The Sun. — London, England, 1852-02-05 00:00:00

AS'ILEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under the Patronage of her Maje.ty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. The most suceesstni and popular Theatre in London. To-Morrow, the Last Juvenile Fete. . . Mr. Batty begs to inform his patrons that he bas entered into an engagement with Mons. FRANTZ BENsOO, the great Rope Dancer, from Vienna, who will make his appearance every evening. THIS EVENDIG, Will be performed a Magnificent Spectacle, entitled BLUE BEARD • or, Female Cariosity, in which will be introduced a pair of highly-trained Elephants, male and female, allowed to be the most docile pair ever brought into Europe. With Batty's Inimitable Scenes of the Arena, combining talent of the highest order, both Native and Foreign. With the most popular and only Equestrian Pantomime in London, entitled MR. and MRS. BRIGGS ; or, Punch's Festival—Mirth , Wit, and Jollity. Harlequin, Mr. Harvey ; Columbine, MN , ' Avery ; Pantaloon, Mr. Buckman; Clown, Arthur Nelson, who will in the coarse of each evening play a number of favourite airs on the lit)ck Harmonicon. ilakets to be had at the Boa-office from Eleven till Four daily. Stage Manager, fr. T. Thompson. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT THE THIRD EDITION OF "THE SUN" will be found highly interesting during the present extraordinary Session of Parliament. The THIRD EDITION will contain the DEBATES of the SAME EVENING up to the HOUR of POST ; also, SPORTING of every description, with TATTERSALL'S on Monday and Thursday Evenings in time for Post ; with the GAZETTES of Tuesday and Friday, contain ing Army and Navy Promotions, Bankrupts, &C., and ALL NEWS arriving in London up to the Hour of Post. EXPRESS EDITIONS ON ALL IMPORTANT OCCASIONS. Orders received by all News-agents, and at the Sun-Office, 112, Strand. Sun Office, 112, Strand. F EMIL' ART, 1852. WATE' AT LONDON BRIDGE. __m or ning 26 min. afta I lEvenn ir WS if 15 miff,. alter 2 w--MOrning I v ening 36 nun after 2 52 min after 1 To-Aitois° TS WEATHER. — Suzr OFricie, FEBEni:—'— T R EIIXOYEKTBR, Tnli 5. 150 —highest since noon yesbarday. 45 ---iO77C2t. `hie morning mid cluing the night : . 51 --tiro day, at noon. 29.82. WnD dull, cloudy weather; Afternoon rain. DAILY iirEATHEI3 TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the The fo sta 110 ns wing tio p't.cas at Nine o'cl o ck yesterday mornin g. a-e arranged in order of latitude. EASTINGS— Wind W.S. W., gentle breeze—overca,. st. SeuziaamProrr—Wind W., strong breeze—'overcas t . F, t i s gsmrgE —Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. T.:7:l?F.t Dcz--- Wind S.W., strong breeze—cloudy. GP.:7:EN ' L 'lCU—Wind S.W., g e ntle breeze—over cast. IC(A.CHEHTER—Wind S.W., strung breeze —heavy rain. Ltc E Wind W., gentle breeze—rain. ..:ilotrrm—Wind W., strong b reeze — c l ou dy. [he returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock Ltataaiat—Wind S.W., strong breeze —partially cloudy. p i , =ou ni—Wind N. W., calm—.cloudless. loots—Wind S.W., gentle breeze — cloudless. BLIGHTON—Wind N., calm—partially cloudy. lisaTirms—Wind w., gentle breeze—cloudless. Sounwarroa—Wind S.W., gentle breeze —partially cloudy. fouraiirrorra— Calm—partially. cloudy. Tuistsumoz—Wind S. w., strong breeze cloudless. GREF.NW ICH—Calm—partially cloudy. STOOD —Wind W., gentle breeze —partially cloudy. Swianox—Wind S., light breeze—dondless. Litioirrosi—Wind S.W , gentle breeze—cloudless. CoLcaEsTZl3.—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. P.Axar.a)c.g—Wind S.W., gentle breeze--cloudless. Yle mcluTß—Winn N.W , gentle breeze—cloudless. BrulingoitAm —W ind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Hour ing.AD—A ind W.N. W., Strong breeze —partially cloudy. L4,ti.7cAsTicri—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially" cloudy. arrinr—W ind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. DGTOE— .• • • ind W strong breeze—partially cloudy. SEreP—W ind N.W., str ong breeze partially cloudy. BaArroox—Wind N. W strong breeze—partially cloudy. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the! week was 29'716 in. The mean temperature was 42 1 in., or nearly 4° above the average of corresponding weeks in ten years. The mean daily tem• perature wai above the avera ge of corresponding day of the week, except 'V' every days, on eduesday. On :.411R daY, Mon - day, and Friday it Was a.' , out 6° above the average. The wind blew generally from the south-west. The amount o f ra i n w hi c h fell during the week was 0-Z4 iu. --...._ - — Yesterday this corn- GRFAT WESTERN R_ AILW A y .pe '.:Bill to authorise the establishment of traffic arrange :, rare with the Shrewsbury and Biringham, Shrewsbury .33Z „ ts C ter , Shrewsbury and Hereford, Birkenhead, Lance -4-4*W \ `'Ot d ' Cheshire, and Hereford, R os ,, , to have co and Gloucester v: xi mplied with the mpanies, was declared ders. , ..ria, tit R THE sUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1852 ........- ROYAL MARIONETTE THEATRE, 1 1 4\, 4 . •P 7 \ more populous and wealthy localities. Some- either include all parts of the same, or which constitute the • • basis of individual parts, shall be proceeded with in the THE SHARE MARKETS. ' - minim. ADELAIDE-STREET, WEST STRAND. 41, ( ~,..„,„4,.,:...Tz _ _,:k , thing may possibly be done in the way of infusing • • spirit of maintaining and improving the legally existing re- .ss- Paid. gorninal Prices. II Business "P' Y. Continuous Novelties-Continuous Success-Continuous APPlausa - „ t . , :, i ' .'it,l /'" , ,':: , ,,; L . e r,, - i c*Mi l new blood into the smaller constituencies. He has . lations. As, therefore, the undermentioned maintenance of nraTssic R.A.II.WELTS. --- I and Overflowing Audiences. ~ .;.,;,44:-, ,`"--- I, ; .''''E , - ( '' - . 1L 7:):: ~- -4 i t ., - tL,,,,r,' our monarchywhole territorial extent in its will, with the - I %p 3 % X Great Hit of the Bottle Imp. ~.* W l ' ''' -‘,..o'*" A..k,/,.-4, • ~,,..4 - 5„...-.64.1 that infinitesimal chance of retrieving his Bill fromßusiness done Anglo Californian ...... 105. %- % P 1 % % aid of the European great powers, be secured for the future, Railways, written and The performances THIS EVENING and during the week will ..,•;_ . ,„ . .„. 0 ,.. . ~, .....Le.:•,j1_,,...,,,,,,„ -L:....... ..._ ~,( _ . ' 4 E , l et 4 •me RO commence with a new GRATULATORY ADDRESS. wri the monarchy shall be maintained and consolidated into a p• - .• ' ---...--. Ave Maria ....... •• • • 1 34 is -• % p I delivered by Mr. Albany Brown. necessarily, from the omission to which we have well-regulated whole pro tems, by means of an administration Aberdeen.. .. -• • all 1134 to 11% 11% Blaenarvon Iron & Csal all After which, a new acme of Apropos, entitled tke MANAGER'S ...................o=l ................. alluded, be of a milk-and-water description, which Ala ß be osto rg n atu di N E e . tting Jun ham eion . 834 4% -5% .. -•• ••.em. , .._ ROOK, with Signor Bah Tone's new Scene, The French Commenta of the general affairs through general authorities, and subse -5% % British Australian Gold 1 34 ells - par, British Iron ...•• • ... • . 131. ss. .. -.. 1 tor on Shakspere.le must prove exceedingly distasteful to strong-minded quently through a general constitution for the administration Belfast andCountyDown 8734 .. -.. , possible. Brazilian Imp. (Is. Z. p.) 24% 134 - 2 The grand romantic Spectacle of THE BOTTLEtes,iue Divertissement,lM. of common affairs, to the introduction whereof we will take firming., Wolverhamp., To be followed by a new Neapolitan gri i -- Int and earnest Reformers. De. Cocaes and Cniaba all 134 - I 1% entitled ARLECHINO FORTUNATO, with the new Italian Mimes. a fo s r w me n rly as administered by the department and Steer Valley - AL 934 1034 Do. St. John del Key • . 15 22% - 23% 23 We may also guess, from the strange and un- Birkenh., Lan., & Cheek CAW' .. In future, therefore, the affairs of all parts of the mo- Mrs Copper - • .... .• • 40 38 -34 To conclude with the Musical Burlesque of BOMBASTES FU- . June., late 331. 6s. 84.. 26 .. -.. cl. RIOSO. LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1852. called for allusion of the Honourable Baronet for foreign aff i s and the quartermaster-general shall be Do. Chest. & Birkenhcl., Coplavo .. -•••• • •• 14 4- 5 t n h a e r c n b e y c , es sit whichry s a t e_ wererps Eng. & Australian Copper 234 54 —% p x,n 2X z.n A Morning Juvenile Performance on Saturday next, at Three 50/. &251. Consolidated all ______......--- who moved the Address, to two questions Gen•Jral... • •-•. • • •• all 9 34 - 10 34 o'clock. Doors open commence at Eight o'clock. aide-de-camp for the military Do., do., 201. • • - - 17% . - - dis. Doors open at - at Half-past Twdo. Half past Seven, an 35.; Lower Stalls, 25. ; of vital importance, and on which the voice of public and naval service, by the General Commissariat College, by Bristol and Exeter.. - 100 8 . 4 -85 Gold Mountain -•• .• - 1 Par - P Private Boxes, Several interesting particulars will be found re ,by the director of the national debt Great Polgooth .. .• .. all %-74 D Balcony, 25.; Amphitheatre , 11. Is.; Balcony Stalls, opinion has been very clearly and unquivocally ex- ' and the general post direction, or shall Caledonian ••• • • • 50 14% - 14 X 1434 Mexican Or. S. American 9 3% - 4 Private Boxes and Stalls may 51st obtained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal corded • this evening among • the details of our Cheater and Holyhead .. all 19 - 1934 Dublin and BelfastJunet. 