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ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, cov ENT - GA UDEN. tinder the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING (the 21 time) VICTORE. M Mess ssrs. Santley, Haizh, H. Corri, G. Honey, Bartlema lN n, U. Parepa, Thirlwall, &o. Conductor, Alfred Mellon. Ballet, LA FIANCEE. Messrs. W. H. Payne, H: Payne, F. Payne, Mdlle. Lequine, Pasquale, Zenon, Clara Morgan, and Mons. Vandris. Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 23 o'clock. T HEATRE -It OYA L, HAYMA.RKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone. THIS EVENINI: the performances will commence with A GAME OP SPECULATION. After which, by desire, THE CONTESTEION ELECTION Kr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mr. Buckstone, Szo. And SHOCKING EVENTS. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S T HEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING. the new drama: entitled HOME TRUTHS. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews, Miss C. Leclerc(' and Mrs. Charles Young. Followed by A WONDE RFIL WOMAN. Mr. A. Harris Shore, Frank Matthews, and Miss C. Leclercq. After which, Mons, Espanosa (Premier Danseur Comique), will appear, with Madlle. Nariquita, assisted by the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet, in Le Grand Pas du Dervish de Faust, as danced by him 150 consecutive nights at the Theatre de la Porte St. Martin, Paris. To conclude with NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. 11. Widdicomb, Meadows, H. Saker ; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs. Weston. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. TIIIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs E. Webster. J. L. Toole; David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moreland ; Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Kelly. Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called DINORAII 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 onen from 10 to 5 . No charge fo r securing seats, nor far bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.--7 Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, a new Vaudeville Comedietta, called THE KEY UNDER THE DOOR-MAT. Messrs. JaineS Vinning, Jno Rouse, &c. ; Mesdames A, H. Hatton and Julia St. George. To be followed by the new Drama Fantasfique, entitled PARIS AND PLEA.SURE ; or, Home and HappineJohnss. P r incipal characters by Messrs. W. Lacy. J. Vining, J. - stone, F Villiers ; Misses Julia St. George, Hudspeth, Kate Saville, A. Burdett, and Madame Celeste. Po conclude with ST. MARY'S EVE. and Mr. Rouse. Madame Celeste ASTLEY'S 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 befollowed by New and Brilliant Equestrian Changes in the Arena, introducing a vivid Four-horse Scene by John Henry Cooke, as the Nemlean Conqueror —More Wonders by the Educated Elephant—Elegant Equitation by Miss Emily Cooke, the Queen of the Circle—Young Alfred Cooke's sur paPsing evolutions on a naked Courser —Electrifying Feats by the Athenian Atbletn, J. 11. Cooke and Crouses—Ndvel Flag Exercises on horseback by Madlie. Jenny—Varied by those heralds of fun, the c Clowns, times,Mi and Drolls. To omment 7. Espeehi Notice.—Three Grand Morning Representations of the grand new Pantomime, entitled HARLEQULN TOM MOODY ; or, Old Towier 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. CANTERB UR Y HALL CONCERTS.-- v EVERY tEVENING. Sterndalc Bennett's MAY QUEEN. And a Grand Se ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAIT. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Hackney. 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 nights 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 open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—Smq OFFICE, DECEMBER 21. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 46—highest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and during the night. 46—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30. WIND, Westerly; light, with fine sunshiny weather. Rain last night and this morning. HIGH WATER AT 'LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 11h. 32m.—Afternoon, Oh. Om. To-monnow.-Morning, 12h. 3m.--Afternoon, 12h. 21ra. THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21, 1859. It is amusing to observe the difference between the Moorish and the Spanish accounts given of the different minor actions and skirmishes that have already taken place in the neighbourhood of Ceuta, since that melancholy little war commenced there upon the north-eastern frontiers of Moroceo. Ac cording to the Moors the Spaniards have.met with nothing hitherto but reverses and discomfitures. They have been killed and wounded in numbers altogether disproportioned to the importance, or rather to the want of importance, of the, different engagements. They have repeatedly been driven back ignominiously. They have, even by this time, in some measure expiated the guilt of their hostile movement beyond their own African boun daries by the severity, the swiftness. and the reitera tion of .;heir punishments. This, all this and a great deal more, according to the accounts given to the world by the Moorish authorities, from the Commander-in-Chief downwards ! And upon the opposite side—reading the military records laid before Christendom by the Madrid Government — how wide and glaring the difference! Running the eye down these despatches one is led to the conclusion that even now, almost by this time, Morocco is—all but—conquered. The skirmishes there in the immediate vicinity of Ceuta, viewed through the Spanish lorgnette, appear to be mag nified almost to the dimensions of momentous pitched battles pitched battles only just short of being - conclusive ! Warlike achieve ments, that supposing them to answer accu rately to those descriptions would certainly necessitate a very copious appendix to Professor CREASY'S literary masterpiece. When all is said and done, however, in turning over these extraordinary bulletins from the side of the Moors and from the side of the Spaniards—there stands out the significant and undeniable fact that the fighting is still restricted to the immediate neigh bourhood of Ceuta ! Showing as plainly as possible that whatever other advantage has occurred to them, the Spaniards have decidedly not advanced ! It has been bloodshed hitherto to no purpose whatever beyond that of enabling the belligerents to flesh their swords and their bayonets—and to test their skill as marks men upon living targets closely clustered together. The situation is thus as nearly as possible the, same now that it was when the struggle commenced. Only the foes are a trifle breathed, a trifle heated, a trifle more irritated against each other. As evidence of the bias of the bowl as it rolls from either side in the form,of the last bulletin, note the Moorish account of the affair of the 9th inst. " At daybreak on that day," quoth the Moorish record, " a force of about eight thousand Moors attacked the Spaniards encamped outside the frontier lines of Ceuta at three different points, put them to flight immediately, and got posses sion of all their recently constructed earthworks. ifterwards the Spaniards rallied, and Shortly with a considerable reinforcement from the town attempt.d to regain the defences they had lost. Three times they fell upon the Moors, and were each._ time repulsed with great loss. Then the Spaniards brought up still larger forces than before and attacked the Moors whilst they were engaged in carrying off the field their dead and wounded. Thus. assailed the Moors retreated slowly and steadily to their own ground, and were pursued by the eittacking Spaniards down the hill side be low title further redoubt, where some 200 Moorish cavalry charged the enemy and. drove him back most gallantly, the Moors regaining the redoubts. A heroic band of mountaineers, numbering some .......................b.."