The Sun. — London, England, 1851-12-25 00:00:00

CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENT FOR THE JUVENILES. BLUNGERFORD-HALL, STRAND. UNRIVALLED COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIONS. ANIMAL AIAGNETIS4.—SOIREES LASSAIGNE every Eve ning (except Saturday) at Eight o'clock. Admission Is., 25., And 45. Stalls and Reserved Seats may be secured at Mr. Same's Royal Library, St. Jainea's-street ; at Mr. Ebers's, Bookseller to her Majesty, 27, Old Bond-street; and at the Manager's Office, Hunger ford-hall. THEATRE of OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. " SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES," Juvenile Amusements, by M. and Madame Langlols, of Paris, and the celebrated Indian Juggler, Djalma, with Diasolving Views, Chromatrope, &e., at Seven o'clock. lArnlssion Is., Is. 6d., and 2s. 6d. DIORAMA. —Every Day, from Twelve to Three. Prices of Ad- Mission Is. 6,1., Is., and 6d. BAZAARS —Open daily from Ten A.m. to Ten P.M. Admission Free. MAGI{ETOID CURRENTS and the MAGNETOSCOPE. Dr. Loger's Philosophical and Experimental Lectures every Saturday Ikveaiag, at Eight. Admission is. and 2s. Saturday Evening, Dec. 37, M. Lassaigne and Madlle. Pru dence will give an Experimental Soiree in Animal Magnetism, at the Victoria or Bull Hotel, Rochester, at Half-past Eight o'clock precisely. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. TO-MORROW Will be performed THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Macheath Mr. W. Harrison; Mat-o'-the-Mint, Mr. Weiss; Filch, Mr. Buck stone ; Polly Peacham, Miss Louisa Pyne ; Lucy Leckit, Mrs. Fitz - William. After which a new Fairy Burlesque, cAlled THE PRINCESS RA' DIES I' AND THE STORY OF MAYFLOWER. Charaeters by Messrs. Buckstone, 11. Bedford, J. Bland, Caulfield, Clark , Mrs. Fitwilliam, rs. Buckingham, and Miss Collins. rummen, yOASTLES, To conclude with the Farce, called THE TWO BOz•IN Mrs, Buck_ Mr. l3onnycastle, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Bonnycastle, Ingham. To conclude with TIIE JACOBITE. THEATRE ROYAL, A.DELYB E •, Webster. U :ter t• , ,, direction ol atr. B• The popular Comedian, Mr. Wright, having recovered freni his in disposition, will appear This Evening. Enormous success of the Yankee Comedian, Sir. Josh Silsbee, TO-3101tR0W entitled THE FOREST Will be performed the comic Dr. 3x !th wor re.l; Harri e t Mill er, M i ss Col - Mr.ROSEI and the YANKEE I'LOUGLII , • Jonathan Ploughboy, J. Silsbee • Bellamy, Mr. fins; Sally Forest, Miss E. ChaP,_, ,„ „ ut„ After which MY PRECIO US • Mr. Bobtail, Mr. Wright. Christmas Tale, called To conclude with a new' . Wollram, Baron of Burliburg (sur named LIT TLE RED RIDING iiool, named the Wolf of Biberi.t)f Mr. Paul Bedford ; Scraggenheim, Mr. Butler ; Trudchen (coww°n called Little Red Riding Hood), Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliant• RoyAL rio.NCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Managementof Mr. C. Fleas. TO.MORROW P b crformed Mes THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Principal cha. ra ctere srs• A. Wigan, Harley, Fisher, J. Vining, Ryder, Ad di s on, c• l'nean; Misses Robertson, Mary Keeley, and Franklanl With anewgrand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN BILLY TAYLOR; or, The Flying Dutchman and the King of Ra ritongo. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore ; Panta loon, Mr. Paulo ; Sprite, Mr. Le Barr ; and Columbine, Miss Carlotta Leclercq. _ Ynvaw Boxes, &e. , to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. Massingham ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office, ATtnri-street, from Eleven till Five o'clock. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. TO-MORROW Will be performed THE GAME OF SPECULATION. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, R. Roxby, B. Baker ; Mrs. C. Horn, and Miss M. Oliver. To conclude with _ _ . A new and original Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planche, Esq., entitled THE PRINCE OF HAPPY LAND ; or, The Fawn in the Forest. Characters by Madame Vestris, Miss St. George, Miss Lanza, Miss Martindale, Miss Grove, Miss Ellis, Miss Resina Wright, Messrs. F. Matthews, B. Baker, Suter, Homcastle, Batter, and Vernon. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessoe and Manager, Mr. W. Farrah. TO-MORROW Will be performed THE ROAD TO RUIN. To conclude with RED RUFUS ; or, Harlequin Fact, Fiction, and an Fcy. Red Rufus, Mr. Shalders ; Clown , Mr. Edwards ; Harlequin, Mr. Icrrest ; l'autaloon, Mr. Tanner; Columbine, Miss Lees. PUNCH'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. W. It. COPELAND, Liverpool. The Warmest Theatre in London. TO-MORROW Will be performed THE TWELVE LABOURS OF lIERCULES. After which, BREAKFAST FOR TWO. To be followed by a new Chinese burlesq, called Characters THE MANDA RIN'S DAUGHTER or, Willow P ue Pattern Plate. by Messrs. J. Reeve, Rogers, Rumor, Attwood, Hudspeth ; Mesdames Marshall, Sanders, Bell, Eglinton, and Maskell. Witn a Farce, called A FIGURE OF FUN ; or, the Blooms Costume, in which Messrs. Rogers, Attwood, Hudspeth, and Mis Marshall will appear. The prices of admission are arranged as follow :—Orchestra stalls, 4s; boxes (first circle), 35.; (second circle), 2s. ; Pit, Is. Doors to be opend at Halt-past Six, and the performances to commence at Seven precisely. .i second prise will be taken to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock —Drat circle, 25.; second circle, Is. Private Boxes One Guinea and a Half each. Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITIIEATRE. Under -.no Patronafe of her Mkjesty and his Royal Highness Prince Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. The most successful and popular Theatre in London. TO-MORROW, A new Grand Pantomime, written expressly for this Amphi theatre by Nelson Lee, Esq., founded on the ludicrous exploits of Briggs, so facetiously set forth by the inimitable " Punch," entitled MR. and MRS. BRIGGS ; or, Punch's Festival—Mirth, Wit, and Jollity. Harlequin, Mr. Harvey ; Columbine, Mrs. llarvtiv ; Panta loon, Mr. Ruckman; Clown, Arthur Nelson, who will in the course of each evening play a, number of favourite airs on the Rock liar monicon. With Batty 's Grand Scenes of the Arena, embracing the largest Equestrian Company in Europe, represented by Foreign and British Male and Female Artists of superior talent. Tickets to be had at the Bea-office from Eleven till Four daily. Mana4er, Ur. T. Thompson. PORTRAITS SOULT AND WELLINGTON, WITII MEHOIRS AND FAC-SIMILIES OF THEIR lIAND- WRITINGS. THE MOST SPLENDID LIKENESS OF SOULT EVER TAKEN, BY IV YON, OR WHICH THE MARSHAL SAT SIX TIMES; TOGETHEI: WITII A PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON IS THIS DAY PUBLISHED, AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, PRICE ONE SHILLING. ROBBERY OF NEWSPAPERS TEN POUNDS REWARD. In answer to the complaints of several Subscribers, whose pspers are stolen in periods of political or other excitement, we can only renew the expression of our dreg regret. In order, if possible, to bring some one of the robbers to account, we hereby offer a reward of Ten Pounds for such information as may lead to the detection of the culprit, and Ten Pounds more on conviction of the offender. Sun Office, Dec. 1851. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TYR DAy —.Afor , ing 28 (tun. after 3 Evening 49 min after 3 Trlffoaaow—Morning 9 rain. alter 4 Evening 2i min after 4 - _ THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 25. faimmomirrFat, 1.81 IHR 6HADE. 41—nighef,t since noon yesterday. 3l—loymt this morning and during the night. 37—this day, at no )n. BAttomKrap, 30 41. Vi' W.S.W.—clowly, with occasional sunshine. DAILY WEATHER TABLE, State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following p'acee at Nine o'clock yesterday morning. —The stations are arranged in order of latitude. PLYmotrra—'Wind E., gentle breeze—overcast. BRIGHTON—Wind E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. B ASTLN GS —Wind N. E., light airs—cloudless. SouTax3tyros—Wind E, strorg breeze—cloudless. F OLHESTON It —Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. Trnstnp,rpGit—Wind N.W., calm - overcast. GKEENW IC partially cloudy. STR.OO D —Wind N., calm—foggy. Bwrapox— Calm—cloudless, frost. tAcltEsTEß.—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—l artially cloudy. " a t , MSlDGE—Calm—foggy. returns from the following' places indicate the state of the rb;i o , c i oc k • and weather on Tuesday morning at nine LedErucll7,,,Wlnd N.E. calm—frosty. bad NF. hard wind—cloudy. M ULLINGAR— 4tV " calm—cloudless. PLYMOUTH—Wind calm—foggy. PooLE—Wind N., gentl e — fogicy. breeze—cloudless. S AMMON Calm TO CORRESPONDENTS 14,1 0 cop:manic:Awn clu be attended, to unl e s s authen ticated by the Islame and addres s of the writer. Rejected communications cannot 1)64 returned. ti VA__.2l,j ^2 ' 1 2 7 - A0 ~ .r?,;.*"."7:47, 7,4 e-. 4 ••••- ";•',.