The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-15 00:00:00

THURSDAY E VENENG/ JANUARY 15, 1852,

11...... aid. Nominal Prices. Busi to-day.
item
Ag,na Fria •• .......... -
w U.
TS 14 P 2U %
Anglo Californian .. • ... - 4—14 P
Australian .... ••..•• .. 15 4 1.6
Ave Maria ... •• .• .... 5 par - % p 114 1
Karossa Range ........ 113 0 4% -5%
Biftenarvon Iron & Coal all .. -••
British Iron ...... •••• • • 131. ss. • • -.•
Brazilian Imp, (is. Si. p.) 2.1% 13% - 2
Do. Cocacs and Culaba all 114 - 1I;
Do. St. John del Rey- 15 213. - 22% x.d
Care Cower ...... ... 40 34 -35
Coplapo .. • ...... • •• 14 4 - 5
Eng. & A ustralian Copper :236 %- 4 p 25; a
General.... ......... all 103.6 -11
Mexican& S. American 9 336 - 4
Nouveau .51,inee • 1 'l2 - % p 114 •
Santiago do Cuba ...... 10% 4% - 51,4
Tin Croft •••••••••• •• • • 7 8 -9
United !vivid cart- ...... all 214 -24
West Mariposa ........ I par -34 dis. _1
30INT STOCK. DANKO.
Aartralasia all 35 - 39%
British North America 50 46% - 49
Colonial 25 11% .- 12 4
Commercial of London 20 25 -. 28%
London Joint Stock l6 18% - 1/3i
London and Wes t rainstfir 20 28% - 29%
National Provincial Eng. 35 • • -• •
National of Ireland , 22% 18% - 174 .
Oriental Bank Corporat all 30 - :313:i x.d x.d
Provincial of I: &Intl .• • • 25 43% -45
Uniption. Nofe'Arus-t;all—a- allall 15%35 - -
,M!
Do. New .. ...... 2% 3 -3%
Union of London •••• .• 10 '4% - 153{
Union of Madrid •• • all • - ••
MISCELLANEOUS.
32% 48 - 49%
Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 27% - 28
Eanin. & Oriental Steam. all 71 -72 x.d - x.d
Ditto ditto 10 17% -18 17% x.d
Royal Mail Steam ..•• 6O 76 - 783
Settling days for the month of January-Tick, t days for llegistered
Shares, l•ttli and 29th; Account days, 13th end 30th.

Canada ••.•••.• • • • • • •
Gen. Steam Navigation .
renin. & Oriental Steam.]
Ditty ditto
Royal Mail Steam ......
Settling days for the mom
Shares, t .Ith and

rWe cannot be answeral
will not be influenced by i

1; of Jan
19th ;
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hatereste(

to errors of the Official Lists, an
1 correspondents.]

NONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 8,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were
taken for export and on speculation. The market closed
with spirit. The sales comprised 6,500 American, at
4icl. to 6P., 500 Peril= and Maranham at 421 to
60., 150 Bahia at 54d. to 57-(1., 200 Egyptian at 6d.
to 6V., and 700 Surat at 3J. to 34d. per lb.—Railway
Shares were flit.

The six weeks' average price of Wheat is 37a. 4d., and
the last week's sales were 94,734 qrs.
The accounts which yesterday came to hand from
California aro particularly favourable for the gold com-
panies which intend to try the experiment of working
quartz by machinery, and it happens curiously that the
richness of the Mariposa district, where many of them
intend to carry on their operations, has only just been
ascertained to the extent anticipated, or in full justifica-
tion of the glaring statements made. The dis-
covery of new and rich veins is reported, and
the profits are likely to be enormous. Seven persons
in one party are stated to have obtained 217,000
dollars in eight days. The formation in which the
gold exists is a soft greasy talcose slate, and, generally,
the precious metal is thickly interspersed in extremely
fine particles, and is separated through the agency of
quicksilver. Some of the specimens are of a yellowish
colour, and others have a greenish hue. Wherever the
same description of earth has been struck, it has
proved to be of astonishing richness. Some speoimena
from the Mariposa region, in which the gold was almost
invisible, yielded nearly three dollars to the pound
weight. One party writes concerning the operations of
certain miners that—

"Out of a pound or two of quartz, they obtained 17
dollars. Shares in the company which, two months ago,
wore selling fur 100 dollars, are now (including the
ledge) valued at 300 dollars. Men are arriving from
the rivers, and Big Oak Flat, Big Creek, the Gerotas,
the Humbugs, and Cobbs' Creek are becoming thickly
populated. A miner at the last place took out a seven
pound chunek the other day, seven-eighths of it gold.
Those who work are making from two dollars to ten
dollars per day. About four dollars I suppose to be an
average day's work here. The quartz miners are doing
but little. We have a meeting to-morrow night, to get
machinery up here. If we could learn,how to flux quartz,
I think it would be better to melt it as they do iron ore;
for you may crush it as fine as flour, and get the gold
out with quicksilver, and then obtain gold by melting it.
I speak on Moffat's authority, for he, I am informed,
smelted some of the quartz that had been ground and
quicksilvered, from Street's ledge, Sonora, and obtained
gold. _ _

Sometime ago I estimated thatforty hands would get
out 8,000 lbs. of rock and crush it in a day. Quartz,'
in the Alta, thought that that amount was too little.
g
Amy x,' who is working a vein here, says that they
cannot more than et it out.
He says 200 lbs, is enough
for one man to get out in a day, and he has had as high
as twenty hands engaged at it. Amyx is down 80 feet
in bis ledge. They have crushed 275 lbs., and obtained
14 oz. They probably have 1,000 lbs. more as rich.
Mr. liorenhousen, of this place, a practical miner of ex-
perience, thinks that it will not pay at present to work
quartz yielding 5 cents to the pound."
The Belgian accounts notice the return of Mr. Master-
man to London, and ask whether the negotiations with
him for the loan have proved unsuccessful.

