The Express. — London, England, 1852-01-14 00:00:00

M.lllllllli gilt exsiveoi• TO COI OMANI Utiles of . los AMA,. 0111,14i11104 NI nee olonL s'o I . beset . ..." Y pabllAred every tesday sal Wrigley otekt. to tme 'or pow. Moat vneonlolniesist kw The Mows; Lesion amain piper, sew be ot the Mk% to, Iktelorio-oulet. tire &oink os Alloy ef istallostios. MGR WATRK AT LONDON BRIDOL Tot. Itat —Swim 7e. Idte. .....-Afteresm, 7h. 4?.. 1...,5055-74.rotee. N. 130.........Aturatee. 114.47 m. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14. Antosr all the indignation excited by the cruel and arbitrary conduct of Loris Neroteeor, one is at host pleased to find absolute power as outrageous and intolerable in practice, as it was base and immo ral in assumption. -Mter the votes of so many mil lions of French for a dictatorship, it would . ho a disappointment were their dictator to prove a King Lot, A King Stotts he is with a vengeance, slay ing, transporting men by thun.and., and sweeping away every vestige of an institution from the land, even universal suffrage itself,—that very basis of the new government. There is not a eomm one is Fritter. that could not tell what an aggregate lie moot tare been the vote. We have had letters from the Var.—that important department. of which the population turned out against Louts NeeoteoN, and is a hi h the soldier, have laid waste by tire and sword I awd any cruelties known in the revolution, Cr even in the dragunnades of I.oets XIV. The elMlllllllle. or ' , wish, of Luc. in the Var. comprised 1,100 ekytors, that is. males above 20. Of these 1.100, certainly 1,000 turned out against Louts N %rotten; the result has been, that upwards of :MO have hos dragged off from prison to prison, soli shot, seine to be transported. Upwards of ' 200 are fugitives, hiding in the surrounding woods and parishes. Knowing this. judge of the Inept ilt) of every one, on learning front the official returns that of the 1.101) electors of I.ne, 00 voted fur the full powers demanded by Loftin NAPOLEON. Er .4,4., .liwr ~,,, ~.... There is. however, hope and consolation in the fact that a tyrant, even a Box \ PARTE, does not diem the maintenance of his power compatible with any one free institution. Universal suffrage, we see, is a humbug. But municipal rights, freedom of the press, the jury, the national guard, are all one by one do elan d Incompatible with the prerogative of the PRE•M SINT. All the IC N ere institutions made bv, and for, the middle and citizen class, and intended to strengthen them ; the press to enlighten and informs the jury to defend them from the inevitable partiality of a judicial hierarchy. dependent on government fOrpro motion and par, the national guard the only power capable of healing a purely military party in check. Be it admitted that every one of these sacred and tutelary institutions were made the worst possible so of he the French, that the press was factious. licentious and mad, that the jury, especially the Parisian jury, condemned innocent men for no crimes at ult.—such as NI. Hei.o for denouncing the punishment of death,—that the national guards were as often bullies to tread down liberty as cowards to defend it. All this is very true, but it is Mee the fault of successive governments, which would mot work representative institutions honestly and fairly, ,than of a public which has always been the child of 'impulse, and never the respecter of principle. i )For our part we are not sorry to see the ) military dictator declare that his govern ment is incompatible with all or any of these institutions. V. o 'seller° that dictatorship to /be equally incompatible even with that degree of social liberty which is allowed at Berlin and Vienna. in these capitals intelligent persons are free to talk 'amongst each other, provided they do not plot. And 'Baron NI tvreerret. would not think of exiling HA °DOM Liz or VINCICE, for fear they should express con tempt or disgust of the government in their private 'saloons. But the Parisians have been so accustomed t to social criticisms, that to render the salons mute,—as has been attempted by banishing M. Tom ' as re forewnple, for daring to receive his friends, ° —willrequire a searching and particulurespionage and [tyranny more galling and humiliating and minute than French society ever knew. It is not against one Madame Dr. ST %EL, or one BENJAMIN CoNsrsteg that hi. BONACARTL will have to defend himself, but ,against scores. Ile must banish all the wit and in tellect of the metropolis. It is, in fact, the intelligent portion of the nation that is destined to feel must heavily the yoke of Locts NAPOLEON. And yet it, too, has more than merited severe retribution. If we look through' the annals of French literature during the' last thirty years, we shall scarcely Had one author who has been respectful, much less favourable, to, constitutional government. From NI. Louts BLANC, who spent his talent' in decrying the ascendancy of the middle classes, depicting them as the worst of tyrants, and their constitutional monarchy as the most despicable of systems, to M. TUIERS himself, the historian of the revolution and the consulate /there . French Li out a page, not a soutane from which a .sch reader could derive any love be a !epitome- Afire system. As to M. Tint:m.4's book, it is a sure lapology for military despotism. Even the feeble opposition of the tribunate in lend calls down apes it from M. TIIIER4 the most sweeping sentence contempt. M. Tumait deprecates such • 'opposition as likely to " inoommai Parhaalsal olue," not dangerous, and oars the ciretusstamse "as a proof that there arc tines is which a diststesibip necessary, even in free countries, or is countries destined to be so."( His f. de antstaltat, Book 14.) On the chief and grand difference between Bona partist government and a constitutional system, via., • the principle of election, men upon this M. Tithes himself is not very explicit, and does not at all show clearly what lie would prefer. It is well known that the great principle invented by SIEVES and adopted by BuNArAWD: was, " Covi&giet from belve., power frusta abort." In other words, the exe cutive was to kccislate and nominate—the people to approve. Anything like a representative system, like election by the people. was abhorred by StrALs, and his abhorrence was highly approved by BONA,' %SIT& Then fore the latter made himself emperor, and seat • his prefects to govern the provinces,whilst he arrayed all the able and clever men of the kingdom into tins or four bodies, where they were to _ est in their advice, and where they were to be paid shad honoured, but where they were as totally sispinint on the government and its chief as the molls, ef a Turkish divan. In fact. the system adapted by Sterr-s and by RON tralre, and not eamillsomsed in any flagrant way by the French historians sad poli ticians who have treated of it, was mach nearer to that of Constantinople than to any other known regime. Of this system of Foreroment, independent of po pular election, yet with the lacquer of popular assent, this system of the Pediechali, with full power over the lives and persons of his subjects, in which power he is upheld by the Muftis and Imams. as well as by the Pachaa —of this we arc promised a