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

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE' Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, DEc. 12, The GREAT 'AMERICAN EQUESTRIANS will exhibit their retonishing Feats, unma ched in the history of such Performances, assisted by the most renowned Gymnastic Artistes, 0. Dale and Barnes, the European and American c.ampions. To render the termination of the Equestrian Season equal in attraction to its commencement. 'Kr. T. Smith has engaged Herr Hengler, the moot accomplished Tight-Rope Dancer in the World. Mons. Desaire's Troupe of Performing Dogs and Monkeys every Evening. Reduced Prices as usual. THEATILK ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Bnekstone. THIS EVENIN;i, DEC. 12, Will be performed THE HOPE OF THE FAMILY. Characters by Messrs Compton, Chippendale, and Buckstone ; Miss E. Grey, and Mrs. Fitzwllliain. To be followed by A PRETTY PIECE OF BUSINESS. Cha racters by iiessrs. Howe and Buckstone ; Miss Reynolds and Mrs. Fitzwilllam. To conclude with ANY PORT IN A STORM. Characters by Misses E. Orrnonde and Featherstone. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. rn!er the Ma.nagement of Mr. CHARLES KEAN. THIS EVENING, Dec. 12. Wit! be performed THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Sup ported by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy. After which, Dint Byron's Tragedy of SA&D.kN APALIT 4 , con siderably akridgcd for stage representation. Principal characters by 31r. and M?s. C. Keau. To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. Characters by Messrs. Harley, J. Vining, Chester, and Everett ; Mrs. W. Lacy, Misses Daly and C. Leclereq• LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. THIS EVENING, DEC. 12, Will be performed A BACHELOR OF ARTS. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Baker; Miss F. Hughes. After which, THE COMMENCEMENT OF A BAD FARCE which, however (It is hoped), will. in the end, show HOW TO MAKE HOME HAPPY. Principal character by Mr. Wright. To be followed by A NICE FIRM. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with WRIGHT AT LAST. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Proprietor, Air. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIB EVENING, DEC. 12, Will be performed THE THIRST OF GOLD; or, The Lost Ship. Characters by Messrs. B. Webster, P. Bedford. a nd Keeley ; and Madame Celeste. To be followed by WHITEBAIT AT GREEIAWICH. To conclude with " HOTEL CHARGES t" or, How to Cook " A Blinn." ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A Wigan. EVENING, DEC. 12, Wlll be performed PLOT AND PASSION. Principal characters by Mr F. Robson and Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by THE CA lIP AT THE OLYMPIC. Charac ters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, F . D ..obaori, Cooper, and Galli ; Mesdames A. Wigan, Stirling, P. Horton, Chatterley, E. Turner, and Wyndham. . • T o conclude with THE W kNDERING MINSTREL. ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke, THE PERFORMING ELEPHANTS have achieved the most Brilliant Triumph ever accompli4ied with,n the wails of this Cintat Amphitheatre. —Night aft,r night the aud'ence, by universal ac clamation have recalled thfm, and amid Increased wonder and deafening plaudits, the Elephants have re-appeared and repeated their most Won irons Feats. THIS EVENING, DEC. 12, (And during the week), The New Grand Equestrian Chin-se Spccta , le, entitled " THE WISE ELEPHANTS OF THE EAST; or THE NI AGIC GONG." Followed hy a series of 'sir. W,ri. Cooke's matc‘dess scenes of Equestrianism in THE CIRCLE, by the talented artistes .of this establishment. Concluding with a favourite AFTERPIECE.' Boa-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W West. it [GA WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts DAY —Morning 0 min.after 0 1 Evening 3 min.aft. 12 To-Moaaow—Morning 26 min.after 12 I Evening 46 miii.aft. 12 THE WEATITER.—Scrs OFFICE, DEC. 11. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE 47—highest since noon yesterday. 34—lowest this metning and during the night. 40—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'09. WIND, E.N.E.—Light, frosty breeze. DECEMBER 12. 41— highest since noon yesterday. 35—lowest this morning and during the night. 38—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29.96—falling. WIND, E.S.E.—Smart breeze, and dull, cold, frosty weather. ~•Tj ~_: §llll, LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1853. Disgraceful indeed is the position to which England has been reduced by the malign influence of Aberdeenism—by that unfortunate influence which, during the past ten months, has perpetu ally oscillated between the extremes of incapacity and pusillanimity. It has so far deteriorated the authority hitherto ex.ercised by this country in the maintenance of the balance of power among the nations of Christendom, that the only hope of a solution of existing difficulties can be discovered in the temporary triumph of the soldiers of Russia over those despatched to the banks of the Danube by the Divan of Constantinople. A considerable portion of Germany, as we remarked the other day, is asking, through the columns of the Aus trian Lloyds, What will NAPOLEON 111. do ? not What will be done by England ? And meanwhile England herself, or rather the Ministers of Eng land, are eagerly looking for intelligence of that catastrophe which can alone justify their anticipations of a pacific settlement. Yes_ for it is preposterous to imagine for an instant that the haughty spirit of the CZAR of all the Russias will consent to yield to the demands made upon him through the P lenipotentiaries of the Four Powers without having first wiped away from his Imperial escutcheon the disgrace of his recent discomfitures at Oltenitza. Turkey having triumphed over her Muscovite antagonists —nut once, but repeatedly, in their present encounter, and this not merely on the Asiatic soil, but on the soil of Europe in like manner—it were absolute folly to expect that the AUTOCRAT would select such a juncture for making those concessions to the Western Powers which he had perempto rily, and again, and again, refused while the reputation of his army was yet un tarnished by the loss of fort St. Nicholas, and by the double defeat experienced a little to the South of Bucharest. Nevertheless, the Aberdeen ites still babble about another patched-up Confer ence, and about the prospects of more successful negotiations. General BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS talks to the SULTAN encouragingly about his Imperial Master supporting the cause of Turkey, and in suring, if necessary, by force of arms the inde pendence of the Ottoman Government. Lord STBATFOED DE itEDCLIFFE energetically as sures his MAJESTY that Great Britain is pre pared to repel the unjustifiable aggression made by the AUTOCRAT upon his dominions. Whereas, nearer home, the language employed is somewhat more delicately modulated—states men clinging desperately to the last feeble chance of an amicable arrangement of the contention between the CZAR and SULTAN, and the acknowledged organs of Aberdeenism, espe cially, insistin g Upon the certainty of a happy re sun to sundry mysterious and supplementary ne gotiations. It ma y readily be „ np . etured, therefore, the satisfaction secretly felt i n cont D owning-street .o on the arrival of these rum o urs , ing us this morn ing by way of Vienna, to the effect that a Turkish squadron had been destroyed in the Bl ack Sea, on the 30th ult., by some Russian men-of- war, Which had hastily despatched intelligence of their pi e _ tory to the Emperor NICHOLAS, via Odessa, and had afterwards retired with flying colours, b ut battered hulls, to Sebastopol. For, it must be at once recognised that in the accuracy of some such information lies the only substantial probability that the AUTOCRAT could consent to comply with the "tersOlreisition of the