The Sun. — London, England, 1862-02-12 00:00:00

1- R. and MRS. CHARLES KEAN will repeat THIS EVENING, and Every Evening during the week, Louis XI. and The Wife's Secret, in consequence of the brilliant success and overflowing audiences which have attended their performance at Drury-lane Theatre. This Evening, Wednesday, 12th ; and Friday, 14th, Louis the Eleventh. Tuursday, 13th ; and Saturday, 15th, The Wife's Secret. To conclude each evening with the Grand PANTOMIUE. pOYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Commence At Seven. Acting 3 1anager—Mr. P. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence a' 7. Box-office open daily from 11 tlll5. IVEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- .11 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. 350th Night of the Engagement of Mr. and Mrs. DION BOUCICAULT. TIcIS EVENING, the great American Drama of THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion Boucicault, S. Emery, Billington, Jamison, P. Bedford, Stephenson, Eburne, Powell, Romer, H. Lewis ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Marston, Miss Latimer, Miss Denvil. After which (third time), THE DUBLIN BOY. Andy, Mrs. Boucicault. To conclude with MARGERY DAMP. Messrs. D. Fisher, Billington, W. Smith, Miss Wool gar, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE, Dean-street, Oxford-street. THIS EVENING, A CHINESE ROMANCE. After which Offenbach's Opera Buffo, entitled LE MARI AGE AUX LANTERNES. Mr. John Morgan, Mesdames Stanley, Payne, and Mason. To conclude with a new and original Farce, by TIOMesNLOF CARNATION COTTAsrs. Ben Barnett and George WGE.ebster, entitled CARNA- Commence at half-past 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Last 4 Nights of The Colleen Bawn, and of the Nor weg,lan Wonders, to make room for the Grand Equestrian Spectacle, now in prepar ttion, introducing Two of the finest Performing Elephants ever seen in this country. THIS EVENING, THE COLLEEN BAWN. To be followed by the SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, when the great Norwegian Wonders will appear. Concluding with a favourite Faroe. The world-renowed Rumsey and Newcomb's Double Troupe of Ethiopian Minstrels are engaged for six nights only, com p-Len:lug Monday, Feb. 17. CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE 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 'Wile. Ne.rri, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, and a powerful Chorus, at Ten o'clock. Musical Director, Mr. Jonntmans. Admission—Hall, Bd.; Stalls and Balcony, is. VICTOR JULIEN, " THE FLYING MAN," at CANTERBURY HALL, Every Evening at half past Nine o'clock. 0 X F ORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, Two Selections Every Evening alternately from " Ernani," .4 Lucrezia Borgia,, ' "La Traviata," "Simon Boccanegra," a , La Circassienne,&a, by the entire Company, Full Band and Chorus.—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. Ball, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET. "LES MERVEILLES GYMNASTIQUES" By HENRI and PFAU (aged Nine and Eleven years), From the "Cirque Napoleon," Paris, at which place they performed for Three Hundred Consecutive Nights, creating the utmost enthusiasm 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 next, the 17th of February. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. —Morning, 121). 24m.—Afternoon, 12h. 50m To-moßßow. -Morning, lh. 13m.—Afternoon, lh. 36m THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEBRUARY 12, 1862, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 41—highest since noon yesterday. 38 --lowest this morning and during the night. 41—this day at noon. BA.RostitTER-30.07 ; still falling. WIND—N.-N.-westerly; light, with dull weather, and some rain in the night. , A:1 ~,,,,, , I . ..a. , -,•") ' ' ' ' 4 1 --- T ,t , • , ze: - ,------,-.. ..r. -4-,f,47,.--r: E - t),. s -t - --- ~"- tw. .44,,,, , p. , w , z •; ., e4O-,de i _., bi , ot, '• -,.. - ~ '0 -- 9z s ~..- '• " .c.----- __,,,, , t.... t , - ., - , ........ t . 7 - . ..,::::4-- ; ,,,,,tt.)..- Nt,-;,-.., v(0, THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 1862. It has of late years become the curious habit of the House of Commons to waste a night or two at the commencement of each session in endeavouring to find out how possibly time—during the session —may best be economised. Yesterday's sitting may be taken as one presenting to view just a case in point. The hen member for Brighton, early in the evening, submitted a motion to the consideration of the House—a motion suggestive that so soon as the Estimates are ready, one night for certain shall be set apart in each week for their consideration. That is to say, the motion proposed that the present loose and uncertain arrangement -with regard to the Estimates should cease and determine. The previous arrangement according to which the Estimates are nominally to be taken into consideration every week at two separate sittings of the House—motions ad libitum upon going into Committee of Supply, taking always upon these very Estimate nights precedence of the Esti mates themselves! This au plaisir among the more cretchetty and whi easie ne a t l u o a fthe independent represen tatives. So that ily _as we know full well by an amazing experience any member with a grievance, or any nu mber of mem bers with any number of grievances , hindrance, obstruct the financ ial b ay es t s w o i f tho th u e t session, while his or their whims and crotchets often being coolly ventilat ed for the satisfaction (as happens) of the speakers themselves exclusively. All kinds of evils arise quite manifestly year after year from the existing arrange. men t. The consideration of the Estimates by the House of Commons is invariably —more, be yond a doubt, than any of the parliamentary busi ness of the session—the veriest lottery. Millions are voted repeatedly with little or no consideration whatever. Work that ought to be spread over many hours, is frequently crowded into as many minutes. The purse strings of the nation are time and again untied for the abstrac tion of immense sums from the Treasury- when I scarcely the needed " forty" can be counted upon the empty benches of the House of Commons, and THIS EVENING, (3d time) THE ROSE OF KILLAR NEY. Misses Louisa Pyne, Susan Pyne, Jessie M`Lean, and Topham • Messrs. Santley, H. Haigh, E. Dussek, C. Lyall, Patey, Wallworth, and Mr. W. Harriscn. 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. • fEA TRF,..110 YAL, HAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bactstone. 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. 12, the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen D ee l is h. M essrs . Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fal coner ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. After which, a new and orizinal 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. 