The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-30 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the minazement of Hiss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, VICTOIZINE. Messrs. Sant!ey, H. Haigh, H. Ccrri, G. Honey, Bartleman, (tn. Misses Parepa, Cond actor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new grand pantomime, called PUSS IN BGOTS; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden Door.; open at halt-past 7—Commence at S o'clock. TB:EA TRE-R0 YAL, HAYMARKET. Mr..T. R. Thickstone. THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS. Miss Reynolds. After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto mime; VALEYTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the True Lovers' Knot. Thepantomirnists the unrivalled Leclereqs. TTI EA TR OY AL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Piatia!le'3 Popular Drama of THE CHILD or THE WItECIC... Maurice (her original charai ter) Madame Celeste. . . _ - . Alter which, will be produced g new Grand Christmas Ex travazan za and Pantomime, KING T Hit LTS ÜBE A. R t), the LITTL E PET and the GREAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. H. Marshall—Columbine, Miss Rosin°. Commence at 7.: R OYAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.— Lessee. Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Danecr, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Princibal Dan sense of La Scala, Milan ; and first time of the Velapierre st Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. THIS EVENING, (Thnrssday), the new drama, HOME T 'turns. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, E. Matthews, Miss C. Lec'ereq and Mrs. Charles Young. • Atter which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by IL 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. OY A L PRINCES S's THEATRE, — Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Three Morning Performances of the pantomime of JACK THE JIANT KILLER, universally acknowledged the best of the season, MONDAYS, January 2, 9. and 16. Doors open at half-past cne ; commence at two o'clock. NE" THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL Sole Troprletor and MArotzer, Mr. Benj.' Virelaster. Holiday Attractions.— The Christmas Carol and the Nevi , Spectacular Extravaganza., by H. J. Byron. Esq,, the Nymph of the Lurlyber.e;; or the Knight and the Naiades. THIS EVENING. THE CHRISTMAS CAROL. Messrs J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Panl Bedford, Stuart. Bil!ing,ton, C. J. Smith. Romer: Mies Woolgar, Mrs. Billingtou, 3lrs.Chatter ley, Miss /.aidlaw. _ _ After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LITRLEYBERG ; or. The Knight and the Naiades. • Messrs. Took, Bedford, Ebnrne. Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K. Kelly, Laidlaw. Doors open at half-past Alx—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, ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, SE. 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. TIFITS EVENING- the Derfarrnarteea 'will eminence with GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Bariett and C. Young. 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 Kiss Lydia Thompson and the Corps de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and the wonderful Performing Dogs. Reduced Prices—Gallery, ed; Pit, Is. The Box-ofEce open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform anco commences at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season. Great Attraction for the Holidays. The new bombastic hippodramatic, operatic Pantomime abonndin7 in comicality, called HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY; or, Old Tower the Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, with 'songs by Miss Esther Jacobs.—Gorzeons and Dazzling mechanical transfor mation scene. Harlequin, M. Iticharde ; 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. t, 1860, at Two o'clock each day. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY QUEEN. , And a Grand Se:eetion from Meyerbeer'a new opera of DINORA H. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. (leo ,rcre Holson (the Irish Come. dian and Mimic), W. T. Critelificid, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. ROSA BONHEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Pine Arts Gallery. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. TIE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 30. THER.XOIIETEE, IN THE SHADE. 51—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 52--this day at noon. BA ROMMTEB-29.51. WiliTD, South-Westerly; fresh, with dull rainy weather, HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Mrs DAY.—Morning, 29m.—Afternoon, oh. 47m. To-monaow.-Morning, 6h. Om.—Afternoon, 6h. 24m. ~ • 4 1 , A • t l e : 4 .: 4 'ik i.‘,ie riT it ,:7 4 -7 C -***. '4l ;AI ' • 4 't --. t-• T • • THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 30, 1859. DEATH OF LORD MAC_AILAY It is with the most poignant regret that we make this melancholy announcement. Here, in. deed, we hare but too much reason to mourn the loss of a Great English Worthy, whose cletuiso thus suddenly and unexpectedly, cannot but be regarded as in every way premature. A broken column here again would be the aptcst monument—a noble Corinthian column incomplete and shattered, with its ornate capital splintered and rolled in the dust by the side of the broad and stately pediment. Lord MACAIMAY has abruptly passed away from us in mid-career—his grand historic masterpiecc yet unfinished. He has perished in the midst o his labours with the cvidences of his herculean toil littered around him. Who will venture to take up the broken thread of that gorgeous tapestry, now but partially woven into the reticulations of that vast canvass ? Who will dare to handle that keen chisel? Who can hope to wield that pon derous mallet ? There appears almost a fatality about the continuation of our English History from the date of the Revolution. Here is the second inter- rupted attempt within the compass we may say of one single generation. Sir JA Es MAcKINTOsu had scarcely time, as it were, to sketch a few of the principle figures dimly in outline not so dimly however, but we could discern the touch of that master-hand and the dignity of those heroic proportions—when the brush was suddenly snatched from the artist's grasp—" Something having happened" to him, as THACKERAY exquisitely expresses the solemn truth in Esmond, " Something which must happen to us all." Death has now renewed in a more painful and a more irreparable degree in the instance of Lord MACAULAY, the national grief and dis- appointment caused some years back in the instance of Sir JAMES MACIUNTOSH. Both were men of rare accomplishments, with a - wide and ample scope of knowledge —they th c ,e— ey were alike orators—they were alike states- men. But MACAULAY was far, far beyond MACK INTOSH. While Sir JAMES IVIACIN.