The Sun. — London, England, 1851-12-11 00:00:00

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Admission ls., 2s. and 4s THEATRE of OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. " SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES," by M. and Madame Langlois, of 'Paris, and the celebrated Indian Juggler, Djalma, with Dissolving Views, Chromatrbpe, &c., every Evening, at Seven o'clock, Aumis. Mon is., Is. 6d., and 2s. 6d. DIORAMA.—Every Day, from Twelve to Three. Prices Of Ad mission Is. 6d., Is., and 6d. BAZAARS and MUSICAL PROMENADE — Admission Free. Open daily from Ten .& sr. to Ten p.m. MAGNETOID CURRENTS and the MAGNETOSCOPE. Dr. Leger's Philosophical at.d Experimental Lectures every S atur d ay Evening, at Eight. Admission Is. and 2s. TFIEATBE noTh -L4 114T RARKET. ar. .1. W And Webster, Bela Lessee Manager, Old Bromptan. ISIS EVENING, - Will be performed a tiev!_Cortaedyb,e ; Raoul, Mr. L. Murray Murray; M. rnen ti tled THE MAN OF LAW. Marquis Da de la Seigiiere, r: • m Destouelles, M We bster; Bernard, r. B. -! "yard, Mr. Howe; Baroness de irsubert, sirs. stirung ; He lene de la Selgliere, Miss A. Vining. • After which a new Farc e , entitled THE TWO BONNYCASTLES. Mr.Boimycont i e , Mr. itekstone; Mrs. Bonnycastle, Mrs. Buck aigham. To conc lude with AN AL4RMING SACRIFICE. xttEA. vitt au AL, AD LL ,der +l,e direction of Mr. B. Webster. The popular Comedian, Mr. Wright, having recovered from his in• di s position, will appear This Evening. —E.nonnous success of the Yankee Comedian, Mr. Josh Silsbee. I' HIS r.; V rI.N NG, Will be performed the comic Drama, entitled THE FOREST 30SE! and the YANKEE PLOUGHBOY. Jonathan Ploughboy, Mr. J. Silsbee• Bellamy, Mr. Worrell; Harriet Miller, Miss Col lins; Sally Forest, Miss E. Chaplin. To be followed by the Comedy of PAUL PEY. Colonel Hardy, Mr. Eraery ; Paul Pry, Mr. Wright; Grasp, Mr. 0. Smith; Mr. Willis, Mr. Worrell ; Marian, Miss Ellen Chaplin. After which, a new and laughable Piece de Circonstance, entitled BLOOMERIsM ; or, The Follies of a Day. Mr. Agticola Green, Mr. Honey ; Mr. Flighty Bounce, Mr. Paul Bedford ; John irey, Mr. 0. Smith; Mr. Weakly, Mr. Worrell; Mrs. Portia Lu crests Green, Miss Woolgar. hOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Managementot Mr. C. Keaa. THIS EVENING. Shakespere's Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Principal characters by Messrs. Bartley, Keeley A. Wigan, Mea dows, Mallen. Harley, J. Yining, C. Kean ; Mesdames Winstanley, Keeley, and C. Kean. After which, a new and original Comedy, in two acts, entitled TENDER PRECAUTIONS; or, the Romance of :Nrazriage, in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, and Mr. and Mrs. Wigan will appear. Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, soLui vi air. ILassingham • of whom also places may be taken a t the Box-office, Oxford-street, from Eleven till Five o'clock. ItuYAL OL Yatric TAZATICIS. Lessee and Mmipzer, Mr. W. Farron. THIS EVENLNG. WM be performed LUCILLE; or, The Story of a H ear t . St. Cyr, Mr. H. Farren ; Vernet, Mr. LemDidd ; Izak, Mr. Shalders ; Von Metz, Mr. Cooke ; Lucille, Miss. .o ; Julie, Miss Fielding. After which, FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY, With PLOTS FOR PETTICOATS. Frank Finish, H r. Hosk i ns. To conclude with THE LONELY MAN OF THE OCEAN, sup ported by Messrs. 11. F arren, W. Farren, Ben der , .Norton, Mesdames Fielding and J. Adams. j e L aicals PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. W. R. COPELAND, Liverpool. The Warmest Theatre in London. Another New Farce. THIS EVENING, Will be performed SIMPSON AND CO. After which, BREAKFAST FOR TWO. With STROLLERS AND STRATAGEMS. To be followed by a new Farce, entitled CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. Characters by Messrs. Rogers, Belton, Ropier, Misses Marshall and Maskell. To conclude with a Farce, entitled THE FIFTH OF NOVEM BER, by Messrs. Tilbury, Rogers., Hudspeth, Misses Saunders and Maskell. The prices of admission are arranged as follow :—Orchestra 41; boxes (first circle), 35.; (second circle), 2s. ; Pit, Is. Doors to be opened at Ilan-past Six, and the performances to commence at Seven prechely. A second price will be taken to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock —first circle, 25.; second circle, Is. Private Boxes One Guinea and a Half each. Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling. ;resident,," and other officers of the club followed `The attendance of members was not so numerous as upon former occasions. • ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under ths Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal IlighneSB Prince Albert. Prcpletor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. _ _ _ Mr. Batty begs 7 eave to Inform his pitrons and the public that he has entered into Engagements for Nine Nights' Representations with the principal Artists late of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, they having returned from Dublin, en route to Paris, Mesdames Caroline, Daburg, Mors. Loisset, Young Baptist Loisset, andDabrey, with the whole of their Stud of Menage Horses, will appear THIS RVENIN G. The most successful and popular Theatre in London. Azael still continues the Star of the Theatrical World. THIS EVENING, Will be produced new grand Spectacle, from the pen of E. Fitzball, Esq., and written expressly for this establishment, entitled AZAEL, In which will be Introduced the same highly-trained Horses and Camels that appeared in the Opera at her Majesty's Theatre, with an addition of Ostriches, Zebras, &c., &c., the whole of the well known resources of Astley's. It has been pronounced by public opinion to be the most gorgeous and effective production ever itnessed within the wells of a theatre, assisted with magnificent scenery and brilliant costumes. The new Dramatic Performers having achieved an unparalleled triumph, will have the the honour of appearing every evening until further notice. _ . . With Batty's Grand Scenes or the Arena, einbraelng the largest Equestrian Company in Europe, represented by Foreign and British Male and Female Artists of superior talent. Tickets to be bad at the Boa-office from Eleven till Four daily. stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. PORTRAITS OF SOULT AND WELLINGTON , WITH MEMOIRS AND FAC-SIMILIE4 OF THEIR HAND- WRITINGS. THE MOST SPLENDID LIKENESS OF SOULT EVER TAKEN, BY WYON, FOR WHICH THE MARSHAL SAT SIX TIMES; TOGETHER WITH A PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON IS THIS DAY PUBLISHED, AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, PRICE ONE SHILLING. MOH WATER AT LONDON FaiLLGE T MID DAY 22 min. after 3 I Evening 42 min after 3 To-Moaaow—Morning 2 rain. after 4 I Evening 24 min after 4 THE WEATHER.—Strs OFFICE, Dzczmazu 11. THE.B.MOMETER, Ix THE SHADE. 54—highest since noon yesterday. 38—lowest this morning and during the night. 45—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30.53. WIND S.W.-light breeze and fine weather. DAILY WEATHER, TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning. —The stations are arranged in order of latitude. PLimouTH—Wind S., strong breeze—overcast. BRIGHTON—Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast. Horrnme—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. SournAmproN—Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast. FOLKESTONE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. TerNBRIDGE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. ( AREEN W ICH—Wind S S.W., strong breeze—overcast. ,STaoon —Wind S. W, hard windovercast. SWINDON—Wind S.W.. gentle breeze—overcast. eo LcuktgrEk—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. CidasEdowt—Wind S.. gentle breeze—overcast. .pamotrru - -Wind S. W , gentle breeze—overcast. 1-10L'mf-AD—Wind S., hard wind—rain. tY ind S., wrong breeze - rain. BEArrocK—Wind N. W,, gentle breeze—overcast. The returns from the folio places indicate the state of the wind and weather or g Tu - esday morning at nine o'clock : hard n breeze 74(sucttIcK—W ind S.W.. also Murimichtp.— ., o ind ,SNeValebr wind—overcast. partially cloudy. ?col. EC - W ind S.W. overcast. y.ANCAsTittz--Wind S., gentle brzeee—scud, rain. zeorrcast. w irmi y--Wind S., gentle breeze —overcast. DARLDTGTON-Wind S. S E., gentle r TO CORRESPONDENTs No coDa tu unication can be attended to unless authen ticated by the name and address of the 'writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. i ejt \ 4 _ 7lt. 1+.,54 •Af 4i „I •,, r tF* e4,fil rik 4 - 6, r e ark, 7 -1,- -- ,v , 4r • mo , DAGO tz it: `•• ‘/12-miL-111,4111: LONDON, TIII:RSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1851 The sanguinary and atrocious outrage recently yierpftrsted i n t h e vicinity of cbi a y t i ey i n the county Met agh, and v.bi e l t a kind-hearted, humane, and.'