The Sun. — London, England, 1847-01-01 00:00:00

ire noW sent tO lurgbero he col' will b 1 . ,, len Wil' lfessioo . I of hi. circuD" isfied 10 ciety A cone nor has gement.- ) lif f‘ d beard One OX' of the al hours A to say'► he three loe colt 'rota 'the brought 'dermal' n bird. , ass, laid ouse Na hese :--• lainada wares , droll amentP I there' td other wile the iositieg• t annor, nsiderea g other Court t o tbe. alleged g of the yen into and 0 0 Idermer i he place )usineso; y use .meat Of by JJY Y) . t 2 1 , otes an d of 42 een Ilion:1 11 j missed two for usuallf inre' ad been el •Dg no 180130 ir a lters it was , e pri• d yen ;ours. is time tion s; xt, 0 ) cora. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Nl•irket at Liverpool yesterday was more active. Sales, 12,000 to 15,000 bales, at an advance of id. to id. per lb. compared with last week. Shares were steady, but rather Quiet. The accounts received yesterday by the Caledonia steamer from the United States and Canada do not notice the entire term ination of the trading season, be cause the canals had re opened, and afforded a tempo rary opportunity of bunging down further supplies. There seems to be nothing against an active trade next year between England and America, although the balance probably will be ag ainst us, the exchange al ready being very low. The Annual Timber Circular of Messrs. Forsyth and Bell, of Quebec, is full of information valuable to the trade, and the following remarks appear to be of general interest "In reviewing the state of the markets during the past season, we have to remark on the great ex tremes in price and the still greater uncertainty that at one period existed, whether our supply of timber was to be excessively limited, owing to the unusual and extraordinary drought that prevailed in March and April, or abundant without parallel, as proves to be the case, and, perhaps, in no one year has the un certainty of the trade, generally, been more signally manifested than in the present. We wish to call the at tention of the country, generally, to the value of the export of timber giving employment to British and Colonial shipment to an extent of 560,000 tons from this port alone, equivalent in sterling, money to about a million in the article of freight an nually. That such a trade should be underrated by many in th e mot h er country i s not to be wondered at, When, many contend England would be better without her colonies, but the extent of this one branch ought to show them th e va l ue o f t h e connexion-to say nothing the importance Canada is assuming as one of the few important granaries that is uncontrolled by foreign in fluence." An arrival from the Cape of Good Hope brings us in telligence of October 24. There were continued skir- Mishes between the Kafirs and the troops, with loss on both sides, but the former were nearly exhausted in their means, and as a large quantity of y ' c li g i ,g oll B and beasts of burden, under the management f,' " e puty Commissary-General Palmer, had been sent '''Y aea as near as possible to the scene of action, the War c ould be mo re ac ti ve l y prosecute d . A s much as had been paid previously for the hire of a waggon front Graham's Town to Fort Beaufort, where provisions were exceedingly sc arce . Th e h eavy ra i ns t h at had fallen would restore verdure to the ground, although for a time they retarded the movements of the British forces. Waterloo Bay appears to be too dangerous a ' locality for the l ending of stores. A most s a ti s f actory report was made at the half-yearly general meeting of the L on d on D oc k C ompany, h el d this mo rning at the Dock House, Prince's-street, Bank. The quantity of loaded ships which entered the London fisotc,lts.wada 3 ; during six mont h s, to t h e 30th Novem b er last tonnage, 181,196 tons. Same _tio?! . year, 2093 71 ; 168,553 tons. Earnin this 'air half•year ,1664 ss. 5d.; last year, gs same time,. i 209,0944 Bs. 6d. E x p en di ture l as t half-year, 118,1871 . 31. 7 d• ; sam e t i me l ast year , 11 0 ,8554 B s . 9d. The n come has exceeded the expenditure the last half.year by 90,971/. Is. 10d. A dividend of 21 per cent, for the half-year was prcposed by the directors and unanimously agreed to, the income-tax to be paid by the company. The English Stocks have been rather dull again to day, and there appears still to be an impression that money is getting tighter. The best test will be, how ever, upon the payment of the dividends on the Bth instant, for if the surplus amount should be absorbed, it will be a convincing proof that capital is more wanted, and that the rate of interest may be expected to rule higher. Even now there are parties asking 4 to 5 per cent. for loans extending over some time, although this is not the current charge for accommodation on short dated bills. Consols have been 934 -} for Account, and th e N ew has been Three- and-s- Quarter per Cents. 951- t. B an k S toc k 9 s. premium. quoted 205. Ex be are w or th 6 s . t o The Foreign Investments have been generally very dull again to-day. The Peninsular Bonds are merely nominal. Mexican have been up to 24i j.. Dutch Two -and-Half per Cents., ex-dividend have realised 59i. Shares have been steady generally, and there is an im provement in Great Western, South-Western, North Staffordshire, South-Eastern, Rouen and Havre, and one or two others. - BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.. (From the Official List.) Bank 5t0ck....... . ... . . ..... 205 3 per C ent. Reduced Annuities.,. . ......... .... 93% 94 New 3% p er Cent. Annuities . 9 5 3 / 4% Long Annuities, Jan. sth, Expire 1860 9 13-16 15-16 Consols for Opening .... 93763/ Exchequer Bills. ... .. .............. 11,4'd. 4 1,000/. ............. 6 9 6 - Pm• 5 001. . .. ....... .. ........ Ditto S ....11.. .... ---- ...... • ....... 6 9 6 - Pm. ma ...................... ... PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. RussianAreDziit c t oa Mexican Bonds,o Bonds 91,81c92042u6n,5t 5 per Cent. - th e247/4% Dividends on the above per Cent... 111% payable . 1 . 1 . 1 Lond on. Dutch 2% per Cents v . e 59 1 4 ex die Ditto 4 per Cent. Ce;iitir;tes ... 93 931' 93 93 ZUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS Aberdeen . PAID. Paz Slum ............. 2' - to - Amber., Nottii7g.: Boston ... 4 Annagh,eoler Notting ' - aine, & Portruiih 0,1 ...... - - Belfast and ' Birm' (Aunty Down .. 4% - ~ Ingham and Dudley ... ao s '... ** " ,- ;1 /a p t eilttuoingliarn and Gloueester..loo • .........1291,4 - iiiriiininNheiv (r. at 7 die.).. 17% 32 IA to - Birkenfeaa:ll,LaVanslV June... 2 Lancashire and Cheshire Junctio Boston, Stamf & n'. ....... 23% - •• ••• to - Birmi n ..... ii, 225. 3 / 4 % p to Bristol and Exe Do., New ter ...... . .. .., 76 ... , a - Bristol and Gloucester % ........ "•• ........ 5 - to - Bristol and Liverpool .." ..... 30 - erpool Junc... 2% - to - Buckinghamshire.. Caledonian"""'••••• 84 s . Di .................... 30 - Ditto, Clydesdale Jui;C • tiOn 25 - /8 • - to - and - Chester- - Churnet and Blythe 2 Chester and Manchester 42s. Cheltenham. and Oxford - ...... - to - Clarence. ...- .................... 100 Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10 - • ... to - to - po„ 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 - - ...... to - Cork and Killarney ............ 2% - - Cork and Waterf0rd....,....... 114 - •to - - Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares ...... ... 2% ...... % to o - Direct Lincoln, E ast R etford, and Sheffield Junction .... 2% - to - p.- ..... 2g„... - - Direct Norwich.... .......... ... 1 - Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 12%..•..• - to -- Dublin, Belfast, & Colerai ne 2% ...... - ..„„ to - Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 10 ...... - to - Eastern Counties 14/. 165.....,. 22 7 / .. ... to 23 Do. New l2l. 165....... 7 3 / 4 p... to - Do. Perpet., 5 p er c t. N o l, 6/. 13s. 4d... - to - Do., do N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... A p... to - Do., York E xtens i on 2 East Dereham and Norwich 1 - Eastern Unio n 4O ...... - ...... to Ditto, Quarter Shares - ...... to - Do. Extension to Harwich 1%.,... - ...... to Do. Cambridge and Ely ... 2 .... ...... to ... - East Lancashire ........ 1 4 '`5 ...... ...... 17 3 / 4 .... to -_ Ditto, New .. ........... ...• • 5 ...... - ..... to - DDo. (late Preston &Ormsk.) 5 .. .. - ....... to - 0., do., New Scrip ...... ... 1%. ..... - • to East'Lincolnshire ... 1% ...... 3%%... to - East and West of England... lA .... .. - - - Edinburgh and Glasgow ..... 50 ...... 78 - Ditto, Half Shares ......... 10 .• ... - - Ditto Quarter S , hares ...... 12% ...... 19 1 4 to -- Edinburgh and Northern ... 12 1 ' • Edinburgh and Perth ...... is - ..... to -- to - Ely and Huntingdon . ...... 12 1 4 ...... -14 to nniskillen ana Sligo ... .. ...... ... 2% . -..••• to - - terExe Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% • ..... - Ging-, Dninfries, & Carlisle.. 5 - ...... - - Glasgow, Kilmarnock, &A • .... - •• ••• yr 50 ..„.. _ to - to - Ditto, New ................. 15 D 0.% Shares (5 per ct.gua . 12% ...... -- to - Go ole,Doneaster Sheffid , &c. 2 - ••••• - 21 L •• ••• to - Great Eaatern and Western... 2IA .... • -''%••• to - Great Northern (London and - .... -- - to - Do. York Regd.) .................. 21,4 (Direct North. Regd.) 3a - ...... 2 ,,,,%t ••• to -• Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 27(1 ...... " --- ii -.. to -. Great Munster ............... .., ei„, ... -• • ''• to - GGreat North of Scotland ...... 2 1 ;; ...... - • • to -.. reat North of England ......100 100 - •••••• to - Ditto, New New . to 5 "*". - - Ditto, New ............ .. .15 ...... - ...... to - Ditto, New.. ....... ....... .......... Ith -•..