The Sun. — London, England, 1859-01-19 00:00:00

R°'" ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT CART /EN, under the solo Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Vki W. Harrison THIS KING will be presented an entirely new and romantic Opf tra, by Mr. W. Balfe, entitled SATA NELLA ; or, THE I'o' WER OF LOVE. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conchn le with the new Pantomime of LITTLE RED RIDING H OOD ; or, Harlequin and the Wolf in Granny's Clothi'ag. Commence at Seven, TIIE - A.TRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee—Mr. E. T. Smith. TIE IS EVENING, LATEST FROM NEW YORK. Mr. and I irs. Rainey Williams. To conclude with the new pantomime, ROBIN HOOD; or, E Sarlequin Friar Tuck and the Merry Men of Sherwood Fore st. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. TI ITS EVENING will be performed THE CORSICAN BR( ►TITERS. Mr. C. Kean. AI ter which, a new „rand Christmas Pantomime, entitled T II: KING OF THE CASTLE; or, Harlequin Prince Dia' nond and Princess Brighteyes. HEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. 1' HIS EVENING will be presented THE LOVE CHASE. Mes srs. Chippendale. W. Farren, Rogers, Clark; Miss Amy Sed zwick and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. fter which, a new grand Comic Pantomime, entitled UN DINE ; or, Harlequin and the Spirit of the Waters. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS ENING the ew Dramntitled MARION DE LORME E V ; or, The Cradl e of Steama, e : Madame Celeste, Mr. Vaudenhoff, Mr, Emery, Mr. Falconer, &c. After which, will be produced the new Burlesque, written expressly for the Lyceum Company by Robert B. Brough, and entitled TILE SIEGE OF TROY. The principal cha racters by Mrs. Keeley Miss Julia St. George, Dirs. Weston, Miss Portman Miss Talbot, Miss Kate Saxo n, M iss E. Romer, ke. ; Mr. Emery, Mr. Charles Young, Mr. }Merton, Mr. J. Rogers, Mr. Barrett, ac. ; Miss Rosina Wright, Miss M. Charles, Miss Harriet Dalton, Am To conclude with the new Comic Pantomime, replete with new tricks and mechanicC rem orne Fete. Clown, Er CQharles al devices, entitled H LEUIN TOY HORSE ; or, The Laur i ; Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Pantaloon , Mr. Henr y Lauri ; Columbine, Miss Jenny Lauri Reduced Price s —Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25 B ox office o . ; Gallery, is. ss pen from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7 every evening. ----- NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EP - ENING, THE BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. C. Selby, Mr. Billington ; Miss Kelly, Mrs. Chatterley. To be followed by TARTUFFE. Tartuffe, Mr. B. Webster; Orgon, Mr. C. Selby ; Damius, Mrs. Beington ; Elmire, Miss 'Henrietta Simms ; Dorine, Mrs. Mellon; Marcani, Miss Keeley. To conclude with the grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled MOTHER RED CAP ; or, Harlequin Johnny Gilpin's Ride to Edmonton. Clown, Mr. Croueste ; Harlequin, Mr. Hilde brand ; Columbine, Miss Hayman ; Pantaloon, Mr. Lnpino ; Sprite, Mr. Le Barr. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Hiss Swanborongh. THIS EVENING. THE RULE OF THREE. After which, the new Extravaganza, KENILWORTH; or Ye Queene. ye Earle, and ye Maydenne. And THE LITTLE SAVAGE. Commence at 7 o'clock. AS TLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. Great and glorious Success of the gorgeously-appinted Pan tomime.—First appearance these two years of the celebrated continental equestrians Mr. A. Brydges and Madame Brydges. Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. During the week, the great Eastern Spectacle of THE REVOLT IN INDIA; sr, The Fugitives and their Faith ful Steed. After which SCENES IN THE CIRCLE by the Star Riders of Europe. Te conclude with the great Operatic and Burlesque Eques trian Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN BARON MUN CHAUSEN, AND HIS COMICAL CREAM COB CRUISER. Baron Munchansen, Mr. W. Anson ; Harlequin, Mr. H. Hemmings ; Pantaloon, Herr Cole; Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest; Columbine, Miss Julia Weston. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips. A Morning Performance of the renowned Pantomime every Saturday, at Two o'clock. Carriages for day performances at half-past four, and for night representation at half-past eleven, CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — Proprietor —C. MORTON. The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE ARTS ( : GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW OPEN DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12 o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist ing Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the Kingdom. The MUSICAL ENTERTAMIENT commences as usual at Seven o'clock. In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose ♦aried instrumental performances have created so marked a sensa tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will perform every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock. THE WEATHER.—Sux Orrtem, Jew. 10. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 55—highest since noon yesterday. 48—lowest this morning and daring the night. 51—this day at noon. BA R OM ETEIt-30—rising. Wm), Westerly; light, with dull mild weather. Mr. BRIGHT has given "a bone to pick" to Whigs and Conservatives. His scheme will give ample occupation to every Member of Parliament who desires fairly and impartially to discharge his duty. We care not what may behispolitical predilections, or what his party feelings,he must test by calm and attentive consideration, the elaborate plan which the champion of the Liberal party has deliberately put forward. Three other Reform Bills are loom ing in the future. Three measures for the improve ment of the national representation have been pro mised or hinted at, but JOHN BRIGHT has antici pated all the others, and pnt forward a project ready to be canvassed, and on which the voice of public opinion will be heard clearly and intelligibly, even before tho meeting of Parliament. There is one broad feature standing out boldly and prominently which will receive general ap plause. Mr. BRIGHT gives us the Ballot, gives security to every elector, and prevents the possi bility of any corrupt or degrading influence. No wealthy candidate or speculative lawyer will pay a bribe when he can obtain no security as to the vote given by the " bribee." The man who would barter his political birthright for a few sovereigns would be ready to deceive his equally criminal accomplice, and to receive the wages of shame, without performing his part of the disgraceful compact. Bribery would be altogether - extin guished by the Ballot, and that alone should be sufficient to point out the necessity for its adoption. But bribery is not the only means of corruption. There are others producing far more injurious results. Intimidation, whether proceeding from landlord, priest, employer, or customer, or even the hired bludgeoneer, who is regarded by Lord JOHN RUSSELL as " the representative of the unrepre sented," (!) is equally_ bad. A man should not be deprived of the shelter of a roof, and driven with his family into the streets, or to the doubtful mercies of the Union Workhouse because he chances to differ with the gentleman to whom he happens to pay rent as to the legislative qualities of the Honourable SAMUEL FLUNKEY or HORATIO FIZTKIN, Esq The sareedotal interference is, if possible, more objectionable. The priesthood of any denomination have never yet governed a nation wisely or judiciously, and, if