The Sun. — London, England, 1853-01-22 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA. We have received three days' later news from Melbourne (South Australia), viz., to the 15th November inclusive, which possesses considerable interest : THE COLONY OF VICTORIA. ( From the Melbourne Argun, of November 15.) The yield of gold still continues very large, al though it scarcely keeps pace with the increasing number of diggers. It is not to be supposed, however, that the gold is inexhaustibly abundant, and can be always obtained by the simplest processes. It is evident that in proportion as a given locality is worked, the necessity for finer scientific modes of operation will increase. That necessity is beginning to be felt at the most prolific fields, and the average gain of the digger is observably diminishing. Gold digging is of all pursuits the most fortuitous, not only with respect to individual success, but in re gard to the auriferous capabilities of given localities. The wealth of a particular spot cannot be known till it is fully worked, and this involves the neces sity of unsuccessful labour in some cases. Hence arise the fluctuations in the pursuit—the alternate success and failure of individuals, and the changing value of particular localities. That gold does abound to a most surprising extent every one admits, but it is not so easy to point out the spot in which the digger can work with certain success. The whole pursuit seems to be a series of experiments at best; the marvel is that here they should have been so amazingly successful. The average amount brought down by Govern moat escort still keeps up to nearly 100,000 ounces a week ; but at the same time it must be borne in mind that the number of diggers have increased by some thousands. The largest mass of gold yet found was picked up a month ago at Bendigo, near the spot where the 281 b. lump was found. It weighed 461 b., and w as valued at 2,1001. It was a s i ngu l ar specimen deeply coated with quartz in many places. It has been sent to England by the Ch •owrin ghee, for exhibi tion. The Ovens Diggings are not proving as produc tive as was at first anticipated. The experiment, however, has not been fully carried out there. The general impression seems to be that there is a very rich field in that district. MELBOURNE GOLD CIRCULAR. A very steady business has been transacted throughout the week at an advance of 3d. on last week's quotations ; the market opened at 695. 3d., and left off at 695. 6d. By the arrival of two escorts this week from the Ovens, bringing collectively 3,190 ounces, parties who have been kept in suspense willnow be able to form an opinion comparatively betwixt the likeli hood of success at this new field, or those of Forest Creek or Bendigo. The first two escorts that ar rived from Ballarat in October, 1851, only brought 2,199 ounces, and many diggers at the Ovens, from the Sydney side, are keeping their gold dust to for ward there, when an opportunity occurs. The crowds that were hurrying to the Ovens have been partially stopped, and are retracing their steps, or returning to Melbourne. There is no doubt that in course of time these new fields will be thoroughly tested, and their true value found out. The sea son is approaching when this can be done, as from the nature of the soil it is more suited for summer than for winter operations. The expectations of diggers are getting so extravagant since their great success at the older fields that it is no ordinary quantity in a new field that will satisfy them. We have seen this instanced in the Ballarat fields ; they were all but deserted for Mount Alexander, but are again being occupied, and are handsomely rewarding those who are persevering. The same thing may take place at the Ovens. The long looked for steamers Sydney and Great Britaix have both arrived this week within five days of each other, although the latter left Liver pool 21 days after the Sydney left London. Their arrival had not the slightest effect upon the mar ket ; in fact the price has now reached that margin that the purchaser for remittance hesitates whether to send gold dust or bank drafts. Should the banks alter the rate of discount, gold dust will be affected in a corresponding degree. With the present high price of gold, and ten per cent. charged on advance by the banks, the purchaser on speculation is shut out of the market altogether. The amount of specie received during the last two weeks is 352,8001. _ _ Exchange on London on drafts against gold, by pothecated 40s. per ounce, and ten per cent. dis count by all the banks. Freight of gold, delivered at the Bullion Office, London, qd per ounce, and 64d. by steamer. MARKET .NEWS-(THIS DAY.) COVENT GARDEN. Very large supplies of vegetables aro on sale here for the time of year. The demand for them is steady, at stationary prices. Good samples of potatoes, from their scar c ity, are commanding m ore money. Frait was firm, at full quotations. FRUIT.—Pino apples, 3s 6d to 6s Ckl ; hot-house gra p es , 8s to 10s; Hambro ditt o is to is 6d per lb ; apples, dessert, 4s 6d to 7s 6d ; cooking ditto, 3s to Os per bushel ; pears, 4s to 8s per half sieve ; lemons, is to 2s Od ; new oranges, 6s to 10s per 100 ; filberts, 10d to is per lb ; cob-nuts, 1008 per 1001bs. VEGETABLES.—Cabbag es, 8d to 1s ; Brussels sp rou t s , is 6d to 2s 6d per half sieve ; greens, is 3d to 2s 3d per dozen bunches 7 • cauliflowers, 8d to 2s per dozen ; potatoes, 80s to 1.508 per ton ; turnips, 28 to 2 6d ; carrots, 2s 6d to 4s per dozen bunches ; celery, 8d to is 3d per bundle ; spinach, is to 2s per half sieve; onions, is 6d to 2s per half sieve ; leeks, id to 2d per bunch ; shallots, 6d to 8d ; garlic 6d to 8d per lb ; endive, is to is 6d per score ; small salad 2d per punnet ; horseradish, is to 4s per bundle ; parsley, 2s to 3s per dozen bunches. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL. Geese, 3s 6d to 7s Od ; Turkeys, 4s to 10s each ; Ducks, is 6d to 2s 6d; tame Rabbits, is 3d to is 6d; wild ditto, 10d to ls; Pigeons, 4d to 8d each; roasting Pigs, 4s Od to Is each; Surrey Fowls, 6s Od to 9s Od; ditto Chickens, 4s Od to 6s Od; barn-door Fowls, 2s 6d to 6s Od per couple; Pheasants, 3s Od to 4s Od.; Partridges, is 6d to 2s Od; Hares, 2s 6d, to 3s Od; Leverets, Os Od to Os Od; Woodcocks, is 6d to 2s 3d; Grouse, is 6d to 2s Od; Snipes, 9d to is; Teal, 6d to 10d; wild Ducks, is Od to is 6d; Widgeons, 9d to is 3d; and Plovers, 4d to 9d each. English Eggs, lOs Od to 12s Od; French ditto, 8s Od to 12s Od per 120; fresh Butter, lld to is 2d per lb. ' BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 7d to 70; of household ditto, sid to 63d per 41b loaf. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; Veal, Se 4d to 48 6d; Pork, 2s 10d to 4s Od per 81bs. WHITECHAPEL. Beef from 28 4d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 2d to 48 4d ; Teal, 38 Od to 4s 4d ; Pork, 2s 8d to 4s Od per 8 lbs. by the carcase. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 4s Od to 9s Od ; Brills, is 6d to 5s Od; Cod Fish, 3s Od to 7s Od each; Soles, 8d to 2s Od per pair ; Eels, 6d to is per lb ; Lobsters, 8d to 2s Od ; Crabs, 8d to 2s Od ; * Whitings, 2s 3d to 6s Od per dozen ; Haddocks, 4d to is ; Doreys, 2s Od to 6s Od; Mullets, Od to Os each ; Common Oysters, 7s Od to 16s Od; Natives, 30s Od to 36s Od per bushel; Mackerel, 10d to is each; Smelts, is Od per do zen; Scate, 4d to 7d per lb; Shrimps, i s 6d to, 2s 3d per gallon; Bloaters, is 2d to is 3d per dozen; Fresh Herrings, is Id to is 641 per dozen. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides ' 561 b to 641 b, Od t o 2d ; 641 b to 721 b, 2d to 2/d; 721 b to 801 b, 24d to 20; 801 b to 881 b, 2Ad to 2id; 881 b to 961 b, 2id to 3d ; 961 b t o 1 041 b, 3d to 31d ; 1041 k to 1121 b Od to Od. Horn hides, 53 Od to Os Od; calf skins, light, is Od to 2s Od; ditto, full, 3s 6d to 5s Od; polled sheep, 7s 3d to 9s 6cl; Rents and Half-breds, 6s 3d to 7. 6d ; A nd Downs, 4s 6d to 5s 9d. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. Meadow hay, 21 15s to 4/ Os ; clover ditto, 3115 s to 510 s ; and straw, 11 5s to 1/ 12a per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 21 16s to 4/ ; clover ditto, 3115 s to 4115 s ; and straw, 116 a to 1113 s per load. Trade dull, at late rates. WHITECHAPEL. —Meadow hay, 2115 a to 41 Os ; clover ditto, 3115 s to 51 Os ; and straw, 114 s to 11 12s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. SHAMEFUL SCENE IN A CHURCHYARD - Yesterday (Friday) afternoon considerable excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood of Christchurch, Broadway, West minster, in consequence of the following occlergurrymencaen of:— Notice havi n g been given to the officiating clergyman the above church, that a child was to be buried on Fri day (yesterday) afternoon, the rev. gentleman attended e to read th e serv i ce over th e d ea d ; but when he arrived at the grave the parents and friends of the deceased, most of whom we re m a l es , refused to allow the burial service to be read, saying that they were Roman Catho lics, and the c hild wou ld b e d amne d if t h e Church or Engla n d prayers were repeated over it. The clergyman told th em that he would not allow the child to be buried 'without the n ecessary procee di ngs were gone through, and pointed out to them the usual practice adopted, ircra which he said he could not nor would not depar . They insisted that the body should be covered over and without the prayers being offered up, said unless the clergyman gave orders for such to be done they would . fill u p the grave themselves. The rev. gentleman still maintaining that the child should not be buried, two or three of the mourners pulled off their gloves, and seizing the spades in great anger, commenced filling up the grave, the mother of the child standing by moaning and crying in a most piteous manner. The clergyman ordered the spades to be taken away and the earth which had already been thrown into the grave to be removed from off the coffin. This was accomplished after some difficulty by the sexton and some other per sons, and the matter began to assume a serious aspect, hundreds of persons having assembled round the church yard, the Irish threatening what they would do unless the child was allowed to be buried without the Protes tant service. After nearly an hour's discussion the clergyman was allowed to proceed, but the mourners said they did not believe what he w as sayi ng , an d that the child w ou ld b e damned. The grave h been fi up the wh o l e of the friends of the deceased fell on thei lled r knees on the grave, calling on the Virgin wit prayers froth, being read. ness that th ey Mary had don e a ll i n their Power to preventprevent t - he- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEICING, JANUARY 22, 1853. SPAIN. . The Madrid journals of the 16th contain no news of importance. The Madrid Gazette publishes a Royal decree, appointing Don Joaquim Perez Under-Secretary of State of the Ministry of Fin ance, and replacing him as Director-General of Accounts by Don Augusto Amblard. A Madrid letter of the 16th states, that on the preceding day the French ambassador gave a grand dinner to the Duke de Rianzares, the Ministers, and the mem bers of the diplomatic corps. DENMARK. It is stated that the electionl for the Volksthing are fixed, by the King's letters patent, for the' 26th February, and that the Diet will be convoked as early as possible, most probably on the 6th March. The' Dagbladet states that a note has lately been received from the Germanic Diet, to the effect that the federal army is to be augmented in the proportion of 50,000 men, and inviting the Govern men, in consequence, to raise the contingent of Holstein. The Council of State has not yet come to any r esolution on the subject. A letter from Copenhagen of the 14th, in the Prussian Gazette, says :—" It was rumoured here that the Danes of the Eider intended making a demonstration in favour of the Volksthing lately dissolved. They were, it was said, to proceed to the new market-place, and shout in its favour. Nothing whatever of the kind took place. The Government sent this day to the Duke of Augus tenberg his plate, which has been lying at the bank since 1848. The paper of Councillor Verstedt on the succession has appeared ; it combats the articles which were published on the subject in the Fffldre lander, and the assertions of Baron Holmfeldt on the nullity in point of law of the hereditary preten sions of the Holstein-Gottorp branch to the grand ducal part of Holstein." TURIN. The Parlament° of Turin states from Milan, 9th inst., that a democratic club has been discovered there by the police, and about 20 of its members arrested. Many domiciliary visits have followed, which have led to the discovery of a few stilettoes and prohibited pamphlets ; but the charge of high treason is not yet clearly made out. DINNER TO MR. INGERSOLL—A public dinner to Mr. Ingersoll, the American Minister, was held in Bir mingham last night, Mr. Muntz in the chair ; and amongst other gentlemen present were. Mr. Scholefield, M.P.,-Mr. Spooner; M.P., and Lord Calthorpe. Mr. Ingersoll expressed a hope that the nations, England and America, Would always maintain their present, friendly relations, THE FRENCH EMPIRE. It was said last Thursday that the journals had been forbidden to say anything on the great subject which at this moment above all others most deeply interests the hearts of his Majesty's loyal subjects. Certain it is, that with the exception of a few lines in the Patrie, having for their object to name ex pressly the future Empress, the papers contain nothing regarding the marriage, and, perhaps, even thus much would not have been authorised only for the rumour that had been got up yesterday by the desperate bulls, that it was a Princess of Bavaria who had accepted the hand of the Emperor. The Patrie describes Mademoiselle de Montijo, Duchess de Theba, the future Empress, to be the daughter of a gallant officer, the Count de Montijo, who defended the cause of the French Pmpire up to the walls of Paris in 1814, and that her family had for centuries past been allied to the greatest houses in Europe. The Moniteur contains a long decree regulating the mode of keeping the accounts of his Majesty's household, and of all matters connected with the civil list and revenues of the Crown, and the disbursements of the same. The Government papers, the Psys and the Constitutionnel, have—the one, an article on emigration; and the other, on the annexation of Pegu by the British ; tending both to the same point, the consolidation of French power in Algeria. If the Pays notices the emi gration of British, German, and other northern nations towards the United States and the gold countries, it is for sake of dissuading the French from enterprises unsuited to their natural genius and disposition, and of concentrating their atten tion upon the vast country which lies opposite their own shores. Not only would families and indivi duals profit, it is said, by removal to Algeria, but French power in the Mediterranean would be extended and ,consolidated. If, on the other hand, the Constitutionnel takes elaborate and extended views of British conquests in the East, it is for sake of showing that inroads being once made upon un civilised States by a civilised power, the latter must, as by inevitable necessity, be carried on until the former be thoroughly subdued. Such has been the case with Britain in India, and such, it says, will be the case with France in Algeria. Accord ing to this mode of treating the subject, we may be prepared for steady advances towards Egypt, until in due course of time Egypt itself be invaded and absorbed as by inevitable necessity. Why should not the Empire of Morocco, too, be included in this vision of conquest ? Perhaps it is. At all events we are led to perceive that there will be a renewal before long of important military, and it may be naval, operations in Africa, to which the overbearing conduct of the French Ambassador at Constantinople may, on the diplomatic side, be considered a necessary preliminary. The Union, makes the anniversary of the death of Louis XVI. the subject of the following remarks : " The 21st January is not only a day of tears, it is one of meditation, where serious reason explains all de cadences and all modern calamities. To kill a king was always more than an act of parricide, but to do so with legal deliberation and with the calculated consciousness of the consequences of such a murder, is a crime which the human tongue cannot name. The will of the Con vention was not to kill a man, but to destroy in that man everything that expressed an idea of authority, of respect, and of tradition—that is to say, of society ; the regicide of 1793 was the consummation of all the theories of which the last end was chaos. Thus in regicide is substantially found all revolutions, from those which i ealise themselves by the orgies of the street, to those which are organised by the reprisals of tyranny. At other troubled periods of history kings were seen to perish by the violence