The Sun. — London, England, 1862-02-05 00:00:00

ROYAL E NGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. - Under the management of a ss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. son. THIS EVENING, THE PURITAN'S Dant AUGHTER MrH . Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Su san Fyne Mr. Sley, . . Corri, Ur. G. Honey, Mr. A. St. Albyn, and Mr. W. Harrison. To conclude with HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, Giants and Dwarfs. Messrs. W. H., F., and H. Payne, H., E., and S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Commence at Seven. . i-iEATR?•RUYAII, HAYMARKET, Lessee. Mr. J. B. Baatetone. 3 THIS EVENING, to commence with OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern ; Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buckstone. After which, a Comic Christmas Pantomime, LITTLE MISS MUFFET AND LITTLE BOY BLUE ; or, Harle quin and Old Daddy Longlegs. Louise Leclercq, Charles Le clercq, Herr Cole, G. Becket, and Miss Rosine. Commence a 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager---Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, Feb. 5, 4 the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deeltsh. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fal coner ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. Alter which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, The Fairies of the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrcck. Principal charac ters by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and Miss Lydia Thompson Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chitterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 8, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE IRISH EMIGRANT. Mr. W. J. Florence. Followed by THE YANKEE HOUSEKEEPER. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence. After which a Comic Christmas Pantomime, WIIITTIN I .? - TON AND HIS CAT; or, Harlequin King- Kollywobbo l and the Genius of Good Humour. The grotesque openi,,, invented and written by Henry J. Byron, Esq., a uthor of the Princess's Pantomime of " Jack the Giant Killer ' The Scenery by Mr. James Gates, Mr. H. Cuthbert, and numerous assistants. Good Humour, Miss Helen Howard ; Princess Popsiwopsi, Miss Rose Leclercq ; Alice, Miss Pauline Le clercq ; Messrs. Garden, Cathcart, Morland, Cllett, Hast ings, Raymond ; Dick Whittincrton, Miss Maria Harris ; Robin Goodfellow and the Cat, Master John. Haslem, (pupil of the celebrated Gabriel Ravel; Clown, Mr. Hildyard Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Colum bine, Miss Caroline Adams. Morning Performances will take place at Two o'clock every Monday till further notice. NEW THI ATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHI.-... Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. 342 d, 343 d, 314th, 345th, 316th, 347th Nights of the Engage ment of Mr. and Mrs. Dion Boucicault.—Last weeks of The Octoroon and The Colleen Bawn. ---- THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, the great American Drama, entitled THE OCTOROON ; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA. After which, at 20 minutes past 9, the great Irish Drama of THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. and Mrs. D. Bouc;cault ; Messrs. Emery, Fisher, Billington, Eburne, Jamison, Grace, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Lewis ; Mrs. Billing - ton. Mrs. H. Marston, Miss C. Denvil, Miss Latimer, and Miss Woolgar. Box Office open from 10 till 5. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE, Dean-street, Oxford-street. Immense success of the new Operetta. THIS EVENING (4th time) A CHINESE ROMANCE. After which Offenbach's Opera Buffo, entitled LE MA.RI AGE AUX LANTERNES. Mr. John Morgan, Mesdames St a nley, Payne, and Mason. To conclude with THE EARLIEST EDITION OF IL TROVATORE. commence at hall-past 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- I Last 6 'Nights of the Pantomime. —Last 10 Nights of The Colleen Bawn. EVERY EVENING THE COLLEEN BAWN. To be followei with the wondrous feats of the greatest Equestrians in the World, Young Gunerins, Madlle. Halvor sen, and Mons. Goldkette. Concluding: with the Grand Comic Pantomime of JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE TO EDMONTON. In preparation, a gorgeous Eastern Spectacle, introducing Two of the finest Performing Elephants ever seen in this country. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. AND FINE CANTERBURY HALL ARTS GALLERY. "THE ENCHANTED HASH " (SECOND EDITION) by Mr. E. Marshall, with Eleven Wonderful Transformations (the most talented performance ever attempted by a single person), at a quarter-past ten. Also the following extraor dinary combination of Comic talent, viz.: Mr. Randall, Mr. Frederick French, Mr. J. G. Forde, Miss Harriet Coveney, and Miss Greene. Grand Selections from LA TRAVIATA, by Mdlle. Negri, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, and a powerful Chorus, at Ten o'clock. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, Bd. ; Stalls and Balcony, le. VICTOR JULIEN, " THE FLYING MAN." at CANTERBURY HALL, Every Evening at half past Nine o'clock. 1 1 H E OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, Two Selections Every Evening alternately from " Ernani," "Lucrezia Borgia , " "La Traviata," " Simon Boccanegra," "La Circassienne," Arc., by the entire Company, Full Band and Choi-cm—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Solos by Mr. Viotti Collins (the great English violinist). And other at tractive Entertainments, the Comic portion by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. Sam Collins, Wood and Son, E. Marshall, M. P. Foster, and W. Randall. Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. MITE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.- LES Mie.RVEILLES GYMNASTIQUES" by Masters HENItI and PEAU (aged Nine and Eleven years), from the " Cirque Napoleon," Paris, at which place they performed for Three Hundred Consecutive Nights, creating the utmost en thusiasm and excitement. The Double Feats on the Flying Trapeze of these Youthful Artistes are unsurpassed for daring skill, and grace. They make their First Appearance In England at this Establishment on MONDAY, the 17th of February. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS D AY.—Morning, sh. 47m.—Afternoon, 6h. 2m. To-MORROW. -Morning, 6h. 23m.—Afternoon, 6h. 40m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEPRUAR/ 5, 1862. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 54 —highest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and during the night. 51—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30. 09 . WlND—Westerly; fresh, with fine weather, though cloudy. ~ .',:i.t,' . CORP I 4 'l _7't '4. --"---''' '''. " t 1 ?,...... , 4AAeT - '..,.. f • ' e ':: k ''.. A, 6 \ •,;14,,'“ CTE r -- wo i i •.-- 7,,5 N .,... • m ",.41.4" ~...,, A L", , ,, i I . ' '". ."--.' -- 7, . ; --------744,H ' 4 ' . ' - ‘130 . 