rest of the great Powers s iatendwn. Without some success either at se or`Oriland-to tVe>fetces of Russia, it is posi , s2l7 ) ,pre • poStOOxitf..44., , repeat, to dream of the ispiritoPNx4i:onAs yielding to the condi*ins,loOUChed - ..4 ° Vim by the newly re organised ,‘ Confereficp- 7 -46se conditions which he has airesitclY' more — than' Once rejected with loom) THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1853. and with a semblance at least of indignation. Yet even believing in this air-blown bubble of a Russian victory in the Euxine, even supposing this exceedingly questionable narrative of the de feat of the Turkish squadron on the 30th ult. to be authentic in all its particulars —can we count, even then, upon the probability of the AUTOCRAT bending his proud will before that of the SULTAN, at the behest of the anything but prompt and: energetic allies of the Ottoman Go vernment Y Turkey, flushed with her recent vic tories over the Muscovites, both on the Asiatic and on the European Continent, Turkey, conscious of her right, and animated by an enthu siasm scarcely before paralleled, and incited to persevere by the encouraging assurances of sup port given to the SULTAN CALIPH successively by the French and English A m bassadors —Turkey under these circumstances can scarcely be expected by any sane man to flinch by one hair's breadth from the maintenance of that line of policy upon which she adventuredfrom the first instant of Prince MENSCHIKOFF'S mission to Constantinople. Russia —whether inflamed with new hope by victory, or infuriated by repeated discorafitures—can hardly be expected to deliver up her sword at discretion to the re-echoed whisper of the feeble demands of a blun dering an d already more th an once repu l se d guar tetteof plenipotentiaries. Yet confident in its own senile and notorious fatuity, Aberdeenism is still complacently looking forward to some miraculous settlement of the Russo-Turkish difficulty as the consequence of its last, desperate, spasmodic, hys terical effort at negotiation. It appears to be forgotten that England despises ministerial hesita tion, and that Russia does not comprehend the meaning of magnanimity. " Shall we take them in 9" "No ! let him go and work for them ?" Such was the interroga tory addressed by Mr. KIRBY, one of the inspec tors of the parish of Marylebone, to Mr. MESSER, the assistant overseer, in reference to a distressed family named WALsH, who had applied for admis sion to the workhouse, and such was the reply of the tender-hearted official addressed—a reply which very probably occasioned the death of an unfortunate infant, which perished in its mother's arms while she was wandering without food or shelter on the night of the 22d November, in company with her equally unfortunate and equally destitute husband. Poor WALsit and his distressed wife might have attracted the sympathy of even " parochar' autho rities, to say nothing of the additional claims of the wretched child, barely eight weeks old at the time it met its melancholy fate. The head of the family had been a marble polisher, but was par tially paralysed, having lost the use of his right arm fourteen years ago. The mother, we are told, when giving her evidence on the inquest, "seemed in a state approaching to imbecility !" The un fortunate object of the inquiry, the offending babe whose claims were so sternly disregarded, had on it " an old cotton bedgown," which would have been its sole covering at that inclement sea son, but with a mother's instinct, and a mo ther's love, poor Mary WALSH had denuded herself of her shawl, in order to give, as far as practicable, the much-required warmth to the con vulsed and shivering infant. Such was the state of the applicants whose claims were so summarily disposed of by the humane Mr. MESSER, and their appearance and aspect by no means belied their condition. Their statement was plain and simple. There was nothing to attract extraordinary attention, for we fear that their " o'er true tale" was but a single instance of many similar cases. They had apparently been tolerably constant applicants at the workhouse-gate, for the husband in his evi dence stated that he " had received relief at va rious times from the parish since he was disabled fourteen years before." We willingly give the authorities the benefit of the fact, that the appli cants were " old hands," well known to the autho rities, and whose previous applications might have been very urgent and continuous. But this also shows that, if really destitute, they had a right to the assistance they demanded, and that the party on whom the duty was imposed of supplying their wants would incur a serious amount of responsi bility if death resulted from a refusal to dis charge that legal obligation. The wife had, it appears, been confined on the 26th Sep tember, and was attended by the parish midwife, and had received some strengthening medicine from the parish doctor. She had also received some tea, sugar, and bread from the workhouse for a fortnight after her confinement. The paro chial authorities had therefore the means of testin g theaccuracyofthe statements made, and of knowing the full extent of the exigency. The husband, in consequence of his right arm being disabled, was debarred from obtaining regular einployment, but lie occasionally " did a little whitewashing when he could get it," and the wife "sold fruit in the streets, but since the birth of the child had no money to go to market." Under such circum stances, that they should be in great distress, sometimes being "two or three days without food," was by no means surprising. On the 21st October the father applied for admission into the house, a 3 he had no home or money. The request was rejected, but he was ordered to receive is. 6d., two quarteru loaves, and two pounds of mutton per week, for a month. On the 18th November he again applied for admission, stating " he had no place to go to ;" that he had been turned out of his lodgings. He got no answer on that point, but obtained a renewal of the previous order for another month. After that he declares that— a." On . the following evening (Saturday) he saw Mr. Northumberland-street, along with Mr. Kirb3 7, . one of the i ns p ec t ors , an d hi s w if e app li e d t o b e taken n. Heard Mr. Kirby say to Mr. Messer. " Shall we take then, in ? " to which Mr . Messer replied, " No ! let him go and work for them." - * After that he walked about for h a lf an hour, to see Mr. Messer, who at last came out. Witness was smoking a: bit of tobacco which he had picked up in the street. Told Mr. Messer that his w if e and child were waitin g, that they were very cold, an d that they had nothing to eat. Mr. Messer said, "H u t you can afford to smoke ;" and went again into his office. Witness at that time had not a halfpenny in th e wor ld , * and had no pro spect of getting work. His wif e and he went down to the Marylebone Police-court, where they again saw Mr. Messer, who again refused to take them i n . The . magis trate sent a policeman wit h th em to the workhouse ,in order to get something done for them . ! At the wrk house they saw Mr. Tice, Mr. Messer 's clerk, who said be could not help them he had no power. Witness said it was a very cold night, and asked, were they t o be in the street. They got nothing. His wife wa s car . rying the child. This was after 5 o'clock in the evening, and he stopped at the workhouse gate until 10 o ' clock, in hope that a loaf would be sent out to them, as Green, the porter, knew they were there. They go t n othing at all, and went towards Oxford-street, where they walked until nearly 3 o'clock in the morning without any They then met a gentleman, who gave them sixpence in charity, with which, at 6 o'clock, they got a pen nyworth of bread and two half-pints of coffee. At 8 o 'clock on the Sunday morning they went again to the workhouse, but only saw Green, the porter, from' whom they got nothing. Then they went to