The Sun. — London, England, 1853-02-12 00:00:00

CLERICAL, C MEDICAL, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. No. 99, GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, BLOOMSBURY. The Annual General Meeting of Proprietors will be held at the Office of the Society. on l'HuasnAT, the 3 , 1 day of March nest, at One o'Clock precisely, at which Meeting five Directors, one Trustee, and one Auditor (on the part of the Proprietors), will be elected. Any Proprietor desirous of proposing a candidate for the office of Director, Trustee, or Auditor, must send the name of such candidate to the Secretary, at least fourteen days before the day of Meeting. The Ballot will commence at Eleven and close at Two o'Clock. An election of an Auditor on the part of the Assured will also take place on WEDNESDAY, the 2d day of March, between the hours of Eleven and Two o'Clock. All persons Assured for the whole term of life, and qualified to vote, are hereby referred to the condi idate tions indorsed on their Policies, for informatio n concerning the cand to be proposed. GEORGE H. FINCHARD,Resident Secretary. February 10th, 1853. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Farewell Season of Mr. Benjamin Webster as Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, Frit. 12, Will be performed the new and original Comedy, in five acts, called NOT SO BAD AS WE SEEM ; or, Many Sides to a Charac ter. Supported by Messrs. B. Webster, Barry Sullivan, Keeley, Buckstone, Howe, Leigh Murray, Stuart, Rogers, and Clark; Miss Rosa Bennett, Miss A. Vining, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. After which, the new and original Farce, called TO PARIS AND BACK FOR FIVE POUNDS. To condude with the Farce of BOX and COX MARRIED and SETTLED. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestry. THIS EVENING, FEB. 12, Will i s performed the Comic Drama called A PHENOMENON IN A SMOCK-FROCK. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Horncastle ; Miss F. Baker and Miss C. Mitchell. After which, the new and popular original Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE GOOD WOMAN IN THE WOOD, in which Messrs. F. Matthews, Suter, Horncastle, and Templeton ; Madame Vestris, Miss Julia St. George, Miss Robertson, Miss Martindale, Miss Ellis, Miss Wyndham, Miss Eglinton, and Miss Rosins Wright will appear. To conclude with LITTLE TODDLER-MS. Sole Agent for the Private Boxes, Mr. W. Allcroft, 15, New B md-street. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, FEB. 12, Will be presented the powerful new Drama of SLAVE LIFE ; or, Uncle Tom'a Cabin —by Messrs. Alfred Wigan, 0. Smith, and Emery ; Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Miss Harding, Miss Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley. To conc'ude with the successful new Comic Pantomime, called NY LL GWYNNE ; or, Harlequin Merrie Monarch. Principal Dan,seuse, Mdlle. Auriol ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore. O YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean. THIS EVENING, Fail. 12, ypl be performed the new and original Comedy, in three acts, by Douglas Jerrold, entitled ST. CUPID ; or, Dorothy's Fortune (as played at Windsor Castle, by Royal Command). Principal charac ters by Messrs. Wright, W. Lacy, Harley, J. Vining, Ryder, F. Cooke, Everett, and Chester ; Mrs. W. Laey and Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with the new and original Grand Comic Christ mas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN CHERRY AND FAIR sq:AR ; or, The Green Bird, the Dancing Waters, and the singing Tree. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Haline ; Pan taloon, Mr. Paulo; Columbine, Miss Desborongh. ROYAL OLYMPIC: THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren. THIS EVENING, Faa. 12, Will be presented LILIAN GERVAIS. Supported by Messrs. Compton, W. Farren, jun., Hoskins, Cooke, Edgar, Bender, and Clifton; Misses Anderton and H. Gordon. After which, WANTED ONE THOUSAND SPIRITED YOUNG MILLINERS FOR THE GOLD DIGGINGS. To conclude with ROMEO AND JULIET; or, Harlequin Queen Mab and the World of Dreams. Clown, Mr. Edwin Edwardes, with his highly-trained Dogs. Box-on:ice open from Eleven till Five, under the superintendence f Mr. E. Chatterton. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. LAST WEEK BUT THREE of Mr. BATTY'S MANAGEMENT. Extraordinary Attraction. The Two most powerful Equestrian Dramas ever produced—Mazeppa, and Uncle Tom's Cabin. ON MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 14, And during the Week, the Entertainments wiil commence with the superb Spectacle of MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, reproduced with all its original splendid and magnificent effects. After which, Fiatty's brilliant Scenes in the Arena, supported by the first Equestrian talent in Europe. To conclude with UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. Doors open at Bali-past Six o'clock. To commence at Seven. Box-office open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. - HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Vag DAT —Morning 37 min. after 4 I Evening 54 min.aft. 4 To-Moßßow—Morning 10 min. after 5 1 Evening 26 min. aft. 5 _DAILY WEATHER TABLB. SATURDAY, FEB. 12, 1853. State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. HASTINGS—N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. SOUTHAMPTON—N., strong breeze—cloudless. FOLKESTONE—N.E., light breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDGE—N., strong breeze—partially cloudy. GREENWICH—N., gentle breeze—overcast. STuoon—W., gentle breeze—cloudless. SWINDON—N.. light breeze—snow. LEIGHTON—N.E. calm—snow. CAMBRIDGE—N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. YARMOUTH—N.E., storm--snow. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Thursday morning at nine o'clock LimmucK—E., strong breeze—partially cloudy. Mu LLIN GA R— N., strong breeze—partially cloudy. WHITBY—N.E., strong breeze—overcast. DARLINGTON—N., strong breeze—overcast, sleet. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, FEB. 12. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 34—highest since noon yesterday. 25—lowest this morning and during the night. 29—this day at noon. . BAROMETER, 29 . 41--slowly WIND, N. to N. by W.—Light breeze, and dull weather. We have had a heavy fall of snow ID.st night. The Publication of THE SUN Commences every day at THREE O'CLOCK, and the Late Edition, Containing the Debates in Parliament, on the Same Evening, in time for Post, at SEVEN O'CLOCK. • 4 •. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1853. Monday evening will, in all probability, wit ness the first " tug of war " between the .A.BER DEEN-RUSSELt Government, and the DERBY-DIS RAELI Opposition. Yesterday the gage of battle was fairly thrown down at the feet of the PRESI DENT of the BOARD OF CONTROL, by the Right Hon. the ex- CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. The latter has evidently resolved that no time shall be lost in calling to account one at least of those Cabinet Ministers who have recently disgraced their high office by the utterance of the most in temperateand the most un-statesmanlike scurrilities in reference to the chief of a neighbouring and friendly Government.. From the extraordinary promptitude thus shown by Mr. DISRAELI, the chiefs of the present Administration may learn the truth that they are not by any means destined to slumber upon a bed of roses during this momentous Session of the Imperial Parliament. It will be perceived that the matter upon which Sir CHARLES WOOD is about to be cross-examined by the Leader of her MAJESTY'S Opposition is the very one to which we ourselves have, within the last few days, more than once made reference. The egregious indecorum of the remarks uttered very recently by Sir CHARLES WOOD, when ad dressing his constituents at Halifax, will not therefore be allowed to pass by altogether with impunity. The Right Hon. Baronet will have, at least, to give some rational explanation of those remarks, if he be not actually driven to the necessity of making some reparation for their in temperance. Without question this is but reasonable under all circumstances for as suredly something is due in the matter to the dignity of the CROWN, to the honour of the country, and to the interests of peace throughout Christendom. Because, in the language employed upon that unfortunate occasion, we be lieve that that dignity was violated —that that honour was sullied--that those interests were either most shamefully abused, or moat disgrace fully forgotten. If the Ministerial ad v i sers