The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-29 00:00:00

BENTLEY'S Price half -a- Crown, MISCELLANY. Contents for JANUARY. OVINGDEA'N GRANGE. A Talc of the South Downs. By W. llAnuiso - N AINSWORTH, Esq PART THE TIIIRD. 11. Before the Curtain. ! VIII. The Swan's March. 111. The Haunted House near i By Walter Thornbury Hampstead. A Story I IX. Caltban. By Monks for the New Year. By hood. Dudley Costello. X. Silver Chimes and IV. "Un Pere Prodip:ue." Golden Fetters : or, V. A German In London. , Flow the Old Year VI, Kin 4- Year. By Frederick j Went Out and the E no ch. New Year Came In. 1 VII. Rose's Diaries and ; By Ouida. In Five Correspondence. i Chapters. London : Richard Bentley. New Burlington-street, R 0 Y A I, ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GAR DEN. Under the manazement of Miss L. Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, VICTORINE. Messrs. SanVey, Haigh, 11. Curl, G. Honey, Rartlernan, &c. Misses Parepa, Thirlwall, - - • Conductor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new grand pantomime, called PUSS IN BOOTS ; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden Palms. Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8 O'clock. T FT EA E- RO YA HAYMARKET. Logctee. Mr..l. R. Buolrmtane. THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS. Miss Heyno!ds. After which, the new Traymarket Comic Christmas Panto mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled Leclercqs. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. - THIS EVENING Planche's popular Drama of THE CHILD OF THE WRECK. Maurice (her original charac ter) Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex travae:anza and Pantomime. KING THRUSHBEARD, the LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. H. Marshall—Columbine, Miss Ilosino. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Danccr, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of Millie. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan sense of La Scala, Milan ; and first time of the Delapierre Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. THIS EVENING, (Thurssday), the new drama, HOME T dUTHS. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews, Miss C. Lec'ercq and Mrs. Charles Young. After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by 11. J. Byron, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER; or, Ilarle quin King - Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. .Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—llarlequin,-Mr. Cormack • Panta loon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams - Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. Morninz Performances on Monday, January 9, 16, and 23 commence at two o'clock. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Benj. Webster. Holiday Attractions.— The Christmas Carol and the New Spectacular Extravaganza, by 11. J. Byron, Esq,, the Nymph of the Lurlyberff ; or the linMit and the Naiades. THIS EVENING, THE CHRIS rm_ts CAROL. Messrs J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Paul Bedford, Stuart, Billim, , ton, C. J. Smith. Romer: Miss Wooklar, Mrs. Billing - ton, Mrs. Chatte rley, Miss Laidlaw. After which THE NYMPHS OF TIIE LURT.EYBERG ; or, The Kniirlit and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford, Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K. Kelly, Laidlaw. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROY AL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest The dre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. TNT EITRNT'giT the performances will commence with GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C. Young. Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. 3llas Wyndham and Mr. H. T. Craven. To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND JUDY. Introducing . Hiss Lydia Thompson and the Corps de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and the wonderful Performing Dogs. Reduced Prices—Gallery, &i ; Pit, Is. The Box-ofEce open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at hall-past six; perform ante commences at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season. Great Attraction for the Holidays. The new bombastic hippodramatic, operatic Pantomime, abounding in comicality, called HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY; or, Old Towler the Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, with songs by Miss Esther Jacobs.—Gorgeous an 1 Dazzling mechanical transfor mation scene. Harlequin. M. lticharde ; Pantaloon, Mr. P. Abbot, Columbine, Maddle. Mazzoni; Clown, Mr. Hilde brand ; a family of Sprites by the Elastic Incomprehensibles. Scenes in the Circle by the Star Riders of the World. Three Morning performances of the Pantomime, and Scenes in the Circle, on Monday and Saturday, Dec. 26 and 31, and Monday Jan. e, 1860, at Two o'clock each day. CANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY QUEEN. And a Grand Se ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAII. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. Georcre Ralson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. 7'. Critchfield, and E. W. Hackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beauti tied. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. ROSA BONIIEUIt'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR. is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is opera from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEAFIIER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 29. THEISW,METER, IN THE SHA.DB. 50—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 49—this day at noon. BA RomETER-29.28. WIND, South-Westerly; fresh, with dull rainy weather. It rained heavily in the night. Tit ItEE C LOCK.—Wind fresh and squally with con tinuous rain. It must be blowing a heavy gale in the Channel. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 4h. 53m.—Afternoon, sh. To-mmutow.-Morning, sh. 29m.—Afternoon, sh. 47m. • ).., t :',,tt se " ci , -..,•: It !,. , ..:',N • A,-., _, , , ..x:. , { , c,,-.`'‘ . ..., it», ~ ~,, jt,_-,, „d:".....,-..-,,,,,5r,;(,_;;_ t• ---. ...... -, THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 29, 1859. Talk of economy, while our annual payments under the head of the Consolidated Fund remain to this day altogether unrevised It is about as absurd as it is to talk of any con siderable extension of the franchise without the previous adoption of the Ballot as part of the ma chinery of our popular representation. Although we have before now so very often directed attention to this, systematic extravagance in our national expenditure, we cannot but deem it advisable to revert to a grievance thus monstrous and galling in its character at whatever interval may seem to hold out for its exposure any singu larly tempting opportunity. Such wo may not unreasonably regard the present political juncture, while we are close upon the eve of a session when Parliamentary Reform will have to be taken reso lutely into consideration by the Legislature. Reform generally must be accepted as a problem for solution one way or another during this fast approaching year of 1860, in a House of Commons expressly chosen to that very end. It must be remembered, indeed, that every man returned to that house is avowedly more or less of a reformer. Looking on either side of it—whether it be towards that of the Govern ment or that of the Opposition—all are Reformers. Even Mr. HENLEY and Mr. WALPOLE are refor mers. The introducer of the last comprehensive Reform Bill (passed now pretty nearly thirty years ago into an enactment) is happly there still in the present house—is there still in his full intellectual vigour—is