The Sun. — London, England, 1860-12-05 00:00:00

........_..._ 4. _ ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT- GAiRDEN.—Undcr the Manat , ,ement 'of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. The Production of Mlle's new grand lege ndary opera will take place TO-MORROW, December Gth. BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE. Supported by Miss Loutisa rYne. Miss Thirlwall ; Mr. A. Lawrenc e, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. H. Corri, Mr. J. Wharton, Mr. T. Distin, Mr. Lcrall, and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Conductor, Mr. A. Mellon.---Orchestra of Eighty Performers ; Chorus of Fifty Voices. Xloors open at 7 ; commence at half-past 7. p OVAL ENGL ISH OPERA, COVENT -1 11 GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA DYNE and Mi. W. FARRISON, Sole Lessees. THIS EVEN:ING, THE AMBUSCADE. The new Operet:a, THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE, Miss Louisa Pyne aid Mr. H. Corri. To conclude with rTHE NIGHT DANCERS. Messrs Haigh, TI. Corri, G. Distin, and Lyall ; Madame Palmieri, Miss Albertazzi, 151 1 $s Lean*, Miss ThirlwalL and Mies Iluddart. Conductor—Mr. All:ed Mellon. Doors open at Seven. Commetce at lief-past. 111AI:A TR I !,-ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone , TITS EVENING the nerforni,mars will mimmenee with Sheridan's comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR, OCANDAL. Mr. Buckstone, 3fise Amy Sedgwick, &c. After which. JENNY LIND AT LAST. Jenny (her first a ppearance), Miss Rose Howard. And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON.. Comynence at 7. • Ou, 7. PRINCES S'S THEATRE - Lesqee - and Manktrer. Mr. A. Harris. rFILS EVENING, the performances will commence with SUSA N SMITH- To be followed by RUY BLAS. Supported by Mr. Fechter, Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond, Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose Leclercq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Soie Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, THE PE CS OF THE PARTERRE. Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott. The Music by Mr. Geovre Loder. Principal characters by Mr A. Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Ternan, Miss Neville, MissHudspeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner;Miss Dowdas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson. After which. a new Drama, entitled HANDY ANDY. Messrs. Campbell, Johnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, Villiers, Butler. and John Drew (his 9th appearance)•• Mrs. J. Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, bliss Ternan, and Miss Neville.' Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNE - Or THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by.m Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Butler, I%lr. Villiers, Mr. G. Vinin , , Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Clifford, Mr. . JohnstoneKeel and Madame Celeste. T Jo commence at a quarter to 7, ey , on account of the length of the entertainments. A DELPHI, NF IV THEATRE -ROYAL. Sole Proorletor and Manneer. Mr. Beni. Webster. engagement for a limited number of nights of Miss ARlles Roberton and Mr. Dion Boucicault, who will appear every evenino• in the highly successful Drama of "The Colleen 8aN912. T IS EVENING, UE RIFLE BRIGADE. Messrs. W. TH Smith,. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, d s an After . witch, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Roucicault, D. Fi s her, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billing - ton, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Billington, - Mrs. Chatterley , Miss K. Kelly, ,tc. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, Xi. Orchestra Stalls, ss. • Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, • Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 1s ; Gallery, 6d: Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WIC BATTY. Miss Rebecca Isaacs every Evening. This Evening, a new Spectacle, entitled TUE LION CONQUEROR ; or, The .Death Jungle, expressly for the introduction Lions.' Wonders of the World, " The Groupe of PerfOlTllitg The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome and their Troupe of unequalled perf ,- ,rmers, &c., including Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest th e incomparable Wonder of the age. Concluding with THE DAUGHTER OF TIIE REGI MENT. Marie, Hiss Rebecca Isaacs. Doors open at half-past 6, pertor m ance commence at 7. BOX-Ofibe open daily from till 4 St ag e Manager—Mr.:M. SENT. THE CATTLE SHOW ANT) CANTERBURY HALL. C. MORTON begs to inform visitors to London that the above II ALT , , with its Magnificent Gallery of Modern Paint incrs, by all the best masters, is OPEN EVERY EVENING at 7 o'clock. GRAND SELECTIONS FROM BELLINI'S NORMA AND PLOTOW'S MARTHA. - PRINCIPAL ARTISTES, MISS RUSSELL MADAME MARIA MISS TYRREL MISS WILKINSON' Mr. HENRY HERBERT and Mr. BRNARD. Conductor Mr. JO E NGIIMANS. The COMIC Department comprises Messrs. A. B. Hollings worth, W. T. Critelifield, J. Blanchard, G. W. Pel l, Charley Fox. and E. Marshall, in his transformation song . , DOMESTIC DRAMA," parsonatingfive different characters. WEATTIBIL-S-ux OFFICZ, DEC. 5, 1860. THEIVVOIKETER, IN THE SHADS. 46 —highest since noon yesterday. 43 —lowest this morning and during the night. 49—this day at noon. VAnomETER-29. 43 . WlND—West ; light, with dull weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.--I%.Sorning, 6h. 17m.—Afternoon, 6h. 43m, To-siour.ow.-Morning, 7h. 13m.—Afternoon, 7h. 46m A THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5, 1860. At last Mr, BRIGHT has spoken again to his own constituents. His political reticence in their regard was broken last evening in the Town Hall of Birmingham. Without an instant's doubt to the hearty satisfaction of the liberal electors of that great borough—as without any doubt whatever also to the satisfaction of the liberal electors scattered far and wide throughout the United Kingdom : at any rate of those liberal elector's who can think (as well as vote) of their own free will, or for themselves. But—how will it be in regard to this last remarkable speech—for a truly remarkable speech in many particulars it will cer tainly be found to be upon examination —how will it be in regard to this last notable speesh of Mr. BRIGHT'S at Birmingham—how will it be to the old world Tories, to the great landowners of the three kingdoms, to that dominant section of the Upper Ten Thousand that may be said to consist of the aboriginal champions of Conserva ism. Why, to these—the possessors of the per sang, the "blue blood," the "divine ichor" of what in their vein is doubtless alone worthy of the title of Family in England—never, perhaps, will Mr. BRIGHT have appeared to be a more flagrant or a more audacious Revolutionist than in these last daring utterances of his addressed to the Liberal constituency—to his own Liberal constit uenc y —at Igi r''aingham. To them he will be as the Ozee of the A rk of the Constitution. Though, in truth, his hand is but reverently raised to prevent that Ark from Falling. The arch Demagogue, as he will now more than ever s eem i n the eyes of the still, in one sense, dmiliant Tery Monopolists—the arch Dema gogue who has been already so conspicuously suc cessful in sweeping away antiquated illusions in de partments of our political r egard to other system—has now turned hi s unblenching front antagonistically against—shame to the sacre ligious i n novator a nd Ico noclast l —absolutely against the sacred and awful laws of entail and primoge niture ! "Corn" he dared to say last night, at