The Sun. — London, England, 1862-01-04 00:00:00

Grand Ballet, Chag,ne-a-Lanterne, by the Misses GUN. NISS and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. The Invocation! The Incantation !I and the Evapora. tion I I ! THE VILLAGE GREEN AND ROADSIDE ALE HOUSE. Old Grype (the Steward), Mr. Glinden ; Old Scratche (his Clerk), Mr. Tanner ' • Tenantry, Messrs. C r i nge , Scrape, Shuffle, Cut, Packoff, Moonraker, and Runaway ; Tailor, Mr. Snipshears ; Bootmaker, Mr. Tightfit ; Mum mies, Messrs. Grinner, Joker, Magger, Cracksides, O'Reilly, 11.1‘Phun, &c. ; St. George, Mr. E. Roe ; the Dragon, Mr. Scalyfellow ; Valentine, Mr. Febbyer r y ; Orson, Mr. Wildman; Still-Walker, Mr. Longlegs; Bear- Warden, Mr. Smuggins ; the Bear, Mr. Huggins ; Land lord, Mr. Trebles ; Morris-Dancers, Messrs. Trip, Tap, Flip, Flap, &c., tic. • Jack Padding, Mr. M err y man. How the Squire celebrates his birthday, and the Village Revel that follows—Coming of Age in the Olden Time I How the Tenantry treated in one way and how Jack is treated in another—the Dog's instinct and Mother Hub - bard's reason. THE " CAGE" ON THE COMMON (Sunset). Grand Scena Comique and Pas de Broomstick, by Mother Hubbard. The Dreamer and the Worker—The Vision of Pleasure and the Division of Labour—Figures of Fun (from the Fancy-store of Dykwynkyn) - Messrs. Mason, Drainpipes, Carpenter, Hodman, Old Brick, and Youno• Shaver, Lilli putian Labourers, Pi gm y Pl asterers, Tiny Tilers, Minia ture Masons, Baby Bricklayers, Short Sawyers, Dwarf Drain Makers, and Child Carpenters by a Host of Juvenile Auxiliaries. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, The Rat, Master Longwhisker ; The Cat, Miss Mouser ; The Dog, By Himself; The Cow, Madame Brindle ; The Priest (" All shaven and shorn"), Mr. Jolly man ; The Cock (" That crowed in the Morn") Master Cocky-doodle doo. Realisation of the famous Picture in the National Gal lery of Little Britain, taken (by permission) for Boys, from a rare work in the collection of Master Smith, London. FROGPOOL IN THE MARSHES (Twilight). Song, " Will o' the Wisp," composed by J. H. Tully, Esq. How the Squire goes Hunting and loses his way and his temper, and what follows in consequence—Another curious instance of Canine sagacity—Bull-frogs, Masters Hop, Skip, Jump, Creak, &c. SQUASH-HOLLOW SWAMP AND BED OF BULRUSHES. How the Squire comes to grief and afterwards to repent ante, and how Jack is recognised as the rightful heir—The reward and harmonious movements of the Fairies on a Grand Chromatic Scale towards • • WILL 0' WISP'S HOME BZNEATiI,THE WATERFALL. . The Transformation. • Harlequins Messrs. CORMACit and ST. MALNE. Columbines Pantaloons Messrs. G. TANNER and MORreY. Clowns Grotesque Signor LORENZO.' 1861-1862 SPRITES by the RIDGWAYS and SUWELL FAMILY. I.—EXTERIOR OF TWO SHOPS IN " UP-OR DO WN" STREET. Messrs. Huline, St. Maine, Tanner, and Miss S. Gunniss. Christina's Presents—every Man (and Boy) to his Post, even the Post-Man—Clown rides the high horse, which proves his rock a-head—Two Young Men from the Country, and Clown gets over them—a Sewing Machine (not a poo r Needlewoman)—a thorough Blow out—a Man in very re duced circumstance—Clown finds the Fruits of stealing Apples in an elephantine way—a Band of Brothers —the Police in Great and Small Force—Clown gets into a row and blows up a policeman—the end of this scene is all Bustle--N.B. Not Crinoline. 2.—THE GREAT SENSATION KITCHEN. Messrs. Forrest, Cormack, Morley, and Miss Gunniss. Harlequin seeks Protection, although a Free-trader— The Cook's Guide—Clown tries to take the chair—the head dish of the table—Harlequin goes through a Deal, and Clown becomes a Board-er—Silence thosa dreadful Bells— Clown and Pantaloon make an ap-Peal to the Audience on the Merry Musical Bells—Pantaloon rather hard pressed— arrival of a distinguished Foreigner —Clown falls into his own trap, and kills a Blue-bottle, which proves a bad Buzz-ness for him—a Lecture on the Gorilla, by a well known character—Clown meets with a few Friends (not Quakers)—this Scene ends at the finish of it. 3.—THE INTERIOR OF A RAILWAY STATION. Eight hours at the Sea-side for 2s 6d—Duty off Paper— " The Times" reduced and the Times on the rise—a book that takes leafe of Clown—Harlequin gets his horse from a Stall and sets up a trap. No Smoking a•Loud, only on the Quiet—Clown makes a Tremendous Christmas Tree— late arrivals-Nlessrs. Neverintime, Toolate, Dearme, and Blessme—Clown burns his fingers (not the only person that has done so)—Clown gives Good Bail and finds a Bale of goodii. 4.—The SEA-SIDE. ' The Sande I The Sands ! I The Sands II I Come unto4hese -yellow sands. A Sailer telling a,Yarn and a boat Lying too—the Pier Master's. No-Piersnpe-- 7 clown makes a Man's hair turn sandy and proves himself in the wrong box—by a slight Miss-Take, tvicieh A certain Miss won't Take—Pantaloon gets some shell ffsh in h very Selfish manner—Clown asto nishes the. Natives—Sailors that use their Cut-Lasses but don't Cnt ;Lasses when they can join with them in a National Hornpipe—Clown gets a Sensation Leader—The Great Donkey Stir St. Leger—Clown and Pantaloon's Concert—fine ears for Music—they fish in troubled waters —a Divided Interest—a sudden Squall (Children and all) —The latest Novelty in Parrchutes. Scene—A DISMAL SWAMP—After a storm a calm appears, a HARLEQUIN'S HOME ON HIS THRONE OF SPLENDOUR. Doors open at half-past Six, to commence at Seven o'clock. Tickets for Boxes, Pit, and Galleries, may be had at the Box Office befo re the opening. • 1-11)p YAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVE NT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa p yne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING. THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Mist; Louisa I'yne, Miss Susan Pyne ; Mr. Santley, Mr. ll.. Corri, Mr. Georg% Honey, Mr. Patey, Mr. A. st. Albyn, Mr. T. Distin, 31r. Wallworth, Mr. Eugene Dussek, Mr. C. L.T. and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. After which will be produced (written expressly by J M Norton), a Grand Comic Christmas P an t om i me, entitled. • lIARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, A Trip to Brobdignag, a Peep at Lilliput, and a Fiyinz Vi s it t o L aputa. GuiliVer, Mr. W. IL Payne ; Mrs. Guhiver, Mr. F. Payne. l'rincipeJ danseuse, Mdlle. Lamoureux, supported by the Ladles of the Corps de Ballet. The Harlequin/de sustained by the eminent Pantommists, Mlles3ra. IL Payne, F. Payne, li. Lauri, E. Lauri, S. Laurl, and Miss Jenny Lauri. Commence et Seven • r lri EA Tit E. it, Y A lA, HAYMARKET, to,ec. Jr. J. it. VII EVENING, to commence with THE LOVE CHASE,. Constance, Miss Jane Coombs (her first appearance in Eng land). Biter which, a Comic Christmas Pantomime, LITTLE ;MISS .3[EII''FET AND LITTLE BOY BLUE • or, !lade (10-1 and Old Daddy Lon;.4legs. Louise Lec'ern Charl.s Le clercq, Herr Cole, G. Becket, and :Miss Rosine. f;ornmenc. , e a 7 LYCEUM THEATRE. 