The Sun. — London, England, 1853-01-04 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, 6 r.x By the steam-ship Niagara, we have advices from New York . to the 21st, and Boston to the 22nd ult. She has 45,000 dollars in specie on freight. The steamer Africa arrived at New York on the 17th, and the Canada at Halifax on the 24th ult. • The engines of the caloric ship Ericsson had been worked in dock, and the trial was in every way satisfactory. Nothing of importance had taken place in House of Representatives or Senate at Washing ton. From Havannah we have advices to the 14th ult. The news, however, is devoid of interest. There was a rumour at Havannah that one of the English steamers had captured a slaver off the island. The steamer United States had arrived at New York with two days' later advices from San Fran cisco, and 355,000 dollars in gold dust. More ac tivity had been observed in the San Francisco market than for some days previously. The news from California was of no importance. The steamer Lima had arrived at Panama with advices from Lima to the 26th, and Valparaiso to the 15th of November, and 200,000 dollars in spe cie on frieght. Reports from Valparaiso seemed to indicate a dissatisfaction with Presid ent Monti's policy and the rapidly increasing influence of the priests and Jesuits. The editor of the Mercurio had been ar rested for having published some articles considered offensive to the latter . Business had improved a littl e , but there was no p articular improvement in the markets. Bolivia was occu p ied w ith a most i m portant scheme, that of opening its vast re sources to the Atlantic by means of some of its river tributaries to the Amazon. From Peru we learn that her forces were being concentrated quietly ;-but no mention was made of their ultimate destination ; as she had refused to give any satisfaction to Ecuador relative to the Flores affair, it is presumed she is preparing to re: sist any satisfaction Ecuador may attempt to take for the injury she imagines Peru to ha,ve clone_in the matter. From Bogota we learn that the English Gover nor had made a formal declaration of blockading the port, on account of the defeat which the con tract made with the English Charge d'Affaires re lative to the Mackintosh claim met with in the Camara during the year. In contradiction of the above, it is stated that the Granadian Government having satisfied the demands of the English Cabinet, orders from the English legation in Bogota had' countermanded the blockade. The Hon. W. R. King, President of the Senate at Washington, was seriously indisposed, an d un less a change for the better speedily took place, it was said he could not long survive. He had re signed his seat as President of the Senate. Late accounts from the city of Mexico state that the Chamber of Deputies has refused to adopt the report of the joint committee on the Tehuantepec question, and had sent back the whole matter to the Government. The intelligence respecting the revolutionary movement contained little of interest and nothing decisive. General Uraga had issued a proclamation to the people of Jalisco declaring that he would suppress the revolution. Desertions from the Federal troops were daily announced, and town after town declared in favour of the insur gents. A body of 400 Revolutionists had been organised in Aguas Calientes. The Government continued very short of funds. An effort to raise 200,000 dots. in the city of Mexico had failed. There was very little doing in the New York stock market. Prices, however, were generally firm. The money market was easier, but without alter ation in the rates of interest. Foreign exchange had declined. Bills on Lon don, 104 to 110 ; Paris, 5 12i to 5 : Amster dam, 411 to 41*. In domestics there was a fair business. The cotton market was inactive, and higher prices were asked. Provisions without material alteration. The flour market was heavy, and was with ou t any decline in prices. Wheat was in fair demand. Indian corn in good demand at 22 to 28 cents per bushel. Pot and pearl ashes unaltered. The high rates of freight demanded to London had checked operations. BLOWING UP A MONSTER CHlMNEY.—Passengers by the London and North-Western Railway, who have had occasion to pass Warrington junction, about 20 miles from Liverpool, have frequently been surprised at the altitude and dimensions of the chimney connected with Messrs. Muspratt's chemical works. It was 406 feet high, 46 feet diameter at the base, 17 feet diameter at the summit ; contained 3,500,000 bricks, 3,500 tons in weight ; and cost 7,000/. erecting. There was only one chimney higher in the United Kingdom. The one connected with the chemical works of Mr. Tenent near Glasgow, was 20 f ee t hi g h er, a much less it was ; less noble-lookin g s h a ft, inasmuch as it was narrower at the base, and contained about two-thirds less bricks. The works have not been in operation for about eight months, owing to arrangements being made to remove them to another locality. There being, therefore, no further use for the chimney, it was yesterday blown up, under the superintendence of Mr. Stephen Court, engi neer and architect of the St. Helen's Canal and Railway Company. A number of holes were delved round the base ; and 14 charges of gunpowder were inserted. At half-past 2 o'clock the train was fired. Nine charges exploded without any app are nt damage b e i ng d one to the stability of the shaft ; but the report of the tenth had no sooner been heard than the chimney was rent from top to bottom, and the huge fabric fell, crumbling away gradually from the base upwards. The whole of the column fell nearly within the circumference of its own base. A dense cloud of lime dust hid the ruins for a few seconds; but when it cleared away, the 3,500,000 bricks were perceived in the shape of a huge mound. A large crowd of spectators had assembled to witness the downfall. No accident of any kind occurred. HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO A CHILD.—At the police-court last week a case of the most refined cruelty was brought under the notice of the magistrate. It appears that, some weeks back, a pauper-nurse named Oldham had taken a poor chili, about bur years of age, put a live coal from the fire into its hand, closed it, and held it in that position till the coal was cold, at the same time holding a cane over the child .with her other hand to prevent its screaming. On the schoolmistress coming into the room, the brute told her what sbe had done, adding, that it was to prevent the child from pl ay i ng with the fire—a lie on the face of it, as he could not get near, a large screen being in the front. The school mistress had a poultice put on the hand, but made no report to the medical officer, the master, or any of the au th or ities. The child was instructed, on its en t rance into the rooms of the visiting committee, to place the wounded hand behind its back ; and thus things went on for nearly four weeks before it was discovered, when the chairman of the board, on a representation from the master of the house, gave the woman into custody, and she was taken before the magistrate and remanded for a week. The matter was brought before the guardians.on Thursday last, and a discussion ensued on it, Mr. John Wade very justly moving the suspension of the school mistress. No remarks were made on her cruelty and neglect in not immediately informing the medical man ; it was called a piece of youthful indiscretion ; and yet she is allowed almost the sole control over more than ninety children. The brute who committed the offence i s a pauper nurse, from whom much feeling, probably, might not be expected ; the schoolmistress is a paid ser vant, an d winked at the cruelty ; and th e p oor c hi ld, who was not considered in the matter, we are pretty cer tain (notwithstanding all that was said on th e su bj ect) has lost the us e of his hand and two fi ngers f or l i fe. The guardians m ust reconsider the matter, and, no doubt, from the manner in which Mr. W a d e took up the subject, he will not allow it to drop.