The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-09 00:00:00

AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF NO MESSAGE. The United States Mail steamer, Baltic arrived 'here yesterday morning with 60 passengers and 860,000 dollars in specie, and by her we have our files of papers from New York to the 26th ult. The Baltic left the lower bay of New York at 1.0 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 27th, and arrived at the bar at midnight, Jan. 7th ; Dec. 27th, passed steamer Pacific 160 miles east of Sandy-Hook Friday, Jan. 4th, at 3.30 p.m. lat. 50, long. saw apropeller bound west. The President's message had not been delivered, the House of Representatives not yet having Sleeted a speaker, and had adjourned over until after the Ist of Jan., so that the anxiously looked. for document can scarcely be expected even by the next arrival. In reference to the election of speaker, the last despatch from Washington says : The most experienced politicians are at fault with rs. gard to the speakership. The whole matter is at head lock, and nobody pretends to have the key. Only one thing seems certain, and that is, that f ro": ninety to one hundred men are firmly resolved to abandon the support of Mr. Banks. come may. Two weeks ago some of these were disposed *o drop him and try a new. candidate. But every_be.aye adds strength to the convic tion that to yield , Kr . is to concede the defeat of the Anti-Nebras':a party, and yield the victory to the traitors elected as Anti-Nebraska men, are relent- Iv Polessly tr.,ssing their efforts to revive toed ational know itingism," and making it an element ivide thenorth t'ae next presidential campaign. We quote the following summary of the news trona the New York Herald:— It is stated by our correspondent, that Mr. Marcy's detoands upon the British Government require, among other things, the re-call of Mr. Crampton, or some other public act of equally signal satisfaction to the United -Slates. So that point, so much controverted and discuss Sd by the ne wspapers and their correspondents, may be 2',egarded as put a t res t now.lOur negotiations with the 'Spanish government are progressing. No action has yet been taken in the Cabinet on the recognition of Walker's Will not be rec ogn i ze d . forw In the Senate, on Wed nes da y, M r. Clayton b rought 'p ard the interminable F renc h spo li at i on quest i on. Ho roposes to discuss the subj ec t " f u l ly " at a future day, and expects his veto messageto demolish the arguments used by the president i n . One of our Washington correspondents states that Col. p arker H. French, the newly appointed Minister from Nicaragua, presented his credentials at the State Depart bent, and that Mr. Marcy refused to recognise him, on the ground tbat Walker's government had not received a proper endorsement from the people of t\ icarattua. Cen antral American affairs and the alleged filibustering move dit s Were deliberated upo n b y t h e cabinet on Monday, ta . was resolved to use th e most stringent measures to sterat any and all attempts to violate the neutrality laws. bur accounts from Kansas confirm the reports , here tofore received, of the triumph of law and the restoration 'of tranquility in that territory, if it can be said that such thinglas tranquility was ever known there. i If any doubts remain as to the fate of the intrepid Arctic navigator, Sir John Franklin —whose exploits and sufferings have rendered his name more famous through out the world than will ever be that of the recognised dig coverer of the Northwest passage —they will undoubtedly be set at rest upon the perusal of the narrative relating thereto, which we publish to-day. It is a brief history Hof the progress and results of an expedition sent out in dam, under the command of Mr. James Green Stuart, a Shief trader of the Hudson's Bay Company, to explore the region where it was supposed the remains 01 Sir John and his companions were to be found. The explo ration party, after enduring the rigours of the extreme xrerthern latitudes with incredible courage, succeeded in teaching Montreal Island, where were found relics of the lon,g-lost navigators, confirming the reports received from the Ksquimax by Dr.'llae who, was the first to p u bli s h the tidings of th e i r fate. in connection with this subject `we may notice the arrival at New London on Sunday of the English discovery ship Resolute, one of the vessels oinVesitrg Sir Edward Belcher's squadron, sent out in search of Sir John Franklin, and which, having become lShe otked in the Polar ice, was abandoned by that officer. was fallen in with by an American whaler, the captain of which took possession of her. Her value is estimated at 100,000 dollars. Captain Belcher was tried by court martial, at his own solicitation, for abandoning Iris ship, and, although not censured for his conduct, the tribunal did not justify it. t ',We have intelli g ence, by telegraph, of the wrec k o f t h e steamer Crescent City, of and from this port for Havana and New Orleans. She went ashore on the Bahama wanks on the 7th Dec., and will probably prove a total loss. The passengers, crew and baggage, and the mails, Were taken to. Nassau, N.P., hy_wreclters, and a vessel had been chartered to convey them to their destination. We publish this morning a full account of the particu lars attending the seizure of the steamship Northern Light by the United States authorities, acting under in structions received from the president. The district at torney attended at the vessel in person, accompanied by his assistant, Mr. Joachinssen, and three or lour deputy marshals, and informed hers captainland owners that if the ie ft whil e under detention they would be acting i n 'violation of the laws, and they should be held responsible tor their conduct. In defiance of his authority, how ever they start e d w ith the officers on bo ar d, an d fut the midst of the most intense excitement of a large crowd who had assembled on the pier. She Inlet with no interruption till passing Governor's Island, when she was stopped by the United States revenue nutter Washington, which ,brought her to, after firing three times with blank cartridge. She was then boarded by some of the officers from the cutter and anchored in the river between the Battery and Jersey City, where she ts lying at present. None of the passengers will be per mitted to land until she is searched, for the purpose of discovering if she carries any concealed munitions of war for Nicaragua. The latest advices from Havana speak of fresh rumours of a filibuster invasion, originating in the fact of a smspicious vessel having been seen, or spoken, off Cienfuegos, —no doubt bound for that now common rendezvous of filibusters in general, —Nicaragua. In reference to this a correspondent at Havana, writing on the 16th of December, says : There has been a stupid report in circulation here dur ing the past day or two, that a party of filibusters had landed somewhere near Cienfuegos. The evening before last I was at the Villa Nueva Theatre. General Concha, his wife and daughters. were also present. I observed that the Captain-general appeared extremely anxious, and I thought I noticed him " start" once or twice, as some person approached his box door with hurried step. I heard yesterday that the telegraph employees were kept in their office, at the palace, all Friday night. The report is understood to have originated in the circumstance of a vessel, crowded with men, (emigrants going to Nicaragua,) having been spoken, a few days since, off this port, which men are reported to have had a fillibusterish appearance, whilst some say a cargo of negroes, having been landed near Cienfuegos, gave rise to the report. pu, advan 31.13, RYE, 1300. to 1320. per D 6 -n FLOUR: —6 dots. to 1' dot change znactiN sales 80 bx MEXO. The Alvarez ministry broke C up on the 6th December. One account, however, denies that any ministerial crisis had occurred. Comonfort had abandoned Alvarez, and it was thought the latter would return to the South. The condition of the country was worse than ever. Quarrels, pronunciamentos, robberies and every conceiv able species of disorder prevailed. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE --- MONEY AND I,ToCKS. - The continued favourable tenor of the financial advices from London and Paris having nearly if not entirely dis sipated the immediate apprehension of a monetary crisis in Europe a more cheerful feeling prevades our stock market. With the exception of a short period of dullness produced by an advance in foreign exchange, and a mo mentary resumption of specie shipments, business during the fortnight has been active, and prices generally buoy ant. The upward tendency is perhaps in some degree attributable to the apparent confirmation of the peace rumours by the advance in consols and Wrench funds. The absence however, of direct proofs of the authenticity of these rumours prevents their having any material effect, and the improvement is due mainly to a gro wing confi dence that, under any c ircumstances, the course of money matters on this side during the winter will not be dis turbed by serious embarrassments n Europe. In state stocks we have to notice an advance of per .in Kentucky and Tennessee, and" 2 per cont. in Virginia and Missouri 6's. CABIBIANN & Co. I. COTTON = The business in this market has only been to a mode rate extent for home consumption. and a little for specu lation. Exporters have been unable to operate, from the limited selection, and the firmness which holders h ave displayed. The sales for the week are estimated at 7,000 bales. Prices are ic to Ic per lb. higher on some grades. The export during the week has been—to Great Britain, 2,000-bales ; other forei,m ports, 1000. RECEIPTS.—The total now exceeds the large crop year, and from the rise in all the Southern rivers, we may with confidence expect heavy receipts into the ports for some weeks, and a consequent weekly gain upon the cor responding period of 1852-53, which- will establish a belief in the large estimates now prevailing here and in the South. Th e ex p or t to Great Britain is only 29,000 bales for the week, while to France and other foreign ports a largo amount has again been taken. The following is a statement of the movement in cotton since the Ist of September last, as compared with the previous three years: 18 5 5 . 1854 1853. 1852, Receipts at the 1,253,000 781,000 7 8 4,0001,244,0 00 Exports to Great Britain-T.' "418 - 316,000 217,000 450,0 00 France" 154 ,000 85,000 52,000 66.000 other For. Ports . -108.00 f) 42 000 45,800 50,000 Total Exports . 680,000 443,000 ; 314,000 5 7 2 , 00 0 Stock on hand . 514,000 354, 1 ;00 408,000 560,000 DO M l l 66 G r s. .:R e tal e in ng e a r g e e a m se e i n n ts exg v r e ts, b 2 e 3 e 7 n ,oo l l m b i a te let at 7-32 d to id for cotton to Liverpool, and ic per lb. to THE BALTIC. Havre. EXCZtANGES are dull, and lower, clobing at iOBl to 1081 per cent. on London, and onTatis at 5.20. W. P. WRiouT i3READSTUFFS. FLOUR.— Prices fell nearly 25 cents per brl. on the Asia's advises to the Bth inst , from Liverpool, received On the evenin2,- of the 18th inst.. by telegraph via Halifax; but the market has since tended upWards, and closes, with slight exceptions, at the quotations of the 18th inst. No mrchases of moment could now be made, excepting at an chance on our lowest figures. WREAT is about 5 cents per bushel lower. INDIAN CORN.—Has declined 3 to 4 cents p'r bushel v. 93c. to 94c. per 56 lbs. Southern Yellow; new, Mixed. co- per brl. otnEttsPooN, KINGSFORD & Co. PROVISIONS.—The market for pork is 50 cents lower with only a limited demand; sales 800 brls, closing at 19 dogs 500 to 19 dots 75c for mess; 16 dols 87ic to 17 dols fol. prime ; 18 dols 25c to 18 dols 50c for thin mess, and 18 dols 75c to 21 dols for prime mess. The market for beef is dull and drooping, but prices are without quotable sales 4o brls at 9 dols to 10 dols for country ?rime; 10 dols 62ic to 12 dols for ditto mess; 13 dols 75c to 14 dols for Vermont mess ; 14 dols 25c to 15 dols for repacked Western, and 16 dols to 16 dols 25c for extra ditto. Prime mess continues dull, and prices are nomi nally 20 dols to 24 dols. Beef hams are more plenty, and at 14 dols to 17 dols. Cut meats are also dull - 'long middles, rib in, at 10 cents. Dressed ' hogs are selling at 8c to Lard is in moderate demand at 124 c to 12ftc., at which prices 800 brls. and tierces have been so:d. Butter and Cheese sell slowly at quoted rates. FREIGHTS.—The Market is without material change, though rates are barely sustained, and in view of the in creased supply of tonnage in port, engagements could probably be effected for next week on more reasonable terms. To Liverpool, the operations embrace 60 to 70.000 bushels Grain at bid. to 9d. in bulk and ship's bags; 7000 brls. Flour, 3s. to 3s. 6d. ; GO bales Tobacco, 305.; and 400 boxes Cheese, and 80 do. l3acon, 355. Of which during the past week, included in the abov R.;•e-elpts at the ors .. E xports to Great P Brittain 146,000 77,000 105,000 117,060 29,000 54,000 31,0001 46,000 20,000 7,000 1 7,000 6,000 13,000 6 . 0 00 3,0001 2,000 62,00 j 67,000 41,000 54,000 Total F other For. P o rts orts ...... From which it will be' seen that the increase in receipts now amounts to 469,000 bales. The increase in exports to Gr eat Britain, 10 2,000; France, 69,000 ; other, foreign PHILADELPHIA InoN.--The inactivity usual to this season of the year pervades the market. Inquiries for future delivery impart some degree of firmness, and in :general the :prospects are esteemed ;favourable for ironmasters. A sale of 4000 tons pig was consummated for future delivery; 100 tons Car-wheel sold at 37 dols 50c; for foundry purposes the sales have been of small amounts—making a total of nearly 4900 tons Pig for the week; No. 1 at 27 dols; No. 2at 25 dols; No. 3at 23 dols. Bars and most descrip tions of iron are quiet, but firm, at past quotations. RETURN OF THE HUDSON BAY COM PANY'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. CONFIRMATION OF DR. RAE'S REPORTS. DISCOVERY_ OF_ THE REMAINS OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN AND PARTY. - From the (St; Paul) Ninteesotian, Dec. 12, 1855. Mr. J. D. Stewart, lady, and suite, arrived at the American House on Monday evening, and left in the stage yesterday afternoon for below. 1 Will be remembered that Dr. Rae has been employed by the Hudson's Bay Company for the last four or five years in an effort to discover any traces of the remains of the fate of Sir John Franklin and his party; that he has made two expeditions into the Arctic regions for that purpose, and that he was so successful in the last expe dition as to discover evidences of the fact that a party of white men, with ships and boats, had perished in that far-off hyperborean region several years ago. which Dr. Rae concluded to have been the id-fated expedition he was in search of. Beyond the finding of some spoons and other trifles among the Esquimaux bearing the name of "Franklin," and the tidings which he gathered from the inhabitants, his expedition amounted to nothing. In pursuance of his object, the Doctor has passed through this place twice—once on his way to England, and again when he returned to go on his second tour. It will also be recollected that soon after the conclusion of his last topr, the Hudson's Bay Company sent out another party to elicit still more facts on this point, and that in pursuance of this design a messenger was sent from their headquarters in Montreal (which messenger passed through this place about fourteen months since), to Governor Simpson