The Sun. — London, England, 1859-01-14 00:00:00

• ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN, under the sole Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison TILES EVENING will be presented an entirely n ew and roma ntic Opera, by Mr. W. Balfe, entitled SATANELLA ; or, THE POWER OF LOVE. • Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new Pantomime of LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, Harlequin and the Wolf in Granny's Clothing. Commence at Seven, ROYAL I*RINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Manag-ement of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. After which, a new zrand Christmas Pantomime, entitled Tle KING- OF TII E CASTLE ; or, Harlequin Prince D i amon d and Princess Brighteyes. rrEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING will be presented THE LOVE CHASE. Messrs. Chippendale, W. Farren, Rogers, Clark; Miss Amy Sedg-wick and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. • After which, a new grand Comic Pantomime, entitled UN DINE ; or, Harlequin and the Spirit of the Waters. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEAT RE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING the new Drama, entitled MARION DE LORME ; or, The Cradle of Steam : Madame Celeste, Mr. Vandenhoff, Mr, Emery, Mr. Falconer, &C. After which, will be produced the new Burlesque, written ex p re ssly for the Lyceum Company by Robert B. Brough, and entitled THE SIEGE OF TIIOY. The principal cha racters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Julia St. George, Mrs. Weston, Miss Portman, Miss Talbot, Miss Kate Saxon, Miss E.Romer, ; Mr. Emery, Mr. Charles Young, Mr. Ellerton Mr. Saar .1. M. Rogers, Mr. Barrett, &c. ; Miss Rosina Wright, M Charles, Miss Harriet Dalton, &c. To conclude with the new COMIC Pantomime, replete with new tricks and mechanical devices, entitled HARLEQUIN TOY HORSE ; or, The Cremorne Fete. Clown, Mr Mr. Charles Lauri ; Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Pantaloon, Henry Lauri ; Columbine, Miss Jenny Lauri. Reduced Prices—Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Stalls, 55. ; Gallery, ls. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at halt-past 6, to commence at 7 every evening. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS REQUESTED EVENINGAT, MR. WEBSTER'S COMPANY IS A PHOTOGRAPHIC SOIREE. Manager, Mr. B. Webster; Photographer, Mr. J. L. Toole; Memory, Miss Woolgar ; Everybody, by Everybody else. After which, GOOD FOR NOTHING. Messrr. J. L. Toole. Eburne, and Miss Woolgar. Followed by THE BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. C. Selby, Mr. Billington ; Miss Kelly, Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with the grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled MOTHER RED CAP; or, Harlequin Johnny Gilpin's Ride to Edmonton. Clown, Mr. Croueste ; Harlequin, Mr. Hilde brand ; Columbine, Miss Hayman ; Pantaloon, Mr. Lupino ; Sprite, Mr. Le Barr. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING, THE RULE OF THREE. Atter which, the new Extravaganza, KENILWORTH ; or Ye Queene. ye Earle, and ye Maydenne. And THE LITTLE SAVAGE Commence at 7 o'clock. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. Immense Success of the new Pantomime. Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, lso ; Upper Gallery, 6d. During the week, the great Eastern Spectacle of THE REVOLT IN INDIA; or, The Fugitives and their Faith ful Steed. After which SCENES IN THE CIRCLE by the Star Riders of Europe. To conclude with the great Operatic and Burlesque Eques trian Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN BARON MUN- C lIAUSEN, AND HIS COMICAL CREAM COB CRUISER. Baron Munchausen, Mr. W. Anson; Harlequin, Mr. H. Hemmings ; Pantaloon, Herr Cole; Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest; Columbine, Miss Julia Weston. The grand Transformation Scene, introducing Mr. W. Cooke's beautiful and highly-trained palfries, pronounced unpreeedentedly magnificent. The new scenery, including the matchless re presentation of the "New Palace of the People, at Muswell Hill," perfect gems of art. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips. A Morning Performance of the renowned Pantomime every Saturday, at Two o'clock. Carriages for day performances at half-past four, and for night representation at half-past eleven, CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — Proprietor --C. MORTON. The public is most respectfully informed that the FrNE ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW OPEN DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12 o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist ing Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the Kingdom. The MusrcAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at Seven o'clock. In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied instrumental performances have created so marked a sensa tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will perform every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 14. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 46—highest since noon yesterday. 42—lowest this morning and during the night. 46—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.48. WIND, Northerly in the morning, now S.W. ; HOT Heavy fog all the morning—now clearing up. THE SUN. FRIDAY. JANUARY 14, 1859. Hitherto " Whiggery . ," as Lord PANMURE desig nates it, has been either silent, or, for its own in terests, worse than silent. It has spoken chiefly through the House of Peers, although the subject is House of Commons Reform. And, so far as we know the mind of the " obsolete Oligarchy" through this channel, we only know that it dreads Conservative Reform, fears, lest it should open re presentation too freely to the people, and proclaims itself the barrier at which the dangerous waves of democracy shall be stayed. The Whig Lord Chief- Justice at Fishmongers' Hall began to raise this voice of Whig warning to Conservatives ; and the ex-Secretary-at-War, Lord PANMURE, has just fol lowed, using also the occasion of a feast. Lord PANMURE, like his predecessor, is not very explicit as to what he will oppose, yet what he fears and will resist, if he dare, is pretty obvious. He thinks it time to pause in the road to Reform when he sees proposals to " give the supremacy to one class, and so destroy our mixed constitution." He espe cially denounces "all secret transactions, whether in voting or legislating." And, like another Noble Lord in the Lower House, he enumerates all the great things accomplished since the first Reform Bill, and beseeches us never to depart from the principles of that heaven-born measure. The country does not, we may tell Lord PANMURE, wish to depart from those principles ; but—and let him mark it— the country asks to have the principles carried out for the sake of which it frightened the Aristocracy into conceding it, not the principles from which the Whig clique proposed it. The latter only intended to create a predominant Whig constituency, and to give their party a life interest in office. The coun try intended to have a full, fair, and free represen tation of its wishes. It was almost shocked, when, so soon after it had passed, the great Whig leader, " in his place in the House of Commons," declared the measure final, and asserted that it was the direct intention of the Bill to give the landed inte rest the ascendancy in the House of Commons. Lord PANMURE gives us a pretty little antit hetic description of the "old Whig principles." Premis ing CHARLES JAMES Fox, "whose name ho bears, was, by life, conversation, speeches, and character, his teacher," ha adds, " The principles of Whiggery are these :—To maintain the liberties of the people against the encroachments