of poisoners or assassins. But that king of regicide, however terrible it might be, left royalty standing ; the usurpation of thrones itself al lowed to subsist that essential idea of command with out ?which there is no society possible, no security, no liberty—in short, nothing except the exercise of force. Modern regicide does not in any way re semble the historical assassinations of kings ; Louis XVI. was killed in order to destroy royalty. Thus the majority of the regicide votes affected to declare that the capital crime of Louis XVI. was for having been a king. This even sadly explains what distinction ought always to be made between the virtues of the private man and the duties of the social man in Royalty. Louis XVI. as a Christian might devote him self to martyrdom ; as the King he could not do so ; for as the King he expressed in his person that which makes the life of the people, and principally authority, and it was not in his power to consent to a sacrifice which implied that of the people themselves. As to the regi cides, what did the private man and his innocence con cern them ? They had no need to be ferocious, and friends of blood ; some among them, perhaps, were not so ; they had no need to inquire into the virtues of Louis XVI. ; all rendered him homage from the bottom of their conscience. They wished to exter minate Royalty, and to do so they had only to give free scope to their infernal logic. This was the cause why many afterwards took credit to themselves for having been consistent, and, in their opinions, mild and •humane ; and who knows whether society did not at times regard in a serious light that pretension to honesty on the part of the regicides ? We have seen some raised to great honours--sad indication of the degradation of souls and of the change in moral ideas ! But deliberate regicide does not the less preserve its character. It is the con summation of the theories of right which are drawn up beyond the ideas of divinity. So long as political so ciety reposes on conventions of force, regicide is the sanction of it. Thus, while Christians weep in the temples over the death of a king, politicians are inte rested in meditating in their palaces on the last end of revolutions. May the tears on the one side, and the re flections on the other, be not sterile ! All of us have an interest in knowing whether modern society remains under the action of materialist principles, at the end of which is found the death of kings and th e servitude of people." The Union, in another article says : " The anniversary of the death of King Louis XVI., which was a day of mourning under the Restoration, had been a fete under the Directory. On the 21st Ja nuary, 1796, a pupil of the Polytechnic School pub lished, in one of the first journals of that day (the Censeur des Journaux) a protest against such a fete, for which he was a few days after dismissed from the school." There is an article in the Constitutionnel on the war in India. The spirit of it is friendly to Eng land. We extract as follows the concluding por tion : " England has set her foot on the shores of the Birman Empire, and the occupation now more or less restricted may be considered as definitive. This is a new and very important conquest added to the already vast possessions of Great Britain in the regions of the extreme East. There is nothing in these successive extensions of Eng lish power in Asia which ought to surprise us. They are in some measure imposed and even justified by the neces sities of policy ; and if the facts were examined in a more elevated point of view, they cannot inspire in Europe either jealousy or anger. Since France has renounced the exercise in India of any preponderance, it is England which in those distant countries represents the genius of Europe, subjecting by turns to the laws of civilisation and commerce the degenerate races of Eastern Asia. The nationality of the Birmans, of the Siamese, &c., is like that of the Hindoos, destined in a More or less distant future to come under the demomination of Europe. Why exclaim beforehand against these re sults which will benefit, not only Great Britain, but all other civilised nations, which will see opened to them immense markets for the exchange of their manufactured productions against natural productions and raw mate rials ? Is it not besides known that the English them selves engaged in the path of conquests and annexations of territory are no longer able to stop ? They are now compelled to make war from an apparently futile motive ; to compel reparation for an exaction which only amounts to a small sum, but which must be immediately repressed, for in Eastern countries the slightest injustice, or the most trifling insult, can never be borne. Subsequently they must again take up arms to support their first de monstration, and to preserve the territory which they have occupied, and security will not be definitively attained until the absolute submission of all the native princes or governors has been obtained. All these consequences prolong the struggle which soon becomes a war of na tionality. While we thus judge of the conduct of Eng land, not according to the inspirations of an illiberal jealousy, but with the feeling of political necessities, we at the same time explain by what succession of events France has been led to undertake the entire conquest of wasextant oimf time when, Algeria at from the Mediterranean to the Desert. There r , nas we te w rs is o b f ed th t e o coast, stop b a y nd oo o n f fi a nin c g ertain selves to our making the Arabs respect our frontiers ; the Experience has since system of a restricted occupation was then extolled. or keep noting. It is we shown that such a system was ainst the a im practicable, and thatwere in some measure to take all ways the same in wars entered on not, therefore, seek t by Europe ag • African or Asiatic races. Let us England in the E ck to dispute the right of conquest of power rovto protest vainly against the ez tension of her t co l untries where we have in a re b a s l t i a t i y n n fr o o p m re t t b e e ns fr io o n g s ; et England, on her side, frequently ridiculous comments which makes on throughthe ssubject the eet f organ occupation of her most accredited of Algeria ; j s o h u e rnals let her allow us to act freely on de volved to us by right of civilisation andand which has let her judge with more equity the conquest, and policy in the north of Africa. necessities of our The Moniteur contains a decree signed by the Emperor, and countersigned by M. Fould, Minis ter of State, regulating everythin g which concerns the budget of the Imperial household. It declaresB that the Minister of State is each year t o dray up a financial statement for the receipts and expenses of the Imperial household for the ensuing twelve months, which he is to lay before the Emperor for approval. The various services included in the budget extend from the Ist January to the 31st December of each year, but supplementary credits can be accorded by decree. The credits belonging to one chapter cannot be transferred to another, unless by a decision of the Minister. At the end of each month the Minister is to receive from the grand officers of the crown a statement of the pre sumed expenses for the ensuing month. The receipts are composed of the dotatioli of the civil list, of the revenues of the domains and forests, of thinnings of plantations, concessions of water-courses, produce of manufactories, sale of catalogues at the museums, the produce of the sheep-farm of Rambouillet, and sundry other 'sources of revenue. The whole of these revenues are collected by the Treasurer-General of the Crown, and by his agents. All leases, sales, and concessions are subject to the appr ova l of ie Minister of State ; all receipts are given from a book set apart for the purpose, having a counterfoil left to match each receipt, and bearing the amount and nature of the payment. Articles, when condemned as being unfit for the service of the Crown, cannot be sold unless by the authorisa tion of the Minister of State ; he can, if he pleases, present them to institutions of charity. The trea surer and the other agents under him are to trans mit every month an account of the money which they had received to the Minister of State. No new expense can take place except on the authorisa tion of the great officers of the Crown or of the Mi nister of State, but in no case can such authorisation go beyond the credits opened for each service in the budget. All expenses are to be incurred, as much