The Sun. — London, England, 1851-12-23 00:00:00

5 1 1° 1 ft , Or' 10r7, f' rout' l ei? . rii ejl of. .ote° 1 86 -01 41 16 . ' ' f'9l4 O'" ) 510 It sl' " to boil , - „0- 10,01. 0 1. 11 fkgi Fib Tt tlt tl th?, "Lse ' 4 " the ]and alsoeome pieces of wood, suPP°"c d vsssee rtl,el;. s ' t4 e Dee. 22.—Wi n d variable and light. — iraer a and Norman New Orleat s; Princ ton, !otereaT'd Mortezuma, New York; Tam O'bhenter, I P, l A ,: 14 ° ,11 Gei.rge Bentinek, Bonny (sail( d Oct. sliNekiPa, Porto Rico; Bodices, Sr. John's, New ., Sid., 21, Archer, Barbadoes; 22, Frances, I, l te tt l e tcho, Africa; Mail, Fernsneo Po; Pegasus, 1) 141, Iti lae; Ripley, Panama; Is ,bells, Monte Video; to et a; Andover, Ceara; Esk, Bahia; Leonora, Felicity, entusgos; Quiver, Azires. N EWS.—(THIS DAY.) Vcapi, RAT MAR,E.E.T.S. ),,;q ditto , :c• — Meadow Ha, ' 3, 58 to 41 6s Od ; and Straw, 1/ Os to 6s tta4titA l ull averag e su pply, and a dull trade. leZ ai ditt L4- 0, ' 7 3 1 ;• Meadow Hay, 2/ 16s to 3/ 1 7s 5s to 41 ss; and Straw, 1/ is to 1/ 7s tl!lttre e ; u PPlY good, and trade dull. Ni t dit PE L — Nreadow Hay, 21 15s to 3/ 15• 6 - s ; It°et trade to 4/ 8s Od; and Straw, 1/ Os . to 11 heavy, at about last week's prices. OLODIXes.2e. kl b l last v i ! ° market for British Plantation closed kth' 43 4 , n - 1 . V. Sales, 365 hhds., at barely previo . us Qie efton 4.700 bogs Bengal were brought in, 17 1 ,,qhm,, ae rition of 800 bags, which realised 30' for furaethobah; 37s to 38i 6d for goo yellow; I, Itll ts ,g,, ° ° (l white Benares; and 24s to 263 6d for low li t , '"ate• Of 3,130 bags Madras offered, barely 6d decline; 1,046 bags Penang also only F e " ua Yers, at 3ls to 33s for white, and 26.3 . 6 d II ell " r Yellow; 340 hhds and 20 brls Porto Pr S Rico k sold oat 2 8s to 345, being rather luwer. 1 141. b 0,!" yellow H avanna h have been sold at IQ i t b e quantity of British Plantation landed :ems t i t ne East and West India Docks was n l,l for lee _ rc es . 524 barrels, and there . were . t te.ssl t :"Dtlon e Qz4 41 the 956 hhds 124 tierces 372 barrels. ele same places is 16,718 hhds 2,165 trcs nestesi a c Packages Plantation Ceylon sold with 's 111 Ile n d br , chiefly at Change4ss to 525. 25 0 bags 00 packages e tmget 38s 61 low(9s; but 1 etaoe wavily, and 3s r; long berry at 795, Ili,i t e kji e eea small berry at 68s 61 to 69s 6d per cwt. 1 11 ( Ile s tr market has been firm. The quantity ke i nis s e " e 'k at the E as t an d W es t India Docks was kttisti 3 24 hh ds- There were taken for home con -141 Atee "t l s. Puns 33 hhds, and exported 42 tuns hhds, The stock i n t h e same p l aces i s 14,624 puns e /v • - -P y ,st e -s s 6i is 36s 9d per cwt on the spot, and O N la ! neerket is steady. The deliveries last 4t` the m ar k et is a little firmer. D k4.I.II'CIIANCERY.—( THIS DAY.) t4 e itt h• :t•T CLAPHAM.-13ALTAU V. DE HELD— , JUDGMENT. tm i isi - e c e"ne KINDERSLY said this case came be- Vis k - "ue first instance by way of demurrer, and aed "le t h l; "et tnied, it came before him in the next a t ,. of motion for an injunction. When he for lid°. demurrer he refrained from stating his - kV% doi ng 50, lest he might prejudice the argu ld Motion made by the other side. He would 4 4th h.' reasons for overruling the demurrer, and 4 04 1 4acl ete la ° Pinion on the motion for an injunction. 11 triad s ti "er for want of equity, and by it the cm ,rtook to show, that on the statements con lieue bill the plaintiff was not entitled to any atatements were these:—From 1817 down klfottlee,:crtiff was the lessee of a dwelling house in 141 ) - j, : lthi e h' h C lapham, for a term of 69 years, about les"latiss an now expired. In 1848 the house of O k t i c t a ih te h4tlicluthe house now adjoining formed one "sy "t heti•'.ead sinco been divided, and the house selli c been purehaaed. on behalf of a religious tt,o4lltektathernselves the Redemp t i onar y Brothers, of kit ,ts the Pu ( "hole pers uas i on . They appropriated o ne e h _ rp oses a chape , l , which was called St. hs "tr eet: Pel ' In of d 1848 a wooden scaffolding was c aused rided°4 the top of th e h ouse , in which a bell tfk i se Th, which was rung repeatedly every day of k s t i e „, ll tabli a h P l aintiff communicated with the superiorau Nraled t M alik and also with Cardinal Wiseman, kip ; %then exercise spiritual jurisdiction over R a y e S s to abate es in t h e 11 S 4 th locality, requesting them to take t Stly at e nuisance. The bell commenced ring. LbNktaktd th at "- ee o'clock in the morning, and the plain_ wer in c onsequence of the annoyance, he and e ell 6 not able to read, or write, or converse N o la g; and a es t eo ati that the value of his house had e Nos is the matter, d iminished. However no steps I t t tot tt i t 'sne e and the plaintiff continued to bear LW% ti for 'h e ll as he could. A church was next b ro ted llipit.ciacCommodation of four hundred persons. 'ti • fee la May, 1851 , an d h a d a belfry one t hi g h the 4atitut , containing six bells. In Ja ne . f the 04' 1 414 a u an action against the superior o t t - 71F k tlges ' ima ti ci d eo o , l l the trial obtained a verdict with Lie and vat . -ts• The bells were of a most tuansud -010 feet from 4i cwt. to 9 cwt. in weigh h i 'llat4 Aru n .. ree to three feet three in size at . ; the t ; 8 ' b r ill, al thug to other facts contained in the ogi•er h is Honour said it concluded with a t ies t l th e b.,lnjunction to restrain the defendant from Nat plain altogether altogether or so as to annoy and dis -1:4 e patt u ll and his family The first ground of the , ie tit 4, that the nuisance . bein a üblic nuisance, and be an informationby the Attorney tl4ll4i b a il! is it th i at it was not competent for the plaintiff to 1 1 41 04%T i t ee l " we re a private nuisance. Now, in his ts it , le 4.. . Ottr,niely doubtful whether this was tliat"etial °° see, but whether so or not 040 4 , the nisderation. To constitute was public a lth l4 ItS !aog complained of must bo of such a 1 : 1 4 0 „ the anty. 'n:lure cz . annoy all persons who cadTse le` ae,; tl " t re of its operation, whether they a . re . a Na t at of hand, Though a bell ringing nk t se, yet e vers on ', house might be an intolerable til l p o , iti '.° a person living at a distance it might within tiZt l Z s ,„"ages l i e „ Pleesure. Every one was acquainted essut th e t he writings of pleasurable sensation which was felt when, poets and other writers, kt,tllt:iillhntlier evening, the ear caught the sounds of S net Lbells, He considered that the act in ques- I N, 6 11 therefor treated or indicted as a public nuisance, gr - oL r ci had decided against the defendant on 1. 11 1,, coul d • The next ground was that the not establish his right at law, but , 0 th ; r in " ° ught untenable. The demurrer L es, t . 1.1 touthgl, overruled His Honour then referred ‘.Pe.‘;llllide,saidehaeteß.iineets on the motion for an injunc e nh e , uuld do no better than put the ques- Nee truce ha to decide in the words of Lord Justice e , whether the inconvenience was.dr.n more Il t tk ri t 'lld en : t more than mere delicacy or fasti to_ Ott wite P ' ai a of —an inconvenience materially „vis ° ee, „„ the etch mfort of human s, b eut ace nary co t et .ording to elegant physicalso refined modes of I - •Y a °rdin g t o the do, t "nab si simple notions plain, sober, kik , that it person's *to ' r" P le • He (Sir R. Kindersley) thought iiChNdr,,t()ElalOr materially interfered with ape qsti ee -as o f ~t , and that . i l , pl a i n t i ff was entitled to isel n ot '"0 Court. He should therefore grant an t ilin g to restrain the defendant ringing the Pitt 4d„ ' but to restrain him, a nd all persons e e e- eat l ion ant hority, f rom ringing any of the bells and hie any annoyance or disturbance to the , einity, o't n - STREE T—(THIS DAY.) y tlti fit,ler,?°Atne—Patrick Donovan was brought • , ,L d w e pt,lis,,,--ewick, charged with begging "Y• "'constable 24 C when in the execution of 'to e and ass j il lo d a tit Y iss 3tE b ble Stated that on the previous night he was e ti l i t iy et "vn - street, Piccadilly, when he saw th Q* 4l ,:th e ' °f several gentlemen who pushed him . 04,1,..atr e r ig oller then went into a baker's . shop in N s 'vit as . ' and demanded to be supplied with so . "4 0 .tOd ' 32 then went into the shop and took him c res t tie , and as soon as they got into the street the IN times°,l him • most violently rte ee, and up and kicked IMO had it not been for the assistance o f btetPasseraeby the prisoner no doubt wouldr__ lielite) fearful injuries upon him. He (the p ta i . :here , h ( ""ver, secured and conveyed to the s It ' foe cremeWaS searched, and although he had l'h-44cl Poverty, a 5/. Bank of England note I b tl i ,!;t4P t isol P i °4 hi m. to on es, who stoutly denied the charge, was coin; "Oe Li ,l, the " Hou se o f C orrect i on f o r 14 days to q for ti ue ` . l at the exration of that time to serve a as sault on the constable. ek,„ „ RWARK.