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London, England, 1852-01-01 00:00:00

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Apia Fria . —2% 1% Anglo Californian 14 % „ Ave Maria % 1 • •
iststralian 4 1%
tarossa Range ..•• . • • 113 0 3 —3%
Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.) 24%
De. Cocaes and Cuiaba all
Do. St. John del Itey • • 15 19% —2l • az d.
Cobra Coppir ....• •• • 40 33 3-134
Copiapo •• • 14 734
General• • • ••• • • all 13% —l4
Mexican& 5. American 9
Nouveau Monde 1 —1% 1 %
Real Del Monte, Uureg.
Do. Black Debentnrel. • •
Do. Red Debentures .. _
Santiago de Cuba • • it
Tin Croft .. • • • • • • • • • • • • 7
United Mexican —••• • • • 28 28% t 3 —9
'West Mariposa .
JOINT &TOME 211.14M111
Australasia
British North America.. 80 4634
Colonial
Commercial ef London.. 90 25 -- 26%
London Joint Steck ...• 18 18% 17%
London and Westminster 20 28% 223{
National Provincial Eng. 115 • —••
National of Ireland - 22% 18% 1734
Oriental Bank Corporat. all 27 28%
Provincial of Ireland •• • • 23 43% —45
Do. New ...... all 15%
—.16%
Union of Australia • - all 35 36%
Do. New ...... •• • • 2% 3
Union of London 10 '4% 1534
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DICISCELLANZO77II.
Canada •• ••• • • • 3234 48 4934
Gea. Steam Navigation . 14 273{ —2B
Lenin. & Oriental Steam. all 74 —75 73 71 x,d
Ditto ditto 10 17% 18%
Royal Mail Steam ...... 60 7934 8034
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id 20th.
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Account days, 16th and 31st.
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IWe cannot be answer'
will not be influenced by

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at from 4,000 to 5,000 bales, of which 500 Surat
were taken for export. The market closed heavily at
rather lower rates. The sales comprised 200 Peruata
and Maranharn, at Sid. to 64,1.; 500 Surat, at 211. to
3id.; and the remainder American. Railway Shares
were steady.
The six weeks' average price of wheat is 375. 3d. per
quarter.
The flourishing state of Canada, we have on former
occasions noticed, making some allowance for the losses
of those who have speculated in flour, and ample confir-
mation wee given to oar information by the proceedings
yesterday, at the meeting of the proprietors of the
Canada Company. Accordieg to the statistics of land
sold and leased, and revenue obtained, 1851 has been
the most prosperous year the company has bad during
its long career, and all also know the constitution of the
company, and the mode in which its affairs are adminis-
tered, will comprehend that its welfare is so
strictly identified with that of the colony, that
one cannot advance without the other. During
the past year the company sold 21,361 acres, at in aye-
rage of 13s. Id. per acre, and least d 116,001 acres at an
average of 16s. ld. The r*ceipts in 1851, to the 4th of
December, were 56,072/, being an increase of 10 4901.
The chairman, Mr. Charles Franks, remarked that Mr.
Widder, the company's commissioner in Canada, de-
served every praise for originating the leasing system.
A strong proof of the contentment of the settlers was
the fact of 10,517 acres having been purchased before
the leases expired. The debenture debt had been re-
duced by 12.000/, which made the amount now 121,2001.
and he was happy to say this amount had been paid
out of their receipts in Canada. Their balance in t and
was sufficient to pay a dividend, and the interest of the
debentures. The amount remitted home by the settlers
in the year 1851 was 12,9751. 2s. 7d,, and ihe amount
deposited in the hands of the company for settlers was
21,9001. The emigration to Canada had been large, but
Dot sufficient for the wants of the provinces. Gratifica-
tion was expressed at the prosperous state of the com-
pany'a affairs.
The South Sea Company, at their meeting to-day, have
declared a dividend of 1 per cent, for the half-year,
being the usual amount.
The postponement by the Dutch Chambers of the
adoption of the treaty of commerce with Belgium causes
some annoyance even to its opponents in the latter
country, because of the arrangement said to have been
made for the continuance of the treaty provisionally
during one month.

The steamer Arctic brings 371,000 dollars in specie,
and on the 20th ultimo the rate of Exchange on London
was liol to The state of trade was satisfactory,
an,i the valitorniaa advises continue very encouraging.
Further large sums were at Panama, ready to be for-
warded to New York.
The Banker's Ilagazinc gives the following statement
concerning the best essay to which Mr. Gillard's prize
of 1001. has been awarded;--
" The writer cf the essay, to which the prize has been
awarded by Mr. Grote, is Mr. Granville Sharp, a clerk
in the East of England Bank, at Norwich.
" From a hasty glance at the work, we are incliued
to believe that it will be found to be well deserving of
the prize it has obtained, and that it will give general
satisfaction. It is full of information on matters of much
importance in practical banking, and we are gratified
at the evident care and research of the author, who
appears to have noticed almost every invention of
importance in the Great Exhibition which can be ad-
vantageonsly adapted to the purposes of practical
banking. We confess we are surprised at the gest
number and variety of useful inventions which Mr.
Sharp has noticed in his essay; and we believe it is the
best attempt that has been made to show in what WO'
ner the Great Exhibition can be made practically useful
to an important branch of business.
Although written with a view of advancing
banking interests, we need hardly say that flier-
chants and men of business generally will find very
many of the suggestions of the author of in,'
portance to them. The business of the merchant's
counting-house does not differ so much from that of a
bank office but that suggestions for facilitating the spa'
rations common to one, will be almost equally useful
when applied to the other. We think, therefore, that
the essay will be tound acceptable to business men ge.
nerally, and we hope it will be found to be as serviceable
as the author and donor of the prize can desire."
The English Stcck Market is again very quiet, except
that there is more doing in New Three-and•a.Quarter
per Cents., which are 98i to Bank Stock is steady IC
216. Exchequer bills have been 565. to 595., and judie
Bonds 653. to 68s. premium. There is still rather an un-
settled feeling about the Ministry, and this deters
operations for a rise. The breaking up of the weekly
meeting of Directors at the Bank of England is looked
to with great interest, as many confidently expect a re'
duction in the rate of discount.
Foreign Securities are in favour still. Spanish File
per Cents. have been 21i to 22, and the Three per
Cents. 40k The New Deferred Three per Cent.
Stock has been at 17e Portuguese Four per Cents.
have been marked 34. French Fire per Cent have
been quoted 100 75 with the exchange at s.
25 2.
5.
Dutch Stock is better, the Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
being 59 to ex-dividend. Mexican Bonds have receded
a little, being 25 to 1. Peruvian Deferred have been
474 Sardinian are firm at 87.
Iu English Railway Shares nothing of importance has
b,,,„u done, and they remain about the same, but the
Foreigh Lines are buoyant. Gold Mines are not quite
so good.
The last week's Railway Receipts, ascertained up t°
this day, are in round figures as under:—
1851.
Great Western £14,844
North-Western
41,6711
South-Western 9,054
Brighton ........................... 8,293
Midland ............................. 24 541
South Eastern
North Stafford 4,735
Caledonian ..........
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire
York and North Midland
Newcastle and Berwick

1850.
£15,820
41,553
9,581
8.073
23805
10,509
4,628
7.527
8,305
13,456
6.899
13,855

QUARTER-PAST TWO.
The Bank Board has broken up. The minimum rats
of discount is reduced to 21.

QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols for Opening, Jan. 16 . 97 II ex dir.
CITY, THREE O'CLOCK.

A failure that will cause much regret has just been
made known, viz., that of Messrs. Bult, Son, and Co.,
the well-known bullion dealers and bankers of
Cheapside. Losses connected with parties in the manu-
facturing districts aro assigned as the cause. The head
of the firm died a few years back leaving an ample
capital.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Rank Stock ..... 216
8 per Cent. Reduced Annuities.-- 9734 X
Lopngo.4l.3oanTueiatiress,,EFx:xppir.eJoanc.ts.
New 3% per Cent. Anil% 9834%74%
t1h0,01686609 67%1-16
India Stock
Do. Bonds, 10001 65 p
Ditto under 1,0001
Con.els for Account 971,E 97
EKchwluer Bills. I%d.
1,000/. ..
,(it./
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1846, ex Jan. Coupon' 2818 28 4
I'eruvian Bonds, i per Cent 94
Do. Deferred 471% 47 %
Portuguese Bends,s per Cent 92IA
Ditto 4 Der Cont.
Sardinian Bond', 5 per Cent B7
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,1840
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent. ......
Ditto, New Deferred 17140/8
Dividends on the above payable is Londor.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent.
Exchange
French Rentes, 3 per Cent. 66f.
Exchange 2sc. 25f.
..,
Dutch 214 per Cent., 12 Guild
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates

The number of works printed in all languages at
Paris during 1851, was 7,350 ; and during the last ten yang,
64,568. In 1851, there were also printed 485 musical works,
1,011 eugrayings andliOlographs, and 133 wail aucl.

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141,4)Y if N, SHIPPING- 11A N.)
L, NDON, JAN. 1, 1852.—Wii,dat noon W., light airs
and dull weather.
VALPARAISO, OCT. 22.—The Colombo French
of which put in with damage, has been aban-
doned, as the master could not raise funds or bottomiy
to clefr4y the expenses of repairs.
GALATZ DEC. 18.—The Wineta, Ibraila to Queens-
town or Falmouth, has been lost at Sulina; crew
drowned. The. Adolph von Loiotz ru, Ibraila to Queens-
town or Falmouth, is reported to bf, lost, also at Sulina.
Suo-).—Arrd. Industry, New York.
DEAL. DEC 31.—Wind W.—Arrd. Ostrich, Madras;
Faulk Valparaiso; Spartan, Jamaica; Fortuna, Quebec.
Arrd. from the River, Achilles, Sydney, New South
Wales; Jenny Lind, Lima; Agnes, Valparaiso; St.
Jubn, New Orleans. Arrd. from the River and sld,
Agnes, Valparaiso. Sld. Isabella, Sierra Leone.
OFF DOTER —Adelaide, Van Diemen's Land.
OFF SALC.JNBE, DEC. 31.—Fear•not, Azores.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 31.—Wind N.E. by E —Sid. David
Aaeluide, South Australia; Calphurnia, Port
FALMOUTH, DEC. 31.—Wind E., fr.< sh.—Arrd. Maria,
Port-au- Prince.

MAIL

INDIA.
(From the Times.)
We have received by express from Trieste in an
anticipAtion of the overland mail, files of the Bombay
and Calcutta papers, with dates from Bombay to the
3i of Dec., and Calcutta to the 23d Nov. c
c oun ts welearn that
of .
ch
Sir C
Mitchnee,
and By
h
continues
in theneighbourhood
ue
and that the inhabitants had fled to the mountains
on his approach. Captain Coke . and
a
his forcerid
had returned from the Meeranzme valley,
recrossed the Koorum : they had only twice been
mine
in any way annoyed by an enemy, when tw
two
men
were killed. The %Vuzeerees bad attacked the
guard over the Behadur Khel
they had been repulsed with a
of eleven men ;
our partyf
force
ed
had
de oron sitshewlo9utnhdoerd.
2Tohthe entireuitim 01\
been
dire
cted findan
to be prepared for moving at a moment's
notice, along the line of the frontier, after the moun-
taineers, we presume, who had been annoying our
outposts. The death of Dost Mahomed still wants
confirmation. The Cashmeer ruler is still alive.
it he Governor-General was expected at Roorkee on
the 24th, his Lordship would thence proceed to Hurd-
war. Sir W. Gomm was at Jullandhur. Sir H.
Lawrence had returned to Lshore. Mr. Mensel had
left for Nagpore. The Bombay journals have for the
past fortnight been occupied with the discussion of the
Mahomeclan disturbances which commenced on 17th
Oct., and are scarcely yet over. A second outbreak
occurred on the 22d and 23d ultimo, and squabbles
became of daily occurrence. One of the Parsee
fire temples was violated, and there was at one
time reason to suppose that a cemetery had been
broken into with the view of insulting the re-
mains of the dead ; no sufficient evidence of the
outrage, however, could be obtained. Sir John
Gray was expected in Bombay by the 10th inst.
An extensive fire broke out in the store-houses
of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company in the dock-yard at nizsgon on the 2,1
December, by which stores belonging to the com-
pany, to the value of from 15,0001. to 20,0001. were
destroyed.. The cause of the fire had not been as-
certained. The goods consumed by the fire were
only partially insured; the buildings in which they
were stored have been completely destroyed. These
latter are valued at 7,5001., and belonged to Mirza
Mahomed Ali Khan, the owner of the dockyard, from
whom they were rented by the Peninsular and Ori-
ental Company.
Trade during the last fortnight has been brisk.
The money market was easy. Several failures of
native bankers in the Bazar, both at Calcutta and in
Bombay, were apprehended.
The following summary of intelligence.ie.taken
from the Bombay Times :
" The expedition from Calcutta, to enforce apology
and reparation from the Burmese, left on the 19th
ult., and consisted of her Majesty's ship Fox, 42, her
Majesty's ship Serpent, 12, with the Hon. Company's
war-steamers Tenasserim and Proserpine, the whole
under the command of Commodore Lambert, R.N.
The first efforts to obtain the reparation sought for
will probably be made at Rangoon, and should our
demands not be instantly complied with, the
place will be held in pledge until they
are satisfied. Captain Lewis, the master of
the merchant ship Champion, the latest
British victim of Burmese insolence and
extortion, accompanies the expedition as a witness,
it is presumed, to prove the validity of the claims to
be presented and enforced. Lieut. Latter, of the
67,,h regiment Bengal Native Infantry, an accom-
plished Burmese scholar, and Mr. Edwardes, of
the Civil Service, formerly attached to the Em-
bassy at Ave, go as interpreters. The military
expedition, which left Peshawur under the com-
mand of Sir Colin Campbell on the 25th of
October last, to take the field against the Affreedis
and the Momund tribes beyond the north-west
frontier, has had very little to do in the way of
fighting. After taking possession of Mitchnee with
little or no resistance from the people, and burning
the stores of grain, destroying the surrounding vil-
lages, and throwing everything they could lay their
hands on into the river, the force encamped at a place
called Dubb, awaiting the construction of a fort now
in progress, intended to receive a body of troops and to
form a link in a line of posts commanding important
points on the frontier. A detachment of the force is sta-
tioned at a place called Muthee to keep the bill men of
that neighbourhood in check. Up to the date of the
latest accounts received from Sir Colin's camp, not
a single casualty had occurred on our side from
the fire of the enemy, and they had latterly been ren-
dered more chary than ever of approaching our
camp, by falling into an ambuscade, which severely
punished their temerity. The latesr tidings received
are to the 14th ultimo, and it is stated that the fort is
progressing very slowly, the sandy nature of the soil
being much against the building. The Muwunds
had assembled under the chief of Lallpoora to consult
as to ulterior measures, and seem to have been greatly
perplexed by the determination we have manifested
of establishing ourselves in their country. It is
believed that Saadut Khan, the chief in question,
has hitherto held aloof from the doings of his
eastern clansmen, and that he will not now commit
himself to support them. A reinforcement of 45 men
from each of the regiments at Peshawur left that
station on the 13th ultimo to join the forces under
Sir Colin Campbell. By the last accounts from
Cebul, information has been received that the
Ameer Dost Mahomed Khan is still alive, but in a
very precarious state. The preparations for a strug-
gle betwixt the Dost's son, Goolam Hyder, and his
brother Sultan Mahomed still kept the country in a
state of the most feverish excitement and alarm, and
many of the more wealthy of the Hindoo bankers
and merchants have fled into the neighbouring dis-
tricts under British rule. Maharaja Gholab Singh,
the ruler of Cashmere, is reported to be in a dying
state. He is said to be suffering greatly from dropsy,
and in all probability will not long survive this at-
tack. The wily old chief, well knowing the dangers
to be expected to the country over which he rules
from the premature disclosure of his death, has de-
termined on establishing a lithographic press at
Jamoo for the purpose of promptly contradicting
such reports. We regret to have to notice that fur-
ther disturbances have occurred here amongst the
Mohammedans and Parsees in.lthe native town. On
th

