The Sun. — London, England, 1851-12-06 00:00:00

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THL SHARE MARKETS 28% - 99+}4 21 -29 B = 101 7 -9 , p 17% - 18 3i 41 - 43 32 32% 134 - 2 34 P 104 - 10$ 51g - 52!‘ 24 -25.* 100)4 - 101% 24 11% 2512 U, - 14 -15 54 -56 4 -6 p 21 - 21% - 8 Ix- 2 D. 2 % 2 die. .. - .. 273 - 2834, 91 -92 ADE 'maul:sir Norainal Prices. 1 i —ISX 1 ... % d. 2 ...214 . 9 % loli '..". • • • . .m" .: I% — 1 Ms. iili:ii% % % 1 14 - I%p, .• -- .• P. ' • - '..,--,..: P • • -. .. p 141 - 143 2 -2 34 P• " Xl2 12 •••• 1N % """ % P 132 - 134 O• .1M• .. 15% - 16 11 -13 rOILEIGN. tu 9 -9% • - - 1 3% -3% ix I -Ix % % P di& p 10 % 11 x.d .32 134 --- lbs 16% 4 4 _ 5 s dis par 914 10% 15}i 16% 3% —4% Isi 1 di& 15 15% 6 41}‘, dig. 3 p. % - X p• %- % p• 6 —l3 d. ".• 36 19 —2l 7 M 6Ndis 7 4 —g 314 io - die. Business do to-day. 9 % 34 4% X 1 1 , 116 1 9% l'al,L all 21i 10 all 8.11 2 1 I 17 163 I sd 13;.; au .. • • 14% 13% 19 18% 19% 6% 6 % 17 16 17% In% sox 81% 52% 53 52% 153% 12! 13 124% 112% 113 206 13X 81 79% 81 51 52 503( [51% 253( 6 X % 8 % iii 14% 14 13% 814 7 19% 19 % 174 17 20 1914 INT./MS. Business done to-dey. 21% IBoainsaa dose to-day. 6% 15% % Pm par pm z.d. 131% 133 14 13% 22 21 THE SUN, ness Paid. Nominal Pricer.Busito-da don; y. Anglo Californian •• • • Asturian ........ •• • • 1 5 • • —• • Australian •—• • • 4 1% Barossa Range ...... 113 0 3 34 Brazilian Imp, (is. Si. p.) 21 34 • • Do. Cocacs and Cuiaba all —• • Do. St. John del Rey • . 15 203( —2l Cobra Copper • 4O 33 3434 Copiapo ..... •• • 14 6 34 734 General—. .......... all 137 —l4 Mexican& S. American 9 374 Nctivean Monde ...... • • .. —• • Real Del Monte, Unreg. % % Do. Black Debentures. • • Do. Red Debentures .. • • —• • Santiago de Cuba ...... 10% 4 Tin Croft .. • • • • • • .... • • 7 6% 8 United Mexican........ 28 2 8%( 3 —2 West Mariposa .. 1 1 —74 TOINT &TOME ZANIES. Australasia .... • • all 38 39% British Nod h America .. 50 45 —46 Colonial .... • . 25 103 —II Commercial of London.. 20 25 —26 Loudon Joint Stock .... 18 18% 17% Landon and Westminster 20 28 34 —29 34 National Provincial Eng. 35 .. National of Ireland .... 22% 18% 17% Oriental Bank Corporat. all 27 27% Previncial of Ireland.. • . 25 42 —44 Do. New • • • ..... all 15% 16% Union cf Australia ...• all 35 36% Do. Now ............ 234 3 Union of London ...... 10 14% 15 30 Union of Madrid •• • . • all • • MISCIILLANEOUS. Canada 32% 48 49 34 Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 27% —2B x.d Penin. & Oriental Steam. all 69 70% Ditto ditto 10 15% 17 Royal Mail Steam ...... 60 7934 80% (We cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Lists, and will not be influenced by interested correspondents.] Ditto ditto ?loyal Mail Steam .. • • . rwo cannot be answeri will not be influenced by MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 5,000 bales, of which 2,000 were taken for export and on speculation. The market was tame and spiritless, but with a fair demand at reduced rates.—The Share Market was much excited, and there was a great pressure of Stock for sale at a decline of 1 to 2 per cent. The monthly trade and navigation returns of the United Kingdom are to the sth ult. The total declared value of exports was 4,621,0781., and at the same time last year 4,751,8041., consequently there is a slight falling cif. This does not arise, however, from a falling off in the shipments of textile or other manufactures, but from a reduction in the quantity of cotton twist and a few other articles forwarded. The imports were larger as regards sugar and spirits, but in coffee and wine there was a falling off. The shipping returns for the month may be summed up thus, taking vessels engaged in the foreign trade of the United Kingdom:- 1850. 1851. Inwards (tons) ... 520,619 ... 496,283 Outwards „ ... 423,803 ... 470,120 It should be stated, in further elucidation of this re turn, that the tonnage of vessels belonging to the United Kingdom and its dependencies, comprised of the above total the following amount:— 1850. 1851. Inwards (tons) 326,058 325,096 Outwards " ... 272,295 ... 283,889 Inwards, therefore, the tonnage of British ships was nearly as high as at the corresponding date of last year, and outwards there was a decided increase, showing that the ground has been well maintained by our shipowners. The coasting navigation suffers still from railway com petition. The position of the Bank of England amidst the poli tical crisis that is occurring will be very strong, and quite independent of the Continent or its capitalists. The weekly return to the 29th ultimo gives a higher amount of bullion than before, with a further diminished circulation, and a slight falling off in discounts. The public deposit account increases, though it is not equal to last year. Compared with the previous return, the changes are as follows: Notes Issued ... Increase ... ... 29,535,760 ••• 76,271 ... 3,123,536 ••• 59,632 ▪ 7,745,054 ... 444,713 ▪ 9,129,575 • 160,861 • 1,174,680 ••• 5,363 ... no alteration ... 11,573,465 ••• 16,055 ... 10,312,295 ... 208,030 ... 16,134,077 ••• 113,883 ... 19,223,465 Rest Decrease ... ... Public Deposits ... ... Increase ... ... Other Deposits ... Decrease ... ... Seven Day and Other Bills Increase ... ... Government Securities ... Other Securities ... ... Decrease ... ... Notes Increase ... ••• Bullion ... ... ••• Increase ... ..• Active Circulation... ..• Decrease ... ... 131,755 Yesterday afternoon Bills were negociated at very firm rates upon the principal cities of the Continent. Paris, 90 days, was taken at 25 50 to 55, Antwerp at 25 45 to 50, Amsterdam at 11 184 to 19, and Hamburgh at 13 101 to !. Very little was done, as under existing circumstances there cannot be much inclination to send money to the Continent. The amount of gold in coin and bars exported from London direct during the week, to Thursday last, was 3,192 ounces, and of silver 38,052 ounces—most of the gold to France, and 23,000 ounces of the silver also. The English Funds have improved very decidedly this morning, Consols being 97 to 97k, and now 971 for Transfer, and 97i for January. The New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 97i to 97i, and the Three per Cents. 964 to 96k. Bank Stock is worth 2151, and India Stock 262 to 264, each being firm. Exchequer-bills aro 475. to 50s. premium. There is much less excitement in the market. Foreign securities have been all dull, and do not par ticipate in the rally in Consols. Spanish Five per Cents. bring 19/ to 1, and the Three per Cents. 38 to 39. Mexican are 23i to t. The Passive are , ii to Datch Four per Cents. have been 87i to 88k. Railway Shares have been fluctuating, but there is not mush doing. QUARTER TO THREE. Consols ••• 97} I Ditto Account, Dec. 11 ••• 97 a BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 215% 8 per Cont. Reduced Annuities 96%% 3 per Cent. Consols Anne....... 97% 7 !‘ % New 3 1 „( per Cent. Anus 97%1434 Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 267 6 15-16 India Stock 4 262 India Bonds under 1.000/ Consols for Account 97% 97 %% Exchequer Bills, I%d. 1,0001. 500 i. ... . . Small 47 50 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent-- Ditto, 5 per Cent Mexican Bonds, 1846, ex Jan. Coupons Ditto Account Russian Bonds, 1522, b par Cent lll% Ditto 4% per Cent. lO3 : 3 4 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o 19 , A Ditto Account Ditto Passive Bonds., 4 34% oividenets on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 35% 87% COURSE OF EX( Amsterdam .• •• • • I 1 17% Ditto, three months .. I I 15 R o tterdam •••••• .• •• 119 Antwerp •••• • • •• .• .. 25 45 Brussels • • • • 25 45 Elamburgh --M.P. 13 10 N Altona .... • • .... Paris, 3 days'sight 25 35 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 b 5 Marseilles •• • • ...... • • 25 60 Bourdeaux.• • • ..... • rranktorton'Maine.... •••• •• •• "" Vienna, offee. ••• • • • Trieste, ditto.... • • • • • • Petersburgh,Sll. Rble.. ;RANGE.-FRIDAY. GParaltar.. • • .......... Leghorn ........ • • .. • • 81 (eaoa •••••••••• ••••.. 25 70 Milan • • •• .• •• •• •• •• Venice........ Naples •• ...... 40 Palermo, per0z........ Messina Lisbon• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 52 ; Oporto.• .. • • .......... b2sy Rio Janeiro .......... Buenos Ayres .. • ... New York, 60 days'sight Philadelphia • ?WOES Or BULLION, PEI 08. Foreign Gold in bars .. XII 17 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Now Dollars ••.. • • 0 4 I I 1 ,6 Silver in bars ...... •• 0 b 36% 49% 49% Cadiz •• •• ............ Barceloca •• •• •• .• •• •. 8ovi110•••••••••••••••. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT GARDEN. The supplies of both Fruit and Vegetables on sale to-day were large for the time o f year, yet the general demand ruled steady, at full prices. FRUIT.