‘ estimablet' the d l ath °t gentleman, bas bas produced great ex c it ement, not only in diato district where the fearful eritnehadbteen co e imme 'flitted, but throughout the entire country. Itni. be longed to a peculiar class of outrages, once common enough in Ireland, but which had become compara tively rare since the Exodus had set in, and the anxiety to obtain or retain possession of land had been superseded by the desire to ob tain a new home on the other side of the Atlantic. Where so many firms had been abandoned, and were now lying uncultivated and un occupied, it could not be supposed that there would THE SUN, be any temptation to the commission of agrarian °fakes. Exceptional cases will, however, some times occur, where the old leaven is still at work, • and the machinery of crime, although ru ted, may again be put into operation. The bloodthirsty murder of Mr. THOMAS DOUGLAS BATESON was unquestion ably one of this class. Every circumstance of the case 1 1 indicates its nefarious origin too clearly to leave the slightest doubt as to the nature of the trans action. The time and place, and manner of its com mission, all lead to the same conclusion. The hour, two o'clock in the afternoon, the locality within a few hundred yards of three different houses—one of them the residence of the clergyman of the parish, and also within about half a mile of a considerable town, and the fearful mode in which the murderers achieved their infamous object, alike show the deli berate and cold-blooded determination of the assassins and their confident reliance on the support and as sistance, or at least on the non-interference, of the neighbouring peasantry. To those unacquainted with the character of the Irish people they would give the offence almost a character of nationality, as if the entire locality was implicated and every inhabitant more or less involved in the transaction. It is to be regretted, too, that the victim was a gentleman of the most active benevolence, one who had exerted himself to the utmost to promote the wel fare and happiness of every person with whom he was i❑ any degree connected. had a person of different character been sacrificed, although it could not have justified or even extenuated the brutality exhibited, it would have occasioned less astonishment. If any person carried with him a passport which should have conveyed him safely through the most disturbed districts, and the most outrageous and riotous mobs, it was the gentleman who has been so cruelly massacred. As agent over the extensive estates of Lord TEMPLETON he had exhibited an active benevo lence deserving of the highest culogium. None ap plied for assistance in vain ; every claim was promptly investigated, and, if well-founded, liberally and freely liquidated. But it was not merely to individual cases of hardship that he afforded willing aid. Every tenant on the estate was treated as a friend--his interests were vigilantly guarded. Not only did he procure a return of 15 per cent. to every man paying his rent, but he caused the entire county-cess to be paid with out any charge to the occupier. But these were not all. To the cottiers he gave constant employment, and every man able and willing to work was sure of obtaining remunerative occupation, suffi cient, if he thought proper, to enable him to pay his rent by his labour. Mr. BATESON was, in fact, justly regarded as a model agent, and few have been more sincerely deplored than him, who was regarded as a friend by even the humblest tenant on the Templeton estates. But, notwithstanding these many favourable cir cumstances, Mr. BATE,SON had offended against the agrarian code that once prevailed, and thus drawl. upon himself the vengeance of the midnight legisla tors. Although kind to the occupants, he was faith ful to his principal—although making every allow ance to well-disposed parties, he was not by any means inclined to yield to the unwarranted and unjustifiable demands of ill-conditioned parties, or to surrender Lord TEMPLETON'S property into the hands of idle and reckless scoundrels. Those willing to exert them selves received every possible aid, but persons of a different character were set at defiance. Various ejectments had been served, and it was under stood that a portion of the property was to be cleared of those who would not liquidate their rents either in money or labour. This offekce (I) demanded the notice of the secret tribunal, and notwithstanding his many estimable qualities Mr. BATESON was con demned to death, and the warrant for his execution given to the ruthless assassins who were willing to undertake any outrage, however desperate, on the order of the committee. We have seen how the fatal edict has been carried into operation, how brutally the bloodthirsty order has been complied with ; we can now only hope that the infamous agents may be detected, and that the whole machinery may be dis covered. The Irish people may be well assured that the welfare and prosperity of their country depends on such a result, and that so long as it is possible (even for their unceasing calumniators) to assert that the inhabitants of the locality are in any degree impli cated in the transaction, even by a merely tacit connivance, or by not exerting themselves to give the fullest information to the officers of justice, and en- deavouring to the utmost extent of their ability to render the assassins amenable to the offended laws, they cannot hope for prosperity. Capitalists will not make investments where there is not ample security for life and property ; and it is the want of capital, which, but for events such as those above alluded to, would freely flow in, that has reduced the sister king dom to its present melancholy condition. " The Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law" is steadily and energetically proceeding in the course it had marked out for itself. Although, it has been many years in existence, although it has not only directed the public attention to many glaring grievances, but also pointed out suitable remedies, which if adopted would remove the evils, it still finds subjects of the deepest interest on which to bestow its useful and valuable labours. There has been no lack of abuses. There is no person who has ever engaged in legal proceed ings who could not, from his own personal expe rience, point out some matter in which he had sustained serious injury, and respecting which some amelioration was urgently required. But, unfortu nately, the results of individual experience cannot be brought prominently forward. We may occasionally hear of isolated cases, where Chancery prisoners had been incarcerated some score of years, or where persons with well-founded claims to extensive estates or considerable personal property had perished for want of the common necessaries of life, victims to the " hope deferred, that maketh the heart sick." These may excite a temporary sensa tion which would speedily subside, and all the cir cumstances be involved in oblivion, but for the bene ficial exertions of the association. The interesting and important question of the ex isting relations between the bar, the at torney, and the client, formed the chief topic of discussion at the general meeting held at the offices of the society on Monday last. The report of the special committee appointed at the last general meeting, on the 10th of November, was read, and received with the most perfect unanimity. The gentlemen selected had exhibited the greatest research and judgment, and spared no pains in the efficient discharge of the duty which they had under taken. They entered into the history of the profes sion, which they traced back to the very foundations. Thep also pointed out the origin of th© so-called "etiquette," which prevents the public from obtaining the advice and assistance of barristera, save through the intervention and agency of attorneys, a rule of which they most strenuously advocated the discon tinuance. The report showed that the bar had for many ages been identified with the inns of court—that it was, in fact, as old as the common law itself, and that its members had the exclusive privilege of practising a advocates, pleaders, or counsel in the secular courts, and of exercising the profes aion of " lawyers " as distinguished from officers of the courts and officers of justice. had not attained the d eg re e o f bar rister were ex p res slyprohibited from practising in the superior court s , ob rfore the judges o f ass i ze , an d e rendering any assist anceany persons not of that de to litigants, were subjected to stringent punish to bb fact thatn s eems force, pser.l? . and main - w ent under the laws relatin g t e nance. These statutes are aro t although seldom resorted to---a to have been forg otten b y some of the trade in protection societies now i n o p eration, and which, the event of any prosecution, may involve the mem bers in very unexpected and unpleasant consequ e ,,,, In the olden time the bar took a prominent part in every proceeding ; nothing could be done without their assistance; and, as the report truly states, " their aid, sanction, and