The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-16 00:00:00

REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN FRANCE. Paris has returned to a state of tranquillity, but con. siderable excitement appears still to prevail there. From the provinces the news is rather alarming. The socialists have risen in great numbers in the Nievre, Var, and Gard; aid. for the present, have been able to maintain their position. Louis Napoleon appears to consider that no further consequence will arise from his coup d'tStat. He gave, on Monday week, his first public reception since the event at the Elyeee. The Palace was crowded to excess, and-it was found necessary to throw open additional rooms for the reception of the company. As may be con- ceived, there was an extraordinary number of officers of all ranks. The members of the corps diplomatique were also in great numbers, and there were many present who, only three days ago, were the loudest in condemning the coup d'erat. There was a considerable number of ladies, and among them a good many of our countrywomen. Subjoined is an account of the most interesting incidents which have occurred since our last. TUESDAY. The Siecle has re-appeared for the first time since its suspension. It publishes no leading article. There is, however, a short note signed by the editors, stating that their principles are unchangeable, and that they abstain from comment on account of the state of siege. The Moniteur publishes a decree, announcing that all individuals placed under the surveillance of the high police, who have been proved to have quitted the place assigned them as their residence, may, as a measure of general safety. be transported to Cayenne or Algeria for a minimum of five years, and a maximum of ten. The same measure shall be applied to individuals found guilty of forming part of a secret society. The prefects of the places under the surveillance of the high police will in future give the Government the right of fixing the place the convict shall reside in after having undergone his punishment. The Petrie publishes the following votes of the army : —Number of votes. 65,289; votes for Louis Napoleon, 61.456 ; against, 3.749 ; abstained, 84. The President of the Republic, accompanied by Cols. Ney and Fleury, and the minister at war, and attended by his usual escort, visited the hospitals on Tuesday morn ing. After remaining some time at the hospitals, where he visited the sick and wounded soldiers, he visited the hospital of the Ecuries du Roi, in the Fauhourg du Roule. The following is from the Constitutionnel : " These brave soldiers, in spite of their sufferings, replied by the warmest acclamations to the consolatory words addressed to them by the President. One of them. who was very dangerously wounded, told the chaplain in the morning, ' I only wish for one thing, and that is to see Napoleon before I die.' He recovered strength to bless the President, who decorated him with his own hand. Another of the men, who had had an arm amputated, told the President, with great ardour, I have another left at your service." All the men on receiving crosses, kissed them till their eyes moistened with tears. Nothing could be more affecting than the expression of the enthusiastic gratitude of these brave men, on finding that their devo tedness was appreciated by Louis Napoleon. The emo tion of the persons present was very great, and the tears which filled the eyes of the President showed how much he was affected by the scene. Ten crosses were distri buted. The wounded, to the number of 37, each received 100 f. The President was very warmly received through out the whole of his route. His carriage was escorted by a detachment of cuirassiers. WEDNESDAY. On Tuesday, M. Thiers received orders to quit France. After a slight preparation for his journey on Wednesday morning,' he was escorted out of his house between two agents of the police, placed in a carriage, and conveyed to the Paris terminus of the Strasbourg Railway. There be was placed in a carriage apart, with his two official attendants, who were ordered not to leave him until they bad seen him fairly over the French frontier to Kehl, on the right bank of the Rhine. opposite to Strasbourg. It was reported that M. Mon Faucher had received orders to quit France. but up to four o'clock on Wednesday afternion, M. Faucher had received no such order. The Siècle states 'hat M. David (d'Angers) has been arrested. The Monileur publishes a decree of the President of the Republic declaring the department of the Basses Alps in a state of siege. Another decree names new prefects to the departments of the Ille-et-Vilaine, the Tarn-et- Garonne, the Vaucluse, and the Indre. The department of the Gera. Var, and Lot-et-Garonne are declared to be in a state of siege. The government accounts state that complete tranquillity has been re estaLlished in the departments of the Eure, the Seine-et- Marne,HauteMarne,Vaucluse Cotes-du-Nord, Dordogne, Cants!, Arriege, Eure-et-Loire, Lot, Vosges, Haut Rin, Meuse, Cote d'Or, and Yonne. The Globe's correspondent, dating from Paris on Wed nesday evening, states that there was a private meetin g on Tuesday evening of some of the most respectable English residents, to take into consideration the propriety of drawing up a protest against some of the statements which have appeared in England respecting the conduct of the government and the army during the lat e events. Ind It was generally admitted that these statements above all the spirit which pervaded the communications, were much to be regretted, and the more so as tome false hood of some of the reports was generally declared before they were transmitted. But there was a difference of opinion as to taking any steps, with a view to prevent an unfriendly feeling towards the English in Paris, either on the part of the government or that of the very large por tion of the people of Paris who approve of the conduct of the President of the Republic. The advice given by the English Ambassador to the English residents generally, to abstain from publicly discussing the affairs of a country in which they are only visitors, receiving from all classes respect and protection, and the fact of his having already taken care that the government should not think un favourably of the English residents here because misre presentations have appeared in some of the London papers, were considered by some of the persons present to be quite sufficient to render any public protest unneces sary. Whatever may be thought (says the same writer) by the English of the coup d'etrit as a violation of the oath to the constitution, nobody here, not even the ene mies of Louis Napoleon, attach importance to it. His friends contend that the duties imposed on him religiously and morally were paramount to the formality of the oath ; and even assert that there has virtually been no violation, since his oath bound him only to the majority of the people, to whom he has appealed, and whose decision he declares he will obey. THURSDAY The Monileur announces the loss of the army in the late events to have been one officer and twenty-four privates killed, and 17 officers and 167 privates wounded. The Pairie contradicts the report circulated at the Bourse relative to a modification in the system of taxation. M. Madier Montjau, father of the representative wounded on the barricades, has been set at liberty. The Postmaster-General published the following at 10 o'clock p.m.:—" The Inspector of the Var writes from Toulon, the Bth of December, that the mail from Draguig nen brings news that 2,000 insurgents who were march ing on that town retreated in the direction of Brignolles and Barjois, making some hundred bourgeoisie and public functionaries march at their head with chains round their necks. The Director of I.he Post-office at Luc was amongst the prisoners. In the despatch from Luc, of Dec. 7, for Paris, is enclosed a regular sheet of advice signed by the provisional director named by the sovereign people, Boucher." For some days past the diligence from Draguignan to Marseilles, which carries the mail, has brought a way bill signed by the revolutionary directors of Vidauban, Cuers, &c. _ _ _ _ _ _ Government accounts from Montauban, dated 7th of December, 8 o'clock, p.m., state—" All is tranquil. The adhesions multiply, particularly among the Legitimists." Also from Chateauroux, December 10, 6 30 p.m.