The Sun. — London, England, 1851-12-05 00:00:00

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West Mariposa .. •• Agua Fria, JOINT 4 —3% 8 3 —2 1 (; Are Maria, X 331111T153. 37 38% 45 —46 10% -- 11 25 -26 N( 18% 17% 28% 29% lextralasla •• • • • • •• British North America.. Colonial .... ••..•• • • • . Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock .... London and Westminster National Provincial Eng. De. New ...... • • •. • • National of Ireland .. •• Oriental Bank Corporat. frevincial of Ireland.... 111% - 17% 27 - 27% 42 -44 1)0. New .. • • •• • • .... Union of Australia .. • . 15% - 16% 35 - 36% 3 -3% ! , 1% - 15% Union of London Craton of Madrid •• • - Canada ............ • • Gen. Steam Navigation . renin. & Oriental Steam. ...11.NMOUS. 48 49% 27% —2B x.d 69 70% 15% 17 79% 80% to errors of the Official Lists, and I correspondents.] Ditto ditto Royal Mail Steam .. • • .. (We cannot be answen will not be influenced by Ible for tl interested HONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 8,000 bales, of which 2,500 Surat were taken on speculation. The market closed heavily with Ame rican lower than on Friday last. The sales com prised 3,500 American, 400 Pernam and Maranham at 5,1 d. to 64d., 100 Bahia at 6d., 600 Egyptian at sid. to Bd., and 3,500 Surat at 3d. to 31d. per lb.—ln Railway Shares a fair business was done. The usual course of business as far as foreign orders are concerned, has been interfered with by the political occurrences, but holders have not pressed sales, and prices have not been materially affected. Coffee has been neglected, and Tea lower, but Sugar firm. Surat Cotton yesterday afternoon was taken in for l td. per lb. advance. Jute tends upwards. Spices and other arti cles which get into large consumption about Christmas time are more inquired for. The foreign demand for Coffee and some other staples is quieter just now, but the demand for Rye continues. Pittsburgh accounts state that a free banking law in Illinois had been carried by a majority of 5,000, which will operate favourably on the stocks by increasing the demand. At Boston a loan of two millions of mortgage bonds was wanted by the Vermont Railway. The excitement in the City is so far infectious that the duty even of those who have to record the move ments in the monetary and commercial world becomes impeded, and there is an impossibility almost to accom plish the task of describing adequately what occurs. Consols have been up to 971 and down since to 96f the present values. A large business has been done in New Three-and•a-Quarter per Cents., at 97i to 97k; and in the Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities at 96 to The market seems as agitated now as it has been at any time since the coup d'itat was at attempted. As to the feeling in the City, one finds it range from one extreme to the other. Among the little groups about the Royal Exchange engaged in reading the news (for, papers being in demand, one is made to do service for many, and is read aloud), one finds general sympathy with Louis Napoleon, and ad miration at his courage. In the Subscription rooms there is a quieter but deeper conflict of opinion. The immense stake which many have as speculators in the Funds or as holders of produce, causes them to brood over the unfavourable points, or exult at appear ances that may seem favourable to them either as Bulls or Bears. Some are enthusiastic, others depressed, and all find a difficulty in defining the future course of events. We fear the next settling day in Consols will " tell a tale." Exchequer-bills have been 48s. to 51s. premium. Foreign Stocks are all worse. Mexican have dropped to 234 and 23. Peruvian Deferred are at 44. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 19i i, and the Three per Cents. 38 to i. Sardinian are 774 to 78. Brazilian keep at 92. Dutch Four per Cents. have been as low as 85k, but are now 87. Railway Shares are all greatly affected, and the de cline is 1 to 3 per cent., Midland, Great Western, Ca ledonian, Lancashire and Yorkshire, North Stafford, and the foreign lines being heaviest. Gold Mines are lower. Agua Fria ii, and Nouveau Monde i i premium. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 215 214% 214% 3 ner Cent. Reduced A nns. 8 per Cent. Consols Annuities 97% 7 1 4 6% 7 96 $4 New 8 1 4 per Cent. Anne....,..,. 9 7 1'9%4%A% '4 66% i.ong Anus. to expire J an.lßto Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 7 14 7 1 4 India Bonds, 1,0001- Ditto under 1,0001... ... • 6l 68 p 58 p Consols for Account a;zohequer Sills. 14d. 1,0001. 500/. Small, .. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ... ..... 92 92 Equador Bonds L 1 suunn, 5 per Ct., ex Jan. Coupe — 23% Ditto, Account Ditto, Small Peruvian Bonds, 5 par Cent- Ditto, Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Spanish 5 per Cont. 1840 — Ditto, Account Ditto, Passive 38 38 Ditto. 3 per Cent Ditto, Account Venezuela Bonds, 3 1 4 per Cent — 33 1 4 Ditto, Deferred — 1 , 1 1 4 Dividends on the above payable in London., Dutch 2% per Cent. 12 Guild 5 7% 56% Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates.- 85 1 / 2 87 87 LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.—( THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. s.—Wind at noon W.S.W., light airs and dull hazy weather. GRIMSBY, DEC 4.—Wind W.—Arrd. John and Isa bella, Fletcher, Riga. WISBEACH, DEC. 4.—The Deben, from Newcastle, strained in the lower part of the harbour, and at the flowing of the tide had seven feet water in her hold, damaging some of her cargo; she is now hauled on shore. TABLE BAY, OCT. 11.—The Chartley Castle, from London to this port, went on shore towards the eastern extremity of the bay Bth Oct., and was abandoned with 14 feet water in her hold; crew saved, PLYMOUTH, DEL 4.—Wind S.W.—Ruby, Jarvis, Figuera. BRIDGEWATER, DEC. 4.—Wind E.—Arrd. Freebie, Odessa; Alma Mans, Redon. PILL, DEC. 3. Wind W.—Arrd. Abigail, Quebec. . . GLOUCESTER, DEC. 4.—Arrd. Teasing, Alexandria. NEB I' DEC. 4.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Sutennsie, Sa vannah ; Ben, New York. Suao, DEC. 3.—Wind W.—Arrd. Mars, Galata. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 4.—Wind variable and light.—Arrd. Baltic steamer, New York, 1,500,000 dollars on freight; Mischief, Bull, Cephalonia; Ann, M'Garry, Quebec; Jane, Cowling, Patras; Onward, Baker, Cephalonia. Sld. Gibson, Craig, Sydney, New South Wales; Hope, New Orleans; Elizabeth Bruce, Mobile; Bona Dea, Sa vannah; Olive, Smyrna. PORTSMOUTH, DEC 4.--Wind, W.N.W.—Arrd. Her Majesty's ship Havannah, Sydney, Now South Wales and Rio Janiero, on freight 1,300 Oz. of gold. DEAL, DEC. 4.—Wind W.N.W.; 9 P.M. N.W.— Arrd. Therese, Valparaiso; Johanna Carolina, Trinidad; Treicle, Malaga; Tanfield, Riga. Sld. Bentinek, Ade laide, South Australia; Indian Chief, Buffalo River; Helena, Rio Janeiro; Squaw, Philadelphia. BRIDPORT, DEC. 4.—Wind N.W. Arrd. Trust, Messervey, St. John's. TORBAY, Dxc. 3.—Arrd. Patriot, Austen, St. Übes. Off port, Caroline, Patras. FALMOUTH, DEC. 4.— lizib Wind eth, Odessa. N.—Arrd, Sld. TweedEl evesidn, e, , Barton Alexandria; E New R oss. QUEENSTOWN, DEC. N.—Arrd. Pauly Vi , chstehow, Kroff, Ibraila. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXcHANG (FRI DAY.) The quantity of English Wheat receiv ed u p to our E— market this week has amounted to 2,340 q uarters, chiefly from E ssex . Th e su pply fresh up to - day , by lbnd carriage, wa s sma ll, h enc e the show of samples of both red and whit e were limited. Notwi t hstanding that the attendance of both town and country millers was far from numerous, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home prod uce ruled steady, and Monday's prices were well supported. Only 1,800 quarters of foreign Wheat have come in since Satuday. Selected samples of both red and white moved off freely, at full rates of currency. Low and middling kinds were quite as dear. Nearly the whole of the floating cargoes reported off the coast have been disposed of for Holl a n d. The show of English Barl e y was goo d , th a t of foreign small. kinds met a s l ow sa l e, at barely eta tionary prices. For M a lt we had a fair inquiry at full quotations. On the whole the Oat trade was firm, at the late advance in the currencies. The show of samples was comparatively small. Beans moved off slowly at barely late rates; but Peas were held firmly at full quotations. Indian Corn and Flour were steady, and quite as dear. ARRIVALS TIIIS WEER. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks English ...... 