The Sun. — London, England, 1860-02-01 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfectioa of mechanism."•—Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas. Silver Watches 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Uader the. management of Miss L. Fyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, V ICTORINE. Messrs. Santley, n, Haigh, H. Cerri, G. Honey, walworth, Sze. Misses rarepa Thirlwall. Condactor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new gran d pantomime , ca lled PUSS IN BOOTS ; or, Harlequin and the airy of the Golden Palms. Messrs. 11r. 11. l'ayne, 11. Payne F , F. BarneS, 'fanjet'. Infanta Lauri, and Miss Clara Mor;o. Doors open at halt-past (I- Commence at in minutes to 7 IIEATRE-ItOYA L, Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE STRANGER. Mrs. Haller, by Miss Amy Sedg-wick. After which, the new Haymarket H Comic Christmasthe of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled Lecleicqs. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.— sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. Last Nights of the Spanish Dancer, Isabel Cubas. THIS EVENING, a new Drama, called A TALE OF TWO CITIES, by Tom Taylor, Esq., from the story of that name by Charles Dickens, Rsq. Principal characters by Mr. James Vining, Walter Lacy, Villiers, ttouse, Forrester, J. Johnstone, T. Lyon, Morton, Palmer, White, If. Butler, Clifford, and Fredericks ; Misses Kate Saville, Stuart, Turner, Mrs. Campbell, and Madame Celeste. Atter which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex travaganza and Pantomime, KING TIIRUSEIBEARD, the LITT 1,141 PET and the GI t EAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. 11. Marshall—Columbine, Miss Rosin°. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of Mille. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan sense of La Scala, Milan • and the Delapierre Famil y . These highly-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 TIIE GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle quin King Art'Aur and the Knights of the Round Table. Jack; Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin. Mr. Cormack - Panta _oon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. EW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL .11 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BenJ. Webster. Reproduction of TIIE DEAD HEART, with all its power ful effects. THIS EVENING, TIIE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, David Fisher, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Billing - Jon, Powell, Romer, 3fiss Woolgar, K. Kelly. After which THE NYMPHS OF THELURLEYBERG; or, The Knight and w the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford, Eburne, Smith, Poell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K. Kelly, Laidlaw. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Office opeu from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor far 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, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. . The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being op en to carriages and foot passen gers h.ll hours of the night. Last Week of the Pantomime. THIS EVEN' N( the performances will commence with A BORDER MARRIAGE. Messrs. IL T. Craven' Charles Young, G. Spencer, and Miss Wyndham. After which, a new Tragic Ballet, entitled MY NAME IS NORVAL. Support2d by C. Young, Barrett, Miss Lydia Thompsen, Clara St. Casse, &c. 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, 601; Pit, ls. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform awe commences at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Last Three Weeks of Mr. W. Cooke's Season. THIS EVENING, the Grand Illustration of Shakspeare's RICHARD TRH: THIRD, or The Death of White Surrey. Richard, Mr. Ennis; Richmond, Mr. R. Phillips, New Olym pian Scenes in the Circle by the first riders of the day—Mr W. Cooke's great Menuge Act —terminating with the Eques trian, Operatical, and Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY ; or, Old Towler thelluntsman and the God dess Diana ; Diana, with Songs, Miss Jacobs. —Costly and dazzling Transformation Scene. —Harlequin, M. Richarde ; Columbine, Mdlle. Mazoni ; Clown, M. Hilderbrandt ; Pan taloon, Mr. P. Abbot -A family of Sprites -Epsom Races by Living Jockies and real Ponies, with ring and Stage com bined. Commence at 7. Grand Morning Performances of the Pantomime on Satur Feb. 4 and Saturday, Feb. 11, at Two o'clock each day. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERT S.— EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY QUEEN. And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAH. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, 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 eights of the metropolis. ROSA BONI - IEIIIV 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. TRH WEATTIEII.—Sxm OFFICE, FEB. 1, 1860. THERMOMETP.R., IN THE SHADS. 45—highest since noon yesterday. 33—lowest this morning and during the night. 39—this day at noon. BAROWETER-29.78. WIND, North-Westerly ; light, with fine frosty weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 6h. 44m.—Afternoon, 7h. 3m. To-MORROW. -Morning, 7h. 26m.—Afternoon, 7h. 53m. • , p„ X • ki„ A r> 4 4 : ( 41 \ ' • - tft - k . '2l? • %. • - THE SUN. LONDON, - WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1, 1860. Nothing could well have come before the House of. Commons more apropos for the public interest than Mr. LINDSAY'S motion of last evening— nothing more decidedly mal apropos for those of Her MAJESTY'S Government. Can there be in any reasonable mind an instant's doubt of it ? Hardly, we should presume, if it be only borne in recollec tion what, at the present moment, is the very cen tral core of the policy of the existing administra tion. The heart-of-the-h e art of that policy admits of'being very readily laid bare, and will be recog nized, immediately it has been laid bare, to be perfectly characteristic. The Coalition, it will be long remembered, worked its way to power by a dodge the Whig dodge of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S reso lutions. It is now bent upon retaining its position in that " coign of 'vantage"—Office, by another dodge—a dodge quite equal in its clever ness to its notable predecessor, which we have but just now particularised. Upon the success of this new dodge, moreover, it is curious for a few seconds to conjecture how very much may really be depen dant.From it, almost all the vital questions of the hour may, be said to radiate. The design then is simply and quite obviously this—to get the House of Com mons (if possible) to commit itself precipitately to the twin schemes of the Commercial Treaty and the Financial Statement. It is to this end that the Terms of the Treaty are withheld, as long as may be in any way practicable, up to the very eleventh hour and three-quarters, from the knowledge of the members of the Lower Branch of the Legis ture. The terms of the treaty, in fact, are to be carefully reserved until they can be explained simultaneously with the plan of the Budget for 1860. On Monday evening