3Tr. Edmund Falconer. OYAL 11! aR-cr THIS EVEN ,Tan. 4, the new and orizinal Drama, entitled PEEP O'DA ; or, avourneen Declish. essrs. Walter Lacy, H erm ann Vezin, Char/cs S+ iby, Edmund Eal conet Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. - - - . After which :; row anti orir.t , fi , 1 Burlesque Extravazanza, entitled L ITTLE REP R I l)1:.' TI 0' 0 , or, '1 h Fairies of th e hove, the Thi st l e an d t h e al charac ters by Air Chas, SelbY )1r W arIOW,MISS Clcely Nott, and Miss Lydia Thom peon.' • A cting. Manager —Mr. F. IT. Ciritterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to coramenee at 7 Box-office open datty irom 11 till 6. DR UR Y-LANE THEATRE ROYAL. Lessee, Mr. E. T. SMITH. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE of the PAN TOMIME every WEDNESDAY, at Two o'Clock. THIS EVENING (4th January) her Majesty's Ser vants will perform the popular Farce, by J. B. Buckatone, Esq., entitled AN ALARMING SACRIFICE. Bob Ticket, Mr. Atkins ; Pugwash, Mr. Barsby ; Mr. Skinner, Mr. Hope; Susan Sweelapple, Miss Keeley; Miss Wadd, Miss Stuart ; Miss Tibbit, Miss Bland ; Miss Gimp, Miss Harfleur ; Deborah, Mrs. Dowton. After which will be produced, with that attention to com pleteness in every department by which the Christmas Annuals of this Theatre have been so pie-eminently dis tinguished, the New Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN and the HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT; or, Old Mother Hubbard and hei «onderful Dog. "If a man do build a dwelling upon common land from sunset to sunrise, and enclose a piece of ground, wherein there shall be a tree, a beast feeding, a fire kindled, a chim ney smoking, and provisions in the pot, such dwelling shall be freely held by the builder, anything herein to the con trary nevertheless notwithstanding."—Old Forest Charter. The Novel Effects and Splendid Scenery by WILLIAM BEVERLEY, Assisted by Messrs. C. Pitt, Craven, Brow, &c., &c. Masks, Symbolic Devices, Personal Appointments, and .Designs for the Costumes, by the celebrated Dykwynkyn. The Overture and Music composed and arranged by Mr. J. H. TULLY. The Machinery by Mr. Tucker and As- A sistants. The Tricks, Properties, Changes, and Transfor mations, by Mr. Needham, assisted by Messrs Glindon, H. Adams, H. Langham, &c. The Costumes by Miss Dickin son, Mr. Lauri, and Mr. Palmer. The Gas Appointments by Mr. Binckley. The Choregraphic Arrangements by Mr. Cormack. The Harlequinade and Comic Scenes by Messrs. Cormack and B. Jones. The Perfume of the Flowers supplied by Bimmel's process. The Grotesque Burlesque Opening invented and written by E. L. BLANCHARU. And the whole arranged and produced under the imme diate superintendence of Mr, ROBERT ROXBY. Synopsis of Scenery, Incidents, and Characters, OLD MOTHER HUBBARD'S COTTAGE, With Rural Landscape, and Rookwood Manor Hall in the Distance (Daylight), " Old Mother Hubbard, she went to the cupboard. to get her poor Dog a bone ; when she got there, the cupboard was bare, and so the poor Dog had none."—Ancient Nur sery Legend. Old Mother Hubbard, Mr. Atkins ; Her Dog, Signor Lorenzo ; Jack (the " Man all tattered and torn "), Miss Y. Hunt ; the Squire, Mr. Tom Matthews ; Dame Wiggins ofLee, Mr. Dixon ; Dame Trot, Mr. Barsby ; Her Won derful Cat, Master Waggles ; the Great Goose, Master Sageaninguns ; Constables, Messrs. Grib and Grab; Parish Beadle, Mr. Bumble; Villagers, Messrs. Yokel, Pumpkin, Whacketraw, Chawbacon, &c., &c. ; Rosetta (the " Maiden all Forlorn"), Miss Stuart. How Mother Hubbard has a certain " party" to tea and turn out, and of the remarkable pranks played by her comical Dog—The Head, the Hat, and the Hose—The Dog's Tale and Mrs. H.'s Narrative— Arrival of the Squire—Proclamation of Witch Burning— Threatened incremation of Mother Hubbard on her own hearth, and her Mystic Flight upon a Broomstick. THE WITCHES' GLEN AND WATERFALL, in the Valley of Perfumed Flowers, by Moonlight. Will-o'-the-Wisp Miss Lanza, Ignes Fatui—Mdlles. Sidney, Travers, Barnes, A. Barnes, Livermore; Webb, Taylor, Braithwaite,Hammil ton, Step ley, Harris, Candy, Copeland, Archer, Hawkins, Delaney, Wilson, Williams, Robinson, Wood, Watson, and Hamel ton. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—The Second MORNING PERFORMANCE of the PAN TOMIME on MONDAY NEXT, at Two o'clock, and every following Monday till further notice. ROYA L PRINCESS'S Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING. Saturday, Jan. 4, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. After which will be produced, a Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime. entitled WHITTING TON AND HIS CAT; or, Harlequin King Kollywobbol and the Genius of Good Humour. The grotesque opening invented and written by Henry J. Byron, Esq., author 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, Collett, Hast ! inp;s, Raymond ; Dick Whittin_gton, 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 Carolin e Ad ams. Morning- Performances will take place at Two o'clock ever y M on d ay till f ur ther notice. NENVTHRATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHI, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. . _ THIS EVENING, and during the week the great Drama, entitled THE OCTOROON ; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA : Messrs. Grace, Billington, Emery, Phillip Jamison, Smith, Stephenson, Romer, Lewis ; Mrs. Billing - ton, Mrs. H. Mar ston, Miss C. Denvil, Miss Latimer, and Mrs. H. Lewis. After which, at 20 minutes past 9, the great Irish Dram of THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr.D. Bouctcault, Missßanoe, Mr. Fisher, Miss Woolgar, _ Box Office open from 10 till 5. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE, Dean-street, Oxford-street. Under the Direction of:Mdlle. Albino, di Rhona. 'THIS EVENING, A LESSON FOR HUSBANDS'; characters by Mr. Sinclair, Mesas. Clifford and Terry. After which, CAMELIA ; Camelia, Mdlle. Albina di Rh ona. Fol lowed by a New Operatic Burlesque, entitled THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF IL TROVATORE ; or, Who Killed the —; Messrs. Graham, Robins, J ames, W arren, w. Worboys ; Mesds. Mason, Craven, and Hodson. To conrlude with new and oridnal Farce, A NICE QUIET DAY.—€ommenoe at half-past 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE._ Last 12 Nights of "The Colleen Bawn"—Triumphant Success of the grand Equestrian Pantomime. THIS EVENING, and during next week, to commence with Dion Boucicault's Drama, THE COLLEEN BAWN. New and daring Scenes in the Circle, by the Eclipse Artistes, nightly hailed with thunders of approbation. Concluding. with the Grand Comic Pantomime of JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE TO EDMONTON. SPECIAL NOTICE. •A GRAND JUVENILE MORN ING PERFORMANCE will take place on SATURDAY, Jan. 11. at 2 o'clock, for the convenience of families residing at a distance. By the kind permission of the Commandant, Colonel Crutchley, the Boys of the Military Asylum, with their Juvenile Band, will atted,d. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Triumphant Success of Mr. Marsh a ll' s G rand Christmas Entertainment, "THE ENCHANTED HASH " (SECOND EDlTlON)—Wonderful Transformations—Every Evening at a quarter-past ten—in addition to the following Comic talent : Mr. Frederick French, the great Shattespertan Bur lesque Vocalist, Mr. Wood and Son, Mr. J. G. Forde, Miss Harriet Coveney, and Miss Greene. Grand Selections from LA TRAVIATA and TROVATORE, at ten o'clock, By Miss Russell, Mr. Herbert, signor Tivoli, and full Chorus. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, is. CANTERBURY HALL.-VICTOR JULIEN, " THE FLYING MAN " E very Evening at half-past Nine o'clock. T H 0 X F OR D, 6, OXFORD-STREET, OPEN EVERY EVENING. Grand Selections from " ERNANI," "Macbeth," and "La Circassienne," by Madame Enderssohn, Miss Ernst, and Miss Russell ; Messrs. Albert, W. Morley, Greene, and C. Greville. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Solos by Mr. V,ottl Collins (the great English violinist). And other Vocal and Instrumental Entertain ments, the Comic portion by Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mar shall, M. P. Foster, W. Randall. and Mi3s Harriet Coveney. Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 25 m. —Afternoon, 4h. 46m To-Monno - w.-Morning, sh. 7m.—Afternoon, sh. 20m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JANUARY 4, 18d2. THERAIODIETEIi, IN THE SHADE. 38—kighest since noon yesterday. 33—lowest this morning and during the night. 37—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29. T. WlND—North-Westerly; light, with fine cold weather. ~t :4 THE ►S UN. LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 4, 1862. At present, all is informal, but all pacific. Up to the 21st we find that Lord LYONS had not for mally presented his demands, but had had several unofficial, and it is said perfectly friendly inter views with Mr. SEWARD. The latter it is well known allowed Mr. CHASE, who was in chase of money at New York, to announce to the moneyed reten there, that there was to be no war with Eng land:; but as that was merely a bid for money, it was of course open to some doubts. The friendly , coMmunications between our Ambassador and the , Foreign Secretary are much less so. The main fact ip t however, certain that the press,which represents the populace, has quite changed its tone, and seems now as desirous to find excuses for giving up the Commissioners as it was before bold in asserting that they should be on no account surrendered. The ,mad .New York Herald, to be sure, in making the concession, advertises us of an intention to wind up this war successfully w. th the rebels, and then with a million of men, and a vast fleet created by the war, to settle its accounts with Great Bri tain, and with all Europe toe. The Herald re minds us of the zebra in the bands of Mr. RAREY, which, after the great horsebreaker had compelled it to submission, as it was being led out gave a scream and a kick, as much as to say, " my old temper in me yet." The private commercial information is of the same tendency as that in nearly all the papers. The letter of NEILL Brothers adverts to the " salu tary and extraordinary change in public sentiment in New York and throughout the country. It was now everywhere thought that "the prisoners were not worth fighting for." The letter states that ali classes have the fullest conviction of the power of the North to re-annex the South ; hence it is argued that the idea of the Government get ting out of vt ar with the South by going to war with England, is simply absurd. On the contrary they see that were the South aided by England its independence would be certain, while they could not cecomplish the object to which they believed themselves fully equal. Our peace men here will do well to notice one point in this bus ness circular. Messrs. NEILL believe that the chance of a war with England is now more remote than ever. And for what reason ? Just because, they say, the Americans have got the leseon they so much needed. The American Government has, they say, for some time past acted on the presunap- tion "that Englatcl's interest in the preservation oi peace was so great, that she weu:d bear any num ber of paltry indignities rather than make them a cause of war," but that this idea will now be moth- We, as politicians, are cenfidint that otir Go. vernment has acted in the interests of peace. The one thing needful for Americans to know, al though it alight cost the sending out a few regim e nts and ships, was, that the day for England to put up with endless - violence and insults was now over—and the prospect of peace is therefore deuhtic&s better than ever—when it is understood that if we show Moderation iu our own behaviour we expect reciprocity. We rather wonder at the confidence of final vic tory and reunion ascribed by Messrs. NEILL to the respeeta.ble classes with whom their association must be. To us, on this side the water, the rounds are not very o b v i ous. The military victories are g certainly small enouh. By this mail we receive information, indeed, of a small success of the Fede rals in Missouri. If late accounts d 3 not dimini::ll totals in the way they have hitherto done, without bloodshed, it would seem the Federals captured 1,300 men, three colours, seventeen captains, other officers in proportion, a thousand stand of arms, as many horses, with tents age. This little well•managed f ea t may and bagg fled. 7 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY '4, 1862. How are we to interpret the sending of General PHELPS to Ship Island with two regiments, and the proclamation he has seen fit to publish P On the coast of the State of Mississippi, and within easy reach of Mobile and Pensacola, and also of New Orleans, the General sends to the mainland a proclamation, one would have supposed, too grand and rhetorical for slaves to understand, yet one which mainly concerns them. It is an expose of the "motives and principles by which his command will be governed." These are, that every State admitted as a slave state since the adeption of the constitution has been admitted in defiance of it—next, that the States in which slavery existed at the time of the Union, are bound in honour and morality to abo lish it ! Not, however, content with this out and out an nouncement, he says, "It is our conviction that mono polies are destructive as competition is conservative of the principles and vitalities of republican govern ment; that slave labour is a monopoly which excludes free labour and competition; that slaves are kept in comparative idleness and ease in a fertile half of our arable national terri tory, while free white labourers, constantly augmenting in numbers from Europe, are confined to the other half, and are often dis tresssed by want ; that the free labour of the North has more need of expansion into the Southern States, from which it is virtually excluded, than slavery had into Texas in 1846 ; that free labour is essential to free institutions ; that these institutions ere naturally better adapted and more congenial to the Anglo-Saxon than are the despotic tendencies of slavery ; and finally, that the dominant political principle of this North American continent, so long as the Caucasian race continues to flow in upon us from Europe, must needs be that of free institutions and free 'government. Any obstructions to the progress of that form of government in the United States must inevitably be attended with discord and war." He goes on to sho w that the constitution was made for freemen, not for slaves; that slavery might be endured awhile as a social evil,but is unbearable as a political