The Sun. — London, England, 1852-12-16 00:00:00

---- Exß lßlrla y _ - ;.day r. ques l 8 a g1040 4 man ce be Ating t "; onth i;so s. .0111 sg o lj WO t , °- 11 A 3 ve ele‘ . to r ° :too ;et au', tl O lited resu l io; 26 1 . " 31, l'a v or i t on e_oB d. ; D'7o/ Le ocieey ,nco 0 ount° RAI ° of e ll ? the >eau ,A,° 151 WOontile co, 0 r hipl'oetif e dee t be ut o,us ve • 401VEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The sale s o f co tt on a t Li verpoo l yes t er d ay were and 50 0 a t 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 American "- 50 0 Surat were taken on speculation. The market closed firmly. The sales comprised 4,250 2rican, 160 Pernam and Maranham, at 6-0. to ;40 Bahia, at 64d. ; 500 Egyptian, at kid. ; and 1,000 Surat, at nd. to 40. per lb. he at shares continued dull and inactive. six weeks average price of wheat is 40s. 6d. P e r quarter. to this last week's railway receipts, ascertained up wils day, are, in round figures, as under : 1852. 1851. . £16,373 16,388 44,364 41,268 western Weste eearthS outh western t . A Western dah n ------ S d .. ),1911th Eastern-. " I ° l th s+- - . 9,082 8,039 . 9,290 8,039 . 23,260 22,196 11,655 10,233 Stafford 5,046 4 Na 4 t °!lian 9,307 Nett 4;688 7;532 L., North ern finekshire and Yorkshire 14 1.1( .ancl North Midland toa,stle a n d B erw i c k ot -1; or the inf orma ti on an d sa ti s f ac ti on o f th e f r i en d s f r , i fasse nger s , we have been requested to insert the 13 4 h o walg extract from a letter which has been 18 5 11 to us, dated Cape Town, Ist November, 2 at 7 1--- e Cleopatra left Table Bay on the 30th October, a k rven, a.m., with 5721 tons coals, 50 tons goods, ki ll a few passengers from this, and was seen at twenty ow rates to four, p.m., beyond , Cape Point. This is a Ain e ! d id run ; and we calculate that two days' southing take her into strong westerly winds. The Cleopatra, f oit e xcited great admiration in Table Bay, and the com e, and efficiency of her internal arrangements have e ll ell great satisfaction. We trust that she will be t abled to make up, during the remainder of the voyage, h t t .he detention experienced during the first part, as ah n - , 18 , evidently capable of making a first-rate passage, r'd no unforeseen accident again detain her.—(Signed) I,I T °N . & BUSHELL." e progress of any new branch of industry is as r regarded with feelings of interest, and there is k ie kneh reason to be solicitous about the develop of e li t of any general principl e th a t will come in aid e „ ° Mmerce generally. We have arrived at the Mel Sion, a ft er var i ous i nqu i r i es an d in ationtion obtained, that the possibility of d o e„.l insuring- mercantile houses against bad 's had been fully tested by the Cora ofetr,eial Credit Society. Those who were cognizant h a u te working of the association at Paris, since the r,, to r 18 47, never entertained a doubt of satisfac- IvZ results being obtained here when the system d oh - well understood. M. Amand Mancel de Val- C e t, the fo un d er o f th e "S ec -mite Commerciale," op e , Paris, has furnished such statistics of its fo li ''ions as to explain the formation of three or N ri r Minor associations on the same plan. The Ci 8 Company has 2,000 assu rers among the prin a4Da.l Mercantile firms, and in the year 1852, gave dense number of references as to character, th r , ill ealls of its 3,200 correspondents established ci et ' l lghout France. The Commercial Credit So exeY here, owes its success mainly to the untiring a k rt ions of Mr. Augustine Sargood, the chairman, b o arhe earnest enthusiasm of the small, but working and of the directors, the manager Mr. Sewell, w ere the other officers. Although[active operations lCem commenced only in June last, there are al- Y insurances upon 1,300,000/. Among the ehester houses the objects of the Society are 0 ( 1 , 4 „g Warmly seconded, and at a meeting of the 067 11 cil of Referen ce and the Directors the details h a Z l of the of the undertaking, by a tk o ' h vY . Combination of the mutual system with just ',a small infusion of the proprietary principle Th e !give vitality, were most encouraging. • precise objects of the Society are to a ksti , urge to the assured commercial losses, to ad s them in the recovery of debts, and to make ,„ l'e la cues when losses occur, with the view of pre fa4hilag temporary embarrassment and ultimate ahr,,e• The idea that there is great difficulty in the - Mug the principle of assurance to the objects of society has been dispelled by the opinion of Wth '(- l er B. Glen Finlaison, Esq., the Actuary to ~,b r National Debt and Government Calculator, 8 Pe r „, l ° l 3l the society at the outset submitted for n sal the synopsis and general rules, and that tc l a,,?Man has stated his belief " that the plan - Ms within it the strongest element of success." ts, X ll l benefit of all the premiums will be given Sh the society to the Assured and not to the , ktioateholders, who are satisfied out of a commission , Pr e we d• One moiety of the surplus of the year's e a ,;,,' 11111 will be applied to the reduction of the next k i 8 premi um o f th ose w h ose l osses h ave no t 1 t le c niited to the sum of their annual premium, and lt a ° ther moiety is for the formation of a fund to grant 4' l a to the assured at limited interest. The rules It lie the premiums not to be paid in advance, , t th e en d o f the half - year. The assured, on , 14 . " Mg a claim, must give the Society power, in „1 1 4 ,ame, to act against the debtor ; but the as 10,e Must not act without the sanction of the ;"- 'etY• No claim for less than 101. must be sent lies ,The Society will afford any information that or t 1 4 its p ower respec ti ng th e commerc i a l stability . ko ta dere ; and expects in time not alone to pro the"' security of the assured, but also by7eet beneficially the whole trading community, ki,r cr , c tting unforeseen calamities, on the one hand, f)th by the exposure of fraudulent traders, on the P t i,,, e t, which individual creditors could of them ri seldom or ever bring about. 4 to t° _cice are firmer, but dull still. Consols for L 'et, 100 k . New 31. per cents., 1031 to 104. fl° Stock is up to 223 and 224. Foreign Stocks there are larger dealings. lii, t ;g l sh 3 per Cents. are 231. to 24, being better 1 11,e ; 1, the expulsion of Narvaez ! Portuguese are ° 41 k. Mexican, dull. the Gold Mine Shares there have been exten- Ndealings 2 and at very advanced prices. The tr a li a n Companies are particularly buoyant (thug to the intelligence from Port Phillip to the kk e "?Ptember, as to fresh discoveries of consider -IMportance. The Agua Fria Company's ki k r e B have further advanced, and Ave Maria are lo o .uag up. Itpir Australian Agricultural Shares have started k e P i to 51 . per share, and Van Diemen's Land T }l ' 0 1 higher. I tt e Australian Banks are advan c i ng . the r ailway shares there is not much doing, but kth'illotations are, with one or two exceptions, h ero e t . higher. South-Western have declined, but ''11„ is an improvement in Lancashire and York- q° l 4.o 3 ristol and Exeter, and Ambergate. Great 4 4t are lower, and North-Western are rather I. N t) -4 ain. Northern Counties Union are still in ; 1 0 -.e st• French Shares were very dull, and scarcely (i4,,_, except Northern, which have rallied. Sam `44El Meuse are a shade higher. tztl T/R —}l FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK THIS DAY. k (Front the Official List.) 111 k o Business done. 1 t c ck . 223 4 ) A, e nt. Reduced Annuities lOl 100 iittp t 3 '; ut. Consols Annuities LN , 4 4 ` . l s er Cent. Annuities iN Per Ce n t. A nnu iti es s h ut t kli, Vunities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6i 7-16 t i htt7 ll ds, £ lOOO 75 9 Rola, under £1033 75 9 „ t er Opening 18th Jan lOOl i ex , tlol l 'er Bills lad. March. June. sou 623 i, ii i —__ N . , s iz iPi OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK b 1 444 Bonds, 5 per Cent. D. 0 41 Itt o Per Cent 9Bi i i 4 ,t11,,,, New Bonds, 1829 & 39, 5 per Cent lO4 b4ht t . n-Yres Bonds, 6 per Cent — ) o _kt4 4 . 4 ° Sor th e Account 74 ` r 4, L r Bonds ;1 1:4( 1 0 ') Per t. .. b it a. Bonds, 1 ktltt o . K ., -.., li per Cent — 1 1 ` . 'ke a ,'",evf Deferred, 3 per Cent l2i °l l o per Cent 24i bitr, e , s e 4 per Cent. 4o:i li tilti t t w s or the Account . Dean rnall itt: bonds, 5 per Cent. ciii 4 T 4 '...4i per Cent . - ni gh 4i per 5 per Cent. "lA, "%Ids, 3 per Cent soi ,countiii)i.ttol?eferred 3 Cent. ti Itt, "r the A Da • P • %44 41 „assive (Converted) F t t, ki hil .