at the Selkirk Settlement to make the necessary arrangements for that purpose. Mr. J. U. Stewart, whose arrival in this city we noticed above. was the person selected for this duty. Mr. S. was well calcu lated for this hazardous undertaking, having lived in the Arctic regions for the last ten or twelve years, at one of the most extreme of the Company's posts, and able to endure any amount of fatigue consequent upon exposure and absence of food. Mr. Stewart started with four voyageurs and arrived at Slave Lake during the early part of the season, and pro ceeding up one of the streams that flow into that body of water from a north-east direction till he came to latitude 6S° he was completely successful in his efforts. He here learned more fully and partiaiilarly of the fate of . the lamented explorer than any account yet published gives. The fact that a party (some 40 in number) of whites, who came into that region in ship:, but which were destroyed. and that they endeavoured to proceed on their way in the ships' boats, and that the boats were also afterwards de stroyed on the rapids of a strait which they were endea vouring t,.) navigate, Mr. Stewart will undertake to demonstrate to any person's satisfaction. It was Mr. S.'s opinion that the party was making an effort to reach one of the posts of Hudson's Bay Company at the time of the destruction of their boats. Their remains were found in the sand along the coast for several miles in length, and the drifting sands of each successive season were burying them still deeper. It had been five years since they had perished, and it was impossible to distinguisk as to the persons of one of the crew. This is described as a most dreary region —not a sign of vegetation being anywhere visible ; and that the party of Sir John Franklin met their death by starvation, is not to be questioned. The Esquimaux, from whom much infor • matron was gained, when questioned on this point, signifi cantly placed their hands upon their stomachs, endeavour ing thereby to indicate their horrible fate. This point is on the coast opposite Montreal Island. Mr. S. brought with him many relics taken from the Esquimaux which they had obtained of the ill-fated exploring party ; among other things, a piece of one of the boats belonging to that expedition. Mr. S. was' accompanied to the place by several voyageurs (half-breed Chippewas), part of whom went with him on his tour below, and the others are stopping at the Imerican. We understand it to be the intention of Mr. S. to proceed directly to England. He has performed this whole journey in a comparatively short space of time—being only thirteen months since he first fitted out for it He represents the cold weather as being intense in that region, in some instances it having reached a point 65 0 below zero. ( From the Montreal Herald of Dec. 24.) We have been favoured by E. M. Hopkins. Esq. (in the absence of Sir George Simpson), with the following out line cf the proceedings of the Arctic Expedition, which, by instructions from her Majesty's government, was employed by the Hudson's Bay Company to follow up the clue discovered by .Dr. Rae while engaged on another exploring expedition, also fitted out by the Hudson's Bay Company, of the fate of Sir John Franklin's party. It will be in the recollection of our readers that it is scarcely a year ago that we published to the world infor mation which had been received of the lamentable fate of the gallant Franklin and his brave comrades. The intel ligence which was conveyed to Dr. Rae in the winter of 1853-54 by the Esquimaux, and in the accuracy of which that distinguished Arctic traveller placed perfect reliance, was received by the public in England with great hesita tion, arising. probably, front au unwillingness to believe the mournful facts. That intelligence was in substance that in the winter of 1850, the Esquimaux saw a party of whites travelling from the nortnward toward the Arctic coast, dragging a boat over the ice, intending to use it as soon as they reached open water ; that the party, about forty in all, made the land near the mouth of a large river (the Great Fish River of Back) and there perished of starvation, to which were added a number of frightful details of their sufferiugs, which we will not again inflict on our readers. In proof of the truth of these reports the Esquimaux exhibited and sold to Dr. Rae a great variety of relics, principally silver forks and spoons, marked with the crest and initials of various officers of the ships Erebus and Terror (Franklin's), and among other articles a small order, or star, with Sir John Franklin's name engraved on it. lhese were the tangible proof; conveyed to England by Dr. Rto in confirmation uf the tale he colleettA !MU the Esquimaux but his proeeediugs and conclusions have been frequently called iu question, and therefore it will bd the tuo. e gra- tifying to trim now that they are fully corroborated, even to minute details of locality, &c., in which he might pos sibly have been mistaken. As soon as Dr. Rae had laid his report before her Majesty's Government, it was decided that an attempt should be made to follow up the trace he had obtained, commencing at the point indicated by the Esquimaux, as the scene of the last sufferings of the party of whites seen by them in 1850. The or,:anization and management of this new expedition were wisely entrusted to the Hudson's Bay Company. On the 27th October, 1854, the instructions of her Majesty's Government and the Company were forwarded from London to Sir George Simpson at Lachine, where he received them in the middle of November. His great experience and well known ability in affairs of that nature enabled him to decide with promptitude on the mode of carrying out the expedition, the men to be employed as leaders and in subordinate capacities, the amount of supplies, craft, and all other requisties for the undertaking; and on the 20th of November, last year, his instructions were dispatched by special message to the Hudson's Bay . Teritories; all parts of which were put under requisitioa to furnish materiel, the whole to be collected at the rendezvous, Fort Resolution, in Great Slave Lake, by the Ist of June following ; and so complete were the plans, and 80 carefully had all contingencies been provided against, that in no point was there a failure in carrying out his arrangements. The officers selected to lead the party were Mr. Anderson, a chief factor of the company, and Mr. J. G. Stewart, a chief trader—both well qualified by experience, courage, physical strength, &c. for the arduous duty, The party consisted of these two officers and lourteen men, and left Fort Resolution, a port of the Hudson's Bay Company on the Great Slave Lake, on the 22nd of June last in two bark canoes, in which they performed the perilous voyage down NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1856. Great Fish River—a ritar knoWn to the world for itsdanger i s and horrors by Sir deorge Back's narrative. nom Mr. ' Stewart we learn that he doubts that the party ever could have got safely down that stream to the coast had it not been for the wonderful dexterity of the three Iroquois voyageurs whom Sir George Simpson had prudently forwarded from Lachine to join the expedition—the three ' best men of his oWn canoe. The party reached the outlet or estuary of the river on the 30th of July, and skirted along its eastern shore as far as Point Beaufort, but found no traces to reward their search. Thence they crossed over to Montreal Island, twelve miles distant, lying near the western shore of the estuary ; probably, in that crossibg, incurring as great peril as any in the gloomy record of Arctic travels, pushing their bark canoes boldly out into the Arctic Ocean, and forcing their way through drifting masses of Arctic ice, seven