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bait rear, the attar beel l 36111 eCier 00 0 tory, 1:0en price oter Fie ° le P eg Cen t . hav e . 25 25 . Cen t °; Nlf de" been oe b° 6 ut th e quit° ring. for been olerl‘ ior 10 0° of 1 oPo' ob i . a OP )n ge" letible up to 185 0. 15 00 4 41, 55 , 9, 55 ' 8. 07 ! 23 , 80 0 ' 10625,50" 4 7. 521 8, 305 13, 466 6,g1 13, 85 14' _ 03 04" , z 6g bee n id o ° 7 3rs °. manl y , Le be° awl° [,osti, Gl aiCgD . 21 6 , 971_1! 98? 7 1- 1 65 P 68 P 59 P 69 P 1.03111 i ui RICE• 2 4 5 ex dig. 17% 124 Of. 50c. of. 25C. 6f. sf. 20C., N eXu. 1/A •) L-NDON JAN. 1, ISs2.—Wiad at neon W., light airs and dull neaiher. _ VALPARAISO. OCT. 22.—The Colombo French ship, of K uea, which but in with damage, has been aban doned, as the master could not raise funds or bottomiy to defray the expenses of repairs. GALATZ DEC. 18.—The Wineta, Ibraila to Queens town or Falmouth, has been lust at Suliria; crew drowned. Thl Adolph von Loiwz.)u, Ibraila to Queens town or Falmouth, is reported to V lost, also at Sulino. SLIG.I. Arid. Industry, New York. DEAL, DEC 31.—Wind W.—Arrd. Ostrich, Madras; Pairlit., Valparaiso; Spartan, Jamaica; Fortuna, Quebec. Arrd. from the River, Achilles, Sydney, New South Wales; .Jenny Lind, Lima; Agri, s, Valparaiso; St. John, New Orleans. Arrei. from the River and bid, Agnes, Valparaiso. Sld. Isabella, Sierra Leone. OFF DOcER —Adelaide, Van Diemen's Land. OFF SALC,...MBE, DEC 31.—Fear-not. Azores. PEtmouTu, DEc. 31. Wind N.E. by E —Std. David M'lver, Adelaide, South Australis; Calphurnia, Port Philip. FALMOUTH, DEC. 31.—Wind E., fresb.—Arrd. Maria, Port-au- Prmcm LIVERPOOL, DEC. 31.—Wind W.N.W. to N.N.W.— Arrd. Each sri •, Monte Video. Sid. John, Charleston; Atalanta, Rio Grande; Arpland. New Orleans; Charles Chalorer, ditto; James Brown, Philadelphia; City of Manchest , r steam. r, ditto. Off port, Lapland. RAMSGATE, DEc. 31.—The Blossom, Newcastle to Bavre, bas put in leaky, having struck on Whitby Rock. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 31.—The Maria, which got on Durm ose L edge yesterday, i s f u ll of w at e r, and it is fear. d will become a total wreck; part of cargo thrown Overboard. Scannohoucn, DEC. 31.—The Pink, of London, Allon. to Dankirk, is on the r, cka to the southward, and is ex pected to become a total wreck. OFF FENZANCE.—MaIherbe, St. Domingo, for Havre. BRISTOL, DEC 31.—Wind N.E.—A;rd. Ann Eliza Jane, Mirataichi. NEWPORT, DEc. 31.—Wind N.—Sid. I3arrowgate, Ilavetinnh. QUEENSTOWN, DEC. 30.—Wind E.—Arrd. British Monarch, Queb , c. MARKET NE DVS.-( THIS DAY.) NEWGATE AND LEADENILA.I.I.. Our markets are well supplied to-day, yet the demand U steady, at full pr,c , s. Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 2s 10i to 43 2d; Veal, 3s 2d to 4s; Pork, 2. 8d to 4s per Blbs, by the carcase. NAY MARKETS. SalmiFiEto.—Meadow day, 2/ 15s to 3/ 15s; Clovor ditto, 3! 5s to 41 5s Od; and Straw, 11 Os co li 6s per load. Trade dull, at late rates. CUMBERLAND. Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s to 31 16,' Clover ditto, 3/ 53 to 4/ 4s; and Straw, 1/ la to 1/ 7s per load. A f a ir ave r age su pply, and a sluggish demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 12a to 3/ 15s; Clover dttto, 3/ 5s to 4/ 6s Od; and Straw, 11 Os to 1! 6s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. MEAT WIAACKEITS. SOUTHALL, DEC. 31.—Our market has been firm to. day, and prices have had an upward tendency. Beet, from 34 to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 8d ; Pork, 3s to as 8d per Sibs, to sink the offish', ROHFORD, DEC. 31.—Prime Beasts and Sheep moved off freely, at an advsnco in the quotations of 2d per Blbs. All other kinds of stock were quite as dear. Beef from 33 to 4, ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d; Veal, 3s 2d to 3a 10d; Pork, 2s to 34 10d per Sibs. Suckling Calves, 183 to 21s, and quarter old store pigs, 16s to 203 each. LIAILSHAM, DEc. 31.—The general demand is steady, at extreme quotations. Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; Pork, 3a 4d to 33 Sd per 81bs. ARUNDEL, DEC. 30.—Each kind of stock has moved off freely, at higher rates. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; Pork, 3a 2d to 3s 6d per 81bs. CHICHESTER, DEC. 31.—Beas's and Sheep have ad vanced 2d per 81bs, with a good inquiry. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; Pork, 3s 2d to 3s 8d; per 81bs. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN !or the Week ended Dec. 25, 1851, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Citiesand Towns in England and Waiee per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. ISAELET.I OATS. I". I SIAN/. I PEAS. PRICE .• I 37i ad 126 s 3d 1 ISs 3d 2 8s Id 1 29s 2d 121 s Oil DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WHISAT. I BAILEY. I OATS. I E. I BEAM. I PIAS. Is Od Is Od Is Od Is Od Is Od is Od QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD IN THE PAST WEEK. neat, 116,728 ; Earley, 103,641 ' • Oats, 25,856 ; E y e, 290 ; Beans, 6,437 ; Peas, 3,158 quarters. SHERIFFS' COURT,-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.) There were several causes in the list, but after the jury had been called none of the parties in the cases were ready. The UNDER-SHERIFF regretted that the want of punctuality on the p art o f pro f esa i ona l men or the wit nesses should caulieany inconvenience to the jury, and would leave it to them whether tbey would wait until the expiration o f a quarter o f an hour, and if the par ties did not appear at that time the causes would be Struck out. After the lapse of a few minutes the undefended causes Were called on and the others struck ont. SAUL V. WOODYAR. This wa s an action to recover the sum of 941. 183. 6d., partly on a bill of exchange and partly for goods sold ; the only point in the case was whether the plaintiff could recover 2a, 6d, for noting. The UNDER -SHERIFF held that it could not be re covered wifhout proof. It is somewhat curious that there is always a charge for noting a bill, which, although undisputed by a de fendant, is invariably struck out of the account unb ss proved, the expense of which proof would be at least tear times the amount charged. The expense of noting a dishonoured bill, therefore, in most cases, falls on the bolder of the bill. B ANKRUPTCY. —(THIS DAY.) IN RE MACLEOD-THE NEPAULESE AGENCY. This bankrupt was described as late of Tirhoot, Ben gal, and now of Ealing, Middlesex, and to-day was ap beinted for hi s l ast exam i nat i on. The bankrupt had en the agent of the Nepaulese Government. The balance -sheet prepared by Mr. Butler, Basing /All -street, commencing Ist January, 1850, and ending in November, 1351, shows Dr. to Creditors 3,261/. 12s. 6d.; capital On Ist January, 1850, 1751; salary from the Neapolitan Government, 9804 The property given up Is stated at 6971.; property in the hands of creditors. 150/.; expenditure as agent of the Nepaulese Govern- Itient, 9121. As a trader and dealer, his profits had been 31. 145., and losses (exclusive of official unitorm, wearing apparel in India, law and interest, about 500/.), $241. 10,1. 5d.; domestic and personal expenses, 1,3041. In consequence of the accounts not having been filed in due time, an adjournment took place by consent. lATEST NEwS FROM PAR is. (BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.) PARIS, THUE‘DAY MORNING ) NINE O'CLOCK. The Consultative Commission presented last night the result of vo►es favourable to the PRESIDENT — Voters, 8,116,773. Yea, 7,439,216. No. 640,737. The French Eagle is re-estabished on the banner of the army and on the Cross of the Legion of noflour. The Archbishop of Paris and the Clergy have pre vented their felicitations and good wishes to the PRE• IlbeiNT,"-- Times. IntURY-L ANE THEATRE. Macbeth was performed here last evening, with Mr. Anderson, as Macbeth, Miss Glyn, as Lady Macbeth, and Miss P. Horton, as Hecate. It was in the ch#acter of Lady Macbeth that Miss Glyn rusde:Tk,grst great hit with a Sadler's Wells forte and and last night she played it with her usual orce and enegy, bringing out all her favourite points the tragedy roost effectively. She was called on at the conclusion of and much applauded. Mr. Anderson's It 'cl?eth would be admirable could he cure himself na certain bad habit of drawling, which he acq u ired It P America..i lie had not this before he left Eng- °L. and we hope b e w ill r id hi mself othe t as soon as poss ibl e ; it m ars what wou ld othe rwise b e a great performance. The He. the of Miss P. Horton was moat effective, and c n thsic was superbly given. lbe house was _r0e6.44, and the half-price visitors seemed vastly to enjoy the fun of the pantomime. 'rest! esterday the left the Mersey screw steam-ship City of Manchester deiph- with -5Y at two o'clock in the afternoon for Phila- Zgta, upwards of forty passengers, ,o, chiefly of Manchester and Sheffield goods. The salute tu at her de and a very full th e i n.c . departure was generally mistaken for that o °ming steamer, the Arctic, which, however, though tWenty-four hours overdue, has not yet arrived. Right uring a IV E ,,, a)......D 4 ''' ON THE LONG SANDS.—HARWICH, DE C . heavy gale from the eastward on Sunday taw a fine vessel, called the Arrow, Mr. H. Mitchinson. Lou er, belonging to the port of Liverpool, went on the of a g i Sands , , and but for the noble and courageous conduct ~,,,,,iiger s crew, every soul on board the ill-fated vessel would In all probability have perished. Every effort was seas, to get her off, but the fury of the gale and the heavy at 7, 6, ic kept making a breach over her, completely . set tb_uettance the exertions of those on board. At daylight I,7_.,were observed in the smack Aurora's Incr . ease, Mr. .J. th e ' irl L master, c,f this port, which was out cruising, and in tint', s °B t Prompt manner she bore down to the rescue of the off ir‘unate creatures clinging to the wreck, and took them ilort n an exhausted state. The smack then made tor this d era , , an d. landed the poor fellows, who have publicly ten fro, ~.4 their thanks to the lugger's crew for preserving them ' a probable dreadful fate Vi ll a e i LA " MR. TURNER, R.A.