new edition on the tath or the 215th. Whilst, as is tilting, room is to be made fur the inauguration of this new Turk law over France by the banishment from it of everyman of free intcll'gcnce and Christian civili sation. TO-DlTwo print a documen tor much public interest. It ix a declaration, hearing the signature of 3,262 of the clergy of the church of England, emphatically recognising the royal supremacy in all matters and things ecclesiastical ; expressive of thankfulness for the judgment given by the tat;t:tx, on the advice of the Judicial Committee of Privy Council, in tho Goan au case—" a wise and just sentence (they say) in accordance with the principles of the church of England "—protesting against all attempts to bring that judgment into contempt; and repudiating the enforcement of any standard of doctrines in the church by unauthorised individuals. This docu ment has been presented to the two primates of Canterbury and fork. .knd to it those digni taries of the church have made graceful replies: Archbishop SUMNER, in his usual suavity and kind liness of language, boldly reasserting for the clergy " freedom of opinion," within reasonable limits, " in I a case where it is not denied them by the Wo rd of Gin, or the declared doctrine of the church of England. In other words, claiming for the church that gnat principle of comprehension on uncertain points which only can bind together the members of a spiritual organisation, on whose behalf infallibility and divine attributes are not raised. In such n declaration,—mado however late in the day,—and in such a reply of the Archbishop of CA.N. TERBURT, there is real satisfaction. There documents are at once indicative of the strength aid the danger of the church. They show that to the great bulk of its laity who hare adhered faithfally to the plain and simple doctrines, the rational aid useful ch:eacter, and to the subordinate position of the cbu'ch inthis country, is still to bo added a firm and ?mooted body of the parochial clergy. They tench the wisdom and the safety of our temporel rulers elevating to the episcopacy men of moderation, of per. sonal piety, free from sacerdotal pretensions, and unharmed by tile allurements of etelesiastical ambition. They pedve that between the principle and the practice of a scriptural standard of divine truth and the prinAple and practice of human authority there is yio via media ; and they establish the ne cessity of greater union, more defined and positive views,—and, we will add, of higher courage—amongst all who entertain this correct appreciation of the protestantism of the church of Englund. .Ind if another reason for such more active co operation be needed, we surely have it in the danger which this very declaration , — when looked narrowly at,—will disclose. We do not at all undervalue the expression of opinion on such a matter of upwards of 3,000 of the clergy. On the contrary, as we have already in timated, it shows an amount of unanimity by which we cannot le. too gratified. We feel the force of all that Mr. (loom:tells Archbishop Sunset' as to the imperfect organisation by which signatures were pro cured; and in the spontaneity of those who have signed we see increased hope and great encourage ment. And lastly, we know how the poverty of a large part of the second order of the clergy,—how the influence of their high church bishops,—how the power which episcopacy has over the success in the church of thu younger clergy,—we know full well how active these inarticulate but effective agen cies must have been in preventing many from signing this declaration, whose hearts were in its language, and whew spirit finds expression therein. But properly estimating its value,—fully appreciat ing its unpurtance,—and amply allowing fur tho last mentioned consideration, it would nevertheless be self-deceit for anyone it may gratify to overlook the fact that the total number of its signntures do not represent a very large proportion of the clergy of the church of England. This Overtax controversy has rent the church in three fundamental points; it brought distinctly and practically out the sacri ficial and niediatorial pretension of a priesthood; it raised doubts as to the subjection of the church of England to the laws of the land and the ordinary legislative action of parliament ; and it was nearly successful in narrowing the terms of subscription to the church to such a degree as would,—had success been obtained,—have amounted to a denial by the eiureli of England of the two great principles of the Reformation, that CHRIAT left the outward polity of human churches to the discretion of each Christian society, and freedom of thought to each individual Christian. And such being the inues more or less involved in the de cision which the QtEEN, on the advice of kee l Privy Council and the two Primates, made in the GORHAM case, it is significant that, though there are in the church of Engd upwards of 17,000 priests and deacons, yet to this declaration in support of that decision, and in protest and repudiation of those offensive positions, there arc only 3,262 signatures. Though numerically large, the declarant clergy is, therefore, comparatively small. They arc little more than one-tifth of the whole body. We must not, however, suppose that the force of the aggressive, the revolutionary, and the sa cerdotal- party in the church is to be esti mated by the other four-fi ft hs who have not signed. Very far from it. A large, perhaps the most considerable portion, of the beneficed clergy, are content to pass the remainder of their lives without acquiring in their maturity or in their age any very defined views of church government generally, or of the exact position of the church of England in the realm. No such controversy disturbed their academic nurture; and they will not plague their pastorate by sharing in it. They are willing to enjoy all the in• creased personal importance which the pretensions ot tractarianism may give them, without mastering the premises on which they rest. They admire the zeal that ani mates thcircurates without thoroughly compress hending the principles whence it springs. They sup port their high church diocesans, but entertain the highest personal respect for their metropolitan. They appreciate the enormous advantages of quiet for the church ; and they are too much of gentlemen to take part in any agitation. This class—the successors of the old high and dry schodl--includes the great proportion of beneficed clergy; and they, of course, rigidly ab 'biped from Mr. themes movement. The number of adherents to his declaration represents in all pro bability the strength of avowed evangelicanism amongst the clergy of the church of England. And it would not, perhaps, be far wrong to rate their active opponents of the sacerdotal school at much less than another 3,000. 