they are not qualified as statesmen, they could scarcely make a proper selec tion of the elements from which statesmen are to he selected. Some say that therelean be no adequate guarantee against priestly interference —that they will still worm themselves into the secrets of their' flock. But if so, those who have not strength o f mind sufficient to keep their own counsel m us t b e , hopeless fools, for whom legislation .would be useless. The great advantage of private voting will, however, be felt by the trading community--- b y those who would suffer loss of custom or of employment, because they had con ---scientiously exercised the important trust con fided to the it charge. They do not wish to give offence. They know well that they will receive no eq . itivalent for the serious losses they may sustain ; and it is ridiculous to say that they, in the consd Jntious discharge of their rights and privileges, la -ill receive an ample recompense for all their sufferi ngs. The most elaborate portion of Mr. BRIGHT'S scheme is tl iat which relates to disfranchisement and enfranchisement. The former, of course, takes the priority , because there must first be a vacancy before it c :an be filled up. No less than one hundred an .d thirty seats come under the scalpel, and are orif iered to yield up their privileges to more worthy claimants. None possessing more than a ight thousand inhabitants will be altogether dis fromelaised, althouglf none with less than sixteen thou sand will be deemed worthy of sending a id representative to the popular bran ch of the B L e e c g l s lature. The elaborate schedules which ap pearee, 1 in our impression of last evening will clearly indicat, a the nature of the contemplated changes ; and, alt.ho ugh there may be some details requiring alteratiou, we may hail the measure as the best which ha s yet been ventilated, and which furnishes the nuclei as of a Reform Bill which will be accept able to thi e nation, and afford the best prospect of obtaining representatives qualified to discharge their imps , rtant duties, and ready and willing to prove that they are really " the right m en i n th e right plac(3 s." One of our weekly contemporaries, who used to employ slach language only when pretty sure of its correctness, says, " We are not entirely with out grounds for believing that the Reform Bill is in existenno, and has been subjected to exceedingly careful anal well-assisted consideration ; but the nature of it 9 propositions still remains a secret of the most confidential character." The Radical Re form Bill was made public, so far as its main pro visions are con.cerned, by Mr. BRIGHT on Monday evening at Bradford, and we now know all we need to know of his views. Meantime a bill, in everything but form, by Sir JOHN E. EARDLEY WILMOT, Recorder of Warwick, now lies before us, sufficiently explicit for us to give it a first reading, and to form a pretty fair conception of its workings. Sir JOHN is no croaker. He has no fear what ever of largely extending the franchise. He thinks that with the cessation of the Russian war and the suppression of the mutiny, there is no pretext on which a Reform Bill can be evaded, nor does he wish to evade it. He thinks the bearing of the humbler classes in regard to the war, their fighting at Sebastopol, their aversion to the Conspiracy Bill, with their behaviour in 1848, all show that the country is quite safe in their hands. "Is there," he asks, " any ground for alarm, then, in the know ledge that the people are sensible of their power ? . I say not the slightest, as long as those to whom are entrusted the reins of power promote by legislative measures the best interests of the empire, and show by their acts that the honour, prosperity, and advancement of England are the keystone of their policy, and not the strengthening of their own position, wrought out by personal manoeuvres and the unprofitable fencing of party conflicts." Sir JOHN first presents us with his ideas of dis franchisement and redistribution. To do this he is obliged to consider what shall be its basis. For this he takes the inhabited houses in boroughs ; since he has little difficulty in showing that the present number of electors in each, the population simply considered, and the income-tax, furnish no sufficiently fair idea of the claims of the borough to representation. The number of houses is, he contends, a much more trustworthy and a less I fluctuating basis. By disfranchising all boroughs having less than one thousand inhabited houses, by taking one member from all having less than two thousand, and by adding the four members for Sudbury and St. Alban's, already disfranchised, he gets sixty-four seats. These he proposes to dispose of thus :—To boroughs, 42. To counties, 15. To universities— Aberdeen, 1 ; Glasgow, 2 ; Edinburgh, 2 ; Durham, 1 ; and London, 1; seven in all, as educational seats. Two boroughs, Liverpool and Manchester, now returning but two each, are to return four each. Five boroughs—Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Wolverhampton, and Bristol—are to add one mem ber and return three each. A second member is to be added to eleven which have now each but one representative; all these boroughs containing up- wards of 3,000 inhabited houses. Seventeen new boroughs, of above 2,000 houSes each, are to return one member a-piece. These, with a new metropo litan borough, two members more to Scotch burghs, and an additional member to a Welch one, completes his redistribution of the 42 amongst boroughs. As to the counties—the West Riding of York shire and Lancashire, by further subdivision, arc to gain two members each; five more counties are to have three instead of two members; and six new divisions are to have one member each. These make up the fifteen for counties; and with those for the boroughs and for education make the required total of sixty-four. For the Borough Franchise our author proposes inhabitants—householders who have resided eighteen months in the town—as the basis of his constituency ; and he furnishes ample proof that in this he is proposing no innovation on the consti tution, but rather restoring it. To the above, how ever, he adds, since he objects to a homogeneous franchise, all persons paying local, parochial, and state taxes to the amount of fifty shillings per annam r-all income-tax payers; and all forty-shil ling freeholders, if they elect to vote in the borough in preference to the county. He has also an edu cational franchise, comprising the clergy—whether including Dissenting ministers he does not state— the bar, physicians, surgeons, officers of the army, navy, militia, graduates of universities, members of literary and scientific societies, and perhaps certifi cated schoolmasters. These educational franchises to extend to counties also. • For the County Franchise he proposes the old forty-shilling freehold; copyhold of the same amount ; tenants of land and premises to the amount of £25 per annum ; leaseholders for seven years of £lO per annum; also the fift y . s hil l i ng taxes, the income-tax, and educational franchises, as for boroughs. The savings' banks qualification he rejects as a fluctuating one. These extension s for boroughs and counties are, on the whole, liberal ones; though we can conceive no reason whatever for making a house, simply, the qualifi cation in the borough, and 14 £25 occupation the lowest one for the county. There seems to be no getting over the objection that a lower property qualification in counties indicates a higher status than in the boroughs. It is, however, in his plan