The Sun. — London, England, 1852-01-24 00:00:00

THE SU BRITISH DEFENCE ASSOCIATION. ireferred to was insisted upon with incomparable 1 The aspect of affairs in France demands immediate prepare- ' ability by one of the most charming writers of our 1 Lions for defence : our Government is fettered by constitutional forms, 1 and is therefore necessarily slow to move—the most unscrupulous age, and one consequently who could most readily ad- designs are in progress—Great Britain is in danger—the lives and ` dregs himself wen to a numerous proportion of his con- ! p „ p .rty or her subjects are at stake—the honour of our Sovereign is imperilled —Britain must be aroused, she must have the sinews main- temporaries. Sir FRANCIS BEAD, ill his somewhat defence and the power to employ them—our sea-girt isle must fain her position among the nations. startling appeal to his countrywomen, disclosed A Committee is in formation to devise and effect prompt measures to meet every exigency. Subscriptions will be opened immediately. in a masterly manner the position of things All who desire to co-operate are requested to communicate at once along our coasts, showing that, to say the with Henry Wickens, Esq., the principal S ecretary, at the Com- inittee Rooms, No. 57, Threadneedle - street , opposite Royal Es- very least of it, there w ere enormous, change-buildings, London. if not in the End wholly irresistible, temptations to GAMS; The above fashionable and exciting game is now ready for SALE or HERE at MERRY'S FANCY REPOSITORY, 380, OXFORD-STREET ; also a variety of elegancies in papier mache, English. French, and German toys, desks, work-boxes, dressing. eases, and innumerable fancy articles, suitable for presents, includ ing Christmas tree ornaments. At MERRY'S, 380. Oxford-street. Parties attended with Parlour Ma gi c, Magic Lanterns, Ike, the more warlike among the continental enemies of Great Britain. Everyone knows well enough that the Prince DE JOINVILLE declared the practicability of a military incursion into England. Everyone knows this as well as that the Emperor NAPOLEON not merely resolved upon the conquest of these islands, but went even so far as to collect together his army and his fleet in the immediate vicinity of Boulogne. More recently a French General no less dis tinguished than CHANGARNIER declared his readi ness to conduct 3 body of 10,000 men to London : and as that merry old gentleraar, Mr. Punch, has since remarked, CHANGARNIFR, in fulfilment of his offer, has really arrived in our metropolis, only— he has left behind him the 10,000 soldiers who were to have been his companions. All these historical in cidents, though familiar long before now to the ma jority of the people, are here recalled to the public recollection, because they unite in demonstrating the views entertained by our foes themselves in reference to a matter vi•ally affecting the interests of the empire, and hinging even upon the very question of the na tional existence. Elsewhere in our impression of this evening will be found an epitome of the ingenious theory sug gested by the Baron EMILE MAURICE DE SELLON, which we have transferred to our columns from those of a morning contemporary. As the production of a soldier already distinguished by several very excel lent works as a military tactician, this theory is perhaps, of all the theories yet advanced, the one most fully entitled to consideration. Founding his scheme of invasion upon the data of the arma ment actually assembled in 1804 by the Emperor NAPOLEON, the Baron MAURICE asserts that 150,000 men would be the number requisite for the conquest of the British Government. Descendingto particulars, he maintains that the force must consist of 110,000 infantry, of 22,000 cavalry, of 13,750 artillery, of 3,000 engineers, and of 3,050 baggage train—in all, a gross total of 151,800. Together with them he enumerates 22,000 troop and 35,80 U draught horses, making a full compliment of 57,806. These, with a due proportion of carriages, ammunition, stores, and provisions, he would have transported to our shores, one-half from Brest, and the other from Cher bourg—conveying them thence through the aid of some 224 sailing vessels, 4 auxiliaries, 325 steam ships, 657 of merchant service, giving a sum total of 982 altogether. The subsequent proceedings of the expedition planned by the bellicose ingenuity of Baron MAURICE will be observed to be very explicitly de fined in subsequent portions of the document already particularized. Landing 32,000 men at Bristol, where little or no resistance is anticipated, bombard ing Plymouth with the line-of-battle ships, con taining 43,000 soldiers, and, of course, taking it after a few hours' siege triumphantly, and directing no less than 76,000 upon Rye, where every imagi nable facility is expected in the process of debarka tion, France is to concentrate those three corps cf armee upon the ill-fated metropolis of Great Britain, which in panic, flames, an d bloodshed, is to deliver up its treasures to the conqueror. What is to be done after the unwieldy province is vanquished is left, of course, as y e t, to the vaguest daydreams of the liveliest imagination. The Baron contents himself with sketching out a plan which has been recently laid before the English community through the medium of a translation by Captain ADDISON. * Now all this, doubtless, is very pretty, very agreeable, very enticing to that jeune France which cherishes the idea of supplanting " the flag that has braved a thousand years the battle and the breeze," by " the tricolour that has made the tour of the world in the midst of glory and victory." But JOHN Bean cannot, for the life of him, comprehend the notion of ignoring thus sum marily the existence of that naval power with which, since the days of Dutch prowess and of the Spanish Armada, he has " ruled the waves," in the name of his titulary goideas Britannia. Setting aside the extravagance of the calculations made r by those continental advocates of invasion, there is, assuredly, nevertheless, ample reason on our part for setting on foot preparations, such as might be best calculated, in case of emergency, to repel the force of any foreign aggression. Among the proposals which have been recently made public in reference to these suggested prepa rations, we may briefly refer to the schernef of forming - and enrolling rifle clubs throughout the United Kingdom. It has been hinted to ourselves, moreover, that it might, perhaps, be advisable to have the police force instructed in rifle-shooting, in the adoption of which course it is argued that, without any extra charge, a supplementary militia would thereby be very readily organized. Might not our artillery, also, sug gests our correspondent, carry with them iron Venetian blinds, of a p or t a bl e character, so as to constitute a moving fortress capable of being advanced to the sea shore or withdrawn into the interior, according to the exigency of the situation—protecting the men effectually from rifle bullets and musket balk, while obviating at the same time the evils attendant upon a stationary sea-side battery, which must, of course, become altogether useless, so soon as the enemy have actually landed. Together with changes of the kind here specified, it were probably advisable like wise to have all the old ships now laid up idle in clock fitted out with the screw propeller, well manned by an increase of our maritime forces (sailors, remember, being capable of acting both as marines and as soldiers)—and thereby rendered available in the instance of any serious emergency. In connexion with this portion of the subject, it is gratifying to observe the following significant announcement made with the rest of to-day's naval intelligence : "ANOTHER SCREW THREE-DECKER FOR THE BRITISH NAVY.