The Sun. — London, England, 1860-01-12 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS Miss Reyno!ds. After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and tile Fairy of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled Leclercqs. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. -a-. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. Re-engagement of the Spanish Dancers. THIS EVENING, the popular Drama of ST. MARY'S EVE. Madeline (her original character) Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex travivranza and Pantomime, KING T HRIJSIIBE ARD, the LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. IL Marshall—Columbine, Miss Hosing. BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of mechanism."•—Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas. Silver Watches 33 nil It. , Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the manacrement of ➢Liss L. Pync and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, VIOTORINE. ➢iessrs. Santley, H. Haigh, H. Cccri, G. Honey, Bartleman, &c. Misses Parepa, Thirlwall, • Condactor, 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 0 —Commence at 7 o'clock. Commerce at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancr, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan seuse of La Scala, Milan ; and first time of the Delapierre Family. These hiAly-talented Children will appear every night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. THIS EVENING, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by H. J. Byron, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle quin King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack Panta loon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. MEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPIII. -LI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. ber.j. Webster. Holiday Attractions.— The Christmas Carol and the New Spectacular Extravaganza, by IL J. Byron, Esq„ the Nymph of the Lurlyberg ; or the Knight and the Naiades. THIS EVENING-, TILE CHRISTMAS CAROL. Messrs J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Paul Bedford, Stuart, Billinzton, C. J. Smith. Romer; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. Chatte rley, Miss Laidlaw. After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LURLEYBERG ; or, The Knight 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. On Wednnesday, Jan. IS, the Theatre will be Closed, In consequence of the Company performing at the Royal Thea tricals, Windsor Castle. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S :THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING, THEY'RE BOTH TO BLAME." Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. Miss Wyndham and Mr. H. T. Craven. To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND JUDY. Introducing Miss Lydia Thompson and the Corps de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and the wonderful Performing Dogs. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, ls. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform :Ince commences at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season. The Great Christmas Novelty, "Harlequin Tom Moody," triumphant. THIS EVENING, the entertainments will commence at 7 o'clock with the droll drama of DOMINIQUE THE DE SERTER. Dominique, Mr. G. Belmore. After which, fine and exquisite Riding Evolutions by the Star Artistes, Miss Emily Cooke, Mr. John Henry Cooke, and other first-rate professors. Concluding with the really successful Holiday piece and Sporting Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY ; or, Old Towler the Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, introducing, among numerous new and splendid effects, the Derby Day of 1860, by the Astlean Racin , Stud • and clever jockeys ; also the wonderful Salamander Horse, enveloped in a body of real fire. A Grand Day performance of the New Comic Pantomime, and very superior novelties in the ring, every Saturday, at Two o'clock, during the Holidays. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips CANTERBURY - EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAT QUEEN. And a Grand Selection from lifeyerbeer's new opera of DINORAH. Comic Vocaligts —Messrs. George trodson (the Irish Come , dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfleld, and E. W. Hackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. ROSA BON S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery.. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 12, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE IVEILDB. 45—highest since noon yesterday. 45—lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.09. WIND, S.E. ; light, with fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 24m.—Afternoon, 4h. 48n1 To-monaow.-Morning, 3h. 11m.—Afternoon, sb. 33m, qAtC I I I 4-(1 74 1 4 . , A v = l. ) 1' • t 4 ti* " »w s THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. 12, 1860. One-fourth of the annual pamphlet presented this year to the Congress of the United States is occupied with remarks on slavery and the slave trade. Hardly a year has passed of late without something of this kind from the pen of the Presi dent. There is surely something remarkable, even ominous, in this. What should we think, if in our short Royal Speech, one quarter of it were occupied in discussing whetherWhiggism or Toryism should be upheld by the Government ? Or viewing it terri torially, "sectionally," as American Presidents term it, the question should be discussed year by year, whether Scotland or Ireland should remain integral parts of the United Kingdom. Especially, what should we think if the " sectional" question arose out of one of the " sections," both adhering pertinaciously to an institution which the common voice of Christendom had pronounced to be a sin against human liberty and Divine Fatherhood, and also endeavouring to make the other section to minister to their enormity ? The first aspect of such a dispute would surely be most menacing to the integrity of our kingdom. The more civilised and upright half would never be satisfied with any thing short of suppression of the crime which dis gusted and disgraced them. The morally corrupt part would get worse and worse, loving their crime the better the more its odiousness aroused the in dignation of others, till the end must be disruption or submission of the enthusiasts for crime. President BUCHANAN, an entirely pro-slavery man, and elected to sustain the slave-holders in their Kansas•villanies, thoroughly feels this. He sees that the Union is really threatened ; that the alternate aggressions of the guilty south, and the moral indignation even of the not too innocent north, endanger by turns the nation, an enmity which might end in the dreaded dissolution. With this subject, accordingly, the Message of the Pre sident commences. His views of its present position and the language he selects are both worthy of notice: According to hi m our Union is of inesti mable value," and " the sectional hatred and strife now alive in the land is a demon spirit." But what if the origin of this "hatred and strife" be itself a , g demon spirit" which Christian civilisation has everywhere else cast out? - What it the