of the Aristocracy and Crown." But there is a reverse. " Whig princi ples stop at a certain point, and then turn ; and while maintaining the just rights of the people, they are equally prepared to defend the righteof the Crown and the Aristocracy from undue encroachment on the part of the people." We do not know that we have ever seen the distinctive characteristic of Whig Aris tocracybetter described than in the words we have italicised. The Whigs are as hearty Aristocrats as the Tories. Their principles, however, are popular to a certain extent—the extent which, as Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, shall leave the " predominance to the landed interest." Once let that Divine Right of the Few to predominate over the Many be at all endangered, and Whig principles not only stop, but turn. Once let the many, for - whom all 'Govern ment exists, but predominate in tile workin g of the Government, and Whiggery joins Toryism against the people. " The nation," said. Mr. BRIGHT, " dwells not in the palace, but the cottage." Whiggery dwells not in the cottage, but in th e palace, and cares for the cottage only so long as serves to furnish the palace. This, then, is Whiggery. It extols to the skies the bill which was to confer perpetual " supre macy " on itself, the bill which was to give " supremacy " to the Whig land. .2d interests, and then " pauses," no doubt with unfeigned horror, at proposals to " give the supremacy " to an other class. All very natural this may be, but the country does not understand the title of Whig landlords to supremacy. In its un enli,ghtenee l common sense, it imagines that Government should not only be for the people, which is in deed the professed creed of all modern der3potf,, but by and through the people. Ili other words, we the people of England," however ridiculed as pretenders by Ministers and Chief Justice s, have a strong opinion that the more direct our inspection of our own concerns the better. The less of absen teeism on the part of the people, the better the agents they select will be, and the better those agents will attend to their business. And as to any class among the people itself becoming pre dominant, there is:no class which could or - would combine to be so. The lowest suffrage proposed by working radicals is household suffrage; a rating suffrage,which is con siderably less extensive, is the one selected by the present popular champion ; but we believe that neither of these would, if the voting were made in dependent, give to the numerically - most numerous class practical power over all the rest. The humble voters are 'as divided in opinion as those above them. Not only are they divided in opinion, but in status. Between the agricultural labourer, starving on 7s. or Os., to the skilled artizan who gets £l, £2, or £3 a week, there are as many classes as there are from the decent shopkeeper or clerk on a hundred a year, upwards. We believe that the fancy of the working classes, in all their various grades, combining against the middle classes and the aristocracy, is about as absurd a bugbear as the " immoral effects of the Ballot." Of course Lord PANMURE hates secrecy. W e only know that if, even under his unimpeachable management of the War-office, secrecy were not the rule, and accidental escapades of the DOWBS to public knowledge, the exception, that office would soon be convicted of wanton waste, incompetency, and delay of public business. It has been indeed convicted of a small part of its offences ; but the secrecy under which a wasteful incompetency administers our home business, and diplomacy transacts our foreign business, proves that it is not secrecy, but secrecy when it gives independent power to the people that is the real object of dread. Would that we dare tell one-tenth of what is told us in confidence of the secret doings of lords who are very solemn and sanctimonious about a secret vote. They find that secrecy makes them independent—independent of the people. At Stroud, Mr. HORS3IAN, who has voted for the Ballot, remarked that nothing more could be said on it; but he certainly appeared rather to disparage it by denouncing its working with universal suffrage in France and America. Mr. HORSMAN should be something more than a Whig, but his address to his constituents did not appear to be satisfactory. They behaved, however, very politely to him,, coupling with a "vote of con fidence " an instruction to their member, that " no Reform Bill would be satisfactory which did not include a £lO household franchise for counties, equalisation of districts, and the ballot." Somehow all the meetings at present go one way. We do long to see a good public meeting got up by the Whigs, or by some one, that would test the feeling against the Ballot. The Proclamation convening Parliament for Thursday, the 3d of February, re-awakens the political ardour of the country like the sound of the reveille over a sleeping encampment. What ever may be implied this time, by her MAJESTY and her Ministers, in the customary phrase com manding Parliament to " assemble and be holden for the despatch of divers urgent and important affairs"—there can be little doubt atthe present time that more is shrouded under that phrase than in ordinary circumstances. The tranquillity of Europe, no doubt, still remains undisturbed. But the pulse of the nations beats so intermittingly, as shown in the late extraordinary variations in the Public Funds, that it is perfectly obvious that, in the commercial world at least, that tranquillity is re garded as—to say the least of it—somewhat pre carious. Nor can this for a single moment be deemed in any way remarkable, when we look, however cursorily, to the disturbing influences perceptible on every hand—influences perpetually putting what is not inaptly called the Balance of Power in a state of oscillation. Consider for a moment that, upon the European continent, within the boundaries of merely two of the Great States, there are virtually, if not actually, in readiness, fully equipped, admirably disciplined, ready for battle at any moment, one million of armed men. For it is no way an exaggeration to estimate the French army and the Austrian army each of them at an aggregate of 500,000. Recol lect that the military ardour of France is left at this moment without any opponent—certainly without any adequate outlet—Algeria being by this time, to all intents and purposes, brought under complete subjection. Remember, on the other hand, that the warlike energies of Austria are perpetually upon the strain to keep well within the grasp of the Viennese Government the motley and incongruous nationalitieS constituting the sum total of the empire of the Kaiser. And bearing well in mind the anomalous position occupied thus by the two great military empires of the European continent—glance for a moment, no matter how cursorily, beyond the frontiers of both, at some of the leading signs of the times making up the actual " situation." There are the long dormant hopes of Italy to be realised. There is the Roman difficulty to be arranged. There are visible still, along the western borders of Russia, the indications of the old cherished day-dream of a Sclavonic Con federation. Lombardy is more than ever ripe for revolt. Servia is not far from a demonstra tion —ready at an instant to burst into a flame from one extremity to another. Piedmont has yet to avenge Novara. Russia is still nursing the wrath against Austria inspired by the heinous " ingratitude " threatened in 1849 by Schwartzen burg, and signalized in 1855 by the denial of co operation to the Muscovite arms beleaguered within the fortifications of Sebastopol. Hungary is burn ing eagerly for the next, and this time more fortu nate, signal for her emancipation. Greece is agi tated with the secret hope of so far extending the limits of her dominions as to embrace within them the septinsular dependency of England in the Levant—the often-coveted lonian Archipelago. Spain, at the very moment when her sufficiently restricted warlike resources have been drained away to the opposite extremity of the eastern hemisphere in the joint expedition with France upon the sea board of Cochin China, is threatened with a forci ble seizure of Cuba by the United States, now that - ' 4, ' „u €6l , 4 et ,te ."