The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-21 00:00:00

CITY MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.-( THIS DA Y;)

,► THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

to our faithful subjects, greeting :—Our well-be-
loved son, the Grand Duke Michel Nicolauvitch,
attained, to our great joy, on the 25th October last,
the majority fixed by the fundamental law of the
empire, and has taken to us and to the empire the
oath prescribed in presence of God, who searcheth
all hearts. May God, who has hitherto preserved
him, bless his ulterior career. May he, guided by
the hand of faith and fidelity, march in the path
of honour and glory, always remembering the me-
morable actions of our heroic ancestors. We invite
our faithful subjects to join their fervent prayers to
our own on his behalf, and to join sincerely in the
sentiments which fill our heart."
The S#. Petersburgh Journal of the 11th, says :
" The Emperor has made the following promotions :
The Cesarwitch, heir to the Throne, commandant
of the various corps of the guard and of the grena-
diers, is named commander-in-chief of these corps,
whilst preserving all his other functions and digni-
ties ; the Grand Duke Constatine is in like manner
named aide-de-camp general to the Emperor ; the
Grand Duke Nicholas is named inspector-general
of the engineers, and commandant of the Ist bri-
gade of the Ist division of the light cavalry of the
guard ; and the Grand Duke Michael is named
grand master of the artillery and commandant of
the brigade of the horse artillery of the guard."
The same journal contains aye columns of promo-
tions and appointments in the army. The Austrian
General Baron Kress, of Kressenstein, is named
knight of the order of the " White Eagle."

This being St. Thomas's Day, wardmotes were held
throughout the City for the purpose of electing common
councilmen and other ward officers for the ensuing year.
The following statement shows the returns for tho:!ie
wards in which no opposition took place :

The Paris journals give a lengthened account of
the reception of the Emperor at Compiegne, which
we announced yesterday. After hearing mass he
reviewed the troops. The weather being fine,
there was an immense crowd of spectators, and the
shout of " Vive l'Empereur " was enthusiastic.
After the review, the Emperor, accompanied by
several of his guests, rode in the forest on horse-
back. On Saturday evening, the workmen of
Compiegne, with their wives and' daughters, had a
ball at the theatre. The Prefect of the Oise, the
Inspector - General of Police, and the Mayor of
Compiegne attended. On their arrival they were
received with the cry of " Vive l'Empereur t"
The second number of the Bulletin des Lois of
the Empire publishes a decree, dated Dec. 9, open-
ing to the Minister of the Interior from the Budget
of 1852 an extraordinary credit of 600,000 fr., ap-
plicable to the payment of a part of the expenses
caused by the arrests operated after the events of
Dec., 1851.
By decree of the Emperor, dated the 18th, M.
Troplong, First President of the Imperial Court of
Paris, is made First President of the Court of
Cassation, in place of Count Portalis, who is ad-
mitted on his demand to retire on his pension, and
is named First Honorary President.
A deputation from Brest was on Friday presented
to the Emperor by the Baron Lacrosse, Secretary
of the Senate. The mayor in the name of the town
congratulated his Majesty on his accession to the
Empire. The Emperor, in the course of his reply,
announced that he intended to visit the west of
France next year.
The Emperor has caused a gold medal to be given
to each of his aides-de-camp and officers d'ordon-
nance, as also to other persons of his household,
for enabling them to gain access to all public estab-
lishments and monuments, and all public solemni-
ties. On one side of the medal is his Majesty's
effigy, and on the other an eagle, with the name of
the person to whom the medal belongs.
A magnificent Arab mare has arrived at Mar-
seilles as a present to the Emperor, from the
Viceroy of Egypt. It is in the care of an Egyptian
groom.
The steam-frigate, the Labrador, left Toulon on
the 18th for Marseilles, where it is to take on
board Abd-el Kader and his suite.
The market was extremelyfirm, and public secu-
rities improved. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
opened at 106 f. 20c., and closed at 106 f. 50c.; the
Three par Cents. closed at 82f. 80c.; Orleans Rail-
way Shares, 1,040 f.; Rouen, 975 f.; Havre, 530 f.;
Great Northern, 900 f.: Basle, 367 f. 50c.; Paris
and Strasburg, 830 f.; Paris and Lyons, 910 f.;
Great Western, 790 f.; Lyons and Avignon, 747 f.
50c.; St. Dizier and Gray, 545 f.; Caen and Cher-
bourg, 635 f.; Dijon and Besancon, 575 f.; Bordeaux
and Cette, 615 f.: Bank of Credit Mobilier, 990 f.

Paldi RAILWAYS.