At Amsterdam, on the 13th inst. there was a decline
in the Funds, owing to the:reaction at Paris, and the fall
in the rate of exchange at Vienna.
The English Stock Market has quito recovered the
lite depression, and there is an appearance of buoyancy,
stimulated probably by the state of the account which
has to be arranged to-morrow, and which is believed to
be Bearish. Certain it is that vigorous efforts have
been made within the last two or three days to get down
prices, and stock has been borrowed for tho same pur-
pose. Consols have touched 961 and are now 961
for Tranefer, and 961 a for the new Account. Ex-
chequer-bills are 575. to 595. premium, and India Bonds
68s. to 71s. premium. Bark Stock has risen to 216
end 217, and India Stock to 259 and 260. South Sca
New Annuities are 961.
_ .

The Foreign Securities have been in more favour, and
there is an increase of business in some of them.
Mexican Bonds have been quoted at 29a- to •a; Spanish
Five per Cents. have realized 234 to 1, the Passive .5+
to 4, and the Three per Cents. 414 to 42, and the New
Deferred 184 to Portuguese Four per Cents. have
been marked 34 to 4. Russian Bonds are worth 1004
to 3, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 58i to 59k.
Railway Shares have been at improved rates with
moderate transactions.

The last week's Railway Receipts, ascertained up to
this day, aro in round figures as under:—
..,„.

1852.
Great Western
North-Western
South-Western 8,692
Brighton
Midland
South• Eastern
North Stafford 4,509
Caledonian
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire
York and North Midland
Newcastle and Berwick
Aberdeen ... 1,560
Gold Mine Shares are in demand, and dearer.

PRICES OF BRITIMi FUNDS O'CLOCK
Bank stock ............
s Ont. Reduced Anne.* ..
97%%
3 per Cent. Console Annuities 96% 734
Itg e 31,4 per Cent. Anna_
Long Anna. to expire Jan.lB6o
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5,,1860.
India Stock 259 260
Inlia Bonds, .......... .
Ditto under 1,0004- ...... 71 68 p
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities ........ 96
Consuls for Account
Exchequer Bills. l'o
57 59 p
1,0001.
5001.
57 p
Smell, ..

CLOSING
PRICES
217
97%
9634
98%

6 13-16
260
68 p
68 p

96
96%

.59 p
56 p
57 p
CLOSTN G
PRICES.

ONE
Pl
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FUIID
Cent...
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Ditto, 5 per cent.
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iilexican, .iy per Ut., ex Jan. Coupe. 9 /k;
Ditto, Account
Ditto, Small
pi
tSardiniantPeruviano4 Bppeeonrnd sed
se,
,n 5 t. per Cant .. . —
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
31% 34 34
Russian Bonds
o?Dmaitl: 53P qprere_ecnent
tl
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Ditto, 44 per Cent
5 per Cent ...
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Ditto, Passiv®
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Ditto,_ 5141/2 5%
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LLOYD'S tiliki-lp,C---isiG.--(Tillts DAY.)
LONDON, JAN. 15.—Wind this day at noon S.; mo-
derate breeze and dull rainy weather.
Catherine, Cronstadt
SUNDERLAND, JAN. 14.—The Hutton has been got off
shore.
t Hull, which jwAslsl.brlo4u.—gtilt hSet.re 28th September ;last
a derelict, has been refitted and has proceeded.
, JAN. 14.—Wind call:m-81d. Humboldt
CowEs,
JAN. 13,—‘qi_ild E.—Arrd. Everten,
steamer, New York.
William Large,
Mauritius; Naomi, ,
QUEENSTOWN, .
Porto Rico, for Liverpool. Off port,
w. R W • 9 P.M , light airs,_
DEAL, JAN. I.4.—Wind —T.—.
South Woks; Fisk
Arrd. Deuceilion, 53 dney, Now
Callao.
South 'n'
Africa; Tigris, Demerara. Sld. Brothers,
__ Seas;
Glen Huntley,
Achilles, Nydney, New South Wales;
o.• Merope
Adelaide South Australia; Success, ,_
Swan Ri Geelan,,,,
ver; Centurion, Calcutta; Science, Cape of
Good Hope; Francis Yates, Rio Janeiro; Cato, St. Vin-
cent; Zephyr, Dominica; Lady N. Barham, Jamaica;
Glammis Castle, 13rHzihi; St. John's, New Orleans;
Clio, Demerara; Cybele, ditto; White Squall., New
York; Meta, United States.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 14.—Wind S.S.E. to E.S.E.—Arrd.
Margaret Jane, Mazsgan. Sld. Adelma, Brazil;
Chrysolite, Hong-Kong; Mary Hannah, Africa; Au-
gusto, Rio Janeiro; Woodland Castle, Barbadoes; Free-
man, Jamaica; Lucy Ann, New Orleans; Phelena, Bal-
timore; Wyoming, Philadelphia; Conqueror, New;York.
GRAVESEND, JAN. 14 —The John Laird, bound to the
Falklands, has put back after being on the Mouse Sand.
PORT:MOUTH, JAN. 14,—Wind S.S.W.—SId. Vraw
Genie, Dorian River; Hendrick, Hudson New York.
rAidiAoUnii JAN, 14.—Wind W. 5 Vi..—Ancl, Rain-

bow. Honduras. Off post, Helena, Christina, Batavia,
for Rotterdam. _

ILFRACOMBE, JAN. 1 4.—The Eliza brig, of this port,
sprung a leak and sunk S.W. of Lundy la!and; crew
saved.

GUERNSEY, JAN. 14.—The Sorciero, Dartmouth to
this salami, is stranded on the North Beach, and is very
much injured.
GRIMSBY, JAN. 14.—The Thomas and Joseph, for
Savannah, is leaky ; tho Hoop (Dutch galliot),
Shields to Constantinople, Las been assisted in very
leaky.

