The Sun. — London, England, 1860-02-13 00:00:00

APUBLIC MEETING will he held at the THATCHED HOUSE TAVERN, St. James'-street, on SATURDAY, the 18th of February (instead of Saturday, the 11th, as originally advertised), with a view to establish PRELIMINARY DRILL in Public Schools, in c onnection n with the Volunteer M ovemen t. Lord ELCI IO, the Chair. At one o'clock. Lord Ashburton, the lion assist . Geo. Byng, M.P., and the Hon. W. F. Campbell, MX., will in the proceedings. BENSON'S WATCHES. " Peri eCtion of mechanism." --Morning Post. Gold Watches .................. 4 to 100 guineas. Silver ,Watches ................ 2to 50 guineas. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison , THIS EVENING, SONNAM HULA. Messrs. Santley 11. Haigh, G. Ho ne y ; Misses Parepa, F. Cruise, and Thiri wall. R OYAL Condactor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new grand pantomime, called PUSS IN BOOTS; or, Harlequin and Paythe Fairy of the Goldenßarnes, P a l m s. Messrs. N. 11. Payne. 11. ne, F. Payne, , Tallien, Infants Lauri, and Miss Clara Morgan. Door s open at half-pst 6—Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lossee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE HUNCH BACK. Miss Amy Sedgwick. After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled Leclercqs THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. Due Notice will be given Dt the recovery of Dona Isabel Cubas from her severe indisposition. THIS EVENING, a new Drama, called A TALE OF TWO CITIES, by Tom Taylor, Esq., from the story of that name by Charles Dickens, Esq. P r i nc ip a l characters by Mr. James Vinintr, 'Walter Lacy, - Villiers, Rouse. Forrester, J. Johnstone, T. Lyon, Morton, Palmer, White, 11. Butler, Clifford, and Fredericks ; Misses Kate Saville, Stuart, Turner, Mrs. Campbell, and Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex trava9,-anza and Pantomime, KING THRUSEIBE ARO, the LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION, in which is pre sented one of the most novel, costllDy Mr. Willia m Calleott.— y, and brilliant effects ever w it n essed -designed and painted Kinv, Thrushbeard, Miss Julia St. George. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of 3ldlle. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan seuse of La Scala, Milan ; and the Delapierre Family. These highl y -t a l en ted Children will appear ev er y ni g ht. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. THIS EVENING, CAUGHT IN A. TRAP. After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by 11. J. Byron, called JA.CK THE GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle quin King Art'Aur and the Knights of the Round Table. Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack Panta ..oon, Mr. faulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. W THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL N E Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. Combination of Talent. —Engagement of these popular artistes, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, who will appear for a limited number of nights. THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE HOUSE, or THE HOME? Messrs. A. Wigan, C. Selby, Billing - ton ; Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss H. Simms, and Miss Laiellaw. Followed by the petite drama of ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. Messrs. B. Webster, Billington, Eberne, C. J. Smith ; Miss H. Simms, After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LURLEYBERG ; or, The Knight and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford, Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K. Kelly, Laidiaw. • Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Otnoe 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. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St, James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to 1 Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passengers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING tbp performances will commence with (first time) FIRST AFFECTIONS. Messrs. 11. T. Craven, G. Spencer, and Miss Wyndham. After which, MAGIC TOYS. Miss Lydia Thompson. Followed by a new burlesque called DIDO. Mr. Charles Young, Mesdames Wyndham, Clara St. Casse, Murray, Eliza Arden, C. Rance, A. Evans, and Corps de Ballet. To conclude with I WILL, IF YOU WILL. Reduced Prices —Gallery, 6d Pit, ls. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ance commences at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Last Six Nights of Mr. W. Cooke's Management. THIS EVENING, to commence with a grand and spirit stirring Hippodramatic Spectacle. Graphic, Picturesque, and Fascinating Scenes of Horse manship by Miss Alice Maude Cooke, Miss Emily Cooke, and John Henry Cooke, the leading Equestrian of the day. To conclude with the C om ic Pantomime of HARLEQUI N TOM MOODY ; or, Old Towler the Huntsman and the God dess Diana • Diana, with Songs, Miss Jacobs ; Tom, Mr. Herbert; Patty, Mr. G. Belmore. Commence at 7. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENDTG. Sterndale Bennett's MAY QUEEN. • And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAH. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. Geor , re - Hodson (the Trish Come dian and 3limic), W. T. Critchfield, 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 BONET EU R'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings In the Canterbury Hall Pine Arts Gallery. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on S u nday Evening. THE WE ETHER.—SHIN OFFICE, FEB. 12, 1860. THEENONIETER, IN THE SHADE. 40—highest since noon yesterday. 31—lowest this morning and during the night. 37—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.26—a rise of half an inch. Wmp, Northerly ; moderate, with bitter frosty weather, but vet)? fine F. 13. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 40—highest since noon7yesterday. 29—lowest this morning and during the night. 36—this day at noon. BAROMIITER-30.53. WIND, North-Easterly; fresh, with fine frosty weather and occasional snow. The thermometer is about from Bto 10 degrees lower in the country. Three o'clock—Wind Easterly, very fresh, with snow falling heavily. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT.HlSlorning, 6h. Bm.—Afternoon, 6h. 29m. To-moß.Row.-Morning, 6h. 53m.—Afternoon, 7b. 18m Mr. GLADSTONE'S Budget was not made in a day, and most certainly the examiaation of it will not be completed in a day. We need not deny that in some respects it has surpassed our hopes ; the loss by the treaty is less than had been supposed, and we only hope Mr. GLADSTONE has not under estimated it. The penny taxation is a light and easy way of raising sums which will tell in the re ceipts ; the contraction of the credits is also reason able—they were evidently longer than was needed; the repeal of the duties on many articles of food no housekeeper will object to, and as to the paper duties—it is not for us, of course, to complain of the Repeal of Taxes on Knowledge. Currants will, they say, enter much more largely into the poor man's cake or pudding, and we shall cer tainly be pleased if they do. And, as to the French wines, we only wish our neighbours, rich and poor, may enjoy them to their heart's content. One of the best proposals in the Budget is one which follows on the lowering of the wine duties — that of making a license to sell them a matter of right to aty one who asks it—all paying alike— this is free trade, and will put