The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-21 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the manatzement of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING (the 2d time) VICTORINE. Messrs. Santley, Haigh, H. Corri, G. Honey, Bartleman, &c. Misses Parepa, Thirlwall, &c. Conductor, Alfred Mellon. Ballet, LA FIANCEE. Messrs. W. H. Payne, H. Payne, F. Payne, Mdlle. Lequine, Pasquale, Pierron, Clara Morgan, and Mons. Vandris. Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with A GAME OF SPECULATION. After which, by desire, THE CONTESTED ELECTION Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mr. Buckstone, &c. And SHOCKING EVENTS. Commence at 7. RO VA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the new drama,' entitled HOME TRUTHS. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews, Miss C. Lec'ercq and Mrs. Charles Young. Followed by A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr. A. Harris Shore, Frank Matthews, and Miss C. Leclercq. After which, Mons, Espanola (Premier Danseur Comique), Will appear, with Madlle. Nariquita, assisted by the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet, in Le Grand Pas du Dervish de Faust, as danced by him 150 consecutive nights at the Theatre de la Porte St. Martin, Paris. To conclude with WURS MY CHICKWEED. Messrs. H. Widdicomb, Meadows, H. Saker ; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs. Weston. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL 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 niece of extravagance, called DINORAH 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 ouen from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, a new Vaudeville Comedietta, called THE KEY UNDER TIIE DOOR-MAT. Messrs. James Vinning, Jno Rouse, &C. ; Mesdames A, H. Hatton and Julia St. George. To be followed by the 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. Po conclude with ST. MARY'S EVE. and Mr. Rouse. Madame Celeste A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season. THIS EVENING, the grand melo-dramatic production, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARIBALDI; illustrating the principal events in the Life of the Great Italian General. To be followed by New and Brilliant Equestrian Changes in the Arena, introducing a vivid Four-horse Scene by John Henry Cooke, as the Nemman Conqueror -More Wonders by the Educated Elephant—Eletrant Equitation by Miss Emily Cooke, the Queen of the Circle—Young Ad red Cooke's sur passing evolutions on a naked Courser—Electrifying Feats by the Athenian Athlete, J. H. Cooke and Crouses—Novel Flag Exerc'ses on horseback by Madlle. Jenny—Varied by those heralds of fun, the Clowns, Mimes, and Drolls. To commence at 7. Especial Notice.—Three Grand Morning Representations of the grand new Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY ; or, Old Tower the Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, on Monday and Saturday, Dec. 26 and 31, and Monday Jan. 2, 1380, at Two o'clock each day. CANTERB UR Y HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY ,EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY QUEEN. And a Grand Se ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DD TORAH. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. Georp:e Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. P. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interestinz 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 eights of the metropolis. ROSA BONFIEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is open from4i till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICt, DECEMBER 21. THEMNIONIETER, IN THE SHADE. 46—highest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and during the night, 46—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30. WIND, Westerly; light, with fine sunshiny weathir, Rain last night and this morning. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, llh. 32m.—Afternoon, Oh. Om TO -MORROW. -Morning, 12h. In.—Afternoon, 12h. 21m, ♦ It is amusing to observe the difference between the Moorish and the Spanish accounts given of the different minor actions an 1 skirmishes that have already taken place in the neighbourhood of Ceuta, since that melancholy little war commenced there upon the north-eastern frontiers of Morocco. Ac cording to the Moors the Spaniards have met with nothing hitherto but reverses and discomfitures. They have been killed and wounded in numbers altogether disproportioned to the importance, or rather to the want of importance, of the different engagements. They have repeatedly been ,driven back ignominiously. They have, even by this time, in some measure expiated the guilt of their hostile movement beyond, their own African boun daries by the severity, the swiftness. and the reitera tion of their punishments. This, all this and a great deal more, according to the accounts given to the world by the Moorish authorities, from the Commander-in-Chief downwards! And upon the opposite side—reading the military records laid before Christendom by the Madrid Government— how wide and glaring the difference ! Running the eye down these despatches one is led to the conclusion that even now, almost by this time, Morocco is—all but—conquered. The skirmishes there in the immediate vicinity of Ceuta, viewed through the Spanish lorgnette, appear to be mag nified almost to the dimensions of momentous pitched battles pitched battles only just short of being conclusive ! Warlike achieve ments, that supposing them to answer accu rately to those descriptions would certainly necessitate a very copious appendix to Professor CREASY's literary masterpiece. When all is said and done, however, in turning over these extraordinary bulletins from the side of the Moors and from the side of the Spaniards—there stands out the significant and undeniable fact that the fighting is still restricted to the immediate neigh • bourhood of Ceuta ! Showing as plainly as possible that whatever other advantage has occurred to them, the Spaniards have decidedly not advanced ! It has been bloodshed hitherto to no purpose whatever beyond that of enabling ,the belligerents to flesh their swords and their bayonets—and tcrtest their skill as marks men upon living targets closely clustered together. The situation is thus as nearly as possible the same now that it was when the struggle commenced. Only the foes are a trifle breathed, a trifle heated, a trifle more irritated against each other. As evidence of the bias of the bowl as it 'rolls from either side in the form of the last bulletin, note the Moorish account of the affair of the 9th inst. " At daybreak on that day," quoth the Moorish record, "a force of about eight' thousand Moors attacked , the Spaniards encamped outside the frontier lines of Ceuta at thrce different points, put them to flight immediately, and got posses sion of all their recently constructed earthworks.. Shortly after Wards the Spaniards rallied, and with a considerable reinforcement from the town attempted to regain the defences they had lost. Three times they fell upon the Moors, and were each time repulsed with great loss. Then the Spaniards brought up still larger forces than before and attacked the Moors whilst they were engaged in carrying off the field their dead and wounded. Thus assailed the Moors retreated slowly and steadily to their own ground, and were pursued by the attacking Spaniards down the hill side be low the further redoubt, where some 200 Meoriqi cavalry charged the enemy and drove him back most gallantly, the Moors regaining the redoubts. A huoie band of mountaineers, numbering some (13L T SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21, 1859. 600 men, held the ground they took from the Spaniards, against almost overwhelming (A.