LEITH, JAN, 14.—The Izindon brig, of Stockton
Hartlepool to Rochester, is on Sta'well Bank and fas
breaking up; crew saved.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

NEIXTGATE AND LEADENBALL.
A fair average business has been transacted in to-day's
market :is follows:—Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Mutton,
2,J Bcl to 3s 10d; Veal, 35 to 3s 10d; Pork, 2s 6d to 35
[it r 81bs by the carcase.

ma IWA XETS,

S ULM E 0 17171:)7 ass to Si 13i 03;
Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ 6s; and Straw, 1/ Is to 1/ 6s per
load. Trade dull, at barely late rates.
C UNBERLAND —.Meadow Hay, 2/ 16s Od to 4/0s Od;
Clover ditto, 31 5s to 4/ 6s; and Straw, 1/ is to 11 7s per
load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand.
WIIITECJIAPEL.—Meadow flay, 21 146, to Si 18,E Od;
Clovf,T ditto, 3/ 58 to 4/ 8s; and Straw, 11 Os to 1/ 73 per
load. Supply gnod, and trade dull.

THE WEATHER 1N THE NORTH.
(From the Edinburgh Courant of Tuesday.)
In consequence of the very heavy fall of snow in
the north of Scotland the whole of the mails beyond
Perth have been put out of course. On the Highland
road the mail-coach could not get beyond Blair Atholl,
but after every possible exertion to get through the
guard was compelled to return with the bags. on Fri-
day evening to Perth ; and up to the present time,
although a large number of persons have been em-
ployed in clearing the road, the passage has not been
made practicable even for a horse, as the continued
snowstorm and the high wind fill up the drifts as soon
as cleared. On Sunday evening the railway to
Aberdeen was open, but kept so with great difficulty,
and beyond Aberdeen there was no
passage in any
direction.
We understand that yesterday there were no less
than 160 bags overdue at the Post-office, and although
some of these have since come in, no snails have ar-
rived from Inverness for three days, or any places
beyond that town.
The guards state they do not re-
member so severely stormy weather since 1826.
The Post-office has dispatched extra officers to
Aberdeen and Perth, and every possible exertion is
used to obviate the serious inconvenience the public
must experience from this great and unusual detention
of the correspondence to and from so large a portion
of Scotland.
The mails in the Western Highlands have also been
obstructed beyond Inverary, and the steam-boats on
the Clyde rendered very irregular by the continued
gales and stormy weather.
ocnoaTrsheurrdsadyryfolrastth.essennt:
PERTH, JAN. 1 1..-1,
Are have not experienced a
o'clock A.M , and continued heavily and without inter-
mission for three hours. Itthen changed
melting
commenced years
snow,
least
falls toho ann
aboutpwuet hadttenn e
this, combined with the changed to rain, and
streets and roads in very bad condition. Next night
owasont i n boisterousuedt
o blo
wi n
during
neex
thetr ui
extreme A
day, and, although but little additional snow fell in the
low country, travelling was
exceedingly
disagreeable.
The wind was so violent in the morning, that people
htancdold panrotrt ofh wnienxd
t
crossing the bridge over the Tay had numerous small
articles blown away, and
-- a little girl was nearly
lifted over the parapet by a
northward the night had been
e satatyioanrd off the perpendicular,
violent gust. Away
Very violent. A goods
Of the Midland Railway
swhaesd
blownatthe
ab Forfarou
but recovered its position. But it is upon the Inver-
ness road that the storm has raged most violently.
There has been no mail from Inverness since
Thursday morning, and three different mails:dis-
patched from Perth have been obliged to return.
They found it absolutely impossible to get above five
or six miles beyond Blair Atholl, notwithstanding all
very deep upon the
he absolutely block-
the aid of man and horses that could be procured.
hills, The s
annodw I insv re er pnrees ss eanpt
pe de a asr s lyingto
aded, for there is at present no access to it either from
Perth or Aberdeen. The mails from Aberdeen to
Perth, by the Scottish Midland Railway have been
pretty regular, however, and have not been more than
an hour, or rather more, behind time. We have
heard of no damage or obstruction in the neighbour-
hood of Perth, with the exception of the partial giving
stationw ay
of b
of
a brideg Centrale
over the
Railway, River
May,ia at the Forteviot
consequence of
which only one of the lines of rail was available
for some time; but the trains were very little de-
tained in consequence. We had again heavy snow
last night from the north-east, but it has been melting
all day. There is, however, every appearance of
more at hand.
ABEEDEEN.—The weather here somewhat suddenly
changed on Thursday to a snow-storm, Which, es
though
it wore off towards the latter part of the evening, was
renewed next morning with redoubled severity,
accompanied by a fierce north wind. The snow
storm completely prevented all communication with
the south, and no train, except one from the
neighleouring villages, was able to reach Aberdeen.
The storm on the west coast (says the Glasgow
Herald) is considered to have equalled in severity
anything of the kind which has been experienced for
a period of years. Strange to say, one of its results
is, that a large ship is ashore on Ailsa Craig. This
ship is the Lord Warriston, of 1,144 tons burden,
which sailed from Liverpool for Mobile on the Ist
current. In the greater part of its circumference the
Craig rises perpendicularly from the deep to the
height of 1,100 feet; but on the east side there is a
small rapidly shelving beach, and here, fortunately
for the ship and all concerned, the Lord Warriston
lies. Lochryan seems to have suffered more than any,
other part of the west coast. In the immediate neigh-
bourhood of Oban the roads were flooded to the depth
of four feet. On the village itself, three large rivers
from the surrounding heights descended in cataracts,
flooding most of the shops and houses, and it was
only after a channel had been cut in the streets that
the waters flowed off. From the country the ac-
counts are, if possible, still more alarming; the
damage done to bridges is considerable. The fine
new bridge of Salmore was swept away, the bridge
of Killechrenan, the bridge of Kilmore, and the sus-
pension bridge at Feochan, were severely damaged by
the raging waters. Indeed, so far as we could learn,
nothing could withstand the fury of the swollen rivers.
The estimated cost of repairing roads and re-erecting
bridges in the district of Lorn, amounts to upwards
of 2,000/.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Commander Belgrave, in the Hydra steam-slim),
to be commissioned at Sheerness, as we stated yester-
day, will convey the new governor,
Major-General
the Hon. G. Cathcart, to the Cape of Good Hope.
Commander Savage, whose death we reported
yesterday, entered the navy in November, 1796, on
board the Agincourt, 64, Captain John Williamson,
and was in the battle off Camperdown, Oct. 11, 1797.
On his removal with Captain Lawford to the Romney,
50, he assisted, in the course of 1798, at the capture
of a convoy of Swedish vessels, laden with naval and
military stores for the use of France, and accompanied,
in the autumn of 1799, the expedition to Holland.
Whilst on shore in the neighbourhood of Mount
Felix for the purpose of procuring
A supply of water,
his party, 11 in number, was suddenly attacked by a
party of native, lying ;in ambuah, who murdered all
but himself and a midshipman, the late retired Conn.
wander John :Manton. Being severely wounded in
the head, his own life was only saved through the
exertions of his companion,
who forcibly dragged
him into a boat, and succeeded in keeping the
enemy at bay until they were both out of danger.
La Sne,
On his return to England in M , 1803, he joined
ay
36,d
e Captain David Milne ; and on that ship
g ei
wrack, J ul_
y 21 following, off Schelling
Island, in the North Sea, he was received on board
the Excellent, 74; was nominated May 5,
bein
1806,
acting lieutenant of the Intrepid, 64, and was con-
firmed Sept. 17, in the same year; and was subse-
quentlyappointed, February, 1807, to the Formidable,
the Audacious, 74 ; Aug. 21,
1811, to the Barbadoes, 24, commander for a short
time by himself,
9aApril 6, 1810, to
as acting captain ; July 6, 1812, to
the Polyphemus, 64 ; and Feb. 26, 1813, after three
months of half-pay, to the Centaur, 74. He invalided
in may, 1814, and was not afterwards afloat. He
July 1, 1815 ; and was advanced to the rank of com-
mander, Dec. 31, 1830.
MALTA, JAN. 9.---Th_
e report of the ships going to
per annum for wounds,
h9elll:dsiniral, however, will not,
sea
ataginaiends agpreonusnidon. ofT
it is said, go out with the fleet, but will hoist his flag
pro tern. in the Trafalgar.
The Indefatigable is under orders to proceed to
Corfu, and there relieve the Phaeton. She will sail
about the 15th instant.

