The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-24 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,' COVENT -GA RD EN. hider the manaf,rernent of MiiS L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. On MONDAY EVXNING.(Boxing-Nigrit) VICTORINE. Santiey, Haigh, H. Ccrri. G Honey, Bartleman, &c. Misses Parepa., Conductor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new grand pantomime, called PUSS IN BOOTS ; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden Palms. Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LOWAPP. Mr. J. B. BuAkatone. On MONDAY EVENING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS. Miss Reyno!ds. After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled Leclercqs. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. MONDAY EVENING (Boxing Night) the performances will commence with Planche's popular Drama of THE CHILD OF THE WRECK. Maurice (her ori,ginal charac ter) Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex travaganza and Pantomime, KING THRIJBERA.D, th ese LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION.SH Clown, r. Marshall—Columbine, Miss Rosino. - - Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of M dlle. M a riettaa Rosea, rincipal an sense of La Scala, Milan nd first time tt of P the Delapierre Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. On MONDAY (Boxing-night) the new drama, HOME T R.UTIIS. Messrs.G. ffelvirle, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews, Miss C. Leciercq and Mrs. Charles Young. After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by H. J. Byron, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle quin King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack -Panta loon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. —.. Morning Performances on Monday, January 9, 16, and 23 Commence at two o'clock. W THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. .L ST EW Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING. THE CHRISTMAS CARROL. Messrs J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Paul Bedford, Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith. Romer: Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. Chatte rley, Miss Laidlaw. After which (by desire), ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. Mr. B. Webster and Miss H. Simms. Followed by the successful piece 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 open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor thr bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. On MONDAY, the grand Spectacular Extravaganza, by H. J. Byron, Esq., entitled THE NYMPHS OF THE LUR a LEYBERG ; or, The Knight and the Maidens. ROYAL ST. SAM•ES'S THEATRE, Ring-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. TO-NIGHT, SATURDAY (Christmas Eve) a new Farce, GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C. Young. Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. Miss Wyndham and Mr. 11. T. Craven. To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND JUDY. Introducing Miss Lydia Thompson and the Corps de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and the wonderful Performing Dogs. Reduced Prices—Gallery, ed ; Pit, is. The Box-ofEce open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ance commences at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season. THIS EVENING. the grand melo-dramatic production, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARIBALDI ; illustratin g 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—Elegant Equitation by Miss Emily Cooke, the Queen of the Circle—Young Alfred Cooke's sur passing evolutions on a naked Courser—Electrifying Feats by the Athenian Athlete, J. H. Cooke and Crouses—Novel Flag Exercises 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 Towler the Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, on Monday and Saturday, Dec. 26 and 31, and Monday Jan. 2, 1880, at Two o'clock each day. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- Z+:VERY :EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY QUEEN. And a Grand Se:ection from Aleyerbeer's new opera of DINORAH. _ ---- Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. ' The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant eights of the metropolis. ROSA BON'HEUR'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 from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—Snx OFFICE, DECEMBER 24. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHis_DE. 47—highest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.14—a fall of half an inch since yesterday. WIND, South-Westerly; light, with fine mild weather —some rain it the night. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS' DAY.—Morning, lh. 44m.—Afternoon, 2h. 6m. To-momnow.-IWrning, 2h. 28m.—Afternoon, 2h. 49m. si) , L . 4 • -Pi I, z), ' ' • • . . Ls 1 THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 24, 1839. Again the star of our Indian Empire is unclouded —and, looking at it now, as the storm clouds• of revolt are rolling off and scattering into thin air upon that far Eastern horizon, there it is still, still manifestly in the ascendant If we are to believe the statements put forward by the Bombay Times, changes in truth of the most important character give promise of accelerating in a remarkable man ner the progress throughout Hindostan of Anglo. Indian developement. The constitution of the Executive Council of the Viceroy—of the Cabitiet, in other words, enabling his Excellency the Governor-General to carry on the affairs of adminis tration—is forthwith to undergo a thorough and complete reorganisation. It is not simply that modifications are to take place there, but the whole machinery of the Anglo-Indian Government, having its seat at Calcutta, is to be formally taken to pieces, as it were, and to be (ab initio) recon structed. The manner of this maturely premeditated re construction is explained, indeed, briefly, but adequately by our Oriental contemporary. Ac cording to the statements advanced by the Bombay Times, the members of the Executive Council of the Viceroy are in the first place to become henceforth in name, in rank, and in reality—Secretaries of State. In which capacity, of course, they will be held responsible ministerially each of them for the conduct of public affairs in his own department. By reason of this arrangement it becomes apparently inevitable that the present Secretaries shall take due rank hereafter, not as Secretaries, but as Under-Secretaries of State. The announcement goes further, however, than this. It proceeds to specify who are to be the first recipients of the supreme prerogatives and responsibilities devolving upon the chief among our Anglo-Indian Adminis trators. Only in one particular are we disposed to question the accuracy of these supplementary in timations. And our solitary doubt applies to the very first name, or rather to the very earliest and highest title in the catalogue. It is said that at the head of the newly-organised Indian Cabinet there will be installed as President and Secretary of State for Political Affairs—Lord CANNING, otherwise the peesent Governor-General of Hindos tan. That the Viceroy must nceessarily take pre cedence of all the other administrators of bur In dian'Empire, is of course not for an instant to be doubted. It is his right. It is a part of the ar- rangement that surely requires no notification, under any continpncy, under any change of events, under a - ay possible course of circumstances Itilciis eela va sans dire. Or, let us add—But he takes precedonce thus not so much by right of his permanent administration in Hindostan—not in his capacii y as President of the Executive Council, mucl, less as Secretary of State, or even