The Sun. — London, England, 1853-01-05 00:00:00

THE FR EMPIRE. The Moniteur contains a decree which, allowing the superior military commands of the armies of Paris and Lyons to subsist, owing to the continu ance of the same state of circumstances which had occasioned their being organised; suppresses all other superior military commands within the terri tory. Several columns of the Moniteur are filled with the names of officers and sailors of the navy, de corated with the Cross of the Legion of Honour. The Moniteur and other Government journals are filled with an account of a procession of relics of St. Genevieve. The following is one of the soberest accounts which appeared "The solemn inauguration of the Pantheon as a place of religious worship, and under the name of the church of St. Genevieve, took place yesterday. On Sunday the relics of that saint, which, after 1830, had been de posited at Notre Dame, were exhibited to the public in the cathedral, where they were placed on a pe destal hung round with draperies of velvet bordered with gold fringe, and with wax lights burning in candelabras around it. Yesterday morning the relics were transferred to the church of St. Genevieve with great ceremony, the cortege being com posed , of all the clergy of the churches on the left, bank of the Seine. The streets through which the procession passed were filled with a dense crowd of spectators, and many of the houses were hung with white drapery. On reaching the church of St. Etienne-du-Mont, in which church the tomb of St. Genevieve stands, and which was magnificently orna mented and lighted on the occasion, the clergy of that church, after offering incense to the relics, and accom panied by a band of young girls dressed in white, joined the cortege, and proceeded with it to the Pantheon, the front of which bailding was surrounded by an immense crowd of persons. On the head of the procession reach ing the entrance of the Pantheon, the Archbishop of Paris, surrounded by his clergy, went forward to receive it, and preceded it into the church. The mass imme diately after commenced, at which the Archbishop offi ciated, after which he ascended the pulpit and delivered a sermon appropriate to the occasion. The ceremony was terminated by aTe Deum. The church was crowded in every part. After the inauguration, the Abbe Du quesnay, the senior of the clergy of St. Genevieve, gave a breakfast to the Archbishop and his grand vicars, and at which MM. de Persigny, Fortoul, Romieu, de Con tencin, and M. Constant Dufeu, the architect of the church, were present. The Archbishop proposed the health of the Emperor, which was drunk with the great est enthusiasm." According to the Mpniteur there assisted at th e reception of the relics of the saint their Excel lencies the Ministers of the Interior and of Public Instruction, the Director of the Beaux Arts and the Director General of Public Worship, the Pre fect of Police, and the Prefect of the Seine, sic. The Archbishop, in his djscourse ' recalled to mind the various deseerations to which the church of St. Genevieve had been subjected since Louis XV. had laid the foundation-stone. Louis XV., it is hardly necessary to add, was one of the greatest monsters of depravity the world had ever seen, but the alliance of superstition with immorality is a fact as familiar as a proverb. Superstition, sys tematically employed as a means of government by unbelievers, although proved by experience to be dangerous to religion as to government itself, would seem still to hold its place in the science of rule. As yet we perceive only the immediate fruits in such acts of persecution as took place the other day at Troyes, where the authorities insulted the Protestant clergyman and his flock at the funeral of a young Protestant girl, and in the exclusion, in other places, of Protestants from burial grounds. By and bye we shall see something more. On the occasion of the reception of the ladies on the evening of New-Year's-day, at the Tuileri es , the Emperor entered t he sal ons at half-past nine, preceded by the Duke de Bassano, Grand Cham berlain, and the Count de Baciocchi, Master of the Ceremonies, and followed by Prince Napoleon, his m ilitary household, some of the Ministers, the President and Vice-President of the Council of State, and several other grand functionaries. His Majesty was in the full dress of a General-in-Chief, and wore the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour, and the insignia of the Order. of the Golden Fleece, and several other decorations', till mounted in brilliants. Prince Napoleon was in ta black coat, with the Grand Cross of the LegiOn of Honour. The first salon was reserved for the mem bers of the Imperial Family, the Ministers, and the foreign diplomatic body. In the second salon and in the Salle des Marechaux were a number of ladies, generals, senators, councillors of state, and several members of the Legislative B o dy, of the magistracy, the Institute, and of the Municipal Council. The band of the Guides, in their new scarlet uniform, were in attendance and played during the evening. Among the persons of distinction present besides the Ministers and the Senators were Mar shals Magnan and Vaillant, the Pope's Nuncio, the English Ambassador and Lady Cowley, the Belgian Minister and Madame Firrriin Rogier, the Swiss, Danish, Greek, and Portuguese Ministers, the Prince of Hesse, the Duke of Brunswick, the Prince de Monleur, and Prin , 3e Czartoriski. The - Emperor made the rounds of the salons several times, speaking to several laddes who were pointed out to him by Count Bacioc.chi. He walked suc cessively with the Princess Mathilde and, Lady Cowley, and at eleven o'clock his Majesty retired. The sums paid into the Paris Savings' Bank on Sunday and yesterday amou n t e d t o 651,565 f., from 5,819 depositors, of whom 1,028 are new. The amount drawn out was 280,750 f. The receipts of the Caisse de Retraites for Old Age from the 27th ult. to the 2d inst. were 1 ,715,163 f. from 1,405 depositors, of whom 489 were new. The Bourse opened heavily to-day in consequence of forced sales of Three per Cent. Government Stock on account of speculators unable to pay their differences. After those sales were concluded prices improved. The Four -and-a-Half per Cents. opened at 105 f. 90c., and closed at 105 f. 85c. for the end of the month ; the Three per Cents. closed at 81f. 35c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,025 f. ; Rouen, 990 f. ; H avre , 530 f. ; G rea t N orthern, 886 f. Bale, 25c. 360 f. ; Paris and Strasbu rg? 81 2 f. 50c. ; • Paris ' and Lyons, 925 f.; Lyons and Avignon, 767 f. 50c • Western of France, 7 00 f. for the 15th in s t. ; Caen ' and Cherbourg, 625 f. ; Bprdeaux and Cette, 605 f. ; Shares of the new Bank of Credit Mobilier, issued at 500 f., 890 f. SPAIN. . M. Martinez do la Rosa has had a long interview with the Minister of the Interior, which was of a most satisfactory kind. It appears that the Govern ment will support M. Martinez de la Rosa as Vice- President of the Royal Council. The decree rela tive to the liberty of the press is not yet ready. Bourse.