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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1851

December the second is a day memorable for
France. In 1804 it witnessed the EMPExOE'e coro-
nation. In 1805 it witnessed the victory of Auster-
litz. In 1851 it witnessed the vindication and th,
re-establishment in their fullest integrity of all the
rights for which the people have struggled through a
Seriei of very terrible revolutions. Those rights are
comprised under the one title of the National Soya-
rsignty. For the perfect exercise of this National
Sovereignty two things are absolutely essential in
France—the ballot and universal suffrage. Withou,
universal suffrage, and without universal suffrage ex-
pressed through the medium of the ballot-box, it is
idle for the inhabitants of that great country to dream
of anything like Freedom, of anything like a security
against Despotism, of anything at all approxi-
mating to political Emancipation. These guarantees
of Liberty have been at length, however, received—
in earnest. Before that glorious fact all prejudices
are veiled in admiration. Recognizing that truth,
emblazoned in every circumstance of the extraor-
dinary movement of yesterday, theheart of the whole
French nation must throb with one generous senti-
ment for the Author of those Proceedings. The
elected of six millions, Louis NAPOLEON has proved
himself to be not unworthy of his august position as
the representative of the population. During three
years he has maintained the Government of France
in a faithful adherence to his oaths as the First
Magistrate of the Democracy. During three years
he has preserved the country of France in a state of
uninterrupted tranquillity. During three years he
has so administered the affairs of France that her
commerce has revived, her activity has re-awakened,
her energies have renewed their vitality, and he him-
self has watched with unfailing vigilance over the
conservation of her Republican institutions. The
veracity of this last assertion was proved yesterday
morning by the very nature of the daring coup
d'etat, by which, as it were, with one grasp of his
band he strangled the conspiracies against Republi-
canism. The proclamations by which he announced
his intentions to the people of Paris, and through

them to the inhabitants of the various departments,
constitute his best and noblest vindication. He
therein, so to speak, with a single stroke of his
pen, abolishes the law of the 31st of May, dis-
solves the Council of State, and dissolves the National
Assembly—those are his acts of destruction ! With
another stroke of his pen he re-establishes Universal
Suffrage, and convokes the French people in their re•
spective districts from thel4th to the 21st of December
—.those are his labours of reconstruction ! With yet
another, he decrees the state of siege throughout the
first division of the metropolis—that is his sole effort,
precautionary and protective I Meanwhile the coup
ditat resolved upon by the PRESIDENT was by no
means restricted to the simple fact of the publication
of those documents. Aware that, in order to render
it effective, its manifestation must be at once prompt,
vigorous, and uncompromising, LOUIS NAPOLEON
caused the discomfiture of his antagonists—and those
antagonists the real enemies of the Republic—
by courageously causing them forthwith to be
arrested. One hundred and eighty Members of the
Right were seized in a single mairie alone, that of
the 10:h arrondissement. This capture, moreover,
was accompanied by incidents such as cannot fail in
a nation like that of France to dissipate henceforth
by ridicule the illusions of Legitimacy. Among the
unlucky representatives arrested on this occasion ev*,
no less important a personage than M. BERRYER,
who when he attempted to speak was greeted with
cries of" Who are you ?—You ?-0h I you are the
lacquey of IlEsnty V." Simultaneous with the
arrest of M. BERRTER was the wholesale arrest of
the principal generals and intriguants of the so-
called parry of order, men whose seizure appeared
in some instances to be accomplished with much
difficulty. Genera CEIANGAILNIER, on attempting,
to harangue the soldiers, found them un-
willing to listen to him, insomuch that his
voice was drowned in the roiling of the drums.
General BEDEAU is said to .have wounded one of his
oaptors, and to have required to be bound, while another
man in the ranks is reported to have been killed b 3
()DARRAS. Ultimately the whole of the disaffected
were assembled together in custody, numbering

amongst them such men as M. THIERS, as General
CAVAIGNAC, and General LADIORICILRE, and to have
been hurried off immediately to Vincennes. While
these rigorous acts were being effected in one or two

quarters as early as four o'clock A sr., the streets of
the French capital were rapidly filling with the sol-
diers, and whs.a these again were ultimately joined by
the populace, Paris still remained in a state of pro-
found tranquillity. Everything indeed combines
to prove that the coup d eta: of Louis NAPOLEON has
been most effectual because it is entirely satisfactory
to the people, and it is satisfactory to the people be-
cause, by re-establishing universal suffrage, it pro-
claims the triumph of the national sovereignty.
Elsewhere in our impression of this evening will

