The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-02 00:00:00

T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS ICTENTNG the performances will commence with A BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews. After which, THE BACHELOR OF ARTS. Jasper (his original character), Mr. C. - Mathews. And ILkLLOWE'EN. Commence at V. POYA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE. — ..Lb Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with (3d time) a new drama, entitled HOME T lIITTHS. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews, Miss C. Leeercq and Mrs. Charles Young. _ --- - After which, PUSS ; or, Metempysychosis. Miss L. Keeley. To be followed by the new Petite Comedy ' entitled GOSSIP. . Messrs. Ryder, Meadows, H. Bland, J. G. Shore; Miss C. Leclercq and Mrs.-C. Young. To conclude with NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. H. Widdicomb, Meadows, H. Saker ; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs. Weston. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs B. Webster. J. L. Toole„David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Kelly. Followed by the Successful piece of extravagance, called DINORAII 'UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor ferbills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.— Soe Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, a new Drama Fantastique, entitled PARIS AND PLEASURE ; or, Home and Happiness. Principal characters by Messrs. W. Lacy, J. Vining, J. John stone, F. Villiers ; Misses Julia St. George, Hudspeth, Kate Saville, A. Burdett, and Madame Celeste. To conclude with the Farce of THE PHENOMENON A SMOCK FROCK. John Buttercup , Mr. Rouse, from the Theatre-royal Bath (his second appearance in London). 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 toot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING, A DEAD SHOT. After : which (the 3d time) the new comedietta, entitled TII KCH ATTER,BOX. Messrs. Barret, Brazier ; Mesdames F. Matthews, Murray, and Eliza Arden. Followed by. MAGIC TOYS, supported by Miss Lydia Thompson, Clara St. Casse, ka To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque, by L. Buckingham. Esq., of VERGINTOS ; or the Trials of a Fond Papa.• Tirginius, Mr. Charles Young. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d; Pit, is. The Box-ofEce open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ance commences at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season, Seventh Week of the new Drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARIBALDI; illustrating the principal events in the Life of the Great Italian General. Supported by Mr. R. Phillips, Ennis Belmore, Raymond, Miss Kate Carson, ,tze. Full Stud of Beautitul Horses—Scenes in the Circle by John Henry Cooke, Herr Hartz, the Devil Rider t Misses Clarissa, Romina, Francisco. and La Petite Eleanora—Wonderful Per forming Elephant—Comical and Extraordinary Parisian Dogs and Monkeys, from the Cirque l'lmperatrice, Paris.— Gymnastic Professors —Facetious Clowns. To conclude with a laughable Farce called CLEAN YOUR BOOTS. Stage Manager. Mr. R. Phillips CANTERBURY HALL CONCERT S.- EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera ol MACBETII (now first made public in England at these Con. eerts). And a Grand Setectiou from Aleyerbeer's new opera 01 DINORAH. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. t'. Cr - Rohdeid, and E. W. - Hackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. ROSA. BONIIEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already ma., ,, nificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is open from 9 am. Gil 12 p.m. Admission, Six pence. THE WEATHER.—Surc OFFICE, DECEMBER 2. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 43—highest since noon yesterday. 38—lowest this morning and during the night. 39—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30. WIND, North-Easterly; fresh, with snow, and cold dull weather. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.—Morning, 6h. 30m.—Afternoon, 7h. 4m. To-monnow.-Morning, 7h. 31m.—Afternoon, Sh. 3m. g. , A) ----,, ;',4 -, N e l/ . i . ' l'l4" l • -.. , , ~,,,,,,:• LIA 4 . 4. ,... . .',4 ~, C . 7 s, , • *,,, a 4 , 7.... "fr r . t . , -•;', -1, 4.4 1. T TIE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 2, 1859. _...._.___- The Pope is in want of subjects. Not of spiritual subjects—of them he boasts about 200,000,000 ; but of temporal subjects—of those who will pay taxes, submit to autocratic decrees, and not venture to utter or print a word he disapproves. The spiritual subjects are obedient enough. Their very thoughts obey him. Whether his Holiness bids them be lieve that the earth stands still and the sun moves, or that the Virgin MARY was conceived by her sinful mother, as immaculate as our LORD himself, it is all the same. The 200,000,000—we take the figures as he gives them—bow implicitly to the de cisions of the Vicar of CHRIST. We have nothing to say against this. Let Drs. CUMMING and CUL LEN fight their own battles ; and let Dr. ITNEILE join them, and make a triangular duel of it if he likes; theology we must leave to our friend of the Morning Advertiser, and content ourselves with the horrible infidelity which cannot sell its belief to any authority, either to the decrees of Pius IX., or to the "Presbyterian standards" of Dr. CUMMING, or to the forty articles, save us, of Dr. M'NEILE. Our only wonder is that, with such a splendid spiritual dominion, the worthy Pope and his friends should be so troubled about the temporal fealty of two or three millions of Italians. Even these temporal rebels are on the whole, we be lieve, •spiritually obedient. We seem to imagine that if two hundred millions of men bound themselves to think as we do, we should be quite satisfied with such an Empire as that. We confess we never knew the tempta tion of having men's bodies at our mercy. To guide opinion has been our only ambition ; and who can tell whether, if we had been intrusted with other weapons than those of argument, we might not have been disposed to retain and to use them if we could. With our habit of viewing things, however, the recent sayings and doings of our Hibernian friends are very amusing. We find it difficult to read them with becoming gravity. Sometimes, indeed, the thought will steal in that it is all masquerade. Our neighbours of the Green Isle are more given to demonstration than we are. Religiously, socially, or politically, they like a good exhibition of the outward signs of feeling. A good shillelah row at a fair, to seem as if they had something to fight for; a good mile-long procession, Orange or Catholic, to look as if both sides had a splendid cause and were absorbed in it ; a monster meeting, for politics or for religious purposes—a howl, a shout, a show, or a blow—is the delight of genuine Irishmen. The Pro Norio displays may therefore be but a piece of pure irishism. The PoPE and his temporal rebels maybe only the excuse for gratify ing the Irish vein; much as a charitable institution serves Englishmen as a pretext for a good guinea dinner. Be this as it may we have a suggestion to make I to our Irish fellow subjects. We are of course sorry to lose them as neighbours ; still, as large numbers of them, to our neighbourly sorrow, Will emigrate, why should they not go to Rome ? They would be nearer b i ome there than on the other side of the Atlantic. They could go for a song, and nearly all the way by land ; they would find there a glorious sun, and a political paradise. They would live under a Theocracy. They would have priests for their administrative rulers ; and their