The Sun. — London, England, 1848-12-28 00:00:00

,PIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CHRONICLE.—The great drama of the French Presidential Election ended, as such dramas should, with an "effect." The characters, tragical and humorous, who have been developing the intricate plot of the past two months, crowded the stage in the last scene. Cavaignac, the wrongful possessor, divests himself of the splendours no longer his own, in a neat, sentimental speech. Louis Napoleon, the rightful heir—the twenty-years' wanderer over the face of the earth —comes to the front of the boards, wearing a grave expression, and attired (say the French journals) in an elegant suit of black. He lifts his hand to the sky, as heroes do on the like occasions, pronounces a cabalistic sentence, and straightway M. Armand Marrast, who does the heaey business of the Republic, pro nounces him united with Liberty, his blushing fiancee. Then follows a general shaking of hands. Republicans of the Ere embrace Republicans of the Morrow, the President of the Republic accolades the ex-President of the Council, and so down goes the curtain. From all we see and hear, we are justified in concluding, that the hero and the heroine, since the conclusion of the piece, have been living the life which it is only decorous to attribute to the dramatis persona of a drama which has terminated happily. Even the National, the unquiet demon who has striven, through five long acts, to prevent their union, grumbles half involuntary congratula tions. The household of the newly .wedded pair seems prudently organized; there is no rumour as yet of the smallest bickering, or of undue assumption of superiority on either part. It appears quite pos sible, that the bride may live to be a widow, and to inscribe laudatory epitaph on the tombstone of the man who has been so pertinaciously repre sented to her as a fortune-hunter, and an inevitable domestic tyrant. It is even so. Louis Napoleon may become a Republican saint, and be worshipped on the Sans- culottides. Is it fair to anticipate the argument of that formidable personage , the devil's advoc ate, who, in the practice of the Roman Catholic Chu rch, regularly opposes the pretensions of candidates for canonization ? He may be supposed to urge the case of the French people against the French Republic. He may hint that Louis Napoleon's five millions of constituents had something else in their heads, at the moment of voting, than the election of a decent republican official. He may insinuate, that they were intolerably disgusted at finding they !'ad got Cato, after supposing they had given their suffrages to Caesar. He may ask, why the President troubled the democratic Israel at all—why he stirred up all the anti-Republicanism from Marseilles to Lille for the sake of manifesting his devotion to the , Republic f The nation did not place him in his present position as a field for the display of Spartan self-corm - nand. It will not always do—the agent of the evil spirit may a'sert—to take men at their word. And in this last respect the devil's prompting may, perhaps, be correct. A cynic might pass one of these December nights pleasantly enough, if the malicious Diable Boitenx himielf would unroof for him some nine or ten edifices in Paris—the Palace of the National Assembly, where France speaks of Liberty and Equality, in public ; and a few hack shops in the Boulevards, or the Rue de Rivoli,.where she talks of Louis Napoleon and reviving credit, in private. The Invalides might teach something : the conversation of the old soldiers probably turns, at this moment, on the brother and nephew of their new Imperial Governor. St. An toine, where the democratic and social Republic mutters its execrations, has no doubt its lesson. So has the sombre dwelling of M. Thiers. And so has the Elys6e National. But what proceeds there, is the question. Its inmate is just now passing through a great crisis in the public life of conspicuous men. It must be owned that history pronounces dif ferent judgment on such periods, according to the temper she is in. Sometimes she condemns in dig nified tone, the personage who has seized opportunity by its scanty hair ; sometimes, in her melting moods, she will even excuse the deed, or, at the least, shut her eyes when it comes before her. Ought we to add, that she occasionally neglects to do justice to the self-denial of him who lets the chance go by ? The goVess, as the epigrammatist significantly said, is a lady : she may, perhaps, sympathise with the weakness which the charge of the calumnious French man imputes to her sex—that when there is a feeble Element, so far from thanking the man who refuses to take advantage of it, they are terribly apt to call him a fool. But there is, on the other hand, much to be urged against the suggestion that in Louis Napoleon's circumstances honesty is the worst policy. To have preserved one's self-respect is something ; and it is else something to have had the ball at one's foot, and yet to have declined propelling it. That they re mained deaf to unmistakeable hints, conveyed in the thunderous whisper of five million voices, what will be said of few men to the end of time. It is true that the French President is no Washington, that he should reject the diadem with great indignation. But, if he has not deserved so well of the Republic, he has certainly been nearer the Monarchy. And the Frenchman's refusal will not lose, but rather gain, 1 by contrast with that of the American, when it is considered that the former has far less to fall back upon. His antecedents recal nothing that resembles Bunker's Hill. His retreat, when his four years of office are expired, will be no Mount Ver non—no bourne for Democratic pilgrims. He will be a danger escaped. But his honour will be the brighter, and his name the more unblemished. And his period of office will ever be memorable as synchronising with the fall of sectarian tyranny and the restoration of debilitated order and damaged com merce. It must be owned, however, that no political prophet is likely to be right in vaticinations based on the present aspect of French affairs. All is calm— but it is the sort of calm which proves and promises nothing. The new Ministry merely recognises the past contest. Each section of Louis Napoleon's sup. porters has its representative, though, of course, these representatives have been selected with as much restriction on free choice as is implied in the necessity of their not being too much out of harmony with the *taus quo. M. Odilon Barrot, at the head, represents good faith, and, perhaps, symbolizes the particular species of distinction which the President wishes to attach to his own memory, and that of his temporary supremacy. ADVERTISER.—It is gratifying to find, that so far as the new state of things has proceeded in France there has occurred nothing to warrant evil forebod ings for the future. Louis Napoleon, in his new and responsible office of President of the Republic, has demeaned himself much better than his warmest friends could have expected. He has been guilty of no grave error of judgment; neither has he said or done anything since his instalment in the Presiden tial chair, Of which his foes can make a handle. None were more strenuously opposed than ourselves to the candidateship of the Prince. We opposed him solely because we did not deem him the " man" which the " hour" demanded. We feared that he was not the peison either to consolidate the Republic, or to preserve the tranquillity of the country, menaced as it has unceasingly been for many month past. We supported Cavaignac for no ether reason, than that, judging from his past services, and the character he bears, we believed him to be, of all others, the person best fitted to uphold order and preserve domestic tranquillity. The French nation willed it otherwise. They chose the man whom we should wish to see rejected, and rejected the man whom we were anxious to see selected. From that moment our opposition to Louis Napoleon ceased ; and right glad shall we be should we never have oc casion to enrol ourselves again in the ranks of his opponents. At all events, he will receive no opposi tion from us unless his acts shall be of a nature calcu lated to peril the internal tranquillity of France, or involve Europe in the evils of war. In the election of Cavaignac Prance would have had a guarantee for the maintenance of domestic order, and Europe for the presarvation of asogeneral peace. Let as hope, that though insurednot i Tinguine that these results will be by show election of Louis Napoleon, the event ev w en th u st the y are. We are gratified to find that remembering, es a ll fears have proved to be without foundatiil.ll.TlOUT , that even a a something to be able to say, is must do, the antecedents of the Prince fortnight should elapse without anything disastrous or ominous arising out of his Presidency. For hi e own sake, as well as for the sake of France and E e . rope, we trust that we shall have to record the same state of matters, week after week, during his entire term of office. There is no rock on which he is in so much danger of making shipwreck, as on that of foreign war. This, we fear, is a peril to which he is much exposed. His temptations are great to embark in warlike enterprises. The associations connected with the memory of his uncle, the military spirit which so extensively