The Sun. — London, England, 1862-02-14 00:00:00

MR. and MRS. CHARLES KEAN are engaged at the Theatre -Royal Drury-lane for a limited num ber of nights, and will appear THIS The (FRIDAY) 14th, in Louis XI. ; Saturday, 15th, The Wife's Secret ; Mon day, 17th, Louis XI. ; Tuesday, 18th, The Wife's Secret ; Wednesday, 19th, Hamlet ; Tnursday, 20th Louis XI. ; Fri day, 21st, Hamlet ; Saturday, 22d, The Wife's Secret. To conclude each evening with the Grand PANTOMIME• ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Linder the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, (sth time) THE ROSE OF KILLAR NEY. Misses Louisa Py, Susan Pyne, Jessie liPLean, and Top ham ; Messrs. Santle ne y, H. Haigh, E. Dussek, C. Lyall, patey, W a llworth, and Mr. W. Harrison. To conclude with HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, Giants and Dwarfs. Messrs. W. H., F., and H. Payne, H., E., and s. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Commence at Seven. 4171-1 EA TRE- _lt Y AL, HAYMARKET, Lessee, Kr. J. B. Baekstene. THIS EVENING, to commence with OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern ; Asa Trenchard, Mr. Bnckstone. After which, a Comic Christmas Pantomime, LITTLE MISS MUFFET AND LITTLE BOY BLUE • or, Harle quin and Old Daddy Lonalegs. Louise Leclercq, Charles Le clercq, Herr Cole, G. Becket, and Miss Rosine. Commence a 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, Feb. 14, the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fal-' goner ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. After which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD; or, The Fairies of the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrcck. Principal charac ters by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and Elsa Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 1. Box-office open daily from 11 tills. ROYAL PRINCES S'S THRATILE.- Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, AS YOU LIKE IT. Mr. Ryder, Mr. V? iddicomb, Mr. Jordan, Miss Carlotta Leclercq, bliss Maria Harris, &a After which a Comic Christmas Pantomime, WITITTINf TON AND HIS CAT ; or, Harlequin King Kollywobbo) and the Genius of Good Humour. The grotesque opening invented and written by Henry J. Bon, Esq., author of the Princess's Pantomime of "Jack t he Giant Killer. ' The scenery by Mr. James Gates, Mr. H. Cuthbert, and numerous assistants. Good Humour, Miss Helen Howard ; Princess Popsiwopsi, Miss Rose Leclercq; Alice, Miss Pauline Le clercq ; Messrs. Garden, Cathcart, Morland, Collett, Hast ings. Raymond ; Dick Whittington, Miss Maria Harris Robin Goodfellow and the Cat, Master John Harlem, (pupil of the celebrated Gabriel Ravel ; Clown, Mr. Hildyard ; Harlem:tin, Mr. John Lauri; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Colum- Pine. Stiss Caroline Adams. NEW THRATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.-- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. 352 d Night of the Engagement of Mr. and Mrs. DION BOUCICAITL T. THIS EVENING, the great American Drama of THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion Boucicault, S. Emery, Billington, Jamison, P. Bedford, Stephenson, Eburne, Powell, Romer, H. Lewis ; Mrs. B. H. Marston. Miss Miss Denvil. Afte il r lington hi wch , (4th Mrs time), THE DUBLlN Latimer BOY., Andy, Mrs. Boucicault. To conclude with MARGERY DAW. Messrs. D. Fisher, Billing,ton, W. Smith, Miss Wool gar, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. N W ROYALTY THEATRE , Dean-street, Oxford-street. THIS EVENING, A CHINESE ROMANCE. After which Offenbach's Opera Buffo, entitled LE MARI AGE AUX ANT ERNES. Mr. John Morgan , Mesdames St a nley, Pa L yne, and Mason. To conclude with a new and original Farce, by Messrs. Ben Barnett and George Webster, entitled CARNA TION OF CARNATION COTTAGE. Commence at half past 7. AS TLEY'S ROYAL AMP HITHE ATRE.- Last 2 Nights of The Colleen Bawn, and of the Nor wegian Wonders, to make room for the Grand Equestrian Spectacle, now in preparation, introd thisucing Two of the finest Performing Elephants ever seen in country. THIS EVENING, THE COLLEEN BAWN. To be followed by the SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, when the great Norwegian Wonders will appear. Concluding with a favourite Farce. The world-renowed Rumsey and Newcomb's Double Troupe of Ethiopian Minstrels are engaged for six nights only, com mencing Illonday, Feb. 17. CANTERBURY HALL AND FIN E ARTS GALLERY. "THE ENCHANTED HASH " (SECOND EDITION) by Mr. E. Marshall, with Eleven Wonderful Transformations (the most talented performance ever theeattmpted by a single person), at a quarter-past ten. Also following extraor flinary combination of Comic talent, viz.: Mr. Randall, Mr. Frederick French, Mr. J. G. Forde, Miss Harriet Coveney, and Miss Greene. Grand Selections from LA TRAVIATA, by Mdlle. Negri, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, and a powerful Chorus, at Ten o'clock. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, Bd. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls. VICTOR JULIEN, " THE FLYING MAN , " at CANTERBURY HALL, Every Evening at half past Nine o'clock. THE 0 X F O RD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, Two Selections Every Evening alternately from" Milani," Lucrezia Borgia," "La Traviata." " Simon Boccanegra," "La Circassienne," Sze., by the entire Company, los Full Band an d Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. So by Mr. Viotti Collins (the great English violinist). And other at tractive Entertainments, the Comic portion by Miss Harriet Covenev, Meeees. Sam Collins, Wood and Son, E. Marshall, i. P. Foster, and W. RandalL Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. TLIE" LE O S 3IERVEILLXFORD, 6, O GY XFORD-STREET MNASTIQUES .- ES " By HENRI and PFAU (aged Nine and Eleven years), From the "Cirque Napoleon," Paris, at which place they performed for Three Hundred Consecutive Nights, creating the utmost enthusiasm and excitement. The Double Feats on the Flying Trapeze of these Youthful Artistes are unsurpassed for daring, skill, and grace. They make their First Appearance in England at this Establishment on MONDAY next, the 17th oi February. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY. —Morning, lh. 58m.—Afternoon, 2h. 12m, To-MORROW. -Morning, 2h. 33m.—Afternoon, 2h. 50m. THE WEATHER. —SUN OFFICE, FEBRUARY 14, 1862. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 38—highest since noon yesterday. 34—lowest this morning and during the night. 36—this day at soon. _ BARosorrzß-30.10. WIND—N.-Easterly; rather fresh, with dull cold weather. tlrpa? ;11 ^%• , A 4 4 , :; : f -$17:1 i 7 =-" 1 r- - 41 :3 -fr \- % . 