next—and not until then—the Treaty and the Budget are to be brought together under the consideration of the Commons Rouse of Parliament. Recollect for a moment that t the C ommerc i a l T rea t y w ith F r ance was acits approval signed—conditionally, of course, upon by Parliament but with that condition attached to it, it was actually signed at P ar i s t h e day before the commencement of the present session of the Legislature. Yet no body out of the sacred circle of the Sixteen, with a t ge its immediate and confid ent i al entour ei.brac lug within it such an alt er ego of tleC — b net as l the hon. member for Rochd a l e , w h o has been the w hil e , f o r that matter, in th e m i dst of the a dip lomatic mysteries at the Court of th e Tuileries in his new capacity as England's Mercantile Plenipotentiary—no one out of the awful ranks of the initiated, has yet been vouchsafed a glimpse of the Treaty itse:ft signed though that Treaty was upon the day immediately preceding the inauguration of the pres( int session of Parl i ament. It cannot in the least, th,, , refore, be deemed in any way matter for surp r i sq that one of the most outspoken of the free ---------------=_....7___ _ and independent Liberals within the walls of the Legislature, to wit the hon. member for Finsbury, should rise last evening in the House of Commons and put one or two pointed questions (in regard to this signed but still invisible Treaty) to the occu pants of the Treasury Bench. The reply given \ thereupon by Mr. MILNEX GIBSON—as evasive a reply as ever fell from the lips of a Cabinet Minis ter—revealed the wily project we have alluded to as the core of the policy at the present moment of the Coalition Government: The Presi dent of the Board of Trade, in replying to Mr. ' D 'UNCOMBE'S perfectly legitimate and very reason. able inquiries, said, in the first place, what we knew quite well enough already, namely, that the treaty would, of course, be subject to the approval of Parliament —adding, however, secondly, " but, as regarded its details, he must beg the hon. gen tleman to wait till Monday, when his right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer would lay the whole of his financial measures before the house." It need hardly be said that the simpler and more honest and straightforward course would have been to have had the Treaty itself, without one word of comment in the way of deprecation or extenua tion, of excuse or explanation, frankly printed off and plaeed in the hands of the popular representatives. This might have been done several days back. It might still have been done before the close of the present week, so that hon. members might have gone down to the house on Monday to listen to Mr. GLADSTONE'S Financial Statement, prepared to view the plan of the forthcoming Budget by the light afforded by the terms of the recent Treaty. Such a simple and manly and honourable arrangement as this, however, would not answer the purpose of the dodging Coalition. And so they hit upon the exceedingly ingenious, but certainly not very in genuous, plan of taking the House at an obvious disadvantage—by bringing the Budget and the Treaty before the consideration of Parliament simultaneously—bent, as we have said, upon com mitting the Commons (if possible) precipitately to both the Commercial Treaty and the Financial Statement. Otherwise—Why not, in the natural and rational course, have placed the treaty upon the table of the House long before, at any rate in ample time before Mr. GLADSTONE would have the opportunity of indulging the Commons with his Financial Statement ? Under these very peeulisr circumstances we can• not but consider Mr. LINDSAY'S motion of yester- day as most timely for the public interest—though untimely enough (if only as a reminder) in regard to the especial interests of the Administration. For to what really and truly does that motion point as with a rigid dexter-finger ? To what but the already recognized damning blot of the Commercial Treaty—damning at least, if not entirely and com pletely obliterated. Mr. LINDSAY'S motion itself, of course, was " for a select committee to inquire into the operation of the burdens and restrictions especially affecting merchant shipping, and of the following statutes :-9th and 10th Vic., c. 93, an act for compensating the families of persons killed by accidents ; the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854 ; the Merchant Shipping Amendment Act, 1855; the Passenger Act, 1855; and the Chinese Passen ger Act, 1855." A committee of inquiry was ap pointed to this end last March, but its labours were summarily closed by the dissolution of Parliament. The hon. member only asked therefore for the recom mencement of an interrupted enterprise. But that enterprise ! What it was and is avowedly designed to show Mr. LINDSAY thus defines, " that one of the great causes of the present depressed condition of the British merchant shipping interest was, that other nations did not reciprocate the advan tages which this country conferred upon them, when, ten years ago, the British Legslature, by an alteration in the Navigation Laws, remoTed all restrictive duties upon articles brought into English ports in foreign ships." Mr. LINDSAY ar gues that "he might mention the ease of France, for instance, as showing that while the shipping of that empire was admitted into English ports in the same free manner as English ships were, the shipping of England was not only not met by France in the same spirit of reciprocity, but was subjected to heavy duties by that nation." Without entering here more into detail in regard to this argument, as it affects the interests of British shipping--a proceeding, by the way, somewhat superfluous at the present moment, seeing that the motion was agreed to, and that consequently the select com mittee will forthwith be duly appointed—we may, at any rate, "point the moral and adorn the tale" of Mr.LINDSAY'S statement in respect to the wrongs and sufferings of the British mercantile marine, by pronouncing the whole gist and the whole gra vamen of that argument to constitute a timely warning to the House of Commons, now upon the eve of taking into account simultaneously the Com mercial Treaty with France and Mr. GLADSTONE'S Financial Statement. Let the holders of the na tional purse-strings and the guardians of the national honour Beware, not of the Ides of March, I but of the sixth of February ! Surely the end of the world, and of Dr. CITIZEN, is at hand. The Univers is gone at least. What can survive it ? Anyhow the temporal Papacy, and, according to Irish Catholics, the eternals of the Papacy, too, must go with it ! We almost begin to believe in another Doctor of Divinity, near us here in London—the FRANCIS MooRE of prophecy —even the Rev. Dr. CUMMING—who prophecies, we know not what woes to Rome, and to Turkey, too, in 1867, we think it is ; but dates are hard to remember ; above all, the dates of things yet to come. Be this as it may, this year of grace 1860 has already so overshot the Irish Doctor, and mad. such a start in the line of the London Scotch Doc tor's predictions, that we almost begin to look at the latter as we do when " rain" is set down in the weather almanacks, and we see the cloudsbeginning to gather. We believe what we see, if we do not quite believe it was foreseen. We laugh at the guess, an d look at the barometer and for our umbrellas. And in this attitude we now are all gazing at the Franco-Italian sky. It has been long filled with heavily-charged electric clouds. Every now and then a flash and a rumble —now the forked lightning of Rome, now the negative flash of France, something must crash or blaze soon—and at last the crash comes. The New Year's Day of 1860 was the beginning of the end. The wrath of Rome at the anonymous Imperial pamphlet, the cool letter of his MAJESTY, were the first striking manifestations of what must result from the con flict of angry impotence with calm self-possessed power. Then followed the subordinate episcopal displays in France itself, but the bishops found themselves in the grasp of a strong hand. This resort failing, the encyclical letter of His Holiness appears, and all is up ! Europe at large is told by the POPE that the Emperor of the FRENCH stands c on d emne d b e f ore th e J u dgment seat of CHRIST, and that the Holy Father has, for his soul's health, warned his wicked son that he is in dan ger of eternal perdition ! Not very polite this to publish the Father Confessor's warnings to the world. If he does tell us we deserve damnation, it UN, LONDON, - WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRVARY 1, 1860. quite pleasant that all the world should look upon us as delivered to SATAN• The EMPEROR, however, has his turn—he can sentence to temporal perdition, at least—so the Univers—the Univers which exulted in the laws by which it is put down, when they were turned only against Protestant and liberal journals—the Uni vers, which bearded the EMPEROR at the close of the Italian war, and contributed towards compel- Tl'. is not ling him to finish it—the Univers, which thought itself a fair match for the EMPEROR—the Univers is warned and warned again, and at last ex- tiuguished! As Englishmen we, of course, should like the Univers and any paper in Paris to write and publish what opinions it pleased—but there is one old text which commends itself to every judgment by its own weight, as well as by that of him who gave it. " With what measure ye mete withal it shall be measured unto you." And this is the judgment which the Univers has received. It is too equitable not to be approved in England. All free or none free, is the only rule we can tole- rate here or abroad. What follows must be awful, indeed, at Rome and in Ireland. The leading Paris journals all seem as if the blow which had knocked down the Univers had struck off their fetters. Above all, the Constitutionnel argues out the whole case with the most unflinching audacity—an audacity bor rowed, of course, from Imperial inspiration. And the EMPEROR is right,—politically right we mean—not supposing that EMPERORS can care for any other right. He has appealed to a principle no one can impugn, and to traditions of which France has reason to be proud. It is notorious matter of history that the Gallican Church has always been proud of its liberties. Frenchmen would be good Catholics, but not slaves, to a pope who transcended his spiritual jurisdiction. The Catholic principle that his jurisdiction is purely spiritual no intelligent Catholic could deny ; the fact that France had in her best days always de nied any other, is equally incontrovertible. In this great controversy, therefore, the EMPE ROE has all whom he wants on his side. The army, for they are angry that the POPE and the clergy cheated them of the glory of finishing the Italian war according to its original programme. The people, for they love their traditional ecclesiastical liberties more than they do the rabid Ultramontanists of the day. The Italians—they of course are ready to worship him for holding off from them the brutal hands of Austria, and of the murderers of Perugia, while they are consolidating their liberties. The intelligence of England and of all Europe, for the absurdity of the Pope's temporal rule is the laughing-stock or the hatred of all lovers of freedom. Napoleon has, besides, 60,000 men in Italy to bid all would-be interveners keep their dis tance—and now he has plainly told the POPE that no one shall hurt him if he keeps quiet at Rome, but that all his subjects outside its walls may choose a better master as soon as they please ! This is clearly the meaning of the last clause of the Imperial article in the Constitutionnel, which our readers will find in another column. We can only say, the sooner the better. Rome is too much to be sacrificed to the temporal despotism of a spiritual power ; and the first step will probably soon be, that Rome will acknowledge in the POPE its Bishop only. THE NEW COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS. (FROM A CORRESPONDRNT.) Mr. William Cowper, now \gee-President of the Board of Trade, is to be appointed First Commis sioner of Public Works. The place has been kept open for hive for nearly two months. It will be recollected that Mr. Cowper was appointed to his present office in Augast last, and his election consequent upon his taking that office did not take place till after Parliament closed. Mr. Cowper took his seat on Tuesday, the 24th ult., the day that Parliament assembled ; but as the electors of Hertford have the power of petitioning against the last return, and that power exists for 14 days after the opening of Parliament, no new writ can be moved for the borough of Hertford before Tuesday, the 7th of February ; and in case a petition should be pre sented, the writ must be postponed till after the petition has been disposed of. It is probable that no such step may be taken, and in that case the electors of Hertford will receive the writ on Wed nesday, the Bth of February. Mr. Cowper, who is nephew of the late Lord Melbourne, a former Premier, and stepson to the present Premier, was born in 1811, and became a Cornet, and soon afterwards a Lieutenant, in , the Blues or Royal Horse Guards. Ho has had the good fortune to fill the following offices :- 1. Aide-de-Camp to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1832. He soon after left his regiment. 2. Private secretary to Lord Melbourne, 1835. 3. A Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital, 1839. 4. A Lord of the Treasury from 1841 till Sir R. Peel's accession to office. 5. A Lord of the Admiralty after Sir R. Peel's resignation in 1846 to Lord Derby's first Ministry in March, 1852. 6. Gazetted a major in the army, 1852. 7. Re-appointed a Lord of the Admiralty, De cember, 1852, which he held till February, 1855. B.4uUnder-Secretary, Home Department, Feb ruary, 1855, to August, 1855. 9. President of the Board of Health from August, 1855, to February, 1857. • 10. A Privy Councillor, 1856. 11. Vice-President of the Council of Education from February, 1857, till Lord Palmerston's resig nation, February, 1858. 12. Vice-President of the Board of Trade, August, 1859. 