The Sun. — London, England, 1859-11-24 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, CO - VENT-GA RD EN. Under the manazenient of Miss L. Pyneand Mr.W. Harrison THIS EVENING, DINORA H. Messrs. Santley, Corr!, St. Albyn, and NV. Harrison. Misses Pilling, Tkirl- Wail, and Miss Louisa Fyne._ Conductor, Alfred Mellon. Ballet, LA FIANCEE. Messrs. W. H. Payne, H. Payne, F. Payne, Mcllle. Icquine, Pasquale, Pierron, Clara Morgan, and Mons. Vandris.. _ _ _ Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. -rills F,ITENING the performances will commence with LLOWE'EN. After which, THE BACHELOR OF ARTS. Jasper (his oriy moat character), Mr. C. Mathews. Followed by a new Comedietfa, entitled THE LATE LAMENTED. And MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris._ THIS EVENLNG, the performances will commence with a new Petite Comedy, entitled GOSSIP. Messrs. Ryder, Meadows, Shore; Miss Wadham and Mrs. C. Young. After which, a new farce, in one act, entitled NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. Widdicomb, Meadows, H. Saker ; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs. Weston. . _ To be followed by THE MASTER PASSION. Messrs Ryder, G. Melville, Graham, R. Cathcart, Garden ; Miss C. Lec'ercq and Mrs. Charles Young. EW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI. 1.11 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart, Billinzton, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Kelly. Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called DINORAH UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Took, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past - six--Commence at seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor fer bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment arc strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.—SoIe Lessee and Dire.stress, Madame Celeste.—The Public is re spe:tfully informed this Theatre will OPEN for the Winter Season on MONDAY, Nov. 28, with a new and original Drama Fantasfique, written by a popular author, entitled PARIS AND PLEASURE ; or, Home and Happiness. Full particulars will be duly announced. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING, a new Comedy, LONDON PRIDE ; or, Living for Appearances. Messrs. R. Robins, Barrett, Charles Young ; Mesdames Frank Matthews, Murray, and Nelly Moore. Atter which (Bth time) a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE SWAN AND EDGAR. Messrs. Barrett, Francis, Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with A DEAD SHOT. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, ls. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ante commences at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee' Mr. William Cooke. Continued successfnl career of the new Drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARIBALDI ; illustrating the principal events in the Life of the Great Italian General. Supported by a Powerful Company, including the fallowing popular favourites :—Mr. R. Phillips, Ennis Belmore,Raymond, Miss Kate Carson, &c. - Great Dramatic Tableux—Full Stud of Trained Horses--Scenes in the Circle by the Star Equestrians of Europe, John Henry Cooke, Madlle. Marguerite„ Miss Ilosina, and the world's wonder, Little Menoui, also, the Extraordinary Performing Elephant—Clowns, H. Croneste, Rowella, French Pierrots, Gymnasts and Acrobats innumer able, concluding with the exceedingly laughable Comic Ballet called LOVE'S VAGARIES. Stage Manager, Mr. It Phillips CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.— EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con certs). And a Grand Se'ection from Meyerbeer's new opera'of DINORAH. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. GeOrze ifodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Crltchfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. ROSA BONFIEIIR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Ball Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is open from 9 am. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six pence. THE WEATITER.—SuIsr Orricz, NOVEMBER 24. THEIMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 52—highest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and during the night. 51—this day at noon. BAnoivrETER-30.03. Warm, East-South-Easterly; light, with fine weather, lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.—Morning, lh. 13m.—Afternoon, lh. 35m. To-uouatow.-Morning, Ih. 56m.—Afternoon, 21i. 16m. 1 '.. (44 ?.. A 7 .1 ~,,sl, ~..'. - -,_. .1 • , ~. L---_-_,J, ta r . )45 . 1 i s ~, ; .-."A ita • ' : ' '..±Z , 1.4, ~...'-•-; c ----‘ • - 1 . 1 - ri . )144 e - ....,•• - ..) ,1 - .• 15;,4 ,.. ~ , ~.i k, ''.• 1 / 4 ..,-Nt,4•A ‘---4.1. " :- ..... ‘ -•12....t.ti1 .. 2 . 44110;;•• 'i . • ;1<.•,,...!! 2' J''' -% _i e • W, ;, / , ' -11" i . 0 - ' T"' ..,...i.: , ',. , • '` .a-- , -E 2 ----i, :4- -,_ THE SUN. LONDON, T.HURSDAY, NOV. 24, 1859. The Rifle Corps agitation has long since assumed to itself the grandeur of a national movement. It is not by any means surprising, therefore, that the time has long gone by when it was the fashion to sneer at the militia and the yeomanry. If there h any one fact that has been rendered conspicu ously undeniable by the different historians of the brief campaign in Belgium, ending with the crown ing contest of Waterloo, it is the fact that the conquerors in that last of the world's great battles were, for the most part, or at any rate in a very considerable proportion, raw recruits. This astounding fact demonstrated beyond the possi bility of misapprehension, we repeat, by all the most exact and reliable authorities, from the earliest to the latest, whether native or foreign, from SIBORNE down to, in point of time up to, in point of accuracy, BRIALy.o.yr ! How many, indeed, of our gallant fellows under Lord RAGLAN, how many of those brave troops who, at the man date of their chief walked up the embat tled acclivity of the hill of Alma, to a complete and signal victory, to a victory ter minating in all but a rout, had never before, save in review or sham-fights (as the phrase is) smelt gun powder? Experience indeed has long since demon strated, over and over again, that but a very small modicum, a mere handful, so to speak, of hardy and well-disciplined veterans suffice to give a heart, a will, a vivid and not easily irresistible im petus to a vast numerical preponderance of newly recruited, half-drilled, hastily-accoutred English men. Another consideration beyond alI this has served to forward the advance latterly of this newly inaugurated Rifle Corps movement. The growing conviction now is, that skill with the rifle is, all things considered, readily attainable. Hass BUSK and all his calla borateurs agree in this, if in nothing else. A steady hand, a keen eye, a little common sense, and a small share of perseverance, and your rifle volunteer may calculate in reason upon becoming speedily enough a credit to the corps of which he is a brother in arms. Hitherto, it is true, the move ment has been spreading, as it were, by fits and starts, in a desultory manner, according to the whim' or Particular localities, or the ardour of this or that individual. Nevertheless, even in this desultory manner, we believe an aggregate has already been arrived at that would sound scarcely credible if it were at this moment masted together. We cannot help thinking that a stage has at ,length been reached in the development of the rifle corps move ment, when by a judicious interpo3ition of the le is -I:iture (in aid and encouragement of the movement) the whole complex and hitherto scattered scheme might . be readily and effectually—there is no bettzr - word for it—systematised. It militates nothing whatever, of course, from the military strength and preTiaredness of any country, that the extent of