of the SOVEREIGN are to be allowed at pleasure t o scatter abuse over a friendly potentate, and to direct the most ignominious and intolerable im putations against a great nation with which our relations continued to be of the most cordial and pacific character—the tranquillity of Europe must henceforth be dependent upon the petulance of every partisan Administrator, the hon our of the realm must be liable at every moment to degradation, and the most shallow-pated holder-of-office may, for the gratifi cation of every petulant and splenetic emotion, compromise the name and depreciate the dignity of his S OVEREIGN. What we insist upon is this— that a Minister of State is not justified in pander ing to the evil passions of a mob by the gratuitous employment of scurrility in regard to an indepen dent empire, whether that empire happens to be situated in the eastern or the western hemisphere. We maintain that there is not only discourtesy, but even criminality, and criminality of a very heinous kind, in the rev-dings directed by a person in hi g h ()face against a friendly Power no matter if that Power be the pettiest or lllii >llllno THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1853, the mos t puissant. Once establish to the con trary, and the science of diplomacy is a mere farce. We may then abolish the complicated system known . as the Foreign Department of the Admi nistration—we may at once relieve ourselves of the c ostly employment of our consuls, attaches, and a mbassadors. rarding the subject as we do in our heart, and is 1 our conscience thus seriously, we are rejoiced at the: notice given to the House of Commons last even ing by the Right Hon. the ex-CEAN - cELLoa of the Ex.CHEQUER. In consequence of the .bold de term imation arrived at in this instance by Mr. Disn ELI, the disgraceful speech delivered the other day 1 u one of the Cabinet Ministers at Halifax will not be I permitted to pass by without an opportunity at lei Ist, of its being expiated by some distinct Legiilative condemnation. Possibly that oppor tunity will not be allowed to come and go on Monday evening without some reference being made, in like manner, to the observations, no less disgraceful in their character, which fell from the lips of another and a more important Cabinet Minister, when, some weeks previously, addres sing his constituents during the course of a con vivial meeting in the city of Carlisle. Until one or other of those ill-judged and most intemperate harangues have been brought directly under the notice of the Legislature, there must remain a chilling misapprehension, during a period of pro found peace, between the Governments respectively of France and of Great Britain. It is essential, therefore, that the matter should be decided with as little delay as possible, and that it should, therefore, be brought, at the earliest moment, under the consideration of the popular branch of the English Parliament. More especially is such a course desirable, when, from the peculiar situation of the two countries, there is, in one of them, at least, a panic as to the chance of a speedy, if not immediate, collision— when this panic is such, indeed, as to induce our Ministers to pay serious attention to the national defences, and, after judiciously increasing ournavy, to entertain the project of materially enhancing the amount of our military armament. An interposi tion like that promised for Monday evening, by the Leader of her MAJESTY'S Opposition, had 'con sequently become (all things considered) obviously and imperatively requisite. It is with peculiar satisfaction, therefore, that we direct the atten tion of the community to the notice made yester day, in this particular, by the Right Hon. Gen tleman the ex-CHAwcELLoa of the EXCHEQUBR. We, yesterday, briefly alluded to the important measures of Legal Reform brought forward by Lord ST. LEONARDS in the House of Lords on the preceding evening. But these measures, valuable as they must be admitted to be, form but a por tion of the ameliorations which we are justified in anticipating from the Legislature during the pre sent Session. Not only have we the promised bills of the LORD CHANCELLOR, which are to be introduced on Monday, and which, it is believed, will comprehend the fusion, to a certain extent at least, of the legal and equitable tribunals—a general codification of the laws—an improved sys tem of legal education, ensuring . a competent knowledge of the principles and practice of the law, by parties desirous of admission to any branch of the legal profession—and, probably, an improved system of legal legislation, ensuring a greater degree of accuracy than can at present be relied on—we should also have anticipated some proposition for the reform of the Ecclesiastical Courts, had it not been for the procrastinating suggestions of Lord Jon RUSSELL, who appeared to think that the subject ought to be postponed sine die, or, at least, until the Commission of Inquiry had presented its report. We much question whether the Legal Reformers in and out of Parlia ment will consent to this delay. It may not, on con sideration, be deemed expedient to permit the Hon. and Learned Gentleman the member for Plymouth to seize the laurels that might so easily be gained by the Government. There is no such superabund ance of popularity that the Ministry for the time being can afford to disregard so feasible an oppor tunity of attaining public approbation, by abat ing this odious nuisance, or rather series of nuisances, that " stink in the nostrils" of the people. The views of Lord JOHN RUSSELL were so very coolly received by the House and country, that it is by no means impossible that an attempt may be made to retrace the false steps already taken, and that Ecclesiastical Courts Reform may be included in the Ministerial pro gramme of measures of Legal Reform in the course of preparation. But, independently of Ministers, we have the admirable series of Bills introduced by the late Law Officers of the Crown in Ireland. Those for the improvement of the relations between Land lord and Tenant in the sister kingdom, which have already been referred to a Select Committee, and Mr. WHITESIDE'S excellent Bill, which elicited the unanimous commendation of Legal Reformers of all classes and shades of political' opinion. The present ATTORNEY- GENERAL vied with his predecessor in well-merited eulogiums on the Honourable Gentleman who had proceeded so very far in advance of all previous "official " reformers, and in declaring that the same principle should be applied to the English Common Law. The Procedure Act of last session was a very im portant amelioration of the practice previously in operation. But it is universally admitted that it did not go far enough—and, indeed, we can only wonder at the timidity that prevented the com plete carrying out of more enlarged views. It is true that special pleading was there by abolished, but the forms of action were retained, to which the ex-SOLICITOR-GMTERAL of Ireland gave the coup de grace. It was im possible that so great an improvement, adopted, ,00, in accordance with the recommendations of the English Common Law Commissioners, could be limited to the other side of St. George's Channel, and that there would not be a general demand for its extension to the whole of the United Kingdom—an extension which Sir ALEX ANDER COCKBURN advocated and Sir FREDERICK TuRSIGER " was prepared at the proper time to adopt." The abolition of the declaration and the substitution of a plaint and summons as one step, and appearance and defence as another, was also a great improvement, as well as the ;verification of the pleadings by the oaths of the parties, so as to prevent the possibility of specula tive litigation where parties relied on the weakness of their adversaries' case rather than on the strength of their own—putting forward the most conflicting and contradictory state ments. Our readers must be familiar with the American sneer at our system of pleading where the satirist supposed an action brought for injuries to a kettle that had been borrowed by the defendant in a damaged condition, and to which declaration three distinct pleas were put on the file : Ist. That the defendant never borrowed the kettle. 