The Sun. — London, England, 1851-12-04 00:00:00

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VITS, Nominal Prices, Busineas do to-day. 10 9% lOU PA 10 43 5 80N [14% % 14% lb% lb 19, 20% 6 % % % % 14% 5% 12% 3i% 83 84 83% [82% 8% p 65 55 51% 94 % 114 1.5 114% 25 24% 84 83 31 32 31% 31 [52% 52% % 63% 16 2-8 17% 100 all 6 all all all 100 8 6 ft II 13 4 47 1 4 , 100 100 4234 34 4 I 0 100 100 47% 100 lb 334 26 934 1734 19 3)4 22 21 '% % % 9 % X 15 4 14' 31 Oi % 4% all all all I 6% [2O 20 % %%%% 28 132) 133 3 M % 13)4 % 74 11% 12 II % 8 3% THE SUN, 24 (zonal Pricer. Anglo Californian .. • • Asturian .... • • • • • • • • • • Australian ••..•• • • •• • 'Etarossa Range .. • • .... Brazilian Imp. (is. 5/. p..) 1i - 3i P IN -2% 834 -8% Do. Cocaes . and Culaba Do. St. ,Tobn del ltey Cobre Copier . •• Coplapo ..... .• • •• Genera 1............... Mexican & S. American N uveau Mnide • • deal Del Monte, Unreg. 20% - 21 33 - 34% syo— 7% 13% 14 3% -4% ii -=ii Do. Black Dc6entures Do. Red Dabentures Aantiago do Cuba ...... 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The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, yesterday, were es timated at 5,000 bales, including 200 Pernams and Ma ranhams at 544.1. to 60., 100 Bahia at 6d., 360 Egyptian a 541. to 60., and 600 Surat at 24d. to 341. per lb. The market closed tamely.—Railway Shares were flat, at lower prices. The six weeks' average price of Wheat is 365. 7d. per quarter. The meeting held yesterday afternoon of parties in• terested in a reform of the Board of Customs was one of the moat numer•ius and respectably-attended that has occurred fur a long time past, and this, considering the frequency of similar assemblages, and the unfortunate necessity for them, is saying a good deal. The amount of commercial reform demanded at the hands of the Legislature may seem large, but every practical man knows that it is even less than the exigency of the, case requires. We would ask who in the present day can feel satisfied with the tardy system of clearing goods or getting redress, and what hope there can be of keeping pace with the increased facilities of steam and elec tricity, when the same tedious processes are adopted as existed years since? Ever since free trade became a part and parcel of the English commercial system, it has been felt that the bonding, the transit, and the landing arrangements were deficient. If instances were wanting, the periodical statements furnished by the committee formed to promote Customs' reform would give them, and the evidence before Parliament supplies any defici ency. The suggestions now made for remodelling the Customs will be susceptible of amendment perhaps, but they afford an excellent basis, and if Mr. Williams's plan be adopted, of appointing a highly experienced man as a head of the Revenue Department, with a seat in the Commons, we shall no doubt have grievances at tended to as promptly as they are brought under notice. The reform of our commercial code is not alone in connexion with the Customs an object of attention, but extends to the bankruptcy and partnership laws, to say nothing of the more organized movement for a general amelioration by the establishment of tribunals of com merce. Mr. F. M. Hamber has compiled from the French code the articles that bear upon the law of partnership, and these explain fully the difference in the terms of collective partnership, which answers to that of most firms here and the Commandite, which is a mixed partnership of persons liable for all the engage ments, and of one or more persons who merely leave a certain sum embarked, and are not liable beyond that. The Anon yme system applies to companies, and the di rectors are only liable for the execution of the manda tory office they have received, and their partners to the loss of the amount of their interest in the concern. We have certainly heard among City men some plausible ob jections to limited liability, and the necessity of protect ing the public is not to be lost sight of; but there are various checks that might be adopted to give security, and it is to be hoped that the evil of insolvent compa nies, or " abortive schemes"—as the Masters in Chan eery delight to style th© harassing railway cases dragged through the iading-up forms—would be carefully guarded against, otherwise credit would be curtailed and confidence weakened. _ _ Extraordinary excitement still prevails in the City, and groups are formed by passers-by wherever an indi vidual is descried with a late newspaper in hand. Ravin witnessed the excitement occasioned by pre vious continental revolutions as the news arrived here, we may unhesitatingly affirm that it does not fall short of what was then felt. The fact that the electric telegraph is almost wholly shut against private expresses, the news papers and parties of influence on the Stock Exchange giving full employment to it, keeps every one in a state of anxiety until the journals are published, but the latest report is that at half-past nine this morning Paris was tranquil, and that the Five per Cent. Rentes had ad vanced to 92 50 in the Coulisses: this is a mere rumour. All business operations between this and the Continent are paralyzed, and an injurious influence is also exer cised upon the mercantile markets here. The Stuck Market opened with considerable firmness this morning, Consols having reached 974 but they have gone back since, and are now 97i 1. In the belief that Louis Napoleon was proving successful, large money purchases have been made this morning, and there seems every disposition to support the market, although it is admitted that the crisis is unusually serious, and that a trifling incident might lead to immense changes, and a marked reaction in Public Securities. Generally capitalists are distrustful of revolutions, and too prone to consider that a despotic Government is ne cessarily strong, forgetting the smouldering elements of discontent that it nurtures; but in the case of Louis Na poleon public sympathy is with him on other grounds than those of his presumed ability to preserve tranquil .. lity. The New Three-and-a• Quarter per Cents. are 971 to 98k, and the Three per Cents. 96i to Exche quer-bills have been lower, 48s. to 51s. premium. Any action by the Bank in reducing the rate of discount is of course out of the question just yet. Foreign Securities have maintained their ground well- Spanish Five per Cents. are 19i to 20k, and the Three per Cents. 38} to 39. Sardinian Bonds have been 79 to 80, a rise of 2to 3 per cent. Mexican Stock is still heavy at 231 to 234. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 58. Railway Shares have been looking well, all things considered, and there is a good deal doing, the traffic being satisfactory. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under:- 1851. Great Western North-Western So u th-Western B,BOl Brighton Midland ... 21,436 South-Eastern North Stafford 4,614 Caledonian 7,613 Great Northern 10,360 Lancashire and Yorkshire York and North M idland ••• 8,094 Newcastle and Berwi ck 12,078 1850. ... £13,119 ... 38,308 ... 8,575 ... 8,112 ... 20,235 ... 9,356 4,351 ... 6,876 ... 6,140 ... 15,145 ... 7,427 ... 13,665 ___ • _ ONE CLOSING PRICES. 96% 3 per Cent. Reduced Ant?: 9 7%74 1, 4 34 % 97% PRICES OF BRITISH. FUNDS . 0% . 1 9 1 " , 6 0 C1A 2 K97% 3 per C3nt. Consols Annuities.* ;,•,,i . • 7/ 5z 8 7% 8%, 7 3 / 43, % I.. New ong 3 A Anne. 7 7 3-16 5-16 7 5-16 15-16 7 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860. 261 264 rtoCeexntp.irtnaisin ....... i s „ 46 India Stack ...... .. _ India Bonds, 1,0001.—.••••• 5B p Ditto under 1,0004. ............ ...- 97% yX, 1/ 2 Consols for Account l3 d. tCr.ehequer Bills. 1,0001. 5001. Small. .. ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. M mean, 5 per Ct., ex Jan. Coupe. Ditto, Account . . Peruvian Bonds, 5 per Cent.. — Ditto, Account Ditto, Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Ditto, Small Russian Bonds ••• Ditto, 4 1 4 per Cent .. 102 3 4 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Spanish 5 per Cant. 1840 Ditto, Account Ditto, Passive 5 Ditto. 3 per Cent Ditto. Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 1 / per Cent. 12 Guild 5B Ditto 4 per Cent. Cortiticates 48 p 48 p CLOSING PRICES. 23% 23% 103 1 A 80 ex d. SCOrnsH CENTRAL Ran.wAy.—Tratlic for the Week ending Nov. 30, 1851 : Passengers (8,203), parcels, horses, and carriages .... Goods, cattle, &c.. , ... £778 3 8 ••• 863 5 7 Total .. . 1,641 9 3 Corresponding week in last year... 1,477 2 6 Perth, Deo. 2, 1851, 13 atqneas co:, to-day. 1 13 0 24% 2828 N BTO , VEX LONDON, EVEN PARIS. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS; TIMES. —A country in a state of revolution is a coun• try without law. The political compact is broken. The limits of authority are effaced. The idea of right suc cumbs to the grasp of force; and it signifies but little in principle whether such acts are done by the undisci plined hordes of a popular insurrection or by the regular compression of military power. To those who seek through all the vicissitudes of political life to maintain inviolate the fixed principles of legal right, by which alone society can be honestly and freely governed, it matters comparatively little for what object or by what forces these principles are violated. Governments founded on such a basis are tainted from their birth, for they are commonly the offspring of fraud as well as of force, and they repudiate by their origin those sacred obligations of respect for the law which it is the first bu,iness of every Government to uphold. Such are in ew words the principles by which the last revolution of France will eventually be judged by those who share our opinions. It is possible that success may disguise the glaring violence of this transaction. It is admitted that the absurd Constitution of 1848 placed the Pre sident and the Assembly in permanent hostility, and !net the Assembly did not measure its conduct by its real strength. It is probable that the organic:el force of the army may prevail at this moment in a country where no other positive force is organized, and where the political leaders of every shade ale caught like fishes in a net, and re moved by arbitrary arrest from the scene of action. It rests with the French nation to determine whether the supreme control of its government is to be transferred by such measures and vested in such hands. Bur, we owe it to truth, to freedom, and to history to declare that every pledge of political duty has been broken—that the moving force in these events is per sonal ambition, supported by unscrupulous instruments —and that it is scarcely possible to conceive the estab lishment of a permanent or honourable government on such a basis. Having said thus much, retaining, as we still do, the hope that this revolution will not necessarily interfere with the pacific relations subsisting between the French Government and our own country, we shall abstain from such incriminatory remarks as the occa sion might suggest, but which the gravity of the in terests concerned would render unseasonable, and per haps injurious to the public interests. We believe that it is the fixed resolution of every Go vernment in Europe, including our own, to view with perfect impartiality and absolute forbearance every possible change that may occur in the Constitu tion and Government of France. It rests with the French nation to resist or to submit, to establish or to overthrow, to live as freemen or to croueh before the iron or the leaden idols of despotic power. As long as the rights of other nations are respected, and as long as France shows more constancy to her treaties than she does to her laws, it is due to her Government, whatever it may be, to judge its actions rather with reference to ourselves, than to a people whose fate it is to be the spectacle and lesson of the world. Each successive con vulsion in this long series of events is but an incident in one disjointed whole. Never having supposed that the Republic of 1848 had any chance of permanent du ration, since it was imposed by force upon a reluctant and astonished nation, we can can profess but little concern at the humiliating mods of its extinction. But at the same time we can augur nothing better or more lasting for the power which seems destined to succeed it; and even the present success—if such it should be— of this desperate stroke would only increase our appre hensions of a fiercer contest at no very distant period. In a word, if " stability" be the motto or the promise of the new Government, that is precisely the quality we are least prepared to find in it ; and in " closing the era of revolutions," Louis Napoleon has very possibly brought the country once more within the vortex of anarchy. The proclamations of Louis Napoleon to the people and to the army can hardly be relied upon for the expression of any deliberate policy or any positive engagement. But after the customary denunciations heaped by every revolutionary power on the power it has overthrown, we find in his address to the people what we take to be a proposal for the resuscitation of the Consular and Imperial Constitutions, framed on the Alsk 6 Sieyes' plan of the Constitution de I'An VIII., and terminated by the Imperial Senatus-consultum of the 28th Floreal An XII. (18th May, 1804). These Constitutions caused all legislation to originate with a Council of State named by the Executive Power. The Bills so prepared were discussed and voted by what was termed the Legislative body; and this body was fur ther controlled by the Senat Conservateur, named by the Executive or self-elected. The Ministers under such a system are, as it is expressly stated, to sie pend on the Head of the Executive alone. We scarcely require to be reminded of the mute and inanimate assemblies of the Empire to discover that such a Constitution is a system of absolute Government very thinly disguised. The name of the Republic is merely introduced as a blind into this address, and the only al lusion to public liberty is that which places it under the protection of the Conservative Senate. ,The address to the army is a direct appeal to the only power on which the Government actually rests. By one of those audacious contradictions common at such times, the army is told,:at the very moment when every part of the capital is under military occupation, that it is " to assist the country to manifest its will in calmness and reflection," and that as the army is " the NW of the nation," it will of course save France. With less dexterity, the army is reminded that it has the popular humiliations of 1830 and 1848 to efface, and that it it is united to the name of Napoleon by common ties of glory and misfortune. The effect of these proclamations on the population of Paris was doubtless less favourable than had been anticipated. The cry of " Vive le P.dpub lique," which the President bad dropped, greeted his passage in the streets; and the aspect of the capital has hitherto been that of hesitation, increased by the compulsory silence of the press and the arrest of the Parliamentary leaders. As to the assertion that an armed conspiracy to depore the President, headed by General Changarnier and M. Thiers, was on the eve of exploding, we withhold our belief from it until further proof; for the means of executing such a plot were evidently wanting; and, on the other hand, the com plete and extensive preparations of the army and the police, made under pretence of arresting a Socialist movement, indicate a pre-existing determination on the part of the Government. The wretched Ministers of the Thorigny Cabinet were of course dismissed when the moment of action had arrived. But of that feeble band one man of vigour remained; we mean General St. Arnaud, whom we had pointed out from his first acces sion to office as the probable chief of a military revo lution. Upon the occurrence of these events a por tion of the Assembly, exceeding 200 Members, pro ceeded to assert its legal rights, to outlaw the Pre sident, and convoke the High Court of Justice ; but these last and feeble struggles of legal authority were at once repressed by a detachment of light troops, and the last protest of Parliamentary power was un supported by the people. This incident is chiefly of im • portance at the present moment as showing that almost every person of political eminence has not only with drawn from the Bonapartists, bur has pledged himself to the most active opposition of 'which the aircumatances admit. The names published as belonging to the-new. Conseil d'Etat are those of men designated by the GoT, vernment, but we have no evidence of their acceptance of office. The question is not only how matters stand under the direct military coercion of the present moment, but what will happen when that coercion is taken off. The press cannot always be gagged, generals and states men arrested, and their followers dispersed. But the which Louis Napoleon has entered is onestr u terminate in itnratiohnis of f avo e u l r l by the immediate and his adversaries, or by the chances of civil war. gg w le hic o h n caned only Moreover, the effect of this co u p d'etat on his own c haracter and prospects in the country has yet to be determined. As long as he r emained within the legal bounds of his authority it wag certainly the wish of the country to see that authority legally extended, and, in spite of the occurrences of his earlier life, he had gradu ally won upon the confidence o f t he C onservative p art y in France and throughout Europ e . Bu t t he claims h e may now put forward to popular support for an unli mited personal power, relying exclusively on military force, are totally distinct from his former claims to the renewal of his office; and it by no means follows that the same amount of national support will be given to the successful chief of a military revolutionas he might have received in the strict discharge of his constitutional duties. Lastly, the services of Praitorians must be paid for by imperial largesses, and the favour of the people bought by not less costly concessions. Were such a Government suddenly invested with omnipotence, it would have to meet the present demands upon it at the expense of its future resources. At present not a tax can be legally levied, and we have yetle learn by what proportion of the nation the Government of Louis Napo leon is still identified with the Government of France. DAILY NEWS.