its milaary and maritime armaments are known (are ascei:tained and published) to a man, to a ship, to a gun, to a bayonet. We cannot but think it would immensely advance our insular pre paredness, and strengthen our position instead of weakening it the estimation of all the rest of the great poi' ,7ers of the earth, friend or foe, if we had it ascelli.ained and officially published in returns as authentic and as reliable as the returns periodi• tally revised at the Horse Guards, that we have had organised here voluntarily among the masses of the educated and industrial population themselves a vast National Guard of 200,000 or 300,000 skilled Rifle Volunteers. An armament like that, guaran teed to be accurate, so to speak, by having the timbre of the Government affixed to it by way of absolute authentication would be a judicious warn ing to any insidious enemy who might be meditat ing the heinous crime and bloodguilliness of an unprovoked invasion. Regarding the matter in this light, we cannot but think that when Parlia shall have re-assembled in February, it might be advisable to have certain reliable returns moved for and ordered to be printed in the form of a goodly Blue-book of carefully collected and tabularly arranged statistics, showing us How many Rifle Corps have already been established throughout the United Kingdom, How many are in course of being established, and How many more are feasible or desirable, or in actual preparation. Another suggestion is likewise we cannot but think deserving of being taken at an early date now into the serious con sideration of the Government. The suggestion, that is to say which has been thrown out for some time past occasionallyinvarious directions to the effect that one uniform system of clothing for these Rifle. Volunteers should be adopted by them under the advice and by the authority of Government. An admirably sensible letter, extracted by us from our chief morning contemporary, and published- elsewhere in our columns this evening, throws a refreshing flood of light we cannot but think, upon this long-vexed question, and does so in the very nick of time, as follows : 2 —" The uniform ?" asks the Royal Engineer, who immediately responds to his own query with a rejoinder somewhat startling, it must be allowed, in the prevalent bias in favour of grey or olive green or other colours scarcely visible in a sylvan or cultivated landscape—" The uniform ? What better could they wear, than the common hunting costume with the scarlet coat ? Well, to save appearances and prevent the enemy having any excuse to hang a man who fell into their hands as an unlicensed soldier, let us throw in a helmet or a hunting cap with a funny plume. Oh, but how conspicuous a red coat would be ! Has it never struck auy of the partisans of invisible coats that in the confusion and smoke of action it is diffi cult to tell friend from foe, and that the introduction of distinctive uniforms was, as with the rests in olden time, to guard against such mischance ? Has the in troduction of rifles and distant fighting done away with the necessity of this distinctiveness. Ask any one who was at Inkerman if he did not hear the men curse the hour when they went into action in greatcoats, instead of as a thin red line, saying that it was impossible till they came close upon him to tell a Russian from an Englishman. It was a drizzling, misty day ; are we not as likely to have misty days in England ? Then we are at close quarters, and one would imagine nothing could be more dissimilar than the outlines of our men and of the Russians in their flat broad caps and NOAH'S Ark greatcoats." Certainly the reasoning in this must be allowed to be sufficiently impressive. But the writer has not yet done with his force- • ful arguments. " When you come," he says, "to long distance rifle shooting, no human being can guess your country. Many, a poor fellow of the Rifle Volunteers will, if ever the occasion comes for active service, and he finds himself potted at from- the rear, regret the hour when fancy was allowed unlimited s - say in picking out invisible grays. I should say the greater the dis tance at which you are to fight the more marked should be your uniforms, and certainly neither the French nor any other continental nation has made their uniform less marked in consequence of the in troduction of rifles. Why, sir, with us every vo lunteer corps has a different and more curious uni form; no human being except the tailor who de vised them knows what they belong to at 20yards' distance. If you ask, you are answered, Oh, I suppose it is a rifle volunteer.' In action a bullet may ask the question." An unpleasant considera tion so put, but really and truly one that ought to be dropped into his pipe, and reflectively smoked out by every contemplative Volunteer. Sir JOHN BowniNG has just now spoken to the English public most oppOrtunely. His ex.-Excel lency yesterday delivered before the Society of Arts a lecture, comprising within it the gist of all he has to say upon China and the Chinese. There condensed into that single prelection were the majority of Sir JOHN'S observations upon that twin theme during his protracted residence upon the borders of China as her Britannic MAJESTY'S Representative. It is significant, we cannot but think, that at the very outset of his remarks, Sir JOHN BowRING took occasion to utter one pithy sentence of warning to the British multitude, now that the nation is again plunging into a contest with that gigantic race which absolutely comprises within it one entire third of the whole population of the globe —Sir JoHN BOWRING actually estimating the present total of the inhabitants of China at an amount so stupendous as to be even in excess of the wonderful aggregate of 416,000,000. It is in the act - of repudiating any intention whatever to touch upon political questions during the progress of his lecture that Sir JoHN BOWRING utters this to us peculiarly significant Warning—when he avows it to be distinctly his opinion that as far as territory is concerned we have already emough of China. The mere Beware is a token of the direc tion in which the speaker conceives that we arc now advancing—and the probability he beholds before him of new territorial acauisitions by Eng land in those remote borders of the eastern hemi sphere. However this may be, there is the warning —with a view to encourage us to attend to which the lecturer immediately begins, it appears to us, rather injudiciously, to sing the praises of Hong Kong. He described it as exceedingly well chosen as a settlement, and men tioned, among other tokens of its astonishing rapidity of growth the circumstance that during the period of his own residence there Hong Kong had more than trebled its population. Whereas he had found in it but 30,000 souls, he id; in it as many as 96,000 ! And while he avowed frankly that the pla2e could never be expected to attain much commercial eminence by means of the exportation of its own products, he certainly surprised us imme diately after wards with the information that the pub lic buildings Of the capital of California were con structed with granite quarried at. Hong lion g. Refer ing to theNastness of the Chinese population already here E•pz:cified, as comprit,ing within it about a third of the human race, Sir J,)mc tells us that " The pressure on subsistence was in consequence so great, that Chinese emigration might be reckoned by Adding—" They pressed everywhere, and in a port in the Philippines which had only been three years opened, they already, consumed British products to the amount of 400,000 dollars." Entering more fully afterwards into the statistics procurable in reference to the Chinese trade the Lecturer remarked that '1 the Chinese imports into were above 11 millions in 1857, when there was an extraordinary