as possible, on contracts and agreements, but no such contract or agreement, when over 10,000 fr., or going beyond one year, can be final until it has received the approval of the Minister of State. All salaries, remunerations, and wages are to be paid every month, the month being reckoned for 30 days. The sums to be deducted from all such payments in order to form the pension fund are to be fixed by the Minister of State. Monthly accounts are to be sent to the Minister of State of all payments made on account, as well as of the definitive falling in of leases, contracts, and agreements. All accounts sent in must be accompanied by documents to show how and why the expenses were incurred—when the said accounts and documents have been examined—the Minister is to sign the permission to pay, on the signature of which by the creditor the money is to be paid. No payment can be authorised except for services done, lunless in such cases as the Minister . of State, by special contract, shall have agreed to make advances to facilitate the service of the Im perial household. In no case can more than four fifths of any contract be advanced on account. All warrants for payment are payable at Paris by the treasurer-general of the Crown, and in the provinces by the agents of the Crown. Oppositions to pay ments are received by the treasurer of the Crown, and orders to pay instalments to creditors may be marked on the warrant, authorising the settlement on the account. Should it be found necessary to an nul any part of an account, the Minister is to issue an order for the purpose, notification of such order being given within the month to the creditor. TheiTreasurer-General is to transmit every month to the Minister a detailed account of the state of the receipts and expenses for the preceding month, both in Paris and the departments. Every agent charged with the handling of any sum becomes at once accountable for the employment of the same, and falls at once under the immediate direction of the Minister of the Household to whom that ser vice belongs. At the end of each budgetary year, the Treasurer-General is to receive, after a proper examination of the accounts, a quittance for the operations of the preceding twelve months, with out prejudice, however, to the rights of creditors. The said examination of accounts is to be effected by a special commission nominated by the Em peror, and charged to send in a report on the same. The accounts of the Imperial Household are to be kept by double entry ; a general balance is to be struck at the end of each month by the Minis ter, and submitted to the Emperor ; and a final balance-sheet is to be laid before the Emperor at the end of each year. The Minister of State is charged with the execution of the decree. A letter from Leghorn states that the Duke of Parma has suddenly dismissed all the French ladies and gentlemen belonging to his household and to that of the duchess. Among them are the Marquis de Nicolai, the son of a late French peer, who has been conducted to the frontier by the gen darmes : and the Countess de Forest, of an illus trious family in Provence, who has been shut up in a convent. The father of the latter, however, has demanded her liberation in very strong terms. The marriage of the Emperor is still the all-en grossing topic of conversation in the Paris salons. It is said the marriage is positively fixed for this day week, the 29th instant. Other accounts, however, declare that the re ligious ceremony will not take place until the day following Sunday, the 30th. The State carriages are now building, and the cortege will start from the Palace of the Tuileries at half-past 11 or 12 o'clock. The address of the Emperor to the Com mittee of the Senate, the Legislative Corps, and the Council of State, announcing his marriage with the Countess of Theba, will be, in substance, the same as the explanation he has already given to the Council of Ministers on the same subject. He will allude to the foreign alliances made by French Sovereigns, and to the inutility of such for political objects ;—lie may refer in particular to the cases of Marie Antoinette and the Empress Mario Louise, and show that the alliance with the daughter of the Emperor of Austria did not avail in preventing the fall of the French empire, and the ruin of its ruler. He will perhaps mention that, in his opinion, the time had gone by when such alliances brought advantage to dynasties or to nations, and refer to the hardship of a Sovereign being the only person who is not at liberty to make a choice according to his tastes and his affections. The marriage of Prince Napoleon, cousin of the Emperor, with the daughter of the Prince of Wagram, is, it is said, a matter of doubt. The Minister of Police has forbidden the publi cation of a Protestant review, founded in the month of July l as t, by th e " The Society for the Propagation of the History of Protestantism in France." M. Guizot is the Honorary President of this Society. The real President is Charles Read, chief of the division of non-Catholic worship at the Ministry of Public Instruction and Religious Worship. The review suppressed confined itself to the publication of historical documents relating to the three last centuries. The receipts of the Orleans Railway, during the week ending on the 15th, inst., amounted to 519,5141., or 92,877 f. more than during the cor responding week of 1851. The receipts of the two first weeks of 1852 are 1,117,361 f., being an increase of 281,691 f. as compared with those of last year. - - Tile Bourse made a further recovery yesterday. The Three per Cents., opened at 78f. 90c., fell to 78f. 75c., rose subsequently to 80f., and closed at 79f. 95c. for the end of the month ; the Four and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 105 f. ; Orleans Railway Shares, I,ooof. ; Rouen, 985 f. ; Havre, 490 f ; Great Northern, 825 f. ; Basle, 340 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 750 f.; Paris and Lyons, 860 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 705 f .; Western of France, 665 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 555 f. ; Caea to Cherbourg, 600 f. ; Dij o n t o Besancon, 505 f. Shares of the Bank of Credit Mobilier (issued at 500 f.), 780 f. AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL COMPANY. Yesterday the twenty-ninth yearly meeting of the shareholders of this company was held at the London Tavern, to receive the report, of the directors, and to elect the successors to the outgoing directors and auditors. Mr. John Studholme Brownrigg in the chair. The Secretary having read the notice of the meeting, The Chairman, in consideration that a great many of the constituents of the meeting had but recently become shareholders of the company, gave a brief history of its rise and progress. He laid before them the conditions of the original charter, which had been of such a cha racter as to press heavily upon the company, and to encumber their proceedings, until by making continual applications to the Colonial-office they obtained the grant of their land fully in fee-simple. This change took place in 1847. Having succeeded in this, it was the duty of the directors, he said, to see how to turn the property of the shareholders to the best advaritage, and with that view they gave their attention to carrying out a plan of emigration so as to keep up a supply of labourers, as the system of convict labour had ceased. Such a plan of emigration was premature, and failed ; and he felt heartily glad that it had not taken effect, as if it had they would not have been able to act as they had done so much to the advant ige of the proprietors. The report commenced with a tabular return of the sheep, horned cattle, horses, &c., in possession of the company in the years 1849, 1850, and 1851, how they had been acquired, and how disposed of. The stock re maining in hand upon the 31st of December, 1851, was 122,573 sheep and 9,196 horned cattle. The returns of the horses, ponies, &c., were made up to the 31st of March, 1852, upon which date the company possessed 1,569 horses and ponies and 92 asses and mules. The sales of live stock in 1851 amounted to 2,6951. 