The Sun. — London, England, 1860-11-12 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees. lig THIS EVENING, THE NIGHT DANCERS. Messrs H. Haigh, H. Corri, G. Kelly, Distin, and Lyall ; Madame Palmieri, Miss Albertazzi, Miss Lefll2r, Miss Thirlwall, and Kiss Huddart. And a Ballet of Action Ambuscade. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Doors open at Seven. Commence at Half-past. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bllokßtolle. THIS EVENING the performances will oommenoe With THE BABES IN THE WOOD. After which, BOX AND COX. And THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leolerogo. Commence at 7.1 ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Mantwer, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, an adaptation of Victor Hugo's cele brated Play of RUY BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. when Mr. Pechter, the fayonrite actor of Parisian renown, will make his 14th appearance on the English stage, supported by Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond, Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose Lecleroq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. To be preceded byiSUSAN SMITH. To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS, THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM So!e Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with (first time) an entirely new drama, entitled ADRIENNE ; or, THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers, Mr. G. Vining, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell„ Mr. Clifford, Mr. - .T. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste. After which, THE PE TS 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, Miss - Hudspeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner, Miss Douglas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson. To conclude with PERFECTION. Mr. 11. Neville, Mr. T. Lyon, Mr. John Rouse, Mrs. John Rouse, and Miss Rose Howard. Commenoe at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, t Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Great Success of the new Drama, by Dion Bourcicault, Esq., " The Colleen Bawn."—Hide Agnes Robertson every even- fir, THIS EVENING, TUE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W. Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs. Billington. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Poureicault, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David Fisher. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, 12 29. ; Family Boxes,'Xi. Orchestra Stalls, 55. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Ss.: Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 61 Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.— proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY. Triumphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand Spectacle of ROBIN HOOD. This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three Acts, by E. Pi :ball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or. the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, &e, Adan a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit chard. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome and :their: Troupe] of unequalled performers, &c., including the' incomparable Young Charles Duerow, the Greatest Wonder of the age. Doors open at half-past 8, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4 . Stage Manager—Mr. W. WnsT. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. Norma ................. ..... Miss RUSSELL. Adalgisa .................... Madame MARIA, (Her first apDearance in this country.) After which the ETHIOPIANS, consisting of Seventeen Per formers, organised expressly for this establishment, for the Performance of V0 ,, 51 gni Tr o+ritnentsl IV , l.sie, Comic and imen*al, wit7l ;Mines tions, Anecdotes, dme. Prin cipal Negro Artistea, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley Fox. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS. Balcony, is ..—.Hall. 6d. TH]'WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 11, 1560. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE, 42—highest since noon yesterday. 37—lowest this morning and during the night. 40—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.84. WlND—Easterly; fresh in the morning ; light now, with cold, frosty weather. Nov. 12. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAD'• 41—highest since noon yesterday. 3G—lowest this morning and during the night. 41—this day at noon. BAnomETER-29.72 ; still falling. WIND--South-Easterly ; light, with dull weather, in. dicating a change. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 12h. 33m.—Afternoon, 12h. 58m. To-mommow.-Morning, lh. :22m.—Afternoon, lh. 45m. LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 12, 1860. Scarcely have we been cheered within the last few hours with tidings from the direction of China, to the effect that the War had been brought to a satisfactory termination, than a counter statement comes to us from the Foreign-office, to the totally opposite effect, that the War is Not over by any means, but that, on the contrary, the allied army, according to the latest and most reliable accounts, had actually commenced its march upon Pekin ! And from what point is it that the Anglo-French forces are said to have begun this bold advance movement upon the Chinese Capital? Why, as to the particular spot from which they have now started upon this final expedition, against that all but fabulous metropolis of the great Chinese Empire, all the various intimations coming to us nt this moment from that remote seat of war are perfectly agreed—they all designate the point last attained by the allied army as within ten mil es only from the walls of Pekin ! It wap on the 10th of September, in fact, that the Anglo-4111c troops had reached Yangtsunyeh, or, as it is spelt in Mr. WYLD'S excellent map of the Field of Operations, San-sien-wey. Saturday night brought with it, at a late hour, the official telegram announcing that General Sir lIoPz GRANT had so far accomplished the objects of the expedition, that he had already begun to take active measures for the return of our troops home watda—stwo regiments even then having been de spatched o their way coastwards for embarka tion! Theintelligence was sufficiently startling : for according to the last published accounts, the allies, when the mails then left, viz., at the end of August, were busily engaged in negotiating at Tien-tsin term s Of agreement with the partially diseomfited adversary. Suddenly, therefore, to hear that tilat army Which had been negotiating towards the end of August at Tien-tsin was actually by the next accounts, i, e., by the accounts dated pretty far on iv. September, no longer at Tien-him, no longer waiting the result of diplo • mate ner-,etia• bons, but that it s vas positively within ten miles from Pekin, at the point variously designat e d ‘, ang tsunyeh and San •sien-wey, naturally was enough to awaken curiosity, and to excite feelings et asto nishment. A subsequent telegram explains, it i s true,to a certain e: rtentwhat had(iu the