---Kentish, Mercury. SUSPECTED MURDER IN HERTS . — Much th ex c it ement has been occasioned in Hertford b y_ announcem en t that a young woman, name d Sarah Pigeon , had b een missed under circumstances of an ext remel y suspicious character. It appears that on Christmas -day the young woman came to Hertford, and sp ent the early. part of the day i n festivities. On coming out o f a public-house, where she had been drinking with a fem ale friend, the woman met with a man named William Kimpton the skipper of a barge. Evening found them still together.o Here, h owever , we have only the man's s tatement enlighten us. t He tells us that the woman followed him down to the wharf-yard, that he heard a splash, saw her str uggling in the water, plunged in to save her, but did n ot succeed •got out again, and went home without river any one. This alarmin g as carefully dragged, and on Thursday the body Tofhetkeodeceased was found in a hole on the Dicker Mill. cly of the woman exhibited no marks of violence. iltnnvesintilletsito:as held on the body ; and, after six hours' "Found dr , the jury delivered the following verdict : to show ho owned but there is not sufficient evidence At the hove the said Sarah Pigeon got into the water. gar " time wilia we consider that great culpability attaches to when deceased was Kim ton, for not giving the alarm IRON STEA/tom in the water." g ~ E XTRAORDINARY S steam-vessel Countzst S PEED.—The iron of Ellesmere, performed an unpre cedented feat on Runcorn and back il n : d aY last, making two trips to nwe tide. She left George's Pier head at 8.30 a.m. (high tvlter being at 10.45 a.m. and got back on her second ( g n at 1.30 p.m., thus ing only five hours, inclu stoppages, in running a occupy distance of about seventy miles ters of an hour for the various Allowing three-quar stoappages at Runcorn and Liverpool, and, consideagrianigostt ti t , two of the trips were made with and two have e tide, her actual a great re speed through the water must :lilt from a vessel seventeen miles an hour ; been sixteen to of only eighty horse power, when the morning is that blew during the greater part of gale of wind loaded with pas taken into account, and that she w as Is vid built by Mr. lo sengers, The Countess of Ellesmere dewater, for Laird for the trustees of the Duke of Live col and improving the passenger transit between last proves Runcorn, and her performance on Saturday not only that she has accomplished that object, but that she i s t h e fastest steamer sailing from the Mersey.--_ Liverpool Albion. THE FRENCH EMPIRE. There is very little interest in the original co lumns of the Paris journals of yesterday. The m sand of high approbation. One of them, th i e n n is e t w eri a al terms ns ppo o i r n g t a men e t e s n a t r in e u n e ot t i he ced fr by eul th e r l i: of the king feudal and nomination of the Duke de Mouchy , sp of e eh M ej a a rq u u e is dePastoret, and the Marquis de La _ lein as senators, says this is the union of chivalrous France with modern i times. e in England. The greater part of the Union s devoted to a notice rt of N th ea e test this ter long interest for of it, however , , English readers. the writer remarks : is w l i n t h t e h u e t c t o h u r e g o h f " We are not astonished at the somewhat abrupt union which has taken place between the Irish of the House of Commons, and the imprudent author of the letter to the Bishop of Durham. Without any doubt, the alliance has been made to the profit of liberty—that is to say, that henceforward Catholicism will be free in the three kingdoms, at least, as much as it was before the vain and odious attempt of the Whigs. We look on this point to be so certainly gained that we do not even ask for explanations. But we much want to have them on another point—do the Peelites comprehend electoral re form in the same manner as the Whigs, and the Whigs as the Radicals ? Does Lord Aberdeen not differ in some way from Lord J. Russell ? and does Lord J. Russell in his turn concede all that Sir W. Molesworth or Mr. B. Osborne require ? We speak only, it will be seen, of the members of the Cabinet. If we were to speak of the House of Commons, we should have to in quire the opinion of Mr. Duncombe and the pretensions of Mr. Hume." The Emperor has sent 3,000 fr. to be distributed amongst the workmen thrown out of employment by the destruction of M. Malen's coach-factory. M. Malen has received numerous marks of sym pathy from his neighbours. Prince Murat, who with his son remained all night assisting to extin guish the fire, has sent I,ooof. to be distributed amongst the operatives who have been deprived of employment by the fire. The parish priest of Passy has authorised M. Malen to distribute provisions amongst the necessitous operatives. The Mayor of Passy has opened a subscription for the sufferers. The administration of the Messageries Nationales -have placed their large coach-liouses and workshops at theiclisposal of M. Malen, in order that his nu merous operatives may be employed as quickly as possible. In addition to the three persons wounded, an operative carpenter attached to the establish ment has been killed. Letters from Strasburg mention a visit paid by ' the refugee Poles residing in that town, to the number of between 40 and 50, to the prefect of the department. One of them spoke warmly of the ad hesion of his countrymen to the Imperial Govern ment, and thanked the French Government for the protection afforded them. In conclusion, he said that the sympathies of the Poles might be under stood from the cry of " Vive l'Empereur," which had become almost national among them. Louis Napoleon drove out yesterday afternoon in an open carriage and pair, which he drove him self. He was not accompanied by any escort, and had not even a piqueur. He proceeded towards the Hotel de Ville, and afterwards to the Champs Elysees. The Patric publishes a communicated note, stat ing that henceforward any application for audiences at the Tuileries must be addressed to the Duke de Bassano. We read in the Moniteur :—" There has recently appeared several works, and amongst them one called ' Les Limites de la France,' which appear to have for their object to flatter tendencies which it is believed are those of the Government. The Government rejects all connection with the authors of these works, the spirit of which is as far from the intentions of the Emperor as from his openly declared policy." The work referred to demands a large extension of the frontiers of France. The Constitutionnel denies the report which has obtained currency in the English and American journals to the effect that the French contemplated the occupation of the peninsula of Samaur. The report arose out of the movements of the French frigate Sybille, which left her station after the epidemic ceased at Martinique, to give her crew a change o f a i r . Sh e went cru i s i ng a b ou t i n dif ferent parts of the waters of the Antilles, and it is her presence in the waters of Hayti which gave birth to the rumour. The same journal declares upon authority that the Russian Admiralty has sent to all the com manders of naval divisions of the imperial navy of Russia orders to celebrate everywhere, with the greatest pomp, in conjunction with the French authorities, the fete of the proclamation of the establishment of the French Empire ; and upon the authority of a German paper it also adds, that Hanover has recognised the Emperor of the French, while the King of the Two Sicilies continues to display much good will towards France, and has dispatched conciliatory offers to Paris respecting the indemnity claimed by Prince Lucien Murat, for the capital and interest representing the furni ture and jewels belonging to King Joachim Murat, which the Bourbon family found after his flight, and never returned. The amount of , these claims is stated at 12 millions. The King of Naples, it is stated, offers to reimburse the original sum without the 35 years' interest, but as yet no an swer has been received at Naples to this offer. The Pope has just sent to M. Ducos, Minister of the Marine, the grand cordon of his order, the insignia of which were delivered to him by on signor Garibaldi, the Papal Nuncio, who at the same time expressed to him the gratitude felt by his Holiness for the services rendered to him by the French Navy. The number of new books, in French and other languages, published in France in 1852 was 7,787. In 1851 it was only 6,350. There was the same proportionate increase in 1852 in printed