The Sun. — London, England, 1849-12-04 00:00:00

individual excellence. You have all your work before you. You have much to do before you will have done even common justice to our capabilities. And that is what every man ought to do. "We ask no more from you, and will not take less." But to acco m p lish it for us, you must approach the fountains of instruc tion with humility, and in the full conviction that at the end of the longest life man is still only a scholar at the feet of science, knowledge, and improvement. Do not then, even if on perfectly good terms with ',ourselves, fancy yourselves so clever t ha t there is nothing left for you to learn. Such a fancy is the sure mark and characteristic of the man who is so very ignorant that he is even ignorant of his own ignorance. Neither, again, fall into the error of judging of your own acquirements by those of other people. Comparison, al ways deceitful, is most trea cherous when taken as the standard of intelligence and knowledge. It exalts the man with one eye into a king among the blind. Let your rule be always to be aiming at improvements, re• collecting the maxim of the sculptor to his pupils, " This and better will do—but this and worse will never do." Industry will reduce mountains into molehills, while indolence will magnify molehills into mountains. The mind must be disciplined into emi nence. It cannot take it by storm, but only by sap and siege. In order to achieve it you must work, work, work. Miracles of brilliancy can only be ac complished by miracles of perseverance. The boy, if he lives, must ripen into the man—it is nature's ordi nance—lie must geow on from the cradle to maturity —hut the babe in knowledge may remain a babe for ever—his growth may be stunted—he may abide in the cradle to the end of his existence. It is the rule in all things. The poet has written— " For no laggard in love, no dastard in war, Shall wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar ;" ani, in like manner, ignorance must not expect to woo and ma the prizes of knowledge and education, noridleness hope to grasp the rewards of energy and industry. And while lam warning you, let me give you a hint on another point. Never be led away by that fond and foolish vanity of modern times, which is so often heard exclaiming and exulting, that the child in the nursery is now acquainted with secrets and mysteries of science which were hid from a Bacen, and into which a Newton vainly sought to per etrate." For my part, I never hear this kind of boasting without being reminded of the saying, that " a dwarf upon a giant's shoulders can sea farther than the giant," but put the tiny creature on his own legs again, and how far will be see then ? Ie one of his stories Dickens makes Mr. Short ask the showman, " What becomes of the old giants ?" to which the reply is " They're usually kept in caravans to wait upon the dwarfs." And many a smell dabbler in the shallows of science in these drys ,talks of the old giants, and fathers, and patriarchs of intellect, as if they were horn and fit for no other use, and as if they eh° op'ned to us the great roads of mind, upon which we ail now journey with so much ease, were in ferior to the loungieg travellers who glide along them without a thought of the pioneers who, unguided, un helped, hewed their way through the desert and the wildermss, and left the fruits of their labours as an inherit !nee to future generations. Born amidst the intellectual sunlight of their kindling, we cannot ap preciate the value of their toils and discoveries. Only the blind man restored to sight can tell all the horrors of the darkness front which he has escapsd. But let us strive to realise the same feelings, and look beck with reverential awe up to the genius of the past. The genius of die present, with all its brilliancy, is only a further development of it, and in its greatest triumphs shonl I yet render homage and tribute to " The flsed, but scepte.d, sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from :he'r urns." And another word to the young:sr members of your institution. in the selection of books which you read, although mental relaxation is as necessary nos bodily, do not devote yourselves too much to those lighter works, which will only encourage and strengthen imagination in its flight and dreams. Fancy is a strolling player, whose vagrant courses should he checked, and brought within the rule and line of discipline and system. But read the best of the old, and the best of the new, the cream of both, with as little of the blue milk as possible ; and even so you will be able to make yourselves acquainted with only a slight sprinkling of the volumes which the teeming press is pouring forth day by day ; and even so you will only he like the ploughboy at the harvest home feast, who, when he had swallowed so many good things that he had brought himself to a state of surfeit, burst into tears, as the tables were cleared, and cried out, " There's all that pudding left and I can't eat any more." And, in doing all this, make yourselves the masters, not the slaves of the books which you real, bringing all their contents before the bar of your judgment, and the test of your reason and common sense. I have always thought that a glorious exclamation of an eminent writer, in which he says, " I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system." Alt cannot he so ambitious as to become the authors and founders of a system, but all should strive, in the course of their reading, to extract the honey and leave the poison behind them. But why all this ? Young persons—very young ones—sometimes ask, De we not see ignorant men grow rich and flourish, and obtain a larger share of the good things of the world than the educated and enlightened ? Occa. sionally we do; but the exception dues not shake the rule. There is such a thing as tumbling up stairs. But this is an exception ; the general rule is to tumble down theta. I heard of a man lately who offered some painted sparrows for sale as canaries, and the trick succeeded ; but no one could hope to give to such a trade a fixity of tenure. We have been told of a merchant who shipped a consignment of warmins , pans for the West Indies, and made money by the same, the sagacity of his agent having disposed of them as sugar ladles for him ; but the experiment was never repeated. Mazeppa, by an ingenious device of cruelty, was chained on his wild horse to be borne through all the agonies of torture, to a slow and lingering death, and was carried to a crown on his strange and maddened courser ; but the same royal road to power and dominion has never found a rider since. And, even so, though the un educated, by some chance or accident, do not unfre quently succeed better in worldly matters than the educated, still you may depend upon it, that, in the long run, ignorance is about the worst merchandise which a man can carry to market with him. Gene rally speaking, the ignorant man has to lean upon the crutches of extraneous support, while the educated man is self dependent and self sustaining. The one confides in the miseries and serf badge of importunity. The other waits for opportunity's flood-tide to sail on to success if not to eminence. I will give you an illustration of this, from an example just brought within my own experience. Not long since, only last week indeed, I met a labouring man in my parish who with no small degree of pride and pleasure showed me a Canadian newspaper in which Ids bro ther was spoken of as So and So, Esq. I turned upon him at once to read the riddle for me, why one brother was earning his daily bread by his daily toil, while the other had attained the social position desig nated by the journalist. The thing was made plain to me in an instant. The one bad been receiving simple interest on a pair of hands, while the other had had a pair of hands and a head out at compound in terest. The labouring man had been taught very little reading and no writing in his childhood. The Esquire, who is some years his junior, was not born until the family were in somewhat better cireura starces, and had been instructed in reading, writing, arithmetic, and some other plain and solid acquire ments. Ido not mean to say that the possession of these acquirements necessarily carried him to the point which he occupies, but Ido mean to say that without them he would never have climbed to it. When the hour came there was the man ready for it. When the opportunity offered itself, he was prepared to take advantage of it, to jump into the saddle, and ride it on to fortune. I know that it is often asked, " But is not fortune blind ?" I think not ; after long watching, I should ,say that she has her eyes as wide open as any lady in the world. Men are often blind to the opportunities which fortune places in their way, and then cry out that fortune is blind to their merits. They idle and dally on the river's banks while the tide is running in, and then when it has turned and is running out, exclaim that they are of all men the most miserable and unlucky. The sleeping hare was beaten in the race by the tortoise; but where was the fault, whose the blame ? Fortune's or the hare's? Besides, if ignorance does sometimes succeed by a lucky speculation, or the accident of inheritance, its made to advancement are few and narrow. There are points of social dis tinction and eminence, professional celebrity, and ten thousand .elevated and exalted positions which it cannot