—We learn on r. Tuirthcrity, aaY S the Manchester Guardian, that the late purposeoff has left , oA. by i ' • relief of decayed artists, and au.ing an institution for the three of h . , l i ,!! given all his pictures (with the exception of Purpo,e his o work., which are left to the nation) for the for that ,Inbellishin'g the building which is to be erected , RiNaGsPltuNrnPler,t. alkt.._L i G . - ''''. OL D YEAR OUT AND THE NEW ONE of the various ch 4( (according d i i n n g t h teo metropolisancient r a custom) ngh h the e bells r r 3, ort t 1 1 Z to i i welcome the new N ear. They commenced at half. after siege o'clock, and did not . cease until half-an-hour Wlr e e 4l i d uig . ht. The street. concerts by itinerant musicians kit, Aceedingly numerou,s, and the pgrformqrd Doped a good "t 1441 uet► Yeitergifte: ' S UN, THE OVERLAND MAIL INDIA. (From the Times.) We have received by express from Trieste in an anticipation of the overland mail, files of the Bombay and Calcutta papers, with dates from Bomba y to the 31 of Dec., and Calcutta to the 23d Nov. B yeothnetiuesneas in the neighbourhoodccountswelearntht,tSiroCfoiNliinitehne Camp bell and that the inhabitants had fled to the mountains orc e on his approach. Captain C oke and his f been in any way anno)ed by an enem y , when r h e a e d ros r s e e t d ur t n h e e d Kforoormum : the Ae dtwo m a n za onlyie valley, tw ari theyleh w ere killed. The Wuzeerees had attacked theen gua rd over the Bahadur K hel salt mine : they had been repulsed w ith a loss of eleven men ; ou r party had five or six wounded. The entire Moul tan field force had on the 19 th or 20th ultimo been directed to be prepared for moving at a moment's notice, along the lice of the frontier, after the moun taineers, we presume, who had been annoying our outposts. The death of Dust Mahomed still wants confirmation. The Clishmeer ruler is still alive. The Governor-General was expected at Roorkee on the 24th, his Lordship would thence proceed to Hurd war. Sir W. Gomm was at Jullandhur. Sir H. Lawrence had returned to Lahore. Me. Mensel had left for Nagpore. Tne Bombay journals have for the past fortnight been occupied with the discussion of the Mahomedan disturbances which commenced on 17th Oct., and are scarcely yet over. A second outbreak occurred on the 22d and 23d ultimo, and squabbles became of daily occurrence. One of the Parsee fire temples was violated, and there was at one time reason to suppose that a cemetery had been broken into with the view of insulting the re mains of the dead ; no sufficient evidence of the outrage, however, could be obtained. Sir John Gray was expected in Bombay by the 10th inst. An extensive fire broke out in the store-houses of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company in the dock-yard at Mazegon on the 2d December, by which stores belonging to the com pany, to the value of from 15,0001. to 20,0001. were destroyed. The cause of the fire had not been as certained. The goods consumed by the fire were only partially insured; the buildings in which they were stored have been completely destroyed. These latter are valued at 7,500/., and belonged to Mirza Mahomed Ali Khan, the owner of the dockyard, from whom they were rented by the Peninsular and Ori ental Company. Trade during the last fortnight has been brisk. The money market was easy. Several failures of native bankers in the Bazaar, both at Calcutta and in Bombay, were apprehended. The following summary of intelligence.is T .taken from the Bombay Times : "The expedition from Calcutta, to enforce apology and reparation from the Burmese, left on the 19th ult., and consisted of her Majesty's ship Fox, 42, her Majesty's ship Serpent, 12, with the Hon. Company's war-steamers ienasserim and Proserpine, the whole under the command of Commodore Lambert, R.N. The first efforts to obtain the reparation sought for will probably be made at Rangoon, and should our demands not be instantly complied with, the place will be held in pledge until they are satisfied. Captain Lewis, the master of the merchant ship Champion, the latest British victim of Burmese insolence and extortion, accompanies the expedition as a witness, it is presumed, to prove the validity of the claims to be presented and enforced. Lieut. Latter, of the 67th regiment Bengal Native Infantry, an accom plished Burmese scholar, and Mr. Edwardes, of the Civil Service, formerly attached to the Em bassy at Ave, go as interpreters. The military expedition, which left Peshawur under the com mand of Sir Colin Campbell on the 245th of October last, to take the field against the Aifreedis and the Momund tribes beyond the north-west frontier, bas had very little to do in the way of fighting. After taking possession of Mitchnee with little or no resistance from the people, and burning the stores of grain, destroying the surrounding vil lages, and throwing every thing they could lay their hands on into the river, the force encamped at a place called Dubb, awaiting the construction of a fort now in progress, intended to receive a body of troops and to form a link in a line of posts commanding important points on the frontier. A detachment of the force is sta tioned at a place called Muthee to keep the bill men of that neighbourhood in check. Up to the date of the latest accounts received from Sir Colin's camp, not a single casualty bad occurred on our side from the fire of the enemy, and they had latterly been ren dered more chary than ever of approaching our camp, by falling into an ambuscade, which severely punished their temerity. The latesr tidings received are to the 14th ultimo, and it is stated that the fort is progressing very slowly, the sandy nature of the soil being much against the building. The Momunds had assembled under the chief of Lallpoora to consult as to ulterior measures, and seem to have been greatly perplexed by the determination we have manifested of establishing ourselves in their country. It is believed that Seadut Khan, the chief in question, has hitherto held aloof from the doings of his eastern clansmen, and that he will not now commit himself to support them. A reinforcement of 45 men from each of the regiments at Peshawur left that station on the 13th ultimo to join the forces under Sir Colin Campbell. By the last accounts from Cabul, information has been received that the Ameer Dost Mahomed Khan is still alive, but in a . 1 very precarious state. The preparations for a strug gle betwixt the Dost's son, Goolam Hyder, and his brother Sultan Mahomed still kept the country in a state of the most feverish excitement and alarm, and ma ny of the more wealthy of the Hindoo bankers and merchants have fled into the neighbouring dis tricts under British rule. Maharaja Gholab Singh, the ruler of Cashmere, is reported to be in a dying state. He is said to be suffering greatly from dropsy, and in all probability will not long survive this at tack. The wily old chief, well knowing the dangers to be expected to the country over which he rules from the premature disclosure of his death, has de termined on establishing a lithographic press at Jamoo for the purpose of promptly contradicting such reports. We regret to have to notice that fur ther disturbances have occurred here amongst the Mohammedans and Parsees in ,the native town. On the 22d and 23d ult. serious riots took place, during which a number of persons of both sexes were se verely injured by missiles thrown at them, One of them, a Parsee, has since died. The troops had to be called out to the assistance of the police, and 100 men of one of the native regiments have been stationed in Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy's meeting-house ever body ( d)f bostndee these latt e r di s t ur b ances comme n ce d. A the P oona I rregu l ar H orse h as b een or derfound o o f wgilre service at immediately in preserving from r oor, order and i n the will town. Mobs always dread coming into collision with a mounted force. A few days ago a meeting was held at the residence of Mr. Lumsden, Secretary to Government in the general and judicial depart ments, at which the principal men of the Mahomedan and Parsee communities met together in the presence of the Chief Justice (Sir Erskine Perry), Mr. Lums den, and several other European gentlemen, for the purpose of endeavouring to effect a reconciliation between the two sects. The Cazee (High Priest of the Mahomedans) having intimated that if the Parsee editor of the Goozeratte newspaper in which the memoir and portrait of Mahon-el was published, which had led to the feud between these parties, would offer an explanation or apology for having caused the publication the Mahomedans would be satisfied, and live in peace for the future with their fellow-towns men, the Parsees. This was agreed to, and the editor having made the amend sought for, in the pre sence of the assembled heads of both castes, they now hasseem reconciled to each other, and there been no exhibition of a feeling of animosity on the part of either sect ever since. The Friotd of India, on the authority of a Llama lately arrived at Sikkim from Lassa, states that the Emperor of China has just abdi cated his throne, having resigned it in favour of the usurper Tien Teh. The Calcutta