The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-02 00:00:00

ATANZAS AND SABANILLA RAILROAD 7 per43ent. BONDS. . , The• Half-yearly Interest on the above Bonds, chic on the 15th inst., will•be paid at' the Counting-house of Messrs. J. HENRY SCHRODER and Co., 145, Leadenhall-street, on that day, and every succeeding day, between•the hours•of 1.1 and 2, The couponso!,;ith a list in numerical order, must be left twaclear days previonsly for examination. Printed forma may be had on application as above. London, Ist December, 1859. N 5, - (3 N'S .W A T - C 'll E . S. "Perfection of mechanism." —Morning Post Gold Watches - 4 to 100 guineas. 6ilTer Watelies 33 nrhlt , Ludgate-hill; London, E.C. ,1 _ . _ Semi 2 stamps for Benson's Illustralledramphlet on Watches p OY.AL E'NGLISII OP'EItA COVENT-GARDEN. Under the nianagement of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison, • THIS EVENING, will' be performed SATANELLA. Messrs. W. Hart igen. Santley, G. lioney,ll. Corrl, St. Albyn, Miss Cruise, Pilling, and Louisa Pyne. Conductor, Alfred Mellon. Ballet, LA FIANCEE. 3lessrs. W. U. Payne, IT. Payne F. Payne, Mdlle. Lequine, Pasquale; Pierron, Clara Morgan and Mons. Vandris. Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. rrHEATRE ROYAL DRURY lAN.,,,THLS A. EVENING, PROMENADE CONCERT, conducted by Mr. Manus, of the Crystal Palace. Concerts commence at& THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMAI,KE.7 Lassee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. EVICNING the performances will commenee with A BOLD STROKE FOP► A WIFE. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews. After which, THE RACFIELOR OF ARTS. Jasper (his original character), Mr. C. Mathews. And ii/ALLOWE'EN. Commence at I. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with (3d time) a new drama, entitled HOME TIiTJTHS. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews, Miss C. Lec:ercq and Mrs. Charles Young: After which, PUSS ; or, Metempysychosis. Miss L. Keeley. To be followed by the new Petite Comedy ' entitled GOSSIP. Messrs. Ryder, Meadows, H. Bland, J. G. Shore; Miss C: Leclercq and Mrs. C. Young. To cerodlude with NURSEY CHICKWEF.D. Messrs. A. Widdicomb, Meadows, H. Saker; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs. Weston. NEW, THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Ben). Webster, THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart, Billinqton, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Woolgur, and Miss K. Kelly. _ . FoWowed by the successful piece of extravagance, called DINORAIT UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Elnume, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- , So'e Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, a new Drama Fantas+ique, entitled PARIS AND PLEASURE ; or, Home and Happiness. Principal characters by Messrs. W. Lacy. J. Vining, J. John stone, F. Villiers ; Misses Julia St. George, Hudspeth, Kate Saville, A. Burdett, and Madame Celeste. To conclude with the Farce of rim PHENOMENON IN A SMOCK FROCK. John Buttercup, Mr. Rouse, from the Theatre-royal Bath (his second appearance in London)." ROY AL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING, A DEAD SHOT. After which (the 3d time) the new comedietta, entitled TH s; CHATTER-BOX. Messrs. Barret, Brazier; Mesdames F. Matthews, Murray, and Eliza Arden. Followed by MAGIC TOYS, supported by Miss Lydia Thompson, Clara St. Cassc, To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque, by L. Buckingham, Esq., of VIRGINIIIS ; or the Trials of a Fond Papa. Virginias, Mr. Charles Young. Reduced Prices—Gallery, ad ; Pit, Is. The Box-ofilce open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform ance commences at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season. Seventh Week of the new Drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARIBALDI ; illustrating the principal events in the Life of the Great Italian General. Supported by Mr. R. Phillips, Ennis Belmore, Raymond, Miss Kate Carson, &c. Full Stud of Ileautilul Horses—Scenes in the Circle by John Henry Cooke, Herr Hsrtz, the Devil Rider' Misses Clarissa, Rosina, Francisco. and La Petite Eleanora—Wonderful Per forming Elephant--Comical and Extraordinary Parisian Dogs and Monkeys, from the Cirque Plrnperatrice, Paris. — Gymnastic Professors —Facetious Clowns. To conclude with a laughable Farce called CLEAN YOUR BOOTS. Stage Manager, Mr. P.. Phillips CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- 10. 7 14:1LY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con certs). . And a Grand Se'ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAH. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfleld, and E. W. Hackney. Several interestinf: Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. RISA BOTIEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is open from 9 am. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six pence. THE WEATHER..—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBBIL2 THERMOMETER, IN THII SHADB. 43—highest since noon yesterday. 38—lowest this morning and during the night. , 39—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30. WIND, North-Easterly; fresh, with snow, and cold dull weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, fh. 30m.—Afternoon, 7h. 4m. TO-31ORROw.-Morning, 7h. 31m.—Afternoon, Sh. 3m. ‘...?",if.' . '.. . r - ,!r,,:• - - -- ,,. ; :i . :.., , ...../ : :',. , ---tZ: 'l , -*, .11 -4 ";'„, \-:‘"t4",- , _ - -,::,,,:i1' , ,',-,.''.:',, C. - 1, 7 ,._i •',' , c"g,',„,- , .• , ! ..4.4. 0 . (k - 4._ ~-.=, • ;.:- If',.:-*--:•'.: - :. .-.? ,- ...., \ O r : . i,4, 7---,-.,,,,,, . . hi,..7,- - ,...- r ,44 ' • ~ , ) •.,, , ,fr. . .n*.,.'bi:c, 1 ''.•',. , L - ,...... -,. ..0,,,,, rxr ;oat , t ----- ~.,,-..;., 'tom --- e«, -_-_-„,„,„,k.t ~...... ,i-.4__-_,.... ' THE SUN, LONDON? FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1859. THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 2, 1539. The Pope is in want of subjects. Not of spiritual subjects—of them he boasts about 200,000,000 ; but of temporal subjects—of those who will pay taxes, submit to autocratic decrees, and not venture to utter or print a word he disapproves. The spiritual subjects are obedient enough. Their very thoughts obey him. Whether his Holiness bids them be lieve that the earth stands still and the sun moves, or that the Virgin .11A.r.Y was conceived by her sinful mother, as immaculate as our LORD himself, it is all the same. The 200,000,000—we take the figures as he gives them—bow implicitly to the de cisions of the Vicar of CHRIST. We have nothing to say against this. Let Drs. CUMMING and CUL LEN fight their own battles ; and let Dr. APNETLE join them, and make a triangular duel of it if he likes; theology we must leave to our friend of the Morning Advertiser, and content ourselves with the horrible infidelity which cannot sell its belief to any authority, either to the decrees of Pius IX., or to the "Presbyterian standards" of Dr. CUMMING, or to the forty articles, save us, of Dr. APNETLE. Our only wonder is that, with such a splendid spiritual dominion, the worthy Pope and his friends should be so troubled about the temporal fealty of two or three millions of Italians. Even these temporal rebels are on the whole, we be lieve, spiritually obedient. We seem to imagine that if two hundred millions of men bound themselves to think as we do, we should be quite satisfied with such an Empire as that. We confess we never knew the tempta tion of having men's bodies at our mercy. . To guide opinion has been our only ambition ; and who can tell whether, if we had been intrusted with other weapons than those of