LIVERPOOL,DEC. 31.—Wind W.N.W. to N.N.W.—
Arrd. Et.u.tisri(, Monte Video, Sid. John, Charleston;
At»lan►a, Rio Grande; A•pland, New Orleans; Charles
Chaloner, ditto; James Brown,
Philadelphia; City of
Manchester steam, r, ditto. Off port, Lapland.
RAMSGATE, DEC. 31.—The Blossom, Newcastle to
Havre, has put in leaky, having struck on Whitby Rock.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 31.—The Maria, which got on
Durmuse Ledge yesterday, is full of wate.r, and it is
feared will become a total wreck; part of cargo thrown
overboard.
CARDOROUGH, DEC. 31.—The Pink, of London, Alloa
to Dunkirk, is on the r( cks to the southward, and is ex-
pected to become a total wreck.
OFF PENZANCE.—MaIherbe, St. Domingo, for Havre.
BRISTOL, DEC. 31.—Wind N.E.—As-rd. Ann Eliza
Jane, Mirmichi.
NEWPORT, DEC. 31.—Wind N.—Sld. Barrowgate,
Savannah.
QUEENSTOWN, DEC. 30.—Wind E.—Arrd. British
Monarch, Queb.c.

MARKET INE WS.—( THIS DAY.)
NEVITGATE AND ZEADENICALA..
Our markets aro w(11 supplied to-day, yet the demand
is steady, at full prcos. Bes f, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d;
Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 2d; Veal, 3s 2d to 4s; Pork, 23 8d
to 4s per 8 An, by !he carcase.
NAY MARKETS.
Sstrnmans..—Meadow thy, 21 15s to 31 151;
Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ 5s Od; and Straw, 11 Os to 11 6s
per load. Trade dull, at late rates.
CUIRBERLAND. Meadow Hay, 21 15s to 3/ 16.
Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 41 4s; aad Straw, 1/ 13 to 1/ 78
per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 12a to 31 156;
Clover ditto, 31 5s to 4/ 61 Od; and Straw, 11 Os to 1/ 6s
per load. Supply good, and trade dull.
MEAT MARKETS.
SOUTHALL, DEC. 31.—Our market has been firm to-
day, and prices have had an upward tendency.
Beet, from 3. to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Veal,
38 2d to 3s 8d ; Pork, 3s to 3s 8d per Bibs, to sink
the uffals.
ROMFORD, DEC. 31.—Prime Beasts and Sheep moved
off freely, at an auvance in the quotations of 2d per Blbs.
All other kinds of stock were quite as dear. Beef from
38 to 4.; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6.1; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 10d;
Pork, 2. to 3s 10d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 183 to
21s, and quarter old store pigs, 16s to 203 each.
flatEsnem, DEc. 31.—The general demand is steady,
at extreme quotations. Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s; Mutton,
3a 6(1 to 4s 6d; Pork, 3s 4d to 3s Rd per 81bs.
ARUNDEL, DEC. 30.—Esch kind of stock has moved
off freely, at higher rates. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s;
Mutton, 3s 6d to 4. 6d; Pork, 3s 2d to 3s 6d per Blbs.
CHICHESTER, DEC. 31.—Beasts and Sheep have ad-
vanced 2d per Blbs, pith a good inquiry. Beef, from
38 4d to 43; Mutton, 3s 6:1 to 4a 6d; Pork, 3s 2d to
3s 8d; per Blbs.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended Dec. 25,1851, made up from the Returns el the
Inspectors la the different Citiesand Towns in England and Wah s
per Imperial Quarter.
WHE•T. !EMMET.' OATS. ATE. I BEANS. PEAS.
Pgiet •• 1 37s ud I 26s 3d I ISs 3d 28s Id i 29s 2d I 29s Od

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
Mat/T. I BAILEY. I OATS. I ATE. MUNI. PEAS.
11 Od Is Od Is Od Is Od Is Od lls 01
QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD IN THE PAST WEEK.
Wheat, 115,728 ; Barley, 103,641 ; Oats, 25,856 ; Rye, 290; Beans,
6,457 ; Peas, 3,158 quarters.

