The Sun. — London, England, 1851-01-03 00:00:00

t biett VStitton SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. FRANCE. - - The President of the Republic held the usual re ceptions on the occasion of the new year. They commenced at half-past nine, and did not terminate until the afternoon. The President was attended by the Vice-President of the Republic, the Ministers ; the Marshals of France, Dade de la Brunerie, Sebes tiani, and Reille ; by Admiral Mackau, by the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, by his Aides de-Camp and Officiers d'Ordonnance, General Ro guet, Colonel Vaudrey ; by Colonel Bacciocchi, Lieutenant-Colonel E. Ney, Commandant Fleury, Csptains de Toulongeon, Lepic, de Manneval, and Laity ; and by M. A. Chevalier, Secretary-General of the Presidency ; as also by several of the Aides-de-Camp and Officiers d'Ordonnances of the Minister of War and Marine. The receptions took place in the following order :—The Courts of Cessation, des Comptes, and Appeal ; the Council of Public Instruction ; the Prefects of the Seine and Police; the Municipal C Junoil of Paris; the Sub- Prefects of Stint Dania and Sceaux, and the Muni• cipal Councils of the Suburbs ; the Rector and Aca demical Corps of the Seine, the Tribunal of the First Instance, the Tribunal of Commerce, the Board of Direction of the Bank, the Juges de Pei.", the Cham ber of Commerce, the Corps of the Ponts-et-Chaus sees, the Functionaries of the Ecole Polytechnique, the Academy of Medicine, the College de France, the Ecole des Langues Orientales, the functionaries of the Museum of Natural History, the members of the Bureau des Longitudes, the Consei:s of Prud'homines, the Conseil de Perfectionnement of the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, the Council cf Advocates of the Court of Cessation, the Chamber of Notaries, the Chamber of Avoues of the Tribunal of First Instance, the Chambre Syndicale des Huissiers, the Chambre Syndicale des Agens de Change, the Chambre des Commissaires-priseurs, the Chambre Syndicale des Courtiers de Commerce, the Society of Agriculture, the Prefect of the Seine et Oise, the Conseil de Pre fecture, the Municipal Councils of Versailles, and other communes of the Seine et Oise ; the Tribunal of First Instance of the department, the officers of the National Guard of Parrs and the suburbs, the 'Generals and other officers present at Paris, the offi cers of the Army and Navy, and the old officers of the Empire. When the President of the Court of Cessation presented his homage to the President of the Republic, the latter addressed to him the follow ing speech which excited great attention : " I feel a very lively pleasure in expressing on this occasion my lively sympathies to the Court of Causation and to the magistracy. My most earnest wish is that principles may always remain above the passions of parties. It was said formerly ' There are judges at Berlin;' meaning thereby that there was a dyke to resist even despotic power. That is much more true in France. No one is ignorant of it. The enlightened and inde pendent magistracy only obeys its conscience, and knows that the Government will always respect this first guarantee of civiliz societies—Justice!' BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap . 32,fer the Week ending on Saturday, the 23th day of December, 1850. ISSUE DIPARTBILINT. Note/ i55ued........ 28,3M,720 Government debt •. 11,015,100 Other securities •• • . 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 14,300,053 Silver bullion • • .... 51,667 228,351,720 23,351,720 :. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 2d day of January, I larAzTlar T. Government securi. ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) .. 14,233,252 Other securities •• .. 14.459.608 .. • . • • • • 9,777,970 j Gold and sliver coin.. 611,961 Z 39,082,791 ". MARSHALL. Chief Cashier. ►NGE.-(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar.. • • .. ...... • • Leghorn ............•• 80 85 Gen0a..••••......••.• 25 65 Milan ........ Venice ........ gaples ........ • . 41 Palermo, per0z........ 124 Aessina .............. 124 f..i5b0n................ 534 !tie Janeiro ........ • • Buenos Ayres ...... • • Mew York.6odays'sight Philadelphia .... • • .... TZICIC3 Of BULLION. PZI OZ. Foreign Gold balms— E. 41 17 9 Portitgal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars .• . 0 4 11% •_ _ _ in bars .. 0 5 1 % XANKINGI D: Proprietor s' c aptt al .. 14,553,000 Kest . •• • ....... 3,107,764 Public deposits (in eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt,Sav ings-banks,andDi- vidand accounts).. 11,022,817 Other deposits ...... 9,147,039 Seven day and other Bilis.. :........... 1,252,151 A 39,082,791 Dated the 2d day of January, 1 COURSE OF EXCEL neraam ......•• •• 11 16 Ditto, three months .. 11 17 Rotterdam .... • • .• 11 17 N, aintwerp • • •••••• • • • • 25 25 Brussels 25 25 Hamburgh .... • • M.B. 13 6 4 Paris, 3 days'sight .. • • 25 0 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 25 Marseilles 25 27 34 Bourdeaux..... • • ... • Frankfort on Maine.... 117 ,, 4 Vienna, egec. flo.• •• • • 12 45 Trieste, ditto.. 12 45 Petersbargh, Sll. Rbie .. 37 Madrid • • ........ 49% Cadia • • •• • • • • • • • • •• •• 50 Barcelona • • • • .. • • .. • • -- 50vi11e................ THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) DOWNING•S MEET, JAN. 3, 1851. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles Justin :MacCarthy, Del., to be Colonial Secretary for the Island of Ceylon. WHITEHALL, JAN. 2. The Q leen has been pleased to appoint William Murray, Esq , of flenderland, to be one of the Board of Supervision for Relief of the Puor in Scotland, in the room of Sir John McPherson Grant, Bart., deceased. WHITEHALL, JAN. 2. The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend William Brown, D.D., to the church and parish of Cameron, in the presbytery of St. Andrew, and county of Fife, vacant by the transportation of the Reverend William Milligan, M.A., late• minister thereof, to the church and parish of Kilconqahar. CROWN-OFFICE, JAN. 2. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR• LIA MENT. Borough of Aylesbury—Frederic Calrert, Esq., in the room of George Lord Nugent, deceased. WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 3. 6 h Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Ensign George Wardlaw, from 76th Foot, to be Lit utenant, by purchase, vice Lindow, who retires, Jan. 3. 16th Regiment of Foot—Captain George Studdert, from 93d Foot, to be Captain, vice Gold ie, who ex changes, Jan. 3. 54th Foot—Cornet Andrew Robert Guy Evered, from Ist Dragoon Guards, to be Ensign, vice Shiffner, pro moted, Jan. 3. 67th Foot—Ensign Edmund Holden Steward to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pratt, who retires, Jan. 2; Thomas Blakiston Houston, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Steward, Jan. 3. 691 i Foot—Michael William Lade Coast, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gray, who retires, Jan. 3. 93d Foot—Captain George Patrick Goldie, from the 16th Foot, to be Captain, vice Studdert, who exchanges, Jan. 3. 99th Foot—Patrick Carroll, M.D., to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Galbraith, promoted on the Staff, Jan. 3. BREVET.—Captain William Grant Prendergast, of th© Bth Regiment of Bengal Cavalry, to be Major in the Army in the East Indies, May 20, 1850. HOSPITAL STAFF. Assistant- Surgeon George Thomaa Galbraith, 'M.D., from the 99th Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Courtenay, deceased, Jan. 3, 1851. ADMIRALTY, Daa. 30. The following promotions have this day taken place, consequent on the death of Rear-Admiral James Murray Gordon:—Rear-Admiral of the White the Hon. Sir Fleet wcisi Broughton Reynolds Pellew, C. 8., K.C.H., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red ; Rear-Admiral of the Blue Sir Joshua Ricketts Rowley, Bart., to be Rear- Admiral of the White; Captain John Toup Nicolas, C ' B '' l( - 1 • 1 , to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. Captain William Stan hope Lovell, K. IL, has also been promoted to be a Retired Rear-Admirai under the terms proposed in the London Gazette of the Ist Sep tember, 1846, without increase of pay. ADMIRALTY Disc. Disc. 30, 1850. t Corps of R o y a l M arin tleman Cadet Henry Eyre Waatt Lane t o be Second —Cle Lieutenant; Gentleman la i Ctsdet Willi am Frederick p ortleck Sc:tt Dadson to le Second Lieutenant; Gentleman Cadet,. Charles Frederick Short to be Second Lieutenaet; Gentleman Cadet Fran cis Lean to be Second Lieutenant. BANKRUPTS. Edward Pownall, shipowner, Ipswich, to surren d er - Jan. 10, at one, and M arc h 1, at elevn i,:n a e t the C our t o f l A d l h d i r l Bankruptcy. Pennell, official as 3. chambers, Basinghall-stre e t ; Sole and' Ten'rneGra, manbury ; Churchyard, Woodbridge. Ephraim Godbolt and George Godbolt, builders, Col - le-place, King's-road, Chelsea, dan.ll, at half-p n , eleven, and F e b. 15, at tw e l ve , at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall- h b C 2 , 111 ers, Basinghall-street; Smith, New-inia Francis Masters, plumber, Reading, Jar, 14, at half.. past twelve, and Feb. 14, at twelve?, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansteld, official assignee; Rickards and Walker, Lincoln's lan-fields; Meeey, Thatcham, Berks. James Charles Cochrane