—Pine Apples, English , 4 s to G s p er lb; Hot-house Grapes, 3a Od to 53 64:1 per lb ;out-.dogrEtunggaliishddiitttteo; 8 6 d d to te 10 9 d d ; Hamburgh ditto, 8 d to 104; bushelper i b ;; Melons,pples 2iss Od d d to te 7 3 8 5 0 e d 5 - e , 127 Walnuts,ar Pears, 3s 6cl i t o o s l t O o s 1 0 7 d s p per er v bushel; iu E Filberts, ilLus._ Oranges,CsSpinach,Bs t 1s 9d d per bundle; to 2s 3d per sieve; Horseradish, is 6 70s to Od to O b d s ; e d ac t h o ; Parsley, 2s Od to 286 d per dozen bußnecehtesB;dWtheitiesCpaebrbadgeerse,nBd; to ls ; Red ditt o , 2 s to 4s; Red , Mushrooms, is to Is 6d per pottle dozen un T e u h r e n s ip ; s, p 2 e s t 6 st d ee t s, o 4 4 8 55 3 t d 0 , and Carrots, 4 s to G s per 90s per ton; Onions, 2s to 3s per half sieve ; Celery, Bd l to is 9d per bundle ; Garlic, 6d to 84 per lb ; Greens, 2s 6 to 4s Od per dozen bunches ; French Beans, Os 04 to Os Od per half sieve ; Vegetable Marrows, Od to Os per dozen ; Leeks, Id to 2d per bunch ; Spanish Onions, lOs to 18s per box ; Brocoli, 16s to 13s per dozen bundles; Endive, 10d to Is Gd per score ; Parsnips, 6d to Is per dozen. NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL. Geese, 4s Od to 0s Od; Turkeys, 4s Od to 9s Od; Roasting Pigs, 4s 6d to 7s 6d each ; Tame Rabbits, Is Gd to is 8d ; Wild ditto, 84 to is ld ; Pigeons, 6d to 9d; Surrey Fowls, 7s Gd to 9s Od ; Barn -door Fowls, 4s Od to 6 8 Od per cou p le ; English Eggs, is 04 to 7 s 6d ; French ditto, Gs 3d to 73 Od ; and Irish ditto, 6s Od to 6s 64 per 120; Fresh Butter, Os to ' Os Od per lb; Hares and Leverets, 2s tid to 3s 3d; Quails, Is 04 to Is 3d; Grouse, is 2d to is 6d; Pheasants, 3s to 3s 64; Wild Ducks, Is 6d to 2s 64 each. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 45 0 4; Veal, 3s Od to 3s 8d ; and Pork, 3s Od to 4s Od per 81bs. WHITECIEAPEL. Beef, from 2s 2d to 3s 44; Mutton, 28 ed to 3s 104; Veal, 2s 8d to 3s Gd ; and Pork, 2,3 4d to 33 8d per Sibs. BILLINGSGATE. Eels, 14s per 20Ibs ; Soles, 2s Od to 6s 04 per dozen ; Lob • ters, lOs to 25s 04 per score; Oysters, 12s Od to 30s Od per bushel ; Red Herrings, lOs Od to lls 6d ; Fresh ditto, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per 100; Cod Fish, 2s Od to 7s Od each; Salmon Trout, 74 to led per lb ; Turbots, 8s 04 to 12s Od; and Plaice and Sprats Is Gd per bu,nel. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from 6el to 6%d of 119140h01d ditto, 410 to per 41b loaf. LON DON, HIDE IVE/tREE'I'. Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to 2d; ditto, 641 b to 72]b 24.t0 lad; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 2-id to 21d; ditto, 801 b to 881 b, 214 to 3d ; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 3d to and ; ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, 34d to 31d; ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b, 31d to 4d. Calf Skins, light, is Od to 2s Od; ditto, full, 41 6d to Os Od; Horn Hides, 5s Od to Os Od; Polled Sheep, 5s Id to Cs Id; .Dents pncl Half-breeds, 4s 14 to 4s 9d; Downs, 2s 10c1 to 3s 84; Lamb Skins Os 04 to Os Od. HAY IVILIS.XXETS. SArrrimmr,D.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s Od to 3/15s ed ; Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 41 Gs Od; and Straw, 11 08 to 1/ is per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 155 to 31 17s Od ; Clover ditto, Si 5s to 41 ss; and Straw, 1/ is to 1/ Ss per load. Trade dull, at barely late rates. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s to 3l 153; Clover ditto, Si 5s to 4/ 8s ad; and Straw, 110 s to 117 s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. VICE-CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY. IN RE TYDFIELD'S ESTATE. This was a petition presented to hie Honour Vice- Chancellor Parker, praying for the payment out of court of the F utn of 4,300/, which bad been paid in by the Liverpool Dock Company as part of a sum of 8,8701., for the purchase of some lands taken by that company. The petition also prayed that 572/. Bs. 10d., which had been spent on some lands taken by that company, might also be paid to the petitioner. His HoNoun, after some conversation, made the order prayed, with the exception of that part relating to the sum of 572/. Bs. 10d. QUEEN'S BEN CH.-(THIS DAY. CONCANNON V. GOODE. This was an action for an assault; to which the de fendant had pleaded the general issue. Mr. Sergeant Chadwick Jones, with whom was Mr. Woollet, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Humfrey and Mr. Wills conducted the defence. Mr. Sergeant CHADWICK JONES opened the case to the jury, acd stated that it was one of a very aggravated character. The plaintiff was a young lady moving in a respectable sphere of life, and the defendant was the son of an attorney. Under a promise of marriage the de fendant decoyed her from her mother's home; but it afterwards turned out that ho was a married man, and the assault in question took place while he was attempt ing to effect a compromise with the plaintiff to let him off the promise be had made. Miss Francis Ann Concannon, the proseeutrix, was examined by Mr. Sergeant CHADWICK JONES—She said, I am 25 years of age, and at ono period I carried on the business of en embroidress. In the spring of 1847 I was residing with my mother in Stamford-street, and in April I went to the Italian Opera, Covent-garden, with a friend. In returning home I met the defendant in Wellington-street, Strand, and he saw me home. He said ho knew me, but I told him ho was mistaken, but nevertheless I consented to make an appointment with him for the following evening. I, however, did not keep it. He afterwards met ma accidently, and said be had been looking for me at least ten days. I told him I dared not meet him, as a gentleman was paying hie ad dresses to me, and he asked me if I was going to be married to him. I said yes, and he asked me if I would allow him to plead for himself, adding that he was a man of property, and at his father's death he would make me his wife. I said I could not give him an answer, and he made another appointment. I after wards met him repeatedly, and drove about with him in cabs, until at length he said unless I left my own home he was fearful I should deceive him, and marry some one else, and I had therefore better take lodging out at Stepney. I did as ho requested, and lodged at Stepney from October till the December in the following year. He visited me there almost every day, and paid for my board and lodging; but no intimacy of an im proper nature took place between us, as I would not al low it. In December, 1848, I met him by appointment in Stangate-street, Lambeth, when he said you must be brief in your conversation, as he must be off ; but I said I could not, as I had a good: deal to say to him. A gen tleman named Goldsmith then came up, and Mr. Goode said he would only speak in his presence. We then walked down Stangato arm in arm, and Mr. Goldsmith offered me ten pounds to release Mr. Goode from his promise of marriage, and 15s. a week for four months besides. I declined to say anything in Mr. Goldsmith's presence, and Goldsmith thereupon said, " Oh, wrench her arm off," and with that Mr. Goode wrenched my thumb and two fingers almost off. He then pushed me and I fell off the pavement, against the curb-stone. I was very much hurt. Goode lifted me up, and called a cab, but I fainted after that, and I can't tell what else passed. When I recovered I found myself in the shop of a surgeon named Bromley, who attended to my injuries. I was afterwards taken home, and I was seriously ill for four months. I had received an injury in the knee, and I was not able to leave my bed for a long time. I used a crutch for nearly six months, and I have since been under the care of three surgeons. I have not been able to carry on business since. The injury perfectly incapacitated - me for business of any sort Cross-examined by Mr. HUMPBET—I was not a. dresser at the Italian Opera at the time of this occur rence. I never was a dresser at the Italian Opera be fore this, but I had been at her Majesty's Theatre. I went to the Italian Opera to dress almost immediately after I met Mr. Goode, and I received 2s. a night. I was living at No. 8, Church -terrace, Stamford-street, behind Waterloo Church, on the night that I met Mr. Goode. Ile knew that I was engaged in a theatre, but he did not know in what capacity. My situation was that of dresser and dress-maker, but it was not until two months after I first met Mr. Goode that I told him what I really was. I went to live at Stepney in the latter end of October. I lived at Mrs. Mead's fourteen months, and Mr. Goode used to visit me there, and we passed