SHERIFFS' COURT,—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.)
There were several causes in the list, but after the jury
had been called none of the parties in the cases were
ready.
The UNDER-SHERIFF regretted that the want of
punctuality on the part of profes.ional men or the wit-
nesses should causeany inconvenience to the jury, and
would leave it to them whether they would wait until
the expiration of a quarter of an hour, and if the par-
ties did not appear at that time the causes would be
struck out.
After the lapse of a few minutes the undefended causes
were called on and the others struck ont.
S•III. V. WOODYAR.
This was an actions to recover the sum 0f941. 183. 6c1.,
partly on a bill of exchange and partly for goods sold ;
the only point in the case was whether the plaintiff could recover 2s. 6d, for noting.
The UNDER-SHERIFF held that it could not be re-
covered wi!hout proof.
It is somewhat curious that there is always a charge
for noting a Lill, which, although undisputed by a de-
fendant, is invariably struck out of the account unless
proved, the expense of which proof would be at least
ten times the amount charged. The expense of noting
a dishonoured bill, therefore, in most cases, falls on the
holder of the bill.
13

ANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.)
IN RE MACLEOD-THE NEPAULERE AGENCY.
This bankrupt was described as late of Tirhoot, Ben-
gal, and now of Ealing, Middlesex, and to-day was IV'
bointed for his last examination. The bankrupt had
eeifthe agent of the Nepaulese Government.
'the balance-sheet prepared by Mr. Butler, Basing-
hall-street, commencing Ist January,lBso, and ending in
November, 1851, shows Dr. to Creditors 3,2611 12s. 6d.;
capital on Ist January, 1850, 175/ ; salary from the
Neapolitan Government, 9801. The property given up
is stated at 6971; property in the hands of creditors,
1501; expenditure as agent of the Nepaulese Govern-
ment, 9121. As a trader and dealer, his profits had been
3/. 145., and losses (exclusive of official uniform, wearing
aparel in ludia, law and intert, about 5000,
8241. 10s. 5d.; domestic and personales expenses, 1,304/.
In consequence of the accounts not having been filed in
due time, an adjournment took place by consent.

ATEST NEWs FROM
PARIS.

e 22d and 233 ult. serious riots took place, during
which a number of persons of both sexes were se-
verely injured by missiles thrown at them, One of
them, a Parsee, has since died. The troops had to
be called out to the assistance of the police, and 100
men of one of the native regiments have been stationed
in Sir Janssetjee Jejeebhoy's meeting-house ever
since these latter disturbances commenced. A
body of the Poona Irregular Horse has been or-
dered down immediately from Seroor, and will be
found of great service in preserving order in the
town. Mobs always dread coming into collision
with a mounted force. A few days ago a meeting
was held at the residence of Mr. Lumsden, Secretary
to Government in the general and judicial depart-
mnedn t
Parsee
at w
principal men of the Mahomedan
a
lisiecushuo the
unities met together in the presence
,
of the Chief Justice (Sir Erskine Parry), Mr. Lums-
n rigehperiileiasttioof
n
dpue nr ,p
purpose
sad several
n d e
aovtahue
rri
ug Europeantueffect
gentlemen, for the
between
that if the Parseee
between the two sects.
the Mahomedans)having
editor of the Goozeratte newspaper in which the
memoir and portrait of Mahorned was published,
which bad led to the feud between these parties, would
offer an explanation or apology for having caused the
publication the Mahotnedans would be satisfied, and
live in peace for the future with their fellow-towns-
men, the Parsees. This was agreed to, and the
editor having made the amend sought for, in the pre-
sence of the assembled beads of both castes, they now
seem reconciled to each other, and there has been no
exhibition of a feeling of animosity on the part of
either sect ever since. The Friezd of India, on the
authority of a Llama lately arrived at Sikbim from
Lassa, states that the Emperor of China has just abdi-
cated his throne, having resigned it in favour of the
usurper Tien Teh. The Calcutta papers notice a dread-
ful accident which occurred recently at the Musjid
erected by Prince Goolam Dlahomed at the corner of
the Durrutntollah street. The Prince has been in
the habit for many years past of making a distribution
ato them e
u 11c1eurasjn
i(i of
warm clothing to the poor at the
m
tof each cold season. This year, owing
commencement
dtool thee Prince's mother, the accustomed
beyond the usual period. On
ha diebaethen ef the
delayed
the day of the accident a report got abroad that
the alms were to be distributed, and an im-
mense crowd of beggars collected at the Musjid,
and pressing upon one of the gates rushed in in
a tumultuous mass. The consequence was that
many were borne down and trodden under foot.
Nine persona were killed outright, and many were
carried off to the hospital with serious injuries. The
Peninsular and Oriental Company have for some time
past suffered from a series of accidents to their
steamers. The Hindostan, with the Calcutta over=
land outward mail of the Bth instant, took the
ground at Mud Point while proceeding down
the river, but was fortunately got off without
damage, though she is said to have been for
some time in rather a perilous position. It is sup.
posed that she had struck upon a new sandbank, which
was formed where two wrecked vessels had sunk.
The Governor-General and the Commander-in-Chief
have both left Simla. The former is on his way back
to Calcutta, and the latter is proceeding in the op-
posite direction, towards the north-western fron-
tier. Lord and Viscountess Falkland have taken
up their winter quarters at Parell. Sir John Grey is
expected at the Presidency from Mahabaleshwar on
the 10th instant. Lady Falkland's first reception at
Parell for the season takes places to -morrow even-
ing. The fight Rev. John Lluding, Lord 13ishop of

(BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.)
PARIS, THUIV4DAY MORNING,
NINE O'CLOCK.

_ -
The Consultative Commission presented last night
the result of votes favourable to the PRESIDENT—
Voters, 8,116,773. Yes, 7,439,216. No. 640,737.
The French Eagle is re-estabished on the banner
of the army and on the Cross of the Legion of
Honour.

The Archbishop of Paris and the Clergy have pre
Booted their felicitations and good wishes to the PEE
"DIA T••••••• Times.

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CRY-LANEI- THEATRE.
Macb nt-
ethas
Mr. Anderson performed here last evening, with
as Macbeth,
Macbeth, and Mi P. TT Miss Glyn, as Lady
1---48 ziorton as Hecate. It was
in the character of Lady Macbeth that Miss Glyn
roads her first great hit with a Sadler's Wells
audience, and last night she played it with her usual
inoro,e a_nd !lei•gy, bringing out all her favourite points
etree ively. She was called on at the conclusion of
the tragedy and much applauded. Mr. Anderson's
Macbeth would be admirable could be cure himself
of a certain bad habit of drawling, which he acquired
!11 Aerica. Ile had not this before he left Eng-
oftld;, and Nve hope he will rid himself
.t as oth soon as possible ;it mars what would
te wise be a great performance. The He.
eual of Alias ~
1- Horton was most effective, and
crowded music was superbly given. The house Was
ea7•ded,JuY the and the halpanf-price visitors seemed vastly to
fun of the tomime.
...._

i ester
left the Mersey at
(1113' the screw steam-ship City of Manche.s.te,ar
.
two o'clock in the afternoon for Phlflull
olcaorlpohiab.
with
liPwards of forty passen
Theersalute
gers, and av y *ea 'e, I,euY of Manchester and Sheffield goods.
the jua.,` her departure was generally mistaken for that of
t,- °Ming steamer, the Arctic, which, however, though
"'my-four hours overdue, has not yet arrived.
ever,
ON THE LONG SANDS.—HARWICH, DEC.
.--buring a heavy gale from the eastward on Sunday
night a
fine vessel, called the Arrow, Mr. H. Mitchinson,
tilaster, belonging to the port of Liverpool, went on the
,r, ng Sands, and but for the noble and courageous conduct
'''
a lugger', crew, every soul on board the ill-fated vessel
woUld •
Irl all probabirt have effort was
made to I y perished. Every
get her off, but the fury of the gale and the heavy
aZii, which kept making a breach over her, completely set
tb eflance the exertions of those on board. At daylight
iiLew were observed in the smack Aurora's Increase,
. Mr. J.
i:l5, Master, of this
unefort"t port, which was out cruising, and tme
prompt manner she bore down to the rescue of
themh
ow ~. 'Mate creatures clinging to the wreck, and took
por;" an exhausted state. The smack then made for this
Port' and landed the poor fellows, who have publicly ten-
t.`o their thanks to the lug er's crew for preserving them
ol
Til: probable dreadful fate.g
irKl au% -
a LATE MR. TURNER, R.A.--We learn on
-..r. zi Gray, says the Manchester Guardian, that the late
Purpeserner has left by his will a sum of 200,000/., for the
artists of fouuding an institution for the relief of decayed
three of has given all his pictures (with the exception of
Purp%e of own works, which are left to the nation) for the
for that pure'obellishing the building which is to be erected
1 RING purpose'
'1"I LikeitiSG, - EIE OLD YEAR OUT AND THE NEW ONE
af the ' xlight (according to ancient custom) the bells
pea,_ . various churches in the metropolis rang forth merry
13,t13
IT welcome the new year. They commenced at half-
after -°0 o'clock, and did not cease
itinerant
half-an-hour
Beer
43111_1(Inight. The street concerts by itinerant musicians
hit 4ceedingly numerons and the performers reaped a good
nit itC)E4 Iler Mrs gitie,

