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orders, enjoy a higher degree of inviolability. This inviolability they derive from the dignity of the state they represent, and from the interest that every nation takes in the honour and security of those who are to transact its affairs in foreign countries. Public Ministers and diplomatic agents are by most jurists considered ex territorial, and, in some cases, as exempted from the civil jurisdiction of the State. We are not therefore surprised that the President of a great and civilized country con demns the violence exercised towards the Spanish Con sul, and points out the defects of the American legisla tion in reference to foreign Ministers and agents. The reference to Louis Kossuth in this state paper is brief but interesting. After stating that a frigate had been sent to receive on board the ex-Governor of Hungary, the President recommends to Congress to consider in what manner the distinguished exile—whose arrival at New York, we learn, was every hour anxiously looked for—should be received and treated. There is a good deal in the Message in reference. to Mexico, Taumelipas, and the railway acros s the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, on which we have not space to remark to-day; but we must not, in passing even cur sorily over those topics, omit to state that the President warns his countrymen of the over.-trading and over i -spe culation likely to be incident to the immense s upples of Californian gold daily arriving. These are wtse . sug gest:onm, well *worthy of the countryman of Bonjamin Franklin. Other recommendations of the greatt are well worthy of imitation nearer home, in non also essentialy commercial and maritime. .When we find the Americans directing all their energies to the im. of their . dry and wet provement of their harbo urs— nava l academies, and school decks—of their naval yards, of charts, it were well if, in the present state of Europe, we, too, should think of those wooden w i ll s i n which must ever be our aafetys and a reat portion of our another . recommendation of national strength. Nor the American less r of imitation in England. The public statutes of the United States have only been ac cumulating for a little more than sixty years, yet they exhibit much of the incongruity and imperfection of hasty legislati on ' The President, therefore, recom mends that a commission be appointed to revise the public statutes —to arrange them in order—to supply deficienc ies —to correct incongruities—to simplify their and to render them language,c heaper and more acces sible to . the public. Th ese are g l or i ous a ims, worthy of liepublics, worthy of Kings and Queens, worthy of Em porous. In England our statutes extend not over sixty odd, but, counting from Magna Charta, over six hundred and odd years, and fill 33 volumes quarto—a decent waggon load. If a committee of revision be required for American statutes, how much more loudly is it de manded for British statutes ! SPANISH BONDHOLDERS.—Senor Jose Borrajo, the Royal Commissioner, having commenced the Conversion of the Spanish Debt, under the law for Its settlement et the Ist August, 185 i, at No. 10, St. Helen's-place, Bishopsgate street, Notice is hereby Given to the holders of Spanish Bonds, that the Committee acting for them in London are intervening in the conversion, in order that they may be able to issue a document for the 50 per cent. of the Coupon rot funded. The Committee are now, by the hands of their agents, the London and County Bank, No. 21, Lombard-street, receiving, every day, from Eleven to Three o'clock, Bonds and Coupons for conversion. Forms for filling u p may be had at the said bank. Duplicate Lists will be required for the Bonds and Coupons sent in for conversion. Due notice will be gives when the New Bonds are ready for deli very. The Spanish Government have extended the time for conver sion to the 31st March inclusive, without forfeiture of dividen. Par ties neglecting to send their Bonds in before that day will d lose a year's dividend. By order of the JS Committee, . . COLLETT, Secretary. 3, Clement's-lane, Lombard-street, Dec. 6, 1851. HUNGER FUND-HALL, STRAND. UNRIVALLED COMBINATION OF ATTRACTION. ANIMAL MAGNETIS O.—SOIREES LASSAIGNE every Even ing (Saturday excepted ), at Eight o'clock. Admission Is., as., and 4s. Stalls and Rese rved Seats may be secured at Mr. Sams's Royal Library, St. Jarnes's-street ; at Mr.Ebers's, Bookseller to her Majesty, 27, Old Bon d-street ; and at the Manager's Office, Hunger ord-halL THEATRE of OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. SOIREESiiSTERIEUSES," Juvenile Amusements, by M. and Madame Laviglois, of Paris, and the celebrated Indian Juggler, pignut. with Dissolving Views, Chromatrope, &c., every Evening, at Seven o'cloee. Asimisslon la. , Is. 6d., and 2s. 6d. DIORAMA.—Every Day, from Twelve to Three. Priem of Ad mission I. 6d., _ls., and 6d. BAZAARS—Open daily from Ten A.m. to Ten P.M. Admission Free. MAGNETOID CURRENTS and the MAGNETOSCOPE. Dr. Leger's Philosophical and Experimental Lectures every Saturday Evening, at Eight. Admission Is. and 2s. TFLEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Yr. B. WeLn.er, :tole Lomas and Manager, 01.1Bromptott. THIS EVENING, ." Will be performed a new Comedy, entitled THD MAN OF LAW. Martinis de la Seigliere, Mr. Lambert ; Raoul, Mr. L. Murray ; M. Desteurnelles, Mr. B. Webster ' • Bernard, Mr. Howe; Baroness de Yaubert, sirs. Stirling ; Helene de la Seigliere, Miss A. Vining. After which a new b arce, entitled TILE TWO lIONNYCASTLES. Mr. Bonnycastle, Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. Bonnycastle, Mrs. Buck ingham. To conclude with TIIE JACOBITE. AL , ALELY tia 'Mar tbs) director) of Mr. B. Webster. The popular Comedian, Mr. Wright, having recovered from his in disposition, will appear This Evening. Enormous success cf the Yankee Comedian, Mr. Josh Silsbee. THIS EVEN LNG, Will be performed Oho comic Drama, entitled THE FOREST ROSE! and the YANKEE PLOUGHBOT. Jonathan Ploughboy, Mr. J. Silsbee • Bellamy, Mr. Worred; Harriet Miller, Miss Col lins; Sally Forest, Miss E. Chaplin. To be followed by the Comedy of PAUL PRY. Colonel Hardy, Mr. Emery ; Paul Pry, Mr. Wright; Grasp, Mr. 0. Smith; Mr. Willis, Mr. Worrell ; Marian, Miss Ellen Chaplin. After which, a new and laugtiable Piece de Circonstance, entitled BI.COMERISM ; or, The Follies of a Day. Mr. Agrioola Green, Mr. Honey; Mr. Flighty Bounce, Mr. Paul Bedford • John trey, Mr. 0. Smith; Mr. Weakly, Mr. Worrell; Mrs. Portia Lu crezia Green, Miss Woolgar. lOW AI, PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Cr-der the Menagementot Mr. C. Ream. THIS EVEN 'Ng: Shakespere's Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Principal characters by Messrs. Bartley, Keeley A. Wigan, Mea dows, Addison, Harley, J. Vining, C. Kean ; Mesdames Winstanley, Keeley, arid C. Kean. After which, a new and original Comedy, in two acts, entitled TENDER PRECAUTIONS; or, the Romance of Marriage, in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, and Mr. and Mrs. Wigan will appear. ?mate iroxts, he., to be had of all the Booksellers, and or sir. blas.Mcham ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office, ~, rf-,:, . .tre4t. fro:, Eleven till Five o'clock. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madan Q Vestris. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre having been thoroughly renovated and embellished, will RE-OPEN THIS EVENING, When will bG performed THE DIME OF SPECULATION". Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, R. Roxby, B. Baker ; Mrs. C. Born, and Miss M. Oliver. To bo followed by FORTY AND FIFTY. To conclado with A PRACTICAL MAN. 1:0Y.41, OLYMPIC TILL,ITKE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Farrell. THIA EVENING, Mill be performed THE MOMENTOUS QUESTION . . After which HIS FIR4T CHAMPAGNE. To conclude with BLACK EYED SUSAN. ri.fl‘AClPs PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE. Lessee., Mr. W. R. COPELAND, Liverpool. The Warmest Theatre in London. Another New Farce. THIS EVENING, Will be performed SIMPSON AND CO. After which, BREAKFAST FOR TWO. To be followed by a new Farce, entitled CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. Characters by Messrs. Rogers, Belton, Romer, Misses Mar,hall and Maskell. With STROLLERS AND STRATAGEMS. To conclude with a Farce, entitled THE FIFTH OF NOVEM BER, by Messrs. Tilbury, Rogers, Hudspeth, Misses Saunders and Maskell. i'r ~ r !C26 of admission are arranged as follow :—Orchestra stalls, 41; /loxes (first circle), 35.; (second circle), Is. ; Pit, Is. lx , ors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the performances to commence at Seven precisely. A second price will be taken to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock —brat circle , Is.; second circle, Is. Private itoxe, One Guinea ands Half each. Stage Manager. Mr. E. Stirling. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under tho Patronage of tier Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. --( D Ot t erul M , nager: 'Kr. W. Batty. The most successful and popular Theatre In London. Azael still continUes the Star of LN the Theatrical World. tS LYNN Will be produced new grand Spectacle, from the pen of E. Fitzball, EFT. and written expressly for this establishment, entitled AZAEL, In which will be introduced the same highly-trained Horses and Cattle's that appeired in the Opera at her Majesty's Theatre, with an addition of Ostriches, Zebras, &c., &c., the whole of the well known resources of Astley's. It has been pronounced by public opinion to be the snost gorgeous and effective production ever witnessed within the walls of a theatre, assisted with magnificent scenery and brilliant costumes. The new Dramatic Performers having achieved an unparalleled triumph, will have the the honour et appearing every evening until further notice. With Batty's Grand Scenes of the Arena, embracing the la r g est ~. Equestrianand Company in Europe, represented by Foreign and Br itish r.d. Female Artists of superior talent. T o conclude with 310 HE BLUNDIiCKS TITAN ONE. .. .ctste to be had at the box-office from Eleven till Four daily. Sts u`,laciager, Mr. T. Thompson. PORTRAITS SOULT AND WELLINGTON , WITI - 1 MEMOIRS AND FA C - SIMILI.E3 OF THEIR lIAND- WRITINGS. THE MOST SPLE NDID LIKENESS OF SOULT EVER TAKEN, BY WYON, FOR WHICH THE MARSHAL SAT SIX TIMES TOGETHER WITH A. PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON IS THIS DAY PUBLISHED, AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, PRICE ONE SHILLING. CIA a • —l ' ll ' l G or THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE S VOW.—YeAterd 7 the area and galleries of the Baker - stre c e o t n w t e en r a e t - s a . l Bazaar in almost entirely cleared of their receat in teresting portion of agricultural im plements and animals ea e bo s u m t al 6 l or 7) which remained were in the course of reovak, m and all will have disappeared in the course of this day. stupendous the animals still remaining was the beautiful land, near Halifax, aged etcow , bred and fed by Mr. Hul en five and six years, and weighing about 120 stone of I :rbfor which prizes of a silver medal and 201. were awarded. . Mr. Davis, the well-known artist, was engaged duringthtedeamaking a drawing of this an i m al. The proprietor of h Bazaar is about ( among a promote comfort both va rie. y of impro vements), in order t it could to pave the to the anima l. and visitors to futu°re s la be l o wer area. This h as been delayed until deter mined whether ston e, as p halte, or metallic ere the preferable material. One of the latter (the me ta llic lava), bas, it is understood been selectel, and will • shortly be laid down. A HORSE WITHOUT lIAIB.—AD extraordinary phe nomenon, in the way of " horse-flesh," WAS brought to town yesterday afternoon by the steamer Gordon. It is a mare, c :ptured on the plains of Venezuela by a party of American bunters, headed by the well-known traveller, Juan Percy, and Captain Hall. She is lsi hands high, of great beauty and symmetry, and without one particle o f hair on an y p art of her body. .11e skill resembles India rubber, and is as sort ahsoet is velvet. TUE _ SUN, HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Taus Day —Morning 26 rain. after 7 I Evening 59 min after 7 To-Moiaow—Morning min. after S I Evening 14 min attar 9 THE WEATHER. --SUN ORRICE, Dzc 16. TniumoKaTEE, Ix m SHADE. 3S—highest since noon yesterday. 35 —lowest this morning and during the night. 41—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30 , 15. yirop W.S.W.—dull, foggy weather. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. F L TMOUTH —Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. 13r1crrow—Wind N.E., calm—overcast. riasThvGs—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. SoiraufrTos—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—foggy. Four.r.zroxs—Wind S., gentle breeze--overcast. TUNBRIDGE—Wind S., calm— scud, rain. GREENWlCH—Calm—overcast. &MOOD —Wind S.W.. gentle breeze—foggy. SWINDON—Wind S.W., light airs—overcast. COLCHESTER —Wind N.E., calm—overcast. CaxBRIDGN—Wind gentle breeze—overcast. YARMOUTH—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. BIRMINGHAM-Irl ind S.E., calm—foggy. HoLvar.aD—Calm—overcast. LIVERPOOL—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—rain. Lax casTan—Wind S.E., calm—foggy. DARLINGTON—Wind W.S.W., gentle breeze—foggy. S HAP— ind S., calm—overcast. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Saturday morning at nine o'clock : azimuca—Wind S.E., calm—foggy. ULLINGAR Wind N.E., gentle breeze—foggy. pools—Wind W., gentle breeze—overcast. BIRMLNGFIAX —W ind E., strong breeze—foggy. HoLvar.an—Wind S., gentle breeze—fine. LAN CASE ER —Wind W., gentle breeze—principally clear. Warrav—Wind S.W., gentle breeze--overcast. DARLINGTON—Wind S.S.W., gentle breeze —frosty. Saar—Wind E., calm—partially cloudy. B serr o c a—Wind N., gentle breeze—foggy. TO CORRESPONDENTS No communication can be attended to unless anthen• ticated by the name and addresa of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. • - • 4- kw, - ' • • A , +S., •rd M , . ' , RI • fri;`A--lilf!"1 . 1 U j • . b e rnin la ' II er3.- LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1851. Nearly a fortnight prior to the memorable coup d'etat of Louis NAPOLEON, there appeared a lively work in two volumes, from the pen of Sir FRANCIS HEAD, entitled " A Faggot of French Sticks," and issued by one of the most distinguished of our Lon don publishers. In this production the author, after describing with his customary animation the principal features of Paris as they appeared to him in 1851, appended some remarks upon the then political situa tion of the country, evincing:throughout his observa tions a sagacity which recent events have almost elevated to the gift of vaticination. The coincidence is, to our thinking, of a nature so extraordinary that we are induced to direct the public attention to it in these columns, as to a circumstance eminently en titled to the notice of the general population. For some considerable time it had been manifest that a crisis was rapidly drawing on such as must lead in the end to a direct struggle between the executive and legislative powers of the Republic. The germ of this struggle was manifestly contained in the original scheme of the. Constitution. Every one saw from the outset the consequences that must ensue from the rival energies imparted to the chief powers of the Government, and from the hostile attitude the PRE SIDENT and the Assembly were compelled to adopt towards each other. Latterly, however, it became more and more visible that the contest defied much further postponement. The factious course pursued by the majority of the representatives rendered it improbable, if mot impossible, that mere discussion could effect anything like a satisfactory arrangement. Politicians generally throughout France degenerated into intriguers, and the leaders of the more conspi cuous parties, instead of contenting themselves with an open opposition to the policy of Louis NAPOLEON, adventured upon the most daring and dastardly intrigues against the very basis of the Republican Administration. Beholding these things, the author of the volumes above particularised gave utterance to those sentiments of mingled regret and indignation with which he regarded proceedings so peculiarly distasteful to him as an Englishman. He fearlessly explained the views with which he watched the progress of affairs in the neighbouring capital, and shrank not from expressing the sympathy he could not but feel for one placed like Louis NA POLEON in a situation of such tremendous responsibi lity and embarrassment. " Strange to say," he ex claimed (vol. ii., p. 443), " while the whole French nation, grouped into factions, with a hurricane brew ing up to windward, are at this moment occupied in searching, as intently as a man looks for a lost needle in a haystack, vainly for the head of their constitu tion, it has pleased ALMIGHTY GOD to place at the helm of their affairs a pilot possessing very nearly a ll the qualifications necessary for restoring to France that tranquillity and commercial prosperity she so ar dently desires to attain." It was against this per sonage that the plots of the unprincipled enemies of the Republic were directed almost unanimously while Sir FRANCIS HEAD was writing that sentence, and—a reflection which could not fail to arouse our interest in the victim of the proposed outbreak—he was, according to his own moving phrase, chained to the helm and powerless for good, even at the mo ment when he saw the vessel of the state driving on towards the abyss. Shutting their eyes to the diffi culty of his position, his enemies indulged themselves only in the luxury of misrepresentation. Ac- cording to them, he was a man with out any purpose, save that of a lawless ambition, and without any principle save that of his own personal aggrandizement. It mattered nothing that during three years he had remained true to his oaths of allegiance to the Republican Constitution. It mattered nothing that during that interval he had preserved for France not only peace with surround ing nations, but—what was yet more astonishing in her regard—peace within the limits of her boundaries. It mattered nothing that, under the shelter of his policy, commerce began once more to flourish after the panic and confusion into which its votaries had been thrown by the casualties of revolution. His as sailants, infuriated against him possibly only the more from their knowledge of the very facts here enume rated, adopted every contrivance, no matter how ignoble in its origin or how detestable in its virulence, to obstruct him in the faithful discharge of his duties as the chief magistrate of the newly-created Demo cracy. Not contented with the impediments thrown in his