papers notice a dread ful accident which occurred recently at the iNausjid erected by Prince Goolam Mahomed at the corner of the Durrumtollah street. The Prince has been in the habit for many years past of making a distribution at the Musjid of warm clothing to the poor at the commencement of each cold season. This year, owing to the death of the Prince's mother, the accustomed dole the usual period. On the a rep or t go t a b roa d th a t hdaasybe ofen thedelayed accident beyend the alms were to be distributed, and an im mense crowd of beggars collected at the Musjid, and pressing upon one of the gates rushed in in a tumultuous mass. The consequence was that many were borne down and trodden under foot. Nine persons were killed outright , and many were carried off to the hospital with serious injuries. The Peninsular and Oriental Company have for some time past suffered from a series of accidents to their steamers. The Hindostan, with the Calcutta over land outward mail of the Bth instant, took the ground at Mud Point while proceeding down the river, but was fortunately got off without damage, though she is said to have been for some time in rather a perilous position. It is sup posed that she had struck upon a new sandbank, which was formed where two wrecked vessels had sunk. The Governor-General and the Commander-in-Chief have both left Simla. The former is on his way back to Calcutta, and the latter is proceeding in the op posite direction, towards the north-western fron tier. Lord and Viscountess Falkland have taken up their winter quarters at Pared!. Sir John Grey is expected at the Presidency from Mahabaleshwar on the 10th instant. Lady Falkland's first reception at Parell for the season takes places tomorrow even ing. The Right Rey, John Harding, Lord Bishop of LONDON, Bombay arrived here by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Achilles on the 25th ultimo, and WAS formally installed in the cathedral on Sunday last, in the presence of one of the largest congrega tions ever assembled there. "The Calcutta commercial report is unfavourable both us to produce end imports. Money is scarce and the market tight. Exchange has risen to 2-3 for first-class credits. Freights are low beyond prece dent, the current rate fur sugar to London being only 1/, 2s. AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOI;, THURSDAY, 7 A.K. The United States Mail steam-ship Arctic, Captain Luce, has just arrived, with 32 passengers, 371,000 dollars in specie, and dates from New York of the 20th ult. The Kossuth excitement at New York had not abated. The grand banquet given by the bar was held on the 19th. On the 22d Kossuth was to leave for Washington. Various reports were rife at New York relative to the course likely to be taken by the Russian and Austrian Ministers i❑ consequence of the official re cepti.,n of Kossuth by Cougret.s. It was stated that their passports were to be demanded, but nothing positive had transpired. The steam-ship Daniel Webster brought California dates, via Nicaragua, to the 16th, and 1,000 000 dolls. in gold dust; 2,000,000 dolls. additional was at Panama. At San Francisco business was good. At Marysville and Sonora many murders had taken place. The Marysville Ilerald states that sixteen dead bodies had been found in one week. The vigilence committee had made several arrests. Jamaica advices are to the 29th. Cholera was again very bad in that The mercantile reports from the United States speak favourably of business prospects. Trade generally was brisk. The money market was a shade tighter. Government Stocks were in good demand at firm rates. The exportation of specie continued undiminished. _ _ _ The market for breadstuffs was very quiet, and few transactions are reported, holders waiting further advices from this country. Western Canal flour, 4 dolls. 25c. to 4 dolls. 37}c. per barrel. Gennessee prime wheat, 1 doll. 2c. to 1 doll. 4c. per 601 b. In dian corn, round yellow, 62c. to 64c. per bushel. The Cotton market was inactive, and prices had been feebly maintained. No decline, however, has taken place. New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, 9ic. to 9ic. per lb. Uplands and Florida, 9c. to Die. per lb. No alteration - in either freights or provisions. Exchange on London, 1101 to 1101 (rather flat). Paris, 5.13. Hamburgh, 36k to 36k. Bremen, 78k to 78k. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, DEC. 31. The Royal dinner circle last evening included his Serene Highness the Prince Nicholas of Nassau, Baron Bentinck, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Cowley, Baron Hadeln, and Baron Roggenback. The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in at tendance during dinner in the Castle, and played the following pieces : Overture, " Missolongbi" Finale, Ist act, " Matilde" Waltz, "Faust Diabolique" Selection, "Huguenots Galop Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the evening, and performed the following selection : Overture, " Ruy Blas" Quartet Music (Posthumous) Andante —Scherzo, two violins, viola, and violoncello, Messrs. Sainton, Day, Hill, and H. Chipp Selection, " Euryanthe" Weber. Erinnerung au Marienbad Spohr. The Queen walked in the Home Park this morning. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and royal children, took their usual pony and walking exercise. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot ing this morning, accompanied by Prince Nicholas of Nassau, Baron Bentinck, Lord Robert Grosvenor, and Lord Cowley, attended by the Marquis of Or monde and Colonel Bouverie. The Duke of Cambridge is expected on a visit to ber Majesty, Monsieur and Madame Van de Weyer, and Lord and Lady Edward Howard, have received invitations and are expected this afternoon. His S-rene Highness the Pince Nicholas of Nas• sau, Baron Bentinck, Lord Robert Grosvenor , Lord and Lady Cowley, Baron Hadeln, and Baron Rog genback, have taken their departure from the Castle to-day. Sir Charles Fox, Mr. Edmund Leahy, and Mr. Matthew Leahy, had an interview with Earl Gran ville at the Foreign-office, yesterday. A deputation consisting of Mr. Schneider, Sir W. Foster, Mr. Powles, and Mr. Ranking, had a❑ inter view with Earl Grey, yesterday, at the Colonial office. The Greek Minister has left town for Brighton. The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere has arrived at Bowood Park, Wilts, on a visit to the Marquis of Lansdowne. Mr. J. A. Smith had yesterday an interview with Earl Grey. SEABORNE MAILS. [N signifies that the mails are sent front the General Post-office by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.) When made up 111 From what When PLACES. General Post-office port die- due. London. patched. America (by Brit. pkt.)N Jan 2 Liverpool , Jan. 5 America (by U.S. pkt.) NJan. 6 .. Liverpool .. Jan. I America (by U.S. pkt.) 51 Southampt. Jan. 9 Africa (West coast).. N 14th of the month Plynsoath Jan. 3 Alexandria * N 19th & 30th of mo. Dover .. Jan. 18 Belgium • • • • •• N Daily .. .. . Dover .. Daily Brazil • • • • .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Jan. 16 Buenos Ayras 51 1 9th of the month Southampt. Jan. 16 Catifornia(viaChagres) M 2d & 17th of month Southampt. Jan. 5 Cape of Good Hope N,l4th of month Plymouth.. Jan. 3 Constantinople* .. N 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. Jan. 10 Central America .. Mj2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. Jan. 5 Channel Isles N Mon., Wed., & Fri. Southampt. Ta. Th. Sat Chill • • .. . M 17th of the month Southampt. Jan. 20 Franco M& N Twice daily .. Dover .• Twicedaily Greece* •• N 7thl7th27th of mo Dover .. Jan. 10 Hamburgh NI Tuesday & Friday London .. Tiles. Sat. Holland 91;Wednes. & Satur. London .. Mea.Thur Honduras N 17th of the mouth Southampt. Jan. 20 Ireland .. M& N Twice daily .. .. Holyhead .. Twicedally India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the month Southampt. Jan, 23 India (viaMarsoilles) N sth& 24th ef month Dover .• Jan. 2 Mediterranean (via Southampton) M 20th of the month Southampt. Jan. 23 :Mediterranean (via Marseilles) N Bth& 24th ofmonth Dover •• Jan. 2 Mexico .. 31 2d of the month.. Southampt. Jan. 5 Madeira • • •• M 9th of the month Southampt. Jan. 16 7th,17th,19th,27th Malta* .. • • & 30th of month Dover Jan. 10 Naples* .. N sth 15th 25th of me l Dover Jan. 2 Papal States* .. N sth 15th 25th ef mo Dover .. Jan. 2 Peninsular.. M 7th 17th 27th of molSouthampt. Jan. 6 Peru • . M 17th of the month Southampt. Jan. 20 Tuscany* .. N sth 15th 25th of mo Dover .. Jan. 2 Aran Indies .. Ml7th of the month Southampt. Jan. 20 West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) M2cl of the month Southampt. ,Jan. 5 * The mails to those countries thus marked ( 4 ) are conveyed by French packet v'al Marseilles. The direct Ilavre mail from London via Southampton during this month will be made up three times a week only, instead of daily. CaLtroitnia.—Malls to and from California, tna the United States are now despatched and due by every American pack;*, ATTEMPTED MURDER AT SOUTIIAMPTON.—OOII - CONDUCT OF A FEHALE.