there yet as one of the QUEEN'S Minis ters—is there, we might even say, as the second leader of her MAJESTY'S Government. Opposite Lord JOIN--there is Mr. DISRAELI at the head of his united and formidable Conservative Opposition —an Opposition, however, which, while it is in dubitably Conservative both in name and in character, is still indisputably and pre-emi nently an Opposition of Reformers. Is there not seated during session, there, next to Mr. DisitaEm on that front Opposition bench one of the most conspicuous among the young-er cham pions of that last Reform Bill carried through both Houses under Lord GREY'S ever memorable Go vernment ? And is there not upon the same front bench of the Tory Reforming Opposition besides Mr. DISRAELI and Sir BULwEIt LYTTON—that notable young leader among the more advanced Liberals, though still numbered amongst the chies of the Conservative phalanx, Lord STANLEY, heir to -~ ~ ~~., - _ the Earl of DERBY, ;NI.P. for King's Lynn, ex- Secretary of State for India ? Was not the noble Earl himself, our late Premier, was he not (as Secre tary of State for the Colonies) among the most distinguished members, and as such one of the most eminent champions of Reform in the Earl GREY'S Reform Governments ? Recollecting these things—recollecting the new position the great Conservative Party took before the House and before the Country, when they wisely con sented to introduce a substantial measure of Reform themselves, placing it for scrutiny and consideration upon the table of the Lower House of Parliament, we have surely reason to feel more sanguine than ever as to the triumph of the cause of Reform at last within the walls of the Imperial Legislature. But—any reform, however otherwise comprehen sive and well-considered, will prove but the merest mockery, that is not accompanied by what we are disposed to call the two prime essentials of the Ballot and Retrenchment ! The Ballot as the very first part of the machinery of our representative system—accompanied by a wise and judicious Retrenchment in the annual expenditure required in the mechanism of our national administration. The Consolidated Fund is, we know but too well, debited with a collection of the public expenses as onerous as they are miscellaneous. The sum total of these payments for the last financial year reached very nearly, indeed, the fearful aggregate of £2,000,000 sterling ! To be precise it amounted in the year ending the 31st of March, to £1,910,655. Examining the distribution of this grand total we find that out of it £157,665 went for salaries, £200,395 for pensions, £546,591 for Royal allowances and Royal estab lishments. The remaining £1,000,000 (with an odd 36,001 thrown in over and above it) being set apart for—" other payments !" As to the first class among these different sections, the one, namely relating to the half million and odd required for the Royal allowances and establishments what loyal subject is there in the the land that would be disposed for one instant to quarrel with the items apportioned for the uses directly or indirectly of the Sovereign ? Not one economist amongst us, we believe, will be disposed to quarrel with the supplementary £18,225 for pensions under Ist Vic., cap: 2, or with that grand and dazzling annual sum total poured each year into her MAJESTY'S privy purse—more than a thousand pounds for every day in the twelvemonth—£3Bs,ooo ! Then follow—the PRINCE CONSORT, £30,000 the Duchess of KENT, £30,000; the Duchess of CAMBRIDGE, £6,000 ; the Duchess of MECKLEN BURG-STRELITZ, £3,000 ; the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, £12,000 ; the Princess MARY of CAMBRIDGE, £3,000 ; the Prince of MECKLENBURG-STRELITZ, £1,788; the King of the BELGIANS, £50,000; and the Princess FREDERICK WILLIAM of PRUSSIA, £7,578. Glancing through which gorgeous cata logue of resplendent means and incomes, we might wonder how it is that Uncle LEOPOLD can have the coolness to pocket yearly his £50,000, while the PRINCE CONSORT himself draws actually £20,000 less than that from the national treasury—but that, we believe, the whole of that £50,000 per annum (with the exception of a yearly sum of £15,000 set apart for the keep ing up of the Palace of Claremont) is honour ably poured back by Uncle LEOPOLD into the English Treasury!! And the Palace of Claremont (it is also worth remembering) has been set apart too in its turn during the last twelve years as the home and refuge of the exiled ORLEANS family. Linder the second class one is left still to marvel less over, the naval and military pensions absorbing £37,825; pensions for civil services, £38,977; pensions for judicial services, £48,965 ; that over such items as the hereditary pension to the Duke (f Marlborough, £4,000 ; that to the heirs of the Duke of Sehombery, £2,160; a moiety of the Earl of Bath's pension, £1,200 ; the servants of George 111., Queen Charlotte, and Queen Caroline, £2,925 ; pensions formerly on the civil list of GEORGE IV. and WILLIAM IV., £38,048 ; and Irish compensations for loss of emolument, judicial pen sions, and pensions formerly on the civil list, £26,2t4. A pleasant list truly one abso lutely exhausting our patience ! So that we have little surprise or indignation left for any particular item specified in the record of the salaries : namely—the Speaker of the House of Commons, £6,200 ; the Controller-Gene ral, £2,000 ; the Commissioners for Auditing the Public Accounts, £6,300; the Lunacy Commis sioners, £12,487 ; stipends augmented to Scotch clergy, £17,039; ecclesiastical establishment in the West Indies, £20,300; civil government of the Isle of Man, £10,158 ; the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland, £20,000; Maynooth College, £26,360 ; the Queen's Irish Col leges, £21,000 ; and miscellaneous, £15,818. Or even for those wonderful " other payments," in cluding among them payments for the diplomatic service, £161,314 ; for judges and officers of courts of justice, £697,056; for interest and sinking-fund on Russian-Dutch Loan, £82,978 ; ditto on Greek Loan, £47,400; Commissioners of Greenwich Hos pital, £20,000; secret service, £10,000; and com pensation for the loss of the duties on the coinage of tin, £17,246. It is but small consolation besides to find that, since the previous financial year, these " other payments" have grown from an aggregate sum of £OOO,lBB, to a total, as we have seen, of £1,036,004 ! Certainly there is some need here for a Parliamentary Bill-book of Retrenchment ! Irish laymen call meetings to sympathise with the POPE ; English laymen call them to sympathise with Church-rates. Lora NELSON and Mr. BANKER HOARE bewail the rebellion of the majority of in telligent Churchmen, who think it high time that Church-rates should be abolished, just as Archbishop CULLEN and the laymen he convenes by " beat of drum ecclesiastic" bewail the refusal of the Bolognese to pay taxes to papal legates ; and the suppressed , rebellion of the Romans themselves, who would not pay another penny if French soldiers did not make them. We have spoken freely of the blindness and absurdity of the Catholic clergy and laity in regard to their folly; we have laughed at them as behind the age; we have remonstrated with them on the absurd light in which they have placed their religion ; we have warned them that so much noise about the temporalities of the Church is not unlikely to lead people to think that these are much more cared about than its spiritualities ; and we must deal equally plainly with the Church of England men who follow the example of the Callenites. There is not, that we can see, in point of position and principle anything to choose between Lord NELSON, Mr. HoAral, Mr. BERESFORD 'HOPE, and Mr. LAN