advice were rendered almost indispensable" to every suitor. There was, however, no fixed payment for their services ; they should be remunerate,) by a present or honorarinni,and,sith the exception of physicians, who were placed in an al most sitallo,r position, they were perhaps the only persons who could recover no demand for work and labour, hov 'ever valuable. The othq r branch of the legal profession—the at- LONDON, torneys—sprung into existence at a later date. They were not recognised by the common law, under which every party to a suit should appear in person. By the statute of Westminster 2, cap. 10, attorneys, duly admitted, were allowed to appear "to prosecute or defend any action, in the absence of the parties to the suit." It was, however, only in " the absence" of the parties that this privilege was con ceded, and it was expressly recognized that these parties might act for themselves whenever they thought proper so to do, without the interference of any intermediate person. Indeed, the retainer or consultation through an attorney constituted the exception to the rule. The sergeants and "utter" barristers regularly attended at the "purvise," or In other words, their respective pillars at St. Paul's, where those requiring legal ad vice hastened to receive it from the fountain head, there being no bills incurred of unknown magni tude, the fair and first remuneration being satisfied in the first instance—a principle to which, we believe, many suitors at the present day would give in a willing assent. In these cases the honorarium was paid, and the advice obtained, without the assistance of either attorney or clerk, and it has recently been decided in the case of " Bennett v. Hall," that there is no absolute necessity for such intervention ; there is, in fact, nothing but the feelings of the individual members of the bar to secure the other branch of the profession a continuance of the practical monopoly which they have attained. As an illustration of what may be done by the bar, the committee refer to the well-known case of Lord BROUGHAM, who, when a leading member of the northern circuit, was threatened with a total loss of his professional practice in consequence of a resolution of the attorneys, who were opposed to the legal reforms of which he was the strenuous and indefatigable advocate. HENRY BROUGHAM, however, defeated the combination by publishing his intention of dispensing with their ser vices, and of affording his counsel and advocacy to such lay clients as should seek his aid. In that reso lution he was generously supported by the members of the Northern Circuit, who, with a view to relax any contrary rule of etiquette, directed the records of their circuit to be searched, when no trace of any such rule was found to exist. It was not every man who could venture on a course so decided, who could ro boldly " take the bull by the horns," but lIENav BROUGHAM did so in 1824, and with the most unequivocal success. his brethren sustained him in the struggle, and we ven ture to assert that the northern bar, second to none in England or in the world, will still_support even its humblest member, who stands forward in support of the rights and privileges of the profession. The committee, before completing their report, strongly recommended that the present too general practice, which prevents the public obtaining the ad vice and assistance of counsel, except through the compulsory intervention of En attorney, should be discontinued ; and that so much of the 9th and 10th Victoria, cap. 95, sec. 91, as has been considered to prevent a barrister from advocating the causes of suitors in the County Courts, unless instructed by an attorney, should he repealed ; that an attorney, desirous of being called to the bar, should, if in other respects a fit person, be admissible into an inn of court for such purpose without previously removing his name from the roll of attorneys, and should be permitted to keep his terms and perform his exercises as a student-at-law, without ceasing to practise as an attorney, but should be required to dis continue such practice and remove his name from the rolls at some period not longer than six months be fore his call to the bar. That attorneys should not be permitted to act as advocates in the superior courts. That counsel should be responsible for crassa hegligentia and for breach of contract or of confidence, and be liable under the sum• mary jurisdiction of the court either to refund their fees or to make such other reparation as the court should think fit. Lastly, that the legal university composed of Sergeant's Inn and of the inns of court should be revised, with a senate consisting of an upper and lower house, the former elected by the sergeants and benchers, the latter by the utter barristers, such senate to have jurisdiction in all cases concerning the discipline and conduct of the bar, and to appoint a board of examiners to superintend the public exami • nation of all candidates for admissio❑ to the degree of barrister•at-law. Time and space alike prevent us from entering into a close consideration of these valuable suggestions this day:; we shall, however, refer thereto on an early occasion. When the Right Reverend Paul, CULLEN bellowed wrathfully against Freemasonry in Ireland, we ex pressed a belief that no very perceptible results would follow from the blind obedience of " the Brethren" of his creed to his tyrannous and absurd manifesto. What, after kill, is the result ? Namely, this, that up to the last meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, not a single Roman Catholic member bad withdrawn, while, we learn from the provincial journals, that many Roman Catholics have recently joined the order. The Limerick Chronicle says, " Upwards of 300 gentlemen of Ireland have joined the Masonic body since the denouncement by Dr. CULLEN." To which the Carlow Sentinel adds, " Our Limerick con• temporary should add, that very many of those who joined are Roman Catholics, connected with the Irish bar, with the banks, country gentlemen,and solicitors. So much for Dr. CULLEN'S excommunication, in the 19th century, of the Freemason order." We congratulate the " Free and Accepted" on thus properly upholding the dignity of their useful and time-honoured order. It has stood several rude shocks uninjured, and Dr. CULLEN may depend upon it that he can no more succeed in crushing Free masonry by his big words than he can in proving that the solar orb has a diameter of six feet, as his Italian protege gravely asserted. He may as well give up the crusade at once, for we can confidently assure him, on the part of the Masonic fraternity, that he will not in the very slightest degree reap profit or pleasure thereby. LATEST NEWS FROM PARIS. (BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.) (From the Ecruld.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY, HALF-PAST SIX, P.M. M. Theirs has been sent off from Paris under an escort of gendarmerie. It is said that he has be en sent to the frontiers of Germany. It has also been reported that M. Leon Pemba' has been sent off, but this is not the case. (BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.) (From the Chronicle.) PARIS, THURSDAY, NINE, A.M. The departments of the Gers, Var, and Lot-et- Garonne are declared to be in a state of siege. Paris is tranquil. REPRESENTATION OF GREENWICH.—We understand that a gentleman of the highest mercantile standing in the City, and of Liberal principles, has, as a mem ber of the Merchants Committee for the Reform of the Customs, been solicited to offer himself as a can didate for the representation of Greenwich, and that, he has intimated his intention of complying with the request. The promises of support already tendered to him, we learn, are so numerous, that his success is undoubted. HUNGARIAN AND POLISH CONCERT, AT THE HA NOVER• SQLTAILR ROOMS, ON TUESDAY NEXT, TILE 16TII INST. —Miss Kate Hickson having generously volunteered to give a grand evening concert on Tuesday next, in aid of the funds of the Hungarian committee and of the Literary Asso ciation of the Friends of Poland, under the patronage of .Lord. Dudley Stuart, M.P., has by her own exertions secured the support of many distinguished artistes now in the metropolis. Miss Louisa Pine, Miss Pyne, Mrs. W. Weiss, Miss Main. Miss Poole, Mdlte. Coulon, Mr. Wrighton, Mr. Swift, Herr Stotiregen, Mr. W. Weiss, Mr. Orosz, Mr. Remenyi, Signor Piatti, Mr. It. Blagrove, and Mr. Charles Salomon, appre ciating the noble intentions of Miss Kate Dickson, promised itself t heir iis gratuitous aprtoehwt:terriefiellueiblerefvariteoctdfreast hct o tiel n iaortne t ti h utt i gs t epe oc srtoh c cwe c ei as etdhl i os o v : vae . hrre: s T oetf b o uenbcfeoonr music,pe rnpatarnoitda; p w r h ia e t n ed it fo is r sympathy is felt in this country, we trust that will fully co-operate in so benevolent an object. fits the p a u s b t l r i o e ng A Parliamentary contest is likely to ensue be tween