The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-26 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

CHATHAM, Dec. 25.
The Racoon, 22, 400-horse power, in the first-
class steam reserve, is or reedy Sc, the pandaet, and I to
be commissioued by Captain his Berens Highness the Prince
ot Leiniogen, to convey his Royal Highness Prime Albed
on a lengthened cruise.

WEATHER

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moderate. fine. rate. fine.
N. to N.E., strong Z. Marc. N. to F., fresh to mode-
to fresh. rate.

An "Athletic Club " has been formed at South.
ampton.
A Naples letter of the2let says :—"The event of
the days the general subject of conversation, is neither the
Iniuistre, oar brigandage, nor the Italian federation, but
the first representation of the Muerte de Portei at the San
Carlo Theatre. You understand, however, that the episode
of our history upon which Auber wrote his opera is not one
of thole which the fallen dynasty was anxious to display i
to the Neapolitans. Not less than thirty-five years of
expectation and two revolutions have been necessary for the
Neapolitan public to be able to enjoy and applaud this
masterpiece. The public enjojed it as red amateurs, and
applauded loudly and spontaneously."
One of the most curious of the series of the
Napoleon correspondence is a memorandum in the 11th
volume just issued. It seems to be a carefully diswn-tip
aooount by the Emperor himself of the gigantic plans for
the invasion of England in 1805. It is addreesed to Vice'
Admiral Decria, then Minister of Marine ; and it completely
removes whatever doubt may still rondo as to the reality
of his schemes fir the conquest of Eugland. It is said that
the bulletins, written at St. Cloud or Boulogne, and dated
St. JUDOS'S Palace, announcing to the French people the
meter* of London and the dispersion of the parliament,
really exist, though they are not jet given in this collection.
It appears that the Naples Railway will hardly
be ready for public traffic so soon es the let a January, on
account of the extensive lino of wall which will be news-
nary to render the escarpments of the cuttings beyond San
Germano safe. The company has therefore resolved to
establish a regular merriest of omnibuses from Ceprano to
Proem:maim, in coincidence with the finished portions of the
lilts, by which it is expected that travellers from Rome will
reach Naples in twelve hours. Travellers from Naples will
have to sleep at San Germano, because of the district trhe
versed by the omnibuses not being entirely free from the
raids of brigands. Although strong military patrols are
always ep and down the road, it is cot deemed prudent to
risk the lives and property of passengers by allowing the
omnibuses to travel after dark.
A case exemplifying the working of the Prussian
military laws is the trial of two Landwehr officers by •
"court of honour," for subscribing towards the national
fund. Of the two gentlemen, one is a banker and the other
• merchant in the city of Trves, both has oo other con•
maxim) with the force than what may be implied in their
obligation to go through a fortnight's drill every year in the
capacity of second lieutenants. To judge from precedent,
however, they stand a fair chance of being cashiered in
consequence of the verdict of the court, which is composed of
officers holding commissions in the regiment of the line quer
tired in the district.
The Paris Prase of yesterday contains an article
upon the opposition recently offered by the O'llonoghne
to the sulenriptios it favour of the starviog Lanca-
shire operatives. The Prate censures that opposition in
every strong terms, and elouscternme it as a vulgar demon-
stration of envy sod egotism.

MARITIME ITALY.

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0:11010A. Dia 21.

The French government is most eagerly bent at
this moment on such a commercial treaty with
Italy as will open the whole coasting trade of Italy
to French bottoms. It is not verydifficult to see that
the assumed reciprocity in this case is a mere sham.
The single port of Marseilles possesses, in the hands
of thirteen companies, a greater steam navy than
all Italy collectively can boast ; while as trance
contemplates only ceding the littoral of the Medi-
terranean in return for the whole coast line of Italy,
she will acquire an extent of 5,500 kilometres in ex-
change for 624, the whole ocean coast of France
being excluded from the operation of the treaty. That
Italy should become a maritime power of the second
order—the equal of Spain, for instance—had long
been the plan of Count Cavour. Italy is deficient
in none of the elements necessary. Timber, iron,
and coal, the two former in greatest abundance,
are to be found within her forests ; and her coasts
offer a race of sailors certainly the equals of any
France can boast of.

It may not be generally known that for years
back our oak timber employed in ship-building
has been largely derived from Italy, and an agent
of our Admiralty has long resided on the Adriatic
for the purpose of promoting this supply. The
Spanish government is at this very hour a large
contractor for the timber of the Parmesan and
Modenese forests, where oak is to be found of a
size and quality almost unrivalled in Europe. In
ship-building the Italian has always been ea adept,
and some of the fastest slavers that ever traded to
Brazil were launched from little unknown towns
on the shores of the Mediterranean. Still, with all
these advantages, only awaiting time and opportu-
nity for development, the commercial navy of Italy
is a long way in arrear of that of France. The
very fact th►t by the variety of States into
which the Peninsula was parcelled, numerous and
conflicting tariffs were imposed, offered a powerful
barrier to the extension of a navy. Obsolete qua-
rantine laws too, with conditions attached to them
that positively would seem incredible if related,
contributed to increase these difficulties, so that
the sailors of a Tuscan or Roman port were as
much strangers in a Sardinian harbour as foreigners
from far away latitudes. This state of things
has passed away, and Italian enterprise has not
failed to take the benefit of the change. France,
however, always watchful to whatever ran bear upon
her position in the Mediterranean, has not seen
with any satisfaction these signs of maritime am-
bition. A strong and powerful Italy is no policy
of hers. An Italy able to assure independence at
home and to promote free opinion abroad, was no
part of the Imperial programme when the Lom-
bard war was undertaken. But least of all did
Louis Napoleon contemplate an Italy strong at sea.
It is said that when Cavour first spoke of his
project—and it was solely and entirely his—of a
great naval arsenal at Spezia, the Emperor actually
ridiculed the project, and tauntingly asked how
long Italy had been subsidised by England ? The
plan of a dockyard and a harbour fully equal to
Toulon or Brest, with facilities in some respects
superior to either, did certainly seem a bold and
daring flight, even for one as high headed in his
ambition as Count Cavour, and yet this project is
now being actively carried out. Several hundred
workmen are daily employed upon it ; six power-
ful steam dredges and twelve tenders are in
full work in the deepening of the harbour, and a
sum of ninety millions of franca is estimated
to be the first cost of this grand undertaking.
Two of the docks, for the construction of second-
class frigates, will be ready by next summer,
and the whole arsenal is to be completed within
five years. By this time, judging from the energy
already developed, Italy will in all probability be
puesessed of a very respectable force at sea, and
certainly of one which will make her alliance in her
own waters a matter of no mean importance.
France is fully alive to this fact, and not lees so to
whatever may aid its accomplishment. By the
coasting trade alone Italy maintains a shipping
amounting to above 180,000 tons. This is the
great nursery of her seamen, for she has neither
distant colonies nor great sea fisheries. To estab-
lish a rivalry with this trade, such a rivalry
as France with all her vast wealth and
resources could institute, would be a sore
trial for a young nation just emerging into vigour
and vitality ; and yet it is to this test France de-
sires now to submit her. The pretext that Italy
has exchanged similar rights with England has no
just application, since by this treaty, which was
the work of Cavour, all the distant colonies of
England were open to Italian enterprise ; and of so
little value did the coast trade of Italy seem to our
great shipping interests, that England has never,
up to this moment, availed herself of its advan-
tages.