as the first a rid foremost among the Secretaries of State—but sir aply, clearly, obviously as the Go vernor-General, as the Viceroy, as the representa tive or alter eg oof the SOVEREIGN. Besides-- the title apportioned to him thus at the head of the hypothetical list is -little less than a misnomer and an egregious incongruity. " Secretary of State for Political Affairs" —as if the other Secre taries of State were ,wt for politic' affairs! As if his colleagues were to be S3cretaries of State for ethics, or for literature, or for something altogel l u r removed from the atmosphere of politics. That the Viceroy or Governor-General, or call him whatever else you may please (saving only Secretary of State for Political Affairs !), will ipso facto, by right of his supreme position as the Representative of the SOVEREIGN, preside, whenever he sits at the board, over the deliberations of the Council or Cabinet— that we readily admit as not only probable, but as certain—because simply right, and in a manner, so to speak, a necessity. But we are not by any means disposed to credit the intimation that his Excellency is about to drop down into a Secretary of State, even if it be that astonishing phenomenon, that painted lily and gilded gold, a Secretary of State for Political Affairs. Apart from this— the catalogue put forward in the Bombay Times appears to ns, not nOrely credible, but in an emi nent degree the very one, under existing circum stances, most to be desiderated. One of these an nounced appointments is, of course, already known —is notoriously un fail accompli—that of the Right Hon. JAMES WILSON, henceforth, it scarcely matters under what designation the new Indian Minister of Finance, or Chancellor of the Exche quer. An admirable appointment in many re spects—whatever his crotchets or shortcomings in this country—a really admirable appointment, in many respects, in the general estimation among this eminent financier's fellow-countrymen here at home ! But there are two others of these recently announced administrators of the affairs of Hindostan yet remaining to be particularised, two of the right men rarely put into the right places, men whose names thus associated with their respective offices can hardly be otherwise than hailed by the vast majority with peculiar satis faction. Sir JAMES OUTRAM, the preux chevalier of India, is to be the Secretary of State for War—and Sir BARTLE FRERE Secretary of State for the Home (meaning, of course, for the whole of the internal Anglo-Indian) Department. Under aus pices like these may we not reiterate confidently what we intimated at the outset of these remarks, that the star of our Anglo-Indian Empire is still, still in the ascendant ! It would have been difficult for Lord ELGIN to have acquitted himself more admirably than he did on Thursday afternoon by the delivery of his inaugural address as Lord Rector of the Glasgow University. It was somewhat of an ordeal even for one so eminent in diplomacy and in statesmanship. The immediate predecessor of the noble Earl in that high and honourable office of the Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, and the immediate com petitor with him for its attainment through the recent academic contest which had resulted in Lord ELGIN'S nomination, were men of such mark, of such rare capacity, of such literary, and political, and oratorical eminence, that the contrasts necessitated might well appear, in a great measure, really formidable : even to the distinguished Viceroy who had so long and so admirably conducted the Government of Canada ; and the world-famous Plenipotentiary who had so recently, and so signally, evidenced his diplomatic astuteness by his wonderfully rapid and skilful ne gotiations with the Chinese and Japanese Govern ments. Nothing could possibly, however, have been, at once, more singularly graceful and effective than the complimentary allusion, rather, we should say, the noble eulogistic tributes to Sir BULWER LYTTON and DISRAELI, by which Lord ELGIN, in the very exordium of his Address, at once waived the possibility of an invidious comparison. " I know full well," said he, " that the office which I now so unworthily fill has been held by a succession of eminent men, whose high reputation and great literary attainments have lent weight and autho rity to the counsels which they have proffered from this place." The noble lord might have added that the last of these eminent men, the right honourable baronet, his immediate pre decessor, had been so regarded, had been held in such esteem by the University, that to him had been vouchsafed an honour, a threefold honour never before accorded by the Glasgo Qv University to any Englishman—Sir EDWARD BULWER LYTTON having been twice re-elected by acclama tion, having been three consecutive years installed into that supreme Academic Chair at Glasgow, the Chair occupied by the Lord Rector of her Univer sity ! It was only, in fact, to THOMAS CAMPBELL, the renowned Scottish poet, that a like honour is known to have been awarded by the Univer sity of Glasgow. Although the present Lord Rector (Sir EDWARD LYTTON'S successor) said nothing of all this, save by the courteous implica tion of a date, the noble earl spoke thus at least of his illustrious predecessor—spoke thus ear nestly and unaffectedly in the unstinted language of admiration :—" Three years ago," said Lord ELGIN, " when your late Rector delivered his in augural address, I had the good fortune to be present and to hear the charms of literature pourtrayed, and the cause of learning pleaded before sympathising listeners by one of the greatest perhaps I might without exag geration say by the greatest—living master of our language." Adding, with courtly grace, in reference to his competitor for the Lord Rec torship— a And even now, gentlemen need confess it—what chiefly overwhelms me on the present occasion is the reflection that during the late contest your suffrages were claimed on behalf of a candidate whose great natural gifts, improved by cultivation and study, and acquirements, have placed him on the highest eminence both in literature and statesmanship." Thereupon, however (encouraged by the remembrance of his success, even over such a competitor), Lord ELGIN proceeded at once to the delivery of an inaugural address that—for the range of its themes, for the eloquence of its diction, for the skill of its rhetorical arrangement, and for the easy grasp within it of an affluent and abounding knowledge—any one of the noble earl's prede cessors in the office might not have disdained to have fathered. Who will hesitate to admire that impressive epitome of the achievements and the influences, the labours and results of the last ten years ? " What," asks Lord ELGIN, " What is it that strikes the imagination of even the most thoughtless and unreflecting, when they compare—to go no farther back—the phenomena which characterised the commencement of this decade with those which distinguished its close? At the former period hymns of universal peace and brotherhood, a palace of unprecedented dimen sions, of a novel and exquisite structure, raised as if by enchantment, to be the receptacle of the products of the industry of the earth—such proofs accumulated there of man's control over the powers of nature, of the subserviency of modern science to purposes of human utility, of the wide spread benefits of commercial interchange, that it seemed hardly extravagant or unreasonable to TUE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, anticipate that, before the light of this resistless demonstration, the vile passions that begat discord, and the selfishness that checks intercourse, would, self-abashed at their own deformity, vanish like night spectres before the dawn." The noble lord adding, " As a