an end, we hope, to the Brewers' and Magistrates' monopoly. There are, however, some points on which we cannot comme,rAt so favourably. As the Chancellor of the Exeheriu, sr knew his own intention to abolish the paper duty, i t was not fair to leave our manufac turers to compete with France, with their hands tied, in re arty to the ra '.' material. There is no difficulty in obtai:ting all k Inds of m a t er i a l f or the inane- facture G f the wailer sorts of paper; but sorts, those used for writi ng for the and printing, ti 1e supply is not sufficient ; and especially it 'lll not be so, if the country is to be flooded with ehe.l,p lowledge. France, like some other countries, a bsolutely prohibits the exportation of rags. Her Dia nufacturen4 have thus an advan tage which has e nabled them already to compete with us in our own market, and that advantage will be incrmsed.. if th , t demand for fine rags presses, as it must do yet: mor e largely on the supply here. It is but fair that . Mr. GLADSTONE and the House of Commons sh ould s 3 far am end the treaty as to rc quire the pr ohibiti en of the export of rags to be t ‘4. . 07 . s 41 kr • A t "'S?. 7 THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 13, 1860, cup 0f i.,;_le Budget, ':then we come at last to the s i :i the shape of fl in t p o isonous copperas bitter pro d u c d e r a e by those g ten II asant pennies lying there all the while at t, l:: : :P bottom of it ! If the D ut dropped ont of the e ighteen months were Treaty—if those ten obn o:Lious p e nnies could but be eliminated from the Budget the whole double project would lie xendered so very different ! But there they at e, i.O spite •of all our wishing, and there they will yenta in until the 20th inst., to be taken upon the mining of that day by the_House of Commons into ser.lous consideration. Restricting our remarks here to the conideration of the Treaty, we cannot but dirt let especial atten tion at this moment when th ere is an inter val for calm reflection out of a. oors before the terms of the Treaty can be discustted within the walls of the House of Commons--we cannot, we say, during this pause but hasten to direct particu lar attention to an astounding argument put for ward this morning in reference to the Treaty by one of the recognised organs of the Ares svt Govern ment.. It is an extraordinary argument, Advanced in the following extraor dinar y terms by ate chief of our morning contemporaries :—" A Treaty of Commerce," it is there observed, " has been con cluded with France. We will not here reopen the question as to the poliey of that Treaty or of the different provisions which it contains. We will not stop to inquire whether the duty on French wines ' can fairly be characterized as a protection to Bri tish wines, or whether it be wise to contract that we will impose no export duty upon coal, or to re eognize in express terms the differential 'duties on French shipping. The Treaty, whatever be its merits or its defects, has been concluded and rati fied, and it seems to us perfectly clear that, all circumstances considered, Parliament cannot take upon itself to annul the Treaty by refusing its aid towards the fulfilment of its conditions. The power is, no doubt, expressly reserved, but it would require a much stronger case than can be made out to in duce the repudiation of an agreement involving such high political and social, as - well as finan cial considerations." Now, we have yet to learn that such a course as this is—we will put it quite plainly—we have yet to learn that such a course as t h is is, strictly speaking, even Constitutional! Ac cordi."ag to the reasoning here p ut forward in the name aL` d on behalf of the Cabinet the powe r reserved orial Legislature, the p ower, namel y be denied to it !), of confir min g the to th theat couldl ilso:. conclusion and 2.atificatiou of the Treaty is coolly pronounced to be a deliberate farce—a mere form. of words just signifying nothing. Nominally, the House of Commons has the power—but practically it is ut terly powerless ! A declaration certainly, in its way, quite " in keeping" with the amazing self-possession with which Lord JOHN RUSSELL on Friday night de precated any remarks in the House of Commons that might be disagreeable to the French Government ! At this rate the House of Commons—the most au gust political tribunal in the whole world—would fain be rendered dumb in speech and paralysed in action by the blighting influence of a secretly concocted document, a document which it must accept, and that it cannot object to ! Against any policy such as this guiding the proceedings of any Ministers in regard to the British House of Commons, there is surely not one independent citizen in this vast and noble empire who will not protest in his heart's core as at once insensate and unconstitutional. removed, or that French paper shout pay a duty hero. French sellers of rags have a d right also to demand this of their imperial master. But the grand error of the Budget, the one which ought to prove fatal to it, in its present form, is the additional attack on income, parallel with the sparing of property. We refer, of course, to the Legacy and Probate duties. Granted that bills incurred must be paid, and that, if necessary, even an income tax must pay them ;—granted that our hugely increased expenditure since 1853 exonerates Mr. GLADSTONE from censure for his failure to abolish the tax this year, in accordance with his ow n proposal seven . ye ars a g o yet nothing can excuse resorting to the barbarous de vice of an equal income tax, but the fact of all other taxes having been first equitably adjusted. Now, the iniquitously unjust inequality of the legacy and probate duties is matter of noto riety. Mr. GLADSTONE had himself to confess that his own succession duty did not produce half what it ought ; in other words, the rate of duty, not being the same as that on other property, it pro duced so much less. Why should not the succes sion duty to £l,OOO a year from land be the same as that from £l,OOO in the funds or from any other 1 Source ? But not only is the legacy duty on real property shamefully low compared with that on other roperty, but real property is exem p t from probate p altogOlter ! Welwrite without a fresh examination of the details, but from former investigations we have reason to believe that if real property paid probate duty, And a legacy duty equal to that on personal propen`y, this alone might cut down the tenpenny tax to fi\-epence; and reduction of expen diture, and increased i •evenue from Customs, stamps, &c., would in a year o.l' two have abolished the other fivepence. There is one man in th e h'uuse of Commons to whom the country looks, and jus.4lY so, to demand justice for it in regard to theso taxes. JOHN BRIGHT has the ear of tho hou.v) has the .