The cession of Nice, and the loss of a portion of
coast which had been well known to furnish ad-
mirable sailors, was a blow that Italy has
not yet recovered from ; but this attempt to
open the "Cabotage," as it is called, to the French
flag, however inferior in appearance, is a measure
of far greater moment, and infinitely more damaging
in its consequences, than the loss of Nice and Villa-
franca. The Italians are, however, at last alive to
all the intentions of their great ally, and fully aware
that going to war "for an idea" entails realistic
consequences fully as costly as ever could be
dreamed of by even a "nation of shopkeepers."
But it may be asked—why should not France
count upon Italy as her ally, bound as she is to
her by innumerable ties, and why should she not
desire to see her a great power at sea as on land I
It would be more difficult to answer this question
directly than to reply to it inferentially. The
whole policy of France since Villafranca, has
clearly shown that a strong Italy is not amongst
the Imperial designs. Louis Napoleon will not, if
he can help it., tolerate a nation that he has assisted
to create in a position of independence. It may be
hard to bear—it must be bard to bear—but the
same spectacle that he sees in Greece is in a
diminished degree presented to him in Italy, and
the affections of a people for whom we have
positively done little or nothing are drawn
towards us by visible facts and comparisons, which
proclaim that they who really desire freedom can
find no safer guarantee for their hopes than a close
alliance with England.

FATAL WRECIL—An express forwarded from
Tongue to Ike Custom-house by Mr. Crawford, factor at
Tongue for the Duke of Sutherland, gives the melancholy
tidingsof the wreck of a brig there, supposed to be theOmegs,
of Dundee, from America. with her entire crew. Mr. Craw-
ford states that the mewl came to anchor to the eastward
of Rabbit Islands, in the Kyle of Tongue, on Friday
dwing the hurricane, and that daring the night she
anchors, and struck on the bar of Kyle. The entire crew
seem to have perished, two bodies having been taken from
the wreck. Neither the captain's nor mate's body was
fogad. The two bodies which were discovered on the wreck
had each Shipwrecked Mariners' Society's medals, which
bare been preserved with • view to identigostioe. The
bodies have been decently interred nailer Mr. Orawfard's
superintendence. Little of the cargo (Soar mat bailor) ail
De raved. The bull is a good deal sanded ap, and large quasi-
taste of barrels are floating abent.—Nortilera Base"

TR7.4 UPRESERTATIOIfpf =oars.

Mr. Leveson Gower, of Titawy-park, Surrey, nail
iuued en address .to the electon of this borough, and
announced hie intention of going to the poll. Being • large
land-owner nsiitsw carries t ieterest, and be
irillitav—iWTupport the frieode of the late metn..
The candidates at Ruud fairly in the geld are Mr. Wilkin-
son, Mr. Wortley, and Mr. Gower, and although the MUMS
al neural other gentlemen have been mentioned u likely to
oontest the borough, no others have as yet formally
announced their intention of doing so.

