The Sun. — London, England, 1860-12-04 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.—Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. llarrison, Sole Lessees. The Production of Balfe's new grand legendary opera will take place on THURSDA Y, December 0 Louisa BIANCA, THE Pyne , M i s s BRAVO'S BRIDE. Suppo rted by Miss Thirlwall ; Mr. A. Lawrence , Mr. A. St. .A_lhyn, Mr. A. Corri, Mr. J. Wharton , M r. T. Distill, Mr. Lyall, and Mr. Wm. arrison, Conductor, Mr. A. Mellon.—Orchestra, of EightyH Performers ; Chorus of Fifty Voices. Doors open at 7 ; commence at half-past 7. OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT ' h GARDEN —under the Management of Miss LOUISA pYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE AMBUSCADE. The new Operetta, THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE, Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. H. Corri. To conclude with THE NIGHT DANCERS. Messrs H.Flai,h, H. Corri, G-. Belly, Distin, and Lyall ; Madame Palmieri, Miss Albertazzi, Miss Leffizr, Miss Thirlwall, and Miss Huddart. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mallon. Doors open at Seven. Commence at Half-past. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Leagee. Mr. J. B. Baakstone. TriTS EVENING the nerformanoes will oommenoe with THE BABES IN THE WOOD. After which, BOX AND COX. And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Commence at 7. .OYAJ, PRINCESS'S TREATRE.— LcsFee and Manw,er, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with SUSAN SMITH. To be followed by RUY BLAS. Supported by Mr. Fechter, Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond, Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. llarris ; Miss Rose Lecicrcq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Solo Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING - , THE PE CS OF TILE PARTERRE. Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott. The Music by Mr. George Loder. Principal characters by Mr IT. Neville, Mr. :Tohn Rouse, Mr. 3. Morris. Miss M. Ternan, Miss Neville, MissHudspeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner, Miss Douglas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson. After which, a new Drama, entitled HANDY ANDY. M es srs. Campbell, Johnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, Villiers, Butler, and John Drew (his Bth appearance) ; Mrs. J. Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, 11liss 31. Ternan, and Miss Neville. Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNE ; or THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers, Mr. G. Vining - , Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell„ Mr. Clifford, Mr. .1. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and 3rladarae Celeste. To commence at a quarter to 7, on account of the length of the entertainmnts A PT, PT-TT NWAr THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manag Mr er. . Beni, Webster. Engagement for a limited number of nights of Miss Armes Robertßon and Mr. Dion Boucica,ult, who will appear every evening in the highly successful Drama of " The Colleen Bawn.” THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Messrs. W. Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs. Billington. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boucicault, D. Fisher, Billincrton, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billing - ton, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with ICI ON. PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Billington," Mrs. Chatterley, Miss K. Kelly, &c. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, is. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Ss. • Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 12 ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Was. BATTY. Miss Rebecca Isaacs every Evening. This Evening, a new Spectacle, entitled THE LION CONQUEROR ; or, The .Death Jungle, expressly for the introduction of the Wonders of the World, " The Groupe of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Croekett. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome and their Troupe of unequalled performers, Arc., Including the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest Wonder of the age. Concluding with THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGI MENT. Marie, Riss Rebecca Isaacs. Doors open at half -past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4 Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. THE CATTLE SHOW AND CANTERBURY HALL. C. MORTON begs to inform visitors to London that the above HALL, with its Magnificent Gallery of Modern Paint ings, by all the best masters, is OPEN EVERY EVENING at 7 o'clock. GRAND SELECTIONS PROM BELLINI'S NORMA AND FLOTOW'S MARTHA. PRINCIPAL ARTISTEM, MISS RUSSELL MADAME MARIA MISS TYR REL MISS WILKINSON Mr. HENRY HERBERT and Mr. BERNARD. Conductor Mr. JONGIIMANM. The COMIC Department comprises Messrs. A. B. Hollings worth, W. T. Critchfield, J. Blanchard, G. W. Fell, Charley Fox, and E. Marshall, in his transformation song, " THE DOMESTIC DRAMA," personating five different characters. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICX, Dec. 4, MO. THEILMOIETEIt, IN THE SHADE. 47—highest since noon yesterday. 42 —lowest this morning and during the night. 46—this day at noon. BA ROMETER-29.33. WlND—South-Easterly; light airs, with rain. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. MIR DAY.—Morning, sh. 27m.—Afternoon, sh. 52m. To-monßow.-Morning, 6h. 17m.—Afternoon, 6h. 43m. THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 4, 1860. Already the disunion movement in the United States begins to ebb, and the reason for the hot haste of the Secessionists in Georgia and South Carolina is becoming apparent to all. The agitators well know that secession would not bear reflection, and they were anxious to make what capital they could out of the mortification of the hour. Hence it was their object to hasten on a convention of delegates from the Slave States at once, before men's passions should have time to cool after their pro voking defeat. The South Carolina Secessionists have prospered so far in their schemes that they have succeeded in getting a Convention of the State fixed for the 17th of this month instead of January 13th, as at first proposed ;—even those few weeks would, they feared, do much in bringing men to reasonable counsels, a fact which of itself shows their conscious weakness. Had they been sure of a popular and a good cause, they would have preferred rather to give it time to gather irresistible strength. In some of the counties of Georgia itself, immense "mass meetings" have been held to oppose disunion. Similar meet ings have been held in Virginia, the most influen tial of the Southern States. And though nothing has or can be formally determined on yet, and a Convention will be called probably of more than one state, yet all looks as if time and discussion would soon calm down the excitement. We have, moreover, by the last mail a letter of Mr. DOUGLAS, and a speech of Senator TRUMBULL of Illinois, a friend of Mr. LINCOLN'S, and pre sumed to knowapwte.a well his policy, both of which are equally ad apted to bring to their senses all who have not lost them for ever; also a speech of thanks by Mr. LINCOLN himself which, though very brief, an d i n qu i te genera l language, i s yet entirely conciliatory. "In all our he says, "let us 'neithe r express nor rejoicings," cherish any harsh feelings tow ar d any citizen who by his vote has differed with us. Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling." The other gentlemen, however, enter fully into the subject; Mr. DOUGLAS, who acknowledges that no man can regret Mr. LINCOLN'S election more than he does, fo Y et shows, for two reasons principally, that it is impossible to make it a ground of secession. Nothing, he observes, illegal or unconstitutional hes been done. The Federal compact has been no way violated ; the election has been conducted in all respects according to the law of the Union, and there is therefore no shadow of a pretext at present for separation on account of the election itself. As a good citizen and law-abiding man, he feels bound to declare that the mere election of any man to the Presidency by the American people, in accord ance with the constitution and laws, does not of itself furnish any ja.st or reasonable ground for dissolving the Federal Union. But the reason moat satisfactory to himself, and probably to his corre Ispondents, is that by which he a 41 ' k • • THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING . ; DECEMBER 4, 1860. ..-----.--------'"--"1-----------...----- them--to en d e avours to show that Mr. LINCOLN is rather an rate, playgrounds for the use of toys in object of pity than of dread. That he is so fettered i the moping nrchins of the metropolis, hod are by a majority both in the Senate and the House of restrieted for the most to the manufacture of irt -IRepresentatives that he will be powerless for evil. pies in the gutters —having in their eyes a The present l aw s, Mr. DOUGLAS argues, and with becoming fear of the policeman: . But for too much truth, are all such as the South must the Relief of Distress, as projected by wish to keep, and Mr. LINCOLN cannot repeal W. D. 8., and as advocated by his sympa them. He cannot even fail in his duty as a Presi- , thisers, Lord EBURY can indulge only in words of finding himself " a prisoner b efore scorn and objurgation. It seems almost ineempre dent without the 'Ugh Court of Impea chment." minority h ens ible that Lord EBURY could write as he has In a in both Houses of Congress, and with the Supryme written upon the subject of this proposed associa tion, that he could have written thus upon such a Court (the same which gave the infamous DRED eubject at any time — b ut it is most of all matter of SCOTT decision), to expound the laws he will be amazement that he could so inaugurate the month powerless for evil. Mr.D ouGLas does not deem it ecem ber, the month of Christmas ! But that we have all long since le a rn t to recognise in Lord possible that the President should be able to per - of D petrate any act which wou l d interfere with the E BU RY a man of genuine though (as the case in rights of individual citizen s, or invade the reserved point indicates) of occasionally eccentric benevo rights of the States on the sub j ect of Slavery, Even his nominations to office must be confirmed lence, we should certainly have come to the con by the Senate, so that a body in which the South elusion that his temperament bore an affinity, rather , confides can prevent his app ointing any bad man to the old stage-type of the unmitigated hunx or curmudgeon. And throughout these extraor to a public post. Mr. Senator TRUMBULL joins, to a great extent, dinary strictures of his, Lord EBURY is , in the same line of reasoning with Mr. DOUGLAS. above all, as we have intimated at the He also shews that not a single illegal ae l / 4 has been very outset of these remarks, so illogical ! committed to justify the idea of secession, but he He directs the particular attention of those who disclaims besides for his party any thought of trench- are most interested in this warm-hearted enterprise ing on the rights of the States. Mr. LINCOLN will of Mr. BROMLEY'S, to the eminent success be, he says, the President of the whole country' already attendant upon the operation of and as rea dy to protect and,defend the State from kindred societies now for years past in w hich he has not received a solitary vo te, aga i ns t existence societies like the Mendicity any encroachment on its constitutional rights as Society, or again like the Metropolitan District which he has received the largest majo- Visiting the one in and Relief Association. Of the latter rity. Those who elected him knew that they body he writes—" It is now extending itself south elected a President with limited and delegated of the Thames, and with as increase of funds is , powers; they contemplated no inroad upon the capable of coping, as far as with safety it can be rights of any of the States ; on the other hand, the a ttempted, with all the occasional destit ution of Republican party will rejoice in an opportu nit y of the capital." Yet in the same breath almo s t he showing that they are " not for interfering with inveighs against the distribution of relief in this the domestic institutions of any of the States, nor way among the more destitute part of the metro the advocates of negro equality , or amal g amation, politan population. He instances , wit h appa with which so many have charged them." rently a glow of satisfaction while so doing, the Secession, he says, is an impract i ca bilit y , or r emarkable fact that one among the many " Re rather an impossibility. The Const i t ution p rovides f ug es" in London has, within the last year , pro novided ," 50,000 lodgings and 116,000 rations t o way by which a State can w ithdraw from the Union. If all the Federal officers in South Carolina the destitute multitude yet he has scarcely were to resign, and the State to declare itself out done so when he is prophesying all sorts of dreadful of the Union, the only result would be inconveni- disasters from the distribution of aid by such a ence to the State itself, so long as it did not venture scheme as the one proposed by W. D. B. In order to interfere with the collection of t he Federal re- to impress the force of w hich lu g ubrious and almost venues. And, then, as to its raising a n arm y , what malignant predictions upon the pub li c m ind , Lo r d is the army to do ? With whom is it to fight ? EBURY, with an astonishing obliquity of judgment, Revolution would not begin till they attacked the recalls to mind thus garrulously " What took place Federal officers in collecting the revenue; but there thirty years ago, when, from a continuance of a lax and what was intended to be a benevolent admini is no complaint against the Revenue laws. He shews titration of the Poor Laws, paying wages not accord that the clamour of S. Carolina is, in fact, a sham. ing to work done but according to the size of the She complains of the non-execution of the Fugitive labourer's family, &c., the peasantry o f half our Slave Law ; yet she is so surrounded by slave States s that just in her case the law is nev er needed. He sou thern counties rose in insurrection ; the late warns them, however, that the great mass of the Duke of RICHMOND was compelled to repel an people of the States will not tolerate separation in attack of armed men by force ; and so dangerous any form—that " the Union must and shall be was the state of affairs at that time considered to be, that the Duke of WELLINGTON himself left h is preserved." But if the South have so little to fear from country house, and established himself at Winches the triumph of Republicanism, we may well