wallowing and foaming of the whole Union be due to the presence of the " Legion' , of evil sp i rits included under the name of slavery ? Is uni on with this " demon spirit" of " such inestim able value as to demand our constant and watchful vigilance for its preservation ?" Mr. BUCHANAN himself will not affirm that any of the Free States wish to separate from each other. Nor, indeed, do those possessed with the unclean spirit of slavery wish to part company with each other. The evil spirit does not dismember the victim him self whom it animates, No, it is, doubtless, the antagonism of "sections." Mr. BUCHANAN, how ever, well knows that the one section is mad for a confessed evil ; while the other would be probably quiet enough, except in the way of persuasion, if those possessed of the evil spirit were not ever endeavouring to take possession of all around them also. And what is INIr. BUCHANAN'S hope of allaying the demon spirit which troubles him ? It is partly founded on the lessons which the Harper's Ferry affair will teach the abolitionists. They will see, he thinks, that doctrines subversive of the constitution, that is, of the " inestimable union:, if carried one step farther, may, in the hands of heated partizans, issue in violence. He may be right, but we rather think, that as the great body of American Abolitionists are notoriously averse from violence—indeed they are many of them Quakers—the only result will be to deepen their hatred of the savagery and terror combined, which could hang noble-minded and God-fearing men on a technical charge of treason. In plain English, could legally murder BROWN and his companions, not because they purposed or committed violence, but because they planned a scheme for the slaves to regain their liberty: The murder or martyrdom of BROWN by the State which abetted the horrid atro cities of Kansas, where his sons also had been trucu lently slaughtered, is not likely, we should think, to be a soothing balm for the irritation of abolitionists. His great hope, however, is that " the existing agitation on the subject of domestic slavery, like everything human, will have its day, and give place to other and less threatening controversies." In - deed, unlike our poor plain-speaking QUEEN, he grows quite rhetorical over the dying away, of the dispute: " Questions which in their day assumed a most threatening aspect, have now nearly gone from the memory of man. They are volcanoes burnt out, and on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions, glow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine, and the sustaining wine." But Mr. BUCHANAN should know that figures, however grand, are dangerous arguments ; they frequently wound the cause which employs them. Does he know of a volcano, or of any fire and flame having " burnt out," until it has consumed and reduced to ashes, and lava, and scoriae, the ele ments of combustion. Now, which does he imagine to be the destructible portion of matter in this con test ? Is it liberty or bondage ? Is slavery or freedom destined to be universally triumphant ? A Republican President can scarcely hesitate for the answer. His very laudations of the constitu tion of his country have no meaning unless they be the laudations of liberty. America sep crated from England, not to perpetuate slavery, but to perfect her freedom. We accept his figure, but we see its application in the reduction to fertile earths of the thoroughly combustible matter of the Southern States, and the splendid results of fret in dustry which will one day assimilate them to the free states of the north. Mr. BUCHANAN'S aim is a common one with politicians, that of moral insensibility. Evil, with him, is an institution. He speaks of slavery as " the sacred right of property 1" His moral per ceptions make no distinction between the villany of making property of a man, and the right of every man to what he has inherited, or bought of a lawful possessor, or made. Hence, he fails to see that the contest between the morality of Christian civilisation and slavery can never be allayed but by the extinction of the latter. It is almost amusing to see how philanthropically he talks about the African slave trade. He is full of tender pity for the miseries it would cause to Africa ; he dwells on the blessings enjoyed by their domestic slaves, and on the mischiefs both to the happy slaves and the gentle masters which would arise from the introduction of new Africans. He does not mention one argument —one, however, which we are uncharitable enough to think the weightiest of all—imported slaves would make the present slaves worth fewer dollars ; and the slave breeding interest is the strongest. Dr. GUTHRIE has the somewhat exceptional merit of combining in his own person the wit and the philanthropist. Of this combination of con trasting qualities he has recently given signal evi dence in an admirable speech delivered at a meet ing in Auld Reekie, in behalf of the Original Ragged Schools- of Edinburgh. The humorous and benevolent argument enforced by that address —an argument altogether unanswerable, we take it, and unanswerable simply through the sheer, irresistible force of the logic of common souse-- would have warmed, like a very cordial, the heart's core of honest old Pot:Nr the Cobbler, that rough handed Good Angel among the squalid orphans of our great cities, the originator and founder of our system of Ragged Schools, and through them of our Juvenile Reformatories. It is quite impossible to put before us more irre sistibly the absurdity, as well as the impolicy, of that wonderfully ingenious Act, contrived by our present First Lord of the Treasury, according to one of the most important clauses of which enactment no boy can by possibility be admitted into a Reforma tory School saving only and excepting he shall (as an essential preliminary) be proved to have sub jected himself by some sufficient infraction of the law to the penalty of fourteen days' imprison ment. With perfect reason may Dr. GUTHRIE exclaim at once with horror and ridicule that " He never had heard before of its being necessary for a person to have a criminal brand upon his brow before he could be found entitled to the benefits of education at the expense of the State !" Such a provision as this, however, is very strictly in keeping with the old dogged distinction between pauperism and crime, according to the respective treatment of which the very poor have a grievous temptation before them to find shelter rather under the :roof of one of our large convict prisons than under that of the humble parish work house. If it be objected that the mere raiment and ticketing-off of the convicts furnish the very livery and badge of the felony for which they are in the former establishments doomed to undergo incarceration what- may not also be said in reference to the equally mean and igno minious badge and livery of pauperism, branding poverty as with the brand of crime in the wretched raiment worn by the miserable occupants of our parish workhouses ? What may not be said or written, do we ask, upon this subject ? Answer that Observant Historian of the humble family of the Plornishes, in "Little Dorrit," answer that kindly Celebrant there of le petit homme pie, poor little Old