°NE ) to p o wer, as much as Mr. GLADSI t and put a strong case in a stron g ligh , JOHN BRIGHT has spoken boldly in public on the subject. It is a taunt against him by his adversarit: that he is bold enough in the Free Trade Hall or the Town Hall, but gentle as a dove, when face to face with the aristocracy in the House of Commons. Now, if ever, he has an opportunity to hurl back the taunt upon his antagonists. He has done two things as a legislator—two thoroughly right things —he has proposed a pro perty tag in place of an income tax, and he has exposed in the most withering style the in equalities and unrighteousness of the present Legacy and Probate Duties. Let him now come forward and redeem in the house the pledges thus publicly given out of it. It cannot be deemed factious oppo sition—he need not ask Mr. GLADSTONE to give up a penny;of the sum demanded for the year ensuing ; but he is bound to ask him to raise the money in a way simply honest to all parties. Mr. GLADSTONE as well as Mr. BRIGHT has acknowledged also the injustice of the income tax in regard to taxing equally incomes of such dif ferent value, as those derived from property, and those earned by the labour of the brain or the hands. Mr. BRIGHT has spared no terms of de nunciation in diminishing the odiousness of an in come tax. Is it then too much to expect that one should demand on behalf of the country, that legacy and probate duties be equalized, and to that extent the income tax reduced, and for Mr. GLADSTONE to concede the point. If Mr. BRIGHT will take this course he will stand higher than ever with the nation. If he do not sustain his consistency he must sink lower. We hope he will not disappoint his friends. THE T_HEATBES. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. Auber's charming opera of the Crown Dia monds" was played on Friday last, in which Miss Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison sustained-their original parts. The following distinguished visitors have lately honoured the 'opera with • their presence : His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange and suit®, the Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh°, the Duke , and Duchess of Somerset, the Earl and Countesc of Elgin, Viscount Torrington , Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Ranelagh, the Duchess of Inverness, Lady John Russell, Lady John Somerset, Lady Blanche Balfour, Lady Mary Wood, Countess of Mountcharles, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Ward, Lady Elizabeth Bulteel, Lady Cunningham, Lady Francis Thelluson, Lord and Lady G. Seymour, Lord and Lady H. Thynne, Lady Anne Becket, Lord and Lady Methuen, Lady Francis Gordon, Lady Meux, Viscount Holmes dale, Hon. Sir C. Phipps, Colonel Wheatley, Sir F. Roe, Sir Charles Hare, Colonel Wynyard, Lady Dufferin, Hon. S. Barrington, Sir John and Lady Pakington, Captain Wellesley, Colonel Dickson, Lady Theresa Lewis, Hon. Charles Neville, Hon. Mrs. Carnegie, Mr. Stuart Wortley, Mr. Farquhar, Mr. H. Greville, &c. Several days of breathless suspense and profound uncertainty must now elapse before the House of Commons can enter upon the discussion of the varied, numerous, and important propositions sub mitted to it on Friday evening by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. During the course of this pre sent week every one of those propositions will be weighed and scrutinized —separately and together —in the councils of a powerful Opposition. On Wednesday afternoon there will be a meeting of Lord DERBY'S supporters. Until then each of the Conservative members will deliberate the matter in his own judgment independently. Not until the middle of the week will the Parliamentary tactics of the Opposition be unfolded even to its own view by the leaders of that Opposition. Possibly not until the middle of the week will those tactics be decided upon. At any rate on Wednes day afternoon, and not earlier, the great party act ing under the chieftainship of Lord DERBY and Mr. DISRAELI will hear from ;the lips of those leaders what is precisely the course which it is deemed best shall be pursued in regard to the BUDGET and the Treaty by her MAJESTY'S Opposition. Neither in all this, nor yet in a single syllable that fell from the mouth of any one of the occupants of the front bench of the Opposition can we recognise indications of reprehensible party-spirit or of reckless precipi tation. The circumstances are in themselves too grave in truth to admit of either the one or the other—of an overweening eagerness to seize at all risks upon a party triumph, or of a rash determination at all hazards to jump at some wished-for conclusion—whether in the inner coun cils of a group of conscientious statesmen, or in the throng of three hundred patriotic English gen . tlemcn. The very solicitude evinnd at once by • the Leader of the Opposition, immediately upon the close of Mr. GLADSTONE'S elaborate and br: liant exposition both of the Commercial Treaty and the Financial Statement, the desire which was then instantaneously expressed by Mr. DISRAELI to obtain at least a fortnight's delay after the oral delivery of the Budget by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the manual laying of the Treaty upon the table of the House by the Foreign See- rotary, ere the Commons should be called upon to discuss the Treaty and Budget toge ther—certainly manifested quite plainly a calm and dispassionate recognition of the impor tance of both, on the side of the Opposition. It argued, at any rate, no unfair anxiety to hasten the discussion. Judging from these and other im portant antecedents, the country has reason to rely, at the very least, upon this—that whatever course be taken by the Opposition, eventually, in regard to the Treaty and the Budget, will be adopted conscientiously, with an eye rather to patriotic than to any mere party considerations, a course in every way decided upon only after the most mature and deliberate consideration. The BUDGET, as a development of Frce trade in England—the TREATY, as a develop ment of Free-trade in the direction of France, cannot, of course, when so regarded, cannot, by any possibility, when viewed as such — namely, as distinct developments of the Free - tra de , system and of Free-trade principles, be regarded otherwise by us than as most acceptable. It is only when we come to those eighteen months in advan tages are to be reciprocated the Treaty—when p r ( o b e u a t t e n d o b t y until Fran when) France—that t h a t w e be gin to wince at our bargain, that we begin with a qualm of hesitation to turn over the dubious docu ment. Just as we make a wry face after swallowing so many of the saccharine ingredients in the mingled TUE 5(31 ‘:4, LONDON, MONDAY " EITENINO; FEBRUARY LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reutor's office PARIS, MONDAY, FEB. 13. The Moniteur of to-day says, yesterday the Sardinian Minister Chevalier Desambrois, pre• sented his letters of recall to the Emperor. MADRID, FEB. 11. Marshal O'Donnell has addressed a congratula ,ory speech to the army. GENOA, FEB. 11. Letters from Naples to the Bth inst. announce the following as the probable list of the new mi nistry : Prince Cassaro President of the Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs. Prince Commitini .. Civil Affairs. Signor Savarese .... Finances. Bonnucci Justice. „ Spinelli .... Public Works. „ Ronzelli .... Interior. 7 7 - The new battalions, composednartly of foreigners and partly of Neapolitans, had been organised. 