The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-03 00:00:00

MONEY AN

COURT CIRCULAR.

lesson, however striking. No person ever ex-
hibited a greater insensibility to the signs, of
the times. It was only a few , days before
the virtual suspension of the Bank Charter, piit
he declared himself unable to disc Over any distress
or difficulty whatsoever, and asserted that any
solvent person could obtain every monetary faci-
lity and accommodation that could be desired—
and this although our merchant princes' houses,
which it had taken ages to construct, were at the
moment falling in every direction, not from want
of means, but from want of the mere measure and
representative of value.
His conduct in reference to the Select Com-
mittee appointed to inquire and report on the
causes of that distress, and more recently to the
Eastern Steam Navigation Company, cannot
speedily or easily be forgotten. And although,
fortunately, he is no longer at the Exchequer, to
diminish our resources and damage our prospects,
he has been placed in the situation where he
can probably effect the next greatest amount of
mischief.

Yes, it is at the time when the renewal of the
Fast India Charter must necessarily be taken into
consideration that Sir CHARLES WOOD has been
nominated President of the Board of Control. It
would almost appear as if the intention were to fol-
low up the policy that placed an octogenarian gene-
ral and a septuagenarian Admiral—who had never
been afloat since steam was brought into practical
operation as a propelling power—at the head of
our military and naval forces at Rangoon and on
the Irrawaddy river. It might possibly be suppos-
ed that General GoDwar did not possess a sufficient
quantity of the is inertice—that he might reck-
lessly run into acts of rash and desperate enter-
prise, and that, therefore, it was necessary to
supply a " wet blanket" to curb his martial ar-
dour. If such be indeed the fact, then was the
selection of Sir CHART Fs WOOD peculiarly feli-
citous. Fabius Owactator will soon be eclipsed by
the superior pretensions of General GODWIN, in-
structed by Sir CHARLES WOOD ! ! ! If, indeed, it
be possible to destroy the prestige attached to the
British name, and to endanger our Anglo-Indian
Empire, it may be anticipated from such a combi-
nation. None but the electors of Halifax can
avert the inauspicious omen, and preserve our
Eastern dependencies from the fate otherwise
impending. If Sir CHARLES WOOD be rejected,
he cannot possibly continue at the India Board.
Sir GEORGE GRBy—by far the most efficient and
able of the GREY family—has now a seat in the
House of Commons ; and as he would be certain
of his re-election, he might well replace his
faineant kinsman. Millions, aye tens of millions,
would have cause to bless the constituency that
rendered such an important service, and caused
the substitution of the energetic Sir GEORGE GREY,
or indeed of almost any other Statesman who
might aspire to the situation, for the do-nothing
Baronet of Hickleton

One would have thought that what with Kafirs
and Constitutions the Cape of Good Hope had
plagues sufficient. Misfortunes, it is always said,
however, never come single, seldom even double,
so the unlucky Cape must now have a Lord Bishop
squabble to add to the rest. To fight with SAN-
DILLA and MACOMO for cattle, and with Lord
Garay and Sir JOHN PAKINGTON for a charter, is
not enough ; they must also fight with a Successor
of the Apostles to retain their own previous Apos-
tolic equality. We do not profess to be au fait
in the ecclesiastical arrangements at the Cape.
We have hitherto thought that those matters be-
longed, if any did, to themselves ; and as little
stir has been made about them, we, having quite
enough on hand with our ecclesiastical magnates
at home, have thought clerical doings at the Cape
were no concern of ours. We have followed, in-
deed, with deep interest the journeys and the dis-
coveries of new tribes, new rivers, and, lately, of
an immense interior lake, by some who are true fol-
lowers of the Apostles, although belonging to cer-
tain of the ignored sects. They, however, appear
to create no disturbance, and their only am-
bition seems to be to Christianise and civi-
lise tribes which no Anglican Bishop cares
for. Now, however, the arrogance of a Co-
lonial ExrrEa has recently carved out not a
little work for our new Colonial Secretary ; and
the Duke of .NBWCASTLE will soon be placed in the
false position of being obliged to put down his be-
loved Anglicanism in the Colonies, or to be as
unpopular as any of his predecessors. Canada
clergy reserves he must give up to the Canadians ;
grants of Church supplies to the little Parliaments
of the great gold Island in the South ; and to the
Cape he must permit the uncontrolled right to do
as they please about giving money and rank to
Right Rev. Fathers in Go].

LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1853.

The Ministerial re-elections are proceeding
merrily throughout the country. Many of the
new officials have already received the " renewal
of confidence" which they requested at the hands
of their constituents, without opposition, or even
question. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Sir WM. MOLES-
WORM; Sir GEORGE GREY—Who may be almost
regarded as an official personage—Mr. STRUTT,
Lord MULGRAVE, and the Hon. W. F. CowrEit, are
already entitled to place the important letters
(" M.P.") after their respective names, while Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, Mr. CARDWELL, Lord PALMER-
stow, the Hon. C. P. VILLIERS, and others will
speedily be in an equally enviable position, voted
in by acclamation.

