The Sun. — London, England, 1851-12-17 00:00:00

/ o °. e l° be* q(E EWS.—mus DAY.) Coi l , sn i Y WEDNE - —1 I , _,.._. 4 rl iv i 41' thitandin th , the show of English Wheat to: kad 'tas bY no g 3:4 te ' n,ive, the demand for o ~ ; inea:.s ex ten c i‘ot l s t • • 'n a very inactive state, lant The . ' 0 have bee goad, et barely_ Monday's s'.2oj arrivals coaitwis ~ 6 c 'ti tZ . cill=r tera; but the uanti!Y, perhall' , b Y 'Atli -"as billin, N f cl eien Wheat has come . to land k lie thi, , eo _ . _ ~. o or t 5.. 1./.elicic.nK Selected Fauipl'es mole I off steadily, at Othi,. ln the tniddliGg and inferior kinds next I, ° ''Zi -p',waa passing' A fair average business was . L.,'"No4„'rttr, althou-b upwards of 1,300 sacks and ` 1 %:"'"Is came fresh g to hazd from abroad. We ,'tieti:"Y inactive sale for Barley, q3O "ere the turn I The supply of English was inferior samples of lit, blrte lower. 'vet rB . We had a very' supply of Er gush was W had a very slow sale for Malt, at i-Nlilit vats —the arrivals of which wereimited— and . iitio u e aa dear as last week. Bea7s, Peas, ~..I.l.,:....c:Lintnanded very little attention. kIIIZIVALS THIS WEEK. , I Wheat. Barley. St alt. I Oats. I I _ l'4 4k Qrs. Sacks li4 .... 1 2 rs. Qrs. Qrs. 3 050 1,710 ...: ~20 6a30 3,510 ; j ' 4( o .... , 1,310 sks ' 660 1 13,1001,1 ),, —*"..-------- -1 — llt ' ea e h L . , WRITECHAPEL. 4 , 1, W eA , .." 1:14 of Meat the H.qulry is 2d to at 3 33 4d; 4 tep , 2' quotations. Beef, from d 25 t0 2 3 , 1 3 ilt 3 Gd t 3 1 I Veal, 2s 8 ,9 0 9 0 ; 8l; Pork, a , 8(1 T F , 4 Per Sibs by the carcase. 1,4'4110,,,,(),,0trG11 110 P MAIZIEETs.maII, whilst hr,",ete t °' fiats new Hops continues ' atle - ' la steady, at full prices. other kinds li is doing. kt,, C 441 vi" . ' - '"''''"" — ._ - Flour. "'NC' UOURT. 'THIS DAY.) . - :;,AlikEn v. THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION k h . 41,t er .— THE TOW N OF LIVERPOOL. li l l :g, go ", ot the ROLLS, on taking his seat this e katglPtili";:i . udgmer i t in this case, which be stated Lik b ' 4 of t i e l "ri for an injunction to prevent the cor ' ' 4 ' .. .o } lieli.,.. t "vu of Liverpool from working certain 'et* of the had sunk under the authority of cer -1 ;bra4 the 11th Victoria, giving the corporatpn 6 14: 1 ,eir tie l/tI PPIe the town and borough, by uniting 1. 111 4 Dad t" waterworks the water-pipes and courses Zils ll l ' T r e , " ,, i° ,usi, supplied the town, from works ITlli e ' fit r e a - t 4 - ', 4 .4es Vir . aterworks, and two other corn a, eor por tithed in that town. The bill alleged i, titl ik et atiop had exceeded the authority given 1 le theyl' Parliament; that they had sunk pumps °t °itre e a I As. else 41 y depended for a supply of water Llta_lie k - ' 4l g fires and watering the streets, instead Ve, e; w ater for the latterpurposes from the ,It,eilth . 1 1 ,10 thee e ti esk i vi ctor .1 Were restricted to do by a clause lehil t Y of i • 14 . • The plaintiff possessed wells in A profit eeverpeoi, from the water of which he i _Ni e o4 b e and advantages, the supply of water for Itatltteee-Ptue limited ;ince the corporation had / k k l e tw Ptr a . i r tve larger supplies. The consequence of et, th at ° persistin in drawingthese large sup ekitZ3N t he whole g t tti k ti t ate th at in, '-t considerably, and . this was made i ll ii h ook the last summer plaintiff's wells had /;7 h i% 4 5 th B eer ° (11- 3'. Much reliance had been placed ;11 414 00 0 tr t ton of the last Act passed in this cause, k,tlll the " O ught that, as the inhabitants of Liver t th e PoWe r of Itetsah:4 with compelling the corporation to t e ee' e-ir e „t-- w hateverquantity of water they , 14 . - e th ' "ie corporation should . have the power the 0 Water they tytte Ne d. ey might require from whatever ii tth e h h ay . Ibis Honour, after going through the IN teee,„,4lg reference to the subject, and no t, saidO .4 sections having a bearing on the case iltt l lrti le conclusion that he was of opinion le.tiv ab l !tlepi vi !re had invested in the corporation the qiztoovileig Water to the inhabitants of the town !reo l : cl suburbs, whether for domestic or Ott Od that therefore, being of that °F- A Ne at 441, 8 the demurrer prayed for by the 116 accerdingly. MN k A L ------------ ,'ltbh -k C OURT,—(THIS DAY.) ifilhe*--1 Q th Q ID COURT. t .ll t ittird e ease of Thomas Bare, charged with ~t 4 1 , d er of his . N t of th '•rilu z own wife, 1 1 the 0 tre at applied to the Court for a postpone- Ve t Priso ae tl u k tii the next session, on the ground ,S4' 4ll lt.Poo e r , e 'ad only been' recently committed, Vie ) , ''elig With hi s had not had an opportunity it t ee .thr ou h tth his professional adviser. Indeed, it Ve a ' 4o 4 4" the kiudness of the Sheriffs that he kekte lllll d 4; 4 ' 0 ) was instructed to make this ap kkite-ii:ider t il e 7 e re anxiou s th a t h e s h ou ld have t i, litie4ris oner a cte, and see w h at d e f ence cou ld be A t the it ; t4 of a w o h° appeared for the prosecution, said N .11 -Ppli e • noua a nature that he could not op- I kr atio n 1 11 1441 " 4 . L t, ti . N, sea II tbLllB "—Let the case stand over until $ er w as k i P p lk et pd AN 4ecOrdingly put back. 16t e itt a t h : 11 th e dock described as a silk manufacturer, ittfortNine le ek ' and charged with misdemeanour. iI E he p:. h here was Mr. Huddlestone, ap tlroaee . t e Mr.Clarkson ‘ likle sr ese Mt r and and Mr. 4h 'utlee . ho t , th e as instituted for the purpose of ‘p • - ptisoner a case of fraudulent bank tiltaeleaer . 6 , 0 t tod 1 ; it vcared, was a very skilful man in Oil, no h„Attiti obned the confidence of many mer- Slo a Tl i l r` e 0 hesitation in ivin him extensive 4t4lk 41.1ee a qu'nee he g g lied with raw t etil ty tiou nts ~ was supp 1 / 4 111 t , S o ~,, lied 1,„, .e-wo or three years ago he fell ' 'le e 7 1 A a n °' o pass through the Bankruptcy ti c trity 0,4 he Olt, ke„ ' et h e ' however, had his creditors (lt, ve t t , tlfiea to .experienc e d no difficulty in ob tettio ''' resu e , ' 4 4d in the progress of time he 11, 1 61e:eat 0 „ --° his business of a silk manufac nth .'• cr e d it -, lo all appearance successfully, but ktt:01111Itleliptotil: -,aerszertee,reanadgain surprised ' at finding M a g to '', l Co urt to be t r h e e lie p v r e i d son fr e o r m ap l p ia ly b i i n b g tio to s ,i. ' r good de P r ar ,,d B °F 18, 0001. This circumstance ' NC"' tat t a d °` Buspicion, and when some casual 614 4 N: 1 :tr o d tt e l abo:lt his previous transactions, it tt I, er had at , Just before the bankruptcy e h rte p are ue en in the habit o f ob- L IN th tht 'l: 3 , a els of silk from various pt ia sil"lib o k e Pled gilig them with Mr. At!en 7 ' tho le seabi e r. The sums which he raised St,tlo ettnhia hints from time to time to take up ~4 hi % ficatts,oills, and by that means he ex e P r e; k,, , , , , of tiolaokt.tirpte obtaining goods up to thev t ett t : dock et Y u . About . a month . rior to the kli l l i k Itith t ' aba o i 4 d filing his petition the . prisoper lee kr_ ate sale o f all the silk he had Vlt ‘qtt i i) ''' ' 4 ttehb t litl th at Wor e . e °rough, and when he . came to :qt 'kit h e h",O Bankruptcy Commissioners it Netae; k ftiti otle , ll u not only lost 4,000/. or ,uuul 0 ) lt,'' With t , ‘e transaction,' but that he had also L \ ;h l l tet e 0 , Ve Proceeds of the sale, and the result ON; reii 4 , l Paid a very ' . a' ficau t dividend. y, ,i , there,d Insig • . d to prosecute e I h liti e eutai tioe •e, etermine . Otiret e elat e „„.. ‘.4 Possession of their goods, not Ckhtle e lk of E ` 4 .9 o ses of his trade, but for the frau- Vo t ,"' th,, rattling mone upon them, and hence Wol 'chne e Pre sent indictm ent for misdemeanour, lyle Paced, r etleed at the direction of Mr. Commis te \l ll b sp tt r t ' i l at!egcBwia°.dthe bankruptcy were put in as 1 , ',,t it „ c iner ae ,, 3 one of tho merchants who sup th e leea r ,4 1, ei the silk was celled to prove the 0 . 4 4 40 - e redi t e ? fr om his evidence that the prisoner 0 Ild a 4 ALDER in the ordinary course of trade. . liotte t ,, t4 th,, B ° l l was therefore at a loss to see in ova 0 11 , get „,' Prisoner any active false pretence 14 ' h ' thi g 't Parliament required to justify a pro -1464 kte ali uatu re . 6044141 x contended that under the Act it Ittettg..te‘tti4rekiterbYttii°Boow any active false . pretence. . parti- Op p lke °tep ee ul? said . the Act specified a Ap e . T he , which did not appear to be present k it l / 4 ; 4 ‘ allot, Prisoner had done nothing but agree Y'l 4' w hich one of the prosecutors had made k 414 •4 l at he ° erh it 0 6 _4 1 ,2 1 er th aPprehended that if they restricted Lystt,:htiO 4 ,, Q Act to tuitions of fraud, and not to ~ ,,,44,7 i t z of fraud, the Act would be useless. 174.74; e gite e 'g 401 here was that of appearing to iilele em° l 4o. -''' e tr ade, while, in point of fact, the . y h tti v qele a l " very different thing; for instance, it tleli ai tow et if a man went into a shop with . a ' h°, ' a ti li pt v -r), obtained credit ;upon the belief Ki,ll, Mk., ersity student, it was held to be a false : 1 u g h the party might never have opened ).6 a te'u Ni,e e t t ,,, eil l C I , tl i r ' 48 0e7 said in that case there was an elt e e elt ere was none. The Act of Parliament eee e eee o c Party should retend to be carrying on 'it,q ,t er io the Not he was not. Now here the prisoner Ott i i i ta to Prosecutor to buy, but the prosecutor to HI 4 to or 11 ; What deception, then, could the I GILL upon thew? I tkio e t kti e 441 X insisted that the prisoner remained t h o ' 1 i 4 , 44. , tite th use under a false and colourable l'' ''.t t N il to t tee7.l ll Tateie—No, ho was actually carry a ON 40 4 . ut take your own case . . Suppose Wh a ,tieli e buer whom be finds in a university lu 4 %,"ntt,,,;:' h im to purchase some goods? Now . 