The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-23 00:00:00

R OYAL ENGLIS H OPERA, covENT-GARD EN. ad Mr. W. Harrison finder. the managenaent of D1if351....Py THIS EVENING (the 2d time) CeCji, G. Honey, Bartleman, &c. Hisses Parepa, t C o ndactor, Alfred Mellon. FIANCEE. Itcssrs. W.H. Payne, H. Payne, Levine, Pasquale, .Pierron, Clara Morgan, F. Payne, and Mons. Vandris. Doors opera at half-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bu.lkntone. THIS - gr ENING the performances will commence with THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews. With LITTLE TODDLEKINS. And COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Commence at 1. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TilEATim.-- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Pri.ncipal Dan sense of La Seals, Milan ; and first time of the Delapierre Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every night. The Royal rrinCeSS'S Rifles on parade every evening. On MONDAY (Boxing-ntght) the new drama, Be ning. TRUTHS. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, F. MAtthews, Miss C. Lec'ercq and Mrs. Charles Young. After which, a new Christm burl N esque pantomi e, by H. m J. Byron, called JAC K TUE as JIAT KILLER ; or, ITarle quin King Arthur and the Knights of the Round T able. Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack -Paa.,.ta loon, Mr. Paulo--Colurabine, Miss , garoline Adams- Clovl.l l , Mr. A. F. Forrest. 'Morning Performances on Monday, January 9, 16, and 2:1 - comm e nce at two o'clock. N EW THEATRE - ROYAL, Al) ELP HI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart, Billing-ton, C.. 1. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Kelly. Follod by the successful piece of extravagance, called A DINO RAH UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, 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. bi All fees to servants of this es t a bli s hment are strictly prohited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL ST St. . JAMES es'S THEATRE,.I King-street, James's. Lsee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Paik being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. To-Morrow, SATURDAY (Christmas Eve) a new Farce, GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C. Young. Followed by a new ketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. Miss Wyndham and Mr. s H. T. Craven. To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND JUDY. Introducing Miss Lydia Thompson and the Corps de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and the wonderful Performing Dogs. Reduced Prices—Gallery open Pit, ls. The Box-ofEce open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors at half-past six; perform ance commences at 7. A STLETS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season. THIS EVENING, the grand melo-dramatic production, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARIBALDI ; illustrating the principal events in the Life of the Great Italian General. To be followed by New and Brilliant Equestrian Changes in the Arena, introducing a vivid Four-horse Scene by John Henry Cooke, as the Neuman Conqueror -More Wonders by the Educated Elephant—Elegant Equitation by Miss Emily Cooke, the Queen of the Circle—Young Alf red Cooke's sur passing evolutions on a naked Courser —Electrifying, Feats by the Athenian Athlctu, J. H. Cooke and Crouses—Nel ov Flag. Exereses on horseback by Madlle. Jenny—Varied by those heralds of fun, the Clowns, Mimes, and Drolls. To commence at 7. Especial Notice.—Three Grand Morning Representations of the grand new Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY; or, Old Towler the Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, on Monday and Saturday, Dec. 26 and 31, and Monday Jan. 2, 1860, at Two o'clock each day. Tali NEATHER.--Sux OFFIcr., DECEMBER 23. THEEINCOXETER, IN THE SHADE. 42—highest since noon yesterday. 39—lowest this morning and during the night. 40—this day at noon. OANTERBUR Y HALL C ONCERT S.- v EVERY lEVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY QUEEN. 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. Critellikid, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. ROSA BONHEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is ope a from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. BeltommTEß-20.50. WIND, Easterly; light, with dull wet weather• HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS . DAY.—Morning, 12h. 57m.—Afternoon, lh. 21m. TO-310ituow.-Morning, :Ih. 44m.—Afternoon, 2h. 6m. - - -i- i . , - . A . 4,. 41 ~, ,. ..8 •,. , - ;6 .' .„..s ') \„ . " , „ , _,, f ,.. ,,,, ''...•_,_....-. - ..-- 4 ' t ,.. 1 , ,,,z - . 4.; ;,... ''' - - r.' c .1 6', ~ 2.4.H AZ z: . ': .. - * -. . 4 ''' ''. ~ ; 7 4 7 - 1 . A l i . :(-4., ' & . 1 %,, , ,1g4.c.) t-Iti r i;: k f t. _«, «$ 34. - ' 41 -4 . :40e-I°l - \ t .t _, .'s , .‘ , "- i 0 ~...i. l ll_, , .... .... . 1 .. z. , ‘ ,.4 f , :44., Oi:11::§j; -l'a-1' ''' THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 23, 1859. M. DE LA G CERRONIERE has had both a very easy task and a quite impossible task. It was easy to show that the Romagna could not be replaced under the Government of the POPE without viola ting religion, morality, and public policy to an ex tent Which could not be tolerated ; but, to show that the poor Romans ought not to enjoy the same privileges as the Romagnese, is beyond the power of the Imperial Essayist or of any other. Our author thinks he has found the solution of a grand diffi culty. There are those who would strip the POPE of his temporal power; there are those who would gyve him back all he ever had, if they could. M. DE LA GUERIIONIERE thinks -he has found the happy middle path. He is an impartial arbitrator, and his award is a compromise.. Give the Romagnese the liberty they have seized; keep the Romans in the blessed slavery for which they may thank General GUYON and his master. In a part of his argument Englishmen will of course follow him with ease and a' certain degree of pleasure. Any elaborate proof that the POPE ought not to receive back at the hands of Europe a territory full of subjects who detest his rule ; that even if he ought, neither can France re-enslave the liberated, nor Austria be allowed to domineer in Italy again, nor Naples venture to interfere, without an Italian civil war with Piedmont ; that, therefore, the Romagna must enjoy what it has gained. Any well-argued case like this is to Englishmen but a clever performance on a different ground to their own. We havo an axiom, and, by that axiom, all is easily settled—that every nation ought to be left to choose its own rulers. The writer himself indeed is compelled to admit this principle; for he mentions how France herself has acted on it, and aided other nations to do the same. Louis NAPOLEON and his amanuensis will find all plain sailing thus far. Of course Arch bishop CULLEN and his noisy followers will ana thematise the writer and his master ; but all sensible Catholics, as well as all other British free men who prize their . own liberties, will agree in the EmPEr.oa's views solar as the Romagnese are concerned. But what about the Romans and the master imposed on them by French bayonets ? It must be evident that M. DE LA GUERRONIERE has not been able to invent a single argument on which he himself seriously relies. If the POPE is to retain Rome only in virtue of such ar guments as he has brought forward, its doom is sealed. Had the writer dared to speak out, he would assuredly have said, " There is not a single respectable reason for enslaving the Romans, more than the Bolognese, to the