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

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All I 9 -9% 15 15% 5 41<, dls. 2 1 4 3 p. QCs X P• % % P• • - •• ig , ,i -3% 6 12yi, —l3 554 5 d. 82 —36 19 —2l 71-i —63012. 7!' 2 8 10 —yx dis. bx "i% 17% 100 100 8 6 6 11 18 4 47 1 4 100 100 42 84 4 2 0 100 100 47% all 3% 25 9}4 17% 19 3% all all all 1 63i 16 2-3 all 126 •• .. 18 11 6 9% Paid. 2 1716 s 841' all Business do to-day. 9% % % 34 4% % [13% 14% 13% 14% 19 18% 19% 6% 6 li 11N U 17 Is% 17% I 5 % !‘ 81% - 80% 81% 80 [82% 80% 52% 53 52% (54 52% 4% 12% 13 12% [l3 6% % 93 92% 93 112% 13 112% 21% % 13% 81 79% Al [BO% 81 51 52 50% [52% 50% 634 34 34 34 B ,f 'A % % 1434 14 13% _. 81 Z % 7 1414 % 19%19 4 lii 17 1 i 17 614 [2O 19% 20 3,[ 19)00( Business done to-day. Paid. 32% % 21% [ Business done to-day. 6% 7 1 ,4 15% 34 pm par PM E..d. 12 3 % 131N 5 133 9 3i Ti % 3 31i % 14 13% 3 % % 22 21% 11% % 8% 8 '.4 3A mxrrns. 1 13 0 24% Nominal Prices. Anglo Californian .. • • • • it.sturian .......... •• Australian .. ••••.• • • • • narossa Range .. • • .... Brazilian Imp. (is. 51: 4 3si P lit -2% 3 , i -3% T).4. Cocaes and Culaba Do. St. John del hay • • Cobra CoNer - • Copiapo ..• .... • •• General ••• • . •••• • • • • • • 'ttexican & S. American N: river u Annee • • • • • • • • Real Dal Monte, Unreg. 20% -21 33 - 31% - 75 13% - 14 - ;; - 7 - ii; Do. Black Debentures Do. Red Dpbentures Aantiago do Cuba ...... Tin Croft • • • • • • .... • • Unitod West Mariposa .. • • .... Agua Fri ZOINIC 4 —3% 6% 8 3 —2 1 ye Maria, % ;. 38 —ON 45 —46 10% 11 25 -- 26% 18% 17% 28% 29% Akutralasia British North America.. Colonial .... •• .. ••• • • • Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock .... London and Westminster. National Provincial Eng. De. New ........ • • • • National of Ireland ...- Oriental Bank Corporat. L'revincial of Ireland... 18% - 17% 27 - 27% 42 -44 Do. New ...• Union of Australia ...• 15% - 16% 35 36% _3_ . - Do. Now ..... Union of London —•• •. Union of Madrid .... 14% - )SX-1 stamx.: 1 32% Canada Gen. Steam Navigation . l'enin. & Oriental Steam. 6.A.NE01713. 48 49% 2734 —2B .x.d 69 70% 72 IS% 17 7934 80% Le errors of the Official Lists, and 1 correspondents.] Ditte ditto Royal Mail Steam .. • • .. rwe cannot be answer will not in influenced by able for tl interestel HONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at .5,000 bales, of which 2,000 were taken for export and on speculation. The market was tame and spiritless, but with a fair demand at reduced rates.—The Share Market was much excited, and there was a great pressure of Stock for sale at a decline of 1 to 2 par cent. Tho monthly trade and navigation returns of the United Kingdom are to the sth ult. The total declared value of exports was 4,621,078/., and at the same time lust year 4,751.804/., consequently there is a slight falling off. This does not arise, however, from a falling off iu the shipments of textile or other manufactures, but from a reduction in the quantity of cotton twist and a few other articles forwarded. The imports were larger as regards sugar and spirits, but in coffee and wire there was a falling off. The shipping returns for the month may be summed up thus, taking vessels engaged in the foreign trade of the United Kingdom:- 1850. 1851. Inwards (tons) ... 520,619 ... 496,283 Outwards „ 423,803 ... 470,120 It should be stated, in further elucidation of this re turn, that the tonnage of vessels belongieg to the United Kingdom end its dependencies, comprised of the above total the following amount:— 1850. 1851. ..nwards (tons) ... ... 326,058 ~. 325,096 Outwards " ... 272,295 ... 283,889 Inwards, therefore, the tonnage of British ships was nearly as high as at the corresponding date of last year, and outwards there was a decided increase, showing that the ground has been well maintained by our shipowners. The coasting navigation suffers still from railway com petition. The position of the Bank of England amidst the poli tical crisis that is occurring will be very strong, and quite independent of the Continent or its capitalists. The weekly return to the 29th ultimo gives a higher amount of bullion than before, with a further diminished circulation, and a slight falling off in discounts. The public deposit account increases, though it is not equal to last year. Compared with the previous return, the changes are as follows: — Notes Issued ... Increase ... Best ••• ... ... 29,535,760 76,276 ••• 536 3 123 ... , Decrease 59,632 Public Deposits ... 7,745,05 4 Increase ... 444,713 Other Deposits ... 9,129,575 Decrease ... ... 160,861 Seven Day and other Bills ... 1,174,680 Increase ... 5,363 Government Securities ... ... no alteration Other Securities ... 11,573,465 Decrease ... •.„ 16,055 Notes ... 10,312,295 Increase ... ... 208,030 Bullion ... ..• ... 16,134,077 Increase ... 113,883 Active Circulation... ... ... 19,223,465 Decrease ... •• • ... 131,755 Yesterday afternoon Bills were negociated at very firm rates upon the principal cities of the Continent. Paris, 90 days, was taken at 25 50 to 55, Antwerp at 25 45 to 50, Amsterdam at 11 184 to 19, and Hamburgh at 13 101 to I. Very little was done, as under existing circumstances there cannot be much inclination to send money to the Continent. The amount of gold in coin and bars exported from London direct during the week, to Thursday last, was 3,192 ounces, and of silver 38,052 ounces—most of the gold to France, and 23,000 ounces of the silver also. The English Funds have improved very decidedly this morning, Consols being 97 to 97k, and now 971 for Transfer, and 97i I for January. The New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 97+ to 97k, and the Three per Cents. 964 to 96k. Bank Stock is worth 2154, and India Stock 262 to 264, each being firm. Exchequer-bills aro 475. to 50s. premium. There is much less excitement in the market. Foreign securities have been all dull, and do not par ticipate in the rally in Consols. Spanish Five per Cents. bring 19+ to 4, and the Three per Cents. 38 to 39. Mexican are 234 to I. The Passive are 44 to 4. Dutch Four per Cents. have been 874 to 884. Railway Shares have been fluctuating, but there is not mu oh doing. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISII FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .............................. 215% 215 1 / 4 3 per Cent. Reduced Ann e. ........ .. 6% % 96% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuit ies.. .....• 97% 7 ! 4 i W I % 97 1 4 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Arms... .... ...... 97% 1 4 3 4 97 3 4 Long Arms. to expire Jan. lB6o ...... 7 6 15-16 6 15-16 India Stock ...... .. ..................... 261 262 262 Tails Bonds ' 1,0001. .................... -- Ditto under 1,0001 "' GO p Consuls for Account E xc hequer Bills. 15 , 0. 1,000/. L , OOl. ••• 47 50 p Small, .. ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent. .. Ditto, 5 per cent. M.,xiep,n, 5 per Ct., ex Jan. Coups — Ditto, Account Peruvian Bonds, 5 per Cent... — Ditto, Deferred Russian Bonds ..... 1111/2 Ditto, 4 5 4 per Cent Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto, Account 19% Ditto, Passive 4 , 1 1,‘ Ditto. 3 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 5 per Cent 9lf. 50c. Exchange Dutch 2% per Cent. 12 Guild — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates E 0 p 50 p 50 p CLOSING PRICES. 100 1 4 111 k; 103% 80 ex d. 19 1 4 19 3 % 4X, 391/2 COURSE OF EX( Amsterdam .. • • •• • • 11 17% Ditto, three months 11 R o tterdam •• •• 11 19 A.ntwerp•• •• .. 25 45 Brussels •••• • • • 25 45 Uamburgh 13 lON Altons. • • ..... • . • • • Paris, 3 day •• 25 35 Ditto, 3 months •• .. 25 85 M ar seilles ............35 60 BOUrcleallE . • ..... • Fran kt o rtoa,Maino.... 12 1 Vienna, offoc. fib • • • • • • Trieste, ditt0........., Potersburgh, Sit. Rblo.. Madrid •••••• • • • • • • •,• Barcelona • • • • • • • • • • • • !HANGE.-FRIDAY. Graraltax• • •• •• •• •• •• •• Leghorn •• •• •• 31 Genoa •••••••• • • • • • • •• 2. 70 Milan .. • •• •••••• •• •• Venice........ .... Naples ...... • • • • 40 Palermo. peroz ........ Messina Lisbon• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 52 0p0rt0................ 52% Rio Janeiro ........ • • Buenos Ayros New York. 60 days'sight Philadelphia .... • • .... PRICES OP BULLION, PIS OZ. Foreign Gold inbars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 G Now Dollars •• 0 4 1 I Silver in bars 0 5 0% 36% 49% 49% MAIMET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) COVENT GARDEN. The supplies of both Fruit and Vegetables on sale to-day d p th ri e ce t s i . me of year, yet the general demand steady,we F r e it l u a l r Ta g t. large for full prices. (.1 er lb ; Out-door Englis 10, o Pine Apples, English, 4s to 6s . p h er d lb tt ; Hot-house Grapes, Grapes, 3s Od to 5s 6 10 6 3 4 0(1 ° g p ll e a r ua lb bu ; rg A h I' pears,ug a 3 l a 6 d d i t t o o Apples, p d l e i ditto, , 25 813 6 d d to to 7 1 5 ° O d d ; Od; bushel ; Melons, is Od to 1001bs ; Oranges, Se to 12 s. per 3s each ; Walnuts , lOs to lis per 90s bushel ; Filberts, 70 s t o adish, is 6d to Cs per bundle ; to 2s 3d per sieve; Horser en bunches ; White Cabbages,Bd VEGETABLEs.