Tetuail
The Scourge may be daily
0 intonT SMtohuenir
e,
mla'
iUnEiSnDgAir. stock
epected from Leghorn.
0-day the examina-
fi preserved meats in
stit°ol:rie at the Royal Clarence
Establish-
canisters opened
liilnbg. each. 306
ment was proceeded !with.
were of a size varying from 61b. to
were examined, 42 of which p a :
fwoeuirgoh,ca
Inodc
kl :
and 264 were condemned. passed as consumable,
of
each,
preserved
underhave
a v e
The Southampton, 50, Captain Cory,
for distribution,
ca
those :already
for Chatham,iiel e n's
to ibseapftaeirdn °,°.t:l:l
ta t
of
falwf-hpiacsht
meat, of the average of from Mb. to
to
WEDNESDAY
contents of these
been opened at the Clarence
number 144 have been allowed tolpitil:se 4 Ib.
•Yilia:dite°,°r-LifB .
off to the t
and 324 have been condemned.
were similar in their character
Ih‘aetrhawma,yto
described.
The
ar-
rived this morning from Woolwich, ,
steam-sloop, Commander
the Mediterranean, and came into harbour to reple-
The Retribution steam-vessel, Captain
adjusthacompleteds h
er c om coalsi Warden,
of bending
this evening, and is ready for sea with the ma
-s s
exception
New York.
The Iltlndrik Hudson. American line of packet-
ship,WooLwicti, JAN. 14 --Fier Majesty's ship Tyne,
sailed to-day front the Motherbank for
Master-Commanding P. Wellington, arrived this day
from Barbadoes, whither she conveyed from Ports-
mouth, on the 3.1 of November last, 10 officers, 183
soldiers, 26 women, and 29 children of the Royal
Artillery and detachments ; and brought home 2
officers, 76 soldiers, 12 women, and 23 children, in
charge of Lieutenant Fraser, Royal Artillery; also a
small mail bag, which was landed in the Downs yes-
terday. The Tyne experienced very bad weather on
the homeward passage, and came in 27 days, having
I thus completed 301 days at seeru of the last 365
sails.
The hauled
sent u p
days ro year, and traversed by log 36,205 miles.
up yesterday to try her
The Highfl ver steam-sloop, fitted with a screw
got up on board the
wpsroeonip;:al lneTdr ,haonds Field,et
en steam
:slide
wshosefsr 4so:
eOga-ambi
no r s e power by M a u d s 1 a Y 1
engines, and they started and worked remarkably
L llighilyer today for further exercise of the engines,