'the number of the clergy who, on the relations between church and state, have the courage to utter correct views, is, therefore, small. Iheir opponents, to greater courage, have ano ther advantage— they have greater youth. The strength of the aggressive high church party lies in the rising and younger clergy; and the full force and vitality of this party will not be felt until they, in their turn, shall have become beneficed, have ceased to be curates' assistants, or missionaries, and have become incumbents. Then they will acquire an in fluence, a power, and an opportunity to propagate, and extend, and confirm their views, which as yet they do not possess. And it is this that forms the least . agreeable pros pect of the church of England. It is this prospect which renders it so necessary to interpenetrate the mind of the laity of that chinch with their own true position ea members thereof,—with the reasonableness sad expediency of tho power over the church which, b its constitution, has in England be e n reposed in the sovereign, --and with the subjection of the church, as a subordinate corporation, to the jurisdiction of parliament. For it is only by the laity fully asserting and exer cising their own legitimate power in the church, re pudiating for the existing establishment every preten sion of a mystical or preternatural description, recog nising the clergy as officiating ministers and ap pointed instructors only,—not as mediators, sacrificers, or intercessors,—putting aside the offensive and mischievous pretensions of any Divine •ht in episcopacy, and treating the whole esta as a temporal organisation to be altered and reformed, and made to accord to the wants of the age which it has to serve by parlia ment—it is only in this manner and by such means that the rising waves of priesthood can in England bo checked and curbed. The declaration in question shows then that on the laity the brunt of the battle will fall. It is for them to be armed and trained by times. 1111sNetoN-nocsa.— Last Monday being Plough Monday the Lord Mayor entertained the household, and on Wednesday, the :Nth hritsuit, the Lord Mayor and Lady Maoress are to receive at dinner the m em b ers of the Court of Aldermen and their ladies. PROYOsED ILLIORM MEETING IN ST. PANCRAS.— Yesterday at the meeting of the board of directors of the parish of St l'ancras, held in the Vestry Hall, King's-road, T. Eld Baker in the chair, Mr. Steelton communicated the following letter from Sir B. 1101, requesting the meet ing on the above subject, appointed for the 26th instant, to be postponed till after the meeting of parliament:— "My dear sir,—lt is almost certain that very important re velations will be made the tint night of the session, I would strongly urge you not to have your meeting before that time, and to have a meeting of the whole parish or borough afterwards. Yours, &e., B. helot..--I.lanuver, Jan. 11."—The subject of the letter will be divided on by the vestry. EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT IN TIM IRON Tutim.—The following circular hts been addressed by nearly all the large Scans to their connexions:—'• We beg to inform you, that on and after Monday, the 19th instant, we purpose closing business at 6 p.m.: and on Saturdays at p.m., instead of 7as heretofore. From the expen mace of other wholesale houses, who have kindly adopted uranjp ments, fur the benefit of those engaged in their service, and from the cordial co.rmeration they have received from their connexions, we feel hopeful that a similar result w.II follow in the trade, with which wo are emtnected ; we therefore make the proposed alteration, re lying capon your kind support and assistance in carrying out the arrangement." Sr. Cluns flosrrraL.—ln accordance with the mandamus for that purpose, lately granted by the Court o f Queen's Bench, the inhabitant, of the parish of St. Faith's, Winchester, in which this hospital Is situated, met on Friday evening last and appointed two churchwardens. By them the chats I of the hospital will have to b taken charge of as the parish church; the incumbency of which is sup ' posed to he now vacant in law, in consequence of the Earl of Guilford not having been properly appointed master of this hospital. FRANCE. • PARIS, Teastsay Evvornro. I hive ttiay to announce to you fresh acts of violence on the part of 'the government, which have produced a very bad effect upon the dart commove of Paris. Two wealthy merchants, one a Spaniard and the other a German, in the Quartier du Sender, one of. the richest districts of the capital, have fallen under the displeasure of the authorities, and, I hear, haw Veceived orders to gait Paria within three menthe. This res pite has been accorded to give them time for winding up the affairs of their extensive establishments. 'Die motive alleged by report for their expulsion is the expression in conversation of opinions condemnatory of the policy of Louis Napoleon. I remarked yesterday that a decree abolishing the national guard altogether would have been better received than the ordinance published in the Muni teur, which totally . perverts the character of the in stitution. This opinion is very widely echoed, even by those organs which are counted among the fore most supporters of the government. The Chasseurs do Vincennes have taken possession of all the posts of the mayories that were occupied by the National Guard. Several National Guards yesterday brought their arms to the different mayories, and deposited them in the halls. They were afterwards put into small hand-carts and conveyed to the Tuileries. The Conatiledionmel reports that there will be pub lished shortly an ordinance of amnesty applicable to all the disciplinary peoalties pronounced against National Guards for acts previous to the re-organisa tion of that service. A letter from Rome, in the Unirers, gives the speech of General Gemeau to the Popo on tho Ist of January. The general raid that whatever might happen it would always be the greatest glory of the French army to have re-established the Pope in the capital of Christendom. Ilia holiness, in his reply, avoids all compliment to Lou th Napoleon, and coldly expresses a hope that the " events which have just brokm out" may be productive of benefit to the Christian world. The Mon tear contains a decree, proposed by Gen. do St. Arnaud, Minister of War, re-organising the three administrations of military provisions, hospi tals, and clothing, with a view to their greater ef fectiveness in time of war. Thus, the faculty of choosing civil auxiliaries for these services is repro-' seated as an inconvenience in case of war; and henceforth it is proposed to restrict such employ ments to non-commissioned officers who are qualified by their good conduct, instruction, and aptitude. The agents of the three services may be employed without regard to their speciality. The persolind of the provision department is to be placed on a footing of equality with the other two, and to ie increased from 28t4 to 300 employes, who are henceforth to en joy the pay of officers. Another decree accuses a naval lientenant, Le tierree, of grave insubordination towards the mari time prefect of Lorient, and places him in non•ac- 1 tivity, by withdrawing his employment. The rest of the Monitcur is occupied with the names of persons proposed by the Minister of the In terior as deserving honourable rewards for acts of courage and devotion. M. Bourret, former representative, was yesterday transferred, together with several other prisoners, from the prefecture of police to the fort of Bicetre. The Mondanr quotes at length orders of the day issued by the commanders of the gendarmerie of Bavaria