Millar, surgeon, Clifton street, Finsbury, Jan. 10 and Feb. 10, at eleven, at the urt of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman street-buildngs; Taylor, South -street, Finsbury. William Stephens Mery weather, brickmeker. West Peesex, Jan. 15, at two, and Feb. 18, at twelve, at the Ct urt of Bankruptcy. Edwards, ofZicial assignee, Sae brook-court, Basingball-strt e: ; Raw, Furniv al's inn. Ilelborn. William Pitcher, corn dealer, Pershcre, Worcester shire, Jan. 14 and Feb. 11 at twelve. at the Birmingham District Court. Velpy, official aesigoee, Birmingham ; Motteram, Knight, wet Em, er Birmingham. Patrick Teale, p rov i s i on dealer, Liverpool, Jan. 10 and Feb. 13, at eleven, at the Liverpool District, Court. Turner, official u,sigeee, Liverpoil; Norri 3, Liverpool. Edward Hell, steallware manufacturer, Salford, Lan cashire, Jan. 15, and Feb. 5, at ta else-, at the :',lacches ter Di strict C o urt. Pott, official assignee., Manchester; Sale, Worthington, and Shipnrln, Manchester. PRICE OF SLGAZ Net return bas been made of the sale of brown or Mus cove.do Sugar, the produce of the British possessions in America, in the wee k ending the Et lst day of December, VB5O. No return has Lem made of the site of browner Mae- covado Sugar, the produce of the Mauritius, in the week ending as above. The average price of brown or Ifiti:covado Sugar, tlc produce of the East Indies, computed from a return made in t 1 e week ending as above, is 33i. 4d. per cwt.; ex clusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable therecn on the importation thereof into Great Britain. By authority of Parliament, FIENRY BICKNELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company. Grocers'-hall, Jan. 3. THE SUN, MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, Jan. 3.) SITGAII.—To-day importers of raw Sugar were firm, and offered only 868 bags Bengal at public sale, which sold at full rates from 41s 6d to 42 4 6 d for fine yello w like Mauritius. In the West India market there was not much doing in grocery or refining sorts, and only 208 hhds and trs were sold; but lull rates are obtained. The purchases are 1611 hhds, and trs for the two market days; but holders are firm, although the demand is limited. On Tuesday 150 hhds Barbadoes, 120 hhds Demerara, 329 bags Bourbon, 1,509 bags Bengal, 1,300 bags Mauritius, and 3,700 bags grainy Madras will Le offered at auction. MAIIRITIIIS.—The importations into Great Britain fur the past year were 47,000 tons, against 44,000 in 1849; and home trade deliveries in 1850 amounted to 50,500 tons, whereas in the previous year they were 47,900; the stock was 7,000 at the close of 1850, against 10,300 tons in 1849. Merchants have confidence, and the rates obtained are rather above those current previously. Only 399 bags have been offered at auction, and sold at 393 61 to 41s for mid and good yellow. The current rates are, for brown 31s to 379, yellow 37s to 42s 6', and grey 36s to 40s. REFINED.—The market has a firm appearance for Refined Sugar, and there has been a good home trade demand with only a limited supply, brown lumps realiz-3 50s 6d, Tittlers low to fine 51s to 55s 6d; Hambro Loaves 51s 6d to 565, and wet lumps 473 to 495. Bastards are only in limited request at from 30s to 32s 6 4 , and yellow 33s to 375, but there is a good demand for Pieces at 383 to 41s, Treacle remains dull of sale at 13s to 14s for common, and at 14s 6d to 18s for better sorts. In Crushed Sugar only limited purchases have been made by exporters, still rates are firm. British at 28s 6d to 30s, Dutch 25s to 29s 63, and Belgian 26i to 27s 6d. The export value of Treacle is 12s 6d to 14s, Bastards 19s to 22e, and Pieces 26s 6d to 275, with few purchasers. In loaves a fair business has been concluded; prices are also firm, ruling for Turkey 1 to silbs at 40s to 453, Hambro 6to Ms 33s 6d to 345, 10 to lOilbs 32s 6d to 335, 14 to 151bs 325, Tittlers 22 to 301bs 31s, Prussian 40 to 451bs 303 6d, Dutch loaves 9 to 10Ibs 31s to 335, and Belgian 101bs 30s to 30s 6d per cwt. To-day the Refined Sugar: market was quiet, and 50s to 51s is the value of grocery lumps. Of Dutch made goods several parcels on offer to-day at rather lower rates. EAST INDIA.—The market has opened with a good demand for Bengal, and stiffer rates have been obtained for sorts suited to grocery purposes. At auction 2,184 bags were disposed of, good and fine grainy yellow re alized 44s 6d to 465, fine white ditto 50s, common white Benares 43 to 43s 6d, fine soft yellow 41s 6d to 42s 6d, common soft 33s to 34s 6d, and fine brown 325. The value of good and fine white Bewares is 44s to 46a per cwt. Ot the better sorts of Madras some parcels hate been sold privately at stiffer rates, but lower qualities met with little attention, still holders will not sell. but at full terms. FOREIGN.—The total importations into Great Britain of Foreign Sugar during the past year were 65,000 tons, sad in the previous one 83,000; deliveries were for home consumption 43,500, and in 1849 they amounted to only 22,300; for export the quantity tasisn has been 22,000, and in 1249 it was 29,300; stocks at the close of the year amounted to 43,000, and in the previous season they were 56,300. There is confidence on the part of holders, and none has bees submitted to public com petition during the week. COFFEE.—This afternoon there was no public sale, and by private treaty little desire was evinced by ship pers or home dealers to operate ; but good ord Native Ceylon is not to be obtained undr 56s per cwt. TEA.—The quantity taken for home consumption in the United Kingdom during the past year amounted to 48,748,000, in the previous one to 47,743,000; for export and stores deliveries were 5,600,000, and in 1849 dur ing the same period 5,000,000; the stock was 5,400,000 lbs less than at the close of 1849. Dealers have evinced little desire to operate in Black this week, and prices have declined 4d per lb for the lower sorts of Congou. sales having been made at is to is Op for common to good ord, and is id to Is 2d fir medium, but for better kinds previous rates of is Ni 1 to Is 10d per lb are demanded, Green has been operated in with caution and for inferior sorts holders are disposed to make - - - a slight concession, but in the value of better kinds there is no reduction. Scented and Pekoe sorts are held for lite terms; there has, however, been little doing. The public sales declared for next week comprise 8,000 pkgs, of which 770 consist of Assam. _ _ _ SPICES.—The imports to this port of Pepper for the past year 3,400 tons, and in the former one 1,900; deli verie3 for export are 1,400, and in 1849 they amounted to 1,443; fir home consumption the quantity cleared was 1,500, and in 1849, 1,430. Stocks at the close of 1850 were 2,700, and in 1849, 2,000 tons. There is a fine market and a good demand exists ; Malabar realized 3id to 31,-cl; and Sumatra 31d to 3icl. Fcr Pimento a much better demand is looked for, and 51'1 to 50 is the value. The stock at the close of the year is 10,800 bags; in 1849 it was 3,900, and in 1848 2,000. Of Cinnamon the quantity taken fur home us© in 1850 was 950 bales, and in the previous year 1,229; for ex portation the quantity taken was 6,100 and 1849 5,870; the stock at the close of the year was 2,750 bales, in 1849 2 270, and in 1848 it was 2,850 bales.. RlCE. —Today the market was quiet for Wee, but prices are not lower. At public sale 420 bgs of Madras were taken in at 8s 6.1 to 9s for pinkey; 200 casks American cleaned in part sold at 183 to 19s per cwt. SPIRITS.—Prizes fur Demerara Rum are rather lower, and sales are limited at from 2s 4rl to 2s 8d fJr 32 to 44 per cent over proo£ The market has a quiet tone f,r Leeward Island, but there are not sellers of proof under Is 8d as supply is limited. .Esst India is held for 1s 7d. but little has been done. A good busine;:s has been done in Jamaica, but at rather tower terms, plain and mid quality 30 to 33 over proof selling at 2s 6,1 to 2s 9d, good mid and good 34 to 38 over 2s 10d to 3s 6d, and tine 3s 7d to 4s Gd. The market is quiet fur Brandy at former rates. COCHINEAL.—This afternoon at public sale 135 b ga Cochineal only in part sold; Honduras Silvers at 3s 61 to 3s 9d; black, .common 3s Sd to 3s 10, and Teneriffe 38 8d per lb. INDIGO.—Of East India the arrivals to this port were 26,690 chts during 1850, and in 1849 they were 32,840; deliveries for exportation amounted to 20,140, and in 1849 to 23,560; for home consumption the quantity taken was 8,550 in the past year, against 9,200 in the previous one; the stock at the close of 1850 was 27,200 and at the same time last season 29,036 chts. The average price of good consuming Bengal is now 5s 3d, and at the same period in the past year 3s 6d per lb. The operations for all purposes have been trifling this week; but there are not sellers under the rates of the last quarterly sales. An improved, demand is shortly anticipated as it is well known stocks in con sumers hands here and on the Continent are small, and there will be short crops in India and Java. TALLow.—This afternoon at public sale 283 pkgs of South American Tallow went at 33s 9d to 37s ; 152 casks Sydney 33s to 37s 3d; 46 casks P.Y. Candle, second sort 34s 6d to 353; 36 casks Soap Tallow 34s 6,1; 47 casks Malta 36s to 36s 6d. OILS.