or eight feet thick. But they were prepared to make any effort to reach the island, which, as well as Point Aigle, near it, had been the places Dr. Rae understood the Esqui maux to mean when describing where the white party perished in 1850; and they had the melancholy satisfaction of procuring, on that very spot, the fullest possible confor mation of Dr. Rae's report. They also met Esquimaux in that vicinity who had seen the whites, and gave much valuable information. Suffice it to say, that on the island were discovered the remains of a boat, which had been partially destroyed by the natives for the sake of the wood and the metal fastenings. Although there was sufficient left to identify it as be longing to the Franklin expedition, one fragment of wood (now, as well as some other small relics, in the possession of the Hudson's Bay Company at Lachine), hav;ng the name " Terror" branded on it, while another piece has the name of Mr. Stanley (surgeon of the Erebus) cut upon it. this latter being part of a snow-shoe, evidently of English manufacture, being made of oak, a species of wood no man accustomed to use snow-shoes would ever select for the pur pose. No papers or books, and no human remains were found ; nor was it likely, as four years had elapsed since this tragedy was enacted upon a low sandy beach, exposed to the storms of four Arctic winters, and there is little doubt that either the sea has washed off, or the sand has buried deep the unfortunates who perished on this spot. The Esquimau' were very friendly, and f eely displayed all their treasnres obtained from the boat, or found near it, and these coasiited principally of the oars, nsed by them as tent-poles, the boat kettles, the empty preserved meat cases, &c., but no papers ; and the natives stated, with every evidence of sincerity, that none had ever been seen or found. Everything portable was secured by Messrs. Anderson and Stewart, and brought back, and are now on their way to Canada : it would be useless to recount them all, but we may mention bar iron, rope with the government mark on it, oars branded with the broadarrow, pieces of bunting, (remains of a flag,) a letterholder, a step of a mast, &c.—all clearly European, and all government supplies. Is anything more wanted ? he weather is described as having been " execrable"— constant storms, with ice, snow, rain, sleet, bail, thunder, and whatever else can be conceived that is disagreeable. It is a part of the coast the natives even consider uninhabit able—merely visiting it for a short time in summer, when the deer pass that way. On the 14th August, when the expedition commenced its retreat from the coast, the ground was covered with fresh fallen snow, and the ice was forming; in fact, Winter had set in. Few further details of the last moments of the lost party have been collected ; we may mention one mournful incident reported by an Esquimaux woman, who saw the last man die; he was large and strong, she said, and sat on the sandy beach, his head resting on his hands and thus the last survivor of Franklin's Expedition yielded up his brave spirit. Messrs. Anderson and Stewart retraced their steps to Great Slave Lake, whence the latter continued his journey onward to Red River settlement, and thence via the Minnesota Territory to Montreal, where he arrived on Friday evening last, direct from the Arctic Sea, after upward of 6,000 miles travel in open craft, and through uninhabited regions, without a halt. A few facts, taken at random, may serve to bring home to our appreciation what this North-west expedition accomplished and went through. In ihirteen months, to a day, the Iroquois who were sent from Lachine to form part of the expedition returned thither, thus performing in one year the same service that Sir George Back got through in three. For sixty days and nights the parties saw no fire, there being no timber on the Great Fish River or Arctic coast, and during those sixty days they travelled incessantly in open "craft in a wre t c h e d climate, never had dry clothes or slept on dry blankets, and never eat cooked victuals except on rare occasions, when they made a little. tea by means of a lamp. This party of sixteen in all travelled in bark canoes down one of the most turbulent riversknown, even to North-west voyagers ; ven tured among the ice on the Arctic sea ; and returned to their starting point without meeting a single accident to person or property—and, withal, performed all that was required of them; and had they gone out four or five years earlier, would no doubt have been instrumental in saving the lives ofa portion of Franklin's party, We think the foregoing narrative is ample corroboration of the wisdom of the recent outcry, to put " the right men in the right places." One Word in conclusion as to the Franklin Expedition. The two vessels, Erebus and Terror, left England in 1843 were last heard of in 1845. They probably tried several passages, but were baffle I by the ice, and finally in 1848 were crushed, probably in Victoria Straits. Many of the crews perished, but one or more boats got off with the survivors, who took all the stores they could collect and travelled southward towards the Arctic Coast, in the hope of reaching some of Hudson's Bay Company's ports. The season of 1849 was probably spent on this dreary journey, and renewed in 1850, when they rcaihed the coast at the mouth of Fish River, but in so exhausted a state that they could merely run their boat on the beach and crawl ashore to die. Th s seems all that is certain, and all that we can ever know of the fate of the Franklin Expedition. [BY TELEGRAPH.] DISCOVERY OF THE BRITISH ARCTIC-SHIP RESOLUTE, NEW HAVEN, Monday, Dec. 24, 1855. The British ship Resolute, abandoned in the Arctic Ice, was brought by Captain Budington into the port of New- London, yesterday, with all her armaments, stores, and equipments on board. She is a new and handsome vessel, and worth 100,000 dollars. When found she had drifted over 1,000 miles from the place where she was abandoned. An effort will be made to bring her into this port. POLICE COURT.—YEsTtR: (BEFORE MR. C. CIiALONER.) , THEFT EY SHOPHoi.—A young Man, named Hamil ton Clarke, in the employment of Mr. Watts, of 55, Renshaw-street, Was brought up by detective. Eaton on a charge of having stolen fancy cigar cases, pipes, and other. articles belonging to his employer. The officer searched the boy's lodgings in Sawneypope-street, and found a fancy pipe, which the boy confessed having taken. He was remanded for a week. A " BLU6GETTEII."—InFpectdr Murphy brought up a well dressed young man, named William Johnston, who had been remanded from Monday on a charge of being concerned in picking pockets at a religious meeting on Sunday evening at the Teutonic-hall, Lime street A report of the case appeared in our paper of yesterday. Mr._ Block appeared for the prisoner. The Inspector said he kneviithe prisoner to be a " bludgetter " is, a fellow who follows abandoned wo:nen in the streets, picking up drunken persons, and robbing them. After a discussion relative to the character of the prisoner, tie was discharged, Mr. Block telling him, amid loud laughter, that in future . lie ought to avoid church3s, except for the purpose of saying his prayers. THE CHARGE OF Fonosay.—John Hutchins, who stood remanded on a charge of forging a bill for £33, was again brought up. The prisoner is a joiner, and having occasion for the sum named, it would seem he got the consent of his mother to put his stepfather's name to the bill. Mr. Payne, the stepfather of the prisoner, who resides at Hawkstone, in Salop, said the name on the bill purporting to be his was a forgery. He did not know anything of the bill until last Wed nesday, when he received a letter from Mr. Jones, who holds the bill. His wife (the prisoner's mother) then told him, for the first time, that she knew of the trans action. The prisoner was again remanded for a week. STEALING 6mm—A youn4 man, named Nicholas Reed, was charged with stealing a quantity of sugar belonging to his employer, Mr. William Johnston, grocer, 2, Currie-street. Suspicion having fallen on the prisoner, his box was searched, where there were found five pounds of lump sugar, for the possession of which he could not account. He was committed for a month. (BEFORE MESSRS. ROMILLY AND CHALONER.) AssAyrr.