earlier part of the interim) tram Tired there at the actual seat of war; this late tele gram bringing down events thus. from the end of August to the Einth of September. It intimated, this second official telegram, that the negotiations at Tien-tsin Lad a few days previously been abruptly broken o[tf, and the signal given to the allied forces to renew their march, advanc• ing at once boldly upon Pekin. An additional and later telegram yesterday arrived with the announcement 'Already given, that by the Tenth of September the Allies were within ton miles from Pekin, namely, at San-lien-wey. Since which comes the following contradictory statements to the effect, as we have previously observed, that, first of all, Sir HOPE GRANT in a telegram dated the 26th of September, announced the war as over, and the army preparing to return, two regiments being already on their way homewards ; And in the second place we learn now, by another telegram, dated from Hong Kong, also on the 26th of September (!) that hostilities had recommenced, and that the Allies had resumed their march upon the capital ! From San-sien-wey (?) From that start ing point, within ten miles from Pekin ? Who shall say ? We must wait patiently until further news shall solve the enigma—For as far as the telegrams have gone yet, we are left (after conning them care fully) in utter bewilderment as to whether a deci. sive conflict had taken place between the Allied Troops and the Imperial forces under SANKOLINSIN —whether Pekin itself had fallen into the hands of the European conquerors—or whether the Empe ror of CHINA, to the end that he might avoid bring ing matters to these perilous extremities, had, however tardily, yielded to all our demands with out any exception or reservation whatsoever, includ ing amongst them, of course, full and ample indem nities. Of one thing, however, we may reasonably feel confident—namely, that the next despatches, in clearing up whatever sources of bewilderment there are latent in these few telegrams just received, will assure us definitively that the worst,is over; that further bloodshed need not be looked for between the belligerents; that the Chinese and:the Allies, in fact, are belligerents. no longer ; that the third, and let us hope, the last of these wars of ours:with China has been brought, by the union of Sir HOPE GRANT'S energy and Lord ELGIN'S tact, to a happy and triumphant close. Another day only intervenes now between this and the morning upon which will be solemnly interred in Westminster Abbey the mortal remains of the great Earl of DUNDONALD. As THOMAS, Lord COCHRANE, his heroic name will be held by the British nation in everlasting remembrance. That is the truest and the grandest earthly meed of his glorious and all but matchless reputation. Of that priceless recompense no man can now deprive him. Among the heroes of his country he occupies no secondary position in the British Walhalla. His effigy as a very paragon of heroism stands there side by side with that of NELSON alone—stands there imperishably, indestructibly. Englishmen of all future times will thrill with pride and exultation as they read the history of this dauntless sailor, proud and exultant that they, too, are Englishmen. They will read, in the records of that marvellous career, incidents that for superb daring and for their evidence of war like genius have never been surpassed. Whose English heart does not glow within him, for example, to find recorded in the naval annals of our land, among the =nay kin dred incidents related of Lord COCHRANE, that, when a prisoner of war on board the French republican ship, the Formidable, in the year 1801, durihg a desperate conflict with the British fleet in the Bay of Algesiras—at every broadside from the British man-of-war op posed to the Formidable—at every broadside crash ing into the latter vessel from the British guns, Lord COCHRANE and his men gave three ringing cheers, thoagh surrounded by the French, and liable, like the French, at every broadside to be swept to destruction ? As to the consummate coolness by which the valour of this heroic heart was characterised, what need be instanced in illustration of that, beyond a passing allusion, let us say, to this one recorded fact in the history of one of Lord COCHRANE'S grandest achievements—his terrific on slaught, in 1809, upon the French vessels of war lying at anchor in the Basque Roads--namely, that while in the very midst of it in an open boat, when the seaman seated next to Lord COCHRANE, in this open boat, was struck dead by a cannon ball, while engaged in looking through a telescope, Lord COCHRANE, without having his attention withdrawn from scrutinizing the enemy for one instant, disengaged the telescope from the dead man's hand beside him and himself continued the observations ! It is the inanimate dust of this glorious hero that we are about to sepulture in Westminster Abbey. The interment of his remains there is the last tribute of respect left for us to offer to the memory of this extraordinary charac ter—one who during life was treated notoriously so grudgingly, so ungratefully by his country in return for so many matchless achievements. Let us hope and trust that her MAJESTY'S Ministers will not allow to slip from them within the next few hours, unused, what we cannot but regard as in their regard a really enviable opportunity. Let us hope that they will adopt measures without any further delay to pay some notable mark of honour to the glorious dust of DUNDONALD—that they will see, for instance, that the Great Sailor Earl's remains are accompanied from Kensington to their final resting-place in Westminster Abbey, that they are attended along that route by a body of the Guards, both infantry and cavalry, while the park guns fire a salute as the coffin of our Other NELSON is lowered into the grave. If these poor marks of honour alone be conceded, Ministers will secure to themselves the grateful sympathy of many and many a generous-hearted English man. If ever these last honours be denied--sham e I to our administrators ! The Retirement of GARIBALDI is the important news from Italy to - day. It was mentioned, indeed, on Saturday, but in a way which hardly assured us that the deed Teas done. The telegrams of this morning leave us no doubt that GARIBALDI, the Dictator, :"snow plain GARIDALDI--- General GARI BALDI, we presume, as his rank in the Piedmontese army will, of course, cling to him. But rank is, truth, nothing to such a man ; who speaks ' d i M m , ever, by any designation but that ot his proper name ? What to him are titles like General, or even Dictator ? The man of one great idea, with laborious and noble work as his means to realise it —to him all that can be conferred is nothing, and less than nothing, except as it expresses kis actual right and power to rule and command for the furtherance of the great object of his life. Probably this great man is wholly unfitted for the work which he has now left to others to accomplish. Unfitted, we mean, for ' dealing with all the selfish patriots who will throng around the new Government and will demand the reward of their merits, in ofFAces, posts, situations, and