—A man named Harris, a gardener by trade, was fully committed yesterday, by the Southampton borough magistrates, to take his trial at the Winchester assizes, for attempting to murder his wife. Some time since Harris suffered six months' imprisonment for ill using his wife. They had been living separate lately, and the poor woman had maintained herself and child by stay making. On Saturday last Harris persuaded his wife to be reconciled, and they both walk e d and made some purchases together. ‘N hile crossing, in the evening about nine o'clock, a new made road, not much frequented, in order to get to their home, they were heard violently quarrelling by the wife of one of the Sappers a nd Miners stationed at the Ord snoalndcieer,Ssuwrvi feeyw-orochead heard Harris and hi s w if e quarrelling,, which is close to this ro a d. P resen tl y t h e as she passed them by was alarmed with the cry of murder, she hastily returned, and found the man and w oman strug gling on the ground. She heroically seized the fell ow as h e was in the act of attempting to cut his wife's throat with a gardener's knife, and pinned him to the ground, but not before he had cut two large gashes several inches in length in the lower part of his wife's cheek. The alarm given by the two women soon brought assistance , and Harris was se cured. There is little doubt that if the sapper's wife had not behaved so courageously, the poor woman who was so grievously wounded would have been murdered. NEW POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.—After the 6th of this month the whole of the letter-receivers in rural dis tricts will be denominated sub-postmasters, and the name of receiver will be limited to those who keep letter-receiving boxes in towns. After the above date also the machinery for accounting to the public revenue for the unpaid postage on letters originating and delivered in the same official dis trict will be simplified. This can now be done, it appears, in consequence of the compulsory prepayment of postage by stamps in the provinceF. Already this new regulation of compulsory stamp prepayment has reduced the sums col lected by country postmasters for postage on letters, sent by cross -road mails to one-eighth of what it amounted to pre vious to the introduction of the new regulation, and it has also reduced the postage collected by country postmasters on correspondence passing through London, upwards of 20 per cent. For the year ending in January, 1851, provincial postmasters collected upwards of 400,0001. in money postage, and upwards of 800,0001. for postage stamps. For the future the amount of postage in money will be immensely reduced, and the amount for postage stamps will be proportionably increased. TOR BROMPTON AND NUNIIEAD CEMETERIES.— The Treasury have determined to abandon Mr. Peacook's award in reference to the purchase of the Brompton and unhead Cemetaries ; and by this abandonment the opera tion of the Metropolitan Interment Act has, for all practical purposes, been suspended. THE MARQUIS or SLIGO.—This deservedly popular nobleman and excellent landlord, whose tenants are, in general, in comfortable and prosperous circumstances, is em pioying much of his time in making arrangements to make them still more so, by encouragement in their industrious pursuits. AT m WESTERN RAwAT.—This c o mpany are about to build an extensive merchandise depot at their Paddington station, to meet the requirements of their goods traffic. UliT THURSDAY SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MOB BING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. TlMES.—There is a rule of life so directly the ordinance of nature that all authorities are unanimouq in its favour. Muralists and economists, philosophers and merchants alike insist on the duty of reviewing the natural periods of time, and settling the balance of losses and gains. As we are placed here to advance and improve, unless we keep a log of our voyage, and take stock of our goods, we lose at least one important; security and stimulus. An annual budget is expected from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and her Ma jesty cannot open Parliament or prorogue it without a short businesslike review of the recess or the session. Following these precedents, therefore, we will pro ceed to sum up th e l osses an d gains of the year 1851, which has just quietly expired. It has given us one vast and immeasurable gain in the Great Exhibition. All the nations of the civilized world, not to say more, have been represented —some very largely, arid all very efficiently—i n one fair teeeple of industry and peace. All have become wiser and better known ; all have cast into one great treasury, and been blessed from its stores; and on the minds of many nations and many millions has been left one soothing and instructive—one glorious and indelible impression. On all sides the seeds of knowledge and enterprise, cast on the waters of that peaceful confluence, are beginning to bear fruit in new dis coveries and undertakings. A vision of universal peace has been seen by the wo 71d, and, if its realiza tion is still remote, its influence is not the less salutary and energetic. We are not among those who expect that the triumphs of peace are likely in our time to extinguish the passions of peoples and the ambition of adventurers ; but we nevertheless think we may dwell with satisfaction and hope on the memory of an event the direct and natural tendency of which is pacific and profitable. The more of such occasions the bet ter. They are the basis of institutions, and the means of an intercourse, which cannot but endure, and which must in time tell on the fortunes of hu manity. England has had her full share in the glories of this world-wide competition. She has effaced the national stigma of inhospitality. She has shown a largeness of conception, a practical talent, a rapidity of performance, a power of organization, a fertility of resources, and even a taste, for which foreigners had hardly given her credit. More con spicuous than all have been her fairness and gene rosity. All this is gain. The victory has been as cheap as it has been bloodless. The whole cost of the Exhibition to the thousands of exhibitors, and millions of visitors, has not equalled that of one battle. Among other results there has been an interchange between this and the neighbouring metropolis, singularly be fitting the year that has seen the two cities linked by instantaneous communication, and most happy at a crisis when events are occurring of a nature to revive the slumbering recollections of a miserable war. Few who keep house will forget in the more prominent glories of this year that it has emancipated from a barbarous tax the light and air of heaven ; nor will dwellers in this city forget that it sealed the fate of Smithfield. There are other honourable and even grateful associations that will be ever connected with this memorable year. As if to show that the monster attraction in Hyde-park could neither divert the national mind from objects of para mount value, nor supesede other species of advance ment, there have been some grave proceedings of a religious or political aspect. The nation has made a solemn protest against Papal aggressions, and if the enactment in which it was expressed was not strik ingly bold or immediately effective, it is the nature of constitmtienal protests to be rather for future inter pretation than present effect. Again, at the very com mencement of the Exhibition, and with an inexhaustible fund of popularity accruing thence to the advisers of the Crown, they were signally beaten more than once. They had to resign on a question of Parliamentary reform, and returned to office on a promise to bring forward a comprehensive measure next session. The year 1851 has thus bequeathed a great work to the year 1852, and the Ministerial crisis which has brought it about must be set down to the credit of the former year. St. Alban's, also, may claim some share in the honour of hastening the second Reform Bill. Reform has this year made its way into the Court of Chancery, and a long-desired change has been in troduced into the law of evidence. For the rest, we believe we may say with literal truth that the year 1851 has been unexampled for material prosperity, for the amount of imports and exports, for the quan tity of both British and foreign shipping in our ports, for the amount of labour employed, whether skilled or unskilled, whether in the mill, the workshop, the mine, the shipyard, or the field; for the decrease of pau perism, and for the enjoyment and cheerfulness of the people at large, a very large proportion of whom have bad their share, as delighted and de serving spectators in the Great Exhibition. The losses of the year, though eclipsed in its I splendour, have not been inconsiderable. We have seen a British colony in South Africa assuming a portentous resemblance to the French colony in the north; a settlement of herdsmen and traders lapsing into a chain of military posts, held with vast blood• shed and cost against implacable savages. The census of this year, while it adds fresh proofs to the growing prosperity of Great Britain, especially in its manu facturing districts, discloses the serious fact that fa mine, fever, and emigration have taken away not less than 2,000,000 of our Irish fellow-subjects. Happily, seven-eighths of the loss are attributable to the last and least unhappy of these causes, but the actual es trangement of so large a British mass, not only from these isles, but for the most part from the British Crown, is a fact the gravity of which we may some day have cause to appreciate. As for our relations with foreign Powers, we have long ceased to indulge in any warm international attachments, or to expect them in return, so there is not any positive loss to be noted under this bead. Our relations with Italy are not improved by the sympathies freely expressed in this country for the politico-re ligious enthsiasts who are preaching a crusade against every throne in that peninsula. Our relations with France are not improved by our stubborn preference of constitutional government, even in the form of a republic, over military despotism. Our relations with the United States are threatened at this moment by a disagreeable and unaccountable