— that the Admiralty have We are glad to find ordered the Windsor Castle, of 120 guns, now build ing at Pembroke, to be cut in two amidships, in order to introduce about 23 feet of midship body, and also to be lengthened abaft to receive the screw and engines of 780-horse power, made by Mr. Robert Napier, of Glasgow, originally for the Simoom; and we ho;^,o to see a similar operation performed on many more of the ships now building. The Royal Albert, 120, building at Woolwich, is also b eing adapted for the screw, to be propelled by the en gines of 620-horse power, made by Seaward for the Euphrates. ~ ph:atm Thus bringing into use some of the engines of large pow er now ling on hand." Wit h preparations of thi s d es criptio n ft -f oo t th ere can t posi ttioen against the of cannot, we thi n k, rema i n very l arge anx i e t y as to p the most confident con m fi d d in en ta t inin a g nd our the most formid a bl e of invaders. To say otherwise were to malign the temper of the people, and to depreciate the value of the ever-memorable and glorious records of our national history. For the preservation orthe might of England we have to look with fl to the prowess of our military u a n na 'gging confidence maritime defences ; yet more to the Itsslour and patri • otism of the popula tion ; but, above all, of course, still to the aid of id PROVIDENCE. • “on National Defence in England." B, M a urice. &c. Translated by Captain J. ilt i r9r , P. E. With a Map o Parker Chai,inel.and adjacent Coast:. -1 1 n a ' Be , e * 88. Londe') : , urruval, and Parker. late. "A Proposition. for the In.mediae Formation and rolment of Rifle Clubs throughout . the Co3int ry ,, 13 _ 0 . B vo ., pp. 81. London . John hung. 1852. Y. an Old Soldier. ROYAL MARIONETTE THEATRE, ADELAIDE-STR LE l E, WEST STRAND. ITN PARALLE EITSUCCESS. Crowded Houses Every Night. First Week of the distinguished. Vocalists from Italy, Signora Barbieri Alleni and Signor Barri Tone. The performances T:LIS EVILNING and during the week will commence with an INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS by the Manager. Arter which, a new seem of Apropos, entit.ed the 31AYAGEit'r ROJ Ta be followed by the Musical Burlesque of BOMBASTES RIOSO. To conclude with a new grand Ballet, called PAULINE ; or, the ?upil of Nature. D oor s open at Half-past Seven, and commence at Eight o'clock. Private Box Balcony Stalls, 35.; Lower Stalls, 2s. es, 4 Is. Balcony, 25.; raphitheatre, Private Boxes and Stalls may be obtained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sam's Royal Library, St. James's-street ; Mr. C. 011ivie , , New Bond-street ; at all the prin cipal libraries; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, Adelaide tr eet, West Strand. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. First Appearance of Mr. Sims Reeves. IBIS EVENING, Will be produced the Opera of FRA DIAVOLO. Fra Diavolo, Mr. Sims Reeves ; Lord Allcash, Mr. Whitworth ; Lorenzo, Mr. Manvers ; Giacomo, Mr. Dehaga ; Zerlina, Mrs. Sim s Reeves Lady Allcash, Mks P. Horton. To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN HOGARTH ; Or, The Two London 'Prentices. Box-office open daily from 10 to 4. PRICES OF ADMISSION. The former scale of prices has been revised, and a rate of admission adopted suitable to the convenience of all classes of society:— Dna; Circle • • .. 6s. Upper Boxes Pit .. Amphitheatre Gallery .. 2s. 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. E. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENIffirO, Will be performed LONDON ASSURANCE. Characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Leigh Murr a y , Lambert, BOW 8; ing, and Miss Reynolds. Alter which a new Fairy B ur lesque, called THE PR INCESS RA. DIANE AND THE STORY OF MAYFLOWER. Characters by Messrs. Buckstone, H. Bedford, J. Eland, Cwt.'eld, Clark, Pllmmeri, Mrs. Fitwilliam , Mr s. Buckingham, and Miss C fi ollins. To conclude with the Farce, called THE TWO BONNYCASTLES. Mr. Bonnycastle, Mr. Bankston° ; Mrs. Bonnycastle, Mrs. Buck. Ingham. WM THBATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Lessee, Mr. B. Webster; Directress, Madame Celeste. Enormous success of the Taskee Comedian, Mr. Josh Silsbee. THI6 EVENING, Win 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. Worrell ; Emily, Miss Emma Harding. To be followed by a characteristic sketch, called THE YANKEE PEDLAR ; or, Old Times in Virginia. Hiram Dodge, Mr. Silsbee ; Moorland, Mr. Worrell •, Miss Nancy Bantam, Miss Emma Harding. After which MY PRECIOUS BETSY. Mr. Bobtail, Mr. Wright. Te, conclude with a new and original Christmas Tale, called "IT TLE BED RIDING ROOD. Wolfram, Baron of Burliburg (sur named the Wolf of Biberich), Mr. Paul Bedford ; Scraggenheim, Mr. Batter; Trudchen (commonly called Little Red Riding Rood), Miss Kathleen Fitz william. .110YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Managementot Mr. O. Leal. THIS EVEN MO, Shakespere's flay of TWELFTH NIGHT. Characters by Messrs. Bartley, Keeley, Harley, Ryder, Meadows, J. Vining, Cathcart. Wheatleigh, Miss Murray, Mrs. Keeiey, and Mrs. C. Kean. With a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN BILLY TAYLOR; 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. .B.OYAL fACEUnf THEATItt. Under the Management of StEadame Vestri& THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE GAME OF SPECULATION. Principal characters by Masan. C. Mathews, P. Matthews, It. Roxby, B. Baker ; Mrs. C. Horn, and Miss M. Oliver. To concinde with _ _ A new and original Fairy Extravaganza, ixtravaganza, by J. R. Manche, Esq., entitled THE 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 Rosins Wright, Messrs. F. Matthews, B. Baker, Suter, Horncastle, Butler, and Vernon. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATIU ,na , .r.LE . w . 1,V,N1N(4, Will be performed A CONSPIRATOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF. After which AN ORGANIC AFFeICTION. To conclude with RED .tUFGS; or, Harlequin Fact, Fiction, and Taney. Red Rules, Mr. Shaiders ; Clown, Mr. Edwards; Harlequin, Mr. Fcrrest ; Pantaloon, Mr. Tanner; Columbine, Miss Lees. PLAYLIOUS2. STKAND Lease.. Mr. W. R. COPELAND, Liverpool. The Warmest Theatre in Lenclon. I N ti Wig be performed THE TWELVE L ABOURS OF HERCULES. After which, The JUVENILE PARTY. To be followed by a new Chinese burlesque, called THE bLINDA BIN'S DAUGHTER , or, Willow Pattern Plate. Characters by Messrs. J. Reeve, Rogers, Romer, Attwood, Hudspeth; 31esdames Marshall, Sanders, Bell, Eglinton, and Maskell. To conclade with MY SIS PER FROM INDIA. 'tbe k n ees ui admiss:on are arranod as loilJw :—Orchestra stalls, 4s; boxes titrst circle), as. • (second circle), 2s. ; Pit, Is. D ~ .ors to be openel at Hall-past Six, and the porlorrnAncas to Commence at Seven precisely. A Second price will be taken to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock —nrst circle , 25.; second circle, Is. Private Sexes Ono Guinea and a Half each. stage Manager. Mr. E. Stirling. iy Vl...r:Y'b ItOIAL Under JO Y,tronaKe of her Maje.ity and his Rua+ Highness Prince Aibert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. The most successiul and popular Theatre In London. Mr. Batty bogs to inform his patrons that he has entered into an engagement with Mons. FRANTZ BENSOO, the great Rope Dancer, from Vienna, who will make his appearance every evening* THIS EVENING, Will be perf,rmed a Magnificent Spectacle, entit l e d BLUE BEARD; or, Female Curiosity, 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 erJer, both Native and Foreign. With the meat popular and only Equestrian Pantomime in London, entitled MR. and MRS. BRIGGS ; or, lunch's Festival—Mirth, Wit, and Jollity. Harlequin, Mr. Harvey ; Columbine, Miss Avery ; Pantaloon, Mr. Buckman; Clown , A rthur Nelson, who will in the course of each evening play a number of favourite airs on the Harmonicon. 1341 -eta to hi. had at the Pox-office from Eleven till Four daily. 'Laze mana•ger. Yr. T. 'rbotntssor.- - Irts D, HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T -- Monaing 53 raja. after 3 I EVellillg 1 0 Mill a ft er 4 oaow -- 21 Lain. atter 4 I Evening 44 min alter 4 Tv% —74 WE4T-REIL—Sus OFFica, JANUARY 24. TRnemortinxna, IN TEES SHAM 41—highset knee neon yesterday. 31-10 wsst this morning and daring the night. 41— this day, at noon. Beaotativat, 29.79. Worn S.W.—strong breeze andcloud ,Tith rain occasionally. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather yesterday at each of the following places at Nine o'clock vest are arranged in order of la.titude breeze —partially clouds. morning, --The stations cloudless. ri.. - tatouTit—Wind W., stror, PeoLg—Wind S.W.. gentle hree BiuGHT ON—Wind N., calm—overcast, breeze --partially ,e—partiall ElasTniGs—Wind W., gentle bre g ez b c e a re st :p , y cloudy.cloudy, Son TH.A.MPTOX— W ind \,,, ~ stron FotwEsTorit— Wind S.W., gentle breeze —overcast, GREEN" TCH--%,, incl S W., gentle breeze y. Snloon —Wind S.W., gentle breeze—cinmeil'e cloudless, B,ritryoN—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy, CO LCIIESICR— Wind S.W., strong breeze—partiallyloud'; Caul,.;=.ll,og—Wintl S., gentle breeze—partiallyo, cloudy, YaimouTH—Wind S.W.. gentle breeze—overca: udY ' DartuNGToN—..lv-ind S S W , gentle breeze—partially cloudy, The returns from the following state places indicate the the win( l and w eather on Thursday morning at e at e o f g at nip s o'clock :.. I,tmisalcs:—Wind N E W. strong breeze—hail. (3AR-Lc'w —Wind S. bard win d —rain. / Uuji ` ll342 ind W., strong breeze—overcast. TO COR iiESPOI% DE .N No communicatinn enn be ao-,erided to unless waken ticated by the name and address of the writer. Refreti , d commtmications cannot be returned. 4 ., t. v,,g V ‘' Au , •t, • tr, w ysf L . 