LONDON,

/ Bombay arrived here by the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer Achilles on the 25th ultimo, and
was formally installed in the cathedral on Sunday
last, in the presence of one of the largest congrega-
tions ever assembled there.
" The Calcutta commercial report is unfavourable
both as to produce and imports. Money is scarce and
the market tight. Exchange has risen to 2.3 for
first-class credits. Freights are low beyond prece-
dent, the current rate for sugar to London being
only 1/. 2i.

settled principles to give direction to its counsels, it
SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. aoce, in futile endeavours to please every party sue-
FROMI
clung to each empty bubble of opinion that promised
THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. seeded most effectually in disgusting all. With no
TlMES.—There is a rule of life so directly the i
ordinance of nature that all nut horitiee are unanimous
in its favour. Moralists and eiionomists, philosophers a momentary popularity, and then betrayed the cause
and merchants alike insist on the duty of reviewing it feigned to advocate, till at length the disunion
the natural periods of time, and settling the balance of among its members, which from e bour of for-
losses and gains. As we are placed here to advance mation has scarcely ever ceased toth threaten its its
exist-
and improve, unless we keep a log of our voyage, and ence, suddenly reveals itself, and thus terminates its
take stock of our goods, we lose at least one important last chance for a much longer duration. Imbecility
security and stimulus. An annual budget is expected of purpose, incapacity for government, and a de-
jfrom the Chancellor of the Este bequer, and her Ma- grading humiliation to political agitators, have formed
esty cannot open Parliament or prorogue it without the chief characteristics of the men composing the
a short businesslike review of the recess or the session. Ministry. They have introduced no measures of
Following these precedents, therefore, we will pro. public utility, and the sole great (?) act of the session
teed to sum up the losses and gains of the year 1851, is found to be an unseemly abortion, and is thrust
which has just quietly expired. It has given us one upon the shelf like other kindred specimens, carefully
vast and immeasurable gain in the Great Exhibition. preserved to prove how imperfectly the ungainly
All the nations of the civilized world, not to say more, exaggerations of distortion imitate the symmetry of
have been represented—some very largely, and all a well-matured and carefully-constructed production.
very efficiently—in one fair temple of industry and To so low an ebb have our present diminutive
peace. All have become wisor and better known ; all legislators of the Cabinet now fallen, that they are re-
have cast into one great treasury, and been blessed duced to the wretched expedient of ushering in the
from its stores and on the minds of many new y;,ear with the worn-out rallying cry of " Re-
nations and many millions has been left one form, in the hope of deluding e people,
soothing and instructive—ono. glorious and indelible prolonging their sway. e advent of 185 and thus
2 inires
impression. On all sides 'the seeds of knowledge us. We hail it as a
deliv The advent of 1852 inspires
impression. On all sides 'the seeds of knowledge us. 'We hail it as a deliverer. Indications are not
and enterprise, cast on the waters of that peaceful wanting to assure us, that during its course the
confluence, are beginning to. bear fruit in new dis- government of our country will be snatched from the
coveries and undertakings. A vision of universal hands of the incapable. If we direct
our attention
peace has been seen by the world, and, if its realize- to other nations, we cannot exult over much
real ad-
tion is still remote, its influence is not the less salutary vancement. There has been plenty of destruction of
and energetic. We are not among those who expect the good and the bad together, but little just rejection
that the triumphs of peace are likely in our time to of the evil, and judicious preservation of what is per-
extinguish the passions of peoples and the ambition of manent and great in the constitution of states. Yet
adventurers ; but we nevertheless think we may dwell we believe that better things are in store. We trust
with satisfaction and hope on the memory of an event that where the iron fetters of despotism press rudely
the direct and natural tendency of which is pacific on the lovely proportions of freedom, the severity of
and profitable. The more of such occasions the bet- their grasp may be gradually and surely relaxed, and
ter. They are the basis of institutions, and the means wholesome liberty established. Let us look forward
intercourse, which cannot but endure, and with confidence to the actual progression of
of an
which must in time tell on the fortunes of hu- humanity ; not the spurious counterfeit, which
manity. England has had her full share in the rejoices in revolution, but that advancement
glories of this world-wide competition. She has which is the fruition of careful statesman-
effaced the national stigma of inhospitality. She has ship, and the accumulation of experience and
shown a largeness of conception, a practical talent, a calm consideration. Amid the vicissitudes of domes-
rapidity of performance, a power of organization, a tic life we trust that numbers may be found who
fertility of resources, and even a taste, for which have gone through the year with minds unruffled by
foreigners had hardly given her credit. More con- those storms which destroy social peace, and desolate
spicuous than all have been her fairness and gene- the family hearth. These will be enabled to cast a
rosity. All this is gain. The victory has been as retrospective glance on pleasant scenes and unclouded
cheap as it has been bloodless. The whole cost of moments, the remembrance of which may impart a
the Exhibition to the thousands of exhibitors, and livelier pulsation to the frame, or lend its hallowing
millions of visitors, has not equalled that sweetness to mitigate the anguish of future sorrow.
of one battle. Among other results there Others, the children of a more active perseverance
has been an interchange between this and and enthusiasm, may delight to reflect upon the diffi-
the neighbouring metropolis, singularly be- culties they have surmounted, the conflicts they have
fitting the year that has seen the two sustained, the perils they h, as the
cities linked by instantaneous communication, and mariner tells of the tempestave and theescaped shoal; the
most happy at a crisis when events are occurring of a soldier, of the battle and the scar ; or the tra-
nature to revive the slumbering recollections of a yeller, of the wonders he met with, or the per-
miserable war. Few who keep house will forget plexities that beset his path. These are gou
in the more prominent glories of this year that it has harvests garnered up
in the storehouse oflori me-
s
emancipated from a barbarous tax the light and air mory, to which the stricken spirit may at times
of heaven ; nor will dwellers in this city forget that resort, and from which it may derive consolation in
it sealed the fate of Smithfield. There are other seasons of prevailing gloom. Happy, thrice happy,
honourable and even grateful associations that will be he who, to the best of his ability, has during the past
ever connected with this memorable year. As if to year fulfilled all the duties of his station. If rich, he
show that the monster attraction in Hyde-park could can think upon many a wounded bosom he has healed,
neither divert the national mind from objects of parse many a necessity he has relieved, and on many a
mount value, nor supesede other species of advance- darkened hour which he has illumined by the cheer-
silent, there have been some grave proceedings of a fulness of his presence or the liberal diffusion of his
religious or political aspect. The nation has made a bounty. It is no ignoble action to restore the
solemn protest against Papal aggressions, and if the household gods of a family to some hearth from
enactment in which it was expressed was not strik- which calamity has banished them. If poor, he
ingly bold or immediately effective, it is the nature will remember duties zealously performed, temp-
of constituational protests to be rather for future inter- tations to covetousness and envy at the prosperity
pretation than present effect. Again, at the very corn- of others manfully overcome, and quiet and holy
inencementof the Exhibition, and with an inexhaustible resignation to the apparent inequalities of the lot
fund of popularity accruing thence to the advisers of assigned to him in this world by his and its Creator.
the Crown, they were signally beaten more than once. May time be the gentle handmaid of good to us
They had to resign on a question of Parliamentary all ! May our hearts be weeded of evil, and made
reform, and returned to office on a promise to bring beautiful by the sweet-smelling flowers of for-
forward a comprehensive measure next session. The bearance, charity, benevolence, and all Christian
year 1851 has thus bequeathed a great work to the virtues ! The improvement of individuals will achieve
year 1852, and the Ministerial crisis which has the regeneration of the world at large, and by each of
brought it about must be set down to the credit of the us striving to become better, we shall hasten the ad-
former year. St. Alban's, also, may claim some share vent of a brighter and holier era. Let all begin the
in the honour of hastening the second Reform Bill. year with high resolves. There is One who is able
Reform has this year made its way Into the Court of and willing to sanctify these resolves, and who can
Chancery, and a long-desired change has been in- cause them to bring forth a hundredfold if His di-
troduced into the law of evidence. For the rest, we rection be sought with meekness and with faith. To
believe we may say with literal truth that the year ell that do this, the new year will prove a happy one;
1851 has been unexampled for material prosperity, and how severe soever the trials it may bring, they
for the amount of imports and exports, for the quan- will gladly own their purifying influences, and from
tity of both British and foreign shipping in our ports, their beneficial results he compelled to confess that
for the amount of labour employed, whether skilled or they were " blessings in disguise." Farewell to the
unskilled, whether in the mill, the workshop, the mine, old year, and welcome to the new; in the words of
the shipyard, or the field; for the decrease of pau- our Poet Laureate we say—
perism, and for the enjoyment and cheerfulness of the people at large, a very large proportion of " Ring out the old, ring in the new,Ring, happy bes, snow
whom have had their share, as delighted and de-
The year is goinll
