The Sun. — London, England, 1851-12-29 00:00:00

4 1y. r"'s "Ec. 27.--Arrd. Rossunna, Atkins, Sharks' P4ll,"4udlovv, Burnet, A'exandcia; , e otquerico- liero . Cockburn, I)oaitrara; Argo, li t l e t d, St. John's ' ', New Brunswick, t • 28 . iud N. N. E—Arr d: Eat er ; 2t ro t t a, 11, ); lin:ist. Pet c . r s rg b • 51 , 6 1. C o n i a t e u r t e l o n l 0 4: )zaaltr vt a X alld A l' ; T r o d npa lt r i e o ll, B9e t. bli:s, Prirce Edward's NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) to AN GE—MONDAY. fl;tcitlY the Whole of the provincial markets held on Nah li w Y h yrere but moderately supplied with home sj..e.ate for which the demand ruled inactive, at ktk e, .41,10 nary prices. Fine malting Barley was k4 4 1 ,,, ut i quite as dear, but grinding and distillieg hl fttl ie 7 . li% dull inquiry. Malt and the best heavy Oats I N* tc 4 at full currencies; both Beans and Peas were lither l3 , l , reti a 3 e. No change was noticed in the value ati„, 'our or Indian Corn. 4 4, 4 "; arid most other articles of Grain are held in kthi ll tieeritinentel ports at prices too high to admit of ; i t ke , ye Purchases for the United Kingdom . In lttj bot h Wheat and Flour are somewhat higher. IkCI tleQt ' evices from the United States are to the " the best Flour was ceding at 203 6d per t c.l) t o lt,, °l a• te U r tl e r market last week, the arrivals of English nil again moderate. From abroad, we received k! liners of Wheat. 1,860 Barley, 9,960 Oats, eens, 174 Peas, 95 'ares, 7.611 Linseed, 2,383 ' 4 Of ' 4 ' 20 sundry seeds, 4,612 sacks and 3,698 bar -Ith ker tUl t - k ill U P ;0 day an unusually small supply cf Wheat * hand L Root -, coastwise, from Essex; but its quality k ` 4 t , ti os The receipts from Kent were very moderate, (from all other quarters were trifling. By land L ., ”eit e e t i re . , r o Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, &c., a few par- Ofts in fair ' average condition. Notwith `uitt the attendance of both town and country stela far from extensive, and that several large I t lrlr of uf t. American Flour have lately pasted into the . k i ll ors ei ,, tue bakers, the demand for all kinds of Wheat er °d eco ruled steady, at an advance in the quo a - t tallied on Monday last of Is per quarter, ao• _Clearance was speedily effected. .Very few wr to hand from the Midland districts to for -I,t w it e a tt4 , unless at higher .rates. The business "important. kt (kr rt e of Foreign Wheat last week being of in- Ea t ._ It Y• had scarcely any influence upon the trade d ft im : , e t t i , i ! e. , Really fine samples ex-granary moved ; 14 t4 J tena n ut in some instances the currencies had do b bot,„ en cY, the finest Daretzo being held at 1 ,• The middling and inferior kinds moved off 'e t ' " f e ` ae rtheless the ouotations were well supported. g f lolting cargoes Here ou offer; but so little b,4C gin them that pr;ces were almost no minal. In qtts°l-; irtfluat was held . at comparatively hi g h rates. lll' R ‘ ll ,q - ,: atio g Barley, the show of which was very ~,t11(14. z o steady request at full quotations. Grind th %tali • ah e l•t' Sorts sold slowly at late figures. irti l oat of Malt ready for delivery sees very mode jar ge quantitie s we re on sale to be forwarded Ilth e ter factors 411 Month. The trade was inactive, yet f -Nyljere very firm in their demands, consequently tte lh e t well supported' Ccfel:g re gate thew of Oat samples was larger than ;',lb u lf s , eek s past, yet, as dealers are short of stock, a 4 h o t ness was doing at mostly full quotations. aloe 4 slightly improved demand for Beans, at 1 1 , 41 1 t t t hor r, " of Peas commanded very little atte ntion, 100 puither decline took place in prices. llott tt i:or trade was firm, and late rates were well fI44t 4 tIRR EXCY P " " .Kent 366 IMPERIAL MEASURE• 57,3 to 088 ~ tt 8104". •• • 366 to 41s Oats — C Yorkshire •and elkeir 37s 471 Lincolnsk., Fead. 178 203 i tto s oln,V d Potato .. Iri s oNtn a i t : d ••• •• ais ais .... 193 2 56 t t Youghal and Cork, . R e 4. ..:• •• • • 383 453 Black . ......168 199 ,". Cork, White. •• • • 175 2 . 18 B otch Feed. • • 203 258 g e l .•• • • • 26a 28s Beans—lick .•• •• •• • . 253 259 278 311 k i ;i 4 aitidi m .."•• •• 268 28s Pigeons .•• .•• •• •• 11.. ti▪ ut ••• •• 223 243 Peas—Grey 265 li! •• 278 293 Maple .••••• • • • • • 2 " r 5 ot; ; , and • • ••• 3 Is 34s White . ..........263 29s "d Nor. Boilers •• •• •• •• •• •• •• • • 275 3 " tC 3 I :I .• .• •• • 458 54s le lour—Town-made . :.• 8 2 , 5 7 2 5 5 t°"4ll W . a . rit trs 565 4'8 2t u o fi e o k lk tn . y e a . our ) 8 ,,t SMEXIS. &• '071:olk 285 32s 01 4 „ report, a full average business has de▪ ll g in Linseed, both on the spot and for arrival, 4; 41 1t Pre eat, at full prices. Canary is steady, and 40, „„ le es quotations. Cakes, both English and ktit: II4 ANTZPPort late rates, with a small supply on offer. 'hi otrieer bush. Gs to LOs Carraway •••••• •• •• •, 393 115 tb.h tt .tro •• • • 8s I 1 s Coriander ••..••• • • • • • , ;5 ' 1 ,11,7 , , new •• • • 7s 8s Ilempseed, per quarter 323 (h. 8 N 3 44 Ater ••• • • 630 d 7s 0d Linseed, Eng. Sowing•• 464 52 9 603 •• 35 6d 4s od Crushing • • • • • • • z , 46 2 .. er qu "q ua.rt •• •• ••Os 00 Os Od Baltic •• •••••• 391 4,8 50i t.,i 1 1•• ; 1 ' • • 35s 40s Odessa •••••• • • • • IVielto; , ••• 24s 305 Linseed Cake, pr. 3,0 01 )‘, .• Ms 44a English .. . lOs 10/ 0, L r eign Vl, l - ••• •••• • • 345 48 , E Foreign, per ton 61 . b o s s 7 4 1 1 5 5 '';4ll V 4: 46544 s l i t , ape ,, Ztes, e prt p n 41 6 w ° rist 21.10 s 2 3106 S t)ft tlt i WEIg - ,*••• 183 22 aPe' P 11 1(1 on the foil, 'm up to the 20th Lowing quantities of foreign . inst.:— Lo n d on 1851. 1850. L 4,, ........... 90,101 ...... 57,555 tioarPool ......... 8,368 ...... 8,494 gyp............... 40,541 ...... 26,610 h tan vie . k ,srarrEirznia). ; 14 , ei:„'e be e ' 6 imports of foreign stock into Lon ,Ne :vrtd, tt :', l n somewhat Extensive, the time of yFar 145 4 ,.rire5n 0 ,„1 flaying amounted to 3,094 head. During ' Oil ;` i "ulog period in 1850 we received 1,325; in ~ _ n 1848, 899. et elo wcon T , r „ .... -, and in 1847, 2.013 head. L'itb,, "0 LONDON IN TILE PAST WEEK. Pigs. pt ..Beasts.i Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. ti rl i t t ly . `,.„ 111 .. 2 ;", ••• 28 ... ... ••• — A (% ii: 1 •1 , .... -4 ... 630 ... —. 284 ..• ' '',4,. ltl geli ... ',:— ... ..,. ... 47 ... kt ib. • ..... ' 1 ••• 841 .. ..• '• 2 1 ,.. lep . ---• ... _ ... _ ... _ ... 12 ki r k ••• 5 1 ... 592 ... "' 1 .._ 52 ... - ••• *tal k Al t ..... 4n Ed er / Yearly comparison 2,313 ... 332 ... 18 at the we( imports is as ll ki , 1 4 r.. Beasts, k 9 ..... 184 Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Piga. 1 lit,i ....... at , c . ... 945 „„ „„ 186 ... 1 ! 14 7 '.... ...... i ' l l ° :•• 224 ... ... 161 ... at .• . 820 .. ... 10 ... 1 ni t .. .... 341 .: 1 6 , 3 ' . 19 .• tgii, ,_ time o f ~ ~ - supply o f both %,,,-lot and .„ sear, about an average Nt4 ‘4 l 4_in 10 -e l e e r r e a i b r Beasts was on offor in to-day's Y good condition. As the weather : 1 11 t4e tir a ll ia bl d e for slaughtering, and the attendance of k e ; Itiled a country buyers on the increase, the Beef,s 41 (1 -4 of 9nlewhat active, at an advance in last weeK,. hti b tu rite 9 a ...• per Bibs the general top figure I, r Itlq NUN, „ C P S b elEg 3s 10 ' d per Bibs, and a clearance it s liorwth-uected. From Liue,inshire Leicestershire, ), tli ti; 1..._ aulptoushire, we reefived about' I'soo short i' a l ( i lts, b r e lia o otoher Parts of England, 500 Herefords,an teilti Se ota / " , "m.; and, from Scotland. 240 horned i ex d . 24, 41 1 The supply of Sheep was seasonably oldie 81ba dearreereds t o , D n ., "4 -'OB realisedthan on this day were in good se r 'n e l q u ti g e h 4 t t' . til t 41 1 d • k . 4s 6d per Sibs. Calves came slowly 41 ate a . 4, 71!5t the a a n The Ycl best ui te ; -emend for them was steady at fully ‘6. ' kid prices ' ll the quotations. The Pork trade Was , t 1 were well supported. L'u ttifrt _ , Per Blbs.to sinatho offal. d• to a d k k4 l 14 „., e4 5t5.... 5 i ; • • s. d. to s. d I , i Nt 171ty ... , u 210 Inferior Sbeell ::-• ! 0 4 8 8 10 2 1211 % 04 o ze ,.. : 0 3 2 Second qual. S:1•61)0? 0 4 2 lita,;'oi4 ..... : 4 3 6 Coarse-woolled MU 4 4 6 4 4 ti t , ' , zee c ave * 3lO Southdown Wether 4 t 0 ( 1 41 1: 1411 dittO a 3 2 3 s Dltto out of the wool 0 0 n l ih .Z e ab ,.. .. 310 4 2 Large Hogs •.- .• 2 8 1 0 ! ''' .....7 • .18 0 21 0 Small Porkers •• .. 310 4 o 11 ... 0 0 0 0 Quarter old Pigs .. 16 019 tut, TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. } , 24t5 I MVO 1 1 Pigs. 240 - "414 Calves. 214 FOREIGN StIPPLY. k 8,... 20 6 I Sheep. I CalveS. 1 rigs. 041 1 — 1,190 169 ' l lt s t '1 " and Comparison of the Supplies and Prices of ock exia . P 2 5 Ko nda ed and sold in Smithfield Cattle Marlieet )184 . 3r, Dec. 30, 1850, and this day, monday, -u c• Per 81bs., to sink the offals. tel. vii 4 Dec. s. d :3 . 0, 1 1 8 . 50 d.. 5 D . ec d ..29, 8: 185 d ] . N, and li lt s . t tihs tkl qu ,,,. eller Beasts ... ... 2 Bto 2 10 2 6t02 3 10 l' .'s la -IV ditto ... .. 3 0 3 2 3 0 N A -rg e 0 • ••• 4 3 6 tO k e ' Sco zel l .. ... ... 3 343 ti 3 10 NOr ta ii, and ' c• ... ... ... 3 6 3 B fi 3 3 0 3 2 , I.i lid .nferior Sheep._ ... 3 2 3 - - , .Sle tar ditto . 3 8 310 3 4 310 •• •• ••• Ike o iirse-woolled ditto ... 4 0 4 2 4 0 4 , 2 , 1,,,,k01118130..11thd0wn ditto 4 4 4 6 4 4 4 ° ••• ••• 11°N1,* .. ~, .. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1: 46 e - 436 Calves • 2 8 3 0 3 2 3 8 ti tki itt ße 17 14 11 ditto *** *** 3 2 3 63 10 4 2 411 c'gs *** *** 3 6 2 8 3 8 * i ) rker" ''' *— 2 8 •8 4 03 10 4 0 Beasts . ••• ..• • ... 3,169 2,846 Sheep and La — Mips — ::* — 15 ' 500 14,590 ,k , alv eB ... 127 214 tiZl'Pra f i gs 360 240 1 4, - ," Sjusf, — D;C. 31, 1849. Beasts, 3,089 ; R ; Zir k L ri lbs, 16,620; Calves, 69 ; Pigs, 1 35 . tiollee n -- „,7, QATZI AND matALDENUaIa. b .:x w o c-. last report these markets have been season. e , —;suPplied- with both town and country . killed ti lkai,`', 3 most of the butchers have not succeeded in "Itilei 6 °I the whole of their late extensive pur thlr -, the ( New. general demand is in a sluggish state, at .e ns. b ier , At per stone by the Carcase. S. d. to S. d. \,l'nfert or B. d. to s. d. \„ , Yeta d ,,.._•• ....• 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior •. 2 8 3 3 0 8 Hilda •• .. 2 6 2 8 middling • • 3 2 Vu,l l ria Q i irge .. 2to a o ----prime .• •• 310 4 0 24 3 6 •...,....... 68 nact. • 3 2 3 4 Po:ll,large •••• " '• 8 810 thNI /4 / 2 ittraGrc AND SPITA.IMIE 3II2 " _ ,_ I.tati mar stage supplies of potatoes have arrived up to mi t t erkete, daring the past week, coastwise and by i °4rri age• The - quality of the arrivals continues ZIA % The imports have been. only 14 bags from .11.ot ige c i eu i lit ited 53 tens from Rouen. Generally speaking l' lid is inactive on the following terms:— iptkah R° Per Ton. Per Ton. t4 tt oai la gents. 70s to 80s Wisbeach & Cam- Fi"e‘3l4 il ii *. ... —8 to s bridge b. 4 tch i i. egents 60a to 75s Kent Resents 65: to 75_5 8 D i tto e u e gents.. 65s to 70s Essex le s egents 0 0 LI M ...... 55s to 60s Essex Shaws 655 . to 7 6 ; t i o tto NV ...... —sto —s Kent Shaw: 6os to 65s li li ntlo n iS a l,_ ••• --s to —s Kent & Essx. Mid. —s to 7s B e lhaa „ oites. —8 to —s French 6os to 6 3 kVI k ' 4 ' l & Ber c Re German ditto enti 4 4 ? gents.. 65s to 70s Dutch Whites —B to —8 ''fl Kea. 4s to s,Chats flour tia iiplitOUG.a Zi. - 011 , Tfi...a,:..3.1EE7.. ew 4 t et is very scantily supplied with really fine t k i "lty. C P... 8 1 which aro held at ex*reme rates of cur -4,, la most other hinds the show of whioh is iltt .31 1 "4IIS t , -11,;ir or' ' - ' l' - .-d hp,4l , Fs i 5 doing. 0 1 t r gnOtati o ', e " -"-; i' . Pi "' • —s' 6 . W. aid i„, eu t us. bus.k,x 1 4.:;;E:tao, 5i 8) to 6 1 ', Do." , 103 to 7155; aid and East Kent, 71 to Fe: cwt. S Owing to th , , hoFtl3ys the &ward for all kinds cf Wool if; enci-edingly inactive, at almost nomiortl ca )ta tirs. E washtel is quoted at from is to is 4d; Grease, iuJuding blanket, Gd to 9d; and Down, ls z Id to Is 3d per lb. The imports last week were good, vi., 230 bal,?s from llemburgh, 245 from Shanghan, 207 from Aiogadore, 5 from Leghorn, 90 from Calla), 548 from Talzaurog, 1,202 from Sydney , 39 from the Cape, and 558 from Adelaide. TALLOW. On the whole , o ur market has become firmer. In some instances, fine parcels of P. Y. C. on the spot, are selling at an advance of 3d per cwt. To-day, new P. Y. C. o to the spot is qu oted at 36s 91 to 375, and old 36s 34 36s 6d per cwt. Town Tallow 37s to 37s 34 per cwt. net cash; Rough Fat, 2s ld per B.bs. Last week the do liveri,s were only 2,262; the imports, 1,052 casks, chiefly from our Colonies 1848. 1849. I 1850. 1847. teck tb's day •• •• •• 'rice of Y. C. •... 17,827 45s Od to 455 3d 2,3 , ;1 58,70) 10,091 492 Gd. 34,741 47,190 52,924 64,261 42s 03 38 3 3d 378 03 to 36s 93 to Os 01 to 3 , 1 s 6,1 Ostd to37s 03 1,719 , 1,538 9,1 9 6 2,262 60,228 5';,5 6 5 , ,390 62,g 25 1,507 ; 22: 80 1,032 87,139 78, 293 93,870 90,552 Delivery last week • • Ditto from Tune 1. • • • Xrrivals last week • • Ditto from June 1 ... 4'2.; 01 4180 d 39s 6d 393 Cd 'rice of TOWIL • • • • • • ARLI3 ft(Y-STREE r ( T HIS DAY.) AN UNGRATEFUL FELLOW.—Mr. Spryng, a respect able bout and shoemaker, ct;rrying on business ay. No. 20, Little Pulteney-street, Golden-:quare, ma.ie an i.p plicaiiyu to the magistrate :or advice, under iho follow ing eircunic,tanus : Mr. Spryng gated that on Tuesday. the 9th instant , a man in his employ, by the name of Edward Palmr, was given iu charge fur having embezzled the sum of 23., be longing to him. At the examination on that day at this court sufficient evidence was gone into as to induce Mr. Hardwick to remand the prisoner till the following Friday. On that day the 131 Se was further gone into, and, at' the earnest supplication of his (prisoner's) solicitor, and in censideration of his wife and fsmily, he took a merciful view of . the matter, v,nd, with the Miigistrate's sanction , he (applicant) consented his discharge. Since that time the roan Palmer, by aay of showing his gratitude, had subjected applicant to very great annoyanu, by spreajing abroad reports that he (Palmer) had been discharged with flying colours, and that applicant had trumped up the charge out - of spite. In another instance, Palmer went to an inAltu tiou of which applicant was a member, awl got a vote of cormure passed upon him for daring to prosecute the man who had robbed him. These statements tended to injure him in the eyes of his brother tradesmen, and he thought if such false and malicious reports were not put a stop to, the man might circulate other falsehoods, and thereby injure him in his basin , es. Applicant now respectfully wished to know how he could proceed to restrain Palmer from making such statements, The MAGISTRATE said, since applicant had consented to Palmer's discharge, he bad no jurisdiction in the matter. Had applicant pressed the charge against the man, he (the magistrate) wenid mist assuredly have committed him for trial. He now,advised the applicant, if the man PAhner persisted in his present line of con duct, to go to a respectable solicitor and put the matter into his hands forthwith. LONDON, BRIGHT AION, AND SOUTH-COAST RLWAY. Traffic—Week endi n g Dee. 27, 1851 ... £8,293 16 9 Traffic —W ee k ending Dec. 28, 1850 ... 8,01.1 0 17 5 T o tal of the half - ye ar, to this date, 1851 ... 328,357 7 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1850 Week ... 30 ,1)62 18 4 Total number o Passengers— ending Dec. 27 f , 1851 ... 53,345 P £6,709 6 3 G assengers • oo ... d s ... •.. 1,58 4 10 6 Total ... £8,293 16 9 Total miles open, 1851, 173 q; ditto, 1850, 171 1 4. 1551. iondon - ........ - - ACCIDENTto a LIVERPOOL MERCHANT. Inc qu inest was held on Saturday on the body of Mr. Duncan M‘Lachlan, of the firm of Wilson and M'Lach lan, Ihip owners and ship chandlers, whose death was the result of an accident. On the evening of Christmas day, Mr. M•Lachlan had bed a number ot friends dining with him, at his residance in Upper Parliament. street, as we learn was usual sv ith him at this season of the year. Somewhere near eleven o'clock, his guest who e s, wer chiefly relatives, took their departure, and in about an hour afterwards the family retired to rest. The deceased had not been in bed more than hour before he hscl occa sion to get up, avid go into an adjoining apartment, when, unfortunately, en passing the landing at the he.“l of the Etl.irs, he missed his footing, and fell iron the top to the bottom, a distance of several yards. The facts will be best and- rstooci from the evidence which Mrs. Wlreehlau gave at the inquest. She stated that after they had been iu bed about an hour the deceased got up again, for the purpose, as she imagined, of going to the water-closet. Directly afterwards she heard a noise like a fall. She got up and celled the domestics, and on going down stairs she found the deceased lying at the bottom with his head towards the stairs and his feet out wards. r She went to him and found that he was insensi ble. Dr. Bruce, the medical adviser of the family, was promptly sent for, and in half an hour after the accident lie arrived. By this time the deceased bad recovered his consciousness, tnd said he had great pain in his legs. and the right arm, and that he had no use in his legs. On Dr. Bruce examining the deceased he found the spine severely fractured, and that deceased had also re ceived internal injuries. After lingering in great agony until eleven o'clock on Friday morning, the deceased breathed his last. Mr. M'Lachlan, who was in the prime of life, was universally esteemed. -_,._---- SUICIDE FROM ‘VATERLOO. BRIDGE.-0 0 Saturday an inquest was taken by Mr. Baker, at the Gun Tavern. Wapping, on view of the body of James Russell, aged 38, a farrier, who resided in Bond-street, Waterloo-road, who com mitted suicide from Waterloo -bridge. It appeared that the deceascd was of an excitable temper when in altercation with his companions. Last Wednesday three weeks he had some words at a public house near Bond-street, when he exclaimed, "I'll do it now." He ran out of the house, and was never after seen alive. Verdi—"ct Found drowned:' THE CONVICT SARAH ANN HILL.--A. petition to the Throne in favour of a commutation of the sentence of this wretched woman, left for execution at York, for the murder of her male infant child at Wakefield, is in course of signature. It has been prepared by the town-clerk of Wake field, at the instance of the watch committee, and will be signed by the Mayor and several other magistrates. We un derstand the circumstances of the woman have from her youth been unfavourable to the pursuit of habits of virtue. She was an illegitimate child, and was, we believe, born in one of the streets of Wakefield.— Leeds Mercury. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF A BARRISTER. -00 Saturday an inquiry was gone into by Mr. Higgs, the coroner, at the Essex Head, Essex-street, Strand, as to the death of Joseph Douglas, Esq , a barrister, residing at 4, Garden -court, Temple. It appeared that there had been great difficulty in this singular case to know which coroner was to hold the inquest. Mr. Payne had been applied to and also Mr. Bedford, but they refused to interfere, as they con sidered the Temple was out of their jurisdictioia ; and Mr. W ad e was referred to, as it might be in then ounty of Mid dlesex. At last Mr. Baker, the beadle, applito gr. Higgs, as it was considered the part was in the duchy, and he ac• cordingly appointed the inquest. The dscease,d was a member of the western circuit, and had for many years been the revising barrister at corset. On IVednesday evening he was seen to enter his chambers, and the next morning was found by his clerk lying on the floor in a pool of blood. He was then warm, and Mr. Hutchinson, of 36, Chancery-lane , was sent for, who found a long incised wound in the left temple, four inches long, and denuding the skull to the one. There bad been great licemorrhage, and he was quite dead. It seemed by other testimony that he had been pulling off his boots, when he upset the table, and he was thrown a gainst a key in the book-case, which had caused the injury. He had been heard tumbling about all night, for the purpose, no doubt, of finding the door and getting assistance. The jury returned the following special verdict " b That the de ceased, Joseph Douglas, died from loss of lood from a wound on the upper part of the left temporal artery, pro duced by having accidentally fallen against a key then in the lower part of a bookcase." 'TIE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.The electric tele graph has already been applied to many and useful pur poses. There remains yet another,.which purpose, should it be applied, would frequently be the means of preventing loss of life and property —we mean the connecting of all the me • tropolitan fire-engine establishments by electric tel of t ph, so t h a t when an alarm should be given at any one hem, an " instantaneous general turnout might be the result." [ADVERTISEMENT.] —GRATIS WITH THE DIIPATCII. —Un Sunday next, January 4, 1852, the subscribers to the Weekly Dispatch will be presented with a highly-finished coloured Chart, showing by diagrams, and at one view, the number of persons who daily, during a period of five months, visited the Crystal Palace; the amount of money received at the doors, and derived from various sources ; and other sta tistics of an interesting character. And on the following Sunday the Chart will be given to all purchasers of the Dispatch who are not regular subscribers. The Chart, which is surmounted with an engraved view of the Great Exhibition of the oftlndutry of All Nations, has been pre pared by permission the Royal Commissioners from de signs by Corporals A. Gardener and J. Mack, of the Sappers and Miners, and revised by a gentleman whose intimate ac quaintance with the management must ensure its correct ness.—Orders may be given to all newsvenders Fleet in town atreetnd country, or forwar ded to Mr. R. J. Wood, 139, . MOVEMENTS OF TRANSATLANTIC STEAM SHIPS. — LIVERPOOL, DEC. 27.—The Royal Mail steam-ship Cambria, Leitch, commander, sailed from the Mersey at noon to-day for Ralifax and Boston, with the usual Mail st rica, Shannon, commander, with advices fasts' New York to the 17th inst., may be expected to arrive in the Mersey early on Monday morning. The United States' mail steam ship Arctic, Luce, commander, with advices from New York to the 20th inst., may be expected to arrive at this port on Tuesday evening next. The screw steam-ship City of Man chester, Leitch, commander, will sail from the Mersey, for Philadelphia, on Wednesday next. THE TROOPS UNDER ORDERS FOR THE CAPE.-- The service companies of the Ist battalion Rifle Brigade, under under the command of Colonel Buller, are to eat Dover in the Mczuera, screw steamer, on the 2nd of J2ann,., for the Cape of Good Hope. Drafts from the depots d 6th, 43rd, 45th, 2nd battalion 60th, 73rd, and 74th, as and from the Ist battalions 12 th and 91 st Infantry, as well detachment from the depot of the 12th Lancers, are to em- - bark for that colony about the sam e date, on board the Bir kenhead, war steamer. These reinforcements for s ea o f all ervice at the Cape will altogether amount to about 1,200 men ranks. There is no foundation for the report that the 85th Regiment may proce ed to the Caoe. In fact, this corps is now under orders to proceed next year to Malta. OMNIBUS FARES.—A. notice has been posted inside the numerous omnibuses on the Oxford-street and Holborn line, belonging to the London Conveyance and Paddington Association Companies, requesting the public "to notice the table of fares, and pay accordingly." Thi s h as b ee n rendered necessary in consequence of the various fares for intermediate distances on that line of road, causing it to be almost im practicable for the conductors to judge correctly the exact ha - :, ~.:; aanneili itnhfeorgxnreeadtboi;;thzeticit)ai9suseanugderdseolnayallivgiihicthingbatsiocLtheequyeenhtielyle, taken place. T 11 E 1., 1 l .O ON, VEIILAND MAIL INDIA AND CHINA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) BOMBAY, DEC. 3. A new riot has taken place among the Mussulmans at Bombay, but tranquillity is now restored. The forces of Sir C. Campbell met with no oppo sition. The same is the case with the Kohat forces. The troops stationed at Mooltan had received orders to be ready for immediate service. It is reported that the reigning dynasty had 'abdi cated the throne of China, but this rumour is con sidered rather premature. Dr. Harding has been installed Bishop at Bombay. rHE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY BlonraNG. The Royal wood steam-ship America has just ar rived, with four d.:.i.yst I:ter intelligence from North Slte sail€d from New York the 17th inst., four dAys after the Humboldt, and brings . over 1,121,579 d 01143-3 in specie, and 33 pa , scrigers. ship Niagara had arrived at Ihlif4x, hf,r wav Boston. Trio 'w,- , !come to K , Js,..u , h ly.d passed the House of B AI ,I-csearAtires by a lerst,e majority. The movements of Kossuth occupied the whole of public attention. The failure of the house of Hill, Maclean, and Co. (cotton trade), New Orleans, is announced. nine Parliamentary elec..tions in Canada were fa vourable to the Government. Business in New York and other cities was mode rately good. The supply of Government stocks and securities was small, and prices for money in fair supply. The market for breadstuff was brisk, and prices had advanced slightly, in consequence of the closing of the river and canal navigation. Western Cinal flJur, 4 dolls. 37: 3 5 c. to 4 dolls. 50c., very firm. Gen pri:ne wheat, 1 doll. 8'!. to 1 doll. 10c. per 601ns. Indian corn, round yellow, 64c. to 66a. bushel.,., Indian meal, 3 dulls. 25c. to 3 dolls. 371 c. per barrel. In cotton there had been a fair amount of business doing at New York, and former quotations were steadily rrinintaint , d. f3,des at New York for the week, 42.000 bales. Prices firm, but unchanged. Freights continue unchanged. Provisions are inactive. Pork, mess, 15 to 151; prime, 141. Exchange on London, 1101 to 110 fr ; Paris, 5.13 ; Hamburgh, 361 to 361 ; Bremen, 781 to 78k. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, DEC. 27. The following had the honour of joining the Royal table last evening at the Castle :—Her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting to her Royal Highness, the Baroness de Speth, and the Rev. F. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. The Band of the Grenadier Guards was in attend ance during dinner, and played the following selec- tions : Polonaise—" Der Fackeltanz".. Meyerbeer. Duetto, from the opera " L'Ultimo Giorno di Pompeii" ... ••• Pacini. Wa!tz—" Die It e usen Walzer" Gungi. Terze.tto, " Sous votre Baniere," from the"" Propte te" •• • • Divertimento, from the opera of "I Martini" . • • • .. Donizetti. Her Majesty's, Private Band afterwards attended and performed the following : Overture—" Gustave" .. . • • Fantasia Violin The Standard Bearer," M. Swinton.. • • Priere et Imprecation Chceur D'En fants et Ciaceur General—" Le Pro ph e te" • Meyerbeer. Scene de Danse—" Lit Bayadere" Auber. The Queen and Prince Albert went to town this morning at eleven o'clock by a special train of the Great Western Railway, attended by the Marchioness of Ely (Lady in Waiting), Lieutenant-G - eneral Wt-myss (Equerry in Waiting to the Queen), Co lonel Bouverie (Equerry in Waiting to the Prince), and Lieutenant-Colonel Biddulph (Master of the Household). The Royal party returned to the Castle at ten minutes before two o'clock. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and younger members of the Royal Family, took their 113ual exercise. Meyerbeer. Auber. Swinton. DEC. 28. The Queen and Prince Albert attended an early service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The lion. end Rev. G. 'Wellesley performed the service, and administered the sacrament to her Ma jesty and his Royal Highness. The Queen and Prince took their usual morning walk. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and Ro%ta children walked in the Home-park. There was no addition to the Royal dinner party yeiiterday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived at Buck ingham Palace about 12 o'clock on Saturday, at tended by the Marchioness of Ely, Lieutenant- General I'Vernyss, Colonel Bouverie, and the Ma s t e r of the Household. Her Majesty and his Royal High ness went to Gloucester House, Piccadilly, to pay a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glouces ter. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Royal suite, afterwards returned to Windsor Castle. The Count de Flahault had an interview with Lord John Russell en Saturday at his official resi dence in D o wning-street. The Belgian Minister transacted business at the office of the Board of Trade on Saturday. His Ex cellency also transacted business at the Foreign office. Earl Granville attended at the Foreign-office on Saturday. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, FUNDAY.—We are sorry to state that the Hon. Powell Fleetwood Pellew, first lieutenant of the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, died, deeply regretted by his friends and shipmates, at Totterdale's Hotel, Portsea, on Thursday night. The Honourable Gentleman was attended in his last hours by the Rev. Dr. Woolley, of Portsmouth Dockyard. Lady Exmouth was also with him. We understand Lieut. Pellew will be buried at Hasler, with military honours. The Powerful, 84, was docked on Saturday, being taken into the dock vacated by the St. Vincent. The Raleigh, 50, is fitting for ordinary in the sea basin. The Sprightly, steamer, Master Commander G. Allen, proceeded to Sheerness on Saturday evening to bring back seamen for the Britannia. The Birkenhead will embark at Spitbead about eighty men, detachments to join the 12th and 45th regiments, on or about the 2d prom, and will imme diately after proceed to Cork for other detachments, with which she will proceed to the Cape. The Retribution is undergoing a hough caulk ing and gene ral refit; she will be re t ady or early next month. Report sends her to the Mediterranean, to accompany the Britannia to that station. The Sidon has been brought into the steam-basin to have ber engines put to rights. The Arrow, ketch, has been commissioned at Portsmouth by Lieut. Chimmo, for surveying service, to acconwany the Herald as a tender to the South Pacific, The Dee steam-treop-ship, Lieutenant West corn reandiug, arrived at SpithPad this morning from the Cape of Good Hope, S. Helena, and Ascension. She left the Cape on th e 12th of October, and has conse quently been 76 days out—rather too long to make • her mail of any interest. She touched at St. Helena on the 31st of October, and saw there the Teazer screw steam-vessel, tender to the flag ship. She left Ascension on the Bth of November, only one day after the Sidon and Retribution, and has no news to communicate from that station. The Commodore was expected on the 16th. On the passage hume she spoke on the 19th of November, in lat. 6,56 N., 23 16 W., the Dido, 18, Captain Morshead, C . 8., all well; which had spoken the French merchant vessel Paci fique, in let. 15.44 N,, 25.55 W. a ll well, and wished to be reported. `The Dee spoke, in 46.59 N., 13.13 W., the Uneba schooner, of Liverpool, which desired to be reported, having been 11 days out, and encoun tered very bad weather from the S.W. The Dee has brought home the captain of a merchant ship wrecked at Ascension while loading guano, and a few invalids. The Dee sailed home to save coal, and is in a most creditable condition as far as the ship is concerned, and all hands have been very happy and comfortable under the command of Lieutenant West. The Resistance troop-ship, Master Commander Manser Bradshaw, arrived at Spithead this morning from the Mediterranean. She left Gibraltar on the 15th inst. at 2 30 rim., and arrived off the Lizard on the 23d. 'She has invalid troops, old stores from Malta dockyard, the ordnance stores and victualling depots. Lieutenant Preston, of the 76th Regiment, is in charge of the invalids. The following are pas sengers by the Resistance :—Lieutenant Rowlands, of the 41st ; Dr. and Mrs. Robertson, of the 44th; and Assistant Surgeon Crerar, of the 76th ; 106 sol diers, about twenty-five women, and thirty children; and sixty iuvalided, seamen from the Mediterranean squadron. She sails for Woolwich to refit. When she left Gibraltar the Hogue, 60, and the Dragon J - :.sri f':; .e.-- wore 1:,-ing thi-r:=, The Chatham transport was spoken off t,lie ... Wight this morning from the West Indies , - _ M 0 N A Y EVEN kG, DECEMBER CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. On Saturday Mrs. Cowly's amusing comedy (amu sing in spite of its extravagance), The Belle's Stra tagem, was revived for the purpose of introducing to a Drury-Lane audience Miss Fitzpatrick in the cha racter of Letitia Hardy. This young lady has for three seasons been studying her profession at Sad ler's Wells, and having frequently had the pleasure of witnessing her performances at that theatre, and of marking her rapid improveme nt, we were not sur prised at the hit—the unmiste.keable and decided hit —she made on Saturday evening. Her Letitia Hardy was admirable—her pretty and expressive features, her light and graceful figure, and her fas cinating and ladylike vivacity of manner, all mark her out as the representativepar excellence ofthat line of cha racter in which Miss Foote wont to charm the play ge , ers of the days of George IV., and which, since her se cession from the stage, has' had no adequate repro tentative. Such, however, is no longer the case ; Miss Fitzpatrick is what Miss Foote was, and the Letitia liardys and Maria D.arlingtons will once more fascinate the playgoer. Mr. Anderson's Dorri court was somewhat too heavy and sententious. Mr. Cooper as Sir George Touchvvood was carotid and effective. The other character:3 were well sustained. After the comedy the Bateinen children appe.:cred in tbe Young Couple, and were quite as much at home in Daury.lane as they were .at the St. James's, indeed the size of the house and the immensity of the audience seemed to inspire them ; for, like all true gmiuses, they rose with the occasion, and their enun ciation was so beautifully clear and distinct that every word they uttered could be heard in the remotest corner of the house. It would be well if some , of our grown-up actors would imitate them, and_ strive to speak as articulately 4a do these clxildren. At the conclusion they exhibited a degree of presence of mind which would have r a:Elected no discredit on the oldest veteran. The green curtain was descending before they had spoken their tag, when little Ellen, looking at the descending c u;rtain, turned to her sister and said, " Well, shall W.J finish here?" Toe question was heard and the curt ain re ascended, and they finished as if nothing particular had occurred. Thunders of applause- and showers of bouquets followed this littla3 in cident. The juvenile portion of the audience were delighted at the performance of the Bateman children, with whom. it was evident ft:ley had a strong fellow-feeling. Not the least rapturous of the applause with which these talented childr art were greeted proceeded from that portion of the audi ence which nearest approached them in age trail size. The pantomime followed ; it has been curtailed, and went admirably, everything working smoothly and correctly. SURREY THEATRE. The Surrey has always been a popular theatre, but the crowds that besieged it on Friday Cight were such as few places of amusement in Lon( ton could boast of. Of course after this it is needless t.a say that every part of the house was crammed. Of the first piece (Shiel's tragedy of Evadne) it is unnecessary to say anything further than that from first to last it was performed amid the most deafening noises, which utterly prevented our hearing a single syllable. After. the first piece, the pantomime of harlequin Blue Cap and the King of the Golden Water, taken (as the bill informs us) from the Persian of " Hafiz Al Thun," fairly commenced. The first s cene of the abode of the fairy Trifla (Miss G. Hodgsoi I) was en tirely devoted to a ballet of fays, in which the danc ing of Mdlle. T. Cushnie elicited much we dl-merited applause. Upon the appearance of Queen Barli Shoogar, the whole scene was, admirably tr ansformed to the " City of Splendour on the shore of tl ie , Golden Waters," the colours in which were really I. teautifully blended, and with much taste and view to , dramatic effect. Mr. Sheppard, the lessee of the theatre, came for in answer to repeated calls, and bowed his acknow ledgments. Here the Emperor of Alecam pane and King of the Golden Seas (Mr. Ilszlewood) enters, accompanied by his daughter, the Princess Oaccha rine (Madlle. Annie Cushnie), and announws in the presence of a gorgeous train of sweetmeats h is inten tion of bestowing the princess upon Gri su guftin, monarch of the Ugli Isles (Mr. Bradbury). Fortu nately for the princess, and in spite of the pre se nce of Grimguftin, and his attendant Uglier, this decision is opposed by Prince Bluecap, heir apparent to the throne of Noideawbare, in th e Kingdom Knur as wry tales (Miss Harriet Gordon), who obtains per) aission to wed the princess on condition n bringima; three gifts to her father fr o m th e animal, vegetable, and on mineral kiegionis. Nothing daunted by these con ditions, the prince sets out on his travels, very well represented by a pretty, though rather brief, piano rams, which, as the bills informed us, " might have been three miles long," but w hich certainly WI )5 not. Arrived in the animal kingdom, he makes thte ac quaintance of a benignant fairy who, as her first gift, presents him with a dog, which is to guide w h ose palace is depict, his footsteps for the future. Conducted b.r this s th ag e a V eil eg u :tab lt g, be starts for the cou ri; of le imal, lin a model of the Crystal P a lace turned into a w inter garden, and where his army and court of c a,srots, turnips, pigs, potatoes, &c., isiadmirably represented by the various masks, who caused continued r(►aiss of laughter. Here Prince Blueca p receives aspad e, to enable him to reach the mineral kingdom, wlie)re he is supposed to acqui re hu g e m asses of the precious metal, and then returns to the, court of the King of the Golden Seas to claim the hand of the Prix icess. But the obdurate Grimguffin is more pertinacious than ever, and still disputes th e right of Prince Blue cap to the hand of Saccharin a , until the apparance of the Fairy Trifla in the hive of a thousand :sweets. It is almost impossible by mere description to do jus tice to this really splendid scene, which we haves never seen anything of the kind to surpass. The hou st) rose en masse in a perfect furore of admiration, and, again called Mr. Sheppard on to the stage. In this scene the transformations were effected, and the Harle quin (M. Milano), Clown (M (Mr. Bradbury), Columbine (a;'. Buck), Pa etaloon ,cllle. Annie Ci nihnie), and Sprite (Herr Deani) wer oent forth up. ma their usual mission of mischi e f an i c onfusion. In the scenes which followed se vera l snl art hits were made at the follies and vices of th e d ay hat told admirably. One in particular, labell e d t, pre curiosity for the British Museum," and whi c h toed out to b e a vote at St. A lban's not sold, elicited much a pplause. Bloomerism, Smithfield, &c., ewe in for thy share of satire, and the whole wen t di effect produced by which brought s wimmingly amid shouts of laughter until th e t enn i ) iou of the piece in the Pavilion of Shoogar C an di—a at scene the tasteful and most succe ss f u l hit. down the curtain with tremendous appla use . Tbp pantomime was a decided Cushtde was a pretty and gracef u l C o l um bia, while the Sprite a back -bone and ribs, one (Herr Deani)—who also performed the part of the dog in the opening — w a s , f or a ,person encusabered with sprites we ever had the pl easure d witnessirig.!' The whole of the performance s were o of the most supple f er before midnight. This popular and fashi ona bl e V st end resort is so ARGYLL R0055' well supported at all s easons o f i the year, that it is difficult to distinguish an ex t raor dinary from an or dinary occasion in th e num h ers d class of its fre quenters, but on Friday night th e s prit and animation of the dancers, together with the brilliant and numerous aspect of the company, told pretty Plainly here, at in a least, Christmas was being spent right merry, jovial, though, withal, a quiet mood however noisy it may have been elsewhere. Una recently it was erroneously supposed that the English people were not partial to dancing, it was un iversally conceded that it was only on the other side of the Channel that a quadrille or a cotilian codi be executed in public by amateurs with any degree of taste or credit, but the existence of the Al yll Rooms has served to destroy that delusion. 'he metropolis of England is as famous for its dancing assemblies as any other capital in Europe; indeed it may be said, almost without fear of contradiction, that the suc cess of this description of past time and amusement is more visible in London than In Paris or any other similar city, a result which i n a great measure is attributable to the decorum e rhich is always in force in our public ft embly rooms. But in addition to the excitement of the dance, we have at the Argyll the advantage of an efficient and powerful orchestra, whose performances are really admirable; and wbi'e the pleasure-seeker rests from the momentary fatigue which the waltz or the polka has called forth, he has the influence of an instru mental concert acting joyously upo n his ear. Never did M. Laurent and his able band of instrumentalists play for a happier company than that which applauded his exertions on Friday night. Bourcault, upon the cornet-a-piston, was splendid, and in the exquisite music of the new Redo wa, which is at present all the rage, he—and in fact all the other solo performers— are,perfect in,their tasks. The performance included the " Young Coup l e Polka , " the " Dew Drop "Beresfordew:and"Storm Mantlet Galop." The Quadrill e ," the "La Plus dances were all wel l arran ge d, a n d the entire manage ment reflected the greatest credit upon the tact and ability of Mr. G. F. Bryer, the affable and popular I J V o a li l e tz R"o dtho ~ director. EXHIBITIONS. BURFORD'S PANORAMAS. Mr. Burford's new panoramic view of the valley of the Tigris, *from which Mr. Layard has exhumed the architectural - remains of ancient Nineveh, had, on Friday, an unusual number of visitors. We have so recently described the pictorial excellencies and the wonderful faithfulness of this painting, that we need only remark, that a second visit has only more strongly confirmed the favourable impression we at first conceived. The other views, viz., Lucerne, the Falls of Niagara, and the City of Jerusalem, still continue to attract. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. It is curious to observe the influence which the patronage of royalty has upon everything by which it is encoursged—it is like the gentle rain and genial warmth of May upon the spring flower—by it its latent energies are developed and nourished ; this is, perhaps, strikingly exemplified in the instance to the Royal Polytechnic Institution, which has the good fortune to have recently been honoured by its foster ing influence, and already begins to put forth its ad vantages in the augmentation of subscribers and the increased number of exhibitors who daily flock to the Institution, to deposit specimens of their inven• tive genius. We heartily congratulate the directors of the Institution upon the condescention of his Royal Highness Prince Albert in thus presiding as its patron, as from Lis Royal Highness's just considera tion and appreciation of the metrits and respectability of any institution which he thus encourages, it con= fers a distinguished honour, and will add most mate rially to the permanence and improvement of this already flourishing and well-conducted establishment. COLOSSEUM. The continued popularity of this admirable place of amusement furnishes an incontestable proof that ex cellence is always well appreciated by the public. Although the stalactite caverns, the Alpine scenery and waterfalls, the gallery of sculpture, the ascending room, and the wonderful view of London, and other attractions of the Colosseum, have long ego obtained a wide-spread reputation, their visitors continua to be as numerous as ever, and the pleasure of a first visit is hardly greater than that of a fourih or a fifth. The view of Paris by night appears to hare as much popu larity as that which the view of London has so long de=servedly enjoyed; and the recent exciting scenes which its streets and squares have witnessed, have given an increased interest to its clever representation. On no previous "boxing day" has there been a greater number of visitors to the Colosseum than on FrirLy. PANORAMA OF THE ARCTIC REGIONS. Panorutnic repreJentltioDsof - the several exptii- tions which have been made in the Arctic regions during the last few years. There was also in ad dition (besides a diorama of the Great Esrttquake at Lisbon), a lecture upon female costumes, by Miss Osborne, which, although well delivered, and cleverly illustrated by life-size drawings, is but a poor imitation of Mrs. T. C. Foster's discourse on the same subject. PANORAMA OF THE NILE. This panorama has been re-opened with "grand additions," which announcement means, that the fol lowing scenes, illustrating the city of Cairo, have been added, namely, " the Gooreyen, or Great Bazaar," " the Procession of the Mahmil," and " the Ceremony of the Dosab." We need merely add that the useful and artistic labours of Messrs. Warren, Fahey, and Bonomi cannot fail, with the additional attractions we have mentioned, to continue to com mand a considerable share of the public patronage. TIIE GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION. Notwithstanding the length of time which has elapsed since the opening of the Panorama of the Overland Route to India, "time has not seared or custom changed its infinite variety." It is still as fresh and beautiful as when it first became the pioneer in the way of similar exhibitions in the metropolis, and was visited on Friday by great numbers of those who prefer induling in imaginary travels, to the more exciting inducements of theatrical representations. CYCLORAMA. The thrilling and life-like depiction of the fearful earthquake at Lisbon, which, two centuries ego, laid this famous city in ruins, continues to excite the most intense interest in its numerous visitors. HUNGERFORD HALL. The diorama at this new place of amusement con tains three views, by M. Bouton, of the overflowing of the river of the Loire, the town and valley of Fri bourg, and the Cathedral of St. Mark at Venice. The reputation of M. Bouton has been so long esta blished in connection with the marvellous pictorial representations which, for a long sories of years, have rendered the Diorama in the Regent's park one of the most deservedly attractive places of amusement in the metropolis, that we have merely to state that the pictures in this diorama are fully equal to any that have proceeded from his pencil. The change from summer to winter in the picture of Fribourg is one of the most clever and perfect illusions we have ever seen. In the evening M. Langlois exhibits his won derful sleight of hand—his surprising mechanical rope-dancer—and the Indian juggler, Djalms, in one theatre; and M. Lassange, assisted by Mademoiselle Prudence, in another theatre, the mysteries of mes merism. We trust that our holiday friends will pay a visit to this interesting place of amusement. SOIREES PAIIISIENNES ET FANTAS TIQUES. Having just returned from the land of magic, we feel in that condition peculiar to travellers, of being expected to relate most wonderful things, when, in tact, we admit our total incapability to discharge the allotted task. Why should we resort to the long list. of adjectives in all their degrees to assist us in the description of things indescribable ? Nor can we institute comparisons, like the travelled Cockney who declares that " the Pyramids were grander-like than the Thames, though not much." If a man should see a ghost he says he has seen a ghost, and that is suffi cient for his hearers, unless some prying individual ►nay demand what it was like. Hera definition ceases. So it is with Mons. Robin. We have been for some " Some there are, that by due steps aspire To lay their hands on that golden key, That opus the palace of futurity: To such my errand is ."—MILTON'a Mask of Comus. "Now hear me speak, with a prophetic spirit: For even the breath of what I mean to speak Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub Out of the path which shall directly lead Thy foot to Fortune's Temple; therefore mark !" BRAES/TIM "Have a care o' the tdain chance, And look before you ere you leap, For as you sow, you're like to reap." BuTLEa's Hudibras. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN Sllt,—A few short days, and the memorable Year Issl will have sunk upon the shores of Time. It has been an extraordinary year in many respects, particularly so in the political and soci.ll worlds. Teddington's y ear, sporting men term it, and the Exhibition year, as known to the general worn, has also wrought changes of som e note in the sporting hemisphere. There has been a general disposition on the part of the principal supporters of the Turf, one or two persons excepted, to discounte nance every attempt at chicanery; and it is also with p!ottiure that I perceive a general determination to prtriecute vigorously all attempts at frauds—for ex amp ', the ces' of the Alleyne Brothers. I am, however, sorry to perceive that several of the staunchest supporters of the turf, in Colonel Peel, the Marquis of Exeter, Lord Strathmore, the Duke of Richmond, and Sir Joseph 114wley, have, during the last twelve months, either left, or are about to retire from, the scenes of their numerous iriumphs, to be met wi;h no more, except, per haps, in the case of the Tyfield Baronet, who, I fancy, has not ahogethcr renounced the pleasures of the racecourse. suecesA on the flat rsc , s during the year has been weighed in Fortune's scale and found to be an average quality. Out of the three hundred and eighty-three races I have attempted to select the winner o!, I have been successful in one hundred and ninety-eix instances, and in those, that did not come off as I anticipated, I was in fifty-two cases very near the bull's eye, having selected the second horse as my especial choice. Thirty six times—a feat unprecedented—have I been lucky - enough to place the first and second, and in ten instances I have accomplished the still more difficult feat of placing the first, second, and third ! Since the steeplechasing season commenced, on this across country work, I have selected the winner in nine cases out of seventeen, and in the re maining eight my fancy horse ran second four times. These are my credentials for the confidence of those Rho accept me as their pilot in the stormy sea of Turf speculation. - During the past season ono of the most noticeable movements has been the vast increase of betting-list houses, many of them being of a mushroom character; this is owing in a great measure to the cleverness of the " GREAT UNPAID," who, in ordering the removal of the lists from the houses of respectable publicans, have com mitted a most notable blunder ; a man then had some chance of seeing his money again if successful, whereas in one- half of the betting-list houses the odds aro two to one, if on a great race, that the shutters aro put up simultaneously with the arrival of the telegraphic dis patch of the issue. In past years I have made a rule of publishing a list of those houses that I have considered safe; on account of the immense number now existing I shall not attempt doing so this winter; but before closing this subject I cannot help referring to a fashion amongst a set of " men of straw" that has sprung up of late, of trading under other people's names, exemplified in the case of Mr. Davis, the Leviathan, whose honourable name is an excellent shield to speculate under, and also in the prophetic world in that of " Priam," of the Racing Times, whose cognomen has been assumed by one of the " tipping gentb" well known about town, and whose advertisements, contrary to all newspaper etiquette, appear weekly in the leading sporting journal of the day. The Westbury Steeplechase, last week, was decided in exactly the manner I predicted, the General being landed a clever winner by a length; Hinton, to whoml gave the second place, running home in that position. There are many who say that if the latter had not bnngled near the close of the race he must have won. I, however, am not of that opinion. Venice, who was made such an immense " pot " of the day before the race, was exactly in the position I fancied he would be, namely, the rear; he also, it is said, would have done the deed, or been thereabouts, if ho had not blundered at his fences ; I again take a different view of the case— whether I am right or wrong the next couple of months will decide. Having disposed of all the odds and ends floating on the surface of my mind, I now turn my attention to the main subject of this note, which, at the request of nume rous readers of The Sun, I publish nearly a month earlier than is my usual plan. Seventy-two years have disappeared down the sliding scale of Time since the first time which we cannot undertake to limit sitting in his salle, at Piccadilly, but wonder has so usurped the seat of reason that we feel totally at a loss to say what Mons. Robin is like—not Mons. Robin propria persona, but Mons. Robin as professeur de physique. How can we describe the winning grace with which the mighty conjuror bor rowed a lady's ring—how he crushed it with the greatest nonchalance as a worthless bauble, to the dis may of its fair owner, and how, by the magic touch, he transferred it in its integrity with an integrity peculiar to conjurors. How can we convey the faintest idea of the mode in which Madame Robin, blindfolded, enumerated every article in the room, or how the wonderful peacock became endowed with a sence which naturalists deny to the bird. Probably the best thing we can say is pay a visit to Mons. Robin, and he will instruct you far better than we can —may be he will shower on you from an empty hat his boquets, his bijouterie, and his bonbons, and may be you will be fortunate enough to obtain one. This night there was an entire change in the performances and " more novelties," amongst which may be enumerated the appearance for the first time of the celebrated Dia volo Antonio. We feel somewhat endued with the love of mystery—a consequence of our visit, so we will not state who or what Diavolo Antonio is. Suffice it to say, that from his attitudes, his move ments, and his passes, we should regard him as human, if there could possibly be anything human in such a performance. We are glad to perceive that Mons. Robin's efforts to promote hilarity at this festive season were on this occasion crowned with the best success, evidenced in a house full of people and enjoy ment. His entertainment is one of the most amusing in the metropolis, and we can heartily recommend our readers to pay it a visit. We are sorry to detract, in the least degree, from the praise the entertainment merits, but we must protest against the charge of six • pence for a programme being demanded in this age of cheap literature. Mons. Robin is a wonderful sor cerer—cannot he convert a sixpenee into a penny ? THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.—A correspondent of a Morning Paper says—" There must be a considerable falling off in the revenue for the quarter ending the sth January as compared with former years, as far as direct taxation is con cerned, and also in the quarter ending on the sth April next, and no doubt a great deal will be made of it by the Protec tionist press. Let your readers know the reason of it. The first moiety of the repealed window-tax has heretofore come into the account of this quarter. This is all gone, except the small portion which has been left in arrear since the last half year's payment in April. The new assessment for the year's house duty, from April, 1851, to April, 1852, is not yet in operation, and not a single shilling of it will be paid in the account of the ensuing quarter, ending sth January, 1852. The delay in passing the Property and Income-tax Act in the last session has prevented the accounts being made out by a new assessment for the year at the usual time, and there will, therefore, doubtless be a considerable deficiency in the Property and Income-tax, payments into the Exchequer for the ensuing quarter. Let Reformers remember this, that they may be prepared when the quarterly and yearly account is shown on the sth January, and be at the same time ready to explain the cause of the deficiency. LORD PALMERSTON.—The Queen's Government has lost the services of an administrator, of abilities recog nised and admired by all, friend and foe alike, combining qualifications seldom united in the same man—application, industry the most patient and laborious—debating powers the most varied and the most brilliant—temper impertur bable, courage dauntless, withal forbearant, and generous in all his superiorities. Among his opponents he had no enemy. Sir Robert Peel, in the last speecu he made, which was in opposition to his policy, cordially expressed the general feel ing in the words, " We are all proud of him."—Examiner. M. GUIZOT INDICTED FOR LITERARY CONSFI RACY.—M. Briere, a publisher, on Thursday last, brought an action before the civil tribunal against M. Didier, anoth-r publisher, to obtain damages of 75,000 francs for his having published a work by M. Guizot, called" Histoire des Orignes du Gouvernement reprdsentatit in Europe" which be al leged was only a reproduction of a work by the same author, called "Essais sur l'Histoire de France," o f w hi ch he had purchased the copyright in 182 3. But the tribunal thought that the " Essais,' were only the rep ro d uct i on of i\l. Guizot's lectures as profesfor, and that the " Histoire des Origines ' was an entirely different work. It accordingly dismissed the demdnd, and condemned 11 Briere I ca the costs.— . Galignani. THE ExHIIIITION BUILDING. There are at pre sent only four policemen on duty in the entire building.. No idea can yet be f orme d of the time when the building will be so far cleared out as to admit the public, but it cannot take place, at all events, for auother reek' SPORTING NOTES. Mr. Merry's other n ag , a b c called GARIBALDI, by No. CLXIII. Mosstrooper out of Madame St. Clair, has started once, A CHRISTMAS BOX FOR THE SPORTING been beaten, and is not worth a theuzlat. WORLD. —ANALYSIS OF TUE SEVENTY- The nest lot that appears on the market list is THIRD DERBY, &e. COOPER'S; Of Newmarket, which contains Colonel Peel's nomi nations, the most important of which Seeming) Ribblesdale's b KINGSTON, by Veniso n out 0:3:f Queen fs Lord Anne, who has appearedli n p u bli c f our times, beginning nt by running third to Hobbie Nobl e f or t h e N ew Stakes Ascot; he afterwards, at Stockbridge ' ran two dead b eats with Chief Baron Nicholson f or the Triennial Stakes, beating Joe Miller (third), and three others. This per formance stamps the Chief Baron and Kingston as much on a par, but of the two I am inclined to give the pre ference to the latter for the Derby course. At New market, Kingston won the Hopeful Stakes, beating Ambrose and Flirt, not a particularly stunning perform ance; he, however, closed his two-years old career in a brilliant manner at the Newmarket Second October Meeting, by winning the Cleerwell Stakes, beating Harbinger (second), Ambrose filly, by Ratan, Elcot, St. Andrew, Cancers, and Theodire. Thin nag is a thorough specinun of the Venison stock, being very much like iiis 51r3 at all _points. lam afraid, however. that like the majority of the sons of Venison, h e is gifted with the powers of speed in a greater pro portion than these of stsyieg. Distance seems to he the only e. tkin that will stand in his way on th e D er b y d ay. He is not fancied overmuch it teems at Newmarket, but that gees for nothing, ae public opinion there is in the habit of milking some tremendous blunders. Lord Ribbleedale's b c LAPIDIST, by Touelistone out of L. ; h as : evared in public but once, at the Newmarket July Tileeting, when he ran second to the flying Bay Rosalind f or the Chesterfield Stakes. He is in good phaeratlitchulaatr c L it e as P o r f e r vllt eosin. inae and is much fancied by a is entered for the Column Stakes, which, if v i e s, as he oue;ht to do, will make him a great favourite for the Derty; at present I can say nothing more 1 , veu;',Able eheut Lend Ribblesdele's b e LIVERMERE, by Slane, out of Palmyra, and leis b c T RE N AB OB, by the Nob, out of Hester, are b ut n atueS i e f ef i tie to the ether two, but notwithstetedie g , are dolqined to play acme moderate second rate purrs on the tuff . steee. Colonel Ped's remaining n o li,i„ al ien—Lord Armes ley's ch c ORPHEUS. by Orland o tof Ile‘librae, has run twice, been twic e beaten, al; ou d zs of no me for the Derby. JOHN F.:COTT.B generally rowerful string is this time but a very icbti cr one, only boasting of two celebrities in Daniel O'Routlie anclKingfishey._ Mr. Bowes' ch C DANIEL O 'IIOIIIIX E , by Trit.h B'rd catcher, out i f Forget mf. not, was one o f to estrie.st fancies for this race. lie was one of the first fuels of 1819, having been slippc'd on the in the 9 :hof on J ly se r u e e e r s e t i h s at s yet he has been extremely uniu he has run. At DJneuster, when not quite " the thing," he ran second to Augur for the Champagne st a kes, beating Bay Rosalind and six other,. His l ust appear ance at the Newmarket Houghton Meeting w 7i iii wretched affair—he there ran fifth to Red Rind fur the Criterion Stakes. This, as I observed at the time, s eas not his true running, he being in about as good form as Newminster was on the Derby day: in other words, no form at all. lam inclined to look very favourably upon this horse's chance, and consider that he is the pick of Scott's stable, and will yet, if ho stands the preparation, convince the world that he is not to be "sneezed at. , . He is like most other horses at the present time, doin g very gentle work, looking uncommonly well, and is worth an investment at the present price. Mr. Bowes' other nomination, the ch o by Verulam, out of Wiasma, has never appeared in public, and I think if it remains in the dark that will be its proper place, being in no one respect an animal worth noting. Baron Rothschild's eh c by Phlegon, out of Marinella, has at different times been talked much about, but be yond this is not likely to make any stir in the market. Baron Rothschild's b c HYACINTH, by Bay Middleton preceding,out o f Snowdrop,whieh is i s about not a s cracks aying an animal as the one much for his chance on the Surrey hills. Mr. Cuthbert's couple have dwindled into one, his br g GLENDINNING, by Irish Birdcatcher, out of the Queen of Tyne's dam, being out of training, hi s i n t ere sts will be represented by his b c limoranzn, by Irish Bird catcher, out of the Queen of Tyne. This horse is a re markably speedy cud stout animal, so far as can be ascertained by his appearance in private, but as he was never thoroughly prepared yet, or been tried, his quali ties, as yet, cannot be set down decisively. Mr. John Scott's couple cf nc milations, eh o PIIAN. T 0.151, by Irish Birdeateher, out of Ariel, and br g Dort CARLOS, by Don John, out of Valentina, so far as the Derby is concerned, are of no account whatever. Mr. T. Ilarzison's br c THE MAJOR, by the Era, cut of Gisclle, rimy be good enough for a handicap race, but is of no earthly use in the company of Robbie Noble and Co. ( To bo continued.) THE BREEWOOD STEEPLECHASE. The field for the Breewood Steeplechase, run to morrow, I find, by my accounts from head-quarters this morning, will consiit of about eight or nine out of the twelve acceptances, the following having altcsdy arrived, or are expected here in the course of the day, v.z. : The Young-un, Columbus, Ploughboy, Barrister, Ven geance, Royal Blue, Sir Charles, and Wideawake ; Peter Simple and Venice are doubtful. VENGEANCE, if meant, in my opinion, will be the winner; the Ycung un Columbus bccond and third, Ploughboy and Bar rister in the n( xt two places. I am, Sir, yours, &c., TilE SPIRIT OF TEE TURF. Dec. 29, 1851. 166.1. DERBY Stakes at Epsom, with thirty-six tubscrilers, was won by Sir Charles Bunbury's Diomed, iu very clever style, heating a field of eight. No very great improvement, either in the number of subscribers or starters took place until 1825, when the former amounted to fifty-Fight, and Lord Jersey's Middleton, the sire of Bay Middleton, and granthire of the Flying Dutchman, ridden by Robinson, beat a field of seventeen. From this time the position of the Derby was determined; it became the first racing stake on the face of this sublunary ball, "the blue rib bon," as Disraeli has termed it, of the universal Turf. In 1827 a considerable advance in the number of sub scribers took place, they suddenly rose to eighty-nine, and fur the four successive years—Mameluke's, Cad land's, Frederick's, and Prism's—remained at that iden tical figure, From this period the number of subscribers gradually increased, until in 1842 (Attila's year) they amounted to ono hundred and eighty. However, in the two following years, they tell off considerably, and in the Merry Monarch's year (1845) had decreased to one hundred and thirty-seven, probably owing to the shaking the Ring had had two or three years before. From this time the Turf has been in as flourishing a condition as it well can be, notwithstanding the dampers that have oc casionally been thrown over it by several wretched sot , tling days, as is testified by the number of nominatious in Pyrrhus the First's, and succeeding years, standing recorded as follows: SUBS. STARTERS, 1846—Pyrrhus the First 193 ... 27 1 847—Cossack ••• •" 188 ... 32 1848—Surplice ..• ••• 215 ... 17 1849—The Flying Dutchman 237 ... 26 1850—Voitigeur ... 204 ... 24 185 i--Teddington ... 192 ... 33 This great race was established by the grandfather of the present Earl of Derby in 1780, as Sweepstakes of 50 guineas each, h f, for three yrs old, colts Bst, fillies 7st 111 b over the last mile. The conditions were altered in 1784 in respect to the weights and distance, the former to be colts Bst 31b, fillies Bst, and the latter the last mile and a half. Ia 1807 the weights were again altered to what they have remained ever since, viz., colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 21b. In 1848 the new Derby course, one mile and a half, as originally proposed, I believe, by the late Lord George Bentiuck, was finished, and Surplice, the produce of Lord George's celebrated mare Crucifix (the winner of the One and Two Thousand Guineas and Oaks Stakes) was the first to travel over it a Derby victor, and destined afterwards to be renowned as the dissolver of the Champion charm—winning both Derby and St. Leger. The levels of the new Derby course, as far as rough measurement (taken a year ago) will allow me to judge, are as fellows : Ia the first 100 yards it rises 1 foot in 18. In the next 120 yards it rises 1 foot in 16. In the next 130 yards it rises 1 foot in 17. In the next 160 yards it rises 1 foot in 18. In the next 215 yards it rises 1 foot in 40. In the next 155 yards it rises 1 foot in 25. .(Here it joins the Old course.) In the following 120 yards it rises 1 foot in 48. (Here ends the hill.) The noxt 720 yards are nearly flat, then a gradual descent of 1 foot in 75 for 280 yards; then 1 in 45 for the following 280 yards; then 1 in 52 for the next 104 yards; then nearly flat for 116 yards, and ends on a steady rise from the distance to the beginning of the stand of 1 foot in 30, and from the stand to the winning post of 1 in 22—a very severe finish. I have been in duced to give those particulars as I think they may be of service to the thoroughlaecd turkte. The Derby, of 1852, in the number of subscribers, of falls short of this year's by eleven, ono hundred and eighty-one nominations bring all that are made for :the " great go " on the Downs of Epsum next May. The favourite in the betting claims my first attention, I shalt therefore begin with the merry lot trained by SAUNDEP.S. at Iledaesford. This lot consists of the crack Masham, Saredon, and Garibaldi. Mr. Merry's ROBBIE NOBLE, by Pantaloon out of Phryne, bought some time since of Lord John Scott, for, I believe, the hitherto unprecedented sum for a two yeamold, of six thousand five hundred pounds, has ap peared in public twice. His debut was at Ascot, where he won the New Stakes in a very clever off-hand man ner, beating Grey Tommy (second), Kingston (third), and nine others, including Glenluce. His next appear ance was at the Newmarket July Meeting, where, with out the semblance of a struggle, ho beat Claverhouse (second), Livermere (third), Bullseye, an d Songster . These are his only performance s , b ut they are enough by themselves to stamp him as the best two-year-old out engaged in the Derby of nex t year. This horse is un dergoing a careful preparation e.t the hands of Sa unders of Ilednesford, and if fi rst-rate training can Derby him, and he can be kept in his present form, theaf ey of 1852 seems all but over; but there are signs odescrip tion. Should they allow hi m weak ness in the posterns, which ar e of the. longest on by tender do oug ht p f at least long treatment I think he waY bekept Guineas,l and attempt enough to do the Two Thou sa nd ni y strong in the fore-arms, the Derby. H e is ream short, rema rkabl y well laid down. He is, in and has splendid quarters t to .ntra;onrm, race-horses I have ever seen, and fi d ne ra s e to believe that he is a second would almost leaan. He is quite well a t the present Flying Dutuhrn ono of the also another Derby nag, which he dr. Merry has time, and takes gentle exerci:e diurnally. by N • h p u rchased of utwit Mr. Ewbank—a b c MASHAM,, d a m by Velocipe de, out of Sultanas. This horse may d o something in the handicap way, some time or other, but has no chance in the great spin of May next. Mr. Merry's string has two other nags, a b c SAREDON, by Verulam out of Ridotto, who has managed to win ono stake out of fivo that he has started for, and this was only accomplished by a neck; be, however, heat Trosseau, though this performance is not good enough to warrant an ;AvePtinent for the Derby. SPORTIN (11 INTELLIGLNCE. Nanny and Chief Justice ere struck out of the Metro politan Handicap. SINGLETON COURSING MEETING. DEC. 22 AND 23. The Mayor's Cup of 504 (16 dogs) wcs won by Mr. Dagger's Dangerous Weapon; Mr. Hall's Harebeil ran up for the second prize of 101. The Hornby Stakes of 30/. for the first, 61. for the second, &c, were won by Mr. Butcher's Steamer; Mr. Williams's Fly ran up. The Beaten Dog Stakes were won by Mr. Eddleiton's Wee-Wee, azd Mr. Williams's Whipcord. DEPTFORD MEETIN G. The Derby Stakes were won by Sir J. Boswell's Ter relgan and his Arthur O'Bradlev, who divided. The Cup was won by Mr. Miller's Merry Lass; Capt. Wyndbam's Whiff ran up. The Oaks Stakes were won by Mr. Longmad's Lap wing; Mr. Miller's Whipcord ran up. Tho Derby and Oaks were won by Mr. Long's Lo belia and Mr. Miller's Miracle, who divided. The Stonehenge Stakes were won by Captain Wynd ham's Banshee, and the Fisherton do la Mere Stakes by Mr. Esdaile's IBandit. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Her Majesty's stag hounds will meet on Tues. at Swakeley; Sat. Winkfield-church-11. Newcastle and Gateshead harrs., Thurs. Prudhoe-10. Morpeth harrs., Tues. Horsley Moor; Thurs. Peacock Gap-10i. Haydon lids., Wed. Dryburn Clough ; Sat. Pad pool-9. Tindale hds., Thurs. Stamfordham; Sat. Countess• park-14. Durham County lids., Wed. Findon Cottage; Fri. Pensher-10i._ Stockton and Billingham harm, Tues. Elwick; Fri. Greenabella-10f. _ Bramham Moor hds., Wed. Bishop Wood; Fri- Scarthingwell-paik ; Sat. Hook Moor-10i. Essex Union hds., Wed. Asheldam Waste; Sat. Rot tendam Common-10i. East Essex hds., Tues. Belohamp Bells; Thurs. Tip tree Windmills; Sat. High Garret-1 it Mr. Conyc:rs's hds., Wed. Byes; S at. °* High Roothing street-10i. hds., Wed. Stanford-le-Hope ; Sat. NorthSo South t h o c k El e s n s d e n Essex and Suffolk °lo§-. hds., Tues. Donyland Heath; Fri. Hadleigh Town— to!. Mr. Petro's stag-hds., Tues. Axe and Compasses, High Roding-11 I. Suffolk hds., Tues, Livermore Park; Thurs. B ra dl ey Fox; Sat. Rockley-green—lli. Mr. Lee Steere's lids., Wed. Ifold-11. Sir R. Sutton's lids., Tues. Ratcliffe; Wed. Beaurnanor Park; Thurs. Norborough-crossroad s; F r i . Barney Park; Sat. Staunton Harold Park-11. Lord Yarborough's lids., Wed. Rye-hill; Fri. Benby Lodge-11. Earl Fitaw illiam's lids., Wed. Titehmarsh; Fri. Thorn haugh-10. Mr. Hellier's lids., Tucs. Weed Enderby; Fri. Hain ton ; Sat. South Thoresby-11. Lord Henry Bentinek's lads., Tues. Potterhin - ; Wed. Fisherton Longwc,ori ; Thurs. Norton- p1 s'; Fri . Bardney; Sat. Auborn 'Village-11. _ Mn. ELIOT , T ; EL —We No d s , `WARBURTON'S ale ,,-"" are requested to state that Mew , - bum CO. have ban an t Prince," by or or c just published " Darien • -- 'l. of " The Crescent and the Eliot Warburton EA., iv g be had at all the Libraries. The Cross," Sze., which Call rw also now ready ;-1. Lard George following new works," ffi r Tap h y , by B. Disraeli, M.P., 1 vol. Bentinck, a pout ' ati;Wavels in European Turkey, Hun 2. Captain S , r in ,. ISA 2 vols., w ith valuable map and gary, and Au st 3 r : s am Slick's new comic work, l" Tracts of ri „ i ti i rktumour," 3 vols. 4. Jacob Bendixen the Jew, by illustra 2: Ame v - ifowitt, from the Danish, 3 vols. 5. The new novel, 1 c l'ffe "by the author of "Emilia Wydham." 6. " R a rensc i t Feikenburg, a tale, by the author of " Mildred Vern on ." SHEERNEss.—H.M. S. CTCLora.—We have been informed that on this vessel's getting into soundings on her voyage from the Cape, that a dispute arose among the junior officers as to her exact position. A serious fracas was the con siquence—a regular stand-up fight took place on the quarter deck, and on her coming into port here one of the officers was sent to hospital, on account of the injuries he received. Strange as it may appear, yet it is nevertheless true, that no notice was taken of, nor any inquiries instituted, by the com manding officer, into such a breach of discipline on the part of the belligerents. In a word, they were allowed to fight it out without any interference whatever. The Cyclops went on shore off the Isle of Wight on Saturday the lath, and was not got off until 2 A. 51. the next day, and subsequently again in Princes Channel. With t h ese f acts before us—the truth of which we defy any one to contradict —w e ask, were the officers who had the navigation of the sh un der their charge on these occasions, comp e t ent to discharge their duty? and if not, as we believe to be the case, from circumstances e which have come to ou r knowledge, what Wathaenrsewal ca but thereof ? This questi on we could sa tisfactor ily er , refrain doing so fro m motives of de li ca cy to t ose —Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette. b conoern , ed. CONVEYANCE er TILE INDIAN MAIL.—The Stoats convention has been concluded Courant anno unces that a be tween the Neth er l an ds and Austria for the transport of the Indian mail old Trieste. At the head on Wednesday a man was charged with begging 1 ; ca n. 71 the streets, and on searching him over 2001. in Bas t{ at d oiNicelllei On bias Penal tock ix a ''''Diallin Po n 9 aA" , WM IOAR