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London, England, 1852-12-10

GERMANY.

The Minister of France to the German Diet at
Frankfort has announced to the Confederation the
assumption of the Imperial dignity by Napoleon.
The new credentials of the Prussian Ambassador
at Paris have been already dispatched from Berlin,
the same official announcement having been made
immediately after the termination of the vote. It
is stated that in the dispatches of the French Go-
vernment, the Emperor is styled simply "Napo-
leon," thus surmounting the difficulty presented
by the recognition of a Napoleon 11., in acknow-
ledging the title Napoleon 111. It is expected here
that the Count de Chambord will send a protest to
all the great European Powers against the creation
of the French Empire, but that it will have any po-
litical effect no one believes. There is no disposi-
tion on the part of Russia, Prussia, or Austria, to
throw any obstacle in the way of the present settle-
ment of the internal affairs of France ; and it appears
here, at least, that the Governments are satisfied
with the assurances understood to have been given,
that the other articles of the Treaty of Vienna
will not be disputed or ri.q.cutiled. It may be added
that the present representative of the legiti-
macy of the house of Bourbon has no partisans even
among the ultra-Royalists of Germany. On the
contrary, there is, and has long been, an evident
tendency in the party to weaken the influence of
his name ; at least the remarks made in reference
to his few public acts have not been encouraging to
his adherents, nor very respectful to himself.

POLAND.
The 27th anniversary of the accession to the
throne of the Emperor of Russia was celebrated at
Warsaw on the 2d inst. with great solemnity.
Divine service was performed in all the churches,
and salutes were fired from the Citadel.

DENMARK.
The Committee appointed by the Lower House to
examine the Bill abolishing the Customs' frontiers
between Denmark, Schleswig, and Holstein, has
made its report. The Committee approves gene-
rally of the modifications proposed by the Govern-
ment in the Customs' laws : but a majority of it
has agreed to a resolution advising the Chamber
not to pass any final decision as to the removal of
the Danish commercial frontier to the Eyder.

PERSIA.
The Austrian officers who for a time were per-
mitted to take service in Persia, will return in the
spring. One of them writes that the cruelties in-
flicted upon the unfortunate " Babis " are almost
beyond description. In one case the condemned
man was flayed alive, and then bound to a stake,
where his quivering body served as a target for a
troop of scoundrels there called soldiers. Another
man, who had his ears, nose, hands, feet, &c., am-
putated, was roasted alive.
London, England, 1852-12-10

LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1852.

A fierce opposition is about to be offered to the
new Budget. It is not merely the alteration it
the inhabited house duty—the arraying of town
against county—that is objected to. The con-
templated modification of the Income and Pro-
perty-tax—the distinction so tardily recognised
between permanent and precarious income—be-
tween fixed and fluctuating revenue—has excited
the ire of the moneyocracy. And the Right Hon.
Gentleman the Member for the University of
Oxford has rushed into the list, :as champion of
the injured (!) fundholder, to protest against
any change in the system, which has already so
strongly excited the just indignation of the people.
Mr. GLADSTONE is not contented with declaring
that the reconstruction of the impost is inequit-
able or inexpedient—it is far more, it is " uncon-
stitutional'—" a breach of faith" to the public
creditor, to which he is resolved to offer the most
strenuous opposition from first to last. In this
determination, and in the views by which he has
been influenced, he is sustained and supported by
another Right Hon. Gentleman of considerable
final, •
„ elal experience, and Member for the sister
‘-'niversity. The gauntlet has thus been thrown
downy
and Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Sir CHARLES
WOOD have inti• • mated an intention of taking part
in the melee
they will and it is more than probable that
the arraychallen themselves under the banners of
8, and insist on the equal taxation
of all incomes,
0
matter from what sources de-
rived ; or whether the same be worth one or,
thirty years purchaae.
Well so be it ! We are
prepared for the contest,
and care not if it be a
coin bat cc l'autrance. it is just and proper that
the question-4y far the mostimportant raised
ify the CHANCELLOt of the ExennQuEn—should
be fully discussed, and that it should •
receive the
priority to which it is unquestionably entitled.
There are two questions that must be disposed
of before the other propositions can fairly be taken
into consideration. It must be decided whether
the impost is to be permanently maintained or
awl whether it is to
temporarily renewed ; be re-
tained in its present obnoxious and inequitable
form, or modified to any and what extent
Questions of such importance—involving, as we
are prepared to prove, no less than six millions of
pounds sterling per annum to the revenue—must
he settled, at least for some time, if not finally,
before any other fiscal measures are taken into
consideration. It is obvious that if the Property
and Income-tax be suffered to expire at the ter-
mination of the financial year, on the sth of
April next, the proposed reduction in the duties
on Malt, Hops, and Tea, cannot be carried into
practical operation. The revenue would exhibit
London, England, 1852-12-10

No. 18,790.]