(1,„ 1 throughout the day, and kept up a sharp ma most effective fire until nightfall, when, seeing the field ' deserted, they withdrew to their camp. The Moors could have remained in occupation of the redoubt, but as they had no cannon to place there, and as their present camp is' more secure, they did not do so. It appears the Spaniards had withdrawn their cannon from the battle-field before the Moors attacked them. The Moors lost about 100 killed and 200 wounded, and de clare that the loss sustained by the Spaniards must be far more considerable than in any former engagement." The Spanish account of the same action is of course as different as can well be. The losses there are all on the other side. The advan tage in numbers was the advantage of the Moors. The repulse was the repulse of the Moors. It is another wreath of laurel to hang on the Spanish standard, another clasp for the future medal to be worn in gold, or silver, or bronze, according to their grade, by O'DONNELL and his companions. And we dare say that by the next mail from Madrid we shall learn that Queen ISABELLA has penned an autograph letter to the Commander-in-Chief of her forces now at the African seat of war, offering to him and to them her most Catholic Majesty's congratulations. The news from Morocco is a fact like that mouth marvelled at by the Satyr in " .2Esop," blowing fitfully as the whim promp ts, now hot, now cold. It is the shield of the pic turesque allegory—painted on one side black, on the other white—fastened aloft as a vane—blown hither and thither, to the right, to the left—now black, now white, accordingly as the wind blows from the camp of the Moors or from the camp of the Spaniards. Happily there are other observers than either Spaniards or Moors out yonder at the seat of war in Morocco. From their narratives we learn more reliable tidings as to the character and result of the different struggles that have already occurred near Ceuta. The Special Correspondent of our principal morning contemporary stands forth con spicuously among them, and the last of his de spatches is certainly by no means-the least interest ing. In this communication, dated as recently as the 10th inst., from Algesiras, he speaks of the rumours afloat at the "Rock" as to the conflict of the pre ' ceding day, that conflict—the couleur de rose aecount of which by the Moors we have but just now been examining ! " The Moors in Gibraltar," says he, " were in great glee this morning, and had a notion that the Spaniards had been thrashed, but the news of the cutting off of the pickets was all that seemed to have reached them. lam impatient," he adds, "to learn how the Spaniards behaved in the first confusion of a night attack. If they showed coolness and avoided panic, it is a great thing on the part of troops so new to this kind of ' warfare. But, meanwhile, this is not making pro gress. THE SPANIARDS SEEM RATIIER IN THE POSI TION OF A BESIEGED FORCE." It is undeniable. It is the very fact upon which we have just been in sisting as in itself so peculiarly significant. There, still at Ceuta the fighting continues ! The Spaniards have, therefore, we repeat, not advanced. They have their old irov 0 - 7 CO in Africa—but for all that, they have failed (as yet) to move Morocco ! Cum gran° sails, therefore, we must still read the Madrid records of these wonderful Spanish achieve ments. Now that death has suddenly snatched away apparently in mid career, the Right Hon. HENRY FiTzitoY, heir-presumptive to Lord SOUTHAMPTON, and up to the time of his demise Chief Commissioner of Parks and Palaces under the Coalition Government—we are constrained to ask with some anxiety who is to be his Ministerill sue- cessor at the head of that important de partment ? The most popular Minister of Public Works that we have had for many years past was unquestionably—the name will be antici pated by the majority—that able administrator, late Sir BENJAMIN MALL, now Baron LLANOVER. We believe that Lord LLANOVER'S nomination once more to the office he filled with so much honour to himself, and with so much reflective credit to his colleagues, under Lord PALMERSTON'S former Government, would be hailed with very general„with almost universal satisfaction. It was only very recently that we took occasion with no small pleasure to commend as in every way excellent and praiseworthy the selection made by the Premier in almost all his late appointments. His " second thoughts" as the organiser of a Cabinet have in this manner oertainly proved best. It was thus' with the Right Hon. CHARLES VILLIERS, when named by an after-thought to the Presidency of the Poor Law Board. A selection, in that instance, that we ourselves, several days before the actual nomination, pointed out as of all the most advisable : naming him in these columns, as the right man for that right place immediately the post had been vacated by Mr. MILNER GIBSON'S pro motion to the Presidency of the Board of Trade— when the latter place was declined by the hon., we regret we cannot (for that very reason) say the right hon. member for the borough of Roch dale. So has it been more recently with regard to the elevation of the Solicitor-General, Sir HENRY KEATING, to the bench in the Court of Common Pleas, upon the unexpected demise of the late Sir RICHARD BUDDEN CROWDER ! And so too again, in turn, with respect to the selection of Sir HENRY KEATING'S successor as Solicitor-General— Mr., soon, of Course, to be by the knightly accolade from the hand of the SOVEREIGN, Sir WILLIAM ATHERTON ! Whose previous minor offices as Counsel and Judge Advocate to the Admiralty have been since hardly less wisely awarded to Mr. COLLIER, Q.C. Here once more, by the lamented death of Mr. FITZROY— the First Lord of the Treasury, is afforded another opportunity for the improvement of his Administration. For it is only repeating frankly what was candidly remarked on all sides again and again during the latter portion of hisilife time, when .we say that as Chief Commissioner of Public Works Mr. FITZROY was in a very great measure a Ministerial failure. In that more con spicuous and more responsible capacity he assuredly did not fulfil the public expectations in his regard —he did not sustain the reputation he had pre viously acquired at the Home Office, when he was there two years previously as Under-Secretary. Now that the right hon. gentleman has been otherwise for the public and for his friends, unhappily, and, as it seems to us poor mortals, prematurely snatched away by death—there remains his vacant office to be filled up (if Lord P,ILMEItSTON pleases) most advantageously. Will Lord PALMERSTON so please ? Will Lord LLANOVER content to resum e his position over the Public Works Department as Chief Commissioner Let us hope so —for it would be in every respect a very wise and a very popular appointment. The Countess Dowager of Macclesfield has arrived at How.hin's Hotel, from the family seat, Sherborne Castle, Oxfordshire. The Earl of Orkney arrived at the Pavilion Hottl, Folkestone, on Saturday last, and left on the following day for the Continent. ' The Rev. T. L. Sutton, jun., has arrived at Howchin's Hotel, from Geddington Vicarage, Northamp- tonshire. TtiE''SUN,'?.:;, , ..ONDON, THE TYARDMOTES.