110 YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.... Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, AS YOU LIKE IT. Mr. Ryder, Mr. "V iddicoinb, Mr. Jordan, Miss Carlotta Leclercq, Miss Maria Harris, cice. After which a Comic Christmas Pantomime, WHITTINC-- TON AND HIS CAT ; or, Harlequin King Kollywobbo , and the Genius of Good Humour. The grotesque opeiliP, 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 inzs. Raymond; Dick Whittington, Miss Maria Harris; Robin Goodfellow and the Cat, Master John Haslem, (pupil of the celebrated Gabriel Ravel ; Clown, Mr. Flildyard ; Harlequi, Mr. John Lauri ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Colum bine, Miss Caroline Adams. The manifest objection visible upon the very surface of the motion brought forward yesterday by the member for Brighton is this—that it would interfere with that prero gative of free speaking which the House of Com mons itself guards the most jealously. True, there is much to be desiderated in the way of economising the time of the house, in the way of regulating more systematically the business of the session, in the way (above all things) of rendering the consideration of the Estimates more and more matter of certainty and of deliberation. But while striving to attain this triple advantage, the House of Commons must guard against the danger of depriving itself even partially of one of its most cherished privileges, that of discussing always— upon these very evenings —every subject in the wide world that any M.P. out of the six hundred and odd may choose to bring under the scrutiny of the popular branch of the Legislature: It is the reconciliation of these two hitherto somewhat con- flitting difficulties that the member for Brighton, laudably enough, bat vainly enough, as the result showed, strove once more yes- terday to effect by means of his well-inten tioned, but abortive proposition. Let us yet hope that something more practical and Tore to the purpose to that end may come of the Secretary of State's reconsideration of the same old, old, tedious, hitherto insoluble problem—How :o economize the time in the Hoase of Commons without interfering with the perfect freedom of dis• cussion, how to regulate with more certainty during the session the consideration of the estimates Without depriving members generally of their long• , reasured privilege of desultory motions upon going into Committee of Supply ! Mr. MONCICTON MILNES has obtained leave to bring in once more the bill to render legal certain marriages of affinity. What marriages these are, thanks to the customary ecclesiastical perversity of certain lords, our readers but too well know. May we hope that this year, which Lord DERBY has de dicated to political peace, will also be one of political concession on a question whicb, at the bottom, is neither more nor less than one of religious liberty. Though our opinions of the religious aspect of the case cannot well be clearer, we confess we are tired of the theological discussion. Such discussions are as inappropriate to a daily paper as they are to Par liament itself, and we must, except when driven to them by any peculiar necessity, utterly decline them. We have only to do with the broad facts of the case, which involve the equal religious liberties of all subjects, and in defence of them our best efforts will never be wanting. We are strenuously in favour of Mr. MILNES' bill, because we think it as essential to complete religious liberty in regard to marriage, as was the modification of the oath re quired of members of Parliament, to the complete I political liberty of Jews. In one respect the two questions stand in a very similar position. The appeal is not to any exten sive agitation which can be got up out of doors, nor is it made on behalf, so far as the individuals directly affected are concerned, of large numbers— the appeal is on behalf of a considerable number practically -wronged; on behalf of, we believe, a majority of the nation, wronged by unjust treat- ment of their religions opinions; and it is made not to any party or political feel ing, but to the sense of right and justice in the bosom of our Legislators. This appeal triumphed, at last, in the case of the Jews ; is it too much to hope that it will triumph in the case of the vast numbers who believe the marriages in question to be lawful and right—of the important number whom the late decision of the Hcnse of Lords has placed in a peculiarly painful legal, not social, position— and of the considerable number who are debarred by fear of legal consequences from acting on inclina tions which they are certain enjoy the sanction of religion, of reason, and of prudence. As j ournal i sts for the public we place in the fore front of our argument that, in regard to these marriages, there is a pronounced difference of reli gious ° Pinion. We have nothing, properly, to do with the ground s of those o pi n i ons; th ey are t h e concern of indi v id uals. Our business, like that of the statesman, is t o see to it th a t, so far as i n us lies, no man is damaged in his civil relations on account of his religious opinions. This must be the case are made th e f oun - Uament, and those when the opinions of one cl ass of laws ond Acts of Parliament, of the opposed class visited by civil disabilities; or when the majority of these all-essential " forty" perhaps are drowsed long since under the soporific influence of all kinds of tedious discussions. How often has it not come to pass, for example, that the expenditure of some great and vital department of the Government has been smuggled through the House while almost every one has been away at dinner—certain that the matter in question would not come on for two or three hours afterwards. Superficially considered, there fore, it must be obvious remembering the facts we have been recalling to recollection that there was something alluring in the root-idea of Mr. WarrE's motion yesterday. By getting rid of the uncer tainty there has hitherto been in regard to the consideration of the estimates two nights a week during the session until they are gradually worked through with more or less regularity and precision ; by getting rid of this uncertainty, and exchanging the two dubious nights a week for one night that should be devoted to the consideration of the esti mates with certainty and exclusively, the mem ber for Brighton would seem doubtless, to our ob servant eyes, to have hit upon the juste milieu, and for once to have deserved well of the house, if not of his country. But—alas! when the motion comes to be placed in the crucible of debate all the vapoury good in it begins to evaporate, and there is a residue of doubt left at last that is quietly set aside for possible consideration afterwards, and that moreover not by the House collectively, but by the individual Minister of State who may be regarded as in some