argument, we might not have been disposed to retain and to use them if we could. With our habit of viewing things, however, the recent savings and doings of our Ilib: , rnian friends We find it difficult to read are \Try amusing.. them with becoming gravity. Sometimes, indeed, the thought will steal in that it is all masquerade. Our neighbours of the Green Isle are more given to demonstration than we are. Religiously - , socially, or politically, they like a good exhibition of the outward signs of feeling. A good. shillelah row at a fair, to seem as if they had something to fight for ; a good mile-long procession, Orange or Catholic, to look as if both sides had a splendid cause and were absorbed in it ; a monster meeting, for politics or for religious purposes—a howl, a shout, a show, or a blow—is the delight of genuine Irishmen. The Pio Novo displayi niay therefore labut a piece of pure Irishism. The POPEatid his teMporal rebels may be only the excuse for gratify ing the Irish vein ; much as a ckafitable institution serves Englishmen as a pretext for a good guinea dinner. Be this as it may we ha;lea sulieitroii to make to our Subjeds. We are of course sorry to lose them as neighbours.;. still, as.large numbers of them, to our neighbourly sorrow, will emigrate, why should.they not go to Rome ? They would be neexer home there than on the other side of the Atlantic. They could go for a song, and nearly all the way by land ; they .would find there a glorious sun, and a political paradise. They would live under a Theocracy. They would have priests for their administrative rulers ; and their high priest for their chief sovereign and sole lawgiver. If the Romans did but know it, Heaven has descended on earth in the Roman territories: Instead of being, as Dr. CUIIifINQ, and the Times, and• the Morning Advertiser impiously affirm, .the Babylon or the ' Scarlet Woman of the Apocalypse, Rome is doubt less its New Jerusalem—the city of the blessed. All that is wanted is citizens and subjects to appre ciate the blessing. Now Irishmen do appreciate it. They are indignant at the Catholics there for not 'appreciating it also. They propose to subscribe ; to raise a penny a week, and something more ; and to furnish the POPE with a regiment of Irish sol diers, who shall teach the rebellious Catholics there their duty. As PAUL lived at Rome in his own hired house, so the POPE shall no longer live by help of French bayonets, but by his own hired Irish soldiers—paid by PETER'S pence, collected from the whole population. A noble thought ! No fear of " the Saxon" at Rome. No danger of republican democracy as in America. No want of employment, of agricultural employment at least ; for the whole territory adjoining the city is one vast marsh or level, pestilential now through want of drainage and cultivation, but capable of being made one of the most fertile districts in the world. It is the very place for good Irish Catholics who are tired of Ireland, and sick of the pernicious free dom which men enjoy under the reign of VICTORIA. The Romagnese and the great mass of the inhabi tants of the States of the Church, alas ! hate their privileges. They hurrah for Lord ELLEN BOROUGH and the Saxons who subscribe for GARIBALDI'S mus kets, they curse the CULLENS who want to trample them under the feet of their Pontiff. They resent as heartless cruelty the wish of Irishmen and of the Celts or Gauls of the continent, to sacrifice their temporal liberties as an offering to the supremacy of their Bishop. They say they are in purgatory before their time ; while they have no hope that their civil sufferings now will save them one hour's future suffering, or their survivors the cost of a single mass. Now when the POPE wants loyal subjects, when Irishmen are so tired of freedom that they crave an absolute master, when they so love the POPE that they think nothing at all of the independence and civil rights of the nation he. governs—it really does seem as if Irishmen were made for the POPE and the POPE for Irishmen. There is, to be sure, an alterna tive. They might invite the POPE to Dublin. There is no kind of objection to that; only there, instead of playing the teniporal ruler, he must be tem porarily the subject of her Majesty Queen Vic • TORIA. She, however, would use him very kindly. She would guarantee him full religious liberty. He might reign as supreme as he now does in the minds of his two hundred millions. And only to think of the joy there would be in Rome. Of the illuminations there, and throughout all Italy, because the heaviest weight on their liberties was gone. Perhaps, after all, this would be the best plan. Since Irishmen would be but:to) happy if his Holiness made their house his home ; and the Romans would be equally delighted that he had done so. Cannot the suggestion be sent to Con- gress? What glory it would be to Ireland to solve the European difficulty ! The three arch-apostles of Free Trade received yesterday, at Liverpool, what they have eminently well deserved—a magnificent demonstration. It was a demonstation, however, at the hands of others than those who are simply Free Traders—the occa sion being the long-talked-of soiree, accorded in re spectful appreciation—to Majar-Oen. PEYLONNET THOMPSON, late M.P. for Bradford, and the witty author of the Corn Law Catechism—to Mr. Rica Ann CoanEx, M.P. for Rochdale, the dealer of the death-blow to that old Giant Blunderbore, the Ogre of Monopoly—and last, but certainly Rot the least, either in energy, ability, :or eloquence, to Mr. JOHN BRIGHT, most pugnacious of Quakers, the ultra-reforming and superlatively out-speaking M.P. for Birmingham. Scanning the deeply interesting record of last night's proceedings at the Philharmonic Hall, at Liverpool—proceedings which will be found given in full detail elsewhere in to-night's impression of our broadsheet—we can think of no better or more appropriate sentiment for the nonce than that embodied in Lord NELSON'S heraldic motto, familiar as household words on the lips of the people, Palmanz qui meruit ferat. Each of these three eminent citizens has long since earned the right to bear aloft in his hand the well-earned palm of v:ctory— of that noblest victory of all, the bloodless victory won by the sheer strength of reason, employing alone for its enforcement the keen, and trenchant, and polished weapons culled from the armoury of rhetoric. There are no three men, we believe, whose good services to the common weal are more universally or more cordially recognised. Since the achievement in 1816 of that grand and final triumph of the Free Trade principles, there has been no possibility for any of them, even if they had wished it, to hide their light under a bushel. It is remembered too well to this day, even by their principal antagonists, as a triumph won in a very great measure indeed through their in strumentality ! Through their instrumentality, of course, coming in aid of various rarely-gifted and dis tinguished fellow•labourers, champions of the same cause, like WILLIAM Fox and CHARLES VILLIERS, and EBENEZER. ELLIOTT, the Corn•law Rhymer— each and. all of them in turn promulgating the same truths, though in varied accents, through the trumpet of the Press, or from the platform of the League. Honour, say we, to those good citizens and practical reformers ! May their fair fame in this fair realm of England be held undimmed in perpetual remembranc 2. Cordially regarding thus, with unstinted appre ciation, the tlu•ee recipients of the manly homnge proferred to them yesterday at Liverpool—to two of them by name and to one of them in person—we cannot, of course, be presumed to regard with others% ise than complacency the purport of the