by the name of Mr. and Mrs. King. He slept once in the parlour, and I slept up stairs, but Mrs. Mead never remonstrated with me about it, nor did any one express astonishment that a man and his wife should sleep in different rooms. Mrs. Graham corroborated the plaintiff's statement. She had followed her at the request of a mutual friend, who was apprehensive that the plaintiff, in her distracted state of mind, brought on by the previous conduct of the defendant, would get into some trouble, , _ _ _ Mr. Bromley, the surgeon, spoke to the injury which the plaintiff received from the fall. Cross-examined—The defendant and Mr. Goldsmith seemed to treat her with remarkable kindness. LAM'. HUMFREY addressed the jury for the defence, and denounced the case as a barefaced attempt to extort money. Tho plaintiff, although only a dresser at a theatre, was an excellent actress, and, with the view of inducing a belief that she was deeply in love with him, she more than once alarmed the defendant by making sham attempts upon her life in the most artistic style. Mr. Goode, the defendant, a gentleman of enormous proportions, presenting a singular contrast to the slight figure of the plaintiff,Astated that when he met the plaintiff, in 1847, she told him she was a 'ballet dancer. He never promised to marry her, nor did he ever in any way give her to understand that he meant to marry her. He was in the habit of visiting her at Stepney, and on more than ono occasion she had threatened to destroy herself. Once she wished him to think that she was about to throw herself out of the window, and on ano ther occasion she had locked herself in her room, when be heard a heavy fall. Ho broke open the door, and found her lying upon the Itoor seemingly covered in blood. Ho was afterwards told, however, that the blood was rouge and water, and that the attempt at suicide was all a sham. He was not married at this time—he bad been married, but his wife was dead. When he met her in Stangate-street he offered her 101. and 15s. a-week until the Opera opened, but she fainted away, and he and Mr. Goldsmith carried her into the doctor's shop. It was not true that Mr. Goldsmith sug gested that he should wrench her arm or injure her in any way, and when they got into Mr.Broroley's shop she made no complaint whatever of being hurt or ill-treated, but She had not recovered before he left. Cross examined—He was a married man when he first met the plaintiff, and continued so for a year afterwards. He never intended to marry her, but he proposed to her that she should leave her home. Wit ness was studying at the Middle Temple for the bar, and was 29 years of age. His father, to whom he had served five years under articles, was an attorney in llowland-street, and his uncle and brother were also attorneys. He was, therefore, pretty well versed in law. When the plaintiff left her home he had an idea that she would live with him, but that idea never was realised. She wanted to live with him as his mistress, but he afterwards refused, because he discovered she wanted to entrap him into a promise of marriage. He went repeatedly to the opera to sea if she went on the stage, but he never could discover her, and when he taxed her with the falsehood rho said the manner iu which she dressed her hair prevented her being re cognised. Mr. Sergeant JONES—Why did you not leave her at first? Witness—Because I found I had been entrapped and could not get rid of her. Mr. Sergeant JONES--It must have been a tolerably large trap that caught you.—(Laughter.) Witness continued—He gave her a wedding-ring to deceive the landlady, and proposed the name of King, because it was the first that came uppermost in his mind. He never, upon his oath, made any promise of marriage of any sort. Mr. Goldsmith, who was formerly an officer in the Lancers, confirmed the evidence of the defendant so far as it related to the interview in Stangate-street. No vio lence whatever was used, nor was any suggested. Mr. Sergeant JONES replied, and the Learned JUDGE having summed up, The jury retired from the box, and after an absence of about half an' hour they returned into court with a ver dict for the plaintiff—Damages 1501. EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) The case of " Miller v. Alderman Salomons, M.P.," was fixed for this morning, but in consequence of the trial of " Marks v. Hamilton" not having concluded yes terday, it did not coma on as appointed. The latter action, which is brought to recover a disputed claim on the Sun Fire-office, in consequence of loss sustained by a fire, will probably occupy the whole of to-day, and most likely the case of Alderman Salomons will be first on the list for Monday. - - - THE "GOLDEN" AGE 13 BEFORE US.—According to current appearances, future little boys may come to see gold almost as commonly as did the traditionary imp of the school books, who expected to find the streets of London paved with the precious metal. " Gold" is becoming the commonest word in the language; every tenth man you pass in the street, your neighbours in the omnibus, your vis-a-vis at dinner, the fluneurs in the fashionable streets of the West- end, are talking of gold mines, gold diggings, lumps of gold. A short time ago we were menaced with an " inundation" of foreign corn, by which all the ancient land marks of the constitution were to be swept away, and the well-fed Englishman reduced to a miserable skeleton. Now we are threatened with a flood of gold from East and West; but nobody objects to be overwhelmed by the theoretical pauperism which it suggests to profound minds. The hopes which sent Raleigh on his last voyage—the glitter afar off of El Dorado—now animate millions; and in the physical, if not in the social world, the belief is pretty g eneral that the " Sid= AigQ Doi9re P."—keacler. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GOODWOOD 1853 AND 1854. A new stake to be called " The Great North ank SAith of England Biennial Stakes," of 10 Sovs. each, h ft, is proposed for 1853 and 1854, to be run the first year on the second day, at Goodwood, for horses then two years old; and at York, on the first day the fol lowing year. 2001. will be added each year. THE FORFEIT LIST.—The list of horses for which forfeits are due occupies no less than eight columns of tho Sheet Calendar, published en Saturday. These for feits must be paid before the horses are eligible to be entered for any race. NEWMARKET CHAMPION COURSING MEETING.—FRIDAY. The Puppy Stakes. Third Ties—Bedlam Bess bt Highland Lass, Ten dresse bt Auerun. The All-Aged Stakes. Second Ties—Exhibitor bt Moyetsent, Rushlight bt Florette, Jester bt Heather Jock, Dunksld ran a bye. The Exning Stakes. First Ties—Delight bt World's Fair, Madame bt Exning Lass, Britannia bt Bird's-eye, Mopsus bt Racer Jess. The Rutland Stakes. First Ties—Esquire bt Beesvving, Dart bt Rarity. _ _ _ The Newmarket stakes. Mr. Fyson' Factotum bt Mr . Inskip na Emigrant, Mr. Inskip's Jeannette bt Mr. Hill's Heprietta. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Lord Henry Bentinek's hds., Mon. Burton ; Tues. Bardney; Wed. Brant Broughton; Thurs. Haekthorn ; Fri. Austacre; Sat. Sudbrook-11. Y.:. Duke of Beaufort's hds., Mon. Dauntsey Gate; Wed. Dyrbam; Sat. Shipton Moyne. Duke of Rutland's hds., Mon. Stonesby Village; Tues. Dry Doddington; Wed. Elton Manor; Fri. Little Ponte —loi. Surrey Hs., Mon. Blsek Horse, Reigate Hill; Thurs. Albury Heath; Sat. Tho Rookery-10f. East Essex hds., Tues. Steeple Barapstead; Thurs. Messing Street; Sat. Gosfield King's Head-101. Essex and Suffolk hds., Tues. ElmstA Market ; Fri. Newton Green-10i. Essex Union hds., Wed. Asheldham ; Sat. Rottendon Common-10i. South Essex hds., Tues. Danton Blacksmith's-10i. Worcestershire hds., Mon. Woodecote Green; Wed. Crow's-nest; Fri. Radford Gate-101. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1852. FEBRUARY. Lincoln MARCH. Liverpool Spring 3 ratterick Bridge 22 Coventry 9 Northampton 24 Doncaster Spring lo Croxton Park 3O W arwick Spring SATURDAY APRIL. Epsom Spring Newmarket Craven ... 12 Mahon . 22 Abergavenny l5 Newmarket F. S 26 MAY. Chester Spring Newmarket S. S. Shrewsbury l2 Epsom 25 I ONE. Manchester ... 