."4 rh01ia.............0......•••*,... ___ 600 men ' h .ag eild ain th st e om od t d h s e , ' almostgrouud othveerylvitloeoira.lci.:lfi; throughout.; the day, and kept up a sharp and most effective fire until nightfall, when, seeing the field deserted, they withdrew to their camp. The lkienrs could , have remained in occupation of the redoubt, bu t as the y had no cannOil to there, place 93 0 as their present camp is mor e secure, they did no do so. It a pp e ars the SpanL,rds had withdrawn their cannon from the battle-field before the Moors Attacked them. The Moors lost about 100 killed and 200 wounded, and de clare that the loss sustained by the Spaniards must be far more considOrable than in any former engagement." The Spanish account of the same action is of course as different as can well be. The losses there are all on the other side; The advan tage in numbers was the advantage of the Moors. The repulse was the repulse of the Moors. It is another wreath of laurel to hang on the Spanish standard, another clasp for the future medal to be Aram in gold, or silver, or bronze, according to their grade, by O'DONNELL and his companions. And we dare say that by the ne x t mail from Madrid we shall learn that Queen ISABELLA has penned an autograph letter to the Commander-in-Chief of her forces now at the African seat of war, offering to him and to them her most Catholic Majesty's congratulations. The news from Morocco is a fact like that mouth marvelled at by the Satyr in " .2Fisop," blowing fitfully as the whim promp ts, now hot, now cold. It is the shield of the pic turesque allegory—painted on one side black, on the other white—fastened aloft as a vane—blown hither and thither, to the right, to the left—now I ! - )lack, now white, accordingly as the wind blows from the camp of the Moors or from the camp of the Spaniards. Happily there are other observers than either Spaniards or Moors out yonder at the seat of war in Morocco. From their narratives we learn more reliable tidings as to the character and result of the different struggles that have already occurred near Ceuta. The Special Correspondent of our principal morning contemporary stands forth con spicuously among them, and the last of his de spatches is certainly by no means the least interest ing. In this communication, dated as recently as the 10th inst., from Algesiras, he speaks of the rumours afloat at the " Rock" as to the conflict of the pre ceding day, that conflict—the couleur de rose account of which by the Moors we have but just now been examining! " The Moors in Gibraltar," says he, " were in great glee this morning, and had a notion that the Spaniards had been thrashed, but the news of the cutting off of the pickets was all that seemed to have reached them. lam impatient," he adds, "to learn how the Spaniards behaved in the first confusion of a night attack. If they showed coolness and avoided panic, it is a great thing on the part of troops so new to this kind of warfare. But, meanwhile, this is not making pro gress: THE SPANIARDS SEEM RATHER IN THE POSI TION. OF A BESIEGED FORCE." It is undeniable. It is the very fact upon which we have just been in sisting as in itself so peculiarly significant. There, still at Ceuta the fighting continues ! The Spaniards have, therefore, we repeat, not advanced. They have their old rot) crrco in Africa—but for all that, they have failed (as yet) to move Morocco ! Cum grano salis, therefore, we must still read the Madrid records of these wonderful Spanish achieve ments. Now that death has suddenly snatched away I apparently in mid career, the Right Hon. HENRY FITZROY, heir-presumptive to Lord SOUTHAMPTON, and up to the time of his demise Chief Commissioner of Parks and Palaces under the Coalition Government—we are constrained to ask with some anxiety who is to be his Ministerial suc cessor at the head of that important de partment ? The most popular Minister of Public Works that we have had for many years past was unquestionably—the name will be antici pated by the majority—that able administrator, late Sir BENJAMIN HALL, now Baron LLANOVER: We believe that Lord LLANovEL's nomination once more to the office he filled with so much honour to himself, and with so much reflective credit to his colleagues, under Lord PALMERSTON'S former Government, would be hailed with very general, with almost universal satisfaction. It was only very recently that we took occasion with no small pleasure to commend as in every way excellent and praiseworthy the selection made by the Premier in almost all his late appointments. His " second thoughts" as the organiser of a Cabinet have in this manner certainly proved best. It was thus with the Right Hon. CHARLES VILLIERS, when named by an after-thought to the Presidency of the Poor Law Board. A selection, in that instance, that we ourselves, several days before the actual nomination, pointed out as of all the most advisable : naming him in' these columns, as the right man for that right place immediately the post had been vacated by Mr. MILNER GIBSON'S pro motion to the Presidency of the Board of Trade — when the latter place was declined by the hon., we regret we cannot (for that very reason) say the right hon. member for the borough of Roch dale. So has it been more recently with regard to the elevation of the Solicitor-General, Sir HENRY KEATING, to the bench in the Court of Common Pleas, upon the unexpected demise of the , late Sir RICHARD BUDDEN CROWDER ! And so too again, in turn, with respect to the selection of Sir HENRY KEATING'S successor as Solicitor-General — Mr., soon, of course, to be by the knightly accolade from the hand of the SOVEREIGN, Sir WILLIAM ATHERTON! Whose previous minor offices as Counsel and Judge Advocate to the Admiralty have been since hardly less wisely awarded to Mr. COLLIER, Q.C. Here once more, by the lamented death of Mr. FiTzrre— the First Lord of the Treasury, is afforded another, ,opportunity for the improvement ' of his Administration. For it is only repeating frankly what was candidly remarked on all sides again and again during the latter portion of his life time, when we say that as Chief Commissioner of Public Works Mr. FITZROY was in a very great measure a Ministerial failure. In that more con spicuous and more responsible capacity he assuredly did not fulfil the public expectations in his regard —he did not sustain the reputation he had pre viously acquired at the Home Office, when he was there two years previously as Under-Secretary. Now that the right hon. gentleman has been otherwise for the public and for his friends, unhappily, and, as it seems to us poor mortals, prematurely snatched away by death—there remains his vacant office to be filled up (if Lord P LIS EASTON pleases) most advantageously. Will Lord PALMERSTON so please ? Will Lord LLANOVER consent to resume his position over the Public Works Department as Chief Commissioner ? Let us hope so—for it would be in every respect a very wise and a very popular appointment. The Countess Dowager of Macclesfield has arrived at Howchin's Hotel,. from the family seat, Sherborne Castle, Oxfordshire. The Earl of Orkney arrived at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, on Saturday last, and loft on the following day for the Continent. • The Rev. T. L. S u tton, jun., has arrived at Howchin's Hotel, from Geddington Vicarage, Northamp tonshire. . , 0.11, ~ 4 - ' ? : ; 0 1 1 . . ?pfli r „ft ,-,.. '.' -,7 . • ~-,.,, 100' , --- -- ; , ---: 'i. •-.- ' °.-;: H., -%, 1 -'.: •n• o , - • - ~... • _,,-,: . `' 4....., THE I _,:SITN,'"IiONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1859. THE TVAIIDMOTES.