The Sun. — London, England, 1862-01-08 00:00:00

10YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, PLAYING WITH FIRE. Mr. John Brougham After which a Comic Christmas Pantomime, WHITTING TON AND HIS CAT; or, Harlequin King Kollywobbol and the Genius of Good Humour. The grotesque opening invented and written by Henry J. Byron, Esq., author of the Princess's Pantomime of "Jack the Giant Killer." The Scenery by Mr. James Gates, Mr. H. Cuthbert, and numerous assistants. Good Humour, Miss Helen Howard ; Princess Popsiwopsi, Miss Rose Leclercq; Alice, Miss Pauline Le clercq ; Messrs. Garden, Cathcart', Morland, Collett, Hast ings. Raymond; Dick Whittington, Miss Maria Harris; Robin Goodfellow and the Cat, Master John Haslem, (pupil of the celebrated Gabriel Ravel; Clown, Mr. Hildyard ; Harlequin, Mr. John Laud ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Colum bine Miss Caroline Adams. Morning Performaes wiil take , place at Two o'clock every Monday till further notice. NEW THIZATRE-R0 (AL, ADELPHI.--- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, and during the week the great Drama, entitled THE OCTOROON or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA : Messrs. Grace, Billington, Emery, Phillips, Jamison, Smith, Stephenson, limner. Lewis ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar ston, Miss C. Denvil, Miss Latimer, and Mrs. 11. Lewis. After which, at 20 minutes past 0, the great Irish Dram's of THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr.D. Boucteault, Missßanoe, Mr. Fisher, Miss Woolgar, tc. Box Office open from 10 till 5. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE, Dean-street, Oxford-street. THIS EVENING, A LESSON FOR HUSBANDS. After which, CAMELIA ;Camel ia, Aldlle. Albina di Rhona. Fol lowed by a New and O er atic Burlseque, by J. H. Tully, Esq., entitled THE V P.RY EARLIEST EDITION OF IL TROVATORE - or, Who Killed the —. To con lude with A NICE QUIET DAY.—Commence at half-past 7. ASITEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Last 10 Nights of "The Colleen Bawn"—Triumphant Sumas of the grand Equestrian Pantomime. THIS EVENING, and during the week, to commence with Dion Boucicault's Drama, THE COLLEEN BAWN. New and daring Scenes in the Circle, by the Eclipse Artistes, nightly hailed with thunders of approbation. Concluding with the Grand Comic Pantomime of JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE TO EDMONTON. SPECIAL NOTICE. A GRAND JUVENILE MORN ING PERFORMANCE will take place on SATURDAY, Jan. 11, at 2 o'clock, for the convenience of families residing at a distance. By the kind permission of the Commandant, Colonel Crutchley, the Boys of the Military Asylum, with their Juvenile Band, will attend. - - Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Triumphant Success of Mr. Marshall's Grand Christmas Entertainment, "THE ENCHANTED HASH " (SECOND EDlTlON)—Wonderful Transformations—Every Evening at a quarter-past ten—in addition to the following Comic talent: Mr. Frederick French, the great Shakesperian Bur lesque Vocalist, Mr. Wood and Son, Mr. J. G. Forde, Miss Harriet Coveney, and Miss Greene. Grand Selections from LA TRAVIATA and TROVATORE, at ten o'clock, By Miss Russell, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, and full Chorus. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls toad Balcony, ls. CANTERBURY HALL.-VICTOR JULIEN, " THE FLYING MAN " Every Evening at half-past Nine o'clock. yr A E OXFO R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET, OPEN EVERY EVENING. Selections from Verdi's Grand Operas, " Ernani," "Simon Boccanegra," and "Macbeth," by Miss Russell and Madame Enderssohn ; Messrs. Albert, W. Morley, Greene, and C. Greville. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Solos by Mr. Viotti Collins (the great English. siolinist). And other Vocal and Instrumental Entertain ments, the Comic portion by Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mgr shall, M. P. Foster, W. Randall. and Miss Harriet Coveney. Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 7h. Bm.—Afternoon, 7h. 26m. To-mORROW. -Morning, 7h. 53m.—Afternoon, Bh. 21m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JANUARY 8, 1862. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 44-7.ighest since noon yesterday. 39 —lowest this morning and during the night. 45—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.69. WlND—Westerly; rather fresh, with dull weather, and rain in the night. rit? 41V. • THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1862. BURY-LANE THEATRE ROYAL, Lessee, Mr. E. T. SMITH. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS, GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE of the PAN TOMIME every WEDNESDAY, at Two o'Clock. THIS EVENING (Sth January) her Majesty's Ser vants will perform the popular Farce, by J. B. Buckstone, Esq., entitled AN ALARMING SACRIFICE. Bob Ticket, Mr. Atkins ; Pugwash, Mr. Barsby ; Mr. Skinner, Mr. Hope; Susan Sweetapple, Miss Kegjay. ; Miss Wadd, Miss Stuart ; Miss T ibbit, Miss Bland; nlas Gimp, Miss Hartlour ; Deborah, Mrs. Dowton. • After which will be produced, with that attention to com pleteness in every department by which the Christmas Annuals of this Theatre have been so pie-eminently dis tinguished, the New Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN and the HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT; or, Old Mother Hubbard and het onderful Dog. "If a man do build a dwelling upon common land fr, -, m sunset to sunrise, and enclose a piece of ground, wherein there shall be a tree, a beast feeding, a fire kindled, a chim ney smoking, and provisions in the pot, such dwelling shall be freely held by the builder, anything herein to the con trary nevertheless notwithstanding."--Old Forest Charter. The Novel Effects and Splendid Scenery by WILLIAM TIF,VERLEY, _ - Assisted by Messrs. C. Pitt, Craven, Brow, &c., &c. Masks, Symbolic Devices, Personal Appointments, and Designs for the Costumes, by the celebrated Dykwynkyn. The Overture and Music composed and arranged by Mr. 3. H. T ULLY. The Machinery by Mr. Tucker and As sistants. The Tricks, Properties, Changes, and Transtor mations, by Mr. Needham, assisted by Messrs Glindon, H. Adams, H. Langham, &c. The Costumes by Miss Dickin son, Mr. Lauri, and Mr. Palmer. The Gas Appointments by Mr. Hinckley. The Choregraphic Arrangements by Cormack. The Harlequinade and Comic Scenes by Messrs. Cormack and B. Jones. The Perfume of the Flowers supplied by Bimmel's process. The Grotesque Burlesque Opening invented and written by E. L. BLANCIIAR O. And the whole arranged and produced under the imme diate superintendence of Mr, ROBERT ROXBY. Synopsis of Scenery, Incidents, and Characters, OLD MOTHER HUBBARD'S COTTAGE, With Rural Landscape, and Rookwood Manor Hall in the Distance ( Daylight). "Old Mother Hubbard, she went to the cupbo theard, to boar get her poor Dog a bone; when she got there, cupboard was bare, and so the poor Dog had none."