„, V - 7. • , ),14' IEI „. ;7,7 • it. PAO • ke, ,7-1, za•L'. - - - - LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1851 We give in our impression of to-day the comments of all the j,,urnali on the secession from office of Lori PALmEasroti. We have heard various sur mises tai the cause of the retirement from office of the great English Statesman, but we have heard of none which are not in the highest degree honour able to the Patriot Statesman who, like his great prototype, CneTnam, is at this moment inflni:ely more endeared to hii countrymen than he could have continued t o l end the protection of b ee n had he his name and fame to "the GREY Iniquity." The Times states that neither foreign influence nor GREY influence has been used to procure the retire ment of the English statesman ; to what influence, then, are we to attribute the retirement of Lord PAL mas,e'rort ? We have heard rumours to which w e attach not the slightest degree of credit, b ut to which this assertion of the Times would seeru to give ;Kt air of probability, that there have been other and higher influences brought to bear against Lord PALMERSTON. We merely al lude to these rumours to express our unqualified disbelief in them. With the accession of King ErtsEsT to the throne of Hanover the solidurite of Great Britain with every petty German Principality ceased. Christmas, in the midst of all its recollections, can not fail to bring an agreeable sense of political secu rity to the mind of every reflective Englishman. It is well to bear this fact just now in our remembrance. Its influence upon our emotions must necessarily en hance w hatever pleasure is experienced at this season o f n viviality and social happiness. The thought conviviality tha t we are existing under the shadow of institutions remarkable at once for their vitality and their libe rality, must perforce fill our hearts to overflowing with sentiments of mingled patriotism and gratitude. Added to which it may be as well occasionally to summon these reflections to mind, trite though they may appear to the superficial, because in the reverie provoked by them we may each of us find new cause for attachment to our Constitution. In spite of the bickerings of parties, in spite of the contentions of factions, in spite of the quarrels of cliques, and castes, and classes, we may, as a nation, discover in the truth here referred to, the practicability as well as the advantage of the genuine principle of fraternity. Among all princi ples, surely that is at this moment the most season able, and as surely it must be regarded likewise as the most capable of finding in England its realiza tion. While in other lands it may be employed as the parrot-like watch cry of the dreamers of insurrec tion, amongst ourselves it may be freely spoken as a word of sweet and solemn significance. In Eng land we may exult with reason in our common sub mission as citizens to a Government based upon the system of representation. In England we may cherish the authority which, born from the will of the people, aims at the development of their prosperity. In England we may recognize, with a sentiment of devout thankfulness, the maintenance of those laws which yield their fruition in the upholding of the sanc tity of Order, of Family, and_of Religion. Elsewhere those holy foundation-stones of society may have crum• bled away, or have become pulverised by Revolutions, but with us, thanks be to GOD, their very names may be taken as symbols of adamantine endurance. They are words, and not only words, but truths, identical with the conservation of our national happiness. They are truths, moreover, which add by their remembrance a new beauty, a perennial joy, and an indefinable, but no less appreciable, tranquillity to the domestic hearth of an Englishman, be that hearth in the baro nial hall, or in the rural cottage, in the city parlour, or the west-end drawing-room. Trite, we repeat, though these considerations may appear to the unre- Lcting, they may be judiciously as well as appropriately summoned forth once more to our recollection—gar nishing our thoughts with no less timely verdure than that which adorns the walls of home with the holly and the mistletoe at Christmas. Grateful for the protective influences discoverable in our Constitution, we cannot meanwhile remain in any respect indifferent to the contrasting agitation in which other races are involved more or less near to us in the different quarters of Christendom. France especially, among all these various powers and princi palities, claims from us the meed of our most earnest sympathies—France allied with us as the foremost of European nationalities—France who has for seventy years struggled through blood and terror, through tears and calamities, through glory and agitation, to the idol of her aspirations, the serene and inscrutible Goddess of Liberty. Formerly, we know well enough by this time, to our cost and to our shame, we —ourselves a free people—permitted our statesmen to interfere in the efforts made by our neighbours to bring about :their political and social emancipation. Latterly we know equally well that a return to any such policy is diametrically opposed to the national wishes of Englishmen in regard to the hopes and efforts of the neighbouring population. Viscount PALMERSTON was amongst the first to proclaim the necessity of this calm and magnanimous course on the part of the British Govern ment. It has been in :accordance, moreover, with that declaration of the late Foreign Secretary that our Ministry have maintained a friendly intimacy with the administrators of the adjacent Republic, with out permitting themselves to interpose in any way with , :he course of events in Paris. More especially at the present juncture have the Members of the English Cabinet reason to preserve an attitude of imperturba ble quietude in regard to the progress of affairs in France, now that we have witnessed the splendid close of the recent difficulties of that country by the chivalric bearing of Louis NAPOLEON. Thanks to that valour of the PRESIDENT, the future of his native land is no longer darkened by the on-coming cloud of a new and more than ever terrible revolution, which imparted so many frightful anticipations to 1852 even before the hour of its commencement. That cloud of political embarrassment—charged with the thunders and with the lightnings of Socialism could not at this time nave been dissipated but fur the daring coup (fetal by which the PRESIDENT strangled the intrigues of the conspirators. His promptitude wili nesshasbaffiedthe of his antagonists. His out-spoken bravery has led to the discomfiture of their base and furtive pu ,illanimity. Impatient at the anomaly of his new position, anxious to rescue the nation from its web work of difficulties, indignant at the dastardly beha viour of those factions who were transforming the arena of the Legislature into a field for the rehearsal of insurrection, Louis NAPOLEON boldly took the initiative by his memorable proceedings of the 2d of December. In so doing we have seen by the recent elections—elections, remember, by universal suffrage and by secret voting—he acted in a manner gratifying to the vast bulk of the population. Nor could this by any possibility have been otherwise, for in dissolving the Assembly, in carrying out every detail of the coup d'etat, in appealing to the people, and in confidently awaiting the result of that appeal, Louis NAPOLEON has not merely vanquished the various enemies of France, he has done more than this, he has re-established Order—he has saved Society —he has preserved Religion. But for his coup d'etat the streets of Paris must have run red with blood be fore 1852 had far advanced, and the torch would have been lighted and the sword drawn, which would have devasted the whole of Europe from one ex tremity of the Continent to the other. It.is for ac- , eomplishing this much, it is for preventing th e y horrors of this otherwise inevitable anarchy, it is for calling again into existence an alliance between Freedom and Authority that the PRESIDENT of the French Republic has entitled himself to the admi ration of his fellow-countrymen and to the gratitude of Christendom. Recognizing these most incon trovertible facts, the free people of France have, through the ballot-box, and by means of universal suffrage given the sanction of their approval to the late events by according several millions of votes to Louis NAPOLEON ! Appreciating the force of these occurrences, our statesmen have only additional reason to respect the de cision pronounced upon their own affairs by the neigh bouring pypulation, and to afford the head they have selected the strength arising from a friendly in- L tercourse with our Government. Reflections like the foregoing upon our own fortu nate ‘ecu r it y as a nat i on, and upon the n ewtawakeni u y K Prosperity of an adjacent people, are not, we conceive, inappropriate on thi s d ay —th e d ay w hi c h crown?, the peaceful year of our Exhibition w ith the joyful feetivities of Christmas. influential in th e me t ropo li s ex tremelytheir severa l depart mencommendable m anner. T he disch arge th e i r re- There are two Ifodiejor-----:---- useful and i n ts, and who, gene rall y s p e aking, ly in u f a h t i h g e h lieges are .t o a formidablecrpeeacttii:e i c u o n m e t f i 3 O w n t s s extent dcpendent on the