salaries. An enthusiast (" i f the noblest temperament himself, and like a t:ne apostle, ready at any time by " his °lva 13 Ands to minister to his own necessities and the nr.ctssities of those who are with him," he is ill adapted to tho task of settling the conflicting claims of less self-denying or less self-competent patriots. The King of ITALy's new Government can hardly fail to honour the men of GARIBALDI'S temporary choice, but with the entire administration, police, and army to remodel, there will be little scope for ' the qualities which chiefly distinguish the brave an G d A s a lc i i D lf A u L l D G l e r n e e t r i a r l es to his Island farm but GARI BALDI does not, and cannot retire from influence on the world. His spirit has been the one which has rendered the Italian cause what it now is, the germ of liberties to other European nations. L ouis NAPOLEON did much for Italy—it were ingratitude to deny it. GARIBALDI himself felt it and owned it, and it probably, much more than fear, would have kept him from attacking French soldiers. But Louis NAPOLEON did not infuse the higher spirit into the Italian struggle. It was not in the man, and others could not receive . it from him. He could leave his work undone at Solferino, and sell Italy to the Government of confederate Princes at Villa franca. The emancipation of the northern half of Italy resulted, indeed, from what he did, but evi dently against his will, and in consequence of the determination of Italians themselves. Neither could VICTOR EMMANUEL nnd Count CAVOUR have created the new spirit which animates Italy. Loyal they were, sincerely so, to the national cause, but they had obviously objects to gain which might be con sidered personal ; it was not easy to be sure whether in accepting additional territory the King of PIED MONT desired to extend his own dominions, and to exalt his monarchy, or to enlarge the area of con stitutional liberty in Italy. The KING might be disinterested—indeed, from all known of him, there is every reason to believe that, if only in antagonism to Austria, he cordially accepts constitutional Govern ment, well knowingthat nothing is more hateful and galling to his bitterest enemy than the sight of real national liberties on her very frontiers. Still there could not easily be unanswerable proof in his case of a pure and spotless ambition. GARIBALDI it is who infused into the Italian struggle that element which has made it one of world-wide interest. His motives no one, even of his enemies, ventures to impugn. His long past history ; his consistent and brave struggles for liberty in other parts of the world ; his indifference to any reward but the reward of the work he had accomplished, and of a position to do more of the same kind; his unrepining readiness to work for his livelihood whenever not wanted in the fight for liberty ; his preference, indeed, of work to pay or pension, with the fact that he could breathe his own spirit into thousands of the noblest of the Italian youth, securing the homage and obedience of lore from all—everything has united to make GARIBALDI the soul, the ennobling soul of the Italian cause. May it not be marred in passing from his hands ! May he have so far im bued it with his own spirit that it will be impos sible hereafter to escape its influence. The proclamation of VICTOR EMMANUEL and his replies to deputations, seem to show that the KING has caught the spirit of his General; but the move ment will not stop with Italy. Let it but succeed there in the form of orderly freedom, and nothing can prevent the spirit of GARIBALDI'S movement crossing the Alps, and awakening other suppressed nationalities to life. Now the work is begun, who shall say where it will stop ? The rights of peoples against the claims of petty dynasties is what Italy has asserted in the clearest and most inspiriting form, ever since the landing of the patriot at Mar sala. It was a war by a man of the people, for the people, and it has ended in exalting the people to their right position, while the agent modestly assumes but the position of an agent, who numbers himself with the people when his work is done. The Old World, and the new also with manifest pride in the comparison, exclaim a second WASHINGTON ! But the second WASHINGTON has done his work where there are many WASHINGTONS wanted. Worth of the Alps, a people who, united and enjoying political liberty, might be a nation second to none in Europe, are cut up into some thirty or forty little kingdoms, intermarried with half the thrones of Europe ; and associated with that people, is Hungary and a number of non-Ger man provinces, all hitherto governed for the selfish interests of the comparatively small German Duchy of Austria Proper. The Princes of various names may do what they please, but they cannot hinder the impression on the peoples of Germany from an Italy such as GARIBALDI has made it. Unhappily there is not a Ruler, big or little, in Germany whom all the people can trust, as the Italians can the King of PIEDMONT; but the time will produce its man. With GARI BALDI and KOSSUTH ever ready, and Italy exem plifying the value of their principles, the upward movement cannot long be kept down. They have but to listen to KOSSUTIfS sound advice—he "recommends to his countrymen prudence and moderation—before long," he says, " a cry of liberty will resound in Europe, and success is at hand." He is right. Regenerated Italy is the seed of liberty and peace for Europe. Let the Nationalities but pursue the course which Hungary has taken, and we trust will persist in, and with the sight of Italy before them, the dynasties must succumb. TEE TVA. 7? ,IN CHINA. (From the Morning _Post.) We have reason to believe that on Saturday last an official telegram was received from Sir Hope Grant, stating that he had despatched two regi. ments on their way home, and that others were preparing to follow. This tr,;iegram was dated the 26th of September. As the last ner, - ,4 previously received left the Allies in the act of negotiating at Tien-tein, at the end of Aug"..eit, there was evidently a great ancj important gap to be filled up. Yesterday, however, another official telegram arrived, which brought intelligence of the rupture of the negotiations at Tien-tsin, the march of the allied forces on Pekin, and the departure of Lord Elgin in their track on the 9th of September. We last night received a further despatch which throws still more light on the events in China, as it confirms thq march of the troops on Pekin, and positive_ly states that on the 10th of September the a:my reached Yangtsunyeh (or San-sien-wey, as it is spelt in Wyld's map), which place is within ten miles of Pekin. So far, then, the gap is filled up. We may now hourly expect the arrival of despatches which will narrate the important acts which must have taken place between the 10th of September and the 26th. What is certain is, that Lord Elgin in the first days of September broke off the negotiations which the Mandarins had opened at Tion-tsin, and directed the whole force of the expedition on the capital it ' self, which, on the 10th of September, was menaced by the arrival