—(THIS DAY.) 11h1:tus ;;lalland was charged with breaking into the 4 11, c , ) , 11 5e of George Moore, a bricklayer, in Webb th4tlLtiti°4,l:lark, with intent to , commit a robbery. He Qo us ged with setting fire to a chest of drawers Wq 4 t}' e • k tlied la a Moore, wife of the prosecutor, said that, 44441" r"riain ge little after seven o c ock, u s w b u e ahutters of her front parlour and closed . d V t all c : * "curdy, while she went to a neighbour's adott 41,;carie milk for breakfast. On her return, 11 at; t lll ,,autes, she discovered her shutters closed, du l at t ,ttiy, - ,Tng them she found the window force h p. 1 4044 - ,Y called i p olice-constable, and on t Natia'aua front room na she was alarmed at finding fiarnes issuing from ono of the drawers, r n h en r a 4Paued it, and discovered a quantity f l ats t ° o % I ° l he instantly extinguished. On searching 4 %7' With th e Prisoner was found concealed under had ti t ` p at E ,C, a violin lying alongside of i im, which be a li th q te t a in ir th rl a one of the drawers . Witness left no light 1 0 14 d a room when she went out, but a packet of hlt‘ipatiellers was found in the drawers. The latter ° 1, 1 i r c l: t .titity of new linen which she ha d to 0:111y. kt) i ' i tt tr t -cIaTIIATE asked whether th© prisoner had ttiPi °.htver'ahle betere? Prisoner—Please, your Wor m was in trouble before. I never set the place 41 4, a Watt ~1 1 active officer of the M division; said the k4 B t , er,: t a 9 a well-known young thief, connected fOt 4' . ct with It,t) gang infestin g th e B o rough. He was tried at the Sessions about twelve months ago 1 o tlt dvieliing-house. t ie it)f tI ,4IBT RATE said it was quite time he was sen t % ttti il e "atrY, and as the present charge was o c at him he should c °Yuma him for trial. s ---- t ok al 441 p . , in the i:ih; -, 4r,,, 1.-- ‘-' l ' AN ELEPIIANT.—An officer 'ed 4 iti,' ill 4 7 'Y had a favouri'e elephant, which was suppl Lf "g t 18 presence With a certain allowance of food, b l ut til pen 11 410 Lea.. ' (1 . ro absent himself on a journey, the keeper l ilt' beer,7' doriinishecl the ration of food, and the animal 11iti.qeph`878 t hinner and weaker. When its master returned, Ith i tl tit exhibited the greatest signs of pleasure th , h B iikl .. loy fi X taine and the keeper laid before it the former - L 41 47 1 1t si l ,; e . B of iood, which it divided into two parts, rend. t:4fftser:klyoti me.diately, and leaving the other .untouwc . m. - 4 ,, knowin g the sagacity of his favourite, sa i til e triad that had been committed, and made t he ' bill dime. THE SUN' LITERATURE. THE DEATH FLAG; or the Irish Buccaneers. Dy Hiss Crumpe. Shoberl. This is an historical novel, of which the author says in the preface—" The object of the work now presented to the public is to connect with the interest of romance a measure of the instruction and utility of history." The instruction to be derived from it is cer tainly entirely in the shape of warning, the evils of vice occupying a far larger portion of the tale than the merits of virtue. The time is that of Charles Edward although the Chevalier and his followers appear more seldom than might he desired. The chief the part of l the work is, as the t itle implies, concerninglrish B u ccaneers, whose crimes and p unishment are of too t r agic a nature for romance. The author observes, that " the grandest poets of antiquity have derived a pungent interest from drawing the portraiture of the great passions, however evinced, in shapes of guilt. Shakspere and many of the noblest dramatists of more modern times have exhibited the same pre dilection ; and, in doing so, have not only found their proper sphere, but have fulfilled their duty es instruc tors to mankind. If this be granted, why should not the historic novelist follow their example This may be true, but few in our more civilized age and coun try would be likely to commit crimes like those of the Sullivans ; and though well described the scenes and characters of the tale show too much of the dark side of human nature to be agreeable. The style is varied, and the author is not deficient in power. — NEW MUSIC. THE MINSTREL TO HIS HARP-0 THOU WHOSE SOFT BEWITCHING LYRE; Vocal Duets. By Elizabeth Stirling. C.Jefferys, Soho-square. Two graceful and simple duets, the words by Mrs. Hemans ; the vocal music is laeasing, and not beyond the reach of ordinary musicians, while the instru mental part is well suited to it. THE AN EMOIV B POLKA. Composed by Mrs. Bart. FAREWELL TO THE EXHIBITION ; Air with Variations, for the Pianoforte. By F. Sommer. EILEEN'S PRAYER. By J. H. Jewell; the Music composed by Alexander Lee. Jewell and Setc4ford. " The Anemone Polka" is lively, elegant, and Though varied, it is tastefully arranged. "The Farewell to the Exhibition" was performed by command before the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family, on the Sommerophone, in the Crystal Palace, on the 14th October, by Frederick Sommer. It is now arranged for the pianoforte, and forms a very pleasing and melodious air. While so much music appeared at the opening of the Great Exhibition, bearing its name, we believe this is the only piece that has commemorated its close. " Eileen's Prayer" is a graceful and pathetic ballad. It contains the manuscript of the music, which is the last composition of Alexander Lee, and as such must be regarded with interest as well as from the sentiment of the words and the beauty ofthe music. TILE ROYAL NURSERY QUADRILLES. By Mrs. G.A. A'B eckett. Cramer, Beale,and Co. A set of lively quadrilles on popular nursery tunes, e a mong which " Sing a Song of Sixpence," w " Littl Jack Horner," and " Polly put the Kettle on," find a place. They are well suited for dance music, and not withstanding the simplicity of the airs, they are varied and melodious. LONDON SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER -HALL. This society gave their a nnual performance of tbe Messiah last evening. The oratorio was preceded by a new Christma s anthem, "There were Shepherd s," composed by G. W. Morgan, the gentleman who so highly distinguished himself on the 7th of May last by his performance of a solo on the great organ, which elicited such a unanimous encore. As a composer we are inclined to comparative that he will soon rank high, and although a stranger in London, this is by no means his first essay. His anthem gives evidence of a thorough knowledge of score writing and instrumentation. We may especially observe the modulation a t the words `Tad sudden the final chorus " Glory to God in the highest," as evincing a musica\ taste with mature judgment appertaining to the highest order of the art. We therefore wish him all the success which those qualifications honourably entitle him to. The verse parts were ably sung by Mrs. Temple, Miss Dolby, Messrs. Lockey and Phillips. The oratorio, c onducted by Mr. Surman, was performed in a very efficient manner—Mrs. Sunderland acquitting herself in the air " Rejoice greatly" with unaffected good taste, which, with her fine voice, told remarkably well. Miss Dolby was also in excellent voice, and sang the beautiful air " He was despised" with a purity of style not to be sur passed. Mrs. Temple, too, gave the air " Come unto Him" in an equally efficient manner. We were sorry to perceive that Messrs. Lockey and Phillips seemed to be botb labouring under severe colds—they, how ever, acquitted themselves creditably. CO itFit7IICIRCU LA R. WINDSOR, DEC. 22. The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Home park this morning. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal also w alked in the Home-park. The younger of the Royal Family took walking and pony exercise. The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty to-day. His Royal High;;Prince Albert left Windsor Castle about seven o 'clock yesterday evening for Lon, e rpose of being pre sent at the per form ondanc for the of the play by the Westm i ns ter Scholars. His Royal Highness was attended by he Lord on. George ' and Colonel B ouverie, Lennox Lord in Waiting, Colonel t H Grey, Private Secretary , Equerry in Waiting. The Prince and suite travelled to town by a spe cial train on the London and South-Western Rail way, and on reaching the railway terminus imme diately, proceeded to the school, where his Royal Hi g h n ess arrived at five minutes past eight o'clock. . Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, transacted M b us i n ess yesterday at the Foreign office. His Ex cellency also transac ted business yes terday at the Office of the Board of Trade. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) arrived in town yesterday morning from his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts, for the purpose of attending the Cabinet Council. Earl Grey arrived in town yesterday morning, from a visit to Lord Ashburton, at his seat, the Grange, Hants. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governors of the North American Provinces. SPORTIN G INTELLIGEN CE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. A large outlay on te High Sheriff for the Chester Cup. and an improvemhent to the extent of nearly 100 per cent. in Don Pedro for the Metropolitan Handicap, were the only s was very flat. METROPOLITANM HANDICAP. 1,000 to 45 agst Mr. Douglas's Don Pedro—taken 1,000 to 25 agst Mr. Sergeant's Kate (by Auckland)—t 1,000 to 25 apt Mr. Joseph Osborne 's Achyranthes -taken and afterwards offered 1,000 to 25 agst Duke of Bedford's Hesse Homburgh—t CHESTER CUP. 35 to 1 agst Mr. Pilling's High Sheriff—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Ringleader—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Stebbings's Knook Knoll—taken 45 to 1 agst Mr. S. Herbert's Grand Duke—taken and afterwards offered 50 to 1 agst Mr. Farrance's Cardinal Wiseman—t 50 to 1 agst Mr. Farrance's Grosvenor —taken 3,000 to 30 agst Mr. Farrance's Knavesmire — taken DERBY. 