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~....... D 041`1. I fOr r°69. [3 l4 ' a Pt* sg $4l. e e ll rerket teer ming; o ir e joys - • ,50 A oc t Sur 6l6 . Wine° ofoc toP bod t" I ,gfour• hi , 0 8 „o ly f stit, I es dßi;if . oCli' 'CI, o e g g, ,cf, 041,4 ss"' LITERATURE. PUBLIC HEALTH. A Popular Exposition of the Advantages and Benefits to be Derived from the Adoption of the Public Health Act, 1848: and Showing its Noninterference with Local Self government By Afred A Wallbridgc. Mr. Wallbrid,ge has condensed, into twenty four 12mo, pages all the essential enactments of the Public Health Act of 1848, which, in Mr. Wall bridge's pa m phl e t, b ecomes , in consequence of being divested of the absurd verbiage under which the drawers.up of Acts of Parliament are wont to smother the meaning of the Legislature, a really under standable production. We recommend this admirable re B ttrqe to the study of all those who wish to really Understand the meaning of one of the most importan` atatutes that ever passtd the British Legislature. 2 E SPINE : its Curvatures and other Diseases, their Symptoms, Trratment, and Cure : to which are added some Remarks on Pararysis. By Charles Verral; Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Surgeon to the Hospital for the Cure qf Distortions, Portland-road, Regents-park, and the Sea Bathing Infirmary at East- Bourne ; Fellow of the Medical ,Society of London; and late House- Surgeon to the Asylum for the Treatment of Spinal Deformities. Churchill. 8 elf Mr. Ch ar l es V erra l h as f or man y years devoted him to the study of spinal complaints. His late father, Under whose superintendence he studied, was long considered by the profession as one cf the highest "Qthorities or. these subjects ; anti his inventions have l ong been a d m i tte d to b e o f t h e hi g he s t service in the cure of curvatures and of other deformities ; these in ventiona have been perfected by Mr. Charles Verral, Whose mode o f t rea t men t has for years past met With the greatest success. This volume contains the re_ sults of hii ex[ erience and of that of his father in . these ;_ctoplaintt and is, therefore, most valuable to the pro -8 11 from Whilst as the ' authentic record of an extended experience, , st the easy and perspicuous style in which it written, snd from the studious avoidance of that greatest of all h um b ugs, me di ca l pe d an try, it is well adapted SITh to the perusal o f the non-professional reader , cannot fail to understand and to appreciate the Princoipl th e ea' physiological and mechanical, on which • ultde of treatment adopted by Mr. C- Verral based. ALMANACS FOR 1852. rPIR FINE ARTS ALMANAC FOR 1852.. Artahl, the third annual impression of the " Fine d eep Almanac" is a great improvement upon its pre ssors; it now fully justifies its second title, ...I,:hee Artists' ItEmembranccr," and is entitled to ""ii rank among the very first of the first-rate class Rleunacs, 41- k r -RE LL'S PERFUMED ALMANAC FOR 1852. ex Tl3 is is the third year of the appearance of this citusite bijou of an almanac, which is equally tt ree able to th e s i g ht an d t o the smell; printed on m; s moothest of satin, and, ex h a ling the odours of a bY the Bl est, i t i s a most ap p ro priate cadeau to itti a a lc i s i to a l a d y . Th e Al manac for 1852 is of a er size th an i ts pre d ecessor , s o that it will fit de ° pOcket-bOOk ' • and, encouraged by the greatt (I t We perceive that ' Mr. Kimmel has also di oiled the price. - - NKING ALMANAC AND DIREC TORY FOR 1852. to e 13anking Almanac for 1852" fully maintains .. t o a 'f. s n character of its predecessor, and, in addition bi re puking Directory, contains a Parliamentary be f o c Y and a Life Assurance Director. It shou d und every counting-houle in the kingdom. wEp oc , TER'S ROYAL RiiiBOOK. 1852... that oat Me ssrs. Kelly are to London life generally, Of it are Messrs. Webster to that prominent fraction so is denominated fashionable life. What westr information the denizen of Belgravia or of b the t O m ' e nd may require concerning the whereabouts p or ) of his social cotemporaries, or of that of the 1,4417_134 Ambassadors or Consuls, or eoncerrong or army or navy agents, or hotels or clubs, b s hould find i " Webster's Royal Red Book," whic be he v ` de of every London Flaneur. -- -- kr PRINCESS'S THEATRE, l'r • Charles Kean has done well to revive The on .-1 7 h ‘-' nea - "La tl • The character of Sir Edward Mortimer_ . Sir i x , c 9 The to his peculiar powers ; it was * " the eyes and Mortimer that he first found favour in b e 0 ° F a London audience, and it still continues to In hislle of the greatest characters in his repertoire. delineation of the haughty, proud aristocrat, boredii..._:yhdairsn beneath the weight of an unrevealed crime,su. Kean's acting not unfrequentlyris®s to out the There is something terrific in those sudden ito n the uvSan the flashing of his dark eye as he fixed o tar t ' retchd, shrinking Wilfred, produced an involun -1,4_ ah_ udder , in those who witnessed it ; his make up fe et 1117114141 :n n5 er irab le' and, taken as a whole, his Sir Edward of _last evening may be considered as a pdeerd duritrtformance. He was repeatedly applauded on at tbo g the Course of the evening, and was ca itidi e • e "clusion. The incidental music has been ma _teuslyoroitted ;it had nothing to do with plot,theh t aot'eedaused the piece to drag. Mr. J. F. Cathcart he i s t he part of Wilfred with true artist-like feeling ; I-/ . °lle of the most promising of our young actors. ac ie , eharaJt as Sampson, was deliciously quaint ; the other ue foli e ,,, et "s were well supported. The pantomt i th e ad , and was, as it deserved to be, zieveria • It is quite a modal pantomime ; the fu t. a pplauded to "Ts. The house was crowded in eve ry par Oe ler O LYMPIC THEATRE. ei t ri , h t -i ' er c nci c ay evening Miss Julia Glover, a grand" re the late celebrated actresq, made d he s r . tine al the above theatre, as Fanny, in The C i lan r e e. Pots e , lslrr iage• Hera ppearance is remarka h b e y reads p With : la gi her deportment lady-like, and s feeling. Of course she is as yet defi -01:143, ient;)enatnd stage tact and confidence which are bor e n . Publi c ef I ° o g experience, and reiterated assurancest_ this eeemiesYmpatlay ; but yet, though labouring . ohn thehi 'up roar .° under considerable trepidation, (I %btl e llB etetalirlie a' proceedings of a Christmas holiday audience lq• sa tended to increase, merits were apparent,. r Glover's performance of a sufficiently e ome g nature to justify the belief that she may_ , b . e_- . tioß,,Y,erthy, at no very distant period, of the mils apprned name she bears. In celebrating the il ogaachable excellences of Mr. Farren's Lord exo,„K , aii terms since the fetne mq f ied b. of eulogy have been long c ,„ L 46 although we can add nothing to his ti e p tc l .ii i h r m r rare old ---) which is but in the bud, stands in need t man," the reputation of 4.t. " the encouragement which criticism can justly en li b i s e t ,; and we are therefore much gratified in i ti ond " t° record that his delineation of Lovewellemoan. te r i a p 4 Y night, furnished evidence of his baying a ma very 'Y improved in his art. Mrs. Phillips gave. azartshpirited and intelligent version of Miss Stirling, The ~ e c omedy was otherwise creditably performeadh ito na raotneaim e of Red Rufus bid 3 fair to become an the ,ense favourite:; every night since its prodßchiis is 40 , !louse has been crowded to suffocation. T so e '.." ) be wondered at when the great beauty prod 9, or the careful manner in which itbeen has of the to all is for one moment considered. In addition hst 0 2 11 this, the Olympic boasts of one of the Nothing fl e g ie l g ish dancers in the metropolis. im. bi ns, xeeed the gracefulness of Miss Lees, as Co u ... :"; of t : e ance of style and brilliancy:of finish with t ioe `co kiss Louise Coleman leads one of the prettiest Nehi:',_r Polkas we have yet seen. The perfection fair t o both these young ladies have arrived bids , Mak e uerf o i them especial favourites. won elicit performancts of the Clown, Mr._ The w Edwards,on- tert o ; " rapturous applau, and b ro ught the en. ' l3lll ents t o a jovial cseonclusion. PA' bf / 0 10 01i ' . ‘‘.., 1 0 4 10,4, PO RTING li u RTING INTELLIGENCE. eaET TING AT MANCHESTER. ^TUESDAY. 1 kJ:, ti n' s ," Cur.. -40 to 1 agat Black Doctor (t), 40 to eb t ",figleader (t 45 to 1 agst Nancy (t), 50 to 1 Kn o i. b t ,, ( In Knoll ( t), nothing else backed. —14.---1,000 to 43 agat Orolis (t). Th e f • na nt a „ !lend s a Lord Palmerston are very indig rlltllollTB are cer`rols abrupt dismissal from office, and various Cabin Af ell e as to the results it is to rodnce upon the bri er „ ,7 It is understood that Lord Palmerston means to tvh e b Las whole matter before Parliament, and some persons a n Profess to be well informed assert, that, to . avoid such . to th e Ward event, Lord John Russell will resign previous Of ad+ event of the session. For ourselves,. we l are to eiv.ktroieren.t. opinion. We believe that Ministers will cmg that until the latest possible moment; but it is clear Veh e . 'Lie days of the Government are . numbered, and, t en b ,te L ver you go, that is the opinion of nine persons out of der,^oorn you meet. —Herald. ;R ON THE YORKSHIRE BANK.