for purification of the franchise that Sir JOHN appears to us most seriously to miss his way. ' For this he has nothing better than, first, improving our tribunals for disputed elec tions, by giving the House only the power of de ciding whether there be a prima facie case, and referring the final decision to a judicial commission; secondly, requirin th eg member, before taking his seat, to declare solemnly, on his honour, that he had been no party, directly or indirectly, to the employment of corrupt influences ; and, thirdly, taking the votes in each parish. The Ballot he objects to, but only on very old grounds, such as have been shoWn, a thousand times, to be worth less. This, indeed, reminds us that, with Sir JOHN'S pamphlet, we have also just received the third edition of Major-General THOMPSON'S Cate chism on the Ballot, or a List of Fallacies and the Answers. Here the old " fallacies" of Sir JOHN WILMOT'S pamphlet, and some scores of others, will be found fully answered, and with the Gene ral's usual amount of epigrammatic wit or humour. We have left ourselves no space for comment, but our readers will, we doubt not, feel some interest in "A Second Letter to Richard Freedom, Esq.,— containing the present views of the predecessor in North Warwickshire of Messrs. NEWDEGATE and SPOONER. A wholesome lesson of humanity was on Friday last administered to the parish authorities of St. Pancras, by Mr. TYRWHITT, the worthy police magistrate of Clerkenwell. The circumstances which elicited this timely reproof to the master of the St. Pancras Workhouse were simply these : A police constable, while on the preceding night on duty in Oakley-square, St. Pancras, observes a young girl seated upon a doorstep crying. The wayfarer is a servant maid, out of place, homeless, aged sixteen. •' Why not go to the workhouse ?" asks the policeman. The girl has been there already, and, in reply to her application for a night's lodging, has been refused admittance. The policeman conducts her back to it, and she is again denied the luxury of a few hours' shelter in tho workhouse. Having then taken her to the, station-house, the policeman, this time accompanied by a sergeant of his division, again leads the poor homeless wanderer baek to the St. Pancras Work house. Finally, and for a third time, the doors of the workhouse are closed against her admittance. The master of this inaccessible establishment, on making his appearance, during the course of the next day, for the purpose of giving something in the way of an explanation, is reported to have treated the whole matter with great callousness and indif ference. The principal reason given is, of course, the old one—the applicant belonged to another parish—that of Clerkenwell. But when the magistrate thereupon remarks, " You surely do not mean to say that when persons are brought by the police, found in the public streets without a home, you refuse admission because they belong to a neighbouring parish?"—" Well, no ;" replies the master cautiously, " that depends." In the instance under notice, however, the applicant in the first case, the policeman in the second, the sergeant of police in the third had each made an extraordinary omission in the form of the demand for the night's lodging—shelter was not asked upon the plea of " destitution." Literally, upon this miserable:quibble the door was closed upon a decent respectably attired homeless girl of sixteen. The mere circum stance of a girl like this met in the streets of Lon don at midnight, crying upon a doorstep, one might imagine was sufficient evidence of the case being one, for that night at least, of obvious destitution. But no : the one magic word was forgotten which appears to be the " Open sesame" to a workhouse! And so, for the third and last time, the grim work house door was closed, and the bolt shot, and the young girl of sixteen, guilty of having no roof to cover her head, was left outside in the humane charge of the police-sergeant and the police-con stable. All this is surely very wretched. It is particularly wretched upon the very morrow, as it were, of Christmas. Scarcely have the pauper inmates of the St. Pancras Workhouse been regaled upon their boneless meat and their all but plumless pudding when the benignant door of the establish ment is thrice in one winter's night slammed in the face of a poor homeless, shivering, crying girl of sixteen. Heartily rejoiced are we at every earnest word of indignation expressed in regard to this inhuman proceeding by the able and benevo lent Magistrate of Clerkenwell. . .. • ~ :fa . i .-: ' ' •••,' .. , ,- - . r.r-- An A re, '"-• ... Y • DIGIT . ,Aft, :..., ~.."...4„imassw. . ~,),,./, 40 ROIT .4, -.... , j , w ,,, ,f,,,, ~,,„ ~,t 4, , , ~ „„..,,, ... • t ..; „fib THE SUN. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 19, 1859. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1859, PROPOSED SHIP CANAL ACROSS THE MALAYAN PENINSULA. An impression is entertained that by a water cut of 12 miles across a particular part of the Malayan peninsula, a saving of 1,175 miles might be effected in the distance between Calcutta and China. At present the voyage from India to Canton involves a long detour by the Straits of Malacca, the whole of which would be avoided if a transit could be effected at a spot called. the Isthmus of Kraw, situated at the southern extremity of the Kingdom of Siam. According to Siamese official statements there is a navigable river on this side of that isth mus, separated only by 12 miles from another river on the eastern side, which, without falls or rapids, runs through a well-inhabited country abounding in rice and cattle, into the Bay of Siam. Sir John Bowring also has stated that the direct passage across the isthmus is about 50 miles, and that from information furnished to him, it would appear that " a few miles of canalisation are alone re quired to unite these navigable communications as they now exist." The subject was brought to the notice of the late Government by Mr. Henry Wise, and instructions were forthwith given by Lord Clarendon, in order that the exact capabilities of the route should be ascertained. This examination has been delayed by the illness of Sir Robert Schoen berg, the British Consul at Siam ; but it is n ow hoped that an early mail will bring detailed intel ligence. Meanwhile the Chamber of Commerce at Bombay have expressed a strong opinion of the importance of the question, and their desire to pro mote its success. The following communication has also been received from Sir John Bowring " Government-house, Hong Kong, Nov. 11, 1858. " Sir, I have received with much pleasure your favour of the 18th of September, with its inclosure, on the subject of uniting, by a ship canal, the two bays of Bengal and Siam. " In the successof this project I feel the deepest interest. Tt had for many years occupied my attention, and I rejoiced in the opportunity afforded me while negotiating the Siamese treaty of frequently discussing the subject with the Kings and Ministers at 13angkok. "These friendly conferences were not, I believe, without effect in removing some of the objections and difficulties which existed at the Siamese Court. " I have had the opportunity at different times of examin ing the topic with our naval authorities, and hoped ere now that her Majesty's surveying ships in the Gulf of Siam would have been able to make a report. The serious indis position of the Consul, Sir Robert Schomberg, has how ever, delayed the prosecution of the local inquiry. It is not necessary I should add that her Majesty's Government have given instructions to have the matter thoroughly in vestigated ; on my part I shall be but too happy to lend a cordial co-operation.