GDALE, and a few Irish gentlemen, who ' can be dragged together to proclaim that tempora lities are all in all fur their respective churches. Both these sets of—fanatics, we were going to say— enthusiasts for the earthly things of their churches, we suppose we should say, agree in the main point —preservation of tenzporai power for their churches. This was the one object in which the speakers at Free mansons'Hall last week, agreed. On other points they differed. But in retaining power over men's bodies . a 3 well as over their souls, they were all as one. THE SUN, LONIiON, 'THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, ISi3c,i They might differ about conserving the new Mar riage Law (the old one they called it, but it is only as old as Bishop BLOOMFIELD)—they might differ about conserving every word and rubric of a prayer bo©k which certainly some of the best Churchmen desire to purify and shorten—they even seemed to differ on the question whether Church-rates should be fought for as they arc, or Churchmen, only, made liable to them ; but on the grand point there was no difference of opinion—temporal power, over Dissenters and Churchmen if practicable, if not, over Churchmen at least—this was the creed of the meeting. We think it only fair to our Catholic fellow sub jects to show broadly that some, in point of social position, most respectable members of our own Church are as infatuated as we think too many of our Catholic neighbours to be ; they cannot believe their Church to be safe without she can use the secular arm. One, indeed, wants to be able to compel its subjects in Italy to obey the be hests temporally, of the POPE, and to pay such taxes as he levies, under penalty of his temporal terrors; the other, that is the most moderate of them, only want the Church to have power to in flict temporal penalties on those of her subjects who will not pay what the Chureh wishes in order to repair and adorn it, or to defray the cost of its services, however fantastic some of the Bishop of OXFORD'S or EXETER'S disciples may wish to make them. We admit a difference, indeed, in degree, a difference corresponding to the different degrees of latitude which define the position of Rome and London. But the principle is one. Temporal power is the demand of the Roman Catho lic for his Church ; temporal power the demand of these Church-rate laymen for theirs. Both parties live in an age in which society has outgrown these degrading views of the layman's position, and of the inherent strength of any religion which really comes from Heaven ; but these parties themselves, as Russia says of Austria, " Can learn nothing or forget no thing"—at Rome the Church of one must wiel d a priestly sceptre; in England the Church of the other must flourish a policeman's baton, or the vil lage constable's staff—or—the true Church is in danger ! Then let it be in danger !—we say. If grinding Italians into slaves, and seizing a fellow-church man's goods be, as they express it, " the bulwark" of a Church, the sooner churches resting on such a sandy foundation, or, if they prefer it, protected by such bulwarks, fall, the better. They can have but little hold on their members, and have produced but little effect on their minds. We suppose nothing can be more indisputable than that the Apostolic Churches, such as the apostles left them, never thought of levying a rate and asking any Roman authority to enforce it. Apostolic writings rebuke the Churches for long catalogues of sins, but it would puzzle Mr. ItomtE or Lord NELSON himself to find in the list the sin of " subtraction of Church-rates." No, it will not do to impose on men now. Coercion for religion cannot be found in the Christian records. Coercion to believe in creeds, or even to conform to public worship, has long since been abandoned by all thoroughly civi lised countries. Coercion to pay for Christian wor ship, and for the maintenance of the buildings in which it is c?,lebrated, must be forthwith abandoned also. It is a relic of a mediaeval age. None the worse, of course, in the ages of Lord NELSON and Mr. BERESFORD HOPE ; but they ought to know that while the country can afford to laugh at Puseyite mimicries of the antique, it will not laugh at such mimicry of old religious coercion as shows itself in enforcing antiquated taxes. NEW MUSIC. The Elopement : Ballad. Written by R. C. Wright son. Composed by IV. T. Belcher. H. J. Jewell, Great Russell-street. New ballads are plentiful as plum-puddings on Christmas day, and we may mention the above one as being ameng those which will please young lady singers, and prove generally attractive. The melody is flowing, and within easy compass of voice, and the words harmoniously in unison, with a strong dash of olden romance to add to their effect. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset have arrived at Broadlands, Hants, on a visit to Viscount and Vis countess Palmerston. The Marquis and ,ITarehioness of Stafford leave Stafford House, St. James's, this morning to join the circle staying with the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Trent ham. The Marchese di Campobianco has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Italy. The Earl Grosvenor, after a sojourn of a few days in town, left yesterday to join the party assembled at Trent ham on visits to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. Viscount Clifden has arrived at Trentham, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, from staying with Lord and Lady Begot at Blithfield. Lord Panmure, who has been laid up at Edin burgh, by a severe attack of gout, is, we are glad to learn by letters received yesterday from Scotland, much better. Lady Emily Peel arrived in Whitehall-gardens yesterday from Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. Sir Robert Peel is expected home in a few days from Geneva. General Lord Seaton, G.C.8., commanding the forces' in Ireland, arrived in town on Tuesday evening from Dublin The Right Hon. William F. Cowper, M.P., and Mrs. Cowper and the lion. A. Ashley, left town yesterday to join the circle visiting 'Viscount and Viscountess Palmer ston at Broadlands. DISIINUrION OF CRIME IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. —ln no county of England has the diminution of crime during the past seven years been more marked than in Glou cestershire. Within a year or two, four prisons—Lawford's Gate, Littledean, Gloucester City, and Tewkesbury—have been closed for want of prisoners; and as the County Gaol for some time past has not been more than half occu pied, it is understood that at the quarter sessions to be held the first week in January an order will be given to close the two remaining houses of correction at Northleach and Horsley. Thus no less than six prisons will have been closed in two years, and there are still "lodgings to let" at the county gaol.—Bristol Times. GALLANT SERVICES IN SAVING LIFE.