prevails in France, and the struggles now going on in various parts of the country, between popular principles and those of a despotic kind—are all circumstances likely to operate on a mind constituted as his is known to be, and to precipitate France into hostilities with some other power. It is, indeed, asserted in some of the Paris papers, with as much confidence as if the fact were notorious to all, that the Government of Louis Napoleon have already determined on an armed intervention in Italy on behalf of the Pope. We are unwilling to believe it. We fervently hope it is not correct. Such a course would be opposed to those principles of non-intervention which the Provisional Government, and the Government of Cavaignac, not only recognised, but on which they so scrupulously acted. Louis Napoleon has also assumed the reins of power amid protestations of his determination to abstain from interfering in the affairs of other countries. If it be true, that an armed force is to be sent to Italy, to reinstate Pius IX. in the sovereignty of the Roman States, it will be a flagrant breach of faith with those of the French people who are anxious for the preservation of peace. Nor can such a course of procedure be in accordance with the views and wishes of other Powers. If France interfere in this case, there can be no security against her intervention in the affairs of other countries. If she dispatches her armies to crush the Liberalism which has dethroned the Pope, and compelled him to seek an asylum in another land, what reason have we to suppose that she will not, before the lapse of many months, find some pre text or other for interfering in the affairs of Austria ? She has no more right to interfere with the Romans, because they have overthrown the temporal sove reignty of the Pope, than she would have to inter fere with the people of the United States, should they take it into their heads to repudiate a republic, and declare in favour of a monarchy. Let the Pope and his quondam subjects fight it out between them serves, in any way they choose. If Louis Na poleon have judicious and enlightened advisers, they will not fail to warn him, that he will have enough to do to maintain his own ascendancy as President of the Republic, without seeking to uphold the thrones of other Powers, or re-establish sovereign ties which, within the last ten months, have been shattered to pieces. The stability of his own Govern meat,i is more dependent on its abstinence from in ter Terence in the affairs of other countries, than on anything else that can be imagined. If he observe a p—eeful attitude to other countries, and identify himself with the maintenance of order at home, his G , •, , ernrnent may last; but if he heedlessly, as in the ca,e alluded to, rushes into quarrels with other go vernments, and interferes, where he has no admissible praext for doing so, in the affairs of other E u r o p ean St a t e s,—his Presidenthip will be but of short dura tion. The day on which a French expedition starts for Rome, will see the doom of Louis Napoleon's Government sealed. But we hope better things of the Prince. We trust he will not fall into so fatal an error. T lIE FATAL OCCURRENCE AT THE VICTORIA THEATRE. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. Yesterday morning an inquiry was instituted by the lessee and other officials of the theatre with a view of ascertaining the precise cause of the disaster, and for the adoption of such steps as should prevent the recurrence of a similar calamity. From all that could be ascertained, it appears that the heat occa sioned by the immense numbers on the stairs had been for two or three hours before the occurrence took place most oppressive, and those about the middle of the st sirs were scarcely able to breathe, or to more an in :h backwards or forwards. The noise occasioned by the people shouting was most deafening, but as such scenes are of frequent occurrence on the open ing night of a pantomime little notice of the affair was taken by the persons behind the curtain. Those who were waiting on the landings prevaricate considerably as to the manner the deceased lost their lives. The bey, Leonard Tickner, persists in his statement that he was taken up by some man, and then thrown upon those below; whilst another person, who was near the same place, states that the man who did so had no intention of injuring any one, but, on the contrary, tried to rescue the led from the crowd. His opinion is that when the boy fell it was by accident. Mr. Beooks, one of the surgeons who attended at Mr. S- veil's, is of opinion that the youngest of the de cal , ed had died from suffocation, and had most pro ly been dead some time before he fell. The body presents all the appearance of having been closely we lged in, and if suireunded with grown up people he would be as unable to breathe as if a pillow had been put over his mouth. The other lad presents every appearance of something heavy having fallen upon his he 4 which no doubt stunned him for the moment, and then falling down, was trampled upon and selethered. The face looks as if it had been kicked and trodden on by shoes with heavy nails in them. Mr. Knight, the assistant to Mr. Sewell, states that w'een Henry F razer , ano th er o f the persons injured, was brought to the surgery, he was perfectly insen si`.le and appeared to be dying. He, however, ad re;eistered stimulants, and he partially recovered, vi :len some idea of the agony the lad must have been in inay be formed from the fact that a 2 oz. graduating gl ers used for administering medicine was bitten in he:f by the unfortunate boy. This patient was kept at Mr. Sewell's, where leeches and other remedies w, re applied, but several hours elapsed before he re covered sufficiently to be removed to his own home. U, on making inquiries yesterday, it was ascertained th it the lad still remained in a very precarious con dition. The three other sufferers who were not dead when brought to the surgery were all much bruised, but fortunately no bones were broken. During the forenoon of yesterday the bodies of the deceased were identified by their relatives, when it w is ascertained that their names were William Phil lii of 5, Turk's-row, Chelsea, about eleven years of ace ; and John Castillo, aged 15, of 2, Plough-court, Fetter-lane. Several hundred persons made applica tion during the day to inspect the bodies, and it was not until they were owned that the churchyard could be cleared. Workmen were engaged during the day in repair. ing that part of the rail which had been torn down. It is now so constructed that it would be impossible to force it down, no matter how strong the pressure against it might be. It is also intended to have a number of barriers erected on the stairs similar to those at Her Majesty's Theatre, by which means the public will be protected from extraordinary pressure. Iladit not been for the exertion's of the police, it is more than probable that several other persons would hive lost their lives. So great was the crowd outside the theatre that it required the efforts of between 30 and 40 police-constables, who were under the direc tion of Mr. Superintendent Rutt, Inspector Rogers, and Sergeant Roales, to keep the people back, so that the sufferers could be removed from the stairs. The whole of the other persons injured were found, upon making inquiries at their respective residences yesterday afternoon, to be going on as well as could be expected, and no fatal result in either case is ap prehended. SINGULAR CHARGE OF ARSON. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. -At the police court to- day William Comforth Demain, a stationer and paper ruler, lately occupying premises in S sift's-court, in this town, was placed before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of having wilfully set fire to his premises in November last. The charge was pre ferred by Mr. Robinson, of the firm of Lowndes, Robinson, and Bateson, solicitors, on the part of the Yorkshire Fire and Life Insurance Company. The case had been remanded from Fridly last, for the pr )(luction of additional evidence. Several witnesses, previously employed by the pH sc.ner, were examined, with the object of proving that a fire, which happened on his premises, on the 6th of November last, was caused by his own hand. Thomas Powell, who had been employed as an errand-boy by the plaintiff, before the fire, stated that he had, on two occasions, keen kept by his master beyond his usual meal hours, to pull at a wire in the lower part of the premises, the object of which he did not understand. Two witnesses, named Webster and Tomlinson, apprentices of the prisoner, deposed to having disco vered a singularly-constructed wire, communicating with a loft in the premises, in which were deposited shavings, and other combustible materials, some time before the fire. The wire came down the walls of the premises to the outer door. And on the evening of the fire, on closing the premises, they found a diffi culty in closing the door, and on shutting it, felt th it they had broken some cord, or wire which had been affixed to it behind. About an hour afterwards they heard that the premises were on fire. These two witnesses further deposed to hav ing had suspicions that the prisoner had set the pre mises on fire by the application of these wires; and also that they told him of their suspicions, on which he promised to set them up in business if they would say nothing about the fire, and that he cancelled their indentures, and gave them certain sums of money with which to carry on business. Other evidence went to prove that in the loft or garret of the premises there was a box of lucifer matches, sand-paper, and shavings, communicating with the wires spoken to, and that on the night of the fire the prisoner was seen to go into the loft, about 7 &clock, and afterwards leave the premises before the apprentices left. The case was then farther remanded to Friday. a A.ORRIIILE I.IUNDIR IN NORTHAMPTON.