The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-29 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER—FRIDAY. Nothing in the shape of betting. The Ca - ster Cup nowinations are anxiously lo' ed fo r , and are expected to be more numerous than last Year. Mr. Meiklam has purchased Mr. D. Cook's Derby Colt, the Fancy Boy. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1846. Nominations for the N•iwmarket Handicap. Eboracum, aged—Johnny, aged—Naworth, aged— Queen of Tyne, aged—Coranna, aged—The Roper's uallghter, aged—Captain Flathooker, aged—St. Law l'enee, aged—l am-not-aware, aged—Haitoe, aged 9.?een M a b, age d—O a kl ey , age d—L ot h ar i o , 6 y rs — Vanataur, 6 yrs—Winesour, 6 yrs—Trueboy, 6 yrs— Inheritress, 6 yrs—Wee Pet, 6 yrs—What, 6 yrs— judex, 6 yrs—Pine apple, 6 yrs—Bourra Tomacha, 6 Pl — YoungLochiuvar, 6 yrs—Miss Burns, 6 y ,ard • I ng School Miss, 5 yrs—Joe Lovell, 5 yrs— Eletni, 5 yrs Z-Vol-au-Vent 1 5 yrs—Satyr, 5 yrs—ldleness, 5 yrs— tgest Bow er , 5 yrs—Little John, 5 yrs—Doctor Bus 11'1cl, 5 yrs—b h by Velocipede, out of Fair Jane, 5 Jra -- -Antler, 5 yrs—Akbar, 5 yrs—Beaumont, 5 yrs— Su. Diggory Diddle, 5 yrs—Needful, 5 yrs—Rowena, 4 Yrs—b h by Velocipede, out of Amulet, 5 5 11- 1 1 4ickey Free, 5 yrs—Warp, 5 yrs—lonian, yrs—Alamorle, 5 yrs—Sorella, 5 yrs -5 yrs—Leopard, 4 yrs—Correct Card 4 yrs Merryman, 4 yrs John Davis, 4 yrs t-,114-.R epea l er, 4 yrs—Plaud i t, 4 yrs— L yons, 4 yrs— itzallen, 4 yrs—Clumsy, 4 yrs—Energy, 4 yrs—c by Sl ane, Out of Frill, 4 yrs—As You Like It, 4 yrs— Collee n Bawn, 4 yrs—Deodora, 4 yrs—Wolf Dog, 4 yrs Ruff, 4 yrs—Mongrel, 4 yrs —Rosa, 4 yrs—lEoliati, R Pl—Devil's Dust, 4 yrs—Kesheng, 4 yrs—Scarlet '`nuner, 4 yrs—Petit Morceau, 4 yrs—/Egis, 4 yrs— A rthur, 4 yrs—Jenny Wren, 4 yrs—Sister to Ma Mie, Yrs—Weatherbit, 4 yrs—Wood Pigeon, 4 yrs— lktbria 4 yrs—Anna Comnana, 4 yrs—Hawkesbury, 4 Yrs—Refraction, 4 yrs—c by Elis, out of Mopsa, 4 yrs is - The Pasha, 4 yrs—Laird o' Cockpen, 4 yrs—Chertsey, 4 4 Yrs—King Cob, 4 yrs— My Mary, 4 yrs—Bretwalda, - 4 . Pl—Venus, 4 yrs—Lady Wildair, 4 yrs—Miss Elis, as—Stoker, 4 yrs—Fusbos, 4 yrs — Maynooth, 4 yrs fi,ritn Con 4 yrs—Metal, 4 yrs—Dean Swift, 4 yrs — Defence, out of Nikf, 4 yrs—Duc an Durras, 4 yrs the Wreck, 4 yrs—The Baron, 4 yrs—Chemise, 4 hi—Foremast, 4 yrs—Alarm, 4 yrs— Ould Ireland, 3Yrs—Event, 4 yrs—Connaught Ranger, 4 yrs—Killi r itukie 3 yrs—Ohio, 3 yrs—Terrier, 3 yrs—Thrapston, rdl. I—Spur, 3 yrs—Punch, 3 yrs—Curiosity, 3 yrs— .orrelius,3 yrs—Astonish ment, 3 yrs—Sharpshooter,3 yrs i s iThe Li tt l e V u l gar B oy , 3 yrs —b f b y S toc kp or t, o ut of 1,,, 'a,nYraede, 3 yrs—Chandelier, 3 yrs—The Hero,3 yrs— I; by Retriever, out of Emilia, by Dexterous, 3 yrs h g °Y Mus, out of Guava, 3_yrs—Marquis of Conyng a--a4), .3 yrs—Tug-Net, 3 yrs—c by Venison, out of Pet, )11.- --Sister to Robert de Gorham, 3 yrs—Symmetry, 0„Y,11-1.1kraine rs 3 y—Breastgirth, 3 yrs—f by Discord -" of Soldi er ' s Joy,3 yrs—Blackbird, 3 yrs. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Gn at lids., Mon., Holt ; Tues., Steward's Hay; Thurs., it thtiby ;- Fri., Bunney Park-11. tiloAtherstone hds., Mon., Overasel Village; Wed., Alias ,lllo ; Fri., York Road; Sat., Ratliby Burrows. i etchley Hunt, Mon., Harrington; Wed., Stanford's Hall; g! Buttock' s Booth ; Sat., Ashby St. Ledger-11. Ab ) ,! . _ ll . Sutton's lids., Mon., Corby Toll-bar; Tues, Launde ; Wed., Holywell Hall; Fri., Leesthorpe ; Sat., Ham 'oil Bar 11 Il t i d ° _ 4 ington lids., Mon., Clifton Village; Wed., Cavendish 13go ; Sat., Belton Village-10i. t illi klaworth hds., Tues., Hampole Inn ; Thurs., Hemsworth p e End Sat., Notton-104. Ni:afford lids., Mon., Oxton Village; Wed., Thoresby Park; L'iston hds., Tues., Remshaw ; Fri., Aston -10 4. Ti l - vrd Yarb orou gh's hds., Mon., Weelsby House; Wed., o torilton Abbey ; Sat., Kingerly Wood- 11 . *, t cl Henry Bentinck's hds., Mon., Saxilby ; Tues., Lang- Bridge ; Wed., Bardnev ' • Thurs., Tile House Beck ; e h ttitelithorn ; Sa Mot., Potter l sHill Bar 11. tikk b e shire hds. n., B ra dfield Green ; Wed., Marbury ;• og, Saiglton ; Sat., Three Greyhounds. it 4 W. Wynne's lids., Tues., King's Mills; Wed., Wynn -41; Fri., Plas Te.• ; Sat., Gallantry Bank. ) I.l , li 4 Phire hds., 'Mon., Kennels; Wed., Fox, Albrighton ; 1,1 lgh Hatton-104. atrrlgoineryshire lids., Tues., Pentrenant-10. arquharson's hds., Mon., Macomb Park ; Thurs., 41 ii:,4 Wood. Cor n v • 11., Tues., Pointington Ridge ; Fri., Mappowder k r ; brax' s lids., Mon., Holnest Kennel. lid e lk Ingram's hds., Mon., Castle Hayes; Thurs., Dove - Sat., Black Slough-104. Bo Union Union , Tues., South Hanningfield Tye; Sat. , Ilouselo4. litiCt Essex hds., Tues., Gosfield; Thurs., Helions Bump til'eSat• Panfield . 1 1 - and Suffolk hds, Tues., Ardleigh Crown; Fri., Had kinittain Candler's hds., Mon., Bishop's Wood ; Wed., tl ti i, °r d Bridge ; Sat., Lickey-104. Fe te d Pack, Tues., Netherwood ; Sat., Little Seretton. '0441"n lids., Tues., Stoke ; Thurs., Michelgrove ; Sat., 4J te i i , l eS and H▪ orsham lids, Mon., Chariwood Park ; Wed., bt,t li t .Lrark; F r i., Crawley Village- 10 . "uton harm., Mon., Patcbam ; Wed., Race-course ; 111 1 ,1ke-11. - Nkside harm., Mon., Newmarket-hill ; Thurs., Tals .,.'s r 4 14 6 ,„ M. Stanle▪ y's hds., Mon., Burton ; Sat., Backford A. I tOPOSED GRAND YACHT Jr it REVIEW BY HER MAJESTY. (Hash Advertiser) are indebted to the courtesy of Knight,4,,, the zealous Secretary of the Royal Southern Clit Club, at Southampton, fur the following interest b c o ... • zmulunication:— tip n b rig to submit, through your columns, a proposi l'atiV,he Commodores and members of the Royal 011 -e ; : s-qu bs of Great Britain for the display of their kui,`te force in such a manner as, from its novelty i 1 b eauty, would, I think, eclipse all other naval ~.0 save those of fleets intended for actual conflict. 14,,,tter Majesty, by selecting the Isle of Wight for a to the residence, and extending her patronage not only 1 4 • e Squadron, but to so many Yacht Clubs, has ak i ll te t d the especial gratitude of their gallant owners; Pro, hat gratitude could not be, as I conceive, more ap- Vtiately shown than in paying our Ocean Queen' 41 41 Pliment I will proceed to describe. tho w ,would advise that a meeting, on a grand scale, 4 . 4 - Z 4 be held in London of all the members of Royal tit tl et Clubs in the kingdom, at which the oldest Com -4,4; the Right Hon. the Earl of Yarborough, should tqquested to preside, to consider the most advisable Nt ls e °J . getting up a magnificent Review of all the Yacht M a h e le the Kingdom, to take place before her Majesty I Yachting mouths of 1846. would respectfully tender my opinion, in deference liy a bi judgment of such a meeting, that it would be ad for every Royal Yacht Club to rendezvous (say do t • e month of August) at the desire of their Commo thleo, at Cowes, or its immediate vicinity, and go through becvssary preliminary manoeuvres in divisions or t haa, kir oes, in order to acquire the practice which would y e the e vo l u ti ons o f th e c ombined fleet, when reviewed 40 t h " Majesty, deserving of her approbation. I will tp y presu me to suggest any further details, but express e‘ ) Pe that the idea may not be thought unworthy of N i i; e ation by the noblemen and gentlemen of the Yacht tlo:' of Great Britain. Such a day would not only be 114 - :eedented, but the display would be honourable to By character. Pe ti V l Y no other instances of magnificence in their ex ture, and taste in their sports, are foreigners of in- Pitt ? uee so much struck as in the profuse expense and lillotie feeling displayed by the members of the Yacht S' 4B , the fit-out and discipline of many of these vessels Ttc„ r ettehing to those ranking in their country's service. Of ti ,"Xpenditure of the Yacht Clubs counts by hundreds j e j"elleands of pounds in building, fitting, wages, and utilling. Ship-building, too, has greatly improved A t t f , h e Patronage of the Clubs, and they employ up fotl of four thousand of the smartest seamen to be e ,L , in the world. O k i 4 .he Review I propose suggests feelings of the highest I, ; ,`Qeation and national interest, and the assemblage of tv - Zra on the occasion would doubtless be the greatest vi z witnessed. witnessed. I think I may venture to express con lyi our beloved Sovereign would be delighted ,ttlistleh an appropriate and imposing sight. Of its 4;" l ficence some idea may be formed from the fact 1 4 ,, e g that there are more than eleven clubs, command 4tZ.: force exceeding five hundred yachts, and as the tf: ll lies of such a force may be interesting to the lovers kirloatic amusements, I will conclude by laying the Di stinction before your readers : ' 4 Urieti on of Clubs. No. of No. of No. of No.of Puincipally Yachts Tons Men Guns Brass I'ds. Z.o yacht Squadron 102 9,000 1,600 400 from 2to 9 LhaMes Yacht Club 146 4, 400 540 220 from %to 6 r ,western Yacht Club 74 3000 400 260 from Ito 6 _mUth,rn Yacht Club G 7 2 800 350 230 fr..m Ito 9 Royal S o- victoria Yacht Club 38 3,200 420 250 from 2to 9 Harwich Yacht Club 38 900 120 40 from %to 4 Rod :: Cork Yacht Club 42 1,650 s 258 120 from Ito 6 it, q ;-; Mersey Yacht Club 45 1,470 240 110 from Ito 6 IV 4 Northern Yacht Club 40 1,455 230 110 from Ito 6 1 14., 41 Eastern Yacht Club '' I C-ingstown Yacht Club 29 1,380 230 70 from Ito 6 Dedu ct about 1-6th for the 621 29,250 4,380 1,810 Rau", yacht, belonging to P r erent Clubs, you will a Grand Total of 530 25,000 3,900 1,500 shwa rh. seaen are exclusive of masters, cooks, and th e rds which would give at least 800, in addition to te,:Zegoing numbers. 