, from Nov. 1. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. James Watling Knights, of Ipswich; and Mary Button, late of Rushmere, near Ipswich, farmers—Th omas Benja min Smith and William Lundie Duncan, of Marsh Gate Paper Mills, Stratford—Charles Kenworthy and William Ogden, of Manchester, perchers—Hattil Foll and Francis Turfrey, of Bristol, brewers—William Taylor and Samuel Taylor, of Halifax, Yorkshire, slaters—James P. Higgin son and Henry Parsons, of Liverpool, merchants—Richard Hawkins and George Furnis, of New-street, Dorset-square, New-road, watchmakers—William Knight and Edwin Knight, of Manchester, lime-dealers—John Charles Stivens, William Cooper, and Edmund Cooper, of Bristol, makers and dealers in wi nes ( so f ar as regards J. C. Stivens)— John Bennett and Abraham Bennett, of Bradley Mills and Huddersfield, woollen cloth manufacturers—Robert Whitaker and Hodgson Lewis, of Halifax, Yorkshire, wine and spirit merchants—John Gaskell and Thomas Frederick Taylor, of Wigan, Lancashire, attorneys— William Hodge Lucas and Rice Mennie, of East Stone house, Devonshire, timber merchants—Peter Dodd and Noah Turner, of Wheelton, Lancashire, gold thread manufacturers—Henry William. Crowhurst and Charles Allwork, of Horsleydown, brewers Geor g e Chitt y Meader and Charles F ros t, of 7, Idol-lane, City, wine and spirit merchants—Berian Drew, jun., and Amos Langton Drew, of 91, Blackm an - s t ree t, S ou th war k , c h em i sts—Wil- . Liam Windram and John Windram, of Leicester, bleachers —Edwin Sparrow and William Alfred Sparrow, of Liver pool, metal brokers—lsabel Wetherman and Mary Anne Wetherman, of Bristol, lace dealers—John Gardner, M.D., and George Edward Serocold Pearce Serocold —Michael Longridge, William Smith Longridge, Robert Berwick Longridge, Charles John Longridge, Henry Gordon Long ridge David L am b e , D av id Lambe, jun., and Thomas Stirling Begbie, of Bedlington, Northumberland, engineers (so far as regards David Lambe and David Lambe, jun.)— Thomas Tilley and William Tilley, of 83, Watling-street, City, commission agents—Rudolph Appel and Friedrich Droege, of 43, Gerrard-street, Soho, anastatic printers— Jonathan Phillips Williams Griffin and Alexander Saun ders, of Plymouth, painters—Edward Challinor, jun., George Woolliscroft, and Charles Challinor, jun., of Sandy ford and Tunstall, Staffordshire, earthenware manufac turers (so far as regards George Wolliscroft)—Elizabeth Highway Waldron and Thomas Aston Waldron of Bel broughton, Worcestershire, scythe manufacturers. ROYAL MARINES. The following promotions and appointments have taken place, consequent upon the retirement from the service of Lieutenant-Coionel John Tothill, who was promoted to that rank November 19, 1851 ; and Lieut.-Colonel James Whitcomb, promoted to that rank December 23, 18.51--and both of the Chatham division. The retire ments, promotions, and appointments are dated the 13th instant : Brevet-Major John Patton Brown, of the Chatham division, to b e Li eutenant -Colonel, and appointed to the same division, vice Tothill, retired. Brevet-Major Edward Augustus Parker, of the Chatham division, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, and ap pointed to the same division, vice Whitcomb. First-Lieutenant and Quartermaster Henry Chas. Pen rose Dyer, of the Woolwich division, to be Captain, and appointed to the Chatham division, vice Brown, pro moted. First-Lieutenant Wm. Barnham Thomas Rider ' of the Woolwich divisio n , t o b e C apta i n, an d appo i n t e d to the Chatham division, vice Whitcomb. Second-Lieutenant George Gill, of the Portsmouth division, to be First-Lieutenant, vice Dyer, promoted, and his division will be hereafter notified. Second-Lieutenant George Brydges, of the Artillery companies, to be First-Lieutenant, vice, Rider, and ap -pointed to these companies. The following appointment has also taken place, dated, the 14th inst. :-- First-Lieutenant John Elliott, of the Portsmouth division, to be Lieutenant and Quartermaster at the Woolwich division, vice Dyer, promoted. A PITHY PETITION.