LITERATURE.
A LITERARY MELANGE in PROSE and
VERSE. By S. Whiting. 011ivier.
There is considerable amusement to be met with
in this collection. Tao tales are very interesting,
and the plays exhibit great talent, the characters are
well drawn, and the incidents have the appearance of
truth while novel and entertaining. The short poems
are very pleasing; they are chiefly on mythological
subjects, and display considerable classical know-
ledge. The following is an essay on eloquence and
oratory, which contains much valuable information on
subjects of the highest importance, which are unfortu-
nately too little consideredin the present day :—"A man
may be eloquent but not an orator, a logician but not an
orator, a rhetorician but not an orator ; but an orator
must possess the combination of all. Those who have
been great as orators have given their mind and time
to the pursuit, and deeply erroneous is the common
belief that oratory is more a gift than a science,
arising more from intuition than study. Ek-q:zence,
indeed, is the only quality of oratory which can be
possessed without the remaining constituent parts,
for a man may be eloquent and know nothing of
logic or rhetoric, because eloquence arises from au
innate quality of the mind, whereas logic and rhetoric
are acquired solely by study and attention to the rules
of art. But an orator must possess eloquence as a
gift, and attain the rest by application. To illustrate
this necessity take, for instance, the greatest orators
the world has ever known, Danosthenes, Cicero,
aed Burke. The unceasing pains Demosthenes took
to overcome hia natural impediments, and to improve
his deficiencies, are proverbial ; while Cicero, having
early the advantage of a patron in the person of
Scaerola, the eloquent jurist, laboured with indefa-
tigable zoal. Burke neglected or evaded all studies
save rhetoric, logic, and metaphysics, and confined
himself to that cycle of the sciences most immediately
calculated to make him what he so desired to become
—an orator. Thus it is evident that study and ab-
straction are essential to the acquirement of oratory,
and is it not surprising that oratory is so little
deemed a necessary part of education in our universi-
ties, where theological rhetoric should be the very
aim of the student, at the bar, where forensic abilities
are the summum bonunz, and for the statesman, who to
sway men's minds must make the name synonymous
with orator."

VISITING MY RELATIONS, AND 12'S
RESULTS. Pickering.
This is a series of social episodes in the life of a
recluse. The narrator is one of the species called
Old Bachelors. In the course of his travels he meets
with a great variety of characters, and becomes ac-
quainted with many strange schemes and impracticable
theories. These are ably described, their absurdity
made evident, their follies satirised, and their evil
tendencies clearly foreshadowed. Mrs. Melmoth,
wilfully blinding herself to all the growing faults
around her, leaving the affairs of her family to im-
pending ruin; Mrs. Square, surrounded with every
comfort in life, rendering herhusband indignant, and
her friends reproachful, by persisting in giving way to
chimerical fears concerning her son which were
totally without foundation ; Mr. Grey, abusing
his powers of mind, and debasing the influence
he possessed by fabricating one of the most senseless
plans that was ever heard,—all these furnish
..vivid
and apt exemplifications of the one ruling passion of
many. Absorbed in vanity, they shut out the world
and its worldly knowledge to envelope themselves in a
cloud of self-delusion, which finally deters them from
obtaining even a partial glimpse of truth and nature,
without which nothing great or lasting was ever con-
summated. The subjoined is a quotation from the
conclusion :

"As it did not lie much out of my way, and not at
all out of my inclination, I resolved to take ' one long-
ing Jingering look' at Cambridge, my Alma Mater, in
my journey homewards. It was many, many years
since I had looked upon her academic bowers, and as I
sauntered forth on the evening of my arrival I expe-
rienced some difficulty in recognising the streets and
lanes of the old place, so manifest and decided were the
alterations, and, as I suppose they should be called, the
improvements which it displayed, especially in the new
buildings at some of the colleges. They were in the
way, however, of my early and most delightful remi-
niscences, and I tried to forget them. I could look
at nothing but the objects. I could see nothing but
the haunts that were associated with the feelings of
enchanting youth. Yes, it was indeed an almost
overwhelming influence that for a few moments, so
strongly operated upon my imagination, that I could
scarcely believe that I was not still young, or think
otherwise than that it was but last night that these
things happened, and that perhaps in a few minutes my
dear old friend would be coming into the college
walks, and I should be hastening up to speak to him.
" But the delusion fades away, and the weakness of
humanity involuntarily sighs over the conviction that
youth is gone, and all is gone over which my truant
fancy has been staying. But whither gene ? I ask my.
self. Where are these well remembered ones ? In what
unknown region do they now exist ? Has life nothing
real, in it ? Is it all a phantasmagoria, an agitated
dream from which death awakens, and introduces us to
o-
,o only true and spiritual world ? Some latent asso-
ciation of ideas hes recalled to my mind the concluding
passage of Addison's Vision of Ittilz2:—' At length,'
says blirzr, ' show we now, I btsecch thee, the secrets
that lie un6er these dark clouds that. cross the ocean on
the other side of the rock of Waniant.'

" Tho genius making one no answer, I turned to ad-
dress hunts second time, but I found that he had lcf% me.
I then turned again to the vision I had so long been
conternpizting, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched
bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the
long hollow valley of Bagdad, with oxen, sheep, and
camels grazing upon the sides of it, and thus my vi,ion
also passes away
thought I, as I b:nt my way to my
inn. I too must return to my valley of Bagdad, and
the routine of small duties and serene eosoyments
which there await me. Well, these may suffice. It is
the small duties and pleasures of life which constitute
the sum of human satisfaction."

WHO'S wao 1N 1852.
This elegant and useful annual is for the present
year edited by Mr. C. 11. Oakes, and dedicated to the
Duchess of Sutherland. The greatest pains have
been taken to secure extent and accuracy of in-
formation, and the manner in which the book is " got
up" reflects the highest credit on Messrs. Bailey, the
publishers. The arrangement is admirable, and full
information respecting " everybody" who is " any-
body" will be found in " Who's Who."