- '' *** to -- Great Western .......... 85 -...... - - Ditto, Half Shares .......... 5 ...... 133 ...... to - Di Ditto, Quarter Sh re ........ 0 ...... 77 ...... to - Dtto, Fifth s •. a s ...... 10 ...... 18% - o. New ................. 20 ...... - • to - Hudderafield and si - **" .... 2 ...... 7 ~i 4 3 4 to - Hullanchester 13 .. - -- Ditte, Extension • to and Selby ...... ....... *** , 3 n ...... - ...... to Ditto, Quarter Shy. eZ...-. - ...... -. - Ditto, Half Shares .... - 12% ...... _ to - ...... 25 Ipswich & Bury St. Edm unds Do. do, and Norwich ...... 5 ..... l4 --- - Lancaster and Carlisle ......•• 5 0 ...... - - Do. New 5 ...... 67 1 ,6 ...... to - Leeds and Bradford 3O ' ..... - .... to -- Leicester and Bedford.... 3/ 16,. 75 4 1 4... to - Leeds, Dewsbury, & "Stanches 2 2 1,4.....• ••- ...... to - Ditto, Branch (Blu e ) - Ditto, Ext ens i on (G reen ) 2%...... -• ...... to Leeds and Thirsk ......... Ditto, New ..... - - ...... .• 5 . - ...... to Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. •••• • 54 ..... t 5 .. to 5 Liverpool. Crosby, and Sout h port. ....... 2Li por t ........ . ........... - ----. to .... Nerpool, Manchester, and N ewcastle Junction 2% 25 /% is • • to ..... London & 81ackwa11...164 13s. 4d B% to ..... Do. New~ ..... . ......... 3 - Do. Extension - Loa • ' ......... ...... e% - Do Bright.,l& South Coast 50 - ConsolidatedDo • - • Hiftbs.. 40 ...... - D o , •Consolidated Eighth,- 10 „.... _ ▪ to - Condo -u. G uaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 ...••• - - n and G reenwich... 12/.155. 4d... - to - Ditte Preference ...... ...18/ 17s 2d„, - ~„.., to - n n n,Hou nslow,&Western 2 . .... - - DLodo and North Westc.rn..loo - • to --- . Quarter Sha •••••• . _, New res ...... .. 2 - to - D o. Do. d Fifths •••••• .... ..... 2 ...... 15% %3 4 to -- ,o. ............. 2 20 to -- l'o• Quarters .....• ' Do. 40/ Shares ...... - •J. 5 ...... - .. to - 00..„0. _.....L. &M. 8 ...... - - DO.-' 40/. Shares...M. and B. 40 76 •-• to .... 1 0/.. M. and B. (A.) 5 •••-• •••••• to Lon., 10/, .. M. and B. (B.) 5 .. .... - .to - 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 ..... - ..... to -.. 'won, Oxford ...... - Lvia c k,, , , end Cheltm. 1% - to - Ditto atid lork.. Er ___ lo • •••4 ...... 2% ...... 3 % ... • to -- wab a ............ 2 1 , , ,,..... 2 min to .., London and S. Western.... 411.6 s 10d 64 ...... to 63% Do. New consolidated Bths.. 40 Ditto New Do. New lB Ditto Tenths Ditto Tenths Ditto Scrip Ditto ditto London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2% — to Londonderry and Coleraine... 15 Londonderry and Enniskillen 15 Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham Manchester and Leeds B2 .....110 1 / 4 to Ditto Half Shares - 38 ...... 504:N... to IN to Ditto Quarters 2 Ditto Fifths Ditto Sixteenths ........... 6 1 4 — ...... to Do. Extension Do. Liverpool and Bury Do., do., Fifths blanch, Buxton, & Matlock 425. Manchester and Southampton 2 .', i Midland 100 ......131 ... .. to 130 Ditto Fifths Ditto, New Ditto, New Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ..... Midld. Grcat Western (Irish) 15 Newcastle and Berwick Do North Shields 25 ..„.. ... .. to Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ..... Newmarket and Chesterford 5 ...... Newport and Abergavenny. . 2% — to Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor 5 Norfolk De. Half Shares Ditto Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, N. of Norflk Do. do. Waveney Valley... Northern Counties Union .... 2% l% %... to North British Ditto Half Shares. Do. Quarters I IA 3%: / q.. to Ditto, Extension % l% to Ditto Thirds ... ......... -.... 1 ...... 3% to Northern and Eastern SO Ditto Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.)... 45 . Ditto Quarter Shares - 12% to Ditto New North Staffordshire 5 ...... 9% 1 4... to North Wales 3% ..... North. & South. Connecting 2%..... North Western ...... 2% — to Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton - m. to Oxfd., Witney, & Ch e ltnh a m 1 8 tO Portsmouth Direct Preston and Wyre Ditto, Half Shares Reading, Guildfd., & R.igate Si. 125.... dis. to Richmond Royston and Hitchen 1%...... 2 Scottish Central Scottish Midland .... ....... .... 12% — ...... to Sheffield and Manchester ...100 Ditto 1 4 Shares 8 — to Do. and LincolnahlreJunst. 1 1 4.... to Do. and Great Grimsby ... 10 Do. do. do. Extension... 425. — to Shrewsbury and Birmingham 3 ...... 5 1 4 % to Ditto, ditto, Class B. 1 1 4 .— to Shropshire Union ... 425. South Devon ....... ...... ... 40 South Staffordshire Junction 2% 3 36 to South Eastern and Doter ... 33%...... 41 , to; 40% Ditto, New, No. 1 2O Ditto, New, No. 2 l2 - Ditto, New, No. 3 Ditto New, No. 4....... ...... 2% 3 % 14... to St. Alban's, Hatfield, and Hertford Junction Staffordshire and Shropshire 2% — to South Wales . 5 - 3 1 4 x int to Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal .. 2 raw Vale Extension Vale of Neath Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Warwick and Worcester 425....... ...... to Waterford and Kilkenny ll ...... Waterford and Limerick ... .. 27%... .. Waterford, Wexford,Wicklw, and Dublin Wexford, Waterford, and Valentin Waveney Valley Welsh Midland 2% West Riding Union 425. West Cornwall Wexford and Carlow Wisbeach and St. Ives Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 15 ...... ... to York and Newcastle 25 ... .. 38% to Ditto, New 5 .. ... 12%...... to Ditto, Preference 2 .. ... 7% to York and North Midland .. 50 ...... Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Selby 4O — to Ditto. Extension Ditto, Preference Ditto East and West Riding Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian Barbadoes ...... ........ 1 Belgian Eastern Junction.... 2% ...... Boulogne and Amiens lB ...... 15% ..... to Bordeaux and Mediterranean 2 ...... Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette ( Mackenzie's) .. . 2 Bordeaux. Toulouse, & t Cette ( Espelete's) Calais, Dunk, & W. Fla iders 2 Calcutta & Diamond Harbour 7s. ..... Callao, Lima, & Pacific Coast I ..... Central of Spain ... Ceylon .... 53., Demerara. Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... . Dutch Rhenish East Indian Fampoux and Hazebrouk..... 4 Great Indian Peninsular ss. ..... . ...... to Great Western Bengal ss. — _.. _ . Great Western Canada Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 - Jersey 1 Louvain ala Sambre ..... .... 6 Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon 2 Madras Madras, Nellore, and Arcot... IA Madrid and Valenti& Mauritius 1 Namur and Liege 8 Nn. of France Constituted ... 8 North Jamaica 1 Orleans and Vierson Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 Over Vessel 413 s 4d...... ..... to Paris and Lyons Constituted 8 - Paris and Orleans... •• ..• Paris & Strasbg. Constitut e d " to " 5 .•..•• ...... to _ Rouen and Hav re Sambre and M euse St. Laurence and Atlantic.... Tours & N an t es C onst i tuted 5 Tournay, Jurbi se , L an d en, ••••• to ••• and Hasselt Trinidad.. .. ..... West Flanders JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia to British North American .... 50 Colonial Commercial of London . . ..... 20 London Joint Stock .... ...... 10 London and Westminster... 20 National Provincial of Engld. 35 National of Ireland 25 22% — ... .. to Provincial of Ireland Union of Australia 25 Union of London ... 10 MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered - LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. I.—Wind N.N.W., light breeze, and hazy. OFF PILL, DEC. 30.—Devendia, Batavia, for Bristol. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 31.—Wind S. S.E.—Arrd. Royal Sove reign, Callao; Rimac, Mountain, Valparaiso ; Hibbert, Monte Video; Anglesea, Rio Janeiro; Killermont, Parsons, Bonny; Finland, Brown, New York ; Osprey, Shipley, New York ; Devon, Batts, St. John's, New Brunswick; Sutlej, Key, Miramichi ; Sir H. Huntley,. •Bryant, Miramichi ; Queen, Leary, Quebec; Arethuaa, Kelly, Quebec; Ouzel Galley, Clarke, Quebec; Helen, Hicks, Quebec ; British American, Quebec ; Flora, Montreal ; Young Qucen, Montreal. Off port, Pomona, Callao; Sandhash, Demerara; Alliance, Charleston ; Joseph Porter, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick; Courtenay, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Helen, Quebec ; At lantic, Quebec; Loo Choo, Quebec; Emanuel, Quebec; Ca pricorn, Montreal. GALWAY, DEC. 27.—And. Manchester, Tyler, New York. HARTLEPOOL, DEC. 26.—Wind N. to N. N.W.—Arrd. Ma zeppa, Bambro, Miramicbi. HULL, DEC. 30.—Wind S., moderate.—Arrd. Pallas, Leekes, New Orleans. DEAL, DEC. 30.—Wind E. to E.S E., gentle breeze.—Sld. Amity Hall, Ford. Jamaica; Undaunted, Ritchie, Valparaiso. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 31.—Wind E.N.E., tine.—Arrd. her Majesty's ship Samarang, East Indies. Off port, Prince Al bert, Sebor, New York. COWES, DEC. 31.—Arrd. Emma, Jorgenson, Havannah. OFF THE ISLE OF WIGTIT, DEC. 31.—Her Majesty's ship Daphne, South America. TORBAY, DEC. 31.—Wind E.—Arrd. Clarissa, Daniel, Bahia for Havre. Off port, Indus, Brown, Quebec. OFF SALCOMBE, DEC. 30.—Wind E. James Duncan, England, Havannah. PLYMOUTH.—Arra. Columbus, Edie, Calcutta. Sld. Symmetry, Bulow, China. Off port, Argyle, Quebec; Salus, Elliot, Richebucto. BRISTOL, DEC. 81.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Drie Vriendden, Robaak, Batavia. CLYDE, DEC. 30.—Wind W.—Arrd. Chevalier Leitch, Demerara ; Mary, Frame, Montreal ; Derby, Montreal. BRIDLINGTON, Dsc. 3l.—The /Etna Storey, from Cal cutta to Newcastle, went ashor e last night on Hamborough Head. SCARBOROUGH, DEC. 30.—The Liberty, Lord, from Mid dlesborough to London has put in here leaky, having been on shore near Dinnlington. MARGATE, Dix. 31.