-(THIS DAY.) This being St. Thomas's Day, the annual election of Common Councilmen, ward officers, &0., took place within the . ieveral wands• of the City. There was very little ex citement on the occasion, as most of the wards re-elected their old members. LATEST NEW 8. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20. The Moniteur of to-day publishes the nomination of several secretaries to French embassies abroad, among which the Marquis Chateaurenard as secre tary of the embassy at London. The state of Prince Jerome's health continues to improve, and there will be no bulletins published for some days. TURIN, DEc. 20. 111. Buoncompagni leaves today for Florence. The designation of Count Cavour as First Pleni potentiary of Sardinia at the Congress is definite, and will be notified to the different Powers after the nominations of the other Plenipotentiaries have been published. The frigate Eurydice is about to sail for China, to protect the interests of the Italian subjects re siding there. ROME, DEC. 17 (via Marseilles.) It is stated that on the 28th inst. Cardinal Ante nelli will embark on board a Pontifical corvette for France. Monsignore Bernardi will be entrusted ad interinz with the ministerial functions of the Cardinal. In order to cover the deficit, the Minister of Finance has sold two millions of francs of Roman consolidated funds, without having recourse to a loan. MADRID, DEC. 20. Abundant rains have inundated the Spanish camp and the surrounding country. JASS', DEC. 18. The National Assembly, after having received a message from Prince Couza, has been dissolved. THE FOREIGN MAILS. At the hour of our going to press the French and German mails had not arrived. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. (From the Times' Special Correspondent.) ALGESIRAS, DEC. 10. I have just come over here from Gibraltar and find, to my treat annoyance, that there is no getting across the Straits to-day. I shall cross to-morrow by the mail boat, and hope to send you by the following post details of some fighting which took place yesterday in front of Ceuta. The Moors, it appears, notwithstanding the bad weather, beat up the Spaniard's quarters early yesterday morning, and a combat ensued which lasted the greater part of the day—at least, lam assured by persons who left Ceuta yesterday at 3 p.m. that firing was still going on at that hour. In official quarters I learn that the Moors were ulti mately completely repulsed. Authentic particu lars of the affair are still wanting, and it is unsafe to attach credit to the rumours and loose statements that reach us from various sources, and many of which have certainly no foun dation save in the imagination of the narrators. Moreover, within 24 hours, or little more, I hope to send you particulars gathered upon the spot in the most reliable quarters. The affair is said to have begun at half-past 5 in the morning, before day break, that is to say, by the Moors surrounding and nearly annihilating a Spanish outlying picket. Con cerning the progress of the conflict we have nocon nected account, but we are told that a movement was made by which some hundred Moors were cut off, mho remained liven the field. A person who left Ceuta at 3 p.m. yesterday affirms that at that hour another body of the enemy was hemmed in between the sea and a strong Spanish force, and must ulti mately have surrendered, been slain, or driven into the water. This,however, requires confirmation. A nephew of General O'Donnell is said to have been badly wounded, some accounts say killed, when charging with some cavalry, and two Lieutenant- Colonels are reported to have been killed or wounded. Iby no means vouch for the accuracy of these details, which I give subject to correction in my next letter. The atmosphere of the Straits of Gibraltar has a strongly magnifying power, and things that are very small at Ceuta assume moun tainous proportions by the time they reach the Spanish coast or Gibraltar Rock. Thus, on my ar rival at the latter place three days ago I was told most positively of a very serious fight that had oc curred on the 2d inst. My past letters will have shown you that nothing of the kind took place. I may find to-morrow morning, at Ceuta, that yester day's affair was much more trifling than it has been represented. The story here goes that 10,000 Moors attacked. The Moors in Gibraltar were in great glee this morning, and had a notion that the Spaniards had been thrashed, but the news of the cutting off of the pickets was all that seemed to have reached them. lam impatient to learn how the Spaniards behaved in the first confusion of a night attack. If they showed coolness and avoided panic, it is a great thing on the part of troops so new to this kind of warfare. But, meanwhile, this is not making progress. The Spaniards seem rather in the position of a besieged force. They can certainly move out when they please, and drive back the enemy, if they choose to sacrifice men for a moment of barren triumph, but then they return to their lines, and the Moors, when they choose, can pounce upon their advanced post aid put the whole camp under arms. I find upon inquiry that there was exaggeration in the reports current at Gibraltar, and which I mentioned as on slits in my last letter, respecting the damage experienced by the French squadron in the attack on Fort Martino. It appears to have been very trifling, and the casualties were confined, lam assured to one man wounded. On the other hand, the distance at which the ships were cora pelled to remain, owing to the shallowness of the water, induces a doubt whether mueh damage was done to the Moors. From a French and trustworthy source I learn that the loss by cholera of the French expedition against the Morocco tribes, now terminated, amoun ted to no less than 4,000 men. This is of evil omen for the Spaniards. It is stated, however, that the cholera is making great ravages among the Moors. If it has broken out among them, their want of proper medical attendance will be likely to render it fatal in a large proportion of cases. At the last moment, before closing this hasty letter, I receive information from an officer who came from Ceuta last night, which confirms my suspicion that the fight of yesterday has been much exaggerated. The attack of the Moors seems to have been made against the principal redoubt, the possession of which they evidently greatly covet. It is said that only one division of the Spaniards was engaged belonging to the Second Corps, which lately relieved the First Corps on the advanced line. The Spanish loss in killed and wounded is estimated at less than 250, including, however, a large propprtion of officers. A letter from the seat of war says —"A second letter has reached me concerning the battle of the 30th, which it seems was still more bloody than that of the 25th. The Moors, as usual, attacked the Spanish troops. General Echague having been wounded in the previous engagement, General Gasset took his place. lle advanced at the head of the divisions composing the vanguard, and sus tained during two hours the rush of the Moors. These were at last repulsed with a heavy loss. It appears that the Moors think it more disgraceful to surrender than to run away. When they per ceive that it is useless to fight any longer they re treat with great precipitation ; but should they be absolutely unable to make a retreat they either perish by the Spanish bayonets or stab each other, It is fruitless for the Spanish officers to ask them repeatedly to give up their arms and remain still ; they obstinately refuse such proposals. It is gene rally thought among the Spaniards that the reason of such behaviour is their firm belief that their ene mies will not spare them in any case, and that they intend to make them undergo the most terrible torments. On the 