-INTOSTI takes high rank among our most luminous writers and our most eloquent 'rhetoricians, Lord MACAULAY assumed by right not a high rank but the highest. It would scarcely be exaggeration to pronounce him at oncc to have been incomparably the noblest prose writer in the ;English language. Of this his masterly essays form of themselves sufficient at testation. Considered altogether apart from the opening volumes of his superbly written History, he holds his place as an author in the foremost grade of our literature. His style as a prose style kbproached as nearly as possible to perfection.' And what is that famous axiom of BUFFON—" La style e'est l'homme ! Had MACAULAY been less of a partisan he would have been almost matchless as a historian. As it is, even with the enormous drawback causcd by his political prejtvlices and predilections—dimming the clearness of his per ception, warping the disc of his judgment, now blurring, now distorting their otherwise marvel lous reflections—this colossal torso, this fragment of a masterpiece, these incomplete annals Of his native land, will carry the name of MACAULAY down to future times side by side with the names of TACITUS, of ',ivy, of HERODOTUS. The lamented death of Lord MACAULAY, it ap pears, took place at eight o'clock on Wednesday evening, the 28th of December, at his residence, Holly Lodge, Campden-hill, Kensington. It resulted from that formidable disease of the heart from which his lcrdshin was known, for some years past, to be suffering. A severe attack arising from this fatal source had alarmed those about him as nearly as may be a fortnight since, but having rallied from this so far as to be apparently in his customary health or convalescence, Lord MACAULAY succumbed at last to a relapse as unlooked for at the moment as it was overwhelming. The noble and learned lord—and the adjectives are here in no way applied to him merely conventionally, for in his genius and in his knowledge he was indeed truly noble and truly learned —may be claimed as absolutely and essentially an Englishman. He was born in 1800, at Rothley Temple, in Leicester shire. That date reminds us how prematurely he has expired. He breathed his last in his fifty ninth year, when—but for that threatening disease at his heart, which has kept him (as an orator) dumb since his elevation to the House of Lords, and which has since carried him off abruptly, while his manuscripts lay strewn around him in disorder— he might have hoped for years yet to come, during which he might have perfected (as far as human life and human powers per mitted) his immense reputation. It will always be recorded of him, in his biography, that the eminent essayist, critic, orator, and historian, was son of a distinguished philanthropist. lie was the son, in fact, of that ZACHARY - MACAULAY whose memorywill long be cherished in connection with the cause of the abolition of the Slave Trade, with the historic names of THOMAS CLARKSON and WILLIAM WILBERFORCE. The salient incidents in the career of Lord MACAULAY, like these in the lifetime of most men of letters, though his was also the pro gress of a politician, and, in a minor degree, like wise of one of our national administrators, may be readily enumerated. His academic achievements are still borne in remembrance in the annals and traditions of Trinity College, Cambridge. It was at that college that he graduated with high honour —winning rhetorical fame even beyond the pre cincts of the University, while yet an undergraduate by his brilliant oratorical displays at the celebrated Debating Society of the Union. In 1821, when scarcely of age THOMAS MACAULAY was elected to the Craven scholarship. In 1822 he obtained his fellowship, and four years later (1826) was called to to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. Previously, however, he had even as far back a' 1824, given radiant evidence of his rare literary abilities. He was al ready an industrious contributor to several of the magazines —poems and essays, in some instances with his initials attached to them, were scattered up and down the periodicals. They were the prelude to those strains of music which rose at last to the Tyrtean melody of " The Lays of Ancient Rome." They were the precursors to those all but perfect masterpieces in prose later on, the papers on " Lord Caner." and " WARREN HASTINGS," in the Edinburgh. But the Lays did not appear till lame—and the earliest of the Essays did not adorn the pages of the great Whig Review till 1826, when the criticism on "MILTON'' appeared, and, becoming the talk of London, was the subject at . once of mingled surprise and admiration. Yet earlier than that among those more youthful effusions of the genius of THOMAS MACAULAY we rceal to mind, for example, a paper in Knight's Magazine : a paper signed "T. M." recounting an imaginary con versatien. between MILTON and COWLEY, a convein sation supposed to have taken place in a boat upon the River Thames in the hearing of a young Templar, who thereupon relates or rather reports from me mory the "high argument " between the two great poets—the one the champion of Royalty, the other of Republicanism—the one the exponent of Kingcraft, the other of Democracy. It is a paper worthy of MACAULAY. It is a conversation not unworthy of COWLEY and MILTON, Yet to this day, we believe, it has never been (unless, it may be, pirati ally in America) republished, As we have said, however, in 1826, our great Essayist inaugurated with his exquisite criticism on MILTON his unequalled career as an _Edinburgh Reviewer. In recognition of his high literary attainments, and already we may even say achievements, the Whig leaders nominated Mr. MACAULAY a Commissioner of Bankruptcy. Subsequently, in 1830 (in ample time to take part in the Reform discussions), as M.P. for Caine (Lord LANSDOWNE'S borough), he entered Parliament. Not long after this entrance into the House of Commons, he was appointed Secretary to the Board of Control. laving risen in Parlia mentary repute by his extraordinary powers rather as an orator than as a debater, Mr. MACAULAY was returned after the passing of the Reform Bill as M.P. for the newly-created borough of Leeds, having Mr. MARSHALL as his colleague. A couple of years had hardly elapsed, however, when there commenced with startling suddenness a hiatus in his home career. He accepted a lucrative appoint ment in the Supremo Council of India, and for three years discharged the duties of that respon sible and remunerative office in Calcutta. At tho end of this interval he returned homewards, and resumed the interrupted labours of love, which had been previously building up for him simultaneously a high literary and Parliamentary reputation. The noblest of his essays—the two already particularised—duly made their appearance —Mr. MACAULAY himself accepting in 1839, the post of Secretary-at-War, and being returned to Parliament in 1840, as M.P. for the city of Edin burgh. How, upon the formation of the Whig Ministry in 1846, Mr. MACAULAY received the office of Paymaster of the Forces, and took his place in the Cabinet—how in 1847, :he was disgracefully rejected by his former constituency of Edinburgh, by reason of his conduct in regard to the grant to the College of Maynooth—how in 1852 the citizens of Edinburgh, at length repentant, spontaneously returned him once more to the House of Commons without his having to raise a finger to utter a syllable, or to expend a sixpence to that end—how Mr. MACAULAY remained in the House of Commons as M.P. for Edinburgh until he was raised, in 1857, to the House of Lords as Baron MACAULAY—aII this, and much more, of him the nation proudly bears in its remembrance. Alas! it has now °hi to bear hi mse lf a l so gratefully and honourably in its remembrance. In his regard we have now only to bury our dead. We have to accord to him a , fitting sepulture iu WeotiulastLt His loftiest monument, fragment though it is, and faultless though it is nut, is of coarse his "history." Yet beyond those