114 4 t THE S LONDON, FRIDAY► FEB. 14, 1862. It is always tempting 10 an opposition when a vehement outcry arises against a Government pro posal. We do not wonder, therefore, that some of those gentlemen who sit opposite the Treasury benches should hardly be able to refuse the chance of making capital out of the teachers protection agitation. It is something to get the goodwill in every parish and town of persons who are iastruct ing the rising generation, and who have, too fre quently, on their side, for one reason or another, the clergy of most denominations. Indications of an inclination to head the army of State-paid teachers, pupil teachers, and clerical agitators for grants of public money, to men, and not to work done by the men, are not wanting on the Conservative benches. Other Conservatives, however, are acting a more honest part, and the influence of the latter will be, we trust, sufficient to repress the injudicious party hankerings of the others. The great Conservative party may rest assured that nothing will really be more for their future discre dit than to have used the new minute for party purposes; just as, u u the other hand, nothing will gain them more respect than honourably supporting proposals which the general public, as soon as it understands them, must and will approve. The Conservatives will be wise to remember that their leader has in truth been at the bottom of the Government proposals, and certainly need not blush that he was so. Lord DERBY'S Government nu ap pointed the ve r y able commission whose re port has b ee n the foundatio n of the Government mite. Of course the Conser vatives mi g ht in some respects have deduced from it a different practical scheme ; yet we do not see how it is possible for any scheme honestly based on the report, to have been of a very different character. Unless the Government were prepared to accept the views of the two Voluntaries on the Commission, less, on behalf of the taxpayer and on behalf of the untaught children could hardly have been offered. If the report was conclusive on any point, it was so on this : that hardly a fourth of the children for whom the Government —that is, the taxpayer—were making such costly grants, re ceived a ny elementary knowledge which they could be expected to retain after they left school. nt taught What we we, for Government money is indispensable knowledge. Algebra, Latin, theoretical English grammar, and other things, like geography and history, more essential, are not what the public should pay to teach. Government education is, after all, so far as it goes, pauper education; charity at the public cost. And surely public charity ought to limit itself to taking precautions against educa tional starvation. But we take much higher ground. We maintain that reading, writing, and arith metic, well taught, ought to be the grand object of all our State-aided schools. The age at which the majority of the children leave is so early that to divert their minds from these needful things is to do them, as a body, injustice. They need all their time to acquire facility in these elements. If when a working man's child leaves school, reading, writ ing, and cyphering, be not as easy to him as talk ing, he will be certain to lose them all in a very short time. At ten years of age, a child in a middle. class family does read, what is within his comprehension, as easily as he talks of what he understands. Hence we never hear of his losing the power. For this is due, not merely to his attending at school longer, but to his findigg at that age reading so easy and natural to him, that he reads all which amuses him as na turally as he would listen to the same thing. If, through the wise encouragement furnished by the Government, the three elements are thus given to the children, the key to all knowledge is given. Whatever latent abilities there are in a child will be self-developod if he has but the means of coming in contact with that which would stimulate them to action. The " Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to extacy the living lyre " may do it, if through the grand elements of all knowledge, the way to the rest be fairly opened. Now, to do this is the pith and marrow of the Go vernment Minutes. The Government says—We want, en behalf of the country, that every child should have the well-known keys to all know ledge. We do not want that a few crack scholars should be competent to perform all kinds of feats of intellectual tight-rope-dancing ; but that no child should want the power to read the newspapers which tell him what is going on at home and abroad ; to write to his absent parents or rela tives; and to make the ordinary caleulations essen tial to his fulfilling the duties of half the posts he may be called to occupy. The objections raised against the Government plan, we must say plainly, appear to us to resolve themselves into two: That the minutes may inter fere with getting Government money without doing the work wanted by the Government ; and that sec tarian religion may be placed at a disadvantage. With regard to the first, we have often wondered how the respectable teachers who raise the cry can have allowed themselves to do so. They have clamoured for "vested rights"—a cry always indi cative that it is for something of little worth in itself—as if they had been cathedral dignitaries or proctors. If the Government can offer employment to no person without his converting it into a vested right, why, then, the Government had need be chary indeed of furnishing new employment. At the time the present system was proposed, we remember that Mr. BAINES, of the _Leeds Mercury, was somewhat laughed at for predicting that it would soon come to this, that we should have an army of Government stipendiaries, who would look on their pay as a vested right ; but certainly the event has justified the predic tions of our northern contemporary. It by no means follows, however, that the Government and the country are to heed the cla mour. We would not deal harshly with the schoolmasters ; but we do not think there is the slightest harshness in saying to them—As you take our money you must do our work, not the work you may fancy. Now, well educated as you are, you can, if you will, enable all your pupils above six years of age to pass the examinations in the elements which we require. Do what you like besides, but this we must have. Do it, and we will pay for each child accordingly. We cannot well understand how any teacher willing to do the work desired by the public, should lose a penny of his capitation grant—and, if he be not willing, let him renounce Government aid and conduct his school on his own plan. As to the religious, we should rather say, irre ligious outcry—we think it most discreditable to these who raise it. In the first place there is in reality no alteration in the procedure under the new minutes in regard to religion. But the fear alleged is that the masters may give so much atten tion to teaching the three elements, that religion will be neglected. The objection is about of the same value as if we were told that the grown man found his time so occupied in earning his daily bread that he must give up doing that to attend oftener on prayers. The first things must be done first. What can the poor young creature learn, intelligently, of religion, who has not yet learned to read well'' Of what use to him would be all the mysteries of the Prayer-book, creeds, and articles, or of the Bible itself ? The truth is, some of the objectors fear, not lest the children should fail to learn from any teacher fit for the office the two great com mandments, but that time should not be spared to give them a parrot-like knowledge of creeds and formularies, wholly beyond their understanding, though not beyond the superstitious regard which may be taught, even to children, for what they do not comprehend. We are confident that those who are in earnest about the really religious education of the young, will heartily thank the Government for a plan which will do more than any yet proposed, to facilitate their efforts. Government proposes, in fact, to till the soil for the