measure responsible for the proper guidance of the house to a wise decision in this particular. Observe, for a mo ment, the course taken by the discussion yesterday in regard to the suggestion of the member for Brighton. Mr. WHITE'S ingenious proposition is seconded by the member for Dumfries ; and thereupon the House is nominally addressed, not merely by subordinate members, like Mr. PAULL, Mr. WILLIAms, and Mr. BAILLIE, but by Ministers and ex-Ministers as important as Sir GEORGE GREY and Sir GEORGE LEWIS, as Mr. WALPOLE, Mr. DISRAELI, and Lord PALMERSTON. The upshot of it all being that the motion—when all has been said—is withdrawn. The House of Commons, and the public who look to the House of Commons for its usual half-year's labour in the way of legis lation, must now alike wait as patiently as may be for the suggestion half promised last evening by the right hon. baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Department—the well-consi dered and duly-deliberated official proposition Sir GEORGE GREY may, upon reflection, feel encouraged to submit to the consideration of the House, for the better economy of the public time in future, and the more careful regulation, and the more judicious organisation of the whole scheme of Public Business. SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY _EVENING, !FEBR VARY 12, '1862. SHIPWRECKED MARINERS' SOClETY.—Although the weather during the past month has not been of that boisterous and stormy nature which usually characterises the winter season, and causes so many wrecks and casual.. ties at sea, this society hashed heavy drains on its resources. No less than 60 widows, 108 orphans, 26 parents, and 450 mariners and master mariners have been relieved, at a cost of £1,040. A monthly expenditure like this is, perhaps, the most convincing proof of the need which exists for cen tralising charitable contributions in a society, whose only object is to relieve distress in its general and most compre. hensive form. The mtriners themselves continue to take a deep interest in the welfare of this society by contributing to its support, but their contributions would be compara tively valueless without the co-operation and assistance of the public at large. An interesting report was made at the usual monthly meeting from Messrs. Ryan Brothers and Co., honorary agents for Limerick, in allusion to the hu mane and noble conduct of Captain Fudge, of the Holyrood steamer, in saving the lives of eight men whom he picked up at sea in a gale of wind, and who must have perished but for his assistance. He generously entertained them on board, and landed them safely on the Skerries, from whence they had been blown off in their little bark by the violence of the storm and the waves. THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM'S STRANGE DREAM. —As for myself, I am ashamed to say that I am more low than I should dare confess to anyone, by a dream which haunted me in my sleep with a degree of precision which is really frightful. I was at Stowe, my dear and regretted home. All was desolate—not a soul appeared to receive me. My good dog met me, and licked my hand. Accom panied by him, I traversed all the apartments—all desolate and solitary; every room as I had left it. On my return from the state bedroom I met my wife 1 She told me all my family were gone, and she was left desolate —that even her little favourite dog, which had been her sole remaining companion, had died a few days ago. We went out at the north hall door together, and all was solitude and desertion, I awoke with the distress of the moment, and slept no more that night. Ido not like to confess how much effect this has had upon me. I have not the slightest faith in dreams, but this has strongly accorded with the feelings and tone of my mind, and I cannot shake it off. Tho' who will ever see this journal is will, I am sure, not laugh at my feelings.—From the Duke of Buckingham's Private Diary. THE WINDHAM C ASE.—A correspondent Writes: " Mr. and Mrs. W. Windham are now staying at Felbrigg Hall, the family seat in Norfolk. Mr. Windham has been down for about 10 days, having come into the country on the conclusion of the extraordinary trial before Master Warren ; but Mrs. Windham did not rejoin her husband till Saturday eve n i ng, when she arrived at Norwich by the 8.45 p.m. express, p osting to Felbrigg the same evening. In the course of last week Mr. Windham gave an audit dinner to his tenantry. The entertainment was a handsome one, and Mr. Windham himself presided at it. After dinner he proposed a number of toasts, showing an intelligent fami liarity with the l ea d ing public topics of the day. One of his speeches extended over 20 minutes. As regards the costs of the late inquiry, it is positi ve l y s t ate d t h at M a j or- General 'Windham and the other parties who signed the petition on which the commission de lunatics inquirendo was granted do not intend to apply for their costs out of the estate; and it is oven affirmed —although this move will probably rot be successful that the costs which Mr. Windham has incurred in what may be styled his defence, and which amount to some 415,000, will be attempted io be saddled on the petitioners. Every effort is being made I<. Windham to patr on i se an entertainment at a circus, Windhamto live m ore qu i et l y for the future. at an Theat re Royal, Norwich, but he was pre vailed upon not to attend." We can scarcely reconcile the above statement with the notice that has during the last few Jaya signed by Mr. Windh am , t o the effect that he will p i a llrt r i ed' n future be answerable for his wife's debts. At Antwerp experiments have been lately tried with the Wahrenderif cannon and shells. Several shells were fired at a wall which it was intended to throw down; they duly burst, but the wall remained standing. Others were then exploded at the foot of the wall, but with no bet ter suecess—in a word, the experiments were a complete failure. excerpted from a brief but suggestive pamphlet' upon the subject of emigration but just now published by Mr. Ridgway. .The argument advanced by the pamphleteer is certainly en titled to very serious consideration. That it is so, the words above quoted from it cannot but have already demonstrated. It is obvious indeed upon the most cursory reflection that if our Government has never cared before to regulate, guide, and encourage emigration it should in reason do so from this time forth. " Hitherto," says the anonymous writer already quoted, " Hitherto England has not come forward to bear any portion of the expense of emigration ; the great mass of emigrants have been left to provide the cost entirely from their own resources, and con sequently, as a matter of necessity, they have gone to that country to which a passage was attainable at the smallest cost." And when it is borne in mind that, for £4 or £5, any intending emi grant can transport himself to the opposite shores of the Atlantic to obtain a home and employment in the American States, and that it re quires at the very least three times that sum to reach our antipodes in the fertile regions of Aus tralia—it is surely manifest that there is need at length that our rulers in this matter should bestir themselves. * Emigration frcm the British Islands, considered with regard to its bearing and influence upon the interests and prosperity of Great Britain. ETON COLLEGE, Feb. 11.