—A.ncient Nur sery Legend. Old Mother Hubbard, Mr. Atkins ; Her Dog, Signor Lorenzo ; Jack (the " Man all tattered and torn"), Miss F. Hunt ; the Squire, Mr. Tom Matthews ; Dame Wiggins of Lee, Mr. Dixon ; Dame Trot, Mr. Barsby ; Her Won derful Cat, Master Waggles ; the Great Goose, Master Sageaninguns ; Constables, Messrs. Grib and Grab ; Parish Beadle, Mr. Bumble ; Villagers, Messrs. Yokel, Pumpkin, Whackstraw, Chawbacon, &c., &c.; Rosetta (the " Maiden all Forlorn"), Miss Stuart. How Mother Hubbard has a certain " party" to tea and turn out, and of the remarkable pranks played by her comical Dog—The Head, the Hat, and the Hose—The Dog's Tale and Mrs. H.'s Narrative-- Arrival of the Squire—Proclamation of Witch Burning— Threatened incremation of Mother Hubbard on her own hearth, and her Mystic Flight upon a Broomstick. THE WITCHES' GLEN AND WATERFALL, - - in the Valley of Perfumed Flowers, by Moonlight. Will-o'-the-Wisp .. Miss Lanza. Ignes Fatui—Mdlles. Sidney, Travers, Barnes, A. Barnes, Livermore ; Webb, Taylor, Braithwaite,Hammilton, Stap ley, Harris, Candy, Copeland, Archer. Hawkins, Delaney, Wilson, Williams, Robinson, Wood, Watson, and Hamel ton. Grand Ballet, Chagne-a-Lanterne, by the Misses GUN NISS and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. The Invocation! The Incantation ! and the Evapora ti I I THE VILLAGE GREEN AND ROADSIDE ALE HOUSE, Old Grype (the Steward), Mr. Glindon ; Old Scratche (his Clerk), Mr. Tanner ' • Tenantry, Messrs. Cringe, Scrape, Shaffie, Cut , Packoff, Moonraker, and Runaway ; Tailor, Mr. Snipshears ; Bootmaker, Mr. Tightfit ; Mum mies, Messrs. Grinner, Joker, Ma g ger, Cracksides, O'Reilly, M'Phun , & c. ; St. George, Mr. E. Roe ; the ration, Mr. Scalyfellow ; Va lentine, Mr. Febb y err y ; Orson, Mr. Wildman ; Still-Walker, Mr. Longl ins egs; Be and ar- Warden, Mr. Smuggins ; the Bear, Mr. Hugg ; L lord, Mr. Treblex ; Morris-Dancers, Messrs. Trip, Tap, Flip, Flap, &c., &c. • Jack Padding, Mr. Merryman. How the Squire celebrates his birthday, and the Village Revel that follows —Coming of Age in the Olden Time I How the Tenantry treated in one way and how Jack is rested in another—the Dog's instinct and Mother Hub - bard's reason. THE " CAGE" ON THE COMMON (Sunset). Grand Scena Comique and Pas de Broomstick, by Mother Hubbard. The Dreamer and the Worker—The Vision of Pleasure and the Division of Labour—Figures of Fun (from the Fancy-store of Dykwynkyn) - Messrs. Mason, Drainpipes, Carpenter, Hodman, Old Brick, and Yonne , Shaver, Lilli putian Labourers, Pigmy Plasterers, TinfTilers, Minia ture Masons, Baby Bricklayers, Short Sawyers, Dwarf Drain Makers, and Child Carpenters by a Host of Juvenile Auxiliaries. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, The Rat, Master Longwhisker ; The Cat, Miss Mouser ; The Dsg, By Himself; The Cow, Madame Brindle ; The Priest (" All shaven and shorn"), Mr. Jollyman; The Cock (" That crowed in the Morn") Master Cocky-doodle doo. Realisation of the famous Picture in the National Gal lery of Little Britain, taken (by permission) for Boys, from a rare work in the collection of Master Smith, London. FROGP OOL IN THE MARSHES (Twilight). Song, " Will o' the Wisp," composed by J. H. Tully, Esq. How the Squire goes Hunting and loses his way and his temper, and what follows in consequence—Another curious instance of Canine sagacity—Bull-frogs, Masters Hop, Skip, Jump, Creak, &c. SQUASH-HOLLOW SWAMP AND BED OF BULRUSHES. How the Squire comes to grief and afterwards to repent ance, and how Jack is recognised as the rightful heir—The reward and harmonious movements of the Fairies on a Grand Chromatic Scale towards WILL 0' WISP'S HOME BENEATH THE WATERFALL. The Transformation. Harlequins Messrs. CORMACK and ST. MAINE. Columbines Pantaloons Messrs. G. TANNER and MORLEY. Clowns GroteFque 1861-1862 SPRITES by the RIDGWAYS and SUWELL FAMILY. 1.-EXTERIOR OF TWO TRE T SHOPS IN " UP-OR. DO WN" SE. Messrs. Huline, St. Maine, Tanner, and Miss S. Gunniss. Christmas Presents—every Man (and Boy) to his Post, even the Post-Man—Clown rides the high horse, which proves his rock a-head—Two Young Men from the Country, and Clown gets over them—a Sewing Machine (not a poor Needlewoman)—a thorough Blow out—a Man in very re duced circumstance—Clown finds the Fruits of stealing Apples in an elephantine way—a Band of Brothers—the Police in Great and Small Force—Clown gets into a row and blows up a policeman—the end of this scene is all Bustle—N.B. Not Crinoline. 2.—THE GREAT SENSATION KITCHEN. Messrs. Forrest, Correack, Morley, and Miss Gunniss. Harlequin seeks Protection, although a Free-trader — The Cook's Guide—Clown tries to take the chair—the head dish of the table—Harlequin goes through a Deal, and Clown becomes a Board-er—Silence those dreadful Bells— Clown and Pantaloon make an ap-Peal to the Audience on the Merry Musical Bells—Pantaloon rather hard pressed— arrival of a distinguished Foreigner—Clown falls into his own trap, and kills a Blue-bottle, which proves a bad Buzz-ness for him—a Lecture on the Gorilla, by a ell known character—Clown meets with a few Friends (not Quakers)—this Scene ends at the finish of it. 3.—TIIE INTERIOR OF A RAILWAY STATION. Eight hours at the Sea-side for 2s 6d—Duty off Paper— " The Times" reduced and the Times on the rise—a book that takes leafe of Clown—Harlequin gets his horse from a Stall and sets up a trap. No Smoking a•Loud, only on the Quiet—Clown makes a Tremendous Christmas Tree— late arrivals—Messrs. Neverintime, Toolate, Dearme, and Blessme—Clown burns his fingers (not the only person that has done so)—Clown gives Good Bail and finds a Bale of goods. 4.—The SEA-SIDE. The Sands I The Sands! I The Sanest! I Come unto these yellow sands. A Sailor telling a Yarn and a boat Lying too—the Pier Master's ap-Pierance—Clown makes a Man's hair turn sandy and proves himself in the wrong box—by a slight Miss-Take, which a certain Miss won't Take—Pantaloon gets some shell-fish in a very Selfish manner—Clown asto nishes the Natives—Sailors that use their Cut-Lasses but don't Cut Lasses when they can join with them in a National hornpipe—Clown gets a Sensation Leader—The Great Donkey Stir St. Leger—Clown and Pantaloon's Concert—fine ears for Music —they fish in troubled waters —a Divided Interest—a sudden Squall (Children and all) —The latest Novelty in Parrchutes. Scene—A DISMAL SWAMP—After a storm a calm appears, a HARLEQUIN'S HOME ON HIS THRONE OF SPLENDOUR. Doors open at half-past six, to commence at Seven o'clock. Tickets for Boxes, Pit, and Galleries, may be had at the Box Office before the opening. R OYAL ENGLIsri OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS E VENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER, Miss Louisa I'yne, Miss Susan Pyne ; Mr. Santley, M r , 11 . Cort i , Mr. George Honer, Mr, Patey, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr, T. Distin, Mr. Waliworth, Mr. Eugene Dussek, Mr. C. Lyall, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. After which will be produced (written expres•ly by J. M. Morton), a Grand Comp Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN GJLLLIVER ; or, A Trip to Brobilignag, a Peep at Lilliput, and a: Fliinw Visit to Lapu6 Gulliver, Mr. W. 1.1. Payne ; Mrs. Guliver, Mr. I'. Payne. Principal danseuse, Mdlle. Lamoureux, supported by the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. The Harlequmide sustained by the eminent Pantomimists, Messrs. IL Payne, F. Payne, IL Lauri, E. Lauri, S. Lauri, and Jenny Lauri. Commence at Seven. y r EATR g•lit) Y AL, HAYMARKET, 1,4›,,4pp. Mr. J. B. Pull - aro,- VII EVENING, to commence with THE HONEYMOON. Juliana, Miss Jane Coombs (her 4th appearance in Eng land). After which, a Comic Christmas Pantomime, LITTLE MISS MUFFET AND LITTLE BOY BLUE ; or, Harle quin and Old Daddy Lon2ls. Louise L Rosine. eclercq, Charles Le clercq, Herr Cole, G. Becket, eg and Miss Commence a 7. 11 1 OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. manaffer--Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, Jan. 8, the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ;_ or, Savourneen Dec lish. M e s s rs . Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles S' Iby, Edmund Fal coner ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers. Miss Clara Weston. After which, a new and orinin al Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled LITTLE BED RIDING HOOD; or, Th Fairies of the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrcck. Princiral charac ters by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and Miss Lydia Thompson. • ------ Acting Manager —Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 8, 1862. The newspapers and letters which have just ar rived by the Europa are more unfavourable to peace than the telegrams which preceded them. New York, the merchant's and banker's city, was much more in favour of surrender than Washington, the politician's city. The responsible politicians have not indeed yet spoken, but the noisier ones cannot be disregarded, for they dictate too com monly the policy of the Government ; and, up to the time when our advices left, the Cabinet appeared to be waiting to see what the masses would allow them to do. At New York, and with the more thought ful at Washington itself, the opinion seemed to be that the prisoners must be surrendered, as a neces sity of the hour, but under a protest or TOW of eternal enmity to England. Some of the papers describe this feeling, with too much truth we fear, as the one most deeply seated in the American breast. The news of the death of Prince ALBERT has not lessened their inclination to quarrel with a nation in mourn ing; but only nurtured the hope that we shall be too loyally sad for our QUEEN to trouble ourselves further about the Commissioners. We notice with regret that Dr. RUSSELL, whose opinion is certainly of no little weight, is by no means confident in his hope of peace. Writing on the 23d, the day on which Lord LYONS at last communicated his despatch officially, he says : " My impression is, that Mr. SEWARD will endea vour to open a correspondence, and that failing, as he necessarily must, in that, he will refuse on the part of the Government to surrender Messrs. MASON and SLIDELL and their secretaries. In that case Lord LYONS leaves the United States with the members of his legation. Then follows a declaration of war—a sudden, destructive, and sanguinary war between two nations, of which the one is already engaged in a desperate conflict with an internal foe, and of which the other is an ancient monarchy, jealous of its honours and its rights, but which has, nevertheless, endured so long the threats and menaces of its powerful offshoot that forbearance has been construed into ' dare not,' and endurance has been mistaken for pusillanimity." He acknowledges that we should suffer greatly by the war, and that England and France would pur chase cotton and tobacco at a dear rate, but he shewa, what, indeed, had been obvious to us all, that the Federals would be in an almost hopeless position between the two fires. As one effect of the apprehension of war with England, there is an g increased impatience to gain some grea t F e d era l success on the Potomac, before Great Britain shall become the virtual ally of the South. The weather, however, makes military operations exceedingly difficult ; and the South seems to be better prepared than ever to resist an attack. The fight would pro bably be a desperate one, and under every disad vantage to the Federalists, On the whole, the fuller details we receive this morning give much cause to fear that the cunning of SEWARD, and the technical special pleading of the Lawyer-President, may have devised some evasive reply, of which, of course, Lord LYONS will be himself the bearer. How alarming the position is out at Washington, the following remarks in our able contemporary the Morning Post, the organ of Lord PALMER.. STON, if not of his Government, will sufficiently indicate. The Post says : " Any day may now bring us the American deci sion ; but every h our ' s d e l ay i n i ts arr ival dimi nishes our hope of a favourable answer, and in creases our expectation of seeing Lord Lyons on next Sunday or Monday. His Excellency was to leave Washington, with the Legation, on the 30th ult., unless, by noon of that day, the American Government had complied with our demands. We may as well recapitulate what we have already stated, and what is confirmed in every detail by the intelligence now received. Lord Lyons' instruc tions reached him on the night of the 18th ult. He sought Mr. Seward on the 19th, and explained to , him unofficially their object. This proceeding be was enjoined to pursue in order to give the Cabinet of Washington an opportunity of volunteering to satisfy our just requirements, and of avoiding any humiliation in making concessions to what they might regard as peremptory demands. Mr. Seward, as we have understood, acknow- ledged the courtesy and wood intention of our mode of procedure, stated that he would consult the President on the following day, and would communicate with Lord Lyons on the next day after that, which would be Saturday, the 21st. Our temperate and even generous overtures appear to have failed. The President declined to avail himself of the means of retreat which we deemed most honourable to him, and on the 23d Lord Lyons formally presented the official demand for the immediate surrender of the prisoners and an apology for the insult to our flag. Up to the morn ing of the 26th Lord Lyons had not received any answer to his communication of Lord Russell's despatch. He was to wait till the 30th. The French Minister, M. Mercier, had delivered to Mr. Seward, on the 25th, M. Thouvenel's despatch, which has been already published. And we understand that other Ministers had offered advice quite in accord ance with the tone taken by their Governments in the despatches which have been lately written. It is difficult to imagine obstinacy greater than that which the American Government has hitherto exhi bited. We can hardly suppose, however, that they will return a direct negative to our demands. It is more probable that they will, before the 30th, offer some unsatisfactory compromise, which will not, however, be for a moment entertained." While our attention is more particularly directed just now towards the opposite shores of the Atlan tic, it will be well to keep a watchful regard upon the old European seat of war—upon the position of things generally, that is to say, in the Roman peninsula. Everything at length seriously begins to indicate there the probably speedy renewal of hostilities. The very quietude of the attitude assumed by the National Government at Turin is in itself ominous. It is significant, also, that we hear no more from that capital of the continuance of the old bickerings between the advocates of dif ferent schemes for the reorganisation of Italy. Party contentions, in fact, have ceased there almost entirely. There have been mutual concessions made, and there has been, in many an instance, no merely fugitive or feeble display of magnanimity. One cry has absorbed all others—the name of VICTOR EMMANUEL. One banner has been accepted as the oriflamme of Italian Unity—the tricolour first effectually unfurled by the RE GULANTUOMO. Even the Great Condottiere, GARIBALDI, the only chieftain who could possibly have appeared in rivalry to the KING, has, by his magnificent self-abnegation and his most opportune withdrawal for awhile from the public scene to the silence and obscurity of his island home at Caprera, dissipated the sole difficulty that might have stood between the personal prestige of VIC TOR EMMANUEL and the loyal enthusiasm of multitude at large. Very recently, however, the Liberator of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies has emerged from the obscurity overshadowing his life at Caprera, has broken at length the silence of his voluntary exile. And to what effect? To sound a trumpet note of preparation that is even now echoing far and wide through all that beautiful land, from the spurs of the Carpathian range to the brine-washed, extremity of Cape Spartivento. GARIBALDI'S summons to his compatriots is distinct enough in all conscience, He tells them to arm, one and all, every man of them, to take each his sword in hand, or any other weapon that may more readily fall within his grasp—and to do this immediately. GARIBALDI says this not once—but again and again within the last few weeks. He speaks not so much of a possibility, not so much even of a probability, as