—Cu to d each ; Spinach, Is 9d Parsley, 2s 04 to 2s fld per dozen Pottle ; Turnips 2s 64 to 4s 3d, Mushrooms, is to Is 6d per to Is ; Red ditto, 2s to 4s ; lied Beet, 8d to Is per dozen ; and Carrots, 4s to 6s per dozen bunches;; Celery, 8d to Potatoes, 45s to 908 per ton ; Onions, 2s to 3s per hll is 9(1 per bundle • Garlic, 6d Beans Os Od to Os Od per 45 Od per dozen 'bunches ; French ' • to 8d per lb ; Greens, tis 6d to •10s to 18s Pe r box ; half sieve ; Vegetable Marrows, Od to Os per dozen ; Leeks, Id to 2d per bunch ; Spanish Onions, Brecon, 16s to 13s per dozen bun dl e s ; Endive, 10d to Is 6 d per score ; Parsnips, 6d to is per dozen. NENVGATE AND 1.- - TIADENEULI.Z. Geese, 4s 04 to O s Od ; T u rkeys, 4s Od to 95 Od ; Roas tlo g . Pigs, 4s 6d to 7s 6d eac h ; Tame Rabbits , 1 ida , s 6d to is Wild ditto, 8d to is Id ; Pigeons, 6d to 9(1; Surrey Fowls, 75 (Alto 9s Od ; Barn-door Fowls, 4s Od to 6s Od per couple ; English Eggs, 73 Od to is 6d ; F re nch ditto, 6 s 3 d to 7s Od ; and Irish ditto, Gs Cd to 6 s 6d per 120; Fres h Butter, Os to Os Od per lb; Hares and L evere t s , 2s 6(1 to '3s 3d; Quails , Is 04 to is 3d; Grouse, is 2d to Is 6d ; Pheasants, 3s to 3s 6d; Wild Ducks, Is 64 to 2s 6d each. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6cl; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 04; Veal, 31 Od to 3s 8d ; and Pork, 3s Od to 4s Od per 81bs. WUITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 2d to 3s 44; Mutton, 2s 6cl to 3s 10d; Veal, 2s Sd to 3s 64 ; and Pork, 2s 4d to 3s 84 per 81bs. BILLINGSGATE. Eels, 14s per 201bs ; Soles, 2s Od to 6s 04 per dozen ; Lob' ters, ins to 25s Od per score; Oysters, 12s Od to 30s Od per tushel ; Red Herrings, lOs Od to lls 6d ; Fresh ditto, 9s 6d to 3s 6(1 per 100; Cod Fish, 2s Od to 7s 0(1 each; Salmon Trout, 74 to hid per lb; Turbots, 8a 04 to 12s Od; and Plaice and Sprats is 64 per bushel. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from 6cl te9 6 1 -Ad; vf ilvtigottiti ditto, 4%4 tv Olhd per 43. leaf, IVII BUSiIIC.3B don to-day. 128 2..8 ia, 15( ; . ! STO MARICET. Market Hides, 561;70641b, lid to 2d ; ditto, 641 b to 721 b 2d to :'id; ditto, 721 b to 80Th, 2id to 2id ; ditto, 80Th to 881 b, 2L-d to 3d ; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 3d to 34d; ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, Sid to 3id ; ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b, ald to 4d. Calf Skins, light, Is Od to 2s Od; ditto, full, 4,6 d to Cs Od; Horn Hides, 5s Od to Os Od; Polled Sheep, 5s Id to es 1d; Bents and Half-breeds, 4s Id to 4s 9d; Downs, 2s 10d to 3s 8d; Lamb Skins Os Od to Os Cd. HAY /I/LAM/LETS. SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2115 s Od to 3/15s ; Clover ditto, 31 5s to 41 6s Od; and Straw, 1/ 03 to 1/ is per load. A fall average supply, and a sluggish demand. CumnErtLAND.—iNleadow Hay, 2/ 15s to 31 17s Od; Clover ditto, 31 5s to 4/ ss; and Straw, 11 Is to 118 s per load. Trade dull, at barely late rates. WurrrcrrnrEL.—Meadow hay, 2l Us to 31 15s; Clover ditto, 31 5s to 41 8s 0(1; and Straw, 1/ Os to 11 7s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. VICE-CLIANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) IN RE TYDFIELD'S ESTATE.' This was a petition presented to his Honour Vice. Chancellor Parker, praying for the payment out of court of the such of 4 ,3001., which had been paid in by the Liverpool Dark Company as part of a sum of 8,8701., for the purchase of some lands taken by that company. The petition also prayed that 5721. Bs. 103., which had been spent on some lands taken by that company, might also be paid to the petitioner. His HONOUR, atter some conversation, made the order prayed, wiai the exception of that part relating to the sum of 5721. Bs. 10d. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) CONCANNON V. GOODE. This was an action for an assault, to which the de fendant hid pleaded the general issue. Mr. Sergeant Chadwick Jones, with whom was Mr. Woollet, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Humfrey and Mr. Wills conducted the defence. _ Mr. Sergeant CHADWICK JONES opened the case to the jury, and stated that it was one of a very aggravated character. The plaintiff was a young lady moving in a respectable sphere of life, and the defendant was the son of an attorney. Under a promise of marriage the de fendant decoyed her from her mother's home; but it afterwards turned out that he was a married man, and the assault in question took place while ho was attempt ing to effect a compromise Isl ii. the plaintiff to let him off the promise he had made. Miss Francis Ann Concannon, the prosecutrix, was examined by Mr. Sergeant CHADWICK JONES—She said, I am 25 years of age, and at one period I carried on the business of an embroidress.‘ In the spring of 1847 I was residing with my mother in Stamford-street, and in April I went to the Italian Opera, Covent-garden, with a friend. In re. turnir g home I met the defendant in Wellington-street, Strand, and he saw me home. He said he knew me, but I told him ho was mistaken, but nevertheless I consented to make an appointment with him for the following evening. I, however, did not keep it. He afterwards met me accidently, and said ho had been looking for me at least ten days. I told him I dared not meet him, as a gentleman was paying his ad dresses to me, and ho asked me if I wes going to be married to him. I said yes, and ho asked me if I would allow him to plead for himself, adding that he was a man of property, and at his father's death he would make me his wife. I said I could not give him an answer, and ho made another appointment. I after wards met him repeatedly, and drove about with him in cabs, until at length he said unless I left my own home he was fearful I should deceive him, and marry some one else, and I had therefore better take lodging out at Stepney. I did as be requested, and lodged at Stepney from October till the December in the following year. He visited me there almost every day, and paid for my board and lodging; but no intimacy of an im proper nature took place between us, as I would not al low it. In December, 1848, I met him by appointment in Stangate-street, Lambeth, when he said you must be brief in your conversation, as he must be off ; but I said I could not, as I had a good deal to say to bim. A gen tleman named Goldsmith then came up, and Mr. Goode said he would only speak in his presence. We then walked down Stangate arm in arm, and Mr. Goldsmith offered me ten pounds to release Mr. Goode from his promise of marriage, and 15s. a week for four months besides. I declined to say anything in Mr. Goldsmith's presence, and Goldsmith thereupon said, " Oh, wrench her arm off," and with that Mr. Goode wrenched my thumb and two fingers almost off. Ho then pushed me and I fell off the pavement, against the curb-stone. I was very much hurt. Goode lifted me up, and called a cab, but I fainted after that, and I can't tell what else passed. When I recovered I found myself in the shop of a surgeon named Bromley, who attended to my injuries. I was afterwards taken home, and I was seriously ill for four months. I had received an injury in the knee, and I was not able to leave my bed for a long time. I used a crutch for nearly six months, and I have since been under the care of three surgeons. I have not been able to carry on business since. The injury perfectly incapacitated me for business of any sort Cross-examined by Mr. 1110111111EY—I was not a. dresser at the Italian Opera at the time of this occur rence. I never was a dresser at the Italian Opera be fore this, but I had been at her Majesty's Theatre. I went to the Italian Opera to dress almost immediately after I met Mr. Goode, and I received 2s. a night. I was living at No. 8, hurch-terrace Stamford-street, behind Waterloo Church, on the night that I met Mr. Goode. He knew that I was engaged in a theatre, but ho did not know in what capacity. My situation was that of dresser and dress-maker, but it was not until two months after I first met Mr. Goode that I told him what I really was. I went to live at Stepney in the latter end of October. I lived at Mrs. Mead's fourteen months, and Mr. Goode used to visit me there, and we passed by the name of Mr. and Mrs. King. He slept