incident, of which it is premature to speak till something is known about it. Oa the whole, however, it can hardly be said that we stand quite as well with the rest of the world as we did a twelvemonth since, though there was not much to boast of even then. Perhaps England has no right to expect a very general amount of s ympathy. Insulated in position, with a mixed political constitution, the asylum for refugees from stream, all nations, showing her fl ag on ever y sea , an d thrusting her manufa c t ure i nto every mar k et, una b le to sympathise entirely with e i t h er monarc h s aga i ns t p eo ples or peoples agai nst monarchs, she comman d s the respect, the fear, and even t h e a d m i rat i on o f man kind, but not their love or t h e i r f ree co - operat i on. Just now, however, anothe r c h ange i s pass i ng over this department of our publi c a ff a i rs . Th e a d ven t o f a new Foreign Secretary o ff ers some h ope t h at we s h a ll preserve our bo as t e d neutrality w i thout either compromise thbt eacesnt dG to ) f orpetulance ; w i t h out o ff er i ng t h e r i ght rampant desp o ti sm, and the left to democra tic conspirators. The new Mi n i ster starts w i th the omens in his f avour. In the mimic world of r eat E xhib i t ion, with its territories, its sectional G ov ernments, its fier ce competition, and its common ap peal, Lord Granvill e h as performed the functions of KilTeilolus with m os t cre di table success. HERALD.—Hours, d ays, weeks, and months are the most punctilious of ser vants . Aga i n have they performed their offices with th e i r accustome d exacti tude, of anxiety a n d afflic tion may appear longer in their transit th an th e same and thus filled up the measur e o f ano th er y ear . The revolutions of time are irresi s tibl e an d cer t a i n, although its issues are doubtful an p d er e p v e e t r ua v l ar m y o in ti g o . n— l a t ishe mighty a g l l r aannd obstruction. continual representative Seasons of whose rapid course de rides periods spent in the perfect vigour of health, or amid the enchantments of happiness and content ; yet this protraction is but a mental delu s i on. The measured footsteps of old Father Time admit of no irregularity of action. The echo of the tread of the retiring mo ment has not altogether ceased its vibrations ere we distinguish the advancing step of its successor. The progression is maintained with arithmetical precision, whether the span of the hour's duration be seemingly contracted by the thoughtless gaiety of youth, or apparently tediously lengthened by the spirit-corroding cares of manhood. Though time never actually halts in its march, y et, at this period, the majority of our fellow -countrymen note more carefully its advances. Man is prone to pause, as it were, between the new year and the old, and while he reviews the past one, he endeavours to penetrate the promises of good or ill shut up in the shrine of the future. And a suitable season is it for contemplation, nor will the wise man fail to seize upon the opportu nity it affords to sit down with his conscience and look over his annual account. Such an inspection of our past conduct is the consummation of wisdom. We ought never to forget that — "lie husbands life who looks not to its length, But use; and uses it to glorify The Giver !" Vain to us the flight of time unless we detect the moral it inculcates as it pursues its swift career. We feel it, therefore, incumbent upon us to moralise a little with the rest. We are the faithful chroniclers of every phase of human existence from the cradle to the tomb. We are daily setting forth, as in a mirror, the grandest lessons afforded to humanity; and is it not proper that we survey that which we have achieved, and ponder over the labours we are about to undertake? The past year has added no treasures to :t1 e stores of our political economy. It may bo justly termed the year of unbounded promise, and most ignominious performance. Ushered in with the loudest acclamations, at its very threshold stood failure and disgrace. A Cabinet ,ezioting by suffer- 1 8 ante, in futile endeavours to please every party suc ceeded most effectually in disgusting all. With no settled principles to give direction to its counsels, it clung to each empty bubble of opinion that promised a momentary popularity, and then betrayed the cause it feigned to r,drocate, till at length the disunion among its members, which from the hour of its for mation has scarcely ever ceased to threaten its exist ence, suddenly rereals itself, and thus terminates its last chance for a much longer duration. Imbecility of purpose, incapacity for government, and a de grading humiliation to political agitators, have formed the chief characteristics of the men composing the Ministry. They have introduced no measures of public utility, and tlae sole great (9) act of the session is found to be an unseemly abortion, and is thrust upon the shelf like other kindred specimens, carefully preserved to prove how imperfectly the ungainly exaggerations of. distortion imitate the symmetry of a well-metured and carefully- constructed production. To so low an ebb have our present diminutive legislators of the Cabinet now fallen, that they are re duced to the wretched expedient of ushering in the new year with the worn-out rallying cry of " Re form," in the hope of deluding the people, and thus prolonging their sway. The advent of 1852 inspires 113. We hail it as a deliverer. Indications are not wanting to assure us, that during its course the government of our country will be snatched from the hands of the incapable. If we direct our attention to other nations, we cannot exult over much real ad vancement. There has been plenty of destruction of the good and the had together, but little just rejection of the evil, and judicious preservation of what is per manent and great in the constitution of states. Yet we believe that better things are in store. We trust that where the iron fetters of despotism press rudely on the lovely proportions of freedom, the severity of their grasp may be gradually and surely relaxed, and wholesome liberty established. Let us look forward with confidence to the actual progression of humanity ; not the spurious counterfeit, which rejoices in revolution, but that advancement which is the fruition of careful statesman ship, and the accumulation of experience and calm consideration. Amid the vicissitudes of domes tic life we trust that numbers may be found who have gone through the year with minds unruffled by those storms which destroy social peace, and desolate the family hearth. These will be enabled to cast a retrospective glance on pleasant scenes and unclouded moments, the remembrance of which may impart a livelier pulsation to the frame, or lend its hallowing sweetness to mitigate the anguish of future sorrow. Others, the children of a more active perseverance and enthusiasm, may delight to reflect upon the diffi culties they have surmounted, the conflicts they have sustained, the perils they have escaped, as the mariner tells of the tempest and the shoal; the soldier, of the battle and the scar ; or the tra veller, of the wonders he met with, or the per plexities that beset his path. These are glorious harvests garnered up in the storehouse of me mory, to which the stricken spirit may at times resort, and from which it may derive consolation in seasons of prevailing gloom. Happy, thrice happy, he who, to the best of his ability, has during the past year fulfilled all the duties of his station. If rich, he can think upon many a wounded bosom he has healed, many a necessity he has relieved, and on many a darkened hour which he has illumined by the cheer fulness of his presence or the liberal diffusion of his bounty. It is no ignoble action to restore the household gods of a family to some hearth from which calamity has banished them. If poor, he will remember duties zealously performed, temp tations to covetousness and envy at the prosperity of others manfully overcome, and quiet and holy resignation to the apparent inequalities of the lot assigned to him in this world by his and its Creator. May time be the gentle handmaid of good to us all ! May our hearts be weeded of evil, and made beautiful by the sweet-smelling flowers of for bearance, charity, benevolence, and all Christian virtues! The improvement of individuals will achieve the regeneration . of the world at large, and by each of ua striving to become better, we shall hasten the ad vent of a brighter and holier era. Let all begin the year with high resolves. There is One who is able and willing to sanctify these resolves, and wbo can cause them to bring forth a hundredf o ld if His di . . rection be sought with meekness and with faith. To all that do this, the new year will prove a happy one ; and how severe soever the trials it may bring, they will gladly own their purifying influences, and from their beneficial results he compelled to confess that they were " blessings in disguise." Farewell to the old year, and welcome to the new; in the words of our Poet Laureate we say— " Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true." DAILY NEWS.