their landlady's, in Gee's court, where they got credit for a lodging until they re ceived the is. 6d. allowance on Monday. The child was very cold and very much convulsed. On Monday they got their allowance of ls. 6d., the quartern loaves, and the mutton. They paid three nights' lodging, at 6d. a night, which took all their money, and on the Tuesday evening they had not a bit of bread left. The child was then very much convulsed, and it died between 4 and 5 o'clock." This is a painful, a heart-rending narrative of fearful destitution on the one side, and want of the ordinary feelings of compassion on the other. Mr. MESSER, had certainly seen the man smoking, and it might have created an impression that he Was better off than he pretended. But that no tion did not warrant an absolute refusal. A more string ent i nquiry might have been required ; but were entitled to reliaf. Had they ever been un duly improvident? Had they expended recklessly the supplies granted on the preceding Monday, they could not be suffered to perish in consequence of their recklessness. " Death" would be too heavy a punishment for such a crime. But at all events, the child e ight weeks old was not gu ilt y of any o fr elle o, and its deplorable condition sho u ld h ave been taken into consideration , by m Esszn. The Stereotyped answq , Go work f or thorn," a cruel mockery to a starving man, who could get no employment of any kind, was returned. The wretched man did not yield without a struggle for existence. He went before the sitting magistrate at the police court. A sure proof that he was willing to submit to investigation into his charac ter, conduct, and circumstances. The magistrate sent a policeman to enforce attention to the claim. But in vain. It was again rejected. Mr. NIESSER'S clerk had no power even to attend to the magisterial recommendation. The distracted applicant alluded to the coldness of the night, and asked, were they to be in the street ; but with no result. For five tedious hours he lingered at the workhouse gate, hoping to obtain even a bit of bread, but in vain, Nothing came, and at ten o'clock at night, wearied, hungry, and disheart ened, he wandered forth with his miserable wife and wretched infant to spend the morning of the blessed Sabbath, which was, however, no day of rest to him. The catastrophe might have hap pened sooner, but that at three o'clock in the morning a humane gentleman gave them sixpence for charity, with which, three hours subsequently, when the shops opened, they obtained Id. worth of bread and two half-pints of coffee. At eight o'clock they went again to the workhouse, where they " saw GREEN, the porter, but got nothing." Is this state of affairs to be tolerated in a Christian country ? When we deny relief to the whining mendicant on the street, we do so with out compunction, inasmuch as the workhouse is open to receive him. How can we do so with a safe conscience, if the above case is to be received as a sample of workhouse humanity and the atten tion accorded to the exigencies of the claimants for relief. We are fully alive to the evils of in discriminate alms-giving. We axe aware of the deceptions and impositions thereby occasioned ; but it is men like Mr. MESSER who encourage and sustain the practice, by refusing assistance when it is imperatively required. The jury found that great culpability attached to Mr. MESSER and two of the directors of the poor. We shall not at present inquire too curiously into the legal effect of that verdict. But we say that means must be adopted to prevent the repetition of conduct re flecting so much discredit on the authorities of one of the leading unions in the British Metro polis. THE OVERLAND MAIL. TRIESTE, SATITRDAY. The steamer Calcutta has arrived at 7 45 a.m., in 114 hours from Alexandria. She left Alex andria on the sth of December. The India Mail arrived at Alexandria on the 2d of December, and has brought dates from Calcutta, Nov. 6 ; Madras, Nov. 10 ; Shanghai, Oct. 5 ; Amoy, Oct. 12 ; Hong Kong, Oct. 27 ; Singapore, Nov. 4 ; Penang, Nov. 6 ; Galle and Bombay, Nov. 14 ; Burmah, Oct. 23 ; Sydney, Sept. 20 ; Melbourne, Sept. 26 ; Adelaide, Oct. 1. Pegu is still in an unsettled condition, and many attacks from the Dacoits had occurred. General Godwin died at Simla on the 26th Oct. Major Edwardes is appointed Commissioner for Peshawur. • Trade has improved. Exchange at Calcutta, 2s. Id. Cholera has appeared at Bombay. At Shanghai and Amoy they are still fighting. At Whampoa there is great disaffection. Canton is quiet, but great anxiety prevails. Trade in China is good. Exchange on London, 5 toyl. VIENNA, SATURDAY. Advices from India and China have been received via Trieste. BOMBAY, Nov. 14. General Godwin died at Simla. At Rangoon 100 convicts mutinied. Most of them were cut down. Great excitement prevailed at Whampoa, in con sequence of the death of a Chinese female in prison. The Americans protected the English Consul.* The Peninsular and Oriental Steamer Bengal arrived at Ceylon on the Ist .N ovember. * With respect to the excitement at Whampoa, the following appeared in our impression of the 29th Novem ber by the last Overland Mail : "At Whampoa the British Vice-Consul Bird is in some trouble. A Chinese female whom he had in con , finement jumped over board in the night, and was found in the morning hanging or; to a rope alongside, dead. The friends of the deceased having sent threats to Mr. Bird that his life should pay the forfeit, he has been con strained in consequence, it is reported, to apply for re moval to some other post in her Majesty's service." LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. GREAT NAVAL BATTLE IN THE BLACK SEA.-DEFEAT OF THE TURKS. Official advices received at Vienna on Saturday from Odessa of the sth instant state that on the 30th November the Russian Admiral Nachimow (Vice-Admiral of the sth division in tile Black Sea, with six ships-of-the-line) attacked a Turkish squadron near Sinope, and, despite the land bat teries, completely destroyed seven Turkish frigates, two corvettes, one steamer, and three transports, in one hour. Osman Pasha (Vice-Admiral Patrona) and staff were carried off as prisoners of war. The Russian flag-ship returned to Sebastopol considerably damaged. Prince Menschikoff immediately left Odessa for St. Petersburg, to communicate the news of the victory to the Emperor. This Osman Pacha must not be confounded with Mushaver Patna, or Captain Slade, who also holds an admiral's command in the Turkish navy. Mushaver Pacha had returned to the Bosphorus with the squadron under his command, on the 26th of November. The port of Sinope is on the north coast of Asia Minor, about 300 miles to the east of Constanti nople, and about 200 miles south and by east of Sebastopol. There is an arsenal of some magnitude at Sinope. A Russian despatch received at Vienna, on Sun day at noon, states that Admiral Nachimow en countered the Turkish fleet near Soukon-Kale. Admiral Osman Pacha intended landing troops there. The Russians gave chase, and pursued the Turks into the roadstead of Sinopoli, where they annihi lated thirteen Turkish vessels. One steamer escaped. There was an immense loss of lives. It is said in Paris that the Turkish vessels which have been captured had been sent from Constanti nople to Batoum with provisions and ammunition for the troops. They had proceeded a considerable distance on their way, when they fell in with the Russian squadron, consisting of six ships of the line and several smaller vessels. Resistance was impossible, and there was a general sauve qui pent, when several of the Turkish ships were captured. From - Vienna, Dec. 7, we learn that all the news paper reports of an alliance having been formed between the four great Powers are totally incorrect. Their representatives have united in drawing up a note, and nothing more. No mutual pledge has been entered into to enforce the acceptance of the note either on Russia or the Porte. The