‘l-:_oznmittee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 3$ p a .. el ela RT a n, 6 per Cent., 1852 li i p k‘l, - zate s , 4i per Cent 104 f Ex. 25f 20c 1e . 4 - ''',.._ o , llds, 4i per Cent. Ex. 25fr 99 `'ltt o ;"sauge 2i per Cent 671 ' Per Cent. Certificates 99 is HALF-PAST TWO. for Opening 18th January lOOl icx div. C Ittb„Nfiz, toi4 -.VATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—The first quarterly . ()4 1 .4e4 , 6 of the society, which was very numerously at 0t Q tl W5B held yesterday at the Freemasons' Tavern, loPtt of l' e u - street ; Viscount Ranela g h i n th e c h a i r. The WiFil l i D the executive committee, which was read by hi s ii:tr, ea B, , V' e sented a most f avoura bl e repor t o f th e society ' s kii,7eili h no result of the first quarter's proceedings far I)),Zte he t hat of any similar society in the like period. t hg ) , 4e ' t h of September last they have issued shares re -4 :, 11 ,g a. subscribed capital of 75,000/., of which more l'a ti l A e O 7 l , i• has been actually received, and the remainder 41 4 °lls di 86 of payment. Meetings have been held in eci, h t ti ~Otricts with a view of making known the society trliklrillitte-uoJelevtitsha'nd many to - ras have visited by the 14 , ef i , w . the most satisfactory result. The amount ital t f ore a a tb fixed . at 501., in order to obviate any objec -I.ti NI rai c r revising barrister as to the annual valne, as b N ii ,alifi. A.,OCel. against the 301. allottees at the last regis isc,7 of t i`j-it r referring to the primarily defensive cha- N7ti os i7s3 a ssociations, the report stated that several ''tit "hey 'ad been purchased on the banks of the Thames, t l , 411 ev en (ip co . oei lti ., .Proposed to extend their operations through 4Fii "eS, whether near to or remote from the me- FREE TRADE. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The Prophet, according to Cowper, left good Mahomme dans an injunction to abstain from eating a certain un named part of a swine. His faithful followers, however, take upon themselves to decide, each of them for himself, that the part he least prefers must be the part prohibited by the prophet ; and thus, " Itfahommedans eat up the Hog" —or, as Jonathan would express it in genuine Yankee lingo, admissible in these days of free trade, " they go the whole Hog." But the pork-loving Jew, so we learned at least from our grammar-school com panions, altogether surpasses the special pleading of the carnally-minded Mussulman ; for the former, as the story went, plunges the joint of pork into a pail of water, bids it go down pork and come up mutton, and after this unsectarian proselyte baptism, enjoys every part of the forbidden flesh. We must say that many of our senators have jut reminded us of this THE FRENCH EMPIRE. ---.-...-•01.-- The Dutch Ambassador, General Fagel has been presented to his Majesty the Emperor with his cre dentials. The Minister of the Grand Duchy of Hesse has signified to the French representative the satisfaction of the Grand Duke at the advent of Louis Napoleon to the throne, adding that the le gation, for some time suppressed, would be re established at Paris. The decree appears by which the Republican Guard is to be called the Garde de Paris. The two battalions of Gendarmerie Mobile are to be called Gendarmerie d'Elite. By decrees the Bishop of Grenoble is nominated a canon of the highest order in the Imperial Chapter of St. Denis, and the Abbe Grinoulhiac, Vicar General of the Archbishopric of Aix, raised to the see of Grenoble. The Bishop o f Coutance having been equally created canon of the highest order in the Imperial Chapter, the Abbe Daniel is raised to his see. 100 83 184 100 100 all all' 45 all 50 50 50 25 baptismal regeneration of the pork. Free trade has of late years become most pleasant food for politicians, it has satisfied the hungry electors with bread, sweetened their taa and tarts with two spoonsful for one, of sugar—given them a cup of coffee at half price. or of doubly good quality, and cheapened almost everything; yet,—marvel of marvels it has overfilled the Exchequer ! What, then, could poli ticians in office do without it ? How could they face the well-fed electors on a dissolution, if they dieted themselves on the husks of restrictive duties ? Accordingly, numbers of them having lived on that trashy food in opposition, no sooner found that, at the end of a few months, they must show themselves for approbation to the sovereign electors, —than, instanter, they betake themselves to the food forbidden to their faith ; but the food, indispensable to a well-favoured countenance in the eyes of the electors, and an ample number of pale-faced Protectionists, fatten themselves for the borough hustings on free trade. Scarcely had they seated themselves on the treasury benches, ere their leader provided them with an ample budget-feast of the tabooed aliment, and with astonished looks at first, and some grumbling from the more dyspeptic subjects, nearly all have fed, more or less heartily, thereon ever since. Marvel lously have they changed their looks for the better. Their anxious, care-worn, minority countenances have dilated to the sleek fatness of a majority of nine to one ! Nine months' dieting on free trade has wrought the wondrous transformation. The dotation of the Emperor comprises, accord ing to the Debats, the palaces of the Tuileries, the Elysee, the Palais Royal, Versailles, Manly, St. Germain, St. Cloud, Meudon, Fo n t a i ne bl eau , Com piegne, Rambouillet, Pau, and Strasbourg, with their farms, lands, parks, and woods ; the manufac tories of Sevres, the Gobelins, and Beauvais ; and the wood of Vincennes, the forest of Dourlan, the forest of Senart, and the forest of Laigne, with the museums, libraries, Crdwn diamonds, &c. The Emperor went on Monday evening to the Theatre Francais. He was received both inside and out with acclamations. On Tuesday he visited the Hotel de Ville. His Majesty was in an open carriage, escorted by a detachment of Carabineers. An immense crowd had assembled on the Place, by whom he was received with loud cries of " Vive l'Empereur !" which were also raised throughout the streets as he passed, both in going and return ing. After his return to the palace, the Emperor, accompanied by two aides-de-camp, walked in the garden of the Tuileries. - The following is the letter by which M. Drouy de L'Huys, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, notified to the representatives of France at foreign courts the change of the form of Government in France : " Monsieur,—l have the honour to send you annexed, with the text of the senatus consultum, which fixes the conditions under which the Sovereign power is to be henceforth exercised in France, an official copy of the plebiscite which confirms these important communica tions, and makes a state law of it. In consequence, the new Emperor of the French ascends, by the grace of Divine Providence, on the throne to which the almost unanimous vote of the nation calls him, and I hasten to execute the orders of the Chief of the State in notifying through you his accession to the Government of 50 40 25 25 RAILWAYS. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1852. THE SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Closing Prices Yesterday. Bits'ness done this Day. Gg 104 68i 91 85 i 12i 12i 20 20 31 301 2 824 3 21 961 1 a all 100 all 100 85} i 5 11264 6 92 1 i p.m 114 100 - 100 18i 9k all 17 20 20 20 But how overcome the scruples of their faith ? How venture, with an easy political conscience, not merely to taste, but to live upon, what their time-honoured creed proscribed ? Free trade ! why it had, in virtue of the persecutions suffered for refusing it, be come the most loathsome idea conceivable. Short and easy was the process. An Hierophant with a double portion of his father's genius stood forth with magic powers. He brings the odious thing to his font. "Go down," says he, " free trade and come up unrestricted competition." He spoke—and behold the loathsome was lovely in every eye. The thing was still aeceptable to its old friends, the name became well-pleasing to its new ones, and the long severed in faith unite at least in practice, and go together into the same lobby. Curious sight—Mr. Cobden and Mr. Disraeli making for the same door in order to divide. After all, however, the old name must come back again. We cannot do with so long and latinized a phrase as " restricted competition." If those who have studied at the Universities have time, organs of speech, and etymological knowledge suitable to it, not so "mechanics, tradesmen, farmers, and so forth." Free trade they understand, and