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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

IRISH RAILWAYS.—AII the Irish railways have expe-
rienced a considerable rise in value of late.
SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY.—The Scottish Central
is understood to have settled its claim upon the Cale-
donian extrajudicially. This circumstance, in addition to
a coming 4 per cent. dividend, which the traffic of the
line indicates, has run up its price from 88/ to 98. Edin-
burgh and Glasgow is also in considerable request at an
advance of 51. to 61. •
NORTH BErrisa RAILWAY.—
The North British Pre-
ference dividend was paid on the 16th, " a month after
date ;" and as the directors have now undertaken to
secure the rights of the preference shareholders in, all
time coming (a thing they ought never to have lost sight
of), these shares are more inquired for. The price is now
104.
SCOTTISH PROJECTED RAILWAYS,--A further batch of
new undertakings have made their appearance this
month, some of them for lines of railway which would
be of decided local advantage. For instance, the Forth
and Clyde from Stirling to Dumbarton, which would
open up eAract of fine country,
estimated to be com-
pleted for 3,0001. per mile, and agreed to be worked by
the Scottish Central on favourable terms ; the Hawick
and Carlisle, under the auspices of the Duke of Buc-
clench ; the Ayr, Maybole, and Girvan,and some others.
But these, although partially subscribed for in their re-
spective districts, have not met with that general support
which their promoters expected. The unfortunate de-
mand made by the Great Northern of Scotland Railway
upon a numerous body of its original allottees, to pay
calls on scrip, eagerly subscribed for during the railway
mania, parted with seven years ago, and forgotten by
most of them, has prevented many parties from taking
an interest in, and, still more, signing the contracts of
these proposed new undertakings.---Alien's Circular.
London, England, 1852-12-10

MISCELLANEOUS.

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Gen. Steam Navigat,
General Screw Steam
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Western (Ireland)
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Wolverhampton
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all South Wales
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161 Stockton & Hartlepl.
19 Thames Haven Dock
and Railway
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all Waterfd. & Kilkenny
all Waterford&Limerick
13 West Cornwall
all West London
.1 Woodford
100 York Newctl. & Berw.
20 Do. Extensions
10 Do. G.N.E. Purchase
100 York &N. Midland
London, England, 1852-12-10

LLOYD'S SHIPPING_UHIS DAY.)

LONDON, Dec. 10.—Wind at Noon, S., moderate
breeze, with cloudy weather and rain.
Wind,
DEAL, Dec. 9,
Arrived— Sophia,
China ; an American ship, do. ; Eliza Thornton Bata.
via ; Catherine Stuart Forbes, Bencoolen ; Charlotte,
Calcutta, ; Madagascar, do. ; Anna Maria, Mauritius ;
Hellespont (s), Africa ; Siren, Monte Video ; Hercules,
Quebec ; Miramichi, do. Arrived from the River, St.
Vincent, for Hobart Town ; Woodstock, Port Pilip ;
Blundell, do. ; Sultana, Cape Coast
Castle • Albion and
Ocean Queen,
Jamaica ; Florence, New Orleans. Put
back, African River Gambia, with damage from contact
with a foreign bark off Beachy Head—Abbots, Reading,
Helen, Maria, Arabella, Astracan, and many others.—
Dec. 10.—(Per Electric Telegraph)—.Arrived, Nightin-
gale, China.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 9.—Wind, W. to S. Arrived—Jum-
na, Robina Mitchel, and Anne Armstrong, Calcutta ;
Nemesis, White, Madras ; Elizabeth and Lychia
M'llenry, Bombay ; Ensign, Walker, Donny, Stately,
Tullouch, Etoile de la Mer, Rio Grande ' • trniad,
tones, Bahia ; William Russell, Shetford, Macao Bat.
chitha, Paraiba, Lapland ; Simpson, New Orleans ;
John Rutledge, Charlestone ; Robson, New York ;
Ida, Winfield Scott, and Devon, St. John's, N.B. ;
Indian Queen, Miramichi ; Albion, Scott, Quebec ;
Warner, Robertson, Alexandria ; Pizarro, Tarragona.
HARTLEPOOL, Dec. B.—The Victoria of this port has
sunk in the Humber, bearing W.S.W., distant twenty-
five miles ; crew saved.
SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 9.—Sailed—Severn (s), Brazils ;
Eclipse, Madeira.
PLYMOUTH, Dec. 9.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Rose,
Moon, Quebec ; Sarah and Ann Waugh, Corunna.
SHIELDS, Dec. 9.--The Eliza Caroline of this port
came ashore on the Herd Sand last night ; crew sup-
posed to be saved.
JERSEY, Dec. 7.—A large vessel i 6 reported lost near
the Minquars on the night of the 2d ; pert of the wreck
she is stated
is said to have been carried into La Roeque ;

to lie in eight feet of water.
FLEETWOOD, Dec. 9.—Arrived—William Botsford,
Brown, Quebec. Off Port—Briton, Cochrane, Quebec.
COWES, Dec. 9.—Wind, S.W. Arrived, Denmark,
Stubbekioling, for Liverpool, with quarter stove, having
been in contact. Put back—Washington (s), New
York, with damage forward, having been struck by a
sea the previous night.
BRISTOL, Dec. 9.—Wind, S.W. Arrived, Lesma-
hagow, Webster, Quebec.
ANTWERP.—Dec. 9.--The Auguste, Dieppe to go.
chelle, has been totally lost.