way by means of their Parliamentary malig nancy, they determined to stake their chances of an ulterior triumph upon the hazard of an intrigue. Then it was that an alliance was effected of a kind more shameless than was perhaps ever before con trived either in ancient or modern times between the most shameless and unblushing of political adven turers. We are not speaking here by inuendoes. The reality of the atrocious compact entered into by these conspirators i s l ong b e f ore t hi s a matter o f notor i ety throughout Christend om . Th e cou p d'it at , there nor less fore, l called, was in reality no thi ng more e defence—a self proceeding coup—an act of self iestangt and by which Louis NA POLEON , only at the last n from destruction. the utmost provoca tion, secured himself personally estru m et o io v n em . is conseque ntl y a far ce to talk of the recent ent of the PRESIDENT as an unjustifiable aggression, an inexcusable violation of a Con s tit ut i on alreadyas su ffi c i en tly violated, in all conscience, by th e merabers of the Republican Legislature. As the opinions of an honest Englishm an, those expressed by Sir FRANCIS HEAD upon the character of Louts NAPOLEON will, we are satisfied, be welcom e d with eagerness, and perused with respectful attention, by our fellow- countrymen. His estimate of the PRESIDENT has evidently coincided to the full with that some while since given to the world by M. GUEMIONNIERD. " From every person whose opinion was worthy of respect," says the author of the work before mentioned, " I heard, during my short resi dence in Paris, Prince Louis NAPOLEON described as honest, wise, silent, and independent." The accuracy of the assertion has been subsequently verified some what remarkably by the unanimity with which the French people have accepted his coup d'itat, not LONDON, merely in the capital, but generally speaking through out the departments. " During the severe trial to which he has been subjected," continues the writer, " he has firmly defended religion against atheism, the rights of property against plunderers, order against revolutionists." This glorious line of policy the PRESIDENT has recently completed by his heroic suppression of the efforts made in certain detestable quarters with a view to the carrying out of a re gular system of pillage and massacre. "On the whole," says Sir FRANCIS HEAD, in conclusion, " I am firmly of opinion that, under a mild exterior, with gentle manners and a benevolent heart, LOUIS NAPOLEON is an honest, bold, high-minded statesman, whose object is to maintain the peace of Europe and the real glory and honour of France. I believe that no clamour could force him, without necessity to declare war against any nation on earth; and, on the other hand, that no combination of forces that could be devised would induce him to submit to any insult offered to his country." These are the sentiments with which LOUIS NAPOLEON was regarded by a free spoken and disinterested Englishman before the course pursued by the PRESIDENT on the memorable 2d of December. They are the opinions of no partizan or apologist—and opinions such as have not been falsified in any respect by the manner in which their object has within the past week secured to himself the ap proving voices of his fellow-countrymen. Before another seven days have elapsed we shall be afforded an additional opportunity of discovering how far our very lively and not less sagacious author was correct in his estimate of the PRESIDENT'S character—seeing that some eight millions of Republicans will by that time have been enabled, by universal suffrage and by secret voting, to declare their real views in regard to Louis NAPOLEON'S Government. The first case under the recent statutes—the Law of Evidence Amendment Act, and the Criminal Law Amendment Act—was yesterday tried at the Old Bailey, and terminated in the acquittal of the de fendant. The Anti-Reformers will doubtless refer to this decision as illustrating the evils of the new system, and affording a strong argument against the admissibility of the testimony to parties to suits. They will say that a man now found to be innocent of the offence laid to his charge, in whose favour the jury returned a verdict of " not guilty," was held to bail—exposed not only to disgrace, but also to the expense and annoyance of an indictment at the Central Criminal Court upon inadequate grounds—and that therefore the causes that led to a result so untoward must be radically wrong. Whatever had been the issue of the trial, they would have arrived at a similar conclusion. If there had been a conviction they would have de plored the strong temptation to perjury, which in duced a person wilfully and deliberately to swear to the truth of a statement which he well knew to be utterly unfounded in fact. On the acquittal of the party they will equally lament the great annoyances and ruinous expense to the innocent.—Utrum horum muvis accipe, either event will be equally acceptible to the dissentients, for on either they can equally found an argument against the obnoxious measure. Now, with all due submission to the malcon tents, and recognising to the utmost extent the ne cessity of affording full protection to every British subject, we cannot conceive how the case of Mr. Asrmx, above alluded to, can be cited as in any degree favourable to their views—as establishing either the impolicy of receiving the evidence of parties, or of authorising the presiding judge to commit for trial a witness whom he believed to have prevaricated, or tampered with the £ olem obligation he had taken to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. On the latter point we may observe that such a power bad always existed—that every judge had, as a magistrate, full authority to commit a witness whom he believed to have been guilty of perjury for that grave offence. The power was not often exercised ; in many instances where it was manifest that a witness had not told the truth, he was permitted to leave the court, owing to the technical difficulties that attended a trial far perjury. These impediments and obstructions to the course of justice have been greatly, if not altogether, smoothed away under the provisions of the Bill which received the legislative sanction during the past session. The expense of a prosecution directed by a judge was also provided for, so that persons guilty of one of the most formidable offences—striking at the very root of the administration of justice might not escape with impunity. The salutary power, which had been permitted to fall into desuetude, was thus resuscitated, and we anticipate the most beneficial effects from its operation. The mere acquittal of the party does not show that the committal was unjustifiable or uncalled for. All the presiding magistrate has to ascertain is, that there is a fair prima facie case demanding full investigation. It would be strange indeed, if he should be supposed to have committed an error in every case where a conviction was not obtained. It must not be forgotten that a jury deciding on a cri minal indictment are bound to give the benefit of any reasonable doubt to the party on trial. They do not, as in a civil case, decide according to the weight of evidence. They are constantly reminded of the well-known adage, that it is better that ninety nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should unjustly be convicted; and we be lieve that in the great majority of cases— would that we could say in all—the jurors faithfully discharge the arduous and important duties confided to their charge. If they were merely to register the opinions of any man, however exalted— to return a verdict of guilty in every case where a judge of the superior courts had been concerned— they would abdicate their constitutional functions, and transfer them to other hands. In the case under notice no person can say that the Nisi Prius jury were wrong in their decision ; that Baron MauTni was in error in committing for trial; or the jury at the Old Bailey in acquitting the party. The line of defence adopted would go far to justify all parties; for the learned and ta lented counsel for the defendant admitted that his client had made some incorrect state ments, although he denied the corrupt motives of which he was accused. The exemplary character which the prisoner received from many re spectable witnesses had, no doubt, its due weight, and must have influenced the jurors in their decision. Under all the circumstances, then, we cannot see how the case of Mr. AspLni can justify any well-founded argument against the new law. ROYAL COMMISSION TO MR. WILLIAM WYLD, THE PAarTER.—We are informed that her Majesty has been gra ciously pleased to command Mr. William Wyld, of London and Paris, to paint a view of the town of Manchester; and we understand that Mr. Wyld is now here for that purpose. We believe the point of view Hill be from Kersal Moor. Mr. Wyld has also received a commission from her Majesty to paint a view of St. George's-hall, Liverpool, on which he will commence when he has completed the view of Manchester.— Manchester Guardian. TRBTIMONIAL TO THE MAYOR OF SOUTHAMPTON.— The subscriptions to this testimonial, which consists of a magnificent service of plate, supplied by Mr. H. Abraham, of the High-street, amount to 461. This testimonial will be presented to his Worship on Thursday evening next—his birthday—at the Town-hall. DEATH or GEORGE DONALD.