demonstration made yesterday in their behalf by the Livcrpool Financial Reform Association. The aspirations, the principles, the aim and object of that Association arc ours. Its labours we not only sympathise in, but as journalists participate in and emulate, so far as in us lies, to the very utmost. What it is struggling for so earnestly- we have long, very long, been hoping for—we have for years and years past, in these columns of the Sun, been striving zealously to aid in realising. In the main, there fore, so tar relateli to the great principles of political economy intended to be enforced by;yes terday's demonstration, our opinions, and the opinions of the Association, may be pro nounced to be—so far a the opinions of different individuals possibly can be in respect to one com plex subj2ct—absolutely-identioak! -Nevertheless, while we go heart a nd soul with those broad and clear and rational views of political economy which are always so forcibly expounded by menlike BRIGHT and Mr. COBDEN—as for example, in many parts of that masterly argument delivered last night by Mr. BRIGHT at Liverpool—we cannot at the same time help grieving over those bewil dering errors both of temper and of judgment by which the very interests Mr. BRIGHT and Mr. COBDEN would fain, we believe, enforce by every means in their power, are in reality militated against so very deplorably, It was only yesterday that we had to lament (not by any means of course for the first time) over that constitutional acerbity, or acri mony, or whatever else it may be, through which another of the great living' Tribunes of the People has throughout his career in the most tantalising manner imaginable "paid his tribute," as the phrase is "to humanity !" But for that infirmity of temperament, can any of us doubt for one instant but that years back JOHN ARTHUR ROEBUCK would have taken high rank among our most sagacious administrators. Quite, as effectually, though by very different methods indeed have both ' Mr. BRIGHT and Mr. COBDEN debarred themselves from kindred opportunities of doing far more than yeoman's service to the Crown and to. their Country. Mr. COBDEN, by the adoption of fantastic and wholly impracticable projects—projects like that of Arbitration pur et simple (very simple, indeed, we may say in the purely idiomatic sense), what is popularly known as the peace-at-any-price halluci nation ! Mr. BRIGHT by an ever irritated and an ever irritating :pugnacity—a pugnacity that is certainly effectual, if in nothing else, in riling, as the Americans would say, every possible antagonist to the utmost conceivable degree of moral and mental exacerba tion. If we wanted a testimony of each of these infirmities that should be in a measure, so to speak, the very epitome of an illustration, we have it here promptly at hand in yesterday's proceedings down at Liverpool. The honourale member for Rochdale being con fined, as we grieve to notice, to his sick chamber in Paris, is constrained in lieu of going to write a letter of apology for his non-appearance. An admirable letter of apology in many respects, yet one that nevertheless comprises, to our mind, within its narrow limits, what we may term the essential oil of the very quintessence of the old peace-at-any price hallucination. According to Mr. COBDEN the complete triumph of Free Trade Principles is really and truly all that is required to .bring the whole of this great globe of ours to—the Millenium ! The supreme and matchless excellence of those prin ciples as among the grand root or guiding prin ciples of political economy among 'the nations of the earth, we ourselves have long recognised. Yet to talk of them as the puff advertisements talk of Parr's Life Pills or of Holloway's Ointment, as cer tain to cure every ill that flesh is heir to—is really, and truly to talk—we won't say nonsense, but :we will say, as—Mr. COBDEN writes in his letter to the President of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association ! The cry with him, there, from his sick room at Paris—sounds like an echo , of the prophetic injunction to beat the swords into ploughshares, and the spears into reaping hooks! But sound though it may like that, it bears the much simpler interpretation of—" Dilly Dilly, come and be killed !" England, we may rest assured, will in this not listen to the voice of the charmer, charm he (to all appearance) never so wisely. 'While, in respect to the less amiable weak ness of Mr. BRIGHT—it is only necessary to glance, though but for one moment, at his elegant allusion to the newspapers barking at his heels—and but for another at that resounding and recalcitrant pero ration which is only to be typified by BRIAREUS— with a cocked revolver in each of his hundred hands—challenging every one, after the fashion of a last century's highwayman. We have much pleasure in directing attention to the report of a meeting, held in Dover the other day, in honour of a very worthy gentleman, Mr. E. T. WAY, the well-known Superintendant of the South-Eastern Railway at that important station. Mr. WAY has frequently received testimonials of esteem and due appreciation of his gentlemanly character from royal as well as lordly personages; but, if we mistake not, the distinguished mark of respect so unanimously volunteered by his fellow-townsmen will be rendered more dear to him than any other, as evincing a very kindly feeling and generous sympathy, which reflects honour on those who gave, and him who so gratefully appreciates, the goodwill of men as worthy as himself. We, too, cordially wish Mr. WAY all prosperity and well-merited success. THE INVASION. Invasion threatens—let it come We'll meet it one and all ; And sternly guard our dear loved home From Russ or vaunting Gaul. Or both combined—with many more Who hate us—being free; But ere they touch our envied shore They'll drink the deep-blue see. For Britain bears her Banner high O'er steep and stormy wave— With hearts resolved to do .or die For Freedom—or the Grave. Then, men of England ! mind your helm, And steer the ship aright ; And nought on earth can overwhelm Our TARS in all their might. , Our Soldiers, too—a gallant Band, And Riflemen in store, Will meet the foe with heart and hand, But part with him, no more. Then peace to all—with fear of none ! Give no offence—nor take ! But woe to him who dares step on Old England's Quarter-Deck I For there her might is truly scan • With spirit—all our own, Resolved to be, as we have been, Transcendant for Renown ! Then let Invaders come or stay : To come—will be no joke; For we shall smash them on their way, Or board,them in the smoke ! Then, men of England, mind your helm, And steer the ship aright ; And nought on Earth can overwhelm Our Thus in all their might ! TRUE BLUE. Oa Monday next her Majesty the Queen, his Royal highness the Prince Consort, and Royal family, will leave Windsor Castle fur the Isle of Wight, where the Court will remain until the 24th inst., and then return to Windsor. Her Royal Richness the Duchess of Kent, who, we are happy to say, is 10 \V in the enjoyment of good health, will remain at Frogmore-lodge during the absence of the Court from Windsor. . DEPARTURE OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM or PuusstA.