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

r°l\ 74 Y AND COMiMERCIAL NBIPS. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. te _ kles of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were S CI a t 6,000 'Pales of which 1,000 American , 4 Surat were taken on speculation. The r i clos e d . fi rmly. The sales compr i se d 4 , 250 ;eau, 160 P ernam an d M aran ham, at 6-i-d. ,1id,40 Bahi a , at 6'd. ; 500 Egyptian, at old. ; and 1,000 S ura t , a t 3d. t o 4fid. per lb. 4, 4 4 7, shares con ti nu ed dull and inactive. - kx nh. Weeks' average price of wheat is 40s. 6d. V e 'd,rter. ti til last Week's railway receipts, ascertained up 14 3 T) are, in round figures, as under 1852. 1851. £16,373 16,388 44,364 41,268 9,082 8,039 I Veste rn w estern ,\Veste rn Lo 4 9,290 8,039 "" 23,260 22,19 6 *************************** . 'tafford 11,655 10,233 5,046 4,688 un n9,307 7,532 o lthern 13,750 10,402 am e and Yorkshire North Midland ,) or t l l e and B erw i c k of information and satisfaction of the friends , u sers, we have been requested to insert the t: extract from a letter which has been `1 : : us, dated Cape Town, Ist November, 111 C leot v e ,Patra left Table Bay on the 30th October, ; 4 4f e- „' 4 . 211 ., with 5721 tons coals, 50 tons goods, N 3 " 4 l s assengers from this, and was seen at twenty Ik4i ) d four, p.m., beyond ' Cape Point. This is a ; and we calculate that two days' southing :exi" 4 er into strong westerly winds. The Cleopatra , 7 44 ,r 4 great admiration in Table Bay, and the com eeffi.ciency of her internal arrangements have liile c i gre at - satisfaction. We trust that she will be ?ti le , t o make up, during the remainder of the voyage, ii 4 ,`!etention experienced during the first part, as Ne l dently capable of making a first-Tate passage, i tlo ll \ , o unforeseen accident again detain her.—(Signed) & BUSHELL." ktr e Pr Vress of any new branch of industry is 1 14 4 Fatded with feelings of interest, and there is k ltt reason to be solicitous about the develop of anyto: general principle that will come in aid 'ligeree generally. We have arrived at the tk °ll .) after various inquiries and in tat;lely ` °ll obtained, that the possibility of 'ta During mercantile houses against bad had been fully tested by the Com 14at Credit S oc i e ty. Those who were cognizant Z A erking of the association at Paris, since the tp ) 7q) never entertain6d. a doubt of satisfac ;eBillts bei n g obtained here when the system N er e u understood. M. Amand Mancel de Val t2 the founder of the "Securite Commerciale," N• k r is, has furnished such statistics of its ,?tit „ l ens as to explain the formation of three or :iti s ', 4 ,•nor associations on the same plan. The t likl,'elnpany has 2,000 assurers among the prin !4., M ercantile firms, and in the year 1852, gave t' bl i ease number of references as to character, - 1 40 4 ,,, L 118 of its 3,200 correspondents established tiet y ,4 out France. The Commercial Credit here,So owes its success mainly to the untiring momof Mr. Augustine Sargood, the chairman, 'Ja rti 'earnest enthusiasm of the small, but working t ,of the directors, the manager , Mr. Sewell, R at t'e other officers. Althoughlactive operations i t 4:° lll menced only in June last, there are al -144", insurances upon 1,300,000/. Among the ilti h e tiester houses the objects of the Society are I:l4' l ' l ,,arnaly seconded, and at a meeting of the Le: 4 of Reference and the Directors the details of the working of the undertaking, by a tic, combination of the mutual system with just 4' small infusion of the proprietary principle l e give vitality, were most encouraging. ki k% Precise objects of the Society are to ktt at il rae to the assured commercial losses, to kip a them i n th e r ecovery of debts, and to make !eat aces when losses occur, with the view of pre ‘llll;g temporary embarrassment and ultimate kp l q:. The idea that there is great difficulty in „,, 1 : 1 g the principle of assurance to the objects of kl e ,7jety has been dispelled by the opinion of rf ti l 'iLler B. Glen Finlaison,' Esq., the Actuary -National Debt and Government Calculator, °ra the society at the outset submitted for N it i l4 i the synopsis and general rules, and that ht:, t aan has stated his belief " that the plan (11 dla Within it the strongest element of success." tl