4"- ' ' ''t '-`•:' ' 7- 7- _ _....,, •+-, -, THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 1862, To-morrow Parliament re-assembles. No great political battle, so far as yet known, is threatening. It is not even certain that Lord DERBY, or rather his subordinate generals, wishes to invade the Trea sury Benches if he could—since if he arrived thither he certainly could not have a working majority without a dissolution, and it is not likely that the veteran Premier would give him that chance. Which side has a majority of avowed followers, it might be difficult to guess. There are at the present moment so many Conservatives who believe Lord PALMERSTON to be the safest man for Toryism,—so many Whig Conservatives who help to enlarge the extent of the marches between the two great parties —that a considerable portion of the house might be worked, on most divisions by the whippers-in of either party. Just now, however, PALMERSTON has the goodwill of the country, and it would not be safe to drive him to a dissolution. The neutrality in the Am er i can war and the Trent affair have unquestionably been managed in a way which the vast majority o f the country approves. There has been boldness without insolence, and firmness with out obstinacy. T here has been no shabby taking advantage of Northern Weakness, but there has been enough said and done to show that the days of such trimming to Yankee impudence as was com mon in the days of PEEL and ASHBURTON, are past and gone. We cannot imagine a course which could more commend itself to the electoral class of England, than that which the Government has pursued on the great and often difficult ques tion of the hour—the American war. H ence we cannot doubt that Lord PALMERSTON would wel come being factiously compelled to resort to an approving country. There seems also to be a general impression that, besides the continuance of the American war ren dering a change of Ministry undesirable, the session which first receives the information of the QUEEN'S widowhood, and has to condole with her on the sad fact, and the ses3ion ychich assemble on the eve of the Great Exhibition, in which the deceased Prince took so deep an interest, is not one Which should be distinguished by any great fight of political parties. No one can tell, of coarse, what a Parliamentary day may bring forth; but the im pression seems to be that, if nothing more turns up than is now known to all, the known circumstances of the year impose a kind of political truce. Skir mishes there will certainly be. Wednesday must hare its E ccleiica and, perhaps, Parliamentary Reform tournaments; but there will be no general engagements under the auspices of the Commanders-in-Chief. Sir JOHN TRE- LAWNY will not forget Church Rate Abolition, and Mr, DISRAELI will be called on to propose his plan, which the decision of Mr. SPEAKER last year re quires him in honour to do—Sir MORTON PETO Will contend that all parishioners have a right to the parish burial ground on equal terms—and Mr. DILLWYN will demand that when grammar school trust deeds specify no particular form of creed or worship, no persons shall be excluded from them on account of their creed. Probably, also, Mr. LOCKE KING and Mr. BAINES will not allow their respective proposals to rust. Why should they ? The House of Commons and Cabinet Mini sters have affirmed their justice and fitness—why should not the House be kept in mind of its incon sistency till it repents and becomes consistent ? These motions, however, through Whig heartless ness and Tory v igour against all progress, will be easily despatched in their infancy. Possibly there may be a little disputation over the Mexican war. Success, however, seems likely, an d is the most efficient of all answers; Poland, Hungary, Austria, will all be probably discussed, but opinion, so far as expressed, will be tolerably unanimous, and non-intervention will cover a multi tude of sins. Aristocrats would like to interfere to coerce Hungarians into submission—the people to encourage them to be firm to the last ; but by doing nothing our Government will adapt itself to the practical opinion of the majority, which is that we can do nothing. In regard to Italy, France, and Austria, in their relations with each other, the Government is presumed to be of the same opinion as the country. Lord JOHN RUSSELL would probably, were it of any use, counsel Austria to sell Venetia, and pay her debts with the money, and France to leave the POPE and ANTONELLI to the Italians, with whom they say they are in excellent relations. If papers had to be produced they would probably be quite satisfactory. India will present better prospects than for many years. The expenditure and revenue are approaching a balance, if they have not found it already. The measure for selling waste lands, originally enjoined by Lord STANLEY, will be popular, and to that has been added a commence ment of even redeeming the land tax, and con verting the proprietorship into fee simple. The cotton question has also been vigorously taken up in India, and it can be shown that if the Govern ment cannot in one year make good the neglect of 20 years, it has yet done all that was possible. The great blame still lies with Manchester. The manufacturers, as a class, persist in hoping for American slave grown cotton, and refuse to make the very slight alterations of their machinery re quisite for the successful forking of Indian cotton. Possibly the Irish members, the " Pope's own" at least, will show their teeth at the Government, because in common with all the country, the Foreign Secretary does not think it the duty of France, or say other power, to keep the poor Romans under the feet of the Pope and his Peru gian Cardinal ; but we suppose the Irish troublers of Parliamentary peace will be bound over to keep it by the unsettled affair of the Galway Packet Company. The Education Minute will possibly give occasion for a DISRALT onslaught ; and pro bably the Premier may incline to sacrificing some of the more questionable details of the measure. We can hardly, however, suppose that the House of Commons will allow itself to be overpowered by the clamour of an interested class, who have already received, somewhat freely, the money of the coun try, for the most insignificant results. The main position of the Government will surely be sustained by the House—that we must have results for the nation's money. The mode of ascertaining those results, may, indeed, be modified, but it must not be a sham mode. If we pay to have reading, writing, and arithmetic taught, we must have this at least done, or decline to pay. Law reforms seem to be those chiefly looked for. The Bankruptcy Bill needs to Ls perfected; and tl4 sooner the better, all the laws relating to the subject embodied in one statute. The Conveyance of land, on which Sir HUGH CAIRNS tried his skill, is a subject for which the materials are ready, and nothing but the will is wanting to sweep away the cobwebs of old rou tine objections. Minor matters also demand attention, and will repay it. Our law-reforming Chancellor will surely not allow his term of office to pass away, without originating, in a house which is appropriate to such measures, some which shall be worthy of his reputation and ability. As to her MAJESTY'S Speech, we need not attempt to foreshadow what our readers will have in their hands at an early hour to-morrow. Domestic sorrow ; pleasant relations with other Powers I regret for the war in America, and consequent suffering in Lancashire ; perhaps an allusion to the lamentable accident in the North, and a hint at legislation for the future ; such things, with Mexico, a hopeful finance, and the happy results of the French treaty, will