The Sun. — London, England, 1851-12-30 00:00:00

----- RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. Plats AND LYONS.—It appears that a new con cession for the comp!etion of this line is to be granted on Saturday next. The total capital is to be 8,000,000/. Tne terms of the concession are, a lease of 99 years, a guarantee of 4 per cent. per annum during 50 years upon the entire capital of 8,000,0001., from the completion of the undertaking. At the end of 15 years from the latter event, one-half the net profits above 8 per cent. per annum will belong to the State. The payment by the company of 4,400,0001. to the State as the purchase money of the works from Paris to Chalons, and the reimbursement of 160,0001. expended on the works south of Chalons, is to be made in the following manner—namely, 400,0001. on receiving the concession, 400,0001. more on taking possession of the line, 960,0001. at the end of 1852, and the remainder 2,800,0001. in annual payments commencing in 1853, extending over a period of some years, and chargeable with interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. The length of the line from Paris to Lions i 3325 miles, of which 244 miles, from Paris to ChalOns, have been open for traffic since the Ist of Janela.et. The remeining portion of the line, from Chalons to Lyons, 81 miles in length, is to be com pleted by the new company. The original estimate of the cost of the entire line amounted to 8,000,00 01, " that cm runt has been already expended on the section between Paris and Chalons. The French Govern ment has also expended about 160,000/. o n the re maiing section between Chalons and Lyons, which section, with other matte"rs, is estimated to cost 3,600,0001., including the 160,000/. to b e reimbursed to the State. In order to obtain the extension of the line to Lyons, the Government intended to concede the section from Paris to Chalons, upon which ( led, for 4,400,0001., so 8,000,0001. has been execu that the company will htive to provide 8,000,0001., of which 2,400,0001. is to be borrowed. The receipts on the line f r om Paris to Chalons, since its opening in June to the 22d of November last, amounted to 671, 112 /., being at the rate of 2,8201. per mile p er annum. Of the total amount re ceived, 509,112/. was for passengers, and but 162,0001 for goods, 6nsequence, as it is alleged, of the arrangements for the latter being imperfect. The receipts for goods oh the Paris and Orleans, the Paris and Rouse, and the Northern Railways being about the same as that for passengers, it is estimated that when the arrangements are completed the gross traffic on that section will not be less than 3,8401. per mile, or 936,0001. per annum. The traffic from Chalons to Lyons is estimated at 2,5601. per mile, or 208,000/. per annum, together 1,144,0001. The working expenses are estimated at 514,8001., or 45 per cent, leaving 629,200/. per annum as the esti mated net revenue, being equal to 9 per cent. on the proposed capital of .5,600,000/., after paying 5 per cent. on the 2,400,0001. proposed to be borrowed. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN AND LANCA SHIRE AND YORKSHIRE.—These companies have been for some years past running trains over their lines from INlanchester to Liverpool in competition, the trains of each starting at about the same periods of the day, thereby throwing away much locomotive pow e r without advantage to the public (except so far as intermediate station traffic is concerned), but by an arrangement now entered into they are reducing their trains by one-half, and starting them alternately so as to divide the traffic and reduce their expendi ture. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company, from the date of this arrangement, the Ist of January, will also run from the same station as the London and North-Western—namely, the Victoria Station, in Manchester. LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN.—It appears that the Exchequer Loan Commissioners have at length granted a loan to this company of 50,0001, to enable them to proceed with the extension of the line to Omagh. The necessary preparations are being made to let the contract for the works between Newtown stewart and Omagh. UNIFORM OR RAILWAY TIME.---It is proposed, by means of the electric telegraph, to regulate all the resbli clocks throughout the kingdom in accordance with Greenwich, or railway time. Precisely at noon the signal indicating Greenwich time, as observed by , the great electric clock in the central station, Loth bury, is to be sent over the various lines of wire, giving at an ieapprecisble interval the exact time at every terminus. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Being of opinion that this country will sink into a third-rate power when it loses its colonies, I am sorry to observe the pains taken by the Colonial office to irritate our dependencies, and apparently to force emigration to the United States of America. Und , r a despotic or republican form of government every effort would be made to induce emigration to our colonies, the best safeguard against such costly affairs as the Kafir war ; but our atiatoeracy (who are, in fief, our rulers) think all is accomplished that conc(-rna them when a colony is established, and the wird places created. That our colonies are loyal is proved by the large account of misgovernment to which they have hith-rto submitted, but to prevent the British empire front being dismembered, we must let the colonies govern and protect themselves. They would adopt our gelid laws, :and for our bad and costly ones !abitituto the better laws cf the United Sta'e3. If chocle to have bad Ilws, I don't see v; by we should force them en cur coloni 5. Our dcpericencies could (14 . end themselves on Lr.d, bytter and cheaper than we could do it for them. As to the navy, it ought to be supported by the whole empire in proportion to the population, as it would be pre ferohle to a asp irate navy for each colony. It is hopeless to look for much improvement in our colonial system until we have another Reform Bill. I wig, however, just notice another abominable abuse connected with our colonies—that of making extensive grants of land by the Colonial-office, and never ascertaining whether the conditions attached to those grants hove ever been complied with. I believe grants have been made to companies in British America (especially in New Brunswick) where no attempt is made to send out emigrants, and the shareholders look for the improvement of their property by settler: , occupying the land adjoining the-irs. Such an obstruction to improvement would not be tolerated in the United States. I gin, Sir, &0., A CONSTANT READER. CONVICTION FOR DRUNKENNESS. TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The law applical - .)1 , to drunkenness (which is a very ancient one) requires repealing, and a new enßctment in its stead. As it stands the offender may be fined 53. and costs, and if not paid in seven days, his goods may be distrained for the penalty (if not the costs), and if he hava no goOds, to be placed in the stocks for six hours ; and if he goes through that ordeal for the penalty, the costa cannot be en forced. No magistrate, a t th e p resen t d a y, wou ld en f o r ce his conviction b y P l ac i ng the offender in the stocks, and for obvious rea3ons. The ordeal (a 3 in a case of co mmon assault, or the like), ought to be punished by commitment, at once, on non:paymcat of the penalty and expenses, 1 1 ‘:r want 01 this remedy many go unpuuUed, either in pocket or person. I am, Sir, &c , JUSTICE. Dec. 26, 1851. SUGGESTIOj,‘TS TOWARDS A SIMPLE AND CO•IPREFIENSIVE MEASURE OF "CHAN CERY REFORM." LY A BARRISTER. (ADDITIONAL.) 1. That when the defendant purposes to set up a suNAtantive case in ensWer to the claim of the plain tol,ll, shall; in like manner, propose "f,!cts for ad and shall also give notic::! of his intention to Ellbj 4 -": t 'Oda iff to examination at the trial ; and furnish the--1, 1 „, of persons whose testiln"nY h e 'At otts'to use 2. That the °° warrant "to consider the decree" shall be the decree itself ; and tho only ,6 state of fac%" that which is (14,losed by the evidence, or rests D r ) the admission of parties to the cause. 3. 'not " facto" so su ‘ . Ata.tit'littt!il on oath, and re cognised as preyed, and "tact„.. ~t l,lw r h ich, having been admitted, revired no proof, be considered to require no further corroboration "a ffidavit." 4. That when an " dilths t ir ,17%x1cl constitute a ground of motion for " " ' rine I I oorninthe7 into court," such "payment" 811111 1)0 ;n4( e re quisition o f the plaintiff; and tha!:, in the elect of an to the Court bieowing necessary, throug h th°l4%iittllecnt ur refusal of the defendant, the costs thereby ote % sioned shall be paid immediately by such defendant. 5. That the same rule shall be applied to the de posit or exhibition of books and documents. 6. That it; shall clearly appear, from the examina tion of a party, or the te3ti:nony of witnesses, that any fact: , , not admitted, and relevant to the issue, when within the knowledge of such party, he shall be liable to the costs incurred in the proof of such " Lets" without reg. ,rd to the result of the cause. AWKWARD POSITION OF A. CHRISTMAS PARTY.