2,340 4, 19 0 3,0,0 2,480 1,680 Irish .. ••. • • . 1,200 2,'50 Foreign . ..... 1,800 8,570 I 810 1.)14 srarnu.'rx -- 43r.D. Our market today waa well supplied with Beasts as to number, but their general quality was by no means fubtroW, Wi39 Niguel brood. were 144 faix must, at Monday's advance in the quotations; otherwise, the Beef trade ruled heavy. Both English and Foreign Sheep came slowly to hand, yet the supply was quite equal to the demand. In prices no change took place; the top figure for the best old Downs being 4s 4d per 81bs. Calves, though in short supply, moved off heavily, at barely late rates. Owing to the large arrivals up to Newgate and Leadenhall, the Pork trade was very dull. Mulch Cows met a very inactive inquiry, at from 141 to 18/ each, including their small calf. thaluesg. don to-day. DI X MX 1 13 0 '2828% 1% 2 1 bag, :SCEL: LONDON, - ter Blbs.to sink the offal. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d Interior Leasts.•... 2 4 2 6 Inferior Sheep ...• 210 3 0 Second quality .... 2 8 210 Second qual. Sheep 3 2 3 8 Prime large Oxen •• 3 0 3 6 Coarse-woolledditto3 10 4 0 Yrime Scots .. •—• 3 8 310 Southdown Wether 4 2 4 4 t arge coarse Calves 2 8 3 4 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0 Vr:mrsinall ditto .. 3 6 3 8 Large Hogs •••• •• 2 6 8 6 Suckling Calves ..18 0 20 0 Small Porkers .... 3 8 310 Lambs •••••• .• • • 0 0 0 0 Quarter old rigs .•16 0 19 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. 1,109 I Sheep. Calves. 2,650 110 FOREIGN surrLY. I Sheep. I Calves. 490 B amts. 115 P gs. NEVITGATE AND LE.B.DENBALL. These markets were well supplied t(-day. Generally speaking, the demand ruled heavy, at barely stationary prices. . . At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. 0. d. to s. d. Beef, inferior...." 2 0 2 2 Mutton, inferior .. 2 6 210 --middling .... 2 4 2 61 middling.• 3 0 3 6 primelarge .. 2 8 210 ( prime .... 3 8 3le prime small 3 0 3 4 i York, 1arge........ 2 4 3 6 Veal•• •• •• •• —••— 2 8 3 8i small •• •••• •• 3 8 310 8 OHOUGH HOP DICARMET. Most New Hops, especially Sussex in pockets, are in good request, and, in some instances, the quotations have an upward tendency. Yearlings steady, but old Hops are neglected. New Sussex Pockets, 5/ 12s to 61 10s; New Kent, 61 8s to 81; Golding, Mid, and East Kent, 9l to 121 ss; Yearlings, 4/ 15s to 51 10s; Old Olds, 11 lOs to 41. per cwt. comorn.ax. - SUGAR.—The demand for British Plantation has been moderate, and at steady prices generally, Barbadoes has been sold at a shade advance on the best sorts. Low to mid yellow 32s 6d to 35s 6d; good to fine 36s to 40s; and mid and good grainy 35s 6d to 38s. REFINED has been at 43s to 48s for low to fine grocery lumps. EAST INDlA.—Bengal has been sold by auction at 6d rise upon the finer sorts, good and fine grainy yellow 37s 6d to 40s 61; Benares ditto 37s 6d to 395; mid to good like Mauritius 31s to 34s 6d; and brown 22s to 245. Mauritius privately has maintained steady prices. FOREIGN.—YeIIow Havannah, by auction, has realised 31s 6d to 34s for low to mid, and 34s to 35s 6d for good. Cuba Moscovado was sold at 30s 6d to 34s for low to mid yellow, and 35s to 38s for good and fine. COFFEE.—Very few transactions have taken place in this article, and part of that offered to competition has been taken in; Plantation Ceylon at 508 to 57s ed for low mid to good mid colonry, a small portion selling at 42s to 48s fur fine ord to low mid, and 38s to 42s for triage. Native good ord has been taken in at 40s. East India good ord kinds have realised 38s to 40s. Jamaica good coloury was withdrawn at 70s. The quantity offered publicly has been small. Cocoa.—Trinidad has been sold at 37s to 42s for low to good red, and at 37s to 39s for good grey. Grenada ord grey was taken in at 325, and mid red at 35s to 375. SncEs.—Pepper bas been in fair request, at full prices; Malabar black nel to 3id for good half berry; white Pepper went at 68d to 7id for mid to good. Nutmegs sold at is 6d to 2s Id ior ord to mid limed, and Mace at Is 10d to 2s 4d for mid and fair export _ . kind. Pimento went at 4kd for ord, and 5d to sid for mid small. Bourbon Cloves were in request at bed to 6id for good. Cinnamon sold at is 6d to 2s 6d, and Jamaica Ginger at 40s to 53s for small. SALTPETRE.—Not much has been done. Rum.—This article is quiet. RlCE.—Bengal has been sold at 9s 6d to lOs 6d for mid white, and Madras at Es to 88 6d for mid pinky. COTTON.—A good business has been done, and East India sorts are held for higher rates. lIENP AND JUTE.—Prices are looking up. COCHINEAL.—Honduras silvers are held for fuller rates, and blacks (Mexican) have been sold at firm prices. TEA.—The public sales have gone lower, about one third finding buyers. Common and medium Congou declined fel, and scented Orange Pekoes Id per lb. Common and medium Gunpowders were also cheaper. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has been at 36s to 368 9d for old, and 37s to 37s 3d for new. _ ••• • GREEN FRUIT.—The market continues bare of all kinds, contrary winds preventing arrivals. Oranges of all kinds are wanted, and the demand will continue until Christmas. Lemons are in one hand; SOO cases Messina, sold by Keeling and Hunt, at public sale, sustained the price obtained last week. Grapes of all kinds dull. Spa nish Nuts and Chesnuts in demand. The advanced figure required for Barcelona has checked the sale. Some extensive arrivals of Brazil have depressed the market. TOBACCO.—In the early part of last month several sales were effected of Western Strips, at a slight reduc tion from present quotations, by parties either deter mined to sell or unable to hold their speculative pur chases. Several small parcels have been cleared off the market, the principal holders of both old and new im ports have subsequently refused to make further conces sions, and proposals, within the last few days, for quan tities to some extent have been declined, and the downward tendency arrested. In other descriptions the market has not exhibited any marked change, and tran sactions have been of a limited character. Some small lots were taken for Ireland and Scotland, and about 200 hhds for exportation. Several inquiries have been made for common and ordinary sorts, but at prices which holders would not accedo to. Stock may now be considered com paratively bare, of very low quality. The French Go vernment has issued the notice for its contract. The imports have been 727 deliveries, 1,242 hhds, against 1,148 hhds in the corresponding period of last year. The stock is 23,010 hhds, against 26,671 hhds in 1850. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) HAMILTON AND OTHERS V. TERRY. The CHIEF JUSTICE said in this case the Court were not perfectly agreed in opinion, and they would there tore take further time for consideration. EAST ANGLIAN RAILWAY COMPANY V. THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY. The COURT gave judgment in this case in favour of the defendants. IRON PAVEMENT. The Glasgow Mail says the experimental portion laid down on Stirling Road, in that city, has now been three weeks subjected to the tear and wear of the heavy traffic from a large mineral district. Every day hundreds of tons of iron, coal, &c., pass over the iron pavement, besides the ordinary traffic by omnibuses, carriages, carts, &c., and as yet not the least appearance of yield ing or failing is visible. The pavement consists of plates about three-quarters of an inch thick, three feet long, and eighteen inches broad. The upper surface is grooved, so as to resemble in some measure the inter stices between paving stones, only that the grooves are not in continuous straight lines, tut a sort of sig-uag, so as to prevent most effectually horses' feet from slipping. The plates are rabbeted on the edges, the one resting on and supporting the other throughout the whole series. The joints are so close that none of the material form ing the bed or substratum can °omit upwards, as is the case with ordinary pavement, and which causes not only the irregularities ef the surface, but moat of the dust and mud which disfigure the streets and annoy passengers. The plates at present on Stirling Road had been pre viously in use at the entrance gate of Springbank Foundry, for upwards of six months, so that their power of resisting fracture has been well tested. The plates are laid upon a bed of sand, with some limo intermixed, but not sufficient to give it the coherence of concrete. The surface being levelled, the plates were laid on it with great facility and rapidity, and being pressed down with a wooden hammer unt il a solid uniform bearing was attained, the operation was complete. Aa com pared with the best stone causewaying, there is much less noise, jolting, and materially diminished friction or resistance; whilst the footing for the horses is fully more secure than on the best granite paving. At the present price of iron, the iron pavement would cost from 7s. 6d. to Bs. 6d., according to thickness, per square yard; whilst granite paving costs in Glasgow from Bs. to 95., and in Lndon from 12a. to 14s. 6d. the yard. The oost of laying and preparation will be certainly not more, if not less for the iron than for the stone paving, and the pro bable increased endurance, apart from its other tested advantages, will, wo should think, throw the preponde rance of economy vastly into the iron scale. Advices from St. Petersburgh of the 24th of No vember mention that the dispatch of goods by the St. Pe tersburgh and Moscow Railway had already commenced, but that the quantities taken each day were, as yet, very small. With regard to business, there was nothing new. The weather was perfectly mild. Two CHILDREN SCALDED TO DEATH.