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MATANZAS AND SAI3ANILLA RAILROAD 7 per Cent. BONDS. The Half-yearly Interest on the above Ponds, due on the 15th inst., will he paid at the Counting-house of 3lessrs. J. HENRY SCHRODER and Co. 145, Leadenhall-street, on that day, and every succeeding day, between the hours of 11 and 2. The coupons, with a list in numerical order, must be left two clear days previously for examination. Printed forms may be had on application as above. London, Ist December, 1839. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GA RDEN. Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and INfr.W. ilarrison. THIS EVENING, THE ROSE OF CASTILLE. Messrs. Santley, G. Honey, St. A lbyn, and W. Harrison; wall, and Miss Louisa Tyne. Conductor, Alfred Mellon. Ballet, LA FIANCEE. Messrs. W. H. Payne, H. Payne. F. Payne, Mdlle. Lequine, Pasquale, Pierron, Clara Morgan, and Mons. Vandris. Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. DRURY LANE PROMENADE CONCERTS. —THE RIFLEMAN'S MAUCH —" Come, if you Dare." Encored nightly. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKEX. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Btickstone. THIS EVENING the performances will comment , ' with A BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews. Atter which, THE BACHELOR OF ARTS. Jasper (his original character), Mr. C. Mathews. And 11A LLO WE' EN. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with (4th time) a new drama, entitled HOME T RUTIN. Messrs. G. Melville, .I. G. Shore, F. Matthews, Miss C. Lec'ercq and Mrs. Charles Young. —•- - To be followed - by the new Petite Comedy, entitled GOSSIP. Messrs. Ryder, Meadows, H. Bland, J. G. Shore; Miss C. Leclercq and Mrs. C. Young. After which, Mons, Espanosa. (Premier Danseur Comique), will appear, with Madile. Nariquita, assisted by the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet, in Le Grand Pas du Dervish de Faust, as danced by him 150 consecutive nights at the Theatre de la Porte St. Martin, Paris. • ....Alb To conclude with NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. H. Widdicomb, Meadows, H. Saker ; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs. Weston. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart, Billing - ton, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Woo',gar, and Miss K. Kelly. Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called DINORAH UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box (Mice open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, a new Drama Fantasfique, entitled PARIS AND PLEASURE ; or, Home and Happiness. Principal characters by Messrs. W. Lacy, J. Vining, J. John stone, F. Villiers ; Misses Julia St. George, Hudspeth, Kate Saville, A. Burdett, and Madame Celeste. To conclude with the Farce of rrrE PHENOMENON IN A SMOCK FROCK. John Buttercup, Mr. Rouse, from the Theatre-royal Bath (his second appearance in London). ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING, A DEAD SHOT. -•- After which (the 4th time) the new comedietta, entitled TH s CHATTER-BOX. Messrs. Barret, Brazier ; Mesdames F. Matthews, Murray, and Eliza Arden. After which, TIIE WINTEBBOTTOMS. Jeffrey, Mr. Charles Young. To be followed by the new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE SWAN AND EDGAR. Messrs. Barrett, Francis Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and the Corps de Ballet. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, Is. The Box-ofEce open from 11 to 5 dally. Doors open at half-past six ; perform since commences at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE ; Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season. Seventh Week of the new Drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GAR! BALDI ; illustrating the principal events in the Life of the Great Italian General. Supported by Mr. R. Phillips, Ennis Belmore, Raymond, Miss Kate Carson, &e. Full Stud of Beautiful Horses—Scenes in the Circle by John Henry Cooke, l-ferr Hartz, the Devil Rider e Misses Clarissa, Rosina, Francisco. and La Petite Eleanora—Wonderful Per forming Elephant—Comical and Extraordinary Parisian Dogs and Monkeys, from the Cirgoe Ffinperatrice, Gymnastic Professors —Facetious Clowns. 'Po conclude with a laughable Farce called CLEAN YOUR BOOTS. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con certs). And a Grand Se'ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAH. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. Creorcr,elson (the Irish Come 4lan and Mimic), W. V. Critehfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interestin , ,r Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant eights of the metropolis. Iti)SA. BON ['FUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already maz - niacent Collection of l'aintin„ , zs in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is opeu from 9 am. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six pence. THE WEATHER.—SUN Orrrc . e. DECEMBER 3. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 53—highest since noon yesterday. 3; —lowest this morning and during the night. 33—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.15. WIND, Northerly; fresh, with snow, and cold dull weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Txrs DAY.—Morning, 7h. 31m.—Afternoon, Bh. 3m. To-monnow.-Morning, Sh. 37m.—Afternoon, 9h. 10m. , 4 •11. oft „A •4 1., .** E k r rrytit • 3, THE S UN. LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC 3, 1859. It is a very easy matter indeed to ridicule prac tical economists like the present member for Lam beth or the late member for Montrose. But what is really the complaint uttered nowadays by Mr. WILLIAMS ? Has that hon. gentleman fallen foul of some purely imaginary grievance ? It was only the other evening he explained very clearly the cause of his anxiety as one of the popular represen tatives. As recently as on Monday evening last Mr. WILLIAMS told his constituents what it really is he struggles session after session to accomplish in the Way of salutary retrenchment. The harangue which was delivered upon this occasion by the member for Lambeth at the Horns Tavern, at Ken nington, we had reported at some length in our impression of the Tuesday evening following. And there were compressed within the compass of this frank and outspoken harangue so many plain and wholesome truths that we do very earnestly trust the speech itself may have caught the attention of many others beyond the circle of Mr. W11,1,1.013' own constituency. We are all so perfectly and so painfully awaro by this time of the melancholy fact, that our estimates for the last financial year amounted very nearly in deed to the lamentable aggregate of £7o,ooo,ooo,that we cannot wonder in the least that Mr. WILLIAMS started in his argument from that one frightful calculation. Any more than we can wonder at the dismay excited in his mind by a comparison of the national expenditure of fourteen or 15 years ago, with the national expenditure recklessly adven tured upon during the current twelvemonth. That precise year-1835—Mr. WILLIAMS remarked that he selected, "not on account of any special frugality of expenditure, but because two of our greatest Btatesmen—Sir It. PEEL and the Duke of WEL LINGTON —were in the Government at that time." Having said which, he adds, " Well, they required for the expenditure of 1835 only £48,700,000, being £20,000,000 les s th an was asked fur during the present year." Out of which consideration starts forth upon the instant the very obvious but miserably