1 i ti t ,.ttr t Of it il l a an be guilty of a false pretence in Ip ti,_ti e ° n e u.s. afterwards turning out that ho th e thkepo:lversity whatever. Certainly not, a t ke ee be -In. ti goods under such circumstances is a false ( t'o4 Ate kl4O tbli O 111.1) 'E Submittedthat ' t. 4 rte e wh cte t tee,„ t her the conduct of the prisoner was teed' ie-, b ut there was another case against the • h, 01 "he l' er haPs, their Lordships would bear P li °4l l. ° Pkr t u th e. Point. ettherei l ecueed that they would, and a witness „:tteteei° meted that he was a silk broker. On the i k elktt l e 'llt o N he waited on the risoner, and got his " " Ptlreh silk P him Messrs. "ti ‘ h. 141 e o chase Some for from k I 'lt •'' B Ctit • Ire obtained the silk at his request, 4 11: 1 , s te le 1 1 4 . 41 to the prisoner, who said he was going l ' l j l. tl.''e acu br ae Of a silk manufacturer. Or t o 4 4 4 veral l e i 4 tien the witness admitted that d th e e 0 ) ,il p, r,„.. tees objected to take the silk, an h ) " 4 4 ' 4o k 4tid ed him te take ' 4 ' t th e 8 " 14 8 b • IN 0 A e 4l e mitted that this was not an obtain- . t 4 k te,t, tel t , Of 1) o , and colourable pretense contemplated iy lo t 13 eg4r:mument. Here the prisoner was car eAtt O NI tr Inlet° trade and the oods were ales°. It k , 4 tl itrZ,l'et zl rn hito, while the fraud s contemplated by Orel 4 out ,_ t was that of a man who falsely lt e P. e th e o ut to the world 'e'etit I:l,atleo%;l'llobtained craesdeia t. rrying on a particular t ' i t i .ol ;ll 'N w,l'or this said the difficulty which . 14 I t tt ki eeci thi t , lll B . r et was Contended that the pri ktlillltkeetltedP, slid goods wanting them for the purposes it4l.ethetn. 3 ' et i mmediately afterwards he goes tie, e , . Whit ''' Ine4teel the -- -e that he had a right to do what 1044 8 , i Mr. Baron ALDitaisoN said the Court was of opinion that there was evidence to go to the jury in the last caso of Fordarty, inasmuch 143 it appeared the prisoecr gave the brol:.,r instructions to go and purchase the silk. The Court at this point of the iLquiry adjourned for refreshment. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) Esther Wyatt, a young woman of ladylike appear ance, surrendered to her bail to take her trial on a charge of felony, for stealing a piece of soap about 2 lbs. weight, from a shop in Hoxton. The circumstances have already been before the public in the police reports, and attracted much attentio❑ at the time of the occur rence. The facts were clearly proved that the prisoner, whilst making a purchase of some articles of chandlery, was observed to take up and secrete the piece of soap in question. The defence set up before the magistrate, that she was subject to hallucinations, and was not at all times conscious of what she did, had sufficient weight to procure her admission to bail. Mr. Parry, who now appeared for her, relied on the same defence, and called the medical gentleman who attended her, also the nurse and other witnesses, who proved that since her recent confinement she had exhibited many instances of aber ration of mind, and, amongst other delusions, she fancied that the soap for the use of the house was extravagantly wasted. She was also in the habit of complaining of the dearth of necessaries in her husband's estab►ish ment, the truth being that every necessary was supplied with an abundance becoming his position in life, which, Mr. Parry said, was of very high respectability. Dr. Millar, of Welbeck-street, a member of the Col lege of Physicians, stated that from his own experience, and on the authority of medical records, he considered it to be an established medical fact, that women after childbirth, and in the latter stage of pregnancy, were subject to hallucinations. Ho had heard the evidence, and he considered this to be a case of the kind. It sometimes occurred that after other illness of a debilitat ing kind phenomena of a similar character were exhi bited. li The Learned JUDGE said he had known several cases of the same kind with women both during pregnancy and after childbirth. Indeed he had known several instances of children being marked for life on different parts of their persons with the appearances of things that their mothers had " longed for" or been frightened at. I❑ the case of a cousin of his own, the mother having been frightened at the idea of being bitten in the arm by a wolf, the child was born with the mark of a wolf-bite distinctly pressed upon his arm; and from his birth to this hour (and he is 45 years of age) he has neither spoken nor heard; he is a man of large fortune. Not withstanding these facts, the jury should be very cauti ous in acquitting persons on the plea of hallucination. The jury at once Acquitted the prisoner, who was taken out of court in a state of pitiable exhaustion, hav ing evidently suffered much during the time of the trial. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) AIANCHESTEIt, TUESDAY.—We have had a day of very limited transactions in goods. In general, prices are not quoted lower than they were last week ; but, except as regards the finer and better sorts of printing cloths, which are scarce, and some de scriptions of domestics, T's, and long cloths, which are in fair request, the buyers find here and there a disposition amongst sellers to make a slight concession in their terms, especially for quantities of fair extent. In light makes of 40-inch shirtings, there is a little giving way. Yarns have been very dull, and the transactions altogether incon siderable. With certain exceptions, there is a decline from the rates of last week, of *d. to id. per lb. in water twist, whether warps or bundles, and nearly as much in mule, either reeled or in the cop. No. 30's reeled water is too much under contract to be sensi bly affected in value ; indeed, the best qualities and the favourite spinnings remain firm. Warps show more steadiness in the finer than in the lower counts. The unfavourable bias in prices is ',owing to causes which are sufficiently obvious. Not only is the season late for shipping to Germany and Holland, but the mer chants, as well as their continental customers, are rendered increasingly cautious by the events which have taken place in France, although they regard the success of the coup dela as favourable to the continuance of ' tranquillity. The advices from America, showing a decline of fully lc. in all the ports consequent on increasing receipts of cotton, and upon a tendency to enlarged estimates of the crop, have also contributed to the same result ; as have also the accounts of lower prices from over supplies of cotton fabrics in the Brazilian markets. However, spinners and manufacturers are still too well situated in regard to stocks and orders to press sales ; no disposition to do that has appeared to-day. ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—There has been a tolerable demand for kerseys ; but flannels have been exceed ingly slack, and buyers have been reluctant to pur chase. The wool market continues dull, with little or po change since last Monday. HALIFAX, SATUEDAY.--ThiS has been a very quiet day in our piece hall, and but few goods have changed hands. The check which the events in France had given to the restoration of confidence se ems to be passing away---as far at least as regards the corn market ; and, there being less reluctance to enter upon operations, the general tone is somewhat firmer and healthier. In wools there is less doing, without any alteration in prima- HUDDERSFIELD , TUESDAY.—We have no im provement to report in our market to-day, it con tinues much the same, business very languid, not much doing to order. The shipper s have been a little more active during the week. The wool trade is very quiet. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The market on Saturday was dull ; but to-day there has been more business done both in the cloth halls and by direct orders manufacturers. Business continues dull in the wa rehouses ; but it is the general opinion, that at the turn of the year the staple trade of the district will improve. DEATH IN JACOB'S ISLAND. —Yesterday Mr. H. Carter held an inquest at the Stone Porters public-house, Mill-street, Dockhead, on the body of Catherine Preston, aged 71 years. The deceased occupied a wretched hovel in the upper part of an old wooden building, situate at No. 5, Jacob's Island, which is surrounded by the Old Folly ditch, and immediately men ti o ned by Boz in " Oliver Twist." The d ecea sed was facing the residence of Fa g an the Jew, well known by the inhabitants, for whom she was in the d a ily habit of carrying messages and parcels, being very sw ift for her advanced age. On Saturday last a female named Ayres called to see the deceased, but could not make her hear. The door was forced open, and the deceased was discovered lying on the floor, with a coal-shovel in her band, as if she had fallen down while lighting the fire. She was rais d up, but expired in a few minutes afterwards. Verdict, " Natural death." STREET RAILWAYS FOR HORSE•TRAINS. —A new project has been started, whereby it is proposed not only to centrdise the metropolitan railway traffic, but also that of the o mnibuses, in such a way as to virtually clear the streets from much confused and conflicting traffic, while, at the same time, affording increased accommodation to the public. This project contemplates simply the laying down of lines of rail flush with the streets, to radiate from the centre of the me tropolis through all the principal lines of thoroughfare, and of course to all the railway stations, the gauge being the ordinary one suitable to railway carriages, by a modification in the construe tfon of which it is proposed to adapt them also for street traffic when detached one by one, and driven off by horses from each station towards the centre, stations being set down at least every q uarter of a mile alon g the course. As' represented by the engineer, Mr. Thomas Wright, of George-yard, Lombard-street, a railway centralization would thus be obtained at the smallest possible cost, and with the utmost possible safety, and without the slightest destruction of property, or alteration of streets, except in the laying down of two hues of rails near the kerb-stones, on each side, the rails to be, so far, common property, or used or crossed by all sorts of vehicles, at all times, except while the trains are passing. In support of the practicability of this scheme, the engineer points attention to the fact, that the system projected already exists in several American cities, such as New York, Philadelphia, an d Baltimore, where it is found to be not only practicable, immensely useful.—Builder. CURIOUS ARREST.—An arrest was made one day last week at the Orleans terminus, under rather curious circumstances. A communication by telegraph had made known to the gendarmes at that place of the probable ar rival there of a woman named Rosine, who had fied from Tours after committing a robber y . A gendarme on duty at the terminus saw a rather suspicious looking woman alight from one of the carriages. lie addressed himself to her sa3 big," Where do you come from ?" " From near Blois." " What is your name?" " Marie Faucheux." She then walked on, but the gendarme following her, in a few mi nutes called out in a low voice " Rosine I" The woman, thrown off her guard, immediately In tured round, when the officer said, " Ah! ah. It is you I am earch of," and, ar resting her, took her to prison. DESIGN FOR THE GREAT EXHIBITION BUILD ING AT NEW YoaK.—A design, by Sir Joseph Paxton, for the intended Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations at New York, was on view yesterday in Clarges-street, Picca dilly. The plan is upon a similar principle to that of the Crystal Palace in Hyde-park, and the materials consist of glass, iron, and slate. The length of the building is in tended to be 00 feet, and the breadth 200 feet. There aro two entrances, one at each end, and the construction of the doorways is somewhat similar to that of the transept-en trance to the Exhibition in Hyde-park. The roof is to be of slate, in order to resist the weight of snow to which it may be exposed in the United States. The structure will be built upon arches, and the galleries will be supported by brackets, which will add materially to the strength of the building, and render it better adapted for permanent use than the "great original." The design is on the w hole re markable for its simplicity and practicability, and is another proof of Sir Joseph Paxton's great skill in this department of art. CITY ORTHOPZEDIC HOSPITAL, HATTON•GARDEN. —At a meeting held yesterday at the above institution, the Rev. J. H. Bastard, the hon. secretary, stated that the num ber of patients at present on the books was 366, and many others were waiting for admission. It was observed that the many appliances requisite to the removal of such mal-con formati_n required the most extreme care in their treatment. Some routine business having been transacted, the meeting adjourned. THE LATE GALE IN SCOTLAND.—Upwards of 1,000 trees, some of them very large and of great age, were blown down in the Duke of Argyle's policies at InverarY, during the gale of Sunday night and Monday morning. A sloop and upwards c f 20 fishing-beats were driven ashore at Ponaw, and many of them will be total wrecks. The quan tity of timber blown down, and the amount of destruction otherwise committed along the west coast, is immense. The tide, which was a spring, rose along the shore, in many places, three feet higher than it was ever recollected by any of the inhabitants.— Glasgow Mail. We regret to learn that the Baroness Brunnow has been suffering from severe indisposition for several days, Her Excdlloacy is still coafimd to the house, REPEATING" FIRE-ARMS COLT'S REVOLVING PISTOLS. The opinion of some of those who have made the science of war their peculiar study is, that the more destructive the "implements" used—the more effi cient the means placed in the hands of the few to sacrifice the lives of the many—the less sanguinary would be the warfare of nations, and the greater the disinclination to "go to war." They are no doubt correct in their estimate of the " humanising" effects of the use of improved destructive implements of war, and perhaps the best possible security against the horrible pastime would be the invention of a machine which would enable a mere "detachment" to act on the defensive against a " division," and if any explo sive or expansive material could be so brought under command as to insure at a high pressure—say 6001 b. or 8001 b. pressure on the square inch, a continuous discharge of small shot, the art of war would be reduced to pure strategy—to its sand bags and its zig zags. One step towards so desirable an end has been taken in the produc tion of the revolving pistol, of the destructive effects of which, and of its important advantages in such wars as those that have taken place in Texas and Mexico, we find ample evidence in the published pro ceedings of the Senate of the United States, and we refer to these evidences oi the value of the repeating pistol in this respect, as we think they may have some weight on reference to the mode in which the marauding Kafirs should be dealt with. We have before us the report of " the committee on military affairs to whom was referred the reply of the Secretary of War to the resolution of the Senate of September 30, 1650, directing him to ascertain the opinion of the ordnance bureau, and of the United States' regi ments, as to the relative efficiency of the repeating pistols invented by Samuel Colt and other inventors, their adaptation to the service, and the propriety of substituting the most improved repeating pistol for the common dragoon - pistol now in use ; ' and in speaking of the Indians on the Texan frontier, and on the several routes to California, the committee observe ; " Experience has proved that it is difficult to con tend successfully against savages with the usual arms of mounted men, the ordinary dragoon pistol and Hall's carbine. General Harney, who employed Colt's pistol successfully in Florida, says—"lt is the only weapon with which we can hope ever to subdue those wild and daring tribes, unless we "can have at least three regiments of dragoons on the Texas frontier alone ;' and those officers who have recently returned from the frontier corroborate this statement by de claring that a dragoon armed with Colt's repeating pistol and a musquetoon, or perhaps Sharp's rifle, would be the most efficient and the most formidable for frontier service; and particularly when encoun ters with the savages occur, as they generally do, in prairies, defiles, and mountain gorges. The advan tages of repeating arms in such encounters are incal culable. A few bold men, well skilled in the use of these weapons, can, under such circumstances, en counter and scatter almost any number of savages. " The committee take occasion in this connexion to refer to the report of Brevet Brigadier-General Talcott, colonel of ordnance; the report of the Board of Ordnance officers ; and to the abstracts from the opinions of various experienced officers of the army in relation to this subject—all of which accompany this report, and to testify to the efficiency and adaptation of Colt's repeating pistol to the service of mounted troops. The committee accordingly recommend that Colt's repeating pistols be substituted, under the di rection and in the discretion of the department, in lieu of the common dragoon pistol now in use in the service, and that a sufficient quantity be purchased, so far as the same can be d on e within the present regular appropriations, to supply such demands as may be made upon and allowed by the department." In " a summary of the reports of the Board's officers," convened by order of Brigadier-General George Talbot, dated Nov. 6, 1850, for the purpose of examining " various kinds of repeating fire-arms and their adaptation to the cava lr y service of the United States army," we find it stated that " from the examination and trials which they have made of these arms, the Board are of opinion that Colt's revolving pistol is better adapted to the service of mounted troops than any other pistol offered to their notice, and may be advantageously substituted for the present cavalry pistol." It appears from some expe riments made by the board officers against a target of 9.10 th-inch boards one inch apart, distance of target 16 yards, Colt's holster-pistol, weight 41b., 4 oz. ; weight of balls, 