possibly reacts. The great gulf between it and them must be bridged, not jumped, and education is the architect which alone can span the chasm with its intellectual arches. Blot out, then, the very words, luck and chance, from your vocabulary. The sailing vessel waits for a wind, but the steamer buffets the way against both wind and tide. And so do you de pend upon the steam of education, the steam of self reliance, the steam of energy and industry. Get them well up, and fear nothing. When the Grand Seignior had heard the stories of the two brothers, whom he visited in disguise, he said, "Henceforth let Murad be called Murad the Imprudent, instead of the Un lucky, and Saladin, Saladin the Prudent, instead of the Lucky." He was right. And, even so, should you, I say again, depend upon self-reliance and self cultivation, and not upon luck. A drifting ship, let , ber escape ever so long, must he wrecked at last. Ignorance must reach the end of its tether at some time. Take the corks away from the man whom they (hat, without swimming, and sink he Must. You should, therefore, leave nothing to the lottery of chance. For even those who have faith even to credulity in the supremacy of fortune, will allow that there are more blanks than prizes in her wheel. In one THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4 1849, word, place all your confidence in your own energies and industry. Go on from one degree of reading and study to another. Do not stop because you have achieved something in the way of self-improve ment. But advance to more, and from more to more again. It was a saying of the Emperor Napoleon, " That there was never anything done as long as there was still something to do.' Pelion may be heaped upon Ossa, Alps upon Andes, but the skies are still a long way off. We are yet near the ground, after a whole life spent in efforts to soar above it. But enough. Go on and prosper. Let the friends of education rally round your Institute, and give to it every help and assistance. Improvement, we have been told, is realised intelligence. And civilisation is realised intelligence. And order is realised intelli gence. And peace is realised intelligence. It is a public treasure, a national capital, if I may so speak, of which too large an amount cannot be invested. Let it be your object to add to it continually. It may be, as you go through life, that you will now and then meet with. some old-world enemy of popu lar education, who, having once taken up a prejudice • against it, still clings to it as vehemently and vigo rously as ever. He cannot deny that - our institutions are doing good, but he will a.-,cribe it to accident and chance-medley, and will maintain that they are seem ingly beneficial, but certain to be mischievous in the event, which we would interpret to mean that de facto they are capital things, whoever may assert that de j'tre they ought to be very bad ones. I never hear men talk in this fashion without being reminded of the doctor who, having pronounced that his patient would (lie in the night, was both astonished and angry to find him not only alive, but much better, the next morning. Still we will not quarrel with our melan choly prophets. We only ask them to fix their time for the end of the world, and not to keep us in a constant state of agitation by adjourning it from day to day, as they find that the deluge will not come nor the skies fall in. A prediction which is neither more nor less than a floating policy, taking in all time between now and doomsday, is necessarily a safe one. I should like to see it put into a definite and specific shape, within certan limits, and with all particulars given of what is to happen within any reasonable period. Or, if it may not he your lot to meet with that now fortunately rara avis an enemy of popular education, you may fall in with some of its iceberg friends, who damage it with the obloquy of faint praise, and who keep wondering and wondering, while they allow that it has effected much good, when and whether, or if ever, it will accomplish those mighty results in the world which its more en thusiastic and ardent champions anticipate from it. But recollect the ()hi saying that " Rome was not built in a day." When Remus scoffingly leaped over the walls of the infant colony, when Romulus, his seat of government built of rushes and covered with thatch, ruled over a thoesand miserable huts, inha bited by the wild spirits who hail gathered round him, who could have foretold that it would one day come the mistress of the world, the capitol of the Caesars, proudly called the Eternal City, will its gor geous palaces and marble temples, its golden roofs, its I'antheon, its Colisseum, and all its monuments and miracles of art, whose full blaze of splendour none can appreciate, but whose very ruins still rivet the world upon them in awe struck wonder and admira tion ? Away, then, with our doubters as to the fruits which education is one day destined to pro duce. They resemble children who pull up at night the seeds which they set in the morning, and are dis-lp • pointed and disgusted that gerrninatiln has not com menced and made great progress. But wise men know, and think, and act differently. They plough, and till, and harrow, and prepare the ground and sow the seed, and then wait patiently for the long interval ' to elapse after which the harvest will arrive. And in educatioaal husbandry, likewise means, not miracles, must work out ends. There must be ploughing be fore there is reaping. There must be a seed-time before there is a harvest. Or take another illustra tion. The acorn has been called the father of forests. But this patriarch of the woods is not surrounded by its offspring at once. It is first planted in the ground, and, for a time lost sight of, perhaps, forgotten. But, nevertheless, it has entered upon its appointed task. After a brief space a tender shoot, hardly to be recognised by the eye, appears above the ground. It grows. Heaven's warmth fosters it. Heaven's moisture cherishes it. The shoot increases to a sap• lime, the sapling to a tree, the tree to gigantic oak.' "Eureka," the work is complete. And, in like manner, the great task which our educationists have undertaken to accomplish, cannot be forced by any hot-bed process into a sudden maturity like that of the prophet's gourd. It is of the nature of things that it should be gradual, perhaps slow. But we doubt not that it will be sure. The acorn is planted deeply in the popular mind. The schoolmaster, the institute, the lecture, reason, thought, intelligence, all are fostering and cherishing it. It has already shot forth, and is high above the ground. Every day adds to its strength and magnitude. Even on the confession of its coldest friends, it has, from its very infancy, been producing fruits gradually increasing to clustering profusion. We may not fear, then, as to its power and influence as it waxes greater and greater before the eyes of men. Today it effects much ; to-morrow it will accomplish more. Goon, therefore, and prosper, I say again, as I finish. May the glorious cause of popular education increase and multiply, and grow on from the seed to the tree, from the cradle of hope to the maturity of reality I May school be added to school, and institute to institute, through all the length and breadth of the land, as the branch only shoots forth from the parent stock to send out other branches from itself, the light of instruction extending from the palace to the mansion, from the mansion to the cottage, in the valley or on the hill-side, from the city to the village, and from the village to the hamlet, comforting the mariner in the night watches, consoling the wayfaring man in all his toils and troubles, cheering the solitary labourer in the field, and illuminating the workshop with its glorious beams, until at last the leaven of awakened intelligence, spreading from country to country, and from kingdom to kingdom, to the ends of the world, and co-operating with the mighty and civilizing influences of commerce, and the mightier and more holy elements of Gospel grace, shall bring about that brotherhood of nations of which angels have sung, but which men have so long resisted, when peace and good-will and love shall no more be strangers upon the earth, but rule over it, triumphant and supreme. Lie who contributes in the smallest degree to this con summation, may lay his hand upon his heart and say, " I have not lived in vain." The enainuala, in putting the motion, said that he could not help taking that opportunity f expressing under how great obligations they were to Mr. Greene and Mr. Aspinall. He called upon Mr. 11. GREGSON to move the next resolution, which was a vote of thanks to the committee who had arranged the details of the soiree. Mr. IV. JACKSON seconded the resolution. Mr. J. S HARRISON responded, and proposed a vote of thanks to the Rev. Mr. Aspinal. Mr. C. JonersoN, jun., seconded the proposition. Rev. J. ASPINALL briefly responded. Mr. GREEN having taken the chair, Mr. It. H. HINDS proposed a vote of thanks to tie Chairman. The motion was seconded by the Rev. W. H. Hare- FORD. _ _ _ _ _ Mr. HEYWOOD , in returning thanks, remarked that he thought the subscription to the institution was too low. He also recommended that the evening classes be formed into a regular evening school, under a good system, and that an application for Government as sistance would, under such circumstances, not be made in vain. The meeting then broke up, and the parties r,d journed to the ball-room, where dancing shortly e'er commenced; James Heywood, Esq., M.P., and bliss Thornber led off the first dance. The arrangements for the ball appeared to give the greatest satisfaction to all present. A deputation from the Preston Institution, consisting of Messrs. Grad well and Cameron, were present. TFMPERANCE MOVEMENT.