!; ' ,,„,.• 4 , - , THE S UN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1859, the lust of that great territorial acquisition has been flagrantly avowed by the American republic, through the late Message of her filibustering PRE SIDENT. Prussia, at this critical juncture, among the Powers of Europe, is but j us t now emerg ingtransition state consequen t u p on th e greatnm the removal of a crack-brained Sovereign, and the sub stiti xtion., under a rational re gency of an improved an a improving system of constitutional Govern n- tent. England— " Whose foot spurns back 'ate ocean's roaring tides, And coops from other lr.nds her islanders, • . England, hedged in with the main, That water-walled Bulwark, still secure And confident , from foreign purposes"— (KING JOHN, act ii, scene 1.) watches, fzera her insular fastness, all these formid aiJle indications of present anxiety, and, possibly, of future war, scattered hither and thither over the whole surface of the European Continent. Our selves at peace with all the continental powers, without exception, in intimate alliance with France, with Austria, with Russia, with Prussia, Spain, Sardinia, and the rest of the various States of Christendom without any selfishly ambitious designs to realise among the clash of all these sinister designs and inharmonious aspirations—we cannot but mark with interest the clouds looming up simultaneously from all quarters of the political horizon. It is in the midst of this unwonted situ ation that Parliament is convened by the SOVEREIGN to meet upon the third of the ensuing month for the despatch of divers urgent and important affairs. Bent upon internal reforms it behoves us that, at this moment, we should not be inattentive to our foreign relations—now, at the very crisis when England may prove more effectually than she has ever yet done, in the truest and the noblest sense of the word, the arbiter of the political destinies of Christendom. Mr. ROEBUCK is one who thinks freely and in dependently, and speaks out plainly and intelligibly what he thinks. There is no disguise, no reserve, no suppression of a single opinion. It is to him a matter of profound indifference whether his audi ence be pleased or displeased. He puts forward the most unpalatable truths just as readily as an hospital surgeon will apply the lancet or scalpel. His mission, as he understands it, is to instruct, not to conciliate, and woe to the hardy aright who in terferes with his proceedings, or excites his wrath ! Unless he has great powers of endurance—a very glutton for punishment, to use the language of the P.R. —ho will wince under the stringent castigation that will inevitably be administered. It is satisfactory to know the opinions of such a man on the great question of Reform, not so far as he is personally concerned, for they are perfectly notorious—JOHN ARTHUR ROEBUCK is one of the few men who who might enter the Palace of Truth with perfect impunity, and without dreading any untoward revelation. But he is the recognised leader of an important and influential section of the Liberal party, whose votes must exercise con siderable weight on every question involving the fate of a Ministry; and his views as to the prospects of obtaining a satisfactory measure during the present session were therefore eagerly looked for. He, however, carefully abstained from saying a single word respecting the comparative merits of the rival competitors for the Premiership. There was nothing of Lords DERBY, PALMERSTON, or JOHN RUSSELL, or under which of their standards he was prepared to array himself. He was what, in the olden time, was designated " a free lance," or rather, like HARRY Gow, prepared to " fight for his own hand." He is, like ourselves, the Ave cate of " measures rather than of men," and will not " to party give up what was meant for mankind." There was at the commencement of his address a very disgraceful disturbance occasioned by a small, but unusually turbulent clique—which contrived to keep up a noise that prevented a single word from being heard. Although scarcely exceeding twenty in number, they refused to accept the decision of an overwhelming majority of the meeting, and having delayed the proceedings more than forty minutes; compelled the adjournment of the meeting, The use of the Temperance Hall was, however, ob- , tained, and as the malcontents were either excluded or satisfied by the new arrangement, matters were thenceforward carried on with decency. We were rather disappointed in finding no allu sion to the ballot in Mr. ROEBUCK'S address. We know that he is an uncompromising supporter of that by far the most important of all the points of the anticipated amelioration. He only alluded to the extension of the suffrage, and the more equal distribution thereof. He tells them that " they should ascertain the persons who ought to have votes, and next the area of persons who shall return representatives to Pailiament." But at the same time declares his belief that the Reform Bill will not be the great business of the approaching session, and for the very sufficient reason that the people have not displayed sufficient excitement on the subject, and also because, as he conceives, " our foreign relations will interfere with our domestic concerns "—that " Europe is on the eve of war." Now we cannot concur with the honourable gen tleman either in the conclusion he has arrived at or the reasons he has assigned. We believe that reform will be at least one of the important acts of the session. It is manifest that it is looked for ward to with intense anxiety by the Liberal party whose votes can turn the scale. Lord PALMERSTON is pledged to a measure, and without revealing its exact character, he will not again be reinstated on the Ministerial benches. Lord 'TORN RUSSELL is likewise bound by Solemn obligations. Indeed it is the only trump card in his hand which gives him the slightest chance of being a winner in the political game—and it is certain that Ministers have prepared, and are ready to introduce a bill which we believe will be of a more comprehensive and satisfactory character than that of either of the ex-Premiers ; and there is also Mr. BRIGHT, who " will be heard, and no mistake !" If the. people have not displayed sufficient excitement or enthusiasm on the subject, it is because they are certain that several mea sures will be brought forward, and that there will be a full and fair discussion. Let that just expectation be disappointed, and there will be no ,lack of excitement. Indeed the diffi culty will be to control the storm that will burst • over the nation. Nor do we think Europe is on the eve of war. There is, un questionably an ominous cloud in the political atmosphere ; but Louis NAPOLEON knows where to stop, and Austria, finding that it cannot look for support either from England or from Prussia, will be prepared to make the necessary concessions to avoid so terrible a calamity. A letter from Berlin, dated Monday, says—" The artillery which will announce the happy delivery of the Princess Frederick William is not to be placed in the Lust garten, on account of its vicinity to the palace, but in front of the Artillery Barracks. A salute of 101 guns will ac quaint the capital of the birth of a prince; 48 that of a princess. The event is expected to take place on the 15th. MR. BRIGHT, M.P. AT ROCHDALE.