4 • ist ‘).6 s'• ~~,a It was with mingled feelings of shame, i 1/ondeur indigna tion, a n d astonishment that we read in the • the decree signed Louis NAPOLEON BONAPAUTE, confiscating the property of t he Orleans fam ily. Had the Red Republic been inaugurated, had Socialism been acknowled ,, ed as a fundamental law of the State, then, - i ndse':', decrees of confiscation and decree s of proscription might have been expected ; b ut we were told, and w e b e li eved, that t h e acces3 ion of Louis ..TAPOLEON to power was necessary to prevent the advent of the reign of plunder, proscription and terror. If, however, he himself inaugurates the reign of, plunder, proscription, and t er ror, the French people m ay perhaps begin to consider that the reign of the Red Republic would not be one whit more terribi, while , it would be much less expensive. Thi s act o f plun der was, it Appears opposed by all L ovis Na- HALF I.IIIOE. Dress Circle • • .. U p per Boxes .. .. • • • • • . 2s. Is. Bd. Amphitheatre .. Is. Gallery • . .. • • Os. 6d. Private Boxes, £3 38., £2 25., and XI I Is. 6d. Orchestra Stalls, Ss Stage Manager, Mr. J. M. MORTON. Director of Spectacle, Mr. W. WEST. The whole under the management of Mr. 13 UN.N, LESSEE. . , it, it LONDON. SA rURDAY, JA WARY 24, 1852. Alarmists are precisely the men with whose ideas we ourselves have the least possible sympathy, while it is b ut j u di cious t o reject opi nions like those industriouily promulgated by the ala'nthta—opinions calculated rather to paralyze the popular courage, than to revivify the national patriot. ism—it were culpable in the highest degree todisre gard statistic, pzoving, beyond the possibility of denial, that our Aituation 3 an iosular power 13 SO singularly incWensible as to present the most favour able and tempting opportunities for invasion. That such is actually eat., case with England has long since, we, D concei ve, been t h oroughly demon strated. a Duke of WELLINGTON has said it ! The assertion, g theref ore , is not that ariain out of the timidity of ignorance : it is the deliberate ack no wledgment c 0 . a fact which has forced itself upon the recognition of the soundest judgment and of the most illustrious experience. A considerable interval has elapsed Since the truth here roLEores real friends. The Princess MATHILDE DEMIDOEF, the Marchioness of DOIIGLAS, and i all his relatives besought him in most earnest terms to abite.in from the perpetration of this groes crime end grosser blunder ; M. Dr. MORNY, whose devotion on the "d of December ought not to have been forgotten by the PRESIDENT, resigned rather thin hove his named mixed up with such a disgr a c e f u l p roce eding, and M. POUL D , whose presence in the Cabinet has always been con sidered a guarantee that public faith would be kept inviolate, accompanied him in his retirement. Treating with contempt the entreaties of his relatives and the remonstrances of his judicious friends, LOUIS NAPOLEON has chosen to listen to the interested suggestions of other parties, and has com mitted an act of barefaced plunder, the Church (which appears to be in France the re gular TREY SoLoMoss of all appropriators) sharing in the proceeds, au?, we suppose, giving her absolution as the consideration. We have never been supporters of the Orleans fa mily, or of the Orleans politics. When Louis PHI LIPPE was in the height of his power he had no more determintd opponent than ourselves ; we rejoiced, and we do rejoice at his ignominious expul sion from France, in 1848, and we would do nothing that should in the least tend to the restoration of the French crown to any member of his family. Yet, we cannot forget that whilst the Emperor NAPOLEON, in violation of the law of na tions, seized the Due D'ENGHEIN on neutral territory, and shot him at midnight in a ditch at Vincennes, LOUIS PHILIPPE, having twice caught the nephew of the murderer of his cousin, flagrante delicto having twice acquired an absolute right over the life of Louis NAPOLEON, twice spared that life to one who now uses it to despoil and ruin the family of the man who spared him. The effect of this decree upon the relations of the PRESIDENT of the French Republic with those European Powers whose support he has for years past so assiduously courted, cannot but be most injurious. Neither Queen CHRISTINA nor the Duke of MONTPENSIER can look with a very favourable eye upon the spoliator of the Orleans family; nor can the KING of the BELGIANS be expected to take any very lively interest in the maintenance of the existing state of things in France ; as to King BOMBA, the pet of the Holy Alliance, application has, it is said, already been made to him for the pay ment of arrears due to the Murat family— an application that will probably be enforced, not withstanding the protests of the Red EMPEROR. As to the legal quibble that the property of Louis PHI LIPPE became national property on his acceptance of the crown, it is beneath contempt. Had Louis PHILIPPE succeeded to the crown, the case might, perhaps, have admitted of argument, but he accepted the crown, and before accepting it made a disposition of his private property, in the same man ner as a man in contemplation of marriage makes a settlement of his property before the celebration of his nuptuals ; and the settlement is as legal, as in violable, and as sacred in the one case as in the other. Sir JOHN OMMANNEY has at length, even at the eleventh hour, come forward to deny the accuracy of the statements respecting his conduct when the loss of the Amazon became known in the district of which he was the naval commander. After a protracted silence he has seen the necessity of offering some ex planation e n w on i the subject. He finds g not overlook a palpablethaatpaEthny shm and carelessness in any matter of hu manity and that the voice of public opinion can no longer be slighted or despised. We cannot, however, congratulate the Port Admiral on his de fence. He has unquestionably succeeded in showing that others have merited censure—that the demands for assistance were not as strenuouslyree uirmgpedreayseithheiye might have been, or as his dignity requi re d ; but we cannot see that he has in any degree own position. It may be his opinion that a public officer is not to take the initiative in any instance, that his sole duty is to throw impe diments and difficulties in the way of any proposition that may be brought under his notice. For this he has undoubtedly a precedent, and the Lords Commis sioners can scarcely blame one of their officers for so closely following their own example. We must, however, be permitted to examine the contents of his letter (one of the most extraordinary documents that ever emanated from a British Admiral), and consider the nature of the defence thereby set up. The Admiral first assails the veracity of Messrs. Fox, Sons, and Company. He speaks in good round terms of the reply of Captain CuarrELL, being founded on " a falsehood asserted by Mr. Fox ;" and in order to sustain that assertion, he forwards two letters from Messrs. Fox and Company, the effect o f which is that the applications were made to the Ad miral's secretary and not to himself personally• These gentlemen admit that when one of their firm " called at the Admiral's office, lie did not see Sir JOUN OMMANNEY himself." No, the Gallant Commander would not make himself so cheap es to be visible to every person who chose to solicit an interview. But they distinctly and po sitively assert that Mr. SEPTIMUS FOX, junior, went to the office on the Bth instant, that he saw Mr. KENT, the Admiral's private secretary, who, in answer to his application, informed him " that no steamer had been sent out to seek for the Amazon's' crew, as the Ad miral considered it useless ;" and they also declare that " they considered that answer to be the same as if they had it from the mouth of the Admiral himself." We think that the public generally will agree in that opinion. The blustering denial of the Port-Admiral that "Messrs. Fox had ever seen him" or that he had refused to send assistance, appears then to be a quibble more worthy of an Old Bailey advocate than of an officer of high rank in the royal navy. There is, it may be observed, no denial that Mr. KENT had stated that " the Admiral con- sidered it useless to send out a vessel," or that he was duly authorised to return such an answer, without even going through the form of consulting his superior officer. Qui facit per alium facit per se, is an ancient and time-honoured apophthegm, and we cannot see how Sir JOHN OMMANNEY can improve his position by trying to shift the blame from his own shoulders to that of his subordinates. The Gallant Admiral is Equally unfortunate in his second plea. He seems to think that if no di rect application was made, he should re main perfectly careless and indifferent. In his letter to the Secretary of the Company, he says, "as the Admiral serving here, AND THE ONLY PERSON CAPABLE OF AFFORDING ASSISTANCE, I appeal to you whether some