-(THIS DAY.) aid ceing anutial cfio2F., Common Councilmen, ward officers, &c., took place within the several wards of the City. There was very little ex citement on the occasion, as most of the wards re-elected their old members. CORNHILL. The annual wardmote was held at St. Michael's Church, Cornhill, the Right Hon. JOHN CARTE; Lord Mayor, presiding. After the administration of the oaths, &c., the Common Council of the past year were unanimously re elected, as was also W. J. Parker, the beadle. The following were then declared to be members of the Common Council for the ensuing year :—Mr. E. Harrison (deputy), Mr. Waterlow, sen., Mr. Hoppe, Mr. D. Shrews bury, Mr. G. Gaines, and Mr. A. J. Waterlow. LANGBOURNE. The annual wardmote was held at the school-room, Lime-street—Mr. W. Cubitt, M.P., Alderman of the ward, presiding. After some preliminary business, the Common Council of the past year were unanimously re-elected, and were as fol lows :--Messrs. S. tinwin (deputy),T. Snelling, E. Howard, IL C. Bache, C. Sully, T. Webber, Alexander Crossley, and J. Symonds. Mr. FINLAY moved a vote of thanks to Alderman Cubitt, and complimented him upon his approaching mayoralty. Mr. BEECH said he felt it a privilege to be allowed to second the motion. The resolution was carried unanimously, and the proceed ings terminated. BRIDGE, This wardmote was, as usual, held in the vestry-room of St. Magnus Church, Thames-street. Alderman Abbiss presided. The old members were ro-elected, and Mr. Blake was chosen to succeed Mr. Dray. DOIVGATE. The annual wardmote was heldit All-hallows' Church, Upper Thames-street, under the presidency of Alderman Sir R. W. Carden. Messrs. Kebbell, White, Kearns, and Coleman were re elected. The following resolution was carried unanimously : " That the thanks of this wardmote be presented to Sir R. W. Carden, Bart., M.P., and Alderman of the ward, for his unwearied attention to his duties as an Alderman and a magistrate of this city, and for his impartiality while pre siding over this wardmote." VIN TRY. This wardmote was held at the School-room, Brickhill lane, Thames-street, Alderman Gabriel in the chair. The following old members were re-elected :—Mr. W. Archer, Mr. W. D. White, Mr. T. Sprague, Mr. G. Mason, Mr. C. Gammon, and Mr. R. Tress. BREAD-STREET. The usual annual wardmote meeting of this ward was held in the Cordwainers'-hall, Cannon-street; Mr. William Lawrence, Alderman, presided. The following gentlemen were unanimously re-elected Common Councilmen for the ensuing year :—Deputy Haw ray, Mr. Maughan, Mr. Maynard, Mr. Smith, Mr. McCal cheon, Mr. IV. McGregor, and Mr. Alcock. Mr. Pill and Mr. Beard wore the candidates for the hon• our of succeeding Mr. Millard. On the names being put by the Alderman, the show of hands was declared in favour of Mr. Pill. A poll was de manded for Mr. Beard. FARRINGDON WITHIN. The annual wardmote was hold at Christ's Hospital, Alderman Phillips presiding. Two new candidates opposed the return of ;the old mem bers, and a poll was ordered to be taken at the King's Arms Tavorn. FARRINGDON WITHOUT. The annual wardmote of the ward of Farringdon With out was held in the New Court of the Old Bailey, Alderman Sir J. Duke, Bart., M.P., presiding. Most of the old members were re-elected. A poll was de manded on behalf of Messrs. Standborough and Spiller. In tho other wards no serious opposition is expected, but we are precluded from publishing the results owing to the late hour fixed for the commencement of the proceedings. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, Exeter Hall.—The last performance of" The Messiah" takes places =Friday next, Dec. 23. The principal singers are Madame Ruders- Miss Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Signor Belletti. The traffic return of the Grand Trunk Railway, for the week ending November 26, shows a receipt of £12,982155. 4d., rgainst £9,685 lls. 10d. in the correspond ing week of last year, being an increase of £3,296 3s. 6d. The return of traffic on the Great 'Western Rail way of Canada, for the week ending December 2, shows the receipts to'ha% e been £7,916 13s. 7d., being an increase en the corresponding week of the previous year of £124 10,1. The decrease on, the 18 weeks cf this half-year, as compared with the corresponding period of 1858, is £5,720 2s. id. SOUTHKENSINGTON MUsEum.--During the week ending the 17th of December the visitors have been as fol lows :—On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days, 2,544 ; on Monday aild Tuesday, free evenings, 4,120 ; on the three students' days (admission to the public 6d.), 1,102 ; one students' evening, Wednesday, 593; total, 8,359; from the opening of tb.e museum, 1,166,322. • THE CHRISTILIS HOLIDAY. The Executive Committee of the Conservative Land Society have directed the offices to be closed on Monday next, the 26th inst. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. This society, in the extension of business operations, have just purchased a fine propel V of freehold houses at Camberwell. They are nine in nuniber, well built semi-detached cot tages and houses, in a terrace in the Denmark-road. This is a novel feature in the operations of a land society, inas much as freehold houses, completed and in the occupation of respectable tenants, will be offered for allotment to the members of the society . .. THE GREAT INIESCROPOLITAN SEWER AT STRAT ronn.—The works of 'hhis sewer, which it was anticipated would have been comp t'enced in this district several months ago have been delayed 1, p ar tl y f rom t h e str ik e i n the build ing!trade, and partly t s enable the commissioners to apply to Parliament for additional powers not embodied in their present act. A great 7 number of houses on the site of which the proposed sewer wtauld pass were purchased, and the oc cupants long since ga ye up possession, but within the last few weeks they have again been occupied, and will continue to be so during the tf)mporary delay of the works. The ex tensive premises of Messrs. Geer() and Son, timber mer chants, on the north side of the high road, have been pur chased of them by - the commissioners, and the occupiers and owners of all pro perty in that neighbourhood taken for the purposes of the 8( saver have received the amount of their compensation. We ( Essex Herald) may add that the com pensation awarded ir L almost every instance has been ex tremely, liberal on. th. 3 part of the commissioners—weekly tenants receiving fror a £lO to £lB ; small shopkeepers from £5O to £lOO, and so oi a in proportion to the amount of busi ness and length of to nancy. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN A LUGGAGE TRAIN.- About 3 o'clock in th a afternoon of Sunday last, one of the waggons of a luggage train from the south for Preston, Lancashire, laden witch builds for weaving, and a quantity of costly china in crat;es, was discovered by the engine driver to be on fire, w hen the train was a quarter of a mils from Preston. This • waggon. was next to the tender, and it is supposed that a spa rk from the engine ignited either the healds or the straw in the crates. The engine driver promptly detached thi L remainder of the train from the burning waggon, and 'teamed quickly into the Preston sta tion, and as the engin e with its flaming freight passed over the bridge which spans the Ribble, just below the town, the unwonted specta. cle excited the astonishment of the hundreds of persons w ho were walking on the banks of the river. When the ste Mon was gained the flanks were quickly extinguished a ,t the water column, and it was then found that the damages dime was very considerable. The healds were almost avb olly destroyed, and the burning of the crates had cracked 1 and broken a very large proportion of the costly goods the y contained. REWARD FOR GA .LLANT CONDUCT.