be found particulars demonstrative in the most con-
clusive manner of the popularity of the wonderful
movement achieved yesterday morning by the PRE-
SIDENT. His Aide-de-Camp General ROQUET was
greeted on the Boulevards with deafening cries of
" Five la Republique I" while he himself, on riding in
the midst of a brilliant staff along the Qtrais was

greeted with enthusiastic shouts of " Vice Napoleon!"
Oa his removal from the Elysee to the Tuileries, the
Carrousel being crowded with troops and cannon,
and the Place de la Concorde in the opposite direction
being occupied by cavalry, extraordinary satisfaction
was expressed on all hands by the crowd, many
calling out "Il a bien fait," and every little in-
cident appeared to be seized with avidity as the
object of similar exclamations. Throughout the
faubourgs not the faintest token of agitation was
appareqt. Tranquillity was maintained during the
whole day, and at night the theatres were opened as
usual, and as usual were very numerously attended.
The funds have risen, and seventeen of the Depart-
ments have already received the intelligence of these
events with evidences of cordial satisfaction. Thus
has been welcomed that extraordinary act, designated
by the Prefect of Police in the Proclamation ad-

dressed by him to the citizens of Paris, one by which
the PRESIDENT of the Republic has "put an end to

the agony of the country." The reason for this
we have already shown to be his patriotic and
heroic recognition of the rights of the national

sovereignty. " Provocations," says Louis NAPOLEON,
himself in his memorable Appeal to the People, "pro-
vocations, calumnies, and outrages, have found me
impassible. But now that the fundamental compact
is no longer respected, even by those who incessantly
invoke it
; and that men who have already ruined two
monarchies, wish to tie my bands in order to over-
throw the Republic, my duty is to baffle their perfi-
dious projects, TO MAINTAIN THE REPUBLIC and to
the invoking the solemn judgment of
T ris oL;U SOVEREIGN
by
I ACKNOWLEDGE IN FRANCE—
Tuz
veryPoP n
PEOPLE." Those glorious declarations cannot
be save C
forgotten. They are worthy of the
t,ete.l of six
of
laurel
millions of free citizens. They are
lake a crown Es
to the brows of the PEE-
lei
PEE-
SIDENT. They impart a solemnity, an elo-
:pence, and
immediately afterward, where
appeal Nv.ioh comes
an undeniable truthfulness to the
he says, " I make thus a loyal appeal to the
whole nation, and I say to you:f you wish to
i
' ' h degrades us and
con-
tinue the state of disquietude wow
compromises our future, choose another iu my place,
for I will no longer retain a government which is
Powerless to do good, which renders me responsible
for acts I cannot prevent, and binds me to the helm,
when I see the vessel driving towards the abyss.'
From that abyss he has now happily saved the coun-
try entrusted to his government, by one of the
bolde.tt enterprises ever adventured upon by
an administrator, even among a people like the
French, a people habituated to acts of administrative I

LONDON,

audacity. Havingexplained, later on in thisProclasna-
tiun,
to the mass of his ft-ew-countrymen the basis of
ution which he prepeses for their acceptance,
;:avieg suggested a.reipon-ible chief. named lor ten 1
years, Ministers dependent upon the Executive
power alone, a Council of State, and two distinct
Chambers of the Legislature, LOUIS NAPOLEON re-
marks, in reference to his own candidateship for the
new magistracy, " If Ido not obtain the majority of
your votes, I shall call Pr the meeting of a new As-
sembly, to whom I will deliver the mandate 1 have re-
ceived from you. But if you believe in the cause of
which my name is the symbol, that is, France
regenerated by the Revolution of 'B9, and
organized ,by the EMPEROR, if you believe that
cause to be still yours, proclaim it by consecrat-
ing the powers I ask of you Thus France and
Europe will be preserved from anarchy ; obstacles
will be removed; all rivalries will have disappeared;
for all ,a ill respect in the decision of the people the
lecree of PROVIDENCE." Accompanying these de-
clarations with the re-establishment of Universal
Suffrage, the PRESIDENT could not, most assuredly,
afford stronger testimonies of his homage for
;he popular rights, of his desire for the
national liberty, or of bis faithful alle-
giance to the Republic. Nevertheless, as
an additional proof of his sincerity, he has already
nominated eighty of the most distinguished Members
,f the late AsAmbly as a new Council of State
For the purpose of watching over the
destinies of France and regulating the labours
of the Administration. Among the eminent men
chosen by him to this post of responsibility are such
ex-representatives as BAROCHE, DROUYN DD
L'Hurs, Admiral CECILLE, LUCIEN MURAT, and
MONTALEMBERT. Under their guidance, we may
now anticipate with sanguine feelings, if not with
implicit confidence, the fortunate completion of those
great movements of re-organization which have been
thus happily commenced by Louis NAPOLEON.
Another liberty besidea that of Universal Suffrage
remains yet to be acknowledged by the PRESI
DENT -- a liberty the recognition of which
will evidence by one brilliant and crowning
act his loyal adherence to the cause of Democracy:
We mean the Liberty of the Press ! Hitherto Louis
NAPOLEON has shown himself scarce less inimical to
the liberty of the press than the EMPEROR. In this
he has acted without caution and without saga-
city. Let him complete the glorious undertaking
upon which he has dared to adventure, by this last
and not least among his concessions to the genius of
.he age. Let him decree the Liberty of the Press,
as he has already decreed Universal Suffrage, and he
will be declared to have " deserved well of his
country," not only by his admiring contemporaries,
but by a grateful and remote posterity.