—It is one thing to cast up the ac count of right and wrong between Louis Napoleon and the dominant parties in the National Assembly; and it is another thing to pass judgment upon the conduct of the President towards the nation that elected him as the protector of its liberties and the executive agent of its will. It Louis Napoleon regarded nothing in France beyond the Assembly,and if he regarded in the Assembly merely that knot of quondam statemen which dictated its votes first for the nullification of the Republic, and then of Louis Napoleon himself, w© cannot say but that his ire, and that even something more than constitu tional antagonism, might not have been justly called forth against treacherous, selfish, and liberticide in triguers. They f avoure d th e a d m ission of Louis Na paleon into France at first, merely that his name might be a bugbear t o th e ,R e p u bli c ; they favoured his election . as Presid en t, •i n or d er t o us e him as an iron rod to flagellate the Republicans. Heaven knows, Louis Napoleon was obsequious enough to them in return! He turned his back on the people, whose votes had really raised him to the chief place. He lent himself to the passing and to the application of every law which castigated, which fettered, which mortified and disfranchised the people. And he not only served the people of France so, but ho lent the sword and the power of the country to crush all those who struggled for liberty abroad. There was no ven geance, no reaction of the National Assembly, and of its Conservative leaders, to which Louis Napoleon was not ready to lend himself, until it became their good plea sure and their manifest aim to get rid of him, and to oppose his reelection. Since then, indeed, ho has waged war against them with an effrontery and a success which exasperated theta beyond all prudence and self ,session, and which has finally impelled him to the rash attempt to crush the Assembly, by pulling down the pillars and the edifice of the constitution about their ears. Wo have little pity for the Thierses and the Changarniers; but this does not imply either admiration or respect fir Louis Napo leon, who is playing the part of his imperial uncle, without his means, his talents, or his excuses. It was most possible for Louis Napoleon to effect the revolution 58 p 97% 48 p 89 LA 44 90% 337 , 8 33 58 89% THURSDAY EVENING, which he has done, and yet exculpate himself in the t from the Minister ofJustice that they were to proceed no eyes of liberal and impartial men. He might, in quash- further in the business, The resistance, therefore, of the ing the plots and the power of Bourbon parties, and an- , eoestitutional authorities to the usurpation of Louis Na pouncing his determination to crush anti-social move- I poleon may be s a id t o h o at an end; and, after the tran meats, still have pr eserve d t h e great re p u bli can liberties ' quility of Tuesday night, and tho favourable accounts .of the country, or he might even, in aspiring to be Em- Scorn the departments, it is possible that the danger of a peror in his own right, have secured, or at least pro- popular outbreak is for the moment obviated. The firm mised, a full measure of constitutional freedom to the ness or the French Funds —which at no period were so French. He has done neither of these things. But in much affected as our own, and which closed yesterday one of the most audacious and foolish of proclamations within t i per cent. of their quotations before the coup he promulgates his intention of restoring the old im- d'etet—is a remarkable proot of public confidence in the perial constitution, consisting of a senate, of course to stability of the President. And if the last news which be selected by, and to be tho instrument of, the execu- has reached us should be well founded—viz, that MM. tive, which was to be completely independent of it; Montalembert, Baroche, and Drouyn de l'Huys, have which senate was endowed with the power of consented to take seats in the new Council of State—the completing or suspending the Constitution itself, prospects of Louis Napoleon being able to maintain his or even of reversing the decisions of the judica- position and to carry on the Government are materially ture! As to a chamber or assembly of representatives improved. What may be the ultimate success of an elected by universal, or indeed by any, suffrage, sitting, attempt the audacious lawlessness of which cannot be discussing, and voting under the brows of an all-power- defended, however it may bo palliated by the factious ful senate, and amidst the acts of an administration to- violence of the Parliamentary majority, it is impos tally independent of it, anything so impracticable and Bible at the present moment to predict; and it will bo absurd never issued from the brain of even the most time enough to discuss the policy of the President's pro crazy politician that France has yet produced. Louis gramme, when we shall have ascertained how much of it Nap Aeon, when he uttered such nonsense, or sanctioned he intends to carry into effect. Meanwhile, we need its appearauce in a proclamation, must have done so in lack no further for the source of its inspiration than the utter contempt of the public, whom he addressed, and in speech of Napoleon to the Council of the. Ancients:— sweeping disregard of principle, honesty, or common " The Constitution, say you--it is no more. It is your sense. To have conceived and considered as practicable selves who have destroyed it, by attacking, on the 18th such a mode of government as this, was puerile and Fructidor, the national representation—by annulling, on fatuitous. To declare it at once, in the first hour of re- the 22d Floreel, the popular election—and by assaulting, volution, was perfectly insane, There is no party, no On the 13th Prairial, the independence of the Govern class, no number of Frenchmen, beyond a few aide-de- ment." Whatever be his future intentions, the President camps, who could in the present day put trust in such a does not propose to protract the possession of his pres.lst system of government as this. The bold attitude of the tomorreal power, but desires, as soon as possible, to for- President, with the intrigues and treacheries of tify his position by the direct mandate of the country. the monarchical leaders in the Assembly, which And should ho succeed in being re-elected by a large provoked it, may for a moment incline the majority of tho people his authority wilt be, for a time people to applaud Louis Napoleon; but a few at least, impregnable. The election will commence on hours' consideration, the spectacle of the Con- the 14th of the month, and the event will be known in stitution abrogated, the Assembly dissolved, and even the course of three weeks. its best and most moderate members consigned with HERALD.