—We regret to notice the death of this clever but wayward and ill-starred genius. Donald began his career as a cotton-spinner, and cultivated Scottish poetry with no inconsiderable success. Some of his poetical compositions have long been well known to our fellow-citizens, and have even gained a permanent place for the writer in the niche of Scottish poetry. 'We believe that several of them will be found in that admirable treasure of the Scottish muse, entitled " Whistlebinkie," and published by Mr. Robertson, Trongate. Poor Donald wanted on ly steady sobriety and perseverance, and perhaps a more liberal education, to have gained for him a very respectable place in the literary :annals of his country. He was truly the " Glasgow Unfortunate," which he styled himself ; but his misfortunes, we fear, were generally brought upon him by his own imprudence. Prior to his death on Monday last, at the age of 51, he had been suffering nearly a twelvemonth from a severe cold, which, about two months ago, occasioned hemorrhage of the lungs, and from that time he continued f in nita um a mi state ta ret t noe d o e f p e le x r t e re h m is e le w ss e . a_kn u e i s a s s9 ti o l w l h p is o d st e . ath. He has left a _ reade A v t the sixteenth annua l meet i ng of the National oft Ipnoslitcitieustioisns,uyeecrinerdtag,ytelaier endingrep or t en stated the2o that t h t the November w as 1, 231, on which the annual premiums amount to 18,498/. The total t income is now 189,2401. The number of deaths duringi, balance has been 97, and the claims paid 4 0,8361. menta was 114,023/. increasing Yat P rovost ti o e LtE o G f E 738,492/. the invested capital to T Ii mo O N F DA T I H . I Tri nity College, died at nine o'clock last night, house, in the University. lie had been in declining Provost's heal t h for some weeks, but his illness was not considereclserious. D u p n r E rX The appointment of a successor rests with the G oTerainesit. The office is worth 2,500/. per annum. TPhßowv.Roesv.r. Doe,r,.°Tsf aa, receipts over c TUESDAY EVENING, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Ordre appeared yesterday for the first time since the 2d December. It has no leading article, and announces that it shall abstain from comment ing on passing events until peace shall have been re established. The following letter from Count DE blorrrALEm BEET appears in the Univers:— " Paris, Dec. 12. " Sir,—l receive each day letters consulting me on the proper course to follow in present circumstances, and particularly as to the ballot, which' commences on the 20th inst., in order to respond to the appeal made by the President of the Republic to the French people. It is physically impossible for me to write to each of the persons who do me the honour to address me, and yet I should be grieved to reply only by silence, and an ap parent indifference to the confidence manifested towards me, and which has been gained for me by 20 years' poli tical struggles in the cause of the Church and of Society. Permit me to express, through the medium of your jour nal, my opinion. " I begin by declaring that the Act of the 2d Decem ber has put to flight the whole of the revolutionists, the whole of the Socialists, and the whole of the bandits of France and Europe; and that alone is, in rviv opinion, a more than sufficient reason for all honest men to rejoice, and for those who have been most mortified to console themselves. Ido not enter into the ques tion as to whether the coup d' Etat (which had been foreseen by every one) could be executed at another moment, and in another manner: to do so I should have to go back to the causes which produc©d it, and to give my opinion on persons who cannot now reply to me. I do not pretend to guarantee the future any more than to judge of the past; I only look at the present—that is to say, the vote to be delivered on Sunday week. " There are three courses open, the negative vote, neu trality, and the affirmative vote. " To vote against Louis Napoleon would be to justify the Socialist revolutioa, which, for the present at least, is the only one that can take the place of the actual Gove: went. It would be to invite the Dictatorship of the Reds in place of the Dictatorship of a Prince who has rendered for three years incomparable services to the cause of order and Catholicism. It would be (ad mitting tho favourable and the least probable hypo thesis) to re-establish that Tower of Babel which people called the National Assembly, and which, in spite of the distinguished and honourable men it counted in such great numbers, was profoundly divided in the midst of peace and legal order, and which—there is no doubt of the fact—would be powerless in presence of the formi dable crisis we are exposed to. "To abstain from voting would be to belie all our antecedents; it would be to fail in the duty we have always recommended and fulfilled under the Monarchy of July as under the Republic; it would be to abdicate the mission of honest men at the very moment that mis sion is the most imperative and the most beneficial. I highly respect the scruples which may suggest to many honourable minds the idea of abstaining. But I know also that great politicians, who otherwise are unscru pulous, and who, after having brought us to the point we now are—after having condemned us to the loss of all our liberties by the abuse they have made of them, or allowed to be made of them, now come and preach to us that we must make a vacuum round the Government. I respect scruples; I protest against tactics. I can con ceive nothing more immoral or more stupid. I defy any many alive to justify such conduct to his conscience or to history. History will tell how all France, after the ignoble surprise of the 24th February, recognized the authority of the men of the Hotel de Ville, because they offered a chance of escape from the abyss that they themselves had opened. Let those chivalrous persons—if any such there are—who in 1848 protested against the destruction of Royalty—against the brutal expulsion of the two Chambers—against the disarming of the army—against the usurpation of every branch of the Government—against the violation of every law—let such persons, I repeat, claim the right to protest, and to abstain from voting—l have no objection. But I refuse to recognize such a right in any one of those who sent representatives to take the places of the deputies hunted from their benches by a horde of barbarians—to any of those who themselves sat there, and who sat to proclaim that the Provisional Government had merited well of the country; and to vote for the banishment of the House of Bourbon! The conscience that accepted such a yoke, for fear of something worse, cannot surely feel any seri ous difficulty in confirming e Power that restored order and security in 1848, and whioh can alone preserve us from anarchy in 1852. _ " The instinct of the masses is no more led astray now than then. Louis Napoleon will be in 1852, as in 1848, the elect of the nation. Such being the case, I believe there is nothing more imprudent, I may say nothing more insane, for men of religious feelings, and men of order, in a country like ours, than to put them selves in opposition with the wishes of the nation, when those wishes mean nothing contrary to the law of God, or to the fundamental conditions of Society. There are far tgo many amongst us—men worthy of re spect—whose policy seems to be to act quite in opposi tion to the general opinion. When this country went mad for liberty and Parliamentary institutions, those same men appealed to the absolute rights of Royalty ; now that it is for the moment hungering for silence, calm, and authority, the same men would impose the so vereignty of the tribune and of discussion. If ever the country demand Monarchy, the men I allude to will be condemned by such conduct to the perpetuation of the Republic. "' For those men who boldly declare that there is but one sole right in political affairs, and that France can only be saved by one principle, I can, strictly speaking, understand the possibility of abstaining, provided these men also abstained in 1848. But for us, Catholics above all, who have always preferred that religion and society co-exist with all forms of Government that do not ex clude reason and the Catholic faith, I am unable to find a motive that can justify or excuse our voluntary anni hilation. " I now come to the third course, viz., the affirma tive vote. Now, to vote for Louis Napoleon, is not to approve of all he has done; it is only to choose be tween him and the total ruin of France. It does not mean that his Government is the one we prefer to any other; it is simply to say that we prefer a Prince who has given proofs of resolution and of ability to those who are at this moment giving their proofs of murder and pillage. It is not to confound the Catholic cause with that power—the of a a family—it i s t o arm the tem poralthe necessary strength to vanqui s h t h e army o f cr i me , t o par o tyolypower possible at this day—with or defend our churches, our ho mes, our wives, against those who respect nothing; who aim at the coat, who aim at the proprietor, and whose bullets do not spare the priest. It is not to sanction beforehand the errors or the faults that a Government—fallible as every earthly institution i s — ma y c ommit; it is to e ntrust to the Chief, that the nation once chose for itself, the right of preparing a Constitution which will certainly be not mere dangerous, or more absurd, than