30th they were completely sur rounded by the Simancas and Catalonia Riflemen, and every one of them had to be cut down. There are a great many of their priests among them ; these are to be distinguished by their long beards, their wild appearance, and their peculiar yells, which are invocations to the Prophet. These priests take a peculiar care to finish the wounded Spaniards that lay on the ground, and they are seen to ad minister heavy blows with their muskets on the head and shoulders of those of their own men who show any signs of mercy. This sight enrages very much the Spanish soldiers, and the officers have no small trouble in preventing them from imitating the atrocities of the Moorish priests. One of the latter, remarkable for his dirty tunic and his terrific screams, had killed with his " gumia" a youngensign and a soldier. He was preparing to stab a wounded artilleryman, and was uttering then a perfectly diabolical yell, when a Spanish sergeant rushed upon him and plunged a bayonet into his opened mouth. The death of their " saints" always causes great discouragement among the Moors. My friends adds that he is now obliged, as well as the other officers, to allow the soldiers to despatch with a bayonet thrust their wounded enemies, as these, when they can do no more, bite the legs of the Spaniards. The Emperor of Morocco has offered large prizes to those of his soldiers who should take guns. This explains their wild and obstinate attacks against the artillerymen. Several Spanish officers hare already been pro moted on the field of battle. TILE WEST INDIA, PACIFIC, AND 31EXICAN MAILS. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Parana, Commander T. A. Bevis. from St. Thomas's, Dec. 3, put into the Sound this morning short of fuel, bound to Southampton. Her dates are Greytown, Nov. 16 ; Belize, 18 ; Santa Martha, 23 ; Colon, 23; Berbice, 24; George town, Demerara, 25; Carthagena, Tobago, and Tri nidad, 26; Jamaica, Grenada, Carriacou, and St. Vincent's, 27; Hayti and Barbadoes, 28; St. Lucia, Martinique, and Guadaloupe, 29; Porto Rico, Do minica, Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St. Kitt's, 30th; Tortola, Dec. 1; and St. Thomas's, Dec. 3. Her cargo includes 178 serons of cochineal, 60 serons of indigo, 3 cases of cigars, 156 bales of bark, 186 bags of cocoa, 5 bales of hats, and 270 bags of mineral ore. The specie and bullion brought are valued at 747,399 dols.—viz., across the Isthmus, in gold, 189,222 dols. ; silver, 539,465 dols. ; Carthagena, 3,683 dols. ; Jamaica, 7,240; and the West Indies, 7,789 dols. Among her 61 passengers are 36 first-class, in cluding Assistant-Commissary-General Blane, from Trinidad; the Rev. Mr. Rawle, from Barbadoes; and Lieutenants Campbell and Bustle, from Colon. Her Majesty's ships Styx and Atalanta were at Barbadoes, the Arachne at Venezuela, the Cossack at St. Domingo, the Indus at Bermuda, and the Imaum and Basilisk at Jamaica. The Royal Mail Company's steamships Derwent, Captain West, from Trinidad, and Wye, Captain Thwaites, were at Jamaica ; the Medway, Captain Holt, was down the Main; the Trent, Captain Woolcott, was in the Gulf. The Clyde, Captain Heeman, from Madeira ; the Conway, Capt. Ham mack, from the Islands ; the Teviot, Capt. Gillis, from Jamaica ; the Thames, Captain Lewis, from the Spanish Main, and the Solent, Captain Wood• ward, were at St. Thomas's. In Chili the excitement caused by the late dis turbances continued unabated, but no further out• breaks had occurred. The damage done by the earthquake at Copiapo is estimated at 1,500,000 dols. On the 31st of October a fire destroyed consider able property at Valparaiso. It broke out in the Calle de la Planchada. The principal sufferers were Besson Brothers, Ajacio Brothers, Manuel and Co., M. Martineau, the Hotel de France, J. V. Sanchez, and Dickson, Harker, and Co. The accounts from Peru are unfavourable; there is every prospect of the country being soon involved both in a foreign and civil war. The troubles between the State of Ecuador and Peru appear to be drawing to a crisis. On the 7th General Castilla sailed from Payta for Guayaquil, with nearly 10,000 men and 14 vessels of war, in tending to invade the country. The next advices will probably bring intelligence of an engagement. Captain Grenfell, of her Majesty's ship Ame thyst, has seized two Mexican cotton-laden ships, and has threatened to take more if Mr. Allsop, the British Consul at Tepic, is not immediately released by Conorado and Roses. Senor Don Placido Vega, the Governor of Sinaloa, professes to have no means of inducing those Generals to comply with Captain Grenfell's demand. Business at Jamaica has latterly been much re stricted, through the meagre supply of American stuffs. Supplies of produce have been limited, and the markets in consequence are very quiet. The coffee plant has not yet recovered from the effects of the protracted rains. Jamaica is healthy. Occasional showers have fallen at Barbadees. The crops are good. A strong force of yeomanry cavalry is enrolled. In the island of St. Lucia a slight earthquake was experienced on the 17th of November. No damage was done. The canes were looking well. The Legislative Assembly at St. George's, Gre nada, has made application to the home Govern ment for some soldiers of the line to be garrisoned there. The Marion Moore, from Calcutta, with 375 im migrants, arrived at Georgetown, Guiana, on the 23d of November; the Henry Moore, with 359 statute adults, returning emigrants, sailed for Ma dras a few days previously. They left with their agent 35,982 dols. The crops at Trinidad are much improved, but trade is dull and freights are lower. At Demerara the weather had been fine, and the planters were busily occupied gathering the crop, which this year is much retarded by continued rains. The produce, notwithstanding, may exceed the average. St. Thomas's continues to suffer severely from the effects of yellow fever, which has caused many deaths among the shipping. Her Majesty' ship Gladiator, which coaled and left on the 10th of November, proceeded as far as St. Kitt's, where the fatal disease appeared, and she landed four men. Two days after other cases occurred off Tortola, and one man died. She re turned to Bermuda with 22 cases. Assistant- Surgeon G. H. Bellringer fell a victim. The Gladiator has left Bermuda for Halifax. The Parana put four men into hospital at St. Thomas's, and has lost ,one mar, Edmund Woodruff, since. Several of the crew suffered severely. She expe rienced strong headwinds and heavy seas all the passage home. On the 10th inst. she spoke the ship Essex, homeward bound. SHOCKING MURDER AT SEAIIAM.—A murder. under painful circ umstances, is currently reported to have taken place at S ea h a ni on Saturday night or Sunday morn-. i n g. It is said that a party of pitmen were drinking in one of the public-houses of the town,when a quarrel ensued between one o f them and a couple o f y oun g women of the com p a ny. Tlie women, it is said, followed him out, and again tAtacking d ru nken pitman, battered his skull in, and left him the hc Ipless near the sea beach. They were seen leaving him, and on the body of the pitman being found on Sunday morning, inquiry was made into the circumstances, and the two young women have been apprehended. The names o f the parties are known, but till the whole case be ex amined it is not prudent to be more particular. —XI; weastle Ch on loc. THREE FlRES.