146 grains; weight of powder, 30 grains, was fired 1,200 times, and that the penetration was through seven boards; and that his belt-pistol, weight 21b 60z.; weight of balls, 83 grains ; weight of powder, 20 grains, was fired 1,500 times, the pene tration being through six boards. The pistols were cleaned but once a day, and the board say " neither of the pistols appeared to be injured by the firing." The highest penetration of the common dragoon pistol was only through five boards. General Har ney, under date of Nov. 8, 1850, says :—" I consider the arm perfect for the dragoon service, particularly when opposed to the western prairie Indians. It is the only weapon with which we can 'hope ever to subdue those wild and dar ing tribes, unless we can have at least three regi ments of dragoons on the Texas frontier alone. I consider Colt's repeating pistol equal in every respect to any other pistol now in use, and very greatly su perior in almost every other respect. In 1837 or 1838, Mr. Colt took some of his rifles to Florida. A board of officers was ordered to examine them and re port on their efficiency, &c. The report was favour able, and General Jessup ordered the purchase of 50, and they were placed in my hands. They were very delicately made, easily put out of order, and very dif ficult to repair. They were the first ever used or manufactured. Thirty odd of them were lost at Ca loose Hatchee, all at the time in good order ; and most of the others, with but little repairs, would be still good, and would be turned over to the ordnance officer at Baton Rouge, in 1842 or 1843. During the whole of this time they were in constant use, and not one single accident to the injury of any person oc curred ; and I honestly believe that but for these arms, the Indians would now be luxuriating in the everglades of Florida." There are some 80 or 90 other official testimonials to the usefulness of this pistol, particularly in the wars with the Indians. We believe Mr. Colt is exerting himself to get it intro duced into our cavalry regiments. TESTIMOA lAL TO Al?. C. P. RO.NEY. A very graceful compliment was paid to this gentleman on Monday evening, by a party of nearly eighty of his friends —sixty of whom were connected with the metropolitan daily and weekly press, and had associated specially for the purpose.l A recherche banquet, served by Mr. Bathe, of the London Tavern, in his best style, formed an agreeable introduction to the principal object of the meeting, which was for the presentation of a very handsome silver flower vase and salver, of exquisite workmanship, and got up with that fine taste which characterises all the productions of Messrs. Hunt and Roskell. This tes timonial was an offering, on the part of the members of the metropolitan press, in token of their apprecia tion of Mr. Money's conduct in all his relations with them during his tenure of office as secretary of the Eastern Counties Railway. The salver bore the fol lowing inscription : " Olim meminisse juvabit.' To C US ACK P. HO NEY, ESQ , (Late Secretary of the Eastern Counties Railway), This Salyer, with an accompanying Flower Vase, Was presented at a dinner given to him at the London Tavern, December 15, 1851, By Gentlemen 'connected with the Metropolitan Press, And some private friends, In token of their high sense of the urbanity evinced by him on all occasions in his public capacity, and of their sincere regard for his private worth." The whole proceedings were of a highly gratifying character, and the enjoyment of the evening was much enhanced by the able manner in which the festivities were presided over by Mr. Herbert Ingram, pro prietor of the illustrated London News. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, TUESDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert walked early yester day morning. The Royal Children also walked and rode as usual, The Hon. Eleanor Stanley has succeeded the Hon, Beatrice Byng as Maid of Honour in Waiting. A deputation from the Philanthropic Society, con sisting of Mr. Thomas Gladstone, the Rev. Sydney Turner, and Mr. Maxon, had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Horne-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yes terday for Halifax. Sir Henry De la. Beche had an interview yester day with Secretary Sir George Grey. The Right lion. Henry Labouchere left toy' n yesterday on a visit to the Earl of Cerlisle, at Castle Howard, Yorkshire. Lord Monteagle had a❑ interview yesterday with Sir George Grey. Mr. Glyn, M.P., had also an in terview with Sir George Grey, at the Home-office. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, the Governors of Malta, Ceylon, and Hong Kong ; the Governor of the Llauritius, and the Governor of Labuan. Dispatches were sent off yesterday to the Governors of the West India Islands. Father Gavazzi is studying the English language for the purpcse of lecturing in it. his orations in England, -which have been so much praised, have been all delivered in the Italian. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING FAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—The conduct of the respective parties into which the French nation was lately divided, until the events of the last fortnight had thrown down all Parliamentary distinctions, is still a subject of in terest on the approach of the momentous question put to the country by Louis Napoleon. It is not, indeed, possible that the people of France should now be in condition to choose any other ruler, when in fact no second competitor is in the field, and when the President has in his favour the éclat of a military triumph and the artifices practised by an unscrupulous Government on an easily deceived people. The masses of the peasantry and the classes most greedy of repose, at the expense of every other condition of existence, will doubtless serve to colour this usurpa tion, though not, we think (if the election be honest), in numbers comparable to those which rallied round the name of Bonaparte three years ago. But it still remains to be seen what part the elder political par ties, far inferior in numbers, but far superior in intel ligence, will adopt on this occasion ; for the real stability of Louis Napoleon's Government depends quite as much upon the gradual assent or adhesion of political parties which he has not yet obtained as upon the military array of his present supporters. The position of men ardently devoted to the great interests of their coun try, jealous of her dignity and her legal rights, and hostile to the revolutionary elements that have almost destroyed her, is at this time most perplexing and dis tressing; for, on the one hand, to oppose the Presi dent's Government is to lend strength to the Socialist bands that have openly declared against him, and to expose themselves to the dread and hatred excited amongst the middle classes by their doctrines ; but, on the other hand, to support the President's claims by an affirmative vote is to condone a series of actions of unexampled treachery and brutality, and to consign the country for an indefinite period to the fetters of military despotism. The , general resolution which we understand to be adopted by the Constitutional party, as far as it is possible under existing circum stances to arrive at any joint determination, is to abstain from voting altogether. For as the fate of France depends at this moment upon the rival ascen dancy of two extremes, and the only alternatives are the absolutism of Louis Napoleon or the absolut ism of the Red Republic, there is little room in such a crisis for the opinions of men who hold either of these deplorable results to be only one shade worse than the other. To abstain from voting is, there fore, considered to be the mute and unavailing pro test of men who look on with unabated dissatisfaction at the successive revolutions that have robbed the country of its laws, of its liberty, and of its peace. M. de Montalembert has, however, taken a more decided line, and he is as yet the principal person, being a man of independence, who has openly given in his adhesion, and something more, to Louis Bona parte. But M. de Montalembert has a very simple standard of right and wrong in public life ; he judges everything, not as a cititizen of France, but as a subject of the Pope. The conclusive argument on which he rests his adoption of Louis Napoleon is the filial devotion of that Prince to the Court of Rome. Who made over the education of the people of France to the Romish clergy ? Who restored the Pope to the Vatican by French bayonets, and still supports the decrepid iniquity of the Papal Government ? Who consigned the Pantheon of Voltaire and Rousseau, Mirabeau and Marat, back to the tutelary guardianship of St. Genevieve ? Be he who or what he may, the man to whom these acts can be attributed is M. de Montalembert's master, and on this specific ground he holds him up to the veneration of the faithful. The Roman Catholic Church deals largely in pious compensations, and it is sometimes said by her enemies that no offences are so dark that they cannot be set of and discharged by the offerings of adequate expiation. From the language of M. de Montalembert and the recommendation con veyed by him to the clergy of France, we must infer that the breach of an oath, the massacre of hundreds of unoffending citizens, the overthrow of laws, and. the subjugation of a people, are not circumstances of sufficient gravity to turn the