—A large business has been concluded in Lin seed Oil this week, and prices have advanced Is, sales on the spot having been made at 34s 3d to 34s 6d ptr cwt. Rape Seed Oil in fair request, Brown 35s 6(1 to 368, pale 37s 6d; and Foreign 38s to 38s 6d. Palm is warted, and fine realized 29s to 30s per cwt. Cocoa Nut is dull of sale, with sellers of Cochin a' 29s to 311; and Ceylon 28s to 30s. Price for Olive rule at from 411 to 441, and sales have been upon a small scale. There is firmness on the part of holders of Fish Oils, and no public sales is at present declared, but dealers operate with caution. The value of Cod is 391 to 391 103, pale Seal 371 103 to 381, other sorts 341 to 361 103. Southern 341 to 371, and Sperm 84/ to 861 per tun. IRELAND. DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING.—STATE OF TUE COUNTY DONEGAL.—A proclamation from the Lord- Lieutenant appears in a supplement to the Dublin Gazette of Tuesday night, calling upon all unlicensed persons in the electoral divisions of Killymasney, Seacor, and Caravaddy in the union of Letterkenny ; the electoral division of Meenacarcagh, in the union of Stranorlar, to deliver up any arms which they may have in their possession on or before the 7th. INAUGURATION OF THE NEW LORD MAYOR.—The first Lord Mayor of the new corporation of Dublin, Mr. Alderman B. L. Guinness, principal in the emi nent firm of that name, was sworn into office yester day. There was a really splendid civic procession from the Mansion-house to the Royal Exchange, where the town council assembled. After the neces sary forms had been gone through, and the declara tion administered to Alderman Guinness, he took his seat on the throne, which was vacated by the late Lord Mayor, Mr. Reynolds, M.P., who, having shaken hands with his successor, resigned to him his insignia of office. The LORD MAYolt then rose to address the as sesnbly, and was warmly received. He said, lam not unconscious of the high honour and of the great re sponsibily of the situation I am now placed in, and [ lay ardent desi re i s to fulfil, in the face of God , the various duties, and my power, the interest to promote, so far as may be in think you will find that s of my i I shall discharge them clear . from any political or native . city ; and I powers to the corporation of Dublin, entrustedPcehaie feeling. The . Legisla ture recently has fellow citizens have called on me to administer them. These duties we have undertaken and g Shall we de r w ea e t and important . and our shall not shrink . which . is re. f t r u o e m nts th t e h i a r t d p iffi or c t u io l n tie o s i. . time and tho n u y, co c u o n tif t ss, that h t s ? our . consti gulled ? 1 speak the mind of eve g r/ man in the council when I emphatically say, no . though willing to take a seat in the . I had not aspired to the civic chair. li c .a l n - y r"D r ' cumstances, and those particularly of a domestic character, rendered me (as I though') unsuitable-sie for the honourable position. My too p a rti a l friends havejudged otherwise, and since embarking in the undertaking I have met in the Council-room, and beyond it, everything to encourage me; and, my Lord, I am glad of the opportunity which I now have to acknowledge, in particular, your courtesyDind kindness. You stated in public, and repeated in:pri - LONDON, vate, that you would do all in your power to aid me. You have, my Lord, been doing ao, and that in the best way. Your admirable conduct in the chair and the committee-room, has entitled you to my best thanks. As I have to get through so much to-day, I shall no longer trespass on your time, but would again assure you of my gratitude and respect. Alderman ROE then moved " That the marked thanks of this Corporation are due, and are hereby given, to the late Lord Mayor (John Reynolds, Esq.), for the courtesy, impartiality, and judgment which distinguished his presidency over the deliberations of this assembly, and for the efficient manner in vs hich he discharged the duties devolving upon him as chief magistrate of this city." Mr. CHAMBERS seconded the motion, which was warmly supported by Mr. Ccdd (honorary secretary of the Chamber of Commerce), and adopted. Mr. REYNOLDS, M.P., thanked the Council for this distinguished mark of their approval. The ordinary business then proceeded up to the adjournment. THE PROPOSED MEETING OF IRISH MEMBERS. — The following reply to Mr. John O'Connell% circular has been received from his colleague in the represen tation of Limerick : " Elmvale, Corrcfin, Dec. 31, ISSO. "My dear O'Connell,—On my return here, after a short absence in London, I had the pleasure of receiving your letter, and shall be happy to attend the meeting to which you refer. Let me add, I entirely concur in the expediency of making common cause with our fellow subjects in England in resisting the threatened invasion of their religious rights.—l am, my dear O'Connell, yours faithfully, " JOHN O'BRIEN. " To John O'Connell, Esq., M.P." INDUSTRIAL EMPLOTMENT. — Tbe .Newry Exa miner says—" We understand that arrangements have been made for the opening of a Government female drawing-school in Carrickmacross, in con nexion with the industrial schools established in that district, the object being to facilitate the primary operations i❑ patterns ip lace-work, which may now be said to be the staple work in manufactures in that locality. The school will be under the local manage ment of a committee of five ladies, some of whom have been identified with the introduction of lace manu facture in the district." DUBLIN STOCK AND SHARE MARKET.—SaIes yes.. terday :—Three per Cent. Consols for Account, Bth January, 96/ ; Three•and•a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, 981 98 ; ditto for Account, Bth January, 981 98 ; Roy al Bank, 12/, Railways—Dublin and Belfast Junction (for Account), 214 ; Dublin and Drogheda (New Shares Third)), 121; Great Southern and Westean (for Account), 38 ex div.; Midland Great Western and Royal Canal, 341 ; ditto for Ac• count, 341 i. LONDON IN 1851. (From the Times.) There is much speculation afloat as to how we shall be able to lodge, board, and entertiain the numbers of strangers who may be expected to visit London this year. This first point no doubt would be to establish something like an approximation to the number of our future guests. We have not only to consider the aggregate of the detachments which may arrive from France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Russia, and, in a word, from Europe gene rally, but to carry our calculations into other regions of the globe. The citizens of the United States of America will, no doubt, come by thousands to visit our shores in the course of the ensuing spring; our own East Indian possessions and the British colo nies will also furnish their contingents. Is it ex• aggeration to say that from the whole surface of the' habitable globe—leaving the three kingdoms for the moment out of the account—a million of persona will be attracted to London in the course of the ensuing spring to visit the great Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations ? We leave this portion of the question to the decision of our more speculative readers. The only datum which we can offer to assist their ingenuity is the statement that has reached us that the railway companies have made arrangements to convey 10,000 visitors from Vienna alone. If this be so, the " expectation" of the number of continental foreigners who may visit us next spring may be stated in the form of a very obvious proportion. Be this, however, as it may, there can be little doubt that on the 28,000,000 persons who compose the population of the British Isles—London excepted—we shall at least have 1,000,000 of visitors to the great Exhibition of next spring. Were all these birds of passage to settle down in a single swarm, the popula tion of London would for the time be doubled. We should require two Smithfields, two Leadenhalls, two Billingsgates, two Covent-gardens. Our milk men would require a double supply of chalk, and our bakers of alum. Twice as many omnibuses would traverse our streets ; twice as many Hansom cabs be careering from every side of the town towards Ken sington. Where are all these people to feed, to sleep? What are the laundresses about ? We dare not follow the subject out in its infinite ramifications. No doubt keen eyes are already directed towards the possibilities of the future. Many a speculator looks to the season of the Great Exhibition as a golden time, and has already planned his measures for taking tithe of the strangers. Where personal interest is :o actively concerned there is not much occasion for urging the necessity of timely preparation. We confess we look at the question in another point of view; we are anxious to see some little matters of arrangement modified before the arrival of our guests for the sake of the national credit. Like Caleb Balderstone in Walter Scott's tale, we are con cerned for the honour of the family, and would gladly see the dirt scoured off the walls before the arrival of our guests. To others we leave the eating, and sleep ing, and washing arrangements ; but there are some points connected with the " sights of London" which are most disgraceful to us as a nation, and sadly calculated to lower us in the opinion of our foreign visitors. In London we have not at best many sights pro perly so called. There is no capital city in Europe, which