15 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Augur—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. J. Stanley's Orelio—taken 25 to 1 sgst Mr. Hawke's Womersley—taken HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The F. B. hounde Fri. Ladock-wood -10 i. Th e Albrighton bds., ' Wed. Tuck. bill; Sat. Somerford Mr. M. Marshall' s hds., Fri. the kennel -104. Mr. Morg an 's hds., Thurs. Callington-newbridge-10i. Mr. Purse's hds., Fri. Ashreigny-101. Mr. Luxton's hds. , F ri. Moor-end, Wembworthy-10. The South Devon Thurs. Bradley-10. Mr. Trelewny's lids., Fri. Marley-tollbar-101,. Mr. Deacon's bars., Wed. Ruborough-rock; bat. La merton-grer,n-10. The H. B. hds., Wed. Coombe -farm, Woodbury-101. The N. D. hds., Wed. Rawstone-moor; Sat. Hanea ford— 10i. Tho Dulverton bars., Fri. n— Dulvertola GLASGOW AND SoUTII-WESTERN RAILWAY. —Traffic for the week ending December 20, 1851:-- Passengers k 16,793), goods and parcels, horses and carriages.. 43,386 Corresponding week in last year 3, 17 11 Glasgow, December 22. 756 12 10 The letters from the Paris Bourse continue to ex press the most entire conviction that a S'S s t e m of unqualified military repression will henceforth cause confidence to be maintained. Allusions are still frequent to the error of Louis Philippe in not using with sufficient energy the same me ans to insure the prosperity and repose o f France, and it is plainly intimated that the reliance that Louis Napoleon will persevere in showing no toleration to his opponents should induce all persons to excuse or approve whatever he may do.— Times DEATH OF LADY GEORGE SEYMOUR.--ThiS ve nerable lady expired at her ai-artnunts in Hampton Court Palace on Friday last, at an advanced age. Her Ladyship was daughter of the Hon. and Rev. George Hamilton, of Abercorn, and therefore related to the Marquis of that title. By her marriage with the late Lord George Seymour, bro , ther to the late Marquis of Hertford, her Ladyship has left issue the present Sir Hamilton Seymour, our Minister at St. Petersburgh, the Hon. W. Henry Liddell, and the Countess i of §11a492. TUESDAY ing the association of enterpr' icing capitalists for the purpose of establishing useful manufactures, and de veloping the industrial resour( (es of Ireland ; thereby affording the only employmen ,t which can be at once remunerative and permanent. Sooner or later the attentio' a of England will be fully aroused to the import ince of the unrivalled field for enterprise which pres( mts itself in Western Ireland. It is only a _question of time and of method. Those who are earliest at work, and who adopt the best method for prosecuting It, may hope to reach the richest harvest. Under all the circumstances, we would be slow to advise individuals to enter upon the task single•handed. The true system must be one of colonization and co.° ?lation. Any other is certain to result in disap: Jointment and defeat: Ulster owes its prosperity to it :s plantation by James I. Connaught, let us hope, w ill date its era of re generation from the reign of Viotoria. Mr. Seymour insists at length throughout his clever brochure,:that a companyilacorporated by Royal charter is the only means by w hitch it is possible to insure the simultaneous develo.pcsent of agriculture, in its most improved systems, manufactures, and also of such other industrial resources L ls might happen to *Flex themselves (such as mines and fisheries) upon any ite selected for improvement. On this part of his subject he thus concludes his argument : " A land company, possessing a large tract of country, establishing the best systems of agriculture, working its mines and fisheries—if such there were—intro ducing new and important manufactures—its whole economy administered by men of skill, rectitude, and perseverance—promoting habits of industry most effectually by insuringlpermanence of employment— opening fresh markets in consequence of the large operations which it alone, porisessing an ample ca pital, could effect ; encumbered by no poor-rates be cause employing the poor, too powerful for the attempts of petty prejudices, too self•reliant to be deterred from its path by intimidation,' uninfluenced itself by sectarianism in politics or religion, and offering no impersonation of hostility, but approv ing itself to the good feelings o f all by its practical patriotism, possessing the adva ntoge of united coun sels and associated energies, attracting to itself the hopes of all good men, and the confidence of the community, able in its collective capacity to approach the Government with such claimas to a favourable at tention as no private individual could advance; con temporaneously developing all the resources, agricul tural, geological, and manufacturing, of its pos sessions—l spy that such a company can alone undertake with just hopes of success a project, at once so formidable in its difficulties, I so profitable as a mode of investment, and so full of i mmediate blessing and of future hopes." THE HAPSBURG'S KINGS OF HUNGARY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. Sir,—The events which occurred in 1848.9 be tween the Carpathian Mountains and the Adriatic Sea, an the plains of Panonia, in the land of the Magyars, have no parallel in modern times. All the glory and power the Magyar nation surrounded themselves with during the reigns of the kings descending from Arpad's dynasty, were quickly lost under the regime of the Hapsburgs. The advent of that race brought misery, decline, and dissension into Hungary ; from that moment the Almighty appears to have set his seal upon the nation. The grandsons of Arpad were, for the many ser vices they rendered, and the sacrifices made for the upholding of the Hapsburgs, mercilessly treated_ deprived of their rights and franchises, and their necks bent under the weight of the Austrian yoke. Russo-Austrian absolution begins to extend its domi nation over the whole of Europe. Poland and Hun gary, whose sacred constitutions for so many centu ries resisted all the storms of time, have been subju gated. They are groaning under the horrible tortures of the most sanguinary despotism ; and European diplomacy. labouring under the selfish and fatal laissez-faire system, assisted with disgraceful indiffe rence the unequal struggle both of Hungary—that of the latter being but the continuation of those wars for freedom the Magyars waged for centuries against the absolutism of the Hapsburgs under the banners of Bethlen, Bolskay, Tokoly, Rik6izy, and others. Hungary succumbed, and the Magyars fled for re fuge on Albion's free soil—the only country in Europe whose present political state and glorious past inspires every Magyar with confidence and hope for a better future. A great majority of the English nation has already shown its unequivocal sympathy for Hungary's good cause and right—a proof that they were well acquainted with that cause; but of what the English public in general is still ignorant, to complete their knowledge of the Hungarian na tion, is an impartial history of those crimes, perjuries, and foul intrigues, of which the thirteen kings of the house of Hapsburg rendered themselves guilty dur ing their rule in Hungary for more than three cen turies—crimes perpetrated for the purpose of under mining the free constitution of the Magyars. A condensed history of the Hapsburg dynasty, and of the contest between constitutional liberty and abso lutism—between the people and the monarchs, is what is wanting. Such a history in one volume is quite ready for print. Besides the history of the Hapsburgs it gives the most striking scenes is of . Hun gary's ancient and modern histor y . Its title s THE HAPSBURG'S KINGS OF HUNGARY. It contains—The origin of Hungary ; explains how the Hapsburgs succeeded in seizing upon the crown of Hungary; by what means they had rendered it hereditary in their dynasty ; narrates the sanguinary political and religious events which, during the period of their regime in H u n gar , were directed towards the destruction o f her Con stitution ; it documenta ril y shows how the Hapsburg dynasty for centuries bad Y prepared their plans to bring about the last melan choly days of the Magyars; relates the exertions and deeds of Kossuth in the Hungarian cause, &c. ; it throws a light upon the present dangerous state of Europe, and the Russo-despotism tendency; it pub lishes the principal diplomatic docu;nents issued by Russia, Austria, Turkey, and England, both in the question on Hungary, togeth er w i t h t h e remedy and reflexions these documents s uggest. The English public i s we l l aware o f the infinite difficulties accompanying the publication of a book, especially when the writer is not in' the position of publishing it with his own means ; ,and such being my present position, I am compelled to have recourse to . subscriptions to enable me to get it out, at the price of ten shillings, thi s pr i ce b e i ng on ly paid after the receipt of the work. The names of the s u b scr ib ers vi m be printed to he book. CORINNO DE SZEEEDY. 