The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-31 00:00:00

( * l7 -= • • „, • lALT 4 .4Ar...7. - F-• R 0 YA I, ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the manarzerne.nt of Miss L. Fyne and 3ir.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, VICTOELNE. Messrs. Sant!ey, H. raigh, 11. Ccczi, G. Honey, Bartleman, Sze. Misses Farepa, Wirlwall, Conductor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the mr.v grand pantomime, called PUSS IN BOOTS ; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden Palms- Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVEINING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS. Miss Reynolds. After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto mime, VALENTIVE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the True Lovers' Minot. The pantomimists the unrivalled Leclercqs. TIT EA TR E-R GYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Planche's popular Drama of THE CHILD OF THE WRECK. Maurice (her original charac ter) Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex travazanza and Pantomime, KING THRTISIIBE ARO, the LITT L E PET and the G ItEAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. H. Marshall—Columbine, Miss Rosin°. Commence at 7. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee. Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Danc , r, Hong. Espinosa. First appearance of 311le. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan sense of La Scala, Milan ; and firit time of the Delapierre Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. THIS EVENING (SATURDAY), the new drama, HOME TRUTHS. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, P. Matthews, Miss C. Lec'ereq and Mrs. Charles Young. After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by TT. J. Byron, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER. ; or. Harle quin King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack - Panta loon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. R ,OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Three Morning Performances of the pantomime of JACK THE JIANT KILLER, universally acknowledged the best of the season, MONDAYS, January 2,9, and 16. Doors open at halt-past one; commence at two o'clock. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Holiday Attractions.—The Christmas Carol and the New Spectacular Extravaganza, by 11. J. Byron, Esq„ the Nymph of the Lurlyberg; or the Knight and thk! Naiades. THIS EVENING, THE CFIBISTMAS CAROL. Messrs J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Paul Bedford, Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith. Romer: Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. Chatte rley, Miss Laidlaw. After which THE NYMPH'S OF THE LURLEYBERG; or, The Knight and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford, Eburne. Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K. Kelly, Laidlaw. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor far bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. 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 the performances will commence with GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C. Young. Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. Miss Wyndham and Mr. H. T. Craven. To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND JUDY. Introducing; Miss Lydia Thompson and the Corps de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and the wonderful Performing Dogs. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d; Pit, is. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform • awe commences at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season. Great Attraction for the Holidays. The new bombastic hippodramatie, operatic Pantomime. abounding - in comicality, caned HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY; or, Old Towler the Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, with 'songs by Miss Esther Jacobs.—Gorgnous and Dazzling rn4chanical transfor mation scene. Harlequin, M. Richanle ; Pantaloon, Mr. P. Abbot, Columbine, Maddle. Mazzoni ; Clown, Mr. Hilde brand ; a family of Sprites by the Elastic Incomprehensibles. Scenes in the Circle by the Star Riders of the World. Three Morning performances of the Pantomime, and Scenes in the Circle, on Monday and Saturday, Dec. 26 and 31, and Monday Jan. ?, 1860, at Two o'clock each day. CANTERB UR Y HALL CONCERT S.- EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAT QUEEN. And a Grand Se ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAH. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. Gore Fforison (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchtleld, and E. W. ➢Hackney. Several interesting 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 sights of the metropolis. ROSA BONHEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is opeu from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, lire. 31. THEEMOXETER, IN THE SHADE. 54—highest since noon yesterday. 53 —lowest this morning and during the night. .57—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.69. WIND, South-Westerly; rather fresh, with dull rainy weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 6h. am. —Afternoon, 6h. 24m. TO-MORROw.-Morning, 6h. 44m.—Afternoon, 7h. 3m. THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 31, 1859. EIGHTEEN 1-IUNDIIED and FIFTY-NINE will leave its mark on the Continent. The war which began in March, 1851, and terminated in March, 1856, will not probably be so visible in its future effects as the short one of the present year. The designs of Russia at Sebastopol and in the Black Sea, were anticipated and checked ; but, for the rest, things remained wiry much as they were. This year a campaign of little more than two months seems likely to modify the map of southern Europe, and its effects will shake Austria, and thrill through other States. It was on New Year's-day, of the year now ex piring, that the first dark cloud arose on the hori zon of Europe: From the Tuileries the warning was given that Austria was to mend her ways in Italy, or to bear the displeasure of the Emperor of FRANCE'. Ten days after, the King of SARDINIA addressed his Chambers in terms which pretty plainly pointed to a war in the spring with Austria, who, after the French EMPEROR'S menace, had strengthened her Italian possessions. The Gefmans were strongly suspicious of some secret designs of Louis NAPOLEON, and growled very angrily through their press; and, to increase their fears, January ended with the marriage of H. I. H. Prince NAPOLEON and CLOTILDE, the daughter of the King of SARDINIA—a sacrifice, both as a parent and as one of the oldest of the reigning houses of Europe, which he never would have made but for some most weighty object; The first week of February was a perplexing one. First the celebrated pamphlet " NAPOLEON 111. and Italy" appeared. It was by the same pen which has just written again on " Congress and the POPE," and then, as now, it was not doubted that the in spiration was Imperial. Its object was to gain the good will of the more ardent friends of Italian liberty. Yet it had hardly appeared, when, on the 7th of the same month, the EMPEROR, in a speech to the Legislative Assembly, endeavoured to re move the impressions which were prevalent of any peculiarly hostile feeling on his part towards Austria. The Sardinian Ministry, however, pro