ter, that he might from the most central position of begin to ask what all the stir has been about, that county of which he was Lord-Lieutenant We cannot do better on this pcint than quote direct the movements of the regular troops and Senator TRUMBULL'S own words—" Should any Volunteers !" As though any such preposterous Republican inquire what has been gained by the project as that the acme of the folly of which we triumph of Republicanism, I answer much. We have above italicised, had the smallest atom in the have gained a decision of the people in favour of a world to do with the relief of the most abject Pacific Railroad—a homestead policy—a judicious poverty in this metropolis, through the agency of tariff—the admission into the Union of Kansas as this now most generously projected association !It a free State—a reform in the financial department is susprising to us that a man of common sense, and of the Government—and, more important than all, a man of knownbenevolence like LordEBURY should the verdict of the people—the source of power, and have pledged himself thus petulantly to oppose the from whose decision there is no appeal, that the con- establishment and organisation of a society designed stitution is not a slavery-extending instrument, No to carry aid so humanely to the most hidden and more DRED SCOTT decisions will now be made. Free- forlorn sufferers, fainting, and occasionally even men, both of the North and of the South, will here- dying from absolute starvation, in the back slums after be protected in all their constitutional of this vast metropolis. Lord EBURY, we cannot rights. The policy of the Government, as of old, will but think, might better have employed the first now set in favour of freedom, and not for the day of this present month of December than in supremacy of slavery, as has been the case for the penning these strictures against the Relief of Dis last six years. Freedom henceforth will be the law tress in the Capital—strictures chiefly remarkable of the territories, because the people, in their for their most inappropriate ascerbity, for their majesty, have so ordered, and neither courts nor most perverse and indeed utterly incomprehensible congresses will be able to thwart their will. When misrepresentation. full effect shall have been given to all these great measures of the Republican party, and the preju dices engendered against itinlthe minds of many, by the artful appeals of demagogues, who.have mis represented its objects, shall have been removed by actual knowledge of its acts, we may expect the bitterness of party spirit to subside, the cry of dis union to be hushed, and the principles of Republi canism to become the permanent policy of the Government, under which it will flourish and pros per, as I trust, for ever." His Excellency the Count de Persigny will leave London this day for Paris, to enter on his official duties there as Minister of the Interior. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and family left Buxton on Saturday for Roseneath Castle, N.B. The Marquis Camden and family, the Earl of Romney and the Ladies Marsham, the Earl and Countess of Orkney, Count and Lady Cecil de la Field, and Lord and Lady Huntingtower are amongst the visitors who are passing the season at St. Leonards-on-Sea. The Earl and Countess of Craven have arrived in town from visiting the Earl and Countess cf Verulam at Gorhambury Park. The countess and the Ladies Craven will leave town to-day on a visit to Lady Marian Alford, at Ashbridge. The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke passed through town on Saturday from visiting her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The noble earl and her ladyship are gone to Wimpole The Countess Delawarr was sufficiently recovered from her late indisposition to enable the noble earl and her ladyship to leave Buckhurst Park yesterday for Paris, on their way to Nice and Genoa for the winter. The Earl of Wilton has arrived at Melton Mowbray, from Heaton Hall, Lancashire. Viscount and Lady Blanche Dupplin have returned to town from a tour of visits. Her ladyship is quite recovered from her late indisposition, and will shortly join the family circle about to assemble at Badminton. Lady Marian Alford will receive a distinguished circle at Ashbridge Park during the present week. Her ladyship will leave Ashbridge early next week:for Rome for the winter. One of the most illogical arguments it has ever been our fortune to read has but just now been endited by Lord EDURT in depreciation of the newly projected Society for the Relief of Distress in the Metropolis. At the very outset of these strictures by the noble lord, he takes occasion somewhat perversely and petulantly to designate S. G. 0. " a chartered libertine." Without indulg ing in any such direct vituperation upon W. D. B. the noble lord insinuates as plainly as possible that he is fain to regard the gentleman represented by those now familiar initials as one of the most indiscreet and crotchetty of living philanthropists. Lord EBURT, when he sat down to write this long yarn of his, at Moor Park, on Saturday, the Ist of December, was evidently in ill-humour with nearly everybody (himself included) and with nearly everything. His aid he had some time since accorded, he acknowledges, to the recently defunct Society for the Establishment of Playgrounds in London and Westminster. He is "put out" at the failure of that benevolent scheme—" I confess," he says, "I am not disposed to criticise with undue severity the conduct of those who "—had the management of the undertaking! He has just written " I had no hand in its management." And he goes on to protest that he has no inclination to fall foul with those who had. Observe he is burning to be " at" them—tooth and nail—hammer and tongs—at the very time he deprecates any such intention or even predisposition. He has given his name, he has given his guineas, so that if possible all the gamins de Londres may bowl their hoops, spin their tops, fly their kites, fillip their marbles, tip their "cats," and so forth through the whole Book of Games in their own nicely gravelled and smoothly sodded Playgrounds. He is sorely vexed that the whole project has collapsed. Most of all he must be irritated against the Management under which it has collapsed. Yet in spite of all this, which is so obvious, be has not the smallest wish, ho protests, to criticise with undue severity that same manage ment. Lady Margaret Beaumont was safely delivered of a son and heir on Sunday last at Bywell Hall, in Northumberland. Lord Dunkellin arrived in town yesterday from visiting the Earl and Countess of Cork at Marston House. His lordship will shortly leave town to join the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde in Ireland. The Hon. Flora Macdonald has returned to Farranco's Hotel from attending on her Majesty at Wind sor Castle. The Hon. Grantley F. Berkeley has left Far ranco's Hotel. A letter from Calcutta says that the train which conveyed the Governor-General and his court from Calcutta to Rajmahal, on the occasion of the opening of the East Indian Railway, could have been traced for miles by the softening savour of Manilla cheroots, the smoke of which proceeded equally from the viceregal car and the every-day first-class cariage, forming an Oriental expression of disre gard of Sir Benjamin Brodie's counterblast. DEATH OF SIR HENRY MARSH, BART,—This eminent physician died on Saturday