doubtless be among the chief topics. El Dorado appears to have been discovered after all. Not in Peru or Mexico—net in Golconda or California : but in those new and wonderful gold. fields in British Columbia. The accounts coming to us for some considerable time past from the banks of the Frazer River have read quite fabu lously. The description of the " finds" there have seemed to indicate an inclination on the part of the writers to take a " rise" out of our credulity. The flights of arrowy news coming to us across the whole breadth of the American Continent and the whole width of the Atlantic Ocean have apparently been discharged in our direction by nothing less than the long bow. We have listened and looked at this intelligence from time to time somewhat in credulously. But after all even the wildest and most improbable stories turn out literally to be within the mark, to be perfectly veracious, to be the simple and sober records of actual facts. The Timos' correspondent, writing from Victoria, the capital of Vancouver's Island, under date the 29th of last No vember, has given to the English public at home authentic particulars as to the fruitfulness of these gold fields of British Columbia, calculated to lure the Youth of the United Kingdom to the eastern borders of the Pacific, as fast as steam and wind can bear them, armed with pick and spade, with mattock and rocker. There, in truth, in that last and almost, it would seam, richest of our sixty colonies, the fabled El Dorado has at length been brought to light—El Dorado, that i s , in the rough. No cities of palaces are there, nor streets paved with go ld , nor houses ro o f e d with dream-towns of childhood panca k : es, but—in like t l iheeu of u n l d l etrhf that t l —as flowery eflake rya s nd an f d ru intn itl fu wilderness, with gold in dust 2s scattered about the earth in gorgeous litter, as though the banks of Fraser River were TOM TIDDLEIeB Ground, by the d e li g ht_ point of this auriferous region goes The central ful name out there of Cariboo—a savage Corrup tions it would seem, of Cerfbosuf. Caribo o It sounds already agreeably in one's ears, like the chink of those opulent-looking canvas bags that ,--__. -- the banker's clerks bring up from the lower r e city,gi o n e e s e a of s i e t n h a e great u n s t t h o r r e e t h t o i u e se fora of p b l u e l a l s i o in h a n n t in ttere val of counting and weighing—to pour out like gol den-fiakey grain upon the counter, and to shovel up into scales with scoops, used like the meal measure borrowed by Am BABA'S wife from her next door neighbour. Cariboo! It rings with an irresistible summons across the American Continent, bidding all the stalwart Youth of England who have no thing better before them to do, at once to hasten out thither, for the purpose not of picking up a mere living, not of scraping together just barely enough to keep body and soul together, but to fill their now empty coffers as fast as their strong young arms can shovel up the squandered wealth lying there all along the banks of that modern Pactolus. There in British Columbia, especially in Cariboo, there would have been no necessity to en dow that wretched mythical King of old, the arch type of avaricious luxury, with power to turn every thing into gold when he touched it. There the auri ferous transformation is already accomplished for all alike—for all kinds of corners promiscuously. The voyagers to Cariboo have but to stoop and gather up the common earth at their feet, and lo ! it is full of it. The golden plenty glitters within their grasp substantially, and not like the fabled gold from Fairyland—gold turning upon the morrow into dead leaves, or melt ing in the palm like a snow flake. Cariboo might most appropriately have been the transatlantic domain belonging to Miss KILMANSEGG of golden memory. For there, as with all that golden-legged lady's belongings, it is "gold, gold, nothing but gold." It is the one exceptional spot, one might say, reading the authentic and veracious narratives now just coming to this country from Cariboo under the hand of the Times' Correspondent—that really, we say, would appear to be the one exceptional spot upon the surface of the earth where the familiar adage is contradicted, and where all is gold that glitters. The particular region where all these latest mar vels in the way of gold digging have been brought to light, promises to be one of such wonderful importance in the influence it is likely to have directly upon the commercial enterprise of the Anglo-Saxon race, and indirectly, of course, more or less, upon the commercial enterprise of all other trading communities that we give the account of it precisely as it is told to us by the accurate pen of this keen observer. Here is his descrip tion of it—and the spot ought, henceforth, to be marked in "letters of gold" on every future map of our North American provinces :—" The por tion of British Columbia which has yielded nearly all the gold produced this year, and which is destined to attract the notice of the world to a degree hitherto not accorded to the country in the 'aggregate, is a newly-discovered dis trict called Cariboo (a corruption of ' Cerfbsauf,' a large species of reindeer which inhabits the coun try.) The district is about 500 miles, in the interior, north (or north-east rather) from the coast of British Columbia and the mouth of Prue,' River. It is not far from the sources or ' head waters' of the south branch of Fraser River and the Rocky Mountains, and forms a patch of country—a broken, rugged mass of mountains and streams, 50 miles from north to south and 30 miles from east to west, as far as yet known from recent exploration—round three sides of which the south branch of the Fraser makes a great bend or semicircle from its source to its junction with the north branch, near Fort George, a trading station of the Hudson Bay Com pany, in about lat. 53 deg. 50 min. N." The geographical position is thus quite accurately defined. No one can now plead ignorance as to its whereabouts. There, and not in the mountains of the moon, or in the flying island of Gulliver, or in the imaginary regions of Cipango, or in the fabled realms of PRESTRE JOHN, is the true El Dorado. There, and not anywhere else, not in the " dig ings" of Australia, not the gold fields of California, is the Treasure Trove—a treasure worthy of the name, for never yet has there been such a " find" of gold anywhere brought to light within so brief an interval. It is but the other day, as it were, that Sir BUMPER LITTON marked out the site of the new colony—and already it gives promise of taking its place ra pidly among the first and foremost of all our colonies. It has a delightful and salubrious climate, a fruitful and virginal soil, a magnificent seaboard, a superb harbour in its immediate vicinity, mean ing that of Esquimalt, and above all it has strewn affluently all along the borders of Fraser River particularly at a spot already defined with the ut most nicety, and known (apparently but very superficially known indeed) among the natives as Cariboo—" Gold, gold, gold, gold"—in abundance. His Highness the Maharajah Dnleep Singh has arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Isfulgrave Castle, 'York shire. The Archbishop of York has arrived at Claridge's Hotel from the Archiepiscopal Palace, York. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry arrived in town yesterday evening from Powerscourt Castle, county Wicklow. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster arrived at Grosvenor House last evening from Eaton Hall, Cheshire. The Earl and Countess Howe have arrived at Curzon House from Gopsall Hali, Leicestershire. The Earl and Countess of Donoughmore have arrived in town from their seat in Ireland. Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere is prevented attending the opening of Parliament by an attack of rheu matic gout. Viscount and Lady Mary Sandon leave town to day for Folkestone, on their way to the South of France. THE HOUSE OF LORDS.—Some new peers, as well as some new commoners, will be entitled to take their seats in the assembly of Parliament to-morrow. In consequence of the death of the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe, Viscount Valletort, M.P., will be called to take his seat in virtue of the earldom, he being the sth earl. His lordship was born in 1832. By the death of Baron Ponsonby, intelligence of which reached England in October, his cousin, the Hon. William Ponsonby, succeeds to the peerage. His lordship is the only son of the late Hon. and Right Rev. Richard Ponsonby, D.D., Lord Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. By the death of the Earl of Yarborough, Lord Worsley, late M.P. for Great Grimsby, succeeds to the peerage. By the death of the Earl of Eglinton and the Earl Forteseue, the number of peers has been reduced by two, the present Earl of Eglinton being only 20 years of age, and the present Earl Fortescue having for some time past had a seat in the House of Lords as Viscount Ebrington. 1 THE PROTOSTSHIP OF ETON.—In conformity with the statutes, the election of a provost, in the room of the Rev. Dr. E. C. Hawtrey, deceased, will take place on Tuesday next, the 11th inst. The appointment is worth £3,000 a year, and is tenable with the incumbency of the parish of Eton. A meeting of the fellows is summoned for Tuesday to elect a provost, but there appears to be some doubt whether the nomination rests with the fellows or with the Crown. The college authorities and the Crown have been in conflict in former times upon tho matter. Somo years since the Crown nominated the Rev. Francis Hodgson (a son-in-law of Lord Denman) to the provost ship, but the fellows resisted, and elected Dr. Lonsdale, at present Bishop of Lichfield. The Ministerial appointment was, after some legal difficulties, acceded to. THE SOUTHERN STATES OF AMERICA.—Within the last fortnight, the representative of a Liverpool house engaged a nutater of engravers, lithographers, and copper plate printers to proceed to the Southern States of America. They have been engaged for three years, and are to receive each from £3 to £0 per week. So secret was the whole affair managed that none of them knew how they were to be conveyed to their destination, nor what particular busi ness they were to carry out, nor who were the real employers. All they were, informed was that they were t o b e ready to start on Friday night last, and that a &,rt!..tip firm in Liver. pool would guarantee their wages and expenses, they having power to break the bargain at the end of any of the years. his surmised that they are to be employed in a Confederate States Government printing office, to print paper money.. North British Nag THE, suN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FE B RUA R Y 5, 1862. LATEST NEWS. PARIS, FEB. 5. The Paris papers of to-day publish a telegram from Alexandria, dated 3d instant, announcing that Admiral Bonnard had obtained rather considerable successes in Cochin China, the details of which would be brought by the next mail. BUCHAREST, FEB. 4. The peasants in several villages, having been ex cited by revolutionary agitation, prepared to march on Bucharest. The Sub-Prefect, who wished to stop them, was killed by then, and the Procurator ill-treated. Prince Couza has despatched troops to meet them, and arrest their advance by force. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. MARSEILLES, WELNESDAT MORNING. The Massilia, with the daove mails, arrived at Marseilles at 8 a.m. this day, The mails leave for London at 10 a.m. PARMA, FEB. 4. A popular manifestation took place here to-day. Shouts were raised of " Long live the Pope ! but not the Pope-King !" " `Tictor Emmanuel for ever." (BY TELEGRAPH FROE ALEXANDRIA.) SHANGEAI, DEC. 24, 1861. Pekin and Canton are quiet. Ningpo has fallen into the hands of the rebels. CANTON, DEC. 31. The export of tobacco from the Manillas has been prohibited. AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, DEC. 23. The total export of gold since the departure of the last mail amounts to 173,245 ounces. FRANCE. BOURSE, Feb. 4.—The market opened with'great buoyancy, and a rather large amount of business was done at an advance on the closing rates of the previous day, Threes having been done as high as 71f. 60c. Later in the day a little reaction took place, and prices receded, and are now at 71f. 45c. Railways firm. The following are the last quota tions :- 4t per per Cents 99 80 Do. end month 100 50 3 per Cents Do. end month 7l 45 Bank Shares 3000 Credit Mobilier..., 767 5C Do. Account 770 Credit Fonder 1260 Belgian 4}.. - Piedmontese Fives 6B 80 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 49 Home Debt RAILWAYS• Cash. Account. Orleans 1352 50 .. 1352 50 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1087 50 .. 1090 Geneva. ....... ..,.. GO Southern 727 50 .. 728 75 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lowbard 550 .. 552 50 AUSTRIA. Under the head of " Latest Intelligence," La Patrie publishes the following " A private letter from Vienna informs us that his Imperial Highness the Archduke Maximilian, who has been appointed by the Emperor to the command of the Austrian navy, held a levee on the Ist Feb., which was attended by all the Austrian naval officers at Vienna. The Prince informed them that the navy was to be considerably increased, and that all his care should be devoted to make it as perfect as possible, a task which required time and perseverance. The same letter adds that the Emperor will pay another visit to Verona in February to inspect the additional fortifications he ordered to be made there recently." Respecting the presumed offer of the Crown of Mexico to the Archduke Maximilian, in exchange for Venetia, the Augsburg Gazette, after stating that not one inch of territory in Italy will be ceded by Austria, says : " On this point M. de Schmerling shares the sentiments of Count Rechberg, and M. de Plener would not hesitate for one moment to decline all the treasures of California if they were to be the price of the cession of any portion of Austrian territory. The offer of the throne of Mexico, whatever La Patrie may choose to say, will never be looked upon as an equivalent for the loss of the Adriatic. On this point all are agreed, and Austria will resist with a firmness which nothing can bend, happen what may." The Vienna Gazette, of the 3d inst., indignantly denies the rumour that negotiations are on foot for the cession of Venetia. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, FEB. 4. The royal mail steam ship Canada, from Bos ton on the 22d, and Halifax on the 24th ult., arrived here at 2,20 p.m. to-day, with 69 passengers and 61,000 dols in specie. She landed 87 sacks of mails and two passengers, and proceeded foi Liver pool at 2.40 p.m.; all well. The Canada was de tained between Boston and Halifax, and seven hours off Queenstown, by fog. NEW YORK, JAN. 23 (Evening). (Per Canada, by telegraph to Halifax and from Queenstown.) The defeat of the Confederates in Kentucky is confirmed. The New York press consider the victory at Somerset as the most important advantage gained by the Federals since the commencement of the war. A general order has been issued by the Secretary for War acknowledging the bravery of the troops, and promising rewards. The report that preparations were being made at Fortress Monroe to attack Norfolk is untrue. Ex-President Tyler is dead. The Southern journals report that the steamer Gladiator with a cargo of arms had arrived at a port in Florida. The Committee of Ways and Means has reported to the House of Representatives on the National Currency and Loan Bill, which proposes to legalise as a lawful tender, in all money transactions of the country, the United States notes in circulation, amounting to 150,000,000 dole., including the 50,000,000 dole, issued under the act of last July. This circulation, and all audited demands upon the treasury are convertible into public stocks bearing 6 per cent. interest, and having 20 years to run. The bill also authorises the creation of funded Six per Cent. stock equal to 500,000,000 dollars, which is to be used in payment of the floating debt, and for funding Treasury notes. This is for the service of the year ending June, 1862, and for the ensuing year, ending June, 1863. The stocks are to bear interest at an uniform rate of 6 per cent., but may, when so appealed for, be expressed in the currency of any foreign State, and made payable abroad to the equivalent of their par value in Federal currency. The notes are to be five dollars and upwards. The Secretary of the Treasury has sanctioned , this bill. The amount required for the navy during the present financial year is 481 millions of dollars. It is reported from the South that General Burn side's :expedition had arrived in Pamlico Sound, and was about to attack Newbern and Roanoke Island. The Confederates are said to be ready for resistance. The Commercial Advertiser states that the Con federates have abandoned Fort Pulaski. The City of New York was intercepted off Cape Race on the 23d inst. The llibernian has arrived at Portland, and the British steamer Racer at New York. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JAN. 23, EVENING. Money abundant. Wheat buoyant, and le. higher. Corn steady, lc. higher. Provisions steady. Coffee very firm. Sugar well inquired for. Molasses very firm. Exchange very firm, at 1141. Large speculative sales have taken place. Gold is quoted at 31 to 4 per cent. premium. Stocks firm and advancing. New York Centrals, 83i ; Erie, 35k; Illinois, 634. The cotton market is quiet. Sales in two days, 1,000 bales. Middling Upland, 30c, to 32c. Flour sc. higher, firm and advancing. THE MEXICAN INTERVENTION. NEW YORK, JAN. 23. (Per Canada, by telegraph to Halifax and from Queenstown.) Advices received here from Mexico to the 10th inst. announce that General Prim and the French and English squadrons arrived at Vera Cruz on the 7th inst. The English, French, and Spanish flags floated over Vera Cruz and the fort of St. Juan de Ulloa. There was no diminution in the signs of the in tention of the Mexicans to make resistance in the interior. According to some accounts Vera Cruz was sur rounded on the land side. An attack on the city was apprehended. THE ESCAPE OF IRE NASRVILLE. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 4. The Tuscarora left Southampton Water last week, and anchored in Yarmouth Roads. There is every reason to believe that her commander received in formation from Mr. Adams, the American ambas sador, that neither the Tuscarora nor the Nashville would be allowed to find refuge many days longer at Southampton. On Saturday the former ship left Yarmouth Roads, and proceeded westward as far as Portland. Her commander, Capt. Craven, evidently believed that the Nashville would delay her depar ture until the last moment. His object, probably, was to keep in Yarmouth Roads, for the purpose of ' getting telegrams from Southampton at Hurst Castle, and running out into the British Channel if the Nashville got out through Spithead. Had Capt. Craven stopped in Yarmouth Roads, the Nash ville could not have left without great danger. His trip to Portland was the salvation of the Confede rate steamer. The Nashville was ready to start on Saturday. On Monday at noon the Tuscarora passed inward through the Needles. Capt. Craven hesitated to approach nearer to Southampton ; but, being in want of some 40 tons or so of coals to fill up his bunkers, he ventured in as far as Cowes. Her Majesty's steamer Shannon was still lying there with her steam up. Not suspecting any thing, Captain Craven dropped his anchor. He had no sooner done so than he received a telegram from Southampton stating that the Nashville was leaving the dock. This caused unusual excitement on board the Tuscarora, during which a communication was received from the Shannon that- Captain Pegrim, of the Nashville, having given legal notice to the pro per authorities of his intention to leave the port of Southampton, Captain Craven would not be able to leave neutral waters until 24 hours had transpired after the departure of the Nashville. The Shannon immediately shifted her position to the westward of the Tuscarora, to bar her exit through the west channel. Even if the Tuscarora had not been im mediately under the Shannon's guns, she could not have got away to the eastward, for her Majesty's ship Trafalgar barred her exit that way. The Nashville came careering down Southampton Water, and just as she passed close to the Tuscarora the officers and cre w of the Nashville commenced cheering the Jersey mail packet, which was pro ceeding to Southampton, and then the Nashville passed rapidly on towards the Needles. The pilot left her about four miles outside, going at the rate of 11 knots. It will be in vain for the Tuscarora to attempt to follow her, and if there is no other Fede ral war steamer in the Channel to intercept her, there can be no doubt of her escape. The Tuscarora will, there is every reason to believe, leave Cowes to-night, and proceed to the Mediterranean. She will, it is believed, visit Southampton again in four months time, The Nashville has been at South ampton nearly three months. Mr. Yancey, the Confederate commissioner, it is said, left South ampton for Havannah in the Royal Mail steamer Seine yesterday. TILE SUMTER AND HER DOINGS. Three American captains—Captain Smith, of the Arcadia; Captain Minott, of the Vigilant; and Cap tain Hosie, of the Even Dodge—have arrived in Liverpool by the Spanish steamer Douro, from Cadiz, where they were landed, after their vessels had been captured and burnt at sea by the Sumter. It is their intention to return in the royal mail steamer Bohemia, of the Quebec and Montreal line. According to the account of these gentlemen, the Sumter is a very indifferent screw-steamer, of about 500 tons. Her armament consists of four 32- pounder guns and one 68-pound pivot gun. She is well supplied with small arms