—Today we enter upon a new year, which—judging by the present aspect of the political horizon—promises to be as fruitful' in in- ceresting events as any one that has of late gone be fore it. "No one," says Charles Lamb, " ever re garded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It 'is the nativity of our common Adam.' I never hear the peal which rings out the old year without a gathering up of my mind to a concentration of all the images that have been dif fused over the last twelvemonth ; all I have done or suffered, performed or neglected, in that regretted time. I begin to know its worth as when a person dies." Every one must acknowledge the profound truth and beauty of these words. For the journalist, however—who, in additio n t o the con- sciousness derived from his distinctive personality, is the depositary and exponent of the corporate con sciousness of large masses—they have an extended meaning. We who have felt vividly the pulsations of the heart of great movements—and have worked with various degrees of ability and success to carry out their objects—look back upon the register of the public doing s of the past year with something of a personal interest in the retrospect. 'We feel a kind of responsibility as to this corporate consciousness, and are depressed or elated just as the successive images in the phantasmagoria of last year's events are sub jects of sorrow or of joy, We are anxious to strike a favourable balance of those transactions of the year in which we have sympathised or participated—Just as the merchant is when he posts his ledger to ascertain his losses and his gains. Seen in this light, the events of 1851, although not sufficiently satisfactory to warrant indulgence in extravagant anticipations of a millennium, are still of a kind that enables us to entertain hopes that the cause of progress will not only maintain its ground, but make advances in the new year on which we this day enter. Although it was not very pleasant at the commencement of the year 1851 to learn that no party wouhi take the trouble of governing us,—and that from sheer inability to find any one else who would under take the task, we were obliged to place the power thus left, in the hands of those who had thrown it up,—still there is great consolation in the fact that the functions of the body politic went on as well without a government as with it. This recolleoticn is abundantly refreshing at a time when a change of Ministry in any other country in Europe is either produced by, or productive of; a coup d' itat, which paralyses all the national movements, puts the towns in a state of siege, and converts peaceable citizens into targets for the musketry of a brutal soldiery. Very consolatory also is this fact, as showingthat the oscilla tions of the political pendulum between Whig and Tory are so small, that the public begin to pay compa ratively little attention to them, and are expecting, and will find, deliverance from some other quarter. Again, although the proceedings of the Pope, in anathematis ing education in Ireland, in sowing he seeds of reli gious discord in England, in turning his back against liberal principles all over Europe, and in patronising the butchery in the streets of Paris, are melancholy matters enough—there is comfort in the thought that the very extravagance of this conduct is serving to convince even Catholics of the fact—which Pro-_ testants felt sure of long ago—that the pretensions of the Papacy are utterly incompatible with the preser vation of free government. So also, although we might regret that the universal public do not declare its present the toleration of the episcopal hierarchy in present anomalous state is a sin—we have reason, on the other band, to thank our stars that the Bishops, by the evidence forced from them about the condition of their revenues, and the unblushing i mpu dence of their defence, have done much more toward s enablin g us to reform the abuses theAstand by, than could have been accomplished by any other than themselves. It is very sad without doubt to reflect tha t the Bish op of Exeter tried to get a number of his clergy together to break the peace—but it is consoling to know that the knowledge of what the synod did is lodged exclusively in the brains of certain high church old ladi es , w h o prattle about it in a manner similar to that in which their prototype indulged w hen speaking of Kin g Charles's visit to Tillietudlem. If the Protectio n i s t s wail almost as loudly as ever, it is delightful to reflect that the only annoyance they occasion is their noise since every sensible man has quitted their ranks. If the education 'question is not settled for the whole ki ng d om — s till Manchester is on the point of settli ng it f or h erse lf. Abd-el-Bader is still in prison, in spite of Lord Lon donderry's e pistolato ,. ry and Lord Maidst one ' s p oe ti ca l talent ;—but then Kossuth is free, and is kindli ng fire which despotism. will find it a hard matter t o ex tingui,h. King Bomba's proclamations are v il e enough in all conscience—but then are they not so much waste paper weighed against Mr. Gladstone's pamphlets ? In this way we might go through the events of the whole year just gone f rom us, finding co mpensation—and something more—f o r a ll th e ev il that we should have to lament, and then—leaving this evil out of the question—put down as clear gain a list of important items that would include, i n cr e ase of the revenue, diminished taxation, the Great Exhibi- JANU A Rrur r ~3 4 EVENING, 1111 KAT 7 a 1 3 1852, tion, international hospitality, submarine telegraph, and penny omnibuses. All these considerations war rant us in indulgin g in hope for the future, although there is no denying that a few dark clOuds hang over the present. The chief difficulty of course shows itself on the Continent. The preparations for playing out the great game between free institutions and des potisra are proceeding more rapidly than ever. That the cause of freedom is meeting with reverses is too true ; that it will eventually triumph it were a sin to doubt. The great ground for hope lies in the fact that the enemy has now thrown off the mask, and is no longer fighting under false colours. After coquet ting for six and thirty years between Liberalism and Absolutism, the chief Governments of the Continent have now decided for the latter, and the .11cman Catholic Church is solemniz 7 ng the union with all splendour. The world is waiting with breathless anxiety for the result of the match. In the meantime, let us be grateful that peace is with us undisturbed. Diplomatists still smile outwardly upon each other in every court in Europe. Everything is as yet couleur de rose on this New Year's morning. Ambassador s ere preparing to exchaege courtesies with the Governments of the countries in which they are resident. Formerly it was the custom to make costly presents to mo narchs on this day, and occasion was not unfr«pently taken to choose such gifts as would convey advice in a manner more or less evident. Thus Latimer, we know, on New-Year's-day presented Henry VIII. with a New Testament, with a leaf doubled down et Hebrews xiii., 4, conveying a very significant hint of the bold Bishop's real sentiments about Henry's proceedings matrimonial. A fertile fancy might in like manner find fitting employment in devising ap propriate gifts to be presented to-day to the various sovereigns of Europe. Thus the King of Naples might be presented with a cord and axe and the cast off clothes of the imprisoned Poerio, significant of the executioner's tools and perquisites. To the King of Pluisia a polite offer might be made to re-bind the old copy of his Majesty's New Testament on which he has taken so many constitutional oaths. The Queen of Spain might be presented with lead ing-strings, and a strong soldier to keep her Majesty from slipping out of them. Louis Napoleon would be appropriately gifted with the story of "Hobson's choice," to typify the nature of his offer of a govern ment to the French nation. The Emperor of Austria might be presented with a tight-rope, as a hint of the difficulties he will find in balancing himself in the present conjuncture; and a diploma might be made out for the Emperor of Russia, investing him with the-sole privilege of picking up his unfortunate bro ther of Austria as often as he may fall. So much for monarchs. To return to ourselves and our readers. To the latter we conscientiously believe we can wish no greater public benefit than the realisation of those measures of political and social importance which it has, for years past, been the object of the Daily News to advocate. To accomplish this, however, they must work with us and with each other, and with such co operation there is no overweening confidence in the anticipation that a good result must flow from our hearty wish to them of a " Happy New Year." THE THREATENED STRIIiE. The Lancashire employers of operative engineers had a meeting on Tuesday afternoon at the Clarence Hotel, Manchester, ,which w as'att en d e d by upwards of fifty members of the leading firms in this branch of trade, and presided over by Mr. T. B. Sharp, of the firm of Sharp, Brothers, and Co. The committee appointed at a former meeting reported the substanc e of what bad transpired bet we en the deputation from their body and the employers of London and the vicinity ; and also the proceedings of a meeting of those employers, at the London Coffee-house, on the 24th inst. The warmest gratification was expressed at the cordial reception of the deputation from Lan cashire by the central body in London ; and, ou the motion of Mr. James Nasmyth, of the Bridgewater Foundry, Patricroft, seconded by Mr. John Hick, of Bolton, it was unanimously resolved, "That this asso ciation forthwith join, and become a portion of, the central association of employers of operative engineers, &c." The tone of the meeting was most decided and unanimous in the expression of a determination to resist any and every attempt at dictation on the part of the men, as alike injurious to employers and employed, and destructive of the best interests of the country. It appeared that while many esta blishments had singly resisted such