at his residence in Merrion-square, Dublin. Sir Henry rose apparently in his usual health, and when about to leave his house, his car riage being in waiting at the door, he was seized with an apoplectic fit, and expired at a few minutes past 12 o'clock. This sad event has thrown a gloom over the city, and caused the deepest sorrow to the profession of which Sir Henry Marsh was so eminent a member. Sir Henry was not conscious after the moment of the attack. The ,S'cotsman announces with regret the death of the Rev. Dr. James Robertson, Professor of Church History in Edinburgh University, and long a leader in the General Assembly, which took place at his house in Ainslie-place, Edinburgh, on Sunday afternoon. On Friday week Dr. Robertson had an attack of constipation, which was followed by jaundice and gastric fever, under which he sank. Dr. Robertson was only in his 58th year, but though apparently robust, had long worn the aspect of a more advanced age. The chief work of Dr. Robertson's latter years has been the promotion of what is known as the Endowment Scheme of the Church of Scotland, in which he laboured with un tiring zeal and with the most splendid success. Having tied his own hands from the chance of flinging even a single gibe against the recently deceased association that never came t o anything beyond a public dinner and a prospectus and a subscription list —upon the principle, of course, de mortuis et cetera : Lord EMMY turns round savagely upon the little callow project of benevolence that has but just chipped the shell in its nest under the eaves of the Thatched House. His lordship can heave a sigh, could almost drop a tear, for the unaccountable failure of the attempt to supply toys, or, at any MR. BRIGHT, M.P.—A meeting is to be held in the Town-hall, Leeds, on Tuesday evening next, the 11th inst., to inaugurate a society called the Leeds Working Men's Parliamentary Reform Association, and among the gentlemen who are announced to take part in the proceed ings are --Mr. John Bright, M.P., Mr. E. Baines, M.P., and Mr. B.A. L eat h ern , M.P. Th e c h a i r w ill b e o cc u pied by Mr. Mi ddleton, barrister, one of the aldermen of the THE LATE EARL OF DIINDONALD.—The Ayr shire Advertiser understands that the mortgagee of Dun donald Castle has made over the property and grounds to the presont Earl, in token of his admiration for the deceased. The Salut Public of Lyons announces the death of the Archbishop of Auch. The Bordeaux journals state that upwards of 80 dogs were destroyed in the course of last month by the police For wandering unmuzzled about the streets of that city; not fewer than 47 persons were prosecuted for having allowed such animals to go astray. THE CASE OF MISS AYLWARD.—The friends of Miss Aylward, foiled in their attempts to secure her libe ration, through a legal quibble, now talk of bringing an action against the Governor of Grangegorman Prison for her illegal detention by him. The News, which claims to be the organ of Roman Catholic proselytism in Dublin, scouts the suggestion thrown out in the judgment of Chief Justice Monahan, that the matter might be brought before a Court of Error, seeing that before such a step could be taken the greater part of the lady's captivity would have expired. The Gazetta di Torino contains the programme of a national subscription for Garibaldi. The committee say —lt is not to confer honour on Giuseppe Garibaldi that we address ourselves to the Italians, but that history may not one day accuse his contemporaries of ingratitude. Some months ago Sir Bartle Frere sent to this country a magnificent collection of casts from Hindu archi tecture and antiquities. These are in the custody of the committee of the Architectural Museum, and, pending the settlement of the points at issue between that body and the Government, are at present invisible to the public. Nl%\',. 11, (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PARIS, DEC. 4. The Moniteur contains the following :—M. Baroche, President of the Council of State, having the rank of Minister, takes the title of Minister without portfolio. TURIN, DEC. 3. King Victor Emmanuel has issued a proclama tion to the Sicilians, in which his Majesty recalls that one of his ancestors has reigned over Sicily. He likewise mentions the election of the Duke of Genoa as King of Sicily in 1848, and the vote of Sicily in favour of annexation recently given. The King promises to establish institutions for promoting public morality, and to respect the privileges of the Sicilian Church. He concludes by requesting unity and concord among the people. NAPLES, DEC. 1 (via Marseilles). The English fleet salutedaing Victor Emmanuel on his departure for Sicily. This act created a sen sation. The fleet har left Naples, iu order, it is believed, to follow the King to Palermo. The National Guard has dispersed the last riotous assemblages of the mob, and the city is now tranquil. The Marquis of Villamarina has been entrusted with the direction of foreign affairs. The sum awarded to Herr Molique by the min mittee of the Norwich Festival, as a remuneration for hi successful oratorio of " Abraham" has been returned to the hon. secretary, Mr. Roger Kerrison, with a request on the part of the composer that it may be presented to the cha ritable fund in behalf of which the festival was instituted.' After an investigation extending over several days, the Royal Dockyard Commissioners terminated their labours at Chatham Dockyard on Saturday afternoon. THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AND HIS LATE CONSTI- TrENTs.—His Grace the Duke of Richmond has issued the ' following address to the electors of West Sussex :—" Gentle men,—lt is with feelings of no ordinary pain that I address you on the present occasion. The sad event which we all deplore compels me to resign that trust which you haie so generously confided to me for a period of 19 years. I shall never cease to look back with pride and satisfaction on the connexion which has so long subsisted between us. In offering you my best thanks for the many marks of confi dence at your hands, I beg leave to assure you that I shall always continue to take the deepest interest in all that per tains to the welfare of the county of Sussex.—l am, gentle men, your obedient servant—RicumoND." GAETA, DEC. 1. General Bosco, in a report to the King, states that ho reconnoitred the valley of Astralina on the 29th ult., and did not find any siege works in course of construction there. It is denied that the King has ruptured a blood vessel. ROME, DEC. 1. Seven hundred pontifical gendarmes are traver• sing the province of Viterbo. THE REPRESENTATION OF NEWCASTLE-UPON TYNE.—Mr. P. A. Taylor, the radical candidate, in an address issued on Saturday night, retires from the contest. He gives as his reason that he has been twice chosen by a show of hands on previous elections, and, as his ping to the poll on this occasion would not secure his return, he vacates the field, and leaves it to be contested by Mr. Beau mont and Mr. Carstairs, promising to come forward on some other occasion, if called upon to do so. As a number of Mr. Taylor's friends will support Mr. Carstairs, the con test will be a pretty smart one. If a Tory had come for ward and fought for the seat along with the two Liberals, Mr. Carstairs might have been elected, but under present circumstances Mr. Beaumont's return is considered pretty certain. The nomination may be expected on Thursday. SOCIETY OF ARTS.