The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-04 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAN. 3.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by
the Prince of Leiningen, went out shooting this morn-
ing, attended by Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Major-
General B. Drummond, and Lieutenant-Colonel F. H.
Seymour.

Lord Charles Fitzroy has succeeded Colonel the Hon.
Charles Grey as Equerry in Waiting to the Queen.
The Right Hon. E. Strutt, Chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster, had an audience of her Majesty to-day,
and kissed hands on receiving the seal of office. Mr.
Danvers, Clerk of the Council to the Duchy, was also
present.

The Duke of Wellington had an audience of the Queen,
to deliver up the garter worn by the late Duke.
The Earl of Mulgrave had an audience of the Queen,
and kissed hands on receiving the wand of office of
Comptroller of the Household.
The Earl of Bessborough had an audience of the Queen
on Thursday last, and kissed hands on being appointed
Master of the Buckhounds.

The Queen and Prince drove out in an open carriage
this afternoon. Lord Charles Fitzroy was in attendance
on horseback.

Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council this day
(Tuesday), at Windsor Castle. Summonses were issued
yesterday to the Ministers and Officers of State.
Sir George Hayter had the honour of submitting his
picture of the late Duke of Wellington visiting the effigy
and relics of Napoleon, to the Queen and his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert on Saturday.
Sir Thomas Redington had an interview with the
Eak of Aberdeen yesterday at his official residence in
Downing-street.

The Commissioners for the reduction of the National
Debt held a quarterly meeting on Saturday at the offi-
cial residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in
Downing-street. There were present the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, the Governor of the Bank of England,
and the Deputy-Governor. Sir Alexander Spearman,
Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commis-
sioners, attended.

The Hon. Francis Lawley is the Chancellor of the
Exchequer's official private secretary.
The Right Hon. E. Strutt arrived in town yesterday
from his residence, Kingston-hall, near Derby.

I

ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, 6 P.M.
By the steam-ship Niagara, we have advices
from New York to the 21st, and Boston to the
22nd ult. She has 45,000 dollars in specie on
freight. The steamer Africa arrive dat New York
on the 17th, and the Canada at Halifax on the
24th ult.

The engines of the caloric ship Ericsson had
been worked in dock, and the trial was in every
Way satisfactory.
Nothing of importance had taken place in
House of Representatives or Senate at Washing-
ton.

From Havanuah we have advices to the 14th
ult. The news, however, is devoid of interest.
There was a rumour at Havanuahf that one of the
English steamers had captured a slaver off the
island.
The steamer United States had arrived at New
York with two days' later advices from San Fran-
cisco, and 355,000 dollars in gold dust. More ac-
tivity had been observed in the San Francisco
market than for some days previously. The news
from California was of no importance.
The steamer Lima had arrived at Panama with
advices from Lima to the 26th, and Valparaiso to
the 15th of November, and 200,000 dollars in spe-
cie on frieght.
Reports from Valparaiso seemed to indicate a
dissatisfaction with President Monti 's policy and
the rapidly increasing influence of the priests and
Jesuits. The editor of the Mercurio had been ar-
rested for having published some articles considered
offensive to the latter. Business had improved a
little, but there was no particular improvement in
the markets. Bolivia was occupied with a most
important scheme, that of opening its vast re-
sources to the Atlantic by means of some of its
river tributaries to the Amazon.
From Peru we learn that her forces were being
concentrated quietly ; but no mention was made of
their ultimate destination ; as she had refused to
give any satisfaction to Ecuador relative to the
Flores affair, it is presumed she is preparing to re-
sist any satisfaction Ecuador may attempt to take
for the injury she imagines Peru to have done in
the matter.

From Bogota we learn that the English Gover-
nor had mae a formal declaration of blockading
the port, on account of the defeat which the con-
tract made with the English Charge d'Affaires re-
lative to the Mackintosh claim met with in the
Camara during the year. In contradiction of the
above, it is stated that the Granadian Government
having satisfied the demands of the English Cabinet,
orders from the English legation in Bogota had
countermanded the blockade.