—Three per Cents., 441 ; Deferred, 24# ; Exchange on London, 51 paper. BATING OF THE LONDON AND NORTH. WESTERN RAILWAY. . Yesterday a general meeting of the vestry of St. Pan cras was held in the vestry-hall, King's-road, Camden town, for the purpose of hearing the appeal of the London and North-Western Railway Company against the as sessment made upon the company's property in the parish—James Parker Pierce, Esq., in the chair. Mr. STRUTHERS, from the firm of Messrs. Swift and Wagstaff, stated that he appeared to appeal against the assessment of the property of the London and North- Western Railway Company, situated in the parish of St. Pancras. Th e present assessment was laid at 34,331/ , w h erea s, by the late d eci sion of the Court of Qu ar t er Sessions of Middlesex, the amount was fixed at 16,0001. Mr. Wagstaff had no objection to the appeal being gone into that day, but the understanding was that this case should stand over till the special ca s e came before th e Court of Queen's Ben ch, and his principal witness was subpoenaed elsewhere, but if the vestry declined to delay day, he would at oncego the hearing till another . on with the business of the appeal. Mr. E. W. Watkins, examined by Mr. Struthers, stated that the gross earnings of the railway in the parish were 10,2291. The opening of the Great Nor thern and Birmingham and Oxford lines had greatly re duced the earnings of the line in that parish ; from the above sum was to be deducted, for working and other expenses, 6,2111., leaving 4,0181. His valuation of the Eu , stion-station, comprising the land and buildings, was 5 ,248/. ; the Camden station he estimated as 7,346/. The rateable value of the property, as laid down by Mr. Serjeant Adams at the Quarter Session of September, 1 851, was 12,718/. Thee xpenses of the line wer e cal culated at 371 per cent. ; the gross receipts were esti mated a t two-and-a-half millions, and the expendit ure at 1,300,0 00/. ; the amount of capital investe d i n the Whole 2,000,000 railway during the last year amounted to at th perocir rt - c i He could not say what the receipts were the en and Euston stations ; he did not believe ParlY not j , would have been so valuable had the coin ting the va r u :he terminus at Euston-square. In estima judgment a,B t of the property he was guided by his own what it had cos o t what the property would let for, not station had building. The portico at the Euston cost 50,000/. ; its only value now was, beyond ornam ent railway station to b in e merely nominal. He never knew a cos , except in one instance, that at Rugby, which 1,0001. 100,000/. in building, and let for Mr. HARDI NG, a ovestryman, regretted that a gentleman who appea re d behalf of the railway com pany should be ignorant of rateable value of the pro perty removed by the erection of the two stations in the parish. If this oppulent company were permitted to go robberyp ar „ s. Mr. WATKINS contended thath, while the company con , tributed 3,0001. annually towa r d s the rates, it caused no increase in pauperism. Mr. Churchwarden BILLET denied this assertion. Mr. JOHN KISSTCK moved th a t the assessment of the railway p ro p er t y a t 34,3311. h e confirrao Mr.. J. CRAMP seconded the resolution.) which, after some further discussion, was carried with one dissen tient. THE SUN ; LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1853. OPENING OF APSLEY HOUSE TO THE PUBLIC. SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR OXFORD. e t a h s t n r f o pt thee e e took place last evening, on OXFORD, TUESDAY. A v t e h r e y O s h il o n c r k d i n within about a London and North-Western Railway, gbracna hurf that two have died since ;two more are seriouslysoohnttwenty others mile of this city. Six persons were killed on the spot, their lives are despaired of ; and about u bodily injuries. have sustained more or less severe the part of the driver of the misunderstonding The accident seems to have occurre d through a deplor abled not to start until the arrival of an been positively desire passenger train leaving on n xford at 5.30 p.m. He had expected coal train. A ballast engine came in a few mi nutes after this order was given, and it is suppored that a the unfortunate man (since . dead) mistook this for the coal train, and, imaginin that the line was elear, ceeded on his journey. He had scarcely cleared the pro city boundaries when he came into violent collision with a train of forty-four laden coal trucks, propelled by two engine~, the dreadful consequences of which are above indicated. In order to render intelligible the mode in which the collision took place, it is necessary to explain that, ow ing to the partial falling in, about two months since, of the Wolvercott tunnel, distant about three miles from Oxford, it has since been necessary to close one line of rails, and the traffic between Islip and this city (five miles) has lately been carried on over a single line only. For the prevention of accidents, pending this arrange ment, positive orders were laid down that no train should leave Oxford or Islip without a direct telegraphic understanding between the station masters of the two places. Last evening about five o'clock, Mr. Alfred Blott, a very old servant of the North-Western Com pany, received a message from the Islip station-master, inquiring whether a coal train then at Islip might come on to Oxford. Mr. tßlott, aware that nearly half an hour must elapse before he could start the 5.30 p.m. train from Oxford to London, and remembering that the coal trains invariably ran the distance between Islip and this city in from fifteen to twenty minutes, replied in the affirmative, and gave the necessary orders to his officials not to allow the up train to leave until the expected coal train should have arrived. Mr. Blott cautioned the guard personally, and men tioned it also to the policeman on duty—in fact, every person about the atation was perfectly conversant with the circumstance. At half-past five o'clock the London train was made up. It consisted of an engine and ten der, driven by John Tarry, a very old servant of the company, with Robert Bugden, also many years em ployed on the railway, as his stoker ; a third-class car riage next the engine, a second-class carriage next, a first-class carrriage next, and a break van last, with Joseph Kinch as guard in charge; Thera were 21 pas sengers booked by the train, most of them of the poorer class. No first-class tickets were issued. Just pre viously to the train starting, Mr. Hayes, the locomotive foreman at Oxford, add resse d T arry , and told him that he must not start until the coal train had arrived. Tarry replied, "All right, sir," and Mr. Hayes pro ceeded to another part of the station. Mr. Blott had alsO left the platform at this time, and had gone into his private office to transact some business. Sergeant Gwin, of the company's police, who was in charge of the station, also left theplatform and went into the booking office to see if there were any more passengers for the train. The driver Tarry and the guard Kinch were engaged in conversation together, and the train was perfectly ready to start, awaiting the usual signal. At this moment a ballast engine, employed on the works at Wolvercott tunnel, approached the station, and ran from the main line on to a siding, about one hundred yards outside the platform shed. This engine carried a white light in front—all coal en gines show a green light. It is therefore urged that the driver ought not to have been mistaken as to the non arrival of the coal train. However this may be, it is clear that the unfortunate man must have imagined the coal train had entered the station, for without waiting a signal to start from any authorised person, he put on his steam and moved away from the platform. The rush of steam called the attention of the officials to the circum stance of the train having started, and Mr. Blott and Mr. Hayes immediately hastened to the platform, where in a moment they ascertained that the train had left, and also the terrible fact that the coal train had not arrived. They both instinctively ran up the line shouting and hal looing after the receding train. All they could do was to alarm the guard, who put down the break hard ; but, owing to the speed and lightness of the train, failed to arrest the attention of the driver. It appears that the policeman on duty at the auxiliary signal, about two hundred yards out of the station, aware of the danger into which the train was running, exhibited his red signal as it approached. Owing to the steam d in which the engin e was enveloped, the driver not the see the red li g ht un til he got very close to signal post. H e then sounded his whistle twice, and most unfortunately, instead of keeping the danger signal on, the policeman shut the red off, and turn ed on green, signifying caution. This circumstance probably re-assured Tarry, and he increased the speed of his train immediately afterwards. The railway, after leaving the station, runs parallel for some considerable distance, with the Great Western, from which it is se parated only by a ditch about twenty feet wide, gene rally full of water. Both lines intersect a large tract of common land belonging to the freemen of Oxford; and known as the Post Meadow, at this time, owing to the recent floods, covered with water to a depth of two or three feet. The up train had not traversed this meadow, and had scarcely got a mile from the station, when it came into violent collision