demand for raw silk, j and the average annual export from China was about nine millions. But there was a vast deal of China trade which was not represented in the British returns, so that he believed the real amount would be nearer 50 millions than 40 millions ster• ling, and our revenue from it upwards of four millions. The exports, also, had gone up wonder derfully. In 1858 they were £2,876,447." And these statistics, it iS especially observed, do not represent in any way whatever either Opium or Silver ! What Sir JOHN BOWRING now says upon Opium we would most earnestly commend to the consideration and the co:iscience (if they have any) of all the thin-skinned MAWWORMS in the land. The lecturer then remarked—" It had been said that we carried on the opium trade in violation of our treaties with China, whilst the fact was that the treaties made no reference to the opium trade whatever. It was said further that it was carried on in contempt of the wishes of the Chinese Government. Now he had resided ten years in China, and had had much intercourse with man darins, and he had never heard opium men tioned except when he introduced the subject himself. There was, - it was true, a warm con troversy constantly being carried on in the Pekin Gazette, and hot arguments were held pro and con, some writers - arguing against the legalising of the introduction of the drug, and others urging that a great revenue might be derived from it. If it were so abhorred by the Chinese as was.alleged, he asked was it possible that it should be cultivated in eight provinces of China ; and so mach was that culti vation improving, that the monopoly of the India '''Company was in great danger. His argument had been always, legalise the trade, for you could not stop it, and the frauds committed under the present ' system were raonstroas. It had been said that the Chinese perished by thousands from the use of opium. Now, from returns he had obtained in Hong Kong, he found that more persons perished out of €OO British residents of delirium tr•ernens than among 96,000 Chinese from the use of opium. •tie had stated these facts as he had found them in returns, and had been accused of perverting them to suit his purpose, and of concealing.the fact that the Chinese victims of opium at Hong Kong went to the main land to die. Nothing could be more unjust. He found that in ancient times the Chinese people had been notorious for habits of intoxica tion, but now he knew that they were perhaps the most sober people in the world. Neither did it seem to affect their longevity, for he knew one man, an opium smoker, who was 104 years old, and several others of ninety !" After this, what shall be said of the immorality of both our war and our trade with China? Certainly Sir JOHN BOWRING gives us a couleur de rose view of both one and the other. Listening to him, you would hardly think there could be anything pernicious in that insidious drug, of the evil influences of which we have caught glimpses so appalling through the me lancholy hullucinations of the poet COLERIDGE and through the eloquent ravings of THOMAS DE QIIINCEY'S weird and impressive Experiences. Altogether, however, the lecture is worthy of pro found consideration. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Nov. 23. The dinner party to-day included their Royal Highnesses Prince Frederick William of Prussia, Princess Frederick William of Prussia (Princess Royal), Princess Alice, and the Princess of Leiningen, his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, Earl Cowley; Countess Lytytr, Countess Hohenthal, Count Perponcher, Captain von Schweintz, and the visitors who arrivel in the afternoon. The first dramatic performance this season took place in the evening. The following was the programme : A comedy, in three acts, by Mr. Bayle Bernard, en- titled— TIIE EVIL GENIUS. Hill Cooley, Esq:(aretired East Indian) Mr. Chippendale - Tom Ripstone (his old acquaintance) Mr. Buckstone Walmsley (his new one) Docket (his lawyer) - Barton (his surgeon) Mr Villiers Joe Withers (the postman) Parker Bailiff Lady Aurora Ringwood Mrs. Montgomery Clara Fielding Time-1830. Scene—A Village and Park in Derbyshire. - -- - - - After which a comediatta, in one act, adapted from the French vaudeville, " Un Service a Blanchard," by Mr. Tom Taylor, entitled— TO OBLIGE BENSON. Mr. Benson (a barrister) Mr. Trotter Southdown (his friend).. Mr. F. Robson Mr. John Meredith (a pupil of Mr. Benson's) Mrs. Benson Mrs. Trotter Southdown Time—The Present Day. Scene—Mr. Benson's House in .... Tliurlow-square. - --- Under the Management of .... and _ _ Under the Direction of - Mr. W. B. Donne Her Majesty's Examiner of Plays. The Theatre arranged and the Scenery painted by Mr. Thomas Grieve. Shortly after eight o'clock the Queen and Prince Con sort, with the Prince and Princess Frederick 'William of Prussia (Princess Royal), Princess Alice, the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, accompanied by the dinner company, entered the Theatre in St. George's Hall, when the per formance immediately commenced. The orchestra was composed of her Majesty's Private Band. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. A little comedy, adapted from the French, by Mr. Harris and Mr. Williams, was produced at this theatre last night with success. The dialogue is neatly written, and a moral is worked out with point and piquancy. The plot turns upon the evil propensity of gossip as'in dulged in by a MI s. Chatterton (Mrs. Charles Young), who, during the dull period before the announcement of dinner, enlivens the company with a description of an interview to which she had been witness between a celebrated belle—a Mrs. Beresford—and an unknown gentleman, in Kensington Gardens. The husband of Mrs. Beresford happens to be among the company to whom this is narrated, and he immedi ately insists on her giving him the name of the gentleman. She is both unveiling and unable to comply, and he deter mines to persecute her into satisfying him. every day he calls at her house, appears at her carriage door, follows her into shops, always with the one phrase, " His name, madam ;" he even telegraphs to her the same odious phrase and renders her life insupportable by his constant persecu tion. She retires to the country house of a friend, and on her still refusing he threatens to challenge her husband. Then, finding from her grief at this threat that her heart is not in fault, but thather gossipping propensities are merely the result of an evil habit, he confesses that he himself was tho gentleman who met his wife. The play was acted with great spirit, and the applause at the fail of the curtain was very great. The house was well attended. LIFEBOAT jjERVICES CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN, Nov. 22.—0 n Saturday last, the 19th inst., the barque Ohio, laden with salt, bound from Liverpool to Stettin, was seen off Poolwash Bay (to the westward of Castletown), with a signal for a pilot, and apparently un manageable. She shortly afterwards anchored ; but both anchors dragged, and she went ashore near the centre of the bay at 4 p.m. The wind was inshore, S.W., strong and increasing. At the time of her striking she vas under the lee of the Carrick, a half-tide rock, and a harbour boat, which had left Port St. Mary with a pilot was enabled to take eight of the crew ashore ; but as the tido rose and the rock became covered, the surf prevented further communi cation with an ordinary boat. A messenger was then sent immediately to Castletown for the lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution ; but she was fortunately close at hand (earlier intelligence having reached the cox swain), and was launched at 5 p.m., reached the wreck at - o'clock, and succeeded iu rescuing the remainder of the crow—consisting of the master, mate, And two other hands —who were saf;:ly landed at Port St. Mary, the nearest practicable landing place at 8 p.m. The barque, belonging to Prussian owners, will probably become a total wreck ; she was in a leaky state when she struck. At the time the lifeboat was launched it was very dark with a heavy sea. The promptitude with which the lifeboat was on the spot has given great satisfaction, as but an hour elapsed between the barque striking and the arrival of the hoat, while two miles of road, including a Mali and steep hill, had to be tra versed. This valuable lifeboat has also once or twice this year saved shipwrecked crews. The station is iu first-rate order. • Amongst the new undertakings in respect of which application is to be made for the sanction of Parlia ment next session is one called the Milford Haven Railway and Docks. TILE DEATU OF PITT.