—Yesterday afternoon, between the hours of one and two, a dreadful ac cident occurred to William Farebrother, aged two years, re siding at 6, Hamilton -street, Wandsworth-road, which ter minated fatally, under the following circumstances. It ap pears that the mother left a large saucepan of boiling water on the floor, which the child accidently fell into, and was scalded most severely. It was taken immediately to West minster Hospital, where Mr. Holt, surgeon, rendered every assistance to the unfortunate child, when death terminated its sufferings shortly after its admission. A second accident occurred of a similar nature to a child of the name of John Martin, aged three years, residing at ,3, Harrow-road. It was taken to St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where Ur. Ure, surgeon, promptly attended, where it shortly expired. INCREASED TRAFFIC ON THE ULSTER RAILWAY. — We (Armagh paper) are glad to report that the merchandise traffic of the line from this city to Belfast is very much on the increase. On Thursday last a special luggage train of empty waggons arrived at the station here, and left the same day heavily laden with goods, being the third that day which started from our terminus. On Tuesday the train took 155 tons, and on the Tuesday previous 200 tons were delivered at the station, 160 of which proceeded to Belfast that day, and 40 tons next morning. On Wednesday 80 tons weight were conveyed, and yesterday 145 tone. A letter from Vienna, 25th ult. states that the falls of snow in Germany have been heavier than have been ever remembered. The mails in many parts have been conveyed by sledges on the ordinary roads, the Northern Railway, called that of the Emperor Ferdinand, having been rendered Im passable on several points, the snow lying in masses as high as a house. Hirshberg, a town in Silesia, is said to have been almost buried in the snow. On the evening of the 23d, in a violent snow -storm, a collision took place on the Southern Railway, near l\lernitz, between two trains; the two locomotives were broken to pieces, but fortunately none of the passengers were injured. - . - The inhabitants of Sydney, being desirous of ex hibiting their loyalty, and of making known to the world the source of increased wealth and prosperity opened up to the capitalist and emigrant by the discovery of the Bathurst gold region, have resolved to present to Queen Victoria a crown of pure gold, formed of contributions of the native metal.. FRIDAY EVEN EVENING, PARIS. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS: CHRONICLE.—The news which we have received up to this morning seems, when carefully sifted, to • habit the completeness, rather than the qualified charac ter of Louis Napoleon's ruccess. Barricades have been thrown up, but the want of heart manifested in erecting and defending them may be taken as the measure of the inclination to resist among the population of the Fau bourgs. Had ther e b een no armed oppos i t i on at a ll , we might have imagined that inaction was the resource of men who waited their opportunity, whereas there can now be little doubt that it is the result of indifference. The Republican leaders, though appealing to the people both in the name of the laws and of Socialism, have been unable to create a tumult of the smallest moment.. A few of their number, who were most forward, risked Weir lives without encouragement, and lost them with out fruit. It seems even to be admitted that they made a mistake in wearing the scarfs which belonged to them as representatives of the people. We some time since expressed a doubt whether complex propositions could be rendered intelligible to mobs ; and it is clear, in this instance, that the workmen could not comprehend how the cause of liberty could be identical with that of an Assembly which they had been taught to regard as utterly inimical to freedom. Theirs are not the only minds which it is difficult to satisfy that the fall of the French Legislature, deep as was the discredit into which it had sunk, is nevertheless the crowni ng di saster o f our ago an d gene ration. It would be foolish and unreasonable to deny that there are material advantages of the first order to balance the moral and political disorganization which connects itself with the ruin of the Parliament. Steel and gunpowder dropped suddenly into the hissing and bubbling vase, have changed the struggliug elements into a formless and inorganic, but plastic and highly useful precipitate. The great and terrible eventuality of next spring has—with whatever amount of treasonable vio lence—been set aside by the stroke of tho President's arm. There will be better securities for the social tran quillity of France than have been enjoyed since the prosperous days of the last reign ; and we ,may shortly , have the panegyrists of the new one pointing to the re vived activity and commerce, and the renewal of confi dence in monetary engagements, as a brilliant contrast to the stagnation and distrust which were progressively augmenting up to the end of last week. Peace, splen dour, and comfort Louis Napoleon may possibly have given to his country ; but he has jeopardized her ca pacity for representative institutions—he has made another breach in the continuity of her freedom—he has thrust the army into a position in front of the State, which is utterly inappropriate to its constitution, its tastes, and its habits of thought—and, worst of all, he has, for the time, granted a general indulgence for all those freaks of folly or violence which make up the statesmanship of Continental despotisms. There is but one man alive who can force this chain of circumstance to gravitate in a different and less deplorable direction. Louis Napoleon, master of the situation at this moment, is, to a great extent, master of the sequel. W e are very far indeed from believing him insincere in his submis sion of his claims to the award of the country. Even if the French people be strictly limited to the some what narrow option which he has offer e d t o t h em , t h ey will possess, in the Council of State and the two Cham bers, every formal requirement for a regime of liberty. It is, however, among the most elem en t ar y o f po li t i ca l propositions, that free institutions, to exert any vitality at all, must operate as a curb on the supreme ruler ; and the.chances that its restraints will be tolerated and respected are, of course, immensely diminished, when the Sovereign has created or fashioned it himself. The clinging vice of the new polity with which France is to be endowed will be the memory of its origin—an origin which is apparently to be stereotyped in the history of this revolution, by the appeal which has been made to the soldiers for their express sanction. We apprehend that the experiment which Louis Napoleon promises to carry through is in much greater danger of being defeated by causes inherent in the very nature of representative government, than of being vitiated by fraud in its commencement. Several passages in his proclamations have attracted attention, and have tempted many to interpret them as the mere overture to a Dictatorship. One of these defines the Council of State as "supporting" its decisions before the Legisla tive Assembly, and the expression has been taken as an unmistakable hint of the intention to re-establish that shame and dishonour