the Tatf Vale a n d th e Vale of Neath, respecting which of these companies shall for m a b ranch line into the rich and fertile field of the Cwmdare Valley. Both companies have deposited the requisite notices. The Prince de Joinville, the Duke d'Aumale, and t t o be th C e ou c n Qu t tn d i e e l u 'a t. ris, are at E4ber, and not, reported, gone EVENING, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. ( - Ye of them, the Pays, publishes a leading article, the first which las appeared in an independent journal since the 2d December, for the Patrie and the Con stitutimatel are avowedly the organs the Elyt6?.. The Pays is the property of M T -.4AMARTINE 7 'and as the article i3:signed3y M. DE LA GUERRONIERF, the chief editor, it may be taken as the expression of the opi nion of M. LAMIRTINE on late events :-- " Tho civil war has been put down. After so many emotions and surprises, the country returns to calm, to reflsction, to the hatjits and wants of social life, to the attentive observation of the events which have just Leen accomplished, and to the impartial examina tion of the ceases which led to these events, and of the results which are to follow them. It is the hour to resume our pen. When a great country like France has the liberty to think, a journal like ours, independent, honest, and moderate, is bound to speak. e were bound at first to be silent, as every person has comprehended. Our silence was neither an abdication nor a desertion. It was imposed on us at that solemn hour, not only by the state of siege, which did not allow us to speak, but also by the trouble of cur mind, which did not permit us to regard with coolness a situation which we had neither foreseen nor called for. At present we raise our voice neither to approve nor to protest. We feel that all discussion is inipsssible, nut only because the Government would not permit it, but because our own conscience would prevent us. Why, in fact, should wo discuss? To raise the cry of vengeance of the vanquished? No, all vengeance would be odious and impious, for it could only lead to the shedding of blood. To raise the cry cf triumph of the conquerors? No, for we are not conquerors. What we every day asked for was, that France should be saved from the crisis which awaited her in 1852. What prayers did wo not address to the various parties! But all was in vain, for passion stifled reason. The Assembly clung with obstinacy to the fatal law of May 31, and that body has ceased to exist. God forbid that we should insult it; if we are not among the courtiers of the victors, we are still less amongst the insulters of the vanquished. But we must be permitted to say, that the Assembly perished pre cisely from two causes, the disastrous effects of which we had in vain attempted to paralyse; the law of May 31 destroyed the majority, and socialism destroyed the mi nority. Between the law of May 31 and socialism, there were the Republic and Universal Suffrage, and it is precisely these two words which were in voked by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte to dissolve the Assembly, and thus to destroy the Constitu tion. We were marching forward to catastrophes amidst those two currents of passions, ambitions, ran cours, and hatreds, the bellowing of which scarcely per mitted some independent voices to make the cry of 'shun heard which France was raising. If these voices had been heard, if the law of May 31 had been repealed, if the revision of the Constitution had been accepted by the minority, if all the parties had consented to do what Louis Napoleon Bonaparte has just done himself, that is to allow the people to decide, we aro convinced that what has happened would never have occurred. But this is not the hour to complain, and still less to accuse. We accuse no one, for were we to commence, we should be obliged, perhaps, to accuse every one. The present situation is not our work. Wo have not desired it, but we take it as it is, and, with the de sire, as political men, to fulfill all the duties which it imposes. It would, no doubt, suit better our inte rests and our sentiments to persevere in our re solution, to fold our arms, to weep over many things which we loved, and which now do not exist. But it better suits our patriotism to resume our task, to aid good intentions, to encourage toleration, and to speak as often as we can without betraying our convictions and aggravating the perils of the situation. The Assembly is dissolved, and the constitution has disappeared. But there remain two great things, the Republic and univer sal suffrage. There remains, also, what we desire to preserve and defend above all things—namely, France. As long as she remains we shall not consider ourselves at liberty to wrap ourselves up in sorrow for our disap pointed hopes, and regret them eternally. No; there can be no eternal ruins for us but those of our country —when we shall behold it fall to pieces at our feet, let us fall also, and then believe in God alone. Until then we will believe that God is just, and France great." M. TIIIERs was sent off last evening under escort to the frontier at Strasbourg. His police attendants are nut to lose sight of their prisoner until he shall have crossed the German frontier. It is said that he is wretchedly ill, and that, had he been detained longer in the prison of Maza, his life would have been in danger. The Prefect of the Seine has issued a notice declaring that, in execution of the decree of the PRESIDENT of the Republic, instituting a commission for ascertaining the damage sustained by innocent persons in the affairs of the 3d, 4th, and sth December, claims must be sent to him on or before the 18th of the present month. The Constitutionnel states that in the civil hospitals the number of wounded has never exceeded 138, including the soldiers who have since been removed to the military hospitals ; at present it is only 79, of whom 10 are soldiers. The greatest number are at the Hotel Dieu and the Hospital Saint Louis. The Mintiteur contains a decree from the PRESI DENT of the Republic, and countersigned by M. Rourina, the Minister of Justice, specifying the course to be pursued with respect to cases in dispute which had been submitted to the late Council of State. As several decisions of the section du cont(n ticux have remained inoperative, from not having beer/ read in public audience, and as it is important that the parties interested should not lose the benefit of such decisions, the decree declares that such decisions shall have full effect, notwithstanding the informality just mentioned. The decree also orders that such disputed cases as should be brought before the Coun cil of State, had it continued to exist, are to be still received, and en-registered at the secretary's office of the former section du contentieax. The Monsieur, after publishing the text of the Lyons to Avignon Railway Bill, adopted d'urgencc by the Legislative Assembly on December 1, gives a decree from the PRESIDENT of the Republic, and countersigned by M. MAGNE, the Minister of Public Works, relative to one point of that measure. It declares that, a 3 the terms of Art. 6 of that law, which orders "the goods' station of La Guillotire to be placed within the fortifications of Lyons," clash forcibly with the system proposed by the Committee and approved of by the Assembly, namely, that " the goods' station of La Guillotiere is to be placed on the principal line, which runs in every part outside the fortifioations," it is decided that the text of the said Art. 6 is to be modified in the following manner The definitive situation of the said goods' station, whether inside or near the fortifications, shall be de termined by the Minister of Public Works, after a preliminary inquiry, and on the recommendation of the mixed Committee of Public Works." The Minister of the Interior has addressed the following report to the PRESIDENT of the Republic : "Paris, December 9. " Monsieur le President—Armed bands have scoured the department of the Basses-Alpes, and called on the population to revolt. Acts of open violence have been committed, and the security of property and persons has been gravely compromised. Government has taken measures to render the attempts of the seditious of no avail; but meanwhile, the situation which I allude to constitutes the state of imminent peril provided for by the law of Aug. 9, 1849, and calls for prompt and vigorous measures. In consequence, I have the honour of submitting to you a decaee having fcr object to place the department of the Basses-Alpes in a state of siege. Accept, &c., " A. DE MouNny, Minister of the Interior." A decree of the PaEsthENT of the Republic follows, in conformity with the conclusions of the report. Private accounts from the south of France repre sent these disturbances as of a very serious character. In the department of Var a Provisional Government has been established, and the roads are overrun with armed men. In the departments of the High and Low