15s. 7d. The total number of persons in the company's colonial establishment, exclusive of women and children, upon the 31st of December, 1851, was 403, showing, as com pared with the returns of the previous year, a decrease of 62 persons in the service. It was mentioned in the last report that consequent upon the discovery of gold it had been expected that a desertion of the shepherds and others for the gold. diggings was likely to have an injurious effect upon the company's finances. Such desertions, however, were not of an extent to influence the opera tions of the year so materially as was apprehended, but by the last advices it appears that not only among the shepherds and the miners at the company's coal works, but also amongst all classes of the company's servants, desertion has become general. To remedy this evil, 80 coolies were imported from China. During 1851, 45,642 tons ofcoals were sold at the pit's mouth, being an increase of 558 tons upon the sales of the previous year. The realised and estimated revenue for the same year was 43,5671. 15s. ld., and the expenses of management 27,8161. 18s. 10d., leaving a surplus revenue of 15,7501. 16s 3d., being an increase of 4,2651. 2s. 3d. upon that of the previous year, and 11,5201. 4s. 4d. upon that of 1849 ; and sufficient to allow of a dividend of 1/. 11s. 6d. per share, equivalent to 4i per cent, upon the paid-up capital. Gold having been found upon the company's Peel River estate, and as they are by their charter and Act of Parliament precluded from working gold mines, it is proposed to form a new company for the purpose of purchasing the Peel River property for the present com pany, every shareholder of which shall be entitled to the privilege of taking as many shares as may be equivalent to his present interest. The paid-up capital of the pre sent company is 351. per share, or a total capital of 350,000/. The operation of the proposed sale of the Peel River estate will be, that the original capital of the com pany will virtually be paid back to the proprietors with an addition of 151. per share, while they will retain two estates of more than 700,000 acres upon the north bank of Port Stephen's, and extensive property at Newcastle, with the plant and machinery, and a coal field of 2,000 acres, and a contiguous property of 6,000 acres, believed to contain coal in abundance. A bill is at present be fore the Legislature; the effect of which will be, that the shares will become 251. shares instead of 1001. as at pre sent, with 171. 10s. paid on each, and liable only to pos sible future calls of 71. 10s. per share, instead of 651., and that each proprietor will have two shares instead of one. This report having been read, The CHAIRMAN went through each head of it, and elucidated it to the meeting ; and, in answer to the questions of a shareholder, stated that the coal was sold by the company at 13s. 6d. per ton, and had been at 6s. per ton, but that the retailers sold it at Sydney for 655. per ton, carrying them a distance of 80 miles. He then gave a detail of the operations which have been carried on by licence-holders upon the company's estate insearch of gold, and mentioned as a fact that a lease was being made of 640 acres to another company for seven years, with a clause of surrender upon six months notice, at a rent of 5,0001. per year, and a reservation of 1-sth of all mineral produce as a royalty. _ Mr. DE SALIS advised tliat Chinese miners from the coal mines at Shanghae should be procured to work the company's mines, and mentioned that the Pacific and Oriental Company had to pay 70s. per ton for coals at Sydney. He also suggested the propriety of building docks at Newcastle, establishing steam-packets between Port Stephen and Sydney, and giving all possible en couragement to the establishment of railways. The Hon. J. T. LESLIE MELVILLE said that the chair main had told them of the difficulties which had attended the obtaining of the free grant of their estates, but .had not told them it was himself who had overcome theth. (Cheers.) Mr. TOOKE then moved a vote of thanks to the chair man for such energetic services. Mr. PARSONS seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN having returned thanks for the honour done him, laid before the meeting the result of an assay made upon native clay and quartz sent home from the colony, and which was of a very favourable character, and then moved the adoption of the report, which was unanimously agreed to, as was the declaration of the dividend. Sir WALTER M. TOWNSEND FARQUHAR, Bart., was elected a director in the room of Mr. Locke, disqualified, and Mr. D. C. Marjoribanks an auditor. The outgoing directors and auditors were then re- elected, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. THE ILL-FATED AMERIOAN EMIGRANT SHIP THE ST. GEORGE. It will be in the recollection of our readers that the unfortunate vessel, the St. George, Captain Bairnson, bound from Liverpool to New York with emigrants, was destroyed by fire upon the 24th of December. The following are the names of the British subjects who were rescued by the American ship Orlando and conveyed to Havre, whence they have been forwarded direct to New York, •is. : Matthew Conway Mary Duffy Bryan Miles James Conner John Hankin William Larkin Ham. Casey John Kenden Hannah Kenden Ellen Eagan Ellen Kelly Mary Ann Hogan Jos. Brien John Gallacher Mary Gallacher Biddy Gallacher Patrick Raney Bessy Rushin Hannah M`Burty Thomas Derken Ann Farley Eliza Gibbennan James Brothers Patrick Brothers Richard Brennan Michael Tolan John Shrugal John Parker _ John Storr Bridget Nugent Mary Milian • Richard Muldoon Alice Muldeon Bridget Muldeon James Sands In all 70 persons. It is were either drowned or aba. Bridget Queenan • Betty Lyons Mary Reedey Jane Reedy Ellen Reedy Bridget Myles Mary Farley Margaret Barry . Hannah Lyons Susan M`Kelliss Sarah M`Kelliss Daniel M'Kelliss John M`Kelliss Jire Hogan Ann Hogan Margaret Ford Ann Ford, an infant Charles Smith Ellen Wall Mary Wall Garrett Wall Thomas Wall Anthony Brothers Catherine Barrett John Shrugal These lists account for stated to have been on boa: her destination John Richardson Peter M`Donnell John Conway Felix Conway Owen M‘Guire Irvine Foster Jane O'Neil Jane Donnelly Ann Logan Ally Logan Francis Durk Ann Farral Ham. Farral James Hever Michael Lowe James Lowe Lawrence Walsh John Fennessey Michael Campbell Patrick Kelly Patrick Glynis John King James King Charlotte Neil Michael Farrand Catherine Riley Ann Riley C. Riley Mary Nolan Thomas Burns George Washington James Waters Mary Ann M`Cabe Dl. M‘Guire o eh eddv a that iee iz. l 3 : t e L t e ra Feared in following 49 idn Ellen Shrugal Michael Scarrassy Samuel Storr Mary M`Guiken Alice M`Guiken Francis Durk Ann Farrell Ham. Farrell James Farrell John Farrell Maij- Farrell Martha Farrell Winfred Hever Patrick Lowe Mary Crawford Bridget Crawford Margaret Campbell Edward Reynolds Ann 11‘lieil Peter Swanton • Jane Swanton Peter Ilerberg James Dogarty Charles Betcan 119 of the 121 passengers d when the vessel started for DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BF ONE OF LORD CAMPBELLS'S HOUSEHOLD. - Yesterday morning, be tween seven and eight o'clock, the greatest consternation was created in Strathenden House, the mansion of the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, at Knightsbridge, in consequence of the discovery that one of the servants of the establishment had made a despe rate attempt at self-destruction, by cutting her throat with a table-knife. She was removed to St. George's Hospital, where she was attended by Mr. Buckland, the house surgeon. Her wound is of a very dangerous cha racter, and renders her recovery doubtful. This horrible mode of self-destruction has of late become very preva lent among suicides, as there are four cases of the same nature at present in the above hospital—viz., two men and two women. MRS. GORE'S NEW NOVEL "THE DEAN'S DAUGHTER," is just published. All novel readers will hail with plea sure the appearance of a new work by the distinguished authoress of " Mrs. Armitage, and " Mothers and Daughters." The clever pen of Mrs. Gore has been. idle for so long a period that unusual curiosity has been excited respecting "The Dean's Daughter." It is; we understand, specifically a story of the, times we live in, of stirring interest, and highly moral tone, without for feiting the reputation for brilliancy and playful satire which attended the earlier works of this popular novelist, Business don• this day. 29i 9 6 [oBa 8 66A 56 23 5/ 121 13 12i 7i i LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. RAILWAYS. Bedford and Bletchley. Birm. & Oxfd. guarantee.... Do. withoutgr Birm. Wolv. & Dudley guar. Do. wtht guar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln gr. 6 pertcent. Glstr.& Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Leasing C ompans, London & 1 N. West. IGt.Westn ,Do Do Do L.