Binn in gh am, "Ives free now, but som e years ago it was not free, and if it had not been ao now the country would have been turned up s id e down. Iron was free, shares were free, cash was free, everything but land , which had a clause attached to it which would prove utterly ruinous to anything else. The land, in point o f fact, was in bondage, and the people in boncloge with it." Having uttered which alarming words—words that will ring bodingly, as the phrase ice, " throughout the length and breadth of the land," words that will sound to tire more timorous like the clang cf the gauntlet flung down, or like the blast upon the war trumpet, as the signal for onset—Mr. BRIGIIT goes on to particularise the two principal obstacles now remaining to be overthrown, to the end that this new era of social and political prosperity May advance more freely and uninterrupted in its general development ! Those two obstacles being none other than—in plain, .. simple English—tbe laws of entail and primogeni ture " The first of these obstacles," observed Mr. l BRIGHT last night, in that dreadful revolutionary Pandemonium of the Town Hall at Birmingham, " was the law of primogeniture. If the Editors of the Newspapers," he added," or the writers of those journals favoured the public with any of their observations upon what he was now saying, they would no doubt tell them this, that there was no such thing in England as the law of primogeniture, and that a man might leave his property as he liked . by his will ; that it was only in those cases where he died without a will that the law of primogeni ' ture comes into effect, the fact being that the whole of the freehold landed property was given to the one son, although the rest of the brothers and sisters were turned penniless into the world." The Editors of Newspapers at any rate, after having their ignorance thus dissipated by this timely reminder as to what is what, can hardly blunder now, how ever, into any such anticipated misrepresentation. The hole in the ice is humanely labelled" Danger" an th a t public-spirited (for their especial benefit) by atIJ b e nignant H.S.'s dragsm the member for 21irminghamf and will doubtless swerve w ith sufficient adroit" of their skates the edge ness to sweep scatheless round the brink of the of course, have inevitably destruction :_ hat must, engulphed them t for the generous warning e i re .nmbendibus. Thanking leading to this timely the cordial voice that thus c2lls to us also, among the Editors of Newspapers, i( Bt ware 1 " we must nev ertheless acknowl e d ge th a t the notion of advancing any su c h as t oun di ng op i n i on as the one confidently looked for by Mr. BRIGLIT from the comments of the public journalists, would certainly never once have entered into our imagination. Let us go further upon this point, and at once insist in reference to other and very different objections—objections far more likely to be raised in opposition to Mr. BRIGHT'S "rash" and " flagitious" onslaught upon the laws of entail and primogeniture, that, in his daring aspiration thus to carry out a far grander Reform than any hitherto conducing towards the freeing of the produce of the soil, one leading directly towards the freeing of the soil itself—this bold root-and branch Reformer cannot, in reason, be taunted with wishing simply to Americanise the British Constitution. In demonstration of which it is only necessary to turn to the most English of all our counties, to the most Saxon of all the seven kingdoms of the Heptarchy—to KENT, where there is just possibly something or other under the name of gavelkind as entirely opposed even as Mr. BRIGHT himself to the Laws of Entail and Primogeniture. It is not to Illinois or to Massachusetts observe, but to Kent, and to no spot of earth less English than Kent, that reference is here being made for proof positive that in this onslaught of his upon the laws of entail and primogeniture, whatever Mr. BRIGHT is thereby attempting to do, he is certainly not attempting— as he has been so often before now been taunted with attempting—to Americanise the British Constitution. Mr. BRIGHT, it is true, un doubtedly refers, in his outspoken way, to the working of certain bold constitutional changes within the boundaries of the United States of America, referring in this way to Virginia and to Pennsylvania; but he might, as we have here indicated, he might quite readily by the utterance of two words, familiar to the merest tyre-reader of Sir WILLIAM BLACKSTONE'S Commentaries, have reminded his hearers, and afterwards his own readers, that nearer home were originally sown the seeds that centuries afterwards had this abundant fruition upon being transplanted and cultured on the more liberal soil upon the opposite shore of the Atlantic. However this may bo in the estimation of the old Tory landowners of England, they may as well, taking timely warning from this new sign of the times, flung down to them like a gage of battle by their old antagonist [whom they must allow in spite of their own sinister predictions to the con trary, has not yet quite contrived to ruin them) their old antagonist, but not by any means for that reason their foe, the member for Birmingham. It will be better fcr themselves perhaps, nay, it will be better for the interests of us all, if these landowners lay well to heart the closing words of this startling speech of Mr. BRIGHT'S-a speech addressed rather to them than to his liberal constituents at Birmingham. " The land owners," said this bold Tribune of the People yesterday to those constituents, but at the very class of whom he was speaking —" The land owners don't understand the question ; they fancy there is a terrible abyss opening before them, and they don't know how far they are going down, and they fear that perhaps they will never find any bottom if they fall. This is the sort of notion they have if this law should be touched, They imagine it is something very complex, which it is as it exists, and they think it is very dange rous to meddle with it in the least They think when we propose the alteration of those laws, we propose something which will oblige them to part with their estates by some mysterious process which they cannot avert, and that in some way or other their power as great territorial magnates will be abolished. On the contrary, I believe this freedom which I advocate would raise the value of land in every parish in the United Kingdom. I believe, whether a man kept it or sold it, it would be worth more if these laws were abolished. I believe it would give an enormous stimulus to labour all over the agricultural districts, and raise the wages of the labourers." And that freedom which Mr. BRIGHT here avows he is ardently hoping for and urgently advocating ? In one sentence, it is—the emancipation of the soil itself, of the produce of which Mr. BRIGHT has the glory—a glory enjoyed by him now for fourteen years past, and henceforth secure of being associated with his name in perpetuity—the benignant glory appertaining to one of the first and foremost of its emancipators. We have been now for about eighteen years so familiar with the working of the Tariff Reform in our own country, that we are liable to forget our earlier attempts. We refer, of course, to those more noticeable reductions made by Sir ROBERT PEEL in 1842, and which were the first great step towards the repeal of the Corn Laws, the further and considerable Customs reductions of 1846, and the sweeping away of all the minor Customs duties, and one anything but minor, by Mr. GLADsToNE this year. In 1842 when Sir ROBERT laid on his seven- Penny Income Tax, it was done to balance our income and