with the coal train, proceed ing in the opposite direction. The consequences were of the most awful character. The engine of the passen ger trained was turned completely round, and thrown into the water ditch, in a frightfully shattered state. The first engine attached to the coal train fell upon it, the wheels of each being transfixed, and the second en gine also ran into the ditch. The third-class carriage and the second-class carriage were completely broken up, scarcely two boards remaining attached, and the passengers were scattered about the line in every direc tion.. The crash of the collision was heard at a very great distance, and parties residing in the:neighbourhood were soon on the spot endeavouring to render assist ance. Mr. Blott and Mr. Hayes, who had never ceased running after the train, also soon came up, and did everything in their power to prevent further injury by stopping all down trains on the line, the 2.45 p.m. from London being at this time due. The difficulty of knowing what to do in order to assist the injured parties was greatly increased by the ravages of a fire which, kindled from the furnaces of the engines, burst forth im mediately after the accident. Messengers were soon dispatched to Oxford for assistance, and, as the telegraph was broken by the accident, information was sent on to Islip, with instructions to telegraph at once to Wolver ton. The injured parties were then got out of the debris as rapidly as possible, and sent on to Oxford, where they were at once admitted into the Radcliffe Infirmary. One who was very seriously hurt, preferred remaining small public-house at Hayfield Hut. There were ,hree or four hundred prrsons on the spot shortly after the accident, and no lack of willingness to assist ; but a controlling head was wanted under such dreadful circum stances, and it was found in the person of Mr. Cardwell, who, having expected his wife by the 2.45 p.m. down train, was terrified when he heard of the accident, and hastened at once to the spot. The honourable member rendered almost superhuman exertions, working as only a gentleman can work. The gallantry of his exemplary conduct may be gathered from one simple fact. A poor fellow, shockingly injured, called out for a drop of water to cool his scorching thirst ; Mr. Cardwell, having nothing better at hand in which to convey the liquid to him, dashed his hat into the stream, and thus relieved the 'sufferer. Mr. Grafton, of the firm of Grafton and Hood, engineers, of Ox ford, was early in attendance, and ably seconded all that Mr. Cardwell proposed. The alarm which pre vailed among the crowd was very great. At one period an approaching train on the Great Western Railway was thought to be running on the 'North-Western line, and. 30 or 40 persons rushed into the water to escape an im agined danger. Two engine-drivers and two stokers were killed on the spot, all their bodies being frightfully mutilated. One male passenger, not yet identified, was thrown under the wreck, and before his body could be extricated the upper half of his frame was burnt to a cinder. A poor young woman named Caroline Davis, a passenger, was thrown into the water, and in some extraordinary manner became imbedded under the boiler of the passenger engine. She was only discovered by her legs having protruded above the water, and it was 6 o'clock this morning before her body was extricated. Mr. M'Connell arrived from Wolverton about mid night with a large force of mechanics ; and Mr. Bed ford, the chief of the company's police force, was also early in attendance. The men under Mr. M'Connell's direction worked with admirable effect during the night, and one line was cleared for traffic at an early hour. The passengers by the down trains, last night, were received at the Sheriff's-bridge, near where the accident occurred, and brought on to Oxford in omnibuses. It was quite impossible, in the confusion that prevailed last night, to obtain a list of the injured parties. Mr. Alderman Browning, the resident managing director of the railway at Oxford, Who has been indefatigable in his exertions s i nce the accident, completed his inquiries about noon to-day, and from him we have received the following list of the sufferers : man, it a Lying at the Saddler 'DE". s Arms, Plantation-road, St. John, Tarry, driver of th e Giles's • passenger train. Robert Bugden, stoker ofthepas - senger train. Th o mas Landon, stoker of the first c oa l eng i ne . theP lafinrattateioo coal engine. A ma le passenger—u n k nown. At Lawes,Quee driver iv Victoria, of road, St. Giles's, Robert Caroline Davis, of Farringdon, passeng er to Winslow. .At the Radcliff e Infirznar the he Samuel Willcox, stoker of the second coal en • gine. Richard Falkner, sen., a mechanic, bel • ongmg, to some . place in Surrey INJURED. At the Radcliffe Infirmary. [chard Falkner, jun., son of the deCeased Richard Falkner, head cut and body bruised. Job Falkner, another son ; body bruised and thigh burned. John Williams, hawker , of Birmingham ; comp oun d fracture of arm—since amputated. Joseph Townsend, of Bicester ; dislocated hip-- s in ce reduced. John Harper, of Cheltenham ; compound fracture of one thigh and both legs broken. Thomas Monney, of Little Coxwell, near Farringdon ; head cut, fractured jaw, and thigh injured. John Walters, of Bicester ; knee and thigh in j ured. William Knibbs, of Bicester ; head cut and injury to Sarah Smith, of Steeple Claydon, injury to chest. At Graces' Hotel, near the Railway Station. James Sayers, of Winslow ; four ribs fractured, George Slade; suffering from the shock. At the Anchor public-house, Hayfield Hut, near where the accident occurred. William Jones, of Doncaster, horse dealer ; seriously hurt about the head and body. At the Railway Hotel. Henry Watts, breaksman of the coal train ; suffering from the shock. At Bletchley. Joseph Kinch, guard of the passenger train ; head cut and body bruised. It will be observed that of the six men in charge of the engines only one has escaped. The survivor, John Lee, states that he saw the passenger train was on the same line of rails with himself, but notuntil within a very few moments of the collision, owing to a slight curve on the railway at this point. He was driving the second engine, and after shutting off the steam, he told his mate, Willcox, that he should jump, advising him to do the same. Lee immediately got over his tender on to one of the coal trucks, and had crossed two or three others before the collision took place. Willcox hesitated to follow, and the next moment he was lying under the wreck, with a thigh badly fractured, and his pelvis dread fully lacerated. Lee did not jump off the train until it *topped, and after doing so the first person he saw was his mate, whom he dragged out of the wreck by main force. Willcox was among those taken to the infirmary, where he died this morning. Richard Falkner was travelling in company with two sons in search of work. He left his wife at Oxford, and she was to have followed this morning. He was insensible when picked up, and remained in a state of collapse, without taking food, until this evening, when he died. Caroline Davis is the daughter of a shoemaker at Farringdon. She was proceeding in company with Thomas Monney, who is now lying in the infirmary at Winslow, on her way to Wotton, where she was engaged to take the superintendence of an infant school. We have stated that all the bodies were frightfully mutilated. Tarry's watch was crushed nearly flat, the hands being fixed in the dial plate at thirty-five minutes after six. He his left a widow, and although it may appear unnecessary to allude to such a circumstance here, it is currently reported that he lived on such ter rible terms with his wife that when he left his house last night she declared that she hoped he would never enter it again. Bugden was a very fine young man. He had six children by a former wife, and about four months ago married a respectable young woman, who, besides being enciente, is left to foster an orphaned family. Sarah Smith was discovered in a state of almost per fect nudity, on the buffer of one of the engines; with a piece of iron firmly fixed across her throat. She was extricated with great difficulty. This poor woman had been to Oxford to see her brother, who had enlisted a few days previously. She has lost everything she pos sessed. Jones, the horse dealer, who is lying at Hay field Hut, had 1231. in notes and gold in his pocket when the accident occurred. He is very much injured. It is feared that both this case and that of Harper may terminate fatally. . There were some miraculous escapes of passengers in the train. Two little boys, sons of a local clergymen, were sitting opposite each other in the second class car riage, escaped unhurt. Another gentleman escaped with a few bruises, and a third was so little hurt that he proceeded to London last night by the mail on the Great Western Railway. _ _ _ The coroner has appointed the inquest to be opened ,o-morrow morning (this day), at the Star Hotel. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER-YESTERDAY. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 20 to 1 agst Galvanism 25 to 1 Contentment (taken) 25 to 1 Richmond (taken) 25 to 1 Tobolski (taken) 30 to 1 Hirsuta (taken) 30 to 1 Defiance (taken) 30 to 1 The Hatchet CHESTER CUP. 1,000 to 20 offered on the Field, but nothing (lone, NORTHAMPTON AND PYTCHLEY HUNT. ENTRIES FOR THE GREAT NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES, Gossip, 3 yrs ; Auchinleck, 3 yrs ; Sharavogue, 4 yrs ; Hambletonian, 4 yrs ; Bell Tinker, 3 yrs ; Jacque line, 3 yrs ; Minerva, 3 yrs ; Lampedo, 3 yrs ; Lady Emily, 3 yrs ; Helen, 3 yrs ; Ireland's Eye, 4 yrs ; Llanforda, 3 yrs ; Break-o'-Day-Boy, 3 yrs ; Content ment, 3 yrs ; Muscovite, 4 yrs ; Tickton, 3 yrs ; Polly, 3 yrs ' • Sweetheart, 6 yrs ; Chaffway, 3 yrs ; St. An drew, 4 yrs ; Pride, 3 yrs ; The Bishop, 4 yrs ; Peggy, 3 yrs ; Father Thames, 4 yrs ; Octavia, 4 yrs ; Merry Bird, 4 yrs ; Ibis, 4 yrs ; Joe Miller, 4 yrs ; Fionn-na-Coul, 3 yrs ; Don Quixote, 3 yrs ' • King of Troy, 4 y rs ; M a d e li ne, 4 yrs ; Sir John Barleycorn, 4 yrs ; Termagant, 4 yrs ; Gholab Singh, 5 yrs ; The Deformed, 3 yrs ; lanthe, 5 yrs ; Lough Bawn, 5 yrs ; Hobby Horse, 3 yrs ; Maria ; Rex, 4 yrs ; Little Dame, 4 yrs ; Scarecrow, 4 yrs ; Tordesillas, 6 yrs • King of Trumps, 4 yrs ; Azael, 4 yrs ; Jack the Giant Killer, 3 yrs ; Tavistock, 3 yrs ; Charley, 3 yrs • Kingston, 4 yrs ; Charity, 3 yrs ; Grapeshot, 3 yrs ; Weathergage, 4 yrs ; Ethelbert, 3 yrs ; Houla kin, 4 yrs ; Cotton Lady, 4 yrs ; Goldfinder, 5 yrs ; Dabahick, 3 yrs ; May Day, 5 yrs ; Nerva, 3 yrs ; Lady Blanche, 4 yrs ; Tremble, 4 yrs ; Tobolski, 3 yrs ; Harrier, 4 yrs ; Constantine, 4 y rs ; -Candlewick, 6 yrs ; Audubon, 3 yrs ; Florist, 3 yrs ; Defiance, 3 yrs ; Lucio, 4 yrs ; Nutshell, 6 yrs ; Bit of Blue, 4 yrs; Ariosto, 5 yrs ; Eulogist, 3 yrs ; Little Harry, 4 yrs • Ninnyhammer, 3 yrs ; Buckthorn, 4 yrs ; Quasimodo, 4 yrs ; Lindrick, 4 yrs ; Indian Warrior, 4 yrs ; Galvanism, 4 yrs ; Perfidious, 3 yrs ; Massaroni, 3 yrs ' • Babette, 4 yrs; Seli n a, age d ; P e l op id as, 4 yrs ; Lady Harriett, 4 yrs ' • Happy Joe, 4 yrs ; A mmon i a , 4 yrs ; Placid, 3 y rs ; Waterfall, 5 yrs ; Moselle, 3 yrs ; Postulant, 3 yrs ; Richard Primmer, 4 yrs ; The Dandy, 3 yrs ; Molasses, 3 yrs ; Psalte r y, 3 y rs ; s e ll ews t own, 5 yrs ; Da n i e l O'Rourke, 4 yrs 2 • Alp, aged ; Vict ress , aged ; B en it a , 4 yrs ; C ar ib oo, 6 yrs ; Burndale, 4 yrs ; Prime Minister, 5 yrs ' - Confessor, 5 y rs ; Att ac k , 4 yrs ; Alle gro , 4 yrs ; Garforth, 6 yrs ; Prevention, 3 yrs ; orybantes, 3 yrs ; Feramorz 3 yrs ; y es,Newminst 5 yrs; f. by Venison, out of Wedding -Day, 4 Poodle, 4 yrs. MANCHESTER SUMMER RACES. -TUESDAY, - ---- ENTRIES FOR THE UNION OUP. • Longbow, 4 yrs ; April Fool, 3 yrs • Sis. to Wanot a , 5 yrs ; R es t, 3 yrs ; Father Thames, 4 yrs ; Placid, 3 yrs ; Prime Mi n i s t er, 5 yrs ; Prevention, 3 yrs ; Mi nerva, 3 yrs ; T es t e d, 4 yrs ; Cardinal Wiseman, syrs • Mountain Deer, 5 yrs ; Frantic, 4 yrs ; The Vermint: 4 yrs ; Larrywhent, 4 yrs ; Chaseaway, 5 yrs ' • Truth, 5 yrs ; Skit, 3 yrs; Gaffer Green, ag e d ; c . by The Emperor out of Begum, 3 yrs : Break-a-D a y B oy, 3 yrs; Osbaldeston : 6 yrs; Lady Flora, 3 yrs; Candlewick, 6 yrs; Conmore, 4 yrs; Michaelmas Maid, 3 yrs ; g by Galaor, dam by Alfred, 3 yrs ; Robbie Noble, 4 yrs ; Sanita, 4 yrs ; Ariosto, 5 yrs ; King of Trumps, 4 yrs ; Russborough, 6 yrs ; Warhawk, 4 yrs ; Kohinoor, 4 yrs ; The Judge, 3 yrs ; Woolwich, aged ; Redmond O'Hanlon, 4 yrs ; Kite flyer, 4 yrs ; Lalage, 4 yrs ; Morning Star, 4 yrs ; Chil ton, 3 yrs ; The Gift, 4 yrs ; fby Faugh-a-Ballaugh, out of The Era, 3 yrs ; Common Sense, 4 yrs ; Valour, 3 yrs ; The Nabob, 4 yrs ; Evadne, 4 yrs ; cby Mel bourne, out of Sally Warfoot, 4 yrs ; Ibis, 4 yrs ; Mrs. Birch, 4 yrs ; Harp, 5 yrs ; Richard Primmer, 4 yrs ; Madeline, 4 yrs ; Ammonia, 4 yrs ; Richmond, 4 yrs ; St. Michael, 4 yrs ; Lady Agnes, 4 yrs ; Farmer's Boy, 4 yrs ; Agnes Wickfield, 4 yrs ; Tordesillas, 6 yrs ; Timid Fawn, 5 yrs ; Snowdon Dunhill, 3 yrs ; Little Davie, 4 yrs ; Jack Leeming, 5 yrs ; Daniel O'Rourke, 4 yrs ; Trousseau, 4 yrs ; Sir R. Trenchard, 5 yrs ; Mire Hill, 4 yrs ; Incense, 3 yrs ; King O'Neal, 4 yrs. THURSDAY. NOMINATIONS FOR THE MANCHESTER TRADES' CUP. Lady Evelyn, aged ; b fby Melbourne out of Gaiety, 3 yrs ; Banshee, 4 yrs ; Candlewick, 6 yrs ; Terpsichore,' 4 yrs ; Bird-on-the-Wing, 4 yrs ; Charming Woman, 3 yrs ; the Nabob, 4 yrs ; Frantic, 4 yrs ; the Belle, 3 yrs ; b c by Sir Hercules out of Dexterous, 3 yrs ; Little David, 4 yrs ; the Red Lion, 4 yrs ; ch g by Harkaway out of Pass, 4 yrs ; Peggy, 3 yrs ; Mrs. Birch, 5 yrs ; the Sut ler, 4 yrs ; Redmond °Manion, 4 yrs ; Dressmaker, 3 yrs ; Gholab Singh, 5 yrs ; Tavistock, 3 yrs ; Lady Amyott, 4 yrs ; Lady Harriett, 4 yrs ; Lambton, 3 yrs ; Moun tain Deer, 5 yrs ; Weathergage, 4 yrs ; Ariosto, 5 yrs ; Rach4t4, 4 yrs ; Ammonia, 4 yrs ; Lady of the Grove, 5 yrs ; Richard Primmer, 4 yrs ; Black Doctor, 5 yrs ; Broughton, 3 yrs ; Monsoon, 3 yrs ; Madeline, 3 yrs ; The Carrier, 4 yrs ; Talfourd, 3 yrs ; Effie Deans, 3 yrs ; Aaron Smith, 5 yrs ; Goldfinder, 5 yrs ; Miss Truth, 5 yrs ; Ethelwolf, 4 yrs ; Charley, 3 yrs ; Postulant, 3 yrs ; Valour, 3 yrs ; Shropshire Lass, 3 yrs ; Chaffway, 3 yrs ; Hatchet, 3 yrs ; Royal George, 4 yrs ; Bit of Blue, 4 years ; Jack Leeming, , 5 yrs ; b. f. b y Faugh a-Ballagh, out of Miniat ure , 3 yrs ; King of Trumps, 4 yrs ; b. c. by Melbourne, out of Sally Warfoot, 4 yrs; Indian Warrior, 4 yrs ; Allegro, 4 yrs ; Lindrick, 4 yrs. ; Fancy Girl, 4 yrs ; Woolwich, aged ; Audabon, 3 yrs. ; The Event, 4 yrs ; Confessor, 5 yrs ; Corybantes, 3 yrs ; Haricot, 6 yrs ; Alp, aged ; Little Fawn, 5 yrs. ; Chief Justice, 6 yrs ; Cariboo, 6 yrs ; Prevention, 3 yrs ; St. George, 6 yrs ; Merry Bird, 4 yrs ; Lough Bawn, 5 yrs ; Sister to Wanoti, 5 yrs ; Veteran, 4 yrs ; Benita, 4 yrs. FRIDAY. NOMINATIONS FOR THE SALFORD BOROUGH CUP. Longbow, 4 yrs ; April Fool, 3 yrs ; Lalage, 4 yrs ; Evening Star, 4 yrs ; King of Trumps, 4 yrs ; Russ borough, 6 yrs ; Bethgelert, 4 yrs ; Mrs. Birch, 5 yrs ; The Harp, 5 yrs ; Woolwich, aged ; Ammonia, 4 yrs ; Talfourd, 8 yrs ; Merry Bird, 4 yrs ; Audubon, 3 yrs ; Lough B awn, 5 yrs ; Anne Page, 3 yrs ; Candlewick, 6 D' S ; Lady Amyott, 4 yrs ; Prime Minister, 5 yrs ; Ci,onmore ' 4 yrs ; Benita, 4 y rs ; L a d y E veline, aged ; Sister to Wanota, 5 yrs ; Monso on , 3 yrs ; Littl e F awn , 5 yrs ; b. c . by Melbourne, o u t o f Sally Warfoot, 4 yrs ; Chaseaway, 5 yrs ; Game Tommy, 3 yrs ; Dress-maker, 3 yrs ; Madeline, 4 yrs ; Tordesillas, 6 yrs • St. Michael, 4 yrs ; Lady A gnes , 4 yrs ; Braxey, ' 4 yrs ; Unity, 5 yrs ; Prevention, 3 yrs ; Michaelmas Maid, 3 yrs ; Postulant, 3 yrs ; Miss Emma, 3 yrs ; Tested, 4 yrs ; St. George, 6 yrs ; Jacqueline, ' 3 yrs • Kiteflyer, 4 yrs ; Littl e J ac k, 6 yrs ; Evadne, 4 yrs ; Lerrywhent, 4 yrs ; Peggy, 3 yrs ; War Hawk, 4 yrs ; The Judge, 3 yrs ; Richard Primmer, 4 yrs ; The. Carrier, 4 yrs ; Charity, 3 yrs ; Little Davie, 4 yrs ; Needle, 4 yrs ; Fancy Girl, 4 yrs ; Father Thames 4 yrs ; Hobbi e N o bl e, 4 yrs ; Valour, 3 yrs ; Mountain Deer, 5 yrs ; Sanita, 4 yrs ; Shropshire Lass, 3 yrs ; The Nabob, 4 yrs ; Weathergage, 4 yrs. WEST LONDON PROVIDENT SOCIETY.