1 3 4 he wages alone for the masters and seamen ex v:4 1 20,000/. per annum, and the intrinsic value of the 1 1 7 ch ts, w i th their armament comp l ete, i s more t h an tee- quarters of a million of money. v'd,„,, 411 yachts (be.ale their broadside guns), are pro -411 L' with small arms of every description, and the crews ` 4o st cases are instructed in the use of them. eioitstirhe amount of outlay with regard to provisions, as th and other expenses, can scarcely be guessed at, e greatest luxuries are to be found on board, re isardies, or cost. 3,4eAt the present time there are upwards of fifty y ar :lts of large tonnage in frame, at the several building a r , d „ 8 °F White, Ratsey, and Hanson, of Cowes ; Rubie ,tliaktr, of Southampton ; Wanhill and Penny, of be ; Inman, of Lymington ; Moore, of Plymouth ; to w s-e , s the yards at London, Gravesend, Clyde, Kings yre- "lk, and other private yards in the kingdom of tettl3ritain ; so that in the spring of 1846, 600 sail of ob,A! s may e alculated to"JAMESn mission.—Your uient servant KNIGHT, " Sec. Royal Southern Yacht Club." So uthampton, Dec. 12, 1845." col:J-11e Directors of the Midland Railway (says a resp o 111 ndent) have resolved that the sum of 15s. a week be 2wed to the family of the late Mr. Stubbs, policeman, of ,7 (18 , wh o l ost his life in the late accident, till the youngest until th tnild is tett years of age; a f ter th at 10 5 . a wee k t o b e a ll owe d e P ai d weeklyg child reaches the age of fourteen, to be in the Leeds pay bill. BThe lighthouse fixed by Mr. Bush on the Goodwin " has disappeared. The exact time of its sinking ir e sands is n o t k nown, as the f og prevented observa -94 for two or Was clays. CORN-LAW MEETING AT BURY ST. EDMUND'S. DEFEAT OF THE PROTECTIONISTS. A meeting was held at the Guildhall, Bury St. Ed munds, on Friday last, convened by the Mayor (J. Deck, Esq.), in compliance with the following requisition, signed by sixty inhabitants: " We, the undersigned inhabitants of the town of Bury St. Edmund's, feeling impressed with the impor tance of the present question of a free trade in corn, more especially as it affects this agricultural district, hereby request you will, at an early day, convene a public meeting of the inhabitants to afford them an opportunity of expressing their sentiments where their trade and prosperity are so materially concerned. " To John Deck, Esq., Mayor." It being known that nearly all of the signatures were those of protectionists, the free-trade party on Wednes day put out the following; handbill : " Fellow -townsmen,—The advocates of monopoly and starvation purpose holding a meeting on Friday next, at noon, in the Guildhall, with a view to assist in per petuating the existence . of the present bread-tax. " Those of you who are of opinion that this crncl monopoly ought to cease—that the industry of the country should be free and unrestricted—that the people of England ought no longer to be dictated to by a selfish minority where they shall buy the necessaries of life, or dispose of the fruits of their industry—that the poor man ought no longer to be cheated out of a cheap loaf, and compelled to buy a dear one—attend that ME eting, and let it be seen that the public mind of this town is in favour of free trade, and a cheap and plentiful supply of bread to the poor. " December 24, 1845." At the hour appointed for meeting the ball was crowded by tradesmen and mechanics, and several of - the agricul turists in the surrounding neighbourhood were also pre sent at the proceedings. The Mayor having taken the chair, the following reso lution was proposed by Capt.HEIGHAM (a landowner, cul tivating his own farm), and seconded, by JOHN WORL LEDGE, Esq. (an owner and tenant):— " That in the opinion of this meeting the adequate protection of British agriculture from foreign competi tion is essential not only to the prosperity of the classes more intimately connected with it, but to the welfare of the whole population ; and this meeting, therefore, most earnestly deprecates any diminution of the protection now enjoyed." Upon which Captain HUBBARD, R.N., and Mr. T. G. WILLIAms (draper), in very argumentative addresses, propost-d the following amendment : " That in the opinion of this meeting it is to the in terest of the tenant-farmer, the lab,,urer, and the land, lord, that the e am-law question should be permanently settled, the experience of the last thirty years having proved that protection drives capital from the land, narrows the home market by crippling the foreign trade, and is injurious to all classes." BEVAN, Esq. (banker), having spoken in support of the original motion, he was replied to by a mectainic named Puushon, in most truthful terms. _ _ The question was then put by the Mayor, and the amendment was carried by a majority of at least twenty to one. Bury St. Edmund's being the centre of the agricul districtof West Suffolk, this demonstration agains protection" speaks volumes. JUSTICE TO SCOTLAND. Scotland is deeply interested in the issue of the present attempt to alter our commercial system. It must affect the means of our population for better or worse. They have pretty generally decided in favour of one mode of concluding the crisis; but they have nut the means of enforcing their decision. A general election must occur by-and-bye, and the old farce of sending up fifty-two gentlemen to represent Scotland in a House of Commons. to which England furnishes five hundred members, will be re enacted. Glasgow, says Sir James Graham, is the second city in the empire; but Glasgow, he also says, practically, shall have no greater influence in the Legislature than Harwich. At the same time Sir James and his friends, like other parties and their friends, talk of appealing to the people, as if the distribution of the representative districts was not the greatest practicable satire of representation. Mr. O'Connell demands for Ireland 150 members, in stead of the present number, 105; and this request is characterised by greater modesty than usually marks his objects. Ireland, even by the test of revenue, is fairly entitled to 150 members; but in Sc Aland we pay taxation on the English scale, and we should be repre sented on the English basis. There is a very common oversight in estimating the proportions of revenue paid by the three divi visions of the empire. England from the manner in which the customs duties are collected, has credit for large payments to the revenue that are really contributed by Scotland or Ireland. There can be no fact much more evident than that the duty on two-thirds of the tea, and one-half of the sugar consumed in Scotland or Ireland is credited to London, Liverpool, or Bristol. The same remark applies to wines, to foreign spirits, and many minor articles, on which, nevertheless, a considerable duty is paid. We may therefore assume, that the customs returns furnish no very obvious means of ascertaining the amount of duty paid by each of the three kingdoms. " The property and income-tax" does not supply any better means of arriving at an accurate conclusion on the subject ; fur a considerable part of that tax paid in Eng land is in reality supplied by Scotland and Ireland. Many Scottish and Irish landowners pay the sums levied from their incomes in London, although the cause of the tax, and the means of meeting it, are alike supplied by Scotland or Ireland. We mention these circum stances to meet the possible statement, that as England furnishes the largest proportion of revenue, it shoi.ld have a correspondingly large number of repre sentatives—a statement for which there is no ground in reference to Scotland. We pay the same taxes that are levied in England ; and it the wealth of a nation is centred in any locality, as in London, it does not seem very logical to charge the distant portions of the country with ipoverty, occasioned, if it exists, by that act of centralization. Scotland kept its liberty against steel to fall before gold. The corrupt nobility at the period of the Union sold their country to supply their wants. We do not say that the Union was an impolitic measure ; but we might have had the bar gain on better terms. The time that has elapsed since the date of that measure has greatly changed the posi tion of the two countries. Notwithstanding many and great disadvantages, Scotland has struggled forward in agriculture, in manufactures, and commerce, to an equality with the wealthier partner. The tonnage of Scotland bears to that of England the proportion of their respective populations. The number of persons engaged in manufactures north of the Tweed is equal at least to the proportion employed in that manner south of the border waters. When the empire was engaged in its fiercest struggles for existence, the blood of the children of the mountain land was fre(ly shed on many fields where life was beaten out in anguish, to vindicate the interests and the objects of the commonwealth or its rulers. The day of danger —the hour of difficulty—the moment of defeat—never, found her sons unwilling to bear their share of the trial. In science they have achieved more than their nume • rical share ; and in literature far more than their proportion of the empire's works since the union was closed. In all respects we have a right to its revisal. It is no inviolable document. Already it has been broken and altered in several particulars. It must stand or fall as men find it advantageous or other wise. For the interests and the good of all the con tracting parties, it should be preserved, but then it should be amended. We have nut vowed fealty to its frailties. We have not given our troth to its fail ings. We are not bound to abide by its faults. In the councils of the State we have a right to insist that the voice of Scotland shall be fully heard, and its influences be fully felt. No argument suffices to persuade us that a composition of fifty per cent. should be accepted when full payment can be made. England returns five hundred members to the House of Commons, and Scotland fift)-two. Now, either we should ris e to one hundred, or England should fall to two hundred and fifty. The justice of the de mand is palpable. A statesman's wits are not requisite to sift it. A schoolboy with the multiplication table on his tongue could solve the whole matter. And even if the alteration merely conferred escape from in dignity it should be made; but a great reform is involved in the change—a reform equally advantageous to Eng land as to Scotland, and which would directly tend to terminate Government by a class for its interests.