—By the latest intelligence from France, their colleagues en masse to prisons, and this done avow- Paris was tranquil yesterday; and from one-fifth of the de edly for the establishment of an imperial senate and partments accounts had been received which are deemed regime —must produce a terrible revulsion of sentiment; satisfactory by the supreme power. The more we re and that every intellect and every party in the country fleet on the occurrences which we have recorded within will be forthwith leagued against the usurper, is as in- forty-eight hours, the more striking appears to us the evitable as it is fearful. That the clear perspicuity and coincidence of past and present events. Names, as well cool judgment of Napoleon, with the powerful influence as dates, it cannot be forgotten, have great influence that he had the gift of exercising'over the minds both with so ardent, impulsive, and imaginative a people as of individuals and of the masses, might triumph in such the French; and, having said so much, we may call to a forlorn hope, we admit; but that Louis Napoleon, or the recollection of the reader that on the 2d of Decem that those around him, are equal to the task of reducing bar, 1804, the coronation of the Emperor Napoleon and the thirty and odd millions of Frenchmen, with the con- of the Empress Josephine took place in Paris—a coro gregated intellect and numbers of their great towns,to the nation which eclipsed in splendour even that of Louis state of inanimate and disgraceful pupillage which pre- XIV. The Pontiff, who in December, 1797, exhorted vailed under the Empire, that is not within the limits of the French people to walk in the paths of democratic human probability. There is indeed one kindof policyand liberty, was the very same Pius VII. who seven years one series of events which might uphold such a system for later sanctified and blessed—to use his own words—the a time. And that is, successful, triumphant, glorious, and elect of Heaven. The obsequiousness of the Pope and profitable war. The large French army can, we are clergy now to the President of 1851 is greater than it afraid, become attached to no new leader or new regime was seven-and-forty years ago to the Emperor, and can that does not give it promotion, honour, profit, and .as- only be compared to that of Pope Zachary, who, being cendancy. But this can only be done at the risk of war, *Liked by Pepin who should govern, responded " Celui while this against two millions of bristling ba- la est Roi qui en ala puissance." If we are to believe yonets would require a degree of military talent and the accounts received up to last night, this seems the fortune, of which France gives no promise, and to which opinion of most classes, with the exception of the leaders the cause of the Napoleon dynasty gives no claim. The of the Assembly, most of whom have been arrested, great military ascendancy of the French at the close of and some of whom have, after resisting vigorously, been the last century was due to the principle which animated sent to Vincennes. Had these gentlemen now in duress them, and the enthusiasm to which that principle ori- patriotically and sincerely fulfilled the great mission en ginally gave birth. It was in the campaigns of the trusted to them by their constituents, instead of plot- Republic that the superiority of the French army tin, intriguing, and caballing, there can be no doubt was established, and the Emperor Napoleon merely that the people would have stood firmly and bravely by reaped the crop of military power which the them; but as it is, not a voice has been raised in their Jeurdaina, the Hoches, and the Moreaus had sown, favour, nor a hand outstretched to vindicate and protect We doubt, therefore, that the campaigns of Napoleon them. The 2d of December is memorable in more re can be re-enacted, and without them the empire can spects than one in Napoleonic reminiscences. On that never be resuscitated. Amidst the fear and anxiety very day in December, 1805, a marvellous campaign of which these events have created amongst us, we are glad seven or eight weeks was brought to a close by the me to hear it whispered that such a serious explosion so near morable battle of Austerlitz—one of the most resplendent ' has had the good effect of silencing the petty differences victories recorded in French annals, prolific as such amongst our own statesmen, who have now graver mat- annals have ever been of victory. The sun of Auster ters to occupy them than examining the expediency or Litz shone out as warmly on the nephew on the 2d De decorum of a particular Minister receiving this or that cember, 1851, as on the uncle on the 2d December, 1805, deputation. It is quite clear that we are bound to re- nor was there a need of nine hours' struggle, sustained cognise whatever chief magistrate the French nation may by the cuirrassiers and Soult, to gain the day, as nearly elect or accept to govern them. However we may disap- half a century previously. In fact, whether from the prove of his rashness and dread his unconstitutionalism, measures adroitly and energetically taken by the Exe it is clear that in these things the people of France are cutive, or from the apathy, indifference, and weariness the best judges. And provided that judgment be fully of the public, the first victory was an easy one; and in consulted and fairly pronounced, we in our diplomatic France, above most countries, the individual who has courtesies and relations have but to abide by it. struck a first successful blow has the prestige CHRONICLE.—It is just fifty-one years since Na- in his favour. It should be remembered that poleon dissolved the quasi Republican Government of sixty years of revolutions and struggles and abrupt the Directory, and, with the connivance of the Council changes have, among our neighbours, obscured and of Ancients, inaugurated the Consulate—so soon to be loosened, if not entirely blotted out all notions of merged in the Empir e —by the expulsion of the Five hierarchy and succession in regular order, and there Hundred. Wielding, perhaps, less power than the Con- is in the genius and disposition of the people, irreepec queror of Italy, and aided by fewer men of talent, the five of these things, something that induces them to give measures of Louis Napoleon have been no less skilfully a clear stage and every favour to a character daring and prepared and boldly executed than those of his uncle; enterprising, yet calm, taciturn, and self-possessed. whilst he has attained a not very dissimilar and without Such a character they have found in the President, and either the personal danger, or the public scandal, of an if the majority of the people approve of his ',course of armed invasion of a legislative body in full deliberation, action, the cause lies as much in the factious caballings Each phase of revolution, however eccentric may be its of his enemies in the Assembly as in his own peculiar orbit, is subject to periodical recurrences. There is a name, attributes, temperament, and endowments. So sort of method in the instability of the French people, tortuously, treacherously, and factiously, indeed, has the and their political vicissitudes revolve in definite cycles. Chamber acted, that for the last month its dissolution Indeed, so numerous have been the experiments which was as ardently desired by the bodyhtf electors whom it they have made, during the last sixty years, in the pos- spoliated and stripped of their franchises as was its first Bible combinations of governmental systems, that it birth, vitality, and commencement by its early ad would be hard to conceive a situation which should not wirers. In the same degree as the early days and pro present a striking analogy to some former precedent. ceedings of the Assembly were popular, in the Louis Napoleon places a confidence in his destiny, same degree were its later days and proceedings the which, with many other men who have played a conspi- object of contempt, of aversion, and of hatred; so that cuous part upon the stage of the world, has supplied the in shutting up the doors and closing the debates many place of principle and of policy; and we can readily consider the act of the Executive at least as much a work believe that he had destined the month of December—so of prime necessity as a stroke of legitimate ambition ; momentous in the annals of the house of Bonaparte—to and it may well be urged that Liberty has loss to dread decide the issue of his own fortunes. was the month from the proceedings of one man who tells his purposes of December that saw the elevation of Napoleon to tho openly, than from the maecouvres of two scores of Bur- Consulate—and Tuesday last was the anniversary of the grey( s, who were over dissembling, and always equally foundation of the empire, which made him the Autcarat uesincere, indirect, and dishonest. The conduct of the of France, and of the victory of Austerlitz, which lift President is, at least, open and above board. In exceed him the master of Europe, Wh e th e r the historical ing the boundaries of the Constitution, ho tells the noun "sun of Austerlitz" shone in Paris on the 2d instant, try his ultimate meaning and purposes. A temporary we are not informed; but it is certain that the array of dictature we know saved the Republic of Rome, and Louis Napoleon's Parliamentary adversaries was when the French President strains the power he undoubt struck down by a disaster as complete and as unex- edly possesses against halfta-dozen to increase the fran pected as that which befel their prototypes, the Conti- chises of as many millions, the people appreciate the rental allies. History