-4 paragraph has been going the round of the papers giving a totally inaccurate account of the death of this great statesman. We have the best reason for knowing that in Mr. Rose's Diary, about to be published by Mr. Bentley, the real facts connected with his last illness and death will for the first time be made public. THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 24, 1859. r f E S ril E The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office VIENNA, TuunsDAY. An Imperial autograph letter orders the Minis ters to grant a full amnesty to all persons compro mised by the part they have taken in Italian affairs. This amnesty Will apply to civil as well as military persons. Criminal offences of no poli tical character are to be excepted. BRUSSELS, Nov. 24. It is stated from Paris, on reliable authority, that the object of Lord Cowley's visit to London is to lay before his Government a proposal from the French Government for a simultaneous disarma ment by England and France. PARIS, THURSDAY. The Marquis de Bonneville has arrived from Zurich with the ratified treaties. On the day when the ratifications were exchanged, M. Armand de livered to the Austrian Plenipotentiary a draft at sight for twenty millions of florins. The remaining eighty millions will be paid by four instalnients at short intervals. It is believed that Count Rechberg, assisted by Prince Metternich, will represent Austria at the Congress. The report of the departure of Marquis Antonini for Naples is false. NICE, Nov. 22. General Garibaldi left this place yesterday for Genoa. Before his departure he addressed the in habitants of Nice, and said : " I shall be ready to assume my command when necessary. Let us be united nnder Victor Emma nuel; let us continue under arms as long as an inch of Italian soil remains oppressed." Its Majesty the King of Sardinia is expected at Nice to pay a visit to the Dowager Empress of Russia. NAPLES, Nov. 19. The official journal Announces that M. Paulin Talabot is expected at Naples, in order to consult with Messrs. Rothschild and Blount eoncerning the line and works of the railway from Naples to Tarento, of which M. Talabot is the founder. FRANKFORT, Nov. 23. Intelligence has been received here of the pro ceedings of the representatives of the minor German States at the conference at Wurzburg. The principal questions to be considered are the settlement of the right of domicile ; the establish ment of federal courts of justice ; the national demonstration in favour of unity ; reform of the federal laws relating to the army ; the Hesse Elec toral and Holstein questions; and regulations for an uniform system of weights and measures for all Germany. MARSEILLES, Nov. 23. The Algerian journals deny the rumoured death of General Seriers. Advices from Tunis to the 15th inst. state that the new Bey is about to send an ambassador extra ordinary to Constantinople to demand a religious investitnre from the Sultan. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. TIIE BOURSE, Nov. 23.—The market has been rather more buoyant. Threes, after having been done at 69f. 95e.. improved to 701. 15c. Mobilier varied from 775 f. to 780 f.; Austrian, 650 f. to 653 f. 75c.; Lombard 517 f. 50c. to 550 f. ; Lyons, 887 f. 50e. to 8901.; Northern, 950 f. to 952 f. 50c.; Eastern 6151. to 647 f. 50c. The following were the last quotations:— ti per Cents. .. .. 95 50 I Credit Fonder G 95 Do. end montl4. .. I Belgian 4f 99 75 3 per Cent 5....... 70 15 I Piedmonteso (5) Do. end month.... 70 5, Roman B6 50 Bank - Share 2850 Austrian : - . l ,rdit Mobilier:.. 776 25 Spanish Threes .. 44i Do. Account ..... 777 50 Home Debt 43i RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto 837 50 .. 840 Lyons and l'iladitorranean Geneva Southern Western 563 75 .. 565 Eastern Sardinia Austrian Lombard .....' 54(3 25 .. 647 50 - - - - - - Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10e. ; money, 2.5 f. 71c.; three months, paper, 21f. 95e.; mono, 2rtf. 921 e. CENTRAL ITALY. Ths following despatch has been addressed by the Sardinian Government to its diplomatic agents relative to the affairs of Central Italy : " TURIN, 15th November. " Monsieur le Ministre—The Assemblies of Cen tral Italy have offered, as you are aware, the Re gency H.R.H. the Prince of Savoy-Carie:nan. Taken with the same calmness and the same order that had presided at the vote of the annexation, their deliberation was equally spontaneous and unanimous. " The Government of the King was completely unconnected with that resolution. " It is solely and simply the result of the na tional tendencies, which the fear of a restoration has only rendered to the monarchical principle ; a new proof of the firm resolve of those countries to maintain order and authority perfectly secure by increasing the prestige of the supreme power. This resolution further attests the ardent desire of the population of Central Italy to bring about the con summation of their union with the monarchy of Sardinia, which alone, in ttlelr opinion, can give them the solid guarantees of liberty and national independence, "In presence of a vote so imposing and motives so powerful, the King, our august sovereign, might have thought that his first dirty was to obviate the dangers of disorder and anarchy which might be reasonably apprehended if the offer of the Assem blies was not accepted. But being assured of the early meeting of a Congress, convoked to solve the questions raised by the situation of Italy, his Majesty at once deferred to the councils of Europe by abstaining from any decision which might be regarded as of a nature to encroach upon their liberty of examination and deliberation. " In conformity with the intentions of his Ma jesty, the Prince de Carignan, notwithstanding his sincere sympathy with the populations which thus called on him to govern them, did not think proper to accept the regency offered. " However, it would have been impossible for his Majesty, as for the Prince, not to take into serious consideration the motives which dictated the offer of the Assemblies of Central Italy, and not to con cur, so far as high political considerations permitted, in guaranteering from perturbation the countries which repose all their confidence in the house of Savoy. His Royal Highness, therefore, thought proper to designate the Chevalier Buoncompagni to take the regency of those provinces, until assem bled Europe shall have regularised their position. The King's Government trust that this proof of solicitude will tranquillise the public mind. Con centrated in a single hand, authority will be stronger and more effective. It will hold in respect those factions which, taking advantage of the pubic im patience, might attempt to instigate the people and the army to ill-advised and dangerous acts. It is, in short, a pledge given for the security of Italy, for the tranquillity of Europe, whilst the Congress deliberates upon the questions brought before it. "But we cannot conceal the fact