The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1850.

[The following appeared in our Third Edition of tion must, therefore, be deferred to the Council of PRICES OF SHARES
State, which, if it persists on its side in refusing to IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM-
Saturday :-]
FRANCE. modify its resolution, will, in fact, be granting the PANIES' STOCK.
other Chamber more than it asks. The National
Mr. Locke, the English engineer, is at present in
Council, while it maintains the decree of the 20th of From the Official List.
PUBLISHED ETERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.
for
Paris. He and M. Charles Laffitte, representing an
June, 1849, has adopted several modifications in the
English company, have applied to the Government . LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27.
the concession of the Paris and Lyons Railway, and actual state of things relative to the existing capitu-
.l
it is considered probable that their application will be lations. JOINT-STOCK MANES.
If the Council of State refuses to receive the solu-
successful. If
.admitted by the National Council, things will Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
The directors of the Bank of France have an- lion
in statu quo; that is to say, the decree of the Annum. Share.
nounced a dividend of 51 francs per share of the. an.•••a......mmaa ....,,,5..........
20_ sh of June, 1849, will subsist in all its rigour, even
capital stock for the half-year ending the 31st of £a.d.£ a. d.
in regard to the capitulations already concluded. Australasia .......... 245. 40 0 0 40 0 0 31
December. BritshNorth American 51. percent. 50 0 0 5o o o -
The National Council was to hold its last sitting on
The National makes the following caustic observa- Ceylon ••••..•••• • • •• 71. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
tions on the trial of Allais :-
Saturday, when the session of the Federal Assembly Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 _
would be closed. Colonial.• •• •• - 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
" Judgment has been passed on Allais. Nothwiths Gloucestershire •••• •• 151 per cent. - - -
standing the brilliant defence of M. Dosmarets, the pri- lonian ••••••.. •• •• •• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
soner was found guilty of lodging calumnious informs- THE ARMY AND NAVY. London and County .. 61. per cont. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 -
tions, and sentenced accordingly. We have not to --eise_... London Joint-Stock ..• 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
examine that verdict ;we have only to enregister the (From the United Service Gazette.) ' Provincial of Ireland.• 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
issue of a trial in which, after all, there were engaged REDUCTION IN THE AR3IY.-Orders have been issued Ditto, New••• •• - -81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
interests entirely unconnected with our cause. But at to reduce the Ceylon Rifle Regiment 400 men. National of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 -
Eng. 61 - Nat
least we may be permitted to seize on this occasion to SOLDIERS' COMFORTS.-The following circular has . Provincial of
Ditto, New. ••••• •• 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 .
per cent. 20 0 9 10 0 0 -
address a merited eulogium to the magistrates con- just been issued from the Horse Guards:-"Troops when South Australia .......Si. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Union of Australia - 66/i per cent. 25 0 o 225
100 to) -
cerned. For what took place ? A police agent lodged proceeding by railway during the winter months, and in
informations 'of a plot against the President of the As- cold weather at other seasons of the year, are, invariably, 161.
peer
cent.cent.
ETn ion of i•o*n.d•o*n• ..
:: ::50 -0
0 10 0 0 --
sembly and General Changarnier. It certainly was to wear their great coats. By command, Union of Madrid ..... 1 - 40 0040 0 0 -
difficult to bring forward any accusation more calculated "J. BROWN, Adjutant-General."
to excite the indignation of all well-thinking men. MADRAS COMMAND.-We understand that Lieutenant- ITISIIMANCII COMPANIES. .
But by the side of the grave accusation made there General Sir George Berkeley, K.C.8., will resign the Dividend 1 Amount
was every appearance of its being untrue. How did the command of the Madras Presidency on the arrival of Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
magistrates act ? Did they arrest, as too frequently General Sir William Gomm as Commander-in-Chief of _ Annum. Share.
-.
occurs, the persons designated? Did they place them the Indian Army, an officer junior in rank to Sir George. A s. d. A s. el.
in secret confinement? In a word, did they use against SHIPS ORDERED HOME.-Tho following ships have Albion
Alliance
Ditto
M Brit.ar inaen.d. F0r..... 7611.1p:4 r6de
e&nbt.s 110000
00
00 151
00 (0/ 20,11
them all the severitl34
y which the law permitted? No. actually been ordered home to be paid off, having served
And it is for that conduct that we praise them. They their time on foreign stations. Most of them have re- Atlas ..... •• ••
did not consider the indications given as sufficient to tear ceived their orders, and are actually en route. We have Argus Life ••••• • • • • 41. per cent. 103 0 0 16 0 0 -
from their families and their affairs men of whom placed to each the port at which they are likely to be British Commercial - 7s. 6d. 50 0 0 50 0 7%
Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life spr ct.&l3s. 100 0 0' 10 0 0 20
nothing proved the culpability more than a police accu- put out of commission:- •31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 86
cation; they found means of arriving at the truth with- Powerful, 84, Mediterranean-Portsmouth. 14s. 50 0 0 50 0 14%
out having need of recurring to the means which we have Asis, 84, Pacific-Sheerness. Eagle .
just mentionel. No person was taken up, no one was Meander, 44, Pacific-Chatham. European Life .••• •• 10s. 20 0 0 All paid. 11
General •••• • • • • •.... - - 5 0 0 51,‘
imprisoned, all their severity fell on the false informer. Havanna, 19, New South Wales-Sheerness. Gi3be - 133
Once more we declare that we cannot too much praise Fly, 12, New South Wales-Devonport. G iardian ...... •••• •• 51. & bonus. 100 0 0 45 0 0 55
such a manner of proceeding. We only regret that such Arab, 12, China-Chatham. Imperial Fire -•••• •• 121. per cent. 500 0050 0 0 230
Imperial Life •• .... •• 12a. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16%
a course is an exception to the general mode of pasting, Kingfisher, 12, Coast of Africa-Portsmouth. Indemnity Marine•• •• 11.5 h.& bar 100 00'20 0 0 43
and that the first time we have to declare this should Spider, 6, Brazils-Devonport. Law Fire ............ - 100 0012 10 0 2%
he in a Bonapartist matter." Cyclops, s. f., 6, Coast of Africa-Woolwich. Lew Life........ •• - 11. 16a. 100 00,10 0 0 43%
Legal and General Life 50 0 0 1 2 0 0 4%
Antelope, s. v., Mediterranean-Portsmouth. -
Licensed Victuallers •• 5 0 0 1 1 0 0 -
GERMAN Y. THE CAPTAINS' RETIREMENT OF 1816.-Captain Sa- London Fire ........ -
10s. 25 0 0112 10 0 17%
muel
The Deutsche Zeitung states from Cassel that theßurgess (Nov., 1830) has accepted the Captains' L.ondion Ship • ...... •• 10s. 25 0012 10 0 17%
extravagant demands of the Austrian Commissioner, retirement of October, 1846, of 18s. per diem. This re 31- 15s.per share 100 0015 0 0 -
Nlvae,dio.lnnaivlLid,&a:en.Life 4%1. per et. 50 00 I 20 0 2%
tirement brings Captain Rodney Mundy (1837) on the F..und.. 551ippeerr
cceenntt..
12000
00 00
52 100
00 2%
Count Leiningen, have excited terror and indignation
12s. 6d. half-pay list. Captain Burgess is also in the National Life..
among the population of Hesse. From the state-
receipt of a Greenwich out-pension . Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 2%
Nice nix •.. - I -
ments of the above-mentioned paper, it would appear THE NEW SOUTH WALES AND NEW ZEALAND STA- 155
PprroofviesaseionntaLlifLei.f.e............ 51/415)esrizebnst..
1006 50 00
100 100 00 1638.10 d
that Count Leiningen holds a most absolute and TION.-It is not unlikely that the Admiralty will allow
irresponsible sway throughout the Electorate, Ca-
ptain Sir Everard Home, C. 8., Bart., now proceed- Rock Life............ ss. 60 0 010 0 6%
and that the efforts of the Prussian Commis- ing to the New South Wales and New Zealand sta- Royal Exchange 6l. p.ct. & bs. Stock. - 211
Sun Fire • - - 209
sioner are altogether paralysed by his crafty and tions as senior officer, to hoist a blue pendant, end Ditto Life