12, Foley-place, Langham-place. The noble endeav ours o f Si r Cor i eno d e Szsredy emboldens us to reco mmen d hi m to the the English nation, and th e f r i en d s o f the Hungarian of cause and freedom. sympathy Baron K EMENY , C o lonel. President of th e H ungar i an Comm ittee. 12, Foley-place,Langham-pl ace . VETTER, F. M. L. The above is insert e d t o encourage th e public, in the name of the good cause , and to support the endea vo u rs of the Magyar patriots, tb induce all who are in clined, as soon as possible, to enter their name and address on the subscribers' list. • SIR J. FRANKLIN. The following letter has been addressed to the editor of a morning conte m p orary : SSir,--I have lately been M P e t er h ea d -- (my native place), and have learnt a very i mportan t fact, which I am sure you will think of sufficient interest to make known to the public, from my old acquaintance, Capt. Martin, who, when commanding the whaler Enter prise in 1845, was the last person to communicate with Sir John Franklin. The Enterprise was alongside the Erebus in Mel ville Bay, and Sir John invited Captain Martin to dine with him, which the latter declined doing as the wind was fair to go south. Sir John while conversing with Captain Martin, told him that he had five years ' provisions, which he could make last sev en, and his people were busily engaged in salting down birds, of which they had several casks full already, and twelve Men were out shooting .more. To see such determination and foresight at that early period is really wonderful, and must give us the greatest hopes. I asked Captain Martin why he had not mentioned this before ? He said that he did not at first think it of any importance, and that when Lady Franklin was at Peterhead about two years ago he did not like to intrude upon her Ladyship, not having the honour of knowing her, during her short stay. He is a man of the strictest integrity, whose word I can depend upon. He has an independent fortune, which he got by the fishing. As you have done me the favour to publish a for mer communication I hope you will give this a place in your columns, as I am sure it will give general satisfaction.—Your most obedient servant, Aberdeen, Dec. 20. Was. PENNY. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—It is stated in the report of the Commissioners of Wocds and Forests, just published, that the Commissioners have sold a piece of ground from Charlotte-street to Long-acre as a site for baths and washhouses for St. Giles's and St. George's parishes The parishes have paid 2,6501. for the site. A sum of 30,0001. has been appropriated by the Commissioners to wards the expense of forming and completing a line of street between Southwark and Westminster-bridge. The Commissioners have lent 30,0001. to the Westminster Im provement Commissioners, to enable them to complete and open the new street from Westminster Abbey to Pimlico. The property purchased by the Commissioners of Woods to enable them to open a new street from the London Docks to Spitalfields Church amounted to 108,2141., hich has been raised by a duty of Id. per ton on coals imported into the city of London. Mr. J. Wilson Croker, the " Atlas" of the Quar ter/y Review, is seriously indisposed at present. LONDON, WEST _ENGLISH N IRELANDENTERPR ISE. AS A FIELD FOR _E * (SECOND NOTICE.) The great success of the linen manufacture in the neighbourhood of Belfast, and the valuable publica tions of the Royal Flax Society of Ireland have lately done much towards arousing public attention to the vast importance of an extended cultivation of flax in that country ; and we are not surprised at the pro minence which Mr. Seymour has given this plant in his project for a land society in the province of Con naught, uniting the development of its agricultural and manufacturing resources contemporaneously. Flax and beet-root are both admirably suited for a judicious system of rotation, as some of our most ap proved writers inform us. Mr. Sullivan, the Govern ment Professor of Agricultural Chemistry in the Dublin Economic Museum, remarks "as land cannot always be under green crops, it will probably be found that properly arranged rotations of beet and flax will be the best crops that can be grown in Ire land." In this opinion he agrees with Professors Low, Liebig, and other deservedly popular autho rities. The humidity of the Irish climate, which is frequently unfavourable to the production of cereals, renders it peculiarly suitable for the growth of root crops and textile plants. In Belgium, where the cul tivation of flax is best understood, the heat and long continued droughts of summer often cause a compa rative failure of the crop, and ordinarily the plant attains to a height of scarcely more than twelve to fourteen inches ; while in Ireland a short crop, on account of want of rain, is hardly ever known. "In many respects," says the Chevalier Claussen, in a paper read before the Council of the Royal Agri cultural Society of England, "our climate is better adapted for the growth of flax than even Belgium, inasmuch as we are not subject to those severe droughts, which, occurring in the spring in that country, frequently inflict very serious damage upon the young crop. Flax is grown to some extent in almost every part of the United Kingdom. It has been grown with success upon an Irish bog, and in the fen districts of England, on the summit of the Wicklow mountains, and upon the Beacon Hi ll of Norfolk, in the midland counties of England, and the western shores of Galwoy and Mayo." "The natural circumstances of Ireland," observes Sir Robert Kane, "are such as to adapt it in a singularly perfect manner to the development of the flax and linen manufacture, to an indefinite extent;" — an opinion the correctness of which Lord Clarendon has, on several occasions, expressed his thorough con viction. In an address delivered by his Excellency on his visit to Belfast last year he thus makes allusion to the subject i—" The great and growing importance of flax in Ireland cannot, in my opinion, be over estimated; and the more we consider it in is agri cultural, manufacturing, and commercial bearings on our welfare, the more apparent will, I think, become the necessity and advantage of its extended cultiva tion, in a country where soil and climate are so pecu liarly adapted to its cultivation, and I rejoice to think that attention is now so generally turned to this subs ject, and at a moment when flax is most likely to be remu nerative to the grower." With such encouragements to extend the cultiva tion of flax, we are not surprised to learn that last year there were about 60,000 acres under this crop in Ulster alone, being as much as the whole of Ireland devoted to in 1849. In Connaught, unfortunately, where there is most need of agricul tural improvement, and of devising some means for employing a redundant population, the breadth of land under flax has always been insignificant, except in the county of Mayo, where the persevering exertions of Sir Richard A. O'Donnel have been crowned with remarkable success. The annual sowing in Ulster averages 50,000 acres, while the other three provinces cultivate scarcely more than 4,000. Now the annual consumption of flax in these countries may be taken at 80,000 tons, and the value of foreign flax, seed, and oil-cake at 2,000,0001.; and upon a careful inves tigation of the subject we entertain no doubt what ever that Ireland might not only meet this demand, and thus put a stop to such an enormous annual drain of our capital into Russia, but might herself be a large exporter to France, Belgium, and America. Mr. M'Adam, of Belfast, a well-known authority on this question, has calculated that Ireland could produce 500,000 acres annually without more than a due proportion being sown on every farm of suitable soil. This would give 150,000 tons of fibre, value 9,000,0001, and 750,000 quarters of seed, value 1,650,0001., or in all about ten millions and a half sterling ! Should the patent pro cess of the Chevalier Claussen answer all the high ex pectations formed of it, and his chemical preparation of flax-fibre produce a cheap and useful substitute for cotton, the demand for flax would enormously in crease. Manchester alone would be a sufficient market for the growers in western Ireland, and render them independent of the demand from local manufac turers. But it may be asked, as it often has been, why do not the Irish people themselves take advantage of their own much praised soil and climate, and set themselves to extend the cultivation of flax, sugar beet, and other " commercial plants," for which it appears there is an indefinitely large and profitable home market ? Why do not the farmers and land lords cf western Ireland at once go to work to raise at least their quota of flax, and thus endeavour to put an end to the enormous imports that are annually made from Russia ? We are not surprised at the frequency of these obvious interrogatories ; but we must remind those who put them that such anomalies are not uncommon in Ireland ; and that, notwithstanding the indifference with which Irish landlords and Irishfarmers treat these new and increas ing sources of wealth, they are, nevertheless, real and not visionary, and are worthy the best attention and the most patient investigation of Englishmen who