Nouvelliste of Hamburg says, that the Rus sian Cabinet rejects every attempt to obtain con cessions from it. It will accept nothing but the first Vienna note. Advices from Bucharest of the sth instant an nounce the arrival of Lloyd's steamer, the Ferdi nand, at Galatz from Constantinople, after a stormy passage of three weeks. The probability of an armistice was confirmed by the departure of several staff officers from the Turkish quarters for Constantinople. Instructions are also said to have reached Omer Pacha to pro vide winter-quarters for the different divisions of the army. General Budberg, the Russian commissioner ex traordinary, arrived at Jassy on the 30th Novem ber, and was received with great pomp. Letters from Jassy, the capital of Moldavia, of the 3d instant, state that General Osten-Sacken was daily expected there ; he will proceed at once to Wallachia, where he is expected to arrive be tween the 17th and 20th. The Prince of Servia has left Belgrade for Kra jugewatz, as a precautionary measure. A deputation of Mussulman tribes - from Mingre ha, who have declared in Asia against the Russians, had arrived at Constantinople on the 25th of Nov. and been received by Reschid Pacha. The deputa tion is to be presented to the Sultan. Letters from the banks of the Danube announce that two companies of the Wallachian militia had succeeded in crossing the Danube by night, and in joining the troops of Omer Pacha. They have given the Turks exceedingly precise information respecting the Russian troops, which proves that the latter are far from being in a flourishing state. A letter from Constantinople, speaking of the banquet offered to the French and English Ad mirals, relates that Admiral Dundas occupied the right of the Captain Pacha, notwithstanding his resistance and his polite efforts to leave that place to the FrenCh Admiral. The Captain Pacha, first of a'l, delivered an address in Turkish to Riza- Bey, formerly First Secretary of the Ottoman Embassy in France, and the only civil functionary present at this purely military and naval fete, who afterwards rose and gave a translation in French of the Captain-Pacha's address. It runs thus : " Gentlemen,—l ask permission to propose the health of the Queen of Great Britain and of the Emperor of the French, on this solemn occasion, where I have been able as , enible on board the Ottoman Admiral's flag ship the chief officers of the English and French squadrons. I acknowledge myself to be totally unable to, express to you the sentiments ofjoy and kind feeling which I myself feel at this moment, and I shall only assure you of the deep gratitude with which the counsellors of the Sultan :ire penetrated for the numerous marks of friendship and assistance lavished on him by the two.great powers of the West. The independence and integrity of the Ot toman Empire are the bases on which repose the equi librium of Europe and the peace of the world. That peace, so precious in itself, which all the States were hound to believe durable, has been, in spite of all the efforts of the Ottoman Government, violently troubled. Turkey, strong in her right, repels the unjust aggression directed against her. Your presence at Constantinople, gentlemen, is for us an example and a support, and if fate decides that we are to march to war side by side, all our efforts shall tend to merit your esteem and 'ap probation. The sentiments which I express are shared by all the subjects of the Sultan, and I am happy to be able to express to you at present the wishes formed throughout the whole empire for the august allies of the Sultan, the Emperor of the French and the Queen of Great Britain."• Admiral Hamelin afterwards proposed the health of the Sultan, and Admiral Dundas that of the Captain-Pacha. A letter from Constantinople of the 25th Nov., says that the news from the seat of war is to the effect that the inundations of the Danube having compelled Omer Pacha to withdraw his troops from the island opposite Turtukai, and which acted so nobly in the affair of Olteuitza, he at the same time ordered the troops in the quarantine building to withdraw also to the right bank of the river, after blowing up the building. Giafer Bey, who com manded the Bashibouzouk Arnouts, who drove the Russians from the island of Mokan-Oglou, between Rutschuk and Silistria, has so well fortified it that all communication of the Russians, by moans of their gun-boats, between Giurgevo and Ibraila (Brailow) has become impossible. The corps d'annee of Ismail Pacha at Kalafat,being reinforced by Ali met Pacha's division and by troops from Sofia, had taken the offensive. The cavalry commanded by Mashar Pacha (son of the Minister of Foreign Af fairs) had advanced to the banks of the Dgi, towards Krajova, driving out the Russians from the Wal lachian villages, which they had recently pillaged and burnt. Prince Gortschakoff had appointed General Budberg Governor-General of Wallachia, and a manifesto is shortly expected from the Em peror Nicholas to inform the Moldavians and Wal lachians of their future position. The 3d corps d'arm6e had not arrived on the Pruth, and the sth division had been compelled_ to send a brigade into the Caucasus, to reinforce the troops there, menaced by the Circassians. There was a report that Field-Marshal Paskiewitch was in disgrace, not because he had refused to take the command of the army on the Danube, but because he had declared that the troops could not be withdrawn from Poland until replaced by the grenadiers of the guard, as otherwise the Poles would rise. The Emperor is said to have declared that if, during an administration of so many years, he had not been able to extirpate the revolutionary spirit in Poland, he was not a fit man to govern it. The accounts from Asia state that after the affairs at Bagazid and Tschildir the Ottoman troops ad vanced on Akhista. With the exception of the notable people of the country in the employ of Russia, the inhabitants and the people hailed the arrival of the Turkish troops with joy. The celebrated Sefer Bey, ruler of Northern Cir cassia, and for many years detained in Turkey at the demand of Russia, has been made a Pacha, as also Bedchet Effendi, a Circassian of the tribe of Beslene, some time since subjugated by Russia. These two new Paellas join immediately the army 1 of Selim Pacha, where they will receive special ap poi ntment s. - The Oest. Deutsche Post, of Vienna, says that England has proposed to the Porte an amnesty of three months in favour of Russia. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe had an audience of five hours with the Sultan on the subject. M. de Bruck, on the 22d, presented a note in which he endeavours to prove that peace is absolutely neces , al7. The Ministers of the Porte at once held an extraordinary sitting to consider the contents of the note. Private letters from Constantinople of the 28th state that, notwithstanding the state of the negoti tions in Europe, the Turks continued their opera tions in Asia. All the batteries on the coast of the Black Sea had been fully armed and placed in a state of complete defence. They hal mounted 250 cannon of large calibre, which were place I in ex cellent positions where they completely commanded the entrance from the sea, and prevented the ap proach of all ships. A private letter from Constantinople, of the 30th, mentions that the Queen and the London had joined the English squadron, and anchored in the Bos phorus. The same letter adds that the Spanish Ambassador, recently arrived, had a long confer ence with Redschid Pasha, and that on the follow ing day he was to be received by the Sultan. His presence had produced a certain effect on the pub lic, as it coincided with the news of the approach ing arrival of a Spanish squadron, composed of six ships of war. A letter from Vienna, in the Post Ampt Gazette, says :—" Omer Pacha was on the 24th ult., at Kalafat, where he inspected the entrenchments, and passed the troops in review. The