45 20 -18 d. Ncuveau M0nde...... • • 1 %- % p 134 % % Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sam's Royal Library, St. foreign intelligence. To at least three of them we pressed, that no changes will be made in the manner be submitted to our royal inspection in like manner as for athned fi th na n n a c in P k d in e g pu fu ta n t d io a n , Dublin and Kiagstown.. all .. -.. Santiago de Cuba .. •• .• 10% 434 - b James's - street ; Mr. C. 011ivier, New Bond-street ;at all the prim- From direct public attention. From th e suffrage , or in thedurat i on of P ar-of recor di n g ' - 10 cipal libraries; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, Adelaide- would more es United Mexican- ••.. •• all 2 street, West Strand• the latest accounts received from the Peninsula, it liament. We should be sorry to consider that the tions of the Court of Exchequer, so far as these relate to " The business appertaining to the first and second sec merly. Dundee, Perth, and Aber- West Mariposa ••'• •• .. I la 3(p 1% % % leen Jtmction .. • • all 534 •-• 6% THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. will be perceived that another of those detestable appertaining to duties and colonial affairs, and which were Do.. New .. .. .. all .. -.. JOINT STOCIL SANWA THIS EVENING, two points gratuitous and wanton attack upon so taxes, duties, the revenu e and exchequer, and all matters Aastralasia .....• ••• • • • all 38 - 39% Will be performed Meyerbeer's grand Opera of ROBERT THE outrages has taken place in Madrid, which are cal strongly insisted upon, by those through whose f l ormer y under the board of Customs and the Commercial E. and L. & D.) .. .. all 3% -3% East Angllan (251. L. & British North America.. 50 4634 -48 DEVIL. Robert, Mr. Fedor, Bertram. Mr. Drayton; Raimbant, which exertions Lord JOHN RUSSELL has been placed in Chamber ( a ll matters, in so far as they belong to the Eastern Counties $. ) .. 20 7% -7% Do, (181. E. & H.) •• all 2% -2% 734 % Colonial .... ••..• • . - • Commercial of London.. 20 24 - 253( Mr. Manvers ; Alberti, Mr. Dohaga ; the Princess, Miss Crichton • culated to invest even the most depraved royalty ' with the popular sympathies arising from a brutal his Kingdom of Denmark, have already been confided to the Eastern Union, class A. London Joint Stock .... 10 18% - 17% 1834 Alice, Madlle. Evelina Garcia. present position, could be supposed to have To conclude vrith a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called attempt at assassination. Under any circumstances i r i e a g in u e l c a l ti standing Ministry), shall be administered;by the Ministers for late E. U. shares .. all 4 34 - 5 London and Westminster 20 2934 -30 x.d HARLEQUIN HOGARTH ; emanated from, or been sanctioned by, any Cabinet Foreign Affa irs, of War, of Marine, and Finance, according Do• do. do. .. 6 .. -• • National Provincial Eng. 35 .. • • Or, The openLonon Prentices. a crime of this kind is certain, among all right- . . Do. de., B& C shares all 3% -3% 3% De. New ............ 10 ••- •• Box-offi daily from 10 to 4. Minister. But, although we may not charge Lord - Esst Lancashire •• .. a ll 15% -16 15% National of Ireland .. - 22% 17% -17 PRICES OF ADMInION. thinking persons, to excite feelings of the most utter JOHN RUSSELL with participating in the " utter tion of these Ministers shall, as was formerly the case with Dc. Nquarters regulations i d, whichplaced immediately& ew - all .* - - were - 313( x.d Provincial of Ireland.. ,• 25 4334 - 45 The former scale of prices has been revised, and a rate of admission abhorrence. No matter whether the sovereign who of operation assigned to the Ministers for the kingdom of adopted suitable to the convenience of all classes of society:- abhorrence" of " the ballot " expressed by Sir beneath us , extend to all parts of our monarchy. Th e s ph ere and Birm. June. .. all 49 -50 Do. New ...- ........ all 15% - 1634 Dress Circle .. .. „ .. .. 65. 18 assailed be the most execrable of despots or Denmark—viz., the Department of Justice, the Home De- East & West York. June. all .. -•• Union of Australia .• • • all 35 - 8654 Upper Boxes .. .. .. .. .. 4s. RICHARD BULKELEY, we may easily conceive that to t e 3 x a i t s o ti v n e g . Edinburgh marl Glasg.w 50 25 -27 26 Do. New .. ..... ..... 234 8 -a% the most unscrupulous and unprincipled of intriguers, Edin., Perth, and Dundee 25 434 - 5 Union of London ...... 10 14% - 1534 the Honourable Baronet would never have pertinent, and the Department for Ecclesiastical and Scho- Amphitheatre .. .. .. ... .. 2s. the indignation felt by the beholder is at all times lactic business, remains unchanged. Glasgow and South-West. 100 .. • • Union of Madrid • all -• • Gallery .. .. ~ .. .. .. Is. taken so great a liberty unless he had been • De. do. G.D. &C.stock 86 8 .. - MISCELLANEOUS. RALF PRICE. genuine, if not unanimous. It was thus that the“ The business which formerly. belonged to the Schleswig- Great Northern .. .• all 18% - 18% 18% % Canada ...... .. 112% 48 - 4934 apprised that "th e ballot" formed no portion of the Lauen Chancery, the business coming in from Do. halves, A, deferred all 5% -6% Gen. Steam Navigation Dress Circle 3s •• •• •• •• •• • R.omans found flowers scattered pityingly, if not Do. halves, 11, 6 per et. all 1314 - 14% 14 25 Upper Boxes • • • • • • • • • • • new Bill. The speeches of the mover and seconder the Duchies of Holstein burg Sehleswig-Holstein and Lauenburg, and Penni. &Oriental Steam. all 70 —7l x.d Is 6d lovingly, over the tomb of NEno—monster of infamy under the department of the Court of Great Southern and Ditto ditto 10 17% -18 1714 is of the Address may be regarded as bearing a semi- Exchequer, the General Western, Ireland .. all 11534 -36 35% Amphitheatre •• • • • • • ' •• * Board of Customs, and the third Royal Mail Steam - 7834 78 „ Os. 6d. though he was and dyed as he watt even in his detested Great Western . .. 100 86 -87 86% % Gallery . • " official character. They are independent Members section of the Commercial College (except the lighthouse Lancaster and Carlisle .. all 75 -80 rWe cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Mts , In D• 4•••••.. I,— ........_ • roe: n- :La ~..11• a 7. 1. flr;hestrit Stalls. 88 - - - which formerly came either include all parts of the same, or which constitute the basis of individual parts, shall be proceeded with in the spirit of maintaining and improving the legally existing re lations. As, therefore, the undermentioned maintenance of our monarchy in its whole territorial extent will, with the aid of the European great powers, be secured for the future, in like manner the annexation between the different parts of the monarchy shall be maintained and consolidated into a well-regulated whole pro tems, by means of an administration of the general affairs through general authorities, and subse quently through a general constitution for the administration of common affairs, to the introduction whereof we will take the necessary steps as soon as possible. "In future, therefore, the affairs of all parts of the mo narchy which were formerly administered by the department for foreign affairs and the quartermaster-general shall be administered by the general aide-de-camp for the military and naval service, by the General Commissariat College, by the finance deputation, by the director of the national debt and the sinking funds, and the general post direction, or shall be submitted to our royal inspection in like manner as for merly. " The business appertaining to the first and second sec tions of the Court of Exchequer, so far as these relate to taxes, duties, the revenue and exchequer, and all matters appertaining to duties and colonial affairs, and which were formerly under the board of Customs and the Commercial Chamber (all which matters, in so far as they belong to the Kingdom of Denmark, have already been confided to the standing Ministry), shall be administered;by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs , of War, of Marine, and Finance, according to existing regulations in suchwise that the sphere of opera tion of these Ministers shall, as was formerly the case with section h oh the above-named board, w hi c h were pl ace d i mme di a t e ly b ene ath us, extend to a ll parts o f our monarc h y . Th e sp h ere o f o peration assigned t o t h e Mi n i s t ers f or t h e ki ng d om o f D en mark—viz., the D epartment o f J ust i ce, t h e H ome De partment, and the D epartment f or E cc l es i ast i ca l an d Scho lastic business, remai ns unc h ange d . .4 The business whi c h formerly. belonged to the Schleswig- Holstein Lauenburg Ch ancer y, th e b us i ness com i ng i n f rom th e e ti n Duchiesformerlyo f came under the department of the Court of Schleswig-Holstein and Lauenburg, and Exchequer, the G enera l B oar d o f C ustoms , an d th e thi r d c of the Commercial College (except the lighthouse department, which has been assigned to the Minister of Marine, and the consular department, which has been con fided to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, as well as the bu siness formerly appertaining to the Schleswig-Holstein Go vernment), shalli n fo r future be administered, according to the standing rules, e in so far as they the Ministry for the;duchies of Schleswig, aertain to this