—A preparatory meeting of the West London Provident Society was held last evening in Thulstham-street, Edgware-road. The rules of the society, as approved of by Mr. Tidd Pratt, were submitted to the meeting and met with general approbation. Mr. Vesey, the son of the eminent brewer in Holborn, is the projector of the plan, A public meeting was reeolved upon. The Duke of Wellington liberally proposes to open the principal apartments of Apsley House to the public during the present month of January, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, from ten till three o'clock. Admission tickets are to be issued by Mr. Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street, in answer to written applications, with name and address. Visitors are requested to observe the regulations made by the attendants and. the police. From a small catalogue just issued we tak e the follow ing particulars relative to the Mansion : "Apsley-house was built by Henry Bathurst, Baron Apsley, Earl Bathurst ; it was purchased by the late Duke of Wellington in the year 1820, and was subse quently greatly enlarged by him. From the Entrance hall visitors pass to a room, upon the right hand, used as "The Waiting room, in which there are marble busts of the late duke, by Steele, of Edinburgh ; Lord Castle reagh, Mr. Perceval, Colonel Gurwood, Colonel Pon sonby, &c. &c. " At the Foot of the Staircase stands a Colossal statue of Napoleon, by Canova, presented to the late duke by the allied sovereigns of Europe. Entering the " Piccadilly Drawing-room, are several admirable paintings ; those most worthy of mention a re- 4 A por trait of John, Duke of Marlborough,' over the mantel piece, ' The Chelsea Pensioners,' by Wilkie ; the com panion painting, ' The Greenwich Pensioners,' by Burnet ; ' Van Amburgh in the Cage with 1 Arad Beasts,' by Sir Edwin Landseer ; and several cabin( specimens of the Dutch school. Proceeding to the adjoining "Drawing-room, over the door, on enter:mg is a por trait of Marshal Soult ; and a fine portrait of Pope Pius VII. This room also contains the original painting of The Melton Hunt,' by Francis Grant, Esq., R.A. ; and copies from Raffaele, by Bonnemaison, of the four celebrated works known as 'The Spasimo ' "La Ma donna del Pesce,' The Pearl,' and The VisitaJ,i on .' Over the door, leading to an inner room, is. a Portrait of Mr. Pitt,' and another of the late ' Mr. ArbrAthnot,' by Gambardella. Opposite the pier glasses, stand a pair of vases, porcelain de Sevres, presented to the duke by Louis XVIII. "The Picture Gallery. It was in this ar)artment that the annual banquet of the 18th of June '.vas held ; the late duke cccupied a chair fronting the large central fire place. The gallery contains numerous admirable speci mens of celebrated painters, the name of each artist ap pearing on the frames. The candelabras, of Russian porphyry, in the centre of the room, were presented by the Emperor Nicholas, and the vases, o f porphyry, from Sweden, at th e s id e f the apartment, by the. late King of Sweden. "The small Drawing Room.—Upon the table, near the door, a Malachite vase , presented b y th,e Emperor! Alexander; above it is a portrait of the present Duchess of Wellington, by Gambardella ; upon the right-hand side a full-length portrait of William IV., by Wilkie ; and upon a table are placed two services of very hand some Sevres china ; one presented by Louis XVIII., the other, formerly belonging to Joseph, King of Spain. "The Striped Drawing Room.—The most interesting paintings in this apartment are:—' The Battle of Water loo,' by Sir Wm. Alien (taken from Napoleon's head quarters); portraits of Lord Beresford, Lord Lynedoch, Lord Anglesea, and Lady Wellesley—by Stir Thomas Lawrence ; Lord Nelson, by Sir Wm. Beechey; Lady Charlotte Greville, by lioppner ; Sir George Murray; and over the door, portraits of Marshal Blucb,er, and the late Lord Cowley—by Hoppner. Passing tiarough this room, visitors descend the back stair c a se , an d are con ducted to " The China Room, in which are portions of services of Prussian and Saxon china, presented by the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, and Louis XVIII., contained in glass cases. The silver plateau, in cases, on each side of the mantel-piece, was presented by the Regent of Portugal, for services during the peninsular war, from 1808 to 1811. Opposite the entrance is placed the Wellington shield, manufactured from designs by Stothard, and presented by the merchants and bank ers in London in the year 1822. Upon the cases are some remarkable busts in bronze, of the Marquis of Wellesley, Henri Quatre, the Prince de Conde, Louis XIV., and Marshal Turenne. " From this room we pass through the Secretary's Roam, the Duke's private Room, and the Duke's Bed Room (in the arrangement of which not the slightest alteration has been made since they were last used), and thence into the garden by an outlet constructed as a pri vate communication with the mansion, and habitually used by the late illustrious duke." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 4. The new Board of Admiralty will meet for the first time for the transaction of official business on Friday. - Captain John Shepherd, appointed to the Victory, as Flag-Captain to Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief, joined to-day, and read his commission on the quarter-deck. Captain Elliot, of her Majesty's ship Phaeton, 50, has succeeded in obtaining permission to pay his ship off at this port, instead of at the eastward. Commander Bowyer, who was First-Lieutenant of the Meander, 44, under Captain th 6 lion. H. Keppel, is appointed to the Vengeance, 84, Captain Lord Edward Russell, vice Mends, promoted. The Pallas, 50, Russian frigate, having undergone a thorough refit, was towed out of this harbour to Spit head last evening after sunset. The Simoom, 18, iron steam-transport, Captain King• come, will be paid wages on Thursday, prior to proceed• ing on further service. _ The Avon steam-vessel, Second Master-Commander Veitch,.arrived at this port on Sunday evening from Plymouth, with 52 newly-entered men, volunteers for "general service," a number of whom she discharged into the ships at Spithead en passant, and the remainder she transferred to the Victory. The Plumper, 11, screw sloop, Commander Nolloth, will be paid off on Thursday next. The Vengeance, 84, Captain Lord Edward Russell, and the:Fury, paddle steam -sloop, 6, Commander Tatham, now lying as Spithead,they are ordered to come into har bour ashave un shipped their po w d er , shell, &c. soo atn The steam-squadron of reserve, under the superinten dence of Captain W. H. Henderson, C.B„ of the Blen heim, 60, since the co mmissioning of the Sidon, Odin, Furious, and Medea, has been reduced to four vessels— viz., the Leopard, 12, 56 0 -horse power; Vesuvius, 6, i 280-horse power ; Bull D og , 6, 500-horse power ; and the Stromboli, 6, 280-horse p ower ; all padd l e - w h eels. The Hecla, 6, will shortly join them, ready for rigging. having been masted Her Majesty's fri gate Did PLYMOUTH, JAN. 4. o, 18 Captain William A. station. M orshead, sailed yesterday morning for the Pacific Her Majesty's ship Queen, 116, Captain F. T. Michell, advanced guard-ship, now lyin in the Sound, was placed to her ancho r s yesterday, about 50 fathoms west of her ordinary moorin gs , w h ere she will remain until they are taken up and r e pl ace d securely, the western arm having been dragged d ur i ng the tremendous storm of Sunday night, the 26th ult. WOOLWICH, JAN. 4. Lieutenant William. IL Phipp s (1845), who was ap pointed to the Impelbrieuse, 50, screw steam-frigate, at Woolwich, on the 20th ult., having applied to have his appointment superseded, his request was granted, and Lieutenant Harry S m i th (1845), who was at the time studying steam at th e factory at Woolwich Dockyard, has been appointed to the Imperieuse, vice Phipps. Captain R. B. Watson. C. 8., of the Imperieuse, on Lieutenant Harry Smith's taking up his commission and joining the frigate,. sent him round to Plymouth yester day to raise men for that war steamer. Mr. William A. Dinnen is appointed chief engineer, and Mr. Charles Moore and Mr. James William German, recently promoted, Mr. Moore to the First Class, and Mr. German to be act ing - assistant engineer of the Se cond Class, have been appointed to the Imperieuse, 50, and taken up their commissions at this port. MANNING THE NAVY. endeavourEDlTOn to show TIME. I OP THE TIM your correspondent who signs himself " A Lond on M anufacturer, " and who has written an excellent letter, that a stout b o y, a ft er s i x shall T O THE months' floating school discipline such as I proposed, would be worth 91. per annum and his food on board a merchantman. Observe—l don't mean children of 13 or 14 years of age, but strong, hardy y fellows of 16 years or thereabouts. While the vessel is in port, and the crew dismissed, a constant routine of petty work has to be performed, scarcely enough for a man, and not often too much for a boy. You must have some one to do it. Now a man's wages will be 18s. per weok, but the boy's wages would only be 3s. lid. ; add food, 10s.