—The hon. member for Birmingham has consented to attend a soiree to be held in the Public Hall, Rochdale, on Friday, the 28th inst. This will probably be the last public meeting which Mr. Bright - will attend before the opening of Parliament, LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams were received at Mr. Reuter's office : TURIN, JAN. 13. The official Piedmontese Gazette publishes the following note :—" The official Gazette of Vienna hating announced the despatch of reinforcements to Italy, the Piedmontese Government has thought it its duty to bring the distant garrisons nearer to the frontiers of Lombardy, without however calling out the Contingents." PARIS, THURSDAY, JAN. 13. General Niel will accompany Prince Napoleon on his journey to Turin. The suite of the Prince will consist of 16 persons. PARIS, FRIDAY. The Constitutionnel of this morning contains an article on the present state of affairs, under the signature of the political director, Renee. The article refers to serious difficulties which have arisen between France and Austria concerning the Danube and Servia. The article goes on to say :—The speech of the King of Sardinia could not be more moderate. The marriage of the Prince Napoleon with a princess of Savoy will cement the alliance between the two nations. Italy is agitated, but war is only possible in the event of the violation of the treaties taking place or being threatened. MARSEILLES, THURSDAY. Advices have been received from Constantinople to the sth inst. The telegraphic cable has been successfully laid to Constantinople and the Dardanelles. The ope rations for its prolongation to Candia and Egypt will be recommenced next spring. Another sub marine telegraphwill be laid between Constantinople and Scutari, which will be the head of the line to Bagdad. The Greek chambers have voted 600,000 drachmas to connect Syra with the above telgraph communication. MARSEILLES, FRIDAY MORNING. The Benares arrived at Suez on the 6th, with the Bombay mails, dated Dec. 24. CALCUTTA, Dec. B.—The produce market was unfavourable ; indigo not so brisk as at the com mencement of the season; raw silk was drooping in value, rice a dead letter, and oil seeds quiet. The import market was inactive. No change in the money market, Exchange, 2s. Old. to 2s. 00. MADRAS, Dec. 14.—Exchange, ls. 111 d. to HONG KONG, Nov. 29.—Exchange on London, at six months, 4s. Bd. Tonnage abundant. SHANGHAI, Nov. 22.—Exchange, at six months, 6s. 9d. per tael. Prince Napoleon starts for Marseilles to-night, a eight o'clock, with several of his aides-de-camp. He will embark on hoard the Reine Hortense, for Genoa, and thence proceed by rail to Turin. The marriage, it is said, will take place cm the 25th. The Emperor is reported to have said yesterday to 'a member of the Diplomatic Body that he had read with much interest and satisfaction the speech of the King of Sardinia on the opening of the Chambers. It is thought here that Prince Napo leon's presence at Genoa and Turin will be accom panied by popular demonstrations of an unmis takeable character. A Toulon paper, called the Sentinelle, mentions a report of the formation of a camp near St. Laurent de Var, near the Piedmontese frontier. This may be set down as premature. " Means of conciliation" have to be gone through first, and it is not until the diplomatic farce is over that the curtain will rise on the great drama now in preparation. The Independance Beige, in a recent letter from Paris, has availed itself to an unprecedented extent of the opportunity of displaying its ignorance on military affairs. Alluding to sundry preparations of a warlike character, that worthy journal asserted that the strength - of battalions of Chasgeurs was about to be raised from 400 to 700 men. The bat talions in question, as matters stand, number 1,200 rifles, 1,000 men forming the effective strength, and 200 men remaining as a reserve at the depot. There are 20 battalions of this force in the French service, and no change is contemplated either in their armament or their organisation. . The. Pays to-night asserts that it is not true that great preparations are now making at the Ministry of War. This is a Jesuitical assertion intended solely to deceive the public. The Ministry of War is merely an administrating department, and no preparations of the kind alluded to are ever made there. But at the various Government manufac tories millions of cartridges are being made ; the workmen and workwomen at the capsulerie de guerre (percussion cap manufactory) of Montreuil are hard at.work from the faintest glimmer of dawn, and would be employed all night, were the use of gas, lamp, or candle not strictly prohibited. It is also stated in military circles that at the military reception on January 1 his Majesty made use of words to general officers, but particularly to a colonel of artillery, which have raised an univer sal opinion among military men that there will be a great consumption of powder before many months have elapsed. Milan.is more quiet. Troops continue to pour into the city, and, according to one letter, their numbers are such that billets have had to be resorted to. The inhabitants notice great prepara tions at the citadel. The number of guns town wards has been greatly increased, and at the first symptom of a rising there will be no street fighting as in 1848, but the troops will retire into the castle and bombard the town. It became known here to-day that there was a manifestation at the Fenice Theatre, at Venice, on the 6th. The pretext was the noble chorus in the opera—" Ah del Tebro al giogo indegno." The audience joined in it in a manner not to be mis• taken. Throughout Italy the yoke of the Tiber and that of the Danube are identified in the exe cration of the people. A great many arrests have taken place in Milan, Pavia, Brescia, and other of the principal towns of Lombardy. The Univers is as great a wizard as some of the flying friars and beatified gardeueses de dindons, whom it loves to celebrate. It gives its readers hope " of the early conversion of the Queen of England and'her . Court to Catholicism !" Your well-informed and pious contemporary has reason to know that the supreme head of the Church of England has conceived dmibts as to the legitimate character of the establishment, and doubts are entertained by those around her whether they " are in the right path." The Debats observes on this with a quiet sarcasm that will not be lost on the Univers—" We are afraid that our contemporary has not exactly hit upon what occupies the minds of the Queen of England and those around her." The Moniteur of this morning publishes the usual monthly debtor and creditor account of the Bank of France, made up to yesterday (Thursday). The corresponding figures of the last month are added : DEBTOR. Jan. Dec. F. C. F. C. Capital of the Bank 91,250,000 0 91,250,000 0 Ditto, New Profits in addition to Capi tal (Art. 8, Law of June 9, 1857) 1,510,527 65 1,513,467 77 Reserve of the Bank 12,980,750 14 12,980,750. 14 New Reserve Ditto in landed property 4,000,000 0 4,000,000 0 Notes in circulation... .. Bank-notes to order. 6,500,296 22 6,191,183 13 Receipts payable at sight 5,947,999 0 6,684,404 0 Treasury account current creditor . 71,093,959 27 132,571,324 13 Sundry accounts current 183,657,864 4 149,254,785 68 Ditto with branch banks 30,322,279 0 30,846,655 0 Dividends payable. 3,711,301 25 518,939 25 Discts. sundry interests 4,309,677 65 1,915,787 83 Commission on deposits 1,126,652 27 8,519,867 28, Re-discounted the last' six months Surplus of paid-up bills Sundries .. 