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COURT CIRCULAR.

Their Royal Highnesses Ot Sh Be ODRIE, wf.
BE nr
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t.
he
Count of Flanders, and the Princess Charlotte of Bel-
gium, attended by the Count de Briey, Lieutenant-
Colonel de Moerkerke, and Sir Robert Carswell, took
leave of her Majesty yesterday, and embarked in the
royal yacht Fairy, at a quarter before two o'clock p.m.,
for Southampton.
The Prince of Leiningen remains on a visit.

THURSDAY.
Her Majesty and the Royal Family walked in the
grounds yesterday.
His Excellency the French Ambassador, the Countess
Walewski, and the Earl of Malmesbury, arrived to-day
on a visit to the Queen, having crossed over in the Royal
yacht Fairy, which was waiting at Southampton to con-
vey them.

On the arrival of the Fairy in Cowes Roads, her Ma-
jesty's ship Encounterfired a salute of 17 guns, in honour
of his Excellency, who immediately landed, and pro-
ceeded in one of the Queen's carriages, which was in
readiness to convey the party to Osborne.
Count Walewski had an audience of the Queen, and
was presented by the Earl of Malmesbury to deliver his
credentials as Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of the French.

A deputation, consisting of Mr. Cornford, Mr. Folkard,
and Dr. King, with Mr. Slight, the clerk to the Brighton
Town Commissioners, had an interview with Lord John
Manners yesterday, at the office of Works and Public
Buildings, Whitehall, on the subject of the proposed ap-
plication of the Public Health Act, 1848, to Brighton.

The Rev. Dr. O'Toole had an interview with the Ear]
of Derby, yesterday, at his official residence, in Down-
ing-street.

Captain Shepherd, Deputy Master of the Trinity
House, had an interview with the Right Hon. J. C.
Henley, yesterday, at the Board of Trade.
The Earl of Westmoreland paid visits yesterday to
several of the Cabinet Ministers, to take leave on his
departure (last evening) to Vienna to resume the duties
of his Legation.
_ _

Lord Portman and the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson,
had interviews yesterday with Mr. Secretary Walpole,
at the Home-office.

Mr. Drummond had an interview yesterday with the
Earl of Derby.
A deputation on the subject of the provisional order
for Brighton, had an interview with Lord John Manners
yesterday. The deputation consisted of Mr. Beedham,
High Constable of Brighton ; Mr. Sharood, Solicitor
for the petitioners for a charter ; and Mr. J. M. Clabon,
Agent to the petition.
Mr. Fagan, M.P. ; Mr. Maguire, M.P. ; and Mr.
Jeffcott, had an interview yesterday with the Right
Hon. J. W. Henley.
Dispatches were received at the Colonialo-ffice yester-
day, from the Governors of Sierra Leone and the
Gambia.
London, England, 1852-12-10