POPE, but if we do not find something like reasons for it, there will be such a hubbub with the French clergy that the Empire itself may be shaken !" We have not the slightest doubt that the Imperial author of the pamphlet as well as its literary godfather, are both of precisely the same way of thinking as ourselves, and are quite as prepared as we are to pitch the temporal power:of the PIPE into the 'fiber. One of our author's grand reasons is, that the head of 200,000,000 of Catholics must not be the sßbject of any single s power. To. which the ready answer seem to be " exempt him, then, by special treaty or convention, from subjection to any power in whose territory he sees fit to reside." Say that Rome shall continue to be his residence,—then let his cathedral and all the land and buildings he requires fora residence, for himself and his ecclesiastical staff, be exempted from the jurisdiction of the Government of Rome. Let him have the privilege of ambassadors and other representatives of nations. Let his appeal in any dispute, and appeals against him also, be to all the Catholic Powers. Let his person be sacred ; as being, in a sense, the common representative of Popedom, and let him be supported in a degree of dignity worthy of his position, by the contribu tions of all the Powers who avail themselves of his headship over their faithful ones. The pecuniary suggestion we, and others, had made be fore our author proposed it. To us the kind of free dom from subjection we now suggest seems far preferable to the miserable freedom he now enjoys. The freedom to keep his seat as long as the French keep him on it ! We doubt not, on the other hand, that the Romans would be but too happy to acquit him of all allegiance to any civil rulers they might chose, and to confer on all Popedom the convenience of keeping its spiritual head at Rome responsible to Popedom only. There is something ineffably ludicrous in the picture M. DE L. GUERRONIERE draws of the condition of the happy creatures whom he contends must be left in the papal cage. " Destiny," he tells them, places them where they are. Rome would be but a town if the POPE were not a Prince ; now she is the " Eternal City." She is to be " a small corner of the earth free from the passions and interests which agitate other peoples, and devoted solely to the glory of GOD." They are to be a people who will be ruled less by a King than by a father !" (Perugia!) Their " rights will be guaranteed rather by the heart of the Sovereign than by the authority of laws and institutions" (!) —" no army, no forces, no magistracy 1" The Roman will be for ever disinherited of that noble portion of activity which in every country is the stimulus of patriotism ; his contemplations must be on " the arts," and " the study of ruins." There " ean be no aspiration either to the glory of the soldier, or the triumphs of the orator or the states man"—and much more, in this strain, is the poor Roman indulged with, as the picture of the nega tive beatitude assigned him by his Majesty the Emperor of the FRENCH. We really do believe that all this must be meant as serious fun. Such a description of men, emas culated by ecclesiasticism, we never saw before. It is the picture of an ecclesiastical harem, in fact, in which the POPE and priests are the immaculate Sultanas and concubines, and the poor Romans the political eunuchs who serve and keep them. If our proposal of making the POPE an independent person, not an independent prince—which, as a petty one, can never be—be not adopted, then we should suggest that the Romans who retain the " passions and aspirations " of men should be pro vided with a locality elsewhere, and the old city handed over literally to the priests. Let every woman be excluded the , city, and the unmarried POPE reign over a community of unmarried monks and clergy. Archbishop CULLEN will recruit for them. Nothing could well be more thoroughly delight ful, as nothing could certainly be more entirely characteristic, than the principal speech delivered last evening, at the London Tavern, by Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, in his capacity as Chairman at the annual dinner there given in aid of the funds _ . of the Commercial Travellers' School. Listening to an after-dinner speech like that is more warming to the heart, or to those mysterious anatomical regions popularly termed " the cockles" of the heart, than any number of glasses of the fruitiest old crusted port in all the bins of all the cellars of all the wine merchants of Oporto, or, for that matter, of Portugal. It must certainly be far better for digestion. And it is calculated,.we do sincerely believe, as we do also most earnestly hope, to forward materially the in terests of a very benevolent and praiseworthy in stitution. An appeal thus corning before the Com- - - menial Travellers of this country ought surely to be received by them as little less than irresistible. It comes in so un-questionable a shape ! So genial, and frankly, and fervently enforcing the claim of these schools upon their kindlier consideration — doing this, moreover, of all good seasons of the year, at Christmas! The excellent Secretary of this very excellent charity has often before now shown his tact in caring for its interests, in appreciably forwarding its prosperity, by his selection of the eminent men who have consented, under his appeal to their gene- rous sympathy, to fill the chair upon these annual occasions of mingled conviviality and benevolence. As he (Mr. GEORGE MooRE) himself reminded the assembled guests yesterday when responding later in the evening to the customary toast of his own health as Secretary, they have had there presiding over their festivities in succession such men as Sir BULWER LYTTON, as Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, and as Mr. W. M. THACKERAY—worId famous in the highest department of the most popular branch of literature. And now once more they have had there as Chairman again over their proceedings that incomparable humourist whose last work of imagination we hardly hesitate to pro nounce as in many respects in our estimation his masterpiece. The author of that exquisitely pathetic "Tale of Two Cities," however, spoke last evening less in the spirit of his latest than in that of his earliest serial production. The frequent parenthetic interlarding of (laughter), (loud laugh ter), and (rears of laughter) which will be observed elsewhere in our impressiOn of this evening, in the accurate report there given of his speech of yester day, will afford sufficient evidence at a glance that the chairman was addressing his audience with the broad humour of the. Author of " Pickwick." And when we come among other similar fragments of fun to that record of his about the hotel at Leeds, " where he happened to be staying about seven weeks be fore, where the chamber appurtenances belonged to a period far anterior to the present, and where the night candles were nothing less than mutton trun• cheons of the most exaggerated dimensions — (roars of laughter)—and couldn't by any possi ility be blown out." (Great laughter.) When we come to reminiscences like those we have a crowd of other irresistibly ridiculous Inn recollections crowding upon us from his own pages from those all but real realms of laughter ! Mr. PICKWICK in that double-bedded room with the single lady—when his nightcap strings were hopelessly entangled in a knot ! "My friend the waiter" who eat most of the pudding and nearly all of the chops prepared for poor little D. COPPERFIELD, The Yorkshire School master, in his short trousers, and with his one eye, mending a pen in