— " The most perfect tranquillity prevails." M. Jolivart was buried this morning. His death has excited a deep feeling of regret. He was a landscape pain ter, who, quietly occupied in his artistic labours (at his lodgings near the Boulevard de Bonnes Nouvelles), was struck by a bullet, which pierced the walls of the house, and killed him on the spot. In the house at the corner of the rue de Richlieu, Louis, an old and attached servant of M. Brandus, was shot dead at the very moment when that gentleman and his friends had rushed up stairs into an adjoining room for shelter. To give any true idea of the number of persons killed and wounded during the insurrection is impossible, since there is no available means of making facts public. Several distingUished members of the Legitimist and Orleanist parties sent in their adhesion to-day to the government. On the statement of a London journal, that the Prince de Joinville and the Duc d'Aumale intended to place themselves at the head of a movement in France. there has been a meeting of some of the chiefs of the Orleanist party. at which it was unanimously resolved to write to the Prince and declare that they could not sup port any attempt on his part to keep up a civil war. Not the slightest attempt has been made by the govern ment to shackle the independence of the correspondents of the London journals. The only persons connected with the press who have been annoyed are some of the editors of the four Socialist papers ; but that is because they took an active part in getting up the insurrection. About thirty of them have been arrested. The President of the Republic has received several let ters warning him to be on his guard against assassins, but he pays little, if any, attention to them. He goes out, it is true, with guards, but in an open carriage ; and it is the opinion of many of his friends that he exposes himself too much at this moment. FRIDAY The 3loniteur contains a decree by w hich taxes are authorised to be colle cted for the next three months only, and a credit of 369 m illions allowed for the marshals public service. a of Generals Vaillant and H aris p e are made France, and General Ran don Governor of Algeria. A railway is to be made r ound Paris, which is conceded to the great railway companies , and the Lyons and Avi gnon Railway is to be set up for competition on the 19th. A decree has definitively constituted the Consultative Commission formed by decree of the 2nd inst. The Pre sident of the Republic will preside at the Commission, of which M. Baroche i former Minister of Foreign Affairs, is vice-president. The Minister of Finance is authorized to create for the public service Treasury Bonds to the amount of 150 millions, to he negotiated with the Bank of France. M. Maurov, late Chef du Cabinet of the Minister of the Interior, has been appointed member of the Council of the Prefecture of the Seine. The votes of the seamen and marines on the election of the President are—for, 6242; against, 2154 ; abstained, 171. The officers, sub-officers, serjeants, and privates of the two squadrons of the Bth Lancers, detached at Givet, at the Prussian frontier,' have voted unanimously for the election of Louis Napoleon. The funeral of Marshal Soult took place on the 6th instant, at St. Amans-la-Bastide. The remains of the illustrious warrior were followed to their last resting-place by a crowd from the departments of the Herault, the Tarn, and the Lnt. The Archbishop of Alby and the Bishop of Cahors presided at the funeral ceremonies, and gave the last benediction to the ashes of the dead. The Duchess is at this moment the object of the respect and sympathy of the whole country. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1851. STATE OF THE PROVINCES The state of some of the departments is by no means satisfactory. Besides the departments already under martial law before the coup d'etat, which were the Ardeche, the Cher, the Nievre, and the Rhone, the state of siege has now been proclaimed in the departments of the Seine, Basses-Alpes, Allier, Saone-et-Loire, Herault, and, Var. Lot, and Lot-et-Garonne, in the city of Stras burg, and probably in many other places nut as yet known. At Valence, on the Rhone, the military authorities prevailed after a short struggle, though the insurrection had made head at Crest, in Dauphiny. At Nimes, where political contests have frequently been aggravated by religious animosity, the National Guard was called out, and, as the severest precautions were taken, order was veserved. But in the extreme south-eastern department of the Var the resistance was so violent that it appears for the time to have overpowered the authorities of Louis Napoleon. and large forces were marching from Toulon to reduce the district. Draguignan and the frontier were wholly in the possession of the Socialist bands, and no communications could be forwarded without their per mission. The adjoining department of the Basses-Alpes is also in flagrant and successful insurrection. The towns of Digue and Sisteron are occupied by bands amounting to some thousand men, and these are doubtless in com munication with the French refugees in Switzerland and Savoy. Proceeding to the west, along the Mediterranean coast, no place seems to have witnessed more horrible attrocities than Bezieres, in the department of the Herault, and Bedarieux, in its immediate neighbourhood. The Red Republican party appeared there in all their fury ; inoffensive citizens were massacred, and it was ❑ot till a severe engagement had taken place that the town was rescued. At Comden (Gera) the insurgents got possession of the town altogether; for, when an appeal was made to the principal inhabitants to support the government, only twenty could be found to obey the call— a circumstance which leads to the idea that this resistance is not everywhere of an exclusively Socialist character, as the journals of the Elysee would have the public believe. In no place has any enthusiasm been expressed for Louis Napoleon. _ _ SATURDAY By the decree of the President a credit of 400,000 f. is accorded for the continuation of the new foreign office. General Chadeysson having refased to take the command of the department of the Basses Aloes, is put a la retraite. Generals D'Hautpool, Baraguay d'Hilliers, and Magnan, commander in chief of the army of Paris, are each made grand officers of the legion of honour. The funeral of the soldiers of the 72nd regiment who fell in the combats of the 4th took place yesterday, at the cemetery of Mont Parnasse, in presence of deputations from the regiment. A letter from Strasbourg of the 11th states that M. Thiers had reached that city the evening before, accom panied by an officer of police, and had left for Germany the same night. M. Creton and M. Duvergier de Rau ranne imprisoned at Vincennes, have been set at liberty. M. Leon Faucher has written to contradict the rumour of his having been ordered out of Paris : he has not left, and does not mean to leave the city. A secret society was discovered yesterday morning in the Rue Meslay, neigh bourhood of the Temple, disguised under the form of a charitable institution. All the members present were arrested, and according to the decree of the President of the Republic they may be transported at once. _ Numerous declarations of adhesion and addresses to the President of the Republic, thanking him for his energy on the 2nd instant, were received yesterday. M. de Montalembert and M. de Falloux have, it ap pears, each authoritatively communicated to their friends that the committee of 12, representing the interests of the Count de Chambord, had resolved upon recommend ing their friends not to vote against the President, or exhibit for the future anything like systematic hostility. This is extremely important, as it ensures the adhesion of La Vendee, and must produce great effect upon the Legi timists in the south. The civil tribunals of Versailles have given in their adhesion. Corsica had, as might have been expected, received with great enthusiasm the act of the President. Insurgency still prevails in many of the provincial towns The . commander-in-chief of the army of Paris had addressed a long report to the Minister of War, giving a detail of his proceedings during the insurrection. At Marseilles the insurgents had abandoned all the high roads and principal towns in the Var, and the mill- tary are now in possession of them. On Thursday night and the day previous about 1500 Socialists left the city, and having recruited on the road, they assembled yester day—upwards of 2000, all armed,—close to the aqueduct of Roquefavior and Aix. The rappel was beaten lest night at Aix, and the necessary measures taken to pre vent a surprise. Were the insurgents of the Var to join these men, their numbers wonld be formidable. A slight skirmish took place on Thursday on the frontiers of the Lower Alps, but without any nenenciai SUNDAY. A decree definitively constitutes the new consultative commission. It is composed of 78 names; amongst them are those of Count D'Argout, Governor of the Bank of France; Baroche and F. Barrot, former ministers; Barthe, Minister of Justice under Louis Philip; e and now Presi dent of the Cour des Comptes ; Do Beaumont (Somme) Billault, Carlier, ex prefect of police; Chaix D'Estange, Drouyn de Lhuys, Dumas, and Lacrosse, former minis ters ; De Montalembert, De Mortemart, Da Mouchy, Noailles, Odier, ex peer of France and controller of the Bank ; De Purieu, Rouher, and Schneider, former minis ters ; De Segur, D'Aguesseau, Seydoux, De