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

litkp - --------- ti(F , .- ---- .... (THIS - C 4 ,,, --II: N EWS - DAY-) 9,,..E,,,. -------,____ ,ktp,,,„ --k)HAN GE —WEDNESDAY ky w itand in thr Eti by a n g at the sho , ,v of En lisp Wheat to ci ~l'i IN f',, a° Means extensive, the demand for a;, '141j",." a Very inactive state, at barely Monday's ,1,'Z.26201,,tirr arrivals coastwise liv.-_. been good, 1 4 , 4 , 4 ge 4 a ?•.er i s; but the quantity, perhaps, by land le this seek. g• No foreign Wheat has ccme to t esp rea • 4. Selected sampfes !novel off steadily, at ) 4 „.. cies. /... ••• - . • kinds next 1 % , '°!lez was " the budding and inferior _. , 11 ,0 ! la pl our, Plling- A fair average business was L i blishei_, slthough upwards of 1,300 sacks and ; 11 ; 4 1 ,1 Ve ry in'a_a:ine fresh to hard from abroad. , W . t 1 1 ,4 *ere theetlye tale for Barley, inferior samp ,?s of lit," Iltiart„ turn lower. The supply of English was ~r t itet, 0 1 ' We had a very slow sale for Malt, at I, d ° gai t , sts-the arrivals of which were limited at la dear as last week. Beans, Peas, and commanded very little attention. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. , Wheat. 404 ....____......_Earley. 1 2 Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks ".. . ,20 6,336 3,510 3,050 1,710 •••••• ..... - _ 1,400 1,310 ow 660 1 13 , 1 00 bl - F ati, tint , t -4 kind IVII XTECIIAPEZ 11„.We e i en nd o f . Meat the inquiry is firm, at fully h t ioa 2: quotations. Beef, from 2s 2d to 35 4d; It ° as 6 8 ci rt t ° 3 s 10d; Veal, 21 8d tu3s 8d; Pork, Th,. S o Per Per 81bS by the carcase. eq dami'italltielividt tiiilst:el7.l2aedCYll!eawnt Hops°fu P l i ivi p C r il i C e la e llt s i 7 : l B : ;n o l t a h l e i ; whilstkitl k,_OLL„-,-.......„ . __ "ttli., '",,, COURT 'THIS 1)A V.) Th ...- "Rt ER l'• THE IIIAYOR AND CORPORATION ° 4 " P .I.II E TOW - oor Ali ti . 4 811 R of NOF LIN ERP .. . tikel gat( ) • the RoLLS, on taking his seat this ; , , i ,„ spwie Judgment in this case, which he stated_ tl ‘te tl ... t atm b , kit the ton for an injunction to prevent the coF . •4‘l 4ieh' t l° Wn Of Liverpool from working cirtat e i r n_ tite r ' o f PaYihad sunk under the authority of c„ . , 4, 4 244, 4 ~ adieu:tent, including the 6th and i"I :is 4i et t, :na 11th Victoria, giving the corporationtng lii, h ,sit haly ti PPly the town and borough, by i N ttli O k i pr wiaterworks the water-pipes %t:vl;uslY supplied the P to iP w e n a , i f t •r e o d m eue w utl o r r s k ea s_ S I , tot. Green- Waterworks and two other cum lth its 4 eistablished in that town. The bill alleged. V Acti P° : f a .,, t ion had exceeded the authority given it ',4 5 t1 the' carliament; that they had sunk pumps I.llltNitoYartlaait'lY depended for a supply of water itit'''Plitili4"wltlagterePs and watering the stre . ets, instead it r aey tor the latter purposes from the ' 4 i .i, iel lth \;. i 4 e 4 t they were restricted to do by a clause Neill of 19.114. The plaintiff possessed wells in :NI IProat a`4,lvrnool, from the water of whi i Si n ' l / 4 1 he, advantages the supply ch f h or e ,"',tt t ' t 4 tutl et i ° , t4 ° limited since the corp ef ora w tro t n er had ; kl ) ,P 4 rti o isr.ger supplies. The consequence of It 4, th ° Perststie in drawing these large sup te tkt kt the Whole g 4. ?ho general water level ihroughont „ (It t ti li tt th at _sunk considerably, plaint this was mace n, i rks h, in the last summer ff 's wells had „ I tV,',.„ l sth - , e ile dry. Much re reliance had been placed i rk t, , lh i ' ttri oleh oa - r e c t ti h ori of the last ct passed . in this cause, oily the ~ ought that, as the inhabitants of L . iver r!t? t here v°we r of compelling the corporation to ' ''ttV e titi . with Whatever quantity of water they k ii l Ire, the ,lt ti , l4 e corporation should have the power Ati o ,tiley e wster they might require from whatever itis'ket s V i d• His Honour, after going through the "ii .' 4 ( t h i 4 SetZilig reference. to ' the sub j ect, and . onasoo leitt, ohi s al sections having a bearing on me . . , v t , y . d i n _._ . 4,Et(e.gi6latur_ c onclusion that he was of opinion , i ti t , t 'Op t ,l litir. eri bad invested in the corporation the tty l4 i)l sni p water to the inhabitants of the town i n tl. h, litivoaes suburbs, whether for domestic or '' , N tsust .' and that therefore, being of that *- I , tit,„m4etidttlerneiesrsdtinhgeidemurrer P ra y ed for by the emu 4tlhitsi A —_____________ , 4 'tl-a C OURT, —(THIS DAY.) 'LB 41)ta,„..1 OLD CO UR 7'. li( t 'kith In the gas© of Thomas Bare, charged with k.t'4, 4 ( irder of ; o n ~.4 , ,,,r p. his own w i fe, ti t th b b tri m '''E applied to the Court for a postpone- t.ibtis pris oner until the next session, on the ground .i j ii 4 tol 4 , ll i g 4 p eo bad only been: recently committed, t,, - .r, 41 esti h .ruan he had not had an opportunity of p ‘, i d ! th ro e with v. is professional adviser. Indeed, i ‘' l tati,., 4 roed p u g. the kindness of the Sheriffs that he It ' ::,, k ° : ':i t tl e r s',, at it ili n t - oi d ci :t r u li t i laj i:l „ s e el ) was instructed to make this a 13 " anxious that he should have . , p, 4 11 01114 /) t i ahne ;:s e a r t:, and see what defence could be t :, i 4 lt ivi ts of:',.ho app eared for the prosecution, sa i d `'Z'li iii , o l) Plie at i o a n e rletia a nature that he could not op 1, l ei i 4 AL r I liii 4 h 1.