Mr. Nandy, with his qnavering songs about Phyllis and Daphne, and his " few and far between" holidays spent inside the grim walls of tho Old Marshalsea, under the patronage of Old Mr. Derrit, the prisoner for Debt ! To return, however, to Dr. GUTHRIE and his in imitable exposure, very recently, of the combined absurdity and impolicy of this deplorably mistaken Act of Lord PALMERSTON, as to our Ragged Schools and our Juvenile Reforma tories : the uncompromising. annalyst of that mea sure goes on to observe thus plainly--" Lord PAL MERSTON said, if the Ragged School would take a child and endeavour to prevent him becoming a crimieal, the Gov would not allow one, THE SUN, LONDON, TH URSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1860, penny per week, but if the boy had the brand of a conviction sending him 14 days to prison upon him, they would give them 7s. or Bs. per week for rubbing it out, if possible !" Than which assuredly nothing could well be more monstrously unjust, more insensate, or in its influence more directly demoralising. Dr. GUTHRIE, however, not by any means content with this, subsequently, in the course of the harangue to which we aro here directing public attention, pointed out the flagrant " inconsistency of the Government making such large allowances to the schools belonging to the Established Church, the Free Church, the Episco palian Church, and the churches of the other denominations, when the most of the parents of the children educated there were perfectly able to pay for their education; denouncing the conduct of the Government in allowing £lOO a year to the Royal Institution for a nude figure to be drawn from by the students, while their Ragged School, as he calculated, would get only £6O for 300 boys and girls rescued from vice and degrada- tion." Dr. GUTHRIE added—and no wonder— with increasing earnestness, "It was a burning shame, and it was unworthy of the Government to treat them so, who were saving immortal souls from destruction, and preventing them from grow ing up criminals and outcasts. The sum which the Government was to allow them was two-thirds of a farthing per day. He would say, perish the Government money rather than accept such an inadequate pittance as that !" Closing his fervent and argumentative address by an appeal to the benevolent co-operation in the good cause of every individual man or woman having really at heart the interests of the advancement of the sys tem of these ragged schools and juvenile reforma tories. Heartily do we commend his appeal to a wider audience than that furnished the other day from among the good citizens of Edinburgh ! LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have teen received at Mr. Reuter's office : ROME, WEDNESDAY. The Duke of Grammont'has demanded to be re [eased from his functions as French Ambassador at the Papal Court. MARSEILLES, JAN. 11. M. De Lesseps has arrived here from Constanti nople. Active preparations are being made for the execution of the Suez canal. BOLOGNA, JAN. 11. The revolutionary committee has organised mani festations in the neighbouring Papal provinces. Those which took place in the theatres of Ancona and Pesaro are specially mentioned. On the authorities appearing in their boxes all the specta tors left the theatres, as if in accordance with a preconcerted arrangement. New pamphlets against the temporal power of the Pope have been published in the Legations and in Tuscany: PARIS, JAN. 11. Lord Cowley arrived here yesterday. The Gazette de France has received a warning from the Minister of the Interior. ROME, JAN. 10. The enlistments abroad for the Papal army have no other object than to bring its effective, which numbers 18,000, up to 20,000 men. This augmenta tion of the Papal army was agreed upon by the Holy See and France before the war in Italy. MARSEILLES, JAN. 11. Letters from Constantinople to the 4th announce that public agitation was increasing. It was sup posed that Fuad Pasha would soon be dismissed. The Czar had forwarded decorations to the Pashas who were sent to Odessa to congratulate him. ADEN, JAR. 4. BOMBAY, Dec. 27. The campaign against the rebels in Nepaul is over. All the rebels surren dered except the Begum. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steamer Bombay, with the mails of the 3d December has arrived here. JAN. 11.—The Nectis, with the Calcutta and China mails, arrived at Marseilles at 3.30 p.m. this day. Mails left for Londoil at 5 p.m. Letters will be delivered in London on Friday morning. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN.I2, 12.20 A.M. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Borussia, with the mails from New York of the 31st ult., has arrived off the Needles. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. The Paris correspondent of the .Nord says : " Rumours have been in circulation here that the mission of Lord Cowley had met with a check; that the Papal Nuncio had left Paris ; that the Pope intended to quit Rome, and that an ultimatum was to be sent to his Holiness. The accounts which have reached us from England affirm, on the con trary, that the propositions of which Lord Cowley was the bearer have been favourably received, and we may add that the active intervention of Count de Persigny tended to facilitate the understanding between the two Governments. As to the Nuncio, it is true that he has begun making preparations for departure, but it must not be forgotten that it has been known for some time past that Mgr. Sacconi, having finished his time in France, will return to Rome before the spring." PARIS BOURSE.—The market was depressed at the commencement of business, but afterwards rallied. Threes, after having been done at 68f. 20c., improved to 68f. 40c. Mobilier varied from 743 f. 75e. to 747 f. 50e. ; Lombard, 564 f. 25e. to 563 f. 75c. ; Austrian, 532 f. 50c. to 535 f. ; Lyons, 913 f. 75e. to 917 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,372 f. 50c. to 1377 f. 50c. ; Northern, 912 f. 50c. to 917 f. 500. The following were the last quotations :- 41 per Cents. .... 97 I Credit Fonder 716 25 Do. end montla .. -- Belgian 4} — 3 per Cents 6B 551Piedmontese (5) .. 85 Do. end month 6B 55 : Roman B2 Bank Shares 1 2825 Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 757 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account THE MEDITERRANEAN AND BOMBAY ALIILS. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw 1 steamer Pera, Captain Jamieson, with the heavy portion of the Bombay and Australian mails, has arrived. She brings 46 passengers ; specie, value £13,662, in gold bars ; pearls, value 54,000 rupees ; precious stones, value 1,175 rupees, and a general cargo, consisting► of raw silk, gum, tusks, wool, &c. Alexandria dates are to the 27th ult., Malta to the Ist inst., and Gibraltar to the 7th. Gibraltar Exchange on London, at 90 days, 501. Morocco intelligence is to the sth January. In the battle on the 2d the Spaniards lost nearly 600 killed and wounded. The Moors, instead of burying their dead, burnt them. General Prim's division bore the brunt of the action, and with little difficulty drove the Moors from their positions. The fighting continued until nightfall, and when con cluded the Spaniards were in possession of the positions gained. Eight thousand Moors retreated southward, to defend the plains of Tetuan ; a position which, if carried by assault, would be attended with heavy loss. Severe fighting was expected between Castillejos and Tetuan. The Spanish army was encamped on the heights of Monte Negro, overlooking Tetuan. The Spanish squadron left Algesiras on the 4th instant for Castillejos, in order to act in concert with the land forces under Marshal O'Donnell. The siege train was to be shipped at Cadiz on the 3d. Fourteen hospitals had been established in Ceuta. The Jewish refugees had reached Oran, where they were well received by the French Govern- ment: Everthing remained tranquil at Casabianea. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, TIIURSDAY MORNING. The screw-steamer Borussia, Capt. Trantmann, brings New York advices of the 31st ult. A sudden and severe stringency in the Money market on the 30th affected the exchanges and the Stock-market considerably ; most bankers were willing to sell at almost any price they could get, and foreign exchange must rule very low till the excitement subsides . The demand for money caused a general but slight decline in stocks ; closing quotations were — Virginia Sixes,93 to 931; Missouri Sixes, 83 to 8311 Canton, 161 to 17 ; Cumberland Coal, Preferred, 13 to 131 ; Pacific Mail, 76; New York Central, 75 to 751; Erie, 831 to 833-; Hudson River, 41 to ; Harlem, 831 to 89 ; ditto preferred, 331 to 34 ; Reading, 41 to 42 ; Michigan Central, 381 to 381 ; Michigan Southern and Northern Indian, 61 to 61; ditto guaranteed, 16 to 16k. The Borussia brings no specie for England, and only 3,210 dols. for France. The Arago steamship, hence, arrived out at New York on the 28th ult. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING. The screw steamer City of Washington, belong ing to the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company, which arrived at Queenstown on Tuesday evening, has just arrived here, with 33 cabin and 80 steerage passengers, and 17,000 dols, in specie. ARRIYAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 11. The screw steam-ship North American, Captain Aiton, from Portland on the 31st ult., arrived here to-day. She touched at Queenstown yesterday morning, and a brief summary of her news, ob tained by telegraph, has been already published. The House of Representatives at Washington was apparently no nearer an organisation than when it first assembled. An adjournment for a day or two had been carried by a majority of one. A discussion of the slavery question had been car ried on from day to day, and during one of the debates a personal dispute sprang up between Messrs. Grow, of Pennsylvania, and Branch, of North Carolina, and it was thought probable that a duel would ensue. Friends were at work, how ever, endeavouring to reconcile the parties. In the latest ballot which was had for a Speaker the De mocrats concentrated upon. Mr. Scott, of California, who also received the votes of seven Southern Op position members. The Republicans stuck to Mr. Sherman. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says :-- "Despatches have been received from Mr. B. Clark, our Minister at Guatemala, informing our Government in re gard b his official protest against the treaty recently ne gotiated between Great Britain and Honduras. "The protest and letter were written some months ago, since which time he has ascertained they were based upon incorrect information. A treaty has been entered into be tween Great Britain stud Honduras, by which all her pre tensions to the Bay Islands, as well as the Mosquito protec torate, have been definitively abandoned, and fixing the boundary in accordance with amendments to the Dallas- Clarendon Treaty agreed to by the Senate. " The Government has assuranees from that of Great Britain that the latter Power has not entered into, and does not intend to enter into, any treaty which shall in the least impair our rights under the Clayton -Bulwer Treaty. She has all along manifested the most friendly spirit in this matter, and for the final settlement of this complicated and vexed question. Should they fail, however, to carry out their agreements with this Government, the President will feel compelled to make it a subject of Congressional consi deration, and recommend the Abrogation of the Clayton- Bulwer Treaty." The Washington correspondent of the Taw York journal of Commerce (good Democratic authority) admits that there is no prospect of the M'Lane Mexican treaty going through the Senate. In regard to the great fire which had occurred in New York, the Boston ,Journal says :--- "The conflagration in Beckman-street, New York, on Thursday morning, was not so disastrous in respect to the losses as was anticipated at first. The fire swept away 15 buildings, and the aggregate loss is a little less than half a million of dollars. The total insurance, so far as ascertained, is 238,500 dole. The checking of the conflagration seems to be due almost entirely to the two steam fire engines. So in tensely cold was the weather that the hand engines froze up and were rendered useless. If it had not bean for the steam engines there is no telling what would have been the extent of the conflagration. Eight citizens of Ottawa, Illinois, had been in dicted under the Fugitive Slave I.lw, for aiding in the rescue of an alleged fugitive slave. The reception of Senator Seward by his political friends in New York, on his return from his Euro pean tour, amounted to quite an ovation. A public reception took place, and crowds flocked to greet the distinguished leader of the Republican party. The imports at New York for the year 1859 amounted to 113,152,621 d01e.,, against 60,154,509 dols. in 1858, and 90,534,129 dols. in 1857. A Washington telegram says : " The Secretary of the Treasury has invited proposals to be received until Jan. 31 for 1,110,000 dole. in United States stock authorised by the Act of June 14, 1858, being so much of the stock as has been heretofore awarded to bidders who have failed to deposit the principal and pre mium on that amount. This stock will be reimbursable in 15 years from January last, and bears interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually. No bid will be received below par, and none for any fraction of a thousand dollars." In regard to the negro insurrection in Bolivar, a St. Louis telegram says :-- " About eleven o'clock on ;Monday night the citizens of Bolivar were aroused by shouting and throwing of stones on the public square. A large crowd soon congregated, and found that a gang of negroes had attacked a few white men. When a sufficient number of whites were collected they attacked the negroes, driving them into the wood. The negroes threatened to burn the town before morning. A vigilant watch w as ke p t, and all attempts failed. One e n e'r o was dangerou sl y wounded by a pistol shot. Several were captured and confined in gaol. The citizens held a meeting and appointed a vigilance committee, who were taking active measures to discover those engaged in the riot. A mountain company was ranging the woods in search of negroes. Tho owner of some rebellious slaves was badly wounded, and only saved himself by flight. Several blacks have been sTverely punished. The greatest excitement