high priest for their chief sovereign and sole lawgiver. If the Romans did but know it, Heaven has descended on earth in the Roman territories. Instead of being, as Dr. CUNNING, and the Times, and the Morning idvertiser impiously affirm, the Babylon or the Scarlet Woman:of the Apocalypse, Rome is doubt less its New Jernsalem—the city of the blessed. All that is wanted is citizens and subjects to appre ciate the blessing. Now Irishmen do appreciate it. They are indignant at the Catholics there for not appreciating it also. They propose to subscribe ; to raise a penny a week, and something more; and to furnish the POPE with a regiment of Irish sol diers, who shall teach the rebellious Catholics there their duty. As PAUL lived at Rome in his own hired house, so the POPE shall no longer live by help of French bayonets, but by his own hired Irish soldiers—paid by PETER'S pence, collected from the whole population. A noble thought ! No fear of " the Saxon". at Rome. No danger of republican democracy as in America. No want of employment, of agricultural employment at least ; for the whole territory adjoining the city is one vast marsh or level, pestilential now through want of drainage and cultivation, but capable of being made one of the most fertile districts in the world. It is the very place for good Irish Catholics who are tired of Ireland, and sick of the pernicious free dom which men enjoy under the reign of VICTORIA. The Romagnese and the great mass of the inhabi tants of the States of the Church, alas ! hate their privileges. They hurrah for Lord ELLENBOROUGH and the Saxons who subscribe for GARIBALDI'S mus kets, they curse the CULLENS who want to trample them under the feet of their Pontiff. They resent as heartless cruelty the wish of Irishmen and of the Celts or Gauls of the continent, to sacrifice their temporal liberties as an offering to the supremacy of their Bishop. They say they are in purgatory before their time ; while they have no hope that their civil sufferings now will save them one hour's future suffering, or their survivors the cost of a single mass. Now when the POPE wants loyal subjects, when Irishmen are so tired of freedom that they crave an absolute master, when they so love the POPE that they think nothing at all of the independence and civil rights of the nation he governs—it really does seem as if Irishmen were made for the POPE and tho POPE for Irishmen. There is, to be sure, an alterna tive. They might invite the POPE to Dublin. There is no kind of objection to that; only there, instead of playing the temporal ruler, he must be tem porarily the subject of her Majesty Queen VIC TORIA. She, however, would use him very kindly. She would guarantee him full religious liberty. He might reign as supreme as he now does in the minds of his two hundred millions. And only to - think of the joy there would be in Rome. Of the illuminations there, and throughout all Italy, because the heaviest weight on their liberties was gone. Perhaps, after all, this would be the best plan. Since Irishmen would be but:to) happy if his Holiness made their house his home ; and the Romans would be equally delighted that he had done so. Cannot the suggestion be sent to Con gress? What glory it would be to Ireland to solve the European difficulty ! The three arch-apostles of Free Trade received yesterday, at Liverpool, what they have eminently well deserved—a magnificent demonstration. It was a demonstation, however, at the hands of others than those who are simply Free Traders—the occa sion being the long-talked-of soiree, accorded in re spectful appreciation—to Major-Gen. PEYRONNET THOMPSON, late M.P. for Bradford, and the witty author of the Corn Law Catechism—to Mr. RICHARD COBDEN, M.P. for Rochdale, the dealer of the death-blow to that old Giant Blunderbore, the Ogre of Monopoly—and last, but certainly not the least, either in energy, ability, ;or eloquence, to Mr. JOHN BRIGHT, most pugnacious of Quakers, the ultra-reforming and superlatively out-speaking M.P. for Birmingham. Scanning the deeply interesting record of last night's proceedings at the Philharmonic Hall, at Liverpool—proceedings which will be found given in full detail elsewhere in to-night's impression of our broadsheet—we can think of no better or more appropriate sentiment for the nonce than that embodied in Lord NELSON'S heraldic motto, familiar as household words on the lips of the people, Palma m qui meruit ferat. Each of these three eminent citizens has long since earned the right to bear aloft in his hand the well-earned palm of victory— of that noblest victory of all, the bloodless victory won by the sheer strength of reason, employing alone for its enforcement the keen, and trenchant, and polished weapons culled from the armoury of rhetoric. There are no three men, we believe, whose good services to the common weal are more universally or more cordially recognised. Since the achievement in 1846 of that grand and final triumph of the Free Trade principles, there has been no possibility for any of them, even if they had wished it, to hide their light under a bushel. It is remembered too well to this day, even by their principal antagonists, as a triumph won in a very great measure indeed through their in strumentality ! Through their instrumentality, of course, coming in aid of various rarely-gifted and dis tinguished fellow•labourers, champions of the same cause, like WILLIAM Fox and CHARLES VILLIERS, and EBENEZER ELLIOTT, the Corn•law Rhymer— each and all of them in turn promulgating the same truths, though in varied accents, through the trumpet of the Press, or from the platform of the League. Honour, say we, to those good citizens and practical reformers ! May their fair fame in this fair realm of England be held undimmed in perpetual remembrance. Cordially regarding thus, with unstinted appre ciation, the three recipients of the manly homage proferred to them yesterday at Liverpool—to two of them by name and to one of them in person—we cannot, of ccurAc, be presumed to regard with otherwise than complacency the purport of the demonstration made yesterday in their behalf by the Liverpool Financial Reform Association. The aspirations, the principles, the aim and object of that Association arc ours. Its labours we not only sympathise in, but as journalists participate in and emulate, so far as in us lies, to the very utmost. What it is struggling for so earnestly we have long, very long, been hoping for—we have for years and years past, in these columns of the Sun, been striving zealously to aid in realising. In the main, there fore, so far as relates to the great principles of political economy intended to be enforced by yes terday's demonstration, our opinions, and the opinions of the Association, may be pro nounced to be—so far as the opinions of different individuals possibly can be in respect to one com plex subject—absolutely identicalf. Nevertheless, while we go heart and soul with those broad and clear and rational views of political economy which are always so forcibly expounded by men like Mr. BRIGHT and Mr. COBDEN—as for example, in many parts of that masterly argument delivered last night by Mr. BRIGHT at Liverpool—we cannot at the same time help grieving over those bewil dering errors both of temper and of judgment by which the very interests Mr. BRIGHT and Mr. COBDEN would fain, we believe, enforce by every means in their power, are in reality militated against so very deplorably. It was only yesterday that we had to lament (not by any means of course for the first time) over that constitutional acerbity, or acri mony, or whatever else it may be through, which another of the great