free trade they still will say. And we will say it with them ; we like "free" better than "unrestricted." There is a Saxon origin, a heartiness, a positivity, a British twang in the word free, wholly wanting in the other—which is, on the contrary, Latin— chilly and negative. And Trade, too,—it is a friendly, social, prosperous word, in pleasant contrast with the ill-tempered, gladiatorial, quarrelsome word— " competition." We wont have it then, and we will have the old good-tempered, hearty words—" free trade " back again. If the protectionists wish to have it inscribed on the coffin-plate of protection, as the name of the enemy who slew their pet cock robin, why, so let them ; but now the funeral is over, and all is covered with the dust and ashes, let language return to its usual course. Something, too, is due to the memory of the great Scotchman, the very patriarch of free trade, Adam Smith. All the tribes of modern economists own him as their common father ; all have, hitherto. accepted the name he gave to his theory of commerce. He baptised it by the name of " Free-trade." He nursed, cherished, and de fended it under that name ; its successive schoolmasters and actors have known it by that name ; universal custom has adopted the patriarch's nomenclature; and it is too late in the day now to part with the paternal name to suit the whims of any half-hearted foster nurse. It is nearly 80 years ago since the " wealth of nations" broke in upon the general ignorance of the eighteenth century So profound was that ignorance, so hopeless the cause then, that the philosopher utterly despaired of his country ever adopting the principle of which he had demonstrated the soundness. Perhaps there is hardly a stronger encourage ment to be found in the history of speculative thinking, and its final triumph in practice, than the contrast be tween the vote of the 26th of November, 1852, and the language of the philosopher, confident in his principle yet hopeless in its triumph, in 1776. Read them together : Adam Smith,, Book IL cap. 2. "To expect, indeed, that the Freedom of Trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopea should ever be eetab lished in Not only the prejudices of the public, but, what is much more uncon querable, the private inte rests of many individuals irresistibly oppose it. Vote of the House of Commons. " That it is the opinion of this House that the improved condition of the country, and especially of the industrious classes, is mainly the result of recent legislation which has established the principle of unrestricted competition (Free Trade)—has abolished taxes imposed for the pur pose of protection, and has thereby diminished the cost and increased the abundance of the principal articles of the food of the people." What fearless and honest investigator need be discou raged after this ? One could wish in this case, as in so many others, that the departed could return to enjoy their triumph ; to see that in the old weary battle of the brains against the dullards, intelligence and truth were the con querors at last ; that the laughed at theorists are sure to become, in time, the guides of universal practice. In con nection with the paragraph quoted above, there is a clause which may console the 53 with the remembrance of the honours once borne by their tribe. " The member of Parlia ment," says Smith, " who supports every proposal for strengthening this monopoly, is sure to acquire not only the reputation of understanding trade, but great popularity and influence with an order of men whose numbers and wealth render them of great importance." How little did the philosopher imagine that such members would, in 1852, be regarded as an intractable residuum in the House of Commons, whose heads would be likened, in the "lead ing journal," to the East India Company's preternaturally hardened cannon balls, which no process could melt, or render serviceable for aught but ballast ! No, it will never do to depriveithe offspring of Adam Smith of Ithe name given him by his desponding parent in the hour of his birth, and that, too, at the very time when he arrives at maturity. One word more as to " Free-trade" versus "Unrestricted Competition." Fair play is the thing for Englishmen ; both sides must renounce calling ill names. The religious sects, in courtesy, give each other the names ehosen by each sect for itself. None bnt bigots talk of Papists, schismatics, and so forth, now. In politics we have exchanged Whig and Tory for Liberal and Conserva tive. We must do the same on this question. Monopolists is, in truth, the scientific name of Protectionists; but as they prefer the latter name, we indulge them with it; they must reciprocate the courtesy, and not wish to designate by the ugly, epithet " unrestricted competitionists," those who de light in the cheerful, well-known, and hearty name of Free traders. At present the new converts have had it their own way. They have registered their old opponents in the journals of the house under the name given by their antagonists, but they have registered themselves under the name of their own choice. They have triumphed in the word-fight, if the Free-traders remain encamped on the field of battle. IS KIRWAN A MURDERER? TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—To the observations of your correspondent on this subject in yesterday's paper allow me to add the following remarks : Could it not be ascertained even now whether the trousers worn by the condemned man were wet with salt water ? If they were, particles of salt would be seen when they dried. Again, his boots would afford a clue to the solution of this query. But, if he had attempted to drown her, surely he would have been far wetter than he is described to have been. Again, as to his sword-cane and the wounds found on the deceased, none are described as sufficiently severe to occasion death. Moreover, it describes her clothes being drawn up, and the sheet under her. Would her husband, had he been her murderer, have so disposed them ? It looks too like a careful arrangement to admit of a suspicion as to such arrangement being made, or suffered to remain, by a murderer.—Yours, &c., 15th Dec. OXONIENSIS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SEN. - - SIR,—I am glad to see that you have inserted a letter from an Irish surgeon in your paper of yesterday, call ing public attention to the supposition that, notwith standing the opinion of the judge and jury in the case of Mr. Kirwan to the contrary, he may be after all in nocent of the crime imputed to him. After carefully reading the evidence, I have come to the conclusion that the death of Mrs. Kirwan was accidental, and arose either from her falling from the summit of the rock—described by the counsel for the prosecution as a very high rock—and which she had probably ascended after bathing, or else from a fit, brought on by bathing soon after a meal, which would probably be a hearty one, considering that the deceased lady is described as a person in full health, and that she had been bathing before dinner, and also wandering about for several hours before partaking of food. All persons experienced in such matters know that nothing can be more dan gerous than bathing after a meal, especially a hearty one, and that fits have been frequently produced from this cause. The frothing at the mouth looks as if a fit had been the cause of death. The bruised appearance of one side of the body, in cluding the eye, the torn ear and the bleeding from the ear, the cuts and scratches on the body, and the clothes drawn. up under the arms, look as though Mrs. Kirwan had fallen from a height, either from slipping or from a fit, and that the body had slid down the rock to the base, wh ere it would naturally be arrested, and this aided by the sheet spread on the ground, for the pur pose of using after bathing, either as a standing-place or for drying:herself, by the deceased lady. With merely circumstantial evidence so far to guide them, I cannot but consider that the judge and jury have been hasty in their conclusions as to the guilt of the husband . Contrast this case with that reported in your paper ()f yesterday. Can any one reading the evi dence on t hat case doubt that the husband was the murderer of his wife? and yet he is dismissed with a reprimand IDy the coroner, who does not think that "there is eN ridence to convict him of murder before a higher tribu am, Sir, your obedient servant, 15th Dec.. MEDICITS. This Change in the political constitution of France re quires according to custom, that th e p o liti ca l agen t s accredited at