Thorigny, late minister ; Troplong, First President of the Court of Appeal ; Vaisse, former minister; De Wagram, Generals Baraquay D'Hilliers, Preval, De Castallane, Marshal Ex celmans, Generals De Grammont, De Grouchy, D'Haut poul, De la Hitte, Magnan, Admiral Cecille, &c. The Commission begins to meet on the 23rd to count the votes for the election of the President in pursuance of the decree of the 2nd instant. The Secretaries-General of the late Council of State and National Assembly are appointed to the same office in the present commission. A decree declares the cessation of the extraordinary missions confided to M. Duval in the eight departments of Brittany and Vendee ; and to M. Carlier in the three departments of the Centre ; and to M. Berrard in the Somme. News from the departments is reassuring, excepting the Basses Alpes, where, however, the chief towns, Diane and Sisterton, have been recaptured by the troops. Nettement has been set at liberty MM. Creton and Duvergier de Hauranne are still at Vincennes. M. Thiers arrived at Mayence on the 10th GERMANY The late King of Hanover, by his will, has placed the children of his wife by her first husband, Prince Fred. of Prussia, though not on an equal footing with his own, yet in the relation of near kindred, and has bequeathed to each of them a handsome annuity. A letter from Pesth of the Ist, in the Correspondenz Blatt, states that the house occupied by the mother and sisters of Kossuth, opposite the Karoly Palace, was sur. rounded in the night, and perquisitions were made in their apartments. Kossuth's sisters, Mesdames Rutthay and Messelenghi, and the tutor of the latter's children, were afterwards removed to another part of the building. The mother of Kossuth obtained permission to remain in her apartment, but she was placed under the surveillance of the police. The tutor was subsequently put in irons. The Preussisehe Zeitung states that M. Hanke, a learned Bohemian, is publishing, in Prague, a facsimile of the Gospels on which the kings of France have always been sworn at their coronation at Rheims. The manu script volume is in the Slavonian language, and has been preserved at Rheims ever since the twelfth century, but it has only been lately discovered in what language it was written. THE PENINSULAR MAILS The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany's ship Iberia, C. F. Burney, R.N. arrived at South ampton, on Sunday morning with the Spanish and Por tuguese mails. The Iberia brings 20 passengers, and on freight 10 packages of specie. The screw steam-ship Nile, six days and a half from Liverpool, arrived on the 3rd instant, and cleared for Palermo, Alexandria, and Beyrout. The Lisbon exchanges for bills at three months are quoted by this mail at 534 for London ; Paris, 532 ; Amsterdam, 424 ; Hamburgh, 481 ; Genoa, 531. Bills on London had continued scarce, and money remained over at the above quotation, some thing having been done even at 534. At Lisbon, the public panic respecting the capitalization of dividends, &c., had in a great measure subsided. The Cortes were to meet on the 15th, when that and other de crees, with a ministerial project of law for the reform of certain articles of the charter, would be submitted for the approval of the House of Deputies. The revenue of the Oporto Custom-house for November was 203 contos, less 18 contos for amortization of notes. Everything in the way of business was in a most depressed state. The weather was fine in the extreme, the drought still continu ing. Rain was very much wanted throughout the country. In politics there was nothing new, all parties remaining quiet and passive, looking forward to the meeting of the Cortes. The Bishops of Sardinia have addressed a protest to the King against the construction of the new Protestant Church at Turin, in which they state that the permission accorded is contrary to the constitution. A church is be ing placed at the disposal of the Protestant residents of Genoa. These acts highly incense the Roman clergy, who do not consider that Sardinia has many Protestant subjects, who, though the Roman Catholic faith be de clared the religion of the State, have a right to a place of public worship, under the benign clause of that constitu tion which accords toleration to all creeds and persuasions. RELEASE OF DR. MARRIOTT. - Dr. Marriott, who had been imprisoned at Carlsruhe by the police on a charge of circulating inflammatory papers and obscene prints, has been released after sixteen days' confinement, by order of the Minister of th e H ome D epar t men t, th e au th or iti e s having excee ded the law. D r . Ma rr iott states that the publications in question were tracts against the Jesuits, and pictures of the Roman Catholic Church, such as are circulated by the Religious Tract Society of Loudon. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM-SHIP AFRICA. Atter a fair average passage of eleven days, three hours, and , wenty-eight minutes, mean time, the Royal Mail steam-ship Africa. Captain Ryrie, reached the Mersey shortly after eight o'clock on Sunday evening, bringing the usual mails, 66 passengers, and 1,425,873 dollars in specie on freight. The Royal Mail steam-ship America. Shannon, com mander, which sailed hence on the 22d ult., had not arrived at New York when the Africa left. The United States Mail steam-ship Washington, which left Southampton on the 14th ult., arrived at New York at 9 a.m., on the 28th, after a run of about 14 days. The United States steam-ship Cherokee arrived at New York on the 29th ult., with advices from San Francisco to the Ist ult., and 2,265,594 dollars in specie on freight. The steam-ship Prometheus arrived at New York on the Ist inst., from California, with 120,677 dollars in gold dust on freight, and 500,000 dollars in the hands of passengers. The Africa passed a large steamer at 7 a.m., on the 4th inst., supposed to be the Humboldt, from Southampton to New York. . . C3ngress commenced sitting on the Ist instant. A spi rited contest for the speakership of the House of Repre sentatives took nlace, and ended in the election of. Mr. Lind Boyd, of Kentucky. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. The President's Message was delivered on the 2d. It is, as usual, a lengthy document, occupying some six columns of the New York papers, The following is an outline : The President, in his address to the citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, congratulated them upon the favourable auspices under which they met. The country was at peace with all the world. The agita tions which had threatened their personal peace were fast subsiding, and a year of general prosperity and health had crowned the nation with unusual blessings. He then de lineated the action of the government in reference to Cuba; emphatically declared his past and continued pur pose to maintain inviolate the neutrality laws and non-in tervention principles of the Republic ; re-affirmed the settled determination of the government neither to grant nor permit the right of search ; deplored the attack of the mob upon the consul's house at New Orleans, and sug gested indemnification from the national treasury for the property destroyed. He expressed a hope that the Sandwich Islands may soon be at peace with France ; and stated that the policy for the independence of those islands heretofore adopted would be steadily pursued. He ter:on:mended that Congress should consider in what manner Governor Kossuth and his companions should be received and treated. _ _ The connection of the two oceans across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec would probably be prosecuted with energy, whenever Mexico should impart a feeling of security to those who should invest their property in the enterprise. The convention between the two Governments for the ac complishment of that end bad been ratified, and only awaited the decision of the Executive of that Republic. The aggregate receipts of the last fiscal year were 52,312,979 dollars 87 cents, with the balance on hand at the commencement; making the means of the treasury for the year 58,917,524 dollars 36 cents, against 48,005;878 dollars 66 cents. The imports for the year ending June 30, 1851, were 215,725.995'd011ar5, of which 4.967.901 dol lars were in specie. The exports were 217,517,130 dollars. of which 178,546,555 dollars were domestic, and 9,738.695 dollars foreign products. Specie exported, 29,231,880 dollars. Since December last the payments of principal of the debt were 7.501,456 dollars 56 cents, which was inclusive of 3,242,400 dollars paid under the 12th article of the treaty with Mexico, and 2,591,213 dollars 45 cents awards under the late treaty with Mexico. The pUblic debt, exclusive of stock authorized to be issued to Texas, was 62,560,395 dollars 26 cents. The receipts for the next fiscal year were estimated at 51,800,000 dollars, making, with the balance on hand, the avail able means of the year 63,258,743 dollars 9 cents. The