institution, and that, " It could exist under a free Government only where the people, in a period of unreasoning extravagance, had permitted popular clamour to overcome public reason, and had attempted the impossibility of setting up permanently, as a political institution, a social evil which is opposed to moral law." He presents, indeed, to the South an attractive picture of what they would be without the institu tion which their Vice-President terms the corner stone of the Confederation. Instead of the whole building tumbling about their ears, we feel assured," he says, " that the moment . ; slavery is abolished, from that moment our Southern brethren —every ten of whom have probably seven relatives in the North—would begin. to emerge from a hateful delirium. Front that mo ment, relieved from imaginary terrors, their days become happy, and their Lights peaceable, and free from al arm ; the aggregate amount of labour under the new stimulus of fair competition becomes greater day by day; property rises in. value; in vigorating influences succeed to stagnation, dege neracy, and decay ; and union, harmony, and peace, to which we have so long been strangers, become restored, and bind us again in the bonds of friend ship and amity, as when we first began war national career under our glorious goverment of 1789." The South has hitherto sneered at the North as a nation of manufacturers, tradesmen, and. artificers. With the pride of an aristocracy, all white man there scout labour. " But," says General PHELPS, " it is the conviction of my command as a part of the national forces of the United States, that labour —manual labour —is inherently noble; that it cannot be systematically degraded by any nation without ruining its peace, happiness, and power ; that free labour is the granite bass on which free institutions must rest; that it is the right, the capital, the inheritance, the hope of the poor man everywhere ; that it is especially - the right of 5,000,000 of our fellow.countrymen in. the slave States, as well as of the 4,000,000 of Africans there; and all our efforts, therefore, however small or great —whether directed against the interference of Governments from abroad or against zebellious combinations at home—shall be for free labour. Our motto and our stane.:ard here and everywhere, and on all amcasions— ' Free Labour and Working -men's Rights.' It is on this basis, and on this basis alone, that our munificent government, the asylum of nations, can be perpetuated and preserved." We wait of course to see how this (Teed in the Gulf of Mexico will be dealt with at Washington. As a proclamation, it far transcends in. abolition principles that of General FREMONT. PHELPS be recalled, or his proclamation dis allowed ? Or is he really sent to the South to make use of the last weapon, and to try what the fear of emancipation would effect. We must confess ourselvessuncertain of the most lik.fely inter pretation. We know, on the one hand, c. - .:hat Ame rican captains and generals act with wonderful independence of the central authority. We know on the other that the central Government is hard pushed indeed with the ill success of the war— nanus abolition. Time only will interpret. The Queen Continues to have good niglitF, and is The Duchess of Athole has arrived at the St. George's Hotel from Osborne, The Earl of Norbury has arrived at Fzrranee's Hotel from I r a Hence, Kent. The Countess of Hardwick° comes to 'town on Tuesday next from Wimpcle Hall, Cambridges'aire. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS (DOWAGER) OF MAC CLESFIELD.—Wo have to announce the demises of Eliza, Dowager Countess of Macclesfield, who died at. :,Eynsham Hall, at the advanced ago of a years. ' could be in every respect more suitable. But— besides this, we perceive that the chief among the adulators of the Court are now seriously beginning to propose that something in the way of a far grander memorial should be raised, not at Kensington Gore, within view of the site of the ever memorable Crystal Palaeein Hyde Park—but down in that hole-in-the•corner at South Kensington! About the very worst spot within the immediate neighbourhood of the metropolis that could possibly have been selected for anything whatever of the kind. It is seriously proposed then, that there down at South Kensington those absurd and most ridiculous, ugly, and expensive outhouses, dubbed long since in derision, but very accurately, The Brompton Boilers, shall, at the cost of somewhere about an additional quarter of a million sterling be expanded and perpetuated for the wonder of future times, under the title of the Albert Museum! Now we cannot but very earnestly hope that nothing of the kind will be attempted. Because of our profound respect and admiration for the memory of his late Royal Highness we are re joiced at the notion of the Memorial and Statue about to be erected in the Gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at Kensington Gore. But— for precisely the same reason—we do quite as sin cerely trust that we may hear nothing more about the Albert Museum at South Kensington. preme and paramount. It befits the loyalty of course of the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society, while obeying the behest of Her Most Gracious MAJESTY, and while accepting the offer of His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES (an offer which we shall take occasion immediately to specify as comprised within the closing sentence of H.R.H.'s letter), it befits the loyalty of the Society's Council, of course, to express, at the same time, the regret with which they contemplate the loss of Her MAJESTY'S statue. Yet it cannot surely but be recognised by everyone, as clearly as it is first of all recognised by her MAJESTY herself, that the most appropriate statue wherewith to crown the memorial of the Great International Exhibition of 1851 must be —not that of the QUEEN in whose reign it took place, but that rather of the august and gifted PRINCE, her MAJESTY'S Husband, in whose refined and cultivated genius the whole magnificent scheme originated. The Exhibition of 1851 was the original suggestion, was the superb creation of his late Royal Highness; and it is but fitting, conse quently, that his effigy, and the effigy of no other than himself, should crown and complete the memorial of that resplendent enterprize. As to the gracious offer with which the communi cation of the Prince of WALES to the Council of the Royal Horticu!tural Society closes—that is one certainly which is eminently deserving consi deration —particularly couched, as it is, in language so eloquent with the tenderness of filial love and gratitude. " Anxious," writes the young Prince in conclusion, "Anxious, however humbly, to testify my respectful and heartfelt affection for the best of fathers, and the gratitude and devotion of my so:• rowing heart, I have sought, and have with thank. fulness obtained, the permission of the QUEEN my mother to offer the feeble tribute of the admiration and love of a bereaved son, by presenting the statue thus proposed to be placed in the gardens under your management." And so has it in consequence been now definitively decided. The memorial of