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THE OXFORD, 6, •PXFORD - STRE ET, EVERY EVEN ING . —Re-appearance o f Unsworth. the orioinal of "Or any other man" -Th e Colleen Bawn, by Miss Caroline Parkes—Mr. Maclagan's Entertainment Drew Dean, the great Flautist —the Neapolitan Minstrels—Selections from Verdi's " 11Corsaro" and "Nabuco," Donizetti's "Don Se bastion," Stc., with full bind ence and chorus. Comm at 7. THIS NEWSPAPER, c‘THE SUN ,' Was on Thursday week, in pursuance of ad ecree of the Lord Chancellor, in the cause " Chaplin v. Young," put up for sale by auction, by Messrs. E. and H. Lumley, dt the Auction Mart, London, when the highest bidding for the copyright and good will and the leasehold premises, in addition to £1,420, the valuation of the plant, machinery, furniture, and effects, was the sum of £l,OOO by Mr. Kent, the principal editor of the newspaper, and who became the purchaser thereof, subject to the biddings being opened on or before the 15th inst. by an increase of the price. ADAM RIVERS STEELE, Solicitor, 44, Bloomsbury-square, London, W.C. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. —Morning, sh. 20m.—Afternoon, sh. 40m Togoßnow.-Morning, 6h. Om.—Afternoon, 6h. 21in 4 •;Z 3 % Ar• n,',9';" , ! - ~,, , -__LL:, , 24. , ,-, , •,-, , . .&V.•."- o'' -=: - ._g , t, ::, f . .:2:: ~, si. •J___ 4 4 , cp(l. , -,;i ..,..,-1,..4,... ~ , •,k , t7 l ' <••• 4 • ' , c4:,IL; t -...-_,....4,-...,,ce4,,., „,,-- - ,_:....y-L;-.;--;, , 4.,...,. . ,% ~,-,,:,:, .et --= -•-•• 4..., +,... ~,,...... ,i•,, , , - 4 iir-,- , , •, - ''!T, - __..t"` - F- , l , lioV:L'ilcir:T , ,,, ..------- 4i, s ---, THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 12, 1862. It is earnestly to be hoped that a lamentable statement put forward this moining in the Foreign correspondence of the 7imes may, on further in quiry, prove to be altogether unfounded, or, at the very least, considerably exaggerated. We at once give the announcement in its integrity : precisely in the words in which it is expressed in the columns of our contemporary. " A calamitous duel," writes the Times' Correspondent at Turin, under date the 9th instant, "has been fought to-day near Turin between MENOTTI GARIBALDI, the hero's eldest son, and that Colonel, now Btigadier-General, PALLAVICINO, who attacked the volunteers at As promonte. This latter had given offence to the officers of GARIBALDI'S staff when he said in his report that while the combat raged these officers were busy sharing the contents of their chief's miii• tary chest among them. The efforts of well-mean ing persons who wished to prevent the duel were unavailing. MENOTTI GARIBALDI is said to be mortally wounded in the side ; PALLAVICINO is also seriously hurt. I have not been able, however, to ascertain the particulars of the sad event, and still hope the account of it may be exaggerated." Supposing, most unhappily, that the report thus confidently stated should be eventually confirmed, occurring as such a fatal duel will then be seen to have done immediately after the melancholy catas trophe closing the encounter with swords between Mr. DILLON and M. DE GRAMMONT, otherwise known as the Duc de CADEROUSSE—dueIIing, as a system, we may rest assured, will, elsewhere than England, be abolished. Its abolition, at any rate, will infallibly be hastened. Tne more civilised States upon the Continent will follow in this the rational example long since set to the world at large by England—meaning, that is to say, when Eaglishmen resolved at length, by common consent, upon getting rid, at once and for all, of this barbarous and intrinsically ridi culous, yet at the same time execrable, method of settling a dispute. Of late years a man could hardly put himself, socially, in a more ludicrous position than by taking part in a duel. One of the last ever attempted—who can yet have forgotten it ?—was that in which the late Viscount STRANGFORD, better known during the chief part of his brief and brilliant career as the Hon. GEORGE SMYTHE, appeared as one of the principals! The intending duellists and their seconds taking train one morning at the Waterloo terminus—getting out of the train twenty miles clown the line at Weybridge Station—taking a hired fly in which the combatants (that were to be) and their friends (!) rode amicably (some inside, acme outside the vehicle) to a secluded spot beyond the gorse and ,furze and heather of that pretty common of Wcy bridge. The part i culars o f t h at l atest of t h ese hos tile .encounters, here in England, no sooner became bra tedl about than the wits of London had it all their "a way--that is, of course, in the way of good-natured ridicule. Punch's comic artists and droll Song-writers we . re" at it" industriously week after w ee k fc ; long w hil e . Bon mots, flavoured with a pleat s arcasm, were echoed about the clubs and drawing-rooms The whole incident e by many a laughing lip. intensely a absurd seen something to be and felt to be and nonsensical. Thenceforth—so fa r as the opinions of o ne ' s neigh bours can affect us—w e should kil o f us if s shrink nom taking part in any similar proceeding, for no other and nobler reason, b ecause by so doi ng we should be rendering ourselves laughing - stooks to the general community. A duellist nowadays b e a butt. It would require th e di splay would a different kind of courage than any ever dreamt of as requisite by the deadliest shot and the liveliest fireater once upon a time accustomed, as an ordi., nary matutinal arrange m ent, to indulge i n t h e luxury of coffee and pistols for two, at some un earthly hour or so before cock-crow ! Courage, that is, to face the poignant shafts of ridicule. Cou rage to bear the brunt of popula r s ‘ rorn, and—worst of all—the anguish of being o penly laughed at ! Until, however, we shall have received distinct intimation of the actual and literal troth of the account of this fatal rencontre between MENOTTI GARIBALDI, the eldest son of the Hero, and Gene ral PALLAVICINO, the leader of the Bersaglieri who shot down Gar,IBALDI himself at Aspromonte —we shall take it for granted that the reported issue of their contest is altogether an exaggera- Meanwhile, it is profoundly interesting to note the recent expression of the heartfelt gratitude of the General towards the most successful among all the eminent surgeons who have endeavoured to alleviate the Hero's sufferings. The illustrious French surgeon Dr.NELATON—the one who first confidently insisted upon the fact that there was a bullet lying there deeply imbedded among the torn flesh and shat tered bones of the wounded ankle, and, under the guidance of whose advice, and with the employ ment of whose exquisitely constructed instruments, the rifle ball was at length drawn forth, and a per manent cure rendered, for the first time, possible. Here, however, is the letter itself, precisely as it was addressed the other dayito Professor NELATON by General GARIBALDI :- " Pisa, Dec. 5. "My very dear Friend,--I owe you a word of love and gratitude. Your appearance at Spezzia brought happiness to me, and if any doubt of my recovery could ever have crossed my mind, in spite of the fraternal and learned care of the surgeons who attended me, at your interview, so eminently sympathetic, and at your words, 6o sublimely encouraging, it would have disappeared. lam much better since the extraction of the ball so ably effected by our com patriot, Professor ZANETTI, and with the instrument you had the kindness to send me. To-morrow a fixed bandage will be applied, and I hope to be able very soon to move about upon crutches. GOD bless you, as well as those vir tuous men whose humane principles have honoured the eminent man of science and the benefactor.