that this mea• sure, owing to its essentially provisional charac ter, would not completely reassure you, if too long protracted. It is urgent that the Congress should meet as early as possible ; as it is most necessary Opt the solution it may in its wisdom adopt shall be such as, in satisfying the wants and wishes of the Italian populations, may put an end for ever to the danger of internal revolutions and foreign interventions. Long delays would be fatal; any solution not guaranteeing the independence of Italy would only be a source of new calamities for the Italians, of uneasiness and conflicts for Europe. " I request you, Monsieur le Ministre, to commu nicate this despatch to the Government of and to insist on an early meeting of the Congress. Accept, &c., " DABORMIDA." GARIBALDI. A Turin letter says—The resignation of Garibaldi gives rise to various comments ; but the event was foreseen by all thoso who were acquainted with the state of the relations of Garibaldi with General Fanti. It would appear that the last cause of the differences between those two generals was the following :—Garibaldi wished to have a general concentration of all the forces of the league on the frontiers of the States still under the power of the Pope, and Fanti, from military motives, and pro bably also from political ones, energetically opposad the measure. Those who relate these details say, "Hence the resignation." What ought, however, to be said is, " Hence the last drop which made the cup run over, and led to a definitive rupture—a rupture in which the force of events and diploma tic necessities must necessarily place Garibaldi in the wrong." A letter from Nice, of the 19th, says—General Garibaldi has arrived here to the great astonish ment of everybody. Not a soul knew anything of his coming, with the exception of Colonel Deideri, who received a telegraphic despatch the evening before to apprise him of it. The proclamation ad dressed by the general to the Italians will excite great interest, as it throws light on what is passing in Central Italy, and seems to explain the teal state of affairs. Garibaldi left Bologna some days ago, pa.sed through Turin, only staying just long enough to see the King, and got here at the same time as the Turin journals which announced his arrival in the capital. I have seen the general ; he is in ex cellent health, notwithstanding all the fatigue he has undergone. his Position here imposes on him the strictest reserve. He is not generally very communicative, and now he is less so than usual, but his every word betrays a profound irritation. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING. The screw steamer Nova Scotia has arrived from Quebec, with dates to the 12th inst. The steamer North American, hence, had arrived at Quebec, and the steamer Hungarian, hence, had put into St. John's, Newfoundland, to land 42 pas sengers taken from the wreck off Newfoundland of a vessel from Labrador. The City of Baltimore, hence, via Queenstown, had arrived at New York. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 1 Cotton advanced lc per lb under the Hungarian's news. Middling, 10ZU to 111 : c. Receipts of the week, 72,000 ; experts of the week, 74,000. THE WEST INDIA MAILS SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY. The Royal Mail Company's steam ship Tasmanian, Captain John H Jellicoe, arrived, at two this after noon, from the West Indies, with the usual mails, in charge of Lieutenant Charles Bolton, R.N., Ad miralty agent. On her homeward voyage the Tasmanian left St. Thomas's on the 31st October. Daring the night of the 3d of November it was discovered that the ship had ma de a considerable quantity of water, which was caused by the packing of the screw having given way. There were 15 feet of water in the after com partment, and five feet in the after hold. Not being able to repair the damage at sea, it was deemed advis able to proceed to Bermuda as the nearest port. The Tasmanian arrived off there on the evening of the sth, and anchored at Murray's Anchorage on the follow ing morning. Immediately on its being made known to Capt. Hutton, R.N., superintendent of the Royal Naval-yard, he despatched the Government steam vessel Kite, in chary of Lieut.lDyer, R.N., with the superintending engineer, and the foreman of ship wrights of the dockyard, and also a diver with his necessary apparatus, to her assistance, and we are much pleased to add that they were enabled to make the necessary repairs and effectually to stop the leak. She - was detained for three days at Bermuda by strong easterly gales, but finally left Bermuda on the 11th, and had favourable weather until the 16th, subsequent to which she experienced strong north-east gales and heavy sea; in the Channel dense fog. Her latest dates are—Grey town, Oct. 17 ; Deme rara, 25 ; Trinidad, 25 ; Carthagena, 26 ; Barbadoes, 27 ; Porto Rico, 30 ; and St. Thomas, 31. On proceeding on board Dr. Wiblin, F.R.C.S., Medical Superintendent of Quarantine at this port, ascertained that there had been upwards of 50 cases of yellow fever, 10 of which had proved fatal on board, and two persons had been taken on shore at St. Thomas's.in e, dying state. The names of those who died on board are :—John Dutaz, French waiter; John APLellan, waiter; Thomas Naismith, William Franklin, A.B. ; Richard Short, waiter ; Henry Shrimpton, master-at-arms ; James Phelan, stoker; Wm. Fitzer, fireman ; Thos. Trelanen, quar termaster ; Wm. Morgan, private of 41st Regiment ; and Jas. Varndell, invalided from the Teviot. Mr. Busby, engineer, who was left at St. Thomas's by the La Plata, died there, but his three companions --Clapperton, Eldridge, and Stiles—have recovered. Since the departure of the last packet nothing , has transpired in the colony worthy of even a pass ing remark in our summary for the mail. JAMAICA. Trade, continues to be in a very depressed state, a circumstance rather unusual at crop time, but which may, in some measure, be accounted for by the fact that the season this year is unusually late owing to the protracted duration of the wet weather. Shipping is abundant, and freights are Cons() quently low. The exports during the past fortnight have been: —Sugar, 1,666 hhds, 146 trs, 380 brls, 1,576 bags; rum, 524 pns, 155 hhds, 123 brls ; molasses, 88 casks ; timber, 13,993 feet ; eharooal, 1,680 ; cocoa nuts, 4,450 ; shingles, 210,000. The most important news from this Republic is he assassination of General Vidaurre Leal, Inten dente of Valparaiso. This event took place on the 18th September, the anniversary of Chilian inde. pendence. It appears that during the celebration of a high mass in the principal church, at which the General and an immense concourse of citizens were present, some of the populace attempted to possess themselves of the arms of the National Guard, who were drawn out in the square in front of the church. A riot ensued, shots were fired, and the General left the church for the pur- pose of restoring order. " But scarcely," says the Mercurio, " did he descend the steps in front of the church than he fell mortally wounded by one of the insurgents' balls." Loss OF THE BRITISH BARQUE PALMYRA.-1110 British barque Palmyra, Captain Jamieson, from Sydney, July 7, in ballast, with three passengers, bound to Callao, went on shore, September 25, three leagues south of. Lambayeque ; all hands saved; ship ,a total wreck. The natives attempted to plunder everything from the passengers and what was washed ashore from the wreck, and the pas sengers and crew only succeeded in saving th e i r effects by offering a determined resistance. The captain and crew remained at Lambayeque, and wore to be sent down to Callao by the first oppor tunity. The wreck was to be sold on account of whom it may concern. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday. The Anglo-Saxon sailed to-day. for Portland, Maine, with the mails for the United States and Canada, and a large number of passen gers. The screw steamer Edinburgh sailed the same day for New York, with the United States mails, and about 30 cabin.passengets. On Saturday next the - Cunard steamer Persia will be de:•pati.hed for New York with the mails for the United States and North America. The box at the Pestloffieo closes at 8.45 a.m., and on the landing-stage at 9.30 7HE WATERLOO LIFE AND D CASUALTY ASSURANCE COMPANY ANNUAL MEETING-(THIS DAY). The eighth annual meeting of the shareholders and policyholders in this company was held this day at the offices, 355, West Strand. The chair was occupied by John Bishop, Esq., chairman of the board of directors. The usual routine business having been trans acted, The CHAIRMAN called upon the manager to read the directors' report, which was as follows : " The eighth report of the general proceedings of the Waterloo Life Assurance Company affords the directors the opportunity of announcing the realisation of their often re peated expectations of the success of the company. The report of tne actuary, Peter Hardy, Esq., presented to the directors during the past year, a copy of which has been. i tiplaced in the hands of every shareholder and assurer, jus mes your directors in asserting that a great success has been attained, and that they have not misled thoso whose interests have been confided to their care by hopes founded upon other than careful and trustworthy calculations. In testimony of this assertion, the attention of the share holders, assurers, and all friends of the institution, is par tienlarly directed to th e f o ll ow i ng extract from that report :—The present condition of the society may be regarded as satisfactory. The proprietors' share of the surplus affords them a frir amount of remune ration for the use of their capital, taken in conjunction with other advantages they have already enjoyed; and the sum to be divided amongst the assured, gives to them a fair amount of bonus ; in short, the results of this valuation, in my opinion, are quite as favourable ap could reasonably have been expected when all the difficulties attendant on the establishment of a company are fairly borne in view." The directors attach great importance to the report referred to, and they fool convinced that the declaration of so satis factory a bonus, as the one advised by Mr. Hardy, will tend materially to strengthen the position of the company in pub lic estimation. That it has yet led to the only practical manifestation of such appreciation on the part of the public, the directors cannot assert; time not hav ing been given it to accomplish that which, never • theless, may be looked for as a natural result. Tho past year has not been favourable to life assurance ; for, although there has been no scarcity of money, and labour has proved abundant and remunerative, there has been a' wide-spread neglect of the great principles and pro visions of life assurance ; and offices have felt their progress has not been commensurate with the prosperity of the times. The year now closed has proved an eventful one in the history of the Waterloo ' • it has been one of mo r e than ordinary labour and anxi e ty to the directors, and they are glad to be able to report that its business has been of a progressive character. Negotiations having been entered into for the purchase of the business of the Magnet As surance Society by this office, and such purchase having been considered to be unattended with any unusual risk or responsibility to this company, your directors have coin pleted the arrangements commenced at an early period of the year, and the business of the Magnet Society is now incorporated with that of this company. It is not pos sible to speak here with anything like certainty as to the beneficial result which may follow upon the connection thus formed. The acquisition of a number of policy-holders and agents is ordinarily an advantage to a company; and the directors have great pleasure in expressing their opinion that such will in the present instance be the case. Your directors have limited the business of the year to transac tions of a safe and durable character ; they have not under taken any hazardous or speculative risk ; and, by the adop tion of this course, they have been obliged to decline many proposals for assurance which, if accepted, would have in creased the result this day reported. Tho increase made to the company's business during the year, taking into ac count the policies transferred from the Magnet, is re presented, by 751 policies for £214,010 yielding in an nual premiums the sum of £8,206 2s. 3d. Tho average amount of each policy is £283 12s. Bd., and of . premiums under each £lO 18s. 6d. As, however, in every instance of the transfer of a business some policies transferred are not renewed with the office purchasing, and as only a fow months have passed since the transfer of the " Magnet " was effected, wherein but comparatively few policies were renewable, the directors consider it desirable to famish a statement of the business of the year in another form,_which embraces only such transferred polices as have been renewed, and the ordinarily acquired business of the company, from which it appears that 482 policies have been issued for sums amounting to .X 133,320, and yielding, in new premiums, £4,941 12s. 3d. per annum. Your directors have been called upon during the past year to pay the sum of £3,712 10s. to the representatives of deceased members; the claims which have arisen during that period being thirteen in number. The sma ll ness o f t h e amount i s a fair subject for congratulation, seeing that this is the eighth year of the company' s operations, and that during the seven preceding years th e w h o l e sum pa id un d er this hoed amounted to only £11,849. Some of the amounts paid by the company have proved the only means of support or assistance to the widows and families of deceased members ; the knowledge of which fact will, your directors trust, lead all the shareholders who may not yet have made provision for their families, to adopt the easy and safe method of so doing which an assurance of life yields. Several of the agencies are extending the business of the company in a satisfactory manner. New agencies have been appointed wherever such appointments have been deemed con ducive to the interests of the company, and some of an important character have been added to the list of the company's representatives by the transfer of the " Magnet;" the directors hope after the exer tions, of another year, to report a considerable increase to the business of the company from these agencies. The retiring directors on this occasion are, George Mitchell, Esq., and Henry Smith, Esq., who being eligible, offer themselves, and are recommended for re-election. In ac cordance with the deed of settlement the auditor who retires is, James Andrew Durham, Esq., who is eligible for re election, and is recommended by the board for re'-election. The statement of accounts for the past year, which is now submitted as part of this report, has been carefully examined by your auditors, who report the perfect accuracy of the same, and entire agreement with the books and vouchers of the company. Interest on the capital stock of the company after the rate of 6 per cent. (free of income-tax) is recom mended for payment; and such rate of interest is hereby declared accordingly. 