the Great International Ex hibition of 1851 will he crowned, as it ought by right and in reason to be, by the statue of the Originator and Creater of the Exhibi. tion, his Royal Highness ALBERT the PRINCE CONSORT of England : and that effigy, while it will servo to remind the people, of after times et? the genius and philanthropy of tho de parted PRINCE, will affectinzly commemorate also the tender regrets and the grateful affection with which his beloved memory was treasured by hi© eldest son, ALBERT EDWARD, tlio future King of England. Here, however —in this suggestion of the QUEEN, and in this proposition of the Prince of WALES— Iet us hope that the notion of commemorating his late Royal Iligianess's memory dawn in the neigh bourhood of Kensington will terminate. The me morial to be raised in honour of the Great Prince, and of his master-v; ork the Great Exhibition (of 1851) at Kensington Gore, is in the notion of it, and in every possible point of view—ad m i ra bl e. Nothing reasonably gratify our Northern friends after such a series of disasters. The skill was worth more than all—there having been hitherto such a total want of it on the side of the Federals. The Confederates appear, however, to be in un diminished force near Washington. Not long ago they attempted the passage of the river, and had collected, to the surprise of the North, not less than 50 boats. The attempt was, however, frustrated. By this mail we observe that a force of the Fede rals having advanced a little to reconnoitre, and to seek forage, it was met immediately by four regi ments of infantry, one of cavalry, and a battery of six pieces of artillery. After an hour and a half's action the Confederates,we are told,were thoroughly routed, with a loss of 60 killed, and of all their equipments, the Federals only losing 10 men. This also is a little encouraging to the North, but it seems also to show that the Southerns are close at hand in considerable force ; and they have, as we know, long commanded the ascent of the Potomac from the sea to Washington. An admirable letter addressed by his Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES to the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society will be read with profound interest by the community at large. It may sound the merest commonplace, yet it is at the same time the literal truth, to remark, as hardly any one can fail to do instinctively, that it is a communication that does honour alike to the head and heart of the young PRINCE. It is :writithi within a week from the interinent of the beloved and ever-lamented father of the heir apparent fo throne of England. Five days after his Royal Highness has assisted as Chief Mourner at the solemn sepulture of those dear remains, he takes pen in hand at Osborne on the 28th of December, 1861, to express in the most simple and natural affecting manner the emotions of tender regret and grateful remembrance, henceforth sanctifying for the QUEEN and her children the every recollection of their dead Father and Husband. " Prostrated with overwhelming grief," writes his Royal Highness, " and able, at present, to turn her thoughts but to one object, the QUEEN, my mother, has constantly in her mind the anxious desire of doing honour to the memory of him whose good and glorious character the whole nation in its sorrow so justly appreciates." The young Prince then goes on to explain how it is that her MAJESTY now proposes to do this in the first instance—the pur port in fact of his Royal Highness's missive to the learned Council, who are the recipients of his gra cious communication. " Actuated," he writes, "by this constantly recurring wish, the QUEEN has commanded me to recall to your recollection that her MAJESTY had been pleased to assent to a pro posal to place a statue of herselfupon the memorial of the Great Exhibition of 1351, which it was intended to erect in the new Horticultural Gardens." The sentence which then immediately follows contains within it perhaps the most graceful and gene rous tribute that has yet been paid in words to the memory of his Royal Highness the PRINCE CONSORT ! His eldest son, writing of him so very truthfully and tenderly thus ;—" The characte ristic modesty and self-denial of my deeply-lamented father had induced him to interpose to prevent his own statue from filling that position, which properly belonged to it, upon a memorial to that great undertaking which sprung from the thought of his enlightened mind, and was carried through to a termination of unexampled success by his unceasing superintendence." Any such magnani mous self - abnegation, however, his widowed CON SORT cannot for an instant dream of allowing thus, in his regard, to be posthumously perpe tuated. "It would now, her MAJESTY directs me to say," continues the Prince of WALES, "be most hurtful to her feelings were any other statue to surmount this memorial but of the great, good PRINCE, my dearly beloved father, to whose honour it is in reality raised. The QUEEN, therefore," he adds, " would anxiously desire that, instead of her statue, that of her beloved husband should stand upon this memorial." Than which—by the way—we cannot well imagine to ourselves any more splendid or appropriate memento to the noble life now so prematurely terminated. For—beyond all question —among the individual achievements of the Royal CONSORT of Queen VICTORIA, the Great International . Exhibition of 1851 stands forth su- LATEST NEWS. LISBON, JAN. 3. A Bill has been presented to the Cortes annulling the renunciation of the right of succession to the Throne made by the Infantas Dona Maria Anna and Dona Antonia on their marriage, the former with Prince George of Saxony, and the latter with Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. This Bill also provides that Dom Ferdinand shall be Regent, in the event of the death of King Luiz I. MADRID, JAN. 3. The Spanish squadron in the Mexican waters will await the arrival of General Prim before corn- mencing operations. TURIN, JAN. 3. The Chambers resumed their sittings to-day. Signor Ratazzi communicated to the Chamber of Deputies a speech delivered by the King in reply to a Parliamentary deputation. In this speech the King said he was confident that the union between Crown and people would always remain firm, and that although, for reasons with which every one is acquainted, the Italian cause had not made great progress during the past year, he hoped that the new year would be more favourable. The Ilionarchia Nazionale of to-day says : " Yesterday, at a meeting of the members who form the majority in the Chamber of Deputies, Baron Ricasola explained the difficulties which oppose the completion of the Ministry, and said he believed that the Cabinet as at present constituted was sufficient for the exigencies of the State. A long discussion ensued, in the course of which several deputies spoke in favour of the Ministry, but no decision was come to." ST. PETERSBURG, JAN. 2. The Emperor has conitnuted the sentence on M. Bielobrzeski to one year's imprisonment in a for tress, and has ordered due respect to be paid to the age and elerical character of the prisoner. JANUARY 3. The Official Gazette of to-day publishes a report