and of the grand duchy of Baden, and con taining the most extravagant praises of the services lately rendered to the cause of Louis Napoleon by the French gendarmerie, whose devotion the former are called upon to imitate. The Chancelry of the Tuscan Legation gives notice that all travellers starting from Paris and in tending to pass through Tuscany, or to spend any Itime in the Grand Duchy, are obliged to provide their passport, with the rtsa of the 'rusean Legation at Paris. Cirardin is suffered to remain at Paris for the pre sent unmolested. M. de ltemusat, included in tho same category, has not yet received orders to quit. Certain representatives, included in the first list of the lloniteur of Saturday, have not been able to procure foreign passports; and the Minister of the Interior and prefect of police have declared that they , ,have received no orders to give any. M. Pierre Le franc has, however, been taken out of his bed by agents of pollee and conducted to the frontier. Yesterday M. de Maupas gave a grand dinner at the Prefecture of Police. Tho Paris correspondence of the ludepoulanee Belye reports that the law requiring newspaper arti cles to be signed by the writers is to be abolished. This appears to be a natural consequence of its being the interest of the government to afford as much pro tection as possible to its own satellites, who are the only writers in the press whose pen may range with license. I hear from an authentic source that application was made recently by the ministry to Count D'Orsay to form ono of a committee for the purpose of found ing at Paris a &don des Elrangers. The count has, to his credit, with the indignant zeal of a new con vert, refused to have anything to do with the foun dation of an institution, in the background of which lie ambushed the vicious varieties of gambling. The only remarkable feature in the press of to-day is another letter by M. do la Rochefoucauld, Duke de Dodeauville, in the Ilaxtte de France, claiming the privilege of discussing with a little less restraint the acts of power, no praise of which, he says, can be worth anything until tempered by permitted blame. The Conslitutiann el publishes this morning the following official returns of the election in the de partment of the Basses Alpes:—Yes, 34,215; No, 614 ; void bulletins, 81. The prima facie infer ence from these figures would be that the partisans of Louis Napoleon in this depart ment far exceed the average throughout France. The general returns only require us to be lieve that about fourteen out of every fifteen men in the country have blindly surrendered their freedom to Louis Napoleon. But in the Banes Alpes it would appear that the proportion of Bonapartist enthusiasm is something like 57 to 1. It might have been thought that if the maintenance of order could any where be safely left to the ordinary civil authorities it would be is a district, the inhabitants of which were so nearly unanimous in support of the go vernment u these votes would seem to indicate. We know, however, that the Basses Alpes was long the theatre of obstinate civil war, and that the votes were taken under the terror of the state of siege. and if any proof were wanting of the utter falla ciousness of the vaunted plebiscite vote as a test of public opinion, it may be found in the comparison of the above figures with the actual state of things in the Basses Alps. The same column in the Condi tutionnel states that the revelations made to the courts martial attest the frightful state of demoralisation of that department, " demoralisation" of course meaning anti-Bona partism. It goes on to say that there was perhaps not a single commune without it s secret society, and in many communes in the canton of Manosque all the inhabitants, without exception, wore affiliated to them. The number of indi v id ua l s now arrested in the department is 992. It further appears, by a pro clamation of Colonel Fririon, commanding tho state of siege, dated January 5, that most of the leaders of the insurrection are still at large and have taken fight. This proclamation goes on in the approved form to sequestrate the property of all absent per sons,:against whom warrants of arrest have been issued. And, further, it declares that any person who may bo convicted of having given money, food, clothing, or shelter to any insurgent will be punished with all the rigour of martial law as an accomplice of the insurrection. A fournai journal says:—" A journal announced some time since that a consid er abl e legacy had been bequeathed to the Countess of liocarm;. by an Eng lish gentleman residing in Paris. This news has since been confirmed, and some persons at Brussels, who arc in a position to be well informed on the subject,state that the young Englishman, who wished to marry the Countess, but was refused, left her by his will, which has not up to this time been disputed, a sum of 600,001 fr." _ _ An English lady, named Lloyd, arrived from Folk ston° at Iloul%me on the 10th September, 1050, and took her place, with a considerable quantity of lug gage, in a train about to leave fur Amiens. She kept in her possession two carpet bags; hut one of the railway ofhicials told her that she could not be allowed to tnkc them with her into the carriage, as they would occupy too much room. She gave them to him, and they were registered. On arriving at THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1852. Paris one of the bags was missing, and Mrs. Lloyd declared that in it was a box of jewellery, contain ing jewels and diamonds of the value of between 10,000 fr. and 12,000 fr. The bag was afterwards found, but the box of jewellery was no longer in it. Mrs. Lloyd, brought an action against the company of the Amiens to Boulogne Railway, and the Civil Tribunal condemned it to pay her 10,000 fr. as da mages. The company yesterday appealed to the Court of Appeal, but the judgment was confirmed. The government has just published a retun: of the coasting trade for 1860. The amount of merchandise carried gives a total of 2,069,000 tons, being 4 per cent. inure than in 1849, and 8 per cont. lees than the average of tho five preceding years. This dimi nution is pertly owing to the establishment of rail ways, and partly to the fact that the abundant har vest rendered it unnecessary to transport so much corn. Out of the 2,069,000 tons, the goods carried from ono sea to another aro set down fur 194,000 tons, and those from the ports of the same sea to 1,875,000. It appears also that carriage of goods from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean shows an increase, and that from tho Mediterranean to the Atlantic a diminution. The coasting trade in both seas between their own ports show a small augmen tation as compared with the preceding year, and a diminution of. a somewhat greater extent as com pared with the preceding five years. Looking at the nature of the goods carried, it is found that timber is down for 10 per cent., building materials for 114 per cent., wino 11 per cent., corn and flour 10 per cent., coals 41 per cent., &c. The number of all the vessels engaged in the trade was 71,700, gauging 2,447,000 tons. This morning took place the solemn funeral service appointed to be celebrated in the chapel of the Inva • tides, in honour of the memory of Marshal Soult. M. ltivierr, the advocate who was prevented from being embarked at Havro for transportation to Cayenne. by a message of the electric telegraph, and summoned to l'aris, was, on his arrival in the capital, set at liberty. Thus, by mere accident, a person whom the authorities recognise as innocent, and ab , solve, has narrowly escaped transportation to a penal colony. It appears that the decrees of the Moniteur rela tive to the proscription of members of the Assembly have produced an impression upon the public so un favourable to the government, that it has been de termined to carry through the remaining measures of transportation, banishment, and persecution, with , out publishing any future notice as to the facts. At the Bourse, the Fives rose 83e., closing at 104 15; the Threes rose 75c., and closed at 69.23. Must of the railways also rose considerably. SPAIN. (DY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.) PARIS, WEDNEhDAT. A regiment of the garrison of Madrid revolted on the night of the Bth. Three soldiers were shot on the 9th. THE PENINSULAR MAIL. (By Electric Telegrapb.) [ITIOX OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, Mtn-DAY. The Iberia has just arrived with the Peninsular mail. She left Lisbon on the 9th. Among her pas sengers are the crew of the brigantine Bertha, of Arundel, which was abandoned at sea on the 2d of December. When the crew abandoned her they were in an exhausted state, having been work ing at the pumps ten days, and living for several days on raw salt fish. The captain's arm was broken, and the crew much bruised; they were landed at Lisbon on the 2flth,by an American barque. ! —From Lisbon we learn that the decree for the capitalization of the dividends and outstanding debts ,caused much discontent. The deputies appear to be very lukewarm as far as business was concerned. On very few occasions had a house been formed. The Government have offered the steam navigation of the Tagus to competition. Exchange, 331. Dis count of Lisbon Bank-notes, 2 per cent. When the Iberia left the Spanish ports, it was rumoured that important alterations had been made in the Spanish tariff, and that the dutz on Manches ter goods had been reduced from 70 to , per cent. GERMANY. BERLIN, JAN. 10. Tho Augsburg Ges.:ette and I}anyihre Journal contain hints of a new Austrian loan to be effected upon the threadbare pretence of redeeming all the government paper money. The latter journal lauds tt as a vast financial conception, and states that it is well received on the Frankfort Exchange. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. Berlinfis Zeitong of the 4th contains a statement, on authority, that " the negotiations between the lianish envoy, M. von Dille, and Prince Schwarz enberg, had produced an agreement that rendered it highly probable the intervention of the Bond in the duchy of Holstein would terminate in a few weeks." When the Austrian troops quit Holstein, sup posing the agreement to receive the necessary ratifi cation, the customs' frontier of I)enmark will be esta blished on the Eyder, and Rendsburg will be pen soned by " the troops of the sovereign," without re gard to nationality. The elections for the provincial diets of both duchies will bo taken according to the law of 1834. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. ...null 1110664.1 Lowest. Clo4lnl. 3 par Oanta 30•r06.10 3 par Onto. Nov loso . ' ... . 4 per Cents. la int Oren( ... Excluage oo Leaden: at 6l l ol . NS 3S; SO OM. 2 3 1 0 . &$ . a 5, 1640 Da. 1, 1041 Do. 44 Do. Id .. . . ... ... i Treasury Boob Madman i p.Ct. MI I Dank Ghana Paws JAN. 13.—St. Germain, 520; Ye:walled (right bask), 19 ' 5; (left bent), 360; Parks and Orleang., 1,030; rani. and one., 700 Scam and till, 150; Maraeillee and Avlienon, 233 , tin (Aaron and Bak, 110; CI.W , 313 50 . Molar* 4•6 Makes. SW 30; Orison sod bardsattx., 430; Northern, 563. Parts mod Oinoboorg. WO; Tours sod N.M.., 26.1; lloateresu and Stem, 00; Barelesuz sad Tette, 111 So. PARIS. lass. U. Per Mosey. ,Lsma he AISMIL MADRID, JAN. S.—Three per Cents., 38; after Boise, 38.1. Four per Cents., 141. Five per Cents., 18; ; after Bohm, 181. Co upons, Si ; after lloLsa, 81c. Passives, 5 9-16 ; after Boise, 5 , p. Bank of St. Ferdinand, 102. Exchange on London , 50.80. VIENNI, JAN. 12.—Five per Cent. 111calliques, 951; Four-and-a Half per Cont. ditto, —. Hank Shares, 1,232. Exchange on London, 12.12. ItUNSIAN PRECAUTIONS.—The Berlin National Zeitung has letters from the frontiers of Poland of the 4th inst., stating that shire the events in France a strong mili tary force has been brought together on the borders be tween Russian and Prussian Poland. Eight Russian regi ments, both cavalry and artillery, aro stationed on the frontiers of the province of l'oaen, and the authorities aro ordered to use the strictest supervision over all travellers entering Russia. The picketsof Cossacks at th e first Rus sian barrier are doubled, and travellers are accompanied by a military escort to the Custom-house station. They there undergo a rigorous examination. The description in the passport is carefully compared with the person bearing it, and in doubtful cases the list of suspected and proscribed individuals is referred to, and a special report made of all travellers proceeding to Warsaw. The high road from Posen to this city is strongly quartled; the little town of Blupee, a mile beyond the frontier, is the last station of the Prusaian post, and this place is surrounded by a triple cor don of cavalry. All the l'ulish hotels are placed under spe cial control. Large msgaxincs of provisions and forage are collected tram the surrounding country, and, notwithstanil, bag the good harvest, the export of rye and oats is pro hibited. These extraordinary precautions have created among the populstion, a vast number of whom cannot read; an impression that somewhere in the world a dangerous re volution has broken out, or that a war is impending. Of the march of large bodies of Russian troops (ram the into rior towards the western frontier, described by some of the German journals, nothicg was known in Poland itself. AMERICIN FIRK-.titYß FUR THY. CAPE. —II , " Lords Ciimmissioners of her Majesty's Treasury have caused Mir Charles Trevelyan to communicate to the commis sioners of customs their lordships' desire for immediate directions to he given for permitting f'olonel Colt to export to the Cape of flood Hope certain cases containing about four hundred and tiftv revulving fire-arms of various 'ices, with the bullet moulds, &c., complete, now in the Greet Exhibition in Ilyile.park, the same Ic ing intended fur the use of officers serving in that colony. INDIA. THE OVERLAND MAIL. We have received, via Trieste, news from Bombay to 17th Dec., and Calcutta, 6th I)ec. The following is taken from the Bombay Times of December 17th:— "There is very little news to communicate by the I present mail which will be likely to interest the European reader. The latest intelligence respecting the movements of the naval expedition to Rangoon is supplied to us in the Calcutta papers of the 11th inst. from which it appears likely that somethng warlike may . be expected to arise out of Commodore Lambert's visit to that