records few spectacles more act as a national acquisition. No doubt the act of extraordinary and dramatic than the awakening of the President is a coup d'etat. But such coups the city of Paris to the consciousness that a revolution are the incidents and accompaniments in such a country wes not only commenced, but, as it were, accom- as Franco of factions, insurrections, and revolutions. plished. We can fancy an honest bourgeois turning out We must, however, say that this coup of the Execu at his accustomed hour to take down his shutters, and live appears to have arisen neither from a lust of tyranny, finding the handwriting of the President of the Re- nor from inordinate ambition. In going a step beyond public upon his wall. We picture tee aurselvos his the law, Louis Napoleon has obeyed but the natural in amazement at finding his new sman t rans formed into a stinct of self-preservation. If h e h ad remained within dragoon, and his feuill e t on replaced by a proclamation. the limits of strict legality, he would have given his op- But there were others on whom the blow fell somewhat ponents and his enemies the mastery, and that they which wad t e h a e r er last and meshes far ofmore the web heavily, aTs to entrapleiersw the man against hi s lib er ty, may h ap against his life, there can beas netting would have need it s p ee dil y, mercilessly, and remorsely, whom he had intended to govern, and whose greatest no doubt whatever. In going a step beyond the law and crime, in his eyes, is that he has chosen to act for him- the Constitution, then, he has preserved his own life and self. The political Frankenstein was discussing with his liberty, and possibly prolonged his power; but in so chosen friends, in the dead of the night, the means of acting he has only yielded to a natural instinct common extinguishing the vitality of the monster whom he to all men; and we sincerely trust that the ultimate re tied helped to create—when the gees crannes cults will give to France that internal peace which marched him off to the confinement which he should flow from a healthy constitution. had destined for his antagonist on the morrow. ADVERTISER.—The more ample details which In conspiracy, as in military mining, sue- have reached us respecting the revolution in Paris, and teas is ever a question of time ; and the best-laid train which w e were on l y ena bl e d to pu b l i sh i n a part o f yes m3y always be prematuttely exploded by a counter-blast. terday's impression, are strikingly confirmatory of the It seems sufficiently clear that, on Monday night, the opinion we then expressed regarding the causes which question lay between a Convention- meet& Dictatorship — had induced Louis Napoleon to dissolve the Assembly, the beds at Vincennes a ere aired, but it was as yet un- and resort to those other energetic measures by which certain who were to be their occupants. If Mt Thiers that event was preceded and accompanied. It is now had gained the initiative, the ultimate issue might not an ascertained fact, that had the President hesitated a perhaps have been very different, but bloodshed would few hours l onger t o have recourse to the coup d'etat have been inevitable in the first instance. Though, so which our columns yesterday recorded, a coup d'etat far as is yet known, there is every reason to believe would have been resorted to against him. Had he not that the greater part of the population of Paris look, on ordered the chiefs pf the hostile factions in the Assem• the whole, with more of favour than of hostility on bly, who were leagued against him, to be consigned to the measures of the President, yet the profound and prison, he himself would, before the middle of' Tuesday, remarkable tranquillity by whi c h up to the present me- have been a prisoner in the dungeons of Vincennes. He ment, so violent a change has been accompanied and fol- but anticipated by an hour or two, with regard to them, lowed, must be in great part ascribed to the decision and what they had fully intended with respect to vigour with which (very individual, round whom resist- him. Instead of being prisoners at his instance, he ante might have rallied, was removed from the scene of would have been a prisoner at the instance of Gene action before even a suspicion of the intended proceeding rats Cavaignac, Chargarnier, Lamoricidre, and Me:Atm had transpired. There can be no better proof of the Toiers, Baze, Berryer, &c. And so with respect to the profound secresy in which the preparations had been other extreme measure to which the President of the made than the fact that even M. Thiers had not time to Republic has resorted, namely, tho dissolution of the run away. So strict was the reserve which Louis Na- National Assembly. It appears that that step, as well poleon had maintained, that the Ministers themselves as the arrest and imprisonment of Louis Napoleon, had were not acquainted with his plans till they bad been been fully resolved on, on the previous night, at the already executed—and the Constitutionnei, the organ of house of General Changarnier—a meeting which was the EVES), appeared on the same morning, after the attended by M. Thiers, M. Berryer, M. Baze, and the decrees bad been issued, with an article ridiculing the other chiefs of the hostile parties in the Assembly. But notion of any coup dad on the part of the President. if the information which has reached us be correct—and A portion of the Assembly attempted to act with as we have no reason to doubt its accuracy—these persons much vigour as could be expected under such hopeless had not only entered into a carefully organized con circumstances. After a meeting at the house of M. Daru, spiracy against the person and powers of the President, a body of representatives proceeded to the Legislative but against the Republic itself. Not only was ho dee- Palace and made a formal claim of admission; and when tined to incarceration in the dungeons of Vincennes, onnof their number had so far asserted their right as to and the Assembly to immediate dissolution, but the receive a puncture with a bayonet, they retired, under Republic was to be annihilated. If the proofs of this the protection of a colonel of the National Guard, to the audacious conspiracy—a conspiracy against the Consti- Mairie of the 10th Arrondissement. The Constitution, tution, as well as against tho person and position of the with singular simplicity, provides that, in the event of President—can be satisfactorily established, the men the Assembly being forcibly dissolved, all the executive who are now in custody may find matters go much powers shall im • mediately revert to it; and, in con- harder with them than they or their friends at first anti formity with this very practical provision, the Members cipated. We are sorry to think that Cavaignac should assembled at the Mairie — about 200 in number--de- be mixed up with the Thierses, the C g han antlers, glared the dichiance of the President, and convoked the and the Berryers, in this ugly business. Though not High Court of Justice for the trial of him and his Mi- concurring in all his political views, we always regarded niiters, on a charge of treason against the Constitution. hi m as a hi g h- m i n d e d, s t ra i g htforward man, —one who M. Berryer, from a window, attempted to address the was incapable of associating himself with a junta of to enlist their sympathies in the cause of plotters and schemers for their own selfish purposes. populace, and to obtai n a hearing, 'that the Assembly; but he was unable hat favourable opinion we can entertain no longer. and his failure was the less su r p ris ing , inasmuch as the Amidst the numerous representatives in prison— only 1 lure which he bad to offer in opposition to the bait amounting, it is stated, to upwards of 110—there i s no t of universal suffrage was the dictatorship of th e i nva d er one amongs t th em w h o h as sun k so l ow i n pu b lic esti of Rome. At this point the chasseurs of Vincennes mation as General Cavaignac—just as there was none forced their way into the apartment, ordered its evacu- of their number that stood so high. He was one, re ation, and arrested M. Darn, who, with MM. de garding whom no person could have anticipated what B Mole, and Odilon Barron insisted on remaining. has happened. A, respects Thiers, every one will re- Therog le, the proceeding, and " de- •cece that one so hollow and so insincere latter protested against g, _ as he has fate of his colleague; but always shown himself to be, should at last have been mended" to share the notwithstanding ent entreaties, no further fairly caught in a trap of his own setting, his ur gg. He is the h made. Fresh instructions must, very incarnation of mischief. It is an essential part issued subsequently, as it is of his nature to he enengcd in however, have been itsu unprincipled plots— so ot the day almostplots which invariably have in reported that in the course view the promotion at the M• • t' his own selfish the m eet ing all the members who attendplaced his stars unintentional satire, that he has escap ed so lent, were, by a stroke of perhaps • Never did man more lid o So ended the efforts richly deserve sin • unishi under confinement in the Inva this e. moment P.l.Thiers would deprive ) Pof cent short of that which of the Legisletive body; and athim existence —a kind of punish h h b • • cunt e as given in ment to which, as cur readers know, we is perhaps recalling the account which e have always his history of the fall of Barran, who perceived that been opposed. At the latest trout down to which our ho was lost, and that his game was played out. It was intelligence from Frepee has reached us Paris was per timed of d bl that he should receive the rewar . 