2d. That the kettle was damaged in manner and form alleged in the declaration when he bor rowed it. 3d. That it was whole and in good condition when he returned it. We can assure our readers that matters fully as ridiculous, and exhibiting as many con tradictions in the same pleadings, are of daily occurrence in our Superior Courts, . the business of the pleader being to exhibit his ingenuity in discovering every probable ground of defence, and raising the necessary issues for the purpose. A system which greatly enhanced the expenses, and complicated the proceedings of suits in the Supe rior Courts. The new and simple test provided by the Bill of Mr. WHITESIDE, the abolition of the necessity for personal service of writs or notices, the pending chosen in action assignable and en abling the Courts of Common Law to give effect to equitable defences and relief in cases of ]ost documents, and the codification of the new rules of practice and pleadings, in the face of the Bill, are all matters of vast impor tance, and the benefit whereof cannot be re fused to the English suitors. These matters, then, must be fully and completely carried into operation. If by the Government--if Ministers adopt the- measures of their predecessors, well. If not, we can safely entrust them to Lord ST. LEONARDS and Messrs. NAPIER and WHITESIDE, convinced 'that the absence of official duties will not deprive the country of the inestimable services of these energetic and efficient Legal Reformers. There is, indeed, a gene ral concurrence of opinion among all classes— professional and non-professional—of the necessity of rapid progress in the path of legal amelioration. The Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law has set the example. By its unobtrusive but useful labours, it has sown the good seed which has brought forth such abundant fruit. There is " unrestricted competition" between the dif ferent parties in their efforts to bring forward the most perfect measures until "legal Free Trade" be attained. There can be no halting in the path. There may be an honourable emulation as to which will go the farthest, but procrastination or postponement on these matters is no longer practicable. • A remarkable document appeared the other evening in the columns of The Sun, as well as in those we believe of the majority of our contem poraries, purporting to be a Proclamation ad dressed by Louis KOSSUTH to the soldiers in Italy, in the name of the Hungarian nation. Almost, simultaneously, there appeared another document of a somewhat similar character, signed by JOSEPH MAZZINI, and avowedly summoning his fellow-countrymen throughout the Roman peninsula to a grand and instant insurrec tion. Of the authenticity of the latter appeal we have no doubt whatever. It breathes throughout the passionate enthusiasm and almost phrenzied eloquence of perhaps the most formidable of the Demagogues of his Age. But of the proclamation ascribed to KOSSUTH, we must acknowledge our selves dubious in regard to the authorship. Nowhere from first to last can we recognise the accents of that great patriot—nowhere from the commencement to the conclusion of the document can we perceive the fervour of his tones as an orator, or the impress of his character as a statesman. One sentence alone is sufficiently rhetorical in style to persuade us that it can have emanated from one of the most eloquent of the great men of this generation. " Hungary is the right wing, Italy is the left wing, of the army I led." But even this conveys a sentiment which we may reasonably hesitate to attribute to the temporary (and, as we hope and believe, in the end the per manent) Liberator of the heroic race of the Hun garians. One reflection naturally forces itself upon us in reference to this remarkable document, the reflection that it appears somewhat mistaken and ill-judged to apprise the Northern Powers beforehand of an intention to " rise" on the part of Italy, or of Hungary, with a view to vindicate their rights, and to realise their independence. To say the least of it, such a course must seem to the world singularly injudicious. Before, how ever, condemning it as such, we should like to feel assured that the proclamation attributed to Kos sum has the stamp of authenticity. Thanks to the prompt and energetic interfer ence of the Noble Lord the Member for the me tropolitan borough of Marylebone, there is really a prospect of our at last witnessing the " begin ning of the end" of the odious and most execrable system "beginningo f n o t f r a the al r e a e l n — interm reall ell y t , s. becatalle y p r t a li c tie.ally. Hitherto we have, to all intents and purposes, only talked of commencing the suppression of the abomination. Acts of Parlia ment, having this object nominally in view, have been passed--and, not very long after being framed, have been amended—but all without any avail whatever. Insomuch has this proved to be the case, that we have found ourselves com pelled again and again to direct the attention of the community at large to the detestable - con dition of our London Graveyards, first in one direction and then in another—now in Drury-line, now up at old St. Pancras— where the ground is rotten with the decay of the remains of " our dear brothers departed," and where, though thus crammed with the dead to repletion, the earth is still being crowded with more of our dear brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers, uncles and aunts, and all the rest of our kith and kin indiscriminately. Beholding this monster evil still flourishing in the midst of the wealthiest capital in the world, Lord DUDLEY STUART last evening humanely brought the matter directly and expressly under the HOME SECRETARY'S consideration. To the honour of Lord PALMERSTON be it said that he was neither slow nor measured in his condemna tion of the system of intramural interment. " With respect to the question in general, I can only repeat what my Noble Friend has stated, that the graveyards of the metropolis are in a state which is disgraceful.", As an earnest that this is his true and sincere conviction as an administra tor, the Noble Viscount announced, in answer to the well-timed inquiry of Lord DUDLEY STUART, that an Order in Council would be passed as soon as possible to shut up the churchyard of St. Clement Danes, in the Strand—one of the most notori ously foul and overgorged of all those hideous dens of abomination. Thank GOD, something practical is at length being adventured upon by the Govern ment for the close of that horrible system which Mr. WALKER has long taught us to regard as one of the greatest curses of the population. Let Orders in Council, like that promised by Viscount PALMERSTON, be multiplied, and we shall very speedily witness the benefit resulting from a course thus bold and resolute in the diminution of the o.h the increasing salubrity mortality effected throu g h of the metropolis. "Thank you for nothing," DANIEL O'CorTNELL used to say, and as we expected there .will be no thing to thank our new Government for. No thing for ourselves. Canada will touch its hat for the long-deferred concession of the Clergyßeserves, the Jews will make their best bow for " long looked for come at last," and Australia will smile plea santly to find itself too strong to be any longer made the moral sink of the mother country. Well, so far we are glad to see work done which must be done, but there is little in it that can be called noble or generous —little aristocratic sacri fice to the rights of the many. Beyond our having more to pay, we have no specific information at present. We will try and hope that Light • Dues, Education, Secondary PuMshments, and facilitat ing the Sale of Land, will be as well dealt with as they would have been by the late Cabinet. We shall see. But on the Reform Question, the one which concerns us all—on that Lord JOHN is quite Lord JoHN again. Lord JoHN in office we mean, not his Lordship of Perth and of Chesham place. The panegyrist of Democracy at Perth is the cold Whig aristocrat again. ; while endea vouring to make the best for him of his declama tion there, we could but hint our apprehensions that it was mere out-of-office cant and palaver. It seems our fears were but too well founded. At Chesha,m-place again we were assured not merely by repor t, but by sincerely Liberal Members who were present, that he gave them distinct encouragement to expect, if they would only put him on the Treasury Benches again, a much better Reform Bill than the last. Yet, the Noble Lord complains that Reformers must have laboured under a misapprehension I He wonders how such an erroneous impression could get abroad as that be ever intended any advance upon his contemptible propositions of last spring. Now this is too bad. No such impression could have got abroad but for Lord JoHN's own office biddings at Cheshaxa-place, and his after-dinner oratory, in accordance with it at Perth. No one could have imagined any advance towards Repre sentative Reform f ro