—This morning, shortly before 10 o'clock, a messenger arrived at the residence of the venerable the Vice-Provost, bearing the sanction of her Majesty to the election to the Provostship, by the Vice- Provost and Fellows of the College, of the Rev. Dr. Good. ford, who has during the last nine years discharged the duties of head-master, having succeeded the late Dr. Haw trey on his elevation to the Provostship. THE ACCIDENT IN THE WATERLOO-ROAD.—Seve ral of the unfortunate people injured in the accident in the Waterloo-road on Monday remain in a precarious state in the hospitals. At St. Thomas's there are 14 men and boys and five women and girls; at Guy's two boys; at Charing cross one young man, and atWestminster a boy, all more or less suffering from the effects of their fall. Francis Cunning ham, the poor shoeblack, a boy of 14, is said to be deplor ably crushed, and the two boys Reader r.nd Townsend, in Guy's Hospital, aged 11 and 12 respectively, lie in a state of danger. So, too, does a boy in the Westminster Hospital, named William Hutchinson, who had both his arms broken, besides receiving other injuries. At St. Thomas's the boy Clement Ridley and William Venus, the police-constable, Sarah Harding, Mary and Elizabeth Gold smith, Rosa Mortlock, and Fanny Robinson are all in a condition to excite apprehension. Two persons who had been taken to Charing-cross Hospital were so comparatively little hurt as to be able to leaf e on Monday night. During the whole of yesterday crowds of people collected about the scene of the accident. The gap in the street has been securely railed round to prevent further disaster, and the curiosity of people passing is also restrained by the police on the spot. SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday night, at about half-past 7 o'clock, a man, apparently about 30 years of age, took off his boots and socks, waded about four yards into the Serpentine, and got on board a sailing boat which was moored near the boat-houses, opposite the Receiving -house of the Royal Humane Society. H e th en cast the boat off, and the wind, which was blowing from E.N.E, drifted her towards Kensington-gardens-bridge, and over to the south shore of the lake. He removed the sail-cover and cast off some of the stops of the mainsail, no doubt with the view of making sail on the boat, but, not understanding what he was about, did not succeed in doing so. When about 25 yards from the south shore he was observed by a man and woman who were passing standing on the deck of the boat, apparently endeavouring to push her towards the middle of the Serpentine, but sud denly fell overboard into six feet of water. The man who witnessed the accident and another person ran to the bridge for the drag which is placed there by the Royal Humane Society for public use, but in this case it was of no service, the unfortunate man having sunk so far from the shore. On the alarm being given at the Receiving-house the superin tendent immediately started off two boats, and a messenger for Dr. Christian, principal medical officer of the society, and after preparing a warm bath and the other necessaries re quired in such cases, went himself in a third boat to assist the boatmen. The person who saw the accident having gone away, there was no one to point Gut the spot where the poor man disappeared, and therefore the men were directed to drag some little distance to windward of the boat, but two hours elapsed before the body was found, it being half buried in mud. When the clothes were taken off it was discovered that one of the coat-tails was torn completely off and put into the pocket, which still hung to the coat, and the other tail was hanging on by a shred of cloth; the waistcoat was split up the back to the collar. Dr. Christian examined the body carefully, but there were no external marks of vio lence. Although the wind was very keen and the frost sharp, he must have stood on the boat's deck, which was a sheet of ice, on his bare feet, as his boots and socks were found in the bottom of the boat. Half-a-sovereign and 3s. were found in his pockets, but no marks or papers by which he could be identified. He was 5 feet 7 inches high, had long dark hair, dark eyes, moustache, and stubbly beard about the chin, and wore a shirt with blue stripes, wide apart, and a white Guernsey frock over it, a black silk hat (maker's name J. Hall, Regent's-circus), black coat bound with black riband, blaok waistcoat, dark mixed trousers, new side-spring pegged boots, and dark necktie with red spots. visited with civil penalties if they disobey it. Con formity to the dogmas of the Church of England is not, now, compulsory in any other respect, that we are aware of—why should it be made com pulsory on this point. We fully respect the scruples of such Churchmen as the Bishops of EXETER and OXFORD—whatever we think of their validity ; all we ask is, that they shall not make their scruples binding not only on those who know nothing of them, but on those who think them base less, or even immoral and anti-Christian. There is,:in deed, a practical indecency, had the Bishops but good taste to perceive it, in their interfering in this matter at all—as legislators we mean. It is really somewhat shabby to use their good fortune of being able to vote in the House of Lords for the purpose of riveting the yoke of their own Church canons on the necks of Nonconformists. No one can hin der them from interfering; but a feeling of fairness ought to check them. As theirs is a Law Church they might with some shadow of consistency, con tend for binding their own members by law—though we should strongly object to this—but we cannot comprehend that they should not blush to coerce all the Nonconformists and all the Catholics of the kingdom to submit to their opinions. Mr. MILNES will really propose nothing more than this—that throughout the British Empire the civil rights of those who differ on the lawfulness of marriage with a deceased wife's sister, should be equal. No man's opinion will be interfered with, but the present interference with opinion will be done away. No clergyman will be com pelled to celebrate, religiously, a marriage to which he has a religious objection ; certainly no laymen will be compelled to contract a marriage to which his conscience objects—but the vast number of persons whose consciences have no doubt on the subject will be left free to act on their