The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-04 00:00:00

No. 17, 559• ji LONDON, THUE SDAY G

THE POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY
FOR 1849,
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ON PHYSICAL DISQU'ALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA-
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with time, until it receives the sacred consummation of marriage.
When union does not take place, however, this passion, this
fervour, this golden tide of the manliest feelings becomes a deadly
poison in the heart, which now darkens, as it before bright-
ened, all things upon earth. how is it that men, of most un-
changeable habits, will change at the very altar, and after a life-
time spent in the fultilmen, of every engagement, snap the very con-
tract asunder which should be roost binding to an honourable mind?
It is the effect of conscience. The Lover, by enervation of early
habits, or the results of secret disease, knows himself' to be
disqualified, and dares not enter a state which has been
instituted by Divine Law for tke fulfilment e important
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SULF-PRESERVATION.
illustrated by forty coloured engravings on the anatomy, physiology,
and diseases of the reproductive organs ; with practical observa-
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solitary habits, excesses, or infection.
By SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.,
Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of
Edinburgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c.

This treatise is the result of a long course of study in a peculiar and
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TO CONTRACTORS for PUBLIC WORKS.
NORFOLK, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, and HUNTINGDON-

SHIRE.

The COMMISSIONERS for the DRAINAGE of the MIDDLE
LEVEL of the FENS will MEET early in MARCII, 1845, to receive
TENDERS for the Deepening, Widening, or otherwise Improving
about 100 Miles in length of the Rivers and Drains within the Middle
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undertake to complete the works, must be stated in the Tender. The
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possitile dispatch.
Tenders, under seal and indorsed " Middle Level Tender," to be
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St. Ives, Dee. 26, 1848.
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THE POST-OFFICE ROBBERY ON

THE GREAT-WESTERN RAILWAY.
(From the Western Luminary.)
At the Guildhall, Exeter, on Tuesday morning,
Henry Poole, and a man who refused to give his
name, were charged with opening the mail-bags in
their transit from Bristol to Exeter, and with ab-
stracting several letters, registered letters, and par-
cels therefrom.

Mr. Turner appeared to watch the case on the part
of the prisoner Poole, and Mr. Scoble Willesford for
the man without a name.

Mr. Barlow, one of the directors of the Great
Western Railway Company, stated, that he was a
passenger last night by the mail train from London
to Exeter, and that on the train reaching Bridge-
water, the guard came to him and stated that the.
mail bags had been opened; that they had been per-
fectly safe at Bristol, but that, on getting to Bridge-
water the mail-guard had discovered that the car-
riage had been opened and the fastenings of the bags
cut. He was satisfied from this information that the
robbery, if any, must have been committed by
some one in the train, and that whoever
had committed it must be in the train
still. He therefore gave directions that every door
should be immediately secured: there were very few
passengers, and these men, who got in at Bristol,
were sitting together in a first-class carriage. Mr.
Andrews, a solicitor of Modbury, was in the same
compartment, but quite upon the other side of it,
and the door between him and the prisoners was shut
and the blind down. Having satisfied himself that
these must he the men who had cut open the bags,
he caused them to he searched, but nothing tending
to implicate them was found on them at that time. At
Taunton he had them removed into the waiting-room,
and the carriage was searched more particularly,
when, under the seat on which they had been sitting,
a handkerchief was found containing thirteen or
fourteen parcels, taken from the mail-bags, and all
directed to parties in the west of England. In the
carriage-pocket two crape masks were found, which
ho apprehended bore evident marks of having been
freshly made; there was also a black cap well
calculated for the purposes of disguise. There had
since, he understood, been found a pair of false
moustaches, which it was of some importance to
notice, because it was possible they might be found
to bear upon a similar robbery of the up mail train,
which had happened on the same night. He gave the
prisoners into custody of the superintendent of the
Plymouth police, who was a passenger by the train;
and, on reaching Exeter, they were immediately
handed over to the police.
Joseph Rhynheart, the guard of the down mail-
train, stated that on reaching Bristol a report was
made that the bags of the up-train had been opened
between Exeter and that place. The practice was for
the mail-guard to remain in the carriage with the
bags between Bristol and London, both on the up and
down journeys; but between Bristol and Exeter he
rode in the sorting carriage, which was a separate
compartment, with the sorting clerks. On reaching
Bridgewater, the mail-guard called 'his attention to
the fact that the mail bags had been opened, and on
going into the carriage he saw that many of them
were tied up in a different way from that in which
they were usually sent from the Post-office ; the
original fastenings had evidently been cut, and pieces
of the string were strewn about the floor of the car-
riage ; other pieces of precisely the same description
were subsequently found upon the carpet in the
carriage where the prisoners had been sitting.
Mr. Clarke, the night superintendent at the
Taunton station, proved that he,searched the carriage
in which the prisoners had travelled at Mr. Barlow 's
request, and found under the seat a number of letters
and parcels, which he handed over to Mr. Gibbons,
superintendent of the Plymouth police.
Mr. Gibbons produced the parcels, which were,
with scarcely an exception, of a bulky character, and
such as were likely, from their appearance, to con-
tain valuable property. When he first searched the
prisoners at Bridgewater, he found a gold watch and
money on each, but nothing to connect them with the
robbery.
The mail guard having been obliged to go on to
Piyinouth with the bags, and other evidence being
necessary to complete the case, the magistrates re-
manded both prisoners until Saturday.
Mr. Mountford attended on the pert of the Post-
, office authorities.

