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lective answer would appear semi-officially in the
kistri,in Observer.

The Nuremberg Correspondent, of the 17th, has
the following from Berlin :—" The judicial proceed-
ings which were commenced in consequence of the
late arrests are going on actively. The affair has
taken a very serious turn, and new arrests are male
every day among the upper classes. It is asserted
that several towns of the kingdom are compromised.
Amongst the new prisoners is one who is believed to
be an agent of the poet ll—. Paris and Switzer-
land form the central point of the machinations
These criminal attempts have had for object to revo-
lutionise the lower classes, and even seduce the sol-
diers from their duty, by the propagation of seditious
works in the barrack."

The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort, of the 190-,
has the following from Posen :—"Although the letters
from the kingdom of Poland announce nothing of
the approaching catastrophe, travellers from thence
report, in the most positive manner, that on the 13th
of next month the kingdom of Poland will cease to
exist, and will be incorporated with Russia."

A letter from Posen in a German paper says—" It
is certain that the Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen
are not permitted to take any part in elections for
Provincial Deputies. The Government has annulled
the last election in consequence of some Jews having
voted, and a new election has been ordered. The
Municipal Council, however, has resolved to suspend
the proceedings for a new election in order to give
time for a representation to be made to the Minister
of the Interior on the subject."

A letter from Berlin, of Dec. 17, says—" For
several years past the production of wool has become
so considerable in Germany, that this country at pre-
sent finds itself at the head of all those where this
branch of trade is carried on. The states of the Cus-
toms' Union possess 21,961,5,51 sheep, furnishing
each year, allowing a minimum of 221 b to 10 sheep,
48,500,0001 b. of wool. The Austrian states produce
each year 700;000 quintals of wool, two-thirds of
which come from Hungary, Transylvania, and the
military frontiers; the other third is produced in
Moral ia, Silesia, Bohemia, and Gallicia. As to the
quality, the wools produced in Moravia and Silesia
are the best; next come those of Bohemia, Gallicia,
Transylvania, and the military frontiers."

Madrid Papers of the 16th have arrived.
The Esperanza, of the day before, had been seized
for having published an extract from the Paris Esprit
Public.

According to the Espanol, the Council of Ministers
has as yet come to no decision as to the time of their
resignation, although ISTURITZ, SAliz, and CANEJA,
have expressed their positive determination to resign.
The elections are nearly over, and the Tierapo gives
the following analysis of the new Chamber

" DIODERADO CANDIDATES RETURNED.

" Members of the Ministerial majority in the last
Cortes
" Members of the Opposition in ditto (Pacheco
party)
" Deputies who did not sit in the former Cortes lll

" Total Moderados of all shades... 237
" Progressistas returned ..... 52
" Absolutists
" Districts for which 2d elections are to take place 29

322
" The total number of Deputies, including the Canaries,
&c., is 350."

Up to the 16th 163 Deputies had been returned who
did not sit in the last Cortes.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The Commerce gives the following version of the
affair of M. BARBET DE Jouy, the French Consul
at the Mauritius :