that which 900 representatives, elected in 1848, bestowed on France, and against which I had the happiness to vote. I may add that by return ing to the unity of power, without exc l u d ing th e c h ec k s which aro the first necessity of every y Government, we get over the most . difficult part of th e way to a rea l soc i a l res t o ration—that of ideas and of morals. I have just perused the lines you permitted me to insert in the Univers, as a rallyin g cry to our brothers in dismay, on the 27th tof February, 1848—three days after the sudden fall of the throne. I find there these words—' The banner we have pl an t e d exc l us i ve of, an d above all political opinions, is intact—the Catholic cause, such as we have ever defended it, is identified with no power, with no human cause. This sovereign indepen dence of religious interests will aid French Catholics in comprehending and accepting the new social phase on which we enter. None have a right to abdicate I' I have nothing to add to, or take f rom , t h ese wor d s. I beileve they are quite as suited to the day after that which has been the revanche of the Army and of Autho rity against the revolution of the 24th of February. " Observe, that I do not advocate absolute confidence or unlimited devotedness. I give myself unreservedly to no ono. I profess no idolatry —neither that of the force of arms, nor that of the reason of the people. I limit myself to the search of possible good, and to choose, in the midst of the shocks God visits us with, that which is least repugnant to the dignity of a Chris tian and the good sense of a citizen. "If Louis :Napoleon were an unknown person, I should unquestionably hesitate to confer on him such power and such responsibility. But without entering into the question of his policy for three years, I do not forget the great religious acts which have marked his Government so long as concord existed between the two powers of the State —the liberty of instruction guaran teed—the Pope re-established by French arms; the Church restored to its Councils, its Synod to the pleni tuee of its dignity ; the gradual augmentation of its col leges, its communities, its works of salvation and of charity. " Without him I seek in vain for a system, a force which can secure to us the conservation and develop ments of similar benefits. I only behold the wide gulph of Socialism. My choice is made. lam for authority against revolt; for preservation against destruction; for Society against Socialism ; for the possible freedom of good against the certain liberty of evil; and in the mighty struggle between the two forces which divide the world, I believe that in acting thus, I am, as I ever have been, for Catholicism against revolution. "Accept, Sir, the assurance of my sympathy, . _ "CHARLES DE MONTALEMBERT. The Consultive Commission is definitively com posed as follows : MM. Abbatucci, f ormer C ounse ll o r o f th e Court of Cessation (Loiret ); General Achard (Moselle), And' (Seine), Andre (Charente), D'Argout, Governor of the Bank of France; General Arrighi de Padoue (Corsica); d'Audiffret, President of the Court of Accounts; General de Bar (Seine), General Baraguay d'Hilliers (Doubs); Barbaroux, former Attorney-General (Bour bon); Baroche, former Minister of the Interior and Foreign Affairs, Vice-President of the Commission (Charente); Ferdinand Barrot, former Minister of the Interior (seine); Barthe, First President of the Court of Accounts; Bataille (Haut Vienne); Bavoux, (Seine et Marne), do Beaumont (Somme), Berard (Lot et Garonne), Berger, Prefect of the:Seine (Puy do Dome), Bertrand (Yonne), Bidault (Cher), Bigrel (Cotes du Nord), Billault, lawyer, Bineau, former Minister (Maine et Loire); Boinvilliers, former Chairman of the Paris bar (Seine), Bonjesu, Attorney-General, of the Court of Cessation Boulatignier; Bourbouson (Vaucluse), Brehier (Manche), deCambaceres (Hubert); de Cambaceres (Aisne), Carlier, former Prefect of Po lice; da Casablanca, former Minister (Corsica); General do Castellane, General-in-Chief of the Army of Lyons; do Caulainoourt (Calvados), Vice-Admiral Cecilia (Seine Infii:ieure), Chadenet (Meuse), Charlemagne (Indre), Chassaigne Goyon (Pay de Dome), General de Clause. DECEMB loup Laubat, (Seine Inferieure); Prosper de Chesseloup Laubat, former Minister (Charente Inferieure), Chaix d'Est Auge, lawyer; de Chazelles, INlayor of Clermont Ferrand (Puy do Dome), Collas (Gironde), De Cron seilhas, former Minister (Basses Pyrenees), Curial (Orne), De Cuverville (Cotes du Nord), Dabeaux (Haute Garonne), Dariste (Basses Pyrenees), Daviel, former Minister ; Delacoste, former Commissary-Ge neral in the Rhone; Delajue (Charente Inferieure), Delavan (Indre), Deltheil (Lot), Denjoy (Gironde), Desjobert (Seine Inferieure), Desmaroux (Allier), Drouyn de Lhuys, former Minister (Seine et Marne); Dumas, former Minister (Nord); Charles Dupin (Seine Inferieure), General Burrieu (Landes); Maurice Duval, former Prefect; Eschasseriaux (Cha rente Inferieure), Marshal Exelmans, Grand Chan cellor of the Legion of Honour; Fevre (Loire In ferieure), General de Flahault, former Ambassador; Fortoul, Minister of Public Instruction (Basses Alpes); Achille Fould, Minister of Finance (Seine); De Four ment (Somme), Fouquier d'Herouel (Mane), Freme (Yonne), Furtado (Seine), Gase (Haute Garonne), Gas londe (Manche), De Gasparin, focuser Minister; Ernest do Girardin (Charente), Augustin Giraud (Maine et Loire), Charles Giraud, former Minister; Godello (Aisne), Gonlhot de St. Germain (Manche), General de Grammont (Loire). De Greslan (Bourbon), Ge neral de Grouchy (Girondr), Hallcz Claparede (Bas Rhin), General d'Hautpoul, former Mi nister (Aude), Hebert (Aisne), de Heeckeren (Bas Rhin), d'Herambault (Pas de Calais) Hermann, Heartier (Loire), General Husson (Aube), Jan vier (Tarn et Garonne), Lac,ze (Hautes Pyrenees), Lacrosse, former Minister (Fmistere), Ladoueette (Mo selle). de la Grange (Gers), de la Grange (Gironde), General de la Hitte, former Minister; Delangle, former Attorney-General; Lanquetin, President of the Muni cipal Commission of Paris; de Lariboissiere (Ills et Vilaine), General Lawcestine, Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard of Paris; Lebeuf (Seine et Marne), General Lebreton (Eure et Loire), Le Comte (Yonne), Le Conte (Cotes du Nord), Lefevre Durufle, Minister of Commerce (Eure); Lelut (Haute Saone), Lemarois (Manche), Lemercier (Charente), Lequien (Pas de Calais), Leatiboudois (Nord), Levavasseur (Seine Infe rieure), Leverrier (Manche), Lezay de Marnesia (Loir et Cher), General Magnate Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Paris; Magne, Minister of Public Works; Maigne (Dordogne), Merchant (Nord), Mathieu Bedet (Charente), de Maupas, Prefect of Police; de Merode (Nord), Mesnard, President of a Chamber of the Court of Cessation; Meynadier, former Prefect (Lozere); Mimerel (Nord); Monin, the Senior Mayor of Paris; de Montalembert (Doubs); de Morny, Minister of the Interior (Puy de DomeO); Henri de Mortem are (Seine) Inferieure), Colonel de la Moskowa (Moselle), de Tou chy (Oise), de Moustier (Doubs), Lucien Murat (Lot), Odier, Regent of the Bank of France; General d'Orneno (Indre ei Loire); de Parieu, former Minister (Centel); Pascali3, Judge of the Court of Cessation; General Pelet (Ariege) Pepin Lehalleur (Seine et Marne), de Persigny (Nord), de Plancy (Oise), Plichon, Mayor of Arras (Pas de Calais), Portalis, First President of the Court of Cessation; Pougerard, Mayor of Rennes (Ille and Vilaine), General de Prove! de Ranch (Algeria), Ge neral Randon, former Minister and Governor-General of Algeria; General Regnaud do St. Jean d'Angely, former Minister (Charente Inferieure); Renouard do Bussi&es (Bas Rhin); Renousrd (Lozere); General Roge; Rou her, Minister of Justice (Puy de Dome), de Royer, former Minister; General de St. Arnaud, Minister of War; de St. Arnaud, lawyer; de Salis (Moselle), Sapey (Li . e), Schneider, former Minister; de Segur d'Aguesseau (Hautes Pyrenees), Seydosix (Nord), Thayer, Director-General of the Post-office); Thieuel len (Cotes du Nord), de Thorigny, former Minister; Toupot de Beveaux (Haute Marne) Tourangin, former Prefect; Troplong, first President of the Court of Ap peal of Paris; de Turgot, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Marshal Vaillant, Vaisse, former Minister (Nord), de Vaudeul (Haute Marne), General Vast-Vimeux (Cha rente Inferieure), Vauchelle, Mayor of Versailles); Viard (Meurthe), Veillard (Manche), Veuillefroy; Vuitry, Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of Finance; de Wagram. The members of the Council whose names are fol lowed by the mention of the departments all belonged to the late National Assembly. The Ultramontane clergy are taking a very active part in politics, and are using all their influence in favour of Louis NAPOLEON. The Bishop of CHARTRES (the M'HALE of France) has addressed the following letter to the clergy : " Chartres, Deo. 12. " Monsieur le Curb,—Weigh most maturely the ad vice contained in this communication, and which I strongly recommend you to follow. On the 20th and 21st of this month. the French people will decide if Louis Napoleon is to be for ten years President of our country. The yes or no inscribed on each :citizen's bulletin will decide that most important point. In fluenced by your own views, and still more by love for your country, of which Jesus Christ has given us the example, you will sign yes, I have not the slightest doubt. Providence