—The barque Sunda, of Jersey, was observed by Mr. Talbot, M.P., from his house, Moyam, on the Glanrorganshiro coast, drifting and dismantled in the height of the gale of last month. Perceiving that she must go ashore, he im mediately ran down to the beach to render assistance to the crew. When he got there, she had grounded in the breakers, and the captain, his wife, and four men had come on shore in the quarter-boat. They seemed disinclined to make any attempt to row back again and save the re mainder of the crew. It was supposed that they were stu pifled by their long exposure to the weather and danger. It being nearly low water, and every probability existing that the ship might break up, or roll over, if left thumping on the sand till the flood, Mr. Talbot endea voured to persuade the captain to adopt some means to effect a junction between the ship and the bystanders, who unfortunately were not seamen, and could render little assistance. The captain seemed disinclined to take any steps whatever. Mr. Talbot thereupon courageously at• tempted to reach the ship by wading into the surf until he was within hail, but he was compelled to desist by the irresistible force of the outdrift. A gallant attempt was then made by Mr. Williams, a farmer, to approach the ship on horseback, but he was also frustrated by the same cause. It was now getting dark, and the tide was beginning to flow, when the crew on board the wreck at last lowered their second quarter boat, but from clumsy management she soon capsized, and rolled over in the surf. One man regained the wreck, one was drowned, and the remainder were got out by Mr. Talbot and others by link ing hands together and wading into the surf. When taken out the poor fellows were found insensible, but they gr.:- dually recovered consciousness. The remaining mari on board was rescued by the seamanlike conduct of one of the Port Talbot pilots, and the master of the Port Talbot steam-tug, who, under Mr. Talbot's directions got the ship's boat well to windward, and then, by watching the run of the sea, and having a line fast on shore to prevent the contingency of the under tow carrying the boat into broken water, they were enabled to get alongside without shipping a drup of water, and thus bring the remaining man, on shore. If these men had been purioabta flat t y b n e o a t ch les i s so th t a o n 2 five oo feetards s in on the spot at fi rs t, or any man use d to t h e managemen t yards, height, it that was and onlyra n ranging of boats, no one wou ld h ave b een drowned. The sea was o care fully-watched intervals intervals that any approach to the ship could be made. The man who w as d rowne d • was certainly in no more than four feet water, yet his body never came ashore, and probably never will. Thi s hi g hl y meritorious ease has been forwarded to the National Lifeboat Institution. Mr. Talbot has recently assisted, in conjunction with other gentlemen, in forming, a lifeboat establishment at Perth caw'. LATEST NEWS. -.--.....---- _--. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : BUCIIAREST, DEC. 28. Prince Couza intends to contract a loan of 60 millions of francs in Paris, under the guarantee of France, Prussia, and Russia. The Principalities offer to mortgage, as security for the loan, the in come resulting from the salt-pits, the customs, and the landed property belonging to the convents. The French Consul at Jassy is about to proceed to Paris, where M. Beclaud, Consul-General of France in Bucharest, has already arrived, in order to hasten the conclusiou of the loan. ROME, DEC. 29. The Minister of Finance has been obliged to sell Consolidated Funds to an amount double that pre viously stated (2,000,000 francs). PARIS, DEC. 29. The Russian Ambassador, Count Kisseleff, has declared to Count Walewski that the pamphlet, " Le Pape et le Congress," contains—without con sidering the religious question, with which Russia does not intend to interfere—principles in opposi tion to the respect of authority on which the Rus sian Government is founded, and that consequently Russia will oppose the programme drawn up in this pamphlet. It is asserted that Austria, Naples, and Spain will not send Plenipotentiaries to the Congress should the Pope not be represented. The Constitutionnel publishes the letter of a Catholic journalist refuting the views of the Bishop of Orleans on the pamphlet "Le Pope et le Con- g ress." MARSEILLES, THURSDAY. The Admirals Itigault de Genouilly and Rey naud arrived here yesterday from China. Letters received from Naples state that the King had sent decorations and presents to M. de Moni scales, director of the police, whose assassination was lately attempted at Palermo. contrary to the duties of a Christian sovereign and to the requirements of the present state of civilisa tion. The author of the pamphlet has given proof of a moderation so much the more difficult that the passions are more violent and that the advocates of a past which it would be madness to revive are more ardent. He has considered the question in every part. The separation of Romagna is not in his opi nion a necessity because a Ail accompli cannot be destroyed, but because the temporal power must be done away, and the sovereignty of the Pope be limited to Rome, transformed by the municipal fran chise into a free cfty. The religious question with drawn, what remains ? The political one. After four revolutions, after innumerable proofs of the inca pacity of the Papal Government, can there remain a doubt of the necessity of putting an end, one 3 for all to the temporal power, giving the Pope as a com pensation revenues from every Roman Catholic nation ? If this pamphlet, as there is every reason to suppose, faithfully represents the ideas of the Emperor of the French, the certainty exists that this view will be maintained in the Congress, and we may add that it will triumph there; since every power must be weary of periodical commotions, and desirous of giving to Italy an organisation which shall be for Europe a pledge of peace and order. Will not this arrangement entirely satisfy the Italians ? Let us not be too exacting or greedy. Let us each lend our efforts to bring about a practical solution of the question, and strengthen the hands of those who aim at it. If the Emperor of the French succeeds in realising the ideas developed in the pamphlet, he may boast of having solved the most arduous problem of our times, and of having acquired new claims to the gratitude of Italy and of Europe." THE CALCUTTA MAIL. The Valetta, with the mails from India and China, arrived at Marseilles at S a.m. yesterday (Wednes day). The left for London at 10 a.m. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The Northern left Aden for Suez on the 19th inst. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. The Madrid Gazette of the 23d inst. publishes the following despatch from the Commander-in- Chief of the Spanish forcos : " Heights of Serrallo, Dee. 22. " General Prim advanced this morning with his division on the Tetuan road to continue the works. At 1 o'clock he was attacked, which did not prevent the works being continued till 4 p.m., the hour appointed for returning to camp. The troops hav ing commenced their return the Moors renewed the attack, extending it to the Quesada divi sion, which was well placed to cover the work men. I had expected an attack here, and had placed myself in the position of that division. The enemy was driven back on all sides. The Tetuan road is completed as far as Castillejos. Tlfe number of the Moors was very considerable, as their line of fire was more than a league in extent ; but their fire was so badly directed that, though it lasted five hours, they only hit 40 of our men, of whom 12 were severely wounded and four killed. For the first time our cavalry charged the enemy, who fled with out awaiting the shock. Generals Count de Reuss (Prim) and Quesada distinguished themselves by their perfect arrangements for the battle." FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. "The rumour was generally propagated during the day," says the Presse, " that the envoy of the Holy See had applied to the French Government for a disavowal of the late pamphlet. Another re port was that the publication of the production in question had modified the resolutions of the Court of Rome relative to the Congress, and that the com ing of Cardinal Antonelli was more doubtful than some days back." Mgr. Coeur, Bishop of Troyes, has written to the Gazette de France to say that the