'While the directors are able to speak satisfactorily of the past, the position acquired should only be regarded as the starting point for the future. The work of life assurance is essentially progressive, and there is a wide field for progression, seeing that but 300,000 of the population of our empire are at the pref,ent time assured. New business is essential to the success of an'assurance office, and if this be obtained y ear by y ear , i n th e p ro p er proportion, there is no rational ground for fear as to ulti mate results. The directors would, at the close of another report, very earnestly renew their appeal to all friends of the institution for influence and support, reminding them of the powerful results which unity of action may at all times command ; the more so when employed in works, or for purposes, so beneficent as those involved in the success of a corporation established moon the principles of the Waterloo. Believing that that influence and support will bo readily accorded, the directors cheerfully pledge them selves to a constant and unremitting watchfulness over a the interests of the company.—JOSEPH BISTIOP, Chairman." The CHAIRMAN then rose, and after detailing the proceedings of the company for the last year, moved the adoption of the report just read. Mr. VAUGHAN had great pleasure in seconding the notion for the adoption of the report. The motion was unanimously carried. Mr. CRICK moved the re-election of the retiring directors. The Rev, Dr. HEWLETT seconded the motion. The resolution, together with others declaring the dividend of six per cent., were carried unani mously; and the proceedings terminated with a cordial vote of thanks to the chairman, and Mr. Willams, the manager: 2111 S DAY'S MARKETS. METROPOLITAN` CATTLE MARKET. - - • To-day's market was scantily supplied with beasts, in, for the most part, middling condition. Primo breeds move d off steadily, at fully Monday's quotations. Otherwise, the beef trade was in a sluggish state, at late currencies. The show of sheep was limited, and the mutton trade ruled firm, at full prices. The best Downs sold at fully 5s 2d per 81bs. Prime small calves were in request, at extreme rates ; but inferior veal was dull, and quite 2d per 81bs lower. The supply was only moderate. We had a fair demand for pigs, at full quotations ; but mulch cows were a slow inquiry. Per Sibs. to link the offal. 8. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Crse. & inf. beasts 3 0 3 2 Primocrs-wool do. 4 2 4 6 Second quality do. 3 4 3 8 Pme. S' thdown do. 4 10 5 2 Prime large oxen 3 10 4 6 Large crse. calves 4 0 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 5 0 Primo small d 0... 4 10 5 2 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 2 3 4 Large hogs 3 6 3 10 Secorid quality do. 3 6 4 0 Small porkers .... 4 0 5 0 Suckling. calves, 188 to 22s , and quarter •old store pigs 22s to 28s. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep 3,011 Sheep Calves Pigs MEAT MARKETS. NEIVGATE AND LEADS HALL. - The supplies of meat are tolerably good, and the trade rules steady; as fol lows :—Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s Gd ; mutton, 3s 2d to 4s Gd ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s Gd ; pork, 3s 6d to 5s 2d per Blbs. by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Nov. 23.—The supplies of fat stock here were only moderate, and trade generally ruled steady, at very full prices :—Beef, from 3s 6d to 5s Od ; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 2d; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d; pork, 4s Od to 5s Od per 81bs to sink the offal. Romronn, Nov. 23.—We had a steady demand for each kind of stock, at extreme quotations :—Beef, from 3s 4d to Od ; inutton,3s Sd to 58 4d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od; veal, 4s 2d to 5s Od ; and pork, 4s Od to 5s Od per Sibs; suckling calves, 15s to 19s ; quarter old store pigs, 21s to 28s each ; milch cows, £l4 Oa to £l9 each. HAY MARKETS. SNITTEIFIELD.—Atindow hay, R 2 153 to £4 4S ; clover, £3 15s to £5 5s ; . and straw, £1 Gs to £1 12s per load. A fair demand. CUMBEILLAND.—Xicadow hay, £3 Os to £4 4s; clover, £4 Os to £5 5s ; and straw, £1 7s . to £1 12s per lead Trade firm. ' Ii r IfITECIIAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 15s to £4 4s; clovei, £3 15s to £5 5s ; and straw, £1 Gs to £1 12s per load. A moderate inquiry. The paddle steamer Emperor, of 1,350 tons, the property of Messrs. Gee and Co., Ilull, clears to-day at that port for Santander. She is chartered by the Spanish Government for the war service in Morocco, and is the first of a line of British steamers taken up in this country for the Spanish war, being the only paddle steamer specially en gaged for superior service. The Emperor was the steamer selected to convey the staff officers out to the Crimea in the late Russian war, with the late Captain Christie as commo dore, and was also appointed to be the flag and signal ship during the transportation of the British army from Baldjik Bay, near Varna, to Old Fort, previous to the battle of the Alma, SIR (MEN BOWRING ON CRIN If Arts, yAt a crowded mectino• of the Sociedt otrea a yesterday evening, Sir !Ohl]. Bowring elive long and highly interesting discourse on China a l l R ei .. its relations to B r iti s h commerce . Numerous n sons could not obtai n a d m i ss i on , and the con fusion round the entranc e , ow i ng t o the crush of visitors struggling for entranc e , rendered the commence ment ment of Sir John Bow r ing's observations tinctly audible He began by describing the vas h „ ness and importance of Chi na , its immense PcP•uthe tion of 400,000,009; the general character of . country, and the extent o f it s imports and xe ports The average exports of China to this couut r Y d during the last five y ears w as stated to exeee, of Brit is l £9,000,000 sterling, and its imports manufactures amountel to only £2,000, 000 ; but for the opium imported from India the baler; would be required to be paid in bullion. Sir .3'. t h ring dwelt with mu c h f orce , and at some i n , on the misconceptions that prevailed in this co on so with respect to the trade in opium, for the purPn_ a of disabusing the public mind respecting the alleg's immorality of the trade in opium and the injuritobe effect the drug is represented to produce 01! tor, people. To prove that the use of opium is n °l ' - bidden by the Chinese law, it was sufficient!enus said, to state that opi u m i s cu ltivated in Chi na ' te a great extent, and that the quantity of it imPe r ro . from India does not amount to so much as th e e ff e ct duce of China itself. His experience of the e y ho of the use of opium on the people led Sir Bowring to conclude that it is far less pernicio than spirits ; and he mentioned that in Hong.N-, °13 5' during the period he was governor of the Is 1 , 111 e l i i: there were two-thirds more deaths caused h . L" ee d riu;n tremens than by taking opium. He add instances in which the introduction of opium-ea - lit . had tended to improve the morals of the people hY ting a stop to the excessive u se of spirituous l i q ue n id, and the effects of the two kind s of excess were , he s ' i s greatly in favour of opium. The effect of opiut„ altogether different f r om that of spirits. It oe ' s deaden the faculties and p ro duce stupor, but it ti not incite to the commission of crime ; and. anl ee ° o a people who take opi um 'th er e is a ren ell t han amount of robberies, as s a u lt s , and of vic.e"jt among those who indulg e t oo f re ely in spirits' se. had been stated, he said, as one of the evil coi l at quences of the encourag e m en t o f opium -eating' thin it prevented the diffusion of Christianity; buttrict war so far from being th e c ase that in one d is bs ti. into which opium had been introduced as al lu hee n tute for intoxicating drinks the people ha d i s , found particularly willing to receive Christian 1110 sionaries, and had become ready conve rts. In. Chinese intercourse with the man d ar i ns and other officials he said he had never heard any of them speak against the importation of opium ; an d , l4 4 . e pa in this that the prejudice that bad been excl' t i ou t this country against the opium trade was Iv- a nd foundation, and that the recognition of the trade the import of opium into China at a low cluc be one of the most beneficial measures that o n The adopted for the promotion of commerce . ; „ had average annual imports of the drug into China het amounted to about seven millions sterling ; ha ve for the teas and silks exported there woolu.