&N.W, Caledon Gt.Nrthn. .Gt.Westn Yk. New. & Berw. Y.StNMd Do Do Hull &Selby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.&Gr3enw Do. Preference) Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Bxtn. and Matlock! Middlesbro' &; 'S. Eastern I Do Norfolk Redcar Midld.Bradfd Northern and 30 - 31 294 - 304 30 - 31 29 - 30 109 - 111 53 - 54 148 - 150 32i 334 113 - 115 564 - 574 27 - 28 14 -14 t 254 - 264 19 - 20 23 - 25 !L.& N. W. & Midi& 'Stektou k Darliugt. 3 - 3i Eastenisp.e. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds pc Prest. & Wyre 111 1 100 ,00 18i !Do. Shares. Roystn.& Do.Shepth.St Shef. Roth.and Goole g. 5 p. c. S. Stafforclsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent... Do Wilts&Sonultl lE. Couut IDo i .Do &N.W &Lu&Yk Do 1107 - 109 64 - 66 i Gt Northn Lancash & Yorksh. M.MClean Stockt. & Darlingt Do 152 - 154 152 - 154 IGtWestn t idl 31i -32 i 103 - 101 102 i x d Closing Prices Business This day, this day. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Bhr. I Paid I RAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day. 8 Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng.Bost & Eastn. Junct Birmg. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. Cheshire Junet Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £2O triaol and Exeter, Caledonian Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon Cork, Blackrock and Passage Dublin&Belfast June Dundee Perth&Aber demi Junction Do. New East Anglian (X 25 L and E. & L. & D.) Do. Do. (181. E.& H.) Eastern Counties Eastern Union, Class A. (late E. U. Sh.) .Do., do ' Do., B. and C East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk & Binning. June rEdinburgh & Glasgow! Edin. and Peeales._ Edin. Prth. & Dundee Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Great Southern and Western (Ireland), Great Western Irish South-Eastern. Lancaster & Carlisle, Do., Thirds Lancash.& Yorkshire Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby. &Southpt. London & Blackwall Lond. Mb. & Sthend. Lond. Brigt. & S. Cst. London & N. Western Do., Fifths • Do. ~ElO Sh. M. &B. C London & S. Western Do £5O Do., £4O Londerry.&Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch. Sher. &Lincln po., Man. & Lin. Un !Midland Do. Birming. & Derby Midla - AG. West. (Ir.) Do. Shares . Newcastle ,Sc Carlisle Newmarket Do. Bury Extension. Newp. Aberg.&Hftd New:y & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint, and Restrevor Norfolk Do., New Northn.Counties Un. North British North Devon, No. 1 Do No. 2 A Deferred Do., 4 B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Scottish Central iScottish Midland . (Shrewsbury & Birmg. 'Do., L. & N. Westn. Guaranteed Stock. Shrewsby. &Hereford Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.), Do. Halves, do. IDo. Oswestry !Shropshire Union . South Devon South Eastern 'South Wales.. Yorksh.River Dun Do. Stockton & Hartlepl. Thames Haven Dock and Railway . Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny. Waterford& Limerick West Cornwall Wimbledon&Croydn. Woodford York Newctl. &Dem Do. Extensions Do. G. N. E. Purchase York & N. Midland THE SHARE MARKETS. 281 -- 291 6} - 61 104 -- 101 6i- 6id 21 -- 22 3 -- 2i d 107 -- 109 65 -- 66 22 -- 234 17i -- 18 2, 1 ,41 - 54 - 5t 4 - 4$ 12' - 13 9 - 10 71 - 7i 72 - 74 X 55 601 74 76 2 i 6 d i 2 8 p 60 62 76 77 40 42 -118 —l2O 104 -- 105 89 .—90 i 88 -- 90 11i -- llip 791 -79 t 4 —3 d 31 -- 2i d 15t -- 161 81 -- 8i 1 -- 2p 104 -- 105 k 120 -121 k 3 -- 31 p 1 17 p 89 -- 90 51. 61 -- -- 4 d 11 -- 12 191 -20 A '3O -- 31 3i -- 3d 7841 45 --47 51 -- 52 4 -- 3id 2i -- 21 8i -- 52 --54 7i -- 8 3 -- 2i d 35i 6t -- 6i d 28 -- 2# # d 4/ # -- 4 d 3 4A p 95 --97 a 63 -- 65 68 -- 70 70 - 80 19 - 20 9 101 14 15 31 1 - d 22 23 79i 38 38 804 4 13 134 4 41 2i 14 -14 i 9 -- 9i 26i -27 i 8 -- 9 P ••• •• • 684 -69 i 71 2 -- 2 55 -- 56 22 St. St. 50 50 181 100 100 all all all 111 100 20 14 50 20 100 100 100 100 13i 20 20 50 801 80 38 14f 4 684 9 12i 5 9 6 i 51 PREFERENCE SHARES. !Aberdeen Do., No. 2, 7 p. c Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Cheater & Holyhead Guar. 51 per cent. Cark&Bandonslp.c. Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction E. Ang. (705.) 6 p. c. Do. (£5), 7 per cent. Do. (£7l7s), 7. p ct. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do., No. 2 Do., New 6 p. c. St Eastern Union Scrip Guar. 6 per cent East ',encash. 6 p. cts Edinb. Prth & Dund Glasgow & S. Western Guar. 5 per cent Great Northn. 5 p. c Do. 5 p. c., Redeem at 10 p. c. prem.. , IGLS outhn. &Vestn, (Ireland) Eights Gt. Westn. (Berke & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.) Great Western, fixed 4a per cent Lan. & York. F. £2O Do., 6 p. c., Stock London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c Do. Pref. 5 p. c., St Do. Convertible, 5 p c. , 1852 IDo. New Guar. 6 p. c. London &S. Western, Cou. Thirds.... .... : Londonderry & Color Shares Londndry. & Ennisk Shares Manch., Shef.,& Lin., Shares, No. 1 Do., New, £lO Do., £6 ......... _ _ Maryp - t. & Carl. 4 p. c, Do. 4i per cent Mid. Consol. 6 p.c.St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... Do. Pref. 4i percent. Norfolk Extension... Do. Guar. 5i per ct. Do. Waveney Valley' 5 per cent North British .._ North Staffordshire Oxford, Worcester, & Rolverh. £15,6 p. c Do. Shrewsbury & Birm. New Guaranteed Shrewsby. & Chester Nor. W. (Min), 3 p. c. Do. 5 per cent. South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) f£l Os. 6d. S. Yorksh.4p. c. Guar. Waterfd.&Kilk. 6p. a. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref Do York & N, Midland, H. & S. Purchase FORE: Antwrp. &Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. Junct. Charleroi & Erquelin Dijon and Besangon Dutch Rhenish East Indian Do. Extension GL. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref Luxembourg Do. (Railway) Do. . Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. cent. pref Lyons Si Mcditcrran, Madras Maria Antonia Do. New Namur & Liege (with interest Do. (ex interest) Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. c. Bds (fmy. B. &A ms. Shs.] Norwegian Truk. Pref Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Paris Caen &Cherbrg. Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse Do. 5? per cent. pref. Southern of France-, Upper India Scrip West Flanders.. Do. 54 per c. Pref Western of France.:. West. of Switzerland NOW Zealand 1107 - 109 1105 - 107 19 20 d par 6 6i - 4 L 1 - p I. 1 14 41 18 - 184 3 - 3il 1126 - 128 1112 - 114 lii - 9 1. - 1i p 107 - 109 p - r 149 -152x(1 .. --- ... 3i - 4 i) 8 -- 13i -13 i 9 - 10 10 - 11.1 # 11 PI .1. -- -ii • • • .."..... , .. --- ... 150 152 P 22 232a1 54 6 2 2i 102 101 25i 263 1i -- 21 p 11 -1 1 A 174 -- -17 i 16 -- 17 p par —. p 26 -26 A 19 -- 20 d pai 103 -- 105 54 -- 5i par pad IGN. 1 -- Oi d 1 -- 2 13 —l4. par —ipzin 2 d 61 p 1 2 pl _p 2 l par par —1 pin' 7 - 7i 4i - 5 i 8 - 10 .1:, li - 2# PI 8 -8 61 - 74 33 - 33} 11 -- 41 7 -- 9 14 -- 14113 38 -- 40 37 -- 39 30 -30 i 4i -- 5 p 19i -- 204 9t -9/ 1} —2 p ap s sin —par 6 i —7pxin d— par Oi 61 a i pm. 111 i 14a all all 13 Ll.ls 10 St. 24 25 St. 119 1044 4 904 90 80 i 80 791 111 16a 16 105 Nil h i 15 1 31 30i X 78 8 35i 6 10i a (1 x in 6 x in 26 5i xin 8} 8 32,1 3 Lin 131 9 24 xin 39 38i 2R 301 x in 9 191 t 6i P 5 MINES. 1 all Agua Fria 108 all Anglo Californian 4 p 10 2 Australasian 2 3 p 44 20 5 Australian 1 all Australian Cordillera p 14 1 1 all Australian Freehold. par p 1 • 1 all Ave Maria 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) par ••• I p 1 all British Austria. Gold pl 4 20 13.6 British Iron 9 —ll p 35 244 Err ~ ilian Imp. (issued at £5 pm.) 34 4i 30" , all o. Cocaes & Cuiaba 1 * —2/ 20 15 'Do. St. John Del Rey 29 —3O 1 all Carson's Creek par -- 4 p 40 all Cobre Copper 4O —42 1 Colonial Gold 24 2 p 3/ 14 Copiapo 6i Ali. all CopperMinersof Eng ... 75 25 all Do. Preference — •• • p 5 all. English and Austin Copper Smeltg. Co ll I.} d 3 20 all General — 2 all Great Nugget Vein 3l —34 5$ 3 all Great Polgooth l4 —l3 p 44 4 all Lake Bathurst 4 d— par all Liberty — 8 p 14 all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co 8 4 d 1 all Mariquita 4d-10 10 9 Mexican &S. Americ 44 5 1 all New Granada 1 all Nouveau Monde 1 all Port Phillip l4 1 p 1 all Quartz Rock id 4 p 50 all Rhymney Iron 25 —27 15 Do. New 7 8 80 10.2 Santiago de Cuba 1 all South Australian par p 10 7 Tin Croft lO —l2 28 all United Mexican 74 8 71 1 all Waller 1 —14 p 2 1 all West Granada 4 — p 1 a ll West Mariposa par * p 1 1 a ll Yuba P 1 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 79 81 81 50 all British N. American ... 