The present squabble is one about precedence.
A pretty one, in any case, for an Apostolic Bishop
to get into. We suppose, however, his Lordship
is a partial believer in the famous Myth and Le-
gend theory of the German Divines, and that he
holds for perfectly legendary an account of two
Apostles contending who should be greatest,
one wanting the right, and the other the
left, hand of their MASTER'S throne, and of
the severe rebuke their LORD gave them,
for such disputes about precedency, as heathenish
and worldly. No doubt all this was foisted into
the sacred text by some MARTIN-mar-Prelate of
the second or third century. Be that as it may,
it seems the good old Dutch Church in the colony
—the largest by far, as well as the oldest religious
body there—takes it for a real part of the Gospel of
JESUS CHRIST. Accordingly, in a document of
very dignified and Christian character, with which
they have recently met his Lordship's assumptions,
they declare, that, notwithstanding their numbers
and their long standing, they " claim no precedence
of any other branch of the Church of CHRIST, and
are desirous to live in peace, harmony, and bro-
therhood with all who, though differing as to out-
ward forms and principles of Church government,
maintain with them the grand principles of the
Reformation ;—" brotherhood" and "the principles
of the Reformation." Rich this, to meet the ears
or the eyes of an Anglican Bishop 1"
Well, and of what do these brotherly-minded
Reformed Churchmen complain ? Why, " that, in
the Government Gazette of the colony, the title is
given to the chief pastor of the United Church of
England and Ireland at the Cape of Good Hope,—
LORD BISHOP of CAPE TOWN that it is stated,
" by authority, that the diocese of Cape Town
contains '750,000 souls, and that hence the whole
population of the colony and the adjacent districts
are included." That the Bishop designates him-
self " the first Bishop of the Church of Gop in
this land," and that they perceive " from an offi-
cial dispatch the claim to precedence made by him,
and the rank allowed to him by her MAJESTY'S
Secretary of State." Such is the bill of anti-
prelatical discontent preferred by these consistent
and staunch advocates of religious equality at the
Cape. To many English ears all this may not
sound as very important. We have been so long
accustomed to see our Primate rank next to the
Princes of the blood Royal, so used to Lord
Bishops of our towns, so accustomedto one Church
boring" the existence of another, and claim-
ing the whole population as rightfully its own,
thHehiaguthriethciamilurlenscihtivsmeeperfectly easy on us. If we are
n senters relieveuwoguehr bafetel ie eLvt
si na,na
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of did on FOGG or DODsov, g.
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sn.dnegsso. on most
It is, however, quite another thing when all
this comes quite fresh
upon a large majority of a
community who abominate the hole of it ; the
habits and prejudices it may be whole
fechenturies are
arndal.oiths the epi-
rudely violated ; the thing, and
thets, are still more odious to them')
to
it is
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earthly reason why they should submit
the assumptions of the man himself they Lord
Bishop to smile. If he chose to call himself Lord
Bishop of the Bushmen and Kafirs, or of Timbuc-
too if he liked, it were no business of theirs ; but
when he worms himself into the Colonial Court,
and exhibits himself as the ecclesiastical superior
of an old and highly respectable Church of the
majority of the colonists, assuredly the worthy
colonists have a full right to complain. Hence
we cordially approve the sentence with which
they conclude their memorial—," She," speaking

In the above cases, there has been neither
trouble, expense, nor annoyance—nothing but an
agreeable visit to the hustings, and candidates and
electors mutually paying and receiving " the
compliments of the season " in the most
agreeable and satisfactory manner. In many
instances, this immunity is granted from the►
feelings of esteem and respect entertained for
those soliciting " the most sweet voices" of the
electors. In others from a desire to exhibit every
degree of fair play to the new Government, not
to condemn them until their measures have been
submitted for public consideration, and duly com-
pared with those of their competitors for popular
support ; while in not a few cases a walk over is
obtained, and a contest avoided, from a general
impression that a dissolution is not very far dis-
tant, and an unwillingness on the part of the aspi-
rants to senatorial honours to undertake the ex-
pe:ise and annoyance of a contest, where no
" fixity of tenure" could reasonably be an-
ticipated. The " Ins," however, accept their
good fortune—no matter to what it may be
ascribable—with becoming gratitude. There
is occasionally a slight manifestation of the
exuberant joy with which they hail a re-
turn to the sweets of office—
a little self-
gratulation, and a corresponding
those whom they have been called depreciation of
on to replace in
her MAJESTY'S service. It is a natural manifes-
tation, with which we are by no means disposed
to quarrel. "Itis a poor heart that never
and we are die:
joices," saith the old proverb ;
posed to plaee greater confidence in those who
permit their exhilaration to be perceptible, than in
others who attempt to veil it under a mask of
coldness, and endeavour to give no expression to
the feelings which they are unable altogether to
repress.

Some few of the new officials are not, however,
quite so fortunate—finding, in place of a quiet
and comfortable " walk over," a formidable oppo-
sition to be encountered. Our old friend Sir
CIARLES WOOD is in this predicament. His
quondam colleague, Mr. H. EDWARDS, who
was rejected at the last election, has
come forward determined to nail his colours to the
mast, and to poll to the very last man. It is said
that his chances of success are by no means unfa-
' °arable, and that there is at least a possibility,
if not a very strong probability, that the Presi-
dent of
the India Board—the only member of the
GrEY tancaly
neve(' frora hia who has been placed—may be re-
of the to
in the popular branch
We cons that, •
Would be b no inanin our opinion, such a result
welfare, or injurious
taodetrimental to the national
Cabinet. Of the bianthe prospects of the New
been made, that of the3itiapointraents that have
is far the worst. Rehr .1 onourable Baronet
Ministry by his Wanedmaladminishr the RUSSELL
tional finances, and by the pervt,,i" of the na-
determination which ho evinced to and "ilafitinate
° Profit by no