COLONIAL. rlf
SUGAR.—Tho demand was tolerably good in the boo
part of the week, except for West India, which ha„S, for
dull throughout. Mauritius sold briskly at 36s to •,'",0,1
good and fine yellow, and at 33s 6d to 35s Gd for low s°
mid. • mid. and fine brown realised 30s Gd to 335. 13,i to
has been sold to a small extent, by auction, at 340 oid.
35s Gd for good mid, yellow, 31s to 32s 6d for ord ts
grey, and 26s to 30s for low to good brown. unri but
fine white Benares partly sold at 38s 6d to 39s 1..;110sf
grainy white was taken in at 41s to 445. Superior Y.O At
brought 995. Yellow Havaunah was mostly taken Jinja,
full prices ; ord. to fine brown, 335, to 355. Gd ; 'lowa 01
yellow, 36s to 37s 6d; and fine, 40s. per cwt. Refined
been cheaper, brown lumps being 43s to 445 per civt„..• ,tiro
COFFEE.—There has been an inactive market. " cwt.
was taken in early in the week, at 478 6d to 488 Per sd
Plantation Ceylon being in demand, however, at 5,3,0,0.
for fine ord, and at 57s 6d to 638 6d for mid to goo"
Since then, good ord Native has been sold at 46° for
475, and Plantation has been taken in at 52s to 9.3 V cry,
fine ord pale triage realising 42s to 51s 6d, and peaue,ooll
63s to 658 per cwt. Mocha was taken in at 85s for 6
C 05.1 garbled. Mysore was withdrawn, at 498 to 50 etsBo
Rica sold rather lower, fine ord to fine fine ord 107.001'
to 525. Java was taken in at 54s for old brownishpan)'s. for
COCOA.—Trinidad has been taken in at 330 to 35°"1
mid. and good grey, and 378 6d to 40s for mid. and b-
red.
WO'
RICE.--The market has been firm. Bengal good) IAIO
white was taken in at 12s, and Moulmein sold at I.oa '-
for paddy to fair peeled.
SALTPETRE.—The demand has improved, and ra-oil
been firm. Bengal sold at 29s to 29s 6d for 5i to 3X g
and fine, and at 25s for mid., 12i per cent. refractinn'ogii
SPlCES.—Ginger has been in rather less demand thid,
at previous rates. Calicut 30s to 358 for ord. and n 441
old but very wormy. Pepper sold at 7/d to 7id for,S4.
mid. old Singapore, and at 30 for mid. and grey
bar. Nutmegs were taken in at is 7d for Dutch lina.„7oo.
COCHINEAL.--There has been a fair demand, and
dnras has been sold at 3s 8d to 3s 10d.
COTTON.—This article has been dull, at about the Prr
vious rates.
TEA.—There has been a good deal of excitement in,ool.
market, and, pending the decision of Parliament, the? to
era have refrained from paying duties. Congou at is
le lid has been in good demand, and common at P"
10/d to 10N.
TALLovv.—This article has been dull, at 46s 9d t°
per cwt. on the spot.
°.
GREEN FRUIT---Akit better demand exists for all
•- 00
Two cargoes of oranges from St. Michael have arrived,,,
of which, sold by Keeling and Hunt at public sale, reaPrip
a high gure. Lisbon are lower. The stock of °P°
~,le.
light, and one cargo of Seville China remain for -or
Lemons are in request. Nuts likewise, with the 4000,
tion of Barcelona, which are ls. per bag cheitper. Ahn ot•
grapes scarce, 30s. to 40s. per barrel being the prices
tainable.
London, England, 1852-12-10

'ARTUENT.

Government securities
(trcludg.Dead Weight
Annuity)
Other securWes......
Gold and silver coin..

f. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.'"
1852.

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns mado in the week ending the 7th
day of December, 1852, is 28s 7d per hundred weight,
exclusive of tho duties of Customs paid or payable thereon
on the importation therebf into Great Britain.
London, England, 1852-12-10

1 1D0.,10/.Sh.,M&B

100 London & S. Western
424 Do.; X 50........
34- Do.' £4O
all Lndndrry.&Coleraine
all Lndndrry. & Eunisk.
100 Manch.SheL&Lineln.
4i Do., Mau. &Lin. Un
100 Midland
100 Do. Birming.& Derby
474 Midland G.West.(lr.)
17i Do. Shares
all Newcastle &Carlisle..
100 Newmarket

14 Newpt.AbergAlltfd.
71 Newry & Enniskillen]
all Newry Warrenpoiut

& ROstrovor
.00 Norfolk... ......
all Do., New

3i Northn. Counties Un.
100 North British ..... .
13 North Devon, N 0.1..
6i Do., No. 2.
all Do., A Deferred...
5 Do., 4 B Guaranteed
17i North Staffordshire..
all North Western........
£ii N. & S.Westrn. June.
100 Oxford Worcester &
Wolverhampton.....
100 Scottish Central ...
100 Scottish Midland......
100 Shrewsbury & Birmg.
100 Do., L. &N. Westu.

Guaranteed Stock...
8 Shrewsby. & Herefd.
all Shrewsby. & Chester

(Nor. W. Min.)
all Do. Halves, do.
20 Do. Oswestry
6 Shropshire Union
Do., A.B.C.&D.fully
paid up at p. c.
all South Devon....
100 South Eastern
all South Wales
15 S. Yorksh. River Dun
5 Do
161 Stockton & Hartlepl.
19 Thames Haven Dock
and Rai1way.........
17 Vale of Neath.... .....
all Waterfd. & Kilkenny
all Waterford&Limerick
13 West
all West. London.
1 Woodford
100 York Newctl. & Berw.
20 Do. Extensions.......
10 Do. G.N.E. Purchase
100 York &N. Midland..
London, England, 1852-12-10

BRITISH SUGAR COLONIES:

Mr. J. WILSON called the attention of the house to.
the effects of the Sugar Acts of 1846 and 1848 upon the
British Sugar Colonies, and upon the sugar trade of the
United Kingdom, and moved for the following papers :
—Copies of reports made by the Board of Inland Reve-
nue in 1848 and 1849, in reference to the refining of
sugar in bond ; and, return of the quantities of
sugar, molasses, and rum, and the amount of duties re-
ceived thereon, in the year ending the sth day of
July, 1852; also, of the average price per cwt., of
Muscovado sugar, exclusive of duty, from the London
Gazette, and the average prices per cwt. of Havannah
sugar (ordinary yellow), exclusive of duty, from the
London Mercantile Prices Current for that year (in con-
tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 296, of Session,
1852). The hon. gentleman remindoll-he course which
the Government had taken on this subject. Last evening
the right hon. gentleman the Secretary for the Colonies,
gave notice of his intention to call the attention
of the house to the whole subject, but when the right
hon. gentleman came into office he stated that the sub-
ject would be postponed until the present session, and
now it was said Government intended to abandon the
subject altogether. Now this latter determination was
London, England, 1852-12-10