„,,,t a ls been a most exhausting drain of the precious u; r al from this country. After entering .into se t' onl statistical details of the exports and China and Hong Kong, which have a l read t i e s published, Sir John Bowring proceeded to 2 i : t he the ports which had been opened to trade.",fi a rly treaty with Lord Elgin, some of which, Parti c i.,, r Ning-po, he considered had been in chosen , sl was not the place of residence of any I n T r lof officers of the Chinese Government. The p... e of Tchao-Tchou, however, which was the residene,our.. mandarins of the first rank, had not proved fa able for commercial transactions with the l'A i r „hai though possessing those advantages. Shan,, for mports been r has ,become the principal shipping P. °lt heuv Chinese produ ce ; an d as it i s i n the nog" 1 the hood of the tea districts, it is favourable O r te a export of th a t commo dit y , more than half the rt. exported from China being shipped from that PS o f Sir John Bowring observed that all the seah na i r ar ge China is remarkable for the absence of all the towns ; the principal ports being situated on t h e estuaries of rivers, as remote as possible from rou a sea, for the sake of protection against the nu nie t i e ed pirates who infest those waters. Having not Sir at leng,th" the statistics of imports and John Bowring proceeded to consider the h a bits ts n of qualifications of the Chinese, and the pros Pee an increasing trade with that vast country, 7 3 5 00 extends 5,000 miles in length, and u pwards 01 , eo ' miles in breadth. That vast territory is s l - br sufficient to accommodate its 400,000,000 of in en tants, and the rivers swarm with boats in ' 4 " . A nen hundreds of thousands of the people live and sx e t• exports,s a their lives. Some of their institutions ar e bee n more republican character than could hav e coo supposed rossible in so despotic an empire' been petitive examinations for public offices had al established in China, and some of the Pr'rani officers of State had risen to those low conditions of life. Among these was, the c to brated Commissioner Lin, who, in early lfe, ker ae „ small stationer's shop. In of the ola uu many e fa r tu • 0. rin,, arts the Chinese, it is well-known , w er re in advance of Europeans. It appears from t heir a gO, cords, that silk dresses were worn 4,000 years though woven silks were not known in Europ e were 200 or 300 years after the Christian era, an d The not much worn, even in Italy, 600 years laterii.nese mariner's compass was also known to the C. 1 the long before it was applied in Europe, and in Per le r ew ceramic arts the Chinese were celebrated for th e i g to fcction they had attained. The great obstac _ 00 „ the progress of improvement in China i s the u in stant recurrence to the past instead of lookll3_gare advance, and many of the Chinese man not now so good as they were hundreds of rest ago. This state of circumstances presen te advantages to a manufacturing country th e or y at enabled to supply goods canhe aid of mac o ld a much cheaper rate than be made by, t loom. At present, however, the Chinese prnl cl eP o ry weave for themselves, as there is a loom in ere to house, but if their attention were directed I n o dd the cultivation of the raw produce of cotton 0 , silk to supply the manufacturing machines orwlinth, manufacture e ars country, we might be enabled to sup ply then i tha n cotton and silk manufactures at a cheaper ra t ,l ou in they can make them. The cultivation of ce" ( i , t hat China is a subject, Sir John Bowring observe rese nt deserves earnest consideration. There is at P na tive a large amount of cotton grown to supply t", e „ n d an looms; and by the introduction of better seeup ii i i i n ese improved mode of cultivation the ' iv ng might be in a condition to su P P with the raw produce, which we at ad then return to the m i n mu slins. The gr E e ag lish vantages of machinery had enabled the nes manufacturers to surpass the celebrated Daces have lins both in cheapness and It Sir Se° now possession of the Dacca markets; and he 55111° hoped that in the course of a few years t Raw result would occur in China. One of the a • se Cinn e tages attending the commerce with the the qua y, was that they were always ready to purenas_ rd to best article at the cheapest price, without ree nd , if the country whence the goods might come his aud we L.ll the British manufacturer could produce 1 1 oa litY goods in the Chines e mar kets of a bett er q t hey and cheaper than they c o u ld be made there, lohn would be bought without any prejudice. Si r ht Bowring said that the result of his him that the Chinese are a people who null h i ce t the deceived; and he expressed the opine ti lu eee of Emperor of China hud been kept in the full effects of the treaties that had been c u t niee into with the English, and that if direct coina" . he P r tion were to take place with the Emperor, t usted, sent difficulties might be reconciled. Ile ,t, r - ti ese, experience taussgai at least, that a better knowledge of the " 11 • 1 m erela and of the impo r t ance o f i m p r oving our Nine o iler relations with them, would have the etrecta.eas ing the present angry feelings, and be the In"' be of bringing h os tiliti es —if h os tilities there —shortly to a close. discourse, " At the end o f Si r J o h n B o wring's on his CHAIRMAN (Mr. Bodkin) complimente d - -Ilini se ed to able address, and a vote of thanks was P 3 him with loud plause. Sir J. BOW WING again rose to retur n th 31 1.- k a s 'n fi n li e t ! in doing so h e a ll u d e d i n a ve ry , energeti c w ito d by to the circumstan ce o f his refusing the de ru ch inese the. Chinese Commissioner to give up the English sailors who had taken refuge under the a w an flag. The demand, he said, was made by hu man who had immolated more victims than any ho Dow being who ever existed ; and if he (Sir J° 0 u nder ring) had delivered ov er those men, who wer. ed, lie protection of the B r iti s h fl a g, to be viet imis should never afterwards have enjoyed rePnsne. who' felt assured that th ere wa s no under the same circumstances, ishruu'i have would nq of ap done the same. H e sa t d ow n amid a tumult plauseTne. 11 We duesdoi meeting was then adjourned ti next. are i Air ll ' T nE MURDER , EAS, —URDER ON TIIE HIGH D --- .- C h ti vo formed th a t th e Sh er iff s o f L o ndon and i)Tiddlasex her f wool.' received a further respite, until the 26th day . ° _.,. „ a te. 9a,700n0c now in ro s France it ors, 3, 0 1 0 , 0 0 3 p 7 next for the convict under sentence of death in INe . "Th e re STATISTICS OF PRINTING IN EUROPE . 1 „piol overseers. The printing three of London alone gli s into re p s r s i n n i t e in n g , coeds that of all France. The little kingdom of _ eci ma has, at the present time, 262 per whilst Fr' il d WO England count only from 276 to 300 each. ifol;lan,rioid, 100; Prussia, 7 0 j Austria, 40 ; Spain, 51 ; bout 2 ,1 28; Portugal, 13; Denmark, 14. There are abou t _, , 'an , - periodicals published in Europe at the present Nitetl nearly 1,500 in the rest of the world, Qxcepting the be not offices, which c rs foi d States, where, should the present ratio of incre a f,, 0 ,0 0() and 900 correctoti_ er. retarded by a money panic, we shall soon haVo five are to be regularly published periodicals, or More than sr,roroilii found in all the rest of the worldput o•ether.-"r' to g Echo.