—We un balliai'd that several forged notes, purporting to be of this Th 2; Were put in circulation in Leeds on Wednesday last. iorg e d notes are dated at Doncaster, Dec. 4, 1850, disci e , 4 n• Cooper, and entered Robert Stockil, and are easily . en,„"g!'ishable from the genuine ones. owing to defect in te r i n v , Ts the capital German text "Y," _the very first let " note, in which the lowest stroke of that letter, ha„usleft hand side, and the uppermost en the right Ire omitted altogether. ' The numbers of such notes 244 r 6 , 4v e ap B,peared are various, but are composed of the figures an d five figures being used in instance. —Leeds eury. Lo_ oterday FAT AL RAILWAY ACCIDENT DURING THE FOG. LZ'tis,l.neer-stoker. an inquest was held by Mr. W. Baker, a ., t the naspital, on the body of James Burnett, aged -4, an The deceased was in the service of the iller'n,_n Counties Railway Company, and on Wednasday . Whi ct l i ng, while in charge of a train heavily laden with coals "gent, : . .vere being conveyed from Blackwell basin to the eri g i n ;'ent station at Barking, the deceased stepped off the th e ti 7,?la to the tender, when he by some means fell over very few of the carriage across the rails. The morning was diseovY, and when the train was stopped deceased was th e kneed fearfully mutilated,the right leg being cut offnear fiv e : a e, and the right arm fractured. There were twenty esitatd gg°s, the w h o l e of which passed over him. Da tpir, was c onveyed to the L on d on h os pital, where he Clami i :;: shortly after his admission. Verdict—" Accidental TUE SUN, S i lIiIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING FAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.-It is surprising that a body of men so intelligent as that Of which our engineering trades are composed should fisrna such a mistaken estimate of things around them as to conceive that they are able to dictate the terms on which their labour should be employed. Their attempt i s utterl y ho p eless. It may do serious injury to the manufacturers, and will infallibly bring misery and ruin upon themselves ; but it most certainly can never abolish overtime or piecework, nor circumscribe the use of machinery. On the contrary, its immediate tendency will be to stimulate those very practices of which the workmen complain, and if the ultimate result be not the de struction of the trade altogether for the benefit of the foreigners, it must be something which would be little less detrimental to the interests of the opera tives. Let us suppose that a strike of this sort is re solutely carried out on both sides. The men cease working at a particular factory, and all other fac tories of the district, in self-defence, turn out their hands. Some thirty firms will thus hare their business suspended, and some 30,000 mouths will be deprived of bread. What follows next ? Each party is endeavouring to force the others to terms; but what is the relative power of their resources ? The workmen can do literally nothing but what they have already done. Their means of action are con fined to simple inaction. They subsist for a time upon funds which were provided, not against this con tingency, but against sickness or destitution, and when these funds are exhausted they must either starve, beg, seek some new trade, or return to their work on just such terms as the exasperated masters may offer. The manufacturers, on the other hand, are few in number, possessed of a large aggregate capital, and compelled by the instincts of self-preservation to be inflexible in their purpose. They may be ruined by the stoppage, but they know they must be ruined by con cessions which would destroy the independence of contract between the employers and the employed. As a mere question of endurance, it is certain they could outlast the men, for the damage to their business would be mitigated by a common understanding and forbearance. But, though the question is one of en durance simply with the men, it is not so with the ma nufacturers. The men eon do nothing hut sit idle and consume their savings, for they have only one capacity, and their plan consists in making this capacity unavailable. The masters, however, do a great deal more. Instead of sitting idle, they apply all the powers of experience, co mbination, and capital, both to mo dify their presenedifficulties and to provide against such emergencies in future. They first look about for fresh hands, and, if all the skilled workmen are included in the strike, they endeavour to create others. They take men from other trades, perhaps from other countries, and, by dint of pains and expense, they soon make them such workmen as they want. The conse quence of this proceeding is, that the number of skilled hands is largely increased, and all the evils of competition increased too. What the trades complain of at this very moment is the glut of labour, and this glut they will make heavier than before. Already the demand for labour is so much greater than the supply that it is described as a grievance when one workman, by means of over time or piece-work, gets more than his share; and what, then, is it likely to become when 50 or GO per cent. has been added to the number of opera tives in the trade ? This was the very fault com mitted by the e ngine-drivers on railways. They presumed on the rarity of their skill and on the small number of procurable hands. They reckoned, therefore, on coercing their employers by a general "strike," but the end was that recruits were picked up from all quarters, and drilled to the trade, so that by and by the employers of engine-drivers had just twice as many men to choose from as before. But this is not all. When manufacturers are thus left in the lurch by their men, they become naturally eager to provide against such desertions for the future; and they turn to machinery. Machines will work day and night without tiring or complaining. Machines never "strike," and never refuse to perform their duty. Already a vast amount of manual labour has been superseded by machinery, and what if the system could be carried further ? How convenient would it be if everything could be done by these arms of iron, and the troublesome element of humanity reduced to a mere nominal figure ! These are the natural re flections of manufacturers at a and what tal is the consequence ? Why, all the resources of capi Pa tience and ingenuity, are em p lo y ed to devise some new machinery; some instrument which will do the work of fifty bands with the supervision of one. The machinery of our office—that machinery which in its effects has been little less than a second discovery enof the art of printing—originated in the impulse giv to science and enterprise by the unreasoning combi nations of artisans. Already the amalgamated trades are complaining of the use of machines, which dis pense with the e mployment of skilled hands, and yet they have entertained a project which must infallibly set people thinking how skilled hands may be dis pensed with still further. Is not this a sheer act of suicide ? Besides, apart from all these improbabili ties of success, cannot the workmen see that success wou ld only prove their own destruction? Suppose the the power of dictating, or, at any rate, of control ling the scale of wages by considerations totally dis tinct from the state of the labour-market, the condition of trade, and the returns of the commodity produced —suppose not only the day's wage, but the amount and quality of the work to be pertorrned, were regu lated by a council of workmen, without any respect to the profits accruing from the transaction—what would be the result ? This appears, in reality, to be the society's " executive," and what consequences are to follow ? Do not the workmen see that the whole case of their employment is a bargain ; that is to say, an arrangement to which there are bargain can e made and no employment occur? The ultimate ob ject, we will say, is the production of a certain article in iron, which is to be sold at a rate producing profit, and it is a portion of this profit which constitutes the workman's wage. Without profits there can be no wages, for there is no o ther source f r om steps w ich wages are to come. If, therefore, a re taken as will destroy profits, or sensibly reduce them, or render it an impossibility o r loss, there t o calculate on either profit w ill be no inducement to the bargain, and no person will invest his capital in the employment of machinists or engineers. The workmen seem to imagine that there must always be persons impelled to employ ironsmiths by considerations like those which compel ironsmiths to s eek employment. B this is not the case. If ironsmiths could succeed in conquering ironmasters, the result would be, not that ironsmiths would get their own terms, but that iron smiths would never be employed at all. Unless all the artisans of all countries of the world entered into a " solidarity," we should be supplied with manu factures from that State where masters and men were allowed to make their contracts independently. We have discussed this question on abstract grounds, be cause, in point of fact, the particular points now contested are but of secondary importance. As a matter of , opinion, we do not think that overtime and piecework have been shown to constitute such grievances as Mr. W. Newton would make out, and we regret to say that we ob serve strong reasons for believing that these demands are only the forerunners of a pure Socialist code. But, whether the " Council" means right or wrong, it is plain that the masters could not yield without permit ting an entire social revolution. Concession would transfer to the employed a power which the nature of things lodges on the employers, and this change would of itself destroy all the considerations by which capital is attracted to trade. The alternative may occasionally be hard for the men, but it is unavoidable. They must rely for the security of their fair rights on the interest of the masters to keep things smooth, and on the opera tion of that opinion which does not tolerate any reme diable wrong. In this position they would have the sympathies of the public, but their present attempt suggests nothing but indignation against the dupers and pity for the dupes. POST.