—Yesterday morning, about two o'clock, considerable alarm was caused in the neighbour hood of Trafalgar-square, in consequence of a tire breaking out in the Union Club-house, but owing to the timely arrival of the firemen, the names were soon extinguished. Another fire took place at the residence of the Rev. J. F. M. Ilalvey, 14, Upper Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, caused by the overhetring a stove in the next house. For tunately, the fire was soon subdued. A fire on the pro mises of Mr. J. Giles, hat maker, 74, Great Suffolk-street, Borough, burned the shop and stock. The firemen managed to confine the flames to the lower part of the house. Some excitement prevailed yesterday, in consequence of its being supposed that the whole of the marriage certificates awl other church records had been destroyed in the fire which consumed the church of St. Matthew the previous day. The firemen, upon cooling the ruins, found iwo immense iron safes, and upon opening the;;, ;he whole of the registers, books, and documents, with the sacrament a l plate, although the safes were exposed to enormous heat k hours ' hnt apt' susta f ine4 the least injury, COILI•TITILL. The annuittwardmoto was held at St. Michael's Church, Cornhill, the Right Hon. JOHN CARTER, Lord Mayor, presiding. After the administration of the oaths, &c., the Common Council of the past year were unanimously re alected, as was also W. J. Parker, the beadle. The following were then declared to be members of the Common Council for the ensuing year :—Mr. E. Harrison (deputy), Mr. Waterlow, son., Mr. Hoppe, Mr. D. Shrews bury, Mr. G. Gaines, and Mr. A, J. Waterlow. LANGBOURNE. The annual wardmote was held at the school-room, Lime-street—Mr. W. Cubitt, M.P., Alderman of the ward, presiding. After some preliminary business, the Common Council of the past year wore unanimously re-elected, and were as fol lows :—Messrs. S. Unwin (deputy),T. Snelling., E. lloward, R. C. Bache, C. Sully, T. Webber, Alexander Crossley, and J. Symonds. Mr. FINLVY moved a vote of thanks to Alderman Cubitt, and complimented him upon his approaching mayoralty. Mr. BEECH said ho felt it a privilege to be allowed to second the motion. Tho resolution was carried unanimously, and the proceed ings terminated. BRIDGE. This wardmote was, as usual, held in the vestry-room of St. Magnus Church, Thames-street. Alderman Abbiss presided. The old members were re-elected, and Mr. Blake was chosen to succeed Mr. Dray. DOIVGATE. The annual wardmote was held at All-hallows' Church, Upper Thames-street, under the presidency of Alderman Sir R. W. Carden. Messrs. Kebbell, White, Kearns, and Coleman were re elected. The following resolution was carried unanimously : " That the thanks of this wardmote be presented to Sir R. W. Carden, Bart., M.P., and Alderman of the ward, for his unwearied attention to his duties as an Alderman and a magistrate of this city, and for his impartiality while pre siding over this wardmote." VINTRY. This wardmote was held at the School-room, Brickhill lane, Thames-street, Alderman Gabriel in the chair. The following old members were re-elected :—Mr. W Archer, Mr. W. D. White, Mr. T. Sprague, Mr. G. Mason Mr. C. Gammon, and Mr. R. Tress. BREAD-STREET. The usual-annual wardmote meeting of this ward was held in the Cordwainers' -hall, Cannon-street; Mr. William Lawrence, Alderman, presided. The following gentlemen were unanimously re-elected Common Counoilmen for the ensuing year :—Deputy Haw ray, Mr. Maughan, Mr. Maynard, Mr. Smith, Mr. McCal cheon, Mr. W. McGregor, and Mr. Alcock. Mr. Pill and Mr. Beard were the candidates for the hon our of succeeding Mr. Millard. On the names being put by the Alderman, the show of hands was declared in favour of Mr. Pill. A poll was de manded for Mr. Beard. FARRINGDON WITHIN. The annual wardmote was held at Christ's Hospital, Alderman Phillips presiding. _ _ Two new candidates opposed the return of Jthe old mem bers, and a poll was ordered to be taken at the King's Arms Tavern. FARRINGDON WITHOUT. The annual wardmote of the ward of Farringdon With out was held in the New Court of the Old Bailey, Alderman Sir J. Duke, Bart., M.P., presiding. Most of the old members were re-elected. A poll was de manded on behalf of Messrs. Standborough and Spiller. In the other wards no serious opposition is expected, but we are precluded from publishing the results owing to the late hour fixed for the commencement of the proceedings. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, Exeter Hall.—The last performance of " The Messiah" takes places onFriday next, Dec. 23. The principal singers are Madame Ruders dorff, Mias Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Signor lielletti. The traffic return of the Grand Trunk Railway, for the week ending November 26, shows a receipt of £12,9821361 4d., rgainst £9,685 11s. 10d. in the correspond ing week of last year, being an increase of £3,296 as. 6d. The return of traffic on the Great Western Rail way of Canada; for the week ending December 2, shows the receipts to ha%e been £7,916 13s. 7d., being an increase en the corresponding week of the previous year of £124105. 10d. The decrease on the 18 weeks of this half-year, as compared with the corresponding period of 18.58, is 5.0,720 2s. 7d. _ _ (3UTI.IKENSINGTON MUSEUM. —D uritip., the week ending the 17th of December the visitors have been as fol lows :—On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days, 2,544; on Monday and Tuesday, free evenings, 4,120; on the three students' days (admission to the public 6d.), 1,102; one students' evening, Wednesday, 593; total, 8,339; from the opening . of the museum, 1,166,322. TIIE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY. The Executive Committee of the Conservative Land Society have directed `the offices to be closed on Monday next, the 26th inst. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. This society, in the extension of business operations, have just purchased a fine property crf freehold houses at Camberwell. They are nine in number, well built semi-detached cot tages and houses, in a terrace in the Denmark-road. This is a novel feature in the operations of a land society, inas much as freehold houses, completed and in the occupation of respectable tenants, will be offered for allotment to the members of the society. THE GREAT METROPOLITAN SEWER AT STRAT FORM—The works of this sewer, which it was anticipated would have been commenced in his district several months ago, have been delayed, partly from the strike in the build ing trade, and partly to enable the commissioners to apply to Parliament for additional powers not embodied in their present act. A great number of houses on the site of which the proposed sewer would pass were purchased, and the oc cupants long since gave up possession, but within the last few weeks they have again been occupied, and will continue to be so during the temporary delay of the works. The ex tensive premises of Messrs. Geero and Son, timber mer chants, on the north side of the high road, have been pur chased of them by the commissioners, and the occupiers and owners of all property in that neighbourhood taken for the purposes of the sewer have received the amount of their compensation. We (Essex Herald) may add that the com pensation awarded in almost every instance has been ex tremely liberal on the part Of the commissioners—weekly tenants receiving from £lO to £lB ; small shopkeepers from £5O to £lOO, and so on in proportion to the amount of busi ness and length of tenancy. -- - - DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN A LUGGAGE TRAIN.