living Tribunes of the People has throughout his career in the most tantalising manner imaginable "paid his tribute," as the phrase is "to humanity !" But for that infirmity of temperament, can any of us doubt for one instant but that years back JOHN ARTHUR ROEBUCK would have taken high rank among our most sagacious administrators. Quite, as effectually, though by very different methods indeed have both Mr. BRIGHT and Mr. COBDEN debarred themselves from kindred opportunities of doing far more than yeonian's service to the Crown and to their Country. Mr. COBDEN, by the adoption of fantastic and wholly impracticable projects—projects like that of Arbitration pur et simple (very simple, indeed, we may say in the purely idiomatic sense), what is popularly known as the peace-at-any-price halluci nation ! Mr. BRIGHT by an ever irritated and an ever irritating :pugnacity—a pugnacity that is certainly effectual, if in nothing else, in riling, as the Americans would say, every possible antagonist to the utmost conceivable degree of moral and mental exacerba tion. If we wanted a testimony of each of these infirmities that should be in a measure, so to speak, the very epitome of an illustration, we have it here promptly at hand in yesterday's proceedings down at Liverpool. The honourable member for Rochdale being con fined, as we griave to notice, to his sick chamber in Paris, is constrained in lieu of going to write a letter of apology for his non-appearance. An admirable letter of apology in many respects, yet one that nevertheless comprises, to our mind, within its narrow limits, what we may term the essential oil of the very quintessence of the old peace-at-any price hallucination. According to Mr. COBDEN the complete triumph of Free Trade Principles is really and truly all that is required to bring the whole of this great globe of ours to—the Millenium ! The supreme and matchless excellence of those prin ciples as among the grand root or guiding prin ciples of political economy among the nations of the earth, we ourselves have long recognised. Yet to talk of them as the puff advertisements talk of Parr's Life Pills or of Holloway's Ointment, as cer tain to cure every ill that flesh is heir to—is really and truly to talk—we won't say nonsense, but :we will say, as—Mr. COBDEN writes in his letter to the President of the Liverpool Financial' Reform Association ! The cry with him, there, from his sick room at Paris—sounds like an echo of the prophetic injunction th beat the swords into ploughshares, and the spears into reaping hooks! But sound thnugh it may like that, it bears the much simpler interpretation of—" Dilly Dilly, come and be killed !" England, we may rest assured, will in this not listen to the voice of the charmer, charm he (to all appearance) never so wisely. While, in respect to the less amiable weak ness of Mr. 13RIGIIT—it is only necessary to glance, though but for one moment, at his elegant allusion to the newspapers barking at his heels—and but for another at that resounding and recalcitrant pero ration which is only to be typified by BRIAREUS— with a cocked revolver in each of his hundred hands—challengingevery one, after the fashion of a last century's highwayman. We have much pleasure in directing attention to the report of a meeting, held in Dover the other day, in honour of a very worthy gentleman, Mr. E. T. WAY, the well-known Superintendant of the South• Eastern Railway at that important station. Mr. WAY has frequently received testimonials of esteem and due appreciation of his gentlemanly character from royal as well as lordly personages ; but, if we mistake not, the distinguished mark of respect so unanimously volunteered by his fellow-townsmen will be rendered more dear to him than any other, as evincing a very kindly feeling and generous sympathy, which reflects honour on those who gave, and him who so gratefully appreciates, the goodwill of men as worthy as himself. We, too, cordially wish Mr. WAY all prosperity and well-merited success. THE INVASION. Invasion threatens—let it come! We'll' meet it one and all ; And sternly guard our dear loved home From Russ or vaunting Gaul. Or both combined—with many more Who hate us—being free ; But ere they touch our envied shore They'll drink the deep-blue sea. For Britain bears her Banner high O'er steep and stormy wave-- With hearts resolved to do or die For Freedom—or the Grave. Then, men of England ! mind your helm, And steer the ship aright ; And nought on earth can overwhelm Our TARS in all their might. Our Soldiers, tooa gallant Band, And ,Riflemen in store, Will meet the foe with heart and hand, But part with him, no more. Then peace to ea—with fear of none I Give no offence—nor take ! But woe to him who dares stop on Old England's Quarter-Deck ! For there her might is truly sewn With spirit—all our own, Resolved to be, as we have be'en, Transcendent for Renown Then let Invaders come or stay : To come—will be no joke; For we shall smash them on their way, Or board them in the smoke I Then, men of England, mind your helm, And steer the ship aright ; And nought on Earth can overwhelm Our TARS in all their might I TRUE BLUE. On Monday next her Majesty the Queen, his Royal highness the Prince Consort, and Royal family, will leave Windsor Castle for the Isle of Wight, where the Court will remain until the 24th inst., and then return to Windsor. her Royal llighness the Duchess of Kent, who, wo are happy to say, is now in the enjoyment of good health, will remain at Frogmore-lodge during the absence of the Court frOm Windsor. DEPARTURE OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM OP PRUSSIA.—On Saturday morn ing next, at half-past 7, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia will take leave of the Queen, the Prince Consort, and Royal family, and depart from Windsor for the Continent. The Royal visitors will proceed to Dover, and thence across the Channel to Calais, from which place they will travel by railway to Brussels for the purpose of paying a visit to his Majesty the King of the Belgians. ATANZAS A 7 D c A t S B r A ON N T .I 3 LL S. A RAILROAD per The Half-yearly Interest on the above Bonds, due on the 15th inst., will be paid at the Counting - -house of Messrs. J. HENRY SCHRODER and Co., 145, Leadenhall-street, on that day, and every succeeding day, between the hours of 11 and 2. The coupons, with a list in numerical order, mast be left two clear days previously for examination. Printed forms may be had on application as above. London, Ist December, 1859. BENSON'S WA TCHE.S. " Perfection of mechanism."--Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas. Silver Watches 33 and 34, Ludgate-ha London, E.C. Bend 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA COVENT-GARDEN. Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and WAIT. Harrison THIS EVENING, will be performed SATANELLA Messrs. W. Hartison. Sautley, G. Honey, IL Corn', St. Albyn . Miss Cruise, Pilling, and Louisa Pyne. Conductor. Alfred Mellon. Ballet, LA FIANCEE. Messrs, W. 11. Payne, li. Payne F. Payne, Mdlle. Lequine, Pasquale, Pierron, Clara Morgan and Mons. Vandris. Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE.-THIS EVENING, PROMENADE CONCERT, conducted by Manns, of the Crystal Palace. Concerts commence at 8. THE SUN, LONDON FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1859. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, PRIDAY. The Pays of this evening says :—" We are assured that the Governor of Tetuan has ordered the arrest of the commander of the Moroccan forts, who, acting without orders, has rendered himself guilty of an unjust aggression against a nation at peace with Morocco." The .3foniteur de la Flotte confirms the report that the French fleet had destroyed by a cannonade the forts at the mouth of the river leading to Tetuan, in consequence of the Moroccans having fired at the French vessel St. Louis, which displayed the flag clearly indicating its nationality. The Moniteur de la Flotte adds :—" We have every reason to believe that this isolated fact will not hinder the continuance of the good understand ing now existing between France and Morocco." His Majesty has invited the Neapolitan Ambas sador to visit Compiegne before his departure for Naples. The Pays confirms the announcement that Count von Hartig has been nominated to represent Austria at the Court of Turin. • PARIS, FRIDAY. The Moniteur of this morning contains the following despatch : " The Bretagne; off Algesiras, Nov. 26. " Yesterday the vessel St. Louis was cannonaded by the forts at , the entrance of the river Tetuan. Informed of that the saute night, I have this morning with four steamers destroyed the two forts, which have been abandoned by the Moroccans. " To-morrow the Foldre will proceed to Tangiers to make severe'representations to the Minister Kalil. " Justice fulfiled, I resume the part of neutrality. (Signed) " Admiral ROMAN DESFOSSES." The Moniteur also announces that the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia left yesterday for Nice. FLORENCE, THURSDAY. Of the three members of the National Assembly who conveyed to Turin the vote respecting the Regency, one, M. Coppi, has returned to Florenee ; the second, M. Galeotti, has gone to Modena, whither he had been summoned in haste; and the third, M. Fabrizi, remains at Turin as official charge d'affaires of Tuscany. COPENHAGEN, THURSDAY. The attempts of the Councillor Rottwill to form a new Ministry have not at present succeeded. He left to-day, accompanied by the Councilor of State Westenhalz, for Frederiksburg, to see the King. Senor Martinez de la Rosa will represent Spain at the Congress. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. Accounts from Brest, of the 28th ult., state that on Friday last the frigate Perseverante was towed out of the harbour, having on board troops for China, but she was forced by bad weather and con trary winds to return to the roads during the night. The frigate made a second attempt to sail on Satur day, but she was again compelled to return. The weather continued to be equally bad on Sunday. In consequence of a violent gale of wind which prevailed at Dieppe on Saturday night last, the boats engaged in the )aerring fishery lost all their nits, amounting in value to 200,000 f. The Monit eur publishes the monthly return of the price of wheat in the different markets of France by which the import and export duties on corn and flour are regulated. The highest price was 22f. 7C. per hectolitre in the market of St. Lo, and the- lowest 15f. 59c. in that of Saumur; the highest average was 18f. 70c. in the markets of Bergues, Arras, Roye, Soisons, Paris, and Rouen, and the lowest 17f. 10c. in those of Saumur, Nantes, and Marans ; the average for the whole of France was 17f. 994-c., being an advance of z of a centime. THE BOURSE.—The , settlement of account has gone on satisfactorily, with a moderete rate of continuation. Threes, after having been done at 70f. 30c. improved to 70f. 50c., for the present ac count ; Mobilier varied from 782 f. 50e. to 787 f. 50c.; Orleans, 1,368 f. 75c. to 1,372 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 890 f. to 8911.25 c. ; Southern, 513 f. 75c. to 516 f. 25c. ; Eastern, 645 f. to 647 f. 50c.; Austrian, 552 f. 50c. to 553 f. 75c. The following were the last quotations :- 41 per Cents..... 96 10 Credit Fonder 695 Do. end month .. Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents 7O 50 Piedmonteso (5) .. 84 Do. end month 7O 40 Roman B6 50 Bank Shares 2870 Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 783 75 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 783 75 Home Debt 43 25 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 938 75 .. 958 75 New ditto 847 50 .. 847 50 Lyons and Mediterranean B9l 25 .. 890 Geneva 527 50 .. S ou th er n Western 565 .. 5 7 0 Eastern - .. 642 50 Sardiniaa Austrian Lombard .. ... Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 25f. 9c.; three months, paper, 21f. 95c.; money, 24f. 931 c. SARDINIA. The Piedmentese Gazette publishes the new elec toral law of the Lombardo-Sardinian kingdom : " The nsmber of deputies for the whole kingdom is fixed at 260 deputies, being about one deputy for every 30,000 inhabitants. Tho province of Turin sends 31 deputies to the Lower Chamber . ; Milan, 30 ; Alessandria, 21; Annecy, 8 ; Bergamo, 12; Brescia, 16; Cagliari, 12; Chambery, 10; Como, 15 ; Cremona, 11; Cuneo, 20 ; Genoa, 22 ; Nice, 8; Novara, 19 ; Pavia, 14 ; Sassari, 7 ; and Sondrio, 4. But the most remarkable part of the law is that relating to the qualification of electors. In the Ministerial report on which the law is framed, we read the following passage :—' We propose to call into the-electoral body the citizens who, from more certain proofs than those fur nished by the amount of taxes they pay, are con sidered to possess the necessary capacity for the exercise of political rights. And on the same principle we propose to exclude those who cannot read and write, in favour of whom the amount of taxes paid is too fallacious a proof of capacity. Accordingly, the law enacts that, to be an elector, a man must be born in the kingdom, or naturalised by a royal decree, if an Italian by birth ; or else naturalised by Ilaw, if a foreigner ; he must be turned of 25, have learnt to read and write, and pay taxes to an amount not inferior to forty francs per annum. The latter condition, however, is dispensed with in favour of members of academies, professors of, colleges, doctors, civil and military officials, knight of the Orders of the Kingdom, law yers, notaries, surveyors, chemists, brokers, &c. ; all those, in short, who, from their position in society, are known to possess sufficient capacity for the exercise of political rights." Merchants, traders, sea-captains, etc., are electors, provided they occupy premises paying from 200 to 600 f. rent per annum, or possess an annual income of 600 f. in Government stock, or daily employ 30 hands at least in their factories. ROME. The following letter has been received from Rome, dated November 24 :—" The Pontifical Go vernment has discovered that Count Walewski, in his circular note of the sth of November, has not clearly expressed the intention of the Holy Father on the subject of the reforms which ho is decided to grant his States. His holiness, if I can believe what I hear from persons who are well acquainted with the course of events, wished to assure not an administration exclusively laic, but to give a large place to laymen in the Government. The secu larisation of the Pontifical administration is im possible. Some branches of the Government may be intrusted to laymen, but they must retain an ecclesiastical spirit, for the Government cannot change its nature without compromis ing its existence. Neither was the Pontifical Go vernment perfectly well pleased with the expres sions used by Count Walowski as to the guaran tees for a better administration of justice, because they throw doubts on the present administration, and do not explain the Pope's plan, which consists in a reform of the mode of proceeding both in civil and criminal matters. Perhaps the Pontifical Go vernment will not fail to make some declaration in order to anticipate the accusations which might be made against it if the reforms which are expected from the Holy