are seeking new channels for the employment of their surplus capital, or who are desirous of a new field for the exercise of their skill and labour. Until the Encumbered Estates Act, tha difficulty of pro curing land in Ireland, with a good title and on easy terms, was extremely great ; and it was no wonder that, under such circumstances, people were slow to seek an investment there; but now, when the title is unexceptionable—better than nine-tenths of the titles to English freeholds—when the price averages but twelve to fourteen years' purchase on the Com missioners'ssaluations—when the unemployed and des titute portion of the population is greatly diminished by emigration and other causes—when a direct com munication with America is being established (the effect of which must be highly beneficial to Ireland) — it appears almost unaccountable that comparatively little or no English capital has been devoted to the purchase of Irish estates ; and much as we have heard of Scotch and English farmers settling in Western and Southern Ireland, that so few even of these have accepted the present favourable opportunity of making a profitable settlement in that country. We suspect the real cause for this singular state of things is to be found in the old fears about the safety of life and property on the oter side of the Channel A , which are so generally entertained amongst us. little honest inquiry, h o wever, into the true state of the case would soon dissipate those needless alarms, so far as the province of Connaught is concerned. In our former notice we touched upon this subject, and have only to add that the unfortunate but have peace able and industrious peasantry of the West commonly been treated heretofore with great unfair ness, by being included in the same category of crime with their more lawless and turbulent neighbours of the South. Y et we have good reason to that numerous persons, who entertained no fears of this character, w ere justly apprehensive that their individual efforts, would be thwarted and neutral lized by circumstances over which they could have no control. Without conv enient markets, with bad roads, la in the midst of a pauper population, employing - bourers unaccustomed to:any,but the;worst systems of agriculture, who can wonder that few of our York shire or Lincolnshire farmers have ventured to seek their fortunes in Western Ireland? To an isolated settler, the difficulties and disadvantages of his position, perhaps, would outweigh its great and numberless in trinsic advantages. His best efforts would be un availing to cope with the multitudinous obstacles that there stand in the way of all improvement—obstacles which may be removed only by the associated energies and united action of numbers. Such was the convic tion of the late Sir Robert Peel when he made his celebrated proposition to the Corporation of London for the colonization of Connaught. We quite agree with Mr. Seymour in deprecating that extensive. Government interference which is advocated by some persons. As a general rule, Parliamentary grants, for the employment of the redundant labour of Ireland in public works, have been attended with the worst consequences, both to the country and to the unfor tunate peasantry whom they were designed to serve. They have uniformly proved expensive and unhealthy stimulants, and have but ill succeeded in affording even a temporary relief to the destitute, while they have done much harm in diverting labour from its proper field into forced and unremunerating channels. Nothing can be more injudicious (remarks Mr. Seymour) than the system of public works in Ire land, with its staff of overpaid officials, and its legion of underlings. It would be absolutely ludicrous, were the subject not so melancholy, to describe the national onslaught made upon the roads of Ireland some two or three years ago, under the provisions of the Poor Re lief Act. There eves, unhappily, a national highway which these myriads of labourers were busied in lay ing down—let us hope it will never be finished Ireland's road to ruin ! Instead of such precipitate efforts of Parliamentary philanthropy, how much more good would have been effected by encourag- " llow to Employ Capital in Western Ireland, being Answers to a Few Practical Questions upon the Manu facture of Beet Sugar, Flax, and Chicory, in connexion with a Land Investment in the West of Ireland." By William Digby Seymour, of the Middle Temple, Bar rister -at-Law. Third Edition. Ridgway and Effingham W ilson, • EVENING,, DECEMBER 23, 1851. NA VALINTELLIGEN CE, Rear-Admiral Houston Stewart, we are glad to announce, has recovered from. his indis position. - Commander Tatham, of the. Fury, steam-sloop, at Woolwich, is on leave of absence to the 6th January. The ship is reported ready for sea on the 3d January, if manned. Commodore Eden's Jereire expires on the 20th 01 January. .. ...... The gunnery-ship Hotspur, 42, at Devonport, is to have a complement of 266 officers and men, who with Captain R. S. Hewlett, are to be borne on the books of the Excellent, at Portsmouth. Mr. Charles Pemberton has been appointed chief engineer to the Retribution steam frigate at POrts mouth, in the room of Mr. Vickers, left sick at the Cape. _ kr. Charles K. Renwick has been appointed as sistant engineer to the Birkenhead steam-transport, at Spithead. Clerk—Henry Gray (b) to the London, 92, Sheerness. The iron screw troop-ship Megsera Master Com mander Burton, will be ready to embark the first battalion of the Rifles for the Cape on the 29th inst. Aboukir convict-ship arrived on Friday evening in the Sound to embark 66 convicts from Dartmoor, when her complement will be complete, and the ship will sail for Van Diemen's Land. Homoaze lighter, Wood master, sailed for Devon port on Saturday, with stores from the River yards. Nile, 92, having had her bottom overhauled, was taken out of No. 5 dock, at Devonport, on Saturday. Sanspareil, 81, screw-ship, having taken her boilers, was removed from the Sheer H u lk t o Devon port Dockyard on Saturday. Captain H. M. Denham, F.R.S., is to have the charge of the new surveying operations in the South Seas. We stated yesterday that the Herald, old frigate, was ordered to be fitted for the service. Capt. Denham will command this ship, and will have the Arrow, 6, ketch, at Portsmouth, with him as a tender. Captain Denham's abilities as a marine surveyor are well known, and his reputation as a sound practical seaman, and his popularity as a most excellent officer, have been established for many years. On this ap pointment we quote the following from the Liverpool Albion : " We now understand that the Lords of the Ad miralty have given directions for the immediate equipment of two vessels to proceed upon an explo ratory expedition amongst the South Sea Islands, including New Caledonia and the Fegees, with a view to ascertain the capabilities they respectively present for the purposes in question. We also learn that her Majesty's ships Harold and Arrow are destined for this service, and that the Board of Admiralty, with a laudable appreciation of the pro fessional talents and public services of Captain Man gles Denham, have appointed him to command the intended expedition. In this instance, at least, it is admitted that their Lordships, by their selection of such an officer, have exercised a sound discrimination, and performed an act of justice to a meritorious public servant. It is likewise stated, upon the best autho rity, that her Majesty's steamer Pluto is about to be dispatched to the coast of Africa, to commence the survey of the Bight of Biafra from the point at which Captain Denham Concluded his operations in her Ma jesty's steamer Avon, a few years ago. The present period is considered most propitious for resuming this survey, as the obstacles which have heretofore opposed its progress from the hostile attitude of the native chiefs engaged in the slave trade are now removed by the almost total cessation of that nefarious traffic. It becomes, therefore, necessary, with a view to the encouragement of mercantile enterprise and the safety of our shipping, that the navigation of a portion of the African coast now so little understood should be defined as early as possible, more particularly as it seems that those who up to a late period were engaged in a law less pursuit are, in its paralysis, now anxious to em brace any opportunity of establishing mercantile in tercourse with this country upon a friendly footing." PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—Her Majesty's steam yacht Fairy has been taken into the steam basin to day to have her boilers repaired. The Edinburgh, 58, screw blocksbip, has received her boiler and has been taken into the Sidon dock to day to have her engines fitted. The St. Vincent, 100, is all ready, for undocking on Wednesday. The Sidon steam-frigate has been taken into the steam basin to-day to have her engines repaired. The Sharpshooter iron steam-vessel has been un docked to-day to make room for the Edinburgh, and the Leopard steam-frigate has been taken into the steam-basin. The Arrow surveying ketch is undergoing a tho rough repair in No. 6 dock. By letters received to-day we are informed the Fox, 42, Commodore Lambert, remained at Calcutta on the 7th ult , in expectation of proceeding in a few days to Rangoon, with two steam-vessels of the Hon. East India Company's navy, to demand reparation for continued insults and injuries to British subjects and commerce. Her Majesty's steam-sloop Hermes and the Serpent, 12, were to join the Commodore immediately. Coercive measures were confidently spoken of at the Presidency. WooLwicu, DEC. 22.