prevailed, and every man was armed and prepared for a more serious attack. At the latest ad vices, however, the excitement had somewhat subsided." Dates from Mtxieo of the 19th ult. had been received at New Orleans. Miramon's Government had protested against Mr. M'Lane's treaty. Mira mon was at Guadalajara on the Bth,. He had te stored 400,000 dols. of 600,000 dols. Marquez took from the conducta, and has forwarded it to Tepic. Only 200,000 dols. arc missing. By the steamer Granada, at New York, we have news from Havana to the 23d ult., but it is unim portant. Freights were dull. Sugar was rated higher, and little doing. Exchange on New York was at from 3-1- to 4 per cent. The Granada, while going up the bay to her berth, and when between Staten Island and the city, was cut through by the ice, which was sweeping down in large fields by the ebb tide. Upon reaching her deck, a large barge being in the way, and fastened in by the ice, the steamer could not get into her berth, but after repeated efforts succeeded in reaching pier No. 30, where she sunk to her guards. The vessel and cargo are fully insured. A Boston telegram says :—" The Norombega Bank has been put up in the hands of receivers and its affairs wound up. The cashier has loaned ap parently some 22,000 dols. without the knowledge of the president and directors. The circulation is stated at £75,000 dols., but the Bank Commissioners think it will all be redeemed." ENG LAND AND FIANCE. When the increased and daily-increasing mer cantile transactions between England and France, and the liberal tendencies of both Governments are considered, it cannot fail to give the liveliest satis faction to the two nations to understand that nego tiations are at this moment on foot, having for their object the conclusion of a commercial treaty on the broad basis of mutual advantage.—Post. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR CASTLE, JAN. 11. The Queen walked in the grounds of the Castle this morning, attended by the Hon. Beatrice Byng. Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa rode in the Riding house. The third dramatic performance this season took place in the evening. The following was the programme : A Play, in five acts, by Mr. James Sheridan Knowles, entitled, THE HUNCHBACK. Master Walter Mr. Howe Sir Thomas Clifford Lord Tinsel Mr. E. Villiers Master Wilford Modus Master Heartwell Gaylove Hold.well Mr. Wetten Simpson Fathom Thomas Stephen Williams Mr. Weathereby Waiter Servant Mr. Lane Julia Helen Under the management of Mr. George Ellis ; and under the direction of Mr. W. B. Donno, her Majesty's Examine, of Plays. The theatre arranged and the scenery painted by Mr, Thomas Grieve. LYCEUM TRE.4TRE. Madame Celeste, the talented lessee of this elegant establishment, is evidently using her best exertions to carry out the promises of her opening address ; and it is gratify ing to see that her efforts are being crowned with the most signal success, at least if crowded (even to overflowing), discriminating, and approving audiences be any criterion by which. wo may judge. Since the commencement of the season, novelty, and reproduction of favourite pieces, have been rife on the Lyceum stage. " Paris and Pleasure" was a charming romantic drama, the principal character of which was exquisitely performed by the fair lessee, who was very ably supported by Mr. Walter Lacy, Mr. Villers, Miss Kate Saville, Miss Julia St. George, Miss Hudspeth, &c. Then followed " The Child of the Wreck," "St. Mary's Eve, and "The Sister's Sacrifice." In these and other dramas Madame Celeste had already established a world wide reputation, which renders any further observation rela tive to them quite unnecessary. Quc'ilsat that it is ad mitted this accomplished lady, in the personation of such characters, stands unrivalled on the English, or we should say on any stage. Her exquisite acting seizes, and, indeed, carries with her her audience in a most extraordinary man ner. The attention of the house appears so totally absorbed by her, that their whole feelings are rivetted in her every word and every action. If, as we heard a fair occupant of one of the stalls observe, "there is. a luxury in a ' good cry' at such acting," the ladies (aye, and gentlemen, too, for wo saw ninny of the sterner sex indulging in that luxury), have certainly an opportunity of indulging to their heart's content, for such poignant and overwhelming grief is too natural to be resisted. Nor is this talented lady less entitled to our warmest commendation for the great ability she has displayed in her management. We refer parti cularly to the difficulty she must have experienced in bringing into harmonious action her dramatic corps, the members of which, as our readers may be aware, were total strangers to each other previously to their being enlisted under her banner. The difficulties naturally arising from these circumstances have been entirely overcome. Prac tice, unanimity, and, above all, a strong desire to succeed, aided by the judicious rule of the amiable lessee, have effected the desired end. The artistic ability of the company moves with one intelligence and one will. Hence there is a completeness about all that is lone at the Lyceum which is greatly to be admired: The extrava ganza continues to attract crowded audiences, who arc vociferous in their demonstrations of applause, and insist on Madame Celeste and Mr. Callcott presenting themselves every evening, during the transformation scene, to receive their well-merited expressions of approbation. The apo theosis, it must be observed, is admirably defined in an ad dress, very charmingly delivered, by the fairy Good 'Tumour, delightfully represente.d by Miss Emma Neville, whose countenance certainly indicates that she is not in aptly named. The renowned and graceful Donna Isabel Cubes and Don Juan Ximenes continue to delight their audiences every evening, and are invariably recalled to re ceive the warmest marks of approbation. It will have been seen, from the public announcements, that Mr. Tom Taylor has dramatised Mr. Charles Dickens' telling story of "The Two Cities," which is in course of preparation, and will shortly be produced ; and no doubt can be entertained that, from the resources of the establish ment, in its present high and efficient. state of organisation, the most perfect success will attend its production. A Cabinet Council was held this afternoon, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. It was attended by Viscount Palmer ston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Earl of Elgin, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell. a THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—Her Majesty will, according to present arrangements, open Parliament in person. Tier Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort are expected to leave Windsor Castle on the 23d inst., for Buckingham Palace, on which day a Privy Coun cil will be held by the Queen, Her Majesty and the Prince Consort return to Windsor Castle ontho afternoon of the 24th. His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess de Persigny will return to Albert-gate House to-day from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort at Badminton House. His Excellency Admiral