°4 ILita"-Let the case stand over until q‘ic ki otler wa Ipi ow a ac cordingly put back. k,,4,!,,te/4tllithtaltd(lo9_, described as a silk manufacturer, t' •"k f iketi ti ,, . C KI and charged with misdemeanour: i) /1 Or t e ', with on em ue p reac ...ein was Mr. Huddlestone, ap i qa , ellded the ou.tion, and Mr. Clarkson and Mr. ~tti,, rtoee„,.."- Prisoner, e Of k hOriaj`lGn was instituted for the purpcs k ,It i „ t° the prisoner of f dulent ban - .1 1 , rh • a ease ran I t rrli e kf e 4 ar, it '. t it% ' 4 had aPPeared, was a very skilful man in i'lit i l 'llo h a ~ cbtained the confidence of many mer- „t t , khd t , i '' 110 hesitation in him extensive rt()li,tilite`4 eonsequ,nee j:e givin g uppli with ra . l'iltk"''ialty,_4aoUnt. Two or three years ago ho fell Oi l i So h i l a nd had to pass through the Bankruptcy . ,t i4 i i sß 4 h te ii grit y k , that Pinion, pinion, however, had his creditors in °P •44,4114, i ,e(4.1 1 6 0 'l' he experienced no difficulty r t i me he i;i l % 4 t a tf ) re a tei and in the progress 0. ' ,' ; ' , ll ttlii,',went (isratue his business of a silk manufac 'in -01 e ,1". tO all appearance, successfully, .but ' , t h til e i reuitors t finding i,ut llit 1 1 th e G _ were again surprised 0 114 ttipt.„ "zette, and the prisoner applying k 41 ,4 t a to , Court to be relieved from liabilities e iti e l i l good r i ll Pw, ards of 16 000/ This circumstance a to A --* -eat o f •. ' • me casual k i d ie tr e tam suspicion, and when so 'rate 14• ( ''ere t i e a bout his previous transactions, " ik lB(2' i tler h ad just just before the . bankruptcy •, iii 'tio ''' been in the habit of .ob ,l Pella Pareel various th t its, a s of silk from C t ith t he p a 4d pledging them with Mr. Atten: '.',k,''eftitlsilli,llltlhr...nker. The sums which he raised ...N (.0 r iu , , au him from time to time to take up . i , c,f tl ° di% ili ng bills, and by that means he expe ' ‘ t tl k , iN to l i ti hatitittitiltji3itn obtaining goods up to . t r he to . very e r 1, 4 14, the d ock °Y. About a month prior ,'htl w q • the abs e,t and filin g his petition the ho had ii •k 4„, ith Mr, elute sale of all the silk _ to i ' %pi .m r 'llect 'tZ• Attenborough, and when he came to it prison Z 4 1 4 cl th s . ° re the Bankruptcy Commissioners ti v 4h e , \ 4 kg "ati lt ; had not only lost 4,000/. or 5,0001.,) ',''iiiiitiel,a,i,h't()htlead t ransaction,: but that he had also tip y 4 , at eoni proceeds. of the sale, and the result '' t ro t , s creditor Paid a very insignificant dividend. 4 1k aitv:_a, thew , i4legs 1_• 4 !1? oh o . ore determined . to prosecute oods, not ,i,,7stpiiftitte,iat"ined Possession of their Yri t ,"tlio se 7, Purposes of his trade, but for the frau -11141 4 Of ` sr r aising mo on them, and hence h a th e r _ i _ney up 1 , P 4 cot I' esent indictment for misde '. 4 (1 4 lro nae need at the direction of Mr. L'°lll 1 Pt Yd. ti e 40eeti•ii,a,eantnoubtr: ka % a I gs i ft, bankruptcy put in as itoht sad aft , a ...e ~!11 1, Pria,) , , "wards one of the merchantswere who sup iri‘ It a ,"er with the silk was called to prove he k l l ti i t ' the r e t a i tad from his evidence that the prisoner V ( 414 1 , 1 ' 0 11 4,', 4 in the ordinary course of trade. in 4 - I ,ka t ' ll et of " t r i E asex was therefore at a loss i see n to retee ce ' i titi Act of Prisoner any active false pretence ro tktli., -Of t h,_ -. rarliament required to justify a P kik4,4841.1.4i1is nature. '. l ll ete s . TINE Contended that under the Act it Of ti kr eh ,1 4 rY to show any active false pretence. t .. • a ar i tr 4 ii i 4e pt,,V4aEllaort said the Act specified P present t' ‘ip,4sse„ Tam e, which did not appear to be itk.4litHii,io'•he prisoner had done nothing bmagar.reee ih l t, 4 0 W hich one of the prosecutors had a ,N ,, ,,` 5 ,4„ 4 , 1 , 4 •4N. r .,,, q•, , ki i - qo a 0,-::_t apprehended that if they restricted I tea t ' 'fle Act to actions of fraud, and n .ess. ; t .h l , ate h „ t ons of fraud, the Act would be usel to it t , 4 O a i: aa,igned here was that of appearing to 1h514.41(1,-Ptirntite trade, while, in point of fact, .. H: t tei: l 4 1iej, 1 41 .4 1 a very different e hing; for instance, it 1,, t ,,1i t ,,..Y g o , sh at if a man went into a shop h i,i,N,'`its it „-,(); and obtained credit „upon the false l ilii'' klth'rliversity student, it was hold to e w a ith belief a l; t 1 i P. s ugh the party might never have opened t , tti !Ilan ak, . L'llit.thEnsox said in that case there Parliament ari 1 4 1 14 4 q that'riere was none. The Act of on tie'ivll,, ttl ° Party should pretend to be carrying 1,;,tll to ea t ,; 11 !ri fact he was not. Now here the prisoner u o l iii tit hi tt , teo prosecutor to buy, but the prosee t t . e r i t ,4p, h t li g , t ° 8(41. What deception, then, could h i .iii % o.aLte Practised upon them? r44l%titt,j.'liTlNE insisted that the prisoner re l m a r i a n b e l d e ikt 4 ,. itig house uuder a false aad co ou tt;!tt l . ",,tlit', A T .,,, k,,`4 prs_gll ti,"-aalylowrirtax-No, ho was actually carry- Suppose a Orts t , ‘.. but take your own case. tAl t iat4 - a!lother whom ho finds in a university li c rl , h t tlitt % , ° , l .,.'