g across the,
let him go; :
serving spectators in the Great Exhibition. Ring out the false, ring in the true."
The losses of the year, though eclipsed in its DAILY NEWS.—To-day we enter upon a new
splendour, have not been inconsiderable. We
.?ear, which—judging by the present aspect of the
have seen a British colony in South Africa assuming yepolitical horizon—promises to be as fruitful in in-
a portentous resemblance to the French colony in the ceresting events as any one that has of late gone be-
north; a settlement of herdsmen ann trailers 'aping fore it. "No on, " a,,j- (Mark, Lamb, ~ c,,,z. :es
into a chain of military posts, held with vast blood • shed and cost against implacable savages. garded the First of January with indifference. It is
The census that from which all date their time, and count upon
or this year, while it adds fresh roofs
pto the growing what is left. It 'is the nativity of our common
prosperity of Great Britain, especially in its menu- Adam.' I never hear the peal which rings out the
facturing districts, discloses the serious fact that fa- old year without a gathering up of my mind to a
mine, fever, and emigration have taken away not less concentration of all the images that have been dif-
than 2000,000 of our Irish fellow-subjects. Happily, fused over the last twelvemonth; all I have done or
seven-eighths of the loss are attributable to the last suffered, performed or neglected, in that regretted
and least unhappy of these causes, but the actual es-
time. I begin to know its worth as when a person
trangement of so large a British mass, not only from
des:, Ev one
these isles, but for the most part from the British
ruthi er y
must ac
and beauty of these words. For
Crown, is a fact the gravity of which we may some
journaliat, however—who, in addition to the the
con-
with foreign Powers,
day have cause to appreciate. As for our relations
sciousness derived from his distinctive personality,
we have long ceased to indulge is the depositary and exponent of the corporate con-
in any warm international attachments, or to expect sciousness of large masses—they have an extended
them in return, so there is not any
with Italy are not improved by the positive weaning.
We who have felt vividly the pulsations
with various degrees of ability and success to carry
loss to be noted under this head. Our relations of the heart of great movements—and have worked
freely expressed in this country for the politico-re- out their objects—look back upon the register of the
ligious enthsiasts who are preaching a crusade against public doings of the past year with something of a
every throne in that peninsula. Our relations with personal interest in the retrospect. We feel a kind
France are not improved by our stubborn preference
sympathies
of responsibility as to this corporate consciousness, and
of constitutional government, even in the form of a are depressed or elated just as the successive images
republic, over military despotism. Our relations with in the phantasmagoria of last year's events are sub-
the United States are threatened at this moment by iects of sorrow or of joy. We are anxious to strike a
a disagreeable and unaccountable incident, of which favourable balance of those transactions of the year in
it. On the whole, however it can hardlythe be said just merchant is when he posts his ledger to ascertain
world his losses and his gains. Seen in this light, the events
as we did a twelvemonth since, though there was not of 1851, although not Sufficiently satisfactory to
much to boast of even then. Perhaps England has warrant indulgence in extravagant anticipations of a
no right to expect a very general amount of millennium, are still of a kind that enables us to
sympathy. Insulated in position, with a mixed entertain ho pes that the cause of progress will not
only maintain political constitution, the asylum for refugees from
ntain its ground, but make advdrices in the
all nations, showing her flag on every sea, and
new year on which we this day enter. Although it
thrusting her manufacture into every market, unable was not very pleasant at the commencement of the
to sympathise entirely with either monarchs against year 1851 to learn that no party would take the
peoples or peoples against monarchs, she commands trouble of governing us,—and that from sheer
the respect, the fear, and even the admiration of man- inability to find any one else who would under-
kind, but not their love or their free co-operation. take the task, we were obliged to place the power
Just now, however, another change is passing over thus left,
a new Foreign Secretary offers some hope that we in the hands of those who had thrown
this department of our public affairs. The advent of
it up,—still there is great consolation in the fact that
the functions of the body politic went on as well
shallmprom preservee
or petulance our boasted neutrality without either
without a government as with it. This recollecticn
hand to rampant des
coi;• without offering the right is abundantly refreshing at a time when a change of
potism, and the left to democra• Ministry in any other country in Europe is either
tic conspirators. The new, Minister starts with the produced by, or productive of, a coup critat, which
best of omens in his favour. In the mimic world of
the paralyses all the:national movements, puts the towns in
Great Exhibition, with its territories, its sectional
Governments, a state of siege, and converts peaceable citizens into
appeal, Lord Granville has performed its fierce competition,
and its common targets for the musketry of a brutal soldiery. Very
the functions of consolatory also is this fact, as showingthat the oscine-
King .2Eolus with most creditable success. tions of the political pendulum between Whig and
HERALD.—Hours, days, weeks, and months are Tory are so small, that the public begin to pay compa-
the most punctilious of servants. Again have theY ratively little attention to them, and are expecting, and
performed their offices with their accustomed exacti- will find, deliverance from some other quarter. Again,
tude, and thus filled up the measure of another year. although the proceedings of the Pope, in anatheniatis-
The revolutions of time are irresistible and certain, ing education in Ireland, in sowing the seeds of reli-
although its issues are doubtful and ever varying. It gious discord in England, in turning his back against
is the grand representative of perpetual motion—a
mighty and continual stream, whose rapid course de- liberal principles all over Europe, and in patronising rides all obstruction. Seasons of anxietyand afflic- matters enough—there is comfort in the thought
ion may appear longer in their transit the same that the very extravagance of this conduct is serving
periods spent in the perfect vigour of health, or amid
to convince even Catholics of the fact—which Pro-
the enchantments of happiness and content ;
yet this
• of
protraction is but a mental delusion, testants felt sure of long ago—that the pretensions The measured the Papacy are utterly incompatible with the preser-
footsteps of old Father Time admit of no irregularity vation of free government. So also, although we
of action. The echo of the tread of the retiring mo- might regret that the universal public do not declare
mint has not altogether ceased its vibrations ere we
distinguish the advancing step of its successor. that the toleration of the episcopal hierarchy in its
present anomalous state is a sin—we have reason, on
The progression is maintained with arithmetical
the other hand, to thank our stars that the Bishop',
precision, whether the span of the hour's duration by the evidence forced from them about the condition
be seemingly contracted by the thoughtless • gaiety of of their revenues, and the unblushing impudence of
enabling
youth, or apparently tediously lengthened by the their defence, have done much more towards
spirit-corroding cares of manhood. Though time us to reform the abuses theyistand by, than _
could have
never actually halts in its march, Yet, at this period, been accomplished by any other than themsid.ves. It
the majority of our fellow-countrymen note more is very sad without doubt to reflect that the Bishop of
carefully its advances. Man is prone to pause, as it
were, between the new year and the old, and while Exeter tried to get a number of his clergy together to
break the peace—but it is consoling to kr_low that the
he reviews the past one, he endeavours to penetrate knowledge of what the synod did is lodged_exclusively
the promises of good or ill shut up in the shrine of the in the brains of certain high church old ladies, who
future. And a suitable season is it for contemplation, prattle about it in a manner similar .to that in which
nor will the wise man fail to seize upon the opportu- their prototype indulged when speaking of King
nit it affords to sit down with his conscience and Charles's visit to Tillietu
diem. If the Protectionist's
' is • '
it delightful to
look over his annual account. Such an inspection wail almost as loudly as ever,
of our past conduct is the consummation of wisdom. reflect that the only annoyance they occasion is
We ought never to forget that—
their noise since every sensible man has
"He husbands lib. who looks not to its length, quitted their ranks. If the education question'
But use; and uses it to glorify
The Giver !" is not settled for the whole kingdom—still
Vain to us the flight of time unless we detect the Manchester is on the point of settling it for herself,
A
moral it inculcates as it pursues its swift career. Webd-el-Kader is still in prison, in spite of Lord Lon-
donderry's epistolatory and Lord Maidstone's poetical
feel it, therefore, incumbent upon us to moralise a
little with the rest. We are the faithful chroniclers
talent ;—but then Kossuth is free, and is kindling a
fire which despotism will find it a hard matter to
ex-
of every phase of human existence from the cradle to tinuish. King Bombe's proclamations are vile
the tomb. W g
e are daily setting forth, as in a
mirror, the grandest lessons afforded to humanitenough in all conscience—but then are they not so
y ; much waste paper weighed against Mr. Gladstone's
and is it not proper that we survey that which we have
pamphlets ? In this way we might go throe
finding
the
achieved, and ponder over the labours we are about to
undertake? T events of the whole year just gone from us, he past year has added no treasures to:t1 e
compensation_and something more—for all the evil
termed the year of unbounded promise,
stores of our political economy. It may
and be justly that we should have to lament, and then—leaving this
evil out of the question—put down as clear gain a
ignominious performance. Ushered in with the
loudest acclamations, at its very threshold stood list of important items that would include, increase of
the revenue, diminished taxation, the Great Exhibi-
failure and disgrace. A Cabinet
.existing by elifter-