of the Allies under its walla. Whether a battle was then fought with Sanko linsin, who was reported to be present there with a large force ; whether Pekin itself was occupied ; or whether the Emperor surrendered at once to our terms, we have yet to learn. But that a peace, full and satisfactory, has been signed we lave the assurance : the telegram of Sir Hope Grant proves that the expedition has accomplished its objects, since on the 26th he had sent off two regiments, and was making preparations for the return home of the rest of the army. The Queen has appointed the Earl of Chichester Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Sussex, in the room of the Duke of Richmond, deceased. We understand that more than half the amount required for the erection of the monument upon the site of the martyrdom of Bishop Ilooper, at Gloucester, has been subscribed. The committee appeals for further aid. There is to be a grand exhibition of Italian pic tures in Florence next summer, in aid of which the chief Italian cities are to contribute largo sums of money. • The Chancellor of the Exchequer has fixed Tues day next, at twelve o'clock, as the time for receiving a de putation on the subject of the hop duty. Professor Faraday has consented to deliver a course of lectures, a d apted to a juvenile auditory, " On the Chemical History of a Candle," is the coming Christmas vacation, • , /14,&- 3 .„.... • ,;.\_,„ p r -ato.-lill/ THE SUN. ~-- XTs~' r - THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEIVIBER 12, 1860. LATEST NEWB.I (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) NAPLES, Nov„ 10; Farini has been appointed Viceroy. Vintimiglia, Asanelli, Scialoja, Poerio, and D'Afflitto have been appointed Councillors of the Viceroyalty. VIENNA, Nov. 11: The Donau Zeitung of to-day gives a denial to the news that a circular note on the Warsaw in terview had been addressed by Austria to the Governments of Rome and Naples, and the Italian ex-Dukes. TURIN, Nov. 10. No fresh intelligence has been received respect ing the negotiations for the capitulation of Gaeta. It is asserted that the garrison of Gaeta is com posed of a few battalious only. FOREIGN OFFICE, Nov. 17, 6 P.M. A telegram was received this afternoon from her Majesty's Coasul at Marseilles, stating that it was reported from Hong Kong on Sept. 26, that the negotiations with the Chinese had not been brought • to any satisfactory point, and that the allied army had commenced its march upon Pekin. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Ceylon with the heavy portion of the above mails left Malta at 6 a.m. on the Bth, and may therefore be expected at Southampton about the 17th inst. The Colombo, which brought the mails to Suez, arrived there on the 3d November. Th© Candia reached Suez on the let inst. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Delta, from Southampton on the 27th October, arrived at Malta on the sth November at noon, sailed at midnight for Alexandria. The Vectis, from Marseilles on the sth Novem ber, arrived at Malta on the Bth at 3 a.m.; sailed at 10 a.m. for Alexandria. SHANGHAI, SErT. 20. The settlement of negotiations is delayed, owing to the question of the money indemnity. The allied troops are marching on Pekin, where San kolinsin is reported to be present with a large force. Lord Elgin followed the troops on the 9th of September. The army reached Yangtsunyeh on the 10th o, September. There is difficulty in providing carriage, as the Coolies are deserting. 2,000 men protect Tientsin. The rebels are inactive. CANTON, SErr. 26 Trade is obstructed by the rebels. MELBOURNE, SEPT. 26. The departures of gold ships are as follows: The Saluette, with 13,752 oz.; the Sussex, with 62,161 oz.; and the Anglesea, with 57,598 oz. THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING, The Royal Mail steamship Arabia, Capt. Stone, from Boston and Halifax, which touched yesterday at Queenstown, arrived here at 8 15 a.m. Havana advices were to the 23d ult. Sugar un changed. Crops were promising. The Havana correspondent of the Charleston .Mercury says : " The report is unfounded that Spain is fitting out a fleet at Havana to aid Miramon." California dates are to the 17th ult., but there is no news of importance. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY, The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamship Sultan, Captain Cook, with the above mails, has arrived. She brings 16 passengers, £3,142 in specie, and a general cargo of fruit, &c. She also brings home 'the crew of the British bark Apollo, which was abandoned on the Ist inst. in a sinking state, The Apollo was bound for London with a cargo of copper ore. LISBON, Nov. 7. The Cortex were opened by the King on the 4th inst., but were adjourned on the 6th inst. until the 7th Janaary. Exchange on London at three months', 54 z ; on Paris, sf. 27c. ; Amsterdam, 421 ; Hamburg, 48; Genoa, sf. 26e.; Three per Cent, Rentes, 481 ; Coupons, 478 ; Deferred, 371 ; Bank of Portugal, 556; Bank of Oporto, 258; Mercan tile Bank of Oporto, 258 mit. rein. FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. 10.—The market still continues buoyant, and a large amount of business has been transacted at improved quotations. For the Ac count, Threes, which opened at 70f 20c, are now at 70f 35c; Mobilier, 775 f; Orleans, 1,375 f; Northern, 995 f ; Mediterranean, 920 f; Austrian, 521 f 25c; Lombard, 495 f. The following are the last quota- tions :- 4f per per Cents 95 75 Do. end month 96 051 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 45 Bank Shares 2900 Credit Mobilier 782 50 Do. Account 775 j Credit Fonder .... 920 Belgian 4f 9B Piedmontese Fives Bl Roman . 81 60 Austrian Spanish Threes 49 Home Debt 144II#WA.T11. Cash. Account. Orleans 1395 .. 1398 75 Northern New ditto B9B 75 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 820 .. 918 75 Geneva 370 .. 374 Southern 530 -•- .. 628 75 Western Eastern •,,....., 00000 620 --x- .. 620 -- 5ardi4144.,,, , ~,,,, .• • 098 75 .. 395 Austrian Lombard THE; PRINCE O WAZES. The Prince of Wales, who left Portland in the Hero on the 20th ult., has now for some time been hourly expected in England. His Royal Highness has been 22 days at sea, or double the time in which the passage is commonly made. This unusual delay is no doubt owing to the long continuance of strong easterly winds, the Hero having probably fallen short of coal, Several steam-tugs have been despatched to cruise in the chops of the Channel, where they hope to fall in with the squadron. lON.PON SCOTTISH VOL UNTEER S. On Saturday evening, after the usual drill of the Scottish Volunteers, they were formed into square, and after a few encouraging remarks by Lord Eloho, their commanding officer, his lordship said he had read with great pain in the papers of Fri day morning an account of an unseemly disturbance in the Haymarket, in which a member of the corp was concerned. His lordship stated that a court of inquiry would be held on Wednesday, and the result communicated on Saturday evening. His lordship likewise wished that the whole regiment woulibe present on that occasion, as he had a great deal to communicate to them. NARROW ESCAPE OF THE SARDINIAN ROYAL FAMILY.