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- r4 OVAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.—Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. SPECIAL NOTlCE.—Production of a new legendary ro mantic opera, by Balte, BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE. The music composed by the popular E n g lish composer, Balte. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirlwall ; Mr. VV. Harrison, Mr. H. Corri, Mr. St. Albyn, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. J. Wharton, Mr. G. Kelly, and T. Distin. Conductor, Mr. A. Mellon.—Doors open at 7 ; commence at half-past OYAL ENGLISFI OPERA, COVENT "I. GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE AMBUSCADE. The new Operetta, THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE, Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. H. Cord. To conclnde with THE NIGHT DANCERS. Messrs H. Haich, 11. Corti, G. Kelly, Distin, and Lyall ; Madame Palmieri, Miss Albertazzi, Miss Lefllzr, Miss Thirlwall, and Miss Iluddart. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Doors open at Seven. Commence at Half-past. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone. FIT 3 EVENING the performances will commence with THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leclercqs. After which, THE BABES IN THE WOOD. Followed by THE LION SLAYER. To conclude with ANY PORT IN A STORM. Commence at 7. VOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.— Lefoef and Mana,..er.,Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING', an adaptation of Victor Trucro's cele brated Play of RUY BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. ; when Mr. Yachter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown, will make his 31st appearance on the English stage, supported by Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond, Norland, Collett, Paulo. Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose Leclercq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. To be preceded by SUSAN SMITH. To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. Soio Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, THE PE PS OF THE PARTERRE. Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott. The Music by Mr. George Loder. Principal characters by Mr H. Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris. Miss M. Ternan, Miss Neville, MissHudspeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner, Miss Douglas, 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 eth appearance) ; Mrs. J. Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, Miss M. Ternan, and Miss Neville. F o ll owe d by the new d r ama , entitled ADRIENNE; or THE SECRET OF A LIFE . Principa l characters byMr. Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. IL Butler, Mr. Villiers, Mr. G. Vining-, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell,. Mr. Clifford, Mr. J. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste. To commence sit a quarter to 7, on account of the length of the entertainments.o A DELPHI", NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Pnprietnr and Manager. Mr. Beni. Webster. Engagement for a limited number of nights of Miss Agnes Robertson and Mr. Dion Boucicault, who will appear „ m i n g . in the highly successful Drama of " The every Colleen Bawri-' THIS EvENING, THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Messrs. W. Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs. Billinsr,ton. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boucicault, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Mi s s Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with ICI ON FABLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Billing-ton,' Mrs. Chatterley, mi ss K. Icelly, Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 25.: Family Boxes, LI. Orchestra Stalls, ss. • Balcony, 45.: Front Circle Stalls, is. • Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, 6d. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, 6d: Aatinz Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. — Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. Notice.—ln consequence of the vast preparation necessary for the introduction of the Wonders of the World, " The Groupe of Performing Lions" in the new Spectacle, their ap pearance is unavoidably postponed until MONDAY next, December 3. This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three E Acts, by . Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD; or. the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag- Hounds, Sze, A:lan a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit chard. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by the celebrated Madam t Newsome, Mr. James Newsome and their Troupe of unequalled pert ,rmers, &T., Including the incomparable Young Charles Duerow, the Greatest Wonder of the are. Concluding with a laughable Farce. Doors open at half-past 8, pertormitnoe comraenoe at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4 Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. THE CA TTLE SHOW AND CANTERBURY HALL. _ _ C. MORTlNbegs to inform visitors to London that the above HALL, with its Magnificent Gallery ot Modern Paint ings, by all the best masters, is OPEN EVERY EVENING at 7 o'clock. GRAND SELECTIONS FROM BELLINPS NORMA AND FLOTOW'S MARTHA. PRINCIPAL ARTISTES', MISS RUSSELL MADAME MARTA. MISS TYR REL MISS WILKINSON Mr. - HENRY HERBERT and Mr. BERNARD. Conductor Mr. JONGAMAS g. The COMIC Department comprises Messrs. A. B. HoMims worth, W. T. Critchfield, J. Blanchard, G. W. Pell, Charley Fox, and E. Marshall, in his transformation song - , " TIIE DOMESTIC DRAMA," personating five different characters. WEATHER,„ -SUN ()FEICK, DEC. 1, 1860, THEICMO'KETER, IN THE SHADE. 50—highest since soon yesterday. 40—lowest this morning and during the night. 49—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.50. WIND—Southerly; light, with dull weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Moming, 3h. 20m.—Afternoon, 3h. 40m. To-moRROW.-Morning, 4h. lm.—Afternoon, 4h. 22m. One of the most interesting meetings that has for a very long time taken place in the City of London was convened yesterday afternoon in the Egyptian Hall at the Mansion House—was pre sided over by the LORD MAYOR, and was addressed (among others) by the Bishop of LONDON, and the Bishop of OXFORD, and the Right llon. CHICHESTER FORTESCUE, Secretary of State for the Colo nies. It had reference, this meeting, to the mission recently founded in British Columbia by the mu nificence of Miss BURDETT COUTTS, a lady who — by reason of her uniting in herself the possession of immense wealth, with the unostentatious evidence continually, of the most noble and enlightened generosity—has long since come to be regarded far and wide as among the most beneficent of our " Institutions." By yesterday's meeting at the Mansion House that new mission of British Columbia may be said in a manner to have been formally inaugurated. It is true the Bishop of British Columbia has been now some time since inducted into his see. It is true even that lie has actually gone out there in com pany with several of his clergymen. But the enterprise in itself is not only in spite of this, but in the v ery earliest stage of its infancy, it can haraly be said , even now, to have been fairly and practically commenced. Nor can this he wondered et when it is remembered that, in point of fact, the entire colony is only as it were of yesterday. was only yesterday, so to speak, as the Under-Secretary for the Colonies reminded the meeting in his very able address— ti th a t that eminent and distinguished man, latoly