15,000 municipal guards had been mobilised in the Abruzzo. Yesterday the King reviewed the troops, who were in marching order. It was repo r ted that his Majesty had ordered General Pinelli, in case of need, to act in concert with the Pope's General, Mayerhofer. TURIN, FEB. 11. The Opiniona says :--" The question of the new vote to be given by Cent. al Italy is not yet resolved. The deputies shortly to be elected will assemble probably to confirm the preceding deliberations, and to declare that they will take their seats in the Par liament at Turin.' Count Cavour has despatched a letter to Baron Ricasoli explaining the reasons which counsel adherence to the proposal for•new deliberations :on the question of annexation." ROME, Fin. 10. In a proclamation General Goyon expresses the hope that the carnival will pass by without any dis turbance. He relies on the intelligence of the in habitants. Political outries will be prohibited, and riotois assemblages will be dispersed. The Papal Government has arrested the supposed leader of the late manifestations. The furloughs granted to French soldiers have been suspended. PARIS, FEB. 11. The Paris papers publish the following message, dated _ ANTIBES, Feb. 11 The Ave nir of Nice has been seized for an article on the popular manifestations published in its num ber of the 10th inst. PARIS, FEB. 12, The Atoniteur of today contains the following:— " The Journal dee Debate has announced, on the authority of the Corriere Mercantile di Genoa, that the French army, having lost 6,000 men in the last six months, is about to receive reinforcements amounting to 15,000 men. The sanitary state of the army is excellent. The deaths which have been announced do not exceed the ordinary average mor tality. It is also false that typhus fever prevails in the hospitals. The furlough granted to soldiers wounded or in ill health in consequence of our glorious campaign has caused vacancies which it was natural to fill up, but it has not yet been done." FLENSBURG, SUNDAY, Twenty-six deputies, being a large majority of the members of the Diet, have signed an address to the King, of which the following is a summary : The Royal orainance of January, 1852, has hardly _ satisfied the smallest portion of our, expectations ; even the assurances which it contained have gene ralli not been fUlfilled. Instead of the equal rights promised.to the different natiorialities, the German one has been forcibly suppressed. j A complete re- , turn to the lawful state can aione givistitisractiOn to the nation. The ordinance of 1852, not referring to Holstein alone, but also to tchlesWig, the laws which were abolished in Holst6in in November, 1858, and the general constitution of 1855, cannot be any more applied to Schleswig.. The members of the Diet then refer to the decla ration of Denmark, communicated to the Federal Diet of Germany in September, 1846, by which the union of Schleswig and Holstein was recognised, and they formally protest against any separation of Schleswig from Holstein. This address to the King will be discussed by the Diet on Tuesday next. TETUAN, FEB. 1. To-day Marshal O'Donnell made a reconnaisance on the road to Fez, two miles from Tetuan, General Prim has also directed a reconnaisanes towards another point. The population have received the Spanish army in a friendly manner. The debris of the Moroccan army are scattered on the different roads leading to Fez and Tangiers. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEB. 4 (via Trieste Since the departure of M. Thouvenel a great change has taken place in the relations of the am bassadors. The French charge d'affaires has scarcely had any intereourse with the Russian am bassador, who has frequent conferences with the Austrian internuncio. Sir Henry Bulwer has had several conferences with Count Lallemand. The financial committee intends proposing taxes oil registration.' and patents. Thirty-two million piastres of Turkish caime have been withdrawn from circulation and burnt. The Prussian ambassador has expressed himself against the tax on house rents. 13, 1860. meat in favour of the dethroned Princes in the Duchies, Austria cannot retract from the en gagements taken at Villafranca and from the stipulations signed at Zurich, and conse quently admit de jure facts contrary to those engagements and to _the treaty between France and Austria. If the Treaty. of Zurich is respected as regards Venetia, why should it not also be re spected as regards the Duchies ? If the propositions of England are carried out it is a great experiment that is about to be made in Central Italy. Austria will not oppose that experiment by force of arms, convinced that events will not fail soon to give sup - Iport to the cause of right and justice." AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, SUNDAY. The Royal Mail steam-ship Europa nrrived here at 11 a.m., embatkea mails, and proceeded at 6.30 p.m. for Halifax anfl. Boston. All well. The Royal Mail steam-ship Africa, Capt. Shan non, with New York mails of the Ist of February passed here at 2.30 p.m: to-day. WEST COAST OF AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 11. The screw steamer Cleopatra, Croft commander, has arrived from the West Coast of Africa, &c., with the usual mails; 10 passengers, including Commissary-General Gaudet, 3,000 ounces of gold dust, and a small cargo. The screw steamer Armenian, hence, had arrived at Cape Palmas, and the screw steamer Ethiope, hence, at Madeira on the Ist of January, and left the same evening for Teneriffe. Her Majesty's ships Medusa and Buffalo were at Lagos. At Cameroons the river was healthy, but trade dull. The advices are of the most meagre description. The African and Sierra Leone Weekly Adver tiser reports a religious 'revival in that colony, and that vast numbers of people flocked to the house of God twice every day. - The Vice-Admiralty Court at Sierra Leone had condemned the brigantine El Rosarito, which had been detained by her Majesty's screw steamer Arro gant, when near the line on her - way to Ascension. She is said to be a fine craft. Lieut. A. C. Adams, of the Arrogant, died at Sierra Leone on the 16th of January. The Spanish screw steamer Palino, the first of a monthly line of mail steamers from Cadiz, had ar rived at Fernando Po on the Ist of January. Her Majesty's ship Pluto had captured on the south coast the barque Orion, with between 500 and 600 slaves on board. The palm oil trade on the rivers was steady, but at Old Calabar a civil war between the Duke Town and Creek Town people was feared. The purser reports the gold trade as being very dull. The palm oil season had not commenced, but it was expected to be a fair one. The people in Cape Coast had been fighting among themselves ; 15 were killed and 40 wounded. The ringleader had been sent on board a man-of war to be taken to Quittan as a prisoner for two years. Some of the natives were very indignant, and threatened to break out again. In the interior of the Fantee country a district called Abrah was again in a disturbed state, the people of a town called Doonquah having expressed their determination no longer to submit to the Otoo King of the district. The fine imposed on the Crabboes of 20,000 pots of palm oil (the pot of nine gallons) had not been paid. Crabboe is in the district of the Gold Coast settle ment. The fine was imposed by the British Go vernment on the Crabboes in November, 1858, to pay the expenses of an expedition undertaken by the Government against the Crabboes to enforce obedience. A movement was on foot to cultivate cotton. Six bales had been shipped at Accra for England. The chiefs of Accra were imprisoned on the 10th of January for not having paid the amount of the in demnity decreed for the ravage made by the mob at Accra on the French factory in that town in January, 1858. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Fernando Po.—The American gunboat Sumpter and the French steamer Renaudin.. Cameroons.—T he ships lqontozuma and Elizabeth Emily. Old Calabar.—Tho ships Rhoderick Dhu, Africa, and Clan Grogor. Bonny.—The Mississippi, the Mary, tho Woodman, and the Fanny. Grand Bonny.—The Pomona, the Mary Black, and the Empress ; and the steamer's ltainb9w and Fideliter. The Elizabeth had left for this port on the 28th of December. Sierra Leone.