— The express to Exeter broke down on Wednesday night, midway betweea Bridgewater and Taunton, in consequence of the engine becoming disabled, from what cause is not ascertaioed. Tile train, which was well fille 1 with passen ge-.s, many of whom were hastening to meet their friends, was cl-Lineil in one 6pot for nearly three hours, and did not reach Taunton until 1.30, instead of 9.22, as advertised The p,tesengers burg it fora time lyitil much good humour, but at last they lo,t their temper, and many threatened to open s,,ine of the Christmas parcel:, for the lonely spot prevented their obtaining refresbruents. Some made speeches de °titers lighted a fire to warm them n uncing the directors; e enlivened them by some sprightly airs on the selves ; one ' I f b • cornet-a-piston ; wIII.S. ,callers, rifled to a degree by the unexpected delay, annoyed the guard s by so many importu nities that, at last, guard 4, stoker, and all, de c li ne d an t swering any question at all. The uncomfortable feeling a for convivial that time of rug hi, with hearts beatinis_ . h e i g h . must have meetings, can scarcely remained in that positio b n e o described. 'IDI _tr e. „, t... the arrival of the down . mail from London (due at three o'clock), but for the arrival of a down go , ,d s t ra i n w i t h two eng i nes, on e of which was p u t on the expr e s s , w hi c h then progressed on to Exeter .--Bath Journal. THE SUN, FRANCE. The Moniteur publishes the following report, ad dressed by the Minister of Finance to the President of the Republic : " Monsieur le President, --Justly preoccupied with the desire of responding to the wishes of the country, and to satisfy its interests, you requested me to draw up a plan for simplifying the mechanism of the great establishment, the directi on of which is entrusted to me, with the double object of increasing the energy of its action and of effecting economy to the public treasury. lam now about to propose to you to apply that happy idea to the organization of the two ad ministrations of the Customs and the Contributions Indirectes. The duty of the first is to collect at the frontiers the taxes imposed on foreign merchandise in the interest of national labour and of the trea sury. The second is charged with securing in the in terior the collection of the duties on fermented liquors, m ade sugar, sa lt, an d on other produce, such as home play i n g silver, &C. Both concur in collectiog the indirect s a xes, and this common object (necessarily establishes a common bond and identity of interests between them. Their action is frequently exercised on the same object. It is by the Customs that the duties are collected on colonial and foreign sugar, and on the greater portion of salt. The Commissioners of the Indi • rsct Taxes are these who collect the duties on home made sugar and on salt manufactured beyond the con trol of the Customs. Sometimes one of those two administrations is charged with a service which by its nature appears to belong to the other. Thus the cus toms have the surveillance of the manufactories of soda. The Contributions Indirectes are charged with the collection of the octrois, which present as to their collection a great analogy with the Customs duties. I have consequently been led to ask myself, in order to be led into your views, whether the distinc tion which at present exists between these two great public services does not hold more to ancient traditions than to the nature of their attributions and to the analogy of facts ; and whether their amalgamation would not produce important advantages. Not only do their attributions bring them toge ther, but their means of action, their proceedings, their mode of collecting duties, and their means of preventing fraud, present great similitude. The active surveillance exercised by the two administra tions in the same localities might be performed b . y the same agents. The permits might be granted . in the same offices, and the receipts might be centralised in the same treasury. Those two administrations,. whilst separated, lose a portion of their common means of action, and do not possess in the which ought to unite agents concurring the same object. United, they may afford each other a more efficaci ous and extensive assistance. Animated by the same spirit, they . will make all their efforts tend to a common object, and will establish a unity of action f a vourable to the good execution of the service, both for the interests of the Treasury and the advantage of the agents themselves. Ido not hesitate, therefore, to propose to you to combine the direction of the Contributions Indirectes with that of the Customs, and to form th em i n t o on e administration under the title of General Direction of the Customs and the In direct Taxes. It does not form part of my plan to ask of you to supply immediately the consequences of that union to all the details of the service. That will be the object of further regulations, which must be studied and prepared by the one chief placed at the head of the two united services. The object of those regulations will be to introduce into the administrative organization all the meliorations which their union will permit to be accomplished, without overlooking the rights the numerous func tionaries and agents of the Customs and the Contri butions Indirectes have acquired by their activity, their energy, and thair devotedness. Whilst scrupulously respecting acquired rights it will be possible to realise hereafter a considerable saving. I cannot at present fix the amount exactly, but in order to appreciate its importance it is sufficient for me to remark that the simplification of the service will bear on two administrations, which at present employ a consider able number of hands. I feel confident that the effect of this important measure will be to fortify the prin ciples of unity and authorityin one of the greatest administrative and financial services of the country. By committing to an united and powerful direction the care of accomplishing the useful transformation of which I submit to you the plan, you will have afforded a remarkable proof of your just solicitude for the collection of the indirect taxes, and you will prove that, while you take into consi deration the legitimate susceptibilities of the population, and whilst seeking to accomplish im provements and reforms, you are resolved to main tain firmly a system of taxation which is necessary for the fortune and the prosperity of France. If you adopt the cousiderations I have the honour to propose, I pray you, M. le President, to sign the decree an nexed. Accept, M. le President, the homage of my profound respect. "Toe Minister of Finance, " ACHILLE FOULD." The Illoniteur then publishes the decree of the President of the Republic, uniting the administration of the Contributions Indirectes with that of the Cui• toms, under the title of General Direction of the Cus• toms and Indirect Taxes. The change is to tike place on the lit January next. GERMAN Tiie new Prewssische Zeitung states that the dif• ferences respecting the boundary lines between the Duchies of Holstein and Schleswig are likely to be referred to arbitration to some Government not con• corned in the question, and that the selection will be from the three Governments of Naples, Portugal, and Spain. The Cologne Gazette has been fined 50 thalers for publishing one of Elibu Burritt'a " Olive Leaves" against " Military Pomp." It was ruled to come within the statute against " turning the measures of the Government into contempt." The same " Leaf" has been published at B er li n, an d even at Vi enna, without notice. When made up in From what When PLACES. General Post-office port dis- due. London, patched. America (by Brit. pkt.)N Jan 2 .. Liverpool.. Arrived America (by U.S. pkt.) N Jan. 6 .. ..',Liverpool Jan. Anaorica (by U.S. pkt.) M' ~,Sonthampt. .ran. 9 Africa (West coast).. N 14th of the month Plymouth IJan. 3 Alexandria* ........ N 1911 & 30th of mo.; Dover ..IJan. 18 Belgium .. .. • • N Daily • • .. ..IDover IDaily Brazil .. • .. M 9th of the month ISouthampt.lJan. 16 Buenos Ayres M 9th of the month ISoathampt. IJan. 16 California(viaChagres) M 2d & 17th of month Southampt. Jan. 5 Cape of Good Hope N,l4th of month Plymouth.. Jan. 3 Constantinople* .. •• N 1 7th 17th 27th of mo l Dover .. Dec. 30 Central America .. 31;2d & 17th of men. Southampt. Jac 5 Channel Isles • • .. NiMon., Wed., &FrLSoutkampt. Ta. Th. Sat Chill .. M ; l7th of the month jSonthampt. Jan. 20 France & N Twice daily .. !Dover • • Twicedaily Greece* •• •• N 7th 17th27th of mo ;Dever .. Dec. 30 Ilamburgh N Tuesday & Friday ;London .. Tues. Sat. Uolland M Wednes. & Satur. l Londan Men. Thur Honduras . N 17th of the mouthlSouthampt. Jan. 20 Ireland .. M& N Twice daily .. Holyhead • . Twicedaily India(via Southamp.) M 20th of the month Southampt. Jan, 23 I : n o a it (vi m a Pte ars n: llles) • N ath& 24th of month Dover • • Jan. 2 Ni,editerrenean (via 127(1 & troi 3 , f 1 0 7 tt t ; • • M,2oth of the month 'Sonthampt. Jan. 23 Mediterranean (te a Marseilles) • N Bth&2 4th ofmonth ,Dover •• ,Jan. 2 o ,l l;:m to: o , n t2h7t h .t; .11 1Southampt... Jan. 5 v a l e ira •• of the month Southampt. l Jan. 16 Mexico Malta* .• • • 1 Dover Dec. 30 N ap l es * N ; s th 15th 25th ofna•Dover • ,Jan. 2 Papal States* N sth 15th 25th of mo,Dover .: Jan. 2 rcninsular.. M 7th 17th 27th of mo l Southampt. IJan. 6 P e w 17th of the month ISoutharnnt. ;Jan. 20 Tuscany* .. N sth 15th 25th of mo ; Dover • • Jan. 2 Test Indies .. Ml7th of the month 'Southampt. 