interrupted volumes we are fain .11.1 E ; - SUN; 7 ',7I.4ONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1859 to regard his superb and, many of them inimitable, essays, as the noblest contribution of this rare intellect to the treasures of our national literature. When a man has done his duty to the best of his ability—be that man a private individual or a public character, he may well feel his conscience at case. Not but he occasionally reflects that many short-comings might have been better achieved did time and opportunity permit. Ia fact no man is ever satisfied with himself on the success of his labours be they ever so well accomplished while his ambition regrets that he has not done more. Such is the penalty of having done much and of hav ing obtained the applause, not only of his fellow men, but even of his country at large. But even in this regret there is a noble patriotism which stimulates others to like exertions, and so con duces to national benefit, while it serves to indi vidual excellence by the success of envied en terprise. Now this principle has been carried out to its full development by Sir Jonx PAK INGTON—Iate First Lord of the Admiralty, and previously Secretary for the Colonies during the two Administrations of the Earl of DERBY. In his latter position he was eminently instrumental in conferring a new constitution on New Zealand, to the grateful appreciation of the Colonists, and would have extended the same liberal spirit to the other Colonies did time permit, but he remained only some ten months in office, and found his re ward in the thanksgivings of New Zealand after he had resigned power. Then, as to his Administration of the Navy, the whole country—nay, even his successors, arc loud in his praise. To be applauded by one's friends for having done well is very grateful to the heart ; but to extort commendation from one's rivals is the very charm of political popularity. Now, all these have been accorded to Sir JOIIN PAKINGTON, and he may well be proud of them. On his assuming the office of First Lord of the Admiralty he found that the surest bulwark of our national safety had been wofully neglected. From what cause it were now idle to inquire. But the fact, that that office had been filled for some years by SIR CIIARLES WOOD may partly explain it. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON actually found that the number of our line-of-battle ships had been allowed to dwindle down below those of the French ! while our frigates and other smaller vessels were infinitely less. On the other hand he found that we had gunboats far outnumbering those of the French, but to his surprise and mortification scarcely one of them would float ! No ; they were all neatly pigeoned up in rows on sundry dry slips, and to mend the matter, not one would come down again ! These were the indomitable Boats that were to destroy the Russians in the shallow waters of the Baltic, but, like all our other inscrutable manage ment of the Navy, the Boats were only built after the war was nearly over, and so they came for ward just in time to be too late. This was 117119 management. It is possible they were never in tended to be in time to hurt the Russians. Then again our line-of-battle ships were mostly sailing vessels—mere logs on the water as opposed to screw line-of-battle ships. And what did Sir JOHN PAKINGTON do ? Why he not only ordered a fleet of screw vessels both of the line and frigates to be laid down and pushed forward with the utmost alacrity, but he als.z set about converting the sailing ships into screws, thereby work ing double tides to restore the British Navy to its old preponderance over every other. And for this patriot spirit, so wisely and so firmly carried out—aye ! carried out in the face and almost in spite of his own Cabinet, has Sir JOHN PANINGTON obtained the applause of his QUEEN and admiring countrymen. But Sir lOU did not work for applause —no ! he exerted himself as a true patriot—anxious to protect his native land against any emergency—be it ever so accidental. And now his mantle has fallen, we hope and trust, on other worthy shoulders who will endeavour to give more efficiency to our ships, and more satisfaction to those who man them. The City and County of Worcester have done themselves much honour by their appreciation of their fcllow•to;;nsmen (for Sir JOHN is of 'Wor cester), in presenting him on Wednesday last with a magnificent shield in token of their esteem. And Sir JOHN, in returning thanks in a modest but honest spirit of pride, made, among other ob servations, the following excellent remarks which, we cordially hope, may make a duo and fitting impression on thosa who thought that the worthy baronet was only fit to be a chairman of Quarter Sessions—a post which he had so well filled for many years :-- " I cannot refrain from an expression of my wish that this day, so memorable and so gratifying to me—so memorable to those dear to me—should, if possible, be of benefit to others. lam one of those who believe that we may always draw a moral lesson' from such proceedings as these. There are not a' few of those who are here this evening, and there are still mere who will read what has passed here to-day, whose course of life is still before them. I hope you will not think that I am guilty of presumption or egotism if I venture to touch for a moment on those principles of action to which I mainly attribute the honour which on this occasion it leas been ray fortune to receive. Have I attained those honours through the exercise of any great or transcendent talent ? Certainly not. Have I gained them as the reward of extensive and varied acquire.. ments ? Certainly not ; but if it has been my good fortune to merit in any degree that favour which I have received from my most gracious Sovereign ; if I have deserved any portion of that kindness which I have received in this my native county ; if 1 have been able to ndminist r those various departments of the State which hove been en trusted to me, and which my noble friend in the chair has alluded to in such flattering terms ; if I have been able to administer them without disadvantage to the public service, and without discredit to myself, I firmly be • Hove that I am indebted to the exercise of qualities and the adoption of rules which are equally in the power and com pass of thone who hear me, and of any man who is desirous to take part in the public affairs of the country. lam in debted for whatever measure of success I have attained in my public life to a combination of moderate abilities with honesty of intention, firmness of purpose, and steadiness of conduct. If I were to offer advice to any 'young man anxious to make himself useful in public life, I would sum up the resuPs of my experience in three short rules—rules so simple that any man may under stand them, and so easy that any man may act upon them My first rule would be—Leave to others to judge of what duties you are capable, and to what position you are fitted, but never refuse to give your services in whatever capacity it may be the opinion of others who aro competent to judge that you may benefit your neighbours or your country. My second rule is—When you agree to undertake public duties concentrate every energy and faculty in your possession, with the determination to discharge those duties to the best of your ability. Lastly, I would counsel you that, in de ciding on the line which yon will take in public affairs, you should