posed to the Legislature a loan, on the ground of unusual preparations on the part of Austria. Aus tria naturally became increasingly alarmed at the threatening tone of the EMPEROR, and even made proposals to this country and to Prussia for a auiet adjustment of existing misunderstandings ; while Lord COWLEY went on a secret mission to Vienna. Th us February passed away. In the beginning of March the POPE, thoroughly frightened, asked the Austrians to withdraw from Ancona and the French from some; of which, however, nothing came. Austria. now proposed to retain her rever sionary claims on Modena and Tuscany; but offered to annul her special convention with these States, which were considered so generally 01 . !jectionable, but she required in return the guarantees of this country and of Pnvsia against any attacks by Sar dinia and the revolutionists in Italy. Of course, this was not acceded to ; Lord CONVUY'S 'friendly attempts at reconciliation proved abortive ; and to- wards the end of the month Austria rejected the proposal of Prussia for a Congress, because France demanded that Sardinia should be represented there. Count CAVOUR, at the very end of the month, paid a visit to Paris, and then came the Austrian offer to agree to a Congress if Sardinia would cease from her military preparations, which Sardinia reasonably enough declined to do. April came, and in the middle of it a demand, on the part of Austria, for a general disarmament as a condition of admitting anything like arbitration. Her unreasonable demands, in regard to it, found no support anywhere ; and on the 22d she forwarded her famous ultimatum, which was of course rejected by Sardinia, and war was precipitated. Media tion,( offered by England, being now re j ec t e d by France, Austria placed her army rapidly on a war footing ; Prussia mobilised 70,000 men ; a loan of £30,000,000 was promptly raised in France, a contingent of 140,000 men demanded, and her troops _began to assemble on the frontiers of Savoy ; the Grand Duke of TUSCANY fled, and his subjects named VrcTon EMMANTJEL their king, and on the 29th the Austrian troops crossed the Ticino at three points, while by the next day the French had reached Turin, and 40,000 of them had landed at Genoa. The campaign was now opened. We have recalled the leading points of the pre liminaries to the war, as being most likely to have escaped the memory of our readers ; the striking events of the war itself they will not so easily forget. The rapid advance of the Austrians after a day or two; their being then afraid to attack General LA MARMORA'S line on the Sesia ; the able manner in which the French turned their enemies' flank, which led to the victories of Palestro and Magenta; the crossing of the Ticino by the allies; the exploits of GARIBALDI at the foot of the Alps; the enthusiastic reception at Milan ; the abandonment of Piacenza, Pavia, and all Milanese Lombardy to the allies, and the final stand on the Mincio, was all the work of but six or seven weeks. Meantime all the other States of Central Italy had revolted as fast as Austrian support failed their rulers. Italy was lost to Austria and her influence, except the country east of the Mincio and north of the Po. On the 24th of June the great battle of Solferino followed, the Austrian EMPEROR being determined not to await the allies, but to attack them on the right bank of the Mincio. On the Bth of July the Em peror of the FRENCH made his proposals for an armistice at Villafranca, and thus terminated a war which had begun only on the 29th of April. Both sides were frightened; LOUIS NAPOLEON, as he said, at the attitude of Germany, at the anger of the French clergy trembling for their POPE, at the strength of Verona, and at the rapid spread of liberty. Austria, at the prospect of further defeats and hopeless bankruptcy, above all, at the success of KOSSUTH in the forma tion of a Hungarian Legion, the rising spirit of Hungary itself; and, as she also said, at the atti tude of Germany—one moment complaining that Germany was hostile to him, the other that she would not help him. Both probably were right. sort of PORTUGAL, the Bey of TUNIS, the Emperor of MOROCCO, the late unpopular King of NAPLES, and the late popular King of SWEDEN, the last-mentioned being the son of the famous, some might say rather the infamous soldier BERNADOTTE! More pro foundly interesting to ourselves, and, we believe, also to the world at large, is that melancholy cata logue of men of rare talent or of rarer genius, closed with about the grandest and the noblest name of all (commented on by ourselves yesterday) that of THOMAS BABINGTON, first and last Baron MACAULAY. This catalogue of great names pre sents, in truth, an array of intellectual worth now dead and gone (in the flesh), that renders this fatal year of 1859 a subject for mournful contem plation. What two delightful embellishers of English literature have we not lost in -WASH INGTON IRVING and LEIGH HUNT—the authors of the " Sketch Book" and the " Indicator," of "Ralph Esher" and " Bracebridge Hall," and of so many other charming and trea sured productions of taste the most exquisite, of humour the most delicious, and of ripe and varied scholarship ! Previous to the pre-eminent and irreparable loss sustained by English literature, just upon the close of this December, through the abrupt and quite unexpected death of Lord MACAULAY, 1859 had bereft England of HENRY HALLA:',I and America of WILLIAM PRESCOTT—names shining luminously among those of the world's later his toriaris. France too within this same year has had to grieve for the loss of M. DE TOCQUEYILLE. Germany, Europe, the whole world has had to mourn the demise of the giant author of " Kosmos," the venerable and patriarchal HUMBOLDT. As early as April last we had to record sorrowfully the decease of Dr. LAIIDNEE., in May that of Professor LEE, in September that of Professor NICHOL, in November that of Professor I\ 7 ll,3oN—each of them more or less radiantly a luminary of the scientific world. Besides these Edinburgh has in 1859 lost Lord MURRAY ; Cambridge, Sir JAMES STEPHEN ; rboth Dublin and London, Lady MORGAN. While other men of letters (as the names already given above will have intimated) breathed their last, either in their prime or in their old age, one full of promises of good in a fair way towards their brilliant ful filment, died prematurely—BATLE ST. JOHN, author of the " Purple Tints of Paris," and other works of singular ability. The engineering world has had a double (and, coming as their deaths did almost simultaneously a wholly irreparable) bereavement, through the demise (here, too as in the instance already given of the, Earls of JERSEY) within a month of each other, of ISAMBARD BRUNEL and ROBERT STEPHEN SON. Among the more celebrated modern adorners and illustrators of the fine arts we must note the passing away from us this year of BACON the eminent sculptor, of HAMILTON the distin guished architect, of SPOHR the illustrious musical composer, of DAVID COl the great master among water-colourists, of two Associates of the Academy, and of two Royal Academicians ! The Associates being FRANK STONE and RtprristorLLE—the Academicians, JAMES WARD (the Father of the Academy) and CHARLES LESLIE the illustrator of so many of the masterpieces of our native literature, from POPE'S " Rape of the Lock" to SCOTT'S " Heart of Midlothian !" Boslo the singer is dead in 