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3

tion, international hospitality, submarine telegraph,
and penny omnibuses. All these considerations war-
rant us in indulging in hope for the future, although
there is no denying that a few dark clouds hang over
the present. The chief difficulty of course bows
itself on the Continent. The preparations for playing
out the great game between free institutions and des-
potism are proceeding more rapidly than ever. That the
cause of freedom 18 meeting with reverses is too
true ; that it will eventually triumph it were a sin to
doubt. The great ground for hope lies in the fact
that the enemy has now thrown off the mask, and is
no longer fighting under false colours. After coquet-
ting for six and thirty years between Liberalism and
Absolutism, the chief Governments of the Continent
have now decided for the latter, and the Roman
Catholic Church is solemnizing the union with all
splendour. The world is waiting with breathless
anxiety for the result of the match: In the meantime,
let us be grateful that peace is with us undisturbed.
Diplomatists still smile outwardly upon each other in
every court in Europe. Everything is as yet couleur
de rose on this New-Year's morning. Ambassadors are
preparing to exchange courtesies with the Governments
of the countries in which they are resident. Formerly
it was the custom to make costly presents to mo-
narchs on this day, and occasion was not unfrequenqy
taken to choose such gifts as would convey advice in
a manner more or less evident. Thus Latimer, we
know, on New-Year's-day presented Henry VIII.
with a New Testament, with a leaf doubled down
at Hebrews xiii., 4, conveying a very significant hint
of the bold Bishop's real sentiments about Henry's
proceedings matrimonial. A fertile fancy might in
like manner find fitting employment in
devising ap-
propriate gifts to be presented to-day to the various
sovere]gna of Europe. Thus the King of Naples
might be presented with a cord and axe and the cast-
off clothes of the imprisoned Poerio, significant of
the executioner's tools and perquisites. To the King
of Prussia a polite offer might be made to re-bind
the old copy of his Majesty's New Testament on
which he has taken so many constitutional oaths.
The Queen of Spain might be presented with lead•
ing-strings, and a strong soldier to keep her Majesty
from slipping out of them. Louis Napoleon would
be appropriately gifted with the story of "Hobson's
choice," to typify the nature of his offer of a govern-
ment to the French nation. The Emperor of Austria
might be presented with a tight-rope, as a hint of the
difficulties he will find in balancing himself in the
present conjuncture; and a diploma might be made
out for the Emperor of Russia, investing him with
the sole privilege of picking up his unfortunate bro-
ther of Austria as often as he may fall. So much for
monarchs. To return to ourselves and our readers.
To the latter we conscientiously believe we can wish
no greater public benefit than the realisation of those
measures of political and social importance which it
has, for years peat, been the object of the Daily News
to advocate. To accomplish this, however, they must
work with us and with each other, and with such co-
operation there is no overweening confidence in the
anticipation that a good result must flow from our
hearty wish to them of a " Happy New Year."