°its him to purchase some goods?Noiwn t ,Ot i ''ilit other man be guilty of a false pretence ,mia ci k.M t, q its afterwards turning act of ac ll,tior.lt i% p l t .' e ° u hiversity whatever. Certaoinulty that n he N a s tha Posterous to suppose that the , a false k%. oods under such circumstances is l'i pill k (1 4 ALL f r the jury ,t l / 4 1 t-tei kIiTINE submitted that it was - 13 was or 4 a tie Lit st lcit w hether the conduct of the prisoner - I, l p, w h r .'ee, but there was another case aga l i d nst h t e te r 11,,,4cidilan, Perhaps, their Lordships well kk Qc in r ig the Po i nt t,, L4 o tt i l t lN witnTotheided that they . would, and a witness Ai, 4 4 , I Stated that he was a silk broker.atd On get the t rit ds 4i °ll t 4 " h 0 waited on the prisoner, ttii it an d 2 Purchase some silk for him (' li k ; !vit a „ ee• He obtained the silk at his request, from Messrs. tijiC,it tab in to the prisoner, who said he was going I, l ,tt, t ," P oss,4' trade of a silk manufacturer. IN I 't ail , analnation the witness admitted tha n t d t b h e e i,1: (1 told Pereiraes objected to take the silk, a ~L?titl'ciCt,,,ed him to take it. 4 th E t t v, 'cqi submitted that this was not an obtain- Ol t , a Act of false and colourable pretense contemplated obtain i4 ttt h• °I. Parliament• Here the prisoner was F a " 4 41 , , 4 ). fote,,ll legitimate trade,. and the goods weretTsbo; . 1 4 h ( 3 of I) 413 ° 11 him, while the fraud contemplated l k , lo hi arliatnent was that of a man te‘t, tk ollt to the rld as carrying on a particular k i , , 4 uoreby obtain Oak „iistieA d credit. who falsely 'r tii ' n'IoIiTBIAN said the difficulty rl' t ' oh !'l w aa %_. prl ,. 1 1 , 4 4 141 tem. It was contended that the 1 pow ad,. t ho goods wanting them for the purposesgoes which 4 4 4.,4 ti, a nd yet immediately afterwards he il 111 4 ( Lkii eill ' N with the ainosoig.ea that ho had a right to do what Malt. Oats. Flour. THE SUN, LONDON, Mr. Baron ALDEusoN said the Court was of opinion that thPrn was evidence to go to Oir jury in the last case of Fordarty, inasmuch as it a pp eared the prisoper gave the broker instruc'ioni to go and purchase the silk. for The Court at this point o f the iLgairy ad;V•urned refreshment. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) Esther Wyatt, a young woman of ladylike appear ance, surrendered to her bail to k tae her trial on a charge of felony, for stealin g a piece of soap about 2 lbs. weight, from a shop in Lloxton. The circumstances have already been before the public in the police reports, and attracted much attention at the time of the occur rence. The facts were clearly proved that the prisoner, whilst making a purchase of some a rticle y, s of c handler was observed to ta ke u p and secrete the piece of soap in question. The defence Bet 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 geetleman 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. Sho was also in tho habit of complaining of the dearth of necessaries in her husband's establish ment, the truth being that every necessary was supplied with an abundance becoming his position in life, which, Mr. Parry said, was of vi ry high respectability. Dr. ISiitlar, 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. 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 pers ons with the appearanc es of thin g s that their mothers had " longed for" or been frightened at. In 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 thia day.) MANCHESTER, 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-i have nch s hirtings, there is a little g iving way. Yarns been very dull, and the transac tions alto g ether incon siderable. IVith certain exceptions, there is a decline from the rates of last week, of id. 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 b 3 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 S 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 d' elat as favourable to the continuance of tranquillity. The advices from America, showing a decline of fully 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 t h e accounts of lower p rices 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. ltocunaLE, 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, SATURDAY.—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 seems to markets;assng away—as far at least as regards the corn enter upon operations, the general tone is somewhat firmer and healthier. In wools there is less doing, without any alteration in prices. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have no im provement to report in our market .languid, not ay, it con tinues much the same, business very l much doing to order. The shippers 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 bus t iness done b o th in the cloth h alls and by direct orders o eth manufacturers. Business continues dull in the warehouses ; 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. 