result, in too many quarters, it is to be feared, faith in a civilisation materialistic rather than moral, in the substitution of a cunningly-devised soc i a l mechanism for the energy, and self-reliance, and sp i r ii li ai elevation of the individual man, in a haven to be reached through self-indulgence rather than self-sacrifice." Immediately after which he goes on to say—" And what, let me ask again —what are the phenomena which distinguish the close of the decade P Dark clouds overhead, furrowed by the lightning track—below the nations gathered together in perplexity, and anxiously inquiring on what spot the thunderbolt will fall—the hard-won economics of human in dustry, the knowledge of nature's secrets, so dearly bought, all recklessly expended in the invention, and fabrication, and accumulation of the instru ments of human destruction ; and, as a consequence —a not unnatural consequence—a growing distrust in many of the specious promises of the 19th cen tury, and an anxious groping in the dark after some ground of confidence more stable, more sufficient, and more secure." To the whole of this able oration, however, given elsewhere ti n extenso in our impres sion of this evening, we would very earnestly commend attention. It is an address delivered before one of the most thoughtful audiences in the land by one of the foremost of our public men, at a juncture of great social and political importance— the effect of the whole of which address is in a peculiar degree impressive. VOCAL ASSOCIATION-ST. JAMES'S HALL. Perhaps there are few entertainments afforded by the musical societies of this country more grati fying and successful than those of the Vocal Asso - ciation. The patronage of an admiring public, and the eulogy of a critical press, are ample proofs of the excellence of this society, which was founded by Mr. Benedict in 1856, having for its primary object the performance of Glees, Madrigals, Part Songs, and other compositions of a choral character. The applause bestowed on the efforts of the Asso ciation induced the directors to extend the sphere of operations; and, accordingly, a great variety of first-class music has been presented from the works of the best masters, in a manner that evoked unqualified approbation. The ensuing season promises a continuance of increasing popularity, for Mr. Benedict's energy and talent have been actively employed in the re vision and selection of new singers and the perfect ing of his orchestral arrangements, while the pro minent names of Clara Novello, Miss Dolby, Mrs. Lockey, Miss Saunders ; Sims Reeves, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Lockey, constitute in themselves a host of attractions. The Subscription Concerts, consisting of a series of six performances, commence in Janu ary, presenting programmes calculated to propitiate the tastes of ail who love " sweet sounds," whether the ear be that of the rare, fastidious professor, or the average unskilled listener. The subscription terms are fabulously cheap, and we most cordially and heartily commend the Vocal Association to the notice and patronage of the public, as possessing solid and choice qualifications of the divine art which it illustrates. STANZAS FOR THE SEASON. Once again, once again, Christmas wreaths are twining ; Once again, once again, Mistletoe is shining. Time is marching through the land, Decked with leaf and berry ; He loads tho Old Year in his hand, But both tho churls aro merry. He speaketh in the claaging bells, He shouts at every portal; GOD speed the tidings that he tells,— " Good-will and peace to mortal." Gladly welcome shall he be, Even though he traces Silver threads upon our heads And wrinkles on our faces. For once again, once again, He brings the happy meeting, When cynic lips may preach in vain That life is sad and fleeting. Christmas logs should beacon back The wanderer from his roving ; Leave, oh ! leave the world's wide track, And join the loved and loving. Spirits that have dwelt apart, Cold with pride and folly, Bring olive in your hand and heart, To weave with Christmas holly. Breathe a name above the cup, And leave no drop remaining ; When Truth and Feeling fill it up, 'Tie always worth the draining. Though few and short the flashes are That break on Care's dull story, Yet, like th© midnight shooting star, Those moments pass in glory. Then once again, once again, We'll tap the humming barrel : " Good-will and peace" shall never cease To be a wise man's carol. All, all we love I—a health to those I A bumper I—who won't fill it ? A health to brave and open foes, A bumper I—who would spill it I And here's to him who guards our right Upon the 'distant billow I And him who sleeps in watch-fire light Upon his knapsack pillow I If changing fate has frowned of late, And of some joys bereft us, Still, let us " gang a gleesome gait," And prize the blessings left us. Wisdom's helmet strapped too tight Wearies in the bearing ; And Folly's bells on Christmas night Are always pleasant wearing. Then once again, once again, Let holly crown each portal ; And echo round the welcome sound— " Good•will and peace to mortal 1" ELIZA COOK. HAYMARKET THEATRE. The engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, which has deservedly proved as attractive to the patrons of Mr. Buckstone's theatre, was brought to a conclusion yes terday evening, when Sheridan's delightful comedy of " The School for Scandal" was performed with great eclat in the presence of a numerous and enthusiastic audience. Mrs. Mathews appeared as Lady Teazle, for the first time in London, and played the part it spirited style, and with a hearty earnestness of manner, which was very effective ; Mr. Mathews, as Charles Surface, was gay, graceful, and debonnaire—" the life of pleasure and the soul of whim ;" and Mr. Buckstone's Sir Benjamin Backbite is worthy of the actor's reputation, an admission which implies as much praise as language is capable of yielding. A pantomime of more than ordinary brilliancy is in pre paration, and will be produced on boxing-night. SUDDEN AND ALARMING ILLNESS OF MR ALBERT SMITH. We much regret to announce that this well-known and highly-popular gentleman lies in a very !precarious state. After giving his entertainment as usual on Thursday night he returned to his residence, North End Lodge, Fulham, where, at an early hour yesterday morning, he was attacked with an apoplectic fit of a severe nature. Medical assistance was of course immediately procured, but during the after noon a second fit supervened, and his condition, according to the latest accounts, was such as to cause the greatest ap prehension to his friends. At noon, to-day, Mr. Smith, we regret to say, remained in a state of insensibility. _ Throughout the day the inquiries at the Egytian Hall have been very numerous. THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—Three new pictures have just been added to the National Collection, Trafalgar square, in addition to the six hung in October last—a fine Ambrogio Borgognone, representing the marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria, the Virgin presenting St. Cathe rine of Siena ; entire figures, life size. This picture was the altarpiece of the chapel of Rebecchino, near the Cer toss. of Pavia, of which Borgognono was one of the archi tects; his paintings bear date between 1490 and 1522. The two other additions are the Ruysdaels lately ur 1 3 - chased at the sale of the collection of Count Stolberg, at Hanover ; they are both waterfalls, in the painter's best style, and have been cng,raved on a large scale by Prestel, LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : TURIN, DEC. 23. The King signed to-day the nomination of Count Cavour and M. Desambrois as Plenipotentiaries of Sardinia at the Congress. MADRID, DEC. 23. The Moors have attacked the Spaniards on the road to Tetuan, in order to obstruct the works. They were victoriously repulsed. General Prim distinguished himself by his bravery. The Spanish had four killed and 40 wounded. All the works, and even the new fortlets, have been completed. ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. 23. The Journal de St. Petersbourg states that Prince Gortschakoff has been appointed First Plenipo tentiary of Russia at the approaching Congress, and that he will leave for Paris on the 31st inst. The last Russian courier from China, who left on the 17th Oct., announces that the Russian Embassy at Pekin was enjoying perfect safety and liberty. All the alarming reports to the contrary are, therefore, unfounded. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. THE BOURSE, Dec. 23.--The market had rather an upward tendency at the commencement of busi ness, but it was checked by considerable sales. Threes, after having been done at 70f. 45c., declined to 70f. 20c., and are now at 70f. 35c. Mobilier varied from 846 f. 25c. to 840 f. ; Austrian, 570 f, to 567 f. 50e. ; Lombard, 576 f. 25c. to 572 f. 50c ; Lyons, 940 f. to 934 f. ; Orleans, 1,417 f. 50c. to 1,4121. 50c, The following were the last quota tions : 41 per Cents..... 96 50 Credit Fonder 725 Do. end month .. Belgian 4} 99 50 3 per Cents. 7O 45 Piednaontese (5) Do. end month.... 70 s' , Roman B3 75 Bank Shares...... 2885 Austrian — Credit Mobilier .. 843 75 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 846 25 !Rome Debt 43 37 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 975 975 New ditto 855 862 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 935 .. 938 75 Geneva 515 .. 542 50 Southern - Western 575 —. 572 50 Eastern Sardinian 415 .. 420 Austrian Lombard ..... Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 25f. 9c.; three months, paper, 24f. 95c. ; money, 24f. 931 c. SPAIN. The Spanish journals continue to take a cheerful view of the war in Morocco, but they record no real progress. The Iberia states that the Spanish troops are to march upon Tetuan in the following order : the main body is to march along the road that is being cut, while General Prim with his corps is to occupy the mountains to protect the flanks of the army ; meanwhile the fleet is to proceed along the coast to disperse by its fire any hostile force that might present itself. The Spanish army occupies a line three leagues in extent, with three redoubts and other strong entrenchments. The Correspondancie, in giving the text of several manuscript prayers to Mahomet, which have been found upon the persons of the Moors, states one of them contains 5,000 times the words—" God is merciful !" repeated over and over agnin without any other sentence whatever. A private letter from Madrid says . "The commercial community of Cadiz has offered the 44 millions of reals claimed by England. The measure by which Ceuta is declared a free port is prejudicial to the interests of Gibraltar. The army of Africa is to be raised to 80,000 men, while 80,000 more, remaining in Spain, will form the reserve; besides which, in case of necessity, the Government might call out 80 battalions of provin cial militia. All the naval forces are concentrated at Cadiz." AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING. The City of Manchester has arrived at Queens town. She brings New York advices of the 10th inst. Tho President's Message had not been delivered, the house not having elected a Speaker. Cotton firm, with sales during the past three days of 9,500 bales, at unchanged quotations. Breadstuffs generally steady. Indian corn has a tendency downward. In provisions pork firmly held. The steamer Edinburgh, Ocean Queen, and Persia have arrived at this port. NEW ORLEANS, DEC. 9. A firm tone prevails for cottons. The sales of the week are about 61,000 bales. Quotations show no material variation. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE PLYMOUTH: SATURDAY MORNING. The Union Steam Navigation Company's mail packet Athens, Commander Strutt, from the Cape of Good Hope Nov. 20, St. Helena Nov. 28, and Ascension Dec. 2, arrived in the Sound this morning. LITE.RATU.R.IL CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Th• Compliments of the 'Season ; or, A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. By Mrs. Gordon Smythies, author of " Cousin Geoffrey." James Blackwood. A hundred thousand times repeated at this season of the year, this Christmas greeting comes from none more gracefully than from Mrs. Gordon Smythies, whose pen As. already. delightfully fami liar to the novel reader. With the elegant little volume before us, a "merry Christmas" now may be pleasantly passed, and the story-tellers round the fireside in Great Russell-street will tell their stories again and again with new approbation to many a homely group. There is the story of the " Vacant Chair, and IVho Filled it "—there is Mr. Younghusband's Courtship, or " No Fool like an Old Fool"—there is a pathetic description of " A Strike," and a very charming story, founded on fact, of " The Old Curate and the New Vicar"— there is a romantic history of an Editor in Love, and a coup de theatre at last with two great arrivals. In a word, there is (as in such a book there should be) abundance of fun, and no lack of interest. Mrs. Smythies enlivens her pages with a delightful humour, and is singularly felicitous in her de scriptions. After speaking, for example, of the old curate, in his youth, with his golden hair, she tells us, in an image as happy as it is beautiful, " since then Time had carried off the gold and left the change in silver. And yet more elo quent is a passage in the introduction recalling to the forgetful minds of Christmas revellers the holy nature of the feast they celebrate. On the other hand, as instances of humour, we might cite the remark on poor Gaston, who, after some diEappoint molt in business, took to his pen, "he might almost as well," says his biographer, "have taken to his bed !" Or, better still, the scene where Mr. Youngliusband, a beau of sixty, is anxiously array ing himself for conquest, under the auspice s of Hodge, or Hodgkinson, his country valet. " How do I look, Hodgkinson ?" he asks, " how do I look in front ?" " You looks most becoming, sir." " And how do I look behind ?" "If possible, grander still, sir." " llodgkinson," said Mr. Youn g husband, " should you like to have a mistress ?" Hodgkinson drew himself up, grew very red, and replied indig nantly,—" No, sir ! I values virtue and reputation as father and grandfather done afore me ; but I shouldn't object to a wife, sir, if I could afford such a very expensive article." We have not space for further extracts, nor are they required. Who does not desire to have " A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ?" To all who do, let us very heartily wish " The Compliments of the Season" from the Laud of Mrs. Smythies. DECEMBER 24, 1859. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. (From the Times' Special Correspondent.) CAMP OF CEUTA, DEC. 10. We had another affair yesterday with the Moors, who attempted a coup de main at daybreak on the unfinished redoubt to the left of the Spanish lines, but who were as gallantly repulsed as the attack was daringly made, for they retired after a hard fight, leaving a number of their dead on the glacis, close to the very ditch of the redoubt. Having failed in this their principal object, general attack was made on the whole of the lines by a force, I should say, of from 9,000 to 10,000 men, directed, no doubt, by two of their Sheikhs, who were easily distinguished by the colour of their haiques, and an escort of about 150 or 200 " Moros de Rey," who accompanied them, and ultimately, concentrating their whole force, attacked the ex treme right, but with as little effect as at the re doubt, the right being equally well defended by a division of the 2d Cuerpo de Ejercito, under the command of General Zabala. The Spanish-African army is fortunate in having the President of the Ministry (Gen. O'Donnell) as its Commander-in-Chief, for he is, without doubt the best general they have—cool, decisive, and with a foresight which he was not given credit for. The attack on the right was divined by him, and conse- quently provided for long before the Moors gave symptoms of their intention, and in opposition to the opinion of the Chief of his Staff and most of the general officers who surrounded him. P.S.