music, prints, and maps. The corporation of the bakers of Paris have cele brated the re-establishment of the Empire by a public dinner. Mr. Doisneau, the senior member of the syndicate, proposed " The health of the Emperor Napoleon III." M. Darblay, member of the Chamber of Commerce, said—" Who can doubt that looking at the price of wheat and flour, Paris is, of all cities in Europe, that in which bread is cheapest and best ? Statistical returns prove that the manner in which the bakers' trade is organ ised in Paris ensures to the consumers of that city an economy of not less than 3,000,000 fr. What would the saving be, if the same organisation was extended to the whole of France ? Ido not hesi tate to declare that upwards of 100 millions would be saved, particularly to the labouring classes. The organisation of the bakers' trade in Paris is, perhaps, under a Government anxious to carry out evident improvements, destined to serve as a model for the other trades. Why should the Go vernment deprive itself of the force of action which it would find in a wise organisation of the various corporations ? Undoubtedly it would facilitate and simplify the action of the Government. If well organised and directed, the corporations would be, for the maintenance of order, a valuable assist ance to the regular troops—would be, in fact, the civil army of order. The announcement of further defaulters at the Bourse to-day produced a fall in the price of Go vernment securities. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents, opened at 106 f. 15c., and closed at 105 f. 90c. for the end of the month ; the Three per Cents. closed at 45c. ; Orleans Railway Sh ares , 1,027 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 990 f. ; Havre, 535 f. ; Great Northern, 887 f. 50c. ; Bale, 360 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 810 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 922 f. 50c. ; Lyons and Marseilles, 776 f. 25c. ; Western of France, 780 f. ; Caen and Cherbourg, 630 f. ; Bor deaux and Cette, 602 f. 50c. ; Sh ares o f th e new Bank of Credit Mobilier, issued at 500 f., 905 f. ITAY The Pied4nontese Gazet L H of the 31st ult. an nounces that the Chamber of Deputies adopted, on the 30th, the projects of law relative to the extra ordinary credits required in addition to the esti mates of 1851, 1852, and 1853 ; to the re-establish ment of the tax on liberal professions, industry, and trade ; t o the property and personal tax ; to the tax on private and public carriages, &c. The Senat e voted on the same day, by 50 to 2, the bill postponing the period for the application of the decimal system to medicinal weights, and by 45 t o 5 the bill for the reorganisation of the excise. Count Salasco, In spector-General of the Royal was appointed D eputy-Governor of the The Official Ven ice G a zette announces th a t th e Royal Princes. Emperor of Austria has app roved of the institution of at om Trieste,inis v.Theneircee,arFeira to u be e superior, d inferior ones a t Rovigo, Zara, all"tagusa ; d Ca ttaro. naval schools liavuj schools in his d Sp a latro, an i THE CTIOLERA.—Letters from Tauris (P ers i a ) , of Nov. 10, state that the choler a was then raging violently Persia. The number of d eaths p er day was not le: than 1,000. [ADVERTISEMENTJ—HoIIoways pills a wonderful re medy for Bile, Jaundice, and Liver complaints.—Ex tract of a letter from Mrs. M. Wood to Mr. Jenkins, chemist, Christchurch, dated Sept. 13, 1852.—" I suffered for seven months from a liver complaint, jaundice, and a severe bilious attack. During the whole of this time I was under medical treatment, but experi enced no relief whatever. I was at length recommended to try Holloway's pills, which I did, and am happy to say that this invaluable medicine, in the course of a very short period, has effected a perfect cure and restored me to health so that I can with confidence recomm end it to others similarly afflicted.—(Signed) Mary Wood." — Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's esta blishment, 244, Strandjiondon, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1853 E S I? K E T B. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Ir. I Paid BAILWAT3. t. 100 'Aberdeen ........ l 0 8s Ainbg. Nottng. Bost & Eastn. June Birmng. Wolverh. & Stour Valley _ _ Tall a 1 28 Birkonhd. Lanesh. & Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & Birk , £5O & £25 Cons IDo., £20........- Bristol & Exeter Caledonian. Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Dublin&BelfastJunc Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction East Anglian (£25 L & E. & L. & D.) Do., (£lB E. & H.) Eastern Counties , Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. Sh Do., do.. Do., B. & C. Easy Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk & Birming. Juno Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. Prth. &Dundee Glano w & S. Wes - ;. ern Great Northern Stk Do. A. Stock Do., B. Stock Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 1.1100 We -tern 7ii all n 184 ft. 100 3t. 100 i 0 all i 0 all i 0 45 5 all Z all ',..5 all .8 all 0 all 5 I all 15 6 15 all h. 100 0 all 3t. 1C) 3t. 100 3t. 100 ;t. 100 ;t. ICD ;t. 103 0 all .2 r Irish So it) all Laneast 3r & Car 'sle 6i ll Do., Thirds it. 100 !Laneash. &Yorkshire 15 !Do., Fifths 4 lif Do., Wst. Riding Un. ;0 a ll Leeds Northern....... '•0 all L 1 all LO 3 . 4t. 100 3t. 100 '0 12 Liv. Crsby. & Son* . pt. London & Black wall Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. Lord. Bright. & ILonC.on &N. iVestorn Do. Fifths 10 1 >t. 109 i 0 42i 0 34 D0.,10/.5h.,M&8...0 London & S. Western Do., £50......- •••••• Do., 5 1 ail !s 1 all Lneindrry.&Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. c . iloo IManch . Sher. &Lincln, si 4a !t. 100 Do., Man. &Lin. Un. Wdland .......... St. 100 50 47 25 17 .00 all St. 100 Do. Binning. & Derby! Midland G. Wes:;.(ir. Do. i Shares Newcastle & Carlisk • Newmarket ;5I 14 ..N_ewpt.Aberg.&lltfd. io I ,7i ;0 all (Newry do Enniskillen ll%re - cc-7 Warrenpoint' & ROstravor. 'Nor:olk. ;t. Ina 5 all 10 3 : 1 1 >t. 1f) Do., New .............. Northn. Counties Un. North British 16 13 No-th Devon, N 0.1.. 16 61 Do., No. 2........ ..... 8 all r .., i A Deferred ... 8 5 ! ~, i B Guaranteed 20 171 Y , ,rth Staffordshire, 20 all N orth Western.. 10 83 4.1100 N. & S.Westrn. Juno. Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton, 100 iSeottish Central ~ 1100 Scottish Midland, 100 Shrewsbury & Birmg. 100 Do., L. & N. Westr. Guaranteed Stock 8 Shrewsby. & Herefd all Shrewsby. & Ches'Ler (Nor. W. Min.) all Do. Halves, do. 20 Do. Oswestry 6i Shropshire . Union Do., A. B. C. &D. fully paid up at p. c all South Devon 1100 'South Ea5tern......... all South Wa1e5..... ......' 15 S. Yorksh. River Dun 5 Do 16/ Stockton & Hartlepl. 19 Thames Haven Dock and Railway.. 17 Vale of Neath.. all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Wa:: , erford&Limeriek 13 West C0rnwa11........ all 'West London.. 1 Woodford -- let) Yor&Newctl.&Berw. 20 IDo. Extensions 10 Do. G.N.E. Purchaser 100 York &N. Midland-1 Closing Prices Yesterday. 31i - 32 6k- 7i 10 -- 11 7 - 6 22 - 23 2 —2}d 106 —lOB , 67 68 231 24 18 181 31 -21 a 81 9i ..• -- ... 6 - 64 41 4i 13 -13 g 10i -- 114 - 8i - 79 55 -• 60 78 - 80 29 - 30 .60 - 62 82 - 83 44 - 46 121 - 123 'lO5 107 95i - - 95/ 91 - - 12 iP 854 34 d —2 d 18 9i 2p 109 126 2 p 93 4id 31 d i2A 108 - 12W; 3i 1/ 92 31A 3 ii 2 3 / -- 53 3 0 2} d 41 6i d 3 - 8 - 3 - 2 1 $ d 3a d 9 , 4 p 53 96 65 GS 52i - 94 - 63 - 66 - 78 - 82 19 - 20 9 - 10 14 - 15 3 - 22i -- 23 85 -- 86 39 -- 391 13i -- 44 4 --144 Badness done this day. 13 2f 2i - 13 9 i 27 26 i 1 9, - 10 us i 9 i 3 108 i 126 i 4 16 41 6a i 73 74 6 6id 21 2d 60 61 85 39 PREFEREN 1 .103 jAberdeen ...... . l iDo., No. 2, 7 p. c... 'lO3 ißristol & Exeter 4 p. I cent. Stock .......... 108 - 110 ?0 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares ... 3t. 100 Caledonian £lO ...... 15 all Chester & Holyhead ' Guar. 54 per cent... 64 34 Cork&Bandon 5i p.c. 64 all :Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction ....... 3 all EastAnglian (£3los) _ 16 per cent, 106 - 1081 19 20 -lid —ip 6 - 3 - - all Do. (£5) 7 per cent.. 2 Do. (£7l7x) 7 p et.. all i Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l all iDo., No. 2 all IDo., New 6 p. c St.., all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6, per cent.... all Do., £lO Deben. Sh. LCO EastLancash. 