assertion of his being the author of the pamphlet "Le Pape et le Congres" is quite unfounded. Nantes was visited two days back by a tremend ous hurricane of wind, accompanied by thunder, lightning, and rain. The barometer fell in a most extraordinary manner. A murder, followed by an attempt at suicide by the perpetrator of the crime, took place the day before yesterday in the Rue de Charonne. A man named D- had for some years past occupied part of a house in that street, keeping an eating-house, and letting furnished lodgings. His customers were for the most part journeymen gardeners, for whom he occupied himself with finding employ ment when they were out of work. lie lost his wife about six months ago, and soon after formed an acquaintance with a widow named M--, who came to live with him, bringing with her the furniture which she possessed. Latterly quarrels frequently took place between them, and at length became so violent that the woman, four or five days ago quitted the house, leaving her furniture behind. The day before yesterday she called to claim and remove her property, when a violent altercation took place, and at length D--, find ing the woman was determined on leaving him, rushed on her with the large knife which he usually wore in a sheath at his side, and plunged it up to the haft in her breast. She at once fell to the ground, and when ho saw her weltering in her blood, he laid hold of a sword-stick which stood near him, and with the blade stabbed him self in several places in the breast and abdomen, and at length fell fainting with exhaustion on the floor, and with the blade still sticking in his body. At the commencement of the quarrel, several persons had stopped before the place, but had not interfered ; when, however, they heard a noise indicating that from words the parties had come to blows, they rushed in, but it was too late. Both D-- and the woman were con veyed to the Hospital St. Antoine ; the latter expired just as she reached that place, but the former, although his wounds were very severe, is not considered in a hopeless condition. PARIS BOURSE.—The market continues heavy, and with a downward tendency. Threes, after having been done at 69f. 70c., declined to 69f. 55c., Mobilier varied from 807 f. 50c. to 817 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 920 f. to 925 f. ; Orleans, 1,430 to 1,402 f. ; Southern, 520 f. to 522 f. 50e. ; Austrian, 575 f. 50c. to 560 f. ; Lombard, 565 f. to 567 f. 50c. The follow ing were the last quotations :-- ti per Cents. .... 96 Credit Foncier 720 Do. end montk .. 96 25 I Belgian 4 3 per Cents .. 69 7.5 I Riedmonteso (5) 85 Roman Bank en,i month.... 6n 7.i Bl Bank Shares 2830 Austrian Credit Mobilior .. 822 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 822 50 Home Debt 43 25 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern ... - .. 965 New ditto. B6O .. Lyons and Mediterranean 9 ,5 .. 926 25 Geneva 537 50 .. 537 50 Southern Western .. 575 .. 572 50 Eastern SArdinian Austrian Lombard ..... 570 . .. 570 Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10e. ; money, 25f. 9e.; three months, paper, 211. 95e.; money, 24f. 931 e. SARDINIA. The Opinione of Turin publishes the following article on the pamphlet Le Pape et lc Congres : " This production may be regarded as a pro gramme of the course that Franco will follow in the question of Romagna. The temporal power of the Pope is henceforth condemned. It is a regime NAPLES. A letter from Rome in the Union says :—" France has obtained from the young King that he would not oppose the formation of an Italian Confederation. The exceptional position of the kingdom of Naples, protected on every side by the sea, or the univer sally recognised plurality of the Pontifical States, renders of little advantage to him the forma tion of such a Confederation. At first the Nea politan Cabinet was disposed to refuse all con currence in the realization of the project ; but being urged by the French Government it agreed to take part in its organization, pro vided the Confederation was established on solid bases, which would ensure order and tranquillity, and effectually protect the Italian States from all propagandism or attempts at revolution. The French Government would also have wished to ob tain from the young King a promise of political re forms and the concession of a liberal constitution, and to that end it has made several attempts, either through its Ambassador, Baron Brenier, or its En voy-Extraordinary, General Roguet, but every effort has failed in shaking the firmness of the young Sovereign. Francis 11. has always replied that the constant aim of his cares should be to in troduce into the several administrations every pos sible improvement that did not tend to the detri ment of the Royal authority." "A German journal announced some days since," says the siecle, " that Prince Coma had narrowly escaped being the victim of two attempts against his life. Letters from Jassy which reached Paris yesterday make no allusion to any such acts. The principalities are stated to be tranquil. All intel ligence respecting Moldavia and Wallachia, given by the Austrian journals, should be received with due reserve. The elections of Louvain having been annulled by the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, the Electoral College of that arrondissement has been convoked for the 19th January to elect two senators and fur reprntativesso. ee INDIA AND CHINA. We have received, via Trieste, in anticipation of the mail, files of papers from Calcutta to the 22d of November, and from Hong Kong to the 15th of November. INDIA. We take the following from the Calcutta English• man of the 22d of November : The condition and prospects of commerce are certainly not improved sinee our report of a fort night since. In exports there is almost literally nothing doing, as will be seen in our Price Cur rent. The prices here of all leading produce are too high to admit of speculation, nor do reports from home give any hope of improvement in a general way. On the 19th imstant the Peninsular and Oriental steamship Nubia arrived with passengers, being an extra steamer put on to enable the company to bring out the number of passengers in excess of the accommodation afforded by the regular mail steamers. There has been bad weather down the Bay of Bengal, so that we are yet without the usual telegram advising the arrival of the Nemesis at Galle, where she was due about the 20th instant, so that we are yet without the actual announcement of Mr. Wilson's advent, which we expect by that ship. TILE VICEROY'S PROGRESS. The following is from Cawnpore, dated the sth of November : "' The Governor-General left us this morning. His Excellency now moves towards Futtyghur, and after a short stay there proceeds to Agra, Delhi, Meerut, Lahore, and Pesha war. He returns thence to Umballah, where the Governor-General's camp is to be broken up, and whence a great portion of the stair accompanies his lordship to the hills of Simla. "'There have been grand doings here. On the 3d a public Durbar was held, which came off with great eclat. From twelve o'clock to two the principal street of the camp was filled with one continued procession of elephants, horsemen, and magnificent equipages, the native chiefs sp srkling in gold brocade and jewels, and others of minor importance dressed up in silks and shawls of every hue of the rainbow, all accompanied by spearmen, mace:bearers, and chobdars, the whole forming a scene of no ordinary in terest. The Durbar tent, large and commodious, was densely crowded. In the middle were placed two thrones, cushioned with red velvet, and supported by golden lions. To the right of the entrance were the places occupied by