duchy, and by the Ministers for the duchy of Holstein and Lauenburg, in so far as they appertain to these two duchies, independently of which all matters common to the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein relative to non - political establishments and institutions — viz., the university at Kiel, the order of knighthood, the Schleswig - Holstein Canal, the insurance companies, the penal institutions, the deaf and dumb asylum, and the lunatic, asylum shall be administered in colleague by the Minister for the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg. One whole Ministry shall have their permanent and exclusive seat in the Royal capital and residentiary city of Copenhagen. "Our whole Ministry constitutes our Privy Council, in which we intend in future to take the presidency, and in whose sittings our well-beloved uncle, his Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince, will take part as heretofore. In re gard to the sphere of business and the order of our Privy Counil, the standing rules shall remain in force till further notice. The minutes shall be taken by our Secretary of State. We may also guess, from the strange and un called for allusion of the Honourable Baronet who moved the Address, to two questions of vital importance, and on which the voice of public opinion has been very clearly and unquivocally ex pressed, that no changes will be made in the manner of recording the suffrage, or in the duration of Par liament. We should be sorry to consider that the gratuitous and wanton attack upon two points so strongly insisted upon, by those through whose exertions Lord JOAN RUSSELL has been placed in his present position, could be supposed to have emanated from, or been sanctioned by, any Cabinet Minister. But, although we may not charge Lord JOHN RUSSELL with participating in the " utter abhorrence" of " the ballot " expressed by Sir RICHARD BULKELEY, we may easily conceive that the Honourable Baronet would never have taken so great a liberty unless he had been apprised that " the ballot" formed no portion of the new Bill. The speeches of the mover and seconder of the Address may be regarded as bearing a semi official character. They are independent Members giving in their adhesion to the Ministerial policy, and before doing so very significant hints are usually given respecting the chief features of the contem plated measures referred to in the Royal Speech. It may, therefore, be inferred that the new Bill will be restricted to an extension of the suffrage, and, perhaps, if former pledges be not totally disregarded, to the abolition of the property qualification of Mem bers; but that there will be no real attempt to make a more equitable distribution of electoral power, and that " the ballot," and any alteration in the period for which Members of the House of Commons are returned, will be altogether ignored. It requires, then, no extraor dinary power of vaticination to foretel that if Lord Jonri RUSSELL do not make good use of the inter vening time, and take more enlarged and comprehen oive views of the necessities of his position, he will not retrieve his ancient reputation, but, on the con trary, will materially increase the dissatisfaction which some of his recent proceedings have excited, and which now generally prevails, and which is rapidly extending throughout the country. Several interesting particulars will be found re corded this evening among the details of our foreign intelligence. To at least three of them we would more especially direct public attention. From the latest accounts received front the Peninsula, it will be perceived that another of those detestable outrages has taken place in Madrid, which are cal culated to invest even the most depraved royalty with the popular sympathies arising from a brutal attempt at assassination. Under any circumstances a crime of this kind is certain, among all right thinking persons, to excite feelings of the most utter abhorrence. No matter whether the sovereign who is assailed be the most execrable of despots or the most unscrupulous and unprincipled of intriguers, the indignation felt by the beholder is at all times genuine, if not unanimous. It was thus that the Romans found flowers scattered pityingly, if not lovingly, over the tomb of NExto—monster of infamy though he war, and dyed as he was, even in his detested grave, with the indelible guilt of matricide. It was thus that the very men who most reviled his late Majesty King Louis PHILIPPE heard with sen timents only of the deepest regret of the re peated attacks made upon his life by ruffians like Amman's or FIESCHL Unfortunately, moreover, the dagger or pistol of the desperado may be raised against monarchs of all descriptions. Those of the most pacific and benevolent character, as well as those who devastate a foreign land w i t h t h e flamin g sword of a conqueror, are liable, as history too often assures us, to the peril of these repeated attempts at assassination : it was in this manner that the Emperor NAPOLEON was assailed in the Aus trian Palace of Schcenbrunn, and that Queen VICTORIA has been more than once shot at in the midst of her people and in the heart of her metropolis. The late murderous assault upon the Queen of SPAIN, however, has exceeded in brutality almost any that has hitherto transpired, the miscreant having fired at her most Catholic MAJESTY on the occasion of her going to be churched, and when her whole constitution must necessarily have been weak ened from the effects of her recent confinement. Wounded, as she appears to have been, it is to be feared that the result may be more melancholy than is anticipated. Whatever the consequences of the crime, there cannot but be one feeling among all those who hear of the atrocity, a feeling of sincere and earnest commiseration. Another circumstance to which we would call the notice of the community, as to one of no little im portance affecting the tranquillity of Christendom, is the issuing of the proclamation in reference to the duchy of Schleswig by his Majesty the King of DENMARK. Tne result of the publication of that important document it is to be hoped may, at length, be the pacific settlement of a question which has hitherto threatened to be interminable, leading at some moments to bloodshed and at others to any thing but pacific negotiations. The third particular to which we would make allusion is the appearance of the new electoral laws of the French Republic in the columns of the Moniteur. From that remarkable and liberal group of arrangements regulating the forthcoming election of the legislative representatives of the French people it will be seen that the votes are to be given under the cover. of —THE BALLOT AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ! Greater political freedom than this no nation could enjoy : and, as in the case of the recent election of the PRESIDENT, the ap proaching election of the legislators of the democracy must be the expression of the real wishes of the multitude. In facts of this description we recognise the most estimable assurance of the progress of en lightenment throughout Christendom. It were well for England if (instead of deriding as the victims of tyranny the very people who alone in Europe have secured to themselves the popular rights of the Ballot and of Universal Suffrage) her inhabitants directed their energies and their political aspirations more immediately to their own ad vantage. We should then probably have a somewhat better chance of a Reform Bill really beneficial to the population than is now before us at present in the paltry measure promised :to the nation by the leader of the existing Government. A wiser divi sion of the electoral districts, a more wholesome dis franchisement of the most corrupt boroughs now sending Members to the Imperial Parliament, and a syllable of explanation, at least, in reference to the great question of the Ballot, might then revive the hopes of the more liberal section of the community in the cause of our progressive advancement. Information as to the necessities of our internal position as a nation, and as to our external relations with foreign countries, should not only be sedulously collected by the public journalist, but from time to time, we conceive, that the two things should by him be contrasted and compared —so that some more ac curate notion than would be otherwise attainable might be arrived at as to the progress of events in our generation, Advisable upon all occasions and at every available opportunity, this course should, we conceive, be the more scrupulously followed up at the commencement of the Parliamentary session, and when men's minds are more peculiarly alive to the importance of such observations. Therefore it is that, while lamenting the melancholy occurrence which has just transpired at Madrid, we are rejoiced at being enabled to comment thus favourably on the latest accounts received from Paris and from Copen hagen—the accounts from the capital of France yielding sureties to the world that the citizens of the Republic are not altogether crushed under the heel of despotism, and the accounts from the capital of Den mark holding out fair promise, at least in one direc tion, that the chances of war are diminishing on the European continent. and Birm. June. .. East & West York. June. Edinburgh and Glasg. w Edin., Perth, and Dundee Glasgow and South-West. De. do. G. D. & C. stock Great Northern .. Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, B, 6 per et. Great Southern and Western, Ireland Great Western .. Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds .. Lancaster and Preston .. Lancashire and) orkshire Do. quarter shares .. ,/iNEOUS. 48 —494 27% 28 70 —7l s.d 1734 - 18 1 7 iA 77 78% 78 te errors of the Official Lists, an 1 correscondents.] Amphitheatre Gallery •• •• •• •• Os. 6d. Private Boiee, £3 35.,`X2 28., and XI I Is. 6d. Orchestra Stalls, 88 Stage Manager, Mr. J. M. MORTON. Director of Spectacle, Mr. W. WEST. The whole under the management of Mr. BUNN, LESSEE. 3534 - 86 86 -87 75 -80 T - 8 p. I 1 13 4 47% 100 will not be influenced by 62 - 6234 62% % % MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENLN (4 Will be performed LONDON ASSURANCE. Characters by Messrs. Bnckstone, Leigh Murray, Lambert, Howe; Mrs. Stirling, and Miss Reynolds. To be followed by a DUEL IN THE DARK, in which Mr. Buck stone and Mrs. Fitzwilliam will appear. To conclude with a Fairy Burlesque, called THE PRINCESS RA. DIANT AND THE STORY OF MAYFLOWER. Characters by Messrs. Buckstone, H. Bedford, J. Bland, Caulfield, Clark, Ylimmeri, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Buckingham, and Miss Collies. Do. fifths .. . Do. West Riding Union Leeds Northern .. .. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .. .. .. London and Blackwell .. Do.. Tilbury Ext. Scrip London, Brighton, and 7% —7% d. 5% —6% d. 14 —l5 CITY, TWO O'CLOCA. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 8,000 bales, of which 1,000 American and 500 Surat were taken for export, and 500 American on spe culation. The market closed tamely with prices a shade in favour of buyers. The sales comprised 6,000 Ame rican, 500 Egyptian at 54d. to 6d., 1,000 Surat at 3d. to 4d., and 150 Sea Island at Is. 2d. to is. 7id. per lb., Railway shares were flat. The cultivation of cotton in Trans-Caucasia is ca pable, it is said, of great extension, and the staple would obtain a ready market in Russia. In the year 1830 Russia imported and consumed 250,000 poods, but in 1850 used 1,000,000 poods. At Kiow the cotton pro duced is not inferior to that of Egypt, and can be deli vered at Moscow upon terms to compete with the former. The sixth part of the land that is fit for the growth of cotton would, if cultivated, supply the entire consump tion of Russia. Routh Coasi •• London and N.-Western Do. do. quarters • • De. fifths Do. 101. ah., & B (c) London and .-Western Do. new 501. Do. new 401. .. Kanchester, Buxton, and 95 94% x.d 117% % 117 2S % THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Lessee, Mr. B. Webster ; Directress, Madame Celeste. Enormous success of the Yankee Comedian, Mr. Josh Silsbee. THIS EVEN (NG, Will be performed the Farce of THE MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL. Lieutenant O'Scupper, Mr. Paul Bedford; Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Maxwell, Mr. Woriell ; Emily, Miss Emma Harding. To be followed by a characteristic sketch, called THE YANKEE PEDLAR ; or, Old Times in Virginia. Hiram Dodge, Mr. Silsbee ; Morland, Mr. Worrell ; Miss Nancy Bantam, Miss Emma Harding. After which MY PRECIOUS BETSY. Mr. Bobtail, Mr. Wright. To conclude with a new and original Christmas Tale, called LIT TLE RED RIDING HOOD. Wolfram, Baron of Burliburg (sur named the Wolf of Biberich), Mr. Paul Bedford; Scraggenheim, Mr. Butler ; Trudchen (commonly called Little Red Riding Hood), Miss Kathleen Fitz william. Matlock , anchestcr, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire • • .. Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union • • Midland • • • • • • • • Do. 50/. shares .. • • De. Birming & Derby Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) Newcastle and Carlisle.. The six weeks' average price of Wheat is Us. 2d. per qr., and the last week's sales are 111,925 qrs. There are Australian accounts of November 11, which read excellently as regards gold prospects. The pre cious metal was arriving constantly at Sydney. A feature in these accounts is highly satisfactory, viz., that the grain harvest was abundant, and that the labourers were returning to harvesting. The wool also was coming to market in better condition than had been ex pected. At Amsterdam, on the 233, Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., were in request. Spanish and Portuguese rather flatter. "The Minister for the Duchy of Schleswig and the Mi nister for the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg are respon sible to us alone for the discharge of their office. The re sponsibility of the other Ministers in regard to the Danish Diet is confined to that part of their official operations which concerns the Kingdom of Denmark, in conformity with sec. 18 of the Danish fundamental laws. " In pursuance of sect. 21 of the fundamental law we have nominated our Minister for Foreign Affairs our Prime Minister for the Kingdom of Denmark pro tem. "As no doubt can possibly obtain as to our firm resolve to keep inviolate to the determination of the Danish funda mental law— " We will likewise, in a constitutional manner, assign to the Provinci a l St a t es for our duchy of Schleswig, as well as to the Provincial States for the duchy of Holstein, such a development -that each of these duchies shall have a standing representative, with executive power as to those matters which have hitherto belonged to the sphere of their delibera tive Provincial States. " For the attainment of this object we will, therefore, draw up projects of law for each of the said two Duchies, and have them submitted to the debates of their Provincial States, in conformity with sec. 8 of the general law of the 28th ;May, 1831, and of the concluding resolution of the ordonnances of the 15th May, 1834. " The projeet of law which will to this end be prepared for the Duchy of Schleswig, shall particularly comprise the necessary regulations for guarding and securing the perfectly equal right and powerful protection of the Danish and Ger man nationalities in these duchies. " The suspension of the operations of the Schleswig- Holstein-Lauenburg chief court of appeal is returned in regard to the duchy of Schleswig. In order that the com petency of this high tribunal may be limited to the duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg a project of law will be submitted to the consideration of the first meeting of the Assembly of the Provincial States. The Provincial States for the duchy of Schleswig and the Provincial States for the duchy of Holstein shall be convoked as soon as possible after the expiration of the present electoral period, terminating this year after the election of the deputies shall have first taken place. The election in those districts of the duchy of Schles wig which are in a state of siege shall not take place there until after the raising of the siege. The yidl vote ' which belongs by inheritance to h is Hi g hness the Duke of Schles wig-Holstein Sonderberg-Angustenburg, in the Schleswig- Holstein Provincial States Assembly, falls there. The free and unconditional use of the Danish and German language in the assemblies of the provincial state of the duchy of Schleswig will be accorded to the Assembly, on its very first meeting, the requisite measures thereunto will be taken by us. " So soon as our seignorial right shall be entirely re established in our Duchy of Holstein, this duchy shall be governed according to legally existing laws, and which shall only be altered in a constitutional mauner, in order to intro duce a general system of customs for the whole monarchy. The necessary measures will be immediately taken for raising the customs line on the Eider. The state of siege which exists in some districts of the Duchy of Schleswig shall be raised there, and the patent for the amnesty for this duchy, executed on the 10th of May, 1851, shall be subject to a comprehensive revision. Those persons who shall sub sequently be still further excluded from the amnesty shall likewise not be permitted to take up their abode in any other part of our monarchy ; while those per , who shall not be excluded from the s hall be permitted to return freely and uncondi tionally into the Duchy of Schleswig. In regard to our Duchy of Luxemburg, we will make ,esotny,the other hand pgaorannbnslicly known oar royal resolution after previous consti tutional negotiation with our faithful order of knights and gentlemen. o u r position as members of the Germanic Confedera tion Holstein and Luxemburg remains f unaltered. r We co nfidently expe c t th a t our l ov i ng an d faithful subjects in all parts of our Monarchy will recognise in the proceedings a fresh proof of our paternal care, which em braces all wit h e q ual lov e; and we trust that by the h el p of o Duchies of the the Almighty we may be able to secure to the lands united under our scep tre a ha ppy future. Gi ve n at our Castle of Ch r i s ti ans b org , Jan. 28, 1 852 , un d e r our Royal Seal. (S i gned) .EDERICI (Countersigned) REvEnnow lIME. SpENNICR. CRIMINIL. MOLTEE. HANSE N . BLU STEEN BILLE. BANG. SCHEEL." De. quarter shares .. Newmarket • • .. .. Newport, AbergaVenni, and ilereford .. .. Newry and Enniskillen.. Newry, Warrenpoint, it Restrevor .. .. •• 1 LOYAL Und the PRINCESS'S THEATR mentof E, Mr OXF . ORD-STREET. er Manage. CKean. THIS EVENING, Shakespere's Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WLNDSOR. Principal characters by Messrs. Bartley, Keeley, A. Wigan, Mea dows, Addison, Harley, J. Vining, C. Kean ; Mesdames Winstanley, Keeley, and C. Kean. With a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN BILLY TA.YLOR ; or, The Flying Dutchman and the King of Ra ritongo. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore ; Panta loon, Mr. Paulo ; and Columbine, Miss Carlotta Leclercq. LATEST FROM PARIS. Norfolk • • I 00. New 201. s hares.. Northern Counties Union North British.. • • North Devon .. North Staffordshire .. North-Western .. • • North & Sth.-West..Ttinc. Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. .. Scottish Central .. (BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.) Scottish Midland .. .. The English Stock Market is quieter but prices keep very firm. Consols have been 96i for Transfer and Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents have been at 98! 1. The money purchases have been discontinued this morning. Bank Stock is at 2161, and Esst India is dull at 259. The premium on Exchequer bills is 595. to 625. East India Bonds are 70s. prem. Do. new • • • • • • Shrews. & Elm., Class A Do. Class 8.. • • • • Shrews. & Hereford., Old Do., do., New .. ihrewsbury and Chester, (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves .. De. Oswestry • • . Do. New.. :. .. Shropshire Union .. Foreign Securities have been moderately dealt in. Spanish Bonds are lower owing to the attempted assassins' ion of the Queen, further information upon which is anxiously looked for in the City. Extreme disgust is everywhere manifested at such cowardly attacks up a Sovereign, not personally disliked or arbitrary. Mexican Bonds have been 32 to 32i, being rather firmer. The voting of the Indemnity money was under the consideration:of the United States Legislature, and the :only opposition to its being ar ranged, through some large English mercantile house, Messrs. Baring, for example, arose rfrom General Green, a partner in a firm at New York, that, no doubt, would be glad of the contract. The repeated state ment about Caravagal requi res no not i ce , as his defeat has already been admitted ; and he is certain again to be worsted if he re.appears on the scene of his former disgrace. No one doubts that his efforts are directed to a purely selfish end, having their origin in the suppression of smuggling, by which he and others profited. Grenada Stock is at 17, and the Deferred have dropped to 6 and 51. Eqaador are quiet at 4. Venezuela Bonds are at 36. Spanish Five per Cents. are worth only 22:1 to 23. The Deferred are 17i to 1. The French Three per Cents. have realised 64, with the exchange at 25 30. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are at 58e, and Russian Fives have touched 114. Do., A, B,C, & rallY paid up at per cent .. South Devon .. South-Eastern South Wales.. south Yorksh. and River Dun Shaft., Roth., and Goole, Soak Divlaloa .. .: Stirling andDenfermline Stockton and Hartlepool Taff Vale .. .. .. • • Taw Vale Extension • • Thames Haven Deck and Railway • • • • • • Vale of Neath .. •• Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick, Waterford, Wex., Wick. and Dublin West Cornwall •• • • Whitehaven and Farness York, Newc., & Berwick Ditto and Newcastle Extension .. Ditto G.N.E. purchase York and North Midland Gold mines are looking up generally, with fair deal ings. Anglo-Californian have advanced i f. The last week's Railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under -1852. Great Western North-Western 1851. £14,787 39,190 South-Western 8,617 Midland 8,055 20,127 South• Eastern North Stafford 4,615 4,410 Caledonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire York and North Midland . 7,332 6,744 Newcastle and Berwick The Railway Market has been rather weaker, but there are exceptions; South-Western being higher. Foreign Shares flatter. QUARTER TO THREE. ... 96 .., 96 ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITIbiI. FUNDS O'CLOCK. PR ICES' Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Anna.., 97% % 97 3 por Cent. Console Annuities.. N ow 314 per Cent. AXIIIE3.. ... Long Arms. to expire Jan.lB6l 7 1-16 7 1-16 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10. 1859 6 3 /4 13-16 6 13-16 Endia Stock 259 Wk. Sonde, 1,0004-. ...,.,,., M, ..... 2 - 59 Ditto under 1,0001......,,.,.., .. 70 p Console for Account ...... ... • 964% KNebegner Bills, 14d. 1,0001. 500/. ........ 59 62 p Small, .. . 59 62 p ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, 1 1 ,4 per Cott. — -- Do. Ex Dec., 1849 Coupons l7 17 Ditto, Deferred ••• 21. 3xicau , 5 per Ct., ex Jan. (;oupa Ditto, Account .....,..... ... 32% 32 'A 32M Russian. Bonds - ....... 114 114 Ditto, 4 1 4 per Cent Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. S ),:tlisli 5 per Ditto, Account Cent. 1840....,. — Ditto, Passive ._22% 23 22 % 22% 5 ..... Ditto. 3 per Cent Ditto, Account 17% .:............... 4 -- ;4 1 .4 Ditto, New Deferred ..„. ...... 176 London. % % 36 / V enezu ela Bonds, 3,a per Clint.— ablein Dividends on the abut e p a 64 f . 64f. French Rentes, 3 per Cent— .. - y... . 25f. 30c. 25c. 304 Exchange Dutch 2" -per Cent. 12 .o — u iic1..._.11 58 1 /8 Consols ... .. ... Ditto Account, Feb. 10 ... " FREDERICK, Reg• 62 p 63 p 63 p CLOSINo PRICES. The public curiosity, with respect to the long promised Reform Bill of 18.52, will speedily be set at rest. Not only have we the reference thereto in her MAJESTY'S Speech, but :we find that it has received precedence over all other Government measures, and that, on Monday nex, Lord' JOHN 1113.•5ELL will ask leave to introduce a Bill " to extend the right of voting f or M em b ers o f P ar li ament , an d t o amen d t h e laws relating to the representation of the people." So far, there can be no just cause of complaint of the Ministerial proceeding with respect to the proposed e z"sion of the principles of the modern charter of the national liberties. There are other indications, however, which are e tit by no means of so satisfactory a character. T is sufficiently inoclfudethee proposed veryamendm ß en it t l extensive to e i that has been suggested. B u t we fi n d i t c l ear ly shown, from an o th er notice gi i v l e l n b by the Secretary of w the Treasury, that there a e d no Schedule A in the new Bill — that the corr upt The other, a l mos t constituencies, Albans only, whose demoralised ofSt. be a separate and distinct Bill for the disfran c hi se There will l otten boroughs a re still to be maintained. co ndition has b een lon g known, which are regularly eAqiub:ll3l;noat?oldrioSust disposed of by the patron or the Mr. EDWARD S of the 1 locality, at their mere will and pleasure, so as to ren derpopular election nothing but the farce of a 4 , a and a snare," are to b e main mockery, a delus ion, main tained intact. Such, at least, is the only conclusion that can be deduced from the fact of a separate measure for St. Albans. And if so, the new Bill necessarily fails in one of the most essential requisites, and cannot prove acceptable to genuine and true-hearted Reformers. If there be no disfranchisement of the rotten bo roughs, we cannot hope to see the right of represen tation conferred on many large towns and populous districts, which are fairly and justly entitled to the privilege. We can scarcely look for—we shall not say an equalivition of the e l ectoral districts, or any thing approximating thereto —b u t even a more Equit able distribution of electoral power. We shall behold a small and insignificant minority making laws for the majority, and the representative of less than one-sixth of the number, and far less than one sal of the property of the country, able to out-vote and disregard the opinions of those chosen by the P' V fresh breeze and LLOY S R _Vi n l e: l a t 7 i t ; " :011 -- S.W., HIS DA •) L OND ON, FEB. J. c loudy. FEB. 4.—Wind W.,_strong gales.—Off port, F ALMO UTH, Phoen i c i an , Sydney, New So EthL Walcs; Helene, Jerernie, angitaittilie3dlz 1 1 , 1 h4n. TAIL/. rd. irma, Cuba. sHIELDe —Arrit. Edmont Emily, , Iquique. Sld. P ro t ome li a Aden ; Sarah, Swan, ditto ; New Y or k . , YAnmoulku, FEB. 4.—The (3,4 eaner, which ran on the South Scroby Sand, has got off and into the Roads. LYNN, FEB. 4.—The Resolu t ion, of this port, is on shore on the Black Shore Sand, but is expected off. MARGATE.—Off port, Sarah and Henrietta, Demerara. DEAL, FEB. 4.—Arrd. Marie Elizabeth, St. Thomas's. Put back, Louise, St. Kitt's ; Scotsman, Santa Martha; Lucy Wright, New Orleans; (it 'eat Britain, Mobile. LIVERPOOL, FEB 4.—Arrd. 'arab, Moulmein ; Washing ton, New York ; L ev i athan, New Orleans. Sld. City of Glasgow, Philadelphia. Put back, Joven Dolores, fo Campeachey. Th e Flora APD of :ald, with 300 spassengers,an for Baltimore, was on the i ce o ff Poplar wh ich put to this Jan., into a dangerous position. Th e Q ue , an of the West, Queenstown, leaky, & c ., 28 t h JIM, b wa s towed port, after under go i ng s li g ht r epairs. REPRESENTATION OF Pt NMOUTIL—It is rumoured, and on pretty good authority, t; iat M B r. ar., Lopes, one of the tthhee Ves tern Circuit, son of Sir Ralph ).4 riles, Mem bers for South Devon, wi ll of ler himself to the electors of Plymouth at the next get to ral election. Should Mr. Roundell Palmer intend to sol ic,it a renewal of the confidence of the electors, and there is lio reason as yet to suppose otherwise, Mr. Lopes will make the fourth candidate. Thi s latter gentleman's politics are k: sown to be Conservative and Protectionist. —Morning Pope T. METROPOLITAN RIFLE (3x,uns.