e th fil li benefit of all the premiums will be given e society to the Assured and not to the itl4ebold ers , who are satisfied out of a commission 4e( l . One moiety of the surplus of the year's V`inno will be applied to the reduction of the next kk o ' 3 premium of those whose losses have n ot th e l iated t o th e sum o f th e i r a nnual premium, and itia tt o „ t her moiety is for the formation of a fund to grant to the assured at limited interest. The rules 1, t it re the premiums not to be paid in advance, 4 1 , 11 :t the end of the half-year. • The assured, on a claim, must give the Society power, in A name, to act against the debtor ; but the as raust not act without the sanction of the No claim for less than 101. must be sent • The Society will afford any information that of t in its power respecting the commercial stability k° tiers ; and expects in time not alone to pro le '1 the security of the assured, but also I)),af fect beneficially the whole trading community, q v i erting unforeseen calamities, on the one hand , tth„ by the exposure of fraudulent traders, on the kb; t, Which individual creditors could of them keg seld om or ever b r i ng about. „ ... ° elke are firmer, but dull still. Consols for ° `" l itu i ,.t, 1001 f. New per cents., 1031 to 10 4 . Stock is up to 223 and 224. Foreign Stocks - there are larger dealings. 1 11) ( 7 1 „ 811 3 per Cents. are 232 to 2 4 , being better the expulsion of TsTarvaez 1 . Portuguese are js" 41k. Mexican, dull. wiv e '„, t o Gold Mine Shares there have been exten - A 4 ,"alings, and at very advanced prices. The e t alian Companies are particularly buoyant 44 1 1,g to the intelligence from Port Phillip to the kb ,C3?Ptember, as to fresh discoveries of consider , importance. The Agua Fria Company's kt ko r s have further advanced, and Ave Maria are blooking up. 111 ) ;t Australian Agricultural Shares have sta r t ed k t 'l• e to 51. per share, and Van Diemen's Land to 1 higher. Le Australian Banks are advancing. t} railway shares there is not much doing, but h.ti, quotations are, with one or two exceptions , tl i jer higher. South-Western have declined, but qti z re la an improvement in Lancashire and York e, Bristol and Exeter, and Ambergate. Great kt'aern are lower, and North-Western are rather k:gain. Northern Counties Union are still in ,( e st• French Shares were very dull, and scarcely b r „°°°d, except Northern, which have raffled. Sam ' and. Meuse are a shade higher. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. (FrOm, the Official List.) kl Bullnen done. 4 L k stock 223 4 3 ...r Cent. 3 Reduced Annuities....... ...... k„ ,„. 4 i t :,Uent. Consols Annuities 411 1 ' 'I r Cent. Annnities lO3 4 4 4.! An Pe nuities, Expire sth .Tan., 1860 6 i 7-16 ij, tends, £lOOO 7 9 44 ', under £lOOO 75 9 N for Opening 18th Jan is -Aeh,, Pi wc ttler Bills 10. March. June. -40 0 62 3 S C I 'aan ...... 60 3 k a. , PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. b z ,ilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ll' t to 4} per Cent 9BA i i 11' 44 0 New B ds 1829 & 39, 5 per Cent lO4 I le , on , Dreg Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. — D 4 itto for the Account q llBll 5 per Cent. Q 14(1?r Bonds Is b e -4qa, Bonds, 1i per Cent l ite ,. l ,tt o l2. New Deferred, 3 per Cent.. l' o „'lean 3 per Cent 24? a a eguese 4 per Cent. 4O ,i.tto for the Account,. 4i 11 4N 1 ib, i tto Small - 0, 4 4 Bonds, 5 per Cent. ' hrtq'to, 4i per Cent. F 3 1). 4 , 1 ; 4 , 111 1 Bonds, 5 'per Cent....... Ditto Bends, 3 per Cent 5O I Ditto Deferred, 3 per Cent. gtto for the Account 23i 5. 4 , 1 tt0 Passive (Converted) 1 \0 4 ,7. 811 Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 31 P c le t - e ` l6 ll Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852 1 $ p )lei r ll . ol Rentes, 4A per Cent D 61 a4 Bonds, per 4A r Cent. Ex. 25fr. IA 99i bh Exchange % p Cent 67' i 144 4 per Cent. Certificates 99. . 74 . 108 THREE O'CLOCK. 100 h i ex div. --.-.----'-' BITIOY AC. ay, Jr lest - g ey ;g lop 0 4 re, vi ll° we eriv ting of pef ra _All [gT. , • 4 oF ash hor t p- .1 oe y ~,ele' to r'', 4t oro• ct 8 11 (:, 0 8 Iret, e di t s 3 / , il , a' 6 9,5 5. 1; 14 ;1 , ,cor t on °;O9S t. 3 13 :,; e lit i '' rse—iets, 0 s oc f . 