be guided in your decision by that which, after mature deliberation, you believe to be right, and not by that which, in the passing hour, may happen to be fashionable or popular. Fashion has its uses, and is all very well when applied to the light and trivial things to which it relates; but fashion in public affairs is out of place. Popularity, in the lowest and most common sense, is not worth the having. Do your duty to the best of your power—win the approba tion of your own conscience, and popularity in its best and highest sense is sure to follow. I would not ex change the recollection of this day for all the acclama tions that ever greeted the most popular man in England." These arc the sentiments of a man who may as well be proud of himself as he is worthy of ,his country. But it is the consciousness of the honest performance c,f his duty that is uppermost in Sir Jurts PAKINGTON'9 mind. He be ek3 'no vain glory for himself, but is anxious that others should profit by his experience, and therefore he unfolds his heart to his hearers with an earnestness worthy of all commendation. To him, like the patriot of old— " Ono hour of self-applause, whole years outweighs, Of stupid starers, and 3f loud huzzas ; And more true joy Mcrcellus exiled feels Than Ca?sar with a S3nate at his heels I" Honour ! long and lasting honour be to Sir SOHN PAKINGTON Ps the Regenerator of the British Navy, and may all his successors follow so good and so patriotic an example ! A very interesting public meeting was held on Tuesday last, in the city of Dublin, for the purpose of prsenting an address to Captain MC CLINTOCK, R.N. Few public testimonials have been more richly merited, than this recognition of the emi nent services rendered by the gallant captain in the cause of Arctic discovery. Gratifying as such a ceremony must always be to the recipient of the honour, it is doubly so when those who present the address are fellow citizens, who acknowledge the distinction reflected upon them, and regard his triumph in some sort as their own. The claims which Captain I\PCLINTocK possesses upon the gratitude of his country are succinctly stated in a paragraph of the address --" lire deem it a duty to recognise your last Arctic expedition as the fourth in which you have engaged—the three preceding having been in the service of the Crown--to call to mind that you have passed six winters in the Polar sea—that during that time you have travelled be tween 5,000 and 6,000 miles on foot within the Arctic circle, the laborious employment of 416 days, of which more than 2,000 miles have been in the geographical exploration of coast line—that you organised and improved sledge travelling to such a degree as to extend your journey from 500 miles on your first expedition, to 1,500 miles on your third." Captain INICLINTocx might well say in his answer to the address, that the motto of the executive office should be, " Deeds, not words." He has proved his right to such a motto by a long course of arduous and perilous services, happily crowned at last by the discovery of the last sad relics of the hapless crews of the Erebus and Terror. It gives, however, additional poignancy to our sor row for the untimely fate of those brave men, when we reflect that had the plans of Dr. KING, which we have so often strenuously advocated, been adopted Jay the Admiralty, very probably many of the survivors of the expedition might have been restored to their country. It is another proof of the evils of official obstinacy and routine ; but it is paying a dear price for the lesson, to reflect that we have lost the chance of rescuing any of those sufferers whom we have despatched so many expeditions to relieve. The tone of Captain ITCLINTocies reply to the address was all that could be expected from an officer of his high character and genuine merit. After acknowledging the compliment paid him by the citizens of Dublin—an honour they rarely accord to public men—he briefly re ferred to the motives which had actuated him in his undertaking, and ended by pass ing a warm eulogium on the heroic perseve rance of the noble lady who projected the expedi tion on her own responsibility. The praise awarded to him individually he shared with his companions in toil and danger, and expressed his sentiments that the success of his efforts fully repaid him for his years :of painful search. We are glad to find the citizens of Dublin have taken this early oppor tunity of expressing their admiration of the heroic qualities of a countryman of whom they may well be justly proud. LATE►S NEWS. The following telegrams have been received al Nir. Reuter's office : ROME, DEC. 29. To day, Cardinal Antenelli had a long interview with the Due de Grammont. The French Ambassodor has received by a courier, who left Paris on the 24th inst., some explanations destined to re-assure the Holy See on the object and bearing of the pamphlet, " Le Pape et le Congres." PARIS, FRIDAY. The Council of Ministers has resolved upon not giving any official denial to tilt, pamphlet " The Pope and the Congress." As the Moniteter, the only official organ of the French Government, has not mentioned the pamphlet, its publication is to be considered as a home affair (affaire intorieurc), which the foreign Powers could not notice in their diplomatic intercourse with France. PARIS, DEC. 29. The Pays of this evening contains an article signed by M. Granier de Cassagnac on the pamphlet " The Pope and the Congress," which, the art iele:states," has been wrongly interpreted by the newspapers." The pamphlet does not propose to deprive the Pope of the Legations, but advises 's Holiness to submit to the present state of things, and proclaims the necessity of maintaining the temporal power of the Pope. M. do Granicr adds, the pamphlet confines itself to pronouncing an opinion ; the Congress alone will decide, and even after that the Church will remain full and entire. 131 - g BEN.-XEARS v. DENI SON. SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) This was originally an action brought by Mr. Mears, the eminent bell-founder, of Whitechapel, against Mr. Edmund Birkett Denison, Q.C., to recover damages for a libel. The plaintiff was the founder of the present bell which hangs in the tower in Palace-yard, but which has, for some time past, ceased to be of use in consequence of its being cracked, and Mr. Denisbn was one of the gentlemen appointed to judge of and decide upon the merits of the bell before it was hung. In order to make the matter clear, it may be stated that, on Saturday, the Ist of October last, the boil sounded for the last time, and that while in the act of striking, Big Ben became dumb for ever. It was soon afterwards- discovered that it was undeniably cracked. On the sth of October Mr. Denison wrote a letter to the Times, which appeared in that journal on the 7th of October last, and this letter constitutes the alleged libel. In the course of the letter Mr. Denison said that a week previously Se should have joined with the editor in praising Mr. Mears' bell, and then went on to say—" It certainly suited to my pattern, and the weight, size, and tone were exactly what had been re quired, and everybody believed it to bo a magnificent cast ing, everybody, that is, except certain persons at White chapel, who knew a very different secret. Last week, how ever, Mr. Dent's men found out, and I was immediately in formed, and sent the representation to the Board of Works, that this magnificent casting