one , and their p ers onal secu rity an the other. There is no more respectable or respected body of tradesmen in the country than the publicans of London, nor does there exist anywhere a more efficient or well-conducted corps of guardians of the public peace than is composed of the members of the police force within the metropolitan circuit. If in any case misconduct be displayed on the part of any individuals in either, it is incumbent on those who possess the capability of singling it out for re buke and punishment to discharge the salutary duty with alacrity and determination, in justice alike to the compromised fraternity and to the public in general. Entertaining these opinions we cannot reprehend too forcibly the misbehaviour of certain of the City police as brought to light at Guildhall in the present week. It appears that these vigilant gentlemen, passing along Coleman-street about one o'clock on Sunday morning last, observed a light in the bar of the Dolphin public-house, and heard a noise as of some one moving about. They knocked and were admitted. They instituted a vigorous search on the premises, and found nothing irregular or unlawful. The land. lord, not being well pleased at this strict overhauling of his domicile at unreasonable hours, indulged in some language at their departure neither compli ' mentary nor prudent. Indeed it was evident, as we shall shortly see, that no very cordial understanding existed between the host and his intrusive visitors. This insult to their dignity was summarily and unex pectedly avenged by the immediate arrest of the irre verent Boniface, who was forthwith hauled off to the station-house, charged, and locked up for the night. The capture was a piece of gross and unwarrantable tyranny, but the committal was even a still more flagrant violation of right. The prisoner offered— and who and what he was must have been perfectly well known to the officials entertaining the charge— to procure bail, nay, to send home for 501. and deposit it as a security for his appearance to answer the charge of being drunk and using abusive language. Nevertheless, although the offence was a bailable one, his lawful and reasonable appeal was disregarded, and he had to enjoy, perforce, the luxury of the cell until his sick wife had to leave her bed, at ten o'clock on the following morning, to procure his liberation. Well might the presiding magistrate characterise this monstrous course of proceeding as inhuman and ma licious. The propriety of the latter epithet was rendered apparent by a very pertinent interrogatory addressed by the prisoner to one of his captors, Mr. Policeman 146—" Have I ever supplied you with drink gratuitously ?" Answer—" Never ; and you are not the sort of man to do so." This naïve con fession of villany offers a ready clue to the mystery of such extraordinary apparent zeal on the part of the blue-coated custodians. It immediately and naturally established in the magistrate's mind the conviction of a purely malicious origin. The de fendant was not given to " treat" policemen, or such an answer would never have been blurted out. Not only was he forthwith discharged from scandalous detention, but the conduct of the pair of perambu lating spunges was directed to be brought under the notice of the Commissioner, in order that it might be made the subject of due investigation. The Commissioner will, we doubt not, see full justice done, and it might not be inopportune to im press on him the advisability of issuing the strictest injunctions with regard to the conduct of the police on night duty. They require to have a good watch kept on them, for some few publicans there are who think that "a drop on the sly" is a passport to their favour in case of the discovery of an occasional breach of the statute. No really respectable publican would be guilty of currying favour in such a fashion; but is it not too bad, that, because a well-conducted man, who has carried on his business for a period of four years without any allegation made against him of disorderly conduct, or supplying liquors after the specified hour on a Saturday night, sets his face against the system of " standing Sam" to thirsty Dogberries, he runs the danger of needless annoyance, and, as in the present instance, of down right persecution ? Such fantastic freaks of office must be put an end to for the credit of all concerned. Honest tradesmen are not to be causelessly tormented and dragged before tribunals on frivolous and vexa tious pretences, and corrupt functionaries must he taught that their misdeeds will sooner or later come to light, and draw down upon their heads a substan tial measure of reprehension, which will render them a salutary example and warning to any of their call ing who may feel tempted similarly to offend. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Constitutionnel has the following on the elec tions : "We continue to give the results known up to our hour of going to press:—Yes, 5,109,540; No, 500,900. The majority obtained up to this time is 10 to 1. The weather has prevented the communication of dis patches by the ordinary telegraph, otherwise more ex tensive information would have been obtained as to the results of the Tote. What is ascertained, how ever, may servo as the basis of the most favourable coujectures. The numbers now known give a still weaker relative proportion to the negative votes. It was yesterday 17 per cent., it is now reduced to less than 10 per cent. We shall only make one rt flee tion on these first results, and that is that the vote of the 10th December finds its real commentary and ex planetion in the vote of this year. It becomes evident that both votes have been the result of a national move ment, of a spontaneous impulse of the people, and not the work of the whole parties and of their chiefs. Tee Legitimists and thteOrleanists not only did not oppose, but they supported the election of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte in 1848, and they boasted of having done so. They have repeated a hundred times since the 10th December, that the day on which they should withdraw the hand which had protected the elect, he would again fall into a kind of electoral isolation. We must be per mitted to say that the present result shows how much these boastings of the old parties are worth. Legitimists and Orleanists have had no weight in the present in stance. The least hostile among them have recommended abstention, and the national movement manifested this year has as much grandeur as that which astoni,hed Europe in 1848. Consequently the old parties no more made the election of December 10, than they have made the present vote. Their former co-operation could not have produced the result which their present opposition could not prevent. Whether parties interfere or not, whether they act against him or not, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte is not less the elect of France." The Government has received the following tele graphic dispatch from the sub-prefect of Tonnerre : " The elections have terminated in my arrondisse ment. Out of the 82 communes of which it is composed 32 have voted unanimously, and 22 have only given one negative vote each. People, worn down with age and sufferings, and old soldiers of the Empire, who have not for many years left their houses, had themselves carried to the place of voting in the midst of repeated cries of Vive Napoleon! Vive le Sauveur de la France!' I shall not attempt to describe the enthusiasm of the people around me; the following figures will speak mor e e l o • quently:—Number of voters, 13,873—Ye5, 13,478; No, 425; lost votes, 33. Comparison of the votes on the 10th December, 1848-11,667; majority in 1 851-1,811. To-morrow you will receive the general list and recapi tulation of the votes by communes." M. EMILE PEAN has been taken from St. Pelagie, and conducted to Orleans, in virtue of a warrant issued against him. " Various journals," says the Uwivers, " have spoken of letters pretended to have been addressed by the Sovereign PONTIFF either to the Apo3tolic Nuncio or to M. DE MONTALEMBERT, and relating to recent events. Such persons as are even slightly acquainted with the usages of the Court of Rome, have no need to be enlightened on such assertions, but for the in formation of the public in general, we think it useful to declare that they are all unfounded." The Consultative Commission met yesterday at the palace on the Quai d'Orsay, M. BAROCIIE, the vice president, in the chair. After the six youngest mem bers had been called on to act as secretaries, M. BAaoeuE proposed to the Commission to divide itself into seven bureaux, which should examine the votes given on the 20th and 21st inst., according as the re turns arrived at the hotel of the Ministry of the In terior. This proposition having been acceded to, the bureaux were then formed by lot, and the first of them at once proceeded to examine the votes of the navy, the only returns as yet forwarded to the Com mission. We find the following in the Presse on the subject of the conversion of the Five per Cents : " Our own information authorises us to confirm the warning given of