in point of extent, in point of activity, can be compared with London. Never in the world's history was such a swarm of human beings clustered together as London contains at the present moment. If we could induce our 2,000,000 visitors to hitch themselves upon the roofs of 100,000 omnibuses, and permit themselves to be driven in solemn procession from Putney to Blackwell, from H;ghgate to Clapham, it would be well enough. Nowhere in the world can such a spectacle be seen as the four great Docks. Then there is the British Museum, which contains, no doubt, a noble collection of natural objects and of antiquities ; and, alas ! there is the National Gallery ! In the shape of national monuments within the cir cuit of London, what have we besides? Before Buckingham Palace, and the old tumble-down brick house at St. James's, we should, of course, be but too happy to put up two large screens. Then there is the exterior of the new Houses of Parliament; there is St. Paul's; there is Westminster Abbey. Of these edifices we have a right to think and to speak with pride. We should be glad that every foreigner who may visit Lon don next spring should be conducted over one and the other. But what will be the surprise of our visitors, and what should be our own shame, when our guests find themselves stopped at the entrance of these sacred build ings, and pestered for trumpery fees by a pack of im portunate vergers ? The Dean and Chapter of \Westminster conduct their business at present ex actly after the fashion of Madame Tussaud. At the establishment of this lady, after the first de mend is satisfied, should the visitor be anxious to inspect the Cnamher of Horrors, where are to he seen " Maria Manning and George Frederick Manning taken from life at their trial," " George Blomfield Rush, with models of Stanfield-hall and Potash-farm," &c., he must be prepared with his extra sixpence. So at Westminster Abbey you are permitted to gaze your fill at certain tombs not in cluded in the tariff, but should the visitor wish to extend his walk round the more curious portion of the Abbey, the Dean and Chapter meet him Tussaud-wise, and exact the extra fee. We know not what public monument there is in London open to a stranger except the British Museum and the National Gallery, except indeed the Pantheon in Oxford-street, with the aviary and gold-fish. With the highest respect, however, for this institution, we cannot but admit that it is scarcely worth while travelling from Massachusetts or Astrakan to witness its highly interesting display. Of course there are museums for special science, such as that iu Surgeon's Hall, and the Entomological Museum in Bond-street, but these collections will not, in all probability, add much to the gratification of the ordi nary spectator. The Asiatic and the East Indian Museums are perhaps exceptions, and they are both open to the public without payment. Of the general aspect of the town, of our river, of our bridges, of our docks, we have every reason to be proud, and our guests will have nothing to pay for their enjoyment of the sight. In the immediate neighbourhood, again, there is Windsor Castle, there is Hampton Court, there are Kew-gardens ; and happily there is no Dean and no Chapter to extort twopences acd sixpences from the persons who may wish to visit any of these sights. It would be a gratifying thing if admission to the Zoological gardens could during the ensuieg spring he put upon as easy a footing as possible, for the sight would no doubt attract many strangers. But we are fully sensible that we have no business to claim this concession as a right. The Zoological Society must he re imbursed their expenses just as the proprietors of any other collection—the Polytechnic Instituti on , fur example. So, again, with regard to ttorheei g continental vi s it ors w ill run to the few Exhibition exceptions, o first, r s u t r , Tntentrnaies we' b l e ' l u ie n ‘ n e el t . hat i: wth rom cur experience of and to the Tunnel next ; but if they find a small fee exacted for admission they have no just cause of com plaint. S ure l y the unfortunate shareholders have a right to some slender return on the capital they have expended upon this work. In point of fact, we know not where any alteration can be suggested, or blame im puted, except in the case of our two great ecclesiasti cal monuments. If the custom of exacting fees for admission to any part of Westminster Abbey or St. Paul's be continued during the ensuing spring, it will be a scandal to the Dean and Chapter of either Ca thedral, and a disgrace to the whole nation. These dignitaries can surely spare from their revenues the beggerly sum necessary to pay the few ♦ergers who may be required for the maintenance of order. HORRIBLE MURDER IN PARIS. On New Year's eve a horrible murder was com mitted in an apartment in the Rue Bourbon Chateau, Faubourg St. Germain, occupied in common by two old ladies, one named Ribault, aged 60, and the other Lebelle, aged 74. The former has published several works on education, which have obtained sell-merited success; but she has latterly devoted her time to writing articles for periodical publica tions, and more particularly for the Journal des Demoiselles. The directors of this publication are always in the habit of sending one of the clerks to settle the monthly accounts of the parties who con tribute articles to the work. A man named 14 —, 45 years of age, who was on this occasion sent to settle the old lady's account, had some months since a violent altercation with bar, he having made a mistake on his own side of sf. On Tuesday the amount due to Mine. Ribault was 400 f., when L— offered her 200 f., saying that she had already received 2001. on account. This she denied, when the clerk pre , seated her with a receipt for that sum with her name affixed to it, but which signature she immediately declared to be a forgery. On this a violent altercation ensued, when the clerk sud denly attacked Madame Ribault, and struck her several blows on the head and chest with a sharp instrument, which be had concealed about him. She fell to the ground senseless and apparently dead. The noise of the fall attracted the attention of Madlle. Lebelle, who was in another room, and she hastened to ascertain the cause of it. The moment she entered the room the clerk flew at her, seized her by the throat, which he pressed so tightly that in a few moments she was lying on the floor a corpse. The murderer, thinking both his victims were beyond the power of revealing what had taken place, then left and returned to his residence at Montmartre. For tuna'ely, however, he was deceived. Madame Ri baulr, after some time, recovered from her state of in sensibility, and although exhausted from loss of blood, managed to crawl to a table on which was a small bell, and with which, not knowieg that her com panion was lying dead beside her, she hoped to bring her to her assistance. The noise of carriages in the street prevented the bell from being heard, and it was not for some hours after that some persona as cending the staircase heard the bell, and entered the apartment. The commissary of police was immedi ately sent for, and received from the lips of Madame Ribault a recital of what had taken place. A warrant for the arrest of the murderer was immediately issued, and he was taken to the office to which he had gone as usual, in the belief that no one could appear against him. He was taken to the Prefecture, where he is kept in close confinement, and has not yet been in formed that one of his intended victims has escaped the fate he intended for her.—Galignani. FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, lB5l. DEATH BY CHARCOAL. The day before yesterday (says the Gazette des Tri bunaux) the inhabitants of a house in the Faubourg St. Germain were alarmed by a strong smell of burn ing charcoal proceeding from a room occupied by aM. de C—. The Commissary of Police hav ing been sent for, had the door broken open, when M. de C— was found as if engaged in writing. He was seated in an arm-chair, before a table, on which were books and papers ; his head was slightly bent down on his breast, and he still held a pen between the fingers of the left hand. M. de C-- was about 30, possessed a considerable fortune, and occupied himself in literary pursuits. The following writing was found on the table : " Lara about to die—to die while writing. It is mid night—the fatal hour, to use the language of romace writers. I hear the charcoal crackling, and I shall continue writing until the shades of death veil my sight. It is in the full possession of my faculties that, without any cause but my own pleasure, I commit suicide. I feel my ideas flowing, and I shall give free scope to them. Yesterday I was walking in the Bou levards smoking, I think a cigar. I saw a crowd of passers by, without fixing my looks on one person more than another. I must have appeared very deeply ab• sorbed in thought to all those whom chance or idleness threw into my way, and nevertheless to idea, no feeling, occupied my mind. These fits of total absence of mind frequently happen to me, and they are not, I assure you, my happiest moments. I was suddenly arrested in my walk by a friend of my youth, who told me that a great misfortune had happened to him. He commenced the recital of it, when the soft mur murs of a