8 I Stockbridge Ascot . _ Hampton l6 Winchester I Newcastle JULY. Newmarket 6 Nottingham 2O Worcester Liverpool AUGUST. North Staffordshire 3 York Brighton 4 Egham Beading SEPTEMBER. Warwick 7 Leicester 22 Doncaster Eglinton Club 2l Newmarket F. 0. Bedford OCTOBER. Chester Yorkshire Union Hunt 6 Newmarket Houghton 25 Wrexham NOTEN Worcester Autu, :BEE. tmn 2 ALMANACS FOR 1852• THE 111ETEOROLGICALAi31ANAC FOR 1852. By B. J. Donovan. This almanac contains predictions of the weather and wind for every day of the ensuing year, with general predictions of the weather, fall of rain, and mean temperature for each month, and rules for fore seeing the weather. THE REFORMERS" ALMANAC AND PO LITICAL YEAR-BOOK FOR 1852. This useful compilation of political statistics fully maintains the high character which the Reformers' Almanac has already attained. The editor has managed by his lucid arrangement to condense an immense amount of information into a very small compass. THE BRITISH ALMANAC AND COM PANION FOR 1852. This was the first commonsense almanac that was ever published in England, to the honour of Mr. Charles Knight be it recorded ; it has since had many competitors, but no superior. The Companion contains a moat useful compendium of facts and figures relating to the Great Exhibition. INTRAMURAL INTERMENTS. A deputation from the London Necropolis and Na tional Mausoleum Company, consisting of Sir James Duke, M.P.; Mr. 11. C. Lacy, M.P.; Mr. W. J. Voules, Mr. J. Gardiner, Mr. C. R. Thompson, Mr. F. Dobinson, Mr. W. A. Coombe, Mr. H. R. Abraham, and Mr. R. Churchill, attended Lord John Russell yesterday at his Lordship's official residence, Downing-street, to submit their views in reference to the above subject, when the following points were propounded to his Lord ship in reference to their site at Woking:—That the site comprises nearly 2,000 acres available for burial purposes; that it is within forty minutes of the most cen tral of the London termini, by the South-Western Rail way, which passes through the land; that the soil at Woking is highly suitable for burial purposes, consisting of gravel and dry sand; that the land is, moreover, of great elevation, dryness, and natural beauty—of an un dulating surface, and well adapted to the growth of ap propriate and ornamental vegetation; that the land has been obtained for the sum of 35,0001., and can be ren dered available immediately at a very trifling additional outlay, and that the whole cost of adequate chapel ac commodation necessary, and ornamenta l buildings, fencing, &c., will not exce e d 9 3,0001.; t h at th e com pany are thus enabled to pr esent and to bi n d t h em selves to the adoption of a tariff by which all classes of funerals will be conducted at a cost of 25 per cent. less than that at present incurred by the inhabitants of the metropolis , for burial in the nearest graveyards and cemeteries; that • the pauper funerals will only be charged 155.,_ with per mission to send one or tw o atten d ants to Woking and back. That the above expenditure shows not only an individual saving of 25 per cent., but renders wholly un necessary any advance on the part of the Government, or any rate upon the parishes for a cemetery. The com pany contemplates the creation of a fund included in their charges for the compensation of the incumbents of those parishes from which bodies are removed, so that they will continue to receive the fees on interment with out being called upon, except when desired, to discharge the duty. _ _ . . _ Mr. J. Voulos (the deputy chairman) said he sub mitted the above statement with confidence to Lord John Russell for recognition, not only on the extensive merits of the plan and site, but because it superseded the neces sity for auy advance of public money, and obviated the delay which was so universally deprecated. The deputation met with a most courteous reception, and pertinent i nqu i r i es as to the intentions n a t t i t o e making nr of t e the company,eev ral his Lordship promised to communicate with Lord Seymour on th e details. uusea nntr state, makingcrtt e i s m limited generally demand nGfet:aaeredmmotenosaplsneloi employed STATE OF TRADE. — NOTTINGHAM,--. The general state of the commerce of this town remains much the same as last reported. The lace trade is unusually flat, even for this period of the year (which is ordinarily a dull one), owing which h ip t a w lly o :. c t° ou t n h t e r i ties of goods during the month of November and a great part o ma f s a D n e y c eomf compared t b h e e r . stocking T tchk h e n in hosiery go s frames o f t t h r bo a e d si trade staple p s tolerably considerable nf e A ac ( m or i fabrics which until recently were not contemplated. Hence an employment is found for a great number of hands who would otherwise have been destitute at this time, had they been entirely dependent upon the production of such goods as are generally denominated hosiery. Spinners are looking for an advance on cotton yarns. Silk, whether thrown or spun, is now at a low price. What change may be looked for from the present movement in France remains very uncer tain, but it is mach feared that it will for a time cause consi derable commercial depression. Leicester, Wednesday : Trade remains about the same as reported in our last. The approach of Christmas, of course, now begins to have its usual effect at this season of the year, that of somewhat checking demand and manufacture until the commencement of a new year.—Nottinghain Journal. THE WHISKY-BITTERS " DODGE."—O n Wednes day a person named Turnley, who professes to be a doctor or druggest in Kent-street, Glasgow, was brought up at the police-court, on the charge of selling whisky without a licence. From the evidence, it appeared that this man has his drug shop in a close immediately opposite the back door of a spirit-shop, in which, of course, according to the regula tions, business ceased at a reasonable hour on ordinary nights, and at twelve on the nights of Saturday. The police, how ever, were astonished to find that as soon as the spirit.dealer shut his premises, a smart run commenced upon the druggist, which used to last from Saturday night till far into Sunday morning. On Sunday night the same phrenzy for physic exhibited itself, and Mr. Turnley was always there with his door ajar, ready to minister to the wants of thirsty or suffer ing humanity. It appeared, in short, that the druggist, observing the great number of drouthy souls who retired unserved from the spirit-dealer's back door, took it into his the whisky, and selling it as a healing cordial, :but under the head that he might do a good stroke of business b y di sg uisin g name of bitters. The drug was whisky alter all, however, and not the best sort of it. The bailie found the charge proved, and sentenced Turnley to pay a fine of 3/. 10s.— Perthshire Courier. ATTEMPTED MURDEIL—On Thursday Thomas Patrick was finally examined before the Leeds magistrates, and committed for trial, for the attempted murder of his sweetheart, Jane Sunter, who had refused to receive his addresses. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, DEC. s.—The Regius Professor of Divinity will resume his lectures on Monday, February 16, at one o'clock, in the Arts' school. The lec tures will be continued at the same hour on Mondays and Saturdays. EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 18b1. EVENTS IN PARIS. (From the Times.) It is worth while, oven in the midst of the catastrophe now pending in France, to investigate one or two of the lesser acts of Louis Napoleon's new Government, as a test of its honesty, a pledge of its future intentions, and a proof of the correctness of our own impression of its character. One of his first met:sures was to announce the formation of what ho termed a " Conailtative Com mission," wishing, as was stated by the preamble of the decree, " to surround himself with men who justly enjoy the esteem and confidence of the country, until the re organization of the legislative body and the Council of State." Accordingly the decree named as members of this commission about 80 persons, many of whom were members of the majority in the late Assembly, and who were thus represented as having consented so serve the new Government. Among them were M. Barthe, Ad miral CLille, M. Dratlyn de Lhuys, M- do Muntalern bert, M. do Merode, M. Lion Faucher, the Marquis do Lagrange, the Duo de Monchy, M. Lacrosse, and many other gentlemen of character aed station. We observed at Once, upon the appearance of this list, that we bad no evi dence ot the acceptance by those persons of the duties thrust upon them, and in fact we discredited the assertion of the Moniteur that any such acceptances had taken place, remem leering the celebrated proclamation pub lished upon the landing of Louis Napoleon at Boulogne in 1840, in which M. Thiess was constituted Prime Mi nister of the new empire. In truth, tee present object was simply to mislead the public for twenty-four hours into the belief that the President was actually sur rounded by men who deserve the esteem and confidence of the nation. But the statement was entirely false, and the use of these names was a political forgery, 'insane tinned by the great majority of the persons who