the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sir EDWARD LYTTON, had the honour of founding this youngest, an d perhaps most interesting of all the c o l on i es of England." None, we doubt not, will more gladly hail than Sir EDWARD LYTTON the announce ment which immediately fell from the lips of Mr. Cut- CHESTER FORTESCUE, when he added :—" Though British Columbia was handed down in a very unformed and infantile stat e to the present authvrities at the Colonia l Office, I can answer for ray noble friend the I) like of Newcastle, treat no one can exceed him in the interest sceaich he has taken in its progress and welfare." /Vot that, in saving this, Mr. FOR TES= arrogated thereby to his chief any merit whatever for his so , doing. "Indeed, I think it irapoesible," said the right hon. gentleman almost in the very next sentence that fell from him but yesterday, "I t'aink it inlpossihle for any one to be (treanected, bether officially or otherwise, as it 18 n S fortune to be day by day with the worldly and, =material afro.rs of a community like British C3i umbia., without being often affected with an ea] 11t•st desire that its higher, holier, and more sac ;re d interests should not be neglected." How ur oen tly some active interposition in this way ia behalf of the new colonists is really required under the circumstances was strik ingly illustrated by the Bishop of LONDON yesterday by his reference, almost hap-hazard, to the state of things in the rising town of Douglas as a case in point. Referring to the 15th page of the printed report, relating more particularly to - - he moral and social condition of the new colony, ,he Bishop of LONDON there found an authorita- :ive statement put forth in one of the letters penned by the Bishop of BRITISH COLUMBIA him self, according to which statement the members of the various races , constituting the inhabitants of the town of Douglas when that communication was written, proved to be in the following propor tions—" The coloured men there, 8 ; the Mexicans and Spaniards, 29 ; the Chinese, 37 ; the French and Italians, 16 ; the men from Central Europe, 4 ; from the North of Europe, 4; citizens of the United States, 73 ; the British subjects, 35." Nor, added the right reverend speaker yesterday, in adducing this estimate, could it be regarded as in any way an unfair illustration. Another peculiarity about that very town of Douglas, thus peopled with a small but motley popula tion, was the circumstance that, out of all those 206 inhabitants, two only were females ! The dispro portion of the sexes, the jumbling together of the races, the absorption of the energies of the colonists almost exclusively in temporal affairs in sedulously looking after their worldly interests, to the exclu sion of all higher and nobler considerations what soever—these causes, combined with others of a kindred character not here particularised, tend to render imperatively reqyisite to combine in the deve lopment of a new born colony like British Colum bia, more particularly situated as British Columbia is at the opposite corner of the world, the blessings of Christianity with the benefits of Civilisation. Towards the furtherance of this very enterprise —directly and obviously to this end has this new mission upon the western coasts of North America been established by the muni ficence and philanthropy of Miss BURDETT COUTTS—precisely and pointedly to this end are the energies of his Grace the Duke of NEWCASTLE, and of his Ministerial alter ego, the Right Hon. CHICHESTER FORTESCUE, directed towards the growth of that new province, progressively and proportionately with the rise, advance, and general development of the Colony of British Columbia itself. In reference to one section alone of the popula tion of British Columbia, the singularly interesting section including in it the aboriginal inhabitants of the mainland, the Red Indians, the Bishop of LON DON yesterday observed most judiciously—" Then as to the India:ns, they were anxious, most anxious, to imitate the customs and habits of Europeans, and they unhappily imitated them in their worst phases —especially in that of drunkenness. They became intoxicated, went about uttering oaths and curses which were sufficiently horrible to bring down from Heaven a malediction on those who disgraced themselves by teaching evil to these men. How different would have been the case if, instead of teaching men to take oaths, they had taught them their prayers, and thus brought blessings on them selves and those men too." In allusion to that same subject of the treatment of the Red Indians, Mr. HENRY HULSE BERENS, the Governor of the Hudson's Bay Companies Territory (in succession to the late lamented Governor Sir GEORGE SIMP SON, recently deceased) remarked that " the object of the company had been always to protect the red men, to encourage them, and to bring them up in the way they should go," adding, " He con gratulated the country upon the fact that upon the whole of the territory the red men had increased, and not decreased as in other countries. They had increased very much ; and why, he would ask ? It was become the company had always set their face against the use of ardent spirits wherever they could prevent it. It was well known that the red men were prone to drink ; give them spirits, and there was nothing they would not do for you. The company, however, had not done this, and, acting on this principle, they had increased the Indian population." Let that simple fact speak for itself, as to the priceless advantages even in a merely temporal and worldly point of view—the absolutely priceless advantages of accompanying the develop ment of a new colony with an evidence of particular solicitude for its moral, social, and religious organisation. Count CA. YOUR has favoured Europe with his reply to the Prussian despatch of October 12th, in which Baron SCHLEINITZ had to do the necessary work of censuring Piedmontese doings in the Marches of Umbria and the Two Sicilies. The COUNT had easy work because the BARON had difficult work. Prussia, while seeking to lead public opinion in Germany, can only do se on the principle that Germany is a nation—is one people; and must, therefore, have a right to act as one people. The chief northern Power in Germany would lose her coveted position at once unless she assumed that all the numerous divisions of the country had still a real unity, in virtue of which they needed a head to the members. She was obliged, therefore, to own in the face of Germany that her policy was founded on the " absolute right of nationalities." She dare not even pass this over in silence ; since, if she had, an attack on the principle of nationality in Italy would have led all Germany to exclaim that, by using these same arguments, Prussia showed that she ignored Ger- man nationality. Count CAVOUR, naturally, was not slow to use the vantage ground thus furnished him:— " We are happy to see (he remarks) that the Government of the Prince Regent not only recognises the national idea as one of the essential elements of public law, but that he honours himself by being the noble representative of this idea in Germany." With such a Government the difference between them can be one of detail only. The Count may well hope that Prussia will soon see things in a better light, and he quietly proceeds to give the light, which must soon appear to so promising a disciple the true one : "If we must now regret to see disapproved the 'necessary application of a principle which is respected, it is nevertheless permitted us to hope that the Cabinet of Berlin, better enlightened as to the veritable bearing of events, may one @lay regard them in a more friendly and more equitable manner." Prussia thinks the right ought not to be made antagonistic to the rules of "conventional inter national right." The Count has an ample reply. First be says : " There is one point which it is important to define clearly, and on which we roust insist ; it is that the ques tion of the Marches of Umbria, and of the Two Sicilies, i s a purely Dalian one, and that, as such, it in nowise affects the positive rights of other Powers." Of course his opponent would reply that the terri torial divisions of Italy had been sanctioned by solemn treaties—that hence Europe had jurisdic tion there, and that to abdicate it would be to expose the future to all kinds of dangerous revolu tions. Count CAVoL'R, however, justly denies that " The clauses of a treaty imply the complete and perpetual abdication by the nation of the settlement of its internal constitution. It certainly is not the Cabinet of Berlin which would support such a doctrine." But, next, he says, we have the right to .e ask, was it any fault of ours that Italy did not follow the tIZA A• 0 ... ' 43 ,,›1 k ''C—S 2r. •p&IA •-.., t _ c .r e ,;' . g r Ems„. ~ . . 