at present gives us only that mode of safety, for it is evident that, if Bona parte was rejected, Fra❑ce would not find any to substi tute for him. The people, led away by intrigues and false suggestions, might make a detestable choice, which would plunge our country into new and inexpressible misfortunes. We have escaped the 2d of May, 1852, which opened to France a frightful abyss, and it would be senseless to bring back that chance of ruin and death. All that we have of late learned of the abominations, horrors, and excesses of the most savage character, which have taken place are a slight example of the monstrous things which would have been committed on a grand scale throughout France, had Socialism triumphed. You will perceive, Sir, the irresistible force of these reflections, which must strike all men of common sense, and to which, I believe, they would not hesitate to subscribe. I have the honour to be, Sir, with a distin guished consideration and an inviolable attachment, your servant, . . " Y. CL. Hip., Bishop of Chartres." The Legitimatists, as a body, are not at all in clined to follow the lead of MM. DE MONTALEMDERT and DE FALLOUT, and it is supposed that a great number of them will vote against the re-election of the PRESIDENT; the BERRYER and the LAROCHE JAQUELIN sections will certainly vote against him. It is said that the risings in the south hare been Legitimatist, although the authorities endeavour to represent them as Democratic, in order to bring De mocracy into disrepute. The fact that the chief of the insurgents in the Basses Alpes was the Sub- Prefect DUTROU-BOS N I ER ' who was appointed to the office of Sub-Prefect by M. LEON FAUCHER, would seem to prove that whatever might be the nature of the insurrection it could nor, at all events, be consi dered either democratic or social. From the intelligence received yesterday from the southern departments, it appears that the insurrection is completely suppressed, the insurgents in the Var having been defeated in an action in the neighbour hood of Aups. The Coarrzer de Marseilles gives the following from Dragnignan, 11th : " We yesterday received the news that the insurgents had been completely defeated at Aups, and that the hostages which had been taken had all been given up. The insurgents were encamped at Aups to the number of 3,000, and another band, about equal in number, were ou the surrounding heights. The nature of the ground concealed the advance of the troops. One of the vedettes of the insurgents fell into the hands of the gendarmery, who were at the head of the advancing column. On seeing the troops he attempted to run off to give the alarm, but was shot. The hostages had been shut up in a public-house which served as a prison. The insurgents were drawn out on an esplanade in front of the town, and were being reviewed by their chief when 'the armed force suddenly made their appearance. The rioters immediately fired, and their fire was returned by the troops. The gendar mery then made a charge, and nearly 60 of the insur goats were killed. The rest fled in all directions, pur sued by the troops, and a number of prisoners were taken. In the midst of the gendarmery, and foremost in the charge, was a young man in plain clothes mounted on a fine Arabian horse, and who, sabre in hand, fought with the greatest bravery. It was the young Count de Colbert, who marched to the deliverance of his father, who had been taken by the insurgents, and kept a pri• Boner with the other hostages. The escape of these persons was almost miraculous. Had not the vedette been taken these unfortunate men would all have lost their lives, as orders had been given to hang them, and posts had been already erected to carry the order into execution. It appears that the chiefs, as usual, deserted their followers in the hour of danger. Dutheil, the chief of the band, disappeared at the moment of the engagement. Two of the hostages had been wounded, one of them rather seriously. The troops, with the prefect at their head, continue in pursuit of the insur gents. Order has been completely restored at Brig noles; all the revolutionary auttiorities have fled. The ' arrondissement of Grasse is also tranquil. Dr. Pro vencal attempted to rally a band at Vence, but it was driven away, and twelve prisoners taken ; the leader escaped by swimming across the Var. The gendarmery have just arrested M. Charles Nicolas Hennequin, who resided for two years at St. Raphael, and made himself notorious by his violent political opinions. Ho is said to be a relation of the celebrated advocate." We read in the Simaphore of Marseilles of Satur day :—" The news from the Var and the Basses- Alpes fortunately causes the end of the disturbance to be foreseen. It is announced that Digne has been delivered, after having been some days in the power of the insurgents. The latter proceeded to Mees, where an engagement took place. Private letters speak also of the flight of the insurgents of Manosque, and represent order to have been re-established. Numerous arrests had been effected there. The following telegraphic dispatch was addressed at four o'clock in the afternoon of the 12th by the Prefect of Marseilles to the Minister of the Interior :-- " After the combat at the Mees, on the Durance, at eight leagues fro m th e Di gne, w i th the insurgents for the latter town, all tho insurgents dispersed. Those who remained at Digne evacuated it. The authority of the Government has been re-established at that place, with the support of the National Guard. The Prefect must have re-entered it. The two columns which left Marseilles with cannon must at this moment be there. Two battalions are marching from Pertuis on Manosque and Forcalquier, to complete the occupation of the Basses-Alpes. All then is finished. Marseilles and the department are tranquil. " SIILEATJ, Prefect." Generals OumNoT and LAUHISTON have been re leased from their captivity in the fortress of Mont Valerien. The Constitutionnel says that the following repre sentatives who were confined at Vincennes, Mazas, and Mont Valerian have also been set at liberty : R 16, lB5l. MM. Arnaud (du Var), Eugene Sue, Ceyras, Cho miot, Charbonneau, Chanel, Crkmieux, Jules de La:i -t(?) rie, Lagarde, Thuriol de la RosiZ-re, Nettement, Hennequin, Gavaret, Guitier, and Kestner. MM. Creton and Duvergnier de Ilauranne are still con fined at Vincennes, and MM. Pascal Duprat, Pisca tory, Antony Thouret, Latrade, Emile Bean, Re naud and Besse at Mont Valerien. Several arrests hare been made of representatives and others who held office either under the Provi sional Government, or under General CAVAIGNAC ; among others MM. BASTIDE and BucuEz have been arrested. A letter from Mentz of the 10th says :—" M. THIERS arrived here this evening. He had quitted the prison Mazas on the Saturday, and passed the Sunday ¶uietly with his family. On Monday he was informed that he must leave the capital in the even ing, and France in 24 hours. M. ,TniErts, in conse quence, proceeded towards Strasburg. At Nancy, where he stopped a short time, his carriage and him self were kept in sight by a detachment of infantry, which had received orders to that effect by the tele graph. At Kph], he had a passport delivered to him. He arrived during the day at Frankfort, and pro ceeded here to spend the night. His health does not appear to be affected. To-morrow he will proceed as far as Cologne by the steamboat. It is thought that he does not calculate on remaining on the continent." The Cologne Gazette of the 11th andounces the arrival of M. THIERS in that city. It was said that he was on his way to England. It is said that the Minister of Foreign Affairs has intimated to the Belgian Government that France will not tolerate that the political refugees who have either been expelled by the French Government or have escaped from France, shall find an asylum in the Belgian territory. A submarine telegraphic dispatch from Paris an nounces this morning that the 6th Legion of Na tional Guards is dissolved. A new Bonapartist journal called the Public has appeared. The price of public securities continues to rise at the Bourse without interruption. The Five per Cents. opened at 100 f., rose to 102 f. 60e , and closed at 1021. 50c. for the end of the month, being a rise of 3f. 15c. as compared with the closing price of Satur day. The Three per Cents. closed at 661. 25c.; Or leans Railroad Shares, 977 f. 50c.; Rouen, 635 f.; Havre, 236 f. 25c.; Great Northern, 4981. 75c.; Avig non, 217 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 485 f.; Basle, 1751.; Bor deaux, 3881. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 3981. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 2781. 