The prisoner Poole was for some time in the service
of the Great Western Railway Company as a guard;
the other man is entirely unknown.
None of the property plundered from the up-mail
has yet been found. One of the registered letters
stolen from this mail, it is stated, contained 4,0001.,
and the loss, so far as at present known, unquestion-
ably amounts to much more than that sum. Colonel
Moberly, the secretary of the Post-office, and Mr.
Peacock, the Post-office solicitor, were engaged the
whole of yesterday morning in arranging plans for
the full development of the affair.

ST. MARY'S SCILLT.—WRECH WITH Loss OF
LIFE.--The Swedish brig Charlotte of Stockholm, E.
Stranvitz, master, of about 350 tons burthen, from Got-
tenburg for Monte Video, with deals and balk, was to•
tally lost on Meledgan, one of the Scilly Islands, on the
25th instant, at 4 A.m., when the master, chief mate, two
men, and one passenger were drowned. The remainder
of the crew, ten in number, were observed from St.
Agnes Island, at daybreak, on Meledgan, which is an
uninhabited island, with a colour flying, and where they
had erected a tent. They left Gottenburg on the 19th
instant, and made St. Agnes light about 2 .L. 51., yester-
day, but could not weather away the rocks, the wind
having veered from S.E. to S.W. blowing a gale. The
names of the men who have been saved are C. L. A.
Tn enson, second mate; seamen, A. Nilson, A. Ander-
son, A. Borjerson, Z. Mattison, Z. Stromberg, A. Ja-
cobson; A. Jehansson, (cook) leg slightly hurt; W.
Legor, boy; all of whom have been provided with cloth-
ing and every comfort, by T. J. Buxton, Esq. Swedish
Vice-Consul, at Scilly, and will be forwarded to their
homes in a few days. Drowned, E. Strauvitz, master;
H. 0. Olbert, N. Yanson, seamen; Carl Linfeltz, boy;
Carl Thornssen, passenger. Yanson's body was picked
up by the crew and left on the island. The survivors
were rescued by the crew of the pilot boat Active,
who approached as near as possible to the Meledgan
Rock, and cast ropes by means of stones attached to
the rn, which they fastened round their bodies, and jump-
ing into the sea were hauled on board. It is feared that
but little of the cargo will bo saved. Portions of the
wreck have been washed on shore at St. Mary's.—
Cornwall 1:oyal Gazette.
GALLANT CONDUCT.—AS the Mersey, Tranmere
boat, which left the Tranmere slip for Liverpool, on
Thursday, at half-past one, was putting some of the crew
of the Iron Duke on board that vessel, one of them
slipped his foot, fell into the water, and sunk, being
upparently quite unable to swim. One of the crew of the
Mersey, Joseph Kane, the gallant fellow who has already
res-ned 13 or 14 lives from drowning, immediately
jumped into the water with the end of a rope in his
hand; but finding that this impeded him, he let go the
rope, swam towards the spot, and, getting hold of the
drowning man, held him above water till a rope was
thrown to him, and both were drawn safely on board.
A few coppers were collected for the gallant fellow by
one of hie comrades, but he is well deserving of some
more substantial reward.—Liverpool Standard.

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

By the arrival of the steam-ship Canada, we have
received New York papers to the 20th of December,
being seven days later than the advices received pre-
viously.
The proceedings of the American Congress do not.
contain any news that is likely to interest the Euro=
peen reader. Mr. Miller, of New Jersey, had moved
in the Senate a resolution, calling on the President
for information concerning any correspondence had
with the Government of Spain concerning the pur-
chase of Cuba. After some discussion, Mr. Miller
consented to allow his resolution to lie over. Another
project has been started for a railroad across the
Isthmus of Panama. A Bill is pending in Congress
for giving the contract to the parties for carrying the
Pacific mails for 20 years, at 265,000 dollars per
annum, and on being secured to them, the projectors
offer to construct the railway.
It is be'ieved that the Congress will not at its pre-
sent sitting effect any
changes in the tariff, although
efforts may be made to increase the duties on iron and
some other articles of import. It seems, however,
that with the next Administration will come certainly
a reconsideration of the whole tariff policy, and its
adjustment, as it is hoped,
upon a basis at once per-
manent and satisfactory to American citizens, without
material detriment to revenue or imports from other
countries.