m Lord JOHN. He once " finality" in wo rds, and swore allegiance t o although he has for some time been ashamed of the word, he has been as faithful as possible to the spirit of his oa th. He made by the Reform Bill a division, final to his mind, of the propor tions of representation. He avowed that he gave designedly the predominance to the Lan double the ded Inte rest. He gave them in many cases _ h© gave them agri number of County M embers cu ltural boroughs of two o r three hundred voters by wholesale —he gave them the power to coerce, to bribe the voters ; and these vile abuses are the things still dear to his heart. We utterly disbelieve his pretended concern about " bribery and corruption at elections being de structive of public virtue." What cares he about the mental sufferings of the intimidated, and the degradation of the purchased elector, provided he can keep for the corn field its unrighteous supe riority over the coal field. When he has found, and when he so well knows, that no oaths or enactments can suppress bribery, and that no device of law whatever can ever take cognisance of landlord intimidation, we must loathe such pharasaical parade of concern for electoral virtue from the lips of one who refuses the only known safeguard against the solicitations to which that virtue is exposed. We wish we could believe in h Lord JOHN. I n hi s ob tstienapcoyhte we i have the of most full and unhesitating confidence. But for the man who, at an age when years had not quite dried up all the generosity of youth, proposed the Ballot as a part of the Reform Bill ; who has since sneered at it with all the malice of an apostate ; who could descend to such twaddle about it as that with which he insulted Guildhall and discredited his own abilities,—for such a man to talk of concern for electoral virtue, really reminds us of lectures on we have heard f ro m some gentsleermbienety which mt h he police were kindly assisting home. Lord JOHN'S grand policy of agricultural with it r ih e avciyeesiecoennhieefiy upheld by o p en vo ti ng , an d cted with it ; h e w ill n ot part m t e he cause of so much vice, because he dreads it would affect what he is pleased to consider the prescriptive right of the broad acres to oligarchical power, yet he affects to shudder at the " destruc tion of public virtue' by which he upholds his system ! Verily, like old JUVENAL, we are ready to post off to Russia, or even to Siberia, whenever gc aliquid de moribus audent, Qui curios sicaulant et Bacchanalia vivunt ;" of which our translation for 1853 is, " States men denounce election immoralities, and sustain their statecraft by them." Well, Mr. CHRISTO PHER may take comfort ; it is Lord JOHN who is the pupil, and not Lord ABERDEEN. Lord DERBY also may retire, as he appeared to wish to do, from senatorial toils —there will be no reform worth his opposition, as the Anti-Democratical champion. Sir JOHN PA.KINGTON and the Duke of NEWCASTLE may just cross swords pro forma over Canada, and then all will go on much as it would have done if members had not lost their Christmas holidays. It remains to be seen how Reformers in the Cabinet who have a character to lose, and earnest Reformers out of it, will sit down by all this recantation and Pha risaism. To procrastinate Reform is bad and pro voking enough ; but for Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE, Mr. Vuninns, and Sir W3I. MOLESWORTH to be paraded before the House and the country as part of a Ministry who are horrified at the thought of anything better than the universally laughed at R eform Bill of last year, must try their self respect not a little. For the Manchester School, too—honest men on these subjects as they are— it will bo rather too much patiently to endure the old Whiggism again. As to Mr. DISRAELI'S Party--probably the largest one in the House— they will be able at pleasure to leave them to fresh defeats--on the Ballot, on LOCKE KING'S motion, and similar ones ; and should they play as false on the Income Tax, why, DISRAELI and BRIGHT could beat the strong Government, two to one. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FEB. 11. A grand selection of vocal and instrumental music took place in St. George's-hall, on the anniversary of the marriage of her Majesty the Queen and his Royal High ness Prince Albert, yesterday evening, under the direc tion of Mr. Anderson, director of her Majesty's private band. The performance consisted of A. Romberg's "Song of the Bell" for the first part, and the overture of " Struensee," and a MS. Feslied, by M. Meyerbeer, for the second part. The principal vocal performers were Miss Louisa I Pyne, Mr. Lockey, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Genge, and Mr. Lawler. The band and chorus were selected from the Royal Italian Opera and the Sacred Harmonic Society, and amounted, together with her Majesty's private band, led by Mr. Sainton, to 130 performers. Mr. Cusins presided at the new organ. The Queen and Prince, attended by the ladies and gen tlemen in waiting, entered the hall about half-past nine o'clock, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the Princess Augustus of of Saxe . Coburg, her Serene Highness the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting to the Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, the Baroness de Speth, Lord George Lennox, the Hon. Charles Gore, and Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, who had previously had the honour of dining with her Majesty. The performance immediately commenced. The following had the honour of being invited to be present :—The Countess of Mansfield and two Ladies Murray, Lady Caroline and Miss Barrington, the Hon. Mrs. Sackvilie West, the Hon. Mrs. Grey and Miss Farquhar, Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, Lieut.-Colonel F. H. and Lady Emily Seymour, Sir George and Lady Couper, Miss and Mr. R. Couper, the Rev. F. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, the Hon. Ade laide Vernon, and the Rev. W. and Mrs. Canning. The " Festlied" performed in the second part is a can tata 'composed by Meyerbeer for the birth-day of his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha in 1840, with new words written and adapted by W. Bar tholomew, Esq. The band of the 2d Life Guards was in attendance in the Castle during dinner, and performed the following selection :--- , L r J o u r b a i , l , 7:: wedding March Mendelssohn. Weber. Labitzky. Selection,_" Haydee" Auber. Galop, "Bhestands Freuden" Gungl. Quadrille "Martha" Waltz, Overture, Strauss. Polka, ,4 Favorita" . Miss Barlow. God save the Queen. This afternoon the Queen and Prince, with the Prin cess Augusta of Saxe Coburg, drove out in an open car riage. Lord Alfred Paget and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon were in attendance on horseback. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, arrived in town yesterday morning from her residence at Frogmor e . Th e Royal Duchess paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester-house, and in the afternoon returned to Frogm9re. - - Mr. A. M. 0 - orkendale had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday. Sir James Cochrane had also an interview with his grace at the Colonial-office. The Chairman of the East India Company and the Deputy-Chairman had an interview yesterday with Sir Charles Wood. We regret to learn that Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton is confined to his house by a severe, though, we trust, temporary indisposition, arising out of a painful injury to the arm. — Standard. Sp DEBT.—The Spanish Financial Commission have intimated that the fifteenth auction of the foreign redeemable debt will take place at Madrid on the 28th inst., for which purpose 375,000 reals have been as signed by the Government. Tenders will be admitted in London until the 19th inst. The same authorities have also announced that, on the same date, the Board of Public Credit will proceed to open the proposals for the conversion of the Three per Cent. Deferred Rente against Consolidated with the same interest, 68,709,061 being now the amount remaining out of the 400,000,000 reals assigned for the six months ending the 31st of March next. _ _ COAL IN AUSTRALIA.