FORSTER'S POCKET PEERAGE AND
BAROLVETAGE FOR 1852.
The second edition of this most convenient little
volume has just been published. The patronage
which the book obtained on its first issue last year
has enabled the author to announce it, in its second
annual publication, as "revised and corrected by the
nobility." In accuracy and completeness of infor-
mation it is unexceptionable, whilst its easy compass
of size and price must contribute to render it indis-
pensable to every drawing-room and library in the
empire. As a work of reference it is the best in lte
peculiar department which has yet appeared, espe-
cially when its portability and cheapness, as well as
its comprehensiveness, are taken into consideration.

THE BEST WARDS OF A LATCH-KEY.---110Me•
wards !—Puncli.
DESPERATE SUICIDE BY A RESPECTABLE TRADES..
siAx.—The inhabitants of Beak-street, Golden-square, were
thrown into a state of the greatest excitement and alarm on
Tuesday last, in consequence of a report, which afterwards
proved too true, that Mr. !Robert Judd, a highly respectable
tradesman, who, for the last ten or twelve years, has carried
on the business of a bootmaker, at No. 9 in the Same
street, exactly opposite Campbell's Scotch ale stores, had
committed suicide by leaping out of a room window. It ~,
hoengh aetsbest
Icli
i nat ites r ism family
etsaid
pears that the unfortunate man having married a seco-npd-
time, about two years ago, had a grown up family by hip,
first wife, tome of them females, and to whomm-onsaaie-d
the second marriage was very acceptable,mt
cmoiasautndaefrsttahniadicnigresufmreaqtanneenet.ly a r
Fromose
that could be collected, one of these grievous altercations
arose, originating in some previoufamily transactions,
upstairs to the top of the
w of a bed-room on the
The dreadful_
etidnodfoit into the street, a height
when the infatuated man rlhfueeshwu
hkaestthilryewopheiinaglset
feet.beZaffair was observed
thirdhouse ,floor, and
ob fynoenaer nearly forty-three
barmaids
opposite, who screamed out, and, f the counter in the ale stores
paralysed and unable to speak. or the moment, was utterly
bounded on the paving After he fell, his bodyr e-
cured, he was lifted up, and Stones,tand, assistance being pro-
at the corner of Leicester-str -en into Mr. Key's, surgeon,
he could for him, until the
street, Regent- street, who did what
stretcher, from Vine-str arrival of the police with a
mad ter,
to St. ect station, when he was carried im-
could be employed George's Hospital, but before any means
to relieve h•
state, soon
bleascertained that after admission. On examination it was
he had nearly broken his body in pieces, he
presented such a frightful spectacle.. Information has been
forwarded to Mr
Bedford,
the coroner, who has ordered an
inquest to be .
held. Deceased has wife infant child
left a and
to deplore his loss.

Ex.
TRAORDINARY DISCOVERY.—On Saturday last,
as some persons were employed near the works of the new
bridge at Rochester, they discovered the body of a man
floating in the river. Assistance was immediately obtained
and the body taken out. On examination it appeared to be
the body of a sailor, apparently about 50 years of age, and
had the appearance of having been in the water at least two
months ; and from the rapid work of decomposition it pre-
sented a revolting sight. The most extraordinary discovery
was, that it seemed to have been fastened down by a stake
into the mud, the stake being still found connected with the
corpse. Au inquest was held the same day at the Ship Inn,
but was adjourned till Wednesday for the purpose of identifi-
cation, and that inquiries may be Instituted by the police,
which may clear up the mystery attached to this discovery.
—Maidstone Journal.

" JOHN DOE AND RICHARD Eoz."—The Common
Law Commissioners recommend that these celebrated legal
characters in actions of ejectment should cease to exist. The
proceedings, they state, ought to be simple and speedy, but
they are neither the one nor the other. They are not
simple, because therefore several fictions; "for example, the
existence of Richard Roe, the lease to John Doe, the entry
of John Doe, the trespass by Richard Yoe, and in some cases
the original writ; none of which things really exists, and
none of which ought to be stated."
SOUND ADVlCE.—Master Tom—" Have weed,
gran'pa ?" Gran'pa—i" A what I sir?" Master T0m....." A
weed !—A cigar, you know." Gran' a--" Certainly not, sir.
I never smoked in niv life." Master Tom—" Ah I Om I
wouldn't udyiiie you to begin.".—Punch.

AMSTERDAM WATER WORKS CO. di-
PANY.
A meeting of th=s company was held yesterday, at
the London Tavern, for the purpose of consider ing
the policy and advisability of entering into an ar-
rangement for an amalgamation with the Haa Clem
Water Company.
Mr. LOVELL presided, and opened the proceedings
by calling on Mr. Phillips to give an explanation.
Mr. Pnruars stated that be represented the holden
of 2,000 shares, all of which were paid up. These
proprietors, deeming that it was impracticable for the
company to procure a supkr of water from theßhine,
advocated an amalgamation with the Haarlem. Com-
pany, which had been in a ?regressive state for some
time. The Rhine Company had started with 25,000
shares, out of which there were only 7,000 or 8,000
paid up; besides which there were 5,000 shares
which, it was stated, had been repudiated by Mr.
Geach. Taking these circumstances into considera-
tion, he felt induced, on behalf of the holders of the
2,000 shares, to advocate an amalgamation with the
Haarlem Company, for he believed if that were not
carried out, the shareholders would lose all the money
they had advanced.
A PROPRIETOR said he quite disagreed with the
observations (,f the last speaker. S) far from there
that t
being only 7,000 shares paid up on it, it was stated
here were 15,0001. in the hands of the bankers.
lie considered the Haarlem water was quite incapable
of supplying Amsterdam, and, moreover, it had been
proved to be unfit for ho;; purposes, ur oses so much so
that Gwernment hsd ordered the tanks to be
locked un.
Mr. Nona said that he oould see no chance of the
company ever becoming remunerative, excepting by
an amalgamation with the Haarlem.
Mr. DuiscAN said he was present that day on behalf
of the directors of the Rhine Company, In repect to
the charge of Mr. Geach withdrawing from his con-
tract, he could only state, that if such was the case,
there were many other parties who were ready and
willing to lay down the pipes, for which they would
take shares in return.—(Hear, hear.) Respecting
the number of shares paid upon, a certain number
were taken by the directors and concessionaries, all
of which, including those of Mr. Geach s, amounted
to 15,000, and 10,000 were left for Holland. He
wished to know what was their object of amalgamat-
ing with the Haarlem Company, when it could be
seen by an advertisement they had evidenced their in-
ability of carrying out the undertaking ? He con-
sidered that the directors of the Rhine Company had
been as energetic as possible in carrying out the ob-
jects of the company.
After some further conversation, Mr. Dumcma
moved a resolution to the following effect :—" That
the meeting feeling satisfied with the legal position
of the Amsterdam Water Works Company, ob-
jected to an amalgamation with the Haarlem Com-
pany:'