13. To be First Commissioner of Works, Feb ruary, 1860. The above is a wonderful list of appointments for any one man to hold, however endowed he may be by Providence with varied and super-eminent talents, or favoured by connection. The Duke of Argyll arrived in town, yesterday, from Windsor Castle. The Duchess of Sutherland returns to Stafford House to-day, from visiting her Majesty at Windsor Cagle. ITis Excellency Admiral von Dockum, Danish Minister at this Court, has returned to London from Copenhagen. The Duke of Newcastle arrived in town yester day, from Windsor, to attend the Cabinet. His grace afteip wards returned to the Castle. _ _ TY µ T Their Royal Highneises the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary are expected to honour the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, at Badminton, early in the ensuing week. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury and family come to town to-morrow, for the season, from Hat field House, Hort& LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, TUESDAY. The Pays of this evening says, " Numerous de putations from Savoy, composed of persons of high standing, arrive daily in Paris. The demonstration in Chambery on Sunday last was of no importance." MADRID, JAN. 30. The steamer Madrid has been run into by the steamer Seine. Great damage was caused by the accident, but no lives were lost. Latest intelligence received from the seat of war announces that the fortification of the Spanish en campment before Tetuan continued. AMERICA. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office : QUEENSTOWN, WEDNESDAY. The Canadian mail steamer Hungarian, Captain Jones, which left Portland, Maine, on Jan. 21, arrived here at 5 a.m., landed the English and Scotch mails, and proceeded on to Liverpool. The Circassian, from Galway, arrived at New foundland on the 20th inst. The Anglo-Saxon, from Liverpool, reached Port [and on the 19th inst. The Hungarian brings intelligence from New York to the 20th inst. The non-election of a Speaker was operating uB - on business. The Viceroy of Egypt had made a largo contract for Sharpe's rifles. Mexican advioes are to the 12th inst. It was rumoured that General Janon had pouted himself at Attenique with 6,000 men, and intended to dispute the passage of Miramon. At New York on the 20th the cotton market was active, and prices advanced Sales 8,000 bales. Middling uplands quoted 111. Breadstuffs were generally lower. Provisions and freights un changed. The stock market closed heavy at lower prices. Money easy ; exchange dull. ORLEANS, lAN. 20. Sales of cotton to-day amount to 15,000 bales, at an advance of ke. Middling lle. to 111 c. Sales of the week 95,000 bales. Receipts during the same period 67,000, and export 61,000 bales. Re ceipts here, 251,000 bales ahead of last year. Re ceipts at all the Southern ports, 405,000 bales ahead of last year. Sugar has declined to ;c Exchange 71 to 8 9-16ths. MOBILE, JAN. 19. Cotton market buoyant. Sales to-cay 1,100 bales at an advance of lc. Business and freights at Havana dull. Sugar crops as largo as last year. Exchange in London 14} to 15 premium. THE WEST INDIA, MEXICAN, AND PACIFIC MAILS. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tasmanian, Captain Jellicoe, arrived at Southampton yesterday evening with the abovenamed mails, in charge of Lieutenant Scriven, R.N., Admiralty Agent. Her dates were : Tampico .. .. Jan. 3 Vera Cruz .. 4 Havannah 10 Puerto Cabello .. 6 Santa Martha .. Greytown (Mos quito) .. Carthagena 11 Colon .. 8 Kingston (Jamaico) 11 Jacmel (Hayti) 12 San Juan (Porte Rico) Berbice 9 Georgetown (Deme rara) .. Tobago • • "-'" Port of Spain (Trini dad) Jan. 9 Bridgetown (Bards does) 11 Grenada _ 10 St. Vincent's . • 10 St. Lucia 12 Martinique 12 Guadaloupo • • 13 Dominique 12 Antigua 13 Montserrat 13 Nevis 13 St. Kitt's 13 Tortola 14 St. Thomas's .. 18 • • ."' • • - 9 .. . • • • - 8 Valparaiso (Chili) Dec. 16 } Lima (Peru) .. Dec. 27 Cobija (Bolivia) .. 20 I Payta (ditto) 30 Arica (Peru) .. —2l Guayaquil (Elena- Islay (ditto) —22 dor) .. Jan. 1 Callao (ditto) 27 Panama (N.Granada) The Tasmanian brings 67 passengers. The freight on board comprises specie to the amount of 742,185 dollars, of which 549,845 dollars value are in silver, and 192,840 in gold. Also, pearls value i 3,130, plata pina value £1,546, precious stones, &c., value, £6OO ; and cargo comprising 154 serons of cochineal, 673 serons of indigo, 28 serons of jalap, 160 cases of cigars, 171 bales of tobacco, 6 cases of arrow-root, 84 bales of sarsaparilla, 5 packages of vanilla, 9 cases of bark, 13 cases of succades, 30 boxes of limes, 154 bags of cocoa, and 91 packages sundries. St. Thomas's was generally healthy. A few cases of yellow fever of a mild character had lately shown themselves among the shipping, but the disease was rapidly declining. Her Majesty's ships Gorgon and Racer were at Greytown ; also the United States' steamer Sabine. The St. Louis sailed for the Colorado River on the 2d of January. Her Majesty's ship Cossack, and the schooner Kingston, and 'the . United States' ship Prebble, were at Carthagena; her Majesty's ship Imaum at Jamaica. Jamaica advices are to the 10th. The legislative session closed on the 30th of December, all subjects of dispute with the Executive having been ami cably settled. In consequence of the unsatisfactory manner in which the Assembly disposed of the question of transferring the control of the Post-office Depart ment from the Imperial to the Local Government, the Governor anticipates the necessity of summon ing the Legislature at an earlier period than usual. The Legislature was prorogued to Feb. 2. The special commission for the trial of the Falmouth rioters had terminated. Several of the rioters were convicted, and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. The weather had been dry. Reports of the crop were generally favourable, and business was rallying. At Demerara the Court of Policy had passed an ordinance to transfer the management of the Post office from the Imperial to the Colonial Govern ment. A Bill to raise a loan to defray the cost of Chinese emigration had also been introduced. The ship Sir George Seymour had arrived with 298 Coolies from Calcutta, and was followed by the Canning, with 350. The Tres Amigos had arrived from Madeira with 40 Portuguese emigrants. The weather had been very wet during the fortnight, and several estates in Essequibo had been inun dated. The rains had also been unusually heavy in Berbice ; they had put a stop to manufacturing operations, and a continuance would seriously in jure the forward canes. The markets at Demerara had been very dull ii consequence of the holidays. Breadstuffs in large supply. Some considerable exports of flour had been made, which tended to keep prices from de clining. Governor Hincks opened the Barbadoes Assem bly on Dec. 28, in a brief speech, which contained nothing of importance. The Legislature was to meet on the 11th, when addresses would be adopted in reply to the speech. Business was improving in all departments, and active preparations were being made for crop operations. Business at St. Thomas's had slightly improved, but was still rather dull. ProviSions in slightly better request in consequence of stocks of American imports being reduced. A letter from San Domingo of the 23d of Decem ber