once in the parlour, and I slept up stairs, but Mrs. Mead never remonstrated with me about it, nor did any ono express astonishment that a man and his wife should sleep in different rooms. Mrs. Graham corroborated the plaintiff's statement. She had followed her at the request of a mutual friend, who was apprehensive that the plaintiff, in her distracted state of mind, brought on by the previous conduct of the defendant, would get into some trouble. Mr. Bromley, the surgeon, spoke to the injury which the plaintiff received from the fall. Cross-examined—The defendant and Mr. Goldsmith seemed to treat her with remarkable kindness. at t Mr. HUNFREY addressed the jury for the defence, and denounced the case as it barefaced attempt to extort money. The plaintiff, although only a dresser at a theatre, was an excellent actress, and, with the view of inducing a belief that she was deeply in lova with him, she more than once alarmed the defendant by making sham attempts upon her life in the most artistic style. Mr. Goode, the defendant, a gentleman of enormous proportions, presenting a singular contrast to the slight figure of the plaintiff,fstated that when he met the plaintiff, in 1847, she told him she was a :ballet dancer. He never promised to marry her, nor did he ever in any way give her to understand that he meant to marry her. Ho was in the habit of visiting her at Stepney, and on more than one occasion she had threatened to destroy herself. Once she wished him to think that she was about to throw herself out of the window, and on ano ther occasion she had locked herself in her room, when he heard a heavy fall. He broke open the door, and found her lying upon the floor seemingly covered in blood. He was afterwards told, however, that the blood was rouge and water, and that the attempt at suicide was all a sham. He was not married at this time—he had been married, but his wife was dead. When he met her in Stangate-street he offered her 101. and 15s. a-week until the Opera opened, but she fainted away, and he and Mr. Goldsmith carried her into the doctor's shop. It was not true that Mr. Goldsmith sug gested that he should wrench her arm or injure her in any way, and when they got into Mr. Bromley's shop she made no complaint whatever of being hurt or ill-treated, but she had not recovered before he left. Cross examined—He was a married man when he first met the plaintiff, and continued so for a year afterwards. He never intended to marry her, but he proposed to her that she should leave her home. Wit ness was studying at the Middle Temple for the bar, and was 29 years of age. His father, to whom he had served five years under articles, was an attorney in Howland-street, and his uncle and brother were also attorneys. He was, therefore, pretty well versed in law. When the plaintiff left her home he had an idea that she would live with him, but that idea never was realised. She wanted to live with him as his mistress, but he afterwards refused, because ho discovered she wanted to entrap him into a promise of marriage. He went repeatedly to the opera to see if she went on the stage, but he never could discover her, and when he taxed her with the falsehood she said the manner in which she dressed her hair prevented her being re cognised. Mr. Sergeant JONES—Why did you not leave her at first? Witness--Because I found I had been entrapped and could not get rid of her. Mr. Sergeant JONES-It must have been a tolerably large trap that caught you.—(Laughter.) Witness continued—He gave her a wedding-ring to deceive the landlady, and proposed the name of King, because it was the first that came uppermost in his mind. He never, upon his oath, made any promise of marriage of any sort. Mr. Guldsmitb, who was formerly an officer in the Lancers, confirmed the evidence of the defendant so far as it related to the interview in Stangate-street. No vio lence whatever was used, nor was any suggested. Mr. Sergeant JONES replied, and the Learned JUDGE having summed up, The jury retired from the box, and after an absence of about half an hour they returned into court with a ver dict for the plaintiff—Damages 1501. DAY.) EXCHEQUER.-(THIS The case of " Miller v. Alderman Salomons , M.P.," was fixed for this mor n i n g, but in consequence of the trial of " Marks v. Hamilton" not having concluded yes terday, it did not come on as appointed. The latter action, which is brought to recover a disputed claim on the Sun Fire-office, in consequence of loss sustained by a fire, will probably occupy the whole of to-day, and most likely the case of Alderman Salomons will be first on the list for Monday. THE "GOLDEN" AGE I D BEFORElTC—According to current appearances, future little boys may come to see gold almost as commonly as did the traditionary imp of the school books, who expected to find the streets of London paved with the precious metal. " Gold" is becoming the commonest word in the language; every tenth man you pass in the street, your neighbours in the omnibus, your vis-a• vis at dinner, the fianeurs in the fashionable streets of the West- end, aro talking of gold mines, gold diggings, lumps of gold. A short time ago we were menaced with an " inundation" of foreign corn, by which all the ancient land marks of the constitution were to be swept away, and the well-fed Englishman reduced to a miserable skeleton. Now we are threatened with a flood of gold from East and West; but nobody objects to be overwhelmed by the theoretical pauperism which it suggests to profound minds. The hopes which sent Raleigh on his last voyage—the glitter afar off of El Dorado—now animate millions ; and iu the physical, if not in the social world , the belief is pretty general that the 4 , slam as is bcf9re w."—keader. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GOODWOOD 1553 AND 1854. A new stake to be called " The Gnat North and S uth of England Biennial Stakes," of 10 Says. each, h ft, is proposed for 1853 and 1854, to be run the first year on the second day, at Goodw ood, for horses then two years old; and at York, on the firat day the fol lowing year. 2001. will be added each year. THE FORFEIT LIST.—The list of horses for which forfeits are due occupies no less than etgbt columns of the Skeet Calendar, published on Saturday. These for feits must be paid before the horses are eligible to be entered for any race. NEWMARKET CHAMPION COURSING MEETING.—FRIDAY. The Puppy Stakes. Third Ties—Bedlam Bess bt highland Lass, Ten dresso bt Anerun. The All-Aged Stakes. Second Ties—Exhibitor bt Movement, Rushlight bt Florette, Jester bt Heather Jock, Dunkeld ran a bye. The Exning Stakes. First Ties—Delight bt World's Fair, Madame bt Exiting Lass, Britannia bt Bird's-eye, Mopsns bt Racer Jess. • The Rutland Stakes. First Ties—Esquire bt Deeming, Dart bt Rarity. The Newmarket Stakes. Mr. Fyson' Factotum bt Mr. Inskip na Emigrant, Mr. Inskip's Jeannette bt Mr. Hill's Henrietta. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Lord Henry Bentinck's hds., Mon. Burton ; Tues. Bardney; Wed. Brant Broughton; Thurs. Hackthorn ; Fri. Austacre; Sat. Sudbrook-11. Duke of Beaufort's hds., Mon. Dauutsey Gate; Wed. Dyrham; Sat. Shipton Moyne. Duke d Rutland's hds., Mon. Stonesby Village; Tues. Dry Doddington; Wed. Elton Manor; Fri. Little Ponte —lof. Surrey hds., Mon. Black Horse, Reigate Hill; Thurs. Albury Heath; Sat. The Rookory-10f. East Ettex hds., Tues. Steeple Bampstead; Thurs. Messing Street; Sat. Gosfield King's Head-10f. Essex and Suffolk hds., Tues. Elmstcd Market ; Fri. Newton Green-10i. Essex Union hds., Wed. Aiheldharn; Sat. Rottendon Common-10f. South Essex hds., Tues Danton Blacksmith's-10f. Worcestershire hds., Mon. Woodecote Green; Wed. Crow's-nest; Fri. Radford Gate-101. RACING FIXT FEBR URES FOR 1852. UARY. Lincoln NA .. 5 RCH. Liverpool Spring Coventry 9 Northampton Doncaster Spring Warwick Spring 60 p 971A3 23% 43 1 / 2 APRIL. Epsom Spring Newmarket Craven ... 12 Malton . 22 Abergavenny l5 Newmarket F. S 26 MAY. Chester Spring Newmarket S. S. Shrewsbury l2 Epsom 25 JUNE. Manchester ... Ascot Hampton l6 I Winchester Newcastle ... 