of what he himself regards as an absolute cer tainty. He tells the whole twenty-three millions of the Italians that the time for their crown ing and final conflict is at hand. Lombardy has no doubt been completely wrested from the possession of Austria. The grand army of France under NAPOLEON, as the Emperor-Commander-in- Chief—VICTOR EMMANUEL and his Sardinians co operating with him in the exploit, and (in spite of NAPOLEON) GARIBALDI and his Free Lances, also between the shores of the northern lakes and the mountains—accomplished that work of emancipa tion. Tuscany, Parma, Modena, and the rest of the little continguous principalities were shaken free by the mere concussion of that brief, hut fierce and decisive struggle. They were all absorbed in the growing dominions of the new King of Italy, the new wearer of the iron crown of NAPOLEON and CHARLEMAGNE. Then, as the last and the grandest coup of all, come the trans ference en masse of the whole Neapolitan territories, including among them the glorious Island of Sicily, from the sovereignty of FRANCIS 11. to the sove reignty of VICTOR EMMANUEL. A transference this effected not by a gigantic army led by his Imperial Majesty the French EMPEROR, but one accom plished by a little band of Italian heroes led by a Savoyard Captain mere remarkable in many ways than all the Kings and Emperors among whom he has almost single-handed, and in spite of enormous odds, been triumphantly working out his achiev ments. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies passing as by a sleight-of-hand, from the unsafe keeping of FRANCIS 11. to the "safe keeping" of VICTOR EM MANUEL at the hey presto of GARIBALDI and his Garibaldians. And now it is the author of this political marvel who speaks to Italy with a voice of authority, telling the sons of Italy that tl• e hour is upon the very verge of striking, that Hour the sounding of which is to be nothing less than the tocsin of their final liberation. And all this while the Italian Government, the National Government of the Roman Peninsula, has been energetically, unceasingly, and systematically preparing for the very emergency now at hund. It is as if all the rival parties had with one consent sworn a truce to their old and apparently implacable enmities over the grave of Cavour. An unanimity so complete and so long sustained augurs well for the hopes of those who are still bent upon realizing in their own way the pro gramme announced by NAPOLEON 111. in the famous Milan proclamation, but afterwards abandoned by His Imperial Majesty —when the victory of Solfe rino had been followed up by the anticlimax of the Treaty of Villafranca. That programme being simply--Italy for the Italians, Italy free from the Alps to the Adriatic. It is something auspicious for the Italians to remember that, at the head of those whom we have spoken of as still bent upon realising this magnificent daydream, if the world fails to see any longer the astute intel lect of Count CAVOUR, it still can recogniso,facile prrnceps, the matchless heroism of General GARI BALDI. Simultaneously with the appearance of Sir JOSHUA JEBB'S annual blue book, giving a condensed report of the working of the convict system in this country—the learned Recorder of Birmingham, in his charge to the grand jury, takes occasion to ccm ment very seriously upon the evils incident to the present Ticket-of-leave system, and the deplorable increase of crime, shall we say in consequence! Whatever Mr. M. D. HILL has to say upon matters of this vital importance —agree with him as we may or not—what he says is always worthlistening to. He is a man of too large experience, of too sound a judgment, of too humane and generous a tempera meat—not to take the kindliest, and the most philanthropic view of these matters, and to speak of them invariably from the depth of his own earnest conviction. He has done this undeni ably in the present instance, and while so doing, according to his wont, has spoken this time more than ever impressively. Among the more suggestive of these remarks, we take the following to be eminently worthy of consideration. Speaking of the Ticket of Leave System as it is, Mr. M. D. HILL observes—" It is, I am sorry to say, of much less importance than could be wished, whether the convict be discharged because he has completed his sentence, or upon ticket-of-leave before such completion ; because, as we have been repeatedly informed in the speeches of Sir GEORGE GREY, the grant of a ticket-of-leave by no means implies reformation in the recipient. And so long as, in addition to this defect in our practice, the Executive Government in England shall take no steps to enforce the good conduct of the ticket-of-leave man by the revocation of his license until he is convicted of a new offence, but, on the contrary, whatever be the profligacy of his life and the notoriety of his want of any visible means of subsistence, shall still leave him at large to follow his evil courses, so long will the presence of discharged convicts in any town be a severe calamity to its inhabitants, stimulating vete ran criminals to pernicious activity, and aug menting their forces by the addition of many a recruit." Nor is this all: the Recorder of Birmingham going on to acknowledge—" Under any circumstances it would be painful and humi liating to expose to the world our shortcomings in prison discipline. But I cannot express to you the mortification I endure when I compare the state of things in England with that in Ireland. I have made two visits, at the distance of four years, to that island for the purpose of scrutinising with care and diligence the working of the Irish convict sys tem, under the superintendence of Captain CROF TON and his meritorious colleagues. There you will find the grant of a ticket-of-leave is never made ex cept on strong proofs of reformation ;' but as the strongest proofs may be deceptive, and as even a convict truly reformed may relapse, when he be comes entirely his own master, the work of super vision is not nominal, but real, and is most effi ciently continued during his whole probation—that is, until the sentence passed upon him by the judge has expired. If before that period he is found to deviate into courses suggestive of relapse into a crimi nal career, or of proclivity towards crime, his license is instantly cancelled, and he is carried back to gaol." In a later part of his address to the Grand Jury, at Birmingham, Mr. HILL comes frankly to the point thus :—"The objections periodically urged against assimilating the English to the Irish sys tem—the conclusive answers to which are also peri odically withheld—produce less and less conviction on the popular mind with every repetition. The Congress for the Promotion of Social Science held in Dublin, during the last summer, drew there a concourse of English, many of whom were con versant with the treatment of criminals and deeply interested in its amendment, and a large number of persons, including many magistrates, all competent to form a trustworthy opinion upon the subject, came away convinced of the great superiority of the Irish over the English method of treatment. Their report has sent other magistrates to Ireland, who have, as I have ascertained, returned expressing the most lively satisfaction with the result of their inquiries." Knowing all which—as we cannot fail to do, if we but open our eyes to its recognition— let us not (here in England) be too proud to learn, even though the teaching comes to us from Ireland. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington are abou to receive a select party tut Strathfieldsaye. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll returned to their residence at Campden-hill, Kensington, from spend ing a few days with the Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland, at Cliefden, near Maidenhead. The Marquis of Lansdowne and the Earl and Countess of Shelburne are expected in town in a few days horn Bowood. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter are shortly expected in town from Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have left Grosvenor-square for Gedling Ledge, Nottingham. The Earl of Dalhousie is residing at Cannes for the benefit of his health, which has greatly improved since his lordship sought that mild climate. The noble earl is expected to return home by Easter. Viscount and Viscountess Vaughan have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Tredegar Park Lcrd and Lady Burghley have left town on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, at Burghley Hall, Stamford. Lord and Lady Blantyre have come to town from visiting the Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland, at Cliefden. Lady William Powlett has arrived at her res dence in Curzon-street from Downham Hall, Suffolk. Sir George and Lady Julia Villiers are passing the winter at their seat in Yorkshire. The Countess of Jersey is staying with Sir George and her ladyship. Lieutenant-General and Mrs. Robbins have arrived at the Burlington Hotel, Cork-street, from Mal wood Castle, Lyndhurst, Hants. On Saturday, at the Institut de France, Paris, M. Mignet gave an oration in praise of the late Mr. Hallam, author of " The Constitutional History of England." M. Mignet was very pathetic in his allusions to Mr. Hallam's loss of his two sons, and Tennyson's elegy upon the eldest of them. M. Mignet was warmly applauded. The Order of St. Maurice has been recently con ferred by the King of Italy on one of our countrymen, Mr. Thomas A. Trollope, son of the authoress of " Widow Bar naby," and brother to the author of " Framloy Parsonage," who is well known in Italy as the writer of " Filippo Strozzi" and " Tuscany in '49 and 's9:' Mrs. Irollope now of a great age, still resides at Florence, which city now also contains the consul of Spezzia, better known to the world as the author of " Charles O'Malley." THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.—We have reason to believe that an address of condolence to her Majesty is about to be circulated among all the branches of the Per manent Civil Service. This token of sympathy has met with the approval of the Heads of Departments, and, no doubt, will meet with a hearty response from all quarters. EXPORT OF COAL FROM GREAT GRIMSBY.—The following is a return of coal exported from the port of Great Grimsby during the month of December, 1861:—To France, 3,817 tons; to Denmark, 643 tons; to Hanover, 146 tons; to the Hanseatic Towns, 1,156 tons; to Prussia, 163 tons ; to the West India Islands, 29 tons ; to Norway, 91 tons; total foreign, 6,045 tons; total coastwise, 795 tons; grand total, 6,840 tons. THE ST. LAWRENCE.---A letter from Toronto, dated Dec. 19, states:—"l see the English Government are sending out troops to Canada. It would be a great thing if they knew what a wonderfully mild season we have, and that at the present time troops could be sent out by the St. Lawrence without the slightest danger." PROPOSED WIDENING AND ENLARGEMENT OF THE LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY.—The plans for the widening and enlargement of this company's line show that the proposed improvements will commence at Church lane, Whitechapel, and St. George's-in-the-East, passing over Frederick-street, and terminating at Sarah-place, further extending over Cannon-street-road, running by Cross-street on the east, and Charles-street, and terminat ing at Little Union-street, St. George's-in-the-East. Ad ditional lands are also to be taken for the accommodation of the increasing goods traffic and in connexion with the various stations, buildings, and the branch line now in course of construction to the London Docks ; the cost to be defrayed out of a sum of £300,000, which the company are already empowered to raise by issue of preference shares. A prospectus has been issued of the London and South of Ireland Direct Telegraph Company, with a capi tal of £lOO,OOO, in £lO shares. The line will cross from Milford to Wexford, Cork, and Queenstown, and the com pany have obtained an exclusive concession for a station at Roche's Point, at the entrance to Cork harbour, where the pilots reside, and whence they board the steamers, thus enabling telegrams to be sent so as to reach London a con siderable time before the mail tender can arrive at Queens town. The submarine cable is to be constructed by Messrs. S. W. Silver and Co., under their patent for indiarubber, which was declared by the late G Nenament Committee on Submarine Telegraphy to surpass all other materials in the principal qualites essential to such works. The whole line will, it is said, be ready for use early in the spring, and its maintenance will be guaranteed by tho contractors, MR. GLADSTONE.—It is expected that the Chan cellor of the Exchequer will arrive in Edinburgh on Thurs day, or early on Friday next (unless prevented by sudden pressure of public business), to preside at a university meet ing in his capacity of Lord Rector. On Saturday Mr. Gladstone is announced to take part in the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Endowment Association for the Episcopal Church of Scotland, at which the Duke of Buc- clench, will preside, and he is expected to assist on the same day at the laying of the foundation stone of a new Episcopal church in Leith.—Scotsman. DEATH OF THE EARL OF YARBOROUGH.—After a prolonged illness the Earl of Yarborough died at Brighton late in the evening of yesterday. Since Saturday he had been in a very precarious condition, and in consequence of his illness Lord Worsley was telegraphed for, and had the consolation of being with his father at his dissolution. The Right Hon. Charles Anderson Pelham, Earl of Yarborough, Baron Yarborcugh, of Yarborough, county of Lincoln, and Baron Worsley, of Appulderconae, Isle of Wight, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, was the only surviving son of Charles, first Earl, by Henrietta, second daughter of the Hon. John Bridgman-Simpson. He was born on the 9th April, 1809, and married on the 16th Dec., 1831, the Hon. Maria Adelaide Maude, second daughter of the late and sis ter of the present Viscount Hawarden, by whom (who sur vives) he leaves issue two sons, Lord Worsley, M.P., and the Hon. Evelyn Cornwallis Pelham, and a daughter, Lady Sophia Pelham. Previous to September, 1846, the late peer was in the House of Commons. Before the passing of the Reform Bill ho was elected representative for Newtons (Hants), in 1830, and also for the following year. In 1832 he was elected for Lincolnshire, which county he uninter ruptedly represented until the death of his father in 1846, when of course he removed to the Upper House. Several years back Lord Yarborough was stricken by paralysis, from which he cannot be said to have ever recovered. In 1854 he was appointed Vice-Admiral of Lincolnshire, and in 1857 was made Lord-Lieutenant of the county. His lord ship is succeeded in the family honours and estates by his son Charles (hitherto Lord Worsley, ALPO, born Jan. 1, 1835, and married to Lady E. Hare, daughter of the late Earl of Listowel. His lordship has sat in the House of Commons for the borough of Great Grimsby since 1857, and by his elevation to the House of Lords a vacancy occurs in the representation of that borough. The family name of the late Earl's ancestors was Anderson, but in compliance with an uncle's will the family adopted the name of Pelham. THE CARLISLE MURDER.