religious seedsman. The New Bridge at Blackfriars is still set aside as a scheme in nubibus. Like the benedictiOn of man, apparently, it " never is but always to be." After a good deal of discussion upon the matter yesterday in the Court of Common Council, the whole question was again postponed for "further consideration." As if it were quite a now idea to take the project thus into " further consideration." Really reading of these postponements and post ponements usque ad nauseam, the only conlusion to be arrived at in our bewilderment would almost seem at times to be, by necessity, that with which Lord DUNDREARY night after night now, amidst convulsions of laughter, in the Theatre Royal Haymarket, closes his many logical difficulties—" Oh, it's one of those things a fellow , 11 never find out !" Here is a proposition in itself, one would think, quite simple enough— namely—(a thing absolutely decided upon, recollect ! by the Committee of Inquiry after due delibera tion)—that the plan sketched out_ . by Mr. TuomAs PAGE should be carried into execution. Mr. PAGE'S design, remember, was long since picked out by preference from all the other designs sent in by all the various engineers and architects. A design it was —or rather we will say it is, for we are sanguine that even now, when all has been said and done, that can y e t b y econo mical scheme of Mr. ppositioPnolsaibaileistiygn this is, this be said and done by a perverse o and for p a new brid ge o f cast iron, of o A b a l E e , asnsduabgeaesuttiiofnuil THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1862. LATEST NEWS. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING. The Moniteur of to-day publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results, as compared pith the three arches, costing £247,000 and no more upon the chosen site at Blackfriars. In every point of view the plan of Mr. PAGE possesses an unquestionable superiority of attractions over all the other plans and estimates that have been sent in. It is won derfully moderate in its cost, as we have seen— £247,ooo being the outside of the proposed dis- bursements requisite for carrying the whole design to a state of completion. It is of the most durable materials. It is singularly beautiful in its scull:). tural and architectural decorations. It is—added to all this—a bridge of THREE and not of five arches—a bridge consequently giving a wider span than do many others from star ling to starling, impeding the traffic on the river less, and presenting in every way greater facilities for navigation up and down the Silent Highway at all times, at high tide and at low tide indifferently. Yet with all these un deniable advantages visible both in Mr. PAGE'S design and in Mr. PAGE'S estimates for a three arched cast-iron bridge from Surrey to Middlesex at Blackfriars—although the plan referred to has been deliberately selected as the very best, all things considered, by the very men appointed to make the selection—No ! the city obstructives can't for the life of them see it in this light at all. The whole question they decide is to be scrutinised again, de novo, is again to be discussed ab initio. As we have:seen just now the matter altogether is set aside—of course, like Madame Gnisr's Farewell Benefit, for "positively the last time"—for " further consideration." Yet all the while those who are better qualified than almost any other class of men to decide upon the advantages or disadvantages of this or that scheme for a new bridge at Blackfriars, have for mally and distinctly and deliberately decided in favour of Mr. THOMAS PAGE'S plan for a three arched cast-iron bridge, costing £247,000, as the best out of the whole gallery of designs sent in by the various architectural and engineering competitors. The watermen, and lightermen, and men of that craft upon the river Thames, all look with satisfac tion upon this plan of Mr. PAGE'S, all prefer the airy spanning of the river by three cast-iron arches to any other that has yet come to be suggested. They say this, they write this, and they do so with a sort of emphasis, as if their convictiors were expressed by their decision—affixing their signatures to what they write upon the matter, and urgently demand ing that a three-arched bridge, such as the one proposed by Mr. THOMAS PAGE, and not a five arched bridge, such as so many others have sug gested, and are now loudly advocating, should be constructed upon the chosen site at Blackfriars. Is it not vexatious that when utility, beauty, simpli city, strength, and economy are all manifestly cared for in this design of Mr. PAGE'S—the preference that has already been avowed for it by the public at large, by the river folk whom the choice of a good or a bad design will especially and peculiarly effect, and first of all too by the very set of men chosen to make a selection in the matter —is it not vexatious, we say, that the preference thus authoritatively expressed in favour of Mr. PAGE'S plan, and Mr. PAGE'S estimates, should be set at nought now at the eleventh hour and three quarters, and the whole metropolitan community baulked, in the very nick, in its hope of having at once a new and noble bridge commenced in place of the costly and ricketty old bridge down at Blackfriars ? How often have we not had occasion to echo those familiar words of the Rev. LAWRENCE STERNE inscribed upon the first page of his Sentimental Journey— " They manage these things better in France !" Here, again, are they not once more pain fully applicable. Perhaps, it is the one little compensative good of a despotic Govern ment. While we are discussing and delibe rating, and postponing one after another of our metropolitan improvements, Paris is being rebuilt. New quays border its river; new bridges (such as they are) span it; new boulevards sweep at a tangent through this and that squalid and dilapidated quarter of the capital, replacing a maze of dirty lanes and alleys, with a broad and majestic and lamplit an d t ree -b or d ere d hi g h wa y, worthy. any day of becoming the path for an impe rial procession. If one could but for one year bor row this particular leaf out of the NAPOLEON Book of Administration ! Instead of talking about Mr. PAGE'S economical and noble design for a three arched cast iron bridge over the Thames at Black friars, we should soon enough, in that case, be in a fair way to realise it. LIE CROWN PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA PORTSMOUTH, Friday Morning. Her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert arrived from Antwerp and proceeded through to Osborne, with Prussian standard at the main. THE LINCOLN ELECTION.—After a severe contest between the Conservative candidate, Mr. Bramley Moore, and the Liberal candidate, Mr. Palmer, the former was re turned on Wednesday by a majority of 25. After the declaration of the poll Mr. Palmer was received at the Ses sions-house with great enthusiasm. He congratulated the inhabitants on the progress Liberal principles were making. When he first came among them, he said, he was 300 be hind. Now his minority was reduced to 25. Mr. Bramley Moore could not get a hearing. He was greeted with cries of " Get a chair." Before the proceedings terminated he was secretly taken through the city gaol and by back roads to the inn, where happily he arrived in safety. In the evening the mob broke the windows of the committee rooms of both candidates. A struggle ensued between them and the police, which was only terminated by the latter being withdrawn. At the request of two or three of the inhabi tants the mob then quietly dispersed. THE BALLOT SOCIETY.