—Glas gow National. LORD MORPETH.—The sheets of the requisition to Lord Morpeth were yesterday received in Leeds from most of the polling districts, but from several of the districts they had not arrived prior to our going to press. Within one day (for on Thursday being Christmas-day, no names were applied for) six thousand eight hundred and two electors have signed the requisition, exclusive of these on the sheets not yet received.—Leeds Mercury of this day. Earl Delawarr, who has been slightly indisposed during the last few days in Upper Grosvenor-street, is con valescent, and yesterday left town, accompanied by the Countess and family, for Buckhurst-park, Sussex, for the holidays. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT THE HANS Towx BREWERY, CHELSEA.—Late on Wednesday evening, Mr. T. Wakley, M. P., coroner, held an inquest at the George public-house, Lower George-street, Sloane-square, Chel sea, on view of the body of James Gilpin, aged 16 years, who was killed under the following singular circumstan ces. It appeared from the evidence gone into that the deceased had been in the employ of Mr. William Druce, of the Hans Town Brewery, Lower George-street, Sloane-square, for nearly the last twelve months, as an assistant in the stables. On the afternoon of Monday last, about 5 o'clock, deceased went into the stable for the purpose of assisting the chaff cutter, who was employed in the loft over the stables. On entering the stables, the deceased heard the man having charge of a mill adjoining the stables, and from which the only entrance is, call to the horse which was working the wheel of the mill, to go on, and deceased went and drove the horse on, from which time he was not again seen alive. About twenty minutes afterwards, d-ceased was missed, and on search being made for him in the building in which the horse was still pursuing his labour, the deceased was found lying on his back in the horse's track, which must have passed over him while making every circle. Deceased was quite dead, and his body, which presented a dread fully mutilated appearance, was removed to the counting house, where the jury viewed it. It is supposed that the deceased, after urging the horse on, followed him round a portion of the circle and then stood still, when, not being sufficiently out of the way of the butt end of the beam to which the horse was attached, it struck him violently on the face, throwing him backwards, and in sensible, when the horse, which makes about six circles in a minute, must have passed over" him upwards of a hundred times, crushing the bones of both his body and face. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental death. LITERATURE. I NARRATIVE OF A MISSION TO BOKHARA IN THE YEARS 1844-45. By the Rev. Joseph Wolff, D.D., LL.D. The circumstances under which Dr. Wolff under took his last expedition to Bokhara, for the purpose of ascertaining the fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly, have been so recently and so fre quently detailed that it is -unnecessary further to allude to him. The manner in which Dr. Wolff volunteered to undertake this dangerous adventure was so chivalrous, his whole conduct throughout so disinterested, that he appeared to us as not belonging to this age, but to the olden time, to the days when faith, and hope, and trust, and charity, and friend• ship, were not mere names, but great facts—to be one of those men whom Bayard would have cherished, and whom Tess() would have commemorated. Friend ship, such friendship as in these self-seeking days is sneered down as romantic, seems to have been the impelling cause to his braving the dangers of the desert and the wrath of the Bukhara despot. Conolly was his friend, and for the chance of rescuing that friend from captivity he was content to brave every peril, and to exhibit to the world an example of moral and passive courage, in the presence of which the highest efforts of mere physical courage must "pale their ineffectual fires." This narrative is written in a style so simple that it is at times, from its very simplicity, sublime. It is a complete mirror not only of the acts, but of the thoughts of the writer; he shows how he was deceived—the characters of those with whom he came in contact, and how, at length, by circumstances, he was led to the detection of the falsehoods which their craft had palmed off upon him. His description of the manner in which he was at first induced to trust Abdul Samut Khan, the Prime Minister of the King of Bokhara, and of the cir cumstances which gradually opened his eyes as to the true character of this hypocrite, swindler, and mur derer, is admi ra bl e . Th ere can b e no doubt but that this man was the prime instigator of the deaths of Stoddart and Conolly. He thus describes that hor rible tragedy in a conversation with Dr. Wolff:— " When Colonel Stoddart arrived at Bukhara ' his Majesty sent a w h o l e t roo p o f so ldi ers to rece i ve him; he came to Bokhara, and to the Ark, just when Hazrat returned from a pilgrimage to Baba Deen Nakshbande (a holy man buried outside the town). Colonel Stoddart was on horseback. The Shekhawl, and several other Serkerdeha (grandee) went up to him and said, This is his Ntijesty, you must dismount.' But he replied, I have LO girders for doing so.' The Ameer smiled, and said he is a mehmoon (guest). When you, Joseph Woollf, made your salaam before the Ameer, the Shek bawl took slightly hold of your shoulders to make you bow down; you submitted with your book in the hand; but when the Shekhawl only touched Colonel Stoddart, he laid his hand on his sword and drew it. Nothing was said to this. The house of Toora, the same house in which you live, was assigned to him as his quarters. When a few days after the Rais (one of the mullahs who watch over the people, and have power to flog any one who does not observe strictly the Muhammedan reli gion) :rent one of his friends to Stoddart and asked him whether he was an eljee (ambassador) or a sodagur (merchant)? Stoddart replied, Eat dung!' " His imprisonment upon this occasion the Nayeb passed over in silence, and continued, At last from fear, Stoddart said he would become a Mussulman, and according to the Muhammedan religion, if a person says he will turn Mussulman, he must either do so, or die. He became a Musselman, and a short time after openly avowed again the Christian religion. At last it was agreed that he should writ e t o E ng l an d t o b e acknow ledged as the accredited agent of Great Britain at the court of Bokhara, and that the King of Bokhara should be the acknowledged sovereign of Turkistaun, &c.; and Colonel Stoddart promised that in four months an answer should arrive from the Government of England. Though at his (Stoddart's) request, japar khanas (post-houses) were established from Bokhara to Sarakhs, which did not exist either at Bukhara or in the land of Turkistaun from the time of Afrasiab, fourteen months elapsed, and no answer arrived. During the time that Colonel Stod. dart was at Bokhara, Captain Conolly went from Organtsh (Khiva) to Khokand, where he stopped a con siderable time, exciting both countries to wage war against the Anaeer of Bokhara. He at last arrived at Bokhara, announcing himself as a British agent, without having any letters from the British Government; and whatever Colonel Stoddart had agreed to he upset, announcing to the King of Bukhara that the British Government would never interfere with the affairs of Turkistaun, and all that Colonel Stoddart had agreed to went for nothing. Thus it was clear Colonel Stod dart was a liar. During the stay of Conolly and Stoddart they took every opportunity of dispatching, in the most stealthy manner, letters to Caubul; and on this account his Majesty became displeased, and both Captain Conolly and Colonel Stoddart were brought, with their hands tied, behind the Ark (palace of the King), in presence of Makhram Saadat, when Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly kissed each other, and Colonel Stoddart said to Saadat, " Tell the Ameer that I die a disbeliever in Mu hammed, but a believer in Jesus—that I am a Christian, and a Christian I die." And Conolly said, "Stoddart, we shall see each other in Paradise (Behesht), near Jesus." Then Saadat gave the order to cut off, first the head of Stoddart, which was done; and in the same manner the head of Conolly was cut off.'" Dr. WTolff's description of his detention at Bokhara, and of his hair-breadth escapes from what appeared certain death, both there and on his road home, until he reached Tabreez, is most interesting. His know ledge of Hebrew stood him in good stead during his captivity, for the Jews were permitted to visit him, and with Bibles open before ;them, they conversed together in Hebrew, in the presence of the Bok • hara spies, who imagined they were reading the Scriptures ; and thus Dr. Wolff was in formed of the plots which were laid against him, and was enabled to circumvent them. The conclusion we draw from reading this work is, that military officers are, of all others, the most un• fitted for diplomatic employment in the East. They are unsuited to diplomacy by their manners, their Ir.bits, and their want of education, that is to say, of diplomatic education. As a proof of it, we would merely mention the fact that Stoddart and Conolly, who went to Bokhara with every prestige in their favour, were massacred, while Dr. Wolff, who went alone, without authority or protection, and with every chance against him, accomplished the object of his mission, and returned unharmed. This proves that the whole of our diplomatic bureauocracy in the East stands in need of reform, and that, before we can have that influence in the courts of Central Asia which we ought to exercise, we