—naaking 13s. lid. per week. If you employ a rigger his wages are 245. per week. vasehrore when the "men useful ; many a time have tfhoreeyignpaupeodrttshbeomysasatreer were better employed in the hold or aloft; and many a hogshead of sugar have they helped to bring alongside in the West Indies. When a green boy joins his vessel a day or so before she leaves port, he finds himself totally adrift and in every body's way ; his ignorance and bewilderment are called stupidity, and, of course, he is bullied by the officers and cursed by the men. Slo w l y , am i d sea sick ‘s'asielas,laegnsicautiously goes aloft. he picks up a know lne e d s g s e andnf the a c q r u n i r p i n e 8 g and By degrees he becomes of some little use ; but in most cases it is by very slow degrees indeed. The common saying is, that for the first six months he is scarcely worth his food. runs nimbly Compare such a boy with one ta t ke e n la o t n te b r o i a s r a d t a o ft n e e r e s a ix t aloft, lies h m o o m n e t s k ' n fl o o w a s t i n t h g e s r c o h p o e o s l a t n e a d c h g i n e a g r! h out on the yard, and is able to handle the light sails. This fellow is at once of service, more than double the value of the green hand ; yet the usual pay of the latter as an apprentice is 4/. for the first year and his food. It is easily seen that the trained lad' would be worth two of him. As to the value of a boy after six months' training, I may give the following example :—I engaged a strong, hardy lad, of some 16 years of age ' • he joined his ship for the first time last March ; he has made two North American voyages, and has been most serviceable during the recent trip home from Quebec. He deserved a present, and has received one. I fully agree with your correspondent on the great benefits which would result from the addition of moral and intellectual training to the nautical education. When your correspondent arrives in Liverpool I shall send him my address. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, Jan, 1. .& Livixmi Situpwrin. TB SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. WI RAIL,WATS. 1 Closing Prices Yes erday. Business done this day. 311 - 321 - 7 10 11 6i - spa 22 - 23 2 - 2 d 107 109 67i 68 23i 24 17' 184 34 8i - 6 - 61 4i 13 - 133 103.-- 113 ... ... 8 -- 8i 77 -- 79 55 60 78 - 80 29 - 30 60 - 62 82 - 83 43 - 45 121 - 123 105 107 95 - -95 i 6 i 7 4 89 91 114 —12 p —85 i 1 23 A --- 23 1 1 8 dd 9 -- 91 lt -- 2 p 108 -- 109 1251 -- 126.- { .. 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[OO 283 Van Diemen's Land ... ... 1 233 4 2 1 1 Submar. Telegraph„ ... ... OXFORD UNIVERS'ITY ELECTION. (From the Times.) Sir Robert Inglis once boasted in the House of Commons that as representative for the University of Oxford he was probably returned with less trouble and cost than any other member. The rule of this model election is,- that the candidate says nothing, does nothing, paysnothing, and must not even go near the University. till. after the lapse of some weeks or months, when, as a great favour, he is permitted to take a day ticket to Oxford to lunch with his mover and seconder, to leave a card' of thanks at a score of common rooms and as man.y houses, to finish the day very pleasantly wherever he likes, and be home again by night. , Including his railway ticket and his cab, we believe the suc cessful candidate need not be 101. out. of pocket, and for that outlay he enjoys the pleasantest seat in Parliament. All this is very well for the mem ber himself, and makes a very verdant little oasis in the Serbonian bog of British electioneering ; but it is not so pleasant for the unfortunate consti tuents. Members of Convocation, besides pay ing more than two guineas a-year for the plea sure of keeping their names on the books, are liable to be called upon every election by any body who chooses to proclaim that he means to stand, or that somebody else will stand, or that if that somebody else will not stand another somebody else, now in nubilms, will be got to stand. Reversing the ordinary rule, the Univ ers ity candi date dances, and the electors pay the piper ; so it is very hard if somebody can't be got to dance when his music and entertainment are both gratis. In other cases a candidate adopts the sumptuary rule of " counting the cost," anti backing out if he finds himself likely to be beaten. In Oxford there is no consideration of prudence to prevent a man's going to the poll, and keeping it open fourteen days, to the great amusement of his particular friend's, and the immen se é c l a t o f a very insignificant name . The only suffering parties are the parsons and law yers, who are at the pains to come up from their parsonages or their chambers at a cost exceeding their annual payment to the income tax, for the pleasure of assisting at a contest the result of which everybody knew from the beginning. That is precisely the infliction under which the University of Oxford is suffering at this moment. Some nameless individuals, said to be the same that attacked Mr. Gladstone in the Carlton, and threatened to throw him out of the window, after sleeping off their debauch have se :; to work to get up a show of opposition to his return foi' the University. If that sham opposition were to be at the cost of the sham opponent and the real opposed there would not be so much reason to com plain, for it is an incident that may happen in any borough in the country, and a challenger who shakes the risk with his antagonist cannot be utterly con temptible. But it is the peculiarity of this sham opposition that it is to be done at the cost of the voters—the voters on both sides, whether for Mr. Gladstone or for the man of straw set up against him. The contrivers of the nuisance do not even risk their names and credit in this instance ; they are really nameless—as nameless as the noisy fel lows who wake you up with a double knock at two in the morning, or break your windows, or smash the gas light, or do any any other heavy drollery of that sort. Nobody knows or cares who is doing this. As little does it matter whom the Oxford party have got for their Guy on the occasion. At one time they proclaimed through a congenial medium that they had secured the Marquis of Blandford ; then it was the Marquis of Chandos ' • and when he repu diated the honou r thrusb upon him, it was Sir John Dousy Harding," as he was called—anybody, in fact, or anything, that could be fished up out of the calendar. A contemporary has been at the pains to show, and does show most clearly, that there has been an enormous amount of lying on the part of the committee for the sham opposition. We confess we think it rather superfluous to prove that what is a lie from first to last is composed of lies in its details. It is so little of a novelty to find per sons of the Carlton school practising these little vagaries, these changes of names, through Frail, Mason, Johnson, Smith, Th om p son , & c., and cor responding changes of appearance, that we should hardly have animadverted on the fact that a man was declared a consenting candidate who had pub lished his determination not to stand. Passing over the obscurity which envelopes the origin of the movement, and the oscillations of statement which have characterised its progress, we will confine our selves to its state at this moment. A man has been actually found ; that is, if there is such a man as was yesterday proposed in convocation at Oxford. The person on whom the gentlemen of the Carlton have fallen back is one Mr. Dudley Percival, said. to be a son of the minister who was shot in the lobby of the House of Commons, to be a member of the National Club, to have got a first class thirty years ago, to have had the honour of being beaten by Wakley