Father are not in strict con formity with what are announced by Count Walewski in his circular note. In the meantime the Roman journal declares that the reforms an nounced by several journals to be made by the Papal Government are exaggerated. The revolu tionary leaders at Rome are incensed against the Emperor Louis Napoleon in consequence of the re presentations made to the King of Sardinia on ac count of the Regency accepted by the Prince of Carignan. The departure of General Garibaldi from the Romagna has produced a political mani festation, which was suppressed by the National Guard. General Garibaldi was greatly esteemed in the Romagna, and he found it necessary to use all his authority and moral influence to maintain strict discipline among his men, of whom he shot three at Rimini. At present Tuscan troops have replaced in the Legations the volun teers who have , passed into Tuscany and into the Duchies of Parma and Modena. The Roman volunteers who have quitted the service and return home have drawn a melancholy picture of the state of the troops under the pay of the Government in Bologna. The privations suffered by the troops are excessive, and even now there is a want of beds in the barracks. The Pontifical Government is decided no longer to give the increased pay to the troops at Perugia, Ancona, Sinigaglia, and Pesaro, who are supposed to be making a campaign. This resolution will produce a considerable saving. Notwithstanding the d eficien cy produced in the Roman Treasury by the present revolution, the Minister of Finance, Ferrari, has so well managed matters that he has sufficient to pay all demands up to the end of the year. A loan is inevitable for 1860. Cardinal Antonelli is the diplomatist whom the Holy Father has chosen to represent the Holy See at the European Congress. General de Goyon gave a grand dinner yesterday to the Roman municipal magistracy as a proof of his gratitude for the honour conferred on him when he was created a Roman noble. Monsignor Fal divioso, Archbishop of Santiago, in Chili, has been at Rome for some days. This prelate was one of the most ardent promoters of the foundation esta blished at Rome of a seminary for the education of young men from South America intended for the Church." PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Nov. 29. General Bonin, the Minister of War, has ten dered his resignation, which has been accepted. The General has been appointed Commander of the Bth Corps d'Armee (Rhine Provinces and Coblentz). The War-office is intrusted ad interim to the Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. The retirement of General Bonin is attributed to a difference of opinion on the new organisation of the army. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 27th ultd, announces officially that the Queen has entered the ninth month of her pregnancy, and that in consequence her Majesty had given 120,000 reals to charitable establishments, and had commenced visiting churches to offer up prayers for her safe delivery. The. Iberia says that in the engagements between the Spaniards and the Moors which have already taken place, the latter not only fought well, but are commanded, by officers who evidently understand European strategy. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. The following petition, which is promoted by the Parliamentary Reform Committee, has been exten sively signed throughout the City :-- "To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, " The humble petition of the undersigned inhabitants of the City of London, showeth, "That your petitioners accept with satisfaction the as surance of her Majesty's ministers that they will be pre pared, in the ensuing session of Parliament, to introduce a real and honest measure for the amendment of the laws which relate to the representation of the people. "That, in the judgment of your petitioners, no measure will be regarded as a settlement which does not include a large extension of the suffrage both in counties and in borough ; an equitable redistribution of seats in proportion to the population and property of the constituencies ; an assimilation of electoral laws for England, Scotland, and Ireland ; and such protection to the voter, by means of ballot, as may arrest that corruptian and intimidation which have been so fearfully prevalent in the late election, and which threaten to undermine the political institutions of the country. " In the opinion of your petitioners, these offences should be visited with more severe and disgraceful punishments, and conviction be rendered more summary and more easily attainable, than under the present Corrupt Practices Pre vention Act. " Your petitioners therefore pray your honourable House speedily to pass such a measure into law. " And your petitioners will ever pray." It is intended, we believe, to place the petition in the hands of Lord John Russell, to be presented shortly after the opening of parliament. THIS IlArs SHIPPING. LONDON, Friday.—Wind this day at noon, North ; moderate breeze and cloudy, after a slight fall of rain. NEWPORT, Thursday.—led—Chief, for St. Thomas ; General Berry, for ditto ; Queen of the West, for Lisbon. DARTMOUTH, Thursday—Wind, N.E.—Sailed—Cassy, for Hobart Town. (BY BLECTAIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Wind E.N.B. , Arrived—Mayflower, from Sandersfoot ; Havre, steamer, from Havre; Pacific, steamer, from Milford Haven ; Shan non, steamer, from the West Indies; Venus, from Swansea ; Ondine, steamer, from London; Hart, from Riga; Ata lant, steomer, from Jersey ; Bartley, Light and Sign, Lady Constance, and Breeze, all from Sunderland. Sailed.—La Cubana, steamer, for Hamburg; Ondine, steamer, for Dublin. LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. Wind E.N.B. Sailed, Dec. 1: Annie Lauriejor Newfoundland ; Chats worth, for New Orleans; Trayand Canellas, for Havannah ; Geziena, for Antwerp ; Nathalia, for Gibraltar. Arrived—Luborg, from Malmoe ; John and Mary, from Dunkirk ; Glasgow, from Glasgow. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Wind E. tide, 31 hours' ebb ; weather cloudy. Arrived, Dec. .—Frenad, from Aalborg ; Criteria, from St. Michael's ; Irene, from Helsinborg. DEAL, Friday Morning. Wind E.E.E.; fresh. Passed—Triton (of Cowes), from north to west. Sailed—All the homeward bound. Anchored last night—Madwaska, Eden, Crown, and Ebe. • . The Court of Directors of the Bank of England yesterday appointed Mr. Robert Ruthven Pym to fill the post of agent at their West-end branch, Burling ton-g ar dens vacant by the death of the late a g ent, Mr. Charles Tindal. WATERLOO-BRIDGE COMPANY.—Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of this company was held at the Free masons' Tavern—Mr. William Anderson in the chair. Mr. George Powell, the chief clerk, read the report, which stated that the tolls for the Kali-year ending the 23d of August last amounted to £10,867 12s. 10d. ; and for the corresponding, period of the preceding year, £10,491 ll s. id •showin an increase of £376 Os. 11d. At the last general meeting it was stated that after paying the cur rent expenses and charges, and making a dividend of 4s. in the pound, there remained a balance of £1,705 12s. ; and the committee had now to report that after paying the current disbursements, providing for the interest on the company's bonds, and making a dividend of 4s. in the pound, there remained a balance of £2,561 19s. 9d. Thecomrnittee had much satisfaction in reporting that the Metropolitan Board of Works had commenced pulling down down several houses in the Borough, to form the new street from South wark to Stamford-street, and congratulated the meeting upon the prospe-t of such a desirable improvement being carried out, as they believed it would pro%e most useful to the public and advantageous to the company. The report and balance-sheet were received and adopted unanimously. The proceedings terminated with the usual compliment to the chairman. VOLUNTEER CORPS.