The gold excitement sweeps the entire Union.
Scores of ships are advertised to leave the several
ports of the United States. At New York alone
thirty vessels, from barq.kgs tons to ships of
A9OO tons,were:preparingre their departure for
the -g—old region. Such was the haste, and so eager the
desire, to finger the precious metal, that as much as
175 dolls. had been Aid for a passage to Charges
from New York, although that port was not more
than half the distance to the gold regions. Respect-
ing the mines, accounts continue to be received fully
confirming previous reports as to the immense
supply, and plenty of gold in California. It has
been tested by the United States authorities, and
found genuine. At the same time, rumours are afloat
respecting lawlessness and violence in the country
near the gold diggings, and as there is no settled go-
vernment in California, scenes of terror and bloodshed
are dreaded.

It is said that the Mormons have laid claim to
a large tract of the gold territory in California,
and make a demand of 30 per cent. duty on all
gold taken therefrom. This step will, no doubt,
lead to troubles between them and the newly arrived
emigrants.
This arrival brings late Mexican news. An extra
session of Congress had been called. Don Luis
Gueras had succeeded Senor Otero, as Secretary of
Foreign Affairs, the lattdr having resigned on the
13th of November. The Secretary of the Treasury
had obtained a loan of '200,000 dollars. A change
in the tariff continues to be advocated, so as to re-
duce the duties on imports, but, at the same time,
prohibit the entry of goods similar to those which
can be produced in Mexico. It was generally be-
lieved that Paredes had effected his escape out of
Mexico by the West India steamers sailing to
Southampton. The news from the insurgents at
Cerra Gordo is deplorable. Bustamente has dis-
patched a force against them from Querotoro, but
they took refuge at once in inaccessible fastnesses,
losing only a few killed and wounded.
A few Irish emigrants, supposed to be detective
police, had met with rough treatment at New Orleans,
for having, it was said, taken part in the prosecution
of the Irish insurgents. They were named Harris,
Kavanagh, Ford, and Kearnes. It took some diffi-
culty on the part of the New Orleans police to relieve
them.

The following are extracts from the American
papers :

BALTIMORE, DEC. 19.—Advices have been received
here from Merida to the 11th of November. It is stated
that General Baum has been arrested, tried, and shot,
for treason, in having connived at the escape of Paredes
from the country.
The United States schooner Flirt was at Laguna—
all well.

Quite a fearful collision occurred on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, near Harper's Ferry, on Sunday,
between the passenger train and a burden train coming
down. The locomotives and cars were mashed to a
terrible extent. There ought by this time to be some
mode adopted whereby these collisions can be avoided.
There can be no excuse for them. Fortunately tin this
case, no lives were lost.

George Law, Esq., one of our oldest and most esteemed
citizens, died yesterday. The old men are dropping off
rapidly.

There is still no sign of cholera, or anything resem-
blind it. The Silas Richards is still detained at qua-
rantine, though all on hoard are perfectly healthy. The
rumours of cases of cholera on board and in the city are
all fabulous.

Mr. John Hardy, a young butcher, engaged in killing
yesterday, was gored to death by a bullock that acci-
dentalh, broke loose whilst being drawn to the ring.
RICHMOND, DEC. 19.—New Orleans papers of the 11th
inst. announce the death of James Landis, an eminent
and influential merchant of that city. There is no other
news of importance.
CINCINNATI, DEC. 19.—We learn .by arrivals here
that the rivers above St. Louis wore closed on the 14th
inst., and navigation suspended. Most of the boats en-
gaged in the Upper Mississippi trade, above the rapids,
had been withdrawn or laid up.
PITTSBURG, DEC. 19.—There is 7 feet 6 inches of
water in the channel, and the river is in good boating
order.

News from Venezuela, November 20, announces the
surrender of Maracaibo to General Paez, and the adhe-
sion of Truxillo and Mends to his side. He has gained
several advantages over Monagas. The news is not fully
credited, but seems probably true.
The Ohio Legislature still unorganised;
there is
danger that it will break up in confusion. No fears of
revolution are entertained. Assurances have been re-
ceived that interest on the state debt will be punctually
paid in any event. The next dividend is due in January,
and has been provided for. _ _

From the Pacific intelligence has been received of a
horrid massacre by the Indians at the Ice Islands, but no
details are known. Two English ships of war had gone
to inquire into it.