Mr. SMITH seconded the resolution, which being
carried, a vote of thanks was given to the chairman,
and the meeting separated.

THE MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS.
At the Thames police court yesterday, the magis-
trate was detained longer than usual, it being the day
appointed k tor finally examining Frank Murray, a
Tuscan, and Berta Argent, a Roman, charged with
the wilful murder of Peter Getland, a fellow-ship-
mate, on board the British ship Alberto, while lying
at dobile Bay, in the United States, on the 17th
April, 1850.
_ _

-Mi. Powell appeared, as before, from the Home-
office, for the prosecution.
On the last examination, a witness named Colvill
proved that, on the day in question, he was present
when the prisoner Murray struck Getland over the
forehead with the axe. Getland bled about two gal-
lons of blood, and died on shore seven days after.
Argent had had a row with Getland two days pre-
viously, and had drawn his knife on him.
Mr. Powell stated that since the last examination
Captain Bensonrof the Alberto, had sailed for Bom-
bay, and therefore there was no evidence to show the
death of Gotland.

Colvill added to his evidence. The wound extended
to the crown of the head, being four or five inches in
length. He heard Murray say tbat they would only
get three months for killing a man in America.
Murray made a blow at witness, and had he not
stooped would have shared the fate of the other poor
man.

Benjamin Wilson, another seaman, said that on the
15th Argent and Getland had various quarrels, and
Argent drew a knife, which witness took from him.
Murray snatched the knife out of witness's hand,
After the man was wounded he expressed a wish
that they had killed him at once, as he was in great
distress.

Murray, through an interpreter, asked to have a
awver, or to see hi 3 consul.

Mr. Yardley—l have done all I could, by request-
ing Mr. Powell to communicate with the Tuscan
consul. Mr. Powell—l lu&vo done so, Sir.
Mc. Yardley—lt is by no means improbable that if
you have no means of retaining a legal adviser at
your trial it will be done by the sheriffs of London;
at least, I believe, they generally do so in serious
cases. Mr. Powell-4 will go myself to their consul.
Mr. Yardley—There is no consul for Ancona,
except the Austrian consul. Mr. Powell—They shall
also have a copy of the depositions.
The prisoners were then committed to the Central
Criminal Court for trial, not for murder, but for
wounding with intt•nt to murder.

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.
Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of this well-
named society was held at the offices in Trafalgar-
scl M.P., in the chair. The
minutes of aB. B
variety of
feoimmittee meetings having
been read and confirmed, the Court proceeded to con-
sider the cases recommended by the committee for
council silver medals, and thefollowing were awarded
—lst, to gunner and driver John Gray, of the Royal
Artillery, who saved the life of private Vane, of the
55th Regiment; 2d, to William Wilson Anstey, who
saved his father, Mr. W. Jekyll Anstey, in the Lon-
eu_,nntng C. g Sa
the
the river Frome ; /jib, to Liten
to
don Docks; 3d, to Mr. T. 11. Julian and Wilson
Boyd, who bayed Thomas Stevens, who had fallen
overboard at Plymouth; 4th, to Mr. Whaley Wick-
ham, who saved a female infant that bad fallen into
CU 3.•
more Stanhope, of her ship Majesty's
Asia, who
saved a seaman named Cubbins, belonging
same ship ; 6th, to Mr. P. Donor, resident
of the Boyne Navigation, who saved engineer
private Ken-
nedy, of the 9th Regiment; 7th,
Richards, B.A. of Jr-sus Collc to Mr. W. 11.
1
saved John Ledbury, who bed f.
alien off the e, Cambridge, who
Portsmouth ; Bth, to W. C. A pier at
ngove, fourth officer of
the Bentinck, who had
saved
bad fallen into the Southamptonßebecca Hicks, who
docks ; 9tb, to
Charles Burgess, railway
of John Pemberton, engine-driver, guard, who saved the life
dent on the R
at the fatal acci-
-outh Coast
Railway;
10th, to Thomas
out to sea while r.
Vicary, who had been carried
the gallant Vincent, bathing at Brighton. The case of
of
the Amazon, excited much
attention and laudation, and regret was expressed
that, owing to the brief interval that had elapsed since
the occurrence, there had not been time to obtain
such authentic evidence as the society requires before
granting a medal.
Tamounted to 1,8901. BseBrdeceiptds ofhe the
yeardit u havere to
1,7961. 7e. 3d., leaving a balanceae oft 941 e .x is.en 5d., but
there is still a debt of 1001. due to the treasurer. The
bathers in the Serpentine during the year were
191,147. There had been 25 casualties, but only one
had proved fatal. The whole of the officers of the
society were re-elected, and the proceedings ter-
minated with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