—The John Rundle, from Antwerp !. 43 Belfast, got ashore on Margate Sand, was assisted off, and is now in the roads. FFALMOUTH, DEC. 31.—The Siren, of Sunderland, from ertch to Falmouth, was passed abandoned, leaky, and with Duli, Nyi . °BB of bulwarks, stanchions, &e., previously to the 24th i ns. r t, by the Duchess of Leinster, Renfree, arrd. at Falmouth. -LtisapooL, Dsc. 31.—Her Majesty's steamer Urgent, for with th JOSS of here with th the mail of this morning, has put back, with bowsprit, cutwater, &c., having been in contact e TYowald steamer, from Belfast, which has arrived d amage to paddle-box, &c. The W as hi ng t on , lon. `P lie part of liP 66 , ; from Balti more to B e lf ast, was abandoned in lat. 37, cr ew taken off by th e R. F. Roper,_ of Philadelphia, a here n . them transferred to th e Royal Sovereign, arrived YARMOUTH, DEC. SO.—The Dart, Watson, from Sunder land to Portsmouth , caught the ground on the Barber Sand this morning, but was assisted off h i the afternoon, without damage, aid Will proctui. THE SUN, LONDON, ) , _ FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1847 DREADFUL CONFLAGRATION. Yesterday afternoon one of the most extensive confla grations that has occurred in the metropolis during the past year broke out at Irongate-wharf, and, from the combustible nature of the property, the whole of the ex tensive building and its contents, as well as two vessels, the Busy, of Bridport, and the Hawk, of Montrose, were consumed before the devouring elemont was subdued. The loss is stated at from 150,0001. to 200,0001. Previous to entering into an account of the fire, it may be well to describe the locality of the premises which have been destroyed. The wharf was formerly known as Downe's-wharf and afterwards as the Irongate-wharf, and is separated from the Tower by what are known as the Irongate.stairs. Th e f r ont faces the Thames, while the back or entrance department is opposite the north wall of the St. Katherin e D oc k s . The eastern end is bounded by a large public-house known as the Marquis of Granby. The building was isolated, and extended about 250 feet by a depth of about 50 feet, and latterly has been the place of debarkation for goods brought by vessels and steamers from the northern partsof Scotland, as well as from the western coast and other parts of England. The different departments of the warehouses were well stocked with goods. and this circumstance no doubt added greatly to the conflagration which it is our painful duty to record. The wharf is the property of the St. Katherine Dock Company, but was rented by Mr. Coleman, who brought the entire trade, which was formerly carried on at the Aberdeen wharf, to the above establishment. From the information obtained by the reporter, it ap tpears that the numerous men employed at the wharf were busily engaged in following their different occupa ons, when, about twenty minutes to four o'clock, a loud '"nd unusual report was heard at the eastern end of the building, and before the cause could be ascertained a thick heavy smoke was seen to rise from the lower parts or cellars of the wharf. Within five minutes after the first discovery a flame burst forth, the alarm of fire was instantly given, and a detachment of guards from the Tower rendered prompt assistance. The engines from St. Katherine Docks and the Tower were speedily upon the spot. It was also found necessary to get the floating engine of the St. Katherine Docks. The flames had by this period obtained such an ascendancy as to be visible from London and Blackfriars-bridges, and the various engines of the fire brigade, as well as the floats from Rotherhithe and Southwark-bridge, at once proceeded to the scene of destruction. Within half an hour after the outbreak there were on the spot the Wellclose-square, Jeffery-square, Watling street, Southwark-bridge•road, West of England, and Farringdon-street engines, as well as others from more distant stations, independent of those belonging to the Tower and docks, and the floats. Unfortunately it was low water at the time, and there was some difficulty in obtaining a supply of water for the engines. By the time the engines were got into play the whole building was in flames. It was evident that all attempts to save the building and contents would be fruitless, and the firemen directed their efforts to prevent the flames from extending to the St. Katherine Docks. While the work of destruction was thus going on on shore, a still more fearful scene presented itself at the water's edge. Alongside of the wharf were moored the Busy, of Bridport, and the Hawk, of Montrose—the former had arrived on Sunday with a general cargo, and was nearly unloaded, while the Hawk had only come to her moorings in the course of the day. Directly after the alarm of fire had been g i ven , b ot h vessels were cut away from their moorings, but it being low water, it was found to be impossible to get them away. The Busy speedily caught fire, and, although'the floating engines were immediately brought to pl a y upon her she burnt, as the reporter understood, to the water's edge; while the masts, spars, and upper part of the Hawk were also consumed. About five o'clock the fire had obtained its greatest height. The rapidity with which the beams and joists burned caused a good deal of alarm as to the safety of the outer walls, and Mr. Braidwood gave directions to the police to keep the place clear. Mr. Braidwood antici pated th at the gable end, next to Iron-stairs, would fall outs ands; fortunately his fears were not realised, but had le not given the orders we have mentioned life would probably have been sacrificed. We Lave already stated that the fire began at the east or lower en 1 of the premises, and at this part a great body of the devouring element was concentrated. About 50 feet frtm this point, Loader, the engineer of the Farringdun-street engine, was stationed; and, while be was engaged in holding the branch, the whole length of the front to where he stood fell with a tremendous crash. Loader, on hearing the wall crack, ran towards the wall of the St. Katherine Docks, and he had scarcely got there before the branch and hose were buried beneath the burning mass. During the period the fire was at its height, consider able alarm was manifested for the safety of the docks, and several men were sent to the roofs of the sheds,who kept pouring water down the walls, for the purpose of keeping the brickwork cool, and being ably assisted by' the engines they succeeded in preventing any ignition taking place. The same exertions were made with re gard to the Marquis of Granby public-house, which, with the exception of a portion of the roof, was pre served from material injury. Too much praise cannot be given to the police. 150 men, under the direction of Inspectors Harris and Valen tine, of the H and K divisions, were on the spot, and rendered all the aid in their power, while a strong force of the Thames police performed the same duty on the water. The cause of the fire could not be ascertained, nor could we learn whether Mr. Coleman, and those to whom he subletted, were insured. From the large quantity of property in the warehouses, &c., the loss is stated to be little short of 200,0001. By eight o'clock all danger of the further progress of the fire was at an end. FURTHER PARTICULARS. ELEVEN O'CLOCH.—A considerable body of fire still remains amidst the immense heap of ruins, and the fire men are exposed to the greatest danger by the con. tinual falling of the walls. The building, from end to end, was exactly 212 feet, and nearly 70 feet wide. At the time of the outbreak the several floors were well stocked with goods of nearly every de scription. In the lower rooms were casks of tallow, saltpetre, sulphur, oil, turpentine, and naphtha. The tenant of the p rem i ses i s Mr. Coleman, but although he is insured we understand th at hi s loss will be considerable. The building, belonging to the St. Katherine Docks Company, is insured in several of the London offices. The goods destroyed belonged to sundry persons, a great number of whom h o ld what are termed floating policies in the London and country fire-offices; but it is to be feared that a vast quantity of property was not in sured. Although every inquiry has since been made, no information that can be d . epended u p on can yet be obtained respecting the origin of the calamity. O ne o f the workmen, it seems, whilst passing along the eastern end of the wharf, first discovered the flames, at which time they were feeding upon a number of casks filled with spirits. The first thing done after the alarm was given, was to commence throwing the bales of cotton goods, casks of spirits, and other large packages into the street, and in the course of a few minutes the street was literally covered with goods. Upon the arrival of the engines of the London Brigade they were unable to p ass along to get to the water plug, Tail the street was cleared. This took some time, and meanwhile the fire travelled along the various compartments of the front warehouses, so that by the ,time the engines could be set to work the principal portion of the place was completely enveloped in flames. At one period the destruction of the eastern portion of the Tower stores appeared quite certain. Mr. Braidwood, however, had two or three of the engines so stationed that the water could be scattered over the walls, and by that means the fire was cut off in that quarter. The only portion of the immense range of premises left standing is the gable end nearest the Tower, and even that is expected momentarily to fall. The massive wall adjoining it has just fallen into the road with a crash resembling a clap of thunder. For some few minutes it was believed that three of the firemen had perished, but upon calling over the roll they were found uninjured. It appears that they had entered the ruins to cool the further end but a minute or so before the wall fell, and by that means escaped a hor rible death. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. TWELVE O ' CLOCIL—Since the above report was written several outbreaks have taken place, and the house be tween the Irongate-wharf and the Marquis of Granby tavern has sustained serious injury. About eight o'clock a large piece of wall, about twenty feet in length, fell with great force into the street, to the imminent danger of three or four firemen who were stationed near the spot directing the hose towards the burning building. Some other persons, who had made their way amongst the firemen, notwithstanding the exertions of the police to keep the place perfectly clear, narrowly escaped with their lives. It appears that the vessels which have been injured are a Scotch schooner, a brig, and a cutter. They were loading at the time with goods from the wharf which is now destroyed. The warehouses destroyed, although called Irongate wharf, consist of St. Katharine's-wharf, St. Andrew's wharf, and other buildings connected with the principal range. Not a vestige of property has been saved, with the exception of two or three bales of leather, but these are so scorched that they are rendered almost useless. So fiercely did the fire rage immediately after its commence. ment, that it was found to be impossible to rescue any portion of the property from the flames. It is a most providential circumstance that this great calamity did not occur at night, or at an hour when the persons employed in St. Katharine Docks had left the establishment. Had it not happened that when the walls of that extensive building became charred the goods were removed, it is impossible to anticipate what might have been the result of the conflagration. The damage, it is feared, is much larger than was first expected ; 200,0001., it is said, will not cover the damage. LATEST PARTICULARS. —(THIS DAY.) Throughout the whole night the engines have been playing on the ruins, which, by the morning, enabled some of them to be sent back to their stations, but as to its being entirely subdued, that cannot be possible till to-morrow. The walls have been falling throughout the night, and the firemen have had many narrow escapes, but not the least accident has been heard of. The river front is considered quite safe, and the consequence has been the removal of the two London Establishment floating engines to their moorings. At the outbreak of the fire, as is usual on such occa sions, the exertions of every person near was called into requisition for the engines ; and, our informant was told this morning, that great fears are entertained that some are yet under the ruins, but as no inquiries had been made, it is hoped that these fears are without foundation. The Bishop of Newfoundland bad an interview with Earl Grey, yesterday, at the Colonial-office. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD. A Ipleasant gossipping paper about " The Court of Louis I mlippe" commences the present number, which commences the present year of Grace MDCCCXLVII. As a foretaste of what may be ex pected from Blackwood during the course of 1847, it is acceptable and promising. Particularly at this moment, when the foreign policy of the French monarch has attached to his administration so much odium, anything appertaining to his private character and his domestic habits is fraught with interest. The article is suggested by a work very recently published in Paris, entitled Dix Ans a la Gour du Roi Louis Philippe, et Souvenirs du Tems de r Empire et de la Restauration, and written by M. Appert, for ten years the Almoner to the Queen of the French and Madame Adelaide. If' the details of this production required any authentication beyond that afforded by the author's name, a very sufficient authentication would be found in his career, his character, and his philan thropic pursuits. Besides obtaining the friendship of his own sovereign, M. Appert has latterly received the countenance of the Kings of Prussia, of Belgium, of Denmark, of Bavaria, of Saxony, and of Wurtem berg. His whole existence appears, in one way or other, to have been devoted to the cause of benevo lence and to the diffusion of knowledge. It has been chequered too in a remarkable degree. During 1811 there was a prospect of his being invested with a noble responsibility, namely, that of sharing in the education of the King of Rome. The casualties, however, which have been al ready recorded in history, entirely dissipated these expectations, and the future Almoner of Queen Marie Amelie was in 1822 confined in the same dun geon of La Force in which the poet Beranger was afterwards imprisoned. This was for conniving at the escape of two non-commissioned officers implicated with General Berton. The devotion displayed at this time, and indeed throughout his life, by M. Ap pert for the memory of the Emperor Napoleon is beautiful and touching. Although he did not, like M. Arnault, preserve in his garden a tree grown from a branch of the willow at St. Helena, he lost his sub professorship at the school of drawing, " because, whilst giving a lesson in mathematics, he employed, to mark the curves and angles of a geometrical figure, letters which made up the words Vice r Em pereur"—a remembrancer of the days of greatness most displeasing during the days of littleness under the Bourbons. Among the many agreeable remi niscences of M. Appert are conspicuous those referring to his royal mistress—the good Queen Amelie, whom the illustrious Lafayette called " the best of women." Her numberless sufferings would alone enlist our sym pathies in her favour, were our admiration not elicited towards her by charities as unostentatious as they are splendid and profuse. That she has had miseries cannot be discredited, says the writer in Blackwood, " when we contemplate her careworn and suffering, but benevolent and interesting countenance." A moment afterwards the same writer utters a magnificent panegyric upon the wife of King Louis Philippe, where he says—" In unaffected piety, and in charity that blushes to be seen, this excellent Princess finds consolation." The following is a beautiful illustration in point : " Imposture, ingratitude, even the insolent form of the petitions addressed to her, fail to discourage her in her benevolent mission. Madam,' an old Bonapartist lady one day wrote to her, if the Bourbons had not re turned to France —for the misfortune of the nation —my beloved mistress and protectress, the Empress Maria Louisa, would still be upon the throne, and I should not be under the h um ili at i ng necessity of telling you that I am without bread, and that the wretched mattress upon which I sleep is about to be thrown out of the garret I inhabit, because my year's rent is unpaid 1 I dare not ask you for assistance, for my heart is with my real sovereign, and I cannot promise you my gratitude. If, however, you think proper to preserve a life which, since the mis fortunes of my country, has been so full of bitterness, I will accept a loan : I should blush to receive a gift. I am, madam, your servant, Ch—r.' " Here was a pretty letter to set before a Queen ; a mode of imploring alms that might well have disgusted the most charitable. But what was Marie Ani6lie's re ply to the precious epistle. She was accustomed to open all the petitions addressed to her—and numerous indeed they were—with her own hand, and to write upon many of them instructions for M. Appert. When the imper tinent missive of the Bonapartist reached that gentle man, the following lines had been added to it She must be very unhappy for she is very unjust. A hun dred francs to be sent to her immediately ; and I beg M. Appert to make inquiries concerning this lady's cir cumstance.' M. Appert, indignant at the tone of the letter, ventured to remonstrate ; but the Queen insisted, and even tripled her intended donation, in case it should be required by her singular petitioner, whom her almo ner accordingly proceeded to visit. I knocked at a worm•eaten door, on the fifth floor of a house in the Rue St. Andt6 des Arts, and a lady dressed in black (it was her only gown), opened it. " Sir,' said she, much agitated, are you the commis sary of police come to arrest me for my shameful letter to the Queen ? You' must forgive me : I am so un happy that at times I become deranged. lam sorry to have written as I did to a princess whom all the poor call good and charitable.' " Be not alarmed, madam,' I replied, taking her pe tition from my pocket. Read her Majesty's orders ; they will enable you to judge of her better than any thing I could tell you.' " Madame C. read the affecting words added by the Queen; then, bursting into tears, she pressed the paper to her lips. Sir,' she exclaimed, give me nothing, but leave me this holy relic. I will die of hunger with it upon my heart.' " Madame C. proving in all respects worthy of the Queen's generosity, I left her the three hundred francs, but had much difficulty in p reva ili ng on her to g i ve up the petition, which I still pres erve w ith respect and ve neration. This trait of the Queen of the French is only one of ten thousand." As a companion sketch, we transcribe a few sentences descriptive of the household arrangements of her ex traordinary husband : " The life of Louis Philippe is one of incessant toil and anxiety ; his leisure is less, his work harder, than that of his meanest subject. Late to bed, he rises early, rarely sleeping more than four hours ; after a careful, but