(From the New York Weekly Herald of Dec. 20.)
GENERAL TAYLOR AND HIS CABINET.—We are almost
inundated from all quarters with articles, suggestions,
communications, and letters, relative to the materials of
the new Cabinet to be selected by the President elect.
We have already given a number of names of those who
were most prominent in contributing their aid to the
great victory lately achieved by the people. But we do
not think it necessary or useful to recommend particular
individuals for particular departments in the present
crisis of public affairs.
In our opinion, the Cabinet under General Taylor
will not be such a political conclave as the politicians
generally suppose. General Taylor will be found a vary
different man from General Harrison—a very different
man from Captain Tyler—a different man from any who
have preceded him in the Presidency since the days of
General Jackson.

•We believe that the President elect will choose his
Cabinet from the best names and the most efficient
statesmen he can get; but if any individual of his Cabi-
net, or even the whole of it, should attempt to rule the
roast, or to upset the general principles he may lay
down for the guidance of his Government, he will at
once get rid of them, as easily as General Jackson did,
and will appoint a new Cabinet, if necessary, every six
months.
The responsibility of the Cabinet, as wisely regulated
are
ee
placed,duties attached
by the Constitution, rests upon the President's shoulders.
The members of the Cabinet are only the heads
and re-
sponsible
of the
several veral dempaerrtemlyenfotsr otvheerdvicheihrgcahthe oeyf
to their respective offices. Should it happen that any of
the subordinates of General Taylor do not concur in his
general views and measures of government, we have not
the slightest doubt but he will remove them with the
same ease and promptness as General Jackson did dur-
ing the eight years of his administration.
NEWS FROM LA PLATA.

Our dates from Buenos Ayres are to the Ist October,
up to which time we have files of the British Packet,
from which we learn that Mott Alston Pringle, Esq., has
bee
been appointed
coinhtaerdlesctoonn, S. sulfc.or the Argentine Republic, to
reside
From Monte Video, to the 3d of October, we have Re-
counts. Affairs seem remarkably quiet, now-a-days, in
this part of the world. Since the English and French
Governments have given up their special missions to
Rosas as hopeless cases, we have heard but little of the
doings of this chief. The papers are devoid of news of
any kind, being pretty nearly all filled with details of
European affairs.
INDIANA U. S. SENATOR. --G.OY. James Whitcomb,
Democrat, is elected to the United States Senate, to
take the place of Edward A. llatinegan.
The New Orleans Picayune contains an announce-
ment of the marriage of Major W. W. S. Bliss to Miss
Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of
the President elect.
The Hon. Ambrose H. Sevier, it is understood, has
been nominated by the President as Commissioner on
the part of the United States to run the boundary line
between this Republic and Mexico. The Senate will, no
doubt, confirm the nomination.

DESTRUCTION OF THE -
PARK THEATRE BY
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FIRE.

We have to chronicle the total destruction, by fire, of
the Park Theatre, New York. This took place on Satur-
day evening (December 16), about a quarter past six
o'clock, an hour before the time appointed for the per-
formances to take place. About that time smoke was
seen to issue from the rear part of the establishment
which butted on Theatre-alley, a small street running in
tho rear of Park-row, from Beckman-street. The an-

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nouncement was made immediately that the Park
Theatre was on fire ; and in a few minutes afterwards
the smoke poured from every window and skylight in
the building. Soon a flame shot forth from the windows,
and in an inconceivably short period of time the whole
building was enveloped in fire. When this occurred
the scene was frightful. The dark heavy clouds which
were hurried across the firmament by a strong easterly
wind, reflected the illumination and lighted up the city
so fully that a person could read ordinary-sized type at
a distance of half a mile from the scene of the confla-
gration. Crowds of persons, far and near, attracted by
the glare, hurried to the scene; the fire-bells pealed the
alarm, and the whole metropolis was in a state of com-
motion rarely equalled. The firemen were on the spot
with their accustomed and praiseworthy alacrity, and
in less time than we have taken to write this much of
the narrative, as many as forty streams of water were
being directed on the burning edifice. But human effort
seemed to be of little avail in stopping the progress of
destruction, and in about half an hour the burning raf-
ters were visible. All hopes of saving the theatre were
then abandoned, and the firemen directed their attention
to prevent the adjoining houses in Ann-street, Beekman-
streA, and Park-row, from being destroyed. Accordingly
they left the theatre to a fate which they felt tbemselvea
powerless to avert, and threw water on the property
most in danger. Their efforts were crowned with suc;•
cess. The flames communicated to Earle's Hotel, ad-
joining, the rear of which was partially destroyed. The
most of the bedding was safely removed, though the
other furniture was considerably broken, and the whole
building was flooded with water. The damage to the
furniture was fully insured. The injury to the house is
probably 2,000 dollars, which was insured. The fire also
communicated to Clarke's House, which sustained trifling
damage by fire, though the furniture was considerably
injured by water. They are both five story houses, which
was the cause of their taking fire so quickly. The Park
House, a five story building, was at one time thought in
imminent danger, though by the exertions of the fire-
men it sustained very trifling damage. The Fountain
House, adjoining the east end of the theatre, took fire,
but was extinguished without material damage. In one
hour and three, quarters from the time the fire was dis-
covered the flames were subdued, with a loss of property
to the amount probably of 60,000 dollars. It is twenty-
eight years since the Park Theatre was burned. There
were several reports about the origin of the fire; but it
is now ascertained, beyond a doubt, that it originated by
one of the young ladies belonging to the ballet, who, in
looking at some bills hanging near the prompter's box,
pushed several of them against one of the gas lights,
when they instantly took fire, which communicated to
the adjoining scenery. Instead of pulling down the
whole bundle when they first took fire, she ran from
them, and before another could reach the spot, the
scenery was in flames, and beyond the power of hu-
man aid.