—I have the honour to be, sir, " Your most obedient humble servant, " Henry Wise, Esq., Lloyds. " JOHN BOW RING." DEATH, OF RuDlo.—lntelligence has, it is said, been received from Cayenne of the death of Rudio, who, it will be remembered, was a party in the attempt against the life of the Emperor in January last year. He is said to have shown in his last moments - the strongest marks of repent ance. This news reached Paris only a day or two after the 14th, the anniversary of the crime. A letter from St. Petersburg states that the maritime constructions of Austria at Pole have attracted the serious attention of the Russian Government, and pre cise information on the subject is to be demanded at Vienna COURT OF ALDERMEN.—Yeste rday a court was held for the despatch of public business. Petitions were presented by Alderman Carter, Sir Chapman Marshall, and Sir G. Carroll, from the inhabitants of the respective wards of Cornhill, Bridge, and Candlewick, praying for an exten sion of the arrangements made with the police for facilitat ing the traffic across London-bridge. The court proceeded to the adjourned consideration of the petition of Messrs. Gil mour, Rankin, and Strang, complaining of the conduct of Mr. James Connell, as broker. Mr. Bagley, the barrister, appeared for the complainants, and Mr. Prescott for the re spondent, now an inmate of the Debtor's Prison, White cross-street. The case having been fully gone into, the court decided to refer a bond given by Mr. Connell to the City Solicitor to put in suit. CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.—Yesterday a court, at which Mr. Deputy Christie presided, was held for the despatch of public business. Dr. Letheby, the medical officer of health, reported on the state of 216 houses that had been inspected during the week, of which 60 were com mon lodging houses; and he submitted a list of 46 places that required sanitary improvement. In the course of the week there were 78 deaths and 71 births in the City, the number of deaths being greatly above the average. Mr. Scott, the Chamberlain, reported that since the last meeting of the court, he had received from the Metropolitan Board of Works a receipt requiring the payment of £4,412 ss. 10d. as the City's share of the general expenses of that board. On the motion of Deputy Harrison, the precept was re ferred to the general purposes committee to examine and report upon. Mr. Daw, the chief clerk, gave the result of his communications with the various gas companies sup plying the City on the subject of the defective state of the public lights. After some discussion, the explanations of the companies were considered satisfactory. The court then adjourned. PRICE OF GOLD. The. quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 25.15 per 41 sterlin g . On comparing these rat es with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 1-10th per cent. dearer in Paris than iri London. By advises from Hamburg the price of gold is 4241 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 2-10ths per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is lon per cent., which, when compared with the Mint par between the two countries, shows that the ex change is slightly in favour of England ; and, after making allowance for charges of transport and difference of interest, the present rate leaves a very trifling profit on the importa tion of gold from the United States. SUDDEN DEATH OF A SECRETARY AT A BOARD MEETlNG.—Considerable excitement was created amongst the members of the Whittington Life Assurance Society, who were attending a board meeting on Monday afternoon, at the offices in Moorgate-street. Mr. Charles Browne, the secre tary, was in attendanee du r i ng t h e mee ti ng ; but about four o'clock he was observed to fall from his chair suddenly, as if in a fit. Several of the members immediately went to his assistance, amongst whom w ere D r . P a vey, of Guy's Hos pital, and Mr. Critchett, surgeon, who both paid every at tention to him. Dr. Pavey tried to bleed him, but without effect; as life was extinct. • The deceased had previously appeared perfectly well, and had only occasionally com plained of headache. Ho was very much respected. BOYLE V. WISEMAN.—The Pope has received the submission of Cardinal Wiseman's celebrated adversary, the Roman Catholic clergyman, Rev. Richard Boyle, who, ac cording to the official Roman j munal, " penitent and grieving, as much for the scandal he caused as for the affliction he pro duced in the mind of his Holiness, has turned to implore his benign pardon, asking humbly for the necessary absolution from the censure he has incurred, and declaring himself ready to accept any penance which his Holiness may think proper to impose upon him. It is easy to judge how con soling is this virtuous resolution, which offers to good Catholics and to the most worthy cardinal reparation and compensation for those impressions which so much afflicted them, and affords also to the common Father of the Faithful a grateful opportunity to exercise that clemency so dear to his heart, and which so much distinguishes him." The official paper winds up its article with ark allusion to the Good Shepherd and the lost sheep, and warns every one from attempting to throw of the wholesome yoke of the Catholic Church. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT EALING.—On Monday afternoon, about 6 o'clock, a fire broke out on the farm pre mises of Mr. Henry Johnson, called Hangers Farm, at Ealing. The fire was first discovered in a hayrick, and, in consequence of the wind being high, it soon extended itself to another, the flames then assuming a fearful aspect. Three parish engines were soon in attendance, and were succeeded by one of the brigade engines from town. Before, how ever, this force had arrived, the fire had seized hold of two timber warehouses—one nearly 100 feet long, and over 25 feet broad, in which was deposited property valued at several hundred pounds. From that point the flames extended to another building. Unfortunately, the only supply of water that could be obtained was from a pond on the estate, but. the distance from the burning property was so great that considerable time was of necessity spent before the engines could be brought into play. At an advanced period yester day the firemen under Mr. Staples, the chief officer of the C district, and those in charge of the parish engine, managed to get the flames extinguished, but not until the following damage was done :—Two ricks of hay, one containing 16 loads, were destroyed ; another, about 30 loads, was above one-third destroyed; two timber buildings, one 80 by 20, and the other 36 by 24, together with the contents, were also destroyed. The ricks and contents of the buildings were insured in the Phconix fire-office, and the buildings were supposed to be insured in the Sun office. THE BURNS' CENTENARY.