—The usual weekly meeting of the executive committee was held ( n Tuesday, at the offices in Guildhall-chambers—Mr. Sydenham Nodes in the chair. Mr. J. Wood, of Southwick, Shoreham, was elected a member of the council. The pending elections for Lincoln, Great Grimsby, and Gloucester were considered by the committee, and directions given to promote the cause of the ballot at each. It was reported from Oxfordshire that the defeat of the Ministerial candidate, Sir H. H. Dashwood, Bart., was caused by the advanced Liberals withholding their votes from him, in accordance with the policy recommended by the committee. A sub-committee was appointed to confer with Mr. Berkeley, M.P., chair man of the society, and other Parliamentary friends, as to the form in which the ballot question should be brought before the House of Commons this session. PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.—A return has been issued which shows the amount of the public in come and expend ture during the year ending on the 31st of December, 1861. The income, omitting the shillings. was as follows : Customs, £23,774,000 ; excise, £18361,000 ; stamps, £8,488,170; taxes, (land and assessed) £3,119,000; property tax, £9,962,000; pcst-office, £3,500,000; crown lands (net), £293,478; miscellaneous, £1,306,201; total revenue—£6B,6o3,Bsl. The expenditure was in excess of this sum by £2,214,207, amounting in the aggregate to £70,818,058. The expenditure on the National Debt, on Exchequer Bills, &c., was £23,090,259. The charges on the Consolidated Fund amounted to £2,564,623. and the Supply services amounted to £42,162,875 ; the separate services costing the following sums :—Army, £14,875,868 ; navy (excluding packet service), £12,608,012; miscel laneous civil services, £8,052,788; salaries, &c., of revenue departments, £4,697,967 ; Post-office packet service, £1,091,778 ; China, naval and military operations £780.000 ; extraordinary expenses of the late Russian war, £53,430. THE NAVY ESTIMATES.—A supplementary esti- mate was issued yesterday of the sums required to provide for the .probable excess upon the amount voted for the navy for the reserve of the year 1861-2. The whole estimate amounts to £364,388, being composed of the following sums --glOO,OOO for wages of seamen and marines, £30,000 for victuals for seamen and marines, and £234,338 for the " army department," or, in other words, the expenses of transporting troops. _ . The receipts of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada for the week ending the 25th January were £16,494 sterling, being £G,BIB more than in the correspo n di ng week of last year. January return : INCREASE. Francs. Cash in hand, 471 millions. Bank-notes, Treasury balance, lOl ft Current accounts, Advances, DECREASE. Bills discounted, not yet due, l3 PARIS, FEB. 14. The Moniteur, in its bulletin of to-day, says : " The news which arrives from Italy attests more and more the necessity under which the King's Government is placed, of restoring legal order in a country so prompt at any ebullition." FRANCE. The Duke of Malakoff, accompanied by the Duchess, arrived at Algiers on the sth, on board the Christophe Colomb. An order of the day to the army immediately announced that he had reassumed his functions as Governor-General, and the next day, at noon, his Excellency received the civil and military authorities. BOLTRSE, Feb. 13.—The market has been heavy, and stock having been rather offered, prices have receded. Threes, for the Account, are now at 71f. 10c. Railway Share Market pretty firm. The following are the last quotations 41 per:per Cents ... 100 60 , Credit Fancier l4OO Do. end month.... 101 10 I Belgian 4f — 3 per Cents Do. end month 7l 10 Roman Bank Shares 3040 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 765 Spanish Threes 6O Do. Account 766 25 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern - New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1036 25 .. 1095 Geneva 361 25 .. 375 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 548 75 .. 550 THE WEST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The Royal Mail steamer Atrato, with the above mails, has arrived. She brings 69 passengers, £123,730 in specie, and 4,465 packages of cargo. She left St. Thomas's on the 31st ult. Her Majesty's ship Cadmus captured a slaver 40 miles from St. Thomas's. Affairs in Chili had improved. Large quantities of wheat and flour were being collected for ship ment to Europe. President Perez continued popular among the CLilenos. The Government was progressing tran quilly. _ Nothing important had occurred south of Peru since last advices. In Salvador a plot to assassinate President Barrios had been discovered and frus trated. Heavy rains in Costa Rica had seriously inter fered with the raising of the coffee crop. Articles being held for a high figure met with few buyers. The crop was expected to average 100,000 quintals. At Valparaiso freights to England were firm. Exehange on London was quoted at 46; to 47; on Paris, 485 ; on Hamburg, 414. At Demerara trade continued dull. Freights had advanced. Produce was coming forward for ship ment. In the import market prices were declining. The barque Boadicea, of Greenock, was destroyed by fire on the 19th of January. At Barbados floods caused by heavy rains had interfered with the preparations fur the young crop of 1863. The weather retarded sugar-making. The sugar which had been made was reported to be of good quality. The yield was an average one. Exchange-90 days, 485 dol. The Jamaica Legislature was in session. The question of immigration was engaging the atten tion of the Assembly. A bill for the introduction of liberated Africans from Sierra Leone had passed the Assembly. In the market a steady business was being done for immediate consumption. The stooks were not over-abundant, but equal to the demand. Pimento little at market. Sugar, 14s; dark, 18s. Fair rum, 30d proof, 18 in bond. Coffee scarce and high, 50s to 62s for ordinary. Exchange 90 days, per cent. premium. AMERICA. (PER CITY OF NEW YORK, via QUEENSTOWN.) NEW YORK, FEB. 1, EVENING. The news brought by the Africa caused almo'st a panic on the Stock• Exchange this morning. The result was a general fall of from 2 to 4 per cent. in shares, the impression that the European Powers would certainly intervene in America being strength ened by private advices from Europe. One steamer returned to Fort Monroe from Hat teras, being unable to cross the bar. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy. Exchange flat at 113 k to 1134. Gold dull at 31 per cent. premium. Stocks tend ing downward. New York Centrals, 83a ; Erie, 33;; Illinois Central, 60. There was but little business doing in cotton, as holders decline to make any abatement. Breadstuffs generally active, and firmer. Wheat 4c. higher ; flour has risen sc. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. The Canadian mail steamship North American has arrived with advices to the Ist inst. On the 31st ult., on the motion of Mr. Sumner, the joint resolution appropriating 35,000 dols. for expenses in connection with the Industrial Exhibi tion was considered. Mr. Sumner advocated the grant. Mr. Hale and Mr. Lane opposed it, on the ground that at the former Exhibition they were able to show reaping machines, &c., but now " the sword and cannons were their reapers, and the rebels were their harvest." The resolution was rejected by 22 against 17. On the 31st an inquiry into a statement that one third of the cartridges furnished to the Burnside expedition contained no powder was referred to the Committee on Government Contracts. Vessels were constantly running up and down the Potomac, despite the Confederate batteries. There was a scarcity of seamen at New York, and 5,000 were wanted. It appears that, owing to the better pay, the New England fishermen preferred the army to the navy. The Congressional Contract Investigating Com mittee had despatched commissioners to Philadel phia to inquire into certain alleged frauds of great magnitude. Richmond papers state, under date Augusta, Georgia, that the Federals had sunk four vessels on Rattlesnake Shoal and were preparing four more for a similar purpose. Advices from Nashville, dated the 26th, report that 15,000 Federals crossed Bowling green River on the 25th, and were suc ceeded by another body on the 26th. A despatch, dated Baton Rouge, January 21, says, " The Go vernor to-day sent to the Legislature his veto of the bill to loan to cotton planters seven millions of State Treasury notes." The British Consul at Mobile on the 26th sent a flag of truce to the Fede rals, demanding the schooner Wilder, captured by them, on the ground that she was a British vessel. The Richmond Despatch of the 29th asserts that the Federals had sunk some vessels in Roanoke Sound and other waters. The Confederate and Federal vessels had a skirmish on the 28th near Fort Pulaski, Savannah. The fort was provisioned for elm months. The New Orleans Delta says that a steamer with 1,000 b a l es o f cot t on ran the bl o ckade of Charlest on on th e 13 t h u lt. On the 26th ult six stone-lade n yeseele were sunk by the Federals in Maffit's Channel, Charleston. Some negroes who deserted from Norfolk to Fort Monroe on the 29th reported that the Confederate iron plated vessel Merrimac was to be launched that day. The steamship Calhoun, after running the blockade into a Lousiana port, accidentally burst her boilers, and had to be destroyed. Her cargo was very valuable. A Confederate schooner had got into Pensacola. San Francisco on the 24th ultimo was inundated and the streets navigable in boats. INDIA AND CHINA. We have received, in anticipation of the mail files of papers from Calcutta to the 9th January; Hong Kong, 31st December; Melbourne, 24th December ; and Sydney, 21st December. INDIA. We take the following from the Calcutta English man of the 9th January : . " We have little or no change to report in our markets. Imports are no more active than they were a week ago, English houses still continuing to hold under instructions from home, and bazaar dealers showing an evident disinclination to come to the terms required. It is, moreover, argued by the native mercantile community that, in the event of a rupture between England and the Federal Government of America, the blockade of the Southern ports will at once be raised, and that, under protection of British men-of-war, the entire of the cotton stored in those ports and on the Southern plantations will find its way to England, and tend greatly to reduce the value of manufactured goods. Under these circumstances there is little prospect of any activity shown in the piece goods market, unless holders are prepared to give way, and to accept prices somewhat below the rates they now ask. "The rumour of war with the Northern States of America has had a marked effect on the export market, which may be said to be well nigh stagnant. Shippers have stopped all transactions, and those who have chartered and are loading in American bottom, have of course brought their operations to a standstill in anticipation of their charters becom ing null and void. As this state of uncertainty must continue, at any rate, for another fortnight, if not longer, we may anticipate a continuance of the present inactivity for that time. What may then eventuate must depend on the prospect of war or otherwise, as well as upon the effect the same will have on the home markets. " We have nothing of general military importance to record beyond the fact of the Viceroy having sanctioned the first distribution of the Lucknow prize money at 17 rupees a share." CHINA. (From the Overland China Mail of 31st December.) Matters are quiet in Japan. As mentioned in our last issue, Mr. Alcock has made use of the power given to Consuls to establish rules and regu lations for the better enforcement of treaties. From Peking we gather that everything goes on smoothly, and, as matters have recently proceeded, this was to be expected. By advices dated Dec. 2 we learn that Lee-poo, an adherent of the late Council of Regency, has been banished to Sin-keang. The new Government are busy redeeming the cash notes issued by Sushun, but never paid, a circum stance which caused much distress. This is felt to be a righteous measure, and is affording much satisfaction. The Yang-tsze river is fast becoming a seat of commercial prosperity. The traffic up and down i■ a perfect marvel, considering the short time the river has been opened. AUSTRALIA. THE COLONY OF VICTORIA. We take the following from the Melbourne Argus of the 24th of December : " Last mail carried home the news of a change of Ministry, and the substitution of Mr. O'Shanassy for Mr. Heales, as Chief Secretary. Since then the new Ministers have all successfully undergone their re-election. The Chief Secretary himself, Mr. Wood, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Anderson were severally opposed by candidates in the Heales interest, but the decisive majorities in their favour, especially at St. Kilda, one of the largest, and cer tainly the most influential and respectable con stituency in Victoria, were a pretty good evidence that the country fully shared in the verdict pro nounced by the Assembly against Mr. Heales and his policy. "Parliament re-assembled on the 17th inst., for a short sitting previous to the Christmas recess, when it was evident, from the appearance of the house, that the new Government was even stronger in force than was expected." NEW SOUTH WALES, We take the following from the Sydney Morning Herald of the 21st of December : " Since our last summary, dated November, there has been little or no alteration in the state of the money market. The rates of exchange charged by the banks rule the same as last month, the buying rate for bills in London at 60 days' sight being half per cent. discount, and the selling rate 1 per cent. premium. " The rates of discount continue at 7,8, and 9 per cent. THIS DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. The supply of English wheat on sale here to-day was very moderate. Dry parcels were disposed of without diffi culty, at prices quite equal to Monday last; otherwise the trade ruled inactive, on former terms. The show of samples of foreign wheat was moderately extensive, and, generally speaking, sales progressed steadily at full currencies. Floating cargoes of grain were in moderate request, and prices were steadily maintained. Good and fins qualities of barley moved off steadily, at full previous rates. Inferior parcels were in slow demand, yet the quotations held firm. The malt trade was in a sluggish state, at late rates. For oats there was a steady inquiry, at the prices current on Monday last. Beans and peas—the supplies of which were tolerably extensive—sold heavily, at barely previous quotations. In flour a moderate amount of business was transacted, on former terms. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. Eng1i5h........ 1,020 ( 1,770 5,280 5,680 I,ososacke. Irish 2,350 3,780 I 4,520 1 5,590 brls. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Moderate supplies of meat are on sale at these markets. Generally speaking the trade rules steady, and prices have an upward tendency. Per Sib. by the carcase. sdad Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 2 iddling do. .. 3 4 3 8 F rime large do. 3 10 4 0 Do. small do. 4 2 4 4 Large pork 3 8 4 4 Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 10 BOROUGH HOP. adad Middlingmutton 4 0 4 4 Prime do .. 4 6 4 8 Veal 4 4 5 4 Small pork ~ Lamb Good and fine hops are in fair, but by no means active, demand, at full prices. As regards inferior qualities, the trade is decidedly heavy, and the currencies have a down ward tendency. New Mid and East Kents.. 150 s to 205 s per cwt. New Weald of Keats .. 140 s 170 s ~ New Sussex COLONIAL. TEA.—Thero has been a fair amount of business trans acted, and at public sales good and fine descriptions of Assam advanced 2d per lb ; other qualities supported pre vious rates. SUGAR.—OnIy a moderate business has been entered into, and for some qualities prices have slightly given way. Refined descriptions, however, have fully supported previ ous rates. _ _ _ _ COFFEE—Steady prices have been obtained for colonial deFeliptions, and the operations have been to an average extent. RicE—Fcr the better descriptions of East Indian there has been a moderate inquiry, at about late quotations. SALTPETRE—Operations have been limited, but prices remain without material variation, TALLOW—The market has continued dull, and a further slight decline can be noticed in values. P.Y.C. on the spot, 46s 6d ; and last three months, 478 6d to 47s 9d per cent. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. —The Directors of this company have decided to recommend to the proprietors, at the half- yearly meeting, a dividend at the rate of three per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of about £10,400 to be carried forward to the next half-year. LITER •ITURE. The Private Diary of Richard Duke of Bucking ham and Chandos, 3 Vols. Hurst. and Blackett. The ducal house of Buckingham has long occu pied a prominent position among the nobility of England. It has filled, too, an important place in literature, whether in the stern narrative of his torical facts, in the immortal verse of Shakspeare, the brilliant pages of Scott, or in the hundreds of romantic fictions which have chronicled the adven tures of the gay and witty courtier of the Restoration. Of late years its member s h ave pl a y e d ano th er p ar t on the literary stage, and en t ere d th e arena of politics. Most readers of the day are conversant with the valuable series of papers unveiling the secret history of the last two reigns and the Regency, which were collected and edited by the late Duke of Buckingham. They are ranked among the standard works which future students of our political growth will turn to for the explanation and illustration of events recorded in general terms by the ordinary historian. It will be sufficient to awaken the interest of those who have studied the " Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George IV. and William IV." and observed the intimate acquaintance with the moving springs of polities and factions displayed in them, to learn that the " Private Diary" before us is the work of the same hand. The general reader, who finds less to interest him in political details, will be equally attracted by the volumes, which resemble rather the animated narrative of an intelligent and observant traveller than any drier or more solid work. The entertain ment afforded by its graphic pages is further in creased by the high rank and reputation of the Duke, who was everywhere received with the utmost cordiality and distinction, kindly welcomed by the Pope, although a decided Protestant, and courted by the Bonapartes, notwithstanding his Royalist opinions. His pages aro consequently enlivened by descriptions of his visits and banquets, often told in a satirical or humorous manner; and by snatches of court and fashionable gossip, and occasionally, we must admit, of scandal. The Duke does not by any means undertake to vouch for the authenticity of all the anecdotes he sets down ; but seemingly takes for his motto the Italian saying, "se non e zero e ben trovato." The Duke, however, was something more than a man of fashion and a politician—he possessed no mean knowledge of art and science, as these volumes amply testify. He interested himself very much in natural history and zoology, and was for some time busily employed in collecting specimens. He was fortunate enough to obtain some rare and singular samples, and re marks in one place, with justifiable pride, that he had succeeded in obtaining specimens of every kind of shell to be found in the neighbourhood. The acquaintance with geology and mineralogy shown by the Duke was likewise remarkable in his day ; while in all matters of art he displays a cultivated taste and critical perception. His wanderings are almost entirely among the States of Italy, and, as the preface justly observes, the picture he draws of their government and social condition is remark able for its interest and fidelity, although the posi tion of affairs is now completely changed. Of course it is not probable that such an intelligent and cul tivated wanderer could fail to visit the buried cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii; and accordingly we have an interesting recital of his subterranean excur sion. Shocks of earthquakes were frequent during his residence in Italy, and much alarm was felt in consequence of a threatened eruption of the volcano. It was at this time that the terrible disaster befell Ischia, on which occasion a young girl was disin terred alive after being buried five days. It will thus be seen that the work abounds with anecdote and information of the most varied kind, and as want of space prevents us at the present moment from doing adequate justice to its merits, we shad return to it at an early opportunity, and cite some interesting passages. THE EDUCATION MIN UTE. The Statement made last night on the " Revised Code" and the proposed corrections is unavoidably long; it inquires into the right principles of na tional aid, and goes into many details; but never had a Parliamentary statement a stronger claim to a careful perusal and fair consideration. Though it comes in the seemingly invidious form of a check and a rebuke, a restriction and pruning of a flourish ing and thriving institution ; and though it boldly takes up the gauntlet thrown down by a thousand champions, representing some thousand schools, many thousand well-paid stipendiaries, and a million well or ill taught children ; yet, in sober fact, it is the first honest, careful, and philosophical account rendered to Parliament by the Committee of Council. For many years various reasons,often noticed in these columns, have withdrawn this most important part of the public expenditure from the ordinary at tention of the Legislature, and, so far, we make