announces the return of the English and French Consuls to that place. The Dominicans having acceded to all demands made upon them relative to the matter of the paper money issued by the late President Baez, the offensive conduct of the Go vernment regarding which compelled the Consuls to withdraw from the city in May last, the flags of Great Britain and France were saluted on the 3d of December by 42 guns as a satisfaction for the acts previously committed, and the salute was returned by 21 guns each from the Cossack and the Mercure. The Consuls afterwards landed and rohoisted their flags. The Spanish Consul subsequently arrived, and the claims of the Spanish Government are placed on the same footing as those of France and Great Britain. From Valparaiso the news is unimportant, and very little change to report in the business of the fortnight. Buyers from the Argentine Republics had completed their purchases, and business wa s generally dull, exchange at Callao falling 18 per cent. on United States, 42d. on England. The steamer Guatemala, from the Central Ame rican coast, arrived at Panama on the 7th. Among her passengers were Sir William Gore Ousoley, lady, and daughter, en route to Havannah, and ex- President Mora, of Costa Rica, who was not per mitted to land at Punta Arenas. The various republics were quiet. A severe earthquake did a great deal of damage in the State of Salvador on the Bth of December. No lives were lost. The indigo crop this year will average 10,000 serous, in price from 8 to 16 seals per lb , according to quality, There was considerable animation in The Marquis of Clanricarde has left town Portumna Castle, county Galway. The Earl and Countess Stanhopo came to town to-day from Chevening Park, Kent. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the Fi rs t L or d of the Treasury in Downing-street. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Commall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of New castle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, fir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Elgin. the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right llon. E. Cardwell. DEATH OF SIR JOHN WYLDE, LL.B.—The mail which has just reached England from South Africa has brought us the intelligence of the death of Sir John Wylde, for many years th e able and upright Chief Justice of the Cape of Good Hope, which happened a f days before Christmas last, in th 80th yof his ag ew e. John Wylde was the elder brother of the late Lord Truro, THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY COMPANY AND ITS EmrLoyEs. --- The whole of the ernploye's of the Brighton Railway Company have each been recently presented with an extra week's wages by way of a Christmas or New Year's gift, INDIA AND AUSTRALIA. The following telegram has been received : BOMBAY, Jan. 10.—Market dull. Shirtings, 811 b., sr. 12A. ; 40 mule twist, Br. 9a. to 9r. 2e. Exchange •n London, 2s. lid. Money tighter. Cotton, 123 r. to 127 r. per candy. Malwa opium, 1,430 r. per chest. Discount 7 per cent. Copper sheathing, 70r. per cyst. ; file, 64r. per cwt. CALCUTTA. —Exchange on London unaltered. In freights an important rise has taken place ; to Liverpool, 325. to 355.; to London, 355. to 40s. MELBOURNE, Dec. 19.—Evchange, par for 60 days. Wool and tallow, large supplies, prices de clining. Rice and hides , no demand. ' SYDNEY, Dec. 18.—Government Debentures slightly declined ; bank draughts, par. Wool, tal low, and hides, less demand. FRANCE. "PARIS, TUESDAY. His Majesty yesterday received letters from the King of Holland in. answer to those recalling Baron d'Audre, late French Ambassador at the Hague. The Emperor, on the occasion of the death of the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden, has gone into mourning for three weeks, the first 10 days full, and the remainder of the time half mourning. A General commanding one of the divisions of the army of this department is said to have re ceived orders last week to prepare to move with his troops for Italy. The order was countermanded the following day. Military officers are to be attached to the French Embassies accredited to the Courts of England, Austria, Prussia, and Russia. Lieutenant-Colonel Colson, of the Staff Corps, goes to St. Petersburg; Chef d'Escadron (Staff) d'Audelau to Vienna ; the Prince de Bauffrement, Chef d'Escadron, 6th Hus sars, to Berlin ; and Chef d'Escadron d'Audigne to London. There is a rumour of the re-establishment of the camp at Chalons. Account; from Conquet, in Brittany, state that on Thursday morning last a pilot of that place met a pinnace with 10 Englishmen, who landed the same afternoon at Conquet. These seamen foamed part of the crew of the English ship Dinaport, of 790 tons, which sailed from Cardiff on the 14th of January with a cargo of coal, for Aden. According o the declaration of the chief mate, the ship was lost at midnight on the rocks ealled the Pierres Noires. The captain, his wife, the doctor, servant, and 20 seamen were still at sea in the long-boat. A letter from Brest of the 27th inst. states that that morning a passage-boat, having a crew of two men and twenty-six passengers, all seamen from the ship of the line Algesiras, who had received per mission to go ashore, foundered in the harbour. Thanks to the expedition with which the ships of war in the harbour sent out boats, the owner of the passage-boat and fifteen seamen were saved. The crew of the boat and eleven seamen were drowned. THE BOURSE, Jan. 31.—A telegram announcing that the rate of discount had been raised to-day one per cent. by the Bank of England • find the proba bility of the Bank of France following to-morrow that example, has had a further depressing influ ence upon the market. Threes went down to 67f. 25c., but are now at 67f. 40c.; Mobilier varied from 725 f. to 736 f. 25c. ; Austrians 515 f. to 507 f. 50c. ; Lombard, 538 f. 75c. to 542 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 875 f. to 880 f. ; Orleans, 1,337 f. 50c. to 1,342 f. 50c. ; Southern, 592 f. 50c. to 597 f. 50c. The following were the last quotations:— ft per Cents. 96 75 Credit Fonder 740 Do. end month .. Belgian 4f 3 per Cents 67 60 Piedmontose (5) .. 81 50 Do. end month 67 50 Roman 77 Bank Shares. 282.5 Austrian Cr6dit Mollifier .. 738 75 Spanish Threes Do. Account ....• 735 Home Debt 42a - RA ILWAY 8 . - . Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 9OO .. 900 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean BBO .. 883 75 Geneva • 500 .. -- Southern Western 572 50 .. 575 .-- - Eastern 627 50 .. 630 Sardiniau 390 .. 390 Austrian Lombard .. ..... Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. sc. ; money, 25f. 4e.; three months, paper, 241. 