scale of Papal justice against so faithful a champion of the Holy See; and it deserves remark, that the leader of the Catholic party in France expressly makes all temporal questions of government, and even of personal character, subor dinate to the one grand object of promoting the dominion and the interests of the See of home. With such dispositions among the supporters of the new Government, we question whether mili tary power will be the sole, or even the worst, form of oppression the French will have to endure. While the President has been successfully in triguing with the Church, and has actually obtained the support of a large fraction of the clergy, acting under the orders of their spiritual chiefs, he has also shown a politic forbearance towards the Legitimist party. The members of that party who were in cluded in the arrest of the National Assembly were speedily released, and they have suffered less from domiciliary visits and personal annoyan ce than any other class of politicians. The Legitimist party had, in fact, acted throughout the late stormy Parliamen tary period with great union and moderation. They alone preserved good discipline (with one or two ex ceptions), when all other parties in the Assembly were dissolved ; and although it was notorious that they had accepted the Republic from necessity, it has never been alleged,. far less proved, that they were conspiring against it. They retained the bearing of men of spirit and honour to the last moment of their legislative existence; and we trust that few of them will be deceived by M. de Montalembert's miserable argument that those who did hom age t o th e Republic in March, 1848, against their consc i ences , have no c ause to withhold their allegiance to Louis Napoleon now. But the attitude of the party is not hostile to the Government. The most strenuous exertions have been made by M. Berryer, M. De la Rochejsquelein, and M. De Falloux to prevent the possibility of a Royalistinsurrection in Britta ny, w hi c h wou ld pro bably have been fatal to the cause. Two of the Con seils Genera= of the western departments appear to have had some i ntention of pr oc l a i m i ng a l o cal Go vernment in the King's nam e . B ut these ras h pro jects have been successfully di scourage d ; and the Government. is in reality indebted ,to the Legiti matist chiefs for that spe c i es o f indirect support which has disarmed . some of its o p ponents, w ith o ut, of course, admitting the validity o f i ts actions or p a ssing an act of oblivion over it s ill egal i ties and transgres sions. Their rule of conduct is to give the Govern ment no positive support, b u t t o oppose to it no im pediments. No doubt th e p o li cy of suc h a Govern ment as that which Louis Napol eon is seeking to found must be to rally, if pos s ibl e , th e adherents of the Monarchy and th e l argest lan d owne rs of the country to his side. H e w ill crus h t h e Repub licans by military force ; h e w i l l persecute the constitutional Liberals by the tyranny of his police and the extinction of freedom of speech; but he will cultivate the party most nearly allied to the traditions of is a t b s o i l u u t s e in g t o o v o e f r n t m h e e i i i r t. On the side vigorou s protest atgheaiLnsetgitthi e coup d'etat, there may be an opinion that Louis Na poleon isworking . unconsciously f o r th ems elves ; and that as his power is not of a nature to be easily trans mitted to a direct heir, the natural successor to the authority he may re-establish i s th e Ki ng o f F ra nce. The same illusion was common among the French bnigres at the time of the First Consulate. The more sound and hopeful opinion would seem to be that by these events the cause of monarchy is iden• tified with the restoration of th ose f ree institu tions which Bonapartism has destroyed ; and that when the short-lived mania for despotic govern the rights of the Crown ment has passed away, will be united to the hopes of temperate liberty. And this is already the view taken, not only by such Royalists as M. Berryer, but by many of the most liberal of the Parliamentary chiefs, including, we be lieve, M. Odillon Barrot himself. It were scarce l y reasonable to discuss contingencies so re mo t e an d un certain, if they did not serve in some d egree t o ex plain the motives by which men attempt to justify their acquiescence in a state of things otherwise so indefensible. The Ultra - Monarchical party consented to submit to the Republic because It avenged them on the House of Orleans, and they will submit to Louis Napoleon because he has avenged them on the Re public, while be flatters their devotion for the Church and their preference for Absolutist allia nces . B u t th e greater are the qualities—the intellectual capacity, the official aptitude, and the political integrity—of French statesmen, the less can they stoop to share the resposibilities of such a Government. For such men there is no choice but to stand aloof. The throng of vulgar adherents or rapacious speculators doubtless await but the first opportunity to prostrate themselves before the new power, and to mimic the exultation of the first three months that foll owe d the 18th Brumaire. But such reinforcements are a source of weakness and contempt, rather than of strength and consideration. A few.names of sec on d ar y emi nence or of notorious servility have been obtained with difficulty for the Consultative Commission; but all real power is still in the hands of adventurers, with whom no prudent statesman can consent to share it ; and different as are the acceunts and opinions we receive from from various quarters in France, they all concur in one point—that the principal difficulties of the President will begin when t he tranquillity of the country is restored, and when he proceeds with his present adherents and his future constitution to govern the French nation at his pleasure. DAILY NEWS.—It is difficult to imagine an expression of opinion upon French affairs so discre ditable and disgraceful as that just put forth by Count Montalembert, head of the ultramontane church faction in France. An opinion so negative of all morality, so destructive of all liberty, so hypocritical, and so cowardly, certainly never emanated from any one that has ever figured even in the annals of revo lution. Louis Napoleon has appealed to a secret and mock universal suffrage, to be given in the absence of THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBEA 17, lB5l all information, and under the terrors of martial law ; and by this he asks for dictatorial power to tread under foot all principles of constitutional liberty and individual freedom, in order to substitute in their place that machinery of puppets with which Napo leon travestied the action of a free government. Count Montalembert comes forward to the French people and asks them to sanction this, because such tyranny cannot be more dangerous than the Constitution just overthrown. "By returning to the unity of power," says Count Montalembert, "we get over the most difficult point of the way to a real social regeneration, that of ideas and morals." So that in order to correct the ideas of Frenchmen and improve their morals, Count Montalembert proposes the despotism (unity of power means nothing else) of Louis Napoleon. Louis Napoleon has given up education to the clergy ; he has restored Rome to its old " unity of power" in the Pope ; he has re established synods; he has, in short, done everything for the Church. The Church is all I care for, says Count Montalembert, and Louis Napoleon may do what he will with the State. Such are the political principles of a man of eminence and talent, the avowed need of the Roman Catholic Church party in France —a party which professes itself at certain times, and in certain places, to be favourable to the great cause of civil and religious liberty. So blinded is Count Montalembert by his fanaticism that in the events of the first half of December he can see nothing but the few barricaders shot, and can feel nothing butthe escape of society from Socialism. He has no pity for his colleagues of the National Assembly, or the com panions of his legislative labours, hurried off to prison or to exile. He is lost in admiration of the brutal sol diery, who kept up an hour's fire at the houses and win dows of the wealthiest and least disaffected quarter in Paris, who shot down with glee every well-clad group that stood confidingly before them, and who laughed at the sufferings of the wounded. The " Socialists," as Count Montalembert calls them, were masters for months after February, 1848. They did not make a single arrest nor sacrifice a single life, except in actual combat. They left the antagonist press free. They refused to run a muck at Europe, and sum moned a free assembly to decide upon the fate of France. The "Socialists" are at least free from blood ; whilst Louis Napoleon, the saint; whom Count Mon talembert holds up for the adoration of the Church, sent to the grave more innocent victims in one day than even Robespierre sent in many to the scaffold. Robespierre's victims, too, were tried ; they enter tained opinions hostile to the republic. However innocent of crime, there was some pretext for their ,laughter; whilst there was no pretext whatever for that cold-blooded and wholesale massacre with which Louis Napoleon inaugurated his reign. And yet French Catholicism, represented by Count Monte lembert, would