tantalising deduction that, supposing the Government of the country could be carried on as cheaply now as in 1835, we could, of course, dispense with the whole of the income tax, with the whole of the duties upon tea, upon sugar, and upon malt ! Strike off £20,000,000 from our yearly expend i ture, and we might clearly strike off simultaneously £20,000,000 of our annual taxation. From any such soduction, however, we are effectually debarred nowadays by what may be designated, without xaggeration, our systematic extravagance. Of the delightfully cool and careless manner in which those enormous supplies are voted Mr. WILLIAMS gave his constituents, on Mon day evening, a sufficiently vivid illustration. " One night," quoth he, "the Prime Minister all at once proposed that they should proceed to vote the Civil Service Estimates. There were seven volumes of these estimates, which had only just been delivered. The house had not five minutes given them to look into the books, and he therefore objected most strenuously to pass any of these votes, containing, as they did, some thousands of items, which he always made a point of carefully comparing with the same items in former years. It was no use to point out extravagance in a particu lar instance. This would only be laughed at ; but when he showed that in the old borough-monger ing Parliaments less was required, Ministers some times hummed and hawed, and often tried to make a joke of it. In the case he referred to he chal lenged any member to say that he had had time to look at a single figure of these estimates. No one, however, accepted the challenge, and, upon repeat ing it to Lord PALMERSTON, his lordship very jocu larly admitted that he had never looked at a figure. Yet this happened in the House of Com mons, whose principal function was to protect the pockets of the people. He was so disgusted that he shut up the books and walked out of the house, declaring that he would be no party to such a farce, and that he considered an insult had been offered to the House of Commons by the Premier. No doubt they were very glad to see him go, and the House immediately went to work and passed 57 votes, amounting to between £3,000,000 and £1,000,000 of money, without a word from any body, as fast as the votes could be read over. One might have supposed," he added, " that . the Pre mier would have been anxious to allow the fullest opportunity of examining and discussing the estimates. But in this instance he (Lord PALMER STON) seemed in effect to say, You, the House of Commons, have no business with these votes, ex cept to pass what I think proper, or what the Go vernment order you to: pass !" Showing that ac cording to a popular idiom, things had, in truth, come to a pretty pass indeed when this was not the exceptional, but the ordinary and almost invariable method of getting pro forma through the drudgery of the Estimates. In reference to our war expenditure, in reference to the military and maritime estimates, we rejoice to note that Mr. WILLIAMS distinctly repudiated any desire in regard to the scrutiny and revision of the estimates beyond that of discovering whether the money annually voted for the Army and Navy was, in truth, properly, judiciously, and thriftily applied. No man, he protested, was more anxious to see the country defended by a force which would be irresistible against any attack that could be adventured upon ! But when, for example, he found that no more than £4,000,000 out of the £13,000,000 voted this last year for them were spent in paying and clothing the officers and men, and in finding them necessaries and allowances — his curiosity (Mr. WILLIA.MS seemed to intimate) was naturally piqued to find out what could possi bly have become of the remaining £9,000,000 ! Hence, indeed, his yearly motion for a Committee of Inquiry into the system of our military expen diture. So, again, precisely in regard to our naval estimates. How (he was curious to learn) had the sums of money voted for years and years past for naval purposes beeri actually expend -!(1 ? Remem bering that since the termination of the French war £300,000,000 had been spent upon our navy, and that at the close of the French war we had upwards of 150 sail of the line, while at the begin ning of the'present year;after . this enormous outlay, we had only 29 screw and 12 sailing line.of-battle ships—how, in the name of fortune, or rather we should say of misfortune (others besides Mr. Wu- Lams will be eager to know), have we contrived to get through that awful sum of £300,000,000 ? If Mr. WILLIAMS'S passion for economy be deemed by some to amount to nothing less than a mono mania—it must certainly be admitted by all to be a monomania that (no less than HAMLET'S madness) " hath a method in it !" We wish to have a word with the farmers of England, with tenants-at•will, and with leasehold ing tenants too. A Reform Bill is at hand, unless. indeed, foreign affairs or preparations for defence, are to be the pretexts for evading one once more. Ought not the farmers:of England to speak out ? They have, we presume, their electoral grievances to complain of—why should they leave all the dis cussion and action on the subject of Reform to the towns ? Let farmers awake. There is not a finer class of Englishmefi than English farmers, yet we never hear their wilco on public subjects. They think on them as they walk their fields, and as they sit by their winter firesides, but they do not tell us their thoughts. Is it because they dare not ? Why is there so great a difference, politically, between the ordinary £lO householder and the £5O farmholder ? The former, as the rule, votes as he pleases. Many of his class, no doubt, must vote with some lawyer, creditor, or banker ; some will vote with those who buy them—Gloucester and Wakefield can tell us that. But hardly a man among the £lO-householders must vote with his landlord; while hardly a man of the farmers of England dares vote against his landlord. Why this last great difference ? Why does the average borough voter vote as he pleases, while the farmer everywhere must vote as his landlord pleases ? The reason is, that in the actual state of England every farmer has a political master; the generality of towns people have none. The cause of this every farmer knows. He knows that, firstly, every farmer's farm is his living ; that, secondly, in this little island, farms cannot be multiplied, and, if turned out of the one he holds, twenty other farmers would like to have it, while he cannot easily find another. In the town the tenant, if dismissed from one house, could readily obtain another; the landlord, there fore, if ever so hot a Tory, never thinks of parting with the most Radical tenant who regularly pays his rent, and keeps the house respectable. It is the same, of course, with the Radical landlord and the Tory occupier of his house. The farmers of England are powerless to remove this cause of difference between the tenant of a house and the tenant of a farm. The supply of houses will never long be wanting where there is a demand for them. The supply of farms must be deficient, if every farmer, on the average, brings up more than one of his sons to his own business. Hence the competition for farms. Hence the higher and higher rents given for them since the repeal of the Corn-laws ; and hence, again, the power of the landlord over his tenant. Ile can turn him out without loss. H e can h ave a tenant who will give him his vote as well as his rent ; and his tenant's vote counts for two in every contested election. His landlord is