from the Minister of Public Instruction, sanctioned by the Emperor, and followed by an Imperial de cree, stating that, in consequence of the recent dis turbances, the University of St. Petersburg will be closed until a new set of regulations is drawn up. The decree also orders the dismissal of the pro fessors and students. The students are permitted, however, to pursue their studies at other Univer sities of the Empire, and the poor students will have pecuniary assistance afforded by the Emperor to defray the expenses of their journey. The professors may, with the sanction of the authorities, be reinstated in their former posts when the new regulations are promulgated. THORN, JAN. 3, Monsignor Felinscki, Catholic Archbishop of St. Petersburg, has been appointed Archbishop of Warsaw. It is expected that the state of siege in Poland will be raised. The city of Warsaw is quiet. INDIA. BOMBAY, DEC. 12. The man who was captured at Kurrachee, when trying to get away from India, was recognised by a former servant as the Nana Sahib, He was dis guised as a merchant. Salabut Khan, the murderer of Major Burton, is to be hanged at Kotah. Colonel Baird Smith is returning home on ac count of ill health. Mr. Laing has arrived in Calcutta. A resolution of the Governor• General creates a Chief CommissionErship of the Central Province. Gray goods and twist active, and prices materially advancing. Cotton—Broach active and advancing —lB5. Malwa opium, 1,460 r. per chest. Copper sheathing, 59r.; tile, 58r., advancing. Exchange on London, 2s. 00. Government Securities.—Four per Cents., 841; Five per Cents., 971 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 104 t. Freights quiet-50s. to 525. CALCUTTA, DEC. 11. (By TELEGRAPH TO BOMBAY.) Gray goods firm. Twist unchanged. Indigo• market excited. Copper sheathing, 411 r. ; tile, 40r, Exchange on London, 2s. ON. Government Securities.—Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 1068. Rice and linseed have again risen. Freights, 60s. FRANCE. Accounts have been received, says the Moniteur, from the French naval expedition to Mexico. A despatch from Fort de France of the 11th ultimo announces the arrival at Martinique of the Guerriere and the Chaptal on the 9th, the Astree and the Ardente on the 10th, and the Massena on the 11th. La Patrie has the following—" A letter from Martinique of Dec. 12 announces the arrival at St. Pierre of the steamship Massena, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Julien de la Graviere, of the steam frigates Guerriere, Ardente, and Astree, and of the steam aviso Marceau. These vessels left Teneriffe on the 25th November. The second divi sion of the squadron, consisting of the steam frigate Montezuma (Commander De Russel), and the vessels with the materiel of the expeditionary corps, were . expected at Martinique about the 15th Decem ber. It was supposed that the whole squadron would be able to sail for the Havanna on the 20th, and that the allied forces would be at Vera Crux between the Ist and sth of January. The Paris Temps says :—" We are assured that the Attorney-General, the higLest judicial autho rity of the United States, is of opinion that MM. Mason and Slidell should be given up." BOURSE, Jan. 3.—The settlement of the Account has gone on without difficulty. The upward move ment has for the moment been checked, but the market remains firm, with a fair amount of busi ness doing. Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f 55c. Railways also firm. The following are the last quotations : ft per per Cents ... 95 40, Credit Fonder — Do. end month.... 95 40 Belgian 4f 99a 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 721 , Roman Bank Shares — ' Austan • ... Credit Mobilier 2930 728 751 Spanir ri h Threes...... 49 Do. Account RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans...., 1315 -- 1320 -- Mnihern New ditto OlO -- 75 Lyons and Mediterranean 1021 25 . 1022 60 Geneva 357 50 .. 360 Southern 670 .. 672 50 Western Eastern .. .. 570 .. 570 Sardinian Austrian Lon‘bard PRUSSIA AND AMERICA. The Berlin correspondent of the Inclependance Beige, writing on the Ist inst., says : "I have received some details respecting the despatch which Count Bernstorff has addressed to the Prussian Envoy at Washington. The point of right is not entered into in detail. It is first said in this document . that the news of maritimelmeasures taken with regard to the Southern States would create the fear that the rights of neutral navigation might be endangered. Touching on the Trent rica. affair, the despatch expresses the hope that Captain Wilkes may have acted without instructions. Should that supposition not be founded, which the Prussian Government hoped it might doubt, it must be admitted that the rights of all neutral States had received a serious injury. The Prussian Minis ter points out that the demands made by England are not of a nature to hurt the dignity of the Go vernment of the United States and of its President; it expresses the hope that those demands will be granted by America. His Majesty the King of Prus sia has always been animated with the most benevo lent sentiments for the United States. Hi s Majesty has charged Count Bernstorff to dwell particularly upon that point, and to recommend the maintenance of peace in the most urgent manner. Prussia would rejoice in having contributed to prevent a conflict. Should, unhappily, a contrary decision already have been taken when this despatch reached Washing ton, the Government of the King would nevertheless feel satisfaction at having expressed itself in favour of peace." " According to advices from the llavannah, of the ith of December, Vera Cruz had been evacuated by the Mexicans, who had carried off the guns of the fortifications to Puebla and Mexico. The Spanish Government has authorised General Ser rano, Captain-General of Cuba, to establish a regu lar service of steamers between Vera Cruz, Havanna, St. Domingo, and Porto Rico." THE OTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION TO THE EDITOR OF THE LONDON SUN. New York, Dec. 19, 1861. SlR,—The rational and dignified language and audialteram partenz spirit of your paper respecting. the Mason and Slidell affair, induce the hope that reason will yet have sway, and that violent lan guage will not necessarily be followed by violence of action, which all good men on both sides of the sea must deplore. You will receive by this steamer abundant evidence that the English people have been misled and inflamed by a distorted statement of what did occur; that so far from violence, rude ness, and outrage of manner, Lieut. Fairfax con ducted himself throughout with refined courtesy and decorum; and that for the express purpose of causing as little annoyance and inconvenience as pos sible to the ship and her passengers, and as little detention as possible to her mails, the extreme right (which seems to be conceded by the London Times and other objectors) of taking her into port for condemnation was not pursued. Surely the animus of Captain Wilkes in this respect was not "an outrage." As to the fact that the two persons taken from the Trent were "contraband," we have (as you will see by the American papers) their own avowal, and the