—There can now be no doubt that throughout Scotland, and in many parts of Eng land and the United States, the 25th of January will be celebrated with enthusia s m; and that on that day there will be paid to a poet a tribute of admiration which will surpass in extent, if not in depth, anything the world has yet seen. We know that Burns was self-conscious of a wide and enduring fame, but even the prophetic vision of the bard could hardly have anticipated such a heartfelt and general response to his burning words as is at present indicated by the preparations for the celebration of the first centenary of his birth. With reference to the coming demonstration we venture to make one obser vation. Let not the mistake made at the Doon-side festival be repeated now - all over the country. Burns was born 100 years ago, and upwards of 60 have elapsed since his death; in his life he was not, we admit, a great doer he neither fought battles, governed nations, legislated, invented machinery, nor erected public works : what ho did was to write glorious poetry ; a battle won is cherished as a victory, a great measure is regarded as a charter, a beautiful building is admired, a machine is used and valued, and the fame of the doers for their work is un affected, whatever may have been the personal character of the general, the legislator, the architect, or the engineer. Blenheim is not less a glorious victory because Marlborough was—what we now all know ; no one thinks it necessary be fore admiring the Menai bridge to ascertain how excellent a man Telford had been in private life. Even between authors (who pay for their fame by enduring a microscopical criticism of their character, and who has suffered more than Burns ?) and their works time effects the same just separa tion • even under the present system of game laws, and with teetotalism rampant, there is no need, in reading or prais ing Shakspeare, to apologise because he was a poacher and loved new ale not wisely but too well ; and now surely we may say, let there be no apologies for Burns; in future let him be regarded as the author simply, without reference to the man. His faults as a man have been probed and paraded long enough ; there have been some poets who have lived and written since his death, compared with whose depravity and meanness the faults of Burns appear as virtues, and yet it is not the fashion to mar the better part of their. nature by reference to the worse. We trust that in the flood of oratory and song which will be poured forth on the c oming anniversary, there will be much regarding the singer, now powerful and now sweet; and that the veil will be drawn at once over the virtues and the errors of the individual,—khonfries Courier. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Last night Mrs. W. C. Forbes, an American actress, made her debut in Londcn at this theatre, in the character of the Widow Cheerly, in the well-known old comedy of the " Soldier's Daughter." Mrs. Forbes possesses a fine fig are, a handsome face, and a ve-.y considerable aptitude for her profession ; she has been well trained iz a good school, and acts with confidence, ease, and g:ace. The comcdy is of the old stamp, with the very mysterious imbroglio which is palpable from the first, and the very natural characters which have never yet been recognised. No (greater credit can be given to the debutante, who is decidedly the most promising importation from America whom we have seen, than to say that she actually infused some spirit into the performance, and kept the attention of the audience fixed until the fall of the curtain. She was ably seconded by Mr. W. Farrell, who with spirited vivacity dashed through Frank Heartall, and Mr. Crompton, who played Timothy Quaint with much quiet humour. The house was fashion ably attended. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Mr. Charles Dance's capital comedietta, Naval En gagements," originally produced at the Olympic, in 1838, during the reign of Madame Yeah is, has been revived with success at the same theatre. The plot, as may be remem bered, turas upon the difficulties of a father and son, who have entered into, a compact not to marry without consulting each other, and who, in defiance of this promise, have en gaged themselves—the father to a young girl of 18, the other to a blooming widow of 40. Eventually they change future partners, and all ends happily. The part of Mrs. Pontifea, originally sustained by Mrs. Orger, is admirably played by Mrs. Stirling; nor does Mr. George Vining, as Lieutenant Kingston, come far behind his prototype, Mr. C. Mathews. A special word of praise is due to Mr. Horace Wigan for the humour ith which he represents an Irish waiter. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. The Ministers present wore—The Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. Yesterday a meeting of the Council of India was held at the East India House, when Colonel Henry Marion Durand, C. 8., of the Bengal Engineers, was elected a member of the Council of India. The Prince of Wales arrived at Frankfort on the evening of the 14th, with his suite, and passed the night at the Hotel d'Angleterre. The Royal traveller left tho next morning for Italy by Munich. The Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar are expected a their mansion in Portland-place, to-day, from a tour of visits. The Duke of Richmond will leave town on Fri day, to join the family circle at Goodwood. The Earl and Countess of Abergavenny have left Birling Manor, Kent, for Bridge Castle, Tunbridge Wells. The Countess of Mansfield and the Ladies Murray have arrived at Langham House for the season. Lady Blanche Balfour has left the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, for Erith. Colonel and Lady Jane Dundas, accompanied by Lady Caroline Charteris, have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Stoke-Rochford, Grantham. Sir Lydston Newman, Bart., has been enter taining at Manahead, Devon, dairing the past week, the following guests the Princess of Leiningen, H.S.H. the Prince of Leiningen, the Duke of Somerset, the Lord Edward St. Maur, Lord Clinton, the Misses Trefusis, and Lady Julia Lockwood.— Western Times. A despatch arrived at Tangiers on the 30th of December from the Emperor, commanding that the Spanish prisoners should be released, and a sum of 2,000 duros paid to the Spanish Government as an indemnity for a bark pil laged by the piratts of the Riff._ Queen Christina, the Duke de Ilianzares, two of their tw children ,odays agando en theirasui suite e of way 33 Persona, arrived a t Mar seillestia Rome. LATEST NEWS. THE BOMBAY MAIL. We have received the following telegram from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : " MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY MORNING. " The Euxine, with the mails from Bombay, arrived at Marseilles at 6 a.m. this day. " The mails leave for London at 10 a.m. "Passengers are to remain in quarantine for 33 hours." The following telegrams were received at Mr Reuter's office, Jan. 18th : PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 19. The Moniteur of this morning announces that the fines imposed upon 89 political prisoners have been commuted by the King of Naples to banish ment. The prisoners will be despatched to the United States. These measures of clemency have been brought to the knowledge of the French Go vernment by that of Naples itself. MARSEILLES, JAN. 18. Advices have been received from Naples to the 15th inst. The text of the Royal edict of the 13th inst. comprehends the whole kingdom. Councils of war will be instantly called in all places where political disturbances may break out. The councils will have to decide upon the indemnity to be granted to those States which have suffered injury, and their duty will also be to fix the amount of reward to be given to such persons as may have co-operated in the suppression of disturbances. It is asserted that a message in cipher received from London was the cause of this measure. The public funds have fallen 31 per cent. within the last few days, and now stand at 115 with a fiat tendency. According to advices from Rome, Lord Strat ford