' IL 6s. • - -I 48
powerful colleague. All the stipulations to which take command as a separate station. instead of as a United Kingdom .... 41. p. ct. & bs. 20 001 4e ft 3%
General Peucker had a reed in his negotiations with division of the East Indies and China station. Sir k.e.,itoeerrisaaLi
Life.... Si.er cnt. I 412 6
.. .. lex ct. a es. 100 0 el 10 0 0
g-5
the Chief Court of Appeal at Cassel have been directly Everard, as it is well known, goes out in the Calliope, vi -
violated and flatly contradicted by the Austrian Corn- 26, with the Fantome, 12, under his command to relieve WATER..IITORILS.
the Havanna, 19, Captain Erskine, and the Fly, 14,
missioner. The Court had promised to yield a con-
Commander R. A. Oliver. It is ex. expected that the Name of Company. per
Dividend Amount
ditional obedience to the decree of the 4th September, of Paid. Price.
Calliope will leave England about the end of next
but Count Leiningen, supported by 5,000 bayonets, Annum. Share.
month. She will then proceed to Sydney, which place ----- , ---- -- --
required a surrender at discretion, an unconditional she will reach about May. The Havanna and Fly are E- at London. ..... •• • • Si per cent. 100 , s 0
. d. £ s. d.
160
recognition of all the Elector's decrees, and when orded to be there to meet the Calliope and Fantome by 0
Grand Junction ••• • •• 41. per cnt. 50 0 0 -
- 7 O 7O
reminded of the stipulations which General Peucker tho end of that month, and when Captain Erskine has rent.. .....• --- - ' 31. 10s. 100 0 0 - 80
bad sanctioned by his consent, Count Leiningen is delivered over the command in due form, the Havanna Lambeth •• •.•••• • • •• I 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 97
New Rivr Lndn Brdge 21. 10s. -
Vauxhall Si. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 57%
asserted to have protested " Volt he exacted obe- and Fly will return immediately to E igland to be _ 97
dience, not on the ground of the Olmutz stipulations, IY-tia ofil West Middlesex .. • 61.05. pr cnt. - - 111
but as Commissioner of the Federal Diet," and that, THE OLD VICTORY.-This good ship has LOW been
in Portsmouth harbour
.no less than 38 years. She has DOCKS.
in the latter quality, " he knew nothing of a Prussian
not been to sea since December, 1812. The Excellent,
Commissioner." Dividend Amount
gunnery ship, has not been out of Portsmouth harbour Name of Company, per of Paid. Price.
The Kolncr Zeitung states, from Frankfort, that since July, 1816, or more than 34i years. If tl-ese Annum. Share.
General Peucker has entered a most energetic pro- ships could be set up on the beef bones served out to
test against the late proceedings of the Austrian or their respective crews, during their continuous harbour Commercial - ......., 4/. pr cent. 4Stoac.k.d. 4 a. d.
Federal Commissioner. The rumour even went so service, they would be nearer the sky than the toner or East and West Ind' a ... 81. pr cent. Stock. - 84
- 143%
far as to mention another advance of the Prussian Babel; and if the quantity of grog served out on board EuoAnstth,Cnountry ... 20s. per sh. 100 0 0 - -
• • •
troops to support General Peucker's protest, but this these two ships during the above period could be col- Ditto 80nd5........ AL per cent. - - -
-
-
statement, as it is unsupported by other intelligence, lected together, it would make another Red sea. it.liathßarine •• -••- 4 per cent. Stock. - 76
appears of course unfounded, or (to say the least) Professor Moseley has recently presorted to the Ad- Southampton ........ 21, per cent. 50 00,50 0 0 9%
Ditto onds- - - -
premature. Cansiderable anxiety was felt at Frank-
miralty an excellent paper on the rolling motion of ships,
fort respecting the issue of the struggle in Hesse.
which the Admiralty have sent round to all their de- BRIDGES
for their information.
The followin dispatch, dated Vienna the 17th partmentsDividend Amount
g
THE ACHERON STEAM-VESSEL AT XEW ZEALAND.- Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
instant, has been addressed by Prince Sohwartzen- The Admiralty have wisely determined not to incur the Annum. Share.
berg to only a very few of the important Ministers expense of the voyage of the Acheron, surveying steam- - -
of the Emperor in foreign countries :- vessel, Captain Stokes, from New Zealand to England, Charing-cross• ••• .••• - Z. s. d. Z. s. d.
- - 15
" You have been informed by my dispatch of the 27th or that of sending out another steamer to relieve her. Southwrk .... -•• .. - 100 0 0 - 8f
alt. that the Baron de Manteuffel had demanded of me in Her condition in hull and machinery having been care- ivDatietrtloooNav of 7% p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 - 16
the most earnest manner an interview, and that some fully ascertained, their Lordships have ordered her to Ditto Old.. In•n••.•018•11 11. 4-s. Od. 100 0 0
60 -0
0 253
hours later he informed me by the telegraph that, in par- be paid off at Sydney, and her officers and men desirou Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. ls. Od. - 40 0 0 21%
suance of the positive orders of the King of Prussia, he of a passage to England to be sent home in the H s Vauxhall .... .•• Av. 11. 70 10 3 - 18
should proceed to Olmutz without even waiting for my vanna and Fly. The necessary stores for repairs a a
answer. His Majesty the Emperor considered it his duty re-equipment will be sent out by the men-of-war. She CANALS.
to meet the wishes so ardently expressed by the King. will be refitted on the station, and re-commissioned as a le,
Names of V
I consequently received the order to repair to Olmutz Names of , .., Dividend
, tender to the Calliope; and as many of her crew, we pre- ' Price. .1 'Dividend
2 per
Companies.
.4 per Cenapanles.
.4 ~„„.. Price,
where I conferred, on the 27th and 29th tilt., with the suttee, as feel disposed, will be re-entered in her for fur- es Annum. '`"""
Minister, M. de Nlanteuffel. It was necessary to vanquish ther service. --..--- ___ - -
Ashtn& Oldh M
great difficulties, in order that an effort at arrangement THE LATE COMMITTEE AT DEPTFORD.-The late .e
971 71. 113 acclesfield . 100 k 21.10 x. 50
could at that moment produce any result. But we did committee at Deptford, namely, Commodore Eden, Cap- Barnsley •• • • 1601 121. 180 Neath .. -• • 100 16/. 340
not for a single instant forget how many interests were taro Richards, C. 8., Mr. Nichols, of Greenwich Hos- Erknk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Oxford.. •• •• 100 201. 15
at stake if, in the actual position of Europe, a conflict pi tal, and Mr. Pinhorn, secretary, have received the official Birmingham 40 41. 86 Peak Forest. 78 31. 18s. 70
DCeevrbeyntr.y........
110000 2651. 261
RRoegchendtse........ :,.,3 1/.410.5.
41152%
between Austria and Prussia was not avoided; and we thanks of the Admiralty for their late services and their
full recognised how favourable was the concourse of able report. Ellsmre&Chs 133 355. 26% Somrset Coal 150 71.105. -
yLlrand.functniloo' 41. 65% Do.Lk Fd St 12 , 61. p. c. circumstances to enable us to meet on such an occasion EMBARKATION OF TROOPS.-The ship Java, of 1,175
GDr o . ,d6spurrfet .1713040
21-.
-
the sincere efforts of so decided a representative of the tons. has been engaged to convey the 47ele Regiment from 8% Stffrd&Worc 149 281. 405
peace party in Prussia. Our sincere desire was to co- Cork to Corfu, the 36th Regiment from Corfu to Barba- , Os. 33% Shrewsleury- 125 - -
Grand Union 100 11.10 s. 24 Stonrbrldge.. 201. 290
145
1/. Os. 24
operate in these efforts, and to contribute as much as does, the 66th Regiment from Ba.rbadoes to Quebec, and Kennt & Ave \ 39, 75. 6d. 4 Severn andl
possible in ensuring to them a victory over passions and the 19th from Quebec to Portsmouth. Lancaster .1100 41. 32 Wye Rail. S 261
fatal pretensions. We have, then, been very much ells- Commander Thomas Thompson has been appointed Lee.ls& Livrp 100 241. 400 Warwick&
Leicester ... ,100 Si. 66 Ili ing. J 100! 41. 64%
posed to prove by all means in our power that we were Shipping Master and Examiner in Seamanship of the Leiestr&Ntii; 83 41. 48% Wanvick&J 1001 31. 42
very far from profiting by the immense advantages of our Leith Marine Board. Loughboregh 142 701. 510 Napton..
Monmouthsh 100
position to humiliate Prussia, or to deprive her of the per- Commander Walker (l ire Queen's Harbour Master of 81. i - Worcstr &? Tel 31. 4034
lion of influence she is justly entitled to. We, moreover, Plymouth) has been appointed to a similar office at the Mntgemrysh 100 - - Birming. jI"
SfeltnMwbry 100 - - Wilts & Brkel -1 115. 6%
• • ~. P