von Dockum left town last evening for Copenhagen, en cone for a short period, The Duke of Newcastle returned to his seat, Clumber Park, Notts, on Tuesday evening. The Duke de Caderousse Gramont has arrived in town froni the Continent. The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby are passing the season at Brighton. The Earl of Derby will give a banquet on the 23d inst., at his residence in St. James's-square, to a large circle of his political friends in the House of Peers. The Earl of Carlisle, who came to town from the Duke of Sutherland's seat in Staffordshire in order to attend the funeral of Lord Macaulay, left Stafford House, St. James's, yesterday, for Trentham, and at the end of the week proceeds to resume his duties as Lord4aieutenant in Ireland. , The Earl and Countess Granville are expected in town in a few days from Brighton. The Earl of Durham has gone to visit the Marquis of Abercorn and Viscount Hamilton at Baronscourt, county t'yrone. Ihe countess remains with the Marchioness of Abercorn, at Brocket Hall, Herts . , Lord John Russell comes to town 10-day to attend the meeting of the Ministers at the Cabinet Council. The noble lord, with Lady John Russell and family, come to Cheshara-place on the 20th last., from Pembroke Lodge, Richmond, fur the season, ~._,_., ItAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 9lO .. 917 50 New ditto 837 50 .. 83 . 5 Lyons and Mediterranean 920 .. 917 50 Geneva 520 .. 545 Southern Western — .. 570 Eastern Sardinian 406 2.5 .. 400 Austrian Lombard ... Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 25f. 9c.; three months, paper, Mt 95c. ; money, 24f. 931 c. SARDINIA. The Union says:—"Two of the Ministers of King Victor Emmanuel, General La Marmora, President of the Council, and M. Dabormida, Pre sident of Foreign Affairs, have resigned. Our cor respondent at Turin, in transmitting to us this news in a letter dated the 7th, adds that, according to general rumour, Count Arese was to be appointed to the department of Foreign Affairs, but in a second letter, dated the Bth, he says that the Count had refused the office. It is said, in fact, that the cause of the Ministerial change is the project conceived, if not yet decided on, of causing Romag na to be eccupied by Piedniontese troops. This, however, is thus far only a rumour, and perhaps what causes the report to be credited is rather the disposition of public opinion than the attitude of Government." A Turin letter of the 6th, in the Sieele, says , cGeneral Garibaldi left this city yesterday morn ing. It had been reported that he had been charged with the mobilisation of the national guard of the kingdom, but on taking leave of his friends, he said : 'As my intentions might proba bly cause embarrassment to King Victor Em manuel, I have withdrawn them, being unwilling in any case to act in opposition to the wishes of the King, whom I regard as the only hope of Italy.' The governors are already taking their departure. M. de Montezzemolo is at Nice, M. de Pretis at Brescia, M. Valosio starts this evening for Como, M. Porno is at Genoa, and M. Centurione at Ber. gamo. As for Count Galling, he will leave f or Milan in a week; his acceptance of the office has given great satisfaction here." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 7th contain nothing of much interest either as regards political events or the war in Morocco. The Espana says that in the recent combats it was noticed that the Moors made use of rifles. The same journal mentions a report that, though the Spaniards may attack Tetuan, they will not attempt t o occupy the town, on account of the cholera being very violent there. Tetuan is, it is said, of greater importance than Tangier, its population being about 40 4 000 souls. The Moors are stated to have concentrated a large force for its defence. " Public opinion at Madrid, over•excited by the proceedings of parties hoitile to the pre sent Cabinet," says the Word, "and by an im patience which can be readily comprehended, becomes every day more and more exacting as regards Marshal O'Donnell. He is reproached with not having sooner assumed the offensive, and now that he is on his march to Tetuan, they only give him to the 20th to disperse the Nloorioh allay, and to obtain pobseasion of the town. In the meantime, the greatest care is taken to exalt the merits of the generals under him, for a purpose which car be easily divined. __: r.=~.;.'. FRANCE AND ROME. The 21Ioniteur of yesterday publishes the follow ing : We republish from the Journal de Bonze of the 3d inst. an allocution pronounced by the Holy Father on New Year's-day, in reply to the congra tulations of General Count de Goyon, Commander in-Chief of the French Division in the Papal States. This allocution would, probably, not have been made if his Holiness had received the letter ad• dressed to him by his Majesty the Emperor, under date of 31st of December last, which letter we sub join : Monsieur le General,—lf on the advent of every new year we have received with pleasure the good wishes you have presented to us in the name of the officers and of the army which you so worthily command, those good wishes are doubly welcome to us to-day, in consequence of the exceptional events which have occurred, and because you assure us that the French Division in the Papal States is placed there for the defence of the rights of Catho licism. May God bless you, then—you and the whole French army ! May He bless equally all classes of that generous nation: In prostrating ourselves at the feet of that God who was, is, and will be to all eternity, we beseech Him in the humility of our heart to shed abun dantly His light and blessing upon the august leader of that army alitd of that nation ; so that, guided by such light, he may advance safely along his difficult path, and admit again the falseness of certain principles laid down recently in a pam phlet which may be styled a monster monument of hypocrisy and a despicable jumble of contradic tions. We hope that, by the aid of such light— nay, more, we are persuaded that by such light, he will condemn the principles contained in that pam phlet. We are the more convinced of this as we have in our possession some documents which his Majesty, some short time since, had the kindness to send us, and which are a full condemnation of those principles. It is with this conviction that we pray God to shed His blessing upon the Emperor and upon his august Consort, upon the Prince Imperial, and upon all France. THE EMPEROR'S LETTER. Most Holy Father—The letter which your Holi ness deigned to write me on the 2d of December touched me deeply, and I will reply with entire frankness to the appeal made to my good faith. One of my most serious anxieties during, as well as after, the war was the condition of the' States of the Church, and, assuredly, among the potent rea sons which induced me to conclude peace so promptly you must reckon the fear of seeing the revolution assume daily increasing dimensions. Facts have an inexorable logic, and despite my de• votion to the Holy See, despite the presence of my troops at Rome, I could not avoid a certain amount of connection with the results of the national move ment caused in Italy by the struggle against Austria. As soon