official declaration by Jefferson Davis in his message to the Rebel Congress. It is difficult for plain people here to understand how the forbearance to exercise a belligerent right to an extreme and most injurious degree can consti tute an offence at all, still less an offence of so aggravated a character as to call for war between the two great Christian nations. Shakespeare must have erred, and we must henceforth hold that to take less than the bond is to exceed the sin of Shylock. Can it be that the violent imputations on this Government are sincere ? Is it possible that they speak sincerely who talk of the design of this Go• vernment to force a war with England ? Can we err in believing that the Trent affair is the mere pretext for joining the rebels in an attempt to de stroy this Government ? You can hardly imagine the astonishment with which the people of this country have regarded the hostile tone of so large a portion of the British press towards us since the outbreak of the rebellion. At no former period did there exist so kind and cordial a feeling on the part of the American people towards England. I need hardly refer to a stronger illustra tion of this fact than the spontaneous, warmhearted, enthusiastic, unselfish outburst of kind feeling from all our people, of all classes, high and low, rich and poor, which greeted her future King on his visit to us last fall. That the very first manifesta tion thereafter of English feeling towards us should have come in the shape of an eager, over-prompt recognition (as equal belligerents) of the rebels and traitors who seek to destroy this Government, did indeed amaze us. The surprise was no less than would be that of England were the American Go vernment in like manner to recognise any section of England, or Ireland, or India, immediately on a revolutionary outbreak. This surprise was none the less because of the alacrity of sympathy which it manifested towards a body of men who not only seek to overthrow our Government but to esta blish a new Government, having for its corner-stone the right and policy of extending and perpetuating human slavery. Is there a chapter in the history of our Anglo-Saxon race that records such a change as that philanthropic, liberty-loving, anti slavery England should so suddenly, reverse her sympathies and her teachings to favour such an insurrection and to promote such an end ! An intimation from England that she could not sympathise with a Government founded on human slavery, and committed to its perpetuity and ex tension, would have nipped the treason to humanity in its very bud. The idea that the United States Government, while tasking its energies and resources in sup pressing the rebellion, and struggling for its very existence, seeks to bring on a war with England,:is really so preposterous that it seems silly to combat it. It would be necessary to search very labo riously among our whole population to find any one so stolid as to suppose that we could at this time willingly incur war even with the feeblest chief of a petty island in the Pacific. Now, with no:disposition to reciprocate harsh lan guage or offensive suggestions, I may state the fact that the apprehension here is very general that England is about to play a most unworthy part towards us in this hour of our trial and distress; and that if the pretext of the Slidell and Mason affair is disposed of, some other will be speedily invented for assailing us, and " giving aid and comfort" to the rebels. We have English bleed in our veins here, and therefore with English can dour say that such a course will not be in accord ance with English honour or with English courage. We have been educated to honour England, and to trust in her faith and truth. She may see the day when our friendship will not he valueless. She may have trouble with belligerents, and need the services of a friend, or "neutral," who will not turn against her in the hour of her utmost need. Heaven grant that such may be our relation to her. It seems as though the English papers, which are so vindictive and bitter in their assaults on this country, were edited by American rebels. Their language is in the stereotyped phraseology of se cessio ndom. The "impossibility of subjugating 8,000,000 of people"—the wrong of "coercion"-- the " determination of the rebels to die in the last ditch, and that every man, woman, and child will perish soorer than submit," are the formulas that have become utterly unmeaning from their staleness and their emptiness. There is no necessity or design of " subjugating" the 5 (not 8) millions—but there is a necessity of putting down the despotic and tyran nous rebel leaders, whose reign of terror has subju gated the people of a portion of the country, and compelled them to shut their lips, and to appear willing aids in defiance of law, and in revolutionary schemes which in their hearts they abhor. As to the " dying in the last ditch," and all that sort o thing, it is so much more Gascon than English tha we w onder at finding it so current in England. Then, too, the systematic perversion of styling this war as one between the Northern and Southern StateNinstead of between the Unite,' States Govern- went and Rebels in a portion of the States; the systematic perversion of styling this Government as a rztere league or alliance of sovereign and inde pendent States, instead of a Government --a unity —fozrmed by the people of all the States; these things are an imposition on the people of England which has no warrant save in the false teachings of traitors. •":If England will forbear hostile acts towards us the rebellion will be speedily crushed, and com merce -will resume her benign reign, and promote the happiness of the pe o pl e o f England and Ame- C. L. ROYAL iIORTIGULTURAL SOCIETY. At a meeting of the council, specially summoned on Thursday last, the following autograph letter from his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was received:— " OSBORNE, DEC. 28, 1861. " Gentlemen,—Prostrated with overwhelming grief, and able, at present, to turn her thoughts but to one object, the Queen my mother has constantly in her mind the anxious desire of doing honour to the memory of him whose good and glorious cha racter the whole nation in its sorrow so justly ap preciates. " Actuated by this constantly recurring wish, the Queen has commanded me to recall to your recol lection that her Majesty had been pleased to assent to a proposal to place a statue of herself upon the memorial of the Great Exhibition of 1851, which it was intended to erect in the New Horticultural Gardens. " The characteristic modesty and self-denial of my deeply-lamented father had induced him to in terpose to prevent his own statue from filling that position, which properly belonged to it, upon a me morial to that great undertaking which sprung from the thought of his enlightened mind, and was carried through to a termination of unexampled success by his unceasing superintendence. " It would however now, her Majesty directs me to say, be most hurtful to her feelings were any other statue to surmount this memorial but that of the great, good prince, my dearly beloved father, to whose honour it is in reality raised. " The Queen, therefore, would anxiously desire that, instead of her statue, that of her beloved hus band should stand upon this memorial. " Anxious, however humbly, to testify my re spectful and heartfelt affection for the best of fathers, and the gratitude and devotion of my sor rowing heart, I have sought, and have with thank fulness obtained, the permission of the Queen my mother to offer the feeble tribute of the admiration and love of a bereaved son, by presenting the statue thus proposed to be placed in the gardens under your management.