rapid toilet, his day's labour begins. He seldom breakfasts with his family —it would take too much time—but has his frugal repast brought on a tray to the room where he happens to be. When he was Duke of Orleans he read all the letters and petitions addressed to him, writing upon each an opinion or an order for the guidance of his secretaries. This practice he was of course obliged to discontinue when be became king. At the commencement of his reign, the numbers of letters and applications of various kinds, sent to the different members of the Royal Family, amounted to the astonish ing number of a thousand or twelve hundred a-day. Al though, upon an average, not above fifty of these pos sessed the least interest, or deserved an answer, the mere reading and classing of such a chaos of correspond ence gave employment to several secretaries. After a while, the flood of petitions abated, but M. Appert esti mates them, in ordinary times, at six to eight hundred daily. Of the letters, only the important ones are laid before the King, who answers many of them himself. He examines the reports, projects, and nomin a ti ons brought to him by his Ministers, an d, at least twice or thrice a week, presides at the council board. Private audiences occupy much of his time ; his conference with architects, with the intendants of the civil list and of his private estates, are of frequent occurrence. The gal leries of Versailles, and the improvements at Fontaine bleau—all made after his plans, and in great measure under his personal superintendence —court-balls and dinners, diplomatic audiences, correspondence with fo reign courts, journeys of various kinds, visits to the castle of Eu and to military camps—such are a portion of the innumerable claims upon the time of the King of the French. But, by a clear-headed, active, and earnest man, endowed with the faculty of order, which Louis Philippe possesses in a very high degree, much is to be got throt. c. ,n in a day of twenty-four hours ; and, after doing all that has been enumerated, and many other things of less importance, the King still finds time to devote to his family, for the necessary healthful exer cise, and for the perusal of the principal newspapers and publications, both English and foreign. Each morning, either before or after breakfast, all the news papers, political pamphlets, even caricatures, were laid upon the table, and the King and the Princes were the first to read aloud the articles published against them. They examined the caricatures, and passed them to the bystanders, saying, What do you think of this?'" We are not so infuriated by the shameless deceits practised by Louis Philippe upon our most gracious Sovereign Victoria; by his p a lt r y t r i c kstering in relation to the Spanish and Portuguese peninsula; by his contumacious rupture of the entente cordiale the instant he found that entente cordiale interfere with his own private interests; or by his shuffling policy towards the imperial robbers of the North, as to re main blind to his eminent qualities as a man. His rare accomplishments; his munificence in the culti vation of arts, sciences, agriculture, and manufac tures; his magnificent promotion of works calculated to adorn his country; and, above all, his equanimity during many years of penury, and sorrow, and banishment, render him a worthy sub ject of our respect and admiration. As Blackwood well observes—"Bven those who least admire the public conduct of Louis Philippe, who dislike his system of government, and blame his tortuous foreign policy, may, whilst censuring the conduct of the King, admit and admire the good qualities of the individual." " Mildred" i 8 pursued with the same simplicity and naturalness which were remarkable on its commencement. Then comes a paper headed " Eugene, Marlborough, Frederick, Napoleon, and Wellington." lye would advise the writer to write a sequel to it, called " Tom Thumb, Jack the Giant Killer, the King of Lilliput, Alex ander the Great, and Captain Weazle." Why, the jumble of great and small in this article is preposte rous. One might as well trace an analogy between the genius of the King of Macedonia and the talent of Ilepho2stion, between Nelson and his coxswain, between Julius Cmsar and the standard-bearer of the tenth legion, between Achilles and Patroclus. Every admiral is not a Nelson, every painter is not a Raphael, every poet is not a Shakspere, every composer is not a Beethoven, every warrior is not a Napoleon, elf-evident as these truths may ap pear, they are manifestly forgotten by the writer of the article we refer to. In one page of the magazine there a re some s i m pl e and plaintive verses by Delta, and in another there are a few miserable doggrels about General Mack, by somebody else unnamed. " Lays and Legends of the Thames" are sprightly enough, but execrably vulgar. There are two good reviews of " Prussian Military Me moirs" and of " Lappenberg's Anglo-Saxons," be sides a very long rigmarole, styled " Reflections sug gested by the career of the late Premier." Whoever wrote the article has been wonderfully garrulous about his small self. The personal pronoun I marshals every sentence like a bare flag-staff. The whole paper is founded upon a gross, and we do believe, a wilful blunder—the liberal portion of the Press did not maintain that personalities should not be indulged in in Parliament, because the character of a Minister is not the proper subject for investiga tion, but because the savage disposition evinced by the Protectionists rendered Sir Robert Peel liable to the most unseemly vituperations and the most inso lent abuse. Fair inquiry into the conduct of a public man let there be—but no Billingsgate. FRASER. Fraser opens the new year with a paper, poetical and political, on the "Past, the Present, and the Coming." With regard to the coming,' Jie expresses a hope that there will be more church and more edu cation, provided always that such education shall have " for its foundation religion," by which the writer means what Jeremy Bentham was wont to call " Church- of Englandism." "We want," says he, "no Godless theories of making boys scholars." Never, surely, did nickname do greater service, than this same nickname of " Godless education." Utterly defeated in argument, the opponents of a national sys tem of education were about to surrender at discre tion, when Sir Robert Inglis, inspired for the nonce by the genius of a Taper or a Tadpole, bethought him of raising the cry of " Godless education." Straight way the cry was taken up by all those who, hating the light because their deeds are evil, are yet afraid to avow openly their desire to keep the people in darkness. "A gigantic scheme of Godless education" was a famous cry—a cry in which Lord George Gordon would have revelled—a cry in obe dience to which an ignorant mob would have again hunted down a Priestly—a cry in which every bigot of every sect and of every denomination would join —a cry which even a quarter of a century since would have availed, but a cry which now avails no thing, as those who have attempted to raise it will find to their cost, because we have now no mob, but a people—a people " who know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain"—a people not to be bamboozled by a cry a people who per fectly understand that there can be no such thing as "a Godless system of education," who know that "a Godless system of education " is a contradic • tion in terms, inasmuch as any education must, by de veloping the intellectual faculties, teach its recipient to believe in, to venerate, and to love that Deity from whom he derives all his powers—a people who are perfectly aware that it does not follow, because edu cation is exclusively under the superintendence of ecclesiastics, that recipients of it should be there fore " Godly," as witness the state of religion and morality in our two Universities. The cry of " God less education" will not do ; the people yearn for education, secular education, without the interfer ence of the clergy, and whatsoever the people yearn for that they will obtain. But while controversies rage on the subject of education, there is one subject in which all men of all parties are agreed, and that is on the ne cess it y o f i mprov i ng the physical condi tion of the people. In the sentiments expressed in the following passage we fully concur : " Many proverbs have less truth than the common one, that cleanliness is next to godliness. We regard all well-conducted efforts for improving the dwellings of the poor as favourable to the advancement of religion and education—of the Church and the school. Paley said that the planting of a rose-tree was an item of human happiness. In towns and great cities, where it is impossible for the mechanic to enjoy the privileges of the cottager, and sit under his own tree, or listen to the hum of his own b ees , p u bli c wa lk s an d parks—we believe Arboretum is the word—form a serviceable substitute. By what means soever it be accomplished, the love of rural things ought to be cherished and deepened. It is the only tradition of paradise that lives in the memory of the vulgar." If we cannot agree on the various schemes pro posed for the education of the people, at least we are all agreed as to the necessity of improving their phy sical condition, and therefore we hope to see some measures for securing "cleanliness " passed during the next session of Parliament. The next article is entitled " Scenes in the Wilds of Mexico," and the hero of the present sketch is " Cayetano, the contra bandista," a melo-dramatic hero, who would make the fortune of any minor theatre. At the present time when the public attention is alive to every thing