Alps they number at least 10,000 men, and several towns are in their possession. Fears are en tertained that the insurgents may establish a guerilla warfare in these mountainous districts. Galignani's Messenger publishes the following account of the dis turbances : " Disturbances have taken place in the department of the Aveyron. Intelligence reached Rod, z on the 4th t, at a band of armed men were about to march on the to wn from Villofranche. They arrived about the middle of the day, nominated a demagogic commission, and sent delegates to summon the General commanding th e department to recognise it as the authority of the department. But the delegates were arrests d, and troops were sent to the town. Ou their arrival, the insurgents dispersed; ten of them were, how ever, :arrested. Subsequently, a number of them, forming themselves into a band, marched:on Villefranche and attempted to seize on the Hotel de Ville, but they were repulsed. Another band proceeded to Milhan, where it captured the Hotel do Ville end a quantity of muskets of the National Guard; but the brigades of gen• darmerie in the district having been hastily , assembled, they dispersed. At Regnac, a baud attempted to force the Mayor to give them the arms of the national guard, but by the assistance of some friends of order ho suc ceeded in putting them to flight. Since these affairs, the department has not been disturbed, and the immense majority of the inhabitants are in favour of tho cause of order. " The district comprised between Clamrcy, depart ment of the Nievre, and Coulanges-sur-Yonne, de partment of the Yonne, has been the theatre of grave disturbances. In every commune bands attempted to possess themselves of the Mairies, in order to seize the arms of the national guard. In resisting one of these bands, a gentleman named Poussc aux was kill, d. One portion of these insurgents proceeded to Clarnercy, where they committed excesses which have been already stated; another marched on Coulcinges-sur-Yonne, but the inhabitants resisted, and for three days prevented the insurgents from forcing their way into the town. A great number of small communes were, however, dis armed and sacked. The tocsin was sounded. At last .expressos succeeded in reaching Auxerre, and vigorous measures were immediately taken. Some engagements subsequently took place between the brigands and the military, and the former were everywhere defeated. On both sides there were killed and wounded. The last Re counts from Auxerre represented that the rioters were eevery where routed, except at La Puisaye, but that mil:- tary forces were being sent against them there. " The following additional particulars bad been re ceived respecting the riots nt Nziers:—On the 4th, le.re3e, competed of all the Wen ill the neigh b,:iirhood, began to prowl through the country, carry leg flu ;s, preesed hy a drums. About the tnirldle of the day who h a l i ,, ereas , d la nlttn':er t.) near! 2 . 000, marched en Bkisrs. They Wert dit early in the inereing of the sth, and immediately proceeded towards the Sub-Prefecture. Before reaching it they halted, and sent three of their body to demand that the Sub-Prefect should resign the place and his authority into their hands. The Sub-Prefect arrested these three anarchists, and, accompanied by the Mayor and an examining ma gistrate, advanced at the head of one hundred soldiers to meet the insurgents. The band still continued its pro gress towards the Hotel do Ville. On meeting it the Sub-Prefect made the three summonses to disperse, but the rioters, instead of dispersing, continued their march. A shot fired by one of them struck a soldier. The troops returned the fire, and throw the insurgents into confusion; they did not, however, take to flight, but got into the door-ways and other places for shelter. The struggle lasted fur an hour. Two soldiers were killed, and four seriously wounded. Eight or ten of the rioters were killed. Some minutes before the insurgents attacked the troops, one of them fired at and killed M. Bernard Maury, of Nissan, a man generally esteemed, who was walking towards the college to fetch his son. 'rho murderer, before firing, exclaimed, " En voila un proprietaire." " In the department of the Aude, the ex-Mayor of Chalabre, a man named Les trd, dismissed several months ago, on receiving news of the events at Penis, assembled a band of demagogues, and drove out the municipal administration, installing himself as Mayor in the name of the people.' rhe sub Prefect of Limoux, no sooner received information of these pro ceedings than he marched on Calabre at the head of a detachment of 50 men. On hearing ot' his approach, Beard and some of his adherents took to flight. One of them was, however, captured, and in spite of au at tempt to release him, lodged in gaol. The municipal authorities were re-established in their functions. " Among the places disturbed by the socialists was the town of Forcalquier, in the Basses Alpes. M. Paul mier, substitute of the Procureur of the Republic, and Mr. Paillard, sub-Prefect, were attacked by a furious crowd, wounded, and made prisoners. They, however, succeeded in escaping; and the insurgents, as if terri fled at what they had done, abandoned the theatre of their excesses. The official papers publish a dispatch from Admiral Dunounnuu, dated Tangier, the 29th of November, announcing the termination of the dispute with Mo- rocco. The PRESIDENT of the Republic visited the wounded soldiers in the hospitals on Tuesday. The following is the letter in which M. DE Gou- LARD notified to the PRESIDENT his refusal to become a member of the " consultative commission":— " Paris, Dec. 4. "Monsieur le President,—At the same instant that I left the prison of Mazes, I learned that my LBlll3 figures upon the list called by you to form a consultative com mission. I have th e h onou r to i n form you that I posi tively refuse the mission you would confide to me. Honour and my conscience forbid me to accept it. "Agri z, Mons. le President, etc , "DR Goubenn." The soiree at the Elys6e on Monday was more numerous and brilliant than any that has taken place for many months. It is estimated that between 2,000 and 3,000 persons were present. Among them were his Excellency the Marquis of NORMANDY, the POPE'S Nuncio, the Ministers of Russia, Austria, Prussia, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Naples, &c., the Cabinet Ministers, and a considerable num ber of ex-representatives, an &nearly 100 generals. The banquet intended to have been given on the 10th December, at the Hotel de Ville, has been post poned. The Foi Bretonne, published at S. Brieuc, in the Cotes.clu-Nord, contains an emphatic protest against the usurpation of December the 2d, and adhesion to the resolution signed by the representatives in the mayory of the 10th arrondissement. This protest was moved in the Council-General of the Cotes d'Or, and signed by sixteen members. What is still more important, the regiment of artillery quartered at St. Brieuc had given votes against the PRESIDENT. The municipal councils of Launion, Tleguier, and other towns in the same department, had also voted resolu tions condemning the acts of the 2d December. The Morning Chronicle of this morning publishes the following in its Parisian correspondence : "One of the most frightful episodes of the insurrec tion was that which took place on Thursday last on the Boulevards. At half-past three in the afternoon of that day, the troops extending along the Boulevard des Italiens, the Boulevard Montmartre, and the Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, were drawn up the whole way across the street, so as to touch the trottior at each side. The foot-pavements were crowded with spectators, and in the balconies of the houses of each side were to be seen hundreds of ladies and gentlemen. There was not a barricade within a considerable distance, and certainly not within sight. Things were in this position when, all of a sudden, a running fire was opened on the people on the foot-pavements and at the windows. Fortunately, it was not by platoons, but by a running fire, so that a considerable number had time to escape, but still the carnage was dreadful. To ono house at the corner of the Rue Berle/11 there were carried no less thirty-five dead bodies, besides those carried elsewhere; end it way truly be stated that among this mass of victims there was not a single insurgent. " The excuse given by the Government papers for this wanton act was that shots had been fired on the troops from two or three different houses, which w ere named the Cate de Balcon, the Cale Tortoni, the Cuff do Paris, the Hotel de Castille, and Dusautoy's (a tailor) in the Boulevard des Italiens. It appears however, that this was entirely a mistake. Both the Con&tutiennel and Patrie now admit that they were mistaken. The Patrie says:—' It is by an error that we have announced that a shot was fired from the Caf6 de Paris, and that that house was ransacked