quarter. The lion. Com pany's steamer Prosperine returned to Calcutta on the sth inst., from Rangoon tho 28th ult., and Cap tain Latter, who has come on in that vessel, has brought despatches which it seems are nut of so pacific a character as had been expected. We learn that Commodore Lambert's demands have been forwarded from Rangoon to the Burmese Court, and a period of 35 days has been allowed for an arrangement. The force under Brigadier Sir Cohn Campbell is still at Nlichenee, but there has been no fighting. The new fort is fast approaching completion. The latest news front the camp is to the 2:kl ultimo, at which date there was nothing new to communicate. Sumo Khyberries had attacked the house of the sergeant-major of her Majesty's 61st Foot within the Peshawar canton ments, which proves the audacity of these people and how necessary it is to be on the alert to keep them down. They first set fire to the house, and then discharged a volley from their matchlocks through the doors and windows—fortunately with no very serious effect: a comrade of the sergeant-major, who was asleep in the house and received a ball through his cheek, was the only person wounded, The cow ardly villains, however, having discovered a poor, grass-cutter asleep in the veranda, shot him through the heart. The alarm being given, the Khylierries retreated after firing a second volley, without doing further mischief. Dust Ma hornet of Cabool, and the Mahrajah fiholab Singh of Jamoo, are both still alive, notwithstand ing tne recent confident predictions that their end was so near. The field force of Mooltan has been placed is readiness for immediate service, for the coercion, as is supposed, of the arch-traitor Ali Moored, of Khyrpore, who seems at length to have been caught in a trap of his own making. It is rumoured that the Governor-General has intimated to this chief that it is his intention to compel hint to make restitution of certain territory which lie has hitherto claimed as his own under a title now proved to be fraudulent. "We learn, on undoubted authority, that Captain C. Fagan Sth Bengal Cavalry, and deputy pay master at Beams, some time since dismissed the service, has been restored to the army 'by a uuani• mous decision of the Court of Directors, acquiesced in by the Board of Control, and heartily approved of by Lord Dalhousie: " We regret to notice the death of Mr. John lteddie, the First Judge of the Calcutta Court of Small Causes, which occurred at Calcutta on the 2Sth ult. He sank under an attack of cholera—a disease which has of late been very rare among Europeans there. It was not known who would succeed Mr. lteddie on the Bench of the Small Cause Court : for the pre sent Sir Laurence Peel, the Chief Justice, has under taken to occupy his scat two days in the week. " A severe storm visited the coast of Scinde on the 21st and 22d ult., one of the severest felt in that quarter for many years past, and it is feared that the steamer S u rat, belongin g to t he Bombay Steam N av igat ion Com pany has foundered in it. Th e li on . Company's steamer Ajduha has been despatched in quest of this vessel, in the hope that she may have only been disabled. The camp of the Governor-General left ltoorkee on the morning of the 23th ult. His lordship, after having inspected the works at that place, visited the college and model-room, proceeded up the canal, accompanied by Colonel Cautley, and joined his camp at lialiadoorabad late in the fore neon of the 26th. On the 27th the camp moved to Hurdwar, where no halt was made, but at Bogporo instead there was to be a halt of two days. Sir John Grey, Commander-in-Chief of Bombay, returned to the presidency on the: 10th instant. Sir Erskine Perry has left Bombay on a visit to the celebrated ruins of flecjapore. 'lite Calcutta commercial report is still unfavourable as to both produce and import markets. Exchange continues quotations touching on 2s. 3d. for first-class credits. Freights have undergone no improvement, and there is no im mediate likelihood of their doing so.' JNo China letters or papers have as yet been re ceived.] COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. BOMBAY, Dgc. 17. THE. MONEY MARKET.—Money continues plentiful for the season of the yen, and rates of interest lower than is usual at this period but government and oth er *trinities arc all very dull, and sales are not easily eff, dell, although the high rates of exchange on Calcutta have caused govern ment paper to be wed as a remittance instead of bills. The current quotations are Sires Fives .... New Fives Sicca Fours 1832-33, at 94 Co.'s Fours 1835-36, at 00 Transfer Loan _ _. Bombay Bank Shares Oriental Bank Corporation Shares l2 to 13 per cent. pm. Commercial Bank Shares at 6 per cent. pm. Agra Bank Shares G. I. P. Railway Shares ll3B per snare. - - -- - - lurnars : Corrou PIECE Goons. —Since our last report there has been little anxiety to purchase shown on the part of dealers, while on the other hand, since the late arrivals, importers have continued to show an anxiety to realise, which has served to keep the prices low and unremune rative. GREY SIIIIITINGS.--40 in. up to fit reed have slightly declined in value; no change hu taken place in that of GO reed or upward. Fur in. but a limited inquiry has existed. No chnige in its value has taken place. GREY MADAPOLLAV4.—The complete inundation of the market hue caused a further decline in value of about 1 anna per piece, and great difficulty is found in selling even at the very low price to which the goods have fallen ; we believe the price has reached a lower point than has ever been known before. Gary J ACON ET LS very dull, and has further receded in price 1 anna per piece on all descriptions except flue. The extreme dulness which is felt in this, as well as in Made- I pollams, is partly occasioned by tho absence of demand in the Marwar countries, where these goods are both very largely consumed. GREY LONOCLO7II isahnost unnoticed ; very dull of sale ; prices have declined 2 annas per piece. Gan- T Ctirit.—Up to 61b. there has been no demand, and no change in value. Descriptions of 61b. and upwards are in good demand, and prices have advanced 1 anna per piece. ORE- Dosmarics.—Of late the inquiry has not been so good as previously, excepting on goods of 40 in. of heavy and coarse make, which continuo to be irquired after. BLEACHED 801E7MM—qualities low to middling dull and depressed, while fur 66 reed and upwards there ciusts a slight inquiry. BLEACH ED rwtrAi very dull and unsaleable. BLEACHED SATIN SCOTS unnoticed and dull. BLEACHED hilxuarutLams neglected ■nl unenquired after. FANCY 0001311.—DhotiC. Or fancy borders low ; lappets and lappet scarfs in alight demand ; other description. dull of Bale. !'veiny Dm), both plain and twilled, very dull of sale Mulls command a yen' moderate inquiry. COTTON YA 101.--. The mule market throughout tho last fortnight has been unsteady, and prices on 30's, 40's ' and (gra have sliAhtly declined. tVater 20's and stYa have slightly receded in value, while 10's is without change. Dyed Turkey red, except of the best quality, dull of sale. For Orange there exists a fair demand. METALA.