—We do not wonder that a morning con temporary, through whose columns the coup d'itat in Lord John Russell's Cabinet, and the grounds;on which it had been struck, were exclusively and officially pro claimed to the world, has already manifested an eager anxiety that his readers should forget all he was in structed to say on Wednesday last. He would now be considered only as a recorder of events—" a teller of the history of the times in his own way." He will enter into no " disputation"—none ! If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, he would not render one to any antagonist so superfluous as to demand it. The public must decide; and if the public will only be sensible enough to be guided by him, it shall be saved the trouble of thinking, and an exceedingly pretty judgment on the care shall be pronounced in its name—and so, no more ado. It is a pity that our wise contemporary should already have deviated so far from the course which be thus complacently prescribes to himself. Had he simply " told the history of the times," without de bate or controversy about the matter, his chapter of (what he admits to have been) the coup d'etat, would, setting forth as it did the Miniateriel act and the Ministerial explanation, would have been followed by "the most correct and independent judgment which he could form " upon the proceedings of the Cabinet, and there an end. " o:hers," no doubt, might have disputed " his conclusions, and time might have disproved " them ; but what then—if " others and " time " were so unreasonable as to decide against him—es the philosopher said—so much the worse for "others " and for " time." But wmw a n aie d tyahn. t o, o s,u bt l e eT a a v i e eyt et Ministers i e uinnbg h i ss e eth r ge o i rsu e ste s onwr o ty : then, to give a story exactly as it happens, oi a i n t l e t h e o t e mfo rp wouldotr their er iyr b , g y orogw e ann o rouoasrsteipcoheonia.nsmkt, for themselves, WEDNESDAY THE BELPER MURDER. APPREHENSION OF THE CULPRIT. BELPER, TUESDAY MORNlNG.— lmmediately after our report left Belper last evening, the murderer, Turner, was captured near to his own house. The following are the particulars :—A young man named George Jackson, who lives in Belper-lane, about a quarter of a mile from Turner's house, met the latter as he was coming in the direction of Wirkswortb, about half-past seven in the evening. He felt confi dent it was Turner, and he walked briskly up to him. Upon seeing him do so, Turner got on the shady side of the road, so: as to be out of the reflection of the moon, which was shining very bright at the time. Jackson wished Turner "good night," as he sus pected he was the man. Turner made no reply, but went on as fast as he could, and on arriving at the end of the lane, he jumped over a high wall, and ran across the fields. Jackson then hastened to a public-house near at hand, called " The Owl Inn," which is kept by a man named Winson, and told the inmates that he bad seen Turner. Jackson then hastened on to Belper, and called at the lock-up; but Superintendent Wragg was not at home. He then went on to the town office, where he arrived about five minutes past eight. From there he went to Mr. Sims, Tiger-inn, Belper, where he found the Belper constables. He told them what he had seen, and the pursuit was planned. Wragg and S. Taylor, two of them, went up Bel per-lane towards Turner's house. When they arrived near to Turner's house in Lane-end they met a young man named Watson, who told them that Turner had taken refuge in his mother's house close by, and they were afraid of harbouring him. The two constables went into the house together, and on seeing them Turner retreated up stairs, and made an attempt on his life by cutting his throat with a common table knife, but the wound was a very slight one, a constable having struck him a blow on the arm before he had time to do himself much injury. He was immediately se cured, and Mr. Pym, magistrates' clerk, just then coining up in a light cart, he was put into it and con veyed to Belper lock-up, %here he arrived at ten o'clock, an immense mob being there to witness his arrival. The populace yelled and shouted until he had reached the interior of the building. Two of the Belper constables remained with him about two hours, and a third one stopped with him all night. He was very talkative. Our reporter learnt that since the murder was committed, Turner has said be is not sorry for what he did, only he thinks it will be such a shock and disgrace to his wife and adopted child for him to be publicly executed. He would not have done it if Mrs. Barnes had not given him the dis charge from collecting the rents, on Saturday last. On being conveyed to the lock-up on. Monday night, he met a man who has succeeded him as collector of rents, and he is stated to have said to him, "If I had met you, I should have murdered you. I am an honester man than you, though a murderer." We un derstand he expressed himself pleased that he did not kill Mr. Bannister. He was very tired when cap tured, and had evidently walked a number of miles ; he was perfectly calm and collected after his arrest. LONDON, on Wednesday last required him, indeed, to play the exact notes set down for him. It was a painful task, but he must submit. He gave, accordingly, "for that time only," the whole piece as it was composed, without omitting a semitone in the production. It was a sad failure. Universal astonishment and dis approbation were expressed with a most disagreeable emphasis. But the artist was nothing disheartened. Ile set to work with his own variations, and so changed both the theme and the expression that the authors themselves would never have recognised their own work. To leave the figure of speech, our contemporary, not satisfied with the reasons which the Cabinet had assigned for their own coup d etat (and, Booth to say, his dissatisfaction was Lot without sense and judgment), proceeded, in his zeal, to coin new ones of his own, which might have been somewhat plausible had they not been flatly contradicted by well known and simultaneous facts, and, above all, by the authorised statement itself, in defence of which he affected to adduce them. Almost the entire press repudiated his invention as irrelevant. The " history" was discussed as it was given, and his interpolations and additions were pointed out by our selves and others, only as being untrue, and so, as having nothing to do with the question. It was quite unnecessary to enter into any controversy upon the subject, or subjects, of the numerous, and varied, and incongruous allegations with which we have been favoured from day to day, as each furnishing the reason why her Majesty's Ministers deemed it prudent to " endanger the foreign inte rests of the nation at a time so unusually critical." Those allegations were not only not hinted at in the official explanation, but they were directly in contradiction to every word of it. If Lord Palmerston was " sacrificed " (yes, " sacrifice" is the word), as the announcement of Wednesday told us, to please the " elder statesmen of Europe," who, it seems, had signified that they regarded Lord Pal merston with " degree of distrust and hostility," because he would not be their " ally " and their " friend," surely that same "sacrifice" would not be made, because the noble Viscount did not " suspend diplomatic relations" with the Government of a neighbouring country, which had not offended us. One reason might have been as absurd, though not so un-English as the other. But when both are given out, the one on official, the other avowedly on news paper authority, we may be ' excused if we believe that assigned by the Ministers for their own conduct as being the true one. Now, this is all that we have done. We have not at all troubled ourselves or our readers with the lucu brations of our contemporary on their own merits. We have been at pains simply to disembarrass the great question under public consideration of their en cumbrance. We have held up, and we shall continue to hold up, to the indignant reprobation of all loyal men, the monstrous fact, plainly stated in the offi cially authorised announcement of Wednesday last, that foreign Ministers—" the elder statemen of Eu rope," had been permitted to dictate to the Crown of England the " sacrifice" of its ablest responsible adviser. Upon this point we join issue—not with a newspaper, but with the Government, who