--The third of a series of six great meetings in furtherance of the temperance Cause was held last night at Exeter-hall; Mr. John Cassell in the chair. The subject selected was, " The claims of the temperance movement upon the teachers and friends cf Sabbath schools," in advocating which the various speakers, each taking a separate line of argument, endeavoured to prove—first, that it was the duty of teachers to inculcate the principles of total ab stinence; and, secondly, that to do so, they must abstain themselves. The chairman, the Ray. Jab( z Burns, D.D., the Rev. James Sherman, of Surrey Chapel, T. B. Smithies, &q. (late of York), and the Rev. Asa Mahan, president of Oberlin College, United States, addressed the meeting in support of these opinions. It was strongly urged that the inculcation of temperance in the school room, and before the child went forth into the world, was a much easier task than it would be found after a few years of the temptations of society. A great number of statistics and interesting calculations as to the useful purposes to which the money wasted on drink might be applied were also read. One gentleman, Mr. Smithies, gave the result of his inquiries into the inefficiency of Sunday-schools alone fur the purpose for which they are intended, lie thought the inculcation of temperance principles might remedy the evil. A fourth meeting was announced to be held on the first Monday in January, at which ten wc . rkmcn representing different A s e grand theie aEo . trades a re t o ta k e part , an d M r . J osep h St urge i s to preside. meeting A i f s te a r ls t o he to be held complimentarya t Drury lane to o votes, and a hearty cheer for teetotalism, the meeting broke up at about half-past nine. Crosses are ladders that lead up to Heaven.— Eliza Cook's Journal. THE POTATO CROP.— :We have taken some pains to ascertain the present state of the potato crop in this and the surrounding localities. The crop is, we believe, now nearly wholly gathered in, and the amount of damage oecasi.med by the Wight does not, so far as we can ascertain, exceed one tenth; and even that tenth is still valuable for feeding pigs,—Louth Advertiser. tVbMbition SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius in Middlesex, before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Common Jury.) TICKERS W. BRUTON. This was an action brought to recover 42/. for surgical attendance and medicine. The defendant had paid 25/. into court, and as to the residue pleaded never indebted. Mr. Knowles and Mr. Pulling appeared for the plaintiff, and Sir Frederick Thesiger and Mr. Hayes for the defendant. The plaintiff was an eminent surgeon residing in Baker-streer, Portman-square, and the defendant for nierly carried on the profession of en attorney. He was a man advanced in life, and of feeble constitution. In November, 1847, the defendant was a passenger by the Great Western Railway from Maidenhead to London, and when the train arrived near Slough it was met by a luggage train, and in con sequence of some neglect on the part of one of the servants of the company, an iron bar belonging to one of the luggego vans got out of place, came inn, contact with the lamp of the carriage in which the de fendant sat, and, as he was rising, struck him in the face, knocked out two of his teeth, and iefl:cted some severe injuries upon the jaw. The assistance of a medical man at Slough, named Nubland, was immediately procured by the company, and he recommended the removal of the fractured portions of the jaw, but the defendant objected to this, and said he should like to consult Mr. Vickers, his accastomed medical attendant, and he was ultimately removed to the residence of the plaintiff in Beksr-street. Ile was taken to an hotel in Manchester suare, and while he was there he was most anxiously watched by Mr. Vickers, who did every thing that medical skill and kindness could suggest to alleviate his sufferings.. When the defend iot got slightly better he was removed to lodgings in Harley. street, and subsequently went to the Club Chambers in Regent-street, and during the whole time he seas at those places the plaintiff con!inuel in constant attend enee upon him; and in consequence of his great care and skill the defendant's jaw was saved, and he was now in the enjoyment of perfect health. The defendant, it appeared, was visited by Mr.. Liston, and that celebrated and skilful surgeon declared that the plaintiff had by his care and k kill effected a complete triumph in surgical art, such as any medical man might be proud of. The defendant after wards brought an action against the company des recover compensation for the ie jury he had received, end the company offered 3001. to compromise the action, but the defendant thought the sum too small, and re fused to take it. The case was put down for trial at Reading, but the company having, in the MAU timo, ascertained the serious nature of the accident, in creased their offer to 4001., which was ultimately ac cepted. Nottsithstanding this c7rcumstance, and the re storation of the defendant's health, he disputed the pay ment of the account, alleging, first, that 151., and after wards that 251, was amply sufficient for te plaintiff's services. Sir FREDITICK TursicEn, on the part of the defen dant, said he had no intention to disparage the shill of Mr. Vickers, nor the real character and nature of th: , s..rvices rendered, but ho was compelled to say that there had heir. a great deal of exaggeration in the case for the purpose of enhancing his met its, and, consquently, his remuneration, but be should chow that the stun which had been tendered to the plaintiff, 231, was not only amply sufficient to covar any claiAl in respect of his s,rvices, hat was more than he was actually entitled to charge. M. Chapman, a general practitioner, residing in Edward•strcet, Langham-place, examined by Sir F. TuEsimn, said that the sum ordinarily charged for visiting a patient would depend upon the circumstances cf the case, upon the situation in life of the patient, the duration of the visits, and the nature of the complaint. SirF. THESIGER—Taking inOconsideration the condi tion in life of Mr. Shipton, what do you think would be a fair and proper charge for the plaintiff' s visit s , inde pendent of the medicine? Witness—We have, if I may so speak, to appraise our patients—(Laughter)—that to ascertain what they are able to pay.—(Laughter.) Sr: FREDERICK TIIESICER—You would, for instance, charge more to a Duke or a Marquis than to a pro fessional man? Yuu would make his Lordship on the bench pay a larger sum than myself for medical attend ance? Witness—Yes.—(Laugh ter.) The CHIEF BARON—Perhaps your income, Sir Frederick, is a great deal more than mine. —(Continued laughter.) Witness—l have beard the account given of the ac cident, and the circumstances which attended it. There have been thirty-seven attendances, and forty draughts and nineteen bottles of lotion, have been supplied, cud the whole charge is 381. 17s.—at the rate of about a guinea a visit. I never heard of a general practitioner charging a guinnea for each attendance of ordinary duration. The question, however, is an invidious one, and it is exceedingly difficult for me to estimate Mr. Vickers' talent, but being compelled to come here, I em bound to ray that I would not charge that earn. For the first visit and consultation, when the jaw-bone was adjusted, I would have charged one guinea, and seven shilings for every subsequent attendance, and one guinea for the consultation with Mr. Liston. I would have written prescriptions for the medicine or supplied them myself rather under druggists' price. The amount of my charge at this rate. supposing there were no prolonged visits, would be 211., which I should think would be a very fair remuneration. Other medical men were called, who said that 5s , 75., and lOs., were the ordinary charges for visits by a gene ral practition' r, and that the charge seldom exceeded half a guinea; but one admitted that a guinea might be a fair Oarge, and that it was a rule among medic tl men of rel. to refuse a good fee.