make use of the Socialist bugbear to persuade people to set up and wors hi p t h e id o l of the Elysee. The candid, the truth-loving Montalembert copies the Moniteur in attributing every insurrec tionary movement throughout France to Socialism. The peasants of the Niovre having risen in insur rection, the whole town of Clamecy took up arms against the decree of the 2d of December. But Clamecy is the country of M. Dupin ; the seat of his property ; the scene of his influence. Have the past opinions and present treatment of M. Dupin nothing to do with the insurrection of Clamecy—and is its very excess to be set down to Socialism ? The officer in command at Lyons, a whole regiment of artillery at St. Brieuc, divers persons and bodies in different parts of France, have declared against the decree and against the act of the 2d of December. Is this Socialist ? And Paris, Lyons, Bordeaux, and all the towns and counties consigned to martial law, are all these Socialist ? If so, Socialism includes all the friends of constitutional monarchy, and numbers all those moderate Liberals of the Chamber with whom Count Montalembert has been pretending to act in common,when in fact he has been merely waiting the opportunity to betray every constitutional principle and party to the first military mountebank who put on the cloak of piety. A greater blow to the Papal Church in France could not have been stricken than by this public adhesion of its chief to the most un warrantable act of tyranny, treachery, and violence that ever was perpetrated in any revolution. It is plain, and Count Montalembert avows it, that if his priesthood be allowed full sway over the conscience of the people, he will, in recompense, applaud a mi litary dictator putting his heel on the neck of the same people. He supports the throne of Louis Na poleon by the confessional. He hallows the right of the usurper ; declares it quite as good as that of the most legitimist monarch ; and he calls in the name of the Church on the old Royalists to sup port it. If Count Montalembert could be supposed to represent the totality of the French clergy and the French Church, his present conduct, and the reasons which he assignes for it, would be sufficient to divorce that Church, not merely from the support, but even from the tolerance and respect of every party in the State. The Legitimist he divorces and disgusts. The Constitution he sacrifices without re more and without shame. Anything or body of men more liberal, more republican, or more popular than constitutional monarchy he devotes to the infernal gods. He erects the Church into a perfect indepen dent empire within the state, quite reckless of what becomes of that state, provided only that the clergy live thrive and rule. The Jews were accused of thus living in the midst of Christian countries and Euro pean communities, attached exclusively to their sect and to their money bags. This, even if true, had its -xcuse ; for if the Jews felt no love for state or coun try, it was that state or country cared not for them. But for a Christian church thus to consider its in erest apart, and to offer up every other element of civilization than orthodoxy to the most ruthless tyranny—that is a crime, a treason, and a baseness, from which the Church, or the sect that cannot purge itself, deserves to be for ever accursed and eradicated. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. We regret to hear that Rear-Admiral Houston Stewart, C. 8., is suffering severely from an attack of influenza. The following officers attended the levee of Rears Admiral Dundas, at the A.dmiralty yesterday : Captains H. T. Douglas, J. Dalrymple, Hoy, Quin. Commanders R. Foster, J. Hope. Lieutenants D. Edwards, F. S. Trernlet, D. S. Partridge, F. Cutler, I'. J. Young, G. W. Rabett, G. G. Philipps, C. 0. 13. Hall, C. W. Russell. Master G. A. Waters. Second Master H. M. Ray. Clerk T. Donald. Mr. Paymaster Simpson, nominated secretary to Rear-Admiral Dundas, has arrived home from Lisbon. Mr. Simpson was paymaster of the Leander, 50, and has left the station with the hearty good wishes of the whole squadron. Commander George Edwin Patey (1846) has been promoted to the rank of captain on paying off the Flying Fish, 12, after two years' service on the coast of Africa, during which time, as we stated last week, 'he Flying Fish had made more captures than any cruiser on the station, and had served her commission without the infliction in any one instance of corporal punishment. This, we presume, may be considered a special service promotion, although conferred by the First Lord ; but we are bound to state that there are many commanders on the list who have been waiting tong for their advancement whose services hare equalled, if they have not exceeded, those of Captain Patey, and who, having earnsd their step before Cap tain Patey, ought surely to have received the reward of their good services before this lucky officer.— .gerald. Mate—ll. P. Bunce has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Lieutenant Charles Gibbons (1848) has been ap pointed, from the Growler steam-ship, Mediterra nean, to the Encounter, 14, screw-corvette on that station. Lieutenant H. W. hire (1841) has been appointed senior of the Fury steam-sloop, at Woolwich, for the Mediterranean. Mr. W. D. live has entered the navy as assistant surgeon of the Impregnable, 78, flag-ship at D evon . p Clerks—John E. Stiles (1844) to the Impreg nable; S. S. Boxer to the Britannia, 120, Ports mouth. Commodore Martin, the commander-in-chief of the western squadron, has been indisposed at Lisbon, but by last accounts was convalescent. On the night of the 6th instant a fire broke out at the Gallant Com modore's residence, when a great deal of property was destroyed, and the life of the Commodore was placed in peril. The fire originated in the drawing room. It was caused by the stove becoming over heated, and burning away the floor to such an extent that in the middle of the night the stove itself dropped through the flooring into the room below, filling the house thereby with fire and smoke, and causing great consternation. The Commodore, in rushing through the house to alarm the servant•, had his candle put out, and with great difficulty he managed, whilst half suffocated with the amoke which filled the passage, to scramble out to a place of safety. The Lisbon fire brigade saved the house (the residence of the late French Minister) from destruction. Captain R. S. llewlett took up his commission at Devonport, on Saturday, for the Excellent, and drew a pendant to hoist on board the Hotspur frigate as a gunnery tender, but the Commander-in -Chief would not allow him to hoist the pendant until further orders. Mr. Rae, schoolmaster of Devonport Dockyard, has been elected actuary of the savings bank in that establishment, vice Scott, resigned. The latter gentleman fur some time received an allowance of 150/. per annum, but in consequence of the great decrease in the deposits at the time of the railway mania, which was succeeded by the establishment of building societies, enabling the workmen in a great many instances to become the owners of their resi dences, the salary was latterly reduced to 901., which is to be further reduced on th© new uppointwent, IRELAND. ILLNES S OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIMATE.— DUBLIN, TUESDAY.—Fur some days past Dr. Cul len, Roman Catholic Primate, has been suffering from a severe attack, which has confined him to bed. He is now staying at the College of St. Vincent, Castle knock, about three miles from Dublin ; but so much weakened by illness that he has been unable to attend to any active duties. There have been meetings of the Roman Catholic Defence Association, connected With the election of a secretary and other matters; but Archbishop Cullen has been prevented, by the state of his health, from attending the m. THE RIB BON S YSTEM IN U LSTER.—Some steps have already been taken for convening meetings of magistrates in those portions of the counties of Ar magh and Monaghan where the Ribbon confederacy extensively prevails. Under the Crime and Outrage l Act, the G overnment are empowered to disturbed di s t r i c t s , an d place an additionlirop c o a li l c m e force at the e x p ense o f t h e ratepayers in the locality. This has already been done in some parishes , including that in which the revolting murder of Mr. Bate son was perpetrated. The two persons, named Owen and Francis Kelly, now com mitted to the gaol of Monaghan, are, it is stated, charged with the murder on the evidence of persons who witnessed the attack on the deceased gentleman. The Armagh Gazette mentions that those men, when discovered by the police, were engaged in packing up to emigrate to America. They had been tried on a charge of Ribbonism at the last spring assizes of Monaghan, but were acquitted. In the portion of the county of Louth adjoining Monaghan the Ribbon system has also arrived at a dangerous head, and murders, supposed to have arisen from it, had been committed some months since. At the last assizes of Dundalk the jury were unable to agree in the case of one of these murders; and at the adjourned assizes subsequently held a verdict of acquittal was returned by another jury in the same case. Up to this time, although several most atrocious murders of an agra rian character have been committed in those districts, the perpetrators have escaped the reach of justice. The Crime