expenditure, and also to make such numerous reductions in our commercial tariff as would, he expected, compensate even the unfortunates under schedule D for the obnoxious d eman d he made upon them. On that occas ion he proposed a reduction of duty on about 750 articles, and to leave untouched the duties on about 450 more. The Principle of hi s reductions he stated to be this, On. ra w produce was not to exceed 5 per cent. On partly manufacturedarticles it was not to exceed 12 per ceut. On articles wholly manufactured it was not - - to exceed 20 per cent. And he calculated the revenue thus sacrificed, nominally, for he expected it would be partly recouped on other articles, at £270,000. The three years which followed, as is well known, proved the justice of his expectations ; the relaxations had produced an increase of revenue, and protective duties nearly vanished in 1846. The publication of the new French Tariff led us to turn back to the first tariff, that of 1842, proposed by Sir ROBERT PEEL, for a slight comparison. The first thing which struck us in the PEEL Tariff was the absence of the word " Free" compared with its frequent occurrence in the NAPOLEON Tariff. If we have overlooked no instance we found bat three ; and to what would the reader suppose did that pri vilege apply,—te LOBSTERS ; GOLD and DIAMONDS ! A few things designated free, when coming from foreign countries, were only nominally foreign, such as fish taken and cured by ourselves ; or equipments of ships in actual use on their voyege home. We need not say the list of free articles, chemicals, however, forming a large part of them, is pretty numerous in the NAPOLEON Tariff—we must leave to such of our readers as wish it the trouble of counting them. In one respect the two Tariffs are alike, the word " prohibited" vanishes in both. If we compare again the rates of duty, they appear very similar. A great many in the new French Tariff are ad valorem, and they range generally from 5 to 20 per cent., and, as with Sir ROBERT PEEL, raw material is naturally favoured. In some few cases indeed we find a very high duty charged, but these are substitutes for prohi bition in the abolished scale, and probably the word prohibited" might in most of these cases have as well been retained. Generally, so far as we can tell without minute examination, the reduction of duties appears as great as that made in Sir ROBERT PEEL'S first tentative experiment. This fact is certainly interesting to notice. It gives hope that the French will be as likely to make use of their primer as we have done. If in three years after, Sir It. PEEL was able, with the willing assistance of the trading community, to propose a second great great reduction of duties, we may well expect that by 1864, when many of the French duties are to be yet farther reduced, our neighbours will wish to advance further in that line than they are actually bound to do. The EMPEROR is a known Freetrader. He will not be slow to publish the fiscal operation of the lowered duties, and to urge the claims of the national Exchequer to further profitable reductions. He is also a man who relies on the favour of the many, and he will not wish to satisfy the desires awakened by the introduction of cheaper articles for the million. The intellectual public of France are also keenly logical, and like to push a theory even too far; they will want a consistent free-trade tariff. We should not be surprised therefore to find the timid French public awakened, more quickly than we could expect, to the blessings of thorough going free trade. The protected interests, as here, will die hard, but the EMPEROR and the people, with experience to boot, will be too strong for them. Rude islanders though we be in the eyes of some of our continental neighbours, and roughly as we can speak of Emperors and Kings whose ways do not please us, we can cherish and evince a sympathy with Queens and Empresses on occasions of personal trial, which they and theirs must appreciate. At this moment two Empresses, with whose Consorts we have had many a misunderstanding—happily going no further than words—are receiving such attentions as we can offer—one in seeking recovery of her health, the other desiring by entire change of scene and circumstance to relieve the pressure of domestic affliction. The former is at this moment on board her MAJESTY'S own yacht, which, we are happy to say, has proved herself a most admirably sea-worthy vessel in a storm which compelled other ships to refit, and is now nearing, we trust, the island in whose mild climate the state of her health requires her to pass the winter. The Emperor of AUSTRIA with Englishmen stands only second on the same list of which the King of NAPLES is at the head, and he has been spoken of here by us all, politi cally, as his conduct deserves; but sure we are that every one of us rejoices sincerely that our Sovereign could show his young wife the kind courtesy of offering her her own sailing vessel, to mitigate the discomforts of a sea voyage to the invalid Empress. We feel all the more pleasure in the courtesy on account of our unavoidable poli tical quarrel with the EMPEROR. The Empress of the FRENCH is not such a stranger to us. She is, indeed, connected by descent with our nobility, and we have been favoured with her -visits before, in company with the EMPEROR. But this last private visit some how interests us far more than the other. She is in sorrow. She mourns a tenderly-beloved sister. Her spirits sink under a trial which every one of us understands ; she needs the relief which we have all had to seek; and she honours us by seeking it in England. She does not in gloomy, damp Novem ber, seek the brighter skies and softer air of southern climes, but turns to chilly cloudy, Eng land. Why ? Is it because she thought to find hearts and welcomes here which she could not elsewhere ? We half flatter ourselves with such an idea. Most certainly from the time she landed, and received the first cheers of the few who discovered her at York, to the day on which his Royal Highness himself escorted her to the train from Windsor, all classes have done I I her all the honour which the circumstances of her private visit permitted. Dukes and Burghers, and the rough populace of Manchester, and our Volunteers, too—all people of every grade, seemed desirous to show her that she was welcome to England. Such a French invasion they would cheer as often as it was made, and not be displeased to hear of a return invasion from England. One element of the universal and peculiar interest felt by Englishmen in the Empress of the FRENCH, however, we imagine to be, that marriage, in her case, was not a political arrangement. The EMPEROR himself almost openly confessed that, defeated in his attempts to obtain a wife from among the daughters of old dynasties, he consoled himself by indulging his affections in seek ing the hand of a beautiful and amiable young woman, the subject of another Crown. Englishmen see in her an Empress who owes her position, not to the accident of birth, but to those charms and merits to which the heart of every man among us cannot be insensible. She has amiably borne her honours ; and having gladly welcomed her among us, and felt honoured by her choice of our country as her solace in her trials, we now bid farewell with the heartiest good wishes to EUGENIE, Empress of the FRENCH. The Countess of Shelburne comes to Lansdowne House to-day, from Bowood. The Marquis of Lansdowne will arrive in town at the latter end of the week, Viscount Palmerston comes to town to-day, from 'visiting her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The marriage of Lord Delaniere with Miss Sey mour, daughter of Sir Hamilton and the Hon, Lady Sey mour is fized to take place on the 27th inst. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAYEVENING, DECEMBER 5, M. A marriage between M. Vanderstichelen, Minister of Public Works in Belgium, and Mdlle. Rogier, daughter of the Belgian Minister at the Court of the Tuileries, is to be celebrated in Paris towards the end of the present month. The Count de Syracuse intends to take up his residence at Florence. Lord and Lady Huntingfield have left the St. George's Hotel. Lord and Lady Egerton (of Tatton) are receiving a succession of visitors at their seat is Cheshire. Lord De Lisle and Dudley has left the St. George's Hotel. Lady Molesworth has returned to London, from Paris. Her ladyship will leave town in a few days, on avisit to the Earl and Countess of Cork, at Marston House. Wo are informed that Sir Baldwin Walker has resigned the office he has so long held as Surveyor of the Navy, and will probably accept the command of a foreign station. Some of the journals state that Baron de Roths child is negotiating for the purchase from the Count do Chambord of the forest of Vassy. This is the last portion of the property held by that prince in France, with the ex ception of Chambord. The number of emigrants who embarked at Havre for transatlantic countries during the month of November amounted to 1,044, of whom 725 went to New York, 242 to New Orleans, and 77 to Buenos Ayres. RESTORATION OF SEBASTOPOL.—A set of very powerful sheers, worked by steam power, and adequate to lift the largest class of marine boilers and machinery, is in course of construction by Messrs. Jackson and Watkins, at the Canal Ironworks, Poplar, for the use of the port of Sebastopol. DOG STEALERS.—A couple of " professionals" were sentenced yesterday, at the Clerkenwell Sessions, to a year's imprisonment, for having in their possession a dog which,they said they " found" accidentally. DENT V. DENISON.—This case terminated in the Court of Probate last night. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff; but they stated that they believed Mr. Denison had reasonable grounds for disputing the cancel lation of the will. Administration was then decreed to the plaintiff. INCENDIARISM.—At the Maidstone Assizes two soldiers, named Holloway and Hastings, were sentenced to transportation for life, for setting fire to a barn and three wheat stacks, at Gillingham. CONVEYING SPIRITS INTO PRISONS.—A young woman, named Aubrey, was yesterday fined by the magis trate at the Southwark Police Court £3, for secretly con veying a small bottle of gin into the Queen's Prison. THE REFORMATORIES.—A man, named Bailey, residing in Jerusalem-court, Clerkenwell, was yesterday committed to the House of Correction for 14 days, for refusing to pay towards the support of his two children at the Red-hill Reformitory. MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANT.—It is said to be a fact, that the proposal recently referred to as having been addressed by the Midland Railway Company to the Lanca shire and Yorkshire is tantamount to an absolute amalga mation. The object is apparently to arrange a direct com munication through the Midland and manufacturing districts independent of the London and North Western Railway. It may require some time, however, before negotiations of so much importance can be satisfactorily settled. The Rectory of Ulcombe, near Maidstone, has become vacant by the death of the Rev. Samuel Mence, 8.D., formerly fellow and tutor of Trinity College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1838. The benefice, which is worth £l,OOO a year, is in the gift of the Ho n. C. H. Butl er - Clarke, Wandesford. REPRESENTATION OF WEST SUSSEX.—Yester day's Gazette gives notice that the Speaker's warrant for a new writ for th e election of a member in the room of the Earl of March, elevated to the peerage, will be issued at the expiration of fourteen days from the 3d inst. THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY. —The Mayor of 1 Southampton has recommended that Monday, the 24t)' 1 inst., should be kept as a general holiday, in order to g 4 .ve shopkeepers and their assistants three clear days' holiay, viz., Sunday, Monday, and Christmas-day. Loss OF SEVEN LIVES ON THE EAST COAST.-- A fishing lugger came into Great Yarmouth harbour yes terday with seven of her crew missing. The poor fellows perished in a rather heavy gale, which blew off the east ooast on Sunday night. MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.— The late respected Duke of Norfolk, when in the House of Commons, voted in favour of legalising marriage with the sister of a deceased wife, and spoke in its favour in the fol lowing terms :—" Seeing that it was not against the law of God, seeing the great social evil s w hi c h arose f rom the re . . striction, and believing that there was no comparison be tween the social advantages and the social disadvantages arising from this cause, he should give the measure his cheerful assent," The late Baron Bunsen bore testimony before the Bishop of Lichfield and the other royal commis sioners to the frequency of such marriages in Prussia, and to the desirable consequences which aro admitted by the most eminent men in that country to result from them. MITRE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION.—In the Bankruptcy Court yesterday there were some further pro ceedings of a remarkable character in the case of the Mitre Assurance Association. There was a great deal of fencing on the part of one witness (Mr. F. P. F. Strousberg) in connection with the attempt on the part of the assignees to discover the whereabouts of Mr. Brydges, the Secretary, and of Mr. Latham, whose post is described a i p that of "a kind of office director, or in-door superintendent." Mr. Strousberg admits that shares were repeatedly transferred to the office porter. The proceedings were adjourned. The examination of Mr. Edwards, the company's solicitor, with respect to the books, is appointed for the 13th inst. COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN CUMBERLAND.—On Monday morning an explosion took place in a coal pit at Maryport, Cumberland, worked by Capt. Harris, by which it is supposed that three men have been killed. It appears that it is customary to send a staff of men called " overmen" into the pit at the beginning of the week, before the col liers go down, to ascertain that all is right. On Monday morning about half-a-dozen of the "over-men" had gone down, a little before 4 o'clock. At 4 o'clock a great explo sion was heard. Some of the "over-men" made their way to the pit's mouth soon after, when it was found that three at least of the men who had gone down were missing. All those who had escaped had felt the effects of the explosion, but having been in distant shafts had happily sustained no injury. Search was immediately instituted, as far as prac ticable, for the missing men, but the " firedamp" r revented much progress. About 9 o'clock the body of one man was recovered. He had been blown a considerable distance, and his head was severed from the trunk. Every effort is being made to ascertain the fate of the others who are missing, but up till Monday night no trace of them had been found. The inquest was to take place on Tuesday. BELOW THE ATLANTlC.