—The Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher, father of Mrs. Stowe, who had an original way of saying and doing things, once offered up the following pithy peti tion :—" And d Lord ! grant we may not despise our rulers ; and grant they may not act so, that we can't help it." INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Walter Phipps, sen., of Birmingham, grocer's assistant —Jacob Beesley, of Asted New Town, Warwickshire, hingo manufacturer—Edward Hopwood, of Birmingham, coach spring maker—William Marshal, of Aston, War wickshire, clerk—William Townson, of Colne, Lancashire, licensed innkeeper—Benjamin Wood, of Lindley, York shire, cloth dresser—Samuel Brescomb, of Huddersfield, confectioner—John Davey, jun., of Exeter, boot maker— Frederick Charles Vaughan, of Cardiff, Glamorganshire, grocer. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. John Leith, of Portmahomack, Ross-shire, merchant, December 23 an d J anuary 13, at 3/Marrow's oyal Hotel Taira. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made inthe week ending the 14th day of December, 1852, is 55s I d per hundred weight, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account purmartt to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, Cap 32, for the Week ending on Saturday the 11th day of December, 1852. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued ........ 34,970,670 Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities ...... 2,984,800 Gold coin and bullion 20,951,416 Silver bullion ........ 19,154 £34,970,670 £34,970,670 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 16th day of December, 1852. BANKING DEPARTMENT. Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Res^ • • • Publicdeposits tin eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say ing's Banks, and Government securities (Includg.Dead Weight Annuity) ...... .. 13,962,688 Other securities...... 12,620,203 Notes ............ 12,415,100 Gold and silver coin.. 539,485 Dividend Accounts) 7,955,077 Other deposits ...... 12,507,244 Seven Day and other Bills .... 1,444,938 £39,537,476 £39,537,476 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. 1952. Dated tho 15th day of December HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. STAG HOUNDS. Bath Subscription, Tuesday, Horse and Jockey, Kingsdown ; Friday, Priston--at half-past 10. Hon. F. Petre's, Tuesday, Axe and Compasses, High Roding—at half-past 11. Fox HOUNDS. Atherstone, Monday, Burton-in-the Begus ; Tuesday, Birchley H ayes ; Thursday, Cricket's - Inn ; Friday, Ullesthorpe—at a quarter to 11. Badsworth, Tuesday, Marr Village; Thursday, Went bridge —at half-past 10 ; Friday; Ringston-hill—at 11. Duke of Beaufort's, Monday, Yate Bocks ; Tuesday, Bath Lodge ; Thursday, Stanton-park ; Friday, Shipton Moyne. Bramham Moor, Monday, Wyke ; Tuesday, Burn ; Thursday, Hook Moor ; Friday, Wighill-park—at half past 10. Burton Hunt, Monday, Normanby by Stow ; Tuesday, Wragby; Wednesday, Blankney ; Thursday, Hackthorn; Friday, Kettlethorpe—at 1E Colonel Conyers's, Monday, Leaden Rattling ; Wed nesday, Blackmore ; Friday, Hatfield -town—at half past 10. Cottesmore, Monday, Grimsthorpe Park ; Wednesday, Belton ; Friday, Langham— at 11. Craven, Monday, Froxfield Turnpike ; Tuesday, San delford Priory • Wednesday, Chaddleworth Gate; Fri: day, White Hill—at a quarter to 11. Mr. Deane's, Tuesday, Castle Neroche—at 10. • East Essex, Tuesday, Birdb roo k H a ll ; F r i day, Colne George—at half-past 10. South-Essex, Tuesday, Danton Blacksmiths Thurs. day, Dog and