de Radcliffe was received by the Pope in a private audience, which was of very long duration. His lordship will soon return to London. It is stated that the Austrians will declare a state of siege in the States of the Church. The Paris Correspondent of the Times (Second Edition), says : " Notwithstanding the hopes of some future aggrandisement in Italy, the influence of the Emperor of the French, and the attractions of his intended son-in-law, it is affirmed that the King of Sardinia did not give his consent to the marriage of his daughter without much hesitation and much difficulty. When the matter was first broken to him, Victor Emmanuel was as much taken by surprise as the public has been on learning that it was concluded. The ancient lineage of the one and the recent rise of the other may have had some weight with the descendant of the old and glorious house of Savoy, all liberal as he is in politics, and free and easy as he may be in familiar intercourse, for the prejudices of race never are really eradicated. The objections, however, are said not to have been confined exclu sively to that. The uncertainty of affairs in France, the possibility of future changes—for nothing is impossible—and the inconvenience that might arise to Sardinia, owing to a variety of causes too numerous to be detailed, were urged. I suppose the parties to whom they were offered did their best to remove them—not successfully, however, as it would seem, for it required the direct intervention of a third party to induce Victor Emmanuel to give his consent. When the Grand Duke Constantine was last here this alliance was talked over. His Highness's influence was won in favour of the Prince, and, in compliance with the wishes ex pressed at Turin, its action was brought to bear on the King. Moreover, the Grand Duke asked his brother, the Emperor Alexander, to write an auto graph letter to his Royal brother of Sardinia. The request was complied with, and, according to this account, if his Imperial Highness Prince Napo leon has obtained the hand of a Princess of Savoy, it is owing to the direct intervention of the Czar. Of the sentiments of the Princess Clotilde little is said. A refusal on her part was, I dare say, never taken into account. The connexion with the Im perial family of France will doubtless be compen sated by future advantage, and this ambition may reconcile the Piedmontese Iphigenia to her new condition. The Prince is intelligent and liberal, and, so far as this ought to have weight, he is the son of a father who was a King, and of a mother who was of Royal race." FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The rumour circulates again to-day of the pro bable accession of M. de Persigny to office, as Minister of Foreign Affairs. In spite of the less warlike aspect of affairs for two or three days past, we are still told that the preparations are continued, and that at the War office here few or none breathe a doubt of hostilities in the spring. But as the fact of the preparations at Toulon is too patent to be denied, they are in tended, it is said, for Senegal, Algeria, and China. Confidence in the maintenance of peace appears to be returning slowly and uncertainly. There are some things that would render war- improbable. The evidence is conflicting, but it is some ground of hope that war is unpopular in France, and it is said that even the heads of the army are not those who are the least opposed to it. A semi-official article, in the Constitutionnel, an nounces the termination of the diplomatic difficulty excited by the projected intervention of Austria in Sorvian politics. The Vienna Cabinet, in relinquish ing that project, has, it is stated, given explana tions on the subject which testify to its respect for the important Art. 29 of the treaty of Paris, and also to its sincere desire for the preservation of general peace. The article in the Constitutionnel, after announcing the recognition by the Porte of Prince Milosch—an event already recorded in our columns —proceeds to state :—" The Austrian Cabinet has decided on taking into account the observations submitted to it by all the powers on the subject of the orders addressed to the Commander-in-Chief of the Austrian troops at Semlin. If we are well informed, it results from the explanations offered by the Vienna Cabinet that it fully acknowledges at the present day the importance and the bearing of Art. 29 of the treaty of Paris, and repels all idea of an in tervention which should not have been previously ("cncerted with the other courts. Austria had, it is said, the intention, in offering eventual assist ance to the Porte, to leave to the latter the task of coming to an understanding with the powers on the general action which must precede all armed intervention. It nevertheless appears that the powers, while accepting these explanations, have maintained the principle of their protest. Thus, Art. 29 of the treaty of Paris will have received in this circumstance a fresh consecration, and an interpretation of such a clear and precise character that any ulterior misunderstanding is imp oss ibl e. The speedy solution of this diplomatic difficulty and the deference paid by Austria to the public opinion of Europe cannot fail to consolidate con fidence and to restore calm to the public mind." The .Debats likewise records the satisfactory solution of the above question, and ff o ers some reflections from which ITe extract the following : " The solution of this question, at which we re joice, deprives the small number of French jour nals, which are so anxious for war, of a subject, and compels them to seek for some o •tl diplomatic difference sufficiently important and ripe to allow them to hope for a speedy rupture. Italy remains to them, also the agitation in the Lombardo-Vene tian kingdom, the desires attributed to Piedmont, and the various manifestations of the Piedmontese Government. But the hopes expressed in the address to the Sardinian crown are not quarrels, and the most animated speeches are not diplomatic notes, much less an ultimatum. As the question of Servia has now been reduced to nought, there are excellent reasons for trusting in the preserva tion of general peace." The same journal devotes a long article to the treatise on the comparative merits of the English and French navies published by the Leipsiger Con- versations Lexicon, and reproduced in the Mes senger. The Debats, while appreciating the flatter ing terms in which the German critic has spoken of the French navy, very sensibly points out certain errors committed by this nautical authority, and most distinctly denies the alleged numerical superiority of that navy. Our contemporary, however, does not doubt the superiority of the French vessels and French naval officers, though it willingly admits that the resources for providing seamen possessed by France are inferior to those commanded by the British navy. In this admission must we seek for consolation. " The Emperor of the French," says a Paris cor respondent of the Nord, "is about to increase the number of his receptions. The high functionaries of the State and the ladies of their families will be received on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On the same days will be given a grand dinner, to which all the wives of general officers will be successively invited with their husbands." BOURSE, lan. 18.—The market has been buoyant, owing to a rise in Metalliques at Vienna, and to a paragraph in the Constitutionnel announcing that Austria had yielded on the Servian question . Railway Shares have been in good demand. Threes, after having been done at 691. 