22 JULY. Newmarket 6 Nottingham 2O I Worcester Liverpool AUGUST. North Staffordshire 3 York Brighton Reading SEPTEMBER. Warwick 7 Leicester 22 Doncaster Eglinton Club 2l Newmarket F. 0. Bedford OCTOBER. Chester Yorkshire Union Hunt 6 Newmarket Houghton 25 Wrexham NOTE: Worcester Auti :BER. l MD 2 ALMANACS FOR 1862. THE 111ETEOROLGICAL ALMANAC FOR 1855. By R. J. Donovan. This almanac contains predictions of the weather and wind for every day of the ensuing year, with general predictions of the weather, fall of rain, and mean temperature for each month, and rules for fore seeing the weather. THE REFORMERS' ALMANAC AND PO- LITICAL YEAR-BOOK FOR 1852. This useful compilation of political statistics fully maintains the high character which the Reformers' Almanac has already attained. The editor has managed by his lucid arrangement to condense an immense amount of information into a very small compass. THE BRITISH ALMANAC AND COM- PANIOIV FOR 1852. This was the first common-sense almanac that was ever published in England, to the honour of Mr. Charles Knight be it recorded ; it has since had many competitors, but no superior. .The Companion contains a most useful compendium of facts and figures relating to the Great Exhibition. INTRAMURAL INTERMENTS._ A deputation from the London Necropolis and Na tional Mausoleum Company, consisting of Sir James Duke, M.P.; Mr. H. C. Lacy, M.P.; Mr. W. J. Voules, Mr. J. Gardiner, Mr. C. R. Thompson, Mr. F. Dobinson, Mr. W. A. Coombe, Mr. H. R. Abraham, and Mr. B. Churchill, attended Lord John Russell yesterday at his Lordship's official residence, Downing. street, to submit their views in reference to the above subject, when the following points were propounded to his Lord ship in reference to their site at Woking:—That the site comprises nearly 2,000 acres available for burial purposes; that it is within forty minutes of the most cen tral of the London termini, by the South-Western Rail way, which passes through th e l an d ; that the soil at Woking is highly suitable fo r b ur i a l p u rposes, consisting of gravel and dry sand; th a t th e l an d is, moreover, of great elevation, dryness, and na t ura l beauty—of an un dulating surface, and well adapted to the growth of ap propriate and ornamental vegetation; that the land has been obtained for the sum of 35,0001., and can beren chapel dered available immediat e ly a t a ver y trifling additional outlay, and that the whole cos t o f adequate ac commodation necessary, a n d ornam ental buildings, fencing, &c., will not excee d 93,0001.; that the com pany are thus enabled to pr esen t an d t o bind themselves to the adoption of a tariff by which all classes of fu nerals will be conducted at a cost of 25 per cent. less than that at present incurred by the inhabitants of the metropolis for burial in the nearest gr aveyar d s an d cemeteries; that the pauper funerals will on l y b e c h arge d 155., with per mission to send one or t wo atten d ants to Woking and back. That the above ex p en di ture s hows not only an individual saving of 25 per cent., but renders wholly un necessary any advance on the part of the Government, or any rate upon the parishes for a cemetery. The com pany contemplates the creation of a fold included in their charges for the compensation of the incumbents of those parishes from which bodies are removed, so that they will continue to receive the fees on interment with out being called upon, except when desired, to discharge the duty. Mr. J. Voules (the deputy chairman) said he sub mitted the above statement with confidence to Lord John Russell for recognition, not only on th e extensive merits of the plan and site, but because it superseded the neces sity for any advance of public money, and obviated the delay which wa s so univer sa ll y d eprecate d. The deputation met with a most courteous reception, and after making several pertinent inquiries as to the intentions of the company, hi s L or d s hip promised to communicate with Lord S e y mour on t h e details. STATE OF TRADE.—NOTTIRGHAM..... The general state of the commerce of this town remains much the same as last reported. The lace trade is unusually flat, even for this period of the year (which is ordinarily priiicipally:to the . limited demand fo r Germany dull one), owing ermany and America, which two countries generally take off considerable quanti ties of goods during the month of November and a great part of December. The hosiery trade is i n a t o l era bly fair state, as compared with most of the staple trades of the country, many of the stocking frames being now employed in making fabrics which until recently were not contemplated. Hence an employment is found for a great number of hands who would otherwise have been destitute at this time, had they been entire'y dependent upon the production of such goods Spinners are looking as f er a r a e n generally advan ee denominated r h n o s s . i e whether thrown or spun, is now at a low price. What chang e ma y be looked for from the present movement in France remains very uncer tain, but it is mach feared that it willf or a time cause consi derable commercial depression. Leicester, Wednesday : Trade remains about the same as reported in our last. The approach of Christmas, of course, now begins to have its usual effect at this season of the year, that of somewhat checking demand and manufacture until the commencement of a new year. —Nottingham Journal. Tan WHISKY-BITTERS " DODGE." —On Wednes day a person named Turnley, who professes to be a doctor or druggest in Kent-street, Glasgow, was brought up at the police-court, on the charge of selling whisky without a licence. From the evidence, it appeared that this man has his drug shop in a close immediately opposite the back door of a spirit-shop, in which, of course, according to the regula tions, business ceased at a reasonable hour on ordinary nights, and at twelve on the nights of Saturday. me police, how ever, were astonished to And that as soon as the spirit- dealer shut his premises, a smart run commenced upon the druggist, which used to last from Saturday night till far into Sunday morning. On Sunday night the same phrenzy for physic e xhibited itself, and Mr. Turnley was always there with his eared, in short, that the druggist, door ajar, ready to minister to the wants of thirsty or suffer apnpumber of drouthy souls who retired . unserved from the spirit-dealer's back door, took it into . his u in m g an t i h ty e . gr l e t at bead that he might do a good stroke of business by disguising o in b g ser h v the whisky, and selling it as a healing cordial,:but under the name of bitters. The drug was whisky alter all, however, and not the best sort of it. The bailie found the charge proved, and sentenced Turnle y to pay a fine of 3/. 103. Perthshire Courier. ATTEMPTED MURDER. —On Thursday Thomas Patrick was finally examined before the Leeds magistrates, and committed for trial, for the attempted murder of his sweetheart, Jane Sunter, who had refused to receive his addresses. CAMBRIDGE "UNIVERSITY, DEC. s.—The Regius Professor of Divinity will resume his lectures on Monday, February 16, at one o'clock, in the Arts' School. The lec tures will be continued at the same hour on Mondays and Saturdays. EVENTS 1N PARIS. and to that spirit France owes the EC elcncholy position which the now holds before the world. She has lest all ee attachment to fixed institutions, all respect for principle, (From the Times.) all habits of obedience, all notions of legality. Forms Lis worth while, even i n th e midst of the catastrophe of governineet have ceased to command her reverence, now pending in France, to investigate one or two of the lesser acts of Lo u i s N a p o l eon ' s new G overnment , as a , and constitutions are regarded as only a byword or a 1 myth. Political creeds may be used as rallying cries, test of its honesty, a pledge of its future intentions, and a proof of the correctness of our own i m p ress i o n of it s , thusi as i es, they inspire ne En but, except th at o f t h e S oc i m a l :- ; and, indeed, it would he strange if they character. One of his first me a s u r es was to announce I did , when we seee hear the most definite, and (so far the formation of what ho termed a " Consultative Corn- as it eater i e s ) the meat deep rooted Legitimacy mission," wishing, as was stated by th e pr e amble of the 113 S been refined away, f o r a temporary purpose, iiy the decree, "to surround himself with men w h o ju s tly erjey utilitarian glosses of its chief reeefessers. Statesmanship the esteem and confidence of the country, until the re- in F rance h as heen gradually degenerated into mere in organization of the legislative body and the Council of t r i gue , or h as b ecome confounded with downright con- State." Accordingly the decree named as members of spiracy; whilst national vanity, or the love of military this commission about 80 persons, many of whom were glory, is the only prevalent feeling which the most par members of the majority in the late Assembly, and who ti a l o b server can mistake forpatriotism. The result is, were thus represented as having consented so serve the that public men of all grades, c i v il new Government. Among them were M. Barthe, Ad- been f a t a lly di scre di ted in the and military, have minds of miral Cerille, M. Dreuyn de Lhuys, M. de Montalem- when