— , -On Saturday morn ing next, at half-past 7, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia will take leave of the Queen, the Prince Consort, and Royal family, and depart from Windsor for the Continent. The Royal visitors will proceed to Dover, and thence across the Channel to Calais, from which place they will travel by railway to Brussels for the purpose of paying a visit to his Majesty the King of the Belgians, LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr..Reuter's office : PARIS, FRIDAY. The Pays of this evening says :—" We are assured that the Governor of Tetuan has ordered the arrest of the commander of the Moroccan forts, who, acting without orders, has rendered him"elf guilty of an unjust aggression against a nation at peace with Morocco." The Moniteur de la Flotte confirms the report that the French fleet had destroyed by a cannonade the, forts at the mouth of the river leading to Tetuan, in consequence of the Moroccans having fired at the French vessel St. Louis, which displayed the flag clearly indicating its nationality. The Moniteur de la Flotte adds :—" We have every reason to believe that this isolated fact will not hinder the continuance of the good understand ing now existing between France and Morocco." His Majesty has invited the Neapolitan Ambas sador to visit Compiegne before his departure for Naples. The Pays confirms the announcement that Count von Hartig has been nominated to represent Austria at the Court of Turin. PARIS, FRIDAY. The Itioniteur of this morning contains the following despatch : " The Bretagne, off Algesiras, Nov. 26. " Yesterday the vessel St. Louis was cannonaded by the forts at the entrance of the river Tetuan. Informed of that the same night, I have this morning with four steamers destroyed the two forts, which have been abandoned by the Moroccans. " To-morrow the Foadre will proceed to Tangiers to make severe representations to the Minister Kalil. " Justice fulfilled, I resume the part of neutrality. (Signed) "Admiral ROMAN DESFO3SES." The Moniteur also announces that the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia left yesterday for Nice. FLORENCE, THURSDAY. Of the three members of the National Assembly who conveyed to Turin the vote respecting the Regency, one, M. Coppir has returned to Florence; the second, M. Galeotti, has gone to Modena, whither he had been summoned in haste ; and the third, M. Fabrizi, remains at Turin as official charge d'affaires of Tuscany. COPENHAGEN, THURSDAY. The attempts of the Councillor Rottwill to form a new Ministry have not at present succeeded. He left today, accompanied by the Councillor of State Westenhalz, for Frederiksburg, to see the King. Senor Martinez de la Rosa will represent Spain at the Congress. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. Accounts from Brest, of the 28th ult., state that on. Friday last the frigate Perseverante was towed out of the harbour, having on board troops for China, but she was forced by bad weather and con trary winds to return to the roads during the night. The frigate made a secomlattempt to sail on Satur day, but she was again compelled to return. The weather continued to be equally bad on Sunday. In consequence of a violent gale of wind which prevailed at Dieppe on Saturday night last, the boats engaged in the herring fishery lost all their nets, amounting in value to 200,000 f. The Moniteur publishes the monthly return of the price of wheat in the different markets of France by which the import and export duties on corn and flour are regulated. The highest price was 22f. 7c. per hectolitre in the market of St. Lo, and the lowest 15f. 59c. in that of Saumur; the highest average was 18f. 70c. in the markets of Bergues, Arras, Roye, Soissons, Paris, and Rouen, and the lowest 17f. 10c. in those of Saumur, Nantes, and Alarms ; the average for the whole of France was 17f. 99kp., being an advance of of a centime. THE BOURSE.—The settlement of account has gone on satisfactorily, with a moderete rate of continuation. Threes, after having been done at 70f. 30e. improved to 70f. 50c., for the present ac count ; Mobilier varied from 7821. 50c. to 787 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,368 f. 75e. to 1,3721: 500. ; Lyons, 890 f. to 891 f. 25e. ; Southern, 5131. 75c. to 5161. 25c. ; Eastern, 645 f. to 647 f. 50c.; Austrian, 5521. 50e. to 553 f. 75c. The following were the last quotations :- 4?. per Cents. 96 10 I Credit Foncier 695 Do. and month .. I Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents 7O 50 Piedmonteso (5) .. 84 Do. end month 7O 40 itoman B6 50 Bank Shares. 2870 Austrian Cr6dit Mobilier 783 75 Spanish Threes Do. Account 783 75 I Home Debt 43 25 what I hear from persons whd are well acquainted with the course of events, wished to assure not an administration exclusively - laic, but to give a large place to laymen in thd Government. The secu larisation of the Pontifical administration is im possible. Some branches of the Government may be intrusted to laymen, but they must retain an ecclesiastical spirit, for the Government cannot change its nature without compromis ing its existence. Neither was the Pontifical Go vernment perfectly well pleased with the expres sions used by Count Walewski as to the guaran tees for a better administration of justice, because they throw doubts on the present administration, and do not explain the Pope's plan, which consists in a reform of the mode of proceeding both in civil and criminal matters. Perhaps the Pontifical Go vernment will not fail to make some declaration in order to anticipate the accusations which might be made against it if the reforms which are expected from the Holy Father are not in strict con formity with what are announced by Count Walewski in his circular note. In the meantime the Roman journal declares that the reforms an nounced by several journals to be made by the Papal Government are exaggerated. The revolu tionary leaders at Rome are incensed against the Emperor Louis Napoleon in consequence of the re presentations made to the King of Sardinia on ac count of the Regency accepted by the Prince of Carignan. The departure of General Garibaldi from the Romagna has produced a political mani festation, which was suppressed by the National Guard. General Garibaldi was greatly esteemed in the Romagna, and he found it necessary to use all his authority and moral influence to maintain strict discipline among his men, of whom he shot three at Rimini. At present Tuscan troops have replaced in the Legations the volun teers who have passed into Tuscany and into the Duchies of Parma and Modena. The Roman volunteers who have quitted the service and return home have drawn a melancholy picture of the state of the troops under the pay of the Government in Bologna. The privations suffered by the troops are excessive, and even now there is a want of beds in the barracks. The Pontifical Government is decided no longer to give the increased pay to the troops at Perugia, Ancona, Sinigaglia, and Pesaro, who are supposed to be making a campaign. This resolution will produce a considerable saving. Notwithstanding the deficiency produced in the Roman Treasury by the present revolution, the Minister of Finance, Ferrari, has so well managed matters that he has sufficient to pay all demands up to the end of the year. A loan is inevitable for 1860. Cardinal Antonelli is the diplomatist whom the Holy Father has chosen to represent the Holy See at the European Congress. General de Goyon gave a grand dinner yesterday to the Roman municipal magistracy as a proof of his gratitude for the honour conferred on him when he was created a Roman noble. Monsignor Fal divioso, Archbishop of Santiago, in Chili, has been at Rome for some days. This prelate was one of the most ardent promoters of the foundation esta blished at Rome of a seminary for the education of young men from South America intended for the Church." PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Nov. 29. General Bonin, the Minister of War, has ten dered his resignation, which has been accepted. The General has been appointed Commander of the Bth Corps d'Armee (Rhine Provinces and Coblentz). The War-office is intrusted ad interim to the Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. The retirement of General Bonin is attributed to a difference of opinion on the new organisation of the army. RAILWAYS. -- Cash. Account. Orleans 'Northern 938 7.5 .. 