'Jan. 20 West Indies (except Havanna & Dittman) M 125 of the month Southampt. IJan. 5 * The mails to those c ountries thus marked (*) are conveyed by French packet via Marseilles. The direct llavre mail from London 'via Southampton during this month will be made up three times a week only, instead of daily. CALIFORNIA.—MaiIs to and from California, via the United states aro now despatched and doe by every American puke THE BOROUGH Or MARYLEBONE AND THE CITY or WESTMINSTER. —We are requested to state that not only is the borough of Marylebone about to take the initiative in the shape of a demonstration in favour of Lord Palmerston. but that the citizens of Westminster, of the Liberal party, indignant at the unfair treatment which they conceive the late Foreign Secretary has received, are about to get up a requisition to the Noble Viscount to stand for that ancient city at the next election. With regard to the borough of Marylebone, communications are about to be forwarded to Lord Dudley Stuart and Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., asking their advice as to the best mode of proceeding, and requesting their attendance when the demonstration takes place. The feeling seems very general in favour of Lord Palmerston.— Sunday Paper. LORD PALMERSTON AND LORD GRANVILLE.—One of those coincidences in which curious people are prone to indulge is to be found in the mottoes attached to the coat of arms of the families of Lord Palmerston and Lord Granville The device of the ex-Secretary for Foreign Affairs is "Flecti non Frangi," while that of the Foreign Secretary is "Frangas, non Flestes.' The similarity in sound, and opposition in sense, of those two mottoes of the respective noble houses to which our late and present Foreign Secretaries belong, will strike at once the curious in such matter, when it is con sidered how these devices were selected long ago by the found ers of those families, when the present events could scarcely have presented themselves to their imagination. The inge nious will further amuse themselves by making the applica tion to the case of the accomplished nobleman, who may have " bent" to rise again, but who may not yet be " broken."— Observer. AN ILLICIT STILL DISCOVERED EY A FIRE.—On Saturday a fire broke out at No. 6, Duke-street, Rosemary lane. The premises ware let out in tenements, and the back room on the ground floor was used as an illicit distillery. Whilst the parties were engaged in their clandestine business the still boiled over, and the floor of the rosin was covered with a sheet of fire. The lodgers up stairs had great diffi culty in saving their lives. The brigade engine from Well close-square promptly attended, and the flames were at length subdued, but not until considerable damage was done to the premises and their contents. During the confusion which prevailed at the commencement:ot the fire;the parties who had thus been defrauding the revenue managed to get clear off. THE RAWMARSH COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—A sub scription has been commenced by the Rev. Mr. Mahon, in cumbent of Rawmarsh, in aid of the widows and orphans of the men who perished by the explosion on Saturday week, when 50 lives were lost. Dlessrs. Charlesworth, the lessees of the colliery, have given 2501., and Mr. J. C. D. Charles worth 501. There is, perhaps, no district of similar extent in any portion of the kingdom which has been the scene of such frequent disasters and involving so great a sacrifice of life as the tract of country comprised within a circuit of five miles of Rawmarsh. To go back only ten years, we find that during this comparatively short period five accidents otten y t ea o r ;b l o s rn m e en coaip and it b , have occurred, by which an aggregate of 263 lives have be n sacrificed. In July, 1841, fur instance, 50 lives were l o st at aslaamshorough by the capsizing of a boat ; in November, of the m ;in j killed byan January, 8 explosion x s six uyßs were lives were lost h Worsborough Dale; accident in the Darley Main colliery, in the Oaks pit,' 'in the followin g Ma rc h 73 men, worki n g near explosion n ßarnsley, metwifothrce o al T ost hi i e n h stant d e ath from an e x as so terrific that stones w ere projected out, the ut of the shaft, w which is 283 yards deep, to a height of about 40 yards the • into air • in January, 1849, anoth er explosion occurred b or o u gh Dale, s and within two miles of the former one, by which 75 lives were lost; and, lastly, the explosion at Warren Vale, by which 50 Duman beings have perished. Almost the whole of thee° calamities have arisen from fire damp explosions. TRAVELLING UN THE PRAIRIES. There is more variety in a journey across the central and yet unpeopled land of America, than one would be dicposed to expect, Even on the prairie there is an occasional change of scene—green slopes and belts of timber here and there cross the path, the wood marking the windings of a praris stream; now a green doll in vites them to a noon-day rest, the whimpling rivulet which runs near it supplying a store of wholesome water—or, a lofty ridge, flanked by a deep ravine; some times a la)1d bluff, capped with timber, comes into eight, and from its crest, if you can surmount it, you may see the far-spread prairie, Stretching away in graceful un dulations as far as the eye can reach. Then there is the fresh brumes that is almost always blowing across the prairie, the beautiful modulations of the changing clouds —the storm that can be seen from its beginning to its end—the curious looming of objects between earth and sky, taxing the ingenuity ev, ry moment to rectify, There is the anxiety for the night's quarters, the sere intde of wolves, howling round the camp, ready to carry off the beasts' harness in their voracious assaults, and on which the night-guard has to keep a strict look out. This species of danger gives a zest to the interest of a prairie journey; and by day there is an occasional deer-bunt, i❑ which the riflemen distinguish themselves by their skill in tracking and shooting the game,—all this gives an interest and variety to the prairie journey, white the first fluth of adventure is still strong on the travellers across the plains.—Eliza Cook's Journal. NUMEROUS FIRES AND PROBABLE LOSS OF LIFE. Late on Saturday night the inhabitants of Watling street, City, were greatly alarmed in consequence of the sudden outbreak of a fire in the extensive premises oc cupied conjointly by Messrs Strachan, and the anti corrosion paint manufacturers, and Messrs. Boatwright and Brown, sealing wax manufacturers, situate at 54, in the before-mentioned thoroughfare, and within a few feet of the parish church. The flames originated from the spontaneous ignition of a cask of lamp black, which set fire to a number of vessels filled with turpentine and varnishes. Owing to the combustible nature of the stock in trade, the flames spread rouud the store with amazing fierceness, so that at one time the church opposite and every house near appeared doomed to destruction; mes sengers were therefore dispatched in sundry directions to call the engines. Several engines of the Brigade, parish, and West of England Company quickly attended, and plenty of water being procured, the flames were prevented from reaching the wax stores of Messrs. Boat wright and Brown, but they were not extinguished until the side stores on the first floor were very seriously burned, and much of the contents consumed. It could not be ascertained whether the firm was insured or not. , While the engines were engaged at the above fire, in- I n ' ci taation was received that another had occurred in the antb,eurhood of the City-road. The Whitecross-street England'Z' men found &La , vale reside r. York-street. Fc,,,,11r• • of the buildll itte - l Y square brigade, together with the West of proceeded to the spot, when the fire t,tit.e outbreak had taken place in the pri- J. ti C e , t e o , No. 9, Mason's-place, Whichthe e w n a m s m c e o n n c fi e n d e . d t o that portion that the a;67dugre-sr-oaalde• St, to , their stations call fi an re olt e h e f e o n r re a t t t h e n e w d fi a e r d i e Inrfereconemillot:Lub:rk Saviour's- swiour,. station, The attracted rues had originated ii when itl l 0 iptrwe•masisaessccorftal‘itcre.i J. Herrin ca,ttention eourt. It _, No. 6, Duke's -court, a narrow alley running a to p pueirter premises r t e h m e t 6 t e h s e inthm t e h s e . y p liy re a cevietl toting 'flvelopc d bnyetudboteirrsiehsa o d f tl , l 4 e ii i_r ,ip,:, and upon en. was '"bdued, Mrs. desperate I (I. 