--YeSter u annldngeiintforrmartion was forwarded to the Metro politano ice Commissioners of a most hor rible murder hay' been perpetrated in the open streets, at NorthamptonY.rn From the few particulars sent by the telegraph, it ap ears eve that a woman, named Mary Bed ford, on TuesTay walking through the street at Northamptontawlenwassahe was overtaken by a man, supposed to be named Samuel Clayton, a shoe maker, who murdered her. suspected murderer is d , scribed as being about forty y s h o a f . age, stout made, fire feet six inches high; dark len long whiskers, of one s dent on the lower lip, and underg-drooping eye lid. He was dressed in a black surtout-elanogatmaand black waistcoat. He formerly worked with out of Ratcliffe-high_ James, in Lower street, leading way. y He left Northampton at ten minutes b e f ore ei g ht la,t night by train for London. The moment the news w,ls received the commissioners dispatched a number of the detective and other officars to those portions of the metropolis whither it was expected Clayton would re sort, and there is no doubt that before long he will be is safo oustody. According to advices from St. Dizier, of the 21st inst., the metal trade of that place is in a very depressed state. One communication says, "It ii impossible to c( nceal the present position of the metal forges, which extremely bad. The old markets do not pay. Irons ar, selling at a depreciation of 30 per cent., and tins at that of 30 per cent. We are informed that travell ,, rs accept any price they can obtain, although we quote sheet-iron, at 240 f., and welded-iron, at 270 f., for deli very here. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SHEFFIELD, ROTHERANT; BARNSLEY, WAKE FIELD, HUDDERSFIELD AND GOOLE. An extraordinary general meeting of this company was held in Wakefield yesterday, for the purpose of ap proving the draft-deed of a lease of the above line to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company; also for the purpose of modifying the terms of a lease entered into with the above company in 1847, as regards so much of this projected line as is situated to the north of the Barnsley station including the Silkstone branch. Mr. John Barff presided. The CHAIRMAN proceeded, at great length, to remark upon the charges which had been from time to time re iterated in Herapath's Journal against the chairman (Air. E. H. Beaumont) and Mr. Wentworth. From those statements it would seem that the journal in ques tion had charged them with promoting this line with the view of selling their land at a high price, and, having accomplished that object, they now sought to hand over the shareholders to the tender mercies of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company. He (the Chair man) having been on the Land Committee, had no hesi tation in saying that such charges were unwarranted by the facts of the case. When the line was originally laid out, a surveyor was appointed on the part of those two gentlemen, and another on the part of the company; but the Land Committee were so fully satisfied with the rea ' son able nature of the claim made on behalf of those gen tlemen, that they unanimously recommended its pay ment. He (the Chairman) from a knowledge of the price paid for land on the Great Northern and other similar lines, did not hesitate to say that the company had saved several thousands of pounds by the good feeling displayed towards the company by those two gentlemen. lie then explained the terms of the agree ment proposed to be entered into with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company, the basis of which was that the line should be open for public traffic and delivered into the lessees' hands in a working condition on the Ist of January, 1850. The shareholders were to receive in terest at the rate of five per cent. upon the capital ex pended in the making of the line, and half the sur plus profits. Should the lessees make a second line of rails the capital thus expended was to be calculated at the same amount of interest. In answer to inquiries, the Chairman said that the line would be opened by the time named in the agreement, and as the contractor's and minor estimates were already made, allowing for all contingencies of an ordinary character, the directors felt confident that the amount of calls required would not exceed 181. 10s. per share. The requisite resolutions were then entered into for leasing the above line on the terms in question, which were carried unanimously. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman and the proceedings terminated. RAILWAY ASSURANCE, A meeting, which was very thinly attended, was held at the London Tavern yesterday, to consider a proposi [jou. to establish en association for the better protection of railway travellers; Mr. Carter in the chair. Mr. CoEz, at some length, stated the objects of the association that he had in view, the giving to all railway officers and servants a direct pecuniary interest in the prevention of railway accidents, and for assuring more adequate compensation to sufferers from railway tra velling than is afforded under the provisions of the Act of Parliament. He stated that 893 passengers on rail weys were killed and injured during the past two years and a half. He assumeo that one-fifth of the whole po pulation would ultimately travel by railway, and that 1 in 100 would insure. He made his calculations from the number of killed and injured in 1846 over a given number of miles ; he estimated that 42 persons would be killed, and 392 injured, in three years, and he found that in two years and a half up to last June 41 persons had been killed and 255 were injured during that period, which he thought was a proof of the soundness of his calculations. ide estimated that a premium of one gu.nea only, once paid during seven years, would in-ure 401. for a casualty requiring temporary medical treatment, 6001. for a casualty, causing severe internal injury or loss of limb, 1.2001 fur one rendering the assured unable to gain a livelihood, and 2,0001. for one causing the death of the assured; that a premium of five guineas would in sure five times these amounts. He computed that the fatal accidents were not more than 10 I:er cent. of the whole, although in 1847 they amounted to 25 per cent. He assumed that in the first year 41,000 persons would insure and pay 86,000/, and they would have to pay 10 833/. He believed that in seven years 850,000 would insure, that they would have to pay about 250,0001, and receive about 600,0001., leaving 50,000/, per annum to go to the mutual fund for the relief and support of decayed railway servants. The share capital of the company was to be raised by the issue of 60,00 G shares of 10/. each to the persons employed on the railways, which would be at the rate of ono share for each person. The secretaries, clerks, &c., on the railways would have the privilege of subscribing for shares to the amount of one-fifth of their salaries. It was in that way he would induce the railway officers and servants to have a direct pecuniary interest in the prevention of accidents. He then read the opinions of Mr. Burehell and Mr. Hardy in favour of his proposition. After some discussion a series of resolutions wore passed approving of the objects of the association, and appointing a committee to confer with parties inte rested, and adjourning the meeting to Saturday even ing for the further consideration of the subject MILTON AND DRIFFIELD JUNCTION. This line, which for eighteen miles passes through the county of York, connecting the York and North Midland with the Hull and Bridlington Railways, is now just ready for opening to the extent of ten miles, commencing at Driffield. At present it i s on ly a single way, but suffi cient land has been taken to make it double. The amoant subscrihA during the last year and a half for this purpse has been at the rate of si. per share, or 70,0001., and the company, under the advice of Mr. Hudson, who has undertaken to work the line at its opening, to see what it will produce with a view to leasing it, have resolved, so as not to press heavily on the shareholders, to suspend almost entirely the works on the remainder of the line until March next, by which time it is hoped an improvement in the trade and manu factures of the country will again justify them in pro ceeding. A new line is to be made in the neighbourhood of Brecon, from the Dowlais iron works to the limestone and mineral quarries, which will give to the people of Brecon a communication with the raff Vale railway at Dowlais and South Wales railway at Cardiff. CALEDONIAN.—A committee of London shareholders, in connexion with this company, has been formed to op p9se in Parliament the leases and guarantees of other lines proposed by the directors. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAT.—Gross traffic receipts for the week ending the 23d December:—Passengers: First class, 12,340; second class, 28,725; third class, 25,694; total, 67,259; amount, 6,4631. 13s. 63.; carrying account, 1,6751. Bs. 4d.; total, 8,1391. ls. 10d. , ULSTER 11Au.wAY.—Tbe traffic on this railway was, for the week ending the 24th of December, 1848 (36 miles); Passengers, 10,552 ; amount, 4711. 10s. 9J ; goods, 359/. 9s. 7d. Total, 8311. Os. 4d. Correspond ing week, 1847 (25 miles) :—Passengers 13,124 ; amount, 452/. 4s. 10d. ; goods, 2011. 2c 3d. Total, 653/. 7s. id. MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY OF IRELAND AND ROYAL CANAL COMPANY.—Revenue for the week ending 24th of December, 1848 :—For goods and pas sengers (exclusive of mails), open to Mullingar, 50 miles, 1,1571. 0 1 / 4 10d. PARIS - AND ORLEANE---The following is at return of the receipts on the Paris and Orleans Railway, for the week ending the 19th of December, 1848:—Passengers, 60,029 f.; luggage, parcels, &c., 15,7721. 33c. , good:, 58,9171. 43c. ; carriages and horses, 6,566 f. 90c.; cattle, 10,0471. Total, 151,3321. 66c. Fur the corresponding week of 1847, 213,419 f. 03c.; total receipts since Ist Jan. 1848, 9,081,9041. 34c. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 27. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancs• shire, and Cheshire (late C. and B.), 27/. 10s. Shares, 5 per cent, for 1847-48, and 6 per cent., 1849, 15—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birmingham), Fifths, 3 3 4 dis.—Ditto, 32/. Shares (late Extension), 8 dis.—Ditt o , Fifths (late West Riding Union), 5 1 / 4 dis.—London and North-Western, 123—Ditto, New Quarters, 1 1 ,2 p.—Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire ' Quarters, No. 2, 1114— Ditto, 10/. Preference, 10% —Ditt o (late Great Grimsby and Sheffield), 27 dis.—Ditto (Docks), 13% dis.—Midland Stock, 85—Ditto, New Halves, S l / 4 dis.--North Union (A), 203 Shrewsbury and Chester (late N. W. M.), New 13/. 63. Shares, Y a dis.—Ditto (Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheater), 6 1 / 4 —South-Eastern and Dover, 23", i —Ditto, No. 3, 9 dis. —Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 7 1 , 4 c. dis.—York, Newcastle, and Ber wick (G. N. E. Purchase), 1 A dis. MANCHESTER, Dac. 27. Srocx EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Sheffield, Preference, 1074—North Staffordshire, 5 dis.—West Riding Union, 5 1-16 dis.—Grimsby, 20/. Shares, 107 i die.—East Lanca shire, New, 8 dis.—Grimsby, Quarters, 6 1 / 4 dis.—Leeds, 321 Shares, S dis.—Sheffield, Quarters, No. 2, 11 1 / 4 , BIRMINGHAM, Dac. 27. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The sales are—North British, Thirds, 4L,Bs. 9d.—Coventry and Nuneaton, 1 , 2 dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), 3/. 18s. 9d. dis.—Ditto, Preference, Bs. 9d. p.—South Staffordshire, 4 1 / 4 dis. YORK, DISC. 26. STOCK EXCHINGE.—The business transacted to-day was as follows :—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 22 1 ,4 —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Extensions), No. 1, 13% —York and North Midland, Preference, 101/2. [AIMIRTISRMENT.]—A Remarkable Cure of Dropsy of the Chest by Holloway's Pills.—Extract of a letter from Mr. Alunday, farmer, Kennington, near Oxford, dated Dec. 2, 1848, to Professor Holloway ; Sir, —Hay • ing on a former occasion apprised you of an extraordi nary cure upon myself by your invaluable medicine, it gives me great pleasure to testify again to its efficacy in a case of dropsy of the chest, with which my shepherd was afflicted, to whom, the moment I was informed of the nature of his complaint, I recommended a trial of your pills, which advice was adopted with complete success, for by taking a few boxes only be was perfectly cured and is now in sound health.—Sold by all Drug gists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. WESLEYAN TRAIT SOCIRTY.—Last evening the thirty-second annual meeting of the Southwark branch of this association was held in the Southwark Chapel, Long-lane, Southwark. D. W. Wire, Esq., presidia, and addressed the meeting. After adverting to the tranquil state of this nation, when compared with other countries, he called upon the secretary to read the an nual report. From that document it appeared that during the last year 66,149 tracts had beerkdistributed, of which number 4,800 were sent to the Berevolent So- F 3 "tY, 5 ,375 given to the subscribers, 8,000 sent to the rha.lll e a S ta ß o e n t g hek ay 4 ..s ,B , o h o ool T , the and workhouses, 850 society. The society had deeply to distri butedregretdteZlb:yissthoe - h it treasurer, who diel in last May. It further ap peared, from the report, that the association is debtor to the treasurer for the sum of 131. The rep ort was adopted. LAW INTELLIGENCE. r COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. D.e. 27. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. MARYLEBONE. Mr. Broderip yesterday received 51. from " R. W. F." for the poor-box, an acknowledgment of which was requested by the press. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday Alfred Pinner, described as an unem ployed toll-collector, was placed at the bar before Mr. llatnrnill, charged with having been concerned with others not in custody in assaulting and robbing a decent-looking labouring man named Jeremiah Travers, living in the East-road, Hoxton. The prosecutor, whose face was much bruised and swollen, stated, that his wife having complained to him on the preceding day that she had been grossly insulted by the prisoner, he proceeded in search of him, and at length found him in company of several other fellows, collected in front of a beer-shop in Plummer-street, City-road. He was about to re monstrate with him upon his scandalous conduct, when he was instantly surrounded and hustled by the whole of the party, and while endeavouring to disengage himself from their grasp one of them struck him a violent blow in the face, which brought him to the ground, and before he could recover his feet the prisoner and another man knelt upon his chest and held him down, whilst a third commenced rifling his pockets, from which they stole all the money he had with him, amounting to about Bs. in silver and copper. The moment the last man had secured his money he darted offend attempted to effect his escape, and was intercepted by a person who had witneFsed the outrage, and who endeavoured to seise him; but he had no sooner caught hold of his coat, than he was knocked down by two others of the gang and robbed of his pocket-handkerchief. The prose cutor in the meantime continued struggling with his assailants, but each time he attempted to rise he was struck down by the prisoner, who forcibly held him on the ground until his confederate had effected his escape with the money, when he and the others also made off in different directions. The robbery was the more daring from having been committed in broad daylight, and the prosecutor w en t f ort h w i t h to the station-house, and gave such an accurate description of the personal appearance of the men who had at tacked him, that it resulted soon after in the prisoner's apprehension. Upon being asked if he wished to put any question to the witness, the prisoner unguardedly replied, that it would be perfectly useless for him to do so, as the prosecutor was in such a state of helpless in toxication at the time of the occurrence that he could not possibly recollect anything that had taken place. Police-constable Jenkinson, however, proved that the prosecutor was perfectly sober when he came to the station to lodge his complaint; and that his face and person exhibited marks of severe ill-usage, evi dently very recently inflicted. From his description of the man who had committed the robbery he was recognised as a well-known character who had been previously convicted of felony, and the prisoner upon being taken into custody admitted that he had been present during the affray, but positively denied the more serious part of the charge. ' When called upon for his defence, the prisoner now repeated the same statement he had made to the officer, but The . MAGISTRATI ordered him to be remanded for a week for the completion of the evidence against him. CLERKENWELL. Our reporter is requested to state that "R. E." has forwarded a letter containing the half of a 101. note for the poor-box, with a request that its receipt might be acknowledged in the newspapers. LAMBETH. Mary Sparritt, a common prostitute, and Hyam Benjamins, a Jew, who lives with her, were placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott for further examination on a charge of being concerned with another person, not at present in custody, in stealing a gold watch of the value of !71. and upwards of 3/. in gold and silver, the property of Mr. Joseph Pearson, a railroad con tractor. From the statement of the prosecutor it appeared that on the night of that day week he met the female prisoner and another woman near the Victoria Theatre, and agreed to spend the night with them. He accompanied them home to their lodging, and went to bed in an upstairs room with one of the women. On awakening at an early hour in the morn ing he missed his companion and his gold watch, and also found that his purse, which he had placed under his pillow for safety and which contained :3 1 . in gold as well as some silver, had been