the coffee-room of the Saracen's Head, Snow•hill! The river-side public-house, in the backyard of which QulLr, performing a demon dance in a paroxysm of exhilaration round the dog ; kennel, nearly drove its occupant into a state of ; hydrophobia! And so on, for the remembrances , throng upon one so abundantly as to threaten to be almost interminable. The facetious likening of his own embarrassments as to the copious supply of ora tory expected from him as Chairman, to the anxiety of mind burtheuing the life of Mrs. Todgers from the strong passion and insatiable thirst existing among THE SUN,' LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1859 commercial gentlemen for gravy, struck, in the grotesque exordium of this comic speech, the key note of all the after laughter: Grievously disturbed at heart by his many ineffectual attempts to obtain the materials for a speech, Mr. DICKENS with an aspect of becoming gravity, recounted yes terday how—" He looked through the advertising pages of Bradshaw—(loud laughter)—and asked himself whether anything could be done with those inviting advertisements of hotels, in which was offered at fixed charges bed, breakfast, and attend• ance, with the additional advantages of a perfect solitude and an Italian atmosphere. (Laughter.) He asked himself despondingly the question whether anything apropos could be got out of the unfortu nate porter who sat up all night, and who never sent to bed in the day time ?" (Great laughter.) Whereupon he relates the incident of another excursion to Leeds, besides the one we have before mentioned as having been so ludicrously particularised. Altogether, our great Humorist so effectually and (as usual) beneficently, " set the table in a roar," after the fashion of YORICK, that he contrived to shake out of the pockets of those assembled together around it a a goodly sum of upwards of £l,OOO in subscriptions. May the supporters of this noble charity laugh thus (as TOM HOOD expressed it on the droll title page) from year to year—while the children in the Commercial Traveller's Schools grow fat under the nfiuence of that kindly merriment. ST 111.41.RTIN'S HALL. On Wednesday evening " The Messiah" was per formed at St. Martin's Hall, under the direction of Mr. Hullah. It was in every way creditably exe cuted, and a decided improvement in many instances on the same oratorio of last year at that institution. Miss Martin has rectified some of the faults which marred the effect of her fine voice on her first ap pearance before the public. Miss Banks was de servedly applauded on her rendering of the beauti ful air—" Come unto Him all ye that labour." Miss Dolby had not so much assigned to her as formerly, but she displayed her well-known fine taste in the ex pressive words assigned to her. Mr. Thomas dis tinguished himself in the grand airs—" Why do the Nations so furiously rage together," and, also, " The Trumpet shall Sound." The audience was much gratified by the appearance of Mr. Sims Reeves, who sang with his usual masterly expres sion in sacred airs. It is to be regretted, however, that more justice, to say nothing of taste or good feeling, cannot be displayed by those who have the privilege of hearing such good music at so cheap a cost. After the solo—" Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron," there was a universal demand for an encore, which Mr. Sims Reeves at once intimated was impossible, by laying down his music. The more respectable portion of the public, of course, desisted in their demand, but the uproar created by the uncultivated hearers was disgraceful, especially when it is remembered that it was a sacred performance they were assembled to hear. It is an absurd thing for people to imagine that singers can always encore the most elaborate pas sages that entail great exertion to suit their fancies, and all lovers of fair play will condemn the custom, and those who create such a disturbance as that on Wednesday, which for some minutes drowned the chorus, do not exhibit their love for music, but their want of manners. The grand chorus in the oratorio —" Hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent Reigneth" was very effective. " Lift up your Heads" was also ably executed in its difficult ar rangement. Miss Martin was not equal to the task of rendering " I know that my Redeemer liveth," but she exerted herself creditably. One of the most striking passages in the arrangement of the oratorio, which is sustained by the quartet and chorus in the last part, " Since by ' Man came Death," when the chorus take up " By Man came also the Resurrection of the Dead," was very satisfac torily rendered. On the whole great credit is due to the management of the director, and the general impression of the performances of the evening was evidently a favourable one throughout the numer ous audience. gress. TH EA TR E ROYAL, LYCEUM. --4. The subject of the Christmas entertainment at this theatre has been selected, by Mr. T. Talfourd from the popular German tales of the Brothers Grimm, and is entitled King Thrushbeard, the Little Pet and the Great Passion; or, harlequin Had*, and the Fairy Good Humour." The fol lowing is an outline *of the plot :—The Princess Imperiosa, only daughter of King Pater-familial, is as fair as the day, but as proud as Lucifer, and of most ungovernable temper. Her extreme beauty has tempted many Princes to ask her hand in mar riage, and her father, delighted at the chancy of ridding himself of a child who makes his life a misery, appoints a day for the suitors to attend and urge their pretensions. The day arrives, and the suitors arrive, but the princess indignantly re jects them all, and treats them so insultingly that they leave the palace in disgust. The king, tired of yielding to her caprices, and driven to despera tion by the thought of her remaining always on his hands, at length " plucks up a spirit," and vows that she shall marry the first beggar who presents himself. A beggar minstrel passing at the moment, the king insists upon Imperiosa marrying him, and the ceremony is supposed to take place immedi ately. The beggar takes his wife on the "wedding tour," and they arrive at length at his wretched home. At first she indulges in her usual haughty behaviour ; but charmed and subdued by her hus band's good humour and affection—treatment to which she had hitherto been unaccustomed—she begins to entertain towards him a respectful attach ment, which speedily ripens into love ; her cure is complete, and the Shrew is tamed. The story of this extraordinary marriage having reached the ears of the king of the country where the supposed beggar and his wife live, his curiosity iv, excited, and he commands them to appear at court. We are now introduced to the palace, where, the wife being separated by accident from her husbrnd, is ushered into the presence of the king, in whom she at once recognises one of the princes whom she had so in sultingly rejected. The king feigns to believe that the Princess Imperiosa appears before him seeking a divorce, and grants her supposed suit, This elicits from her a confession of the happy change which has taken place in her disposition. Hafiz, delighted, throws off the beard he has worn (which, from its being shaped like a thrush's bill, had obtained for him the soubriquet of Thrushbeard), and the princess is rewarded by discovering that King Hafiz, the Beggar Husband, and Thrushbeard are all one and the same person. A general reconciliation takes place, and Imperiosa is reinstatsd in the brilliant position she is now fitted to adorn. It is believed the accessories of the chief scene (designed and painted by Mr. Wm. Calcott) possess an originality of invention, with completeness and costliness of execution, surpassing anything of this description hitherto presented on the boards of a theatre. The harlequinade is the joint production of Mr. George Ellis and Mr. Cormack ; the principal cha ra3ters in which will be represented by the Messrs. J. and 11. Marshall, Mr. Naylor, and Miss Rosine. THE FRENCH SQUADRON IN CIIINA.