'fferorritngthceornfiprieeteiy , but not until the unfortunate woman was frightfuny burnt, so much so that she was removed to the hu.pit e l, where she remains in a very precarious state. The dis aster is supposed to have been caused from a spark fly ing out of the grate, end coming in contact with some wearing apparel. About an hour later the firemen were called to attend a fire at 32, Clifton-street, Finsbury, in the premises of Mr. Wagstaff, flock, list, and rug-merchant. Fertile tenately it %l as extinguished before much damage was done. As the firemen were leaving this fire, they were sent for to another, which had occurred in the lamp-black manufactory of Mr. J. Huggins, in Queen-street, Mile cud New Town. Owiug to the activity of the strata gers, this fire was extinguishet I before the engines had time to arrive. Between four and five A.M. the same day a fire hap pened in the premises of Mr. C. Hawkins, British wine manufacturer, No. 2, Beth; 3rd-street, Somers Town, which was caused from a defect in an adjoining flue. The engines were quickly on the spot, but the fire was not extinguished until much damage was done to the premises. A few hours previous to, the above outbreak another fire, and attended with a considerable loss of property, broke out in the wadding rria.nufactery of Mr. J. Davies, No. 5, John-street, Cart sin-road, Shoreditch. The flames originated in the crerding-rooms, and at one time threatened destruction to the whole factory. The en gines of the brigade, parish, and West of England promptly attended, but in spite of an abundant supply of water, and the most active working of the engines, the firemen were unable to get the flames extinguished, until a serious amount of propert:v was destroyed, which is thus returned by Mr. Superintendent Braidwood:— " The carding-rooms i❑ Mr. Davies's factory burned out, the contents destroyed, and roofs off. The engine house and store-rooms adjoining damaged by fire and water. The premises snit their contents were unin sured. No. 63, Charlotte-street, Mr. J. T. Parlour. li,7,6ns?d victuaer, and prc.prietor of the Brieklaysrs' Arms. Roofs of back prerc ises and skittleground da maged by breakage. Insured in the Royal Exchange Fire-office." LON DON, ROYAL INSTITUTION. On Saturday last Professor Faraday delivered the first of a series of six lectures, in the lecture-room of tho Royal Institution, on the subject of attractive forces. Although these lectures and the mode of dealing with them are designedly adapted for a juvenile auditory, the majority of the audience on Saturday eonsisted of persons who had advanced considerably beyond their teens. The two front seats opposite the lecturer were reserved for juveniles, and were completely filled. Inch ed the entire theatre was crowded, and if the learned pro fessor's modesty permitted it, he might have derived a very forcible illustration of attractive power from the numbers who came to listen to his interesting lbcture on this occasion. After a few remarks on the active and inquisitive mind of youth, the learned professor said that he would become on the present occasion " once more a boy," and would bring nnder their notice instances with which they were all well acquainted, but which in their remote application were full of interest and wonder. He then proceeded to explain and illustrate the nature of attraction and of specifie gravity. He showed how the earth was a great centre of attraction; that its attraction was equally great for all bodies, whatever their weight; that the atmosphere alone was the cause why a piece of paper did not fall to the ground equally soon with a penny; that this atmosphere was itself subject to the same law of attraction as all other bodies, nay, that but for this same law of attraction this earth itself would fall away from its centre of attraction, the sun, and roll into cold regions of space, where neither heat, nor light, nor life could exist. The lecturer in this way led his youthful hearers by gradual and easy steps from examples of at tractive force in its most obvious forms to others which illustrated the motions of the most distant bodies, and showed how the same law which made a weight fall to the earth kept, when combined with a given circulating mo tion, the earth, sun, and planets in their respective orbits. The easy familiar style of Professar Faraday on this occasion, and the simplicity of his illustrations, evidently placed his young auditors on a level with his theme, fur they gave to his "Philosophy in sport made science in earnest" a devoted attention which scarcely any other Christmas attraction in the metropolis could have ob tained. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1852. FEBRUARY. Lincoln 5 I Carmarthenshire Hunt 9 !tiARCII. Liverpool Spring Coventry... 9 Northampton Doncaster Spring Warwick Spring APRIL. Epsom Spring Newmarket Craven ... 12 Mahon . 22 Abergavenny l5 Newmarket F. S 26 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL Robert Oiley and Andrew Burke were placd at the bar, before Sir P. Laurie, charged with violently assaulting Robert Crispin, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. Prosecutor, - who appeared with his arm in a splint and his head bound up with plaister, said he was re turning on Friday last, with his daughter, from the Crow public-house, in Moor-lane, when he was at tacked from behind by the prisoners and several other desperate characters. They knocked him down, and all joined in kicking him about the head and body. He appealed to them to let him alone, and not break his head as they had done his arm. They shortly after left him, to pursue his son, who had taken re fuge in prosecutor's house, at 9, New -court, Moor lane, and be (prosecutor) saw Burke subsequently emerge from the house with a poker i❑ his hand, which he flourished above his head in a menacing manner, as if about to renew the attack, but the police interfered, and the prisoners were taken into custody, and he (prosecutor) was removed to the hospital. Sophia Gay, prosecutor's daughter, said she went to the Crow public-house to get change for a sove reign, and her father, thinking she was rather long gone, followed her in, and asked her ss. to give to her brother. The prisoners were there, and saw her get the change, and when she left the public-house with her father they followed them out, and Oxley Icac., l, :ed prosecutor down, and several other men, who were with the prisoners, joined in the attack. Witness saw Burke pursue her brother into the house, and, with the assistance of the other men, drag him out. She got frightened, and took her child in her arms and ran down stairs. The prosecutor's son deposed to Burke entering the house, and knocking him down, and threatening to kill him with the poker. Sir P. LAURIE said he was always anxious when such desperadoes came before him to send them where they would have a chance of getting the most severe punishment the law would allow, and it was therefore his intention to commit the prisoners to the Central Criminal Court for trial. They were then remanded for the depositions to be prepared. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A person of military appearance, who spoke with an Irish accent, applied to Mr. Bingham on behalf of the British remnant of the "Cuban patriots," who had just reached London in a state of deplorable des titution. The speaker said the persons on whose be half he solicited temporary assistance were 28 in *umber, and mostly Irishmen born, but who had subsequently acquired the pritileges of American citizens. They had, however, been liberated by the Spanish Government, and sent to this country by the British Consul as British subjects. They were wholly destitute, and even without the means of pro curing nightly shelter. He had been requested to state their forlorn case, in the hope of obtaining such advice as would help them out of their difficulty. Mr. BINGHAM said, if the applicants were in a state of destitution they must apply to the relieving-officer of the parish in which they last slept, and they would be sure both of relief and shelter. The spokesman said the destitute applicants would be very reluctant to go into a workhouse. All they sought at present was a little temporary assistance to enable them to reach Ireland or the American States. Mr. BINGHAM doubted whether any parish would incur the serious expense of sending so many persons back to Ireland or their places of settlement, wherever they might be. Still less could he bold out any hope of parishes paying for their transmission to America. lie should advise the parties to apply to the American Consul. The spokesman said application had been made to the American Coasts), who had positively refused to render any assistance or sympathy. Mr. BINGHAM did not think any sane human being in this country, who knew the facts of the case, would be inclined to yield the smallest sympathy to persons who had been so misguided, or he would say deceived, as the applicants professed to have been. The only class likely to sympathise with them, to whom an application might be made with any chance of suc cess, were those jobbers at New Orleans who had profited so largely by the folly of the Cuban invaders. The MAGISTRATE was at first disposed to give some small assistance from the poor-box; but, after a little consideration, he said he did not feel warranted, under the circumstances of the case, in disposing of any part of the small funds in the poor-box for such a purpose, and to such persons. The only advice he could give was for the applieauts to apply to the parish authorities, who were bound to let no one die of starvation in the streets; unless indeed they could contrive to interest persons in their behalf who were ignorant of the real circumstances of the case, and who in proportion to their ignorance would be likely to display increased zeal in their cause. The spokesman thanked the Magistrate, and pro mised to communicate the particulars of the inter view to the rest of the men. The annual donation o f the Goldsmiths' Company (if 20/. to the poor-box has been received. lIIG H IVA Y ROBBERIES. NOTTINGHAM, MONDAY.