and ammunition, salt provisions, and general stores. Her crew are re presented as about 90 in number, mostly Irish, and so discontented that 11 of them deserted at Cadiz. The marines on board are all Irish. The Sumter brought 43 prisoners into Cadiz, being the crews and officers of the captured ships. Several of the prisoners (negroes) were detained on board the privateer, as part of her crew. The accounts given by the captains are very similar, and Captain Hoxie's embraces nearly all the facts of interest : His vessel, the Even Dodge, a craft of 222 tons, was owned in New Bedford (Mass.). On the 26th Nov. last she sailed thence for the South Pacific on ,a three years' whaling voyage. She was in every way equipped. On the Bth December, when in latitude 31 N., long. 50 W., about 10 a.m., the weather being thick at the time, a steamer flying the American Union Ensign came in sight and immediately fired a shot across the bows of the barque. In a few minutes afterwards the steamer ran astern of the barque, hoisted the Confederate flag, and Captain Sommes ordered Captain Hoxie to come on board the steamer with his papers, at the same time saying that the steamer was the Con federate war vessel Sumter. On going on board the Sumter Captain Hoxie was shown into the cabin where Captain Sommes was sitting, The latter after looking over the papers of the Even Dodge, said, " Oh, yes. It is all right. She is a lawful prize of the Confederate States, and I shall burn the ship." He then said, "We are short of water, and you have plenty, I must have some of that." He then ordered Captain Hoxie to go back, accom panied with an armed boat's crew of the Sumter, and bring off the water, of which they took about 1,000 gallons. They also took a quantity of tobacco, soap, and clothing, all the charts, and the captain's sextant and chronometer. On again being taken on board the Sumter, Captain Hoxie was told by Sommes that he must restrict himself to one bed, and one trunk for his clothes, and his mates and crew must restrict themselves to one bag each fol. clothing. These conditions were complied with as speedily as possible, and the crew of the Sumter appropriated all the carpenter's tools which were on board the Even Dodge. The vessel was then set on fire, and about sundown, when the Sumter wore away, the barque was blazing from stem to stern. A BALLET GIRL BURNT TO DEATH.—An inquest was hold at Liverpool on Saturday last on the body of Fanny Julia Power, aged 20 years. From the evidence given before the coroner it appeared that the deceased was a ballet-dancer and actress at the Theatre Royal, Liverpool. On the night of the 16th ult: she was performing in the pantomime, and between 9 and 10 o'clock was retiring from the stage, at the conclusion of one part of the ballet, when she stooped to look at her shoes. The hind part of her skirt lifted as she was in the act of stooping, and her dress caught fire from a gas jot placed in the side wing. The fire was put out and the deceased was taken home. She was badly burnt over her body and arms. She died on the 30th ult. Mr. Copeland, lessee of the theatre, explained that at each side wing of the stage was placed a gasman, whose duty it was to see thtit the ladies and gentlemen in making their exit from the stage did not permit their dresses to brush against the side lights. In the present case the man stationed at the side wing through which the deceased made her exit was in his proper place, but it appeared that after retiring the deceased looked at her shoes, thus raising the skirt of her dress so as to bring it into contact with the light. He thought it was possible that the light had beex lowered beyond its usual position, and that the gasman thinking the deceased had passed on, allowed his atten• don to be drawn away for a moment. Verdict—Acci dental death, LITERATURE. What Can it Be? or, The Fact Family Travelling Incognito > Edited by Lady Caroline Elliot. 1 vol. Hurst and Blackett. This is a very entertaining little volume, written on a novel and striking plan. The question pro posed by the title is left to be answered by the reader, who will often have his ingenuity put to a severe test. He will sometimes be tempted to echo back the query of this fascinating Sphinx while pondering over her puzzles, which present the com mon things of every-day life to our astonished eyes under a dress so perfectly fitting yet so ingeniously designed that recognition of the familiar forms is by no means easy. We subjoin two specimens, which we leave our readers to discover : LONGSHANNS. And now I must describe my person, for you must be anxious to know what lam like. I think myself very handsome, although my complexion is so sallow that, in most people, it would be considered unhealthy; but it be • comes me very well, and the better and the stronger I feel, the more yellow is my skin. My figure is peculiar : I am thought most of when I am slim and genteelly-made; but, though I am certainly thin, I am never tall, and my body is entirely hidden by my great " phiz," which is decidedly not gifted with small features. My eyes are at the back of my head, and completely obscured from view by my golden locks,which are so redundant that they reach from head to foot. I take my name from mylegs, which are so long, that, when our family came over to England, the surname of Longshanks was given them, in consequence of the lengthiness, and, at same time, thinness of those limbs. My two legs are not the samelength, which would generally be considered dis advantageous to a j erson's appearance ; but as it is part of my duty to be always kicking with these legs of mine, their want of similarity prevents me from bruising my shins, which would be very inconvenient. You will wonder at my employment—kickin g I but so it is. I never stop kicking f r om on e d a y' s e nd to another, and the hard exercise makes my heart beat very loudly, I can tell you. In consequence, I suppose, of being obliged to exert myself so much, I am subject to disease of the heart, which organ sometimes suspends its motion for a time ; but when this happens I am very ill indeed, and am generally sent to the doctor. THE BAND OF BROTHERS. After this preface, you will be surprised t 3 hear that we cannot speak, and that though alive we never eat nor sleep, and yet, ever since man was created, we have existed, a whole band of us, attaching ourselves to every child, in creasing in numbers and size as he or she grows older • and though daily growing taller, it is a curious fact that we never get any fatter, and this I suppose may be owing to our never eating anything—but not being able to speak or ask questions upon this weighty matter, of course this is only my own conjecture, and may be very far the truth. Another curious thing about us is, that though we an entirely the personal property of our masters and mistresses, and devote ourselves to their comfort and use, they have not the least idea how many of us there are, and though they might try to count us, they would never find oat. Some of our bands dress black, and look so very hand some that, with many persons, they are the favourites. To wards the middle of our life, sometimes sooner, sometimes later, we all put on a quiet grey dress, which, generally speaking, our masters and mistresses dislike very much, and try to hide by various