Paris, as well as those of his Ma jesty the Emperor accredited to foreign Courts, should receive new letters of credence. I shall, however, consider it a pleasure until this double formality shall have been fulfilled, to keep up non.offi cially with them relations, in conformity with the good understanding which exists, and will not cease to exist, between our two Governments. In fact, if France has chosen a form of Government more in harmony with her habits, her traditions, and the place she holds in the world, if her interests find in a return to monarchy that guarantee which is wanting to them, there is nothing which can change her position abroad. The Emperor recognises and approves all that was recognised and ap proved by the President of the Republic during the last few years. The same hand and the same ideas will con- tinue to direct the destinies of France, - and the experi ence acquired under the most difficult circumstances suf ficiently proves that the French Government, jealous of its own rights, has admitted in the same manner the rights of others, and that it has attached the greatest value to contributing to the maintenance of general peace. It is towards this object that tjie ef forts of the Government of the Emperor of the French will constantly tend ; his Majesty has the firmest confidence that if his intentions are com pletely in accord with those of the other Sovereigns the peace of the world will be secured. I have no doubt Monsieur , that the re-establishment of the Im perial power in France will be everywhere regarded as a happy event, because it is a pledge of stability and dura tion given to a policy which is quite in harmony with the interests and the wants of all the powers, and to a policy which the Emperor proposes particularly to follow in his relations with the Government of "Accept, /ie." Abd-el-Kader arrived in Lyons on Sunday night, by steamer from Chalons. He was about to proceed without stopping to Marseilles, but the Salut Public says, that, at the pressing instances of M ars h a l Castella,ne, he consented to pass Monday in Lyons. It was expected that he would witness a sham fight on the plain of Grand Camp, and attend a perform ance at the theatre. All the Government journals publish the fail Owin g anecdote ; Some persons lately spoke in presence of the Emperor of an article published in an Austrian journal, and couched in terms not very favourable to the regime established in France. This article gave a very incorrect interpretation of the message addressed to the Senate by his Majesty. " With the Prince de Schwartzenburg," said the Emperor, " such misrepresentations were not to be appre hended. He and I spoke the same language, and assuredly he would have better translated the his tory of the new empire." _ The Bourse was - firmer. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 106 f. for the end of the month ; and the Three per Cents. at 82f. 45c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,026 f. ; Rouen, 960 f. ; Havre, 530 f. ; Great Northern, 882 f. 50c. ; Basle, 362 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 802 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 890 f. ; Great Western, 765 f. ; Lyons and Avignon, 702 f. 50c.: St Dizier and Gray, 545 f. ; Caen and Cherbourg, 630 f. ; Dijon and Besangon, 580 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 610 f. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 1,965 f. THE CONTINENT. SPAIN. Advices from Madrid, dated the 10th inst., state that Government had given to General Narvaez a mission to go to Vienna, there to study the military archives of Austria, and to make an official report thereon. He was allowed 42 hours to prepare for his departure. The retirement from the Ministry of Generals Urbino and Ezpeleta was talked of. It is said, news of a character little satisfactory had been received from Barcelona. Lord Howden had returned to Madrid. HOLLAND. A telegraphic dispatch from the Hague announces that the Second Chamber of the States-General had unanimouslyadopted the conversion of the Four per Cents. Rentes into Three-and-Three-Quarters, at 99, or Three-and-a-half at 97, at the option of the Government. TURKEY. The Independance Beige has the following by electric telegraph from Berlin :—" Constantinple, Dec 4. The- Bank of Constantinople refuses to receive the paper money of the State. This deci sion has produced an immense sensation. A mo netary crisis is considered imminent." Letters from Smyrna of the 22d ult., says that the pirates had put an end to trade in the Archi pelago, the maritime insurance companies hav ing refused any longer to insure vessels in those waters. A Turkish ship had been seized by pirates within sight of Smyrna, and all the passengers and crew had been put to death. From Syria, we learn that neither the Seraslder nor the Druses being able to claim the victory ; after much marching and some fighting, they had concluded an armistice. It was proposed to reduce the Druses by negotiation. The Prince of Montenegro has issued a decree, threatening exile to all those of his subjects who should refuse to take arms against the Turks. His army occupied a strong position about three hours' march from the town of Podgorizza. Various skir mishes had taken place with the Turkish troops, and a decisive battle was expected. The Pacha of Scutari had taken the field at the head of 10,000 men, against the Montenegroes. GREECE. The Augsburg Gazette publishes the protocol of London, Oct. 25, relative to the Greek succession. It secures, as has been before stated, the succession in the line of the Princes of the House of Bavaria, who will ascend the throne with full right, having previous accepted the Greek religion, according to the constitution. In the event of a minority of the succession to the throne the Queen will assume the regency. The high contracting parties are Queen Victoria, the Emperor Nicholas, and Louis Napoleon, President of the French Republic. THE LIFE OF A BIRD IN LONDON.-It may be curious to note the effect of a London life on birds. In the course of some inquiries made by certain gentlemen, one of whom was Professor Owen, a slaughterman was ques tioned who was also a bird-fancier. He had lived in Bear-yard, near Clare-market, exposed to the combined effluvia from a slaughter-house and a tripe factory. He particularly noted, as having a fatal influence on the birds, the stench raised by boiling down the fat from the tripe offal. He said, "You may hang the cage out of the garret window in any house round Bear-yard, and if it be a fresh bird it will be dead in a week." He had previously lived, for a time, in the same neighbourhood, in a room over the Portugal -street burial-ground. That place was equally fatal to his birds. He had removed to Vere-street, Clare-market, beyond the smells from those two places, and he was able to keep his birds. In town, however, the ordinary birds did not usually live more than eighteen months ; in cages in the country, they would live nine years or more, on the same food. When he particularly wished to preserve a pet bird, he sent it now and then into the country for a change of air,--- .Dickens's Household Words." Table Bay never presented a more busy scene in times of peace than on Wednesday last, from swarms of visitors going to and from the Great Britain. A French war steamer was also in the Bay, of a large class, but the Great Britain reminded one of St. Paul's and the minor churches in London, from the contrast her tower ing dimensions afforded to the other vessels in the bay. The French war steamer, the Archimede, at a distance appeared as if alongside it, but was quite swallowed up in its shadow, leaving nothing but the paddle boxes to be seen, as if attached to the Great Britain. The scene on board this huge novelty beggars all descrip tion. The day was excessively warm, and the breeze from the north-west favourable to boating, but no one ever expected, till on board, to have seen such a crowd, so dense that all possibility of coaling for some hours was out of the question. The most remarkable feature in this affair was the immense number of Cape Dutch fa milies, most of whom had never been on the sea before, but could not withstand the temptation to visit this wonder of wonders. A great many people came also from the country, and, notwithstanding the crowd, the heat, and the crushing, the coals and the water, all seemed highly delighted. Indeed it required no small degree of forbearance and patience at such a busy time to be thus obstructed and overpowered by numbers. From the kindness and attention of Captain Mathews and his officers, however, every opportunity and assist ance was given, that they might inspect the whole eco nomy of the floating city. More than one fair face brought home evidence of having been among the coals. The town and neighbourhood have never been so lively in our recollection for such a continuance, and the ar rival of more passenger ships is likely to keep up this healthful excitement. It is truly refreshing to see so many honest, good-looking English faces among us.