proud of the votes he can command ; and is mortified if he cannot command his tenant's vote. Sometimes his influence with the Government of the day is at stake, and then it is not a ques tion of pride merely ; for it may also be a question whether he shall get an appointment for a relative, perhaps for a son, from the Horse Guards, or from a Secretary of State. Add to all, that landlords THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 18b9. grasp pertinaciously this last relic of feudality—that they like to regard their tenants as political serfs, when they are, socially, serfs no longer—and we shall not wonder that the landlord class avail them selves, ruthlessly, of the dependent position of their farm tenants. Some of these men have large town properties also; but they rarely venture attacks on the liberty of their town tenants. The latter would laugh at a threat, or bid them find another tenant. Now we want that every such landlord should be compelled to respect equally the political rights of his town and his agricultural tenants. Why should the house tenant be free and the farm tenant wear the collar There are no men such perfect political ciphers as the farmers. The miserable wretches who sold their votes at Gloucester and Wakefield are not such nothings. They could sell their vote to which side they liked. Some of them did sell cheaper to one candidate than they would to another. But the farmers of England alone are mere ciphers. They just stand at the right hand of their landlord, and, though nothing themselves, serve to multiply his vote by ten or by a hundred. Some apologists for this glaring fact would have us believe that farmers prefer to vote with their landlords. Do they? For what reason, we should like to know? Is it because they never think about politics ; or, if they do think, because they feel not the slightest interest in voting as they think ? If such political indolence or indifference be a fact, to what in this free coun try is it to be ascribed ? So far as it is the case, it can only be the result of hopeless bondage. Men who cannot break their chains will not gall their limbs by fretting against them; and 'electors, who never can by any possibility vote as they think, will not take the trouble to think. American slave holders point sometimes to the thoughtless merri ment of the slaves as a proof of the excellence of their " domestic institution." But a truthful writer observes that this is its bitterest condemnation. It degrades men into being happy, in their way, under the loss of liberty. Just so must we regard the assertion that farmers prefer to vote with their landlords, and are content to do it. It proves the debasing power of landlordism. It has sunk num bers of farmers below the level of Wakefield bribe takers. It has trained the sturdy sons of the soil to have no political notions at all; or, if they have, to give cheerfully, when required, their vote against them. We are not prepared to deny that our honest JOHN BULLS are to a large extent become content to vote blue or yellow, according to the colour of the last successor to the estate or its last purchaser. But we do call upon such farmers to allow themselves to think how unworthy of them is such a position. We cannot, however, believe that our agricultu ral friends generally wish to be such ciphers. They prefer to be units, and to increase each of them the strength of the side they take. Further, we deny that the landlord's side is, naturally, that of the farmer. On many questions it must be the re verse. The first interest of the farmer and that of the landlord are clearly diametrically opposite. The landlord wants a high rent, and a short strin gent lease, if he grant leaes at all. Tho farmer wants a low rent and a long liberal lease, with full secu rity for improvements. To call these two interests identical is an abuse of words. The game laws are another illustration. The farmer hates game; the landlord is mad upon it. Hence a code of rent-laws and game-limos, both wholly on the side of the land lords, who have forged these fetters for their far mers out of their own votes. In truth, the farmers, in voting for their landlords' nominees, vote that the seller shall legislate for the buyer—the man who lets for the man who hires—the sportsman who shoots and hunts for the man who has to bear the cost of the shooting and hunting !—As well ask the sheep to vote that the wolves shall guard their fold. Farmers, in fact, have no representatives. One tenznt farmer, we believe, there is in the house, but even he, if we mistake not, obtains his livelihood chiefly by his dealings with farmers. Yet it is also a fact that they could, if they were free, have their own representatives in every county. They, and those connected with them, are a majority gene rally of the county electors yet they allow a wretched minority of landlords to return all the members ! It is not that their landlords are men of such intellectual superiority as to deserve the hon ourable trust; with a few splendid exceptions, the county members are but the dummies of the House of Commons ; or, if they stutter out a speech, its laughing stock. Were farmers free electors they might find intelligent men from their own number, who, in a house where real solid knowledge on any subject is always listened to, would command atten tion; and they would find great numbers amongst the landed gentry themselves who would be quite different men if they had to represent constituents who could call their souls their Farmers ought to be represented as well as landlords. Farmers ought not merely to choose representatives for landlords, but for themselves also. If the give-and-take temper of Englishmen, nowhere more conspicuous than amongst farmers, made them willing to give land lords one member for a county, yet surely farmers ought to look to it that the second member for any county, or division of a county, was a farmer's member—and well, too, that he should be also a farmer. We must defer consideration of the means of accomplishing this till Monday. own. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornowall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchquer,. the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Elgin, and the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS FREDERICK WIL LIAM.—Their Royal Highnesses and suite left London this morning on their return to the continent. The illustrious party travelled via the South Western Railway. Their Imperial Highnes7es the Princes Nicolas and Eugene Romanoffsky, accompanied by Col. Rehlimdu, have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Paris. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is expected to leave town early in the ensuing week on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby at Knowsley. His Excellency the Ambassador of France ar rived at Albert-gate House on Thursday evening from visit ing Mr. and Lady Caroline Townley, at Townley, Lanca shire. Tho Countess do Persigny will return to town from the same place on Monday. His Excellency the Austrian Minister and the Countess d'Apponyi have returned to Chandos House, from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland ar rived at Northumberland Ilouso last evening, from Alnwiek Castle. Their Graces leave to-day for Sion House, Isle worth. The Earl and Countess Delawarr and Lady Arabelia Sackville West leave Wimpole Hall, where they have been visiting the Earl and Countess of Hardwick°, to-day for Hatfield, to stay until Monday, when the noble earl and countess go to Buckhurst Park, Sussex. The Earl and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope arrived at the. Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, on Thursday, from the Continent. DEATH OF THE MARQUIS DE LAJATICO.—We re gret to learn that the Marquis de Lajatico, tho distinguished Sardinian statesman and diplomatist, died on Thursday evening at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, after a short illness. It is stated that he died from an attack of small pox.. - APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following are the names of the gentlemen who passed their first examination on Thursday, Dec. 1: —Theodore Orton, Littleburn, Kent ; Rowland Mounsey I3owslead, Caistor, Lincolnshire. LATEST NE WB. The following telegrams have been received al Mr. Reuter's office : COPENHAGEN, DEC. 2. The Daub Wet announces that the new Ministry has been provisionally formed as follows : Councillor Rollwitt, President of the Council and Minister of Justice, and also ad interim for Holstein and Lauenburg. Baron Blixen Fineck, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and also ad interim for Schleswig. Major-General Thestrup, Minister for War and Marine. The Councillor of State M. Westenholz, Minister of Finance. The Chamberlain M. Gessen, Minister of the Interior. TURIN, DEC. 2. The separate governments of the Provinces of Parma, Modena, and the Romagna aro suppressed from the Bth of December. These provinces will have one sole government with a ministry sitting at Modena, and a legisla tive commission and commander of the military forces of the line sitting at Bologna. Baron Ricasoli has arrived at Turin, and has had a long conference with the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Austrians evacuated Rocca d'Anfo on the 29th ult. MADRID, DEC. 1 On the 30th November a considerable Moorish force attacked the redoubt to the right of the Span ish encampment before Ceuta, but were repulsed by the division Grasse, directed by Marshal O'Donnell, the Commander-in-Chief. 120 men of the Spanish army were put hors de combat. The losses of the enemy were far more numerous. The embarkation of troops continues incessau at Malaga, Algesiras, and Cadiz. LISBON, DEC. 2. The Royal mail steam packet Oneida with the Brazil mails has arrived here, and was to leave this morning for Southampton. She brings £9,853 in specie, and 73 passengers. ItOME, DEC. 2 The report that the Pope had already consented to be represented at the approaching Congress, and that his Holiness had appointed Cardinal Antonelli, first Plenipotentiary, is without foundation. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 3, The Liverpool Mercury says : "We are informed that the Imperial Secretary, in reply to the letter addressed by four merchants of this city to Napoleon 111., writes that peace with England is the earnest wish and fixed policy of the Emperor, and so far as it depends upon his Ma jesty it is a policy which shall never be abandoned." FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY, Accounts from Toulon, of the 29th ult , state that a company of pontonniers, intended for the expedi tion to China, had arrived there, and were en camped while waiting for embarkation. It is added that the cannon embarked there for China are rifled, and were tried before their departure, and gave complete satisfaction, both with respect to the accuracy of their aim and the great dis tance at which they take effect. The Toulon roads present an animated appearance, and the troops to be embarked show the greatest enthusiasm. The frigate Imperatrice Eugenie, the steam corvette Canton, the steam cutter Croiseur, and the trans ports Ariege and Bucephale, had arrived at Toulon. THE BOURSE.—Tho market has been very buoyant, and large purchases of Rentes have been effected. Threes, after having been done at 70f. 55c., improved to 70f. 90c. ; Mobilier varied from 785 f. to 795 f.; Lyons, 890 f. to 895 f.; Orleans, 1,370 f. to 1,3761. 25c. ; Northern, 957 f. 50c. to 9621. 50c. ; Southern, 515 f. to 5171. 50c. The following were the last quotations:- 41 per Cents. .... 96 —; Credit Fonder Do. end month .. I Belgian 4} — 3 per Cents 7O 80 Piedmontose (5) .. 84 Do. end month 7O 90 Roman B6 50 Bank Shares Credit Mobilier .. 791 35 Spanish Threes Do. Account RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 961 25 .. 963 75 New ditto — .. 851 25 Lyons and Mediterranean B9l 25 .. 892 50 Geneva 527 50 .. Southern Western 570 .. 571 25 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard - .. Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 25f, 9c.; three months, paper, 24f. 95c.; money, 24f. 931 e. PORTUGAL. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. The Euxine steamer, Captain IVoodgates, has arrived with Lisbon mails of the 27th ult. ; Oporto, 28th ; and Vigo, 29th. She brings £4,505 in specie, precious stones value £5O, 2,289 chests and 28 boxes oranges, and general cargo. Her Majesty's despatch boat Beagle left Lisbon for China November 26. Lisbon exchanges on London, 532-; Paris, 53; ; Amsterdam, 42 ; hamburg, 471; Genoa, 530. The Euxine was put in quarantine at Vigo both outward and homeward, in consequence of the Plata steamer, arrived at this port, having had yellow fever on board. In the last sitting of the Second Chamber of Baden, M. Junghanns, who has been appointed President, took possession of the chair, and in a brief address said that the demonstrations which which were made in Baden in the course of the Italian war were not caused by exaggerated sym pathy for Austria, but to show that the honour and security of Germany would be defended. The budget of 1860 was presented ; it estimates the expenses at 10,799,70.511., and the receipts at 11,203,797f1. The First Chamber of Holland has been con 'coked for the 9th. The second, which is now sit. ting, is engaged in discussing the budget. STATE OF TRADE.—MANCHESTER, Dec. 2. Business is only limit e d by th e goo d s t o b e purc h ase d. Th e demand is steady and general for all markets, but the en gagements of spinners and manufacturers in the majority of cases preclude their entering now orders on their books for delivery within a reasonable period. An agent engaged in travelling from town to town for three days to place an order for grey goods could not find a single manufacturer of them who was not fully engaged to the end of January. Under these circumstances we nave again to report yams as scarcer and dearer, while cloths are stronger, and the ten dency to an advance in these goods is greater. DESTRUCTIVE FlRES.—Yesterday morning at an early hour a fire occurred in the premises belonging to Mr. Budcock, a rag and toy merchant, situated at No. 22, Rich mond- terrace, East-lane, Walworth-road. The policeman on the beat, after considerable trouble, succeeded in arous ing the residents, who were obliged to get on to the roof, ' and pass over two of the adjoining houses. The premises wei e burnt out ; the sufferer was partially insured. Another fire happened in the premises of Mr. G. Pargito, timber merchant and veneer dealer, carrying on business in Res:- street, Church -street, Bethnal-green. The flames were not extinguished until property of great value was reduced to ashes. Tho owner of the premises was insured. LIFEBOATS AND SALVAG E.