-It will pro bably be remembered by many of our readers that during the terrific storm of f he 26th October last, which proved fatal to the Royal Ch; irter, some fearful shipwrecks took place also on the Corn ish coast. On some of the occasions, most gallant exertions were made to save life and property. Amongst others, Mr. I )aniel Shea, coxswain of the National Lifeboat Institution's boat stationed at P4dstow, very lau dably exerted himself to save life and property. But con spicuous'amongst all others on this coast was Charles Mitchell, a fisherman, of Port Isaac. In the height of the storm of that night, th a sloop Busy, of New-quay, was ob served to be in immix) eat danger. Mitchell immediately mustered a crew of fou r men, who, with himself, proceeded off through the tremen ions surf to the wreck. Having suc ceeded in rescuing two of the sloop's men, their boat unfor tunately broke adrift before the remaining men could be saved. Again and agt un, Mitchell, with fresh hands, en deavoured with undau rated courage to save the other two poor men, who were now lashed to the rigging. At last, his humane efforts in three different boats were, after five hours of unusual flew: r toil and risk, crowned with success,' and he bad the happb less to bring the four shipwrecked men, more dead than alive, safely ashore about 3 o'clock the next Morning.' To testify its approbation of such noble and persevering exertio Es in saving life from an inevitable death, the Royal Nat' ional Lifeboat Institution has pre sented to Mitchell its C . l lake silver medal; a beautiful scroll on parchment and £3. The wen. who had assisted the gal lant fellow on the occ Lsion have also received from the society £l5 for their sec DISTRESS* OF TIIF : BLACK MALIBRAN.—An ap plication- was made on . Saturday to the President of the Civil Tribunal, on the part of Mlle. Martinez, a woman of colour, known by th e n ame of the " Malibran Noire, " f rom her possessing a good N Tice and 'a certain talent as a musi cian She had, it appea rs,. when she first came to Paris from. the Spanish settlinnents in South America, given concerts and obtained som e success, al ;tended with very satisfactory money results. But, having p me to Madrid to sing,' she found on her return that the win d of popularity had shifted to some other direction, and that when she ..ave a concert as before, the receipt s did not equal the expenditure. ' She tried again and agai n t o attract an nudience, but all in vain. At last she fell into distress, an d Mine: Bevan, the owner of a fur nished room which she occupied, not only turned her out of doors for not Paying th e • rent, but sei ze d on her clothes and effects, incluilhug suit :ar. Th e poor artiste thus found herself not only destitul ic, but deprived of one of the means of earning a little 'no a soy in tho instrument with which she accompanied herseb !. Her counsel maintained that the seizure of the instrnme tr t was illegal, inasmuch as it must be assimilated to instr n tnents of labour or the tools of a workman, which could aof be taken away. The president, coinciding in that view e f the question, ordered the imme diate restitution of the Al titar. But will the humane deci sion of the learned juds - pa ,be sufficient to enable the poor singer to provide for the; wants of the day ?—Galignant. WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1859. 11 ATTEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received al Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20. The Illoniteur of to-day publishes the nomination of several secretaries to French embassies abroad, among which the Marquis Chateaurenard as secre tary of the embassy at London. The state of Prince Jerome's health continues to improve, and there will be no bulletins published for some days. TURIN, DEC. 20. Al. Buoncompagni leaves to•day for Florence. The designation of Count Cavour as First Pleni potentiary of Sardinia at the Congress is definite, and will be notified to the different Powers after the nominations of the other Plenipotentiaries have been published. The frigate Eurydice is about to sail for China, to protect the interests of the Italian subjects re siding there. ROME, DEC. 17 (via Marseilles.) It is stated that on the 28th inst. Cardinal Anto nelli will embark on board a Pontifical corvette for France. Monsignore Bernardi will be entrusted ad interim with the ministerial functions of the Cardinal. In order to cover the deficit, the Minister of Finance has sold two millions of francs of Roman consolidated funds, without having recourse to a loan. MEXICAN MAILS. MADRID, DEC. 20. Abundant rains have inundated the Spanish camp and the surrounding country. JASSY, DEC. 18. The National Assembly, after having received a message from Prince Couza, has been dissolved. THE FOREIGN MAILS. At the hour of our going to press the French and German mails had not arriTed. intend to make them undergo the most terrible tnr!rwiltq. On the 30th they wore enrupletely sur rounded by the Simancas and Catalonia Riflemen, and every one of them had to be cut down. There are a great many of their priests among them ; these are to be distinguished by their long beards, their wild appearance, and their peculiar yells, which are invocations to the Prophet. These priests take a peculiar care to finish the wounded Spaniards that lay on the ground, and they are seen to ad minister heavy blows with their muskets on the head and shoulders of those of their own men who show any signs of mercy. This sight enrages very much the Spanish soldiers, and the officers have no small trouble in preventing them from imitating the atrocities of the Moorish priests. One of the latter, remarkable for his dirty tunic and his terrific screams, had killed with his " gumia" a young ensign' and a soldier. He was preparing to stab a wounded artilleryman, and was uttering then a perfectly diabolical yell, when a Spanish sergeant rushed upon him and plunged a bayonet into his opened mouth. The death of their " saints" always causes great discouragement among the Moors. My friends adds that he is now obliged, as well as the other officers, to allow the soldiers to despatch with a bayonet thrust their wounded enemies, as these, when they can do no more, bite the legs of the Spaniards. The Emperor of Morocco has offered large prizes to those of his soldiers who should take guns. This explains their wild and obstinate attacks against the artillerymen. Several Spanish officers have already been pro moted on the field of battle. THE TVEST INDIA, PACIFIC, AND PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Parana, Commander T. A. Bevis. from St. Thomas's, Dec. 3, put into the Sound this morning short of fuel, bound to Southampton. Her dates are Greytown, Nov. 16; Belize, 18; Santa Martha, 23; Colon, 23; Berbice, 24; George town, Demerara, 25; Carthagena, Tobago, and Tri nidad, 26; Jamaica, Grenada, Carriacou, and St. Vincent's, 27; Hayti and Barbadoes, 28; St. Lucia, Martinique, and Guadaloupe, 29; Porto Rico, Do minica, Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St. Kitt's, 30th; Tortola, Dec. 1; and St. Thomas's, Dec. 3. Her cargo includes 178 serons of cochineal, 60 serons of indigo, 3 cases of cigars, 156 bales of bark, 186 bags of cocoa, 5 bales of hats, and 270 bags of mineral ore. The specie and bullion brought are valued at 747,399 dols.—viz., across the Isthmus, in gold, 189,222 dols.; silver, 539,465 dols. ; Carthagena, 3,683 dols. ; Jamaica, 7,240; and the West Indies, 7,789 dols. Among her 61 passengers are 36 first-class, in chiding Assistant-Commissary-General Blane, from Trinidad ; the Rev. Mr. Rawle, from Barbadoes ; and Lieutenants Campbell and Bushe, from Colon. Her Majesty's ships Styx and Atalanta were at Barbadoes, the Arachne at Venezuela, the Cossack at St. Domingo, the Indus at Bermuda, and the Imaum and Basilisk at Jamaica. The Royal Mail Company's steamships Derwent, Captain West, from Trinidad, and Wye, Captain Thwaites, were at Jamaica ; the Medway, Captain Holt, was down the Main ; the Trent, Captain Woolcott, was in the Gulf. The Clyde, Captain Heeman, from Madeira ; the Conway, Capt. Ham mack, from the Islands ; the Teviot, Capt. Gillis, from Jamaica ; the Thames, Captain Lewis, from the Spanish Main, and the Solent, Captain Wood. ward, were at St. Thomas's. In Chili the excitement caused by the late dis turbances continued unabated, but no further out breaks had occurred. The damage done by the earthquake at Copiapo is estimated at 1,500,000 dols. On the 31st of October a fire destroyed consider able property at Valparaiso. It broko out in the Calle de la Planchada. The principal sufferers were Besson