On Wednesday night a public meeting of the electors of
Reigate was held in the New Public Hall, to hear an
upoeition of the political faith of Mr. William Arthur
Wilkinson, who has come forward as the candidate for the
representation of the borough, on liberal principles.
Mr. WILKINSON, having apologised for calling the elec-
tors together on Christmas-eve, proceeded to explain the
circumstances under which he solicited their suffrages. It
would be remembered that on the occasion when he bad
formerly stood for the borough, the liberal interest had
been divided, some voting for Mr. Munson, the succeedul
candidate, and souse for him (Mr. Wilkinson). On the pm-
seat occasion, however, he had received the promise
of the support of a great many of those gen-
tlemen who had previously voted for Mr. Monson •
and from the feeling which had been evinced toward;
himself on the occasion of the last election, be
considered that he bad • prior claim upon the elector, of
Reigate, and therefore be had thus early taken the field.
, Besides, when he found that parties who had formerly op.
posed him were now willing to give him their support, he
considered that he was in duty bound to take advantage of
such a chance, and accordingly he had come forward on the
present occasion. As be should be expected to express his
views on some of the great political questions of the day,
be would commence by referring to the important question
of parliamentary reform. (Heer' hear.) He might say,
upon this topic, that be was not favourable to the system
of bit-by-bit refocus, advocated by some persons. His
opinion was that the franchise should be extended from
time to time, av the people became more able,
from improved education and otherwise, to take
• part in the government of the country. At
the present time there certainly existed many anomalies
in our system of parliamentary representation. Some places
with a smell number of inhabitants returned • large number
of members, while other places with • large number of in-
habitant@ wets entirely unrepresented. This was a state of
matters that called for reform. At the same time he con-
sidered that it would not he • proper thing to give • large
number of persons a vote miler they shoo received some
kind of protection in the exercise of it. He was, therefore,
in favour of vote by ballet. (Hear, bear.) He did not
consider that it mould be • panacea for ell the abuses com-
plained of, but helium no reams why it should not at least
receive • fair trial. (Cheers.) On the question of church
rates be might say that he did not pretend to
be • churchman, having been born and bred • Quaker. It
I was his firm belief that no party in the state
suffered so much from the imposition of church rots as the
church itself. He had therefore come to the conclusion that
nothing would do but their total repeal. (Cheers.) It
would be much better for the church itself, and for all
parties, he believed, if this bone of contention were for
ever removed, and if churches were built and hiainteined
by those who conscientiously approved of their principles.
Mr. Wilkinson then proceeded to say that he should be
prepared to give his support to Lord Palmerston's govern.
moot ; at the same time, did he card that that government
did not carry out measures that were for the good of the
country at large, he should not pledge himself to ve it
Lie support. The present government, he believed, had
acted wisely with respect to the American war. He con-
sidered that the Southern States had a perfect right
to secede, if they thought proper; and that the
North bad no cause to complain of their doing
so. He could not understand the conduct of the
Northern States in this war. in seemed to him that all they
desired was to keep their country of an enormous eras, and
to maintain an empire of gigantic dimensions. Could he
believe that the war had been occasioned by the desire of
the North to abolish slavery, he had such an abhorrence of
the iniquitous system that he would highly respect their
motives. Nothing of the sort, however. had appeared, so
far as he had seen. From the recent proclamation of Prod.
dent Lincoln, it seemed that the sole object of the war was
to maintain the integrity of the Union. (A Voice—" What
about the Lancashire distrees?") Somebody had in-
quired his opinion respecting the Lancashi.e distress,
but be (Mr. Wilkinson) did not deem that •
political question, and he therefore did not con.
eider it necessary to enter into it. He might gay
in general terms, that his principles were unchanged from
what they were at the period when he bad formerly soli-
cited the suffrages of the electors of Reigate, although, no
doubt, his opinions had been considerably modified since
then, as every persons opinions altered as he became older.
In .conclusion, Mr. Wilkinson said that he should be happy
to answer any questions that might be put to him by any
electors present who might desire a further expression of
his political sentiments ; and having done so, and with the
assurance he had received that those who bad formerly been
his opponents were now his supporters, be hoped to receive
the honour he solicited.

Mr. Beoww asked what were Mr. Wilkinson's views with
respect to the expenditure of the country ?
Mr. WILLIIIIIOII said he had neglected to allude to that
topic. He might say, however, that when a country became
wealthy as England had, it was necessary that it should have
• sufficient defence, because it then might prove a tempt&
tion to other oountries. On this ground he was prepared
to give his support to the volunteer movement, as it pro-
vided the country with a very efficient means of defence at a
cheap rate. He was desirous that the defences of the country
should be maintained in u effective a state sa possible, but
at the slime time the strictest economy should be practised,
and full value should be obtained for the money expended.
He was decidedly opposed to the defences of the country
being increased to such an extent as to occasion any unneces-
sary expenditure. (Hear.) After some further observations,
Mr. Wilkinson remarked that, as he had already observed at
the time when he had formerly offered himself as • ma-
chete for their suffrages, the liberal party were divided
into two section,. They were now united, however, in
agreeing to give him their support. He understood that •
gentleman had come forward on tory principles, and be
wished to impress upon his hearers the importance, if they
were desirous that this gentleman should not get in, that
there should be no division in the liberal ranks. So
long as the liberal party were united there was no chance of
a conservative candidate being returned; but if some voted
for one liberal candidate and some for another, the proba-
bility was that the tories world get in their man. (Cheers.)
A meeting was subsequently held at the Town.hall, Red-
hill, at which Mr. Wilkinson gave a similar statement of
his 'political principles; and at its close a vote, expressing
confidence in Mr. Wilkinson as a fit and proper person to
represent the bonxigh of Reigate, was passed.

CHRD3TMAB-DAY IN THS 'WORF_EQUSES.

Although there are in the metropolis many
thousands of persists in a most abject state of misery, yet
by means of parochial aid, and that of oar public insti-
tutions, seep kitchens, sad other channels of benevolence,
there are amoapt them few, if any, who are not enabled
to participate more or lass in the festivities of Christmas.
With a view of affording information upon so interesting
a subject it has been our annual practice to lay before our
readers some information as to the treatment of the
poor in the metropolitan and suburban workhouse and
unions on Christmas-day.
The sebjoinsd report will be found to contain, in oddi-
ties to the population at the respective parochial Logsdon
districts, statistical information u to the increase or de-
crease of pauperism therein, the treatment of the poor in
the several establishments yesterday, and other useful
information :