running stream which flowed at our feet threw me insensibly into a reverie. I was :seated at the foot of a tuft of tre s, the thick foliage of which protected me from the sun, and in my rapid couse on the vigorous steed which my well-beloved had presented me with, I flew as far as the camp of the Arabs, thinking to sow there affright and death. I was well received, and, what is very surprising, I was not at all astonished at it. 1 jumped lightly off—l feel an insupportdb:e smell of charcoal—l jumped off, I say, like a young fawn, to take part in their repast I had the greatest difficulty in the world to make my left hand neighbour, who was a retired grocer, under stated that, having paid for my place at the bureau, I had as much right as he had to express my opinion— I breathe with difficulty, I accustom myself to the smell of charcoal—the quarrel between the grocer and me became warm, and I was at length compelled to put up my umbrella to protect the hat of my wife, for the rain fell in torrents. My head becomes heavy—l feel some dimness. At length this scene of carnage was transformed into a race in the Champ de Mars. I considered that it would be impossible for me—l am suffering—and then the water was transparent, and our umbrella was unable to resist it, and that is why we determined to go and dine in the Palais Royal—my dimnesss increase—my respiration is stopped—l can scarcely see to write."—(At this point the writing of M. de C— is scarcely IA scarcely legible.) " I think the hour advances—my strength —J. M." It is presumed that the writing of this paper, which betrays such evidence of insanity and delirtum, occupied about three quarters of an hour." THE POPISH AGGRESSION AND ITS RESULTS, TOGE lIIER WITH THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS OF APRIL, 1851. (G. T. F. SMITH'S PREDICTIONS.) The broils, commotion, tumult, but sing of effigies, dis astrous excitement and peril, never perhaps became more universal in this country than the present period evinces, and all within one short month verging upon the year 1851—the year in which the matured results remain to be determined. I would briefly rtfer to the prediction of the above scenes, as published in the second edition of her Majesty's Horoscope in the year 1848. The prediction is dated from the commencement and holds to the Autumn of 1851, as follows: " 1851. " We have very unpropitious influence in operation both hostile and aggressive, causing broils and commo tion, attended with national troubles and disasters, threatens embarrassment to the Government, and me nacing to the tranquillity of the country, incendiarism and niischiet, a crisis generally trying prevails; as the autumn of 1851 approaches, it will be seen the remarks, when coll,ciively taken, will be fully borne out, whether from foreign or domestic egg; essien." So tar the pre diction. Tne reader will make the application, bearing in mind the date of the prediction, and the time of its co incidence, the eff,ct upon the Governtuent whe❑ the voice of the cation relative to the aggression, &c.,oomes before Parliament remains to be seen. I shall here state that on or about the 80/of April will be the " crisis" of the session of 1851, it will be remembered the "crisis" of last session coincided with my prediction, and was within au ace of proving fatal to their continuance in office; and tha national excitement, &c., &c., above referred to, only precedes the words of the prediebon one mouth, though printed and published in Dec. 1847, three years prior to the scenes being enacted, but now moving side by side, From the original publication of the Horoscope in 1838, the marriage of the Queen, birth of the Princess Royal, resignation of Ministers, and every event of national importance, has been thus truthfully predicted. Cheltenham, Dec. 31, 1850. TAU ts TON.--RECANTATION OF POPISH ERROR.— A most interesting and impressive ceremony took place on Thursday morning last, at the church of the neighbouring parish of Corte, where a young lady, in the presence of the congregation assembled for the usual service of St. Stephen's day, renounced the errors of the Church of Rome, and was received into the communion of the Church of England, after which the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was admi nistered to the convert and the clergy present, and others who remained to receive the communion with her. Morning prayer was read by the Rev. Richard Mate, curate of Trull, and the communion and recantation services were performed by the Rev. Gilbert 11. West, Incumbent of Corte, assisted by the Rev. F. B. Portman, rector of Ftaplefitzpaine. The Revs. 11. T. Tucker, rector of Angersleigh, and William Parish, curate of Bickenhall, were also present. The form of recantation used on the occasion was that of Archbishop IVake.—Somerset County Herald. TRING. -- HUNTING ON THE RAILWAY. ^ 011 Thursday week, a stag turned out by Baron de Rothschild, followed by about thirty couples of hounds, jumped on to the railway near Cheddington, and dashed along the cutting in the direction of 'Ting, at a time when both the up and down mails were due. Our old friend Toni Ball, although dread ing that both the hounds and the stag would be destroyed, did not lose his presence of mind; and getting on to one of the bridges, luckily succeeded in calling the hounds off the line pri rto either of the trains coming up. The stag, how ever, was unfortunately cut to pieces.—Bucks Chronicle. RESTORATION OF WELLS CATHEDRAL.—It is stated that the works which have been for some time past in abey ance' will be resumed forthwith, the necesary funds having been provided by the Very Rev. the Dean, assisted by other dignitaries of the Church.--,Sherborne Journal. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Willim Piper, aged 43, and Justin Guun, aged 40, were placed at the bar before Alderman Finnis, charged, the former with having in his possession a quantity of fancy soaps, supposed to be stolen, with• out being able to render a satisfactory account of them, and the latter with robbing his employers, Messrs. Price and Co., perfumers, of Lombard-street, City. . Robert Packman, a detective officer, said—ln con ssquonce of information I received, I went to Mr. Smith's, oil and colourman, 87, London-wall. I was in the back part of the shop when I saw Piper come in and ask Mr. Smith what he was to have for the soap he had left. There were two parcels of fancy soap. Mr. Smith offered him 9d., and prisoner was going away contented, when I told him I was an officer, and took him into custody. lie said the soap was his own property, but on my asking him how he became possessed of it, he said that he would not account to any one how he got it. He gave me a wrong name and addre,.s. The goods were labelled with the name of Price and Co., of Lombard street. I ascertained that Piper lived at No. 8, Great Tower-street, and I accordingly went there and searched his lodgings, and found seventeen packages of various articles in perfumery. I then took him to the station. From further information I obtained I afterwards went to Gunn's lodgings, at No. 6, Three Kings-court, Lombard-street, where I found 201 b. of yellow soap, 61b. of fancy soap, 4 balls of twine, 8 pots of bears'•grease, 7 bottles of hair oil, 2 bottles of some kind of essence, 4 pots of pomatum, 4 hair-brushes, and some hair and violet powder. These articles were all secreted in various parts of Gunn's apartment. He implored me not to take any notice of the articles when I first discovered them. They are all labelled with the name of the firm of " Price and Co." George Smith, oil and colourman, London-wall, said-1 know the prisoner Piper. He brought some goods to my house on Thursday last, and asked me to allow him to weigh them. After he had weighed them he told me they were fancy soaps, and that they were a job lot he had bought at a sale at a chemist's shop in Aldgate. He took out two packets, each containing three smaller packets of brown Windsor soap, and hffered to sell them to me. He said he had 12 large packets altogether, containing 36 smaller ones, and he would let me have them for 41. 