was, like many other things, a magnificent imposture, for that there is a place in the boll, on the soundbow, but far from where either clapper or hammer ever struck (and this is probably not by accident) full of holes, some a quarter of an inch wide and more, and others smaller, of depths not certain yet, but some probed down nearly half an inch; and, in short, every ex ternal indication of a perfectly unsound casting, and that from two or three holes cracks were visible nearly a foot long, and of depth unknown yet, but with some in dications of still wider holes within them. But how did Mr. Taylor and I come to certify such. a bell as sound ? And how did such unsoundness as 'this elude the observation of the indefatigable clerk of works (Mr. Quern), who examines all the castings that come to the Palace, and of Sir.C. Biirry's engineer(Mr, Jabez James), and of the hundreds of people of all classes who I came to see and hear the bell? For a very good reason, because the holes were all as carefully stuffed as a bad tooth by a dentist with some mineral sueeedaneum,' of which a piece has been sent to me, and which can be shown to you at Mr. Dent's, or on the bell itself ; and to make all still safer, the bell was washed over with some Colouring stuff which the atmosphere has now removed. Some persons noticed this colouring as suspicious at the time, but still, with the suspicion to help .them, nobody could find anything wrong. It is certainly strange that the unsoundness should not have betrayed itself in the tone of the bell to many better ears than mine, which carefully listened to it, and that the bell should have been considered by so many good judges as you say, ',the finest ever cast in England?, But so it is, and the disease was not less mortal, and not less congenital because nobody at Westminster found it out until it was at the point of death. . . The contract was given to one of our eminent bell founders, who has passed his life and made a fortune in the manufacture of bells, and he was told what was wanted, and was made responsible for its beineforthcoming. We see what has come forth for all that ; how far his re sponsibility may extend is a matter for other people to settle with him and not for me to discuss here." 'Ma consequence of the publication of this letter, of which the above are the more salient portions, Mr. Mears com• menced an action for libel against Mr. Denison. The cause was entered for trial for the sittings after Michaelmas Term in London, and would have been tried by Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a special jury. Mr. Denison had pleaded a justification to the libel with which he was charged. Be fore the time for hearing, however, the cause was with drawn, Mr. Deniion having abandoned his defence. The plaintiff took, therefore, a judgment by default, and the only matter remaining to be determined was the amount of da mages which had, according to the usual course, to be as sessed in the Sheriffs' Court. • The proceedings commenced this morning, and for the convenience of all parties, were held in the Court of Com mox Pleas, before Mr. Secondary Potter: and a jury of merchants and gentlemen specially empanelled. Mr. Bovill, Q.C., and Mr. Coleridge appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Knowles, Q.C., Mr. Grove, Q.C., and Mr. Garth appeared for the defendant, Mr. Denison, Q.C., who occupied a seat with his legal representatives. Mr. Bovill, in opening the proceedings, said the jury was summoned to inquire into damages sustained by Mr. Mears by a libel upon him which Mr. Denison, the defen dant, had published against him. The learned gentleman having explained to the jury the agreement of both parties, that an assessor, not a Queen's counsel, should be selected to act as judge, at great, length detailed the whole of the facts relating to the contract for, the quality of metal, tilt casting, &c., of the bell. He then proceeded to notice th libel as published by Mr. Denison on the plaintiff, whiq had done him immense mischief, as he had denounced hi e as unskilful in his trade, and of having sent down the grqt bell unsound, well knowing it to be so. The correspondene, with which the public is very familiar, having been notic,j the learned gentleman said that the last letter of Mr. Dili_ `AL son, which 'he (Mr. Bovill) called a half-and-half apolt y, had been published by the defendant wholly and solel: for the purpose of reducing the amount of &Images, andliot for removing the stigma he had cast upon the characcei Mr. Mears. The learned gentleman having read ancl ere _ mented on the letter written by Mr. Denison and publ shed in the Tidies on the 7th of October, which containq the alleged libel, said under all the circumstances Mr.Ai eere had no alternative but to come to a jury for damagot. Mr. Knowles, Q.C., suggested that no special age had been sustained. Mr. Denison admitted his li stehe, and as Mr. Mears did not, require money, he tholh t the case might be stopped by mutual consent. This suggestion was after a consultation agreei to, Denison retracting all lie had said in divarage me t of Mr. Mears and paying the costs. P 01, TCE LYTELLIGENCE---(TIUSDA 7.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT MEssus. ORNT-STREET.--JOhll Brooks, a rupectable-lol. ag . man, in'the employ of Messrs. H. G. and D. Ift young icol, mer chant:tailors:of Regent-street and Warwick-st rfet, as cutter and clerk, was charged - with stealing Bever q lengths of cloth of the value of £5, the property of his ev oi , ers. It world appear that, though the amount the present charge is only £5, that at r) g property in • ksent Messrs. Nicol are' unable to ascertain the amount ofi heir it is believed to be several hundred pounds. l oss, but Inspector Charles Webb, of the C Divis? ph, said, from information he received, and inquiries w,-s lteet, yesterday afternoon, had made, ho went to Messrs. Nicols', of l" Rege afternoon, and saw the prisoner, who, h 0 had boon pre viously informed, was in the employ of th e4rra as clerk and cutter-out. He told him he was charged ',lit h stealing seve ral rzinnants of cloth belonging to hi,i e lh qployer. Ile re plied, "Remnants ? I don't understkd prisoner Mr. Henry Nicol then said, "lengths," and th ' o prisoner said, "I've taken lengths Those lengths hap e been made up into garments and disposed of by me." tv 4te asked the pri soner if it was not the rule of the house t o have entered the goods in a book, and ho said, " It IN ; true that he had not entered the lengths." Mr. N "` 7 lvan in court, and could tell them that they were not ente,,,tu,,and that the pri soner had no right to take the property 4m , a. Mr. Bingham asked Mr. Webb vil ethethe knew the amount of Messrs. Nicols' loss. Inspector Webb said he did not, but he believed it was to a large extent. He found in the p l i sonees possession a gold watch and chain. There were als o a second gold watch and the duplicate of a third, several ,a 14, ear-rings, and a quantity of jewellery, altogether of t value value of at least 450, some of it being given up b y a fainsl t lie was paying his ad dresses to. The prisoner, who said nothing '4 answer to the charge, was remanded for a week. EXECUTION OF Tilt C o vENTR .111 WOE% (BY ELECTRIC T kxGßApll.) gai, VARWICK, FRIDAY. Yesterday th e workmen be - their preparations for the erection of the sedffold for the qecution of John Kington, for the murder of his NVife, at Coventry, on the 12th of November last. Since