the Europeans, to the left those of the natives. The bright uniforms of the former, the dazzling scarlet and gold of the staff and infantry officers, the gold-laced blue uniform of artillery and the cavalry, admirably relieved by here and there a black coat, formed no mean contrast to the purely Oriental magnificence the °mesa° side presented. The natives aro passionately fond of ffigplay and ostentation, and they did not lose the opportunity of indulging in them on this occasion ; pearls, emeralds, rubies, diamonds, some of wonderful size, glittered on many a sable neck or arm, or adorned many a gold-brocaded turban. The Rajah of Rewah and his Prime Minister seemed to be the stars among the gorgeously-habited crowd, but others, in wild barbaric splendour of native chiefs armed with sword and buckler, were scarcely less remarkable. The Durbar was well attended. Profound silence reigned throughout the assembly. At a little after 2 o'clock the National Anthem, played by an ex cellent band, proclaimed the Governor-General's approach, preceded by Secretaries of State in uniform, Mr. Beadon, General Mansfield, General Birch, Sir R. Shakespeare, and other high officials, who as the procession advanced, ranged themselvs on either side. Loro Canning and Lord Clyde took their seats amid a Royal salute of 31 guns. "' The native chiefs now, presented by Mr. Beadon, offered their nuzzers, consisting mostly of gold mohurs, shawls, and sweetmeats, some of theta carried by dirtylook lug coolies, a strikingcontrast to the Governor-General's do mestics in their neat liveries. The presentations lasted above an hour. Then came the investiture of the visitors, some with khilluts, jagheers, and pensions, none without at least some marks of havingbeen in the presence. The Governor- General's presents, all of them costly and appropriate were many of them accompanied with a few graceful words, which Lord Canning certainly knows how to deliver with ease and dignity. One chief was by him introduced to the particular notice of Lord Clyde, the Governor-General ex pressing a hope that every British officer would, should he ever have occasion to assist the chief, not fail to show his regard and his appreciation of his services to us dnriug the late war, the Rajah not only giving us suce Jur, but, besieged in his own fort, resisting all attempts to deliver up the refugees who had found a shelter under his roof. Another old native gentle man, huge as Falstaff, yet apparently strong and muscu lar, armed with an immensely broad sword, swathed like a babe in shawls, silks, and satins, a large, round, rhinoceros hide buckler oi , l his back, afforded us no little amusement. He was rather awkward, and Lord Canning remarked to him he had rather a large sword, but he hoped he knew how to use it. He brandished it at once, and gallantly replied that, wherever the Government required his services there he would employ it in its defence. The manner was, how ever, so ludicrous that a titter ran throughout the assembly, in which Lord Canning and the chief were not the last to " At four the Durbar was over, and their lordships left amidst a royal salute,' followed by all the native chiefs and European officers. In the evening there was a dinner party.' COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CALCUTTA, Nov. 22. Imports.—The general position of the market continued very dull and quiet during the last fortnight. Exchange.—The rates on London have advanced since the departure of the last mail £2 OZ to £2 04 ; for Bank bills, £2 Oi to £2 ; for credits, £2 Itol2 11 for docu mentary. At these rates there is a fair demand, and, as the supply is not large, there will not probably be much change for the next mail. On China, sales have been made at 224 for 100 dols. Money-market.—Money is somewhat more in demand in the Bazaar, but is sitill obtainable at the Banks upon Go vernment Securities at from 5 to 6 per cent. per annum. Freight.—There has been considerable engagements in retail for London and Liverpool, at rates fluctuating be tween £1 17s. 6d. and £2 for the former, and at £1 12s. 6d. to £1 15s. for this latter all round. CHINA. We take the following from the Hongkong Over rand Mail of the 15th November : " The London mail of the 26th of September had not arrived here up to the hour of our going to press, but intelligence has been received from England via Bombay, up to the 19th of September. " It is reported that the Americans are already in the field as mediators between China and the two offended European Powers. At least his Excel lency, Mr; Ward, left Shanghae on the 2d inst., to meet the Governor-General of Kiangsu. Kwanshan, the place of meeting, is whore Iliang received Colo nel Marshall and Mr. McLane ; and the Chinese believe that Ho has been instructed by the Emperor to see if the Americans can do anything to arrange matters with France and England. At the same time the Imperial Government is gathering together its very limited means of defence, lest matters should be pushed to extremity. The scanty supply of rice at Pekin, and its consequent high price, may lead to the starvation of myriads of helpless and unoffending persons in the event of energetic mea sures being adopted by the foreign powers. " From Japan we learn that Mr. Consul-General Alcock has made arrangements, at Hakodadi (a small town with few public buildings), for the esta blishment of the Consulship there under Mr. C. P. Hodgson. The currency question has at last been satisfactorily arranged, and Itzebnes are to be exchanged for Mexicans at the rate of 311 for 100. Increasing confidence exists between foreigners and the Japanese Government. The most important intelligence from Japan is that Commissioners are to be sent from it to the United States, as was provided for in the treaty concluded by Mr. Townshend Harris. It was hardly expected that that clause of the treaty would be carried out, but the Japanese Government has signified its intention of doing so, and has already appointed Commissioners, who are to leave in the Powhatan in February next, the date fixed by the treaty. The mission will consist of two Commissioners, two censors, who have to report on the conduct of the Commissioners, three Lieutenant-Governors, eight generals and colonels, two interpreters, two physi cians, and 40 servants. ,' Laou, lately the Acting Governor of Canton, has been made Governor of the Two Kwang, and Kiling, a relative of Ki-ying, and lately Governor of Kiangsu, has been made Governor of Canton city. " We are glad to hear that the liberal scheme of emigration to the West Indies sanctioned by the British Government, is meeting with success, and that so many families have already been secured, that a large supplymay be looked for when the rice crop is all gathered in. It was one of the old China notions that respectable Chinese women could not be got to emigrate at any price; but the native Government of I(wang-tung has co-operated in the regulation of the traffic, and much has been effected by the actiiity of European gentlemen who know the peasantry well and enjoy their confidence. Laou, the new Governor-General, urged by the Commissioners of Canton, promises kis active sup gration so long as it is properly con port to emi ducted, and nothing will do more than a really good system to check the irregularities and atro cities Connected with that to Cuba." C OMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The London letters of the 10th of September reached Shanghae on the 29th ult. Our latest dates from that port are down to the 7th inst. There had been little change in the markets for either imports or exports since the depar ture of the previous mail. Political matters remained in static