and Outrage Act, soon after it came into operation, had been effectual in crushing secret and criminal organization in Limerick and Clare ; but that law has been as yet unavailing against the Rib bon confederacy in the north. The Dundalk Democrat gives a list of 34 families, numbering 224 persons, who, that journal states, have been " evicted from the Templeton estate since Mr. Bateson became agent." FREE CAA CER HOSPITAL, LONDON. A meeting of the Committee of Management of the above recently-founded Institution, of which the Hon. Colonel Ogilvie is chairman, was held yester day, at the hospital, in Cannon-row, Parliament street, 'Westminster. The first report of the medical officers is an interesting document as regards its being the first established hospital in this country for the exclusive treatment of this hitherto considered (not withstanding the present advance of medical science) almost hopeless and incurable disease, which is fatal to more hundreds annually than that much dreaded disease small- pox ; and as likewise forming a nucleus for the efficient medical study, and means of combat ing the disease, which is not confined to the poor alone, the wealthy being alike subject to its insidious advances. During the few months the institution has been opened, the surgeons state that, even with the little publicity which has been afforded to the hospital, it has brought more than fifty patients, and all these have been truly deplorable cases, and in every respect most pitiable objects. In three cases cures have been pronounced, and the remainder of those under treatment have all been materially re lieved. Many of the cases have been sent up by medical men from distant parts of the country, thus acknowledging the desirableness of an institution expressly devoting all its energies to so unmanage able an affliction. It appears from statistics extracted from the Re gistrar General's Reports, that cancer, instead of being decreased by advancing science, has absolutely increased so alarmingly, that, whereas in the year 1839, there were registered 463 deaths from cancer in the London district, in the year 1850 there were registered 889 deaths from the same disease, although the increase of population during that period was only to the extent of one•eighth. In the latter year the number of deaths in England from • this dreadful malady was 1,298 males, and 3,288 females. These facts speak loudly of the desirableness—nay, the im perative call there is for an hospital devoted exclu sively to the treatment of cancer, to alleviate, and, if possible, to cure one of the most appalling and fatal diseases known. We cannot too strongly recommend this charity to the benevolent. • THE FATE OF GEORGE HACKETT, THE _NOTORIOUS PRISON BREAKER. _ _ This notorious criminal, whose daring acts of plunder and extraordinary exploits in breaking out of various prisons in the metropolis created so much attention, has at length so firmly entangled himself under the operation of the American laws, as to, in all probability, terminate, at least for some years, his violent and plundering career. The last American mail furnished information to the metropolitan police of Hackett's conviction for the burglary at New Jersey. His career in this country was one of the most desperate description, and since the days of Jack Sheppard, &c., perhaps the annals of crime does not afford his equal. He was educated at one of the principal Ward Schools in the City, but heeded very little what was done for him in the way of teaching him a trade. Long before he had reached manhood, he became very expert in the art of smuggling, and some very extraordinary tales are told of him in that course of life. At length he found himself too closely watched to carry on that trade, having been convicted several times before the Lord Mayor, and he joined a gang of thieves and burglars whose depredations continua to this day, the gang generally known as " Hackett's gang" not being effectually broken up. Providing himself with a swift horse and cart, he with two or three others succeeded in committing the most extensive robberies. Whipping off bales of silk, or other valuable goods, from railway carts as they were passing along the streets, proved a most lucrative system of plunder to him. At last the police traced sufficient to connect him with a daring burglary in Bond-street. He was seen passing down Bishops gate-street in his cart, and an attempt was made to capture him, but he got away by beating the officer off with a life-preserver. Shortly after he was seen with his vehicle in Thames-street, and after some manoeuvring he was arrested, taken before the Lord Mayor, and sent to Marlborough-street Police- court for examination, where he was sworn to as being one of the parties who committed the burglary. He was remanded, and at the subsequent investigation he contrived to get out of the cell attached to the court in a manner that remains a mystery. He continued at large for some time, and on the Derby-day of last year the officer who captured him in Thames- street discovered him lying at the bottom of a cart which was passing over London-bridge. Hackett offered a most murderous resistance, and the officer was nearly killed by him. However, he was secured, committed to Newgate, tried, and sentenced to ten years' transportation. He was then tempted by handsome rewards to disclose how he got out of the cell at Marlborough-street, but he declined affording information. The authorities of Newgate then began to suspect that their " bird" was not in such safe keeping as could be desired. Certain pecu liarities in his conduct indicated that he was planning a scheme to liberate himself, and in order make cer tain of his due care, he was at once removed to the Penitentiary. There he was found to be a trouble some charge, and his security being considered even there doubtful, the Secretary of State directed his re moval to the Model Prison, out of which it was thought impossible he could escape. However, he bad not been there long before he displayed the most convincing proof of endeavouring to render himself a " free man. He had made two attempts on the security of his cell, and on one of the occasions suc ceeded in removing two iron bars which protected the cell window. The governor then placed him, if pos sible, in a more secure part of the prison, but he was not to be long an inmate of the establishment at all. The details of his extraordinary flight from the chapel ef the goal one Sunday evening, du rin gthe performance of Divine servi ce , have already - ap pe ared before the public. Large rewards were offered for his capture, and the police scoured the country every reason country round, but he was not to be f oun d. There l to suspect, however, th a t he soug ht refuge at a house in the neighbourhood o f Thames street, as some por tion of the prison clothing was found. He had pre viously become acquainted with a young woman, who is stated tob ae2 be respe ctably connected, and by m some mysterious uvring he was got down to Liverpool, and hiswithh fair companion s et sail for New York. On rea c hi ngvici ou s city . h s e c H ou e ldnot divest himself e f his old asso ciated him se lf w i th the mo st deterbmabit determined characters, and event ua ll y h e was a ppr e hended, with another party, for breaking into a gentleman's house, and carrying off a large amount of plate. He was lodged in the New Jersey gaol, and there he had not been detained long before he tried his skill upon the security of that establishment. He contemplated the most murderous means of escape. As in the English gaols, the prisoners are frequently visited by the turnkeys in the course of the night, and it was upon one of these rounds that Hackett and his companion were missed from their cells. The alarm was then raised, and search was made over the building. Hackett was discovered secreted in a dark remote recess, in one of the outer passages of the prison. He had contrived to arm him self with a long poniard, and evidently was prepared to free himself at all cost. No doubt he intended, as a part of his plan of escape, to murder the first officer be wet jwitb, and who would offer him the 1 .egtat ob. atacle. The sudden discovery of his flight and dates tion, however, seemed to have thrown him off his original intention, and surrounded and seized as he was by the warders, he was prevented putting in execution his murderous designs. With his confede rate he was more duly secured, and shortly afterwards they were tried for the burglary, and sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment. A lengthened imprison ment in an American gaol is described as of the moss dreadful character. It surpasses all our horrible system of dark cells, solitary confinement, and other shocking sufferings of prison discipline. Hackett's previous history will add to the measure of his punish ment, and the probability is, therefore, that he may not survive his term of imprisonment. The girl who accompanied him is said to have been charged es an accessary, but in the information sent n• men tion is made of her fate. TESTIMONIAL TO MR. GRINNELL. The contemplated testimonial to Mr. Henry Grin. nell, of New York, is a mark of respect and gratitude most worthily due to his truly noble exertions on behalf of our missing countrymen in the ex p e dition under Sir John Franklin. It will be remembered that the A mer i can Executive having found itself unable to redee m the promise made in 1849 to our own Govern ment (in reply to the appeal addressed by Lady Fra n kli n to their President), t h at two ships should be sent in search of Sir John Franklin, M. r. r. Gri9- nelln sto od forward t o carry out this intention by his individual exertions. He purchased and com pletely equipped two vessels for the search, the martial law dispatched . to Barrow Strait lasts L i : being provided by the American ; thes o a rd v e a r ase t l o s assecuisrewtehlei known,advantage weroef advancing as far west as the rest spring, and, a se n a d ;c af hi t n e g r ships, returned to New York for the winter. With what zeal and efficiency the offi cers and . men em ployed acquitted themselves of t heir . duhes, will be elsewhere, in which their al seen from the President's message, wharcn.hawcte g antry is honourably recognised as a fitting subject for " an l d t g is en sc er a os rc i e t l y y .' m ' more in warm and admiring acknowe ledgment of a deed which is, as theappoamr of f u gr bli a s ce h WthiteheguetneraotuaNeltel his tory,testimtohnainaliajugsrtalytituasdseerfto,r ran klin w ne f ee e t r r — be sentimenta e in ir . . 