his trial ho had fully t etigned himself to his awful fate. Yesterday ho had an i nterview with his father, and the Rev. S. - H. Widdringt4, vicar of St. Michael's, Coventry, also visited the condemned criminal, and prayed with him. After e lpressing his conviction that God would forgive him for the crime, Kington said that after ho was gone he h oped justice would be done to some parts of his clo, vactor, and his spiritual ad viser left him under the r 41 apression that he had mur dered his wife from the co mbined feelings of love and jeal ousy. She would not live Vith him, and the unhappy man says, as ho could not enjoy glad her himself he put her out of the way. lie was ale had done it and should die happy now he knew she was go tlo. Shortly before twelve this morning the bells began to toll, and the mournful Procession then proceeded to the gallows. Thousual PreiNh'inaries having been gone through, the unfortunate mail w,„ launched into eternity. The executioner as veo,- Smith, the hangman for the co uw •• nty of Stafford, LI performed his odious office upon Palmer. Kington was forme/. IY in the Ist Regiment of the War wickshire Militia, aN 1,, was in Portsmouth with it. He afterwards voluntoer eg into the 10th Hussars, and was dis charged through hie being _.ng afflicted with fits. A further slim or 60,000 in bar gold was taken from e Bank 4 .Cadiz.. About £3 s ' erday for exp or t a tion : £30,000 is for 00 orthe gold recovered from the 'Loyal Charter was also 0 ° at the Bank, unsold, for abroad. There i 3 still some amount FRANCE. PARIS BOLTRSE.—d-The market continues very agitated. Threes opened at 69f. 60c., and after declining to 68f. 85c., are now 69f. sc. Mobilier varied from 817 f. 50c. to 790 f. ; Lyons, 917 f. 50c. to 910 f.; Orleans, 1,395 to 1,385 f.; Southern, 515 f. to 510 f.; Lombard, 565 f. to 555 f. The follow ing were the last quotations : 4} per Cents. 96 25 Do. end month 3 per Cents 69 Do. end month 6B 81 Bank Sharps. 2830 =— Credit Mobilier Do. Account ertldit Fonder 720 Belgian 41 — -- -. Piedmontese (5) Roman B4 Austrian B6 Spanish' Threes Home Debt 43 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans' Northern . 960 .. 9.55 New ditto 8.55 .. 850 Lyons and Mediterranean OO7 50 .. 910 Geneva 532 50 .. 635 Southern Western 570 .. 565 Eastern SardiniaNt. Austrian Lombard .... Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 25f. 9c.; three mouths, paper, 24f. 95c. ; money, 241. 931 c. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAM.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The Fulton, steamer, with mails from New York of the 17th inst., passed Hurst at 9.10 a.m. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. The screw steamer Edinburgh, which sailed from New York on the 18th inst., after having been de tained in the harbour 21 hours by a heavy storm, arrived at Queenstown to-day at 2.30 p.m., and left for Liverpool at 3 p.m. She brings 227,200 dols. specie on freight. On the 18th spoke the steamers Borussia and Vanderbilt, and the ship Resolute. The advices are unimportant. 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, LITERATURE. Lucy Crgfion. By the author of " Margaret Maitland," &c. Hurst and Blackett. Those who have read " Orphans," a former pro auction by this author will willingly avail them• selves of this _opportunity of learning more of the fate of its heroine. Th e work before us is charac teristic Of its composer in many a truthful record of home life, and in many a thoughtful passage. It cannot be compared to some of those brilliant fic tions Which have preceded it, but as it is, in its sim plicity and grace, it is well calculated to impress the reader. Lucy Crofton, the heroine, is a most repulsive character; which in itself is some sort of . novelty from the fascinating persons who' are often introduced as the most prominent actors on the stage. Luey is one of those disagreeable individuals whom all must have encountered at intervals in their intercourse with the world. She did not commit any open offence, but she nevertheless irritated One beyond endurance. She was always the same, un ruffled and plausible, but one had far rather that she had done some definite injury that could be preferred against her, than be for ever annoying in that indescribable manner. It is eminently satis factory to know that she was at last induced by self-interest to leave the happy home at Hilfont over which herpresence cast ablight from the first day on. which she entered its domains. Clara Nugent of Estcourt is a delightful person, rather sentimental at times, owing to her life of seclusion, hilt ever alive to the claims of others on her bounty, and ever zealous to further the best interests of all who were in any W,-ay connected 'with her. Bertie Nugent is a straightforwardToang man, whom it is sad to see attracted by the deceitful Lucy. The success of this lady in her desig ns on Plantagenet Hall is only natural when her energy and dexte rity are taken into considerati o n. The passage which relates the discovery b y her aunt of the shameful trick practised on the entire family by the unknoAvn lovers is a very exciting one, and the conduct of Dervent is just what is probable under the circumstances, he thinking himself remarkably wise in his own perceptions, and believing his wife to. be prejudiced. Before thiS final escapade Lucy had created great disturbance in the house by being nearly the agent in bredking off the marriage of Hugh Sedgwick with the gentle Clara Harley. He was a member of Parliament and a distin guished man in his county, while she was only a school girl. :However, no one had a right to interfere with . them, still less Lucy, who was secretly enga ge d to Broom at the time. Fortunately for their welfare Clara had the courage to,spe-ek boldly in vindication of her in jured dignity, aM. Sedgwick possessed the justice to rectify his • mistake. There are many characters introduced in these pages who form a sort of back ground to the chief persons; and the chronicles of the Christmas festivities, present a bright and attractive picture of ho nk life, with its minute cares and simple joys, tem nothing in themselves, yet containthat witlin them the happiness or misery of a lifetime. "Lucy Crofton" is a work of fiction that, without making any pretensions, has a fair chance of success, from its truthful pictures, its earnest tone, and it s pleasing delineations. It is w r itten by one wbo has long been a favourite with a numer; ens olassof readers, and who may lay claim to having impressed them more successfully' than many ktthors who are greatly her superiors in Point of literary ability. The effect of a simple style that is the result of a feeling heart is always gaining the approbati on o f th ose w h o eaflire are in he best judges, and to the ranks of those who charmwith unadorned eloque nce , thi s au tho ress belong. CO UN!' CAYOUR IN PARIS. ---- Tlie official announcement in the Piedmontese Gat e of Count Cavour's nomination as represen tative of Sardinia in the approaching Congress "iaeides with the publication of , the remarkable PaMphlet on the Papacy, and confirms the belief to \ltch its appearance has given rise, that the com %cement of the year 186'0 will be marked by a Joint action of the French and Sardinian Govern tents on behalf of the Italian people, not dissimilar b that which signalised the commencement of the rear 1859. Count Cavour's retirement from office was notoriously caused