50c., improved to 69f. 75c. ; Mobilier varied from 820 f. to 8251. Austrian 585 f. to 592 f. 50c. ; Lombard, 5401. to 550 f.; Northern, 950 f. to 957 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 850 f. to 860 f.; Orleans, 1,3351. to 1,345 f. ; Southern, 537 f. 50c. to 542 f. 50c. ; and Eastern, 680 f. to 690 f. The following were the last quotations:— 41 per Cents. .... 97 Credit Fonder 645 Do. end month .. 97 Belgian 4± — 3 per Cents. 69 80 Piedmontese (5) Do. end month.... 69 60 Roman — Bank Shares. 3OOO Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 825 Spanish Threes Do. Account 827 50 Home Debt — RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditfo. • Bl7 50 .. 820 Lyons and Mediterranean 857 50 .. 846 25 Now ditto — • • Geneva — .. 580 Midi Southern Western 602 50 .. 605 Eastern Grand Central Sardiniaß 415 .. 420 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 15c. ; money, 25f. 121 c. ;, three months, paper, 241. 971 c.; money, 24f. 95c. PIEDMONT. Subjoined will be found the address of the Cham ber of Deputies of Turin agreed to on the 15th in reply to the speech from the Throne. The Cham ber had confided the task of drawing it up to M. Correnti, ex-Secretary-General of the Governor of Lombardy in 1848, but who had emigrated from Milan, and having taken up his residence in Pied mont, had been long a member of the Chamber. The Lombards and the Venetians would, it was thought, see in the choice thus made a pledge of sympathy for their position. The document is thus worded : " Sire,—The Chamber of Deputies, animated by your approbation and your counsels, hastens to re turn you those thanks which are alone worthy of you, by seconding vigorously and unanimously the elevated designs which you have matured for the good of the nation. The measures which your Majesty has announced for reorganizing the magi stracy and for giving greater strength to provincial and communal liberty are to us a new pledge of the wisdom with which your Majesty knows how to re concile a firm discipline in civil matters with the rights of liberty. Such wisdom will certainly be more than ever necessary in the grave and difficult times which have of late, perhaps, become more aggravated, and for which you have thought fit to prepare us, by exhorting us to hope well for our country, and to draw a happy augury for the future. You have a right, Sire, to look hopefully at what may chance to come, for your people, in pondering over the important events of the last 19 years, know by experience that your voice has never misled them, even when, a prey to grief, you recommended resignation or asked for sacrifices the necessity of which was not at first apparent. At present, Sire, your voice, influential and respected among all civilised nations, magnanimously expressing pity for the woes of Italy, will certainly revive the memory of the solemn pro mises which have as yet remained without fulfil ment ; and at the same time will tend to calm down blind impatience, and will uphold among the popula tions a firm confidence in the irresistible force of civilisation and the power of public opinion. If these consolatory thoughts and this appeal to public reason were to draw down perils or menaces on your sacred head, the nation, which venerates in you its sincere and straightforward Prince, and looks on you as the powerful interceder with the various European Cabinets for the cause of liberty—which beholds all the anger of factions give way before the great example of your fidelity—which knows that in you and by you at last has been found the secret, lost for so many centuries, of Italian concord—the nation, we say, will to a man range themselves round your person, and show that they have again learned the ancient art of uniting the obedience of the soldier to the liberty of the citizen." The reading of this document was greeted with the loudest cheers from every part of the Chamber, and even the Ministerialists themselves are said to have been surprised at the unanimity displayed. PRUSSIA. The prosecution of the Preussische lahrbucker, published at Berlin, for an article in a recent num ber of the work, on the Regency in Prussia, has terminated in the acquittal of the editor, D r . Haym. The trial took place on the 15th inst. Dr. Haym defended himself, and successfully; i n a long and able speech he convinced the judges that the article was not intended, nor calculated, to excite scandal, but merely as a searching examina tion of certain facts. The young Princess Royal of the Two Sicilies left the palace at Munich on the 13th, after a most affecting parting from Duke Maximilian, her father. Her august mother and the Dukes Theodore and Maximilian, her brothers, accompanied the Princess to Augsburg, and her other brother, the Duke Louis, was to go with her to Trieste. The royal party slept at Augsburg, and the next morn ing the Duchess and her party returned to Munich, the others proceeding to Leipsic, where they made only a short stay, proceeding on their journey to Prague. On the occasion of the marriage, the Duke Maximilian, the bride's father, presented Count de Ludolf, Minister of the King of Naples at the Court of Munich, with a gold casket of great value, the cover bearing the Duke's miniature set round with diamonds. A letter from Munich, of the 15th, in the Nurem berg Correspondent, describes a manifestation of the popular sentiments which occurred at a theatre of that capital on the previous night. It says—" The piece performed was The Will of the Great Elector of Putlitz.' At a passage where the Elector Frede rick 111. of Brandenburg haughtily rejects the pro posals of the French and Polish envoys, and where it is said that Prussia is the sword of Germany axd Austria its shield, a unanimous shout of enthusiasm burst forth from the spectators, and it was with great difficulty that sufficient silence could be re stored to permit the continuation of the play." The Opinione of Turin, in a leading article, com plains that, although all the intelligent classes of Piedmont are in favour of a war, the clergy, as usual, are against their Government on that que tion, because they foresee that a war, instead of causing the suppression of the constitutional sys tem, according to their wishes, would lead to its consolidation. It further remarks that the two articles on the question of the Danubian Principa lities published not long ago in the Piedmontese aazette, coupled as they are with military prepara tions, the political state of the Lombardo-Venetia' provinces, and the existing good understand ing between iedmont and France, constitute more than a mere diplomatic manifesto : " they are anc declaration of the hostility existing between the two states." • A letter from Milan of the 14th says :—" The affair at Padua has been gre4tly exaggerated. The facts are simply these. The police having with a view to prevent a demonslration, caused the body to be privately removed from the church to the cemetery'► the students repaired to the grave, where after a funeral speech, loud cheers were given in honour of the professor ; a garland displaying the three Italian colours was, after having been laid on the grave bi way of consecration, paraded about the streets. The procession was met by a party of mounted police, who, after vainly summoning the rioters to disperse , fired a few shots in the air to intimidate them, and arrested about 15 of the ringleaders. The Univer . sity has since been closed to prevent any further breach of the peace." A letter from Belgrade of the 13th states that the Skuptschina, in the sitting of that day, Laub with the consent of the Senate and the Provisions Government, drawn up a petition to the Porte" praying it, in addition to confirming the electio 9 of Prince Milosch, to make the princely dignity hereditary in his family. The letter adds that deputation was about to wait on Osman P . acha ask him to support the petition. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The- Royal Mail steamer Magdalena, Captaill Baynton, has arrived with the West India and Pacific mails. Her dates are :—Nassau, Dec. 15; Greytov► 17th ; Colon, 24th ; Jamaica, 26th ; Demara3 l4 25th; Trinidad, 25th; Barbadoes, 27th ; Grenad' 26th ; St. Thomas, Jan. 1. She brings 35 passengers, 669,295 dollars specie, 894 serons indigo, 155 serons cochineal, four casks coffee, 118 bags cocoa. From the latest accounts from the Islands th e weather was remarkably fine for the season, and the sugar crops of Barbadoes, Trinidad, 0 6 Demerara most promising. The Islands had boa unusually healthy. Business at Jamaica rather active, but no parti cular advance reported. Produce quiet, and vac little:of any kind brought to market, on account 0 the bad state of the roads in the interior. By a special Act of the Legislature the following additional duties were i mpose d f rom th e 22d of December :—Flour, 2s. per barrel additional ; O a. fish, 6d. per cwt. do. ; wheat, 3d. per bushel ( I° ' Coffee was rather lower in price, 325. 6d. to 38s. Pe t 100 lb. being the ruling figure. Freights dull, and nothing offering. Exchanges on London, 2 per cent. prem. 90 dal° 1 per cent. 60 days ; 11 per cent. 30 days ; ran i chants' bills, par ; commissariat, z per cent. preen; The Roman Emperor had arrived at Trinid! from Madras in 82 days, with 380 emigrants, In eluding women and children. Only two dear! from sickness during the voyage, and not a singl e case sent to hospital. One female committ suicide. Her Majesty's ships Caesar and Diadem at Grel' town on the 17th of December. Gunboat Jasseur at St. Thomas on the Ist of January, waiting for the Admiral's mails. The Indus, bearing Sir Houston Stewart's fa at Bermuda, by last accounts. Her Majesty's sloop Atalanta and the gunho o Jasper were at St. Vincent when the steamer left , 6 The Magdalena spoke the barque George on tb 18th, standing up channel. Her Majesty's ship Havannah was at Valparai s° Dec. 1, with Consul-General Miller on board, frog the Sandwich Islands, for the benefit of his heal' The Maypu, Chilian war steamer, has arrive d from Rio de Janeiro. • The South American Republics were generalif quiet. The losses by the late fire at Valparaiso amounted to 3,000,000 dols. The burnt district was soon to be i rebuilt. Tw o more fi res h a d su b sequently occur rew but not much damage was done. Imports small and exports dull at Valparais o' Owing to unsatisfactory accounts from Eu ro p e oftli price of copper, silver mines rather improving. No English man-of-war at Callao on the 12th De e ' Lima healthy, and crops flourishing. Great hopes were entertained of the war bet WO the Ecuadorians and Peruvians being amicablY settled. Her Majesty's ship Ganges, Admiral Bayne', flag, was at V ancouver ' s Island on the 17th Noy'' also the Satellite and surveying ship Plumper. Latest accounts from San Francisco, Califoro" report a s evere earthquake shock. No lives 100, Trifling damage done. The sm a ll cutter Royal Charlie had arrived sit Grenada, 42 days from Southampton. She had very tempestuous passage. LIERIG ON SEWERA GE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. The following is a translation of a letter recoice4 from Professor von Liebig " Munich, Jan. 9. r " My dear Sir,--Pray accept my best thanks your continued interest in my lectures on theoreticr, and p rac ti ca l agriculture ; they are being trans' lated by D r. Blyth, of Cork, who has by this t ine nearly completed them. "Since last week I have been lecturing, ° , 13 , sewage ; and I am firmly of opini on th a t if V% land wishes to remain an agr i cu lt ura l country sP, must use as manure th e n i g ht so il an d s i m il ar I'o4 dues produ ce d i n l arge c iti es. Thi s necessity wOll-1,,. be in crease d i n t h e event of a war with Americo' when the supplies of guano would cease. " The price o f corn d epen d s upon that of gua pot ~e , and it is mos t unnatura l that, in a country 11 '4 England, the p ro d uc ti on o f corn and meat shoul d be so dependent on the supplies of foreign manur e .' " The heads of even the most enlightened agr i c i culturists have been turned by a theory propound e e by Mr. Lawe—viz., that nitrogen or ammonia ar t the most necessary ingredients in manure, and tI O consequently solid excrements are valueless, tilo urine alone being of use. " These views expose utter ignorance, and pro se that in England l ea di ng agriculturists do not pill sufficient attention to the fundamental principles,°e chemistry. It is difficult, nay, perhaps impessils" at this moment to convince them of their error. f have tried to do so in my Letters on Chemistrii I have just published, and I shall be most grata ll „ to you, as well as to all who, like yourself, take fi e ' interest in the welfare of their country, for a il ', assistance that may be rendered me in popagati ll ' this great truth.—Yours, " JUSTUS VON LIEBIO. ADDITIONAL MAILS FOR INDIA• In accordance with an additional agreement conclud ed with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Coi l pany, mails for the Mediterranean and India will heneefu'i be despatched from London via South amp t on, f our times In 4 , every month, viz., upon the morning s o f th e 4th, 12th, 2'o and 27th of the month, or, when any o f th ose d a t es fan ",, Sunday, upon the previous evening. It is further intended to despatch each of the mails Z . the Mediterranean and India, whi c h are f orwar d e d by' tr,, route of Marseilles, one day l a t er th an a t present ; that ca on the evenings of the 3d, 10th, 18th , and 26th o f tl month, commencing with the 26th instant. When any; these dates tell on Sunday th e ma il s w il l be despatched - the following evening. The arrangements for th e d espa t c h of the Indian TOil4 will hereafter be as follows Evening of the 3d of the nonth, via Marseilleq, for gni t :' Egypt, and all part s o f India, except Penang and Sing -- pore. Morning of the 4th of the month, via Southampton, , f h . o Gibraltar, Malt a , E gypt, all parts of India (except `.-(1 Presidency of Bombay), Ceylon, Penang, Singapore, a il China. Evening of the 10th of the month, via Marseilles, for IVin it 7 Egypt, all part s o f I n di a (except Presidency of Bombay)' Ceylon, Penang, Singapore, and China. for Morning of the 12th of the month, via Southampton) d, Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, the Presidency of 13ombab i'"*" Upper or North-West Provinces of Bengal. 101 i 'Evening o f 18th o f t h e month, via Marseilles, for Egypt, and all part s o f I n di a , except Penang and Simi/ pore. Morning of 20th of the month via Southampton, for Gi . b e : raltar, Malta, Egypt, all parts of Indi a ( exce pt 1 ,j _„ ( 1 sidency of Bombay), Ceylon, Penan g , Si nga pore, "'" China. Evening of 26th of the month, via Marseilles, for 1% Egypt, all part of India (except Presidency of Bombay ) Ceylon, Penang, Singapore, and China. MOrning of 27th of the month, via Southampton, for /35 miter, Malta, Egypt, the Pre s id ency o f B oot baY ) Upper or North-West Provinces of Bengal. By command of the Postmaster-General. ItowLAND HILL, Secret —a.Y . 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