The Sun. — London, England, 1858-12-17 00:00:00

• WLNTER. —NO GENTLEMAN during the' Winter should be without one of MACDOTIGALL'S FAMOUS HIGHLAND CLOAKS, Universally acknowledged to be the most comfortable , useful, and gentlemanly upper Garment now in use, either o r Town wear, or the Rail, the Coach, Riding,-Driving, and Walking. They are made of Scotch Tweeds i every . variety of Plain Colours, and very pretty Mixtures: also in dark Grey and Black, foriClergymen's wear. Good useful qualities from.... 265. to 365. The best do. d 0..... 38s. to 50s. The Height and Size round Shoulders is sufficient measure. Patterns and price per post, free. Any number of Cloaks forwarded in four days from date of order, free to London. D. MACDOUGALL, THE ROYAL TARTAN WAREHOUSE. INVERNESS. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN, under the sole Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harnson.—The public are respectfully in formed that this new and elegant Theatre will be OPENED for the first ENGLISH OPERA SEASON on MONDAY, Dec. 20, when will be presented an entirely new and original Opera, by Mr. W. Balfe, entitled SATANELLA ; or, THE POWER OF LOVE. Playhouse prices. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENDapkvill be presented Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. C. Kean ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. C. Keaa. Preceded by a new Farce, in one act, entitled THIRTY-THREE NEXT BIRTHDAY. ►THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING will be performed a new Comedy, THE TIDE OF TIME. Messrs. Buckstone, Chippendale ac. ; Mesdames Reynolds and Poynter. A new Spanish Ballet, THE INFLUENCE OF GRACE to which Perea Nena will appear. THE TOODLES. Sir Wm. Don, Bart. And A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE SAVAGE. After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. WOOING IN JEST AND LOVING IN EARNEST : Miss Swanborough. And THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. Commence at 7 o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with the successful gorgeous Spectacle of THE REVOLT IN THE EAST ; •r, The Fugitives and their Faithful Steed : concluding with a Grand National and Allegorical Tableaux. After which SCENES IN THE ARENA, introducing Mr. W. Cooke, and his beautiful horses, Mr. Runnels, Madame Blanche, Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Fleurette, and the first male and female equestrians in the world. - - Dress Circle, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is, ; Galleries, 6d. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.-- Proprietor --C. MORTON. The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW OPEN DAY AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12 o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec tion of - Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also" devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist ing Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether as• regards the architectural beauty of the structures them selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the Kingdom. The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT CODIRICIICCS as usual at Seven o'clock. In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied instrumental performances have created so marked a sensa tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will perform every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, DEC. 17. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 43—highest since noon yesterday. 39—lowest this naorning and during the night. 41—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.98—falling. WIND, South-Easterly; light, with dull weather. ( Cc' le , „ '`v • et , jts • e l .„ ti tt s • ' • • THE SUN. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 17, 1858. Mr. BRIGHT has certainly reason to complain of unfairness when he is asked to produce at once his bill, with all its clauses complete. A great professed leader of public opinion taunts him with telling immense assemblies nothing more than we all knew before, and wants to know why we have not the clauses and schedules of the BRIGHT Reform Bill complete. Now, we can assign plenty of good reasons why. JOHN BRIGHT must be a man far less wise or shrewd than we or any one else takes him to be, if he were to be moved by such taunts as these. Very fairly, he is quite con tent with ato quoque answer. Here is the Times writing every day, and writing on Reform, too, and as yet it bas never got beyond the most vague suggestions, such as those presented via voce the other day at Kidderminster on the subject. How is ft that we have not already had the Times' Reform Bill ? Can the reply be—lt is ours to criticise only, not to construct ? but how can a critic criticise fairly who has not some fair con ception of the right on the subject he criticises ? The truth is, that at present no one wants details. We want to settle principles first. Mr. BRIGHT wants to take the sense of the country as to the principles on which he would arrange his bill; having done this he will be in the position of the House of Commons when it orders a bill to be brought in, founded on resolutions whichithas already passed. In any case the hon. member for Kidderminster and the Tories are the last parties in the world to complain of Mr. BRIGHT for not giving them the details of the bill. How can they tell yet that her Majesty's Government may not agree with him in many of its most important provisions. He will certainly wait till he sees what they propose to offer to the people. He also remembers something about the folly of casting pearls before swine. The meeting at Edinburgh, like that at Man chester, gives the lie to all the allegations of the people's want of interest in the Reform ques tion. Indeed, it does so more completely, for the Edinburgh folk had not, like vast numbers at Manchester, any special interest in Mr. BRIGHT ; yet the meeting was crowded almost to suffocation, and three or four times as many went away as could gain admission. Again, Mr. BRIGHT spoke with unusual moderation and propriety. He had no crotchets. He is addressing his vigorous busi- Mess mind to practical objects, and we must confess we have never read any of his speeches of late years with so much pleasure as these on reform. There is unusual absence of dogmatism, and, we may add, corresponding force of argument. " Our measure (he says) shall be moderate in its strength, but it shall be irresistibly strong in its moderation." And this tone of feeling pervades all his views and arguments. He is desirous to be fair to all parties, to the House of Peers itself as well as to the people—to the counties as well as to the boroughs. He justly conceives, however, that the people are the party who have not yet had fair play in the representation. Mr. BRIGHT contends that he is but carrying eut the principles of the Reform Bill of 1832, " less individual influence, less of the influence of small classes, more of that; general influence and power which in every time eountry must rest upon the great body oif the people." He objects wisely, as we tb k. - .;nk, to new electoral divi sions, and woul d content himself with disfranchisements af!,:er the manner of the old Re form Bill, and enfral 2 chisements of new places, with