—The prospectus has been issued of a company with a respectable board of directors, to be called the Australasian Coal Mining Company. .Its proposed capital is 200,000/., in 5/. shares, and the mines to be leased are those of the Four-mile Creek Colliery, near Maitland, and another near Hexham, on the Hunter's River. With regard to the supply of labour, arrangements have been made for an importation of Chinese, under the usual articles of indenture, and through the agency of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co. _ _ — EMIGRATION TO AIISTRALIA. — The Emigration Com missioners have advertised that they will be prepared, on the 17th inst., to receive tenders for two vessels to carry emigrants to New South Wales and to Victoria. They are to be ready for Sydney on the 30th of March, and for Melbourne on the 4th of April. According to a statistical statement recently prepared, it appears that the number of vessels which have sailed during the months of January and February from London, Liver pool, and the European ports generally, for the Austra lian colonies, including New Zealand and Swan River, amounts to 118, with a capacity of 57,951 tons, the de partures in January being 49 vessels with 26,828 tons, and in February 69 vessels with 31,123 tons. A CARGO FOR THE DIGGINGS.—Tho Screw Company's steamer Harbinger left Southampton yesterday for Aus tralia. She took out 60 passengers, specie (principally gold) to the value of 240,0001., jewellery, valued at 20,0001.; and a miscellaneous cargo besides, amongst which was a wooden house, and a large quantity of spades and pickaxes for the gold diggings. Her cargo is valued at nearly half a million sterling. The Harbinger took out ship letter mails for the Cape of Good Hope, Adelaide, Melbourne, Van Diemen's Land, and New South Wales. These mails contained nearly 10,000 letters and newspapers. The Harbinger only purposes to call at the Cape, Port Philip, and Sydney, and the Adelaide and Van Diemen's Land mails will be landed at Port Philip. MONNY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 7,000 bales, of which 2,000 wore taken for export and on speculation. The market was quiet, and closed without spirit. Railway shares were firm. According to returns from the different markets of Europe, the stocks of produce on the 31st ult. were as under : SUGAR—Tong. CorPEß—Tons: 1853. 1852. 1853. 1852. , Great Britain 105,828 ...143,591 ... 20,034 ... 18,344 Hamburgh 3,000 ... 5,500 ... 5,000 ... 8,500 Bremen l5 ... 1,900 ... 600 .., 890 Holland 9,000 ... 31,000 ... 20,710 ... 29,885 / Antwerp 3,085 ... 3,272 ... 5,475 ... 5,145 Total 120,928 185,263 51,819 62,773 It will be observed that of these staples the stock both here and abroad is smaller than at the corre sponding date of 1852, and the proportions of the Colonial in Great Britain were 12,791 against 11,244 tons of coffee, and 65,049 against 89,620 tons of sugar. The imports both of sugar and coffee were this year, up to the Ist inst., much smaller both here and on the continent than in 1852. The total for Great Britain was, of Colonial Sugar 14,300 against 23,264 tons, and of Foreign 4,421 against 4,127 tons. At the other ports above enumerated, the supply was about 10,000 against 20,000 tons. Of Coffee the imports into Great Britain this year have been, 285 tons of Colonial, and 422 of Foreign against 411 and 628 tons in the first month of 1852, and the total imports into the ports of Hamburgh, Bremen, Holland, and Antwerp, are 5,518 against 13,058 tons, an immense disproportion. Accounts from Dantzic state that during the year 1852 there were exported to England, 17,806 lasts of Wheat. The exports to all countries, in cluding England, were 26,495 lasts in 1852, and 32,897 lasts in 1851. The stock at the end of 1852 was 14,602 lasts, and at the close of 1851 it was 14,350 lasts. Several of the energetic merchants who carried on the Customs Reform movement recently have given their adherence to the no less important movement for the establishment of Tribunals of Commerce, by subscribing towards the funds needed to promote the cause. The very moderate amount of 1,000 guineas is. asked. The foreign houses that have experienced the benefit of such institutions abroad have come forward freely in support of the new committee. There is in the Bank of England weekly return, made up to the sth inst., the anticipated reduction of bullion, 342,0001. being the amount of decrease. The employment of the paper of the Bank was also smaller, but this arises from the additional sums paid into the credit of Government, for both the reduction in the balances of private depositors and the addition to the securities indicate a continued steady demand for accommodation. The alterations in detail, as compared with the previous week, are as follows : Active circulation £22,695,410 Decrease 288,040 Notes unemployed , 9, 338 820 Decrease 172,540 Bullion 18,700,812 Rest— Decrease 342,023 Increase 89,991 Public Deposits Increase . 332,212 Other deposits Decrease 459,963 Seven day and other Bills—Decrease 538 Government securities—Decrease 35,962 Other securities 13,705,812 Ingteage 51,647 Although no decided alteration occurred yester day afternoon in the rate of exchange for bills on Paris, the improvement of former post-days to 25 27 30 for 90 days' paper was maintained. On Hamburgh Bills were negotiated at a considerable improvement, viz.-13 6 to 7i, the accounts from that city stating that there was a brisk demand for drafts on London, and a short supply. Amster dam rose toll 18f and 19i ; Frankfort to 119 k ; Trieste to 11 12 and 15. _ _ The amount of bullion exported from London direct during the week to Thursday last was 21,670 ounces in gold, all to the Continent, and 65,936 ounces in silver. . Owing to the share settlement, the Stock Ex change remains open until three o'clock this after noon. The English Funds have* been very firm, but with extremely limited dealings. C onso l s b r i ng 99g to 99 it for transfer, and 99i to I for account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been. marked 103 k to t, and the Three per Cent. Annui ties 100,1 to I. Exchequer Bills of March have been at 525. to 565., and India Bonds at 60s. prem. Foreign Securities are neglected, but not flat. The Austrian New 5 per Cent. Bonds, are now quoted in place of the Scrip, being at 971. The Turkish Loan is supported at premium. Mexi can Bonds have been quiet at 23f to g. Grenada Deferred are at Hi. Sardinian Stock has been quoted 94, and French 41 per Cents. have been done at 105, with the Exchange at 25 15. Rus sian Stock is firm. Railway Shares have been again buoyant, and the settlement of the account is all in favour of the speculators for a rise. Great Southern and Western of Ireland Shares have been up to 1/. and 1/. 10s. Norfolk are 1/. better. South Eastern have risen to 11, and York and North Midland French Shares are also firmer, Grand Junction having advanced Strasbourg 4, and N or th ern f to _ _ _ The Shares of the Land Companies have been duller, with little doing. The Gold Mines are steady, and the Banks rather tending upwards. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. (From the Official List.) Business done. Bank Stock .. . 227 k 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOO4 1 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 1 per Cent. Annuities... lO3l 4 ?,,, India Bonds, £lOOO — Ditto, under £lO3O 6O Consols for Account 10th March 99i Exchequer Bills lid. March. Juno. £lOOO 56 2 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent.. Equador Bonds 5 Grenada Bonds, Deferred, Mexican*3 per Cent Peruvian 6 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto, 4i per cent ...... 1031 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 94. 