—(Laughter.) Mr. KNOWLES replied. _ _ _ _ _ The Learned Jurch having summed up the evidence, The jury retired, and after being absent for a eon sidcreble time, returned into court with a verdict for the - plaintiff—Damages 401., inclusive of the sum paid into court. FRANCE. The Moniteur contains the following report from M. F. Barrot, the Minister of the Interior, to the President of the Republic : " Monsieur le Pre eident,—The insurrection which burst out at Lyons in the month of June last, and the agitation which manifested itself in the neighbouring departments, determined the Government to put the sixth military division in a state of siege. By that act of vigour it was ably to arrest the detestable attempts of anarchy, and to keep down the spirit of disorder. But that is a situation altogether exceptional, and the imperious necessity is felt of constituting for these de partments an administrative power of having greater force, and of centralising the direction of the services of general safety in the hands of a high functionary residing at Lyonr. It is with that view that I have the honour of proposing to you to name an extraordinary commissioner, who, whilst pnovisionally fulfilling the functions of prefect of the department of the Rhone, shall be charged with the task of bringing together the elements of the new organization, and ef constituting it—shall exercise in the departments c a o l i n t t i h n a u t e r b e l e a s t i e d s e s t o to th a e d p m u i h n l i i s e t e s r d fet y their d T e h p e a rt m prefects ,ent s of the sixth military di v i s i on a d i rect surveillance o w v i e ll r according to the rules of the present orgauiz ition ; but, without erasing to correspond with the Minis • tt rs, they are to render an account to the commis sioner of matters relating to the high mission which is confided to him. That mission will have for result to enlighten the Government as to the exact state of a situation which for a length of time indicates a profound trouble, and which has been for you, Monsieur lo P. 6 ident, constant subject of solicitude. It is, in fact, by a more energetic organisation of the means of administration, and by a more centralised, and consequently more rapid action, that the working populations of that part of the Republic can be assured of order and security, the essential elements of their prosperity. No change shall take place in the connexion which at present, in consequence of the state of siege, exists between the civil and military authorities. If this measure receives your approbation, Monsieur le Pr 6 'Went, I shall have the honour to propose to you to appoint to the high functions of extraordinary commis sioner at Lyons M. do Lacoste, ex-prefect of the Bunches du-Rhone.—l have the honour to be, &c., " F. BARROT." This report is followed by a decree of the President, nominating M. de Lacoste as recommended, and de claring besides that he is to fill provisionally the functions of Prefect of the Rhone. The Moniter publishes another decree from the President, nominating M. Chapuys Mentlaville, ex deputy, Prefect of the Isere, vice M, de Barra], who declines the appointment. PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 29th ult. states that from the Prussian Cabinet had received the Russian Government a note, dated the 19th, expressingin very polite terms scruples as to the manner in which the Prussian Cabinet is endeavouring to settle the affairs of Germany. This note, says the letter ' is supposed to be due to the influence of Austria at St. Petersburgh. The Committee of the Second Chamber of Prussia, to whom the papers on the German question were referred, proposes to the Chamber to declare that it has heard with pleasure the solemn declaration of Prussia that it is resolved to establish the restricted Federal State, and to defend its rights against any foreign intervention. SAXONY. The two Chambers of Saxony in the sitting of the 28th ult. resolved not to present addresses in reply to the King's speech. AUSTRIA. The National Gazette of Vienna, of the 27th ult., states that Messrs. Kubeck and Schcenhaly, who had been appointed commissioners in the ad interim Federal Commission at Frankfort, had received orders to postpone their departure for Frankfort, owing, as was supposed, to an exchange of communications be tvl een Austria and Prussia on the German question. The Cologne Gazette states from Vienna that the Government consents to accord a small indemnity for the notes of Kossuth which have been given up, but not for the others. The Fygehnerzo of Pesth states that Prince do Metteruich has written a letter to an Austrian statesman, in which he declares that the Austrian monarchy cannot enjoy lasting peace unless Hungary be maintained in its preceding relations as a separate state with Austria. Thirteen new condemnations to death hare re cently been pronounced by courts martial, but GenerAl Haynau has commuted them to hard labour for periods of twenty, eighteen, and ten years in a fortress. BELGIUM. The King of the Belgians has conferred the Cross of Commander of the Order of Leopold on Prince Callimaki, Minister of the Porte at Paris and Brus sels ; and has sent the Grand Cross of the same Order to Ali Pacha, Minister of Foreign Affairs at Constan tinople. A Committee of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium has proposed to the Chamber to increase the duty en the import of corn from 5 fr. to 10fr. the 1,000 kilogrammes. The Belgian budget calculates the expense of the army for 1850 at 26,792,0001 r. (293,000'r. less than 1849), and the effective force at 32,594 men, and 7,367 horses. TURKEY. Accounts from Constantinople up to the ap pear in the German papers. According to a letter in the German Reform, the official diplomatic rela tions between the Austrian and Russian enveys had nut been resumed, and the English 11, et continued in the Dardanelles ; but neverthelos, says the letter, it was not doubted that the affair of the refugees would he arranged. '1 he Augsburg Gazelle has a letter which states that the Porte had refused to expel the Polish refugees as required by ra',usia, and that it was eudeaveuring to induce Auitlia to support is views, but it was not considered probable that the latter power would separate from Russia. The Wander(/' of Vienna has the following letter : " at the 6:h and 9th M. do Titoff, the Russian iNlinis t.r, had a conference with Ali Plebe and the Grand Viz'er, in which the expulsion of the Polish refuge. s from Turkey, the removal of the Poles who until now have resided in `flukey under the protec tion of foreign powers, the discussion cf the affair by the Porte and the interested powers without the inter vention of France and England, were dwelt on. M. de Titoif gave the assurance that, provided Turkey should recognise in princip:e the right of Russia to exact the expulsion of the Pules, that power would premed with the greatest moderation to the execution of the right. M. de Titocf moreover proposed that hal powers should he sent to Fuad Eff,ndi to treat at St. Peietsburgh for a &fie:hive solution of this aff,ir; hut tLis was not listened to, and the Porte, besides, showed some discon tent at the too great facility already dis'layed by Fuad Effendi in his negotiations with Count 'Nesselrode. In a ceurcll of .Ministers held on the M'n it was de cided, as the basis of the conduct to be followed, that nothing should be concluded with Austria and Russia before consuitiug the ambassadors of Franco and Eng land, and obtaining their com,ent. In consequence of this resolution, the two ambassadors communi• cated with Ali Paella, and the latter subsequently presented to them the draft of the replies he proposed to make, and asked for their advice. In the reply to Austria the principal passage is as follows:—' Until 11:e confect reestablishment of order and tranquillity, the individuals admitted into Turkey shall not be set at liberty, in accordance with the treaty of ness.arowitz ; but this result once obtained, the stay of the refugees i e any place cannot be a darzer, and the Ottoman Porto cannot be required to throw any obstacle in the wt . ) , of their leaving the country, and it may permit those who desire it, to establish themselves in the country. Bat, in order that this arrangement may be effected, the Austrian Cabinet must give a list of those ho can be permitted to establish themselves in the country, as i-s silence on this point might occasion incouveeicnce.' The proposed reply to Russia says:— All the Poles who, in consequence of the events in Hungary, have sought re f uge in Turkey, who may be designated by the Russian Embassy, and to whom the treaty of Kutsiuk-Kainardji, the basis of the arrangement is applicable, must leave the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Porte will not employ the word expulsion. As regards the arrangements between Turkey and the other powers for the removal of the Polish re fugecs not belonging to this category, the Sublime Porte cannot negotiate or discuss with the interested powers relative to the nationality of individuals who are not its subjects; that duty is rather imposed on .those who demand their removal; it is for them to treat with' the powers. IF, however, these Poles, who are under the protection of foreign powers, should excite disturbances in Turkey, the Ottoman Porte will energeti cally solicit their expulsion from the powers whose sub• jects they are.' Ou the llth, the Divan again held a council on these matters. The Arebassadors of the Northern Powers make all possible efforts to neautra liso the influence of France and Euglsnd, in order to obtain more easily such a reply to their demands as they desire. The ambassadors of France and England are perfectly in accord, and are ready to give ulterior support to Turkey. It is said that the English fleet is to remove from the Dardanelles, and cast anchor before Venda. Notwithstanding all that may have been said, the French fleet has not yet appeared, and will probably not appear. It is said that M. de Titoff has declared that he will not re-establish regular diplomatic relations unless the English fleet shall leave for Vourla. He desires to preserve the appearance of not acting under the influence of foreign powers. Public opinion is in favour of the retirement of the English fleet to Vourla, to await the result of the negotiations." IRELAND. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) PROPOSED RETURN TO PROMOTION. DUBLIN, MONDAY EVENING.—There is now no doubt that the intention exists, on the part of Go vernment, to attempt a return to the protection sys tem—so far, at beast, as imposing a fixed duty of 6s. cr Bs. per quarter on corn. The Ministerial journals here—who harked-in most loudly with the free-trade cry, when it suited their employers to raise it, are all impressing the necessity of " some duty" upon foreign corn. These papers, your readers may feel convinced would not venture to hint a word on the matter, but from 'express instructions. Let the people of London, Manchester, Leeds, Bir mingham, and so forth, be prepared for a vigorous effort to tax their industry—not, as the concoctors of this conspiracy aver, for the purpose of saving from ruin the agricultural classes of Ireland, but . to save the pockets of the Lombard-street money-lenders. This class find the land on which they had staked their funds, with a confidence based on the fictitious value given to it by the food •tax, now completely unable to discharge the mortgages ; and, for their sake, the effort is determined on to re tax the people's food. I have no hesitation in saying that the Government would have the support of nine tenths of the Irish Members in any such attempt for, were there an election to-morrow, not a dozen anti-Protectionists would be returned. And this is but natural. Ireland has nothing but her agriculture to live by ; and she was merely able to get on by means of the tribute which she drew from thv manufac turing industry of England. Is it wonderful she should, in her present desperate poverty, seek to re coupe her losses by a resumption of the tribute ? There can be no question that this scheme of the slippery Whigs will be defeated by the firm front of the Eng lish people ; but it is equally certain that the Govern ment are feeling their way,and stern resistant alone can turn them from their path. At the same time, it may be as well to say that if the Irish Members can't get protection, there will be next session a vigorous effort to obtain an imperial rate-in aid ; that is, to subject Yorkshire, Lancashire, &c., as well as Connaught, for Irish poverty. A remission of payment of Government advances will also be demanded. The Arms Act, which has been erroneously stated to have expired on Saturday, will not cease until August next, the Act (section 22) stating that it was to con tinue in force until 31st December, 1849, and "to the end of the then next session." So that the nurn l-erless well oiled fire-arms which are concealed in this city are condemned to a still further repose. The Repeal Association was as tame, spiritless, and tiresome as usual. At the close the rent was an nounced to be 131. 10s. The implication of •Sir Edward Blakeney in the armament of the Orangemen will detract much from the gallant General's great popularity, but no one can fairly blame him or the Government for using any means at their disposal to protect themselves. , Sir Edward has been summoned to the Horse Guards, on some matter connected with the command of a regi ment in the Limerick district. THE FUNDS. DUBLIN, MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 3.—Three per Cent. ConsAs closed at 94h- f; Three-a:A a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, 94k; Bank St )ck, 199; City Di benturcs (4 per cent.) of 921. 6s. 2d , 72k. ITEMS OF IRISH NEWS. We (Limerick Examiner) believe it is part of the instructions recently addressed to the constabulary, to make a report under the present inquiry in the rural districts, of the quantity of lend in pasture or tillage, and of the extent deserted by the tenants, and left to the landlord, without any cultivation. It is the con clusion of very good judges, who have farmed extensive tracts in this and the adjoining counties, that not more than certainly two thirds the acreable area of ground will be prepared for culture in the south of Ireland next year, and in the western counties, on an average not one-half the areable surface will be productive. We know in the county Clare, for in stance, that seven thousand acres are thrown upon one proprietor by his tenants, and this gentleman is unable to seed or stock one twentieih part of this derelict territory. In one electoral division in the west of the county Limerick an expanse of more than 2,000 scree is left bare and destitute, without a vestige of tillage or human occupane'y. Most of the farmers have been constrained to sell this season's produce at a market price entirely inadequate to their labour and outlay. The proceeds, however, are care fully reserved, not for payment of rent, poor tax, and county cess, but to assist the holders in making a settlement across the Atlantic. A report of the local committees of the unions of Limerick, Rathkeale, Newcastle, and Kilmallock, upon the present condition of the rateiayers and other inhabitants comprising an aggregate area of 666,499 acreF, a property valuation of 558,8881., and a population of 272,257, show that the grand jury cess and poor• rate of the city has inorcased to 95. in the pound ; Rathkea!e union, Bs. 104 1. ; lock, 6i. 711; and Newcastle, 15s. 2; 7 1. !—Linterick Chronicle. MURDEII.—Some time since a poor woman was oisoned, and subsequently barbarously chocked with a tongs, whilst lodging in the house of a man named Meehan, in the neighbourhood of Carrick banagher, near Collooney. She had eight or ten pounds in her possession, of which she was robbed, and then burried in a ditch close to Meehan'a house. A man named T. Gilgan, who was severely beaten by some of the parties suspected of the murder, gave information on the 28th instant to the police who instantly went to the place pointed out by Gilgan, and on digging down the ditch they found the remains of the poor woman buried under a heap of stones, and covered with lime, livid with putrefaction, and fright fully decomposed.—Sligo Journal. From a report iurnaihed to the guardians of the Macrccm union, it appeared that the able-bodied women in the workhouses were employed, in con junction with a f( w pauper weavers and tailors, in making clothes from the raw material. A profit to the funds of the union, amounting to 1G',..1 17s. 6•1, wa3 reused by the produce of their lahour. Lieutenant Henry, government emigration agent, has selected eighty girls of the ages of from fourteen to e'ghteen out of the female inmates of Nenagh workhouse, as eligible emigrants for Au-tralie. The weather continues most inclement, with such a fall of rain as to render the farmer's ground tot,:hy unlit for seeding purposes.—Limerick Chronicle On Friday, t•xenty•two years purchase was ten dered for an estate, near Ballimislue, in the County Galway, which was offered last for fifteen years pur chase.—Limerick Chronicle. THE ENCUMBERED ESTATES COMMISSION.—At this moment there are land; and tenenhatS f u r sale in this neighbourhood and county, in Galway, in Kerry, and in Clare, comprising over eight thousand acres, and yielding a gross rental of over eight thousand pounds. Cahirelly East and West, and Belly bricken, in the Barony of Clanwilliatn, are adver tised for sale; Kilmacow and Ballsconnelly, Gra nagh, Lisduane, Capanaliane, Gurteen, Curlaiernore, and Ballyeullen, each in Upper Connelloo, are also to be sold. Carrigogurincll, in Pubblebrien, Rathbanc, in the Liberties of Limerick, Cappa, end Kilten-ne, in Lower Connelloe, hillocuiks in Shat id; CappThard, New park, Knock:thou:a and (Taurus, in Bunntty, are open to purchasers. Inch. manahan in Kerry ; Knocknacara, Bullane, Athenry town, including the house and toAu paths, Wails court, Kilshanvay, Itatish and itathill, each and all in Galway, are ready for disposal.--Limerick Examiner THE LINEN TRADE.—It affords us much pleasure to state that, from several facts which have recently transpired, the linen trade of Ulster seems to be in a flourishing state. Such is the demand on the continent that the merchants purchase eagerly from the manufacturers. 'Die consequence is, that weavers generally are in full employ ment, at good wages—good, as compared with the wages they received sonic time ago--an average workman being able to earn six shillings a week. Seven weavers, who were lately inmates of this ‘vorkhou-e, from not being able to earn sufficient to maintain their families, have recently gone out, to resume their former occupation. Downpatriek Recorder. COURSE OF EXCIT2 Amitor, larn .......... 12 3!A Lsitlx), at sight ...... 12 13, Aterd 12 3% 25 75 flamburgh ....MX. 13 1434 Altona • • ........ • • •. Paris, 3 days'sight - • 25 52% Ditto, 3 months 25 72!.k riarsellles ••...• 25 72% 80urt1eaux......... • 25 72% Frankfort on Ma1m0.... 122% Petersburgh, Sil. 111)10.. 36 - 7, 13eri1n.... •• • • • • • • • • • • Vienna, elfec. flo • • .... 11 21 Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 21 itadrid „„ 49 ,y. Ca.3.lZ • • •• • •• •• • • 45% Bil)ao.. ••• • •• .• •• • • 04 - celona .......• .• NGE.-(TIIIS DAY.) Gibra1tar..••.......... Lz4hern •• .• •••••••••• 31 30 Genoa ..•• •••• •• •• •• 26 70 •• •• •• •• Venice.... ...• • • • • • ... gaples ...... • • .... • . 40% ralenno, peroz ........ 121 Afessina •....... 121% Gisbon.... • ........... 53% Jp0rt0................ 53% Rio 'Janeiro .......... 29 Ruenoslyre3 ........ New York, 21 dayiesiiht tdelphia .......... r/LICF3 OF BULLION, FEZ OZ. Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9 rortugal Gold Coin • • 0 0 0 Bpanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars .... • • 0 4 10 "liver is bars •• 0 4 11% THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS E VEN IN G.) WHITEHALL, DEC. 3, 1848. Tho Clneen has been pleased to appoint the Reveres d Archibald Campbell Tait, D.C.L., to the Deanery of the cathedral church of Carlisle, void by the promotion of Doctor Samuel Hinds, late Dean thereof, to the Bishopric of Norwich. The Queen has also been pleased to pre: ent the Rev. Thomas Dainty, Master of Arts, to the Prebend of Uffton, rx partc Decani, founded in the cathedral church of Lichfield, void by the promotion op , Dr. Walter Aug ustu:; Shirley, since dt ceastd, to the bishopric of &dur and Mau. The Gazette contains a notice from the Speaker of the House of Commons for a new writ for the eleclion of a Member for the borough of New 6horcharn, in the room of the late Charlo3 Goring, E7q. Commishion, by the Lord Lieutenant of Kincardine. The Right lion. Francis Alexander Earl of Kiittorte to be Deputy-Lieutenant; Sir Alexander Burnett, Bart, to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Nov. 1. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Dorsetshire. William Loekier Freemnn, Esq , to be Deputy Lieutenant; Henry Ralph Willett, Thq., to be 1) putt' Lieutenant, Nov. 29. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire. The Dill of Chester's Itt , gitnent of Yeouirnry envatry—Joseph Leigh, E'q., to he Cornet, vice Wor thington, promwed, Nov. 30. WHITEHALL Nov. 27. . The Lord Ch , incellor has appointed Henrx Webster, of Shittitld, in the county of York, Gent., to,bo a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Ch:lneery, WHITEHALL, Nov. 29. _ _ _ - _ The Lord Chancellor has appointed Peter Cox the younger, (,f Beaminster, in the county of Dorset, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court o: Chancery. BANKRUPTS. John llanke, hatter, King Willi Im-Etreet, City, to surrender Ike. 12, at half-past one, and Jan. 15, at twelve, at the Ceurt of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Fulmer, Bridge-street, Southwark. George Evans Baker, grocer, Deptford, Dec. 14, and Jan. 19, at one, at the Court of Bankrup , ey. Pennell, official assignee, Guil•thall-chambers; L;quance, Clark, and Morice, Coleman -street. Joshua Evert Cooper, brickmaker, West Ham, Sussex, D. e. 10, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleraan-street; Bolden, Craven-street, S'ratid. Jt:ni-is Bowler, hat manufacturer, Southwark - bridge road, Dec. 14 and Jan. 15, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch lane, Lombard street; Frankham, Moorgate•strect. John Peake, draper, Cricklade, NVilts, Dec. 14, and Jar. 15, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Jones, Size dune, Bucklersbury. John Robinson, cotton spinner, Pertvvood, Cheshire, Dec. 17 and Jan. 7, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Mskinaon, Manchester. William Lyon Bickley, innkeeper, Sheffield, Die. 15 and Jan. 26, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Sheffield; Bramley and Gains ford, Slu ffie ld. William Storey, wool dealer, Leeds, Dec. 17, and Jan. 14, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Caries and Cudworth, Leeds. William Wceke, edgetoolruaker, In wardleigh, Devon shire, Dec. 12, and Jan. 8, at leven, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, efficial assignee, Exeter; Burd, Okehampton; Terrell, Exeter. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the I,mtdon New Price Current, Dec. 5.) SUGAR.—To-day bright grocery and ttrong refining qualities of West India Sugar, above 35s 6d, met with more attention, and a fair business was concluded at fully the terms of Friday. In all 530 hbds, &c., were disposed of, including a public sale of 150 hhds 6 tierces Barbadoes, which realised full terms; indeed in some cases hotter sorts were considered 6d per cwt higher, fi te yellow fetched 403 61, good 39s to 40s, and mid.iling 37s 6d to 38s 6d per cwt. REFINED.—Tu•day Refined Goods were in greater request for home trade purposes, and prices advanced to 47s 61 to 48s for brown lumps, and to 48s 61 to 49s for fair grocery. Crusbcd Sugar is wanted at former MAURITIUS.—This afternoon the quantity of Mauri tius :11 , 1:Mucci to public sale amounted to 3,110 bugs, of which 2,3-19 consisted of the new crop, and sold ut full rates; fine end superior yellow wont at, 39s Gd to 41s 6d, good 383 6d to 393, middling 37s to 335, low 36s to 363 61, fine brown 35s to 35s 6d, infcrior 32s to 34s 6d, low 29s 6d to 31s ; Sugar of ale old crop went at 35s to 38i Gd for low and middling grey, and at 36s 61 to 38s 61 fur middling and good yellow. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the public sales of B( ngal :Sugar were large, and comprised 6,025 bags, consisting chiefly of the better sorts: about one-halt sold at the full currencey; fine and superior white Benares at 40s 6d to middlirg to good 3.15 Gd to 40s, good and fine 3ellow, like Mauritius, 37s to 39s 63, in terior and middling 34s Gd to 361 631, low and middling soft 3011 ow 33s to 34s 61. Cossipore Sugar was with drawn. FCREIGN.—This afternoon there was little passing by privete treaty in Foreign Sugar. At auction 131 hhds 167 brls St. Cr&z were all sold at full terms; fine and superior yellow went at 41s 61 to 43i 6d, good 40s to 41s, low and middling 38s to 39s 63, and good brown 37s 63. MOLASSES —To-day 400 puns West India Molasses were sold by private treaty at 14s 6d to 17s, and a small part at 17s 6(1 per cwt. COrEEE.—This afternoon the quantity of Plantation Ceylon Coffee submitted to public sale amounted to 427 casks and 2,090 bags. There was a good demand, and nearly the whole sold, whilst former advanced rates were well supporti.d, or at a rise on the last auctions of 2s to 4s, especially for the better kinds ; tine and superior realised 65s to 80, , , middling and good 60s to 645, low middYng 58s to 595, good to fine tine ordinary 52s to 57-i, triage 44s to 50s, a mark of fine Coffee was taken in at 90i. Native met with much attention privately, but lower rates were not taken; at auction 500 bags sold at 61s to 51a 6d for good ordinary, and 184 bales 7 bags Malabar at 53s to 54s for good ordinary yellowibb. COCOA.--In West India the sales have born upon a larger scale. At public sale 500 begs of Trinidad were all sold, red at from 39s to 50s 63, and grey 38s to 42s per cwt. Purchases to a fair extent have been made in Foreign, and former rates are supported. At auction 100 bags of Para went at 26s 6d for ordinary quality. TEA.—There is still little disp)sition evinced to make purchases in the lower descriptions of Congou, and a desire is shown to s(11, ordinary and good ordinary at 8d to 81d, Medium kinds 9d to is 2d, but better description have bbsn in good demand at is 3d to Is 9d, at which the market is firm. The better kinds of Green Tea are only in limited r, quest, and sellers are willing to accept previous terms; there is, however, still a good trade doing in interior at the former currency. Scented Teas sustain late terms, but are not much in r quit. _ _ - Rim—To-day East India Eke was in good demand, and the private purchases since Friday have been 10,000 bags at rather higher rates, cargo realized 8s to 83 3:1, and white Bengal at 9s to 103 6:l•per cwt. None has been offered at public sale. t:lncEs —To-day at public auction, 105 chests Cassia Lieuea were korelted down at 10s under lase rates— first pile obtainirg 113 s to 1193 per ea t, pile 2,106 s to 11 Is, and pile 3,105 s, mouldy, t 195, broken 90s to 925; three cheats Cassia Buds taken in at 1253 ; three cases of Mace sold ut 2s 6d for middling; 54 bags Clovis bought in at 8.1 for for 'Linz:bar. For brortu Nutmegs there was a greater emend, although nearly the whale of 12 cases 6 bags were permitted to be nearly all takun in abova the value; urd to goad at from 26 7d to 2s Bd, a few lots said at 2s Bcl to 2s lld for mouldy, and 8d to Is for worm eaten. 16 bags shelled Wild Nu tmegs were bought in at 9d to Is 21 SPIRITS.—In East India Ruin a good hilliness has been coucluded. The purchases since this day aeck amount to 300 bilis at Is 34-1 p. r gallon proof. Leeward Island i. held tor Is ail to is 5d proof. Demirara tram 2s to 25 4ii fo7 30 to 40 par cent over proof. Firm and good Jamaca warranted, both fir home consumption and exports ion from 38 to 4s per gallon for 33 to 38 over proof. Inferior and g met with lit:I attention, ano prices rule ham 2s 2d. to 2s 10d for 28 to 32 ;or cent ovt r proof, but there are not free sellers. Foreign can be purchased at Is 2d tO is 21d proof. For Brandy holders are reluctant t press sahis. The value of Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1847 is 5s to 5s 2d, 1848 ditto 4s 4d to 4s 6.1, inferior sorts 2s 8d to 4s, and Bordeaux 2s 6d to 23 Bd. Geneva has been operated in wi h 'note freedom at I t 9.1 to Is 10d, and home trade kinds at 2s 3d to 3s 3d por gallon. Operaion in British mate Spirits are upon a larger scale at 9s 7d to 9s Bd, and Gin - at 8i 31t083 6d for 17 to 22 per cent under proof. FRUIT.—To-day there was lesiectivity in the Fruit market. At auction 17,000 drums of Turkey Fgs oal) in put sold at 483 to 755: 8,000 pkgs Muscatel Itakins . 603 to 1205; 1.000 ditto Sultana 67s to 70s; 1,800 pkgs Eletne and Chcsme 463 to 52; ; 100 pkgs damaged Valencia 475, and 40 ditto Pares Currants 37s to 39 per cwt. COCHINEAL.—Tc-day at public sale 57 bags Cochkcal were in part *DI3, Mexican silvers at 3s 6.1 to 3.1 Temriffc 3s 10d to 3a I Id, and blackat 4s 3d to 4s 51. SALTPETHE.