by his unqualified disapproval of the conditions of the peace of Villafranca; and the language, by no means measured, in which that disapproval was communicated to his Sovereign seemed, during a short period, likely to convert the political difference between King Victor Emmanuel and his Minister into a personal quarrel. The frank, fearless honesty of the Sovereign, and the self- sacrificing patriotism of the statesman, have been evinced in the speedy termination of a political separation which, on Lord Normanby'& theory of political separations, " ought to have been eternal," It is not only in, the country of Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell that the decay of all public spirit is revealed in the willing ness of public men, at a great national crisis, to silence and stifle their private animosity. The epidemic of mutual forgiveness has too evidently extended to Piedmont. There is even a probability that its ravages may be 'felt in Paris ; and that whatever bitterness was at first occasioned by the conditions announced at Villafranca will disappear before the open avowal that the fulfilmept of those conditions has been found quite impossible—that France will not restore by an armed intervention the authority of the Pope and the dethroned Arch dukes over Central Italy, and that still less can she allow Austria to perform the task from which she recoils. It is the decided, unequivocal, unmistakable character of these declarations in the pamphlet which explain and justify the nomination of Count Cavour as Sardinian repreeentative. ' We cannot for one moment imagine him quitting his retire• ment and lending his great talents and European reputation to Carry out a policy which he has so energetically condemned. The presence of Count Cavour at Paris means simply the continuation of that diplomatic war which Sardinia, during the last 10 years, has successfully waged with Austria and Rome—a war of which the successes were, in their way, quite as brilliant and scarcely less decisive than the military achievements of this year's campaign. To Count Cavour it was mainly owing that Aus tria was merely vanquished in the public opinion of all Europe before she even crossed the Ticino. But his great political tact has been chiefly exhibited in the skill with which, whilst resisting the pretensions of the Court of Rome, he has yet been able to prevent the opposition of the Sardinian bishops and clergy from creating disturbance, or exciting discontent, in the dominions of King Victor Emmanuel. Thoroughly acquainted with all the intrigues and manoeuvres, with all the audacity and craft, of the Papal agents, his pre sence at the same council board with Cardinal Antonelli (if indeed his eminence is to honour the council board with his presence) will furnish a guarantee that the Papal phase of the Italian question will receive full justice in the discus sions of the Congress. If in these discussions any clerical or lay defender of the Pope's temporal sovereignty should venture on the statements which find a ready credence at meetings of the. Irish Catholics—statements to the effect that the revolt of the Romagna is the mere work of a small but audacious minority—we know the answer which such statements will call down from the Well stored memory and well-trained logic of Count Cavour. Nor is it the least merit of the Sardinian statesman, nor his least qualification for the duties he must discharge at the Congrese, that Whilst lit home beyond all other Italians in every detail re specting the policy and the administration of the separate Italian States, he is not less familiar with the modes of thinking and reasoning of other European politics. Count Cavour is emphatically a European statesman. He has often been termed the Robert Peel of Piedmont. His first distinction as a political writer was acquired through his familiarity with English principles of constitu tional government, and English views of commer cial legislation—principles and views which he endeavoured to transplant and acclimatise in his own country. Of his influence at the Court, of France, of the influence which he has exer cised ever the mind of the French Emperor since the commencement of this Italian question, it would almost be superfluous to speak. It was Count Cavour, not Count Walewski, whose counsels determined the Italian war. And the reappearance of Count Cavour in Paris must, we repeat, be viewed as the strongest proof that the same policy which led the armies of France to the Lombard plains is once more in the ascendant, and that not many weeks are likely to elapse before France and Sardinia will be found presenting the same combined front to Austria in the coming diplomatic warfare, which they exhi bited amidst the shook of battle and the clash of arms.-11Torning Post. At the meeting of the Canada Company, held yesterday, the receipts for the year were stated at £51,488, being £13,958 over those of 1858. Out of the available balance a dividend of £1 per share, free of income tax, was declared, leaving about £l,OOO to be carried forward. Mr. C. GILPIN, M.P.—We regret to learn that gentlemfm remains in rt. 1272ari011, :1 + A , Ire has re . . . _ . .u.,;wcv,;:, (it-rived little or no b.,nefit. The nature of.his disorder being such'a , to prevent his swallow ing more than the smallest possible quantity of nourish ment, his strength is of course Much reduced. His atten tion to business of any kind whatever is strictly forbidden by 4,51 r B. Brodie and his other medical adyiars. SPANISH HONES' TL _ Among the sundry acts of malice -im p uted to England on the occasion of the Spanieh exped ition uest ing payment against Morocco is that of having seized the oppor tunity to emb arrass th e Spanish Government by suddenly presentingent for the same. Such a pro an old half-forgot ten account, and req ceeding would, of course, admit of unp leasant 10- terptetations. Wh en an old friend wh o has been your creditor for a long while, and has said nothing about it, comes abruptly upon you with a demand for . a settlement just as you are in want of every sixpence you can raise for a Pressing and manifest _emergency, the proceeding undoubtedly.savours of hostility actly analogous when the parties concerned are or spite, and, though the case is not ex- States instead of individuals, we should be free to confess that if the facts were as they have been dene scribed the condu c t o f England woul d have be rather shabby. It happens, howevr, that the facts are otherwise, and that there is not the slightest foundation for the story so freely circulated. of Wthe e are in a position to place the whole truth case before the public, and, if the affair is not a very the lib era l . important one, yet right may as well be do ne us in small matt er s a s well as grea During the civil wars in Spain, when part of the nation was struggling for constitutional rights against the partisans of absolutism, the assis tance of England was contributed in various forms to the supporters of Queen Isabella. In particular we supplied them with the stores and munitions of war indispensable for the contest. 