75c.; Amiens to Boulogne, 275 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 15. Boulogne and Amiens, 10 1 / 1 —Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 18 1 4—Luxembourg, 314—Namur and Liege, s%—Northern of France, 15 , A—Orleans and Bordeaux, 4 1 / 8 —Paris and Orleans, 3.sl—Paris and Rouen, 23j/ 4 —Paris and Strasbourg, 13 A—Rouen and Havre, 8% —Sambre and Meuse, 3;i—Tours and Nantes, 6%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 10th have arrived. The Government has received satisfactory news from the United States ; the United States Cabinet entertains, it is said, the most friendly sentiments towards Spain. A Madrid letter of the 10th says :—" It is said that the King Don FRANCISCO DE ASSISES has manifested the wish to be invested with the re gency, or to have the official signature of the ordinary affairs of the state during the confine ment of the QUEEN. The President of the Council, M. BRAVO MURILLO, is said to be inclined to ac quiesce in this desire, though on a previous occasion it was opposed by the NARVAEZ Cabinet. But it is stated that the question will give rise to some dif ference of opinion amongst the Ministers. It is even believed that the Marquis DE MIRAFLORES will retire sooner than countersign a decree giving the govern ment to the KING. There was this morning a Council of Ministers on the subject. In the event of the re signation of the Marquis DE MIRAFLORES, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will, it is said, be con fided to M. JOSEPH CASTILLO Y AYENSA, an intimate friend of the President of the Council. Although, however, all these rumours are current in political circles, they require confirmation." MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 10.—The Three per Cents. were done at 36i for cash; the Four per Cents. at 13 ; the Five per Cents. at 16 , ; the Debt without Interest at 5 3-16; and the Coupons at 8 for paper. GERMANY. It is currently reported in Vienna that the coup d'etat of Louis NAPOLEON had been long precon certed with the Emperors of RUSSIA and of AUSTRIA that the funds necessary for its accomplishment were furnished by the former, and that they were trans mitted to Paris viii Vienna. The family connexion subsisting between the PRESIDENT, and the CZAR tends to give to this rumour an air of probability. The organs of the Austrian Government are loud in their laudations of Lowe NAPOLEON and take advantage of the coup d'etat to lay down as a general rule of morals, politics, and religion, that "no man is bound to keep word or oath pledged to revolu tionists," an axiom which it would be well that all who may bare dealings with Absolutists and Obscu rantists should bear in mind, seeing that it is the oath breaker himself who alone decides who is or who is not a revolutionist. It is, in fact, the organi zation of perjury into a creed. The Hungarian journals disapprove of the conduct of Louis NAPOLEON. The Pcstlier Zeitung says — "The reward of the hazardous game played by the PRESIDENT must be on the one side terrorism, on the other an eclipse of the glory of the family name. Is the state of society in France such that existing laws must be suspended, and their place supplied by arbi trary will ? Unfortunately we live in times whe n law is only a barrier for the weak ! The Magyar Hirlap goes still further, and says—" The PRESI DENT by his coup d'etat has shown that the Moun tain were right when they asserted that net they, but the majority of the National Assembly and the Elys6e endangered the peace of the country and the Constitution." Austria is endeavouring to organize a " continental system" against the commerce of England. The remains of the Princess of SAVOY-CARIGNAN, mother of the late King CHARLES ALBERT, were on the 11th taken, without any p omp, to the Church of Saint Paul, at Vienna, and thence to the cemetery of Matzleindorff, where they were interred. In the sitting of the First Chamber of the States of Hanover, on the 10th, it was resolved to invite the Ministry to proceed to the execution of the laws con cerning the organization of the country. A priutseller at Hamburgh exposed, a few days ago, in his shop-window carricatures on Louis NAPOLEON, but by order of the police they were withdrawn, to prevent disturbances. DENMARK. A Berlin journal of the 12th says : " The Chamberlain de Bille, Minister of the King of Denmark, is charged to declare to the Government that, although the Danish Ministry cannot at this moment convoke the Provincial States of the Duchy, as required by the resolutions of the Germanic Diet, it does not the less believe it its duty to insist on the re-establishment of the King's authority, and, in consequence, to demand the withdrawal of the federal troops which occupy Hol stein. The other instructions given to M. de Bilk) an nounce, it is said, much complaisance on the part of the Danish Cabinet, but without containing anything posi tive. It is prubable that our Cabinet will reply that the retirement of the troops will depend on the convocation of the Provincial States." LYCEUM THEATRE. Madame Vestris commenced her winter campaign last evening. During the recess the theatre has been thoroughly renovated and embellished, and the in terior presents that air of graceful and luxurious elegance which all playgoers have been accustomed to consider es the peculiar characteristic of every theatre under the management of Madame Vestris. The performances were the last new comedy of The Game qf Speculation (an admirable adaptation of De 13alzac's Illercadet), Forty and Fifty, and A Practical Man. The Mr. Affable Hawk of Mr. Charles Ma thews, in The Game of Speculation, is a most artisti cal impersonation, full of point and pungency. In his performance of this character, Mr. Charles Mathews proves that, notwithstanding his mercurial vivacity, he fully understands the secret and the value of repose. The Earthworm of Mr. Frank Matthews is deliciously quaint, and the Siellenry Lester of Mr. R. Roxby is the very beau ideal of a fashionable scamp. After the comedy the National Anthem was sung by all the company, the solo portions being de livered by Miss Julia St. George, Miss Martingdale, and Madame Vestris. The reception of Madame was enthusiastic. Several additions have been made to the company; among others who are engaged is Mrs. Chatterly, whom playgoers of a quarter of a century since recollect at Covent-garden as the most fascinating and lively of Cherubinos and the most demure of Anne Lovelys who, in fact, was what Mrs. Ni s b e tt i s . Mrs. Chatterly returns to the stage after an absence of nearly twenty years ; whether, like Madame Sontag, Mrs. Chatterly is an evergreen and intends to resume her old line of business, or whether she in tends to succeed Mrs. Glover, does not at present ap pear. Miss Laura Keene is also engaged here, and will prove a great acquisition in that numerous class of characters where a slight infusion of pathos is re quired. SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH BETWEEN ENGLAND AND IRELAND.—Active measures are about to be taken for carry ing out this species of communication between England and Ireland. It will require about 60 miles of cable, or three times the length of that between Dover and Calais. NEW IRON WORKS IN SCOTLAND.—Messrs. Merry and Cunningham have taken the valuable minerals on the Inzievar estate, in the neighbourhood of Dunfermline, and have begun to work them. The digging for the ore, roasting it, &c., will give employment to a great number. The ore when calcined is shipped or conveyed away to the Glasgow furnaces. We regard this as another source of prosperity in the western; district of Fife.—Al/va ,Advertiser, ROLLS , COURT 'THIS PAY.),S i a ng,.stated that there had be s en ° IN R E THE MONMOUTIISHIFIE AND 01,00110A10 BANKING courAN T • • 00' The MASTER of the Rem. n taking his 8001319 .6., think da vtih s filedas late as Saturday last, but h c e , :oa as he 11_7 made . any material difference iatill ,be s bad mencernmeantadjourned several of the cases. better of Hilary Term, be thought: tn . co ord' teat adjourned until that time'sa lapre number of haissa lust examination, at Fen Drayton, DA Y • BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS ) !I baEif/eil IN RE PEPPER . In this case the bankrupt, who had carnet, 03,00 opeateVey'oc, t t o he pass, w b a u s examination, was supported 11 it i ,f . , r ocitt °l , There sine die g, of the meetin h Honour Mowed t", o n t o OP for the bankruptta g opposition, ,.,. , . journed necessary documenpt 5 ' (I 'nation " s. His exeunt tshter strung to n t a o n k b e r u allowed t ' . üb , e and t u o e a i r t d y s s t r . h e felii'n, e'f::rit.eli:, sod"'' Mr. DUNCAN . now applied, on petition an 00 0 stated that bankrupt had refused to sign °1 1 ,,,, oiler' to The i ,s a m n tious" n grounds, as ho had not examined tucelolo omissions were very trivial, and the crosses tots was an lout-monoonic . according to bankrupt's bstv a b , se t ! oweetios 7, bat° His ThNo conscience. 11 UR said it was not " conscience„„ivg.to Att u nacy which the bankrupt had shown from tier ew i d 10 05 end. The Court would not be played fast a nd lo ud in this manner, and bankrupt must ready before the Court in the usual way. p C I aT li e en l dE M actA l ts N hEe 4 0 V) AL COURT,--(1111' OLD COUI?T. s n •iiri a person named (Before the ReconDEß.) ,„ 0 0Oa hi e 0 1 o h e s r iPEßJUßYNt•hililsiammerDa.—ainygg,acrlZtgielliivi°l::::iati vio The facts of the case as deta.iled in the 5 ' yesterday will be found in another contain. .ocl, The first witness called this morning " 53 - , i 13 115171 4 to ww o f eeMthrhheetrersson.i .ahlt-tolemuodwsbeieetr thatts, 0 a the h m a o 3 t l h s e t r 0 f of itahrea h p t r h t see overlis: on cast pc : Elizabeth Q e d owh a f and her re s hn h i inrosywn Morris.e showed s companyo m e wil l e i et t h t u e r na s envio T tb: Pb or :i r t ol l3l3 i6l:::: hii.yortann: l dh i e s oinis z g. t esce a a , uh s, beth Randal, a nurse in the 11°Y al. VAP 1411°,416 ohfaoma w llp G A.oguftar h ua r poic E atvt a o snrnri y's Inn. lane, remembered on the Ist °L s lie 61 ;0 young woman being brought into the bosPus. t 3pe 00 of stupor, and her limbs perfectly eselessad the pe brought in about 2 o'clock in the morning. 