Turks still occupy the island of Mokan. It is thought that Fuad-Effendi and M. de Kotzebue will enter into negotiations. It is even said that they have already had an interview." The Lloyd of Vienna contains a letter from Kalisch of the 3d, which says :—" The news given by several journals that the troops in Poland had set out for the South are devoid of foundation, as no change has taken place in their position, Gene ral Pauiutins is still in Poland with the 2d corps of infantry." In the treaty of Ackermann, concluded in 1826, there is a separate article relative to the Princi palities of Moldavia and Wallachia which contains the following passage :—" If it happen that on account of age, illness, or for any other reason, one of the Hospodars should desire to abdicate before the term of seven years is completed, the Sublime Porte shall communicate the same to Russia, and the abdication shall take place after a previous understanding between the two Courts." As this has not been re pealed by any subsequent convention, the follow ing official documents appear to afford irrefragible evidence that the Emperor Nicholas has been guilty of another gross violation of treaty, by arrogating to himself the sovereign rights of the Porte. .ASTLErs AMPHIThEATRE. There has just been added to the numerous attractions at Astley's two wonderful performing elephants, who out-do every other member of their species hitherto ex hibited to the public. The great bulk and enormous weight of the elephant is such that a person would fancy it were as easy to turn a house topsey-turvy as make him stand upon his head, but no less a feat than this is nightly accomplished with wonderful facility by one of these extraordinary and highly-trained animals of Mr. Cooke. Their other achievements are also both unpre cedented and amusing. For instance, one balances him self on his hind legs, and dangles his fore-feet about in th e air like a dancing dog. Then one elephant slightly elevates his ponderous body by resting his legs on a pedestal, while the other crawls under his extended form. Other feats show the elephant diminishing in other ways the number of legs he requires for his support, or crowd ing his four feet together within the dimensions of so small a circle that his posture had all the strange pecu liarity of an inverted and well-balanced cone. These elephants will, no doubt, prove to be among the most s uccessful of the novelties brought forward at this Christmas period for the amusement of the juvenile classes, and a splendid harvest for the enterprising lessee and manager ere the holidays close may confidently be predicted. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The December sessions of the Central Criminal Court, being the second of the present Mayoralty, were opened this morning before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Aldermen Carden, Finnis, Salomons, and the Sheriff of London and Middlesex, Mr. Alderman Wire, and Mr. Wallis. The first edition of the Calendar contains the names of 42 prisoners. The Grand Jury having been sworn and empannelled, The Recorder delivered a very brief charge. He con gratulated them upon the prospect of their labours being unusually light, as only a week had elapsed since the previous sessions were held. The crimes in the calendar presented no features of atrocity, or anything out of the ordinary way calling for any remark from him. There was one case of murder, and a case of conspiracy arising out of some Chancery proceedings, which might occupy some little of their attention, but beyond these there were no ctearges which would detain them any length of time. The learned gentleman concluded by again ex pressing his approbation at the absence of any cases of a burglarious character, which in former periods were ge nerally rife at this time of year. The Grand Jury then retired. LAW INTELLIGENCE--(THIS DAY). COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque.) IMPORTANT NEW RULE IN THE PRACTICE OF THE COURT.- EXPARTE --. This was a question under a debtor trader's summons which was disputed at some length, and the objections were overruled by his Honour. The ordinary proceed. ings were taken to prosecute a petition in bankruptcy. His Honour then said that he wished it should be known that he considered the hearing of these cases in public court during the time applied to public business was a grievance, and ought to be heard at a sitting in private an hour before. He' should, therefore, take such cases in private and prevent the mischief which occasionaliy arose through discussion,in the open court when the enquiry ought to have been strictly private. The professional gentlemen present appeared much gratified, as it has been often the case that through pri vate arrangements the public business has not been called on for a considerable time after the hour an nounced, in consequence of private sittings being ap- pointed for the public hour, eleven o'clock, and on the Commissioner taking his seat applications are made and frequently take precedence of the cases in the list, to the annoyance and loss of time of merchants and tradesmen who appear as creditors. 1 ARRIVALS OF SPECIE.—The specie movements of the week, notwithstanding the continued absence of any arrivals from Australia, have again been considerable. The imports have amounted to about 600,0001., of which 270,000/. was gold, and 330,0001. silver. The exports are estimated at about 200,0001. of gold, while of silver they have been very trifling, the quantity brought by the Orinoco not having yet been sold. Some amounts at present are being sent to Holland. EMIGRA.TION FRO 31 PLY3IOUTII.---011 Monday the Scotia (778 tons register) left Plymouth for Sydney, and the Eagle for New Zealand. On Wednesday, the Kent (815) sailed for Melbourne. These ships have taken out 40 mai tied couples, 16 single men, 133 single women, and 87 children. The Rodney (887) arrived from Lon don on Wednesday, ems route for Sydney, and was ex pected to sail on Saturday. PUBLIC HOLIDAY.— With regard to the observance of a public holiday on the 26th inst., the opinion of the mercantile classes seems to be strongly in favour of every arrangement being made that can facilitate it. It is sug , gested that an order in Council should be issued for the purpose, but it is doubtful if this would be suffi cient to a legalise an alteration in the payment of bills. According to the act of the 7th and Bth of George L I whichlV., was d t t o i b I p i c r e vheonl holidays, a all s doubts a - garding the observance occa sions on which they can be declared by proclama twheheetxheerrcitsleie tion . are„ limited to ` o ` solemn power oe f ‘rv a me s r t s i n d toi a ite y s s iu, o rf fi f e sc t ei h enn a t n t k i tn s o- - point f or th e legal advisers of the Govern gws a a v r n c a g e n t ; s a i ment. ln case it shoiut Lopeddecidedbe th a t thatthe no Governmentpro ci a m - tion can be issued ; t will at least promptly take the course adopted on the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, by giving notice that all bills of exchange payable on their account at White hall or the Bank may be presented for payment on the preceding Saturday, and that the Bank of England will ' also, as on that occasion, in concurrence with the Committee of Bankers, pursue the necessary mea sures for bringing their transactions within the nar rowest limits. WRECK OF THE HYPERION —The barque Hyperion, bound from New York to Kingston, on the gOth of October, when in lat. 35 39 N., long. 73 30 W., encoun tered a terrific gale, and about 1 p.m. sprang a leak, which gained so rapidly, notwithstanding every effort of Capt. Perkins and the crew to decrease it, that she sank before the boats could be lowered, and eight of the crew perished. Captain Perkins, the chief and second mates, and one seaman, escaped by getting on the top of the cook-house, which floated after the vessel went down. On this frail raft they were