—The Prince of Piedmont, the Count d'Aosta, and the Princess Pia narrowly escaped being buried under a wall which suddenly fell down at Genoa close to where they were sitting when the frigate Duca di Genova was being launched. Two persons were killed on the spot, and 11 others were more or less seriously injured. The young princess had dressed herself in the Genoese costume for the occasion, and on hearing the cry of alarm raised by the crowd when the wall fell she fainted. • WEST AFRICAN MAILS. SLAVE TRADE REVIVED. —GREAT SHIPMENT OF SLAVES FROM WYDAH. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. The Royal Mail steamship Ethiope, Lowry com mander, arrived here this morning with the West African mails, 32 passengers, and 3,100 ozs. of gold, and £2,700 in specie. Her dates are Benin, Oct. 8; Fernando Po, Sept. 28; Cameroons, Oct. 1; Old Calabar, 3 ; Brass River, 7 ; Nun, 7 ; Bonny, 7; Lagos, 10 ; Accra, 12 ; Cape Coast Castle, 14 ; Cape Palmas, 16 ; Sierra Leone, 21; Bathurst, 25 ; Tene riffe, 31; Madeira, Nov. 2. The intelligence from Sierra Leone is of a rather interesting nature. The Euryalus, with Prince Alfred on board, reached that port on the 12th ult., and at 4 p.m. that same day, his Royal Highness landed amidst great enthusiasm. The Prince was met on the landing wharf by the Governor of the colony, the members of the council, the clergy of all denominations, the officers of the garrison, &c., the troops forming a guard. of honour. The whole way from the wharf to tie Government-house was lined with the children of the various schools, who to the number of 1,000, dressed in white surplices, sang the Natieenal Anthem as the Prince passed on his way. The vehicle in which his Royal Highness was conveyed was a small pony phaeton driven by the Governor. On arriving at the Government House, the Prince was introduced to the Council, when the Hon. Chief Justice O'Carr read an address, in which the following passage occurs :—" It is to the British navy we are indebted for the se curity which trade enjoys on this coast, for were the squadron cruising in these waters withdrawn, these seas would be immediately infested with pirates. Legitimate commerce would be destroyed, and the slave trade, now circumscribed and limited, would again be renewed, and become widely ex tended along the coast, with all its attendant horrors." After a courteous reply from his Royal Highness, 23 liberated Africans of the colony and their de scendants presented an address, thanking the Prince, and through him the Queen, for the deep interest taken by England in the suppression of the slave trade. A beex containing £lOO of native gold was next offered to the Prince, but his Royal Highness de clined accepting more than one ring as a souvenir of his visit to Sierra Leone. During his stay at the Government-house no less than 24 kings and princes were presented to his Royal Highness. After a cold collation the Prince embarked on board the Euryalus, and left Sierra Leone the same night. The slave trade on the coast between Cape St. Paul and Lagos had undergone a " revival." The West African Herald gives prominence to a state ment which, if correct, speaks badly of the vigilance of the British cruisers on the coast :—" We are not at present able to arrive at a correct estimate of the numbers, but we have reason to believe that between the first day of January this year and the last day of August last, not less than 12,000 Africans from the . places we have named (Cape St. Paul, Lagos, and South Coast) have been carried across the ocean in spite of the cruisers. Of what has been going on in this way to the windward we do not at present speak, for we have really no information on this point. For the truth of the following information we can vouch :—On the 12th of August last a large screw steamer left Wydah (the great seaport town of the kingdom of Dahomey) with 1,200 slaves, and got off clear. Whilst embarking the unfortunates 18 were drowned in their chains in the surf by the upsetting of the canoes: This slave steamer was 18 days from Havannah to Wydah. Our informant was in Wydah when this occurred, and saw the slaves shipped. He says further in reference to this mat ter that the greater part of these slaves were the produce of the King of Dahomey's late excursions. Since Gezo (the late king) died, Badahung has made 14 slave hunting expeditions. When I was at Wydah all the paths were closed, and legal trade had quite stopped on account of these wars. At this very moment while I am writing, all the whites and headmen of Wydah are in Dahomey, whither they have gone in obedience to Badahung's orders to do honour to his custom,' which is being carried on in tremendous style. Thousands of people are being sacrificed (decapitated and afterwards cut in pieces), and thousands are being kept for slaves." The writer then describes the manner by which the slave merchants on the coast elude the cruisers, and their movements. When a slaver is ex pected certain flags are displayed, denoting whe ther the coast is clear or not, and whether she can anchor with safety. The time of arrival of these ships is usually calculated with great accu racy. The slaves are kept in the Bush till the day draws near. If the slave ship arrives, and the moment is propitious, a cargo of human beings is shipped in an incredibly short time—sometimes two hours. The writer states it as his opinion, founded on correct observation, that an effectual stop could be put to the slave trade by the extension of British stations along the coast between Lagos, St. Paul's, and the south and windward coasts. A message is said to have been sent by the King of Dahomey, through the captain of a vessel loading at Wydah, to the merchants of Lagos, telling them that they should clear out of Abbeokuta, as he in tended to plunder that place in the next dry season. The Cameroon River was very unhealthy, and trade was very dull and languid. The Lotty Sleigh and Saunders were to sail next springs. The commander of the brig Commerce, loading for Liver pool, had fallen a victim to the endemic. The news from Fernando Po states that the rains this season were very heavy, and that trade was anything but brisk. The American war steamer Tempter, and her Majesty's ship Ranger sailed for Lagos on the 28th Sept., and the Spanish war ship for Cadiz on the 10th Oct. From Old Calabar the news is of the same dis tressing nature. The river continued unhealthy, and the trade in consequence was exceedingly dull. The ships Dorothy, Tapley, Paramatta, Clan Gregor, Araminta, and Gartsherrie were in the river. The intelligence from Bonny reports the river as being very healthy, and the shipping free from disease. Trade, however, was very doll. The Valleyfield, Media, St. Andrew, Mississippi, Albro, Ellerslie, Ellen Grant, Star of the Sea, Flora M'lver, Ferozepore, were in the river. The Faith sailed September 30, and Runnymede October 4, for Liverpool. The Niger expedition steamer Sunbeam was at the Nun River on the 7th October, ready to pro ceed to the confluence. The latest news from the confluence states that Dr. Baikie and the rest of the