and Duncombe for the borough of Fins bury in 1837, and to be " a sound churchman, a consistent politician, add a t a l ente d man." His present occupation and residence we are not in formed of. Mr. Dudley Perceval, then, is the Cincinn.atus of Churchmen who has been dragged from utter obscurity —granting that there is such a man—to molest members of Convocation and make them pay for supporting Mr. Gladstone. The second visible member of the movement is a Dr. Lem priere, who calls himself the honorary secretary of some committee ; and the third and kit member of this picturesque group is Archdeacon Denison, who, mad as he is, has just sense enough to know that Mr. Gladstone will be re-elected, as he was last time, and that the sole result of the pretended op position will be abstracting the best part of a five pound note from the pockets of several hundred. clergymen and lawyers who can very ill afford it. Really, it is becoming high time to ask what is to be done, not for the present election, but for the future. As matters now stand it will always be in the power of anybody to annoy the majority of the Convocation by dragging them up to a pretended contest. The mem bers of Convocation who are on the whole satisfied to retain Mr. Gladstone, or who at least prefer him to the nominees of the Carlton, are probably,two to one compared with the others ; so a contest is likely to inflict twice as much loss on Mr. Gladstone's supporters as on his op ponents. Such is the speculation on which these proceedings are founded. But it is clear that if the game is repeated every election, the University will be obliged in self-defence to ask Parlia ment for some other system, which shall save the time, strength, and pockets of the ten or twelve hundred gentlemen victimised in this fashion. In other elections shabbiness of soon punishes itself, for even poor Flewker, when he found W. B. and Co. would not reimburse him for fighting their battles, turned against them and sold them.. But there does not seem a chance of any such poetical justice in the Universities under th e present sys tem. Only think of several trains full of valuable, busy, but not very rich men, going down to Oxford this morning to vote for or against a person whose existence they never heard of yesterday, and even now only hold on faith ! For our part, after all, we cannot but think that he is a very near relative of our old friend Mr. Harris. To remove any doubt on this poi n t, l et hi m be exhibited at Exeter- Hall, with doc umen t ary evidence of his defeatx istence, and history ; hi s first-class, his Finsbury, his " talents," and hi s at principles. If we must go to Oxford to record our votes, it would at least be something to know that we were voting against a real man, and not a mere name. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Messrs. IluitsT and BLACKETT, Successors to Mr. Co BURN, of Great Marl borough-street, have announced the following New Works for publication during the present season :—Me moire of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third. From Original. Family Documents. By the-Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, K.G., &c., 2 vols.—A Tour of Inquiry through France and Italy, illustrating their euarnsiesdoursr tßuker. present Political, Social, apd Religious Condition. By Captain Spencer. 2 vols. , (21 , 0 w Ready.)—Military Life in Algeria. By the Count P. de Castellar — o _ Wise Saws and Modem Instances. By the l a t an n I _, - of " Sam Slick," &c. 3 vols.—Travels in_ _l e n ni d o. _ 0 7 Kashmir. By Baron Schonberg. 2 vols.— ?1...4: 5, Abernethy,'Thn 2 vols.—A New Work. By ,he Author of ; or, Lectures, and Character. yGe With or g a e view m a.ci 1 o w f rai his on f, F v , v ; I l nicii is; Wyndham," &c. In 1 vol. — a m o l ,!Y the Aristocracy. Episodes in the Domestic Apnals Au l tobiogr ly of an By J. B. Burke, Esq. 2 . I ve States' Ar m Y' 3 vols.—The vols.— NarrativeEnglishSoolfdiaerriniveth; shed writers are also from 1847 to 1852. By F. F. following new Novels by same Publishers :—Lady Catharine announced byJourney Round the World, the ~ n w Long's New Work) ,8 Daughter. By Mrs. Gore.— on. By the Author of " Emilia Ready.)—The Story Dean of Scottish Life. By the Author Harry Muir. A . d " &c.---tkoThe Jealous Wife. By -,; i - e - (Now Ready.) —A. New Novel. B Wyndham, • The Longwoods of the Grange, By Y Mrs. Trollope.— . range. the d L . of t Adelaa e indsay."—Broomhill ; or, The Author . °noway's Pills a certain Specific m of is ' s ‘ M y: Ea a rE r dn a l se r E. e s l eAaToiu)btlietspt.; ocfh(eNessmoivstilaLoed;:mo. for the Cure of Scorbutic Eruptions.—Extract of letter l i n a g y t . of, s d ir a ,_ ted A No p v e . rs 2 o s n , named John Professor of 19, Regent-street, Learning flCroBorsunAln: County Beauties. Leaming ton, was afflicted for eight years with scorbutic eruptions on the lips, and at length the whole surface of the mouth and lower part of the face were covered with sores. He tried all kinds of remedies, without deriving any benefit whatever. At length he was recommended to use Hol loway's ointment and pills, which in three days produced d a great change for the better, and in a short time effected a perfect cure."--Sold by all druggists, and at Professor 1 11 . 01 -10WaV's establishment. 244. Strand. London. Ellasalt.tillein: THE STEAM-SHIP ADELAIDE. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY.—This mail-packet sailed last evening for the Cape of Good Hope and Australia. On Sunday afternoon she was taken from Hamoaze into the Sound, with the intention of having her inspected by Captain Lowe, R.N. ; but the gallant officer, judging there was not sufficient light to make a satisfactory examination, postponed the important duty until yes terday, when, with Captain Henderson, the Com pany's marine superintendent, Mr. Scott Russell, her builder, Mr. Marshall, secretary, and others, she cruised round the Eddystone. A ga i ns t a heavy swell and head wind, when deeply laden, she made 104 knots ; she back ed at the rate of 6 knots. In order to try her altered rudder she was put round twice to starboard and twice to port. The screw being disconneeted, she was put un der canvas only. In all these positions her perform ances gave great satisfaction, and whatever inconvenience may have been caused by the delay, her prospects for securing a successful voyage, after her thorough overhaul and repair, are greatly increased. It is also very probable that, had she been out during the late ter rible gales, she might have incurred some of those disasters which have told so painfully among shipping of all elasses. During her stay in Plymouth she had been relieved of five disagreeable passengers, one of whom was arrested on a charge of forgery, and another left the ship suddenly on seeing the detectives, who found a large quantity of base coin in his cabin. Nearly all her berths are full. She has forty five first and 111 second class passengers, and at St. Vincent's will receive eight others, left there by the Melbourne. The ship and cargo are roughly esti mated to be worth 600,0001. Insurances have been effected for 530,0001., of which 350,000/. is for specie-- the highest sum, it is said, which would be taken on that article. Additional mails embarked on Sunday.— St. Vincent's, 1 ; Cape Town, 7 ; Cape Colony, 5 ; Cape Fleet, 1 ; Port Natal, 2 ; King George's Sound, 2 ; Adelaide, 8 ; Melbourne, 23 ; Sydney, 4 ; New Zealand, 4 ; Van Diemen's Land, 8. • MARKET NEWS—(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The show of English wheat in to-day's market was very limited, and greatly out of condition. For all descriptions, owing to the small number of buyers in attendance, the demand ruled heavy, at Monday's decline in the quotations, and a clearance was not effected. From abroad, 3,180 quarters of wheat have come to hand. Importers were firm in their demands, but the amount of business doing was trifling, at late figures. We understand that very large purohases of grain have been effected on the continent for spring shipment. Floating cargoes were dull, and rather lower to purchase. Fine malting barley was scarce, and quite as dear. Grinding and distilling sorts met a slow sale. We had a dull inquiry for malt, at late rates. Oats were quite as dear as last week ; but beans, peas, and flour commanded very little attention. ARRIVALS VMS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. English .. 