biglam/hmd_newspapers huggingface dataset:
The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-16

rilE ARTIC SEARCIIIINO EXPEDITIONS.

Advice, from California mention the arrival of her
Mai,,ty's ship Daedalus, Capt. G. 0. Wellesley, at San
raneiven, on the Sind Oct. from Port Clarence, Behring'e
S:rsits, which she left on the Ist of that month. She
brought as passengers. Lieut. Cooper and Dr. Simpson, of
bet Majeety's ship l'lover, which vessel bad returned to
Port Clarence from her summer expedition, having been
huhle to penetrate further north than 71 degrees, being 3
decrees short of their excursion last year. The Plover's
eonsurt had not returned to her winter quarters at the sail-
ine id the boletus. No vestige of the expedition of Sir J.
Frank:in was discovered ; and it was the opinion of the two
edict n from the l'luver who came passengers in the Medu-
lla, that all further attempts to find traces leading to the
discovery of the Arctic voyagers would prove utterly fruit.
km. The following is the report of the Dedalue :—" Her
Britannic Id..jesty's ship Daedalus, Captain G. G. Welles..
I, Y. from l'ort Clarence, Dehring's Straits, October 1, ar-
med in oar harbour yesterday, and anchored at Sancilito.
The ba,laless was despatched from Valparaiso last spring to
',sit Ow provision which. is kept at Port Clarence as a depot
and point of succour in case either Sir John Franklin's ex-
polition or the other vessels in search of him should be
0-4,u,d to quit their ship and take to their boats. The
Iva aslto arrived at the edge of the ice (which was then close
to St Lawrence Island) in the middle of June, when she fell
4a with a loge fleet of whalers, principally Americana,
*4otuie ter an opening to proceed northward. There had
a, a but little done iu taking whales this NUM. eltheach
'aril, numbers of them had been seen in the Ames seas La
the ',Ay part of the season. Most of the ships had you
*tillh. Captain Wellesley thinks that all the vessels bad
toted the Straits for the south before the Daedalus sailed.
•urniner season is later than usual, the Oat mew having
en the tat of October, the day the Medals, ss
from Fort Clarence." Captain Wellesley retenlo large
Yu ies of see iu the Straits, which were, in fact, almost
1"6" up. The Daedalus had several narrow escapee, and
was at use tine in imminent danger of foundering.

FURTHER SEARCH FOR SIR JOUN FRANKLIN.—
'be public will learn with great satisfaction that the next
"aeditoun to the Arctic regions in 1842, in search of Sir
Jo!1.1 Yrsklinand the missing officers and crews of the
iron,. and Terror discovery ships, will be made aa efficient
and that, in addition to the Piosver and Intrepid
wren stramen employed in the recent expedition, the
l'ho.ois, a much Luger screw steamer of 280-horse power,
*"'ll was taken up from Woolwich to Deptfoed snout •
ra"k see, h ordered to be fitted and streagtheaed at the
tlcc dockyard fee service in the Polar Kee.
London, England, 1851-12-16

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16,
_1851,,

SPAIN

NDIA AND CHINA.

M .
• • MADRID. Dm. 10.
The deliveiance of tho Qseen is expected on the
12thi 13th. It is reported that the Marquis of
Mini res will resign, and be replaced in the mini-
foreign affairs by M. Csatillo-y-Ayensa. The
laat despatches from the government of the United
States are highly satisfactory.
London, England, 1851-12-16

Witness—l told your fortune very pleasantly, when I
brought you money. (Laughter.)
Mr. llorry—how long is it siuce you have given any one
• brief in this court ?

Witness—l gave you one two years ago.
Mr. Horry—Now, I te.k you again, do you not get your
living by telling fortunes ?
Witness—l told yours very pleasantly. (Laughter.)
The Recorder told the witness again that she must answer
the question.
Witness—Mr. Horry knows I am not a fortune-teller.
He has no business to ask such questions.
Mr. Horry—Have you not been committed to prison for
fortune-telling ?
Witness—No. I was once committed to prison for en
assault. A person spit in my face, and I had a pint pot in
my hand, and I gave him a crack over the head with it, and
I would serve you the same if you were to spit in my face.
(Roars of laughter.)
Some other witnesses were then called, whose evidence
tended to contradict different statements made by the de-
fendant in support of the charge she made against the
prosecutor, awl this closed the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Horry addressed the jury. He said he believed that
when they had heard all the facts of the case they would
be of opinion that the present charge ought never to have
been preferred, and that there was in reality no ground for
saying that the detendant had wilfully and corruptly sworn
that which she knew to be false. The original charge lied
undergone a most careful inquiry by an intelligent magi,-
trate, who had committed the prosecutor for trial upon it,
and after a long investigation, the jury having heard all tbe
facts and all the evidence that was brought forward by the
party accused, had returned a verdict of guilty, and the
present proceeding was really nothing morn than an attempt
to make the Central Criminal Court a court of appeal
against its own decisions. The learned counsel then stated
that it would be his duty to call all the witnesses who were
examined in support of the original charge, and he said be
had no doubt that when the jury had heard their evidence
they would coma to the conclusion that the defendant ought
not to be convicted upon this indictment.
It being stated in answer to a question put by the court
that it would be impossible to bring the inquiry to a close
that night unless the court sat to a very late hour, it was
--.ed that the trial should bet adjourned to this
London, England, 1851-12-16

TALLOW MARKET.—Tius DAT.

The market is steady today. Prices are maintained,
and the demand rolltilllWS good. Quotations ranee a+ fol-
lows ,—Town Tallow, 365. lid. to 37+. net cash ; Petersburg
Y.C. on the spot, new, 36+. 9,1. ; ohl, 365. 3d.; all the year,
36a. lid.; new year (l8J2), 335. ; January and Stara, 36. 9d.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARK ET.—THIS DAY.
Cooper and D.tvis report trade very heavy at the
followiug quotations :—Prime menuow Hay, Gds. to 76e. ;
iuli•rior, 5.55. to tiOs.; Rotten, .3js. to Ws. ; Clover, 7tho.
Sid. ; Straw, to 2(a.