must have a body of men specially trained and educated for the diplomatic service of' the Eastern courts. It is the opinion of Dr. Wolff that an invasion of Bokhara from India might be easily accomplished, and that the people would be glad to see the Ameer, and his Nayeb, Abdul Samut Khan, punished for their treachery to Stoddart and Conolly. The name of Sir Charles Napier is well known in Central Asia, and is a name of terror to all who hear it. A Fakeer from Sinde thus described him to the caravan with which Dr. Wolff returned from Bokhara— " There is now a Governor in Sinde, Lord Napier by name, who is like lightning flame. He has beaten one hundred thousand Pooluj with four hundred men. The whole caravan exclaimed, " Allah, Allah, Allah ! They certainly will come here ; and if, they come, we submit at once, for we Turkomauns will never fight against those who have the upper hand. We serve the most powerful, let them be Hindus, Christains, or Ml.lB - Those who give us keelaats (robes of honour), and tillahs (ducats), we serve.'" The terror of Napier's name, were he to undertake an expedition against Bokhara, would, in the opinion of Dr. Wolff, he sufficient to cause the inhabitants to deliver up the Ameer, without the necessity of strik ing a blow: the Ameer himself, it would appear, is in great terror of the vengeance of England. From the Persian and Russian ambassadors Dr. Wolff received every assistance ; indeed, but for the firmness of the Persian ambassador to Bokhara, it is very doubtful whether he would y, La have snosrnud r or e ci E t neungi themselvesri te n neh travellers, alive. i ri noary oeulalges thathr :oss, official t n itoceh t t o eatdhdyel t aa i &e or Stoddart hulttabaoscon troversy,as as to th e con d uc t o f C o l one l Shi e l an d t h e envoysinytnnhboegdeett Foreign-office of this country, an d more par ti cu l ar l y p A a sr Conollyme t v o e i e o t r u h s o e f yw p Boe representedori e c k y h o a o n r f e l fully u f o y enter.th e isi na G s pu o abr v j l e e r ea n tm m we e nh n ti , h a w enwdi l having n o heard only one side of the question, we have not the materials for coining to a deliberate judgment on the matter. These volumes are illustrated with a number of curious portraits of the principal personages of the Courts of Bokhara and Persia, beautifully coloured ; and the work, taken as a whole, is the most interest. ing narrative of personal adventure that we have read for years. A WORLD OF WONDERS. By Albany Poyntz . Among the busiest and pleasantest of the contri- butors to Bentley's Miscellany, one Albany Poyntz has for a considerable time past held a very promi nent position ; and it is agreeable to find him at length breaking from the tutelage of periodical lite rature and coming before us in the shape of a sub stantial volume like the present. As a combination at once of amusement and information, we know of no other work of recent publication with which it can be compared, forming as it does a kind of modernised Sir Thomas Brown. Unfortunately, the writer has selected topics which, only four years ago, were ably treated by Charles Mackay , in his " Me moirs of Popular Delusions," yet Albany Poyntz h as infused into them so much of his peculiar smartness and bon hotnmie, that although they in some measure lack novelty, every page is sprinkled with novel facts, given in a novel manner. Besides this very excellent characteristic, the book embraces almost all the " popular superstitions" that can be named, strip s them naked one by one of the mysterious veil with which they are usually enveloped, and holds them up to our derisio3, as mere scarecrows of idle ingenuity. It is customary, now-a-days, to con gratulate ourselves upon the enlightenment of the present generation, but our gratulations are surely somewhat premature, when, according to our own recollection, men are found so credulous as to advance the old wives' story of the "dowsing rod" in ,THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1845 a scientific journal within the past twelvemonth, an I bruit forth the hoary fiction` as a reality ! Ventrilo quists, without doubt, are iiot burnt alive as they were in the sixteenth century ..d Mr. Carter may pummel his lions or tige,, erithout being punished with an ignominious death for a supposed compact with the darker powers ; yet ignorance and credulity are still far from being entirely dispelled : and it is with the intention of assisting in their dispersion that Albany Poyntz has written his "World of Wonders." There is something curious and laughable in the very natural explanations given to many of our ancient bugbears—as the goblin, on a closer examination, resolves itself into a finger-post or a mile-stone. Thus, through the spectacles of science we discover that the showers of blood mentioned by Pliny and Solinus were simply masses ofrain water impregnated with red earth. As an unraveller of these enigmas, Albany Poyntz proves a delightful companion, and doubtless to many people his revelations will prove as startling as the style of narration is agreeable. Not only, for example, does he explain the visionary existence of the Wandering Jew, and show, beyond question, that Justinian never put out the eyes of Belisarius, but he•very clearly testifies that the cele brated Pope Joan was only a chimera of the imagina tion of some factious enemies to the Papal creed ; that her name is not uttered by a single contemporary historian ; and that "not till sixty years after the period assigned as that of her adventures, do we find the monk Radulphus relating the scandalous chro nicle of her pretend e d pont ifi cate. " While, indeed, we may permit ourselves to cherish the more harm less fables of poetry, such as the suspension of Maho met's coffin, or the reality of centaurs and mermaids, it is but due to common justice and rational enlight enment that such fabrications as the one above re ferred to should be utterly laughed to scorn; and we honour Albany Poyntz for the candour and liberality displayed in this instance. Some, however, of his arguments we conceive might be classed among the number of "self-evident propositions," as an evi dence of which we may particularly name his chapter upon the capacities possessed by negroes for mental and moral improvement, the whole of which chapter might have been summed up in the mention of Tous saint L'Ouverture individually, and the present con stitution of St. Domingo collectively, as practical proofs that the blacks may be moulded to any degree of civilization. On other points the writer is, on the contrary, sometimes very incomplete ; thus, in the instances which he adduces of what is generally re garded as the prophetic language used by dying people, he makes not the slightest allusion to, pos sibly, the most remarkable instance on record : we refer to the death-bed of Charles Bonaparte, father of the Emperor, who, when raving in the delirium of his dissolution, called out for Napoleon to come with his " great sword," and beat off the phantom of death at the bed-side, Napoleon being at that time many miles away, and a mere boy. The dissertation upon the fickleness of popularity, which may he identified as one of the finest passages in the volume before us, forms an excellent homily against morbid ambition, and will amply repay even the perusal of the worldly-wise; while it is delightful to meet with sentiments so genial and humane as those uttered by our author, when defending from stripes and perse cution an animal which he calls aptly enough, " the war-horse of the poor "—the ass. Before, how. ever, we take leave of this production, we fee t imperative on us to stigmatise one pm. , ion of the book as frivolous and narrow minded to the last degree ; it is the section devoted to a sickly and atrabilious attack upon the temperament of the French as a people. We here . with submit the paragraph in question to the scrutiny of the reader, appealing to the national candour of his disposition to reply whether the following sen tences are not as applicable to ourselves as to our neighbours : _ _ The prevailing weakness of the French, collectively and individually, is to esteem themselves the type and model of perfection ; the standard by which the universe ought to be regulated. An Italian author once asserted that the face of man was not made after that of God ; but that the face of the Creator was to be imagined after that of man. The French consider all that resembles them right ; all that differs from them wrong. This prejudice entitles foreigners to laugh at them, whether unjustly or not." Yet, notwithstanding this little morsel of Nelsonian bigotry towards a great nation, on the part of Albany Poyntz, we consider his " World of Wonders" a useful book, a good book, and an amusing book. MEMOIRS OF THE JACOBITES. 