additional members• to large constituencies. To the counties he does not seem disposed to give more representatives. H I would add to their present electors the 400,000-• .additional voters which Mr. LOCKE KING'S motion would give ; and he showed, by an obviously correct calculation, what we know to be true in point of fact, that the £lO householder in the county must be a man of £5O a year rental. When, however, the county franchise is thus extended, and extended with the protection of the Ballot, the county constituencies would be as popular and independent as those of the towns. Mr. BRIGHT, however, points to the House of Lords, and asks, what do they represent—them selves only, or the counties in which their immense estates are situate ? If the former, then the in quiry is forced on us, what right have some 400 persons to set themselves, whenever they see fit, against the wish of the whole nation, as expressed by its representatives? The Crown has long sur rendered all pretensions to veto the demands of the nation ; it has not rejected a bill for perhaps 150 years. Can it be tolerated that the Lords, if they represent themselves only, should assume this power, as they did lately for instance, for years together, in regard to the Jew Bill—the House of Commons having, moreover, no kind of control over them, as they have over the Crown by stopping the supplies. But if the Lords represent the landed estates of the county, what becomes of the demand for more representa tives for the counties ? Mr. BRIGHT has certainly given Mr. NEWDEGATE a puzzle which he will not easily find a key to. The less the landlords say about defective county representation the better, ▪ unless they are prepared to discuss at the same ' time some radical change in regard to the House rf Lords. The extraordinary enterprise displayed by the Atlantic Telegraph Company renders it, we cannot but think, exceptional—entitles it, we still con ceive, to more than ordinary consideration on the part of the Government. Hitherto that remark able enterprise has been baulked by means of a most untoward casualty. An apparently irrepar able flaw in the cable actually laid down between Valentia and Newfoundland closed the electric in tercourse between the New and the Old World within a week or two from the date of its esta blishment along the bed of the vast ocean sepa rating the two hemispheres. That intercourse, it cannot very speedily be forgotten, was wonderfully established for an interval, so that the opposite shores of the Atlantic were literally brought into all but instantaneous communication. The feasibility of this hitherto fabulous and even, when accomplished, scarcely less than miraculous project —its practicability (if not its permanence) was distinctly and practically demonstrated. Until then it was no more than a splendid day-dream. But after those magical needles had simultaneously vibrated by means of the connecting thread of two thousand miles of wire submerged in the Atlantic, that glorious day-dream was actually realised. Granted that the marvel continued in working order during only a comparatively brief interval—during that interval it was incontestibly in operation. Rapidly though the time passed away, it was still sufficient to afford proof positive that the wondrous feat could actually be ac complished. For that—England and Canada, rather it should be said Europe and America, all the nations of the earth civilized, and uncivilized, are beholden to the enterprise of the adventurous, and seemingly to many doubtless, at the onset, merely visionary association. The Atlantic Telegraph Company, though they have failed as yet to connect the two hemispheres permanently—though they lost a fragment of a cable b at the first venture and the whole of the cable at the second venturc—baN e established incontestibly the fact that the New World and the Old World can be, simply because they hare been, brought together by means of elec trio-telegraphic intercommunication. It is ungenerous and ungrateful, we think, at this stage to insist that the Atlantic Telegraph Corn• pany ought to be placed in the same category with all other companies that may from this time forth be organised for the laying down of submarine cables. It is invidious, moreover—it is even mean— to argue that if any one Telegraphic Company ought to be encouraged by a direct guarantee from Goverxment, that company ought to be the one having for its aim the establishment of a line of electric intercourse eastwards and not westwards—to the Indian Peninsula, and not to the North American Continent. While we heartily concur with those who, upon principles deprecate the notion of submarine tele graphs generally being subsidised by the State, we are yet prepared. to insist upon the advisability, to say' the very least of it, of making the trail of the first permanent cable to North America and the trail of the first permanent cable to Hindostan great and resplendent exceptions. It does certainly appear to us that there is ample justification for this double plea under the circumstances. Recol lect, for example, in regard to the former enter prise, that the first grand sub-oceanic cable ever attempted to be laid down is this very one which has already been submerged, and for a while suc cessfully, by the Atlantic Telegraph Company. The enterprise here, in its way, was as entirely without precedent as the immortal enterprise of the first American navigator. Voyages of discovery had been made before COLUMBUS-but never before, such a voyage as that ! Submarine cables had been submerged before the one laid down between Va lentin and Newfoundland—but none before that one in any degree comparable. The first attempt on that occasion was a failure, by reason of the stormy weather and the snapping asunder of the electric cable shortly after it had begun to be paid out into the depths of the Atlantic. The second attempt was a failure later on—it was a failure only after it had been a brilliant and unparalleled success—after messages had thrilled to and fro along the cavernous abysses of the ocean—messages first of all expressive of homage to the SUPREME BEING, and afterwards of goodwill and fellowship between man and man, between nation and nation —signals of peace and courtesy flashing, under all that world of waters, between the American PRE SIDENT and the British SOVEREIGN. " The third is the charm"—the third attempt would, in all human probability, be not only eminently, but pre-eminently successful. Of this we have within our grasp, as it were, substantial gua rantees, in the encouraging and incontrovertible truths established during the first momentarily successful realisation of the undertaking. Every thing combines to satisfy us that there are valid reasons for Government still continuing to act to• wards the Atlantic Telegraph Compaq as one in every respect exceptional. This project is the first attempted to be carried out upon so grand a scale —and as such, until its designs have been fully realised, it is, to our thinking, in a manner entitled to direct encouragement from the State. So also is it, from. a variety of weighty considerations, with reference to the proposed company for the laying down a chain of electric cables in the opposition direction eastwards, instead of westwards—bring ing England into momentary