disguises, which, however, generally be tray themslves,and cause ridicule and contempt; we have no hesitation in saying that our masters and mistresses would be wiser in letting us follow our own taste in this matter, as the quiet grey dress always harmonises with our time of life, and really looks much the best, if they would only be lieve it. The reader will be amused to recognise parasols and umbrellas as " The Rising Generation," and will not find it difficult to discover the original of " The Wonderful Mirrors" in books ; he will find his eyes transformed into " Her mits Abroad," and detect " The Two Old Brothers" in " Wind and Water Mills. But we need not multiply examples, only recommending this clever and lively volume to all who wish to make an hour pass pleasantly away in the evening home circle. Tfilson's Picture Alphabet. Wilson's Picture Primer. Sixpence each. Sampson, Low, and Son, Ludgate-hill. Children of the present day are most fortunate in their lesson books, and the brilliant little books here before us are no exception to the rule. The arrangement of the alphabet is most ingenious, and will furnish a fund of amusement to those who are beyond the necessity of learning. From the animated representations, the child cannot fail to be delighted with this bright example of things of daily use and animals of all kinds. The Primer is arranged in an excellent manner, and the method of continually repeating the same words is of vast importance, as it enables the mind of the young beginner to grasp a firm hold of some one thing in each lesson. To all teachers these pretty books may be recommended, as they combine pleasure and profit; and while yielding instruction, so im part it that the mind of the learner is divested of the horror of books that so often seize on those whose early studies have been harshly directed or rendered dull by unnecessary drudgery. Thus these endeavours to make the paths of study, as far as may be, ways of pleasantness, is to be com mended, as with the best attempts there will re main much to weary the young in all schooling. Ward and Lock's Shilling Series. A pleasant collEction of cheap reprinted novels, selected principally from the pages of the weekly and monthly serials, are before us. Their size and form are convenient, their type clear and good, and the stories of average merit. We have stirring romance in the " Lady Lisle," sea stories for nautical tastes in the "Cruise of the Blue Jacket," and varied and, animated sketches in " The Night Mail and its Passengers," and " Storm Beaten." The Family Save-all. By the editor of " Enquire Within," &c. Twenty Thousand. Houlston and Wright. We have previously noticed this excellent little manual which must prove a great acquisition to the good housekeeper, who likes to combine economy and satisfaction. No one need henceforth have cold dinners far fear of the expense of hot ones since the uninviting remains of fish, meat, vegetables, or puddings under the spell of this book of magic art became transformed into varied and savoury dishes at a very trifling expense. We must not omit to mention that many useful hints on little household difficulties are added at the conclusion. We are not surprised at the large circulation of so useful a domestic guide. The Eistorical Finger -post. By E. Shelton, assistant compiler of " The Dictionary of Daily Wants." Lockwood. There are few readers of the present day that can profess to disregard the assistance of this valuable finger-post in directing him along the en tangled and frequently obscure roads to historical knowledge. Its arrangement is admirable, and enables the searcher to find the name wanted immediately. It is decidedly one of the best and most comprehensive of the many useful works of this class that have come under our notice. The Midland Counties Almanack. and Rural Hand book. W. R. Newcomb, High-street, Stamford ; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., London This voluminous almanack contains every pos sible information regarding farming and other rural occupations. It is a difficult task to select any special subject for commendation, and the enu• meration of the varied information would require a small catalogue. We may, however, mention that the average prices of wheat and wool frmn the year:l74o are to be found in these pages—Treat ment of stock, English and French corn measures, Observations on the treatment of , sick cattle, The law of warranty in all its branches, &c. This is but a tithe, however, of the contents, which is exceed ingly extensive, the whole volume containing some 200 pages, and both as a book for general informa tion and of reference is well worthy the attention of the rural population. KEWSPAPER STATISTICS. From the Newspaper Press Directory for 1862 we extract the following on the present position of the newspaper press : " There aro now 'Published in tho United Kingdom, 1,165 Newspapers, distributed as follows : England Wales Scotland Ireland British Isles Of these there are 43 daily papers published in England 1 ditto Wales 9 ditto Scotland 16 ditto Ireland 2 ditto British Isles On reference to preceding editions of this useful Directory we find the following interesting facts, viz., that in 1821 there were published in the United Kingdom 267 journals; in 1831, 295 ; in 1811, 472 ; and in 1851, 563 ; but in 1862 there are now established and circulated 1,165 papers, showing that an extraordinary impulse has been given to every description of newspaper enterprise. The magazines now in course of publication, including the quarterly re 'views, number 516, of which no less than 213 are of a de cidedly religious character. Among these, the Church of England has its special organs; and the Wesleyans, PH native Methodists, Baptists, Independents, and other Christian communities, are fully represented in this branch of literature." One of the most distinguished ornaments of the literary world has been lost to Parisian society. Charles Philipon, the well-known French caricaturist, is dead. lie was the founder of the popular Charivari, which still maintains a high position amongst the publications that issue from the weekly press for the enjoyment of the laughter-loving public. - His satirical pencil continued to the last to give the journal its high position, and the loss of this able co-operator will be severely felt. , TILE NAVY. 4.