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

NEW YORK, DEC. 19.

Cotton—The sales of the morning are 400 bales, at
steady prices; Upland, middling fair to fair, 6gc to 6ic;
New Orleans and Mobile fair to fair, 6i-c to 7c.
Flour, &c.—Western canal flour is a shade firmer,
and no fair brands can be had under 5 dolls 31i. Sales
of 2,000 bbls at 5 dolls 31Ic to 5 dolls 37ie, for ordi-
nary to straight brands, Oswego, Rochester, and Mi-
chigan; and 5 dolls 62ic to 5 dolls 75c for pure Genes-
see. Southern Flour is quiet, at 5 dolls 25c to 5 dolls
60c. Sales, 200 bbls Georgetown at the former figure.
W heat dull, Genessee at 130 c, Western, 106 c. Corn
is iii fair request, with sales of 10.000 bushels at 60c
for new fiat yellow, and 63c to 64c for old nixed
Western. Rye and oats remain as before, with small
sales.

Ashes—Sales of 100 bhls Canadian Pots, in bond,
were made at 6 dolls; and 50 to 75 bbls American pots
and pearls, at 6 dolls to 6 dolls 25c. The market
closed firm.
Bees'-wax—Further sales of 1,5001 b yellow, at 21c,
cash.
Freights-20,000 bushels of corn were engaged in a
British vessel to Liverpool, at 6id, and 3,500 bushels in
an American vessel at 6d, bagged by shipper ; 3,000
bushels were engaged for Glasgow, at 7d. There was
a good inquiry for engagements of corn to Ireland, for
which 9d was offered, and 10d asked. Bacon was en-
gaged to Liverpool, at 30s ; 1,200 barrels of meal at 2s;
beef, in barrels, at 2s 6d; and bread, at 2s.
Fruit—The sales comprise 7,000 boxes bunch raisins,
on private terms; 800 ditto at 1 doll 40c to 1 doll 50c ;
1,000 halves and quarters, at 75c to 42ie; 1,000 layers
on terms not transpired; 500 boxes new Messina lemons,
at 2 dolls 76c; 750 boxes oranges, at private bargain,
and 400 kegs and half kegs Malaga grapes, at 4 dolls
75c to 2 dolls st)c.

Indigo—We notice sales of Madras, in lots, at 77itc,
and Caracas, at 80c.
Lead was firm, at 4 dolls 25c.
Sugars—We notice sales of 300 boxes brown Ha-
rennet', at 41c to sc, and 170 hhds Surinam, for refining,
on private terms.
Provisions--Sales of pork, in 400 to ~500 bbls, includ-
ing mess, at 13 dolls to 13 dolls. 25c, and prim-e at 10
dolls to 10 dolls 25c. A small lot of prime now mess
was sold at 14 dolls. The market closed firm. Beef—
Sales, 75 tcs mess were made at 18 dolls. A small sale
country mess, to arrive, was made at 10 dolls 15c. Lard
continued dull, and quotations nominal.
Tallow—Sales of 5,0001bs were made at Sic.
Rice—To-day has been quiet, and no sales of moment
are reported. Quotations range from 3 dolls to 3 dolls
25c per 1001bs.
Sherry Wines—The sales of wines this morning,
though tairly attended, brought low prices, so much so
as to have the greater portion withdrawn. Annexed
are the: prices 6 mos :-3 casks superior pale sherry,
60c ; gold, 65c; 6, pale, 65c; 3, brown 80c; 3, pale,
127 c; pale Amontilla, per Desdernona, 85c; 3, brown
Sherry, 50c; gold, 521 c; 10 qr casks port, bb the Royal
Agricultural Wine Company, per Heroinds, 73c to 75c;
5 octaves Madeira, Phelps' brand, now lauding, 75c.