ALDERSGATE WARD.—Returns 8.
Alderman—Sir PETER LAURIE, Knt.
COMMON COUNCILMEN.—Mr. Lorkin (deputy), Mr.
Godson, Mr. Wood, Mr. Norris, Mr. De Jersey, Mr.
Woodward, Mr. Chaplin,and Mr. J. Ward.
BILLINGSGATE WARD—Returns 8.
Alderman—THOMAS SIDNEY, Esq.
COMMON COUNCILMEN.—Mr. B. Bower (deputy), Mr.
J. Knill, Mr. J. Roberts, Mr. R. M. Phillips, Mr. W.
Williams, Mr. W. G. Barnes, Mr. J. Causton, and Mr.
G. C. Graves.

BISHOPSGATE WARD—Returns 14.
Alderman—W. T. COPELAND, Esq.
COMMON COUNCILMEN.—Mr. W. Stevens (deputy),
Mr. W. A. Peacock (deputy out ward), Mr. T. S Owden,
Mr. R. Howell, Mr. R. C. Lambe, Mr. H. Patten, Mr.
W. Jones, Mr. J. Warren, Mr. M. M.Hopgood, Mr. W.
H. Pilcher, Mr. J. R. Carr, Mr. R. Ashby, Mr. Geo.
Taylor, Mr. C. Gilpin, and Mr. J. C. Edmiston.
BREAD-STREET WARD.—Returns 8.
Alderman—WlLLlAM LAWRENCE, Esq.
COMMON COUNCILMEN.—Mr. J. S. Budge (deputy),
Mr. J. P. Snell, Mr. D. Laurie, Mr. W. Hautrey, Mr.
F. Maynard, Mr. W. Patten, Mr. J. J. Millard, and
Mr. N. Maughan.

BRIDGE WARD.—Returns 8.
Alderman—Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL.
COMMON COUNCILMEN.—Mr. Pewtress (deputy), Mr,
Knott, Mr. Hill, Mr. Matthews, Mr. Low, Mr. Whet-
ham, Mr. Arnold, Mr. Johnson.

MONTENEGRO. St.
Letters from Scutari, in the Lloyd of Vienna, St
of the 14th, announce that the Turks have attacked st.
the fort of Zibiak, recently taken by surprise by 50
the Montenegrins ; but that the latter are offering
a desperate resistance. Prince Danilo is stated St.
to be at a convent called St. Stephens', near Pi- 5012
peH. George Petrowitch is at Zobliak. The Mon- 161
tenegrin war does not appear to be a solitary fact, st:
but, on the contrary, seems to be connected with a 20
widely-spread conspiracy of all the Slavonic race 14
under the Mussulman sway. A chief of Upper t)
Albania has already rebelled, and collected a force 11
of 10,000 men against the Turks, and insurrections 10
are daily expected to break out again in Herzogo- fist,
vine and Mostar. Ost.
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BROAD-STREET.—Returns 8.
Alderman—Sir JOHN MUSGROVE.
COMMON COUNCILMEN.—Mr. T. Corney (deputy), Mr.
C. Warton, Mr. T. W. Foster, Mr. S. Baker, Mr. H.
Brown, Mr. J. Humphreys, r. W. Cox, and Mr. T.
Abraham.

CASTLE BAYNARD WARD.—Returns 8.
Alderman—SAMUEL WILSON, Esq.
COIESION COUNCILMEN.—Mr. R. Hicks (deputy), Mr,
J. Hoppe, Mr. J. Bailey, Mr. F. Farrer, Mr. H. Mug-
geridge • Mr. J. A. Adlard, Mr. W. Barber, and Mr. C.
Hawkins.

CHEAP WARD.—Returns 8.
Alderman—W. THOMPSON, Esq., M.P.
COMMON COUNCILMEN.-Mr. E. Fenning (deputy),
Mr. E. Watson, Mr. E. Hickson, Mr. G. Pead, Mr.
R. G. Read, Mr. W. Barnes, Mr. J. Thorp, and Mr. L.
Houghton.

COLEMAN-STREET WARD.—Returns 8.
Alderman—WlLLlAM HUNTER, Esq.
COMMON COUNCILMEN.--Mr. W. S. Hale (deputy),
Mr. T. H. Hall, Mr. W. Webster, Mr. J. Perkins, Mr.
Davies, Mr. Lidington, Mr. Valiance and Mr. Hogg.
CORNHILL WARD.—Returns 6.
Alderman—JOHN CARTER, Esq.
COMMON COUNCILMEN.-Mr. E. Harrison (deputy),
Mr. J. Waterlow, Mr. R. C. Randall, Mr. R. John-
ston, Mr. H. Hoppe, and Mr. D. Nicoll.
CRIPPLEGATE WlTHOUT.—Returns 8.
Alderman—THOMAS CHALLIS, Esq., M.P., and Lord
Mayor.
COMMON COUNCILMEN.-Mr. G. Meadway (deputy),
Mr. J. Johnston, Mr. S. Reed, Mr. W. King, Mr. J.
Sewell, Mr. J. Eyke, Mr. G. Cuthbert, and Mr. R. L.
Jones.