2,060 I 1,880 Irish .... Foreign .. 3,180 3 Mig o oa s o t a . F os lot:r. 0 _ _ 2,910 WiIITECHAPEL: For each kind of meat, the supply of which was sea sonably good, we had a steady inquiry to-day, as follows ; —Beef from 2s 4d to 3s 6cl; Mutton, 3s Od to 4s 6d ; Veal, 3s Od to 4s 2d ; Pork, 2s 8d to 4s Od per 8 lbs. by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. Fine hops are in somewhat improved request 'at fully Last week's prices ; but all other kinds are a slow sale. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Jan. s.—Wind at Noon, S.S.W., light b reeze, and fine dear weather. The accounts from the o u t ports represent very stormy weather to have been experienc e d yesterday all round the coast. A vessel, bottom up, of a light brown colour, of about 70 feet of keel, apparently o il laden, was passed Dec. 31, by the Albion, arrived at L nsdinone, c tham. The Enterprize, Hamburgh to Plymouth, sail n " from Cuxhaven on the 23d of October ia s t, and t since been heard of. The Providence, D an t z i g to L ° passed the Sound on the 16th of October, and has n a ceinoftlle°llll,lgahleesur h f a' o s been heard of. Op D or O to Nr h A as r,, re J ce an iv . ed 3. m — u Th ch e da ll m o a re g n e 6 to 7 feet of water in her hold, and laud be beached and surveyed. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 3.—The weather still c stormy. The Grace, Demerara to continues very outs de g Caniller Point. Workington, is aground PENARTH ROADR.—Put back --W m , Good Hope, with chief officer, in. Frederick, Cape of LOWESTOFFE, Jail 4. —Wind, carpenter, and cook rived—Providence Jan, 1 Ind, S.W., strong gale. Ar m Sunderland for London, with da having been in co n tact, mage, HULL, Jan. 4. int W 1 New Orleans. , S.W. Ar r i ve d—J anet Walsh, DEAL, Jan. NW' 14. int , 5.W... by S., blowing a heavy gale, with Bombay Ita.milies ry appearance of a dirty ni g ht. Anivel— ; Cor oman d e l, d o. P ut bac`r--oMer, Vancouver's Island. The Ann of Whitby has been wrecked on the Goodwin Sands ; crew saved. COWES, Jan. 4.--Wind, S.W. Prince Edward's Island. DARTMOUTH, Jan 4.—Wind, S.W., stormy. Arrived — Galatia, Buenos Ayres. FALMOUTH, Jan. 4.—Wind, S.W., fresh gale. Arrived ' —lndian, M on t e Vid eo f or Li verpoo l ; Secundena and Ra mon, Havannah. Arrived —'Melody, PLYMOUTH, Jan. 4.—Wind, —W •e. Rio de la Pl a t o . Sailed—Adelaide (s), Melbour u d Lana, Old LIVERPOOL, Jan. 4.—Wind, W. Arri e_ zibLl, Honduras ; Calabar ; South Carolina Mobile ; Jan. S.—Arrived Ellen, Savannah. Off POrt—Eclip n s i e. —Arctic (s), York, at half-past e ' 3.—The Lively, Inverness to the Clyde, Jan. ~. the 29th of e Clyde, which went ashore on _December, has become a total wreck ; part of cargo saved in a damaged state. Arrived—Darnley, Shr. 1 Pi St. lb 20 Aberdemn . 8i Amin. Nottng. Bost. & - 2astn. June 11. Birmng. Wolverh. & Stour Valley 8 Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct Lll Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O & £25 Cons 84 Do., £2O K) Bristol & Exeter )0 Caledonian .11 Chester & Holyhead al Cork and Bandon [5 Dublin&BelfastJunc al Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction al Do. New ............ - dl East Anglian (£25 L. & E. & L. & D.) .11 Do., (XlB E. & H.) 1 , Eastern Counties Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. 5h.... DO., do.. Do., B. & C. East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk & Birming. June J Edinburgh & Glasgow 0 Edinb.Prth.&Dundec ..00 Glasgow & S.Western 100 Great Northern Stk 100 Do., 1 A. Stock 100 Do., 4 B. Stock A all Great Southern and Western (Ireland) St. 100 Great Western ...... 12 11 trinh South-Eastern, 50 all Lancaster & Carlisle 161 114 Do., Thirds St. 100 Lancash. &Yorkshire 20 15 Do., Fifths 14 114 Do., Wst. Riding Un 50 all Leeds Northern...... 20 all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt. 11 all London & Blackwall 10 3 Lond. Tilb. & Stheud. St. 100 Lond. Bright. & S.Cst. St. 100 London &N. Western 20 12 Do. Fifths 10 1 D0.,10/.5h.,M&8...0 St. 100 London &S. Western 50 421 Do., £50........ ....- 40 34 Do., £4O. 25 all Lndriy.&Coleraine 25 i all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. St. 100 Manch.Shef.dyLincln. 84 44 Do., Man. &Lin. Un. St. 100 Midland St. 100 Do. Birming.& Derby 50 471 Midland G. West.(lr.) 25 171 Do. i Shares .......... 100 all Newcastle &Carlisle.. St. 100 Newmark et ..... H 25 14 Newpt.Aberg.& . tid. 50 74 Newry & Enniskillem 20 all Newry Warrenpoint 31 I 2 27i al 22 St. 10 St. 10 50 a 50 a 50 4 25 25 I a; 25 I a] 18 a] 20 al 25 i all St_ 10 F,O a] SL 10 St. 10 St. .1 St. St. St. 10 15 a & Rostrevor. Norfolk Do., New 3- Northu.Counties Un. )0 North British . ...... .. ID , North Devon, No.l 6i Do., No. 2 '1 Do. 2 1 A Deferred 0., B Guarantee& 2 . l North Staffordshire ii North Western.. 8i N. & S. Westrn. June. )0 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton )0 Scottish Central )0 Scottish Midland )0 Shrewsbmy & Birmg X) Do., L. & N. Westn Guaranteed Stock 8 Shrewsby. & Herefd in Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.)...... all Do. Halves, d 0....... !CI Do. Oswestry 6i Shropshirc Union .. Do. A.B.C. &D. fully paid up at p. C...... al South Devon .......... )0 South Ea5tern......... al South Wales [5 S. Yorksh. River Dun 5 Do .61 Stockton & Hartlepl. 9 Thames Haven pock and Railway ..... .7 Vale of Neath. ..... Lll Waterfd. & Kilkenny al Waterford&Limerick .3 West Cornwall all West London 1 Woodford ... ...... )0 York Newctl. & Berw ',O Do. Extensions .. Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midland.. PREFERENI (Aberdeen Do., No. 2, 7 p c... Bristol & Exeter 4p. cont. Stock .......... Do. 4 p. c. Shares ... Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5 per cent... Cork &Bandon 5 p. c. Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction ....... EastA nglian (£3los) 6 per cent ........... Do. (25) 7 per cent.. Do. (1,17175) 7 p. et.. 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 Do., £lO Deben. Sh EastrAnca.sh. 6 p.cts East&WestYorkshire Junction, Fifths Edinb.Prth.&Dundee Glasgow & S.Western guar. 5 per cent Great Northn. 5 p. c Do. 5 p. c., Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem Gt. Southn. &Westn. (Ireland) Eighths... Gt. Westn. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.).. Great Western, fixed, 4i per cent........... Lancash. & Yorksh., F. Do., 6 p. c., Stock... Leeds Northern, 6 p. cent., No. 1 ..... Do., No. 2............. Do., No. 3............. Do. , Quarters, 1848. London and,Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c.. Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St Do. Convertible, sp. 1852 New Guar. 6 p. c & N. West. Coy. & Nun., 5 p. c. Stock. 5 London (SD S.Western Con. Thirds ' 10 Londonderry& Color Shares all Londndry. & Ennisk Shares all Manch. ,Shcf., & Lin., 4 Shares, No. 1 all Do. New, £lO 3 Do., £6 all Marypt. &Carl. 4p. c. all Do. 4i per cent 8a Do LOOlMid.Consol. 6 p.c. St. .00 Do. Consol. Bristol &I Birm. 6 per cent 5 Do. Pref. 4i per cent all Norfolk Extension all Do. Guar. 5i per ct all Do. Waveney Valley 5 per cent 100 North British . all North Staffordshire.. LOO Oxford Worcester (SI Wolverh. £15,6p. C 9 Do all 'Shrewsbury k Birm. New Guaianteed.... all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min),B p. c. 10 Do. 5 per cent ~. all 'South bayou . Do. New all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of 21 Os.6d. [OO Do. 4i per cent all S. Yorksh. 4p .c. Guar. all Stock.& Hartl. Guar. sp. c. till 1 Ju1y,1856 3 Waterfd. &Kilk. 6p. c. DO York Newcastle and Berwick, 4 p.c.Pref 5 Do lo York& N. Midland H. & S. Purch JOINT-STO all Australasia all British N. American 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Lon- don 4 English Scottish and 2dAustralian Lond. Chart. Bk. of - Australia 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Lond. & Westminster 35 National Prov. of Eng. 10 Do. New 22 National of Ireland all Oriental Bank of Corporation., 5 Do. New 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 Royal Australn.Bkg k Gold Importing Company all South Australia all Union of Australia 2& . D0. 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