tralian Colonies, and the extraordinary circumstances
in which they were now placed, and they had decided
on the extent to which they thought concessions ought
to be made, and as to the policy to be adopted for the
future; but the hon. baronet must feel that it was impos-
sible for him to enter into a general and detailed state-
ment of what their intentions were in answer to a ques-
tion of that kind. However, he hoped to find an early
day after Christmas, on which to state to the house the
policy of the Government in regard to the Australian
Colonies.
London, England, 1852-12-10

THE CONTINENT.

SPAIN.
A
tliatce °lints from Madrid, dated the 4th inst., state
Quo General Narvaez had been received by the
holirell,
tion at a private audience, which lasted half-an-
0-,P° -151-0 is one
abi the of the sentsenators who have combined
do ri
TLi the a
e Madrid Gazette contains a royal decree or-
of that the budgets, prepared by the Minister
Illaclice for the Chamber of Deputies, which has
thedissolved, shall be laid before the new
Ole financial
in March, and that, in the meantime, all
the -11ancial operations shall continue subject to
Plibila,tification of the Cortes. The Gazette alsod
treitsZes a royal decree prohibiting the periodical
he from discussing the bills] of reform just pub'
no 1,5 In order " that the vivacity of passion may
for prevent the impartial consideration required
vf:Tunents of such importance*"
46.17ri d Bourse, Dec. 4.—The Three per Cents.,
Exchangeon London, 60 80 paper.

GERMANY.
The Cassel Gazette, under date of Dresden, 4th,
" pis ."."—" We learn from a positive source that
r Albert of Saxony went to Prague on e
\V °l' his betrothal with the Princess Carols
of e bulletin published on the 6th of the health
Are Fine° Charles of Prussia states that on the
ha. ions night he had had two hours' sleep, but
elPerienced much agitation and fever during
had letnainder of the night. In the morning he
libecome more calm.
Ite1;! German Journal of Frankfort states, from
pn t.tu 4th :—" We learn that Baron de Werner,
of t 4 of M. de Metternich, and Under-Secretary
tria. tate for Foreign Affairs will be appointed Aus-
is e° Minister to the Germanic Diet. M. de Bruck
ClPeeted here. It is said that the Austrian
vernrn t ' Cab,„ en wishes to open negotiations with our
the T,et on the Customs' question on the bases of
biote-r-russian note of the 28th ult. Prussia in that
dist °IIIY demands that everything having the most
tell. ant resemblance to a customs' union shall be
tite°l,ll,lleed, and she reserves to herself full and en-
4-werty in matters of tariffs."
iler'rEspondence from Vienna dated the sth,
find
the following
teed: ue negotiations on the Customs question are pro-
of _ rapidly, and promise to be successful. The idea
is hired that
Customs group is altogether given up, and it
cod that an understanding will be arrived at.
.in ac
e with the interests of all parties. Positive in-
ver:ence has been received from Hanover that the Go-
pesiaellt of that country will not quit its observant
n, till the Vienna conferences are concluded."
London, England, 1852-12-10

of the Imperial Parliament—the old site
crowding the present structure close up to the
very corner of Sir CHARLES BARRY'S architectural
masterpiece. We would seriously commend these
considerations to the judment of Lord JOHN MAN-
NERS. We have such confidence in his sagacity
that we do believe on reflection he must resolve to
guard off this disgrace from the Administration.

Eighty thousand pounds have been expended
by his grateful country upon the obsequies of
the late Duke of WELLINGTON. And forty-
seven years after our incomparable NELSON ex-
pired in the arms of Victory at Trafalgar, the
capital of his un-grateful country continues to be
disgraced by an incomplete testimonial. We are
not grudging the old Duke one sixpence of the
magnificent sum expended in the pomps of the re-
cent ceremonial. No ! He won the tribute well
with his good sword in Hindostan and the Penin-

sula. But we do lament from our hearts the very
lamentable niggardliness, or, to say the best of it,
the very mournful indifference displayed in refe-
rence to the national homage for the memory of
HORATIO NELSON—the hero of St. Vincent, the
Nile, and Copenhagen,—blind of an eye, maimed
of an arm, prematurely old from the anguish of so
many wounds, and carried away at last in a
" flaming chariot of glory," yielding up his life
for his fatherland in the splendid agonies of his
last and greatest achievement. It was not enough
that that glorious sailor died merely a Baron and
a Viscount, while the departed soldier died not
only a Baron and a Viscount, but an Earl, and a
Marquis, and a Duke. It was not enough thai
the one obtained in grants half a million of money
from the Legislature, while the other was so poor
that he had scarcely enough plate to take
out with him when he last went to sea on board