If we have found it our duty to animadvert within
the last year upon the proceedings of certain notabi-
lities of the Roman Catholic persuasion, it has never
been under the influence of a spirit of illiberality or
bigotry. We have never envied our fellow-subjects
of that creed a full participation in all political rights
or privileges, nay, we have always strenuously advo-
cated to the utmost of our ability the total removal of
any disabilities which have been unjustly imposed
upon them. We have never presumed to speak
lisrespectfully of the peculiar form of faith pro-
cessed by any of our fellow-Christians, who
have a full and undoubted right to worship
their CREATOR according to the dictates of their
conscience. It is to Ultramontanism, to
priestly tyranny, to intolerance, which seeks profes-
sedly for toleration, but in reality for supremacy,
that we have been, and ever shall b 3 hostile, because
ere believe the sacred principles of civil and religious
liberty to be thereby endangered.
We are led into these observations by an occur-
rence which has recently taken place in the south of
Ireland, and to which we refer with feelings of con-
siderable satisfaction. It appears that a certain Rev.
Dr. O'BRIEN, a bitter opponent of the principle of
mixed education, brought a charge against two parish
priests is the city of Waterford of having committed
an act of rebellion against due authority, is attending
a meeting for the foundation of a model school on the
system of national education. The Reverend Gen-
tlemen, who are eminently respected in the urbs
intacta, where by their utility and admirable de-
meanour they have succeeded in ensuring not merely
the affections and reverence of their flocks, but the
esteem of the citizens of all other religious
sects, have with great propriety and spirit repudiated
this insolent interference, determined not to
.suc-
cumb blindly to dictation. These Roman Catholic
pastors, the Rev. Messrs. JOHN SHEEHAN and MARTIN
FLTM, have accordingly addressed to this inter-
meddler a reasonable reply and justification, in order
to rescue themselves from the imputation which has
been thus wantonly cast upon ,them in the letter
referred to. "We are charged," say they,
in their joint appeal to the public through
the columns of the Waterford Chronicle,
" with having committed an act involving our obe-
dience to the Holy See, because we appeared at a
meeting held for the purpose of establishing a' model
school' in this city. We confess that we did attend
at that meeting ; but in doing so we felt, and we are
still under the same impression, that we did not com-
promise that dutiful obedience which we owe to the
Pope, as CEIRIST's Vicar on Earth and successor to
ST. PETER. The meeting in question was held for
the purpose of establishing a model school' in Water-
ford. Before we consented to take any share in it
we took the precaution to ascertain whether the prin-
ciples on which it was to be established were identical
with those of the National Schools.' We were
answered in the affirmative, that ' they were strictly
the same,' by the chief officer of the board,' who at-
tended on the occasion." The letter then continues:—
This answer induced us to give our adhesion to a system
which has hitherto worked so well, and to which we were
aware our Bishop and his predecessor had both given their
high sanction. Such, then, being the case, we are utterly at
a loss to know why a Very Rev. Gentleman 'in his po-
sition' should denounce us as guilty of a crime involving
our obedience to -the successor of St. Peter. 'We thought
that in the question of mixed education; as it prevails in
the' National Schools' of this country, the Sovereign Pontiff
had ;left each bishop to the exercise of his own discretion
as to its adoption er rejection; and when we considered
that 2G of the Bishops, and our own Bishop of the num-
ber, had sanctioned it, there could be no violation of
obedience in following the example thus set us. The
accusation of the Very Rev. Gentleman is a grave one;
and, for the sake of those intrusted to our spiritual care, as
well as our own characters, we repudiate the charge as un-
just as it is intemperate. Unjust, we say, because it is not
true that the Pope has condemned 'mixed education.' W e
are really astonished that the Very Rev. Gentleman should
have been betrayed into such a palpable sophism in the only
argument which be ventured to advance in sustainment of
his uncalled-for attack on us. There is no comparison be-
tween the principles of the Queen's Colleges' and those by
which the' model schools' are regulated, as can be easily as-
certained by reference to the published rules of the National
Board of Education,' We did not, nor do we now, assume
to be the 'representatives' of the clergy, but, having been
from the very beginning—now upwards of fifteen years- in
close connexion with the ' board,' and daily witnessing the
paramount advantages of the' national system of education'
in our respective parishes, we could not honestly withhold,
on that occasion, a doe expression of our approval. We have
written thus far, be it remembered, in vindication of our-
selves. We have done so, we hope, with all possible for-
bearance; and, whilst we yield to none in dutiful submission
to our ecclesiastical superiors, who we are fully persuaded
never sanctioned this gross and unprovoked attack which has
been so indecently made on us, we have at least, under the
circumstances, one surpassing comfort, that the Very Ra-
verend Gentleman's letter, wherever it is read, cannot fail to
demonstrate, even to those who do not know him, the proper
value to be set on his denunciation."