—The William Bonham. THE SUSPENSE .OP EUROPE ON THE ITALIAI QUESTIO.V. The following is M. Peyrat's article in the Presse, for which that journal has received the warning spoken of by our Paris correspondent. : The anxieties increase. • Europe is experiencing anew that vague disquiet which precedes political crises ; already the Italian journals, especially the Opi:nione, the serniaathcial paper of Turin, are pub lishing articles entitled ". Probabilities of War." Since the Ist of January, 1859, the public mind has experienced such startling surprises, and undergone such violent shocks, that'it is instinctively led to see a storm in the smallest cloud which appears on the horizon. Now, it is evident it may be said without metaphor that the aspect of the political sky is not over and above reassuring. Europe, cer tainly, is not in the position in which she found herself a year ago, when Lord Cowley was going to Vienna to try and make Austria listen to reason, and Russia was cutting short partial negotiations, by proposing the•meeting of a congress. However, after having read what was said on Tuesday in the English Parliament, we must certainly acknow ledge that the differences between the Cabinets are not less serious at this day than in the month of April last, and that the complications which led to the war in very great measure survive it. There is even in the language of public men and free writers a sharpness, .and, above all, an impa tience, very significant, which was not to be found in it a year ago. In some way or other everybody would have done with it; and it seems that a mis chievous genius hovers over governments and peoples to baffle all combinations and upset all cal culations. Before and since the war ten solutions have been glanced at, ~proposed, accepted, and at the last moment all have vanished like phantoms. There is not a party which has not been vainly irritated and rejoiced, whose fears and hopes the events of a few days afterwards have not deceived, which has not had, its day of enthusiasm and of discouragement ; at tbia moment we do not know a single one which is completely satisfied. This is a violent state of things, and one which weighs on men's business'As well as on their minds. Lassitude is general, and. stronger still than anxiety. What caused passion a year ago to-day only causes oppressimis In the month of February, 1859, Europe had a fever ; in the month of Feb., 1860, she has the vapours. She can do nothing but ponder on the questions of the day, and it is impos sible for her to think twos days alike on the .same subject. After the intetvie* of Villafranca she was justified in believing that the two Emperors had re-established between a couple of shakes of the hand the alliance pf Austria and France, by ruining the hopes of the Italians and raising those of the Archdukes. She knows now that the rights of the Archdukes, formally recognised at Villafranca and only reserved at Zurich, are altogether abandoned, and that the relations between the Cabinets of Vienna and Paris are no better to-day than at the moment when the famous speech was addressed to M. de Hubner. After the letter of the Emperor of the French to M. Fould, she thought that all difference with re gard to essential questions had ceased between France and England, and that by the treaty of commerce the alliance was established on inde structible bases. What can she think of it after the debates in the House of Lords, especially when she reflects that these violent recriminations and this explosion of dissatisfaction took place on the occasion of a secondary question, and one which was not even officially brought forward. And what is more remarkable is the fact that the hubbub - tr eat e d by . shis question of Nice and Savoy is no less' great in Italy than in England. In their language the. Italians are more reticent .than the English, .for which they have excellent reasons, but sn'the main their sentiments are the same. We arc wrong, for the rest, to speak of the question of Nice. For the Italians there is no question of Nice ; on this point they' de net admit that there is any subject-matter Fur discussion. As for Savoy, they are Tess absolute and less unani mous but the setai official press has come for ward very wildly in assertins. %l at the immense mojelltY 9f flip §e'eoyards de re44ae4 theif 4tloo4;lWitl to Prance, and especially by tres.ting as insurgents those who recently made a demonstration of loyal attachment to the hoese of Savoy. Not only htla tria spajoritYexhi bited its* WWlipk:a, .but ine separatist party is losing ground every day. We see that it is repudis ated by the most important and influeutiel men o f Savoy, men such as Fessigey, verges, d g vsYqPiis Waliand, VOrax, de 411111ey, 4aillet do taint-Cergues, d'Arvillard, de FRANCE. The Prohibitionist organ, the Moniteur Industrie!, announces that it will not publish any more adhe sions to the petition preiented to the Emperor on the 20th of January, against the Tariff Reforms atia the Commercial Treaty, ii, iit consequence," it. s ays, " of the obstaclercreated against' thf circula tion of the petition, 'and ef;the ittacks which, with bad faith, held them (the Prohibitionists) up as mere agitators," &c. . THE BOURSE, Feb. 11.--The market was steady at the Opening, but large sales having been after wards effected, prices gave -*ay. Threes, after having been done at 67f.430e. and 67f. 85c., receded to 67f. 55e. ; Mobilier declined from 745 f. to 737 50c. ; Austrian, 497 f. 50c. to 492 f. 50e. ; Lyons, 880 f. to 875 f. ; Orleans, 1,355 f. to 1,347 f. 50c. The following are the last quotations : ii per Cents. .... Set 30 Credit Fonder.... 740 Do. end month .. --Belgian 4i .. 3 pur Cents 67 60 Piedmontese (5) .. 84 Do. end month 67 55 Roman Bank Shard, • 2820 Austrian Credit Mobilier ~ 737 50 Spanish Threes Do. Aeesunt ..... 736 25 Home Debt 43 RAILWAYS. Civil. Acconv Orleans Northern 903 .. 902 50 New ditto B2O -- .. 825 Lyons and Mediterranean Geneva 495 -- .. 495 Southern Wester" ' • Eastern Sardinia' 393 .. 395 Austrian Lombard —.. 642 60 .. 543 75 THE ITALIAN QUESTION. The Paris correspondent of the Nord, writing from Paris on the 10th inst., says : " I am assured that Prince Metternich has this day handed to M. Thouvenel the reply of Count Rcchberg to the French note of the 30th of Jan.; the reply is said to be of no leas extent than M. Thouvenel's despatch. Count ReoilbPrg P4141 1 Y discusses, article after article, the propositions of England; exposes that the principle of TOR intervention is violated by Piedmont in the States or -Central Italy; while, taking into me count the attempts made by the French Civveru- HAYMARKET. The Queen and Prince Consort honoured the performance at the Haymarket Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. The suite consisted of Lady Churchill, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, Lord Camoys, Lord C. Fitzroy, and Lieut.. Col. the Hon. D. de Ros. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews reap pear at this theatre on Monday, the 20th inst., in a new comic drama, by Mr. Tom Taylor, entitled "The Overland Route." ST. JAMES'S. On Saturday night a new burlesque, entitled "Dido," was produced, but the author has departed considerably from the received version of the story of the Tyrian Queen. The acting of the piece was very good. The scenery and costumes are highly commendable, the storm episode in the first scene being excellently managed. As for the success of the burlesque, it was triumphant. VACILER'S PARLIAMENTARY COM• .PANIO Y. FEBRUARY, 1860. We have just been favoured with a espy of this excellent little work, which . the public have long found to be very useful. It is really a complete hand-book to Parliamentary readers —embracing lists of both Houses. of Parliament, with the town residences of the' members, together with other information indispensable in Parlia mentary business. It also contains nice little skeict3n maps of the United Kingdom, in respect to the ordnance maps, with many other matters' well worthy of attention. DEATII. OF VISCOUNT GORMANSTON.—ViSMInt Gormanston breathed his last yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, at Gormanston Castle, county Dublin. OPENING OF THE STEPIIENSON INSTITUTE AT WILLINGToN.—The opening of the Stephenson Memorial Institute took place amid greAt rejoicings on Friday after noon. The National Defence Commission, we ( United Service Gazette) understand, are not likely to make their report for some thee. MR. J. F. O'BRIEN's LECTURES.—On Saturday evening Mr. J. F. O'Brien delivered an interesting and instructive lecture on Italy, Greece, and Turkey, at the Hanover -square Rooms. The discourse intimated in the lectures an accurate knowledge of his subjects, and evoked the cordial applauSe of the audience. • • • • • Sir Edwin Landscer, R.A., is busy on his great picture, " The Inundation." GLEE AND MADRIGAL CONCERTS.—The success which has attended the concerts of the London Glee and Madrigal Union, at the Dudley Gallery, under arrange ment with Mr. Mitchell, has been so satisfactory as to in duce the mangement to continue them a short time longer. The attendance has been so le.r..e during the past week at the morning performances that to meet the evidently grow ing taste fur morning entertainmnts, it has been arranged the that concerts shall ba• given every morning de week, awl en Tuesday tau' Friday evenings only. 'With these pertheustances the present series of concerts will, we believe, terminii.te, , The committee of the Junio r United Service Club have called a meeting of the inembers for the 14th, to con skier how far it may be preferable to substitute oil and wax candles for the present gas-lighting of the establishment, against which a strong protest has been signed by above 100 - members, who state their belief that gas, use 4 inside a house, is injurious to the eyesight and hvalth in general. NATAL.—On Tuesday copies were ordered by the House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. Alderman.Salo,of mons, of all correspondence' on the subject of the. growth cotton, as carried on by the natives under the auspices of the government of that colony. Sesseyl, and d'Arcines. The Marquis Costa de Beauregard was designated as an emissary at Paris of the annexionist party, and one of its most red-hot partisans." M. de Beauregard has ad dressed to the Courier des Alper a letter, in which, after declaring that imputation to be an insult to him, he adds, " I shall remain faithful to the flag of legitimacy, to my dynastic affections, to the here ditary traditions I have received in my family. Such is the programme of honour, from which I shall never deviate. As for my political faith on the vital question so profoundly exciting Savoy, I shall loudly proclaim it. In no case can I join any in ternal movement tending to provoke separatist manifestations, since, in my opinion, such manifes tations would become yet more culpable and less worthy, if any intrigue or foreign pressure could be mixed up with them." In fact and in law the question of Savoy is not so simple and so advanced as it pleases the semi official journals to say. Perhaps on both sides the importance of it is much exaggerated. When Fiance shall possess Savoy, says a letter from Chambery in the Unions, she must, in order to hold the key of the Alps, take also Mount Cenis. In that case, it will be understood, remarks the letter, that Turin can no longer be the capital of Italy ; for a capital ought to be safe from an invasion, and who can defend Turin when France, encamped on Mount Cenis, may desire to invade Italy ? With Austria in her formidable Lombardo-Venetian boulevard, and with France on the Alps—that France which, though a friend to-day, may be an enemy to-mor row—what, asks the letter, would become of Italian independence ? As regards France, we say that the day on which, for the misfortune of all, she should be led or condemned to fight against Italy, we do not be lieve that whether she starts from the foot or summit of the Alps, Piedmont can (we say it without meaning offence) seriously flatter herself to be able to stop the road. It has always been alleged that Piedmont held the keys of Italy ; but we seek in vain for the epoch at which she has prevented either the opening or the forcing of the gates. As for Austria, the case is different; so long as she shall occupy an inch of ground in Italy, the Italians will act wisely in keeping up all their resources, and in not weaken ing themselves on any point. But, after all, the question is still under consideration, and it has only been raised in certain journals as a straw thrown in the air to see the direction of the wind. The Emperor of the French, en entering Italy, said that he entertained no - p'roject of conquest or aggran disement, and the lifenitew• subsequently added that France was the only power which made war for an idea.' Nothing as yet has occurred to prove that on this point!the 'French Government has changed its opinion. Nothing proVes that on this point the French Government has changed its opinion. Before the war the annexation was the subject of interpella- Lions, but Lord Granville has informed us that it was subordinate to the realisation of the programme of May 3. The programme has remained incom plete, the Austrians are still in Venetia, and M. de Cavour has officially declared that Piedmont meant neither to sell, nor cede, nor exchange Savoy. Thereupon, consequently, the last word has been spoken, and until some new arrangement the Savoy question remains in the state of an abortive combi nation. If this affair anxiously engages the mind of Europe, makes England impatient, stirs up Italy, and makes the Savoyards furious, it is because the treaty of Zurich, which put an end to the war, has not solved the great question for which the war was undertaken. WRONGS WHICH CRY FOR REDRESS. SOMETIIINGWHICH CONCERNS LEGISLATORS Now that Mr. Crook's bill for placing the opera tive bleachers, dyers, &c., under the Factory Act is again before the house, it may not be amiss to reproduce the following article, which appeared in the Court Circular, and was copied into the columns of various influential journals about twelve months ago—upon the burking of a similar effort to ameliorate the condition of these cruelly treated women and children. We see that Mr. Turner and other manufacturers have pledged themselves to oppose to their utmost the second reading of Mr. Crook's bill. We do not envy these upholders of selfish tyranny their cold•blooded undertaking : In the name of religion, charity, and common sense, we should like to inquire what her Ma jesty's Government, what Select Parliamentary Committees, and what members of Parliament gene rally, consider a sufficient cause for iuterference be tween employers and employed. In 1855 was published one of the most frightful reports touching the condition of women and chil dren engaged in Bleaching Works, Dyeing