—English bar iron, dull and unsaleable. For Swedish there exists a moderate inquiry. Steel in fair in quiry, faggots dull of sale, steel and hoops neglected ; round nail rod is in goad inquiry, and has ads:limed a little, while square is dull, and has receded in value ; pig lead dull, and has receded in v.slue ; sheet l ea d tory dull spelter dull. Copper sheathing has been in good demand, and has ad vanced in price, as has also braziers. Tiles are without change. Australian very dull, the late imports not yet having realised. Bottoms are without change. For South American there is a moderate inquiry. 121 candies Swedish bar iron (to arrive) Rs. 43 0 per candy 121 „ round nail rod iron , 30 0 „ 2(N) cwt. brasier's c o pp er „ sheathing ditto „ 43 0 per cwt VociiiNEAL is very dull and difficult of sale. Saysaiim in demand, and is without change in value. la SNEED has be t a arriving, and prices have receded to rs. 3 2-IGth per cwt. Perreu.--Malabar dull, and slightly lower in price; the Same remarks may be applied to Illiutool. RED LEAD has declined to 9,, as has white lead to 8: per cwt. Coitti.sun continues to lie inquired for; tiro stock is rather low. faint command a moderate inquiry. CANVASS, both bleached and brown, Very dull. Oil of linseed is in demand. Spirits of turpentine dull. 300 cwt. white paint, 9r. Ba. per cwt. ; 100 ewt. ditto, lOr per cw t .; 70 cwt. green paint, 10r. per cwt. ; 30 cwt. ditto, 10r. /14, per cwt. W ilE o L o . L . Le A tr i e l.o a p re s d eo ul n i t a in n u d e.ig.d depressed. request, 70 hhds. hy ing been sold at 60r., and 30 hltds Gasbee at 45r. ; :;.; Younger at 47r. ; 620 hluls. carrells at 45r. ; and 20 filets. Ilodirson's at 60 r. 30 hhds. Goaby's beer, 45r. per Mal • 33 hhd. Younger's ditto, 47r. per hhd. • 20 hhd Scarfs:it; brewery, 45r. per hhd. ; 20 landa. iludlon's beer ;.Or. p er hhd. Expends.—Cotton Wool : Arrivals have been free, and considerable purchases have been mink for thy China mar. ket, to which port holders arc also shipping. Pritss um much the same as when we published our last re o p i . ,, ,r i c 900 bales candy. llhollera 800 ditto ditto 600 ditto ditto 600 ditto ditto (all round) • 250 ditto ditto 000 ditto llaroda (all round) 1125 candies Mangalore (all round) 1600 bales Broach and Jumbooseer epee 157 0 626 ditto Broach 626 ditto ditto Ogre consequence of large shipments, and pair. 'chases for the China market pricea have again advanc i FltlluUT To ExOLAN —Way little offers at pn•sent. To London, 22. 10m. ; to Liverpool *.d. A large numher ..f Tenets have been taken up for China, and freights to China were as high as 18r. but since the 11th Mat. in of numerous arrivals, they have again declined toll s , EXCH.trisiE.—Partly owing to the lowering of the rata lry the India Company in England, exchange h a s The rate of the day is la. lid. to 9•l6th d. On Cal. utte, 11 premium, and on China rupees 216 per cent. Sp. alts . g 10 day's sight. CALCUTTA, 1)1:... 6. The Bombay express, with London date's up to 233 b October, anis ...I on the 3 , 1 inst., and the steamer with the bulk of the mail on the afternoon of the 6th, noifinniug previous ads ices that the unea.y feeling caused by the ap prehension that the heavy loss", sustained elan non colonial products might lead to commtreiul embarr.ssm.uy was gradually subsiding, while the deliveries or all artistes entering into the consumption ul the masses, and the uses of manufacturing industry continued favourably pro gressing. As these satisfactory indications had not how ever, exercised any favourable influence on the value ni colonial products, which by large and free soles, had bon pt in their previous state of depression, our '-sport ne.r ket must be expected to continue in that sad coalition ..f *patty and stagnation in which it has remained silitc p.aturu of the last mail, and although the r.pression this quarter has been rather aggravated since the receipt of the home news, we cannot report any further general decline in the prices of leading staples, moderate stab. fur. nishing ground to holders to give support to tie i• preview requirement., at which the meet offers freely. Our import trade has, as yet, shown no sign "Inatome,. ment, unless a little more momution muomot noble dealts in looking about them may be deemed so. Th.• .1 maul .1 still confined to local consumption, and value r. a. -t much shout our last quotations ; indeed, in ~0111 e in.;, , , , loser prices have been accepted, but such sales h ese a irregular and pressed for special purposes. Tie .1. tisanes of cotton piece goods have genet ally been on Ow. Alec scale as in the previous furtniikt. Imports still greaby exc., d the deliveries. The stales of mule twist have been a- aur sua „, tlvely . very small, and we may quote the valve of all de. seriptunis at Ilpie lower, with a still declining tenth; y, The suspension of payments by one of the largest native dealers in this important staple gave a check to the business in cotton twist, and although the party referred to has sines arranged his affairs by compromise, the market leas not yet recovered from the shock it had es-crivcd. Ceelout,l yarns are dull. Metals remain without improvement. Exchange with London has gradually drooped from 2. 21ths to 2.21 for credit bills, and to 2-21 for duets matt paper, which yet remains scarce. Government sect. rities ars. very dull, and without any denier , iii, diver, Bank of Bengal shares are readily saleable at 2. i- r nl to 2,500 premium. Agra Bank stock is also in good demand, at nearly par. Our money market has not improved from its firmer easy position, supplies in private channels contimanig re. served corn on unusually high terms, whilst the hanks, without any alteration in their rat , a, o bserve tiwad caution in meeting the demand for accommodation. Current value of govenuuent securities, bank stork, &e. Transfer Five per Cent. ....Its. 4 0 oto 4 8 0 prem. New Fives Sicca ditto Co.'s Its. Four per Cent. .... 11 8 0 to 12 9 0 do. Siccuilts. ditto l4 0 0 to 14 8 0 do. Bank of Bengal Shares, Co.'s Rs. 2.425 to 2,410 prem. Bonded Warehouse Shares, Co.'s Its. 220 to 230 each. Agra Bank, paid up, 500 do. 490 to 496. Asaam Company, do. 200 do. 00 to 70. Fnr.tuirr+ for dead weight, hare further dightly de clined, and the tonnage offering continues, much in CICCif of the demand fur it. I DI 0 o.—No disposition has been evinced since our last tO proceed upon hu,iness in this dye, nod beyond a few trifling Bazaar lots of native manufacture on the terms noticed in our last report we here not heard of a single tran , iction. It is stated that an offer of ;Co.'s Rs. 1:12-8 for about 70 chests E. E. 1). Coolbarcalt,which brought last season 11,175, has been refused, and that similar approaches for SUM: other small parcels have met n like fate, yt t all this does not seem to us a fair indication of the tendency of the market, which we expect now soon to see opened by public said. The new goods have siaco been arriving freely, and there arc at present nearly 1,000 chests in Cal cutta. Succeeding invoices have, in the generality of cases, confirmed tho advises of the indigo weighing out lighter than was calculated upon, and tL it (on,e qw.ntly, the total out-turn is not likely to exceed 1,19,000 nods. .