—A circumstance of some iuterest has transpired at Lowestoft. The screw steamer Enchantress, of llull, was brought into the port on the 6th inst., with loss of rudder, &c., by the Pakefield lifeboat and a steanitug. The claim for salvage was settled by a private arrangement for £750, the lifeboat crew and the company of beachinen being awarded half this amount, or £375. Salvage is never considered legitimate work for a lifeboat, as otherwise undue repairs would be rendered necessary ; and one of the rules of the Royal National Life • boat Institution is th a t in cas e th e i r boats render salvage services two shares of the amount received aro to be paid for the boat. The local committee at Lowestoft have deter mined—although the lifeboat crew have grumbled a great deal at their decision—to adhere to the society's rule, which seems only reasonable and just; and, as the allotted crew of the lifeboat consists of 19 hands, tho £375 is to be divided into 21 parts, and each man will be paid about £l7 17s. THE P.RINCE DE ,TOINVILLE AND R. ROEBUCK. We have received from the Prince de Joinville the following note, which wo have much pleasure in publishing at his request : Claremont, 2 Decembre, 1859. MON SIB UR,—Votre numero d'aujourd'hui con tient un cxtrait d'un discours prononce, it y a quel ques jours, par M. Roebuck, oil je suis designe d'une maniere trop claire pour que je ne sois pas oblige d'y repondre: L'assertion de M. Roebuck est completement denuee de fondement, Je n'ai leve acun plan des COtes de l'Angleterre ; je n'ai redige aucun projet d'attaque contre ce pays ; enfin, ai-je besoin de le dire, je n'ai rien envoye au rainistere Francais. Pujoute que, bien que je me considere toujouts comme un "enfant de la France," je serais le dernier a souhaiter que les " principes " qui la regissent au jourd'hui " passassent le detroit." Je reclame, Monsieur, de votre equite l'insertion de cette lettre dans votre prochain numero, et je vous prie de recovoir mes salutations. Fii.. D'ORLEANS, Prince de Joinville. (TRANSLATION.) Claremont, December 2, 1859. Sir,—Your number of to-day contains an extract from a speech delivered a few days since by Mr. Roebuck, in which I am so clearly alluded . to that I feel obliged to reply to it. Mr. Roebuck's assertion is entirely devoid of foundation. I have not made any plan of the coasts of England ; I have not drawn up any scheme of attack against this country; and lastly, need I say that I have not sent anything to the French mini stry? I may add that, although I still consider myself a " child of France," I should be the last to wish that " the principles" which now rule her should " pass across the Channel." I appeal, Sir, to your sense of justice for the inser• tion of this letter in your next number, and I beg you to accept my compliments. FR. D'ORLEA NS, Prince de Joinville. GOLD DISCOVERY. A telegram from St. Louis, dated November 18, received per Vanderbilt, says : The accounts from the Carson Valley (Walker River) Mines continue to excite great attention. The mines promise to be equal to those on the Fraser River. These mines are on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, and are supposed to extend from Honey Lake, north, to Walker's River, south. The distance is 200 miles. The principal discovery announced is called the Gold Hill, a mound 60 feet high, 5,000 feet long, and 2,000 wide, 20 miles north of the Carson Val ley, with veins of auriferous quartz. Large quantities of silver ore continue to arrive from Carson Valley. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. LEWES, THURSDAY NIGHT. The inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate men, Charles Moore and Samuel Paine, who were killed by the London express running into their van, at the Beddingham Crossing, about two miles from Lewes, was held this afternoon, at the Trevor Arms Inn, Glyside, before Mr. Gill, the county coroner. The case excited great interest in the neighbcur hood. Mr. Faithfull, of Brighton, appeared on behalf of the railway company, and Mr. Hillman, of Lewes, represented the friends of the deceased. An influential jury, composed of the chief farmers of the neighbourhood, and other gentlemen, with the Rev. W. do St. Croix as foreman, having been sworn, then proceeded to view the bodies, which presented a dreadful spectacle, especially that of Moore. George Moore, a cousin of one of the deceased, identified the bodies, and stated that he saw both men before they started with Mr. Ellman's van from Beddingham, on Tuesday evening. Both were sober, and the horse quiet. He knew the animal to be a quiet one, having driven it himself. Dr. Smythe, of Lewes, then described the state in which he found the bodies, having been brought to the scene of disaster in a special train by Mr. Brook, the Lewes station-master. Moore's death was caused by the injuries which he had sustained about the head. His body was also frightfully mangled. Paine's death was caused by the injuries about his chest ; the other wounds were not of a serious nature. John Norman, the gatekeeper at the crossing, was next examined. ' He is an aged person, and gave his evidence with a tremulous voice. He said that on the above evening while he was in his sentry-box a van came to the Bedding ham side of the gate ; it was dark at the time, and the express was due. Some man in the van called out " Gate." He came out, walked up to the side at which they were, and told them the express was due. he horse plunged against the gate, and it came open. It then got on the line and went down the side on which the express was coming —the oppo site gates being close against the road. The express immediately came up, and swept horse and van all before it. The horse and van had then got some distance down the line. He seized the animal before it got on the line, but it plunged and got out of his hand. He did not know how the gate had got open, as the hasp was not injured, and he did not open it. There was a rule of the company that he should not open the gates to anybody when a train was due. If he did so, in order not to keep the public waiting after a train was due, he put up a signal to stop it. The witness was cross-examined at great length by the coroner and jury, and admitted that he could not be positive in what he had stated, as he was in such a state of excitement at the time. Edmund Blabes, a labourer, gave the jury the distances at which the horse, van, and bodies were found from the crossing—that of Moore being as much as 130 yards. The engine -driver and guard having been exa mined as to what they saw, the substance of which has been already stated, a witness who had passed the gate a few minutes before the deceased came up to it was called, and he stated positively that one half of the Beddingham side was open. The Coroner then summed up, and the jury, after consulting for an hour and a-half, returned a ver dict of accidental death, with this addendum : "The jurors state that, in their opinion, if sufficient care had been exercised in the management of the gates at Beddingham crossing, the unfortunate oc currence would not have taken place." The inquiry lasted seven hours. MINES.