This excellent letter, which speaks for itself, re-
flects high credit on the remonstrants against Dr.
OliniEN's unwarrantable interference, whether he
be a self-constituted organ of intolerance, or whether
he has written according to order. It is a high tes-
timony in favour of the excellent system of mixed
education afforded by witnesses of grave authority
and unimpeachable character. 'Whilst respectful in
tone towards their ecclesiastical superiors, it enun-
ciates a manful sustainment of their conscientious
and enlightened sentiments. Well would it be for
Ireland that the hierarchy and clergy of her masses
were: pniaronerdd
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every
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the
slgherlinded and liberal priest, such as the Rev. Jowl
LT INN.

We have great pleasure in announcing that Lord
cjoulmone;.,,AfulgjauhsatuaseS. St. John Russell has
ajpophoeintteed James, fourth son of
ppoiritmentass
be clhitkihtef
thesesurvey areor
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credi.tab;e to the Government
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as
goef the
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betweon Captain Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, Bert., R.N., of the
recognitions
Elms, aloucestersbire, and of Beaumont Lays,Lati Leicester-
shire, Ecid the amiable and accomplished Caroline
Augusta PelhAlll Clinton, third daughter of the latey
Duke of
Newcastle.

COMLiioN PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.)
SOMERS V. ASPINWALL.
This was an action to recover a guin of money alleged to be
due under an agreement.
Mr. Sergeant Bytes and Mr. Ball appeared for the plain-
tiff: and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Brown for the de-
fence.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES, in opening the case, said the plaintiff,
Mary Somers, when about 16 years of age, entered the ser-
vice of a Mr. Aspinwall, who was now dead, in the capacity
of a nurserymaid. That gentleman was a married man with
a family, and carried on the business of an auctioneer and
upholsterer, in Lower Grosvenor-street. After remain-
ing in his employ for some time, be seduced her,
and having thus effected her ruin, he cautioned
her not to mention the circumstance to his
wife or to any other person. At length, however, her preg-
nancy became apparent, and she was compelled to leave the
house. She subsequently gave birth to a male child. Mr.
followed her, and continued to keep up the ac-
quaintance, the result of? which was the birth of two other
boys, making altogether three children, the eldest of whom
was now ten years of age, the next eight, and the youngest
three. Mr. Aspinwall made her an allowance of 50/. a year
for her and their support and maintenance. The brother of
the plaintiff, who was made acquainted with the whole
circumstances, wrote eeveral times to the deceased
urging him to make sonic positive provision for
his sister instead of an uncertain and precarious stipend.
To these applications, however, no answer was returned.
The unfortunate position of the plaintiff was sedulously con-
cealed from her father, but it at length came to his know-
ledge, and he was anxious that an arrangement should be
made for the maintenance of the children. Accordingly he
came to London in the month of February, 1850, and pro-
ceeded to his daughter's lodgings in Huntley-street, Tot-
tenham-court-road, and happened accidentally to meet Mr.
Aspinwall at the door of the house. He then insisted upon
his making a provision for the children, and they retired to
the lodgings of the plaintiff's brother, which vi ere close by,
and discussed the terms of the agreement upon which the
present action was founded. The agreement was at length
settled, and written by the father. The terms of the agree-
ment were that the deceased would allow 501. a year, payable
by half-yearly instalments, to Mary Somers for the mainte-
nance of the three children, which he acknowledged to be
his own. 'These instalments were regulary transmitted,
and the envelopes containing the money would be produced
in evidence. In his last illness, and shortly before his death,
he sent au instalment of 251., and inside the envelope were
faintly traced in pencil the following words, which were im-
portant, as showing the anxiety he felt regarding the plain-
tiff:—"lll, very April," the words "till April" hav-
ing, as he supposed, reference to the date when the next
instalment would become due. Mr. Aspinwall died on the
25th September, 1850, and this action had been instituted to
recover arrears due under the agreement which Mrs. Aspin-
wall had refused to pay. The personal property of the de-
ceased was sworn under 8,0001. The defendant had
pleaded that the children were not those of the
deceased, but that plea had been withdrawn,
and a very painful and inconvenient inquiry would be
avoided. Then it was said the document had been cbtained
from him by fraud, but that also had been withdrawn. The
only defence remaining upon the record was, that there was
no such agreement—that, in fact, the deceased did not sign