NEW YEAR'S GIFTS TO PRISONERS CONFINED IN
WIIITECROSS-STREET PRISON, AS ALSO THE CITY
PRISONS, BY THE LORD MAYOR.—On New Year's day,
by the order and gift of the Honourable the Lord Mayor,
.Sir James Duke, M.P., the prisoners confined for debt
inWhitecross-street Prison, to the number of 200, re-
ceived: a [gratuity in thel substantial shape of, to each
prisoner, lib. of beef, 11b. of potatoes, 11b. of bread, and
1 pint of porter, in addition to which there were several
other minor gifts from the civic companies and others,
which are annually distributed, at the discretion of the
Governor, among the poorer classes of prisoners. In
Newgate, the Compter, and other City prisons, a similar
allowance of beef, bread, and potatoes, was distributed to
each prisoner, the gift of the Lord Mayor, the distribu-
tion on Christmas-day being at the expense of the She-
riffs, Alderman Finnis and J. G. Goodhart, Esq. The
City prisons are the only criminal prisons in the metro-
puha where any delairture from the ordinary allowance
is permitted either ou Christmas or New Year's-day.
LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT, MONDAY.—RE
J. PAGE HEILLY.—This bankrupt again appeared before
Commissioner Perry. The grounds of opposition to him
were—that the act of bankruptcy was his own; that he
had entered into injudicious speculations in building a
large house at Litherland; that his expenditure was dis-
proportioaate to his means; and that he had removed
his furniture in contemplation of bankruptcy. The
Commissioner said at first that he would suspend the
certificate for two years, but on Mr. Pemberton's appli-
cation, seconded by Mr. Yates, the solicitor for the cre-
ditors, he suspended the certificate for twelve months,
and reserved to the Court the right of acting as might
be thought proper at the end of that period. Protection
would be granted him for three months, and, at the end
of that time, if lie behaved himself properly, it would be
further extended.—Liverpool paper.
MISS BREMER'S NEW WORK " THE MIDNIGHT
Sus."—The Britannia, in its review of the Christmas
books of the present season, observes—" In contrast to
the story of Mr. Dickens, we have a tale by Fredrika
Bremer, in which the trials, the characters, and the inci-
dents of domestic life are brought before us with exqui-
site truth and feeling. Of all her tales, The Midnight
Sun' is likely to be the most popular in this country. In
delineating the struggles of the heart, Miss Bremer is
unrivalled. She gives us human beings with all their
faults and all their defects ; and a great part of that fas-
cination which her pen exercises over us arises from the
interest we feel in that development of character, and
that gradual moulding of it into shapes of purer good as
it is tried by suffering, and purified and elevated by love.
Certainly, the most eloquent of all Miss Bremer',; tales,
a more appropriate book for the season, as helping to
nourish kind thoughts, could not be issued."—Britannia.
ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICH, JAN. 3.—The
lengthened trial of the 8-inch gun of 65 cwt. from the
Low Moor Foundry in Yorkshire, by firing two hollow
shot at one time, on Captain Chads' principle, is now
concluded. After firing 10 rounds, with charges of 231 b.
of powder each round, and two hollow 56-pounder shot
each time, the gun appeared perfectly sound on being
examined. The result of the experiments being so
successful, the authorities decided on having the gun
tried with solid shot, commencing with a charge of 201 b.
of powder each round. The gun stood the first and
second rounds with 201 b. of powder and two solid shot
of Galb. each in a most remarkable manner, but on the
third round being fired with a similar charge, it burst,
and did not leave' as much of the carriage on the platform
as would have lighted a moderate-sized fire, the frag-
ments both of the gun and the timbers being dispersed
in all directions. Several large splinters struck the new
two-gun battery erecting by Mr. Kerrige with his com-
position, but they did not appear to have injured it.)
The result of the experiments with the 8-inch gun
confi-
dence
a most satisfactory nature, and will give
greaxtn„o
to gunners, as affording. proof of the
d ete cthat the
which these guns can be used safety,with
are perfectly safe for the introduction of `napntaii; Chads'
principle with hollow shot.
HOLIDAY 'VISITORS TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM
DURING THE CHRISTMAS WEEK.—From the ci)t
aepiaplerares-
turns of the attendants at the visitors nc
that during the four days the leunsetriamw'as open in
Christmas week,
the number of persons who visited the
itnhse-tintuutmiobernasmounted to 37,260, of which, on,Turesday,
were 12,875; Wednesday, 14,435; rhurs-
day, 2,231;
and Friday, 779; in all, 37,260, which, con-
sidering the shortness of the days and the inclemency of
the weather, is a much larger number than usual.