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The Hon. W. R. King, President of the Senate
at Washington, was seriously indisposed, and un-
less a change for the better speedily took place, it
was said he could not long survive. He had re-
signed his seat as President of the Senate.
Late accounts from the city of Mexico state that
the Chamber of Deputies has refused to adopt the
report of the joint committee on the Tehuantepec
question, and had sent back. the whole matter to
the Government. The intelligence respecting the
revolutionary movement contained little of interest
and nothing decisive. General Uraga had issued a
proclamation to the people of Jalisco declaring that
he would suppress the revolution. Desertions
from the Federal troops were daily announced, and
town after town declared in favour of the insur-
gents. A body of 400 .Revolutionists had been
organised in Aguas Calientes. The Government
continued very short of funds. An effort to raise
200,000 dols. in the city of Mexico had failed.
There was very little doing in the New York stock
market. Prices, however, were generally firm.
The money market was easier, but without alter-
ation in the rates of interest. .
Foreign, exchange had declined. Bills on Lon-
don, 109 k to 110 ; Paris, 5 12i to 5 132. : Amster-
dam, 41g to 41g.
In domestics there was a fair business.
The cotton market was inactive, and higher prices
were asked. .

Provisions without material alteration.
The flour market was heavy, and was without
any decline in prices. Wheat was in fair demand.
Indian corn in good demand at 22 to 28 cents per
bushel.
Pot and pearl ashes unaltered.

The high rates .of freight demanded to London
had checked operations.