it. He should call two witnesses, the father and youngest
daughter, who would prove that the document was duly exe-
cuted by the deceased in their preeence.
George Somers, a deck in the office of the Woids
and Forests, and brother to the plaintiff; proved writ-
ing several letters to Mr. Aspinwall on the sub-
ject of a provision, and that he received remittances from
him for his sister. In cross-examination he admitted that
at his solicitation Mr. Aspinwall effected a policy of insu-
rance on his life for 200/. on behalf of the plaintiff. This
insurance was made payable to witness; he received the
money end paid it over to the plaintiff.
John Somers, the father, was then called, and said—He
held a farm 7 years ago at tioborough, near Rochester, where
he remained 5 years. He now held a farm at Kingsdown,
in Kent. His son had a farm there also. He had exercised
the brush. He was always an amateur artist. Witness had
a family of five children. He then gave an account of
how his daughter's dishonour came to his know-
ledge, and of what passed between him and Mr. As-
pinwall at the signing of the agreement. The deceased said
he wished to make a provision for the children, and would
sign the document, but begged witness not to expose him,
as he wanted to avoid publicity.
In cross-examination, he said his farm at Kingsdown was
a garden and house, for which he paid 151. a year. He
would not swear there was as much as half an acre of land.
His son's farm was between 18 and 20 acres. He did not
call that a large farm.—(Laughter.) Tnere had never been
any alteration in the agreement. A blot had fallen on the
word February. He rubbed it with his finger, and then
scratched the place, and wrote the word over again in the
deceased's presence. The deceased said it did not matter.
No one was in the room at the time except himself and de-
ceased. The deceased appeared in good health but he had
never seen him before, He never made the agreement
known to the plaintiff or to her solicitor, Mr. Haines, who
had in the first instance conducted this action, until laigly,
nor to hie wife or to any other person except his daughter,
who witnessed the execution, and whom he had cautioned
not to mention the circumstance. The deceased did not re-
main more than half an hour ( n that occasion.
Catherine Somers, the plaintiff's sister, a comely and
modest girl, aged 22, now a milliner and dressmaker in
Queen-street, Oxford-street, swore to seeing Mr. Aspinwall
sign the agreement.
Other evidence of a less important character having been
adduced,
Mr. Sergeant WILLIAMS addressed the jury on the part of
the defendant, and characterised the present action as a part
of a system of extortion which had been practised on Mr.
Aspinwall, which had been persevered in even after his de-
cease, to the annoyance and injury of his representatives. He
had no hesitation in declaring—and he did so advisedly—
that the agreement in question was a pure forgery, and that
the parties who had concocted it were guilty of conspiracy,
forgery, and fraud. The Learned Counsel then alluded to
the alterations in the document, to the discrepancies in the
evidence, and said he would adduce evidence which, when
taken iu connexion with these facts, would clearly prove the
accuracy of the assertions he made. Lie then read a series of
fetters which were written to Mrs. Aspinwall after her hus-
band's death, by the plaintiff's father and mother, in which
appeals were made to her generosity and sympathy to afford
sonic assistance to the plaintiff; and remarked how extraor-
dinary it was that neither of them referred to the agreement
which must then have been in existence, and which, if
genuine, would have placed them above supplication, and
appeals to sympathy. He observed that it was also very
remarkabie that the writ in the action was issued before the
plaintiff was made aware of the agreement by her father, so
that the action must have been founded on someti ing else
than that agreement. He should show, also, that at the
very time when Mr. A pinwall was sworn to have ex-
ecuted the agreement he was under medical ad-
vice, and unable to walk by himself or to leave his
house. In addition to this, he should call witnesses, well
acquainted with the deceased's handwriting, who would say
that the signature did not resemble the usual way in which
he signed his name.
A number of witnesses were then called to prove the al-
leged forgery.
Mrs. Aspinwall stated positively that it was not her hus-
band's writing, but the cashier at Coutts's Bank, who
was in the habit of pa3ing his cheques, was less positive, and
said, though it did not exactly resemble his writing, he would
not swear it was not. None of the other witnesses would un-
dertake to swear it was a forgery. 'The surgeon who at-
tended Mr. Aspinwall in his illness deposed to his being very
weak at the date of the agreement. He was not in the habit
of getting up till twelve o'clock, but he could walk up stairs
without assistance'.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES replied.
The Learned JUDGE then summed up the evidence.'
(The verdict had not been returned when our report left.)