bear them. On the very next day a fresh decree was is sued, stating that the former edict contained " a few inaccuracies," and substituting for it another list not containing one of those men of character and eminence, ho had protested, with more or less indignation, at being thus pressed into the service of the new Govern mew. It is important to remark thas up to this time no person of note has tendered his services to Louis Na poleon beyond the original author of the coup deal and the military commanders, who had been selected for their entire devotion to his service. As an other example of the character of this Go vernment we may notice the fact, that on Monday, the let of December, the Minister of Finance in duced the Bank of France to lend him a million sterling, alleging that it was a mere affair of terepsrary accommodation to be provided for by the Treasury bills. The use made of these tuuds is now sufficiently apparent, for the coup d'etat took place next morning, and services wore required and performed for which the most liberal donations to the army and the police would hardly seem disproportioned. We leave the means by which this sum was obtained from the bank for such a purpose to be appreciated by our readers. If anything could give an appearance of legal necessity to the military opera tions in Paris, and to the tremendous severity of the measures employed to crush the resistance of the people, it is the part which the organized sections of the lied Republic and the desperate combatants of that faction are again taking in this struggle. " Non tali au.eilio nec defensoribus istis," may well be the answer of the people to a cry of independence and a promise of succour conveyed to them in the sinister language of M. Louis Blanc. Nothing can be more afflicting than the posi tion of the middle classes and the pacific part of the population, between a host of fierce revolutionists who can only be put down by an immense army, and an army prepared to dispose absolutely of all political power as a recompense for the protection it affords to property and life. For the first time in these terrific street battles of Parisian history, we hear nothing of the National Guard. It is remarkable that no proclamation or appeal has been addressed to that body by the Go vernment. The civic forces have been expressly con signed to inaction, evidently because Louis Napoleon was afraid to rely upon them, and nothing would have been more inconvenient than the opposition of legions of armed citizens. Even now it is not impossible that their weight may be felt before the termination of this con flict, but felt against the executive power. The Go vernment has staked its whole success on the army alone, and the strength of the regular forces engaged is im mensely greater than on any former occasion. But, be the political opinions and ulterior views of the popular leaders what they may, it is impossible not to feel for the dauntless courage with which they have flung them selves into open resistance to an unexampled violation of the rights of the nation. The middle classes, though pro bably most aggrieved by the menaces of military des potism, would have found neither the means nor the spirit to defy such a power. But if the men of the faubourgs aro as tenacious and as brave in the defence of the laws of the Republic as they have more than once shown them selves to be when they rose against the laws of the mo narchy, victory has not even yet declared herself against the liberties of France. These men are not, at least on this occasion, insurgents, if by an insurgent is meant the man who conspires against the legal order of the country, and seeks to change by force the constitution and the government. The barricades first thrown up on Wednesday evening were speedily carried by the sol diers; but the night was spent in further preparations for war. A large column of troops were silently moved along the Boulevard towards the Faubourg St. Antoine, and the positions between the Canal and the Porto St. Martin were strongly occupied. Shots were occa sionally fired from houses on the line of march, but these acts of hostility were instantly punished by the summary seizure or slaughther of the inhabitants. A permanent court-martial was sitting, by whose orders some, and we are told a large number, of the prisoners taken between the barricades were shot. Yet these operations and this rigour did not prevent the popular movement from increasing in extent and in violence. An immense body of troops, or rather an entire army, described to consist of 50,000 men, poured towards the scene of action. Yet we find by the latest accounts that barricades had been raised as far to the west as the Rue Grange-Bateliare; the upper Boulevards were continually swept by charges of Lancers; and the cannonade had almost reached the fashionable quarter just beyond the Rue Vivienne. It is, of course, impossible to answer for the accuracy of intelligence dispatched under such circumstances, but, if these facts are correct, the struggle has extended far beyond the limits of the Marais and the faubourgs, and the popular forces can hardly be confined to the revolutionary sections of thoso districts. Hitherto we had beheld in France contests between Governments armed to defend the laws of society and insurgents armed to overthrow them. But now, as if to make this chaos of anarchy worse confounded, men have to take a part between a Government attacking the law and an insurrection to defend it; though it is but too probable that the triumph of either fac tion will inflict a ghastly wound on the freedom and welfare of the nation. Such are the results of those al ternations between an excessive impatience of legal au thority and a servile deference to arbitrary power, which are so strangely united in the French character; and, whatever be the deplorable condition of such a people, its trials and its struggles are solely attributable to acts depending on its own will. The decisive turn of events will, however, bo given by the conduct of the army in the provinces. It is in the power of any of the Generals commanding in Lyons, Strasburg, or other head-quar ters of the military districts, to arrest, or at least to sus pend, the fate of the nation. The first blow has so tar miscarried that it has not been followed by any popular manifestation in favour of Louis Napoleon; and, though supported by the army, it h as i naugura t e d his power by torrents of blood shed by that people to whose misplaced confidence he owes whatever he possesses in the world. The intelligence of the resistance in Paris, though disguised by the Government as far as possible, will kindle the same spirit in every important city in Franco. Even tho army can hardly look forward with nnshaken resolution to a war with the civil and popular forces of the nation; and the undisguised militaiy abso lutism of Louis Napoleon's proclamations has at once exasperated his enemies and alienated his friends. In such an attempt not to gain strength rapidly and uni versally is to lose it. Surprise and skilful preparation have, aided by overwhelming force, done their part to perfection, but on the third day of the revolution Louis Napoleon was disputing, step by step, the barricades of Paris, and consigning hundreds of victims to death and misery, instead of receiving the incense and the homage of an enthusiastic people. Such are the facts, as far as wo aro acquainted with them; and we must infer either that this enterprise will meet with the fate it deserves, or that, if it succeed, success will be obtained by means which must widen the breach between the people and Government. (From the Morning Chronicle.) Louis Napoleon maintains his position with his cha racteristic courage and coolness, but the news of another day has not diminished its danger. He still seems to stand on the verge of a precipice, with his feet planted upon ground which in some parts is trembling under the pressure. Although, for the moment, the insurrectionary movement in Paris appears to have been suppressed, events, and rumours little less pregnant with conse quenees than events, succeed each other with startling rapidity. Tho President's first check was the refusal of some of the most eminent persons named in the original list of the Consultative Commission to servo 'on it.;That document: has since appeared in a corrected shape, though with a dimished number of names; and M. Baroche—a man of no inconsiderable weight —has consented to act as Vice-President. Ac cording to the general tenor of the private and pub lished correspondence received in this country, the reports from some of the provinces are regarded as, on the whole, unfavourable—although