exploring party were quite well. ller Majesty's ships Alecto, Buffalo, and Brune were at Lagos in October, and desired to be re ported all well. The American brig Laurette shipped from Wydah, on the 28th September, 000 slaves, and got clear away, and a few days after the American barque Buckeye shipped an immense number of slaves, end likewise got clear off. At Benin trade was moderate; the place was healthy. Said Muschid, Austin and Allen, and the screw steamer Fideliter were in the river. Cape Coast Castle was very healthy, and trade good. On the 14th October the Ethiope spoke, four miles east from Cape Three Points, the Burgo maister Hoffman, who desired to be reported. Advices from Cape Palmas to October 16 state that the royal mail steamship Athenian arrived there that morning, all well, and proceeded same evening to the leeward. The brig Commerce was in port. The news from Sierra Leone is of a gratifying nature. Trade was moderate, and the colony was very healthy. The rains had ceased, and a plen tiful supply of ground nuts was anticipated. Her Majesty'6 ships Prometheus and Lynx were in port. The latter vessel reports two slavers having been captured off the Congo River by the United States steamers, Jacinto and Mchican. The San Jacinto was cruising down the coast, not expecting to fall in with a slaver; but when off the Congo, she gave chase to and. boarded the Storm King, which had on board 619 slaves. The captain of the Storm King having given information that another slave ship, the Erie, had been shipping slaves in the Congo the San Jacinto immediately bore up to the river, but the Erie had already been taken by the Mohican, the captain of which found upwards of 850 slaves in tie Erie's hold. Both vessels, after having prize crews put on board, were sent round to Monrovia, where they had arrived. Three deaths took place on board the Storm King, and 35 on board the Erie—the total number taken into Liberia being 1,431. Her Majesty's ship Plover was up the Gambia river. The advices from Teneriffe are to the 31st Oct. A French war steamer, conveying the Governor of Senegal on a cruise, was in port. Her Majesty's ship Industry, en route for Ascen sion, was at Madeira on the 2d Nov. The Ethiope, at 7 p.m. on the evening of Nov. 7, passed the Royal Mail kteamer Armenian abort 70 miles from Madeira. Trade on the Gold Coast was brisk. Palm oil was being procured everywhere in great abundance, yet the traders were paying very dear for ;it. At Accra the palm oil trade had undergone an extra ordinary revival, the town being very often • com pletely crowded with palm oil carriers from the interior. LITERATURE. The Wortlebanic Diary, and Sonic Old Stories from Kathie Brande's Portfolio. By Holme Lee, author of " Sylvan Holt's Daughter." 3 vols. Smith and Elder. These volumes contain a number of stories of different lengths, skilfully arranged and joined to gether by means of an amusing narrative, which con tinues the old tale of "Kathie Braude in her, mar ried life." Some of the stories are very interesting, and the reader will be at no loss for variety, since among them there are some adapted to every taste in fiction. " Ashburn Rectory" and " The Diary of Miss Margaret Arden" are details of country life, and call one's attention from the simple unaffected way in which they are told. They contain morals, too, in their quiet and unobtrusive style. Margaret tells us how nearly she wrecked her happiness by her hasty and ungovernable temper, while in Ash burn Rectory, the sad fate of John Hartwell fully demonstrates the fatal results of such conduct as was his. "The Poor Pensioner" and " The Lady of the Mall" are two of those melancholy pictures that more than any other seem to reveal humanity's sternest and darkest lessons. In these faded figures wandering about so disconsolately, what dreams of vanished hopes and what relics of once bright hours. In the fearful trials they had undergone, a merciful Providence had allowed the over-strained nerves to relax their agonised ten sion and darkness to enshroud their mental vision— "A night everlasting had shut them from day." "A Governess's Soliloquy" is a smart sketch, and justly testifies to the toils of the career of those who pass existence in teaching till those around believe, at last, that they are mere machines, not living spirits who once delighted in youth's bright morning and dreamed of joy and pleasure for years to come. She observes, " The children think I am their natural enemy, and averse to all amusement. Oh, you blessed darlings, you make a grand mistake; I don't like lessons one bit more than you do, and delight in holidays, not in prim holidays though, when best frocks are donned, and I am charged to take care you don't spoil them. No, give me ease and an unspoilable gown, then away into the depths of woods, where nuts grow in rich clusters and the moss is like velvet, and the air like balms of Para dise ; and into green lanes, hedged with wild rose and fragrant honeysuckle ; by singing rivulets, into quaint old villages with ivied ruins and ancient women overflowing with legends and country su perstitions. Ah ! then I can get out of the echo of rules and exceptions, and forget while the day lasts that I am " the Governess !" "My Blind Sister" is a melancholy chapter of life, but it ends happily, and the unfortunate girl is again enabled to look round and see after her long years of darkness. " Rester's Evil Eye" is a strange sketch, but it is satisfactory to note that one absurd supersti tion counteracted another till at last all the parties were better off than they had any right to expect after their very strange conduct. "Madame Freschon's" is a simple record of some years passed at a French school. It is very amusing in its gay account, and may serve to remind some folks of the far-off days of their youth when they were domiciled in seminaries. How Miss Bootle was photographed is a ludicrous account of the events of a morning's picture meeting, in which pride and malice predominated in la striking man ner, and which displays how envy is not con fined to the brief reign of youthful beauty, bat follows on to middle age even when the loc,.ks are plain and the demeanour ungraceful. The pf2n cipal story in the first volume is entitled " The Haunted House." It is a mild and melancholy tale, and, as is the ease in many of these stories, a murder is the chief incident. The heroine, Adie, is an orphan child who has been adopted by a poor old artist whose genius has not sufficed to raise him from poverty and obscurity. He takes the tenderest care of his lovely little charge, who grows into a beautiful maiden and repays him with a daughter's love. Unfortunately a young man comes from London to study under old Nicholas, and an attach. ment springs up between him and Adie against the old man's will. The story proceeds until the Haunted House, in which the simple pair live, has another crime to add to its list of horrors. The old man is found murdered by an unknown hand, and, after grieving bitterly, Adie marries her lover and they go abroad. Years after accident extorts a confession from the criminal, and Adie learns to her life-long