Brothers, Ajacio Brothers, Manuel and Co., M. Martineau, the Hotel de France, J. V. Sanchez, and Dickson, Harker, and Co. The accounts from Peru are unfavourable ; there is every prospect of the countrybeing soon involved both in a foreign and civil war. The troßbles between the State of Ecuador and Peru appear to be drawing to a crisis. On the 7th General Castilla sailed from Payta for Guayaquil, with nearly 10,000 men and 14 vessels of war, in tending to invade the country. The next advices will probably bring intelligence of an engagement. Captain Grenfell, of her Majesty's ship Ame thyst, has seized two Mexican cotton-laden ships, and has threatened to take more if Mr. Allsop, the British Consul at Tepic, is not immediately released by Conorado and Rosas. Senor Don Placido Vega; the Governor of Sinaloa, professes to have no means of inducing those Generals to comply with Captain Grenfell's demand. Business at Jamaica has latterly been much re stricted, through the meagre supply of American stuffs. Supplies of produce have been limited, and the markets in consequence are very quiet. The coffee plant has not yet recovered from the effects of the protracted rains. Jamaica is healthy. Occasional showers have fallen at Barbadoes. The crops are good. A strong force of yeomanry cavalry is enrolled. In the island of St. Lucia a slight earthquake was experienced on the 17th of November. No damage was done. The canes were looking well. The Legislative Assembly at St. George's, Gre nada, has made application to the home Govern ment for some soldiers of the line to be garrisoned there. The Marion Moore, from Calcutta, with 375 im migrants, arrived at Georgetown, Guiana, on the 23d of November; the Henry Moore, with 359 statute adults, returning emigrants, sailed for Ma dras a few days previously. They left with their agent 35,982 dols. The crops at Trinidad are much improved, but trade is dull and freights are lower. At Demerara the weather had been fine, and the planters were busily occupied gathering the crop, which this year is much retarded by continued rains. The produce, notwithstanding, may exceed the average. St. Thomas's continues to suffer severely from the effects of yellow fever, which has caused many deaths among the shipping. Her Majesty' ship Gladiator, which coaled and left on the 10th of November, proceeded as far as St. Kitt's, where the fatal disease appeared, and she landed four men. Two days after other cases occurred off Tortola, and one man died. She re turned to Bermuda with 22 cases. Assistant- Surgeon G. H. 13ellringer fell a victim. The Gladiator has left Bermuda for Halifax. The Parana put four men into hospital at St. Thomas's, and has lost one mar, Edmund Woodruff, since. Several of the crew suffered severely. She expe rienced strong hendvvinds and heavy seas all the passage home. On the 10th inst. she spoke the ship Essex, homeward bound. A T SEAHAM.—A murder. SHOCKING M URDER under painful circumstances, is currently reported to have taken place at Se a rt t lin a m on Saturday night or Sunday morn-. that inge It is said par ty of pitmen were drinking in °Re of the public-houses of the town, when a quarrel ensued between one of them and a couple of young women of the company. Th e w omen, it is said , followed him out, and again attacking the drunken pitman, battered his skull in, and left him helpless near the sea beach. They were seen leaving him, and on the body of the pitman being found on Sunday morn ing, inquirywas made into the circumstances, and the two your women haVe been apprehended. The names g h e parties are known, but till the whole case be ex °i t am . ined it is not prudent to be more particular.—Setecastle Chionicle. THREE FlRES.—Yesterday morning, about two o'clock, considerable alarm was caused in the neighbour. hood of Trafalgar-square, in consequence of a fire breaking out in the Union Club-house, but owing to the timely arrival of the firemen, the flames were soon extinguished. Another fire took place at the residence of the Rev. J. P. M. Halvey, 14, Upper Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor -square, • causal' by the overhea4g, a stove in the next house. For tunately, the fire was soon subdued. A fire on the pre mises of Mr. J. Giles, hat maker, 74, Great Suffolk-street, Borough, burned the shop and stock. The firemen managed to confine the flames to the lower part of the house. Some excitement prevailed yesterday, in consequence of its being suppoecd that the whole of the marriage certificates and other church records had been destroyed in the fire which consumed the church of St. Matthew the previous day. The firemen, upon cooling the ruins, found two immense iron safes, and upon opening them the whole of the registers, books, and documents, with the sacramental plate, although the saf:s were exposed to enormous heat for hours, had not sustained the least injury, SPAIN AND MOROCCO. (From the Times' Special Correspondent) ALGESIRAS, DEC. 10. I have just come over here from Gibraltar and find, to my great annoyance, that there is no getting across the Straits to-day. I shall cross to-morrow by the mail boat, and hope to send you by the following post details of some fighting which took place yesterday in front of Ceuta. The Moors, it appears, notwithsta n di ng the bad weather, beat up the Spaniard's quarters early yesterday morning, and a combat ensued which lasted the greater part of the day—at least, I am assured by persons who left Ceuta yesterday at 3 p.m. that firing was still going on at that hour. In official quarters I learn that the Moors were ulti mately completely repulsed. Authentic particu- Lars of the affair arc still wanting, and it is unsafe to attach credit to the rumours and Loose statements that reach us from various sources, and many of which have certainly no foun dation save in the imagination of the narrators. Moreover, within 24 hours, or little more, I hope to send you particulars gathered upon the spot in the most reliable quarters. The affair is said to have begun at half-past 5 in the morning, before day b:reak-, that is to say, by the Moors surrounding and nearly annihilating a Spanish outlying picket. Con , cc rning the progress of the conflict we have no con- Tie cted account, but we are told that a movement was made by which some hundred Moors were cut off, wl.io remained upon the field. A person who left CE uta at 3 p.m. yesterday affirms that at that hour an other body of the enemy was hemmed in between th e sea and a strong Spanish force, and must ulti mately have surrendered, been slain, or driven into th e water. This, however, requires confirmation. A ne phew of General O'Donnell is said to have been badly wounded, some accounts say killed, when c'l..arging with some cavalry, and two Lieutenant- C olonels are reported to have been killed or ao ounded. Iby no means vouch for the accuracy of kese details, which I give subject to correction in nu next letter. The atmosphere of the Straits of ibraltar has a strongly magnifying power, and CI kings that are very small at Ceuta assume moun t idnous proportions by the time they reach the S:panish coast or Gibraltar Rock. Thus, on my ar x4val at the latter place three days ago I was told most positively of a very serious fight that had oc- mired on the 2d inst. My past letters will have s'E town you that nothing of the kind took place. I n i ay find to-morrow morning, at Ceuta, that yester d Ety's affair was much more trifling than it has been represented. The story here goes that 10,000 Moors a• t tacked. The Moors in Gibraltar were in great g lee this morning, and had a notion that the S poniards had been thrashed, but the news of the M 3 tting off of the pickets was all that seemed to h Ave reached them. lam impatient to learn how tlie Spaniards behaved in the first confusion of a n ight attack:• If they showed coolness and avoided panic, it is a