—A body of influen tial gentlemen at t he West-en d h ave , for the last few days, been busily engaged in formi nt; an association, having for its object the establishment of rifle clubs in the various districts of London. A nut ne rous meeting was held, on Thursday evening last, at the Thatched House Tavern, St. J ames 's, when various resolu;io ns were carried, and a com mittee formed for the purpose o,' developing its plans. We understand that it is the inten.til in of the committee to raise subscriptions for the purpose of procuring rifles for the use of such members as may be unal ,le or indisposed to purchase them. Among the first subscrir Lions received for carrying out this object was one of 5L ii om Mrs. Alfred Tennyson and another of the same amour 4 from the Poet Lamest e himself. PRIVATE LETTER-BOXES.—The Postmaster-Ge neral has ordered that for the future no person resident within the free delivery of any tc .wn shall be allowed t, se id daily to the post-office for his h )tters unless he has either ortyate boz or private bag, for i fhich he must pay fee 4. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame VestriL THIS EVENING, WM be performed _ _ THE GAME OF SPECULATION. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, R. Roxby, B. Baker ; Mrs. C. Horn, and Miss M. Oliver. _ To corewle with A new and original Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planche, Esq., entitled TfIE PRINCE OF HAPPY LAND ; or, The Fawn in the Forest. Characters by Madame Vestris, Miss St. George, Miss Lanza, Miss Martindale, Miss Grove, Miss Ellis, Miss Rosina Wright, Messrs. F. Matthews, B. Baker, Suter, Horneastle, Butler, and Vernon. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. 4.43 , 4 ,4 3 a iC alana.g,r, Mr. W . N arrez.. THIS EVESTNO, Will be performed OTHELLO. Othello, Mr. H. Farren ; lago, Mr. Hoskdns ; Desdemoca Miss L. Howard ; Emilia, Mrs. Barrett. To conclude with RED RUFUS ; or, Harlequin Fact, Fiction, and Fancy. Red Rufus, Mr. Shalders ; Clown, Mr. Edwards ; Harlequin, Mr. Forrest; Pantaloon, Mr. Tanner; Columbine, Miss Lees. rtINCII'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE. Lessec„ Mr. W. R. COPELAND, Liverpool. The Warmest Theatre in London. THIS ENI NG Will be performed THE TWELVE LABOURS OF HERCULES. After which, The JUVENILE PARTY. To be followed by a new Chinese burlesque, called THE MANDA RIN'S DAUGHTER , or, Willow Pattern Plate. Characters by Messrs. J. Reeve, Rogers, Romer, Attwood, Hudspeth ; Mesdames Marshall, Sanders, Bell, Eglinton, and Maskell. To conclude with MY SISTER FROM INDIA. T'ae prices of admission are arranged as follow :--Orchest'a idea, 4a; loxes (brat circle), 39.; (second circle), 2s. ; Pit, ls. Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the performances to commence at Seven precisely. A second price will be tr...ken to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock —Ent circle, 25.; second circle, ls. Private Boxes One Guinea and a Half each. Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling. ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE QUEEN OF SPAIN, PARIS, THURSDAY, EIGHT, A.M. The French Government has received the following dispatch : " Madrid, Feb. 2. "An attempt has just been made on the life of Queen Isabella 11. At present the wound does not seem dangerow.." The Constitution adds :—" The 2d of February was the day on which she was to take her first air ing, and go to the Eglise d'Atocha, to be churched." Chronicle. PARIS, THURSDAY, HALF-PAST EIGHT A.M A telegraphic message, dated Madrid, the 2d inst., states that an attempt has been made on the life of the Queen, but that the wound was not considered dangerous.— Times. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. A decree in the 111 oiiiteur fixes the nvniber and com position of . the electoral circumscriptions of each de partmenll The Moniteur says— • As we have already announced, the International Sani. tary Commission recently held its last sitting, under the presidency of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the nego tiation of the collective Convention, which is to consecrate its labours, has been entered on diplomatically. The Com missioners of his Majesty the King of Sardinia, possessing full powers from their Sovereign, yesterday signed, with the Marquis Turgot, the Convention, of which the protocol remains open for the signature of the other contracting par ties. The Minister could not do otherwise than congratu late himself with the Sardinian Plenipotentiaries on this first and happy result of a negotiation so profitable to the commercial and maritime interests of France and her allies. He also took pleasure in rendering on this occasion honourable testimony to the special co-operation which he received from M. de Lesseps, Director of Consulates and of commercial affairs, whose zeal and enlightenment have once more, in this affair, justified the confidence of the Go vernment." The Constitutionnel says— " A rumour has been circulated that the Government intended to seize on the monoly of the insurance offices. We are able to affirm that the Government has never con templated anything of the kind. It is one of the thousand false reports which malevolent persons propagate to excite alarm.' A letter has been addressed by the Duke DE NE MOURS and the Prince DE JOINVILLE to the testamentary executors of Lorne PHILIPPE, of which the following is a translation "TO THE TESTAMENTARY EXECUTORS OF RING LOUIS PHILIPPE. " Claremont, Jan. 29, 1832. Gentlemen,—We have re ceiveA the protest which you have drawn up against the decree of confiscatio n i ssue d against us, and we thank you very sincerely for your efforts to resist injustice and violence. We have found it quite natural that you should have directed your attention specially to the question of law, without noticing the insults heaped in the preambles of those decrees on the memory of the King our father. For a moment we thought of abandoning the reserve which exileimposes upon us, for the purpose of repelling in our own persons; the attacks so shamefully cast upon the best of fathers, arid, we do not fear to add, on the best of kings. But, on considering the matter more maturely, it appeared to us that to such imputations a disdainful silence was the best answer. We will, therefore, not lower our selves to point out how particularly odious the calumnies are, when brought forward by a man who on two different occasions received proofs of the magnanimity of King Louis Philippe, and whose family never received anything from him but benefits'. We leave it to public opinion to do justice to the words, as well as to the act which accompanies them ; and if we are to believe; the testimonies cf sym pathy which we receive from every side, we are sufficiently revenged. To the honour of a country to which the King oar father has given eighteen years of peace, of prosperity. and of dignity— of a country which we his sons have loyally served -to the honour of that France which is always the mother country which we love—we are happy to observe that these disgraceful decrees, and their still mere disgrace ful preambles, have not dared to appear excepting under the regime of the state of siege, and after the suppression of all the guarantees which protected the liberties of the nation. In finishing, we beg of you, gentlemen, to express our warm feeling ~f gratitui le to the eminent men of all parties who have offered to ufi the assistance of their talent and their courage. We accept that assistance with great pleasure, per suaded that, in f.o-day defending our cause, they defend the rights of the wt ole of French society.—Receive, gentlemen, the assurance of our sentiments of affection. " LOUIS D'ORLEANS, Duke of Nemours. " F. D'ORLEANS, Prince of Joinville." The Bourse was firm with a slight rise. The Five per Cents. opened at 1331. 25c., fell to 102 f. 95c., rose subse quently to Io3f. and closed at 103 f. 25c. for the end of the month. The Three per Cents. closed at 65f. 24c. ; Or leans Railway S?uares, 1,1 80f. ; Rouen, 657 f. 50c. ; Havre, 260 f. ; Great Nort kern, 5761. 50c. ; Avignon, 225 f. ; Vierzon, 500 f. ; Basle, 210. f.; ordeaux, 43 If. 25c. ; Paris and Stras burg, 4651.; Toui and Nantes, 297 f. ; Amiens to Bou logne. 2821. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 5751. BUSINESS DO/ iE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 4. Boulogne and Amiens, 11, ex d.—Great Indian Peninsula, 4%—Luxembotraz, 3 1 4—Northern of France, 18X —Orleans and Bordeaux, B.—Paris and Lyons, 9%—Paris and Rouen, 26 , 4—Paris and ;Strasbourg, 16;$—Tours and Nantes, 8%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 301 ult. have arrived. The Her aldo s tales that the Government contemplates colonizing the 6ierra Morena with G erm a n y. MADRID BOL:SA, JAN. 30.