1,005,377 37 1,066,632 18 2,746 28 35,000 60 3,237,789 6 3,363,990 73 Total " 1,275,811,794 201,238,438,012 72 CREDITOR. Jan. Dec. F. C. F. C. Cash in hand Cash in the branch banks 300,504825 0 301,674,253 0 Commercial bills overdue 473;141 33 401,131 61 Commercial ,bills dis- counted, not yet duo 224,453,379 55 199,077,764 30 Do. in the branch banks 236,304,013 0 215,642,329 0 Advanced on deposit of bullion; Do. by the branch banks Do, on Frenchpublic secu- 627,400 0 671,100 0 1,372,300 0 1,440 000 0 rifles 44,486,000 0 56,067,600 0 Do. by the branch banks 12,077,600 0 10,354,000 0 Do. on railway securities 75,508,100 0 53,100,000 0 Do. by the branch banks, 27,880,100 0 25,860,300 0 Do. on Credit Foncier Scrip 785,300 0 731,700 0 Do, on branch banks Scrip 306,600 0 282,800 0 Do. to the State on agree ment of June 30, 1848 45,000,000 0 45,000,000 0 Govern. stock reserved Do. disposable , 52,198,103 63 52,188,102 18 New shares, not settled Hotel and urn. of Bank 4,000,000 0 4,000,000 0 Landed property of branch banks Expenses of management Sundries 6,841,553 0 6,707,431 0 118,136 5 1,954,193 54 4,492,424 84 4,567,319 15 Total 1,275,811,794 20 1,238,438,012 72 The reaction in public feeling which was noticed yesterday continues, and will, in all probability, after the breathing time afforded by the " conciliat ing means" which are to precede the crash, be suc ceeded by another panic, unless by that time the public hava learued to look the matter boldly in the face, and not magnify the danger of an interven tion. It is not impossible, however, that the crisis may be averted for some time longer than is gene rally supposed, as the Austrians are evidently pre paring to try the effect of a reign of terror to cow the unfortunate Lombards into subjection. And they may be successful for a time, but only for a time. Damn, ' tan . 13.—The • market to-day has been much better. Rente closed at a rise of 15c. for cash and 30c. for the account. Report continues to hold out hopes of an explicit note in the Moniteur. The following were the last quotations:— ft per Cents. 96 Do. end month 96 3 per Cents 6B' 65 Do. end month., 6B 60 Bank Shares. 2815 Credit Mobilier Do. Account 775 Credit Foncier 635 Belgian 4f . Piedmontese (5) _ Roman Austrian Spanish Threes - Home Debt — RAILWAYS. Cash. Orleans Account 13021 Northern - New ditto. 7BO Lyons and Mediterranean BOO 795 New ditto Geneva Midi Southern Western. - .. 560 - PRUSSIA. The following is the full text of the Prince Re. gent's Speech on opening the Chambers : " Most noble Lords and Gentlemen of both Chambers of the Diet,— "On beholding you assembled round the throne and wishing you a cordial greeting, serious thoughts pervade my mind. The exercise of this Royal prerogative recalls to me more vividly than ever the cruel sufferings to which, by the unfathomable will of God, the King our most gracious master is still continually subject. His faithful people unite their prayers with mine to implore the Almighty that, in his mercy, he may restore to our King strength and health in a milder clime. " Gentlemen, " Fully recognising the high importance of your mission, I call upon you to support my Government by your intelli gence and devotion in the path upon which I have entered, and which I am resolved to' follow with firmness, under the Divine protection, and within the limits I myself have determined, calling to mind the mission of Prussia, her glorious history, and the traditions of our country. One of the first duties of my Regency is to preserve to the King the rights of his Crown in their fill integrity. " I have the satisfaction to announce the good condition of the country in general. In some provinces, it is true, the results of the harvest have not answered the expecta tions ; but we have not to fear any where any serious deficiency of tho most indispensable article of food, and the price of provisions is not out of proportion to wages. The efforts for the development of agriculture have happily remained the same and have led to vast under takings for improvement, which have a claim to the protec tion and support of the Government. " The commercial crisis which narked the opering of last year weighed heavily, by its extent and unexpected duration, on commerce and industry, but at the same time it brought into relief the solidity of the basis upon which both rest in our country. Most branches of industry are beginning to revive from the consequences of the crisis through which we have passed, and promise, under the blessing of a continuous peace, a progressive development. " Proposals v,ill be laid before you for extending and completing the net of national railways. " The Convention will also be submitted to you con cluded with the other Riverain States of the Rhine, in con sequence of the proximate completion of the bridge at Cologne. "There is a marked d;minution in the criminal returns and convictions, and I look upon this with satisfaction as a proof that not only does public morality continue to im prove, but also that the general welfare is increasing, and that the existing penal laws act efficientiy. It will be the care of my Goverrynent to institute further reforms in the latter, and to prepare administrative regulations destined to prevent abuses as much as possible. "I consider it one of my first duties to devote my full attention to the maintenance of the traditional good order of our finances, so as to assure to every branch of the public service the necessary means for the prosperity and power of the country. You vi ill be gratified to find in the projects for the Budget of the State, which will be imme diately submitted to you, the favourable condition of the finances, for which we are indebted to a conscientious Administration. "An evaluation carefully calculated, of the receipts of the year, and the surplus of former Budgets, will provide the means not only to cover the expenses attending the current wants of the Administration, and to allow a con tinued improvement in the salaries of Government officials, but will also suffice to cover other new and heavy outlays. " I therefore confidently expect your sanction to this additional expense, which I think is commanded by the duty of maintaining the dignity of the Crown, to strengthen the army and navy, and to give a salutary development under all respects to the well .being of the country. "You as see by the Budget of the State' the unceasing attention which I pay to the improvement of our army, which has knows how to achieve and maintain the honour of Prussia with unbroken fidelity and devotion in peace as well as in war. " There is no change in our amicable relations with foreign Powers. Especially our amicable relations with the great Powers have not undergone any alteration. " In concert with the other Governments of the German Confederation, the efforts of my Government—efforts which have already been crowned with some success—do not cease to strive to procure for the German Duchies subject to the sceptre of the King of Denmark the ;all enjoyment of the rights to which they are justly entitled by the federal laws and the conventions concluded between the German Con federation and the Cabinet of Copenhagen. " Gentlemen, when, within these same halls, only a few months since, for the first time as Regent I addressed the representatives of the country, I invited them to carry high with me the flag of Prussia; that flag bears the in scription 'Royalty by the grace of God, maintenance of the laws and of the Constitution, loyalty of the people and of the army rich in victories, justice, truth, confidence, piety 1' Whoever follows that flag, folloWs me ! Then may we glance at the present epoch of Prussia with the same pride as on Prussia's glorious past, and bequeath to future generations the old Prussian spirit, which expresses itself with happi ness, intermingled with some sorrow, in the unanimous shout of ' Long live the King l' " FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. The Moniteur of to-day contains the follywing : —" The Emperor received to-day the reply of her Catholic Majesty to the letters of recall of the Mar quis de Turgot, who performed the functions of am bassador of the Emperor at Madrid, as also the letter of his Majesty the King of Denmark, notify ing the birth of the Prince Waldemar, son of his Highness Prince Christian of Denmark." Great preparations are being made at the arsenal of Toulon. Orders have been sent to all the prin cipal shipbuilding ports to send ship carpenters thither, and the railway companies have been in vited to expedite their journey as much as possible. 