[PRui SD.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM TITS MORNING PAPERS OP TIIIS DAY.
TIMES.—The difficulty- which we recently pointed
out as inherent in the relations between the President of
the French Republic and his Ministers had already occa-
sioned a modification of the new Cabinet within a few
days of its formation. It is clear that the difference
which arose between Louis Napoleon and his late Mi-
nister of the Interior, M. Leon de Malleville, sprang
from the undetermined nature and limits of their re-
spective duties and powers. The President resented the
notion, that he was to surrender the whole direction and
patronage of the great Ministerial departments to the
Secretary of State, and showed symptoms of a natural
jealousy in the selection of the subordinate officers of the
Government. The Minister, on the other hand, chose to
assume, as we had anticipated, an amount of authority at
least equal to that of the Ministers of the Crown under
the late dynasty. These conflicting pretensions wore fol-
lowed by a rupture. The loss of M. Leon de Malleville's
services is considerable to a Government which has not
many men in it as ready and efficient as he was likely
to prove. But this incident has raised a question of far
greater consequence than the resignation of any indivi-
dual Minister. It shows that Louis Napoleon does not
intend to content himself' with a titular dignity or the
nominal direction of a Government to be carried on by
others in his name; and that if men are ambitious to '
serve the state they must also serve him, and lay their
account for a due submission to one who, whatever may
be his political abilities, rests his authority on tradi-
ditional claims, which have received in his person the
recent sanction of five million votes of French citizens.
We know not what the effects of this personal policy
may be upon the destinies of France and of Europe,
but it may immediately be foreseen that the posi-
tion thus assumed by the President will prove
a -
_heavy blow and great discouragement to
numberless ambitions, and especially to those of
the highest order ; that it will alienate from (his
Government men too proud or too eminent to servo the
mere creature of a popular caprice; and that it will ere
long lay the foundation of an Opposition as active and
as unscrupulous as that which at last allied itself to the
mob in order to overthrow his predecessor. It is, there-
, fore, to be apprehended that his Cabinet will continue,
as it has begun, to lack the services of the first and most
experienced statesmen of France, and that they will be-
come the critics and the assailants of a system of Go-
vernment to which they are not disposed to yield a
ready obedience. In proportion to the power exercised
by the President is the responsibility he assumes; and
in the present state of the affairs of France, when any
Goverment must fall short of the extravagant expecta-
tions raised in many quarters by his election, he thus
places himself in a situation in which that amount of
success which commands the gratitude and veneration of
a nation is all but impossible, whilst the whole burden
and disgrace of failure sad disappointment will rest
upon his own person. The course he appears to hare
chosen is the boldest, and according to the theory of
Republican Government, as we understand it, the most
constitutional, but it is by far the most dangerous, and
it creates difficulties which it would, perhaps, have been
more prudent to have avoided.; A struggle between
the head of a Government and his Council of
Ministers is a formidable addition to the struggles which
must occur between the Government and a popular As-
sembly, and to the struggles which have occurred, and
may occur again, between the Government, backed
by the Assembly, and a popular insurrection. The secret
of nll political strength is union between the principal
elements of political power. Where tho powers of a
state aro divided by incessant contests and indefinite
pretensions, they serve rather to check and thwart
each other than to promote the public good and
to resist their common enemies. They are, to
use a common, but significant expression, pull-
ing different ways ; and in any country—but
especially in a country like France, already torn by
frightful collisions and emancipated from the reverence
for authority—it is only by an intimate, faithful, and
practical union between the head of the Government, the
Ministry, and the Representatives of the people, that
public order can be maintained, the law administered, and
the great duties of the State performed. Of such an
union we see in France no signs. In the highest stage
of the new structure of the Republic the rupture and
difference of opinion:which has already caused the resig-
nation of two Ministers is pregnant with important con-
sequences for the future. The same causes which in-
duced M. Leon de Malleville to resign office will deter
statesmen, to whom he has been accustomed to play a
secondary part, from accepting it. They will seek'
to regain the ground they may have lost in
the closet of the President by :Parliamentary warfare,
in which he can take no direct part, and the real pos-
session of power will still be contended for • with. all
the art and all the ardour 'which are displayed in
public assemblies; and the power of a President, chosen
by universal suffrage, will be controlled and crossed by
the influence which private talents or ambition may ac-
quire in a body emanating from the same popular
source. The present Assembly is no longer a fair repre-
sentation of the people of France, or a fair element in
that Government which has been completed by the elec-
tion of a candidate whom the majority of that Assembly
disliked and despised. All parties, except a few of those
members who will drop from the rank of legislators to