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
. an.oma.......mmaa .....,,,5...........
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Australasia .......... 245. 40 0 0 40 0 0 31
BritshNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Ceylon • • •• ...• •• • • •• 71. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Commercial of London 61. per cent. 109 0 0 20 0 0 -
Colonial.. • -
Gloucestershire • • • • • • 151 per cent. - - -
lonian • • • • • • .. •• •• •• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
London and County •• 61. per cont. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 -
London Joint-Stock . • • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
Provincial of Ireland.• 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto, New••• •• •• •• 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
National of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 -
Nat. Provncial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
Ditto, New. • •• •• •• 5/. per cent. 20 0 9 10 0 0 -
South Australia •• •• •• , 61, per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Union of Australia .... 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto •....... • • • • • • ' 6/. per cent. - 2 10 0 -
Union of London. - • • 1 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
Union of Madrid ..... 1 - 40 0 0 40 0 0 - .
INSIIMANCII COMPANIES.
•
Dividend i Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
----
A s. d.l A s. el.
Albion - • • •• •• •• •• •• 31. 10g. 500 0 0 50 0 0 86
Alliance Brit. and For. 7114 s 6d & bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 21%
Ditto Marine. •• •• •• 91. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 Fit.
Atlas
Argus Life • • • • • • • • • 41. per cent. 103 0 0 16 0 0 -
British Commercial - 7s. Gd. 50 0 0 5 0 0 7%
Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life 5 pr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 ' 10 0 0 20
31. 100 0 0 1 10 0 0 86
14s. 50 0 0 , 5 0 0 14%
Eagle
European Life • • • • • • 10s. 20 0 0 All paid. 11
General • • • • • • • • .... - - 5 0 0 5
Gl3be - 133
G iardian ...... • • •• •• 51. &bonus. 100 0 0 1 45 0 0 55
Imperial Fire - •• •• •• 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 230
Imperial Life • • .... • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16%
Indemnity Marine- •• 11. sh. & hs. 100 0 0 ,' 20 0 0 43
Law Fire ............ - 100 0 0 i 2 10 0 2%
LAW Life.......... •. 11. 16s. 100 0 0 , 10 0 0 433 f
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 1 2 0 0 4%
Licensed Victuallers •• - 5 0 0 1 1 0 0 -
London Fire ........ 10s. 25 0 0 1 12 10 0 17%
London Ship • ........ 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 17%
Marine.. • •• .. •..... 15s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 -
Nled.lnvlid&Gen.Life 4%1. per et. 50 0 0 1 2 0 0 2%
National Lean Fund- 51. per cent. 20 0 01 2 10 0 2%
National Life.
Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 I 2 0 0 2%
Phoenix - 1 - 155
Professional Life •• 5/. per cent. 6 5 01 0 10 0 163.0 d
Provident Life...•
Rock Life ...... .. .... ss. 5 0 0 0 10 0 6%
goy-al Exchange 6l. p.ct. Sc be. Stock. - 211
Sun Fire - - 209
Ditto Life 11. 6s. • - - 48
United Kingdom .... 41. p. ct. & bs. 20 0 0 4 0 0 3%
1 Universal Life........ 10% ct.& hs. 100 0 ei 10 0 0 -
Victoria Life 51. per cnt. - I 4 12 6 5