Sr. lfearrantina-Area in statute acres, 1,500; popula-
tion at the late census, 161,680 (at the census of 1851 the
population was 157,696); number of houses, 18,000 ; rental
as anima to property tax, 1,150,000; number of indoor
poor (Marylebone workhouse), 1,662-vir-, men, 539 ;
men, 981 ; boys, 42; girls, 57 ; infants, 43 ; in Southall
schools, 379 ; boys, 210 ; girls, 169 ; total, 2,041 (last year,
1,898) ; out-door poor, 3,347 (last year, 4,336): relief in money
for week, 2051. 7s. Ingredient' for the Christmas pudding :
1871bs. relines, 18715. currants, 271bs. candied peel, 91bs.
spice, 4glbs. ground giuger, 80 pinta of ale, 80 pinta of milk,
sod Mlbs. of flour. The consumption of meat in the
Loose for the week had been-Beef, 1,7671b5. ; mutton,
1,9241b5. ; and bread, 8,3471b5-total, 12,1081b5. Contract
price of some of the leading articles of provision-Chess
per cwt., 465. 64. ; butter, 73e. ; flour per sack, 365, &L ;
potatoes per too, 9.5 e. ; and meat per stone, 4s. 2d. De-
waive on indoor poor, 479; on outdoor poor, 1,083.
Total decrease, 1,562.
Sr. Perrcitea-Ares, 2,716 stahrte acres ; population at
late census, 196,796 (at census of 1851, 166,950 ; hours,
24,500 ; rental for income-tax, 900,0001. In the workhouse
schools at Harwell and lunatics in asylum, 2,394 (last
Christmas 2,300) ; men, able-bodied, 111 ; temporarily die-
'bled, 172 ; old and infirm, 363 ; boys, 31 ; women, abler
bodied, 219; temporarily disabled, 206; old and infirm,
514 ; girls and infanta, 87 ; tramps or vegetate, 153 ; is
lunatic avylums, 315 ; children at Central Loodon District
Schools, unwell, 184 ;at Anerley, 159 ; out-door poor,
5,275 Gast year, 4,363) ; relief in kind, 621. 16s. ; in money,
187/. 2e. ; total, 2491. 18s. Christmas-day fare : breakfast,
breed, butter, and tea ; dinner, (lb. roast bed, ilb.
potatoes, llb. plum pudding, and 1 pint of porter • tea,
bread and butter; men who smoke, 1 ounce of tobacco,: and
to those who use it half an ounce of snuff ; insane inmates,
oranges, apples, dec. Ingredients and coat of the St. Pawns
Christens' pudding: flour, 6401b5. (3L 16a. Id.); raisins,
2521f5. (31. 120 ; currant'. 2521b5• 120 ;
suet, 4321b5., 121. 3s.
'AI ; sugar, 1621 be, 21. IL. Dd. ; spies,
slbs., 7s. 6d. ; peel, bs., 15.. ; eggs, 270, 15s. 9d. ; milk,
144 pints, 18s. ; ale, 72 pints, 1 Is. 3d.-total coat, 291.75.
There are two very important matters at this moment before
the authorities, one being the proposed enlargement of the
workhouse, which, although the children have been removed
to schools, is again overcrowded. Another is the introduc-
tion of baked dinners, which, it was estimated, would cost
the parish an extra expense of 180/. per annum, but which
has been attended with the following singular results. En-
tire cost of increased cmsumption of meat in one year by the
introduction of a baked dinner once a week for the inmates,
1041. ; saving, in the amount received for dripping, 801.,
leaving the total extra cost of baked dinners at only 241. per
annum. The baking their own bread in the workhouse has
also been attended with mat beneficial results. Total poor
relief this Christmas, 7,669 (last year, 6,663) ; increase in
poor, 1,908 _ _

ibarrnes•ni-rna-nzine.—Population of the parish,
22,666; inmates of the workhouse! 391 (last year, 3.54) ;
men, 138 ; boys, 21; wanes, 216 ; girls, 16. Receiving out-
door relief—make, 90 ; females, 122 ; boys, 68 ; girls, 63 ;
total, 283 (last year, 253) ; who receive, in addition to the
usual relief, tea and sugar and beef for Christmas day.
Cluistenas-day fare : t lb. roast beef ; potatoes, 1 lb. ;
plum pudding, 1 lb. ; and a pint of porter each, with an
additional supply of tea and sugar. The ingredients for the
St. Martin's Christmas pudding, 140 lbs. of plums, 76 lbs.
currents, 14 lbs. orange peel, 3 the, spice, 35 lbs. moist
sugar, 14 dozen egp.

ST. MARO•I4ISB AIM ST. Join's, WEITIIIITSTIM.—
Population at last census 69,177. Indoor poor in the two
workhouses, viz. Kensington and Petty Francs, 724 ; ,
236 men, 344 women, 72 boys, and 72 girls (lest year, 702).
Outdoor poor : adults, 1,046 ; children, 831; total, 1,827
(last Christmas, 1,754). Christmas-day fare ; Roast bed
and plum pudding ad libitum, one pint of porter each adult,
with tobacco and snuff to those who desire it, and oranges,
apples, Sc., for the children. The weight and ingredients
for the Kensington Hotta* pudding (that at the other
house being in proportion to numbers) was 3101 be of flour,
751 M. bread crumbs, 2591ba. currants, 22416 a. of raisins,
13011 s. wager, 816 e. salt, 1 3-161bn spoon Blba peel, 16016 a.
suet, 431bs. treacle, 36Ibs. carrot; 200 eggs. four
ale, and four gallons milk. Total weight, about LW:.
Amount of out relief in kind, 331.9a9d.; u motley, 281.10 n ;
total, 611. 19a. 9d. (last year 571. 18s. 3d.) ; articles of pro-
vision. contract prices generally cheaper than last year, Ma—
in 1862, meat, per 811 n., 3a. Bd. • bread per cwt., 12s. 9d. ;
cheese per owt., 415. ; butter, 94;i. In 1861, meat, 3s. 10d. ;
bread, 13a 9d. ; cheese, 44 ; and butter, 98s. Increase
on indoor poor, 22 ; on out-door poor, 143. Total increase,
165.

sr. Lug; Criguira.—Population, 63,423; inmates of
workhouse, 609 ; viz., males, 209 ; females, 343; children, 57
(last year, 535). Christmas-day diet: Boz. rout beef free
from bone, Boz. potatoes, 4oz. bread, 12oz. plum pudding,
and 1 pint each of Barclay's porter, with 1 pint of tea and bread
and butter. The children are farmed out at the North
Surrey District School, Anerley. The ingredients of the
Christmas pudding were-16811m. flour, 84Ibs. suet, 2 cwt,
fruit, 120 eggs, 281 b.. auger, llb spice. and milk sufficient
to miz. Number of out-door poor, 761 adult., and 527
children • total, 1,288. Relief in money. 751., and in 688
loaves (list year 1,316). Increase on in-door poor, 74 ;
decrease on out-door poor, 28 ; total increase, 46.