—I had almost forgotten to mention that va rious instances of individual pluck have been here, on different occasion, shown by the Spanish soldiers (mostly recruits that have never, until now, heard the whistle of a ball), that would have done credit to the best of the Crimean heroes. Our loss during the day was 40 killed, 280 wounded. CAMP BEFORE CEUTA, DEC. 12. At daybreak this morning the 3d Corps of the Army of Africa, under Gen. Ros de Olano, arrived in the port of Ceuta in 16 steamers from Malaga, and nearly the whole are disembarked at the hour at which I write. We still await artillery and cavalry to complete the army, but these, it is ex pected, willEnot be long in making their appear ance. Some of the steamers that brought the 3d Corps will return for artillery. I am not positively acquainted with the strength of that corps, but it must be somewhere about 11,000. We have now probably between 30,000 and 35,000 effective men in these lines. The cholera, I was happy to learn on my return from Gibraltar, is much on the de cline. For a few days the number of deaths was sufficient to justify serious apprehensions. We had a skirmish to-day, which began at noon and lasted till dark, but it was of no great import ance. It was upon our left, and General Prim played the principal part in it. He went out with two or three battalions, and soon got up a very agreeable little fight. Other troops went out to support. The number of Moors engaged is esti mated by the Spaniards at from 4,000 to 5,000. Our loss was trifling seven killed and some wounded. Gen. Prim is superintending and pro tecting the making of the road in the direction of Tetuan, and which, it is expected, will very soon be completed as far as Cabo Negro. Up to that point it is not expected the Moors will give us much to do, but after that there are plains, and it is thought probable we may have a serious engagement, in which the hostile cavalry will play a part. It is reported that a very strong Moorish force is as sembled on the road from Tangier to Tetuan, ready to act in either direction. The weather has been fine and dry for the last two days, but more or less windy, and colder than it was. The great point, however, is, that it should not rain ; for rain makes all the difference between positive misery and comparative comfort. Although the winds are high and even cold, yet the degree of cold is not great, and is very endurable with a moderate amount of shelter and covering. There is no want of wood in the neighbourhood ; the Moorish forest is at the disposal of the Spanish soldier, who does not spare the fuel and lights magnificent fires. After all the bad weather we have had—more even than is common in this season, or, at least, more than occurs in some winters—we may, per haps, expect two or three fine weeks, and that would be an immense thing for the army which is still in good heart and confident, but night ulti mately be dispirited by a continuance of disease and inaction. EMBARKATION OF THE THIRD DIVISION OF THE AFRICAN ARMY AT MALAGA, Sunday, Dec. 11. The embarkation of this division, under the command of the General-in-Chief, Ros de Olano, and Generals Quesada and Turon, took place this afternoon. It commenced about 2 p.m., and, to the surprise of every one, at half-past four o'clock the 12,000 men were all embarked on board 18 steamers, which got under way at five precisely, and proceeded to Ceuta. Great credit is due to tho staff for the admirable arrangements made by them and their excellent management, not one single accident, however trifling, having occurred. The day being beautiful and clear, not a cloud to be seen, and as mild as in the month of June, the Alameda and Mole were crowded, all the population being desirous to witness so unusual and really a brilliant sight. Rich silk draperies were suspended from the balconies, and notwithstanding the exciting music of so many military bands the spectacle was affect ing. The military here were billeted on private families, and there was scarcely a house either of the rich or poor that had not one or more officers or soldiers, the former taking their meals with the family ; and as they have been here more than a month, and their conduct in every instance, without one exception, has been exemplary, they were consi dered like relations or intimate friends rather than strangers. This accounts for the expression of sad ness depicted on the countenances of the masses as the troops marched past. The embarkation was watched in silence, broken occasionally by sighs, and a heartily-expressed a-Dios as an acquaintance was recognised ; but when the gun was fired as a signal for sailing, the report broke, as it were, the magic spell by which all tongues were bound, and loud and hearty vkas burst .forth from thousands of throats both ashore and afloat, the bands playing the Royal March. One cannot resist sympathising with these warm-hearted expressions. The soldiers are grateful for and have been well deserving of the hospitality they have met with in this city, and their behaviour during the time they have been quartered here may serve as an example to all the troops in Europe ; not one single act of disturbance has occurred, and, what is more, there has not been an instance of a drunken soldier seen about the streets. They are healthy, well provided for in every respect, and have a very military appearance, and their arms are good. The wreck of the Sardinian steamer Genova in some measure interfered with the transit of the troopships, for, to the disgrace and shame of the captain of the port, she was allowed to sink at the mouth of the harbour. At the commencement of the fire a Major of Sappers who was a passenger boldly proceeded, with hi s men and some volunteers from the shore, in boats to cut through her iron cables with the intention of towing her out to sea, and while perform ing this daring act the captain of the port or. dered him to desist. Some days previous to the departure of the troops some thousands of copies of the following address were printed, with the inten tion of distributing them among the troops on land ing in Africa. It is short, pithy, and soldierlike : " GENERAL ROS DE OLANO'S ADDRESS TO. HIS SOLDIERS. We are now treading OR the soil of Africa. In wars of invasion every day's march is a conquest, and resistance in battle is victory. Let us never retreat, never press forward rashly, but always to gether. Let us receive the shock of the enemy's cavalry with the immovability of a fortress vomit ing fire, that he may turn and fly, and let us return with our rifles the attack of his infantry, which is ignorant of the use of a cartridge. Let us na , v,h steadily and sleep lightly—the first to enable to arrive without fatigue, and the second that we may awake ready to find each one his post, his front, and his aim. Let the conquered be spared, the wo men respected, the children succoured, and let, us not stain our conduct with vile deeds of robbery and plunder. In order to conquer, in Africa as in the whole world, we have only to display more valour and more generosity than our opponents. In