— Cape paper. THE MELBOURNE TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—l am desired by the directors of this company to forward to you, for insertion in your journal, and for the information of the friends of the passengers on board the Royal mail screw steamer Melbourne, the following offi cial letter received from Captain Hutton, the com mander. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, R. MARSHALL, Secretary. Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company, 69, Lombard-street, Dec. 14, 1852. " Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company's Screw Steamer Melbourne, Fort° etiande, St. Vincent, Nov. 29, 1852. " Sir,—l have the honour to inform you, for the in formation •of the board of directors, of the arrival of the screw steamer Melbourne, in the above port, this morn ing at 8 o'clock. " We have commenced coaling, but, owing to the arri val of the Queen of the South last evening, we must take our turn, in consequence of her using all the boats for that purpose available. " Our consumption of coals from Lisbon is 193 tons, and, as we can find room for 50 to 70 tons more below, we shall take that quantity on board to enable us to reach Cape Town without further supplies. "We weighed anchor from the Tagus at noon of the 21st inst., it being high water (the pilot refusing to take us to sea the night previous), and steamed out against a hard gale and a high sea running that continued for two days, which retarded our progress, as shown by the ab stract of the ship's log. Since then we have made fair progress, the winds being light and favourable. " I have much pleasure in informing you that there is not a single complaint against the general comfort and happiness of the passengers, and that all feel satisfied, and express contentment. From the ship's company there has not been a single murmur, and the general duties of the ship have been done with the best feeling. I may add, that the ship is tight, and by an alteration in our bilge-pumps, worked by the engine, all the water is kept continually drained out. I enclose an abstract of the log, surgeon's report, &c. "I may further add, no accident, either to masts, yards, spars, or sails, has happened, and, with few ex ceptions of the engine being stopped to cool the bear ings, that everything is going on to my satisfaction ; that the water-closets act satisfactorily ; and that the lower decks are completely clear from any water now, except a few trifling drops from the upper works that will be corrected immediately on leaving St. Vincent. te I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, "J. S. RITTTON, Commander. "Robert Marshall, Esq., Secretary." WEST LONDON REFORM ASSOCIATION.—Last night the annual meeting of this association was held at the Commercial Hall, King's-road, Chelsea ; Mr. President Gaskell in the chair. Mr. Osborne, one of the members for the county wa s present, and th ere was a numerous at tendance of members. The business was commenced by the Chairman reading a lengthened report, which referred to the circumstances under which the association was formed in 1847. The want of an organisation was deeply felt by the Liberals of the district at the election in that year, which resulted in their getting rid of a Tory mem ber. At the last election they had again succeeded in seat ing two Liberals, though with a m ore severe s t rugg l e th an in 1847. In February last Lord John Russell introduced his long promised m eas ure of Parli amen t ary re f orm , i n which he proposed to give the two vacant seats for Sud bury to the town of Birkenhead, in Cheshire, containing 24,175 inhabitants, and 3,228 inhabited houses, and to the town of Burnley, in Lancashi re, with a population of 20,828, and 3,741 inhabited ho uses. The Liberals of the district felt that great injustice was done to it by being thus passed over, inasmuch as the same Parliamentary re turns shewed, from which the preceding figures were taken, that the statistics of the four unrepresented parishes of the metropolis were as follows : Population. Inhabited Houses. Che15ea............ 56,538 ............... 7,591 44,053 ............... 6,136 Kensington ...... Hammersmith.. 17,769 ............... 3,115 Fu1ham........... 11,886 ............... 1,797 of 130,237 inhabitants, and 18,639 making a grand total inhabited houses. Lord J. Russell, however, left out that great district in his biil, which was withdrawn. The re port, in conclusion, urged the import ance of paying in creased attention tc, the register, as the best means of sup porting the Liberal cause. The report was ad o pted. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. THE DIRECTION.—We are informed that on the recent death of a London member of the London and North-Western a n application was made by some in- Board of Directors, fluential shareholders in Liverpool to elect a Mr. a representative of the Lancmhire interest. It is is stated that, of the 21,000,000/. share capital of the London and North-Western Company, about 7,000,0001. are held in Lancashire, which has sent 16 members to the Board, while about 9,000,000/. are held in London, which is now repre sented at the Board by seven members only.—Morning Herald. FORGERY ON HANBURY'S BANK.--A. forgery, to the extent of 9001., was committed upon this firm yesterday, which we regret to say was successful. MURDER IN DEAN FOREST.—Another foul crime has been committed on the western borders of the Forest of Dean, a locality which unhappily bears an ill name for deeds of violence. The case now under notice is a peculiar one in point of atrocity, and although it has undergone considerable sifting by the local officer, it is still enveloped in much mystery. The deceased is one William Peake, sawyer, who lived within a few miles of the picturesque town of Ross. He had been drinking at a public-house for several hours yesterday (Wednesday) week, and left to proceed home (being then somewhat the worse for liquor) at 11 o'clock at night. A man named James Greenhaf, who also lives in the neighbourhood, proposed to accom pany him, and they left the public-house together. Peake was never seen alive again. Next morning he was found dead in the turnpike road, three quarters of a mile from the public-house; death having clearly been caused by a violent stab with some sharp instrument in the eye, which instrument cut through the eyeball, penetrated the brain, and fractured the skull at the back of the head. Two days afterwards James Greonhaf was taken into custody, and on Monday the inquest was held before Mr. Joseph Love grove, one of the coroners for Glocestershire. The evi dence adduced was very voluminous. AFFECTING INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.—During the reading of the prayers by the Rev. Hugh Allen, yester day evening, at the church of St. Olave, Old Jewry, a lady of the name of Acton was taken suddenly ill, and almost as soon as removed to the vestry she expired. The rev, gen tleman made a very suitable allusion to the affecting cir cumstance, which it is hoped has made a lasting impression on the numerous congregation assembled on the occasion. Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng. Bost, do Eastn. June Birmug. Wolverh. di Stour Va11ey...... ... Birkenhd. Cheshire Juliet.- ••• Do. Chesh. & Birk. £5O & £25 Cons Do., £2O Bristol & Exeter__ Caledonian Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon.... Dublin&BelfastJune. Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction ....... Do. New ........ East Anglian (X 25 L. & E. & L. dr D.)..... Do., (XlB E. dr H.).., Eastern Counties.....' Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. - Sh Do., do. B. dr C.. East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk & Binning. June Ediriourgh & Glasgow Eclinb.Prth. &Dundee Glasgow & S.Western Great Northern Stk Do., A A. Stock Do. B. Stock Great Southern and Western (Ireland).. Great Western........ 'leash South-Eatera.. Lancaster & D0.,Third'5......... • Lancash. &Yorkshire Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern. Liv. Crsby. & So u:hpt. London & Blackwall Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond.Bright. & S. Cst. London & N. Western Do. Fifths Do. ,10/. 