COALS. - LONDON, DEC. 15.-CLOSE OF TOE MAR.
x -lluddle's West llartley, His.; Burnhorw. 14s.
Carr's Hartley, lm. ; Chester Main, His. ; Felling Main,
151.; Hastings' Hartley, 1 Is. tkl. ; ltelpwcll, 17s. ;
Howard's West Hartley Netherton, 15s. ; Linigridge's
West Hartley, 15s. ; Newcastle Hartley, IM. ; Reillieugh
Main, 14s. lid. ; Tantleld Moor, 1.55. tkl.; Tantield Moor
Butes, 15s. ; Townley, 151. lkl. ; Tyne Main, 155.;
Walker I'rimrnse, 14s. ti I. ; West Hartley. Ids. Gd.;
Wyliun, IGs. 61I.; Walls End Bell and Brown, 17s. 3d.;
Walls End Benshain, 165.6 d.; Walls End Bowden Close,
Irts. ; Walls End Clark, Its. Gil.; Walls End Clennel,
14s. Gd. ; Walls End tiosh•rth, 17s. 3d. ; \Valls End
Ilarton. 175.; Walls End Heaton, 175.; Walls End Law-
son, Ith. bd.; Walls End Northumberland, 1W.64. ; Walls
End Walksr, 16s. Oil.; Eden Main, 17s. lid. ; Lambton
Primrose, 17s. Gil.; Walls End Bell, 17s. Gd. ; End
Belmont, 174., 178. 6.1. ; Walls End Iletton, 18s.titl.; Walls
En' Haswell, 18s. Gil.; Walls End Kepler Orange, 170. 9d.;
Walls End Larnhton, Ifts. ; Walls End Perishes, 178.3 d.;
Walls End Russel's Ileum, Is.. ; Walls End Shottow,
unicrecncd, Ilia. 3d. ; Walls End Stewart's, 18s. W.;
Walls End Whitwell IU, Walls End Caradac

17; 3d. ; Walls End C.;ssop, Us. :id.; Walls End Hartle:
pool, Ms. 6d. ; Walls End Heugh Hall, lis. Walls
End South Hartlepool, 17s. !M.; Walls End South
Kelloe, 17$. 341. ; Wall. End Thoruley, Ile.; Walls End
West Kellue, 175.; Walls End Whitworth, Iris. 3d.;
Walls End Adelaide Tee,, lis. 6d.; Walls End Hack-
house, 17s. ; Walls End Maclean's Tees, Iris. Pal. ; Walls
End Seymour Tees, lis. ; Walls End St. 'Helen's Tees,
ltis. 3d. ; Walls End Tees, lits. 3.1. ; Walls End West
Curnforth, 175.; Cowpen Hartley, Ids.; Derwentwater
Hartley, 135.; Hartley, 11..6d.; Nimes Merthyr and
Cardilf, 215.; Sidney's Hartley, 15d. ; Whitworth Coke, 21s.
—Ships at market, 317 ; sold, 121.
London, England, 1851-10-24

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL

Yesterday a Court was held for the despatch of
public business.

REFORM OF TIIE CORPORATION.
Sir P. LAURIE gave notice of the following motion,
which he said it was his intention to bring forward when
the report from the Freedom's Committee upon the Corpo-
ration Reform Bill should be introduced to the Court :
. _

" That so much of the prop. dings of this Court upon the
report of the Freedom's Committee as ad•cts the important
principle now possessed by the freemen householders of this
city, with reference to the choice of their own magistrates,
be rescinded. That so much as relates to the periodical
election of magistrates (a principle hitherto unknown in the
history of this city) be also rescinded.•'
Upon the motion of Mr. Deputy Mattison (the
chairman of the Freedom's Committee) instructions were
given to the committee to cause the bill to be printed, and
copies to he circulated amongst the members of the corpora-
tion, previously to its introduction to the court.
London, England, 1851-10-24

THE STEFEY ORDERLY SYSTEM.

Mr. ANDERTON then brought up a petition in favour
of the street orderly system.
After a short con•enstion, Mr. Anderton agreed to
withdraw the petition until the nest court, it being under-
stood that in the meantime every member thereof should be
furni.shed with a cops of the report on the subject made by
Mr. liaywood, the surveyor to the City Sewers Com-
mission.

PORTSMOCTIII, OCT. 23.—The Bellerophon, 78,
Capt. Lord George Paulett„ and the Hercules, 72, left
Spithead this afternoon for the Mediterranean. The Frolic,
18, Commander Vansittart, was paid off to-day alongside
the dockyard. The Hecate, steam-vessel, Commander
Hand, arrived yesterday from Lisbon.
llovEursis.—At Lisbon: Leander (Coln. W. F.
Martin), llogue, Arethusa, and Dauntless. The Prince
Regent sailed on the 16th on • cruise, the commodore
having previously shifted his flag to Leander. The Hecate
sailed at 9 a.m. on the 16th tur England. The Dauntless
arrived at 7 p.m. on the 18th from England. Sept. 27. At
Port Royal, Imam, 72, guard-ship; 23, Alban, steamer,
Lieut. Crawford, left l'ort Royal for Port an Prince. Oct.
1. Helene, 16, Com. Do Courcy, at Antigua, ready for
I an, to leave the Englivh harbour on the 15th inst., for
Grenada. Sept. 17. Greytown, the Bermuda, Lieut. Jolly,
as a cruise.
London, England, 1851-10-24

DENMARK.