0 00 , , 11 11 1° unable to speak for about an hour ait te .„ l. e is - I le gradually rallied from the time she cam e at' o'clock in the morning. At 11 o'clock sh e ' , t o went c to the house-surgeon in my presenCe.tvioeelhibaol‘ Cross-examined—The prisoner We s e)riL i i on tbe 0 3 of surgeon in my presence. There was bloc o ber 0 her left hand, but it did not appea r tir°here Ober, blood. Both her hands were dirty'. :-,iolatc,„d appearance of any man having attercetedr " r' to be P r l o - 0. 0 The surgeon ordered a bottle of bat virs te hat th e I, 01 0 to her feet. She did not smell of liquor, hat o,eleci'pe a smell throughout of chloroforna. I" the bolter, spoke of chloroform. She remained in tl' e o f P e r` et like that of a Ol o f days. The smell was something t mint, and she presented the appearancecoolaicea of h ntoxication. When she recovered sh e 5 00 5t3 eadache, and she vomited, but there Nay Se drink from the contents of the stomach; iso oed I s 00 H John Bird, optician, Clerkenwell, ~, We l jo lt . , ORRY—I know Day and Roberts. I:snonIdt3;03:1_00000i:i; Standard Theatre some time in A Pri l ,',i bore 1: 0 0 : i s t ll ,h a o i m e c pn li e l a . rt ,o b l wl o d x h o a om d i w we a i i t tc h h j h o a : t l t y h ah e no s m d _p r ' o e t e h p e w r a with h s s a . i f d ir i round ,‘ 6 0 1) capital ss l_a e r x k a drove Der - Ow it laces i n A her' k o'l ol Cross—erlioberts and 1 vicl '‘estre. Perk pk w lay a i C eo s odw r a u lf . ter nine o'clock that we met at the w her II p i) eSt re h i n ar ß e e i b n er a ts fin t e h r r o ee w w e i a th rs. o3 l. t g re : hl. 7 eupa lb o e p l e 0 n : a G ra d e e oo d n: g C t eke know r ol l w e l,e s nyw ; h)Cu e a a t n y s o a u y Y i ni n e g an t 0 ,, , RA area d he tA r : en l 1 : 1 , 3°12e : t t i l3 l ; William Day into c 'ilt u l3 s 's ti oo d nl y icsee o me na fn c Y3:2alls;guee°;°l : ilhilil°eicultiThts's'llo6:l; et and hu l o . le l l cidie l ot l naoeeris.ninow. she hkeeceoi,:l is ho sn S at w iaohmf h bi a tfed o ye s s r rti e ott a d: i we t t , : t ha h h se e s. , tprairei-nei eonl g l e : j r : w d b , s li; ri t ::::: :d t a i i jf c r l make any observation upon heaTrihneg tPhrsQc-,-b.rlirogdgiPtgooell)l e l x r g a e m a i n t e first.d I Daywv ‘ b - i e hr t l di i o e e sw h h v ß e h e e r eta t D nh s r : e e l ib Y t O t eP : craQi bi Day 3 3d , Yl :h e d : l a : p t i d i l itje i s , :f l A er t ; e : ( l 9 l°l bigeel i f 3 s m o e n e w r , h e g r a e v e the m e information clothes w lodgings. oul d whereh e t disc°l.; ' P e r t : i,„ 13 ,1 o r fi i : 4 , t s Henry Redman, exam ined —I vr_., 13 . 5 '''',i'fielrl , # 1 ae in the police. I know Elie ibeth W sc " her 0( 1 ~leil ,t - 0 person whom I would not believe a re er d 6 i , bo l Cross-examined—l was present Ye s h t e titee o t o et o was examined, but I was not aware al t d o ur °` • , , w is it t n edr es . ses on both sides had been or der °4r JO 03 iog This was the case for the defence. cotioe.,orete Mr. ROBERTSONthattheeviderteipeolietdhefeyr h t a n d e u, P ,e r: l3 r e d ac t a ll t l o 6 r, ; ( l o h o ;:ie only confirmed the conviction of the PrC (l 3- 00 0 1''' ec i had been made the victim of a deep 15 , Pal)rt."- which the prisoner had p layed there adivsPetal6 The Learned RECORD ER then y' c3r up the whole case. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty'' The COURT defed passing sentence. hoe r° er e Thomas Freeman, N aged 29, 2C9,Ofeslicrlih.ea 1150,Yesi‘.joit:cille°i(1.: t! l e n rditkit'li co in,a be th Brown, a married woo3sl3'„case9sl..nter! indicted for unlawfully' • heir r" CP" having In t to be c bei out mo n police oefy received r The v h e ewl ell knowing the settl e ea De A The prisoners both pleaded not gail t P 9 cot t ip, tai The two prisoners lived together 1 ° if ees' r oo' 0 0 I policea informationn Gravel-lane, ,Surrey, that and accordinglyt : me ya f eukreoer deedo,: eci0,r0i,,,,,,, their house towards the close of Nev e° to o ' W ei lcli if ; to seem the attack was made 'ust Co l' c)c r, o 'fi 1 ; 3°1I oor :' though tha fire was still there and tt - c - o l i gia , Tbo „l o ci' still warm, there was no metal to 11- ;v ia., in ' 0 s t ? h o e e p r r s i t s h on ow er , s v d er e , te l c v t e e r d e ienartehfeasyct 0f er4 - 1 , l' cu 4 3 11 1 (' ° longingtion the e female.counterfeit the persons of the twoprisoners, 3 bl aiti ti sixences, all bad, was - d sec. -te discovered sod , Ili° Gu iiti , ' e a 113 The jury found both the prisoners . m4O ill The COURT sentenced them to be 151, " nig 0 et', oe House of Correction for two years. , the - oi The Court was occupied the rest cut 000 trying cases of f t e r ablic iu tttering base coin , bil .ir. I eres - ' presented any ----- tip 0 0 BOW-STREET---(TA' es l P'te o 3 • the tV1) 1 6 11 Elizabeth Parker, l 1^ houserosid ' c g ee ' e a r' f lf of Mr. Marryatt, Noa.tee,j Richreond'ittehrr;te:litllVl was charged before Mr. Jardine w a oth ° de 4 ° watch, several articles of jewellery, 05,ber chLii,6,etl, belonging to her master. She was fli r ' dof s ` -bw o, stealing other articles of jewellerY 5E1 ,. bill'poolei,eo .m, e to- ,v- ,„ searchedeehr,. 01l hall p It a awa " Steeple nakdesi tseaeaotxvi bn ' Teel agredalsci lent the aeinh ' rstyo belonging fhis prteosehnetr hporeudseelteee s e P:: t o ot !. „ .001b t :i1, 0 , the the a s r : e_ va d esr t ma h l a is t ose t th h de e , raparrodosispescrilajostgoonrewr,3o:hoee3ere fnotejebo: a a w r na t dt i them.ewl)ohrtapoh s t ppcfeS s o t hr o e l former housekeeper being sent for, al ) , fell a The prisoner, w for trial. et itl pearshasupescebsefuttielYr ----"-----------------"'''''': fli•°;!,1)1;14t,, ho wept bitteril,"- DARING ASCENT OF THE A.SSO, flgs-clencliilfale of 2e ntil, fernaohnadc o h n se f hr e e s s e g d a v e t h autp a sh© t b titlesoh d e r eda:porgi cl3:it:c,:tit; ..k w T EDINBURGH. —The perilous feat 0 , -, by J• A0 10: 0 i0ti accomplished kaov hs theon Tahpup.r:opoptYielirtitetioti,iftircilic, b a een attached on the Saturday previon,, „i'bich tio coP t ' o cl commencedhlso, bof,broreotioiso .0,,,ei01;fj.,e, building,contact with the turre g ts re ' t a b ro x :c r a g b r ia r e o wr:Piouittici:redbl,o tiltbotert,p3rec‘llll;i: steeple climber soon drew himself to ' w as e c oat I. th nearly 240 feet " Jack," feet. ecti fig If f " ~, JI 1 m. and his efforts to disentang'beio oat:Jo/40011: wouldaan tsoutpbsrteeorc. aapadritaioF:igneoeh:ritietitoje.ocists, _uititude of ropes which surroundedtbe e:sc i b ed t b o oll f i l l , played a fearless agility, which struck ...„ t ote o cl :to g 0 alike with awe and astonishment. llecl,',,s; gelat in tr l ; 0 1 0 !nit, he speedily disengaged himself frota,lo caP ro pel„je l t o mg the vane, he stood upright, waved,Pholoiv.,,e ee'et and huzzaed most lustily, the croca ijotaliVo i' o eto t cheer with compound interest. Il v ? , tol i e r e11 ;0 1° ' 113 0 has been fitted up, but the conductilevol oot_cepeo be attached. " Jack" is to receive a 5 7; e'''„,i‘l h"„ c , tion for the risk of his life; but the altiv 0 T i pg, r 00 to a tithe of the expense which inevittl Jew p ( 10 0 ,6 4 incurred by the erection of extensive 6' . ,.. 1 4 1. 0 . 5 t 0110 0. REPRESENTATION OF GREENWICt.wiCIibI. 0: il Chambers addressed the electors of Gr ee ho reeg at ild b t ioa 1 ,1 a candidate for the representation of the eec h, ',liiici i . c t„: l3 o and Learned Gentleman, in a long s „r r ty q c i - aist rl lle „ s e favourable to the abolition of the proPv le tt:Olio, DoPoi Members, to a revision of the existing e ti,ie bol i at t 00,0 an extension of the franchise to all If oje atl' e d Oe il de;) advocated the ballot and trieianial Par ' Lear ll o arbee' 7 ,o of his address, Dr. Ilalahan asked tile_ w oe, oa cl c o bl ho whether, if returned to Parliament, 1 . ° 0 ,..-O t iot teote be grant to Maynooth ? Mr. different Chambers— frorn bo 0 10 1 4, ri . The object of the grant was very ado` ire ", be i 4 4,, o li pe it was now applied. It arose ill c o l ' kt a s ,Vrielot sisbherrTteilloafiihsplsedueseoeilnnndgn t Roman Catholic priesthood ateaisetwirre.re?,,eiacillio:oslceg,) Ntro, means of getting education gerous education. As the cause for tn!':'; A h oc. r 0 0 , t o should oppose its renewal.—(Loud chers(f,algote o",ereksit is your opinion about 131oornerismrtoo de i d it or pg t t l io Chambers—That is a question inuc l : oat, 1/ pro e st 5 answer. Various other questiona w r e e so [ a tion o 3 ooP l.l o s 4 the satisfaction of the meeting. A r pees t va ii 10t Mr. Chambers was a fit and pro Per • t 05d t ha t ' , borough of Greenwich in ParliaMen_ctura ped agreed to. The Learned Gentleman ' ~ ,1 911 ' .0 , ,, e •tir the meeting separated. , r o ItS; pc.', 3 le , oo THE Ray. DR. CUMMING AND the Se t ' o t 1 , 1 ',411 ° hhlaAsNin—tiNmVaeteadre henisabilaetdetnotiosatatoefistbliEleirlipalvoeieirSigetase;:oe:oo:;j,! which the Rev. Dr. Cuuiming Romish Miracles, at the Town-1011, "-; tho iti c thfi t 4 0 0 % 0 is anticipated. From what we hear _, :oe cte.'4, e,'„ t olp! of applications made for tickets, it 1 5 5i ` w ilar Rif e w ile 0, ence will be one of the largest, ° f !• 1 0 . , leet e ry. o r, l : 4 1 3 °' bled in Birmingham. Dr. Cunun.lo,,,o!lo de li‘ _,iii rd .b occupy two hours, I ll io n° '' th ° i j i lli lr reason to believe that the Rev. (rent,chicli , „ 0 strange cases of Romish miracles, renew Ire if no t more , Rome would much rather not see Advertiser.