own convic tion. With these views we hope the Lords, and those who agree with them in the Commons will give up at once and for ever what is nothing better than a petty hut harrassing acelesiaatical warfare against the religious convictions and civil rights of more than half the community. The Bill must and will be carried at last ; why persist longer in fighting against so reasonable a proposal as that of placing all sects and religious opinions, on this subject, on a level P All the churches in the empire, all its principal parts, all its colonies, will be placed by the bill in a more simple and natural position. A hardship impa tiently borne since 1835 will be done away. And while not an individual will be wronged, thou sands will gain rights of which the law ought never to have deprived them, and which to them may be of inestimable practical value. Already we have learnt one or two very im portant and useful lessons through the medium of this civil war in the United States (that were) — this grand fratricidal contest betweeen the North and South, between the Federalists and the Confederates. For instance, we have ob tained a more vivid notion than ever of the antipathy entertained there, particularly among the Northerners, the unnatural and intense antipathy cherished by them in regard to all that relates to the old mother -country. Yet, at the same time, we have learnt also the importance of that antipathy when they are fairly put to it, when they are brought to recognise the dread alter native of War or—concession : of War or—submis sion l Again, we have learnt beyond the chance of any further misapprehension at all upon the mat ter, how idle have been all those doubts so long entertained in regard to the security of our North American Colonies, in respect to the loyalty of the Canadas and the other minor and contiguous provinces, in relation to the readiness or unreadi nese of the colonists there to identify themselves with the interests and the fortunes of the old father land, All these vain fears have now been utterly and for ever dissipated. The patriotism of the Canadians, of the New Brunswickers, of the Nova Scotians, and the red of them, is no longer matter of uncertainty. The loyalty of the citizens of Montreal and Quebec is as assured in the estimation of all the subjects of the Crown, as the 'oyalty of the citizens of Leeds or of Birmingham. Beyond all this, however, there is another, and—so far as the future is concerned—a still more impor tant lesson learnt of late by England since the disruption of the Union in America almost simul taneously with ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S election to the Presidency. And that lesson of lesson's to Eng land, is the need so long suspected by the more re flective of her sons, the sore and urgent need there is for the regulation, the guidance, and the encouragement of emigration as a system. It is calculated, in round numbers, that since the close of the Great Napoleonian War, that between 1816 and 1860, more than 6 ,000,000 of the inhabitants of these islands have quitted them as emigrants, bent upon finding "room and verge enough" elsewhere beyond the seas. It is estimated that of those 5,000,000 no less than 3,000,000 have settled down permanently in the States of America, formerly the United, now the Die-united, States of America—that 1,000,000 have found homes in Canada and our other North American possessions —and that the rest, that is, another million of emigrants have sought remoter shores, among others those of the Cape of Good Hope and of Australia. Considering these round numbers alone, the fact we are here directing attention to, is sufficiently startling and remarkable. But, it is certainly still more so, when to that plain fact that three millions of our fellow subjects have found a home in the American Republic is added some such consideration as this--" It may be asserted, without exaggeration, that the three millions which have gone over to the States have now been multi plied by natural increase into double that number or more, and that, in fact, they compost) fully one _ _ _ third of the population of the Northern States." The reflection thus impressively put before us is penalties—for disabilities are penalties. Now, it is notorious that a large proportion of the Christian population of the British empire —we really believe much the larger portion of it—believe that to con tract marriage with a deceased wife's sister is not only innocent and lawful, but, under many circumstances, frequently commendable. A large body, chiefly warm " Anglicans," in deference to a canon of the Church of England by Act of Parliament established, holds the con trary opinion. Nearly all Dissenters from the Church of the Prayer-book and canons naturally hold the first opinion, and it is singular that a con siderable number of the Church by Law established agrees with these Dissenters. Great names in theology may perhaps bo produced in favour of what seems to us an ascetic prohibition ; but it will be allowed on all hands that a vastly greater num ber of names which stand highest in the ranks of theologians, ancient and modern, are in favour of liberty on this question. This then is our point. We think it ought to settle the question at a time when no man will venture to deny the right of all subjects to Religious Equality. All Mr. MILNEs will ask is that the civil rights of those who dissent from the doctrine of the canon of the Episcopal Church, may not be AMERICA. A Richmond despatch affirms that England w: rived out. Exchange nominal, but tending downwards, Bankers' bills, 113. Gold 3 to 4 per cent. premium. per cent. New York Centrals are quoted 82f ; Erie, 33 Illinois, GO. THE BOMBAY MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB, 12, The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ellora, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here. The French war steamer Fontenoy, having on board 1,123 Zouaves, for Mexico, came into collision with the British steamer Pactolus, bound for Malta, in the Straits of Gibraltar, on the 2d inst. The Pactolus sustained considerable damage, and was lashed to the Fontenoy and taken into Gibraltar for repair. The British ship Queen, bound from St. John's, for Cuba, sprung a leak, and was abandoned on the 6th ult. in long. 6.30, lat. 37 N. Exchange on London at Gibraltar was quoted at 491 to 491 for 90 days' sight ; on Paris, 5.25 ; on Marseilles, 5.26 ; on Madrid, at par ; on Cadiz, discount. Frbights unaltered. PARIS, FEB. 12. The Moniteur of to-day announces that the Committee on the Artistie Copyright Question has appointed a Sub-Committee to prepare a bill based upon the principle of perpetuity. CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 11. Although the Sultan, upon his accession to the throne, considerably reduced his civil list, and has since devoted to the service of the State