of the Imperial Constitutions—the Tribunate. But we are rather disposed to attribute the suspicious phrase to an unlucky mimicry of the First Consul's programme, than to an already developed con spiracy against freedom of thought and speech. We in cline to the belief that Louis Napoleon is sincere, ac cording to the standard of ordinary human nature, in the statement both of his motives and of his designs. But even though the hues of that future which glitters be fore him should be tinged, in the moment of success, with much more selfishness than patriotism, we imagine that, when the imprisonment of representatives and the de struction of barricades have to be exchanged for more refined strokes of policy, he will recognise the utter impossibility of governing without taking the country into partnership. After the recent events, he must have the credit of at least as much acuteness as personal courage, and none but a very middling intellect could be blinded by deceptive analogies between his situation and his uncle's. He has, indeed, given us a near view of the 18th Brumaire, but it is such a glimpse as one gets by looking through the large end of a teles cope instead of the small one. All the proportions are extravegantly reduced. The Republic which ho has destroyed is the rickety creation of M. Marrast, Ind not that form of decayed, but gloomy and terrible grandeur, which still exhibited the scars of the dark time when she had bound kings in chains, and nobles in links of iron. The instruments of attack are the conquerors of Rome and Abd-d Rader, instead of the victors of Rivoli and Jemappes. The leader is Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, straddling in the foot-prints of Napoleon the Great. But if the persrinages of the opening scene are incom parably meaner on the second performance than on the first, the difficulties to be overcome, before the piece can be played out to the close, are greater in themselves, and immeasurably greater when compared with the fa cilities for surmounting them. Th e exhaust i on o f the public mind, which was the true secret of the first Napo leon's victory, was such a listlessness as is produced in those who have passed through a Reign of Terror, and not such as follows the half-laughabl e scandals 6f the last two years. Yet, complete as was the weariness bf France, nothing but a career of fabulous glory prevented it from changing into active hatred and determined hostility to the usurper. Marengo, A uster li tz, Jena, and W agram were mighty victories abroad, but they were likewise so many coups d'Olat at home. It was the roar of the cannon on a hundred fields which stilled the atmos phere of France. No such m eans of pac ifi cat i on are a t Louis Napoleon's disposal. Timid spirits are warning us that he will march his impatient legions to the Rhine or embark them in flotillas for Englend; but we have a security considerably more reliable than Ehrenbreitstein or the Martello Towers, in the Socialists who will rise over every inch of ground he vacates. There is but one other expedient, to which we hope he will be guided by his keenness of judgment, if n o t b y hi s rect i tu d e o f mora l perception. If h e will really s urround h i mse lf w ith re presentative institutions—if he will rea ll y g i ve the people an interest in the business of government, which is not to be taken away at pleasure by the head of the firm— we do not see why be should not found a system at least as durable as those which have preceded it. It would be shameful to deny that he has perpetrated a crime; but much of the responsibility presses on those who swept away a nearly consolidated G overnmen t, t o p u t a card. board Constitution in its place—and very much more upon those who, skulking behind the fragile barrier, tempted, goaded, and menaced him, till he advanced and shivered it in pieces. TIMES.—In the distant days of King Louis Philippe, when France still' laboured under th e yo k e o f constitu tional monarchy, and bounded h er m i l i tary am bi t i on b y a campaign in Northern Africa, it was somet i mes whis pered by far-seeing observers, that th e f u t ure mas t er of France was probably skirmishing in the gorges of Mount Atlas, and that the African army and its chiefs trained in that rude school of barbaric warfare, would one day make their country feel the edge of the sword which had drunk so deep of Arab blood. The days of that prediction are now fulfilled. Paris itself has be come the scene of the last razzia of General St. Arnaud; and all that remained of greatness or independence in the political Assemblies of France ha s b een d r i ven lik e cattle into a pen by the military maraud e r s w h o h o ld supreme authority in the capital of that great nat i on. For this end countless millions and in numera b le lives have been equandered in the obscure warfare of that the r a p p a r c o in fe n s s ;i professional Algeria° dependency. An army was . formed and flat and become the u e l l e e n sp u ts f in guardianst e n r ng d n by sanguinary the of nspublic indulgence onbultiso; ofou order until lr d f e r.i s nt p m o t c o , a g ction were at the forms of basis of usurpation and absolute government ; and from this staff of officers, deaf to . the rights and the men length selected, not for the superior . quality of their ser nlauwnsstiotfutEtnunryegaunvefrrneemdeonmt: vices, but for the laxity of their principles an d t h e energy of their ambition. Such are the instruments by which this revolution has been commenced, and may even be consummated; such are the men by w h om, . if at all, the Imperialist Government of France must be re established. We presume that no doubt can linger in the minds of our readers as to the true nature of this catastrophe. It is not a free appeal to the nation; it is not a dissolution of the National Assembly, to be fol lowed by the convocation of another constituent body and the revision of the Constitution by any el ec ti ve authority—a measure which the circumstances of the case and the subsequent approval of the nat i on might, perhaps, h a ve justified. Had th e Pre sident confined his arbitrary interference to the object of revision which the country demanded, he had still in his own hands a cause which ha s now been much compromised by the violence and precipita tion of his late actions. But the question now propounded by the Government is simply whether a dictatorial and constitutive, power is to be conferred Napoleon; and on Louis ,d and this qdestion is first to be answsie in the terms of Yes or No, within forty-eight hours, by the army. Popular election, with the blind and clumsy machinery of universal suffrage, is to be consulted next week; but to-day, to-morrow, immediately on the receipts of orders from the Minister of War, the officers in command of detachments throughout France are to take the votes of the troops on what is ludicrously. termed a plebiscitum, investing Louis Napoleon with absolute power. Th e army i s , therefore,directed by its votes as well as by its arms, virtually to decree the form of the go vernment, and to anticipate the choice of the people. These military or d ers f o r a Pimtorian election are ac companied by no less peremptory instructions to the civil agents of the Government throlighont France. The Prefects are commanded by a circular dispatch of M. de Moray, Minister of the Interior, " to superbeclo all the juges de pair, mayors, and other functionaries, whose support they cannot rely on—to require from all these functionaries to give in, in writing, their adhesion to the great measure edepteel by the Government—in stantly to arrest every one who should attempt to dis turb public tranquillity —and to suspend every journal' whose *Arguments might be hostile to it." Upon the obedience or resistance of the civil and mi litary authorities throughout France to these orders depends at this moment the success or failure of this daring attempt, and the still wider ques tion of proscription and civil war. The celebrated circulars of M. Ledru Rollin were not more despoti cally revolutionary, for the language of alt Governments imposed by force is the same. But though nothing has been respected, and even the Court of Cessation, the last sanctuary of civil justice, has been intimidated and dissolved by troops, the uniform obedience of an army of 400,000 men, of a scarcely less numerous host of public functionaries, and of a nation of 36,000,000, to orders entirely devoid of a pretence of legality, would be to us the most astonishing