—An elegant looking person, named Martha Glover, of 20, Bevington-hill, appeared to answer a charge of assault preferred against her by a neighbour, named Mary Thompson. It appeared that the husbands of both lad:es, had, about Christmas, gone to the theatre together, and this caused some unpleasantness between the wives, and the allegation of the complainant was that Mrs. Glover called at her shop and beat her. Two witnesses corroborated the fact of the assault. For the defence the sister-in-law of Mrs. Glover was called, and stated, that on the day in question, she was called into the shop of the complainant, who " swore an awful oath," that she would "smash " Mrs. Glover and make a besom of her for the street. Mrs. Glover then went on to ask what it was all about? and then the assault took place, but Mrs. Glover said, she did not strike but was struck, and her bonnet torn. She was fined 2s. 6d. -that ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.—Thomas Jones, the owner of a bad house in Back Parliament street, was charged with haiing assaulted a female, named Anne Donovan, an in mate of the house. Mr. muck was for the prisoner, but the case being fully proved, the defendant was sent to jail for six months with bard labour. (The magistrate refusing to inflict a fine). WIGS ON THE GREEN.—A case that caused an immense amount of amusement, was heard before the magistrates on the complainant of Jane Smith against Bridget Ryan, the latter being summoned for having damaged the com plainants wig, to the extent of 7s. The story is told in the defence of the said Mrs. Ryan, which she declared with an air of theatrical grace and dignity. She said, the complainant being in a " happy state of beer," called at her house, and gave her a polite invitation to a pugilistic encounter. She refused the invitation several times, but at last the liquid in her veins, got up to seventy degrees above boiling heat, and whilst in this state, she "pummelled" her opponent, and as for the wig, she confessed having made " mince meat " of it. After a scene of much amusement, the complainant was dismissed. COUNTY COURT.-- V ESTERDAY (BEFORE JOSEPH POLLOCK, ESQ., JUDGE.) BAETTENS V. M'CABE. —On the sitting of the court at ten o'clock, his Honour delivered judgment in this case which was tried during the December court. The plain tiff, who is a cotton dealer, brought the action against the defendant, a master porter, on a bond given by him as such, to the trustees of the Liverpool docks, to recover £2 lls Bd, the value of three barrels of rasins, Antur tic, which the defendant delivered to the consignees of the ship, instead of to the plaintiff, who was the consignee of the goods in question. The defendant by his bond, was bound to answer to the consignee for all damage to goods, in the progress to porterage, and in having delivered them to the ships consignee. His Honour held that he had fulfilled the obligations of his bond. It was admitted that the c , insignee of the ship had the goods now in his possession, and it appeared that it was only on his refusal to:deliver them up, that the plaintiff had made the present claim. He (his Hon our) did not believe that under the present eircamstances an action for trover would lie, but certainly not an action on the bond to the dock trustees. Judgment for the defendant. In the case of the collison between the Manx Fairy and William Fawcett, Judgment will be delivered next Tuesday. CUSTOM-HOUSE AFFAIRS.—COTTRELL V. DENTITII.— This was a fraud summons. The defendant, who is a tidewaiter in the Customs' service, at this port, was sum moned be ore the court in the month of August last, by the plaintiff, a flour dealer, and judgment was given against him for the sum of £3 10s., and 14s 4d. costs. He has paid nothing under that judgment, and accord ingly the fraud summons on which he now appeared was issued against him. His Honour asked him, why he had not paid the debt, or even a portion of it? The defend ant in reply, pleaded inability, and stated that the chief cause of that inability was his having to pay money un der another order of the court, which arose in this way : He, with two others, went security for a brother officer, for £2O, and he being an insolvent, the sureties were called to repay the loan. When he gave the security; he was told that it was a a mere matter of form, but now it was the chief cause of his difficulties. His Honour said :—You are not the first or the twentieth person in your class who, I find, have got into this habit of improvidence. lam now bound to protect the public from the habit which appears to have grown up among persons similarly cir cumstanced as you are, of going security for one another at a time, too, when you have not the means of paying your own debts and your trades-people--and that duty I will perform. With this case, and this case alone, I have to deal, and with this case do I alone deal ; and nothing but a determined misrepresentation can apply the words which I use to you and those who come before me, to any persons who are not before me. I have never at any time, dealt with any other case than that which came before me, and with those persons that come before me I am bound by my public duty to deal. In your case, as in all others, I have carefully inauired into the circumstances connected with it, and with this case, which shows that a particular class of persons coming before me are persons given to improvident habits, I have a right to deal. It is my duty to check those particular persons in their improvident course, and that duty I intend to perform. In your case, also, I am willing to extend the same consideration and indulgence that I have extended to others similarly cir cumstanced, because I know that if I sent you to prison it would, in all probability, render . it absolutely necessary that you should forfeit your situation. I do not rememember. that I have ever sent any one so circumstanced to prison. I would be unwilling to do it, but if that indulgence leads to the non-payment of the debts of trades-people who have a right to be paid for the goods they furnished, I must have recourse to severer measures, and the consequence will be, that those persons will lose their situations. I am glad to know that the way I acted, at least in one other instance similarly situated, has had the effect that I desired to produce. You have the means of living respectably in your position in life if you chose properly to apply these means ; but you, like others who have come before me, have been 'led into habits of improvi dence, and have, along with a number of your brother officers, been going security for one another, and at a _time when you were not able to pay your own debts! That is a practice which seems to me improvident and dishonest, and it must be checked. The trades-people who supply you the means of living are the per son s I am bound to take care of, in the first instance. In your case, I am to deal with it as an individual case coming before me,.but one also in which you are connected with others of your brother officers who, according to your own evidence, have been in . the habit of going security for one another. One of them is insolvent, the other two are in difficulties, and this is not the first or twentieth . case of its class. that