2 Vag By Mrs. Thomson. Although English history has been enriched by the most copious details descriptive of the struggles, the calamities, the loyalty, the devotion and the un daunted perseverance of the adherents to the Stuart dynasty, from the flight of James the Second, in 1681, to the Battle of Culloden, in 1746, there ha. hitherto remained a gap in the annals of that period The names and the various actions of the Jacobite leaders are undoubtedly to be found scattered over a vast number of volumes, but, until the production of the present work, no succinct account of those cele brated and unfortunate men had ever been attempted. From the mass of biographies and state memorials, and scarcely legible manuscripts which had to be sifted before any accurate knowledge could be ob tained of facts, and from the conflicting opinions which had to be balanced before any just conclusions could be arrived at, the labour of such an undertaking must have been very considerable indeed; but well has Mrs. Thomson acquitted herself of the task. Through her pages we obtain a correct view of the perso nages who rendered themselves the most con spicuous among the partizans of James and his family. F rom the subtle and haughty Earl of Mar to the lawless freebooter, Rob Roy, each character is analysed with care, and that in diction which, if not in e very i nstance well-chosen, is re markable for its perspicuity. If we remember rightly, it is Tertullian who somewhere observes that the historical past is but an index to the historical future; whether this principle in the abstract be cor rect or not, there are c i rcumstances in the records of nations which bear to each other the most extraordi nary analogy, and among those perhaps the most singular resemblance i s t raceable in the down f al an d subsequent vicissitude s of the Stuarts and the Bourbons. Charles L and Louis XVI. were both annihilated by revolutions, which merged the two States into that political chaos—anarchy ; both these revolutions were reduced to order by soldiers of for tune • both the f am ili es of Oliver Cromwe ll an d Napoleon Bonaparte were driven from their newly acquired dignity by a temporary restoration of the old dynasties. Ch ar l es 11. was followed i n i mme di ate succession by his b rot h er James IL, Louis XVIII. in direct succession a l so by his brother Charles X. the two dynasties b e i ng then again abolished, and a collateral bran c h i n both cases ra i se d to t h e kingly office. Th roughout these won d er f u l c h anges on either s id e a faction deve l ope d i tse lf , which by its misfortunes, its long-sufferings, and its constancy, challenged the sympathy of its bitterest opponents — o n the one hand the Jacobites, on the other the emigres or refugees. Without doubt the motives by which these two parties were impelled varied according to the position or morality of the individuals concerned in them, and the materials of this political combination were, in truth, " some pure, lating." T o di sc l ose t h e mo tley char ac t er i s ti cs o f the some base s o me noble, some mean and vacil former faction, to commemorate the virtuous consist ency, or cover with o pprobrium the mere cupidity of its principal actors—to collect together in some order the gleanings of a well-reaped field—to demonstrate the reality of facts that had been hitherto contro verted—and t o di scr i m i n ate between authoriti es w ith imparti a lit y an d j u d gmen t, were duties i ncum b en t upon th e hi s t or i an o f Jacobitism, and of a ll th ese duties has M rs . Thomsonacquitted herself i n a very able manner. The work is a necessary addition to the many si ngu l ar episodes in our English history, and the bo o k- s h e lves devoted to the memoirs of our two volumes. cmoomplstectee without lebrated c t o h u es n e try moo, cannot be considered LONDON DIRECTORY spared no expen se or l a b our i n THE POST-OFFICE for nli, the great the This work has now reached the f or t y - seven th annual m pi edition, lat ion ,and,keeps progress s t i h m l e B i c: a r 6 r e di p u t b o l f i c a l1 t 1 i : proprietor, who has marks, more than changes which have taken place, not only i n our trade and comme rce, but in the app earance and extent of this vast m etro p oli s. No other nation could furnish materials in for such a w or k, and to these the community t o w hi c h is stb information, the compilerora partly indebted for s uc h a mass of useful tion, useful, not to a f ew c l asses only, but to the whole com mun i ty. There is not one class some of the directi▪ ons are no t a b so l ute l y necessary. A mere outli▪ ne of the most striking fea tures will confirm our statement. It emb races th e whole of the metropolis, including th e env i rons, to an extent of fifteen miles from th e Post - office, and com prises,ormi alo b n e , a commercial directory , a trades di rectory, a law directory, a Court directory, a P ar li amentary directory, a postal directory, a City directory, a con veyance siadnes official di a great deal a s t reet directory, deal of o th er copious in formation, di re ctory, and a banking directory. It ex ttnds to 2,074 pages, printed in a clo se , b ut clear and bold type, and is accompanied by a beautiful, minute, and, as far as we have had an opportunity of judging, a correct map of all the streets of London, with the names of each distinctly marked. The postal U London lett ers a t directory will be found of the greatest s erv i ce . It has been greatly enlarged and imp rove d , and fur nishesewvheircyh w t t nt l h ie enr h e o auinsrd villageoafrtohset. o in had the ti me at w hi c h deliveryffice,n t of the United Kin g d om a t the letter-box from London closes at each place— also the distance of each from the post town through which the London letters are trans mitted. We .. may state that no other este- blishment could furnish such minute and correct details, as the enormous amount of information is obtained by the employment of each letter-carrier in his own district, after the completion of his official duties. The work does great credit to Mr. Kelly, and we have no doubt that the excellent manner in which it is prepared, and the information which it conveys, will ensure for it universal approbation and complete success. FRENCH RAILWAY NEWS. (From the Railway Express.) PARIS, TUESDAY, DEC. 23.—The great event of the week has been the adjudication of the Lyons and St. Quentin Railways. In both cases circumstances arose to give unusual interest to the proceedings. As there was only one company for the Lyons line, the engineers having withdrawn, it was considered a certainty that the fused company must obtain it ; and in consequence, the prices of promises rose in the market, and the definitive shares went up from 60 francs premium to 80 francs premium. For the St. Quentin line, it was believed, that tour companies, independently of the Northern, would send in tenders, and the most formidable opponent to the latter was considered to be the Company Cordier, for merly known by the name of the Company Kysaeus. All the four companies, however, were considered so weak when compared with Rothschild's, that their pro mises were all at a discount ; and it was looked on as a certainty, that if any other company but the Northern obtained the line, the shares of such successful company would go considerably below par, as was seen in the case of the Fampoux line. Hence the subscribers of the several companies, strange as it may seem, were all most anxious for the success of the Rothschild Company, the day before the adjudica tion; when the caution money of 3,000,000 francs was to be paid in by each, it was rumoured about, that the Cordier Company was unable to sends its quota. This, on inquiry, was discovered to be true, and the cause was said to be the r e f usa l o f t h e English Committee to pay its portion of the funds This, again, was found to be the fact, for the representative of the English subscribers, who had brought over the necessary funds to Paris, re fused absolutely to sacrifice the interests of his consti tuents to the ruinously low raise which the French Com- mittee were inclined to propose. He declared that if the figure, which he named, and which was such as would not endanger the interests of the Company, was adopted by the French Committee, he would at once hand forth the English subscription. This being refused, he on his part held back the money, and the Company could not send in a tender. Various rumours were afloat that an understanding had been come to between Rothschild and the others; but though such a course was more than once attempted, it was found impossible tcraccomplish it, from the heavy penalties imposed by the French code on any attempts to impede the course of fair competition, once that the various lists had been deposited with the Minister of Public Works. The Directdrs could, it is true, have made a bargain for themiAves, but as this could be affected only by throwing the subscribers overboard, it is not wonderful that they avoided so disgraceful a course of proceeding. At last the day arrived (Saturday) in which the decision was to take place. The crowd in the court-yard of the hotel of the Minister of Public Works was immense ' • and when, at last, th e d oors were opened, the crush was tremendous. After a quar ter of an hour's battling, the public got wedged into their places in the adjudication-room, and M. Dumon, the Minister of Public Works, opened the proceedings by reading the law of July 15, 1845, authorising the ad judication of the Lyons line for 45 years at most, and of the St. Quentin for 75 yers at most; each Company, in the former case, to depc4t 16,000,000 francs as cer tain money; and on the latter 3,000,000 francs. He next placed on the table two sealed packets, containing the maximum of lease, which, in accordance to the law, he had himself fixed, and beyond which no tender could be valid. The offer of the fused Company for Lyons was then opened, and it appeared that they consented to a diminution of two years and six months, leaving the length of the lease at 42 years and six months. The Minister then broke the seal of one of the packets which he had laid on the table, and read from the paper en closed in it that he had fixed the lease at 41 years and 90 days. " Consequently," observed M. Dumon, " the tender just presented, being higher than that determined on by the Government, could not be accepted, and the adjudication was accordingly adjourned." This most logical deduction of the honourable Minister's, fell most unpleasantly on the ears of the parties most deeply con cerned. I scarcely ever beheld longer faces, for this denouement was never for a moment contemplated by a single person present. The agitation was for a few minutes extreme ; but when at last it had subsided, the adjudication of the other line was proceeded to. The maximum of the lease alloWed by the Chambers was 75 years, and the offers made were these :- 1. The Company Colbert offered to take the line for 36 years 350 days 2. The Company Ardoin Arnoux, and Meares des Poste: 49 yrs 2 mths 15 dys 3. The Company