—Soundings in the At lantic have been particularly pushed forward, and have excited, on account of the telegraph cable, more general interest than any others yet taken. They have revealed the fact that at least 230 miles from the coast of Ireland the water is still shallow ; or, in other words, that there is another Ireland only waiting to be raised—thus reversing the famous panacea for keeping the country quiet. It is just beyond this that the true Atlantic begins, the gulf suddenly sinking to 9,000 feet. Thus Ireland may one day have a coast line as high as the Alps. The whole floor of the Atlantic is paved with a soft, sticky substance, called oaze, nine-tenths consisting of very minute animals, many of them mere lumps of jelly, and thousands of which mild float with ease in a drop of water; some resembling toothed wheels; others, bundles of spines or threads shooting from a little globule. Some, however, are endowed with the property of separating flint from the sea water--which is more than every chemist could do; and there are hundreds of square-miles covered with the skele- tons of these little creatures. Part of this oaze is doubtless from the clouds of rain-dust which rise from the vast steppes of South America in such masses as to darken the sun, and make the animals fly to shelter, and which, after sweeping like a siinoom over the country, lose themselves in the " steep Atlantic." No bones have been found of the larger animals, so that the kraken and sea- serpent might sleep their last sleep, and leave not a bone or a vertebra to tell the tale. Not a mast or anchor, not a block or strand, not a coin or a keepsake has been found to testify of the countless gallant ships and more gallant men who have gone down amid the pitiless waves.—All the Year Round. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT RUGBY.—About 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon a fire broke out at the house of the Rev. J. B. Smythies, one of the masters of Rugby School, and in whose house upwards of 40 boys belonging to the school are lodged and boarded. They were at dinner when the fire was discovered, and upon the alarm being given each boy rushed to his study at the upper part of the house, with the view of saving what he could, but as the fire had originated in one of these rooms to windward of the building, and a strong wind was blowing at the time, the flames had spread with fearful rapidity, enveloping the whole of the upper storey; consequently, it was!rendered almost impossible to save the contents. Many of the boarders have lost all they possessed, except the clothes they wore. The house, which which is rendered untenable, is, together with the furniture, insured in the County Fire-office. SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW,--To mor row (Thursday) is the last day for the admission of imple ments at the Baker-street Bazaar intended foi exhibition at the ensuing Smithfield Club Cattle Show, and Saturday evening next at 10 o'clock will be the last hour at which any cattle or other stock will be admitted to the show-yard. There is a large increase in the number of entries as com pared with former years. The show will be divided into 42 classes by the stewards, who, having duly numbered every animal and pen, the judges will on Monday next, coming to their decision by numbers only examine the various specimens, al:v1 make their award of the prizes. On Monday evelal'ng at eight o'clock the show will be opened for ?'";;ate view of the members of the club. It will open to the public on Tuesday next, Doc. 11, and continue open daily till Friday the 14th, on the evening of which it will close. It is expected that not only the Prince Consort but the Prince of Wales and other members of the royal family will visit the show this year. LArIEST NEW• S. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PARIS, DEC. 5. The Moniteur publishes a decree conferring upon Marshal Vaillant the title of Minister of the Emperor's Household. The Count do Persigny arrived yesterday in Paris, and immediately took up his residence at the hotel of the Minister of the Interior. NAPLES, DEC. 4. The Consulta Generale has been opened. The explanations given by the Government to the Consulta have produced a good impression on the country. Poerio has been appointed Vice-President of the Consulta. The Neapolitan nobility have given a grand ball to the deputation from the Sardinian Chambers. Four Sardinian batteries have opened fire against Gaeta. Tranquillity prevails at Naples, and in the pro- vinces. PARIS, DEC. 4. It is now beyond doubt that the French Govern ment has intimated to King Francis 11., that it is convinced of the inutility of further resistance. The enthusiasm for Victor Emmanuel is very great in Sicily. The reception he has met with will induce the King to prolong his stay for two or three days. It is not known whether his Majesty will return by Naples, but it is believed that he will. BERNE, DEC. 4. M. Dapples, from Lausanne, has been elected President, and Al. Latour, from Chur, Vice-Pre sident of the National Council. The National party has thus obtained the victory. CATTARO, DEC. 4. The Prince of Montenegro, having assembled his guards, addressed them as follows :—" I shall soon give you an opportunity of proving your valour, upon which depends the future prosperity of Montenegro." It is announced that the Prince will cede Godinge, in the district of Cernizka, to the French, for the purpose of being colonised. BOMBAY, Nov. 12. Disturbances are imminent on account of the collection of the income tax. All business is stopped. FRANCE. 13ouRsE, Dec. 4.—The arrival of the English funds with a slight improvement has tended to the maintenance of firmness in this market, and the business done has been generally at an advance on the closing rates of yesterday. Threes, for the Ac count, are now at 70f 621 c; Mobilier, 783 f 75c; Orleans, 1,392 f; Northern, 990 f; Mediterranean, 912 f 50c ; Austrian, 512 f 50c ; Lombard, 490 f. The following are the last quotations:— 41 perfper Cents ... 96 35, Credit Fancier 920 Do. end month.... i Belgian 4f — 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 70 Roman Bank Shares 2940 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 786 25 Spanish Threes 49 Do. Account — Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1385 .. 1390 Northern New ditto. 895 - .. Lyons and Mediterranean 910 .. 911 25 Geneva 405 .. 405 Southern 525 .. 526 25 Western Eastern Sardinian 402 50 .. 405 Austrian Lombard GAETA. A letter from Gaeta, of the 29th ult., says : " The siege of Gaeta is a singular affair, as the Piedmontese persist in not firing. They, however, appear to be active behind their works. Convoys are seen passing and repassing at great distances from the fortress. It appears certain that the batteries are not ready, or they would be heard. On the side of the Neapolitans there is less silence ; as the Queen's, Philipstadt, and other bat teries frequently throw shells and bombs; they take time to aim, and their projectiles often hit the mark. Not a day passes but the enemy has a certain number of wounded. The day before yesterday the Neapolitan shot stopped one of the convoys. Three days since a Piedmontese post having been installed on the bridge over which the Mola road passes, the battery nearest fired half a dozen shots, and the Piedmontese soldiers were seen to retire. Bosco is the soul of all these move ments." AMERICA. GALWAY, WEDNESDAY. The Atlantic Royal Mail steamship Prince Albert, from New Yotk, arrived here this morning. The Arago was intercepted off Cape Race on the 23d ult. Her news was telegraphed to New York. (LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO ST. JOHN'S.) NEW YORK, Nov. 23. The steamships Africa and Palestine, from Liver pool, have arrived. 