5.0 f t s h so lately uttered by a public meeting " May the search for Sir John I` abandoned until his rescue be effected, or his certained !"—that we desire to see this tribute to the - munificent benevol ence o f an i ndividual carried out in a manner worthy of the country and the cause. FIRE A2VD LOSS OF LIFE. Yesterday, between the hours of twelve and one, a fatal fire took place in the vicinity of Whiteehapel. A s the extreme end of a narrow passage, called Ball's court, on the north side of High-street, near Osborne street corner, stood some old dilapidated premises, °m u . pied by a man named Lacy, a carpenter, as workshops. lie was an old man, nearly 80 years of age, and was in the habit of occasionally sleeping in the plac e . Late 9a Monday night he was seen at a neighbouring public house, and on l eav i ng t oo k u p hi s q u art ers f or the night in the lower part of his shop. IN ithin an hour after wards some people living in the court were awoke by cries of " Fire, fire," "Help, help," and almost imme diately discovered that the old man's place was on fire. What was worse, the old man was in the. midst of i t , unable to extricate h i mself, and his cries, "F or G od ' s sake, pull me out, I SM burning; oh, save me!" were long and protracted; but, on account of th e i ntense heat and overwhelming persons wh o were on the spot, and whom he smoke, it was impo ss ibl e to save the unhappy sufferer. Several called by name "to save him," made desperate efforts to do so. One actualiy penetrated the burning building to such an extent as to reach him, but found that he was lying in such a position as to be utterly unable to move him. The party nearly lost his life in the attempt, for, before he could regain the passage, be met with severe burns about the face and body. Lacy, there is no doubt, perished quickly after, for nothing was heard of him more. A large number of engines subsequently arrived, and were brought to play on the fire. which, by that time was pouring forth out of the windows and roof of the building. As soon as it was got under, the brigade entered the ruins to search for the remains of the un fortunate man, and in a short time they were found hor ribly disfigured. There is every reason to suspect that the fire was produced through the carelessness of the sufferer. ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY. WOOLWICH, DEC. 16. A board of officers, con sisting of Lieutenant-General Sir John F. Burgoyne, K.C.8., Royal Engineers, and Inspector-General of Fortifications, President; Lieutenant-General Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross, K.C.8., Deputy Adjutant- General, Royal Artillery ; Major-General Griffith G. Lewis, C. 8., Royal Engineers, and Lieutenant- Governor of the Royal Military Academy ; and Brigade-Major Walpole, Royal Engineers, assembled in the Hall at the Royal Arsenal to-day, for the purpose of examining the gentleman cadets who had finished their course of study in the practical class preparatory to their passing for commissions in the Royal Artillery or Royal Engineers. Amongst the officers present to witness the exami nation were Lieutenant-General Sir Charles William Padey, K.O 8., Royal Engineers ; Major-General F. Campbell, superintendent of of the Royal Military Repository; Colonel Gordon, inspector of the Royal Cirringe department ; Colonel W. B. Dundaa, C. 8., inspector of Artillery ; Lieutenant-Colonel litirdinge, K.H., director of the Laboratory ; Lieutenant- Colonel Portlock, Royal Engineers, inspector at the Royal Military Academy ; Major Savage, Royal Artillery, assistant inspector; Captain F. Eardley Wilmot, of the Cadet Company ; Captain Williams and Captain Bainbridge, Royal Engineers; Captain Talbot, Captain Boxer, and Captain Anderson, Royal Artillery. . _ _ The gentlemen cadets of the practical class were examined in surveying and fortification by Lieute• narit-Colonel Stotherd, Royal Engineers, and in prac tical artillery by Captain John Travers ; and at the conclusion the following passed for commissions in the Royal Artillery or Royal Engineers, on the selec tion for the respective corps being made by the Mar quis of Anglesea, Master-General of the Ordnance:— Alfred George Goodall, John Mervin Cutcliffe Drake, Edward Bens vi erd, Charles William Townsend, Thomas Bland Strange, Francis Lyon, Markham Le Per Taylor, Raynsford Cytherus Longley, Edward Keate, Thomas Wright Blakistou, Arthur Lister Kaye, Jones Julius Smith, Eardley Maitland, Mau rice Edward Covey S - ocker, William Arnold Bur rowes, John Lardner Clarke, Algernon Purling J oy , Henry Thornhill, Arthur Thornton Gratwick Pease, Thomas Priaulx Carey, William Francis Walker. Lieutenant-General Sir John P. Burgoyne, after congratulating the gentlemen cadets who had passed, presented the following prizes to the respective reci pients, who came forward to dila Board table to re ceive them : Itaynsford Cytherus Longley—a regulation sword, for exemplary conduct while at the institution ; H. Thornhill being next in merit. Alfred George Goodhall—A telescope, for prod - cieney in practical artillery. Mr. Taylor next in merit. Mr. James—A pocket sextant, for proficiency in surveying. Mr. Goodall next in merit. Algernon Purling Joy—Lamartine's " Histoire," for proficiency in French. Mr. Pears next in merit . Charles William Townsend—A selection o f book ; for proficiency in Germ an . M r . Drake next in merit. Maurice Edward Covey Stocker—A selection of books, for chemistry. Mr. Alderson next in merit. Mr. Taylor—A case of mathematical instruments, crloatstsemayth—class prismaticaties comp ass, for Mr .mpo, for second formfitrr.slv- sle class mathematics. M r. Stirling x i n me rit . Mr. next in motif. orit. Mr. Cuthbert—A selection of books, for third and fourth class math emat i cs. Mr. Edward s —A selection of books, for first-class fortification. M r. Moore next i n merit. Mr. Stirlin g —A ' select ion ar Mr. Li g ht—A of book s , f o r second class fortificati on . Mr. Elumm ' next in merit. selection of books, nex for t i n krs zi t m aa er a it s" cond class F rench . Mr. MiDonnell—Ar' selection Sc third and fourth c l ass F rench. Mr. H en eker next in merit. ra t cb 1 07 books, Mr. O'Grady—A selection of books, for first and second class German. Mr. Warren next in merit. Mr. Pringle—A selection of books, for third and D fourth German. Mr. M onnell next in merit. Mr. MADonnell—A selection of historical and goo- graphical works, for History and Geography. Mr. goof; next in merit. Mr. O'Grady—A selection of books, for milit ary and sketching. Mr. Somervill e next i n merit. Mr. in pl e a r n drawing merit. Mr. neat sixth in oom Mr. W. Eden—A selection of books, for fifth - room selection O of o landscape Hall—A sle drawing. landscape drawing. /Ir. Bayley next i Mr. Stirling obtained the first prize , n merit. _ Mr. Kensall the second, and Mr. Mac qua y for the third and fourth classes of descriptive geometry. DIABOLICAL MuRDER.---011 'Saturday last some person or persons cut the rope of a pit called Will Vaugban'e Pit, at Red Lake, Ketley, add when the overlookers wen , going down, with a boy, just after they were let down a Halo way, the rope (which had been cut) broke, and tbe7 % s re precipitated to the bottom. One of then), named l r " n3 w an. llard, was killed almost instantaneously. The othe r died John Pritchard, was taken out of the pit 11 , 1 ,7 1 .' 0 Rigby, almost directly after. The poor boy, named 'Thomas whn, was taken home alive, but lingered in pain_ fr t tanate men have death put an end to his sufferings. left wives and families, and w bourhood ; and the sorrowful:circani . _s ful impression in the whole local ty was held before Mr. IL green, to inquire into the case, day. The rope was cut about fifty-three and the depth of the Pi being tunate men were precipitated The perpetrators of Conservative., triiced. — /ShroPhir ce has left a warn- On Monday last an inquest i •ll,at the Wheatsheaf, Mosey- D. Nevl vr l bioh was adjourned till this were wiellltesnruesnpe°cted in the neigh eleven yards from. the end, yards, the unfor tunate to a depth of forty-two yards. this diabolical act have not yet beck e 1 t. 0, Sl' z ebl 0 e 1 0 00, Oder piog.' dick . brer 0 0/ ` . are ;0 1V ' "sti ,131 00 btl f ! 1 v2r ;011d. A dio ;$.