Sr. Czoitos, HANOVER•SQUAILL —Ana, 1,161 statute
acres; population at rearms of 1861, 87,711 (in 1831,
73,7.40) ; increase in the ten years. 14,481 ; inmates of the
two workhouses, 619 (last year, 572) ; viz., Ines, 190 ; women,
960 ; children. 169. Christmas fare : Roast beef and baked
potatoes ad /Zito's. and the woe on New Year's-day, with
I4os of plum pudding ; gratuities are given, and the mina of
the house were relaxed and the inmates permitted to indulge
in such harmless recreations as are agreeable to themselves,
such as songs, smoking a pipe, &c. The children additional
holidays and a variety of indulgencies. No return of out-
door poor. Decrease, 47.

Sr. JAMES'S, WILSTNINESTER. -Area 146 awes ; population
at last census, 35,324 (in 1851, 36,406), decree's, 1,032 ; in-
mates of workhouse, 6t2 (last year, 583). At juvenile
establishment, Battersea, 200 ; last Christmas, 160. Christ-
mas fare : Roast beef ilb. ; baked potatoes, 11b.; and
one pint of porter each. Children : oranges, apples, toys,
Ac. Christmas day and two following days allowed as holi-
days. logredienta for Christmas pudding :-20011A.
2001 b s. raisins. 1501 b.. currants, 2:11b.. candied peel. 2016 x.
treacle, 351 b.. sugar, 41bs. spice, 160Ibe. suet, 12 gallons
milk, 10 dozen eggs. Increase on in-door poor, 69.
Sr. MART Assume, KENSTNCTON. -Ares 7,374 statute
acres ; population at last census, 186,463 fin 1851, 120,000;
increase, 66,459 ; inmates of workhouse, :370 (last year, 360;
males, 136 ; females, 175 ; children, 59 ; out-door poor,
1,069 (last year, 795); adults, 568 ; children, 501 ; relief in
mooey and kind, 701. 5.. 841. ; children at St. George's In-
dustrie Schools, Plaskett, 132. Christmas fare : 31Ibs.
roast beef, potatoes, llb. plum podding, and 1 pint of Bar-
clay's porter, snuff, tobacco, oranges, &c. Inmates allowed
as many holidays as they ask for. Contract prime : oz beef
per stone of 141b5., ss. 104. ; mutton, se. 103. • legs and
shins, 2s. 10d. • ' bread, 12e. sd. per cwt. ; dour, 37e. per
rack ; and potatoes, 41. 10s per ton lacrosse on in-door
poor, 9; on out-door, 274 ; total increase, 283.
CITY OF LONDON UNION.- Comprising the 98 parishes
within this walls ; area, 434 acres; population at last census,
45.5.50(5t 1851, 55,932); decrease, 10,382. Inmate' of work-
house, 906 (last year, 850) ; males 375; women, 477; chil-
dren, 54 ; at schools at Hanwell, 261 ; out-door poor, 1,880
(last year, 2039) ; relief for week in money and
2001. 13.. 11d. Christmas fare : Breakfast, coffee sod
bread and butter ; dinner, beef or pork at option ; llb.
plum pudding. 1 pint Berclay's beer ; tobacco, snuff, fruit,
sweets. Price of meat, 3s. 9d. per stone ; flour, per
sack, 11. 17s. ; potatoes, 5/. 15e. per too. Increase on in-
door poor, 56 ; decrease on out-door poor, 159 ; total de-
corous, . . 103_ _ .

172nrow.—Ares, 136 acres; population at
lad census, 27.144 (at 1861, 28,833); decrease, 1,689. In-
mates of workhouse, 381 (last year, 405) ; wales 127 ; fe-
males, 227 ; children, 27. The younger children at the In-
dustrial Schools, Hanereff. Christmas-day fare : 6ea roast
beef without cone; 12oz. potatoes . • 12os plum pudding;
one pint of porter ; oranges, tobacco, snuff, Itc.. and tea
made in the evenitm double the usual strength. No return
of outdoor poor. Decrease on in-door poor, 24.

Emir LONDON UNlON.—lnmates of workhouse, 601 (last
)ear, 594) ; males. 737; females, 336; children, 26.
Christmas fare : Hooded rounds of beef, with baked pota-
toes, plum pudding, and one pint of porter each adult ;
with tobacco, snuff, &c. Holidays allowed to visit friends.
The miss of the children at the unwell schools. Increase
on in-door poor, 7.

Jinxing" OLD Tows.—Area, 681 acres ; population is
1861, 73.064 (in 1801.9,848) ; houses, 11,243 ; rateable value,
162,3911. (in 1801, 17,9831.); poor rate, 9d. is the pound per
quarter; ratio of pompon= about 3 per mat. oe the pope.
ratios. Inmates, 423 (last year 420) ; men, 141; women,
292 ; children, 218 (lest year, 228) inmates in asylum, 79
(Wt Par. 76): out-door poor, 1,306 (last year, 1,190); re-
lief, 611. 10L Id. Loaves gives during the week, 817 ; flour,
38s. (hurt year, 45e.); bread. 11a 4d. Not year I4s• )i
butter, 71s. (last year, 78e.) ; meat, 6a Bd. 'Bart year
ss. Ild. • potatoes, 3s. 9d. Bast year, 15a. 6d.) Midas's;
fare : Roast beef, free from boss, glb., 11b. baked potatoes,
llb fium podding, sad 1 pint Porter ossalsa. plse, nuts,
&a, or children sad imbeciles. Decree's's Indoor poor, 7;
increase is out-doer poor, 115 ; total Worsen, 108.
Sr. LiOJARD, 6110EIDITCH.—Area, 648 acres ; popula-
tion at last owes, 129,339 (at 1851, 109,257) ; increase,
20,082. In-door poor of workhouse aW Brentwood School,
970 (last year, 910) ; men, 269 ; women, 390 ; boys, 171;
girls, 140, Out-door poor, 2,617 (last year, 2,867) • men,
298 ; women, 1,064 ; children, 1,285. Week's ggief—
Moe , 15a. 6d. ; kind, 391. IL ; total, 1351. 17s. 6d.
o fare reed test without hone, pi=