0.3 ,04‘%. 1, .g • - t ' —.....-.4 , ~. ,1t..,..... .',',„ • 4ii •:;:r, THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 1, 1860. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1860'. example which we set her for the last ten years in reforming her Government : "It is the petty States of Central Italy, it is the Holy See, and the Government of Naples, which, while there was yet time, refused all expe dients of conciliation with the embittered and oppressed people. It was Austria, who last year in attacking Pied meat precipitated events ; it is she who has proved to the Italians that the Peninsula would have neither real secu rity nor independence so long as it should not be united into one and the same State." The Count well knows that it is by the obstinacy of Austria's resistance to all Constitutional Govern ment—almost to the appearance of it—in Germany that Prussia manages to profess herself to be the leader of moderate progress and liberty in that country. Count CAVOUR affirms that the circumstances of the case justify all that Piedmont did in the Marches, Umbria, and the Two Sicilies ; but the argumentum ad hominenz, in this case is irresistible as adduced to the Courts of Europe. He asks— "Have not the different States of Europe done the same at other times; and under similar circumstances which, however, were far from offering the same justification ? Did not France and England, when they lent their support to insurgent Flanders, trample international law under foot ? Was not this said law broken by Louis XIV. when he lent a helping hand to the Hungarian insur rection, by the States-General when they supported William of Orange against James 11., by Louis XVI. who so nobly contributed to the emancipation of the United States of America, by Christian Europe when it delivered Greece from the Ottoman sway ? In fact, little prone as monarchs are to aid sub jects against their rulers, they know the cause to be so universally a good one, that they have never scrupled to defend its justice, and to act upon it, whenever it accorded, at the same time with their own interests. The Count claims, as he has done before, to have been, in Italy, the best possible friend to the monarchical principle—a plea which he naturally makes the best of in reasoning with Sovereigns ; and one certainly not without good foundation. But the grand lesson of 1860 is the strength of the natural principle. The resurrection of Italy from her deadly dismemberments is a fearful lesson to the old world. Nothing seemed, but a few years ago, more hopeless than her territorial division, and her subjugation through her division. The touch of one invasion has displayed her unity and nationality. It is felt in Hungary ; it is felt in Moldavia and Wallachia ; it revives the hopes even of Poland. The map of Europe may yet become a national one. And it will have been the honour of Italy to have taken the course ' which has caused the great idea to thrill through Europe, that nations exist, not for the convenience and glory of Royal conveyancers, but for their own self-government and happiness. We hope our Edinburgh friends will be suc cessful in their attack on the Treasury. They have made more than one in vain, and are now driven to concert measures to get along as best they can till they have again an opportunity of appealing to Parliament. We are among the last to encourage resort to the public treasury, and we have shared the doubts of both Mr. DISRAELI and Mr. GLAD STONE as to the prudence, in the long run, of the present system of Government grants, through the irresponsible Committee of Privy Council. The evidence seems to indicate that the money is for the more part spent in educating those who would be educated without Government aid ; or, what is almost as bad, if not worse, in giving an education to the children wholly unadapted to the require ments of their future life. The education charge is is becoming a heavy one, but we fear the worst part of the weight will prove to be that it has been borne by us, with little to show for it; little at least which we should not otherwise have seen. But the Ragged School efforts stand in quite a different position: No one can doubt that the objects of this kind of care and education would never have any at all, unless they were sought out and redeemed from the charge of ignorant and often criminal parents; -while hundreds of them have no parents but the streets, and no home but an empty arch or a door step ; a dirty little room without an article of furniture, being splendid lodgings for them. If the Government of the country stands in loce parentis to any, it is surely to these street Arabs. But how shall it come at them ? The difficulty of the Government itself finding agents for such work is, we freely confess, insuperable; it is a work which needs suoh genuine, such enthusiastic philanthropy, and such tact in the teachers and masters, as no Governments can purchase. But when this task is performed for them—when Volun teers, in a work so repulsive to most, arise, and do it, and can show it, can say to an inspector—to a policeman—to Mr. LOWE himself, if he likes— " Come and see, here are the ragged ones of last week, now clothed and in their right place, and learning to labour instead of to steal"—when the difficulty of the case is thus surmounted, why should Government hesitate longer. The Volun teers have provided what Government cannot, the right men for the right work, the Government should provide what the Volunteers cannot, the requisite funds for the work. It has lavished hundreds of thousands on its own routine, mar tinet teaching, it may surely spare a reasonable amount for teaching which reaches a class who need it more than all others. The Committee of Privy Council has, the public will think, made a great blunder. While in no way curtailing its payments to more imposing schools which now ornament almost every neigh bourhood, it is actually reducing its grants to these homely but effective institutions which cannot sub sist without them. At first they gave them £27,000 ; this year they will give but £5,500. Edinburgh, where Mr. ADAM BLACK and Dr. GUTHRIE are endeavouring to rouse the public on the subject, received last year £B4l 7s. This year it will re• ceive but £225 lls. Bd. The consequence will be that, if nothing can be done, 70 children, more needing State help than perhaps all the other children in the town, will be obliged to be turned again on the streets. In his characteristic style Dr. GUTIERIE exclaims—" It'll be a black day for Edinburgh when these children