11. Carter held an inquest at the Stone Porters public-house, Mill-street, Dockhead, on the body of Catherine Preston, aged 71 years. Thead, 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 facing the residence of Fagan the Jew, mentioned by Boz in " Oliver Twist." The .deceased was well known by the inhabitants, for whom she was in the daily habit of carrying messages and parcels, being very swift for her advanced age. On Saturiay last a female name d Ayres called to see the deceased, b u t could not make her hear. The door was forced open, and the deceased was discovered lying on the floor, with a coal-s the hov el re in her hand, as if she had f allen down while lighting fi. She was rais.d up, but expired in a few minutes afterwards. Verdict, Natural death." S T REET RAILWAYS FOR HORSE- TRAINS• A new project has been started, whereby it is proposed not only to centralise 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, white, 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 coursed o suit the railway stations, the gauge being the ordinary e able to railway carriages, by a modification in the construe tfon of which it is proposed to adapt them also fur street traffic when detached one by one, and driven off by horses from each station towards the centre, stations being set down a t least every q uarter of a mile along 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 lines 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 m A ore, merican cit it ies is , foun suc d h as New York , Philadelphia, and Balti where to be not only practicable, but 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 nosine, who had fled from Tours after com mittin g a robbery. A gendarme on duty at the terminus saw a rather suspicious looking woman alight from one of the carriages. lie addressedhimself to her saying," Where do you come from? " From hi near Blois." " What is your name?" " Marie Faucheux." She then walked on, but the gendarme following no !he "r, i The woman, n a few mi nutes ealled out in a low voice "Ri thrown off her guard, immediately turned round, when the officer said, " AUt ah. It is you I area in search of," and, ar resting her, took her to prison. DESIGN FOR THE GREAT EXHIBITION BUILD ING AT NEW YORIC.—A design, by Sir Joseph Paxton, for the intended Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations at Now 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 '6OO feet, and the breadth 200 feet. There ar e two entrances, one at each end, and the construction of the doorways is somewhat similar to that of the tra f nsisepto -e be tn trance to the Exhibition in Hyde-park. The roo 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 a nd the galleries will be supported by b ra ckets, which will add m aterially to the st ngth of re use er the building, and render it better adapted for pmanent than the "great original." The design is on sh e rd another ole re markable for its simplicity and pra cticability, proof of Sir Joseph Paxton's great skill in this department of art. CITY ORTHOPIEDIC HOSPITAL, HATTON-GARDEN. —At a meeting held yesterday at the above institution, the Rev. J. 11. Bastard, the hon. secretary, stated that the num ber of patients at present on the boo ks was 366, a nd 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. night T H E LATE GALE IN Scom AND• --Upwards of 1,000 trees , some of them very large a nd of g reat age, were blown down the gal i e of Sunday in the Duke of Argyle's g a y nd 1e policies s Mon a maotrlhnihvge.raryA, sloop and upwards (1 20 fishing-beats were driven ashore at 14onaw, 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. lltr E xc ellency i 3 still confined to the house. REPEATING" FIRE-ARMS. COLT'S REVOLVING PISTOLS. The opinion of some of tho-e 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 disieclivation 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 takes 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 of 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, 1850, 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—" It 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 done 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 cavalry 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 9-10th-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. 6oz. ; 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 liar 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 Ilatchee, 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. TESTIMONIAL 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.' 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. Roney'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 meminitso juvabit.' To CUSACK P. RONEY, D,Q (Late Secretary of theEa4tern Counties Railway), Thii Salver, with an accompanying Flower Vase, Was prescnted 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 rkgard 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 lion 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 Home-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yes terday for llalifax. Sir Henry De la Beche had an interview yester day with Secretary Sir George Grey. The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere left town yesterday on a visit to the Earl of Carlisle, at Castle Howard, Yorkshire. Lord Monteagle had an interview yesterday with Sir George Grey. Mr. Glyn, M.P., bad also an in terview with Sir George Grey, at the Home-office. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial cffice from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, the Governors of Malta, Ceylon, and Hong Kong ; the Governor of the Mauritius, 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 purpose of lecturing in it. llis orations in England, which have been so much praised, have been all delivered in the Italian. WEDNESDAY EVENING, SPIRIT ►►f ti►e PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM TOE MORNING PAPERS OF THII DAY. TIME conduct of the respective parties; into which the French nation was lately divided, until the events cf 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 nut, 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 en 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 ego. 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 cf his present supporters. The position of men ardently devoted to the great interests of their coun try, jealous of her dignity end 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, cn 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 rubbed 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 hes 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, aed 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 wham these acts can be attributed is M. de Montalembert's master, and on this specific ground be 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 off 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 Rome. 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 annoyance 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 althoug h it w as notorious that they had accepted the Repu blic 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 homage to the Republic in March, 1848, against their consciences, have no cause to withhold their allegiance to Louis Napoleon now. Out the attitude of the party is not hostile to the Government. The most strenuous exertions have been made by M. Berryer, M. De la Rochejaquelein , and M. De Fallou x to prevent the possibility of a Royalist insurrection in Britta ny , w hi c h would pro bably have been fatal to the cause. Two of the Con sells Gaeraux of the western departments appear to have had someintention of pr oc l a i m i ng e local Go vernment in the King's nam e . B ut these rash pro jects have been successfully di scourage d; and the Government, is in reality i n d e b ted to the Legiti matist chiefs for that specie s of indirect su port which has disarmed some of its o p ponents, .eithout, of course, admitting the validit y of i ts act i ons or passing an act of oblivion over its ill ega li t i es an d transgres sions. Their rule of condu c t i s to g i ve the Govern ment no positive support, but to oppose to it no im pediments. No doubt the policy of such a Govern ment as that which Louis Napoleon is seeking to found must be to rally, if possible, the adherents of the Monarchy and the l argest landoerners of the country to . his side. He will crush the Repub licans by military force ; he will persecute the constitutional Liberals by the tyranny of hit police and the extinction of freedom of speech; but he will cultivate the party most nearly allied to the traditions of absolute government. O n t h e s id e o f the Legiti mists, in spite of their vi gorous protes t aga inst the coup d , ctet, there may be a n op i n i on t h a t Loins Na poleon isworking . unconsciously for themselves; and that as his power is not of a nature to be easily trans mitted to a direct heir, th e natura l successo r V the authority he may re-establi s h i s t h e Ki ng o f France. The same illusion was common among the French in'gres 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 ioen• tilled with the restoration of those free institu tions which Bonapartism has destroyed ; and Vat when the short-lived mania for despotic govega ment has passed away, the rights of the Crovn 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 moat liberal of the Parliamentary chiefs, including, we be lieve, M. Odillon Barrot himself. It were scarcely reasonable to discuss contingencies so remote and un certain, if they did not serve in some degree to ex plain the motives by which men attempt to justify their acquiescence in a state of things otherwise so indefensible. The Ultra-Monarchical p ar ty consen t e d 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 th em on th e Re public, while he flatters their devotion for the Church and their preference for Absolutist alliances. But the 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 Govern men t. F or suc h 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 followed the 18th Brumaire. But such reinforcements are a source of weakness and contempt, rather than of strength and consideration. A few names of secondary 