—The Highflyer steam-sloop has been taken under the shears to be masted, and is ordered to be completed as early as possible for com mission. Her rigging is all ready for putting up. The Zephyr steam-vessel left Woolwich about one o'clock to-day with stores, to be put on board the Megmra steam -frigate at Sheerness, as the latter vessel is under orders to proceed to-morrow to Dover, where she will embark the Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade, and convey that regiment to the Cape of Good Hope. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, DEC. 22. Sailed—The American steam-ship Franklin, for New York, with a full cargo; she steamed away at 3.30 r ht., with a fresh wind at N.W. : it has since got more to the north, attended by heavy rain. Just after her departure from Havre yesterday, for this port, one of the sailors fell from the foreyard on to the deck, unfortunately breaking his jawbone in three places, three of his ribs, and fracturing his skull : he is still alive, but there are little hopes en tertained of his getting over it. Tun " AMERICA" YACHT.—There is no truth in the story which is going the round of the newspapers, that Lord Blaquire, after giving 4,0001. for this far famed yacht, would now gladly sell her for 3,0001. The writer could know nothing of the matter. Lord Blaquire gave, as we before stated, 5,0001., and when he sailed from Cowes was perfectly satisfied with her ; he is now with her at Lisbon, and unfortunately too ill to sell or buy. SUPPLY OF WATEU.—Through some great defect in the reservoir of the Cowes Waterworks, the whole of the water escaped through the bottom, and the in habitants have had no supply from it since the 30th of August last ; it is about to be purchased by the Cowes Local Board of Health, and Mr. Joseph Quick, of the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks, has been appointed to value it for the town. NATIONAL THEATRE.—The great dramatic feature of the season, the first appearance of Madaree Celeste, was made last evening under most flattering auspices in regard to the general success of the present engagement. There was a crowded audience, and we have seldom seen a more enthusiastic ene. To-night the French Spy, a melo-dra matic spectacle, the principal character in which is admirably adapted to Madame Celeste's versatile powers, is announced. —Boston Daily Times, U.S., Tuesday, Dec. 9. WESTMINSTER PLAY.—The Eunuchus was re peated last night,: and, if possible, with increased effect- Among the distinguished company present were—His Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the Equerries in Waiting; the Belgian Minister, the Prussian Minister, the Saxon Charge d'Affaires, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Westmin ster, the Earl of Carlisle, the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen Bench, Lord Justice Cranworth, Lord de Roos, the Chief Baron, Baron • Alderson, Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Justice Talfourd, the Attorney-General, Sir David Dundas, Drs. Philimore, Sutherland, Layard, Colquhoun, Vaux, and a large attendance of other noblemen and gentlemen educated at the school. CITY ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL. On Saturday last a special meeting of the Governors of the City Ortho peoric Hospital, in Hatton-garden, was held at the London Tavern; Ralph Lindsay, Esq., F.S.A., presided. The Hon. Secretary, the Rev. J. H. Bastard, having announced that the meeting had been duly summoned in accordance with the 30th rule of the charity, for the purpose of electing trustees, it was stated that Samuel Gurney Fry, Esq., and Samuel Gurney, jun., Esq., had given their consent to accept the office of trustees, and they were therefore unanimously elected. After which the chairman announced his intention to present the charity with the sum of 1001., as a donation towards its general funds. The number of patients at pre sent in attendance was stated to be already 36g. This large number is supposed to be entirely owing to the operation of the freedom of admission, as no letter of recommendation is required. John Ivall Briscoe, Esq., of Fox-hill, Chertsey, and Eaton-square, was elected a vice-president. A vote of thanks having been warmly carried to the worthy chairman, the meeting adjourned. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.—Miss Martineau, in her " Feats on the Fiord," gives a picture of Norwegian man ners which braces the reader like the mountain air—their frost-bound land, their ice-glazed roads, bright night-fires, festive sports, and bounteous repasts create an appetite as you read the book. With similar exhilaration the British nations contemplate the approach of Christmas, whose asso ciations are redolent of noble sports, proud holidays, and festive scenes—circles of womanly beauty and manly health. At such a season what Presents can be more becoming than those elegant preparations of Rowland and Sons—their Macassar Oil, Kalydor, and Odonto, which insure beauty and grace to the possessors? And not only are they elegant presents to others, but they enable us t o present our se lv es as taste would dictate at that season whi c h " oncecomesbut a year." TUE NEW RECORD REPOSITORY. --From the last report of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, just printed, it appears that the new Record Repository now being built in Rolls-gardens, Fetter-lane, will cost 45,0001. It will contain 331,495 cubic feet, of which 124,311 cubic feet will be required for records and the remainder for light, air, &c. It is expected that there will be room for more records than there are at.preeent. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. POS F.--The decision of the people of France upon the momentous question submitted to them by their President has now been finally made. The result is yet but partially ascertained. Apart from the votes of the army and navy, the accounts which have reached us up to the hour at which we write present a return of something more than two million voices, of which upon the whole, about 86 per cent. has been recorded in affirmation of Louis Napoleon's proposi ttiioonn. will W b h e inethearintthaironuedg,hiotuits, of course, impossible to the country this propor say ; but the re seems no room for doubt that, in Parliamentary ph rase, the ayes have it" b Some of our contempo an overwhelmi ng ma j ority. raries, who, h av i ng determined for themselves y in the first instance how the matter ought to be, and having subsequently found that evens perversely refuse to shape themselves after the fashion of their wise predictions, seem resolved to dismiss the actual facts from !all place in the discus sion, and to substitute in their stead a set of fictions, ingeniously calculated to serve the double purpose of alarming the public mind and of sustaining their own false and foregone conclusions. Such dealers in the marvellous have, amongst other things equally cre dible, circulated the report that whereas many of the electors could not write at all, and, therefore, would find some difficulty in writing "non," and whereas the many more who could write would not venture to trace the negetive monosyllable for fear of certain and condign punishment ; and, finally, whereas all printers bad notice from the police that if they is sued cards with the word "non" their licences would forthwith be stopped and their families ruined, it was clear enough to any simple judgment that nothing but affirmative votes would find their way into the urns. This was all very dreadful to be told— so delightfully dreadful, that some people actually fancied they believed it. But still there were others who were less easily imposed upon, and they were told to make themselves easy. For, if some patriotic printer should sacrifice his home and his hopes for the sake of justice, and supply dissentient voters with the requisite cards, those cards might, indeed, be dropped into the urns, but they would never be counted as they came out. The mayors and inspectors, as well as the surrounding witnesses in hundreds and thousands, were all to be bought or intimidated into the profound conviction that n. o. n. were letters which, together, made the word oui, and so the same result would be attained. Now, how stands the fact ? From Paris it would seem that the numbers stand, if not precisely, yet very nearly, as follow : Out 194,000 Non Where on earth did all these adventurous " noes " come from ? Were they written by the people who could not write ? or by the other people who could, but dared not write ? or sold by the printers who are to be immolated for their pains ? or yet again, having been duly deposited in the urns, who was the daring weight that read them truly in the face of open day, and set them down as lawful votes ? Will any one set about the impossible task of answering all these questions, and reconciling their answers to the mon strous statements under