by the troops. We hasten to rectify that error. Nothing of the kind happened at the Cafd do Paris. A similar complaint has been made to us by the Maison Donee and the card Tortoni. We hasten to do justice to them. The cafe of the Grand Balcon was also mentioned as a point on which the troops were fired from. Nothing of the kind took place in that house. It was by an error, which, under the circumstances, was excusable, that the workshops of M. Dusautoy were searched by the troops. The sentiments of M. Du sautoy, as a man of order, are w e ll known. He had closed his ahop,but retained his workmen. The error was acknowledged a few minutes afterwards.' " But if all this be true, why did this destruction of life take place ? Why were the peaceable persons in the streets or at the windows fired at ? If it be true, as is reported, that the order given to the troops was --‘ Spare nothing, but especially the balcons and the blackcoats,' the massacre on the Boulevards will be handed down as one of the most wanton acts of cruelty ever committed. The battalion of the 17th Regiment of the Line, in garrison at Perigueux, has voted for the continuation of the powers of the President of the Republic. Out of 822 soldiers 801 have voted for, and 21 against. There was a large quantity of money stock offered for sale at the Bourse, and the prices declined. The Five per Cents. opened at 96f. 50c, and fell to 961. at which they closed for the end of the month.; the Three per Cents. closed at 58f. 40e ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 927 f. 50c.; Rouen, 591 f. 25c.; Havre, 221 f: 25c.; Great Northern, 475 f.; Avignon, 203 f. 75c ; Vierzon, 443 f. 75c ; Basle, 157 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 380 f. ; Paris and Saasburg, 372 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes, 260 f.; Amiens to Boulogne, 268 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Dec. 10. Boulogne and Amiens, 10 - Central of , France (Orleans and Vierzon), 1744—Dutch Rhenish, 3 ),;—Luxembourg, 3—Northern of France, 14%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 4 1 / g ..- Paris and Rouen, 23 1 4—Paris and Strasbourg,l2%—Sambre and Meuse, WA—Tours and Nantes, 6%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the sth have arrived. A Madrid letter of the sth says :—" The Chamber of Deputies held a sitting to-day. At the opening M. BRAVO Muitir.no read a telegraphic dispatch from Paris, dated the 2d, announcing the dissolution of the French Chamber, &c., which was listened to with the deepest attention. The President of the Council assured the Chamber that whatever events might take place in France, there was nothing to threaten either the throne, the national institutions, or public order in Spain. He then left the Chamber followed by a number of Deputies, and very animated conversa tions were afterwards carried on in the lobbies of the House." The Epoca has been condemned to a fine of 30,000 reals fur the publication of subversive articles. MADRID BoI.sA, DEC. s.—The Three per Cents wore done at 36, for time; the Five per Cents., at 16'; and the Debt without Interest, at si. PORT UGAL. From Lisbon we learn that the Government have capitalised the floating debt of unpaid dividends and paid allowances due to the servants of the state. The Cortes will meet on the 15th inst. Discount of Lis bon bank notes has risen to 7i- per cent. GERMAN Y. The Cologne Gazette of the 9th announces the arrest at Delitseh of Dr. FIEBIGER, on a charge of attempting to excite an insurrection against the Prus• sian Government. He only recfntly quitted the for tress of Magdeburg, after an imprisonment of 18 months, in which he had been condemned for se dition. A letter from Radstadt of the sth says :—" The news of the events at Paris produced a very great sensation here. The telegraph was at work during the whole day. At five in the evening the gates of the fortress were closed, and patrols of cavalry were on duty on the outside." The Vienna journals of the 7th contain long arti cles on the recent events in France. They are gene rally favourable to Louis NAPOLEON. The Austrian Lloyds, which is one of the most influential organs of the mercantile party, says it is sure that the acts of Louis NAPOLEON will be ratified by at least two thirds of the French nation. The Cologne Gazette, under date of Carlsruhe, 6th, states that the Ministry bad intended to convoke the States for the 9th, but that the news of the events in Paris, which had produced extruordi- THURSDAY DECP,MBER 11, tßra. nary sc,nlr.athln, h.d it It t A a el ange in that resolu- GAL t••• , • *Ok , r for toe 12th. -- The • King of Sr x,, , -1 , ~f iened the Sta.tEs of his prion ( , o most important part of his speech wes which he s:.ated th 11( had received shh I nt-t..tire the voposition of the Prussian G;verP.racnt relafive to the Zollverein with a view ultimately to ki euitonaa union of all the German states. T A V. In its sitting of the 6:b, the Chamber of Deputies at Turin commenced the discussion of the budget of the navy department for 1852. Signor AviGnott having insisted upon the neccssity of placing the navy under a better footing, Count CAVOUR, the Minister of Commerce, observed in r ply, that he thought it impossible to give a better organization to the navy, unless it were transferred to La Spezzia, for as long as it remained at Genoa it would be in vain to at tempt to increaso it, the size of that port being in sufficient. BRAZILS.-1114 CA PLATE-CAPE OF Gre.'ol) HOPE. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, 8 A.M. The Teviot has just arrived here. Her dates are— Buenos Ayres, Nov. 3'• ; Monte Video, 6th; Rio de Janeiro, 14th; Bahia, 18,.n; Pernambuco, 21st; St. Viiicent's, 29th ; Teeeritle, Dec. 3d ; Mocteira, tish ; Lisbon, 741; Cape if (3- )0.1 Hope, Nov. 4th. The Cape steamer Prevtntis left St. Vincent for Plymouth of the 28th. From Mote Video and Buenos Ayres we learn that Uruguay is completely emancipted from the control of Rosas. Oribe's army is disbair!ed ; his efficees have retired to Buenos Ayres; Oriba hea retired to private life. Urquiza had left the M'T, re Videati territory with part of ids troops on board Brazilian transports for Entre Rios, from whence lie oils to march into Buenos Ayres. The Brazilian army remained in Uruguay, to sup port the actual Government. In Buenos Ayres a bold declaration of anti-resista opinions had been made. Some attribute this to confidence felt by Rosas against Urquizs. Others believe that Rosas dreads putting matters. te...extremities. From Rio we learn that up to the 14th ult. there had been no change in the Cabinet. It was expected that Mi nisters would resign as soon as their measures in the River Plate had producJi some definite result. From the Cape we learn that the intelligence brought by the last post trout the frontier is en couraging. General Somerset had inflicted on the Kafirs in the Waterk;ouf a succession of defeats, attended with heavy losses to them. The 60:h Rifles had made their appearance in the field, and their weapons had told with great effect. It was supposed that Alecomo would not be able to hold out much longer. The Kafirs were still in great force in the Fish River Bush and in the Amatola. It is feared, however, that any opening prospects of success would lead to a wider extension of the war, and which may before leng spread eastward beyond the Kei, and northward beyond the Orange River. Much satisfaction wAs felt on the arrival of the promised ordinances, comprising the framework of a sufficiently liberal form of government. There is an energetic movement in the country districts in favour of the immediate establishment of their constitution. This movement is considered most important. ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS. On Wednesday the 10:11 instant, being the eighty third anniversary of the foundadon of the Royal Academy of Arts, a general ussemb!y m of the academicians was .e . held at their apartments in refalgar-kquare, when the following distribution of pr,naiums took place, viz.:— To Mr. William S. Button—For the best historical painting, the gold medal and a discourse of the President West. _ _ _ _ To Mr. Charles Summers—For the beat group in his torical sculpture, the gold mt•dal and a discourse of the President West. To Mr. John Rubicon—Por the best architectural design, the gold medal and a discourse of the President West. To Mr. Francis Clark—For the best drawing from the life in the life school, the silver medal. To Mr. John Bagnold Burgess—For the best drawing from the lire, the silver mi , dal and the lectures of the Proles Fuseli, Howard, and Flaxman. To Mr. George 'E ;ward l'c.on—For the next best drawing from the life, the bik , er medal. To Mr. James Lutitie)— For the next best drawing from the life, the silver medal. To Mr. Charles Su:lin:kers—For the best model from the life, the silver menni and the lectures of the Profes sors Fust•li, Howard, end Eiaxman. To Mr. Thomas Chastopher—For the best drawings of the toner and spxe of flow Church, Cheapsido, the silver trelFti and the ke.ures of the Professors Fuseli, Howard, ai.d Flaxinsn. _ _ _ To Mr. James Rowley—For the next best drawings of the tower and spire of Bow Church, Cheapside, the silver m► da,, To sir. slrnay Saxen 'Snell—For the next best draw. ings of tht, to'4er and spire of Bow Church, Chespside, the silver ni:?