must answer to Parliament and to the public for having be smirched the honour of their country with so foul a stain. We are not surprised that our con temporary is ashamed of his case, and throws up his brief. It is nothing wonderful that he would like to " tell the history in his own way," or to abandon the task of telling it altogether. But the public is interested in having the truth kept before them ; and for our own part, we shall not be deterred from pre serving it intact, notwithstanding the efforts of the most accomplished " story-teller" going. But there is something of the sublime in the bold and daring made of " story• telling" which our morning contem porary so happily describes as " his own way." He pursues his thundering career over prostrate consis tency, logic, and fact, in a style which mingles something of amusement, and even of admiration, with our regret for the havoc he spreads around him. He cares nothing for the destruction of his own case, or that of his client—if he can but make noise enough to sustain his reputation as a thunderer, it matters nothing to him if his " effect" of the day be produced by a " thundering " fact or a " thundering" fiction. The public know " his way," and he does little harm by all the marvellous " histories" which he exemplifies it by telling. But this species of excellence cannot be successfully imi tated. Our evening contemporary, the Globe, should by all means eschew it. Instead of admiration, his laborious efforts produce laughter only, and, in this case, contempt to boot. He too, forsooth, would smite with his tiny curse the lofty name of which Sir Robert Peel, in the last words he addressed to Parlia ment, said our " country was proud." But a few days ago, and none so forward as this same Globe to applaud, with what force he might, the statesman and the policy he now decries; so much, in his judg ment, is the difference between out and in. He may shift his opinion and welcome. He may set his little sail to catch what ;breeze he will,—but for his own sake alone—he can injure no one else—be should have avoided the rock on which he last night reduced his poor craft to an unseemly and unpiried wreck. And the Globe has discovered that the " course which England has to steer, neither identifying her self with the policy of compression" (what, in heaven's name, is that ?) " nor the politics of desPair, e degreei situation." ati o n perilous. is quite difficult enough, without being rendered im possible by being mixed up with personal temp e r s , t a h n i cl il o s n , e t - o s o id , e t d ha v t ie i w t in theamany si many-sided highest s to engage this country in any course of policy incon sistent with the national sentiment." B u t, h e re gards " as a despicable and detestable artifice all one sided appeals ; and of such appeals he foresees plenty till Parliament open, in the style of this morning's Post." Now, whose is " the personal temper," and whose " the one-sided views," that before the retire ment of Lord Palmerston, endangered the course of England through the troubled seas over which, with Globular taste, she is represented as sailing ? And whose-soever they were, how does the " sacrifice" of that statesman get rid of them? The Globe cannot answer this without wriing tin indelible characters his own still deepening disgrace. He may rely upon it that until and after " Parliament meets" we shall continue to keep fixed before the public mind ti the real questions on which its great decision shall from time to time be demanded, and the principle involved in the unexampled pro ceedings which have led to Lord Palmer ston's retirement will, by the national sentiment of which be speaks, be stamped with the enduring in famy of which he seems willing to earn his share. For the extract from the Breslau Gazette, on which the Globe exhausts his curious little stock of philo logy—dues he really believe that the journal named is published in English? and if not, is he so ignorant as not to perceive that the phrase on which he comments is a fair reading of the original meaning ? But that the " words were " written in Vienna, on the 23d inst."—the authentic correspondence of Haves will satisfy him—and, this f ac t established, the case is completed. For how was Lord Palmerston's " sacrifice" so surely known in the Austrian capital 'on the 23d, when it was pub lished in London only on the 24th, and had actually taken place on the 22d instant. The perfect accor dance between the paragraph and the Ministerial announcement establishes the accuracy of the article in the Times, even could its official character be doubted. All about " Gtey conspiracies" and special domestic " intrigues" are mere inventions of the Globe. We repeat once more, that we have made charges against no one in this business. We have taken the case as the Ministry itself has stated it. It needs no addition to recommend it to the scorn and indignation of every true-hearted Englishman, be his politics what they may. MISR' SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH. The success attendant on the establishment of the submarine telegraph between England and France, bas i induced the projection , by parties n connexion with the Electric Telegraph Company, whose wires were lately extended to the port of Holyhea d, of a similar chord of communication between England and Ireland. The parties propose to carry it out by sinking in the first instance a four-wire cable, the manufac ture of which has been commenced, on a somewhat similar, though said to be improved, principle to that already down be. tween Dover and Calais. Two of these wires are to be for the exclusive use of Government, and two for com mercial and general purposes. The distance between Holyhead and Kingstown, at which latter place the wires will connect with those on the Great Southern and Western Railway at Dublin, Cork, and Galway, will require upwards of sixty miles of cable, or three times the extent of that between Dover and Calais. By this means, when effected, the communication between Eng land and Ireland will, like that between London and Parie, be almost instantaneous, the communication across the channel now occupying several hours by the fastest steamers, which, with their mails, in rough weather are oftentimes detained. The proposed establishment of steam-packets between Galway and New York will greatly facilitate the transmission of American news by this agency, as compared with the route by Liverpool. There is very little doubt but that when the wires are laid down Englishmen and Irishmen will be able to hold constant communication across the channel, by the pay ment of ls. or 6d. per message. WEST WHEAL JEWEL MINING ASSOCIATION.— A special general meeting of the shareholders of this com pany was held yesterday, at their offices, Old Broad-street, at which the resolution of the Bth December, for the dissolu tion of the company, was confirmed; and it was also re solved that the directors do forthwith proceed to sell and convert the property of the company into money; and that such sum as shall not be required to meet the existing con tingencies be divided amongst the shareholders rateably, ac cording to the number of their shares. DEATH OF SIR EDWARD DOLMAN SCOTT, BART. —This Hon. Baronet expired on Saturday last, at Great Barr Hall, Staffordshire, in his 58th year, He was the son of the first baronet, by the daughter and heiress of Edward Whitby, Esq., and married in 1815 the daughter of the late Sir Hugh Bateman, Bart. Sir Edward is succeeded in the baronetage by his eldest son, Sir Francis Edward Scott, born IA 1524. TUE INQUEST. The inquest upon the_ body of Mrs. Barnes took place yesterday (Tuesday), at the New Inn, Belper. The evidence given was substantially in accordance with the facts published by us yesterday. The inquiry was adjourned over till this morning. FORGERIES ON THE YORKSHIRE BANKING COMPANY. LEEDS, DEC. 30.—An extensive forgery has just been brought to light in this locality. From what has transpired within the last few days it is evident that forged notes of the Yorkshire Banking Company (which has branches in most of the large towns of Yorkshire) have been rather extensively circulated. Last Friday two men, named Jones and Jackson, were committed for trial from Bradford on five sepa rate charges of having uttered these notes, and in all, so far as can be ascertained, twenty 51. notes have been passed in that town alone. On Saturday last Inspector Granham, of the Leeds police, having obtained information as to other par ties supposed to have paid forged' notes at Leeds, proceeded to Sheffield, and in a public house there apprehended three men, one of whom was identified by two Leeds tradesmen (who accompanied him), as the man who had paid them each a 51. forged note on Christmas Eve. On the same evening a great number of other forged notes were also paid in Leeds. The three men apprehended are named James Ellis, Edward Marshall, and John Green. They were brought to Leeds yesterday (Monday), and underwent a long examination before Ralph Markland, Esq., and C. E Macleod, Esq., two borough magistrates. Mr. Eddison, solicitor, of Leeds, appeared to pro secute, and Mr. Wainwright, solicitor, of Wakefield, for the prisoners. Mr. Inspector Granlam produced a large quantity of tea, some silk handkerchiefs, and other articles, which had been found on Sunday in a hones in York street, Leeds, and these articles are what appear to have been purchased by the parties who paid the forged notes in Leeds on Christmas Eve. As far as has been ascertained, all the notes paid in Leeds were passed off on the some evening (namely, on the 24th inst.), and almost at the same time. Not more than two hours seemed to have elapsed between the first though they were made in i) a different ym h e e evening named Mr. William Malkin, a grocer, in Boar lane, received a forged Si. note in payment for half a pound of tea and two ounces of tobacco, the value of which together was 2s. hid., and he iden tifiednt evidence paarntds ntfh the prisoner James Ellis as the man who paid him the note. produced l he a t s o 4 v n . went to show that on the T Mr. John Birdsell, a grocer, at Timble Bridge, re ceived a similar note in payment for some tea and coffee, amounting to 3s. 6d., and he identified the prisoner Marshall as the man who paid him it. Mr. Samuel Firth, draper, Marsh-lane, identified the prisoner Ellis as the man who paid him a similar forged note (purporting, like the others, to be of the Doncaster branch), in payment for a black silk hand kerchief, the price of w hi c h was 4 s . 