emptied of its contents. The prisoners, who slept down stairs, denied all knowledge of or participation in the robbery, but the prosecutor not believing the statement gave the man and woman into custody. The female prisoner was again remanded, but her companion was discharged. There were very nearly forty charges disposed of by the Magistrate caused by the drunkenness and ir regularity of the preceding day, and in upwards of twenty of them penalties of various amounts were im posed. THAMES. John Kelly, an Irish mendicant in the dress of a sailor, who has been in custody a fortnight, was brought up for final examination before Mr. Yardley, charged with feloniously cutting and wounding Char lotte Connell. The prosecutrix, a woman of the town, who was discharged from the hospital on Saturday last, stated that on the night of the 14th instant she was in the Sir Sidney Smith public-house in Dock-street, Whitechapel, in company with a sailor, when the prisoner entered and demanded relief in a very improper manner, and on her telling him to get away, he said to her young man, " Can't you help a poor shipmate ?" She told him if he asked for relief in a proper :manner she would not hinder her com panion from giving him money ; but, if he insisted upon it as a right, he had better take himself away. IL: then offered the sailor a jacket for sale, which he refit. , ed to an d sa id h e did not want it. The prisoner then abused her in a gross manner, using the most foul language and epithets of a revolting des which the witness gave the curt a sample. She then pushed the prisoner with both hands and told him to get away. He immediately A fiat was this day opened before Mr. Commis sioner EVANS against Mr. John Fitzgerald, of 39, Portland-place, and of Pendleton, in the County Pa latine of Lancaster. Mr. Fitzgerald is an extensive mine owner a n d alai) a coal mercant. It reported that the unsecured debts are upwards of 10,0001., but the assets are said to be considerable. The fiat bears date December 20. The cases on the list were few and unimportant. Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque there was a last examination in the matter of P. W. Spokes, a bookseller, in the Strand. Mr. Lawrance opposed; Mr. Duncan and Mr. Parry supported. The bankrupt, after some discussion, passed. M. Mitchell, in presenting a donation of 101. 10s. to the poor-box from the Court of the Drapers' Coin pany, expressed a hope that the press would give pub licity to the fact, that others might be stimulated to join in placing funds at the disposal of the magistrates, who had no other money applicable to charitable purposes than that the public supplied. During the approaching inclement season many pitiable cases were sure to turn up in the ordinary course of the business of a police-office. _ 1114IILBOROUGH-STREE From "E. W. M." 101. has bean received for the poor. box. A ruffianly-looking fellow, named Hugh Stack, a labourer, who has upon many occasions been brought up for assaults of a most violent description, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, on the serious charge of having stabbed police sergeant Bewley, 20 D. Bewley, who seemed very faint and weak, and who had evidently sustained serious injury, deposed that on the previous night, as he was on duty in Orchard•place, Portman-square, the prisoner, without saying a word, ran up to him and spat in his face. Witness desired him to go quietly away, but he swore he would not do so, and, rushing at com plainant with a knife, forced the weapon through his belt and coat, at the same time injuring his thumb. Complainant called out for assistance, but none ar rived before the prisoner had plunged a knife into the thick part of Bewley's thigh, which caused him to bleed profusely. Before he was stabbed the prisoner made many thrusts at him, which with his truncheon he parried otT, and his impression was, from what was stated by a number of the prisoner's friends, that they had made up their minds to wreak vengeance upon him to a far greater extent. Tapp, 90 D, deposed to the brutality exercised to wards the sergeant, as did also another policeman of the same division. Bewley was recalled, and he said that the prisoner, whilst making thrusts at him, used language of a most violent description. Mr. 'Wilson, assistant to Mr. Vickers, surgeon, Baker-street, said that he dressed the wound, which was in the fleshy part of the thigh ; it was an inch and a half in depth, and had it been a little higher up the knife would have perforated the femoral artery, and the haemorrhage therefrom might have caused death. In reply to Mr. BROUGUTON, the witness said that the sergeant was not in any danger, but that he re quired several days' rest. It was further stated that at the station-house the prisoner was very outrageous, and that a knife was fund upon him. The prisoner stands committed on the charge of cutting and wounding, but will he brought up again next Tuesday, when the depositions will be read over end he will be sent for trial. WESTMINSTER. knocked her dlown with his fist, and, as she was rising, he stabbed her in the face with some blunt instrument, and she fell again. She got behind a man for prol:ection, and the prisoner again struck her and infli.:.ted another wound. .It was such a dreadful blow that it took her senses away. Mr. YARDiLEr-NOW, are you sure you have told me the whole truth ?—The woman, who gave her evidence very clearly, and is still in a state of great suffering, declared that she had, and added that she lost a good deal of blood. Francis Smilt2a, a respectable man, who keeps a sailors' boarding-house in Glasshouse-street, Upper East Smithfield, confirmed the evidence of the prose cutrix, and stated that the instrument with which the prosecutrix waii.; stabbed was the blunt heel of a razor. The prisoner ran away after he had inflicted the injuries, and the witness pursued him, and, upon overtaking hi mt in the street, he made a furious atack upon him, and said, " Here goes, life or death," and aimed a blow at his head with the razor in his hand. Witness stooped, and the blow fell on his breast, and his coat was edit and torn. He then tripped up the prisoner, fell upon him, and prevented him doing any further mischicf. Police-constable 129 H, said he took the prisoner into custody, and found upon him a case containing two razors, and another containing one. The land lord of the Sir Sidney Smith afterwards delivered to him a fourth razor, which had been taken from the prisoner, who, merely said that if the prosecutrix had not have pushed him he should not have done what he did. Mr. Peter Gowlland, house surgeon of the London Hospital, said the woman had been under his care from the 14th until last Saturday. She had received two punctured. wounds just under the right eye, and penetrating to the bone. The wounds produced great inflammation of the eye and face. If they had been inflicted only a. quarter of an inch higher up, the eye would most proibably have been destroyed. The prisoner made a lung and somewhat ingenious defence, and endeavoured to make it appear that the prosecutrix fell upon the heel of the razor which he held in his hand.. Mr. Gowlland was recalled, and said it must have required very considerable violence to have inflicted the wounds. Mr. Yannurr committed the prisoner for trial. "E. C." has forwarded the remaining half of a 51. Bank of Englaild note, No. 44,335, for the poor-box of this court, and notice of its safe arrival was re quested in the papers. A letter addressed to. Mr. Ballantine, and opened by Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, in his absence, enclosing 20s. worth of postage stamps for the use of Anne Coxfield, upon whom a gross outrage was perpetrated by four ruffians, since convicted, has been received from "R. 5.," and the amount in money has been forwarded to the much injured woman. An acknowledgment of this dona tion which ought to have been sent to the Worship street Court, where the case was heard, was also re quested to be made in the newspapers. SOUTH WA UK. John Prime, a cheese and bacon merchant, carrying on business in Philpot-lane, City, was brought before Mr. Seeker for re-examination, charged with forging and uttering a bill of exchange for 251., purporting to he accepted by Mr. John Nukes, landlord of the Green Man at Plumstead, Kent. On the 25th of July the prisoner gave the bill in question to Mr. Hallows, landlord of the Ship and Camel, Dockhead, and when it became due, in con • sequence of its having been dishonoured, he went to the prisoner and acquainted him with the fact. Oa that occasion the prisoner returned him W., request ing him at the same time not to divulge the circum stance to the alleged acceptor, Mr. Nokes, who was his father-in-law. The bill, therefore, remained in complainant's hands from that period up to the present time, and, being unable to obtain the remainder of the money, he adopted the present proceedings. Mr. Nokes was not present at the former examination, and as the prisoner asserted that the bill was accepted by that person the magistrate directed that he should be summoned to attend. When the prisoner was placed at the bar yesterday the bill in question was produced and handed to Mr. Nokes, who was directed to say whether or not he had accepted it. On perusing the document he said that the name of the acceptor attached to it was not in his hand