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 accounts 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 the 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 BO 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 DE CE M'l3 E,ll 17, 1851. all information, and under the terrors of martial law ; and by thi; he asks for diciatorial 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 Blontalembert, 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 bead 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 but the 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 therraand who laughed at the sufferings of the wounded. The " Socialists," as Count Alontalembert 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 Moats lembert, would make use of the Socialist bugbear to persuade people to set up and worship the idol of the Elys6e. The candid, the truth-loving Montalembert copies the Moniteur i❑ 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 Al. Dupin ; the seat of his property ; the scene of his influence. Have the past opinions and present treatment of Al. Dupin nothing to do with the insurrection of Clam6cy—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 be assignes for it, would be sufficient to divorce that Church, not merely from the support, hut even from the tolerance and respect of every party in the State. The Legitimist he divorces and disgusts. The Constitution be 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 excuse ; for if the Jews felt no love for state or coun try, it wee that state or country cared not for them. But for a Christian church thus to consider its in terest 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 Rear- Admiral Dundas, at the Admiralty yesterday : Captains 11. T. Douglas, J. Dalrymple, Hoy, Quin. Commanders R. Foster, J. Hope. Lieutenants D. Edwards, F. S. Tremlet, D. S. Partridge, F. Cutler, T. J. Young, G. W. Rabett, G. G. Phili pps, C . 0. B. Hall, C. W. Russell. Master G. A. Waters. Second Master 11. 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 (184 G) 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, the 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 long for their advancement whose services hare equalled, if they have not exceeded, those of Captain Patey, and who, having earned their step before Cap tain Patey, ought surely to have received the reward cf their good services before this lucky officer.— Hitrald. 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 11. W. Hire (1841) has been appointed senior of the Fury steam-sloop, at Woolwich, for the Mediterranean. Mr. IV. D. llaye has entered the navy as assistant surgeon of the Impregnable, 78, flag-ship at Devon. port, Clerks—John E. Stiles (1844) to the Impreg nable_; S. S. Boxer to the Britannia, 120, P o rt s 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 tte 6th instant a fire broke out at the Gallant Com modore's residence, when a great deal of property wss destroyed, and the life of the Commodore was placed in peril. The fire originated in the drawing rocm. 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 servants, 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. Hewlett took up his commission at Devonpurt, 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 for 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 the ne w appointment. IRELAND. TLTNESS OF TIM ItOMAN CATHOLIC DUBLIN, TEJEq)AY.—EOT some days past Dr. Cul ler), Roman Catholic Primate, has been suffering from a severe attack, which has confined him to bed. lie is now staying at the College of Sr,. Vincent, Castle knock, about three mil,s from Dublin ; but so much weakened by illness that he has been unable to attend to any acti ve d ut i es. There have b een meetings of the Itamun 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 them. TIIB RIBBON SYSTEM IN ULSTER.—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 Act, the Government are empo were d to proc laim disturbed districts, and place an additional police force at the expense of the ratepayers in the locality. This has already been done in some parishes, including that in which the revolting murder of Mr. Bateson 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 th e ev id ence of persons ' who witnessed the attack on the deceased gentlern al The Armagh Gazette mentio ns th a t th ose men, wh en discovered by the police, were engaged in packing up to emigrate to America. They had been tried on a charge of Ribbunism at the last spring assizes of Monaghan, hut were acquitted. In the portion of tins 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 as.dms 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 CAACER 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, IVestminster. 