Partridge, Stifford—at half-past 10. Essex and Suffolk, Tuesday, Layer-de-la-Haye Fox ; Friday, Hadleigh Town—at a quarter to 11. Earl Fitzwilliam's, Monday, Barnwell Wold ; Wed nesday, Stanwick Pasture ; Friday, Kennell—at 10. Mr. H. G. Greaves's, Monday, B urwe ll Vill age ; Tuesday, Fulletby ; Thursday, Brough-on-Bain ; Friday, Mavis Enderby —at 11. Herefordshire, Tuesday, Kilpeck Castle ; Friday, Scudamore Hill— at half -past 10. Heythrop, Monday, Heythrop • Wednesday, Brad well Grove • Friday, Eyford_at half-past ' 10. Mr. Hellier's, Albrighton, Monday, the Bell, Tong Norton ; Tuesday, the Plough, Weston Heath ; Thurs day, Hagley Tap • Friday, B osco b e l— at half-past 10. Holderness, donday, Tickton ; Tuesday, Leckon field ; Thursday, Lowthorpe ; Friday, Raywell—at a quarter to 11. East Kent, Monday, Postling Lees ; 'Friday, Acrise Mill—at half-past 10. Ledbury, Tuesday, Somers Arms, Eastnor ; Friday, Colm Park —at half-past 10. Ludlow, Tuesday, Onibury—at half-past 10. Mr. Lumley's, Monday, Barnsby Moor ; Tuesday Sandbeck Park ; Thursday, Barlborough ; Friday, Darl toll Bar—at half-past 10. Mr. Lushington's, Monday, Queen Down Warren ; Wednesday, Syndal ; Friday, Stone Style—at 11. Mr. Morgan's, Monday, Horse Bridge ; Thursday, Dunterton—at half-past 10. Pytchley, Monday, Great Harrowden ; Tuesday, Brixw or th ; W e d nesday, Oxendon ; Fr i day, S tan f or d Hall—at a quarter to 11. Thursday, Rffou rd at alaP half-past w el l ; ri K da e y l , ha iv m h ; ite T p ue o s s d ts a — y, 10 L a M x t o o n n d a ; yF, Duke of Rutland's, Monday, the Three Queens ; Tuesday, Weaver's Lodge ; Wednesday, Piper Hole ; Friday, By ar d's Leap—at half-p as t 10. Mr. A. Smith's Monday, Vernham Gate ' • Tuesday ,1 Oare Hill ; Wednesday, Wherwell Wood ; Thursday Lower Wick Farm ; Friday, South Gro ve and Roche Coust—at 11. Southdown, Monday, George Inn, Hailsham—at half past 10. North Staff Three ordshire Stone nesday, the Crowns, Stoke n ear S tone ; Friday, Heath—at half-past 10, DEC. 14. First Lieutenant John Elliott to be Quartermaster, vice Dyer. Commissions by the Lord .Lieutenant of Berkshire. Sir Claudius Stephen Paul Hunter, Bart., Coin — Ter — lay Throckmorton, E sq ., J ose ph A rnou ld , Esq., illiam Fol lett Brown Chatteris, Esq., Head Pottin ger B est, Esq., Henry Buckworth Powell, Esq., Henry Foley, Esq., John Samuel Bowles, Esq., George Willes, Esq., William Geo. Mount, Esq., and Richard Fell owes , E sq., John Hughes,'Esq. to be eputy- lieutenants, Dec. 8. [The following article is substituted for the one which appeared in the Gazette of Friday, the 10th inst.] : Commission by the Loid Lieutenant of Berkshire. Frederick Augustus Carrington, Esq., to be Deputy- Lieutenant, Nov. 30. BANKRUPTS. Robert Sewell Boulter, tailor, Westminster-road Lam beth, to surrender, Jan. 1, at h a lf- past two, and 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ' • Pain, Gre s h am - street. Charles Jacob, merchant, Fenchurch-street, Jan. 1, and ,29, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Marten, Thomas, and Hollams, Mincing-lane. William Wellington, builder, Brindley-street, Padding ton, Dec. 28 and Jan 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Wilson, Gresham -street. Samuel Salter, master and mealman, Hunton Bridge, Abbots Langley, Hertford, Jan. 1 and 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basing hall-street ; Sanger, Essex-court, Temple ; Cowley, Wat ford, Hats. William Shoberl, publisher, Great Marlborough-street, Dec. 28, at two, and Jan. 