Aberdeen..

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

LATEST FROM PARIS.

(BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH THIS DAY.)
A second edition of the Daily News publishes the
following :

PARIS, WEDNEBBI7 MORNING.

A Comultative Commission of eighty notable men
is formed. The Ministry not yet definitively con-
stituted.

The following appears in a second edition of the
Morning Herald :

PARIS, DEC. 3, NINE A.M.

The new Ministry is composed of M. de Moray,
Interior ; Fould, Finance; Rouher, Justice ; Magne,
Public Works ; Le Rouche, Marine ; Casabianca,
Commerce ; St. Arnaud, War ; Fortoul, Public In-
struction; Turgot, Foreign Affairs.
Paris is perfectly tranquil. The theatres were
opened yesterday evening; and the intelligence re-
ceived from seventeen departments announce the
greatest tranquility.

MM. Baroche, Dronyn de L'lluys„ Admiral
Cecille, Montalembert, Lucien Murat, and 7.5 other
distinguished Members of the National Assembly form
the New Council of State.

The meeting of 200 members in the 10th arron-
dissement has turned out "a complete failure. They
declared Louis Bonaparte to he turned out of office,
and appointed General Oudinot to command the army
of Paris. Some of
the National Guards got up a
cry of " Viva lfAssemble?, but the people only hooted
them. A party
of the foot Chasseurs arrived, when
the National Guards walked 'quietly home, and the
representatives were marched off two and two, under
escort, it is said, to the Invalides.
The effect ou the Bourse has been trifling to what might
have been expected; the fall only having been about 2 per
cent. Threes for the Account closing at saf. 20c., and Fives
at 89f. 70c.

RAlLWAvs.—Railways are all quoted lower. Orleans
have fallen 20f., closing at 850 f. ; Vierzon, 23f. 75c., at
415 f. ; Northern, 20f., at 447 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 13f. 75c., at
365 f. ; Strasburg!), llf. 25c., at 347 f. 50c.; Nantes, Bf. 75c.,
at 250 f ; Marseilles, Bf. 75c., at 195 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 2. _

Boulogne and Amiens, —Central of. France (Orleans
and Vierzou), 16—Dutch Rhenish, 3%—Luxembourg, 3
—Namur and Liege, 634—Northern of Franoe, 144—
Park and Rouen, 21.1 A—Paris and Strasbourg, 11,%—Rouen
and Havre, 734 Sambre and Meuse, 3%—Tours and Nantes.
65/I—West Flanders, 2%.

EVENING,

THE SHARE MARKETS.

ri'StXTISII ITJLTIM7'AYS.

Railways.

A.mLergate, Nottingham.
Boston, & E. Juncion
Beltast and County Down
&Arming., Wolverhamp.,
and Stoar Valley • •
Birkenh., Lan., & Chesh
June., late 331. 68. 84..
Do. Chest. & Birkenhd.,
50/. &451. Consolidated
Do., do., 201. • .
Bristol and Exeter.. •-
Caledonian • • • • • •
Chester and Holyhead ..