has come before me. I have always carefully confined my observations to those persons who have come before me, and to those facts which in the inquiry before me have' been elicited. With these facts and these persons only, have' I dealt, and I take this oppOrtunity of saying, that I have never conveyed, dir ectly or indirectly, either here or elsewhere, any censure against any body of niers generally, and I have dealt solely with those cases that came before me, and with the facts which showed that certain persons of a certain class, were habitually guilty of improvidence and extra vagance, which I, sitting here, was bound to check. i t your case, as in others, I intend to exercise that con s i. s d h e o r a w t n i o n t n r o r t h y e o s y nt s i a t t u t e a r t i s o sp n f , w f r h a i t c t h d I s u t i t ri n k o n l s have l a l ways shall give an order that you pay this debt by 10s. a mo n th, beginning on the Ist of April next , and I trust that you and others, will avoid the habits of improvidence and which alone have brought' you to this, DR. KANE AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. The following correspondence has been made public at Washington : WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 1855. Sir,—ller Majesty's Government have lately been ap prised of the safe return of the expedition under your command to the Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin. They have also been informed of the safe return of the searching squadron under Capt. Hartstein. This intelligence has afforded sincere pleasure to her Majesty's Government, and I have now the honour, in their name, to offer their cordial congratulations to you, Sir, and to convey to you, and to request you to communi cate to the officers and crew, who, under your command, so nobly attempted to afford to Sir John Franklin and the officers and crews of her Majesty's ships employed on the Arctic Expedition, the assurance of the sincere regard of the British Government and people for their generous exertions. I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient and humble servant, JOHN F. CRAMPTON. To Dr. Kane, 11. S. Navy. PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 1855. Sir,—l am highly honoured by the letter you have addressed to me expressing the generous feeling with which her Britannic Majesty's government have been pleased to regard the efforts of the expedition lately under my com mand to afford assistance to Sir John Franklin and his associates. I shall not fail to communicate it to the sur viving officers and men of the party; and I pray you, in their behalf as well as my own, to convey to her Britannic Majesty's government our very grateful acknowledgments for this mark of their favouring regard. I am, sir, with great respect, your very obedient, faithful E. K. KINE. Excellency John F. Crampton, Minister Pien'po• tentary. THE EDUCATION OF THE ROYAL CHILDREN being a mat ter in which all must feel interested, a few details of the manner in which the day . of the royal scholars is divided may perhaps be entertaining to our readers. A primary regard is paid to moral and religious duties. They rise early, breakfast at eight, and dine at one. Their various occupations are allotted out with almost military exact ness. One hour finds them engaged in the study of the ancient, another of the modern, authors ; their acquaint anceship with languages first founded on a thorough knowledge of their grammatical construction, and after wards familiarised and - perfected by conversation. Next they are trained in those military exerczke which give dignity and bearing. Another hour is ag h ly filled up with the lighter accomplishments of music and dancing. Again the happy little party assemble in the riding school, where they may be seen deeply interested in the various evolutions of the lizenage. Thence—whilst drawing and the further exercise of music, and the lighter accomplish ments call off the attention of their- sisters the younger princes proceed to busily engage themselvts in a'carpen ter's shop, fitt e d u p ex p re s s ly for them, at th e w i sh of the Royal Consort, with a turning lathe and tools essential to a:perfect knoWledge of the craft. Thus they early become, not only theoretically, but practically acquainted with the useful arts of life. A" small laboratory is occasionally brought into requisition, at the _instance also of their royal father, and the minds of the children are thus led up from a contemplation of the curiosities of chemical science and the wonders of nature to an inquir y causes. Thi s d one, t h e young into their carpenters and' students throw down their saws and axes, unbuckle their philo sophy, and shoulder their m inature percussion guns— which they h an dl e w i th the dexterity of practised sports men—for a shooting stroll through the royal gardens. The evening meal, the preparation for the morning's lesSons, and brief religious,:instruction closes theXday.—Court Journal. THE CANADIAN TIMBER TRADE. (From Messrs: Forsyth, Bell, Co.'s Annual ar;ular.) Quebec, 21st December, 1855. We think it a matter of congratulation that, although the war continues, and money is in unprecedented demand, the prospects are good for mostly all articles of timber, and in reviewing the business of the past season our remarks contrast strongly and favourably with those in our last annual Circular. Then, all was doubt and uncertainty both in England and in Canada in respect to our reports of wool, and the only true corrective (as Messrs. Churchill and Sim rightly stated) lay in greatly reducing the manufacture of timber and deals. So great, however, is the stock of the latter both in London and Quebec that the same course must still be pursued before prices can rally. Money continues scarce, and our banks from baying fur many years been far to) liberal in granting credits, are now rather inclined to o into the other extreme, and we cannot avoid cautioning our friends on the Ottawa and St. Lawrence against embarking into transactions in the hopes of finding money easily procurable in winter. There seemq a growing impression that because our markets closed firmly and the price is good in Liverpool that it mus► be exceedingly high all next scaion, but when we refer to the stocks wintering, and bring to mind the difficulty last year experienced in proc ring tonnage, even when freights advanced, we think we owe it to all interested in the trade to state that should freights c mtiuue in as great request in England as they have been for some time past, that it is not only possible, but very probable, that our tonnage nest year may not exceed that of the past one, the effect of which would be very prejudicial to the manufacturer of timber and deals. By the mail just received, we find prices in Liverpool are not so buoyant, but the import from Quebec is low. With these general remal ks we will consider each article separately, and in that of White Pine have to give a stock of 91 1 millions of feet wintering this year, against 7.1 last season, while the export has been about 11 millions, against I9i last year. It opened in spring with great dullness and langour, and it was not till large purchases were made, late in summer, that prices rallied, and continued steadily but gradually to advance, the market in England showing more than a corresponding rise. In our Circular, early in Sep tember,:we stated our conviction that the supply would be six or seven millions short of last year, and though many thought we bad under-rated the quantity coming forward, we find the difference is within a fraction of the lesser amount, being 13,574,685 feet in 1855, against 19,648,006 feet in 18.51. Our quotations are the present asking prices, although there have been some large sales made lately of 66 feet at 81, and a raft of as small an average as 50 feet within the last week at 61, measured off. In 1851 a good number of rafts of fine quality, wintered over in the Ottawa, but This season almost every raft got to market, and we cannot look for any superior timber early next spring, so that all the vessels coming out in May and June, will have to look to the stock on hand, much of which is of ordinary quality WHITE PINE 1855. 