great thing on the part of troops so new to this kind of warfare. But, meanwhile, this is not making progress. The Spaniards seam rather in the position of a besieged force. Tbluy can certainly move out when they please, and drive back the enemy, if they choose to sacrifice men for a moment of barren tri , (mph, but theii they return to their lines, and the' Moors, when they choose, can pounce upon their advanced post and put the whole camp under arms. I: find upon inquiry that there was exaggeration in rihe reports current at Gibraltar, and which I me ntioned as on dits in my last letter, respecting the damage experienced by the French squadron in tale attack on Fort Martino. It appears to have beem very trifling, and the casualties were confined, Ia (a assured to one man wounded. On the other ham d, the distance at which the ships were com pelled to remain, owing to the shallowness of the water, induces a doubt whether much damage was don's to the Moors. From a French and trustworthy source I learn that, the loss by cholera of the French expedition aga inst the Morocco tribes, now terminated, amoun ted to no less than 4,000 men. This is of evil omen for the Spaniards. It is stated, however, that the cholera is making great ravages among the Moors. If it. has broken out among them, their Want of proper medical attendance will be likely to render it fa.tal in a large proportion of cases. AI the last moment, before closing this hasty lettar, I receive information from an officer who came from Ceuta last night, which confirms my suspticion that the fight of yesterday has been much exaggerated. The attack of the Moors seers to have: been made against the principal redoubt, tho posy ession of which they evidently greatly covet. It is' said that only one division of the Spaniards was engaged belonging to the Second Corps, which lately relieved the First Corps on the advanced line.. The Spanish loss "in killed and wounded is estimated at less than 250, including, however, a larg e propprtion of officers. A letter from the seat of war says —"A second lettecr has reached me concerning the battle of the 30th, which it seems- was still more bloody thah that s of the 25th. The M oors , as usual, ati.acked the !ipanish troops. General Pchague hEiving been wou;:dded in the previous engagement, General Gasskt took his place. lie advanced at the head of the ;divisions 'composing the vanguard, and sus tain.ad during two hours the rush of the Moors. These were at last repulsed with a heavy loss. It appears that the Moors think it more disgraceful to Bm-render than to run away. When they per ceivo that it is useless to fight any longer they re treat withgreat precipitation ; but should they be absOutely • unable to make 'a retreat they either perilh by the Spanish bayonets or stab each other. It is fruitless for the Spanish officers to ask them repc:a.tedly to give up their arms and remain still; they obstinately refuse such proposals. It is gene rally- thought among the Spaniards that the reason of sv.,ch behaviour is their firm belief that their ene rniew 'will not spare them in any case, and that they LITERATURE. Try and _rot,' 11 7 /77. A Story tier Youth. By Mr Hart. With eight Cbloureil Engravings. Tegg. That enterprising publisher, Mr. Tegg, is now issuing a very excellent series of gift books for the young. Very elegant in appearance, and illustrated with brilliantly coloured engravings, they are likely to captivate the juvenile reader at first sight; and, from the interesting nature of their contents, they are calculated to become permanent favourites on a longer acquain tance. The new volume now happily issued as a Christmas book is a favourable specimen of the series. Its title indicates its significant purpose— " Try and you Will." Never despair—never draw back at the sight of difficulties, do not abandon the good cause at the outset through cowardice or the fear of failure. Will with all your might and act with all your energy, and the forlorn hope will scale the citadel—the Goliath will fall before a sling and a pebble stone. Such is the admirable and encouraging lesson, very admirably and effectively set forth by Mrs. lart. Tier story has about it, in its manner and details, the charm of freshness and the merit of originality. We will not spoil its interest by an epitome of its plot ; let us rather commend Charles Gilbert, the backward school boy, and afterwards the energetic and successful man, to the emulation of many a school-boy now home for the holidays, who rejoices to escape from his lessons—who "can't" get on with this, and "won't" take any trouble with that, and promises to reward the anxieties of his friends by a youth of idleness and a life of disappointment. Let any such peruse this enthralling history, and, encouraged by the ex ample before them, take up its motto, and Try ! Many others, girls and boys, will pass a pleasant hour reading this charming history and admiring its highly-coloured pictures. Let their friends only gi-re them the chance. Let them " try," and we doubt not they " will" like it ! THE WEAK POINT IN ENGLAND'S CUIRASS. A " Hertfordshire Incumbent," in a letter to a contemporary, says :—The importance which the question of the Suez Canal appears to have assumed —induces me to request the insertion in your paper of a few remarks on the scheme of M. Lesseps, which, after all that has been said and done, pro bably not a hundred Englishmen qualified to form a judgment on the matter have up to this time taken the trouble to examine for themselves. An impression has been formed abroad, and per haps confirmed by the unguarded language of some of our leading statesmen, that the existence of the ship canal is in itself thought prejudicial to British interests, and advantage has been taken of this de lusion to place us in a most invidious light in the eyes of other nations. But, if there has been any jealousy of the matter in England, it has certainly not arisen from the belief that a seaway through Egypt, which, if it could be excavated and kept open, would be traversed by four British ships for one of every other country, could possibly be detri mental either to our interests or our influence. Unhappily this proposed ship canal has to be carried through a desert where neither food nor water for the excavators is procurable, and, accord ingly, M. Lesseps's scheme contemplates as a pre liminary the execution of another work of at least equal magnitude. This consists in the intercepting a considerable portion of the water of the Nile near Cairo, for the purpose of forming an auxiliary fresh water canal, which, besides irrigating and fertilising an enormous area of barren land, is to throw off two principal branches, the one running north-eastwards, the other south-westwards, towards the extremities of the future ship canal. These branches are to be utilised in supplying pot able water and furnishing the means of transport ing provisions for the workmen employed in cutting the great canal. It would not become me to speak of the special engineering facilities or difficulties which may exist for this preliminary step. But it is as well to point out one feature of the plan which has not been put prominently forward in any of the discussions which have taken place. The works are to be executed by forced labour at a fixed price, the Viceroy of Egypt guaranteeing whatever number of native workmen the engineers of the company may require, both (if I understand M. Lesseps aright) for the completion of this auxiliary fresh -water canal system and for that of the great ship canal, which latter alone has been taken up as a topic for discussion in the news papers. Now, the auxiliary canals will extend to a length much more than double that of the ancient canal of Neco, in excavating which 120,000 native workmen perished. What are we to expect when to this task the ship canal is also