—For several weeks past this neighbourhood has been infested by a gang of robbers, who have committed the most daring high way robberies in the immediate vicinity of the town. These robberies have been also accompanied with great violence to the person. The robbers infest the county in gangs of four and five, and do not confine their operations to highway robberies, but also perpe trate the most outrageous burglaries. The particulars of the outrage now under notice are as follow : Last night (Sunday), about half-past six o'clock, Mr. King, lace-manufacturer, Walker- street, Snen ton, accompanied by a young lady, residing in New castle-street, Nottingham, named Smith, was walking along the Trent-lane (a rather lonely road about a mile from the town), and had proceeded 300 yards past a railway gate which crosses the lane, when a man wearing a suspicious disguise passed them. He almost immediately gave a peculiar whistle, and in a moment three other men, armed with bludgeons and other weapons, rushed upon Mr. King and his com panion from the hedges on each side of the road. The fellow who had passed them turned back, and assisted in the assault. The young lady screamed loudly for help, but was instantly struck to the ground. Two of the ruffians strove to stifle her shrieks, while the others engaged with Mr. King, who being unarmed, was speedily overpowered. Mr. King begged that they would not further mal treat the lady. The villains, however, continued to beat her with bludgeons until she became insensible, accompanying their violence with the most revolting brutality. Mr. King offered the robbers all the money and valuables he possessed, but implored th em to comm it no more violence ; is consequence, however, of his having no considerable sum on his person, the robbers proceeded to further brutality, and a blow from one of the ruffians laid open his skull. The fellows then decamped over the hedge of a field near, doubtless supposing their victims would not long survive, as one of them said just on their departure, " There, you -, I think you'll d o now ." The unfortunate gentleman a n d l a d y were i n a most pitiable plight; they were conveyed to Mr. King's house, where medical aid was immediately in attendance. It was deemed advisable not to remove the lady to her own residence. On inquiry this morning we learn that both the sufferers are in a cri tical state. As soon as the police were made acquainted with the outrage, officers were dispatched in the direction the robbers had taken, but none of them, we are sorry to say, have been yet captured. Robberies as daring as the above are of very fre quent occurrence here, although they have not as yet been attended with a similar amount of violence. MAY. Chester Spring Newmarket S. S. Shrewsbury l2 Epsom 25 JUNE. Manchester ... Ascot . . Bibury Stockbridge Beverley I Hampton Newcastle ... ... 22 I Ludlow JULY. Newmarket 6 I Stamford 2O Worcester Lancaster Liverpool AUGUST. North Staffordshire 3 York Brighton Heading SEPTEMBER. Warwick 7 Leicester 22 Doncaster Eglinton Club 2l Newmarket F. 0. Bedford OCTOBER. Chester Yorkshire Union Hunt 6 holy well Hunt Wreaho,un NovExnEu. WorcoE•ter Autumn 2 SEABORNE MAILS. [N signifies that the mails aro sent front the General Post-office 17 the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.] TUESDAY EVENING, EXTRAORDINARY MURDER. BELPER, SUNDAY EVENING.—It is our painful duty to record one of the most cold-blooded and daring murders that have ever taken place in the county of Derby. The scene of the foul deed is Belper, about eight miles from Derby, and near the extensive cotton manufactories of the Messrs. Strutt. The facts of the case are as follows :—lt appears that a man named Anthony Turner, who resides at Lane end, and about half a mile from Belper, has been for some years in the habit of collecting rents for a widow lady named Barnes, who lives with a relative named Bannister, a clergyman of the Church of England, at Field-house, Belper. Turner having been a defaulter to s considerable amount, Mrs. Barnes sent him a note to say that he would not be allowed to colleet any more rents, and that he was to consider himself dis charged from his situation. On Saturday evening last he went to a provision shop, kept by a Mr. Hus land, and borrowed a large carving- knife, used for cut ting bacon. After they gave it to him he said he was going to kill Mrs. Barnes with it, for not letting him collect the rents. This was about eight o'clock in the evening, and it appeared that he went direct from Mr. Ilusland's shop to Field-house, deceased's resi dence, and asked to see Mrs. Barnes. The servant went up stairs, and told Mrs. Barnes that Turner wished to speak to her, but she refused to grant him an interview. The servant returned with a message to that effect. Turner said he would not go away without seeing her, and, entering the house, pushed the girl on one side and rushed up stairs. The ser vant girl was very much alarmed, and ran to fetch the Rev. J. Bannister, who was in the adjoining house. Mr. Bannister immediately ran into the house, and on proceeding up stairs met Turner coming down with a large knife in his hand, which was co vered with blood. Turner made a blow at Mr. Ban nister with the knife, and after a struggle between them Turner was precipitated to the bottom of the stairs. Mr. Bannister then went into the unfortunate lady's room, and found her lying on the ground with her head literally severed from her body I Ono of her thumbs was also cut off, as if in struggling to prevent the murderous knife from lacerating her throat. Medical aid was immediately in attendance, but life was quite extinct. After the foul deed had been perpetrated, Turner; after passing Mr. Bannister on the stairs, as alluded to above, on leaving the house met the ser vant girl coming in, and made a❑ attempt to strike her with the knife, but she turned her head on one side and evaded the blow. The murderer then ran off at the top of his speed, and has not since been heard of. He is a married man, and has one child; is a tailor by trade, and was formerly a local preacher among the Wesleyan Methodists. His age is about 45 years, he stands about five feet 8 inches, has very small black eyes, and had on at the time of the mur der a pair of drab trousers and black coat. The most extraordinary part of this awful tragedy is the great ease with which the murderer made his escape, as it was only about half-past eight o'clock in the even ing, and numbers of people were stirring about the neighbourhood. The electric telegraph was imme diately set to work at the Belper station, and the news conveyed in a few minutes to Derby, Notting ham, and other midland counties. In Belper the greatest excitement prevailed on the awful tragedy becoming known, and a mob of some hundreds soon collected round the deceased lady's residence. Mr. W. Wragg, superintendent constable of Belper, and formerly one of the detective officers of the Derby police, was unable to render any assistance in finding the murderer, in consequence of having received severe injuries in attempting to prevent the fight a few days ago between the pugilists Paddock and Paulson. It appears that Turner cohabited with a woman in Derby, and this afternoon Sergeants Hardy and Fearn proceeded to the house of the woman, but could find no trace of the murderer having been there. The deceased, Mrs. Barnes, was about 60 years of age, of eccentric habits, and the owner of considerable property in Belper and Derby. The inquest will commence to-morrow (Monday), before Mr. Henry Mosley, coroner for the district. GREAT LONDON DRAINAGE COMPANY. Yesterday a meeting was held at the London Tavern, for the purpose of calling public attention to the plan propo se d by th e a b ove company f or drain ing the metropolis, by means of intercepting tunnel sewers on either side of the Thames. The circular which had been issued to request the attendance of parties desirous of co operating in the prosecution of the scheme stated that the measure had been before Parliament in the session of 1848, " and was then withdaawn, in consequence of the Metropolitan Com missioners of Sewers having declared that they were contemplating the ad o pti on o f a more efficient scheme. The result, however, has been that the Commission have approved and proposed for adoption the plan as originally suggested by the company, and it is there fore determined to renew the application to Parlia ment in the ensuing session. All the standing orders and other prelimi nar y p rocee di ngs h ave b een com plied with. The interests of owners and occupiers of house property in the metropolis are seriously impli- cated in the success of the company's plan, inasmuch as the ratepayers of the metropolis will be relieved from the heavy rate which would otherwise have to be levied upon them, whilst at the same time the very important sanitary i m pr ovemen t s o l ong d es i re d will be effected, and the shareholders will derive ample profit." The attendance of the public at the meeting was extremely thin. Mr. Walker occupier the chair. Mr. J. J. M O R EWOOD op ene d th e b us i ness b y read ing the notice convening the meeting, and then pro ceeded to explain the general nature and objects of the scheme. He said it was intended to preserve the river Thames from pollution, and to afford the means of efficiently draining the whole of the metropolis. The necessity for such a measure was universally ac knowledged, and the only remaining questions were which was the right plan to adopt, and how was it to be carried into effect? The promoters bad been waiting for six years in the hope that some other body might step forward to undertake the work. In 1847, when the attention of the Government was specially directed to the subject, a sanitary commis sion was appointed to inquire whether the health of the metropolis could not be improved by a better mode of house, street, and land drainage, and by a better supply of water for flushing the sewers and drains. 