of their Church, " will not acknowledge the title
of auy minister of religion which involves a claim
of superiority or of territorial power over her own
bishopS or people—nor will she respect any claim
of precedence made by any religious body what-
ever." Less they could not have said with self-
respect—more they might have said but for the
happily improved tone of religious controversy.
Now, what will the Noble Duke do with this
and all similar cases ? We know what he and
Mr. GLADSTONE would like to do; but then there
is the Premier, a Presbyterian of kindred faith
with the Dutch Church. Lord JOHN, too, he does
not like Episcopal arrogance, although very fond
of Bishop-making. Sir WILLIAM MotrswoßTH,
who most certainly ought to have been in the
Duke of NEWCASTLE'S office, he at least can show
them all a short and easy method to put the colo-
nies to rights in six months—the well-known one
of leaving them to manage their own internal affairs.
To this it must come if we keep them otherwise than
by soldiers. Downing-street and Lambeth mot
equally let them alone. The sooner they adopt
this policy the better. As yet the colonies love
the Imperial connection as much as they detest
official intermeddling, and we hope that Sir Wl',
LIAM MOLESWORTH'S seat in the Cabinet is an earnest
that his colonial policy is to be promptly adopted.
Never, surely, can/ he bring himself to work
with a Cabinet which would perpetuate and extend
ecclesiastical domination and rivalry in our colo-
nies. As a Radical politician, Sir WILLIAM has
many equals, if not superiors—as a Colonial poli-
tician, none ; and if he do not make his influence
strongly felt in the Cabinet on colonial questions,
for his own credit's sake he had -better quit it at
once.

YAL NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Saturday, being New-Year's-day, was a holiday
in the Liverpool Cotton and Share markets.
Summing up the Cotton statistics of 1852, Messrs.
Haywood and M'Viccar state :—The quantity of
cotton in the spinners' possession is probably only
50,000 bales more than at this period last year, so
that the consumption is estimated at the prodigious
increase of 3,800 bales weekly, that of 1851 being
assumed to be 1,662,540 bales, against 1,861,600
bales as Calculated for the year 1852. Nothing
has ever shown the fallacy of and priori reasoning
upon Cotton more than the events of the present
year. At the commencement, scarcely any one
believed in a crop of more than 2,800,000 bales,
and the general opinion was in reduction even of
such an amount. As the season advanced, the
large and increasing arrivals into the ports indicated
that 3,000,000 bales, or thereabouts, was more likely
to be the result. But the general prosperity of
trade, and the abundance of money, and the
large speculations which those circumstances
induced, have all contributed to counteract the in-
fluence of arrivals much larger than had at first
been contemplated. As prices advanced, confidence
seemed to increase, and the present season termi-
nates with this instructive fact, that with the
largest crop on record, and one 645,000 bales be-
yond that of last year, prices are now id. per lb.
higher than at the termination of 1851, and ld.
per lb. above the lowest quotations of that year.
Much in regard to the future character of the
cotton market will turn upon the amount of the
coming crop in all countries. In India it is said to
be good, whilst the limited demand from China
may cause a larger proportion than usual of the
year's production to be directed to Great Britain.
From Brazil the import will also be an average one,
and from Egypt, likewise, there will be a full sup-
ply. But, on looking to this last country, the im-
port of the past year is, perhaps, not to be taken
as a criterion of the growth there, for it is affirmed
that the accumulations of several years have been
concentrated into the shipments of the present.
The very high prices of long stapled American
cotton before alluded to, as being current through-
out this season, have naturally tempted large pur-
chases in Alexandria, under the supposition that
Egyptian cotton was a certain substitute for Sea
Island. But in this, so far at least, there has been
disappointment. As compared with last year, the
American receipts are greatly in excess ; and
arguing upon this datum (which is, however,
always an uncertain one), the yield in the States
ought to be beyond 3,000,000 bales. Yet, as last
season did not eventuate in that short crop which
its early short receipts prefigured, but, on the con-
trary, in a very large one, the amount being
3,015,000 bales, so this year the large receipts may
prove to be equally inconclusive in relation to the
final result.

It has hardly been adverted to of late, but what
reason is there why the good old plan of the
colonies electing a Governor for themselves, to be
app/owed by her MAJESTY, should not b. reverted
to / A great part of colonial broils and mis
management are due to the utter ignorance of our
generally military governors or of our English
lordlings, respecting the state of society in the
colonies they govern, and the wants of the colo-
nists. It is notorious that in a large number of
cases appointments to Colonial Governorships
are made to provide places for members or
connections of the aristocracy who need them.
They have little to do with qualification. It
were invidious to recal the past : too many in-
stances are fresh in the memory of all who have
survived the Family Cabinets. How quietly and
successfully does each American State choose its
own Governor, who is, in a general sense, subject
to the PRESIDENT at Washington. The Colonies,
we fancy, are quite as competent to chose Go-
vernors, who should be subject to the authority,
and, we should add, to the direct approval, too,
of Queen VICTORIA. A Governor thus chosen
would certainly have spared the Cape the present
ecclesiastical quarrel, and many other troubles
too. He would also have saved our Treasury
several millions of money.

The following is from the Spanish Bondholders'
Committee :

"Madrid, Dec. 26, 1852.
"My dear Sir,—l beg to hand you, for the information
of the Bondholders in general, the translation of my-
correspondence with the President of the Home Com-
mittee of Spanish Bondholders, wherein I asked him,
and he promised me, his co-operation in order to obtain
from H. C. M. Government a satisfactory settlement of
the confiscated half of the overdue Coupons.
" I remain, my dear Sir,
" Your most obedient servant,
"DANIEL WEISWEILLER.
"James Capel, Esq., Chairman of the Committee of
Spanish BonAolders, London."
(TRANSLATION.)

COMPLETION OF THE MINISTRT.-It iS stated that a
Privy Council is to be held about the middle of next
week, for the completion of the Ministerial arrangements,
by the appointment of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland,
the Lord Privy Seal, the Vice-President of the Board
of Trade, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the
Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, and other
officials, whose appointments were not formally com-
pleted at the first Privy Council for the formation of the
Earl of Aberdeen's Administration.

" Madrid, 24th Dec. 1852.
" Excellent Sir,—l have the honour to hand to you
the copy of the memorial, dated the 18th instant, I have
addressed and delivered to his Excellency Senor Aris-
tagabra, Finance Minister, respecting the settlement of
the confiscated half of the Coupons of the old Spanish
Consolidated Debt.