The Kolner Zeitung states, from Frankfort, that
General Peucker has entered a most energetic pro-
test against the late proceedings of the Austrian or
Federal Commissioner. The rumour even went so
far as to mention another advance of the Prussian
troops to support General Peucker's protest, but this
statement, as it is unsupported by other intelligence,
appears of course unfounded, or (to say the least)
premature. Considerable anxiety was felt at Frank-
fort respecting the issue of the struggle in Hesse.
The following dispatch, dated Vienna the 17th
instant, has been addressed by Prince Schwartzen-
berg to only a very few of the important Ministers
of the Emperor in foreign countries :
" You have been informed by my dispatch of the 27th
alt. that the Baron de Manteuffel had demanded of me in
the most earnest manner an interview, and that some
hours later he informed me by the telegraph that, in pur-
suance of the positive orders of the King of Prussia, he
should proceed to Olmutz without even waiting for my
answer. His Majesty the Emperor considered it his duty
to meet the wishes so ardently expressed by the King.
I consequently received the order to repair to Olmutz,
where I conferred, on the 27th and 29th ult., with the
Minister, M. de Manteuffel. It was necessary to vanquish
great difficulties, in order that an effort at arrangement
could at that moment produce any result. But we did
not for a single instant forget how many interests were
at stake if, in the actual position of Europe, a conflict
between Austria and Prussia was not avoided; and we
fully recognised how favourable was the concourse of
circumstances to enable us to meet on such an occasion
the sincere efforts of so decided a representative of the
peace party in Prussia. Oar sincere desire was to co-
operate in these effort=, and to contribute as much as
possible in ensuring to them a victory over passions and
fatal pretensions. We have, then, been very much dis-
posed to prove by all means in our power that we were
♦ery far from profiting by the immense advantages of our
position to humiliate Prussia, or to deprive her of the por-
tion of influence she is justly entitled to. We, moreover,
sought to appreciate the benefits which would result from a
sincere reconciliation as highly as our duties permitted
to U 3. The subjoined protocal contains the result of
the conferences at Olmutz. This protocol has received
the approval of the Emperor, our most gracious master,
and also, as I learn from a dispatch from Berlin, that of
his Majesty the King of Prussia. We have just recom-
mended it to our allies, in order that they may equally
give it their approval. It will not escape your notice
that the Imperial Cabinet while consenting to a cessation
of the isolated position of Prussia in the affairs of the
Germanic Confederation, will not have desired to make
any sacrifice which could not have been male without
prejudice to the essential object of the policy followed
by Austria and by the other German Governments
that have remained faithful to their duties as
members of the Confederation. In order to
understand that it could not be otherwise, it is
sufficient to cast a glance on the position we occupied
previous to the Conferences of Olmutz, and on that we
shall be ready to take in consequence of these Confer-
ferences. Austria entered into the lists to maintain the
Federal Constitution of Germany created by treaties. It
became our duty to enforce our absolute rights on this
fundamental question, in which the foreign Powers them-
selves, as it appears to us, could not remain completely,
andavithout danger, neutral. From tho very commence-
ment we have acted with confidence in the moral
force of this position, and we have renounced,
with general approbation, any thought of exer-
cising the least constraint with respect to the
members of the Confederation who thought they
could withdraw themselves frcm the recognition of the
legal organ of the Confedration. When these members
of the Confederation became thus excluded from their
task of watching in common over the affairs of the Con-
federation the measures of execution were necessarily
limited to repel the attacks that might b 3 attempted
against the action of the Federal I)iet, acting in virtue
of the appeal that might be made on it by the States
which recognized it. It became necessary for us to
prevent such attacks, and we did so by the obtaining
from Prussia, from the commencement of the last month,
the solemn assurances that the execution of the Federal
decisions in Electoral Hesse and in Holstein should not
encounter any opposition.
"Prussia has corroborated those assurances at Olmutz.
In place of a simple laissez-faire, which was not without
grave inconvenience, she has offered her acti►e co-opera-
tion in the sense of the Federal decisions. Under these
circumstances it becomes necessary to appreciate the
great value of this recent and happy change, with refer-
ence to the grave questions which affect the Confederation.
We have disclaimed all pretensions of a share in the di-
rection of the Federal affairs outside of legal forms, and
disclaimed such so long as it could be feared that a con-
cession in this respect might become, in the hands of those
who were lately our adversaries, a means of calling in ques-
tion the fundamental basis of the Confederation, and the
accomplishment of its duties, and of thus putting in peril
the equilibrium and the peace of Europe. But if these
fears were successfully removed, if positive guarantees
could be obtained that the action of Prussia would be
in harmony with the object of the Confederation, we
ought to suggest to ourselves the question if in this
ease it would not be more advantageous for the Federal
body as for all Europe, while awaiting a complete re-
organisation of the Confederation, to open once more to
the members who were not any longer separated from
us but by mere difficulties of form the means of partici-
pation in the affairs of the Confederation.
" The Imperial Cabinet could not hesitate to reply
in the affirmative to this question in presence of the
engagements contracted by Prussia at Olmutz. Even
some time previously the Constitution of the Union of
the 28th of May, 1849, had been abandoned, and there
was consequently a probability that the deliberations
commenced with respect to the revision of the Federal
Pact might be arranged so as to secure the approbation
of all its members,