we are t o ld t h at all that remain ed of grea tness or mn - t best, M. de Mercde ' M. Le in Faucher, the Marquis do independ ence i n t h e ranks of French politicians has been Lagrange, the Due de Mouthy, M. Lacrosse, and many driven, like cattl e , i nto a per, by the ~ other gentlemenef character tied station. We observed at ders," who hold sup reme authority in ithi he warau once, upon the appearance of this list, that we had no evi- that great n a ti on , we are irresistibly remind capital cf ed how mar deuce of the acceptance by those persons of the duties vellously small an amount of true greatness or real thrust upon them, and in fact we discredited the assertion independence really existed i n the of the Moniteur that any such acceptances had taken What, during th e l ast e i ghteen ruonth c s ount h ry s . French a place, rem em bering th e ce l e br a ted proclamation pub- kept the e y es o f E urope fi xed upon Louis lished upon the landing of Louis Napoleon at Boulogne as the inevit a bl e ascen d P res i dent of theN in 1840, in which M. Thi e r s was constituted Prime Mi- Republic—assumi ng th a t it wound last bey on d et" sister of the new empire. I n t ru th, ti c present object Lew si m ply th e impossibility of finding a candidate' was simply to mislead the public for twenty-four hours who should be both legal and presentable. What, again, into the belief that the Pr es ident was actually sur- has emboldened and enabl e d hi m t o di ssolve a repro:. rounded by men who deserve the esteem and confidence seutative body, elected by universal suffrage, and to as cf the nation. But the statement was entirely false, and sumo dictatorial power? It is sheer noiseen:e to assert the use of these names was a political forgery, unsauc- 0. at he Las succeeded thus far by debauching the tioned by the great majority of the persons who bear soldiery. The troops now forming the army of them. On the very next day a fresh decree was is- Paris bear a very faint analogy to the Ptretorian sued, stating that the former edict contained ' a few hands; and one marked effect of the conscript se stem is inaccuracies," and substituting for it another list not that the French soldier, except at the end of a protracted containing one of those men of character and eminence, war, can with difficulty forget that he is a ciezen. Tho who had protested, with more or less indignation, at only rational or plausible explanation of the pending being thus pressed into the service of the new Govern- crisis is to be found in the obvious discontent, or the un ment. It is important to remark thas up to this time no disguised disgust, of the people at the proceedings cf person of note has tendered his services to Louis Na- the leading parties in the Assembly. History teaches poleun beyond the origiaal author of the coup deat and us that even the most unscrupulous usurpers, instead of e .he military commanders, who had been selected makin g c i rcums t ances , a r e commonly usad by them. In for their entire devotion to his service, As an- the extraordinary instance under decussion, the cppor other example of the character of this Go- tuaity was, indeed, grasped with wonderful decision aid vernment we may notice the fact, that on Monday, sagacity, but the attempt would never have been made, or the lit of Decembsr, the Minister of Finance in- it would have been bend in an hoar, had not the ground duced the Back of France to lend him a million been Lid for it by the Parliamentary leaders, with which ety sterling, alleging that it was a mere affair of temporary that mode of treating established authorities . w . it r.s.by i.ccommodation to he provided for by the Treusury bills. all classes, withoet exception, had been . laM o ttl t S e t _sl ar, The use made of these fuuds is now sufficiently apparent, the example of the highest notabilities . i s bld for the coup d'etat took place next morning, and services Whatever posterity may Net: of Lem Napoleon,,.a were required and performed for which the most liberal nothing short of success in the fist place, and sun .. 4 donations to the army and the police would hardly seem ' sequel afterwards as that to which he is pledged hy lin disproportioned. We leave th e means by which this first proclamations, will be admitted as a justification by sum was obtained from the bank for such a purpose to his contemporaries. For he it from us to contend that be appreciated by our readers. If anything could give one great crime may be committed to prevent another. en appearance of legal necessity to the military opera- Personal ambition may have been his real motive, and tions in Paris, and to the tremendous severity of the the urgency of circumstances is but half an excuse for measures employed to crush the resistance of tho people, indulging it. Still, wedo not shrink f rom avowing our em it is the part whi c h th e organ i ze d sections o f th e R e d v i ct i on t h at h e has simply precipitatel a catastrophe Republic and the desperate combatants of that faction which, even if it had continued passive, would speedily are main taking in this struggle. " Non tali auxilio have been brought about by others. Whether M. ncc defensoribus istis," may well he the answer of the Thiers and his fellow-prisoners at Ram were maturing people to a cry of independence and a premise of succour a criminal conspiracy, when they were arrested at conveyed to them in the sinister language of M. Louis General Changarnier's lodgings at four o'clock in Blanc. Nothing cm be more afflicting than the post- the morning, may be doubted ; but no one can deny lion of the middle classes and the pacific part of the that MM. Thiers, Berryer, Dupin, lelee6, Changarnier, population, between a host of fierce revolutionists who Bedeau, Bosse, &c., &o.—including most of the repre can only be put down by an immense army, and an army sentatives who met at the Mairie of the 10th Arron prepared to dispose absolutely of all political power as a dissement—have been engaged in a succession of plots recompense for the protection it affords to property to upset the Republic, and, it may be, to proclaim a and life. For the first time in these terrific street- Convention, and to send the Elect of six millions to Yin battles of Parisian history, we hear nothing of the cennes. They were fully resolved to set aside the Con- National Guard. It is remarkable that no proclamation stitution of 1848—that ridiculous production of M. Mar cr appeal has beets addressed to that body by the Go- rest—without ceremony or compunction. Nay, they vernment. The civic forces have been expressly con- might safely have taken credit for so doing, if they had signed to inaction, evidently because Louis Napoleon not assailed the President under the influence of wounded was afraid to rely upon them, and nothing would have self-lov e or pi que; f or th e R ev i s i on c l a use is th e imme been more inconvenient than the opposition of legions of diets cause of the civil war now raging, and to suppose armed citizens. Even now it is not impossible that their that the majority of one National Assembly can legally or weight may be felt before the termination of this con- morally bind a future one from likewise deciding any flier, but felt against the executive power. The Go- public question by a majority of votes, is absurd. Whether yernment has staked its whole success on the army alone, they may not have an opportunity of trying their hands and the strength of the regular forces engaged is im- at King or Constitution-making before the commence mensely greater than on any former occasion. But, be ment of the new year, is still dubious. The Monarchi the political opinions and ulterior views of the popular cal party—Legitimist, Orleanist, and Fusionist—has leaders what they may, it is impossible not to feel for been reduced by them to a very low ebb as regards the dauntless courage with which they have flung them- public confidence, but everything or anything is possible selves into open resistance to an unexampled violation of as we write. A Monarchy or an Empire may shine the rights of the nation. The middle classes, though pro- forth when the storm-clouds clear away—or a Red Re bably most aggrieved by the menaces of military des- public may glare out—or some new and nondescript form potism, would have found neither the means nor the spirit of democracy may emerge from the surging and foam to defy such a power. But if the men of the faubourgs are ing whirlpool of civil dissension. Our own opinion, if as tenacious and as brave in the defence of the laws of we may venture to hazard one, is that France has least the Republic as they have more than once shown them- to fear from the