" I shall feel greatly obliged if you would please to
convoke the committee of the home bondholders, in order
to agree upon the moat opportune resolution for sup-
porting and aiding my said memorial with her Majesty's
Government. Your committee being composed of Spa-
niards so distinguished and zealous of the dignity of the
country, I have no doubt but that I shall meet wtth the co-
operation demanded by the justice of the cause which we
advocate, and whose favourable resolution is so closely
allied to the credit of Spain.—l remain, excellent Sir,
&c., &c.

LORD PALMERSTON'S INDISPOSITION.—Lord Palmer-
ston is not yet sufficiently recovered to be able to attend
at the Home-office since his appointment as the head of
that department ; and it is feared that his lordship will
not be able to present himself to the electors of Tiverton,
where, however, we are glad to hear there is no prospect
of any opposition to his lordship's return.—Observer.
PARLIAMENTARY PARTIES.—The government of Lord
Aberdeen will have a good majority in the House of
Lords, including the whole bench of bishops, without,
we believe, a single exception. In the House of Com-
mons, also, the adhesions are coming, in day by day,
from the "other side." Between 40 and 50 of the dis-
persed Derbyites, representing town constituencies, and
some from the counties too, have already fallen away
from an allegiance that has brought no benefit to the
" interests" which they fondly expected to serve.
Having stood together so long as party honour required
the sacrifice, they now feel themselves at liberty to judge
of men and measures, untrammelled by fanciful and un-
substantial party obligations.—Observer.

(Signed) " DANIEL WEISWEILLER,
" Representative of the English Committee of
Spanish Bondholders.
"To his Excellency Senor Don Joaquin
Aldeman, President of the Home
Committee of Spanish Bondholders."
(TIANBLATioN.)
"Madrid, Dec. 25, 1852.
ge Sir,--I have received, with much satisfaction, your
communication of yesterday, and the enclosed copy of
the memorial, dated the 18th inst., which you have ad-
dressed and presented to his Excellency the Finance
Minister, relating to the settlement of the detained half
of the interest of the old Spanish consolidated debt.
In manifesting to you my gratitude for your attention,
I, at the same time, assure you, that I will duly acquaint
the Spanish committee, OVEr which I have the honour
to preside, with the said document, so as to co-operate
with their efforts in obtaining a favourable resolution for
such just reclamations. --I have the honom- to remain, &c.,
(Signed) " JOAQUIN DI ALDEMAN.
" Daniel Weisweiller, ER., Represen-
tative of the English Committee of
Spanish Bondholders."
Foreign securities hare been in moderate de-
mand. The Spanish Committee's certificate is at
4i, and the New Deferred bonds are worth 23k,
ex. dividend. Portuguese 4 per Cents realise
40k. In Peruvian 6 per Cents there have been
purchases at 104 k, and in the Deferred at 64.
The Grenada Old Bonds are worth 22i, and
the Deferred 13i For the Turkish loan
premium has been paid. Sardinian Stock is
at 96. Dutch 2*- Per Cents have been 67* to
ex. dividend. Russian 44 per Cents are worth
104 ex. dividend.

CONTESTED RLEOTION PETITIONS.--On Saturday a
corrected alphabetical list was printed by order of the
House of Commons, of election petitions for the present
session. The number of members petitioned against is
132, of which number 8 cases are invalid or withdrawn,
leaving 124. It seems that seven- of the members have
been appointed to offices under the new Administration.
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.—It is understood that Mr.
Gladstone is to be opposed by the Marquis of Chandos.
THE REPORTED DEATH OF MR. HEALD.—We are
authorised to state that there is no truth whatever in the
the paragraph that has be.n going the round of the pa-
pers respecting the alleged death of this gentleman. By
a telegraphic dispatch which has just been received from
Southampton, it would seem that one of the Peninsular
and Oriental steam-vessels has brought the gratifying
intelligence that Mr. Heald and his party had safely ar-
rived at Cadiz. The entire story of the loss of his yacht,
and its consequences, must, therefore, have been a
fiction.

THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL PACKETS.—The Australian,
Captain Hoseason, now nearly a month overdue with
the mails from Australia, is daily expected at Plymouth.
From the delays which she had sustained before arrival
out, and whilst in Australia, she was not expected to
arrive until -early in January. The Adelaide, Captain
Jackson, was not ready for the trial cruise on Saturday
as was anticipated. It was expected at Devonport on
Sundaay morning that she would be taken out for trial
on the afternoon of that day, and if found to answer,
that she would sail with the mails, &c., in the evening,
or on Monday morning. The principal cause of the
delay has been the preparation and the fitment of the
new rudder, in the place of the newly-invented one,
which was found so inefficient as to be useless. The
repairs have been all effected by the artizans of the
Royal Devonport Dockyard, and under the superin-
tendence of Capt. J. Henderson, RN., the newly ap-
pointed marine superintendent of the Royal Australian
Steam Company.
DEPARTURE OF THE NEW ROYAL MAIL STEAM-SHIP
ARABIA.—On Saturday, at noon, the magnificent new
steam-ship Arabia, Captain Judkins, built for the Cunard
Company, by Mr. Napier, of Glasgow, sailed from the
Mersey for New York, with a very large and valuable
cargo of merchandise on board, in addition to sixty pas-
sengers, amongst whom we noticed the Chevalier Hulse-
man and Sir Allan M'Nab. The mails were placed in
charge of Lieut. Striven, R.N., Admiralty agent.
Prior to her departure several of the local gentry, mer-
chants, &c., including the Earl of Sefton, Hon. S. Cu-
nard, Mr. Napier, of Glasgow, and Mr. M'lver visited
her and expressed themselves highly pleased with the
comfortable arrangements in every department. As
she sailed down the river she was greeted with loud
cheers, which were most lustily answered by those on
board.