added ? The native population of Egypt is probably at this mo ment not one-fifth of what it was in the time of the Pharoahs ; if, therefore, the scheme be forced on in its present shape, under the a u th or it y o f a ll th e great continentafPowers, it will simply amount to placing the directors of M. Lesseps's company in a position to disorganize at their pleasure the whole labour system of the country, and to oblige the Viceroy to aid them in the creation of this anarchy on pain of physical compulsion by the new quadri partite alliance. If any resistance to the scheme on the part of the British Government has been con fined to the demand of security against sueh a result as this, the charge of selfishness whi c h h as b een made against England will recoil upon its authors. Our lively neighbours have much the advantage of us in quickness of apprehension and -vividness of imagination ; but, unfortunately, these very qua lities render them peculiarly liable to be carried away by enthusiasm for any unpractical scheme if pretending to the character of vastness. Of the great engineering works of the last 30 years exactly the most useless have most excited the admiration of the French public, for among them the palm was decidedly borne off by the Thames Tunnel—a sub ject of quite as passionate interest at the time it was constructed as the Suez Canal is now, but which has since been most truly described by some Persian princes who visited it as " a device for making ships pass over the heads of the people." The canal of M. Lesseps, should it ever be executed, will elicit from some ladji returning from Mecca a f similar description. description. It will probably remain open o o satruc half the number of years occupied tion. The predominance of westeirnllyidtsarnieenwohritohh westerly winds produces a continual will rapidly choke up its Mediterranean )o a werfiil and inland an influence only less blo i wn by the same exercised by the movingmweinllthbe; force winds insuperableo ve r the surface of l h thessand resources,desert. the b y engineer a herwil will career last e o r ogfnature in anth will halfl 1 turye marsh w a n dering tribes camping_ ive desolation,up the e a e n n d t : a new legend wil a t m he on re g od th y roundspri spring about nl will be said, inspired by an un controllable the Giaours, which will mark the line of the canal. Four Kings passion it for shooting (as Nimrod of old determined to convert the whole for the chase), this view they obtained by, space between In etwo seas into an enormous peli can preserve. indeed, their task effectually, as every man magi cal arts the services of a crew of Gins, who per formed may behold, but at the same time devoured all the young men of the land of Egypt to give diem strength for their gigantic task. Such will be the m ythical form of the history of the grea t S uez Canal. INFANTICIDE AT HACKNEY. Last night Mr. John Humphreys, the coroner for East Middlesex, resumed and concluded a protracted inquiry at the Queen Eleanor Tavern, Church path, Mare-street, Hackney, respecting the death of a newly-horn female child, the illegitimate offspring of Ann Green, a servant in the employ of Mr. Geo. Rance, proprietor of the above-named house. Inspector Bywater, of the N division, Hackney, was in attendance to watch the case on the part of the Police Commissioners ; and the accused was in the infirmary of the Hackney Union, under the surveillance of the police of the district. It appeared from the voluminous testimony that on the morning of the 9th inst., the female Green, who had been four years in her situation, was found ill in her bed lily her mistress, who sent for her own medical adviser. Mr. Roper, the surgeon, of High street, Shoreditch, promptly attended, and saw the accused in bed. He examined her, and was of opinion that she had recently given birth to an infant. The accused admitted the fact, and under the bed was found a bundle, which was handed to the medical gentleman, :who unfastened the covering, and discovered the dead body of a fe male infant. There was a ligature round the neck, and the covering consisted of an apron. The liga ture round the throat was a piece of ribbon, tied in a loose knot. The face was livid, and the tongue protruied from the mouth. There was a bruise oven• the left eye, and the hands were clenched. The umbilical cord. had been torn and lacerated. Evidence having been offered proving that the apron and the ribbon which formed the ligature belonged to the accused, The Coroner proceeded to sum up the testimony of the several witnesses, when he read over the de positions at length, and after the inquest-room had been cleared of strangers for a quarter of an hour, The jury unanimously agreed to a verdict of " Wilful murder." The Coroner then made out his warrant for the committal of the accused to Newgate, to take her trial at the ensuing sessions of the Central Criminal Court. The several witnesses were also bound over to prosecute. THE AMERICAN MAILS VIA QUEENS- TO IFA'V A resolution is at present before the Cork Har bour Board to the following effect :—" Any of the companies which are at present using Cork as a port of call shall have the privilege of landing cargoes without charge, but any other company doing so for the future shall be charged dues in the regular way." As the Canadian steamers, when they . com mence to call at Queenstown, will come within the latter category, Messrs. Allen have pro tested again• st such a distinction. But it is evident that, witlient the new arrangement for " accelerating" t he mails works better than it has hitherto done, the merean• tile community will imperatively demand its reci sion, and our Cork friends will be saved the trouble of further debate on the subject. The idea of acce lerating the mail is very plausible, but can it be carried out with any regularity ? We give the first glaring instance of failure. The Canada landed her mails at Queenstown at two p.m. on IVlonday, and reached the Mersey next day, at half-past 10 a.m., but, to the intense indignation and the great inconvenience of the large number of firms in terested . in the American trade, no letters were delivered 111 Liverpool and London until Wednesday morning, too late for them to reply by the steamers saili▪ ng that day for New York and Canada. H a d the Canada not touched at Queenstown she would ha ye arrived some hours earlier. Without a steamer constantly in readiness at Queenstown, and special trains again at Holyhead and Chester, vro . shall be in a similar predicament five times out of six. Even if three or four hours can be gained (of which we are very dubious), is the result worth the _ enormous expense the necessary preparations entail? We see that one of the members of the Mahon! Board complained that on Saturday week the mail special steamer from Liverpool was detained at Queens town for the mails from England. Pas sen g ers will not like this. We say decidedly that the Queenstown arrangement will prove a to t al fai▪ lure, and we advise the mercantile community to protest against their being sacrificed by Go vernment for Irish interests only. It was WO' tam• ed that many passengers would join the steamer° at Queenstown, and thereby avoid the Ch annel disagreeables. But they don't ; although, th rou g h being compelled to call at Queenstown, the 110 11 steamers have too frequently to wrestle with S.:" . • gales, when they might avoid them by going " north about." Formerly, when a steamer was despatched from the Mersey, direct with t he , American mails, every merchant was on an ego' footing. Now, if a man has no scruples working on the Sabbath., he can send his clients a day's later advices than the man who transacts 110 grape business on that day. This matter requires g rape consideration.—Liverpool Albion. about STATE OF TRADE. LZEDS, Dec. 20.