writing. Prisoner (to witness)—Do you remember one day, when we were walking from Woolwich, my inform. ing you that I required a sum of money, and that you authorised me to draw a bill to the amount of 251, and to attach your signature to it as the acceptor . ? Witness—l hare no recollection of it, and am con fident "I never sanctioned your doing anything of the kind. Prisoner—lt is upwards of two years ago, and you may hare forgotten the transaction ; but I am certain of it, otherwise I should not have put the bill in circulation. The witness, however, said th a t a c i rcums t ance o f the kind could not have occurred without snaking an impression upon his memory. Mr. SECE.BE said that the evidence of the witness haring been obtained, that was all that was required to complete the case, and that he should send it before a jury; but had no objection to accept of bail for the prisoner's appearance to answer the charge al the Central Criminal Court. The prisoner, addressing the magistrate, inquired if he had any objection to accept of Mr. Nokes, his father-in-law, as one of his sureties ? Mr. SECKER replied that he had not. The prisoner then appealed to Mr. Nokes, express ing a hope that be would offer himself as one of his bail. Mr. Nokes appeared surprised at the application, saying that, after what had transpired, he could not conscientiously interfere for the prisoner, although he was so nearly related to him. Prisoner—What ! refuse to be one of my sureties, to enable me to get at large to my wife and family until my trial, which will take place next week ? You need not fear that the recognizances will be es treated, for I shall mist the charge you may depend upon it. Mr. Nokes, however, still refused to consent to it, and the prisoner was, therefore, committed to the county gaol. The magistrate has"received 105. from " S. S. 5.," 103. from "H. M. P.," and some Pest-office stamps from Chudlow, South Devon, which sums will be applied as designed by the donors, who requested that an acknowledgment might appear in the papers. GREENWICH. Mr. TRAILL said he had just received 101. as a contribution to the poor-box of this and the Wool wich Police-court, from a gentleman who requested the same to be acknowledged under the signature of T. WANDSWORTH. Mr. PATNTBR desires to acknowledge the receipt of a cheque for 10 guineas from " H. 8.," appropriated with that gentleman's sanction to the Manor Hall Asylum at Chelsea, an excellent but poorly patro nized institution for the reception of young women on leaving prison. NUMEROUS FIRES. Between the hours of ten A.M. on Tuesday, and the same hour of Wednesday, not fewer than ten fires oc curred in the metropolis, which kept the firemen and engines during that period in continued movement. One fire took place at 3, Tennis -court, Middle-row, Holborn, belonging to Mr. J. Quain, a carpenter. It commenced in the cellar, in which a quantity of shavings were deposited. Timely information having been forwarded to the fire stations, with all speed the engines of the London Fire Brigade and %Vest of England attended, and the eiAgiut3 telvieg been set to work, the Brigade succeeded, after much trouble, in confining the flames to the lower part of the house. Another fire occurred at 29, Plough-court, Fetter lane, by which a child nearly lost its life. It appears that a young child had been left in the bookbinders' room of Mr. F. Homer, when it set fire to a quantity of paper cuttings, and the flames nearly encir c l e d her. Her screams brought assistance, and she was fortunately rescued in the nick of time, and th e fi re was soon extinguished. The third . fire was at 20, Colville-place, Charlotte-street, Fiteroy-squar e , b e longing to Mr. Alfred Vile, proprietor of the Rose and Crown Tavern. It was caused from so me par tially-consumed tobacco falling in the stuffing at the end of the skittle-ground. The inmates soon got the flames out, before any material damage was done, although the alarm was very great. About the same time a fire broke out at 35, e i sh-street-hill, belonging to Mr. Arthur Snowden, butcher. It was caused from a spark falling from a lighted candle, which set a cupboard and the furniture in the second floor in flames. About an hour previously, a fire, which at one period threatened very seriou s consequences, took place on the premises belon g i ng to Mr. Donald Robertson, a dairyman, No. 15, Sh errard-street, Golden-square. This was also caused by a spark from a candle, which set the bed and furniture in flames. The seventh fire occurred at No. 1, Bow-common lane, Bromley, in the occupation of Mr. N. Nealing, which did considerable damage. About the same time a fire broke out at five, Hungerford-street, Strand, belonging to a lodger named C. Brown. It occurred in the first floor, but was not extinguished until the bed and furniture were destroyed therein. The eighth fire was at 5, East-street, Finsbury market, in the tenure of Messrs. James /toscoe and Son, oil and colourmen. The firemen, by dint of great exertion, got the flames out, but not until the shop and its contents were severely damaged by fire. The ninth fire was at 74, Houndsditch, belonging to Messrs. Jones and Co., leather -sellers. It was caused by a bottle, filled with whisky, bursting with the heat of the counting-house fire. The firemen soon got the flames out, but not before the stock with basement vvas clam le;.(1 by fire, &e The f i r . - was in Argyle-street, New-road, but the damage done was not considerable. RETAINER OF COUNSEL. The following new rules of practire relating to the retainers of counsel were adopted uanimousiy at a special general meeting of the Incorporated Law So ciety, held on Wednesday, the 29Th of November : GENERAL RETAINERS. 16. A retainer maybe given for future assizes, without a retainer for the intervening assizes, unless notice of tri , Al shall have been given for such intervening assize:•. 17. Where a renewed retainer is necessary, it must be given before the end of the term preceding the assize. 18. In any case requiring the renewal of a retainer, an adverse brief or retainer cannot be accepted without notice ti the original client. APPEALS, WRITS OF ERROR, AND NONSUITS. 19. A special retainer, in an appeal, or on a writ of error, may be given before the appeal has been lodged, or the writ of error issued. 20. Counsel in the original cause cannot accept a re tainer on an appeal or writ of error for the opposite party, without affording the client in such original cause the opportunity of giving such retainer. 21. Amer a nonsuit, a retainer cannot be accepted from the adverse party in a second action without notice to the client for whom a brief has been held in the first action. OPINIONS AND PLEADINGS. 22. Where counsel has drawn pleadings, or advised, during the progress or in contemplation of an action or suit, a retainer cannot be accept( d from, or pleadings drawn for, or advice given to, the opponent without notice to the first client. PROMOTION OF COUNSEL. 23. The retainer of a counsel does not cease upon his being promoted to a higher rank at the bar. FORM OF RETAINER. —NOTICE. 24. When a retainer is given by the plaintiff in a cause A v. B, and an action or suit is afterwards brought by B v. A, the counsel cannot take the retainer of B with out notice to A, if the causes of action are connected. 25. A mistake in the tale of an action or suit does not render the retainer inoperative, if it can be shown that the cause of action or suit is the same, and that there is no other to which the retainer can apply. 26. The notice to the client mentioned in these rules is intended to afford him an opportunity to give a special retainer to counsel. AMOUNT OF FEES. 27. Tho fees given tor general retainers are as fu; low: In the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer of Pleas, five guineas. I❑ Chancery and Bankruptcy Appeals, five guineas. In Bankruptcy, five guineas. In Parliament, ten guineas. In the Privy Council, ten guineas. 28. The fees given for special retainers are as fol lows: At Common Law or in Equity, one guinea. In Parliament, on Bills and Election Committees, five guineas. In Appeals to the House of Lords, two guineas. In the Privy Council, two guineas. Yesterday the Committee of the Free Baths and Washhonses in Glasshouse.yard, East Smithfield, made their third annual report.gDuring the last twelve months the number who had availed themselves of the baths had been 33,655 ; washers and driers, 34,843; and 12,610 ironers. Many poor persons purposely go to the esta blishment from a distance of five or six miles. Inde pendent of the above advantages, a great number of the poor in the numerous and densely crowded courts and alleys in East Smithfield have been supplied gratuitously with whitewash, chlorides, and other disinfecting agents, to cleanse and purify their dwellings. A supply of coals are also furnished to poor families, who have not the means of speedily drying their humble abodes, to prevent injuriousness from damp, &c. The receipts of the baths and washhouses for the past year was 3971. ss. 11d. ; the expenditure caused a debt of 1021. 19s. Ild. The funds are now exhausted, and an earnest appeal is made fur public support. MARGATE.