18 Otl 0. lectly trenquil. This is of good augury for the cause of desertions. He was order. It is only,- faced intrigues, and his cowardly . • however, what we had prepared our alike distrusted by patriots and republicans; the re- readers to expect. The people aro with Louis Napoleon. formers and politicians looked on him as a man of ruined So ar e the arm,Y. The disaffected nasjenity have no a d - credit, and applied to him the nem° of pourr i , which herent s . Th ere is not a man in Paris or out of it who Bonaparte had fixed upon him." In accordance with the would may a word in their favour far less take up a resolution of the extemporised Assembly, the Court of musket in their behalf. Never did any body of men Cessation met to pronounce the deposition of the Presi- sink so low i n pu bli c esteem. They seemed actuate d b y dent, but broke up in confusion on receiving a message no other motive than that of destroying Louis Napoleon; • DECEMBER 4, 18b1. and in their endeavours to accomplish that object they did not scruple as to the means to he employed. They were prepared to say or do anything, however unprin cipled, which they deemed calculated to carry out their Plans. Be their doom, as prisoners, what it may, their career as legislators, or as statesmen, has, in all proba bility, closed for ever. There is ono thing which will weigh much in favour of Louis Napoleon. Nut only did ho resort to no un constitutional expedient until it be came a question with him of personal liberty, as well as of official power, but even then he did not push matters to a greater extremity than he thought the circumstances of th e case imperatively called for. He has not shed a drop of blood, He bas not even put Paris in a state of siege. The announcement to that effect by telegraph, which appeared in yesterday's papers, was incorrect. The people have had no re etricion put upon their liberty where they choose —to meet as the y are free to go cress their opinions with all the e ful They l please—and nte ah nd f r e t e o d oex withm which they were accustomed to rhcasanthgeerethfoerier sentiments. The coup d'elat of Tuesday little of the character which usually belon gs t „ Ins dients of that kind. A great misconception too, te xistel as to what Louis Napoleon was bent's doing, reached was supposed, from the scanty information dweeitiCh. reached us by electric telegreph on Tuesday, that h resolved on bcirg, at all nazsrds, re-elected Preside:s Ile has given no grounds whatever for the assumption. Ile ha-, on the contrary, shown that he neve r entertaineci any such fees. Ile has put an end to the state of things which previously existed, because it was as much at variance with the best interests of France, as it was personally annoying and insulting to himself : but he does not seek to fetter the people's choice as to the elecion of a succes sor. Bo leaves them, on that score, entirely free agents. It the popular choice be adverse to him, he will at once acquiesce in the decision, and retire into the seclusion of private life. On this point he speaks in terms the most explicit in his address to the people, which is a manly and generous document. After adverting to the hostile conduct of the Assembly, Louis Napoleon says —"l, then, make a loyal appeal to the entire nation; and I say to you, if you wish to continue this state of dis quietude and malaisse that degrades you and endangers the future, choose another person in my place, for I no longer wish for a place which is powerless for good, but which makes me responsible for acts that I cannot hindei, and chains me to the helm when I see the vessel rushing into the abyss. If, on the contrary, you have still confidence in me, give me the means of accomplishing the grand mission I hold from you. That mission consists in closing the era of re volution, in satisfying the legimate wants of the people, and in protecting them against subversive pas sions. It consists especially to create institutions which survive men, and which are the foundation on which something durable is based. Persuaded that the insta bility of power, that the preponderance of a single As sembly, are the permanent causes of trouble and dis cord, I submit to your suffrages the fundamental bases of a constitution which the Assemblies will develope hereafter." In his address to the army Louis Napo leon expresses himself to the same effect. " I make," he says, 6 ' an honest appeal to the people and the army, and I say to them, either give me the means of assuring your prosperity, or choose another in my place." Nor is this all. In the same appeal to the army, while calling on them in their capacity of soldiers to obey their commanders, he enjoins there, as citizens, to exercise their free unfettered choice of candidates at the coming elections. This assuredly is not the language of a despot. These are not the actions of one who aspires at a dictatorship. Nothing could be more compatible with all our notions of liberty than the words and deeds of Louis Napoleon, with the solitary exception of th© coup d'etat of Tuesday. And that bold, uunconstitutional step was, it must always be re membered, forced upon him, as the only means of pre venting a similar and still more extreme coup d'etat, on the part of the hostile chiefs of the Assembly—a coup d'dtat, as we have before stated, which contemplated the annihilation of the Republic itself. The choice on Tuesday lay between the re-election of Louis Na poleon, or a military despotism under the direction of General Changarnier. France has already, from one end of the country to the other, declared which of th e alternatives she wou ld prefer. She makes her election in favour of Louis Napoleon. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WOLVERHAMPTON STEEPLECHASES. Acceptances for the Handicap (Steeplechase) of 20 soya. each, 10 ft, &c. Four miles. Peter Simple, aged, list 31b—Lucy Neal, aged, lOst 121b—Vain Hope, 6 yrs, lOst 1 01b—Columbus, aged, lOst 7 1 b—Half-and-Half, aged, lOst 41b—Thurgarton, aged, lOst 21b—Victress, aged, 9st 101b—The Young'un, aged, 9st 101 b—De Ginkle, aged, 9st 81b—M'Ion, aged, 9st 61b—Carrig, aged, 9st 61b—Hardwick, 6 yrs, 9st 51b —Tallyho, aged, 9st 31b—Chatterbox, aged, 9st 21b— The Screw, aged, Bst 101b—The Cripple, aged, Bst 71b. The above are subject to any declarations of forfeit received at Wolverhampton since post time on Tuesday night. Fiee Handicap Hurdle Stakes of 5 sous. each. &c. De clarations of forfeit up to pest_ time on Tuesday evening. Bacchanalian, Fugitive, Ballet Girl, Maria Monk, Maurice Daley, Hurricane, Bullfinch, Defaulter, Widow Machree, Flirt, Combatant, Tom Bowling, New Forest Dc. , e, Barrister, Loddington. The line of country will be the same as last year. The Selling (Steepltchase) Stakes closes the evening before running. COURSING. NEWMARKET CHAMPION MEETING. TUESDAY. The Puppy Stakes. Mr. Richardson's Vidonia bt Mr. Kin g 's Redwing. Mr. Riehardsou's Vulcan bt Lord S:railbroke's Moses. Mr. Holmes as Bedlam Lass bt Mr. Etwall's World's Fair. Mr. Watson's Miller of Mansfield bt Mr. Miller's Wsxy. Mr. R. Bagge's Tendress bt Mr. Singleton's Rover Jess. Mr. Inskip's Isis beat Mr. Holmes tia tk b B. Lass. Lord Stradbroke's Merry bt Mr. Blenkirou's Sportsman. Mr. Hill's Highland Lass bt Mr. Singleton's Drunken Jack. Mr. Inskip's Jewel bt Mr. Gillett's Golden Farmer (late Farmer). Mr. Minton's Windsor Lass bt Mr. Buckworth's Bayard. Mr. Brooke's Young King Cobb bt Mr. Minton's Run-on. Mr. Gurney's Abel bt Mr. East's Atalanta. Mr. Holyoake bt Mr. Edwards's Anchises. Cspt. Wyndham's Woralia bt Mr. Dobede's Delight. Mr. Round' s L oc k s l ey b t M r . M orent ' s Magic. Mr. Holmes na Ansrum bt Mr. Singleton's Voltigeur. WEDNESDAY. The All-Aged Stakes. Mr. Blenkiron's Melton bt Mr. Round's Leader. Mr. Reed's Rushlight bt Mr. Miller's Cobra. Mr. Dobede's Dot bt Mr. Morant's Merryman. Mr. Holmes's Miss Kitty Brown bt Mr. Singleton's Welcome. Mr. Inskip's Jester bt Mr. Holmes's Medora. Mr. Etwall's Exhibitor bt Mr. Hill's Hester. Mr, Djbede's Damson bt Mr. Watson's Resignation Mr. Holmes's Movement bt Mr. Blenkiron's Saddle. Mr. Gilett's Florette bt Captain Wyndham's Banshee. Mr. Dobede's Dunkeld bt Mr. lothip's Jeannette. Mr. Singleton's The Nutman bt Mr. Hill's Henrietta. Mr. Singleton's Bonny Scotland bt Mr. Moody's Regard. Mr. Singleton's Heather Jack bt Mr.Fyson's Forerunner. - The .Puppy Stakes. FIRST TrEs.