—The French squadron at present in the Chinese waters is composed of the following vessels .—The Nemesis, bearing the admiral's flag, 52 gnus ; Dido, 40 ; Capricieuse, 32 ; Dordogne, 6 ; Gironde, 6 ; Marne, 6 ; Meurthe, 6 ; Du, ance, 6 ; Saone, 6 ; Duchayla, 32 ; Catinat, 12 ; Phlegethon, 8 ; Primaugret, 8 ; Laplace, 8; Marceau, 6 ; Regent, 4 ; Alarm°, 4 ; Dra gonne, 4 ; Fusee, 4 ; Mitraille, 4 ; Norzag,arity, 2 ; Lily, 2 ; Rose, 2 ; Pehio, 2. The Forbin, now on its way to China, carries 8 guns. SINGULAR ACCIDENT FROM TIIE FROST.—During the present week three of the cast iron columns which sup port a roadway, fronting warehouses, at the St. Katherine's Docks, burst with a loud report, similar to a piece of ord nditc:(aiaifpns,dtn,tcabeiiaiare,:ocsacanon. 4 fragments of metal were found at a considerable g i s n fiii an,l which ol t ce i e o od n utwlli itit with .vas nc‘ a st occurrence utaf ca f tr roeefuretr water, which ci d : ee that etahue setw,hi supporthet enteredohol : ce e a l eoa u xflt a m p thernosee. tango order to allow egress for water. . LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, DEC. 23. The French Cabinet has, by telegraph, informed the Powers concerned that the opening of the Con gress will not take place before the 19th January next. Yesterday Prince Metternich paid his official visit to her Imperial Highness Princess Mathilde. The Constitutionnel publishes an article, signed by its principal editor, M. Grandguillot, approving in general the contents of the pamphlet " Le Pape et la Congres," declaring, however, a resolve to combat some of the propositions made by the author. DEC. 22. Count Avigdor, representative of the Republic of San Marina at the Court of Paris, has presented a memorandum to Count Walcwski, addressed to the future Congress, against the encroachments of Piedmont. The Emperor of the French has conferred the Grand Cordon of the Legion d'Honneur on the Prince d'Orange. NAPLES, DEC. 22. The Commander Carafa not being Minister of State, but only ad interim Minister for Foreign Affairs, the King has definitively appointed the Marquis d'Antonini as his first, and the Chevalier Canofari as his second, Plenipotentiary at the Con- TURIN, DEC. 22. Baron de Talleyrand, who has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary of France at this Court, is expected here on Saturday. FLORENCE, DEC. 21. M. Buoncompagni arrived hero to-day. ROME, DEC. 21. The report that the Pope had claimed the Pre sidency of the Congress for his Plenipotentiary is unfounded. ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. 22. Prince Gortschakoff has expressed a desire that the opening of the Congress should not take place until after the Russian new year (Jan. 13, 1860), as he is detained at the Court on that day by the duties of his office. CONSTANTLNOPLE, DEC. 20. Ahmed Wefik Effendi has been appointed Am bassador to the Imperial Court of Paris, MADRID, DEC. 21 Yesterday 8,000 Moors attacked the Spanish, but were energetically repulsed, and compelled, by grapeshot and grenades, to retreat in great dis order. The Spanish had 51 wounded. Ten men-of-war, formerly stationed at Havannah, have just arrived to reinforce the squadron at Algesiras. A great quantity of provisions has been despatched to the army in Africa. the hiw, which' cannot be abandoned without caus ing encfrnouS loss. Older States cannot proclaim unrestrained free trade ; they can only go on gra dually diminishing the tariffs. All the remarks of the Prince on the magistracy and the administra tion of justice are models of magnanimity and cor rect judgment. But the most remarkable part of the message is certainly that which relates to agri culture. It is impossible to pass a fitter eulogy on the labour which transforms the soil, and which, as he says, is the most important of all. He does not content himself with recommending good practical agriculture; he desires that it should also be studied theoretically and be regularly taught, and he ranks a professor of agriculture with or even above a professor of literature. The Prince insists that primary in struction should be universal, and that within a certain time every Itoumain should be also able to read and write. In dissolving the Assembly he has no idea of making a coup d'etat, he merely dis misses it, because it has fulfilled the purpose for which it was convoked; he dissolves it that the nation may give the deputies a fresh commission no longer bearing the same political character, but having an authority to occupy themselves with in ternal improvements. The Prince desires that the Roumains, whose self-government has been recog nised, should march on in a path of progress and civilisation worthy of brave and intelligent people. As for the press, he urges upon it to enlighten the Government on all the great questions of organisa tion which will have to be settled, and to give up all personal polemics, which often prevent the realisation of great projects. To sum up, we can affirm that we fully approve of the noble sentiments which the Prince has nobly expressed." FRANCE. The thaw, which commenced in Paris yesterday morning, still continues, with light rain. The ther mometer stands at six degrees (centigrade) above freezing point. The last week has been a disastrous one for the olives in the south of France. In the neighbourhood of Grasse both olive and orange trees were completely frozen on Friday last. This is the more to be regretted, inasmuch as in October last the olive crop was considerably reduced by the worm and by a south-east wind, which caused a considerable quantity of the fruit to fall off the trees. In fact, the damage caused to the olive crop by the frost last week is so serious that it cannot yet be estimated. The ship-of-the-line Duguay-Trouin, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Larrieu, Commander-in-Chief of the naval division on the western coast of Ame rica and in the Pacific Ocean, has left Brest for Callao, in Peru. The Duguay-Trouin is a screw ship of 500-horse power and 90 guns. This is the first line-of-battle ship which has been sent on so dis tant an expedition. She is to replace the steam frigate Soveraine, first chosen for that service. M. Edmond Lesseps, appointed French Consul• Gen eral to the Peruvian Republic, takes a passage on board the Duguay-Trouin. It is still hoped that the ship of the line Duguesclin may be got off the rocks near Brest. The Debats publishes the following :—" The port in the Red Sea recently ceded to France is Zoulla, on the coast of Habesch, at the bottom of a fine bay near the spot once occupied by Adulis, the most frequented port of the Red Sea in ancient times. The coast of Habesch is that part of the Abyssinian seaboard which extends from Cape Nose to the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, Cape Nose itself being situated at the boundary of Upper Egypt, opposite the Isle of Emeralds, of which the Viceroy of Egypt has recently taken possession. The town of Zoulla contains an industrious maritime population, said to be superior to any other on the coast. The port possesses excellent anchorage ground, well shel tered from the north-east winds, which alone enter the bay. Zoulla is also the most favourable port for communicating with the interior of the States of the Emperor Theodore, wko reigns over the greater part of Abyssinia; moreover, it commands the Aden route. The cession of this port to France is said to have been made in strict conformity with established usages." _ THE BOURSE, Dec. 22.