consideration ? No. The public will open their eyes to the truth, and declare that they have been imposed upon by a series of shallow inventions, exposed by the event to their just and unmitigated contempt. And yet we may not hope that such exposure will deter the cbampions of error from pursuing their foolish and mis chievous course. It is more than probable that some "Englishman," curious to know what amount of falsehood and enormity is too large to be imposed upon human gullibi lity, will gravely tell us that there has been in fact no wiling at all, and that in the centre of a hollow square the returning officers were compelled to write down so many figures as would make up the required sum ; and so the affair ended. Perhaps a clever artist will be sent from one side of the Strand to an apartment with a good light on the other—and there, " on the spot," he will draw a very accurate representation of the 80,000 voters, mayors, inspecting officer and all, hung by their necks on one tree of liberty, while the whole army of France are practising upon them with every description of fire-arm, from a Colt's revolver to a 64 -pounder. When this shall be done, let it be remembered that the written and pictorial mendacity already in existence will not be exceeded. Witness the alleged expulsion of the correspondents of the English press from Paris, and the spirited representa tion of the imaginary " &dine" on the Champ de Mars—affairs which are humorously and successfully disposed of—by no means for the first time—in the letter of our Paris correspondent, which will be found in another column. To that letter we also refer our readers for the manner of taking the votes, and for the means adopted for insuring the integrity of the returns. But if misrepresentation has been busy with respect to the mode of taking the votes, it has not been idle on the subject of the vote to be taken. This, like all the other facts in the eventful history, is variously represented, according to the humour or the purpose of the moment. Most generally it is convenient to employ it in tickling the tails of the " Bears " on the Stock Exchange. Then, the ques tion proposed to the people of France is represented as being, in effect, " Aye or no, will you vote for a permanent military despotism—an irresponsible Go- vernment—a press silenced for ever, and a perpetual state of siege for all France ?" Tbis is turned and fashioned into every conceivable shape of horror, and the French nation is loudly insulted for its lack of spirit i❑ permitting such propositions to be enun ciated at all, much more entertained, throughout her fair cities and rich provinces. It is undoubtedly very provoking that the French people will presume to judge for themselves in matters which have been predetermined in certain printing establishments in London. Why are they so blind ? Wherefore do they forge chains for themselves, and hug them as if for very love of slavery ? Above all, why is com merce so obstinate ? She will, most improperly, prosper. The public securities rise with every new proof of public subjugation. Labour, preposterously, finds abundant employment, and the fruits of labour a ready sale. All this " was not so before." Why is it so now ? Why, but because these unreasonable people are convinced that they see at last the opening prospect of a stable Government ; and they very stupidly don't care one brass farthing whether some certain English newspaper approves of the Govern ment or not. Now, again, what is the fact ? M. de Cassagnac, in the invaluable pamphlet, of which we are indebted, to our Paris correspondent for so large and interesting a portion in his letter yesterday, thus indicates the duty allotted to thd army : "In fact, what did Louis Napoleon demand of the arm) ? A throne? By no means. The triumph of a political party? Not in the least. Louis Napoleon asked the army to protect France against the enterprises of factious men, and to maintain order in the streets until ten millions of electors, solemnly consulted, should have made known their will by a vote." The Assembly was in the act of violating the Con stitution, and thereby forfeiting its rights of exist ence. It was systematically impeding the legitimate action of the Executive, and refusing compliance with the rightful wishes of the people. A coup d'etat, or a civil war was the alternative. The former was the more wholesome and the more legal—the more consistent with the honour and the oath of the Presi dent, as well as with the well-being of his country. It was chosen accordingly, and the questions now put to the people of France, and by them now an swered, are—" Do youlapprove:or disapprove of a con stitution embracing a Legislative Assembly elected by universal suffrage—a Senate—a Conseil d'Etat, and a Chief Magistrate, whose office shall endure for ten years ? And do you delegate to Louis Napoleon the necessary powers for framing such a constitution ?" Anything nioie unlike a despotism, military or civil, it is impossible to conceive ; and, therefore, anything more unlike the truth than the ravings of our contemporaries cannot be imagined. But we, it is alleged, are advocates of Louis Napoleon. :No such matter. We are advocates for truth. We deprecate, on the part of England and Englishmen any inter ference with the domestic policy of France. We condemn the journals whose reckless falsehood it is our duty to expose for their ignorant and impertinent meddling with what neither concerns them nor us. Louis Napoleon rises above all the statesmen in France, inasmuch that he is neither a Legitimist nor an Orleanist, nor a Republican, nor a Bonapartist : he seeks the triumph of no political party, but the prosperity of France. For that reason, France, and no party in France exclusively, chooses him to fulfil the high mission which he owns, that of " closing the era of revolution." We protest against foreign interference between him an d t h e countr y which has elected him for her chi e f magistrate, tAnd, above all things, we advocate th e observance Of strict and incontrovertible truth, as the foundation of honest political discussion. For our own stated no fact which the even t h as not proved to h ave been strictly accurate. We have b een earlier, as well parts, we h ave _ ve a as more certain, than our contemporaries, in the in formation which we h ave given to our readers. N o p one has ventured t o question the exactness o f any thing which le ex w am have statede Le t our antagonists follow u in the an b d as s i o s , o f with s e n u o s s ion t he intermixture publico f misstatem en t will be abl e t o d ec i de w i t h ou t prejudice on the merits of our respective conclusions. DRURY-LANE THEATEE.-With a view of affording additional attraction during the holidays , Mr. Bunn has en gaged " the Batema n Children,' who make their appearance on Saturday next. ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—KING'S SCHOLAR -5 i's.—The examination took place last Friday. The board of examiners consisted of Mr. Potter (principal), Messrs. J. Goss, C. Lucas, H. G. Blagrove, J. Howell, G. A. Macfarren, and W. Dowell. The number of candidates exa mined was thirty-three; viz., seventeen boys and sixteen girls. The scholars elected were Miss Rosette \ T inning and Master John Barnett. The following highly distinguished: —Miss Janette Aylward and Masters Walter Pettit and Henry Baumer. APPALLING SHIPWRECKS. THIRTY LIVES LOST. The annexed reports of vessels lost have been an r ounced at Lloyd' s : The American p ac k e t s hi p Tsendenoga, on her passage to London, f rom N ew Y ork, was totally lost on the morning o f th e 2d o f December, on sunken rocks off Corribou Islands. The total loss of pas sengers and crew drowned is reported to be twenty seven. Two ships were run down and totally lost in the Channel, on Tuesday night last. The Theodora, a large Dutch barque, 600 tons burden, bound to Am sterdam, from Batavia. About seven o'clock in the evening, when some twenty-five miles below the Ed dystone, steering up Channel, was met by the Corin thian, also a barque, nearly of the same tonnage, Captain Spencer, from Hull, beating downwards. By some misunderstanding, or neglect of keeping a " look-out," both came in contact with each other, and with such tremendous force, that the Theodora filled, and went down. The sudden and unexpected blow left scarcely sufficient time to get the boat out. Fortunately the whole of the crew were saved. The Corinthian sustained very considerable da - mag e ; she was compelled to put into the first port, and reached Plymouth on Thursday night, with the cre w of the sunken vessel on board. The other ; vessel run down was the Eleanor, belonging to Car diff. One of the crew was carried down in her, and unhappil y per i s h e d. The collision took pl ace a b out ten mil es f rom Dorman. The remainder of th e crew was rescued by the vessel which came into col lision with the Eleanor, the brig Mimer, belonging to Har n b urgh. On Frid ay night a large vessel, hav i ng on board 250 emigrants, was seen ashore on the Godwin. A number of Deal and Margate from Bremen , bound for New York, log gers were lying off the wreck, aotwhreereklOssess taking on board the helpless p assengers, who were brought off in boats. The ls fate is not men likelytioned. From other source vesse le arn that she is There to abreecthree serious was that of the Lille, of Liverpool. She was found to be on fire on the 2d instant, latitude 43 35, longitude 45. Nothing could be ' in seen of the crew. w n:entioned, the most CUTS AT YAN ES. or the nbfa°2°ke'r_dreasttaiinleedr-, Everybody now• a-days has his fl s in t "Lions" and asses run through the !rheas! the ed Yankee.on the ir ruelttiumrnatreulysh, for to the e e with tr p u u n b k lis m he a r ker Our Sibthorps inspect their House at Washington, and describe the oratory a insipid. Our Chowlers look at the smalslembly fir and farming of the New England States and of tPheout West, and pronounce it of the most worthless ar de scription. Our sailors look at the paltry docky ar d s, and boldly aver that America is no maritime country, and could never stand " a brush with England', And so of their army,—a few raw recruits ! —a lot of noodle militia !