1859—YEH the Chinese magnate and mandarin METTERNICH the veteran Austrian diplomatist. The Indian army has had to mourn the death of General JACOB—the British army, the deaths of Generals EYRE and LUSH INGTON. Conspicuous, too, among our most eloquent writers not particularised here as recently deceased, have we not reason to note with regret the death of T!TOMAS DE QUINCEY, renlwned as " The Opium Eater ?" Such, with a few other names of eminence not specified, for the list is melancholy enough and ample enough as it is —such are the remembered notabiiites darken ing with funereal gloom the going out of fifty-nine. May the coming year of our Lord 1860 prove less destructive of men distinguished above their fellows by their moral worth or their intellectual attainments. ST. SLEPHEN'S. The stipulations of Villafranca, of course, astounded Italy—she saw the promise to expel the Austrians stopped midway ; indeed the territory Austria was permitted to retain was, in a mili tary sense, stronger than all she yielded. Then followed the game of the Italians planning to secure their independence, and Austria to recover the Duchies for her satraps. The States voted the decheance of their rulers, and annexation to Pied mont ; but Count CAVOUR retired ; France pro fessed to support the Dukes, and Sardinia recalled all the Commissioners and Delegates whom she had sent to preserve, in her name, order in the Duchies and Legations. The later diplomatic dealings of the Monarchs and the emancipated States need not be recounted—January, 1859, found them almost hopeless at the feet of Austria, December of the same year leaves them free, with no small prospect of con tinuing so. A Congress impends as the result of the monitory words of last New Year's Day —a Con gress in which all Europe seems inclined to take a part. France has shown her latest sentiments by permitting Count CAN - OUR to be there, and by M. DE LA GUERRONIERE'S pamphlet ; England's views are well known; and the Russian lecture to Austria in the Inralide Russe pretty plainly shows the side which will be taken by that Power ; Prussia says nothing, which is equivalent to saying that she will go with the strongest. The great continental affair of the year closes, therefore, hopefully for Italy ; whose freedom, perhaps including that of the Ro mans themselves, we may hope to see recognised in 1860. BOLINGBIWKE. Looking beyond Italy, north, south, east, and west, we may easily see that the movement there has not been without its influence elsewhere. In France itself, notwithstanding the return to attacks by the Government on the Press,' there has been a much stronger assertion of the principles of popu lar rights. An army and a kingdom, baulked of their promised glory in Italy, had to be conciliated at home, and the power of the priesthood, which did so much to stop the war, has evidently diminished. Germany is posed. She knows not what to think. She has to submit to seeing Austria stripped in great part of its Italian power and territory, and France proportionately exalted above her. Austria herself trembles under the blow to her utmost ex tremities. Fact showed that KOSSUTH could soon have raised a Hungarian Legion; she attempts, therefore, in vain to conciliate Hungarian Protes tants by a juggle which even Hungarian Catholics resent; while Transylvania, Croatia, Bohemia, and the Tyrol, all murmer more or less loudly since the Italian war. Austria is a paralysed power. Russia, her mighty neighbour, on the contrary seems stronger. She has vanquished SCHAMYL ; she is improving her commercial arrangements ; she is re solutely converting a nation of serfs into a nation of freemen, and she feels herself in a position to instruct Austria in the duty of progress ! Prussia is as usual an ignoble, selfish non-entity. The mi nor states of course remain where they were. Naples has gained the loss of one of the most brutal of tyrants, replaced indeed by a younger one little better ; the remorse of the dying wretch availed however to liberate the noble POERIO and his companions. Spain ends the year seeking military glory by a crusade against the Moors. But she has it all yet to win in 1860. On the whole, whatever the motives with which Louis Niro- LEON began the campaign in Italy its results to all appearance will be favourable to a cause so dear to Englishmen--that of National Indepen dence. We must defer till Monday remarks on home matters and our own foreign relations. The obituary of 1859, closing to-day, shows a lamentable abundance of great names. Great, we mean, rather in regard to genius than with reference to station. For it is comparatively in significant, in our view of things, that the list of the departed in this dying twelvemonth displays at " the head and front of its offending" (socially) the names of many of our English peers (including among them two Earls of JERSEY, sire and son, both dead within one month of each other, together Arith the Ezirli of MINT°, WALDEGRAVE, and WESTMORELAND), b2iiideS those of several crowned heads. The royal and imperial dead including among them the youthful and newly-married Queen Con- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1859 SONG OF VIE OLD YEAR. Oh! I have been running a gallant career On a courser that needeth nor bridle nor goad ; But he'll soon change his rider, and leave the Old Year Lying low in the dust on Eternity's road. Wide has my track been, and rapid my haste, But whoever takes heed of my journey will find That in marble-built city and camel-trod waste I have loft a fair set of bold way-marks behind. I have choked up the earth with the sturdy elm-board, I have chequered the air with the banners of strife ; Fresh are the tombstones I've scattered abroad, Bright are the young eyes I've opened to life. My race is nigh o'er on Time's iron-grey steed, Yet he'll still gallop on as he gallops with me ; And you'll see that his mane will be flying again Ere you've buried me under the green holly-tree . If ye tell of the sadness and evil I've wrought, Yet remember the share of " good works" I have done ; Ye should balance the clouds and the canker I've brought With the grapes I have sent to be crushed in the sun. If I've added grey threads to the worldly-wise heads, I have deepened the chestnut of Infancy's curl ; If I've cherished the germ of the shipwrecking worm, I've quickened the growth of the crown-studding pearl; If I've lengthened the yew till it brushes the pall, I have bid the sweet shoots of the orange-bloom swell ; 'lf I've thickened the moss on the ruin's dank wall, I have strengthened the love-bower tendrils as well. Then speak of me fairly, and give the Old Year A light-hearted parting in kindness and glee, Chant a roundelay over my laurel-decked bier, And bury me under the green holly-tree. Ye have murmured of late at my gloom -laden hours, And look on my pale wrinkled face with a frown ; But ye laughed when I spangled your pathway with flowers, And flung the red clover and yellow corn down. Ye shrink from my breathing and say that I bite— So I do—but forget not how friendly we were When I fanned your warm cheek in the soft summer night And just toyed with the rose in the merry girl's hair. Fill the goblet and drink as my wailing tones sink, Let the wassail-bowl drip and the revel shout rise— But a word in your ear, from the passing Old Year, 'Tis the last time he'll teach ye—" be merry and wise I' Then sing, while I'm sighing