sorrow that her husband has been the murderer of her kind old guardian. The second volume opens with a group of stories bearing the more cheerful title of "Stories round the Yule Log." The readers of " Household 'Words" will recognise some old friends scattered through all these pages, and the tale of "Poor Dick," among these Christmas legends, appeared in the number containing " The Wreck of the Golden Mary," some years since. " A Day of Reckoning" is another of the tales which are tragic and gloomy in their character. It shows the wretchedness attending ill-gotten wealth. " From First to Last" narrates the career of a young painter, from the days when his gorgeously coloured picture of his secretly worshipped idol provoked her ridicule, t 9 the time when a skilful allegorical portrait from his hand stayed her in the path to ruin and despair. " The Devil's Mark" is a tale of the old days of witchcraft, and sadly tells how a happy home was broken up by the malignity of an envious and dis appointed rival. The stories are skilfully varied from grave to gay, from tragic record to lively sketch, and the Diary showing us the home life at " The Parsonage," and telling us of the love affairs of Kathie Brande's step-daughter Emmeline, runs pleasantly through the volumes. They are cer tainly- not equal to Holme Lee's earlier and larger works, and we should commend more concentration and thought to our author, whom rapid successes appears to have rendered careless. Nevertheless the volumes aro full of entertainment, and will be pleasant companions for a leisure hour by many winter firesides. Agnes Arnold. A Novel. By W. Bernard Mac Cabe. 3 vols. Newby. Mr. Barnard Mac Cabe is not unknown in the literary world, nor is this, we believe, his first essay in the art of novel writing, although the work bears evidence of an unpractised pen. His scene is laid in -Ireland at the close of the last cen tury, and the miseries which that unhappy country then endured are described with all the fervour and passion peculiar to his nation. The wrongs of Ireland, her misgovernment, and the wretched con dition to which she was reduced by the desolating influence of civil war, internecine hatreds, and, above all, the detestable system of spies and in formers—these latter figure prominently in the pages of the story brfore us, which is - wild and eventful to a degree that would appear enxitirateh'a-e gent, were the scene laid in any less stirring time. dloionde;hed and violence, and the despotism of an armed mob, fe/. ti opening concerning the of the heroine of the tale. She is a in Silc i le n tn g ee i rs e s wactifttehnbplot! and counterplots, eavesdropping, Irish heiress, who has long b een and Agnes letter t AI t young residing i n E n gland, but who unfortunately is persuaded by anonymous letters to return to her own country to Join her guardian just as the long threatened store is breaking over the Emerald Isle, and in volving her kind old friend in danger and diffi culty. Ito has two nephews, one of whom plays the part of unsliccessful lover to Agnes ; the other is the villain of the piece, by whose dark machina tions old Mr. Kirwan is placed in imminent danger. Open murders and secret assassinations are among the startling incidents of the tale, the idea of the betrayed informer blowing up the ship in revenge is novel, and takes the reader by surprise. We notice one curioue inconsistency in Mr. Mac Cabe's pages. In his introduction we read as follows : Twenty years after the Irish Rebellion of 1795, there was confined, as a " state prisoner," in the jail of Kil mainham, near Dublin, a gentleman declared to have been one of the leaders in the insurrection. Against tills gentleman, no process in a court of law Lad ever been instituted, but the Irish Parliament had thought fit to include in a bill his name, with many others—all dif ferently situated to himself; for all, but he, were in the custody of the Crown, and were either convict e d, or h a d admitted themselves to be " rebels." Yet upon him— then at large, and unconvicted I—the same penalty was imposed as upon them—that is the liability to be punished as a traitor, if discovered after the passin g o f th e A c t , i n any part of his Majesty's dominions. The Irish Parliament passed this Act upon the suppres sion of the rebellion of 1798 ; and the gentleman, referred to, was for the first time arrested, in accordance with its provisions in the year 1818 I—he having then come from France to Ireland, for the arrangement of some matters in which he had a pecuniary interest. For two years ho was detained a prisoner —and never— until incarceration, combined with anxiety of mind, had made him a bed-ridden cripple —was he permitted to leave Ireland, and return to France. The uninitiated reader would naturally consider the treatment of the gentleman referred to as most unjust and cruel. However, we find from the author's own account that his treatment was not so unreasonably severe as might at first sight appear. The Mr. Mac Cabe referred to is introduced at the end of the story, and, in discussing the events of the day, speaks as follows : " Unless, then, I am struck down by a bullet in battle, I shall outlive these times ; and, if 1 do, be assured that I shall, though I stood alone, contrive unceasingly, to the last moment of my life, to injure England ; now, by foment ing insurrections in her manufacturing towns; and then, by promoting disturbances amongst her agricultural popu lation—and the English Government shall know I do this, and, though they may, through spies, trace nay hand in all such doings, they shall never be able to arrest me. Yes, as Hannibal swore on the altar of his .country, never to make peace with the Romans, so did I swear upon the dead body of the truly noble Edward Fitzgerald never to be, for a day, at peace with England. My hatred again s t it is a personal hatred, and its intensity can only be equalled by the perfidy that excited it."„ M'Cabe, generally a cold, calm, bantering, unimpassioned man, clenched his teeth, and struck the table at which he was sitting violently with his hand, as he uttered these words. And yet they were not words spoken in a passion. They announced a fixed resolution which was unceasingly , adhered to ; and, for nearly twenty years after the suppres sion of the Irish rebellion, and so long as William Putnam M'Cabe enjoyed health, and possessed the activity that dis tinguished him in his early years, there never was a move ment of an insurrectionary character in England or Scot land, of which it was not discovered by the Government (but always too late to arrest him) that it had been fomented by the presence of M'Cabe amongst the discontented work ing classes. This is an historical fact, and the records of the Home Office testify to its accuracy. It thus appears, from an Irishman's own showing, that Mr. Mac Cabe of those days had little claim on the consideration of an English Government, however much the gratitude of his own country.. men may have been due for his warmth, of patriotism. During the year of his imprisonment the author of these volumes, then in very early life, was frequently taken to