11Iuskets,bayonete, uniforms, and equipments of all kinds were de spatched from the arsenals of this country for the use of the Constitutionalists, and these supplieg aided very materially in securing the S p aniard s their freedom and the Queen her throne. As a matter of course, the. s tores in question, being public stores, were public property, and of this property- the British Government of the day had to render an account. There was no vote or resolution of the Legislature sanctioning a free gift of such supplies to Spain, nor can we suppose, indeed, that the Spaniards would have desired them on smell conditions. They were do" livered in the ordinary way at the ordinary and, though it was not a ready-money transaction, there was a perfect understanding on both sides that sooner or later the stores were to be paid fol.. Accordingly, when the account was made up, I t appeared that Spain was indebted to England in the lawful sum of £440,000 for goods delivered. These transactions took place in the year 183 4 1 P and in the very next year the Duke of IVellingtont in a true businesslike spirit, called the attention of the Spanish Government to the state of the theaccount At the same time he observed that it was not intention of the British Government to press for payment at a period when the embarrassments of the struggle were still felt, and the resources o os f the country therefore, that the settlement should s tand over for so imperfeCtly available. He proped, the time, but that the Spanish Gove rnme nt should fix, a period at which, with less inconvenience to the Treasury, the claim migkt be liquidated. T° these reasonable proposals the Spanish Minister, M. Martinez de la Rosa, replied, with a most ample acknowledgment of the obligation, though w ith a less definite response to the Duke's concludinrate, g suggestion ; but Count Toreno went , at any so far, in communicating with Mr. Villiers on the subject as to say that her Catholic Majesty w proceed to an arrangement as soon as circumstance° would permit ; and he further intimated that; though little could be della until the termin ation of the civil war, tho debt would then undou btedly be discharged in full. With these assurances,there foie, the British Government contented itself, 59,1 the Matter was allowed to rest on this footing tu the year 1840, when Mr. Aston, our Minister at ok' Madrid, was once more instructed to opqn the eal and to inquire whether the Spanish Government could yet see its way to that period of conve nien° which had been fixed for the liquidation of the debt. As this application produced no resul ts, he was de sired to take another step in the year following an d to express the hope entertained by the British Govern ment that the Spanish Ministers would be able to_ provide an instalment of £ lOO , OOO in the course of the year, and to authorise an announcement to that . effect in the House of Commons. To this request also, however, the reply was unsubstantial, for the Spanish Government simply promised to occupy' itself without delay in providing the means of com plying with Mr. Aston's desires. Such being the position of the affair, and the state of Spain being_ notoriously such as to furnish some explanation o f the case, the account was allowed to stand over. on It would have been neither dignifie d nor politic the part of England to press the demand year after_ year upon an impoverished excheq uer. Spain had acknowledged the debt, and had undertaken. at a convenient season, to discharge it. That a pp eared sufficient, and in that arrangement, therefore, We acquiesced until the finances of the Spanish nation had experienced a most material iniprovement• When, however that fortunate circumstance became known, and when the resources of the Spanish, Go vernment were matter of common boasting and gra tulation, we moved once more in the affair, and in November, 1858, Lord Malmesbury instructed Mr. Buchanan to bring our claims again under the no tice of Queen Isabella's Government. Once again, too, that Government acknowledged with alacritedy its liabilities and its obligations , and enter promptly upon a discussion of arrangements for liquidating the account. The foregoing statement, which may be received as authentic, will distinctly show that England is not chargeable with the petty act of spite which has been so volubly talkedabout. Our claim is a just claim, and admitted to be so by the Spaniards themselves. It was never pressed upon them in their times of difficulty ; it was always s us p ended to suit their convenience ; and, though it was re vived after a long i n t e rval by the late Foreign Se cretary, that proceeding was suggested only by thO improved circumstances of Spain, and w i a s , adopted, be it remarked, before the expear tion to Morocco had entered into anybodY! conception. The application for payment 101.1' been made and entertain ed, and the dis" cussion of the matter was pending at Madrid , br fore it was even so much as rumo ured that a Spanis' army would cross the Straits of Gibraltar on a caw paign against the Moors. We venture, in t° think that we deserve credit rathe r than censur, for our conduct in this affair, and that our proceed ings are characterised rather by extreme liberality than malicious rigour. We may further remarlc, for the information of the Spani sh people, that wes are really not jealous of their progress or dcsirou of their discomfiture. We do not think the wa r .was unavoidable, and, in the interests of humanity, we would fain see it terminated, but We acknow ledge that the Moors gave their Atagonists some p rov ocation, and we are by no means ce rtain th a t they offered sufficient amends. However, on s point we will add no more at present. Oar purpo in these remarks has been simply to show that th is report of our proceedings in the matter of the debt is utterly unfounded, and the proof, undeniably complete.—Times. we submit, THIS DAY'S SIIIP.PING. Lormorr, Dec. 30.—Wind this day at noon, Soun T Westerly; moderate breeze and sq uall y Iseatb.er, with rai at times. Or ELECTRIC TELEGRAM) SouTHA3IPTOII, Friday 3forning. Sailed—New York, steamer, for dflo—Vr . D H u avr bli e n ,.steamer, from Havre; At steamer, from Jersey. steamer, f o r N O W York*; Ondine, LIVERPOOL, Friday Dlorning. Wind, W.S.W., strong. r e N bb i) ; Wind, W. • tide, three (131 t SUBMARINE AND intrnsn VLEaDkru.) quarters' r A t v e Sailed—On ' tlands for B ay; P tis for INloul ,„oft ropou main. FwricadtaiierMfourizeii.ng_i. DEAr, Friday Morning• Wind, S.S.W. ; moderate. A nc h ore d—St. Helier, from New York ; Eerefordshiret from Bombay—both for London. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. READING STE Acceptances for the Berkshire three miles. 28 subs., 7 0 st lb Brunette Escape Mr. Sykes lO 12 Omar Pasha Hazard (late Chance) Lottery lO 0 Fanny The Premier Wee Willie 9 10 Glautias The Curate 9 10 Weights for the Erlei& I st lb Brunette Hazard Lottery Fanny Border Chief TATTERSALL' No betting. Egham Races will take pla, 3EPLECHASES. o Open Steeplechase. About t whom paid 2 sots. each Ft. lb 9 1 Tamworth ............ ! 9 iv Bor d er Chief ......... The Unprotected Feintae (late Mi s s Somerville) 9 Topsy ................ ..... 9 Physician ............. 9 • ROIS COMM OT) ......... 9 9 Broa d wa y Swell ...... A 4 H e ads or Tails ........ . 9 i; Pyrrhus the Secs 9 Corkscrew' ........... Stakes. Three miles. st lb 'Ci te Curate........... 910 H ea ds or Tail s ........ 9 6 Broadwa y Swell ..... 9 4 . Nicholas ............. 9 0 s-TirrESDIY. 4) on the 14th furl 15th of The Linzerick Rtporter announces that the Earl of hi lies withdrawn' the notices to gait their holdings which his lordship Catised obe served upon several of the tonants on the Coo n ey estate, in Tipperary, immediately efter the savage murder of 14r, crowe. 4.1