—Highland Lass bt Isis, Woralia bt Hol lyoake, Abel bt Jewel, Miller of Mansfield bt Merry, Locksley bt Vidonia, Ancrum bt Vulcan, Tendresse bt - Windsor Lass, Bedlam Lass bt Young Kiug Cob. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, DEC. B. The Queen and Prince, and the younger brunches of the Royal Earthly, walked in the gardens yesterday. The Earl of Listowel, Lord in Waiting to the Queen, and Lieut.-Colonel. F. H. Seymour, Equerry to Prince Albert, arrived in the afternoon from Hanover, where they had proceeded to attend the funeral ceremony of the late King, on the part of her Majesty and his Royal Highness. They had the honour of being included in the Royal dinner party, and remained at 04borne. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Bent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Cowper, left her residence, Frogmore, near Windsor, yesterday morning, for her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. The Finance Committee of: the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in 1851, had a meeting yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Major O'Connor had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer had:an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Down ing-street. Mr. John F. South, President,' of the R o y a l C o l lege of Surgeons, and Mr. Cam Haw fins, Vice-President of the College, had an interview with Sir George Grey yes• terday, at the Home-office. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President), arrived in town yesterday evening, from his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governor of Canada, from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and also from the Governor of St. Helena. The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday. An appea l from Bengal, " Dukeena Soondreo Dabee v. R asm u l ie e e Dasee," w as commenced. The case was adjo urned...Tb Vice-Chanc e ll or T urner, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and Sir Edward Ryan, were present. LIE 00IITHAMPTON D ACCIDENT.—The gates New of the So u th ampton Ne &C I L, w hich broke away from where they were fi xed on Saturday last, have had several tons of sheet iron fastened on to them to make them of suf ficient weight to keep in a perpendicular position, and pre vent the buoyancy of the water from unshipp in g them again. Machinery has been erected at the mouth of the dock for the Purpose of lifting them from where they lay floating on the water into a position so that they may be fixed again, and a number of men were engaged yesterday in working the machinery. The chairman and deputy-chairman of the Southampton Dock Company have arrived at Southampton to inspect the nature of the accident, and the means taking to repair it. The Californian gold shares did not attract much attention yesterday, but the announcement in the afternoon that the Stock Exchange Committee have fixed next Mon day as settling day in Agua Fries and Ave Marias, gave occa sion to a rather better feeling, and the market left off a shade better at the following quotations :—Agua Fria, 1% to prem. Nouveau Monde, Al c t a e .f , -. 2 ; prem. Mountain, par to M prem. Anglo. Golden prem. West Mariposa, 1 ,4 to % dis. o niaa, to % to pir. Ave Ma nn. 4 dia SUBMARINE TELEGRA PH. — Additional wires are to bo lunk betwee Dover and Calais, CLOSING OF• THE TRANSFER BOOKS, 6.T. EAST .INDIA HOUSE.—Notice was issued yesterday that the transfer books of the I:art India Company' Stock will be shut on Thursday the 4th December - ed again on in stant (this d2y), at three PN., and open Thursday, the 15th of January, 1852. The warrants for the dividends on the said stock, payable on Thurs day, the 6th day of January, 1852, under the 11th sec tion of the Act 3d and 4th William IV., cap. 85, w ill be ready to be delivered on that day. A Quarterly General Court will be holden at their house, in Lea denhall-street, on Wednesday, the 17th instant, as eleven A.lll . BANE (4 ENGLAND.—The transfer books for the An nuities due sth of January, 1852, will be opened and closed as follows: Consolidated Three per Cent. Annuities, from Friday, the 12th instant to Friday, the 16th of January, 1852; Three per Cent. Annuities, 1726, from Friday, the 12th instant, to Friday, the 16th January; N( w Five per Cent. Annuities, from Friday, the 12 h instant, to Friday, the 16th January; and Annuities for terms of years, from Friday, the 12th instant, to Friday, the 16th of Janu ary, 1552. SOUTH SEA HOUSE.—The transfer books for South Sea Annuities will briclosid from Friday, :the 12th in stant, to Frilay, the 16th of January, 1852. The Ja nuary dividends at both the ((hove will be in course of Payment en the 9th of ,Lnuary next. COURT of QUEEN'S BE 41 CH, DUBLIN, Dec. 2. Tut: ‘. T Ani.ET" NEWSPAPER.—ACTION AG A I NST THE ANNE DOF FING v . F RE DERICK LUC AS , P ROPRIETOR OF " I,AI3LET" FOR LIBEL. This was an action brought against the defendant for a libel i nserted in his paper on the 30th of August, and purpo rt i ng dive the 25th of August, was an exterminator of her tenantry. and signed ' A Tenant to be a letter w:itt, n from Cionard, bearing Righter." The libel alribtitid to the plaintiff that she were laid at 5,0J0/ , and the defendant pleaded * special plea under Lord Campbell's Act, that the article was The damagca inserted without malice and without gross negligence, be inserted a full and tiMplo a and that as soon as was rossible after action brought and had also lodged 254 in cou p rt. -1 The jury gave a verdict olog in his newspaper, for the plaintiff, with 3504 damages and 6d. costs. MEETING OF DELEGATES 0E TUE METROPOLITAN RAGGED Scifoors.—Last night at seven o'clock a confer ence of delegates, connected with the various metropataa ragged schools,which was convened in compliance wihacir cular issued by the committee, was held in the large r schook room of the Field-lane Ragged Scthhoeol,Colimornlbiotrtzhhilal,vfionratri.na purpose of taking into consideration several propositions forwarded to and approved of by view the further improvement of ragged schools. There are about 100 schools in the various parts of the metropolis from every one of which two delegates were invited to at tend. The Earl of Shaftesbury presided, and a succeasion of speakers spoke cn practical points connected with their charitable work. It appeared a source of difficulty that the children of a better class of persons than those for whom the t ra he ost sc d h e o st e i l t s ut a e r . e provided were gradually supplanting THE CONVICT SMITIL—This wretched man, now lying under sentence of death in Newgate, for the murder of the infant child of a woman with whom he cohabited, w as visited yesterday in his cell by the Sheriffs, Messrs. Swift and Cotterill, accompanied by the ordinary of the gaol the Rev. Mr. Davis, and by the Under-Sheriffs, Messrs. Hopwood and Mella r d. Th e Sh er iffs having intimated to the convict that the day fixed for his execution was Monday, the 22sti in stant, the wretched man received the intelligence without emotion, and maintained the same indifference . which h as marked his con d uct since h i s conv i ct i on. It is generally supposed that the convict imagines that his life will be saved. GOOD PROSPECTS FOR IRELAND.