—l remain, gentlemen, yours, " ALBERT EDWARD. " To the Council of fre Horticultural Society." The letter having been read, the council resolved —" That under the lamentable and afflicting cir cumstances in which the council are placed by the irreparable loss which they, in common with the nation, have sustained by the decease of their late president, the gracious offer of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales should be accepted ; but at the same time that he should be assured that they con template the loss of her Majesty's statue with very great regret." THE NEW YE IN ITALY. TURIN, JAN. 1. Old '6l has abdicated, and his hopeful successor has ascended the throne. The sun went down last evening in a gorgeous blaze of ruddy light ; it rises this morning in a white garment, cold, but bright, and gay as a bridal attire. All is new here--the month, the year, the morn—all but that same dry, lustrous, dusty, fine weather; the same without sameness; every variety of sky—blue, pearly, and golden ; charming without cloying; soothing without lulling ; cheering, yet nerving and stirring. Since last night we have all been numbered, labelled, and ticketed. The Minister of Agricul ture and Commerce (Cordova) had the census of the population taken simultaneously throughout the Kingdom of Italy. His fiat went forth that last night, at the witching hour of midnight and precisely on the stroke of 12, every subject of King Victor Emmanuel should draw up a muster-roll of himself, his wife, his sons and daugh ters, his manservant, his maidservant, and the stranger within his gates. Parliament had voted for the operation the sum of 600,000 f., and it would he lucky if the Chambers were not applied to for additional funds, making up an amount of 3,000,000 f. altogether. The census is not unlikely to turn out a partial failure, nevertheless; for some districts in the country, especially in the South, are still too unsettled, too many of the Neapolitan households, and even villages, are too illite rate, and the prejudices of ignorance and the mali cious suggestions of the clergy, who represent this enumeration as the forerunner of poll-taxes, conscriptions, and other vexatious measures, have been too busily at work, to allow the clerks of the Government to acquit themselves of their task with success: The Minister, also, thought too late of his scheme ; the whole matter has been somewhat hurried and bungled; and as the ques tions propounded are rather vague and complicate, and heads of houses are to describe, not the inmates who slept under their roofs, but those who happened to be gathered there at a given moment, at an hour in which social visiting is not quite at an end, the filling up of the forms is likely to give rise to great confusion. At any rate, it has been the cause of an immense deal of excellent fun ; it has thrown a vast amount of ridicule upon a process which is it self no laughing matter, and the serious import of which the old King of Israel found out to his cost. Fancy a party of merrymakers assembled to per form the burial ceremony over the departing year, sitting round a bowl of punch, which is laid on the table precisely as the chimes from every church steeple ring out Silvester's-eve and ring in Circum cision-day ; fancy the master of the revels stepping in with pen and ink and the tell-tale paper, going round for names and surnames, sex, age, religious persuasion, and ever so many particulars besides, when most of his guests have a house of their own, and a similar document at the very time filling up by the hand of wife, governor, or landlord, unaware, as the latter are in many in stances, whether son, husband, or lodger be or be not at the time at home and in bed, and sure at any rate that home and to bed the most truant scape grace will return before the morning. I was my self with a party of friends last evening, and we had a member of the Cabinet, and half a dozen legisla tors, and two or three worthy Councillors of the Mu nicipal Board among us, all men who had something to do with the framing of the bill, or with its execution ; yet there were not two of the persons present, host or hostess, Minister or Minister's wife, deputy or alderman, who agreed as to the proper interpretation that should be put on the decree. Names were taken down and expunged ; some volunteered, some withheld, in fun or on principle, the needful information. There was a vast amount of argument, a long and loud contro versy and longer and louder laughter, till every one tank up his head gear and wrapper, and we left our kind entertainer to solve the doubt as he deemed it fit, and went each one to our own dwelling, where we found the same disputes, the same puzzle and perplexity, distracting our respective domestic circles. " General Garibaidi, in a letter published in the Italian journals," says the Pays, " having made use of ( irritating expressions against the Muratists, Prince Murat has addressed to those papers a protest, declaring that if ho has partisans he does not deserve any reproach, for they will follow the line of conduct which he has traced out for himself —never to be an element of discord, and to always respect the wishes of the people." A QITATIOS—UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.—An eight oared match has been agreed upon between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which will probably take place at the end of the second week in April, at Putney, over the course upon which so many gallant races have been wit nessed. The Oxford gentlemen being triumphant last sea son, Cambridge are the challengers on the present occasion. THE NEW STREET FROM WHITECHAPEL TO SRORED ITCII.—BuiIding operations have been begun on the above new line o f street by the contractors who, a short time ago, purchased the various plots of ground from the Improvement Commissioners, by whom they were put up to auction a few days ago, at the Auction Mart. As there aro several owners of the ground, the erection of the buildings, there is no doubt, will be carried on with great activity. The houses will be of a uniform character, and of first-class dimensions, with shops attached to them. THE PRICE OF BREAD AT PARIS. —The price of bread for the first fortnight of January (says Galignani) is fixed at 45c. the 21b, loaf, best quality, being a decline of lc.; and 38c. for the second, unvaricd. The bakers of Paris, at a meeting held on the 29th ult., decided on giving to the administration, for the benefit of the poor of the capital, 265,000 kilogrammes of bread, first quality, instead of the New-year's gifts they have been in the habit of pre. seating to their customers, - - • „