97}c.; money, 24f. 95e. The Tuscan Monitore publishes a decree of the Tuscan Government, dated the 25th, opening a loan to the amount of 30,000,000 f. under the gua rantee of the Sardinian Government. The loan is to be effected by inscribing 1,500,000 f. of rente on the Book of the Public Debt of Tuscany, and issu ing bonds payable to bearer, or else nominative ones to that amount, from the Ist of February of the present year. .On the same day the Govern ment of the 'Emil= provinces concluded a 5 per cent. loan for 10 millions of francs, also guaranteed by Sardinia, with the firms of G. Belin-Zaghi of Milan, R. Rizzoli and Co. of Bologna, and D. P. Adami of Leghorn, at 80f. The Milan Gazette states that an affray broke out at Ancona a few days ago between the Papal Chasseurs and Artillerymen on one side, and the Swiss and Gendarmes on the other. Three hundred of the former are stated to be under arrest, about 40 of whom are wounded. THE PENINSULAR MAILS, SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, The steamer Nepaul, Capt. Vincent, has arrived with the Peninsular mails. She left Lisbon January 27th, and Vigo the 28th. Had no communication with Oporto. She brings 19 passengers, £3,864 in specie, 259 chests of oranges, 326 boxes of eggs, 40 casks of wine, 200 hides, 80 bags of orchella, and sundries. Her Majesty's ships Brunswick and Neptune, the Dutch frigate Vestiene, and the usual Portuguese squadron were in the Tagus. Parliament was convened at Lisbon on the 26th. The Nepaul experienced moderate weather to Vigo, afterwards heavy north-west gale, with a high mountainous sea. INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCIIITECTS.—Th e second meeting of the officers and promoters of the Insti tution of Naval Architects was held at the Society of Arts on Monday evening. (by the kind permission of the Coun cil), arid was attended by Dr. Woolley, J. Scott Russell, Esq., and J. Penn, Esq., Vice-Presidents ; Messrs. Chat field, Fincharn, Grantham, Maudslay, Robinson, Samude, Thornton, and Turner, Members of Council; Messrs. Bar naby, Barnes, and Crossland, Members; and Mr. E. J Reed, the Secretary. The reports of the Business Commit tees were received and adopted, together with bye-laws and regulations for the government of the institution. The rules provide for the payment of an annual subscription of two guineas by each member and associate, or, in place of an annual subscription, a single payment of not less than 30 guineas. They' also require that every candidate for "membership" shall submit to the Council a set of drawings and calculations of a ship. No such requirement will be enforced in the case of associates. It was decided on Mon day evening that the reading of papers should commence about the Ist of March. The thanks of the meeting—which was vory cordially conducted—were voted to the Society of Arta for their kindness in accommodating the new institu tion. The Supreme Court of Ohio had decided a case brought up from Hocking county, in which the question of right of children of negroes to be admitted into the common schools of the State was decided. The decision of the Court was, that the children of negroes have not that right. the produce-market, especially with regard to bal- POLICE INTELLIGENCE—( THIS DAY. sams, vanilla, coffee, sugars, syrup, hides, and wood. Strong N.E. winds prevailed to the westward of St. Thomas's for several days previous to the 18th, which retarded the arrival of the steamers from the Jamaica Gulf and Colon routes. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A RUFFIAN'S REVENGE.—Patrick Costello, a thick-set powerful-looking costermonger, was charged as follows From the evidence of Norwood, 130 C, it appeared that he had charged the prisoner at this court on the previous day with causing an obstruction on the footway, and that last evening, about 20 minutes past eight, while on duty in a rather dark spot near Soho-square, the prisoner came be hind him, knocked him down, and while he (the constable) was lying on the ground, kicked him several times very severely on the head and back, causing him great suffering. Appleby, E 47, said, hearing a disturbance, he went to the other constable's assistance and saw the prisoner strug gling with tho last witness. Ile also saw the prisoner kick him on the head and back, and. while he (Appleby) was assisting in taking him to the station, he kicked him twice in a brutal way on the leg, and said " when he came out of prison he'd break his - head." In answer to Mr. Beadon, prisoner said ho had had a drop of drink. Mr. Boadon said he should commit him for a month for each assault, and if he came before Iffin again would send him for trial. AN UNFORTUNATE PROSECUTOR.---Emma Johnson was charged with stealing from the shop of Mr. Frederick Ensoll, draper, of Borwick-street, Soho, a piece of printed cotton. At Greytown trade was nearly ruined, and many of the inhabitunts were about to leave. The water on the bar had deepened to 16 feet, but the en trance was very narrow. Vanderbilt's agent seemed sanguine as to re-opening the Nicarguan route to the Pacific. The ships in the roads were rolling gunwales under, and their crews complained sadly, provisions being very bad and dear. Aspinwall was thriving rapidly. There wore between 20 and 30 ships discharging ; and the steamers from New York were loaded with pas sengers. Vanderbilt's ships and those of the new company (late Collins's) are running against each other, and booking passengers, second class, through from New York to San Francisco, for 50 dols., railroad and provisions included. The inhabitanis of Carthagena had just banished the intendente and some other officials, and sent them in a schooner to Colon. It is supposed that this act wilt induce the Federal Government at Bogota to 'send troops against them, and will cer tainly delay the opening of this port and that of Santa Martha. Strong gales from N.E. had pre vailed during the fortnight. St. Thomas and the shipping were healthy. It was reported that over 25,000 Africans had been landed in Cuba during the past 12 months. The prosecutor in this case is peculiarly unfortunate, having only the previous day charged a woman named Seymour with stealing a piece of cotton print under exactly similar circumstances, from his shop, and he stated that he had lost four pieces besides these. The prosecutor said the prisoner came in and made a trifling purchase, and after leaving he missed some of hie property, ahout Ss. value. He followed her, and under her shawl found the piece of cotton print produced-19 yards. He taxed her with it, but she said it was not his. How ever, on looking at it he found his private mark on it. It was taken from a shelf in the shop. The prisoner, who has been at this court before, was, pleading guilty, committed by Mr. Beadon for three months, with hard labour. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) HOUSE OF LORDS. :Peers present—Tho Lord Chancellor, Lord Cranworth, Lord Chelmsford, and other Peers.) APPEAL.