958 75 New ditto 847 50 .. 847 50 Lyons and Mediterranean B9l 25 .. 890 Geneva 527 50 .. Southern Western 565 .. 570 Eastern Sardinian .. Austrian Lombard .... Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 251. 9c.; three months, paper, 24f. 95c.; money, 24f. 93f0. SARDINIA. The Piedniontese Gazette publishes the new elec toral law of the Lombardo-Sardinian kingdom : " The number of deputies for the whole kingdom is fixed at 260 deputies, being about one deputy for every 30,000 inhabitants. The province of Turin sends 31 deputies to the Lower Chamber'; Milan, 30 ; Alcssandria, 21; Annecy, 8 ; Bergamo, 12 ; Brescia, 16 ; Cagliari, 12 ; Chambery, 10; Como, 15 ; Cremona, 11; Cuneo, 20 ; Genoa, 22 ; Nice, 8 ; Novara, 19 ; Pavia, 14 ; Sassari, 7 ; and Sondrio, 4. But the most remarkable part of the law is that relating to the qualification of electors. In the Ministerial report on which the law is framed, we read the following passage We propose to call into the electoral body the citizens who, from more certain proofs than those fur nished by the amount of taxes they pay, are con sidered to possess the necessary capacity for the exercise of political rights. And on the same principle we propose to exclude those who cannot read and write, in favour of whom the amount of taxes paid is too fallacious a proof of capacity. Accordingly, the law enacts that, to be an elector, a man must be born in the kingdom, or naturalised by a royal decree, if an Italian by birth ; or else naturalised by flaw, if a foreigner ; he must be turned of 25, have learnt to read and write, and pay taxes to an amount not inferior to forty francs per annum. The latter condition, however, is dispensed with in favour of members of academies, professors of colleges, doctors civil and military officials, knight of the Orders of the Kingdom, law yers, notaries, surveyors, chemists, brokers, &c. ; all those, in short, who, from their position in society, are known to possess sufficient capacity for the exercise of political rights." Merchants, traders, sea-captains, etc., are electors, provided they occupy premises paying from 200 to 600 f. rent per annum, or possess an annual income of 600 f. in Government stock, or daily employ 30 hands at least in their factories. ROME. The following letter has been received from Rome, dated November 24 :—" The pontifical Go vernment has discovered that Count Walewski, in his circular note of the Oth of November, has not clearly expressed the intention of the Holy Father on the subject of the reforms which he is decided to grant his States. His Holiness, if I. can believe SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 27th ult., announces officially that the Queen has entered the ninth month of her pregnancy, and that in consequence her Majesty had given 120,000 reels to charitable establishments, and had commenced visiting churches to offer up prayers for her safe delivery. The _lberia says that in the engagements between the Spaniards and the Moors which have already taken place, the latter not only fought well, but are commanded by officers who evidently understand European strategy. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. The following petition, which is promoted by the Parliamentary Reform Committee, has been exten sively signed throughout the City : "To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, " The humble petition of the undersigned inhabitants of the City of London, sheweth, "That your petitioners accept with satisfaction the as surance of her Majesty's ministers that they will be pre pared, in the ensuing session of Parliament, to introduce a real and honest measure for the amendment of the laws which relate to the representation of the people. " That, in the judgment of your petitioners, no measure will be regarded as a settlement which does not include a largo extension of the suffrage both in counties and in borough ; an equitable redistribution of seats in proportion to the population and property of the constituencies; an assimilation of electoral laws for England, Scotland, and Ireland; and such protection to the voter, by means of ballot, as may arrest that corruptian and intimidation which have been so fearfully prevalent in the late election,.and which threaten to undermine the political institutions of the country. _ " In the - opinion of your petitioners, theso offences should be visited with more severe and disgraceful punishments, and conviction be rendered more summary and more easily attainable, than under the present Corrupt Practices Pre vention Act. "Your petitioners therefore pray your honourable House speedily to pass such a measure into law. "And your petitioners will ever pray." It is intended, we believe, to place the petition in the hands of Lord John Russell, to be presented shortly after the opening of parliament. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LoNnox, Friday.—Wind this day at noon, North ; moderato breeze and cloudy, after a slight fall of rain. NEWPORT, Thursday.—Sailed—Chief, for St. Thomas; General Berry, for ditto ; Queen of the West, for Lisbon. DA RAW OUT it, Thursday—Wind, N.B.—Sailed—Cassy, for Hobart Town. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Wind E.N.E. Arrived—Mayflower, from Sandersfoot ; Havre, steamer, .from Havre; Pacific, steamer, from• Milford Haven; Shan non, steamer, from the West Indies ; Venus, from Swansea ; Ondine, steamer, from London ; Hart, from Riga ; Ata lant, steomer, from Jersey ; Bartley, Light and Sign, Lady Constance, and Breeze, all from Sunderland. Sailed.—La Cubana, steamer, for Hamburg; Ondine, steamer, for Dublin. LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. Wind E.N.E. Sailed, Dec. I.—Annie Laurie,'for Newfoundland ; Chats worth, for New Orleans ; Tray and Canellas, for Havannah ; Gtziena, for Antwerp ; Nathalia, for Gibraltar. Arrived—Luborg, from Malmoe ; John and Mary, from Dunkirk ; Glasgow, from Glasgow. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Wind E.; tide, 3} hours' ebb; weather cloudy. Arrived, Dec. 2.—Frenad, from Aalborg; Criteria, from St. Michael's ; Irena, from llelsinborg. DEAL, Friday Morning. Wind E.S.E.; fresh. Passed—Triton (of Cowes), from north to west. Sailed—All the homeward bound. Anchored last night—Madwaska, Eden, Crown, and Ebe. The Court of Directors of the Bank of England yesterday appointed Mr. Robert Ruthven Pym to fill the post of agent at their West-end branch, Burlington-gar dens vacant by the death of the late agent, Mr. Charles WATERLOO-BRIDGE COMPANY.—Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of this company was held at the Free masons"ravern—Mr. William Anderson in the chair. Mr, George Powell, the chief clerk, read the report, which stated that the tolls for the half-year ending the 23d of August last amounted to £10,867 12s. 10d.; and for the corresponding period of the preceding year, £10,491 lls. 11d. ; showing an increase of £376 Os. 11d. 