Touching the new ministry in Denmark, the
Kreuz-Zeitang observes that the Conservative Mi-
nisters, Mottke, Raedtz, and Fibiger, has given
place to democratic successors—that Blum was for-
merly a eustom-house officer at the Sound, and that
the two other ministers aro quite fresh names
—quite unknown. The new modified ministry
are united with respect to the Schleswig-Hol-
stein question, adopt the European view of the
succession question, but with reference to Holstein
must be governed by circumstances beyond their
control. The Preussische %Many maintains that
these ministerial changes betoken no concession to
the Eider Dune, or national party--that no change
of principle has taken place, but that the policy
which occasioned the dissolution of the November,
and the formation of the July ministry is still main-
tained. Nevertheless it is evident that tho
liberal party have gained a victory; and from
Blum, whom the Kretetz Zestuny calls the custom-
house officer, but who held the PortMlio of Com-
merce in 18-18, and General Flcnsbourg, there
seems to be not many steps to Count Knuth, Cola,
Lehman, and Moncad.

LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES.
London, England, 1851-10-24

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.

OXFORD, OCT. 23.—Tu a congregation holden this
morning the following degrees were conferred— vir :
Masters of Arts.—ltcv. Francis Hole, Magdalen Hall ; and
Charles Francis Willis, Scholar of Corpus Christi College.
Bachelor of Arts.—Cbarles William Clarke and William
Joseph Ilathwav, Worcester College; William Stephens
James, Exeter tollege ; Richard Hodgson, Queen's Col-
lege; John Albert Greens, Tatham Scholar of Lincoln
College; Edward 11. Knatchbull liugesson, Magdalen Col-
lege,Urand Compounder; John Furnia Magor, Wadham
College; Barlfe, Pembroke College; and William
Harvey Brooks, 31agdalen Hall.

NAVAL.

ADMIRALTY, Oct. 23.
J. 0. Simmoncli, to Crane.

r.—Purser

MILITARY.

- -----
THE BRIGADE OF FOOT GrAßD..—Yesterday, the
23rd inst., the Foot Guards changed their quarters as follows.
These changes, which have hitherto taken place the first
week in September, were this year postponed until after
the clove of the Great Exhibition :

Grenadier Guards.—lst hattolion, from Windsor, to Wel-
lington Barracks; 2nd bottaliou, from Knightsbridge to
Windsor; and 3rd battalion, from St. George's Barracks to
St. John's-wood.
Coldstream Guards.-Ist battalion, from the Tower to
Chichecer ; and 2nd battalion, from Wellington Barrack*
to Portman-street Barracks.
Soots Fusilier Guard..—ht battalion, from Portman-street
Barracks to the TowiT ; and 2uil battoliou, from St. John's-
wood, to St. George's Barracks.
DEPOT 69rn REGIMEN r.—This depot, from Chi-
chester, is now en route to Chatham, where it is to be Ma-
-1 timed.
London, England, 1851-10-24

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.

The following address has been forwarded to Louis
Kossuth by the Polish-lfungarianCommittee of this town:
" The Newcastle-on-Tyne Polish•lfungarian Refugee 1,
Committee to Louis Kossuth, late Governor of
Hungary.
" Honoured and much respected Sir,—We hail with
delight your deliverance from captivity, and bid you hearty
welcome to England. We watched with the most intense
interest your heroic struggle for your country's freedom—
we publicly expressed our sincere sympathy for your cause,.:
and offered our earnest prayers for your success. Our
means and not our will prevented us doing more. With
grief and sadness we received the tidings that treachery
had consummated what open opposition could net effect.
Yet we felt thankful for your personal safety, and to that
potentate in whose dominions you found an aqlum we
offer our profound acknowledgments, for the calm and dig-
nified manner in which he has repelled the vindictive fury II
of your relentless persecutors. Illustrious patriot, you
have been defeated, but not dishonoured. Your noble na-
tion is subdued fur a time, but not conquered. We have
London, England, 1851-10-24

rULA.ND ANLI tor 711 i; ItLINtiARtAN IostMITIZE.

A deputation. composed of Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart,
M.P., General Klapka, Colonel Count Zamoyski, Mr. W.
Adams Smith, and Lieutenant Charles Sxerlerzewski,
presented through Mr. Richard Taylor the following petition:
"To the Hight llonouraSle the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
and Commons of the City of London, in CO1111:12011 Council
assembled,
" In approaching the bar of your honourable court, for
the: purpose of requesting your permission that a ball
should be given in your Guildhall in aid of the funds
of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland and
of the Hungarian Committee, we beg to state very shortly
the purposes to which Vie proceeds of the ball, should
you be pleased to comply with the prayer of our
petition will be applied. fhe resources at the disposal of
the Polish Association arc employed almost exclusively in
the relief of refugees who are incapacitated by sickness
from following their usual occupations, and in furnishing
those who are desirous of leaving this country with the
necessary funds. In some few instances, assistance to a
small amount is afforded, when a reasonable probability
exists that it will be the means of providing the recipients
with permanent employment. The Hungarian refugees,
being generally men in the prime of life, arc, with very
few exceptions, desirous of proceeding without delay to a
country where they can at once obtain by their own exer-
tions an independent position. The funds of the Hun-
garian committee arc thus far employed almost
exclusively in providing the refugees under its charge
with the means required for their conveyance to America.
The council of the l'ulish Association and the Hungarian
committee, trust that your honourable court will approve
of the objects to which their efforts are directed; they can-
not, indeed, doubt that such will be the ease, when they
ritleet on the reception which you hare decided to afford to
the illustrious exile in the cause of constitutional liberty
who is about to set foot on our ehores. I'roud as he must
feel at receiving such an approval of his policy from the
municipality of the first city in the world, his satisfaction
will assuredly be enhanced by finding that, whilst cheering
him by your sympathy and applause, you have not for
to alleviate the sulfa rings of those who followed him
with unshaken fidelity to the termination of his glorious
career. We, therefore,humbly pray your honourable court
to grant the use of he Guildhall, as decorated fur the
dinner on Lord Mayor's Day, fur the purpose above-
mentioned.