'The first report of that commission speci ally enumerated the sanitary evils resulting from the retention of the refuse in the sewers without the proper means of carrying it off, and called attention particularly to the dense and noisome fogs which enveloped London just before the cholera made its appearance. Well, the plan of that company had been brought before the late Westminster Commission of Sewers, in 1845, and that commission declared that it had found a mode in which a system of house-to-house drainage could be carried out without injuring the sewers or polluting the river. And here it must be observed, that we had been going on with the old Act of Henry which not only did not enable, but absolutely pro. hibited the commissioners from making any new drains or compelling any man to drain his house into a sewer; and it was not until the Westminster Com mission applied to Parliament, in the year 1847, that they obtained powers to construct additional sewers and to enforce house drainage, on the credit of the plan which he was now advocating, and of which the commissioners had highly approved. Many circum stances had, however, interposed to retard the accom plishrnent of the project ; but he was anxious to show that the promoters h a d f a i r l y l aunc h e d i t b efore the public, and could no t b e accused of hav i ng hidden their light under a bushel. As far back as the month of September, 1847, a full de scription of the pl an appeare d i n most of the morning journals and i n man y o f th e weekly papers, and in refut a ti on or amen d ment has therefore been fairly challenged ; but no one had come forward to devise a better sc h eme . I t was taken before Par liament in 1848 ; but on the second reading the Go vernment thought they would have a better plan, and the farther progress of the Bill was suspended. It had also been submitted in M a r c h, 1848 , to t h e Ci ty Commission of Sewers, who, after some discussion, decided not to offer it any opposition, and many of the speakers warmly commended it. Between 1848 and 1849 it was much advocated through the press ; and when, in 1849, a metropolitan commission was appointed, no less than 150 differe n t pl ans f or drain ing the metropolis were sent into th e comm i ss i oners the whole of which they declared to be founded on insufficient data. Now, the promoters of that com pany abstained on that occasion from sendin g i n an y plan to the commissioners, and the result was, that almost the whole 150 rival schemes were either copies or letter originals of that which had been set forth by the Great London Drainage Company. And further, the plan w hi c h the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers had ulti mately decided upon was identical with theirs ; and indeed so strong was the resemblance that when he laid it before the surveyor of her Majesty's Woods and Forests, that gentleman observed that it was the plan of the Metropolitan Commissioners. When, in October, 1845, ho went down to the marshes, east of the metropolis, to decide on the locality for the con struction of a deep receptacle to afford a better out fall, the point on which the whole scheme rested, he actually selected the very spot at Barking Creek which the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers adopted in January, 1851. The modifications which the commissioners had made were really rather ad ditions than alterations. They proposed an extension to Hackney, and things of that kind, and also a high level sewer. These might be all very good improvements in their way; but it was obvious that the "bonstruction of a tunnel, sewer to provide a sufficient outlet, was the first thing to be done, and it would require two years to complete it. When it was finished, Hackney, or any similar district, might be called upon to carry out the subsequent parts of the soheene, for which the way would have been paved. The concurrence of the Commissioners of Sewers he took, therefore, to be de cisive as to the merits of their scheme. The next question was—How was the plan to be carried ou t ? Were they to wait till a commission was unanimous on the matter, and obtained an Act of Parliam en t t o secure it ; or, could they all, individually and collec tively lend their assistance to remove a giganti c ev il in the city which they inhabited ? Well, th e pro moters of that project, who were only private parties without any high name yet to advertise as their chairman, although they expected to have the aid of a leading nobleman, could at present do no more than lay the matter before the public in such a shape as would enable it to be taken up by those who were able successfully to carry it out, feeling satisfied that if it were only properly understood th ere was sufficient capital to he found in the metr o p o li s f or i ts com pletion. They intended to g o t o P ar li ament i n the ensuing session, and all the standing orders had been complied with, the plans deposited, and the requisite notices served. Their Bill had also been drawn, and could be inspected by any gentleman who wished to see it; and the subscription contract and the subscribers' agreement were also prepared because the promoters were anxious to have matters so far cut and dried and ready to hand as would enable all parties, whether they had only a few shillings to spare, or had their pockets full of money, to do some thing to assist the common object. Some objected to proceeding with the undertaking that the question of drainage was mixed up with a better water supply, and that the two could not be separated ; but he thought they should first construct the tunnel sewers, which would prevent the pollution of the river, and then they would find that the water question had settled itself, or at least had wonderfully simplified it. By the present system of drainage they estimated that 200,000 tons of valuable manure were annually wasted, and the farmers of the country were paying to a foreign Government 151. per ton for guano, when a substance very similar could be supplied to them ready to hand at 30s. per ton, and an ample profit be realised by the shareholders. The shares would be 201. each, and the first deposit 1/. 23 , and only 41. would be allowed for preliminary expenses, so that Ils. would be returnable if the Act was not obtained. He begged, in conclusion, to move .—" That the plan proposed by the Great London Drainage Company for draining the metropolis, by diverting all the soil and soilage into tunnel sewers, thereby intercepting the same for use for agricultural purposes, and pre serving the river Thames from pollution, is deserving of public support, and this meeting pledges itself cor dially to assist the proposed undertaking." Mr. HAT, the engineer to the company, seconded the resolution, and excused himself for taking such a part in the proceedings on the ground that the pro ject was only in its infancy. He said be had minutely examined the " borings" of Losidon, and had no hesitation in saying that the whole line of proposed tunnelling would pass through a bed of blue clay of sufficient thickness to guarantee the stability of any tunnel made in ir. Thy. plan of the Commissioners of Sewers would not confine the work to the blue clay stratum. The first resolution was carried nem. con. Mr. MOREWOOD said he had already the names of five respectable merchants of the city of London, nod as a great deal of work hail to be got through within the next few days, he would propose that Mr. Frederick Mildred, of Nicholas-lane, and Mr. C. R. Thompson, of Winchester-howe, Old Broad-street, be requested to receive the names of gentlemen who might be desirous of being inserted in the prospectus as directors ; and that as the Parliamentary contract must be lodged on Wednesday next, that they also be requested to insert two names of gentlemen qualified to act as trustees, in whom would be vested the further prosecution of the project. Mr. CLARKE seconded the motion, which was then decided to be carried nem, con.. and the proceedings terminated. PROSPERITY OF BIRMING'dAM The year just drawing to a close has been de cidedly one of the most prosperous ever experienced in the trading, annals of Birmingham. From January down to the moment at which we write the tide of prosperity has encountered in its flow very few of the impediments usually attendant upon commercial trans actions so vast that the manufactures are spread over almost every civilized clime. As we have no dispo sition to enlarge unduly upon this cheering state of affairs, neither is there the slightest ground or pre tence of reason to be urged of a contrary character. One of the very oldest names connected with the mer cantile concerns of the town publicly declared, only a day or two since, that en experience of 45 years had not revealed to him any thing like the general pros perity that has been experienced during the last