)üblin and 14elfastJunct.
Dublin and Kingstown..
Dundalk and Ennibkillon
Dundee, Perth, and Aber.'

teen Junction

Do.. New .. .. ' ..
East Anglian (251. L. k
E. and L. & D.) ..
Do. (181. E. & II.)
Eastern Counties .. ..

Paid.

Nominal Prices,

10 t. 10%

4N - 5

9 -10

Astern Unicm, Glass A.
late E. U. shares ..

I 1 —lO d.

ini
100

16 -17
654 - 8%418.
80 - 82
lh -15%
19% -20%
28 -21 4.

6% -7%

Do. do. do. ..
Do. do., B & C shares
East Lancashire • •
D.. New quarters • •
East & West Ind la Docks
and Birm June. ..
East & West York. June.
Edinburgh ana Glasgow
Edin., Yerth, an Dundee
Glzsgew and South-West,
Do. do. G. D. & C.steck
&rest Northern .. •
Do. halves, A, deferred
Do. halves, M, 6 per et.
Great douthent and
Western, Ireland • •
Groat Western .. .• •

334 - SBi
636 104
-

4% -5%

31( 1154
lb lb),

49 -31

27 -29
5 - 6

100
6 6 6

lei. 17%
5% —5%
12% 12%

31% - 36%
83 - 831,4
$0 - 82

Lancaster and Carlisle ..
Do. thirds .. •
Lancaster and Prniton
Lancashire ands ..rkshlre
Do. quarter sl area ..
Do. fifths .. • • .
Do. West Ilidin4 Union
Leeds Northern ..
Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport ..
London and Blackwall

1 13 4
47%
100
all

9% - 931 P

.. - ..
54% - 55%

9 —IN cl.
5% —5% ct.
13%. 11%

1734
•Il
ni
100
In

. - ..
.6% -7%

Do., Tilbury Ext. Scrip
London, Brighten, aad
South Coast .. • •
London and N.-Westarn
Do. do. quarters ..

93% - 94%
113 -114

Do. liftha .. .. ..
Do. 101. sh., M. &B (a,
London and 8.-Weatera

23,-3 p.
2 -216 p.
134 -'%p.
83 -84

Do. new 501.
Do. new 401. .•
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock • • ..
Manchester, Sheffield, &
• Lincolnshire
Do. Manchester and
Lincoln Union ..
Midland • • ••
Do. 501. shares ..

108
42

Do. Birming & Derby
Midland Gt. West. (Ire.)
Newca.stie and Carlisle..
Do. quarter share!
Newmarket • • ..
Newport. Abergavenny,
and Ilereford
Newry and Enniskillen..
Newry, Warrenpoint, &
Rostrevor • • .. • •
orfol.k • • • • • • • •
Do. New 201. sharea ••1
Northern C.unties Union
North British.. .. •.1
North Devon .. ••1
North Staffordshire ••
North-Western ..
North & Sth :West. June.
Oxford, Worcester and
Wolverhampton.. ..
Scottish Central ..
Scottish Midland ..
Do. new ..

9 8 ell.
734

2 25i

4 ' 2 0
100

Eibl•ews.& Birm., Class A

Do. Class 8.. ..
Shrews. & Hereford., Old
Do., do., Now ..
Shrewsbury and Chester
(Nor. W. Min.) ..
Do. Halves
Do. Oswestry
Do. New.. ..
Shropshire Union • •
Do., A, B, C, & D, ftilly

paid up at per cent
south Devon ..
South-Eastern •• '
South Wales.. .. ••
9,outh Yorksh. and River

Dun
Sheff., Roth.. and Geolc,

Smith Division
Stockton and Hartlepool
iwansea Sz Loeghor,
Taff Vale.. •. .• •• ,
Taw Valo Extension ••
Thames Haven Deck and
Railway .. ••
Vale of lieath •
Waterford and Kilkenny,
Waterford and Limerick,
Waterford, Wex., Wick.

and Dublin .. ..
West Cornwall .. ••
Whitehaven and Earnest
York, Newc., & Berwick
Ditto and Newcastle
Extension ..

Ditto G.N.E. purchase
York and North Midland

Badness do
to-day.

10 si 9% 11N
51,4 434 5 47.

'14% 16% 14%
20

3%% ft
a 4
6% li

4% X 6

30 32

314 Us.
53% 5 t%
•• —•• dis.
28

100
47%
all

• •••• ••
8 ••-• S%

b% —434 dia.

21 23
104 1314 Ms
216 —23 r

11%
25
5%
17%
19
3%

-8% 71i,d11.
413.
Far
15 —15%
14 —l5

8% —9%
'At
6U
5 4 dis.