The Phoenician, from Australia, has just arrived
with 65,000 ounces of gold. The dates from Syd-
ney are Sept. 21, the same day, we believe, as the
Australian steamer left. The Colonial Gold Com-
pany have advices that their manager has arranged
to work several quartz veins.

The Niagara 'steamer, from America, is tele-
graphed, but there will be no letters until to-mor-
row.

THE STORM AND THE TELEGRAPH.—The recent storm
it appears has done great injury to the telegraph, some
hundreds of the supporting posts in different parts of the
country having been-blown down, and the communica-
tion temporarily stopped.

BRUTAL MURDER BY GREEK SAILORS.—On Saturday
information was received by the metropolitan police that
a man named Timothy Harrington, residing in John-
street, Cardiff; who kept a small shop, and had given
some credit for articleh that he had dealt in to two
Greek sailors, and was in the act of accompanying them
down Herbert-street to their ship to get payment, when
on reaching the east side of Bute Dock, near the ballast
crane, they suddenly attacked him with their knives, in-
flicting such frightful wounds that the unfortunate man
almost instantly expired.
DISTRESSING AND DETERMINED SUICIDE.—A great
sensation was created on Saturday evening in High-
street, Shadwell, by a report which unfortunately turned
out too true, that a fine young married woman named
Maria Edlin, had destroyed herself by cutting her throat
with a razor. An unfounded belief that her husband
had been faithless was the cause of the rash act.

DARING OUTRAGE IN LANCASHIRE.—Yesterday infor-
mation was circulated respecting the outrage committed
a fortnight since, when five men, armed with pistol,
crowbar, and knife, and with their faces blackened and
coats turned by way of disguise, entered the farmhouse
of Mr. Jonathan Hilton, at Middleton, in Lancashire,
and having forced him from the shippon into his dwell-
ing-house,-then blindfolded him, and tied him to a chair.
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Miss Hilton to a chair to prevent alarm and pursuit.
One of the men is described as 23 or 24 years of age, and
5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, of slender make, with light
hair, and the skirt of his coat was observed to be lined
with plaid. Another, who appeared a year or two older,
and 5 feet 6 inches high, had sandy or auburn hair with-
out whiskers, wore a cap, and had the skirts of his coat
lined with red and white plush. A reward of 501. has
been offered by her Majesty's Government in addition
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At a special meeting of the Eastern Steam Navi-
gation Company, this day, a resolution was come
to for the election of Mr. Geach, M.P., in the
place of Henry Davidson, Esq., who had retired
on account of his connection with the Australian
and Pacific Steam Packet Company.
The English funds are firm but quiet, and there
is no political news to act upon prices. Consols
are up to Nog. The New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. 104 f, and the Three per Cents. 104 i.
Bank Stock is worth 2241, being very firm. Ex-
chequer Bills have been quoted 725., and India
Bonds 83s. premium. It seems to be expected
that the Bank bullion will in the next return show
a further material decline, the amount of gold re-
ceived last week being 245,0001., and the exports
490,0001.

The Railway Share Market has been tolerably
steady, but the dealings are quite insignificant.
Caledonian have been rather higher, Great Western
scarcely so good, and North British in request.
French Shares are quiet.
The Gold Mine Shares are in demand at fuller
prices, especially Agua Fria and Colonial Gold.
The Land Companies have advanced as regards
Van Diemen's Land and South Australian. The
banks are steady.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(Front the Official List.) _

Business done.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities..
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 34 per Cent. Annuities........
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6 7-16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 -16
India Bonds, £lOOO B3
Ditto, under £lOOO B3
Consols for Opening 18th January
Exchequer Bills lid. March. June.
£lOOO 72
£5OO
Small
70 72
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Cbranada Bonds, Deferred,
Ditto Ex. Dec., 1849, Coupon 22-/
Mexican 3 per Cent
Peruvian 6 per Cent.
Peruvian Deferred 3 per Cent
Portuguese 4 per Cent. 4Ol
Ditto for the Account,. 4O
Russian Bonds,i4i per Cent lO4
Ditto 4i per Cent l2l
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent'.
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent 234 aa. x d
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 4i i p c
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852 1 p
Belgiancondusg,e42 per n
per C net.t
674 i 7
Ditto Bonds,
Ex. 25fr 99i
99A
Dutch
hEx4 per Cent. Certificates.

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for Opening 18th January ...... 100 i II ea 4.

WINDSOR, JAN. 1

The Royal dinner-party yesterday consisted of her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene High-
ness the Prince of Leiningen, her Serene Highness the
Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Lady in Waiting
to the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, and
the Earl of Aberdeen, who arrived in the afternoon on
a visit to her Majesty.
The band of the Grenadier Guards attended, and
played in the Castle during dinner, and in the evening
her Majesty's private band performed the following
selections :

Overture, "Faust" Spohr.
Selection, "Lestocq" Auber.
Adagio d' Allegro a la Russe Reissiger.
Divertissement, "Le Prophete " Meyerbeer.
Being New-Year's-day, the band of the Grenadier
Guards assembled on the East-terrace at seven o'clock
this morning, and performed a selection of favourite
airs.