THE CONTINENT.

SPAIN.

The Madrid Gazette, of the 15th, publishes the
royal decrees accepting the resignation of M. Bravo
Murillo and his colleagues, and appointing the
new ministry as follows :—President of the Coun-
cil of Ministers, and Minister for Foreign Affairs,
General Roncali, Count d'Alcoy ; Minister of War,
General Lara, senator ; Justice, M. Frederick
Vatry, ex-deputy ; Finances, M. Gabriel de Aristi-
zabel ; Marine, M. Rafael de Aristegui, Count de
Mirasol, Lieutenant-General and Senator, who is
also charged ad interim with the Ministry of Public
Works ; Interior, M. Alexander Llorente, ex-
deputy. The new Ministers waited on the Queen
and took the oaths of office on the evening of the
14th. The B eraldo says :—" Not one of the new
Ministers belongs
_to the Opposition which con-
tended recently with the greatest energy against
the late Ministry, but some of them did oppose the
Government, and completely disapproved of the
projects of reform of the constitution." The same
journal says :—" Just as we were going to press,
we received notice from M. Ventura Diaz, that the
Epoca, Diario Espanol, and Heraldo have been
denounced ; the two first for leading articles, and
the third for publishing an address to the electors."

DOWGATE WARD.—Returns 6.
Alderman—Sir R. W. CARDEN, Knight.

COMMON COUNCILMEN.-Mr. H. Kebbell (deputy),
Mr. T. White, Mr. G. Harker, Mr. H. Mortimer, and
Mr. Thomas Gandell, Mr. G. Fox.
FARRINGDON WlTHlN.—Returns 14.
Alderman.—THOMAS KELLY, Esq.
COMMON COUNCILMEN.-Mr. E. Eagleton (deputy),
Mr. T. F. Holt (deputy), Mr. V. Rutter, Mr. G. Virtue,
Mr. D. J. M‘Laughlan, Mr. H. Blake, Mr. B. S.
Phillips, Mr. J. Morris, Mr. C. Young, Mr. T. M 'Gregor,
Mr. C. Phillips, Mr. C. Nicholson, Mr. J. Heaps, and
Mr. S. Wheeler.

LIME-STREET WARD.—Returns 4.
Alderman—CHAßLES FAREBROTHER, Esq.
COMMON COIINCILMEN.—Mr. D. Cork (deputy), Mr. T.
Symonds, Mr. T. B. Simpson, and Mr. W. Simpson.

QUEENHITHE WARD.—Returns 6.
Alderman—J. KINNERSLEY HOOPER, Esq.

COMMON COUNCILMEN.-Mr. W. Tyler (deputy), Mr.
W. Rathbone, Mr. A. M9Dougal, Mr. W. A. Rose,
Mr. T. Burrowes, and Mr. G. Raymond.
TOWER WARD.—Returns 8.
Alderman—THOMAS QUESTED FINNIs, Esq.
COMMON COUNCILMEN.-Mr. J. Briggs (deputy), Mr.
L. Redhead, Mr. G. Aitchison, Mr. F. Turnbull, Mr.
T. Barkley, Mr. H. W. Ward, Mr. H. N. Nissen, and
Mr. T. S. Smith.

VINTRY WARD.—Returns 6.
Alderman—Sir WILLIAM MAGNAY, Bart.
COMMON COUNCILMEN.—Mr. W. Archer (deputy),
Mr. W. D. White, Mr. T. Sprague, Mr. G. Mason, Mr.
J. Colman, and Mr. J. Gammon.

WALBROOK WARD.—Returns 6.
Alderman—DAVlD WILLIAM WIRE, Esq.

COMMON COUNCILMEN.—Mr. Watkins (deputy), Mr.
F. Hale, Mr. Dawson, Mr. T. Rowley, Mr. H. E.
Murrell, and Mr. E. Conder.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS-(THIS DAY.)

ROBBERY AT THE NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.