—..----.
„On behalf of the council,
(Signed) " DUDLEY COUTTS STUART, Chairman.
" W. LLOYD ISIItKDECK. Hoe. Secretary."
This memorial was brought up by Mr. R. Taylor, but
before that gentleman bud an opportunity of speaking in its
support, Mr. Anderton asked several questions of Lord
Dudley Stuart, M.P.. which were answered statistically by
the hon. member, apparently to the satisfaction of the ma.
jority of the court.
The prayer of the memorial was almost unanimously
acceded to.
London, England, 1851-10-24

Elie erortisO.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
• Sseer• Sack• of " Ifs Laproao" oodasidlag •do seer maires
Ganged; Is paillJed nosy Twig as l Prods, abed. la Use
Ilar dot
ddisitot•reutatandad for "Tad Exproo"Loodes Vended payer,
mad be at the irate, to, douork•aroof. of
Two Waked an Iho
day of pubkatioo.

HIOR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tam DAT —Morr.. eg, I r 1n vi Aftmvanit. 144113.
maadmr—Mondsig, 2b. .... Afteraas. MIS*.

LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24.

LORD GREY has, we suspect, by this time dis-
covered that he from the beginning has wholly mis-
cionceived the state of affairs at the Cape of Good
Hope, and that his polity, consequently, has beta
one continued blunder. Hut the old complaint holds
• Pod—
Dearest rcgei,i.lkettitur achivi.
'fhe gnat ones of 1/owning-street, with the mad
rashness of hopeless ignorance, miserably blunder—
hot, alas! the unfortunate colonists are the sufferers
—and the people of England have to pay the bill.
Experience seems of no use to our colonial authori-
ties; they obstinately run the same dull round of
error: to day is but the semblance of yesterday--
and every day is an exhibition of the same invincible
opposition to every suggestion of common sense, and
common prudence. hum the beginning of our
colonial rule down to the present hour the same
difficulties have arisen—the same mistakes have
been committed—the some tenacious adherence to •

went—he would have found that every step taken is
advance would have been a firm and safe one.
British Lafraria would then not have been made •
gisamot government for an arbitrary soldier—bat
wend have commenced its career as a colony enti-
tled to law, and to a settled and regular gems-
ment. It would have funned part of the
system of our South African colonies, whict=
in such circumstances gradually extend themselves,

and fill all the fertile territories to be found in thoec
regions with civilised, id place of savage inhabitants.
But this regular, steady, and econothic method of
planting colonies finds no favour in Downing street,
bemuse it puts aside as useless, if not mischievous,
the rod tape mysteries of that notorious precinct.
London, England, 1851-10-24

HAMMERSMITH._

Etheard Challis, alias Ramsay, alias Wood, a respectably
dressed man, was finally examined on the charge of at-
tempting to obtain money from Mr. George Trafford Heald,
the Midland of the celebrated Lola Montes, by false repre-
sentations.
Mr. l'aynter said since the last examination he had
written to the police of Itorneastle, and they were unable
to discover that such a person as Mrs. Thompson bad ever
lived in the place. Ile had no doubt, nor had he when the
prisoner was placed before him, that he had attempted to
obtain money from Mr. Heald by false representations. Ile
did not think the case so aggravated as where money had
been obtain, d under the pretence of assisting the poor. The
prisoner had calculated in obtaining the money, as he be-
lieved Mr. Heald would Sc more induced to part with his
money to prevent an exposure. Ile took into consideration
thai he had been in prison fourteen days, and he should
therefore order him to be committed fur a further term of
six weeks. _ . .

Mr. Fisher, who appeared for the prisoner, said he should
appeal against his warship's decision.

MARKETS.

Livratoot,Ort. 23.

The sales to-day are: Sugar—Qo hhd+. J.unaiva, at 31s.
to 31a. ed.; 100 Made. BO:odor., at 31, t;,. to 10e.. 800 balm Bea-
gat, at hie. to 311 ed. • 123 hoe, 13...he•re. at 444. Lao bags
fates, ..t 27.. to 31e. id.; 30 blab, PIM, Rico, at Sta. 6d. to ,Ga. 6d.
alutamet : Ihtpu: a. Antigua hom the quay. at 136.6 d. Saltpetre
So b.:es, at sea. tal. 2 P et. Man wood luto boy 121.10 a.

BILK.—The circular of Meters. Durant and Co., dated
the 22nd of (Mob r, aintaine the f dl. wine nimarka on the courwe of
Ude umbel during the month :—%k a trace again to retort very
d bminent in Silk. Our circular of the 22nd ult. n.portad a 'ce-
ntral went of minden e in Aria; and consequent quiet state of di-
mand—thla has amtinued, the arrival of the Albemarle and eth
Alp., frau Cana, with .!,:sUU bdea of tilt, and the announcement of
the medic &deo, no itoubt Unsling to increase the tlninclinat ion of eon.
a limey. to purchase. The e publiti sales ointment, to-lay; 4,700 bales
of China and I,Ball balm of lien/nil are brought railcard. The deliveries
are nolo moderate. In milk nothing was thee till the lost two
daps ' • about t u bales have changed halal., chiefly at a reductlin of
fully sd. pre lb. open the prim of Awn t, the Imt m nut. of
current baonhere. tengul cola bait ter thililated in the general quiet;
the rivet, of all but fax' are oak In now vt y limited, and this clam
reds much the influence it the draping pow at Italian milk. In
Italian silk the 'orient.. have n,t been quite (1.1 to the previous
mouth ; but many of ilic importers have shisern anxiety to be moving
eat, at wit, ti rates. In heaths silk the unl.od,a, sot I. id week,
ahont 711 babe, boa beta taken at shout pies tuna rates. In Prnlon
cola the continuotai small demand for export leave, us without any.
thing la hat hands and a total dock of only about 2W balm
London, England, 1851-10-24

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS

MINCING LANE.-THIS DAY.

St n.—The public sales are unusually large to.dav—
say 600 hhds. West India, 8,000 bags Mauritius, and 7,000
hags ; they are progrt ssing heavily, at. 6d. to to.
decline upon last week's curreney.wh ieli quoted that advance.
Refined remains at last week's pric.s. Grocery lumps,
445. 6d. to 495.; low descriptions Rearm.
COFFEE.—Thin article has been heavy and a decline of
64. to Iv. must he quoted from the higlicst point of List
week. Good Mocha, imported 1842, sold in public vale at
708. to 724.