con nected with Mexico, the following sketch of the Mexican manners will be found not uninteresting : " The sea-coast of Mexico has at all times been in fested with smugglers. This mode of obtaining a live lihood is not there, as in Europe, monopolized by a few audacious adventurers. According to the more or less impoverished state of the finances, every government officer is more or less busy in indemnifying himself at the expense of the state, because the state does not pay him. The soldiers loudly demand their pay, the civilians join the soldiers. The state, as may be supposel, turns a deaf ear, and each then endeavours to find a resource. The administrator of the customs gives full power to the searchers (vistas), the searchers to the custom-house officers, these to the porters of the administration, and the latter are assisted by all who can lift a weight, ma nage a boat, or, in case of necessity, use a dag ger. Then, according to the humour of the president of the republic, or the severity of the laws promulgated, smuggling goes on either in the open day, or under cover of the night, in the seaports or on the isolated coasts; but, whether far or near, every one lends a helping hand. It may easily be conceived, therefore, that in the dull season of the pearl and tortoiseshell fishery, the divers and harpooners, who follow those trades form valuable auxiliaries to the smugglers. As a natural consequence of the poverty of the treasury, whilst the government officers smuggle, soldiers—even officers—join the highway robbers. Robbery is not the sole profession of these highwaymen (scdteador de comino). They are fathers of families, often protected by the alcade of their village, and blessed by their priest—men who disdain to set forth unless their spies have announced some rich prey. After having piteously massacred a traveller who attempted to resist, or treated with exquisite urbanity one who quietly allowed himself to be despoiled, they regain their village, not forgetting, in the division of the booty, the innkeeper who sent them mysterious advice, the alcade who signed their permissidn to carry arms, and the priest who gave them absolution. Such is the singular toleration of opinion, that robbers and smugglers do not in Mexico live apart from society, or form a distinct caste possessing its own peculiar customs and regulations." We have two classical articles in the present number of Fraser. The one a Roman novel, founded on the story of Curtius, and entitled the " Sacrifices"—the other "A Word or Two about Mark Antony," which might pass for a supplement to the Philippics. In a paper on literary legislators we have the commencement of an elaborate, and, at the same time, a most just criticism on Mr. Disraeli, considered as a litterateur, an orator, and a statesman, and the number winds up with "A Grumble about the Christmas Books," by M. A. Titmarsh, in which the writer, acting as high priest to Di c k ens , i mmo l ates all the writers of Christmas books, at the altar of his idol, and closes his paper just in time to save himself from the fate of poor Mathews' savage, who "cut off his own head leaving all the spectators in wonder and darkness." DOMBEY and SON. No. IV. By Charles Dickens. In his description of the growth and education of little Paul Dombey, Mr. Dickens has revived a world of recollections anent schoolboy days, besides giving an exquisite delineation of the mind, the habits, and the affections of childhood. There is no puerility in the manner of our author when he speaks about children ; there is no mere sentimentality in his inci dents connected with children. He speaks in the language of truth, an d th a t language is most beauti ful. He writes about children from the depths of his memory and from the fulness of his heart; he views their little world with the eye of a poet; while he is lingering over the portraiture of a child he is a child again himself. We cannot sym pathise with those who rejoice in ridiculing this peculiarity of one whose imagination has conjured up such beings as Tiny Tim, and Little Nell, and Paul Dombey. In some respects Paul is better conceived and better depicted than the others. His "old, old face," his thirst to know what it is the sea is "always saying, always saying," even his quaint notion con nected with Dr. Blimber's clock, namely, that when its pendulum clicked it repeated the monotonous words of the pedagogue," how, is, my, lit, tle, friend, how, is, my, lit, tle, friend," are all most natural. The drollest touches imaginable are scattered plentifully through these pages, as usual. Mrs. Pipchin, horrible Mrs. Pipchin, notwithstanding "the toughness of her constitution, "is expected to go off suddenly, like a powder-mill." Then Mr. Dombey is described as having , beheld " Master Bitherstone i n hi s co ll ar o f s t a t e ,' and as having made " Miss Pankey cry by patting her on the head, in which region she was uncommonly tender on account of a habit Mrs. Pipchin had of sounding it with her knuckles like a cask." The quarrel be tween the last-mentioned personage and the weak eyed young man who opened the door at Dr. Blim ber's is a rich piece of absurdity. Here, however, is an account of the Doctor's establishment at Brighton, and it is doubly commendable (the account, not the establishment) as a protest against a grievous abuse of a very popular system of education, viz., the " forcing system :" " Whenever a young gentleman was taken in hand by Doctor Blimber, ho might consider himself sure of a pretty tight squeeze. The doctor only undertook the charge of ten young gentlemen, but he had, Always ready, a supply of learning for a hundred, on the lowest estimate; and it was at once the business and delightof his life to gorge the unhappy ten with it. " In fact, Doctor Blirnber's establishment was a grea I hot-house, in which there was a forcing apparatus in cessantly at work. All the boys blew before their times Mental green peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. Mathematical gooseberries (very sour ones too) were common at un timely seasons, and from mere sprouts of bushes, under Doctor Blimber's cultivation. Every description of Greek and Latin vegetable was got off the driest twigs of boys, under the frostiest circumstances. Nature was of no consequence at all. No matter what a young gen tleman was intended to bear, Doctor Blimber made him I bear to pattern, somehow or other. "This was all very pleasant and ingenious, but the system of forcing was attended with its usual disadvan tages. There was not the right taste about the prema ture productions, and they didn't keep well. Moreover, one young gentleman, with a swollen nose and an excessively large head (the oldest of the ten who had "gone through" every thing), suddenly left off blowing one day, and remained in the establishment a mere stalk. And people did say that the doctor had rather overdone it with young Toots, and that when he began to have whiskers he left off having brains. " There young Toots was, at any rate; possessed of the gruffest of voices and the shrillest of minds; stick ing ornamental pins into his shirt, and keeping a ring in his waistcoat pocket to put on his little finger by stealth, when the pupils went out walking; constantly falling in love by sight with nurserymaids, who had no idea of his existence; and looking at the gas-lighted world over the little iron bars in the left hand corner window of the front three pairs of stairs, after bed-time, like a greatly over grown cherub who had sat up aloft much too long. " The doctor was a portly gentleman in a suit of black, with strings at his knees, and stockings below them. He had a bald head, highly polished; a deep voice; and a chin so very double, that it was a wonder how he ever managed to shave into the creases. He had likewise a pair of little eyes that were always half shut up, and a mouth that was always half expanded into a grin, as if he had, that moment, posed a boy, and were waiting to convict him from his own lips. Insomuch, that when the doctor put his right hand into the breast of his coat, and with his other hand behind him, and a scarcely perceptible wag of the head, made the com monest observation to a nervous stranger, it was like a sentiment from the sphynx, and settled his business. " The doctor's was a mighty fine house, fronting the sea. Not a joyful style of house within, but quite the contrary. Sad-coloured curtains, whose proportions were spare and lean, hid themselves despondingly be hind the windows. The tables and chairs were put away in rows, like figures in a sum; fires were so rarely lighted in the rooms of ceremony, that they felt like wells, and a visitor represented the bucket; the dining-room seemed the last place in the world where any eating or drinking was likely to occur; there was no sound through all the house but the ticking of a great clock in the hall, which made itself audible in the very garrets ; and sometimes a dull crying of young gentlemen at their lessons, like the murmurings of an assemblage of melancholy pigeons. " Miss Blimber, too, although a slim and graceful maid, did no soft violence to the gravity of the house. There was no light nonsense about Miss Blimber. She kept her hair short and crisp, and wore:spectacles. She was dry and sandy with working in the graves of deceased languages. None of your live languages for Miss Blimber. They must be dead—stone dead—and then Miss Blimber dug them up like a Ghoule. " Mrs. Blimber, her mamma, was not learned herself, but she pretended to be, and that did quite as well. She said at evening parties, that if she could have known Cicero, she thought she could have died contented. It was the steady joy of her life to see the doctor's young gentlemen go out walking, unlike all other young gen tlemen, in the largest po ss ibl e s hi rt co ll ars, and the stiffest possible cravats. It was so classical, she said.