expenditures were estimated at 42,892,299 dollars 19 cents, of which 33,343.198 were for ordinary purposes of government, and 9,549,101 dollars 11 cents for purposes consequent upon the acquisition of territory from Mexico. It was estimated that there would he an unappropriated balance of 20.366.443 dollars 90 cents in the treasury on the 30th June, 1853, to meet 6.227,931 dollars 35 cents of public debt, due on the Ist of July following. The value of the domestic exports for the year ending June 30, 1851, showed an increase of 43,646,322 dollars, which was owing to the high price of cotton during the first half of the year, and the price of which bad since declined one-half. The value of the exports of hreadstnffs was only 21,948,653 dollars, against 26,051.373 in 1850, and 68,701,921 dollars in 1847, their largest year of export in that department of trade. In rice the decrease this year as compared with last in the export was 460,917 dollars, which, with the decrease in the value of tobacco exported, made an aggre gate decrease in the two articles of 1,156,751 dollars. From these premises the President drew the conclusion that the favourable results anticipated by the advocates of free trade from the adoption of that policy have not been' realised. He recommended a modification of the tariff, by sub stituting specific for ad valorem duties where practicable, and discriminating in favour of home industry, so as to encourage home production without excluding foreign competition. The low rate of duties on foreign mer chandise had not tended to benefit the country, by in creasing the demand and raising tne price or agricultural produce in foreign markets, as the foreign demand for the products of the American farmer had steadily declined. The President called the attention of Congress to the proper regulation or disposal of the mineral lands of California; recommended that the system of internal improvements be steadily prosecuted ; that an agricul tural bureau be established ; that more effectual mea sures be taken to suppress Indian incursions into Mexico ; and that the penal regulations of the navy be revised. In regard to the fugitive slave question, the President stated, that the act of Congress for the return of fugitives from labour is one required and demanded by the express words of the constitution, and that the laws would be enforced whenever their execution should be resisted. The President concluded with a very just and appro priate survey of the operation of the peace measures of the last Congress, and a renewed recommendation that they be faithfully abide d by as a final settlement of questions that cannot be agitated without endangering the peace and welfare of the country. MISCELLANEOUS The report of the postmaster-general states, that the gross receipts of the department for the fiscal year, were 6,786,493 d. 22c.; and the ordinary revenue 6,551,977 d. 89c., showing an increase of 999,006 d. 41c. over the pro per revenues of the preceding year. Included in the gross receipts were 58,626 d. 44c. due as British postage collected, and which had been paid over under the provi sions of the recent postal treaty. The gross expenditures for the fiscal year were 6,278,401 d. 68c. including items which, being omitted, would reduce the ordinary expendi ture to 6,024,566 d. 79c, The actual balance of revenue over the expenditures of the year is stated at 703,299 d. 99c. The publication of the report of the Secretary of the Treasury is unavoidably delayed for some days, but it is understood that the exposition of the present state of the finances of the Government will be very favourable, show ing a heavy absorption of the public debt, during the past year, by the investment of the surplus revenue and the proceeds of the public lands ; the latter in the loan of 1867, for the redemption of which they were specially pledged. Very little was done in Congress on the 2d instant. A most important movement, however, was commenced in the Senate, by Senator Foote giving notice of his inten tion to introduce a resolution to the effect that the com promise measures of last Congress are a final settlement of the slavery agitation. _ _ _ The New York Tribune states that, should the cotton crop now going forward be equal to that of last year, and be sold at present prices, it will realize 40,000,000 dollars less than that of last year, or nearly the whole amount of the increase in the whole exports of 1851 over 1850. Miss Catherine Hayes was at Rochester, and had been compelled to retire from the stage on two occasions, on the evening of the 29th ultimo, her voice having altogether failed her, from indisposition. It appears that Jenny Lind has fixed the 12th January as the day for her last concert at New York. She pur posed to sing in the interim at Worcester, Providence, Hartford or Newhaven, and in Philadelphia. Probably she will leave New York for this port on the 14th proximo. As the United States steam-ship Prometheus was leav ing San Juan, on the 21st ultimo, she was fired into by the English brig of war Express, and compelled to return to her anchorage. The reason assigned was, that the port dues claimed by the Musquito King had not been paid. On the amount being handed over, (under protest,) the steamer was allowed to depart. The accounts from California are of a very interesting character. The news from the mines is of the most cheer ing character. The most exciting intelligence is to be found in the proceedings of a convention assembled to consider the propriety of dividing California into two states, southern and northern. The language of the speakers would leave no doubt as to the final issue to which this division tends. The establishment of a new slave state is manifestly the aim of at least some of the pro moters of this scheme. The clipper-ship Challenge arrived at San Francisco, on the 29th October, from New York. Great excitement was caused shortly after the arrival of the Challenge, from the reports that Captain Waterman, and George Douglas, chief mate, had perpetrated great cruelties to the crew, and caused the death of nine of them. A mob assembled, and an attempt was made to secure the captain and mate, which, however, failed, they having made their escape. Subsequently, a reward of 5500 was offered by the United States Marshal for the arrest of Captain Waterman, who is charged with causing the deaths of nine of his crew, and George Douglass, first mate, and a rumour was afloat, when the Tennessee left, that Captain Waterman bad surrendered himself to the civil authorities the evening before the steamer sailed. The Flying Cloud had sailed for China, and her captain, Cressy, died when two or three days out from San Francisco. Accounts from Upper Canada state that the elections were fixed by the returning officers to come off about the 10th of December. Some come on sooner and some later. On the lowest calculation the Reformers are likely to return a majority of thirty members to the new house, in both sections of the province. Late advices from Havana state that General Concha, the Captain General of Cuba, had indicated his intention of pardoning Mr. Thrasher in a few days, giving him 20 days to settle his affairs, and then to quit the island. This has caused great rejoicing among the American residents. The latest advices from the seat of war on the Rio Grande, report that General Caravajal had received a re inforcement of 400 Americans, and was making pre parations to renew hostilities on a most formidable scale. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. • NEW YORK, Dnc. 3, 1851 Money is easy at 6to 7 per cent. for loans on call," and 7 to 9 per cent. for discount of leading signatures, and 10 to 12 per cent. for the less prominent. The receipts of gold dust from California continue to be fully equal to the estimate. For the fortnight they amount to over 33,000,000. There is, how ever, no diminution in the exports of coin to Europe, the ship ments from this port to Boston, from the 15th to the 29th ultimo, having reached .3,050,000 , , and for the present week they are estimated at .8'2,000,000. The business in foreign exchange for the steamer Africa has not been very large, and the market closes flatly. We quote bills on London 10f to 10/ per cent. prem. ; Paris. f 5 12/ to f 5 13f, 60 days', and f 5 10. short sight; Antwerp, f 5 15; Ams terdam, 4lf to 41a; Hamburgh, 36f to 36j; and Bremen, 78 to 78f cents. Corrow.