visit him. From him he learned many of the secret workings of those stormy days, and gained that vivid idea of the state of society then existing in Ireland—a state hardly credible to many in these peaceful and better ruled times—which have enabled him to write with so much force and fluency. Not that we can always commend the style of the work. The author is hap pier in the more active and stirring portions of his narrative than in the ordinary novelist's delinea tions. The conversations in the early part of the book are especially unequal and unnatural. Thus we have a confidentialmaid in one page exclaiming What a precious evil country this here Ireland is !" And a little further on remarking, " What a princely residence is that spacious building ;" and more in the same strain. Still the vivid de scriptions and stirring incidents of the book will commend it to the lovers of adventure, while its real merit lies in its being a picture of a time of na tional distress and peril rather than in the correct ness of its judgments or in its merits as a work of fiction. COST OF THE ARMSTRONG GUN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—A paragraph from the Mechanics' Magazine bearing the above title has been sufficiently digni fied by insertion in the Stan to warrant a passing remark on my part. The writer arrives at the conclusion that my guns arecosting the public the " amazing sum" of £2,000 each, although, as he states nearly the whole are small field-pieces weighing only 8 cwt. He might just as well have said £lO,OOO each while he was about it, for to one who takes such liberties with facts and figures it would have been as easy to arrive at the one result as at the other. I thank him, however, for raising the question, which enables me to inform your readers that the Government can be supplied with any number of the new 12-pounder rifled guns at two-thirds of the price of the old 12 pounder brass guns, the cost of which is £l7O. I also take this opportunity of stating that tire difficulties which in the first instance beset tb Le construction of the larger description of my gun s, and which have caused some delay in their mama facture, have now been entirely surmounted, and that no further impediment exists to their rapid. production. —I am, Sir, your obedient servant, London, Nov. 9. W. G. ARMSTRONG. HAYMAREET THEATRE. On Saturday evening a new comedy, by Mr. Tom Tay lor, entitled the " Babes in tie Wood," was produced at this theatre. The title applies to Lady Blanche Rushton and ' Mr. Frank Rushton, who have made a runaway match, an( find themselves plunged into the horrors of genteel poverty with the chance of bein g precipitated into genuine pauperism i • After suffering all sorts of inconveniences, even to incareiert i tion in "the Bench," the young married people obtaitt ti forgiveness of their parents, and all ends happily. Mir a Sedgwick, of course, sustained the part of Lady Rushton-.; and although the character did not furnish her with an y very novel materials, she brought it out in exquisite styli The great part of the comedy. however, is that sustainer by Mr. Buckstone—one Mr. Beetle--a hen-pecked husband of a lodginghouse-keePer, whose comical sorrows caused I vehement laughter. Nothing could have been more ludicrous than the appearance of Mr. Beetle, after his promotion from boot. cleaner to the office of housemaid., looking for his black-lead brush which he had lost, afti - cr giving the finishing touch to the drawing-room grate. Vali acting of Mr. Buckstone throughout the piece was the Ter y cream of comicality, and fairly convulsed the audience wit It laughter. Mrs. Wilkins, as Mrs. Beetle the • " superior " wife of the aforesaid Mr. Beetle, acted with great spirit and I effect. The other characters in the play, if we except that of the Earl of Lazenby (carefully sustained by Mr. Chip pendale), are very thinly drawn, and, in many instances, beneath the talent of the artistes who had to sustain them. The great fault of the piece is its extreme length, a defect easily remedied. At the tall of the curtain Mr. Buckstoneb announced the comedy for repetition every evening. TILE ENSUING SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. The ensuing Christmas prize cattle show of the Smithfield Club is fixed to take place this year at. the Baker-street Bazaar, on the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th December , and the entries already a r e ex ceedingly numerous. The death of th e D u k e o f Richmond, w ho, as immediate successor of the late Earl Spence:, for many years fill e d th e o ffi ce o f pres ident of the Smithfield Cattle Club, has caused a vacancy in that position, and th e su bj ec t w ill b e t a k e n into consideration at the annual general meeting of the club, to be held on the llth Decem ber. It is generally believed that the choice of the club will fall upon Earl Berners, in conse quence of the e great attention the noble lord hat; paid to the int eres t s o f th e c l u b, no t on ly as vice president bat as locum tenons for the late noble president. Considerable misapprehension exists as to the prop ose d remova l o f th e S m ithfi e d Cl u b prize cattle show from the Baker-street Bazaar. An impression is abroad that the removal of the show will take place this year. This is erroneous.. The contract between the Smithfield Club and Mr. Boulnois, the proprietor of the Baker-street Bazaar, does not terminate till the Christmas of 1861, and the proposed building for the reception. and exhibition of the stock at Islington will not be in readiness to accommodate the show till thti Christmas of 1862. It will be remembered the.; some two or three months since there was a great controversy upon this subject amongst the members of the club, and that several meetings were held a t the Freemasons' Tavern to decide the question of removal or non-removal to the site of Dixon's cattle lairs in the Liverpool-road, Islington, which was carried by a considerable majority. Tao late noble president, the Duke of Richmond, expressed himself adversely to the removal, in a letter which was read at the final meeting presided over by Lord Walsingbam ; whilst Earl Berners, who was also absent upon that occasion, expressed his written concurrence in this proceed.. ing. It is mot improbable , therefore, th a t there may be same contest upon the point at the annual general meeting of the club in referen ce t o the election of president. It is stated that an opi nion has strongly gained ground amongst the mem bers of the club that it will beimpolitic to move the, locality of the show, and more especially to a district so far away from the central and fashionable end executed se which, lves of town as Islington. It is believed, however, that the change of ,opinion, if it has tak en pl ace , h as come too late, Its it is understood th at t h e d ee d s an d upon certain conditions, the to the limited liability company who are t o erect t h e b u ildi ng at Islington for a period of twenty-one years. r club bind themselves byra Gounod's " Faust" has been withdrawn from the list of operas tc, be presented at Covent Garden during the present season,