'At the last general meeting - it was stated that after paying the cur rent expenses and charges, and making a dividend of 4s. in the pound, there remained a balance of £1,705 12s. ; and the committee had now to report that after paying the current disbursements, providing for the interest on the company's bonds, and making a dividend of 4s. in the pound, there remained a balance of £2,561 19s. 9d. Thecommittee had much satisfaction in reporting that the Metropolitan Board of Works had commenced pulling down down several houses in the Borough, to form the new street from South wark to Stam:ord-street, and congratulated the meeting upon the' prospect of such a desirable improvement being carried out, as they believed it would pro%e most useful to the public and advantageous to the company. The report and balance-sheet were received and adopted unanimously. The procebdings terminated with the usual compliment to the chairman. VYV VOLUNTEER CORPS.—MILITARY LEGGINGS.— Some of the volunteer rifle corps have already adopted the new official military pattern leggings, made with the patent vegetable leather; the merits of which are that it does not sodden, is perfectly waterproof, can be instantly cleansed with sponge, and is extremely durable. The Government Contract Works, on Stepney- g reen, are in active operation, under the management o f the Messrs. Spill, the patentees, in the production of these elegant and serviceable addenda to the regulation costume. THE MA 0,4 7; I NES. Blackwood's iTlagazine. There are some good articles met with in Maga. One of the most noticeable is that ou " Motley's Dutch Republic.." It is said that "we all kindle as we read of the greatest battle for the rights of conscience and the human intel lect that ever was delivered on the face of the earth. The summary of the remarkable events, and the epitome of the momentous struggles met with in these pages, is sure to prove interesting and instructive. History presents few more heroic struggles than that so ably described and eloquently extolled by Mr. Motley. It is truly stated here as a curious fact, noticed by M. Guizot in his transla tion of this work, that the best histories of Spain have been written by Americans. He thus writes : "These historians of both European and Transat lantic Spain are themselves neither Spaniards nor Catholics. They belong to another race, they profess another religion, they speak another lan guge. Washington, Irving, Prescott, Motley, Ticknor, are the children of Protestant England. It is this race which now bears sway in that hemisphere discovered and conquered, some four centuries ago, by Catholic Spain." After passing in rapid review the principal events of the book, the writer concludes by giving a most ex citing extract of the stirring scenes that occurred during the siege of Leyden, which fair city, as the historian aptly affirms, was destined to pass through a fiery ordeal. It was impossible to throw provisions into the town except by bringing the fleet which was 20 miles distant, to the walls of the city. After 15 miles had been accomplished the fleet was delayed by adverse winds, and the trials of the beleaguered city and its agonised denizens almost pass belief. " The pestilence walked at noonday through the city, and the doomed inhabitants fell like grass beneath its scythe." From being sub lime in despair the fearful trial at last staggered the faith of some, and the following account of the last great difficulty that can assail the general, the mutiny among his own forces, is most forcibly given by Mr. Motley : A part of the more faint-hearted "even assailed the heroic Adrian ven der Werf with threats and reproaches as he passed through the streets. A crowd had gathered around him as he reached a triangular place in the centre of the town, into which many of the principal streets emptied themselves. There stood the burgomaster —a tall, haggard, imposing figure, with dark visage, and a tranquil but a commanding eye. He waved his broad-leaved felt hat for silence, and then exclaimed, in language which has been almost literally preserved—" What would ye, my friends ? Why do ye murmur that we do not break our vows and surrender the city to the Spaniards ?-.a fate more horrible than the agony she now endures. I tell you I have made an oath to hold the city, and may God give me strength to keep my oath ! I can die but once, whether by your hand, the enemy's, or by the hand of God. My own fate is indifferent to me, not so that of the city intrusted to my care. I know that we shall starve if not soon relieved ; but starvation is preferable to the dishonoured death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not ; my life is at your disposal ; here is my sword, plunge it into my breast, and divide my flesh among you. Take my body to appease your hunger, but expect no surrender so long as I remain alive." After a few words descriptive of the happy en trance of the fleet into the city, and the wild ex citement of the multitude, as bread from every ship was thrown among the crowd who lined the quays, till by a sudden impulse thousands repaired to the churches to bend in gratitude before the King of kings, and raise the thanksgiving hymn, it is thus said in conclusion, " Surely, no people ever won its freedom through greater efforts, suffering, and sacrifices, than the United Provinces of the Netherlands." " Another Pleasant French Book" is the subject of an attrac tive article. It is'entitled, " Essais de Morale de Critique," by M. Ernest Renan, and the accounts here rendered of its contents fully justify the favourable criticism that is passed on its pages. At the same time it is judiciously remarked that the tendency of M. Renan's nature is to melancholy ; he is, it is stated, a pessimist, and therefore regards many of the triumphs of the age in rather a morbid manner. Again he takes it for granted, like many other foreigners, that our superiority in industrial skill has been at the expense of better things. This fallacious assertion is indignantly repudiated in this essay. "It has long been a stereotyped paragraph in French literature that the English care only to be ' comfortable. Is it the fact ? Are we insen sible to great ideas and to great passions ? Do we prefer comfort to freedom ? and do we neglect re ligion, morality, and philosophy for our mess of pottage ? If we are not an artistic race, are we, therefore, materialists ?" Further on it is appro priately declared, in satirical allusion to so many of those continental Utopias that end in despotism, that " if the English do not interest themselves in certain great ideas, it is because the English by temperament, no less than by education, see reason to question the value and the truth of these ideas, not because industrial activity has made them for get the nobler aims of life." In vindication of our alleged prosaic and unromantic style, the writer exclaims —" Is there a richer, nobler literature than ours ? Are our men of science unworthy of a place beside their continental rivals ? Are our poets inferior to those of France and Germany ?" Due praise is awarded to M. Renan for his impar tial opinions on many subjects, thus proving him self not one of those bigoted individuals who con sider France the centre and light of the universe. The critic takes leave of his study by recommending the book to all lovers of science and delicate litera ture, as the manifestation of a thoughtful, elevated mind. " The Luck of Lady'smede" is cantinued in some very striking chapters. The scene of the mock trial of the old abbot is a very effective sketch of the old style of conducting judicial affairs. Some very wise suggestions are made in " The National Gallery — its Purpose and Manage. ment," which it will profit many to peruse. The principal idea is that a national collection of pic tures " should embrace works extending through all times, representing all schools and countries" that that " among the solemn teachings and warnings of the great departed the artist may rise superior to the fleeting fashions of the hour." Political readers will be pleased with the graphic account of " The Fight on the