4 Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent 22 i Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 4i p e Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852. i p Swedish Loan 2 d French Routes, 4i per Cent) losf Ex. 25f 15e Dutch Exchange 2i per Cent 65 TWO O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto March Account B9a A REVEREND DEFAULTER IN THE STOCK EXCHANGE. Yesterday morning a very extraordinary scene was exhibited in the neighbourhood of the Stock Exchange. A clergyman covered with rotten eggs and flour was seen making his way from the building, through a mul titude of young fellows, who seemed to have no com passion at all for the reverend sufferer. Amidst hooting and hissing, he contrived, with the assistance of some sober persons who seemed to take no delight in the fun, to bundle him into a Hansom's cab, from which he or dered the driver as quickly as possible to drop him at a hall door in Great Ormond -street. It was in vain that several of the bystanders advised the disguised minister of religion to stop at the Mansion-house, and inform the Lord Mayor of the stinking purgatory through which he had been obliged to pass. He refused to be under the slightest compliment to his lordship, or any of the fraternity of magistrates in the City, and away went the cab as soon as the crowd had sufficiently gazed at him to be able to identify him if ever he should visit the same neighbourhood again. Upon inquiry amongst the participators in the filthy joke it was ascertained that the well-powdered and strong-smelling clergyman had been for a considerable time in the habit of writing to some of the most emi nent brokers to make large purchases in railroad stock and other securities, and upon the fall of the market, when the day of settlement arrived, leaving them com completely in the lurch ; that in several instances the gentlemen who had depended upon the respectability of his address and position in society had been obliged to pay differences incurred by him in his bargains to the amount of several hundreds of pounds ; and that upon comparison of notes his orders from Dorsetshire, where he has resided, had been issued in the most ex tensive and reckless manner to some of the most busy houses in the City, every one of which had to com plain of the robbery thus committed by the reverend speculator. We were given to understand that he was in the habit of employing one house to buy and another to sell the same stock ; and that in some in stances he had recommended himself to brokers by stat ing to them that having attended the dying moments of dear friends of theirs, who described them as persons on whose activity every reliance could be placed, he was determined to employ them in laying out a few thousands he had by him to advantage. The impudence and perti nacity with which ho conducted himself are represented as exceeding all credibility, and his presence had for some days been looked for with eager expectation by some of the young visitor s t o th e S tock Exchange. Yes terday happened to supply them with an opportunity of paying their respects t o the reverend jobb er. The mo ment he appeared in the precincts of the buildin g , son of the sturdy lads who h ave b een in the habit of'crack ing jokes upon strangers formed an immediate acquaint ance with him, contrived to shoulder him into the pulpit from which the Government broker makes his purchases, A B I pelted and th en p ow d ered him, so that his clerical habiliments looked as if they had undergone the millex's vengeance for the plunder of his auks. FRENCH PLAYS.-ST JAMES'S THEATRE. M. Ravel played last night in three pieces, two of which are new in this country. The first, which bore the somewhat odd and unintelligible title of Une Riviere dans lc Dos, is a trifle of more than ordinary lightness. M. Riviera is one of those socially disagreeable persons whom our neighbours call a toneke-d-tout, perpetually fingering other people's handkerchiefs, spectacles, books, and so on, not with dishonest motives, but through mere fidgetiness. Under the influence of this disposition, being one day in a strange house, and finding a diamond necklace lying about, he attempts to put it round his neck, when unluckily all of a sudden it slips down his back, and this forms the riviere dans le dos of the title. His embarrassment in this awkward situation, his fear of a discovery, and his endeavours to extricate the stray article, are ludicrous in the extreme, and constitute the fun of the piece, for beyond this single idea there is no thing in the piece. It was received with a hearty laugh, but nothing more. The second piece, Le Corporal et la Payee, was translated and produced at the Adelphi under the title of Seeing Wright. The principal action of the piece takes place between Arthemise (Madle. Latnbert) a bonne in the family of M. Poupelard, and her lover, M. Exp4re, a corporal in the line. Arthemise is, besides, courted by her master, while her mistress, Madame Poupelard, has a lover in M. Jonquille, a neighbouring perfumer, who, to get Arthemise out of the way, presents her with a ticket to the play. Unfortunately it is one of Exupero's nights, and the bonne is obliged to leave him in charge of the nursery while she gratifies her theatrical taste. Hence the fun of the piece, which consisted in the efforts of the gallant corporal to keep the children quiet. All eorts of expedients are tried in turn —some of them, though n o doubt w e ll rece i ved in the liberal atmosphere of the Palais Royal, would have been bettor omitted last night. In this part of the piece M. Ravel was wonderfully comic. The sight of his face, surrounded by a wom an ' s nightcap, whi c h h e has put on to make the children be lieve him their veritable nurse, was irresistible. Th e sudden return o f M . and Madame Poupelard drives him to take refuge in an alcove, which l ea d s t o f ur th er com plications—for M. Poupelard, taking him for Arthemise, makes love to him in the dark, and slips on his finger a valuable diamond ring. He eventually escapes, but what becomes of him does not appear, as the piece gets flat beyond measure at the end. So slight indeed is the interest of the piece, that it was only M. Ravel's eccentri cities that kept the audience from yawning outright. York, which we have already noticed, was the other piece. A numerous and fashionable audience was pre sent. To-night M. Ravel appears in Une Pi€vre Bralante. AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL COMPANY: At a special meeting of the Australian Agricultural Company, held yesterday, it was unanimously agreed to confirm the sale of the Peel River grant to the Peel River Land and Mineral Company, and resolutions were immediately passed to that effect. Although the pro ceedings were merely formal, there was a large atten dance of shareholders, and in course of the discussion the desirableness of developing"the various resources of the remaining property was strongly urged upon the direc tors. Mr. De Salis described the possessions of the com pany as situated in the best positions of New South Wales, and capable of being brought into extensive cultivation. The readiest means, however, of improv ing the value of th e i r land would be to introduce po pulation into the district, and this could easily be effected if railway facilities were promoted, especially as they could on the American system be constructed at a cost of about 1,500/. per mile. The chairman (Mr. Brownrigg) stated that the directors had taken this suggestion into careful consideration, and would be prepared to give every attention to plans which might be hereafter brought forward. In the meantime, however, they did not wish to be precipitate in pledging themselves to any special course of action. With respect to inquiries made as to the probability of a further call, the board did not at present anticipate that such a step would be found necessary. The lease already granted to a company for working part of the Peel River district had been slightly modified, an extension, if required for an additional period of seven years having been granted, but without the option of closing at a year's notice, as was the case in the original undertaking. Another ne gotiation was pending with other parties for a similar lease, and it was thought several grants would eventually be concluded, since it was found that scarcely any other titles to land in the colony were equal to those of the Australian Agricultural Company. The following are the resolutions adopted : "That this meeting do approve and confirm the agreement made and entered into the 4th of February inst. with the directors of the Peel River Land and Mineral Company, now produced, for the sale of the Peel River grant for the sum of 500,0001., on the terms and conditions therein expressed. "That this meeting do approve and sanction the bill proposed to be introduced into Parliament this session, and now read to the meeting, entitled 4 An Act to amend an Act passed in the sth year of the reign of his Majesty King George IV., for granting certain Powers and Authorities to the Australian Agricultural Company, and to alter the Capital of the said Company,' and re quest the directors to proceed with the same in the present or any modified form in the present session." EIGHT PERSONS BURNT TO DEATIL On Wednesday last, a frightful calamity occurred, by which a whole family were swept away, in the quiet little village of Llanfihangel Tal-y-llyn, situate near Llangorse Lake, and distant five miles from Brecon. The scene of the disaster was the well-known public house called the Royal Oak, kept by Mr. John Morgan, whose family consisted of his wife, his mother-in-law, a servant-maid, and seven children, two of whom, sons, happened to be from home at the time. Mr. Mor gan himself was the only individual out of nine who escaped to tell