the approaching eventuality of a conversion of the Five per Cents:"— The Patrie positively contradicts the report that the Finance Minister contemplates the conversion of the Five per Cents. and the imposition of an in come-tax. It is said that the new Constitution will be pro mulgated in the early part of the ensuing week. We read in the Pays:—" Some persons have been speaking at the Bourse of a measure of reparation which, they said, the PRESIDENT of the Republic was about to decree, namely, to pay the indemni ties due to railway companies and private persons for the injury done their property in February, 1848. It was said that a de cree was to appear in the Afoniteur on the subject. Resolutions of this kind have no need of a formal expression of approbation ; they are justified by their spirit of equi y. The Government of the PRESIDENT of the Republic, in thus inaugurating GD on II rt.e Monday N liberated the vo t e o f the French people, elevates its mission, and merit s th e co - operation of all men of order." DLIVERGIER A aA, l‘ I . Bi x fromo , s and .t Pel eneralagie. LEYD ET wer e The Courri er d u Havre states that it is in con templation to es t a b lish a French factory in China, on the plan of those formed by the English, Dutch, and sev eral other nations. Thi s establishment will it is said, be placed under the di rect superintendence , of M. DE M l O NTIGNY, the Consul at Shanghai, aid will render great facili ties to co mmercial relations with the Celestial Zuipire. The Duke DE DOUDBAUYILLE, one of the chiefs of the Legitimatist party, has addressed a letter to the Gazette de France on the recent great political change, in which he says : " The means to which Louis Napoleon had recourse have been employed, it must be admitted, with a deter mination and a cleverness which every one recog nises, however electrifying they may have seemed; and if order now has the victory, as ought to be wished in the interest of all, it must be attributed to the bravery of the army, and the good sense of the public. What is certain is that the Socialist party, excited by leaders more ambitious than devoted, menaced social order. That party is for the moment put down. The Orleanist party, actuated rather by a selfish sentiment than by general interest, has just experienced one of those defeats from which all recovery is impossible. The various positions which it had seized on are now withdrawn from it. The Legiti mists of the Assembly—we say it with the deepest sad ness—led on by blind men, have not comprehended their situation with respect to the country, and the ration has just followed them, since they did not know how to place themselves at its head. Louis Napoleon, in the eyes of the powers of Europe, has for the moment saved society. This is a fact impossible to deny." Colonel DE MONTESQUIEU FEZENZ 4.0 and Captain DE LOVERDO, both of the staff of the army of Rome, have been dismissed from their employments and placed on the retired list. PARIS BOURSE, DEC. 24.—Closing Price..—Rentes Five per Cents., 100 f. 80c.; ditto Three per Cents., 65f. 50c.; Bank of France, 2,605 f. SINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 24. East Indian, 20% —Great Indian Peninsula, 534—Luxem bourg, 3 , A—Namur and Liege, 6;4—Northern of France, 16%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 54—Paris and Rouen, 2536 — Paris and Strasbourg, 15 1 4—Rouen and Havre, 9 , 4—Tours and Nantes. 7 7 ,; 1 ex int. THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1851. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith, has hauled cff alongside her bulk. The Sprightly arrived at Ports mouth yesterday at noon, bringing up a good many able seamen and a barge and two cutters for her. St. Vincent, 120, was undocked this morning, and taken alongside the basin sheers to receive her two heavy pivot guns, which she will carry on her quarter deck, having no poop. Neptune, 120, is being rigged by her crew along side Portsmouth yard jetty ; she will have her estab• lished lower masts and bowsprit, but will have jury topmasts and yards. We are sorry to learn that Lieut. the Hon. P. F. Pellew, of the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, is lying very ill at Totterdale's Hotel, Portsea. Powerful, 84, is in the old basin at Portsmouth, and will be docked on Friday or Saturday. Retribution steam-frigate, Captain Warden, is re fitting alongside her hulk. We hear from Tangier that the excitement lately prevailing there having subsided trade was gradually reviving. Her Mljesty's steamers Hogue and Dragon had, at the beginning of last week, gone to Lisbon. There remained in Tangier Bay but one French Go vernment steamer, a Dutch corvette, and a Spanish one.—Gibraltar Chronicle of Dec. 15. FATAL ACCIDENT.—Oa Monday last, at Ports mouth Dockyard, Wm. Hurry, a shipwright, was in the act of locking up his chest, which was placed at the edge of the railway, when before he could get away he was knocked down by one of the carts which was passing at the time with three tanks on it, from the factory to the Simoom, the wheel of which passed over and shattered his leg to pieces. He was conveyed to Hasler Hospital, and amputation being found ne cessary, he died under the operation. Deceased was a widower, and leaves five children totally unpro vided for. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The following young officers passed examinations in gunnery on board the Excellent, qualifying for the rank of Lieutenant, on Monday and Tuesday :—Messrs. May, Edwards, Porter, Burnaby, Creazy, Kidd, Kaye, Wilson, Markhand, and Lomax. A very successful trial of Jeffrey's marine glue took place in this dockyard this morning, pursuant to Ad miralty order. The joining of the pieces of the main mast and foremast of the Edinburgh, 72, was effected most completely. The Sprightly steam-tender, Mr. George Allen Acting-Master Commander, returned from Devonport to-day with the seamen and marines belonging to this port paid off from the Havannah and Fly. The Simoom, iron steam-ship, got her steam up in the basin to-day to try her engines. APPOINTMENT. WOOLWICH, DEC. 24.—Clerk—George A. Evers field (1846), from the Hercules store-ship, to the Excellent gunnery-ship, at Portsmouth. The engines of the Royal Albert, 120, are to be of 1,000 horse-power ; and it is said the firm of Mauds lay, Son, and Field, have received the order for their construction, and also for another pair of engines, of 1,000 horse-power, for a first-rate ship• of• war, which is to have her stern altered at one of the eastern ports. There is every reason to believe that all future ships-of-war will be built so as to be fitted with screw propellers ; and it is even said that the ships-of-war, especially those of the first-rate class, in good condi tion, will be fitted with auxiliary engines when an opportunity offers, on their being paid off at any of the home ports. RESIGNATION of LORD PALMERSTON. (From the Standard of last night ) The Morning Herald and the Times of this morn ing announce the resignation of Lord Paltners'on. The communication made by the latter journal is apparently of official composition. [The article from the Times appeared in The Sun of yesterday.] We have given this article in extenso, and, con trary to the usual practice, in this the most prominent part of our paper. We have done so because, as we have hinted, we believe the first half of it, if not the whole, to have been written in Downing-street. The apology for Lord Palmerston's forced resignation— if it may not be more properly called the uncourteous dismissal of the Noble Secretary—is the reverse of satisfactory. Right or wrong, the foreign policy of the country since 1846 has been uniform and con sistent, and as such, must have obtained the approba tion of the whole Cabinet, and we have certainly seen nothing lately to afford cause for those who have hitherto approved of that policy to condemn a per severance in it. There was a time when it might have been, and, in our opinion, would have been, prudent to restrain the ultra-Liberal propagandism of the Foreign-office; but at that time the Cabinet plainly had no disposition to do so ; on the other hand, the father in-law of the Premier, Lord Minto, was, somewhat in derogation of the proper authority of the Foreign Secretary, sent by his son-in-law to Rome as a supplementary Foreign Minister, to carry by his ❑egotiations, and by his personal conduct, the liberal propagandism of the Cabinet much further than Lord Palmerston had ever ventured to carry it. As among Ministers them selves, therefore, none of them had any reason to complain of Lord Palmerston for having left this country " without an ally, almost without a friend, on the continent of Europe," all her Majesty's ad visers are in this respect equally guilty with Lord Palmerston, and it were equally unjust and unge nerous to connive at his being made the scapegoat for the common offence. We do not, however, believe one word of the pretence, that it is the foreign policy of the Noble Lord that has been the cause of his dismissal or retirement, whichever it is to be called. Several years have passed since Mr. Macaulay indis creetly