BLOWING UP A MONSTER CHlMNEY.—Passengers by
the London and North-Western Railway, who have had
occasion to pass Warrington junction, about 20 miles
from Liverpool, have frequently been surprised at the
altitude and dimensions of the chimney connected with
Messrs. Muspratt's chemical works. It was 406 feet
high, 46 feet diameter at the base, 17 feet diameter at
the summit ; contained 3,500,000 bricks, 3,500 tons in
weight ; and cost 7,0001. erecting. There was only one
chimney higher in the United Kingdom. The one
connected with the chemical works of Mr. Tenent,
near Glasgow, was 20 feet higher, but it was a much
less noble-looking shaft, inasmuch as it was narrower
at the base, and contained about two-thirds less bricks.
The works have not been in operation for about eight
months, owing to arrangements being made to remove
them to another locality. There being, therefore, no
further use for the chimney, it was yesterday blown up,
under the superintendence of Mr. Stephen Court, engi-
neer and architect of the St. Helen's Canal and Railway
Company. A number of holes were delved round the
base ; and 14 charges of gunpowder were inserted. At
half-past 2 o'clock the train was fired. Nine charges
exploded without any apparent damage being done to
the stability of the shaft ; but the report of the tenth
had no sooner been heard than the chimney was rent
from top to bottom, and the huge fabric fell, crumbling
away gradually from the base upwards. The whole of
the column fell nearly within the circumference of its
own base. A dense cloud of lime dust hid the ruins for
a few seconds ; but when it cleared away, the 3,
bricks were perceived in the shape of a huge mound. A
large crowd of spectators had assembled to witness the
downfall. No accident of any kind occurred.
HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO A CHILD.—At the police-court
last week a case of the most refined cruelty was brought
under the notice of the magistrate. It appears that,
some weeks back, a pauper-nurse named Oldham had
taken a poor child, about four years of age, put a live
coal from the fire into its hand, closed it, and held it in
that position till the coal was cold, at the same time
holding a cane over the child with her other hand to
prevent its screaming. On the schoolmistress coming
into the room, the brute told her what she bad done,
adding, that it was to prevent the child from playing
with the fire—a lie on the face of it, as he could not get
near, a large screen being in the front. The school-
mistress had a poultice put on the hand, but made no
report to the medical officer, the master, or any of the
authorities. The child was instructed, on its entrance
into the rooms of the visiting committee, to place the
wounded hand behind its back ; and thus things went
on for nearly four weeks before it was discovered, when
the chairman of the board, on a representation from the
master of the house, gave the woman into custody, and
she was taken before the magistrate and remanded for a
week. The matter Was brought before the guardians on
Thursday last, and a discussion ensued on it, Mr. John
Wade very justly moving the suspension of the school-
mistress. No remarks were made on her cruelty and
neglect in not immediately informing the medical man ;
it was called a piece of youthful indiscretion ; and yet
she is allowed almost the sole control over more than
ninety children. The brute who committed the offence
is a pauper nurse, from whom much feeling, probably,
might not be expected ; the schoolmistress is a paid ser-
vant, and winked at the cruelty ; and the poor child,
who was not considered in the matter, we are pretty cer-
tain (notwithstanding all that was said on the subject)
has lost the use of his hand and two fingers for life.
The guardians must reconsider the matter, and, no
doubt, from the manner in which Mr. Wade took up the
subject, he will not allow it to drop.--Kentish Mercury
ry.
SUSPECTED MURDER IN HERTS.—Much excitement
the young
has been occasioned in Hertford by the announcement
Pigeon, that a young woman, named Sarah had been
missed under circumstances of an extremelysuspicious
of
character. It appears that on Christmas-day he
woman came to -Hertford, and spent the early part
the day in festivities. On coming out of a public-house,
where she had been drinking with a female friend, the
woman met with a man named William Kimpton, the
;kipper of a barge. Evening found them still together.
[fere, however, we have only the man's statement to
mlighten us. lie tells us that the woman followed him
3her
own to the wharf-yard, that he heard a splash, saw
..
truggling in the water, plunged in to save her, but did
lot succeed • got out again, and went home without
darn:ling any
one. This is the man's statement. The
e
-iver was carefully dragged, and on Thursday the body
.h,edeceased was found in a hole on the Dicker Mill.
otf the woman exhibited no marks of violence.
nvestigatsi was held on the body and, after six hours'
Found a°rn, rile jury delivered the following verdict :
;0 show hoZtV but there is not sufficient evidence
it the same said Sarah Pigeon got into the water.
6ttaches to wiliiian me we consider that great culpability
Kimpton, for not giving the alarm
when deceased t,
IRON STEAuEwa 8
—in the water." •
118
team-vessel Countess xT RAORDINARY SPEED.—The iron
satnof Ellesmere, performed an unpre-
!edented feat on
Zuncorn and back in arndae Y last, making two trips to
(high
attide. She left George's Pier-
lead at 8.30 a.m.
trier being at 10.45 a.m.), and
;ot back on her second
thus occupy-
ng only five hours, includPinat 1.30 p.m.,
Listance of about seventy iniiges.
Stop— in running a
-Allowing three-quar-
ers of an hour for the various
a tsttoappages at Runcorn
nd Liverpool, and, consideranigns
thet two of the trips
were made with and two
have tide, her actual
peed through the water must
resulbeen sixteen to
eventeen miles an hour ; a great t from a vessel
f only eighty horse power, when the strong
e gmaloernofinwgindis
Iken into account, and that she waswlaoaded with pas-
littaizNif
orr.
msers, The Countess of Ellesmere
aird for the trustees of the Duke of Bsri
aproving- the passenger transit between Liverpool and
uncorn, and her performance on Saturday last roves
of only that she has accomplished that object, but that
le is the fastest steamer sailing from the Mersey.—
iverPool Albion