communication with her vast Asiatic possessions. The North American line, and the East Indian line ought both of them, as a matter of prudence and of justice, of economy and magnanimity, to be laid down under the direct encouragement and guarantee of the Government. The former, because, as already intimated, it is the first enterprise of the kind of such magnitude. The latter, because it is the first projected in that direction upon the very morrow of Hindostan being brought under the sway of the British Sovereignty. Afterwards let all other lines of submarine wire be paid out, if you will, by bold, unaided, and perfectly independent speculators. But—until the prac ticability of these undertakings shall have been not merely proved, but securely established—it is but due to our imperial interests that the line eastwards to Hindostan and the line westwards to Newfoundland should be laid down under the direct encouragement, superintendence, and gua rantee of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Government. A cry for Protection has gone forth. The British shipowners declare that they are unable to meet foreign competition, and that unless the Govern ment are prepared to enter on a retrograde policy, they must succumb to the difficulties of their position. They do not apply to Parliament, or appeal to the country. They know that the demand would be worse than useless. Unfortunately, how ever, there is a mode by which the matter may be managed without legislative interference, and they seem to think that Lord DERBY and his col- leagues will consent to be dragged through the mire at their heels. At the time of the repeal of the old Navigation Laws— a matter demanded alike by justice and expedi ency—what was termed " a reciprocrity clause" was very injudiciously inserted. This enabled the Sovereign—without consulting Parliament—to place restrictions on the vessels of any nation that imposed difficulties in the way of British shipping. This was both unfair and unconstitutional—uncon stitutional, as it was, such as divested both Lords and Commons of ,their legitimate functions ; and unfair, because it might have occasioned coßsider .. - able difficulty to future Administrations. Had it not been for this most unwise provision we should have heard nothing of the present agitation, and much futile labour would have been spared to orators, and considerable annoyance to the nation. We should have thought that if there were any class in the community that could fearlessly have engaged in " unrestricted competition," it would have been the shipowners of the United Kingdom. It is true that the thoroughbred English sailor may require better food, kinder treatment, and higher wages than a foreigner ; but if he costs more his services are more valuable, and it is a sound rule that the best article is cheapest in the long run. It is not altogether pure patriotism that now induces the British shipowner to employ his countrymen. He finds that it pays better than hiring men that will consent to be under paid and badly fed, and who cannot be relied on in situations of difficulty or danger. Besides it must be remembered that all classes in the United Kingdom have had their cycles of prosperity and adversity since the passing of the Bank Charter Act. Manufactures have been sus pended, mills and factories closed, merchant princes changed into paupers, and houses of unquestionable solvency, which had stood the test of ages, compelled to suspend payment. 'Why should shipowners hope for any exemption from the general law ? During the wars in the Crimea, in China and in India, there was an extraordinary demand for transports. We believe that it is not too much to say, that in those palmy days the first cost of a vessel was nearly defrayed by her first year's earnings. Then " all went merry as a marriage bell." But when these exceptional circumstances were altered, when the extraordinary traffic in Government stores and troops, which " are not included in the shipping returns of the United Kingdom," is taken into account, it cannot be regarded as matter of astonishment if the large profits so recently ob tained could not still be realised. There has, how ever, been no serious attempt to show that the shipowner does not still receive a fair —nay, more, an ample return fog• the capital invested, or that he could make a better investment than in English ships. It is not a single year that is to be:looked to, but the average of a reasonable number, and whether five or seven years be taken, we believe that the shipowne rs will - find themselves much better off than they would wish the public to believe. It has been said that statistics can be got up in support of almost any proposition. If, for instance, you strike an element from one side of an equation, omitting the corresponding one, there will, of course, be an exec ss. When the increase of foreign shipping in Eng Thai ports is harped on, without any allusion to that of British shipping in foreign ports, it is manirest that there is a fallacy somewhere We have a sincere regard for the maritime inter() sts of Great Britain. We wish well to its enterpria ing shipowners and hardy sea men. But we would tell them that the way to achieve prosperity i s to deserve it, and that they should rather set ti eir own shoulders to the wheel than put forward unavailing petitions to the HERCULES of Down ing-street, whose tasks are suf- ficiently onerous without assuming their burdens, in addition to those which he is compelled to sus- tain. THE PRINCE Of WALES.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales r eached Dover, from Ostend, in the Black Eagle, at 11 o', clock last night. The Prince was received by the naval fit zd military authorities of the port, and conducted to the LI ,rd Warden Hotel, where his royal highness passed the nit ;ht. The Prince left Dover early this morning en route fe r Osborne. The Right Hon:* tajor-General and Lady Alice Peel returned to town ti us day, from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Sail sbury, at Hatfield House. The Duke and Du .chess of Manchester intend to leave Kimbolton Cc Est to for town on Monday next, en route for Germany. The Duchess D 4 r sager of Somerset entertained his Excellency the I , xabassador of France and the Duchess de Malakoff, and a 'elect circle, at dinner, last evening, at her residence in Par k-lane. The Marquis o f Hertford is shortly expected at his mansion, in Mar ichester-square, from Paris. The Earl of M almesbury, who has been staying on a visit to the Ma rquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, at Hatfield, since Mon day last, has gone to join the party visiting the Earl as id Countess of Hardwicke at Wimpole BAHAMAS AND f lAVANNAH.