— About 3 o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday last, one of the waggons of a luggage train from the south for Preston, Lancashire, laden with healds for weaving, and a quantity of costly china in crates, was discovered by the engine driver to be on fire, when the train was a quarter of a mile from Preston. This waggon was next to the tender, and it is supposed that a spark from the engine ignited either the healds or the straw in the crates. The engine driver promptly detached-the remainder of the train from the burning waggon and steamed quickly into the Preston sta tion, and as the engine with its flaming freight passed over the bridge which spans the Ribble, just below the town, the unwonted spectacle excited the astonishment of the hundreds of persons who were walking on the banks of the river. When the station was gained the flames were quickly extinguished at the water column, and it was then found that the damage done was very considerable. The healds were almost wholly destroyed, and the burning of the crates had cracked and broken a very large proportion of the costly goods they contained. REWARD FOR GALLANT CONDUCT.—It will pro bably bo remembered by many of our readers that during the terrific storm of the 26th October last, which proved fatal to the Royal Charter, some fearful shipwrecks took place also on the Cornish coast. On some of the occasions, most gallant exertions were made to save life and property. Amongst others, Mr. Daniel Shea, coxswain of the National Lifeboat Institution's boat stationed at Padstow, very lau dably exerted himself to save life and property. But con spicuous amongst all others on this coast was Charles Mitchell, a fisherman, of Port Isaac. In the height of the storm of that night, the sloop Busy, of New-quay, was ob served to be in imminent danger. Mitchell immediately mustered a crew of four men, who, with himself, proceeded off through the tremendous surf to the wreck. Having suc ceeded in rescuing two of the sloop's men, their boat unfor tunately broke adrift before the remaining men could be saved. Again and again, Mitchell, with fresh hands, en deavoured with undiuted courage to save the other two poor men, who were now lashed to the rigging. At last, his humane efforts in three different boats were, after five hours of unusual iheavy toil and risk, crowned with success, and he had the happiness to bring the four shipwrecked men, more dead than alive, safely ashore about 3 o'clock the next morning. To testify its approbation of such noble and persevering exertions in saving life from an inevitable death, the Royal National. Lifeboat Institution had pre sented to Mitchell its chaste silver medal, a beautiful scroll on parchment and V. The n-en who had assisted the gal lant fellow on the occasion have also received from the society £l5 for their services. DISTRESS OF THE BLACK NIALIBRAN.—An ap plication was made. on Saturday to the President of the Civil Tribunal, on the part of Mlle. Martinez, a woman of colour, known by the name of the " Malibran Noire," from her possessing a good voice and a certain talent as a musi cian. She had, it appears, when she first came to Paris from the Spanish settlements in South America, given concerts and obtained some success, attended with very satisfactory money results. But, having gone to Madrid to sing, she found on her return that the wind of popularity had shifted to some other direction, and that, when she gave a concert as before, the receipts did not equal the expenditure. She tried again and again to attract an audience, but all in vain. At last she fell into distress, and Mme. Harm, the owner of a fur : . butiti l en r' deprived h tc e ho eupuo instrumentsoerl m a i n t fur nished room which she occupied, not only turned her out of doors for not paying the rent, but seized on her clothes and 0::f effects, re accompanied earningl f rotineloliynri littleeaetrr moneys t e u i l ttea.oafr onetis te 0 thusf the f means onnd tinedwith th‘avthi theoh se i zure of the instrument was illegal, inasmuch as it must be assimilated to instruments of labour or the tools of a workman, which could not be taken away. The president, coinciding in that view of the question, ordered the imme diate restitution of tha guitar, Bet will the humane deci sion of the learned judge be sufficient to enable the poor , sinner to provide for the wants of the day ?-oa/ignaili. LITERATURE. Trg and Ynt Will. A Story for Youth. By Mrs. Hart. With eight Coloured Engravings. Tegg. That enterprising publisher, Mr. Tegg, is now issuing a very excellent series of gift books for the young. Very elegant in appearance, and illustrated with brilliantly coloured engravings, they arc likely to captivate the juvenile reader at first sight ; and, from the interesting nature of their contonts, they are calculated to become permanent favourites on a longer acquain tance. The new volume now happily issued as a Christmas book is a favourable specimen of the series. Its title indicates its significant purpose—. " Try and you Will." Never despair—never draw back at the sight of difficulties, do not abandon the good cause at the outset through cowardice or the fear of failure. Will with all your might and act with all your energy, and the forlorn hope will scale the citadel—the Goliath will fall before a sling and a pebble stone. Such is the admirable and encouraging lesson, very admirably and effectively set forth by Mrs. Hart. Her story has about it, in its manner and details, the charm of freshness and the merit of originality. We will not spoil its interest by an epitome of its plot ; let us rather commend Charles Gilbert, the backward school boy, and afterwards the energetic and successful man, to the emulation of many a school-boy now home for the holidays, who rejoices to escape from his lessons—who "can't" get on with this, and "won't" take any trouble with that, and promises to reward the anxieties of his friends by a youth of idleness and a life of disappointment. Let any such peruse this enthralling history, and, encouraged by the ex ample before them, take up its motto, and Try ! Many others, girls and boys, will pass a pleasant hour reading this charming history and admiring its highly-coloured pictures. Let their friends only give them the chance. Let them " try," and we doubt not they " will" like it ! THE WEAK POINT IN ENGLAND'S CUIRASS. A " Hertfordshire Incumbent," in a letter to a contemporary, says :—The importance which the question of the Suez Canal appears to have assumed —induces me to request the insertion in your paper of a few remarks on the scheme of M. Lesseps, which, after all that has been said and done, pro bably not a hundred Englishmen qualified to form a judgment on the matter have up to this time taken the trouble to examine for themselves. AR impression has been formed abroad, and per haps confirmed by the unguarded language of some of our leading statesmen, that the existence of the ship canal is in itself thought prejudicial to British interests, and advantage has been taken of this de lusion to place us in a most invidious light in the eyes of other nations. But, if there has been any jealousy of the matter in England, it has certainly not arisen from the belief that a seaway through Egypt, which, if it could be excavated and kept open, would be traversed by four British ships for one of every other country, could possibly be detri mental either to our interests or our influence. Unhappily this proposed ship canal has to be carried through a desert where neither food nor water for the excavators is procurable, and, accord ingly, M. Lesseps's scheme contemplates as a pre liminary the execution of another work of at least equal magnitude. This consists in the intercepting a considerable portion of the water of the Nile near Cairo, for the purpose of forming an auxiliary fresh water canal, which, besides irrigating and fertilising an enormous area of barren land, is to throw off two principal branches, the one running north-eastwards, the other south-westwards, towards the extremities of the future ship canal. These branches are to be utilised in supplying pot able water and furnishing the means of transport ing provisions for the workmen employed in cutting the great canal. If would not become mo to speak of the special engineering facilities