quo. News of the effect of the Poiho disaster on the English public was anxiously looked for. There are ru mours that IL E. Mr. Ward, the American Minister, had had an interview with an Imperial representative, and that weightier matters than the carrying out of the recently con tracted commercial treaty had been discussed. The Chi nese positively assert that the representative of their Imperial master was empoweied to solicit the good offices of the American, with a view of bringing about a settlement between the British Plenipotentiary and the Imperial Go vernment Without a resort to arms, but the latter appears to be makin g every preparation for a determined resistance should their pacific endeavours prove ineffectual. Little truth should be attached to the former part of this stuef, but that th e latter portion is true there is no doubt. Large supplies of rice are being brought up for shipment to Pekin, and the , g national defences" are being put on a war footing. Notwithstanding these wars and rumours of wars busi ness in the several ports goes on as usual, and confidence is felt that trade wili not be interrupted. Tea—The mail of 10th September did not bring very en enraging accounts of the home market, but, notwithstand ing that, buyers display loss eagerness to purchase in con sequence of the dull trade and gradually softening prices in England. Teamen remained firm in their demands ; rates ruling at the departure of last mail were current for this. Green teas were lower. A large business had been done, chiefly on American account, at a reduction of tls. 1 to 11, Silk was lower from tls. sto 10. Buyers were reluctant operators in the face of last accounts from Europe. Holders were, however, very Arm in their demands. Exchange was quoted, Bank-bills, Gs. lid. to 6s. ild. ; credits and documentary paper, 6s. Bd. to 6s. 81d. Shippi n g continued abundant, notwithstanding that the north-east monsoon had considerably diminished the num ber of seeking vessels. Freights wore as last quoted, £1 10s. to £2 for tea, and £3 lOs fer silk to London. The dates from Amoy reach down to the 7th inst. Civil commotion continues to prevail in the country round about this important outlet for our manufactures. The people otter a determined and apparently successful resistance to the exorbitant demands of the Mandarins, and it would seem as though the latter were about to concede a portion of their excessive impositions, and were turning their atten tion to more praiseworthy occupation, in the extermination of the pirates who invest the rivers and seaboard, com pletely cutting off fluvial communication with the interior, lit Canton, notwithstanding the arrival of troops to rein force the " Army of China," business has improved, the Chinese displaying the utmost indifference to the military preparations by which they are surrounded. Tea.—Large sttlements and reduced stocks hays caused increased firmness on the part of holders who demand higher rates. The quantity at market is however small, and we shall probably soon see a considerable falling off in shipments. Silk has advanced fully 5 dols. since our last. The fifth crop has realised the most sanguine expectations as to quality. Small parcels of the sixth crop have come in, but th e quality is decidedly inferior, and report speaks of a short yield. Exchange has advanced. The Commissariat have been sellers at 4.10, 30 days' sight. Bank Bills, six months' Right. are quoted at same rate, while the leading mercantile establishments here have been sellers at 4.10 g. Indian paper has participated in the improvement, and may be quoted at 231 r. to 232 r. Bar silver and Sycee are much wanted, but not to be obtained. Gold loaf; 23.20 dols. per tael. BIG BEN.-111EARS v. DENISON. In this case, defendant having suffered judgment to go by default, the writ has been sent down to the Sheriff, calling upon him to empanel a jury to assess the damages. In all probability tho case will come on at an early day. Tho declaration, which is very lengthy, sets forth that when the first bell, cast by Mr. Warner, became cracked, plaintiff was invited by the defendant to recast it, providing any new metal of pare copper and tin that might be required. It was also stipulated that the defendant and the Rev. William Taylor were to give certificates in writing. The bell was cast, and plaintiff says the certificate was given to Sir B. hail, First Commissioner of Works and Public Build inss. The bell became cracked, and then defendant published a letter in the Times, in. which is contained the all)gei libel complained of. Defendant in this letter says that the bell was a "magnificent imposture;" that Mr. Dent's men found it out; that it had been very imperfectly cast; that there were holes in it which had been filled in with " mine ral succedaneum," and the whole bell washed with a com position which the atmosphere had now removed. Plain tiff says this accusation of fraud has injured him greatly in his business, and that he has suffered considerable damage in consequence of it. He lays his damages in the suit at £5,000, and the jury will have to decide and assess them. Numerous counsel aro engaged on each side, it being stated that Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., 'M.P., and Mr. Bovill, Q.C., will be for the plaintiff. Mr. Garth is mentioned as jitnior counsel fir defendant, LITI': RATUR E. English Phraseology : A Series of Practical Exer cises to be Translated; into French. By F. J. Wattez. Parker, West Strand. This volume undertakes to supply a deficiency .which has long existed in educational works treat ing of the correct translation of our idiomatic ex pressions into the French language. Pupils who have studiously laboured to acquire a thorough knowledge of French, whose grammar is tolerably correct and compositions highly creditable, are still awkwardly ignorant of its idiomatic construction, and frequently commit blunders of an absurd cha racter. For instance, it would puzzle one, though tolerably well up in the language, to rightly settle the form of words fitting to convey the different idiomatic meanings which we give to the ad jective " cracked." We say a china basin is cracked, a walnut is cracked, a post-boy's whip is cracked, a joke is cracked, and a Prime Minister is cracked. In these pages such difficulties are explained and obviated, and upwards of four thousand English idiomatic words and phrases are given for exercises, though these by no means contain the whole list of our idioms. The book will be of infinite service to those who wish to attain a finished and elegant conversational pro ficiency in the French language, a n d reflects the highest credit on the compiler. The Graduated Series of Beading Lesson Both Longman and Co. This is the fourth book of a series of five volumes intended for all classes of English Schools, con taining well selected portions of sound literature, and embracing a variety of subjects calculated to elevate the taste while increasing the knowledge of the pupil. Most of our " reading books" abound is abstract essays, rhetorical or poetical common places, technical outlines of some of the branchespf science, or enquiries into the construction and phenomena of the material universe, and frequently in such form as to lie beyond the sphere of the reader's sympathy and comprehension. It is a point of cardinal importance that youth sh 0 . uld read" that which healthily excites the feelings and awakens the interest. The element of attrac tiveness is indispensable, and these judiciously compiled volumes are most desirable for both teacher and scholar, being fitted to stimulate ,a wholesome love of acquirement, and facilitate in tellectual development. Sow