—Subsequent to the departure of the Baltic, 22nd ult. the market with much firmness and a fair demand, ad vanced is per lb. or more, but since our last, with a lessened in quiry, it has been very dull, and prices have declined *c. to *c. so that they now stand just about as they did on the 22nd ; an improvement in freights to Liverpool tends also to depress the market. The receipts at all the shipping ports are 477.494 bales. ageinst 454,481 to same dates last year; an increase this season of 23,013 bales. The total foreign export this year is 48,778 bales less than last, say 26,637 hales decrease to Great Britain, 7,547 decrease to France, 12,106 decrease to North of Europe. and 2,488 decrease to other foreign ports. The shipments from southern to northern ports are 31,289 bales more this season than last ' • and there is a decrease in stock of 21,543 bales. The sales for the week ended 29th ult. were 8,300 bales, :nd since our last 1,500 bales. We quote • Atlantic Ports. Florida. Gulf Ports. Inferior none. none. none. Low to good 0rd.... 7f to 7f .... 7f to 7f .... 7/ to . 8 Low to good mid ... g to S/ .... 8 to 8f .... 8f to 9 Mid lair to fair Bf to 9 .... 9 to —9/ to 10 BREAD STUFFS —F'our has further advanced 6f cents. per byrel ; freights remaining unchanged. A sudden frost de tains a large quantity of flour on the canal; if released, this will form a considerable addition to our winter stock; for the first time, also, considerable quantities are likely to reach us during winter by means of improved railway transport ; still, our present stock is by no means large, and the low price favours consumption also on this side, and occasions ship ments to all parts on a more liberal Belle than heretofore. The present prices are S 3 15-16 for common superfine, and 84 per barrel or good common State and Western Flour. Good Ohio bring s 84/ to 84f, and new good Michigan .B'4/ per barrel. Canada is but in small supply, and common brands are diffi cult to sell at 83 15-16 per barrel, while there is a good demand for the better kinds at 84, a-'d for choice brands at .84f per barrel. Of wheat there will be little iii the market, until the quantity detained on the canal is liberated. Prices are well supported; freights unchanged. Prime Canada is scarce at 90 cents., middling sells at 87 to 88 cents. per bushel. Of Michi gan t he supply is very small ; occasional lots bring 90 cents. per bushel. Prime white Genesee is in moderate supply, at 97/ cents. to SI ner bushel. Red Ohio is not on the market, and price nominal. Of white Southern a fair supply is coming forward, and good to prime lots bring 91 to 93 cents. per bushel. Indian corn has declined 1 to 2 cents. ; good Western mixed may be had at 59 cents. per bushel ; old white Southern has brought 61 cents. per bushel. PROVISIONS.—Pork and beef firm and active—Soo bbls of the former and 300 of the latter having found buyers at old rates—while 300 bbls beef hams were sold at 813 50 ; 20J bbls. old lard at Bc. to Bfc. ; 560 kegs soft new at 8/c. to Bfe. ; and 1,200 city cut pork hams at Bc. to 8/c. Ohio and State butter rather dull at Bc. to 16c. ; while cheese seems very brisk at 6fc. to 7c. per lb. I RON.—The demand is limited. 300 tons Scotch pig iron sold at 820, and 150 ditto in small parcels 820 50c. to 821, 6 mos. 100 tons English bars brought 334, 7 mos. FREIGHTS.—In freights there is a fair amount of transactions at steady prices. Engagements to Liverpool : cotton, 3 16d. ; flour, 12d. •, 10,000 bushels wheat, 4d. to 4/d, the former in bulk ; 1,000 barrels resin, 12d. ; wood, 15s, &c. To London : 1,500 boxes cheese, 355.•, 40 pipes wines, 13s ; 2,000 barrels oil cake, Is. 9d. to Is. 100. To Havre: The packet of the Bth is full, at /c. for cotton, S 6 to as for ashes, &c., and the packet of the 16th has cotton engaged at the same price. To California there is a moderate business at 45c. to 50c. NEW ORLEANS, DEC. 1. Cotton has been active this morning, sales reaching 4,000 bales, at the decline previously advised. Strict middling is at 7fc. The lower grades of tobacco are firm ; the whole stock on sale does not exceed 2,500 hhds. Freights are unsettled ; the arrivals from sea during the past thirty-eight hours have been twenty-one ships and barques. Sterling exchange is 104 c. MOBILE, Nov. 29. Receipts of cotton for the week ending yesterday, 19,000 bales; middling, 74c. DEC. I.—Cotton is easier here to-day; middling has been sold at Thc., and shipped to Havre at ic. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1. No particular improvement in the market genei•ally can be noted; on the contrary, for many months we have not had so dull a fortnight. Indeed, we may say that there is scarcely an article embraced within the scope t f our wants of which we have not, at least, a six months' supply; and of most descrip tions of merchandise we have sufficient for twelve. Little or no speculative demand manifests itself for any article, and sales are made purely for consumption. There has been a continued influx of gold from the mining districts, and the accounts i eceived are greater even than was anticipated. and, unlike preceding years, it is confidently expected that after the first rains have fallen, still larger amounts will he expected than has ever yet been the case since the first discovery of the gold. Money has become more plentiful in our market, and the rates of interest considerably reduced whenever any real securities are offered. Exchange: On the Eastern State, 2 per cent. short sight. Gold dust : Worth fully $l7 per oz. clean. WEST INDIES. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. B.—The Royal West India Mail steamer Dee has arrived, with the West India and Gulf of Mexico mails. She springs specie value 51.973,000 on freight, of which 76,486 are for Mexican dividends. The Trent left Tampico after time, upwards of £600,000 left behind.—Cambrego, in Tamaulipas, Mexico, still in the hands of insurgents, and in command of a Mexican officer named Cabaral. He has laid down a scale of rates, about half of the present Mexican tariff, appropriating one-half to himself. On the frontier of Rio Grande smuggling is carried on to a great extent.—ln Jamaica the cholera was fatal in many parts of the island. A gale near Black River had done considerable damage to the ship ping. Business very dull. Weather very severe.—ln De merara the weather was favourable, and planters were getting in their crops as fast as possible. Shipping in Demerara River loading rapidly. Market well supplied with provisions. THE BRAZILS The Teviot arrived at Southampton on Tuesday. Her dates are—Buenos Ayres, Nov. 3rd ; Monte Video, 6th ; Rio de Janeiro, 14th ; Bahia, 18th; Pernambuco, 21st; Cape of Good Hope, Nov. 4rh. The news from the River Plate is of a very conflicting description. The recent news of the defeat of Oribe is fully confirmed, and there seems to be no doubt but that it was the intention of Urquiza to cross the river and enter the province of Buenos Ayres at the head of a con siderable army, composed of the allied forces, and which is stated to amount to upwards of 20,000 men, leaving 6,000 in reserve in the Banda Oriental. All reports agree in stating that the spirit of disaffection towards General Rosas was rapidly spreading in the city and pro vince of Buenos Ayres. _ At Montevideo all was quiet, and business very active. The whole of the Brazil coast is perfectly healthy, and there were no signs of fever either on shore or afloat. The island of St. Vincent had been visited by fever and ague, which had attacked almost the whole of the popu lation. These complaints did not prove very fatal. The commercial accounts from Brazil are mostly of a favourable character. At Rio Janeiro the effect of the pressure in the New York money market upon the de mand for coffee had been counteracted by better advices from Europe, and a good business had been done at steady prices. There had been a rise in the quotation for gold, owing to the demand for the army in the Banda Oriental ; but the money market was exceedingly easy, the rate for the best paper being 5 per cent. At Bahia there was nothing new in business, and the arrivals of the new sugar crop had, as yet, been very small. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Advice to November 4th have come to hand. The Herald says—" About 6,000 hostile Kaffirs are living within the colonies. Several skirmishes had taken place, but_no important success had been gained by the troops." The Daily News says —" The Cape news is encouraging. General Somerset had inflicted a succession of severe de feats on the Kaffirs in Water Kloof. The weapons of the 60th Rifles told with great effect. It was supposed that Macome would not be able to hold out much longer. The Kaffirs were still in great force in Fish River Bush and Amatolee. It is feared, however, that any opening pros pect of success would lead to a wider extension of the war, which may, before long, spread eastward beyond Kee, and northward beyond Orange River." The Cape Town Mail of 4th December says—" The enemy in Fish River Bush district had been repulsed in several skirmishes, but with no important results, except in one instance, where several thousand sheep and cattle were captured. In the Water Kloof, Major Somerset, with 3,000 men, had driven the Kaffirs away after several hours' hard fighting on different days. The whole camp of the latter was destroyed, and their loss severe. The riflemen and artillery did great service. The British loss on the 14th and 16th November is 6 killed and 26 wounded, including the following :—" Lieutenant Norris, death of wounds; Captain Addison, severely wounded; Ensign Ricketts, dangerously wounded. On 23rd, 3 killed of 60th Rifles; 74th Highlanders, 5 wounded. The number of Kaffirs killed is reported at from 400 to 500. Another movement was contemplated. In other districts no im provement is reported. We have intelligence to the sth Nov., being one day later, by the Propontis steamer. It is in a great measure anticipated by that brought by the Teviot, which we have given above. We regret to state that amongst the wounded in the hostile engagements were Lieut. Norris of the 6th Regiment, who has since died ; Captain Addi son, of the 2d, who was wounded severely ; and Ensign Rickets, of the 91st, who was dangerously wounded. The number of Kaffirs killed was estimated at 500. Captain Austen, of the 73d Regiment, was killed by a fall from his horse, but not in action. INDIA (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH FROM TRIESTE.) BOMBAY, Nov. 12. Bombay is tranquil. Dost Mohammed is dying. Sir C. Campbell's forces retook Michenee, and drove back the enemy to the mountains without loss. _ An engagement of cavalry took place on the frontiers of Debra Ismail Khan. _ _ _ The Governor-General was expected at Calcutta on the 10th of January. _ _ _ _ _ Her Majesty's steamer Fox had been ordered to Ran goon, to demand satisfaction for injuries done to Englishmen. The ships Bengali and Scaunfiene had been lost in a violent gale near Calcutta. The ship Tayn had been captured near Penang, and all the Europeans on board murdered by Malays of her crew. The Nizam had paid the full amount due to the East India Company. Riots had taken place at Berar and Gwalior. BOMBAY MARKETS.—Imports lively. Money in de mand, Company's Five per Cents., 104 to 1041 ; Debt Four per Cent., 911- to 92. Freights for England, 10 fires, 2 17 lower. Cottons, 78r. to 93r. per candy. Ex change on 1 - „"%fjon, 2a. ltd. for good bills. ECCLESIASTICAL NEWS. DIOCESE OF CHESTER, ORDINATION.—The Bishop of Chester intends to hold his next ordination at Chester on Sunday, the 7th March next, be ing the second Sunday in Lent. Candidates must send all their papers complete to Charles T. W. Parry, Esq., his Lordship's secretary, on or before the Ist February next, after which day none can be received except under special circumstances. VISITATION.—The Bishop of Chester held a Visitation of the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral on Tuesday and Thursday last, which was further adjourned to Tuesday the 23rd Instant. PREFERMENTS.—The Reverend Henry Lowther has been licensed to the perpetual curacy of Kensingham, in the county of Cumberland, upon the nomination of the Earl of Lonsdale, the patron, vacant by the death of the Rev. Robert Whitehead, the late incumbent. Value .e 126, with a house. ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH, WIGAN.—The Rev. Peter King Simmons has been licensed to the curacy of the recently-con secrated Church of St. Thomas, upon the nomination of the Rev. J. Gunning, Rector of Wigan, the patron. BOWDON.—The Bishop has granted the Rev. W. H. G. Mann, the Vicar of Bowdon, a license of non-residence until the 31st December, 1852, on account of ill health. SAINT OSWALD'S CHURCH, CHESTER.—The Bishop has is sued an order to close the churchyard of the parish of Saint Oswald, Chester, in conformity with the provisions of the Chester County Act. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS Coffin, Rev. J. T. Pine, M.A., Rector of Alwington, near Bideford, to the Prebendal Stall in Exeter Cathedral, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Ellicombe ; Davis, Rev. J., to the Rec to!), of Llanvaaes, Glamorganshire ; Dwyer, Rev. P., to the Prebend and Rectory of Tullogh, county of Clare; Fox, Rev. Smyth Whitelaw, M.A., to the Stipendiary Curacy of Euxton, near Chorley, Lancashire; Foxton, Rev. G. F. Hardman, M.A., Curate of Great Whitley, to the Perpetual Curacy of Stoulton, Worcestershire; Greaves, Rev. J., M.A., Incumbent of St. Peter's, Birmingham, to the Vicarage of Great 3lissenden, Bucks; Hill, Rev. H. T., to the Vicarage of Felton, Hereford shire; Huleatt, Rev. H. 8., to the Treasurership of Kilfenora and the Union of Rathhourney, county of Clare; Jackson, Rev. John Joseph, to the Rectory of Ballinderry, Armagh ; Lawder, Rev. W. Bernard, to the Rectory of Nepance. diocese of To ronto ; La Touche, Rev. John George Digges, 8.A., to the Sti pendiary Curacy of Blackrod. near Chorley, Lancashire; Lewis, Rev. R., to the Rectory of Lampeter-Velvrey, Pembrokeshire; Marsden, Rev. J. 8., M.A.; Vicar of Great Missenden, Bucks. to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Peter's, Birmingham; Marsden, Rev. 8., to the Vicarage of Glascombe, with Colven and Rulen annexed, Radnorshire; Nicholls, Rev. C. H. J., to be Colonial Chaplain at the Gold Coast; Ormsby, Rev. W. G., to the Union of Arklow, county of Wicklow ; Oswell, Rev. H. Lloyd, M.A., Perpetual Curate of Stoulton, to the Vicarage of Leighton, Salop; Pizey, Rev. C. T. 8.A., St. Catharine's Hall, Cam bridge, to the Second Mastership of King Edward the Sixth's Grammar School, Nuneaton, Warwickshire; Ridley, Rev. H. R., Vicar of Stranton, Durham, to be a Surrogate; Stowell, Rev. Hugh, to the Rural' Deanery of Eccles, Manchester; Swift, Rev. G., to the Perpetual Curacy of Christ Church, Brad ford. Yorkshire; Tweed, Rev. H. W., to the Assistant Curacy of ChriseChurch, St. Pancras; Watkin, Rev. J. W., to be a Surrogate for the Diocese of Durham ; Webb, Rev. 8., M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Sheen, Stafford-hire; Whistler, Rev. Rose Fuller, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Bishop's Norton with Atterby, Lincolnshire, as Prebendary of Bishop's Norton, in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln; White, Rev. J. N. 8.A., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of linshall, Norfolk ; Wilson, Rev. R., 8.A., to be Chaplain of her Ma jesty's Dockyard, Sheerness. BENEFICES AND APPOINTMENTS VACANT, Prebend: Prebend of Hurste, Chichester Cathedral. Ca nonry : Ist Comp. of Llanfair, St. Asaph Cathedral. Rectories: Oving, Sussex; diocese of Chichester; value x'224; patron, the Precentor in Chichester Cathedral. Sacomb, Herts ; dio- cese of Rochester; value '266;. patron, S. Smith, Esq. Ford wich, Kent ; diocese of Canterbury ; value .tl7B ; patron, Earl Cowper. Erbistock, Flint; diocese of St. Asaph; value x'24o; patron, Bishop of St. Asaph. Wallop Over, Hants; diocese of Winchester ; value £378 ; patron, Earl of Portsmouth. Per petualCuracv : St. Cuthbert, Carlisle; diocese of Carlisle; value x'lso; patrons, Dean and Chapter of Carlisle. OBITUARY, Dec. 4, the Rev. J. Fawcett, M.A., for fifty years Incumbent of St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland, aged 82. Dec. 5, at Sacomb Rectory, the Rev. Thomas Lloyd, Rector of Sacomb, Herts, and of Fordwich, in the county of Kent, aged 79. - Dec. 7, aged 78, the Rev. G. Robson, Rector of Erbistock, North Wales, and Prebendary of St. Asaph. Dec. 8, at Linton, Cambridgeshire, the Rev. Edmund Fisher, in his 78th year. Dec. 2, at the Admiralty-house, Devonport, the residence of his father-in-law, Sir John Ommanney. K.C.8., the Rev. G. H. Languon, Rector of Oving, Sussex, and Prebendary of Chi chester Cathedral, aged 48. Dec. 1, at the Rectory, Over Wallop, Hants, in his 82d year, the Rev. Henry Wake, for upwards of 38 years Rector of that parish. - Dec. 5, suddenly, aged 74, the Rev. John Wray, Vicar of Bardney, Lincolnshire. The Earl of Shaftesbury, having accepted the Presidency of the Oxford and Oxfordshire Auxiliary to the British and Foreign Bible Society, presided at its Annual Meeting in the Town Hall of Oxford, on Tuesday evening last. The Hall was very full • and among those present were many members of the University. Lord Shaftesbury's address on opening the meeting was forcible and full of points. In acknowledging a vote of thanks, at the close, his lord ship alluded to his recent tour in the north, and expressed his firm conviction that the manufacturing classes there were never in a happier, more flourishing, or more promising condition. He urged perseverance in all our present efforts of Christian love, and said that the very glorious ness of the opening now presented to the Christiim Church ',led* her rooper.h;i:t tlio ”aura. ur. ful. DEATH OF THE REV. W. GARDNER BRADLEY.—We have to record the death of the Rev. William G. Bradley, 8.