such is not the character of the accounts circulated by the Government. It has been rumoured, for example, not only that General Magnan wavered in his fidelity to the President, but that General Castellano, who commands an army of 40,000 or 50,000 men at Lyons, had declared for the Assembly, the majority of whom might, in that case, re pair thither, and meet under his protection. Yet, as if such a contingency had been overlooked or disregarded —or, perhaps, for fear of the effect on public opinion of se wholesale a detention, if prolonged—the greater number of the representatives arrested on Tuesday last, and confined at St. Valerien, have been set free. We do not regard the erection of barricades, unless the work men en masse proceed to man them, as absolutely ad verse to Louis Napoleon's chances of success; because the real party of order might, by so violent a proceeding, be induced to rally round him, rather than allow the Red Republicans to obtain the mastery; and we find tha t several members of th e Cl u b of the Rue des Py ramides have already reso l ve d to aid him agnin-s; this section of his opponents. Whatever may b the true elements for cal cu l a ti ng i ts course the e invested more than e v er w i t h the deepest and crisismostpa iins ful interest. A few h ours after Louis Napoleon had struck his coup d'et at , an English gentleman asked a French mschanie on the boulevard- what the state of thin gs . " Mais, itionsie c ur c h s te an thought ur ((f i ) c fete, was the reply. Th ere spoke the' true spirit of the people—"relebs ' leekl e ss ) told thirsting for excitement; and to that spirit France owes the melancholy position which she now holds before the world. She has lost all attachment to fixed institutions, all respect for principle, all habits of obedience, all notions of legality. Forms of government have ceased to command her reverence, and constitutions are regarded as only a by word or a b my t th e . xcp Politicalettbrt of the m Socialists, i crecelsayiabicus, heysetdas rallying cries, inspire no u, en thusiasm;Nie end, indeed, it wou ld be strange if they did, we see° how the most definite, and (so far isiens beenit extends) the most ecelareeted Legitimacy utilitarian glosses of its chiefapreomfepsosre7s).' refined away, for t glory,st p r i i g r a u s o ; or wh h ei t l i has whilst become notional pbu,rtpatee,sem, Statesmanship y s tii ip e in France has been gradually degenerated into mere in trigue, prevalent o e na lva confoundednt3,feeling tor. with ty:rh e l downright ove o f m military i c t a o r ie ; par tial observer can mistake for pcaiveillotism. The resu h tt is, e that public men of all grades, , 1- , , e h e e n n fa w t e al a ly re d t i o sc ld re t d h i a te t d independence in the ranks allin the o t h f k a French minds nao:;11d-ict:oih?fmeit aghpinelrelestzto:lhicl3se*si;!bsaaenveodnr pen, by thusP?Lmitliitury driven, like cattle, into a marau ders," who hold supreme authority grethaetneschsl ow mar vellously that great nation, we are irresistibly reminded or smell an amount of true independence really existed in What, during the last eighteen mono:l c:pu n try. kept the eyes of Europe fixed upon Louis Napoleon as the inevitable second President of the Republic—assuming that it would last beyond Alacyh 1852? Simply the impossibility of finding a candidate' who should be both legal and presentable. What, again, has emboldened and enabled him to dissolve a repre sentative body, elected by universal suffrage, and to as sume dictatorial power? It is sheer nonsense to assert that he has succeeded thus far by debauching the soldiery. The troops now forming the army of Paris bear a very feint analogy to the Praetorian hands; and one marked effect of the conscript system is that the French soldier, except at the end of a protracted war, eae with difficulty forget that he is a citizen. The only rational or plausible explaeatiun of the pending crisis is to be found in the obvious discontent, or the un disguised disgust, of Vie people at the proceedings of the loading parties in the Assembly. History teaches us that even the most unscrupulous usurpers, instead of making circumstances, are commonly made by them. In the extraordinary instance under discussion, the oppors tueity, was, indeed, grasped with wonderful decision Enid sagacity, but the attempt would never have been made, or it would have been baffled in an hour, had not the ground been laid for it by the Parliamentary leaders, and by that mode of treating established authorities with which all classes, without exception, had been familiarised by the example of the highest notabilities in the land. Whatever posterity may think of Louis Napoleon, nothing short of success in the first place, and such a sequel afterwards as that to which he is pledged by his first proclamations, will be admitted as a justification by his contemporaries. Far be it from us to contend that one great crime may be committed to prevent another. Personal ambition may have been his real motive, and the urgency of circumstances is but half an excuse for indulging it. Still, we do not shrink from avowing our con viction that ho has simply precipitated a catastrophe which, even if it had continued passive, would speedily have been brought about by others. Whether M. Thiers and his fellow-prisoners at Ham were maturing a criminal conspiracy, when they were arrested at General Changarnier's lodgings at four o'clock in the morning, may be doubted ; but no one can deny that MM. Thiers, Berryer, Dupin, Moth, Changarnier, Bedeau, Base, &c., &c.—including most of the repre sentatives who met at the Maisie of the 10th Arron dissement—have been engaged in a succession of plots to upset the Republic, and, it may be, to proclaim a Convention, and to send the Elect of six millions to Vin cennes. They were fully resolved to set aside the Con stitution of 1848—that ridiculous production of M. Mar rast—without ceremony or compunction. Nay, they might safely have taken credit for so doing, if they had not assailed the President under the influence of wounded self-love or pique; for the Revision clause is the imme diate cause of the civil war now raging, and to suppose that the majority of one Nati ona l Assembly can legally or morally bind a future one from likewise deciding any public question by a majority of votes, is absurd. Whether they may not have an opportunity f trying their hands at King or Constitution-making before the commence ment of the new year, is still dubious. The Monarchi cal party—Legitimist, Orleanist, and Fusionist—has been reduced by them to a very low ebb as regards public confidence, but everything or anything is possible as we write. A Monarchy or an Empire may shine forth when the storm-clouds clear away—or a Red Re public may glare out—or some new and nondescript form of democracy may emerge from the surging and foam ing whirlpool of civil dissension. Our own opinion, if we may venture to hazard one, is that France has least to fear from the unequivocal recognition of the Presi dent's authority, and from that appeal to the wishes and votes of the entire people to which he stands pledged. In tho anxious interval, wo can only express an earnest hope that whatever ruler, chief, leader, faction, or party may gain the upper hand, he or they will, at least, have learnt some sound and useful lesson from the past. (From the Daily News.) Never were the antagonist elements of brute force and moral opinion more clearly and universally arrayed against each other, than in the struggle which Louis Napoleon has had the rashness to enter upon. Each hour brings testimony of his bayonets prevailing in the streets, and his cause being condemned and denounced by every man of sense and character ; the citizens and the masses, who were well inclined to side with him in his first quarrel with the Assembly, all turning the morn fiercely against him, since the selfish insolence and in sane ravings of his ambition have been promulgated. There seems, indeed, to exist but ono anxiety in the breasts of all, who have a name or a standing, and that is, to purge themselves at once from all complicity in the criminal acts of the President. Even the most timid —those who would inevitably bo silent and hesitating in the midst of a revolution, where issue was uncertain— even these men come forth, each eager to east his de claimer in the face of Louis Napoleon. Count Mole asks with indignation why ho was not arrested ? And M. Leon Faucher, the only politician of heart and principle who was attached to Louis Napoleon whilst ho kept within constitutional limits, has written to ask what crime he has committed, that he should be thought worthy of being included in