520 - .. 525 50 .. 580 50 677 50 .. 670 Eastern . Grand Central Sardinian Austrian „ 560 560 _ Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 15c. ; money, 25f. 121 c. ; three months, paper, 24t. 97fc. ; money, 24E 95c. SPAIN. The following telegram has been received : " MADRID, Jan. 11.—A, proposition presented to the Chamber of Deputies by M. Olozaga, tending to annul the last reform introduced into the Con stitution, has been rejected unanimously in the committees of the Chamber." THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. The steam ship Alhambra, of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Captain J. D. Steward, with the usual Peninsular mail, in charge of ' Lieutenant Pocock, Admiralty agent, arrived this evening at six o'clock. The Alhambra during the voyage experienced fine weather throughout. The freight of the Alhambra consists of four packages of specie, value £991, 100 boxes of eggs, 5 casks of wine, 1,164 boxes of oranges, 156 cases of dates, and 17 packages of sundries. Her dates of sailing were :—Gibraltar, Jan. sth ; Cadiz, 6th ; Lisbon, 9th ; Oporto, 10th ; Vigo, 10th. Passengers, first class, seven ; second class, five. Jan. 10th, off Vigo, the Alhambra spoke the screw steamy' . Tagus, with the outward Peninsular mail. The Vulture was at Gibraltar. GIBRALTAR SHIPPING. Jan. s.—Her Majesty's steam-frigate Vulture, Captain Campbell, arrived from Tangier. CLEARANCES, Jan. 4.—The British schooner Eagle Wing, W. Johnson, left in ballast for St. Michael's. Jan. s.—The British steamer Albanian left the Bay at half-past four p.m. yesterday, and the Russian Government steamer Tonapse at ten this morning —both for the East. The British brig Commodore passed from east to west yes terday afternoon, and the British barques William Brown and Edinburgh, and Swedish brig Gottland, this morning. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, JAN. 13. The Marquis of' Lansdowne, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne; and Mr. A. Paget, arrived yesterday afternoon, and dined with her Majesty. The party also included Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and the Countess of Dorn burg and the Hon. Mrs. Biddulph. The band of the Grenadier Guards played during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the Drawing-room the following selection : Overture—" Le Toreador" Potpourri—" Guttenburg." Polonaise—" Faust " The Queen and Prince Consort walked in the Home Park this morning. Princess Alice and Princess Helena rode in the riding house. Prince Arthur and Princess Louisa took a carriage drive. Mr, G. pandas had an interview with Sir Edward Bul wer Lytton yesterday at the Colonial-office. THE PRINCE OF WALES IN BRUSSELS. His Royal Highness the Prince of • Wales arrived in Brussels on Tuesday, about midday, and was received at the station by the Duke of Brabant and the Count of Flan ders. His Royal Highness was conducted to the King's palace, where the English Minister, Lord Howard de Wal den, and the-members of the British legation, with the per sonages of the Royal household, went to meet him. The Prince breakfasted at the palace, and afterwards went to pay a visit to the King and the Duchess of Brabant at Lacken. In the evening there was a grand dinner at the palace, where his Majesty the King received, in addition to the royal family, the Prince of Wales, the English minister, the first secretary of legation, and the members of the royal household, and those of the princes. During the din ner the military and private bands of the King played many chosen pieces. After dinner the august party went to the Theatre de la Monnaie, to be present at the represen tation of " Quentin Durward," announced several days before to be performed by " command." The august spec tators entered the theatre at eight o'clock precisely. The orchestra played the national air; " but it was scarcely heard," says the Independence, "on account of the loud cheers and prolonged acclamations which greeted his Ma jesty, the princes, and the heir presumptive to the crown of England. The King took his seat, having on his right hand the Prince of Wales, dressed in the uniform of his rank in the English 'army; the Duchess of Brabant, dressed, as usual, with exquisite elegance, was on the right of the prince. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Brabant and the Count of Flanders were seated at the back of the royal box. The persons in the suite of the royal family, and those who accompanied the Prince of Wales, occupied the box belonging to the aides-de-camp of his Majesty. There were also present several English officers in uniform. The theatre was crowded ; it has been rarely ornamented with such a collection of brilliant dresses. ' Quentin Durward' was executed to perfec tion. His Majesty several times applauded the melodies of the composer, a native of Ghent. The Prince of Wales seemed likewise to take much interest in the repre sentation. The royal family retired amidst similar marks of respect to those which marked their entrance." We believe that the address': in answer to the Speech from the Throne will be moved, in the House of Commons, by the Hon. Charles Trefusis, M.P. for North Devon, and seconded by Mr. Beecroft, M.P. for Leeds.— Times. A Berlin lettep states that ,the Duchess of Man chester, who is nowin Hanover, is expected in Berlin, and is to remain there until after the accouchement of the Princess Frederick William. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington will leave Apsley House in a few days, for their seat, Strathfieldsaye, Hampshire, , The Earl and Countess Stanhope arrived in town yesterday morning, from Chevening Park, Kent, and left in the evening, on a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. Lord and Lady Harry Vane have returned to Battle Abbey, Sussex. Lady Scarsdale was safely delivered of a son and heir, on Tuesday, at the family seal, Kedleston, Derbyshire. _ . Lady Arthur. Hay has returned to town from Visiting the Earl and Countess Howe, at Gopsall, Leices tershire. The Hon. Sydney and Mrs. Pierrepont have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Evenly Hall, Brockly. The Rev. Mr. and Lady Milicent have arrived at Claridge's Hotel.. Her Majesty has been graciously' pleased to place £lOO in the Bishop of London's hands, as a donation to the funds of the Metropolitan Relief Association (4, St. Martin's-place), of which his lordship is president. The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk arrived at Norfolk House a few days since, from Arundel Castle, Sussex, for the season. We (Bath Chronicle) hear, with pleasure, that Samuel Lucas, Esq., formerly of Bristol, has been appointed Distributor of Stamps fol. the county of Derby. Mr. Lucas is well known in the literary world as the first editor of the Press, and the present literary critic of the Times. INDIA AND CHINA.