the nothingness from which they sprang, and lose at orce
their tricolour sash and their daily income—all parties
are impatient that the Constituent Assembly should give
way to the body which ought to succeed it, in obedience
to the provisions of its own constitutional enactments.
It is therefore hardly worth while seriously to discuss
the spirit in which this present Assembly has re-
cently been actin,. If it is to cease from its labours
with dignity, and to leave the country not unmind-
ful of the services it has rendered, the sooner it dissolves
itself the better. The vote which cut away two-thirds
of the salt duty, or nearly two millions sterling from
the revenue of France, was, under all the circumstances,
as mischievous and factious a vote as could be passed.
Undoubtedly the removal of a duty as oppressive to the
poor man as that upon salt, would be a most laudable
measure for a Government, and it would deserve to
figure in any enlightened system of fiscal reform; but
tor a legislative body simply to cut off an important
branch of the revenue, without an attempt to provide
fur the consequent deficiency, and this at a moment
when the whole financial resources of the state are no-
toriously inadequate to meet the current and extraordi-
nary expenses of thO year, is simply an act of absurdity,
which, if repeated or persisted in, would render the
management of the public finances impossible. An
Assembly capable of such acts ought to be held respon-
sible for the consequences, but in the French Assembly
re, such responsibility can be assessed on the authors and
supporters of the proposal, and the Government suffers
the whole weight of the evil it sought in vain to avert.
ADVERTISE) .—We very much admire the arrange-
ment, by virtue of which the Cobden Budget and the
Peace Congress principles will appear in company with
each other in the House of Commons, as friends and
brothers, prepared to stand up together and share alike
iu the treatment which they will receive at the hands of
our legislators. Mr. Cobden will, at the instance of the
Peace Congress, propound a great and mighty principle,
viz., " That, the settlement of international disputes by
arbitration, rather than by appeals to the sword, is
highly desirable;" and as the representative of the dis-
satisfied tax-paying population, he will be prepared with
a practical measure of reform, one portion of which in-
cludes a diminution of our military and naval expendi-
ture. These two portions of the labour to which Mr.
Cobden is now pledged, will greatly aid each other. A
principle is the right basis of a good and sensible prac-
tical measure, which, in its turn, serves to illustrate and
prove the value of the principle to which it stands
related. 'With these views of the matter, we think it
augurs well for the success of Mr. Cobden, that such
active efforts are now being made for the purpose of ex-
pounding the arbitration principle throughout the coun-
try, and that everywhere the principle is so readily ad-
mitted and cordially adopted. Gentlemen well fitted to
expound this principle have for some time been, and are
still, traversing the length and breadth of the country;
and wherever they go they gather crowded and most re-
spectable meetings, which they never fail to convince
of the folly and the ruinous expense of the appeal to
brute force for the settlement of international disputes.
We are glad to observe that these meetings arc always
turned to a good practical account. Large deputations
ere delegated to wait on the Members for the place in
which the meetings are held, to express to them the con-
victions at which they have arrived, and to request those
Members to give their support to Mr. Cubdeu's motion.
This looks like doing business, and indicates the opera-
tion of the same good sort of management that gave suc-
cess to the movements of the Anti-Corn-law League.
Among the most recent indications favourable
to the proposed diminution of our military and naval
forces, we may notice the fact, that the men in bman navy have just received notice,
paid off immediately;
thxechreeaqsuoenrs.sd
acsw a B
111 o ranee, thu
igteheadt tfhereythwe"step
being the state of the E
announcement in times National
Abe re df nearly one-
half.o this we
A Committeeadd the
the standing arm t
having soon
been
appointed
to inquire
m. Bi„eu, in bringing up
,
into the state of the financesng , &f•
"it seems impracticable
the report, after force this year (1848)," said—
" but that which to reduce the eff
was
ectsiview
possible in 1848, will, we hope,
s 4
be possible in 18f9; and, I hasten to add, that this re-
.
duction is imperatirel
y:
necessary, as it involves the sal-
isagegdootod
tail
gulfeorsr
humanity
ration or
whenruinef,toautor
finances.
financiersl
aret
obliged
sled Parliament that e ar is too expensive, and that
`'the
horrors ofitsbloody play"
wanton
to something cheaper, and, as the result will show,
much better. Every case in which a nation either '
re-
duces or altogether lays aside its military force, must
exert a most beneficial influence on the
military prepa-
rations of some other nation, and it may
There can be no doubt
that
it would soon be found an
immense relief to every country, to be able to say the
necessity for arms has ceased; our enemies have laid
aside theirs, and we can do without ours. The occasion
would be received everywhere with avidity, and the re-
stilt would be in no country much more needed and wel-
cern() then in our own. For, as it has been most truly
said by a most effective organ of these principles, " the
enormous taxation which war entails is absolutely
crushing down the industrial energies and resources of
the people, hindering the development of commerce, and
exhausting the earnings of labour, and not unfrequently
endangering government itself, by making it the instru-