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, _Abchurch-lane ; Lawrance, Plews, and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers. Benjamin James, builder, Newport, Monmouthshire, Dec. 28 and Jan. 25, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Phillpotts, New port ; Bevan, Bristol. John Atkinson, seed crusher, Kingston-upon-Hull, Jan. 12 and Feb. 2, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Carrick, official assignee, Hull ; Shackles and Son, Kings ton-upon-Hull. Collingwood Tully, shipowner, Sunderland, Dec. 30, at twelve, and Feb. 11, at one, at the Newcastle District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-up on -T yne ; Crosby and Compton, Church-court, Old Jewry ; Hoyle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Samuel Cole Harrison, linen draper, Sunderland, Dec. 24 and Jan. 31, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assigne e , N ewcas tl e - upon- Tyne ; Parker, St. Paul's Churchyard ; Rawson and George, Bradford ; Wright, Sunderland. Christian Bruce Reid, brewer and maltster, Newcastle upon-Tyne, Dec. 30, at eleven, and Feb. 11, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Sudlows, Torr, and Jane way, Bedford-row ; Hodge, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. W. Taylor and J. Wylde, Wood-street, Cheapside, flock, wadding, and mop manu f ac t urers, Jan. 8, at half-past twelve- I W. Taylor, Wood-street, flock, wadding, and mop' manufacturer, Jan. 8, a t h a lf- pas t twelve-W. Yonge, Strand, watchmaker and jeweller, Jan. 8, at half-past one -J. Strevens, Bermondsey-wall, sail-maker, Jan. 8, at half-past eleven-G. Ball, Fenchurch-street, wine merchant, Jan. 8, at eleven-J. Darby, Dorset-mews, Dorset-square, horse-dealer, Jan. 7, at half-past eleven-S. B. Moody, Fenchurch-street, civil and colonial engineer, Jan. 7, at one-J. Sculthorpe, Brick-hill-lane, Upper Thames-street, colourman, Jan. 11, at one-W. M. Harker, Little Moor fields, carrier Jan. 14, at eleven-T. C roc k er, Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, sail-maker, Jan. 13, at eleven--R. Wilso n , Cambridge, grocer, Jan. 13 at one. In the Country. F. Wale, Leicester, draper, Jan. 14, at 10, at the Court, Nottingham-C. W. Williamson, Birmingham, baker, Jan. 10, at ten, at the Court, Birmingham -S. Boyle, Fen ton, Staffordshire, manufacturer of c hi na and earthenware, Jan. 10, at ten, at the Court, Birmingham -C, O'Neill, Birmingham, metal-dealer, Jan. 19, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham-W. C. Buchanan, Dursley, Gloucestershire, money scrivener, Jan. 21, at half-past eleven, at the Court, Bristol-J. Moulton, Manchester, joiner and builder, Jan. 10, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester -T, Staley, Stock port, grocer, Jan. 10, at twelve, at th e Court, Manchester T. Lawson, Bury, Lancashire, draper, Jan. 10, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester-J. Ashworth, Bury, Lancashire, gardener and confectioner, Jan. 10, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. Edwin Gates, of Aylesford, Kent, grocer, final dividend of Is. sd. in-the pound, payable at 76A, Basinghall-street, on Thursday, Dec. 23, and three subsequent Thursdays. Henry Illopsey, of 3, Union-street East, Bishopsgate, BAILWAY BETUILYS. va. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST v , ur - __--- Miles opened,, 1852. NAME OF RAILWAY. BRITISM Aberdeen .• ........ • • • •• Belfast and Ballymena • • • • • • • • •• Belfast and County Down. •••••• • • • ** 1 Birlenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, and West York •• • • 3 Bristol and Exeter ...... • • •••• ••" • • 7 Ca1ed0nian............. .... •••• •• • • 2 Chester and Holyhead..... • • • • • • • • • • Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ••• • • • Cork and Bandon • • • • Dublin and Belfast Junction •• • • • • •• Dublin and Drogheda ; ••• • • •.• •• • • Dublin and Kingstown • . • • • • • • •• • • • • Dundee and Arbroath •• • • Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction Dundalk and Enniskillen.