1854. Stock Wintering 9,513,044 ft. 7,537,104 ft. Measitred by Supervisor 13,574.685 " 19,648,006 " Exported ... 10,843,226 " 19,612,320 " RED PINE was very dull until late in the season, and although it closed much more firmly than many anticipated, the stock is large, larger in fact than it has been for the last five years. A great portion of it is small, and a good deal two years old ; and, while small timber is dull, large com mands a fair price, and we quote 40 feet in the raft at ls. What is manufactured this winter should be at least 45 feet good and straight, for inferior timber has all the season been placed with difficulty, and, in many cases, at extremely low rates. RED PINE— 1855. 1854. Stock Wintering 3,001,320 ft. 2,452,246 ft. Measured by Supervisor 2,632,720 " • 3,7.56,848 " Exported OAK-1 he quantity wintering over is unusually heavy, and unless the manufacture ceases in a great measure, we cannot see how it can sell at remunerating prices ; much has been purchased at 16d, and some of ordinary quality at is to 14d. A great deal in market is middling in quality, and for the last two seasons less care has been taken in the manufacture than in previous years. OAK— 1855. 1854. Stock Wintering . 1,711,184 ft. 928,149 ft. Measured by Supervisor 2,023,362 „ 2,176,071 „ Exported ELM is abundant in stock, though the quantity of really prime timber is less than it has been for many years. Nearly three-fourths of what Las come to market is poor and small, notwithstanding . the warning we last y ear gave , that nothing would s e ll t o advantage unless all rock forty feet average, straight and well manufactured. ELM— 185.5. 1854. Stock Wintering Measured by Supervisor 1,854,322 " 1,927,865 „ Exported Asn is so limited an article of export that manufac urers cannot depend with any certainty on its sale, as it now is enquired for in quantity, we do not recommend our friends to bring it to market. ASH— Stock Wintering Measured by Supervisor 1855. 1854. 179,609 ft. 123,149 ft , 12,107 " 221,4'46 " Exported 49,140 " 106,160 " TAMARIC : Although the stock is very great, the quantity of square is as limited as that of flat is large, and most of this is small. In operations now going on in the woods, we recommend parties to get nothing but large sized girthy timber, and we think they may calculate on fair prices for either flitted or square, if this suggestion be attended to. TAMARAC— 1855. 1854. Stock Wintering ...... 1,138,385 ft. 1,465,115 ft. Measured by Supervisor 240,341 " 2,649,750 t Exported STAVES have been in very fair demand all season, at prices varying from £45 to £55 for Standard, and .£ll lOs to £l3 for Puncheon. Both last season and this, the quantity of Culls has been ruinously large, and the heavy losses entailed on the parties who sent them to market, will doubtless have the effect of more care and circumspection being shown in purchasing on the Like shore than has been lately used. Of the stock on hand more than half are Calls. STAVES, STANDARD— Stock Wintering Culled by Supervisor Exported STAVES, PUNCHEON— 1855. 1854. • 1,262 Mille. 655 Mile. • 1,789 1,831 " .• 1,242 " 1,579 " Stock Wintering Called by Supervisor Exported .......... 2 136 " 2,708 " DEALS. —The stock wintering over this year is very heavy, being equa l t o t h e aggregate of 1852, 1853, 1854, and unless the quantity manufactured be small, it will take some time before there is any visible improvement in price. Many of our large mills are either absolutely closed or working on a limited scale, and as deals have seen the worst in London, we need not be surprised to see a gradual rise next season. DEALS, PINE — Stock Wintering Culled by Supervisor Exported DEALS, SPRUCE— 1855. 1854. .... 1,944,460 825,134 „, 2,740,400 1,223,568 ,1,867,119 2,604,654 Stock Wintering Culled by Supervisor Exported FREIGHTS opened languidly at 27s 6d, but gradually, as vessels arrived in small numbers, and the market in Liverpool for timber showed improvement, they rallied until they reached 41s. The difference in our tonnage is very striking, and so many vessels being employed by government and in other trades, make Freights still high in England, and ships are in request. New ships have of late been commanding more attention than during the last twelve months, partly owing to the c 'uses just mentioned, of a rise in freights, and partly from their admipance into France. It is only lately this privilege has been granted, and we have not heard of any orders in consequence ; but, as a caution to ship builders on the spot, we may mention, of the 27 vessels built here last winter, only eight have been sold up to Ist December. There are now laid down in Quebec an about 900 tonsd in the neighbourhood, 21, o f an average ton age of . ARRIVALS AND TONNAGE AT THE PORT OP QUEBE C, FOR THE YEARS Vessels. Tons. 1851 1852 .. 1853 1,055 ............. 1,188 18.55 ..... 1854.... ......... 1,315 • 580,323 )- - 316,449 FOne of the seats for Tatnworth is rendered vacant by Captain Townshend's a2cession to the peerage. We understand that a requisition has been signed by the most influential electors, requesting the late member's eldest son (now Lord Raynham) to allow himself to be put in nomination. The Times says .—We anticipate from Russia neither a refusal nor an acceptance, but such a modified counter proposition as may give rise to negoeiations and enable her to play off upon us the devices of another pacification and another conference. We trust that such insiduous overtures will be pere.nptorily refused. It is absolutely requisite for the very existence of the government that it should meet parliament with a decided announcement of peace or war. A repetition of the uncertainty of last April the house cannot and will nut tolerate. TRADE REPORT.—Tus SDAY ---...--- Corrox : With only a moderate demand, and an ample supply, the Cotton market has ruled dull, and priCes are very irregular. The sales—including 30 Pernambuco, at 7d ; 30 Saida, at 58d; 10 Maranham, at 6d ; 500 Surat, at 30 to 4il—are reported 6,000 b a l es , o f w hi c h 1,600 are on speculation and export. COTTON STATEMENT.-PROM IST SEPT. TO 26TH DEC, I Exports to Receipts. FOreign Ports. 237 010 Exports to Great 418 000 in,g4o Stock and on Shipboard. 514,009 353,648 160,352 PIG IRON : There has not been much business done to and prices closed for Warrants at 74s cash, and 75s for The shipments, last week, were 6,570 ,070 for the corresponding week of last tons, ag year: open - MANGANESE : Firmer rates are demanded. WAX : Some White Japan sold at £5 ss. TARTARIC ACID 7 Holders show mere disposition to meet the market, and it now offers at Is 4id. CONCENTRATED LEMON JUICE : Three pipes sold at 11d. ACETATE OF LIME is wanted, with little or nothing offering. ARGJLS : No sales of any moment: PEPPER: 54d is now the price for Malabar Black. ARSENIC: IS 61 the quotations. CLovas : Upwards of 100 tons on the way_ the nominal value TALLOW • Aondon quotations are—January, March, 5 } ,,d to 61ci April, June, 735; buyer; r the last The I tprll, NITRATE OF SODA : Although over 1000 tons are sold to arrive, at 183 to 18s 6d, and the price in London is 19s, it is allowed to retail here at 17s 3d to 17s 61 in first bands. SPIRITS or TURPENTINE : American dull at 365; French was reported sold at a considerably lower price. This is not the case, for 10 tons sold at 35s 6d, ex quay, which is quite equal to 36s iu store for American. A cargo of 180 tons best seconds at £5 ss, also, a few tons on the spot at £5 7s 6d. Snoxtec continues in very good demand; 250 bags of middling quality sold at lls 6d, and 300 bags of fine S.D.P.'s at I2s 3d. Nothing in other descriptions. LINSEED OIL : Qhiet to-day. PALM OIL : Nominally, at £46 to .