shall be turned out into the streets, cast out to go and beg their bread of you ; to hold out their hands for a piece of bread, to leave the happy school and their happy home, and lie like houselcss dogs in stair-foots, and to go to ruin ! That day, I hope, will never come; it will be a dark day for our city if it do. Fancy 70 of these children walking weeping out of school not, like our first parents as they went out of Eden, weeping for their sins ; they have done no sin ; they have been more sinned against than sinning ; that is the truth. They are suffering innocents, but out they must go, and when they go out let them muffle that drum and beat the funeral march of their good fortunes and of their highest hopes, And then let Mr. SMITH (the governor of the prison) open his prison wards. The prison is well-nigh empty ; it will be filled by and by. Let them cry, Room in the prison. God cries, 'Room in Heaven for the guilty ; ' here they cry, Room in the prison for the innocent.' I say, it will be a black day when that is done ; and it is clean contrary to common sense ; it is clean contrary to the best interests of our country. It is the spirit of our country to help the weak and let the strong fight their own battle." Mr. ADAM BLACK presented the subject in a light which will open the eyes of our Chancellors of the Exchequer, be they Liberals or Conservatives. The prevention of crime by education, as hitherto given by the Committee of Privy Council, has been much questioned, and consequently it is very doubtful whether the money it expends is in this way reim bursed to the country. But no one has ever pre tended to doubt that the Ragged-school training of the criminal class itself has not anticipated the creation of hundreds of criminals. What the saving may be let Mr. BLACK tell us—" In the year when the expenditure was highest it amounted to £27,000. If, then, the expenditure upon each child was £3, that gives 9,000 children. I have already shown that of those who have passed through the training of the Ragged Schools not more than 5 or 10 per cent. have turned out ill, and as they are the very class that furnish the cri minals for our jails, and the convicts for our penal settlements, it would be no extravagant calcu lation that one half of them, or 4,500, if uncared for, would lapse into that dreadful condition. What would the cost to the country be then ? From a late Parliamentary return I observe that during the last ten years 5,465 convicts have been sent to Western Australia, and the total expenditure connected with these convicts was £987,573, or at the rate of £lBO for each convict, and this in addition to the expense of their trial and previous imprisonment. On an average of these years the annual expenditure was £89,000, or £165 for each convict annually. Assuming, then, that when the expenditure on Ragged Schools was highest the number attending them was 9,000, and that only the half of these had become convicted criminals at the same cost, £163 each, this would have amounted to £733,500 as against £27,000. Or if these schools were the means of saving six out of every thousand, that would be equivalent to the whole sum saved by the withdrawal of the grant." Whether Mr. BLACK'S figures are right to a penny or not, he must be substantially correct. To aid Ragged Schools is to save largely the public money ; and if by next year Mr. LOWE and the Government have not retraced their steps, we hope the House of Commons will carry Sir JOHN PAKINGTON'S resolution of last August, of which the conclusion was " that the ragged and industrial schools, which are alone adapted to meet the wants of a considerable number of destitute neglected children, do not receive the amount of aid to which they are entitled." The public, not only in Edinburgh, but in every town of the kingdom, will certainly think that £27,000 is little enough for these invaluable institutions, and that to cut down that sum to one-fifth is bad economy indeed. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. It was attended by Viscount Palmer ston, Earl Granville, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sydney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. Milner Gibson, Sir G. Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. VISIT OF THE EMPRESS EUGENIE T• *VEEN Vicroms..—The Empress of the French will pay a hasty visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle on Tuesday next. The Royal visit will be of short duration. The Empress will arrive at the Castle in the forenoon, and take her de parture soon after luncheon. The eldest son of the Earl of Leven and Melville (who has recently succeeded to his brother in those titles) has adopted as his designation his father's second title of Viscount Kirkcaldy, instead of his customary appellation of Viscount 13algonie, which was borne by the late earl and by his son, Precedents for this departure from the ordi nary course are to be found in the case of the late Duke of Norfolk (who assumed for his second title the style of Earl of Arundel and Surrey, instead of the earldom of Surey alone, as borne by his father) and in other noble families. Lady Isabella Schuster was safely confined of a daughter.yesterday at the family mansion, in Queen's-gate. Both her ladyship and the infant are doing well. Lord de Lisle and Dudley has left the St. George's Hotel. Lord Oranmore and Browne has assumed jhe name and arms of Guthrie of the Mount only, in the ',Taco of those of Browne, in compliance with the terms of the deed of entail by which the property of the late Mr. A. Guthrie of the Mount, county of Ayr, was settled en his only child and heiress, who, it will be remembered, was married to Lord Oranmore about a year ago. The marriage of the Earl of Southesk and Lady Susan Murray, eldest daughter of the Countess of Dun more, took place on Thursday last at Dunmore Park, Falkirk. Baron de Sampayo has arrived at the Bruns wick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Portugal. The Count and Countess Piperi have also arrived at the same esta blishment. THE LATE LADY TRIAILESTON.—AIicia Lady Trimleston, who died on the 25th ult., was the second daughter of the late General Charles Eustace. Her lady ship married, in 1797, Nicholas, late Lord Trimleston, the grandfather of the present peer, of which marriage there was no issue. Some of the French journals announce the some what sudden death of the Princess Albert de Broglie, in the prime of life, and leaving several children. The France Centrale, which was lately suspended for two months, has announced to its subscribers that they will receive the Arai de la Religion during that period, A letter from Sebastopol announce that General Todleben is now there, and that the fortifications on the north side are undergoing repairs. Mr. John Hullah, the eminent musical composer, passed his last examination at the Bankruptcy Court yes terday unopposed. THE NEW BRONZE COINAGE.