bold to say, from the reign of common sense and right principles. A gigantic system the mushroom growth of a night, had arisen among us, and none cared to touch it till the rapid strides of its expenditure, the huge multiplication of its agencies, and, at the same time, the growing deficiency of results, absolutely compelled interference with a strong, if not rude, hand. That has been the work to be done. Like similar tasks, it was consigned for a time to a Royal Commission, and for three years they in quired and reported, and the public read and ruminated upon their Report. But the time for action had come. That necessity was discharged in the now famous Minute, which was simply the solution of a difficulty which could no longer be avoided. It had to be explained, justified, and here and there corrected or modified. The result is that the whole subject of National Education is now before Parliament, as it has never been before, in a legislative form. Our tables are covered with pamphlets, letters, and reports of speeches on the subject, generally by people whose ability or posi tion gives them some claim to our attention. But one error pervades nearly all. It is, that nearly every speaker or writer regards the subject just from his own particular point of view, and considers what he will gain or lose, how far his own hopes have been fulfilled or disappointed, and with what faith Government has carried out the imaginary compact made with him alone. None of these writers put themselves into the place of the State. None of them takes into his equal regard the large part of the nation that has little or no benefit from the existing system, or considers how or to what future consequences that system is working. Lord Gran ville and Mr. Lowe were obliged to take a position above managers, above all interested parties, above conflicting denominations, above inspectors and all other functionaries, and consider well the working of the whole system, and how alone it could be brought into proper working order. This is what our readers now have before them, and—we say it without any disparagement of many able publications—this is the first piece of states manship they have had on this most important subject. The immense clamour that has been raised, and the utterly unreasonable character of the remonstrances, prove themselves the mistakes fostered and the mischief done by the existing system, and the necessity of immediate revision. A vested interest has grown up, a legion of stipendiaries and expectants—all right and no duty—demanding everything, bound to nothing testifying to its impolitic character by rising at the first check and flying in the face of the Legis• lature and the Executive. It demands to be as sured of its pay ; it demands to be exempt from the test of close examination and personal attainments as the condition of aid. Looking with complacency on the thousands of schools whose poverty or re moteness, or scanty numbers shut them out of the system this new vested interest so tenderly cherished by Bishops, Archdeacons, and Managers of Train ing Schools, demands that the public largess shall not be stinted by any test, or rise and fall by vary ing merit. This is the immense and unbounded pretension that Lord Granville and Mr. Lowe had to meet last night. It is a pretension that could but end in defeat, for England never could have so bound itself hand and foot, and never could have so passed its word and pledged its le i sources, so tied its judgment and closed its eyes and ears, as a host of agitators alleged it has done. On various occasions in our history England has had to uproot and overthrow vast institutions with every claim of sacredness, use, and antiquity. It has swept away castles, monasteries, Papal intrusion, Divine Right of Kings, close boroughs, and corpo rations, Protection, and a good deal more. All at once, in this year 1862, it finds itself suddenly con fronted by a creation not more than a quarter of a century old, a mere emanation from the Privy r f i r vv e e Council, a bundl e o f re gulations, a thing of r e d' tape and ledg ers . Mr. Lowe judiciously utterance to its cries. He invites us to let it have its say out. It speaks with a thousand tongue; for dignitaries, Synods, and two Houses of Con vocation delight to be its spokesmen. When it has spoken, Mr. Lowe asks,— Wh y _ should it be so anxious to assert a vested interest? Why should it exclaim so vehemently against the test of examination ? Why claim that immunity even for its teachers ? - why should it wish for some more confiding rule than capitation, al tendance, and vulgar to rules the by which, public in actual progress. Jr a word, why should it object to the existing code being overh au l e d a t a ll , an d service thi made am r e e n g a n b l l e e t e t o the admission day, we There can be only one answer to the candidate who refuses to be examined. The more sensible part of our legislators in either Lori D er by' s a d v i ce , an d dis cussHt)u e the will fo revisedwllo code in a fair and friendly sp i r it. We beg to assure them that the oppo sition which, out of doors, has been worked up to such extravagant proportions will not bear the calmer atmosphere of Parliament. The sim plest and most obvious comparison between what the existing code does and what it fells to do— between the plethoric nursing of the favoured town school and the utter destitution of some thousand poorer villages, will show what slight ground the outdoor agital ors have for their highflown remonstrances. The grant, which began under the most exceptional circumstances, and has never had a proper amount of legislative supervision, has rushed over the country like a sudden inundation, with the usual result of drowning some places, and leaving others high and dry. It has burst the bank, and taken a course of its own, instead of being distributed in sufficient channels wherever it was most needed. Lord Granville and Mr. Lowe do not propose to diminish the grant, to restrict the area of its application, or to exclude one child from a share in it, or one teacher from present assis tance and hope of still further reward. They only extend to this department the principles of truth, justice, and economy that have been applied in turn to all other departments. In the school, as in the public office, it will be no work, no pay ; no merit, no promotion. Only the other day a thousand. vested rights in the shape of political and ecclesi astical sinecures, close scholarships and fellow ships, fell under the pruning hook of an age which will not brook idleness and likes not shirking or lagging. Everywhere you may meet the victim of some lost privilege, or the survivor of some in jured monopoly, always full of his wrongs. Every graveyard in this metropolis is a vested in terest set at nought—a vested interest in the dead disregarded for the sake of the living. That two millions might breathe a purer atmosphere, we reduced the fees of two or three hundred clergy men. The existing application of the Parliamentary grant for education, if it he found partial, and so far injurious, has as little claim to defence, and. must yield as readily to the rule of the general good. Mr. Lowe justly and yet kindly describes it as a tentative and preparatory system, feeling its own way through the country ; and an experiment,. rather than a finally settled and finally recognised institution. But that description, the truth of which cannot be disputed, while it excuses the shortcomings and errors of the system, also con demns them.