person should not have come to me to have afforded me information, and to have solicited assistance, had it been required." This sentence appears to afford the only reasonable solution to the problem. We do not suppose that Sir JOHN OMMANNEY was actuated by any in human or malevolent feeling in neglecting to send out a steamer on the earliest opportunity ; but his dignity was offended ! He should have been enabled to cross examine the survivors, to have exercised his own judgment, but, above all, the humble application should have been prefaced w i t h " bated breath and deep humility." The Gallant Admiral seems to have taken a lesson from the Oxonian who, while seeing a fellow student drowning in the Isis, regretted "that he had not had the honour of being intro duced to the gentleman, in order that he e s r a , v t i h n g i n k h a i t s b a l t i , fe n .' o ' m si i r g j ht on h s av o e m t jm ak A e lc u ss t y h , e in li i b ik er e ty man o n f matter how n howu f rg b e e n r t th 2 e h o jcEcsaTsirk,asi sub, even though should be though the lives of many iant a s d tak ra e n , ce la , e n c n o l euslad the e o t be e xp most tfnr e m c t a e l d e t t i o lu t e a t k n t ee had dy been places And his s m observed. cre dence to the statements that have been made, but we regret to say that the Admiral's own letter We confess that we do not give any Lhe assertion of the Rev.n no means regardedl ight than him. any in w Ait B uEt T improvedoN, 6 1) 1, 3; to receive kindness and courtesy, but found none. ' The question has now assumed an aspect that e must command the Legislative attention, and, he lb positionviiena'. temtobraid p l ub y yn f hf o avr: a ut i o d rfobr h iee e expected ere the first w ee k of the session, has elapsed interrogatory the w ill be stringently' exhibited— ' it I s Sir JO HN OMUANN EY still P or t - Admiral at Plymouth r 1 . THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yaterday. The contains the following important decrees :-- " There is established a 2:iiniter of State, with the fol lowing attributions : " The relations of the Government with the Senate, the Legislative body, and the Council of Stare; " The correspondence of the President with the different Ministries ; " The countersigning the decrees nominating Ministers, Presidents of the Senate and the Legislative body, the no mination of senators, and concession of dotation which may be made to them, and the nomination of the members of the Council of State; " The countersigning the decrees of the President in exe cution of the powers conferred on him conformably to Arti cles 24, 2:3, 31, 46, and 5 4 of the C onst it ut i on , an d t h ose con cerning matters which do not specially belong to any other Ministerial department ; " The drawing up and care of the minutes of the Council of Ministers; " The exclusive direction of the official part of the 2fo- niteur ; The a dministrat:on of the national palaces and menu. factui es. " Given at the Tuileries, this '22d Jan., 1852. " LOUR NAPOLEON." LOUIS NAPOLEON, President of the Republic, de creei : "M. de Casablanca, ex-Minister of Finance, is named Minist*r of State. Given at the Tuileries, this 22d Jan., 1852. " Lours NAPOLEON. (Countersigned) " 1. Di CASABLANCA, " Minister of State." Louts NAPOLEON, Presid en t o f t h e R epubl i c, de crees A r t. 1. There is created a Ministry under the title of Ministry of the General p o li ce. A rt . 2, The Minister of Police shall have the following attributions : "The execution of the laws relative to the general police, and to the safety and internal tranquillity of the Republic; the surveillance of the journals, of theatrical pieces, and pub lications of all kinds; the police of the prisons, and other places of confinement; the personnel of the Prefects of Police of Paris and the departments, and the agents of the general police of every kind; the commercial, sanitary, and indus trial police; and the repression of mendicity and vaga bondage. "Art. 3. The Ministry of Police will correspond with the different constituted authorities for all which concerns the safety of the Republic. A r t. 4. An ulterior decree will regulate the central or ganization and the active services of the new Ministry. A r t. 5. The Ministers will be charged, each as far as concerns him, with the execution of the present decree. " Given at the Palace of the Tuileries, this 22d January 1852. " Louis NAPOLEON. (Countersigned) "X. DE CASABLANCA." LOUIS NeroLtes, President of the Republic, decrees : Art. 1. M. de ISlaupas Prefect of Police of the Seine, is named Minist er of the General "Art. 2. Our Minister of State id charged with the exe cution of the present decree. " Gwen at the Palace of the Tuileries, this '22cl January, " LOUIS NAPOLEON. (Countersigned) " X. DB CASABIANCA." LOUIS Aroulori, President of the Republic, de crees : "M. Abbatucci, h onorar y councillor of the Court o f Caseation, is named Keeper of the Seals and Minister of Justice, in the room of DI. Rouher, whose resignation is accepted. " 3riven at the Palace of the Tuileries, this 22 d January, 1852. " Loots NAPOLEON. (Countersigned) "1. DE CASABIANCA." Louis NAPOLEON, President of the Republic, de crees : Fialin de Persigny, ex-Minister Plenipotentiary, is named Minister of the Interior, in the room of M. de hlorny, whose,i resi gnation is accepted. " Given at the Tuileries, this 22d January, 1852. " Louis NAPOLEON. (Countersigned) ' "X. DE CASABLANCA." Louis NAPOLEON, President of the Republic, de crees : " M. Bineau, ex-Minister, is named A linist?r of Finance, in the room of Al. F ou ld, whose resignationis accepted. " Given at the Tuileries, this 22d January, 1852. "Louis NAPOLEON. (Countersigned) "X. DE CASABIANCA." The PRESIDENT of the Republic, " Considering that all the, Governments which have suc ceeded each other have judged it indispensable to oblige the family which ceased to reign to sell the real and personal property which it possessed in France; , that in thi s manner, on the 12th J anuary, 1816, Louis constrained the members of the family of the Emperor Napoleon to sell th e i r personal property within a delay of six months, a n d t h at on the 10th Ap r il, 1832, Louis Philippe acted in the same manner with regard to the princes of the elder branch of the Bourbons ; " Considering that such measures are for the interests of order and the public; that now more than ever high poli tical considerations imperiously command the diminution of the influence which the possession of nearly three hundred millions of property in France gives to the Orleans family ; " Decrees : " Art. 1. The members of the Orleans family, their hus bands, wives, and descendants, cannot possess a n y rea l or personal property in France; they shall be bound to sell, in a definitive manner, all the property which b e l ongs to them throughout the whole extent of the territory of the Republic. " Art. 2. This sale shall be effected within the delay, f or free property, of one year from the date of the promulgation of the present decree, and for property liable to liquidation or dispute from the date at which the property shall have become irrevocably their own. "Art. 3. In the event of the sale not having been effected within the above prescribed delays, the Administration of Domains shall proceed therewith, in the forms prescribed by the law of the 10th April, 1832. " The proceeds of the sale shall be handed over to the proprietors or to those having a right thereto. " Given at the Palace of the 'Tuileries, the 22d January. " LOUIS NAPOLXON. " X. DE CAtIBIANC.