the Victory. It was not enough that these and
a thousand similar contrasts in the same grand
and memorable careers should be visible to every
heart and intellect in Great Britain. But it was
necessary, in addition to all this, that a pageant,
costing altogether the sum of eighty thousand
pounds, should pass on the 18th of November,
1852, through Trafalgar-square, bearing upon a
car of state the body of ARTHUR WELLESLEY,
Baron, Viscount, Earl, Marquis, Duke, at the
cost, we repeat, for that one occasion, of eighty
thousand pounds—immediately under the pedestal
of that monument to HORATIO NELSON, a monu-
ment still glaringly incomplete, although his Im-

perial Majesty the EMPEROR of all the RUSSIAS
generously came forward some years ago with a
contribution of 5001., to aid England in building
up this one tardy testimonial.

We put the case as simply as we can : and,
having done so, we commend it to the gallant
sailor at the head of the Admiralty, we commend
it to the chivalrous heart of a PERCY, to the judg-
ment, the justice, and the patriotism of the Duke
Of NORTHUMBERLAND.
London, England, 1852-12-10

OF THE GRAND

NATIONAL FUNERAL,

AND IS NOW ON SALE.

ORDERS RECEIVED BY ALL NEWS AGENTS, AND
AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND,
LONDON.

4
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refip.‘ 4-.37N0p, ftuo.ki!
"ollrAtt 44,41.1/4

LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1852.

A fierce opposition is about to be offered to the
new Budget. It is not merely the alteration in
the inhabited house duty—the arraying of town
against county—that is objected to. The con-
templated modification of the Income and Pro-
perty-tax—the distinction so tardily recognised
between permanent and precarious income—be-
tween fixed and fluctuating revenue—has excited
the ire of the moneyocracy. And the Right Hon.
Gentleman the Member for the University of
Oxford has rushed into the list, as champion of
the injured (!) fundholder, to protest against
any change in the system, which has already so
strongly excited the just indignation of the people.
Mr. GLADSTONE is not contented with declaring
that the reconstruction of the impost is inequit-
able or inexpedient--it is far more, it is " uncon-
stitutional'—" a breach of faith" to the public
'-'editor, to which he is resolved to offer the most

Arenuous opposition from first to last. In this
ii-teteranination, and in the views by which he has
been, influenced, he is sustained and supported by
pother Right Hon. Gentleman of considerable
41411Cial experience, and Member for the sister
tuiversity. The gauntlet has thus been thrown
1"12 and Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Sir CHAErES
\u
the" have intimated an intention of taking part
i
melee ; and it is more than probable that
i.hey win array themselves under the banners of
the challengers, and insist on the equal taxation
of all incomes, no matter from what sources de-
rived ; or whether the same be worth one or
thirty years' purchase. Well, so be it ! We are
prepared for the contest, and care not if it be a
the
routrance. It is just and proper that
q batuestion by
com a
far the most important raised
by the CHANCELLOR of the Excu, _
WER—shOuld
be fully discussed, and that it Should receive the
priority to which it is unquestionably entitled,
can fairly There are two questions that must bedisposed
of before the other propositions. taken
It must be decided whether
into consideration.
the impost is to be
temporarily renewed ; Peninitianently maintained or
a whether it is to be re-
tained in its present
obnoxious and inequitable
form, or modified to any and what extent ?
Questions of such importance—involving,. •
ons of
as we
are prepared to prove, no less than six millions
pounds sterling per
annum to the revenue—must
if
6e settled, at least for some time,
not finally,
before any other fiscal measures are taken
into
consideration. It is obvious that if the Property
and Income-tax be suffered to expire at the ter-
raination of the financial year, on the sth of
April next, the proposed reduction in the duties
on Malt, Hops, and Tea, cannot be carried into
praetical operation, The revenue would exhibit
London, England, 1852-12-10

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the
week ending Dec. 5, 1852 £1,824 3 8
Corresponding week last year 1,643 4 2
CHESTER AND TIOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
railway and steam-boats for the week ending
Dec. 5, 1852 23,108 3 0
Corresponding week last year 2,540 18 11
Increase in 1852 £567 4 1

CHANGE FOR A SHILLING BY TELEGRAPH.—Last week
(says Galignani) as a passenger was passing through
Chatellemult in the railway train, he bought for two
francs a knife from a man who was offering articles of
cutlery for sale at the station. Re gave a piece of five
francs to pay for it, but before he got his change the
train was off. The other passengers in his carriage
joked him on his cheap bargain, and even went the length
of saying the whole transaction was a matter arranged
between the salesman and the engine-driver. When,
however, the train arrived at the station of Les Chines,
a clerk came out and inquired who had bought a knife
at Chattellerault, and not received his change. On the
passenger declaring that it was he, the clerk handed him
three francs, notice to that effect having boon forwarded
by the electric telegraph.
London, England, 1852-12-10

POST OFFICES.