TEL—The market hu been dull during the week, but
prices arc not altered; new mama Cungou, fine, sold at
la. Bd. to h. Od.

ItteE.—There has been a fair amount of business dune,
bat prior are 3d. lower.
tr.Trarrar —The amount of bosinees done has not been
large; prices have been supported.
SPIRIT...-Rum and Brandy quoted the same as last
week; the markets inactive.

Int fr.—Currants continue firm at 40s. for new Paras ;
a cargo of new tnte has arrived, of fine quality, which is
offering at Ms. ; old currants emitinue dull. Raisins V -
leneia tiros at last week's prices.
Isnitio.—The sale to-day does not show any alteration
in prices.
In other articles no material alteration, but markets ge-
nerally 114 TC been dull.
London, England, 1851-10-24

Tho trial of many judges implicated in the Ilesse
Cassel revolution as It has been called, has been
pending for nearly a year; and it is satisfactory to
announce that the members of the Gotenburg law
tribunals, who were charged with resistance to
Ilassenpflug's ordinance, have been acquitted by the
general auditory."' The law courts of Germany
have given manifold evidence lately of their
uprightness. Every government prosecution of
the press in l'russia has been defeatt4 by
juries, who have always returned a verdict of
acquittal : and now we see that in Ilesse Cassel
when Ilassenpflug is most anxious to make exam-
ples, a similar result has followed from appealing to
the ordinary tribunals. Many sentences even of the
Military Court of the Band at Hesse Camel, have:
been reversed by " the general auditory." The ac-
quittals I now mention are the more remarkable, as
it was expected, from the high esteem in which
many of the accused (especially the Privy Councillor
Schotten) were universally held, that the Elector
would not suffer them to be brought to trial, but
would at once extend to them his pardon. His not
having done so proves that he desired their con-
viction.

In the commercial treat• Russia is now negotiating
with Sardinia, there is a secret article, it is said,
whereby Sardinia plislges herself to take measm,..s of
security against any propagandism of revolutionary
principles from France, and engages in the case of a
war between the German cowers and the French re-
public to observe the strictest neutrality. A note
from Austria to the cabinet of Turin makes the same
demands on that government.
The Post congress now sitting at Berlin has
brought its labours near to a close. German States
not belonging to the Zollverein are now to be in-
cluded in the I'ost•crein; France is also, there is no
doubt, at present to be admitted into it, whereby it
will embrace the greater part of continental Europe,
to the great advantage of commerce, and to the great
convenience of the public of many nations. The
particular provisions of this Postverein are not yet
ILLIOWII.
London, England, 1851-10-24

We read in the Noniteur Parisien :—"A change
of ministry is again talked of at Turin. The serious
and still pending question between the Holy See
and the Piedmontese government more and more
embarrasses the present cabinet. The King has de-
cided to make an titbit to obtain from the Pope the
sanction of measures which have been adopted in
spite of the Concordat, and for this purpose had fixed
on the Marquis Spinola fur the Roman embassy, but it
appears that the mission of the noble marquis has
been postponed, and that it will be the Chevalier
&mutiny who will go to prepare the means of an ar-
rangement which is anxiously desired by every one."
London, England, 1851-10-24

PORTUGAL.

GERMANY.

BERLIN, Our. 21.
In the cabinet council held on the 19th, a change
in the election law for the second chamber was the
subject under discussion. The Austrian party in tho
ministry were urgent in recommending (fprop, of
this question a conformity, as much as possible, in
the constitution of the two great German powers.
The same party encountering but very equivocal
objections from Messrs. Man teuffel and Westplialen,
insisted much on the permanent re-establishment of
the provincial diets, and upon a rigorous system of
centralization throughout the whole kingdom of
Prussia. The mind of the king and of his leading
councillors on these and other like points is at present
certainly not made up. The determination will depend
on circumstances and events apparently nigh at hand :
on the temper and character the chamber may
exhibit, but chiefly on the turn affairs may take in
France. The will of the government is decidedly
retrogressive; that has been fully de.nonstrated;
yet there is a fear, not of becoming too arbitrary, but
of becoming too Austrian and too Russian—for even
the ministry instinctively- feel that Prussia must
compromise her place in Germany should she entirely
identify her principles with those of the two great
autocratic courts. She—that is, the ruling party—
would like a distinction without a difference, if that
would avail; or would, at most, have the difference
confined to mere material interests, based simply on
the commercial advantages the Zollverein (especially
since Hanover has prospectively entered it) secures to
North Germany. Further than this there is nothing
liberal or progressive in the views either of king or
cabinet ; and their purposes have no positive distinct-
ness, being in suspense. 'With all Germany,
the ministry arc looking anxiously to France
and to the year 1852 for the final solution
of questions which keep all continental governments
in a good measure ut present at bay. It may be
owing to this principally that there is just now such
an entire dearth of news. All decisive measures
seem to be postponed, and till the Prussian chambers
meet it is probable my correspondence may be soak:-
what meagre of interest.
London, England, 1851-03-08

MEETING OF EXIIIBITORS.

A meeting of the exhibitors comprised in Class 10
has been held this week in the house of the Society of Arts,
to deliberate upon arrangements necessary to made in
the department of machinery. Mr. W. Bowirbank was in
the chair ; and the meeting, including time holy exhibitors
of rank, included upwards of 'too t'olonel Lloyd
detailed the objects for which the meeting had been con-
vened, and expressed the wish of her Majesty's commis-
sioners that sections of the committees for this department
should be appointed, so as to be enabled to classify and
arrange the various articles in proper and regular order.
They also suggested that a uniform sine and appearance
should be adopted for all the Cabes for articles included in
this department, so that the whole of them might be
brought into one grand and compact enclosure. home con-
versation ensued, in which various questions were put and
appeared to be satisfactorily answered. It was then moved
by Mr. Varley, and seconded by Dr. Bateman, "'that the
general arrangement for the department of machinery at
the Exhibition of 18.51, suggested by Colonel I.luyd, be
adopted," which was put and unanimously agreed to.
London, England, 1851-03-08

PHAXMACIP.VTICAL PRIPAIIATIONS.