NEW CAB INDlCATM—Yesterday Mr. William
Grayson, of Henley, Oxfordshire, watchmaker, submitted
to the Commissioners of Police, at Scotland-yard, one of his
new patent distance indicators for cabs and carriages. He
had cne detached in his hand for the purpose of better ex-
plaining its mechanism, and one of them was affixed to' a
small spring cart, showing the machine in motion. Mr.
Yardley, the chief clerk, came down and examined its ope-
ration, in lieu of Sir Richard Mayne, who was previously
engaged, and expressed the desirability of such an inven-
tion, if it could be practically found to answer, which time
alone would tell. The machine itself is about the size of a
small chronometer, having a dial numbered in the same way
as far as ten, each division or figure on the hour circle re-
presenting ten miles, with minute marks to note the num-
ber of odd miles, and the complete revolution of the index
marking one hundred, the greatest number of miles any cab
is likely to travel in one day. This dial,is set in the side of the
vehicle on a perpendicular line with the axle bar, upon which
is an eccentric boss made of wood, covered with leather, and
acting on an iron arm, bent and communicating with a
ratchet wheel and pinion, which gives motion to the indi-
cator, and sets it going.
The mercantile accounts from Vienna to the 11th
inst. state that the recent amelioration in the condition of
the foreign exchanges was rapidly giving
way, and that a
further unfavourable alteration had taken
place, the quota-
tion on London having risen to 12.3. Gold also Was again at
"81,4, and silver at 22 premium. Reports of a new loan were
ttiloien:le'rxeac_seuprt3f-
ll'otullvdoorle:.daserinitisncsrpeeasedeyd
dab!e. In the state of business there
in general circulation, and, although the 6overnment owing
declared them to be pr,insture, little doubt was entertained
large French purchases having been made at im-
sliun which bad been acme time ately,hiatn:si,,to.aenutit,ohindecpn:irani:teee siirexigencies.itaiiiAar)lat, ouor
afie
pend-
ing as to the currency, in which the Customs duties should
henceforth he paid, has been terminated by the decision that
it is to be mites, and not sptcle.

SOVEREIGNS OF EUROPE.—The following are the
ages of the principal reigning Sovereigns in Europe :—The
King of NVurtemlinag, 40; the King of the Belgians, 61 ; the
Pope, 59; the King of Prussia, 56; the Emperor of Russia,
55; the King of Sweden and Norway, 52 ; the King of Den-
mafk, 43; the President of the french Republic, 43; the
King of the Two Sieilies, 41 ; the King of Bavaria, 40; the
King of the Netherlands, 34; the Queen of England, 32;
the Queen of Portugal, 32; the King of Hanover, 32; the
King of Sardinia, 31 ; the Sultan, 28; the Emperor of
Austria, 21 ; the Queen of Spain, 21.
The pericdical comet of Encke was detected at the
Liverpool observatory on Sunday night, during a brief inter-
val between clouds. The comet appeared as a faint patch of
nebuloua light of one or two gaiautes diameter.

Alp,w '
-F4
t 46,4/D.
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,

Ir.A.TTERSALL'S.—T HIS EVENING.
Six o'cLocs.

CHESTER CUP.
40 to 1 agar Haresfoot—taken
40 to 1 apt Confessor
45 to 1 agst Goldfinder—taken

DERBY.
to 1 agst Hobbie Noble—taken
.5 to 1 agst Augur—taken
16 to 1 agst Claverlionse—taken
18 to 1 agst Kingston—taken
20 to 1 agst Orelio—tak,

THE BRAZILIAN MAIL.
(E'rom the Morning Post.)
The Tay steam-ship, Captain Chapman, with the
Brazilian mail, has just arrived. She brings mails,
and dates from the following places :—Buenos Ayres,
Dec, 3 ; Monte Video. Dec. 6 ; Rio Janeiro, Dec. 15;
Lisbon, Jan. 11. The Tay trings four hundred
di of goidd.w,t, tif een thousand pounds
pvtin
worth of diamonds, a tolerable freight list, and
thirty.five passengers. We learn by this arrival
that General Urquiza was to cross the Parana on the
15th December, to commence hostilities against
itosas. Roses had collected an army of 30,000 men.
1110 Brazilian army was encamped near Monte Video,
"Truk had not fired a shot. Treaties had been concluded
between the Brazilian Government, defining the
boundaries of the two countries, and binding to assist
etch other in case of attack. Exchange at Rio, 28
pv,mium. From Lisbon there is no further news of
importance. The rainy season had set in.

SPAIN.
The military outbreak in the barrack of San Fran-
cisco appears to have been easily suppressed. Of the
revolted troops some hays been shot, and others con-
demned to the gallies. The following order has been
addressed by the Minister of the Interior to the Go-
vernor of Madrid
" Having remarked that certain journals have asserted
that the Ministry intended to propose to the Queen to
reduce the duration of the military service, and that this
intimation, divulged in
.that manner by other channels,
hag induced a hope that it would be realized, the Go-
vernment of her Majesty declares that it never contem-
plated such a measure. Never has a reduction in the
duration of the service taken place in circumstances
similar to the present one, and it would, moreover, be
contrary to the existing legislation and to the respect
due to the rights of the generality of the men liable
to bo called upon, inc tresh recruits would be more
frequently levied. The Queen, who has ordered the
Minister of War to adopt whatever measures he
thinks proper on the occasion, has instructed me
to recommend you not to permi▪ t the circulation of
journals, or printed papers, in which the ques-
tion should be treated in a contrary manner to the
views of the Government. You will accordingly seize all
publications violating that prescripti▪
on. By order of the
Queen, I give you this notice tbat you may lose no time
in communicating it to the directors of the journals, it
being ber Majesty's desire that the prohibition be car-
ried this day into execution. God preserve you many
years.
(Signed) " The Minister of the Interio_,r,
" Madrid, Jan. 8, 1852. BERTRAN DE LIS.
" To the Governor of the Province of Madrid.
"The present Royal order is to be forwarded to all
the Provincial Governors."