500 Kansas men, under Capt. Montgomery, are ravaging the Missouri borders, with the avowed intention of running off all slaves. General Harney is taking measures for their extermination. The Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, and Norfolk banks have suspended. Tho Charleston banks have partially stopped payment. The New York banks are exchanging 6,000,000 dols. extra. The money market has improved. Stocks, after undergoing a heavy decline, closed firmer. The following are the latest quotations :—lsrew York Central, 76; Illinois, 59 ; Erie, 31. Cotton dull. Middling upland, 101 c. to 101 e. Breadstuffs firm. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 21. Cotton sales, 9,000 bales. Middling, 101 to 10j. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The Tasmanian cannot be repaired. Her cargo, mails, and passengers, will be transhipped to the Oneida at daylight, and she will be despatched at the latter part of this day. THE FREE NEGROES IN MARYLAND.—In all the counties in Maryland from which we have received returns--(says the Baltimore American), in which the act for the enslavement of free negroes was submitted to the people, the voters have emphatically and signally de nounced that unjust and unchristian law. The question has been met and decided without any reference to party politics, and the law is defeated by majorities amounting almost to unanimity. The result is greatly creditable to the counties in which the vote was taken, and honourable to the State at large. ANOTHER COLLISION ON THE NORTH EASTERN naiLWAY.—Another collision occurred on the North Eastern Railway yesterday morning about 7 o'clock, happily as free as the recent one at Croft from any per sonal injury, but betraying the same culpable negligence. It appears that a cattle train from York was shunting near to the junction of the Bedale and Leybourn branch with the main line, near Northallerton, when what is called the " beef" train from Newcastle, suddenly came up at its regu lar-going speed, no intimation of danger having been given to the driver, either by signal or otherwise, and a collision ensued. The shock had the effect of disjointing several trucks in either train, and prostrating them across bath up and down rails, which were blocked up for some time. The passenger train from York, which is due at Darlington at 8 o'clock, did not arrive until nearly 10; and that leaving Darlington at 7.10 for York would not reach its destination until noon. The driver of the shunting train is blamed for moving on to the main line, absolutely in contradictio to orders conveyed to him by signal. On the other hand it is alleged that alth ou g h the si▪ gnal had for some time been that he should remain stati▪ onary on the shunting line it was suddenly reversed, and therefore he no justified in poring on to the main line. INDIA. We have received the Overland Bombay Times and Standard of the 10th November, and the Cal cutta Englishman of the 2d November. We take following from the Overland Bombay Times and Standard of the above date :—" We are afraid we are about to enter upon a period of great perplexity throughout India. Information has been received from Neemuch that a famine is imminent in the districts round it, and that the Durbars of Kotah, Dhur, and Bursee have refused, in self-defence as we presume, to allow the transit of provisions across their frontiers. We under stand that Neemuch has but 15 days' food left, and is in danger of being starved. Happily, the transport train can carry grain 10 days from Doelia to the station, and we presume orders have already been issued for its relief. The Durbars we have named have offered to repay the advances received by their subjects for the supply of provi sions under contract, but have resolutely refused to allow any grain to leave their territories. The policy is short-sighted and unworthy, but it would be hard to persuade the native mind that it was not justified by the seeming necessity of their circumstances. " There s is every appearance of the approach of a more than usually cold season in Bombay. It is now only the 9th Nov., and the temperature is as low as we usually find it in the middle of December. The thermometer at daybreak, in a sheltered locality of the island, stood as low as 65 deg. The Baroda Railway works have been summarily suspended, and all the establishment dismissed. There are several rumours afloat as to the cause of this suspension, but nothing is known with certainty, and the Government guards its information with the most jealous care. " We are glad to be able to report the arrival, on 28th of October, of Messrs. Green's splendid ship Windsor Castle, under the command of our old friend Capt. Pare, who has apparently determined that what we regret to learn is his last voyage shall eclipse all his previous ones. The good ship arrived at Cannanore on the 19th of Oct., after a passage of 76 days. She left Cannanore on the 21st, and, in defiance of the light winds on the coast, came to anchor in our harbour on the evening of Sunday, the 28th ult. Captain Pare has made an annual voyage to Bombay for the last 31 years with but one exception, during which he was engaged in superintending the construction of the magnificent vessel the command of which he is about to resign on retiring from the sea. He is entitled to his rest if ever any man was, and few men ever left our shores with more regrets than our old friend Cap tain Pare. COMMERCIAL -INTELLIGENCE. The following are the latest markets by electric telegraph received. at Bombay : _ GALLE, 7TH Nov., 3.15 P.M. The steamer Columbian just sailed for Calcutta. BTH Nov., 6.45 P.M. The steamer Cyclops just sailed for Bombay. MADRAS, BTH Nov,, 1 P.M. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 21 to 2 per cent. pm. Five per Cent., 21 to 21 per cent. diet. Four per Cent., 17 to 18 per cent. do. Exchange on England, at six months' sight, 2s. Old. per rupee. Freight for England, £2 15s. per ton. Interest on Loans, 5 per cent. per annum. Money abundant. CALCUTTA, Nov. 9, 4.40. p.m. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Fours, 181 to 181 per cent. discount. Fives, 31 to 31 per cent. discount. Five-and-a-Half, 2 to 2-1 per cent. premium. Exchange on London, for first-class credits at six months' sight, 2s. ld, Exchange on Bombay, LI 18s. Freight to London—Dead weight, £2 ss. to £3 ss. ; jute £3 to £3 ss. ; seeds, £3 ss. COLOMBO, Nov. 8, 6 p.m. Freight for England—Coffee in casks, £3lss. per ton for immediate shipment; ditto, £3 10s. per ton for a fortnigh' hence ; oil, £3 Os per ton. COCHIN, Nov. 7, 6.34 p.m. Oil, 87r. to 88r. per candy. Freight, £3 to £3 10s. Ton nage abundant. KURRACHEE, Nov. 7. Freight for England, n 7s. 6d, per ton. ADDRESS FROII 711 E PRO-DICTATOR OF SICILY. The following letter has been addressed by the pro-Dictator to the Secretaries of State : PALERMO, 'Oct. 22. " Gentlemen,—As the time of parting with you draws near, I feel it my duty to address you a few words of affection and gratitude. " You have been my faithful companions, my wise counsellors, in one of the most arduous missions which history could record; and it is in a great measure due to you if I have succeeded in conduct ing public affairs to a happy issue. " Sincerity of intention, frankness of speech, together with the love of conciliation, conveyed by constant care from words to facts, and unremitting exertions in promoting the public weal, were the only expedients which I conscientiously pointed out, and which you diligently followed. " Now that an admirable, universal concord binds to one single object all Sicilian minds and hearts— now that all have a claim to victory, and none need fear defeat—it is now more than at any pre vious time that we can appreciate the dangers we have incurred, the difficulties we have surmounted, congratulate ourselves on the present, and with confidence cheerfully