—On Monday the ad journed inquest on the body of Jane Emmerson was resumed. by Mr. Carrick, Coroner, at the Court-house, Carlisle. Evidence similar to that given before the magis trates was tendered on behalf of Thomas Robinson, the man whom Charlton had implicated, and a complete alibi was proved in his favour. Robinson stands acquitted of all complicity by both the decision of the magistrates and the veraict of the coroner's jury. In reference to Charlton, who was very downcast, it was proved that he had got shoes mended similar to those which had made the impressions at the scene of the murder. Inspector Douglas, in digging the prisoner's garden, found two skeleton keys, one of which opened the old woman's door; and Inspector Taylor de. posed to having walked from the railway sheds to the cross ing in 17 minutes—the object being to show that the pri soner, who was seen coming from that direction on the morning of the murder, had occupied the 20 minutes which elapsed between that time and his leaving the sheds (to go, as he said, for his knife) in putting the gates right so as to let the first train pass. The coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against William Charlton. THE TRADE OUTRAGES NEAR SHEFFIELD.—The hearing of the charge against the three r ailmakers—Joseph Tomlinson and Isaac and James Watson, the two former of Chesterfield and the latter of Belper—for blowing up two shops with gunpowder at Thorpe Hesley, was resumed at the Rotherham Court-house on Monday. On the part of the prisoners seven or eight respectable persons were called from Belper, and they united in stating that Isaac Watson was in that town, which is 35 miles from Thorpe Healey, at 10 on the night of the 21st of Dec. Neither the character nor the testimony of any of these witnesses was impugned in the slightest degree. A witness was also called to prove that James Watson went home with him from Chesterfield to Belper by the 10 past 8 train at night. For the prisoner Tomlinson an inspector and two privates in the Chesterfield police force stated that on the night of the 21st, at 10 minutes to 11 o'clock, he was seen by them in a state of almost helpless intoxication, going towards his residence in Chesterfield. The witnesses for the prosecution were equally confident in asserting that the prisoners were at Thorpe. The solicitors for the prisoners (Mr. J. G. Walker, of Belper), asked the bench to dismiss the pri soners at once, as it was clear the police had got the wrong men, but the magistrates almost immediately decided to send the prisoners for trial. They committed them to York Assizes, and refused to accept bail. AFRICAN EXPLORATION. The small paddle steam-vessel Investigator, recently built at Deptford, and commissioned by Lieutenant• Commanding B. L. Lefroy, having received her crew, is to be forwarded for the ser vice of Dr. Livingstone in exploring the Zambesi, and the interior of Africa. She is a remarkably light vessel, and her engines at full speed will perform upwards of ten knots an hour. At the Mansioa-house, yesterday, after the ordi nary business of the Cour t had been disposed of, Mr. Fresh field, the solicitor to the Bank of England, attended on behalf of the Governors, and produced an inkstand, made in porcelain, on the top of which was a fac simile of a £5 Bank of England note, which he stated had been taken to the Bank of England, by a gentleman who had purchased it, to know if the manufacture of such an article was an in fringement of the law. The gentleman gave the name of the manufacturer, and he had given every information in his power. Mr. Freshfield refrained from mentioning the name, but said inquiries had been instituted, and the Bank authorities had decided not to take any steFs in the matter, but merely desired publicity to be given to it, and to let the public know that it was an infringement of the Act 24 and 25 Vic., cap. 98. The Lord Mayor said that if any such case came within his jurisdiction he would deal with it ac cording to the provisions of the act. TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD.—There is not another portion of London that offers an easier, a cheaper, or a more useful occasion for the good offices of the great Metropolitan Commissioners than this core of ancient, filthy, and crazy tenements. A line drawn in continuation directly from Tottenham-court-read would strike in upon the ragged school at the south-west angle of St. Giles's-churchyard. Not to do violence to the vested rights of old High-street, a block of four houses, extending from Denmark-place to Denmark-street, need only be demolished—thence the line drawn in direct um would strike in, across an angle of the burying-ground, upon Church-passage, and so in con tinuation upon Great White Lion-street, across Seven dials by Little White Lion-street and Banbury's-court, into back slums, and within 100 yards of King-street, just at the corner of Covent-garden, and next to Evans's Hotel. On this direct line one side of these mean streets should certainly be demolished, and the road enlarged to 70 or 80 feet. The opposite side might be left to improve itself, while the new building ranges would as surely compensate the outlay upon the project. In the line laid down, which would be perfectly straight, from the beginning at St. Giles's Church, only about 300 yards of new street would require to be cut open and laid out—one half at the ragged school end, the other at the issue into Covent-garden ; the property to be dealt with being of the lowest class, and therefore the cheapest ; while at the same time there would be less hesitation on the part of builders to take plots and erect houses where the street is already com pletely built on one side, paved, lighted, and occupied.— Builder. SUDDEN DEATH OF A COMEDIAN.—Mr. Mungall, so well known in Edinburgh and the Scottish provinces generally as a low comedian and broad delineator of Scot tish character, died very suddenly at his lodgings in Leo pold-place, on Saturday afternoon. He went to bed, com plaining of cold, and was found by his landlady dead a few hours subsequently. Muneall was more strictly a panto mimist of the very broadest school than a low comedian, and will probably be associated in the recollections of play goers with that coterie of rollicking Scottish actors now almost extinct. He had made a very successful Australian tour, and, it was made: stood, had acquired a considerable competency for his age. Muir , gall never belonged, as far as we recollect, to any stock company, and has had engage ments of £6O a week on many occasions.—Edinburgh Courant. FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—A word hav ing been omitted in the enunciation of the question pro posed for the Bordin prize, it has now been republished as follows :—" To determine by anatomical research whether, in the structure of the stalks or trunks of plants, there exist characteristics peculiar to the great natural families, thus agreeing with those deduced from the organs of repro duction." M. Chevreul has announced that he has disco vered the existence rf butyric acid in the fruit of the Gingko birioba. M. Ch. Saint-Claire Deville, writing from Naples, states that he has, in the present eruption of Vesu vius, ascertained the new fact that carburetted hydrogen has been evolved by the volcano. Dr. Guyon has sent in an interesting communication on the effects of the sting of a horned viper (Cerastes dEgyptiacus) on an Arab of the oasis of Laghouat, one hundred and twenty leagues south of Algiers. After the lapse of a month, during which the wound had healed, the patient was attacked with paralysis on the side opposite that where the sting had been inflicted. The author quotes several in stances of this curious fact of paralysis ensuing after the bite of a reptile, and on the side opposite to that which has received the wound. M. Bertherand announces the disco very of the fossil bones of a new and gigantic Saurian in a cutting recently made for a railway lino near Poligny. The animal must have been between 90 and 120 feet in length, and must have existed towards the end of the