5h.,M&8... C London & S.Western Do., X5O Do. £4O. Landrry.&Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch.SheL&Lincln. Do., Man. &Lin. Un. `Midland Do. Birming.& Derby Midland G. West. (Ir.) Do. Shares - - - ......- Newjastle & Carlisle Newmarket. Newpt.Aberg.&Htfd Newry & Enniskilloß Newry Warrenpoint & Rostrevor Norfolk.. Do., New Northn. Counties Un, North British ... North Devon, No.l. Do., No. 2............ isi. I Do., i A Deferred ... Do., 4 B Guaranteed North Staffordshire.. North Wes:;ern.. ..... . . & S. WerArn. June. Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton.. Scottish Central ... Scottish Midland Shrewsbury & Birmg Do., L. & N. Westn Guaranteed Stock Shrewsby. & Herefd Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. MM.) Do. Halv3s, do Do. Oswastry S'sropshire Union.... Do., A.B.C. &D . fully paid up at p. c...... South Devon South Eastern.. South Wales.... S. Yorksh. River Duu Do.. Stockton & Harticpl. Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. dr Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West C0rnwa11........ West London.. 'Woodford York Newctl. & Berw. Do. Extensions....... Do. G.N.E. Purchase, York & N. Midland.. PREFERENI 'Aberdeen . Do., No. 2, 7 p. C.., Bristol & Exeter 4 p. cent. Stock .. ..... ... Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5 per cent Cork &Bandon 5i p.c Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction.— EastA nglian (£3los, 6 per cent ............ Do: (25) 7 per cent Do. (£7 l7s) 7 p. et Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do., No. 2 Do., New 6 p. c. St Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent Do., £lO Deben. Sh EastLancash. 6 p.cts East&WestYorkshire Junction, Fifths Edinb.Prth. &Dundee Glasgow & S. Western guar. 5 per cant Great Northn. 5 p.c Do. 5 p. c., Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem Gt. Southn. &Westn. (Ireland) Eighths Gt. Westn. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.) Groat Western, fixed 44 per cent Laucash. & Yorksh., F. !Do., 6 p. c., Stock.., Leeds Northern, 6 p. cent., No. 1 ........ Do No. 2 .. Do., Do., No. ...... Do. , Quarters, 1848. London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c... Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852. Do. New Guar. 6p c. Lou. & N. West. Cov. (Sr Nun., 5 p. c. Stock. London & S.Western, Con. Thirds Londonderry& Coley. Shares .. Lomlndry. & Ennisk. 5hare5............... Manch. ,Shef., & Liu., Shares, No. 1...... Do. New, £10..... .... Do., £6 ....... ....... Marypt. &Carl. 4 p. c. Do. 4i per cent.......' Do. Mid. Consol. 6 p. c. St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... Do. Pref. 4i per cent. Norfolk Extension... Do. Guar. 5i per et.. Do. Waveney Valley 5 per cent North British North Staffordshire Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. £15,6 p. e Do Shrewsbury & Birm. New Guaranteed Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min),B p. c. Do. 5 per cent South Devon Do. New ...... S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of Os.6d. Do. 4i per cent S. Yorksh.4p. c. Guar Stock.&liartl. Guar sp. c. till 1 Ju1y,1856 Waterfd. & Kilk . 6p. c. York Newcastle and Berwick,4 p.c.Pref Do York& N. Midland H & S. Parch Australasia British N. American Colonial Commercial of Lon don 'English Scottish and Australian Lond. Chart. Bk. 01 Australia London and County.. London Joint Stock.. Lond. & Westminster National Prov. of Eng. Do. New National of Ireland. Oriental Bank of Corporation. ........ Do. New Provireial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Importing Company Union of Australia Do. New Union of London... Union of Madrid ••• "". 81 - 131 - 14 2 - 111 - 11 17 par 25i - 26. i*o -- ••• .--- . ••• ---• . SHARES 1108 -.- 110 1105 - 1071 19 —19 A d— i i 6 64 1 7 - 3 4 g - ip 11-2 p p 14 -15 i 18 -• 18i 3 = * ii liii .1 - 129 112 113 n - 9i 1 -li p 1091 A. 1101 par p 152 155 •.• --- p 1 3i - 4 p 91 - 103' 11 - 111 -1) ..• - , i - 14 i) .50 - 151 P 231 - 231 6 - 64 lf - 2A 102 - 104 25 -26 i 17f - - • - 18 3, P par pm 102 104 5i i - i P JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 311 -- 32 63 -- 6i 103 -- 11 21 -- 131 -- 2 a 107 -- 109 681 -- 691 23 -- 234 18i— 197 3 -- 2 dl 9 - 10 - 4i 44 13 -13 i 11 - 12 8 1 - 9 i 76 - 78 58 60 78 - 80 294 - 31 60 - 62 82 - 84 44 - 46 122 - 124 LO7i 1084 96 -- 96i -88 -- 90 114 -12 p 84i -- 85 - 4 d 2t -- 2i d 1! -- 184 9 - - 2 109 - 110 12R - 126 li -2P 93 - 31 —24 d 2, 2 - d 12 13 20_ 24 31 32 3i 3 d 80 47 49 52 -- 54 3i —3 d 2 —3 81 1 56 -- 58 7i -- 81 21 -- 2A d 39 -- 40 6, -- 6i d 2i -- 2i d 1 R -- 4i --3 t d 1. -- 4 3i p 53 -- 54 94 -- 98 66 -- 67 66 -- 68 78 -- 82 19) -20 N -10 i 14i 3 -- 2i d 243 - 253 793 - 803' 39 - 40 14 - 143 - 23 2R 13 -13 i 91 - 10 27 - 28 9 - 10 73 - 74 6 - 2 .- 60 - 61 60 3 SniTE OP EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, DEC. 4. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Hin dostan, with the Calcutta mail of November 7, arrived at Suez on the Ist inst., and the Achilles from Bombay on the 2d, with passengers for England, to proceed by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Had dington, now hourly expected. Last week, Mr. A. Paget arrived here from Athens, to take charge of the Consulate-General pending the absence of the Hon. C. A. Murray, and the illness of Mr. Gilbert. It is hoped that Mr. Murray will not pro long his absence, as, owing to the influence he has gained in Egypt, and particularly over the mind of Abbas Pasha, his presence is very conducive to British in terests. Abbas Pasha has not been very well of late, and has been talking of proceeding to the Upper Country for change of air. His Highness takes great care of his health, and is much afraid of dying. His two delegates, Nubar Ney and Abdallah Bey (H. Rickards) returned from England by the last French steamer, having suc ceeded in effecting a loan for 300,0001. sterling in the name of the Viceroy, among some of the directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company. This money has been raised merely to accommodate the Sultan, who is much in want of pecuniary assistance, while his High ness gains no advantage by it himself. It has always been the policy of the Porte to weaken Egypt by di minishing its pecuniary resources. Abbas Pasha was made, some time ago, to pay enormous sums of money to the several living sons of Mehemet Ah, as an indemni fication for the land which they, as sons, considered they had a right to ; and now his Highness has to borrow money to assist the Sultan out of his difficulties, though he owes him nothing whatever, the tribute due being entirely paid up. Said Pasha, the heir apparent to the Pashalic of Egypt, returned to Egypt yesterday from Constanti nople after an absence of several months. It is to be hoped that a reconciliation will ensue between him and the Viceroy, as both parties cannot but be losers by the misunderstanding that exists between them. There is not much activity at present on the railway works, the Nile being at its complete height, and the engineers are waiting for the water to subside. Mr. Rouse, one of the leading engineers, goes to-day to Trieste for a short absence. Prices of all produce are falling. Freights have risen to 6s. 6d. and 7s. per quarter. Exchange on London, 981 piastres per pound sterling. THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAMER IN TABLE BAY. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. R A i LWALTS. Leasing Compans. Closing Prices YesterJay. Bedford and Bletchley Birm. & Oild guarantee D o. without gr Birm.Wolv: & Dudley guar. D o. wtht guar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln. gr. 6 p. cent Glstr.&Dn.Fr Glas. Barr. & Neilsn.Direct Do. New London it N. 'West. Gt.Westn Do Do Do L. &N.W, Caledon Gt.Notrhu Gt. Westu. Caledon Do Yk. New & Berw Y.&N. Md Do Do Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby. Do. i Shares. Do. I Shares. Lon. & Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent... Do. 6 per et... Manch.Bston. and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redcar . S. Eastern Do Norfolk Do Lu.&N.W & Midld Stokton & Darlingt.l Midld.Bradfd. Northern and Eastern sp. c• Do. 6 per et.. Do. Fixed sp. c Prest. &Wyre E. Count Do Do, L. (St 1\ . W drLn& Yk Do 1 Shares, Royan. dz Hit, Do.Shepth. St Gt.Nortlul Do Shef. Roth. & Lancash.& Goole g. 5. p.c Yorksh.. S. Staffordsh MrMClean WearValleygr Stockt. & 6 per cent Darling.. Do Do Wilts &Sorarst Gt.Westn 30 - 31 29i - 3kH 30 - 31 29 - 30 109 - 111 53 55 149 - 151 33 - 34 ... ...." 