recurrence which even the French revolution has brought forth. Such proceedings resem ble Mallet's con-piracy more than the deliberate acts of a great party. They originate with a very small number of persons, who have not yet secured the positive ad herence of any larger class, except the army, which has acted from discipline and passive obedience. The names of the persons designated by the President to form a "consultative commission" are either those of his most devoted creatures, or of men whose consent to sit on such a body had not been asked or obtained. One at least of their number has addressed a letter to Louis Napoleon, in hich he indignantly resents the use thus made of his name, and declares that the only office ho holds is that which he derives from the people. In fact, thus far, the iaa• mense military add civil machinery of government in France, the army and the police, appear to have been set in motion by an unsubstantial power, and they are expected to give the strength they can only serve to transmit. The real claim of Louis Napoleon to the gra titude of France and to the confidence of Europe —one that we have always been ready to admit—was that he had given tranquillity to a nation still convulsed by a paroxysm of revolution, and that he had respected the conditions of peace abroad; and the principal motive for desiring the prolongation of his power by legal means was that this seemed the only mode of averting another revolution. But the events of the last few days have entirely changed his position. His power can only now be prolonged by a revolution; and, in place of the fallacious tranquillity in which the na tion hoped to rest, it is plunged into a fresh con flict, from which it can only emerge with the sa crifice of its liberties to a dictatorial authority, or the destruction of that authority by the fury of a po pular convulsion. However we may be disposed to question the ultimate success of such a coup d'etat, the chief argument in Louis Napoleon's favour seems to be that it is still more difficult to suggest any other expe dient. The monarchial parties are in a state of total discomfiture, and the miserable intrigues of the Or leanists especially have only served for the pretext of this conspiracy of the Government against the conditions of its own existence. The Republic has already lost the form in which it had been accepted by the nation, and the man who had been elected in 1848 as a refuge from its natural tendencies and inconveniences. Even the Conservative party, which had exercised for a time by means of the Assembly the power gradually regained after the revolution of February, is now stricken, divided, imprisoned, and exhausted. The Republic, re-estab blished after such an attack upon it, would have all the force derived from a fresh popular convulsion, and the triumph of extreme principles. It would, in fact, be far more intolerant, absolute, and probably aggressive than it was after 1848, and consequently even more abhorrent to the mass of the community. Yet what escape is there left from that last extremity but to acquiesce in this usurpation? That argument must have weight with the mercantile classes and the more timorous or servile spirits of the country. But they deceive themselves if they imagine that the whole autho rity of the law can be restored by the same power which has just overthrown it for purposes of its own. Even if such a power be established by the obedience of the army, it will be encompassed by every species of secret conspi racy and open resistance. It will have its Moreau, and it may have its Duke d'Enghein, for the glory of the First Consul himself did not save him from an implacable conflict with enemies whom he crushed even at the cost of crime. France is entering upon a period of suspicion, coercion, and suppressed or flagrant anarchy, to which even the horrors of civil war may be invited to put a term. From the immense amount of the military re sources of Government and the stern determination with which they are employed, it was not to be expected that any successful effort of popular resistance could be made in Faris. Nevertheless, from an early hour yesterday the streets of the capital, and especially the Faubourgs of St. Martin and St. Antoine, witnessed a renewal of the scenes of carnage we have so often had to record and to deplore. In vain the Minister of War decreed that every person taken in the act of raising barricades should suffer according to the most rigorous laws of war, or, in other words, should bo instanily shot. The barricades wore raised, and they were defended by the indomitable courage of the population from midday to five in the afternoon against the forces of the army supported by artillery. The insurrection was quelled, it is said; but wo fear this conflict is only the forerunner of more ge neral disturbances, which can only be crushed by acts of unqualified severity, and how is it possible for a Government to submit its pretensions to the decision of the country by universal suffrage, whilst that question is in reality pending between the cannon of the army and the barricades of the people? We do not doubt that Louis Napoleon, who has shown indisputable firm nets in the conduct of this revolution, is profouudly de sirous to avoid a sanguinary conflict, and ho regrets that the blow aimed chi( fly at his rivals in the Assembly should fall with all its. hardships on the people. But such are the terrible consequences of the responsibility he has incurred. He has to face a determined Republi can party in all the cities of France, and the rural So cialism cf many departments. lie has to dispose of a captive National Assembly and a silenced press. He will soon have to provide for a population thrown out of work by this sudden renewal of a period of disorder; and even admitting that he be thus invested with dicta torial power, he has a task to perform from which the, wi.est Government in the strongest hands might recoil with dismay. ADDRESS OF THE FRENCH EXILES TO THEIR COUNTRYMEN. The following proclamation has been sent to Paris by the French refugees whose Eames are subscribed to it : TO THE PEOPLE:` THE REFUGEES IN LONDON 'WHOSE NAMES ARE SUB SCRIBED. Will you be debased ? Will you be enelsaved? Will you become henceforth an object of eternal contempt and ridicule to the oppressed peoples who awaited their deliverance at your hands ? Louis Bonaparte has j us t crow d e d i nto a few hours more crimes than it would have been thought possible to include in the life of a man. Like a thief, ho has seized apon the liberties of his country by a nocturnal surprise --a vulgar artifice, which certain people have been rash enough to call courage. He has audaciously trifled with the sanctity of the domestic hearth. By the help of his swaggering soldiery and police, he has silenced every voice in Paris except his own. At one blow he has suppressed all the journals, and has cast forth into the streets of Paris, without bread, those of your brethren whom the press supported. He has out raged, stricken down, and trampled under foot the na tional representation, not only in the persons of your enemies, but also in that of Greppo, the energetic and loyal representative of the workmen of Lyons; and in that of Nadaud, the mason, who has so often and so nobly defend e d y our int e rests in the tribune. Do you want to have a master? And do you wi s h that that master s hould be Lou is Bonaparte? You have seen the air with which ho traversed the streets of Paris, hedged in by soldiers, covered by cannon, and causing himself to be borne in triumph by his staff; adding to the crime of high treason the,inso lence of a conqueror, and treating France as a con quered country—he whose military annals can boast of nothing except the opprobrium cf the Roman expedition! That the members of the majority are expiating the ill which they have done; that the constitution which they have violated in you is violated in them; that they are undergoing the chastisement through that universal suffrage which they have destroyed; that they who have made a portion of France pass under the yoke in the state of siege, now feel upon themselves the full weight of the state of siege; that they who have sanctioned the trans portation of our brethren en masse and without judgment, now find force where they sought justice—is a lesson not more hard than merited. It is the penalty of retribution which is inflicted on them, and it is not for us to complain. But what it concerns us to understand now