to Brew Good Beer. By John Pitt. Long man. We may consider the firm of Barelay.and Perkins as being among our national institution s, and every man who seeks to improve the worldly condition of Sir John Barleycorn as a social. patriot. Mr. John Pitt stands out conspicuously in the latter character, and has entered heart send soul into his subject. The fullest practical details of the whole process connected with brewing a . re lucidly given, together with valuable inform ation respecting brewhouses, cellars, and apparatuS, with various diagrams and measure tables , consti tuting a perfect " handbook" in this popu lar de partment, and affording valuable assistance in pre venting our favourite beverage becoming " cloudy, or sour," which, if prevalent in o ur beer, may extend to our temper, by the natural influence of indigestible effects. bard, Harmonious Colouring as applied to Photograph s • By an Artist Photographer. Newman, 20/ Soho-square. Photography is now an important feature of pictorial art, and the great advance lately made in it by the addition of colouring has rendered it still more prominent and far more pleasing in its effects• This little book contains a store of information on the subject, which will doubtless give it permanent value in the hands of professors and amateurs. Blackwood's Shilling Scribbling James Blackwood, Paternoster - row. This is among the numerous cheap a nd useful annuals which greet us at this season , containing an almanac for the year, a postal district map, and copious lined pages for diary notes , interleave!! with blotting-paper, and altogether neat l y and Well got up. D i ary for 186 u• LOSS OF THE ROYAL MAIL STEA SHIP PARAMATTA. Yesterday the Board of Trade issued the rePer t of Mr. Trail, the Greenwich police magistrate, whet with Capt. Harris, as nautical assessor, held the recent inquiry into the circumstances attending the wreck of the Royal Mail Company's steam-shiP Paramatta, which was wrecked on the Horse-shos Reef of the Anegada, near S t . Thomas's, o n her first voyage. TheParamatta was an iron paddle-whoel steamer, of 2,166 tons, commanded by Capt. E. J. Baynton, an old officer in the company's service, and the report, which is of som e len g th, after net the equipment of the ship and her course on ap proaching the Sombrero Channel, thus proceeds : —" It appears by the evidence that the outward bound ships of the Royal Mail Company always take the Sombrero Channel when bound for St. Thomas. This channel lies between the Island of Sombrero to the east and Virgin Gorda to the west, and is about 40 miles in width. The Horse shoe Reef, on which the ship was wrecked, lies nearly west from Sombrero about 40 miles. Som brero is a low island of about one and a-half miles in length; Virgin Go rda is hi g h land; and the Horse-shoe is a dangerous reef, level, or nearly so, with the water's edge. On the night of the 30th June, Captain Baynton stat es that Sombrero might have been seen s ix miles off, and Vir gin Gorda, 18 or 20 miles. In passing through the Sombrero Channel, if not absolutely necessary, it is at least most desirable to sight the island of Sombrero, if only for the purpose of verifying the longitude of the ship before entering a channel where currents are known to exist. A current is supposed to run at about the rate of one mile an hour, in a westerly or north-westerly direction, but the exact direction or strength is dependent on the wind, and is not always known with certainty. To avoid any risk from this or other possible caused of deviation, those best acquainted with the lo cality consider it prudent, when Sombrero has net been sighted, to steer a course S. by W., or S.S.W. , till as far to the southward, probably as the lati tude of Virgin Gorda, in 18 30 N., and to go at moderate speed till land is sighted. By steering a southerly course, a ship gets into an open seat away from the dangerous reefs and shoals in the neighbourhood of Anegada, and b y i n time slowing her engines she can stop to take sound in g s, to escape danger, should she, as was the case with the Paramatta, have run much further to the west ward than appeared by the reckoning. These pre cautions, however, were wholly neglected by Capt. Baynton, and the reason he gives for neglecting them was that he had full confidence in his obser vations. There does not, however, appear to have been any good reason for such confidence; for having been disappointed in confident expectation of sight ing Sombrero at 6.50 p.m., when he had run his distance, he ought to have suspected the accuraeY of his observations, and having no certainty as to his longitude, he should have kept on his course would w ould S. by W. for another hour at least, Which have brought him clear of the danger, or even h he put the ship on the S.W. course at 6.50, insteaa o t o f have a tlbse p.m.,so as ablean t d o had stnp slowed his engines, the appearance of danger, lie mighitilihmacvdeauteve.lk°l the loss. His not taking these proper preesti ti° t ; therefore, but proceeding at a speed of 121 k b il t n an hour on a course which would only hav e t gre . a safe after having sighted Sombrero, wa s a default, and was the cause of the loss of the ship. There was the less excuse for this r per caution, that Capt. Baynton was not press.pe! for time, and acted in utter disregard ef she printed instructions issued by the mPaTIPA The instructions are then set forth, an the report, after adverting to the high ell„ar r a t e l ; want of pro.: ter of Capt. Baynton, concludes: -- circumstances of this case, and of many of a soul . lar nature within a short period, lead on e to si' pose that the desire to make rapid voyages is g r ,_ 4 : dually su pplanting the proper cau tion which ougw: to be observed by shi p masters. This is a natural the l effect of tho ge neral use of steam at sea, great improvement so far as sailing is concerned the construction of the ships. Unless, therefora!! care be taken to keep this desire within bounds may in time create the imp ression in the minot ds slog sea men that their first duty is to regard p thele safety of the ship, but the quickness of the passage! Your lordships will observe that strong op..us_ were expressed by many of the witnesses as t r o be absolute necessity of a light for this channel. riu:rs is no doubt that the want of a light to guide ship s through this dangerous channel has been the c hip s of much loss of property, and that the Pararna would, in all probability,: hal e been saved by a light on Sombre] o." n te Captain rn p Harrisrt unnec • Baynton's cil for Trade directed that Captain have having expressed o m i t ee h o i ; certificate of competency sue•ffestion ag months, and ave intimated that t 1 „ Sombrero Channel w j e , o r t i i v c y urse n 11l to placing alight in the receive attention. be suspended for twelve ~,L,. ----- THE GREAT EASTERN' AT A "DEAD-LOCH• expenses on board have been reduced to the smallest po sible amount, and, pending the inquiry going on before the arbitrators between the company and 31r. Scott the no works other than those which are absolutely necessary are being carried on, Th Pally Par t( to 3 Thl to thi eashit 13,92 Thi have 1 tio n 1, loner, been shire Erete Woad 1 3ritis Nord In littl e to 121 heo, Thi India Gri n( inubs, Jul] dull; Bank AS.; ] Van 1 Vale' ber quw 3 ludia vitro Ditt r 'olli so l Indi a ; Diit , Pxche Ditto Intl ? exit r. ortli; atußsh Ditt Spitni s I ttrkil - Ji the bulli the Abe furtl Lien sell, ever eirel very TI at ti full : obta : Le Marl l'orei 6 NI 64; 3 per 65i. but 3 lliii Vonez West( West( Poi ulo w i i from RA da rn Norii Sw ""-}le Su lotte PE Cale! OP for ii Ar Mean for ISa AT port: Vid e , Jane a Ai &roil' A 11 ' ILN iron