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 AOTORIOUS 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 dots 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, havir'g been convicted several times before the Lord Mayor, and he joined a gang of thieves and burglars whose depredations continue 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 subs( quent 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. Me 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 had 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 of the goal one Sunday evening, during the performance of Divine service, have already appeared before the public. Large rewards were offered for his capture, hn a oo n tw d teo t v b eb e re, p o tf l ho i u c a e tn dh s c .e o s u oT r u e hg d ehr t teh refugee is c o e u v n e t ra r yt y a r r o he u ao s n uo d sne , b to llt su h s e pe w c a t s , laise some ad por tioninthoefntehigehpbroisuornhocolodthoifnTghwamasefso-ustnrdee. t, pre viously become acquainted with a young woman, who is stated to b e respecta b ly connected, W an o db n y , some mysterious manoeuvring air companion wasgot to Liverpool, and w i t h hi s f • set downsa il for N ew York. On reaching that divest himself of his old vicious habits. He asso ciated himself with the mo s t d e t erm i ne d c h a racters, and event ua ll y h e was apprehended, with another party, for breaking into a gentleman's house, and carrying off a l arge amount of plate. He was l o d ge d in the N ew J ersey gaol, detained l ong b efore he tr i ed hi s s kill up o n the that establishment. security ofand there he had not been 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 discove red secreted in a dark remote recess, in one of the outer passages of the prison. He had contrived to arm hi oa 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 he met (with, and who would offer him the lest, oh.. stacle. The sudden discovery of his fiight and detse tion, however, seemed to have thrown him off his original intention, and surrounded and seizA as he was by the warders, he was p revente d putt i ng i n execution his murderous cksignF. With his confede • rate ho was inure duly Lit , cur d, and shortly afterwards they were tried for the burglary, and sentenesd to twelve years' imprisonment. A lengthened iwprison ment in an American gaol is described as of the most dreadful character. It surpasses all our horrible system of dark cells, solitary confinement, and other shocking sufferings of priion discipline. liackett'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 as an accessary, but in the information sent no men tion is made of her fate. TESTIMONIAL TO MI? GRINNELL. The contemplated ter,timunial to Mr. Henry Grin. nell, of New York, is a mark of respect and gratitude most worthily due to his truly noble exertions ou behalf of our missing countrymen in the expedition under Sir John Franklin. It will be remembered that the American Executive having found itself unable to redeem the promise made in 1849 to our own Govern ment (in reply to the appeal addressed by Lady Franklin to their President), that two ships should be sen t in search of Sir John Franklin, Mr. Grin nell stood forward to carry out this intention by hit own individual exertions. lie purchased and com pletely equipped two vessels for the search, the officers and m en being provided by the American Government, these vessels, in order to secure the advantage of martial l aw ; es is well known, were di-patch e d to Barrow Strait last i spr i ng, an d , after g advancing as far west as the rest of the searching ships, returned to New York for the winter. With what zeal and effi •the officers themselves and men em ployed acquitted erency emselves of their duties, will be seen from the President's go which we publish th elsewhere, i n which inessa- 1 , f is h rbl eir gall , 0n 0 .1.1 a y recognised as a fitti ng subject for "au act or grace and generosity." It is scarcely more in war ledgment o f a d ee d which is, RI and a d m i r i n g ackeow•s the p romo t e rs of the testimonial justly assert, without tory, than in gra tit u d e for the lately uttered b y a pu bli c meeenerous sentiment BO " May th e searc h for Sir John ingF at New York — abandoned until hi s rescue be effectereill nklin never be as certained !"—that we desir e t o see th , is tribute to th e or his fate munificent ben evo l ence o f an individual carried ou t in a manner worth y o f t h e country and th 4 e. cause. FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE Yesterday, between th e h ours of twelve and fatal firo took placer in the vicinity o f W hit echapel °42 . s j a the extreme end of a narrow passage, called Bull's_ court, on the north side of High- s t reet , near Osborne-- street corner, stood some old dilapidated premises, occu pied by a man named Lacy, a carpenter, as workshops, lle was an old man, nearly 80 years of age, and w as i t , the habit of occasionally sleeping in the place. Late oa Monday night he was seen at a neighbouring public house, and on leaving took up his quarters fur the night in the lower part of his shop. IN ithin an hour after wards some : son ‘ in the court were awoke by Cris "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 m id st o f i t, una bl e t o ex tr ica t e himself, and his cries, " For God's sake, pull me out, I am burning ; oh, save me!" were lung and protracted; but, on account of the intense heat and overwhelming smoke, it was impossible to save the unhappy sufferer. Several persons who were on the spot, and whom he called by name "to save him," made desperate effortsto do so. O ne actually penetrated the burning building to such an extent a s t o reach him, but found that he was lyingin , such a positio n as to be utterly unable to move him. 