is, whe ther you are in the mood for a change of tyrants ? For does this crime belong to that Assembly of which he was the inspirer and accomplice? Was it not ho who, by his Ministers, proposed and passed that odious law of May against which he now rises up, because the candidature of Joinville has made him afraid? Is not he, still more than the Assembly, charged with the responsibility of having drowned the Italian Republic in the blood of the Romans, mingled with that of the French soldiers? Among so many shameful and liberticide measures, let one be mentioned, a single one, which did not exhibit Louis Bonaparte acting in concert with the Assembly. As soon as his ambition was threatened by the As sembly be became the enemy of that body. But forget not that he has been its accomplice, so long as it acted to oppress you. He now comes forward to toll you that the people is sovereign; and at the same time he dares to demand ten years of power—that is, the abdication of that so vereignty for ten years. noseis himself up as the man of the Republic—cf that Republic which is the government of equality, and at the same time be proposes the establishment of a senate —that is, nn assembly of dukes, counts, barony, and marquises. Come, let us hasten, debased and clownish as we are—let us hasten, in virtue of our sovereignty, once more to instal an aristocracy, after to many battles fought, end so much blood shed, to put down that aris tocracy for ever. It is the man of the Republic that invites us. Ho boasts of restoring to you universal suffrage, but on condition that it be worked for his private advantage, and not for yours; since ho is going for ten years to be your master. "No scrutiny of the list," he says. Do you quite understand what that means? It means that the elec tions are to be made by registers lodged in the offices of the mayor. The great swindling manoeuvre which has been practised upon France once in her history, is to be renewed. Will you permit, preciseW when it is pre tended to reatoro your right, that it filial be filched frot yoU I Moreover, to exercise the right of the suffrage, you must be free. Let him begin, then, by restoring free j speech to the journals; let the doors be flung wide open to Popular meetings; let ever man speak his mind, and 'I learn that of others. Why those bayonets? Vl' hy those cannon? To restore universal suffrage with the state of siege, is to add mock ry to falsehood. A people pro claimed soyertign, is the mantle of slavery which is thrown over your shoulders, even as the barbarian chief, in the ti me or the Lower umpire, threw the purple over the Roman emperors in placing them among his camp followers. Do you wish to be enslaved? Do you wish to be debased? Such is the cry wrung f rom us by an indignation im poss S ible to restrain. We, wh o in our exile can at least speak, do speak. But we owe more than speech to the Republic —our blood belongs to it. We know it, and shall not forget it. Bernard le Cur biste, Louis Blanc, Landolphe Lyonne, Lemard, Robillart, Suireau, Percy, Lyaz Bonct.our, Le Capitaine Fieraont, Cadet, Mi.eyer, Colin, Shanbv Puget L uss i c i n, B aron, Mercier, Nerzoy, Cache , t, Philippe Pathy, B ourn, Subit, Rotillon, Al"rrenet, Languedoc, Florentin, Rosseau, Frossard, B au , i . Auroy, Daran c hi, Mi c h on, Bart holona6, Charles. ' December 3, 1851. DECEMBER 5 3 1851. ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS The report of the committee appointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to inquire into and report on the recent Arctic expedition s in search of Sir John Franklin, together with minutes of evidence taken before the committee, and papers connected with the subject, has just been printed The following is a copy of the report : Admiralty,Arcqc Committee, Nov, 20, 1851. Sir,-1. The Committee appointed by th;ir Lo;d. ships' letter of the 22d October to inquire into and re. port on the conduct of the officers entrusted with the command of the late expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin, and whether everything was done by them to carry into effect their instructions, and to prosecute the search for the missing ships, commenced their pro ceedings on the 24th ult.; and conceiving that the only distinct inculpations are those contained in Mr. Penny's letters to their Lordships of the 15th September and 10th October, we considered it our duty to direct our attention in.the first instance to this part of the sub ject, and we accordingly examined Mr. Penny himself and all the principal officers of the Lady Franklin and Sophia, with the view of ascer taining satisfactorily every circumstance connected with the exploration of Wellington Strait and the channels discovered above it, and how far Mr. Penny's subsequent statements are in conformity with those he so distinctly expressed in his letters of the 4th and 11th August, addressed to Captain Austin; and having ob tained all the information in our power, and most care fully considered the whole question, we are of opinion that Captain Austin could only put one construstion on Nlr. Penny's two letters referred to, and that, having been thus assured by him that the open water found above Wellington Straits was (to use his own expres sion), from " the fearful rate at which the tide runs (not less than six knots) through the sounds that divide the channel, dangerous even for a boat, much more to a ship, unless clear of ice, which from its present appearance would not be so that season," impracticable for naviga tion at that time, and that the shores and islands on both sides had been thoroughly examined by the explor ing parties, without any traces of the missing ships being discoverable, we do not think Captain Austin would have been justified in commeneing a fresh search in a direction concerning which he naturally considered himself to have received such authentic information. 2. It will be observed that in Mr. Penny's letter of the 4th August, 1851 (from which we extract the pre ceding paragraph), he distinctly acquaints Captain Austin of his fixed determination to return immediately to England, and that nothing is to be found in it in any way expressive of his wish.for a further search in Wellington Strait, and the channels connected with it. In his journal, also, several remarks occur, all equally discouraging and fully indicative of his opinions at that period; and we can only account for his subsequent change of language on his arrival in England by his considering (as he himself states in his evidence) that " he found everybody disappointed;" that it bad boon said, " more might have been done;" and that " he therefore wished to have the means of going out again;" but we are bound to state that the evidence brought before us has not, in our opinion, corroborated the state ment that ho expressed to Captain Austin at the time any such sentiments; and it will be seen that Captain Austin distinctly denies having received tiny communica tion to that effect. 3. Some desultory conversation, however, certainly appears to have taken place on this subject when Capt. Austin and Mr. Penny met on the 11th of August, 1851, and it was for this reason that the former (very prudently and properly, in our opinion) pressed Mr. Penny so strongly for his opinion in writing. 4. We s think, therefore, that Captain Austin could only form his judgment on Mr. Penny's written com munications, which, although very laconic, were suffi ciently explicit; and that, under all the circum stances of the case, much weight is due to the feel ing expressed by Cvtain Austin in his evidence, that as Mr. Penny's expedition was, equally with his own, equipped at the public expense, and receiving its orders from the Admiralty, although independent of his authority, he considered himself bound to abide by the strongly expressed opinion of the officer who had, by mutual agreement, undertaken that particular por tion of the scorch, that " all had been doLo which it was in the power of ma❑ to accomplish." 5. We beg to remark on this part of the subject, that although Mr. Penny endeavours to draw a distinction between Wellington Strait ard the channel to the north west, which ho has since named Queen Victoria's Chan nel, no such distinction appears in the track chart deli vered by him to Captain Austin at the time, and which we annex to this report; and we therefore think that Captain Austin could not fairly be expected to recognise any distinction between the upper and lower parts of this channel. 