Mr. MACGREGOR moved for returns of the num-
ber of Post-office receiving-houses in London, Dublin,
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, and Manchester, re-
spectively ; the number of collections daily from each
receiving-house, and the proportion of the population of
each of these places, as per last census, bears to each
receiving-house ; whether general Post-office business
can be transacted at all these receiving-houses, and, if
not, the number in each place at which that can be
transacted showing the proportion the population of each
place bears to every such receiving-house or branch-office;
the number of offices in each place at which money-
order business can be transacted, and the proportion the
population of each place bears to every such office ; the
average number of letters delivered daily in each of the
above-mentioned towns ; also the number of letter-
carriers in each town to deliver these letters, and
also the number of deliveries daily in eacli town :
And of the name of every one employed in the Post-
office of Glasgow ; the number of years each person has
been in the service : salary of each, and sums, if any,
derived from fees, stating the nature of such fees ; na-
ture of the duties performed by each ; whether there is
a scale of salaries for length of service, and, if so, the
particulars of it ; 'showing the highest salary that can be
obtained by length of service only, and the time to be
served to obtain that salary ; whether there is a super-
annuation allowance ; gross revenue of the office for
each of the last ten years, including amount of postage
stamps sold through the Stamp-office ; number of letters
for one week of each month in each year for a like pe-
riod ; number 'and amount of money orders paid and
issued in each of the last ten years ; also the commission
in each year.; number of clerks employed in each year.
distinguishing the number engaged in each department.
Agreed to.
London, England, 1852-12-10

AUCKLAND ISLANDS.

Mr. MILLER wished to ask the Secretary for the
Colonies, whether Mr. Enderby had been recalled from
the Auckland Islands ; if so, the circumstances under
which his recal had taken place ; and whether the right
hon. baronet has any objection to place upon the table
of the house the correspondence relating thereto, to-
gether with a copy of any grant, lease, or charter made
in relation to the Auckland Islands, either to Mr.
Enderby or any other persons. Also, whether it was the
ineention of her Majesty's Government to appoint any
other Governor in the place of Mr. Enderby, or to take
any steps with a view to the colonisation of the said
islands.
Sir JOHN PAKINGTON said Mr. Enderby had
not been recalled, buthehad been deposed as it were by the
Company, and the result was now under investigation
by the Government.
HOP DUTY.
Sir J. V. SHELLEY wished to ask the right hon.
gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer a question on
the subject of the hop duties. The instalment of duty
due on the growth of hops in 1852 did not become pay-
able until November, 1853, and he wanted to know
whether it was intended to remit any portion of that
duty. He wished secondly to know whether Govern-
ment had it in contemplation to abolish the vicious
system of allowing six months credit in the first moiety
of the duty and 12 months' credit on the second moiety.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
general subject of the credit system was now under the
consideration of Government ; but, with regard to the
other question, he could only state that he was
in communication with the hop interest, and he should
not be able to answer it until to-morrow.
- - -
London, England, 1852-12-10

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday the 4th day of December, 1852.
tatuk DEPARTMENT. -

X
Notes issued ..•••• .. 35,246,890

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities.- 2,984,Q00
Gold coin and bullion 21,227,736
Silver bul ion ...... • • 19,151

£35,246,890
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
Dated the 9th day or Deoember, 1852.

£3.5,246,890

BANKING D 1

Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest ............ 3,075,011
Public deposits tin-
,ee I eluding Exchequer,

Commissioners of
Natonsl Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 7,637,710
Other deposits ...... 12,699,303
Seven Day and other
Bills 1,493,677

£39,458,691

13,962,688
12,410,821
12,523,740
661,442

£39,459,691

Dated no 9th day of December,
London, England, 1852-12-10

NEARLY HALF the ADULT POPULATION
of Great Britain could bear testimony to the agreeable influ-
ence and curative powers of PARR'S LIFE PILLS ; and cheerful-
ness being "the health of virtue," to possess it is to advance a great
step in happiness, comfort, and bodily ease. He who has not tested
the efficacy of these admirable Pills, has neglected an essential incen-
tive to health and happiness.
They are found, after giving them a fair trial for a few weeks, to
possess the most astonishing and invigorating properties; and they
will overcome all obstinate complaints, and restore sound health.
Their mildness as a purgative is a desideratum greatly required by
_ _

the weak and delicate.
None are Genuine, unless the words "PARR'S LIFE PILLS" are
In White Letters of a Red Ground, on the Government Stamp, pasted
round each box; also, the fac-slmllle of Signature of the Pn.prietors,
" T. ROBERTS and Co., Crane-court, Fleet-street, London," on the
Directions.
Sold in boxes, at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and family packets at r. is. each,
by all respectable medicine vendors throughout the world. Full direc-
tions are given with each box.
London Agents : —Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Farringdo n-street ;
Edwards, St. Paul's Church-yard; Sutton and Co., Bow Church-
yard ; hangar, 151, Oxford- street ; Hannay and Co., Oxford -street ;
Baxter, Chemist, High Holborn.
London, England, 1852-12-10