--The Three per Cents., were done at 384 for time; the New Three per Cents. at 19; the Debt without interest, si; and the Cou pons, at 9k• GERMANY. The Chamber of Councillors, or first Chamber of the Kingdom of Bavaria, of which the Prime Minister is President, has decided to respond unanimously in the affirmative to a 'project of law presented by the Govern ment, whereby the nomination of the President of that Chamber is confided to the hands of the KING, as pre vious to the law of the 25th July, 1850. The President then communicated to the Chamber a royal rescript whereby the Diet is prorogued until the end of March. D T E he N fo M ilo A va ß n .:i.royAalNpDrociTamHatEion!..)UreorCgaHnizlinE S. the various states of the Danish monarchy, was read by the Minister of FirJance, Count SPINNECK, to the First Chamber in Copenhagen on the 28th ult.:— " We, Frederick VII., by the grace of Go d, Kin g of Denmark, th e Vandals and the Goths, Duke of Schleswig- Holstein, Storenara Dithmarsh, Lauenburg and Oldenburg, make known by these presents to our faithful and loving subjects " It has; been most respectfully represented to ns, that the negotiations of th e illustrious men who, in pursuance of our royal manifesto or the 14th July, Ibso, assem bled in convo cation at Flendsb urg , have not led to the agreement we proposed relative to the most important concerns of our monarchy, and especially the position of the Duchy of Schleswig in. the same. We have therefore re frained from building further upon the result of th e se negotiations, but have formed the royal resolution that the ordering of the affairs of our monarchy under main tenance and further development of the arrangements which AMERICAN NEWS. ----...---- LIVERPOOL, WEL NESDAY.—The American steam ship Atlantic has just arrived with dates from New York to the 24th ult. She brings 20 passengers and 224,000 dollars on freight. The steam-ship America, out 13 days from Liverpool, had not arrived at Halifax, Th e Austrian Charge diplomat i c intercourse d'Affaires has withdra wn all with the American Government, and has com munica ted his reasons for such a st e p to his own Government. President Edmore bad been waited upon by a body of Irishmen, as a d eputation to request his interference with thee English Government to procure the liberation of Smith 013Ilen and The President, h the other Irish political exiles. — owever, declined to interfere. Jenny Lind has net arrived by the Atlantic. 'The weather co ntinued unprecedentedly cold through out the Amer ican union, from Maine to Louisiana, colder, it is said, than it has been for thirty years, and the papers are much taken up with the disaster s and In conveniences arising out of this c i rcums tance. At New York the river was froa , n over, and the navigation, of course, suspended. At New Orleans the thermometer stood at 15 degrees below Zero. At Philadelphia the City of Manchester steamer was unable to approach the harbour in consequence of the bay being blocked with ice. The severity of tho weather was the subject of re mark along the whole seaboard. Symptoms were ap parent, however, that the frost was about to relax. . I t ' 13 ," 1 " on tha authority of the Wa shin g ton Re pub• bean, that Mr. Fillmore had consented to the use of its same r?.. a candidate for the next Presidency. This di:- termination will hasten the retreat of Mr. Webster from the Cabinet. AL Now Orleans several failures had occurred in the cotton trade. ( I'avaial, the leader of the revolutionists in Northern Mexico, was about making another attack on Matamo ros. Be was to be opposed by Avalvas, with an army or 2 600 men. The Forrest divorce case was still exciting the atten- tion of the legal authorities and the scandal-loving por tion of American society. The widow of Fenimore Cooper has speedily followed her ;4ifted husband. She expired on the 20th ult. The accounts from New Mexico state that the Indians were becoming very hostile and troublesome. The in surrectionary movements in the cities of Mexico and Puebla had been suppressed. The money market was easy. Government and State Stocks firm and in demand. Bills on London, 1094 to 1101; Pa - ' - f. 1510 i - , ris, sf. 15c. to 51. .lo Cotton without alteration. Sales for the last throe days, 5,300 bales; the quoted price for middling, &ie. to 9c. per lb. This day was married, by special licence, at the parish of St. Mary's, Bryanstone-square, W. Bevis Neale, Esq., her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Alexardretta, to Sarah Rachel, eldest (laughter of the late Thomas Smith, Esq., of Rotherhithe, a founder and esteemed and strenuous supporter of the Royal Thames Yatch Club, and step-daughter of James Scott, Esq., of Trinit y - square, y . t square, Tower-hill. A numerous circle of the relations and friends of the respective parties were present to witness the ceremony, among whom were his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, and James Harmer, Esq., who gave the bride away. At the Central Criminal Court, yesterday, James Keelbrown was convicted of perjury. The perjury was committed before the Bankruptcy Court, in the case of James Solomon Davis, the prisoner having sworn falsely with re spect to the disposal of certain property for the purpose of misleading the bankrupt's creditors. SLIGO 13oaouGs.—A requisition signed by the Roman Catholic Bishop, the Mayor, and a majority of the electors has been forwarded to Charles Towneley, of T owne. ley, Esq , requesting him to stand at the next election. It is supposed that Mr. Towneley will consent, and, if so, no doubt appears to be entertained of his return in the room of the present Member, Air, J. P. Somers. 6% - 7 94 915% x.d 117 w —117% 3% — 3% P. 2% 33ip. 1 % I%p. 86% 67% 7 6 dia. 53 434 dia. 2% -2% 31 - 31% 2st WA. 56 —56% 26 28 •• ..... • 7% - • 8 4% —4% dis. 26 14 —l2 db. 3 dia. 6% 734 - 636 dim. 956 dia.xd %dia. par 15 15% . 14 —1434 03 9 6 1 h 14 —6% 4% 3334 die. 12 —l4 6 7 934 1034 334 334 cl. 13 -- 15 20W - 2054 2954 - 30 3X —2%d. 150 - 152 • • .. dill: 16 —l5 dia. d. 334 • 434 .. •• #3X . 53( die. 17 1 4 - 17% 7% 74 d. 3J —8% d. 21 21% 87 % 56% 3i LINES LEAS: AT FIZZ]) II: 'TAMS. Business BBfliocdeiryßail ways. mingd f. 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Scrip Great South. & Western (Ireland) eighths Gt Western ( Barks and Hants Ex., 5 per Cent.) Lancashire and York shire, F. 201. .. Do. 6 per et. Stock .. Leeds Northern, 6 per cent., No. 1 Do. quarters, 1844 .. London, Brighton, and 8. Coast, guar. 5 per et. Ds. pref., 5 p et. 5k,1451 Da , . new w, uar., 6 per ct. Lon. & N. West. (Coy. & Nuneat.) 5 per cent. .. London & S.-W., new .. London. & Ennis., % Sha anch.; Sheffield, and! aBBlisS • Nominal Prim. 1% 13( do. - 77 16% - 17 5 - -2% % - %I) 1 1 -%P 11% -11% 934 - 10 • • ... •• I% 1 dis. 13 - 143.6 % - A P 7%-- 7% . . Lino., guar. shrs., No. 1 Do. new, 101. .. . • Do., 64 • • •• Midland Con. 6 p.c. stock Do. Consel. Bristol & Binning., 6 per cent... Do., Leic. & Swanning., 8 per cent. guar. Do,, Preference .. Norfolk Extension • - • • -.• P. 1% —1% dis. 132 184 • - p .. p .. .. 140 —145 x.d 24 - 3 p. 10 -113 u 11 - 12 12 - 12% %- % P 133 .-- 135 lb —it; 5 47i . dig 10 10% Do. guar. 5% per cent. North British • . 0 sf. 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N -N i ii- % 5% -64 18 - Ito( 3 - (1. 27i - 3 `4 p 41 -43 2 % % 2G .-2G)4 - 14015.' 104 - 3 % -4 den, and Nanalt - TR W eta Flanders as. 9, PM PM 11% 11 lArd IS% % li 77. BIA 8 dl'. •.: -.- •• 2 ..... 2% 100 42% 4 2 0 100 100 47% 3% 25 9% 17% 19 334 all all all 1 634 all 16 2-3 126 9% 6% 7 854 x.d MU le 9 14 204 % 30 1734 % 91% % MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) NEWG.A.TE ZIATIs LEADENEIII.7.. The general demand was in a sluggish state, at barely sta tionary prices. Beef; from 2s 2d to 3s 2d; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 8d; Veal, 26 10d to 3s lOs ; Pork, 2s 4d to Ss 8d perBlbs by the carcase. HAY MAR/LETS. SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow H a y, 21 15 s Od to 3/18s Od ; Clover ditto, 31 5s to 41 7s Od; and Straw, 11 Os to 11 6s per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 16s to 41 Os Od; Clover ditto, 31 5s to 41 ss; and Straw, 11 Is to 117 e per load* Trade firm, at late rates. WHrrEcHerat,.—Meadow Hay, 21 15s to 31 17e; Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 41 8s Od; and Straw, 11 Os to 11 6s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. MEAT IVEAREETS, SOUTHALL, FEB. 4.—Our market has ruled dull for each kind of stock, at barely last week's prices. Beef, from 2s Sd to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s to 4s 2d; Veal, 3s to 33 8d; Pork, 3s to 3s 8d per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, FEB. 4.—The general demand is heavy, an d late rates are not supported. Beef from 2s 10d to 35 Sci Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 2d ; Veal, 3s to 3s 8d ; Pork. 3s t° 3s 6d per 81bs; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 168 to 19s each. LEWES, FEB. 3.—Very little business is doing here to; day, as follows :—Beef, from 3s to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 35 4 ' to 4s 4d; Pork, 3s 2d to 3s 6d per 81bs, COAL BIARKE' N.-....-YESTILRDAY. Prices of Coal per ton at t, Bate's West Hartley 13s Od Boddie's W. Hartley 13s Od Carr's Hartley ..... 13s 6d Chester Main l4s Od Newcastle Hartley North Percy Hartley l3s Od Ord's Mail ...... 12s 6dl Redheugh Main South Peareth Tanfield Moor ranfield Moor Butes l2s 3dl West Wylam Wylam Wall's End, &c. Acorn Close ... 15s 9d Gosforth ... [futon Northumberland Ships at market, he close of the market :-- Eden Main ..... l6s Od Lambton Primrose l6s Od Braddyll Lambton Russell's Hetton Plummer Cassop D en i son lss " 'Hartlepool 165 9 ' l ,Thorniey West Kelloe .1 Whitworth . INT,__ ........... _ „ •-i , a Hartlepool IMaclean's Tees . Cowpan Hartley Hartley _ _ ........ ..