Works, &c., that ever shocked the feelings of indignant readers ; and in 1857, a Select Committee of the House of Commons was appointed to inquire fur ther into the matter. Witnesses examined before this Committee wit only fully substantiated the terrible truths of the Commissioners' Report, but brought to light other truths of even more horrible character. We are not given to sentimentality, nor do we lay claim to an acuteness of feeling unpos sessed by the generality ; nevertheless we find our selves stirred to the very depth of our being, whil e wading through these most cruel details. The blood seems to boil, and the heart sickens ; and we stop and ask ourselves, Can these things be in Christian England? But here they are, put down in black and white; and so thoroughly attested that we are compelled to receive them as facts. Hero we read of women and little girls being forced to work, as a regular thing, 18 and 20 hours out of the 24, " in a heat exceeding by some 20 or 30 degrees, the general temperature of an Indian summer." We read of this protracted term of la bour being not unfrequently lengthened out to 28 or 29 consecutive hours ; of the workers coming out of the drying-stoves sick and scarce able to stand, " dripping wet with perspiration, and their clothes wet through with it ; ' of their being forced, all in this dripping state, to pass their hour or two of rest, huddled together in seine store-room, amonst unfinished goods, so that the victims "may be roused to their work as soon as they are wanted ;" of young girls "being carried out of the stoves in a fainting state to be laid on cool stones till capable of going to work again." And these we learn are common occurrences—common to hundreds and thousands of workers. Yet all this is nothing—heart-harrowing as it is, it is nothing to the still more frightful facts. We really seem to have got among demons when we read of little children, girls as well as boys, " being kept at work (with an hour and a half's occasional rest) for two, three, and even four days and nights together, while men are hallooing at and frightening ' them lest they sleep standing' at their toil," yet here it is all writ down, in plain and simple language, of England's manufac turers. The following is from the evidence of an operative of good character, and who has had nineteen years' experience of bleaching and dyeing works. We borrow from Mr. Hoploy's pamphlet ; Mr. Butt—Do you mean to say that you have known persons to work uninterruptedly for three days and three nights ?—Yes ; resting a little at the works; they have not been allowed to go home, but have rested at the works, lying on the tables for a little while, or anywhere where they could get a place to lie down. How long did they rest, —Perhaps an hour or an hour and a half; it might be longer sometimes. Did they go on all night without leaving th e works ?--Yes. Mr. Turner—Were there children of eight years of age employed in this way ?—I will not say that there were children of eight years of age, but there were children and young persons. [Otheir witnesses speak confidently of large num bers of children eight years old and even younger being employed in hleaoh-works, and working the same number of hours as the adults (Reports Nos. 11 1, i 0 n 7 0 4, 4 1 n , d 075 t , en 1 : 07: 0 , w 2 e , v 7 e 8 r 1 ; s 2 e , e B m 24 t,h2e ore9m23 , 2 9 &P _.) ; usual ages for commencing.] Mr. Butt—Did you ever know them to go on for four days ; I have known them to go on for four days without going home. Mr, Wise—Do you mean to say that for four days and four nights the women remained with their clothes on, and only rested on the tables and benches for an hour or two ?—Yes ; that was the only rest they had. And the only rest the children had ?—They all " work the same hours ; a set must work together.' —p. 3 3. The horrible condition of the children engaged such protracted toil is almost too painful to con template—their finger s " cu t with the cloth, and "the salvage sawing against the gather ing, running sores," which are only bound up when it Is found that " the blood stains the pieces ." "'Whose finger is bleeding,' is not an uncommon expression as the Woad stains the pieces ; they then have to LAW their fingers tied up."—p. 28. r it' l l6v root, through long standing, are as bad as their hands : " The skin comes off and they are very sore" (No. 274).—" I have often sore feet ; they bleed some times, lay ankle bone has been growing out" `47).----" The skin is off very often, and the soles of my feet 'are blood-raw" (No. 279).—" lliy feet are often blood-raw ; they are blood-raw, and they pain 410 " , (No. 281).—" My feet blister at the b and are very sore. Mother puts some stuff to "Wrongs which cry for Redriss a Letter to the Men and Women of thQ United Kingdom. Price 6d. noulaton and WAit',;llt3 raternostor-row. them that makes the new skin come" (No. 285). " I have always sore feet in summer time" (No. 583).—" Feet often so sore that the skin comes off with my stockings" (No. 504).—" Worked when the skin was off my feet very badly" (No. 492). " I have often had the skin off my feet " (No. 232). —" Her feet very often got raw" (No. 448).—" My feet were always sore in summer : they were blood raw at bottom, and my ankles are swelled with a deal of pain" (No. 463).—p. 28. But, it may be asked, how is it possible to keep those children going " for four days and nights together." Well : it is not possible. They will go to sleep, these perverse little souls. Not even their aching heads, their blood•raw feet, nor the cloth sawing against their cut and festering fingers, nor the hoarse, rough voice of the hired bully, no, nor the feeling that they are upholding " the groat manufacturing interests of the country,"—nothing can hinder them from sleeping standing at their work :" Mr. Butt—How did you awaken them (alluding to the little children of one of these establishments, when they fell asleep " standing: at their work ?" Many a time by shouting, and at, other times getting a board and rapping it on the table, making a loud report that used to startle them, and I could keep them awake then for an hour, or more than that, perhaps, by frightening them.—p. 32. We search in vain the annals of American slavery for anything like this. Dante's " Inferno" contains, to our mind, nothing so horrible. The establish ment here alluded to employs " nearly six.., hun dred" workers, and (mark this, reader) it " affords rather a favourable than an unfavourable spacimea of the management of bleaching-works in that part of the country." " I have scores of times seen both adults and children asleep at their work, and very dangerous work too" (No. 10).—" Very often they go to sleep over their work" (No. 51).—" I have had almost every day to take a board and beat it on the table to waken them, as they were slumbering at their work." "At that time they would be hooking cloth; and while they should be doing it, I see them nodding and trying to catch the hook" (No. 83). " As to the older ones, I have often and often seen them down asleep, not being able to hold up for their work. If the manager had gone out, they would drop down in a minute in the packing-boxes and go to sleep" -- (No. 68).—" We have often gone to sleep on the tables, or with our heads on the wet cloth, or anywhere where we could sit still" (No. 378).