—Your devoted, " G. GARIBALDI!' Among the numerous letters'and documents penned by the Hero, this is about the most satisfactorily expressed in every way, of any that has yet come to our knowledge. For beyond all doubt GARI BALDI'S hand has shown itself less skilled in handling the pen than in wielding the sword on the battlefield, the spade or the mattock in his island home, the oar or the helm upon the flashing waters that in the earlier part of his life might have been called his element—before the Sailor gave plade to the Soldier, and the daring Adven turer rose to the historical dignity of the Hero, the Patriot, and the Liberator. An important game case is given in the Bury and Norwich Post, which was tried before several of the great unpaid at the Mundford Petty Sessions, the Honourable FRANCIS BARING being the Chair man. It is likely to come, on the point of law, before the higher courts. The magistrates seemed, indeed, very shy of the superintendence of her MAJESTY'S superior courts at Westminster, but Mr. WALPOLE of Bury, the solicitor who appeared for the defen dant, was not to be easily deterred. The magistrates wanted him to appeal from the great game pre serves in Petty Sessions, to the same gentlemen and their class in Quarter Sessions. But, as Mr. IVAL POLE well observed, that was like appealing from C,ESAR to CSAR. Mr. WALPOLE wanted " a case," as the question was purely one of law, to take to the Queen's Bench. The wary game preservers refused it. Mr. WALPOLE then demanded a cer• tificate of refusal, in order to enable him to apply to the Court of Queen's Bench to compel them to state a case. This they dared not refuse, and they had also the prudence to suspend the order for the payment of fine and costs for a month. We may expect, therefore, to hear the matter argued soon at Westminster. The question to be decided is, whether under the " Night Poaching Act,"—so infamously forced through the House by the game preservers at the end of the session, Lord GREY and some of the best of the Tories and Liberals fighting desperately to the last, but Lord PALMERSTON conniving—a man is to be required to criminate himself. This, at least, is the substantial questioe. The magistrates hold that the possessor of game on the highway must prove that he came by it lawfully. Mr. IVALPOLE thought it was for thj accuser to show that he came by it unlawfully. The accused in this case was a carrier, whom two policemen, doing duty at the county's expense as a landlord's game keepers, had stopped, and, finding some rabbits and other game in his cart, had summoned him as guilty of taking them off the land of a neigh bouring squire. There was not a tittle of evidence even adduced to prove that PHILIP FULLER had been on Squire BIRCH'S land. The Chairman, in summing up for a conviction, did not even pretend that there was. The ground of the conviction was that the man had the game in his cart, and refused to account for some of it, and that he had been previously convicted of poaching. We think it highly probable that the rabbits, &c., may have been procured at first un lawfully ; possibly FULLER may have been quite aware of this, and may even have taken them unlawfully himself. But really the proceed ings of these Mundford magistrates compel us to ask whether we also live under ABE LINCOLN ; whether upon simple suspicion—great probability, if you will—we can be made to pay a fine of £5, or go to prison for two months. If the Act really permits this, then the sooner, in the good old fashion, it is burned by the hands of Mr. CALCRAFT the better. If for the sake of country magistrates' sports the whole genius of the laws we live under is to be reversed, then, we say, perish their sports first ! Let not the distinguishing glory of English law be sacrificed that country squires may cover the Norfolk heaths and woods with temptation to crime, and then send Englishmen to prison on the suspicion only of yielding to the temptation. Let us know whether the mad landlords of the end of the Session did make such a law as this. If they have, we shall know what to do. Justly odious, however, as that disgustingly selfish addition to the selfish and tyrannical game law code is, we do not believe that it is quite so bad as Mr. BARING and his colleagues would make it. Their fear of the superior courts seems to indicate that game preservers' law will not be held as law at Westminster, They cited indeed several cases which had been decided according to their wishes, but they were all game preservers' decisions, and the only lawyers concerned were the magistrates' clerks, who eat the bread of game preservers. No oppressed poacher has found the means yet to try a case of law with a bench. To a common reader the Act would certainly seem, in accordance with English practice, to require the accuser to prove the unlawful possession. If it does not, why then we have aboi de suspects in England; and, worst of all, we give the landlords' cou:itry police a power on behalf of game, which our town police dare not exercise on behalf of saving herMAJEsTi's subjects from being garotted. We have no doubt, however, that country mag i s t ra t e s would laugh at the idea of representing the heads and throats of dwellers in cities as of equa l i mportance w ith the heads and throaty of hares and partridges. We trust we may ' re that no further atteorm regard the questio n o f the f u ture site of St. T homa Hospital as n ow se ttled—and pt that will be made to remove i t from the vicinit y ose Nas a plausibl e d ev ice 'ro " babble o' green field s " was need its serrico. for a railway and architect's ag the ini , , but it will n o t (1.. All parties concerned have rise n ob up against position—the medical men, theparish t h e watchful pre,s—we might almost say except powerful in the grand commit ept the little clique so TIM SUN, LONDON, FRFUY SVENINTO, DECEMBER 712, 1862. . _ tee, have denounced with one voice the scheme 1 of removing the noble hospital from the half million of working people to whom for more than two centuries it has been so great a boon. Already the grand committee has found public opinion, acting on the whole body of the governors, sufficient to check them in their course, and they have now met with a rebuke from a body which, in such a case as this, will, we have no doubt, com pel unqualified deference. The corporation of London, it will be seen, has, unanimously voted, that " having regard to the local duties for which the great charity of St. Thomas's Hospital was originally chartered, founded, and endowed, and which have been ful filled for three centuries, the new hospital ought, so far as circumstances permit, to he built in a situation no less central than that which the for mer hospital occupied." The vote was not only unanimous, but so enthusiastic, that when