„ 135 Od , i Sidney's Hartley 122 Sold, 70. CORN AVERAGES GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Jan. 29, 1852, made up from the Returns of w' In.pectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales'' per imperial Quarter. WIILAT. I BARLEY. OATS. RYE. WEANS. I PEAS. A PRICE I:3 9 s 10d 28s 6d lbs 'MI 27s 6d 128 s lid 288 4' DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WIIEAT. I BARLEY. OATS. I RYE. I BEANS. I PE. 1. Oel is Od is Oct is Oct is Oct Is 0 " QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD IN THE PAST WEBIi• Wheat, 111,925; Barley, 105,930; Oats, 29,800; Rye, 113; Baia, 8,374 ; Peas, 2, 4962 quarters. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY•) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.) l a ced Two men of the names of Woolf and Lyons were p at the bar charged with obtaining goods under false pre tences. The prosecution was directed by order of Mr. Cora' missioner Holroyd. Mr. BALLANTINE, who appeared for the prosecution, raid that the prisoners having entered into business as Par. as o manufacturers without capital, had become bankrupts the space of thirteen months, when there appeared a ficiency of 3,0001. between th e ir a sse t s an d liabilities. vr . the inquiry at the Bankruptcy Court M r . C o mmissioner 1 1 °, t royd had been so dissatisfied with th e w h o l e appearance their manner of doing business, th a t h e di rec t e d the presep prosecution. He would give one instance of the Mat: ner in which the prisoners were in the habit of l i i s taining goods. The prisoner Lyons went into to and Everington's, in St. Paul's Churchyard, ask in g see some patterns of s ilk f or t h e purposes o f hi s basin Patterns Patterns were accordingly sent to him, and she r l afterwards an order for silk s was g i ven b y the pr isoners t the amount of 651/. 19 s . 2d„ which were delivered to then?, and shortly afterwards parted with at a considerable 5af...r..: flee to a Mr. Hart. The goods thus obtained were n 'l 3 `i . quently pledged or disposed of by the prisoners at n° h e r say whet derable sacrifices. It would be for the jury to these were bona fide purchases for the purposes of business of nu mber The Learned Couns e l th en procee d e d to ca ll a witnesses in support of his s t a t emen t, but the case Wa s concluded when we went to press. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. , On Tuesday, (James Simpson, Esq., Vice - Presiden t, the chair), on the renewed discussion , which occupied tll' entire evening, on Mr. Jee's paper " On the Cast Iron Via duct erected at Manchester, forming part of the joint she station t; of the London and North - Western , and Manchester , field, and Lincolnshire Railways," Mr. llawkshavr describeid . a nearly similar structure which had been erected at d fcrd, in 1842, forming ajunction between the Liverpool and Manchester, the Manchester and Leeds, and Manchester aand. Bolton Railways. In this structure the columns were plced in pairs, and, instead, of planking between the transver! girders, flat brick arches, set in cement, were intro duced r s Some interesting experiments on th e streng th of the gi rd ! were given, and the ingenious steelyard lever testing machl.ll was described. The question th en turne d upo n the pe cuha d form of the wrought iron girder bride i g over Store-street, ulft), on the manner in which the experiments had been w ade h ascertaining its strength. F rom m i nute ca lculations whi co were given, it appeared that the bridge was, foot for fli e s strong and stiff as wrought i ron , cellular-top, tubula r g l iya of the ordinary form, and thought in this instance, the of the cylindrical top, which was required to be large o"f_ to admit a man for painting the inside, and for necessar9,4-i. pairs, might seem disproportioned to the depth of the of l u the yet this would not be the case if the span and deptk ° 1 ill re girder was increased, as the cylindrical top might still main By so of the same size. me speakers, however, it was contended, that ill s a a P n ; plying wrought iron to girders of comparatively 513811either;"P there really was no necessity, nor was it advisable, o regarded strength or convenience, to adopt the cellular fos7o but that the girder should be of the ordinary, einaPlet d b of T section, with the bottom flange, and the middle We _ - o f wrought iron, and the upper flange either of wrought, °l b , ' cast iron, the latter being the best suited for res isting compressive strain to which that part of a girder W s Id jeeted ; and it was thought that both of these forms 7, 1 , 0 o f be a more e c onomical application of material for gir u lb e se limited extent than cellular tops. A modification 01 ce eil• different plans was described to consist in a kind of flattA the triangular top, of which the base was uppermost , au7 t ag plates were thickest, representing the upper flange to ordinary girder, the two sides being merely tin Pis A te e - Alie prevent the edges of the upper flange from buckling 1113' compressive strains. th e Doubts were also raised as to whether painting 'v im sad best mode of protecting wrought iron from oxidataul,'ould, it. was suggested, as an improvement, that the iron sh e d at in the first instance, be thoroughly cleaned and 0104 a low heat in common oil, and then dried. An alloy fi re , iron, containing a small portion of tin, was also said to r vent effectually the injurious effects of oxidation. „Up The method of co m bi n i ng wrought with cast iron ' Stirling's process, was a l so described, and the grea t teas and strength of the metal was fully a d m itt e d. were At the monthly b a ll ot , the following candidates,,,. duly elected : Captai n Cl ax t on, , Lieut. Fraser, viva Lieut. Kendall, 8.E., C ap t a i n O wen ,. R.E., and l ar " Paterson, as Associates. f T' ler The paper announced to be read at the meeting of day, February 10th, was " The Construction and P."tioal of the Permanent Way of R a ilw a ys, and the mediraates• most suitable for Egypt, India, Scc.," by Mr. W. D. - - - RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS' , of LONDON AND NORTII-WESTERN RAILWAY. —13.00," Traffic for the week ending Feb. 1 parcels,:— Pmaes.:cehnagnecirs,ise...........£2l :B B B s 4 4 1 1 7 5 9 7 17 088 9 11 Cattle ... ... £39,823 3 3 Total Ncte.—The returns*le dersfield Canal and Shropshire Union, ( I are 3 e 9 ; c l l o u o s i vle6 10 01 t% n N g s.r h y a r m e, s h i r o e u South Railways, w u nacytsi,o and M o a i n cthhees t p e r, r o p a ° rot; trafficCo orfretshpeolinduidng weekals.;.ssptuybelaisrhe a Buxton, a Union, tion of traffic deducted under agreement with the o°' Staffordshire Company. 2410 P rn es d to n n u ar i Tux GRIAT NORTHERN RA ILWAY.....(MiIeS in work , -...... —Return of Traffic for the Week ending Jan. 25, 185:2• passengers, parcels, carriages, Merchandise horses, dogs, n a d a In d Cattle i in ne a r il a s l.9 7. ... X 5 4 : 5 8 9 9 3 3 1: 1 8 - ••• —* ... ... 121 1 1 Corresponding week, 1851 ---------, (23 . 6 miles):— 10 Total " • ....E10,608 3 Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £3, 854 13 3 a Merchandise, C a t t l e, & c. . 3,6 26 12 ' Total ... ... ... £7,48 1 511 to f LONDON AND S OUTII-WESTERN RAILWAY• Ara °lll2 Traffic for the week ending Feb. 1 : Passengers ... ... ... £6,427 4 t Goods ... ... ... ... 2,190 3 ' Total ... ... ... £8,617 ,i 7 3 7 1 Corresponding week last year... 8,055 2 p oi 260 ( LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. •••••- • ~ 4 open.)—Traffic for week ending Feb. I ....£15,111 7 Corresponding week in last year (260 ~, 3 5 milesg open ) STAFFORDSHIRE .. ... ... ....E13,2u 1ig. ). 0 No SHIRE RAILWAY.—(MiIes op en, R e t u rn of traffic for the week ending Jan. 25 :-- 0 0 aT Railway and canal ... ... £1,6 15 0 10 Corresponding week last year ... 4,410 0 0; 410, Note. —The above is exclusive of the receiptl .I,,,rostelP under the agreement with the London and No rth " Railway Company. ~., 4 8 for t b° CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.•••Tr4A— week ending Feb. 1 : Passengers MAIN LINK. .•• ... £9ll 12 Parcels, 11. C. and D. ... 86 1 4 Goods, cattle, &c. 495 1 7 0 0 Mails ... ••• Total .. £2,071 10 MOLD. 70 p 96t £3O 9 ••• 1 1 4 , 84 ' 2 2. ... -. ------- 8 - £ll5 15 Passengers .• Parcels, H. C. and D. ... ••• Goods, cattle, &c. Total ••• ••• . STEAM-MOATS. Passengers ... .. ... £l5 O 4 Parcels, H. C. and D. ..: „.„ 24 18 ° ---...........--, 6 T o tal ... ... ... £175 2 ..h. SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAlLWAY.—Traffic for 1,..‘, ending Feb. 1, 1852 Passengers (5,890), parcels, horses, Q 1 . a nd carriages ... ... •.. £872 ~ 2 G o ods, cattle, &c. ... ... 845 3 _, ••• .....-- ------- 3 Total .. ... .. 1,517 6 6 Corresponding week in last year... 1,380 19 Perth, Feb. 4, 1852. peting °I S OUTH AMPTON, FEB. 3 . — At a quarterly in- 0 pro the borough council of this town , held this day' IVisecoodea posed by the late Mayor, Mr. George Laishley, an t " itan l L il i by the president of the Chamber of Commerce, Air,i ws aa' Stebbing, that a vote of thanks, engrossed on ve' tillioder rat:fled, be presented to Vice-Admiral Le 13Ianc, C Oll3 , f o r the in of the navy of the French Republic at Brea' , d istill" prompt, humane, and generous manner in whieh le_ yier to guished himself in immediately dispatching a, Otnoyal escue, if possible, any of the survivors)of the 136001 lat. ;;Learn COaipauy'a packet A 11144011. a