my latest farewell, The log-lighted ingle my death-pyre shall be ; Dance, dance, while I'm dying, blend carol and bell, And bury me under the green holly-tree. ELIZA. COOK THE NEW POEM IN " BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE." There is but one hand in England that could have traced the following masterly portraitures. They are selected from the first part of a poem (to be completed in Three Parts) inaugurating the new number of Maga for January, 1860—a Poem entitled as above, and designed (we are told through the explanatory note prefixed) "to give succinct sketches of our principal Parliamentary Orators, commencing with the origin of Parliamen tary oratory (in the Civil Wars) and closing with the late Sir Robert Peel." The anonymous writer's view, obviously, throughout, and very often too his achievement, combines the terseness of Pope, the wit of Cowley, and the harmonious resonance of Dryden. There are single lines here, and frag mentary passages—some of which we have itali cised—destined, in time, we are certain, to become "familiar as household words " in the mouths of lettered Englishmen. Take the subjoined inimit • able outline sketch of PY3I, as one of the first— " Founders of England's slow-built eloquence— Truth's last adornment as her first defence— Pass—but as shadows ! Nevermore again May the land need, yet reel beneath such wen • Mark in the front, fit leader of the van, Yon large , imperfect, necessary Man ; With all e zeal a cause conflicting needs, And all the craft by which the cause succeeds ; Iron as Ludlow, yet as Villiers trim, 'Twixt saint and sinner—Atlas-shoulder'd PYM." Or take the following page, where— " Great HA.MPDEN fills the eye I Oh, wise as Strafford, and as Vane sincere, Warm without frenzy, wary without fear, Freedom's calm champion while in peace her trust, Freedom's first martyr while her war was just. Hadst thou but lived thine own designs to crown I No ! at its brightest let thy sun go down ! If Heaven in thee had viewed the later guide, From Heaven's elected death had turned aside. Thrice happi one ! thy white name is not seen In the red last of Bradshaw's jurymen; Thy manhood smote not the grey crowuless head — Thy faith forsoOk not the good cause it led— Thy cheek flush'd not at the usurper's scoff, When pikemen bore a people's bauble off ; Hid from thy sight the loved Republic's doom, In courtiers crowding Cromwell's ante-room, And Gideon-Saints, the men of Marston Moor, Drill'd into sentries at the _Brewer's door. So pass, 0 pure Ideal of the free, True stir to steer by, wheresoe'er the sea, Linking the cause that gives the world its breath— With Cromwell's triumph ? No ; with Hampden's death." FRANCE. Better than all, however, the exquisite limning here in verse of the form, the features, the genius, and the oratory of " What voice now swells from Anne's Augustan days ? What form of beautx glows upon the gaze ? Bright as the Greek to whom all toil was case, Flash'd forth the English Alcibiades. He for whom Swift had not one cynic sneer, Whom hardiest Walpole honoured with his fear, Whose lost harangues a Pitt could more deplore Than all the gaps in Greek and Roman lore, Appalling, charming, haunting ST. JOHN shone, And stirr'd that age as Byron thrill'd our own; Sighing for ease, yet ever keen for strife, Zeno's his creed, yet Aretin's his life; With Protean grace through every change he sports, Now awing senates, now perplexing . courts ; A soul of flame, though both a brand and torch, Firing the camp or dazzling from the porch. Behold him now, not in his autumn day, But the full flowering of his dainty May ; Not Pope's sad friend, and soul-deceiving guide, But the State's darling and the Church's pride. How the fair aspect, ere a sound is heard, Prepares the path for the melodious word ; Mark in its gesture force with ease allied, And manly passion with patrician pride ; And oh, that style ! so stately, sweet, and strong, Which, tamely read, has all the charm of song, What must its power o'er beating hearts have been, The genius speaking while the man was seen I Judge it by this —bobold a later time, His party shattered, and its cause a crime; His white name blotted, his young vigour spent, A lone grey man comes back from banishment. Fear seized the Council ; England seemed too weak Against that tongue, if once allowed to speak ; • Law ransacks all the expedients at its choice, Restores the peer, and then proscribes his voice. So the grand orator, his field denied, Shrunk to a small philosopher, and died." We are sorely tempted to give next the portraits of Harley and Walpole, but ave are precluded from doing so by the length already run by our quotations. Enough if we end these as the first part of this remarkable effusion of genius itself closes very admirably—i.e., with this noblest portraiture of all, displaying to us the historic and heroic form of— THE GREAT TARL OF CIIATTIA3I. " Pass by the lesser, not inglorious host ; Awed, they shrink back; arise, majestic ghost Lo, the great Arts' unrivalled master one, The mightier Father of the mighty Son Like hero myths before the Homeric time, Looms the vast form--if vague, the more sublime ; That pomp of speech but such memorial leaves, As the gone storm with which the wave still heaves ; Or as, on hills remote, the cloudy wreath, Flusli'd with the giant sun that sank beneath. Yet it is not by words that critics praise, Nor yet by deeds which after-judgment weighs With ounce and scruple in impartial scales, That a great soul, like a great truth, prevails. Apart from what is said and what is done, There is a force by which the world is won, Born in men's destined ruler'—Reason halts To gauge the merits or assess the faults, While forth nnguess'd magnetic influence flows, Attracts the followers, or unnerves the foes. Our fathers tell us what their fathers told How from those lips the glorious cataract roll'd ; And while its scorn all barrier swept away, Each wave the roughest still flash'd back the day. The effect sublime ; the cause why fritter down? Did stage-craft teach tho mode to wear the crown ? Learn'd he from Roscius in what folds to bring The imperial purple ?—was lie less the king 'Actor' you call him ; yes, with enborn ease What labour made divine Demosthenes ; Tones with the might of music at their choice, The front august, the eye itself a voice, These Nature gave ; did care the rest impart, Nature herself were chaos without art. Was it a fault, if cowering Senates shook, Thrill'd by a whisper, spellbound by a look ? Or cruld the gesture dazzle and control, Save as it launch'd some lightning of the soul ? Others take force from judgment, fancy, thought, CHATHAM from passion ; for its voice he sought Sounds rolling large as waves of stormy song, By pride made stately, but by anger strong; To colder lips he left the words that teach ; He awed and crush'd—the 2Eschylus of speech." FUNERAL OF MR. 