as peace was concluded I hastened to write to your Holiness to submit to you the views which I considered best suited to lead to the pacifi cation of the Romagna, and I still entertain the opinion that if your Holiness had from that time consented to an administrative separation of those provinces, and to the nomination of a lay governor, they would have returned to your rule. Unhappily, this was not the case, and I found myself powerless to prevent the establishment of the new Govern ment. My endeavours only succeeded in prevent ing a spread of the insurrection, and the resigna tion of Garibaldi preserved the Marches of Ancona from certain invasion. Now the Congress is about to assemble, the Powers cannot disown the incontestable rights of the Holy See to the Legations ; nevertheless, it is probable that they will not be of opinion that you should have recourse to force to sub ject them. For, if that subjection were obtained by the aid of foreign troops, it would imply the military occupation of the Legations for a long time. This occupation would keep alive the ha treds and resentments of a great portion of the Italian people, as also the jealousy of the Great Powers; this would be, then, to perpetuate a state of irritation, distrust, and fear. What remains, then, to be done, for this state of uncertainty cannot last for ever ? After a serious consideration of the difficulties and dangers which the different combinations present—l say it with sincere regret, and painful as the conclusion may be, that the solution which appears to me must conformable to the true interests of the Holy See will be to surrender the revolted provinces. If the Holy Father, for the sake of the peace of Europe, should give up these provinces, which for 50 years have been a great embarrassment to his Govern ment, and if, in exchange, he should request the great Powers to guarantee to him the possession of the remainder, I do not doubt of the immediate restoration of tranquility. Then the Holy Father would insure to grateful Italy peace formany years, and to the Holy See the peaceful possession of the States of the Church. I am sure your Holiness will not miscontrue the sentiments which animate me. You will under stand the difficulty of my position ; you will give a kind interpretation to my frank language, remem berth g all that I have already done for the Catholic religion and for its august Head. I have expressed without reserve my full mind, and I thought it indispensable to do so before the Congress. But I beg of your Holiness, whatever decision you may come to, to believe that it win in no respect change the line of conduct which I have always observed in respect of you. Thanking your Holiness for the Apostolic bles sing which you have sent to the Empress, the Prince Imperial, and to myself, I renew to you the assurance of my profound veneration. I am, of your Holiness, your devoted son, Palace of the Tuileries, Dec. 31, NPOLEON. 1859. A WRECK OF THE SILAS HOLMES, AND SUPPOSED Loss or 32 LIVES.—A despatch, dated New Orleans, Dec. 2.5, was received at Liverpool yesterday, giving an account of the total loss of the American and Liverpool trader Silas Holmes. The despatch states that five women and four men were picked up in a boat prior to the 2oth December, being the remainder of the crew and passengers of the Silas Holmes, which foundered Dec. 16, when five days out from Gardner Island Key, where she had been aground. The other portion of the crew and passengers, 32 in number, are supposed to have perished, as nothin g had been heard of them up to the time of th e ma il l ea ving New Orleans. The loss of the vessel is attributed to the injuries which she sustained when ashore on Gardner Island Key, they not having been adequately repaired previous to her leaving that place. TILE MISSING HIGH SIIERIFF.—The Limerick papers state up to yesterday evening there has not been the slightest clue to the discovery of Mr. Hugh Massy O'Grady, who would have been called on in a week or two to dis charge the office of High Sheriff of the county. The Reporter adds :—" The opinion gains strength that he is alive ; and there are rumours to this effect which give con fidence to the opinion. We have heard that all the No vember rents un his estate were paid last week with extra ordinary punctuality by the tenantry, who are said to have rated that if more 1:1011ey were rcqulrc-A it ari th- rent, the , , would be rejoiced to give it. The strongest feeling of sym pathy continues to prevail on the subject, and one and all hope that Mr. H. Massy O'Grady may be soon, discovered aliYe and Wer as it is inlioYed be TILE TIMER BLUNDERS. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. Silt,—When Sir Charles Wood introduced his pet bill in 185 G, to transfer the coastguard from the Customs to the Admiralty, the scheme was highly 'commended by that would-be clear-sighted paper the Times, and the hue and cry was, as 0. matter of course, taken up by most of the daily papers. Yet, notwithstanding the trouble the talented scribblers took to prove to the country that the natural consequence of the transfer must be to immediately provide a reserve of 10,000 sea men, the affair has long since proved a wretched failure. Strange, indeed, that our A.B.'s cannot appreciate the honour of serving . as coastguard men under the Lords of the Admiralty; but such is the case, and Jack says he won't serve at any price. What's the reason ? Less pay, perhaps ? No—in most instances the pay of both officers and men has been increased. More work probably ? No—less by half than when under the civil service. Then what's the secret ? Simply that Jack prefers martial law afloat to martial law ashore. 'When the coast guard was under the Customs there was no lack of volunteers for the service. Scarcely had A vacancy become known before a dozen applications from thorough men-of-war's men were made for the birth. Had the authorities then desired to increase the coastguard, no difficulty would have been ex perienced in raising the force to 10,000 men, who would always have been in readiness for an emer gency. But the job of transferring the coastguard from the Customs to the Admiralty was determined 9n, and a pretty Blunder for the country it has proved. - Sir Charles Napier, in his speech, last week, at Lowestoft, said—the Coast Volunteers would, if necess try, in the event of war suddenly taking place, come forward and man the reserve ships. Ras Sir Charles any idea what a set of useless land lubbers the coast volunteer force is composed of ?