—It is now finally determined to proceed with the issue of the now coinage, which will this day be placed in the hands of the public. The sailors belonging to vessels engaged in the coal and iron ore trades at Whitehaven are on strike for an advance of wages. Their masters have adopted measures for carrying on the traffic, which, it is thought, will compel the men to come to terms. We (Chelmsford ( hronicle) have this week to record the death of John Adey Repton, Esq., whose long life has been devoted to antiquarian studies. Mr. Repton was the eldest and only surviving son of the late llumphrey Repton, Esq., well known as the great authority on land scape gardening; which he promoted both by his literary publications and by the practical exhibition of his taste. We ( Critic ) hear from the States that Nathaniel Hawthorne, among his Concord Meadows, is engaged upon a new romance, which rumour says is to have for its sub ject English life; and that John Russell Lowell, of "Big low Papers" celebrity, has several literary ventures in contemplation—among them a new book of " Fireside Travels." MUTINY ON BOARD A VESSEL IN THE MERSEY. —Yesterday, four seamen, named Campbell, Molvaney, Ferguson, and Hanson, were charged before the Liverpool Magistrates with this crime, on board the ship Seaforth, Captain Marshall, while the vessel was lying in the Mersey bound for Batavia. One of the men had drawn a knifo and threatened to stab the Captain. All the ptisoners, except Mulvaney (who was sentenced to four months), were committed for six months' imprisonment. THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY SELLING LIQUOR TO IND tiNs.—Letters have been received from Fort Rupert, from Captain Richards, R.N., who is surveying at that place, to the effect that upwards of 700 or 800 Indians were going through the most frightful orgies some days since under the wild excitement of drink. The captain attempted to hsld a parley with the chief, but knives were brandished and the most violent demonstrations displayed. This was the result of drink supplied them by the Hudson's Bay Company. The condition of affairs was greatly aggravated by the intoxication of nearly every white man in the fort. A more disgraceful state of things could scarcely be ima gined. It is said that Admiral Baynes has reported the matter to the home Government and suggested the imme diate appointment of a magistrate to check such sale of liquor by the immaculate Iludson's Bay Company.—New lrestnzinster Times. TIIE AMERICAN MONEY MARKET. The cessation of the artificial drain of gold for the Bank of France has been immediately followed by a demand of an equally abnormal, although relatively unimportant character for America. The advices yesterday from New York of the extension of the political panic have led the London correspondents of various firms in that city to make shipments of sovereigns and gold bars by the Europa, which sails to-day froin Liverpool for Boston, and the Atlantic, which is to leave Southampton on Wednesday direct for New York, will probably also take a further sum. Tlio amount withdrawn yesterday morning from the Bank in London was about £7C,000, and it is not unlikely that a larger total will have been taken from the Liverpool branch. In addition £30,000 of bar gold has also been despatched, The shippers of these parcels, looking at the probability of an early reaction in proportion to the violence of the recent movement, do not appear to entertain much idea that the operation will prove directly profitable, but seek rather to furnish their friends with the means of advantageously meeting all contingencies, especially as the latest reports mention that discount was not to be obtained under 1 per cent. per month, and that foreign bills of exchange were unsaleable. Great disappointment was at first experienced at Liverpool yesterday (Friday), at the non-arrival of the Empress Eugenie, though as the day eventually turned out to be the darkest and driAzliest of the year, this feeling gave way to one of satisfaction that the Empress would perhaps see the town hereafter to greater advantage. In answer to telegrams from the Mayor and the French Consul, an answer came from Manchester to the effect that her Majesty would not leave Manchester on Friday, and that the period of her departure was uncertain. COTTON EN ROUTE TO LIVERPOOL.—Whatever ' may be the opinion of those well up in their estimates as to the quantity of cotton to be expected from the new crop in the United States, one thing seems quite certain, viz., that the imports of new cotton into Liverpool by the end of the next month will fall very far short of the quantity imported last year; one letter by the Hammonia stating that the imports this year into Liverpool will be from 100,000 to 120,000 bales less than last year. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government emigration ♦essel Leila, 267 tons, Captain Thomas Rapson, belonging to Mr. Henry Dressor, of London, sailed from Gravesend on the 24th ult., for Natal, with 16 married couples, 17 single men, 28 single women, 20 boys between the ages of 1 and 12, 31 girls between the same ages, 3 male and 2 female infants, making a total of 133 souls, equal to 1021 statute adults, under charge of Surg.-Superintendent Joseph 11. Ruoff, M.D. CRIME IN BOMBAY.—The number of prisoners to be tried at the third criminal sessions of Bombay, which began on the 24th of September, was 33, implicated in 28 cases of an ordinary character. Among them was ono Euro pean, one Portuguese, and what is very rare, one China man. In Calcutta the only court 'kith which the Chinese are familiar is that of Small Causes, which they consider to have been established especially for their benefit.—Allen's Indian Mail. FEARFUL MORTALITY.—A letter from Belize, Honduras, dated Sept. 17, states that yellow fever had broken 'out on board the British man-of-war Icarus, at Truxillo. Eleven of her crew and two officers had died, and many of them were sick, including Captain Salmon. Subsequently, on her passage to Jamaica, she reported 33 dead, and still a heavy sick list. ASSESSMENT FOR WATER RATES.—A number of informations were yesterday laid by the Liverpool cor poration officials 'before the stipendiary magistrate, with a view to try whether, in the case of tenants whose landlord pays their rates, and who agree to pay a somewhat higher range of rent in consequence, the assessment should be made upon the rent plus or minus such calculation. The magistrate decided that the assessment should be made minus the calculation. EXTENSIVE FRAUD ON A SHEFFIELD BANK.— SHEFFIELD, Friday Night.—Mark Rawlins, a clerk in the employment of the Sheffield and Rotherham Bank, has been apprehended here this evening on a charge of defraud ing the bank of £3OO. It is believed, however, that the total amount of the fraud will be little short of £l,OOO. Rawlins was supposed to be a young man of the highest character, and prominently connected with several of the principal institutions in Sheffield. DEATH OF A STAGE DOOR-KEEPER.—We have to record the death of Mr. Lowton, for many years the atten tive and obliging stage door-keeper of the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, an event which took place on Sunday last. The zeal with which he discharged the duties of a very respon sible situation, and the uniform courtesy which he exhibited in connexion with his position, will render him much re gretted by a number of persons, besides those more imme diately associated with the theatre, where he was such a faithful attendant.—Era. A FEMALE SAILOR.—Annie Stuart, a fine girl of 18, born in Glasgow, and who has for five years past followed the life of a sailor, dressing in male attire, is at present in the Liverpool workhouse, having applied to the parochial authorities in order to obtain means and clothing to under take a situationmore in accordance with her sex. She has five brothers all sailors, and it was her desire to be with them that induced her at first to go to sea. During five years her sex was only discovered once, and that was dur ing an examination by a medical man when she fractured her ribs by a fall. ROYAL HOUSES OF EUROPE.