—The subject of electro-block printing, applied to the enlarging or reducing from any printing surface, or original drawing, will be brought before the Society of Arts on Wednesday (to-morrow) evening, the sth instant, by Mr. H. G. Collins. Mr. George Cruik . - shank will preside. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—The council, at their session on Saturday last, received notice that a fund of about £l5O had been raised by pupils, former and present, of the junior school, for instituting a perpetual annual book prize to be awarded to the best mathematician in the school, and to be called the Cook prize, in commemo ration of the respect and gratitude entertained by the subscribers for the late Rev. William Cook, deceased, who for 21 years had been the head mathematical master in the school. The council directed that the offer of Mr. Martin Tucker Smith, M.P., to confer a nomination to an appointment in the Madras Army on a student of the col lege to be recommended by the council, should be commu nicated to all the students of the college, and their parents and guardians. On the recommendation of examiners, Professor Jenner, M.D., Professor Sharpey, M.D., and Professor Walshe, M.D., the Filliter exhibition of £3O, for proficiency in pathological anatomy, was awarded to Mr. H. C. Bastian, of Falmouth. THE ROYAL MAIL STEAMER TASMANIANASHORE. —SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Evening.—The Royal Mail steamship Tasmanian, Captain Sawyer, which sailed this afternoon with mails and passengers to the West inmes, has gone ashore in Totterill Bay, just inside the Needles. The South Western Company's steamer Cou rier, Captain Harvey, from Jersey, reports having ob • served a large steamer showing blue lights and sending up rockets. The Courier stopped her engines and dropped anchor. At 4.45 p.m. Captain Sawyer sent a boat to the Courier, when Captain Harvey went on board the Tasmanian, but found he could render no assistance. She had apparently sustained no damage. It is sup posed that the Tasmanian must have gone inside of the Warden ledge buoy, and the weather being very thick, went ashore. She was lying in three fathoms depth of water, but draws, however, nearly four fathoms. The chief officer of the Tasmanian came up in the Courier for assistance, and Captain Vincent, with steam tugs and a great number of men and has proceeded this evening to render assistance. It is hoped she will come off with flood tide. It is not known whether the pilot had left her when the accident occurred. A HOME THRUST.—A devout slaveholder in Louisville, Kentucky, was exhorting a poor, pious old female slave to be very humble—reminding her that the Saviour Jesus had neither house nor home. "Yes," she replied with emphasis, " blessed be God; he had no house, no home, and no niggers !" A QUIET NIGHT IN AN AUSTRALIAN INN.—And then we went to bed. But not to sleep—oh, dear no I I was in bed at a quarter before eleven. At eleven two dogs had a difference of opinion under my window; they walked up and down, growling, till, as near as I can guess, a quar ter past eleven ; when they departed without fighting, at which I was sorry. At half-past eleven (I merely give you approximation as to time : I did not look at my watch), a drunken man fell into the gutter, and, when helped out by another man, pitched into him savagely. They fought three rounds, and exeunt. At twelve, the bar was cleared and a gentleman, of the name of Bob, was found to be unequal to the occasion, and lay down in the mud, pulling a wheelbarrow over him, under the impression that it was the bed-clothes. Bob's mates fell out as to a score at the blacksmith's for sharpening gads. Fight, and grand tableau —exeunt. At half-past twelve, a drunken Irishwoman was conducted home by two policemen; on reaching my window she declined to proceed on any terms whatever, and committed a series of savage assaults on the constabulary. At one, a gentleman from over the way came out of his house, and, without notice or apparent reason, discharged a six-barrelled revolver, which reminded another neighbour that he might as well let off a two-barrelled fowling-piece; which caused a third neigh bour to come out and swear at the other two like a trooper. Macmillan's Magazine. " POISON PROOF."—On Frid:y, an inquest was held at Aldershot, touching the death of Samuel Wells Hillier, paymaster sergeant in the 9th Lancers, who had committed suicide by shooting himself the previous morn ing. It appears that Hillier was a defaulter to the extent of seven pounds, and the following letter, addressed to a comrade, was read :—Dear Cliff,—l suppose I'm the last man in the world you would imagine to commit such a deed ; but under my assumed gaiety I have been fright fully miserable for the last six months. . . Besides, what have Ito live for I My poor mother, the only person on earth I cared for, is dead. As to death, I look it as calmly in the face as I would a number I report. It is a most remarkable thing, but I really believe I'm poison proof. About ten days ago I took an ounce of laudanum, enough to poison a horse. It had no effect on me. After that I took eight grains of opium ; again no effect, except a slight drowsiness. Then four grains of morphia ; no effect. I then took five grains of Lig. Opida, Lidatirue, with the same result. My last mode of exit is a sure one. I know the exact position of the heart, and if a ball doesn't penetrate the centre it is strange to me. I am sure you will say, " What a fool to do such a thing," but my life is truly miserable. When I went to London and heard for certainty of Josephine's marriage with a man I hate above all men, I was nearly driven mad ; for, although parted from her for more than six years, I love her more than ever; tut yet I accuse her for marrying the man I hate. Good-bye, good-bye, Cliff. God bless you.—Yours, not perfectly sane. SA.M HILLIER. The jury returned a ver dict of fele de se. A MAN STABBED BY A VOLUNTEER AT DON CASTER.—On Saturday night last, at a late hour, a work man employed at the Great Northern Railway Plant, at Doncaster, named Thomas Smith, was stabbed by a volunteer named Charles Christopher Watson, also employed by the company. Watson had been attending drill on Saturday afternoon, and afterwards it would appear he went to the " Sir Charles Napier" beerhouse, in St. Sepulchre Gate, and there met with Smith, whom he knew, and to whom he offered to toss for a shilling ; Smith acquiesced. Watson lost the toss, and then refused to pay it. Smith demanded payment and put out his hand to receive it, but Watson still refused, and the quarrel that ensued caused the land lord to eject him from the house. Smith left in a few minutes, and on his way home ho met Watson, who said —" Now you do e you want your shilling." Smith said " Yes I do." He again put out his hand to receive it, when Watson, who had on his rifle dress, took out his bayonet and stabbed Smith in the arm, inflicting a serious wound. Watson then made his escape and has not since been heard of. It is thought he left the town after going to his house and changing hie clothes. VIENNA, DEC. 4. The official Weiner Zeitung says:—"We are authorised to declare that the rumours concerning negotiations on the cession of Venetia for a pecu niary indemnity are unfounded, and that, as a matter of course, there can be no question of selling a crown land, TRIESTE, DEC. 3. The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian has assumed the command of a squadron of evolution. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY, 10.45 A.M. The Tasmanian appears to have suffered no damage beyond the fouling of her screw, which it is expected will be cleared so as to admit of the vessel resuming her voyage in a few hours. MADRID, DEC. 3. In to-day's sitting of the Cortes Senor Revero proposed that any acts of the authorities which might obstruct the lawful action of the political parties should be considered as a violation of the representative system. The Cortes rejected this proposition, and the Minister of the Interior then declared that democracy had no legal existence in Spain. FRANCE. BoußsE, Dec. 3.—The settlement of the monthly account has gone on without difficulty. The mar ket has been firm, but prices have not materially changed. For the Account, Threes, which opened at 70f 35c, are now at 70f 40c; Mobilier, 777 f 50c; Orleans. 1,390 f ; Nnrtheee, 990 f ; Mediterranean, 912 f 80c ; Austrian, 511 f 250 ; Lombard, 490 f. The following are the last quotations: — ft per per Cents 96 30 Credit Foacier 920 Do end month.... 96 40; Belgian 41, — 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 50 1 Roman Bank Shares 2930 —1 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 775 —1 Spanish Threes — Do. Account 778 751lioms Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1390 .. 1390 Northern New ditto B9B 75 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 910 .. 910 Geneva 405 .. 400 Southern .. 622 50 .. 523 75 Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Loirbard , 4BO .. 486 25 711 E CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 4 The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, Captain Christian, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived. She brings 78 passengers, five packages specie (L 1,092), precious stones, value 5,550 rupees, and the following cargo: —57 chests of oranges, 73 boxes of raisins, 123 cases of dates, 1,082 boxes of almonds, three cases of shawls, four boxes of valuables, one case of shawls, 101 packages of sundries, and 1,570 bales of raw silk ; value £130,000 sterling. Off Cape de Gatte, the Ripon spoke the barque Statesman, and Norwegian brig Islander, standing to the westward. At Alexandria—A Russian frigate, her Majesty's steamer Firefly, and the Egyptian squadron. At Malta, her I\lajesty's ships Victor Emmanuel and Cesar. At Gibraltar, her Majesty's ships Argus, Quail, and Redpole, and Swedish corvette Legerb- jelke. Private letters from Afazagan state that the place was full of wheat, and that 10 vessels were in that bay ready to ship it, but nothing could be done until the Governor received instructions from the Emperor on the subject. South-westerly gales prevailed with great inten sity along the Barbary coast. A box, containing specie, has been saved from the remains of the Brazilian corvette lately wrecked near Cape Spartel. Tho Gibraltar Chronicle of the 28th of Novem ber says two Spanish men-of-war steamers were lying at 14logadore waiting for treasure, which the Moors had promised to pay towards the war indem nity. Only one merchant vessel is reported to be loading at the port. Lloyd's agency for Gibraltar and Algesiras fur nishes the following particulars :—lntelligence has been received of the loss, at Suffi, on the 16th ult., of the British schooner Aurora, which sailed from Mazagan on the previous day for the said port. She struck on a rock at Cape Cautin, when the master ran for Saffi, and beached the vessel at that port, where she became a total wreck. The British cutter Union, on her voyage from Cork to Seville, was totally lost on the night of the 22d ult. on the rocks of Salmedinas. It appears that the master and two out of five men composing the crew left the ♦essel and were drowned, the other two remained on board, and were saved by the cap tain of the Darro steamer the following morning, who sent a boat and took them off the wreck, and landed them at Cadiz. The survivors of the ill-fated Brazilian corvette Donna Isabella, wrecked on the coast of Barbary, were despatched to Lisbon, per Gibraltar, on the 22d ult. From Lisbon they will be sent to the Brazils. The following British ships had arrived out at Gibraltar, since last dates:—Schooner, Henry and Margaret, 28 days from Liverpool ; steamer, Euphrates, 6k days from Liverpool ; steamer Atlantic, 61 days from Liverpool ; steamer, Cadiz, 7 days from London ; schooner, Rival, 13 days from Liverpool; steamer, Crimean, 5 days 8 hours from Liverpool ; steamer, James Kennedy, 6k days from Swansea ; barque, Margaret, 40 days from Liverpool; brig, Peru, 16 days from Swansea; and steamer, Prompt, 8 days from London. Gibraltar dates are to the 28th. Exchanges and freights remained without notable alteration. TIIE BRAZILI. AV AiVD RIVER PLATE NAILS SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 4. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Tyne, Capt. Jellicoe, with the above mails, has arrived. The Tyne brings 107 passengers, including Cap tain Abbott, Lieutenant Gillson, nine officers, and 50 men of her Majesty's late steam troopship Perseverance. Her specie amounts to £3,841 6s. Bd. She also brings the following cargo :-2,660 bags coffee, 200 rolls tobacco, 18 bales leaf tobacco, 100 barrels tapioca, 133 packages sundries. The Royal Mail steamer Magdalena, with the out ward Brazilian mails of the 9th ult., arrived at St. Vincent, Nov. 21, and sailed again the same day. At the River Plate were her Majesty's steamers Leopard, Buzzard, Oberon, and Ardent, Rio ; Madagascar, Bahia; Curacao. Her Majesty's steamer Prometheus sailed from St. Vincent, Nov. 22, for the coast of Africa. Her Majesty's steamer Geyser sailed from Lis bon on the 30th for England with the remainder of the crew of the Perseverance. At Lisbon the Royal Albert and the channel squadron. The National Convention of Buenos Ayres con cluded its lebours in its first session, adopting the reforms in the Constitution by acclamation with out any discussion, immediately declaring itself dissolved. In consequence of t his speedy determination, the National Constitution was solemnly sworn through out the province on the 21st October. Buenos Ayres is thus amalgamated with the Confederate provinces, which now united, form the Argentine Republic. Produce transactions had been extremely limited, Saiaderos not having yet commenced operations, and a general impression prevailed that little of importance will be done before January. THE NEW AMERICAN PRESIDENT. A torch-light procession drew up at the house of the President elect, in Springfield, Illinois, on the 20th, and cheered him until he appeared and spoke as follows :—" Friends and fellow-citizens,—Please excuse me on this occasion from making a speech. I thank you, in common with all those who have thought fit, by their votes, to endorse the republi can cause. (Applause.) I rejoice with you in the success which has so far attended that cause. (Applause.) Yet in all rejoicings let us neither express nor cherish any hard feelings towards any citizen who, by his vote, has differed with us. (Loud cheering.) Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling. (Immense applause.) Let me again beg you to accept my thanks, and to excuse me from further speaking at this time." TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND .AMERICA. The following contains the substance of the prin cipal articles proposed to be embodied in a treaty of commerce between Great Britain and the United States, and which was discussed before the execu tive committee of the New York Chamber of Com merce by Mr. Lindsay, M.P., on the 20th ult. : " Liability of Shipowners : To secure national treatment for the vessels of the respective countries, so that the ex tent of liability may be limited and governed by the law of the country in which the case is tried. " Rules of the Road and Lights at Sea : To obtain simi larity or indemnity in the practice and in the laws of Great Britain and the United States with respect to the rules and precautions to be observed by the vessels of the respective countries, in order to avoid collisions at sea. _ _ 46 Offences Committed on the High Seas : To make pro visions for rendering more easy and more certain the punishment of crimes committed on the high seas on board a ship of one country when that ship arrives in the ports of the other country. " Settlement of Disputes between Masters and Crews : To arrange so that the disputes which so often arise in the ships of the respective countries may be promptly settled on the arrival of those ships at the port of either country. " Desertion of Seamen : To agree that the courts of the vorectivv summary jurisdiction over the seamen of the respective countries who violate a contract into which they have voluntarily entered and desert from their ships. " Shipping Offices : To establish shipping offices at the leading seaports of the United States similar to those now in operation in Great Britain, and to grant to British shipmasters the use of these offices, provided Great Britain grant to American shipmasters the use of her offices, from which they are now excluded. A suggestion is also made whether the same code of signals might not be adopted by the ships of the respective countries, and whether both countries might not have one meridian for longitude. The principles subjoined it is considered by Mr. Lindsay might also be carried into practice by clauses in a convention. " As to the Liitbility of Shipowners : The ships of Great Britain and of the United States respectively shall be placed upon an equal footing as to liability for loss of life or personal injury, or loss or damage to ships, boats, or goods ; and accordingly the liability of the owners of such ships upon the claims made in the courts of either country in respect of any such loss, injury, or damage shall be limiter' in like manner, and to the same extent in each case, and the mode of procedure in reference thereto shall be as provided by the laws of the country where the claim is made. " As to the Rule of the Road and Lights at Sea : The ships of Great Britain and the United States respectively shall adopt one and the same rule of the road (as may be hereafter agreed upon) for their guidance when meeting at sea; and the ships of the United States shall adopt the system of lights or signals at sea now established in Grer Britain. The Courts, therefore, of either country, in de termining whether a vessel which has caused or suffered damage is in fault, shall be guided by these rules, and the adoption or otherwise of the system of lights or signals which have been agreed upon. "As to Offences Committed on the High Seas : In the case of heinous offences (named in the extradition treaty now in force between the two countries), it is agreed that power shall, on the representation of the Minister or Consul of the respective countries, be given to the federal courts of the United States, and to the courts of Great Britain, to apprehend the offender on proof being given such as would justify his committal in either country. But such pri soner can only be delivered to the Minister or Consul of his country, to be sent home for trial, by an order of the Secretary of State of the country where the prisoner was arrested. In all offences of a less heinous nature not in. eluded; in the extradition treaty, the power of summary jurisdiction shall, on the representation of the Minister or Consul representing the country to which the ship belongs, or in which the offender selves, be given up to the federal courts of the United States and to the courts of Great Britain. " As to the Settlement of Disputes between Masters and Crews : In respect to all claims and demands by owners or masters, officers or seamen, against each other, of any ship belonging to either country in the ports of the other which shall ha- e arisen sines such ship last sailed from any port or place of the country to which she belongs, and which shall not have then previously heard and adj udicated upon or in respect of any breach or neglect of duty, or non-per formance of any contract, all such cases shall (but only on the representation of the Minister or Consul of the country to which such ship belongs) be heard, tried, and dealt with in a summary way by the courts of either country where fhe ship at the time may be. "As to the Desertions of Seamen : In cases where sea men who have voluntarily engaged themselves to the ships of the respective countries, or apprentices who have bean duly indentured to the owners or masters of these ships, shall desert in the ports of either country, the magistrates of the respective countries shall, on the application of the Minister or Consul of the country to which the ship belongs, grant a warrant for the apprehension of the deserter, and ondue proof of the desertion cause the seaman or appren tice to be sent back to the ship from which he deserted, and in case of refusal shall inflict such punishment as the law of the country where the offence was committed would have inflicted upon the subject of that country for a similar offence. "As to Shipping Offices : The Government of Great Britain shall make provision for extending to American shipowners the privilege of shipping crews for their vessels in British ports on the same conditions as the crews of Bri tish ships are now engaged, provided the Government of the United States establish somewhat similar offices at the principal seaports of the Union, and grant to British ship owners similar privileges; and it shall not be lawful for engagements to be entered into with seamen of either coun try in the ports of the other unless through the medium of those shipping offices, or by shipping masters duly licensed by the Government of both countries." Various other subjects wore touched upon as to the coasting trade, but the above contains all that we deem of importance. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT BATHGATE.—On Friday last, a woman, named Mrs. Jessie Gray, leapt from the window of her dwelling-house, with her child in her arms. Her head was cut in a serious manner, and the face of the infant was also cut. It is said that the woman was under the influence of drink at the time she took the mad leap which might have proved fatal to both herself and her infalkt.