6 p.cts. all East&WestYorkshire Junction, Fifths..... all Edinb.Prth.drDundec .00 Glasgow & S.Western, guar. 5 per coat.... 00 Great Northn. 5 P.C. 100 Do. sp. c., Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem all Gt. Southn. drWestn. (Ireland) Eighths... 6 Gt. Westn. (Berko & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.).. 100 Great Western, fixed 4iper cent........... 6 Lancash. do Yorksh., F. £2O. -2 p - p lit - 15 1 8 - 18. ~s '3. j 127 - 129 112 Ai 114 n _ 9 - 1 P lost— lio3 i 152 P -155 r it. 100 Do., 6 p. c., Stock...l . ) .0 13 Leeds Northern, 6p. . cent., No. 1 !O 17 Do., No. 2.. ...... n 5 Do., No. 3............. .2i 9 Do. , Quarters, 1848. 100 'London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c... ;t. 10D I Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. 0.1 all Uo. Convertible, sp. c.,1852 •• • - 100 Do. New Guar. 6p.c. 100 Don. &N. West. Coy. & Nun., 5 p. c. Stock. 5 London &S. Western, Con. Thirds 10 Londonderry& Coler. 1 Shares .. . all Londndry. & Ennisk 1 Shares.... . . . all Manch ., Shef., 4 Shares, No. 1 all Do. New, £lO 3 Do., £6 ....... all Marypt. &Carl. 4p. c. all Do. 41 per cent 81 Do.. 100 Mid. Consol. 6p. c. St. 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent 5 Do. Pref. 41 per cent all Norfolk Extension all Do. Guar. 51 per ct all Do. Waveney Valley 5 per cent 1C) North British .... all North Staffordshire 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. £15,6p. c. Do.. all Shrewsbury & Birm. New Guaranteed all Shrewsby. & Che ter (Nor.W.Min),B p. c. 10 Do. 5 per cent all South Devon 14 Do. New ah S. Eas'era (Rerding Ann.,) of £1 Os.6d. 100 Do. 4/ per cent !O all S.Yorksh.47).e.Cll9- .21 all •Leck.&Fq-t l . Guar sp. c. ti" 1 July,"X 56 5 3 IVat3 - ' d. &rlc. 6p. c. it. 100 ; York Ne we.) stle and Berwlek,4 p.c.Pref. 1 .7 5 .De. 5 10 York& N. Nl'd land H & S. Purch E - 4 p 81 si 13i -- 14 9i = 10i 10; -- 11 t P - lip 1 1149 - 151 23 4 : 2 3 1) 6 - 64 2 - 21 101 i - 102, 25 - 26: 21 -211 p 11 -- ii l 171 --17 i i P 16 -1 7 i Par #P 26 -26 A i• --- 20 id Ipm .03 104 sk 5 i - BPI JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all lAastralasia 100 all Re' ash N. American ... x. d. 100 25 Colonial 103 20 Commercial of Lon don • •• .•• 4 English Scottish an d' Australian "'6 20 Lond. Chart. Bk. o f Australia — 5 73 50 20 Loudon and County 50 10 London Joint Stock .,. 103 20 Loud. & Westminster 35) 1 03 35 National Prov. of Eng. 20 10 Do. New 50 22 National of Ireland — 25 all Oriental Bank of 25 5 D o. Corporation New —• • • 100 25 New of Ireland .. 10 all • • Do. New .............. 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg . . & Gold Importing Company ............. 25 all 'South Australia . . x. d. 25 all Union of Australia.:. : 73 ... 21 Do. New ............... •:. 50 10 (Union of London ..... Business Shr. Paid RAILWAYS. L o m e as p ail ing ,. Cl;s e i s n tC g er P d ri ay ce s . this day. 50 all Bedford and London & Bletchley. .. N. West . 304 all Birm. & Oxfd. guarantee ... Gt.Westr . 30 31 304 all Do.withoutgr Do 293 303 304 all Birm.Wolv. & Dudleygnar. Do 3O 31 304 all Do.wthtguar. Do 29 30 St. 100 Buckghamsh .L.& N. W lO9 111 50 all Clydesdale Jo. Caledon 54 56 St. 100 E.Lincoln. gr. 6p. cent..... Gt.Notrhn 149 151 25 all Glstr.&Dn•Fr. Gt. Westn. 33 34 25 all Glas. Barr. & Neilsn.Direct Caledon — ••• 25 all Do. New • Do .•• 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. Now Railway & Berw.. . . • • 50 all Hull & Selby Y.&N.Md. 112 • 114 95 all Do. 3 Shares Do 56 57 12A all Do. Shares. Do 27 28 12 all rion.&Greenw S. Eastern l4 144 143 20 all Do. Preference Do 20 all Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent... Norfolk 201 20 all Do. 6 per ct... Do 23 25 53 all Manch.Bxton. Ln.&N.W and Matlock & Midld 3 34 50 all Middlesbro' & Stckton & Redcar . . . . Darlingt. • • LOO all Midld.Bradfd. Midland 1073 1 65 50 all Northern and Eastern sp.c. E. Count 64 CS 50 all Do. 6 per ct.. Do 50 all Do.Fixedsp.c Do . 25 all Prest. & Wyre L. dtl\ .W. &Ln& Yk ••• 123 11!, Do. 3 Shares. Do .. . St. 100 - Roystn.&Hit. Gt•No . rt . hn 150 152 St. 100 Do.Shepth.St. Do .... .. . . 150 152 25 Hi Shef. Roth. & Lancash.& Goole g. 5. p. c Yorksh.. - 12 93 S. Staffordsh.. MrMClean —3 d 50 all WearValleygr Stockt. & 6 per cent Darling.. 25 all Do Do _ 2 „. .. , ... 32 33 St. 100 Wilts&Somrst Gt.Westn. 1053 1063 FOREIGN. Shr. Paid RAILWAYS. Closing prices Business done Yesterday. this day. 5 3 BelgianEastn. Junct. 1 2 20 all Central of France(Or leans & Vierzon . . 20 all Charleroi & Erquelin 14 15 173 all Demerara — 20 6 Dijon and Besancon 2/ —2 P 20 8 Dutch Rhenish ll 1 d 20 all East Indian 6f —74pxn ex new 5 all Gt. Indian Peninsula 21 —2l p 20 4 Gd. Junct. of France 14 —l 4 p 203 103 Gt. Western of Canada Shares 1 —l3 p ... Do. Bds. (Ist i55.)1857, . . Do.Bds. (2d i55.)1862 20 14 Luxembourg.. 7 71 10 10 Do. (Railway) 5 5 1 5 5 11 Do. - 1 5 23 Do. (Canal) 1 1 4 20 5 Lyons dr Mediterran lO —l2 p 20 41 Madras 23 —21 p 334 29 Maria Antonia — 10 10 Do. New ••. 20 all Namur & Liego (with interest) 8 81 20 all Do. (e x i n t eres t) 64 —74 16 all Northern of France 354 35 354 20 all Do. 20/. 3p. c. Bds (fmy.B.&Ams. Shs.) 141 154 10 all NorwegianTrunkPref 20 11 Orleans& Bordeaux — 20 10 Paris and Lyons l6l —174 p 40 28 Do. Bonds — 20 all Paris and Orleans •10 41 20 all Paris and Rouen 39 40 20 all Paris and Strasbourg 321 321 20 4 ParisCaen & Cherbrg. 51 5/p 101 24 Quebec &Ri c h mon d.. 13 4 20 all Rouen and Havre.... 211 21 20 all Sambre and Meuse... 10i 114 104 11 20 4 Southern of France.. 44 4 20 4 St. And. & Quebec(A) 20 17 Tours and N an t es .... pm. x.n. 20 2s. Up,?er India Scrip... 4 3pxn put. x.n. 84 all West Fl an d ers .. .... 5A 5 1 10 4 Do. 53 per c. Prof..., p 20 9 Western of France.., U —114 p MINES. 1 all Agua Fria 10s. all Anglo Californian 10 2 Australasian 4 6 p 7 20 5 Australian 73 — B 3 8 4 7 4 1 all Australian Cordillera —pl4 g 1 all Australian Freehold. gp— 4 p 1 all Ave Maria P 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) t p 1 all British Austria. Gold 1 p 1 20 13.5 British Iron ll 35 243 Brazilianlmp. (issued at £5 pm 4 5 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada 2 3 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 28 —3O 1 all Carsons's Creek , p 40 all Cobre Copper 49 42 4L -_k 1 Colonial Gold 44 —44 p, 5§3 5 14 Copiapo . 7 73 5 all English and Austin. Copper Smeltg. Co. 11 —4 d 434 20 all General — 17 1 all Golden Mountain 4d— 3 p 3 all Great Polgooth . l4 —l4 p 1 all Lake Bathurst * P 1 4 1 all Liberty 1 lip 2/ 1 all Lord. &Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co A ____ 1 all Mar'quita.. . ... ••• p 1.4 4 10 9 Mexicau&S..A . merien• —ll 1 all New Granada i 3 -4 1 all Nouveau Monde l/ 2 p 21 1 all Port Philip 2l 2ip 3 3 1 1 all Quartz Rock 1 - ...... A p 13 all Rhymme Iron 27 ' 190 104 Santiago de Cuba__ 8 1 all South Australian 9 4pi 14 10 7 Tin Croft 284 all United Mexican 94 9 41 9 3 1 all West Mariposa.., pl 1 all Yuba 1 —11 pi ,;50 all 190 1 0 1 all .0 7 ;8i all 1 all 1 all MISCELLANEO. 35 Australian Agricult 323 Canada all Copper Miners ofEng all Do. Preference 5 Crystal Palace • 1 (Eastern Steam ...... 1 Electric Telex. of Ir. 14 Gen. Steam Navigat, 50 General Screw Stean l 21 Irish Beetroot Suga r • 2 Netherlands Land._ all Peninsular & Oriental 60 Royal Mail Steam 25 South Austral.Landl 2 Univeral Emigration and Colonization:. 281 Van Dien,ken's Land 1 Submar. Telegraph - 305 5 --- ... ... _ ... 100 20 10 50 100 25 ... - . .• - ... -- ... .:‘ , 300 3 295 73 4 701 x. 25 3 LLOYD'S SHIPPING -(THIS DAY.) --....-......_ LONDON, Jan. 4.—lt blew a heavy gale early this morn ing and moderated towards S.:light breeze, and dull hazy weather. daybreak. Wind at Noon, DEAL, Jan. 3.—Wind, W.S.Ny-. fresh. Arrived:--May rains ; James Armstrong, Calf . St. George, Demerara ; Thomas Arbuthnot, Mau flower, Akyab, for Hambur g h Albers, New Orleans. Arrived from the River—Douglas, for San Francisco. The Prince Edward, for Sierra Leone, and the Senator, for Sydney, N .s, fling damage. W., were in contact last night in the ROads, the former received damage to bow way (s), West Indies. . d, N.W. Sailed—Med marnidotsh,e la ja t n te . r 3 03 . 