19 .4 a ce ° vi ol oat' •Console for Opening 18th January 4%,,"SERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—The first quarterly tel l ",f" l g of the society, which was very numerously at- Great was held yesterday at the Freemasons' Tavern, I),,Queen-street • Viscount Ranelagh in the chair. The 1 1. ( i:L'. 1 ,.0f the executive committee, which was read by his 14. 0 , - ' 4 P, presented a most favourable report of the society's ,e e ,„ e P, the result of the first quarter's proceedings far hg that of any similar society in the like period. Ist e y,, e t he 7th of September last they have issued shares re- Ita T ," 4l „allg a subscribed capital of 75,0001., of which more ' l , O OO/. has been actually received, and the remainder Dyio curse of payment. Meetings have been held . in ailebi districts , with a view of making known the society ceriltta objects, a' nd many towns have been visited bthe h h t ' l ittee with the most satisfactory result. The amount t,io n 1 , 408 was fixed at 501., in order to obviate any'objec 4144fIrfore the revising barrister as to the annual value, as ‘rati n -ee n. raised against the 301. allottees at the last . regis h•ct,4lB. After referring to the primarily defensive cha- Ar o , t of these assoc i a ti ons , th e re p o rt stated that several 44 (t e h' ll ea had been pur c has e d on the banks of the Thames, o ft i l e Y even proposed to extend their operations through- Op a o , -- ?Indies, 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, " Mahommedans 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 just reminded us of this 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 tea 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 I 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. 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 acceptable 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 a g ain. We cannot do with so long and Latinized a phrase as " un 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, ant 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 ig,norance 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 its triumph, in 1776. Read them together : Voteof the House of Commons. Adam Smith, Book 11. cap. 2. " That it is the opinion of "To expect, indeed, that this House that the improved the Freedom of Trade should condition of the country, and ever be entirely restored in especially of the industrious Great Britain is as absurd as classes, is mainly the result to expect that an Oceania or of recent legislation which Utopia should ever be estab has established the principle lishal in it. Not only the of unrestricted competition prejudices of the public, but, (Free Trade)—has abolished what is much more uncon taxes imposed for the pur- querable, the private into pose of protection, and has rests of many individuals thereby diminished the cost irresistibly oppose it." 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 tho 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 residnum 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 deprive.the offspring of Adam Smith of lithe 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 chosen by each sect for itself. None but 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 BUN. 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 SUN. Sin,—l 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, where 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 of yesterday. Can any one reading the evi dence on that case doubt that the husband was the murderer of his wife ? and yet he is dismissed with a reprimand by the coroner, who does not think that 1 "there is evidence to convict him of murder before a higher tribunal,"—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, 15th Dec, MEDICUS► THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1852. THE FRENCH EMPIRE. The Dutch Ambassador, General Farrel 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 of Coutance having been equally created canon of the highest order in the Imperial Chapter, the Abbe Daniel is raised to his see. • The dotation of the Emperor comprises, accord ing to the Debuts, the palaces of the Tuileries, the Elysee, the Palais Royal, Versailles, Marly, St. Germain, St. Cloud, Meudon, Fontainebleau, 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, Crown diamonds, &c. The Emperor went on Monday evening to the Theatre Francais. Ho 