" M. Barbet de Jouy has thought proper to quit his
residence, and thus anticipate the decision of Ministers,
who, it is said, in order not to displease England, have
appointed him Consul at Honolulu, in the Sandwich
Islands. M. Barbet, who has been brought up in the
good principles of the Conservative policy, knows all its
ins and outs, and could not therefore delude himself as
to the fate reserved for him by the Cabinet of the
Pritchard indemnity, and of the disavowal of Dupetit
Thouars. By the Palladium, which has arrived at
Havre, from the Island of Bourbon, with letters of the
26th September, we learn that M. Barbet had been for
some days at Bourbon, where he was waiting for new in-
structions. We now extract from the Journal du Com-
merce of Bourbon, the account which it gives of the facts
which led the agents of England to put so gross an in-
sult upon one of the representatives of France. The
account is as follows M. Barbet de Jouy, the French
Consul at the Mauritius, had thought that at the levees
of the chief officer of that colony there was an inclina-
tion to refuse him the precedence to which he was en-
titled by his rank and position, but, as the question was
one of mere ceremony, he clid•not make any remon-
strance. At an official dinner, given by the Governor
on the 24th of June last, M. Barbet was much offended,
as he had a right to be, at seeing that the health of the
King of the French was given only as a fifth toast, after
Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales, Prince Albert, and
the Duke of Wellington, and he resolved no more to ex-
pose his dignity, as representative of the King and France,
to such-a forgetfulness of what was due to propriety.
Another dinner having been given at the same place, in
honour of the arrival of Admiral Dacres, M. Barbet was in -
vited, but would not go. Neither did he think that, as
Consul of France, long established at the Mauritius, it
was his duty to pay the first visit on the arrival of the
Admiral. The officers of the frigate in which Admiral
Dacres had hoisted his flag gave a ball a few days ago,
to which M. Barbet was invited in his official quality.
On the day following that on which the invitation was
delivered, M. Barbet received the visit of two officers of
the frigate, who came to declare to him that the invita-
tion had been sent by error, and that the Admiral not
having received from him any manifestation of polite-
ness, could not meet him at the ball. Whether this
unjustifiable proceeding was the result of premeditation,
or the accidental consequence of the will of the Ad-
miral, it is in either case a grave offence; or, to use the
particular language of Sir Robert Peel, a gross outrage
upon the functionary who has the charge of the French
flag at the Mauritius. All that we can add is, that the
slap of the face received by M. Barbet has been re-
turned, and remains."

It is evident, from his own account, that M. BARBET
DE JOEY is a captious and ill-bred person, whose man-
ners may, perhaps, be suited to the society he is likely
to meet with at llonolulu, but who is certainly most
unfitted to represent French interests in any civilised
community. _ _ _

The Journal des Debats contains the following
masterly reply to the miserable defence by the Presse
of the conduct of Russia :

" We are aware that for a long time there has re-
mained to unfortunate Poland only an empty name, a
shadow of existence, which the treaties of Vienna had
desired to secure to her. Russia, we also are aware,
has laughed at her engagements, and has forced Poland
to endure all that barbarous force can inflict on weak-
ness. Notwithstanding the cry of indignant Europe, the
Poles have been dispersed, their property confiscated,
and their children carried off I Not only have they lost
all their political guarantees, but an attempt has been
made to make them forget their ancient language,
to adopt new customs, to abjure the religious faith
of their fathers. It is against these abominable acts of
violence that our Chambers protest every year, and
their protest, whatever may be said to the contrary, if it
d es not prevent the fact, maintains the right—the right
written down in treaties—the right against which exile,
confiscations, and cruelties can do nothing ! No, pro-
tests are not a vain formality, and Russia knows it well,
as her acts prove. The nationality of Poland will still
subsist in spite of all that cunning and barbarity have
done to destroy it, as lung as there remains in Europe a
free tribunal to protest in the name of treaties against
the annihilation of that nationality ! A day will arrive
sooner or later when these protests, which persons now
affect to despise, will rise up all together, and
constitute a terrible condemnation against Go-
vernments reckoning only on force ! What is it
that the journal which laughs at the protests
of France and England desire to prove? That for
fifteen years Russia, by her violence and attacks,
more or less plainly
manifested against treaties, has
placed herself outside the pale of public right and civili-
sation? We allow this without any difficulty. In fact,
all that could be destroyed of Poland has been destroyed,
its constitution, its Chambers, its army. There is, how-
ever, a last step to pass, and that step is to all appearance
something, since Russia, notwithstanding all the desire
she feels, has not taken it. Poland has lost everything;
there only remains to her her name; but that name has
not yet been ventured to be taken from her; and the
day on which Russia shall declare that there is in the
world a Russian province the more, and a kingdom of
Poland the less, it will be seen whether right is nothing,
even when violence has reduced it to a vain shadow, a
mere word. The republic of Cracow for a length of time
had only preserved an almost ridiculous shadow of inde-
pendence. Its Senate trembled under the authority of the
lowest Austrian or Russian officer. There is more freedom
at St Petersburg h than there was at Cracow. The republic
of Cracow was only a word ; every one knew it ; and
yet the day when the Northern Powers scratched out
this word, this vain word, all Europe felt deeply shaken.
Treaties were being eluded ; they were openly and
audaciously violated ; and there was not a free man in
Europe who did not consider himself attacked in his
rights by the same blow ! One power alone can rejoice
at these attacks against the faith of treaties and against
civilisation, and that power is Russia. For the accom-
plishment of her projects on Poland and elsevi here, she
wants Europe to fall into a universal confusion, and that
force should rule over right. For Prussia and Austria
the destruction of Cracow has been an enormous fault—
for Russia alone it is the game stroke, the finishing touch
of success 1 She wanted accomplices, and she has them.
There are no more treaties—so much the better ! that is
what Russia wanted. But it is, above all, important