Commander Walker (lite Queen's Earbour Master of
Plymouth), has been appointed to a similar office at the
Plymouth Marine Board.
SOUTH EASTERN Ranwa.v.—The removal of the 91st
Regim, nt from Dover to the Northern District com-
menced yesterday (Friday). The men appeared, on pass-
ing our office, in good order, and fresh for any service,
notwithstanding they had travelled 100 miles, thanks to
the efficient and judicious arrangements of the authori-
ties of the South-Eastern Railway.
OFFENSIVE EXPOSERE.—A practice exists in a regi-
ment not one hundred miles from Portsmouth, and, for
aught we know, in several others in different garrisons,
which we think it would be very advisable to abolish.
We allude to the custom of causing the men to appear
once a week before the surgeon of the regiment, and to
submit to an examination as offensive to their own sense
of decency as to the medical officer who is compelled to
the inspection. It is quite against the spirit of the age
that such usages should be permitted to continue.
There is little use in the practical efforts to introduce
a healthy moral tone into the army, by separating the
single from the married men, if the self-respect of the
troops is otherwise offended. For all purposes of health,
it would be easy to trust to the volunteer applications
of the men for radical assistance, or to an examination
of features, pulse, and tongue. An experienced surgeon
can tell at a glance if a soldier is in good health, or
otherwise, in spite of attempts at simulation; and the
men themselves are so thoroughly aware of this, that
endeavours to " do " the doctor are rarely resorted to
with any prospect of success. We cannot enter more
fully into the particulars of the practice we reprobate.
Our remarks will, we her, be sufficiently understood to
induce the commanding officers who still countenance the
disgusting usage to order its abolition forthwith.