11z w t r i i. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 3.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Queen Vic spriScit'u&THen toria, Sunderland, for Beyrout, with loss of rudder, and other damage. W Madras Ni Jan Bermuda.. 3. ind, W.S.W. Sailed—Cecilia, ; N DUNFANAGHY, Jan. 3.—The Lively of Inverness is on shore ; crew saved. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 3.—Wind, W.N.W. to S.S.W. Sailed— Draneo, Coast of Africa. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 3.—Wind, W. Arrived—Anna Hen derson, Calcutta; Alex. Grant, New Orleans : Massachu sets,Cumberland, N.S. sail e d_ 'harleston ; Orient, N iNageawra,YEc:ksto; Boston, &c., .S o t n . fr J e o ig h h n t , N.B. ; Acustics, Prince Edward's Island ; Pastonta, Ha vannah ; Tempest, New Orleans ; Ch amp i a ,_ , m Savannah ; 45,000 dollars; York; Niagara, Sinda, Pernamuco. Off Port—Salla, Africa. Put • back— Runnymede, for Newfoundland, with d ecks started and sails, & c . ; 'Child R ot o h e e k r , d f a o m r a ß ge o , sto ha n y w g itbheenlossstruofcksparsby,a heavy se a Bell Harold, Mobile, towed back. WARKWORTH, Jan. 3.—The Helm, Rartlepool to Lynn, was abandoned in a sinking state off Ty nemouth ; crew saved, and landed here. _ was abandoned 3 (may rep or t e d ; Dec.PETERHEAD, 30and n 0 t Jan e . sl ..— An Th th e o G n rg az e p l r lr evi . crew saved. FRASERBURGH O Jan. 3.—The John Bright (brig) was seen Dec. 27, in a sinking state, by th e Eagle, arrived here, which succeeded in taking off one man ; two brigs passed her afterwards. MONTROSE, Jan. 3.—The Wesley foundered off Whitby on Dec. 28 ; crew saved. EXTRAORDINARY.—On Monday last the wife of a labourer on the railway, named Cor ne li us Amphlett, living in the Bl oc kh ouse , g ave birth to three children— one boy and two girls. They were all born alive ; but one died the same day, and the other two yesterday.— Worcester Chronicle. THE FRENCH OPERA.—French opera was not rea lly introduced i n t o F rance un til the middle of th e 17th cen tury, unde r th e m i n i s t r y o f Cardinal Mazarin. But who was the first person to venture to write a n opera i n t h e French la nguage ? Th e a uthorities tell us it was the Abbe Perrin. This divine's first effort in this line was a pastoral in five acts, represented at Vincennes, and subsequently at other places. The music was by one Gambert, organist of St. Honore, and superintendent of the Queen mother's music. On the 26th June, 1669, Perrin obtained letters patent authorising him to esta blish, in the city of Paris, and any other place in the kingdom, academies of music, for singing in public thea trical pieces, such as those given in Italy, Germany, and England. In 1713 a decree fixed the number of per formers, including male and female ch orus s i ngers an d dancers, and orchestra instrumental players, at 125, neither more nor less ; and a new regulation in the year 1769, specifying the number of each class of voices of chorus singers, of first, second, and third-rate dancers, and of each instrument in the orchestra, brought the total of performers on the, establishment up to 252. Such is a short account of the origin and rise o the present French opera, ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. TIVERTON. TrvERTON, MONDAY.—The election for this borough took place this morning in the Guildhall, when Lord Palmerston was returned without opposition. His lord ship, who has been for some time very unwell, arrived about ten o'clock last night, much to the gratification of his friends and supporters, who, in conslquence of a com munication received from his lordship on the preceding day, began to despair of his presence, his medical adviser having almost absolutely prohibited him from leaving home. Several attempts had been made to bring for ward another candidate ; and the name of Mr. Gard, the rejected of Honiton, was publicly mentioned, but : the presence of the noble lord had the effect of at once putting an end to the movement in favour of that gen tleman. The proceedings commenced at half-past ten, at which hour his lordship entered the hall, accompanied by Mr. Francis Hole, the chairman of his committee, and a con siderable number of his supporters. Mr. Rowcliffe, who was so smartly handled by his lordship at the last elec tion, was also present, and much merriment was excited by the smiling and pleasant manner in which they re cognised anti greeted each other. The oath having been administered to Mr. John S. How (the mayor) by Mr. William Hole, and the usual preliminaries having been gone through, The MAYOR briefly addressed the electors. Mr. F. HOLE proposed Lord Palmerston as a fit and proper person to represent the borough in Parliament. Mr. R. WERE, yeoman, seconded the nomination. The MAYOR then inquired if any other person had any other candidate to propose, and no answer having been given, his worship declared the Right Hon. Lord Palmerston to be duly elected, an announcement which was received with three times three. An adjournment then took place from the Guildhall to a room over the Bank, in front of which a large crowd had assembled. His lordship here met with a most cordial and enthusiastic reception. Silence having at length been restored, Lord PALMERSTON addressed the assembly in nearly the following forms :—Gentlemen,—lt may seem rather unreasonable for a person who is about to return thanks for a favour conferred that he should preface his thanks by asking two other favours. But having lately suffered some indisposition, brought on by a violent cold caught in the discharge of my Parliamentary duties, I shall be much obliged to you if, in the first place, you will per mit me to address you with my hat on. (Hear, hear, and a laugh.) And in the next place, if you will allow me to condense, in as short a compass as possible, the observations which I shall feel it my duty to submit to you. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, in the first place, I beg to return you my cordial and heartfelt thanks for the great honour which you have done me, in again confiding to me your interests in the House of Commons, and re turning me to the distinguished post of one of your repre sentatives in Parliament. You have added thereby another tie to the many bonds of gratitude which bind me to the electors of Tiverton, and I can assure you that my sense of the obligation never can terminate but with my existence itself. The circumstances which have now brought me before you are too well known to you to render it necessary for me to state them in detail. The late Government being defeated on a question con nected with the budget, thought it their duty to resign their offices. Her Majesty then confided to two distin guished noblemen--the Earl of Aberdeen and the Mar quis of Lansdowne—the task of endeavouring to organise c a; cue A ns,t d rys mi in, Administration. felt t t r h ation. Being applied to to join that Admi nistration, and findi ng th a t it was lik e l y t o b e compose d of persons en titl e d i n my op i n i on to the confidence of the e i y t m w y ere du th ty ou n g o h t t t d o e r si e r f a u h se le m . y(Chuhmeebrsle.)serl vconsequentlyoffilling, accenpatmly, edethatt of Secretary that office which I of State wa s most f d o e r - s the Home Department, and that act having vacated my seat, it became my duty again to present myself to your choice. Now, gentlemen, I would wish to say one word or two with regard to the late Administration. I was not their supporter. I was not their opponent. I was an impartial observer of their course, and, therefore I may speak of them with strict justice, with fairness, and without prepossession either for or against them. (Hear, hear). It must be admitted, gentlemen, that that Ad ministration during the short period that it held office did several very good things. I supported them when I thought them right. I opposed them when I thought them wrong. (Cheers.) But they did these main things which I conceived to be good. They adopted, in the first place, useful and ener getic maasures for improving the defences of the coun try by land and by sea. (Hear, hear.) They adopted boldly, and carried out with fairness, measures of Chan cery reform, which had been matured by a commission of able men who had had that subject for some time under their consideration. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, that Government proved an example of the correctness of an opinion which I ventured to give in the year 1846, in a speech which I at that time made in the House of Com mons, and of which I was reminded the other day during a debate by my right hon. friend Sir J. Graham. The observations had escaped my recollection, but he re minded me that I had said that there were certain dis eases for which certain climates were an absolutely spe cific remedy—that the yellow fever, for instance, could not exist in England, and that that malignant fever which was called protection, although it might be in its worst and most virulent form, could not survive six months occupation of Downing -street and the Treasury bench. (Cheers and laugh'...?.?.) The meaning of that was that the most violent and sincere Protectionists were brought into office, and once enabled to see the real working of the doctrine of free trade would, in spite of their prejudices, soon be convinced of their former errors, and would frankly and fairly adopt the better and sounder opinions of freedom of commercial inter course. (Cheers.). Well, gentlemen, so it turned out in regard to the last Goveriunent. They could not resist the conviction which facts and figures brought to their minds, and after a certain period of administra- tive experience they frankly avowed that protection was impossible—that a return to protection was im possible—and that it was absolutely necessary to adopt, as the permanent foundation of our commercial system, principles of free trade. (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, that admission was honourable to the men who made it. The question, as you know, came on for dis cussion on the meeting of the present Parliament. The late Parliament had been dissolved avowedly for the purpose of making an appeal to the country to ascertain whether in the opinion of the electors of the United Kingdom, protection should be re-established, or that free trade should become our permanent system. When Parliament met there was, I think, a mistake going to be committed. Resolutions were proposed, which were so worded that it was impossible for men who had at any time entertained sincerely and conscientiously the opinion of protection to vote for those resolutions ; and the House of Commons, as I thought, was about to place it self in a disadvantageous position, for, instead of fairly testing the opinion of the house on the questions of free trade or protection as our future system, the divison was about to be taken—opposition on one side fninisterialists on the other. The result would have been a small ma jority either one way or the other. If the free trade re solutions had been adopted by a majority of 10 or 20, an impression would have gone forth which was not true, that there was only that small majority in favour of the future adoption of the principle of free trade. If, on the contrary, the majority had been the other way, a still more false impression would have been created, for it would have appeared that the majority, however small, was against free trade and in favour of protection. I felt it my duty, standing as I did in a perfectly inde pendent position, to propose to the house a resolu tion free from the objections to which I thought the others were liable, but affirming, if possible, in stronger and more distinct terms the future establish ment of the doctrine of free trade. (Cheers.) The House of Commons accepted that resolution, and we had the satisfaction of seeing, not a majority of ten, or twenty, or thirty in favour of free trade, but a majority -- believe unexampled on any former occasion— a majority of 486 against 53—showing a clear majority of 415. (Loud cheers.) I think, gentlemen, that I humbly did good service to the House of Commons and to the country in being instrumental in bringing about such a satisfactory result. (Cheers.) Then, gentlemen, came the budget. Now lam bound in fairness to say that, taking that budget piece by piece, in principle it was not a bad budget. In the first place, it relieved the shipping interest from some vexatious restrictions to which that interest is still exposed. (Hear, hear.) In the next place it proposed to diminish for the consumer to a certain extent the cost of beer and the price of tea. Some persons thought that the diminution of the malt tax would be a benefit to the landed interest—to the farmer and to the landowner. That was a pure delusion, an entire delusion. It could not have been of any benefit to them except by raising the price of barley. But how was it to raise the price of barley ? Why, it was said as beer would have been cheaper more would have been drunk, more malt would have been made, more barley would have been bought, and the demand for barley increasing, the price would have increased. But would that have been the case ? Not a bit of it. Foreign barley would have come in, foreign malt would have come in, the farmer would not have been a farthing better, and therefore he had no interest in the matter. (Hear, hear.) Another part of the project of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was to increase the direct taxation of the country, by doubling the house tax upon those who pay it, and by ex tending it down to 101. houses. (Shameful.) Now, gentlemen, if the public credit required an increase of taxation, if the safety of the country needed an augmentation of the revenue, and if no other mode less objectionable could be found, I am persuaded that the patriotism and good sense of the householders of Eng land would lead them cheerfully to acquiesce even in that augmentation of their burdens. (No, no.) But there was no such necessity in the present instance. The necessity of augmenting the house tax was to be created by the diminution of the nitalt tax, and of the hop duty, and the duty on tea. Well, these were not necessary things ; we could go on tolerably well without any such alteration ; and, therefore, the augmentation of the house tax was an unnecessary increase of the bur dens of a class of men to whose burdens it is not de.. slrable to add without some real and pressing necessity. (Bravo.) Gentlemen, it was easy to foresee what would be the fate of that proposition in the House of Commons. It was very soon manifest that it would be rejected. I should haVe voted against it if my health had permitted me at that moment to attend the house. (Cheers.) But I was unable to do so, and therefore did not vote at all. Gentlemen, Governments have often been beaten on questions of taxation, and have not thought it necessary on that account to resign. The late Government, how ever, took a different view of the matter. They staked their existence on the carrying of the double house tax, and that proposal having been rejected, they tendered the resignation of their offices. Now, gentlemen, that Government undoubtedly contained within itself men of distinguished ability, of splendid talents, and of highly established reputation as writers and as statesmen. But, taking the Government as a whole, it was not in the aggregate compbsed of such a number of men of ad ministrative experience as the wants of the country in the present position of affairs seemed, in public opinion, to require—(hear, hear)—and therefore it is my opinion that, if that, Government had not resigned on the question of the budget, it could not reasonably have expected to survive the end of the session. (Hear, hear, hear.) Well, gentlemen, that Government having resigned, and a Government being about to be formed composed of men of liberal principles, of expe rience in office, of enlightened views, with many of whom I had long acted in public life, with others of whom I had lately been associated in the discharge of my par liamentary functions, and it being thought that my as sistance might tend to render that Government more useful, I felt that I should have been shrinking from the performance of a public duty if I had refused the solici tations which I received, not only from the present head of the Government, but from my most valued and es teemed friend the Marquis of Lansdowne, if I had de clined to accept office in the present Administration. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I think it may be said, without improper boasting, that there has seldom if ever existed in this country an Administration which combined within itself more men who, by their talents, their experience, and their political principles, were entitled to the confi dence of their countrymen. (Cheers,) I trust that the Government will receive that confidence which I think they have a right to claim ; and I trust that, although the House of Commons is divided into parts not greatly varying in numbers between themselves—l trust, al though that is the case, that we may fairly expect to receive from the House of Commons that fair and generous support to which a well intentioned Govern ment may justly think itself entitled. (Cheers.) Gen tlemen, I say nothing of the future. You must judge of the future by the past. It would ill become a member of the Government to be telling his constituents what the Cabinet intended to do, and what would be the re- suit of their deliberations. (Hear, hear.) But of this at least iou may be sure, that the Government will hold in view as the rule of their conduct the principle of pro gressive improvement in all matters which concern the great interests of the country. (Cheers.) I trust that we shall be able to maintain abroad peace with dignity and with honour. (Cheers.) I trust that we shall he able to promote the interests of our fellow-countrymen at home, and I ask for the Govern ment nothing but that which an Englishman will always accord—a free stage and no favour—a fair trial, and a just and impartial judgment. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I hope I have not trespassed too long upon your indul gence. (No, no.) If time would permit, and if your patience and my strength would allow, I might have fix patiated on these various topics at greater length, but I shall claim that promise which you were kind enough to make me at the outset, that you would permit me to con dense within the smallest possible limits such observa tions as I might feel it my duty to submit to you. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I again beg to say that I never can forget the repeated expressions of confidence and the accumulated honours which it has been your pleasure to confer upon me. (Loud cheers.) In returning thanks, as your member to the electors, it is my duty not to for- get that that great question which has agitated the United States has not yet been carried in this country-- I mean the woman's question. (Laughter.) In that country they maintain that the ladies ought to vote. Our progress has not yet reached that point, but never: theless, having returned thanks to tl!►ose who are enti- tied to vote, I perhaps may be permitted to thank those who influence those who have the right to vote—(laugh- ter)—and to tender my humble thanks to the ladies-of Tiverton as well as the electors for those kind good offices, which I am persuaded they have afforded with their relations and friends. (Laughter.) The noble lord concluded amidst loud cheers, by proposing a vote of thanks to the mayor for his able and impartial con duct, not only on the present but upon every other simi lar occasion. The MAYOB briefly acknowledged the compliment, and the proceedings then terminated. The noble lord and a large number of his friends after wards dined together at the Three Tuns Tavern, under the presidency of Mr. F. Hole. HALIFAX. The nomination took place at 11 o'clock yesterday morning, in the Piece Hall-yard, a spacious area, capable of containing a very large number of people. Mr. EDWARD AKROYD, of Denton-park, proposed, and Mr. JOHN CROSSLEY, brother of the sitting member for the borough (F. Crossley, Esq.), seconded, the nomina tion of the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, as a fit and proper person to represent this borough. Mr. GEO. HAIGH proposed, and Mr. JOHN ABBOTT seconded, the nomination of Mr. Henry Edwards, as a suitable person to represent that borough in Parliament. Both the candidates addressed the electors ; after which, The MAYOR took a show of hands in favour first of Sir Charles Wood, and then of Mr. Edwards. There was a large number of hands held up for Sir Charles Wood, but a still larger number for Mr. Edwards, who was declared to be elected by a show of hands. The result was hailed with loud cheers from the Tory side, though the minority who held up for Sir Charles Wood was much larger than at the election in July. Mr. AKROYD, on behalf of Sir Charles Wood, de manded a poll. The MAYOR at once acceded to the demand, and an nounced that the poll would open at eight o'clock on the following (Tuesday) morning, and close at four o'clock on the same day ; and at eleven , o'clock on Wednesday morning he should proceed to make the declaration. A vote of thanks to the Mayor, seconded by Sir C. WOOD, was carried by acclamation. The MAYOR called for three cheers for the Queen, which was at once responded to, and the meeting separated. LEEDS. The election of "a fit and discreet" person to fill the vacancy in the representation of this borough, caused by the elevation of the Right Hon. M. T. Baines to the office of President of the Poor-law Board, took place in in the Coloured Cloth Hall-yard, at eleven o'clock yes terday morning. There was a smaller number of elec tors present than is usual at a borough election, and the proceedings were throughout perfectly unanimous. The MAYOR (John Hop e Shaw, Esq.), officer, opened the proceedings by explain as returning in the o bj ec t of their assembling, an d then read the pre cep t f rom the high sheriff and t oo k t h e customary oath. The Bribery A c t having been read, DARNTON LUPTON, E8(I., J.P., prod, as a t and discreet person t o represent the boroughpose in Parlia fi ment, the Hon. M. T. Baines. (Applause.) J. WILLIAMSON, Esq., seconded the nomination. No other candidate being proposed, th e M ayor , am id s t great cheering; declared Mr. Baines to be duly elected, and the right hon. gentleman having briefly addressed his constituents, a vote of thanks was passed to the Mayor, and the proceedings terminated. DUMFRIESSHIRE The writ for an electionofaTeWesentative for the county of Dumfries, in consequence of the acceptance of office by Lord Drumlanrig, was received on Thurs dayjast, and the sheriff has fixed the 12th inst. for the election. Lord Drumlanrig has issued an address. An anonymous announcement has been made in a Protec. 1461 1E SHARES, 26i i 921 2 3 2 61 60i 1136 i !On 10 tionist newspaper threatening opposition, but, as far as can be learned at present, the late member will most probably walk the course. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, The Marquis of Chandos having declined to relinquish his seat for Buckingham, Mr. Dudley M. Perceval, of Christ Church, will be put in nomination to-day, in op position to Mr. Gladstone. The poll will be kept open to-morrow and Thursday, and from the numerous pro mises of support, there is every probable hope that Mr. Perceval will bereturned. We therefore, once more most earnestly entreat every member of Convocation to attend at Oxford, and record his vote as soon as possible.— Morning Herald. LIMERICK COUNTY. Wednesday week, the 12th instant, has been fixed by the High Sheriff for the election in the county of Lime rick, rendered necessary by Mr. Monsell's acceptance of office as Clerk of the Ordnance. The office is one which has hitherto been filled by a military gentleman, and Mr. Monsen is the first Roman catholic who has been appointed to it since the revolution of 1688. Judging from the fact that he has escaped the attacks of all the party organs one may conclude that Mr. Motell's ap pointment is not an unpopular one. LITERATURE. Bentley's Miscellany.