the seconder of the motion, Dr. ABRAHAM, was about to speak, also, to the motion, the Court was so anxious to express its opinion, that he gave up his speech, and the vote was taken at once. One circumstance of weight was noticed by the mover, that the tendency is increasing every day to leave the City of London and the Borough to the class which needs hospitals. All who can afford it migrate to the suburbs, and the resident population of the centre of business will consist more and more of the working classes. In the City and the Borough, also, all that kind of work is carried on from which the worst accidents needing immediate attention are continually occurring. The very idea, therefore, of removing an institution, which spends £30,000 annually, and will soon spend £50,000, in relieving the pressing wants of the poor, away from the residences of the pocr, is so extravagant that it is really difficult to see how it could have originated. An hospital and a sana torium are, in fact, different things. The latter may be a very valuable adjunct to the former, but it is not an hospital in the now current sense of the word. If the Governors think it worth while to employ the additional £20,000 when the rents fall in, in establishing a Sanatorium in connection with the full establishment of the old Hospital, we will not say that the subject might not be worth consideration. We rather expect, however, when the time comes, that ample employ ment will be found for the additional income, in re lieving the wants of the constantly increasing popu lation of the locality for which the charity was originally created. As the corporation has even now the nomination of thirty-eight governors, and has it because " the said hospital is a Royal Hos• pital founded by and at the cost of the citizens of London," we may assume that the vote of yesterday will be final a% to the general site of the Hospital. And as to the precise spot, it would surely be im possible to find one which, all things considered, can compete with its present temporary site—the Surrey Gardens. 711 E ATLANTIC 7EL EGRAPH COM. PANY S SCHEME. The Emperor of the French received a letter in which General Mitre announces his elevation to the post of President of the Argentine Republic. His Majesty also received the reply of the King of Sweden to the letters of recall of M. Charles Baudin, French Minister at the Court of Si(dtholin ; and those from the King of Hanover and le Duke of Brunswick, to the letters of recall of Baron de Malaret, French Minister at their Courts. Marshal the Duke de Malakoff was received yes• terday at the Tuileries by the EmpDror. fIIE MEMBERS FOR NOTTINGHAM.—The banquet to the borough member at Nottingham on Wednesday gave to Sir Robert Clifton end Mr. Paget an opportunity for giving an account of their parliamentary stewardship. Mr. Paget explained his views with an amount of caution that did not appear to give entire satisfaction to the radical sec tion of his audience. Sir Robert Clifton entered at great length into a review of his first Parliamentary experience, denouncing the present Government for its extravagance, and intimating that it was his intention to do everything in his power to repress the enormous expenditure of the country, which exceeded that of any previous period of peace,—.Nottingham Daily Guardian, A LADY IMPRISONED BY THE CONFEDERATE G OVERNMEN T.-A Southern paper, the _Richmond Inquirer, says that 10 days ago a very accomplished lady, connected with people in Richmond of great wealth and influence, was imprisoned in Castle Thunder under a charge of giving information to the Yankees by way of Portsmouth, where she dwells, and from which place she has made several visits to Richmond. SIGNOR GIUGLTNI AND MRS. WINDHAM.— On Monday evening Mdlle. Tietjens and Signor Giuglini, ac companied by three operatic stars of less brilliancy, gave a concert in the Music Hall, Aberdeen. The lady was re ceived with unqualified approbation; not so the great tenor, his part in the last public act of the Windham drama having created an unfavourable feeling against him. The conse quence was that the Signor, on malting his first appearance was greeted with considersble hissing—a manifestation which not a few evidently thought all the more deserved, that the now notorious Mrs. Windaam, nee Miss Rodgers, occupied a prominent place in the gallery, and was hearty in applause of her favourite. The fara regarding Giuglini and the lady of Felbriggo Hall, hoxever, spoiled the con cert commercially. A TEST OF LOYALTY.—Among the political pr soners recently released at Camp Chase is a boy of 13, who was employed on a steamboat running from Parkersburg to some point up the river. He contracted a wash-bill with a woman in Parkersburg, which he paid, with the exception of 15c., which he would not cr did not pay. She reported him as disloyal; he was arrested, and, as is usual in such cases, he was hurried off to•prison, not even being told of what he was charged. 14 has beena close prisoner for four months, but was lately brought forth for examination, and told that there was nu sufficient charge against him, and that he was at liberty again.—Dayton (Ohio) Empire. GARIBALDL—A friend rites from Turia, Dec. 5 :—" I have received a letter from the General to-day. He says he is going to get on horseback, and that he will soon return to his blessed solitude in Caprera—which sig nifies that he is better." THE LATE MR. SHERI') tN KNOWLES.—It gra tifies us much to hear from a private source that a memo rial is being prepared in Glasgow, soliciting a pension of £lOO a year for his widow. A memorial to the same effect should be sent from Belfast, where Mr. Knowles was so well known and so highly esteemed. A handsome monu ment is about to be erected to his memory in the Glasgow Necropolis ; and, as evidence of the spirit evinced in refe rence to it, we may state that two of his friends in London, one of whom went all the way to attend the funeral, have put down their names for £lOO each. We are glad to know that Mr. Dalgli , h, M.P. for Glasgow, and several of the leading men in Glasgow, take a warm interest in the move ment to do honour to the late Sheridan Knowles.—Belfast News Letter. DR. GUTHRIE IN LIVERPOOL.—The Rev. Dr. Guthrie, of Edinburgh, says the Liverpool Mercury, the elo ,uent and warm-hearted friend and advocate of ragged schools, has kindly consented, in compliance with a nume rous and highly influential requisition, signed by the Mayor, ex• Mayor, the President of the Chamber of Com merce, and other gentlemen, to lociatre in this town next week, in behalf of the Lancashire relief Fund. THE LION OF CHOERONEA.