to her that France and England should not draw closer
to each other. The alliance of these two free nations is
the only obstacle that she seriously dreads. The day on
which France and England should hare fallen out irre-
parably, Russia would utter a cry of joy—she would
have attained the height of her wishes—civilisation and
right would have lost their rampart ! Should the Rus-
sian alliance be worth to us a province, we should never
forget that such presents are not received from such a
power, but by becoming its feudatories ! Cracow will
cost dear to those who have accepted such a present !
We think that the tactics of the partisans of the Russian
alliance amongst us ought now to be understood ; to
separate France from England irrecoverably, and to dis-
turb everything in Europe. Such is their aim ! It
ought also to be comprehended why, notwithstanding a
temporary difference with England, we remain firm to
our old faith of the English alliance. The English alli-
ance or isolation ! We know of no third position ho-
nourable for France."

The Bey of TUNIS arrived at Lyons on the 20th,
and left it next day on his journey to the south.
" The responsible editors of the Epoque, the Com-
merce, the Journal des Villes et Campaynes, the Gazette
de France, the Echo Francais, the Esprit Public, and
he Drcit, had to appear before the Tribunal of Correc-
tional Police on Tuesday, to answer a charge of offend-
ing against the law, by inserting the advertisements of
foreign lotteries. The chief defence set up was, that
the parties had disposed of their advertising pages to
persons who had contracted for them by the year, and
that they could not, without a violation of their contract,
refuse to publish the advertisements which were brought
to them, unless they could have shown that they were
acting in defiance of the law. The Tribunal, in order
that the defendants might be able to plead a conviction
as a sufficient ground for refusing to publish such adver-
tisements, found them guilty, but inflicted, as punish-
ment for the past, only a fine of 10 francs each, and his
proportion of the costs of the prosecution."

Algiers papers to the 15th have arrived. They
contain no news. At that date the colony was in the
enjoyment of uninterrupted tranquillity.
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COORS AUTHENTIQUE.—PARIS, DEC. 24.—French Five per
Cents., 118 f. 85c. 50c. 60c. ; Three per Cents., 80f. 70c. 60c.
55c. 60c. ; Bank of France Shares, 3,490 f. ; Treasury
Bonds, 3% 1 3 m., 314 3 6 m. Obligations of the City, 1,387 f.
50c. 1,385 f. ; Neapolitan (Rothschild's), Delinitives,
103 f. 25c. •, Romans, 101; Belgian Five per Cents. (1840),
101 f. 100%f. 101 f. ; Belgian Five per Cents. (1842), 102 f. ;
Belgian Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 553/4f. ; Ditto, Bank,
930 f. Exchange on London—one month,paper, 25f. 324 c. ;
money, 25f. 32 4c. ; three months, paper, 25f. 221 Ac.;
money, 25f. 22 the.

MARLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Henry Robert Ealy, aged 15, was brought up before
Mr. Long for robbing the till of his employers, the
Messrs. Gunter and Co., Berkeley-square, of 3/. 18s.
Thomas Foreman, an assistant in the shop of Messrs.
Gunter and Co., said the till had been robbed on a pre-
vious occasion. and late on Thursday night, with a view
to discover the party, he put a particular mark on each
piece of money in the till, there being in all 41. in silver
there. He then locked the till and laid the key on the
usual place. Every one connected with the shop knew
the place where the key lay. Yesterday morning he
found the till locked, and the key where he had left it,
but on opening it he saw that the whole of the money
was taken out except two shillings.
Police-constable 115 C, said he was called into the
Messrs. Gunter by the last witness yesterday. He
called all the men and apprentices into a back room.
They first searched the apprentices, and the prisoner,
who is one of them, gave up the key of his drawer, and
conducted him (the constable) into his bedroom. On
opening the drawer he discovered 31. 18s. in silver,
which the former witness identified as the same that he
had marked the previous evening, and put into the till.
Mr. Bishop, one of the partners of the house, begged
that the magistrate would remand the prisoner till
another day, in hope of discovering the boy's accom-
plices. He produced two letters found in the same
drawer with the money, the contents of which were not
made known, but which were of a nature to implicate
others not at present in custody.
Mr. LONG said the case against the prisoner was clear
and complete. If the applicant could state to him any-
thing against others on evidence upon which he could
act, he might then remand the prisoner, but in the
absence of that he saw no reason for granting the
application.
Tho prisoner said he felt very sorry for what he had
done, and he had never been in a cell before.

Mr. LONG committed him to Newgate to take his trial.
After the morning charges were over, John Calf,
the landlord of the Round Table Tavern, St. Martin's-
court, craved the indulgence of the magistrate, while he
complained of a report which had appeared in the
Globe newspaper of Tuesday last. In the case of Charlotte
Long, a woman committed fur drunkenness and dis-
orderly conduct, that newspaper had stated, in the evi-
dence of the policeman, that " the priz,oner had just
been turned out of the Round Tower Tavern, in the
above court. It was a common occurrence with the
landlord of that house to let such characters as the pri-
soner stop in the house till they got in a beastly state of
intoxication, and then to turn them out. There were
generally three or. four turned out in that state every
night." Mr. Calf said the report was utterly false, even
by the testimony of the police themselves, who had in-
variably given his house a good character for quietness
and order. He had besides the signatures of most re-
spectable gentlemen to the same effect ; and he felt sorry
that anything so libellous should have found its way into
a public print, as it must very seriously injure his
house.

Mr. LONG said he heard nothing but the evidence, and
ho could not interfere in the case.

Mr. Calf hoped the reporters would notice his appli
cation, and then retired.

MARYLEBONE-(THIS DAY.)

Sarah TT ikochs, who was dismissed by Mr. Long a
few days since, was again brought up this day before
Mr. Rawlinson, on the same charge of having robbed
her master, Mr. Joseph Patten, of one dessert spoon, one
dessert fork, a jack towel, and a cut-glass tumbler.
The prisoner was taken into custody by 126 S, at the
house of Mr. Russell, 16, Worthington-terrace, where
she had been engaged by means of a false character.
A duplicate was found in her basket, and the articles it
referred to were produced from the shop of Mr. Crad-
dock, pawnbroker, Tottenham-court-road, and identified
by the prosecutor as forming part of the property he
had lost.

The prisoner, who offered nothing like a defence, was
committed for trial.