—The opening of the mar ket was buoyant, but became less so during the day. Threes improved from 70f. 50c. to 70f. 75e., but are now at 70f. 65c. Mobilier varied from 857 f. 50c. to 850 f. ; Lyons, 946 f. 25c. to 942 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,420 f. to 1,422 f. 50c. ; Southern, 540 f. to 535 f. ; Austrian, 573 f. 73c. to 568 f. 75c. ; Lombard, 581 f. 25c. to 577 f. 50c. The market continued heavy to the close, when the following were the last _quotations:— 4 i per Cents..... 9 6 90 Cr6dit Fonder 722 50 Do. end moutk 197 Belgian 4i 3 per Cents. 7O 3i Piedmontesa (5) Do. end month.... 70 35 Roman B3 75 Bank Shams 2885 Austrian Credit Mobilier 840 Spanish Threes Do. Account 811 25 Home Debt 43 75 RAILWAYS. -- --- Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 972 50 .. 972 50 New ditto Lyons and Moditerranean 937 50 .. 937 50 Geneva 545 .. 540 Southern W es t ern 575 -- .. 577 50 E as t e rn SArdinian Austrian Lombard „ „ ...... 575 .. 573 75 Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 25f. 9c.; three months, paper, 241. 95e. ; money, 241. 931 e. . JASSY. The journals of Jassy having brought the text of an address delivered lately by Prince Couza in dis missing the Legislative Assembly of that country —a document so unusually long that it somewhat resembles in that respect the annual Message of the President of the United States—the Siecle pub lishes an analysis of the Prince's speech, which it praises highly. Wo subjoin our contemporary's remarks, as they give an idea of the principles by which the Moldo-Wallachian ruler desires to govern his States:—" Prince Couza, without servilely imi tating the institutions of other countries, seeks in each nation what will be the best suited to the Roumanians. He energetically desires the liberty of commerce, and we perfectly comprehend its fit ness for a new people, among whom every branch of industry has yet to be created. He has not to re gard either the important interests or the acquired rights of capital employed under the protection 0.. f INDIA. By extraordinary express, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, we have received our letters and papers from Bombay to the 26th ult. The follow ing is from the Bombay Gazette of that date : " The news from China has come almost to a dead lock; and expectation for the time takes the place of ascertained facts. The latest papers that we have received notice the arrival of the 67th Regiment from Calcutta, and tho 3d Buffs were daily expected. Various are the rumours which have come to us from the North-West as to troops being held in readiness for China, but nothing de finite has yet reached us. The receipt of the dis patches from the home Government regarding the enlistment of the discharged soldiers for service in China was followed by a general order, in which the Governor-General stated that he had 'received au- ,hority from her Majesty's Government to grant the boon of two years' service to those men of the local army who had not taken their discharge under the General Order, No. 883, of the 20th of June last,' and that his Excellency had also received authority to permit • such men as have taken their discharge, and are not compromised by part taken in any act of insubordination connected with the question of discharge, to enlist for service in China in any o her Majesty's regiments of the line, or her Majesty's artillery or marines, which may be now in China, or proceeding thither ; soldiers so enlisting will re ceive a bounty of 50 rupees, upon the condition that they enlist for ten years' service.' This order means a great deal more than the words imply. It means, in fact, that the men have just claims for bounty, and it may in time to come be a source of embarrassment to the authorities should the example of the discharged soldiers he followed by others for the purpose of obtaining the redress of grievances,, whether real or imaginary. "If a war with China should be decided on, it would not, perhaps, be prudent to enter on it with a force numbering under 15,000 men. We have no doubt the feelings of the people in England must be averse to again entering into a new war, after all the exertions made in the Crimean campaign, the suppression of the Indian rebellion, and the expen diture of money and life which both entailed. But admitting that we have not committed our selves to a contest out of which we could not retreat until our objects were attained, it is a question if the Chinese Government will be brought to terms and be induced to carry out the conditions of the treaty by any other means than by force of arms. " The actual state of the rebel army in Nepaul can perhaps be better estimated by a calculation of what it must be, than by our reports. The rumours are perfectly contradictory ; it is now stated that the Nana intends to maintain his position—then that he intends to retreat. One report is that he is dead, another that there was a consultation in his camp, and that the several leaders agreed to unite their forces and place them under his orders. Side by side with these reports are details of the dispersion of the Nana's followers in all directions, and the miserable plight to which they are reduced for want of food and clothing. One thing is certain—that our troops have taken the field against the rebels ; the 54th Queen's have proceeded to the Goruckpoor fron tier, and one or two engagements have already taken place, in which as usual the rebels retired, betaking themselves to jungles and out-of-the-way places. It is now stated that Jung Bahadoor is going to assist us in expelling the" rebels from his territories. About eight or ten thousand Goorkha troops, with 40 guns, have already marched down the hills, and Jung will join the army at Bootwal. If this be the case, the discomfiture of the rebels will be a quick and easy work. " According to a letter to the Englishman from the Nepaul frontier, it is believed that the rebel force in that quarter consists of about 6,000 of all kinds, of which about 1,000 are so wars ; this number includes also camp fol lowers, women, and children, so perhaps besides the sowars, only 3,000 sepoys remain. The greater number of these are encamped in the Dhang and Dukur valleys, over the first range of hills, but still small bodies are dotted about at the edge of the Terai jungle all along the Nepaul fron tier. They have still remaining with them about two elephants' load of Government ammunition. The sepoys have had no regular pay from their chiefs since they loft Lucknow, but until Nana Rao's death they were always regularly fed. A few Christian drummers from the mutinous regiments are said to be with the rebels, but they have turned Mahomedans and live with the sepoys. Some re ports state that there is a European sergeant with them, who also has turned Mussulman, but this has not been corroborated. From further inquiries which have been made, there is no reason at present to believe that there is any European man or wo man now alive in the rebels' hands, as some papers have stated. " In Central India, it is feared that it will be necessary to carry on the war in the jungle. A body of rebels, under the notorious Bhagojee Naik, lately found their way to a village about 12 miles from Nassick. About 100 of the Ahmednug gur and Nassick police, led by Mr. Souter, went after them, and succeeded in capturing the leader, who was hanged on the spot where he killed Capt. Henry a year ago, and in killing another chief and 51 men. Minor insurrections are going forward in other parts of India. The hill tribes in the Deccan are giving some trouble ; and a party of Rohillas have been creating disturbances near Hingolee. Troops were sent after them, and they were sur prised in a ravine a few miles from the cantonment of Hingolec. Fifteen of them were killed, includ ing their leader, the Rohilla Jemader Shereef Khan. 