" Itwas for these reasons that it was agreed a
Olmuts to act in common and`irk
o conformity
Eforlmecittoyrawlituhethet
decisions of the Diet in the affairs
and of Holstein. In this state of affairs we were
iHe
ena-
bled to undertake to persuade the Elector
thernotptrouslan
con-
tinue his reclamations against the stay of
troops in his states, and to suggest that by an express
request addressed to the Prussian Government he should
afford that Government an opportunity of taking part—
without any violation of the law—in the measures in-
tended to pacify the country.
" As for Holstein it was the decisions adopted at
Frankfort, in the name of the Confederation, in which
Russia undertook to co-operate. It is a great satisfac-
tion to us that the execution so warmly desired by all
the Powers who signed the treatry concluded with Den-
mark, is one of the first objects for the accomplishment
of which the members of the Germanic Confederation
'have again united."

LAW INTELLIGENCE:
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. 28.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
THE DORKING BANK.—IN RE NEAL.

were minutely examined. It was then found that there
were numerous defalcations, and amongst other things
a receipt was produced by the prisoner for money which
had been given him to pay into a bankers,' which turned
out to be a forgery. Pending the inquiry into his ac-
counts he absconded, but wai afterwards apprehended.
Mr. W. Hayes, ledger-keeper to the bauke: whose
receipt had been produced, proved that it was a forgery.
Several other parsons deposed to hrlving p-dd the pri•
soner various sums of money which were not accounted
for to the complainant.
Oa a former examination the Magistrate refused bail
in consequence of having received information that the
prisoner bad previously been convicted of a breach of
trust while holding a situation in the Customs, and had
been sentenced to seven years' transportation.
The prisoner, who reserved his defence, was commit-
ted to Newgate for trial.
CLERKENWELL.