—A cast of one of the most famous relics of ancient Greek art has just arrived at the British Museum, and is being put together under the auspices of Mr. C. r. Newton, of Christ Church, Oxford, keeper of antiquities, well known for his able work on his excavation at Halicarnassus. About a mile from Choeronea (Kapourna, or Kaprena), in Boeotia, on the right-hand side of the Orchomenos-road, is the sepulchre of the Boeotian's who fell in the battls of Choeronea, fighting against Philip of Macedon, B.C. 339. Pausanias speaks of the tomb in his quaint but touching language as " having no inscription, but a figure of a lion placed on it, as emblem of the spirit of these men. There is no inscription," he adds, "because the gods willed that their fortune should be unequal to their valour." In the time of Dodwell, Leakes, and other travellers, the lion had disappeared. About twenty years ago, according to Colonel Mure, the splendid marble figure was discovered strewed in detached masses about the sides and the interior of the excavation. It was said that the celebrated patriot chief Odysseus, when occupying the town, observed a piece of marble outside the summit of the mound, sounded it with a stick, and, finding it hollow, broke it up, Greek •like, in the idea that treasure was concealed in it. Other people think that the discovery is due to the patriarch of philolo gists, the Austrian consul Gropius. With the exception of the Marathonian tumulus, the famous lion of Choeronea is the only relic of the best days of Greek art. When put together this gigantic figure will, no doubt, attract much interest. TilE NEW ITALIAN MINISTRY.--The following short biography of the now Italian Ministry is given by the Temps :-"M. Farini, the President of the Council, is a Roman ; he was an eminent physician and a leader of the Liberal party when he was appointed Director-General of I the Hospitals and Prisons of Rome under the Ministry of Count Rossi. In 1848, when the Republic was proclaimed in Rome, he emigrated to Tuscany; thence he removed to Piedmont. M. Farini was for some time Minister of Public Instruction in 1850, and subsequently he was Minister of the Interior in the Cavour Cabinet. He was Dictator of Emilia and Lieutenant General of the King at Naples after Garibaldi's departure. N. Farini was the principal nego tiator of the cession of Nice and Savoy to France. He was born on the 22d of October, 1822. M. Peruzzi, the new Minister of the Interior, is a Tuscan. He was a leader of the Liberal party in 1848, and in 1859 was at the head of the movement which transferred Tuscany to Pied mont. He was Minister of Public Works in Ricasoli's Cabinet. He is a man of energy and undoubted liberalism. It has been said by mistake that he is an enemy of the French alliance. M. Minghetti was, in 1848, Minister of Commerce to Pius IX. ; he has twice been Victor Em manuel's Minister of the Interior-once under Cavour and onco under Rieasoli. He is a distinguished political economise; ; as Finance Minister he will now have an opportunity of showing his talent. M. Pasolini, the new Minist-r of Foreign Affairs, is also a Roman. He was for a long time Mayor of Ravenna. In 1847 he was a colleague of Rossi, under whom he filled the office of Minister of Public Works. A refugee in 1849, he went into Piedmont. In 1859 he was appointed Governor of Milan, which post he held till M. Itattaizi came into power, when he resigned. Shortly afterwards, at the personal request of the Ring, he accepted the appointment of Governor of Turin. M. Manna, the Minister of Commerce, is a Neapolitan. He was a director-general of customs under the Baur ' bons, and in ISGO was sent by Francis 11. to Turin, to negotiate an alliance with Piedmont. M. Menabrea, Minister of Pubic Works, is a General of Piedmontese Engineers, He was secretary-general to the Azegiio in 1850, and Minister of Marine in the Ricasoli Cabinet. M. Amari, Minister of Public Instruction, is a Sicilian ; ono of the most eminent savants in Italy, and an Orientalist of European reputation. He long resided in Paris as a re fugee, and is a corresponding member of the Institute. M. Della Revere, Minister at War, held that porfolio under Ricasoli ; he has been Lieutenant-General of the King in Sicily. M. Ricci, Minister of Marine, is a Genoese, and has had the reputation of being a naval officer. MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE.-The waifs and strays which float into the national exchequer are some of them of a curious character. Thus, small branches of hereditary revenue produced £33,580 in 1861-2, as compared with £16,421 in 1860-1; fees of the House of Commons,:£79,ols in 1861-2, as compared with £60,350 in 1860.1 ; fees at the Home-office, £1,287 in 1861-2, as compared with £1,159 in 1860-1 ; fees at the Privy Council-office, £1,027 in 1861-2, as compared with £915 in 1860-1; fees at the office for the registration of joint-stock companies, £10,505 in 1861-2, as compared with £7,073 in 1860-1 ; fees at the office of the registration of designs, £3,068 in 1861-2, as compared with £2,659 in 1860-1; fees and fines from police courts, £10,812 in 1861-2, as compared with £19,809 in 1860-1; fees at British Consulates abroad, £11,891 in 1861-2, as compared with £4,124 in 1860-1; surplus fees in superior courts of common law, £120,000 in 1861-2 (this item does not appear in the corresponding accounts for 1860-61); miscellaneous fees, £8,020 in IE6I-2, as compared with £7,060 in 1860-1; fees from public offices in Scotland, £39,261 in 1861-2, as compared with £40,970 in 1860-1; fees from public offices in Ireland, £10,631 in 1861-2, as compared with £3,800 in stores, &e., 191,953 in 186 1 18 86 60 1: 1 2, ; a a s i n c l o y n a lp n a d re o d rdn w a i n th ce, &c., extra receipts, £ 363 , 045 in in :860-1 ; receipt s i n o ffi ce of works for o ld ma t er i a l s , &C., £ l- 4 2 6 , 9 a ,9 s 5 c 9 on in ipa l re 8 d 6O N - c l it ; h nLy B,9o2 old £35,905 in 1861.2, as competed with £12,071 in 1860-1; seignorage cn bullion purchased for coinage at the Mint, £69,580 in 1861-2, as compared with £34,321 in 1860-1; pro ceeds of the sale of books at the Stationery-office, £21,080 in 1861-2, as compared with £28,9 63 in 1860-1 ; productive labour of p r i soners in conv i c t es tablishments, £13,641 in 1861-2, as compared with £15,179 in 1860 - 1 ; hoe ( on, Dublin, and Edinburgh Gazettes, L 24,479 in 1861-2, celeleared with ,e 22,289 in 1860-1 ; conscience 11 - lulu, £7,"573 :n 1801-2, as compared with £10,219 in 1860-1; va li2U 0S 9 C s receipts, G ; £3,487 in 1861-2, as compare d with and £18,914 set down in s heer des p air a s "miscellaneous" in 1861-2, as compared with £ 18 , 360 in 1860-1, 0 4, i z ATESr NEW s. BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY, DEC. 12. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results, as compared with the November return : INCREASE. Francs. Cash in hand Treasury balance DECREASE. Bills discounted, not yet due .... 38 Advances Bank-notes Current accounts PARIS, DEC. 12. The Moniteur of to•day says : " M. de l3udberg, the new Russian Ambassador, in delivering his credentials to the Emperor, said : "' I have been commanded by the Emperor, my master, to be the interpreter of his feelings of sincere friendship for your Majesty. I shall do my best for the development of a mutual understanding between two great nations, the union of which is based upon the right comprehension of their mu tual interests.' " The Emperor replied— "' I congratulate myself upon the friendly rela tions existing for six years between the Emperor and my Government, and which have the more chance of continuing, as they are due to the mutual sympathies and real interests of the two Empires. I have been enabled to appreciate the straight forwardness of heart of your Sovereign, and have conceived for him a sincere friendship. You will find among us a hearty reception." The " bulletin" of the Moniteur contradicts tele. grams published in the Paris papers, stating tha several of the legations at Athens had landed ma rives to protect their hotels, which had been threat ened by the movements of the populace. BERLIN, DEC. 11, EVENING. Sir Andrew Buchanan, the new British Ambas sador to the Court of Berlin, has arrived here. ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. 12. The Journal de St. Petersbourg of to-day says : —" We can state on the best authority that the great Powers have agreed to maintain the protocol of 1830, but have not yet come to an understanding about any candidate for the throne of Greece. The Russian Cabinet has not proposed any can didate." COPENHAGEN, DEC.,12., The lodrelandet and Dagbladet of to-day assert that the Swedish Foreign Minister, in the middle of October last, forwarded a despatch to the Minister of Sweden, in London, stating that as Earl Russell's despatch upon the question of Schleswig can only be destined for the enemies of Denmark, or for those who are not acquainted with the real position of that question, the Swe dish Government thanks Earl Russell for not having forwarded to Sweden a copy of the despatch, as she does not belong to either category. MADRID, DEC. 10 (Evening). In to-day's sitting of the Senate General Prim read some confidential letters addressed to him by Admiral Lagraviere, containing strange details in reference to the expedition to Mexico. According to these letters, Aimonte had declared that he was authorised by the Emperor Napoleon and the Archduke Maximilian himself to put for ward the candidature of the latter, and that the French troops would guarantee the throne of Mexico to the Archduke. General Prim then read letters written by Mar shal O'Donnell and Senor Collantes, recommending the strict execution of the Treaty of London. He said that the Representative of England made similar declarations to him, and, under the circum stances, he deemed it wise to re-embark for Spain. In conclusion, ho expressed his opinion that the French expedition would not have the desired result. TURIN, DEC. 11 The Italian Parliament re-assmbled to-day. All the new Ministers were present. Signor Farini officially announced the formation of the Cabinet and its programme, which was received with great marks of approval. The President of the Chamber of Deputies ten dered his resignation to the Chamber, which how ever, declined to aceept it. The Minister of Finance laid the provisional budget on the table of the house. The following is a summary of the speech de livered by Signor Farini. The minister commenced by saying : " We shall find in the assistance of Parliament the necessary authority for accomplishing the in terior organisation of the country, and for worthily representing Italy abroad. The administrative re forms will be based upon a system of decentralisa tion and the development of constitutional liberties. The first condition of liberty is the maintenance of public order." Signor Farini then eulogised the army which had, under a painful trial, given an example of abnega tion and discipline, and restored the authority of TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. ordinary enterprises it is a matter of little public moment whether men part with their money wisely or foolishly. In the one case they will receive the congratu lations of their friends for their success, and will be able to contemplate with satisfaction an increase in their means of enjoying life ; in the latter, they will be laughed at for their folly, and must bear the loss of their money with the best grace they can. But the public, generally speak ing, are in no way interested in the result—not so, how ever, when the failure may prevent the realisation of a great boon to the whole world, such as must be derived by telegraphic communication between Europe and America. It is for this reason I have ventured to make some reflec tions with respect to the present attempt of the old Atlantic Company to resuscitate their enterprise. If they fail, the result would be a death blow to the well-grounded hopes of success which other routes claim to have on public support. The Atlantic Telegraph Company have announced their intention of inviting the public to lay out £600,030 of new capital, the nett proceeds of which, should they be fortu nate in laying the cable, they estimate at £413,000 per an num, producing 18 per cent, upon the new capital, 14 per cent. upon the £462,860 of old capital previously expended, and leaving after all a balance for reserve fund of £240,200 per annum. The rate of working upon which this estimate is based appeirs to have been derived fr m the limited experience acquired upon two short shoal-water cables, in the North Sea, and is altogether at variance with the opinions of tho first electricians of the day, and with the laws derived from the actual working results of longer lines, which show that the speed of signalling is reduced inversely as the square of the length of the cable. Hence it was that the line for merly laid between Newfoundland and Ireland (2,200 miles in length) could only be worked at the rate of about a word a minute ; and for the same reason the Government re cently, in laying the Malta and Alexandria cable, divided the length into three sections, intermediate stations being opened at Bengazi and Tripoli—not, as the Atlantic Tele graph Company have the hardihood to maintain, for the sake of the few pounds of annual traffic to be got there, but to enable the line to be worked through at a commer cially paying rate, which could not be effected with the slow speed of working through the entire length of the line in one circuit. This is one of the greatest objections to the long route, and the company seem not altogether ignorant of it themselves; for although they estimate their traffic so liberally, they state that their preference shares are to be guaranteed 8 per cent. dividend from the Government " in case of success." It would appear from this that if the line, being once laid, could only carry a message a day, the Government would have to pay the working expenses of £25,000 a year, and £48,000 dividend on the preference shares. The estimate of receipts to which I have referred is cal culated by the company upon an uninterrupted rate of working of ten words per minute for sixteen hours out of twenty four, or 480 messages a day, which is assumed to be a moderate expectation, because 1,500 messages are said to be passed daily between this country and the con tinent. It must be remembered, howaver, that the continental traffic spoken of is spread over no less than 35 conducting wires, none of which are so long as to be materially subject to the retardation and confusion of signals by inductive phenomena, which are so prejudicial to the well-working of lines of great length. When the Government are applied to for assistance in the construction of a line of telegraph to America,which will no doubt be the case before long, as no less than three dis tinct undertaking are in the fields, it is most earnestly to be hoped in the interests of the public that the whole matter will be referred to a competent committee to investigate. It will then be determined whether the direct line with its enormous stretch in one single risk, and its great electrical obstacles, affords' the best promise of success, and is most worthy of aid from the public purse; or whether the several other routes in shorter sections, by the Northern or Icelandic route, by the A zoru, by the Canary and Cape Verde Isl inds and Brazil, or by the Alentian Island and British Columbia, are not, any or all of them, immeasurably superior to the lino between Ireland and Newfoundland. . Believing the subject to be one of universal importance, I have ventured to lay before you these few facts and con siderations, so that by your kind aid the public * may well weigh the scheme which is seeking their sanction and support, and may fairly adjudge the best means to be adopted for crowning with due success electrical intercourse with the New World.