exposed to a furious gale at N.E., with a heavy sea washing continually over them, and neither food nor water. Fortunately the American ship, Edward Everett, Grundy, master, from Baltimore for London, hove in sight, and observing the ill-fated mariners, bore d own to their assistance and rescued them from their perilous situation. This occurred on the 2nd of November, at 8 a in. ; consequently 57 hours had elapsed from. the time they were exposed to the mercy of the Vita at.ti sea. - MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were estimated at from 5,000 to 6,000 bales, of which 500 were taken on speculation. The market closed steadily, without alteration in prices. The sales included 400 Egyptian at 6d. to 71d., 700 Surat at 20. to 414., and the remainder nearly all American. Railway shares were steady. The railway meetings announced are the fol lowing : Company. Date. Place, &c. Charleroi and Erquelines ... Dec. 22, Charleroi. Eastern Counties Eastern Union Dec. 16, Radley's Hotel. Great Luxembourg Dec 14, London Tavern. Ditto Lake Constance and Basle Dec. 27, St. Gall. Norfolk West Flanders Dec. 13, 61, Moorgate-st. Ditto The New York advices state that there was rather more activity in stocks though there had been a heavy decline in prices. The money mar ket was again becoming tighter in anticipation of large exports of specie. The banks were likely to restrict their loans on call. The last weekly re turn of the New York City Banks showed a de crease in specie of 348,128 dollars, and an increase in discount of 1,084,908 dollars. The deposits in creased 1,226,652, and the circulation 781,326 dol lars. The cotton market was very firm. The ship ments of specie from the sth to the 20th ult., amounted in the aggregate to 2,666,189 dollars 29 cents., which were made in the face of sterling ex change ruling at 9to 9i per cent. premium. The current quotations for the best bills on London were from 91 to 10 per cent., and the future ship ments of specie are likely to be larger than those imported above. In December last year, the export amounted to 1,180,305 dollars. This year it will probably be quadruple that sum. The Illinois from San Francisco had arrived with 1,079,955 dollars in gold dust. The mining news was satisfactory, and new diggings had been found at various places. Flour was active at firm prices, and provisions were in moderate request. The Prometheus had arrived with 1,754,868 dollars from San Juan de Nicaragua. Although the letters and papers by the steamer Victoria have not been delivered sufficiently long to enable a precise opinion to be formed of their contents, it is understood that from most of the Australian colonies the commercial reports are more satisfac tory, and when the roads are open again there is very little doubt of the consumption rapidly absorbing the stocks on hand, provided the imports do not continue excessive. As the accounts reach to the 20th of September, the colonists must have been aware of the large supplies still on the way from England, and consequently the maintenance of firmness in prices is a fair ground for the hope of greater activity ere long. One cir cumstance will illustrate the uncertainty of the markets. A short time since the imports of flour were, temporarily, so far beyond the demand, that a portion was shipped to England, and although it was explained that this was partly sour, the rapid decline in prices was such as to preclude the idea of very large profits. Now we are told that the supplies will soon be absorbed, and that prompt measures should be taken to secure a steady im portation from America, as none of the colonies can furnish enough. The gold production at the Victoria, as well as at the Sydney mines, was in creasing so rapidly, and was being conducted with so much skill and system, that an increased yield is almost certain. There has been a very quiet market for public securities, and prices have been unaffected by the intelligence of the defeat of the Turkish fleet. Consols have realised 958 to a for the Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 978 to and the Three per Cents. 951 to f. Bank Stock is worth 224, being a further slight ad vance. Exchequer Bills continue firm at 6s. to 9s. premium. The arrival of specie this morning is between 800,0001. and 900,0001. Foreign securities have been likewise very quiet. Spanish Certificates are at 51 2 ., and the Passive Converted is worth 4i. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been quoted 42. Peruvian are 70 to 70. Mexican are dull, at 24. The intention of trying to ascertain if Nitrate of Soda cannot be extensively imported from Mexico for the benefit of our agriculturists, ought to improve the value of the bonds. Brazilian Five per Cents. have been quoted 98k. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have been quoted 96g. Russian Four-and a-Half per Cents. have been at 95/ ft. The Railway Share Market has been without any change of importance, but with rather more activity as regards the English lines. The Belgian lines are firm, though quiet, and also the French. The Gold Mine Shares have been in moderate request. The Joint-Stock Banks are nominal. There is a dezline in the Peel River Gold Mine Shares upon the statement in the Sydney accounts that it has not been doing well. Australian Agri cultural are likewise cheaper. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ( Prom the Official List.) Business done. Bank Stock ... 22li 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9si 3 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities shut New 3i per Cent. Annuities 971 $ if Consols for Opening 18th Jan. 9ss a a Exchequer Bills, id. £l000 2500 6 9 p Small 6 9 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 2si Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. 7O Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent 42 Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent, £ St Ditto 44 per Cent 9Ba 4 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent — Ditto Passive (Converted) • 44 Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 5,: p c Dividends on the shove payable in London. Belgian Bonds 4i per Cent. cx. 25 fr HALF-PAST T WO. Consols for Opening' 18th January 9 si i x d FRANCE. The Monitcur publishes an imperial decree, re organising the administration of the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, under the direction of General Morin. The Moniteur also inserts the postal convention, concluded OIL the 23d of December, 1852, between France and the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. After the Ist of January, 1854, the postage of simple letters, forwarded by sea or land, between France and Algeria and the city of Naples is fixed at if. 30c., and those addressed to other parts of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, at lf. 40c. Jour nals, periodical works, books in leaves, music, catalogues, lithographs, &c., are to be pre-paid in both countries, simple parcels, not exceeding 45 grammes in weight, at the rate of 13 centimes. The postage of simple letters, forwarded to Naples by . French mail packets, from any part of the Medi terranean, where France possesses post-offices, and vice versa, is fixed at 90 centimes, and that of jour nals, books, &c., at 9 centimes per weight of 45 grammes or any fraction thereof. _ _ The Court of Cassation rejected on Saturday the appeal of the individuals implicated in the recent plot having for its object the overthrow of the Em peror's Government, against the sentence of the Court of Assizes, which condemned eight of thF to transportation, and the others to various terms of imprisonment. The official reports of the prefects, addressed to the Central Administration, mention a frightful increase in the number of incendiary fires through out France. The departments the most cruelly visited are those of the Oise, Aisne, Ille et Vilaine, Ardennes, Arm. Everywhere the authorities are