• .. • • • • • • East Anglian... ••••• • • • •• 4 East Lancashire •••• • • • • 14 Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. 1 Eastern Union ... .••-• • • • " 3 Edinburgh and Glasgow .••••• • • •• " 2 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee • • • • • • Exeter and Credlton.. • • • • • • • • Furness Railway ••••• • • • " 3 Glasgow, and South-Western• ••• • • " 10 Great Northern and E. L•••• • • •• " 4, Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 16, Great Western •• •• Irish South Eastern •••• • • • • •••• • • 3 Lancaster and Carlisle .............. 16 Lancashire and Yorkshire ........ •• " 1 Leeds Northern • • • • • • • • Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.• •• 41 London and North Western .••-• •• •• London and Blackwell.. London, Brighton, and South Coast.. London and South Western. • • • • • • •• Londonderry and Enniskillen • • • • • • • • Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Manchester and South Junction • • • • • Maryport and Carlisle ••.• • • • • ••• • • Midland .....- • . ..... .. ••• • • Midland Great Western (Irish) • • • • • Monklands ....................... Newcastle and Car1i51e........ • • • • • North British • •• •• • North Staffordshire • • • North-Western • Scottish Central • Scottish Midland ...............• • Shrewsbury and Birmingham Shrewsbury and Chester ........ • • • Shropshire Union South Devon ........ ........ • South Ea5tern........ . ... South Wales „ „ South York., Doncaster, and Goole • Taff Vale 2634 85X, 189 q 9414 _6% 171 3 4 285 )6 188 31934 18/ 553% 5% 17314 253% 343 11% 167% 9)4 28 498% 126 288%, 131 304 279 443% 577 240 I 22, I 4, • I 10, • 1 2, Ulster . .• • • Watertbrd and Limerick .......... • West Cornwall •• •• •• • .... ••• • • • Whitehaven Junction • • York and Newcastle, and Berwick York and North .. • 13, • I 7. • FOREIGN. Dutch Rhenish Maria Antonia .................. Montereau and Troyes .......... •• Namur and Liege .. • • .......... • • Northern of France .............. Orleans and Central* .. Paris and Lyons ................ Paris and Rouen. ................ Paris and Strasburgh .• Rouen and Havre ... • •••• Western of France COUNTRY MARKETS. 7 33 0 1 , 733 01 4 I 106 2a o3t 8 42 7 66 070 ;i' 703 ,03 8 " 6 :10 3 ;642 5 ,b3S , 937 3, 6° , 1 11, the WAKEFIELD.—DEC. 17. for We have a large arrival of wheat and barley r ie' 3 ; former article there is a firm trade at last week OO Barley of good qua lity i s qu it e as d ear, w hil s t o nl i) :00 lower. Oats and s h e lli ng make full prices. In change. COAL MAR Prices of Coal per ton at t] s. d. Hasting's Hartley ..... ,- 15 6 Longridge's W. Hartley 15 6 RaTensworth W. Hartley 15 6 Tanfield Moor Butes 14 9 Wall's End, &d Gosforth Harton Lawson 15 6 15 15 KET—DEc. 17. ho close of the market 1 5 6 Riddell .. .. , ........ •."14 0 Stewart'm HartleY•••••''' . l.7 Hetion ................. Lumley .................. .• 1 5 Pensher . ........... ...' l 6 ; Russel's Hetton ... lti Hart1ep001............. .••' l 5 " 6 Heugh Hall ...... . ..... •••''l6 South Hartlepool ..... ••• 0 Sold, 27. Northumberland E. l4 41 Ships at market, 31 SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent from this -Genera' by the night—and 3f by the morning —dispatch.] le Day when made tip F ro m what COUNTRIES. in General Post- Port Office, London. Dispatched. 9 1 per, America (byßrit.pack.N Dec. 24 .... Liverpool .•• America (by United Sts. 9* packet) ..........N Dec. 28 Liverpool ••• America (by U. Stites e. ib packet ............N Dec. 22 .......... S out h am pton D' Australia (via South. 44 Dec. ampton 20th of each month Southampto: J o. 1, Ditto (via Marseilles N 24th of the month D ov er ...