'WRIGHT, THE COMEDIAN• 7— The burial of the mortal remains of this popular favourite took place this day at Brampton Cemetery. A large num ber of theprofession attended on the mournful occasion. TIIE GIIIEII COMMISSIONERSIIIP OF WORKS. -- Speculation at the west end is busying itself with the wanner in which the Chief Commissionership of Works, vacant by the death of the Rig - ht llon. 11. Fitzroy, is to be filled 11 P. The rumour circulated last evening was that the office had been offered to Sir John Ramsd,n, whose acceptance would render necessary a new election for the West Riding. Another report gives the vacant department to the Rig&t Hon. W. F. Cowper, to whose present duties at the Board of Trade Lord De Grey and itipou would succeed, LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : MADRID, DEC. 30. Yesterday the Spanish squadron burnt and blew up the forts at the mouth of the river of Tetuan. The troops are in perfect readiness to continue the military operations. Two tribes not wishing to continue the war have withdrawn to their mountains. TURIN, DEC. 30. The Marquis de Villamarina having refused the post offered to him of Governor of Milan, Count Gallena, Senator, has been raised to that dignity. M. de Villamarina has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Naples. BERLIN, DEC. 30. The New Prussian Gazette (Kreuz Zeitung) says :—" According to current reports Prince Ho henzollern Sigmaringen intends shortly to give up the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and to assume the command of the 7th corps d'annee." MADRID, DEC. 29. The squadron left Algesiras yesterday. Its desti nation is not known. PARIS, DEC. 30. There is at this moment, between the Cabinets of Paris. Vienna, and Rome, an active exchange of despatches, easily explained under existing cir cumstances. All that is said of the unfavourable disposition of the Court of Rome is false. Monsignore Sacconi awaits instructions. There is every ground for believing that the reunion at Fontainebleau of the Emperor, Prince Metternich, and M. Walewski, will have the effect of smoothing down many difficulties, and of hasten ing the meeting of the Congress. PARIS, FRIDAY. It is said that the Minister of War is occupied with the organization of a corps of reserve for China, which is to be despatched by Suez in case of neces sity. Experiments were made yesterday at Vincennes with canon of a new model for the naval service, in presence of commissioners specially appointed by the Minister of Marine. Greaf precautions were adopted to prevent accidents, and fortunately none took place. The experiments appeared to have com pletely succeeded. The Forfait, the second steam corvette built for account of the French Government by M. Nor mand, of Havre, was launched with complete suc cess on Wednesday last, notwithstanding the heavy sea running and the violent south-west wind. Every necessary precaution was adopted, and at 1 o'clock the Forfait took her rapid course into the sea. Two steamers towed her into the port, having, as an additional precaution, been supplied with a provisional rudder. She will be immediately pro vided with machinery. A letter from Algesiras of the 18th inst. informs us that the French fleet under the orders of Vice- Admiral Romain Desfosses has received a stock of provisions and clothing for seamen, which leads the writer of the letter to believe that the French flee will remain for some months longer on the coast f Spain. PARIS BOURSE.—The market was rather lute buoyant at the opening, and for a time prices 4pt up. Later in the day stock again became ofAed, and prices receded. Threes, after having beenjone 68f. 90e., improved to 69f. 85e., and are nw at 69f. ; Mobilier varied from 815 to 800 f. ; 920 to 912 f. 50c ; Orleans, 1,400 to 1395 f. Southern, 517 f. 50c. to 515 f. ; Lombard, tisf. to 562 f. 50c. The following were the last quotal on s :- 41 per Cents. 95 75 Credit Foncier.. • • 720 Do. end month 95 75 I Belgian 4} . ...... 3 per Cents 69 301Piedmontese (5) • . 85 Do. end month 69 2 1 Roman ......... 81 _ Bank Shares 2830 Austrian ....... , 86 Cr6dit Mobilier 815 Spanish Threes 43 60 Do. Account RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans' 1392 50 ~ 1392 60 Northern . 960 ~ 960 New ditto — , 852 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 916 25 p: 91.5 Geneva 535 —,. 535 Southern Western 570 567 50 E as t ern Sardinian 415 -- .. 410 Austrian Lombard .. .. 665 _ Exchange on London, at sight, paper , 2 ;f. 10c. ; money, 25f. 9c.; three months, paper, 24f. 95c. ; honey, 24f. 931 c. After the close of the regular lisiness at the Bourse yesterday, M. Martinet, t le commissary, had the following notice posted tp :___. " Some evil-intentioned Pei's% have endea voured to spread a report that tee Papal Nuncio has quitted Paris. I am authtised to formally contradict the statement." AUSTRII. V IENNA, DEC. 28, The TViener Zeitetna of thisday_ contains the fol lowing letter from his Mojesy the Emperor to the Minister of the Interior "Dear Count Goluchow s k—The patriotism dis played by my subjects d_uri,_ the recent war was most exemplary. Thousakis of volunteers, very many of whom are still eider arms, then entered the army. The volun6rs in question and the recruits of the year 1859 make the army almost complete/ and I therefore ordain that there shall be noievy of recruits in 1860, and that no more tha 4 the ordinary (normirte) number of men shall be t aised in the year 1861." The foregoing docukent cannot fail to produce an excellent impressi%, as it proves that the Em peror feels the necessi y for husbanding all the re sources of the "'Pik During the last few years above 100,000 Pulg men have annually been taken from their u!kal occupations and put into the ranks of the arty, and the natural consequence of such a drain one e a population is, that labour of all kinds is extremely expensive. By the Im perial edict two objects of importance will be attaincd--the ovlav for the army will be greatly reduced, and th, - - , landed proprietors will be able to find hands witj which to till the soil. PERSIA. A letter fran Teheran of Nov. 2, says :—" The Shah has rekrnod to this capital, after an absence of nearly ter weeks, usefully employed in visiting different Pkvinces. His Majesty, during his ex cursion, 41,,,,,hat depart e d f rom usua l or i en t a l e ti que tte, and allowed persons of various ranks and callin gs to approach him, from whom he re ceived . u.'ef„l information. The Shah on his en trance % the capital, ,r ece i ve d a rea l ova ti on . H e had glla orders that the people should not be kept a distance, and this act of confidence and l a ffability produced an excellent effect on t crowd. In one of the streets, a party of when rushed forward in front of the Royal cortel e, exclaiming that they wished to have a good v iel lof their Sovereign. Nassr-ed-din smiled at the re q uest, and stopped his horse for several 'n u k es , the multitude acknowledging this act of cov resy by the loudest acclamations, The Shah ? c tipies himself actively with public affairs; his 111 4genoo makes him accept everything in the pe of Progress, and his intentions are excel tlt. The despatches sent from Paris by Has- San-Ali-Khan are very satisfactory. The French Government keeps up the most friendly rela tions with the Shah. Bzron Pichon, the French illinister at the Court of Persia, has by his ability and amiable manners powerfully con triblited to that result, The French military m'slion continue their task with great assiduity, to t he full satisfaction of the Shah. The officers bad ,a first some cause for complaint at the of ferNe conduct of certain functionaries and of " 34 of the lower classes of the people, but all is now changed, and every proper respect is paid to their uniform. Sir Henry Rawlinson, the suc cessor of Mr. Murray as English Minister at the Court of Persia has arrived, and been received by the Shah. The camps