revealed that irreconcileable hostility between Lords Palmerston and Grey, which has distracted the Cabinet from the first day of its formation, and no session has since passed in which evidences of that irreconcileable hostility has not transpired, inso much that year by year the public have been told that either Lord Grey or Lord Palmerston was on the eve of a retirement. Men are disposed to believe that which they wish, and as Lord Palmers ton was certainly the most able, and on every ac count the least unpopular member of the Administra tion, the retirement of Lord Grey was more gene rally anticipated. The Grey party, however, it would appear, have triumphed, but upon what ground it is not easy to guess ; for, if Lord Palmerston's foreign policy has been bad, the colonial policy of Lord Grey has been incomparably worse—witness the Cape, wit ness Ceylon. It may be, however, that neither the foreign policy of Lord Palmerston, nor the merits or demerits of Lord Grey's administration has anything to do in the matter. It has lately been whispered, though not with any reference to a rupture in the Ca binet, that some of the Ministers had expressed a strong disapprobation of the continuance in office of Lord Clarendon and Sir W. Somerville, after the late ex posure of their misconduct in the administration of the Irish Government. Lord Clarendon is a near connexion of the Grey party ; and if Lord Palmerston were one of the Ministers calling for the removal of that noble man, no more would be necessary to revive in exas perated bitterness the intestine war in the Cabinet. Who the confessedly inexperienced young nobleman— upon whom are to devolve the seals of the Foreign office—may be, we are unable to guess, any more than we can conjecture why the Times, knowing it, conceals his name. Is it to the Duke of Newcastle the care of our foreign interests is to be confided ? His Grace has earned some reward by his Newark speech; but if the Duke is to be the new Foreign Secretary, he would do well to take some lessons in geography, for it may be remembered that when Secretary of State for Ireland Lord Lincoln did not know even the name of a principal county town in that island. The Duke's style of speaking, too, would ill supply the place of the ready elcquence of his predecessor in office. The successor of Lord Palmerston is, however, a matter of little moment, for his tenure of office will be but brief. The late move ment is but the premonitory symptom of a general change—" the beginning of the end." We could have wished a little longer respite to the present Ministers, but that cannot be per mitted and will not be permitted by the na tion. The victory of the pro-Papist Church deßouncing Grey section in the Administration is the signal of its death. The people will not wait for Sir Charles Wood's report of the cost of that disastrous Kafir war, in which his brother-in-law has involved us, to call for the removal of the man who formally proposed to abolish the Protestant Church, and to substitute for it a Popish Church in an integral part of the United Kingdom, and who anticipated the Pope in conferring territorial titles upon Popish bishops. If the lately-professed Protestantism of England be not a delusion and a mockery, England will not endure his continuance in office, with his connexions, as the ascendant party in the Government. Even without the proofs that we have of Lord Grey's enormous errors in administering the affairs of the colonies, his Lordship's k❑own pro-Papist bias is quite sufficient to awaken the jealousy of the nation ; it it sees him the u❑balanced master of the Cabi❑et. But Lord Palmerston has gone, and the Greys must go, and Lord Lansdowne has intimated his weariness of office. With what force, then, will the Noble Premier carry on the Queen's Government? Lord John Russell has much of the gallantry and enter prise of Diomede ; but it was held to be presumption in the brave 2Etolian chief to say, " Let all else de part ; I and Sthenelus will carry on the war." And Lord John Russell and his Sthenelus—Lord Truro-- will he hardly sufficient to measure swords with the Earl of Derby in the House of Lords, and to con front the powerful Country party phalanx in the House of Commons, his Lordship will have no re source but to hire the Swiss of Parliament—Sir James Graham, so long piteously exclaiming in his native dialect, " Wha wants me ?" and the other forlorn Peelites. These Swiss are, however, few in number, worse than weak in character, and sadly dispirited. To replace the pro-Papist Greys by the, if possible, more pro- Papist Peelites—would be but to add weakness to weakness, which makes all weaker. There is then nothing for it but a resignation, and then will come a general election, which of course must come soon, so that the sacrifice of office will be the less. Looking at the whole matter, we cannot doubt that the end of the Whig Ministry is near at hand, so near that Lord Palmerston has reason to be grateful for the circumstances, whatever they may be, that have separated him from it, in a fall which cannot be otherwise than disgraceful. TEEE SUN, LONDON, SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 19th have arrived. The Gageta contains a decree for the re-organiza tion of the Bank of St. Ferdinand. The capital will be for the present fixed at 120 millions of reals (30 millions of francs), but it may be hereafter carried up to 200 millions. The privilege is to continue for 25 years. The Bank will have the power of issuing notes to the amount of its capital. The reserve fund will be formed by taking 10 per cent. from the profits. The Bank will have the power of establishing branch establishments wherever they may be considered ne cessary. The Count DR SiA LUIS (M. SARTORIUS) has been elected deputy for Priego in spite of the most determined opposition on the part of the Go vernment. The decree for the concession of the Almansa Railway has been at length signed, but bad not yet been published. The Herald() in, allusion to the late events of France, says— " Not only has the President triumphed, and France confirmed his triumph, but the events which have taken place there show the error of those who thought that the violent parties were powerful in that country, that 1852 would be infected with revolutionary ideas, and that its impetuosity would bo irresistible. The contrary has taken place; the socialist hurricane has gone off like a summer's storm." MADRID Bome, DEc. 19.—The following are the prices of Stocks :—Three per Cents. 37i ; the Five per Cents., with current Coupon, 16i; Coupons, 8i; Passive Debt, 5 9-16. Exchange on London, 50 70. GERMAN Y . Letters from Vienna, of the 20th, state that the result of the Presidential election in France was looked to with great a nx i e ty in that capital ; and that should it be favourable to Louis NAPOLEON it would be the signal for the adoption of the most arbitrary. measures in Austria and Naples. Austria would in that case, it was said, propose mea sures hostile to England, and would endeavour to induce the other absolute Powers to follow her ex ample, by annoying all British travellers and by shutting their ports to all British produce. W e , however, have no great fear of such propositions ; even in the energetic hands of NAPOLEON the attempt to establish a continental blockade failed, and should even Prussia and Russia join, to renew the attempt celebrated by BYRON--." To melt three fools in one NAPOLEON "- --it will prove as abortive in 1852 as it proved in 1823. It is true that in 1823 we had a CANNING at the head of the Foreign-office, whilst in 1852 we are to have as the nominal chief of the office in Dowing-street, a gentleman, whose name is of the smallest possible importance, seeing that his only duty will be to act as chef du Bureau Britannique to the Russian Minister. There is, there fore, this difference to be taken into account in cal cula qng the results of the two experiments. The Red Emperor, " Young il - Eao," as they call him, the boy who flogs women, bids fair to rival the sinister fame of OGUERAS or CABRERA. The mother of the illustrious KOSSUTH died at Pesth on the 17th December, worried to death by the persecutions to which herself and ber daughters have been subjected by the Imperial Kastril. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY. TWO O'CLOCK. This being Christmas-day, is :a strict holiday here. The following is a memorial in course of siguature by the holders of Mexican bonds:— " That the undersigned bond creditors of the Republic of Mexico have, in consequence of the supreme decree, 14th December, 1850, of the federal Government of Mexico, for the re-adjustmont of the foreign debt, sur rendered a large proportion of their claims upon that state, awl consented to a reduction of interest on the capital debt from 5 per cent. to 3 per cent. per annum. " That they have been induced to submit to this serious diminution of their claims in consideration of the embarrassment of the Mexican Treasury and the curtail ment of its territories, "That the Republic of Mexico with a view to satisfy the justice of the case, and in return for the sacrifices made, has assigned for the benefit of its foreign bond creditors, through the chairman of their committee in London, a portion of the indemnity fund, payable under the treaty of Guadalupe y ilichlgo, by the United States to the Republic of Mexico. '"That the amount of the portion so assigneJ is 2,500,000 dollars of the instalment, payable .30th May next. " That it seems probable, that according to the strict wording of the treaty, Mexico might be entitled to de mand the payment of thi s money in the city of Mexico, but that with a view to prevent to circuitous a dealing it has drawn up and banded over to the London com mi.tee, as wi l be teen from the copy which we bog to append, the usual form of quittance and release to the Treasury of the 'United States i n f avou r of it s f ore i gn cr editors, thus avoiding the expenses and delays which might otherwise accrue. That this document operating as a full and formal release to the Treasury of the United States, has been duly authenticated by the respective Ministers of Mexico and Great Britain, and is ready to be produced when required. " That without desiring to interfere in any way with such fiscal arrangements as the Treasury of the United States may have already entered into, or thick con venient to enter into, your memor i a li s t s w ould most humbly soacit the good offices of the Ame rican Legislature, i n enabling them to make such early dispositions with regard to the transmission of this sum as may spare them and the numerous body of help less and uefortusate creditors whom they represent, ss much delay and expense as possible. ' That they are not without hope of finding amongst several leading capitalist s i n E urope an d the Un i te d States, such consideration of the peculiar circumstances of their case and commiseration for the crippled me a ns of a very large Proportion of those interested as would induce them to undertake the ad vance an d transm i ss i on of these funds gratuitously, charging only the absolute expenses incurred. " That the undersigned approach the Legislatur e o f the United States with the more confidence from a pro found conviction that any request just and reasonable I in: itself will always find undivided support amongst all s( °Pions of that body, when respectfully urged and sup ported by the voice of keen suffering as obvious and notorious as that of the memorialists, more especially when the act is calculated, as in the present instance, to earn the lasting gratitude of a very numerous class of the British community, and exalt their wishes for the continued prosperity and welfare of the United States. " Your memorialists would therefore pray that the Congress would, at its earliest convenience, please to take such steps for the appropriation of the amount so assigned as may best enable your memorialists to make fitting arrangements for the distribution of this fund with the greatest economy and dispatch amongst those duly entitled. " And your memorialists will ever pray." Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Friday), at Windsor Castle. Summones were issued yes. terday to the Ministers and Officers of State. GREAT BRITAIN AND THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.— A copy of the treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation between Great Britain and the Sandwich Islands, signed at Honolulu on the 10th July last, has just been received. It is one of entire reciprocal freedom with the exception, as re gards navigation, of the coasting trade of the respective countries. British whalers are to enjoy the privileges lately conceded also to those of the United States of entering cer tain ports, in addition to Honolulu and Lahaina, and are to be allowed to trade to the amount of 200 dollars without the payment of duties of any kind. They may also, upon paying the ordinary import or export duties, trade to the further extent of 1,000 dollars before becoming liable to port charges. A provision is insetted for the surrender of naval or military deserters which, in consequence of the proximity to California, is not without importance; and there is also a clause for the residence of a British packet agent, in case there should at any time be established British mail packets touching at a port of the islands. The ratification of the treaty is to take place by the 10th of May next. LIEUTENANT PIM'S EXPEDITION.—Letters have been received from the above-named gallant officer, dated December 11. He arrived at St. Petersburgh on the 6th, and was dwelling at the British Embassy till such time as he could obtain the Emperor's approbation of, and consent to, his expedition. Intimation had been made to Mr. Pim that he wss to have the honour of an audience with his Imperial Majesty. PARISIAN FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER, 1851.—At the beginning of the present month the favourite colour was a shot, which was met with almost everywhere in the pro menades on the Boulevards. Steel has been almost uni versal in Paris, and a great deal of it has been seen in points by way of trimming to the jacket. The material most in requisition has been Muzzlin', which has been much worn by members of the Assembly and the writers for the newspapers.' —Punch, "KEEP 111 M OUT!" Every class has its own standard. The money classes have theirs, too. Even tradesmen and their wives go in sets, and there is always some class out side their own set which they contrive to " keep out." The aristocratic contagion thus extends from the highest to the verge of the lowest class of society in England. Is not monopoly the rule among us, when ever we can find an opportunity of establishing it? Monopoly or exclusivism in art, in theology, in trade, in literature, in sociology. Look at the forty Royal Academicians setting their backs up against every new-corner in art, and combining with one accord to " keep him out." That is the monopoly of art ; and people at large call it a humbug but they are not more tolerant or wise when their own craft comes to be dealt with. Each in his turn is found ready to combine with somebody else to "keep out" all intruders on their special preserves. The " Flaming Tinman," in Lavengro, pummels and puts to flight the poor tinker w h o intrudes upon his beat; the costers combine to keep out freshmen from theirs ; English navvies band together to drive Irish navvies off their contracts ; and Irish tenants pick off, from behind a hedge, the intruders upon their holdings. Even the searchers of the sewers maintain a kind of monopoly of their unholy calling, and will recognise no man as a brother who has not been duly initiated in the mysteries of the search. The sewer-searcher is as exclusive in his way as the leader of fashion at Almacks. " Keep him out I" is, in short, the watchword of all classes, of all ranks, of all callings, of all crafts, of all interests. We used to " keep out" the foreign corn-grower, but though he may now come in, there is exclusiveness and mo nopoly in ten thousand other forms, which no legisla tion can ever touch.—Eliza Cook's Journal. RESULTS OF RAILWAYS.—How does the present system of rapid and cheap transit effect such a family as I have depicted? Instead of the occasional visits, " few and far between," to the metropolis —a new opera, the presence of a foreign potentate or two, a wedding, er even a party (if of peculiar attraction) is held sufficient excuse or plea for a hundred miles' journey to London. Frequent intercourse with town brings on town acquaintance; and a gait for Lon don amusements is engendered in the younger branches of a family that had hitherto not only been content with, but fully enjoyed those pleasures and pursuits indigenous to their native place, and that had been for, perhaps, centuries the accustomed habits of the predecessors of their family. The aspect of all things they see in the country becomes changed in their eyes and estimation ; the country is pro nounced dull, its pleasures monotonous; and acquaintance, friends, and companions, hitherto hail e d w i t h pleasure, are now held as veritable bores. The f a th er o f the family in vain uses argument and persuasion ; mamma has become in fected with the London mania, and joins the general outcry in favour of a London life; till, breaking through all the habits of his life, leaving behind friends known as compa nions in boyhood, to avoid the persecution of the general clamour, the father gives a forced consent to quit all that he holds dear, and to mix in scenes in which he has no enjoy ment.— Sporting Review. THE FIRE AT MESSRS. COLLARD'S FACTORT.