—The readers of Bentley's Miscellany will be charmed with its good appear ances and fair promises for the new year. Albert Smith, in a few pleasant lines of introduction ' tells us that twelve years ago he made his literarydebut in the pages of this magazine. He now is to be, not the editor exactly, but an occasional contribu tor and superintendent. He gives us this , month a capital sketch from his portfolio de voyage, " Brown, a Travelling Sketch." Mr. Shirley Brooks, who, some little time since, related to the readers of Punch the history of "Miss Violet and her Offers," commences a tale, "Aspen Court : and who lost and who won it," which is illustrated by Leech. We cannot say much for the lines "On the Funeral of the Duke of Wellington." " The History of a Heart," an allegorical poem, is very happily conceived and beautifully executed. " Who's your Friend ?" is an amusing sketch, and the few pages relating to the Countess of Lovelace will be perused witeinterest. A portrait of this lady is contained in the Miscellany. Professor Creasy has commenced a history of the Imperial Four—Alex ander, Ciesar, Charlemagne, and Napoleon. " Society and Letters in 1853," is worthy of atten. tive perusal. Fraser.—An interesting criticism of the recently published letters of Thomas Moore is the first article in Fraser for January. A brief account of Robert Herrick and his vicarage will be read with pleasure by many. The account of Wenham Lake Ice, and the manner in which the lake is ploughed and the ice divided, will, we doubt not, interest and asto nish the majority. It is well worth reading. " Hypatia" is continued ; and many other interest ing articles are to be found in Fraser for January. The Journal of Agriculture.—The first paper is on Agricultural Architecture and Engineering, continued from last number. It contains a great number of illustrative figures. "Emigration," and " Ireland as it is," are two of the most generally interesting articles. There is a great variety of agricultural information, and many useful tables and calculations are given. This month's number of the Zoist contains its usual mesmeric information ; amongst which may be noticed a chapter treating on the cure of ovarian dropsy by mesmerism and galvanism, by Dr. Motherwell, and some interesting cures in cases of St. Vitus's dance, and other nervous complaints, by galvanism. The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology. Edited by Forbes Winslow, M.D. There is a very long article entitled " British Institutions for the Insane," which gives very nute details of those asylums, their mode of treat ment, their rules and observances, and the general impression is that the result of such in quiries is favourable. " The Treatment of Crimi nal Lunatics," .and " Bethlem Hospital," have likewise articles devoted to them, containing a great deal of desirable information. The systems pursued in Bethlem Hospital are censured, and a hope is expressed that measures will shortly be adopted to remedy such glaring evils as are there found existing. It is remarked that kindness is the most effectual remedy for madness, and as much as possible coercion should be avoided. Australia as it is : its Settlements, Farms, and Gold Fields. By F. Lancelott, Esq. 2 vols. Col burn. The author of this work is the mineralogical sur veyor in the Australian colonies. He is, therefore, evidently well qualified for the task he has undertaken of describing the gold fields and general appearance of the country with which, as a resident, he must be naturally well acquainted. Though so much atten tion has been lately called to Australia by the dis covery of the gold districts, it is still compara tively little known, and as it is regarded with more curiosity than formerly, this work will prove very acceptable to the public. The author announces his aim to be rather to instruct than to amuse, but though not calculated to attract the superficial reader, those who peruse it will find much to inte rest as well as to inform. There are descriptions of the manners and customs of the colonists, and the zoology, botany, and mineralogy of the country. Much practical advice to emigrants is also given, though little is said of sheep and cattle farming, which subject, as the writer justly observes, has already been treated of by others. The great differ ence between Australia and this climate is not per haps generally known. The following account is interesting, as realising the distiiction : " Almost everything in nature is, in Australia, the reverse of what it is here. When we have winter they have summer ; when we have day they have night ; we have our feet pressing nearly opposite to their feet. There, too, the compass points to the south ; the sun travels along the northern heavens ; the mercury of the barometer rises with a southerly and falls with a northerly wind. The plumage of the birds is beautiful, their notes are harsh and strange ; the swans are black, the eagles are white; the moles lay eggs, and the owls screech and hoot only in the day time ; the cuckoo's song is heard only in the night ; the valleys are cool, the mountain tops are warm ; the north winds are hot, the south winds are cold; the east winds are healthy ; the bees are with out sting ; the cherries grow wit]) the stone outside ; one of the birds has a broom in his mouth in stead of a tongue ; another creature (the duck bil leted platypus) unite s with the body, fur, an d habits of a mole, the webbed foot and bill of a du c k. M any of h without the sm i r bark inst ea d o f ell ; most of th e trees their leaves ; some indeed are without l eaves, in others t eTh are e au withouttif ul fl shade, ower s are and shed the leaves are vertical ; and even the geological forma singular tion of the country, as f ar as ascertained, is most ." There is an account given in the first chapter of the early discoveries, and the years in which they were made. There are also two illustrations, one representing the town of Adelaide, the other givin a plan of Summerhill and Lewis Pond Creeks. g EXHIBITION OF POULTRY. —The entries which have already been made to the Poultry Exhibition, at the Portman-square Bazaar, next week, are stated to amount to nearly 2,000 pens of specimens. The show ofoul try will be divid e d i nto 51 classes p , consistin g of Spanish fowls, Cochin Chi na fowls (cinnamon, buff, brown and partridge-feathered, brown or white), Dorking fowls (single co m b ed, double or rose combed or white) Malay fowls, game fowl (white and piles, black breasted, and other reds, blacks, and brassy -winged, except greys, duckwings, and other greys and blues), gold -pencilled Hamburgh specimens, golden-spangled Hamburgh, silver-spani'led Hamburgh, Poland fowl (black with White crests, golden with ruffs or beards, silver with ruffs or beards), bantams and any other breeds, geese and ganders, ducks (Aylesbury drakes and ducks, Rouen drakes and ducks, Muscovy drakes and ducks), turkeys and guinea fowl. The pigeon classes are thusdi: vided—Pouters and croppers, carriers, dragons, almond.; tumblers, short-faced mottles , short-faced bald h o er , short-faced beards, short-faced tumblers Jacobines, goodw nuns, turbits, fantails, barbs, magpies, small pouters,beards, feathered flying bald heads, good feathered flyi fiyi ; tunli good feathered flying mottles, good to t_ o reg n e „ asses no biers and foreign birds. There are white,b In ' yellow white,zd rabbits, viz., long ears, black d an hite, grey and to be white, tortoiseshell, blue and w sums of m oney. breeds of oul awarded consist of medals and vsrious P best self-colour and foreign rabbits.—The- Theob ject of the club is to improve the -0,. E n glish farm-yard important an The regulations of produce a more this country. has hitherto been in high condition, beauty of plumage, and considered as a point of the club state "that ilie f, preferred above mere weight, try, &c., and to render this branch i i ralu i able feature than it to which latter quality only that are remarkable for their merit in those breeds .h Dorking, Malay, and Cochin HALF CENTURY. —Fifty years ago size, a , and purittyheof Spanish, Dorking, China. + , ere un nown—now there are 3,000 afloat team-boa.s u 8 •,• n waters alone. In 1800 there was not a on Amen' s ' • the world— s gle railway in now there are 10,000 miles in the United States, and about 22,000 in America and England. Half a century ago it took some weeks to convey news from Washington to New Orleans. Fifty THE FRUITS or A k , years ago the moat rapid printing -press was worked by ye ar a go steam prints 20,000 papers an hour on a single press. Now is a great fellow, but will be much bigger half a century hence.—Philaddphia Ledger. It is stated in a Sligo paper that it is the intention of Mr. Wynne, the under secretary, to proceed to the Continent for some time for the benefit of his health.