- " As to Mr. Feeder, 8.A., Dr. Blimber's assistant, he was a kind of human barrel-organ, with a little list of tunes at which he was continually working, over and 'over again, without- any variation. lie might have been fitted up with a change of barrels, perhaps, in early life, if his destiny had been favourable; but it had not been; and he had only one, with which, in a monotonous round, it was his occupation to bewilder the young ideas of Dr. Blimber's young gentlemen. The young gentlemen were prematurely full of earking anxieties. They knew no rest from the pursuit of stoney-hearted verbs, savage noun-substantives, inflexible syntactic passages, and ghosts of exercises that appeared to them in their dreams. Under the forcing system, a young gentleman usually took leave of his spirits in three weeks. He had all the cares of the world on his head in three months. He conceived bitter sentiments against his parents or guar dians in four; he was an old ,misanthrope, in five; en vied Quintius Curtius that blessed refuge in the earth, in six; and at the end of the first twelvemonth had ar rived at the conclusion, from which he never afterwards departed, that all the fancies of the poets, and lessons of the sages, were a mere collection of words and grammar, and had no other meaning in the world. " But he went on, blow, blow, blowing, in the d oc t or ' s hothouse, all the time ; an d the doctor's glory and repu tation were great, when he took his wintry growth home to his relations and friends." Having been duly installed at the boalding school, Paul witnesses a ludicrous scene at the dinner table. So wonderfully depressing is the influence of the " forcing system " upon the "young gentlemen " that Master Briggs is heard to declare that he should certainly " wish himself dead if it wasn't for his mother, and a blackbird at home." Paul is so im measurably puzzled by the crowd of books submitted to his perusal simultaneously that it soon becomes an open question with him " whether twenty Romuluses made a Remus, or bin hmc hoc was troy weight, or a verb always agreed with an ancient Briton, or three times four was Taurus a bull !" We are delighted to think that Mrs. Pipchin has at last found her match in Miss Nipper. Miss Nipper, indeed, is said to have " thrown away the scabbard the first morning she arose," to have given no quarter, and to have carried on the war against the ogress so unrelentingly, that Mrs. Pipchin was at last per petually subject to " surprises, harassings, and defi ances ; and skirmishing attacks that came bouncing in upon her from the passage, even in unguarded moments of chops, and carried desolation to her very toast!" Here is a faithful picture of a great mercan tile establishment in the City : " Mr. Dombey's offices were in a court where there was an old-established stall of choice fruit at the corner ; where perambulating merchants, of both sexes, offered for sale at any time between the hours of ten and five, slippers, pocket-books, sponges, dogs' collars, and Wind sor soap ; and sometimes a pointer or an oil painting. " The pointer always came that way, with a view to the Stock Exchange, where a sporting taste (originating generally in bets of new hats) is much in vogue. The other commodities were addressed to the general public; but they were never offered by the vendors to Mr. Dombey. When he appeared, the dealers in those wares fell off respectfully. The principal slipper and dogs' collar man—who considered himself a public character, and whose portrait was screwed on to an artist's door in Cheapside—threw up his forefinger to the brim of his hat as Mr. Dombey went by. The ticket-porter, if he were not absent on a job, always ran offieiously before, to open Mr. Dombey's office door as wide as possible, and hold it open, with his hat off, while he entered. " The clerks within were not a whit behind-hand in their demonstrations of respect. A solemn hush pre vailed, as Mr. Dombey passed through the outer office. The wit of the counting-house became in a moment as mute, as the row of leathern fire-buckets, hanging up behind him. Such vapid and flat daylight as filtered through the ground glass windows and skylights, leav ing a black sediment upon the panes, showed the books and papers, and the figures bending over them, en veloped in a studious gloom, and as much abstracted in appearance, from the .world without, as if they were as sembled at, the bottom of the sea ; while a mouldy little strong room in the obscure perspective, where a shaded lamp was always burning, might have represented the cavern of some ocean monster, looking on with a red eye at these mysteries of the deep. " When Perch, the messenger, whose place was on a little bracket, like a timepiece, saw Mr. Dombey come in—or rather when h e felt that he was coming, for he had usually an instinctive sense of his approach—he hur ried into Mr. Dombey's room, stirred the fire, quarried fresh coals from the bowels of the coal box, hung the newspaper to air upon the fender, put the chair ready, and the screen in its place, and was round upon his heel on the instant of Ms Dombey's entrance, to take his great coat and hat, and hang them up. Then Perch took the newspaper, and gave it a turn or two in his hands before the fire, and laid it deferentially at Mr. Dombey's elbow. And so little objection had Perch to doing deferential in the last degree, that if he might have laid himself at Mr. Dombey's feet, or might have called him by some such title as used to be bestowed upon the Caliph Haroun Alraschid, he would have been all the better pleased. "As this honour would have been an innovation and an experiment, Perch was fain to content himself by expressing as well as he could, in his manner, You are the Light of my Eyes. You are the Breath of my Soul. You are the Commander of the Faithful, Perch. With this imperfect happiness to cheer him, he would shut the door softly, walk away on tiptoe, and leave his great chief to be stared at, through a dome-shaped window in the leads, by ugly chimney pots and backs of houses, and especially by the bold window of a hair-cutting saloon on a first floor, where a waxen effigy, bald as a Afu in the ssul m in the morning, and covered, after eleven o 'clock day, with luxuriant hair and whikers!nth e atest Chris tian fashion, showed him the wrong sid e of its head for ever." It is decided that Walter Gay is to be dispatched to Barbadoes as a junior clerk. The passages relating to Mr. Carker the junior but really the senior, and Mr. Carker the manager but really the junior, are cleverly and touchingly written. Nothing about Miss Tox, or Major Bagstock, or Captain Cuttle in this number. We miss them. CIIILD DROPPING. —Lust evening, about five o'clock, a male infant, about four weeks old, was found abandoned on the step of a door in Bit d-street, near Wapping Church. The infant, who suffered very severely from the cold, was wrapped in a striped worsted hood and black stuff cloak. It was conveyed by the police to Wapping workhouse. The new drama at the Adelphi of Colonzba, or the Corsican Sister, increases nightly in attraction, com bined with the wonderful performances of Lees and his pupils, and the delightful snio- burlesque of The Phan tom ancers. By-the-way, the beautiful little pony, Comi Bachee, which performs so cleverly in the drama of Colonzba, is the pet pony of Master Banjamin Webster, the lessee's eldest son, and is one of the true Shetland breed. LITERATURE. KISS EN GEN, ITS SOURCES AND RE SOURCES, with Observations on their Use and Efficacy in the Treatment Di' Disease. By A. B. Granville, M.D., F.R.S. Dr. Granville has here given us a complete hand book to Kissengen, pointing the various routes from London to that far-famed spring, and detailing the expences of a journey to, and a residence at Kissen gen. Although Kissengen is situated some hundreds of miles from the sea (it is in the kingdom of Bavaria), yet the visitors enjoy all the benefit of sea air, by a curious contrivance at one of the springs, which is thus described by Dr. Granville : "It may truly be said ,that one of the great lions of Kissengen is the Sprud e l, and its whole establishment for the manufactory of salt. Often have I escorted par ties of patients to both places to explain the phenomenon of the one and the proceedings of the other, with a view of showing how th..y have been made applicable to me dicinal purposes. "The daily produce of the spring just mentioned, at the rate of 2,000 cubic feet of salt water per hour, must be evaporated in order to obtain the salt held in solution. It is evident that such an evaporation, wholly conducted by means of fire, would be: too costly to be profitable. The well-known plan of spontaneous evaporation has been preferred, by suffering the salt water to drop from twig to twig, off vast open stacks of thorns, so arranged as to present a very large surface to the air, and thus carry on evaporation at an ordinary temperature. " These stacks of thorns, regularly piled up in stages, forming a wooden platform of twelve or fourteen feet from the ground, rite to a height varying from twenty four to forty•two feet, being disposed in two separate parallel ranges, one foot in thickness, with a space of about one foot between. They are covered over with a wooden roof, under which are the hydraulic contrivances for the circulation of the water, and suffering it to drop through the stacks of thorns when necessary. At the bottom of the stacks forming the central part of the wooden