£47. Rost:4 : No sales. OLIVE OIL: 5 tons of Mazadore to arrive sold at £5O. TARTARS : Many more enquiries. DIEW3ODS : Nothing returned. LARD : Quiet, at previous rates. HIDES: The following is the result of public sales of hides : Liverpool, Bth January, 1856 :-5,045 dry salted hides offered and sold . Sound, average 28Ibs to 36Albs, sty ' 71d to 74a ; heavy, average liztat, average 151bo to 6ilbs, • 2ads damp, 64ibs, hides offered and sold: 325 wet salted ox, average 414-ios, at 61d per lb, tare 4lbs ; 140 wet salted cow, average 39i1bs, at 65d, tare 41bs ; 33 wet salted damaged, 5c1.-1,200 tanned h If-hides offered, and not sold ; 9d bid. SUGAR : On the spot there are no t► 8d to Bid ; country damag... 411bs to 4911b5, at 81 to 811 at 8d to 81:1; Ist damp, at 7 rat-eaten, bic., 40.-498 wet sal I to 7id lotions to notice, been sold for the Conti- but a cargo of brown Pernams hab nent the price of which has not trarspirea. cle of last week 260 puns Antigua MOLASS At the cli were sold at 20s 6d per cwt COFFEE : Of the Jamaica offered by auction, about 70 or 80 tierces toured buyers at 60s to 80s for fine ordinary to fine middling, including a few at 107 s for fine: 40 bags of Cerea brought 48s 6d per cwt. TEA : The market continues rather inactive, now that the chief parcels here have been placed out of the last arri val; common Congou mks nominally at 911:1 per lb without ------- - pressure Jury the public sales went off rather flatly, and at easier rates for the, common qualities ; about 700 bales were disposed of at prices ranging from £l3 per ton for low common to £l7 per ton for medium. LINSEED : 300 quarters Egyptian, in bulk, are reported at 70s per qr. LIVERPOOL SUNDAY SCHOOL AND LITERARY INSTITUTION. The fourth of the series of lectures connected with this institution, was delivered last night, by the Rev. J. Baldwin Brown, M.A., of London, in the Con cer t h a ll, Lord Nelson-street. Th e attendance was numerous. The chair was occupied by Thomas Berry Horsfall, Esq., M.P., and among the gentlemen present were Rev. H. S. Brown, Rev. F. Bishop, Mr. T. S. Raffles, Mr. W. Crosfield, Mr. R. C. Hall, Mr. Houghton, Mr. G. Hub back, &0., &c. After a hymn had been sung, and prayer offered up, by the Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, The Chairman addressed the meeting. He said : Ladies and gentlemen, it is always a pleasure to me to take the chair on occasions like the present, to listen to an address which will be delivered to us, intended prim arily for young men, but extending its usefulness to others also. The pleasure is always enhanced to me, when I feel that my duty is like yours ; that of a listener instead of a speaker. We shall be addressed this even ing by the Rev. James Baldwin Brown, who has kindly undertaken to give a lecture, taking for the subject. "John Howard, philanthrophy, and the criminal world." This. I need not tell you, is a wide field for a lecture— a lecture which the lecturer shall find, I doubt, not very easy to commence, but not so easy to bring to an end. I need not remind you, those at least who know any thing of the history of John Howard, that he was a true phil anthrophist. His great delight was to tread in his masters footsteps, to go about doing good. I might, were it my privilege or duty to address you, enlarge at great length upon this subject, as well as upon the sub ject of crime in England, and of philanthroph but I feel, that were Ito d o ' so, I shunld do inj u stice to the reverend gentleman, who has to address us, and great injustice to the subject upon which he must attempt to speak. I shall, therefore, only ask your kind attention to that address, which the Rev. Mr. Baldwin Brown is prepared to deliver to us, and from which I hope we shall all receive great edification and satisfaction. (Ap plause). The Rev. Lecturer then proceeded with his discourse, and observod at the outset, that the chairman had accurately described his position, in remarking th a t h e would find it easy to commence:the lecture, but difficult to conclude it. We must shelter ourselves behind the same difficulty, in altogether avoiding to give an outline of the lecture, for it would be impossible, without los ing the spirit of the discourse, and, therefore, marring it, to re-condense what in itself was a vigorous conden sation of a subject, whose limits, from its connection with every social question of the present day, it would be impossible to define. The lecture itself, outside its merits as a discourse or literary production, had one chief merit which we must notice, because it was the accomplishment of the end which must be the aim of all lecturers—to excite the emulation of what is good .and' noble in example, as well as to instruct. It not only instructed by clearly imparting useful, though not novel information on an interesting subject, but when inter preted in its spirit, every sentence might be taken as inciting his hearers "to go and do likewise," imitating, in however small a degree, the good works which were the proofs of John Howard's philanthrophy. After tracing the early years of Howard's life, the lecturer proceeded to describe the manner in which he spent his large fortune. Among the " heterodox " views which he entertained on the subject of political and social economy was this : he believed that he was bound in duty and conscience to expend the amount of his. annual income in each year. The lecturer admitted that this was a heterodox view of economy. but forcibly compelled his audience to contrast the faithfulness with which Howard discharged his duties as a landowner with the total neglect of them by too many landed proprietors of the present day, by declaring that when his audience would tell him how many landlords there were in England at present Cyo:tiidn crschtoarlgoilnligtinithee, who, instead of pursuing their game, putting pits of death in every hamlet, a m a l e n t i ,At ngd their scouring ten a t i n l e t r. dwuetrieesloTilpgroß2rty while enjoying its rights, be would tell them the chance there was of the social regeneration of the great mass of our agricultural populatinn. The lecturer then showed that Howard's was no Sentimental philanthrophy. and was of that genuine manly and prac tical character which many of those who now claimed the title of philanthrophists might well imitate.' In alluding to the 'preslit system of gaol discipline, the lecturer expressed himself opposed to the system of solitary confinement, but said that it was too soon yet to express a positive opinion on it, and declared that we wanted reform ers more t h an reformatories. We should first strive to reform, and then punisirovhen punishment was unavoid a bl e . Th e l ecture was t h roug h ou t, an d at its conclusion, loudly applauded. LONDON GAZETTI -0-7- - TUESDAY BANKRUPTS.—MAI.OOI , ALT EONALD LAING MEASON, ster Buildings (and not Manchester Buildings, as advertized), City merchant and commission „gent. War. THDYIAs) Cardiff, - Glamorganshire, sail maker and chandler. JOSEPH JOHNS, Hertford, inn keeper. EDWARD LADD, C am b ridge. h !i v.,- B NSON and SARAH - pl ce, hotel and ' Chelmsford, Heaton Norr Wir.ct ELIZABETH treet, Portland keepers. JoiiN PAGE, PLERFOINT BROOKE. JuDIsT HARDMA N , titton, Lancashire, JOHN , coach,builde BAN CRO UARD;1;;; Enw iron founder VM GARNI riders, an meld, j builder, Cll,lll nufacturer. SLORA CII - . JAME S CRAGOS lianiturio and Wm. EERRlNG, uthnulticturer Sunderland, ‘hip and insurance brokers, and general Timber merchants, ~ commisssion agents.