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 consulturn 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 commnnica 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 hapten to execute the orders of the Chief of the State in notifying through you his accession to the Government of This change in the political constitution of France re quires according to custom, that the political agents 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 the 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 pew 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, &c." Abd-el-Kader arrived in Lyons on Sundaynight, by steamer from Chalons. He was about to proceed without stopping to Marseilles, but the Salut Public says, that, at the pressing instances of Marshal Castellane, 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 following 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, 9601..; 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, 5451. ; Caen and Cherbourg, 630 f. ; Dijon and Besangon, 580 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 6101. ; 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 unanimously adopted 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 - Nelgeflas 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 Seraskier 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 birdf. 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. --7 Dickens's "Household Word& STATE OF 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 (11. 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 it 3 pecuniary resources. Abbas Pasha was made, some time ago, to pay enormous sums of money to the several living sons of Mehemet Ali, as an indemni fication for the land which they, as sons, considered they had a right to ; and now his .Ilighnes3 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, 98,E piastres per pound sterling. THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAMER IN TABLE BAY. 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. • 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 en 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, Porto Grande, 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 coalinz, 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 Tao•us 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 and Prom that the a ship's feel company t a m ent. single murmur, an d the general happinesstadl n u i there r i ee duties o a sf express t h n o e f o tts contentment. npe passengers,t hennave been d one w i t h the best f ee li ng. 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 a cc id ent, e i ther to mas t s, yards, spars, or sails, has is happened, an d, w ith f ew ex ceptions of the engine being stopped t o c ool the bear ings, that everything going on to my satisfaction ; that the water-closets act satisfactorily ; and that the lower decks are completely clear from any wa t er n ow, except a few trifling drops from the uppe r wor k s that will be corrected immediatelyyoonurleavi very laving St. Vincent. obedient s ervant, "J. S. SUTTON Commander. "Robert Marshall , Esq., Secretary.", St. St. rst. st. WEST LONDON REFORM ASSOCIA.TION.—Last night the annual -meeting of this association was held at the Commercial Hall, Icing's - road, Chelsea. ; Mr. President Gaskell in the cha ir. Mr. Osborne, one of the members for the county wasp resent, and there was a numerous at tendance of members. The business was commenced by the Chairman reading a lengthened report which referred to the circumsta nces unde r 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 the y had again succeeded in seat ing two Liberals, though with a more severe struggle than in 1847. In February last Lord John Russell introduced his long promised measure of Parliamentary reform. in. propos ed to give the two vacant seats for Sud which he bury to the town of Birkenhead, in Cheshire, containing 24,175 inhabitants, and 3,228 inhabited houses, and to the town of Burnley, in Lancashire, with a population of 20,828, and 3,741 inhabited houses. 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 Kensington ....•• 44,053 Hammersmith.. 11 , , 17 886 ....769 Fu1ham........... making a grand total of 130,237 inhabitants, and 18,639 inhabited houses. Lord J. Russell, however, loft out that great district in his bill, which was withdrawn. The re port, in conclusion, urged the importance of paying in creased attention to the register, as the best means of sup porting the Liberal cau.se. The report was adopted. 