the President's State Council and list of notables. Amidst such a unanimity of sentiments prevailing through the civic class, it is utterly impossible that the soldiers can remain long unmoved and estranged from the rest of their countrymen. The officers cannot close their breasts against the suggestions and convictions of their rela tives and acquaintances amongst the middle classes. We need not epeak of generals, since Louis Napoleon has found it necessary to repress and seclude every one of that rank who was of known political opinion. And we may be certain that there are several in command who fully partake either the opinions of Cavaignac or those of Changarnier. The very soldiers themselves, however animated against the Socialists of Paris, are still not likely to perform contentedly the permanent task of act ing as the police and the executioners of their fellow citizens. It will, however, take some time for the upper classes and influential men to recover the stunning effect of the President's coup d'llat. These men have neither the confidence of the people nor of the soldiers. They destroyed their popularity by their rigour and reaction in the Assembly, and flung away all the natural supports of a constitutional party. Such men as Changarnier disgusted even the commercial classes by their evident intrigues in favour of a legitimist restoration. Although the mad conduct of Louis Napoleon has now flung right on the side of his opponents, still these upper classes and notabilities will probably require some time to concert and organise either an opposition or a rebellion. The people alone and any portion of the army can attempt this. And what is to be feared, is that the Red Republicans will attempt it alone, and give the soldiers an opportunity of fleshing their sabres with victory. Any triumph of the kind would bo vaunted as having been gained over anarchy. And the generals of the successes might give themselves the airs of having saved France and society, —that old humbug, in which, unfortunately the Guizots and the Thierses have traded. There is ono class by whom the scheme of Louis Napoleon might be very favourably received, provided they could have faith in its stability. This is the functionary class. The new imperial scheme is, in fact, an immense heirarchy of placemen. There is a Council of State, a Senate, a Lower Chamber, and, it would appear, an Upper Chamber besides, every member of all and each receiving salaries and fulfilling functions. The number of civil employ& in France is already conside rable, but this would swell them to an army, and make imperial politics a very thriving trade. But this plan of taking a majority of the educated classes into government pay, is a desperately expensive one. The military em ployes will expect a share even larger of emolument. The Pretorians must have their gratuity, the generals their batons of marshal. And who is to pay? M. Fonld himself, all Bonapartist as ho may be, shrinks from the task. The Chancellor of the Exchequer of the new empire will be a bold man. One power ful mode of conciliating the French rural popula tion. They would understand that. And an imperial senate that decreed it, in however arbitrary a manner, would be far preferred to the most constitutional and liberal assembly leaving the contribmtions,directes and in di a r o c p c op t l e ee s ro , sn e ig, it n h wy e i r ll a t s h • n ei not t f d o be u se n te d i on m t e h de a ma, primer o s u l a l u y g .m m i nN e i n se t ti e et d hr e ro f ß b L u e t o nu M oi his master will edit a new edition of the (Economies Royales. And the playing with the public purse, will infallibly be one of the most favourite occupations of the e S l o se m . e will say that scandal, e vr c e ou m p may be powers that are to be. was made for nothing sure, will bo busy with the do in s °f the Treasury. There is one other consideration more serious than all,. and more menacing to Louis Na fest fact that the entire of this Pc) "Isl.lt is the mau.ln him, depends upon him personalliaew s s h no w o ed. Bonapartist All s _ r i system u centres ith h in is t l h i e re. cou T n h tr a y t , t l h B er l e s princi ple or party therefore, of m ili tary power and civil plamciegrahatynsphyipraresidt; upon the sm a ll apex of one head. Louis Napoleon has no family, no successor. Ho has not even a friend of station and respectability. What a premium this offers to assassination plots, in case of the President's success, may be conc e i ve d. A n d that the exasperated and reck less faction whom he has crushed would have recourse to that criminal alternative there is but too much reason t to expect. Napoleon himself escaped chancethis s y the short time he spent in Paris; by his military absences and surroundedievembyentws;hinahndbebywatshe prestige to a nd capital.a PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY.—We understand that Mr. Douglas Jerrold will preside at the ensuing anni versary dinner of this valuable society; and that he will be supported by the Sheriffs of .London and Middl esex , and ni A r t y vi the principal master printers. RAIL WA Y RE T URN S TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR TILE PAST WEEK. NAME OF RAILWAY. BRITISH. Aberdeen ..... ..... Belfast and Belfast and County Down.. Blri,enhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, and West York .. Bristol and Exeter • • .... • • Caledonian.— ......... ......... Chester and llolyhead.• • .. • Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ..... Dublin and Belfast Junction ...... Dublin and Drogneda• • • • • • . • . •• • • . Dublin and Kingstown . • • • • Dundee and Arbroath ..•• •...... Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction Dundalk and Enniskillen. • .. • • • • • • East East Lancashire......,. Eastern Counties and I , .iorfolli Eastern Union ...... ............. Edinburgh and Glanow Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee.... Exeter and Crediton„ ...... , Furness Railway ... ...... Glmgow, and South-Western Great Northern and E. L . . Great Southern and Western (Ireland' Great Western •• • • 1 Irish South Eastern .... _ .......... Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............ Leeds and Thirsk • • ....... u ........ • Crosby Liverpool, , and ,ou or ' rth Western... • ..... I London and :N0_ .......... I London and Blackwall _•• Lancaster and Carlisle : ..... .. ..... . London, Brighton, London and South Western. • • • • • • • • Londonderry and Enniskillen •• • ..... - tlock, &c. M anchester, Buxton, and X., M anchester, Sheffield, andlincoLnslaire Manchester and South Janction•• • • • • and South Coast.. and Carlisle • • • • • • ' • • • • • .• Midland . . ••••• Midland Grea—t R . '"e • s • t • e • ni • • (Irish) • • • • • • 31fonklands ... Newcastle and Ca • • •• • • • • North British .. North Stallordshii; • : • • • • • • • • • • • • •" •••••••••••• North-Western .•., • • Scottish Central . :: • •••••• • • • • " Scottish M . .idland .. :•:•• • • • • • • • Shrewsbury and BirniiilL.h•a•ni • • • • • • • • •' Shrewsbury and Chester .: • •• • • • Shropshire Union .. .... ..." • •• • • • South 11ev0n....... • •••• • • __-.• ..••••••••• South Eastern •• • • • South Wales • • • • • • •• • South York., Doncaster, and" G ooie - • Taff Vale • ••• • • ......... ' Ulster. - .. • • • Waterford and Limerick • • West Cornwall . • • • • ..... Whitehaven Junction ...... . •• • . ..... York and Newcastl e , an d Berwick . York and North Midland • •• •• • ..... FOREIGN. Central of France .. . . Dutch Rhenish " • • *.. aria Antonia ontercau sod Troyes Northern of France Orleans and Bordeaux Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen . ............., Paris and Strasburgh Rouen and Havre Tours and Nantes ..... ........ 