ilk Nibs breed, I plat of Tromso and
• ; sped, Soberer and snuff • sod children
.2a in ersages. apples, saes, he. lariats of
MIAOW puldin—Pl 2i c.t. ; coma li cwt. ;
1100; fir ; • ewe I:lams. —...,.. +Rh due proporika civics.,
he. per auk, 3lla ; bet year, 43.. Immo fa in-
door poor, 60 ; to oat-door poor, MO ;total inane" 310.
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Sr. MARY, ISLINOTOII.—Area, 11.1 seem; population at
list aeons, 155,291 (at 1861, 95,329 l ; increase in porlia-
lion hi the ten yea" 59,962 ; inmataa of workhouse, 475
(last year, 497) ; 192 ; females, children, 19.
Ohildrso, 119, and 8 adults at the Inbat Fatablishment,
Homey-mad. 153 lunatics in asylums. Outdoor poor,
2,405 gest year, 2,186). IChrittinaaday fare : 6oz. roast
bed free from boos, baked potatoes, breed, llb.boiled plum
poddiag, I pint of Truman and Hanbury's porter, and an
extra snowman. of tea sod saw. Holidays allowed. Con-
bad prime 18112—lhat pee atoms, 6s. 9d. ; bread, 100(b.,
lls. 4d. ; Sour per sack, 37a. ; butter per cwt., 74a. In
18131-114 st, 6s. 9d. ; bread, Ills. 11d. ; flour, 42a. ; and
beam. 76.. Leman ma indoor poor, 22 ;on outdoor, 239
—total increase, HI.

Sr. )411T, Latentll.—Area, 4,015 acres ; population at
last aspens, 162,008 (at 1861, 135,825) ; increase, 22,683 ;
inmates of workboose, 982 (last year, 922) ; maws, 451;
females, 469 ; children, 42 ; there are slap 389 children at
the Norwood schools. Christmas fare To each inmate,
6 on. cooked roast best ; 12 os. baked potatoes ; 14 os. plum
noddies ; sod one pint porter. Meat, 4s. 3d. per stone ;
flour, 375. ; wheat, 56a. per quarter; butter, 765. ; cheese, 45a.
Sr. MART, NIWINOTON.—Ana, 624 acres ; population at
last reams, 82,157 (at 1851, 64. 16) ; increase, 17,341; in-
mates, 556 (last year, 570) ; males, 232 ; females, 261 ;
children, 65; poor, 1802 (last year, 2,269); salts,
911 ; children, 891; relief in money, 571. 10s. ; kind,
25/. 10a. Fare : Tea and bread and atter for breakfast ;
dinner, 6 muse, of roast beef with vegetables ; 11b. plum
pudding, and one pint Barclay 's porter ; tea same as break-
fast. Weight of pudding about 6001 b. Ingredients
Plums, 2241 b.; suet, 1201 b.; eggs, 200 ; sugar, stilb.;
2001 b. Price of provisions : Flour, 36a. 9d. per sack ; or
beef, per stone 281 b., 3a. 6d.; mutton, 4a. 4d.• potatoes,
90a. per ton. Decrease on indoor poor, 12 ; increase on out-
door poor, 457 ; total incase, 445.

BT. Grue's AND Or. Grown* BLoomasuar.—Popubv
tam at last census, 54,076; inmates of workhouse, 789 (lad
year, 773), males. 284; boys, 76 ; &nudes. 394 ; girls, 56 ;
at Heston, 108 children and 10 adult.; out-door poo-, 1.313
(last year, 1,198) : adults, 610; children, 703. Fare : boast
beef, 11b.; potatoes, ad libitum ; plum pudding, alb.; and
one pint porter. Tobacco and snuff and 'holidays allowed.
I ereon on in•door poor, 16 ; on out-door poor, 115 ; total
increase of poor as compared with last yesr,_l3l.

. .
Sr. 011.Flefi, CAMBEBWILL -Area, 4,342 ACM ; port-
Like at last census, 71,489 (at 1851, 54,167); Moreau,
16.822 ; inmates of workhouse, 554 (last year, 512) ; men,
164 ; women, 184 • children, 38 ; outdoor poor, 1,675 (last
Chrirtmas, 1,3561 out relief to money, 29!. 71. Bd. ; in
kind, 831. 16s. each person receiving out relief an
extra amount of relief. Fere Roast beef, plum pudding,
and ate pint of porter each, with tobacco, snuff, oranges,
&c. ; tea and asks la the evening. A treat also defrayed by
the guardians the AM week in January. Flour, per sack,
35e. 6d. • hat year, 41s. 941. Increase on in-door poor 42 ;
on outdoor poor, 319 ; total increase, 361.

Houma( Umos.—Population, 44,861 ; in-door poor,
447 ; out-door poor, 983 ; total, 1,430. The Christmas-day
fare wet, for mesh adult olb. roast pork, I.lb. plum pudding,
1 pint of beer, with an &Homage of tobacco and snuff.
Children regaled with cake and fruit in the evening.
9v. MART, PADDINGTON. —A Tea, 1,277 acres ; poLculitktiz
at last census, 75,606 (at census of 1851, 44,053) ;
31,753. Inmates of workhouse, 369 (last year, 333) ; men,
87 ; women, 155 ; children, 127. Fare : Roast beef, mashed
potatoes, plum paddies and a pint of porter or ale each.
The pudding comprieedl3olbe. fruit and spice, 1401bs. flour,
681ba beef suet, and 40 quarts of ale, and weighed about
40011 a. Contract prices : Beef, 6d. per lb. ; bread, sgd. per
4113 e. ; butter. 891. per cwt. ; and cheese, 425. Increase, 36.

ST. MATTIMW, BrrlilcAL-Gllll9.—hMatee Of workhouse,
1,239 (last year 1,361) : men, 478 ; women, 466; boys, 158;
girls, 137. Out-door poor, 910 ; vis. men, 115 ; women,
310 ; children, 485. Chrisemas-day foie : Roast beef, plum
pudding, and porter; children, oranges, nuts, kc., in the
evening. Contract prices of provisions : Flour. 365. per
mock ; meat, ss. 9d. per stone of 141ba. ; butter, 735. 6d. per
cwt. • cheese, 41s. ; potatoes, Si. per ton' porter, 30s. per
36 *allow ; and milk, la. Bd. per barn gallon. No return of
out-door pore of last year. Decrease on indoor poor, 122.