113 .115 56 -57 i 27 -- 28 14 -- 144 25i -- 26 19 i --20 23 -- 25 3 - 31 1073 - 10$3 64 - 66 ... - ... 150 - 152 149 - 151 t— Ad 32A 1051 -- 1063 FOREIGN. RAILWAYS. BelgianEastn. Junct. Central of France(Or leans & Vierzon Charleroi & Erquelin Demerara Dijon and Besangon, Dutch Rhenish East Indian Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France Gt. Western of Canada Shares Do.Bds. (Ist i55.)1867 Do.Bds. (2d i55.)1862 Luxembourg.. Do. (Railway) Do. Do. (Canal) . . Lyons & Mediterran, Madras 'Maria Antonia. IDo. New . Namur & Liege (with interest) IDo. (ex interest), Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. c. Bds (fmy. B. &Ams. Shs.) NorwegianTrunkPref Orleans & Bordeaux Paris and Lyons Do. Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg ParisCaen & Cherbrg. Quebec &Richmond Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse._ Southern of France St. And. & Quebec(A) Tours and Nantes Upper India Scrip West Flanders Do. 5i per c. Pref.. Western of France. Aqua Fria ...... Anglo Californian Australasian Australian Australian Cordillera Australian Freehold Ave Maria Baden (Gd. Duchy of) British Austrin. Gold British Iron Bmzilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm Do. Cocaes k Cuiada, Do. St. John Del Rcy Carsons's Creek Cobre Copper Colonial Gold Copiapo English and Austin Copper Smelt;. Co General Golden Mountain Great Polgooth Lake Bathurst Liberty Loud &Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co Mariquita Mexican&S.Americn. New Granada Nouveau Monde Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymme Iron Santiago de Cuba South Australian Tin Croft United Mexican West Mariposa Yuba MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Ryl. Mail Canada Copper Miners of Eng Do. Preference Crystal Palace Crystal PalaceFrauce l Eastern Steam Electric Teleg. of Ir Gen. Steam Navigat General Screw Steam Shipping Company Irish Beetroot Sugar Netherlands Land Peninsular& Oriental Do Royal Mail Steam Univeral Emigration and Colonization.... Closing Prices Yesterday. 1 - 2 14 == in 3 -- 3ip 11 1 1 d 2 9 9 p - 2 p 2 2 p par 1 p 7 - 7i - 1 - 1 - 1 6 7- 9 p 2 -34 i) ... .. Is -- 1 1 34 35 14 , 1 - 154 15i -- 15Bp 65 371 -- 38. 32 -- 32 41 -- 4i p 21 -- 21 1 111; -- 12 i a P 10 -- 10ip - a - Business done this Day. Business done ••• ---. ... MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Dec. 16, 1852, made up from the Returns of the Inventors in the different Cities and Towns in England And Wales per Imperial Quarter. •• IWHEAT.1 WHEAT. 113•RLEY.11 OATS. RYE. BEANS. PEAS . 42S ld 29s 9d 18s 7d 126 s 11d 135 s 41 32s 8;1 DUTIES ON FOREIGN OORN. wfIEAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. I I RTE. BEANS. I PEAS. Is Od Is ohl l is Od Is Od ls Od lls Od QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 121,024 ; Bar!ey, 116 134; Oats, 20,001; Rye, 239 ; Beanr, 5.501 ; Peas, 3,654 quarters. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 4/ Os ; clover ditto, 3/ 15s to 5/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ lls per load. A moderate supply, and a steady demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2/ 16s to 4/ 4s ; clover ditto, 3/ 15s to Si Os ; and straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 11s per load. Both hay and straw sold steady at full prices. WRITECHAPEL. —Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 4/ 08 ; clover ditto, 3/ 15s to 5/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ ll s per l oad. Supply good, and trade rather dull. MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—The - general demand ruled steady, and prices were supported. Beef, from 2s 2d to 38 6d ; Mutton, 3s Od to 4 8 4d ; V ea l , 2s 8d to 3s 10d ; Pork, 2s 6d to 4s per 81bs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, DEC. 15.—Our market has ruled firm, and prices have improved. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s Od ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 5s Od ; Veal, 3s to 3s 10d ; Pork 3s Od to 38 10d per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, DEC. 15.—Beasts and sheep sold readily at somewhat higher terms, and calves and pigs were a dull sale. Beef, from 2s 8d to 48 Od ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 5s ; Veal, 3s Od to 3s 10d ; Pork, 2s 10 to 3s 10d per Blbs. Quarter old Store Pigs, 17s to 21s each. HAILSHAM, DEC. 15.—The general demand to-day is firm, as follows : Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s Od ; Mutton, 4s to 5s ; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 8d ; Pork, 3s Od to 358 d per 81bs. ARUNDEL, Dec. 14.—We have a good steady demand for stock to-day. Beef, from 3s 2d to 45 2d ; Mutton, 4s 3d to 5s Od ; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 8d ; Pork, 3 s O d to 3s per 81bs. CHICHESTER, DEC. 15.—Beasts and sheep sold a_ _t higher prices. Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 2d ; Mutton 3s 8d to 5s Od ; Veal, 3s Od to 3s 8d ; Pork, 3s to 3s 8d p as 3d LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(21115 DAY.) lit Wind at Noon, W. fine. LONDON, Dec. DEAL, Dec. 15.—Wind, S.W., blowing hard. Arrived —California, New (Means, for Hamburgh. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 15.—Arrived—Lord Elgin, New Cala bar • Irene, Islay; Siren , Pata g onia; Sandbeich, Demerara ; Excelsior,' Rio Hache ; Kemrebec, Hamlet, Eastern Queen, Lexington, and Sandusky, New Orleans ; Southampton, Mobile • Winchester, New York ; Acadia, Richebucto ; King 'Alfred, Newfoundland. Sailed— Susquehanna, Charleston ; Pacific (s), New York. 16.—The Ann Eliza (b), of this port, was fallen in with, water-logged and ap parently abandoned for some time, in lat. 38, long. 50, by the Winchester, arrived here. A severe shock of a sub marine convulsion or earthquke was experienced on the 13th of Octobor, in lat. 2, S., by the }Ebbed, arrived at Bahia. HULL, Dec. 14.—Arrived—Pauline, Patagonia ; Eliza beth, Holderness, St. John's, N.B. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 15.—Arrived—Zara, Newfoundland, from London. BRISTOL, Dec. 15.—Arrived—Tomatur, Wilson, Mau ritius. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 15.—The Cashmere, for London to Adelaide, South Australia, has sprung her rudder in the main piece. MARGATE, Dec. 15.—Arrived—Dolphin, Jersey, for London, sails blown away top of bulwarks and leaking, having experienced a hurricanne off the Foreland. HARWICH, Dec. 15.—Wind, W., blew hard all night from westward and continues, The Cruiser steam-sloop, Commander Hyde Parker, is obtaining hands very fast, having already entered up wards of 90 of her complement of 150. Lieutenant W. G. Jones, appointed First Lieutenant of the Cruiser, took up his commission and joined to-day. The crew of the Rhadamanthus steam troop-ship, Master-Commander John Belam, were paid wages yes terday, several of the men having from 301. to 401. each to receive, and obtained a fortnight's leave of absence. The Wildfire steam-vessel arrived at Woolwich this afternoon, having on board Vice-Admiral the Hon. Jos celine Percy, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief at the Nore. Commodore Henry Eden proceeded in his pinnace, ac companied by his flag-lieutenant, G. E. K. Gore, and the gallant admiral came on shore at the dockyard. APPOINTMENTS. Master.—Tomyns D. Brown (1851), from the Coast Guard, to - the Cruiser steam- s l oo p, at Woolwich. Surgeons.—John Stewart (b) (1841), to be Surgeon- Superintendent of the Sibella, convict-ship ; Henry Mac. farlane (1844), to the Valorous, steam-frigate, at Devon port. Assistant-Surgeon. William Ray (1851), recently serving in the Rosamond steam-sloop, to the Valorous. Master's-Assistant. G. H. Downing,. to the Va. lorous. gt, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. We regret to hear that among the victims to the yel low fever, on board the Dauntless, 31, screw-frigate, Captain Halsted, in the West Indies, two were midship men of that ship. The Rattlesnake, old frigate, last employed as a sur veying -vessel, is ordered to be commissioned thi s d a y a t Chatham, to be commanded by a commander, and to have a complement of 80 men. It is said she is to be fitted to convey stores, provisions, and dispatches to Sir Edward Belcher's Arctic searching expedition. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 15. Rear-Admiral Pellew's flag was struck on board the Neptune last evening at sunset. The Kassid Kheir, yacht of Said Pasha, left Spithead this morning for Egypt, but the foulness of the weather compelled her to brinc , up at St. H e l en ' s. The Blenheim, 60, Captain W. H. Henderson, C. 8., was docked to-day : and the Sidon, 22, Captain Gold smith, came out of the fitting-basin in the afternoon. The Archer, 14, screw-sl oo p, C ommander Strange, completed the adjustment of her compasses to-day, and is now ready for sea. A collier brig, named the Arrow, of Shields, laden with coals for sale at this port, went ashore on the " Horse," a dangerous shoal off this port, a little after 6 o'clock this morning, and as the tide rose she bilged and filled. The crew abandoned her at half-past 11 a.m., when the sea was making a clean breach over her, and at 2 p.m. nothing but her mainmast was visible above water. SHEERNESS, DEc. 14. The London, 90, Captain George R. Mundy, left the Nore this day at 11 a.m., assisted by the steam-frigate Cyclops, commanded by Lieut. John Seccombe, First Lieutenant of the Horatio, and in command of the Cyclops pro tem., and the African steam-tug vessel, in command of Second Master Mr. Gill, for Spithead. Mr. J. Taylor, Queen's pilot, was boarded on the London, 90, and Mr. J. Millbank, Trinity pilot, was also boarded on the Cyclops. In addition, Mr. Charles Pope, Assist. ant-Master-Attendant of her Majesty's dockyard here, has proceeded in the Cyclops, by an Admiralty order. The Cyclops will bring the seamen-riggers and seamen lent from here back from Spithead on the arrival of the London at that place. The African steam-tug will not go further than the Downs, unless it be found necessary in consequence of the foul state of the copper of the Lon don, she having laid at her moorings here from 16 to 18 months, during which time a heavy accumulation of muscles, &c., has adhered to the copper. The Ordnance boy Elizabeth, William Montague master, arrived here to-day from Woolwich, with guns, gun-carriages, and fitments for the Agamemnon, 91 guns, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland ; and the screw steam-sloop Miranda, 14 guns, and 20-horse power. The Miranda is ordered to be forwarded in her fitment with all speed possible. The Agamemnon will take in her lower deck guns only in the basin, the remainder of her armament will be put on board after she has left the basin. The cutter Longboat, R. Harvey master, sailed yes terday for Woolwich and Deptford, with stores from this yard. _ WOOLWICH, DEO. 15. The Megmra iron screw steam-frigate, Commander John 0. Johnson, arrived at Woolwich at a quarter be fore 4 p.m. yesterday, having on board Captain Thomas Elwyns and Major the Hon. R. Spencer's companies, both of the 9th battalion of Royal Artillery, from Bar badoes. The troops will land at the Dockyard to-mor row, the frigate having been brought up at moorings in the stream. THE GOOD-SERVICE PENSION. The vacant good-service pension has been given to Captain William James Hope Johnstone (1823) super intendent of Haslar, and of the Clarence Victualling- - Captain Johnstone is the fifth senior captain from the top of the list, and has served a great many years afloat during war and peace. As a captain, he commanded the Doris, 42, the Asia, 84, and Britannia, 120, as flag captain to Sir Pulteney Malcolm ; the Agincourt, 72, as flag captain to Sir Thomas Cochrane, when he com manded the seamen and marines, in 1846, in the expe dition against the Sultan of Borneo, when the enemy's forts and batteries in the river Brune were captured ; and, lastly, he commanded the Albion, 90, in the Medi terranean. Captain Hope Johnstone is the second son of the late Vice-Admiral the Right Hon. Sir William Johnstone Hope, G.C.8., M.P., and is connected with the noble families of Athlone, Auckland, and Henley. [Under the head of " Naval Intelligence," on Mon day last, we stated that Lieutenant John Adamson (1811) had accepted the rank of Retired Commander, according to the order in Council of 1830. Sinc e th en , Lieutenant Adamson has written us, stating that such is not the case.] ROYAL ARTILLERY. WOOLWICH, DEC. 15. Lieutenant-Colonel Flude has taken the command of the 3d hattalion„ in the room of Lieutenant-Colonel Symons, who proceeds to Ceylon, to relieve Lieutenant- Colonel Wilson in the command, and Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson has returned home and assumed the duties of Director of the Laboratory Department at the Royal Arsenal. Lieutenant-Colonel Higgins has taken the command of the 4th battalion, on his return from the command of the Royal Artillery at Quebec. Lieutenant-Colonel D'Arley has vacated the command of the sth battalion, on being placed under orders for foreign service, to take the command of the Royal Ar tillery stationed at Kingston, Canada, in the room of Lieutenant-Colonel Palmer, who returned on sick leave, and has since retired on half-pay. Lieutenant W. J. Wilson, of Captain Christie's com pany, stationed at Gibraltar, exchanged with Lieutenant Seymour, of Captain Philpott's company, previous to the return of the latter company from Gibraltar. It is intended, in order to meet the requirements con sequent on the approval of an augmentation to the ex tent of 2,000 men to this branch of the Ordnance ser vice, to appoint one additional serjeant and one addi tional bombadier to each of the eight companies of the 12 battalions of the present establishment. This ar rangement will promote the eight senior corporals of each battalion to the rank of serjeant, and the eight senior bombadiers of each of the 12 battalions to the rank of corporal, and 16 acting bombadiers will be pro moted to full bombadiers. LYCEUM THEATRE. A capital farce, full of mirth and briskness, was pro duced last evening, under the curious title of Little Toddlekins. Mr. Charles Mathews represents a Mr. Jones Robinson Brownsmith, who, being one of thirteen children, the offspring of love and poverty, determines to marry for money, and woos and weds a widow, wh o , dying, leaves him a daughter eig hteen y ears older th an himself. This child of fo rt y -ei g ht, Amanthis (Mrs. Frank Matthews), is the clog .of his existence, and he endures eight refusals fro m being burthened with such an infant. His whole ex istence is conse q uentl y spent in endeavouring to get rid of her by marriage, but even a half-pay captain, devot ed to brand y and ci g a rs, this e r r . - Captain Littlepot (Mr. H. Butler) , cannot ta ke the limn, e with the encumbrance. Brownsmith, however, being now rejected by his ninth inam ora t a on account of ow tis v gro wn baby, induces her to relent, and her papa, a Mr. Barnaby Babicombe (Mr. Basil Baker), is i n d uce d to o another, and asadnedartiiinufsaitihtetyoZomhsmelf,arry each one good turn deserves other's daughter. The great fun of the piece consists in all supposing the daughter of so young a man must be a child ; and Mrs. F. Matthews's appearance in violent contrast to the sup position, created immense merriment is Mathews was exceedingly cleveran and h ani mation kept the piece alive ' of immense delight. ) and the audience in a state Indeed, they continued in a roar of laughter from first to last , perpetual 1‘ 1; Charles and the curtain descended amid universal merriment and applause. Mr. Mathews was enthusiastically calledl, for, and bowed his acknow ledgments. T en, upon acry , being raised for " the author," the admirable comedianagain appeared, and addressing himself to the audience, said, " Ladies and gentlemen, a m I r i g h t i n suppos i ng that you wish to know who is the author of this piece ?" (Cries of ' Yes, yes !') "First (continued he) pray tell me whether you like it." Great applause was the significant reply. "I am the author," then exclaimed Mr. Mathews, as he re tired precipitately from the stage. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-Mr. Wright is incapacitated, through sudden indisposition, from appearing at this side of Christmas, and the performance will conclude nightly with A Roland for an Oliver. Of Miss Carlotta Leclereq's Mary Darlington we have but to repeat our former favour able it is a most chaste and elegant speci men of comic The hundredth night of th e C orsc i an op ac in ti i n o g n . ; Brothers drew a house crammed to suffocation on Tuesday, and it went off as freshly as on the very first representa tion. The public will not forget that the benefit and final retirement of the veteran Bartley takes place on the 18th instant. SURREY THEATRE.—The performances this evening are for the benefit of Mr. Richard Gardner, a very clever teacher of dancing, who was recently deprived of the whole of his property by the fire at the Assembly Rooms, in Webber-street. 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