—The settlement of the fortnightly ac count in the Mining Share Market took place on Wednes day, and was particularly heavy in some stocks, such as Ca!stock Consols, East Russell, East Caradon, &0., but we understand it passed off pretty well. For;two days general bakinesg was again interfered with through the settlenient; but, on the whole, a large business has been done during the week, and a few mines have advanced considerably in price. Among them, South Frances, Stray Park, North Roskear, Herodsfoot, and Mark Valley. A good dema n d h as also existed for Treloweth, Wheal Grenville, East Gren ville, Kelly Bray, North Downs, East Caradon, Wheal Arthur, Drake Walls, East Trefusis, Par Consols, Redmoor, Gt. Retallack, Wheal Edward, Tamar Consols, Tincroft, Tre lawny, South Caradon, and West Frances. Coppear has advanced since our last, and the standard for copper ore has again risen, and is now at a very satisfactory price for the miner. North Roskear advanced on Monday from 23 to 30, 31 ; a circular was received by the London share holders on Monday morning, to the effect that, in si n ki ng at Pearce's shaft, a fine course of ore had been met with in tho 170, worth at least £BO per fm. ; the shares leave off, after a large business, at 28 to 30. Kelly Bray, 34 to 31; the 45 cast is reported worth from 3 to 4 tons per fathom. Alfred Consols, 54 to 5t ; Calstosk Consols, 3,1 to 4. South Frances have been greatly in demand, owing to an improvement, and the price has advanced from 140 to 155,:165, with shares very difficult to get. East Pool have been enquired for at £2OO ; the mine is understood to be looking better in the bottom of the shaft. Grumbler and St. Aubyn, 60 to 621 i the now lode has been cut, we learn, in the 36, and poor; other parts of the mine poor. North Downs have fluctuated from 51 to 51 and leave off 51 to 6. West Caradon, 721 to 75 ; at the meeting, on T nee d e y, a dividend of £4 per share, and a bonus of £l, was declared, leaving a large balance in hand ; th e shares were subdivided into 1024th. Ilerodsfoot have advanced t o 22, 23, and a good business done ; the 80 tons of lead ore sold this week realised £2.5 Os. 6d. per ton, the highest price yet realised. Wheal Edward became in demand on Thursday, in consequence of an im provement in the winze sinking behind the 55 end, worth £3O per fin., and advanced to 33s to 365. South Caradon, 255 to 265 ; the counter lode has recently been cut in the 100, in the south part of the sett, and which seems to have given rise to the Into reports referred to. South Camden Wheal Hooper, 9: to lie., and no t so much doing. Gona mena, 3 to 3.1, and also more qu i e t . East Russell have been fluctuating again, but not so much as fernierly, and less business doing in them. On Wednesday (the settling day), they declined from 11 to 10, and leave off 10 to 101' ' the lode in the 88 is reported wor th £ 6O per fathom.— Xining Journal this clay. COAST DEFENCES.—On Wednesday a special ma ting of the Harwich Town Council was held to take into consideration the p resen t d efenceless state of Harwich harbour, when it was agreed that a memorial should be for warded to the Government 04 the subject, showing the necessity for further fortifications, to insure the duo pro tection of the coast at that point, THE OPIUM TRADE WITH CHINA. Last night a public meeting was held at the Literary Institution,Aldersgate-street, on the subject of the opium trade with China, and more especially with respect to the statements of Sir J. Bowring— Mr. R. N. Fowler in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the question, expressed his regret at the absence of Mr. S. Gurney, M.P., who was to have presided at the meeting, but who was unavoidably absent in consequence of another engagement. Mr. Gurney, both on public grounds, as a member of Parliament, and easia member of a family who were known to the British public for their philanthropy, would have added that import ance to the subject which he could not hope to impart to it. The opium trade commenced in the time of Warren Hastings, and had been promoted by the East India Company as a financial arrangement which was beneficial to them. Now, however, that the government of India was transferred to the Parliament of England, this country was responsible for the evils of the o pi um t ra d e. (Hear.) They must have seen it stated recently by Sir J. Bowring that the evils of the opium trade had been greatly exaggerated, and that it was in fact rather a benefit than otherwise. They were met on that occasion to controvert the statements of Sir J. Bowring, and to show that the fearful evils of the opium trade had in no respect been exaggerated, and that its con tinuance was a disgrace to the country that sanc tioned it. (Hear, hear.) He had seen it stated in the papers that the son of Sir John Bowring was a partner in one of the largest opium firms in China. (Hear, hear.) He had not seen that state ment denied. The only argument of any weight in favour of the opium trade was that it pro duced a revenue of over £5,000,000, without which it would be difficult to carry on the govern ment of India. But he would appeal to them whether a consideration of that kind ought to weigh with them, who paid £20,000,000 to liberate the slaves of the West Indies. (Hear, hear.) He would not further trespass on their time, or i anticipate the facts which would show the pernicious effects of the opium poison. (Hear.) The Rev. H. RICHARDS moved the first resolu tion, as follows :—" That this meeting, considering the mass of evidence, from numerous quarters, of the evil effects of opium -smoking on the Chinese, and considering that the English are the chief im porters of this pernicious drug into China, deeply regret the misery and vice which they are obliged to believe are the results of its consumption. They cannot but regard it as a deep stain upon the British name, that a nation which ought to be the pioneer of Christianity in the East should have forced upon a heathen people an article of consump tion which is alike ruinous to body and soul." He ought to tell them that there was an anti-opium association in existence, whose ditty it was to in vestigate the facts connected with the use of opium. Now, they believed that the opium drug was most pernicious,'morally and physically, to the people of China—that it fettered trade and opposed a bar rier to the spread of the gospel. To prove these facts they adduced the evidence of Sir Stam ford Raffles, Sir G. Staunton, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Davis, Major Elliot, Colonel Todd, Capt. Shepherd, Mr. Martin, Colonel Edwardes, Sir J. Lawrence, and others. They had besides the medical testi mony of Sir B. Brodie, Dr. Bright, Dr. Chambers, Dr. Fergusson, Sir H. Halford, and Mr. Hawkins, as to the injurious effects of opium on health. He had also the testimony of the missionaries to Cnina of all denominations. All these testimonies con curred as to the dreadful effects of opium on the health, the morals, and the character of the Chinese. He regretted that Sir John Bowring's name had been connected with the statements which had recently been made in regard to the use of opium. They had no personal feeling towards Sir J. Bow ring, but as these statements were made by a person of his authority, they were bound to refute them. Mr. Richards then referred to the paper recently read by Sir J. Bowrieg at the Society of Arts, and proceeded to controvert the allegations made by him. The first statement made was that the opium trade was not prohibited by treaty between the Governments of Great Britain and China. Now, it was quite true that the word " opium" was not to be found in the treaty of the Bth of October, 1842, but both Governments promised to use their utmost endeavours to put an end to smuggling. Now, it was very well known to every one that the smug gling alluded to had reference to opium, and they were not left to conjecture on that point, for Sir H. Pottinger, Sir John Bowring's predecessor in China, and the person who drew the article, expressly de clared that it related to the article of opium. (Hear, hear.) Then Sir J. Bowring stated that he did not find the trade was objected to by the governors and mandarins of China. Why, seeing how many lives and how much property they had lost in the first war for resisting the introduction of opium, it was no wonder the Chinese should be chary of expressing their dissatisfaction to Sir J. Bowring. But, although they might not have expressed their dissatisfaction to a British governor, there were ample official documents at hand to show that the Chinese authorities were most hostile to the use of opium in their country. The next statement of Sir J. Bowring was, that amongst the 600 British resident at Hong kong, more died of delirium treniens than amongst the 90,000 Chinese, from the use of opium. But they had the authority of Dr. Dempster, his own medical man, who was ordered to report on the effects of opium smoking, and his reply was that he regretted he could give no satisfactory information. Sir J. Bowring next stated that formerly drunken ness was almost universal, but that drunkenness disappeared since the use of opium. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. Bowring further stated that the use of opium did not extend to more than two millions. Now he stated that the population of China was 412,000,000, so that it appeared the use of opium amongst 2,000,000 eradicated the vice of drunkenness from 412,000,000. (Laughter.) But it appeared that opium not only eradicated drunkenness, but was a great help in the spread of the gospel—(laughter) —for he stated that no converts had been made in Siam, where opium was not used, whereas several had been made in China where it was used. (Laughter.) The first thing then which the missionary societies ought to do was to lay up a stock of opium. (Laughter.) Mr. Richards then read extracts from the reports of missionaries to the effect that the opium. trade constituted the greatest barrier to the spread of the gospel in China; He thought they were entitled to give precedence to the testimony of the men who were engaged in the work of evangelisation in China over the statement of any governor or official. The recent statement was that the opium trade did not restrict the trade of this country with China. Now, what was the fact ? At the end of ten years from the date of the treaty of 1842, the import of the manufactures of this country had actually declined. In 1843 the imports amounted to £1,760,000; in 1854 they fell off to £1,000,000., and in 1885 they amounted to only £1,277,000. To what was that falling-off to be attributed? To the use of opium in China. And Mr. Consul Mitchell attributed the falling off to the same circumstance. He had now gone through Sir J. Bowring's statements, and he appealed to them if he had not met them one by one. (Cheers.) But then it was said that the trade was regulated by the principles of politi- cal economy. He was a freetrader, but he was not a freetrader in vice and in iniquity, and it was no thing less than a prostitution of the principles of political economy to make it responsible for crime, degradation, and sin. (Hear, hear.) Then it was said that if they did not • carry opium to China others would. That was the argument used against the abolition of the slave trade, and it was the argu ment always put forward by selfishness to cover and cloak its own iniquity. He was not insensible to the financial considerations involved in the ques tion, but no argument of that nature should weigh with them as a Christian nation. (Hear, hear.) They should not sanction the raising of colossal fortunes by a few merchants out of the disease, de bauchery, and death of a whole people. Let them rather keep their conscience free from the whole abominable thing. Dr. CROFT, who had lived some time in China, stated that no one who had known the Chinese as he had could doubt the evil effects of the use of opium. As a medical man, it was his duty to ob serve the pernicious effects of the drug on the health and morals of the people. He had merely seen the advertisement calling the meeting in the papers, and he felt bound in conscience to come forward and state what he knew. He had met Sir J. 13owring in China when consul, and he had no feeling of hostility t o th a t gent l eman, but he be lieved that Sir J. Bo wring had some crotchets, and lie supposed they must put down his opinion as to the harmlessness of opium as one of those crotchets. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) The resolution was then put and carried unani mously. Dr. HODGKIN moved the following resolution : " That this meeting cannot but express its deep re gret at the various attempts made, since his return to this country, by Sir John Bowring—a gentle man whose name was formerly so intimately associated with objects of philanthropy --to de fend the opium trade with China, by statements as to its e ff ec t s on th e heal h and morals of the Chinese, as well as on the prosp.xts of civilisation and Christianity in China, that seem to be utterly at variance with the testimony of a large number of disinterested witnesses, who, in many respects, have had better opp or t un i t i es than he has en j o y e d for observing its influence upon both." He was a friend of Sir J. Bowring, and had known him for many years. It was not, therefore, from any hostility to Sir J. Bowring that he ap peared tnere, or that the resolution was proposed - ----- . r s But he believed Sir J. Bowring laboured un d : ti . t d o el s u e s e io t n ha o t n s t ta h t e em su e b n j tesctw; which h d t d h e a e t r i l t y w co a n s c t e li v e n i e r i d ti th v e I not health and happiness of a whole nation shuu` tho . make their way into the public mind on the au ible thattahenmatoisotnsceoruiolduscocnosausmegeueolpiciuesm..without Po ~.. of all evidence he must consider it a c r i ini nd e e t r o e P nitellln t °l ;: tie o the introduction of so pernicious a drug for general consumption of any nation. w hich Mr. P. EDWARDS sec o nded the resolution, -- was supported by Mr. PRINGLE, and c arried fiefs' con. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated tho proceedings. 2(B. TV. C. MA :MEAD Y A 2' IP ESTO 3r. SUPEI?-ff.d.RE. ding s Mr. Macready gave one of his inimitable rea wee ga from the Engli s h P oe t s , at the Town bene fit De ton-super-Mare, on Thursday last, for the foe. of the Workin g M en ' s Institute and ot her t h e vi sit tional societi es . A s was to be expected, Orilla,' of this veteran exponent of Shakspere's )0'1°,44 muse was the signal for one of the most cro boo gatherings ever held in Weston, includ in g re° d of almost every leading family in th e torn au neighbourhood. It.teA,.thKrloNuGgLhAKwEh,oEsesqzltiheietaptrieosnidemnrt.o4:ste idolli stitn was prevailed upon to appear before a seed the audience, occupied th e chair, and intr oduc i ng distinguished visito r to the audience, obs.csrYiri; that one of the proudest moments i n I 1 1„ hio was in introducing to them this evenlet ee t of distinguished friend b Mr. Macready , th e g r L a living tragedians, and one of the ablest Sha o P f critics. If he were g ifted with the pow er s thea to quence he would not desire a nobler theln,,„ re adf trace the magnificent career of Mr. N"''' e d of through all the stages of his honoure d life, anatiou the services which he has rendered t o the e coy by inducing thousands of persons to becoro versant with the writings of those nionalorieus literature, the immortal Shakspere and the g 141 x • Milton ; but he would now only beg to thanl erre a Macready for the honour which he had c°71 :00 on them by a visit t o thi s t o wn, and for the ;idea lectual treat which h e h a d so generously P ° for them. Mr. MAcREADY, who