platform before mentioned; are wide continuous troughs, into which the dropping water falls, to be again carried up by suitable pumps to the top of the stacks, from which it is again suffered to trickle down into the troughs below. This operation is repeated not less than five, and very frequently as many as six times, when at length the water having attained the required concen trated degree of saltness, is conveyed to the boiling-house for the concluding part of the process necessary to ex tract the salt. " Those singular looking ranges of wooden building which the spa visitor beholds for the first time, on directing his steps from Kissingen:along:the 'Alley towards Hausen, and which attracts his curiosity, without finding him able to guess at their destination, are the evaporating sheds I have endeavoured to describe, and to which the name of Gradiren houses has been given. Nothing can be more admirably suited to the .intended purpose of evaporating water by the ordinary temperature of the air. By an ingenious contrivance (which it is needless here to explain more minutely, but which, as well as the rest of the hydraulic apparatus, will amply repay the visitor to examine; by ascending to the top of the gra duating houses) the salt water is made to trickle down the sides of the stacks of thorns to leeward of the wind. Without this contrivance, the wind would scatter the drops of water and disperse them through the atmo sphere. Two parallel rows of stacks are placed under each gradiren-haus, that the salt may trickle down two surfaces. The stacks are seven thousand feet in length ; so that a space equal to two English miles and a half is traversed by the water before it reaches the boiling-pans, where the final crystallization of the salt takes place. "During this progress of the salt water forward, the quantity of oxide of iron which it holds in solution, and a large proportion—indeed nearly the whole—of the earthy matter is deposited on the thorns, which become incrusted with those substances, and present to the ob server the red and dusky-white appearances observed in the Gradiren houses. This process of depuration saves a subsequent tro u bl esome an d very expensive operation of re-dissolving the salt and crystallizing it afresh for purposes of purification, which the ordinary mode of obtaining salt from sea water renders necessary. No thing can be purer or whiter in appearance than the salt drawn from the boiling pans or tanks after the first crystallization. " What a vast charge of moisture the atmosphere has carried off during the period of spontaneous evaporation, may be inferred from the fact that the salt water is seven times stronger (2.5 : 17.5) after, than before that opera tion. Analysis gives 14 grains of salt water for 976 parts of water. Hence in the course of the year, 210 millions of pints of water are dispersed through the air in the form of invisible vapour, in the neighbourhood of these graduating or evaporating houses. "Advantage has been taken of this circumstance to establish a marine promenade for the benefit of such in valids as require to inhale a moist air, charged with such saline particles as are found by the sea-side, but con siderably stronger. Accordingly a footpath is established on each side of the whole length of the graduating houses, on the elevated platform, guarded by a parapet, along which the patient is made to walk for an hour or so in the middle of the day—sometimes early in the morning—selecting that side on which the sun happens to be shining at the time, and avoiding the side to the wind, a matter easy to accomplish, as the graduating-houses are placed at various angles of incidence to each other. " The patient, or indeed any per: on thus engaged, is not long in perceiving that he takes into his mouth salt air, inhaling and smelling that peculiar aerial principle which consists of chlorine or bromine exhalations, and which mark marine atmospheres, until he cheats himselj into the belief that he is really by the sea-side--a belief confirmed rather by the view of certain co7Virrce or marine plants that grow in those troughs of the gradua ting- houses in which the more concentrated water is last dropped from the thorns." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSCPR, THURSDAY. - The •Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early morning walk. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice, took walking ex(roise this morning on the Eastern Terrace and grounds adja cent to the Castle. • Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and the Princess Mary, his Serene Highness Prince Frederic of Hesse, the Lady in Waiting of the Duchess of Cambridge, the Earl and Countess of Lincoln, and the Gentlemen in Waiting on the Duke of Cambridge, are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day, on a visit to her Majesty. His Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, his Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein, and Lord Edward Howard left the Castle to-day. The band of the Ist Life Guards attended during dinner. The Queen had afterwards an evening party at the Castle. The following had the honour of receiving. in vitations :—Lord James Murray, Colonel and Lady Emily Seymour, Mr. G. E. and the Hon. lira. Anson, Sir George and Lady Couper and Miss Couper. Her Majesty's private band attended. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Mary, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederic of Hesse, and attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and Baron Knesebeck, left their residence, at Kew, yesterday afternoon, for Windsor Castle. _ _ Mr. Arthur Anderson had an interview with the Right [lon. Thomas Milner Gibson, yesterday, at the Board of Trade, relative to the fisheries of the Orkney and Shet land Islands. Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial office, from the Governors of the North American Pro vinces. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—Tnu RSDAY. From the subjoined return it will be seen that the business was limited in extent, the investment, with two or three exceptions, on a small scale, and the prices in accordance with those last quoted. NEWMARKET HANDICAP. A few bets have been made in the course of the week, but in such small sums as to be quite unworthy of quo tation-33 to 1 was offered on the field. CHESTER CUP. 1000 to 20 agst Mr. Griffith's Newcourt—taken twice 1000 to 20 agst Mr. Hessletine's Fitzalien—taken 1000 to 20 agst Mr. S. Herbert's Antler—taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Wilson's Punch—taken twice over 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Wilson's Crown Prince—taken 1000 to 15 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam—taken 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Meiklam's Bannockburn—taken DERBY. 13 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epirote—taken 16 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Planet—taken and aft offered 25 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Glentilt—t and aft offered 33 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Lunedale—taken and aft offered 40 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Hart—taken to upwards of 3001 1000 to 25 agst Lord Stradbroke's Marpessa colt—taken and afterwards offered. 2000 to 50 agst Mr. Mostyn's Miss Martin colt t — ak t en and aft off 1000 to 20 agst Mr. W. Scott's Christopher -500 to 10 agst Mr. Pedley's Cogsack—taken 600 to 10 agst Mr. Irwin's Horn of C h as e—taken 2000 to 20 agst Mr. Fuller's Oxonian —taken 1000 to 10 agst Lord o S o ta th n e le rVm s Benoriosnreidn.g— taken OAKS. 10 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Clementina—taken to 2001 14 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's The Farmer's Daughter—taken PRESENT EXTRAORDINARY TO THE KING AND QUEEN OF THE FRENCH.--A Bouquet de Gibier monstre a la Soyer was forwarded from London to Paris on the 21st of December, by the well-known gastronomic rege. nerator, M. Soyer, of the Reform Club, and presented to Lheir Majesties on the 24th in the morning, at the palace of the Tuileries. Their Majesties were delighted with the novelty and elegance of the composition, and, after a long examination, the King ordered it to be carried to the apartments of her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, who was exceedingly pleased with it, and afterwards the whole of the Royal Family were summoned to see the bouquet. To give an idea of the compoSition of this' splendid innovation, the following description, perhaps, will be interesting to the public!. The height of it was about 10 feet, and wide in proportion ; the frame was richly covered with Christmas holly, laurels, missletoe. and evergreen, with a great variety of winter flowers. There were 22 head of game, consisting of larks, snipes, woodcocks, teal, French and English partridges, grouse, widgeons, wild ducks, blackcocks, pheasants, a leveret, a hare, and golden plovers. The interstices were lightly filled with wheat and oats, the whole ornamented with tri-coloured ribbons. And to give a still more pleasing effect, fancy birds of beautiful plumage (so 'abundant in England) were spread in different parts of the nosegay. It is reported that his Majesty intends to have a similar bouquet carved in wood for the grand side-board of the magnificent banquetting hall of the palace of the Tui leries. At the same time, a splendidly boundivolume of the Gastronomic Regenerator was presented to her Ma- L jesty the Qua, who was gaciously pleased to accept it. con• xi he shop. g in- Trec- with and )ther treet, ouse, edge 'bar they ng. too legal pri- oers torn irst, tion and ier m a's is • ... ; .