large sums from the savings of his private purse, his Imperial Majesty sent yesterday, of his own accord, 20,000,000 piastres to discharge the arrears due to officials and to the army. MADRID, FEB. 10. It is asserted that the decree for the settlement of the debt of 1823 has received the Royal signs• The Minister of Finance is actively engaged in the settlement of the redeemable debt. M. Mon has accepted the Presidency of the Congress. FEBRUARY 11. It is said that France consents to fix the amount of the Spanish debt of 1823 at the sum of 20,000,000 f. PARIS, FEB. 11. The Ilioniteur of to-day announces that the Marquis D'Audiffret will to-day read in the Senate his report on the bill for the conversion of the Four and a Half per Cent. Rentes. EVENING. The Senate at to.day's sitting unanimously de clared that it did not oppose the promulgation of the law for the conversion of the Four and a Half per Cent. Rentes. CIRCULAR OF BARON RICASOLI. TURIN, FEB. 11, EVENING. The Correspondance Italienne of to-day publishes a circular of Baron Ricasoli addressed to the Pre_ facts, in which he observes : " The Government still pursues the execution of the national wishes, and has formally stated by what means and ways it intends to proceed to LATEST NEWS. (PER NORTH AMERICAN, BY TELEGRAPH TO PORT LAND AND FROM LONDONDERRY.) NEW YORK, JAN. 31 (Morning.) The Nem York limes refers to Mr. Seward's despatch of Nov. 30, to Mr. Adams, not having been public in England, and sees in this fact a deter mination on the part of the English Ministry to put England on a war footing. The New York linzes adds, that " with such evidences of ill faith and undisguised hostility we may put a proper con struction upon the amicable tone of Earl Rus sell's despatches, and arm ourselves for the worst contingencies." The Federals are concentrating their forces at Lebanon, 40 miles from Springfield, for another chase after General Price. Six vessels have been sunk in Moffatt's Channel Charleston. Eight more will be sunk immediately. Mr. Cox has said in Congress that the attacks on General M'Clellan arose because the General would not make the war an abolition war. " Happily," said Mr. Cox, " I can announce that no abolition or confiscation measure can pass the present Congress." Rumours are current of the resignation of the Secretary of the Navy. The New York Herald publishes despatches from Southern journals, stating that the Federal fleet occupy the south end of Wilmington Island, thus cutting off the communication between Fort Palaski and Savannah. Fort Palaski has, however, six months' provisions. A Richmond despatch endea vours to prove that the occupation of this point does not cut off the communication. NEW YORK, FEB. 1 (Morning.) The New York press take an unfavourable view of the rumoured European intervention in American affairs. The New I ork Herald considers that an inter vention would cause strife to extend all over Europe, as well as in America. The New York Tinzes justifies the sinking of ves sels at Charleston,and says that the harbour is not destroyed, as new channels will form themselves with the shifting sands. "In any case the Euro. pean Powers have no business to protest." The same journal further states that the opinion is, commercially, that an attempt by the European Powers for a friendly intervention, though scarcely practicable, in the present state of the rebellion, would not necessarily produce financial mischief. The Journal of Commerce says :—"Federal mili- tary movements will shortly display such force as will surpass anything that the European Powers have an idea of. European criticism will then change, and the strength of the Federal Govern ment will be acknowledged." General Beauregard, with 15,000 men, has left for Kentucky. President Jefferson Davis will com mand at Manassas. Four Federal steamers and three sailing ♦essels are on the look-out for the Sumter. The New fork Times says that if the Nashville has been purchased in England her Northern own ers still have claims against her. yet acknowledge the South and break the blockade, '1 he Anglo-Saxon, Africa, and Bavaria, have ar, Fears of European intervention in American affairs caused great excitement in the Stock mar ket this morning, and a general fall of at least 2 FEB. 1, 2 P.M. The first stock board closed slightly firmer ; Erie, 33 I; New York Central, 821, She brings 62 passengers, 2,475 packages of cargo, including 517 bales of silk, valued at £45,000. On the Bth instant, the Ellora spoke the Indus, steering south ; and on the 9th, off Cape Finis terre, the Alhambra, with the homeward Penin sular mails. Rome. The Ministry alone will decide upon these means, and the opportunity of employing th The dignity and the interests of the nation alike will not permit of its allowing itself to be preceded or hurried away. It is especially important in the Roman question to obtain a great moral triumph, in which the consciences of sincere Catholics, of the civilised world, and of Italy are interested above all others. The Government has reason to be satisfied with the success it has obtained. The free Church and the free State together will inaugurate a new order of things, of which the Italians may become the originators. In carrying out the pro gramme of effecting a reconciliation between Italy and the Papacy, the Government desires that its labours may not be impeded by inconsiderate acts of enthusiasm and clamorous manifestations. The Prefects should enlighten public opinion, and make use of their authority in order to prevent these popular manifestations taking place." TURIN, FEB. 1 Popular demonstrations have taken place in several other Italian towns, the people everywhere shouting, " Rome the capital of Italy !" In Naples, where a similar demonstration took place, many priests joined the people. The brigands infesting the neighbourhood of Ricigliano have nearly all been made prisoners. VIENNA, FEB In to-day's sitting of the Upper House of the Reichsrath, Count Hartig read a question ad dressed to the Minister of State, and signed by himself and some other members, among whom was the brother of the Prince-Archbishop of Olmutz, inquiring whether the patrons of benefices are, as stipulated by the Concordat, to surrender the administration of ecclesiastical property to the clergy. FRANCE. BOURSE, Feb. 11.—The market has been heavy, but without any material reduction in prices. Threes, for the Account, are now at 74f. 25c. Rail way shares quiet, and some few of the lines rather lower. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 100 25 Credit Fonder 1340 Do. end month.... 100 75 ) Belgian 4f lOl 25 3 per Cents Do. end month 7l 271 Roman Bank Shares 3085 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 763 75 Spanish Threes 49 50 Do. Account.. 765 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1340 .. 1342 50 Northern New ditto 930 .. 931 25 Lyons and Mediterranean 1077 50 .. 