6d. I offered to buy the lot after I had opened the parcels and seen the quality of the soap. I then asked him for his name and address, and he said it was "William Johnson, No. 14, Crutched-friara." I returned Piper the two parcels he first showed me, and he left the shop. In the evening I went into Aldgate and made inquiries, the result of which was, that there had been no sale of a chemist's stock at all in that neighbourhood. I then went to Crutched-friars, but there was no No. 14, neither was there any one of the name prisoner gave me known there. I returned home and gave information to Packman, the (Beer. Piper called again in the morning, and said the auctioneers had mislaid the other parcels, and he promised to bring the white Windsor in the course of the day. He ac cordingly called again, and said the white Windsor had been disposed of. I then asked him what I should pay him for the two parcels he had left, and he said 93. The officer then took him into custody, and I gave him the soap. Mr. W. Philips Hughes, of the firm of Price and Co , said—l know nothing of Piper, but the goods found on him I believe to be a portion of our stock. We have not missed any, but having 20 hands em ployed in our establishment it is very easy for any of them to take goods away in small quantities without our missing them. Gunn has been in our employ for the last 15 years. He was the superintendent of our soap factory. I believe the goods found at his lodg ings are a part of our stock, but I could not swear they are, as there is no mark upon them to show they have not been sold. The property altogether is worth about 201. We paid Gunn 265. per week. Alderman FINNIS—It appears that this is a case of great suspicion, and I shall therefore remand it for a few days for further inquiry ; but as it has been stated that Gunn is in a very delicate state of health let him be recommended to the medical attendant of the prison as soon as he enters, and see that he be placed in the infirmary. The prisoners were accordingly remanded. BOW-STREET. James Clark, a carman, and James Collins, a com mission agent, were re-examined before Mr. Hall upon five distinct charges of robbing the London Docks and defrauding the public revenue. Mr. Ballantine (instructed by Mr. Beverley, from the Customs) conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Lewis, solicitor, attended for Collins, and Mr. Humphreys watched the proceedings on behalf of the London Dock Company. The Learned Counsel for the prosecution said that he should confine the evidence on the present occasion to three of the alleged transactions, occurring in Dec., 1849, and Jan., 1850. James Burton said he lived at 63, Osklerstreet, Lambeth, and was formerly a housing foreman in the London Docks. Clark, the prisoner, came to the docks for a hogshead of sugar, and on that occasion witness agreed with him about taking away some bags of cotree. Witness gave him two bags in 1849, and two more in December. He abstracted the bags from the pile called " sweepings," composed of between 70 and 100 bags. They were not sweepings, but had been previously abstracted from ships' cargoes, with the sanction of the company, and by the express di rections of their cfficers. Witness had repeatedly assisted in such abstractions, by the order of his super intendent, a Mr. Nothcote, who was still in the ser vice of the Dock Company. The pile in question had been taken in this manner from three ships. The order to make up the " sweepings" into casks, bags, or cases, according to their respective qualities, would issue from the superintendent's office, by the direc tion of the Dock Company, and the commodities would be regularly weighed by their check clerk. Witness never heard of any duty being paid upon these goods. They were always abstracted from the cargoes before they were examined and weighed by the Customs' officers, and usually while the landing waiters were at their meals. Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis—The first statement which I made upon this subject was about a fortnight ago, to Mr. Beverley, of the Customs. I had heard that Collins had made a statement, and I was induced consequently to make the disclosures. No promise was held out to me. I was a convicted thief before I went into the Dock Company's service. About ten years ago I was tried at the Central Criminal Court for robbing my master, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, but, owing to a representation made upon the subject to Lord Normanby, I was re leased before the expiration of twelve months. The only other robberies I have committed were the dock robberies. I have robbed 300 ships by the direction of the superintendents of the Dock Company; and I have known hundreds of tons of goods to be disposed of for the benefit of the company. If these are felo nies I have certaily committed hundreds of felonies. Mr. Ballantine—A man who commits a felony by the direction of his employers may not be the real criminal in the transaction. Cross-examination continued—Hundreds of men have assisted me in abstracting goods from the vessels. I could mention many of their names,— Jackson, Jacques, Draper, Bateman, Lawrence, Hayter, and others. Mr. Humphreys, as the solicitor of the Dock Com pany, said that any one of their servants would be forthcoming, if required, to explain auy matter in re lation to the present inquiry. John William Bennett proved that he lodged in the same house with the prisoner Wiles, and re membered bags of coffee being brought to him early in January, 1860. A man named Bellamy took them away in a truck. He once said to Collins, "I do nut like to see • Sweepings' on the bag, as Mr. Sharp will think the quality is inferior, which is not the case." Witness had seen Burton with Collins at his house. James Langtry, a grocer, of 9, Salmon's-lane, Limehouse, proved that he had purchased coffees of Collins, whom he bad known for two years as a travel ler for Mr. Freeman, in Love.lane. Early in January he brought a bag of fine plantation Ceylon coffee to itness, and the prisoner Clark was his foreman. They drew up their cart on the opposite of the road, and when witness mentioned the circumstance, Col lins replied that it was the stupidity of the carman. The bag was brought across to witness's shop, and witness paid the market price for it. They had other similar transactions at other times. Mr. Sharp, a grocer at Mile-end, deposed to having made similar purchases of Collins. A warehouseman named Edwin Hook, in the employ of the London Dock Company, and a carman named William Staenard (whose name bad been re ferred to by Burton, the accomplice), were next ex amined, but their memories did not serve them suffi ciently to aid the inquiry. Mr. Ilumphreys was next examined as a witness for the Crown. He deposed that he was one of the solicitors to the Dock Company, and, in that capacity, was authorised to receive a statement made by the prisoner Clark in June last, with a view to a sub stquent prosecution against somebody. Such a state ment was made to witness in the presence also of a Mr. Chandler. Mr. Ballantine—Will you have the goodness to produce that statement, or state the purport of it ? Mr. Humphrey s—l object either to produce the statement or to disclose v‘ hat that statement was, on the ground that it was made to me as the solicitor to the company, under an implied promise that it should not be used as evidence against him. I believe the Dock Company would not object to my producing the document, but I do so on conscientious grounds. Mr. HALL allowed the objection. Mr. Ballantine said this would be the case for the prosecution. There were other charges, but they would not be proceeded with at present. Mr. Lewis addressed the magistrate for Collins. Mr. HALL committed both the prisoners fur trial, and refused to admit either of them to bail. Walter Scrivener, a clerk in the dead-letter•office, was charged with stealing a letter, the property of the Postmaster. General. The prisoner was committed for trial. John Jones was charged with obtaining 2/. 103. and other moneys from her Majesty's Paymaster-Genera], by means of false pretences. A solicitor from the Admiralty conducted the pro secution. Mr. HALL remanded the prisoner for further exa mination. CLERKENWELL. Mary Jane and Julia Brown, sisters, were finally examined, charged by Mary Farbey, of Spread Rigle court, Gray's Inn-lane, with having violently assaulted her, by which her life was placed in danger. It appeared that at half-past one o'clock on Friday morning, the 27th inst., the prisoners waylaid the prostcutrix and beat and kicked her about the head and body until they left ber for dead. She had ever since been in the Royal Free Hospital in a dangerous state. She was yesterday brought up by Farley, 243, and Rodman, 125 G, who appre hended the prisoners. The prisoners were committed for trial WORSHIP-81 it EE James Latees, a private in the 2d battalion of the Coldstream Guards, was brought up in custody of a military escort, and charged btfore Mr. Hammill with forging a regimental pass•ticket, with intent to defraud the Eastern Counties Railway Company. The prisoner declined offering any answer to the charge, and he was ordered to be formally remanded, to afford time for the solicitor to the railway company to determine upon the proper mode of framing the indictment against him. LAMBETH. William Jones was placed at the bar before the Hon. G-. C. Norton, for further examination, on a charge of passing countethit sovereigns. The prisoner, who offered no defence, was re manded until Saturday. THAMES. Thomas Savage, a stern, cadaverous-looking man, upwards of 50 years of age, was brought before Mr. Ingham, charged with violating the person of Susan Brough, a girl only 114 years old, under very aggra vated circumstances. Mr. INGHAM committed the prisoner for trial. SOUTHWARK. William Merrick, a man with a wooden leg, Thomas Mansel, Samuel Daley, and Edward Spillan, were placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott charged with breaking into Bermondsey workhouse and plun dering the storeroom of provisions, consisting of meat pudding, butter, cheese, bread, tea, and sugar, and also two large band-saws. John Harrington stated that he is yardsman of Bermondsey workhouse, and that at an early hour that morning he discovered that thieves had effected an entrance by cutting out a pane of glass sufficiently large to admit a boy into the storeroom. They must have got over a high wall from the street to enable them to reach the window, through which they got into