This case was again adjourned for a week, by con-
sent, as it was originally argued before Mr. Commis-
sioner Goulburn. Renewed protection was granted to
the bankrupt, who was one of the partners in the bank.
THE CLARENCE, WINDMILL- HILL, GRAVESEND.-IN RE

On Saturday Thomas Kidd was brought befaro Mr.
Tyrwhitt, charged with annoying and threatening Mr.
Robert Barrel!, a beer-shopkeeper in Whitecross-street,
under very aggravated circumstances.
The complainant, who seemed very dejected, stated
that the defendant had seduced his wife, and is now
cohabiting with her, and, not content with inflicting
that serious injury upon him, they were nearly every
day ccming to his house jeering him in the presence of
his customers, and threatening him with violence. On
the previous afternoon they visited him as usual, when
the conduct of the accused was so outrageous that ho
deemed it necessary fur his safety to hand him over to
the custody of an officer.
Mr. TYRWHITT asked the defendant what he had to
say for such vile behaviour?—Hu answered in a sullen
manner, Nothing at ail.

the official thanks of the Admiralty for their late services
and their able report.
Professor Moseley has recently presented to the Admi-
ralty an excellent paper on the rolling motion of ships,
which the Admiralty hare rent round to all their depart-
ments for their information.

Mr. TYRWHITT told him that his conduct was dis-
gusting, for, not content with robbing the complainant
of the affections of his wife, he must add threats and in-
sult to that deep injury, and, had Mr. Barrall broken his
head instead of giving him in charge, no one could have
felt much surprised, or would have pitied him.
The worthy Magistrate then ordered him to find good
bail to keep the peace.
Margaret Kelly, an Irish girl, was placed at the bar
charged with stealing 27 sovereigns and some jewellery,
belonging to Mr. W. Anderton, No. 4, Red Lion-street,
Clerkenwell.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Arrogant steam-frigate,
Captain Robinson, arrived at Spithead this morning
from Lisbon, which she left on the 20,h, and sailed
home. The qualities of this ship are spolc(4l of in the
very highest terms of commendation, which we believe
she fully deserves. As an efficient auxiliary steam-
ship we think she has no equal. About 200 miles off the
Lizard she spoke the Phaeton, 50, Captain Elliot, bound
for the Tagus. The Arrogant has come home to refit.
She brought Mr. Taylor, Master of the Encounter, in-
valided, and sundry other supernumeraries. Having
been absent more than six months, she saluted the Port
Admiral on making Spithead.
Commander Thomas Thompson has been appointed
Shipping Master and Examiner in Seamanship of the
Leith Marine Board; and Commander Walker (late
Queen's Harbourmaster at Devonport) has been ap-
pointed to a similar office at the Plymouth Marine Board.
The Winchester, 50, in this port, is, we believe, the
ship selected as the flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Sir
George Seymour, to relieve the Wellesley, 72, and Earl
Dandonald, on the West India station. The Admiral's
son, Captain G. IL Seymour, will be his flag-captain.
The Portland, 50, Captain Henry Chads, flag of Rear-
Admiral Moresby, C. 8., arrived at Madeira. from De-
vonport, on the 231 ult., and sailed thence for the Pa-
cific, to relieve the Asia, 84, and Rear-Admiral P.
Hornby, C.B.
The Hogue, 60, Captain Macdougall, arrived at
Queenstown from this port on Thursday.
The Mermaid convict-ship embarked her prisoners
from Parkhurst Juvenile Retormatocy, and the convict
establishment at Portland, on Saturday, and returned to
Spithead this morning, to await orders from the Colo-
nial office.

It appeared from the evidence, that about a month ago
Mrs. Anderton, from motives of charity, took the pri-
soner into her service to assist in tha domestic work
until she could obtain a situation. A week back she sud-
denly disappeared, and, an investigation taking place, it
was discovered that she had st )fen from the bedroom of
her benefactor 271. in gold, and several articles of plate
and jewellery. The active exertions of Fisher, a detec-
tive officer of the G division, being called in requisition,
he traced the prisoner from London to Cork, Ireland,
where ho apprehended her at a low lodging-house.—She
was fully committed to Newgate for trial.
SOUTIIWARK.

WooLwrcu, DEC. 28.—Two assistant-surgeons, ap-
pointed to-day to be borne on the books of the Imauw,
at Jamaica, have received notice to hold themselves iu
readiness t:) proceed insmedia':ely to the West Indies, to
render their assistance while the cholera is so prevalent
in that quarter.
The Fearless steam-vessel had har steam up in the
trisin on Friday, to try her engines, and is expected to
return to the eastward for service at Devonport.
The Volcano steam-sloop, Commander Rivers, left
Greenhithe yesterday morning, and Mr. Trickett, assist-
ant to the chief engineer, was on board to ascertain her
speed at the measured mile in Sea Reach, and after the
trial she was to hold on for Devonport.
The Princess Alice, Dover trail steam-packet, left
thi.3 port to-day, to resume her duties on the Dover
station.