on coming forward O; ceived with great applause, looked remarkal the —age sits lightly upon him ; and thong_ er to e youthful vigour w hi c h gave unrivalled Pe"d his enunciation thi r ty years ago has dePa i rt u i s iione voice was still heard i n a ll its various inou, i n tro' throughout the entire assembly. In hle r oot) ductory renarks he adverted to the' imP%cluce. of education. It was notorious that in theiraitea t s i t o a n te o s f , thaendpeoepvleenthethyeweeraenfaadrabse;hind the same a t the t he time, they might congratulate themselve k s e p. to b fact that thei r un i vers i t i es h a d; been 0/ 5 ht , bf the importance of the matter, and now se e g those means of prizes, to s ti mu l a te to proficieneY, t heir who were anxious to repair the deficiencies OI attar earl educaon. This, he continued was a in •ted , vta i demanding ti general co-oeration; for, if they able to as some sug g ested, unti l Government wa s . he ray dispose of the impedi men t s w hich stood in hire the h of a national scheme, they might stand' rustic at the river's side, waiting for that _ tea the course would never come to pass. If, even in -, to on of a few sessions they might look forwara,,p rynt a thing, how many would have to deplore 'l 3e fore of opportunity to cultivate their power s ;,ted t s entering on th e subjects which he had se'—ed , read that evening, it would not be COnSide r uce t o of place if h e ma d e some slight re fere o oncei mit t no h an a te t etrh a ief r nie t re dl b hiin y ge gansriwefyrhosifinc not the e h o y ena lry e t n . d t e h ai t oNivir(; words' ° rt o t e h m i g ht, o te o a h p e pe c a o r n t fe o sse s d om t e o t a ha d t he set too high uhicli an Earyteryill t e h fi a o t ion a o s yr read, but, he asked, could every one iota st ool reading? For his own part, one of th e . g t.s weds intellectual luxuries was to listen to the grea t reading of the eloquent utterance of h„ e , hea r writers. It might be asked, where din t rs ' e a the this? and too often it was the echo that re n ffeud, sll , 4l l o a f n that s t w h e e t r f h . a e i r r e l p t genuine mus in ie i o w rt o i u o l n d oifndheiesdagudriieevneeeh,ibmyti9eill ttioio.r.-- hh an from their gfrh s o i t mn Ingbt be more getheir nsweeta r o charming of voices, verd oin a li rfreo 0 d i t 0 01 . : Every one could lend his ears to strains but it was not every one who could aPP";let l. noble passage of poetry. ff Nevert heleso, lll 4o 0 1 c w o a n s sid m e a r d ed e tshnheofradsihniaotneatbo the lewosraldp,ertghecialri 4 cl oo r essential. Let him put in a word for rea a w ar accomplishment. He believed it wa s $ P r ' sc i plishment which req uired as much time a tice for its acquire ment as the music of a th wi e labour. It w E ar o l n ie i n y ee co w n a ce s i n t ev a e n r d at: te ai t n e e it i n o t il ion t h . ‘ o f would presume to claim the time end et' o f those who know time's worth. In the ease .,ho e° 13. 4 little distinction was made between those ",, t he ears play and dd those ee who 0 0 c h o a u d l d none.not play; th °3s hroanz All wer w e ho stoe" up to the sacrificial altar, while thos i e vh iist 4/ , 1 /1. 0 round were unable to remonstrate. his l e a d tending for reading, lie yielded to none % h e n r ol for music—good music. Mr. MacreoslY::fristrare the story of Le Fevre, from Sterne 's I.oo o _l Shandy. The vitality thrown into the ._ cu corp ol of the old captain and his faithful servorttsurroust, Trim, made the listener well nigh for oh e e co y ptl ro ing circumstances, and placed him in t comP be o h lour, in company with the veterans. . Exile of Erin " followed, with rea dama z t in alZ e eliciting unbounded applause. He 1101 ' llPa li/I. of sage from the Fifth Book of Milton's , 8 3 1- o, fel a Lost," including Eve's Dream and Adat h ter Hymn. Campbell's " Lord Ullin's Dane 1 ,, gil l t o the next selection, which was strikiestiiksperiebe The reading concluded with an act free' eivo yee " Henry 1V.," where Prince Henri r 54 $ crown from his father's pillow. „ n o_ „ The CHAIRMAN then, in a few words, Pies ca vote of thanks to M r . Macready, Iv hic ried by acclamation. sa id it . sgr o Mr. MACREADY, in returning thanks , t visit with very great pleasure he had mad e T o colig k r e s ;( them on behalf or such an object. lie % ra pt o _4 tulated them on the very laudable af t ride cow l , were making in the establishznent of t ha t 010 13 , for Weston-super-Mare. He though t lt o f 11 :1 1 c 1 measure should not be adopted as the t it 011°;1 20 panic in reference to an invasion, butt a e 'i nt. 10 . a , be a constitutional and national inove, ll2 h a lf o _ l ° o States of America, in 24 hours, nearli t ote" lion of men, under arms, might be ee nc i fi r li o to i t. ° A l one spot ; and though they might net4o-tightti;i, tate America in all her movements, he 'et With ere might copy her example in this ,re, s ,P e t hey :/:( ter vantage. At the same time, wn" st h o f 0 0 . T., arming against the probable apPr eac t here W fall reign enemy, let them not forget that woul‘. domestic enemy, whom he Wished thef t Was P . become anxious to exterminat e enemy Ignore.—S herbur ne lierboi na THIS DAY'S -- North; n oon, LONDON, Dec. 3.—Wind this (10 a' g le ELI strong breeze, with snow. Gold° o icoi NEWPORT, Dec. 2.—Wind, for° from Cork, for Ascensbn. Sailed —M Maria Leocadie, for Cape de Verds. „Wool° tot DOVER, Dec. 2.—Sailed—H.M.S. Vivid, 03 ' k w* sailed COWES, Dec. 2.—Wind, N N.E ysterY, ' me for Providence. SWANSEA, Dec. 2. —Wind, E.—Sailed"-CaThe Gibraltar. E ' Aii • eca' . TEIGNMOUTH Dec. 2.—Wind, coos' Maria, fro m St. J ohn's, Newfoundland. t bac j co oo DARTMOUTH, Dec. 2 —Wind, N•E• — * Pu o ler Ol d Vittery, for St. Mi c ha e l's, with loss of cutw 0 01 0 stoe, having been in collision. LisnoN.—Arrived—Oneida to leave for Southampton Dec. 2; bring's iVe— of £9,853. aitta . " for Gi br rise E.BELI'AST, Dec. I.—Sailed—Johan nes, et HULL, Dec. 2.—Wind, N N.E. — A rrived Aeci e from St. John's, Newfoundland. CARDIFF, Dec. 2.—Wind, E.NX• Mariner, for Callao; Flying Foam, for 'long for Valparaiso; Pallus, for Rio Janeiro. (ss.), from .razils,ho vole (BY Ar 0.) aisg• ZLECTRIC TELEGI L go SaturdayfromSOUTHAMPTON', (loo p., ni p, Wind E. ue bec ste s- 0 1; Arrived—North Briton, from Q E t ivilet gefo Riga ; Borussia, steamer from Hamburg; na fro m fro„ 'sato" sto w° , We' from Lisbon ; Comet from Neath ; Courier, steamer, frOm Jersey ; .10 1 1,;` sea' Havre; West Lothian, Spring, ectis,. l ‘ l o , fro" - , son, Nancy, Robert, Mary, and Navarro 0 119 ' derland. for L.,, jfi e tt r, Sailed—Gauntlet, for Poole ; yr ' Atrato, steamer, for St. Thomas' Havre; Despatch, steamer, for Jersey. a , __ day 310I w LIVERPOOL, _ Wind E.N.E. No arrivals or sailing. AALriN(:e(l Sailed—E -------..... _ ,ro,) ~, Wind SUBMARINE AND EILITISII TELlCOM.,;aorriong,i, GRA.VESEND S3tardal liick,:ora snow. N.E.N; tide three hours' eb1); woaller ' ow. . Aorg' Dee. 2.--Lady of the ake, from liel6al° .E s - 'l . l E enb f o Tr eosu:h, for Calcutta. moro ja. Arrived—Sir"George. Grey,l)frlleAtUL' 'rived' Dec. 3 Iver from Marseille: . r j of for C 4° Good Ifo for Sailed, V). in tow—lmperial , ti g to ll aer. ~ TUE w e ull , ilove that CIVIL SERVICE IN CIIINA.-- r y 0 , Sr. the Hon Mr. Mercer, th C lonia] SecroM ,a L S on i do: r. ercer, e 0 ItKoang, Mr. Mitchell the acting chief ru i,cots fol ~..., y, the superintendent of police, aro elltip;istri'le' -ret'r‘ od cl3lP mont on on ' go Cu'a 8 P mons, to which they all ho ervicC Gazette. 0 OJ ti at t 1., A' i, ti l