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 Board of Directors, a n application was ma d e by some in fluential shareholders in Liverpool to elect a Mr. T—, a representative of the Lanc ashire int erest. It is is stated that, of the 21,000,000/. share capital of the London and North-Western Company, about 7,00%000/, are held in Lancashire, which has sent 16 members to the Board, while about 9,000,0001. are held in London, which is now repre sented at the Board by seven members only.-11forning Herald. FORGERY ON HANBURY'S for gery, 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, a sawyer, who lived within a few miles of the picturesque town of Ross. Ho 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 Greenhaf 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 Jowly, 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. TRE SHARE MARKETS, BRITISH I IILWAYS. kr. I Paid Busmen done this Day. 5O all 101.1 all ',0.1 all *4 all ',Oll all ;t. 1100 0 I all all r 5 all Z all )0 all 0 all 15 all .2A all .2i all 0 all 20 all .to all 5/, all i 0 all 0) all ;5 all X2l 11 . it. 100 it. 100 Z 18111 2 91 iO all 5 1 all it. 100 ihr. , Paid RAILWAYS. 'Aberdeen . Ambg. Nottug. Bost. & Bastu. June 311 -- 32J1 GA -- Ci 10A -- 11 64 -- 61 d 21 -- 214 3/ -- 2a 107 -- 1 09 67i -- 68/. 224.-- 23A 184 -- 19 3 -- 2 dl Binnug. Wolverh. dt Stour Va11ey......... Birkenhd. T.Ancsh. & Cheshire Junet...... Do. Chcsb. (Sr Birk., £5O dr £25 Cons.... Do., £2O, Bristol do Exeter 'Caledonian. Chester & Holyhead, Cork and Bandon.... Dublin &Belfa4 June. Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Do. New ..... ......... 9 - 10 East Anglian (.L25 L. & E. & L. &D.)..... Do., (ClB E. & H.).. Eastern Counties..... 44 4k 13 13,f Eastern Union, Clas: A. late E. U. Sh... 11 - 12 Do., d 0........ Do., B. e...: C.. -- 76 - 76 East Laucashire East & West Ind. Dk. & Birming. June Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb.Prth. &Dundee Glasgow & S.Western Great Northern Stk Do., i A. Stock Do., t B. Stock Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Great Western Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshire Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby. & So uthpt. London & Blackwall Loud.. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond.Bright. & S.Cst. London & N. Western Do. Fifths 58 GO 78 - 80 281 - 31;4, 60 - 62 8A - 82 44 - 46 ;3 122 - 124 107i1 108 AI 96 --96 6i -- 7j 88 -- 90 11i -- 12Ap 84A -84 A 3 3g d -- 2 ' 21 d 17i -18 i 9 -9/ -- 2,p 106 -- 107 1241 --1251, Do. ,10/.5h.,M&8...0 London & S.Western Do., £50........ ••• Do., £4O Lnndrry.&Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch.Shef.&Liueln. Do., Man. &Lin. Un. Midland . Do. Birmbag.& Derby Midland G.West.(lr.) Do. A Shares .......... Newcastle & Carlisle.. Newmarket............ Newpt.Aberg.&lltfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry WaiTenpoint, & Rostrevor 3i 3 d 179 801 47' 49 Norfolk. Do., New Northn. Counties Un. North British ... North Devon, No.l Do., No. 2 Do., A Deferred... Do., A B Guaranteed) North Sthffordshire.. North Western........ N. & S. Westru. June. Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton—.. 'Scottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsbury & Birmg Do., L. & N. Westn Guaranteed Stock Shrewsby. & Herefd Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. MM.) Do. Heves, do Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union Do. , A. B. C. &D fully paid up at p. c South Devon ..... South Ea5tern......... South Wales S. Yorksh. River Dun D 0..... ... . . ...... Stockton & Hartlepl Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath 2a 13 - .2 9 1 -- 9 - Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limeriek West C0rnwa11........ West L0nd0n.......... 1 1W00df0rd..............1 York Newctl. & Beiw. Do. Ex i;ensions ....... Do. G.N.E. Purchase, York & N. Midland.. 6f - 2g 4 4i 1 - 3 11 2h p 914 92 31 —24 d 2. 2 • d 12. 13 20. —21 i 31 32 52 54 3i 3 d 2 —3 9 56 58 d 21 2 8 39 —4O 6i —6j d 1 2A —2l I a _ d 4i 3 d l 8 at 3 —4A p 52A —53 A 94 9.8 66 67 66 68 78 -- 82 11 /d 19i -20 i 94 -- 10 14 -- 2 151 3 -- 244 -25 j 79A -- 80 ! 