Sr. GRORGR'S Al THI EAST.—Area, 243 aCta • pOl3lllll,
Con at last amens, 48,878 (is 1851, 48,376) ; intet:sse, 602 ;
inmates of workhouse, 810 (tut year, 1,142) ; moo, 245 ;
boy., 44 ; women, 500 ; girl& 21; outdoor poor, 2,000 Out
year, 1,768) ; adults, 1,049 ; children, 951; children at Pluket
schools about 300 ; weekly ansouu t of out-relief, money 621.115.
106., kind 391. 7s. 3d. ; total, 1011. 19s. Id. Christmas
fare : Roast beef, plum ;sodding, and vegetables ad lantum,
and 1 pint of porter each ; ingredients of podding, 210155.
trait, and 150Ibs. of Sour, with a sufficient quantity of spice,
candied peel, aid milk ; decrease on in-door poor, 332 ; on
out-door poor, 732 ; total decrease, 564.
Sr. °sows nu MART!., SourewAzi. —Area, 282
acres ; population at last emu, 56,509 (at 1851, 51,824).
Inmates of workhouse, 466 (last year, 486) ; men, 208 ;
women, Z 1.3 ; children, 26 ; at the catalffia-nent, Mdam,
112 girls 138 boys. Christmas dinner : Roast beef, plum
podding, and porter, with tobacco and snuff for the aged,
end oranges, Szc., for the children. Decrease on indoor poor,
18 ; and iDerebillin children, 19 ; total increase, 1.
fir. MART, ROTIMLHITEIL —Axe', 886 acne ; population
at last census, 21,500 (at 1851. 17,805) ; i 6,695.
Inmates of workhouse, 211 (last year, 191) ; 69 ;
females, 118 ; children, 24. Inmates had each llb. of rout
beef, 11b. plum pudding, and 1 pint of ale with tobacco,
snuff, nuts, and fruit. Ont-door relief, 1,037 (lost year,
1,077). Relief, 601. le. 10d. Increase on in door poor, 20;
decrease on outdoor poor, 40 ; total dermas, 20.

STLPRICY UNION.—Po last census, 55,629 • at the
three workhouses. (last year 1,036) ; males, 200;
females. 333 ; children, 454 ; lunatics in asylum, 131 ; last
year. 129 ; annual cast of their maintenance in 1862,
3,393/. ;in 1861, 3,3271. Inmates of the workhouses sup-
plied with the old English fere, baked beef and potatoes,
boiled plum pudding, one pint o: porter, and tobacco and
snuff. Price of leading articles :—Bread, 11s. 911. per cwt.;
meat, 6s. ; butter, 78s. ; cheese, 435. ; weekly cost of
adults last year, Si. 4d. • children, ss. 3d. • this year,
adults, te. ; &Urea, ss. 40. Decrease on in-door
poor, 49.

Sr. MAST lIAoDALm, BIRMONDSZT. —Ares, 688 s nee ;
population at last census, 68,355 (at 1851, 48,128); increase,
10,271 ; in-door poor, 567 (last year, 666) ; men, 195 ;
women, 285 ; children, 87 ; out-door poor, 1,155. Christ -
mavday fare: Bawd beef and vegetables, plum pudding, and
• pint of Barclay's porter each for adults ; fruit and magic
lantern for &Wren in the evening. Increase on in-door
poor, 99.

GREINWICH UrrioN.—Arta, 6367 statute acres ; popula-
tion at last census, 127,662 (at 1851, 99,365) ; increase,
243,297 ; inmates of union, 937 (last year, 903) ; males, 322 ;
females, 506 ; children, 109. Christmas dinner : 8 or. roast
beef, llb. plum podding, 11b. potatoes, and 1 pint of porter ;
children in proportion, with gingerbread nuts, oranges. &c.
In the evening the great hall was appropriated to music and
singing. The ingredients of the Greenwich podding were :
plums, 2241b5. ; currants, 841ba. ; sugar, 12611 w. ; suet,
1261b5. ; dour, 2261%w. ; eggs, 240; spice, 41bs. ; ale, 6 gal-
loon ; milk, 16 gallons. Increase in in-door poor, 34
STRAND UNlON.—tree, 174 acres; population at last
census, 42,956 (at 1851, 44,417), decrease, 1,461 ; inmates of
workhouse, 564 (last Christmas, 606) ,• men, 217 ;
316 ; children. 31. Christmas fare : 6 on. of boded leg of
pork or roast beef at option ; Ilb. vegetables, potatoes and
carrot', 14 on. plum pudding ; and 1 pint of porter. In-
crease on in-door poor, 42.

ST. °LAPS'S Bros.—lnmates. 3GO (last year: 349); mem
93 ; women. 154 ; children, 113. Christmas tare : Roast beef,
plum padding, and porter. Inmates allowed to go out and
return to dhow, or in the evening. Increase on indoor
poor, 11.

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BII.I24TFOILD UNION.—Area, 20,516 acres; population at
last oeosua, 50,4% (at 1811, 43,900) ; increase, 5,496. In-
mates. 406 ( last year, 401) ; males, 126 ; females, 127 ; chil-
dren, 153 ; outdoor poor, 896 (last year, 1,999). Fare :
Soz. resat best, Ilb. plum puddiog, 111.. potatoes, 1 pint of
beer, and extra tea at night to each adult, and oranges and
sweet. to children. Bake their own bread ; flour 375. per
sack. • Increase on in-door poor. 4 ; dooms., on outdoor
poor, 1,103. ; total damage, 1,099.
Monet UNlOn.—Area. 3,929 Sale ; population at last
moans, 83,296 (at 11151. 58,429) ; increase, 24.866; in.
mates of workhouse, 566 (last year, 601) ; 166 •
females, 221 ; children. 178 ; outdoor poor, 1.972 (last
year, 2,036) ; 1,007 adults, and 965 children. Fare : Bos.
of beef, pork, or mutton ; 14os. of baked potatoes, and
12os. plum pudding, made of 901 b.. of plums, 9011 s.
currants, sibs. peel, 7011 e. suet, 80 eggs, 75Ibs. sugar, 28
quarts of milk. and 14 quarts of beer ; coffee and bread sod
butter, and tobacco, snuff, kc. ; and children sweetmeats,
oranges, to. Holidays allowed. Increase on indoor poor,
36 ; decrease in out-door poor, 64 ; total decrease, 29:

Fut.)Lim Urrox.—Poptilation at last °ensue, 39,951 ;
inmates of workhouee, 404 (last year, 411) ; men, 138;
women, 148 ; children 118. Cbristmsa fare : baked beef
and potatoes ; porter, tobacco, snuff, sad oranges, tea,
bread and butter, lac., ad libitum. Deerease, 7.

Carmut LONDON DISTRICT fficwoot..—Chi ldren belong-
ing to *softy and various parishes, 1,117, were regaled with
roast pork, rout beef, potetoes, and plum pudding, and
coffee in the wreniog. Two full services were performed
and sermons preached by the Rev. S. V. Edwards, B.A.
chaplain to the school. The dining-ball was decorated
with appropriate text. and devices.
From the foregoing report it will be observed that, whilst
in some parishes there is an ionises, generally speak-
ing there is • decrease of psuperisui—in ate or two instances
to • remarkable extent, • circumstance which must be
highly gratifying to the' inhabitants of those particular
districts. There are one or two parishes omitted in the
report, but it arises from the authorities not having sup-
plied the information when applied for.

Tax FIN D/LAINAOR. —The wind and tide of
Sunday last made a complete wreck of Mr. Page's dam at
the entrance of the Norfolk Marshland Smooth and Fen
drain. The dam has now been in course of construction
sloes October, and about 31001. has been expended upon
it. At a sae** of the ocenniittes of the dletriet at Lynn
on Tuesday it was resolved to rewind the appointment of
Mr. Page, all engineer. and the dam and tanks have been
entrusted to Mr. W. L. Uarding, C.E., of Lynn, with
*horn a committee was appointed to co-operate.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OP BANKRUPTCY.
(Wore Mr. CaaaskrioDer nun.)
DI as Z.

The bankrupt was a Won't-maker, of 13ackneyrasd.
There was a peculiarity about his statement of accounts,
which showed DO direct, debts, but lial,ilities on accommo-
dation billed 6161. ; of course, no wets.
Mr. Aldridp stated that the bankrup. bad been required
to explain the eircurostanoes under which his goods bad
been wised by his landlord ; be had done so, and there was
no further opposition to his discharge.
Discharge granted.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

OLERKENWELL.

The number of ;hisies of irnoTand incapable and other
offences arising from taking too much to drink, and which
on Boxing.day amount to • large number, did not amount
to above one-half of what they did on Boxing-day last year.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
ASSAULT AT A CIUMITMAA PARTY.
Mr. Robert &eel, shoPmerchant, 461, Stria& wee charged
before Mr. Knox With assaulting Milt flush Connor, a young
married woman, and also Jeffrey, 209 O.
Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the defence.
The widower, which was rather lengthy, went to show
that the oomOsanant, whose age is twenty-oue, is living
apart from her husband, whose age is but eighteen, and
that yesterday she went to No. 6 Nassau-street, with
her baby, having had a day's holiday from St. James'.
Workhouse. She asked for her husband, and be was denied
to bar by his relatives, but as she had no food to give the
child and she heard her husband's voice, she rushed into
the room, when the defendant struck her a violent blow in
the eye.
In answer to Mr. Knox, the complainant said the defen-
dant was her husband's sister's husband.

Jeffrey, 209 0, proved being called to the house to remove
the complainant, and seeing the defendant strike her a blow
in the eye. On taking the defendant into custody he both
struck and kicked him. The defendant was drunk at the
Mr. Lewis addressed the magistrate on the defendant's
behalf, and called two witnesses who said the complainant
had been very annoying all day, that no assault had taken
place, and that the polio, had acted in a violent manner.
In answer to Mr. Knox, one of the witnesses said the
defendant was quite sober, as he had only bad three or four
glasses of grog.
Mr. Knox, after remarking that the strength of the grog
bed all to do with it, said that no doubt the complainant
hadannoyedthe parties who were merry-making, her husband
being among them while she was wandering about the
streets with her child ; and the defendant bad assaulted her,
the blow not being a slight one. There was, however, no
proof of any malice in toe defendant's act. He thought it
a cue where the defendant might speak to the oompLunant.
He was not prepared to say the constables had acted impro-
perly ; and, to show his opinion of their conduct, he should
fine the defendant 6e.
The defendant having given the complainant 21., was dis-
charged.

DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE.
Edward Burke, a tall young man, wan charged with being
concerned in the following
.disgraoeful outrage :
Mr. Joseph Bath proprietor of the Lard apron, Koppel-
street, Chelsea, acid that at 2,1 minutes to 10 last night the
defendant end three other men rushed iota his
house, and, all pretending to be much intoxicated, cum.
mewed creating a great disturbance without the least pro-
vocation. They threw the furniture about, and broke
three legs off • table, and then hurled some quart pots and
other drinking vessels in different direction*.
Mr. Arnold—Was there any reason that you know of for
=eh conduct!

MONEY MARKET. RAILWAYS,
AND MIXES.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'Cuxx.. t

The Stook Exchange being closed to-day, by
order of the Committee, we have no report to make
under these heads.

With reference to the mails from the East by the
Colombo, the Post-office authorities have to-day
issued the subjoined notification :
" Only one box of letters from Ceylon and twe
from New Zealand, and one box of papers frogs
Victoria, have reached this office from the Colombo.
Yost of the correspondence is in • very damaged
slate, but it will be delivered as far as practicable in
the course of the day."
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Renter opened at
69fr. 70c., being be. better than on Wednesday.