of Udjan and Elbourz have been raised, in consequence of the bad weather, and the troops have gone into their different canton ments. Since the 10th the snow has fallen very heavily throughout the whole of the country, and all the roads are blocked up. TVYLD'S MAP OF MOROCCO. We shall, in due time, learn to know the world through Mr. Wyld's persuasive tuition, nearly as Well as himself, Queen's Geographer though he be. We are pretty well acquainted with several por tions of it already, thanks to our enterprising friend's exertions. We suppose our next grand lesson will be with our old friend the Chinaman, whose perfidious conduct has aroused the sleeping vengeance both of France and England, but that of England more particularly, and we regret more wofully. Here we have a map of a country very little known though so near at hand. Indeed, Afriei, seems to be, if not the great, at least the dry unknown in our rreographical knowledge. What with Lions and Tigers, with people nearly as wild and savage—and above all, with burning deserts, and little or no water drink able by travellers, it is a country—the very ghost of i,s famous antiquity. All these Mr. Wyld has taken into account so far as Morocco is concerned, and has illustrated the dark mountains and hazardous byways of the valleys with a master hand, such as himself could only achieve. We have the Bay of Gibraltar and Algesiras on the Spanish side of the Mediter ranean coast, stretching to the East beyond Almeira Bay, with, on the West or Atlantic side, Cape Trafalgar, Cadiz, the Gualdaquiver River, with that blackguard Tarifa point from which the brave Spaniards boast their prowess, by firing at helpless merchant vessels which may be driven by wind or current near enough to frighten them ! On the African side of the Mediterranean the coast stretches down to Oran, Mostaganem, showing Orleansville in the background. Then we have the Atlantic coast delineated as far from Mogador as it is from the Strait of Gibraltar While on the East we have the extreme boundary of the Empire of Morocco, or, as Mr. Wyld styles it, Morocco, to the borders of French Algeria. But the most interesting portion of the map at the pre sent juncture seems to centre about the promontory from Tetuan some 25 miles .inland to the coast rounding from Tangiers to Ceuta, the bay of which is admirably defined on a large scale in another part of the map. Then there is an excellent picture of the bay and harbour of Mogader, with an island some thing similar to our Isle of Wight, for the protection of shipping, with a northern and southern entrance, which seem to indicate 'a complete harbour of safety. This port is on a line with the City of Morocco from the Atlantic—avery excellent picture of which is given on the West or Atlantic side of the map. Altogether we can truly recom mend this Map to all those who take an interest in the present audacious but ineffectual attempt of the Spaniards and the bold defence of the chival rous Moors. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset arrived at Wimbledon-park yesterday, from visiting Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, at Broadlands, Hants. The Earl and Countess of Warwick have arrived at their residence in the Stable-yard, St. James's, from Warwick Castle. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield are enter taining a select party at Bretby-park, Derbyshire. The Earl and Countess of Craven and the Ladies Craven will leave town on Monday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, at the Grove, near Watford. The Earl and Countess de Grey are staying on a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, at their seat, Broadlands, Hants. The Countess Dowager of Westmoreland and Lady Rosa Fane are expected in town in a few days from Althorpe House, Northamptonshire. ROME. The following letter has been received in Paris from Rome, dated the 24th inst. : " If no untoward event occur, Cardinal Ante nelli will leave this city shortly for Paris, He proposes to take with him the following three per sons :—The Advocate Massani, late a Councillor of State, and at present the Director of the Mont de Piete ; the commander Barluezi (minutente), Under Secretary of State and the Abbe Arrighi, attached to the congregation of religious ceremo nies. The Commander Barluezi enjoys the re putation of being the most distinguished member of the Foreign-office. That department, how ever, it must be confessed, has lost much of its ancient reputation. Cardinal Antonelli will be accompanied likewise by his brother Angelo, who generally passes some time in Paris every year. It is presumed that Monsignor Sacconi, the Pope's Nuncio in Paris, will be the second Plenipo tentiary. The Gironale di Boma announces that the Holy Father has relieved Cardinal Savelli from the direction of the Finance Committee in consequence, according to that journal, of his delicate health. The excuse may be charitable, but the truth is, it was on account of a speech he made when he pre sented a report hostile to the Minister of Finance. For the same reason the Pope wished to make an example of - Monsignor Loschiaro, who was a mem ber of the Commission of Finance. It is to be re gretted that such an incident should have deprived the commission of one of its most experienced and talented members. I Vonsignor Loschiaro is elevated to a seat in the Council of State. All acquainted with him desire that this title may not be merely honorary. As to the Commission, its new presi dent is already orcrwhehned with the amount of business imposedon hint. The Treasury was pro gressing prosperously, and the receipts and expen diture of the Zoman States were being equalised when the instrrection in the Romagna opened a wound, or rather an abyss, which is really fearful. The Minister has not confined himself to an issue of 2,000,00 f. Roman Consols ; he has sold an amount eqcal to 5,000,000 f. Cardinal Tosti, who was the least fortunate in the management of the Finance Department, has likewise been removed from th direction of the great hospital of St. Michael, and appointed librarian to the Vatican, This choice has astonished everybody, as it was be lieved the Cardinal was in disgrace. It was evi dently intended to diminish the humiliation of the last removal; but the library of the Vatican would have required a first-rate scholar—such as Cardinals Grasellini, Santucci, and Gaude. Car dinal Viale, Archbishop of Bologna, has published a circular addressed to his diocesans, to warn them against the efforts of the Bible Societies,_ and agsinst the distribution of immoral books. The Archbishop of Florence has likewise written a letter addressed to Baron Ricasoli, Prime Minister, com gaining of the circulation of irreligious and obscene looks in Tuscany.' AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY. The United States' mail steamer Fulton, Captain J. A. Wotton, which arrived off Cowes yesterday morning, with mails of the 17th inst. from New York, and brings 50,000 dols. for England and 331,584 dols. for France. On the 18th, off Sandy Hook, the Fulton passed the steamships Vanderbilt and Borussia, bound in, both from this port: The President's Message to Congress had not yet been delivered, the House of Representatives not having elected a Speaker. In the Senate a special committee to investigate the Harper's Ferry affair, consisting of three Demo crats and two Republicans, had been