look forward to the happy future of this our dear island. " The only thing we may regret is the stern swiftness of time, which has not allowed us to accomplish the glorious task left us by Garibaldi. At all events, no consideration whatever has hin dered us from boldly undertaking the work of a great social and civil reform in behalf of a land destined by nature to the most flourishing civilisa tion, but which the iron hand of tyranny has too often contrived to hold in a state of abject barba rism. " But although we were necessarily compelled from the beginning to abandon the gratifying idea of perfecting the reorganisation of the State, we have, nevertheless, found in our hearts and in our convictions sufficient strength to avail ourselves of a rare opportunity for establishing at least and practically introducing some great principles of civil government. We have accordingly scattered by handfuls and without hesitation the fruitful seeds of the improvements required by the present conditions of Sicily, trusting that the Government of Victor Emmanuel would with alacrity continue our work, which, however, is to be finally sealed by the great National Parliament. • " We have provided for equality by destroying the last relics of undue privileges, for fraternity by rendering pardon the noble instrument of civil restoration on the one hand, and of internal secu rity of the State on the other, for authority for reorganising governmental administration in the provinces and districts,' reconstituting magistracy, placing upon a solid basis the institution of royal carbiniors and of guards of public security, for popular education and public instruction, by endow ing them largely, foundin asylums throughout the island, ordering the formation of schools for boys and girls in all the communes, and academies, lyce ums, institutions of arts and sciences, agricultural, nautical, veterinary, and the reform of the throe Universities of Palermo, Catanio, and Messina. We have provided for their material well-being by dis burthening the communes in order to gradually open the way to the suppre ssion of the consump tionth duties, which weigh h eavil y on e poorer classes of society, by abolishing tithes, decree ing the sale of the landed property of the State, gaged leasing(an ) h te all Int property, y ,establishing, under soundest principles of public econom y, a b an k o f discount, of emission , and circulation. " We have effected all this in the short space of a mon th without taking which we have highly honoured . into account p r i vate pro bi ty pivot of civil administration, a a n n d d pesutbeleinic hed onesty, th e without referring to our national regard towards our glorious brethren wounded in the immortal battles of libe rt y , for whose future wants we have provided o deservedm o t i on s the without most legitimate a nd pensions by grantingth the em bestr referring to our acts of public beneficence, visiting with affectionate care the numerous establishments which derive their name from it in Palermo, and helping and relieving unmerited poverty wherever we could discover it. " There is likewise an act of Government which I must not omit calling your attention to—l mean the creation of an extraordinary and temporary Council of State charged to investigate and repre sent to the Kin g ' s G overnmen t what in the consti tution of the great Italian family should be the orders and institutions demanding special attention as best suited t o mee t the peculiar exigencies of Sicily, harmonising at the same time with the general requirements of the unity and prosperity of the Italian nation. Now, if the Sicilians will listen to me, I believe I have offered them in the extraordinary Council of State such an argument of concord, such a field for fraternal industry, such 411 advancement towards a bettor future, as cannot fail to prove that the authoritative result of its I labours, though merely of a consultive character, may elicit the most serious consideration from the King's Government and the National Parliament, and produce a free and extensive development of the territorial requirements of the island in perfect harmony:with those of our common mother country. " Gentlemen, I am sure that you, like myself, do not entertain the mean pretension of having invariably with unerring hand steered through the course of our common duties, but that you as well as I feel perfectly conscious that the goodwill which I promised on assuming the dicta torial powers has never wavered ; that we have never been a party Government ; and we have never flagged in those efforts which we considered condu cive to the public weal. " For our labours we have been amply requited by the satisfaction that public tranquillity has been as firmly maintained as though we had been acting in the most normal times. I am unwilling to appeal to the evidence of others, as I should in this case blend together friends and adversaries ; but though silent on this subject, it is my duty, as pro-Dic tator of a people who no sooner enter a state of liberty than they rise to greatness, and promise to take the lead before the oldest of free nations, it is my duty to summon. before the tribunal of the public opinion of Europe the testimony of all the foreign consuls resident in this city. By such an appeal, made before the light of day, the dense and dark mist .which clouded Sicily in the eyes of Europe will be dispelled, and I abandon to the judgment of history the insinuations of those who astonished Europe by the statement that, in the name of the most virtuous and purest of men, I had rendered hateful the government of a generous people, and by evil artifices and terrorism opened my way to treason. " A still greater and more handsome reward, gentlemen, we obtained yesterday. The people—. whom I love because I know them—having been left by me mast ers o f th emse l ves , h ave v i n di ca t e d their own as well as your and my reputation by the noblest demeanour that history could record. It was a day worthy of the brightest times of ancient Greece and Rome, and I know that the whole island has afforded to the world the same noble example. " Gentlemen, I congratulate you on these great achievements of the policy which it was my for tune to inaugurate in Sicily. " I congratulate and thank you, because by your aid I shall soon be able to deposit into the hands of the gallant personage who comes to represent the Re Galantuomo' in Sicily, with all its pres tige, the dictatorial authority' confided to me by Garibaldi. " Accept, gentlemen, the assurances of my grati tude and of my esteem. " MORDINI, Pro-Dictator." RAILWAY _DIVIDENDS. It appears that' last year four companies paid dividends at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum and under-nine be tween 1 and 2 per cent-25 between 2 and 3 per cent-32 between 3 and 4 per cent-29 between 4 and 5 per cent-19 between 5 and 6 per cent-five between 6 and 7 per cent four between 7 and 8 per cent-one between 8 and 9 per cent -and four between 9 and 10 per cent. The following were the dividends paid :-Aberdare (on lease to Taff Vale), 10 per cent on £50,000-Aberdare Valley, 5} per cent on £11,840-Alford Valley, 2 per cent on £14,722-Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 31 per cent on 184,364-Arbroath and Forfar, 51 per cent on £183,241-Ayr and Maybole, 4 per cent on /28,137-Ballymena,Ballymoney,Coleraine,and Portrush Junction, 4 per cent on £200,000-Belfast and Ballymena, 4 por cent. on £608,802-Belfast and County Down, 0.9 per cent. on £265,958-Birkenhead, 23 per cent on £1,911,505-Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, 3.16 per cent on 1760,350-Blyth and Tyne, 91 per cent on £201,000-Boston, Sleaford, and Midland Counties, 31 per cent on £164,639-Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds, 4- per cent on 1180,000-Bristol and Exeter, 51 per cent on £2,002,460-Buckinghamshire(onlease to LondonandNorth Western), 4 per cent on £1,215,000-Caledonian, 4 1 per cent on /3,289,119-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junc tion, 4 3125 per cent 0n.