—EngIish and Scotch farmers are gradually creeping into Ireland ; even in Tipperary, the terror of strangers, several have taken lands. Mr. Richa r d son F raser, a Northumberland gentleman, has lately taken a farm of 300 acres from Sir Thomas Dancer in that county. CONVICTION OF A SPIRIT RECTIFIER, PENALTY 600 esterday, before the Commissioners of Inland Reve nue, Thomas Greenhon, of 16, S t. John -street, Clerkenwell wholesale spirit dealer and rect ifi er, was charged on an ' in formation containing four counts, and involving penalties to the amount of 1,4001. The first count charged him with using a false certificate for the receipt of spirits, so that the accounts made by the revenue officers might be frustrated ; secondly, with having in his possession spirits unaccompa nied by a legal permit; thirdly, with having, as a rectifier, an illegal excess of spirits in his stock; and, fourthly, with having deposited spirits with intent to defraud the revenue of the duty chargeable thereon. The facts were proved by the euidence of the revenue officers, one of whom stated that a permit for 8 gallons had been changed to 80. Mr. Com missioner Stephenson said this was a very serious offence, especially as the defendant had been formerly convicted in penalties amounting to 1,4902, which, on petitions stating his contrition and a promise not to offend again, were miti gated to 250/. The Court should, th ere f ore, now give a judgment again s t him final and conclusive, and which would be immediately levied, in the sum of 600/., with the forfeit we of the spirits that had been seized. DEATH FROM NEGLIGENCE OF A CABMAN.—Las t evening Mr. W. Payne held an inquest at St. Bartholomew 's Hospital, on view of the body of Thomas Johnson, whose death was occasioned by the negligent driving of Henry Mazey, a cabman. On the 4th of November last, about twelve o'clock at night, the deceased was in a gig with Mr. Stagg, who was driving the same down the Borough-road, when they suddenly saw a hackney cab rushing towards them at a pace of twelve miles an hour, the cab driver whip ping the horse violently all the time. The gig was about eight feet from the kerb and was on its right side. The cab man drove the vehicle between the gig and the kerbstone, and the shaft of the cab ran into the shculder of the gig horse; both shafts were broken off the gig, and its two oc cupants were thrown into the road. Deceaeed then told some of the bystanders that he had his leg broken. He was re moved to the hospital, where lie gradually sank and expired on the 16th of November. At the time of the accident Henry Messy, the cabman, was taken to the police-station, and was there considered by the officers to be much the worse for liquor, hut as there was no charge made against him he was set at liberty. However as there was afterwards consi dered to be blame attached to him he was apprehended and lodged in Giltspur-street Compter on the ?4th ult. The jury after fifteen minutes' deliberation, returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against Henry Mazey. A TREAT RE BUENT DOWN.-011 Tuesday, shortly after midnight, a fire broke out in North Shields Theatre, and notwithstanding the activity of the fi e brigade and the military, who were soon on the spot, and very active, re duced it to ruins in less than two hours. The origin of the fire has not been discovered, but it has either been produced by gas or by some of the audience having let a spark f a ll from a pipe. Nearly all the properties and scenery, belong ing to Mr. Samuel Ruxby, the proprietor, have been de stroyed. They are valued at between twelve and fifteen hundred pounds, and are not insured. The building is in sured. North Shields is in the Sunderland and Scarborough circuit—a circuit of some eminence in the provinces. The theatre was once the property of the Kemble family; it now belongs to Mr. Samuel Roxby, brother of Mr. William Be verley, the eminent scene • painter. The theatre having been destroyed in the middle of his season, the loss to Mr. Roxby will be considerable. The Ite, , v. Edward Augustus Books, M.A., incum bent of Avebury and Monckton, Wilts, has been presented by his parishioners with a very handsome ornamental time piece, having on a plinth a suitable inscription expressive of their esteem and respect. IN CREASE OF PRESTON.—During the present sear not less than 670 new houses have been erected at Preston, and there never was a time when so few houses were unoc cupied. One is scarcely empty before it is re-taken, and many of the new ones have been let before they have been roofed in.—Preston Chronicle. AN APPROPRIATE TOAST.—Ort her Majesty's re cent visit to Lancaster Castle, the debtors confined in that stronghold had a commemorative dinner, at which they feelingly drank the following toast :—"May the tree of liberty be planted in the Castle yard, and every one confined within its walls cut his stick from it. i o ir rc er e en in t TB E M ILITARY F ORCE IN I RELAND .—Th e fol lowingl rela n d , iws with h e theofficial headquartersreturn oft h a e n p d re d s e e po n t ts m o il f ita th ry e d ifferent regiments :- Cavalry- Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards, Ballincollig ; and 7th, Cahir ; sth ditto, Longfo r d ; 6th di tto, ditto, Newbridge ; 7th H angars, Dub lin;Newbridge ; 2d ditto Royal Horse Artillery, ditto. Infantry -Ist Reg, iment of Foot, 2d battalion, Fermoy ; 3d ditto, or Buffs (depot), Boyle; 6th ditto (depot), Nenagh ; 9th ditto, Athlone; 14th ditto, Dublin; 17th ditto (depot), Galway; 27th ditto, Dublin ; 31st ditto, Enniskillen; 34th ditto depot), Mulli n _ gar; 35th ditto, Dublin; 39th ditto, Dub lin; 40th ditto ; 43d ditto, (depot), Cork ; 41st ditto ( depot), Caeueb ar (BduetptoeNt-)7tß;h4r7;ths2dditdtoitto(,deLpionit)e,riert ;atesrsftohrd tditt4o9t(hdedpoittto Tralee ; 57th ditto, Dublin; 59th ditto (de p ot) Fermcy ) ; 60th ditto (Rifles), 2d battalion (depot), Kild p are • 62d ditto, Dublin ; 63d ditto, Limerick ; 66th ditto 'Toughs' ; 71st ditto, Ist battalion, Newry, for (depo t), Austa 73d ditto (depot), Londonderry; 74th ditto (depot), Fe Blst ditto, (depot, 89th ditto Clonniel for Australia; 90th ditto, Cork; 91st ditto, Belfas t; and 92d ditto (depot), Dub lin. Royal Foot Artillery, Royal Engineers, &c., Dublin. TROOPS IN LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.—The fol lowing is the official return of the different regiments and battalions now stationed in the metropolis and its vicinity of Life for the 7_ ensuing winter:—Cavalry -Ist Reglmentlinigh Guards, Albany Barracks, Regent , a.park; 2d o ditto, rss Guard s ; bridge Barracks, Hyde-park ; and 11°Y8 Of the Household (Blue), at Windsor, forming; the cavalry 4th Regiment of Light Brigade ; Royal Horse Artillery an d Dragoons, Woolwich; Canterbury. In- Royal Irish Hussars, Hounslow • %, 17th d l tt t °' battallion, Wellington Bar racks, utiards,s tLhaedngicerging,'s Own i_ S t . James 's -park ; 2d ditto, Windsor; Bth ditto, racks, Birdcage - wal k , Barracks, Regent's-park; Cold -3d ditto, St. M in's- -- Chichester ; 2d ditto, Portman street batta lion, Scots Fusilier Guards, stream Guards, Ist Portman-square; street Barracks, I s t battalion, Tower of London; 2d ditto, St. George', Trafalgar -square, forming the infantry of th e Household Brigade. Barracks, At Woolwich—Royal Foot A r till ery, Royal Engineers, &c., one division of Royal Marines. " KosstrrEc MILITARY ENGINEERIN G S CHOOL: ' -- A correspondent says—" According to arran gements entered into by S • Kossuth during his stay in E ng l and. a military • engineering school has been establish e d, t o teach Hungarian o ffi c ers, resident in London, the art of military engineering. Colonel Thaly, late director of the fortifications at Koniorn. appointed by M. Kossuth as professor, gave on Monday last, his introductory lecture, upon which he urged upon his audie %ce in a spirited and significant manner the necessity of making good use of their time. On this occasion lie was honoured by the presence of , General Vitter, other distin guished staff officers, and the military students who intend to avail themselves of the instruction given at this institu tion;jhe practical nature of which it is expected will be at tended with great suectss. THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.--Last evening the final arrangements for the reception of the acattle_ and other stock entered for exhibition at the ensuing s h ow o t e_w e of the Smithfield Club were completed. Some few b that specimens have alicady arrived, but it is un derstoo d Albert will those contributed by his Royal Highness Princentil Friday or net leave the Flemish farm at Windsor until has been made Sa turday. It is stated unofficially that a n Prince of Wales; but in the name of his Royal Highn e es e s iti cials of the club, a from the secrecy observed by th the subj ect . Up to last posi tive assertion cannot be made on i m pl ement proportion of the agri cul t ural night, a very large intended for exhibition h a d already arrived, three o' c l oc k beingthis day (Thurs day) the latest hour at which -any departmentape will be received. The ca t t l e , sheep, extra stock, cimens in that : & will be received up to six o ' c l oc k on Saturday evening. . The arrangements alto ge th er w ill afford a very much incre ased space for the accommod a ti on o f .. the public aa_Well el the =DM. 3 3f3°' [Re o°l for 6 ,1 iiOD6 ''for ge )A l.) } w ) 14 ° 13 141 0/0 1 91 5 1 'I It v I ' I! 5 0 81 '10 1 ne 7%'. mg 3% 20% Nix: