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commend all its wants to your favourable consideration, with a full confidence that you will meet them not only with justice but with liberality. It should be borne in mind that in this city, laid out by Washington, and consecrated by his name, is located the capital of our nation, the emblem of our Union, and the symbol of our greatnes3. Here also are situated all the public buildings necessary for the use of the Government, and all these are exempt from taxation. It should be the pride of Americans to render this place attractive to the people of the whole Republic, and convenient and safe for the transaction of the public business and the pre servation of the public records. The Government should, therefore, bear a liberal proportion of the bur dens of all necessary and useful improvements. And as nothing could contribute: more to the health, comfort, and . safety cf the city, and the security of the public buildings and records than an abundant supply of pure water,. I sespsctfully recommend that you make such provisions for obtaining the same as in your wisdom you may deem proper. BOUNDARY BETWEEN TEXAS AND MEXICO, The Act passed at your last session, making certain propositions to Texas for settling the disputed boundary between that state and the territory of New Mexico, was, immediately on its passage, transmitted by express to the Governor of Texas, to be laid by him before the General Assembly for its agreement thereto. Its receipt was duly acknowledged, but no official information has yet been received of the action of the General Assembly thereon; it may, however, be very soon expected, as, by the terms of the propositions submitted, they were to have been acted upon, on or before the first day of the present month. SLAVERY QUESTION. It was hardly to have been expected that the series of measures passed at your last session, with the view of healing the sectional differences which had sprung up from the slavery and territorial questions should at once have realized their beneficent purpose. All mutual concession, in the nature of a compromise must necessarily be unwelcome to men of extreme opinions. And though without such concessions our Constitution could not hava been formed, and cannot be permanently sustained, yet we have seen them made the subject of bitter controversy in both sections of the Republic. It required many months of discussion and deliberation to secure the concurrence of a majority of Congress in their favour. It would be strange if they had been received with immediate approbation by people and states prejudiced and hated by the exciting con troversies of their representatives. I believe those mea sures to have been required by the circumstances and condition of the country. I believe they were necessary to allay asperities and animosities that were rapidly alienating one section of the country from another, and destroying those fraternal sentiments which are the strongest supports of the constitution. They were adopted in the spirit of conciliation, and for the purpose of conciliation. I believe that a great majority of our fellow-citizens sympathise in that spirit, and that pur pose, and in the main approve, and are prepared in all respects to sustain these enactments. I cannot doubt that the American people, bound together by kindred blood and common traditions, still cherish a paramount regard for the union of their fathers; and that they are ready to rebuke any attempt to violate its integrity, to disturb the compromises on which it is based, or to resist the laws which have been enacted under its authority. The series of measures to which I have alluded are regarded by me as a settlement in principle and snb stance—a final settlement—of the dangerous and exciting subjects which they embraced. Most of these subjects, indeed, are beyond your reach, as the legislation which disposed cf them was, in its character, final and irrevo cable. It may be presumed from the opposition which they all encountered, that none of those measures was free from imperfections, but in their mutual dependence and connexion they formed a system of compromise, the most conciliatory, and best for the entire country, that could be obtained from conflicting sectional interests and opinions. For this reason I recommend your adherence to the adjustment established by those measures, until time and experience shall demonstrate the necessity of further le gislation to guard against evasion or abuse. By that adjustment we have been rescued from the wide and boundless agitation that surrounded us, and have a firm, distinct, and legal ground to rest upon. And the occasion, I trust, will justify me in exhorting my countrymen to rally upon and maintain that ground as the best, if not the only means, of restoring peace and quiet to the country, and maintaining inviolate the in tegrity of the country. CONCLUSION. And now, fellow eit'sins, I cannot bling this commu nication to a close without invoking you to join me in humble and devout thanks to the Great Ruler of nations, for the multiplied blessings which He has graciously be stowed upon us. His hand, so often visible in our pre servation, has stayed the pestilence, saved us from foreign wars and domestic disturbances, and scattered plenty throughout the land. Our liberties, religious and civil, have been maintained, the fountains of knowledge have all been kept open, and means of happiness widely spread and generally enjoyed, greater than have fallen to the lot of any other nation. And, while deeply penetrated with gratitude for the past, let us hope that His all-wise Providence will so guide oar councils, as that they shall result in giving satisfac tion to our constituents, securing the peace of the country, and addiDg new strength to the united govern ment under which we live. MILLARD FILLMORE. Wdshingtun, December 2, 1850. ZSTI.NIATE3 OF APPROPRIATION. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting estimates of additional appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1851. Joint resolution relative to the printing and distribu tion of the annual estimates,—Resolved, by thy Senate nd House of Representatives of the United States of Ameries in Congress assembled, that it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury t) cause the estimates of appropriations, which he is by law required to pre pare and submit to Congress, to be printed, and copies of the same to be delivered to the clerk of the House of Representatives in time fur distribution at the com mencement of each session; and that the clerk distribute the said estimates in the manner in which documents printed by Congress are directed to be distributed.— Approved Jan. 7, 1646. _ Treasury Department, Nov. 23, 1950. Sir,—Agreeably to the joint resolutions of Congress, of the 7th January, 1816, I have the honour to transmit, for the information of the House of Representatives, printed estimates of additional appropriations proposed to be made for the service of the fiscal year, ending the 30th June, 1851, amounting to dots. 2,575,395 64 Civil list and miscellaneous doh, 60,040 95 Army proper, &c. 614,117 03 Indian department 1 :551,327 66 Pensions To the estimates is added a statement showing— The indefinite appropriations for the service of the last three-quarters of the fiscal year, ending 30:h June, 181'1, made by former Acts of Con gross, of a permanent character, amounting to Civil list and miscellaneous, including expenses of collecting the revenue from customs~.,, Pensions 241,000 00 Interest and public debt 3,694,321 03 Purchase of stock of the loan of 1847 844,207 24 10,626,763 94 I am, very respectfully, you most obedient servant, Tiros. CouwiN, Secretary of the Treasury. Hon. Howell Cobb, Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives. Treasury Department, Nov. 23, 1830. Sir,—Agreeably to the joint resolution of Congress of the 7th of January, 1846, I have the honour to transmit, for the information of the House of Representatives, printed estimates of the appropriations proposed to be made for the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1852, amounting to dols. 33,667,489 04 Civil list, foreign inter course, and miscella neous, including pay ments to be made to Mexico, under the 12th article of the treaty, expenses of collecting tho re venue from lands, public buildings, and dots. expenses of courts... 10,334,497 35 Army proper, &c 9,009,623 80 Military Academy 142,528 00 Fortifications, ord- nance, &c. Internal improvements, surveys, &c.?,..., 1,275,778 89 Indian department Pensions Naval establishment To the estimates are added statements showing:- 1. The appropriations for the fiscal year, ending 30th J une , 1852, made by for mer Acts of Con gress, of a perms.- manent character, amounting to ...........................dole. 9,528,279 17 Civil list, and miscel laneous, s includingex pens.. n f collecting the revenue from cus toms do's. 4,558,410 04 Arming and equipping the militia Civilization of Indians lO,OOO 00 Pensions 451,000 00 Interest on public -debt 3,665,321 C 3 Purchase of steel( of the loan of 1847 Itedomption of stock is sued under Act of Aug. 9, 1846 . 340,156 96 303,391 04 2. The existing appro priations which will be required to be ex pended within the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1852, amounting to Civil list, foreign inter course, and miscella neous We learn from South Carolina that the Legislature had resolutions under discussion, declaring their determination not to elect United States' Senators to fill vacancies, and instructing Senator Butler, and the representatives of the State, not to take their seats in Congress ; also, a resolution instructing a committee to report a Bill of non-intercourse with all States that throw obstacles in the way of the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave-law ; and another, with a long preamble of grievances, declaring that, in the judgment of the Legislature, secession was the proper remedy, and that South Carolina, sooner than submit to the aggressions of the Federal Con gress, will interpose her own sovereignty to shield her citisens from future outrages and wrongs at every December 2, 1850. I hazard. The Governor of Virginia, in his message to the Legislature, says— " Virginia, and I think, all the slave-holding States, can end ought calmly, but explicitly, declare that the repeal of the Fugitive Slave-law, or any essential modi fication of it, is a mutual repeal of the Union. The faith ful execution of this law is, in my judgment, the only means now left by which the Union can be preserved with honour to ourselves and peace to the country." He also says— " That a declaration on the part (if the South will give strength and great moral weight to the Conserva tive patriots of the North, now struggling fir the con stitution and for the supremacy of the law; who are, in truth, fighting the battle of the Union. There were never more important trusts committed to the hands of any man. Their triumph is the victory of order over anarchy, of peace over bloodshed and fir.. Their defeat is the knell of the Union, for if the fanatics of the North come into the halls of Congress with power to control the action of it, a few years only will elapse before they throw away every appearance of restraint, and abolish slavery in the States—with the alternative presented to us of submitting to the action or to a dissolution of the Union. There could not be one voice of the many thou sands who would not shed their blood, surely, after the sacrifices the South has made, but would say that it is but asking little when she demands of Congress to be faithful to the pledges it has given, and of the non-slave holding States to abide by the constitution of the country and the laws made declaratory of its obligations." ♦deices from St. Domingo City to Novmber 2d, state that through the intervention of the English and Americans a treaty of peace has been concluded be tween the Dominicans and Haytiens. There had been some brisk fighting between the contending parties previous to the arrangements, but no serious losses on either side. An English man-of-war was in the port during the negotiation of the treaty. The remaining prisoners connected with the Cuban expedition have been released. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, DEC. 4. • EXCHANGE.—We have to report a large business in sterling, French and Bremen bills, but little on the other places for want of drawers; prices ranged low in the beginning, but clused firm at our highest quotations. The principal sales which have taken place were—on Londan, at 91- to 9i per cent. premium; Paris, sf. 181 c. to sf. 20c.; Antwerp, sf. 18c. to sf. 20c.; Amsterdam, 41 to 411; Hamburgh, 361 to 361; and Bremen, 79ic. to 79ic. Cotton—Since the departure of the last steamer the market has declined about one quarter of a cent, conse quent upon the unexpectedly unfavourable advises from abroad, per Europa. Since our last, there has been but little spirit exhibited in the buying, but we have no further change to note in prices. The receipts of cotton at all the shipping ports are 454,481 bales, against 501,460 to the same dates last year—a decrease this sea son of 46,979 bales. The total foreign export this year is 89,243 bales more than last, say 69,953 bales increase to Great Britain, 14,063 increase to France, 3,896 increase to the North of Europe, and 1,331 in crease to other foreign ports. The shipment from south ern to northern ports are 31,827 bales less this season than last; and there is a decrease in stock of 79,422 bales. The sales for the week ended the 30th ult. were 4,200 bales; and since, 3,ooo—as follows: Atlantic ports. Gulf ports. Inferior ..• none ... 12 c. to 12 1 c. Low to good ordinary 12 c. to 131 e.... 121-c. to 131 c. Low to good middling 13 0. to 131 c. ... 134 c, to 141 c. Middling fair to fair 14 c. to 14te. ... 14 1 le. to 15c. Fully fair to good fair 14 c. to ... 15c. to Good and fine ... none. ... none. The arrivals have been from— New Orleans ,„ ... 1,485 bales. Mobile ••• ••• ••• 504 „ Georgia „, ~„ ... 486 „ South Carolina ... ... 819 „ North Carolina ' ... ... 205 „ Virginia ... ... ... 289 9 Total import since Ist inst. 3,788 bales. Export, from Ist to 30th November -1850. 1849. Cotton ... 20,027 bales. 34,868 bales. Exports f rom the United States— Since Sept. 1, 1850 ... 283,436 bales. ~ 1849 194,193 „ Flour —The arrivals of the week past have been;heavy, but with an active home trade, and some speculative and export injuiry. The market closes firm at my quo tations, common and strait State brands selling at 4 dolls. 681 c. to 4 dolls. 75e.; mixed Western and Michigan, 4 dolls. 6840. to 4 dolls. 75c.; good Michigan. Indiana, and Ohio, 4 dolls. 75c. to 4 dolls. 87ie.• pure Genesse, to 4 dolls. 75 c . f or goo d in bond, 4 dolls. 62ic. kinds range fr om $ d o ll s af s on drdoclfolasmn. fancy y o b s n dolls. adu sd. 6 4 i s c d . 00 ; ul It C siae6nr tea.n to 5 dolls. 12ic. for Baltimore, Georgetown, Alexandria, Petersburgb, and Brandywine. Rye flour is selling at 3 dolls. 620., an d c orn meal at 3 dolls. 12ic. for J ersey, i Grain—For a week past the s t ock of w heat has been and 3 dolls. 25c. to 3 dolls. 31 4 1 c. for Brandywi ne . on the increase, and the market easier. The export trade has been entirely on Canadian in bond, at 105 c. to 1061 c. for 601bs. White Genessee sells at 118 c. to 120 c., and I Ohio red and mixed at 100 c. to 105 c. Rye is lower, v , ith sales at 75c. per 561bs. Barley has also become dull at 95c. to 100 c. per 481bs. Oats are 46c. to 47c. for North. ern. Indian corn is very quiet in the absence of export orders, the sales are for home use at 61e. to 62c. for new northern round, and 66c. for new southern flat. Old is nominal at 70c. for round yellow, and 66c. to 68c. for Western mixed. Tobacco-The market for Kentucky, owing to the ad vanced state of the season, the accounts from abroad, and the ruling high prices, though firm, has become inactive, with more disposition to sell than buy. The sales include 100 hogsheads Kentucky, at 94c. to lOic.; 50 bales Ha vannah, 45c.; 44 cases Florida, 20c. to 40c., four months; 355 bales Segue, 80 Mayaree, 31 Havannah, 275 Ba racoa, and 72 St. Jago on terms we did not learn. Be sides the above, there has been a sweeping movement in seed leaf, the whole crop of the country having been bought up on speculation by parties here and in Phila delphia, consisting of 3,000 cases Connecticut, 2,500 Pen sylvania, 2,000 Ohio, and 1,000 this state. Higher prices are of course now asked, but the market is for the time being unsettled. Manufactured remains quiet but firm. The importations for the month of November were-1,596 bales Havannah, 1,510 ditto Cuba, 516 ditto St. Domingo, 200 ditto Yara, 172 ditto Costa Rica, 1,046 cases Florida, and about 500 ditto seed leaf. The stock in the inspection warehouse on the let instant (in first and second hands) consisted of 5,460 hogsheads Kentucky, 640 Virginia and North Caro lina, 6 Ohio, and 5 Maryland; together, 6,111 hogs heads, being 406 less than on the Ist ult. The stock besides consists of 1,740 bales Cuba, 2,073 ditto Havannah, 1,491 ditto St. Domingo, 200 ditto Yara, 172 ditto Costa Rica, and 200 cases Connecticut. Total import from the Ist of January to the Ist of December, 1850, 15,099 hogsheads 23,284 bales; same time last year, 11,694 hogsheads 17,490 bales. Iron-We have to report sales of a few small lots Scotch pig at 19 dolls. 75c. cash, and 20 dolls. 75c. six months. Freights-To London the packets took 1,950 barrels flour at ls. 6d.; 100 barrels pork at 25.; and turpentine and resin on private terms. To Liverpool, we notice engagements of 26,000 bushels corn at 3.id.• ' 35,000 wheat, 34d. to 4d.; 17,000 barrels flour, 10id. to Is. 1,000 kegs lard and 4,000 boxes cheese, 155.; 200 casks ashes, on private terms; 100 chests tea, 40s. measurement; cotton, ; and by the Atlantic, bacon, 205.; cheese, 455.; and beef, 2s. 63. per tierce. To Havre, the packet Bth inst. has cotton and whale bone at of a cent; rice and bark, 8 dolls.; and ashes, 6 dolls. to 8 dolls.; the Franklin has a full cargo at cent. for cotton; rice, 7 dolls.; measurement goods, 12 dolls.; and 200,000 to 300,000 dolls. specie, at of 1 per cent. To California there is again more offering, and clippers obtain 1 doll. to 1 doll. 500. per foot; and ordinary vessels 50c. to 75c.; the ship Switzerland, late London packet, 14 years old, 557 tons, has been bought for the Pacific trade at 18,000 dolls.; and the barque Isabelita Hyne, two or three years old, 300 tons, built in Philadelphia for the California business, at 20,000 dolls. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 30. The sales of cotton yesterday were 1,000 bales, and after the receipt of the Europa's news an advance of ie. to jc. took place, middling being quoted 134 c. to 13c. The sales of this week have been 26,000 bales. Sugar has declined an eighth. Army proper, &c....... 1,135,000 00 Fortifications, ordnance &c. Internal improvement, 8,051,458 34 surveys, Sie 55,000 00 Indian department 872,072 76 Naval establishment 2,047,774 09 - d 015.48,124,993 18 3. There is also added to the estimates a statement of the se veral appropriations, which will be carried to the surplus fund, amounting to dols. 738,249 31 Accompanying the estimates are sundry papers fur nished by the Treasury, Interior, War, and Navy De partments, containing references to Acts of Congress, &c., on which the estimates are founded. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, THo. CORWIN, Secretary of the Treasury. Hon. HOWELL Cone, Speaker of the House of Representatives. TREASURER'S STATEMENT, Showing the amount at his credit in the Treasury, with assistant treasurers and designated depositaries, and in the mint and branches, by returns received to Monday, 25th November, 1850, the amount for which drafts have been issued but were then unpaid, and the amount then remaining subject to draft. Showing also the amount of future transfers to and from depositaries, as ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury. Drafts here tofore drawn, Amount Amount on but not yet subject In what place. deposits. paid, though to draft. payable. Dls. Cts. Dls. Cts. Dis. Cts. U. S. Treasury, Wash. 137,935 43 9,985 38 127,950 05 Assist. Treasurers. Boston, Mass... • ... • • 2,518,660 13 58,695 59 2,459,964 54 New York .......... 3,857,644 21 409,102 09 3,443,548 12 Philadelphia, Penn, .. 384,373 44 17,759 26 366,614 18 Charleston, S. C. .. - 248,161 80 41,916 35 206,245 44 Now Orleans, La. ...• 470,189 33 382,876 54 87,312 79 St. Louis, Missouri .. 543,933 05 265,129 28 278,803 77 Depositaries. Buffalo, New York .. 6,648 45 83 35 41,565 10 Raltimore, Md..... - 44,537 40 22,293 84 22,243 56 Richmond, Va... •• • . 8,533 76 5,441 17 2,092 59 Norfolk, Va. • • • • .. • • 8,603 21 13 90 8,589 31 Wilmington, N. C. • • 1,699 99 1,420 08 279 91 Savannah, Ga. .... . 42,301 16 12,085 60 30,215 56 Mobile, Ala ......... 56,293 22 14,461 73 41,651 49 Nashville, Tenn. • • . • 9,211 22 2,101 37 7,139 85 Cincinnati, Ohio .... 36,973 77 1,496 54 35,477 23 Pittsburgh, Pa•.. • • • • 397 44 51 81 285 61 Cincinnati, Collins... 3,301 37 32 00 3,259 37 Little Rock, Ark. .. 26,085 13 24,774 86 310 27 Jeffersonville, Ind... 44,479 21 6,581 81 37,99 40 Chicago, Illinois .... 34,852 15 2,315 00 32,537 15 Detroit, Mich .... . 36,872 62 28,075 82 8,796 80 Tallahasse, Fa.... :.. 4,507 51 774 68 3,734 83 Snap. ace. 1,504 74 1,504 74 U. S. Mint, rhilad• • 4,841,150 00 - 4,841,150 00 Branch Mints. Charlotte, N. C. • • .. 32,000 00 - 32,000 00 Dahionega, Ga. .... • 26,850 00 - 26,850 00 New Orleans, La. .. 850,000 00 230,300 00 620,000 00 1,504 74 14,27b,167 00 1,539,152 82 12,737,516 92 Deduct suspense account . „ . .... 1,504 74 12,736,012 IS Ada difference in transfers ........................ 1,200,000 00 Nett amount subject to draft•• •• .. •• .... • . Transfers ordered to Assistant Treasurer, New York 750,000 00 Transfers ordered to Assistant Treasurer, New Or leans, La. • • . . 1,500,000 00 Transfers ordered from Assistant Treasurer, Boston, Mass ••:..• • .. • • ..... ..... .• • ...... 50,000 00 Transfers ordered from Assistant Treasurer, New Treasurer's Office, Nov. 27, 1850. The President's Message had given general satis faction. There are news from Jamaica to the 14th ult. by this arrival, but they merely state in general terms that the ravages of cholera continued to be appalling. In the Senate Mr. Benton had given notice of several Bills granting lands to construct a railroad from St. Louis to San Francisco. Relative to the prospects of the session the _Herald remarks— " We are happy to learn from the capital that the best feelings prevail among the Members of both Houses, and that according to present appearances there is no danger of a renewal of the exciting scenes which characterised the last session. This can be accounted for by the fact that during the recess the members of both Houses have had an opportunity of consulting with their constituents, and informing themselves of the sen timents of the mass of the people throughout the whole country. They have discovered that they are pleased with the adjustment made at the last session, and opposed to further agitation. We reminded them frequently during the last session that in not coming to a conclu sion on the exciting subjects which engaged their at tention they were acting counter to the wishes of those who elevated them to office. They may have discovered that such was the case, and that while a storm raged in Washington the rest of the country was comparatively calm." THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1850. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ATROCIOUS MURDER OF A PRIZE CREW ON THE COAST 07 AFRICA.—We have received the following from a private correspondent:—" A letter has been re ceived from the Phcenix screw sloop, Commander Wode house, on the coast, acquainting an old man in Hamp shire with the death of his son, under the following cir cumstances:—About six weeks previous to the 3d of October (the date of the letter) a boat, belonging to the Phconix, captured a small craft, with forty slaves on board, in the river Congo. The gunner and three men (one of whom was the old man's son) were put on board to take the slaver to the Phoenix. then lying of the mouth of the river. On the same night the slaver's crew rose on them, killed them all and threw them into the river, the vessel then making her escape. The account does not say how many of the slaver's crew were left on board, or whether their arms had been taken away, or whether the four men were properly armed. THE COMPTROLLERSHIP 07 TIE VICTUALLING DR PARTMENT.—We believe that the appointment of Mr. Grant to succeed Mr. Meek as comptroller of the vic tualling and transport departments at Somerset House has been formally made. Mr. Meek, who now retires from this post, has been 53 years in active service, at home and abroad, and on quitting the onerous duties of his responsible situation we are quite sure he will enjoy, with a liberal superanuation, the high personal esteem of those (superior and subordinate) with whom he has been for so many years associated in the public service. In repeating our hope that with a new comptroller, a gentleman who has distinguished himself in numerous ways by various inventions and improvements in the victualling department, this branch of the service will undergo revision and reform, we by no means desired to cast the slightest personal reflection on the late comp troller. It is reported that Mr. Laws, chief clerk at Devon port, will succeed Mr. Pinhorn at Woolwich. MELANCROLY ACQIDENT AT DETONPORT.—During the last few days this port has been visited by a succes sion of violent gales, accompanied by thunder and lightning, and we regret to state that on Monday after noon, while a shore boat belonging to a man of the name of Bartlett, with seven passengers, chiefly women, was attempting to leave Mutton COW', fur the purpose of proceeding to her Majesty's ship Albion in the Sound, she—owing to some bad management, and the confusion that naturally prevailed during the act of making sail— capsirpd, and although within a few yards of the shore, the steersman, a sailor belonging to the ship, was unfor tunately drowned. The females (among whom was this man's wife) were fortunately saved. The weather has been so tempestuous that any communication with the men-of-war in the Sound and Barnpool, consisting of her Majesty's ships Albion, Indefatigable, and Bellerophon, has been attended with considerable danger. DESTINATION OF THE LOCUST STEM[-VESSEL.—We are enabled to confirm our previous announcement that the Locust steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Curtis, fitted out at Woolwich, is ordered to proceed to the south-east coast of America station, to be under the command-in-chief of Rear-Admiral Reynolds, C.B. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Phaeton, 50, Captain G. Elliot, remains at Spithead weather-bound, together with the Hogue, 60, Captain Macdougall. This morning as a boat was going off to one of these ships a squall capsized her when off the Platform bat tery and immersed those on board for some time. Their dangerous condition was fortunately descried in time by the crew of a cutter working out, which towed a num ber of boats to her assistanee, whereby the drowning men were succoured. An official trial was made yesterday in the presene• of the Commander-in-Chief and a party of other officers of the efficacy of Lieutenant Seccombe's plan for laying out cables from boats. Captain Sir Henry Blackwood, of the Vengeance, 84, was the umpire. The trial was a very successful one, and exhibited the capabilities of the invention most amply; indeed, it was declared so simple that one man could with ease check or veer link by link. Her Majesty's steam-yachts Fairy end Elfin and the steam-vessels Urgent and Echo have been removed from the steam-basin to-day. The Amphitrite, 24, will be removed from the dock, and taken into the ship-basin to-morrow. THE IMUADRON OF EVOLUTION. Lisbon, Dec. 9. Most of the ships are refitting and setting up their rigging. Tho ships' companies have had leave granted them. The Encounter arrived on Sunday last with bread and other stores from Gibraltar. She was ordered to supply the Leander with as much bread as she could stow, and the result is that she carries in its proper place three weeks' consumption more than the Arethusa; this ship stows more than the Phaeton. The Retribu tion is daily expected. It is intended the marines of the squadron and field-pieces shall land for exercise [this week should the weather permit. In Port—Prince Regent, Leander, Arethuss, Arro gant, Dauntless, and Encounter. French steamer Oaf ferelli. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, DEC. 17.—Lieutenant James IL Veitch (1847), recently serving in the Inconstant, 36, t , ) the Penguin, 6, at Devonport. Surgeon James Vaughan (1841), to the Amphitrite, 24, at Portsmouth. Mr. Joseph Tinhorn, store-receiver at Woolwich Dockyard, is appointed storekeeper at-the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard at Portsmouth, in the room of Mr. Thomas T. Grant, appointed Controller for the depart ment of Victualling and Transport services at Somerset house. Mr. Pinhorn's present salary as store-receiver is 1501. per annum, with residence in the dockyard, and his salary as storekeeper at the Royal Clarence Dock yard will be 4501. per annum, with a residence there. Tho Princess Alice Dover mail steam-packet was taken out of the basin today, and as soon as the ship wrights have done with her she will return to Dover to resume her duties on that station. The Garland Dover mail-packet, Lieutenant-Com mander Wylde, was taken out of the dock to-day, hav ing had her defects made good. She was expected to leave to•morrow again for Dover, but that is now doubt ful, as they are making a new wrought-iron frame-head for her engines at the factory, and she may be detained to have it put on board. •ONVICTS FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA. The Mermaid, Mr. Alexander Kilroy, surgeon-super intendent, and Mr. J. P. Anderson, master, has arrived at the moorings opposite the Royal Arsenal, to take on board male convicts for Western Australia, and will call at Cowes on her passage out—it is supposed, to take juveniles from Parkhurst Prison for the same destina tion, where they will have free tickets granted to them. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—CHAMPIONSHIP OF ENGLAND. —Bell's Life in London, Dec. 22.—Fu1l particulars of the contest b::tween the Tipton Slasher and Paddock, and all the sporting features of the season. Price of Bell's Life, six pence. Office. 170, Strand. Average sale of Bell's L's exceeds 29,000. DEPARTURE or FEMALE EMlGRANTS.—Yes t erday 46 young females, whose ages varied from 16 to 26, left the Emigrants' Home, in Hatton-garden, where they had been domiciled for some weeks past, since their selection from a great number of females who had presented themselves as candidates for emigration to the committee of the " Female Emigration Fund," for which object, it will be in the recol• lection of our readers, public subscriptions were a few months since (on the plan suggested by the Hon. Sidney Hubert, M.P.) raised to a considerable amount. The number above alluded to were embarked on board the Gentoo, lying in the basin of the London Docks, which will immediately sail for the Cape of Good Hope, where the committee have made every arrangement for their favourable reception on their arrival. MIDLAND UNION RAILwAy.--Creditors have been called in to prove debts under this estate, the liabilities of which aro alleged to gulotu2t to 60,0444 *ea , I,llq*Yfifii irt` .4 - t* 6 ,ra✓ . j..? x+'•`-74;3 • EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) , (Sittings at Nisi Prius at Westminster, before the Loup CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.) GRAPES V. ➢UNNEY. This action was brought against the defendant to re cover compensation in damages for an alleged libel, pub lished in the John Bull newspaper, of which the defen dant was the proprietor. The defendant pleaded justification. Mr. Keating and Mr. Barstow appeared for the plain tiff, and Sir F. Thesiger and Mr. M. Smith for the defendant. From the statement of Mr. BEATING, . it appeared that the plaintiff, Robert Grapes, who was a person in humble circumstances, held the situation of a sub-sorter in the General Post-office, in 1647, when there was a loud outcry made by the subordinates of that establish ment against their being employed, without any addi tional remuneration, in collecting information for the "London Post-office Directory," which belonged to Mr. Kelly, who was the inspector of the letter-carriers. The plaintiff took an active part in bringing the alleged grievance before the public, and he was one of the par ties who supplied Mr. Thomas Duncombe, the Hon. Member for Finsbury, with information to enable him to bring it under the attention of Parliament. In con sequence of that Hon. Member's interference, an investi gation was made into the subject, which resulted in the practice of employing letter-carriers on Mr. Kelly's pub lication being discontinued. It appeared, further, that a sub-sorter named Thacker, who,:in conjunction with the defendant, had made representations to Mr. Duncombe, was taken into custody on a charge of stealing letters, and ultimately transported. Before his trial it seemed that a conversation took place at a public-house be tween several employgs of the Post-office on the subject of the charge, in the course of which the plaintiff ob served to some who had been summoned as witnesses, " say as little as you can, but whatever you say let it be the truth, and stick to it." This was construed by one or two who were present into an attempt to tamper with the witnesses, and the matter having come to the knowledge of the plaintiff's superiors, he was discharged from the Post-office. A short time afterwards, viz., on the 24th July, 1847, the J o hn Bull pub lished a leader, attacking Mr. Duncombe, in which the following passage occurs :—"A worthy associate of Abraham's (meaning Thacker) is fish ing up dirty matters for Mr. Duncombe, of the vinous name of Grapes—Robert Grapes has since been dismissed from the Post-office for endeavouring to tamper with the witnesses by whose evidence Thacker's guilt was proved. ' I have received a gr( at deal of in formation from Grapes,' quoth the Hon. Member for Finsbury, (information, wo opine is, not the only thing he has received from Grapes), and, therefore'—oh, of course, therefore—' this charge of tampering has been trumped up, and poor Grapes has been plucked before he was ripe.' " The article then goes on to say, "meanwhile we hope he (Mr. Duncombe) will behave generously to poor Grapes, and squeeze him into a good place of some sort or other, since it is most manifest he has lost the one he had in consequence of doing his (Mr. Duncombe's) dirty—no, we mean snow white work. Abraham in the hulks, and Grapes pining, perhaps, in a back garret upon nothing a day, and find ing himself." This was the libel complained of. Witnesses were called, who proved the main circum stances detailed above. Sir F. THESIGER, on the part of the defendant, con tended that the article did not admit of the interpretation which had been put upon it, and that the plaintiff's counsel had distorted the real meaning of the words; but even supposing the words admitted of the construction contended for, that they were fully justified by the cir cumstances, as he should be ab'e distinctly to prove the attempt of the plaintiff to tamper with the witnesses against Thacker. — The Marquis of Clanricarde was called, and deposed that the plaintiff was brought before him on a charge of tampering with witnesses, and after hearing the facts of the case he thought he was justified in dismissing him from tho service of the Post-office. Col. Maberly and Mr. Peacrck, the solicitor for the Post-office, corroborated the statement of his Lordship as to what transpired at the examination of the plaintiff. Other witnesses were examined as to the conversation which passed at the public house, and they stated that the plaintiff requested them not to say all they knew against Thacker. Mr. KEATING having replied, The CHIEF BARON summed up, and The jury returned a verdict for the defendant. The case occupied the whole day. GERMAN Y. The official Wien**. Zeitung publishes the follow ing general order : The army has, within the shortest space of time, fully answered to all the troubles and demands of mar tial preparations; for this I have to thank its excellent spirit, devoti, n, and discipline. A large part of that army, viz., the 4th battalions, and the militia and frontier battalions, will now return to their domestice hearths. My grateful remembrance will accompany them, and I trust that though far from their glorious standards, they will, by setting an example of obedience to the laws, maintain and promote public order, and that, on the first call of my voice they will again stand forward armed and eager for the c3mbat. " FRANCIS JOSEPH. "Vienna, Dec. 12." • The same number of the Wiener Zeituug publishes the Emperor's letter to Marshal Radetzky, informing that General that permission has been granted to him to return to Lombardy. The Emperor's letter is to the following purpose : " My dear Field-Marshal Count Radetzky,— " At the first intimation of my wish you hastened to give ma the support of your experience and counsels, and again to draw your gallant sword at the head of the army which under your command has been ac customed to victory. Providence has willed it other wise, and although your advice only was wanted, I am not the less grateful fur this fresh proof of your devotion. I will not henceforward withdraw you from the impor tant duties of your post, and I leave you fully to dove lope the blessings cf the peace you conquered, in the Crown-land which has been entrusted to your guidance. If circumstances should again require it, I am justified in relying on you as the gallant champion of the honour of my crown. " FRANCIS JOSEPH." " Vienna, Dec. 12." STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The favourable indica tions which we noticed in our markets at the close of last week have become further developed to-day, and in a degree which is very satisfactory for the middle of December. There is a marked increase of firmness, even in yarns strictly adapted for Germany, which the producers will not sell on terms they would mostly have accepted last week; and the merchants, who have improved advices from the other side, are more inclined to p urc h ase th an t h ey were, though still acting with great caubion and within narr o w limits. India counts and qualities are in quired after, and very scarce. F or th e M e dit erranean and the Levant, there is a fair demand. But the home consumers are the most active purchasers ; and the business of the day with them is considerable. In general yarns may be considered id. to id. higher than they were last week . In goods, th e r e i s a s t ea d y trade; some descriptions going off readily, with a hardening tendency in prices, and all are at least firm. The quotations for 40-inch shirtings, which are mostly engaged, show an advance of lid, t o 3d. per piece. The market is remarkably bare of stock, both in yarns and goods ; and a tone of confidence pre vails throughout. IlocunALE, MONDAY.—We have had a rather better demand for kerseys and coarse goods, but there has been less business doing in flannels. There has been rather more activity in the wool market, with little or no variation from the prices of the preceding week. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDA Y.—We are h appy t o b e able to report a better feeling amongst the manufac turers than has been apparent for som e ti me past. Preparations are making with more spirit for the spring trade, and the weavers are feeling the benefit of more work being given out at the warehouses. The dyers in many instances are full of orders. There is decidedly more inquiry for thrown silks ; some large parcels have disappeared from the market during the past week. We think whenold sto c k s are worked off prices must advance in this article, as raw silks maintain their firm position; and a con s id era bl e business has been transacted during the past week, at very full prices. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have a good trade doing in the Cloth-hall to , day amongst the lower class of fancys ; indeed, anything new in design in the low qualities meets with ready purchasers, and the manufacturers are generally working to order, so that stocks keep very low for the time of the year. There has been a decided improvement in the wool market during the week : as it is expected it will rise still higher in price, the manufacturers seem to be taking advantage of the present prices. HALIFAIL, SATURDAY.--More goods have changed hands in our Piece Hall to-day than for some weeks past, but the manufacturers have had to accept re duced prices. The yarn trade is still at a stand, as regards the demand for export ; but the present low prices have led to more activity in the demand for home consumption. The wool market is more ani• mated, and the quotations have advanced. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—We have had a dull market at the Cloth-hall since our last report; but there have been some orders given out by the shipping houQes, and the manufacturers are pretty well employed. Prices are looking up a little, and, considering the season of the year, stocks are light. Reading Gaol is so full that the visiting justices have issued directions to the clerks of the several petty ses sional divisions throughout the county that all prisoners for trial are to be committed to Abingdon Gaol. The Cheltenham Looker-on announces that a mili tary steeple-chase, by the officers of the 16th (Queen's) Lancers, has been arranged to come off in the neighbour hood of Cheltenham, on Friday, the 27th instant. None but officers of the regiment are to be allowed to ride, and these only their own horses. The chase will take place in Prestbury Park, and it is expected that eight or ten horses will start. THE ISTHMUS OF CENTRAL AMERICA. ThQ spartrn.snt‘ of the Royal G.ovraohiesl SoeiPfy were un Monday evening Litt, 0g.L.0 civadtu kriill iii. audience eager to listen to the discussion on Captain Fitzroy's interesting paper on the Isthmus of Central America. The American and Prussian Ministers, the Hon. Abbott Lawrence, and the Chevalier Bunsen were elected Fellows of the society, and his Royal Highness Prince Carl Ludwig Eugene, of Sweden and Norway, was elected an honorary member. Lieutenant-Colonel LLOYD believed that Captain Fitzroy had disposed of the Tehuantepec and Nicara gua lines, and he for one could say nothing in their favour. The interests of this country were, how ever, strongly and naturally directed towards the Panama line, and opposed to those of the United States of America, whose policy was to ob tain the most direct communication with California. He disagreed from the author of the paper in his statement respecting the want of water in Panama, as in the last Admiralty survey which he held in his hand, at a mile and a-half's dis tance from the very gates of the city he found there were four fathoms of water, at one mile's distance three fathoms, and two fathoms within three quer ters of a mile. Besides this, there were secure places of anchorage for the largest ships among the adjacent islands; and at Toboga, particularly, there were eight to ten fathoms. With such a tran quil sea, and the advantage of a tide ebbing and flowing 22 feet or more, where could a better site be chosen for a great canal ? His friend (Cap tain Fitzroy), who was not the man to be frightened at the imaginary dangers of Navy Bay or the Bay of Manzanilla, during his circumnavigations of the globe, was not wont to be so fastidious in the choice of a port as now, when examining at a distance such anchorages as Navy Bay or the Bay of Manzanilla. The small bay of Chagres, too, would afford shelter to steamers draw ing 12 feet of water, while the river up to the Rio Tri nidad was all that could be wished for. The Isthmus abounded in every material necessary for the con struction of a ship canal, excepting metals•—lime stone of several varieties, claystone, flint, ironstone, &c. The timber was, perhaps, unequalled in its variety and quality. Even in 1822 the population of the Isthmus was more than 100,000 ; and in one canton (Los Santos—a fair sample of Panama) there were 21,000 inhabitants, occupying 4,956 houses, and possessing 39,721 head of cattle, 9,000 horses, with an abundant supply of fish, poultry, grain, and vegetables. When he looked at the map of that wonderful country, and considered the advantages offered to mankind by a water communication, the formation of which would be attended by perhaps fewer difficulties than the construction of the Caledonian Canal, he did feel astonishment that up to the present moment so little had been effected. A nation which had so long taken the lead in great enterprises should not be eclipsed upon the greatest, and he urged upon the Royal Geographical Society the propriety of taking up this subject with earnestness and vigour. Mr. E. HOPKINS concurred with the observations of Captain Fitzroy on the Tehuantepec and Nicaragua lines, but was convinced that many of the objections to these might be made against the Atrato route. The Panama Isthmus was not only the narrowest, but also the lowest land dividing the two oceans. It was true that no good ports existed either at Chagres or at Panama ; but, notwithstanding this objection, such were the facilities for quick transit, that passen• gers, specie, and light goods passed this way in prefer ence to any other route. A good substantial road from Gorgona to Panama, and the removal or deepen ing of the bar at the mouth of the Chagres, would be the first steps necessary. In due time, and with in creased means, a strait could be made through the narrow baud which divides the river Chagres from the river Grande. A strait required no locks, masonry, nor ports at the mouth. Deepened by the tidal currents of the ocean, assisted by mechanical means, vessels would pass through with the ebb or flow of the Pacific tides. He remembered while in the country that canoes had been dragged from the head of the Atrato to the river San Juan, but canoes had also been drawn over many other passes in the Isthmus of Darien. Mr. Hopkins finished by alluding to the neck of land situated between the Bogana and the Gulf of San Bias, the latter being well adapted for shipping, the former a magnificent stream, and having a very low pass in the intervening ridge well worthy of consideration. Mr. MAOQUEEN'S observations were made in so low a tone that it was exceedingly difficult to follow them. He compared the various lines suggested, and referred to his own summary on the Isthmus of Central America, published in 1838, as corroborated in some essential points by Captain Fitzroy. Mr. FYLER inquired of the author what depth of water there was at the mouth of the lltrato, and like wise further up its course ? how he would deepen the mouth of the river ? and what depth of water was found in the Naipi? From the replies to which questions, Mr. Fyler inferred that the Atrato route had been recommended upon insufficient grounds. He then advocated the Sapoa and San Carlos lines, in support of which he quoted the survey by Mr. 02rsted, of Copenhagen. Mr. TRELAWNY SAUNDERS expressed great Wis. faction at the interest taken by the society in this great question, and trusted that a practical result would ensue. Captain MooßsoM, R.E., expressed the opinion of the illustrious Von Humboldt, with whom he had lately discussed this important question during nearly three hours at Sans Souci, read ex tracts from the reports just received from the Swedish engineer Greiff, in favour of the facilities offered by the Atrato and one of its mouths (the Coquito) to navigation, and quoted the testimony of Li e utenant Wood, R N., a Government surveyor, lately on the spot. After a most careful examination, he (Captain Moorsom) could not but agree with the opinion of Von Humboldt, " that this district comprised within the 6th and 9th parallel of north latitude, or between Capica Bay and the Gulf of San Miguel, was the most fit for the construction of a ship canal." Dr. CULLEN (who had traversed a large portion of the Isthmus) indicated the part of the Isthmus about San Miguel Gulf,—between it and Caledonia Bay, as most advisable for railway or canal operations, and asserted the ample harbourage of Darien and San Miguel. Mr. O'Goamaes referred to Moro's survey of Te huantepec and its vicinity, which he advocated as one of general rather than local interest,—speaking of the vast and increasing trade of the Mississippi Valley when compared to our own interests in the question. " What is a port ?" asked Mr. O'Gorman ; "is not a river with a sufficient depth of water a port ?" Captain FITZROY said, previously to the attempt to draw up a summary of opinions on the great geogra phical question—which be had done at the request of the secretary, and not from any personal interest— he had, of course, studied everything accessible in London. Among these the survey by Morn, executed under the patronage of Garay, had not been overlooked ; and it was from that very survey that he had formed his opinion adverse to the route by Tehuantepec, not only on ac count of its length and the want of good ports, but also because the summit level being nearly 700 feet above the level of the sea. By a good harbour, Cap tain Fitzroy meant a place on which a number of ships could remain in security, well sheltered in all weathers, and not merely an anchorage or road stead. Ships could not sail into a canal di rect from the open sea. There must be a place in which the necessary preparations shall take place to land passengers, or (if a railway) to discharge cargo, if not, indeed, to take a regular turn of admission. The conditions of this problem appears to be, "Given two ports as near each other as may be, to find the best line between them." Good ports are indispensable. The Atrato line was recom mended for a canal as offering fewer obstacles under existing circumstances than any other, as far as pre sent information goes. The waggon-road from Portobello to Panama is recommended by the British Consul, and also by the Crown Surveyor of Jamaica, after personal investigation made recently. Captain Fitzroy concluded by mentioning that a list of the authorities upon whom he had founded his summary, was attached to his paper. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK (From the Report of the Registrar-General.) The mortality of London, which in the last week of November declined to 861 deaths, and in the sub sequent week rose to 1,004, now exhibits a further increase of considerable amount. The deaths regis tered in the week ending last Saturday were 1,090-.. a number which is greater than that of any cor responding week of the ten years )640-9, with four exceptions—namely, in 1844, when a week of unusually low temperature (the mean not exceed ing 28 deg.), was fatal to 1,201 persons; in 1846, when the deaths were 1,163, that week being also marked by low temperature; in 1847, when the deaths rose to 2,416, at that time influenza being epidemic ; and in 1848, when they were 1,130, fever then prevailing to some extent, and cholera having appeared. Last week has carried off an unusual number of aged persons (those of 60 years and up wards) ; and the increase over the previous return is principally caused by bronchitis and pneumonic, or inflammation of the lungs. In the last three weeks the increase of bronchitis appears from the numbers returned as follows, 64, 88, 114 ; that of pneumonia is shown by 67, 86, 113, while the mortality from phthisis in the same periods has been more uniform—namely 96, 113, and 116 deaths. The greater activity of smallpox lately has been noticed ; in the present return it numbers '24 fatal cases (nearly the same as , in the preceding), of which four occurred. to persons above 20 years of age. Liss,on-grove, in Marylebone, is still distinguished by its ravages ; five additional cases. (all exceptomi being, described as " variola, natural") were registeredin the week. With reference to a case in St. Clement Danes, the registrar remarks, that " the father of the de- ceased objects to vaccination, but can offer no reason for 11;4 opiricr," nn€l. rep Arts from other o;stricts nrov , that the pegak. here rehirred to is singular prejudice. Other important epidemics are measles, which numbers 20 cases; scarlatinn, 29; hooping cough, 42 ; croup, 12 ; and typhus, 37. From diar rhoea there were only 10 deaths ; two caused by cho lera, and recorded thus—ln St. Giles, at 13, Clark's buildings, on the 6th of December, the daughter of a costermonger, aged 3 years, died of " bilious cholera (24 hours), convulsions (2 hours)." In West Lon don, at 16, Dean-street, St. Andrew's, on the 9th of December, the daughter of a lapidary, aged 16 years, died of " English cholera (50 hours)." As described by the registrar, " the street is narrow, and not very , clean." In connexion with various deaths from scar latina and typhus, the registrars are careful to mention nuisances to which the sufferers have been exposed ; in one instance, a large cesspool oozing through the floor, which the inmates of the house find it necessary to cover with sawdust; in another, " an open sewer behind the house;" in a third, "offensive effluvia from cesspools ;" and in a fourth, a drain "offensive in the extreme," indeed so bad that the persons who live there cannot suffer the door to remain open, and frequently the head of the family is seized with vo miting before leaving for his work in the morning. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DEC. 14, 1850. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*2OO Diseases of Uncertain Seat 46 Tubercular Diseases ... ... 165 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... 140 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels .. 46 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Peipiration 271 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ••• ... ..• ... ... 48 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ... ... 12 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ... 12 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 10 Diseases of the Skin, &c. 0 Malformations... Premature Birth ... .. ... ... 30 Atrophy Old Age Sudden ... ... 7 Violence. Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ... 27 Causes not sine:fled 1 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... 1,090 Population Deaths in corre- Deaths Enumerated, sponding week in the 1841. West Districts... 301,189 North Districts.. 376,568 Central Districts 374,199 East Districts ... 393,067 South Districts .. 503,346 of 1849. 164 195 171 207 265 Week 177 215 166 233 299 Totals... .....1,948,369 ... 1,002 ... 1,090 Males ... ... ... ... ... 543 ___ ... ... 547 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males _ _____ .. _____-... ••• ••• ••• ••• ... 728 Females ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 706 Total ... ~„ ... 1,434 * In this number are included 29 by Scarlatina, 37 by Typhus Fever, 10 by Diarrhoea, and 2 by Cholera. EFFECTS OE MASKING.-TWO CHILDREN TER luiriEri TO DEATH.—About three weeks since two children, belonging to a man named Brown, formerly a waiter at the Globe Hotel, Exmouth, the one four and the other a few years older, were sent by the mother, who keeps a mangle, after a basket of clothes, and were met on the way by some boys, one of whom had on a most hideous looking mast. The boy, seeing the children frightened, ran after them, repeating BORIC gibberish, which frightened them more, and having followed them until they turned the corner of the street, transferred the mask to another boy, who managed again to come in contact with the poor children who returned home instantly, when their parents, seeing them so pale and trem bling very much, inquired what the matter was, which they explained as well as they could. The shock, however, was so great that they never recovered it; their health declined daily. The one died three weeks after, and the other died on Wednesday last. Each of them in his illness often exclaim. ing," He is coming," " I see him," " There he is," with other like expressions. The father and mother have been most unfortunate, having had one son, who was a great as sistance to them, drowned, and themselves so afflicted as lat terly to be almost dependent on the parish for support.— Exeter Gazette. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 17. The Queen has been pleased to appoint George Grey Sullivan, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Ning-po, to be her Majesty's Consul at Amoy. DUCHY OF CORNWALL, SOMERSET-HOUSE, DEC. 16. His Royal Highness the Prince Albert has been pleased to appoint John Lucius Dampier, Esq., Bar rister-it• Law, to be Vice-Warden of the Stannaries, in the county of Devon. BANKRUPTS. George May, builder, Curs tor-street, Chancery-lane, to surrender Dec. 27, at two, and Jan. 31, at ono, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Norton, New-street, Bishopsgate. George Lea, coal merchant, Upper Belgrave-place, Pimlico, Jan. 3, at eleven, and Jan. 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; M'Leod and Stenning, London-street, Fenchurch. street. John Pullen, lodging-house keeper, Powis-place,Great Ormond -street, Dec. 31 and Jan. 24, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, i fficial assignee, Ab church-lane; Barham, Essex-street, Strand. George Bonny, licensed victualler, Gravesend, Dec. 21, at eleven, end Feb. 8, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guild hall-chambers, Basinghall-street AlMartint au and Read, Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn. Samuel Moyer, linendraper, Old-street, St. Luke's, Dec. 21, at eleven, and Feb. 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptey. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall street; Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Friday -street. Thomas Matthews, licensed victualler, Kennilworth, Warwickshire, Jan. 6 and Feb. 3, at ten, at the Bir mingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Bir mingham; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet, Birmingham. George Steele, grocer, Durham, Dec. 31, at eleven, and Jan. 28, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Dis trict Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon- Tyne; Wright, Sunderland ; Maples, Maples, and Pearse, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. INSOLVENT' DEBTORS. Francis Gange, colour manufacturer, Mary-street, Lam beth. John Piper, sen., market gardener, Devonshire-place, Turnham-green. Thomas Samuel Wallis, professor of music, Herne place, Herne-bill, Camberwell. Thomas Bailey, currier, Circus-street, New-road. John Nathan, cab driver, Windsor-street, Bishopsgate street. John M'Duff Deriek, architect, Portland Hotel, Great Portland-street, Oxford-street. John Young, Bury-street, St. James's, Middlesex. David Enscoe, hardvvareman, Upper Thames-street. James Gray, baker, Clarendon-place, Somers-town. Marcus Mc Laughlin, ginger-beer manufacturer, South wark. bridge -road. William Skinner, inspector of hawkers' licences, Lock equare, Walworth. Isaac Coeltley, cheesemonger, Yor k-buildings, Mill-pond street, Bermondsey. Edward Alexander Garvin, dentist, Dover-street, Picca dilly. John Slater, tailor, King-street, Golden-square. John Daniels, builder, Murray-street, Hoxton. Christopher Musgrave, gentleman, Margaret-street, Ca vendish-square. William Longley, carpenter, Eaton-place, Oxford-street. William Robinson, bricklayer, High-street, Camden town. John Levingston, patentee for securing houses from dc• struction by fire, Park-road, New Peckham. James Pearce, cheesemonger, Little Bell-alley, London wall. James Bryson, jun., merchants' clerk, Air-street, Picca dilly. Robert M'Laren, jobbing gardener, High-street, Old Peckham. Thomas Briggs, sen., farmer, York. Joseph Booth, grocer, Birkby, Yorkshire. Andrew Little, draper, York. John Brown Miles, grocer and druggist, Wordsley, Worcestershire. Henry Mc Callen, clerk, Liverpool. John Pawsey, cabinetmaker, Stowmarket. Jane Forster, servant, Stanwix, Cumberland. William Johnson Hutchinson, attorney-at-law, York shire. Richard Bains, licensed victualler,West Hoathly, Sussex. John Wolton, labourer, Woodbridge, Suffolk. William Edkins, licensed victualler, Birmingham. Austin Yorke, mariner, Liverpool. William Lee Yates, shopman, Liverpool. James Leeming, farmer, Preston, Lancashire. William Ellis, letter-press printer, Liverpool. Edward Harrison, baker, Bury, Lancashire. Henry Brown, baker, Manchester. Henry Bonsor, fancy boxmaker, Manchester. John Walmsley, boilermaker, Blackburn, Lancashire. John Wright, grocer, Manchester. Aquila Taylor, cotton waste dealer, Manchester. William Baskett, grocer, Newport, Monmouthshire. Isaac Clarke, butcher, Heigham, Norfolk. DIVIDENDS. In the Country. W. Greenup, sen., Eccleston, Lancashire, coal pro prietor, Jan. 8, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—G. Geyelin, Liverpool, sine worker, Jan. 8, at eleven, at the Cow t, Liverpool—T. Dalton, Coventry, bilk dyer, Jan. 9, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—W. Barnes, Milnrow, Lancashire, flannel manufacturer, Jan. 10, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester. PAYMENTS OF DIVIDENDS. J. Robinson, Ripon, surgeon, 2a., on and after Dec. 17, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds. J. Eastwood, Farnley Tyas, manufacturer, 18.21 d., on or after Dec. 17, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds. T. Broadbent, Halifax, Yorkshire, draper, 55., on subsequent Thursday, be tTwileuernfid:aeDneep:nld9:tWOr,:lialitY.the office of. Mr. Freeman, ' Fanfold, Arundel, irmittoager, 7s. 6d:on Saturday :next,- and three. subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and'two, at the office of Mr. Groom,- Abcbureh-lane. Riekraan, Renshaw, 4StkAelqoinnkeeyer, 11d.; any Wednesday, between eleven aniVtliree,nt the office of Mr. Whitmore, Basinghall-street. G. Thorneloe, Poplar, grocer, 91d., any Wednesday, between eleven and three, at the office of Air. Whit' fi'sirTh ,, P-str!et. i3teokarn, r;,.e. h a e r 3 icr.Jr, I hiri dead of lid., on Thursday, Dec. 19, and three following Thursdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall-street. W. Stiles, Lisle street, Leicester-square, enPforsm ith i second dividend of Is. 4. d., on Thursday, Dec, 19, a ll three following Th u rsdays, between eleven and two, *: the effice of Mr. Stansfeld, Basingball-street. M. Marentie, King William-street, City, merch at third dividend of 33. OP., on Thursday, Dec- 19, an d three following fhursdays, between eleven and too, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall-street. F. Sanders and C. Sanders, Derby, corn merch ants. 10d., on Saturday, Dec. 21, or an y alternate Saturd* between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Bittlestoet Nottingham. Ss' F. Sandars, Derby, c orn merc h an t, Bs. 61 o n 0 turday, Dec. 21, or any alternate Saturday, betwee eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Bittlestoth Nottingham. C. Sandars, Derby, corn merc h a nt, Is., on Sid ee tir ; turday, Dec. 21, or an y a lt erna t e S a turday, b e li o s eleven and three, at the office at Mr. Bittleston• tinghatn. G. Ellins, of D ro it w i c h, W orces t e rshire, salt tea' nufacturer, second divid en d o f id., any Thursdah.'l tween eleven and th ree , a t th e o ffi ce o f Mr. Chro Birmingham. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall street. twe R. Lavers, So u th amp t on, grocer, J an . 8, at: - I : it J. Hawke, Ki ng Willi am - street, C i ty , h a tter, O P ' -'er one—F. La M ar k an d G. L a M ar k , Water -lane, Torces street, City, ship-brokers, Jan. 8, at eleven—J. 13 .„' D d l i l ead ' and E. Braddo c k, F arr i ng d on - street, Ci t y, glass merchants, Jan. 10, at eleven. In the Country. Gerlach, Newcustle-upoc-Tyne, merchant, Jan: 9, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastlf.-upon TY t he 11. Boon, Plymouth, ironmonger, Jan. 9, at elel ev ' Hall of Commerce, Plymouth. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. , E. Leitchfield, Ipswich, upholsterer at v e ' s ; maker, Dec. 16, certificate of the third class- - ".',!, —e l3. Freeschool-street, Horselydown, rectifier, P e r !' ef or certificate of the first class—T. Kitelee, Bast„ r rike ! with, Kent, miller, certificate of the first class---"',„/3d Reading, Berkshire, tobacconist. certificate of th e 2,lider• class—J. Bennett, Hay-kill, Berkeley-square, e" certificate of the first class—H. J. Hogg, Porl, ee P tioneer, certificate of the second class—A. A. se cond Stake Ferry, Norfolk, grocer, certificate of b " .. win e ' class—C. M. Wilkinson, Ulverston, Lancashi re ' merchant, certificate of the first class—W. ' e a colla croft, Rochdale, catton-spin ner , cert ifi ca te of the class. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED . , lieefr R. K. Parkin and J. Hildyard, Searberougv, "or/ drapers—C. Reeves and E. DI. Holmes, and marblemasons—J. Taylor, J. Greaves, and 1 , 0 re' lor, Cropton, Lancashire. cotton-spinners (so far - d Bards J. Taylor)—G. Faulkner, J. Fellows , lin d Lynill, Manchester, manufacturers—J. gook i n c ier, I ook, Liverpool, bricklayers—J. Rougier, W bars' G. Rangier, and H. Rougier, York, t qtoiseshell•eol33bertS, nufacturers (so far as regards H. Rougier) -- I t • itc 'hiur B. Fothergill, and R. G. Dobinson, Manchester, solecvlia makers (so far as regards B. Fothergill)—g' t: Dos e and H. Grinlington, Liverpool, trier/ants- - Bath, 001. re and J. Dunn, London-ro a d, S ou th % a•lc, but toy Crisp and C. Crisp, Herbert- s t ree t, Hackner r- .100,gt manufacturers—J. Dowson, W. Earl, J. Earl. and T. Atherton, North am pt on , timbermerchsers.-- C. Smith and R. Roberts, M o ld, Flinishire, br a A. Acheson and P. Whit es t one , L ea denhall slre ' f f o rd• Penock and T. Whitehous e , R ow ley Bogie , 6ta shire, and Oldbury, Worcestershire. coalmastars• INSOLYEN 1' PE rmoNERs. black' George Stevens, Long Sutton, Somersetshi re t smith. Ann Ansel!, Broadstairs, pastrycook. Thomas Hart, Birmingham, brewer. George Warmington, Birmingham, schoolmaster' Edward Cope, Birmingham, news agent. William Hawker, Birmingham, bricklayer. John Ryland, Aston, near Birmingham, f e llmoag er• Isaac Woolley, Birmingha m , b a k er , Jesse Cooper, Birmingh a m, greengroce r. Joseph T. Shore, Dudley, beer se ll er . SCO CCU SEQUESTRATION. to oisst J. Bogle, Uiglie, Kintyr e , A rg yll s hire, forcer , i w to giat within Mackenzie's Ar g yll A rms I nn , Ca m p Dec. 23, and Jan. 16, at one. SEABORNE MAILS hat 1 1 '' :1 11 •••••••+-...- ~ 00 When made up in From w. doe. PLACES. General Post-office port dis _ A ., London. patched* ......./ ------- ••••• Africa (West coast) • • —..— -- • America (via N. York by British packet) ..*N January 3.. .. Liver P ool ' 2$ America (via Boston i .Dec* , by British packet) .. NI December 20 .. LiverP oo. ',..1 Dec' 1. } December . 20 America (by United States packet) .. .. M SoutharuPt.,....ny '''''' 25 Belgium .. .. • • N Daily .. .. .. Dover • • !nee. , I Liverpoo l '''l ' Brazil .. • • .. N 4th of the month FalmoUth"l;o, 2g Buenos Ayres .. .. N 4th of the mouth Falnitoutil,:l" i' an . 9 • California(viaChagTes)M 17th of month Southampt " .--. Cape of Good Hope N January 14 I Plymouth •••• pe z. 2U 4, Central America .. 31 2d & 17th of mo n thlSouthattli g t . Ta , Old' Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., & Fri. Southan i P t. pea. 2 411 Chili .. .. .. . 3.1 17th of the month Soutlia o P . . TvriCe o t, France .fi• So Hamburgh .. .. N Tuesday & Friday London • . gonl o Holland .. • • .. N Wed nes . & S a t ur. L on don ; Dec. ' o ff Honduras .. .. . N 17th of th e monik Sout hall": Twice:, Ireland .. •.M & N Twice daily .. ../Holyllea" ' pee . India (via Southamp.) 31 20th of the mon th Southawr nt . p eC• 0 . • India (via M arseilles) N 7thSt 24th of mon th Dover , Madeira .. .. .. N -- Mediterranean (via n t Dec' 0 Southampton) .. M 20th of the month Southual,-* 9$ Mediterranean Mediter ean (via .. pee. Marseilles) .. N 7th& 24tk ofmonth DOW Mediterranean (by French packet via 9 .-- Marseilles) .. .. t• A ll. 26 Mexico ... .. M2d of the month...Southall: 3 P • pe e. -,. l'eninsular ••. • • .. 31 7th,l7th,27th of mo'SouthamP t " , pec. 2 ' Peru .. .. • • • • 31 17th *l' the month Sout h a mpt• pee . 0 West Indies .. .. 31 17th of the month I SouthamP t • West Havanna Indies& Nassau) an. M 2d of the month ..ISouthartiPt • , S ..... 5 0930 _,.. Po.. * N signifies that the by the night—and M by I2d of the month .. mails are sent frors the morning—tits', Southanapt.lJati.s the Ge neral itch. - 0 RAILWAY SHARE MARI(x, T S' BRISTOL, DEC. 17. to - 0 STOCK EXCIIANGR.—The market was very active l'll, and remains firm, with a considerable business do ing. Gre s ' transactions were as follow : Bristol and Exeter, 76 141." Western, New 17/. Shares, 3% dis.—Vale of Neath , Wilts, Somerset, &c., 44. LI VEitPOOL, Dam 17. dul l ie. STOCK EXCHAWGZ.—The share market was rather lioetl• day, and prices for m os t d escr ipti ons o f stock have 1 : 3 „. 6 1 1,60 • The transactions were as follow :—Aberdeen, 11 M --9 head, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 11 1 4 dis.—Dittoz ,011 Shares, 6% dis.—Caledonian, 104—Chester and Honer Preference, guaranteed 51,4, per cent., 1334—East sue' shire, 13—Great Western, 77 V 2 —Lancashire, and Yoricrol Consolidated, 584—Ditto, Fifths, 7 7-16 dis.—Lancaste,n r oolz Carlisle, Thirds, 6 p.—Leeds and Thirak, 1434 —LiTorslz• Chester, and Southport, 5-16 dis.—London and .iil ie otz Western, 127 Ditto, New Quarters, 4% p.-1011 ITO Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 27's—Ditto, New 6/. Pre 6 -go' A p.—Midland, 48 1 4—Ditto, Halves, 194 dis.—Ditto, wash Valley, 624—North British, 94—Shrewsbur9 23, Chester (N. W. M.), 12—South-Eastern and Dovervoral York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 194 c.—York arts Midland, 23% Whitehaven and Furness, 81- 13 e— 0 °' Ballymena, 30—Dutch Rhenish, 4% dia. Ef NCHESTER, Des 17- France, dia.—Orleans, Tours, and 80-deaux, 4 1 4 1. " - an S ci T a oc f ic air E at x n c ou ri n A M t Nt o 1 to- 0 —The share ra be a e r n ket do w n ss e. fi T r ra bet 0 1 4 cashire,actiona w l e 3 r%a_sfo G ll r o e s a v t : : NR E or a at s lhv t e ee r ri n n ,( C A o 1 : 7 1 , 1 8 i 6 pL iift tis io.rep , :api, d o; ti Yo n r i k on li , re s , l 29 d — is D ._ itbo itt F o Fifths, 74 dis.—Ditto C l Ttlott, t f i s, North- Western, 127—Ditto, Manchester and 130— ,„,. Quarters (C), p.—Manchester, Buxton PlativiosoP",. Midland, 3 1 s' a dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin,c ° F r efel‘ 274—Ditto, Quarters (No. 1), 11 7 / B —Ditte , ence, 10%—Ditto, New 61. Preference, 9s. 3d. P• British, 94—South-Eastern and Dover, 233 .. a• BIRMINGHAM, market continues a n si i fersb rs i. and prices are well supported. There was a coo. 0 6 , amount of business transacted to-day The follovriposotos' the closing prices :—Birmin ham Wol.verhamptonz t i n ditk< Valley, 11—Caledonian, 11—North g ' Staffozdsbire, (13/ Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 6 1-3 dis.m•P itw 51, dia.—South-Eastern and Dover, 254- no g 5g . . ° CULPRIT, ORIGIN OF THE WORD.-'4A- - ;-" A YIP- eh ° made this note, that this much-used English 10 7; 0 0 ' it "; French extraction, and that it was qu'il parait , liciogLa short way the clerk of the court has of pro n°ll cb , words ; for our pleadings were formerly in ' Fre d ° foto when the pleadings were begun, he said to tile in - a e bler: d d qu'l . l pirait—culprit; and, as he was generally,et"rotes qu'd parait became a synonyme with " offender. '""" Queries. NIRTILS. OF A SON. Vi r S trii On the 14th inst., at Farnborough Vicarag e, Aaff shire, the lady of the Re C. . Holbech- On the 15th inst., hewe W of Augustus r• older.- Esq., of Doctors'-commons. OF A DAUGHTER. d Oerc hl f ,, il On the 13th inst., at Oak-hill, Accrington, 1 1 l o bo v . On the 15th inst., at Kilburn, the wife 0 1 Of Merivale, Esq. pl'i On the 15th inst., the wife of John L. Tatham' Lincoln's Inn. MARRIED. the ti ßill On the 16th inst.. at St. James's, Paddington,,, ti e John J. Wilkinson, M.A., vicar of Erith, Sent, 8 100* Rev. George Wilkinson, B D., rector of Wichalli f f hi v land, to Gertrude, sole surviving child of the late J° pole, Esq., of Dublin. t On the 14th inst , at St. Helen's Bishopsg s . -e ", bal—A White. Esq., son of 'the late H. G. 'White, ofyQill l Barking, to Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Lukyn, of Leamington Spa. r DIED or On the 15th inst., i n G reen - s t ree t, Grosveait e C. 1 1; General the Hon. Sir William Lumley, G.C.B.a nd i the dr " Extra Groom in Waiting to h er Majesty Colonel ° Dragoon Guards, and unc l e o f th e p r esent Bar i ° borough, aged 82. g Eel. On the 14th inst., at Tottenham, George Twin' l3 '"' to of the Strand, London, and late of East Sheen, Surr, el o . ., l4 ' On the I . 2th inst., at Camberwell, R. T. Russell, ' 0 of the Ordnance, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, aged 1. %130 0:1 On the 13th inst., aged 70, Mary, the wife of Seppings, Esq., South Raynbam, Norfolk. age d ,,a l 4 On the 13th inst., at P e ckham, George Ross, Ds„cl' ‘. ..' l e , On the 14th inst., Ellen, only daughter of F. Pa of of Park-terrace, Ilighbury, aged 27. st 800 On the 15th inst., H. T. :IL Rostock, they onage let t " Robert postock, of Clapham, Char 9' On the 17th insf:;: firtihiton-hill, King . ato" 9 -- c o sta,„‘ the wife of NV ll.l),;4liiiotr,ltq., of her IklajestY' s _ ur yir'T On the 14th init., ,itl3erifferd, Eliza, second 15_0, daughter'of tlrelate'St . A.daticeon, Esq., of Goldiagw Aitte,it n L Irdori PriutertuldTtibliShed by MURD" ylo• No. 112, StititW Prlittbr,' Jet The Sun Office , off Strand, in the Prixinttzlef the Savoy. in the eo Middlesex. Wednetaeihcember 1850. , I 1 Females