—We copy from the Almanach de Gotha for 1861 (its 90th year), which has just appeared, the following information respecting the Sovereign houses of Europe :—Europe contains at present, including the dispossessed Italian Princes, 47 Sovereigns, of whom the eldest, the King of Wurtemberg, is nearly 79 years of age ; the youngest, Prince Henri XXII, of Reuss Greiz, is 14. After the King of Wurtemberg come the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, who is 77, and the Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (since dead), who is 75. In the order of age the King of the Belgians stands 6th, the Pope 7th, the King of Prussia 10th, the King of Saxony 13th, the Emperor of the French 18th, the Emperor of Russia 24th, Queen Victoria 28, the King of Sardinia 31st, and the Emperor of Austria 40th. According to the length of their reigns (the Sovereigns are thus classed :—The Prince of Schaumburg •Lippe, dates 'clack 73 years ; the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, who has reigned 57 years ; the Prince of Schwarzburg-Itudolstadt, 53 years ; the Duke of Anhalt-Dessau-Cothen, 44 years ; line Sove reigns, among whom are the King of the Belgians and the Sultan, have reigned from 20 to 30 years ; 14, comprising the Kings of Prussia, Bavaria, Denmark, Holland, Sar dinia, and the Emr,eror of Austria, from 11 to 19 years ; 18 Sovereigns, among whom are the Emperors of the French and Russia, the Queen of Spain, Kings of Saxony, the Two Sicilies, and Sweden, have reigned less than 10 years. The last Sovereign who ascended the throne is the Grand Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Since the work mentioned above appeared Prince Adolphus George of Schaumburg-Lippe has succeeded his father, who died on the 21st inst. DARING ESCAPE FROM GAOL.—On Sunday morning last a prisoner named Thomas Foggy escaped out ' of the Leeds Borough Gaol, and has not yet been reappre hended. Instead of leaving his cell to attend service in the chapel along with the other prisoners, Foggy remained behind, and when he found the course clear he came out of the cell, walked along a corridor, and ascended a spiral staircase, by which means he obtained access to the roof of the gaol. He then, by means of a rope of cocoanut fibre, succeeded in letting himself down, a depth of about 30 feet, on to the wall of the female exercising yard, along which he walked until he reached the outer wall of the goal, and, with the aid of another similar rope, he drcpped on to ' terra firma, a depth of 20 feet, and got clear off. Two or three men saw him alight from the outer wall, but, with the exception of giving a humorous caution. to the fellow, they took little notice of the matter, and did not inform the gaol authorities. It appears that a warder unlocks all the cells in the gaol before the hour for Divine service on Sunday morning, to allow the prisoners to attend chapel, and it is the duty of another warder to place himself in such a position that he can see them all enter the ' chapel. The latter warder, however, it would seem, neglected his duty, and left his post without observing that Foggy had not emerged from his cell. Foggy was under going a term of 12 months' imprisonment for uttering base coin. He is about 28 years of age, bears several aliases, and has been confined half-a-dozen tim es i n N ort h allerton , Gaol for poaching and assaults. AN IMPUDENT ROBEERY.—An extraordinarily impudent robbery was committed the night before last. As at a late hour a well dressed young female was welkin.. along the Rue de la Rochefoucauld, a ma n rus h e d after her,b and dragging the shawl off her back, cr i e d out: " You have acted scandalously towards me, your husband, and I will net allow yon to keep your shawl ! " The female cried for help , and some persons hurried up. " This woman," said the man, "is my wife, and she has been unfaithful to me I So I take her shawl ! " Then turning to the female, he added, " Never set your foot within my door again—go along with you 1 " and with great dignity he walked off with the shawl, the spectators not attempting to interfere. At that moment two police officers arrived, and the young woman, bursting into tears, declared that she was not the man's wife, had never seen him before, and that he was a thief. The officers hurried after him, and perceived him running away ; they, however, overtook "him, but he resisted, and another man going to his assis tance attempted to rescue him. Both were secured, and the shawl was found in possession of the pretended husband. Yesterday proof was obtained that the young woman was really not the man's wife, and he and his accomplice were sent to the Prefecture of Police to await their trial. THE COLLIERS IN THE WEST RIDING.--The various colliery owners in the districts of Ardsley, Morley, Gildersome, Drighlington, Birstal, Churwell, and Birken shaw are under notice from the Miners' Union that unless the colliers in the employment of the respective firms re ceive an advance of wages to the extent of 10 per cent. from to-day (Saturday), thdy will all leave their employment. The notices expired yesterday evening. The employers have yielded an advance of 35 per cent. during the last four years. The employers have stated their position to the delegates of the union, and have in vain urged their inability to grant this new demand. In a long interview between them, the masters expressed their strong convic tion that it would be utterly futile for them, in the pre sent state of trade in Leeds and Bradford, to seek for a corresponding advance in the price of coe.'l, and that the result must be, if the demand were persisted in, the cinsing of their pits, and leaving the districts to be supplied with coal from other and more distant districts, as, indeed, they believed would be the case if the prices of coal were further advanced. The delegates maintained that an ad vance would be readily conceded by the public, and had only to be sought. Some of the delegates avowed that the colliers did not receive an adequate share of the profits arising from the employment of capital, and it was their desire and determination to endeavour to realise such a share. The meeting ended without any amicable arrange ment being come to, and the crisis is just now a threaten ing one. The employers have expressed their determina tion not to yield, and the colliers have held a meeting at Walton Moor to conside r w h a t s t eps s h a ll now be taken. SCENE IN AN AUSTRALIAN THEATRE.--" The curtain rose. A French dancer—an elegant, supple young lady, of no great beauty, but much expression, and appa • rently on very good terms with herself—appeared in the scene in her short lace dress, received by an outburst of applause and by the martial trumpets of the orchestra. But from the other side came a youthful, blooming Spanish creole, with beautiful eyes, large and soft; her complexion rosy, her figure tall—in fact, the impersonation of Terpsichore. She bowed modestly—it was her first appearance at Melbourne—and the enthusiasm of the public, surprised by her beauty, manifested itself in vehe ment cheers. The two dancers struggled for the palm of victory in a graceful tarantula. Like two glittering but terflies, they whirled round, accompanied by music and applause. The mercurial Parisienne made use of her most seductive wiles, of her most refined pirouettes, of her most enchanting attitudes; but the creole seemed patronised by the Graces themselves. Thundering applause encou raged her, and, as often as she came forward with her graceful modesty, nosegays, rings, and bracelets, were thrown at her feet. The French lady struggled with her last strength against the triumph of her rival, until, disheartened and exhausted, she fell to the ground. The creole approached her with compassion to raise her, when suddenly the Parisienne darted up, and with looks of hatred and fury, boxed the ears of her rival. The audiencs hissed and hooted, while she exclaimed with much passion, "rho