this matter our campaign will be fortunate in its com mencement and secure in its results. We are now beginning. Let each one answer for himself as I answer for you all. " ANTONIO Ros DE 0-LANO." TELEGRAPH TO INDIA. We understand that five tenPrs were sent in to Government for the manufacture of the cable in tended for submersion between Falmouth and Gib raltar, the one accepted being that of Messrs. Glass, Elliot, and Co., as already stated. The conducting wire is described as the largest ever made; one half of it has already been covered by the Gutta Percha Company, and it is stated that Messrs. Glass, Elliot, and Co., will commence the manufacture of the outer wire covering in January next, and that the cable will probably be laid about July. It seems to be understood that Government contemplate ultimately extending the line to Malta and Alexandria, there by forming a connection with the system of the Red Sea Telegraph Company, and so completing the communication with India. The delays which now occur OR the Continent in the transmission of messages between Malta and this country testify to the importance of a new and independent line. We are informed that fresh attempts will be made next summer to lay a cable between Candis, and Alexandria, thus affording the choice of another route.—Daily News. FUNERAL OF TILE MARQUIS OF LAJ_ATICO. FLORENCE, Dec. 17.—Yesterday was a sad and solemn day in Florence. It will long be remembered as that on which the body of Don Non Corsini was conveyed to Santa Croce, the Westminster Abbey of Florence. The corpse, which had been brought by the Tuscan Government steamer, the Giglia, from Genoa to Leghorn, was conveyed by the Leghorn Railway to the capital, and, under the charge of the Commissioners of the National Assembly, reached Florence at two o'clock in the afternoon• The funeral procession from the railway terminus to the Porta al Prato lasted three hours, and the oldest inhabitants of Florence declare that no funeral solemnity—not even that of any member of the Tuscan royal family—has surpassed yesterday's in the imposing character of the melan choly rites themselves, but, above all, in the deep grief by which all classes of the population were inspired. From the Porta al Prato, or railway station, which was all hung in black, Ihe procession passed by the Borgo Oguissanti, by the Via del Fossi, by Santa Maria Novella, the Via di Banchi, behind the Cathedral, the Prefecture, the Badia, the Via del Palagio, the Pagliano Theatre, and the square ' of Santa Croce, until the body reached its final resting-place in the Cathedral. A detachment of mounted carabineers led the way, then followed a battalion of riflemen, then another of troops of the line, then the 4th battalion of the National Guards, then the 3d and the 2d. About three thousand National Guards in all took part in the procession. Im mediately after the National Guard, came the hearse. By the side of the car walked all the members of the Tuscan Ministry, with the exception of Salvagnolli, who, I regret to say, is confined to the house by the very delicate state of his health. The car was followed by the Secretary- General of the Tuscan Government, Celestine Bianchi, General Razzetti, and the secretaries of the Chamber of De puties. The members of the National Assembly followed, and it is no exaggeration to say that, with scarcely a single exception, they were all present. Even the, blind old Mar quis Gino Capponi, though in extremely infirm health, had caused himself to be led in the ranks of his fellow-deputies, to show his respect for the memory of his departed friend. After the deputies came all the officers of every Italian corps now in Florence, some 300 in number, and then an immense crowd of private citizens, comprising every person of the least eminence in Florence, and very many from all parts of Tuscany. The sad train wound up with the first battalion of the National Guard, and with another body of mounted carabineers. Nothing, perhaps, produced more effect on the crowd than the deep grief of all the domestics of the Corsini family, who followed close behind the hearse. The magni ficent white charger of Don Neri, which had borne him through the Lombard campaign of the present year, and which, with all its housings covered with a black Ye% likewise followed close on the car, was also an object of unusual interest. On the square of Santa Croce all the troops halted—the National Guards round the sides of the square ; the troops of the line in the centre, and there, battalion by battalion, rendered the last military honours to the deceased, as a major-general of the Tuscan army, by salutes of musketry. Tuscany could render no greater honour to the patriotic statesman whose loss she now deplores than by placing his remains in her great Pantheon, and thus associating his memory with that of the illuhrious dead who are honoured there ; in rearing for hint a monument in that sacred pile, where Machiavelli, Galileo, Michael Angelo, and Alfieri still speak through their monuments to the patriotism and pride of Italy. But the true testimony to the worth of Don Neri Corsini might be found yesterday, not in the funeral pomp which accompanied him to the tomb, but in the deep and general grief which all classes of his countrymen folt and expressed for his untimely loss. The petition of the merchants, bankers, and others in favour of the sailors in prison for the disturbance on board H.M.S. Princess Royal was present©d yesterday to the Home Secretary by Mr. R. W. Crawford, one of the members for London. There has never been an instance of greater eagerness to sign a document than that exhibited by all parties on this occasion. Messrs. Baily Brothers, the well-known sporting publishers, intend commencing in the spring a new Sport ing Magazine, to be entitled " Baily's Monthly Magazine of Sports, Pastimes, and Racing Register." It will, we understand, be a first•class publication at a low price. NATIONAL BANK OF SCOTLAND.—The annual general meeting of proprietors of this bank was held on Wednesday, when the profits of the past year wore declared to exceed £94,000. Out of this sum a dividend at the rate of eight per cent, was ordered to be paid, and an addition made to the reserve fund of £14,000. This reserve of un appropriated profits now amounts to £160,000 over and above an ample fund to meet losses or other contingencies ; the bank's position in every respect appearing to be sound and satisfactory. We extract the following from Le Sport We learn from the Sunday Times that Umpire, first favourite for the Derby of IS6O, is regularly turned out, weather per mitting, to grass. This system, adds the same journal, is adopted with nearly all the American horses. We may add, that it strongly resembles that adopted by H. Jen nings, of La Morley°, who has trained many horses on this plan, especially Lion, winner of the French Derby of 1856." DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM.—The extraordi nary occurrence of thunder storms in various parts of the country during the late intense frost, when the ground was covered with snow, and in some districts to a consi derable extent, has been more severe and more fatal at Fir beck, near Roche Abbey, Oldcoates, than in any other part of the kingdom yet placed on record. On Wednesday last a storm of this description, accompanied by a heavy fall of rain, passed over this village and the neighbourhood. No event of recent occurrence produced more surprise and consternation than this unusual visitation at a period of the year when it was the least expected. The flashes of light ning, from clouds at no great elevation from the earth, were intensely vivid and alarming ; and the peals of thun der which followed immediately astounding. It was ap prehended that some calamity would be the result. But if human life was spared, the deprivation of animal existence was serious, and Mr. Singelhurst, of Firbeck, is the unfor tunate sufferer. Thirty sheep, two beasts, and three horses were struck with the electric fluid and killed on the spot, to the very serious loss of the owner.