+ial. To Mr. GeTg,e Edward Tuson—For the hest copy made iu tt , e .t.-, , eb00l of PAintieg, the eilver medal and the lectures of Lhe Professors Fuoeii and Howard. To Lie, William Cooper—For the next best copy made in the Sehml of Paietitig, the silver medal. To Mr. William Oliver Williams—For the best draw ings from the antique, the silver medal and the lectures of the Professors Fust-li race Howard. To Mr. Douglas Yeoman Blukisten—For the nex best drawing's from the antique, the silver medal. To Mr. George Ilei bert ii eon—For the next bes drawings from the antique, the silver medal. Which was concluded with an address from the Pre sident to the student:. _ _ The General Assembly aft,:.rwards proceeded to ap point officers for the evoinicg year, when Sir Charles Lock Estlake was unaniinowly re-elected President. Couneil.—New List— l'homas Creswick, Richard Red grave, Francis Grant, ti.nd Charles Robert Leslie, Ergs. Old List—Philip herd si iek, David Roberts, Charles Barry, and Clarkson SianiieA, Visitors in the Lif',a Aoulemy,—New List—Charles West Cope, William Dyes, Solomon Alexander Hart, Patrick McDowell, end ftichard Redgrave, Esip. Old List--William Muiready, Daniel Maclise, Charles Robert Leslie, and Thomas Webster, Ef,qs. Visitors in the School of Painting.—New List— George Jones, Charles Landseor, William Mulready, and Clark son Stanfield, Est's. Old List—Charles R Leslie, John Rogers Her bert, Solomon Aleat.i:der Hart, Dank' Maclise, and William Frederick Witheri;lgten, Rigs. Au'.zors re-elected—lN Ohara Muiready, Esq,, Sir Richard Westrnacott, and Ch Arles Barry, ACCIDENT AT THE TEST OF ONE (F THE D OKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S PRIZE LIFE BJATS.— Tuesday was the appointed day for a special trial of one of Mr. James Beeching's life-boats at Liverpool. At noon she was launched from the Waterloo pier, and by the aid of a crane and a rope coiled round her, turned completely bottom up wards, when, with an ahnott imperceptible rapidity, she righted in what may be termed a " half waterlogged " posi tion. The boat was then manned, and rowed lightly and well ; but, as a last test, the crew got on the "starboard gun wale," sinking her to near the water's edge. Some half dozen more men (some of them partially intoxicated) then jumped on board, and, overpowering the boat, which was only 28 feet long, capsized her, throwing the whole number, 16 persons, into the water. The boat would have immedi ately righted had they not clung to her gunwale, but the men hanging with their weight b, low her, kept her for some five minutes bottom upwards. All were fortunately saved— one somewhat strangely; he had stuck to the boat, and she capsized over him ; when, however, she was relieved of the weight hanging to her sides, and from her principle of con struction sat on an even keel. the crowd was astonished to find him all cafe, and not. wet beyond the middle. Ile shook his shoulders, and declared that he dared go anywhere in her. THE VICTORIA PIPSD.-Her Majesty the Queen has most kindly signified h r intention of founding a new charity for the relief ot the poor patients who have been liberated from the county of Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Colimy Hatch ; and it is to be carried on in a similar manner to the Royal Ade:aide Fund at the Harwell Lunatic Asylum. Her Majesty h.ie already forwarded [OOl. for the promotion of the chat ity. SHOCKING CASE OF BAIIDARITY.—BURNING THE BODY OF A CHILD.-o:,e of the most atrocious acts of cruelty ity a mother to her child that we ever heard of, has within the last few days been perpetrated at Arncliffe, a small .situate about twelve miles from Settle, and the same distance trom Skipton. A single woman, of the name of Mary klod6e.en, suppo.ied to be aged about thirty, has been living with en eld man, named Richard Jaques, a widower, between eeveitty and eighty years of age, at Arecliffe. She has had an ilie t 4itianate child, whether bora alive or not is not known ; i:ut its body she destroyed in the most inhu man way, hy burning it in the kitchen fire. Her neighbours noticed the tire as being unusually large, and, coming in, found her and the old man sitting and blowing it with the bellows. A Mr. Robinson, surgeon, went in with the con stable (suspicion being excited) and found the infant's charred body among the coals. —Manchester Examiner. FALL IN THE PRICE OF BREAD. — Yesterday the bakers at the East end, Whiteehapel,Spitalfields, and Black.. friars-road, the New-cut, karsh-gate, Westminster, the Seven Dials, &c., Drury-lane, Holborn, &c., fell the price of the 41b. loaf one halfpenny, and now charge sd. (even money), in some parts only 4-1-,d. per loaf, weighed on delivery. The best bread at the full-price bakers' throughout the metropolis is 7d. ; some of the first - rate s ee ps at the \Vest-end, Strand, and the City, however, still charge 7d. The average price of bread daring the present winter will not exceed sd. for good family bread, and best 6d. to 6id., or at most 7d. per loaf. There is an excellent stock ot flour and - wheat in the metropolis, b o th British and foreign. LINERPOOL, WEDNI.sidAY.—The United States mail steam-ship Baltic, Cala,aia Comstock, sailed to-day for New York with the meal snails. The screw steam-ship City of Glasgow, Captain Wylie, sailed at noon for Phila delphia with the largest cargo of British manufactured goods ever shipped from this port by a steamer, the value being upwa rds of 100,0001. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Mr. J. M. Morton, the e minent dramatic writer, h .s been appoi n t e d by M r . Bunn to the important office of 3' Nee manager—and a more popular selection could not poeeib!y eu made. Fazio is to be the opening piece. Cor.oncEum.—The Panorama of Paris is exciting much interest at this time, as all the localities of the late events can be distinctly traced in that celebrated picture. THE AMERICAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—Dr. Kane, the scientific and able senior surgeon of the American Arctic Expedition, has beeii reque-ste:l to deliver lectures on this subject, et the Smythsoniaii I: stitution, Washington. THE PA RMERS. — Notwith.tabding all the cry about farmers, whose pockets are so little tcuched as theirs in point of taxation, poor-rates, and turnpike tolls ? For years they have been favoured in all these respects, a "great fact" not to be denied. ~.,ELIVYN Engde an a --- Ch l ;: t r r e .lN'' VICE-CHANT DAV L.-CHANCEEY,--(TaIS ~, RE VISCOUNT IVITDDLETON'S EST` ite•',/ier 'ellor Kinderdey, "or the transfer a 3 I 'l o o o p;:lieaLien tont; floantne'io of m ' which wee now in court, to the te ~,oleot d been appointed under the Mt of Vl:nega whichthat c h in : Y accrued the trustees had been passed, for the purpose of puttirg ;ibis to the case.le mut according emus suits which were then pendloge`b the There was a bond debt for I' lo o trustees proposed to pay off. With the laps J o vf upon several sums of money, and the Act (11 some estates f the .(1, Parliament, the money for which had nOW bee the la re sum to within anticipated t o thattbe d i dietr et i o w n o s ii 0 l . 0 :l e 1,000/. of the amount requireo_ $ tor por were a occasionnumber of costs which, as he statOlt coodo; . , were to bo paid by the trustees. 4 " le if Pr mon, he stated that similar orders to that no for bee n had n ranted on former 00000 thoir v . 3 11 HONOUR, after 11011 prayed.; grarl plication as Boni. °Versa' QUEEN'S , S :::: 11 1 , 01 0 ) ce lf ---L--- BENCH......( Tjai d o twtn f u .d,aieg _ , : o h a a t bs th tri e i 1:1a.:1,h;pislolw-ndatissocaoonupntretoetmir°,insts000frryeac'nsotivometerPsi3!ie1p0. 2 ,s di , o l lo l o B l° oo , I° , ROGERS V. HARRIS. wag'. 