--• I guess not ; but to give you some idea I will merely instance a scene which occurred the other day on board one of the training ships whilst cruizing in the Channel. Shortly after the vessel had left her moorings the order was given to reef topsails. Out of 200 coast volunteers on board, who had been in the force from the commencemret only five were capable of going aloft—the rest were in a helpless state of sea-sickness on the lower deck. Yet these are the noble fellows the gallant admiral recommends for manning our reserve ships. I don't think I am far out in designating this scheule of coast volunteers, which costs the country £40,00 0 per annum, as Blunder No. 2. Blunder No. 3is of more recent date. I allude to the Royal Naval Reserve Force, by which the Government hoped to raise 30,000 men ; and the Admiralty aro looking forward to it as a nucleus for the decaying coastguard service. Singular, ity deed, if this scheme should meet the doom of WI predecessors, especially after the recommendatia it has so generally received from the public press; that such will be its fate I have not the slightest hesitation in saying. The act has now been in opera' don for some days, and I am convinced that twentY men have not been enrolled throughout the king' dom. The reasons for this failure oze three:—Firs t, the annual payment or retainer is not sufficient t° command the services of the seafaring class. Secon d' the Board of Trade rules are too stringent, and composed of too much red-tape to suit Jack's faecii And, last, but not least, three English sailors out% four will now tell you, as long as British ships as allowed to be manned by foreign sailors they not consider the country worth fighting for. Such, Sir, are the blunders the tax-payer mu st pay for as long as theory is considered by 0 1 rulers better than practice.--I inclose ray ca n " and am, Sir, your obedient servant, A PROVINCIAL. 11th January, 1800. LORD NELSON AND LADY HAMILTO The following has appeared in a contemporary • Sir,—ln the diary and correspondence of the late WO Hon. G. Rose, edited by the Rev. Levison Vernon W: court, and published by Mr. Bentley, there is a note fr e , t v my " Recollections" (see p. 103, vol. iii., and p. 99, the 0 " 0 and second editions respectively) having reference to 1 , 1 Hamilton's asking leave of the Queen of N a pl es f or Nelson to victual his fleet, which she made a ground ye t pecuniary aid or support from her own G overnm ent 0 Nelson's death, although she had the estate of Merton best part of £2,000 per annum, which she recklessly sq uall ; dered. Her request was very properly declined ; first, 011 4 of the motive that, as the wife of our ambassador, rai d i)l 4 the public, that public had a right to her services ; I° o secondly, on account of her immoral character, and 11 ' 4 taint that, like smother Delilah, she cast upon the bre' man whom she ensnared by her wiles. Lady Hamilton, the second wife of Sir William, our la bassador for so long a time at the profligate Court of Nil le to S/ had been originally a Welsh servant girl. She went ie l London, where, after sundry adventures, she sat as a no' f for artists, for her person was cast in the perfection °, symmetry. There she became a favourite of Romeo'', he painter. Afterwards she got into keeping by a relative 0 Sir William Hamilton, who, on seeing her himself, was A much struck with her person that he offered her marrOe to secure her to himself. Her mind was then uncultivate d :: but Sir William took great pains in her instruction, and she was ambitious, and did not want capacity, he succeedw Her previous character was in her favour at tha Court t ° which her husband had been so long accredited, where t 1 1 0; conversation was continually such as no British femal e , virtue could hear. Sir William, an accomplished diplo , :t tist, well knew the use he could make of the talentsl such a Court, of her whom he called his " Grecian," through her obtained an ascendancy over the Qu een cel l ' ducive to his own influence. Nelson, on his first visit to Naples, himself recorded - id contempt for a Court consisting of knaves and prostita teot or words to that effect. When his fleet off Sicily Wan t rev i c t ua lling Lady Hamilton w en t t o t h e Queen and Ohce' tained the Royal assent. This act, one of duty on the P ta of Lady Hamilton to her husband, was ma d e b y N e l s on ti ground for his attachment to h6r, and the origin of the b l° f, which so defaces th e c h aracter of that brave man, at the treaty-breaking and cruelties in the Bay of Nor'; These, as is well known, so aroused the indignation of 0, of the Briti s h o ffi cers t h at they sot sa i l w i thout orders, ae: termined not to see their flag dishonoured. To gratify tit barbarous feeling of the Queen, and strengthen herself Court, for she had a strong ambition, Lady Hamilton urge" Nelson to his indefensible conduct, "and he acted as if /16 believed his gratitude to her cancelled his duty to his a ll t flag, and to the dictates of h uman ity an d mora lity. T /Iti , Nelson's obligation for the victualli ng o f hi s fl ee t was C lll- : to Lady Hamilton alone, he was nothing loth to believ e and that her husband, so long the representati ve of Pig' land at Naples, had little or nothing to do in the m atte r ' Lady Hamilton, on the other hand, was proved t o l e ad ti l° hero of the Nilo a captive to her charms. The re fleetio o that there was a Lady Nelson in Engl an d gave no troll/ di ; to one who had never troubled herself with any self-dea f inculcated by virtue. Nelson was duped by the credit Lady Hamilton took for the success of her request. His obligation, he aesuine",; was to the ambassador's wife, and to her he directed Ja i gratitude and his love. Some applied the term " inftitn Lv tion" to his conduct. The authority for what I stat ea i gave ;no better could be given than that of one who J e 4 Nelson, and Sir William and Lady Hamilton, both in i t " and England, and who had been his guests. In addition, I can mention another authority, Sir Ge o rg 6 Magrath, who died recently at an:advanced age. I wa3 r e ; sident in Plymouth from 1808 to 1818, and Sir Geo r g, being my neighbour, and intimate, we had much conver se tion about Nelson, inwhose confidence he had been, havi P . g sailed with him in the Mediterranean, and being with 111 0 in the battle of Copenhagen. I was indebted to him for acquaintance with Sir William Bolton, Nelson's neplle;; So great a favourite with Magrath was Lord Nelson, that P o was unwilling to admit anything to his advantage. Ai r l' e , o I questioned him as to the correctness of Captain E° °t et i narrative of the proceedings in the Bay of Naples, he reP l —" It is too true ; Ido not like to talk of it." He was ld e ; witched by Lady Hamilton. I don't believe ho sad credited any one but her, though Sir William, an able no': was at her side. He had a notion sh e did ever ything. S1 :0 persuaded him to anything she liked. There, don't let talk of it any more l"—I am, sir, your humble servant. CYRUS REDDING' St, John's-wood, Jan. 10. MACAULAY PAPERS.—We understand that M I ; Macaulay has left behind him the materials for anodly volume, the publication of which m a y, for private and W l ' s ,/ reasons, be some time delayed. But whatever delay 19 o f unavoidably occur in the publication of the narrativeof William 111. and Queen Anne's times, wo sincerely tr, o i that at no very distant period our country maybe instreciv and enriched by a faithful account of the part whiell, of historian played, of the fri en dships which he forroeuflio the judgments which h e passed on the men and meo l lst of the times in whi c h he livid himself. If we I A judge from those specimens of his correspondence W, 01 4, it has been our fortune to peruse , a collection of -1-,,V4 i\iacaulay's Letters c,Jon , lins• et 11.fi Irtht 3!) yPars l l:;gt be a history of England in the age of Canning and V" A . 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