'The Rohillas have also advanced on some villages near Hyderabad, and we fear that their move ments will not be checked without considerable bloodshed. " At last the official papers on the subject of the claims to compensation for losses sustained during the mutiny have been published. The following scale is to be adopted in the case of those claimants who have sustained losses in buildings, factories, and crops, including merchandise and stock in trade . If the claim do nc' exceed 2,000 rupees, the sum awarded will be—half the loss proved. If it exceed 2,000 rupees, the snm awarded will be half the first 2,000 rupees and one-third of the rest. The other class includes cash and jewels, and articles of per sonalty, with respect to which the compensation is limited to one-third of the admitted loss, the largest amount in the ease of any single claimant being fixed at 5,000 rupees,' "The venal,+itl Qf war are coming out in new financiai demands. Taxes and loans are followed by plans which the Government has in contemplation to reduce its expenditure. Such measures are urgently needed. The revision of the salaries of civil servants and reduction of military charges have been talked of for some time, and in all probability w ill be carried out. The question of the reduction of the native army has been referred to England, and until the home authorities have decided this point we must be content to wait. But there is no doubt the military department is capable of considerable abridgment; and if its expenditure be not reduced we have no hopes of any restoration of the balance between the revenue and expenditure in India. We may then expect a permanent deficit of about eight millions sterling annually, with increase of interest on the capital borrowed to supply the deficiency. " It is satisfactory to see that the British army in our presidency is in an excellent state of health. The latest returns show a considerable diminution of hospital cases. It is also satisfactory to find that the Government is giving attention to the establish ment of barracks in the hill Sanataria of Northern India. Amid all our discords and conflicts, it is balm to the vexed spirit that one touch of genuine unaltered nature makes us all kin, and brings us all to join in the same work. The families of our soldiers have long been uncared-for—have been left to struggle unassisted with the necessities of their position in this country. We are now raising asy lums for them on elevated hill stations, and esta blishing schools for the education of their children! , The Bombay Standard says :—" A powerful force of artillery is to leave England early in the year for Egypt, the transport of which from Saes will be entrusted, we are told, to the Indian Navy. We believe that this artillery force will consist of close upon 1,000 men. The accounts are so conflicting that, perhaps, least said the soonest mended. There is a decided turning of the tide here in favour of keeping quiet if we can honourably do so. We seem, however, to be pretty deeply committed to do something, the following General Order having appeared in the Calcutta Government Gazette of the 2th inst. : " CAMP BUNTEERAH, Oct. 29. "No. 7.—With reference to the General Order by his Excellency the Governor-General, dated the 12th October, 1859, it is hereby announced, that the option of enlistment for her Majesty's troops in China, or proceeding there, is to be allowed to the Dien of the local forces who have taken their dis charge, without reference to their having applied for discharge before or after the issue of the General Order, No. 883, of the 20th June, 1858. Only those are to be excluded from enlistment who have com mitted any act of insubordination connected with the subject of discharge. "The bounty of 50r. to men enlisting for 10 years' service in her Majesty's corps in China, or proceed ing thither, is to be paid on their enlistment, and a fresh kit will be issued to them. "Discharged men of the local forces re-enlisting as above will not be allowed to reckon their former services in the local forces. " Time-expired men of her Majesty's regiments serving in India who have taken their discharge, and men who have obtained dischargeby indulgence, are invited to re-enlist, according to the terms of the Act of Parliament of 1847, for limiting the time of service in the army as respects their service in her Majesty's Infantry Regiments, or Artillery or Ma rines serving in China, or proceeding there ; and they will; on so re-enlisting, receive a bounty of 50 ru pees. They will reckon their former service if they claim it on re-enlistment, and each man will receive a fresh kit. It is hereby notified for general information, that the rate of bounty now offered to time-expired and other discharged men of the Line, is offered to them under the special circumstances of the service in China now about to take place; and that the grant of this rate will not in any way affect the rate issuable to men who may hereafter renew their ser vice under ordinary circumstances in her Majesty's army. The number of men availing themselves of this offer is very insignificant. It is pretty clear that only those men who can do nothing else will volun teer. The great mass of those who have taken their discharge seem to have had enough of sob dieriAg." THE PUNJAUB. A horrible murder has been committed. The New Times thus announces the sad fact : " A telegram has been received in Allahabad from Lahore, conveying the melancholy intelligence that Captain R. Mecham, of the Bengal Artillery, and lately commanding a light field battery in the Pun jaub, was murdered on the night of the sth inst., while travelling in a dooly from Bunnoo to Khant. His assailants were apparently a party of thieves, five or six in number; His escort was to have been four men, but there were only two with him at the time, and they behaved badly. The occurrence took place near Shittuner. " The above are the only particulars at present known. Captain Mecham was on his way to Alla habad, having been appointed to succeed Captain Prinsep as private secretary to the Lieutenant- Governor, and his arrival was almost daily expected. " Since going to press we have learned that four of the murderers of Captain Mecham have been traced. They are the followers of a notorious Wuzzeera robber, named Zingee, from Billund Khail.' COMMERCIAL. BOMBAY, Nov. 26. The English mail of the 18th ult. arrived hero on the 13i1 - 1 inst., and the China mail of the 20th ult. on the 19th inst. Imports have suffered a general depression, in consequence of the large arrivals of piece goods and twists, which has glutted the market. IMPORT MARKET. COTTON MANUFACTURES. —The decrease of stocks and the heavy supplies offering have caused a decline in the prices of piece goods. There is at present little or no de mand, and holders aro anxious to sell at a considerable con cession of prices. WOOLLENS.—There is very little improvement in the inquiry for those goods. A few sales have taken place at previous rates. YARNS.