-COMMERCIAL BANK OF SCOTLAND V. lIIIIND. Mr. Anderson, Q.C., was heard for the appellants. The respondent by his summons claimed £66 Bs. 10d. as the balance due to him on a cash current account between the parties, besides interest. The appellants pleaded that they only received one sum of AO from the respondent in June, 1855, and that tho entry of 6th June, 1855, is a duplicate entry of that in the pass book of the sth of June, 1855, and that it was made by mis take. And the appellants contended that they were entitled to a proof of their averments by parol evidence. Tho respondent replied that the entries in the pass-book could not be cut down, except iy writ or oath of the appellants. The Second Division of the COurt of Session in Scotland decided in favour of the respondent, and against this deci sion the appellants appealed. Mr. Rolt, Q.C., is now being heard for the respondent. SECONDARIES' COURT. (13 - eforQ Mr. Potter and a Jury.) ILLNESS OF JURYMEN. Upon the list . being called three jurymen sent excuses. One had an attack of paralysis and was bedridden. A second had had a slight attack of paralysis. The learned Secondary—Does he attend Ipo business ? Messenger—Very little. Perhaps half an hour a day. The learned Secondary—He will be excused for the pre sent, but his name will not be taken off the list yet. In the third case, the person summoned had met with a severe accident, and a doctor's certificate handed in. The learned Secondary said he would be excused for a few days. A jurymen was excused attending, he being above three score. BLECTION INTELLIGENCE. PONTEFRACT. THAMES. Antocrots OUTRACM—Thos. Gibson, described as an agent, of No. 7, Exmouth-street, Commercial-road East, was brought before Mr. Yardley on a charge of violently assaulting and injuring a poor boy named Maurice Trotter, aged 13 years. It appeared from the evidence of the boy, which was con firmed by several witnesses, that tho prisoner was turned out of a publichouse for being drunk and disorderly therein, and his conduct outside attracted the notice of the bystanders, who were laughing at him. The complainant, who was among the spectators, said to another boy, "Here is a drunken man turned out of a publichouse," on which the prisoner, who uttered an eath, raised his foot and kicked the boy most violently on the lower part of his person. The boy fell and fainted away ; he was very seriously injured, and had been moaning and in great pain all night. Tho prisoner said he was intoxicated, and that he was very sorry for what he had done. Mr. Yardley said the prisoner was a great brute, and had committed a most atrocious assault on the boy ; nothing , could be more dangerous than to kick a boy as the prisoner had done. Drunkenness was no excuse but an aggravation of the offence. There was a law which extended its pro tection over women and children, and was designed to pro. tect them against such ruffians as the prisoner. He should put that law in force by sentencing the prisoner to be ha prisoned in the House of Correction and kept to hard labour. Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, of Arbour-street, East Stepney, afterwards made an earnest application to the magistrate to remit the sentence of imprisonment and hard labour, and substitute the imposition of a tine, or allow compensation tobe made to the injured boy. He made this application on behalf of the wife and three infant children of the prisoner, who would be ruined if he was sent to prison. • Mr. Yardley said he could net entertain the application. A savage assault had been committed, and if he had erred at all, it had been on the side of mercy. He would not alter the sentence. If he did children would be at the mercy of every rail:lan in the streets. The prisoner was sent away in the police-van to undergo his sentence, and will have to work on the treadwheel of pick oakum. His friends and connections were said to 1;41 highly respectable. The election for the borough of Pontefract, caused by Mr. Overend, Q.C., having accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, terminated yesterday in the return of H. C. E. Childers, the Liberal candidate by a ma• jority of 63 over Mr. Samuel Waterhouse, his Con• servatiye opponent. The numbers at the close of the poll were : Childers Waterhouse The contest was carried on with great spirit 0a both sides, and excited much interest among a ll ' lO classes of the inhabitants. 0-/ SCARBOROUGH: . . • The nomination of candidates for this borough, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the elevation of the Hon. W. H. F. Denison to the peerage, on the - death of his father, Lord Londesborough, took place yesterday, at the Town-hall. The Mayor acted as the returning officer. Mr. WHELDox proposed Lieut.-Colonel Caulfield, and Mr. A. H. DARBY seconded the nomination. Mr. J. D. Dent, of Ribston Park, who represented Scarborough previous to the last general electio*, • was nominated by Mr. ROWNTREE and seconded by Dr. CROSS. Lieut.-Colonel CAULFIELD, in addressing the eleo• , tors, explained his political sentiments. He denied that he was a Roman Catholic, and said he was - the friend of religious and civil liberty. He wee a supporter of the ballot, and desired an extension of the suffrage. Mr. DENT, after alluding to various political topics, said he siould support Lord Palmerston, as - he had done before, when ho was right, and oppose him when he was wrong. The show of hands was in favour of Mr. Dent, and a poll was demanded on behalf of Lieut.-Col. Caulfield. The polling was to take place this day. GOODS OR SAMPLES.-BARER V. FOREMAN. Plaintiff is proprietor of a certain patent for impervious atone, and defendant is a builder, of Red-bill. The action was brought to recover a sum of money for goods sold and delivered. The defence was that defendant was about to take up an agency for the stone, and that the articles sent in were samples. The jury found for defendant. The goods had been sent back, and now lay at the rail way station, Mr. Baker refusing to receive them. DEATH OF A JURYMAN. During the progress of the above case, a messenger arrived and informed the officer of the court that a jury man, who had not answered when called, had died on Sun day morning. ?ROFESSIONAL BRETHREN..--KNAPP V. POLEY. Plaintiff is a solicitor, of Gresham-street, and defendant is a solicitor, of Welbeck-street. _ . . Mr. Treherne, for the plaintiff, said this was a claim to recover a sum of £lO Os. 6d. for money lent to, and paid for, the defendant by the plaintiff. Plaintiff had lent the defendant £6 3s. to enable him to take out his certificate ; a further sum was also lent to pay some fees, and defendant had given an I 0 U for £9 ss. Plaintiff had paid some money ;for the defendant for clothes, and the debt was swelled to £1 Os. 6d. more. He (Mr. Treherne) had sued for £lO Os. ed., Lel the real amount was £lO ss. ed. Defendant had pleaded a set-off for £25, but was not present to support it. - - -• Mr. Knapp was called, and proved paying and lending the various sums to the amount of £lO ss. 6d. The learned secondary then directed the jury to find for the plaintiff for £lO ss. 6d. Mr. Treherne—l have only sued for £lO Os. 6d. Can the particulars be amended. The learned Secondary—The count for general damages will cover that. Verdict for £lO ss, 6d. and certificate for coats. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—(This Day' OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Wines.) CHARGE OT MURDER. Ann Green, 27, unmarried, was indicted for the wilful murder of her female infant child. The prisoner, - it will bo recollected from the facts that have already appeared in The Sun, was a domestic servant in the service of a licensed victualler in Hackney ; and very shortly after its birth the body of the child was found con cealed amongst some rubbish. The prisoner denied having given birth to the child, but the medical evidence proved this to be false. The jury found the prisoner guilty of the minor offence of concealment of birth. The learned Judge sentenced the prisoner to 12 months imprisonment. STEALING A LETTER. Benjamin - West Hartley, 21, grocer, was indicted for stealing a letter containing a Bank of England note for £5, the property of the Postmaster-General. From the evidence for the prosecution it appeared that the prisoner was in the employ of a post-office keeper in Broad-street, Bloomsbury, and that on the eveing of the 6th of October the prosecutrix entered the shop and wished to register a letter as one containing valuables. It being past five, the lady Iwas informed that she could not do so, and the letter—which was directed to a gentleman residing at Kentish Town—was afterwards dropped into the box in the ordinary manner. It never reached its destination, which it would have done had it not been taken from the letter-box surreptitiously. It was also given in evidence that the prisoner must have known that a letter containing a five pound note was in the box, and that as he was closing the shop he was within a foot of the box, which was unlockad, in which the letter was deposited. In his defence the prisoner said he knew nothing of the robbery, but the stolen note came into his possession by his giving change for it to a man named Johnson; and that this assertion was true was evidenced by the fact that when he (prisoner) changed the note at a public-house in Vaux hall, he signed his right name on it. The prisoner received a very good character. The-Jury retired to consider their verdict. After an ab sence of 20 minutes, they returned into court with a verdict of Guilty, with a stron g recommendation to merc y. The learnedludge said, under all the circumstan ces , h e should only sentence t he prisoner to six months' imprison ment, with hard labour. NEW COURT. (Before the Recorder.) STEALING A COAT. Thomas Gower, 22, labourer, was indicted for stealing a coat, the property of Joseph liyam. The prosecutor, a clothier living in the neighbourhood of Houndsditch, said the coat was his property, and had been stolen, as he was positive it had never been sold in his shop. The prisoner, who was undefended, said he bought the coat of the prosecutor, in Newgate•market, and gave him 10s. for it. The jury returned a 'verdict of guilty, and the Recorder sentenced him to four months' imprisonment. THIRD COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) enA.R.GIi OF LIBEL. Thomas Nugent, schoolmaster, 46, was indicted for unlawfully publishing a libel of and upon William Wiseman. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and expressed his great regret at having published the libel, for which there was not the slightest foundation. The Common Sergeant said before passing sentence upon the defendant ha should like to consult the judges as the gentleman against whom the libel was published was a per sonal friend of his. Sentence was therefore deferred. THE LATE Slit lOIIN FRANKLIN.—The move ment for securing the erection of a memorial of Sir John Irauklin at Spilsby, his native place, is advancing favour• ably, soveral.gentlemen who had promised subscriptionsfor a. proposed "Franklin Museum" at Lincoln—a scheme now abandoned—have transferred their donations, and promises of fresh support have also been obtained from other quarters. BEVERLEY. The nomination of a candidate to r e p rese nt this borough in Parliament, in the stead of Ralph Wal• ters, Esq., unseated for bribery, took place on Mon day. The candidates named were, Mr. J. B. Walker (Conservative), and Mr. H. G. Gridley (Liberal). The show of hands was declared to be in Mr. Grid leg's favour. A poll was demanded by Mr. Walker, and took place yesterday. The following is the result : 598 Gridley Walker 473 ----123 Majority THIS DA Y'3 SHIPPING. LONDON, Fob. I.—Wind this day at 'too', N.R. ; light breeze, and fine clear weather, with frost. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 31.—Wind, W.N.W. to N.W. -- • Sailed—Avon, for Auckl an d, New Zealand—Alligator, foe Cape Coast Castle--Admiral Lyons, for Melbourne. FALMOUTH, Jan. 31 —The Evangeline (barque), of anti from Liverpool for Rio Janeiro, which put in with daniagh will discharge. GRIMSBY, Jan. 31.—The Providence (barque), of Scat• boro', has been run on shore, and fills with the tide. SWANSEA, Jan. 31.—Wind, W.N.W.—Sailed--Pride of the Thames, for Callao. HOLYHEAD, Jan. 31.—Wind, N.E.—Sailed—Genovet for Cape of Good Hope—Jenny Lind, for Barbadoes. ST. THOMAS, Jan. 14.—The Armorial (ship), of Bath, U.S., Bristol to Savannah, was abandoned Dec 12, in lat 35 lon 22; crew saved and brought here by the Voltigeur (schr), from Hamburg. The William Purrington, front Falkland Islands for London, put in yesterday leaky, slid will discharge. Orr ELECTRIC TELEGRAM) SOUTIIAM2TON, Wednesday Wind N. ; hard frost. Arrived—Arago, steamer, from Havre; Tasmanian, steamer, from the West Indies ; Nepaul, steamer, frogs Lisbon ; Alliance, steamer, from Havre. Sailed—Le Coq, for Cherbourg ; Dispatch and Atalantnt steamers, for Jersey. LivEirooL, Wednesday Morning. Wiid N. Arrived—Elida, from Dantsic. FIRE ON BOARD THE ENDYMION.-ThO main and ralio masts were pulled out of the Endymion yesterday, anti tla• fire was extinguished about three o'clock this morning' Vessel and cargo very much injured from the main hatch forward. SUELARIHZ AHD BRITISH TBLEGRATIO GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Wind, W N.W. ; tide, three hours' ebb; weather frostf• Arrived, Feb. I.—Sylph, steamer, from Bordeaux ; 110' land, steamer, from Ostend. Sailed, Feb. L—Kbersonese, steamer, for Hong Kong' DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Wind N.W. moderate. Rhadamanthus, from west, for rifor Spheroid, for St. Vincent ; Grecian, for 'Vancouver' . Island ; Julia, for Cape of Good Hope ; Sir Colin Campb. ll ° for Rio Janeiro ; Kerelaw, for Ardrossan—all from Londoil• Sailed—Comet and Sarah Metcalfe, for London. of DEATH OF MR. HENRY F A RREN.—The deal,. Lt. - Mr. Henry Farren, the manager of the St. Louis Theil (observes the New York Weekly Herald of Jan. 18 ), W cause a feeling of deep regret amongst his numerous P 5; fessional friends, both in this country and in England. was the eldest so n o f Willi am F arren , the celebrated Jrl l itch comedian, an d was hi mse lf an actor of fair abilitlehd He came to this country some three or four years ago, 611 . 1 ., made his first appearance at the Broadway Theatre character of Cla u d e Melnotte. He did not create ant 71 marked impression, and after performing three or f:',ll nights, went starring it into the country. He fil_ s 7 • settled down into the dreary and unprofitable career _ O , provincial manager, in which death has prematurely 010. taken him. Ho leaves a young wife, to whom he Wai. l6 * recently married, and who is also, wo holier ) , in th e r reSbiOn• Ifl tak morn Ma] dat fore ts i Ind. tion mad sine X 46 Tele Irmo cent less wit] 8,00 in e pre For( 6 p e Me 3 Cow Veni Spa! rit l to:a P:n. deal tete; Bite bitti Di Di 'tag; Spa] 13 1) TILr. Prel w. Fo Cis Bs