1080 Geneva Southern Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Lon , bard 725 - .. 727 50 560 - .. 562 50 596 25 .. 596 25 330 - .. 327 50 511 25 .. 512 50 548 75 .. 550 - WITHDRAWAL OF 2HE FRENCII LOAN. (From the Times.) It was announced yesterday morning that the pro posed loan of £4,000,000 to the French Government or its agen ts has been altogether given up. The causes of this abandonment were not stated, except in an intimation to the subscribers that the securities which were to be hypothecated are not to be ob tained. It is plain that the parties with whom the negotiations originated must have been greatly mis led, but it is needless, especially after the debate on the subject in the French Chambers, to speculate on the considerations which have brought about the present result. Many persons have been put to in convenience, and some have sustained loss, by their preparations for the transaction, but others, and particularly those who were enabled to buy Ex chequer-bills at Bs. premium. which have now again recovered to 1.65., have profited in like proportion. The affair therefore calls for no further public com ment, and M. Fould, for the success of whose plans the best wishes are entertained on this side, may be congratulated on his non-acceptance of a mode of assistance the employment of which would cer tainly not have been favourable to his reputation. It is also satisfactory that we shall escape establish ing a precedent for our leading banks to lend extra ordinary sums on foreign stocks, to be locked up during three or six months, when the politics of the world are as unsettled as at any period of history. (Flom the Daily News.) A good deal of surprise was occasioned yesterday morning by an intimation from Messrs. Barings to the subscribers, to the effect that the proposed loan to France cannot be carried out, in consequence of the inability of the French contractors to supply the requisite securities, It will be very curious to learn exactly how the hitch has occurred. The view taken in London is that the affair, in conse quence of the injudicious magnitude of the sum in volved, had attained a publicity which defeated the peculiar objects aimed at by the Government. It has been made a subject of damaging reproach to the ministry in the Chambers in the course of the debates on the conversion scheme. The Government has winced the more under the criticism inflicted upon its policy, because the loan is avowedly part and parcel of a grand scheme of Bourse legerde main, whereby the public were to be duped, and prices for the time bolstered np. It is said that a feeling of extreme annoyance prevails in official circles in Paris, and that to the strong impression entertained with reference to the matter in a still more exalted quarter the present collapse of the perfected negotiation is mainly due. The original design was, probably, to raise money in England with complete privacy. The inability of the French contractors to supply the Three per Cent. Rentes which formed the stipulated security betrays plainly what was always pretty clear, the origin of the negotiation, and helps to bring out in stronger re lief the unscrupulous mendacity (a milder word does not meet the case) of the government journal. The result shows that, as the Government is pre vented by high intervention from supplying the requisite stock, no one else can do so. But it was always absurd to imagine that the transaction could be for account of the Bank of France, which, on this hypothesis, would be carrying on the very lucrative game of borrowing at 6 per cent, or up wards, and lending at 4. The common sense of the public on both sides of the Channel carries them straight to the only possible conclusion, which is, as before remarked, that the loan was a mere ma noauvre to "rig" the market for an interested ob ject, and has failed, from the inconvenient publicity acquired by it. There is some consolation in find ing that the strictures of the English press have some influence towards helping to straighten the ;ortuous course of French finunce. It is now more than ever a question whether the Government will be able to force the proposed conversion through, and whether, instead of trying for a loan in a hole-and-corner fashion, it will not be ultimately obliged to appeal to the moneyed classes in the ordinary way. To meet the deficit by means of a public loan would be legitimate enough, as such matters are regarded, and it would be at- tended with the important advantage of givi ng French capitalists that influence which they ought to have in the financial affairs of the state. I n a word, a public loan would not go off well withou thel Government consenting to what the country wants more than anything—reduction of expendi ture, particularly in the military and naval depart ments. For these reasons, the failure of the pro posed loan is fairly matter for congratulation, apart from the favourable effect which the event is calcu lated to have upon our mon ey and stock markets. There is a minor matter w hi c h may ho com mended to the consideration o f t h e F rench Govern ment, and that is the compensation due to the per sons in this country who t reated the proposals of its agents as serious, and who have gone to a large ex penditure of time an d trouble, in addition to realising securities and calling in loans, in order to fulfil their part of the bargain. it would appear that Messrs. Barings are absolved from blame, being merely agents in the affair, and of course not responsible for the vagaries of the Paris financiers. 'z::~_~~ THE TREATY WIEB MOROCCO. em. ° Yesterday the papers relating to the loan raised by the Emperor of Morocco in London, and the con vention relating thereto, between her Britannic Majesty and the Emperor, were issued from the parliamentaoy printing -office. The convention, which was signed in the English and Arabic lan guages at Tangier on Oct. 24 last, and the ratifica t ions of which were exchanged in the same city on Dec. 20, is as follows : " His Majesty the Emperor of Morocco being desirous of raising a loan of £426,000 sterling in London, to enable him to meet his engagements with her Catholic Majesty, and having requested the good offices of her Majesty-the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a view to facilitate that object ; and her Bri tannic Majesty having egreed to the request of his imperial Majesty, their Majesties have resolved to conclude a convention on the subject, and have named as their plenipotentiaries, that is to say : Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, John Drummond Hay, Esq., Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, her minister resident at the Court of his Majesty the Sultan of Morocco; and his Majesty the Sultan of Morocco, his officer, the learned Fa kee Seed Hadj Abderrahman el Ajee ; who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles : " Art. 1. His Majesty the Emperor of Morocco engages that from and after the ratification of the present convention there shall be paid over to a commissioner named by her Britannic Majesty, 50 per cent. of the custom duties at all the ports of the empire of Morocco. Her Britannic Majesty, on her part, engages that six weeks before the period at which the half-yearly charges on the loan of £426,000 sterling, which the Emperor of Morocco is about to raise, shall become due, she will transfer to the agent or agents of the contractors for that loan the sums so to be received by the commis sioner of her Majesty,or so much thereof as mey be sufficient to pay the interest and sinking fund on the said loan, the amount of such sums not exceed ing in the aggregate 15 per cent. on the above mentioned sum of £426,000 sterling. But her Bri ' tannic Majesty shall not be liable for the payment of more than she receives. In case the sums received should be more than sufficient for such half - yearly payments, the sur plus shall be repaid by the British com missioner to the officers of the Emperor of Morocco, duly authorised to receive the same. " ' Art. 2. When, by means of the payments pro vided for in the preceding article, the whole of the loan of £426,000 sterling shall have been repaid, together with the interest due thereon, the commis sioner of her Britannic Majesty shall cease to re ceive the 50 per cent. of the custom duties at the ports above-mentioned, and shall repay to the said officers of the Emperor of Morocco any balance that may be remaining in his hands. " Art. 3. The present convention shall be rati fied by her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and by his Majesty the Emperor of Morocco and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Tangier as soon as possible within 40 days of the date hereof. "' In witness whereof the respective plenipoten tiaries have signed the present convention, and have affixed thereto their respective seals. " Done at Tangier, the 24th day of October, in the year 1861, corresponding to the Moorish date of the 18th day of the month of Rabea the Second, in the year 1278 " H. DRUMMOND HAY. (Arabic signature of) " HADJ ABDERRAHMAN EL AJEE." The following is a translation of the document, bearing the royal signet of the Sultan of Morocco, by which the Moorish plenipotentiary received full powers : " In the name of God, the merciful and clement ! There is no strength or power but in God, the most high and mighty ! Be it known by this our letter, elevated and protected by God, and luminous as the sun and moon, that we have, by the help of God, granted to our employed, the Honourable Hadj Ab derrahman-el-Ajee, full power and authority to con clude with the minister, Mr. J. H. Drummond Hay the convention, and to treat with the merchant, Lewis Forde, regarding the arrangements relative to the loan of 2,000,000 dollars, to be advanced by the British capitalists, and that we shall in no way disprove of any one of the arrangements (which he, the said Hadj Abderrhman-el-Ajee, may have come to in the negotiation), for we have ceded to him all the authority (requisite) :to act in the matter, ac cording to his own free judgment, and without having to refer again to us for instructions. He has our full powers, and whatsoever he may do will be well done. Peace. Done on the 14th day of the present month (of Rabea the Second) of this year (1278) October 20, f 1861)." THE NEW EDUCATIONAL MINUTE. A deputation, consisting of the members of com mittees, or office-bearers of the National Society, the Church of England Education Society, the EH ' tish and Foreign School Society, the Home and Colonial School Society, the Wesleyan Education Committee, and the Councils of Training Colleges, waited by appointment upon Lord Palmerston, at Cambridge-house, Piccadilly, to present a memorial on the subject of the recent minutes of the Commit tee of Council of Education. The deputation was introduced by Sir James Kay Shuttleworth, who said those present did not belong to any political party, and were not moved by any political feeling adverse to her Majesty's present Ministry. Nothing was further from their desire than to create even partial or temporary embarrassment to the Go vernment. On the other hand, those among them who were warm supporters of the Ministry were not deterred from acting in concert with all who are agreed in regarding the minute of the 29th July, 1861, as inconsistent, both with the principles and the forms of administration which have guided the committee of council since 1846. He then went on to urge at some length that the minute cannot be reconciled with the previous administra tion of the committee of council, that it is based upon principles inconsistent with the previous minutes, and is subversive of them, that it is incapable of any modification which would not leave within it the elements of the destruction of the existing system. In conclusion, he read a memorial praying that the minute may be entirely withdrawn, and that any modifications, which may be found to be desirable in the existing system, with a view to prevent an undue growth of the public grant, to secure simpli city in its administration, and greater efficiency in its results, may be made in conformity with the principles of the preceding minutes of the Commit tee of Council on Education. The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Mr Rebt. Foster, the Rev. John Scott, principal of the Wesleyan Training College, Mr. Reynolds, of the Home and Colonial School Society, and Mr. Colquhoun, chair man of the Church of England Education Society, also enforced by arguments the prayer of the me- mot ial. Lord PALMERSTON, in reply, said the deputation would not expect him to say on that occasion any thing more than that he was much obliged to them for coming there to explain at large the views which they entertained upon thesubject which had brought them together. He was quite aware that there was nothing of a political character in the feeling which had arisen upon the question. They had good reason to know that that feeling had been wide spread throughout the country, and it was therefore de serving of serious attention. They were aware that Mr. Lowe had given notice in the House of Com mons that on Thursday next he would make a state ment on this subject, and they would not therefore expect him (Lord Palmerston) to anticipate what he (Mr. Lowe) was going to say; but theywere quite sensible of the importance of the matter, and of the feelings of those gentlemen whom he saw there, which had compelled them to come and state their objections to the new code. They knew that it arose entirely from the strong interest which they took in the progress of education, and not from any politi cal motive of any sort or kind. The deputation, having thanked his lordship for his courteous reception, withdrew.