39i -- 40 13i -- 14: 4 -- PREFERENCE SHARES. lAberd:)eu Do., No. 2, 7 p. e... Bristol & Exeter 4p cent. Stock ...... Do. 4 p. c. Shams 'Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyhead, Guar. 5,1 per cent—, , Cork drßaudonsi P.C. Dundee Pcrth&Aber deen Junction....... EastA ugliau 10s) 6 per cent. Do. (E 5) 7 per cent.. Do. (E 7 17s) 7 p. ct.. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do., No. 2.. ..... Do., New 6 p. c. St.. Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per tout.... Do., £lO beben. Sh. EastLancash. 6 p.cts. East&WcstYorkshire Junction, Fifths..... Edinb.Prth. &Dundee Glasgow & S.Wcstern guar. 5 per cent.... 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.).. Great Western, fixed 4} per cent........... Lancash. & Yorksh., F. £2O. Do., 6 p. c., Stock Leeds Northern, 6 p cent., No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., No. 3........ Do. , Quarters, 1848. London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852 Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. Lon. & N. West. Cov. & Nun., 5 p. c. Stock. London & S. Western, Con. Thirds Londonderry& Coler. Shares Londndry. & Ennisk. Shares ganch. ,Shef., &Lin I Shares, No. 1...... Do. New, £10......... Do., £6 ..... Marypt.&Carl. 4p. Do. 4 per ceut . Do Mid.Consol. 6 p.c. St Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent Do. Pref. 4.3 per cent Norfolk Extension Do. Guar. N per ct Do. Waveney Valley 5 per cent North British North Staffordshire Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. £15,6p. c , Do Shrewsbury k Birm. New Guaranteed Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min),B p. c. Do. 5 per cent South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of £1 Os.6d. Do. 4} per cent S. Yorksh.4p. c. Guar Stock. & Hartl. Guar sp. c. till 1 Ju1y,1856, Waterfd. &Kilk. 6p. C. I York Newcastle and Berwick, 4 p.c.Pref. Do .. York& ........ H & S. Purch JOINT-STO I Australasia .... C l3 o lit lo i n s i I N. American Commercial of Lou• don English Scottish and Australian Lond. Chart. Bk. 01 Australia London and County London Joint Stock Lond. & Westminster National Prov. of Eng. Do. Now National of Ireland. Oriental Bank of Corporation. IDo. New Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Importing Company Union of Australia Do. Now ‘Union of London Union of - 110 LO5 - 107 19 193 i d —ip 6 - 3$ -- 35 3} -- 4 ip 11 -- 2 p, ig -- 11 14i -- 18 -• 183 3 - l'ii lio .12 - 113 81 -- 9i 1 -- p 1091 -110 i par -- p 152 -- 55 ... Closing Prima fluid Day. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS Leasing Compans. Closing Prices this day. RAILWAYS. B3dford and Bletchley Birm. & guarantee Do. without gr Birm.Wolv. & Dudley guar. Do. wtht guar. Buckghamsh . Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln. gr. I 6 p. cent Glstr.&Dn. Fr Glas. Barr. & Neilsn.Direct Do. New Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby. Do. .3 Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent... Do. (3 per et... Ntan:ih,lixton. and Matlock Middltsbro' & Redcar. JLidld Bradfd. Northern and Eastern sp. c. Do. 6 per ct.. Do. Fixed sp. c Prest. &Wyre Do. Shares. Roystn. & Hit. Do.Shepth.St. Shef. Roth. & Goole g.5.p.c S. Staffordsh WearValleygr 6 per cent Do Wilts &Somrst 4hr.~ Paid, 1 I all .0 I 2 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 all !O 13. Vs' 24 iO all A 13 1 all ,London di N. West.] Gt.Westo Do Do Do L. do N.W. Caledon Gt.Notrhn l Gt. Westa. Caledon Do Yk. New & Berw Y.&N.Ard Do Do S. Eastcrn Korfolk Do f.u.dzN.W & Stektou flarliugt. E. Count. Do Do L. &N. W. &Ln&Yk Do Gt. Northn Do Lancash. Yorksh MrMClcau Stockt. Darling Do r t.Wcstn. 30 - 31 29i A) ; 30 - 31 29 - 30 109 - 111 53 55 149 - 151 33 - 34 113 115 50?; - 571 27 - - 28 14 - 14, 1 , 25 - 19?; - 20 23 - - 25 3 - 31 1071 -- 10g1 64 -- 66 150 - 152 149 - 151 i Ad ... -- ". 32A -- n3A mi -- 1061 FOREIGN. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day. 1 - 2 14 - i' 3 1d —9it p 2g 24- p 2 1 -n p 7 - 71 1 - 1 - 7- 9 P 2/ - p - 8 1 - 34 -34 i 14 - 154 i, 1: iep 65 - 67 38 - 39 321 -32 i 4/ -5. f p i - 1p 21 - 22 11} - 12 an fl - 5i - i6P id- i . P lOi - llip MINES. Agua Fria Anglo Californian Australasian Australian Australian Cordillera . Australian Freehold Ave Maria Baden (Gd. Duchy of) British Austrin. Gold British Iron Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm Do. Cocacs & Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Carsons's Creek Cobra Copper Colonial Gold • Copialio English and Austin Copper Smelt;. Co General.... Golden Mountain Grcat Folgooth Lake Bathurst. Liberty Lond.&Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co dariquita )fexicau&S.Amerien New Granada Nouveau Moude Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymme Iron Santiago de Cuba South Australian Tin Croft . United Mexican %Vest Mariposa Yuba 11 p - I P 5 —6 p 3a-4 Par P par p k d p - P -8 4 4' 2 —3 x d * P 41 423 3g - 7 id par —lip 4 d par 1-4 P I_ -- 47t - - p 2i - 2A p - g P 21 - 23 10 - 11 -11 - 12 9 - 9i - P MISCELLANEOUS. 4 Australian ltyl. Mail l2i Canada dl Copper Miners of Eng Lii Do. Preference 5 Crystal Palace 2 Crystal Palace ranee 1 Eastern Steam 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir. L 4 Gen. Steam Navigat. 50 General Screw Steam Shipping Company , V, Irish Beetroot Sugar 2 - Netherlands Land II Peninsular& Oriental ;O Do 0 Royal Mail Steam 2 Univeral Emigration and Colonization.... .. -- ... .. - ... MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISII CORN For the Week ended Dec. 16, 1852, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per imperial Quarter. wnsAT.IBMILET.I OATS. 1 1 1 EYE. BEANS. TEAL. 1 423 ld 29 3 9d lbs 7d I 263 lid I 35s 4d I 32s Ad DUTIES ON FOREIGN OORN. _ WHEAT. I EASLEY. I II OATS. IiTZ. BEANS. I PE"' Is Od Is 0,1 is Od is Od is od Is Od QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 121,024; Barley, 116 134; Oats, 20,001; Rye, 239 ; 5.501; Peas, 3 , 654 q Bolin uarters. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2 / 15s to 4/ Os ; clover ditto, 3/ 15s to 5/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ 11. per load. A moderate supply, and a steady demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2/ 16s to 4/ 48; clover ditto, 3/ 15s to 5/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ us per load. Both hay and straw sold steady at full prices. WIIITECHAPEL. —Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 4l Os ; clover ditto, 3/ 15s to 5/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 5s to it ns per load. Supply good, and trade rather dull. MEAT MARKETS. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL.—The general demand ruled steady, and prices were supported. Beef, from 2s 2d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 3s Od. to 4s 4d; Veal, 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 3a 10d ; Pork 3s Od to 3s 10d per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, DEC. 15.—Beasts and sheep sold regdily at somewhat higher terms, and calves and pigs were a dull sale. Beef, from 2s Bcl to 4s Od ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 5s • Veal, 3s Od to 3 s 10 d ; Pork, 2010 to 3s 10d per B lbs. 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 38 8d per Sibs. ARUNDEL, Dec. 14.—We have a good steady demand for stock to-day. Beef, from 3s 24 to 4s 24 ; Mutton, 4s to 58 Od ; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 8d ; Pork, 3s 04 to 38 Btl per 81bs. CHICHESTER, DEC. 15.—Boasts and sheep sold at highe r !. prices. Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 2d ; Mutton 3s 84. to Js ; Veal, 3s Od to 3s 84 ; Pork, 30 to 3 s 8 d per Sibs. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(IHIS LONDON, Dec. 16.,—Wind at Noon, W., fine. DEAL, Dec. 15.—Wind, S.W., blowing hard. Arrived —California, New Orleans, for Hamburgh. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 15.—AiTived—Lord Elgin, New Cala bar; Irene, Islay; Siren, Patagonia; Sandbeich, Demerara; Excelsior, Rio Hache; Kemrebec, Hamlet, Eastern Quoen, 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 hero. A severe shock of a sub marine convulsion or earthquko was experienced on the 13th of October, in lat. 2, S., by the Hibbert, arrived at Bahia. HULL, Dec. 14.—Arrived—Pauline, Patagonia; Eliza beth, Holderness, St. John's, N .B. PLYMOUTH, Dee. 15.—Arrived,--Lara, Newfoundland, from London. BaisroL, 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 liurricanne off the Foreland. HARWICH, Dec. 15.—Wind, W. 3 blew hard all Bight from westward and continues. Business done this Day. 