or difficulties which may exist for this preliminary step. But it is as well to point out one feature of the plan which has not been put prominently forward in any of the discussions which have taken place. The works are to be executed by forced labour at a fixed price, the Viceroy of Egypt guaranteeing whatever number of native workmen the engineers of the company may require, both (if I understand M. Lesseps aright) for the completion of this auxiliary fresh-water canal system and for that of the great ship canal, which latter alone has been taken up as a topic for discussion in the news papers. Now, the auxiliary canals will extend to a length much mere than double that of the ancient canal of Neco, in excavating which 120,000 native workmen perished. What are we to expect when to this task the ship canal is also added ? The native population of Egypt is probably at this mo ment not one-fifth of what it was in the time of the Pharoahs ; if, therefore, the scheme be forced on in its present shape, under the authority of all the great continental Powers, it will simply amount to placing the directors of M. Lesseps's company in a position to disorganize at their pleasure the whole labour system of the country, and to oblige the Viceroy to aid them in the creation of this anarchy on pain of physical compulsion by the new quadri partite alliance. If any resistance to the scheme on the part of the British Government has been con fined to the'demand of security against such a result as this, the charge of selfishness which has been made against England will recoil upon its authors. Our lively neighbours have much the advantage of us in quickness of apprehension and vividness of imagination ; but, unfortunately, these very qua lities render them peculiarly liable to be carried away by enthusiasm for any unpractical scheme if pretending to the character of vastness. Of the great engineering works of the last 30 years exactly the most useless have most excited the admiration of the French public, for among them the palm was decidedly borne off by the Thames Tunnel—a sub ject of quite as passionate interest at the time it was constructed as the Suez Canal is now, but which has since been most truly described by some Persian princes who visited it as " a device for making ships pass over the heads of the people." The canal of NI. Lessep s , should it ever be executed, will elicit from some ladji returning from Mecca a similar description. It will probably remain open for about half the number of years occupied in its construe- construc tion. The predo m i n ance of westerly an d north westerly winds produces a continual dr i ft, which a w n i d ll in ra la p n id d ly an ch in o d k u c en u e p e iotsnlyMeledsisteprorwaneerafunlmwoiullth ; be winds exercised over by the the surfacem ovi n o g f t he sand d es blown e r t Baffledby the by same a wfoirlcleaitnisasuptegraivbeleubpythaell ehoinsterests,ounracteusr,etwheillenrgesinnemeer t h u e r rcareer o desolation , lfegend will springand p anotheramong half the wan deringcen - g round about the reedy marsh tribes ca of f h t i h eh e wGiilalomurasr,kmitpthinweililn b e e o f s t a h i d e , c i a n n sp al fre F d o b u y r a K n in u g n s . shooting t t i o n g convert (as controllable fortheehas p e ris , space between they hr intoeewy obtained Gins, who mbloNy.uhsopel per formed magi calan apreserve.ils tie bu l services n t their task- a t t e h ff t is h ec o vo t if s u e a a N n va l i ly e , t i i nte d d e , v a o s ar e e v d er a y ll n t ia h n e may behold, young men of the land of Egypt to give diem strength for their gigantic task. Such will be the mythical form of the history of the great Suez Canal. INFANTICIDE AT HACKNEY. Last night Mr. John Humphreys, the coroner for East Middlesex, resumed and concluded a protracted inquiry at the Queen Eleanor Tavern, Church path, Mare-street, Hackney, respecting the death of a newly-born female child, the illegitimate offspring of Ann Green, a servant in the employ of Mr. Geo. Rance, proprietor of the above-named house. Inspector Bywater, of the N division, Hackney, was in attendance to watch the case on the part of the Police Commissioners ; and the accused was in the infirmary of the Hackney Union, under the surveillance of the police of the district. It appeared from the voluminous testimony that on the morning of the 9th inst., the female Green, who had been four years in her situation, was found ill in her bed lty her mistress, who sent for her own medical adviser. Mr. Roper, the surgeon, of High-street, Shoreditch, promptly attended, and saw the accused in bed. He examined her, and was of opinion that she had recently given birth to an infant. The accused admitted the fact, and under the bed was found a bundle, which was handed to th e me di ca l gentleman, :who unfastened the covering, and discovered the dead body of a fe male infant. There was a ligature round the neck, and the covering consisted of an apron. The liga ture round th e th roat was a piece of ribbon, tied in a loose knot. The face was livid, and the tongue protruied from the mouth. There was a bruise over the left eye, and the hands were clenched. The umbilical cord had been torn and lacerated. Evidence having been offered proving that the apron and the ribbon which formed the ligature belonged to the accused, The Coroner proceeded to sum up the testimony of the several witnesses, when lie read over the de positions at length, and. after the inquest -room had been cleared of strangers for a quarter of an hour, The jury unanimously agreed to a verdict of " Wilful murder." The Coroner then made out his warrant for the committal of the accused to Newgate, to take her trial at the ensuing sessions of the Central Criminal Court. The several witnesses were also bound over to prosecute. THE AMERICAN MAILS VIA QUEENS_ 2'o IV X. A resolution is at present before the Cork Har bour Board to the following effect Any of the companies which are at present using Cork as a port of call shall have the privilege of landi n g car g oes without charge, but any other company doing so for the future shall be charged dues in the regular way." As the Canadian steamers, when they com mence to call at Queenstown' w ill come within the latter category, Messrs. Allen have protested against such a distinction. But it is evident that, without the new arrangement for " accelerating" the mails works better than it has hitherto done, the mercan tile community will imperatively demand its reci sion, and our Cork friends will be saved the trouble of further debate on the subject. The idea of acce lerating the mail is very plausible, but can it be carried out with any regularity ? We g i ve the first glaring instance of failure. The Canad a landed her mails at Queenstown at two p.m. on Monday, and reached the Mersey next day, at half - p ast 10 a.m., but, to the intense indignation and t he g reat inconvenience of the large number of firms int erested in the American trade, no letters were delivered in Liverpool and London until Wednesday morning, too late for them to reply by the steamers sailing that day for New York and Canada. Had the Canada not touched at Queenstown she would have arrived some hours earlier. Without a special steamer constantly in readiness at Queenstown, and special trains again at Holyhead and Chester, vio shall be in a similar predicament five tim es out of six. Even if three or four hours can be gained (of which we are very dubious), is the result worth the enormous expense the necessary preparations entail. We see that one of the members of the Harbour Board complained that on Saturday week the mail steamer from Liverpool was detained at Queens town for the mails from England. Passenger will not like this. We say decidedly that the Queenstown arrangement will prove a total failure, and we advise the mercantile community to protest against their being sacrificed by Go vernment for Irish interests only. It was roaw tained that many passengers would join the steamers at Queenstown, and thereby avoid the Channel disagreeables. But they don't ; although, through being compelled to call at Queenstown, the Mail steamers have too frequently to wrestle wit h 5. , W ; gales, when they might avoid them by going " north about." Formerly, when a steamer was despatched from the Mersey, direct with the American mails, every merchant was on an equal footing. Now, if a man has no scruples about working on the Sabbath, he can send his clients a day's later advices than the man who transacts no business on that day. This matter requires gra" consideration.