—The Peninsular and (Men.: tal Company have received the following telegram from Marseilles :—" The Vectis, with the India and China mails, arrived at 1 p.m. The quarantine will cease at 9 a.m. on the 14th. The mails were despatched for London at 4 p.m. The Benares, with the mails from Bombay, reached Suez on the 4th inst." It appears that the clearing-house plan lately in troduced for the cheques of country bankers has now been very gdherally adopted, and that only two or three estab lishments have refused to facilitate its operation. ERRATUM.—The revenue from the-river tolls on the Elbe stated in the article of the 13th inst. has been mis printed as being £1,300,000 per annum,. this being the amount of the tolls collected during the period of ten years, from 1848 to 1857.—Times' Leading Article. PENINSULAR AND NORTH AFRICAN MAILS.— The - Penhistilar and North African Steam Navigation Com pany's screw-steamer Warrior, Capt. Cooper, arrived in the river Tliames yesterday afternoon, with dates from Tene rife, flge. 2$ ; Mogador, Dec. '3l; Cadiz, Jan. 1; Lisbon, Jan. 7. The Warrior experienced strong easterly winds in the Bay of Biscay and in the Channel, and landed the mails at 5 a.m. at Dover. The Warrior brings a fair com plement of passengers, with a full cargo, consisting of 704 elephants' teeth, 387 boxes and 117 casks gum, 821 serous almonds, 186 pipes olive oil, 645 bags cochineal, 600 flasks quicksilver, 438 chests oranges, 11 pipes of wine, 20 pipes citron, 8 cases ostrich feathers, 5 cases bullion, and 12 packages sundries Left at Mogador her Majesty's steamer Vulture. Trade in Morocco was brisk, and produce coming to market freely. NORTH LONDON OR UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPlT4L.—Another munificent contribution of £lOO, the fifth of the same amount, to be added to the invested funds of the charity, was yesterday received from its generous benefactor, Mr. John Hibbert, of Braywick-lodge, Maiden head. THE YANG-TZE-KIANG.—This magnificent river, running through the heart of the Chinese Empire for upwards of two thousand miles, will, indeed, open a new field of enterprise for all classes of Englishmen. Along its banks, we are told, countless thousands of the teeming population are busily engaged in the every-day concerns of life; and city after city is passed by the wondering tra veller. The river itself may be fairly classed amongst the richest of the world • it rises in the centre of Thibet, just above the source of the Brahmapootra ; it gathers in its course hundreds of tributaries, which swell the parent stream as it proceeds towards the sea, until it reache s a depth sufficient to bear the inland navigation of this great country. It is up this stream, as far as Hanko w ; about 600 miles from Shanghai, that Lord Elgin and his naval escort were about to proceed ; that he will make a favourable impression on the inhabitants of the interior we sincerely hope ; nor can we doubt that his footsteps will soon be trodden by the mercantile representatives of the English nation. As years roll on, we may expect to see mansions built after the European fashion on the sides of this river, and inhabited by Englishmen who have left their father land for the purpose of creating a commerce in the heart of this gigantic Empire. It may never be, that a race of Ane•lo-Saxons in China will equal in numbers the present population of the province of Kweichau, but it is within the range of possibility, and probability, too, that a colony o f Englishmen will locate themselves in the great valley of the Yang-tze-Kiang, and introduce the civilisation of the West—China Telegraph, FALL OF A HOUSE IN LtvEßrooL. Yesterday (Thursday) the Liverpool Borough Coroner opened an inquiry relative to the fall of a shop building in Great George•street on Tuesday afternoon, which (as detailed in our columns) re sulted in the death of five persons. Mr. Aspin all, barrister, appeared on behalf of Mr. Lewis, the proprietor of the shop ; and Mr. Snow ball, solicitor, on behalf of the friends of Mrs. and Miss Murray, two of the persons killed by the accident. The coroner and the jury having viewed the scene of the accident, and the bodies of the deceased, the inquest was opened at 2 p.m. The first witness examined was Mr. Thompson, the manager of Mr. Lewis's shop—The shop, he said, was a double shop with two entrances. It was 42 feet wide and 36 feet deep. In August last alterations in the premises were commenced with the intention of enlarging the shop. The altera tions were nearly completed, and Mr. Lewis had announced that the old premises would be closed and the new ones adjoining opened, the stock being in consequence sold off at cheap rates. The pre mises fell in about 3 o'clock on Tuesday with a loud noise. Ho at first ran to the door, and then returned into the shop to render what assistance he could. Meredith Jones (one of the deceased) was the assistant bookkeeper. He saw him taken out of the ruins quite dead. He also saw four other bodies taken out—three women and a labouring man. About half of the-flooring of the shop was carried down into the cellars. There was an end wall, which was not shored up, which divided the. old from the new premises. Mr. Lewis looked after the building operations, but the forem'an of the contractors overlooked the work in detail. With respect to the taking down of the old wall Mr. Lewis superintended the work himself and gave the men instructions. He believed Mr. Lewis con sulted an architect. In cross-examination witness said he was not sure if Mr. Lewis consulted an architect. The first floor which fell in was the next but one to the shop. He had not considered the pulling down of the wall at all dangerous. Mr. Lewis and his family slept in that portion of the building which fell down. On the day of the accident Mr. Lewis stayed with the men pulling down the wall from 9 till half-past 11 o'clock. Mr. Lewis was usually on. the premises all day. William Roberts, a labourer, said he had been employed on the premises since August. He had charge of the place, and worked daily with four other labourers. He recommended Mr. Lewis to employ John Ellis, one of the men killed. He (witness) was not present on the premises at the time of the accident. Mr. Lewis superintended the work day after day. He appeared to understand the work. The last time he heard Mr. Lewis speak to the men was to tell them to clear the bricks off the floor as soon as possible. This was not done. The men ought to have dressed the bricks in the new building, but they dressed them where they were pulled down. At the time of the accident there were a number of bricks on the floor which fell down. None had been carried away after Mr. Lewis left. He told the men to clear the bricks away, as he was afraid something might happen, but the men did not do so. To the Coroner—He feared that what might happen was what did happen. There were two men taking the wall down. The wall was about seven or eight feet high that was taken down, and the bricks were on two floors. Mr. Newlands, borough engineer, said that be was at the scene of the accident on Tuesday after noon, and he had since examined the premises care fully, and his opinion was that the loading of the top floor with bricks was the proximate cause of the accident, while the swaying of the thin wall loaded with chimney breasts had caused the joists to " buffie The wall ought to have been carefully taken down, and the bricks shot into a lower part of the building. By the Coroner--The men employed to take down the wall were not proper persons for such work. There ought to have been a skilful person to superintend, but Mr. - Lewis's orders as to the removal of the bricks were quite proper. Mr. Lewis, he proprietor of the shop, was then examined. lie said that his premises had been undergoing enlargement and alteration since lass August. He had plans from an architect, and all the new work was superintended by the contrac tors. He looked after the men on the old building employed in taking down the wall, two of the men saying they