- Her Majesty's paddlewheel steamship Scourge, Commander the Hon. Wm. J. Ward, in basin at Woolwich, from the Mediterranean, has discharged stores, and is under orders to pay off on Saturday next. The steam storeship Dee, Master-Com. Thomas Pullen, hcts been taken into the basin at Woolwich for a thorough overhaul and repairs. Her engines and boilers are to be removed, the former to be re paired and the latter to be replaced by a pair of new ones. Private letters received from Japan state that her Majesty's paddle steamer Odin, 16, Commodore Lord J. Hay, C. 13., was to sail from Japan the lat ter part of December, with the Japanese Embassy on board, for ,Suez, where she was expected to ar rive early this month. The Britannia cadet naval training ship at Ports mouth, Capt. R. Harris, yesterday received her com plement of naval cadets on their return from (ex tended) Christmas leave. Steam tugs are under orders to convey her to Portland so soon as she is out of the shipwright's hands, which is expected to be on Thursday. Great alterations have been effec ted in the internal arrangement of the ship during the recess. The baths have been removed to the upper deck; the sick bays have been removed from the lower to the main deck—one for officers and one for seamen. The upper deck class-rooms have been divided, and the number of cabins and the means of ventilation increased by removing par titions on the lower and orlop decks. All these preparations and expenses are not gone into for nothing, and we believe we are right in predicting that no sum will be found in the Naval Estimates appropriated for building a "naval college" to supersede the Britannia. It is wonderful that the outcry against the Britannia and in favour of the erection of a" college" should take place at a time when all the European maritime Powers have actu ally sent their naval officers to this country to per sonally inspect the Britannia, as they have deter mined upon adopting the same system, but with the important addition of sea-going tenders. The Vindictive sailing frigate, recently converted at Messrs. White's building yard at Cowes into a bread and coal depot ship for Fernando Po, was taken into the old basin at Portsmouth yesterday to fit for her outward voyage, The Sultan, old line-of-battle ship, was taken into No. 9 dock at Portsmouth yesterday to be broken up. No. 148, iron mortar-boat, one of the flotilla built by Mr. Laird for Governmant during the Baltic campaign, is being ingeniously converted in No. 6 dock at Portsmouth into a " dirt" boat for the use of the ships in harbour: The Magdalena, West India Royal mail steamer, Lieut. Hodgkinson, R.N., Admiralty agent, sailed from Spithead yesterday morning for Southampton. She has sustained considerable damage from the violent weather she experienced on her passage from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Spithead. The Megasra, screw troopship, Commander S. Hv Henderson, in dock at Portsmouth, had her bottom yesterday officially examined, in the presence of Rear-Admiral Superintendent Hon. G. Grey. A. special report was prepared and forwarded to the Admiralty upon the subject. The Mega3ra has now been afloat some eight months with her bottom coated with M'lnnes's metallic composition. An. examination of the ship's bottom yesterday cer tainly was favourable to the use of this particular kind of coating for the bottoms of iron ships. Tenders have been issued by the Board of Admi ralty for the erection of the new shed contiguous to the building slip in Woolwich Dockyard on which her Majesty's 51-gun ship Caledonia is now being constructed. Several powerful engines are in course of manufacture intended to be used for arranging and applying armour slabs to the sides of the ship, which, it is expected, will be commenced about the beginning of March, so as to prepare her for launch ing in the autumn of the present year. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty : Master George Stanley to the Fisgard for surveying service. Paymaster Charles G. Smith (additional) to the Russell. Master's Assistant "William F. Maxwell to the Fisgard for surveying service. Assistant - Paymaster—Melville Maxwell (in charge) to the Espoir. Engineers--J. Ross to the Hawke, for the Lark; D. Leitch f k 'iirst-class assistant) to ditto, for the Advice; T. M. 'Thompson (second-class assistant) to the Blenheim, for the Charon, vice Wood; G. R. Beer cutting second-class assistant) to the Hawke, for the Advice. THE ARMY. The Colonelcy of the 59th Regiment of 7oot has become vacant by the death of Lieut,-Gen. '2aylor, which took place on Saturday last at his resiGpnce, Prestbury-lodge, near Cheltenham, in his 72d year. The deceased General served in the Peninsula him 1808, with little intermission, till the end of the wa-, and was twice wounded. He had held the Colonelcy of the 59th Regiment since 1857, On Saturday last 200 men belonging to the Royal Artillery, under the command of Capt. and Brevet- Major Cookworthy, arrived at Sheerness garrison from Warley, and on the same day 350 men, under the command of Capt. Lukas, left Sheerness for Shneburyness, to undergo a course of instruction in the use of the Armstrong gun. Two hundred men, under the command of Lieut. Spragge and Lieut. Steadman, returned from Shoeburyness to Sheer ness at the same time, after having undergone a similar course of instruction and practice. The division of Commissionaires engaged for general service at the International Exhibition be ing nearly completed, no applications for employ ment will be received by the Adjutant after Wed nesday (this day). ROY AL COMMISSION ON TIIE THAMES EMBANEXEN2; WITH RAIL WAYS. SOUTH SIDE. Yesterday the commissioners appointed to report on all plans for embanking the Surrey or southern side of the river Thames, met at the offices of the Commission, in Victoria-street, Westminster, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair. Present —.Major General Sir S. Sebb, Captain Galion, R.E., Commander Burstal, and Mr. H. Kingscote. The Commissioners, who have abut 20 plans before them, from civil engineers and others, had two under consideration during the sitting. The first plan submitted and explained was that of Mr. J. Carter, C.E., who built the sea-wall at Guernsey and other works in the colonies. He pro posed an embankment wall on a solid base from Lambeth new bridge down to Deptford, 100 feet wide, upon arches all along, and over these a "rail way," consisting of a double line of rails uniting with the various railways on the southern aide of the water, with tramways for the convenient inter change of traffic between Porth and south by means of the railway bridges now being carried across the river. Combined with the railway on either side, he would have a roadway and promenades on either side. Underneath the embankment, which would be on a level with all the bridges, he would have a con tinuous line of arches, 50 feet wide, for the storeage of coals and merchandise. The estimated cost of the entire structure, about five miles between Lambeth and Deptford, would be £75,000 per mile. Mr. F. W. SIIEILDS, C.E., whose plan for the northern embankment of the Thames was specially recommended by the commissioners in their report. to Parliament last session,; deposed that he did not propose an embankment to be constructed between Southwark and Westminster bridges, but only a fixed line of river boundary corresponding with the abutments of the bridges, with a general line of wharf frontage. Above Westminster-bridge he pro posed an embankment in a straight line to nE iw Lam beth-bridge, and extending considerably i n shore, so as to leave a large portion of r eclaimed ground between the river boundary aad exist ing wharves, on which shops and vi lla resi dences might be built, From new Lambs 3th-bridge the embankment would be continued 1 3 y an easy curve to the abutment of Vauxhall-brid ,ge, but be proposed for the present to construct it for only half that distance, stopping short of th a gas works and other premises. Along the river side of this embankment a road 80 feet wide won't - l be carried, and at Vauxhall-row, adjoining Vau xhall-bridge, continued and extended to meet it, s' 3 as to give a spacious and direct thoroughfare between the bridges of Westminster and Vauxha 11. The Commissioners then adjourne