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford, and rector of St. Mary Cayon, after a short illness, in the 32d year of his age. This eminently faithful and zealous minister of the Gospel has been cut off in the prime of life, and in the zenith of his usefulness. As a priest of the English Church, be was sound in his views, and evangelical in his teaching. He lived among his flock an ensample of the faith which he professed, and the doctrines which he taught. He was characteristic of humility of spirit and mildness of manners. His heart and hand were ever open to soothe the troubles of the sorrowing, and relieve the wants of the distressed. His body rests in his parish church-yard. His memory will ever be revered and che rished by his parishioners, and by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, for his many virtues and his unosten tatious benevolence. He was the eldest son of the Rev. W. Bradley, M.A., Rural Dean and Rector of Nether, Whitacre, in the county of Warwick.—St. Christopher Gazette. IRELAND. Mr. Harris, a master butcher, of York-place, Limerick, was gored to death on Saturday by a bull. The Warder states of its own knowledge that a solici tor and twenty other persons have abandoned Popery within the last month or two in Dublin. Mr. Antony Norris, Cardinal Wiseman's solicitor, will, it is understood, be a candidate for the borough of Cashel, to oust Sir Timothy O'Brien. Upwards of 300 respectable persons have joined the Ma sonic body in Ireland, since the denouncement of the order by Priest Cullen. PROCLAMATION OF THE COUNTY ARMAGH.—At the Privy Council, held on Monday, at the Castle, Dublin, the parishes of Derrynoose and Keady, in the baronies of Tiranny and Armagh, county of Armagh, were proclaimed. Arrangements are being made for a great gathering of the Protestants of Ireland, to take place in Dublin on the 12th January, to adopt measures to secure the repeal of all the acts relating to the endowment of Maynooth College. From the Ist of January, 1851, to the 6th December, 1851, there sailed from the port of Limerick, for Canada, New Brunswick, and the United States, seventy-nine passenger vessels, with 11,241 emigrants, of which multi tude 6,C27 were for Canada, and 5,214 for the States. FIRE AT BELFAST.—A fire took place on Tuesday last, at the paper mill of Messrs. Archer and Sons, Belfast, and did considerable damage before it was suppressed. A man, named David Baird, lost his life—not by the fire, but by falling into the river, where water was drawn for the engines. During the excavations of Lough Corrib drainage, near Menlo, a considerable number of ancient stone hatchets, used by the earliest Irish colonists, were found several feet below the bed of the river. Specimens of these wea pons have been sent to the Queen's College, Galway, by Sir Thomas Blake. _ _ The Board of Trinity College have elected his Grace the Lord Primate Chancellor of the University of Dublin, in succession to the late King of Hanover. The office of Vice-Chancellor is vacant by the elevation of the Primate. It, appears that the Lord Primate was elected by a majo rity of one only, there having been three votes for the Earl of Derby, one for Lord Bosse, and four for his Grace. Great excitement is said to prevail in the town of Tuam at present, an invasion of scripture readers having been made there on the territory of the " Lion of the fold ;" and their appearance being quite a novelty in that region, some of the new visitors have met with rather rough treat ment from the townspeople, and have had to enlist the aid of the police for their protection in their crusade of conversion. THE " NEW ORANGE ORGANIZATION."—The Banner of Ulster says,—" In one of our late numbers we called attention to the new Orange organization which has been established in the Belfast district, and which, we have no doubt, will, ere long, be rapidly extended throughout the country, wherever the Orange system prevails. There is no denying of the fact that, hitherto, the great body of the men composing this powerful association have been used as conveniences by lords, squires, and agents, and other class gentry, for the accomplishment of policies in which the men themselves not only had no interest, but which were frequently in opposition to every in terest to which, as rational beings, their attachment might have been presupposed. In this respect, the Orange societies have been made to do everything for the advantage of a set of aristocratic leaders and their auxiliaries, and no thing whatever for themselves or their families, or for the country in whose prosperity they he as deep a stake a s any other class of their fellow - citizens. In many cases Orangemen have been actually treated with less in dulgence than others, on the ground that their ' liege lords' could depend on them in any emergency, and hence their fraternal . relation itself became an ex c use for their feudal depress ion. The new institution will ac cordingly be allied with the cause of industrial justice, and the temporal welfare - of its mem b ers an d o f th e i r families will be superadded to its other social objects. We understand also that a widows' fund. and a fund for ed ucational purposes, will b e es t a bli s h e d on the gene ral principles already recognized in other friendly asso ciations, while every constitutional aid will be afforded to the efforts of country members in obtaining from Par liament such a land system as will enable them to live in the country of their birth." ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE. The late Mr. Basil Montagu. Q.C., whose death, at the ad vanced age of 82, is recorded to have occurred at Boulogne-, sur-Mer on the 27th ult., was formerly a Commissioner ig Bankruptcy, and was so eminent a practitioner in such mat ters that for many years he was regarded as an oracle of the bankrupt laws. So little had been heard of him of late years that many of his quondam friends laboured under the impreP sion that he had long ago discharged the debt of nature. It is not genet ally - ktiown that lids distinguished L;Wier wait the fourth son of John, fourth Earl of Sandwich, by Miss Margaret Reay, d celebrated beauty of her day. The melan choly fate of this lady inspired the deepest public interest at the tune ? and the whole affair has been justly styled one of the most romantic and extraordinary love tales ever recorded, ad much so that it has often struck us with astonishment that, in these novel-manufacturing and ready-reading days,' one of the novelists who cater so strangely at times for the public taste' have seized upon the ample materials this case affords as the groundwork for a book of lasting and intense interest. Miss Marg aret Reay, the mother of the late Mr. Basil Mon tagu, was th daughter of a stay-maker in Covent-garden, and' served an apprenticeship to a mantua maker, in George's" Court, St. John's-lane, Clerkenwell. Having, during her apprenticeship, attracted the attention of Lord Sandwich, he took her under his protection, and treated her from that period' until her melancholy assassination with the greatest - tendernesil and affection, which was sincerely returned by Miss Real, until her introduction by his lordship to a young ensign of the' 68th Regiment, then in command of a recruiting party at Huntingdon, in the neighbourhood of which stands Hinchell-• . brook, the splendid mansion of the noble house of Montagu. Mr. James Hackman, the wretched but highly gifted hero of this sad narrative, from the first moment of his introduction, fell desperately in love with the mistress o' his noble host, and Dispassion increased with the daily opportunities afforded him by the invitations he received to his Lordship's table. With the object of cot tinning his assiduous attentions to this lad! and the hope of ultimately engaging her affections, he quitted the army, and taking holy orders obtained the living of Wiver ton, in Norfolk, only a few months prior to the commission of that crime which brought him to the scaffold. That Miss "Reay had given some encouragement to his fiery passion can not be denied ; the tenor of their correspondence clearly proves it, but gratitude towards the earl and prudential motives respecting the welfare of her children induced her afterwards to refuse the offer of the rev. gentleman's hand, and to intimate the necessity which existed for discontinuing his visits for their mutual interests and their peace of mind. Stung to the quick by this sudden and unexpected termination of his longcherished and most ardent passion, no doubt can exist in the minds of those who have carefully perused the highly interesting cor respondence between the parties, published many years ago by Mr. Hubert Croft, in a volume entitled Love and Madnessi that Mr. Hackman's mind became un- ettled, and without me ditating a crime which properly speaking could scarcely be fairly classed in the category of murder, there is no doubt that he became weary of his own life; and finally, though without distinct premeditation, determined that she whom he loved so passionately should share his fate. At this time the Rev. Mr. Hackman was lodging in Duke's codrt, St. Martin's-lane, and on the fatal day, the 7th of April, 1779, was occupied all the morning in reading Blair's Sermons; but in the evening, as he was walking towards the Admiralty, he saw Miss Reay pass in her coach, accompanied by