triasic period. Marshal Vaillant has communicated to the Academy a report from the commander of the Alecton, who, on the 30th of November last, fell in, forty leagues off Teneriffe, with an enormous polypus, measuring from 15 to 18 feet, with arms from five to six feet in length. Ineffectual attempts were made to catch it; for while the crew were hauling it on board by the tail, which had been caught in a noose, the weight of the animal caused it to fall into the sea again, leaving only a part of its tail in the noose. LATEST NEWS. REINFORCEMENTS FOR CANADA. LIVERPOOL, lAN. 7. The Persia arrived at Bic on the 27th of Be- cember. The Australasian encountered a severe snow storm on the 23d and 24th, near Anticosti, and it was, in consequence, considered prudent to put back to Halifax, where she arrived on the 26th. It was not known whether the Australasian would land her troops at Halifax or proceed again o Bic. THE MONI7EUR ON THE TRENT AFFAIR. PARIS, JAN. 8. The Moniteur of this morning says, in its politi cal bulletin : "In presence of the contradictory news which the arrival- of the last post from America has put in circulation, we think it will be useful to ac quaint the public that on the 26th December—the last date on which it was possible to receive news —no reply had yet been made to the communica tion of the British Minister." THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. TURIN, JAN. 8. The report that the Ministry had deliberated on :he dissolution of Parliament ig unfounded. Baron Ricasoli has demanded a credit of 2,000,000 lire, to purchase arms for the National Guard. PESTH, JAN. 8. Martial law has been proclaimed in the Comitat of Pesth for trying cases of rapine, murder, arson, and desertion. The punishment of death by hanging is declared against any person without distinction of rank or quality, who may be convicted of either of these offences. ROME, SAN. 6. To-day the Pope convoked a Consistory, and ap pointed a new Archbishop for Warsaw. His Holiness will celebrate a funeral service for the late King of Portugal on the 14th inst. TRIESTE, JAN. 7. Advices received here from Athens to the 28th ult. state that a violent shock of earthquake had occurred along the northern coast of the Pelopon nesus. Athens was uninjured, but New and Old Corinth, Zgina, and Patras had been damaged. The Chambers at Athens had voted a sum of 0,000 drachmas to relieve the sufferers by this catastrophe. MADRID, JAN. 6, ETENINO. The Government has decided upon admitting the Sumter into the port of Cadiz on condition that she should place the prisoners under the protection of Spain. It is rumoured that the American Consul will leave in consequence of this resolution. PARIS, JAN 7. The Patric and the Pays of this evening assert that the Washington Cabinet had offered to restore the Confederate Commissioners. The Patrie adds that this offer was made on con dition that England should not recognize the South. TURIN, JAN. 7. A reactionary movement has taken place at Castellamare in Sicily. Troops have been despatched from Palermo to the scene of the disturbances. The population of Palermo is very excited, and has offered to co-operate with the Government in the suppression of the movement. The reactionary band of Carbone has been dis• persed. FRANCE. The Monzteur publishes the following letter from Vera Cruz of the 30th Nov. : " In the midst of embarassments and internal struggles, the Government of Juarez has, up to the present time, affected the greatest indifference to the remonstranees of Europe. At six o'clock in the evening of the 11th inst., the delay given to the Mexican Government by the French Minister to reply to his ultimatum, expired. On that day only the Minister of Foreign Affairs communicated the document to the Congress at a private sitting. A few days after, was made known the refusal to accede to the conditions which the French Minis ter had been charged to demand in the name of the Emperor's Government. Mr. Corwin, the United States Minister, endeavoured, it is said, to bring about an arrangement, but on the other hand it appears certain that at a national fete which took place in Mexico on Nov. 3, the French Minister, while walking in the crowd with one of his colleagues, was insulted in the most brutal man ner by one of the adepts of the Government of Juarez. The Mexican press has since that time launched out in the most violent manner against M. Dubois de Saligny. The Government gave orders to prosecute the journals which published offensive articles against the French Minister, but they only gave way to still greater violence in their remarks. The situation of affairs became every day more and more difficult, What is most curious is that it does not appear at all impossible that before the arrival of the allies, the Government of Juarez may be overthrown by his rivals in the country, and put to flight." BOURSE, Jan. 7.—The market has shown rather more buoyancy, and a fair amount of business has been transacted at an improvement on the closing rates of the previous day. Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f 75c. Railways firm. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 96 50 Credit Fonder 1167 50 Do end month.... 96 6b' Belgian 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 90 Roman Bank Shares 2950 Austrian .. 6B 75 Credit Mobilier 715 Do. Account 717 50 Spanieh Threes llome Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1317 50 .. 1320 Northern New ditto .. 902 50 .. 905 I Lyons and Mediterranean 1022 60 .. 1025 G eneva . Southern 6 70 .. 672 50 Western Eastern Sardinian 323 75 .. 325 Austrian Lombard 613 75 .. 515 THE EU.ROPA AMERICAN MAIL. - r► -- The arrangements for expressing the American mails throughout from Queenstown to London, which we described as being so successfully executed with the mails brought by the Africa last week, have been repeated with still more satisfactory re sults in the case of the mails brought by the Eu ropa. These results are so exceptional that we re cord them in detail. The Europa arrived off Queens town, about five miles from the pier, at 9 p.m. on Monday night. ller mails and the despatches from Lord Lyons were placed on board the small tender in waiting, and arrived at the Queenstown pier at 10 5 p.m., at which point they were transferred to an express steamboat for conveyance by river to Cork. Leaving Queenstown pier at 10 10 p.m. they arrived alongside the quay at Cork at 11 15 p.m., and 13 minutes afterwards the special train left the Cork station for Dublin, accomplishing the journey to Dublin (166 miles) in four hours and three minutes, i.e., at a speed of about 41 miles an hour including stoppages. The transmission through the streets between the railway termini in Dublin and by special train to Kingstown occupied only 36 minutes, and in four minutes more the special mail boat Ulster was on her way to Holyhead, The dis- tance across the Irish Channel, about 66 statute miles, was performed by the Ulster, against a con trary tide and heavy sea, in 3 hours and 47 minutes, giving a speed of about 17i miles an hour. The special train, which had been in waiting for about 48 hours, left the Holyhead station at 8 13 a.m., and it was from this point that the most remarkable part of this rapid express commenced. The run from Holyhead to Stafford, 1301 miles, occupied only 145 minutes, being at the rate of no less than 54 miles an hour, and although so high a speed was judici ously not attempted over the more crowded portion of the line from Stafford to London, the whole dis tance from Holyhead to Euston, 264 miles, was per formed by the London and North-Western Company in exactly five hours, or at a speed of about 52 2-3 miles an hour—a speed unparalleled over so long a line, crowded with ordinary traffic. The entire distance from Queenstown pier to Euston square, about 