—The arrival of heavy supplies has checked busi ness to a groat extent, and the market closes dull. ?dule and water twist have receded in price, and only a small amount of business has been transacted. Dyed yarns aro quiet. Thread is in demand, and has advanced in price. METALS—Copper is firm, with the exception of braziers', which has improved in demand, and is quoted higher. Iron is also firm, and British bars show an advance in value. Speller has declined. Tin plates aro dull, as also lead. Other metals are steady and quiet. EXPORT MARKET. COTTON.—Domand is very brisk, and prices have ad vanced. Stocks are generally cleared away as soon as they reach the market. A very large supply is shortly expected, however, which will be sufficient to meet the growing de mand. A fair amount of business has been done for the China market. WooL.—There is more activity at present, and large pur chases have been made at higher prices by native shippers Supplies are coming in freely. OILSEEDS.—A change may at length be reported in the tone of this market. There is an active inquiry for linseed, but no actual advance in price has taken place, owing to the supplies being liberal. There is a slightly improved inquiry for rapeseed, and prices aro firm. Teelseed is dull. Remr.—There is a demand for local consumption only. COFFEE.—Mocha is scarce, and still maintains a high value. Malabar is in moderate stock at our quotations. PEPPER neglected. MADDER ROOT in little inquiry at previous rates. Or fum.—The market continues steady. Prices rule to day at 1,320 rs. per chest. During the past fortnight the steamers Pekin and Bombay Castle carried respectively 650 and 1,400 chests of opium to China. FREIGIITS.—Since our last report a large amount of tonnage has arrived, and the rates of freight have conse quently again receded. The present quotations to Liverpool are 17s 6d to 20s for cotton, aild 158 to 17s 6d for seeds. 'I o London, 17s 6d for seeds, while for cotton the rate is nomi nally 20s. To China, its. 10 per candy aro offered. There is very little doing for other ports. MONEY MARKET AND EXCHANGE.—The Money Market inclines to be stringent, but as yet the rates of interest remain unaltered. Government Securities are less in favour, and lower in value. Five per Cent. Loans are quoted 88 per cent., and Four per Cent. Loans, 75 per cent. ; the New 51 per Cent. Loan is quoted 95 per cent. The Exchange on London has materially advanced during the fortnight. The rate opened at 2s Id, and has gradually risen to 2s lid to 2s 1 3-16 d for Bank Bills, with other quotations in pro portion; for Documents, 2s lid to 2s 1 5-16(1. On China. at 60 days' eight, Rs. 222 per 100 dollars. GALWAY, THURSDAY, DEC. 22. The Circassian arrived to-day at 1 p.m. She left New York on the 9th, and St. John's on the 14th, bringing mails, 220 Dasscngers, and a large cargo. She brings the master and crew of the Moffatt, for Liverpool, from St. John's, Newfound land, abandoned within 300 miles of Newfound- land. The President's Message had not been delivered on the 13th. A ballot for a Speaker had not been taken on the Bth. The Persia arrived out on the Bth, and the Anglo - Saxon on the same day at Portland. The Santa Fe mails of the 14th of November had arrived at Independence. There were but a few friendly Indians. The route news from Hayti to the 12th of Novem ber had arrived, It is unimportant. There was a groat sympathy with the South at d meetings at Boston on the B th. Everitt was the chair speaker. Official returns show that for the year ending the 13th of June the exports o f cotton were 361,434,923 dols. The stock-market at New York was Amer , in consequence of the arrival of the Pers ia and of re turning case in money at 6 per cent. on loan. A Mr. Edwar rise of 4 per cent. in Illinois Central Shares. New York Central Shares closed at 83 dols. 80c. Prices were generally steady. 5,000 bales cotton, chicilY iii transitu, were purchased. HOLIDAYS AT THE CHANCERY AND LAW OFFICES. —To-day (Friday) the Chancery-office closed for the holi days to the 9th of January, and the common law offi ces will close to-morrow for three days. • M. do Lenardiere, member of the Legislative gammon hjayingb N e vi en th i l‘ n l f a o r r s m h e a d l B th a a r t ag th u e ayd' Body for the Deux-Sevres has just died suddenly in Pa rig ' He had passed part of the day at his club, playing back- and l irr e n the hour for dinner arrived he expressed a wish to dine there. number l:lil l i e o r s f were filled up, ho went to a restaurant in the neighbourood, chair and had just taken his seat when he fell from his and expired. THE ALLEGED FOUNDERING OF TIIE Ol tEAll ' BRITAIN.—LIVERPOOL, Thursday.—The general belief entertained hero of the safety of the Groat Britoil:lll9'6r been turned into certainty. Twice has she been ape.° since she passed Tuskar, on the 12th inst., and her position places reserved and direction were such that it would be foolish to even' dream of her being in the neighbourhood of the We,ti teris , Islands. On the 13th she was spoken by the Martha sal arrived at Falmouth, in lat. 48 N., lon. 11 W Th e nelf day, the 14th, she was again spokn by the barque ci . ,YP e , e „•' arrived at this port from Sulina, in lat. 45 30 1 4 .9 1(4.. 12 16 W., which adds to her report in reference to the . Great Britain, " All's well." The 14th was the Ore s " Britain's third day out from this port, and her position men NEW POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN E indicates that up to that time she had made a good run. otorg AND AMERICA.—We recently referred to the arrange ments that have been made for the conveyance of I n n . ; between Great Britain and the United States by "'- Canadian Line of mail steamers, which call at Queens town; and to the probability that Belgium and Germ an,. would speedily follow with France in the adoption of thit route for their correspondence. Last week the Hon. Sidney Smith, Postmaster-General of Canada, accompanied by NI% Griffin of the Canadian Post-office, and Sir Cusack Borteeri proceeded to Brussels where, by the introduction of 14 were, Howard de Walden, the British Ambassador, they vire„,"; doubt that United that s ß t e a l t g e i e um hy wi th l e l immediately put in communication with M. Maelne t " - Director-Generalof the Belgian Post-office. There is .the Cunard Cfoemna.adridanirtseectoerraesspwoleialacebyt:t_ustedn steamers. At Berlin the deputation has been reee-/ • ne ur inati o n,Bl e ua g vd o ai f i nr a ra t on wi s ll in ca p u r s e e g h e e ss w , °l t he by M. Von der Heydt, the Minister of the Interior, and Prussia, saxeny, a th n e d n th or e th se ern uth S ) t t a e te a s d o e f pt G t e h rm e n an emr y , unia 'L ns oa , - t r ei - - i h f el t e h G ey erm eom en e troeastsaul cLaceassofn:tlia. r s.: meats. A semi-weekly mail and passenger comm will thus be established between a large portion of Bu e and the whole of the American continent throughout the year. 