—A meeting was held on Tuesday evening, at the Stanhope Hotel, Camden-town, of the managers, clerks, and workmen in the employment of Messrs. Collard and Collard, for the purpose of expressing to their employers the sympathy felt by all classes of their servants for the calamity which had recently befallen them. The chair was taken by Mr. R. Addi son, of Regent-street, who opened the proceedings by some very appropriate remarks on the gratifying spectacle pre sented to him of witnessing so large a body of men assembled together for so creditable an object. Several resolutions were unanimously passed, of a highly complimentary cha racter, to the Messrs. Collard as employers, and a depu tation was named to wait upon those gentlemen, to com municate to them the resolutions of the meeting. A sub scription was afterwards entered into for the purpose of affording some compensation to those men who had lost their tools, and who were not insured, and a sum exceeding 1201. was subscribed in the room. A resolution was afterwards adopted that the Members for the borough, Lord Dudley Stuart and Sir Benjamin Hall, be solicited to contribute to the same. After a most cordial recognition of the services of Mr. Addison (the chairman), the meeting, which could not have numbered less than 400 persons, separated. The loss to the workmen by the destruction of their tools amounts to nearly 1,5001. The Colonial markets closed yesterday for the holidays, and will not re-open until Tuesday, the 6th of January. The business transacted this week has, there fore, been limited, but the sales have again concluded with heaviness, and in some instances, at lower quotations. Sugar has met with little demand, and the inferior sorts have changed hands at a decline of fully 6d. per cwt., while for other qualities also there have been occasional transactions at lower rates. Coffee has been very flat. For plantation Ceylon there has been scarcely any in quiry, and aative qualities have been sold at Bs. 6d. to 395. per cwt. Saltpetre and rice continue firm. The tea-market presents no material change from the extreme dulness no ticed last week. Two vessels have since arrived, but their cargoes have been but partially offered : indeed, importers generally have not pressed forward their goods, seeing the indisposition to purchase, owing to the period of the year and other causes. As the market will be fully supplied after the holidays, there will probably be something of more conse quence to report, but the sales of the last few days have been comparatively insignificant. SIIAKSPERE'S HOUSE.—The Government have re fused to take upon themselves the guardianship of the birth place of the poet of England ; the debt of 400/. still remains unliquidated by the committee who effected its purchase; affairs are, therefore, in statu quo. So they will no doubt re main until an act of public justice has been done the pro duction of accounts—which no protests have yet brought forth. It must be borne in mind that a very much larger sum has been subscribed than the entire purchase-money, and that the Stratford branch of the committee is greatly dissatisfied with the management of affairs in London.— Art Journal. The growth of Russian power is in part shown by the following statistical data :—ln the year 1462, the Rus sian empire covered an area of 100,000 square miles, and its popoulation was 6,000,000. In 1584 the numbers were 7,500,000 square miles; population, 12,000,000. In 1689, 14,500,000 square miles; population, 16,000,000. In 1725, 10,500,000 square miles; population,.2o,ooo,ooo. In 1825, 50,000,000 square miles; population, 55,000,000. In 1851, 22,000,000 square miles; population, 65,000,000. C9logne Gazette. DEFRAUDING THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—On Monday morning John Baracre, an Irishman, was charged before Mr. Trafford and the Mayor, at the Sal ford Town Hall, with riding on the London and North- Western Railway without a ticket. From the statement of Mr. Rankin, one of the officers of the Victoria station, it ap peared that the prisoner had booked on Saturday afternoon at Warrington to the Newton Junction. The prisoner continued his journey on to Manchester without getting another ticket, by the three o'clock train from Liverpool, thus paying for only two miles and travelling eighteen. He was appre hended at the Manchester station, and taken to the police office. He had nothing to say for himself, and was fined 205., failing payment to be imprisoned 21 day. He was locked up.-2//anchcster Guardian. ONLY " Two FAULTS !"—A Highland horsedealer, who lately effected a sale, was offered a bottle of porter to confess the animal's failings. The bottle was drunk, and he then said the horse had but two faults. " When turned loose in the field he was bad to catch," and he was "of no use when caught." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, DEC. 24. The following had the honour of dining at the Royal table last evening :—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting to her Royal Highness, the Baroness de Speth, General Sir Julius Hartmann, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Lady Caroline and Miss Barrington, Sir George Couper, Lieut.-Colonel Muller, and Captain Grindell. The band of th e oyal Horse Guards was in at tendance during dinner, and performed the Overture, " Wienderwasser" Selection, "Linda di Chamouni" . Donizetti. Waltz, "Fairest of the Fair" Aria, "Roberto Devereux" Galop, "Review" . .. . . Jullien. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the Castle, and played the following selection :-- Overture, " Nachtlager von Granada" ...Kreutzer. Terzetto Weber. Finale, first act " Euryanthe" The Queen walked in the Home Park and Slopes this morning. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal and younger members of the Royal Family, took their usual exercise. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot ing this morning, attended by the Marquis of Or mond, Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel Hon. N. Hood, and Colonel Bouverie. General Sir Julius Hartmans, Lieutenant-Colon e l Muller, and Captain Grindell, took their departure from the Castle this forenoon. Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Friday), the 26th inst., at Windsor. Summonses were issued yesterday to the Ministers and Officers of State. Lord John Russell arrived in town yesterday morning, from the seat of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. his Excellency the Russian Minister had an interview with his Lord ship, at his official residence in Downing -street. In the afternoon Lord and Lady John Russell left town for Pembroke Lodge, Richmond-park. The City Remembrancer had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. Dispatches were sent off yesterday from the Co lonial-office to the Governors of Hong-tong and Ceylon. DEATH OF WILLIAM JACOB, ESQ.—We record with regret the demise in London, on the 17th instant, at the ad vanced age of eighty-nine, William Jacob, Esq., a gentle man whose industry in collecting and epitomising returns and averages connected with the corn-law question, will be remembered with respect. Mr. Jacob held the appointment of Comptroller of Corn Returns in her Majesty's Board of Trade, which of course has become vacant by his death. Ho was also a fellow of the Royal Society. DEFARTURE OF TLIF. ATLANTlC.—Yesterday, shortly after twelve at noon, the United States mail steam ship Atlantic, Captain West, left the Mersey for New York direct, with Alnut aty pautnger4 and a full cargo. ----.------- s ; SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNAL FROM THE MORNING raraus or TIII3 DAT. , 3 , CHRONICLE. —Although certain Mioisterl m mo o eements, which had attracted public attention otn, Monday and Tuesday, were obviously Lord Palmerston—and, indeed, could not easilYl.sof hisen explained on any other hypothesis than ths e t, 0 dismissal or resignation —we were neveiril,lt_lred, startled by the formal announcement that h -b r u tto ship ,, had definitively ceased to be a member 0' ecee Government. Both the event itself, and the Pr „ h time chosen for its consummation, are connected wit m iwtno_o a .is t m te a r gin fo e r grave reflection, if not witfhragurgebyte Nit t important results. We certainly are a t . 5 t that what explanation can be offered forhi ro a , c _ill h not most seriously compromise both the t o: 'f t . l e t e Government and the dignity of the coun.'lti is evident, from the reception, however tardy, 01 that ~ Westmoreland at the Court of Vienna, ia bottle-holding" affair had been got °V,ardii shoalvnee fashion ; and Lord Palmerston on 11 00 been guilty of any fresh escapade Sinf i e s 01. nature either to shock or to embarrass I ? bss leagues. It is, indeed, understood that Deiithi manifested by tolerably clear signs, his symPd his with the President of the French Ilepublic s ,Y ic h it approval of the late coup d witho an extent w'' .it y may be difficult to reconcile his professed 3 , 7 i ,„ for free and constitutional, not to say dernce rsL t l ' est n stitutions all over the world. But we d 0 ti e eo i for that this partial, local, and newlyadopted z f ibe what looks very like military despot's° ,°, ll, or severest order, has been embodied in a disP st "), ) , it that his Lordship stood pledged either to abide rot or to act upon it. It is alto said that the a g o to continental powers whom it has been his pletou t the ir cross, annoy, and irritate, have combined to vented by t _indignation . against Great Britain, as represeniated t, _ e h... Foreign-office since 1846, in a waY n3lraderocy• I ad to serious differences; and that a conle,,,d that British i hospitality shall no longer headed by Austria and RUSSI3 have den's riled