14 —l6
7 6
11,34 11%
% % die.

14 -1G
20% - 20%

- 29

16 2-3
DM
126

4 -3 <I.

15 14% fi %

26%
4% 5

17% '6% 17
1% %
1 12% %

83% %, ash
[633i %
8% 9 p

It -13

54% 55% 51
[55%
43( 34 %

1160

16 —l6 dia.
.. a.

• • —.. db.

••
1734 - 1134

$ - 7 4.
3% - 3 4.
21 -22

7 67

115 13% 114%
24% y
14%

83% 81% 83
3354, [34

2)34 3034 31

54 533( 52
, [53% 53

2u 36

634 7 634 %
9%

9g '(% %

634 44
4% 3‘ %

DC% 54
20)0(A 197

IS 17% i$

12X 13
5% 34
22 20% 21%

10 33 A

DECEMBER 3, IRSL

Ar:glo Californian .. • • • •
Aiturian .... ••.••• • •
Australian .... ••. • • •
larossa Range ..
Brazilian Imp (is. 5/, p.)

De. Cocael and Culibal

Do. St. John del Rey..
Cobre Copier . • .... .• •
Copiapo ~..... • • •
Genera 1...............
Mexican& S. American
nveeu MJnee...... • •
Real Del Monte, Unreg.

Do. Black Debentares.

Do. Red Debentures ..
Santiago de Cuba ......
Tin Croft • • •• • • .... • •
United Mexican ........
West Mariposa .. • • ....
SOINI

Anstralasia • • • • • •
British North America..
Colonial .. • • .. • • ....
Commercial ef London..
London Joint Stock ....
London and Westminster
lational Provincial Eng.

Da. New ........ • •
National of Ireland ..
Oriental Bank Corporat.
rrivincial of Ireland . • ..

Do. New .. ~........
Union of Australia ..

Union of London •.•• • •
!Trion of Madrid

MI

Canada ••••••• • • • • • • •
Oen. Steam Navigation .
renin. & Oriental Steam.

Ditte ditto
Royal Mail Steam .. • • ..
rWe cannot be anewen
will not be influenced by

able for tt
interesto

Bush,,s don
Paid. Nminal
to-day.
•
- hi P
15 .
4 i%
1 13 0 —3%
24%
all ••
15 211 i 21
40 33 3434
14 6% —7%
all 13% 14
9 BS —4%
•• ••
34 —59
.• ••
10 4 334
7G%-8
29 21 8% 3 2
1
. STOCK BANNS
all 37 3834
50 45 —46
25 1034 -- 11
20 25 —263 i
le 17%
20 '1834 2934
. 35 •• ••
10 .•
2234 19% 17%
all 27 2T34
25 42 —44 46%
all 15% 1634
all 35 3634
234 3 —3%
10 '4%— 1534
all ..
:SCEILLANEOITS.
3234 48 4934
14 2734 —2B x.d
. all 69 70%
10 15% - 17
. 60 793 8334

.NEOITS.
48 49%
27% —2B x.d
69 70%
15% 17
79% Bu%
le errors of the Official Lists, and
1 correspondents.]

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY. TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated
at 5,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were taken for ex-
port and on speculation. The market closed firmly. The
sales comprised about 4,000 American and 50 Pernam and
Maranham, at 514 d. ; 100 Egyptian, at 51/2:1. to 74d. • and
500 Surat, at 23%d. to 38.:1. per lb.—The Share darket
opened flat but closed firmly.
The following is the report of the markets by Messrs. IL
W. Jewsbury and Co.:—
" The same depression which we have bad to record for so
many months past still continues in the Foreign and Colo-
nial Produce Markets ; the deliveries are upon the same
large scale as before, and our monetary position is easy ;
yet importers, seeing but little chance of improvement in
prices, from the large stocks on hand and th;:;quantity to ar-
rive, have been willing sellers at reduced rates. During the
last few days the downward tendency of prices appears to
have been checked, and the business transacted has been at
firmer rates. The very low price of several leading articles
is attracting attention, and some purchases have already
been made upon speculation."
The accounts received by the Cambria, from New York,
state that during; the blast three years we have shipped
immense sums of specie and bullion to Europe. This has
served no doubt to preserve in a healthy state the currency
of the European powers, and in the event of the supply
diminishing the effect can be easily imagined. The ship-
ments of coin and bullion fronts this country for several years
past have been as annexed:—