—The shipwrecked emigrants, ninety. one in number, landed here on Thursday last, and are in the most destitute condition, having lost all their clothes and other property. On Friday anu eting was held to determine on the best means for their relief ; a subscription was. immediately commtnenced, and a com mittee appoint e d to purc h ase clothes and to request do nations of clothes from the inhabitants. The appeal was responded to, and on Saturday these distressed people were to a certain extent supplied. The vessel is now broken to pi eces , an d t h ere i s no probability of their recoverin g th e i r e ff ects. They are of a superior class of emigr an t s , many o f them from Berlin. The 7 unfortunate situation it is hoped, will receive the public sympathy. A circumstance occurred here on Sunday morning which has occasioned great surprise man, named Watson, was found dead near the jetty, by the Coast Guard man on duty, and at no great distance from him, attached to a line, were seventy-five half ankers of brandy. It is supposed that on the previous night, about ni ne . o ' c l oc k, t h e li ne was h an d e d to him from a boat about a mile to the eastward of the town, and his object was to drag them over the rock as the water flowed, and get them under the cliffs; but the on tnhpr of t.sitiq being great, the strength of the tido drove them oa the jetty ; and as the weather was pierc ing cold, and he much in the water, he was frozen to death by the intense cold. SOUTHAMPTON, WiIDNESDAY, DEC. 27. —The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Jupiter, Captain F. Meehan, sailed this afternoon with the usual Spanish and Portuguese mails, ten passen gers, and fifty tons of cargo for Lisbon and Gibraltar. The Pacha, Captain John Weeks, with the homeward mails, from Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, due o❑ the 24th inst., has not yet made her appearance. She is hourly expected. She had not reached Gibraltar on the 18th inst., when the Indus left. The Erin is also expected from Constantinople, Malta, and Gibraltar on Friday or Saturday. The Sultan, Captain George Brooks, will tale her departure on the 29th for Constantinople, via Gibraltar and Malta. The steamer Grand Turk, Captain Henry Newbolt, lately in the service of the South- Western Steam Navigation Company, having re ceived new boilers and undergone repairs, has been taken up by the Government fur the conveyance •f mails between Alexandria, Jaffa, and Beyrout. Th• Grand Turk is to leave Southampton on the Bch of January, for Alexandria, touching at Malta and Gibraltar. She is intended to sail from Alexandria for Jaffa and Bey rout, carrying her Majesty's mails and dispatches, on the Bth of every month, in conjunction with the Penin sular and Oriental steamers between Southampton and Alexandria. The royal mail steamer Severn, Captain Vincent, leaves on Tuesday next, the fd of January, with the West Indian and Mexican mails. The Thames, Captain Abbott, is the next homeward steamer with mails from the West Indies and Pacific. She may be expected on the sth proximo. The departure of the American steamer United States, Captain Hackstaff, from Havre, is postponed till the Bth of January ; she will in all probability call off Southampton on the 9th inst. for freight, mails, and passengers. The American frigate St. Lawrence, 44, Captain Hiram Paulding, will leave Southampton water the beginning o f ne xt week, on a cruise to Lisbon and Cadiz. Steamers in dock— Great Western, Severn, Medway, Eagle, Indus, Sultan, Madrid, Montrose. - - HOLIDAY VISITORS TO TUE BRITISH MUSKIIM AND NATIONAL GALLERY.—From the calculations of t !e per- soni app iinted, 11,819 persons are known to have visited the British Museum yesterday and Tuesday; upwardi of 2,000 umbrellas passed through the hands of the °Me , ri (luring' the 6r S d ,v. The Nati.nal Gallery had 6,910 Ths Uuic:•d Se:•vice Must um, 2,100. The privilege of free admission to the public is still further extended to this day. 1. That a general retainer applies to all courts in which the counsel receiving it shall practise. 2. That if the counsel should be offerel a special retainer by the opponent of the party having given such general retainer, in any other court than that in which he shall usually practise, the general retainer entitles= the party giving it to notice before the offered retainer is accepted. 3. That the general retainer lasts for the joint live.; of the client and counsel, or so long as th, counsel con tinues in practice, except it be lost, according to any of these rules. 4. In case a special retainer or brief is offered to counsel against the party who has given a general rvtainer, the counsel is at liberty t , ) accept the special retainer or brief of the other party, unless within one week after issue joined, or replication filed, a special re tainer or brief be give❑ by the party who gave thu ge neral retainer. 5. Where a general retainer has been given and a brief is not delivered to the retained counsel in any action, suit, or other nroc•: , eding, in which the party giving the general retainer is c , .neerned (Ind pea ling in the court wherein the counsel usually practises). th, general retainer is entirely lost, unle,s in cases where a brief is given t.) a junior counsel only, and the s-rvices of the retained counsel appear unnecessary to the re taining solicitor. 6. Win•re a general retainer is given for one pt'rson, and he is sued wi;h others, and he defends xeparately, the retainer is binding; but it is otherwise if he defend jointly. CORPORATION AND PARTNERSHIP RETAINERS. 7. Subject to the foregoing rules, a general retainer given for a corporation will continuo, unless the cor poration be dissulved, or the grunt of a new charter be accepted. 8. When a general retainer is given for a partner ship or firm, it continues so long as the style of the partnership or firm continues, and extends to all mat ters aff.cting the partnership, notwithstanding all the partners may not be included in the action or actions brought. 9. A general retainer may be given for a provisional committee in respect of any subject of action or suit, by or against such committee, or any member or mem bers of it, arising out of the concern in which they are provisional committeemen. SPECIAL RETAINERS. 10. A special retainer may be given as well before as after the commencement of an action at law or suit in equity, or a proceeding in builtruptcy. 11. A special retainer gives the client a right to the service of the counsel during the whole progress of the cause, including interlocutory applications and bills of exc- ption and rehearing. 12. The retained counsel is entitled to a brief on every occasion in which the case is brought before the Court in whch he usually practises, except where the services of the junior counsel only appear to the retaining solicitor necessary. CIRCUIT RETAINERS. 13. A special retainer in a country cause must be given For a pqrticular assize. 14. If the venue be changed for another place on the same circuit, a fresh retainer is not require& Li. If the cause be not tried at the assize for which the retainer is given, the retainer must be renewed for every subsequent assizo until the cause is disposed of, unless a brief has been delivered, and then the usual re fresher fee is sufficient. C ISIARIiIi Ruddle's W OAL. Hartley 14s 9d Carr's Hartley East Adairs Main... Hasting's Hartley l4s 6d liolywell Main New Tantield l4s Od Urd's Redheugh Townley l4s 6d Windsor's Pontop.... Wylani V! , est Hartley . lss 6d Wall's End, &c. Clarke.. T. - E STE DAT. Framwell Gate . : ... lBs 6d South Killingworth Ms Od Haswell l9s 9d Stewart's Whitwell .. West Pease West Cornforth .. lBB Od Woodefiehl Cowpen Hartley Hartley Hal bearth Splint Sidnes 's Hartley Ships at market, 58. 15s WI FOREIGN FUNDS. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaussELs, DEC. 26. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent .. .... • • •.• Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent •• • • Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent •• .• Ditto Threeper Cent.. • •••• • • • • Ditto Thirty-seven Milli ons , ditto .... Ditto,ditto,lB4o. ••• .. ••••• • • • • • 85% Ditto,dltto,lB42 • • •• • • 86% Ditto, 1844............... •••• • • •• •• • 76 Ditto, 18 36............. •• •••••• • • • • • • 71 Ditto, 1838 • • •• • •• •• 56 Ditto of the City, 1832 ...• •• • • -- Ditto, 1843 .... 814, Bank of Belgium.. ....... •......... Isiue of 1841 •... • • 6 5 Exchange on London, 2.5.45. AUSTRIAN F UNDS.—VIENNA, DEC. 18. 4 per Cent..........• •• •• .........• •• •• 65 234 per Cent. ...• •• •• •• •• •• 1 per Cent. Loan, 1834............... Ditto, 1539.. • . Bank Shal - es • • • - •••••••••• 14134 .... .... Esterhazy's Loan ...... ....... •• •.1,9J0 RAILWAYS. The Northern. Gloggnitz Venice Milan .. Budweis ........ Leghorn ........ Pesth .......... Sienna .......... Apennine.. •• •• .. ...... .. 99(, •••••• • • •• 95 • 65% ----- TREATMENT Or DEBTORS COMMITTED BY ?MN COUNTY COURT.