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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-sloop, Commander 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 1071 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 hoy 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 250-horse power. The Miranda is ordered to be forwarded in her fitment with all speed possible. The Agamemnon will take in her lover 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 erday for Woolwich and Deptford, with stores from .his yard. WOOLWICH, DEC. 15. The Megara 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 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. eac h to receive, and obtained a fortnight's leave of absence. The Wildfire steam-vessel arrived at Woolwich this aftern•on, 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. :L. i y 4.7 x .. 71 M -0 ..• , 00 ® -,- * ` - m . "`VZ ,....., We regret to hear that among the victims to de ri t,4 :44 ....„ .*- zi i__ b s , v .: ' - Ct low fever, on board the Dauntless, 31, screw-friga GI, ' 1 4 y Captain Halsted, in the West Indies, two were midship.\ , ' L....M - _,„...1 men of that ship. • The Rattle Snake, oid frigate, last employed as a Bur veying-vessel, is ordered to be commissioned this day at 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. APPOINTMENTS. Master.—Tomyns D. Brown (1851), from the Coast Guard, to the Cruiser steam-sloop, 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. 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 yard. 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 (1S11) had accepted the rank of rvetired Commander, according to the order in Council of 1830. Since then, 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 battalion, 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, ho 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 ional bombadier to each of the ei g ht com p anies 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. rooted to full bombadiers. LYCEUM THEATRE. A capital farce, full of mirth and briskness, was pr , ! • duced last evening, under the curious title of Little Toddlekins. Mr. Charles Mathews represents a i‘lr- Jones Robinson Brownsmith, who, being one of thirteen .s children, the offspring oT love and poverty, .determwibneo to marry for money, and woos and weds a widow, older than dying, leaves him a daughter eighteen himself. This child of forty-eight, existence, and he years Amanthis (Mrs. Frank Matthews), is the clog of his bn rtre s ne e d w ' ith such endures eight refusals from being endeavouring to get rid otfoherranyy an infant. His whole existence is cnolraivangeo7ttspeveitint : in a "d and cigars, captain half-pay captain, devoted b however, being now rejected this Littlepot (Mr. H. Butler), cannot take the income with ninth over grownrejectethe . and her papa, a M r . n w s .a m ta ith o , n baby, induces her to relent,. . Barnaby Babicombe (Mr. Basil Baker), is induced to take the dear infant to himself, as one good turn deserves another, and thus they each marry each other's'dau g ht er. supposing The great fun of the p iece consists in all s •ng 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. Mr. Charles Mathews was exceedingly clever, and hisperpetual ani mation kept the piece alive, and the audience in a state of immense delight. Indeed, they continued in a roar of laughter from first•to last, and the curtain descended amid universal merriment and applause. Mr. Mathews was enthusiastically called for, and bowed his acknow ledgments. Then, upon a cry being raised for " the author," the admirable comedian again appeared, and addressing himself to the audience, said, 66 Ladies and gentlemen, am I right in supposing that you wish to know who is the a u th or o f this piece ?" (Cries of Yes, yes !') "First (co n ti nue d he) pray tell me whet her y ou like it." Great a p p l ause 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 Oliva'. Of Miss Carlotte Leclercq's Mary Darlington wo have but to repeat our former favour able opinion ; it is a most ch aste and elegant specimen of comic acting. The hundredth night of the Corsican Brothers drew a house crammed to suffocation on Tuesday, and it wont 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 aro 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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