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

• • ..........
SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the
week ending Dec. 5, 1852 £1,824 3 8
Corresponding week last year 1,643 4 2
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
railway and steam-boats for the week ending
Dec. 5, 1852 ............................... . 23,108 3 0
Corresponding week last year 2,540 18 11
Increase in 1852

CHANGE FOR A SHILLING BY TELEGRAPH.—Last week
(says Galignani) as a passenger was passing through
Chatellerault in the railway train, he bought for two
francs a knife from a man who was offering articles of
cutlery for sale at the station. He gave a piece of five
francs to pay for it, but before he got his change the
train was off. The other passengers in his carriage
joked him on hifi.cheap bargain, and even went the length
of saying the whole transaction was a matter arranged
between the salesman and the engine-driver. When,
however, the train arrived at the station of Les Ormes,
a clerk came out and inquired who had bought a knife
at Chattellerault, and not received his change. On the
passenger declaring that it was he, the clerk handed him
three francs, notice to that effect having been forwarded
by the electric telegraph.
London, England, 1852-12-10

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

IRISH BAILWAYS.—AII the Irish railways have cape- 1
rienced a considerable rise in value of late.
SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY.—The Scottish Central
is understood to have settled its claim upon the Cale-
donian extrajudicially. This circumstance, in addition to
a coming 4 per cent. dividend, Which the traffic of the
line indicates, has run up its price from 881 to 98. Edin-
burgh and Glasgow is also in considerable request at an
advance of 51. to 61.
NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.—The North British Pre-
ference dividend was paid on the 16th, " a month after
date ;"and as the directors have now undertaken to
secure the rights of the preference shareholders in all
time coining (a thing they ought never to have lost sight
of), these shares are more inquired for. The price is now
103 i.
SCOTTISH PROJECTED RAILWAYS,—
A further batch of
new undertakings have made their appearance this
month, some of them for lines of railway which would
be of decided local advantage. For instance,. the Forth
and Clyde, from Stirling to Dumbarton, which would
open up a tract of fine country, estimated to be com-
pleted for 3,0001. per mile, and agreed to be worked by
the Scottish Central on favourable terms ; the Hawick
and Carlisle, under the auspices of the Duke of Buc-
cleuch ; the Ayr, Maybole, and Girvan, and some others.
But these, although partially subscribed for in their re-
spective districts, have not met with that general support
which their promoters expected. The unfortunate de-
mand made by the Great Northern of Scotland Railway
upon a numerous body of its original allottees, to pay
calls on scrip, eagerly subscribed for during the railway
mania, parted with seven years ago, and forgotten by
most of them, has prevented many parties from taking
an interest in, and, still more, signing the contracts of
these proposed new undertakings.—Allen's Circular.
London, England, 1852-10-22

EAST INDIA HOUSE, 20th October, 1852.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY DO lIEREBY GIVE NOVICE, That a
SPECIAL GENERAL COURT of the said COMP.VNY will:, held
at their House ia Leadenball-street, on WEDNESDAY,
instant, at 11 o'clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose
before the Proprietors for their concurrence the fdlowing Re.oluuon
of the Court of Directors, viz. :
" That. as a testimonial of the gratitude with which the East
India Company must ever remember that the glorious career of the
Duke of Wellington commenced in India, and that the consolidation
of the British power there was greatly promoted by his brilliant
achievements, a Marble Statue of that illustrious Commander be
placed in the General Court room."
A copy of the said Resolution, dated this day, is open for perusal
by the Proprieto:s at this House.

JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

ALBERT DOCKS, for STE aME LiS,
COLLIERS, and GENERAL COMMERCE.

Provisionally Registered.
Capital—£soo,ooo, in 50,000 shares of £lO each; deposit, 10s. Gd

per The Albert Docks are intended toshare. be formed in the Greenwich
marshes, on the south side of the river, immediately opposite Black-
Wa 1, having entrances at Bugsby Hole or` Reach on the east, and
Greenwich Reach on the west, the proposed site being already con-
nected by means of the North-Kent, South-Eastern, and Brighton
Railways with all districts south of the Thames, thus giving incre3sed
accommodation for the shipment and transit of goods and merchan-
dise, to the benefit of a great mass of the population of England; and
when it is considered that no increased dock accommodation has been
carried into effect on the south side of the river within the last forty
Years, and the great increase of shipping which has since taken place,
there is every prospect of a handsome dividend on the capital re—
quired.
Detailed prospectuses will shortly be prepared ; in the meantime,
application for she: es may be addressed to the Provisional Committee,
37, Poultry,
THOS. JAS. SWAYNE, Sec.
October, 19, 1852.
London, England, 1852-10-22

NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " VANITY FAIR,"
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THE HISTORY of HENRY ESMOND, Esq.,
LA Colonel in the Service of her Majesty Queen Anne,
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF,
Is nearly ready, in Three Volumes, crown Bve., by
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