---" . ; 100 ewt. ditto, 11l per ewt .; r i &Sa r cwt. ; 30 cwt. ili.to, 10r. 8 a ; pattaf depressed. Ho sin good request, 70 Mu's. hsts the 1 ) hltds Gashes. at 45r. ; :il 1,1,4., Xent carrells at 45r. ; and 20 111,11. Is. °why's beer, 45r. per Mal • they 7r. per hhd. • 20 l,bd Seareeftj Tumg bhds. Ilud;on's beer 'h r. let ritual : Arrivals have Ig en f ree, and aunt, Duni , o been made for th e Chi na mar. ' l 'harc also shipping. friesare films published our last r eport. ka. 82 0 tar cand y . All" II 83 0 with 82 4 in PI I) SI 0 77 0 quen 1) „ more round) loosen' 85 4 Eure SO 8.5 4 11 4 It of large shipments, and psi- of th t prices have again advanctd. gre w ' —Very little offers at ler...skid. ScW , rerpool 2f. A large nomlicr of fir China, and freights t o Chi na nt-ar ce the llth inst., in conse quence Mar, have again declined to 111% front ing to the lowering of the rate in fe :animal, carleinure has re „ -'led. oho lid. to 9- 16th el. On Calcutta, rupees 210 per sent.Bll. tbs. at a iv( CALCUTTA, Dee. 6, to ill ith London dates up to 21 t h stud I inst., and the steamer with the ing ternnon of the Ltle, rmefinniug neasy feeling caused by th e a p. user' 105... sustained up% moot tout. a to commercial mule:or...ln, by Dem Ale the deliveries of 411 artistes theil on of the masses, and the uses hint y continued favourably pro. by / !tory indications had n o t h ow - bie influence on the value 0' T 1 large and free sake, had bon Neu • of depression, our export trot, the i itinue in that sad cosy Hann .f as fu hick it has remained snite th a of tl and although the &messiest e l et aggravates' since the receipt Hs not report any further general ling staples, moderate st,elo. fur. Tres wife support to to. i• ptArssems W eb meet offers freely. Shi n, yet, shown no sign o li mproTc . Ila in ei matte in IMP ingot oat i. • • il,, e I s r t in tl be deemed 1.0. The il M:11.1 . 1 isumption, and value r. 11. - t rune ions; indeed', in sone, ins;,,„ . very , he w epted, Id n such soh, 1 i .,,,- l a , a racial purposes. Th .1 liveries they gen.'salall)'been on the ..litte scale Drs T , t. imports still greae.y e•see, 4 wall' r mule twist have been c enga u rovo may quote the valve of ' II d e . 12, th with a still declining tends r.ey. milk te I to by one of the largest native s h uite, nide gave a cheek to the bu s in e ss Vi th the party referred to has sines c, ' sien promise, the market Is,. not yet bu d t t had received. Colomed yarns , • ithout improvement. prucc has gradually drooped from 2. corps Some s, and to 2.2 i to '...2. ) , for dots. avoid tains scarce. Government seen. Old 1 without nny demon , wle deter. readily saleable at 2. i.",'l to 2,500 Ti ok is also in good demand, at Th' of improved from its former U. this n irivate channels t ,, lltilitling re. At high terms, whilst the h a nks, s id eni heir rat • a, o bserve timed caution Bewa accommodation. inters sent securities, bank stork, &e. repor .Its. 4 0 oto 4 8 0 prem. KO4SIL 1 8 0 to 2 0 0 do. rnsei• 1 8 oto 2 0 0 dis. and .... 11 8 0 to 12 0 0 do. After •.. 14 0 0 to 14 8 0 do. audit f.'s Rs. 2.425 to 2,41 n prem. CTrllil , Co.'s it.. 220 to 230 each. called o. 490 to 40S. ton, o a. 00 to 70. Tenn. AMERICA. The Royal Mail steamer Europa, Capt. Scott, ar rived at Liverpool last evening, at 7 p.m., from New York, with the usual mails, 57 passengers, and 517,500 dollars in specie on freight. She sailed on the Ist Jan., a day after her usual date of sailing owing to the dense fog that prevailed at New York, and though she has experienced very tempestuous weather has made, for a winter passage, one of aver age speed. The Royal Mail steamship Canada, Capt. Harrison, arrived at Halifax on the 26th, and at Boston on the 28th. The Baltic arrived in New York on the 2lth inst. By the fire at Washington, announced in a tele graphic despatch received by the last mail, the li brary of Congress was partially destroyed, the Ca pitol having been saved with difficulty from the flames. About thirty-five thousand volumes of books were destroyed; this is estimated from the supposed number saved, which is twenty thousand, the origi nal contents of the library being about fifty-tive thou sand volumes in all. The contents only of the prin cipal hall were consumed, the north room and law library not having been visited by the tire, owing to the thickness of the intervening walls. Besides the books, a number of valuable paintings, hanging around the library walls and between the alcovea, were included in the destruction. Of these were Stuart's paintings of the first five presidents ; an original portrait of Columbus; a second portrait of Columbus ; an original portrait of Peyton Randolph; a portrait of Bolivar; one of Baron lie Kalb; one of Cortez ; and one of Judge Ilanson,of Maryland, pre sented to the library by his family. Between eleven and twelve hundred bronze medals of the Vatte. mare exchange, some of them more than ten cen turies old, and exceedingly perfect, are among the valuables destroyed. Of the statuary burnt and rendered rorthiess, were a statue of Jefferson; an Apollo in bronze by Mills; a very superior broszo likeness of Washington ; a bust of General Taylor, by an Italian artist; and a bust of lea Fayette, by David. Only three books were saved from the principal library, namely, the Librarian's Register, an account book, and an odd volume of Lord Kings bury's magnificent work on the Antiquities of Mexico. The library, situated in the centre of the west front, was constructed with great taste and beauty. The room, 92 feet in length, 34 in width, and 36 in height, having alcoves over which were two galleries extending throughout the apartment. The room wax handsomely ornamented, and the light was admitted both from ample windows and from three skylights above. Paiutings, marble busts, and cabinets were a part of the attractions, in addition to the elegant folios of coloured prints, and a choice col lection of books, gathered from a'l civilised countries, and from international exchanges. One of the cabinets had recently been placed in the library. The frame work was of mahogany, and in the maple Imlay, covered with glass, were inserted choice bronze medals, commemorative of events in ancient times, and which were deposited through the agency of M. Vattemare. Mr. Jefferson's library, embracing about 7,n00 volumes, was purchased in 1813 for 23,000 dollars; and this termed the nucleus of the 55,000 volumes which have since aseinnulated. Con gress has, for a series of years, annually appropriated 5,000 dollars or 6,000 dollars for the purchase of books and papers; and it is est invited that t hese have cost the government, in addition to the Juni-mon purchase, übout 200,000 dollars. The original de claration of independence had been preserved. The origin of the tire has been ascertained beyond a doubt. On the removal of the rubbish, one of the timbers of an alcove, entering the wall on the east side of the library, exactly where the tire was first observ ed, was found to extend i n t o a d e f ec ti ve flue leading from the committee room, where a wood fire was kept This timber was mostly consumed, while other ten bets in parts of the wall were but slightly buried. Tho chimney connecting with this too wail ASO Th gold riche dis t° 'cry Leak :wort] le trq haT a the t who sti . mc wu.h, awn, the E the t Ou tooth blo t s is th the nin 1 Prun San