appointed. A resolution was offered directing inquiry as to the expediency of repealing the Act requiring the laws passed by the Legislatures of New Mexico and Utah to be submitted to Congress for approval or rejec tion. The Rev. Mr. Gurley was chosen chaplain, and the Senate adjourned till the 19th inst, In the House of Representatives several ballot ings for the Speakership had takeu place, one on the 15th resulting as follows : Sherman (Republican Bocock (Democrat) Gilmer (Southern Opposition) Scattering Sherman lacking only four votes of a majority. On the 16th Messrs. Bonham, of South Carolina, and Sims, of Kentucky, delivered speeches on the rela tions between the North and the South, signifying their preference for a dissolution of the Union rather than endure the continual aggressions of the North upon the constitutional rights of the South. These gentlemen having concluded their remarks, the House again proceeded to ballot for Speaker, with the following results : Sherman •• • Boclek Gilmer . . Scattering No election. On this ballot 14 Republicans deserted Sherman and voted for Gilmer, but the Democrats declined to follow their example. Mr. Gilmer here withdrew from the contest, and nominated Mr. Boteler, of Virginia, a member of the Southern Op position, and representative of the Harper's Ferry district. Another balloting was had, which re sulted as follows : Sherman .. Bocock Boteler Scattering There being no debate the house adjourned. The Democratic members held a caucus the same night, and tacitly agreed to stand by their candidate until some new combination can be effected. There seemed to be little prospect of an organization until after the holidays. Lola Montez lectured to a very numerous au dience at Mozart-hall, New York, on the evening of the 15th, on the subject of " John Bull at Home." Some 3,000 people were present, and the lecture was listened to with marked attention. She was frequently applauded, especially in the allusion which she made to the interference of States with city rights, which she said was perfectly unknown in Europe. Her pictures of English life were hmmo rous and amusing, but free, as a general thing, from ill-nature and abuse. She showed the resemblance between English and American peculiarities of character, and traced the latter to an English origin. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The New York money market was again working more easily on the 16th. Brokers had more money offered them at 6 than they could use, and 51 had been accepted in seve ral instances. At the discount houses more short paper passed at 6 than was the case early in the week. Foreign exchange was moderately active for the Fulton at 1091 to 1. for sterling 60 day bille, and 1091 to 1101 for short sight. The leading bankers asked 1091, but some excellent bills had been sold at 109±. Some francs wore sold at 5 171 ; the general asking rate at the banking houses was 5 134 for short sight, and 5 151 for GO days. The price of sight bills on New York at the cities men tioned was as follows, the prices being expressed in the °us rency of the cities where the bills were drawn :—Chicago, 1 p.m.; St. Louis, Itolp m. ; Cincinnati, I ; Phila delphia, par to 1-10 p.m. ; Boston, 1- 10 p. m. ; Baltimore, h. p.m. ; Charleston, ?, to 2 1- ; Savannah, 1-3 d to p.m. ; Mobile, 9-16 to z dis, ; New Orleans, Ito dis. APOTIIECARIES'-IIALL.—The following are the names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday, Dec. 29 :—Edward Denham Tom son Wakefield ; Wm. Henry She e h y , Claremont-s q uare. ils ngton ; David Roberts, I'wllheli; John Marriott Hind, Nottingham; Leonard J obn L . ce, Devonshire- square ; Row land Maunsey Eowstead, Caistor, Lincoln; William Abel Griffith James, Kirkby Lonsdale ; Charles Gibson Taylor, Stratford, Essex ; Thomas Carill \Vorsley Henclilev, Coat tollyn, Glamorgan; and Thomas Harlc, Glasgow. The following gentleman also on the same day passed his first e zmu j il ativa ()has, Qutipu Sprague, liimbolton, Hants, ENGLISH EXPEDITION TO CHIN 4. A letter from Hong Kong says :—During the last week every one has b een anx i ous ly looking for the arrival o f th e ma il, w hi c h oug ht to bring an answer to Admiral Hope's despatches and the opi nion at home regarding the Peiho disaster ; but, as is the case generally when anything is particularly desired, it has not yet arrived. Two or three ex tracts from English j ourna l s o f a later date than we have received here were p u blished in a local paper a few d a y s ago , w hi c h, th oug h r ather severe , are on the whol e more f avoura bl e than it was anti cipated they would be. E v ery one is pleased to ears o find it is not probabl e th e Ad m i ra l will be super seded. Throughout the s quadron there app t be the greatest confid ence i n him, and the general feeling is that a younger or more active comman der-in•chief could scarcely be selected from our list of Admirals ; that, although some of his arrange ments may have been injudicious last summer, he is, from his past experience, better qualified to plan and direct the operations of next year than a new man could possibly be. With the French we shall have a large force of ships and men here next spring. It is hoped that of the former which may be sent we shall only have those drawing little water, as ail others are useless on this station. Batches of troops arc slowly coming ' in from India. The 67th Regiment, a portion of the 3d Buffs, a company of Engineers, and a few native troops have already arrived. The remainder of the Buffs left Calcutta in her Majesty's troopship Adventure, but, owing to some accident to her machinery, when about a hundred miles from the Hooghly, she was obliged to put back. Necessary repairs will detain her about six weeks. The troops, it is said, were transferred to the Fiery Cross, and may be daily expected. Vessels coming from Singapore and the south east lately have had very bad weather. There have been three or four sad wrecks. The Inker man, from London, bound to Hong Kong, with Go vernment stores, was caught in a typhoon during her passage up the China Sea, became leaky, and went down off' St. John's, near Macao, where the master and crew arrived on the 22d of October. On receipt of this intelligence Admiral Hope de spatched her Majesty's ship Furious and the gun boat Watc Hub to save what was possible. The only thing recovered was a cask of good English draught ale. The steamer James Hartley was totally , lost on the Tunki Rocks, about 90 miles from Hong Kong, on the 19th of October, with a considerable amount of money on board. The greater portion of this has been rescued by her Majesty's gunboat Bustard. News arrived two days ago 'that a large ship which. left Macao about three weeks since with 1,000 Chinese coolies on board, for Hayannah, went down off the coast of Cochin China, and that seven-tenths of those on board perished. The cap tain, surgeon, and some others have found their way to Turon, the French settlement. The temperature is beginning . to get cool and pleasant. The Ist Royals, who are in garrison here, have lost a great number during the summer and autumn. They look very sickly now. It is to be hoped they will pick up a little during the winter. It has been decided that a sanitarium shall be erected near Victoria Peak. The Government, it is said, will make the road, and the military autho rities are to erect the building. Our China