attempts at dicta tion on former occasions, and in their resistance bad been successful, there were many others where this system of dictation was still in full force, and where the employers, with the name of masters, were in fact the slaves of their men, and were obliged to submit to the grossest tyranny, dictated by a few unseen agita tors. Now this dictation had manifested itself in the audacity with which the present demands have been put forth. But it was observed this would have the good effect of uniting in one formidable body, with scarcely a single exception, the whole of the employers of engineering labour throughout the kingdom. Their bond of union was the strong one of self-de fence, and the determination to resist every attempt at dictation on the part of the workmen. The proceed ings, which throughout were characterised by the greatest unanimity, closed about a quarter before six o'clock. Two other facts we may add, which do not appear in the official proceedings, A general desire and determination was expressed, that as the men had threatened a strike, their object and intention should be tested, and that the question between the em p!oyers and employed, having been raised by the latter, should now be brought to some clear and defi nitive issue. We learn that individually nearly all the firms in this district have received from their cus tomers, for whom they are making mill or other machinery, in some cases under contracts with penal ties as to non-fulfilment in time, the most cordial assurances that they approve of the course taken by the employers, and that they are disposed, under the circumstances, to extend to them the utmost amount of indulgence that may be sought in the completion of these contracts. Under circumstances such as these, lacking that which is an element of strength in some strikes,ipopuldr approval and support, it behoves the workmen to pause ere they take a step which, once taken, will assuredly prove irremediable. Up to last night it was quite uncertain at Manchester whether the operatives would pause, or were prepared to run the risks which must follow should the strike be persevered in. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The remains of the Hon. Pownoll Fleetwood Pellew, First Lieutenant of her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, were com mitted to the grave in the garrison churchyard this morning. Viscount Exmouth was chief mourner; the Hon. C. F. Pellew and Mr. Dick, relatives of the deceased, also followed. The other mourners were Lord Adolphus Fitzclarenca and the subordinate officers of the royal yacht—Mr. White, surgeon, Dr. Whyte, staff surgeon, &c. Ten petty officers of th • Victoria and Albert carried the coffin from the hearse to the chapel and thence to the grave. The deceased being a Freemason, a number of the brotherhood of his lodge also followed. The funeral w as a private one, and the appointments were supplied byupstlerd. Woods, military and naval outfitter , of the H ard, Warden, Portsea. alongsid e The Rodney, 92, Captain Graha m, C. 8., adjusted her compasses to-day. is T r e h fi e t ti ng e t r h i e b r u t r i g n g a n t: , m f Sh r e l g a w t . e s , C h a a P u t l ai d n the sheer jetty on Tuesday to ship her guns, which were removed previous to her e m ol b d a s r m ka it t h io: se o n f t the up troops for the Cape. The Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith, her lower yards and topmasts to-day. WARREN VALE COLLIERY EXPLOSION. ADJOURNED INQUEST. RAWMARSH, NEAR ROTHERHAM, WEDNESDAY.—The evidence of Mr. .Morton, the Government inspector of mines, adverted to in this paper yesterday, went to show the cause of the explosion and the degree of blame at taching to the various managers an d servants connected w ith the colliery. In answer to a question from the coroner he said he was clearly of opinion that the ex plosion i was caused a cc id ent l y b y t h e f a ll o f t h e roo f i n the goat . in No. 3 bank, whioh fall drove out the gas upon the workmen's lights. Mr. Benjamin Byra b m, of Wentworth, who had been. mineral agent to Earl Fitzwilliam for nearly twenty Years, agreed in all material points with the evidence of Mr. Morton. In this instance the gas was no doubt fired by the f a ll of th e roo f. Il e c ould not impute criminal blame to any one; but there seemed to have been a laxity of discipline in examining and reporting on the gen e ral s t a t e o f th e pit, arising , in his opinion, from the belief that there was no inflammable gas in the pit. After the examination of other witnesses, the inquest was adjourned to Friday. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The following members, amongst many others, of haut ton, have already witnessed the new pantomime of Harlequin Hogcith :—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Monrose, Count Walewski, the Earl of Glengall, Lord George Paget, Lord Torrington, Lord George Lennox, Baroness Roether, Lady Glentworth, Lady Eastlake, Sir George Wombell, the lion. Fox Maule, the Hon. Horace Pitt, the lion. Mrs. Cadogan, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Coke, the Chevalier and Madame de Horta, Sir Charles Shakerley, Sir A. Ban nerman, Sir Charles Ibbotson, Sir John Lowther, Sir George Armitage, Sir Henry Webb, Colonel Hunter Blair, Colonel Ridley, Captain Innis, Captain Clarke, Captain Cooke Captain Aitchison, Captain Neville, Captain Mowbray, Cap tain Allbury, Henry Baring, Esq., M.P., Mrs. Hoare, Mrs. l'aulett, Mrs. Courtenay, Mrs. Clayton, Mr. Thistleth waite, Mrs. Dennistoun, Mr. Bence, Mrs. Cour, M. Went worth Besile, &c. THE REP. MR. BENNETT AND ST. BARNABAS.--- Not twelve months ago Mr. Bennett quitted St. Barnabas, and quitted England. He has spent eight or nine months in Roman Catholic countries, and much of the time in Rome itself. Rumour relates that the sight of Italy and Spain is not likely to detach him from the English communion. Mr. Bennett has returned to England, and he has, it is said, at the invitation of the trustees of the Marquis of Bath, ac cepted the living of Frome Selivood, in the diocese of Bath and Well!, NATIONAL 1?EFOR211 ASSOCIATION. The fellorwing circular is to be issued this day by the National Reform Association. It slates to the con ference which that association is aly,tit to convene:— " Reform Conference.—National P.irlistrientary and Financial Ref: irm Association.—Offices, 41, `.;baring cross, Jan. 1, 1852.—Dear Sir,—The council of the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Associa tion have eh cid , d upon convening a conference in Lon don, to which they invite the earnest friends of the cause from every part of the United Kingdom. The necessity and urgency of such a course will be apparent to all. It is desirable that the introduction of a Ministerial mea sure of Parliamentary reform should be a matter of car tainty—thiat there should be such a manifestation of public opinion as shall cause that measure to be radical and complete. That means should be taken to secure its success and to obviate the necessity for further agitation. such are the objects sought in convening the conference, and it is felt that at this important crisis ev.ry sincere rtformt - r ustimate the value of imenedidte and united eff_rts in 13;11 - .1.1f of these objects. Your acknowledg ment, with the eirctunstancs of our locality in re ference to the reform cause, and the names of the per sons likely to attend the ceziferenev, r,ilt be esteemed. Ie the app,datm.nt of deputations care should he tt , let.n that the opinions of ail eLsscs are represeutc d. It is thought the meeting of Pa:liauaent will be the most suit e.s:e time for the conference, but with tb:, precise period you will be made acquainted.—(signal) J. WALMELEY." T. HE CONVICT MUTINY._ SEIZURE OF THE RING LEADERS.—The mutiny among the convicts at Woolwich became quite intolerable betwixt 12 and one o'clock on Tues. dm; when they returned from their work in the dockyard to take their dinner on board the Warrior convict-ship. They no sooner entered the ship than they rushee down and took possession of two of the decks, defying the guards o r an y o f the military to come near them, at the same time singing, cheering, and swearing, and some who had got hold of pipes and tobacco commenced smoking. The guards were threa tened in such a manner that they represented to Mr. Master mann that it would be dangerous to go out with the convicts in the afternoon, if examples were not made of some of them. Capt. the ion. Montagu Stopford, acting superintendent, was immediately communicated with, and the aid of the guards of the Royal Artillery and Royal Marines called on board, and the guards in charge of the convicts, with drawn cutlasses, went below and brought up and heavily ironed thirty-eight of the most outrageous, and disarmed them of the knives, forks, and sharpened files, of which they had by some means become possessed. Twenty of the convicts were, in the course of the afternoon, conveyed to London in the police vans sent down to Woolwich for the purpose, and safely secured in Millbank Penitentiary. The other eighteen were also heavily ironed and taken on board the Wyr in the river. BARBADOES RAILWAY,—The Master in Chancery Blunt has called for the papers and evidence taken in this matter connected with the charge of the official manager against the trustees of the company's funds, with the view of giving a decision on the subject in the beginning of the present term. There will be five Sundays in February next. A similar event will occur after 28 years, viz., in 1880. After wards there will be no similar occurrence for forty years, viz , 1920 ; because the year 1900 will not be leap year, owing to the dropping of a day on the completion of each century ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH IN PRUSSIA.