the sad tale. He says that on Tuesday night last, his family retired to rest as happy and comfortable as they possibly could be. He read a chapter in the Bible, after he went up stairs, and then went to bed himself. He was awakened by his wife, who slept in another bed in the same room, between two and three o'clock on Wednesday morning, who told him that the house was on fire, and asked where the child was. He immediately got up, and, at his wife's desire, got through the window to endeavour to open the door, but before he could do so, or alarm the neighbours, the house was one mass of flames. He ran wildly from house to house to get assistance ; but it was too late ; the flames had done their work. The neighbours broke open the shop door ; but before they could gain an entrance to save any of the property, they were driven back by the fire, and compelled to become inactive spectators of the fearful devastation. As soon as the fire per mitted, a search was made for the missing bodies, 7 of which were, after great difficulty, got out, but presented a most horrid spectacle ; a mutilated and charred mass, not to be identified as the remains of human bodies. One body, that of an infant, could not be found. The 7 other bodies were got out, but no one could be distinguished from another. From the position, in which they were found, it is thought they must have been suffocated in bed, and, when the floor gave way, have fallen through with the beds. There were two benefit clubs held at the house, and in the boxes was about 601., besides books, securities, &c., all of 'Which have been destroyed, the only remains being some of the coins, which are so injured by the fire as to be useless ; the greater portion, it is thought, was melted by the intense heat. How the fire occurred remains a mystery. Mr. Morgan's loss is indeed great, for he was not insured ; and all his furni ture, shop goods, and clothes, except the shirt he had on, were destroyed. He also received serious bodily injury by getting out through the window; one hand and both arms were severely cut, and his feet lacerated by running about barefooted. The names of the unfortunate sufferers are, Margaret Griffiths, widow, Ann Morgan, wife of John Morgan, and five children, named Martha, Margaret, Anh, David, and Joseph, all under the age of 16, and Margaret Pritchard, the servant-maid. At the coroner's inquest, a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. DESERTION FROM THE MILITIA. Yesterday three young men, named James Bridger, James Whiting, and Joseph Jasper, the oldest scarcely o f age, were brought before Colonel Elwood, Major Carr, Messrs. Borrer, William Partridge, and Forster Smith, the sitting magis trates at the Brighton bench, on a charge of deserting from the Royal Sussex Militia, by enlisting into the 43d Regiment of infantry. The prisoners were natives of Brighton, and were enrolled in the militia in October and November last. Mr. Borrer said this was a crime that must be put a stop to, and where the characters were bad the magistrates had resolved to treat such cases with the utmost severity. The crime was very prevalent all through the kingdom. To a certain extent Bridges and Whiting stood b e f ore the public as men of bad character, and the bench were unanimous in awarding them the longest imprisonment which the Mutiny Act permitted ; they were therefore committed for six months. The third man, Jasper, was not known to the police ; this must be taken as a negatively good character, and he would be committed for four months. And the prisoners would remember that at the end .of their terms of impri sonment they would still belong to the 43d Regiment, if that regiment chose to claim them. CHILD MIIRDER.—An inquest was held by Mr. Bruges Fry, coroner for North Somerset, at the Bladud Arms, Lower Swainswick, near Bath, on the body of a female child, which was discovered in a water closet at Swains wick-house, Upper Swainswick, which has been for the last three months in the occupation of the Rev. W. Jenyns, and which for the two preceding years had been in the care of a person named Daniel Garraway and his family. Garraway, who was examined, stated that he did not know how the body of the child came into the place where it was found. Anybody might have thrown the body into the- closet without the knowledge of the inmates of the house. The closet was in a garden sur rounded by a wall six feet high. None of his family, or anyone residing i n th e h ouse w ith hi m , h a d b een as to le a d hi m to suspect t h at a c hi ld had been t of ill so r bo Mr. C. A. H arr i es , surgeon , made, at th i Li c ieques the jury, an i n t erna l exam i na ti on of the was in a very dec o mposed state, and te b deposed that which t d ha lu t ng h a e was satisfied from the appearance of He ofe f c n o l u l l a d iz n o . o t say that the child had but n w b a o a rn a how old it w as , alive.fem al e could not say whether or not there was an y mar k of violenceon the body, owing to the ad vance d state of decomposition. The jury returned a verdi c t o f " Wilful unknow n ." Th e a m n murder willb y b so e me person or persons investigated, we understand, by the ma giatrates. MINING INTELLIGENC.B. (From the Mining Journal of this day.) At the commencement of the week, the mine market opened rather dull, though inquiries were made for a few large shares—such as United Basset, Devon Consols, and South Tolgus. Towards the latter party however, the business became brisker. In the Metal Market.—Copper, Tin, and Lead, fl at ' withstandin g th e a d vance, are in such extensive demand that a further rise in all is expected.—Banta Tin is in the same condition, and Tin-Plates realise full prices.-- Spelter has been extremely active, and holders now ask 221. per ton.—The Iron Market is without alteration, and a very extensive business doing ; Scotch Pig is 55s * cash, and the same price, free on board, at Glasgow. In the Bullion Market.—Mexican and South Ameri can dollars, 4s. 11-1 2 d. per oz. Bar silver, without gold, ss. lid. per oz. Bar gold,. 775. 9d. per oz. standard. The sale of copper ore at Thursday's Ticketing was 3,945 tons, amounting to 27,2051.125., the average pro duce and standard being si, 1571. 17s. The corres ponding sale last month was 3,262 tons, producing 24,5751. 65., the average produce and standard bein 6i, 1521. ss. The Laxey, Lydford Consols; E as t L og y a s, Froncrocbs Maesyrerwddu, Coetia Llys, D ee p L eve l, Menlyilt Talacre, Holywell Level, Dylife, Rhoswydol, Bryn Fedwen, Shallee, East Shallee, Cairnsmore, C r eetown• Bryneisteddfod, and Dylifi min es , h ave sold lead ores during the week. Wheal Robins, Porkellis United, and West Towout have sold black tin. Balnoon Consols look remarkably well; they have now 16 men at work on the tin, which continues as rich as ever. They sold for last month 3211. worth which was stamped in one month by nine heads—one-half of this being profit. They are trying to take another staol ), which will considerably increase the returns. At pre sent they cannot stamp the stuff as fast as it can b e broken. Reeth Consols continue to look very well. The Pittsburg Copper Company (Cliff Mines) has PS ! declared a divide n d o f $l5 p er s h are f or th e presel: year, payable in February and August, and has earned it is stated, at least $2O. Advices from New York describe the price of met a __ A li as very firm, and having an upward tendency. Le' particularly was muc h i n d eman d . F rom H am b u rg vi e hear of extensive transactions in speller : at high rates' sellers at 211. 