were bricklayers' labourers. One of them said he was accustomed to take down walls, and he offered to contract for the job. The other men engaged to clean the bricks as they were taken down. He told the men to take away the bricks as quickly as they were taken down. The Coroner having summed up the evidence, The jury retired, and, on returning into court, the foreman announced that twelve of the jury were in favour of a verdict for " Misadventure, with great blame attached to Mr. Lewis for not having em ployed competent workmen : " the other four for a verdict of " Misadventure " alone. FALL OF ANOTHER HOUSE AT LIVER- POOL. (From the Daily Post of yesterday.) This morning, shortly after 9 o'clock, an accident somewhat similar in its nature to the one in Great George-street, but fortunately not so fatal in its consequences, occurred in Tithebarn-street. The publichouse of Mr. Lumb, opposite the railway station, has been undergoing repairs, with a view of forming the premises into an hotel ; and this morning, while labourers were engaged in taking down the roof, the joists supporting the ceiling of the top story gave way, and this falling carried with it the second and first floors to the cellar. One poor man, Timothy Hunt, aged 40, and resident at 14, K ew - s t ree t, was carried down with the ruins and killed on the spot ; and another man named Michael Herne, who fell with him, was so severely injured that little hopes are entertained of his recovery. He was taken to the Northern Hospital by officer 24 (Burns). Several other men were engaged on the premises at the time, and their escape is perfectly marvellous. DR. HASSALL ON THORLEY'S FOOD FOR. CATTLE. (From Mark _Lan,Express of 10th January, 1859.) Having on more than one occasion been requested to make an analysis of Thorley's well-known Food for Cattle, and to express my opinion respecting it, I placed myself a short time since in communication with Mr. Thorley, de siring to be furnished with certain particulars relating to his food. Mr. Thorley, who was previously a stranger to me, at once conducted me over his factory, showed me all the ingredients employed, and also the process of manufacture of the article. I took away with me samples of the food, as well as of every ingredient entering into its composition. I have since carefully examined and tested these, and I have also com pared the samples procured at the manufaotory with others obtained by myself from other sources. I am, therefore, now in a position to express an authori tative opinion respecting the composition and properties of Thorley's Food for Cattle. I would remark of it-- First. That the ingredients used are all of excellent qua lity, and are purchased without regard to expense. Second. That the receipt or formula, according to which the food is prepared, is an admirable one, no ingredient being selected on account of its cheapness, but those only being chosen which are best adapted to fulfil the objects in tended. _ _ Having regard, thus, to the composition of Thorley's Food for Cattle, I find that it possesses the following pro perties in an eminent, degree : it is highly nutritious and fattening. It is a tonic and gentlo stimulant, aiding, when mixed with other descriptions of food, materially the diges tive powers of an animal—a point of great consequence, since it is an undoubted fact that much of the nourishment contained in the ordinary food given to cattle is lost in con sequence of the impaired or defective action of the digestive organs. Comparing Thorley's Food for Cattle with other cattle foods, with the composition of which I am acquainted, I unhesitatingly assert that it is infinitely superior to any others at present known to me. In all those, of the com position of which I have a knowledge, I have found ingre dients to be present which have been added solely on account of their cheapness—that is, for the purpose of adulteration, and to the exclusion of other valuable, but more expensive articles. In some of the foods I have detected ingredients which are positively hurtful. Comparing, also, the samples taken by me from the manufactory with others procured from different sources, I found a perfect accordance in the composition of both series of samples. Before bringing this report to a conclusion, I would notice an objection sometimes urged against the use of cattle foods generally—namely, that the price at which they are sold exceeds considerably that of the materials from which they are prepared ; this can be readily shown to be a very unreasonable objection. Thorley's Food for Cattle is a compounded and manufactured article, upon the composi tion and preparation of which much care, labour, and ex pense have , been and are bestowed. Moreover, the refuse materials resulting from the cleansing, grinding, &c., and which are an entire loss, amount to twenty per cent. To estimate, therefore, the value of such an article merely at the cost of the raw materia's is both absurd and unjust. Neither must the value of this, or any other cattle food, be determined by the exact amount of nourishment con tained in them, although in the case of Thorley's Food this is very considerable, but the indirect effects resulting from its employment must be taken into consideration that is, the effects of the article in improving the appetite, digestive powers, and general vigour of the cattle fed upon it. By the improved condition of the diges tive organs animals may be fed upon coarser and cheaper articles of food, and from which, without the aid of Thorley's Food, they would be unable to extract all the nourishment which such articles usually contain • I consider, then, that the use of Thorley's Food is attended,. not with an additional, but with a considerable saving of expense. I am glad, therefore, to be enabled to recommend—which I do strongly and conscientiously—Thorley's Food for Cattle as a highly important and valuable compound for the feeding of all descriptions of cattle. (Signed) ARTHUR HILL HASSALL, M.D., Analist of the " Lancet" Sanitary Commission ; Author of the Reports of that Commission; of "Food and ith Adulteration;" " Adultera . tions Detected ; " &c., &c. 74, Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Dec, 21,.1858. 31 ..A1 Less activi and Colonial days, owing t of the princip accounts by t in the ship mc compared wit have been cox home consur haying been mand, and th an improvemc to a rather h and in some i , Saltpetre has and tallow ha vance of abot descriptions. The Liverp heavily, an d I were estimate Rail way Si m /nation, an d q The op era ti extensive, but at terms a f As amen-mod, rates, the app fallen off, and Peeted in the lativ e sales, c The ad v i ces iii,3 the n a t ur( Bourse, s t ate on beh a lf of tl that on 0 0 nh f :i: pleted to Yesterday no ] ritie s on privy The me the comp are d Wit important cha the cemmerci the year. 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I Western, Bi Western hal Lancashire a North Easte] 10s, Great Caledonians, takings have show sympt France hav e about ss. ; c £1 to £1 ss, ast Indian Joint-Stoc In Moderate tßiTim F. auk Stock ~(3 Per Cent. Itc ',Per Cent. Cc Qw 3 per Ce: L ong Annuiti, Ditto 30 Ye ludia Stock . Ditto Debentu Consols for Ac E x i; re t t :t xi h o . cec:51:10: : r oipe ß Fe . : 1 Lbizilian. 5 pe Iti , Ditto 1858 Ditto Acem r ertiviau 4 1 Ditto Aceol ~°l"ttig,,uese, 1 A usinan, 182 f, Ditto pe Sardl* " 111 an, 51 pei Ditto New Ditto Acco ,13atigh Com ' "Irkigh 6 pc D itto Ace° Ditto N ew Ditto 2d Is Ditto Gum Ili, ,_ .. .. aeor i: : rsiin l etia N a ers : , t,, o tk T T: D nis. i i 3 ll ' ' C ales — The d -- "S preE ar'ei ng, 1111(. continued NVI 4 4 , 1 . tastefully de ratIILIAII klleturers of " l e to him i th e quest hoard was o nsals, h.,iberals, aniiortstratio 414 Radice Divid Con Con