—The three tors of the Royal Prussian Telegraph have just directed ten ders to be taken in the English market for a considerable supply of wire for their telegraphs. It may not be generally known that the Prussian system of telegraphs has been what may be called " subhumous," or underground. This system, owing to the want of the wires, as in this country, being properly protected by pipes or gutta percha, has been found not to answer, and the directors of the Royal Prussian Tele graph now propose, in order to place the wires beyond the reach of the rats and mice that have hitherto destroyed them, to fix them, as in this country, upon posts on the route. The National Public School Association have re ceived a letter, stating that the Premier will receive a de putation on Tuesday, the 6th instant, instead of on the 31st. The deputation named includes Mr. Henry, M.P. ; Mr. Milner Gibson, M.P.; and most of the leading members of the Asscelation. BANKERS' PRIZE Esser. —The prize of 1001. offered in January last by James William Gilbert, Esq., F.R.S., of the London „and Westminster Bank, f or th e b est essay upon the Great Exhibition, in connexion with " Practical Bank ing," has been awarded to Mr. Granville Sharpe, accountant in the East of England Bank at Norwich. FIRE AND LOSS OF LlFE.—Last night at eight o'clock, one of the inmates of No. 10, Great St. Andrew's street, Seven Dials, perceived smoke issuing from a back room in the house, and immediately raised an alarm, when Mr. Armfield, the landlord, on going up stairs, found Mary Manton, aged 50, dressmaker, lying on the ground nearly burnt to a cinder. The engines from Messrs. Combe and Delafield were promptly on the spot, followed by the London brigade, and a plentiful supply of water being obtained the fire was extinguished, when the unfortunate woman was removed in a shell to the workhouse. The house surgeon was promptly in attendance, but all human aid was in vain. It is supposed that the deceased woman accidentally set fire to herself, as the candlestick was lying by her side. On Tuesday last the tradesmen who supplied Mr. Thomas Masters, the confectioner, of Oxford-street and the Great Exhibition, presented him with an elegant piece of plate as a mark of their esteem and appreciation of his libe ral and honourable conduct towards them. The plate was manufactured expressly by the eminent firm of Bowel' and James, of Regent-street. STAGE-COACH TALK.—The other day, by the way, I was told an anecdote, which I think I must repeat, as it is said to be an every-day occurrence in America. The scene was a stage-coach, but I know not where. A sharp-nosed man got into the coach at a small village, and immediately began to question his fellow-passengers, obtaining no answer whatever, for it seems they were all very sleepy. Presently, however, a woman dressed in deep mourning entered the dilligence, and was handed to a seat beside our friend. He immediately attacked her. " Where may you be from? " " State of Maine." " Lost a friend."—" Yes, two." " Was they near friends?"—" Yes." " What was they?"—" Hue baud and brother." " Was they long sick?"—" .Not very." "Did they leave you their chists (chests)?"—" Yes, they did.", " Was they ' ope f u ll y p i ous? " — " I hope and trust they were.' "Then if they l e ft y ou t h e i r c hi sts (of money) and w as 'opefipy pious, you bought to be very thankful—so you hought ! ' —A Young T rave ll er ' s Journal of a Thar in North and South America. AIETEOPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.— Last evening a public meeting of the inhabitants oAf Andrew's -court, Andrew's, Holborn, was held at the Inquest-room, St. Cons r d ew's-court, Holborn hill, fbr the purpose of taking into str ; e :ra a tion the contem plated improvements in Farringdon- S. F. . zd an it i s ia v in icitty, as proposed by Mr. Charles Pearson ; e tte d e subject. churchwarden, in the chair. Severa gentlemen g connected with the parish spoke warmly in favour of the scheme, which it was considered would relieve the now overcharged thoroughfares, shorten routes, remove nuisances, and greatly facilitate business, besides being a great ornament to the me tropolis. Resolutions in support of Mr. Pearson's planls•e t then r aw carried ul, a unanimously, petio Ii to appointed er W iv aS edfrom is Parliament anda o o n m t h m h e i 1 WESTMINSTER SCHOOL.—Prince Albert has sig nified his commands that an extra week's holidays shouldbe granted, as a mark of the satisfaction visit to the Westminster I'lay, on Monday, the 2Ed ult. ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN half h -past ne s , e n ve ea n r , ranc t h any serious consequences, RAlLwsr.—Yeste rda y m orning, about accident, fortunately unattended 1 ) • he Buckinghamshireo co : bi Winslow station, by a train the an trucks coming in contact with the goods train from London. train was much injured by the The engine of the goods occurred on t ascertain, no other injury le collision, but, so far As we can and stokers escaped occurred to either train. The fire menaped unhurt. THE INHABITED HOUSE DUTY.—Tuesday next is Lion•square, fur the I Pea-daY at the Sheriff's-office, Red Holborn district, which extends to a considerable distance, including Com missioners of Assessed Camden •town, by the 'faxes, to hear objections to the new house duty. The assessments are made on the re n t or annua l value of the premises; on private houses 91., and o n sh o ps 6d. i n the pound. According to a note on the duty-p a p er , the assessments a re payable by instalments half-yearly; viz., the 20th of September and 20th of March, or within ten days; and if not paid the defaulters will be subjected to Proceedings, and it they remove from the parish without dis charging the taxes due, or leaving sufficient goods whereon a distress can be made, they will be liable to a penalty of 2 I. - - It has been the custom at Windsor Castle since her Majesty's accession to the throne to celebrate the advent of the new year by au evening paity and a musical treat of a novel character. We find, by the rehearsal that took place at Buckingham Palace yesterday morning, her Majesty's excellent judgment and ta• to has directed her choice on this occasion to the CEdipus of MendelFaohn, the late highly-gifted composer of Elijah, Antigone, .Athalie, and other much-admired compositions. The performance will take place at eight o'clock, in the Waterloo Gallery, before the Court, and her Majesty's illustrious guests. The illus trative verses are to be recited by Mr. Bartley. The or chestra will consist of her Majesty's private band, of the Elk of the Sacred Harmonic Society, comprising Messrs. Bowley, Brewer, Peacock, Mitchell, &c., with other gentlemen se lected from the musical establishment of the Italian Opera by Grics. DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER IN MILL BANK PRISON.—On Tuesday, Mr. Bedford held an inquest in Millbank Prison, on the body of Elizabeth Ann Chambers, aged sixty-four, the daughter of a deceased clergyman , and a prisoner therein, under sentence of transpo r tation for life. The deceased, described as single, and whom the witn esse s styled a lady by birth, was highly res p ec t a bly connected, an d formerly kept her carri age . O n t h e 27t h of June, 18 50, she was received into the abo ve p r i son f rom Nerrgata , under sentence of transportation for life, for forging an d utter ing , and for a previous con v i c ti on . She was admitted as forty.. five years of age, but she subsequently stated to some ladies who visited the prison th a t s h e w as sixty - four. By her own desire she was kept apart from other prisoners, and would not see any relatives or acquaintances . She made no complaint, but enjoyed good health u p to t he 15th of August last, when, being ill, she was , removed i n t o t h e in firmary, where she remained a fortnight. On th e 28 t h o f October, suffering from loss of appetite and gre a t d e bili ty, she was re-admitted into the infirmary, in w hi ch she re mained gradually sinking till the afternoon of Sunday last about five o'clock, when she died. Mr. Helps, assistant surgeon of the prison, said that the deceased while in the in firmary was supplied with Shebrandy never, however, rallied, and death two days before her was attacked with diarrhoea, which hastened that . event. The deceased was very re served, but from the little conversation witness had had with her he considered her to have been highly educated. On making a post mortar examination of the body he found the cause of death to be extensive disease of the lungs. The jury Ti ' returned a verdict of "Natural Death." CHRISTMAS WAITS. —Red Republicans actively wait i,, g —to prov e th e " perfect tranquillity " of France. Cape Colonists passively Waiting—to see the last of the N a tir (and Sir harry Smith). Distressed Agriculturists delusively `Waiting— the revival of their favourite old farce of Protection." Louis Napoleon anxiously Waiting—the dc'nouement of his not very successful tragedy, " Le coup debut." The St. Alban's electors naturally Waiting—the loss of their franchise. The public confidently for a fare adjustment of the Cab Duty.—Punch. NORTH Or FR ANCE AND B OULOGNE : AND RAILWAYS.—The authorities of these two companies an nounce that, as the administrative formalities for their amal gamation are not yet complete, the exchange of Boulogne and Amiens shares for North of France bonds eannot take place until early in this year. The dividend now payable on the Boulogne and Amiens shares is at the rate of 7fr. SOO per Bhue.