6. It appears to have been under this impression, which wo think Captain Austin fully just►fied in enter taining, that, after finding Wellington Strait closed, the ice still presenting the same impenetrable barrier it had done in 1850, ho decided on occupying the remainder of the navigable season in the examination of Jones's Sound, to which inlet his own instructions, as well as Mr. Pen ny's, directed attention, but which the latter had been unable to explore in the preceding season. 7. We think that considerable benefit might have arisen, especially in reference to future operations in Wellington Strait, if one of the expeditions had re mained near the entrance about a fortnight longer, in order to obtain the latest information of the state of the ice in that direction, and therefore the probable prac ticability of the navigation of this strait, and we think this might have been accomplished by Mr. Penny, with out involving any serious risk of being detained during the winter; but we are clearly of opinion that as no certain traces of Sir John Franklin's ships had been met with in any direction beyond their wintering place at Boechey Island in 1845.6, and no record of the route in tended to be pursued by them could be discovered, after the moat diligent and repeated search (thus leaving this question a mere matter of conjecture), both Captain Austin and Mr. Penny were fully justified by the tenor of their Lordships' instructions in not risking their de tention in the ice during another winter; and we beg to add that all the most experienced Arctic officers in both expeditions appear to have unanimously concurred in opinion as to the expediency of returning to England. 8. With respect to the conduct of the officers en trusted with the command of the expeditions and several exploring parties, we most gladly express our highest and most unqualified admiration of the zeal, energy, in trepidity, and perseverance with which every individual amongst them performed their respective duties. They appear to have been animated by a common feeling of determination to endure every hardship, and brave every danger, in their endeavours to obtain some traces of their missing countrymen. The journeys accomplished under the most difficult and trying circumstances, far exceed, both in distance and duration, any to be found in the previous records of Arctic exploration in those parallels of latitude; and the arrangements made by Captain Austin and Mr. Penny were so well considered and so complete that all their parties returned (with only one exception) in perfect health, and without having experienced any sufferings beyond those which were inseparable from severe fatigue in such inclement regions. .0. With respect to the results of the late expedition, as regards the search for the missing ships, on which their Lordships desire cur opinion, we may remark that, in the first plec; it is a matter of no small interest and importance to have ascertained with certainty the exact position in which they passed the winter of 1845-6, while the careful and minute exploration of the coast to the southward and westward by Captain Ommaney and Lieutenant M'Clintock without discovering any traces whatever of Sir John Franklin, would seem to afford a very strong presumption that he did not pass that way; and conjecture, therefore, naturally turns towards Wel lington Strait, to which it is well known he had often looked, as affording ono chance of a passage to the north-west, and which we see by Mr. Penny's account of his to examination form n t Ic a o s f t . the a p oupperssi blpossible outlett o f i t n h e t h c a h t a nn el, ap pearsdirection. 10. It is not without considerable hesitation and anxiety that we proceed to reply tourthoepinlaisotn,pnoainniet which their Lordship s request your " what benefits can b e expected from any further re search, with the m eans an d d i rections in which the ly, on com mittee are of opinion that such search should be grieveat being prose cuted." 11. We should deeply capable of treating with coldness or indifference consi natural and praiseworthy feelings of those who are still without certain information derthede their nearest and dearest relatives, who of thisfatenaturally cling cling to hope e , in and t... s state h o se " even against hothoughts (as might he expected) turn eagerly towardsw further explorations ; in any and every di rect i on; but we have felt, at th e same time, while cunsideriug calmly and carefully this difficult question, that we have an equally icapottatit duty to perform towards those brave and meritorious men whose lives must be risked in this arduous and perilous search, and to reflect in what manner it may be best conducted with a dee regard to their safety. 12. Taking, therefore, all these circumstances into consideration, we have, after a most careful and anxious deliberation, decided on recommending to their Lord ships that an expedition should be dispatched next year to Barrow's Strait, consisting of the tame ships which composed Captain Austin's division, namely, two sailing ships and two steamers, with others to proceed direct to Beechey Island, and to consider that harbour—be yond which wo think ono sailing ship and one steamer should on no account bo taken—as the base of future operations. 13. We consider any further exploration in the direc tion of Melville Island or to the south-west of Cape Walker wholly uanecesoy; 4/14 r t We Reins th erefore propose that all the strength and energ y r a tion should be di recte d towards theenee xaminati on of the of the expedi arnedof opinion l upper part of Wellington Strut, and vv — e that by the adopti on o f t h e came careful sidered arrangement s w hi c h were attended b wanenlhCon- - 'll- tisfectory results on th e l ate occasion this examination danger may be effected with ou t any ser i ous risk of loss or den 14. If, on arriving at th e proposed rendezvous early. in August, the barrier of ice at the entrance of the strait renders any attempt to penetrate it unsafe or imprudent, it may, perhaps, still be possible to convey boats on runners, or sledges, or by any small " l anes " which may over, and lau nc h them into the open water above, and by this means depots of provisions may be advanced to the most convenient points, and such further information obtained during the remainder of the navigable season as might very much Lcilitate the operations of the en suing spring. 15. These operations must, in that case, be commenced as early as possible in the season of 1853, and pushed forward with as much rapidity as is consistent with pru dence, it being clearly understood by all the exploring parties that they must return to the depot at Beechey Island in good time for their embarkation by the middle of August at latest. The object in view would be to ex amine the upper part of Wellington Strait, as far be yond Mr. Penny's north-western advance as possible; and if Sir John Franklin did really proceed in that di rection, it appears highly improbable that some traces of his expedition should not be discovered by the exploring partie s in their search. 16 . If, on t h e ot h er h a nd, Wellingt on S tra i t i s found open and navigable on the arrival of the expedition in judge such a the summer of 1852, we think one of the sailing ships, with a steamer, might proceed at once to take advantago of this o pportunity, if the officer commanding should but with the mostmeasure sa fe , to an a d dr b a e nce th t u o s placed in winter quarters in a more favourable position for commencing thel 1-, i n the spring of 1853, ditln ctinju an n d eti p o r n u e d no n t t land set!rc,, such a distance as to endanger their return to the depot, or their communication with it in that year; and it should be enjoined with equal strictn ess , that in the event of any irr e p ara b le disaster to this ships so proceeding, or if they sh ou ld b e too firmly fixed i n t h e i ce to b e extri cated durin g t h e summer off 1853 doned, and th e crews brought d , they are to be alma onpe to the depot. 