and India squadron is distributed es follows : At Hong Kong—The Chesapeake (flagship), the Cambrian, the Magicienne, the Furious, and the Roebuck, and the gunboats Opossum, Banterer, Forester, Kestrel, Leven, Starling, Firm, SlaneYl Woodcock, Drake, and Watchful. At Shanghai—The Sampson, the Inflexible, and the Cruiser, and the gunboats Haughty, Janus, and Bustard. At Amoy—The Acorn. At Foochow—The Camilla. At Ningpo—The Algerine. At Whampoa and Canton—The Fury, the Assist ance, the Nimrod, and the Hesper. At Japan—The Highflyer and the Actaeon. I.YDLIN _RAILROAD STATISTICS. - During the year 1858 the East Indian Railway carried 1,172,852 passengers, or 8.952 per mile. The gross earnings per train mile were 3r. 145. Ip. and the working expenses lr. 15a. Ip. The' profits were 49.9 per cent., and the expenses 50.1 per cent. of the whole earnings. The profit on the cap ital is estimated at 6-3 per cent. The increase of goods traffic is the most striking feature of the returns, the increase of the passenger traffic having been but trifling on this line. The Great Indian Penin sula Railway was open for 68 miles on the Concan and 1031 on the Deccan line, or a total of 1711. As 64 of these miles were open for only a fort night, 1351 is assumed as the standard. Unlike the East Indian line the returns from passenger traffic are most satisfactory, and the receipts from goods, though showing an improvement on previous periods, still disappointing, The expenses amount'to 43.35 on the receipts, a result which is creditable to the Great Indian Peninsular Railway as compared with the East Indian Railway in working. But the capital expended on the former is so much greater that the net per tentage i 5 £4 ss. 10d. against £6 ss. on the latter. The passenger income is 4r. 14a. Op. per train per mile against 3r. 13a. 4p. in 1857 ; the goods traffic only 2r. 9a. 11p. The high rates for goods are alone to blame for this result, and their recent reduction is still insufficient. When we look at the revenue of the Madras Railway we cease to wonder that the men who are the greatest oppo nents of railways belong to that presidency. It is the worst of the three. Open for 96 miles, and worked as cheaply as the other Indian lines, from its high rates it has not succeeded in securing much traffic. Its expenses are accordingly 66.44 per cent. of the whole revenue, but there is a slight improve ment on previous years, which raises the profits to nearly 3 per cent. When we compare these re sults with the figures published by the Board of Trade on English Railways for 1858, we have rea son to congratulate ourselves on the larger returns of the Indian lines. The average rate of dividend on the whole of the ordinary share capital in Eng land was 3.06, somewhat less than the yield of even the Madras line. Even the interest on preference capital and loan was only 4'63, or little more than the yield of the Great Indian Peninsula line, and 2 per cent. below the East Indian line. In round numbers, 140,000,000 passengers were conveyed,but in propor tion to the mileage, the number of passengers on the East Indian Railway is greater than in Ireland, nearly equal to that of Scotland, and about three fifths that of England. The average cost of the construction of the English lines has been per mile £39,264 ; of the American, £8,275 ; and of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, £8,253. The working expenses on the Indian lines are less than on any other, and every new extension, every new reduction of the rates, increases the receipts. These results, we submit, are encouragng in themselves. T hey point, also, to a future for Indian railways of which men do not dream. As yet they are single lines, without even roads as feeders ; as yet they e t their have not reached their gre at termini, but each ends in a swamp or a villa g e ; oods as y fares for third-class passeng ers and for g are disproportionately high. When the overland traffic, and the produce of the hills and well-watered valleys, are borne along between Madras and Bey pore ; when Central India and the assigned districts of Hyderabad pour their vast c otton wealth rat° Bombay ; when the goods of Manc hester are borne into the interior, and the riches of the doabs th e deltas of the Indus and Ga n g es, and the tea of this, o , iy. partially Calcutta Himalaya ; slopes and w are hen carriedthedense ow p n o t p o ut u t i r o r n a c o h f e t e h a e n s d e valleys, ever on the move , is attracted ra by arc s lower s lower than those of their own boats, I n dian l sweiclil.etyieml,dhiachlmowstillfaabeucloomuspldisih vidends. which has made the East Indian Railway - -only The one aware of it—eclipse the others, an d which only o ne English line has yet perceived', is cheap fares, cheap rates.—. Friend of Indz.u. MINES. —Considering the Christmas holidays, the Mining Share Market has been pretty active thisswtßuseek, sell, and a good amount of business done in Treloweth, Ea Tamar Consols, Wheal Unity, West Caradon, Stray Park, Kelly Bray, Great South Tolgue North Roskear, Wheal Harriett, Trelawny, Mary Ann, Wheal Grenville, and a few other stocks. The fortnightly settlement took place on Friday, and, we understand, in East Russell upwards of a thousand shares were settled for, scarcely without a trane the fer passing, thus showing th e " gambline." nature of b e said to business going on. Altogether, the market may wear a buoyant appearance, and a largo bu siness, as well as increased prices, aro an ticipated in the coming year. There can be no doubt that a daily increasin and invesg demand is springing up for good mines, and speculators tors, by acting cautiously and, upon sound advice, and bY eschewing the bubbles of the day, may find sound and profitable employment for their capital in 13ritish mines. In the Annual Review of Minim,, published in the Jeurea/ of to-day, there is so much said of boncePe and legitimate mines, that we may be excused for being more than usually brief in this ai tide. Stray Park, on Thurs day, became in great demand, and in the thee of a heavy call rose to 25, and leave off 26 to 261 ; it is supposed same discovery has been made, but no official intelligence has been received. North Roskear also in demand', and rose to 33, 35. Alfred Consols, 5t051 ; Bedford United, 71 to 71; Cargoll, 12 to 13. Tamar Consols have been very largely dealt in, and advanced to 3 A , a; the sale of the ore, 60 tons, realised £24 Ils. 6d. per ton, and a good profit, and this caused the demaxd. Treloweth, Bto 81, and a large business done. East Russell opened this week 12 to 121, buyers ; the report valued the 77 east at f.lBO per fin. ; the 88 east ,Cl 5. On Wednesday, the public inspecting day, a telegram was received at the office to the effect that the 88 wasp oor, p re end 77 also poor ; shares, notwithstanding this, kept pretty firm, and leave off 111 to 111.—Ninitl ,TWOrned of this d('U• Paper prem. Bus rately slight ditto fun 4 45k, C eents. 1011. The pany a par, ai The issued premiu is £l, £3,000 A mi Wed i genera' Great I Os.; LI Wester land at The: howevc 123. I In th East Ii Peninsi I.oa. ; a Joint inact iv( Westm Oriente Sank St 3 per Ce New 3 p India ,si Ditto Df Ditto Bc Ditto ttn Ditto : c onsole' India St, Ditto, Pachequ Ditto Su FC Chilian, Ditto IdexiQan. Ditto Russian, Ditto Spanish Turkish Ditto J Ditto Venerne Ditto. Doeh _ . 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