6d. Mr. James Winpenny, grocer, of Timble Bridge, stated that on the same evening he also received a similar note from the prisoner Ellis, in payment for half a pound of tea. Mr. William Hill, draper, Kirkgate, indentified Marshall as the m an who paid him a similar note likewise on the sam e even i ng i n payment for a silk handkerchief and muffler, value Bs. 6d. Mrs. Mary Gre enwoo d; of Hanslet-lane, grocer ; Mr. Henry Exley, grocer, Marsh-lane ; Mr. P e t e r Whitelock, goocer, Upper Head• row, each produced forged 51. notes of the some bank, which they had received the same evening in payment of small sums of 23. and 3s. each ; but though they spoke to Ellis and Marshall as like the men who paid them, they could not speak positively to their identity. The prisoner Ellis was also sworn to as having paid another forged 51. note to Alr. R. Glover, of the Wel lington Hotel, in payment for a glass of grog. Ann Hickman, the per so n in whose house the pro perty bought was found, an d who is also the mother in-law of the prisoner Ellis, stated that she never saw the prisoner at her house, and that the articles found there, and p ro d u ced by spector Gran ham, had been left with her daughter, when she was out. Avarilla Hickman, daughter of the previous witness, said that the goods were left on Christmas Eve in a box, by a man who wore a drab topcoat, but who was stouter than any of the prisoners; that she never saw the prisoner Ellis at her mother's house on that night ; that the man who left the goods said his name was Ellis, and that she had told the inspector of police so. Mr. W. Cooper, manages of the Doncaster branch of the Yorkshire Bank, said he had examined all the notes produced (nine in number), and he pronounced them to be forgeries. The signatures to the notes had been lithographed and then inked over. The general appearance of the notes very much resembled the genuine ones, but there were some important defects in the German text "Y," in " Yorkshire," and the plate from which the forged notes had been taken was also more than a quarter of an inch shorter than the plate from which the genuine notes were obtained. This being all the evidence at present, Ellis and Marshall were committed for trial at the next York assizes; and Green was remanded to Thursday, when it is expected evidence against him will also be pro duced. FATAL ACCIDENT FROM A GUN.-0a Friday Mr. Joseph Bentall, of the Green Shutter farm, Prittlewell, took his gun, a double-barrelled one, and his dog, stating he should go into the fields, look for a hare, and return about four o'clock. Not returning at the time, the workmen of the farm searched the fields. Abtut nine o'clock deceased was found lying on his face, in a field near his brother's house, with a handkerchief round his head. Life was extinct. It vas discovered that the skull vas fractured, and part blOwn away, evidently from the discharge of a gun, which ap peared not to have taken instantaneous fatal effect, as the deceased had taken off his necKerchief and bound it tightly round his head, to stop the hemorrhage, and had put on his pocket-handkerchief also. This was done in a rough man ner, as if his strength was failing. Deceased had proceeded about 80 yards towards his brother's house from the spot where the accident appeared to have happened before he fell, and hag passed through a small pond, leaving marks of blood, where he had evidently struggled to get out on the other side. It is thought ho sad shot a hare, one being found in his pocket, and while reloading his gun the other barrel went off. His dog was found lying beside him,— Essex Herald. MONMOUTHSHIRE AND GLAMORGANSHIRE BANK ING COMPANY.-A petition has been presented to the Court of Chancery praying that the winding-up of the affairs of this bank, which lately failed, may be referred for settlement to the Commissioners of the Bristol District Court of Bankruptcy, notwithstanding that the Act of Parliament for winding-up joint stock companies provides that these matters, which involve numerous nice questions in law and equity, shall be referred exclusively to the Masters in Chan cery. The principal reason alleged for the proposed refe rence is on the ground of convenience to the parties locally interested, for which purpose, under the Act, a Master Ex traordinary in Chancery may be appointed. EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1851. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, DEC. 30. The Queen walked in the Rome-park and Slopes this morning. The Prince of \Vales, the Princess Royal, and younger members of th e R o y a l f am ily, t oo k th e i r usual pony and walking exercise. His Royal highness Prince Albert went out shoot ing this morning, accompanied by Prince Nicholas of Nassau, Baron Bentinck, and Lord Cowley. Col. Bouverie attended on Prince Albert, and Baron lladeln on Prince Nicholas of Nassau. At the Royal table last evening at the Castle were her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness Prince Nicholas of Nassau, the Lady in Waiting to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, the Baron Bentinck, Lord and Lady Cowley, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Baron Hadeln, and Baron Roggenback. The band of the Grenadier Guards attended during dinner and played the following selection : Overture, " Belisario" Waltz, "Die Industriellen" Selection from " Cenerentola" Carnival de Venise Paganini. Erinnerung an Lucille Grahn, polka Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended and performed— The Overture " Zerline" .. Auber. Finale, Ist Act " Euryanthe" Choiur et March du Ikeuf Apis " L'ln fant Prodigue" Dense Bohemienne Earl Granville, the Queen's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, held a diplomatic levee at four o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing -street. The reception was attended by the Ambassador of France (Count Walewski), the Ministers of Belgium (M. Van de Weyer), Buenos Ayres (M. Moreno), Bavaria (Baron de Cetto), Russia (Baron Brunnow), Prussia (Chevalier Bunsen), Sweden and Norway (Baron de Rehausen), United States of America (Mr. Abbott Lawrence), Greece (M. Tricoupi), Turkey (M. i\lusurus), Austria (Count Buol), Portugal (Count de Lavradio), Brazils (Chevalier de ➢lacedo), Naples and the Two Sicilies (Prince Carini), Persia (Sheffee Khan) ; and by the Charg6s d'Affaires of Peru (M. Rivero), Denmark (M. de Bielke), Spain (M. Comyn), Sardinia (the Marquis Oldoini), Guatemala and Costa Rica (M. Wallerstein and Colonel Facio). Their Excellencies appeared in their respective diplomatic costumes, and such as are members of Orders of Knighthood wore their respective insignia. The reception was concluded at half- past five o'clock. NATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ' Yesterday the ordinary annual meeting of this so ciety was held at the London Tavern, when a report from the directors was read to the members. The re port stated that the office was in a very satisfactory position, the amount of the sums assured during the year ending 30th September, 1851, amounting to 178,037/. 10s. 5d., showing an increase upon the year 1850 of 19,221/. 163. sd. The amount of the claims by deaths during the year 1850 was 11,3041. 7s. td.; whereas during the past year they only amounted to 4,6941. 135., showing a diminution in favour of 1811 of the sum of 6,6091. 143. 7d. The report of the di rectors was received and adopted, and the business terminated. In the evening the anniversary of the establishment of the society was celebrated by a dinner at the same place, which was presided over by Mr. Robert Wil coxon, and attended by the directors, the principal officers, and a considerable number of the friends of the institution. After the customary loyal and patriotic toasts had been duly honoured, The CHAIRMAN proposed the toast of the evening, " Prosperity to the National Mercantile Assurance Society." He said that, as chairman of the Life Board, he should confine his observations to that department of the business with which he was con nected. That company was established in 1838, by a few noble-minded commercial travellers, who thought it most desirable that an assurance office should be set on foot, to which their own class could particulariv resort. During the past year the losses sustained by the company amounted to a sum under 5,000/. ; and their income had considerably increased. The whole of the losses of the society, since its establishment in 1838 up to the present time, by the decease of mem bers, amounted only to the sum of 48,0001., and their present annual income amounted to upwards of 42,0001.