—This afternoon there was not a wore active demand for rough, and the public tales of 1.936 bags went off at lower rates; mid grey Calcutta Ssl to fer cent refraction at 25s 6d to 265, good 6 26. 6J, low 91 per cent 2ts 6d, fine bold white 3i per cent ttis 61 to 28s, 5 ditto 27s to 4 27 s 6d, waslit.d 24a 6d to 255, but the chief part found buyers. Tannew.—there was as active demand for Russian on the spat up to Friday, and prices amounted to 38s 6d to 38s 9d per cwt for first sort. Since then there has been lees activity in the market, and fine P.Y.C. can be obtained at 38s 6d per cwt. The value ep to the close of the year i 3 385 and for the three first mouths of 1850 the rates asked are 38c 6d to 393, whilst perches' s to a fair extt nt have been made. Home melted have sold freely at 375 6ti to 38s per cwt nett cash, still the quantity on /offer exceeds the wants of dealers. Prices ruled firm for :other sorts of tallow, al. though; large parcels have bcea brought to market. At suction 890 cask and 20 serons of; Sydney sold at from 345 3d to 376 6d; 322 casks and 630 boxes of South American 32s 3d to 36s 93; 58 casks first sort P.Y. Candle 37s 6i; 120 casks Soap Tallow nearly all taken in at 34s to 35a Gd; 50 casks Archangel 36s 3d, but 430 skins Persian were all sold at 32s 9cl to 275. For auction the quantity of Tallow declared is 1,600 packages. Wm.—There have been large arrivals of Cocoa Nut, and sellers are willing to accept 34s to 35s for fine Cochin, and 32s to 34s for good and fire Ceylon. Palm, fine quality, at 323 6(.1 to 335. Linseed Oil for delivery in January and three following months at 28s Gd. The demand on the spot, however, has been limited from shippers and home dealers, whilst the rates taken have been 28s to 28s 7d In Rapeseed Oil only limited pur chases have been made; brown is held for 41s 6d to 423, refined 42s 6d to 435, and foreign 45s to 45s 6d. There are sellers fer delivery rather under these terms. Olive is firm; Gallipoli at 441105 to 451; and other sorts at from 421 to 43/ per tun. Ground Nut or Lard Oil no nariation. The demand for S althorn has been good. AN EMIGRANT SHIP ON FIRE. The Tay brings an account of the total loss of the emigrant ship Caleb Grimshaw, Captain Hoxie, by fire, sixteen miles south east of the island of Flores, one of the Az9rc.s. The emigrants, 390 in number, with the crew, were providentially saved from de struction. The cry of " fire" was raised at about eight o'clock on the night of the 12th ult. The decks were immediately flooded. On raising one ni the fore hatches the lire was discovered abreast the chain locker. The heat was so intense that no one could live below, and the immense quantities of water poured into the ship by the crew and passen gers generated steam, and the heat at length became insufferable. But this was the only means by which the ship was kept from being rapidly consumed. The boats were stowed astern of the burning vessel for five days and nights, filled by poor emigrants be wailing their fate, while about 60 were on a raft, when a ship was seen bearing towards them, which proved to be the barque Sarah, Capt. Cook, bound from London to New Brunswick, in ballast. As soon as the captain of the Sarah saw the signal of distress, he immediately approached the Cakb Grimshaw, but was only able to ge t on bo ar d d ur i ng th e n i g ht f the 17th three boatsful of passengers, owing to the wind blowing hard. The next day, the 18th, he got on board about 150 passengers. Night approaching, and the wind still increasing, he was obliged to lay to. On the 19th there was a heavy sea, and no more could be got off. On the 20th about 10 persons who had escaped from the burning ship volunteered to return and relieve those who were on board at work as by this time there was no more water or provisions to be got without raising the hatches. The main mast was now settling down, and the upper deck was working each way. a this day the ship floated to the leeward of Flores into smooth water. and during the night all the passengers that remained on board were got off. Before the last of the crew left they lifted the hatches, and immediately the ship burst into a terrific blaze. The escape of all the persons, 399 in number, was most miraculous. Con sider a ship, filled with nearly 400 persons, on fire for eight days and nights, and not a single person lost his lite I Nothing but the continual flooding the ship prevented her from being burnt to the water's edge, and every soul on board perishing before relief could be had. The crew and men worked like heroes. The conduct of the master of the- Sarah was ,beyond all praise. For three clays and nights did he hover abou' the burning ship amidst the most tempestuous wea ther, taking every opportunity to lower his boats to save some of the passengers. Nothing could exceed his heroism and humanity. To him, under Divine Providence, the unhappy emigrants owe their preser vation. Although perpetually obliged by the tem pestuous wind and heavy sea to leave them apparently to a dreadful fate, he always endeavoured to keep in sight, and cheer their aching hearts with a prospect of escape. The Sarah arrived at Fayal with the crew and passengers of the Caleb Grimshaw in safety. The passengers had lost everything on board, and were perfectly destitute, for they had the greatest difficulty to get food from the burning ship to keep them alive. Captain Iloxie chartered the Sarah to take on the passengers to New York. The Sarah had not left Fayal when the Tay tot,k her departure, but tlle American Consul was using the most strenuous efforts to arrange everything for her leaving. The Caleb Grimshaw belonged to. Messrs. Grimshaw, of Liver pool. The origin of the fire was not known. MURDER AND SUICIDE.—The town of Towcester was yesterday thrown into a state of the greatest consterna tirm by the discovery that a ice , ,rson named Dowdeswell, who had been for some years a traveller in the employ of Mr. Jelin Vernon, wine-merchant, of that place, bad murdered his wife, and afterwards committed suicide. Not appraring at his place of business at ten o'cl oc k a messenger was sent to his residence in Park-street, when th© house was found to be closed. A ladder was ob tained, and an entrance gained to the house, when the bodies of Dowdesdeil and his wife were both found lying on the floor. A pistol was on the table, with which tho wife bad evidently been shot, while the hus band still grasped anoth er i n hi s h and, with wh i ch his suicide had been efftcted. The child of the unhappy pair, about two years old, was in a room upstairs crying. Mrs. Dowdeswell was for some years a waitertss at the Talbot, and was greatly respected. Less than two years ago she was married under circumstances not calculated to promise a happy wedded life, and it is said that her husband has frequently treated her with great brutality. Htr maiden risme was Powell. The double crime was no doubt committed late on Thursday evening.--/Vorih a raptor/ .dlercui y. TILE COFFEE D UTIES.— On and after the Ist day of January, 1550, coffee, kiln dried, roasted, or ground, under the New Customs Act of 12th and 13th Victoria, chap. 90, be admitted at the following duties, on impor tation into this country, viz.:-01 and from foreign countries the lb. Bd.; of and from British possessions the lb. sd. And by the 20th section of this Act, it is enacted and declared, that such of the several sorts of goods as are by this Act charged with duty, as shall have betn warehoused wi:hout payment of duty upon the importa tion thereof, and which shall be in the bonding ware. house at the contra net Ment of t 11,; duties imposed by the ' Act, arc to be deemed and taken to be liable to such duties. A Fist' WITHIN A Ftsu.—On Wtdnesday last a fine turbot, weighing 13 pounds, was carried to Kilra cock Castle, and when cleaned an uninjured whiticg 12 inches in length, and weighing nearly a pound, was found in its inside. In the inlide of the whiting's mouth a fish-hook sal remained with a :mall portion of the gut attached. ;.. • CA 7.... ct P Colchester Harwich Leigh Mallon 122 453 1395 4 3 0 rA -_l 400 1 1004 23 123 150 1 306 70 63 61 212 526 1856 'he followin ig are the prices of 11 A DDINGTON ) NOT. SO.—T , grain at oilr market to-day:— %% heat. Barley. I Oats. Beans. First -... ... 43s Od 25s 61 1 195 Od 82s Od Second ... ... 34s 8d 9.1 s 6.1 I 16s 10d 28s Od Third ... .. 30s Od iSs 6.1 12s 01 26s 01 Total quantity of Wheat in market 584 qrs., 561 sold Do. Barley do. 555 qrs., 319 sold Do. Oats do. 545 qrs., 480 sold Do. Beans do. 82 qrs., 42 sold KIRKALD7, DEC. I.—The following are the quotations up to this date:— Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Peas First 42s Od 23s 0.1 `.os 0,1 —s Od I —s Od Second 40a Od 218 6d 17a Cd —s Od —ll Od Third 3os 0,1 17s Od 15 3 Od —s Od I—s Od _ _ _ Oatmeal, per Cag of 28011 , 5. imp.. 25s to 26s od. GLASGOW, Nov. 29.—Provisions—Cheese, 464 to Ns Od per cwt ; retail, 5d to 6d per lb. Skim milk, 18s to 00s per cwt. Country freth butter, 9d to 11d per lb; Irish pow dered, in lumps, 9d to 101; country powdered, wholesale, Thd to Bd. Country ergs, I.ld per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 5s hd per hundred, or 7d per dozen. Hens, 2s Od per pair ; ducks, 2s Cd. STir.uxo, Nov. CO.