on the watch, and the gendarmerie perform continual patrols, but hitherto only a small number of incen diaries have been arrested. The Moniteur publishes a despatch of the Gover nor-General of Algeria, dated the sth inst., giving an account of an engagement which took place in the division of Oran on the 20th of November last, between a French division and a revolted tribe, called Hamian. On that day the contingents of Tlemcen and Sidi Bel Abbes came up with the Arabs at the Sebkra de.Tigri, where the latter were encamped under the command of the two renowned chiefs, named Sidi-Chiqr-ben-Taieb and El Gourari. The Hamians bravely defended their dollars ; but, being routed by a charge of the Spahis, 'under the orders of Captain Michel, they fled in every direc tion, abandoning 70 or 80 killed, 20,000 sheep, and 800 camels. The two chiefs were said to have been wounded. The French lost 14 killed, and as many wounded. The members of the deputation of Lyons manu facturers who presented some magnificent speci mens of their fabrics for the acceptance of the Em press Eugenie, were invited to dine at the Tuileries on Thursday, where they were received with the most gracious courtesy by the Emperor, and particularly by the Empress, and they speak of her Majesty in the highest terms for the marked attention which she paid them. The deputation also prayed the Emperor to grant a credit of 4,000,000 of francs on the budget of Public Works, to aid in the construction of a street, which is to traverse the entire city of Lyons, and which is to be called La Rue Imperiale. The Emperor acceded to their request on the un derstanding that the Municipality of Lyons shall contribute the rest of the expense necessary to com plete the work. Madame Boieldieu, widow of the well-known composer of the Dame Blanche, has just died at Paris. A general assembly of the Council of Senate took place on Saturday motning, to consider the modifications proposed by the Government in the statutes of the Societe du Credit Foucier. The Council of State makes no change in the Govern ment measure. It is said that there is to be a complete razzia of prefects. Almost all the old prefects are to be re moved, because Louis Napoleon thinks that they are not to be trusted, their affections being fixed on the defunct dynasties. The Duke de Valmy denies that he has accepted a seat in the Senate. The Emperor received on Friday in private audi ence M. de Kisseleff, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Emperor of Russia, who presented a letter from his Majesty, notifying the birth of the Grand Duchess Mary, daughter of his Imperial Highness the Cesarewitch and Heredi tary Grand Duke Alexander Nicolaewitch. The Emperor and Empress attended on Friday evening the performances at the Opera Comique. At eleven o'clock on Saturday a Council of Mi nisters was held at the Palace of the Tuileries. By a decree of the Emperor, the session of the Council General of Agriculture, which was to have commenced on the 19th, has been prorogued. Mr. B. Oliveira, M.., is still at Bordeaux col lecting information relative to the question of the wine duties. The principal merchants of the city have afforded him the fullest information upon the subject. The Chamber of Com merce, headed by the Vice-President, M. Bertin, have held a special meeting for the purpose of giving the honourable gentleman a reception ; and they went very fully into all the points connected with the cultivation, stock, supply, and cost of the wines of the Bordelais. On Wednesday last, the Chamber entertained Mr. Oliveira at dinner, when most of the leading men of Bordeaux were invited to meet him, as was also the British Con sul, Mr. Scott. After dinner the health of Mr. Oliveira was proposed, and the chairman took oc casion to dwell upon the advantages which would accrue in various ways to both countries, if Mr. Oliveira should succeed in obtaining the reduction of duty. Mr. Oliveira returned thanks in the same spirit; expressing a hope that the two countries might cultivate increased commercial and peace ful relations ; and concluded by proposing the health of the Emperor of the French. The Presi dent then gave a toast to the Queen of England, which was received with great enthusiasm. The Napoleon steam line-of-battle ship arrived at Toulon on the 6th from Constantinople. The opening of the new Boulevard de Strasburg took place on Saturday in presence of the Empe ror, t , le Minister of Public Works, the Prefect of the Seine, and the authorities of e fifth arondis semeut, in which it is situated. A vast crowd was assembled to witness the proceedings ; the boule vard was ornamented at each side by masts bear ing tri-coloured flags, and by handsome bronze pillars to support gas lamps. The terminus of the Strasburg Railway was ornamented with flags and evergreens, an immense gilt eagle being placed in the centre of the budding, under the statue of the city of Strasburg. A triumphal arch was erected at the entrance of the boulevard, with the inscrip tion, " A l'Empereur Napoleon 111., le ;me ar rondissement reconnaissant." The Emperor and his cortege went along the boulevard amidst cries of " Vive l'Empereur !" and the whole line was then thrown open to foot passengers and carriages. Nothing could be more simple than these pro ceedings. For some days past a number of arrests have been made in Paris, partly, it is said, in consequence of a new plot having been discovered against the life of the Emperor, and partly on account of the clan destine distribution of pamphlets printed in foreign countries, and particularly of the last work of M. Victor Hugo, printed and published in Jersey. This new work, which is said to be just as vio lent against the existing state of things in France as any of the writer's previous publications, has been sold in Paris, it is affirmed, to the extent of 1,500 copies within the last ten days, the price of it being 6f. The police have male descents in several houses, but without being so fortunate as to make any seizure. It is currently reported here that the police called on one person who was strongly suspected of selling the work, and arrive d just five minutes after his last copy had been dis posed of. As to the plot against the Emperor' s life, the rumour goes that it was denounced to the police by the natives of Switzerland, who having by accident discovered a single trace of the plot, followed up the indication with great patience, until they were able at last to give the most posi tive information respecting the greater number Of the principal persons concerned in it. It is said that the secret society which had formed itself for the abOve purpose reckons several hundred mem bers, in general unknown to each other, but bound together by most solemn oaths. The investigation into the matter has been en trusted to M. Brault, the Judge of Instruc tion, who not long since inquired into the circumstances of the plot of the Opera Comique. The arrests of M. Hubard, the advocate, and of M. Francas, ex-editor of the Revue Independente, and the intimate friend of Madame Georges Sand, of Beranger, the poet, of M. Bixio, and of many other eminent persons, are said to be connected with this affair. In addition, twelve persons be longing to the great clothes mart of the Belle Jar dinière were taken into custody, four of whom have sine' been set at liberty. Arrests have also been effected in several workshops of mechanicians. It is stated that the greater number of these arrests were made, not by the ordinary police, but by a body of police especially appropriated to the protection of the Emperor, and acting on their own responsibility. This body was formed of picked men, remarkable for their in telligence, after M. Pietre's police had been unable to prevent the formation of the secret society, the object of which was to assassinate the Emperor, as was proved in open court on the trial of the persons implicated in the affairs of the Hip podrome and Opera Comique. The Bourse was not so animated on Saturday as on Friday. The Three per Cents. opened at 75L 80c., and rose to 76f. 5c., and closed at 75f. 950. for the end the month. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 102 f. 40e. ; Orleansßailway'Shares, 1,217 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,082 f. 50c.-; Havre,. 510 f. ; Great Northern, 895 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 845 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 932 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Medi terranean, 785 f. ; Western of France, 717 f. 50e. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 647 f. 50c. ; Great Central, 533 f. 75c. ; Lyons and Geneva, 531 f. 25c. ; Shares of the Bank of Credit Mobilier, 786 f. 25c. ITALY. The accounts from Turin, of the 9th inst. state that the result of 82 elections was then known. 55 were Ministerial, 12 doubtful, and 14 belonged to the two Oppositions. No intelligence had reached from the island of Sardinia or Savoy ; but it was hoped that the 24 elections of the former would be nearly all favourable to the Cabinet, and that the Government would like ise obtain a great majority in Savoy. Since writing the above, we have received a pri vate telegraphic despatch, dated Turin 10th, an nouncing that the elections continued to be favour able to the Government. Of the 115 deputies whose nomination was known, 81 were Ministerial ; 23 belonged to the Left ; and 11 to the extreme Right. SPAIN. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 6th inst. The discussion on the Royal order relative to railways, still continued in the Senate. M. In fante addressed the house in favour of the conclu sions of the majority of its Committee, on the 6th, and was left speaking at the hour of post. The Chamber of Deputies was still engaged in verifying the powers of its members. The Heraldo states that the negotiations with France respecting the boundary question had not been interrupted, but were on the contrary pro secuted with activity. The Three per Cents. were done at 431 ; the New Three per Cents., at 22Z ; the Debt of the first class, at sa ; and that of the second, at 4. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Dec. 12. —Wind this day at noon, Easterly, and cloudy. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 11.—Wind, E. Arrived—The Vivid, from Buenos Ayres for London ; Blonde, Rio Janeiro, Cowes ; Pitade Bahia, Amsterdam ; Duowiere, Havannah, Havre, making water, and has been towed into the inner harbour to repair ; St. Michael, St. Domingo ; Nicols Pilata, Alexandria ; ldas Cai e, Smyrna ; Augusta Wood gate, Odessa, all four for London ; Otto and Edward Sievers. Odessa, Amsterdam, with pumps choked and sails split ; Harry, Marseilles, Hull ; Cezempra, Marseilles, and sailed for St. Michael's ; Triton van Glabbke, Liverpool, • Oatend ; Mauritius (s.), trial cruise ; put back, Comet, Harrison, London. FALMOUTH, Dec. 11.—Arrived—Victoria, (s.), "from Sydney, N.S.W., left 17th Sept. ; Melbourne, 23d; Adelaide, S.A., 29th; King George's Sound, 9th Oct. ; and Cape of Good Hope, 7th Nov., with 184,000 ounces oi gold on freight. LONGHOPE, Dec. 4.—Arrived—Pomona, from St. John's, for Leith. Dec. s—Arrived—Doctor, from Richibucto, for Hull. PORTPATRJEK, Dec. 7.—Portions of wreck are still being cast ashore near here, but only a small quantity has washed in, compared with what is floating past ; it is drifting from the South. A board was picked up in Morach Bay with the word " Shepherd" on it, in large gilt letters, and another, painted in the same manner, with the word " Car digan" on it, was found in Port o' Spittal Bay. Among several other boards were two apparently new marked, one with the number " 11," and the other with the words "John Jamieson , No. 51." SUNDERLAND, Dec. o.—The Marie, of Emden, from \ orway to Defzyl, foundered in the North Sea, Nov. 30 ; master was previously washed overboard ; the remainder of the crew landed here. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 11.—Wind, S., blowing hard. Ar rived—Snake, from St. Michael's, for London, with loss of bawsprit ; Rajah of Sarawak, Sinapore ; Jefferson, Buenos Ayres ; Cora, New York, for Antwerp, leaky, with loss of topmasts, bulwarks, &c., and cargo damaged ; Gateshead, Ceylon. LERWICK, Dec. 4.—Arrived--- Agnes, from Archangels with loss of bulwarks, having experienced very bad wea ther ; Mary Seton (late Clark), Onega, the master drowned himself in the White Sea, and two of the crew were washed overboard. LOWESTOFT, Dec. 11.—The Currah, of Stockholm, has been brought in here derelict ; the Fidelity, of Spray, which was ashore on the Main, has been assisted off and brought in here. HARWICH, Dec. 11,—All yesterday and to-day it has been blowing hard from the Eastward, and still continues. Several vessels have put in here for shelter. —The Richard White, of and from Shields to London, struck on Sizewell bank yesterday morning, during a gale from E.N.E., and became a total wreck ; crew saved. WIVENHOE, Dec. 11.—The John Edward (schooner), of Aberystwith, has been assisted in from off the Sunk-sand, after discharging part of cargo. WHITSTABLE, Dec. 11.—The brig Juno, of Scarborough , and a collier brig went ashore yesterday and sunk in the Black-tail. A billey-boy, laden with gas pipes and fittings,. is ashore on the Maplin ; part of cargo thrown overboard , she has driven further on. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, 10 A. 2 1. Wind, S., moderate, and foggy. Arrived—Soloven, from Iceland; Thomas, Alexandri°" The Maid of Athens, from Barcelona, has returned inW duck with damage, having been in contact with the AIP S steamer. WATERFORD, Dec. 10. Arrived—Thistle, from Quebec; Corinthian Lass, from Kertch ; Enigheden, Richibucto, with lo s of jibboom all jib, and very leaky. Q UEENSTO WN, Dec. 10 . Wind, N.E., moderate and fine. Arrived—Recroy, from St. John's. N.B. ; John French, Alexandria. Off Port—Joseph Cunard, from Quebec, for orders ; J. shua Bates, New York, and proceeded to London. Put in—Competitor, from 'Galatz, for Boston, with cargo shifted ; out 35 days. Sailed—Sarah, for City Point, Virginia. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAM) GRAVESEND, MONDAY, 10 A.g. CUSTOMS RETURN. • Wind, S.E., cloudy ; title, four hours' flood. RaV 81 10. Arrived—City of Paris (s), from Boulogne; bourne, Antwerp. 9.10 A .M. S.S.W., light and DEAL,c lod for NO Anchored—Hendrick Hudson,y MONDAY, from London , York. Remains—Prov idence, from Memel, for Australia. THE FATAL FIGHT NEAR HIILL.—The coroneeekill has in this case returned a verdict of manslaughter against Joseph Field, as principal, and William IW al ' ir° and Michael M‘Nultv as seconds. The coroner has issued his warrant for the committal of M'Guire to ha talc° his trial at the present York Assizes. Warrants l also been issued for the apprehensio n of Field to M'lslulty, who have absconded. SOMEWHAT EXTRAORDINARY.—During in Baker-street, four days in the last week, more Oa. 40,000 individuals were dailway spectators, and I f e ` e left in the comparative care of Smith, Bars , R°D3ai rc li e e : and Stringer, o ffi cers of the metropolitan detective fe „, and 36 other constables in uniform, and so sharp ?'" they look out in the performance of their onerous dUt.Y, that only two robberies were perpetrated. the mor e TT A .O I4 c 4B Loss OF FISHING SMACK AND CREW OFF --- q uest —The Water-lily, fishing-smack, while "iliug i n n teZ '. of whiting about twelve miles off the coast, ye. , car :. • was suddenly struck by a squall, and immediateiy wire -ized. The two men on board, White and Svreit u ; emi ed !I - owned. Another fisherman named Curtis, wiv_44,,. the accident, but was too far off to render a t nL i c f o ;i r . i; ance. Both men have left faniiiiio to klau elli .- '"' ' • - T$ By the arri :firktoutti_iielarr.tyhapm,juterimaiooan:enceradissfrit.li 4 Ult. . 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