—a sum of itself nearly sufficient to pay the whole of the claims on account of deaths which had arisen since the commencement of their office.— (Hear, hear.) Independent of that, the amount which had accrued to the company, through the lapse of policies which unfortunate members had not been able to continue, was highly satisfactory. The flourishing position of the office was in a great measure attributable to the care and pru fence exercised both by the medical officers and by the directors of the institution in the selection of sound lives. The present year had been one of great change to the office. Since the Ist of January, 1851, the nature and composition of the company had been altogether altered. They had thrown off the trammels of a proprietary and be come a mutual life assurance office—(Hear, hear) — and he thought they would admit that that was a step in the right direction. Since the establishment of the office the directors had not litigated a single claim, but had met every liability cheerfully and promptly, and he trusted they would long continue to do the same. It depended upon the body of commercial travellers of England to make their own property treble its present value, and by their influence and their zeal the National Mercantile Assurance Society might soon be made one of the most useful, as well us most successful assurance caul in the kingdom. Mr. TRAPE (one of the members of the Fire Board) said that, although his branch of the office was only now in its infancy, it was steadily progress ing in importance; and it was in the power of the commercial travellers to place the fire business in an (pal position with the life department. lie con cluded by proposing " The health of the body of com mercial travellers." Mr. CARTER briefly returned thanks ; after which Mr. LAWSON gave " The health of Mr. Robert Wilcoxon," the chairman, on whom he passed a high eulogium for his valuable services to the company. The CHAIRMAN acknowledged the toast, and pro posed the like compliment to Mr. Jenkin Jones, the secretary. _ _ . Mr. JONES ; in returning thanks, alluded to the re mark of the chairman as to the number of lapsed policies. It was true that these contingencies were very profitable to a proprietary office; but he con sidered that the object of a mutual office should be to render every man's policy, no matter what his cir cumstances might be, of the greatest possible value to him ; and if he should be unable. through misfortune, to keep up his payments, he should not be compelled to forfeit all his interest in the institution on that account. Various other toasts of a complimentary character followed, including " The healths of the Directors," " The Local Agents," and " The Medical Officers," and the company separat€d at an early hour, having spent a very harmonious and convivial evening. COLLISION.—THE BLENHEIM AND TRAFALGAR STEAMERS.—About the time of high water—half-past twelve o'clock on Thursday a serious collision took place, at the entrance of the Clarence Dock, between the City of Dublin steamer Trafalgar and the Belfast Company's steamer Blen heim. The Trafalgar was engaged in warping into the Clarence Dock Basin, being properly secured by the usual cable, guide rope, &c., when, as she was half round the north corner of the gate, the Blenheim was observed approaching the Clarence Dock along the walls of the Stanley and Col lingwood. From some cause which remains to be explained, she was not able to slacken her speed in time, or to steer wide of the Trafalgar, and she struck that vessel violently is the quarter with her paddle-box, staving in her stem lights, knocking down her wheel, and seriously injuring other of her upper work—however, as thus far ascertained, doing no injury below. So violent was the shock that the cable—a nine. inch one—upon which the Trafalgar was twisting in. was broken, and the vessel impelled against the south wall of the dock entrance, seriously damaging her head and cut water. The injury done to the Trafalgar will, we learn, cost at least a couple of hundred pounds, with a fortnight or three weeks' detention in port to repair, in all from 3001. to 5001. The Blenheim is herself much injured, having her paddle-wheel destroyed, and her steering gear displaced.— Liverpool Times. THE RAWMARSH COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—The ad journed inquest was resumed yesterday. The important feature in the proceedings was the examination of the Go vernment inspector, whose opinion appeared to be that, as some short time before the accident there had been a fall of coal in the mine, a quantity of gas had been liberated, and that coming in contact with one of the lighted candles used by the men it had exploded. The inquiry had not terminated when our account was sent off. THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR WIGAN. - The adjourned inquest was resumed yesterday at Hindly. The Government inspector gave his opinion as to the state of the mine, and the inquiry, which seemed likely to be protracted to a late hour, was proceeding when our report left. ANTI-TEETOTAL ROOKS.—Some time ago, in con sequence of being too much protected in this district, while they were severely dealt with elsewhere, the rooks became so numerous amongst us, and so destructive to all manner of crops, that the pest was intolerable. In Annandale espe cially the mischief done was enormous. A poor hind went out ono morning, and found his young potato crop completely gone ; he returned to his cottage, and sat down and cried in vexation. How to abate the nuisance became a serious ques tion. One yeoman steeped barley in whisky, and scattered it in one of their places of resort, and then sallied out with a nung to do for the tipsy vermin. A lot of ten or a dozen of them were sitting, as glorious as a circle of bellies at a cor poration dinner, nodding to one another with such antics, sad tumbling over so fantastically, that our stout-hearted friend became too generous to take adv an t age of t h e d run ken were.—Dumfries H era ld. squad ; and so he let them go, rogues in grain" th ou gh they GAME OE CHESS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND BE L caum.—BRUSSELS, DEC. 28.—Thi s gam e, which has excited so much interest and att en ti on has b een g ained by the Bri tish champion, Sir John Deacon, who beat his adversary, M. Michaels, the Belgian champion, by 7 to 3. —Jeurnut du Commerce d'Anvers, Dec. 29. TRIAL TRIP of the CLARENCE STEAMER. (From the Liverpool Standard of yesterday.) Yesterday we had the pleasure of witnessing the trial trip of a new steamer of 380 tons burden, the Clarence, built by by Mr. Laird, for the Clarence River Company of Australia, of which Mr. Lambert —a gentleman extensively connected with the General Screw Steam-ship Company—is the agent in this town, which is intended to ply in the coasting trade, with passengers and produce, wool, &c , between the Clarence River a n d Sydney. For this trade the great requirem( nts were a light draught of water, strength, and carrying powers—speed not being so much regarded. Yet Mr. Laird has not only supplied the former in his model, b u t has furnished at the same time a vessel which, a s t es ted yesterday, com bines very great speed with her other indispensable qualities. The Clarence is an iron ship, strongly built, with a good breadth of beam, as may be in ferred from what w e h ave already said as to carrying capabilities being a leadi ng d esideratum. She has a poop deck, and ver y neat ca b in arrangements, both fore and aft, capable of accommodating a b ou t forty passengers, and leaving ample room for stowage of cargo. Her precise di mens i ons are as follo w . Length ••• ••• 150 feet. Beam .. 23 feet. Tonnage... 