'I he party nearly lost his life in the attempt,. for, before ho could regain the passage, ho m e t w ith s evere burns about the fac e an d 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. ROY AL MILITARY ACADEMY. WoomytcH, 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. 13., 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 11.3 a 1 Engineers. Amongst the officers present to witness the exami nation were Lieutenant-General Sir Charles William Pasley, Royal Engineers ; Major-General F. Campbell, superintendent of of the Roy al Military Repository; Colonel Gordon, inspector of the Royal Carriage department ; Glom , ' W. B. Dundas, C. 8., inspector of Artillery ; Lieutenant-Colonel Ilardinge, K. 11., director of the Laboratory ; Lieutenant- Colonel Portlock, Royal Engineers, inspector at the Royal Military Academy ; Major Savage, Royal Artillery, assistant inspector , Captain F. Dudley Wilmot, of the Cadet Company; Captain Williams and Captain Bainbridge, Royal Engineers ; Captain Talbot, Captain Boxer, and Captain Anderson, Royal The gentlemen cadets of the practical class were examined in surveying and fortification by Lieute nant-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 : Al:red George Goodall, John Mervin Cutcliffe Drake, Edward Kens ward, Charle s Willi am T ownsend, Thomas Bland Strange, Francis Lyon, Markham Le Fer Taylor, Raynsford Cytherus Longley, Edward Keate, Thomas Wright Biakiston, Arthur Lister Kaye, Jones Julius Smith, Eardley Maitland, Mau rice Edward Covey Stocker, William Arnold Bur rowes, John Larduer Clarke, Algernon Purling Joy, henry Thornhill, Arthur Thornton Gratwick Peanut, Thomas Priaulx Carey, William Francis Walker. Lieutenant-General Sir John F. Burgoyne, after congratulating the gentlemen cadets who had passed, presented the following prizes to the respeetiva reci pients, who came forward to Le Board table to re ceive them : Raynsford Cytherus Longley—a regulation sward, for exemplary conduct while at the institution ; H. Thornhill being next in merit. Alfred George Goodhall—A telescope, for profi ciency 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—Latnartine's " Histoire," for proficiency in French. Mr. Pears next in merit. Charles William Townsend—A selection of books for proficiency in German. Mr. 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, for first-class mathematics. Mr. Law next in merit. Mr. Wrottesley—A prismatic compws, for second class mathematics. Mr. Stirling next in meri t. Mr. Cuthbert—A sel ec ti on o f b ooks, for thrd and fourth class mathematics. Mr. Edwards—A selection of books, fo r first•clase fortification. 11Ir. Moore next in merit. Mr. Stirling—A. selection of second clue fortification. Mr. Dumarisq next c3 in) for Mr. Light —A selection of books,nfoerxtfirinsimaenrdits•- cond class French. Mr. Sewhle Mr. M'Donnell—A selection of books books, for !bird and fourth cl ass F rench. Mr. Heneker next in merit. 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 fourth German. Mr. M‘Donnell neat in merit. Mr. M i Donnell—A selection of historical and geo graphical works, f o r History and Geography. Mr. sicott next in merit. Mr. O'Grady—A selection of books, for military plan drawing and sketching. Mr. Somerville next in merit. fir , W. Eden—A selection of books, for fifth room landscape drawing. Mr. O'Grady next in merit. Mr. Hall—A selection of books, for sixth room landscape drawing. Mr. Bayley next in merit. Mr. Stirling obtained the first prize, lir. R ensa u the second, and Mr. Macquay for the third and fourth classes of descriptive geometry. DIAROLICAL MURDER., --011 Saturday last some person or persons cut the rope of a pit called 'Will Vaughan's Pit, at Red Lake, li.etley, add when the overlooktrs were going down, with a boy, just aft er t h ey were let down a little way, the rope (which had been cut) broke, and they were precipitated to the bottom. One of them, named Thomas Hard, was killed almost instantaneously. The other Inn John Pritchard, was taken out of the pit alive, but d i r almost directly after. The poor boy, named Thomas 11 %, 1 f 1 L was taken home alive, but lingered in pain till nign n ha y. death put an end to his sufferings. The unfortunate men neigh. left wives and families, and were well respected L" left a mourn bourhood ; and the sorrowful ,circumatance ?_s-2 11sti ,, r , inquest ful impression in the whole locality. On B l 2_TP l e i ttsbe d , mossy . - was held before Mr. h. D. Newill,at th , : i lv s :.. cuourned till this green, to inquire into the case, which yards from the end, day. The rope was cut about eleven fifty-three yards, the unfor tunate the depth of theprecipitated to a depth of forty-two yards tunate men were diabolical act have not yet beta pit bong The perpetrators . of this . traced.—Shropshire Comervattve. , .4 3 e ye ter; 'oat 3d° 4 04 1 0 4 bl 7