the storeroom, and thence they obtained easy ac cess to other parts of the premises. He (witness) found, on examination, that the storeroom had been forced open and plundered of the various articles enu merated. Upon this discovery he was confident that the robbery had been effected by persons well know ing the premises, and who were not likely to be dis turbed in the commission of the offence. He added, that the four prisoners had been inmates, and had only recently left the workhouse. He also identified a large quantity of bread, butter, cheese, &c., pro duced in court as forming a portion of the articles stolen from the storeroom. M'Carthy, 182 M, stated that, while on duty that morning, between four and five o'clock, in Kent street, his attention was directed to one of the common lodging-houses, at the door of which the prisoners stood knocking loudly and impatiently to obtain ad mission. He went up, and by the light of the gas lamp observed that two of them had bundles, and stood close up to the doorway, in readiness to rush in when it was opened, while two associates stood in a position to coyer them from observation. Almost the instant of his arrival the door of the house was opened from within, and the two men with the bundles darted into the passage, followed by the policeman, who se cured them before they had time to enter the sleeping room, which contained between thirty and forty per sons, and from among whom it would have been a difficult task to select the offenders. Another police man coming up to the door at the moment secured the other two prisoners. When the bundles were examined it was found that they contained the various articles stolen from the workhouse under the circum stances abovementioned. In the course of the examination it was stated that one of the prisoners (Merrick) had been convicted of felony on a previous occasion at the sesaions.—The prisoners were committed. SEABORNE MAILS When made up in From what PLACES. General Post - oftice port ells- When due. Loudon. patched. Africa (West coast) • • America (via N. York by British packet) ..*N January 3 .. .. Liverpool .. America (via Boston by British packet) .. IN January 17 Liverpool .. Jan. 8 America (by Called 1 January 10 i,Liverpool & States packet).. N Southampt. Belgium .. N Daily .. Dover .. Daily Brazil .. 31 9th of the month 'Southampt. IJan. 24 Buenos Ayres .. .. 31 9th of the month Southampt. 'Jan. 24 California(viaChagres) 31 17th of month ,Southampt. IJan. 5 Cape of Good Hope N January 14 'Plymouth.. Central America .. Al A& 17th of month,' Southampt. ,Jan. 5 5 Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., & Fri. ] Southampt.Tu. Th. Sa. Chili . 31 17th of the month ISouthampt. IJan. 5 France Mk N Twice daily .. Dover .. Twicedally Hamburgh N Tuesday & Friday :London .. Tues. Sat. Holland 34 Wednes. & Satur.; London .. 3lon.Thur. Honduras . N 17th of the moathlSouthampt. Jan. 20 Ireland .. .• M& N Twice daily .. .. Holyhead .. I wicedally India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the month) Southampt. Jan. 28 India (via 3larseilles) N 7 th& 24th of month' Dover .. Madeira • • .. N Mediterranean (via Southampton) .. 31 20th of the month Southampt. Jan. 28 Mediterranean (via Marseilles) .. • N 7th& 24th of month Dover Mediterranean (by French packet via , Marseilles) .. •• Mexico .. 2d of the month.. Southampt. Jan. 5 Peninsular.. • • .. 31 7 th,l7th,27th of mo Southampt. Jan. 5 Peru .. 31 17th of the month Southampt. ,lan. 20 West Indies 31 17th of the month Southampt. Jan. 20 West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) M 2d of the month .. ,Southampt. Jan. 5 * N signifies that the mails are sent from the Cienaral Post-office by the night —and M. by the morning —dispatch, SHIP NEWS. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. John Knox, from New South Wales, has arrived off Portsmouth; sailed from Sydney, Aug. 24. Jumna, from Bengal, has arrived at Liverpool; sailed Sept. 14, St. Helens, Nov. 20. Fairy Queen, from Bengal, has ar rived at Dublin; sailed Sept. 8, St. Helena, Nov. 12. Astarte, from Wha'mpoa, has arrived in the Downs; sailed Aug. 28, St. Helena, Nov. 19. Oliver Cromwell, from Bengal, has arrived in the Downs; sailed Sept. 14. Christabel, from Madras, has arrived iu the Downs; sailed Sept. 9. Duke of Lancaster, from Bombay, has arrived at Liverpool; sailed Sept. 23. Magellan, from Whampoa, has arrived off tho Wight; sailed Aug. 26, St. Helena, Nov. 19. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 2.—Wind N.W.—Freeman, for Jamaica, parted from her anchors at midnight, and has run on shore n ear Crosby Point; she dries at low water. Mary Muir, hence, from the Peterel , from Hobart Town, have arrived at San Francisco. Acadian, for Callao, and the Mersey, for Valparaiso, sailed from Sala Francisco on Nov, 8. William Russell, Bonita, and Wil liam Carey, hence, have arrived at Pernam buco. Scotland, hence, has arrived at Mobile.. Liverpool, hence, has arrived at Savannah ; steamer Africa, hence, arrived off New York on Dec. 21; Judah, Touro, and the Joseph Bradlee, hence, have arrived at New Orleans; Lord Sandon and the Abbey Lands, h enc e, have arrived at New York; steamer Arctic, from New York for this port, arrived last night, sailed D, c. 21, 11:.s 100,000 dollars in specie; Swordfish, from Per nambuco for this port, sailed Dec. 7, was close to the Western Islands in• 15 days, and Las had nothing but calms and light winds since ; Golden Fleece and the Spray sailed for Bahia on Nov. 27, and the William Russell for Maceio on Dec. 7 • Empress would leave Pernambuco for this port on D ec, 14, and Bonita for the Channel on Dec. 20; Actreon, hence, has arrived at New Orleans. Arrived—Envelope, from Halifax; Helois, from Alex andria ; Fawn, from Lucon ; Harriot, from Rouen; Eblana, from Lisbon ; Refuge, from St. John's, New Brunswick; Elias, from Prince Edward Island; Diana, of Swansea. Off the port—William Penn. Sailed—Penningham, for the Cape of Good Hope ; Virginia, for New Orleans. Slaw), DEC. 30.—The schooner Compeer, whilst i log at anchor at Oyster Island this morning, was run into by the ate Amer Shamrock, when she had bowsprit carried away, and received other damage. ST. JOHN'S, NEw BRUNSWICK, DEC. 16.—8 y tele graphic dispatch from Halifax, dated Dec. 16, the Sarah Millidge, from Liverpool for this port, struck on the rocks near Shelborne on December 11; detained, da maged slightly. NEW YeRK, DEC. 21.—Part of the cargo (fifty bales of hemp), and some of the materials of the Jacob Perkins, from Manilla for Boston, which went on shore on Smith's Island Point on December 9, have been saved. The ship lies on her beam ends, her deck planks are started, and she is exposed to the west winds that prevail at this season. SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUG. B.—The Susan, with woci, tallow, hides, &e., in coming out of Clarence R,ver on July 30, drifted on the north beach, and was lust teen with a flag of distress flying, and the rollers breaking upon by the Hannah, arrived bEre. A Lai quo was seen to go on shore about thirty miles east of Key West on December 3. Several wreckers were seen to go to her assistance soon after. GRAVESEND, JAN. 2.—Wind W., strong and Equally. Arrivid—Eclipse, from Bordeaux; Susannah, from Pilau; Mati►da and William Thornburrow from Guern sey; Hope and Fherting Rusht, from Marseilles; Lau rina, from Barletta; Antwerpen, from Antwerp; Se ra phin, from Quebec; City of Rotterdam, from Dunkirk; Fame, from Calais; Abeona, from Messina. Sailed—Zermidar, for Calcutta; Harriet, for Barba dces; Persia, for Port Philip; Menai, for Calais; Sir Robert Peel, for Dunkirk; ihnts, fur Valparaiso; Soho, for Antwerp; Magnet, for Amsterdam; Stadt Dor drecht, for Dordt; Lancashire Lass, for St. Thomas; Alice Maud, for Algoa, Bay. VESSEL 13 SiOLILN Eliza, from Prince Edward Island for Liverpool, Deo. 19, in lat. 47 N., long. 37 W. Favourite, from St. John's, New Brunswick for Liver- pool, Dec. 29, in lat. 49 N., long. 19 W. Plantagenet, from Calcutta for London, Nov. 7, off Cape L'Agulhas. Susan Crisp, from the Mauritius for London, Dec. 8, in lat. 17 N., long. 34 W. Anna Robertson, from Algoa Bay, Nov. 14, in lat. 25 S. Hants, from Fernando Po for Liverpool, Dec. 19, in Ist. 38 S. Thetis, from Lima for Queenstown, Deo. 22, in lat. 42 N. Mary Banatyne, outward-bound, Dec. 26, in lat. 46 N., long. 9 W. Ann Falcon, Oct. 15, in lat. 57 S., long. 70 W. James Alexander, Nov. 20, in lat. 12 S. long. 30 W. Dutch barque Luwenara, from Amsterdam for Buena Ayes, Nov. 22, in lat. 8 S., long. 32 W. Lord Ilardingr, from Liverpool for Bombay, Nov. 17, in lat. 11 S., long. 29 W. A Dutch barqu.4 showing a private signal, pith R in the upper comer, Nov. 17. Tam(orluue, from Liverpool for Calcutta, Nov. 19, 41 ut. 7 S., lung. 29 W. THE COUNTRI MARKETS. BRISTOL, JAN. 2.