#I, " Minister of State." (Countersigned) The PRESIPENT of the Republic, " Considering that, without encroaching on the right of person of the P r i nces of the Orleans family, property in the the President of the Republic would not justify the confi dence of the French people, if he permitted properties which ought to belong to the nation to be abstracted from the do mains of the State; ‘, Considering that, according to the ancient public law of France, maintained by the decree of the 21st September, 1790, and by the law cf the Bth November, 1814, all the property which belonged to the Princes on their accession to the throne was of full right, and at the very instant united to the domain of the Crown ; " That thus the decree of the 21st September, 1790, and the law of the Bth Novemb er , 1 814, enact: 'The private property of the prince who comes to the throne, and that which he possessed during h' IS reign, on whatever title it may be, are of full right and at the very instant united to the domain of the nstion, and the eff ect of this union is perpetual and irrevocable ;' "That the consecration of this principle ascends to very distant times of the moparchy ; that amongst others may be cited the exaroPle of Henry IY. ; that prince having wished by letters patent of the 16th April, 1590, to prevent the union of his properties with the domain of the Crown, the Parliament of Paris refused to enregister those letters patent by a judgment of the 15 th July, 1591, and Henry IV., sequently applaudi n g thi s firmness, i ssue d i n t h e m onth of sub- July, 1607, a decree revoking his first letters patent ; "Considering that this fu ndamental rule of the monarchy was applied under t he reign of Louis XVIII. and Charles X., and reproduced in the law of the 15th January, 1825 ; e Th a t n o legislative act had revoked it on the 9th August, 1830, when Louis Philippe accepted the Crown ; that thus by the fact of that acceptation all the property which be p os sessed at that period became th e indisputable property of the State ; " Considering that the general donation, subject to a life interest, consented to by Louis Philippe for the advantage of ' his children, to the exclusion of his eldest son, on the 7 t h August, 1830, the very day on which the throne was offered him, and before his acceptation which took place on the 9th of the same month, had only for its object to prevent the union to the domain of the State of the large estates pos sessed by the prince called to the throne ; "That at a later period, when it became known this act excited public disapprobation ( soul eva la conscience publiq ue ) ; "That, if the annulling of i t- was not pronounced, it was because there did not exist, as under the ancient monarchy, an authority competent to repress the violation of the prin ciples of public law, the protection of which was formerly' confided to the Parliaments; in reserving the life theinterest "That, nerest of property com prised in the donation, 14011i8 Philippe deprived himself of nothing, and wished only to assure to his family a patrimony become that of the State; .' That the donation itself, not less than the exclusion of the eldest son, in the ex pectation of the accession to the throne of that son, was On th e pan of the King Louis Philippe, the most formal recognition of that fundamental rule, since it required so many precautions to elude it; " That it would be vai n in of the to allege that the union to the public doma properties of th e prince could only result accetation only from the accep too tation of the crown b y hi m , a nd that as such consented on the 7thh place on the 9th August, the donation effect; of the same month should produce its " Considering that at the latter date Louis Philippe was no longer a priv ranch ate bee ' — soh since the two Chambers declared him King of the F , under the sole condition of taking an " That, in consequence of his acceptation, he was King on the 7th August, since Chambers,on that day the national will was ma nifested by the two a nd that the fraud on the law of public ord er does no texist less when it is concerted in i view of a certan fact which is immediately about to be realised; " Considering, that the property comprised in the donation of the 7th August being irrevocably incorporated in the do- Art.mainof the State, could i not rre be detached by the clauses of 22 of the law of the 2d March, 1832 ; " That it would be contrary to all principles ascribing a retroactive effect to that law, to cause it to render valid an act radically nun, according to the legislation existing at the time at which the act was consummated ; " That, besides that law dictated by private interest, under the influence of political events, cannot prevail against the permanent rights of the State, and the immutable rules of public law; " Considering, besid e s, that the rights of the State thus claimed, there still remains to the Orleans family more than one hundred millions, w ith which they can support their rank abroad " considering also th a t it is right to continue the annual allowance o f 300,000 f inscribed in the budget for the dowry of the Duchess o f 0 c • leans, " Decrees— " Art. 1. The real n andpersonal property which is the ob ject of the donatio me 6 the 7th August, 1830, by the Philippeis King Louis d p on restored to the domain of the State . -- ' " Art. 2. The S tate rema ins charged with the payment of the debts of the Civil List of the last reign. " Art. 3. The dowry of 300,000 f. awarded to the Duchess d'Orleans is maintained. "Art. 4. property returning The to the State in virtue o f Art. 1 obeli b e partly sold ( venclus en partie) by the Ad ministration des Dornaines, and the proceeds s hall be divided as follows: " Art. 5.. 'fen millions are allowed July, 1850. cours Mitt "Art. 6uela authorised by the law of the 15th . . "Art. 8. Ten millions shall be employed in ameliorating the dwellings of workmen in ' the great manufaet uring towns. "Art. 7. Ten millions shall be devoted to the establish ment of institutions for er) in ma king loans on mortgage (institu tions de credit foue• • t he departments which may de mand that measure oil su belitting to the conditions m oidend negenary, ENING, JANUARY 24, 1852, "Art. 8. Five millions shall serve to establish a retiring pension fund for the poorest assistant clergy (les desservans les plus pauvres). "Art. 9. The surplus of the properties mentioned in Art. shall he united to the dotation of the Legion of Honour, and the revenue of it shall be employed as follows--and if insufficient the deficiency shall be made up from the re sources of the budget. Art. 10. All the cfficers, non commissioned officers, and men of the army and navy, who shall henceforth be nomi nated or promoted in the National Order of the Legion of Honour shall receive, according to their grade in the legion, the following annual allowances— Simple members of the Legion (as heretofore) 250 f. Officers ... 500 Commanders ... ••• .. 1,000 Grand Officers .. .. 2,000 Grand Crosses ..• 3, , 00 "Art. 11. A military medal is created, giving the right to 100 f. of life•rent in favour of soldiers and non-commis sioned officers of the army and navy placed in the conditions which shall be fixed by subsequent regulations. "Art. 12. A national chateau shall serve as a house of education for the indigent daughters or orphans of the fami lies whose chiefs shall have obtained that medal. "Art. 13. The château of Severne shall be repaired and finished, to serve as an asylum for the widows of civil and military high functionaries who may die in the service of th e State. " Art. 14. In consideration of the present, the President of the Republic abandons all demand relative to the c,onfis cations pronounced in 1814 and 1815 against the Bonaparte family. "Art. 15. The Ministers are charged each in what concerns him with the execution of the present decree. " Given at the Palace of the Tuileries the 22d January. " By the President, "Louis NAPOLEON. "X. DE CASABLANCA, Minister of State." MM. NADAUD, RACOUCHOT, and FAURE, ex-re presentatives of France, arrived yesterday in Brussels, with passports given by the Government. The Patrie publishes the following official commu nicated note :—" For some time back certain journals have spoken of private letters which they pretend the PRESIDENT of the Republic has addressed either to several sovereigns or to the POPE. It is only in an official manner that the PRESIDENT has written to the heads of the various states. No correspondence of a political character has taken place between him and them." The 31oniteur Parisien says—" We are informed that the differences between France and Morocco are in a fair way of being amicably arranged. The Agent and Consul-General of the King of SARDINIA at Tangiers has been chosen to interpose his good offices. The steps already taken by this diplomatist, who has acquired general confidence and esteem, lead to the hope that he will, in a short time, obtain a fa vourable result." The Bourse opened dull, under the impression pro duced by the decrees published in th© Moniteur relative to the property of the family of the house of Orleans. Business, however, became more animated towards the close and Government Securies closed at an advance on yesterday's prices. The Five per Cents, opened at 101 f. and rose to 1031, at which they closed; the Three per Cents. closed at 66c. 25c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,070 f.; Rouen, 670 E; Havre, 2651.; Great Northern, 563 f. 75c.; Avignon, 235 f.; Vierzun, 502 f. 50c; Basle, 206 f. 25c.; Bordeaux, 4301.; Paris and Strasburg, 456 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 3001. ; Amiens to Boulogne, 2801.; Paris and Lyons, 567 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TILE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN'. 23. Boulogne and Amiens, 11 Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 191/a ex in. East Indian, 23 —Luxembourg, 336—Namur and Liege, s:Y 4 —Northern of France, 17 1 / 4 ex in.—Orleans and Bordeaux, 7 1 / 2 ex in.