515 miles, was thus traversed in 15 hours and three minutes. or at an average speed of about 342, 1 , miles an hour, including all delays neces sary for the several transfers of the mails from boat to railway, or vice versa. The time occupied by the similar express with the Africa's mails was 16 hours and 50 minutes, and not 17 hours and 10 minutes, as was stated in our last account. By means of the invention for supplying the tender with water from a trough in transitu the engine was enabled to run its first stage of 1301 miles, from Holyhead to Stafford, without stopping. PRUSSIA. Advices from Berlin, of the 4th inst., state that the King is ill. He caught cold while out driving, and is confined to his bed. His indisposition has not as yet partaken of anything serious. It is said that the note addressed by Count de Bernstorff to the Prussian Minister at Washington has been com municated to Switzerland with the incitation to adhere to it. It was thought that with the analogy which exists between the institutions of Switzerland and the United States, a proposal of mediation from the Helvetic Confederation would be favourably received in America. The National Verein has sent another sum of 10,000 florins to the Prussian Ministry of Marine for the Prussian fleet. The King of Denmark has prohibited the collection of subscriptions for the German fleet in the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg. It is explained that the non-admission of reporters at the recent meeting of the Mediterranean Steam Company was simply owing to the meeting not having been formally constituted, BULLION IN THE NE IV Y aRK BANKS. The further decrease of £500,000 in the stock of bullion in the New York banks, announced to have occurred daring the week preceding the departure of the Europa, coupled with the fact that the rate of exchange was at 1103 to 111, confirms the im pression that we may now, at any moment, E xpect to receive the news of a suspension of specie pay ments. It was mentioned some months back that, owing to the smuggling operations on the Canadian frontier, and the necessity for paying for coffee, sugar, hides, and other South American produce, of, which the New York market had been allowed to' run bare, the currency difficulty might assume bad proportions, through the exportation of gold North and South, previously to its being fully consum mated by a heavy resumption of remittances to this side. The prospect that hoarding would be sud denly resorted to as soon as the idea of a possible suspension entered the popular mind was also plain. The Europa, sailing from Boston, has brought only £21,420, and the total we have yet received does not much exceed £lOO,OOO. It is evident, there fore, that the other causes have been predominately in operation, and, from the circumstance that the deposits have decreased nearly as much as the specie, there is reason to infer that, although the New York press have hitherto endeavoured to assure the people that an inconvenient outflow of bullion was impossible, the practice of hoarding has commenced. During the present month remittances equal at least to about a million and a half sterling must be made to Europe for dividends on various kiads of American securities, and each incoming steamer will, consequently, be likely to bring re ports of increased pressure, if not of actual panic. At the departure of the present mail gold was at I; to 1 per cent. premium. That there was still much anxiety among the mercantile classes on the war question is evidenced by the circumstance that tho whole of the Anglo-American bankers who have been in the habit of giving out East India credits have seen fit to cancel all their outstanding ones. THE OIL _REGIONS OF\AMERICA. The accounts of the development of the oil re gions of America continue to indicate that the sup ply is likely to prove ♦irtually inexhaustible, and that it will work a singular revolution in some branches of commerce. Although the full effect will not be experienced until the short branch line now in course of construction to the Atlantic and Great Wes'arn Railway shall have been completed, and also a similar line from the Canadian wells to the Great Western of Canada Railway, many of the principal houses in the whaling trade in NewEn gland have diminished or abandoned their operations, and have adapted their mills to the purpose of refining the new product from the Pennsylvania district. The daily quantity of rectified oil thus made in the city of New Bedford is stated to be 4,000 gallons, which are shipped thence to all parts of the world, in cluding the East Indies. The paraffine obtained from this material is found to be highly valuable for the manufacture of candles, and a circular from Messrs. J . C. and J. Field, of Lambeth, which details the successful results of a long and costly series of ex periments, embodies also a report from Dr. Letheby, stating that— , " Weight for weight, the illuminating power of paraffin° is rather more than 22 per cent. greater than that of sper maceti, about 40 per cent, greater than wax, 4G per cent. greater than stearic, and 58 per cent. greater than compo site; or, to estimate it in another way, the light produced by 981 b. of paraffine candles is equal to that of 1201 b. of sper maceti, or 1381 b. of wax, or 1441 b. of stearic, or 1551 b. of the best composite candles. This high illuminating power of paraffine is duo to the circumstance that it contains a large proportion of carbon ; it is, indeed, among the richest of the hydro-carbons, and therefore it burns with a very intense light, and requires an unusually small wick. The products of its combustion are the same as those of wax and spermaceti, and are free from sulphur compounds. The candles are entirely free from colour, odour, and greasiness; in fact, they have the appearance of the best variety of sper maceti, and would be mistaken for it but for a translucency and fineness of surface spermaceti does not possess." MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. (From the Gazette of this evening.) BY THE QUEEN.—A PROCLAMA.TION. VICTORIA, R.,—Whereas our Parliament stands pro rngued to Tuesday the seventh day of January instant ; We, with the advice of our Privy Council, do hereby publish and declare, that the said Parliament shall be further prorogued, on the said seventh day of January instant, to Thursday the sixth day of February next; and we have given order to our Chancellor of that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain to prepare a commission for pro roguing the same according : and we do hereby further, with the advice aforesaid, declare our royal will and pleasure, that the said Parliament shall, on the said Thurs day the sixth day of February next, assemble and be holden for the despatch of divers urgent and important affairs : and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citi zens, and Burgesses, and the Comuiissioners for Shires and Burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby required and commanded to give their attendance accordingly, at West minster, on the said Thursday the sixth day of February next. . Given at our Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, this sixth day of January, in rho year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and in the twenty fifth year of our reign. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. TUE CATTLE TRADE,—Rotherham, January 6. — There was a somewhat limited supply of fat beasts at this day's cattle market, the quality of which was tolerably good. The attendance was fair, and the demand proved healthy at fully the prices of th e day week. Of sheep the show was also small, and buyers operated to a moderate es tent, at prices rather in favour of the seller. Quotations-- Beef, 6s, 6d, to Bs, per atone of 141 b. ; mutton, 7d, to Bd. per lb. 1