unequivocal recognition of the Presi selves to be when they rose against the laws of the me- dent's authority, and from that appeal to the wishes and narchy, victory has not even yet declared herself against votes of the entire people to which he stands pledged. the liberties of France. These men are not, at least on In the anxious interval, we can only express an earnest this occasion, insurgents, if by an insurgent is meant hope that whatever ruler, chief, leader, faction, or party the man who conspires against the legal order of the may gain the upper hand, he or they will, at least, have country, and seeks to change by force the constitution learnt some sound and useful lesson from the past. and the government. The barricades first thrown up on (From the Daily .News.) Wednesday evening were speedily carried by the sole diets; but the night was spent in further preparations Never were the antagonist elements of brute force and for war. A large column of troops were silently moved moral opinion more clearly and universally arrayed against ouch other, than in the struggle which Louis along the Boulevard towards the Faubourg St. Antoine, and the positions between the Canal and the Porte St. Napoleon has had the rashness to enter upon. Each Martin were strongly occupied. Shots were seta- hour brings testimony of his bayonets prevailing in the sionally fired from houses on the line of march, but streets, and his cause being condemned and denounced these acts of hostility were instantly punished by the by every man of sense and character ; the citizens and summary seizure or slaughther of the inhabitants. A the masses, who were well inclined to side with him in permanent court-martial was sitting, by whose orders his first quarrel with the Assembly, all turning the more fiercely against him, since the selfish insolence and in set:lle, and we are told a large number, of the prisoners taken between the barricades were shot. Yet these sane ravings of his ambition have been promulgated. operations and this rigour did not prevent the popular There seems, indeed, to exist but one anxiety in the movement from increasing in extent and in violence. breasts of all, who have a name or a standing, and that An immense body of troops, or rather an entire army, is, to purge themselves at once from all complicity rho criminal acts of the President. Even the most timid in in described to consist of 50,000 men, poured towards the scene of action. Yet we find by the latest accounts that barricades had been raised as far to the west as the Ru© the midst of a revolution, when© issue was uncertain— Grange-Bateliere ; the upper Boulevards were continually even these men come forth, each eager to east his de claimer in the face of Louis Napoleon. Count Mole swept by charges of Lancers; and the cannonade had why almost reached the fashionable quarter just beyond the asks with indignation the he was not arrested ? Rue Vivienne. It is, of course, impossible to answer And M. Leon Faucher,only politician of heart for the accuracy of intelligence dispatched under such and principle who was attached to Louis Napoleon circumstances, but, if these facts are correct, the struggle whilst ho kept within constitutional limits, has has extended far beyond the limits of the Marais and written to ask what crime ho has committed, that the faubourgs, and the popular forces can hardly be he should be thought worthy of being included in th e confined to the revolutionary sections of those districts. president's State Council and list of notables. A m id s t Hitherto we had beheld in France contests between such a unanimity of sentiments prevailing through the civic class, it is utterly impossible that the soldiers can Governments armed to defend the laws of society and remainl s unmoved and estranged from the teat of insurgents armed to overthrow them. But now, as if to their countrymen. og T . he officers cannot close their breasts make this chaos of anarchy worse confounded, men against the suggestions and convictions of their rela thehave to take a part between a Government attacking tives and acquaintances amongst _ has the middle classes. We law and an insurrection to defend it; though it is but too probable that the triumph of either file- need not speak of generals, since Louis Napoleo o n neo _ tion will inflict a ghastly wound on the freedom and found it necessary to repress and seclu . de . every one we welfare of the nation. Such aro the results of those al- that rank who was of known polit e ic r a l l o t p n inlon. command who ternations between an excessive impatience of legal au- may be certain that there ar thority and a servile deference to arbitrary power, which are so strangely united in the French character; and,soldiers themselves, however fully partake either Thethe opinionsreaevof several or those o f Changarnier. 'r_ whatever be the deplorable condition of such a people,l' contentedly the permanent task of act depending animated t e a r g o a r i ni nst the Soc y ialists of Paris, are still nut its trials and its struggles are solely attributable to acts on its own will. The decisive turn of events ' likelyas to perform police and the executioners of their fellow will, however, be given by the conduct of the army in c li it g izens. It will, however, take some time for the kkle provinces. It is in the power of any of the Generals upper classes and inluential men to recover the commanding in Lyons, Strasbur g , or o th e r head-quay- stunning effect of the President's coup d'itat. These tors of the military district s , t o arres t, or at least to sus- men have neither the confidence of the people nor of pend, the fate of the n a ti on . Th e fi rs t blow has so far the soldiers. They destroyed their popularity by their rigour and reaction in the Assembly, and miscarried that it has not been followed by any popular flung away all the natural supports of a constitutional manifestation in favour of Louis Napoleon; and, though party. Such men as Changarnier disgusted even the supported by the army, it has inaugurated his power by commercial classes by their evident intrigues in favour torrents of blood shed by that people to whose misplaced of a legitimist restoration. Although the mad conduct confidence he owes whatever he possesses in the world. of Louis Napoleon has now flung right on the side of The intelligence of the resistance in Paris, though his opponents, still these upper classes and notabilities disguised by the Government as far as possible, will will probably require some time to concert and organise kindle the same spirit in every important city in either an opposition or a rebellion. The people alone France. Evan the army can hardly look forward wit h and any portion of the army can attempt this. And unshaken resolution to a war with the civil and popular what is to be feared, is that the Red Republicans will forces of the nation; and the undisguised military atm attempt it alone, and give the soldiers an opportunity lutism of Louis Napoleon's proclamations has at once of fleshing their sabres with victory. Any triumph of exasperated his enemies and alienated his friends. In the kind would be vaunted as having been gained over such an attempt not to gain strength rapidly and uni anarchy. And the generals of the successes might give vernally is to lose it. Surprise and d skilful preparation themselves the airs of having saved France and society, have, aided by overwhelming foree, h one their part l to i —that old humbug, in which, unfortunately the Guizots perfection, but on the third day of t e rho Louis and the Thierses have traded. There is one class by Napoleon was disputing, step by step,.. e barricades o whom the scheme of Louis Napoleon might be very Paris, and consigning hundreds of victims to death and misery, instead of receiving the incense and the homage favourably received, provided they cou ld h ave f a ith in z its stability.. This is the functionary class. The new of an enthusiastic people. Such are the facts, as far as we aro acquam • ted with them; and we must infer eitherin fact, an immense heirarohy of imperial schema is, is . placemen. There a Council of State, a Senate, a that this enterprise will meet with the fate it deserves, or that, if it succeed, success will be obtained by means Lower Chamber, and, it would appear, an Upper which must widen the breach between the people and Chamber besides each receiving salaries every member of all and Government. laries and fulfilling functions. The (From the Morning Chronicle.) number of civil employes in France is already conside- Louis Napoleon maintains his position with his oha- rabic, but this would swell them to an army, and make racteristio courage and