—" The little ones very often fall asleep standing to their work. They fall asleep stading before their hooks. I have to keep them awake ; and my heart is fso sore for them that I cannot speak to them. I have worked at bleach-works in the finishing room, twenty years, and it has always been so in all the works where I have been." (No. 462)—" It falls very hard upon the weaker boys. I often saw them sleeping on their legs, and I have done so often myself. Their whole frame suffers. • I have known at least eight in the last twelve years who have fallen into consumption and died." (No. 414)—p. 29. This retiring from work to die is of course very common : " I have often been ill from working in the great heat. My leg is now bad from it, and the doctor told me I must give up. The girls very often suf fer from it ; go away and die from it and the long hours." (No. 646)—p. 29. Mr. Hopley, after indicating ten consecutive wit nesses—ten consecutive witnesses, mark you—em ployed at different establishments, who mention " many cases within their knowledge of boys and young men having died from the long hours," and after showing that with females matters are even worse, thus continues : " Reader, it is no use mincing wards. Look upon all this calmly, weigh the matter well, and have the manly or womanly honesty to call it by its right name : and what is it? WHOLESALE MUR• DER—murder for GOLD ! " The man who poisons another to escape the payment of a debt is hung. The man who stops another in the Queen's highway and demands " your money or your life" is hung. But these, who build up princely fortunes with the bloody hands and bloody feet of helpless little ones— who wade through killing tyranny to wealth— who live upon women's and children's life- blood— who are guilty of the death not of one only, but of scores of their fellow•creaturee —these roll about in carriages; and after founding a church or two, and a school or two, are looked upon as just, liberal, and benevolent men ; and sit on magisterial benches ; and take their place in Parliament ; and assume an interest in the welfare of the poor ; and argue upon the riethts of labour ! Woe to the Legislature that con tains within its body the rust that must corrupt ! Woe to the nation that hears such things, and_ will not raise its voice !"—p. 30. ;10, We don't like this language somehow. It rather awes us. But the worst of it is, we really do not a i t n f a t u h l e t i r t o race find a w f t i e t r h it riches, g ac o t ld i -w n o s r u s c h h ip- a . as to cause thi n ki ng , mora l men to rank kP t m h ena e ro f nwewrilhl below the vulgar highwayman or the common poisoner, theirs be the blame, should the community play with alliterations and talk in one breath of manufacturers, millionaires, and murderers. But will the nation " hear suck things, and yet not raise its voice ?" We trust not—nay, we are confident not. But let us help our readers to think a little. The Select Committee of the House of Commons (a largo proportion of its members were of the manufacturing interest) having heard all these horrors, came to the conclusion, in May, 1858, that this was not a matter in which it was neces sary for the Legislature to interfere. Further : the other day, Mr. Crook begged leave to bring in a bill to place these women and children under the regulations of the Factories Act. Up sprang Mr. Kirk, Mr. Turzer, Mr. Richardson, and Mr. Chest ham (manufacturers all), who expressed astonish ment at such a suggestion, and argued that there was no sufficient cause for legislative interference. Well, this might have been expected.. But what are we to think of Mr. Henley, the late Cabinet Minister ? What are we to think of his arguing that it would be imprudent to interfere, inasmuch as (we quote from the Times) " interference ought not to be resorted to until a strong case had been made out for so exceptional a proceeding !" At the close of the milk-and-watery debate—if it deserve the name of a debate—only thirty member, of the House of Commons could be found to vote for the rescue of these women and children I Now, we revert to our first inquiry. We ask, not of tyrannical employers, nor of upstart " reformers," nor of lukewarm do-nothings —we ask of men whom we can respect, men whom we have a right to believe have hearts that feel, men whom we have a right to believe are really interested in the social amelioration of our people—we ask, then, of Lord Shaftesbury, we ask of Lord Carlisle, we ask of Lord Ebury, the Earl of Ripon, Mr. Sidney Herbert, the Bishops of London, Oxford, Durham, Manchester—we ask, too, of Lord Brougham and Lord J. Russell—we ask of every one who has taken a prominent part in move ments of a social or philanthropic character—What should be considered a sufficient cause for inter ference between employers and employed ? Are operatives to understand for the future that unless they bring forward proofs of something more ter rible than girls being almost baked—" their feet burnt," " their legs red as scarlet from the heat of the flues" ; something more terrible than their being frequently carried lifeless out of stoves ; some thing more terrible than bloody-handed, bloody footed " little ones" kept from bed and, home for two, three, and four days and nights together; something, in short, more terrible than women and children being literally worked to death by ex quisitely cruel processes, and hounded on to their destruction amid the " hallooings" and" frighten ings" of hired brutality ; are operatives, we ark, to understand that unless they can bring before the attention of the Legislature something still mere frightful than all this devilry, they may hope in vain for a redress of grievances ? We will not be lieve it. We appeal with confidence to the names which we have cited, and we humbly and respect fully, but at the same time, as we say, with confidence, solicit them to come to the rescue of women and helpless children. We make this ap peal in no party spirit whatever, but as a duty—s duty to our country and to our Queen, herself the mother of " little ones." When her subjects are murdered, the loss is hers ; her's and her country's. Let this, then, be the touchstone of the reformer's sincerity, this the test of loyalty, patriotism, and. true nobility :—Who will stand most manfully for ward for the rescue of these women aid little children P— Court Circular. We have reason to believe that a meeting of the Earl of Derby's supporters will take place at his lordship's residence on Wednesday next. It is therefore impossible to state, until after that day, what course the Conservative party of the House of Commons will take with respect to the Budget. All statements upon the matter are mere sur mises.— iforning Herald. The new titles to be assumed by Lord Ward will, we understand, be Viscount Edenham and Earl Dud ley. ; .BREACH OF PROMISE.—In the Court of Queen'/ Bench, on Saturday, the cause of Hart v. Page was tried. The plaintiff, Elizabeth Hart, was a widow lady residing in Tavistock-square, and she sued the defendant, William 3 - Page, an attorney, residing in Manchester-square, to vetoer damages for a broach of promise of marriage. The e$ count of the declaration was in the usual form, but there was a second count, in which it was alleged that the plain" tiff was a Jewess, and was about to be baptized as a leen ° _ l ; her of the Church of England, and the defendant prof:deg; that as soon as she was baptized and became a member o n f the Church of England he would marry her ; it was the alleged that the plaintiff was baptized, &c., but the defen dant refused to fulfil his promise. 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