Carrettret Min- guet 4B years 285 days 4. The Company Rothschild 24 years 335 days A loud burst of laughter greeted this latter announce merit, which the Minister immediately declared to be accepted, being lower than the term which he had named in his sealed packet. A rush to the Bourse immediately ensued, although the incidents of the day were not yet at an end ; for M. C. Laffitte immediately rose and pro posed, in the name of the fused Company, of which h• was a member, to take the Lyons line for a term of years fixed by the Hon. Minister. M. Dumon replied that he could not return a decided answer at that moment. The crowd then slowly withdrew, many hundred persons being still in the court-yaid for an hour after. The scene at the Bourse, we are informed, was most extraordinary: when the first messenger arrived from the Minister's hotel, whether intentionally or not cannot be said, though the former is to be presumed, the person who first ran up the steps cried out that Carrette and Minguet had got the St. Quentin line. A tremendous shout at once burst forth, as if the defeat of Rothschild was a universal benefit. The commotion was so great, that the agens de change were obliged to desist from business for a minute or two. When they resumed, the Northern went down in about five minutes from 740 francs to 700 francs I Just before the bell rang the true state of the case became known, and they then rallied to 715 francs. Yesterday they opened at 740 francs, were done at 745, and closed at 737 francs 80 cents. It 4,,probable that after so great a rise they will decline for' some days, from sales being effected to realise profits. The offer of the Great Fused Company for the Lyons line has been since accepted by the Minister of Public Works. Having declared the length of the lease which he thought the line ought to be taken at, he could not well do otherwise. Since my last, the market has been firm, and the prices of both French funds and railway shares have advanced. The Orleans to Bordeaux line is not now expected to be opened to Tours at the beginning of the year, as was expected. That event will not take place for a couple of months later. The works on the Northern line are not either altogether as far advanced as has been stated in some of the public prints. RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year : gm . g.' 13 4 . t c., toao "" o C.)..5. NAME OF RAILWAY. Week ending Dec. 20 Arbroath and Forfar. • .. • • • . • • . • .• . • Bristol and Birmitaam •• • . ...... Chester and Birkenliead ............. Dublin and Drogheda. • .• • • .. • • • • • • • • Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • Dundee and Arbroath ............... Durham and Sunderland .•• •• . •.. •• • Edinburgh and Glasgow ........ Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr .... •• Glogow and Greesock• • •...... Grand Junction • . Gravesend and R0che5ter............ Great North of England .... • • ...... Great Western . • • .......... Hartlepool London and Birmingham, &c...... London and 81ackwa11.............. London and Brighton . • ......... London and Croyddn . • ....... .. London and Greehwich .. • • London and South Western Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Manchester and Birmingham Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc Midland Counties. •. Newcastle and Darlington Newcastle and Carlisle Newcastle and North Shields North Union and Bolton and Preston Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans Paris and Rouen . .......... Preston and Wyre . • • • .... Sheffield and Manchester. ............ South Eastern • .......... • • • • • • • .• • • Ulster . ....... . . ..... ........ Yarmouth and Narvrich ............ York and North Midland. ........ Last week. 456 2,201 7,036 1,784 680 112 17,355 979 32,651 643 4,186 1,072 5,M6 844 6,018 16,231 2,454 1,717 391 508 626 218 336 1,798 4,233 1,325 669 16,703 30,631 597 3,639 934 410 1,031 1,444 5,788 4,626 948 8,451 1,162 5,672 780 3,286 4,858 13,526 1,014 1,572 333 220 1,471 3,929 343 562 4,518 827 655 4,757 4,965 REPRESENTATION 'OF BRADFORD.—AIready the requisition to Mr. Busfield and Colonel Thompson has re ceived about 500 signatures.—Leeds Mercury. SUICIDE ox CHRISTMAS-DAT.— On Wednesday evening, about seven o'clock, a young man of respectable ap pearance called at the Gloucester Coffee-house, Aldersgate street, and inquired if he could be provided with a bed, ob serving that he was very much fatigued. He went imme diately to his room. The next morning he got up about eleven o'clock, when, on entering the coffee-room, he asked the proprietor, Mr. Smith, to let him have a tumbler. On receiving it he returned to his room, but in about two mi nutes after lie was again in the coffee. room ; upon entering which he instantly tell .On the floor. Mr. Smith, thinking that he was in a fit, bathed his face with vinegar, but he could not be revived. Mr. Lowe, a surgeon, found a phial which had contained prussic acid in the pocket of the de ceased. Ile had on a black dress coat, ablack silk waistcoat with red spots, black dress trousers, Wellington boots of chamois leather, a dress top coat, and a black silk scarf with very small red spots round his neck. Ile was about five feet four inches in height, of fair complexion, and 22 years of age, with light brown hair, and no whiskers. There was in his pocket only a tavern bill. A BOLD STROKE FOR A CHRISTMAS DINNER.— At the Lambeth Police-court, on Friday, John Edwards was committed to take his trial at the next Surrey Sessions, on a charge of stealing a piece of ribs of beef. It appeared that on Wednesday evening, a lad, in the service of a butcher. iu Harper-street, Old lii.ut-road, was taking the piece or, beef home to a customer, when the prisoner, with much dexterity, snatched it out of the tray and ran away with it. He was, however, followed and secured. The prisoner, in defence, said he had nothing for his supper on Christmas eve, or his dinner on Christmas-day, and had made up his mind to have Bomotthing for both. ,--' SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. CHRONICLE.—The Times seems to be just now under the twofold influence of the genius loci and of the genius temporis—of Printing house-square and of the season of pantomimic transformations. The last feat of our flexible Contemporary is a remarkable tour de force, even fur the practised skill of that literary harlequin. On Monday last the public were informed of the imme diate cause of Lord John Russell's failure in his attempt to form an Administration. The cause, as the Times states, was this:—" Lord Grey most 'Strongly objected to the appointment of Illbrd Palmerston to the Foreign office, and for his own part positively refused to serve with that Noble Lord as Foreign Minister." Lord John Russell, " considei ing that he could not dispense with either cf their Lordships," resolved "to return his commission into her Majesty's bands." Yesterday the Times statec that amongst Lord John Russell's friends a conviction prevailed that Lord Palmerston " stood condemned by the public opinion of Europe as a man unfit to conduct the foreign affairs of England " that " this conviction " was " fatal to the formation of Lord John Russell's Cabinet "—that it had led to " the secession of some of his colleagues," and thus to the failure of an attempt to form an Administration. Upon the matter of fact with respect to the events of the last week, we wish merely to say that the first statement of the Times is strictly correct, the other the reverse. Un willing to provoke any controversy upon the subject, we confined ourselves to the simple announcement that Lord John Russell had been obliged to abandon his task, not in consequence of any difference amongst his col leagues, either upon the question which had led to the break-up of Sir Robert Peel's Ministry, or as to the individuals who should have composed the new Cabinet. The difference related merely to the distribution of offices, and was confined to Lord Grey's refusal to act with Lord Palmerston as Foreign Secre tary. We are now merely stating a matter of fact, about which, for the present, we are not called upon to offer an opinion. Whether the more recent statement of the Times is ene of those distortions of truth produced by the habit of bending and twisting facts to make them fit particular views, or is the malignant suggestion of some unscrupulous intriguer, we feel equally bound to tell the public that it is altogether disentitled to credit. There is a very wide difference indeed, though we care not just now to dwell upon this, between the refusal of such a man as Lord Grey to co-operate with Lord Palmerston as Foreign Secretary, and " the secession of some of his colleagues upon the important ground" that he " was an object of general suspicion and alarm." It is a stale artifice of those a ho, from various and conflicting motives from factious hostility, from larger party views, from personal pique or am bition, or, as some do, from the mere love of mischief —aim at breaking any political combination, to assume the existence of some difference, and then to enter as auxiliaries and partizans of imaginary dissentients. " The Whigs," it is said, "have acquiesced, for the most part, against their own conscientious convictions in the foreign policy of Lord Palmerston." Here is, if we may so say, the trick of the Artful Dodger in politics. Our Contem porary would make it appear that the Whigs have one policy and Lord Palmerston another, and he benevolently interferes to protect the great body of his party from the contamination of his principles. Now, whatever may have been the merits or the faults of the foriegn policy of England from 1830 to 1842, they belong not to Lord Palmerston or to the Whig Cabinet, but to the people who placed and sustained these men in office. This we claim in justice to the Liberals of England. It was the force of opinion in this coun try that enabled the Government of the day, and would have compelled