The members of the Pharmaceutical Society will exhibit
an extensive and choice collection of drugs and chemical
preparations. The care and skill M our operative chemists
have been called into requisition in producing beautiful
specimens; some of those of a crystalline form arc perfect
illustrations of the proems of crystallisation, and show
clearly how bodies held in solution arrange themulves
during cooling or evaporation according to their specific
characters. The plan on which the Pharmaceutical Society
have proceeded we understand to have been this:—They
made a claim as a body for a certain amount of space which
has been apportioned to the several contributing members,
whoa• =lns, will be attached to the articles they exhibit.
and the whole contributions will be selected and arranged
by members appointed for the purpose.
London, England, 1851-03-08

THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE PRIZES

..
The following " Decuoons regarding Juries," were
corrected and issued by the Executive Committee
yesterday :

GENERAL CONDITION/I.
1. There shall by one jury to each of the thirty classes
into %chit h the Exhibition is divided

2. The number ofjUrOTX in each jury is determined by the
amount of articles exhibited in each etas... and with reference
also to the; greater or less diversity of the subject► included
i❑ it. Practical eonsidenitions alum have determined the
number in each jury, and nu uhstraet idea of the relative
importance of the elms% is involved in the numbers at-
tached to them.

3. rhe following list describes the thirty juries, and the
number jurors to each jury :

HAW MATrItIALS. No of Jurors.
1. Mining, :quarrying, metallurgical operations, and
mineral products
2. Chemical and pharmaceutical procnoies and products
generally
3. Su'animism used as food
4. Vegetable and animal substances chiefly used M ma-
nufactures, as implements, or fear ornament
lIACIIINBILT.
5. Macbine% for direct use, including carriages and railway
and naval mechanism l2
0. Manufacturing machines and tools l2
7. Civil engineering, architectund and building cull-
trivancvs
8. Naval architecture and military engineering; onl-
nance, armour, and accoutrements 8
9. Agricultural and horticultural machines and imple-
ments
10. I'hilosophical instruments and processes depending
upon their use; musical, horological, and surgical
instruments l2
London, England, 1851-03-08

MONEY MARKET.
THIS DAT. _

Two o'CLocc

Little business has been done in the Stock Ex-
change to-day, except in railway shares, and the
market for home funded securities has worn a flat
appearance. The further postponement for a fort-
night of the Chancellor of the Exchetjuer's
financial explanations, though perhaps indis-
pensably necessary to the minister himself,
seems to excite a large amount of dissatisfaction in
the City, the paralysing effect which a state of un-
certainty exercises on trade operations having
been keenly felt for some time past. Opera-
tions in many branches of the colonial produce
market have been partially suspended, and the
dealers in the Stock Exchange seem decidedly indis-
posed to operate till they have some certain ground
beneath them. The settlement of the monthly ac-
count in Consols is fixed for Tuesday, and may also
tend to restrict business.

Consols opened at yesterday's quotation, 961 to
but are now flatter, at 96; to 1 both for money and
the 11th. Tho prices of business arc :--Three per
Cent. Consols, 961, .1 ; ditto for account, 961.
Three per Cent. ReduCC4,97l, I. New Three-and-
a-Quarter per Cents., 991, 99. Long Annuities, 1860,
7 11-16, 1. India Stock, 264.
There is rather more inquiry for Exchequerßilbs,
and the price is steady, at 495. to 525. prem. India
Bonds, under 1,0001., mark 525. end 575. prem.
In the foreign stockmarket almost the only change
is an upward movement in Spanish Active Bonds,
consequent upon the receipt of what is interpreted
as rather more favourable accounts from Madrid.
The price of this stock showed an improvement after
(business hours yesterday, and to-day it has
I reached 20;. Neither in this nor any other
description, however, have the transactions
I been important. Mexican Bonds are lower
The following are the rates of business :
Chilian Three per Cent. Bonds, (AI. Danish Five
per Cents., 101 cx div.; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. 581, 1. Grenada Deferred, 4. Mexican
Bonds, 311, 1. Peruvian Deferred, 38, 1. Rns-
sian Five per Cents., 1111 cx div.; Ditto Four-
and-a-Half per Cents., 971, 7.. Spanish Active
Five per Ceuta., 201, 20; ditto for the account, 201,
' ; the Passive Bonds, 41. Venezuela Deferred,
121, 4.
INGLII3II VUNDIL—Tuts Div.
mom stoat. no 13 par ct.lae. sea. 961
_.i..,49r. to Rs.
tp:kelot:LOtt.u, I 131 yar
sit.tt
FOURION ft:s os.
• -•- • --•--•

$ par CI. RuPertea Bowie.-
1 per et. arl.la 13.14.. 17e 135
44 per Ct. 11*. bond 31 3 (Rawls Referral R.I. .4 4
1 per Cost. 5 per Ct Mos. 844. 344 i
Ipa Ct. Itrolltee 9,1, .92 4 Peruvian 151. 834 44
DIM Far. 91 3 Per:4s4w Cuurert
4 per Ct. Hutu. Ain.. 53 5 5 p.f Ct. K.... $15....110 12
Iper Ct. Chtlian Me.. 114 7 l'lttn Slobleb 114...
Ditto Colulolt. Ref. RR., —. 3 per CI. Spanish Ws.. 374 84
ColuunNeas Equelor Ilde . .. 143. Referred 1514..
3 roc Ct. 1/futleh las.. II 84 1/Itto P 41•• ft 4.44 9
5 per I'4. Put" Me. 104 1 11 v2r IR. Venesuele Ikle.. 10 I
41w Ct. lha,,. ,^-.. . .„......./. .......- = • luet.te, 114 114
LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES.
London, England, 1851-03-08