to by i t t h ic e al d r e efugees of all nations and be sect):les ba . t, that such of these as shall be proclaimed " da ll o g oo tries , facto rulers of their respective 1 0 1 a It shall be forthwith . a re , . . driven from onr ' be co cain' is even stated that France is about to j . oin Biblethe for le t nation, e but this we hold to be utterly pa peti' —not to speak of Louis Napoleon's forfn er "olitf all class ergo ence of English hospitality —the strang e p 0 of but of human (particularly of French) affars , r it O A suggest to him that, even for his own saAe!avire be as well for one European land to retain clghelteti4 . the exile. Thoughts its time-honoured and glorious privilege °' " a res' theysymally intrude on the proudes snorersernPer°r 'icibia for ~" 6 , ioce oughts of the same sort in% o va c remember how many to hafe,,efeg; t a d Prince Schwarzenberg contemporary recollection, flown to us o a height more likely to aggravate than to himselfis"t3t on dangers of his position if he conceives stral( ever, as unapproachable distance from the bolt whichshod, must carry self °,7_, tlis Be thi, down a Guizot and a Metternich. P 40 0 el )° 1 ! which a British Minister might more se c° 0 fit ei , it may, we can imagine no occa-roy ca culate on popular support than in I A s , resistance to a demand of this kind ; 3 1,0 our persevering and consistent ,i a te v Palmerst ' •se trn S policy precludes the possi do 0 hesitate we to say that the abandonment looked v ri , colleagues, at such a crisis, will he 100 r " it, o at rather as an evidence of want of firmness, 1,1 oat oppostt.° (5 1 11 . ordinary on their part, than as indicating.ln!..J4o; symptom of meddling propensities upon his. Up . to the presen t E ta tio o I f bas been uniformly, pertinaciously, an d oste.„ 00, supported by them, even in the least de 03! and saischiel;oj ifs his administration ; and unless it can be show he has changed, the inference is inevitau -... t iva l ' that t they have changed, or that, ered their conviction of the soundness of P t r uc ids they have had the ' • d i ble meanness t° 1 ,,, WO, ln escr.a., whe n a aeo i to the dictation of foreign Powers. , rani'lP t solemnly arraigned before each NOUSe 01 oil in June t Or 6 all , there was no C Oconceattneo , 0 00 de , at concealment, of his principles. TheY,wel;their 419 co " while retain.ini:_oliai veto avowed by himself, and they receiven . Cock , h w e ho claimedw awas re w b a when n, buirt3Pmerit from supporters like Sir atlexanni7o,oe.o; inste ad e r h d i e s d u , ohieu lie 0 0 t f . b a e n id , : li a s i P r u i l t jtr : o ltb o De ; dubious honour for of ing• the animating DP ~ ilio r I ,j ~ . ralism in e a' od ttity e very quarter of the globe, 6 , t h e °FP' e i, star o beacon-light to whic the looks 0' OO4 or dis r contended ofclime nvoluatsil oftli Lord J. Russell every i ire a 1W 0,, e 0 publicly adopted the ftil t h fo, 1 4 of those d • octrines triumphed upon the strendepeeV and gaveoffice ' i in tat to their most energet-e he rs t° ait advocate. Is this, thin, the time of all ot ~,i oa 11 , and to " r a to round upon his friend and colleague, a'" - il $ • ni OS ~3 ) , 0 as a sop in the pan to a combination 0. joie. to crats or to sacrifice him to the carin ° c'earat i°° of Lord Grey a It may be a strong ohs 40 ,0 130 hazard—but Lord Palmerston from 1• C abl° ' o tl 3 ' 4 the IN hig • of ° lir ,0 e present curiously-complicated condition La o sol d 5 ,, foreign an • a domestic, will be viewed 0Y de oe re , national be °nee as .or humiliation, whilst it must at the best, an extremely perilous_ot itse stag'„f, spects the existence of the Governme • n its the obvious tio , 0 the ft ev a Parliamentary strength of the Cowie coo p) or A claims on popular support, need but little efOelito general ought to be well assur ue ve nt tac tic . , and steadi • ness of his forces before ' his t ea reverse his d• • ispositions, to changeoo Os fo lia or to dismiss his ablest OW', fArd ,' d of a conflict f' Jire ; but a calm review' o f ti ' al ia' Russell's position and resources justl"" attirrece suspicion . that the approaching Parlian'eoog ti 't r ) a e i r g s n may prove fatal to him. ll? lis pf e r tive, .efts' of his Cabinet are notoriously Ja e- c id. tb,,ats t from ill-health or from proved untitnessfa'aie 1, - tits t s o pec h tive offices. In the former categ°') 5 0 ,'",, o e' latter to place the Home Sec ; 9 „a lg' i , must be ranged one of the cleverest rd Gril i J or s rally speaking) most able of the lot---1)°, 0 0 0 ' o of whose Colonial adm'o• tangled mass of bluiudisetratiodo aisfarttinseA' haiict,-0, i Sir Charles Wood andra and mabsurd a n t ' t ae 6 `',' f , udgets it is only his tb e '..l co° . i'a necessary to saY , arc iia „ e for' chit administration of a great comfy' a ca l ' 00 0 in anns 'tit .1 age of commercial progress an ted ' °' could n t b y any possibility be 0000 ~ idle :p i i , system: than it has bungling and more hopelea'oe li t lie been for the last five years' Jed tis r)" . ter who was ga r rt 6 popularly, and riattly, re 0 t.c Swat] r 0 keystone of the arch was the Foreig,,j, 0 0 '2 f e His long training, his large experierice;ootibl' bii mastery of official details, his ine % ,,san er ' o' l sources, the social charm of his , • - deba t , e „yb e courage,his readiness and eloquence ' 1:1 5 3e 1 3 "' o f hi s his extraordinary Parliamentary tact, tin s i s 0 0 0 distinguishing feature, the deco' et 0 o' o r' part y.,ru. He was in all respects moe P o 00 ,1' ; to n t en ly a • and h cordially liked, both by f r i e nds,. o3 f° r iot s t t an Lord John Russell himself; 'yreia..leo, last two or three • c h the be clu le discreditable years, during will 0 i ea and unworthy vacillation ef . t ae P lio rti tions most interesting to the great 0 13 % s oeo cg 'toi °I has derivedp his Cabinet of all public c ° ,,' 0 0i 0"i• 11 0 Palmerston has unquestionably been to e . oc i c : ',. t it Government. Even the knoWn Pile ,abn- ea opinions detracted a ce, b la little from his infln e , vi bic ~e f ot added materially to the interest Wit" tiv h is ale con c h watched his course • and it will probtnea a bl- 130 vii some time to embarrass , to .0 0, 15 change of. the speculatiouln 3 V+ 1 , Position give • -t • all ' was the only • must rise., „owe t op itai reality in the Russell ' a Set .° e t e other elements—from the insincere I seforts,, 0 Premier, and " the greatest Colonial ; jo g, tr i , e t , the age," down to Sir Charles Wood' joie vog, compare their professions with their Oro slicews ter Lord t a p n irredeemable impostures or s° :f 0031 0 ; abilit Palmerston was their only O w wig ° 5 5 P ° : juriou y ; his policy, though dangerous 0,, ci fill v o , often, was at least bold, sPirla`e•a; iatears', essentially vats rf un-English ; and in driving O a 00 olr e oi ie Lord John Russell has perforli3egtOgpa tion the old which oo can only be described, in tb e f cono,ept, as o committee rooms of the House °, „are' to striking ,_„, a a o a of , We shall g out the brains" of n" d c arte pre wait with no little interest an a ble ' i s er I s le 'e see what ultra-Liberals think of this 03 t aftt rl ceedin brated g. The public has not forgotten ro ot P o ,,,te Reform Club dinner at which thenoliel of lons ap _ exaggerations of Lord Palrnerston'e rcoatlirlybst au plauded to the echo by an asset-000re/. bi sula" proportion of the elite of that P.,sljoeer'dico coursewayo_ will they adopt, in or out of sled co o o f oi l t f marking their sense of the ming' t iot , 4 17' and reacherwhich be 0 i 00 ' , y have sacrificed t to o st ie those rapturous plaudits to "Cate Ce° ge prop. i e e t hos 0 ,3 5 „ 1 solutism ? It ' Is not for us to advi' depth a 1 9 /, men, and we know too little of tbe i e on e opl , cerit , Y of tneir convictions to Yenta oaf `OO l prediction as to the line . I t hey - it. It' whic i • that, a Jo , proper to pursue. But it is lain r. le p fp , I i act up to their 0 3 , as' 1 pledges and professio fo r 0; 4 Russellwill ' '' find it impotisible to go ° l ' d it ise` . l 4 o', weekafter the meeting of Parliaina,nt ; an d elect): ot plain uo that,with the certainty of a goper-pece6looo; distant date, they cannot evade the e fa c t oo takingcou rse 1 ' a distinct and unmistakeable „ l ett ,so They are now on their trial before the ey t ''') C 4I „ fi len ~, should they fail to call upon the Grover"- o f la - 0 0' , eT u plicitly what the futur foreign poliel ae s in L c o d t b er etis to be—whether there are may cheti:ive, 'OO3 or not—why, in the one alternotit his, rata Palmerston o.. is no longer trusted to carrY ero to 0 :0 p l tcy , or why, in the other, Lord'illti'orr) orlf colleagues have suddenly determi t?,, r als t e c ea / policy the reverse of his—should our 1-41"`" ei tra. di rolls elol : to acquiesce • in the mean and ungene ,iy 1 t • of the statesman whom they sa rec%n‘iigtaeli4ioo,4' the country will know what J"aretee-a IjlBs both on them arid their r vo iot" ,;: 6 Of tho nobleman who has been ° Plittl b d e 1 1 . ,°! Lord ' 1 alrnerston'a successor We ba vc hlt "• V t a to to sa y than that we sincerely deplore.° as 1, accepted a position so little VliCillate:.l 1 . , s