THE FR

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There is very little interest in the co-
lumnsoriginalThe of the Paris journals of yesterd.ay. d
the new appointments are noticed by
speaking
ofthe
ministerial organs continue their ettilhoetumms,an
terms
of high approbation. One of them,
de La Rochejaque-
dePastoret, and the Marquis .
on of feudal and
nomination of the Duke de Mouchy, the Marquis
leehiinvahas
chivalrous France
says this is the
times.um
with modern.
The greater part
minipagestlythme
EnUngiloanndis. devoted to a notice
of Nearlyt
the n ewa
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shho wr
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eteliiirse seligefh ttehsis.t interesttifeoler
the writer remarks
" We are not astonished at the somewhat abrupt union
which has taken place between the Irish of the House
of Commons, and the imprudent author of the letter to
the Bishop of Durham. Without any doubt, the alliance
has been made to the profit of liberty—that is to say,
that henceforward Catholicism will be free in the three
kingdoms, at least, as much as it was before the vain
and odious attempt of the Whigs. We look on this
point to be so certainly gained that we do not even ask
for explanations. But we much want to have them on
another point—do the Peelites comprehend electoral re-
form in the same manner as the Whigs, and the Whigs
as the Radicals ? Does Lord Aberdeen not differ in
some way from Lord J. Russell ? and does Lord J.
Russell in his turn concede all that Sir W. Molesworth
or Mr. B. Osborne require ? We speak only, it will be
seen, of the members of the Cabinet. If we were to
speak of the House of Commons, we should have to in-
quire the opinion of Mr. Duncombe and the pretensions
of Mr. Hume."
The Emperor has sent 3,000 fr. to be distributed
amongst the workmen thrown out of employment
by the destruction of M. Malen's coach-factory.
M. Malen has received numerous marks of sym-
pathy from his neighbours. Prince Murat, who
with his son remained all night assisting to extin-
guish the fire, has sent I,ooof. to be distributed
amongst the operatives who have been deprived of
employment by the fire. The parish priest of Passy,
has authorised M. Malen to distribute provisions
amongst the necessitous operatives. The Mayor
of Passy has opened a subscription for the sufferers.
The administration of the Messageries Nationales
have piaced their large coach-houses and workshops
at therdisposal of M. Malen, in order that his nu-
merous operatives may be employed as quickly as
possible. In addition to the three persons wounded,
an operative carpenter attached to the establish-
ment has been killed.
Letters from Strasburg mention a visit paid by
the refugee Poles residing in that town, to the
number of between 40 and 50, to the prefect of the
department. One of them spoke warmly of the ad-
hesion of his countrymen to the Imperial Govern-
ment, and thanked the French Government for the
protection afforded them. In conclusion, he said
that the sympathies of the Poles might be under-
stood from the cry of " Vive l'Empereur," which
had become almost national among them.
Louis Napoleon drove out yesterday afternoon
in an open carriage and pair, which he drove him-
self. He was not accompanied by any escort, and
had not even a piqueur. He proceeded towards
the Hotel de Ville, and afterwards to the Champs
Elysees.
The Patrie publishes a communicated note, stat-
ing that henceforward any application for audiences
at the Tuileries must be addressed to the Duke de
Bassano.
We read in the Moniteur There has recently
appeared several works, and amongst them one
called Les Limites de la France,' which appear to
have for their object to flatter tendencies which it
is believed are those of the Government. The
Government rejects all connection with the authors
of these works, the spirit of which is as far from
the intentions of the Emperor as from his openly
declared policy." The work referred to demands a
large extension of the frontiers of France.
The Constitutionnet denies the report which has
obtained currency in the English and American
journals to the effect that the French contemplated
the occupation of the peninsula of Samaur. The
report arose out of the movements of the French
frigate Sybille, which left her station after the
epidemic ceased at Martinique,
change of air. She went cruising about in
to give her crew
dif-
ferent parts of the waters of the Antilles, and it is
her presence in the waters of Hayti which gave
birth to the rumour.
The same journal declares upon authority that
the Russian Admiralty has sent to all the com-
manders of naval divisions of the imperial navy of