—Doncaster, Notts, and Lincoln Gazette. MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE. _'The public ac counts exhibit some odd miscellaneous sources of income. Thus, in the year ending the 31st of March, small branches of the hereditary revenue produced £4,480 ; the fees of the House of Commons, £41,212 ; the Privy Council•office, £1,123 ; the Home-office, £989 ; the office for the registration of joint-stock companies, £5,585 ; fees and fines from police. courts, £11,270 •, miscellaneous office fees, £9,141 ; Scottish public offices, £36,832; Irish ditto, £4,877 ; army and ordnance extra re ceipts, £1,002,808 • navy old stores, £190,702 ; re ceipts in Office of Works for old materials, £5,003; graz ing rents, &c., on account of public parks, £5,433 ; seigno rage on bullion purchased for coinage at the Mint, £ 8 7,7 97 ; productive labour of prisoners in convict establishments, £13,105; London, Dublin, and Edinburgh Gazettes, £21,260 ; abatement from salaries, £7,513 ; conscience money, £3,015 ; various casual and miscellaneous receipts not specifically detailed, £153,047 ; repayments by trustees of the King of the Belgians, £37,500 ; unclaimed dividends, £155,361; East India Company for pensions to her Ma jesty's forces in India, £60,000; contributions from East India revenue for loss on account of mail service to India, £35,017; and savings on grants of Parliament and over issues repaid, £231,964. The woods and forests revenue was £420,328. REFUSAL TO BURY A BODY.—Considerable ex citement has been caused at Bakowell, by a woman named Mary Long, refusing to bury her mother, who had died, aged 86. The vicar, the Rev. K. H. Cornish, and others, failing to persuade her to comply, 17 days having elapsed, steps were taken to enforce the burial. Two guardians, two overseers, two surgeons, and two inhabitants, having made the necessary:complaint,, met at the Constabulary-office, and Superintenient Rust was appointed their officer under the act to carry out the necessary proceedings. Notice was served on Mary Long, but as she persisted in refusing, at longth the necessary steps were taken by Superin tendent Rust to view the alleged nuisance. After much trouble an entry was . obtained. The body had been properly put in a coffin and shrouded. The police being in possession of the house, the relatives, on Thursday, the 15th instant, came down to the town and buried this aged female in the cemetery at Bake well. The two females had lived a very secluded lifo, often shutting up their house for weeks together. They were per sons of property. Their haystacks had rotted to the ground, and the last year's crop was unmowed. The daughter, though harmless, lives a life of seclusion, her only compa nion being a cat ; she repudiates all interference and all authority. IMPORTANT.—A correspondent, signing himself " Sprot the Tinker," who is evidently eta fait at concocting a " Turf par," informs us that there is no truth whatever in the report that Mr. E. Hall has sold or let The Roman Candle to the Rev. Bryan King for the next session.— Be/d' Life. co linll2'lAL of A .ROCHDALE frOOLSZeIP. FOR PERJURY. An investigation, extending over several hours, took place at the City Police-court, Manchester, on Thursday, into a charge of perjury against Mr. John Mllnes, a woolstapler, carrying on business at Rochdale. Mr. Leresche, on behalf of the prosecution, stated the case, from which it appeared that in Jan., 1859, there was a bankruptcy pending in the Manchester Bankruptcy Court against Messrs. Richard Roth well and Son, woolstaplers and flannel manufac turers, Rochdale, and on the 12th of that month, at the meeting. for choice of assignees and proof of debts, in Mr. Commissioner Jemmett's Court, the defendant made a proof, in which he said that the bankrupts were indebted to him before the filing of the petition in the sum of £126, for goods sold and delivered to them at their request, for which sum he, and no other person on his behalf , had re ceived " any security or satisfaction whatsoever. It was upon this statement that the perjury was proposed to be assigned, for it would be shown. 2 that no less than five different bills of exchange, amounting in the aggregate to upwards of £OO, had been received from the bankrupts by the de fendant on account of the debt, and paid away by him. Mr. Charles Senior, usher at the Manchester Bankruptcy Court, produced a file of proceedings in Messrs. Rothwell's bankruptcy. It did not con tain the defendant's deposition o f the debt due to him, but in the list of debts this was placed at £126. It also contained the appointment of the creditors' assignees, bearing a signature purporting to be the defendant's. The witness had searched in every place for the defendant's deposition where it was possible to find it, but without success. The depositions of all the other creditors, eight in num ber, were on the file. Mr. John Lamb, Manchester, who had acted as solicitor to the bankrupts, deposed that he saw the defendant swear to the proof of the debt before it was filed, and that on the 13th of March succeed ing he (witness) obtained a copy of the deposition (produced), bearing the seal of the court. Ile also saw the original deposition on the 17th of May. A witness was then called to depose that the de fendant had obtained permission some time ago to look over the file at the Bankruptcy Court, with a view to show that the depositions must have been abstracted by the defendant ; but, as he could not remember the precise date of the occurrence, hill evidence was not taken. Mr. William James Rothwell, one of the bank rupts, who had carried on the business with is h father, stated that bills of exchange, at tee fel" lowing dates, and for the several amounts spfied, payable three months after date (subsequently dishonoured) were drawn by the defendant 50 upen the firm in his own favour:—Sept. 1, for £ 35.; Sept. 22, for £7O 12s. 6d. ; Oct. 25, for £3 5 1515 * The first two of these bills the defendant told the witness that he had paid away, and that the third was in his possession after their failure. On th e 7th Jan., 1859, the bankrupt endorsed tw o other bills drawn upon John Charles Rothwell, brother to the witness, for £34 2s. 6d. each, which the elder, bankrupt gave to the defendant. At a meeting of creditors held in Rochdale, about this time, a reso* lution was passed agreeing to accept a composition of 10s. in the pound from the bankrupts, who, he' s " ever, were wishful to pay only 6s. B d. The de: fendant strenuously opposed the smaller amoun'' and the two bills named were given by the bank rupts to guarantee 10s. in the pound to the defen dant in preference to the other creditors. These were the circumstances having i mme diate reference to the charge of perjury, and Mr. Boote (Boote and Jellicorse), with Mr. Foulkes, who ap peared for the defendant, by cross-examination and in defence, endeavoured to show that the present proceedings were instituted on account of th e p art which the defendant had taken in opposing the, bankrupts, and that he (defendant) had no in terest in making a false declaration before the bank ru p tcy commissioner. If the defendant had erred, it Wee through ignorance, and not with any corrupt in tention. Mr. Maude asked the meaning of the tens " corrupt." In this case it meant either that some thing had been said which ought not to have beell for e' said, or that something had been kept back i an improper purpose. What was the effect of the u fendant's conduct ? It was to give him a direct peel; niary advantage over the other creditors. It hau been said that the bills were worthless, but that NO! not really material to the charge. The defendant must have received them supposing they were *tort' something, or why did he take them ? It w as not 1 ,1 matter which could be settled there • but they had the broad fact before them that the 'defendantllsd gone and made a false oath in a judicial proceedin. and he (Mr. Maude) was afraid it was getting tou . , common not to think as much of an offence of . tni: kind as it ought to be thought of. It was matter the way in which people paltered with the!: oaths in some of the courts. The defendant had V"' his hand to a direct falsehood, and he must be cal' mitted for trial. On the application of Mr. Boote, Mr. Maude con- On sented to admit the defendant to bail, on two suretie being found in £5O each. MINES.