—Paris and Lyons, 8 1 ,4—Paris and Orleans, 41 1 ,4—Paris and Rouen, 26 —Paris and Strasbourg, Is l h—Rouen and Havre, 9%_ Sambre and Meuse, 334. GERMANY. The Second Chamber of Hanover continued on the 17th and 19th, in secret sittings, the discussion on the treaty of the 7th of September, between Prussia and Hanover. The Chamber adopted several of the propositions made by a Committee relative to the treaty. ITALY. The Parma Gazette, of the 18th, publishes a de cree, suppressing the general direction of the police on the Parmese territories, and vesting all political, judicial, administrative, and military powers in the military inspector of the gendarmery, and in the commandants of the towns and fortresses of the duchy. The ilessaggere of Modena, of the 14th pub lishes a notification, announcing the accession of the Duchy of Modena to the Austro-Italic-postal league. QUICK COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LONDON AND DUBLIN. The increasing intercourse between Great Britain and the sister isle will do more to smooth down the rugged road of prejudices and party . feuds than a hundred Acts of Parliament; and it is gratifying to see that steps are taken to facilitate and promote the connexion of the two countries, which are characterised by a liberal prudence and a generous economy. It is of little service to bridge the Channel with steamers, and run railways from coast to coast, if the expense of travelling acts as a barrier to the passage of that middle class which will be the most benefited by it; and, therefore, it is we note the mea sures taken by wise heads and full hands to promote their comfort and convenience. On and after February 1, second-class passengers will be enabled to travel be tween London sled Dublin by express trains, so that they will be placed on a perfect Equality, as regards the time of transit, with those paying first-class fares. There will be no break in the journey —no weary lounging in waiting-rooms, or sickening delays—but a man can step on board the steamer in Kingstown in the morning, and dash across, and on up to London as fast as steam can carry him, so that on the evening of the day he strolled . dowii Grafto n - street he can astonish the Strand in all Ma native el egance. —Dublin. Express. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Seeing to-day in a newspaper that the Board of Ordnance has sent to Birmingham for tenders for 23,000 rifles, as an officer who entered the army 46 years ago in the Rifle Corps (then the 95th Regiment), and has paid considerable attention to the subject since, I feel it .. s t u ff o' the conscience" to ask you to give publicity to the statement, that the efficiency of our regimental rifles b is injured, if not destroyed, by the easily altere d circum stance of their being fitted with iron ramrods instead of wooden. At the somewhat distant period referred to the young officers were in the habit of making matches for rifle shooting; and there were always one or two rifles in a company which had a character for hitting the mark, and were in great request accordingly, the simple expla nation being that from their having been lately given out of store or other caus es th ey had escaped the general deterioration. A sporting experience which befel me in India led to improving on this observation. I had procured from lieg!and a new rifle of Baker's make, being in essentials as nearly as might be the regimental rifle. On trying it against the antelopes it hit the three first shots, but the lest only disabled the game from going off at speed. In the anxiety to reload I used the iron ramrod vigorously, exactly as a soldier would do in similar circumstances, nod thereby made, as afterwards appeared, some circular cuts or scratches round the upper part of the bore. The result was that the piece would never afterwards hit at 50 yards. A rifle once jagged in the inside with the iron ramrod is as incurable as the edge of a reser which bad been submitted to a like process. When 23,000 rifles are to be made at once, this is a matter worth looking to. A wooden ramroad, it may be said, may break. And so may anything else ; but since it may be a cylinder of the greatest diameter which will enter the barrel, there is no more reason why it should break than the stock of the piece. If a score or two of gentlemen, in the event of affairs growing more seriou s , wou ld t a k e me into counsel on the construction and practice of their weapon, I should be glad at the end of three months to try conclusions in a friendly way with an equal number of picked men from the Rifle Brigade, and invite the public to the trial. Should any of them be desirous to combine the practice of somewhat the pralium equestre, I conceive that in the old 14th there were knowledges which, though by the grace of the Horse Guards, I am a " stickit" lieutenant-colonel, might show the capabilities of the union of mounted and foot riflemen to an extent which has not been exhausted by those who have been put over my head. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Lieutenant -Colonel, and M.P. for Bradford. Eliot Vale, Blackheath, Jan. 23. DESPERATE FIGHT ON BOARD AN EMIGRANT SHlP.—Yesterday afternoon great alarm was created in the vicinity of the Shadwell entrance of the London Docks, in consequence of a most determined fight on board the Ame rican liner, Patrick Henry, having on board 150 emigrants, bound for various parts. It appears that shortly after one o'clock a vest concourse of persons of both sexes assembled on the pier bead, being principally the immediate relatives of the emigrants who were about to take their departure to New York, &c., and as the vessel was being towed out of the docks by the means of men and tackle, a disturbance was seen on board in the fore part. Immediately afterwards the passengers ascertained that a riot had taken place be tween several of the crew and the first mate, who was having a fearful contest with the American sailors, some of whom had been drinking, and were not able to perform their duties. Two of the men were bleeding from wounds on the face. and the mate was at one time striking them with a heavy rope. The persons standing on the jetty or pier, who witnessed the scene, loudly threatened the mate with violence, but the sailors were sent below, and placed under control. Great excitement seemed to prevail among the emigrants, but a steam-tug having arrived, the Patrick Gravesend, o &c., as its outward was taken in tow and conveyed down cry the outward passage, and will call at Wool w i c h , EOF WELLINGTON. —On Wednesday last. as it proceeds. the Duke D uke of u Wellington, being on athveissittrteoettshoef where the 2d Q w u i e n e d n so a r t , i k ri V t i e n n d d sio n r g C t a o s v tl i e s , i t t o o t k h e a s s t rhoelel Sheet -street through B a r r a c k 8, Charles beingbat tali c o o n lo o n f e t l h o e t tGhraetnardegieirmGeruta. urdsarrecles S. Cant re ll , an quartered, hi s G race old English farmer, who h a d recent.] come to resid e i n the town, having retired in comfortable circumstances, was also inquiries as a taking a stroll, and seeing the Duke ...4 _ na a cna n odr politelyd nmdtuhce t o himld gave •' the old gentle m stranger, aa, his went al, up to a g him to w av h it l i t n h g e r he wished to g t h o t. ' o u a g ri li d the away streetsth e a Duke rm i English farmer walked together to the barracks. APOTHECARIES' HALL. Names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medi cine, and received certificates to 22, I Bi 2 :—Henry Christian upractke, on Thursday, Jan. Lancashire; Event Ben' unta • are ; John B err y. Leyland , J Gayland, Stoke Sub-liamd"' Somerset. mucncSii IZELZIAVAYSu Railways, ram.. Notninal Prices, erde Ambergate, Nottinvham, Boston, & E. Juncion Belfast and County Down Wolverhamp., and iztasir Valley iiirkenh., Lan., & Chisel; June., late 331.65. ad.. Do. Chest. &-Birkenhca, 537. & 351. Consolidated do.,:10/. Bristol and Exeter.. Caisdonian • • • • • • Chester and Holyhead aublin and Belfast June- Dublin and Kingstowr... Dundalk and Enniskillen Dandee, Perth, and Aber leen Junction .. • • Do,. New .. .. • • East Angllsr. (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) • • • • Do. (161. E. & H.) •• Eastern Counties .. astern Union, class A. 'ate E. U. shares • • Do. du. do. Do. do., B & C shares anat. Lancashire • . • • 1 ) , . New quarters • • East & West India Docks and Birm. June. .. East & West York. June. Edinburgh and Glasgew Ellin., Perth, and Dundee Glasgow and South-West. De. do. G. D. &C.steek Groat Northern • • Do. halves, A, deferr • Do. halves, 11, 6 per et. Great southern and Western, Ireland .• Groat Western .. Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds .. Lancaster and Preston .. Lancashire and') orkehire Do. quarter £1 ares Do. fifths Do. West Riding Union Leeds Northern .. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .. London and Blackwall Do., Tilbury Ext. Scrip London, Brighton, and South Coast .. London and N.-Western Do. do. quarters •• De. fifths Do. 101. ah., 3i. &IS (c) London and S.-Western . Do. new 501. Do. new 401 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock .. Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire .. Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union .. Midland Do. 501. shares Do. Birming & Derby Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) Newcastle and Carlisle.. De. quarter shares .. Newmarket .• Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Newry and Enniskillen.. Newry, Warrenpoint, & Nostrevor .. • • Norfolk 80. Now 201. shares.. Northern Counties Union North British.. North Devon .. • • North Staffordshire •• North-Western .. • • North & Sth.-West.,Yrine. Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. • . Scottish Central Scottish Midland .. Do. new .. shrews. & Birm., Class A Do. Class H.. qirews. & Hereford., Old Do., do., New .. Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) .. Do. Halves Do. Oswestry Do. New.. .. Shropshire Union .. Do., A, B, C, & D, Dolly paid up at per cent .. South Devon .. South-Eastern .. • • South ....Wales .• loath Yorksh. and River Dun Shell., Roth., and Geole, South Division .. Stirling and Denfermllne Stockton and Hartlepool Tail Vale .. .• • • • • Taw Vale Extension • • Thames Haven Dock and Railway •.. • • Vale of Neath .. • • Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick, Waterford, Wex., Wick. and Dublin .. .• West Cornwall •• • • Whitehaven and Farness York, Newc., & Ber aria Ditto and Newcastle Extension • • - Ditto G.N.E. purchase York and North Midland THE SHARE MARKETS. lON to II 4% 47 5.% - 10% ~ -- . d. • • •••• .. ••• dis. 83 —B5 15 154 194 19% 21 —ll 4. 6 - 7 3‘ ali 2yi — 2 3 A 6% —7 4M -4% 3 -3M 15% lti 49 -50 26 -27 0:, -5% - 18 118% - 13% - 13% 36 - 36% 81% -85 75 -Su 7 % -8 % P. •• '•• • • 60)4 ••. 61 8 —7li d. sii 5i d. 14% 15% •• •• 671, 97% - 98% 114% -115 2 % - 2 % P. 2 -2% p. 1% - 13(p. 85 - 86 7;4 7 die. 6 —5% dia. 9% —9% 31 .- 32 24 dia. 64% —S4A, 26 —2B •• % - .." •• 8 7 •• —•• dis. .. —•• dis. - 23 14% 13% die. , 8% 3 die. 6% 7% —6% die. 8% —8% die. %dis. 4 p 14% 15•% 14 —14% 814 - 9Ni 8 6 634 —4% 4% —33 r 13 -15 6% -7% 10 -11 .. ... .. dls. 3% —3% d. 13 -1 5 20 - 29' 29 -30 2% 21( d. •• .. • • .. - .. 150 - 152 .. -- •• did' 16 —l5 dig. d. • • A... , .. —. • dle. 17 -17% 8 -74 (1. 3 % -a% c 21 4 - 22 LINES LEAS: PIZIID 20% 19% 'TAILS. OT Leasing Business Rail wa "' Conapanlas. Paid. I Nominal Prim ' done to-day. Bcdf. & Match loy . Lon. & N.W. all .. & Ox ford Juncion, guaranteed • • Gt. Western all 29% 30 36 Do., without a guarantee .. Do .. • • all 283{ 293. Wolver., & Dudley, gua rantocd .• Do .. all 29 —3O Do., without a guarante •• Do • • • • all 28 —29 Buckingharnsh. Lon. &N. W. all 173/ e —lB x.d x.d ClvdesdalaJunc Caledonian all 42 •••- 44 E. Lin., Guar. 6 car Cont. •• G. Northern all 33 33 34 Gloucester and Dean Forest Gt. Western 20 1 —2 p x.d Hartlepl Dock r Yrk, New, / .11 •• • and Railway . an•l Ber. Hull and Selby Yk, &N. M. all 106 108 Do. % Shares Do .. all 53 —64 Do. % Shares Do .. all 25 —26 Leeds and Brad. Midland .. all 102 103 Lon. and Groan. S. Eastern .. all 11% 1214 12 1136 no., Prof. .• Do .. all 24 —25 Lowestoft, Gd. 4 per Cent. • • Norfolk .. all 14 —l5 Do.. 6 per cent De all . Micidlesbro' and Redcar, 6p.et I Stockt.ts Dar all • • -- •• & East, 6 per Cent. •• E. Counties . all .. Do., 5 per cent. Do. all 56 38 Do. New .. Do .. 43 56 Preston and S L. &N. w. 7 Wyre • •• 33 La.& Y..S all 44 —46 Do. % SharesA Do .. .. 11 8 36 936 p Read., Guild., and Reigate .. S. Eastern .. all 22% 2236 22% 34 R o y. & Hitchin G. Northern 614 8 —8% shop. Ex.. Do .. all 814 834 Shef., Roth. and Goole, 5 par ct. Lane. & York 1811 6 South Staffords. Mr. 111'Clean 936 1% 13( die. 7% Wear Val. 6 per Cent. gua. • • Stock.& Dar. a ll Do. do. .. Do •• 25 28 —29 28% Do. do. .. Do • • • • 25 Wilts & Somers„Gt. Western 100 91 —92 x.d 92 8134 , RErmit: SHARES. Nominal Prices. lßssiness dose to-day. lit 1 die, 7% -7% 166 - 17 1 .- -34 1 2g -2% % sip x.l 11 3. 9 - 104 10 -103( .• "^ •• I)i I dis. 13% - 14 3i- If P 7% - 776 .. .- . D. 1 X - 11 ,4 . - •• P • • P . . IMMO • • 145 - 150 P. 7 8 11 -12 12% -- 12% 3 i - 11 P 131 133 x.d, •• &ma .. lb —l6 z.d 44 4% 5 dls 10 104 16% - 16 11 -13 15% 1 6 1% 1 dis. x.. 1 110303X0111*. all 1 11 1 i All 1 19 --- 19% xi 8 4% —4% dir. xl 18 2 % 3 P. - % P. )1. %-% P. x 3X —3% d% —a% 27165 I 8..% 6U 1 , 7 % -- 17% x.i 4 % —21% —Npx.ij 41 —43 mil 25 % 26% 2S,tlls. 10 33f 4 8% —8% dia. •• •• a% we: Railways. I pcd. Aberdeen •• •• A oordeen, No. 2, 7 pr. et. Caledonian IOL • • • • Chester and Holyhead .. I)und. Per. & Aber. June. East Anglian (31. 1030 6 per cent. . • • • • • 6astem Counties Exton., per cent. No. 1 • • Do. No. 2 • • • • • • Do. New 6 p. coat. stock Eestern Union, Scrip guaran. 6 percent. • • East Lancashire, 6 par cent. quarter shares .. E. & W. York. June. 5 ths Edln. Per. &Dun. 51 p. ct. Glasgow & S.-W. Consel. Gt. Northern, 5 per gent. Do., 5 p. c. Redeem. Scrip Great South. & Western (Ireland) eighths Qt. western (Berks and Hants Ex., 5 per Cent.)l Lancashire and York shire, F. 301... • • • • Do. 6 per ct. Stock .. Leeds Northern, 6 par cent., No. 1 • •• Do. quarters, 1848 • - London, Brighton, and S. Coast, guar. b pot et. Do. pref., b p et. 8k,1851 Do. new guar.. S per ct. Lon. & N. West. (Coy. & Nunest.) 5 per cent. .. London &S.-W., new • • London. & Ennis , Sha blanch., Sheffield, and Line., quer. shrs., No. 1 Do. new, 101. .. • • Do., 6/. • • • • • • • • Midland Con. 6 p. a. stock Do. Consel. Bristol & Birming., 6 per cent... Do. Bristol & Glonces. Do., Leic. & Swanning., 8 per cent. guar. Do., Preference .. • Norfolk Extension .: Do. guar. 5% per cent. North British .. Oaf. Wor. &W 01. 151.6 p.c Shrews. & Btr., now guar. shrews. and Ches. (Nor. W. Min.) 8 per cent. South Devon South-Eastern, 4% p. et. York, Newc., and Bony., Gt. N.of E. Fur. .. • York and North Midland sad S. kurch. Boulogne and Amiens •• Central of Franco,(O..V.) Dutch P.hcatab - • • • Er.t Indian •• •• • • Do. do. do. •• Grc at Indian Pontprula• • Ditto ditto • • • • Louvain ala tiaintors • • Luxembourg • • " • • Ditto (Railway) • • Ditto (Canal) • • •• ',Luria Antonia •"• Ditto, New • •• N am ur and L!ege • • • • Northern of krance •• B O r l ea ns and ordeaux .. Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans • • .. parts and itouou •. .„ Paris and Strasbourg Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse .. st. Andrew's &Quebe.(A) tours and Nantes • . lournay, Jnrbise, L 412, don, and 'Uinta 6 Wut Muders all lo au all 174 100 100 8 6 8 11 13 4 4714 100 17' all 14 In 100 100 42% 84 4 2 0 100 100 47% all 3% 25 9% 17% 19 2% all all all 1 6% 16 2-3 126 9% WILINMIS. :eta& : N ,-,,,, 1rn , priow ,. Business 0004 ___ to - day. ...- - __-- --- - -- Aqua Fria ..... . ..-- _. • , 1 IN - 1 I P % Afglo Californian •.•• • • I 0, -'• --- % P li Au:An/Ilan ...... :. „ 5 % % %NI Ave Maria ..... - • I par - % p 1 0% Illacnarvon Iron & Ct•al all .. -• • British Iron ..... . • • • 131. Os. .• - - iirazituai Imp. (is. St. p.) 24% 1% . - 2 Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba all 14 —1% Do. St. John del Rey 15 2214 - 23% x.d 23 Cobre Copi e r , • .... •• • 40 3336 - 34% Copiapo .. ••••• • • • •• 14 4 - 5 Eng. &Australian Copper 214 % % p 336 ileocral •• • • •••- • • • • all 9% - 10% Gold Mountain •• . ...• 1 p 1% ~ , 1 exicsn st. 6. .‘merican 9 11% - 4 N , tiveau Monde . ... -• • 1 N— % P 1 % Santiago de Cuba .. -•. It % 4% - 5 Pin Croft ••• 7 814 -9% United Mexican.. ••.• •• all 214 2u, West Mariposa - % p. 1 0% JOINT bTOCIEL /113./7368 4.urtralasla ... all 38 - 39% I British North America 5O 4611 1 - 49 Colonial ....••.. • • . • - 25 11% •- 12% 12% N Commercial of London 2O 24 -- 25 St London Joint Stock - 17% London and Westminster 20 2 8 % - 29 % National Provincial Eng. 35 .. -•• Dii. New National of Ireland ..•• 22% 17% -17 I z.d Oriental Bank Corporat. all 30 -31 q z.d' z.d Pri,incial of Ireland- - 25 4394 - 4.5 Do. New .. .... -.• all 15% - 1631 Union of Australia -.• all 35 - 3631 Do. New ... 2% 3 - 334 Union of London ....•• 10 14% - 15% Union of Madrid - ... 1t 3231 Canada •••.••• • • • • • • • 32% 48 4934 Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 27% -28 28 ?min. & Oriental Steam. all 70 -7 1 z.d DMA ditto 10 17% -18 Royal Mail Steam ..- . • 60 77 -78• U 7714 Business dcne 14)-day. 4 3( % 15 14 11% ti 24 6 % % lb% 7' 18 17% 13% % 8430 i SS 84U 60%% !4 % 14)4 6 N it 97% 114( 24% 85 84% )4 30% 31 293 DO 54 .3( 39 3% 34 6% % % 8% DMA ditto Royal Mail Steam Settling days for the mont Shares, 14th and rWe cannot bo answeri will not be influenced by th of Jani 29th; Acc able for th intorestet .NE01713. 