John Hoskin, aged 17, pleaded guilty to an indict
ment charging him with stealing a watch, of the value
of 3/. 10s., the property of Wm. James Chaplin and
another, his masters.
Mr. Bodkin, who appeared for the prosecution, stated
that in this case the prisoner was in the employ of the
extensive carriers, the Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, at
the Camden-town Station, and by that means had access
to the audit office at that station, in which the parcels
to be forwarded to the various country towns were kept.
Several parcels not having arrived at their proper desti-
nation, the railway company employed an officer to
watch, and some circumstances arose which led him to
suspect the prisoner. The officer went to the prisoner's
house, and there found the covers of 16 or 17 parcels,
the contents of which were gone, and some duplicates,
which led him to visit a pawnbrokers in Tottenham-
court-road, where a watch and some cloth were found.
The prisoner had been receiving 12s. per week, but the
week before he was taken into custody he had had his
wages risen to 15s.
Mr. Parry, who appeared for the prisoner, addressed
the Court in palliation, and trusted that it would take a
lenient view of the case, the prisoner being respectably
connected on his mother's side, and he had no doubt
been led into his present course by the bad conduct of
his father, who had run away from his wife.
The Assistant-Judge said that if the prisoner had been
ten years older he should certainly have transported him.
He was afraid that if heavier sentences were not passed
upon railway servants crime would not be checked, but
it was his intention, if he found that that was not the
case, to increase the sentences until that was so. The
sentence of the Court in this case was that the prisoner
be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 12 calendar
months in the House of Correction upon each of the four
indictment, each to commence and terminate at the same
period.
Charles Wilson, aged 21, and Catherine Pickford, aged
17, pleaded guilty to an indictment, charging them with
stealing a quart of wine, some brandy, some cigars, and
other articles, of the value of 10s., the property of Mr.
Rowland Monk, their master.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced the prisoners to be im-
prisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Cor-
rection for six calendar months.
Richard Bolton, aged 24, was found guilty of unlaw-
fully attempting to steal a shawl, of the value of 75., the
property of Joseph Goodwin, and was sentenced by the
learned Assistant-Judge to six calendar months' hard
labour in the House of Correction.
(Before Mr. Wilham.)
ROBBING FURNISHED LODGINGS.
John Taylor Wingate, aged 25, and Sarah Ann Win-
gate, aged 19, were indicted with stealing four sheets,
and other articles, of the value of 31., the property of
William Owen.
It appeared that the prisoners had lodged but a very
short time with the prosecutor, before they commenced
their system of robbery. The pawnbrokers this morn-
ing stated that they were unable to produce all the pro-
perty, as it would require a horse and cart to bring it
to the court.
The jury found them guilty, and the learned Judge
sentenced them to be imprisoned and kept to hard la-
bour, the female to three, and the male to six, calendar
months. ,

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER.
—On Saturday information was circulated, offering a re-
ward of 1001. for the discovery of four men who, on the
night of the 11th instant, made a murderous attack in '
Bulberry Wood, at Lytchett, Dorsetshire, upon George
Tobias, gamekeeper to W. Curling, Esq., of South
Lytchett House.
THE CONVICT KIRWAN.—An application was made to
Mr. Justice Crampton, on Saturday, on behalf of Mr. Sir-
wan, to permit the points reserved by Mr. Butt on the trial
to be argued before the Court of Criminal Appeal. The .
application was refused.
THE POPE AND THE IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY.
—A correspondent of the Dublin Evening Post has given
the following remarkable statement, on the authority of
letters from Rome :—" Notwithstanding all assertions
to the contrary, it is now certain that letters have been
received, expressing, in language not be misunderstood,
the great displeasure of the Pope at the conduct of too
many of our priests during the late elections, and at
opinions so very like those which gave birth to the
revolution at Rome as well as in other parts of
Europe during the last few most eventful years. These
letters are now before me ; and I affirm, on the faith
of a Christian and the honour of a gentleman, that they
express, in terms far stronger than any used here, the
severest blime of the Holy See at proceedings which, if
continued, would ruin religion in this country. It is
perfectly true that Rome refused to express this blame
in an official manner ; feeling too well what was due to
her own dignity to accede to such a request from a quar-
ter which the Eglinton clause in a famous bill proved to
be so foolishly hostile ; but this proper refusal leaves in-
tact the grand truth, the indisputable fact of Rome's
displeasure most positively and directly transmitted, not
in a gossipping letter, but in communications sent to
Dublin by a most respectable Catholic, immediately
after having had two successive interviews with Cardinal
Antonelli, without any desire that the opinion of Rome
should be kept secret. Such is the real truth ; and it is
one with which it behoves priests and laity to become
I well "CilligAted."

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1852.

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