The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-13 00:00:00

neutrality.

Preparations' are making
for the opening of the
Chambers. Al. SAUZET will, it is said, be re-elected
President without opposition. M. LACATE LAPLAGNE
and Marshal BUGEAUD are spoken of as new candi-
dates for the vice-presidency.
The Refurnw contains the following informa-
tion relative to the meeting of the directors of the
Northern Railway, at which it was agreed to call for
75f. per share at the close of next February :-
"Ten directors were present at the sitting which
took place on Saturday. Five of the most info-
ential among them insisted on the call being postponed
until July, and urged M. de Rothschild, as baniptiof
the company, to advance the sum necessary to effect the
payment due to the Government in January. M. Pereire
is said to have himself strongly recommended to make
no call, in order to relieve the market and afford ccin
coerce time to improve. But M. de Rothschild wasin;
exorable, and replied to all the entreaties addressed' to
him, that he had no money, that he could lend nothing,
and was obliged to reserve all his resources for the jpay-
ment of the instalments of the last loan.' "
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
on Saturday, at 75f. 30c. ; New Loan, 76f.
40c.; the Fire per Cents., 1161. 55c. ; the Orleans
Railroad Shares, 1,191 f. 25c.; Rouen, 902 f. 50c. ;
Havre, 472 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 543 f. 75c. ;
Avignon, 553 f. 75c. ; Vierzon, 542 f. 50c.; Bordeaux,
482 f. 50c.; Dieppe, 265 f. ; Basle, 162 f. 50c. ; Paris
and Strasburg, 406 f. 25c.; Nantes, 388 f. 75c.;
Paris and Lyons, 3831. 75c.; Spanish Actives, 23i ;
Spanish Threli per. Cents., 30*.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Dec. 11.
Namur and Liege, 434-Northern of France, 1134-Or-
leans and Bordeaux, 54-Over Yssel, 24 dis.-Pans and
Lyons, SN-Sambre and Meuse, 74.

INSTITUTION OF THE ADULT
DEAF AND DITMB.—(THIS DAY.)
A meeting of the committee of management of the
institution for teaching trades, and providing employ.
ment for the adult deaf and dumb of both sexes, was
held this morning at the board-room of the establish-
ment, No. 26, Red Lion-square, Bloomsbury, for the
purpose of taking the necessary steps before presenting
to the Corporation of the city of London the memorial
decided upon at a previous Court, and signed by the
chairman, William Evans, Esq., M.P.
The signatures 'of the several members of the com-
mittee present having been attached to the memorial, the
annual report of the society for 1847 was read, together
with the minutes of the preceding Court, from which
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secretary whether the officers of the institution were
then upon the establishment, as he should like to exa-
mine them in order to ascertain the capabilities of the
inmates to learn the trades carried on?
Being answered in the affirmative, Mr. Barton, the
hearinginsster of the shoemaking department was
called, and in answer to the several questions of the
worthy chairman, stated that he taught the deaf and
dumb the trade of shoemaking, and he did not find the
task very difficult. Several deaf and dumb youths whom
he had instructed were now journeymen at first-rate
houses at the west-end of London. The youths who
were at present under his management would be perk ct
in their trade in the course of two years: those who had
no previous knowledge of the business he could instruct
in three years. The principal requirement of the deaf
and dumb was kindness and attention, with which they
could learn trades with a facility equal to those possess-
ing the power of speech and hearing.
The HEARIN.MASTER of the tailoring department
deposed to a similar effect. Some deaf and dumb youths
were obstinate and difficult to teach, but a similar
complaint could be applied to those who were not so
afficted. By a regular and religious system of training
their obstinacy was speedily replaced by submissiveness
and attention.
Mr. D. MURRAY, the superintendent of the establish-
ment, said the female inmates upon admission were
very violent and bad tempered, but after remaining in
the asylum a short time, they, became quiet and re-
spectful in their behaviour. Recently a youth was re-
ceived into the institution from a lunatic asylum, and
the change of treatment had acted very strongly upon
his mind. He was now one of the most attentive of
the several inmates, and in the course of a short time
he would be enabled to sustain himself by his own
industry.
Various specimens of the work of the deaf and dumb
were exhibited, and their neatness °ailed forth many re
marks of satisfaction and surprise.