Joseph Leboo, who described himself as a weaver, re-
siding in Camden-street, Bethnal-green, was also com-
mitted for trial, on a charge of attempting to pick a
lady's pocket last Thursday evening, at the Paddington
station of the Great Western Railway Company. The
prisoner was observed twice by Nash, a constable at-
tached to the railway, and also by Mr. Adams, one of
the clerks, to attempt the robbery of the lady, a Mrs.
Mary Knotts, of 58, Torrington-square. Nash collared
the prisoner the second time, but he had not suceeeded
in abstracting anything.
Mr. Robinson, who attended for the prisoner, wished
the case to be disposed of summarily; but it having been
intimated to the Bench that the Company were desirous
to prosecute, _ _

Mr. RAWLINSON, who also was of opinion that such
was the proper course, ordered him to be committed.

THE COLOSSEUM.—The division of prices at this
delightful exhibition is a great boon to the public, and
a great advantage to the proprietor. A great boon to
the public inasmuch as it enables an individual for one
shilling to see any one portion of the exhibition. For
instance, the Museum of Sculpture and the Panorama of
London byDay may be seen for one shilling. The Con-
servatory, Aviary Views, and Swiss Scenery may be
seen for a similar sum; or if the visitor is desirous, like
Richmond, of penetrating "into the bowels of the land"
for his 'shilling, he may visit the Stalactite Caverns
at Adelsberg. It is a great advantage to the proprietor
because, like a diminishing duty it brings with it an
increased revenue, and fur the same reason.
Many who really cannot afford to pay more
than one shtlling at a time have hitherto
been kept away from the Colosseum. These visitors
pay their shilling, and delighted with what they have
seen, return again some months afterwards arid see
another portion, and a month after that, return and see
the remainder, bringing with them a party each time.
These visitors are, however, few in number, compared
with those who enter the Colosseum determined only to
see one shilling's-worth, but who are so delighted with
that that they are tempted to pay another, and do not
leave the building until they have seen the whole. The
Colosseum was this morning crowded with visitors of
this class, and so delighted were they with what they
saw by day that not a few of them audibly expressed
their determination to revisit the Colosseum at night, in
order to see how the various objects look when illumi-
nated by artificial light, and they are right. The day
and the night exhibitions are perfectly distinct; they
no more resemble one another than day resembles night,
and no one can form an idea of the wonders of the Co-
losseum who has not seen both.
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION:7Th a hasty
glance which we were enabled to give this morning at
this splendid, temple of science, we were delighted to find
that it was crowded' to excess. There are many novel-
ties in the dissolving views, and in the lectures of Dr.
Ryan and Professor Bachoffner. Important as all these
are, they appear trivial in comparison to the " great
fact," that there are so many thousands in London, as
were seen there to-day, capable of that highest enjoy-
ment, the utile dulcie. The institution will be open this
evening, being the first Saturday since its establishment.
CITY OF LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.—
The first ordinary meeting of the above Society is to be
held at the London Tavern on Wedesday, the 6th of
January.
STEALING THE ENTIRE FURNITURE OF A HOUSE.
—Yesterday information was forwarded to the police,
that during the temporary absence of the inmates of the
house No. tl, Ayliffe-street, New Kent road, the pre-
mises had been stripped of the entire household furni-
ture. It was openly placed in a van and carried off ;
and though a reward has been offered, no clue at present
can be obtained to the perpetrators of the act.
SPECULATION BY SHEFFIELD GENTS.—It is con-
fidently expected that a company of Sheffield gents. are
about to undertake the carrying out of the Morewood
Sough, Eyam, which unanimous opinion states will drain
the lead mines in Eyam Edge of water, a result that
would be attended by the attaining therefrom immense
mineral wealth.

CITY ImrosrrioNs.—At a recent meeting of the
Ward of Bridge, it was stated that any person landing
below London-bridge from foreign steam-boats was
obliged to pay Is. the instant he put his foot on the
shore. This impositnin was said to have the effect of
driving passengers to land at Blackwell. All the mem-
bers of the Court of Common Council for the ward pro-
mised to do their best to put an end to it.