6 b „,.. to:, I.w ! lh a l s e st if t ' i -li t . ;e: tthheer defendant T h e not note in l a 8 v it n o ; d s e ta fe t n inns dant bad pleaded several ii 1 ga l , inasmuch g t f a rto t h u maa t s e t 0 tt o rhh i pee Li jinnwgi consideret a rt t eh in eg n abi s t iva b e i r r r ifu e o : pritoci i o o oo r ti r ee Mr. CHAD he ar fence, , !Mils, (.2.C., addressed the JorY,l_,A OP y t Bm . i . e o ve a n er r l 37 landed B ad, t g o e iht; provedthi(ee' e n t e r e d smitaaactnet so b iot e ny e ntjohpoeuevt:nisn:eivr e i evidence' e as e : ~i ptiri s ior , : p eesi r : de";;ea_ntdoutterwards called th 3 do fen bl_lolo for' pfacino, for 37 ,n:ii pound. ohooircoTdhiei The plaintiff's soed 01 dis property', and lepaasmscoe-retioabsorts olore, t up o ploanin induce tawi not be sustained in a e s o h u ti spring to take them up certificate and in t h ll yn e e °claw: ho gave him the notes in quellti°,l4 °m ore ftl f .i 'a ie i l h u r h e , E 3 an d h° p aid of 00, afterwards advised that the validity of 4 1 1 ,000 e testator thtsooetfnoairabtww: ittaysionnobdnfroeee hitt v , , foelb:9l,o og ediboi:l : Ili / 06 . ris 41 1, but a l e B n , to et . seTrhveedreuupnotnil tthhee tesgtainteoirels;:ii:ooll,r, defendant succeeded in keepivg ° ll/ ° a l 11 0 P;os sent . Meanwhile the testator died , b`' AV '''• was renewed t m h a e t It was s ery weirYitsLis-pobsyedtahletowgiedthoewr, oafntdh (I:Set:teal:en:l.oW "0 several years, and while t he were Were I'll°l°l disposed fer the plaintiff 010 tbcorsitSll,bo but for allegation was met by the defentlao • Op ts omaking which was to be found, ill rho 11 ' 9 ci 0 0" The prkoperwieatsoraomfeamington, wwhere,e e, do ,ll as a member of the fashionable vid; bui l by 1 1114 0 instead inquiries for the defendant at .-- edinathLis own. attorney's office. 0 roo ol oo of sending there contented bioisei , ~,,C1 the lie l°P- 'd r if,eol h 171 ethmobAers.sembly Roo ms 1 6 , JO" ill wras called to prove this fact, and he Ovit''," - 0 s ° inl stating,ls that as the defendant W 59 not i'l l-W pee" ( 4 r bus h in io e n s a s bles frequenting his balls and of t ° Sli or irotessiJo, he was put dow o lis esii property. A tel je _ ., 0 1 Lord r —AMPBELL wished ' f e- ber° -31ii r to be in core d went to the jury, hsn ode tic., „p whether or no the 121 be b rs p is 186, sections 202 and 205, IT 1...,05itt0 null and . v all agreements for foregoieg v o l' i lo, 3 ,i1 any proceedingsoid retresPe sole. in bankruptcy was ,„ 4 o Mr. CHAMB as Q C for the deffel 3aa " ' that it was. E ' . '., „ p od l ci But, on the other hand, ho or Mr. JAMES,C., and Mr. Virrar.g, fl" - Of the plaintiff Q t ser f° u point , .ns:ated that it was not. o re point ately his LORDSHIP determieed •_... iso The for the consideration of the Court abo o a leo o o Learned JUDGE then sututacd Of illoicletrA 0 questionsnotes; to the jury—first, what was the C.",, ono for theAi, Wr i " 4 iti and, secondly, were .- ~, m oo the first • instance for the of b el " g purpose O tei t il event of the defendant being thill 0, found. . was he The jury found that the considerati . „ e i t ~ pi by the defendant, • a I ss " sl y and that the plata.,, 41 l e with a bona tide - e intention, and made dtltg° e to the def den ant. t 0 (l i The COURT Ord° aie _accordingly directed a / „,, i for tered for the plaintiff ou the last issue, P fend ant an on the first. EXCI pAy) iEQIjER.--(1 lIIS This was an action Pß t I O C EreveOvirtrAades;ges f°l' 14 so A Ol eg :: illegal im pr isonment. Mr. Robinson appeared for the p luinal' p1:1 ° 1: 6611111 ' James for the defendant. thee ° I $. 4 es The plaintiff was a journeyman ie " bo siee 6 0 4 1 4 defendant, who carries on an extensive a he br°. ° 4O custody eart i . lodging monger ten days aftepriwaianrdesi,°aishic,agrrY : 6 :ll e : oi:bi' ro r di ° : mg, and requested that they might be,feell'lVl,;lll a_ ,, search. The plaintiff gave them el e l. ' t o o% Ow, lhey took possession of a quantity of ,cos e, pe ,2 1 1 w conveyed the plaintiff to the statieo4;ifed. h Ii( Pendant up until the magistrate ° lt hs o B ,„te;ei ant charged him with stealing h a n rosgioloi i t 0 01 was among the articles seized, and t"" b a il, ,ss ' root ,d h ual...iona e pbt3 a de;t r ysrhc i e,a n eoyt g enecTdfidh t h h e e pi ai evidence, nt ifr was adjournedunabi unable t 0 t o ll t a , 000 v i 5 0 009 4 . 01 missed ctbeahtashweiole..atrhseesorat during rl r iitnhspogernepteshrrseises d t iol o ,ni ge f hbruotb: s e el i 1; 3 : io r s- 0: ri,hdirol • tiff B '''oe ili 10 0 ( 10 0 $ The Learned COUNSEL fur w ° t l coell i though there was not the sttgeter o d 0 1 0 4 injured, accusation the prisoner's chars° 00 0 f lip I u i g pa i g u tio r n e gt d h , ae a n mp d rae h ns e ewi had ho i m b h e ae e dt n eubineuevanibol y e e eh ra t o o rgb : ea j oi f yo 6 :s o :: hi; firni Th w e it p h la f i e n lo ti n fl y. was then put into counsel o a u s T e n i s i The C t n o l et e xo e a an ißdiiejneunecaoterzehgaesedvadiliodatfii, plaintiff the 1 :1 1 1n , r o t o ll . 1: : : :1 ; 01 " . 1; : i ;be bob 110.i'l only pl ea pl ° l6 reue justification, dmTagi.ars.ficiedtiuniEoedossott i nhns t des j would bo iinPredenkt ;la rd s r oi 39" ,. h zihm o us h u i tgal said det a ahc - v t e ;e o afterwards sL th i an d po s plaintiff'i t iv e l Ys was or e then that b e t v vsmr t hs b : h i: e sue e nstll f -dt c h e: i iti , l3: b be; o itikb y r°:l3:l i li P o z i ! °:::111°11:: : :;1 ) ' I:: hi' M o r E. r J o a pe se r e ty s . said he wit ' s la bt °lll : l , 3oe o Y w Yt i s idrlll 3 e ll l:9 o, l l3B biti oc ell°3h or ii , ll2- 19:11:. a h e fill o ° i6: 01 11) ,11 .41 p hhhw o ieus r Ado t ethe t va l mea t k e rrepdan p lcio l ct e )sti a oerwm: o aea f s justification, e nagreed_______........, t 0 f oei mt: nti at 11 7 d o f w 0u1d, 0 ,4: ,,,, / 0 : ;h e .: : I : : , co. or fro r cu h mstances, consent to a verdict for ",* (0 0 , 40 5 a pro g e o e o e d de d d ea a l g o a t; n p s r t c t p h e e r property plaintifffro h t i ls e l e r re i Ti d e to be ia li gt s . o o r left this court entirely clear f fo r° a e l ) r 151 ' pA ) SHERIFFS' - 40 1 0: 051 ?.. erl r'A g ' abp nyr ( I.T,dis ß d,ohthre e nhiefA f sema o Lpu r wesi e l anEtait M sn. Itrajsi.inTPWßhle. inquirys B od Ne l I f3 R ei En C t 1 :No defendant bs .. Tea D Asd i av ; 4l ll 6 i toe i r ti 5 :ill: . jr n i l or Ar : r : . itil esLS E O F s2a se g il l° Ao j Lieutenant vigil nominal defendant is the A."'" YY shire. t e On the 25ffliissotaaf:Jeoduffintehceelra:inatse. 19 :. % / 0% 4 . 0 1 ' 1 0 0 1 1 Wilson,lV ei i M i l ns s r do sn n P t hw w ß ha E ao h dd N o d T rt was aily s ks j ised a n r e h b v d i o i s h s : oi r shr l e o t i ; z te ll: e r t .. ' i l n a i ni is " 11 ; r t e i : cl: ' 51164 ' Ik I ; c?ffittwi'W, Wilson rliar who immediately i n t iis whoticnie called; sei requestedda tt ; fh, le t y h e w Y er w 1 brother t e to r i e ns. so p a t , si I ( c, s : a eg k i t i net b ro ' b ot as o ti r rhnik l no, Bo° i takeeco:dcl:::$1:1:111,-c;i barer l, l6 : t: : : 1i irl oi eer of the sheriff. lie was sent for by °a ,Ilii°oll9 Hart asked for Mr. Wilson 1 ; 1' 4 li b l e; 1, 11 1/0 1 ;3 11 '. 4 1 said they wanted, and they said 3 41. ' d g00 8 ; 0 0 ,)j r Witness requested he was not there, but b il ko eltutir ~0 requested them not to lea,,,res "' AlP o ill retired into the valour, and liie' „il to r d ° writ iu a suit against Mr. Wilsoi_c. . 1 ,," 0 y el V i i , Witness said, "I am not' Mr. ve list) sid t h i;l tg r 4 to go out of the house. The u&er b gr. s i t o 4 not go without him, and appen3ed ° sod• 010 . ;0 16 ? whether he (plaintiff) was Wilson, . d ss it o o o,. o A i ing in the stlirmative, the officer 01 0 01 1 0 ° 5:" Witness sent for the boots and 0011f1,00b00604 street to explain. They vvell'eu,,Vig Ol e il o l b l iff u ' t e t e e h l r e ' , several whichwould n t i i oslealso : u , d r i t t h e d e b a w r.d t: 6 ; BB : p i; 1; 0 8 : 6Pe (1. e lig , - V I , 141 r g oo urged wi ,00thi s . 0 f o next morning witness showed tile °. ile'dl v 0 a l n - eck-tie, :on which was marked b 0 16 0 °, 1 1 .4. 0 0 1.b ..4 1' number of his regiment. Richard' s o et 11 0 0 _, to doubt, hut be could not set Wit°6ool.- 00 r i ll was acting under the orders of Alr' i 0 013 ifilr, A LWe I i i i set at liberty between eleven an - DO . t li i° o°' of the 27th. 03 0/ tt l- 0 1 0 / Cross-examined—Was positive t p l oy/ o li 01 name was not on the stock. pidignor iiri ls° 4 0 14 0,61 was coming round to Seithea. "'' g e flt," se. 1, 4 7 left the day before, but all his inge t ro Itv o t 0, 13 Pfl ) away, and some still remained ° / 0 eo 0 : 0 1 1 ip. ti o, know that he was in custodY wirlooviat-gooenidi would have resisted. He did 110' 1 P I" 0 .- Was a lock-up house, or he would t o ; 1 0 ; • C O l O went out merely to expleie• sent 1 0 ( _, 0 2 to Mrs. Wilson's, and it wa ° abet o itr olr f ba g , with the name Of " H ie, er pid;fo ( 0 1 , 1 Hart said it would be Letter to s ett le' t op ditil 1, 1 ;6 lose his comm6sion and paeseg v /1 1, / of B ' o o 6 ' 4 e Ts any offer to settle, but with a vie ise d it 6 r O d ic ° v Wilson asked how Mr. Hart vvi 6P bo ot be tir l :eil l not offer half the debt down tied., t oo ; 0$ Orl y te l , e / eighteen months. Witness 0' t o DP 00 0 6 ;00 0 ) name, but merel said that 110.07°,.5,30 DO e seceot i Thursday, the 26th, be told 11.1e17t000. 0000'0 i quested him not to tell Ileet. "' c o ti . LI er ff nf dp he wished to keep him off the 6e tho t 0P: 0 0 6. 6 that was certainly his idea, se Dr 010 :"loetfil r o il be issued. Did not tell the om e i ` be ee °3fre. f sequence about his being kePt ' t wit i' I t o 910 1 , 4 / away on Saturday. D.d not SD.Y.„„ t , tt' 0 o r b. u e not arrested he would undortaee ro clitY p el IV kl against the sheriff; but said eil ~e ) 00 it they would let him go shell Oki 114 ; 411 9 kt p, 411