Her Majesty's annual distribution of food and cloth-
ing to about 620 poor persons of the Windsor and
Clewer parishes took place this morning in the riding
school of the Castle.
The Queen and Prince, accompanied by the Prince of
Leiningen, the Princess Adelaide, of Hohenlohe, the
whole of the Royal children, and the Earl of Aberdeen,
attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen of the House-
hold, proceeded to the school at a quarter before ten
o'clock, to witness the distribution, which was arranged
under the directions of the clergy of Windsor and
Clewer, the Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley, and the dis-
trict visitors for the relief of the poor. The members of
the clothing club, established under her Majesty's pa-
tronage, received at the same time articles of clothing
according to the amount of their contributions, with the
additions provided by the Queen's bounty.
The Earl of Aberdeen left the Castle to-day for
London.
Colonel Bouverie has been relieved by Lieutenant-
Colonel F. H. Seymour in the duties of Equerry in
Waiting to his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
The Queen and Prince Albert drove out in an open
carriage this afternoon. Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey
was in attendance on horseback.
In the evening her Majesty gratified the numerous
circle of distinguished visitors by a grand performance in
St. George's-hall of a selection of music from the works
of the late Dr. Mendelssohn. The first part of the con-
cert consisted of the Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise), com-
posed for a festival in honour of Gutenberg, the inventor
of printing. The first performance of this work was in
St. Themas's Church, Lsipsic, in June, 1840.
The second part comprised the published portions of
the unfinished oratorio, Christus, and a scena from
Lorely, an incomplete opera, on both of which works
Dr. Mendelssohn was engaged at the time of his la-
mented decease, in November, 1847.
A rich orchestra, handsomely and appropriately deco-
rated, was constructed at the east end of St. George's-
hall, and was crowned by the new and powerful organ
recently erected there by Mr. Hill.
The instrumental portion of the orchestra comprised
her Majesty's private band, aided by the addition of
many of the most eminent performers of the Philhar-
monic Society and the Royal Italian Opera. The chorus,
60 in number, were selected from the most efficient in
the profession, assisted by a most numerous amateur
party from the Sacred Harmonic Society, Exeter-hall.
The solo vocalists were Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss M.
Williams, Mr. Lockey, Mr. Whitehouse, of St. George's
choir, and Mr. Lawler.
The orchestras thus complete and effective, consisting
of upwards of 100 performers, was conducted by Mr.
Anderson, the director of her Majesty's private band.
Mr. Cusins, organist of her Majesty's private chapel,
presided at the organ.
The following had the honour of dining with her Ma-
jesty :

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene
Highness the Prince of Leiningen, her Serene Highness
the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Lady in Waiting
to the Duchess of Kent. the Baroness de Speth, and
Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Tottenham.
The evening party consisted of the Countess of Mans-
field, the Ladies Murray and Lady Caroline Murray,
Lady Emily Seymour, Lady Caroline and Miss Barring-
ton, Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, Miss
Knollys, Colonel the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey, the
Hon. and Rev. Henry and Lady Anna Maria Cust, the
Misses Cust, Captain the Hon. Mortimer and Mrs.
West, Miss Dallas, the Rev. Seymour Neville, the Rev.
Mr. and Mrs. Canning, and the Misses Codrington. •
During dinner the band of the 2d Life Guards played
the following :

Overture, " Euryanthe", Weber.
Waltz, "La Rose du Matin" Carl Hochet
Pro peccatis, "Stabat Mater" Rossini.
Grand Selection, " Lucrezia Borgia." Donizetti.
Quadrille, " Ernani" Verdi.
Polka, " Zundnadel."
Golop, " A meson"
"God save the Queen."

Karl Buller.

JAN. 2.

The Queen and Prince attended an early service this
morning in the private chapel of the Castle, and took
the Sacrament of the Holy Communion, which was
administered by the Hon. and Rev. Dr. G. Wellesley.
The ladies and gentlemen of the Court, with the do-
mestic household, also attended divine service.

The Earl of Aberdeen returned to town on Saturday
afternoon from Windsor Castle.

The Marquis of Lansdowne has left town for his seat,
Bowood-park, Wilts.

Dispatches for the Governor of the West Indian Colo.
nies were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colonial-
office.

The programme of the theatrical entertainments to
be played before her Majesty and the royal family at
Windsor Castle, under the direction of Mr. Charles
Kean, has been arranged. The performances, which
will take place, as usual, in the Rubens Room, are fixed
for a succession of five Fridays, commencing on the 7th
inst. The selection comprises examples of the Shaks-
perian drama and the modern light comedy, and gives
free and liberal scope to the actor's art in representing
the passions and emotions of tragedy, as well as that
breadth of humour, and even drollery, for which the
English stage is conspicuous. Thus, on Friday next, in
Henry IV., Part the Second, Mr. Phelps as the King,
Mr. Wigan as the Prince, Mr. Bartley as Sir John
Falstaff, and Mrs. Daly as Dame Quickly, iaided by
Harley and Meadows, will represent almost every phase
and colour of which the Shaksperian drama is sus-
ceptible.
On Friday the 14th instant, The Captain of the Watch,
in which Mr. Charles Matthews, and The Windmill, in
which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, Mr. Meadows, and Mrs.
Winstanley will appear, afford a specimen of come-
dietta and farce, in the one of which the quick and
vivacious acting of the liveliest of our light comedians,
and in the other our most humorous actor, will give
proof of their abilities.