twelve months. The gentleman to whom we refer is Mr. Van Wart, whose connexions extend almost throughout the entire American continent. In the opinion which he entertains there is scarcely a manufacturer or merchant of eminence hereabouts who does not concur. This is not the head under which to enter into publie discussion, but the undoubted fact may at least be stated, that from the earliest moment when the free-trade principle came into active operation, the aspect of commercial concerns hereabouts began to undergo a rapid and ultimately a complete change. Instead of months of languor and depression, accompanied by fitful vi-its of comparative prosperity, the last five years have been characterised by a continuation of good trade— by a steady demand for the goods manufactured—by the opening of new markets hitherto of trifling value —by an immense improvement in the quality of the manufactures both as regards design and workman ship, and by a degree of prudence in the conduct of trade, such as has never perhaps before been exhibited where the temptations to overtrading are increased by competition, or by the desire to acquire wealth. In the five years just gone by, there has been (with two exceptions) scarcely a failure worthy of notice in the town or district. In point of magnitude the Stourbridge Bank failure stands alone, and the instability of the concern has been evident for years. That fruitful year for embarrassments, 1847, pro duced in the Birmingham district little beyond tem porary difficulties of inconsiderable amount, and there have been abundant indications since, that speculations beyond the limits warranted by capital have been the exception rather than the rule. Perhaps the best index to this fact is to be gleaned from the flourishing condition of the chief joint stock banking establishments in the town, most of which have sprung into existence in the last twenty years. Neither has the year just closing been merely a successful one so far as may be estimated by the ex tent of the orders executed, although the enormcus ratio in which hardware orders have increased might afford matter enough for congratulation ; but it has been marked by an improvement in the conduct of business, and every disposition has been shown by the leading manufacturers to profit by the fine collection of foreign products displayed at the Great Exhibition, the excellence of which in many respects far surpassed that of our manufactories. This defect in our goods hai been attributable to two causes—first, to indispoe .ition on the part of the manufacturers to pay for modelling; and secondly, to the badness of the school in which most of the modellers have been educated. Guided by no normal rules of art, and deficient in that acquired refinement of taste which a judicious course of artistic discipline is designed to im• part, the amateur's fancy has hitherto ran riot, and designs of the most mereti icious character have been too frequently the result. In the department of lamps and chandeliers these fine speci mens of a bad system were to be seen in no incon siderable number in the Great Exhibition, but still more so in the smaller one here in 1849. The excuse of second-rate manufactures is thatsuch articles found more purchasers amongst the general public, whose preference for the gaudy and inelegant has arisen from pretty much the same cause that has led to its pro duction. A better example has, however, recently been set by several of the leading manufacturers, who have an eye to their ultimate credit rather than im mediate profit, and it is an example that must be generally followed. Lamp and chandelier making has become one of the most valuable branches of our manufactures ; the export trade has very largely in creased during the last year or two, and the demand for the home trade, especially for lamps, has extended in at least equal proportion. Throughout the whole of the year the orders have been extremely large, and are so even at this moment. Cabinet brass-foundry, one of the oldest of the Birmingham trades, has been generally brisk, with the exception of a slight lull in the month of October ; but the partial slackness has ceased, arid all the manufac tories are in full work, with at least a sufficiency of orders to carry them over the two next dreary weeks. The brass-cock founders report that their trade is steady, and generally in as satis factory a condition as could be wished. Hook-and eye and steel-pen trades are reported to be brisk, the demand for the latter for the foreign trade being greatly on the increase. The pin -makers have had a sufficiency of orders to keep the works well going throughout the year, and are still in pretty much the same condition. Under the head "light steel toss" are comprised a multitude of articles...in general use : in this branch the export trade has very much in creased, especially for the colonial market ; during the autumn there have been some very good orders ; at present there is a slight depression, but it is of a very trifling character. For " heavy steel toys" the trade continues good ; the edge-tool makers, espe cially, are well off for orders; their consignments to South America have been immense during the last eighteen months—a fact which is, perhaps, mainly attributable to the low price of the raw material. The iron wire drawers have had enormous orders during the last twelve months, and still continue busy, chiefly in consequence of the quantity required for the electric telegraph. The japauners have had a capital trade throughout the year; just now the orders are not quite so brisk. For papier mache goods very large orders were received whilst the Exhibition was open • of these many are not yet completed, and the bulk of the orders are for the foreign market. The electro-platers have been busyi throughout the year, the orders having been larger than were ever before known : in this branch the demand for goods seems very likely to be very greatly increased. The gunmakers, sword cutlers, engine makers, and fender and fire-iron makers, all speak cheerfully of the condition of their various trades, and of the materials for congratulation which the expiring year affords. In other branches of minor importance the reports are equally satisfactory ; the various branches of button trades are at present expe riencing a scarcity of orders, not an unusual circum stance at this period of the year; neither has the at tempt to re-introduce the fancy gilt buttons been at tended with even partial success. The fancy trades are languid just now, except in a single article—geld chains—for which the orders have been enormous all the year. The factors, whose business lies chiefly in the fancy goods, are complain ing that the orders for the home market are less than usual this month, a stimulant being generally given to the trade consequent on orders for the Christmas presents. At most of the works in the districts the hands are in full work; at Walsall the saddler's iron mongers have a fair average amount of orders, and at Bilston the tinplaters are working full time. The glass makers are said to be extremely busy both jn the manufacture of crown and plate glass; and in a branch where competition has as yet been scarcely felt, that of gas fitting, there is every reason to be lieve that those engaged in the trade have quite as much work as they can execute, and this has been the case for a considerable time. The nailers, both in the town and district, are in full work, and the impetus recently given to the gun trade of Birming ham has operted equally beneficially for the gun lock filers of Darlaston. the foreign trade generally has been good throughout the year, especially as relates to all the markets of the Meditcr- DECEMBER 3O, 1851 ,----_ ---------------- ratlean, to South Americl, and the United States There have been heavy consignments to Australia this year, but the Cu ban trade bas tbuf fered in consequence of recent disturbances in tuft d quarter, and remittances have not been made viin, the customary punctuality. Th ere have b are still, it is said, fair orders in for Spain. From the Cape good orders are expected as soon as the present disturbances are at an end. The state of the iron trade is such as to afford little matter fer remark o r , congratulation ; the export orders have incressen id during the year, and perhaps the best that can be $a id . is that, alth o u g h there has been no a ctual advance Prices, the trade is steadier and healthier than it 0' 01 , Ist Janua. At resent, h o wever, the means production r are p so enormous, and the royalties s o heavy, that we ar e not sanguine en ou g h to believe much prespect of a speedy that there is ant, or of an advance of prices. We can only take leave(' this year with the expression of a sincere covicti°n that it is one of, if not the most prosperous ever Cl - in this town, and with the siegle drawb:g as regards iron, it has perhaps been equally so for tug district. improve ~ -...--.. _ THE COUNTY :MARKETS. R The following is the official. statemen t of the 9°1166 corn, &c., received in the port of London from the P ° Essex, from the 22d Dec., 1851, to the 27th Dec' , both inclusive : 4.; • 13 <9. 05 I IS 1 a, .4 A A I-1- - I - Colchester Harwich Leigh Mallon - 1130 43 32 300 8 4 , 634 16' 121 876 Wh C e H a E t, L w id h S i F t o e, R 4 n l , B D to ec 4 . 7 ;2 ; 6. _________—_:------1--------- ~,..„„,.