—l am, Sir, your most obedient GEOGRAPHER. the laws. He continued—" With unshaken confidence in the accomplishment of Italian unity, we abstain from making promises which might not be followed by immediate effects, and await the course of events without illusions and without discouragement. " We shall be careful to maintain alliances whilst preserving the independence of the country." Signor Parini concluded by making an appeal for Italian concord, which, he said, was personified in the King. TURIN, DEC. 11. The Parliamentary Committee, deputed to exa mine General La Marmora's report upon the brigandage in the Neapolitan provinces, has com municated to the Chambers the conclusions at which it has arrived thereon. The Committee state that the General's report is incomplete, and censure on several points the system pursued by the Government. They express their belief that the principal causes of brigandage are the insufficient confidence of the populations in the present state of things, and the stay of the French at Rome. The Committee point out the measures necessary to inspire confidence and associate the country with the efforts of the Government, and conclude by proposing the appointment of a special committee to thoroughly investigate the matter, and make a further report to the Chamber'. PARTS, DEC. 11, The Patrie of this evening says : " The Provisional Government of Greece, having received information that the Porte was concen trating considerable forces on the Greek frontier, and that bands of Albanians in the service of Turkey were making incursions into Greek terri tory, addressed a note, on the 24th of November last, to the Greek representative at Constantinople, ex pressing its surprise that Turkey should take mea sures calculated to excite the public mine and create regrettable complications. "The note of the previsional government further declined the responsibility of events which might result from the measures adopted by the Porte." La France of this evening announces that the Carps Legislatif and the Senate will be opened on the 12th of January next. The Emperor has received Baron de Budberg, Russian ambassador to France, in solemn audience. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY Mor,NING. The Hamburg American Company'sscrew steamer Teutonia, Capt. H. Taube, with advices from New York of the 29th ult., arrived off Cowes at 2 OM, on her way to Hamburg. She has had strong, variable winds and much fog during the passage. The Teutonia brings 33 passengers for Southampton and Havre, and 76 for Hamburg; and on freight 88,955 dols. in specie for England, 97,336 dols. for France, and 2,220 for Hamburg, with a full cargo. Her news is anticipated. On the 30thult., in lat. 4030 N., long. 70 W., the Teutonia spoke the British man-of-war steamer Transit, and on the same day, in lat. 40.38 N. long. 68 W., the American ship Orient, both bound west. The City of "Washington steamer, from Liver pool, arrived at New York on the 27th ult. servant, THE MEMBERS FOR BIRMINGIJAIVI.- I .lre under stand that Mr. Scholefield and Mr. Bright are about to meet their constituents. The intended meeting is fixed for Thurs day, the 18th inst., to be held, as usual, in the Town Hall. SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.—Although the attendance of visitors yesterday was not so numerous as on Wednesday, it was considerably in excess of the number who entered the building on the Is. day. Nearly all the animals have now been sold, and many of them have realised very high prices. The Earl of Leicester's Dovons, disqualified from competition at the show through being too late for entry, have been purchased by Mr. Jeffery, of R.: gent-street. CANADIAN MAILS.—The Royal Mail steamship Bohemian sailed yesterday from Liverpool for Portland. Besides the Canadian mails, she took out 25 cabin passen gers, and had a fair amount of cargo. LETTER FROM GARIBALDI.—The following letter has been received in reply to resolutions forwarded to Gen. Garibaldi from a public meeting at Norwich.—" November 30.--Sir,—l beg to express to you and your friends, and to the British public, my sincere gratification for the sympathy you show to me and to the Italian cause. Born in a free and glorious country, you have noble feelings. You give your hearty support to a people struggling for liberty and independence.—Believe me, yours devotedly; G. GinreAnnt.—J. J. Colman, Esq., Norwich, Sheriff, Carroty-house," FRANCE. BOURSE, DEC. 11.—The retrograde movement has been again checked, and in the little business done a slight improvement has been obtained. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f. 65c. The Railway Share Market has been also firmer, but without much doing. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents .. 97 55 Do. end month.... -- 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 65 New 3 per Cents Do, end month — Credit Mobilier 1100 Do, end month 1113 76 RA IL Bank Shares 3395 Credit F oncier 1335 Piedmontese Fives Italian Loan 7l 65 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes 54 Home Debt - /WAYS. Cash. Account. Orloan.s lO6O .. 1065 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1153 75 .. 1155 Geneva Southern 7BB 75 .. 787 50 Western Eastern Sardinian 375 .. 372 50 Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 652 50 .. 657 50 Ditto to Barcelona RUSSIA. At a recent reception given by the Emperor o Russia to the nobles at Moscow, his Nlajesty ad dressed them as follows : " It is particularly agreeable to me, gentlemen, to see you assembled in our ancient capital, which is doubly dear to me as it was my cradle. lam satisfied to be able to repeat to you what I said to the nobles of Novogorod on the day of the celebration of the thousand anniversary of the Itus- sian Empire. " I am accustomed to place my confidence in the senti ments of devotion of our nobility—an unshaken devotion to the Throne and to the country, of which it has so often given proof by its acts, especially at periods of sad trials for country, as was only recently the case. "I am sure, gentlemen, that our nobility will continue to be the most firm support of the throne, as it always has been and ought to be. This is why I put my trust in you, gentlemen, in your unanimity in aiding me in every thing which tends to the welfare and power of our country. May God aid us in this task, and may His blessing be with us I And you, gentlemen, members of the nobility of Moscow, know that I hold it a special honour to be one of you as proprietor of this province. I thank you for your cordial welcome, which I know how to appreciate." The appeal of the Emperor to the nobles pro duced a great effect upon the Assembly, The Grand Duke Michael, the Emperor's brother, has joined the Emperor at Moscow. Prince Albert of Prussia, who is on his return from a tour in the Caucasus, also proceeds to Moscow. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS, SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamship Ellora, Captain J. Kellock, arrived about midnight, bring ing the heavy portibn of these mails, in charge of Mr. Douglas, of the General Post-office. She has 37 passengers, £549 12s. 7d. in specie, 280 bales and 21 cases of silk, 36 cases of shawls, 50 chests of oranges, 583 bags of corn, 1,077 bags of wheat, and 131 packages of general merchan dise. The Ellora left Alexandria on the 28th ult., Malta the 2d inst., and Gibraltar the 7th, and has had fine weather throughout the voyage. She passed her Majesty's ship St. George in lat. 37.29 N., long. 6" 30 E.'; off Finisterre, passed the hull of a vessel timber laden, waterlogged and abandoned. Her Majesty's ships Trident and Firefly were at Alex andria; the Marlborough, Trafalgar, Liffey, Phccbe, Alac rity, Firebrand, and Scylla at Malta; and the Doris, Procris, and Redpole at Gibraltar. Exchanges at Gibraltar on the 6th inst. were as follows : London, 90 days' date, 50 to 501 ; Pal is, ditto, sf. 28c. ; Marseilles, ditto, 51. 29c. ; Genoa, ditto, sf. 30c: ; Madrid, 8 days' sight, a pm. ; Cadiz, ditto, I, dis. ; Seville, ditto, dis. ; Malaga, ditto, par ; Barcelona, ditto, k pm.; Almeria, ditto, par; Valencia, ditto, par; Alicante, ditto, dis. The boat of the late Dutch galliot Finna Gerarda, A. Struich, master, 23 days from Leghorn, with marble, &c., for London, arrived at Gibraltar on the 28th ult. The vessel sprung a leak on the 26th in a gale, wind W.N.W., and sunk three hours after, 32 miles E. of Cape St. Vincent, The crew were picked up by the brig Lebanon, W. Hutchin son, master, of and from Sunderland, bound to Mahon, which took them to the entrance of the bay, and proceeded. The Dutch schooner Stad Appingadam went on shore off Punta Mala early on the morning of the 30th ult., but was got afloat a tide or two afterwards. The Italian brig Carolina, landed at Gibraltar J. Espino, master, crew (16 in number), and five passengers of the late Spanish ship Ana Teresa, from Cadiz, with olive oil, for Ha • vana, which vessel sprung a leak and sank in lat. 35.16 N., lon. 8.36 W. The crew and passengers took to their boats, and were picked up on the 26th ult. by the Carolina. The Carolina and the French brig Charles et Victorine put in on the 30th, from the coast of Barbary, which the bad weather compelled them to abandon. The latter lost anchors, &c. The British bark Mary Catherine, which drove on shore under the Line Wall during the gale of the morning of the 24th ult , would, it was feared, become a total wreck if the weather continued stormy. All efforts to get her afloat had been unavailing. The following British merchant steamers had arrived at Gibraltar : --Nov. 28th, the Grecian, Capt. A. Flinn, from Liverpool for Malta and Constantinople; Dec. Ist, the lonia, Capt. J. Beggs, from Liverpool for Alexandria; 3d, the Massilia, Capt. J. M. Rogers, from Southampton, for Malta and Alexandria; 4th, the Edith, Capt. W. Cassop, from Cardiff, for Trieste ; sth, the Laconia, Capt. W. Betts, from Liverpool, for Malta and Alexandria. The revenue of California will exceed 50,000,000 dollars this year. HER MAJESTY AND DR. NORMAN MACLEOD.— W e (Mail) have been informed of another instance of the affectionate solitude felt by the Queen for those honoured by her acquaintance. Her Majesty, on reading in the newspapers of the death of the late lamented Dr. Norman Macleod of St. Columba's, expressed her deep sympathy and grief that he had been cut off in the full career of a life of wide-spread usefulness—a sympathy intensified by his connection with memories of her visits to Balmoral, both as wife and widow. One of the ladies in attendance expressing her Majesty's feeling on the event, the words fell on the ears of a " Scotch lassie," a servant to Lady Augusta Bruce, who ventured to remark that it must be the father of Dr. Norman Macleod of the Barony, and not the Dr. Macleod who preached before her Majesty at Bal moral. The Queen, being informed of this, desired the girl to be sent into her presence, and the lassie, who comes from Glasgow or its neighbourhood, having been ushered in, was asked by her Majesty regarding the whole matter. She explained the points that she thought inconsistent in the short and inaccurate paragraph her Majesty had been reading. In consequence, a telegraph was despatched to Sheriff Sir Archibald Alison of Glasgow, wbo confirmed the girl's story ; and soon after a fee l i n g letter of s y m pathy i that adorn was sent to Dr. Norman M acleod b y the Marchione ss of the EIS,c curtain a h i n e r that Majesty'sveils the commands.manyi m iCouldlar ts tt s a v° peep behind the private life of our beloved Queen, the love her subjects bear to her M a jesty would be intensified tenfold, if that were possible. The Semkvhore of Marseilles states that the effects of the torrents of rain which fell last week have not yet en tirely ceased. A house on the Boulevard ind'Orleans l th a t city partially fell two day s s i nce, leaving i tho e r e e ff t e r c i t e e d d , by y u t the as i o t r ordinary found ti oa ry means, some eo of d f t n h o e hi g h walls in such a stat e th at their demo t Gunpowder was there nis. dangerous to the aajoining premises the firemen made a kind of battering-ram, 'with which they at last brought down the ruins without injury to life or limb, GARIBALDI'S TVOUND. PISA, DEC. 5. A very interesting report has just been published by Professor Cipriani, a distinguished Italtan sur geon, and a member of the Chamber, on the case of General Garibaldi's wound. The statement—beginning from the day of Aspro monte, and concluding at the period of the extrac tion of the ball—is so full and complete, that It leaves no question unanswered on this most interest- ing case. It distinctly states that on Garihaldi's arrival at Varignano the degree of tumefaction and inflam mation was such that any examination was barely' practicable, and that the Professors Porta and Zinetti, on their consultation, could only discover a short narrow passage—a "sinus'—passing from above downward from the external orifice of the wound, in which the probe could not detect the presence of a ball. This inspired all with the hope that the wound of one so dear to Italy would not prove to be very dangerous, and that the ball: having entered and fractured the inner ankle, had by a rebound dropped out of the wound again. By unremitting care and attention the tumefac tion was subdued and the inflammatory symptoms got under, and it was at this period—about the 16th or 17th of October—that Mr. Partridge arrived from England, sent by the Garibaldian Surgical Committee, to report upon the case and inform our public at home as to the true circumstances of the injury. It is necessary to bear this precise