768 19,200 11,450 7,924 5,319 7,603 2,106 OFFICERS OF THE GUARDS. The West-end of London is at present ringing with the scandals of the younger officers of one of the regiments of the Guards. This one has " bolted" over head and ears in debt; that one has followed him to see if affairs are quite as bad as rumour alleges; Lord This is in for T 1 o, ba o t o ,s oi n ., a a ni n e d b o e ff in t g o t e e o 7 a , s o t o an ol t , in w o n p r l t e b ; e t f he bi li ll o s, n b ou e r i a s bo n l et hl t r e . be found ; a fifth is actually in gaol, and another off to America. In short, there is a sort of civil war raging between th e G uards and the Jews, and about, i t i s re ported, nothi ng less than 70,0001. of bills of exchange. Here is fresh food for the scandal raised by the case of the Alleynes and the D'Arcys; and here is reason why that scandal should not be allowed to die away before some steps are taken by the military authorities to strike at the root of the evil systemiwhich bears such fruit. Are not these young men, who claim to be of the best blood of England, the victims of the Horse Guards, its follies and absurdities. It first puts them into a false position, then treats them as special and favoured per sons; holds them forth to the world as men of unbounded wealth; affords them all the opportunities of a great metropolis, with nothing to do in it but compass their own destruction; and as ono batch is ruined by racing, dicing, gambling, credit, and—what the late Mr. Crock ford told a Parliamentary committee did it all—" opera boxes and women," the Horse Guards repeat the opera tion—as if the Household Troops were a model school of virtue and propriety. And these metropolitan jregi ments, the tone of their morality, the ordinary character of their pursuits, and the practices they resort to, in their turn become a sort of standard to officers of similar ages in every other regiment in the empire. " Here lies Laziness the Mother of all the Vices!" was the inscription a French wit proposed for the tomb of the mother of the Regent Orleans; and at the root of all these scandals in the army is the want of occupation. Young men, having nothing to do, cannot be kept out of mischief when congregated together; and there they are, lounging about garrison towns and depipts nearly all the day; thankful for anything to occupy their at tention, be it a pretty face in a bonnet shop, or two straws running down a gutter. The consequence is in evitable. They bet, they race, they play; at first a little, gradually that little increases, until, as in the case of Mr. Kennedy, one mere boy will bet half his fortune on a single event, and another will defraud him out of it. All young men in the army are not such fools or such knaves as the two we have named. Some have rational occupations, others turn out excellent officers, but that extreme case discloses the logical tendency of the pre sent military system of England.—Daily Aews. TILE ARCTIC COMLUITTEE. We published yesterday the report of the Arctic Committee without comment, nor have we spas(' at pre sent for such remarks as it inevitably suggests. In the meantime we shall only observe that it is very much what was expected from a committee composed exclu sively of naval men, sitting upon a case in which an officer of rank of their own profession, and a merchant captain, employed exceptionally in the same service, are brought into collision. It is not surprising that the naval commodore has been proved impeccable. The Committee may, however, think that they have done justice to both parties, and that they have made an award as fair and equal as that of Solomon on his throne —since, while to Captain Austin is given, at the ex pense of Mr. Penny, the excuse he wanted for not fol lowing up the search in Wellington Strait (though Cap tain Austin ought to have needed none, since he had put a summary end to the existence of those whom he was sent to seek), that excuse is virtually withdrawn by the final recommendation of the Committee. This recom mendation is, that the search be renewed next season in the very quarter which has been the subject of these differences—namely, Wellington Strait. Of the means of effecting this most necessary work, we shall speak at another time—merely observing at present that those proposed by the Committee are meagre in the extreme. —Chronicle. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. The report of the Commission has not yet been pre sented to Parliament, but we can give what we believe will be the recommendations contained in it. The Com missioners recommend that the old structure should be used as a temporary bridge, and that a new bridge should be constructed adjoining, or as near as possible to the present bridge, on the north aide, that is, lower down the river; that it should not be less than so feet in width, including the footways; that the height of headway of the centre arch should not be less than 25 feet 6 inches above Trinity datum ; that it should consist of no more than five arches; and that it should be an this would iron structure resting on stone m foundations and throw less pressure on the . .. spiin of arch, and width, Mr. Barry, in his require less rise than a stone bridge, admit i a t s of a greater With respect to the height evidence, stated as indispenable conditions , if the b r id ge • w here it now is, that th e roa d way . be level from shore to shore ; th a t t h e width were to remain of the e d roadway should not be less than 100 feet; and that the height of the road should not exceed twenty fret above Trinity standard. These conditions, of Course, hod reference to the effect of the new Houses of Perlis.- n tent, and the Commissioners admitted their importance ill that respect ; bnt, considering that a bridge of this limited height and extended width would prove an ob s tacle to the passage of vessels, they have not adopted t hem. A bridge of the width proposed by Mr. Barry iv ould be a fine feature as well as a great convenience rind it should b e cons i dered whether or not it might tx: obtained, or, at all events, approximated, without in creasing the obstructions in the river, by means of over hanging footpaths carried by cantilevers or balance girders. The property scheduled to come down includes the houses on the south side of Bridge-street, excena.i.n a ! ati far as the India Board, and then returns into 133 ent-street. On the Surrey aide, the houses e°7 far vs jog on both sides of Bridge -street, extencling s a ta g te on the Belvidere -road on the north side and 5 aide of Belvo south side, and a few houses on the east _ . jd Id • e-road. ?It er . dere-road, at the corner of Brlcig Parlia ment-street. NEW 1300Y9.—Severa- d P for app e arancee during than usual interest are announce d iCo.o Among the present month, by ten ssr t s inck," a political biography ---- tit now blications of more them are "Lord George ; ]; a new novel entitled " Darien Mr. Eliot Warburton, the f " The Crescent an ' d the Cross," and " Regi naldnr author o Pl3l Hastings;"—a comic work for Christmas reading can e d , T r sof American Humour," by the witty author of : Slick; Sain ait "—" Jacob Bendixen, !the Jew ,7 a novel from the Danish, by Mary Hewitt, which is said to combine with forromthtebehipeer;c•ohfaMntnrl'jrince " by a story of extraordinary interest some curious revelations as ently issu Hungaryed and Captain A usSpencer'sAustria, a w o ‘r‘kTorfa v p s e l c s u i l n iar European import.. w Jewish customs and society. The same publishers have &me at the present time ;—Mr. Melly's graphic account of his journey in Egypt and Nubia to "Khartoum and the Niles;"—" Spain as it Is," by Mr. G. A. Hoskins, a very accurate and amusing description of this picturesque ins, also Turkey,rec —" Itavenscliffe," a new novel of remarkable country ; Emilia Wynd ham;"—and and ori ginality by the distinguished author of " E "Falkenbu " rg, a charmingly romantic tale. full of vivid personal sketches, by the author of " Mildred Vernon." DEATII OF PRIESSNITZ AUTHOR OF TILE WATES CURE.—Priessnit z, the celebrated ' founder of hydropatbY, died , at Grafenb erg on the 26th of November, at the age of 52. In the morning of that day Priesanitz R - as up and stirring at an early hour, but complained of the eold, and had wuod b roug h t in to make a large fire. Ms friends had for some time believed him to be suffering from dropsy of chile, " llt to i s the ot' tthakeechaesltiltlaendmeadtictinhee,irexecalraniemstingentreaty he consented to no use." Il e wou ld see no physicilli, the e t remained last true to his profession. About foar o'clock in the after noon of the 25th he asked to be carried to bed, and upon being laid down expired. Mlles opened, 1851. 26% 85y4 189% 94 171;i 241 188 264 1234 531.y 2 f)y 173 2444 15 11Si 1t:7•4 934 28 496% 126 261 !).1% 77 152 574 21 , ,', 63 442% 134 240 Roacipts 1850. 1851. X 1,276 534 143 589 3,312 6,876 2,283 t4O 1,007 280 601 624 3,379 13,451 1,952 3,723 2,124 284 3,452 6,141 4,223 13,1.9 3,8 K: 13,145 275 38,508 744 8,112 8,576 626 20,215 1,224 142 2,2G1 3,317 4,3)1 .4(55 1,475 463 530 1,362 418 1,437 9,356 673 1,250 2,102 871 323 11/7 13,665 7.427 3,154 116 1,045 7,520 6,112 7,850 6,080 4,652 2,347 £1,362 toit 171 1,3 j) 692 3,471 7,61 a 2,464 • 116'. .' 616 892 914 466 633 198 3,780 13,226 1,975 3,351 2,226 259 3,703 10,350 4,560 14,228 1,6 16,261 1,008 2il 40,021 733 8,210 8,801 100 6,631 638 21,437 1,1196 345 2,270 3,763 4,614 538 1,841 502 1,476 497 1,455 10,238 1,334 1,394 2,355 921 269 207 12,079 6,094 3,303 779 ~ 4 I 0 I 0 a ; 0 ill , 1' ~~ ~! 0 . of l ie i i la , i fi" r P P• c o w ic() 11~ r at 00 r i 001' 134°'