£238,511-Cockermouth and Work. ington, 41 per cent on £ 82 ,500-Coniston, 21 per cent on £lO,OOO-Cork, Bleared - , and Passage, 4 per cent on £118,700-Crieff Junction, 4 per cent on £30,177; Dee side, 6 per cent on £94,817-Dublin and Belfast Junction, 4f per cent on £879,372-Dublin and Drogheda, 41 per cent on £562,952-Dublin and Kingstown, 81 per cent on £350,000-Dunblane, Donne, and Callandar, 21 per cent on £42,502-Dundalk and Enniskillen, 1.66 per cent on £171,420-Dundee and Arbroath (on lease to Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Junction), 5 per cent on £200,000- Dundee and Newtyle (on lease to same company), 1.1 per cent on £111,650-East Grinstead, 3 per cent on 150,000- East of Fife, 31 per cent :on £20,960-East Suffolk, 6 per cent on £708,584-Eastern Counties, 2 per cent on £5,833,670-Eastern Union, 11 on A and 1/ on B stock, capital, £1,106,266-Edinburgh and Bathgate (on lease to Edinburgh and Glasgow), 3 . 4 per cent on £188,487- Edinburgh and Glasgow, 3a on £2,223,375-Epsom and Leatherhead, 5 per cent on £29,716-Furness, 61 per cent on £273,000-General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour, 21 per cent on £157,718-Glasgow and South-Western, 6 per cent on £2,886,049-Glasgow, Dumbarton, and Helens burgh, 41 per cent on £205,590-Gloucester and Dean Forest (on lease to Great Western), 5.066 per cent on £254,000-Great Northern, 5.1875 per cent on £4,796,737, and 6 per cent on £600,000 East Lincolnshire stock-Great North of England, Clarence, and Hartlepool Junction (on lease to North-Eastern), 3 per cent on £41,875-Great North of Scotland, 5/ on £276,860-Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 5 per cent on £3,278,943-Great Western, 2/ per cent on £8,168,919, and 2 . 72 per cent on £188,087-Hereford, Ross, and Glosester, 2.108 per cent on £213,390-Horneestle, 4 per cent on £47,970-Hull and Holderness, 31 per cent on £105,267-Inverness and Aber deen Junction, 3/ per cent on £319,733-Inverness and Nairn (on lease to Inverness and Aberdeen Junction), 41 per cent on £59,777-Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction (on lease to Great North of Scotland), 1 per cent on £14,702-Irish South-Eastern, 21 per cent on £234,593- Jedburgh, 2 per cent on £30,580-Kilmarnock and Troon (on lease to Glasgow and South-Western), 5 per cent on £15,000, but dividend applied to liquidate debt due to lessees-Lancashire and' Yorkshire, 4/ per cent on £12,065,654, and 7 per cent on £708,000 Preston and Wyre capital-Lancaster and Carlisle, 9a per cent on £2,420,300- , Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction, 3/ per cent on £436,250-Leominster and Kingston, 4 per cent on .158,238-Leven, n per cent on £22,953-Lewis and Uck field, 4 per cent on £33,580-Liskear3 and Caradon, 5 per cent on £11,625-Liskeard and Looe Union Canal, 5 per cent on £13,000-Llynvi Valley, 6 per cent on £69,080- London and Blackwall, 3'37 per cent on £1,402,579 -Lon don, Tilbury, and Southend, 6 per cent on £650,492-Lon don and Greenwich (on lease to the South-Eastern), 2•6876 per cent on £550,000-London and North-Western, 41 per cent on £21,380,252-London and South-Western, 4/ per cent on £7,197,856-London, Brighton, and South 'Coast, G per cent on £1,618,553-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction, 2.425 per cent on £136,769-- Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, o'7 per cent' on £4,089,178-Maryport and Carlisle, 51 per cent on 11677 ,1 d-K e n cay t r , 4 ) p 2 e p c e e r n t centon 1 7 0 9 n, 7 (Bromley 5- t Mary £61,610-Mid land, 51 per cent on £9,026,230, and 11 per cent on £978,533-Midland Great Western (Ireland), 5 per cent on £1,482,325 -Monkland, 8 per cent 0n£126,681-Monmouth shire Railway and Canal, 5 per cent on £360,000-Moray shire, 4 per cent on £ 39 , 933 -Newcastle and Carlisle, 61 per cent on £1,155,000-Norfolk, 3.075 per cent on £996,453-- North and South-Western Junction, 4 per cent on £79,541 -North British, 3 per cent on £2,520,720-North-Eastern 4/ per cent on £6,731,308, 31 per cent on £3,218,920, 21 per cent on £1,393,872, and 4 per cent on £50,000-North London, 51 per cent on £975,000-North Staffordshire, 3/ per cent on £ 2 ,826,372-North Union (on lease to London and North-Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire Com panies), 10 per cent on £177,326, and 7 per cent on £261,874 - North - Western, 11 per cent on £785,528-Oxford, Wor cester, and Wolverhampton , (now West Midland), 3f per cent in respect of £24,000-Peebles, 3.66 per cent on £ 68 , 6 24-Perth and Dunkeld, 2 per cent on £64,842-Port Carlisle Dock and Railway, 5 per cent on £35,000-Roys ston and Hitchin (on lease to Great Northern) 6 per cent on £266,675-St. Andrews, 41 per cent on £21,000-St. Helen's Canal and Railway, 3 per cent on £334,000- Scottish Central, 51 per cent on £1,045,000-Scottish North-Eastern, 4 per cent in respect of £586,500-Shrews bury and Hereford, 41 per cent on £136,947-Shropshire Union (on lease to London and North-Western) 21 per cent on £912,856-Somerset Central (on lease to Bristol and Exeter), 4 per cent on £137,760-South Devon, 1.46 per cent on £1,469,425-South Devon and Tavistock, 2.4 per cent on /150,150-South-Eastern, 5 percent on £7,805,195- Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, 51 per cent on £BOO,OOO -South Staffordshire, 41 per cent on £944,712 A Stock- South Wales, 21 per cent on £2,452,974-South Yorkshire and River Dun, 3 per cent on £956,194-Stockton and Dar lington, 91 per cent on £889,439-Swansea Vale, 3 per cent on £98,866 -Taff Vale, 8 per cent on £717,776-Ulster, 51 per cent on £742,517-Ulverstone and Lancaster, a per cont on 1270,000-Vale of Clwyd, 41 per cent on £11,923-Vale of Towy (on lease to Llanelly), 2 per cent on £45,161 -Warrington and Stockport, 4 per cent on £171,112 - Waterford and Limerick, 11 per cent on £512,463-Waterford and Tramore, 11 per cent on £lB,OO O -West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway, 4f per cent on £815,853-Whitehaven and Fur ness Junction, 21 per cent on £257,632-Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont, S per cent on £75,000-Whitehaven Junction, 7 per cent on £lOO,OOO-Wimbledon and Croydon (on lease to the Lon don, Brighton, and South Coast), 4 per cent on £45,500--- and Wycombe, 3 per cent on £66,904. The traffic on the lines enumerated has generally improved during the cur' rent year, and the dividends declared will, no doubt, reflect the advance in a proportionate degree. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. --CAMBRIDGE, Dee . 4.—Carus (Greek Testament) Prize for Undergraduates: R. C. W. Roben, Emmanuel College; R. Sinker, Triluti College, kg, exhi and Yorl cent In Cott The At solar held , that , admi occas made year. this 1 naula Inane agree in thl a con 94i f advat for ti feelin thoug The Is 921- firm s ditto per C ss. to At Mark , Turki 67i tc firm, 1 Cents, The activii an ad lished taking shire, 10s. ; (York The in lim values have i Weste East I Soh tinued itapor are a Bonds 11,iver tank S 3 per C per c IN ow 3 `Atamil Dittc India Dittc Dittc Ditto Date bitto bitto 13 C'ousoll Zxchec Omsk . Mexica Dittc 'l3Etnisl Ditto Spanis: Turkis Ditto Dittc batch C Atista Dittl totter Antwe 13 rUsse , Paris the c tern Ordi r 20,0 C head th e e Whie bri LA lloi