coolness, but the news of another imperial politics a very thriving trade. But this plan of day has not diminished its danger. He still seems to taking a majority of the educated classes into government stand on the verge of a precipice, with his feet planted pay, is a desperately expensive one. The military ens upon ground which in some parts is trembling under the p Pretorians must have their gratuity, the generals will expect a share even larger of emolument. pressure. Although, for the moment, the insurrectionary T he movement in Paris appears to have been suppressed, their batons of marshal. And who is to pay? M. events, and rumours little less pregnant with cense- Fould himself, all Bonapartist as he may be, shrinks Exchequer quenees than events, succeed each other with startling from the task. The Chancellor of the po er rapidity. The President's first check was the refusal of of ,the new empire will bo a bold man. One w some of the most eminent persons named in the original ful mode of conciliating the French rural popula list of the Consultative Commission to serve on it.:That lion. They would understand that. And an imperial senate that decreed it, in however arbitrary a manner, document s has since appeared in a corrected shape, would be far preferred to the most constitutional and though with a dimished number of names; and liberal assembly leaving the contributions, directes and in- M. Barocha—a man of no inconsiderable weight c directes, either as it found them, or augmented. But M. De Persigny, the destined prime minister of Lou' —has consented to act as Vice-Prosident. and Ae Napoleon, will not become a Sully. Neither be nor is cording to the general tenor of rho private pub- the his master will edit a new edition of the (Economies lished correspondence received in this country, Royalcs. And the playing with the public purse, will pations of the reports from some of the provinces are regarded as, infallibly be one of the most favourite o that the coup d'itat on the whole, unfavourable —although such is not the powers that are to Ise. Some will s ee" was made for nothing else. And asYcandal, we may be character of the accounts circulated. by the Governme h nt i It has been rumoured, for example, not onl e y std t e n a t army ' sure, will be busy with the doings of the Treasury. General Magnan wavered in his fidelity to the Pr There is one other consideration, more serious than all, ooufisthNisapnoelevvonsy. system is but that General Castellano, who commands an of and more menacing to L • 40,000 or 50,000 men at Lyons, had . declared . for the t the entire Assembly, the majority of whom might, in that case, re- and fact that pair thither, and meet under his protection. Yet, as if him, such a contingency had been overlooked or disregarded. depends upon him - ' e personally, and is bound up with —or, perhaps, for fear of the effect on public opinion of his life. That there is no Bonapartist principle or party ec wholesale a detention, if prolonged—the greater in the country, 1815 showed. All this mighty pyramid, number of the representatives arrested on Tuesday last, therefore, of military power and civil plaeeZ32"hiP res t s centres ill; and confined at St. Valerien, have been set free. W e upon the small apex of ono head. Louis Napoleon has of do not regard the erection of barricades, unless the work- no family, no successor. Ile has not evena this offers men en masse proceed to man them, as absolutely ad- station and respectability. What a premium success, verse to Louis Napoleon's chances of success; because the to assassination plots, in case of the Presidents and reek real party of order might, by so violent a proceeding, be may be conceived. And that exasperatedthedwould have recourse induced to rally round him, rather than allow the Red less faction whom he has cr h us r h e e is but too much reason Republicans to obtain the mastery; and we find that to that criminal alternative l t f e esoa Fed this chance by the several members of the Club of the Rue des P- to expect. Napoleon himself b his military absences ramidos have already resolved to aid him againstshort time he spent in Par s; Y ‘, b the m s ti t• and glory this section of his opponents. Whatever and achievements; and y may be which he was wont to re-enter his the true elements for calculating its surrounded by course, the crisis is invested more than ever with the deepest and most pain- , capital. ful interest. A few hours after Louis Napoleon had struck his coup d' (t a t, an E nglish gentleman asked a French mechanic on the boulevards what ho thought of the state of things. " Mais, Monsieur, c'est un four de Jae," was the reply. There spoke the true spirit of the people—careless, reckless, tend thirsting for excitement; q pcirEeT Y.—We underst an d thatside at the ens u i ng anni versarysociety ; and th a t h e w ill b e isr. dinner ET D n o s t. : golfa r st E h jirrsesrviraoollN valuable bwl SOCIETY: l sup p or ted by the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, and iil A i many of the principal master printers. RAIL `VA Y RETURNS TRAFFIC RI.TUT:N OP THE PAST WEEK. ➢files opened. NAME OF RAILWAY. ➢RI T 31.1. 2634 85% 189?, 94% 634 Aberdeen Belfast and Ballymena „. Belfast and County D0wn............ Birkenhead, Lar.c.e;:iire, and Cheshire Bolton, Black burn, and West York .... Bristol and Exeter • • Ca1ed0nian............. ............ Chester and „ Cork, rilackro ek, anti Psissa .Dublin and ileltast Junction Dublin.and Drogheda ...... ......... Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • • . • • .. • • Dundee and Arbroath .. • • • • ...... Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction Dundalk and Enniskillen • •,• • • • • • • • • East Anglian..•. • • • • • • ...... • • • • • • • • East Lancashire .• • • 17114 241 1 A 188 264 12% 539 N 173% 244% 15 114 167% 28 496% 126 X 1,276 534 143, 589 3 , 4 / 2 6 , 8 76 2,2zg 413 840 1,00! 360- 624 3,3;9 13,451 1,952 3,723 2,104 261 11•34 574 21% 63 442% 1344 240 Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. • • .... Eastern Union .. .. . • Edinburgh and Glasgow .•• • ..... • •• Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee • ... •• Exeter and Credit0n............ Furness hallway ... Glasgow, and South-Western•• Great Northern and E. L Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Great Western .. •.. ..... Irish South Eastern Lancaster and Carlisle • ......, Lancashire and Yorkshire Leeds and Thirsk Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport London and North Western . ... London and 81ackwa11.............. London, Brighton, and South Coast.. London and South Western. • • ...... 33 L ifMM i a n i in d kc c i , ha n ci d ,s e di ri r y , . Buxton,a. n . d . . E . a i . s n : d. i . 11 . e . 1,. Matlock, • *.• •• 8, .. .- c.: • 1 !,T 7 O r j aaa r r::: :l t t l' i 3cl i acc i i' s :nhh i s i i l deet i t r tr e ss : t i. t? : tee arinrrilh:a6drid. and Carlisle...... 11 Carlisled: i 1 . 1 i Ia re . e.l South it 1. e raa 11 e.. j. I . .du I: : I.: • :::i ni .tl.l°:::** : :1 :::::::: s i re licirth- West " - a •• ...... •••••••• Scotti sh Midland :• •• •• • •• •• • •• -7 S hrewsbury and B•rining • •• • • • • • •• •• " " ih • ain ...... Shrewsbury and chest'''. • • Shropshire Union ' ••••• • • . " South Eastern... ••• • • • ' South Wales : • • • ' • • • • • • • • • • • • . South York., Dulicas • te • • • • • • • ..... Tail - Vale .......... r, Ana Goole Ulster . .. • • . ......... • • • • • • • • • '' " • ' Waterford and Limerick • :• • • • • • • • • •• West Cornwall ...... . ••• •• •••• •• Whitehaven Junction ... • • • • • • • • • • • • York and Newcastle, and nerwlc —7' •• York and .North Midland .......k::: 284 3,482 6,141 4,223 13,1,u 3,912 1851. FOREIGN. Central of France •• ........ , Dutch ithetiish ............... 'Maria Antonia Montereau and Troyes Northern of France Orleans and 80rdeaux......... Paris and Lyons .... • ..... •• . Paris and Orleans ............. Paris and Rouen. ............. Paris and Strasburgli ......... Rouen and ilaNre ............. Tours and Nantei-.• • ....... 742 2,261 3,317 4,3`,1 405 4.475 ,i1,1Q4 " 17 1 1 1,&t) 6n '; 3,471 .7.i -,613 ,464 ' ' - -110 la. 616 e 92 . 914 466 ' 633 - 158 3,760 13,226 1,97.5 3,351 '1,126 289 3,703 10,180 4,b60 14,228 1 . 6 3,5,56 945 2,270 3,153 4,614, 53s 1,4;41 502 1,476 497 1,455 10,238 1,334 1,394 2,355 922 359 'l3l 1.