- It will be observed that on Friday, the 21st instant,
very great compliment of a " first night " of a " new
and original drama," in the presence of royalty, will be
paid to Mr. Douglas Jerrold. This, it is said, is a
consequence of the enjoyment afforded the royal audi-
ence by the same author's Prisoner of War, which con-
stituted a portion of the court theatricals last year. The
success of the new piece will be powerfully aided by Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Lacy, Mr. Earley, Mr. Wright, Mr.
James Vining, Mr. Ryder, and Mr. Charles Kean.
Paul Pry, on Friday, the 28th inst., will give ample
room and verge enough for the drollery of Mr. Wright,
in all its fullness. The farce of The Lucky Friday on
this evening will also strongly bring out the careful
quaintness of Mr. Alfred Wigan's style.
Macbeth on the last evening, Friday, the 4th of Feb.,
will fitly close the series. Mrs. Charles Kean will play
the heroine. The magnificent manner in which this
tragedy has been "mounted" for this occasion, the cor-
rectness of the costumes and decorations, the tout en-
semble of Shakspearian feeling and reality that have been ;
achieved by the study and managerial skill of Mr. Kean,
will, no doubt, render the intended production of this
piece at the Princess's Theatre an equal triumph with
that of the King John brought out on the same superb
scale last season.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE,—Mr. John Cane, who has
been collector for the Imperial Gas Company for some
time, committed suicide, on Saturday, in his lodgings,
43, Beaumont-street, corner of Devonshire-street, Mary-
lebone. The following are a few of the circumstances
connected with this distressing case. About seven
o'clock on Saturday morning the unfortunate man went
AL. Cent down to his kitchen to light the fire, as was his usual
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availing, and in little more than an hour the unfortunate
PREFERMENT.—The Rev. 0. P. Vincent, M.A., to man breathed his last. A document was found in the
the curacy of White Roding, Dunmon, Essex. kitchen by his side, smeared with his blood. At the
THE USE or CHlCORY.—Notwithstandin the cancell- 1 bottom was written, "I am perfectly mad." The docu-
ing of the Treasury minute permitting the admixture of I ment was signed "J. Cane."
chicory with coffee by the licensed dealers, and of which THE BANK.—Last year opened with every indication
they had three months' notice, the use of it as an adul- of a tendency to abundance in the money market, and of
teration of coffee is still carried on by many traders to a a gradual recovery from that strange apathy which, since
large extent, so reluctant are they to give up so great a 11847, no argument or prediction had prevailed. On the
source of profit. This defiance of the law has induced Ist of January, the Bank lowered the rate of discount
the officers of the Inland Revenue to make purchases of from 3 per cent., at which it had stood during the pre-
the compound known as ground coffee from a large ceding twelve months, to 2i per cent., and this was fol-
number of tea-dealer and grocers, and such samples are lowed on the 22d April by a further reduction to 2 per
now being analysed by the chemists to the Board of In- cent. Meanwhile its stock of bullion steadily increased,
land Revenue. As soon as completed, prosecutions will until on the 10th July it reached 22,232,1381., an
be instituted against the defenders for this continued amount of 4,818,5741. in excess of the highest point at
fraud upon the revenue, any former period.

THE NEW MINISTRY.

First Lord of the Treasury Earl of Aberdeen.
Secretaries of Foreign Lord John Russell.
State Home Viscount Palmerston.
Colonial Duke of Newcastle.
Lord Chancellor Lord Cranworth.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
Lord President Earl Granville.
Lord Privy Seal Duke of Argyll.
First Lord of the Admiralty Sir James Graham.
Chief Commissioner of Indian
Affairs Sir C. Wood.
Secretary at War Mr. Sidney Herbert.
First Commissioner of Works Sir William Molesworth.
Without office Marquis of Lansdowne.
The above form the Cabinet.
President of the Board of
Trade. Right Hon. E. Cardwell.
Vice-President (and Pay-
' master) Lord Stanley of Alderley.
Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster Right Hon. E. Strutt.
Postmaster-General Viscount Canning.
Judge Advocate General Hon. C. P. Villiers.
President of the Poor Law
Board Right Hon. M. T. Baines.
Secretary of the Poor Law
Board Hon. Granville Berkeley.
Joint Secretaries tothe Trea- I Right Hon. G. W. Hayter.
B'l7 f Mr. James Wilson.
Joint Secretaries to the t Mr. R. Lowe.
Board of Control f Sir T. Redington.
Secretary to the Admiralty... Mr. Bernal Osborne.
Attorney-General.
Solicitor-General. Mr. R. Bethell, Q.C.
Lords of the Treasury f Lord Alfred Hervey.
F. Charteris.
Mr. John Sadleir.
Junior First Naval Lord Vice-Adm.HydeParker,C.B.
Lords of Second ditto Admiral Hon. M. Berkeley.
the Ad- Third ditto Captain Hon. R. S. Dundas,
miralty. Fourth ditto Captain A. Milne.
Civil Lord Hon. W. A. Cowper.
Under Secretaries (Home Hon. H. Fitzroy.
of State...... Colonial Mr. F. Peel.
....
Foreign . Lord Woclehouse.
Commander-in-Chief Master-General of the Ord-
Viscount Hardinge.
nance
Clerk of the Ordnance Mr. W. Monsell.
Lord Chamberlain
Master of the Horse Duke of Norfolk.
Lord Stewart of the House-
hold
Marquis of Westminster.
Treasurer of the Household Earl of Mulg,rave.
Controller of the Household Lord Drumlanrig.
Vice-Chamberlain Lord Ernest Bruce.
Master of the Buckhounds Earl of Bessborough.
Captain of the Yeomen of
the Guard Viscount Sidney.
Captain of the Corps of Gen-
tlemen-at-Arms Lord Foley.
Chief Equerry and Clerk
Marshal Lord Alfred Paget.

Lord-Lieiitenant
Chief Secretary
Lord Chancellor
Attorney-General
Solicitor-G-eneral

Lord Advocate .....
Solicitor-General...

IRELAND.
Earl St. Germans.
Sir John Young.
Right Hon. M. Brady.
Mr. A. Brewster.
Mr. W. Keogh.

SCOTLAND.
......... Right Hon. J. Moncrioff.
......... Mr. W. Deas.

The Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister, has appointed
to be his Private Secretaries the Hon. A. Gordon and
Mr. J. H. Cole.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. W. C. S.
Rice, barrister-at-law, to be his Chief Secretary.
Lord John Russell has appointed Mr. Arthur Russell
as his Private Secretary ; and Mr. F. W. H. Cavendish,
of the Foreign-office, Precis Writer.
Lord Palmerston has appointed Mr. R. W. Grey, late
M.P. for Tynemouth, his Lordship's Private Secretary
at the Home-office.