48 49% 27% 28 70 —7l x.d i 17% 18 77 78% I 7736 nary—Ticket days for Registered count days, 15th and 30th. is errors of the Official Lists, and d correspondents.] HONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 8,000 bales, of which 1,500 were taken for ex port and on speculation. The market closed steadily, without animation.—Railway Shares continued de pressed. We have confirmatory evidence from various quarter' as to excessive production being a main cause of the depression in the iron trade. Messrs. D. Short and Co. remind their correspondents that on the 31st January, 1851, we put forth, very much at large, our opinion of the then state of the trade in this great staple, and of its future prospects. We then ventured to assert, that even the moderate prices of that day were not likely to bo maintained; because, as we demonstrated, the make of the United Kingdom had outgrown legitimate demand; and we insisted, that the only hope of establishing com pensating prices rested upon a general diminution of the make in England, Wales, and Scotland. We submit, that the events of 1851 have proved the correctness of our anticipations as to prices; for it is difficult ade quately to portray the dreary position of this market on the close of the past year; and the prospects before it are anything but cheering; nor does there appear to us any hope of brightening those prospects, so long as the make is injudiciously kept up to its present enormous height. Bars in Wales have crept down from 51., in January last, to 4/. 10 , 3,, and even 41. is 6d. and 41. 5 5 . in December, and rails from 51 ss. in January, to 41. 12s. 6d. in December last; and even at that figure it is not easy to find large buyers fur cash; the chief business done latterly in rails being for payment in long dated bonds of the American Railway Companies. For the last two months orders for Welsh bars have been very limited indeed; and even our existing low rates fail to tempt the buyers, to any extent at all capable of stif fening the market. Our exports of iron of all sorts in 1851, were little less than 920,000 tons, or more than 100,000 tons greater than in 1850, and yet they produce no good effect on prices, which, on the contrary, have a declining tendency. It is, we contend, impossible that this state of things could exist, if we had not produced too much. In Staffordshire great depression has pre ♦ailed, and although there have been some large foreign orders, nearly all the makers complain that existing rates do not pay. Scotch pig iron has declined from 445. 6d., in January,lBsl, to 36., 6d. and 375. for ordinary brands, at the end of December. This cannot be deemed sur prising, when we find, as we do, that the make of lest year was upwards of 750 ; 000 tons, against about 620,000 tons in 1850. The discount and loan business of the Bank of Eng land falls off s t i ll, while its assets increase. During the week to the 17th instant the active circulation was 21,038,335/., an augmentation of over three quarters of a million sterling. The bullion was added to consider- ably. The deposit accounts were les sene d, an d this would almost justify the belief that fuller employment was obtained fur cash. The re su l t o f a comparison w i t h the previous week is as follows :-- Notes Issued Increase 17% 17 167 i Rest ••• • 21% 91 % 21 ... 31,151,175 123,080 ••• 3,247,702 increase • 22,590 Public Deposits ... 4,715,153 Decrease ... 577,371 Other Deposits • 11,656,776 Decrease 345,053 Seven Day and oth er Bill s .. 1,171,745 . Decrease 9,762 Government Securities ... ... 13,269,098 Increase • 35,335 Other Securities ... ..• ... 11,388 726 Decrease ... • 357,462 Notes ... ••• 10,112,840 Decrease ▪ 673,775 Bullion .. ..• 17,724 887 Increase ... • 202,386 Active Circulation... ... • 21,038 335 Increase .. ..• •.• 796,855 The total circulation . of the United Kingdom during he four weeks, to the 27th ult., was 32,918,2151., being au increase over the preceding month of 65,5891. The rates at which bills of exchange were yesterdal d negotiated did not ex hibi t an improvement eomPar4e with Tuesd a y l ast. Paris, 90 days. was taker, at 25 0 to 45; Amst er d am, at 11 184 to 19; Hamburgh at 13 10i to i; and Trieste at 12 25 to 30. During the fortnight to last evening, the Hon. East lndia Comp any drew bills to the amount of 226,869 1 . (31:1 Bengal; 42,6324 on Madras; end 3,2431. on Bombay the mail with the West India accounts has been re ceived in town and the letters generally notice continuaa dullness of trade. The quantity of silver exported from London direct during the week to Thursday last was 420,112 ounces , and of gold 47 ounces. The English Stock Market has been much depressed again and there has been a little " banging " on account of the French news. Consols have been 95/ to 96k for Transfer, and the same for Account. The New Three' and-a-Quarter per Cents, have realised 97/ to 98i, an d the Three per Cents. 964 to e. Exchequer-bills have been down to 555. to 58s. premium. Foreign Stocks have been neglected. Spanish Five per Cents, have realised 23 to 4, and the Three per Cents. 41k to 414, being about previous quotations . Sardinian Stock is down to 89 and 88. Russian Old Bonds h ave b een at 11 2/ for the Five per Cents. Belgian Four-and-a• Half per Cents. are 91/- to 92, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 58. Mexi can are nominally 29i 4. Railway Shares have been vary dull, and the few bar gains entered into have been at rather lower rates again' except the Ages which e Mine h Shar es have made important discoveries. Fria,Go 1% dia. 1 7% ONE CLOSI3I Anne. O'CLOCK. Flue:4 96'78%34 1 . 3 -;:, 14 per Cent. Arms... 3 PRICKS I C C3S e e i l lt ti . : C ßi O eß n d s ru o l ls 6l66 A da n Annuities Ditto, ' •••••• /4 Long Ann n s o . 3 t w o e r z s p o ir c e t J . an io .l l B B 6 s o , India. Bonds, 1,0004 Ditto under 1,0004.. ............ 68 p 68 P 00r19OIS for Account ...... ....... ,„ 951 xi 6 1 / 8 5% 96 Exchequer Biiis. 1,0001. ......................... . 5001. ............ "" 58 55 ............. p Small. .......... .............. 58 55 p ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Mexican, 5 per Ct., ex Jan. Coupe. Ditto, Account ..... Russian Bonds Ditto, 4 1 4 pe r C ent S ardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1 % Sp Ili Lt 5 per C ent. 1840 41 lig Ditto. 8 por Cent Belgian, payab , le l i % n ,A pon 9 d 2 on. i4vlA,2idepnedrsconentthcbGouvield 68 Dutch 2% per Cent. - Ditto 4 por Cent. Certificates Pm Pm 11% X 55 P 25 50 &ntwerp • • • • • • • • •' • "• f np t e tt e r rt ° d URSE OF 25 50 Z C h ai r O o t i t X r: Brussels ••• • •• ••• • Eb un burgli •.M.B. 13 10% .6.ltona oo •• •• •• Paris, 3 days sight 25 27% Ditto, 3 months •• 25 45 Marseilles ••••• • .. • • 25 45 Bourdeaux ••• • . • • irranktorton 120% Berlin • • .• • • • • • • •• • • .. Trieste, Vienua ditt • 0... . .. . 1 2 12 L ° Potersburgh,,y. il.lible., 37 Madrid • • Cadiz .• • 4 4% Baroolom; . 12 11% 55 p 55 P cLo[tfo nucEs. 21 112 1 ioo 88 1 4 23 1 4 4114 3IIANGE._F*iDAy. Gibraltar Leghorn •.: 30 e 5 Genoa 2s 60 Milan .. . . .. .......... .. • Naples 407. Palermo, per 05........ 120 S• Messina 1 62! 20% I Li5b0n........ •••• •• •• ...... 52 Rio Janeiro •• •••• •• •••• iluenes Ayres ••••• •• -- New York,6odays'slght Philadelphia PRIOZEI 01 atruaorl, rxil Foreign Gold inbars.• 1 7 0 Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 Spanish Doubloons •• o loli Now Dollars • • .• •• 0 0 Silverin bars - a 1% x.d 11% 11 19 Ni X.l !‘ X.l "X X.l 17% 4 % % x.l 7% 7. x.t 8% % 8 25% LL 0 Y 'S SHIPP I —l'4 G.--; THIS DAY .) LONDON, JAN. 24.—Wind at noon S., fresh breeze ancl cloudy. OFF MAEGATE, JAN. 23.—Reward, Demerara. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 23.—Wind W.—Arrd. Cato, St. cent ; Royalist, Barbadoes. LIVERPOOL.—Put back, Arthur, Calcutta ; St. George, New Orleans; Dauntless, Charleston. Off port, Robert Ste phenson, Laguna. UOLYIIEAD, JAN. 23.—The Gloria, f rom Ib ra ila, is much ;,,, strained, and it is feared has damaged her cargo, W l "' touched the ground. CUSHENDALK, JAN. 23.—The Ann, of Kirkaldy, i s 00 shore on the island of Rathlin ; crew and cargo sa ved. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 23.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. ill de steamer, West Indies. BRISTOL, JAN. 23.—Wind W., light.—Arrd. Ge orge ' Demerara. Mumur.Es, JA N. 23.—Arrd. Fanny, Valparaiso. I 3 BEAUMARIS, JAN. 23 . — Wind S. W.-- P u t back, Cice Curacao. Arrd• W ATEIt FORD, JAN. 23.—Wind S.S . W. t o W.N. W. — Mariner, Buenos Ayres. S WA NSEA, JAN. 23.—The Ch ar l es N ap i er , f or Cuba, must discharge, having struck heavily. SUNDERLAND, JAN. 23,—. W A • §hi! Bub ria rid u 9 W o4 s. g W aliTy A l Urradiallaualiii-'133:111 ter: tio] EMI Wo NI tl I N iiarlic Rare Marc hi s e t)tea: been of a, aervc teniE Ntint all b, Tv 4 w o 84 Ult Vioie a DDE ' l„ t] 0 11 , sa v th4gt