—The supply of English w beat wag large, condition bad, and prices lower by IS per quarter. Foreign wheat has again given way is to is 6d per quarter. English wheat (new) sold at 36s to 40s per imperial quarter; foreign ditto (white) 428 to 449 per 4801bs; ditto red ditto (extra fine), 40s to 425; ditto ditto (fine), 37s to 19s; ditto ditto (ordinary), 35s to 375; ditto ditto (herd), 35s to 38s. Flour was from 6rl to is per sack lower. English flour (seconds) 27s to 308 per sack. American ditto (sweet), 218 to 23s per barrel. Barley, except the finest qualities, was easier to buy. English malting sold at 23s 6d to 288 per imperial quar ter; ditto and foreign grinding, 21s to 22s per 400ib8. Oats is per quarter lower than of late. Devon and Welsh oats 15s to 17s per imperial quarter; Irish white ditto 17s to 188 6d per 3201b5; ditto black ditto 15s 6(1 to 165 per imperial quarter. Beans 6d per quarter lower and easier to buy. English beans 27s to 30s per imperial quarter; foreign ditto 24s to 27s per 4801b1. The averages are:—Bristol wheat 37s 4d, Gloucester ditto 38s 4d, Bristol oats 143 9.1, Gloucester ditto 178 I Id, Bristol barley 25s 51, Gloucester ditto 23s 7d, Bris tol beans 27s 9d, Gloucester ditto 30s 11d. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 2.—At Gloucester market on the 28th wheat was rather lower; but at Worcester, sate day, the currency of that day I;e'unight was maintained. Barley unaltered in value. Oats off, ring at a reduction of 6d per quarter without finding buyers to any extent. Beans taken in retail at former prices. Peas neglected. During the present week the transactions in the trade have been of the most trifling character, and to have effected sales of any article, lower prices must have been submitted to. At this day's market the trade again ruled ♦ery dull, but fine English Wheat was fully tis dear, whilst damp parcels were rather cheaper, but vrd make no alteration in any description. Barley sold slowly at previous rates. Oats is per quarter lower* Beans and Peas the turn in favour of the buyer. LOUGHBOROUGH, JAN. 2.—This market was thinly attended. Wheat made ready sale for good dry samples at last week's prices; barley good, and supported ISA wet k's prices. All other descriptions met with a dug sale. BOSTON, JAN. I.—Wheat, red 23s to 38s, white 37 0 to 41s, extra 445; barley 18s to 24s ; oats 13a to 18di beans 22s to 295; peas 23s to 28s per quarter. LOUTH, JAN. I.—Wheat 34s to 38s ; barley 210 to 23s ; oats 14s to 161 ; beans 24s to 27s per qr. LyNrr, DEC. 31.—Wheat 28s to 345, fine 36s 40C to 425; barley 16s to 18s, fine 203 to 24s per quarter. MELTON MOWBRAY, DEC. 31.—Wheat, old 42s to 446 new 36s to 41s; barley 203 to 255; oats, old 22s to 240, new 17s to 20s; beans, old 28s to 325, new 24s to 265 per qr. Butter 13d to 14d per lb; eggs 12 for Is. UPPINGHAM. JAN. I.—Wheat 343 to 428 ; barley 20s to 235; oats 16s to 21s; beans 24s to 28s per qr• Butter 12d to 13d per lb. Eggs 16 for Is. Flour, bell 2s 2d, thirds Is 10d, coarse is 6d per stone; bread 4d to 6d per 41b loaf. NEWARK, JAN. I.—Wheat, old white 47s to 49e, red 43s to 44s Od, new white 44s to 46s Od, red 38s tO 435; barley, malting 22s to 255, extra 265, grinding 200 to 225; oats, old 20s to 264, new 16s to 19s; beans, 3 00 to 325; tares 44s to 465; malt 543 to 56s per qr. CARLISLE, DEC. 31.—Wheat 42s 21d; barley 23s Ilid; oats 17s 3d per quarter. NOTTINGHAM CATTLE MARKET, JAN. I.—There was a small market, owing no doubt to the lowness of prices. The attendance of buyers being limited, the sale was dull. A considerable portion of the stook remained on hand. Prices—Best beef, not more than 6s; inferior. 5s to 5s 6d. The supply of mutton was short, best small realising 6d; large, 5d to sid; inferior, 44d; calves, sd; bacon pigs, 4s 6d ; porkets, 58 to 5s 3d; hides, 2 6 ; rough fat, 3s 6d; skins, 4(1. DERBY SMITHFIELD MARKET, DEC. 31.—There was a good supply of Ist beasts to-day, but the demand was extremely flat, there being but few buyers, The number c f sheep was not large, and sales were (quell.), flat. The supply of fit pigs was better than it has been for some weeks, buyers were plentiful, and those which were offered on reasonable terms were readily disposed of. B. ef, 41d to sd; mutton, 5,1 to sid; veal, 5d to sid per Ib; pigs, 7s to 7a 61 per score. Rough fat. 6d per stone of 141 b. Hides, 2d to lid per lb; calf skins, 3d to 4d per lb. EDINBURGH GRAIN MAXLZT, JAN. I.—Wheat--There were 595 qrs of wheat in the market to-day, being 296 qrs less than last week. Prices were is 6d down on the top, and la on the average-152 qrs unsold. Barley—There were in to.. day's market 531 qrs barley, being 122 qrs less than last week- The top price is 3d vp, and the average Is 2d down-1 1 ! qrs unsold. Oats—The quantity of oats in the market was 5 9 qre, being 181 less than last week. The top price WO 4d down, and the average Id down-34 qrs unsold. Beans—The supply of beans was 80 qrs, being 24 less thsn last week. Prices were ed up on the top, and 5d on the average —23 qrs unsold. EDINBURGH CATTLX MARKET, .TAN. I.—The number of cattle was 536, or 31 less than last week. Top priers of the best cattle, 7s 6d; current, es 6d to 7s; Middling and inferior, from 4s 6d to 5s 6d per Dutch stone• A clearance was not effected. The number of sheep thin morning was 2,196, or 127 less than last week. Top price of the best mutton, 50 per lb ; current, 41d to 541; ewee and inferior sorts, dto 4d per lb. A good clearance effected. DUNBAR, Dec. 31.—Wheat, weighing 631bs, brought 3 9 . 6d, and prices to 30s. Barley, weighing 55ilbs, brought 24s 6d, anti prices to 20s Od. Oats, weighing 42ilbs, brought les Od, and prices to les Od. Beans and peas, weighing Olbs, brought Os Cd, and prices to Os Od. CORK, JAN. 1. Barrels. Currency. 0 White wheat oos Od to 00s Od 00s 04-20 stone '47 Red wheat. 19s 6d to 21s Od (Os Od-20 do 55 Barley lls 4d to 12s Od lls Pd-16 do 0 Bere ...... Os Od to Os Od Os Od 10) Oats 11 Pigs 2os Od to 30s 6d 00s Od per cwt Quantity sold at the Highest Prices: 0 barrels white wheat; 18 red; 11 barley; 0 bere; 2 oat , ; 8 pigs. Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week Wheat, 266. Barley, 1,391. Oats, 3,210. Pigs, 598. PRICES OF BUTTER. CANT. CURILINCT. „.„, First quality ..... . ... ...... 78s First quality .... .... .' ..... or Second quality Third quality 7os Third quality ... Fourth quality Fifth quality Sixth quality . 505 Sixth quality . :. .. _ Return of Cattle sold for the week ending Dec. 28 Pigs, 741. Sheep, 213. Cows, 115. Flour—First 12s 6d to 13s Od ; extra us Od seconds, 1 Is Od to 12. Od; households 9s to 1 Is Od; thirds, 6s tog , per cwt. Oatmeal 10s6d to Os; Indian meal 7s 3d to 7s 6d; whoa' meal. 10s to 10s 6d per cwt. Indian corn 71Cs Od to 7110 s 0d Pe r ton. Bran 87s 6d to 90s per ton. Hay—Farmers 32. to 40s; average 38s; dealers 46. to 50. Od; average 48s per ton. Stzaw—Fartu_se. 21s Od to 32. Od ; average 2 8s; dealers 35s OA to 00* Oa; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 6k4 household loaf bd to bid per 41b. Fresh b at t er , 104 to I2d per lb. Eggs-58 Od to 5s Gd per hundred. Coals . '" Newport 16s 0d; Lydney 17s ; Landore 144 ; Neath eolith 13s 6d per ton. Tallow 391 Od to 40s per ewe Whisk it .25 o. p.. 51 9d per imperial gallon. WO --Beet 4d to 4id ; mutton 41d to 6d; veal 44 to 5d ; pork 44 to Oct ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 5d per 11). Hops 6110 s to 010 s per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2i 6d to 31 - 54 Par ton. Bark—Barbary 71 Os to 8/ Os ; Valonia 151 to 0/; French 61 Os ; Spanish 0/ per ton. Fleece Wool 14s to 15s per s tone. Hemp 321 t 0341 per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 21s to 00s; red ditto, 24s to 00s per barrel ; Newfoundland, 8/ Os to 10/ pee ton. Timber—Memel, 80s per ton ; red pine, Si 10s ; yellow ditto, 2/ 15s per ton; deals, 12s to 15s per 100. Hides- - Market 23s to 32.; salted 24s to 321 per ewt ; calf skin , 3id to 34d per ib. Potatoes, white 71d to 10d.; Minions lod to 12d. Guano— Peruvian, 11/ 10s; tchaboe, $1 to 911 00 per ton. Tar—Archangel, 19s per barrel. ' SALISBURY CATHEDRAL —lt is understood 00 the Very Rev. the Dean of Salisbury has liberally undertakal to complete the works at the cathedral at his own expense' Sherborne Journal. Blltrls. OF A BON. On the 28th ult., at Worcester, the lady of Lieutenant - Colonel St. John, Bombay Army. On the 30th ult., at Barthian. cottage, Kentish-town, the wife of J. W. Bennett, Esq. On the lst inst., at Twickenham, Mrs. J. G. Chillingwortb• OF A D•UGHTER. On the 30th ult., at Radwell-house, Herts, the wifo of Francis Leslie Pym, Esq. MARRIED. On the 31st ult., at Begbrooke, Oxon, the Rev. J. Tournef Parsons, vicar of Much llewchurch, Herefordshire, t o Marl Adair, daughter of the late John Coulson, Esq, of Clifton wood, Gloucestershire. On the 31st ult., at St. Elfin's, Warrington, the Re' James Cook, LL.B, of Magdalen College, Cambridge, eldeit son of James Cook, EFT, of Blackheath, to Anuabells, fourth daughter of the late John Alderson, Esq. DIED On the 28th ult., Walter Parker, of Christ College, Cam• bridge, aged 15. On the 30th ult., at Stoke, Notts, Robert Bromley, DO M.P., eldest eon of Vice-Admiral Sir R. 11. Bromley, Bail• On the 31st ult., at Llanwern, J. B. Rous, Esq., of (.3nut" tyrala, Glamorganshire. On the 31st ult., Adolphus F. Meissner, Esq., of Moselle' terrace, Tottenham, aged 89. On the 31st ult., aged 27, Harriet Wigan, second surviving daughter of John A. Wigan, EN., of Clarehouse, near Maidstone. On the 31st ult., at King's-road, St. Pancras, Charlott_e' relict of John Gostling, Esq., of Highbury-house, RiglibUTP, On the 31st ult., aged 23, Henry Constantine i fitth aoll 1 ?` the late T. Lyster, Esq., of Lyster-wood, Dublin, On the 28th ult., at Ansty; Leicestershire • Bradshaw 'EMT Burgin, Esq. 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