period in mind to understand clearly what ensued. When Mr. Partridge presented himself at Varig nano, it was not as a surgeon whose assistance had been sought for by the other medical men in atten dance. He was neither known to any of them nor in a position to be consulted by them. He was in that extremely delicate and difficult position of a looker-on come to observe and report on what he saw; being only on sufferance, as it were, per' mitred to feel the patient's pulse or inspect tho appearance of his wound. Nothing could be more courteous than the reception he met with, nor, as t have heard, anything more conspicuous than hi° own tact and delicacy in a situation eminently difd" cult and awkward. Mr. Partridge saw and questioned, but did net examine Garibaldi; that is, he did not do that which, had the case been his own, or one to wille tt he had been called in consultation, he mig ht have done—viz., submit the patient to the pain and suffering necessary to satisfy himself as to extent and nature of the injury. He heard th e history of the case, and saw the wound and from both he inclined to the opinion, vi'h ieb ; was then that of Zanetti and the oth ers , th a t tber' was not the amount of injury apparent which ja i ,: cated the presence of the bullet— a p ro j ec til e , be remembered, above an ounce in weight, of the for ° of a bolt, with a conical extremity, and said to ha .° been discharged at the short distance of 200 metres' That a ball of this size and shape, and wit h a force proportionate to this short ran ge , s hould ent er the ankle joint, implies an immense amount of ir jury. Indeed, the total destruction of the whole articulation, and the pulverisation of the bone 6 around might reasonably have been looked f or ' Here, however, there . was nothing to argue that such mischief had occurred. Professor Zanetti 'Av e c distinctly of this opinion, and though he agre ed with Mr. Partridge that nothing positively ex clude d the belief that the ball might be there, yet no sYr a l Y tam then present implied that it was. The wound, besides this, was in that cond itiel in which the fact of th e p resence o f t h e b a ll bell ascertained could not have influen ce d th e treatrae n ,.%" There was far too much local di s t ur b ance to all ey ' a' of any operation for e x t rac ti on . A rt h r itic disease Garibaldi had long suffered from, added 1 1 ., the pain of his injury, and increased the constd_'o tional derangement ; so that it wou ld have beet; highly injudicious to subject the patient at suc h time to a very painful operation, and for the sat% reasons, in a minor degree, was all examination , e far as practicable, omitted. That nothing could. be done save to continue t ilc treatment already pursued—viz., a diligent atter tion to whatever could aiminish local inflammatio n ' and at the same time sustain general health- 189 fully concurred in by Mr. Part r id ge , Z ane tti, Ripari, and the other surgeons in attendance. 5 Indeed the actual presence of the ball at this time was less the important point to resolve th 3ti that of whether the articulation had been open ed ' the wound of a joint, and the consequences of escaped fluid, being to surgical authorities oedew of the gravest forms of such injuries. Mr. Part r i l le 6e e: was not of the opinion that the joint had opened : he distinctly declared that.he believe d the wound had taken its course upwards and outwa' "over the arch of the foot," instead of into it. 00 This M. Cipriani, in his report, confirms' 130 , arrived after Mr. Partridge had left Varigl36 and states that " by good f or t une th e missile 116 passed over the line of the articulation," a nd pacted itself in the direction o f th e ou ter ank le ' t he It will be seen, therefore, that he affirms t hit n od ball was certainly there ; a point on which Zit bel and Partridge had not fully agreed, though t . . naies by no means rejected or denied it. Professor bat ciano, of Naples, concurred with M. Ciprian l , all were unanimous on the essential point that es' operation with a view to extraction would be w pedient and ill-timed. and su" M. Nelaton arrived on the 28th October an jected the patient to a long an d p a inful 0 0/3jor 01 tion, in which he affirmed that he believed h° o 1 detected the ball at two centimetres and a ha h et tn i g the external orifice, but was not positive it ,re not have been a fragment of bone, and sugges ted it g dilatation of the wound, by gradually plogg le larger and larger each day, so as to render e%,_tror iett cl tion of the ball easier"—a process which every i r te e of humanity—not to add of good surgery--W i joice to hear was not listened to. to t '6 la At the consultation of the day after e‘e for departure, 19 surgeons were present, and AL' to e, after a tedious and terribly painful exami rle declared that the object touched by Nelaten that not the ball, but an " osseous f r agment s " a nd tr eat' no change whatever should be made in th e gr. I ment. " The day after," writes M. Cipriani/ f t ee Partridge, and M. Pirozoff, chief surgeo n ° Russian staff, arrived at Spezzia, and fully is to I firmed the opinion we had come to,"--tbeabboeto say, that no actual knowledge of the whe rea t ot 3e of the ball being attainable, there was "of all course to pursue—viz., a patient prosecution oral means to subdue inflammation, occasion al re 63 t ie° e of detached fragments of bone, and tile eyel' a of such remedies as would assist nature in rh of the St ing the presence of a foreign body. On and November Garibaldi was transported to r' S ' ro be , on the 9th an examination was made by the P et tic t oo' which, passing up a "sinus" of four cenbt::beei encountered &resistance which proved t o o centimetres, fragment, but st r o u n ck passing ona h b ar e the ball. 'th 6 n fi d r m which s t a a bilocne: d e By ently the i n t ro duction of a probe armed W eo sill prepared spongy the osseous fragment wa s , o fol' detached on the 22d of November; and on t" rt , lowing day, the wound being • mitting of easy access, the ball was safely peditiously withdrawn. re flec t thus to t To any one who will take a trouble ice d dot on the case, the conclusion will be ea sily ar r ras og that it was one of those difficult and emb ar to til e incidents, whose details being daily gi" n u blic world in bulletins, displayed before the F owe eer degree of doubt and hesitation which, ni o re medical men feel in the conduct of a case, they ove , dilated a an co , an d thus we here not prone to parade openly; apparently, coutradictions and discrePan cies thA t ri se e y" r w ound ga y le o the poe s„ in reality none existed — the real fact beiljgto the changeful condition of th e one day the probable of the next. each varying diagnosis, and rendered ------.---------...... VI Or CTOll..._Ti, MMA NU EL'S FIRININESS.--• Tile r .." •,,1. arl'• it i l respondent of the Sleek says that, in a conversation sc_.,, Signor Ptutino upon tho late ministerial crisis, Victor W'',, manuel declared he had intended to unite Cl' parties %0 new cabinet, but finding tho project impossible, they© ' l ,O only one course open to bim, viz., that traced out by '' - to institutions of the country. " Upcin everything relatirig the statute," he added, "I am firmer than the Allo.*. -