—Calegenian Mercury, THE L. r.NS.E.N. On Saturday, the Ist inst., the funeral took place of his Excellency the late Baron de Bunsen, so many years Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of Prussia to England, and previously Prus sian Minister in Rome, whose death we recorded as having taken place at Bonn on the 28th inst. The funeral obsequies were performed between the hours of 3 and half-past 5. At half-past 2 the various companies of the students of the University assembled in the square before the residence of the late Baron, having previously sent a deputation to express their desire to testify their respect to the departed by bearing his body to the grave. The coffin was of oak in the form of a sarcophagus, the lid much raised, and composed of a succession of plain mouldings in the wood. It was covered with wreaths of evergreens, intermingled w ith garlands and flowers, most of them sent by friends. Near the head was a bunch of flowers and a small wreath which her Royal Highness the Princess of Pru ssia had herself sent from the station as she passed through Bonn on her way to Berlin the preceding week, as a mark of sympathy and remem brance, and which had been preserved till the death of the Baron de Bunsen, and been buried with him. A garland of evergreens in festoons surrounded the sides of the coffin, on which were six handles. The Lutheran clergy man having arrived entered the library, in the centre of which the coffin stood, and where were also the Baroness de Bunsen, with Mademoiselle de Bunsen and Mademoiselle Amelia de Bunsen, Lady Llanover, Madame Charles de Bunsen, and Madame George de Bunsen. There were also pre sent his Excellency the Baron d'Usedom, Prussian Minister at Frankfort; Count Goltz, Commandant of the District ; Lord Llanover, and three sons of the deceased, Mr. Ernest de Bunsen, Mr. Charles de Bunsen (Secretary of Legation at Turin), and Mr. George do Bunsen ; also the Baron d'Ungern Stern berg, son-in-law of the late Baron de Bunsen. The Baroness d'Ungern Sternberg was prevented from attending by indisposition. A favourite hymn of th© late Baron Bunsen was then played on the organ, and the coffin was raised by his three sons, his son in-law, and his two secretaries. The coffin was borne downstairs by the handles between the above named individuals, covered (as described) with flowers and garlands, and followed by a cushion, carried by his attached servant, on which was the star and riband of the order of the Red Eagle, and the star and riband andgrand collar of the Order of Saxe, &c. ; next.to which walked his Excellency Baron d'Usedom, with Lord Llanover and Count Goltz, followed by a numerous procession of stu dents of the different corps, in their striking cos tumes, with their chiefs, dressed in black velvet with white gauntlets and red or white plumes, carrying standards, followed by gentlemen, two and two; the whole was preceded by the military band of the Royal Hussars, commanded by Count Goltz, who took up the same hymn which had been played on the organ until the coffin left the house, and continued playing it in the most impres sive manner through the town, passing round the Grande Place, through the Stern Gate to the cemetery without the town, a distance of nearly a mile. The Baroness de Bunsen and her daughters, with Lady Llanover, met the procession at the grave, where the band having ceased playing, a hymn was sung, after which a funeral oration was pronounced by the Lutheran minister, who afterwards prayed ; and then on giving a signal, a shovelful of earth was held at the foot of the coffin, out of which each son of the deceased in succession sprinkled a little with his hand on the coffin, fol lowed by Loid Llanover and other male friends and connexions, The Lord's Prayer and a hymn concluded the ceremony, which was most impres sive and must have been truly congenial to the feelings of the nearest relations of the deceased baron. Thero were no mutes, no hearse, no hired mourners, no noisy confusion of carriages and horses, and although an immense concourse of tho lower classes attended, there was no indecorum or confusion occasioned by any person ; all reveren tially uncovered when the minister took off his black cap, and did not replace their hats until he set the example. When the coffin had been borne a certain distance by the sons of the deceased, their places were taken in turns by the students of the University, and at the grave the chiefs of the corps stood in the foremost line holding their respective standards. The coffin was left On the platform over the grave, covered with flowers, and not lowered to its last resting place till all the atten dants had departed. On the opposite side of the same cemetery are the remains of Niebuhr, who preceded the Baron de Bunsen as Prussian Minister in Rome, who in his turn was succeeded there 131 the Baron d'Usedom. The late Baron de Bunsen has left besides his widow 10 children to lament his less, five sons and five daughters; of whom six were under his roof at the time of his decease. Of those absent his youngest son is attached to the Prussian Embassy in japan. His eldest son, the Rev. Henry de Bunsen, is rector of Lilleshall, having en tered the Established Church of Great Britain. Of his daughters two are married—the Baroness d'Ungern Sternberg and Mrs. Battersbl Harford ; three of his married children (in' eluding Mr. Ernest de Bunsen, who married Mies Gurney), reside altogether in England. TURKISH FINANCES. The Courtier du Bimanchit,in its impression O f Nov. 25, publishes a letter from Constantinopl e upon the finances of the Ottoman Empire. Thie letter contains errors which we believe it our duty to rectify. The above journal, which estimates the total Turkish debt at 600,000,0001., divides this sum total into the interior and exterior debt. The exterior debt it estimates at 280,000,000 f., and the interior at 320,000,000 f., together forming a total of 600,000,000 f. This is an erroneous estimate, and now that the Ottoman Empire is on the point of contracting e loan, we consider ourselves bound to place the fact • on a right footing. The exterior Turkish Debt, the greater part Of which was contracted in 1854 and 1855, for the requirements of the war in the East, and at a later period for the withdrawal of the paper money' amounts to a total of .. . The reduction effected up to the 15,000,00 0 f, Leaving 310,000,0 001, A higher figure than that of 280,000,000 f., atwhicl/ this debt is fixed by the Courrier du Dimanclas Respecting the interior debt a still greater erro r has been made. According to the Courrier Limanche it amounts to 320 millions of franc s only. The most precise information, howeve ts estimates the interior debt of Turkey as follows' 1. Amount necessary to buy up the present time is about paper money remaining in circula tion 2. Galata obligations payable at different periods (in the same manner as Treasury Bonds in France) 3. Ilazi Taviii (Treasury Bonds) 4. Essams Mumbaze (Reimbursable Rentes) 5. 5. Serghis (obligations, payment of which, by fifths, becomes due after 1865) 6. Eshams Djedides, or new Con solidated Bonds) 7. Floating debt, falling due at no fixed period, and proceeding from different ministries ............ 110,000,000 f, Total If we now add the total exterior debt, 310 millions of francs, the entire Turkish Debt will amount to total of 774,000,000 f. e: This sum of 774, 000,000 f. in cludes all the en g ag ments and all the interior and exterior debts of the Empire, and actually necessitates an a nnual di.: bursement, for interest alone, of about 38 millionA of francs. If, as is asserted , the receipt Budge t of le O ttoma n Empire amounts to a bout 300,0 00,0 2 ° ,, a ; i the interest on its debt is represented by iluv 13 per cent. of its revenues.—[ADvi.] ill I pric 8,00 Very Cenl Sarc to 51 Cent the to-d; rem 'ititi ha • pro` aula 3 pa 3 pei New New Ann ":,' _ ~` 31 i 3,1 'and I ndi Ditt Ditt Cou Zxc: Pen Por kart Spa ir,u.