any other Government, to recognise and heartily to support the throne and the new institutions of France, then menaced by Powers not even yet fully reconciled to the principles out of which they sprung. In Belgium, in Spain, in Portugal. in Italy, in Greece, the allied Governments of France and England brought to pacific solution questions of the greatest complexity—questions that had within them the seeds of that calamity foretold by one of the most gifted of our statesmen—a war of opinion in Europe, and which seemed so inevisable as to draw from an Op position leader the memorable declaration, that " if an angel were to descend from Heaven to write our dis patches, it would be still impossible to preserve peace." Peace was preserved though, and the basis of its preservation was the alliance of France and England. It is fresh in all men's minds how that alliance was assailed—how the men who stood by it were thwarted by every factious artifice within reach of the most unscrupulous Opposition of which the history of party gives record. Day after day the columns of the very journal that is now treating us to hypocritical homilies upon the blessings of peace and good will amongst nations, teemed with incendiary ap peals to the vilest passions and the old anti-Gallican bigotry of our people. Our Parliamentary records are full of debates and divisions—so many pitched battles— the hardly concealed object of which was to dislodge our Government from the position they had taken by the side of France. This spirit pervaded all ranks of the Tory party, and such was its virulence that not the most respectable of their organs could restrain its exhibition even upon an occasion that lays all ordinary animosities at rest. A DUD of European fame, come to do honour to a great event in our history, was elaborately insulted, be cause he was a Frenchman—the representative of a popular Government. And indeed so little has the spirit of this hostility abated, that as in 1838 the Quartelly Review insulted Marshal Soult, so in 1845 it insults M. Tillers, who, whatever may be our quarrel with him as a politician, was not here as a politician, but as the guest of our country, the representative of the literature and the civilization of his own. If there be then in England any feeling at variance with the inte rests of peace, lay it not at the door of the Whig Go vernment, of Lord Palmerston, or of the Liberal press. They who sow the svirlwind in opposition must not expect to reap sunshine and tranquillity in office. There is not a public man in France, no matter what may be his party or his personal predilections, who can entertain the slightest suspicion, that, up to 1840 at all events, there prevailed in the Liberal Cabinet any other than the most friendly feeling towards that country. Does France complain of the thing in 1840, or merely of the manner in which it was dune ? If of the thing itself—of the treaty of 1840, and of the arrangement of the Eastern question which re sulted from it, then, at all events, it is but common jus tice to the Government of Lord Melbourne, and to the Foreign Secretary of that Government, that the people and the public men of Franco should know that the policy of 1840 and 1841 was essentially the policy of the British nation, sanctioned at the time by the opinion of the most distinguished men of all parties, supported by newspapers of all shades of opinion (the Times amongst the most strenuous), and since then more than once adopted by the Tory leaders—the Duke of Wellington declaring, with characteristic love of justice, that "he saw nothing in the whole proceedings to blame." ADYERTISER.—The American Minister has, it is said, submitted the following propositions to the Mexi can Government :—l. The Rio del Norte to be the boundary between Texas and Mexico. 2. An indem . nity of 5,000,000 dollars to be paid by Mexico. 3. Upper California to be ceded to the United States, as far down as the head of the Gulf; the river Gila, which empties itself into the Colorado of the west, to be the boundary. If this arrangement should be car ried out, New California, embracing the splendid bar hours of San Francisco, and Monte Rey on the Pa• cific coast, would become part and parcel of the Ame rican Union. A glance at the map will show, that the Americans would gain thereby an accession of territory, including Texas, equal to more than one third of their present extent of conntry on the Western Continent. The River Gila, one of the affluents of the great river Colorado, runs from east to west, a little northwards of the head of the Gulf of California ; and if the Mexicans should cede the Rio Bravo del Norte, which no doubt they will do, on the side of the Gulf of Mexico, a: the boundary line of Texas ; and after wards, which appears to us incredible, consent to run the line along that river, till it reaches the parallel of the River Gila, taking a westerly direction to the Colo. rado, and thence to the Pacific Ocean—we say, unhe sitatingly, that modern history furnishes no example of such aggrandisement, brought about by the influ ence of giant overwhelming strength, against pitiable unresisting weakness. If the Mexican Congress should vote away this vast tract of country, it appears to us that a more suicidal act could not be perpetrated. To conceal from themselves for one moment the inevit _ able consequence, that Mexico Proper must speedily afterwards be absorbed in the vast Anglo-American Republic, would be the height of the blindest fatuity. But the grave consideration which forces itself upon our reluctant minds, and none can be better disposed than we are to view favourably the acts of the United States Government ; is it possible that France and England, especially the latter, will remain quiet spectators of such a vast acquisition of territory by the United States people P—without a murmur, without a serious resistance ! The aggressive spirit of the Ameri can policy, ♦eiled under the pretence of ex tending the sphere of their free institutions, now manifests itself in a manner which cannot but inspire anxiety, if not alarm, for the consequences. Whatever Mr. Polk may say, if France has already turned her atten tion to that quarter, and has lately, with great propriety, broached the doctrine of a "balance of power" in America, it is not the President's rain threat that " the United States cannot in silence permit any European interference on the North American Continent; and should any such interference be attempted, will be ready to resist it at any and all hazards,"—it is not such mere declama tory protests that will deter France and England from exercising their equally undoubted privilege of acting as they may deem wise, and politic, and just ; nor from extending protection over the weak and the oppressed amongst the distant nations of the world, in the same way as at this moment they are achieving real perma nent honour and glory by succouring and supporting a much-wronged State in the southern part of the Ame rican hemisphere. To suppose that England would yield the whole of Oregon, and allow, at the same time, the United States to seize upon Upper California—after having annexed Texas, by which the area of the American territory would be at one mighty struke of policy actually doubled in extent --is something so utterly beyond the bounds of imaginati on to conceive or for us to submit to, that we Canno t regard these monstrous pretensions and aggressive acts, without feeling the deepest anxiety for the result. The self praise and egotism, the affectation of humility and for bearance towards the neighbouring states, sanctimo niously seasoned with grave appeals to Heaven—which prevail throughout the whole of the speech of Mr. Folk —contrast but too p a i n f u ll y w i th the settled determ i ne d resolution, which, step by step, gains ground upon all the countries conterminous with the republic, compels conces sion by overwhelming force—extorts vast territories under the plea of compensation—and usurps the vast empire of the North American continent, under the hppocritical ple of adv anc i ng t h e h ap pi nes s of mankind. Whilst Mexico stands indebted many millions to England, we shall never look on supinely, and see the territory which -.• is pledged for the redemption of the debt owing to us, voted away and alienated unKer a system of coercion, and of physical and moral duress. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. TIMES.—Among the leading and experit need brokers of the Stock Exchange, whose views of the state of the money market are always worth listening to, there is great dif ference of opinion on the present reaction in the funds, on the probability of its being sustained or otherwise. ➢Zany of them are disposed to ascribe it in great mea sure to the late excessive speculations fur the tall, and to the extensive demand for stock Nhich has been pro duced by them ; and these ask, with some emphasis, in what way is our situation changed for the better, with the single exception of the return of Sir Robert Peel to power ? Have we not still to contend with the effects of scarcity of agricultural produce, the intended repeal of the corn-laws, with the action on the currency of the large importations of grain which must follow that mea sure ? Is there any better prospect of overcoming the baneful influence which the railway mania has bad in deranging the operations of the money market P And has the Oregon question lost any of its political importance within the last week or two ? The par ties who reason thus are persuaded that the whole, or the greater part, of the late rise is fallacious, and that a counter reaction is all but inevitable. Those who take a more cheering ♦iew of the state of pub lic credit, rely mainly on these considerations, via.:— that the late alarm among the stockholders and specu • lators was, in the first instance, greatly disproportioned to the danger which really existed ; that nine-tenths at least of the new railway companies were mere bubbles, on which very little money was raised, and that little sure to be spent before the meeting of Parliament ; that the corn question need raise no alarm, because the stock on the Continent, where alone gold would be the me dium of purchase, is notoriously so small that none could be had there if wanted ; that Mr. Polk is of the , western states, and must play his game of brag well to please his friends in that part of the American union ; ; that Sir Robert Peel, made stronger by the manner of his return to power, is not only a peace-maker, but a great financier, who, if he understands anything, fully understands the nature of public credit ; and, therefore, to sum up all, as Consols were at or near;' par" in August last, there is no reason why they should not return to that point. These, as nearly as may be collected, are the reasonings of the Stock Exchange on the state of the market ; the public will consider which has the best of the argument, which time alone can actually determine. There is something ludicrous in the various impres sions made upon applicants for railway shares, who have thought it prudent quietly to back out by the threat of the promoters of the schemes to publish their names as defaulters. A great number content them selves by earnestly deprecating such a cause ; others meet it with a counter threat of prosecution for libel, should the parties carry this avowed intention into effect ; few, if any, think': of paying any money for the purpose of averting the impending evil. At present all seem to be under great alarm ; and as the adroit managers of the hopeful projects do not fail to discover this, it is not unlikely that they may, in a few days, go a step farther, and proceed to ac tual hostilities. One correspondent has, however, started a new view of the case, which it may be of some use to those who are placed in a like predicament to men tion. He is willing, he says, perfectly willing, that his name should be published as what these defeated schemers term a " defaulter," but what others may desig nate as an honest, or at least prudent person, who, like a man tricked at a gaming -house, refuses to fulfil engage ments made with sharpers and swindlers, to which there exists no law that can compel him. He could wish, he adds, that the contrary course could be taken, and publication made of the names of those who have yielded to such threats as these by the payment of the sums levied ; he has no doubt they would feel as much annoyed by the exposure, and that they would be laughed at as simple tons, who from their money are " soon parted." These remarks only apply, of necessity, to those projectors of companies who have so conducted themselves as to be justly left in the lurch by the dupes, though there are very few probably of a different character to whom it would have occurred to put forth a threat of public expo sure as a means of enforcing payment from defaulting applicants for shares. The world will, perhaps, never know the whole truth of how many railway com panies have issued prospectuses, in which the whole money, raised from the gullible and unfortunate persons who were fascinated by them, has been spent in various ways without the least chance that the project could ever arrive at maturity. The bankers who have kept the accounts of such money as they have managed to scrape together, would be able to tell a tragic tale in this respect, but could not tell all, nor is it likely that such official or professional confidence will ever be betrayed as to leadto the desired exposure. THE LATE BOILER. EXPLOSION AT BOLTON. On Wednesday the adjourned inquest was held on view of the bodies of the unfortunate sufferers in the late melancholy catastrophe at Bolton. Since the day of the accident four other persons have died of the injuries they received, so that the total number killed is, up to this time, fourteen. There are others still in a danger ous state. An opinion gained ground that there was considerable blame attached to the master, and therefore the court-room in which the inquest was held was crowded to excess. On the bench where the coroner sat there were a number of magistrates, and a considerable number of millowners and other respectable inhabitants, also the sub-inspector of factories for this district. Mr. William Fairbairn, of Manchester, the eminent engi neer, who had been called in by the jury to investigate the causa of the accident, was also on the bench, accom panied by Mr. John Hick, a boiler-maker. _ _ The jury having been resworr, they proceeded to view the bodies of the four additional sufferers. There were two witnesses who were considered of importance, but could not be removed from their beds, so the coroner and jury proceeded to their homes, where they took their depositions. After c,•mo evidence as to the circumstances of the explosion had been taken, a long paper was read by Mr. William Fairbairn on the subject of steam-boiler explo sions, which ended as follows: After the selection of competent engineers and as sistant*, I would recommend the following precautions:— "1. That the practice of placing boilers under build ings where the workpeople are employed be discon tinued. "2. That two safety-valves be attached to each boiler; one of them to be weighted from the inside to the re quired pressure, and to have a long ascending discharge pipe, out of the reach of interference ; the other to be under the control of the engineer. These valves, in order to be perfectly safe, should have respectively an area equal to one-half of the steam-pipe, or about one square inch to every two horse of the computed power of the boiler. "3. That in cases where boilers are situated under a mercurial gauge, indicating the pressure of the steam, and an ascending column of water corresponding with that pressure, will be found of great value in cases of negligence on the part of the fireman or engineer. " Lastly. Each boiler should have a water gauge and two fusible fire-plugs, composed of suitable mate rials." _ _ _ The CORONER said that was the conclusion of the evidence on the part of the Queen, but if the owners of the mill wished any other witnesses to be examined, the jury would, no doubt, be glad to receive their evidence. Mr. Gaskill, solicitor, who appeared for the firm, said they had no important witnesses to bring forward. The jury then retired, and in about three-quarters of an hour returned with a verdict of " Manslaughter" against Thomas Kitts, one of the partners in the concern. The foreman of the jury said he had been requested to express the thanks of his the jury to Mr. Fa!rbairn, for the great assistance they had received from his valu able document, and to request that it should be forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with a view of bringing the subject of steam-boilers before the Legislature. RATING OF PRINCE ALBERT S FARM AT WINDSOR. The question of the liability of his Royal Highness Prince Albert to pay the poor rates for the farm the Prince occupies in the parise of Windsor, is about to be submitted to the law advisers of the Crown. Mr. Darwill, solicitor, of 'Windsor, having been pro fessionally employed by the overseers and churchwar dens of the parish to endeavour to obtain from his Royal Highness the payment of arrears of poor-rates, amount ing to nearly 230/., and not having succeeded, after a correspondence with Mr. G. E. Anson, the Prince's private secretary, on the subject, the parochial au thorities determined to memorialize the Prince him self on the matter in dispute. Accordingly a memorial, couched in the most respectful language, was trans mitted to his Royal Highness, pointing out the great losses which had been sustained by the parish during the past 12 or 14 years, in consequence of the vast amount of property in the town and neighbourhood which had been purchased by the Crown, and consequently, was now unrated ; and showing, at the same time, in the opinion of the inhabitants, in vestry assembled, that his Royal Highness, having clearly a beneficial occupa tion in Flemish farm, was liable to be rated to the relief of the poor, equally with those who were compelled to pay the poor-rates upon property adjoining that occu pied by the Prince. A letter has just been received by Mr. Darvill, written by Mr. G. E. Anson, by command of his Royal High ness Prince Albert, in which it is stated in effect, that the Prince still demurs to the legality of the claim which has been made upon him by the parochial autho rities, in pursuance of a resolution passed at a vestry meeting held in September last, and that his Royal Highness, under the impression that the parish has no legal claim upon him for any poor-rates alleged to be due for Flemish farm, intends to have a case submitted to the law officers of the Crown, and to abide by their ()pinion on the subject. As soon as this opinion has been obtained by the Prince, no time will be lost in trans mitting a copy of it to the memorialists on the part of the parish. In the event of the opinion of the law officers of the Crown being in favour of the view taken by the Prince Consort, a vestry meeting will be imme diately called for the purpose of laying the case and opinion of the law officers before them, as well as the correspondence which has passed between Mr. Anson, on the part of the Prince, and Mr. Darvill, on the part of the parochial authorities, in order that they may come to some final decision on a subject which has cre ated great excitement throughout the borough. On Wednesday morning the large number of married and single men, amounting to nearly 200, em ployed in the firm of Messrs. Coombe and De!afield, the porter brewers in Casale-street, Long-acre, received tickets to procure for the married men, their wives, and children each 5 lbs. of beef, 1 lb. of bread, and a pint of porter, and to all the single men 2s. 6d. in money. The gift is from Mr. Delafield, it having been the practice of his Ist* uncle.