wretch tripped me The poor creole declared with dignity that she was innocent of the mean ness ; but a vulgar word which slipped out of the lips of the French dancer against her suddenly roused all the pas sions of the South in her bosom, and a singular struggle began. The two excited ladies rushed upon each other, and wrestled and tore, and pulled one another's hair, while the thunders of the gallery made the whole atmosphere vibrate. I never saw a more natural performance. The better class of thepublic did not interfere, but seemed rather to be amused by these Olympic exercises, until the creole, bleeding and fainting, was carried away from the scene. Some officers who from a box had witnessed the spectacle were revolted at the conduct of the Parisienne, and sent for the police to arrest her, but her friends collected and re sisted the constables. A riot ensued ; a portion of the pub lic rushed on the stage; they jumped across the orchestra; the fiddles and bass-viols were broken; the ladies were fainting; children crying; and I took to my heels with my fiddle, and ran away without stopping until I reached wy hotel,"—Liverpool Mercury. El l NEWS. (REUTERS'S TELEGRAMS.) PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING. The Itioniteur publishes the supplementary zon vention concluded between France and England on the 16th November. TURIN, DEC. 1. The Italian journals refute the accusations con tained in the letter of Prince Murat in reference to the state of things at Naples. VIENNA, Dxc, 1. The official Wiener Zeitung publishes the con vention between France, Austria, and Sardinia, for carrying out the partition of the debts and assets of the Monte Lombardo. The liabilities amount to 99 millions lire, of which sum two-fifths arc to be charged to Austria and three-fifths to Sardinia. The assets, which are also to be divided, amount to 9f millions lire. The semi-official Donan Zeitung denies the rumours circulated by some journals that Austria is negotiating for the cession of Venetia. The Donan Zeitung says the statement is with out any foundation, and concludes thus :—" Those persons know Austria but little who think that she will barter her good rights." NAPLES, Nov. 30. The King has this moment left for Palermo. The ships of war are saluting him.- NAPLES, Nov. 27. A state of siege has been proclaimed in the Abruzzi. A proclamation of General Pinelli orders that all persons found bearing arms without per mission, or exciting the peasantry, or insulting the national flag, are to be shot. Colonel Delagrtmge has already established the state of siege in the Abruzzi. General Sirtori has issued a proclamation against street demonstrations. The General reminds the volunteers that the King loves them ; but there are military laws which must be respected. PARIS, Nov. 30. The Pope appears less than ever disposed to quit Rome. What has been said about an approaching agreement between the Holy See and Victor Em manuel stands in the greatest need of confirmation. Several journals have spoken of projects for the purchase of Venetia, and of negotiations being on foot for that purpose. This is devoid of good foundation. No Government has made any over ture on the subject. PARIS, Nov. 30 (Evening). The Pays says—" The report that the assembling of the Corps Legislatif will be hastened is inexact. It will take place, as usual, in the beginning of February. The Senate, however, will meet earlier in order to regulate the execution of the resolutions contained in the Imperial decree of Nov. 24." BREMEN, Nov. 30. According to information received here, the stipulations of the commercial convention between Sardinia and the Hanse Towns apply to all Italians countries annexed to Sardinia. ATHENS, Nov. 28. A royal ordinance dissolving the Chambers was read to-day, and was received by the Deputies with cries of " Long live King Otho." Tranquillity prevailed. BERLIN, Nov. 30. The Prussian Gazette announces that M. Stieber, Director of Police, has been relieved of all his functions. is h, ls. 4d. obtained ; coffee, firmly maintained at 445. to 455. ; hams, York, dull sales at ls. 2d. ; lard, Bid. ; pork, 103 s. per barrel ; pimento, large tran bactions at 11d. per lb. ; sugar, from 17s. to 225., for dark to fair. Exchange on London, 90 days, 1 per cent. premium ; 60 days, 11 per cent. ditto ; 30 days, 2 per cent. premium. THE BRAZILIAN MAIL. LISBON, Nov. 30. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tyne, with the above mail, has arrived, and will leave to-morrow at noon for Southampton. She brings £3,841 in specie and 107 passengers, 60 of whom are the shipwrecked crew of the Per severance. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Rio.—Exchange on London, 27. Coffee, good first, was quoted 5,600 reis. Total export since the departure of the last mail, 270,000 bags, of which 58,700 were for the Channel. Stock, 40,000 bags. Freights, 40s. to 455. BAlllA.—Exchange on London, 26t. Cotton, 7,800 reis per arroba. PERNAMBUCO.—Exchange on London, 261 to 261. Sugar, 2,400 reis per arroba. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 1. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan, Captain Cook, with the above mail, has arrived. She brings 7 passengers, £915 in specie, and a full cargo. She spoke the yacht Osborne on the 28th ultimo and the Alhambra on the 29th ult. There is no political news of importance from Lisbon. The English squadron, under the com mand of Admiral Stopford, was lying in the Tagus. At Lisbon, on the 27th ultimo, exchange on Lon don, three months, was quoted 54k; Paris, 527 ; Amsterdam, 421 ; Hamburg, 48; Genoa, 526 ; Rentes 3 per Cents., 471 ; Coupons, 461 ; Deferred, 371-; Bank of Portugal shares, 562; Commercial and Mercantile Banks of Oporto, 260 milreis. PARADISE AND THE PERI. BY THOMAS MOORE. Illuminated by Owen Jones and Henry Warren. Lithographed by Albert Warren. Published by Messrs. Day and Sons. Talk no more of the days of Book-Illumination having gone by. Here is proof to the contrary— proof positive that would have rejoiced the heart of one of those old monks who, with carmine and gold and emerald and purple, and with all the rarest pigments and the most elaborate gilding and silvering, were wont—brush in hand—their cowls thrown back for better light—kneeling reverently at their desks in the convent cloister—to " glorify" the Missals and the Psalters as with glimpses of Heaven. Here, again, at the Christmas time of 1860, in the days of the steam-engine and the electric telegraph—here in the latter half of the nineteenth century is a volume but just now pro duced as gorgeous in every way as any one of those exquisite books decorated by the Brush and Palette of the old monkish Illuminators. It may be objected to Messrs. Owen Jones and Henry Warren that, unlike their ecclesiastical pro totypes and predecessors in the art of illumination, they have taken as a theme a fragment of Pro fane Literature. Let their excuse be, how ever, that among all the fragments of modern poetry they have selected one which is es sentially and intensely an ecstatic hymning of Heaven ! " Paradise and the Peri" may surely be deemed as worthy of illustration in this way as the " Romannt of the Rose," that boast of the Medieval Illuminators. • Dipping into this exquisite volume, however — tenderly turning the leaves over as if we loved them—we come, first of all, upon the frontispiece —the Peri standing in the very porch of Paradise: " One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood, disconsolate, And, as she listened to the spring Of life within, like music flowing, And caught the light upon her wing, Through the half-open portal glowing, She wept to think her recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place." So—through the half-opened portal, as it were--. the light and glory from within has been caught, seemingly in gushes of splendour, upon the leaves of this truly magnificent volume of illustrations. Poor Tom Moore himself! Could he but have lived to see his charming fancies embellished by the splendid touches of the irredescent and diaphon ous art of Owen. Jones and Henry Warren, those two paragons of illuminators ! Could he but have survived to have had this gorgeous volume laid before him—one might almost then have expected the sensitive little poet to have emulated the sensi bility sung of by Pope in regard to one who .ould " Die of a rose in aromatic pain l" The volume is, in simple truth, at every leaf, in every imaginable way, by every hue and turn of graceful and fantastic decoration—resplendent. Upon each page, to the reader's left hand as the volume lies open before him—a passage of the poem is emblazoned upon a gold ground, surrounded by the most diversified and lovely arabesques. Confronting each of these emblazoned pages—to the right hand of the reader, as he turns the leaves of the volume, are a succession of superb illustrations, each of these also upon a gold ground, and surrounded each also by a rainbow framework of arabesques. Here are two sylphine forms, with pink wings, floating through the empyrean, singing to the trembling strings of a, lyre. Here is the " Glorious Angel" speaking to the kneeling Peri—the Glorious Angel, bearing the golden key, and robed in heavenly raiment like an embroidered chasuble ! There is the Peri float ing sad and disconsolate among the stars over earth. There Gazna, the ruthless, with his bloodhounds. Page after page the glorious embellish ments unfold themselves. The whole book i s a very parterre of blooming colours — colours upon the text and upon the pie tares in streaming nlavlshprofusion. As a gift book, one more ra diant in every way it would be difficult to produce. Certainly Moore's fame is "in luck" just now, what with Tenniel's illustrated edition of Lalla Rookh," published the other day, by the Messrs. Longman, and this sumptuous volume of " Paradise and the Peri," illuminated by such master-hands as those of Owen Jones and Henry Warren, and published with a munificent disregard of the cost of the " getting up" by the Messrs. Day and Sons, the Lithographers. LITERATURE. Head and Hand, or Thoughts and Action in relation to Social _Happiness. London : Houlston and Wright. The author of this neat little volume is the Rev. R. W. Fraser, M.A., whose former Rork— , ° Ele ments of Physical Science"--commanded so much attention when it was first published. The object of " Head and Hand," the author says, is to point out and illustrate by interesting examples front ancient and modern biography the principle and the practice on which prosperity and happiness depend, and certainly a more successful accomplishment of such a task could not have been effected. As a Christmas gift book nothing could be more appro priate—the table of contents is as varied ae the most fastidious could desire. We have examples of filial affection and its relation to prosperity in mature years, lessons derivable from the animal world, distinguished scholars of foreign countries, the value of time, honesty , veracity, temperance, benevolence, and the importance of truth i n all communications with c hildren . As exam ple is more efficient as a method of conveying lessons of practical wisdom than precept, however eloquently expressed, highly interesting volume to we our commend readers,feeling satisfied that on perusal they will endorse the favourable opinion we have expressed. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN-ROAD. -- The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the week ending Nov, 24, was 2,479, of which 631 were now CMS. FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. 30.—The reponse de primes (op tion) has been made 70f 321 c to 70f 35c for the Threes. The market has been firm, and prices well maintained at the quotations of yesterday. The amount of business has been limited, specula tors being occupied in preparing for the settlement. Threes are now at 70f 40c; Mobilier, 775 f; Orleans, 1,390 f; Northern, 988 f 75c ; Mediterranean, 911 f 25c; Austrian, 510 f ; Lombard, 490 f. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents... 96 40, Do end month.... 96 50! Credit Fonder .... 920 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 35 Bank Shares 2930 Belgian 4i — Piedmontese Fives BO Roman 7B Austrian Spanish Threes 49 25 Home Debt Credit Mobilier 775 Do. Account 771 25 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1390 .. 1385 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 912 50 911 25 Geneva 405 .. 405 Southern 523. 75 .. 523 75 Western __ _ Eastern Sardinian 398 75 .. 395 Austrian Lombard THE WEST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 1. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Tamar, Capt. Woolcott, with the above mails, has arrived. She experienced, for the last five days, strong north east gales and high sea. The Shannon, Captain Abbott, with the outward mails of the 17th of October, did not reach St. Thomas until the 9th of November, 23 days out, in consequence of having broken her port paddle. shaft and cracked her starbDard one. The accident occurred on the 23d, when she had been six days at sea. After both her wheels have been removed the Shannon will proceed home under sail. The Tamar left St. Thomas on the 15th. She brings on freight 648,502 dollars, and a general cargo. Her Majesty's ship Cltta left Panama 24th October for Coast of Mexico. The Vixen was to leave Callao on the sth November for Valparaiso. The Calypso was expected at Valparaiso, from the Society Islands. The Hecate had left Valparaiso for Vancouver's Island. The Satellite left Valpa raiso on the 20th October for England. At Barba does—The Cossack and Skipjack. At Jamaica— Imaum, Icarus, and Racer ; Hydra had left for the Bermadus, sickly. The Valorous left Havaunah for Vera Cruz on the 3d November. The Barracouta left Jamaica for Bermuda on the 24th October. The weather continued fine at Barbadoes. Corn was dull, the native crop h avin g been just re a p e d . There was a good demand for Irish butter; little American remained in first hands. Mess pork and lard saleable. Sugar, none for sale. Exchange on London, 30 days, 490 dols. ; 60 days, 487 i dols. ; 90 days; 485 dols. At Demerara manufacturing operations were car ried on with vigour on the estates, and produce was coming into the market rapidly for shipment. Business continued dull. Breadstuffs had declined in prices. Sugar and molasses dull of sale. Ton nage not over abundant ; several vessels wanted for timber. Exchange had been reduced. At Trinidad the appearances of the canes were promising, and everywhere the planters were sanguine of a crop sufficiently abundant to make up for the falling off of the past season. The legislative session at Jamaica was to be opened on the 9th of November. Yellow fever prevailed in a very malignant form. Revivals had commenced in the island, and were spreading with great rapidity. The reports of the coffee and pimento crop are very satisfactory. Prices of produce remain at last quotations. Lug- Butter, Cork, parted with at 18. 3d. i cheese, 310: The 28th 11 The tiverpc £ 5 25,41 , of £IOE f or Am The 3 Tki v et, b b een w tao tiey f a` 7 olu.a Itn,d the I *arti t 91 12; 144 at and E l In ti fitrieted Irish 6 88 to 5 lien arc The been a ilDwarc Bright, Northe and La : The s teady, and to k ' of Cam d Ee Join .ontirn .1) :-. " - ittc bittc Turkis V elleZl TILE Since Thi morn: Pub Sevl Gov Not