15s. Twelve shares in the Blaenavon Iron and Coal Coln' pany were sold by auction, at 151. each, by Mr. Jor . Williams, at the West ga t e -h o t e l, N ewpor t, l as t week' In consequence of the shares not realising the price 0' petted, no further lots of the property were put up. ~ The recent fluctuations an d d epress i ons i n the u ° ': market may be regarded as the natural reaction after a , period of excitement, du r i ng w hi c h th e ar ti c l e had 11°t merely been driven upwards by the legitimate dreg stances of an increasing dema n d an d an ev id en tly deft'_ cient su pply, b u t h a d b een susta i ne d at a very cons idef able adv ance by th e specu l a ti ve pr i nc i p l e w hi c h wag s° prevalent up to the moment of th e i n t er f erence of t he d' . Bank o f E ng l an d i n succes i ve l y ra i s i ng the rate o f count to 3 per ce n t., at which rate it appears at prese nt to be stationary. n the ease of such deterioration , , of the value of this important article of home productlr has suffered of l a t e other circumstances than those chieni conducive to the decline in question necessarily ael; Pany the movement of the market price, which, Wl' the ad vance was continuing or maintained, mig ht s be expected to occur. Where there has been extensiv e specul a ti on, as there undoubtedly has been in the 1 r " trade, a reduction in .price, or even an interval of &lett'', tion in the market, cannot fail to be attended by co llll ,l o excitement an d alarm i n the quarter where the ar t a Gas ff l ec g te o, d w excites the most interest • and accordingly en it has been re p or t e d th a t sa l es h av e be effected at lower figures than are to be found in the general quotations, and also that even apprehensions 7 0 existed as jar the y eventual stability of certain par' involved in large transactions, and compromised, it 1 1 assumes { by the late alterations in the price of Se e t te „ Ing - irnst- It appeared that such rumours or appre'L e- ; miens were more gratuitous than warrantable, a 11 " 0 that among the extravagancies, both of the sangin ii and b the timid, at the present critical time, maY the included that of attributing such danger ed in enterprising operations of the trade erupleY, regulating the supply and meeting the de' inan . d in connection with this great article of home 311 " foreign consumption. Speculation has been rife ; the increase of the demand is enormous ; and with tr e weul i d nu e e e d em pro t s e pe bee t of e a reduction of the duty on th o e: l7 ,; portation of British iron into France and America, th e " from the recent tempos.ve y li p k a e u li s h e o , od vib th ic a b t in is the recovery cernible, i the article of iron will inevitably parte,ra *th respect to the modifications of duty above 0- " ea 11 ,1 t may be reasonably anticipated that the alterati on in France will be extensive, and accomplished within i r ; distant period. During the week business transacte d a the iron companies has been limited to the Portland an Blaenavon, a few shares in the latter having d been ' dil l at 151., and sales_ have b een e ff ecte d i n the ro A to g premium, being a fall o f l on last week. lan 3 Although b us i ness in the old mining shares 1 10 been go somewhat m ore act i ve than f late, yet no syrapt n e b i n serv . shown itself as tending towards the buoyancy " au in creased demand within the l able a few weeks since. been generally firmer for the last few days, ore p estem e d de. rico Owing, however, to have iul including Great Nugget Vein, p ew ia, q a Gold, Nouveau Monde, Ap-,u and Yuba River. Favourable a r . l 4ie N eß evi beth fr om California and A us t ra li a, are shortly and anitinll%," looked forward t o ; i n th e meantime holders su° an indisposition to se ll. E nqu i r i es have been made for -,"; for British Au s t ra li an s h ares, on account of tr r company having compl e t e d an arrangem e n t I ° o the working of a valuable auriferous estate in Austra,t, without purchase, givi ng th e owners 15 per cen t. reed on the gold found. Th e s h ares o f th e U n ion Mining Company were allotted on Tuesday last, P re u o have hitherto attracted little attention. Liberty sh a „,, have been flatter, and the North American gold Ini l3 _ b l Z„ companies do not appear to be regarded so favenr' n f'a as they were a few weeks since. The shipments of 4 9s from Sydney to the Bth of September last were 1 9 '' , _ rt , ozs. ; since that date ships have sailed from that P O O O. but not arrived, carrying in the aggregate 342,7 92 . , • of gold. This, in addition to the Bloomer, lately rived with 10,700 ozs., and the previous shipinen,cs 9B 6 the 30th of June, 1852, will make a total of 1, 02 % a u1• ozs. of gold, which, at the value of 41. per oz., Wu give 4,107,9401. sterling. THE WOOLLEN TRADE. (Front the Leeds Mercury of this day.) 654 The imports of wool into London last week wer e aa • bales, of which 152 were f rom B e l g i um, 225 from "' - s j many, 54 from Alexandria, 55 from Buenos Are* from Holland, and the rest from China, &c. r oo In the English wool m ar k e t th ere h as b een a mode amount of sales this week, and prices are firm, at week's rates. ia In the Liverpool mar k e t woo l i s i n fair de--,,n102,0 for consumption, but th ere i s l ess specu l at i ve feeling " a few week's ago. rag ° In the Leeds m ar k e t th ere has been about an averjot business done in th e Cl oth-halls this week. The 015;,01 was of a brisk and an i mated character on Saturda Keogh y,a good quantity o f c l oth changed hands ; but on day there was a thick, foggy, dark morning, w.. ke t limited the tra nsac ti ons very much, and a dull inz,4oo was the result. Th ere have been considerable delive'"o have this n w o e c e h k a ; n during the week direct to the warehouses, so that, the whole, a good business is doing in balk cloths• are hoWusees g t e h i e n re th i e s state ey o a f m tra e d d e era in te tt; oo l doing in the home trade, but the shi • 14 01 4. houses - tinue pretty brisk. t HUDDERSFIELD FEB. B.—Thi s d a y a large ar a-o l ore goods was di sposed of in the cloth-hall, and sti ll 10, 0 were deliv ere d b y the manufacturers to the orders of the merchants. The quality of the goods sold are mos tl y the middl e an d l ower qualities. u ch ROCHDALE FLANNEL.— There has no t been .th change in the flannel market to-day as compared 11,0 that of the previoUs Monday. The wool mark et ,tp been quiet, th e manufacturers showing no dispositier t he buy, as they appeared desir O us to learn the resu lt ° London wool sales, which commenced this week. l ittle BRADFORD, THURSDAY.—There has been ver7 de" doing in wool during the last few day. The Prl e l ;the manded by f armers i n the country is higher th 3 re iao staplers f ee l di spose d to g i ve ; in colonial and f°he're wool people are waiting the result of the sales. 00 1 are great complaints of the slow r e t urn of emptY f s r P at oes to the spinners, in consequen c e o f w hi c h many e h a° are obliged to stand. The pie ce t ra d e re mains Init i l ear of it has d one f or severa l wee k s past. W e don't' c oil any decided reduction in production, though its nee is discussed. TRADE OF LEICESTER.—The home demand has f a d to „ ing off co ns id era bl y , th e s h op k eepers not b e i ng viii%, a of give advanced prices until th e i r s t oc k s a re dispeA ta tes, The orders for Australi a , C ana d a , an d th e United, 00 10 still keep the fancy hosiery, s hi r t s , an d drawers !' . 1 : soel a/ , ‘ well employed, and a goo d t ra d e i s d o i ng both inn ers and gloves. Worsted yar ns are ver y fi r m, a nd sP t valno complain of not bein g a bl e t o rea li se the prese n higher , of wools. The w oo l s t a pl ers k eep requ iring s ' aeol au °. price and obtain a trifling advance according to Skin wools and short sorts are in much request. yaro''' t. FALL OF A HOUSE INTO THE R IVER lit • '.- tO rnin,,, singular circumstance occurred on Thursday m l's 0 the a house in Strangways, situated upon the ball.'" r to fr river Irwell. It appears to have been built ile a a ho spot of ground which was formerly a hollow, sT, ) , the recently been filled up with loose earth. Tbi ,i e ' n reo i / late rains, has become saturated with wet, and ' ofe, qr upon the foundation of the house, rendered it un s iog A• circumstances proved. The family °cell' th,r e : falling of pi when eee s on o ; of plasterthe were at rest on Thursday morning , a 1 3 c ; lance" by be bed-room, and on getting up, she discovered l o ' oral c eiling,, at the whole was coming down. She had barely tenth o hous e ' the rest of the house, before the entire front of soli which ffaamceidlythine t l h r e w ir el h l, ed fe s l , l eixnptoeottihnegriver, I . ea:i ta n te l i t t . 1 3; m fro w m as th a e every il °n ' e c i ag e the floor on which they were would be preelP , o curi t it. They at last managed to reach a place , ii:to the nit and by breaking a hole in the wall they got-- ba ken., h i house, which remained intact, though was 8 oac bea , t ? have overweighed appears the river face of the houses was 3 P c r t his s e l l 6 t a balcony, which hung above the water, s•n ri the fot lie plo ion gave way there was nothing to keep l oe' one was injured in the sli ht t d gree• (‘ IT e lerg es e • az. _ t 1 , ANOTHE R ROYAL WELSH WET Nell . ' i , th s ol der the front, so that when I up. stand, " says the North, Wale,s Chronicle, _vices., with the 8 " nab s h er the Queen was so satisfied wi of eoa • h ie f her last Welsh nurse that she is desirous , if pOO O another for her approaching confinement/ 8/11. " ------' fr pra the vicinity of Bangor.", - ' a --- I jr't4; 4