—MILITARY LEGGINGS.— Some of the volunteer rifle corps have already adopted the now official militaiy pattern leggings, mado with the patent vegetable leather; the merits of which are that it floes not sodden, is perfectly waterproof, can be instantly cleansed with sponge, and is extremely durable. The Government Contract Works, on Stepney-green, aro in active operation, under the management of the Messrs. Spill, the patentees, in the production of thoso elegant and serviceable addenda to the regulation costume, FIE MAGAZINES. Blacktoood's Magaztne. There are some good articles met with in Maga. One of the most noticeable is that on " Motley's Dutch Republic," It is said that "we all kindle as we read of the greatest battle for the rights of conscience and the human intel lect that ever was delivered on the face of the earth. The summary of the remarkable events, and the epitome of the momentous struggles met with in these pages, is sure to prove interesting and instructive. History presents few more heroic struggles than that so ably described and eloquently extolled by Mr. Motley - . It is truly stated here as a curious fact, noticed. `by M. Guizot in his transla tion of this work, that the best histories of Spain have been written by Americans. He thus writes : "These historians of both European and Transat lantic Spain are themselves neither Spaniards nor Catholics. They belong to another race, they profess another religion, they speak another lan gage. Washington, Irving, Prescott, Motley, Ticknor, are the child ren o f Protestant England. It is this race which now bears sway in that hemisphere discovered. and conquered, some four centuries ago, by Catholic Spain." After passing in rapid review the principal events of the book, the writer concludes by giving a most ex citing extract of the stirring scenes that occurred during the siege of Leyden, which fair city, as the historian aptly affirms, was destined to pass through a fiery ordeal. It was impossible to throw provisions into the town except by bringing the sea, which was 20 miles distant, to the walls of the city. After 15 miles had been accomplished the fleet was delayed by adverse winds, and the trials of the beleaguered city and its agonised denizens almost pass belief. " The pestilence walked at noonday through the city, and the doomed inhabitants fell like grass beneath its scythe." From being sub lime in despair the fearful trial at last staggered the faith of some, and the following account of the last great difficulty that can assail the general, the mutiny among his own forces, is most forcibly given by Mr. Motley : A part of the more faint-hearted 'even assailed the heroic Adrian ven der Werf with threats and reproaches as he passed through the streets. A crowd had gathered around him as he reached a triangular place in the centre of the town, into which many of the principal streets emptied themselves. There stood the burgomaster—a tall, haggard, imposing figure, with dark visage, and a tranquil bat a commanding eye. He waved his broad-leaved felt hat for silence, and then exclaimed, in language which has been almost literally preserved—" What would ye, my friends ? Why do ye murmur that we do not break our vows and surrender the city to the Spaniards ?—a fate more horrible than the agony she now endures. I tell you I have mado an oath to hold the city, and may God give me strength to keep my oath 1 I can die but once, whether by your hand, the enemy's, or by the hand of God. My own fate is indifferent to me, not so that of the city intrusted to my care. I know that we shall starve if not soon relieved ; but starvation is preferable to the dishonoured death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not ; my life is at your disposal ; here is my sword, plunge it into my breast, and divide my flesh among you. Take my body to appease your hunger, but expect no surrender so long as I remain alive." After a few words descriptive of the happy en trance of the fleet into the city, and the wild ex citement of the multitude, as bread from every ship was thrown among the crowd who lined the quays, till by a sudden impulse thousands repaired to the churches to bend in gratitude before the King of kings, and raise the thanksgiving hymn, it is thus said in conclusion, Surely, no people ever won its freedom through greater efforts, suffering, and sacrifices, than the United Provinces of the Netherlands." " Another Pleasant French Book" is the subject of an attrac tive article. It is entitled, Essais de Morale de Critique," by M. Ernest Renan, and the accounts here rendered of its contents fully justify the favourable criticism that is passed on its pages. At the same time it is judiciously remarked that the tendency of M. Renan's nature is to melancholy ; he is, it is stated, a pessimist, and therefore regards many of the triumphs of the age in rather a morbid manner. Again he takes it for granted, like many other foreigners, that our superiority in industrial skill has been at the expense of better things. This fallacious assertion is indignantly repudiated in this essay. "It has long been a stereotyped paragraph in French literature that the English care only to be ' comfortable,' Is it the fact ? Are we insen sible to great ideas and to great passions ? Do we prefer comfort to freedom ? and do we neglect re ligion, morality, and philosophy for our mess of pottage ? If we are not an artistic race, are we, therefore, materialists ?" Further on it is appro priately declared, in satirical allusion to so many of those continental Utopias that end in despotism, that "if the English do not interest themselves in certain great ideas, it is because the English by temperament, no less than by education, see reason to question the value and the truth of these ideas, not because industrial activity has made them for get the nobler aims of life." In vindication of our alleged prosaic and unromantic style, the writer exclaims —" Is there a richer, nobler literature than ours ? Are our men of science unworthy of a place beside their continental rivals' Are our poets inferior to those of France and Germany ?" Due praise is awarded to M. Renan for his impar tial opinions on many subjects, thus proving him self not one of those bigoted individuals who con sider France the centre and light of the universe. The critic takes leave of his study by recommending the book to all lovers of science and delicate litera ture, as the manifestation of a thoughtful, elevated mind. " The Luck of Lady'smede" is continued in some very striking chapters. The scene of the mock trial of the old abbot is a very effective sketch of the old style of conducting judicial affairs. Some very wise suggestions , are made in " The National Gallery—its Purpose and Manage ment," which it will profit many to peruse. The principal idea is that a national collection of pic tures " should embrace works extending through all times, representing all schools and countries"— that " among the solemn teachings and warnings of the great departed the artist may rise superior to the fleeting fashions of the hour." Political readers will be pleased with the graphic account of " The Fight on the Peiho," which forms one of the papers; and, with the third part of Fleets and Navies—Eng land—in which latter article the important ques tion of selt-defence is, of