It was generally reported at the clubs last night,
that Mr. Tancred or Mr. llayter, the oldest members of
the Liberal bar who have seats in Parliament, will be
appointed to the office of Judge-Advocate General, in
place of Mr. Charles Buller. We believe that either of
these appointments would give general satisfaction to the
Liberal party.—Chronicle.
The Hon. Robert Gore, R.N., lately appointed
Consul at Monte Video, has instructions to await at Rio
Janeiro the arrival of an envoy to be sent out by France,
and to proceed in company with him to the River Plate,
where both will appear in concert to enforce the terms of
pacification agreed upon by the Governments of England
and of France.—Obscrecr,
Mr. W. H. Tinne, Q.C., of Lincoln's Inn, is to
be the new Master in Chancery, vacant by the death of
Mr. Duckworth._ Observer.
Lord Ebrington is to be appointed to the office of
Parliamentary Secretary to the new Poor-law Commis-
sion, and Mr. Nicholls, the senior Commissioner of the
"mmission now about to be superseded, is to be the
permanent secretary. The present commission will ex-
pire on the day after the commission appointing Mr.
Charles Buller the President is published in the Ga2eke.
FIRE IN HotnoaN—On Saturday night, about a
quarter to eleven o'clock, a fire broke out in a small
shed occupied by a costermonger, in Smart's-buildings,
Holborn. The engines from the various stations were
quickly on the spot, but owing to a short supply of
water, they could not prevent the total destruction of
the
niture dealer.
adjoining premises, occupied by Mr. S. Wells, fur-

CANADIAN BUTTER.---Among the most recent
arrivals from North America have been some large im-
portations of butter from the Canadian provinces of that
quarter of the globe. One vessel, recently arrived, has
brought neaxly four hundred packages, and another about
three hundred packages of that article of food, the pro-
duce of Canada.
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ORANGES.—From the arrivals which have already
taken place,
imported this year ?Jill be very large.
it is expected that the quantity of oranges

Powers, it is said, have furthermore expressed a de-
sire that the town of Neufchatel should be the place
fixed on for holding the conferences. It is asserted
that the French Cabinet immediately replied in the
affirmative to both propositions. Austria will be re-
presented by General Count DE COLLOREDO, Prussia
by General RADOWITZ, who is, in addition, to be
named Military Governor of Neufchatel for the King
of PRUSSIA. The representative of Russia is not yet
known. As to the choice of the French Government,
it is certain that it will not fall on M. Bois LE
COMTE, whose personal relations with M. OCHSEN-
BEIN are envenomed to the utmost possible extent.
There is some question of entrusting this mission to
M. DE LAGRENEE."
The Union Monarchigue makes a similar an-
nouncement.

Whatever may be the intentions of Austria and
Russia, we believe that Prussia has withdrawn
from the conference, and will observe the strictest

This surmise receives corroboration from the
fact that in the Journal des Debats of Saturday we
find an attack upon the King of PRUSSIA for his delay
in granting an amnesty to the condemned Poles.
Those who sacrificed " for a consideration" Cracow
to Austria, and who have acted as spies on the Polish
refugees in France, sending accurate information of
all their movements to the three Northern Courts, are
not the most likely persons in the world to be seized
with a sudden fit of generous enthusiasm on behalf of
the oppre!sed. In common with the great majority
of mankind, we have infinitely more faith in the
humanity of the King of PRUSSIA than in the honesty
of the Government of France.
The following account of the submission of ABD•
EL-KADER to the Emperor of Morocco appears in
the Semaphore de Marseilles of the Bth:
" The steam- packet Philippe Auguste, which left
Algiers on the sth inst., entered our harbour last even-
ing. We have received by that vessel the important
intelligence of the submission of Abd-el-Kader to the
Emperor of Morocco. Bou Hamedi, who had been sent
by the Emir to the Emperor to offer him his submission,
returned to the deira with a Moorish envoy, who in-
formed him that Abderrhaman had rejected that offer,
and would only consent to accept it on the express
condition that A bd- el-Kader should immediately disperse
his deira ; that the principal chiefs, -who remained with
him, should pledge themselves to reside separately on
whatever points might be assigned to them by the
French Government and the Emperor of Morocco ; and,
finally, that Abd-el-Kader himself should not quit the
residence he was at liberty to choose. Our correspon-
dent adds, that Abd-el-Kader, whose situation had
become most critical, bad accepted these conditions, and
appointed a'place for his residence in the neighbourhood
of Fez. The deira of the Emir was immediately dis-
persed, and his horses were hamstrung in the presence
of the Moorish Envoy, according to the Arab custom."
The Reform movement continues to make great pro-
gress in France, and the alarm of the Minister is serious
and undisguised. At first these banquets were un-
noticed by the Ministerial journals, then they were
ridiculed, but now, according to the Journal des
Debats, they are revolutionary, incendiary, dange-
rous, and M. ODILLON BARROT, who says the Debats
"has for four months dragged the Government from
dinner to dinner to expose it to the ridicule and to
the hatred of all political parties," is merely the pre-
cursor of a MARAT or a ROBES?IERRE.