17. It i s , h owever, proper to provide contingency, na me l y, that of for one possible the at a Into season rendering th e di fficulty of travelling res Beechey Island more hazardous to their remaining by the ships (if they are only !westhan their tiler winter; and in that case the division fr"en up) anc" Island, which will be still amply provided at Beechey provi sions, &c., must rema i n also until the follo wing but this is, we h o p e , an i mprobable suppositionwing fear confident belief i s , th at, w i th the improvede' and our and appliances of all kinds which past exper7euniPin"s dictate, such an expl orat i on will be made in the willy part of 1853 as to enable th e w h ole expedition to reeri tau to England before the close o f t h e navigable season. ra 18. It is obviously impossible to provide in a report of this kind for more remote and less probable eontio. gencies; but their Lordships' instructions to Captain Austin (par. 4 and 7) contain all the discretionary power with which an officer under suc h c i rcumstances can be entrusted; and we conclude they will be embo died in any future orders on the same subject. 19. We have thought it right to request from the several gentlemen named in the margin their opi n i ons on this interesting but most difficult question; and we an nex their replies, to which we beg to call their Lordships' attention. 20. We have also requested from Captain Austin and the officers specially employed in his travelling parties such suggestions as to practicable improvements in equipments, clothing, and provisions, as their recent experience so well qualifies them to offer. They are annexed to this report, and will be found of considerable importance. 21. Althcugh our instructions do not advert to the report of the loss of the missing ships received from an Esquimaux named Adam Beck, and to which Sir John Ross in his evidence still attaches much weight. we beg to state that a paper written by Adam Beck, in the pre sence of Sir J o h n R oss and Captain Ommanney' end purporting to be th e su b stance of information comm uni cated to him by another Esquimaux, now in England, named Erasmus York, on the subject of the loss of the ships and the murder of the crews, has, on being trans lated before us by a Moravian missionary well ac quainted with the Esquimaux language, proved not to contain a single word relating to this occurrence. 22. Adam Beck's subsequent deposition, which was sent to Copenhagen for translation, has not yet been re turned; but if their Lordships should consider any fur ther inquiry necessary, we would only express an earnest hope that it may bo conducted separately, and not al lowed to interfere with the early arrival of the proposed expedition in Barrow's Strait. 23. With respect to the efforts now making to afford relief to the missing ships in the direction of Behring's Strait, we do not venture to offer any suggestions, be yond a hope that, until further accounts are received from Captain Colliuson and Commander M'Clure, the Plover may be kept fully provisioned. We have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servants, Wm. BOWLES, Rear-Admiral. ARTHUR FANSIIAWE, Rear-Admiral. W. E. PARRY, Captain. F. W. BEECHEY, Captain. GEORGE BACK, Captain. To J. Parker, E:q , M.P., &e., Admiralty. [HE UNITED STATES. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT IN NEW YORK. LIVERPOOL, TIIIIIODAY NIGHT, 9.15.—We have just received three days later advices from the United States by the Collins steam-ship Baltic, which sailed from New York direct to this port for the 22d ult. The Baltic brings over about fifty passengers, and specie to the extent of 1,500,000 dolls. The city of New York had been the scene of a heartrending calamity, the particulars of which are detailed in the advices to hand. In the ninth ward school house a false alarm of fire had been raised. ' The school, which is a very large one, numbers 1,800 children, and they made a rush to the doors. Unfor tunately the banisters of the stairs gave way, and the scholars were precipated downwards, upwards of fifty of them being instantly killed, and seventy-five in:, jured. The political intelligence to band is not important. Business was is an easy condition, the large expor tation of specie not having effected to any great ex tent mercantile operations in the leading marts. Stocks and securities had made a slight advance, and the money market was in a better state than when the Canada left. The exports of precious metals were likely to continue. .„, Bieadstufl's were not in active request. Prices were much as formerly. Western Canal Flour, 3 dolls. 53c. to 3 dolls. 62fc. per barrel. Gennessee prime Wheat, 920. to 94c. per lb. ; Indian Corn, round 3 allow, 60c. to 62c. per bushel, steady ; Indian Meal, 3 dolls. 25c. to 3 dolls. 37ic. per barrel. The cotton market at New York was quiet, and business to a moderate extent only had been done. Prices were quite steady as follow :—New Orleans and Mobile mid. fair to fair, 9fc. to lOic. per lb.; Uplands mid. fair to fair, Bc. to 9c. per lb. Provisions were unchanged. Exchange on London, 1101 to 1104, in good de mand ; Paris, 5 12 ; li am b urgh, 36f to 362; Bre men, 79 4 1 - to 79f. COWES, IS - LE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, DEC. 4. from France, o landed at E ast p Cowes. Antwerp for America, have been ROYAL C HARITY .—T wo hundred f p h d ila fi d l e t l ee h n ia, of the passengers i n th e s hip known to her Majesty, orders were given th at t h ey supplied with coffee, bread, and so u p, f rom an should be On the situation of these unfortunates bring made establishment fitted up for the purpose by her Majesty's orders at Kingston Farm, on the royal estate. The royal children contributed from their little gardens turnips, carrots, and ether vegetables for the soup, and their little barrows may be seen every morning loaded for the unfortunate foreigners. It is surprising how the ship could sustain the terrible shock that she rec4ved from some unknown vessel on the night of the 24th of November; she was cut down nearly to the water's edge, her windlass broken, and such was the force with which she was struck that the planks were driven out on her starboard side; indeed, she is such a wreck that it is thought that she is past repairing. Her cargo is being discharged into warehouses. DEATH OF CAPTAIN JAMES WILKINSON, R 14T This distinguished officer departed this life at three ear iVest o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Gurnard, Cowes, after an illness of only , and actively lie was hale and hearty the day Pre"clin''of his farm. employed superintendfeig the business at the cap- Captain Wilkinson was second in Admiral Napier; at that ture of Don Miguel's fleet by Aci Commodore Reeves. time he was bettor known re a d s ro 's fleet was given to duration. When the command of the gallant Napier, hi e first o f Wilkinson as second in Cowes, to secure the s ervices gallant o ffi cer never trod w h is ur to start for the quarter-deck. a D° :t business iness few command, than whoa: a under na sgat e Nn"11"13"IW of R e stand that the trustees in the life-boat report- - namely,he price stated ND of P a thelz it RoyalL r r E noe HarbourT.— builder for t they intend cordially to co-operate with the have liberally purchased . this excellent boat from its spirited 250., and that Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, in carrying out its benevolent objects, of which society his Grace the Duke of N or th umberland is the presi dent. We hope th at other wealthy trusts of harbours will follow the laudable example set them by their Ramsgate brethren, for the want of life-boats , n the coasts of the United Kingdom is really a disgrace to us as a great maritime na tion. 't here are only about 95 of these life-preserving vessels on the wilt le extent of our rocky coast, and about one-halt of them are reported as unserviceable. The If•tters from Calcutta received on Wednesday by the overland mail express great misgivings as to the re sult of the operations which have been carried on throughout the year. Since the India Company abolished their system of of making advances on produce, the joint-stock ban_k e s it ,. s i . _ said, have adopted ths practice to an extent thatr.L_c! the greater evils than were then complained ef. le vel markets are constantly kept above the . e multiplied would harmonise with prices on this d small capital, which have of course greatly ursue a constant since the crisis of 1547, are induced to P o no failures had course of speculation. Thus far,ha ppily, tohave been sustained taken place, but the losses known naturaland houses of traders surprise that the the part of the more cautious ou led with the conviction sys tem has continued so long, coupled rt must end in serious die that unless it be speedily checked both en exports awl imports are such as to have created on &atom ~' I 0 ' 0 0 . 1 site 0 11 S I P - Ge , ber' )10 0. ro~ d . j ald. $i c? St' beeli 14 40 o Ory c 1 ~I ~~' r Plitt 101 2)4 10 4 11 1111 3 E'ox : an 132