• • 30 *Ditto (via Cape of Good Sov• Hope) ............N 13th o f D ecem b er.. Pl ymou th •• J-0.4 Africa (West Coast) ..N 23rd of th e mon th . P l ymout h •• Dec. I 6 • • Alexandria* ... . N 19th&30th o f mon . Dover •• • 00' 16 Belgium ............N Daily ........... Dover .. •• • g i p. 6 Brazil M 9th of the m on th.. Southampton 'l6 Buenos Ayres .. M 9th of the month.. Southampton J' n pee , 6 California M d & 17th of month Southampton Dec• lCape of Good Hope..N I4thof th e mon th .. Plymouth nee. 26 Cape de Verdis N I4thof the mo n th.. Ply mou th •• Con.tantinople*.... N 7thi7th27tbof mo.. Dover .. •• • • . I SO 20 Central America : 321 & 17th of on.. Southamidon r 0 Dec ,114 Channel Isles N Mon.Wed.&•Friday 3outhamPl o Dee. 2d & 17th ofmonth ' 4 outharnPW P fov e a ° France ........ M & N Twice daily Dover .. • • •• oee.. Greece* 7 thi7th27thofmon. Dover .. • • • • vet) e fi• Hamburgh Tuesday & Friday London • • su p.l i6 Holland Wednesday & Sat. London • • • ", Dee. ' IA 9I Honduras N 17th of the month. Southampton p ocei Ireland &:,N Twice daily ... ... Holyhead •• • Dee* 2 India (viaSouthampt.)M 20th of the m on th.. Southampton J o , I India (via Marseilles) N Bth&24tllef month Dover ..... • 6 India (via Cape of Good Dec. 2 6 Hope) M 14th of the m on th.. Pl ymou th .• • Mauritius . 14th of the month.. Plymouth .• • " 0 Mediterranean (via e°. Southampton 20111 of themonth , Southampton D pan• Ditto (via Marsellies).N ith& 24th of mon th D over .. •• • • . 1 Mexico . Madeira ............M 9th&23dofth e mon. S out h am pton e' th,l7tb,l9th,27th, D 21 1 6 • &30th of the month Dover .... • • pe e. 0 Naples* ... ........N sthlsth2sth o f mon. D over •• •• •• p ee. a Papal States* Peninsula ithl7tll27tbonnon. SouthamPlon Dee. Peru . . nee. West Indies .... ....M 2d & 17th of month,Southamptonr Naples* ... Papal States* .. N Peninsula .......... bi Peru ...... Tuscany's ..........N West Indies .... ....M Tan Diemen's Land (see Australia) .......... * The mails for Australia vi a th e C a p e o f G oo d Hops are o't4o on the 2d of every alternate month. Those made 111) on Sept os and 24th of each month via Southampton and Marseilles sailing vessels at present from Singapore, but next year th a sent in steamers. ,t elect * The mails to those countries thus marked (*) are coo fO r French packet to Marseilles. t Mails are also made up on the. 2d of every alternate 0300 the Cape of Good Hope. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—YEsTEBDO* .., 0 Am5terdam............ 11 16% Gib ra l tar .. .... • • • • ".. 3t ,, lo Ditto, three months .. 11 1714 Leghorn .......• ••• • •• •25 ' Rotterdam ...... • • .... 11 18 Genoa ...... •• • • .... . Antwerp .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 25 30 Milan .. .. .. .. •••••• • '. --- i ' Brussels .......... .... 25 30 IVenice ....... ....... • • 41/' Ilamburgh ............ 13 5; !Naples .. .. .. .. .••• • • • • 1 91 4 , A1t0na............ •• • • ,Palermo .. .. .. •••• • • • • 1 .2 ,,, , % Paris.... ...... • • • • .... 25 12% I idessina .. .....• ••• • • • ', 2 ",1 Ditto, three itionthi .• 25 30 iLisbon ........ • • ..... • 5 " Marseilles. .............. 25 32% 'Oporto .. .. .. .. . • • • " ' • --- Bourdeaux .......... • • Rio Janeiro .. .. .••• " '• --- Frankfort•on.Maine .. .. 119 1 4 1 Duenos Ayres .. .• ••• • • eight --- Berlin ... . . — New York, 60 days' Vienna ................ 11 28 iPhiladelphia .. ••• • " 'Po ° ',l Trieste ............ •• .. 11 32 1 PRICES or BuLLioN,‘„, 1 7 0 Petersburgh............ 38% Foreign Gold in Bars ~; 0 ,L; Madrid ................. 49% Portugal Gold Coin .• '' 5 „ 1 . 1 " Cadiz ..... ............. 50% Mexican Dollars .• • • 0 0 8arce10na.............. New Dollars ..... . ~.; y I, ' Seville ................ Silver in bars ••• • • • 1.--- en ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.