course, discussed in an appropriate manner. Fraser's Magazine. A lengthened and elaborate paper on " The Na tional Defences" is the first paper that meets the reader in Fraser. It is evidently the result of a careful consideration of the question, and though we cannot agree with all the suggestions, we acknowledge the courage and labour req u i s it e f or the undertaking. The project of fortifying London is scarcely feasible and very undesirable; besides the completion of so vast a scheme would necessarily take so long, even supposing it to be tolerated by the people, that such a project must be perfectly useless to us for many years, when we may hope the crisis will have passed over. A memorial paper on the virtues and talents of the late lamented Mr. Stephenson, is full of interest. It records the chief events in the career of a man of whom England has just reason to be proud,and,speaks, as all speak, in the highest terms of cordial admiration of the emi nent engineer. A curious romance translated from Grossi, has more novelty than attraction, although in verse. Mr. Whyte Melville continues his story of Holmby House, leaving his fair heroines in sad perplexity, for the hero who engrosses both their affections is seized by the Roundheads, and in dan ger of terminating his career in a very summary manner. "Shirley" contributes a criticism on Dr. Tulloch's able lectures on the leaders of the Refor mation, interspersing the more serious portion with some pleasant discursive remarks. The accom plished geologist C. 11. Weld furnishes a highly interesting and valuable paper on Earthquakes. These marvellous and terror dealing agents are now like the other forces of nature being analysed and classified, though as yet little positive informa tion is gained. The science of seismology, as it is termed from the Greek word for earthquake, is one not easily prosecuted, but the careful and voluminous report, recently compiled at the orders of the Committee of the British Association, has de scribed phenomena, which when examined in the ag gregate may greatly advance our knowledge on this point. This report which has been the result of much time and labour, " contains records of nearly seven thousand earthquakes, observed over every known part of the globe, both on land and ocean, from 285 years B.C. to A.D. 1850." Some of the re sults obtained are extemely curious. Thus it ap pears that, divided by chronological periods, the end of the third century first gives evidence of the numerical increase of earthquakes, which seem from thence to be steadily on the increase up to 1850. It is true this is in sonic measure ac counted for by the advance of knowledge, obsen a tiou, and human enterprise, and travel. It is believed, according to Mr. Weld, that the expansion of results which we find in the last 300 years "just keeps pace with that of contemporaneous human progress; for the increase in the number of re corded earthquakes always coincides with the epochs of increased impulse and energy in human enterprise." Earthquakes, it would seem, do not appear, so far as the originating impulse is concerned, to be connected with the superficial character of the greateSt known depth of geological formations. Earthquake energy seems to be dispensed over the globe in irregut'r bands, though there are few parts of the earth', surface not affected by them. One remarkable fact is mentioned—that earthquakes are more prevalent and violent in winter than in summer. The fol lowing observations show the extent to which the , globe was affected by the terrible convulsion aL Lisbon little more than a century ago : a.m. The convul s io n , e one of the most vio lent and w idell f The great Lisbon e ar th qua k e was first perce ived at 0. 3 extended on record, produced terrible effects over a sp noroof)°, the earth's surface included between Icela nd on th. Mogador, in Morocco, on the south, Toplitz, on the east, and the West India Islands on the was felt in the Alps, on the shores of Sweden, in the Iv Indies, on the Lakes in Canada in Ireland, Thuringis,lo Northern Germany. Taking the area convulsed at 3, 3 00 ,, miles long, and 2,700 miles wide, which is equal to 7,500,, _ square miles, and supposing the motion only extended to depth of twenty miles, there must have been 150 naill t.: ie n h a Loss ww e of cubic miles of solid matter put in motion, conveys to the mind a bewildering conception of the ee oc q_ A.ctual shock_ mous power of the originating impulse. were not, however, felt over the whole of this surface; in Western It r The &c., places agitation of the water, in lakes, &c., being the only sensible effect produced. situ centre . centre of disturbance seems to have been the ated beneath the Atlantic Ocean, a little west , coast of Portugal. In Portugal itself, and esPeeiallY': Lisbon, the most terrible destruction took p1a0,0r7.4 owing, of course, to its contiguity to the seat of v len t action, and partly to the nature of the earth's surfo s e ct to that place. The shocks appear to have been froinw,ee°- east, and to have lasted from one minute to ten mitun,„%as The calculated rate l'of 'motion of the earth-wove i er . 7955 feet per second; at this rate the equatorial eilt l93 „ t - 45 once of the earth would have been gone round in s'"'" we st hours. At 10 o'clock on the same day, the north' portion of Africa was violently convulsed; near Mores_o2,.., mountain opened and swallowed a village, with B ° l ° u ; 10,000 people. At 11.30 Milan was shaken, lamps swung in the churches ; and about the same tme L ar d_ like that of a great wave breaking on the shore was in Sweden and Norway, followed by shocks whip o es the furniture in the houses. The springs in were affected, and in the Alps some wells became taL'' t norj The interest and respect attaching to twee e ; r anee of an eminent writer recently departed,."' M e ars the P most readers to turn at once to the page that, tag the honoured name of Leigh Hunt. He has,' a „,,, up the cause of two of our old ENglish we rtw irthe the father of English poetry and the singer w a i s t " Faery Queene, —against no less an antag° than Cardinal Wiseman, who in his recent literreat lectures took occasion to censure these tw ° goo., writers for the immorality of some of their w:thio Leigh Hunt defends them vigorously ag ains f the attack, showing the purity and elevation principles they inculcate, while the faults etre! are those of the age, and are by no means con to our two English celebrities. A° tinguished name meets us the o ntriblit° among c to Fraser, though happily still a name of the ? 00 sent, that of John Stuart Mill. His article is "Non-Intervention," and his arguments MIA his accustomed force and logic. After a clear an concise exposition of our present position in con the merits of our policy and its faults ache-r -sistencies, Mr. Mill goes on to consider Path, ciples of non-intervention and their intrins ic W orth His remarks on this subject are s o other dlora ll consideration, and he arrives at a o lln " fair sensible conclusion. He insists upon the t re es ness of the intervention of the military h " • - of one ruler to aid another to repress the af3 Ph ira ed tions of his subjects. " Apeople the a nd to freedom, the most capable of defending una ble making good use of free institutions, may be - to contend successfully for them against the - r , ovi e tart' strength of another nation much more P o n% f ful: He goes on to say that the doctrine ° t ag" intervention, to be a legitimate principle of 11° d r es pote must be accepted by all Governments. fre s most attac Of t must consent to be bound by it as well es States, or the result will be that the F on g" the help the wrong, but the right must not right. "Intervention to enforce non - in tel lyoo is always rightful, always moral, p r l u t d en t might : if not ' not have been right for Englan d e art •"" 1% ; , from the question of p ru d ence ) t o h av e taken P a itheee; t Hungary in its noble struggle against Austria, s oot; e u Austrian Government in Hng y as in 11°, A w ' foreign yoke. But when, the Hu a n r b irari w suie _ themselves likely to prevail in this struggle' despot interposed, a n d jo i n i ng hi s f orce to that f o ot ts delivered back the H ungar i ans , b oun d hand oloollt s their exasperated oppressors, it wo u ld have been as able and virtuous act on thepart of England have dared that this should not be, and that if aron gave assistance to the wronc , side, Englall" Wen eolls bo w aid the right. It might not ° have bee n with the regard which every nation. 