THE THREATENED STRIKE.
The Lancashire employers of operative engineers
had a meeting on Tuesday afternoon at the Clarence
Hotel, Manchester,; which w as,'attended by upwards
of fifty members of the leading firms in this branch of
trade, and presided over by Mr. T. B. Sharp, of the
firm of Sharp, Brothers, and Co. The
committee
appointed at a former meeting reported the substance
of what had transpired between the deputation from
their body and the employers of London and the
vicinity; and also the proceedings of a meeting of
those employers, at the London Coffee-house, on the
24th inst. The warmest gratification was expressed
at the cordial reception of the deputation from Lan-
cashire by the central body in London ; and, ou the
motion of Mr. James Nasmytb, of the Bridgewater
Foundry, Patricroft, seconded by Mr. John Hick, of
Bolton, it was unanimously resolved, "That this asso-
ciation forthwith join, and become a portion of, the
central association of employers of operative engineers,
Stc." The tone of the meeting was most decided and
unanimous in the expression of a determination to
resist any and every attempt at dictation on the part
of the men, as alike injurious to employers and
employed, and destructive of the best interests
of the country. It appeared that while many esta-
blishments had singly resisted such attempts at, dicta-
tion on former occasions, and in their resistance had
been successful, there were many others where this
system of dictation was still in full force, and where
the employers, with the name of masters, were in fact
the slaves of their men, and were obliged to submit to
the grossest tyranny, dictated by a few unseen agita-
tors. Now this dictation had manifested itself in the
audacity with which the present demands have been
put forth. But it was observed this would have the
good effect of uniting in one formidable body, with
scarcely a single exception, the whole of the employers
of engineering labour throughout the kingdom.
Their bond of union was the strong one of self-de-
fence, and the determination to resist every attempt at
dictation on the part of the workmen. The proceed-
ings, which throughout were characterised by the
greatest unanimity, closed about a quarter before six
o'clock. Two other facts we may add, which do not
appear in the official proceedings, A general desire
and determination was expressed, that as the men bad
threatened a strike, their object and intention should
be tested, and that the question between the em-
ployers and employed, having been raised by the
latter, should now be brought to some clear and defi-
nitive issue. We learn that individually nearly all
the firms in this district have received from their cus-
tomers, for whom they are making mill or other
machinery, in some cases under contracts with renal.
ties as to non-fulfilment in time, the most cordial
assurances that they approve of the course taken by
the employers, and that they are disposed, under the
circumstances, to extend to them the utmost amount
of indulgence that may be sought in the completion
of these contracts. Under circumstances such as
these, lacking that which is an element of strength in
some strikesdpopular approval and support, it behoves
the workmen to pause ere they take a step which,
once taken, will assuredly prove irremediable. Up
to last night it was quite uncertain at Manchester
whether the operatives would pause, or were prepared
to run the risks which must follow should the strike
be persevered in.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNEBDAY.—The remains of the
Hon. Pownoll Fleetwood Pellew, First Lieutenant of
her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, were com-
mitted to the grave in the garrison churchyard this
morning. Viscount Exmouth was chief mourner;
the Hon. C. F. Pellew and Mr. Dick, relatives of the
deceased, alto followed. The other mourners were
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence and the subordinate
officers of the royal yacht—Mr. White, surgeon, Dr.
Whyte, staff surgeon, &c. Ten petty officers of the
Victoria and Albert carried the coffin from the hearse
to the chapel and thence to the grave. The deceased
being a Freemason, a number of the brotherhood of
his lodge also followed. The funeral was a private
one, and the appointments were supplied by Mr.
Woods, military and 'naval outfitter, of the Hard,
Portsea.

The Rodney, 92, Captain Graham, C. 8., adjusted
her compasses to-day.
The Retribution steam-frigate, Captain Warden
is refitting her rigging. She was hauled alongside
the sheer jetty on Tuesday to ship her guns, which
were removed previous to her embarkation
troops for the Cape. of the
The Britannia, 120, Captain a u
-(4usm.th
her lower yards and topmasts to-day. ,
I sent up

WARREN VALE COLLIERYEXPLOSION.
ADJOURNED INQUEST.
RAWMANSH, NEAR BOTriEmium,
WEDNESDAY.---The
evidence of Mr. Morton, the Government inspector of
mines, adverted to in this paper yesterday, went to show
the cause of the explosion and the degree of blame at-
tacwithhintheer he said cg to tholliere various managers and servants connected
y
./ • In answer to a question from the
coroner
on
was he was clearly of opinion that the ex-
he
he
accidently by the fall of the roof in
the geld in No. 3 bank, which fall drove out the gas
upon the workmen's lights.
Mr. Benjamin Byram, of Wentworth, who had been
mineral agent to Earl Fitzwilliam for nearly twenty
years, agreed in all material points with the evidence of
Mr. Morton. In this instance the gas was no doubt
fired by the fall of the roof. Be could not impute
criminal blame to any one; but there seemed to have
been a laxity of discipline in examining and reporting
on the general state of the pit, arising, in his opinion,
from the belief that there was no inflammable gas in
the pit.
After the examination of other witnesses, the inquest
was adjourned to Friday.

DRuar-LANE THEATRE.—The following members,
amongst many others, of haut ton, have already witnessed
the new pantomime of Harlequin Hogat th :—His Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Monrose,
Count Walewski, the Earl of Glengall, Lord George Paget,
Lord Torrington, Lord George Lennox, Baroness Roether,
Lady Glentworth, Lady Eastlake, Sir George Wombell, the
Hon. Fox Maule, the Hon. Horace Pitt, the Hon. Mrs.
Cadogan, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Coke, the Chevalier
and Madame de Horta, Sir Charles Shakerley, Sir A. Ban-
nerman, Sir Charles Ibbotson, Sir John Lowther, Sir George
Armitage, Sir Henry Webb, Colonel Hunter Blair, Colonel
Ridley, Captain Innis, Captain Clarke, Captain Cooke
Captain Aitchison, paptain Neville, Captain Mowbray, Cap-
tain Allbury, Henry Baring, Esq., M.P., Mrs. Hoare,
Mrs. Paulett, Mrs. Courtenay, Mrs. Clayton, Mr. Thistleth-
waite, Mrs. Dennistoun, Mr. Bence, Mrs. Cour, M. Went-
worth Besile, &c.

THE REV. MR. BENNETT AND ST. BARNABAS.—
Not twelve months ago Mr. Bennett quitted St. Barnabas,
ancj quitted England. He has spent eight or nine months in
Roman Catholic countries, and much of the time in Roar
itself. Rumour relates that the sight of Italy and Spain is
not likely to detach him from the English communion. Mr.
Bennett has returned to England, and he has, it is said, at
the invitation of the trustees of the Marquis of Bath, ac-
cepted the living of Frome Selwood, in the diocese of Bath
and Wells.