William Gill, a young man of respectable connexions,
many years confidential clerk to Messrs. Rosslin and
Co., timber-merchants, B)uthw irk-bridge-road, was
brought. before Mr. Beadon, charged with embezzling up-
wards of 4001, the money of his employers.
Mr. Goddard, of the firm of Goddard and Eyre, the
solicitors to the Merchants' and Traders' Protection As-
sociation, attended for the prosecution.
Mr. Goddard informed the magistrate that the pri-
soner bad for many years held the confidential situation
of cashier in the prosecutors' employ. It was his duty
to receive all money on the part of his employers, enter
the same in the cashbook, and pay it in to the bankers.
He left the firm at the latter end of October las*, when
defalcations were discovered to a very large amount. A
conornunicwien took place between the prosecutors and
the prisoner, when the latter acknowled that he had
made use of money to a large amount. He called
Mr. James Jordan, who stated that ho wee a builder
at Paddington. He purchased a quantity of timber from
the prosecutors in March last, and gave a bill of ex.
change for 401. 13s. 4d., payable at six months. On the
sth of September he called at the prosecutir's counting-
house and paid the amount to the prisoner, who gave his
receipt for the same.
Arthur Lett, managing clerk t ) the prosecutor, said
that he had charge of the books. On the 30th of Octo-
ber the prisoner left his employers. On the following
day witness discovered the defalcations. He then sent
for the prisoner, and on his entering the counting-house
he acknowledged the fraud.
William Dowse, a builder in Great Guildford-street,
stated that on the 20th of April he purchased timber
from the prosecutors to the amount of 21. 9s. The re-
ceipt now produced was his handwriting.
Other cases having been entered into, the Magistrate
committed the prisoner for trial.

COLLISION ON THE YORK AND NORTH
MIDLAND RAIL WAY.

On Friday forencon the inquiry which had been
opeEei by Mr. Pearson, the county coroner,*concerning
the death of the three unfortunate men who lost their
lives by the late collision on the York and North Mid-
land Railway, was resumed at the White Swan Inn,
South Melford.

The Cyclops, 6, steam-frigate, of 320 horse power,
Captain the Hon. George F. Hastings, on the coast of
Allies since Sept'mber, 1848, is ordere,l to return to
Woolwich to be paid off on being relieved by the Samp-
son steam-frigate, commissioned at Devonport for that
purpose by Capt. Lewis T. Jones.

The names of the unfortunate fellows who were killed
were Joseph Garrick, aged 33, engine-driver; Martin
Tindall, aged 21, stoker; and
-Henry Varley, aged 55,
pointsman.
The inquiry being duly re-opened,
Henry Wainwright, staq-,n clerk at the Old Milford
Junction of the Leeds and Selby Railway, was the first
witness called and examined. He knew the deceased
man Varloy, who had been pointsman at the junction
for many years. Sew him a few minutes before the acci-
dent; he was perfectly sob r. Netieed that he had hold
of the lever of the point to let the passenger train up the
line to Leeds. The deceased, Joseph Garrick, was
engine-driver of a passenger train paesitz on the old
line to Leeds. Tindall was stoker of the same engine.
The train had been waiting on the junction about
five minutes before the accident took place, to take
in passengers for Leeds from the half• past seven o'clock
train from the south. The luggage train which came
from Yoik had gone on the north branch, and passed on
the old line about three-quarters of an hour before the
passengers train came up. The accident happened before
he was aware that any of the goods carriages were run-
ning back on the line. He had previously got in.° one
of the passenger carriages for the purpose of proceed-
ing to South Melford, where he lodged. After the
crash he got out and assisted two ladies from the nearest
compartment where he was: one was injured in the face.
There were fourteen carriages to the luggage train, and
he saw that nine of the waggons had broken from the
train, and had returned down the bank, coming in colli-
sion with the passenger train. The engine of the latter
was thrown off the line and broken. I saw the body of
Garrick lying between the two lines of rails. Tindall
was about two yards from Garrick; his legs
were off, and he was quite dead. Do not
know whether there was a break to the last carriage
of the luggage train, nor whether the guard was on
the last carriage. It was his duty to have been on
it. Four of the carriages that returned down the bank
had breaks, and if one had been applied the train might
have been stopped. Those aho had charge of the lug-
gage train were Edward Grimaton, the guard; Thomas
Corrie, the driver; and Christopher Charlton, the stoker.
The nine carriages had each about three tons of goods
upon them.
Other evidence being adduced relative to the mode of
coupling the waggons and their strength, the coroner
suggested an adjournment, the day having far ad canoed,
and the proceedings were accordingly adjourned until
Monday.

THE COLLISION ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAIL.
wAy.—Tbe fears that were entertained for the fate of
some of the unfortunate passengers who were hurt by
the colli,ion on the Eastern Counties line during the
dense fog of Monday evening, are, to a great extent, re-
moved. The last report of the condition of the sufferers
in the London Hospital speaks of their favourable pro-
gress. Mr. B. Cooper, the eminent surgeon, at the re•
quest of the directors, on Saturday visited several of the
sufferers who had been removed t ) their respective
dwellings, and they were also announved to be going on
favourably.