+7 201 13,665 ~12,(79 7,421 - -b,09 3,154 3,303 716 779 111; 176 1,025 I 1 6 ^ • 4 17,426 j 19,200 6,112 1 1 ; 50 7,850 7,92 • 6,080 4,652 7: 603 319 2,347 2,,0G • -- OFFICERS OF THE GUARDS. The West-end of London is at present ringing with the scandals of the younger officers of one of the regiments of the Guards. This one has " bolted" over head a n d ears in debt; that one has followed him to see if affairs are quite as bad as rumour alleges; Lord This is in for 10,000/., and off to Constantinople; tho Honourable Mr. That's name being to 7,0001. worth of bills, he is not to be found; a fifth is actually in gaol , and another off to America. In short, there is a sort of civil war raging between the Guards and the Jews, and about, it is re ported, nothing less than 70,0001. of bills of exchange. Here is fresh food for the scandal raised by the case of the Allt , ynes and the D'Arcys; and here is reason why that scandal should not be allowed to die away before some steps are taken by the military authorities to strike at the root of the evil systemlwhich bears such trait. Are not these young men, who claim to be of the best blood of England, the victims of the Horse Guards, its follies and absurdities. It first puts them into a false position, then treats them as special and favoured per sons; holds them forth to the world as men of unbounded wealth; affords them all the opportunities of a great metropolis, with nothing to do in it but compass their own detruction; and as one batch is ruined by racing, dicing, gambling, credit, and—what the late Mr. Crock ford told a Parliamentary committee did it all—"-opera boxes and women," the Horse Guards repeat the opera tion—as if the Household Troops were a model school of virtue and propriety. And these metropolitan ',regi ments, the tone of their morality, the ordinary character of their pursuits, and the practices they resort to, in their turn become a sort of standard to offieers of similar ages in every other regiment in the empire. " Hero lies Laziness the Mother of all the Vices!" was the inscription a French wit proposed for the tomb of the mother of the Regent Orleans; and at the root of all these scandals in the army is the want of occupation. Young men, having nothing to do, cannot be kept out of mischief when congregated together; and there they are, lounging about garrison towns and depots nearly all the day; thankful for anything to cccupy their at tention, be it a pretty face in a bonnet shop, or two straws running down a gutter. The consequence is in evitable. They bet, they race, they play; at first a little, gradually that little increases, until, as in the case of Mr. Kennedy, one mere boy will bet half his fortune on a single event, sod another will defraud him out of it. All young men in the army are not such fools or such knaves as the two we have named. Some have rational occupations, others turn out excellent officers, but that extreme case di+closes the logical tendency of the pre ' sent military system of England.—Daily Aews. THE ARCTIC COMMITTEE. We published yesterday the report of the Arctic Committee without comment, nor have we space at pre sent for such remarks as it inevitably suggests. In the meantime we shall only observe that it is very much what was expected from a committee composed exclu sively of naval men, sitting upon a case in which an officer of rank of their own profession, and a merchant captain, employed exceptionally in the same service, are brought into collision. It is not surprising that the naval commodore has been proved impeccable. The Committee may, however, think that they have done justice to both parties, and that they have made an award as fair and equal as that of Solomon on his throne —since, while to Captain Austin is given, at the ex pense of Mr. Penny, the excuse he wanted for not fol lowing up the search in Wellington Strait (though Cep. twin Austin ought to have needed none, since he had pat a summary end to the existence of those whom he was sent to seek), that excuse is virtually withdrawn by the final recommendation of the Committee. This recom mendation is, that the search be renewed next season in the very quarter which has been the subject of these differences—namely, Wellington Strait. Of the means of effecting this most necessary work, we shall speak at another time—merely observing at present that those proposed by the Committee are meagre in the extreme. —Chronicle. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. The report of the Commission has not yet been pre sented to Parliament, but we can give what we believe will be the recommendations contained in it. The Com missioners recommend that the old structure should be used as a temporary bridge, and that a new bridge should be constructed adjoining, or as near as possible to the present bridge, on the north side, that is, lower down the river; that it should not be less than GO feet in width, including the footways; that the height of headway of the centre arch should not be less than 25 feet 6 itches above Trinity datum ; that it should consist of no more than five arches; and that it abou ld a be an d iron structure resting on stone piers, .a t s r a i would require less rise than a stone bridge, span of arch, Mr. B arry, in his With respect to the height and width, . enable conditions, if the bridge evidence, stated as indisp it now is, that the roadway and throw less pressure a o d n iu m t i he o fountions. were to remain where . h sh n o o r t e b to o shore; that altoothfeee feet; that the height of the road should not exceed twenty feet above Trinity standard. These conditions, of course, of sh ouldt roadway d w level ity had reference to the effect of the new Houses of Parlia sfrhoomuld mat, and the Commissioners admitted their importance in that respect ; bnt, considering that a bridge of this limited height and extended width would prove al ob stacle to the passage of vessels, they have sot adopted them. A bridge of the width proposed by Mr. Barry would be a fine feature as well as a great convenience . , and it should be con s id ere d whether or not it might be obtained, th or e , oabtstraulletieovnes nniti y s, r ap proximated , er,by moft w o i s th o o f u o t v in creasinger: the hanging footpaths carried by cantilevers or balance girders. The property scheduled to come down includes the houses on the south side of Bridge-street, emending as far as the India Board, and then returns into ra.flt ment-street. On the Surrey side, the houses no:: 7 ar "w as u ing on both sides of Bridge-street, exten g d tatgate on the Belvidere -road on the north side, and S side of south side, and a few houses on the eat ......B ld oad. ut er, Belve dere-road, at the corner of 13rIdge-r . thantht present usual interest month. ----------_ NEW Boons.--Several new publications of more a novel from baryemanessnorus.ncgibfnorrn aapnpdeacoran.ceAdmurcimngg ;N a n l r d . Eliot c r o Warburton, n d " R the ai them are " Lord George Bentinck," a political biography from the pen of Mr. Disraeli ;—a new novel entitled " Darien ; popular or th nald llastings;"—a comic work for Christmas reading c a ll e d . Traits of American Humour," by the witty author of I P ' h r i e nc C e ; e " s c b e y n t " Sam Slick ;"—" Jacob Bendixen, 'the Jew," the Danish, by Mary Howitt, which is Laid to combine i l / 4 17 the Merchant author . of " a story of extraordinary interest some curious revelations h to Jewish customs and society. The same publishers as also recently issued Captain Spencer's " 'Travels in hare Turkey, itungary and Austria," a workof in European import ance at the present time ;—Mr. MCI peculiar his journey in Egypt and Nnbia t Y's graphic accountof Nil e s ;"—" Spain as it Is," by M 0 " Khartoum and the accurate and amusing descriptionr. G. A. Hoskins, a very —" Ravenscliffe," a new novel of this picturesque country; ori ginality by the distinguishedof remarkable power and ham ;"—and "Falkenhur . author of "Emilia Wynd full of vivid personalg, ' a charmingly romantic tale. Vernon." sketches, by the author of " Mildred d of ied s2 a . t IGnratfheenb DEATH OF PRIRSSNITZ, A.ITTHOR THE WATEZ Priessni tz, the cel e b ra t e d f oun d er o f hydropathY, merogrnoilin g th o e f t t , . 11 6 a t t h da o v f p N r o i v oaa em ni b t e a r, r a a t aup and age stirring at a n early hour, but complained of the sold, and had wood brought in to make a large fire. His friends had for some time believed him to be suffering from dropsy of the chest, and at their earnest entreaty be consented to take a little medicine, exclaiming all the while, "It is of no usa." lie would see no physician, but remained to the last true to his profession. Aboat foar o'clock in the after noon of the 29th he asked to be carried to bed, and upon being laid down expired. Resseipts. 1850. [ e si lid dir Ile to a 1 0 8 up , ill on I° 'OO ~ d 10 of a pet ißle ou t, 'lv 01'1 d e° 'ls l' o o - o r beet il le riOr w o po ..1 C b. ie , f 19' 0 ~3 <<l, TIIE SUN Paid. LON DON, SA 4. 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