—After the despatch of the packet of the 1 7 th inst. the mails for the Bahamas will be forwarded v a New York,L instead of via St. Thomas, and will be (0 anveyed from New York to Nassau by a branch steam pa cld -et wider contract with her Majesty's Government. The t srt A mail under the new arrangement will be made up at t ;hi 3 Post-office on the evening of the 24th inst. for transir as sion from Liverpool on the following morning by the Be ltir3h mail packet for New York, and subsequent mails will be fontarded from Liverpool on the following days in the year 1859: —Saturday, Jan. 22 ; Saturda .y, Feb. 19 ; Saturday, March 19 ; Saturday, April 16 ; Saturday, May 14 ; Satur day, July 11; Sati irday, July 9 ; Saturday, August 6 ; Saturday, Sept. 3 ; Saturday, Oct. 1; Saturday, Oct. 29 ; Saturday, Nov. 26 ; Saturday, Dec. 24. The branch packet from New York, aft( u• landing the mails at Nassau, will pro ceed to the Havannt A, and letters, &c., addressed to Cuba may be forwarded by :this opportunity, if specially addressed " via New York and 741 assau." Letters and newspapers sent to Cuba by this rou. '4333 will be liable to the same rates of postage as those forwa 11 led by the West India mail packets. Mails from Havannah , and Bahamas will be due at Liver pool by the packet from New York appointed to arrive on the 17th of February ra ;at, and by each alternate packet from New York. JAMAICA EXPORTS FOR 1857-58.-4 Custom house return received b y the West India mail shows the following as the exports i 'rem the island, of the principal staple articles of produce, during the year ending on the 30th of September last :—Sugar, 33,032 hhds. ; rum, 18,193 puncheons •, cotta n, 5,8761 b. ; coffee, 5,237,6891 b. ; giraento, 9.465,2611 b. ; ginger, 709,62011. ; arrowroot, 72,0231 b. ; logwood, 12,5 58 tons ; honey, 8,108 gallons ; beeswax, 794 e w t. 1 qr. 11 lb. ; cocoa nuts, 784,4221 b. ; lead ore, 23 tons ; copper ,:qe, tons. rHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1858. LATEST NEWS. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 15. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sour, in Syria, has been ill-treated in the church where be was officiating. Tevfik Pacha has been sent to Candia. Rumours of Ministerial changes are in circulation. Fuad Pacha is spoken of for the post of Grand Vizier. The cordon of the White Eagle of Russia has been conferred on M. Thouvenel, the French Am- bassador. An electric cable has united Constantinople to Gallipoli. Letters from Teheran state that a magnificent reception had been given to Feruck Khan, and that he is already occupied in preparing important reforms, both civil and religious. The official journal of Teheran has published a long article, pointing out the advantages which Persia will derive from her European relations. BERLIN, DEC. 16. The Prussian Gazette contains a circular, yester day issued by the Minister of the Interior, Baron Flottwell, addressed to all provincial Governments ;Regierun gen). The circular relates to the withdrawal of trades concessions, based on the paragraph of the trade laws (Gewerbe-Ordnung), and promises an improved regulation of this subject by the Legislature. The provincial Governments are directed to desist from withdrawals and warnings of withdrawals of all trades-concessions, and to send in to the Minister of the Interior the docu ments of judicial proceeding (Acten), together with their report. According to confirmed intelligenee, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent has conferred upon his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales the Order of the Black Eagle. MADRID, DEC. 16. At the nomination of members for the Congress Committee, Government has again been victorious. The Senate has commenced the discussion on the address, in reply to the Queen's speech. General Prim has withdrawn his amendment, which de clared that Spain had not sufficient cause for entering into hostility with Mexico. The budget has been presented to the chambers; it estimates the expenses at 1 1% 786,000,000 reals, and the receipts at 1,794,000,000 reals. The French Ambassador, M. Barrot, will be received by the Queen this evening in a private audience. A Paris letter in the Nord of Brussels says:--- "The English journals, and especially the Times, appear to have understood neither the character nor the consequences of the pardon accorded to Count de Montalembert, nor yet the nature of his appeal. According to the Times, which has not seized the force of the allusion made in the note of the Moniteur to the 2d December, the pardon was a moral victory achieved by the Count. But the fact is quite the contrary, and if the appeal had not been made, all the advantage belonged to the note of the 3loniteur. The Times adds that, in re jecting the Emperor's pardon, the persistence of M. Montalembert is an agitation without any serious object. That assertion displays a profonnd ignorance of the real state of the French legis lation and amuses the French lawyers. If the Times had paid more attention to the articles of the Nord, it would have spared itself these blunders. In short, and in view of the new discussion about to arise, it will not be without use to repeat that the pardon, while relieving M. de Montalembert from his six months' imprisonment, does not annul —lst, the declaration of culpability; 2d, the dis• honouring reasons given for the judgment; 3d, the suppression of the work; 4th, the right given to the Government to apply to M. de Montalembert the law of public safety, that is to say, confine him in the interior, or send him to Algeria, or exile him. An appeal which aims at relieving him from these grave consequences of a condemnation is what the Times calls 'an agitation without object.' The English journal evidently speaks of it quite at its ease, and understands nothing either of the French judicial procedure or legislation." SARDINIA. The Independance of Brussels, which had stated that the Sardinian Government had issued a cir cular on the subject of the rumoured war with Austria, now declares that no circular had been sent, but that several European Courts, moved by the projects ascribed to the Piedmontese Govern ment, requested explanations from it, and that the verbal replies given by C oun t d e C avour were i n the spirit ascribed to the circular, reassuring as to the intentions of Piedmont, but less satisfactory as regards the state of public opinion in Italy and the eventualities of the future. The Piedmontese Gazette publishes the reply of Count de Cavour to the address presented to him by the merchants of Genoa. In this reply the President of the Council thanks the mercantile com munity for their friendly sentiments, and promises that the further reforms alluded to in the address shall receive his careful consideration and firm sup port within reasonable limits. A letter from Lombardy, in the Opinione of Turin, states that on the night of the Bth the sentinel stationed at the Military Forage Ma gazine at Pavia, perceiving a flickering light at some distance, went to the spot., and found that an attempt had been made to set fire to one of the doors of the depot, by laying on oil of turpentine with a brush and then applying lucifer-matches. The flame which had begun to rise was easily put out, but the culprits were nowhere to be found. During the same night, the letter states that seve ral Austrian soldiers were pelted with stones by an unseen hand in passing through a lonely street. A telegraphic despatch from Malta, dated the 14th, received at Marseilles, states that the steamer Tamise, from Alexandria, had sustained some slight injury to her machinery in the port of Alexan dretta, and that consequently her arrival at Mar seilles would be somewhat-delayed. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY, The Grand Duke Constantine will roach Paris on Sunday or Monday next. His Imperial High ness was expected earlier; but as the health of the Dowager Empress, has slightly improved he will probably proceed with less rapidity towards St. Petersburg then originally intended. The Grand Duke travels incognito under the name of Admiral Romanoff. It is stated in some of the journals that the Government intends to propose in the budget to be submitted to the Legislative body that the indem nity to deputies shall not be a certain sum per month according to the length of the sessions, as heretofore, but 40,000 fr. a year, which is what the deputies under the first empire were paid. Several of the Paris journals publish articles on the speech delivered by Mr. Bright at Manchester, and give a running commentary on the various topics of Parliamentary reform touched on by that gentleman in his address ; but, generally speaking, the remarks are but a repetition, in different terms, of the opinions which they had expressed when that gentleman madehis first appearance this season. at Birmingham. The Univers seems to think that the opinions of Mr. Bright, advanced as they are, will in the end be far outpassed by the general body of reformers, for the reason that England is becoming each year more and more democratical. The Presse considers that the House of Lords must yield, to a certain extent., if they wish to avoid the danger which is impending. The price of bread for the second fortnight of the present month remains fixed at 32c. the 21b. loaf, first quality. Light snow fell for upwards of an hour yester day morning in Paris, but melted as it came down. BOURSE, Dec. 16.—The tone of tke market has been somewhat better, owing to a report that the Board of Directors of the Bank of France would debate to-day on the proposition to reduce the rate of discount to 21 per cent. The settlement of shares has passed off easily, but prices continued heavy. Threes have been done at 73f. 5c., and are now at 73f. 28c. ; Mobilier varied from 967 f. 50c. to 975 f. ; Orleans, 1,390 f. to 1,395 f.; Lyons, 876 f. 25c. to 880 f. ; Southern, 580 f. to 582 f. 50c. ; and Northern, 995 f. to 997 f. 50c. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per Cents. 97 .Cr6dit Do. end month .. Belgian 41 . 3 per Cents. 73 15 Piedmonteso (5) 94 Do. end month.... 73 30 Roman 93 Bank Shares. 3050 Austrian Cr6dit Mobilier 980 Spanish Threes Do. Account' 981 25 . Home Debt 43 75 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto — 840 Lyons and Mediterranean BBO .. 880 New ditto Geneva Midi _... : : 621 25 Southern Western 6lO .. 607 50 ... 700 - .. Eastern . Grand Central — _ _ Sardinian 4lO .. 415 Austrian 697 50 Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 1210. ; money, 2.5 f. 10c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c. ; money, 24f 95c. PRINCE ALFRED. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. Princo Alfred landed at Gibraltar from her Majesty's ship Euryalus on the 29th ult., amid great honours. His Royal Highness took up his residence at the Convent, where he received the principal persons in Gibraltar, who were intro duced to him by the Governor, Sir James Ferguson. In the course of the day the Prince was present at a review held in the Alameda. On the Ist inst. the Prince visited the galleries, signal-station, and St. Michael's Cave, and in the evening honoured by his presence a ball given by the Governor. On the 2d the Prince took an excursion in her Majesty's steamer Redpole round the back of the rock, beyond Catalan Bay. The Redpole after wards crossed to Algesiras, and the Prince visited the town privately. On the 3d his Royal Highness hunted with the Calpe hounds, and in the evening dined with Cap tain Warden. On the 4th, the Prince, attended by Major Cowell, and accompanied by a small party of ladies and officers of both services paid a visit to Ceuta in her Majesty's steamer Redpole. Don Manuel Gosset, the Governor of the place, accom panied his Royal Highness round the fortifica tions. Horses were then provided, and an excursion was made beyond the walls and the Moorish out posts. After returning to Gibraltar the Prince dined with Lieut.. Colonel Hamilton and the officers of the 25th, at that garrison. The Euryalis left Gibraltar on the Gth. Crowds of soldiers from the garrison cheered the Prince on his departure. The Tangier correspondent of the Gibraltar Chronicle supplies the following parti culars to that journal : " TANGIER, DEC. 7. " Her Majesty's - steam frigate, Euryalis, Captain Tarleton, C. 8., with his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, arrived in this bay yesterday at one p.m. Her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, Mr. Drummond, proceeded in a Moorish launch to the ship soon after her arrival to wait upon his Royal Highness, and was saluted by the Euryalus with 11 guns. The Prince disembarked shortly afterwards under a salute of 21 guns from the town batteries, a com pliment which was immediately returned by the ship, and was received on landing by the Moorish Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Governor of the town, and a numerous guard of honour. Saddled horses were also in attendance in case his Royal Highness should wish to ride into the town. Accompanied by the above escort the Prince walked up to the British Mission, where he took up his ' quarters for the period of his stay at Tangier. His Royal Highness, with Mr. D. Hay, Captain Tarle ton, and a large party of British officers (naval, military, and civil), called in the afternoon upon the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Governor of the town, and made a tour through the place, visiting some of the Jews' houses and bazaars. This morning the Prince rode out into the country, nu merously attended, and witnessed the manoeuvring of a large body of cavalry, under the command of the Lieutenant-Governor of the town. His Royal Highness was present a little later in the day at the marriage of a beautiful young Jewess, the daughter of one of the principal merchants in the place, and re-embarked at two p.m. in the Eury alus. which took her departure immediately after wards." LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANK. An adjourned meeting of the shareholders of the Liverpool Borough Bank was held at the Banking house, Water-street, Liverpool, yesterday afternoon. At the original meeting on Thursday (last, week), the liquidators submitted a report and statement of accounts, showing the progress which has been made iu the winding up of the affairs of the bank; and a sub-committee of five gentlemen was then appointed to inquire into the accounts so submitted, and to decide what steps should be taken in refer ence to them. That sub-committee drew 'up a series of questions which it was resolved should be put to the liquidators at the adjourned meeting yesterday. A copy of the questions proposed to be asked had been forwarded to the liquidators, in order that they might be prepared with answers. The chair was occupied by Mr. Joshua Dixon. • The CHAIR:SIAN said,—The first question was as to the good debts, property, &c. " Mr. Banner's statement of Oct., 1857, exhibited goods, £758,000; of this there appears to have been collected £516,678, and further expected £147,000, making is all, £664,000, leaving & balance of £941,000 apparent loss on this account. Is this a correct view to take of it or not ?" Mr. BANNER, accountant—That view of it is not correct—(hear, hear)—and this is the explanation of it. If the account of February is referred to, it will be found that £81,867 is put down for letters of credit. In the present account you find the apparent loss on the account to be £94,000, which is reducible by £40,000 letters of credit. Besides that, we have in hand bills of exchange, which are not used, and we have also in hand £193,000 ; and. there will, belonging to credit and calls, pass to credit, when received, £48,821, making £89,000 against the £94,000. Thir. BLYTHE—As to £49,000 of bills not yet re ceived, I think there is some doubt about this. Mr. BANNER—I don't suppose so. The CHAIRMAN—Your next question, Mr. Blythe, is—" Doubtful and bad debts. In Mr. Banner's statement of the 27th of October, 1857, this item was thus represented :—£987,956, estimated then to produce £361,842 ; received on account of this to date, £90,410, and further estimated to produce £172,109, making a total of £262,520, showing an apparent loss on this account of £99,322 ; " w anted some information as to how this loss has arisen— whether from depreciation in property, debts, or what cause ?" Mr. BLYTHE—I simply wish for the explanation. I want to know how it has arisen. I see you esti mated the formidable amount to produce £360,000, but it has only produced £260,000, which makes an additional loss of £lOO,OOO. We are £89,000 worse than we were twelve months ago, bad as we were then, even upon the last account. Mr. BANNER—XIO,276 is applicable to that ac count, leaving the loss as you state. The CHAIRMAN—The next question is, "Doubtful of bad debts for calls, £96,355—a list of these re quired." The chairman referred to the unadvis ableness of submitting such a list in the presence of the reporters, as such a course was likely to be prejudicial to the interests of the bank, as the list included many names from which something was still expected. After a lengthy discussion the list was read. Another request by the shareholders was for permission to employ an accountant to examine the books belonging to the bank respecting any period that might be thought necessary. With this request the chairman stated the liquidators had not the power of complying without an order from the Court of Chancery. After some further questions bad been asked, , the shareholders appointed a sub-committee to confer with the liquidators from time to time, and the proceedings terminated. THE NAVY. The Government transport Enthusiast arrived yesterday at Woolwich pier laden with war stores from Gibraltar. The screw steamer Tweedside, Capt. 'Watt, ar rived at Spithead at 7p.m. on Wednesday last from Calcutta for London. She has been engaged in car rying troops to India, also between Madras and Calcutta. The Tweedside sailed from Gravesend with detachments in March last for Madras, which port she reached in 73 days, including stoppages. She proceeded to London after coaling. On entering the Humber last Saturday night, her Majesty's gunboat Sandfly ran down the brig Her mann, coal-laden, from Sunderland to London. Most of the men on board the brig were in bed, and just saved themselves by scrambling on board the gunboat in their night attire, leaving a man at the wheel , whom they afterwards saved. In about 20 minutes the brig went down with all sails stand ing. After being taken to Hull, the rescued crew, who were destitute, were forwarded.to Sunderland, after being lodged and provisioned, and having some clothing given to them by Commodore D. Brown, on behalf of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Association . The naval cadets belonging toper Majesty's train ing ship Illustrious, Capt. R. Harris, at Portsmouth, break up to-day : They will have six weeks' holi day, and on their return will join the Britannia. Capt. H. Eyres, C. 8., is progressing favourably from his late attack. Her Majesty's troop and store paddle-vessels Rha damanthus, Mr. Sturdy in command, and Dee, Mr. Pullen, arrived yesterday morning at Portsmouth from Cork, with Government stores, which are being delivered at the Royal Clarence Yard. Her Majesty's troop-frigate Himalaya is being supplied with coal from colliers admitted into the steam-basin at Portsmouth. Her officers and crew are berthed on board the Victorious hulk. The Eagle, coast-guard depot, at Pembroke, has received a large number of coast volunteers on her books during the past six months, the corps having become much more popular in the district, owing to the judicious management of her captain to en sure the comfort and well-being of the men while under his command. The Admiralty have also provided accommodation for the officers. The Greyhound, 17, screw, at Pembroke, build ing..—The launch of this vessel has been postponed until March next. The London, 90, atDevonport, was taken out on Wednesday and tried at the measured mile, when her engines gave perfect satisfaction. Mr. Dennen was in attendance. The Revenge, 91, screw, is now rapidly progress. ing towards 'completion, at Pembroke, and will be launched at Pembroke yard early in the ensuing summer. lie Dee, 4, paddle troop and store ship, Master Commander Thomas C. Pullen, arrived on Wed nesday at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and went into Portsmouth Harbour yesterday. She is freighted with stores and provisions from Cork. The Bustler, steam vessel, left Woolwich yester day, having in tow barges laden with about 100 tons of antiquities, which were landed at West minster, and conveyed to the British Museum. The Supply, steam vessel, is ordered to undergo repairs to her machinery, and will then leave Woolwich, for Boudroun, Asia Minor, to receive a similar cargo. The Rifleman, steam vessel, having undergone repairs in the basin at Woolwich, will be removed to No. 2 dock to-day for completion, and be brought forward for service. We understand an application has been made to the Admiralty to make the distance between the Breakwater and the Eddystone Lighthouse the line and distance of trial of steam ships at this port. The present measured mile, running parallel with the Breakwater, is neither considered a sufficient distance for a fair trial, nor is it considered safe, as there is not sufficient space to round a ship with trial speed on her without a risk of touching the shoals.—Plymouth Mail. DOCKYARD PENSIONS.—The following important Admiralty order, relative to the pensions to be granted to first-class dockyard labourers, was yes terday posted at Woolwich Dockyard, by direction of the admiral superintendent :—I have to make known to all concerned that their lordships have been pleased to notify to me that leading men of labourers, single-stationed labourers, labourers at machines, and labourers employed with skilled mechanics, who are selected from the ordinary labourers, and who are permanently in receipt of a higher rate of pay than that granted to ordinary labourers, are to be allowed pensions, although entered since the year 1833.—Signed, JOHN SHEP HERD, • Rear Admiral Superintendent, Dec. 16, 1858." This order, which will take effect in the whole of her Majesty's naval establishments, has given the utmost satisfaction, and will prove a great boon to a large and deserving body of men. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty : Assistant-Paymasters—Henry J. Ray arid John Evans to the Royal Albert. Master's-Assistant—Alfred Thomas to the Liffy. THE ARMY. THE STAFF COLLEGE. The following General Order was issued yester day " Horse Guards, S.W., I)ec. 6. " The subjoined list of successful candidates for admission to the College Staff on the Ist of Feb ruary, 1859, with the number of marks gained by each, and the examination numbers of those who were successful, are published with reference to the last paragraph of the general order, dated 3d of June, 1858 : bd Rank and Name. Corps, Station. c; Remarks. ,4 Lieut. R. Grant RI. Ennrs. Jamaica. 10 2226 Passed. Capt.W. C.Nangle Rl. Artilery Home .. 16 1802 Do. Lieut. and Adjnt. R. C. Goff 50th Regt... Ceylon... 40 1589 Do. Lieut. A. ELWavel 41st Regt.... Jamaica. 5 1495 Do. Cpt. H. Wilkinson { T h lt Home .. 23 1445 Do. Qualified, but there is no va- Lieut. J. B. King. RI. Artllery Malta .. 2 1317 cancy for a 3d offi cer of the Ord. Coil Capt.H.F.Morgan 28th Regt... Malta .. 1 1230 Passed. Capt. A. S. Jones, V.O lBthH'ssars Home .. 14 1197 Do. Cpt. E. M.Palliser Mltry.Train Home .. 17 1013 Do. Capt. R. B. Stokes 54th Regt ... Bengal.. 1 845 Do. W. Inds. 1 521 F'led in mat E. Inds . In 515 Do. Home .. 19 299 Do. ADIETTED AS SUPERNUMERARY BY SPECIAL AUTHORITY. Lieut. R. Taylor I R.Marines I Home 120 1756 I Qualified. " The examination, which was conducted by the Council of Military Education, comprised mathe matics, military history, fortificati3n, military drawing, French, German, chemistry, and geology. It was obligatory on every candidate to gain at least 300 marks in mathematics and 75 marks in French. " By command of his Royal Highness, " The General Commanding in Chief, " G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General." The proceedings and finding of the general court-martial which assembled at Chatham garrison on the 20th of Nov. last, under the presidency of Lieut.-Colonel C. E. Fairtlough, for the trial of the traitor Thomas Tole, a private in the Ist battalion 7th Roy al Fusileers, who when serving with his regiment before Sebastopol basely deserted to the Russian enemy having been approved and confirmed by his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, orders were yesterday issued at Chatham for a general parade of the whole of the troops, com prising the first battalion of infantry, for the pur pose of hearing the sentence of the Court read. The entire battalion was formed on the parade ground at 10 o'cloek yesterday morning, under the command of Major H. D. Ellis, and, the depots having been arranged in close column, the prisoner was marched to the front of the battalion. The pri soner deserted to the Russians in the month of Jan. 1855, and it was doubtless the information he then gave which led to a general attack on the English lines shortly after. At the termination of the war the prisoner, being afraid to return to England, re mained at gt. Petersburg until last year, when he was sent home by Lord Wodehouse, and was shortly afterwards apprehended in Manchester and charged with being a deserter. Owing, however, to the difficulty of proving that he was a deserter he was released, but further proof having afterwards been obtained he was again arrested and brought to trial. The proceedings of the Court were read to the battalion by Captain Sidebottom, the adjutant. The Court found the prisoner guilty and sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for life. After the sentence had been read the prisoner was removed in charge of a strong escort, and will be sent to the convict establishment at Millbank. Yesterday the East India troopship Bloonier, 890 tons, Captain C. F. Smith, embarked the following officers and reinforcements for Bombay and Kurra chee, from Custom-house-quay, Gravesend, viz.:— Captain J. T. Ling, 2d (the Queen's) Dragoon Guards ; Liejit. William S. C. Pinwill, 27th En niskillens ; Ensign Henry W: L. Paddon, Ist batt. 7th Royal Fusiliers ; and Ensign C. Rochfort, 81st Regt., with the following troops, the whole of whom proceed to Kuitachee :-32 men of the 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards, 1 man of the 70th Regt., and 16 men of the 98th, from Canter bury' 18 men of the 81st and 20 men of the 94 th, from Chatham; and 28 men of the 27th Enn iskill en s and 11 men of the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers, from Buttevant. The following proceed to Bombay : Lieut. W. C. E. Scott, 51st Light Infantry ; Cornet W. A. Atcherley and Cornet H. R. Abadie, 14th. Light Dragoons ; Ensign J. Y. Allan, 71st High landers, and the following non-commissioned officers and men :-12 men of the 14th Light Dragoons, from Maidstone ; 32 men of the Bth Hussars and 32 men of the 17th Lancers, from Canterbury; 32 men of the-56th Regt., from Colchester ; 20 men of the 71st (Highlanders). from Stirling ; 16 men of the 89th and 14 men of the 95th, from Fermoy ; and 16 . men of the 57th, from Cork. The above draughts complete the number of reinforcements held in readiness to proceed to India. Col. E. Wilmot, . R.A., Superintendent of the Royal Gun Factories, Woolwich Arsenal, yesterday gave an interesting lecture, in the Artillery school room, at Woolwich, to a crowded assembly of offi cers, non-commissioned officers, and-gunners of the Royal Artillery, on the manufacture of ordnance, as carried on in the Royal Arsenal gun factories. The lecture was the second of a series commenced a short, time ago by Col. Wilford, R.A., Governor of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. The lecturer entered into a minute description of the va rious phases of the art of gun-making, and addressed his discourse mainly to the non-commissioned offi cers and privates, taking peculiar pains to elucidate his remarks by the most intelligible matter-of-fact details suitable to the understanding of ea c h of his hearers, referring principally to the casting and turning out of brass guns alone. He enlarged his dis course considerably by an historical reference to th* ancient custom of casting in bronze, and illustrated his remarks by constant allusions to various sketches nailed to the walls of the room, which afforded his hearers great facility in understanding the matter before them. The lecturer took the opportunity of introducing several specimens of the rude weapons used in ancient warfare, such as spears, bows, breast plates, &c. The colonel then explained to his audi ence the nature and composition of gun metal, the various chemical and other tests employed to ana lyse its character, &c., and remarked that as the knowledge of gun-casting had hitherto been, as it were, " a sealed book" to the professional soldier, his endeavours to elucidate the matter could-not be considered a task of supererogation. The informa tion, he said, was of importance ; and he was happy in being able to edify them on a subject with which. it was the duty of the Artillery soldier to be made acquainted. He then gave a concise detail of the present method of moulding and casting guns, so manifestly superior to the old system, and proved, with the assistance of a number of diagrams laid out for the purpose, that the science brought to bear now-&-day will be the means of an immense saving to the country both of time and money. The lecturer remarked with reference to the rifled cannon that if a rifle can be constructed