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, xd Australia, & China 1 14 3 100 25 Colonial 100 20 Commercial of Lon don — ... 4 English Scottish and Australian l4 —14 p / 20 24 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 34 —34 p, 104 50 20 London and County ... 50 10 London Joint Stock 100 20 Lond. & Westminster ... 100 35 NationalProv.ofEng, 20 10 Do. Now — 50 224 National of Ireland 1 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation — 25 5 Do. New — 100 25 Provincial of Ireland .., 10 all Do. New — 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg. & Gold Imp. Co.. ... 25 25 South Australia 43 46 46 44 25 all Union of Australia 734 744 73 4 20 44 2i Do. Now 9 11 - 50 10 Union of London.. , 40 all Union of Madrid — , MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Agricult.. 235 245 Austrlasn. Peale . Mail ' Australu. royal Mail ... Brit. America. Land - Canada — Crystal Palace Crystal Pal. of France' Eastern Steam — Electric. Teleg. of Ir — Gen. Steam Navigat — . . General Screw Steam Irish Beetroot Sugar Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel Netherlands Land ... Nrth.of Europe Steam Peninsular &Oriental ... Do. Do. Royal Mail Steam ... South Austral. Land 50 53 Submar. Telegraph, 1 Universal Emigration - and Colonisation Van Diomen's Land l6 19 17 13 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Jan. 22.—Wind at Noon, N.W., light breeze, and cloudy. COWES, Jan. 21.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Caractacus, Valparaiso. Put back—Hermelin, Rio Janeiro. D.9AL, Jan. 21.—Wind, W., light. Arrived—lsabella Leith, Port Beaufort ; Druid, Berbice ; Habe, St. Do mingo ; Centaur, Mauritius. Arrived from the River— Fortitude, for Melbourne ; Zetus, Bombay ; Express, Cape of Good Hope ; Maid of the Isles, St. Helena ; Chi istrice (?), Trinidad. The Calypso, London to Jamaica, has been on the Goodwin Sand, but received no damage. LrVERPOOL, Jan. 21.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—lrt, Demerara ; Emma Colvin, Akyab ; Galatia, Buenos Ayres ; Vandalla, New Orleans ; Florida, Savannah. Put back— Acorn, Demerara ; Agnes, Trinidad ; Mary Caroline, Mo bile. Off Port—Aden, China, Sunda, Crisis, and Breeze. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 21.—Wind, W. to N.N.W. Put back—Queen, Buenos A 3 tea ; Actaeon, New Orleans ; Denmark, Mobile. The Civility, Onega to Bristol, which was abandoned on the 19th instant, has been towed in. The Orbona, London to Glasgow, and the Actaeon, bound to New Orleans, were in contact—the former lost bow sprit, and is leaky, and has been towed in ; the latter re ceived trifling damage. BELFAST, Jan. 91.—The Lady Mountstewart, of and for Workington. is on the Brigg Rocks, and is likely to become a wreck. CARDIFF, Jan. 21.—The Sarah Rawes, from White haven, which struck on Breaksea Point on the 16th inst., has gone to pieces. The Ranger also got on the same rocks on the 19th inst., and has become a wreck. LOBS OF THE SCHOONER RAMBLER.—DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF THE CREW.—On the 15th instant, the French brig Charles Lepreter, of Rouen, arrived in the Tyne, with William Combs, Henry Littl e John, Thes. Croft , and Thos. Hodder, and a cabin boy, the survivors of the crew of the schooner Rambler, of Lyme Regis, which vessel had encountered the hurricane of the 27th December, and had had her master, William Keddy, and her mate washed overboard and drowned. The vessel, after the master and mate were drowned, had become completely disabled, and was deserted on the 28th ult., by the crew, who got on board the French brig. After the vessell arrived in the Tyne, the river police received strange information of the conduct of the crew of the Rambler. After the master of the Charles Lepreter had left his vessel to proceed to New castle to see his broker, the four men went below into his cabin, and broke open a box containing a log and wages book belonging to the Rambler. They destroyed the log book, and tore out all the entries in the wages book, which they burnt with some other written docu ments. After committing this act they demanded 121. from the mate of the French brig, belonging to the Ram bler, which he gave them. They then left the ship, tak ing with them a quantity of clothes belonging to the master and crew of the French brig. They have also, the master of the French brig says, the watches belong ing to the master and mate of the Rambler. Informa tion of this act of disgraceful robbery has been sent to the superintendent of police at Lyme Regis by the river police of the Tyne. The master of the French vessel, who had these atrocious villains on board 18 days, is justly indignant. ALLEGED BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION.—The Evening Post contains the following •,—" The Orange candidate, Mr. Alexander, has been returned. The Leaguers and equality-mongers had exerted themselves with a right good will on his behalf, but the result is not owing to their treachery —for they were utterly powerless in Car low—but to the practice of the most profligate and auda cious bribery on the part of the Tories to' an extent totally unprecedented in this country. We have learned that a sum of 1,0001. was offered yesterday morning to one elector for his vote, or 5001. if he remained away. We trust that a most searching investigation, before a Parliamentary committee, will lead to so thorough an exposure of,the flagitious bribery carried on by the Orange party at this election, as effectually to prevent the estah l r, lishment of suc h a s y s t em i n th e I r i s h b oro ughs, Al though neither g the Major' nor his agent, Mr. Frail , en appeared in the borough, money in abundance h as b supplied by the Carlton Club. By this means th of t he theTori2e6s have' obtained a temporary triumph at one out elections consequent on the Ministe ri al Their victory, however, will be of very sho rt arrangements. duration. .i 252 5 42 36 48 51 20 50 50 100 25 S 7 8 53 1 NAVAL INTELLIGENCB. PORTSMOUTH, JAN 21. The Medina, 4, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Reynolds, arrived at Spithead to-day from the Mediter ranean., She left Malta on the 4th, Gibraltar on ithe 12th, and Lisbon on the 16th inst. At Malta were her Majesty's ships Ceylon and Banshee, the latter under orders for England. At Gibraltar, her Majesty's ships Britannia, 120 ; Trafalgar, 120 ; Albion, 90 ; Bellero phon, 78 ; Arethusa, 50 ; Retribution, 28 ; Sampson, 6 ; Niger, 14 ; and Antelope, 2. At Lisbon, the Sanspareil, 81 ; and Inflexible, 6. Commander Howatt (on being relieved by Commander Bickford), Lieutenant Solly, Lieutenant Grant (on promotion), and the Hon. Mr. Elliot, have come home passengers in the Medina; which has been four years and three months in commission, and employed in the Mediterranean as a packet. The Royal West India Mail Steam Company's packet Teviot, with the Brazil mails, had not appeared off Lisbon on the 16th. The Medina came into this harbour to coal, and will proceed to Woolwich to be paid off. The Swift, 6, Commander Aldham, having discharged her freight (270 boxes of specie, which was conveyed to London by special train by Messrs. Emanuel last night. and lodged in the Bank of England this morning) was towed out to Spithead this morning, and has since sailed for Plymouth to be paid off. The Mercury cutter, Lieutenant Freeland, arrived this morning from the Channel Islands with volunteers for the navy. By letters from the coast of Africa to the end of December we learn that the Polyphemus, 5, steam-sloop, Commander Phillips, anchored at Sierra Leone on the 27th, and reported having, on Christmas-day, destroyed the slave barracoons of the notorious Don Crispo, a Spaniard living in the Sherbro country. This is an important service, and was well executed by Comman der Phillips. The Propontis packet arrived at Sierra Leone on the 27th, at 3 a.m., having had a very rough passage. Bishop Vital landed the same day. A portion of wreck had been picked up on the coast near Accra, marked with the broad arrow. It is certainly not belonging to a ship of the African squadron. Lieutenant Towsey, of the Firefly, has invalided ; Acting-Lieutenant Burnaby, of the Pen elope, takes his place. Mr. Phillips, mate of the Pene lope, to be Acting-Lieutenant, vice Burnaby. Mr. Death, secretary's clerk, to be clerk in charge of the Pluto. Mr. Steil to be first-class assistant-engineer of ditto. The Centaur steam-frigate, Rear-Admiral Henderson, was at Rio, from Monte Video, December 6. The Rifleman, 8, Lieutenant-Commander Dalton, re turned to Rio on the Bth ult., from a cruise. The Trident, 6, Lieutenant-Commander Harvey, ar rived at Bahia on the 21st of November, from Rio, and left on her return on the 20th of December. The Express, 6, Commander Fe a d, l e f t Ri o f or B a hi a on the 13th of November. The Tyne store-ship, Master-Commander Wellington, arrived at Rio on the 20th of November from Ports mouth. The Encounter, 14, Captain O'Callaghan, left Fal mouth for Bristol on the 16th inst. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 21. Her Majesty's screw steam-sloop Archer, 14, Com mander J. N. Strange, anchored in the Sound yesterday afternoon, having left Falmouth in the morning. She has been stationed there three weeks; procuring seamen for ships fitting at Portsmouth, and has been only par tially successful. She will take supernumeraries from this port. La. Hogue, 60, steam guard-ship, Captain William Ramsay, returned yesterday at 2 p.m. from a cruise in the Channel, topgallant yards across, the wind being strong from the west-north-west. The crew of the steam-sloop Argus, 6, Commander Richard Purvis, bent sails yesterday ; and the crew of the Vengeance, 80, Captain Lord Edward Russell, un bent sails. SHEERNESS, JAN. 20. The Comus, 14 gun-sloop, lying in ordinary here off Lapwell, during a heavy gale of wind from south-west, parted from her moorings at about 4 a.m. this day, and drove down athwart hawse of the Nymph, fith-rate re ceiving hulk, and was shortly afterwards lashed along side the Nymph, where she remains for the present. The Phaeton, 50 guns, Captain George Elliot.—The progress in stripping this ship is so far advanced that she is to be paid off on Tuesday next, the principal part of her stores having been returned. The Horatio, screw steam guard-ship, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, was paid wages yesterday up to the 31st ult. The Rattlesnake sloop, Commander Henry Trollope, is being coppered preparatory to her being put out of dock. The officers and crew are permitted to allot any part, or all, of their pay to whom they please, after their departure from here. It is reported that the officers and crew are to have their double pay commence when they round Cape Horn, as in the case of the Plover, In vestigator, and Enterprise, The destination of the Rat tlesnake is Point Barrow. She will take in provisions and stores for three years. A. few petty officers only are wanting now to complete her crew. WOOLWICH, JAN. 21 ♦PPOINTMENTS, Master—George R. Morrison (1852), to the Bulldog, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop of 500-horse power, at Ports mouth. Second Master—John P. Grant, to the Rhadamanthus steam-transport. That vessel left Woolwich to-day for Portsmouth. Assistant-Engineers—lsaac Langmead, to the Fury, steam-sloop, at Portsmouth ; William Robinson, to the Horatio, 24, screw steam guard-ship, at Sheerness ; T. W. Bower, to the Blenheim, 60, screw steam guard-ship, at Portsmouth. Clerk—T. J. Woodward, to the Desperate, screw steam-sloop, at Plymouth. Gunner—William Stephens, to the Tartarus, employed on particular service. Acting-Gunner—John Lamb, to the Excellent, gun iery-ship, at Portsmouth. It was stated to-day, at Woolwich, that Commander William Houston Stewart's promotion to post rank awaits his return to England from commanding the Vi rago steam-sloop on the Pacific station, and that his father, Rear-Admiral Howiton St ewar t, C . 8., formerly one of the Lords of the Adiniralty, and member for the borough comprising the towns of Greenwich, Woolwich, and Deptford, had been appointed secretary to Lieuten ant-General Lord Raglan, G.C.8., Master-General of the Ordnance, it being deemed advisable that a naval officer should fill that post. We can confirm the report relative to the latter officer, as the gallant Rear-Admiral Houston Stewart has accepted the office of secretary to the Master-General. Sir James Graham, Captain Alexander Milne, and the Hon. William Cowper, Lords of the Admiralty, and Mr. Bernal Osborne, secretary, again transacted business yesterday, at Somerset-house, in connexion with the contract department. MR. WAKLEY ON CHILD MURDER AND FOUNDLING HOSPlTALS.—Yesterday Mr. Wakley held an inquest at the Pakenham Arms, Calthorpe-street, Gray's-inn road, on the body of a newly-born female child, which was found in a garden in Agar Town, St. Pancras. The body was produced, and was th a t o f a remarkably fine infant. From the evidence, it appeared that, on Wed nesday morning last, a bundle was found in the garden, of the house No. 1, Oxford-street, Agar Town, by Eliza beth Lawson, daughter of the occupier of the house. On picking up the bundle, she opened it, and found therein the body of a child, as if newly born. It was pressed almost flat, and was wrapped in an old bed gown and a piece of black cloth. Notice was imme diately given to the authorities of the St. Pancras work house, who directed Lamb, the gate porter, to convey the body to the dead-house. Mr. Samuel Waldegrave, surgeon to the St. Pancras Infirmary, deposed to having examined the body shortly after it was brought into the house. The chest and face was compressed. The child, which was a remarkably fine one, weighing si lbs., and measuring 21 inches, was evidently born alive. All the organs were fully developed, and in a most healthy state. He had no hesitation in stating that death was caused from want of proper attention at the birth. Whether this want of attention was wilful or not, there was no evidence to show. The Coroner : If the child was born alive, as appears from the evidence, and died from want of attention, it was as much a mur der as if the throat was cut. If the jury were convinced that the proper attention was withheld, it was their duty to return a verdict of wilful murder. Under the circum stances this was the most proper course to adopt ; if at any future time the mother should be forthcoming it would be for her to prove that proper attention was not wilfully withheld. The jury would run no risk in coming to this decision. Ii the event of the mother being sent to the Old Bailey, it was exceedingly doubtful if she would be convicted. It seldom happened that persons were convicted of child murder. He (the coroner) re membered one case, where a child's throat was cut from ear to year ; but the magistrate refused to convict, on the ground that there was no proof that it had not been done after death. The present case was an illustration of the utility of foundling hospitals. The establishmen of such an institution would, in his (the coroner's) opinion, be the means of preventing 400 murders an nually. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful m urder against some person or persons unknown." AMERICAN SLAVERY.—A meeting of ladies has been t h o el t d he at lad th i e es A o s f se A m m b e ly ric ß a o w om er s e , a ßa gr t e h e , d a t t o, wh o i n eh theje sub addresses ct of American slavery, similar to that of the Duehess . of Sutherland, and the Anti-Slavery Society. A subscrip tion has also been commenced to enable Mrs. Beecher s re o s f en t t rn h c e le r , w St i o th we a t te o s m tim ee o t n a i n al y o v f e e x s a te ti e o m us a a s cti t o h n e s, Tom's Cabin. —The Government emi grant Australia, was towed a a u n t d ho t° res p E f I G s h R i A p T EM IGRATION ea s T aAnu,s boundru A rA for. out of Southampton - docks y esterda y . S he has about 220 This is the first ship that has started emigrants on board. from Southampton sinc e the latter has been m ade a Go vernment emigration de p ot. The emi g rants have been residing in a building in the Dock fitted up as a teLe porary emigration depot. Each emigrant has receiNa a package of tracts from the Religious Tract Society, and also a Bible and Testament from the Christi an Know ledge Society. The clergyman of the Dock district and Dissenting ministers of the town have attended to the spiritual wants of the emigrants during the stay of the latter in Southampton, and Divine service has been per formed daily at the depot or on board the Caucasian. Many of the emigrants are of the agricultural class, or they have been mechanics - and artisans in rural districts. Great numbers of them have been comfortably off, but having large families, are anxious that their children shall strive where the struggle for comfort and indepen dence is not mo movers as it is in this country. 1 St. 50 12A 12. 12A St. St. 10 25 10 106 10' 20 10 20 all all 8A 100 100 10 all 11 . all 107 A 106 1081 LO2 4 lio X 114IW 121 St. St.l 25