'l- g n e A " History of the Commercial Crisis of and 1857 and 1858," by Mr. D. M. E vans, has just apre bee in , ' published by Messrs. Groombridge. M r. Evans, vious work, had recorded the crisis of 1847, antl in e e ,Tho r ; cently had described some of the most striking '— O pt and frauds," of the intervening . period. The Pli s us volume, therefore, may be considered to brine e species ta' of narrative down to its latest date, especially. as f " 18 0: braces an account of the Stock Exchange panic _2; The and there is a copious index extending over 1 0 YeLl'"' I be former work' met with a large sale, which will proliabeled, sustained in the present instance. Such, it reaY b e h eat. will be the case, for they are calculated to exercise a w ... , jai - s ,, some influence. When it is found that coraroe rei '" ~T ig takes and delinquencies cannot be slurred over thereria-ve the temporary excitement they have occasioned 5ha11.,410.0 passed away, so as to leave the actors free to figure a. em i n ent operators in the financial world, b u t that thereraara_ acces sible records on the subject to which ev er y one eivYo turn, the maxim that honesty is tho best p olicy will equallyree an additional support. At t ho same time an effect i r g salutary will be produced by the details of those evente it. which the sufferers came out of the struggle with hone et The partners in some of the Swedish and other arras Int were forced to suspend in 1857 may point to the account. of the manner in which they met, and, in many e as ,, es ' triumphed over their difficulties, with a satisfaction no sz i n t e nse than the shame that mu st be experienced hY 3 5 " a f W" favoured clients of the Weste rn Bank of Scotland anu , the other joint-stook establish ments b y which the ruin brought about. ~ IvAri THE TEMOFRARY ARRANGEMENT AT SA ,, - - ISLAND.—The following is the proposition submitted b 1 General Scott to Governor Douglass, for the joint occupl.l7 tion of the island of San Juan :—" Without prejudice .lo the claim of either nation to the sovereignty of the entir! island of San Juan, now in dispute, it is proposed that en. shall occupy a separate portion of the same by a deta n ita meat of infantry, riflemen, or marines, not exceeding one a hundred men, with their appropriate arms, only for Il i equal protection of their respective countrymen on th sale and to repel sal island, in their persons and property, Set t descent on the part of hostile Indians." General added in his note, that any addition or modification Rug: gested by Governor Douglass would meet with respootfUt the consideration. Lieutenant -Colonel Lay returned with _ following reply :—" Memorandum —His Excellency y-o; yernor Douglass authorises me to say, having yet no tins. to consider the proposition offered by Lieutenant-Gen.era! Scott, or to consult with his official advisors here, he is !t 1 a glance satisfied that no obstacle exists to a completeff amicable and satisfactory adjustment continuing throug!r. out the period of diplomatic discussion respecting the till of the Island of San Juan, either upon the plan suggen; by General Scott, or some other that may be rantn."2, agreed to after advisement?' A copy of this meraorandul was retained by Governor Douglass, after being read n u a pproved by him, and s i g ned b y Lieutenant-Colonel iar' M ELANC HOLY SUICIDE.—On Wednesday fore!; n oon Mr. M'Laren, farme r, Park, near Alloa, and who had only entered upon his lease of the Park Farm at Martin? i last, was found dead in one o f his outhouses, suspend l l, the neck with a cord affixed to the joisting of the roof. and McLaren was unmarried, was very generally respected, formerly leased a farm in the vicinity of Glasgow. Two FATAL ACClDENTS.—Yesterday afternoons Mr. Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, received iii-`4; oration of the death of Mr. James Gattrell, an ate n i t t builder, who resided at No. 1, Green-street, North Allt„„ i ''' ' street, Grosvenor-square, under the following cire"; stances :—lt appears that ' the premises of Masora. Tha l 4 Horton and Sons, tailors, No. 6in the before-named .e tre. ; n v are under repair. The eceased was in the act of g o bs ri the ladder, when the top of it suddenly broke, and b a to the ground on his head, fracturing his skull in sue ken 'shocking manner, that he expired shortly after being 1 3 0, hoino.—Another fatal accident occurred to MarY_Annonth aged six years, residing in Monmouth-court, onreter street. The deceased, it appears, drank some fling c ater out of a tea-kettle standing on the ikb. She was Oliv e / to Charing-cross Hospital, but died of the inj, aries. u to 3' THE CONVICT NORMINGTON.-- Tb's unmkit youth, now under sentence of death for the murder of r . Broughton, is gradually manifesting a state of mind more the I"' becoming his situation. The chaplain of the castle, o 1 01.- J. C. Thompson, has been frequent in his visits t stance te• mington, and his ministrations are attentively li sena e , On Tuesday night, a letter was written to til e 1:0 t . In parents at his dictation, ho being unable to wri e to this communication he requested that no unnecessll:ito should be felt for him, and stated that he was resign,f hie his fate. It is said that he has made a confeasion tor in guilt, and implicated genie other man as a parlitgiouir his crime, but we cannot vouch for its accuracY• to this effect is in circulation.—Leeds liferciirg. f.A the NON-COMBUSTIBILITY OF CRINOLINEi ~ George meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society last nag a l cr inoline street Hall, Dr. Stevenson Macadam exhib itu r c a solution dress, ono-half of which had been immersed ein..combusi of sulphate of ammonia, in order to test its n th° crinoline, bility. On a light having been applied to .a the solution the part of it which had not been steoPed ; effec t w hich was at once enveloped in flame ; but the on 1):,.. This Wee, the light had on the other part was to char !t Was m tatee considered a satisfactory experiment ; and acceosible that as ammonia was only 2d. per pound, it was crino line to the humblest classes. It was stated ,that t• ° tota lly used in the royal establishment was s teepedl l l:7o.coer sl different solution ; but that its cost preventeu IL,Uscicei. use, and that the cheaper solution was equally et" —Edinburgh Witness. , ... e Coll' DEFENCES AT LIVERPOOL. —The Devil,. ~,,,x he gerSOY I'vist mittee appointed at a recent meeting of t t•a d b e en Boaid reported yesterday (Thursday) that they.;._ , efen ce• correspondence with the War-office respecting Pi l e " t . , fort of the northrtand had granted a site for the ores an, _..itise at the end of Canada Dock. The military the Hai, also wished for sites on the Prince's Pier, and in we ot al gint bourhood of the Sloyne, but the committee did a p e . 4 .10 them at all suitable, and had referred the m b tel:0-0( War-office for further consideration. The Proce ed sue s ill the committee were confirmed, and a discussion . 8 ,,_ _ l ,, which the general opinion appeared to be that thuirr`ac., melt officias were going tho right way to work Iv fending the port efficiently. two an MELANCHOLY OccuRRENcE.--Between see _ ex .. three o'clock on Wednesday morning a vessel dicta hibiting a signal of distress near the shoal a s hort at tliravo, from the beach at Aid'. enough. Fourteen II ga eadiately pre each being provided with a life-preserver, ra iin render aseisten,,,ce• seeded to launch the lifeboat in order to hours to 1 ) P - d After vainly endeavouring- for more than three capsize so heavy sea, f the the shoal, the lifeboat struck by a 1 ted. Nine 0 was nearly three minutes before she rig . ). leaving. the rei succeeded in getting into her again., 1 being eb n e crew .r the w aves, vrit ton maining five floating amon,, a while twe a ow r, to afford them any assistance. A t i . fliefeless but they. nni • , _.!, were washed ashore apparently named Cable. was pickeu 9 recovered. Shortly, another, atliis . broken,. a!'. aW was „,....„,% still alive, when it was found th. tworemaining (Green, is,llSeL-at *red• The he soon after expi • were dead when pickedup. pilot, and Pearce) fi rs t to ens - v 3 b I een a ways ii ,,ht I will be a great loss, be having eon the coast. At daY e et in any dangerous enterpris was not in AdaoO d was found the brig, name unknown, tac d very soon after she mado a diato danger, an out to sea. • Mo holi 186 'wit] disi prE