—not to be coa l _ pared with the third-rate powers of the con.. tinent l Any young man who has just left school and is supplied with money enough to make a run from New York to New Orleans, is quite competent to deliver an opinion about the slavery, cotton, agri culture, commerce, and political movements of the United States. Any young lady fresh from the drawing-rooms and saloons of England ; any well bred country gentleman, who knows next to nothing of his own country; any tourist in search of six months' pleasure ; considers himself or herself perfectly competent to deliver an ex cathedra opinion on Ame rica, its people, and institutions, and to set it down in forprint : the benefit of a discerning British public. * * " Well, this is a great country," is the end and conclusion of every discussion with an American. Of course we do not say that of England, because we do not need to say it ; we are too well satisfied of the fact already. But don't we think it all the same ? After all, we can well afford to let our American friends congratulate themselves upon their country ;it is great, and " that's a fact." The land is a rich land, and in most parts it is a free land. *lf its population is not so well-bred and refined as it ought to be, it is partly because that population is made up of the worst-bred and worst-educated classes of Great Britain, who have emigrated thither at sundry times and in divers manners : give them time and they will improve. To expect perfect pro priety in a country only in process of formation, and which is made out of the rakings-up and sweepings out of all other countries, is as absurd as to expect groves, gardens, and shady lanes growing up with the sludge that is being swept together into islands at the mouth of the Mississippi. But books must be written, and books must sell; hence "Cut at Yankees" sometimes satiric, sometimes wooden cuts—sometimes clever, but often dull. The crack yachts'. men the other day set up a laugh at the idea of a Yankee yacht coming from America to take the shine out of them. The idea of the swiftest yachts of the greatest naval country in the world being beat by Yankees ! But the "old salts," when once they had set eye on the America schooner, knew what to expect; and they foretold what would happen. America is yet an exceedingly youthful country, full of life, health, and vigour. In the course of nature, the son not 1113.. frequently outstrips his father in all ways; but the father ought to be proud, not envious of his progeny. Why should we regard America as a rival ? She is our own nearest of kin ; by all means let her go on and prosper.—Eliza Cook's Journal. SOUTH- WESTERN RAILWAY. Last night a meeting of the second•class travellers who hold periodical tickets on this line was held at the King's Arms, Richmond; Mr. Wool in the chair. It appeared that some short time since a memorial had been addressed to the board of directors, soliciting a reduction and adjustment of the fares for periodical tickets ; and, from a statement set forth in the memo rial, it was proved that in some localities on this line the party who travelled every day and paid his fare did it at a lower price than by taking a season ticket. The answer fram the directors was to the effect that they saw no just reason why they should alter the tolls. A long discussion ensued, and ultimately a resolution was unanimously adopted, pledging the meeting still to continue to use every possible effort to obtain the object they had in view. A vote of thanks to the committee who had formed the memorial, and to the chairman, concluded the pro ceedings. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF AN UNDERGRADUATE OF OXFORD.—Yesterday (Monday) in inquest was held in the hall of Exeter College, Oxford, by Mr. G. V. C.,x, Uni versity Coroner, and a jury of marticulated tradesmen, upon the body of Mr. William F. Gilby, an undergraduate of Exeter College, who was drowned on Saturday last in the lhames, near Tilley Lock, supposed to have been upset from an outrigger. From the evidence it appeared that no one saw the accident, but the attention of the landlady of the Isis Tavern was attracted by observing a scull floating down the stream, followed by a boat keel upwards, and she imme diately raised an alarm. As soon as possible drags were ob tained and the river searched, but the body was not found for more than half an hoer after the commencement of the search. Mr. F. Symonds, surgeon, of Oxford, who had been sent for, arrived before the body had been taken from the water, and applied every means of restoration, but without success. The unfortunate deceased was returning to Oxford, and passed through th e l oc k at Mil e y about 25 minutesdbe a quarter before th ree , p r oving that the ac t fore three, and the wa t c h f oun d in bispocke ci t d h en ad t stopped at place almost immediately after his leaving_he lock. The "Accidentally drowned by the up setting of an outrigger." verdict of the jury was, THE ASSEMBLY HALL SPIRE.—On Wednesday, gtba task , k t o h fe affixings steeple-climber, p 1 e - a c 1 i l m i g b h e t r n , i n fl g n i c s o h n e d d u c h t i o s r a t rodtuho the spire s and ofdim- the Assembly-hall, eWulrti the greater part of the day being occupied in taking down the tackling. On Tuesday several parties besides Wright successively ascended the steeple in the seat attached to the tackling, and at one time, while the seat WWI thus occupied, "„Steeple Jack" accomplished his descent by sliding down a rope.—Scotsman. ABERDEEN HADDOCKS.—The increase in the tim ber trade of late years, and the establishment of saw-mills y er e e have rendered saw-dust abu n d an t ; and our fishwives have made the discovery that hadd oc k s can be smoked with saw dust to look nearly as we ll as when smoked with peat; while they have not the w i s d om to anticipate the loss of c ii nng u s fi t a o o v m f 0 t ur w or hui trouble c l h ge 90ur er must a l l inevitably y dexpensei s they ho vends. ueFaosrsoaosnmaasltlhperedseefinctiesanvey. are risking a great future loss , and at the same tim e d o i ng their best to poison the ir cus tomers. For the cre di t of Aberdeen—for the pres ervation of A the haddock trade and for the comf or t ofOaIrOVILI. stomachsnt —we must set ab out immediately getting up an i .sitw . Anti-Saw dust League.—db erdten Herald. We beli eve the honour of may be looked for within the princely halls of goingDunrobin on with the view of putting the grounds next year. Active prep-4'1:7., having her Majesty uildings in a tasteful lo - n umber of masons are in constantemp y condition, and a • Courier. Ment.—lnverneo —lt is reported that, in consequence MORE T E OOI.B. . augmentations to the forces of the Cape of of the recent i n crease of not less than 5,000 men will be Good "lope, an r to enable the military authorities . d ear ly next yea , . and t require understand that the late Mr. Fielding, of has bequeathed his herbarium to the University Lancaster, of Oxford, upon certain conditions. This collection, formed to carry We out the system of reliefs. at a very large expense, is understood to consist of 70,000 species, forming one of the most complete herbaria in the world.— Gardener's Chronicle. CHELSEA NEW SUSPENSION BRIDGE.--According to the late report of Woods and Forests, the Commissioners of Public Works are to advance 120,0001, for the new suspen sion bridge and Thames embankment at Chelsea. THE MARBLE Aucu.---Prom an official document ust issued, it is shown that the cost of taking down, remov ing, and reinstating the Marble Arch was little short of 11,0001. An attempt is now being math by some of the merchants and tradesmen of Berwick-upon-Tweed a company fo r th e purpose of carrying on in th e cod -fishing t bxlv to be exertions ar Iceland, and it i s sa i d that theire - successful.to foram WINCHESTER COLLEGE.—GODDABD SCHOLAR slur.—The Scholarship has this year been adjudged to Thomas Braawncak awarded, , M,A., of F rederick llorshead ( sc h o l ar ), Albert B. Fisher ( scholar) being s econ d i n merit. The exam i n ers were—the Rev. W a dham College, and the Rev. F rederick Fanshawe, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Exeter Col lege, Oxford. Th e D u ncan prizes (for ma th ematics) have alsobeen the senior to William H. Birley (com moner) an d th e junior to Robert H. 4haltevegt (cm. Maier).