--- 12 ^ " t: D' chevalier 23s to 32s ; grinding 223 to 268 ; malt ooc i e :17 , chevalier 54s to 56s ; oats 18s to 25s ; peas , Partringe;, 2tis —Prices to 308 ; white, 28s to 308 ; boiling, 298 to 329; du n ' 27, to t )°; to 28s ; beans, tick, 26s to 293 ; harrow ticks, mazagan, 248 to 275. red 36 ' COLCHESTER, DEC. 27.—Wheat, white 428 to 460 ; .., i dle 3 t0 05 40 . sb;stolaetys,, 269 s s to to 2 32 18 s ; po be r, tianr.s, mazagan 26s to 9 ; . 2 . 9 to and small 26s to 30s ; peas white 308 to 328, grey, ne w the onotst.of 0 le IREALDT, DEC. 27.—The following are • Barley. bWarelreeyr i°t"' ''S 0 ; for grain : Wheat. First 423 Od 26s Ed Second 403 Od 24s Od Third 333 Od 21s Od Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs HADDINOTON, DEC. 26.—T' grain at our market to-day:— Oats. Beans. od --$ od _ 5 od 38 3 od to fir. the r e q.. . Od "-- 1k! 20s 6,1 19 s 6d ..--i ".-6 16 s 6d I i' imperial, 00 5 ("' Le followit Barley. I Oats. s angPricel:i. 2 4s 8(1 I 21s 6d 3 24s id 1 19s 8(1 28! ,i,i 20s 9,1 I 178 3d 2 51 ' id 459 qrs., 430 Ala mdaor.ket 715 qrs., 677 Via do. 321 qrs., 31.4 °r,, do. 128 qrs., 125. °' vESTIRDAY. Wheat. First ... Second 36s 2d Third .. 31s 6d Total quantity of Wheat Do. Barley Do. Oats Do. Beans COAL &LARK . he BLar am close o f .oini. Primt . h . e . . . r 7 O. s a e r . 1c...e!! :F 6 ; 4611 dettoll ................. r o Haswell ................... i l 1 6 ' 5 ' d tieepier Grange ..... . i 7, 0,1 Litmbton .............. j 63 o d Lumley ... L .... .. .... . 165 3d g. Hetton yon .. •• . 17 , od 11B:),:sdeolln'scliloesteton. ....... ... 1164: 53c : Richmund - .. .... "** • 1 6 5 04 IStewifiScuanrbwoircokug.h.......... .. .. .. .. .. .. .... 11:5 60; art's.............. : ps 0 1 . 1 Heugb Ilan .......... ~, 6 bellee .............. .. 1 7 : 6d v:oc,urttlab artHartlepooliepoo ............. ll _ :85 61 ss LA‘ W ‘, : d,a e hue ci e s itl r i t tahe n vi li ia n l do e Ineer,lsutlThorTe.e:et.a e 5. . •.. ........... ...................................... il l 75446 5 :55 5 5 3636 : , Il l : Tees ...... ~ ........ "' 15s 3 1 West Cornforth ...... /42 6 6. Cowpon HartleY . •:, .... 145 I ,saDejacxrrawotrineed,nysifft vir . . i i5..e.t.r.e..ir.b..11.y....5r:r.1,0:....Ya ::: 60 , 422. ..... Sold, 210. Prices of Coal per ton at t Bate's West Hartley.. 13s 6d Baxter's Hartley l4s Od huddle's W. Hartley.. 14s 6d Carr's Hartley ..... 14s 6d Chester Main l4s 66 Dean's Primrose Elasting's Hartley llolywell Howard's W. H. Neth. 14s 6d l Newcastle Hartley l4s 6d North Percy Hartley l4s Od Tyne Main Pelton Main Etedheugti Main South Peareth l'andeld Moor 14s 3d fantield Moor Butes—. 14s Od Walker's Primrose West Wylam Wall's End, &c. Acorn Close ... 15s 9cl Bell and Brown lss 6di Clarke ... Clennel ........ 14s Od Gosforth Harton Hebburn Lawson lss Od Morrison .... . 15s 3d Northumberland liiddell ..... Eden Main .. . 163 3d Ships at market, -------- izaS• RAILWAY SHARE MAR t r o e -d o ay, with a fi in BRISTOL, DEC. 29. ~... bell " r Stock, STOCK EXCHANGE.— The s hare market has 00 00 0 All.ldTatnedd were—Great good demand for stock. ae ar ' es t ), 87 1 14" . t a r n d North-Western,a go good busine has liitb73/4—South-Eastern,Dittoidr .I):33Ver ri. iort LIVERPOOL, DEC. 2 9 * ~. be tter t°'(ir; STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market vi.- • e t. ' -11 andanstions were as follow :— Cal e d onia °► 164iii,.....11211„d°, and Yorkshire , 60%—Ditto Fifths 6 1 1 ' 16 ra Pi I" j, Manchester, She ffi eld, and Line n 1i ..... ~, bB%—South - Eastern and Dover, °12,18: Yp. I ° ,(32aarte. , ..:Aiiii 0 Midland, 23 LAI. MANCHESTER, DEC. Birkenhead, ii r S t kifecichrceald,,xi tendency ..cH ANoE. upwards.—T h l e l s e h t a r r a e n m s a s e r t ihoent:;B;r e a c: i c i f o :i t l 0:1 4 5 .:,,.: —Midland eShellield, and 1,1114 Nort' 33 t 3 ,16 i A2—Manchester, business EXcllANGS.—Th (x er r e l h A a la st% Western La ashire and Yorkshire, 608--Londlear;ll3-161'. , sto a c t. k c , as s h B le,. and Ch shire Junction, .1.,.c,cp0r , Manchester and Birmingham (C) (2 0r South elt a d fr o ol i t of BIRMIN ' 2 9. to-day.oan rwere prices but ,ei A., ceipta of the na were sold at 14 "grl'era —_____.......------'-'—''--- --- v vi C. FRP,N-es The following are 11. i f the g r°ll the last returns o eth NORTHERN.—From Dee. 17 to Dec. 2 3 , : , r 0 168,317 ' ROUE'N; hoods, 300859 f.; total, 469,176 P po sed' ' 52,468 t . 20 ,- JO , .. •, goods, 98,778 f.• total 151 247 f. 0 oefig HAVRE.—Fro D ' " 20 • ' ll i ., ll' Dec. 14 to Dec. • 16,620 f.; goods, 41,443 f. ; total 58,063 f., posseoo ORLEANs.—From Dec. 15 to Dee. 2 1: , 76.286 f. • ;goo ds , 101 138 f • total, 177 368 r. oger., , ,15: Fogg BORDEA.ITX.—From D . , --•• ; goods, P 34 sPtqt oos' VIERZON.—From; . Dec. 15 to Dec. 0 '4 . 1 ; ...pi% 29,217 f.; goods, 4 ' 1,925 E; total, 71,14. r. .001eW NAN ' Es.---Irom 10 Dcl6 : ' ._ • , goods, 81,6291.• to € • ~, P IL 22,587 f.; goods, 2 Dec,. 6,26 t f.; total, 48,8481. . po oell STRS BURCL—From I) 10 Dee. 111: " 115,7611 • ec. to sill nsc2RilaA9loFlferL;ce•ntlochtatlAl7:'sl7-:ll6i:l,elBbe2au...ll:s.ilitrarij:alselli:sirfeel:glirtnic.. BALE, — From Dec. t ' ' 7 : 6 1 to Dec. , eg erh 21,2421.; goods, ec. MARSEILLES.—From Nov,tot o a 6 1 15,409 f; total, 36,68 1 r ~. rtieee MONTEREAU. ' —}rom Dee. 10 to Dec.l o • efi, 5,821f' good a, •r g a, 10,620 f.; total, 16,441 f. Foga 40,268 f.; goods, Ly oNs.—From Dec. 7 to Dec. 13 : 162,252 f.; goods, 87,236 f.; t0ta1,248,483f• 1109D7 3ec6.°:: 15 slevgp-re, a pore' ---__ —____—,—_-_l---- -: ' l• BLI t tb ls CHRISTMAS BIJOUTERIE --THOSe besi. d e.' 18 feelings of the human breast . being Int' s . oils r 01 t eSeite elicit o •ll joyous period of the year, u it h i natuvralef.orir iasieceefiftelelawitboi; m combine aterial 13, eleganceafrect affected and y ut to seek a present for daughters, , rud dy g... ° le e. °be exos u ure to a frigid atmosphere, y raFT :t : r . c:nl3 t s b lte e ll°'nbiti c iri :i rlij e °,l cutaneous il iy ersilt'ee ruddy heat f the drawing-room fire, orbs ercise .. th e i. •,,101 to frosty, or structures; any alleviation of such effects, 1114 , 1 ,,e5g e If , ' desirable: and time and distinguished Pii'r-tiee '' 0 1l p la r u o d v , e s d K t a h l e yd e u fli r, ca w cy hic o h f ,that ' 'ailed Pr e P ar lleo ce' t° ri has extendedun's its ene'r by e s , s . Ision:ni 1"1 t quarters of the globe, and is eagerly sought after Pr e3e a r sse t as t h e truest Mac P l -0 0. live parent, of whatever ' rank, _we of the daughter's beauty; whilst fors s treeB t ,, o r puirlailsgeiqftisiatlolythienusetpmaorsatbaledvfraonmtagthe.e toilette, I° `i v g the" • t mg the tresses of juveniles of fashion, and showing 01 ffe etti [ADVERTISEMENT.]—IIOIIOWIV'S f „ 4 ' W. C :1011 0 '. F'lls an e T O lin# Cure for Dropsy.—Extract of a letter from o' r ' to sor ' Fitt. ,i To rl' ° ' octe t :i son, of Bangor, dated May 1, 1851. way. Sir,—For :ever 1 dropsy; at times my feet and legs were so reu doctors, a lAO f, but ii i., ( was quite unable to walk. I consulted mans remedy d after remedy with hopes of obtaining relie f ' P 5 o f; e w i i r li s e a i c c p t h p i n o gli disappointed ea cure e u f r u i e n l I y uf a a acknowledge a years I was severelY a lieri that ~. the "be 0) - c ray complaint, pd gi ae l i n havet :r a i e n d d merit of excellent health Sld by all Drug A g l iodon• 8 / fessor Hollows " . o y s Establishment, 244, Su' a° "' 41- ' „a! TE'! l6 l o° ,, leyeao7uur wt?l,:vrtii:tiestotiresete°yrier ACCIDENT ON BOARD TILE DCI4,-'- at ~ A pple i.,tte,.. .he .-. 0 ,1, On Saturday even' m Bheld ing r. Bate an .4 t i o g .. medics of Prussia, Cartwright-street, Aldgatc, resPe ° ti bia rt l- 0 1 9 of M r. Thomas Burns aged 38, son of a res pec Iv ope rot , practitioner at Dundee. It appeared that eri cio etes t i o n. , night last deceased entered on board the of io toSi eli o rt 0 from Af Dundee, being at the time in a state 0 la t he P o et After the ♦essel had been about eight hours ft ° t o efij o erf. noise the heard in the engine-room, when , til ) , ° „ l3 , ins,.,r n going re he discovered deceased among i'd 0 11- o earlf The engine was stopped, upon which the dee s o , 0 5 out, being without any signs of life. His b° ' -- - cut in two. V ' P ---------. m r O s . n p t o h l e i a 2 r 7 a th Gilchrist, Esq.o 8.T.1177:/S. of ` t " OF A 80N. A. Tariff, '. On the 25th inst., at Creigston Caswwf r t ri n u st h ., ar a r. t Lyme Regis, Dorset, t he fife 14.04., ,1001 03 .0n the 27th inst., ° at ir Queenil-street, 1:1 110, f te' il d" fa t w h i eo fe nw o i f fe C o . f2 Castlemaine, Esq., of St. Iv ' es -11°as° ' 13° ' the inst.,6 .l: t i h (a,inlthoe,xa at South Raynhaal Vic3rSge' the Rev. IL T. Lee. , ~..itt, MA R IlliD. Clielterii,ii. Clite,oarOprbtnoaefsin,ttliht‘eevigi2la7tteh 'f. 13. watillSiatm. 87arrs:s.,Cahurc, z, t 04' 0. ~ C ° beiolvhetoplAacme.elia'Grantd, Ypoeuievegol .1013:1 A tbo r 1 1 0 0 ' Esq.,on inst., o t f he ‘ : re 6 e t n h s,itox at St. Ps:in:els, Edinburgb,n2r Cleg bell, Esq , jun., to Cecilia, third daughter 01 olf i ' t E. Tb tono,nofthie:o2,43ldeyin,slt:o,rkasthißrerigDahglteor 6i2h.e Rev. I.ove't Cambridgeshire,Ontle bef, 0 rri, rrier 're, the On lat t e he J. 2 o= o 2thinsatg,edTys7c.l;o wing, Esq., of A „o p On the 27th inst., at Great Barr-hall, SO , o pt o f Edward Dollman Scott, Bart., aged 58. ~,f ary , 01 r of t b° T7t.hGinirsatu.,da,tEsg. 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