380 tons old measurement. She is calculated to carry about 250 tons of measure ment goods; and, with her coals, engine, and cargo to draw from 7 to 73- feet. Her coals, which we have stated at 90 tons in her engine-room, it is estimated will carry her 2,000 miles. Her require ments however in her regular trade, when she reaches her destination in Australia, will only be for about 800 miles, thus leaving an ample allowance for bad weather, and the inkrior quality of coal which she will have to use. In making this estimate of her consumption of coal which, as experienced yesterday, is only about nine cwt. an hour, which will appear a small consumption to those who are acquainted with steam navigation, it is proper to inform our readers that the Clarence yesterday consumed a description of coal from the Coed Talon Mine, in North Wales, which is only beginning to be introduced to this lo cality. This coal is supplied from the Coed Talon and Leesewood collieries, near Islold, North Wales, which extend over 1,300 acres, and were opened about 30 years ago. They form part of the Flintshire coal field, the main seam of which is nine feet thick, and surrounded by .50 other beds of coal and form of iron stone. The Coed Talon coal, from its flaky texture, speedily disintegrates into flat masses, burning with little intumescence, and scarcely any tendency to ag glatination. This property allows a free passage to the air, favours rapid combustion, and causes the ' exhibition of an exceedingly brilliant light. Its prompt and rapid action adapts it in a remarkable meaner for the consumption of steam-vessels, while its great size and strength render it peculiarly suit able for bearing transportation, and resisting the effects of a warm moist temperature. It tells to great advantage in tubular boilers, keeping the tubes very clean and free from soot. Besides being on the list of coals taken by the British Admiralty for the use of the Government steamers, it is included in the Hon. East India Company's contracts, and used extensively by the American steamers running between New York and Chagres, by the Austrian Lloyds', the Brazilian, and the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Companies, all of whom speak highly of its qualities for steam purposes. The collieries are about 30 miles from Birkenhead, the port of shipment, and the coal is delivered in railway waggons direct from the pit's mouth, thus avoiding all breakage and loss of weight from change of carriage. On a previous trial trip of this steamer, of five hours' sailing, with the same coal, not a particle of clinker was found to adhere to the bars, and, on this occasion, they were observed to be perfectly clean. The engines have been put in by Messrs. Fawcett and Preston, of this town, and do high credit to those well-known makers. In fact, they have on this oc casion surpassed all their previous efforts, and pro duced a model, which, we trust, will attract to Liver pool once more a trade which, a while ago, we thought with others was deserting us. They are side lever engines with tubular boilers. The cylinders are 42 inches in diameter. The stroke is 4 feet 6; and new, and, of course, stiff as the machinery is, they attained (luring the trip yesterday a speed of 2.5 storkes per minute, which, it is expected, will reach 28 strokes, as the vessel had steam to spare during the whole of the time, and worked most of it with the furnace doors only half closed. Her wheel is 19 feet in diameter ; and she carries 90 tons of coal in the engine -room. The nominal power of the two engines is 120 horse ; and, with water in the boilers, their weight does not exceed 15 cwt. per horse power. This is attributable to the mode of fixing, which can only be adopted in iron built vessels. The working parts are of wrought iron ; they are bedded upon the iron kelsall of the ship, and the frames built in upon the iron beams of the ship, thus saving all necessity of stays, and at the same time, from the rigidity of the beams to which they are attached, producing less vibration than we ever experienced in any other steamer. In appearance below the engines resemble more the skeleton movements of a watch, as compared with one of the old cumbrous construction, than anything else we can liken them to. The vacuum of the condenser is from 27i to 28 inches. The Clarence started on her trial trip from her moorings in the Sloyne about 10.30, and proceeded down the river, part of the time at half-speed, to the Rock Lighthouse, which we passed at 56 minutes past 10. From this point her time wits as follows : b. m. Crosby Lightship ll 21 Formby Lightship Bell Buoy ll 56 making a distance of nine knots and two-thirds in an hour, with an adverse tide of a knot and a half part of the trip, equal to a performance of 12l to 13 miles an hour. From the Bell-buoy she steamed to the north west lightship, three and three-quarter knots in 20 minutas. The course was gone back again in about the same time; and again to the lightship in a little under 20 minutes, making the mean speed upon the three trips of 13 miles per hour. It must be taken into consideration that the vessel, whilst achieving so gratifying a result to both her owners, her builders, and the constructors of her engines, was not at all in the state in which she is intend e d to sail when ar rived at her destined location, being at present heavily sparred for the voyage out, the greater part of which she will have to make under sail. One of the most gratifying characteristics of the Clarence we observed during this trial trip. Although, as we have already observed, built with an eye to strength, light draft of water, and carrying powers, her lines below are beautiful, and particularly so in the bows. These have a fine hollowing ; and hence she makes no headwater, throwing it off her, in fact, from her cutwater, and again from the lower part of her bows, so that her wheels strike solid water, instead of, as in some steamers, the top of a wave of her own making. This feature was especially remarked upon by her future Commander, Captain Wiseuaan, as an evidence that not an atom of her power was liable to be thrown away. As a proof of all her capabilities being made to tell in moving through the water, she leaves behind her, instead of a wake like some vessels, scarcely a rippl e . This fine vessel is advertised to sail shortly for Sydney, under the command of Captain Wiseman, who has superintended her fitting out, and will, we have no doubt, handle to the satisfaction of his owners, and of whatever passengers may accompany him, a vessel of which he has every reason to be proud. OPINION OF THE FRENCH GOVERN MENT ON LORD PALMERSTON. The lithograped correspondence of Havas, which is a more than semi-official correspondence, as it is sent to every Prefect in France by the Minister of the In terior, in lieu of daily dispatch, and which is sent to a'most every French newspaper throughout the length aid breadth of the country, and to most foreign Go vernments and newspapers, contain the following ay preciation of the conduct of Lord Palmerston towards the French Government. It says— " The Ministerial revolutions which are accom• plished on the other side of the Channel escape our complete appreciation, as we are not competent to de termine the system or the man best suited to the hu mours or the interests of our neighbours. It is for the Queen, the Parliament, the press, and the peopl e of the three kingdoms to discuss and to decide on questions which may affect the composition of Ca binets. Such questions are purely English, of w hi c h we, Frenchmen, should speak with great reserve, under pain of falling into gross errors, su c h as those of the limes, when it takes upon itself to j udge acts and the policy of o ur Government. up in " We will not, then, mix ourselv es • the dis pute that has arisen amongst the London journals o ffi ce of Lord respecting the retir ement from o f the d Pal merston. But as that A.l . • mister held foreign affairs we have in offering the le no scruple tes timony of France concerning the relations of our Go the portfolio of vernment with the chief of the Foreign-office. v b eardn reasonm cn t " What we can affirm °Obis point is, that the Go oftothceomrprelasiidneonft o L f o th rd e Republic has e n h e t v h t e r contrary, afrarof y,oft i en it b ae, which heccdcaus waspraiseetoon him* “the pint of setting Europe on fire, was settled with a marvellous f a cility, due as muc h to the loyal condescension of Lord Palmerston as to the firmness of our Govern ment. On all occasions, we must say, the English Minister has acted towards the Government of France in the most noble and straightforward manner, and of the violent and quarrelsome character which some Governments wrongly or rightly attribute to him, no trace can be found during the last three years in his relations with France. • "Endowed with superior intelligence, amounting almost to second-sight, Lord Palmerston had foreseen the great events which have snatched France from the Abyss of Anarchy, And he received with lively and un. disguised sympathy the act of the 2d of December• This testimony, rendered by one of the most en lightened statesmen of Europ e to the wisdom of the resolutions of the Prince President, does honour, in our eyes, to the English Minister, and adds to the regret which his retirement causes us. " We do not attribute to Lord Granville intentions less amicable with regard to France. Lord Granville has lived for a long time at Paris. He has married a French lady. He is fond of our country, and the speech which he made here on the occasion of the Exhibition file: proves a lively desire to draw closer the bonds which have united the two peoples. The new Minister, then, will be for France a sincere and true friend, such as Lord Palmerston was. But we were not willing at the time of Lord Palmerston's quitting the political scene to follow the ill example of some of our journals, and refuse to him our marked sympathy. This testimony will not fail Lord Gran ville, if one of those political crises, so frequent amongst our neighbours, should deprive him of the portfolio which his Sovereign has just confided to him." BANK OF FRANCE. The following is a return of the situation of the Bank of France on Dec. 25: ASSETS. gTortesa't.y. of 30.t.h. Cash in hand .., ... Ditto in branch banks ••• ( Bills past due ••• ••• ••• Bills discounted, but not yet due, of Ad:a1:cc:816,256 f rom' the Branch Banks ... ... 