—At, the court at Chelmsford on Wed nesday, Mr. Gurdon observed to Mr. Neale, the gover nor of the gaol, who was present, that a person who had been committed by him from Rochford Hundred had boasted that he was allowed to smoke in the gaol, that he was very comfortable there, and did not care for the commitment. Mr. Neale said it must have been an empty boast; the persons committed by this court were not allowed the privileges of common debtors—they were treated as misdemeanants, and there was a separate place for them. Mr. Gurdon said he was aware of that, but he thought it ought to be publicly known. Subse quently Mr. Neale produced the printed rules with re spect to this class of debtors, by which it appeared they had oatmeal gruel and bread for breakfast and supper, a pint of soup and bread for dinner three days in the week, and three ounces of meat, half a pound of potatoes, and eight ounces of bread ou the other four; and it is added " They shall not procure or receive any tobacco, wine, beer, or fermented liquor, except by order of the sur geon, on the ground ut health. They shall be permitted to see their relations and friends only once in the course of each week." [ADVERTISEMENT.)—The Most Obstinate Cases of Cutaneous Disease speedily give way to the blood-puri fying effects of the Vegetable Restorative Pills prispared by John Kaye, Esq., of Dalton-hall, near Huddersfield. The following cases are selected from some hundreds: —" Sergeant John 111`Ewen, late of the 92d Regiment, now residing at Cowrie, seven miles from Crieff, was for five years dreadfully afflicted with scurvy, all over the head. In hope of being cured he applied to medical men, without obtaining any relief, and the complaint in creast d upon him. He was induced to try these valuable Pills, by the use of which he has now been perfectly c fired." " Jemima Wheelhouse, Wapping, Bradford, was so afflicted with scurvy as to be quite an object of pity ; but by perseverance in the use of Kaye'e Pills for six months she was perfectly restored." The genuine Pills have the arms of John Kaye, together with a fac-simile of his signature, printed on the direc t ons for use, wrapped round each box. Price Is. lkd., 2s 9J., and 4s. 6d., per box. To be had of all respectable Medicine Venders. SIAM.% On the 23d inst., at South Willingham Rectory, Lincoln shire, the wife of the Rev. A. Corbett, of a daughter. At Brixton-place, on the 24th inst., the wife of Mr. John Whelham, of a daughter. On the 24th inst., at Royal-crescent, Notting-hill, the lady of C. J. Plumptre, Esq., of a son. On the 25th inst., at Lower Clapton, Middlesex, Mrs. Boult, of a son. On the 24th inst., at Hyde -park-gate, South, the wife of C. R. Harford, jun., Esq., of a daughter. On the 25th iust., at Stoke Rochtord, the lady Caroline Turnor, of a son. On the 25th iust., at Wimpole-street, the wife of J. Corry Sherrard, Esq., of a son. On the ::6th inst., at Glocester-road, Hyde-park-gardene, the wife of H. Mills, Esq., of a son. ;JARRIED. At St. John's Chapel, Edinburgh, on the 19th ult., Charles G. Addison, Esq., of the Inner Temple, to France s O c tavia Murray, y o u nges t d aug h ter o f t h e late Lord Cringletie, one of the senators of the College of Justice of Scotland. At Canaan-park, Edinburgh, on the 2lst inst., Alexander Rattray, Esq., only son of the late R. Rattray, Esq., W.S., to Maria Ann, eldest daughter of the late J. J. Boswell, Esq., of Edinburgh. On the 23d inst., at St. George's, Hanover square, Henry" Curll, Esq., of the island of Barbadoes, Deputy-Assistant- Cotnmissary• General, to Marianne Ellen, second daughter of J. E. 'Ellett, Esq., late of Liverpool. DIED. O is n i. t R h u e d2do,tlFi Fellow o s t w ., o a ft Oriel Kempsey, College, E. o Worcestershire xford, ag aged t 7 h 2 e . Rev. On the 22d inst., at Newington-terrace, London, in the W pr k ime s. of life, John Chillcott, E sq., of the Royal Vinegar or hangOnhe 22d inst., aged 73, S. Sutton, Esq., of Mugger- Ont e Bedfordshire. the 24th inst., at Wimbledon, Surrey, Peter Mac Evoy, Esq., aged 77. On the 24th inst., in St. Peter's - square, Hammersmith John Winckworth, E sq. , On the 24th inst., in Devonshire-place, Neil Hulse, fourth son of the late Benjamin Ilarenc, of Foots Cray-place, Kent, aged 29. On the 2.3 th inst., at Wilmington- square, M r. Samuel Mills, of Cr ane -court Fleet street, aged 76. On the 25th inst., at St. G , orge's-terrace, Hyde-park, Hannah Moria, the wife of E. Treherne, Esq. On the ::sth inst., at Kirk Eila, near Hull, Mary, the wido,v of W. Huntingdon, Esq., of that place, aged 88. anti! Printed and Ptiblish , !(l i)v Niu - RDO yiluNGt of i at The Sur No. ?./2, Stran,i, in the Prot:lna of toe Savoy in the coanty of Middlesex, Thursday, December 28,1848. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. WI.9LECH, DEC. 23.—We have a large supply wheat, and the condition being improved, it meets agood at fully last week's prices. But moderate short of oats and Leans, and each to be bought at less money. Prices to the growers—Wheat, new red, 591 b to 621 b, 42s to 475, extr, , , 48s; white, 59d) to 62 , b, 43s to 495, extra 51s; old red, 611 b to 631 b, 47s to 495; extra 505; white, 611 b to 63!b, 48,s to 5 Is; extra 53, per quarter; oats, old, 391 b to 401 n, 1 lid to 12d; new, 9d to 10d per stone ; beans, old, 39.. to 41s per quarter. BASINGSTOKE, DEC. 27.—Corn; The market was well tied this day by corn factors, raillers, Bm, from Itealng, So u th ampton, Wincne ter, And over , an d o ther disinc!.,, as well a- farmers fron, this flue wheat growing part. Some excell, nt white. grown near Strathtieldsaye, weighing 651 b perand in exc , llent condition, made 51, per qr ; fine red „ t h eats, weight 631 b per bushel, 555; sewed rate ditto, 52s to 545; common w heats at trona 445 to 48s p,r qr; Flour, 36s to 42s 141-T sack of 28011 i; best bread, 13d the Bth loif Harley of fine qua lity- scarce; the best onsiirig , ffered this day was some bright foreign grown, weighing 561 b per bushel, making 36.; seco,cl rate English. 345; moder,to grind ing, • 30s; interior ditto, 26s to 28s, nee qr; barleymeal, 155. per sack of ten score poun , ls; malt, rine pale, 8s 61; common dot 7 s 9d to 8s 3 i per hush, l. off .red, a n d l ast weeks pric,, ye-t to sell ßeans Is per were qr decline hal to be siilnwtted til; bvs. - . old weighing GLb per bush e l sold :it 40.5; t split from 36s to 38s Egypian d o o, 34s per qr. Pea,: finest boilers, from 403 to 42 grey, tyr pig feeding, 36s to 38s per qr. Oafs of sliss sal,: the nes,, Scotch and Polands, 245; good sweet black, 20.; to 22 common feei, 16s to 18s pet qr. Rye, I4s to 14s 6d far sack. tares, new. lOs 6d to Its Gd; old , 9, to 93 6d per bushel. The trade in small seeds was very dull. Hops were for sale at about the prices of last welt; very few sold. P:as were plentiful, yet but to w found purchasers, though reduced prices would have been taken, both fur large and small stores. Fat pigs, large size, sold at 10s; porkers, lOs 6d per score. Some cows, heifers, and calves were for sale; yet the chief number were without purchasers. CHELTENHAM, DEC. 21.—The following were the prices: —Old wheat, 6s to 6s 8d; new ditto, 5s to 6s; barley, malting, 45 to 4s 6d; ditto, grinding, 3s 6d to 45 per bushel. Old oats, 284 to 30s; new ditto, 22s to 265; peas, 45s to 50s; old beans, 42s to 465; new ditto, 36s to 40s per quarter. Oid hay, 80s; new ditto, 70s to 755: straw, 40s to 50s per ton. GLOUCESTER. —On Saturday last there was a very small attendance, and but litle businebss was done; a few sales of English wheat were made at about last week's rates, but free foreign sataples must be quoted about 15 per quarter lower. The sales of barley, oats, or beans were so limited that prices are almost nominal, but the turn was in favour or buyers of either article. WORCESTER.-011 Saturday last our market was well suppliot with wheat, and the whole found buyers at fully the currency of this day se'nnight. Barley of all kin is rather lower. Oats unaltered in value, with a fair sale. Beans nearly maintained their value. Peas in very limited rt quest. EAST LINTON, DEC. 25.—1 n to-day's market there was less wheat, barley, and coats; more beans. Except for oats sales ware dull, with declining prices. Top of wheat, 4Ss, weighing 6311 b per,bushel. „ Barley, 28s 55 ditto „ Oats 22s 451 ditto Beans 33s 661 ditto New ditto 003 00 ditto AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat 2/ 7s 0 I ... Oats 1/ O s 7 Barley ... ••• 1/ 7 s 6 Beans ... 1/ 8 2 DUBLIN, DEC . 26.—As usual at this season there was a small attendance at cur corn exchange to-day. The business done was trifling, and we note prices nominally as on Friday. White wheat, 23s to 275; red, 21s to 265; barley, 12s to 171 6d; oats, 9s 6cl to lis 61 per bd.; oatmeal, lls to 12s ; bakers' flour, Iss to 18s 6d per cwt.; Lidian corn, 33s to 355, per 4801bs. BELFAST, DEC. 22.—Grain— We have small supplies at market this morning, and prices are generally a little in layout- of the seller. Oatmeal is at an advance of 2d to 3d. Monday, Dec. 25.—Grain—Being Christmas day, we of course have no market. On Saturday, how ever, there was no change in any article, and but little doing. T° The LEVEL , TENDS about I( Level, e and bey , setting 1 of Bridg Tunnels Drai nag The • Messrs. street, The C snm. wl andertal Commis possible Tondo address( Htuating The C Tender. T E A Lee Bachhot pular Le Ryan, d day.—F fn Mext Phantas nings.— Diver rected b, Open Satunla: T HI having 1 - Prince C neunceel land. 'I slgeees, BANK, all the t bottles, s ROYAL 46, rrince A TON SUB the king , provided ther nc , which a' cessont fortable first-dos Mr. FOLV —Morni T" E. It their log 7bs., loi post free Notte dren'B I E. M Coats, li in the II of by th She< The bre' N.ll, sent SI and th, sal an derate, Ain' I rc St. Iv JAME Antra Chest Attu Mille Twee Twee New Dees Caul Sad: Hll/3! E. 3 Hosier Ladies 94, 85 Obis( sore, i money Cat public like fa bag be They 1 era tit Or flu Not eat 1 , 1". It_olooll