Signora Galli. He followed, and discovered that she alighted at Covent garden Theatre, whither she went to witness the performance of Love in a Village. Mr. Hackman returned to his lodgings, and arminghimself with a brace of pistols, went back to the theatre, and when the performance was over, as Miss Reay was stepping into her coach, he took a pistol in each hand, one of which he discharged at her and killed her on the spot, and the other at himself, which did not, however, take eff-'ct. He then beat himself about the head with the butt-end of the pistol in order to destroy himself, but was eventurlly, after a dreadful struggle, secured and carried • efore Sir John Fielding, who committed him to Tothill fields Bridewell, and afterwards to Newgate, where he was narrowly watched to prevent his committing suicide. He was shortly after tried at the Old Bailey, before the cele brated J ustice Blackstone, author of the Commentaries, found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged at Tyburn on the 19th of the month, where he suffered the last penalty of the law with all the firmness becoming a gentleman and a Christian who felt that he had commitied :in irreparable injury, and that his life was , justly forfeited to the outraged laws of his country, although he persisted to the last that the idea of murdering the woman he so fondly loved originated in the frenzy of the moment, and never was or could have been premeditated. One circumstance in this slfght narrative which redounds so highly to the honour of the party most aggrieved in this sad affair must not be omitted. Lord Sandwich, with a noble mindedness rarely exemplified in such extreme cases of injury to the pride and sensibility of man, wrote to Mr. Hackman after sentence of death was passed upon him _ . " 7th April, 1779. " If the murderer of Miss wishes to live, the man he has most injured will use all his interest to procure his life." The prisoner replied the same day:— " Condemned Cell in Newgate, " The murderer of her whom he preferred, far preferred, to life, suspects the hand from which he has just received such an offer as he neither desires nor deserves. His wishes are for death, not for life. One wish he has—could he be pardoned in this world by the man he has most injured—oh, my lord, when I meet her in another world, enable me to tell her—if departed spirits are not ignorant of earthly things—that you forgive us both, and that you will be a father to her dear children." It is almost needless to observe that the noble earl did faith fully comply with the dying wishes of the wretched man, and was a good and generous father to all the children of this con nexion, of whom the learned gentleman just deceased was one• —Morning Post. MISCELLANEOUS' NEWS. The Athenfflum says, that Lord Cockburn is writing a life of the late Lord Jeffrey. Thg demand for agricultural labour in Yorkshire is greater than it has been for some years past, and higher wages are asked and claimed. The fire-engines were kept in constant operation from ten o'clock on Monday nlizlit until past three on Tuesday morning, there being during that period not fewer than nine calls received at the different stations in London. At a recent inquest upon the body of a butler. Mr. Wakley, the coroner, stated it as " a remarkable fact," that more butlers destroy themselves than any other class of men. It is reported that Mr. Peacock, Q.C., is to have the appointment of legal member of the Superior Council of India, vacant by the decease of Mr. Drinkwater Bethune. The Mining Journal says, " A scientific suggestion, commending itself to financial reformers, has been made, that £lOO,OOO per annum might he saved by substituting ' electric' for aristocratic ambassadors." We hear that all the Commissioners of Customs hare tendered their resignations, but Lord John Russell will not accept them till after an inquiry into their conduct.—•° Morning Herald. The Newcastle Journal, of Saturday. contains advertise ments of forty-six farms to be let in Northumberland and the adjacent counties, amounting in the aggregate to nearly 12,000 acres. Incendiary fires have become so frequent in Cambridge. shire and the Isle of Ely that the Earl of llardwicke hag issued a circular letter to every parish in the county and isle, seeking a return of every fire since the year 1839, order that he may lay the same before parliament. It is understood that the government have excepted the tender of Mr. Walton for a mail to Australia every alter nate month, via the Cape of Good Hope, at an annual eal ment of £26,000. The ports to be visited are the Cape' King George's Sound, Adelaide, Port Philip, and Sydney Thomas Greenhow, a spirit-dealer and rectifier, of Clerkenwell, has been fined £6OO for frauds upon the in: land revenue department, and a quantity of spirits seize"' were declared forfeited. He was not long since convicted, in penalties amounting to £l4OO, which were mitigated' on his contrite petition, to £250. Nearly 1000 hares were sent by one of the Scottish Midland Scottish Central trains, one day last week, for the London market. A steady trade is still maintained betwixt Perth and Manchester and Liverpool,in potatoes+ dead meat, poultry, and eggs, the two latter chiefly col lected in the highlands. A mercantile clerk in Bristol, who is accustomed to make himself a cup of tea in the afternoon, was horrifie d last week on discovering that he had been living 0 stewed mouse for several days. Ile had noticed an nu" struction in the spout of the kettle, and on making cies? investigation, he drew forth, amidst the laughter of hi fellow-clerks, the body of a mouse, boiled almost to a ieli/r. SPORTING NEWS. s TATTERSALL'S.—THURSDAY. CHESTER CUP. st 1,750 to 50 and 1,000 to 25 agst Black Doctor, 1,000 to 25 Knook Knoll, 3,000 to 45 agst Nancy, 2,000 to 35 agst noor, 2,000 to 30 each agst Merry Bird, Pitsford, and Mr. thington's Birdcatcher filly; all taken. Nothing else naive" THE DERBY. 400 to 50 agst Mr. Merry's Hobby Noble—taken, aft. off. MANCHESTER.—Fat DA Y. tten dej A very limited number of the sporting fraternity a . ro the rooms to-day, and from the little betting there was . la 1 0 '01 gress scarcely a duller day than the present has been vvit n a e is a since the termination of the racing season. The followl a b summary of the actual business : LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE 100 to 5 agst Mr. Osborne's Abd-el-Kader--taken Mr. Vever's Vainhope—offered. Mr. Treadgold's Maria Day—offered . METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 100 to 2 agst Mr. Gratwick's Landgrave—taken . 100 to 2 Mr. Greville's Cariboo—taken. CESTER CUP. 35 to 1 agst Mr. Sax H on's Black Doctor-40 to 1 18"9. 30 to 1 Mr. Stebbing's Knook Knoll—offer ea • 50 to i Mr. Merry's Ringleader—taken. e d, 50 to 1 Mr. S. Herbert's Grand Duke_offer 66 to 1 Mr. J. Osborne's Merry Bird -66 to I'- 1000 to 10 Lord Derby's Uriel—taken. THE DERBY.—Not an offer made. 100 to 5 100 tO 5 Mr. John Scott has given up the training ground at Hof W hZ l V a li t iner i a s u ' the ;stir near Doncaster, and removed the whole of his racing , merit to Malton.a n ' A new stake is proposed, to be called " The Great ,north,V for' South of England Biennial Stakes," of 10 sous. each, half teit, to be contended for on the second race-day at GoC.W r it on in 1853, the horses being then two years' old; 50d the Ma n the first day of the meeting in 1854. To this race tl ae2oo is to be added each year. fde 9 E ; belt A walking match of ten miles for the chamPla n tbe P! . off yesterday week, at the Copenhagen Grounds, , i reate ss It sence of nearly 10,000 spectators, and excited the , 7 in it• terest, as all the crack men of the day were engage a r w ho al was exceedingly well contested, and won by Spoone the distance in one hour and twenty minutes. " was second, and Old Smith third. r s°- , we; fella. The following horses, the property of Ms. C a re w the by Messrs. Tattersall, yesterday week, and realised2so; re r ing prices :—Sir Tatton, 300 ; Jack, 280 ; Hen9 0 . .2. c ,tc'', Cardinal, 250; White Stockings, 240; Friday, , 1"1 aster One, 185; Aristocrat, 150; The Sweep, 135 ; his 100 Pr, Brown DI" O S black cob, 31 guineas. d' church, 91 e9l; Melbourne, Nigger, 5 ; ‘lB;ol;dcsmiinakne. 105; 50; Greyling,ott 4r f f THE FORFEIT LIST.-- 1 . 0 just made its appearance in the Racingseason ° e nearly eight columns, and amounting, in the 1849, '5O, and '5l, to the enormous sum of .€11,7 'a threatened Calendar,‘(black otrcounplYr rider' Harlestone, £175; Lord Olivia, £ 113; Outcast, .e 100; Russborough , c bY or iclet bolt, £170; f by Venison, out of Margellina, h lam out t lowing pariaental:e£7ooav;iest delinquents :—Caranilevrari, Here are fourteen animals in default to the tuner_.,,, to; h aa o2 r e r d t 180 ' ; 7,.. 1 %,"1 'r ° 2 - :33f o r i ot arrears unpaid? and how happens it that the x 4) been so long delayed ? h l , a o m lwl , om o ; u uc t c o h bf will t Ni be s r k e uerieeancmo,