Peiho," which forms one of the papers; and, with the third part of Fleets and Navies—Eng land—in which latter article the important ques tion of self-defence is, of course, discussed in an appropriate manner. Fraser's Magazine. A lengthened and elaborate paper on " The Na tional Defences" is the first paper that meets the reader in Fraser. It is evidently the result of a careful consideration of the question, and though we cannot agree with all the suggestions, we acknowledge the courage and labour requisite for the undertaking. The project of fortifying London is scarcely feasible and very undesirable; besides the completion of so vast a scheme would necessarily take so long, even supposing it to be tolerated by the people, that such a project must be perfectly useless to us for many years, when we may hope the crisis will have passed over. A memorial paper on the virtues and talents of the late lamented Mr. Stephenson, is full of interest. It records the chief events in the career of a man of whom England has just reason to be proud, and speaks, as all speak, in the highest terms of cordial admiration of the emi nent engineer. N curious romance translated from Grossi, has more novelty than attraction, although in verse. Mr. Whyte Melville continues his story of Holmby House, leaving his fair heroines in sad perplexity, for the hero who engrosses both their affections is seized by the Roundheads, and in dan ger of terminating his career in a very summary manner,. " Shirley" contributes a criticism on Dr. Tulloch's able lectures on the leaders of the Refor mation, interspersing the more serious portion with some pleasant discursive remarks. The accom plished geologist C. It Weld furnishes a highly interesting and valuable paper on Earthquakes. These marvellous and terror dealing agents are now like the other forces of nature being analysed and classified, though as yet little positive informa tion is gained. The science of seismology, as it is termed from the Greek word for earthquake, is one not easily prosecuted, but the careful and voluminous report, recently compiled at the orders of the Committee of the British Association, has de scribed phenomena, which when examined in the ag gregate may greatly advance our knowledge on this point. This report which has been the result of much time and labour, "contains records of nearly seven thousand earthquakes, observed over every known part of the globe, both on land and ocean, from 285 years B.C. to A.D. 1850." Some of the re sults obtained are extemely curious. Thus it ap pears that, divided by chronological periods, the end of the third century first gives evidence of the numerical increase of earthquakes, which seem from thence to be steadily on the increase up to 1850. It is true this is in some measure ac counted for by the advance of knowledge, observa tion, and human enterprise, and travel. It is believed, according to Mr. Weld, that the expansion of results.which we find in the last 300 years "just keeps pace with that of contemporaneous human progress ; for the increase in the number of re corded earthquakes always coincides with the epochs of increased impulse and energy in human enterprise." Earthquakes, it would seem, do not appear, so far as the originating impulse is concerned, to be connected with the superficial character of the greatest know n depth of geological formations. Earthquake enemy seems to be dispensed over the globe in irregul it bands, though there are few parts of the earth': surface not affected by them. One remarkable fact is mentioned—that earthquakes are more prevalent and violent in winter than in summer. The fol lowing observations show the extent to which the ~~ globe was affected by the terrible convulsion el Lisbon little more than a century ago : 9 The great Lisbon earthquake was first perce ived at. e „ am. convulsion, one of the most violent and Nridall extended on record, produced terrible effects ove r a s p ace the earth's su r f ace included between Iceland on the Worth, Mender, in Morocco, on the south, Toplitz, in Boher p t on the east, and the West India Islands on the was felt in the Alps, on the shores of Sweden, in the We : Indies, on the Lakes in Canada, in Ireland, 'Thuringia, ate Northern Germany. Taking he area convulsed at 3, miles long, and 2,700 miles wide, which is equal to 7, 500 1" square miles, and supposing the motion been to s depth of twenty miles, there must have 150 milliou.s of cubic miles of solid matter put in motion, a mass whit la conveys to the mind a bewildering conception of the cuor: mous power of the originating impulse. Actual shocks e were not, however, felt over the whole of this surface ; u some places agitation of the water, in lakes, canals, The' &c., being the only sensible effect produced. west. centre of disturbance seems to have been situ ated beneath the Atlantic Ocean, a little west •of the coast of Portugal. In Portugal itself, and especially Lisbon, ost terrible destruction took place, VL„ rt owing, of toure to its contiguity to the seat of von 3 *'" action, and partly to the nature of the earth's surface . that place. The shocks app e a r t o have been from west 'L east, and to have lasted from one minute to ten minutes. The calculated rate :of motion of the earth-wave was 7955 feet per second; at this rate the equatorial circumfer 45 , ence of the earth would have b een g one round in about,. hours. At 10 o'clock on th e same day, the north-vie! portion of Africa was violently convulsed ; near Morocco 7 . mountain opened and swallowed a village, with 8 000 n o g 10,000 people. At 11.30 Milan was shaken, the laps swung in the churches; and about the same time a n°::i like that of a great wave breaking on the shore was 11 04 : in Sweden and Norway, followed by shocks which 011 ... ..° 4 " the furniture in the houses. The springs in the PYre w° were affected, and in the Alps some wells became salt. The interest and respect attaching to the memory' of an eminent writer recently departed,will induce_ most readers to turn at once to the page that been the honoured name of Leigh Hunt. He has tt/k up the cause of two of our old Esglish worthies-: the father of English poetry and the singer of tn: " Faery Queene,"—against no less an antag eajj than Cardinal Wiseman, who in his recent liter lectures took occasion to censure these two gr ea ,.., writers for the immorality o f so me of their w or n' Leigh Hunt defends them vigorously again st attack, showing the p ur ity an d elevation of tel: principles' they inculcate, w hil e the faults of are those of the age, and are by no means onli s .. to our two English celebrities. Another tinguished name meets us among the contri bute re , to Fraser, though happily still a name of th e P . o a sent, that of John Stuart Mill. His article is " Non•lntervention," and his arguments d is P d his accustomed force and logic. After a clear roe , concise exposition of our present position the merits of our policy an d it s faults and 'flriu sistencies, Mr. Mill goes on to consider the P...h, ciples of non-interventi on an d th e i r intrinsic Tiet: th His remarks on thi s subject are well wursa consideration, and he arrives at a sound fe j t . sensible conclusion. He insists upon the e s e „ ro es ness of the intervention of the military "I ry of one ruler to aid another to repress the °P lo d tions of his subjects. " A people the most atta e d • of to freedom, the most capable of defending amble making good use of free institutions, ma y be lk to contend successfully for them against the T or . tarystrength of another nation much more 11° 000 . ful." He goes on to say that the doctrine °l al i t y, intervention,tobe a legitimateprinciple