—The Mining Share Market has been rather languid this week a nd shows evident s i g ns of the near approach of the Christmas holidays. In a few mines a fair business has been done, a nd in one, East R ussell, a large amount of speculation has been going on. I n e a t , during some days, it was difficult to deal in anything s; nearly every day telegrams have been received at the office, and every change in the lode is duly n dtified by the agent, who seems to be determined never to be blamed again for withholding information ! We believe it has been, and is, the nature of the Great Devon Consols lode, as well as other rich lodes, to be at one place remarkably rich, and at another comparatively poor; and if every change were reported as it occurred in Great DeVOllB Con sols, and were used for market purposes, what would be the effect upon these shares, solid and indifferent as they ere now to the market altogether ? There is one fact, however, in connection with East Russell, that does away, in a great m easure, with the effect of these sud den changes, an d which is, that at the 88 cast, 15 fms. have been driven through a course of ore which, though subject to sudden changes ' is worth, on an average, £6oper fin. ; and share holdera will do well in future to be p ar in mind that it is the nature of the lode to be bunchy, and that these chang es from rich to poor , and from poverty to ch.* ri should not alarm or in fluence them ; and we have some general principle, which we may expect to bring forth an equally satisfactory result in the case of the new cora panics. We are satisfied, from long observation of the w orking of Irish mining, that the latter is the true hYP(''' thesis ; that the mines of that country are surely and in trinsically valuable, and be capable of becoming an ia 3° " taut source of wealth to their proprietors and tho counts, at large, if carried out in the same sp irit, and under silt far circumstances, as mining is prosecuted in the pforrospethe rest'r's" districts of Great Britain. These w e believe, sons we shall give, can at present, as a general rule, (3111 Y be arrived at in the case of a ssociations with a prepondera' ting local interest or local management ; an d to such cense. quently, we predict a career of general prosperity , sim il i m ar to that of the successful local enterprises we have referral?"' Every one familiar with English mining .knows the vanle, of local co-operation. Without it, experience ehows this generally successful mining is, as a rule, only attainable by the larger mining firms, possessing the confidence of a con: siderable body o capitaists. The wide-spread on ant mining, such as f we see in Cornwall, is not possible without the aid of local interests. And, on a little consideration s the reason for this is obvious. Success in mining, like ° S. cess in any other pursuit, we know is only attainable -es" cept in a few rare and accidental cases—ya steady persever; anee in a judicious course of operations; and the confidenF_ necessary to induce this reasonable perseverance is onlY r f be got by local knowledge of circumstances and charact!r. Such instances of judicious perseverance as we continutig see crowned with great ultimate success in Cornwan__ for instance, the recent case of Wheal Clifford—would, 7! venture to say, be impossible, and indeed unreason: 0)A in the case of a company not fortified by that conviction onl y to be had by an intimate local knowledge, or sit let _...., _ the concurrent testimony of those who possess it. In.r i ft mining district in whose prosperity some p, tad , r a 8 . 1 , 0 1.. in, or connected with, the locality are not interesteatoXi mines may be said to be "in it, but not of it." Tha n e od neighbours of a mine know nothing of its proceed.oll the wholesome influence of public opinion, so know' and sphere, is entirely absent. When di ffi culties aknow• and when do they not P—the shareholders have a ° ledge except at secondhand, and that either from o a geno . necessarily interested, or from the generally vrtgoll against ralities of casual inspectors. That confidence , r wa der all difficulties, derived from the knowledge of to e c iirenders a of the different agents, and which in Corrora" 2 a tousaue. few dry words of half-praise from one man o f rts froth times more value than a volume of exciting reP° n i g . another, is entirely wanting. The abuse of confidence ! _A placed in a bad man—an error which no person of 1 0 r 4 ; knowledge of character would have fallen into—destlYod gents, confidence in a really good man ; both are confoun together in indiscriminate confidence or mistrust. these causes we contin uall y see in such districts a Wien,. errors in two opposite directions ; on the one side wen" terlY a reckless and improper expenditure of schemes nt __.„, unworthy, and on the other an equally reckless and it: accountable abandonment of mines just at the raoraeav when their vigorous prosecution presented tho most his ful chances of success. Consequently, except in thos cases where a lucky hit p ats a mine at once i arch cosec ü b s tan: tial position, an d re p airs all errors, mining in_ ti es is rarely suc cessful exce p t, as before stated, .1 th e hands of the larger f irms , whose position dea n s ‘_'• well-known charac t e r commands that confiden w hich in other cases can onl y be reasonably the ) _r_ sa f e ly given after some intimat e knowledge of c haracter of the concern and of the parties —a knowledge only to be had from locally instructed opinion. Such bell the experience of English mining, can we be surprised tll _t_ the results, both in success and 'failure, have been sine in Ireland ; and that while local enterprise has been been cesaful in the highest degree, that of distant parties has t generally unfortunate. It is what we might have expetc.en_ and the remedy for the latter is the course now being r lf_ . ° :.` —the greater infusion of local capital and interest into I ,r,.:: mining. Not that we would desire to exclude 13n_`: capitalists from adventuring in the sister country, butlial_7.. should prefer seeing them going into those concernessisa 11, gurated by native interests, satisfied that they n o ec ro i for present superior prospects of success to those English origin. The aptitude of Irishmen of _b e _ vnglish conducting to a successful issue matters in . wyi bt , , d to raming.--X ids, management has failed is not confine Journal. f 1 and P_ A l e ' NEWSTEAD ABBEY.—This beauti.u_ aboue turesque residence, with thinniense, formerly the , the boo of Lord Byron, and recently. the occupation of u ht t ° formed, shortly be ;roll g _ Col. Wildman, will, we are in London solar the hammer. The sale will take place in time in May or Juno nest.—,Stamford ilfercury, usfinpsusrely k ke •1 Nat bita -1( RDit itt o Litto 4 sli bull Tj 13 0 a 423 Ice° J o Le en Loci Il eta Aou i Iv, 4,