Mr. W. F. Higgins is acting at Private Secretary to
the Duke of Newcastle, but will permanently continue
to act for Mr. F. Peel, when the Chief Secretary shall
make another selection.
Sir James Graham has appointed Captain Henry
O'Brien to be his Private Secretary at the Admiralty.
Sir William Molesworth has selected Mr. Thornborrow
(of the Office of Works and Buildings) to be his Official
Private Secretary.
The Hon. F. C. Lawley M.P. for Beverley) is acting
as Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
who has not yet selected his official private secretary for
the Treasury.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-THIS DAY.

OLD COURT.
The January Sessions of the Central Criminal Court
were opened this morning, before the Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor, the Recorder, the Aldermen—Sir John
Key, Bart., Sir W. Maguey, Bart., Kelly, Farncomb,
and Wire, and other civic functionaries.
The number of persons contained in the calendar was
83, but this number will no doubt be augmented before
the discharge of the Grand Jury. There are no very
heinous offences disclosed in the calendar, the most se-
rious case being a burglary with an attempt at murder,
and two cases of manslaughter. There are no fewer ikan
six prosecutions by the Bank of England for the uttering
of forged notes ; and it will be well for the public to be on
their guard, a number of spurious 51. notes being in cir-
culation.

The Grand Jury having been sworn and empannelled,
The Recorder proceeded to charge them. He said the
calendar was unusually light for the time of year, and he
was happy to find that it contained no case of a serious
character, nor any which was likely to present any legal
difficulty. It was, therefore, unnecessary to detain them
with any lengthened observations, and he remitted them
to their duties, explaining the mode in which a true bill
must be found.

The Grand Jury then retired, and shortly afterwards,
several true bills having been returned, the trials were
commenced.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS--(THIS DAY.)

The January general Quarter Sessions for the county
of Middlesex commenced this morning at the Sessions-
house, Clerkenwell-green, before Mr. Sergeant Adams,
Assistant Judge, Mr. Witham, and a bench of magis-
trates. The calendar, which is rather heavy, contains
the names of eighty prisoners for trial, thirteen of whom
are misdemeanants.

EXTENSIVE AND DARING ROBBERY OF WATCHES.
James White Hinds, aged 33, and Ezra Hinds, aged
27, who were found guilty last session—the prisoner
James for stealing 3 watches, and other articles, of the
value of 1101., the property of Mr. Samuel Jackson, his
master ; and the prisoner Ezra for feloniously receiving
the same, well knowing them to have been stolen, were
placed at the bar this morning for judgment.
Mr. Inspector Brennan stated that he had had an
interview with the prisoners, when James Hinds stated
that there was not half the property produced in court,
the pawnbroker being ashamed to produce the property,
he having taken it in in such an unfinished state that no
other honest tradesman would have done.

Mr. Sergeant Adams said that if they had not given
facilities for the recovery of some of the property he should
have most certainly transported them. As it was, the
sentence of the court was, that both the prisoners be kept
to hard labour in the House of Correction for 12 calendar
months.

Benjamin Brown, who was found guilty of stealing 2
coats, and other articles, of the value of 71., the property
of Mr. Charles Qooth, and was sentenced to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for
12 calendar months, the learned Judge stating that if he
was ever there again he would be transported.
The two prisoners Bedwell and Perry, who were found
guilty of stealing, last session, a quantity of lead, were
this morning sentenced, the former to transportation for
7 years, and the latter to 12 calendar months, with hard
labour.

THE NEW CRYSTAL PALACE.—We understand that
the New Crystal Palace Company a few days since took
on lease, for a term of 99 years, 35 acres of land belong-
ing to the authorities of Dulwich College. It is intended
to form this land into a carriage-drive, which will add
most materially to the comfort and convenience of per-
sons witnessing the Exhibition. We are sorry to hear
that the works of the building sustained considerable
damage during the storm of Sunday night, so much so
that all work was suspended the whole of Monday.
Kentish, Mercury.
DARING BURGLARY AT RAVENSWORTH CASTLE.—On
Friday morning, at an early hour, Ravensworth Castle,
the seat of the Right Hon. Lord Ravensworth, situate
about four miles from Newcastle, was burglariously
entered, and jewellery to the value of about 3001., and
1001., in Bank of England notes and sovereigns, were
carried off. The rooms into which the burglars entered
were a bed-room, occupied by the Hon. Thomas and
Mrs. Liddell, a dressing-room adjoining the libram
and a small dressing-room, all at the west end of
the
Castle. Between eleven and twelve o'clock on the night
previous, the doors of the Castle were secured as usual,
and the family, including Lord Ravensworth, the Hon.
Thos. Liddell and lady, Mr. Robert Liddell, and the
servants, retired to rest. At three o'clock in the morn-
ing the Hon. Thomas Liddell, who was rather unwell,
had occasion to get up, and seeing the door of h
open, he looked round and at once discoveredtihsat roomt
e
room bad been robbed. An alarm was
raised imme-
diately, and, on search being made, it n
that a large quantity of jewellery,
pencil-cases,
been
watches, seals, rings, brooches, k
removed from
th
e belonging to Mrs. Liddell, had cotviiass ascertained
of gold
lee
the dressing-table in the bed-room, during the night.
Mr. Liddell s dressing-room had also
jewellery stolen from a large
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containing 1001. in gold and notes, had been taken. On
further examination of the premises it was found that
the burglars had entered by the window of a water-
closet at the west end of the castle, and had effected
their escape from the window of a small drawing-room.
And what is very remarkable, although one of the ser-
vants answered his lordship's bell at half-past one o'clock,
no one seems to have been disturbed by them, or to
have beard the slightest noise.