Russia orders to celebrate everywhere, with the
greatest pomp, in conjunction with the French
authorities, the fete of the proclamation of the
establishment of the French Empire ; and upon
the authority of a German paper it also adds, that
Hanover has recognised the Emperor of the French,
while the King of the Two Sicilies continues to
display much good will towards France, and has
dispatched conciliatory offers to Paris respecting
the indemnity claimed by Prince Lucien Murat,
for the capital and interest representing the furni-
ture and jewels belonging to King Joachim Murat,
which the Bourbon family found after his flight,
and never returned. The amount of these claims
is stated at 12 millions. The King of Naples, it
is stated, offers to reimburse the original sum
without the 35 years' interest, but as yet no an-
swer has been received at Naples to this offer.
The Pope has just sent to M. Ducos, Minister of
the Marine, the grand cordon of his order, the
insignia of which were delivered to him by ilon_
Mon-
signor Garibaldi, the Papal Nuncio, who at the
same time expressed to him the gratitude felt by
his Holiness for the services rendered to him by the
French Navy.
The number of new books, in French and other
languages, published in France in 1852 was 7,787.
In 1851 it was only 6,350. There was the same
proportionate increase in 1852 in printed music,
prints, and maps.
The corporation of the bakers of Paris have cele-
brated the re-establishment of the Empire by a
public dinner. Mr. Doisneau, the senior member of
the syndicate, proposed " The health of the Emperor
Napoleon III." M. Darblay, member of the
Chamber of Commerce, said—" Who can doubt
that looking at the price of wheat and flour, Paris
is, of all cities in Europe, that in which bread is
cheapest and best ? Statistical returns prove that
the manlier in which the bakers' trade is organ-
ised in Paris ensures to the consumers of that city
an economy of not less than 3,000,000 fr. What
would the saving be, if the same organisation was
extended to the whole of France ? Ido not hesi-
tate to declare that upwards of 100 millions would
be saved, particularly to the labouring classes.
The organisation of the bakers' trade in Paris is,
perhaps, under a Government anxious to carry
out evident improvements, destined to serve as a
model for the other trades. Why should the Go-
vernment deprive itself of the force of action which
it would find in a wise organisation of the various
corporations ? Undoubtedly it would facilitate and
simplify the action of the Government. If well
organised and directed, the corporations would be,
for the maintenance of order, a valuable assist-
ance to the regular troops--would be, in fact, the
civil army of order.
The announcement of further defaulters at the
Bourse to-day produced a fall in the price of Go-
vernment securities. The Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. opened at 106 f. 15c., and closed at 105 f.
90c. for the end of the month ; the Three per Cents.
closed at 81f. 45c. ; Orleans Railway Shares,
1,027 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 990 f. ; Havre, 535 f. ; Great
Northern, 887 f. 50c. ; Bale, 360 f. ; Paris and
Strasburg, 810 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 922 f. 50c. ;
Lyons and Marseilles, 776 f. 25c. ; Western of
France, 780 f. ; Caen and Cherbourg, 630 f. ; Bor-
deaux and Cette, 602 f. 50c. ; Shares of the new
Bank of Credit Mobilier, issued at 500 f., 905 f.

The Piedmonte IGTaMazetteY .of the 31st ult. an-
nounces
ieut
en3nsoea
ertoshy;tlchtBrahestdielth Chamber amber of Deputies adopted, on
credits
of law relative to the extra-
srequired in addition to the esti-
mates 1852, and 1853 ; to the re-establish-
ment of the
thex on liberal professions industry,
and trade ; to
and personal tax ; to
,m2l public carriages, &c.
The 'Votedprivate property
y
the t.2xSoennate
the bill postponing the
petdrhieodsafomrethdaeya,ppbliycsaotioton 2,0 f
the decimal system toe
e icinal weights,of
to 5 the bill for the reorganisationothfethexecia.yal
Stables, was appointed Deputy-Governor of the
Count Salasco, Inspector-General
Venice Gazette announces that the
ERntialelerpogronieasAlilistria has approved of the institution
of naval schools in his dominions. There are
Freituombee,
asunpdeHriaorgusnaav,a. lanscdhoionlsferiaotrToleesstea,t Irenie
o, Rovi,„,,_Zara,
Spalatro, and Cattaro.

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THE CHOLERA.—Letters from Tauris (Persia), of Nov.
10, state that the cholera was then raging violently in
Persia. The number of deaths per day was not less
than 1,000.
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