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

01.1) COUItT.—iEsTERDAY.
o • to.n. Eats. Jcnler 1•••tg,
CHILD POMO% IMO NT Mg.
Ilarmals Attrus Eriwa woo indicted for the manslaughter
of Elisalatli ltain.ey, the child of a policeman, by adminis-
tering gin. Mr. Woollett prosecuted and Mr. Mebton &-
boded. The facts of the cam apptu;ed in this paper yes-
terday. The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Ilia lordship, in pausing sentence, said it should he an-
derstoisl that if u person gave a child anything with a good-
natured intent, and it proved injurion., or was the cause of
death, they were liable to punishment. lle thought the
ends efjo.tim would be answered by ordering the prisoner
lobe imprisoned for one week.
London, England, 1851-03-08

WIRE ItOPPII.

The ropes and cordage lOd:iif:irnnds of twisted wires
instead of hemp, possess the combined properties of flexi-
bility and strength, which render them well suited fur
many purposes. Fur the rigging of ships this kind of cor-
dage has, we believe, been much used. tint object to which
this mode of combining the strength of many wires,
is intended to be applied is the construction of
suspension bridges, fur which it possesses several
noluisitcs. The adage, " that union is strength,"
is exemplified in the. peculiar application of the tensile
power of metals. When a single bar of inn. is employed,
however thick and apparently strung, there may be some
unperceived Haw that baffles the calculations of the safest
engineer, but by a combination of a number of smaller bars
into one, this liability to break is prevented. or at least
greatly diminished, fur if one should be defective, its weak-
ness is supported by the rest. For such a purpose, there-
fore, as the structure of suspension bridges, the plan pro-
misee to be successful, and when the " ropes" arc mode of
the size intended, they have only sufficient flexibility to as-
sonic the proper course. The rigidity of such a bridge
would therefore be greater than that u f one made of links, and
its strength would be more uniform. A very tine specimen
of a wire nips of this kind will be scut to the Exhibition
by Messrs. Newall, ofMfillwall. It is made of six strands, each
strand being composed of six twisted wires, or rods of iron,
about tire-eights of an inch in diameter. This combined
mass of twisted iron rods is about fifteen inches in circum-
ference. and the length of the specimen to be sent is six
feet. In addition to this large specimen, space has been
allotted for the exhibition of all kinds of smaller wire ropes
by the same manufacturers.
London, England, 1851-03-08

LILLY-ATV I'STING SPIRIT-LIT IL.

Mr. Judge, of Hampstead, has sent in an instru-
ment, invented by himself, adapted to facilitate the opera-
tions of civil engineers and surveyors, by enabling them to
take levels without the trouble :of adjusting-screws. The
instrument adjusts itself by means of • weight fixed at
right angles to the table whereon the theodolite rests, the
table being hung in such • manner that the rod to which
the weight is attached may be tree to assume a perpen-
dicular position wherever placed. The spirit level merely
serves to show that the suspended table is obedient to the
force of gravity, sad acts correctly.

IMPROVED CRANK.
A small model of an improvement in crank action has
also been contributed by Mr. Judge. In the ordinary
crank there are two points in the course of its revolution at
which the mechanism connected with it would come to a
dead lock, hut for the imps tus previously acquired, which
carries the wheels beyond those points. A steam-engine, for
instance, cannot be started when the piston connectesl with
the crank is either at the top or the bottom of the cylinder.
This inconvenience is obviated in steam-bnats and loco-
motives, by the employment of two engines, the cranks of
which are placed at right angles, so that both together can
never be in the position that renders starting impossible.
Mr. Judge has endeavoured to remedy this defect of crank
action, by attaching two connecting rods to the rod of the
piston, our being shorter than the other. This contrivance,
as applied to the model, certainly seems to overawne the
difficulty, for in whatever position the piston rod is placed,
the vertical movement up or down is not prevented.
immuivon AND ORNAMENTAL WATCIIEO.

Mr. Jones, of the Strand, contributes a watch which ob-
tains a dead beat of the second's hand with a single
train of wheels. In the measurement of minute
divisions of time it has been considered a matter of some
imiortimee to make the seconds' hand indicate at once and
distinctly each second as it passes, which cannot he done
with the quivering beat of a common hand. To effect this
object a second train of wheels; has been hitherto employed,
but Mr. Jones contrives to dispense with this encumbrance,
which tends to make the movement irregular, and in the
gold watch to lie exhibited the dead heat is obtained by an
alteration in the escapement of a single train.

kErill mitArmis.
The absence of frost during the paid winter will cause
vast importations of the now almost necessary luxury of ice,
and Wenham Lake will stand the ChalleC of being emptied
by excavation unlexs the sun make speed to save snow of its
water from deportation. The Wenham Lake Ice Company
intend to make a display at the exhibition proportioned to
the increased importuner of solid water, and to show iu a
variety of handsome and convenient forms the best means
of preserving ice from melting. The retrigerstom of the
Wenham Lake Ice Company arc stated to be encased with
a substance " impervious to caloric"—that ma fur a time.
London, England, 1851-03-08

THIS DAY.

Two o'CLocc.