—Wheat, foreign, 21s to 24s Od; ditto, hr:rne, sOd to 010 d ; ditto ditto new, 16s to 18s; barley, per bull of 6 bushels, ON Od to COs Od ; ditto new, 12s to 17s 6d ; oats, common, 12s Od to 13s Od • ditto new, 9s Od to IN Od ; ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Cd ; ditto ditto new, Os Od; malt distillers, 33s to 35s ; ditto brewers, 35s Od to 38s ; beans, per boll, Os Od to Os Od; ditto new, 16s Od to 17s 6d; peas, 14s 6d to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 34; to 35s ; ditto common ditto, 24s Oct to 25s 6d ; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to 050 d; ditto new 26s Od to 28s ; ditto per peck of 7lbs, Bid to Os Od ; fresh butter, per lb, 8d to 10d; eggs per dozen, 6d to 7d; hay per ton, 44s to 475. k . m.so, Nov. 30.—Wheat, old, 00s to 00s ; ditto, new, 24s to 30s d ; barley, new, 14s to 16s 6d ; ditto old, 00s Od to 00s ; potato oats, 00s to 00s ; ditto new, lls to 13s Od ; com mon oats, 00s to 00s Od; ditto new , 103 to 12s Od ; peas, 00 s to 00s Od; beans, 20s to 22s per boll of six imperial bushels. PERTII, Nov. 23.—Wheat, 32s Od to 443 Od ; barley, 181 to 23s Od ; oats, 14s to 16s ; peas and beans, 25s Od to 28s Od per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 26a to 28s. FALKIRK, Nov. 29. —The supply of grain in this day's market was 523 bolls; wheat at 15s; Od to 19s Od per boll ; barley, lls 3d to 17s 6d ; oats, 1 Is 9d to 13s 6d; beans, 12s Od to 13s Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. flawicx, Nov. 29.—Wbeat, new, 26s Od to 325 Od; new, 14s to IBs Od ; ditto old, Ms to 00s ; potato oats, 12s Od to 143 Od ; common oats, lls to 14s Od ; peas, 20s Od to 24s Od ; beans, 2tis Od to 24a Od per boll of six imperia bushels. BEllwxex, Nov. 29.—Wheat, 3ls 40 ; barley, 20s Od, oats, 173 4d ; rye, Oa Od ; beaus, Oils Od ; peas, 00s Od ave rage per imperial quarter. COAL 11AEKE' Carr's Hartley Davison'sWeFtHartley Od East Adairs 13s 90 Llmting's artley lss Oc! Old Tanlield Ord's Redheugh West 11(y - lam Wall's End, &c. Brown's Gas . - lietton T. lESTEMAT Bowdon 175 9d Vhitworth l5O Od rees Anthracite Birchg. Graigola, hdpk 195 Ed s.,owp:m Hartley Nixon's Merthyr and Cardiff iidne) 'strartley Ships at market, 24. THE COUNTRY - The following is the official state corn, lee., received in the port of Essex, from the 26th Nov., 1849, both inclusive : MARKETS. !ment of the quantiti London from the po, ►, to the Ist Dec., ] RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, DE 3. Srocx EXCHANGEL—The transactions to-dav were as fuliow :—Great Western, Quarters, 10 15-16 dis.-:Ditto, 171. shares, 7. dis.—Briatol and Exeter. Thirds, 12 dis. LI %rear 00L, Dio. 8. STOCK ExCIIANGE.—There was a very good demand for shares to-day at the quotations. The transactions were as follow.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 6M dis.— Ditto, Ilalves (Huddersfield and Sheffield), 30g/I—Caledo nian, 12h—London and North-Western, 116—Ditto, New Quarters, 1% p.—Ditto, Fifths 1 , ; 0 1 p.—Midland, Halves, Bs. 9d. dis,— North British, New Preference, s%—South- Eastern and Dover, (No. 4). 6%—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. till 1850, 4 di& MANCHESTER; Dzc. 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.— the transactions to-day were as follow : Caledonian, 13 1-16 Ditto, Preference, 9 7-16- -Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 6Adis.—Ditto (West Riding Union), 6% dia.—London and North-Western, 117 —Ditto, New Quarters, 1 1 4 p.—Ditto, M. and 8., Quarters (C.), 2 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (No. 1), 1 —Ditto, Preference, 9 11-16 —Ditto (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 4% —North S - affordshire, 9 :i-16 dis. —South- Eastern and Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 6%—South Staffordshire, 4% dis. BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 3. STOCK EXCCANOE.—The transactions to-day were as follow :—Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, 93i—London and North-Western, 116—South Staffordshire, 1/. 6s. 3d. dis. fur cash. YORK, DEC. 1. STOCK ExcHallon.—The transactions to-day were at follow :—Midland, 5114—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 18 —Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 34—York and North Mid land, 19A. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTBRILT. LEAMINGTON STEEPLECHASE!. 6 to 1 agst Mr. J. Elmore's British Yeoman—taken 6 to 1 agat Vain Hope—taken 10 to 1 agst Mr. Henderson's The Doctor—taken 10 to 1 agst Captain Little's Chandler 12 to 1 agst Mr. Mason's Peter Simple 100 to 8 apt Little Fanny—taken 100 to 7 agat Agitation—taken 15 to 1 agst Little Houghton—taken 15 to 1 apt Abd-el-Kader Very little done on this event, and only the tw f4vourites in any force. LEAMINGTON HURDLE•BACE. 5 to 1 agst Miss Burns 5 to 1 agst Vaut Rein 6 to 1 agst Mrs. James 7 to 1 agst Syrup CHESTER CUP. 1,000 to 20 agst Sir R. Bulkelty's Melody—taken and offered I,COO to 15 agat Lord Chesterfield's Lady Evelyn—taken 1,600 to 15 agst Mr. Eddison's John Cosser 1,600 to 25 agst Mr. Parr's Idle Boy—taken 2,000 to 25 agst Mr. Gregory's Damask—taken 1,000 to 10 agst Mr. S. Conway's Kennington—taken 1.000 to 10 110 Mr. Pedley's Cossack—taken 1,000 to 10 agst Duke of Richmond's Halo—taken 1,000 to 10 agA Mr. Murphy's Dough—taken 1 000 to 10 agst Mr. J. Scott's Mulgrave—taken 2,000 to 20 agst Captain Haworth's The Baroness—t 2,500 to 25 agst Mr. Nolan's Blucher—taken DEBUT, 1850. 9 to 1 agat Mr. W. Edwards na Bolingbroke 11 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Ghillie Cellurc-- 12 to 1 taken to 50/. 12 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton'a Knight of Avenel—take 12) 2 - to 1 _ 15 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's The Italian—taken to 50/. 22 to 1 agst Mr. J. Scott's Cyprus—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Sweetheart 25 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's The Nigger—taken 25 to 1 agst Duke of Bedford's John o' Groat 25 to 1 t gat Lord W. Lennox's William the Con queror—taken to 50/. 1,000 to 40 agat Mr. Jaques's Mildew—taken 30 to 1 agst Lord Airlie's Clincher—taken 'to 504, and afterwards offered 32 to 1 eget Lord Airlie's Deicoon—taken to 1504 40 to 1 agst *lr. Pitsford—taken to 20/. 40 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Bro. to Epirote—taken to 35L 45 to 1 agat Lord Eglinton's Mavors—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Lord Palmerston's Yew Tree—taken 1,000 to 25 agst Bolingbroke winning the Derby, and Beehunter the St. Leger—taken 500 even on the field agat the following lot—Boling broke, Ghillie Callum, Knignt of Avenel, Italian, Cyprus, Sweetheart, Mildew, Voltigeur, and The Nigger. In most of the above quotations we have indicated the amounts to which the odds were taken; we should men• tion, however, that 1,000 to 40 and 45 was laid to nearly 2004 agat Cyprus; 3,300 to 100 agat Brother to Epirote; and 1,000 to 30 two or three times, and 1,000 to 25 agst the last bet laid agst the atter being 45 to 1 in ponies. Mr. Macready is about to visit the west of England He has been announced to appear three pi ens at tbe Exeter Theatre, which has beau leased to Dir. Davis. of Newcastle-on -Tyne. MATHS. On the 22d ult., at Charlton, near Dover, the wife of Mr J. Spear, of a daughter. On the 30th ult., at Clapham-park, Mrs. J. Bitz'ey White, jun., of a son. On the 30th ult., at Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, the wife of W. Davies, El., of a daughter. In llarley-street, Cavendish square, cn the ult., the wife of W. 11. Mortimer, Esq , of a daughter. On the 30th ult., a t Chi gwe ll- row , Essex, Mrs. Reynell, of a son. On the Ist inst., in Charles-square, Mrs. James Fuller, of a daughter. RAEMED. On the Ist inst , at the parish church of St. Lawrence Jewry, London, Mr. Robert W. Fuller, of Croydon, Surrey, to Sarah, only daughter of John Jarvis, Esq., of the same place. On the Ist inst., at Upper Deal Church, Julius Brockman Backhouse, C. 8., eighth son of the late Rev. John Barnes BackhouLe. to Harriett, third daughter of Lieutenant W. Batt, Royal Navy. DIED. On the 28th ult., at the Vicarage, Hatfield revere% Essen, the Rev. Sir Coventry Payne, Bart., aged 54. On the 29th ult, at Torquay, the Rev. Martin Roe, resi dent curate of Blidworth, near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. On the 29th ult., in Great Portland-street, Cavendish square, Elizabeth Eirton, aged tB. On the 3t!th ult., in Brompton-crescent, Thomas Gunning, , Inspector-General, Army Medical Department, aged 74. On the 30th ult., Caroline J ane, wife of John Murray, Esq., of Parliament street. On the 25th ult.. at St. Mary's road, Peckham, MarY Ann, the wife of J. Vaughan, Esq , aged 45. On the :49th ult., at Br'ghton, aged 75, Elizabeth, the with of the late W. Cuthbertson, On the 29th ult., ltdr. Thomas Plullips,of Downham.road , rsFngton, aged 80. On the :.-;01,h ult., in Upper Brook-street. aged 42, William 1. Redmayne, Esq., only son of Leonard Redmayne, Esq., and a Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Lancaster. On the 30th ult., at Chelsea, Charles Angelo Nattali, aged 17, ellest son of the late Mr. Nattali, of Bedford street, Coven t• garden. On the Ist inst., Ann, the wife of J. Burton, Esq•, of Am pton-s' reet, Regent•square, aged On he Ist inst , at 46, Ludgatc-hill, Mr. S. Barracioagh• ~ndon: Printed and Publithed by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, Na 115 '1 Strand, in the Precintt of the Savoy, t the panty C Middlesex, Tuesday, December 4, 1849, I I a c •i ies of Ins in 1849, _~ /..~