so as to fire from a man's shoulder a similar weapon can be r made, of lar er dimensions and calibre, and with equal utility` 'fitted to a carriage. The co l one l con cluded his ]lecture by many interesting remarks on the mode of working the present factories, the boring and finishing the guns, and passed a high encomium on the former scientific officers in charge of the proof department. He stated that the use ful records left by them were in a great measure the means of the growing success of the establish ment, which he hoped, by the perseverance of all concerned in it, would eventually prove to be worthy of the name of this great nation. After a few en couraging remarks specially , intended for the young soldier, the audience withdrew. A number of the non-commissioned officers and gunners ap proached the tables on which were deposited the various models, specimens, &c., on which the colonel entered into a courteous conversation explanatory Of the different items of ancient warfare on whi c h they expressed a desire to be further enlightened. The War Department yesterday chartered the transport Eleanor for the conveyance of militall, stores from Woolwich to the Isle of Ascension, and the Chebucto for Jamaica. Major-General Sir W. F. Williams, Commandant of Woolwich Garrison, has returned to Woolwich from Nova Scotia. PRESIDENT BUCHANAN UPON TIIS FREEDOM OF THE UNITED STATES. At the centennial celebration .of the occupahef of Forts Duquesne and Pitt, held at Pittsburg ell, the 25th of November last, among th e l e tt e rs 0 1 excuse for non-attendance was the following from the President of the United States. Having regard -to the present unsettled state of the country, the opinions expressed by Mr. Buchanan possess a peculiar importance : " Washington, Nov. 22. " Gentlemen,—l have had the honour to receive your invitation to be present on the 25th inst., at the centennial anniversary of the capture of Fort Duquesne, and I regret that the pressure of public affairs, at a period so near the meeting of Congress, renders it impossible that I should enjoy this privi lege. " Every patriot must rejoice while reflecting upon the unparalleled progress of our countri within the last century. What was at its cool' mencement an obscure fort, far beyond the westerli frontier of civilisation, has now become the centre of a populous commercial and manufacturing city► sending its productions to large and prosperAO sovereign States still further west, whose territallie l were then a vast, unexplored, and silent wilder• ness. " From the standing point at which we have arrived the anxious patriot cannot fail, while reviewing the past, to cast a glance into the future, and to speculate upon what may be th e condition of our beloved country when you; posterity shall assemble to celebrat e th e s econa centennial anniversary of the capture of POT Duquesne. Shall our whole country then comper e one united nation, more populous, pow er f u l, free than ony other which has ever existed ? Or will the federacy have been rent asunder, a% divided into groups of hostile and jealous States • Or may it not be possible that ere the next celebrof tion all the fragments, exhausted by intermediat e conflicts with each other, may ha ve fi na ll y reun ited and Sought refuge under the sh e lt er o f one g reet and overshadowing despotism ? " These questions will, I firmly believe, nucle r the providence of God, be virtually decided by th e present generation. We have reached a cr i s i s wh,e: upon their action depends the p reserva ti on o f .o .'" Union according to the letter and spirit of the coi l ' stitntion, and this once gone all is lost. " I regret to say that the present omens are fsr from propitious. In the last age of the republic 1 0 was considered almost treasonable to pronoun' the word disunion.' Times have since soil,' changed, and now disunion is freely prescribed 11 ' 5 the remedy for evanescent evils, real or imaginq which, if left to themselves, would speedily vanis away in the progress of events. " Our revolutionary fathers have passed await' and the generation next after them, who inspired by their personal counsel and example' have nearly all disappeared. The present genera tion, deprived of these lights, must, whether the' will or not, decide the fate of their postern; Let them cherish the U n i on i n th e i r h ear t o f heart a —let them resist every measure which may to f to relax or dissolve its bonds—let the citizens o f different States cultivate feelings of kindess an e forbearance towards each other—and let all resole d to transmit it to their descendants in the form an spirit they havo inherited from their forefather * and all will then be well for our country in futur e time. " I shall assume the privilege `of advancing yet° in reference to another growing and dangeren!e evil. In the last age, although our fathers, Ill' oumelves, were divided into political parties whle , '• often had severe conflicts with each other, yet ir e we never heard until within a recent period o f O a election*,emplyment of money to ca rr y e l ec ti on, this practice increase until th e voters and the,: representatives in the St a t e an d national Legit"- tures shall becom e i n f ec t e d , t h e f ounta i n of frva government will then be poisoned at its source, en v we must end, as hi s t ory proves , in a milites despotism. A d emocra ti c re p u bli c , agree, eann e , long survi ve un l ess sus t a i ne d b y pu bli c v irtu e _ a When this is corrupted and the people beee'm o f venal, there is a canker at the root of the tree liberty which will cause it to wither and die. 5 , " Praying Almighty God that your remote Pe co terity may continue century after century, for ag h , yet to come, to celebrate the anniversary of capture of Fort Duquesne in peace and Pr e ; perity, under the protecting banner of the Oct stitution and the Union,--I remain, very resPe fully, your friend, " JAMES BUCHANAN? ,nef ESCAPED FROM THE ICE.—The fine nen- - Edinburgh, which sailed a short time ago from Leith, e . frozen in at Cronstadt. It was feared that she would, main in that position for some months, and it was propo s i p rather than I)=6 the crew hope, to place them on 11 ,,, ti 1e , pay. The intelligence, however, has j us t arr i ve d by graph that the ice has been broken up by a sudden W a e and that the Edinburgh last S un d ay morn i ng w as °- more on her way to the port of Leith. ' dg es WESTERN BANK OF S COTLAND .—AII th e ju j d ofithe Court of Session, except Lord Murray, have deeLo that the decree sought by th e li qu id a t ors o f the W es ' il - et Bank of Scotland against the contributories who hav e te a paid the late call of £lOO per share ought to be gran li t without notice t o th e par ti es, an d on th e ex par t e s tateta e o f of the liquidators ; further that the minute of the q v October, 1858, of th e li qu id a t ors , s t a ti ng th e ass ets all i der s, bilities of the bank, and intimated to all the sharehe 4 _, a be is prima facie ev id enc e th a t a d ecree f o r the call woof just and beneficial, and that it will be competent to e kllo individual contributory to suspend the decree, and raise question of his special liability by suspension. MC Du more Colon In avers; Prices sales t Mark dow n . 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