— Times. LAW I.A , ITEM GENCE.—(This Day.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Peers present—The Lord Chancellor, Lord Cran wor th and Lord Chelmsford.) , YOUNG (OR RICHARDSON) V. ROBDRTSON. The Lord Chancellor said that, according to the true construction of the testator's trust deed, it appeored to be his intention that the time of the distribution of the residue of his estate was that, not at the death of the testator, but, the death of the lifereuting or tenant for life, and therefore the bequest of the two-sixths of the residue did not vest in the residuary legatees until the death of the widow liferent ing, or tenant for life. His lordship was of the same opi nion as the minority of the judges of the Court of Session. Lord Cranworth and Lord Chelmsford were entirely of the same opinion. The Lord Chancellor reversed the decision of the Court of Session, and allowed the appeal. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings at Nisi Prius in London, before Lord Chief Justice Earl and a Special Jury.) FORD V. THE SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. The plaintiff in this case was a passenger on the de fendants' line on the 2Sth of January last year, and was travelling in the train, which got off the line at the Epsom Junction, on which occasion the late Dr. Baly was unfor tunately killed. The plaintiff was a good deal hurt ; but the great question in the cause was, whether the company had been guilty of any negligence which would render them liable to compensate the plaintiff; and upon this question: it was intimated that a great body of evidence would be laid before the jury. The whole of the morning was occupied in the exami nation of Sir Charles Fox. POLICE INTBLLIGEN CE.—( This Day.) MARLBOROUGH-STRETE. APPLICATION FOR A PROTECTION ORDER.--MTff. Hester Lamb, of 5, Pickering-place, St. James's-street, applied to Mr. Yardley for a protection order. Mr. Yardley—You must tell all the particulars, with , out concealment, or my order will be useless. Mrs. Lamb then said she had been married eight years to her husband, Fred. Lamb, and he left her a year and a half ago, taking two of her children with him, telling her that she could live in the streets. She had since sent him a sovereign in Yorkshire, where he was living as a coach- man. Mr. Yardley—Sending him a sovereign is rather incon sistent with the statement that he deserted you. Mrs. Lamb—He sent to me to say that he ha O A no money, so I sent it so that the children should not suaer. Mr. 57. (Bey—certainly, that was a very, good reason for your doing so. Mrs. Lamb said she wished her sa'ings and wages pro tected. Mr. Yardley, being satisfied with the statement made by the applicant, granted the order. THAMES. No HONOUR Amorroc THIEVES.—Three Spitalfield thieves, from that notorious place, Keate-street, were brought before Mr• Selfe on remand, charged with stealing a jacket, value 10s., the property of Joseph Vanderstein, a foreigner, who keeps a general shop in Backchurch-lane, Whitechapel, The prisoners gave their names, George Bryerman, 19, Thomas Jackson, 18, -and John Buckley, 18, though neither of them looked so old as represented. The robbery was committed in broad-day light with the greatest effrontery. One of the prisoners got upon a child's chair outside the prosecutor's shop, while the other twco , stood at the shop door to prevent any of the inmates of the house leaving it, the jacket was unfastened from a string, to which it was suspended, thrown by Buckley to Jackson and by Jackson to Bryerman. The three villains laughed at the shopkeeper's wife who called after them, and made off with the jacket. Buckley, who has been several times in custody and once summarily con victed for a petty theft, was first arrested by Daniel Davey, 182 H. The prisoner said, " Why don't you take Tom. Jackson, he was in it as well as me." The hint was enough for the police constable who apprehended Jackson on the following day. The fellow asked the officer if he had got Jack Buckley, to which Davey replied yes, and he is re manded• "Then why don't you take George Bryer man, he was as much in it as I was," con tinued the rascal. Davey said he should have him in his hands very soon, and acting on the information given by Jackson, proceeded to the thieves colony, in Keats street, where he took Bryerman into custody, and had no , sooner done so than the prisoner said, "Why don't you nab Buckley and Jackson ?" " I have already done that," said the officer, at v hich Bryerman expressed great satis faction. The whole conduct of the prisoners reversed the old adage, " there is honour among thieves." They were described as having been the associates of the worst of thieves for many years. Bryerman and Jackson had been convicted summarily. Mr. Selfe said the prisoners were very cowardly shalfeY fellows impeaching each other. It was, however, produc tive of good for the publio that they had done so ; and he was glad there was no honour among thieves, when it resulted in their apprehension and conviction. The pri• goners would go to gaol together, but he would take care they did not come out at the same lime. He sen tenced Bryerman to three months' imprisonment and hard labour, Jackson to 10 weeks' imprisonment and hard labour, and Buckley to two months' imprisonment and hard labour ; and if they were ever brought before him again, and a case was made out, he would commit them for trial. Tills DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Feb. 14.—Wind this day at noon—North. Easterly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRLPH.) SO UTHAIUTON, Friday Morning. Arrived—George, from Llanelly; Lord Riveradale, and Lucille, from Cardiff. Oily SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) A GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived Feb. 13—Sillery, from Moulm e i n; E m ily, f r om Pittah ; Twe de Broders, from Emden. S ailed—Albion, steamer, for Boulogne. Passed— DEAL, Friday Morning. C. S. Lemon fm Ldon for ool; Himalaya,, ir.)m London for ro Beliso on ; Black Swan, Liver from London for Otago. The New York Commercial Advertiser states that , it is known by the Federal Government "that large quan— tities of cotton are now being carried through Texas fo waggons and taken into Mexico, whence the staple 10 shipped to England and France." The delay iu organis ing a transit of this kind has for some time been. regarded with surprise, and has seemed to confirm the accounts of the determination of the Confederates to keep back all s up plies. Unless that determination has been changed VW present movement is, of course, not likely to become of much importance. THE SPANISH OUTRAGE AT FERNANDO The Baptist 'j Missionary _Herald announces, that rift er prolonged correspondence, the treasurer has at length lc' ceived from the Government of Spain the sum of £1,500, 111° compensation granted for the losses of the society by 02° exclusion of the missionaries from Fernando Po. It is v (01 doubtful whether any compensation would have been obtained had not the society enjoyed the powerful adv. °GOY of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Viceroy of Egypt, whose affairs contin ae to present a very unpromising aspect, is aboUt tg advert Joe P r to for a 1941, of 40 millions of francs,