of In" m oo must be accepted by all Governments. The desr f i ef must consent to be bound by it as well as the s ide States, or the result will be that the wrong the help the wrong, but the right must not i lel P n tiori right. " Interventi on t o en f orce n on-interg: o ys. is always_ rightful, always moral, if not prudent." P° 4 It might not have been right for England (eve 6 1 (0 from the question of prudence) to have taken P' — it h e Hungary in its noble struggle against Austria, e„ ° o • the Austrian Government in Hungary was in some lions foreign' yoke. But when, the Hungarians havilic is sisli themselves likely to prevail in this struggle, the A Lois, despot interposed, and joining his force to that of f o ot delivered back the Hungarians bound hand an' ur their exasperated oppressors, it would have been an ay e able and virtuous act on the part of England o h rt i o is dared 'that this should not be, and that "": 0 121 11 ,, gave assistance to the wrong side, England guest aid the right. It might not have been c°•b o ati with the regard which every nation 18 tb° to pay to its own safety, for England to have takell e - ' that position single-handed. But England and France 7,4 could have done it ; and if they had the Russian ar 1 , 3 ,1 wife tervention would never have taken place, or No w " &too been disastrous to Russia alone ; while Powers gained by n o t d o i ng it, was th a t they had r iot er Russia five years afterwards, u n d er m ore difficult W its logic, stances, and without Hungary fo r an a lly. e This article, from the force o f -11 r for pay terest of its subject, will well rep ay the roa-e, its perusal. a ll that filo Colburn's New Monthly Magazine. ot A lengthened paper on China is a pro w ed feature in this ma ga zi ne . It foll e ° by the conclusion of the singular tbo " Clara Lake's Dream," which, according n t l hie writer, is founded on fact, but if so Inael i ;i o ,o tales, as he asserts, are really drawn frotn " u ghir can only say the experience of the author or s l , be re . ress, has been of a most unusual character. hick is.an incident introduced into this story oul ° worthy of attention. A ra il way accident L A by which should manif es tly have been prol l ee n ' the hoisting of th e re d li g ht a t th e stlw e ' - orest danger-signal. Witnessess on both sid es ta tiotr positively to the co l our o f th e li g ht. The % r oof master and many others take their oath ell seen the red light hoisted. On the o ther of the engine -driver, a n d a res p ec table he ll se l ear living near, arc equally con fid en t as to th e %-o at • ante of the ordinary green light. Th e ti l o last explained by an i n t e lli gen t doctor , r ate covers tbat the en.ine-d r i ver an d his suP.,,P i „ . to ° ' affected by colour-blindness and are 11 114 "; ed tinguish green from red. This is also asser;bilitf of taken from life, but, in any case, the P egs " of O r such an accident is deserving the attention, Div tion-masters. A notice of Mr. Redding, s per graphy of Thomas Campbell" is esPe ciab ln Wh e t priate in the pages of the New NonthlY • et , . pages both are familiar names. The P ° t hou g h well known, was for several years its edito r en i a l the post does not seem to have been eel s enti re him. Mr. Redding, who undertook management of the political department u." l wr iter• reign, is well known as a voluminous aeri ediscel Sir Nathaniel's " Notes on Note-worth i this month the labours and f or tunes of Arnold4 :. to oa Brescia, pupil of Abelard, and self-coel'inAhieh former of the Church of Rome; a veee ti k - ent Ce o brought him to the stake. W. Charles I . Ste' tributes another of his picturesque series A ( . ) criPP lr reoscopic Glimpses," entitled, gate," in which the blind old poet is 'll 0 still 0 le sitting at his organ enjoying the sens ,th excess him, while the sightless eyes, " blinded If i f s eelcif i f s of light," are mournfully upraised, as r a nd his lost Paradise. An essay on " Times" is chiefly founded on the work of L e to sl i t Schmidt, and renders justice to the ehei: ra phie s , elevated aim of the poet. Another bi(lbdifferehn; paper discusses the peculiarities of a yenl iit o f t b. "Milton %ova 0,..? person, Madame Recamier, the fair pres luu of t g dai s %rot most fascinating salon of Paris in the, / er r 0 Restoration. The curious story of -ri- vi bich_ s , • Mitterkamp is brought to a conclusi.ool LP 0 10 bot readers will scarcely regret. There le b r iet o bute to the late Mr. Stephenson, and. a t i o ns. sensible paper on " Continental Compliea An iv a a r l tic m le er o C i nt o s ib to u hf r e n th ' e Militia rlzl United voluntaryBevsl Commission' 'Ye e 9.- 0 a 5 11 : 0 , +Dn a an fr the r . ballot. .It is followed by an able Palt r g - t il tiher:, serve of Royal Naval Volunteers, Wh ic" "Thrtslin s sent moment is of especial interest and mP - op oiel" While strongly approving of the objec t Pft eXo gy the writer doubts whether the best and ha -. bee' cious means for securin t hat object bil''; tb• g ..p 0 adopted. He finds something to censo‘-floriou regulations, and discusses separately t„ . 11° , 0 011 paragraphs. The following passage su s car e of the conclusions arrived at after 6 analysis :—.. 10 1113°1 g Merchant seamen are now, whatever theYwerrt with the a cool, calculating class. They will sniff the bait , , caution, but not the gullibility and voracity 0 ma re, som They will turn over the advantages and disadvao iriP those who are learned in the matter, or think th e r t ue b 1 1,!: soon be found putting very puzzling questions to_ed t 08._,, ping -master. There are certain conditions ari c .; o , sfi.t, vice in the navy, and also relative to the Pen si° d distrw"„ 4 , have already shown, calculated to excite alarm fi. . ~...2 , Five years exile from home and kindred Wil l relsioer Is lump when placed in the opposite scale to the loo k uP° 4 , ll r prospective pension. Three years they Will„, e dlalit - 100 en inevitable continency • although, as we "i"". ner iod v"or tember, there f so long' 3 r - , n e Y ecessi y or e d ut for Id e demanded. The men should be call 0 ergo ° only, to bo increased to two, or three, if the eto „, manded that servitude. w hich 74 Then, again, there is the imperative regulatiosiabwoji 0 eludes all but able seamen. Numerous fin© able w ho a rly men, as we have already stated, might be enrolled, They pursue their business as bargemen and vvate hie ne of have been from boyhood on the vvater, pit P er Ide l/ c s out of sight of land, and never rated able scanrbie. 11Aey this kind would be at hand, and always aY"`;`, , Do t t e i the Admiralty still an eye upon the .4 a quatle f s r i v er ,lod cmtemplate the re-organisation of a corps ( f ) , h i s u seta foneible.or , , why have they taken no heed 01. , the efficient body ? to wioP t hot But, notwithstanding its faults and s hor e ,.., hope 10/' Reserve scheme is a good move and We sincetro 17 g etherlog all parties concerned will pull harnioniouslY i disregsr , ing sight for a time of personal interests, au" f it ° v, a little or may be a great deal of trouble. 1 0., _e . - In alluding to the aversion so frequea. W avy , qa; merchant seamen to entering the 1 0 7 _ 1 3 ,, to tt s writer attributes much of this ant l l: l3 l " g i s yst,e o ; prejudices lingering since the pressgr.,oo art.l4, It is a straightforward and sensibly 117 ,1' 0 0 eti lll o l throwing much light on the subject or 0 proseects,,.o a nd ment. A paper on. the position ~,n e o to s the army medical department shows r ill , pr.l 9 ,„ d drawbacks and di ffi culties that a ttena i. ftec orap of the medical profession in the army e f o rtns r, r to the accounts given in this Palg