—Last week five At armed visited the house of Edward Egan, resi w ' z d'olt• Cappamore, about -a mile and a half from Cloughg 49 : o l at On entering, one of th e a ssassins presented a P is— D oll/ Egan, who with great dexterity seized the v ie3 ,'lo which, in all probability, was the means of savil l s , r o life. A scuffle then ensued, in which Egan (NOT .0 ! now attacked by the whole party) was knocked u i ) sbe d received nine severe cuts on the head, and was st'werfill in several places with a bayonet ; but being aP ° igbt man, he laid hold of a hatchet, and with all his ~511 dealt a heavy blow to one of the ruffians. The e civi Thaa demons stabbed him again ; and, not thinking thei 111 3 d. finished their missson with satisfaction, they att ack .,„ e v ed, wife, and broke one of her fingers, and then dees':lieg leaving their victim, as the imagined dead. Re 11 7 t cap in a very precarious condition. The only cause th be assigned for this outrageous conduct is, that, h de had lately got possession of some land from Nvlue arty faulting tenants had been evicted. Some of the Pao are known, and will, we t rus t, ere l ong , be mad e nable to justice.—Nenagh Guardian. BIRTHS. • OF A BON On the 16th inst , at Camden-mild-villas, Mr s • alker" IV OF A DAUGHTER. Ye 010' On the 15th ' C. Taylor, Esq., lnst " late Madras Army. ___.-------'' at Hanwell, Middlesex, th e w MARRIED.ti n On the 16th inst. at the Cathedral, Manchester, C31)0,11 John Bickerson Flanagan, H.M. 81st R eg iment, tc : Anne, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Taylol___ >--- DIED. On the 16th inst., at the Parsonage, Maidenhead wife of the Rev. James Alexander Birch, aged 28. k risk, On the 16th inst. at Park-village East , Regello. Rowland Gibson, inst., barrister-at-law, of GraY:Ll v• On the 16th inst., at St. Leonard's-on -Sea., .10-I'' Taylor, of AdbAry, Hants Y 0 1 7 5 . 03 LONDON : Printed. and Published by 3/TYR." — of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office,conuty Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in th e Middlesex, Saturday, December 18 1852 OP * The receipts include the traffic, on the Orleans And ee eans and Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes lines. LIVERPOOL.—DEc. 17. We have had now upwards of six weeks of exu r— 00'7 4 wet weather, preventing the husbandman from Pr°ooo`" with his field work and sowing as usual. Th e v ;, s from nearly all parts of the kingdom agree in reP,, i Violl the land as in a greatly saturated state. SPe e ":„: I‘, the grain market has consequently revived ta , 4 B several large parcels , of wheat and flour have OP; since Tuesday at a slight advance on that dol,;00 13 F There were few millers and dealers at our Cal' ',Ti l l ' this morning. Holders demanded an advance ° ,% r e r day of ld per bushel on American, fully 2d to 3u,r, 0 1 ,'" on the lower descriptions of Mediterranean Nv,h ea Z o aele per brl. on flo - tir, which was submitted to in tke,: c leoL l e business done.. 'As regards wheat and flour, 11 `,7 quoted this day se'nnight has been nearly recovereu' rc itY , corn improved 6d, and Egyptian beans, from sear ch per qr. Oats, oatmeal, barley, and peas were e a " of sale. tislFS n lowir 1 ,1 4 4tDarisli 118511>PE i:Gra ve, kt:qloo 1 1:dant 0 s atd int ."n n ti er g e e o a n. t i ; the reec ti) the the ad LeY be 1 k 7, of Our k.",noth e/ ‘ , LN vo foi 9 4 thi s I 4 ' of th , 4,,,,_i0 ck c th is ( ,04 :'to th e n :: iseussi t li a ll t Of the . knothei Zefollowi 'ltt th ere iiii; t fs de h °w e 4 the i k.,, of o Q tronolit allay ‘ , 41 1‘ thi s of tl 1 111 ‘ 1 A) ) and Z 1 b lie„ i A S T IR 4 10 4 T 1 )4 4 '1 of i , latrr( L 11,ms, als( \':'--- rave k i Zf eet 6 irclY f ft k g , It a ky lt ‘ i j e t u l t , la / Iti ll 14, 1 :p0n % In , ung• k Stati !th grou oYanc -48 stati, tql2Deni nfi cc n hg e t n' il N:oDeni .ral se; r 4 o e, 1 1, , 3n1 itn ~°ndon By he ii - 55 2 1 • 1,5 80 593 Cha v , Imo Iti U ~ Ch Ytivil N lc t ," .