—The weather is very chill and cold, and therefore unfavourable to business opera tions. This circumstance, combined with the feet that commercial transactions are not usually very numerous about Christmas, will easily account for the quiet state of the cloth-market this morning. There was, indeed, only a limited attendance of both merchants and manufacturers at the halls, and a very small quantity of g oods were disposed o f . The trade, however, presents most of the true in dications of health and soundness The manufac turers generally have ample orders on hand, col ployment is plentiful, with ever y prospect of its continuing so for some time to come, and there is no fear but the productions of the manufacturers will meet with a ready sale in the warehouses in due course. MANCHESTER, 20th.—We have had a very, quLe.t yarn-market, and p r i ces are d o wn fully Id. p er for counts and qualities suitable to the markets o India and Germ an y. H ome t r ade and Bolto n s P il r nings are still firm, and a fair business is reported; Two-fold yarns are also still firm. A fair busines i N s ie r d e i p te o r r r t a e h d ea in h. low la nu e m lo b th e a rs t o h f er h e ar i d a twist for quiet market fabrics suited to India, with less dis position to purchase, and these goods are quoitede d. less as regards shirtings, making a total dec her from the late highest rates of 3d. per piece. Ot e s_ goods, such as the better qualities of printers, domen tics, longcloths, and T-cloths, for the borne trade a value.a for export, arc much the same as before as to There is a generally quieter market, a v the eri these goods, as in others, only they are firrn,e, r , rhe price. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report : u demand for India goods has within the last few' days become very inactive, and there being'a greater desire on the part of producers to sell, prices are some what irregular. There is, however. very little business doing in them, the low Price! offered being generally declined. Longcloths and however, 17,1 T-cloths are still in fair request, without change prices; iII but printers are less inquired for, an d the late extreme rates are no longer obtained." ROCHDALE, 19th.—The near approach of Christ mas time renders trade rather inanimate, but stocks are very low, and the tone of busine ss is firm. There was very little wool sold to -da y , and p rices are without change. In flannel there is not much doing. The Yorkshire trade continues good. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AND EXPLOSION. ----.-__ of a serious nature as r egards the amo unt o f t p u o fortunately not atten ded with any fatal results, broke out about 4 o'clock on A Dublin paper says :—" A fire, whiuchalh or- g perty destroyed, was h Gas Company, Great Brunswick-street. So .. tained with certainty, it was owing t o Monday morning in the works of the Hibernian Gas the origin of the conflagration has been ascer tained frost which has prevailed for some severe causing the hoops of injured past taini n g gas-tar to burst witahoulatrgaenytanpkrevciooon-0 warning of their being in an condition , and the tank gave way completely on all sides, t he tar rushing out in a torrent and covering the ground for a considerable space to a depth of about three feet. The retort-house was speedily invaded , and here the fluid mass, it is supposed, first caught fire. The alarm was communicated by the fore man of the works to the manager in a few minutia after the flames were first observed, and he et once despatched messengers for the different fire-engines. Before the arrival of any suc h assistance, however, the fire had extended to and seized hold of two of the large gas-holders , which contained a large supply of eas intended for the requirements of the day, and these both exploded in a surprisingly short time afterwards. There was a plentiful supply of water obtained from the basis that tho engines of the canal, but owin to the severe frost, it W as with the utmost difficulty were worked. If there was a cessation of even a few all' nutes in the w or ki ng o f an eng i ne, the appar atus be came so clog ge d w i t h i ce that the a i d o f h o t w ater was found necessary to bring it into working o rder again, and th e police engine became so frequenPY inoperative from this cause that in the end it haat° be supplied with a continuous stream of hot water , with which it did most effective service. A store; house, containing. 4,000 tons of coal, was for s ome time in great d anger , b ut, ow i ng t o the skill and vigour with which the engines were directe d and worked, all m eans o f communication between the burning m ass an d thi s building w ere at len s F r : successfully cut off. In additi o n to the difficuolT usually attendant upo n a gre at fire, the w e l ; men had to contend with others et . al tremely unple asan t nature—the density t i3 f the being smoke and the stench of the burning ta r so great and overpowering that a. n able. change of hands was found it'd' s .' ens holm Several of the firemen and others upon w -- • to time jets of water were thrown from time were quickly covered with a shining sc ale-work milli' of ice, while numbers, including many of th e tary, were covered with a more disagreeable coatienf of tar. Fortunately, no injury whatever was ! es, frequent tamed by the working department of the premis _ some public inconvenience may be occasioned by or any portion of the machinery; and although announced that any such inconvenience will be In the large destruction of gas, the company _hall; the most temporary duration. The value o f the pro perty destroyed (which was not insured) has not yet been ascertained, but it is supposed that it must amount to several thousand pounds. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.—A_ Limerick cor respondent of the Evening Moil writes :—" Pallas-green , Sunday Night.—The mysterious disappearance of Mr. Hugh Massy O'Grady, of Castlegardo, in the county of Limeri6k, is creating great uneasiness in tho minds of his family and friends. The missing gentleman left this station (Pallas) on Thursday night, the Bth inst., without any luggage, for the Limerick Junct ion, whence he proceeded to I)blin on business of a pressing nature. 1 -10 arrived in Dublin on Friday last, at half-past 4 a.m. , and it would appear that he returned hero by the 1 o'clo ck train the same day (Friday), for his greatcoat and travelling rug were found, shortly after the arrival of the train, by the police near the station ; and a farmer alleges he across th fields towards Castlegardo, which is no more that two miles from the Pallas station. Since that time every inquiry has been sot on foot by the police and his friends, and the peasantry of the neighbourhood , by whom heiwas greatly beloved but I deeply regret that, up to the present, no tidings have been received. Hundreds of the peasantry were engaged all this day searching the country and dragging tho rivers, &c. Mr. O'Grady had been for some time Pre: viously seriously unwell and under medical treatment, snit latterly he had been very muc h de p ressed in mind, an' somewhat strange in his manner. Mr. Massy O'Grady 110 greatly respected in the county of Limerick, of which was to have been High Sheriff for the ensuing., year. H© le also connected with the principal families of the countYs being a nephew of the late Viscount Guillamore and tb late Lord Massy. He w as married about two years since, and has an infant son." Rr M Of Is l e t, e 4'4 30 0 11' e Ka o thYazi , 0 tte rte tO 1 41 144 0 1 1 )lo r t 4 4 1, to jai h gar 14=.1)( is poi Wit a v and ball and bibi Max Peel neg . eon) accc port very tollf latii are W 11( Ti pri ',er a Price and 58•;, how ( C oun Stoat berli Per 6%, , Qutia , bit uitte , f 'O7lRO 411dia ~1)It1 tcho Ditto Dat t l to: 111041 P o , hard.. Nr west; k; . 1% , .L tip .tita Ar th A ‘1:11), thi; , o io T n "ort to he" t o w t4Pe