2 4 ,, t 'cti . ll ; to pay to its own safety, for England to have ts"` °- toge' l ; position single-handed. But England and Fra-nt.med`; ' could have done it ; and if they had the Russiol ;la bad tervention would never have taken place, or v 2 : 4 , 4 ".. t been disastrous to Russia alone. to f i g. 2 Powers ui gained by not doing it, was that they JA- - „ c ires - - ‘ stance a s, r a ti n e d le w , i f th ro o m ut the Hun f g o a r r e y e for o f a it n s al i l o y g - R Russia five years afterwards, under more difliew" and the fin. terest of its subject, will well repay the This re der -°1 its perusal. ' Colburn's New M on thly Magazin e ' nol ioel lt A lengthened paper on China is a P r i o golt i feature in this magazine. It is title Am tales, a rl Clara eitse,r, i sLake's founded i Dream," e o a n m f , by the conclusion of the singu.,,, as he asserts, are really drawn fr cwi aut ny a " et 7 b h u ic t h, if ac s c o or ni alg i v it o e f , F ,, , can only say the experience of the author 01. There ress, has been of a most unusual character. h i e js is is an incident introduced into this story rated if: worthy of attention. A railway aeeicl e ., ll ; tea k) ," which should manifestly have been Pr e ' t - i n eirT a r . the hoisting of the red light at the 0 , - 0 Ow' danger-signal. Witnessess on both ,„si, s u e tsti° ll ; positively to the colour of the light. ,_"-":, 0 haci ° l, master and many others take their oata„" er hAe i i seen the red light hoisted. On the o'..ua se hohl e the engine -driver, and a res p ec t a ble h,e a pre:; living near, are e qua lly con fid e nt as to to' esse it,..,f ante of the ordinary green light. Til e w ho e:;.' ' last explained by an intelligent doctor , or ter' covers tbat the engine -driver and his suable to affected by colour-blindness, and are no° _ e el t° 4 tinguish green from red. This is also asse' s ibilitl° , taken from life, but, in any cas e, the P ° . s oa of e l .:, such an accident is deserving the attea l ~,, '' 13 , 1 tion-masters. A notice of Mr. Beddi.nt y a pP , l ) ; e graphy of Thomas Campbell" is esP e° , l9 in 0 , 13 ii priate in the pages of the New Month' Y„' ° et*" is pages both are familiar names. T l3 , e . t t,r, Ol t , well known, was for several years its eu l ong enis ti o ' the post does not seem to have been ~° the e° hiC him. Mr. Redding, who undertow', d i alog: to p management of the political departur e S er ial 10 0 0 reign, is well known as a voluminous us%Bo disc g Sir Nathaniel's " Notes on Note-wor ths Arno ld or former Brescia, 0 this month the labours and fortunes oi st i ti sea tie js brought him to the stake. a voila., .4 or' fputhpeil Church ofAbel e a f rd n , aonmde,self-coll.on ipp, tributes another of his pi c tur l e V s . qu C e ll se arrlie-° lCri e' l l r ilel o/ a s _. „, reoscopic Glimpses," entitled, " Igilt e ! l a - a hovi ll „ iii sitting at his organ enjoying gate," in which the blind old poet j ' ae tati° 0 .00 t h e scow ith eS 01( him, while the sightless eyes, " blinded if % 0 of light," are mournfully upraised , se ller 0 11 40 his lost Paradise. An essay on " St"f Vow' any Times" is chiefly founded on the wor k l iar octe r ,,ol Schmidt, and renders justice to the e ,j e grar - re t elevated aim of the poet. Another u ri &fre e tho paper discusses the peculiarities of a "d e nt 1 the person, Madame Recamier, the fair Pr e d a ys 0 ,„,',„0t most fascinating salon of Paris in the P i. 'lo Restoration. The curious story of ."'„ or bit r id Mitterkamp is brought to a c onclusi?'" f ase 0 , 0 readers will scarcely regret. Ther e 15 a bri e '', bute to the late Mr. Stephenson , an y ea tionS' sensible paper on " Continental comp Colburn's United Service; 0 aile, ° t hO An 'article on the Militia Conilaissfera i s t r the rival merits of the voluntary sr a on t he i st' ballot. It is followed by an able Pap a t the ; e s. serve of Royal Naval Volunteers, whl im porte ge ff• sent moment is of especial interest a 0 ~..„t praden , While strongly approving of the ohnineet erg the writer doubts whether the best 07,0.0 v t o cious means for securing that obieensure il l . o nsr adopted. He finds something to ee the 1 s o me regulations, and discusses separatelie shoscerce°oll paragraphs. The following Passagfter a of the conclusions arrived at a a ye analysis : viers f :4111 Merchant seamen are now, whateve r thed e b s it owl a cool, calculating class. They will sniff „.... of th e „.e. 01 1. d caution, but not the gullibility and vora*,7,iyantarr: They will turn over the advantages and at:ii t ile Z e Air those who are learned in the matter, or ti s l t t;,, to :Ito 0; soon be found putting very puzzling' qu. ei a ngel as _at. ping -master. There are certain condit the pen es Awe. - vice in the navy, and also relative t? 7acasna: here have already shown, homelandcalculaed to excit r e L,PA . .„ 4 a be„ ae ~ Five years exile from . 1, lump when placed in the opposite scale to__,ll soonest Sol, prospective pension. Three years tb);T s ghowari'od , be an inevitable contingency; although, °t ug a Ft o pe Y de tember, there was no necessity for so ut for —, i cy demanded. The men should be called °u ew er' . %, only, to be increased to two, or three, 11 1 w hicD f oo l manded that servitude. . r eguis ti°ll ble hw oi Then, again, there is the imperative s 010 a if i l ooe eludes all but able seamen. Numerobue enr olled: l. Titic men, as we have already stated, migh t , w aterift e r • 1 0 ei pursue their business as bargemen av a ,,t peri l r igo n a ce have been from boyhood oiratnsotvfhaceu;ivitasnarrlio.u?sscan,toisiqs;ree,:4 out of sight of land, and never rated aul: 01 011' Do r oe , this kind would be at hand, and abv.ttY, lo ties F , , anon the Admiralty still an eye upon the ail f ' corps of biz1:81;0d° tb° contemplate the re-organisation 0.. a. _,, d o f t...-- fencibles, or why have they taken no rim oraing°'o4 efficient body ? A g i orto,,„ippo pi r Reservellut, n s o c tah e s i t s an a d g i n o g o d r we s i n eereu t he;oilif all parties concerned will pull harmon es ,_ , an d it V ing sight for a time of personal int o e u r Ew In alluding to the aversion S?_ 11- 1 ; i 05 11 . °' tc , Of , a little or may be a great deal of tr bl:_ e • riuen tg_ f f B ::t . l l . o merchant seamen to enteringiltieeVntipatnisrpte; writer attributes much of t t li n e si P bi r y es vi sg r i tt ft g cei ° fir ef i ti lil o t i prejudices lingering since It is a straightforward and " abject °f litie t " th * throwing much light on the. s. and prose 0- d o the o sition a on „ , anent. A paper on P s hosvw ; t he rtainr the army medical department attend Ae °° ' al ° drawbacks and difficulties that ....to Army, re to the th e maeedeeicuaeltpsrgofievsesnioninintthhi: paper , 1-