54,906,137 1 ,669 f. Oc. were received Bills in the branch banks ••• 72,289,990 0 Ditto by the branch banks ... 684,100 0 ... 3,147,648 0 Ditto on French public securities ... 12,062,876 10 Ditto by branch banks... ••• ••• 2,815,564 0 Ditto to the State on Bons du TKsor... 50,000,000 0 Ditto to the° n State n s o a n n :h i e n June, 1848 . „.. 75,000,000 0 Advanced to the City of Paris on the Provisional Loan of 20,0000001. ..• 10,000,000 0 , Rentes of the reserve fund - 10,000,000 0 Rentes, dispos a bl e f unds 42677,621 28 h Investments of th e new branc bank;in , the public funds ... Hotel and furniture of the Bank ...... Real property of the branch banks ... Interest in National Discount Bank ... Ditto branch banks ... ... ... Expenses of administr a ti on o f the Bank Miscellaneous ... • • ... f. 461,374,122 35 ... 107,348,047 0 1,061,673 3 12,9 52,725 74 4,000,000 0 3,4 1 8,159 0 200,000 0 108,000 0 x 6,370 0 1,495,985 72 LIABILITIES. f. 925,579,019 23 ... ... f. 67,900,000 0 Capital ... ... Ditto of the Branch Banks ... ... 23 , 3 50,000 0 Reserve fund ... ... ••• •.. 10 , 0 00,000 0 Ditto of the branch banks ... ... 2,080,750 14 Reserve-immobiliere ... ..• ••• 4,000,000 0 Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 456 ,500,600 0 Ditto of the branch banks ... .. 126 ,543,375 0 Ditto to order (post-bills) ... ... 8 ,727,666 2 account-current with Treasury creditor 57 ,768,844 16 Various accounts current ~• ... 11 6,415,087 93 Ditto in branches •.• ... ... 31,245,278 0 Bills payable at sight ... ... ... 9,748,000 0 Ditto at branches ... ... „, 3,833,995 0 Dividends payable ••• • • ••• 296,853 25 Liquidation of the Algiers Bank .., 6,790 0 Expenses anticipated ... ... ... 408,989 94 Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 3,897,002 53 Ditto of branch banks ..• 67,495 0 Re-discounts of the last six months ... 168,450 0 Ditto in br anch banks ••• 243,186 0 Interest on pr o t ested bills '" 805,425 9 Nliscellancous ••• •.• 670,331 17 ••• ••• Certified by th e G overnor L9:5,579,019 23 of the Bank, It appears from the pre ce di n D'ARGOUT. acc in hand has increased by 6,100,0 g 00f. T ount hethat the cash commercial bills discounted have i ncrease d b y 2 0 coo The Bank notes in circulation hav e increased by 12,500,0 00 E The balance to the credit of the Treasury has decroascd by 12,450,000 f. Tho sundry credits have increased by 9,000,000 f. FRANKLIN AND THE CLAIRVOYANTES. Professor Gregory has favoured us with the follow ing additional particulars concerning Clairvoyant " revelations" in regard to Sir John Franklin—the professor, however, is not to be understood as placing implicit confidence in the accuracy of the state ments : " I have made repeated inquiries concerning Franklin, both in the case of Emma, at Bolton, and of another clairvoyante who appeared to see cor rectly. " In August last both these clairvoyantes, unknown to each other, agreed in stating that the ships were fixed in the ice, that Sir John was alive, looking anxious and thoughtful, and that a good many of his companions had died since I had last inquired. One of the clairvoyantes (if not both) said that they had found provisions, and that some had died in consequence ; either from a sudden change to full diet or from these provisions being unsound in quality, but at all events soon after finding these provisions. IVhetber these provisions were those lett lately for them, or possibly part of the stores of Ross's old lost ships which Emma had often seen at no great distance from Franklin, I could not ascertain. From Captain Austin's account of his expedition, it would seem that Emma had seen and described his ice boats, which Dr. Haddock could not then understand. "My impression from all I saw of Emma is, that she described genuine visions, probably in some cases true visions of the facts ; but possibly, now and then, dreams spontaneously suggesting themselves, al ' though I cannot be sure of this. Certainly we avoided all suggestions ; and when we asked her about various matters we observed that she often persisted in answers quite different from what we thought of or expected, and also refused to go further than she clearly saw. She often spoke of her own accord, of the aurora, and always as of a bril liant arch or rainbow of light, playing with beautiful colours, quite different from what is seen in our lati tude. She likewise suffered from the cold every time she was tried with the writing of any one in the Arctic regions, even when she did not know what writing was put into her hand. Her notion of the time seems to have been, as far as we can see, exact ; and where she has been less certain, it has, I sus pect, depended on her seeing various ships, while we supposed her to speak only of Franklin's. It will he remembered that in February, 1850, she saw Franklin reading prayers on a Sunday morning, and named the chapter of St. Mark which he read. It is remarkable that the Gospel of St. Mark is read during the first part of February in the Church of England service, as will be seen by the calendar. The 13th Feb ru iry v“:s Sunday in 1850, and I know it was about that period of the month Emma saw this. Now, on the 13th February, the 13th chapter of St. Mark is a morn ing lesson for the day. I cannot Lt present state with certainty whether that was the chapter named by Emma, but, as well as I can recollect, it was either the 13th or 14th. This is certainly remarkable, the more so as both Emma and Dr. Haddock are Pres byterians, and she has no idea of the calendar. I have had several excellent opportunities of examin ing Emma since I published my ' Letters,' and I have also seen and repeatedly examined three other clair voyantes, besides several whom I have only seen on one occasion ; and from the results of these trials I could quote many very striking instances of clair voyant vision, as well as of the instinct or sympathy by which they detect the bodily state of others, b e sid e s various other forms of sympathy. The more I see the more fully am I satisfied of the existence of a phy sical external influence, while I also admit that one large class of phenomena, those of suggestion, do not depend on that influence." — Edinbu rg h Advertiser. LOVE IN A Tun versus LOV E IN LIQUOR.—An abridgement, or rather a pocket edition of that " chiefeet" work of nature, called " man," and known by the sa,story , Jemmy at the late pettyLove, title rens toe r fa ppearedbefore the m by ag o ttretaa 0f h (31 1 7 sessions, charged ed her and with having burned, beat, and otherwise i ll-us about nine children. Elizabeth Love, the wife, deposed thtaothaer nine o'clock on the previous Saturdkr , tent with abusing her vilely, h a m drunk, and u not con better a el bows in the suds, " Jeeme," came h ome her everything but " a lady," ke pulled out the reek in g face with them. He then and clothes from the froth ing liquid, and beat left the house, but her s— ed u- between five ,arai six o'clock, et r e e r t mined on a broil, seized-the youngest and, app ar antiy. w it on the fire. He also kicked and beat his child and th r %. and, having locked the door, threatened to domestic Partn t_ ham," and immolate " the whole boiling of " settle by s e tting fire to the plaee, which he was only pre y-- o f the children, corroborated the evidence of her tit „ etn n ,t e d' " cro j ing by the screams of the terrified family. Sarah Love, one o mo ther, and stated that on her merely s a yi ng s h e h oped he uld be sent to prison for his bad con d uc t, h e pushed her under the grate, and burned her head. Th e b ench, thinking that " love may sometimes be too warm, sentenced the culprit to pay a fine of 51. or two months' imprisonment in the House of Correction at Northleach.—Cheltenham Journal. WAGES A CENTURY SINCE.—The following is an extract tr " om a letter dated Bedal e , Y or k shire, sth September, 1766 :—Harvest is now pretty busy with us in many parts of this neighbourhood. Is. 6d. a day is given for labourers, which in this part is looked upon as extravagant wages. The wheat is in general very good, and prodigious crops. Turnips this year will al so b e very good and plentiful—in short, never was known, I believe, such plenty of all kinds of fodder ; but, on the other hand, so great a scarcity of cattle to cat it. Beef and mutton in our market Still con tinue at 3 1 / 2 d. per lb., and it is confidently affirme d ' by judges in the case, won't be much lower this year. Beet wheat in our market last Tuesday,laUtwithstanding the good ness of the harvest, was near Gs. a bushel." The silver brought by the last West India packet in price, for was sold yesterday, w i t h out alteration exporta tion to the East Indi es. was killed on the Mr. James B arnett, o f this town, Great Northern Railway, on a k li the train was passing in contact with some Oa Friday night, rl s l aw tha r m Journal. beneath an archway.-- lie ' Wedne a s s y . , by his head coming says the Ipswich Express, a gentleman, said stowmarket navigation, where he became the basin of the - six feet of water. He was extricated immersed in live or six to be from Bury, accidentally walked into from hie rewarded With R Ccill 9f the realui called elxPeuCe: rewar perilous position by somo men, whom he generously 00 0 s ° ' 456'