—Livelpool Albion. STATE OF TRADE. LEEDS, Dec. 20.—The weather is very dull and cold, and therefore unfavourable to business opera: tions. This circumstance, combined. with the fc s that commercial transactions are no t u sually verY numerous about Christmas, will easily account for the quiet state of the cloth-market this moring; There was, indeed, only a limited attendance edi both merchants and manufacturers at the hails, an a very small quantity of goods were disposed 0 The trade, however, presents most of the true i - n dications of health and soundness. The raarnifac turers generally have ample orders on hand, continuing so for some time to come, ployment is plentiful, with every prospect ef IL y s " no fear but the productions of the manufacturer" will meet with a ready sale in the warehouses in due course. MANCHESTER, 20th.—We have had a verve u i l b et yarn-market, and prices are down fully -141. P f for counts and qualities suitable to the mar kets. 0 India and Germany. Home trade and Bolton VT nings are still firm, and a fair business is reported. and thero Two-fold yarns are also still firm. A fair bull the is reported in low numbers of hard twist for t ' ir Mediterranean. In cloths there is again a v . i er l. quiet market fabrics suited to India, with less, a position to purchase, and these goods are qun'. e _ from the late highest rates o 3d. per piec' less as regards shirtings, making a total declin; Other goods, such as the better qualities of printers, donle; tics, longclo ths, and T-cloths, for the for export, are much the same as before as to value. There is a generally quieter market, however, these goods, as in others, only they are fira l , e , r T h e price. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report :-- demand for India goods has within the isot ' e days become very inactive, and there being 11 home trade antt greater desire on the part of producers to 45e 2 prices are some what irregular. There is, howert: very little business doing in them, the low Price; offered being generally declined. Longcloths aTI T-cloths are still in fair request, without change ,11/ prices; but printers are less inquired for , an d the late extreme rates are no longer obtained." ROCHDALE, 19t11.—The near approach of Christ mas time renders trade rather inanimate,but stocks are very low, and the tone of business is firm. There was very little wool sold to-day, and prices u are without change. In flannel there is not mch doing. The Yorkshire trade continues good. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AND EXPL —" A fire, which alth ou g h the amount of pro pertyof a serious nature as r e g ards A Dublin paper says : fortunately no t attended destroyed, was with any fatal results, bro ke out about 4 o'clock on Monday morning in the wo rks of the Hibernian Gas Company, Great Brunsw ick-street. So farse the origin of the conflagration has been ascer tained with certainty, it was owing to the sever e frost which has prevailed for some day past causing the hoops of a lar g e tank con taining gas -tar to burst without any p revious warning of their being in an injured conditions and the tank gave way completely on all sides, th e tar rushing out in a torrent and covering th e ground for a considerable space to a depth of about three feet. The retort-house was speedily invaded: and here the fluid mass, it is supposed, first ca u g b ' fire. The alarm was communicated by the fore man of the works to the manager in a few minnt/ after the flames were first observed, and h e 8 ' once despatched messengers for the different fire-engines. Before the arrival of any ° eh assistance, however, the fire had extended tn and seized hold of two of the large gas-holders' which contained a large supply of gas in tended fe the requirements of the day, and these both expde,'l in a surprisingly short time afterwards. There wa s a plentiful supply of water obtained from the basin of the canal, but owin g to the severe frost , it NO. with the utmost difficulty that the engines ware worked. If there was a cessation of even a few ~„ mites in the working of an engine, the apparatus be came so clog ge d w ith i ce th at t h e a id of hot NOW; was found ne cessary t o b r i ng it i n t o working erd l 3 again, and th e p o li ce eng i ne b ecame so freque n, i o inoperative from this cause that in the end it had be supplied with a contin uous stream of hot water ' with which it did most effective service. A store house, containing 4,000 tons of coal, was for set n i u time in great danger, but, owing to the skill oil vigour with which the engines were directed 1121 h: worked, all means of commun ication betw een I th burning mass and this building were at len,F; es successfully cut off. In addition to the difficulties men had to cont en d w ith others great fire, the work usually attendant upon a tremely unpleasant na t ure —the dens it y ef t a 1 , 1 ) f the smoke and the stench of the burning to frequent so great and overpowering that a change of hands was found indispens Several of the firemen and others u pon who'l l tio jets of water were thrown from time to i wo rk of ice, while numbers, including were quickly covered with a s hining Kcal' being tary, were covered with a more disagreeable coat in go of tar. Fortunately, no injury whatever was tamed by the working department of the premou,' ithoug , ' or any portion of the machinery ; and a • cd by some public inconvenience may be occasion the large destruction of gas, the company i n e a et many of the announced that any such inconvenience the most temporary duration. The valu e of the 11 0 t perty destroyed (which was not insured) has " yet been ascertained, but it is supposed that it WO amount to several thousand pounds. sui Ik u I Ia Y y STERIOUS DISAPPE kiI.ANcE —A Limerick cor" responden .N t i o g f h t t h .. !frening :hail ' • •it ' es •--4, Pallas-gre?' f s a t i l i t i t i i l o y l i : his family 111 rho mysteriousm' i disap pearance of In (a n l, creating ais enot g ins r . e T a t l ul i l i re n , edaans:liinsnse missing O'Grady, f Castlerrarde, in the county 0, without any luggage, torte Limerick Junction, whene° ll o proceeded to Dublin On business of a pressing nature. , it arrived in Dublin on Friday last, at half-past 4 am., arrant would gentlest inst., would appear that he returned here by the 1 o'clock. il_ the same day (Friday), for his greatcoat and travailing 11 ghti,n the minds et were . found, shortly 'after the arrival of the train, by ..t l _, police near the station ; and a farmer alleges he saw .IT . _ 0' Grady at about the same hour (6 p.m.) walking across L T! fields towards Castlegarde, which is no more that .1. ! miles from the Pallas station, Since that time every ingu,4 has been set on foot by the police and his friends, and to beloved; but I deeply regret that, up to the presens,:.o3?._! peasantry of the neighbourhood, by whom he..was gretatly_ tidings have been received. 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