There is a decided reaction in the share market
to-day, and quotations generally have taken a lower
range. Shares are little inquired for, and sales
for the realisation of profits forming the bulk
of the business, a downward tendency is natu-
rally imparted. Fast Lancashire shares have
declined to 171; London and North Western stock,
to 130 k ; Great Westerns, to 00i ; South Easterns, to
27; • York and North Midlands, to 261„
The following are this day's sales :

011.11INAItt SHAUL AND STOOLS.
Aberdeen, 151 16 151 Ambergatc, Nottingham,
and Boston, 4 5 ex div. ; Bristol and Exeter, 86 ex div.;
Caledonian, 131 1 ; East Anglian, 251. L. and E. and L.
, 4 1 ; Eastern Counties, 71 1 ; Eastem Union, Clam A,
late E. 1.7, shams, af ; ditto 13. and C.,51 ; East Lancu.,
171 ; Edinh., Perth, &:llundee, 8f ; Great Northern,
18 ; ditto llalees, 11, 6 iwr Cent., 121 ; Great Western,
90 f ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, col ; ditto Fifths, 41 t ;
Leeds and Think, 17: ; London and Blackwall, 81 ex div.;
London and North Western, 1311 1301 cx die.; ditto
Quarters, 23; London and South Western, 901 ; Man.,
Bum., and Mat., 11 4 ; Manchester, Shelf., and Lincoln-
shire, 361 51; Midland, Gll 1 ea div.; ditto 501. 21f 1;
Newmarket, 7 cx new ; Newport, Abergavettny, and Ifere-
ford, 111 ; North British, Of ; North Staffordshire, 1111;
Oxford,Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 19; Scottish Cen-
tral, 18 ; Scottish Midland, 101 ; Shrewsbury and Bir-
mingham, Class A, 41 1 die.; ditto B, 3j 1; Shropshire
Union, 3: ; South-Eastern, 271 1 ; South Wales, 341 ; Taw
Vale Extension, 4 3, ; Yale of Neath, 10:1; York, New-
castle, and Berwick, 21 1 ; ditto Extension, 171 17 ;
York and North Midland, 20i :.

LINES LEASED AT FINED RENTALS,

Berta and Hants Extensions, o p•r cent., 61; Birming-
ham and Oxford Junction, calls duly paid, without a gua-
rantee, 27i ; East Lincolmhire, guaranteed 6 per cent.,
32j ; Leeds and Bradford, 97 ; South Staffordshire, 6j.

. -
PREFERENCE snattEs.
Aberdeen, I j ; Caledonitm, 101., 61 ; East Anglian,
(31. 10s.) 8 per cent., 24 11; Great Northern, 5 per cent.,
13j; North British, sj; Shrevrobnry and Ches. (Nor. W.
Min.) per cent., 10f ; York, Newcastle, and Bernick,
4j ; York and North.Midland.ll:. and S. Purch., 81.

. -
FOREIGN SHARE...
Boulogne and Amiens, 10 91; Central of France cOrleans
Vivri.on), 101 • Great Indian Peninsula, 21; Northern
of Prance, 1.11; Orleans and Bordeaux, 1; Paris and Rouen,
2.51 ; Rouen and Havre, 111 ; Sambre and Meuse, 31;
Tours and Nantes, sg.
London, England, 1851-03-08

Co.
MILITARY GENTLEMEN, EMIGRNIS,
TOURIST*, ARTISTS. SPORTSMEN, and Othera.—DUTUOIT
o.'s PATENT IMPERMEABLE PORTABLE TESTS, the
AERIAL nod CLERICAL PORTABLE UMBRELLA and BUB/I
mink oehing in spwen ranging from 1 feet to * test, and Werany
weighing from alb. to 301 b. The Portable Umbrella Tent, 23 feet Mr-
emakreure, with table fuldine into the corszcs of 6 feet by 1 foot,
and contained in a suitab:e tnerstureor when thus packed,
only 301 b., thus attording the moot pert et he yat cerrLme. Prices
from CI upwards; the Ariel from sa to £6 6s. (two tompartmentr; •
the Bush, or Emigrant's Tent, from 365. to In 10s.; any of them can'
with rue be pitched or struck in tea minettes. For the jungle sports
of India there is adapted an rottealoeic and impermeable cloth,
which renders thew tents invaluable in an eastern camate. For mi-
litary men at home or on foretell rerelee, they are peculiarly adapted.
The Aerial Tent an be estreuled so as to contain from 100 to 1.0. 0
persons, and nevertheless is so constructed as to be iperfactly portable.
The whole no view, and prospectuses to be bad, at D. DU mull and
Lb.', manufactory kw the potent portable tents, No. 6, Finsbury-
place South, and 3, Desneuret Finsbury-equate, Leedom
.1 required in all the incipal towns in England, Ireland,
..,1=
Wake, Lid* and thepr British colanieL
London, England, 1851-03-08

No. 1,415.] [No. 11, EXHIBITION EXPRESS.]

THE

EXHIBITION
EXPRESS,

Society of Arts of Class 10, which comprises all
matters connected with the application of science,
including bnll,,ons, anatomical preparations, piano-
fortes, chronometers, telegraphs, rind telescopes, Col.
Lloyd stated that he had secured for that depart-
ment the best place in the building, as it was likely
to prove most attractive, from the great amount of
valuable property that would be exhibited there.
In the division adjoining to Class 10, and within a
stones throw of it, would be contributions exceeding
one million sterling in value, consisting of jewellery
and works in the precious metals. It was proposed
that as far as convenient, the exhibitors should agree
to adopt a general plan in the structure of the glass
eases to cover their goods, and that where practicable
they should be contained within one large glass case,
each exhibitor being charged according to the number
of superkial feet of space occupied. Those who had
already providtd cant-subjected to this proposal asbeing
made too late, and the matter was left to the decision
of the exhibitors, who afterwards appointed com-
mittees for the purpose of making a proper display
of the various articles to he exhillited. These com-
mittees have set vigorously to work, and have issued
circulars to all the exhibitors, requiring them to
state the exact dimensions of their contributions,
whether glass eases have been provided, and whe-
ther they •pprove of the recommendnian to aLibit
in a general glass case with others.
Among the largest occupiers of space in Clan 10
are Mr. Dollond, Messrs. Watkins and Hill, Messrs.
Knight and Sons, Mr. Broadwood, Mr. Erard, and
Mr. Graham, the aeronaut. Plans of the proposed
mode of arranging the counters, in which the parti-
cular spots assigned to each is marked, have been
sent to those exhibitors to whom large portions of
space have been allotted.

THINGS TO BE EXHIBITED.