The Sun. — London, England, 1860-11-17 00:00:00

lOYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT a) GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA P YNE and Mr. W. HA RRISON, Soli Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE NIGHT DANCERS. M essrs Hai: h, H. Corri, G. Kelly, Distin, and Lyall ; Madame I 'almieri, Miss Albertazzi, Miss Leff r, Miss Thirlwall, and I Kiss Huddart. And a Ballet of Action Ambuscade. Conductor—Mr. Alfred M.:1116n. Doors open at Seven. Commence at Half-past. WRENCH PLAYs.—BIJOU THEATRE..—. At HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, Haymarket, (Grand Entrance.) Directeur—M. Talexy. Second appearance of theDOCHE celebrated Comedienne, MaOdune THIS EVENING, X. Scribe's " ADRIENNE LECOUVREUR." Aditienne Lecouvreur, Madame Doche. Commence at 8. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMAAKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the nertorniances will commence with THE BABES IN THE WOOD. After which, the new farce. entitled FITZSMTTHE OF FITZSMYTHE HALL. Messrs. Buckstone, W. Farren, and Rogers ; Mrs. Wilkins and Miss Henrade. And THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leclercqs. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, an adaptation of Victor Httc. , ,o's cele brated Play of RUY BL AS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. when Mr. Pechter. the favourite actor of Parisian renown. will make his 10th appearance on the English stage, supported by Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond, Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose Leclercq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. To be preceded by SUSAN SMITH. To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Soto Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with filth time) an entirely new drama, entitled ADRIENNE ; or, THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal charasters by Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers, Mr. G. Vining, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell„ Mr. Clifford, Mr.' J. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste. After which, THE rErs OF THE PARTERRE. Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott. The Music by Mr. George Loder. Principal charactersby Mr H. Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Ternan, Miss Neville, MissrludsPeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner, Miss Douglas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson. To conclude with PERFECTION. Mr. H Neville, Mr. T. Lyon, Mr. John Rouse, Mrs. John Rouse, and Miss Rose Howard.'l Commence at 7. A I)ELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Role Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni• Webster. Encragement for a limited number of nights of Miss Agnes lEobertson and Mr. Dion Bourcicault, who will appear every evening in the highly successful Drama of "The Colleen Bawn." THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Messrs. W. Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs. Billington. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Bonrcicault, D. Fisher, Billinzton, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. -- - To conclude with MUSIC lIATH CHARMS. Mr. David Fisher. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. • Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes. -£2 2s. ; Family Boxes, - Xl. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, xs. •, - Pit Stalls, 22.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. NSTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY. Triumphant success and increasing' popularity of the Grand Spectacle of ROBIN Man. This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three Acts, by E. Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or. the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, &e, Allan a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit chard. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome and their Troupe of unequalled pertnriners, Acc., including. the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest Wonder of the age. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4 Stare Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CA NTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. • Norma Miss RUSSELL. Adalcdsa ............ .. Madame MARIA, (Her first apnearance in this country.) Atter which the ETHIOPIANS, consistinzot Seventeen Par formers. organised expressly for this establishment, for the Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin cipal Nezro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley Fox. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGIIMANS. Balcony, le Hall, tld. THE WEATHER. --SUN OFFTOPI. NOV. 17, 1660. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADB. 48—highest since noon yesterday. 42—lowest this morning and during the night. 43—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.31; falling rapidly. WlND—Southerly; moderate, with continuous rain. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BP.ID GE. . THIS OAY. —Morning, 4h. 24m.—Afternoon, 4h. 46m, To-m o aaow.- Morning, sh. 9m.—Afternoon, sh. 33m, 4 L' Jr/ .47,„ 17\1,1 THE SUN. LoNDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 17, 1840. The Commercial Treaty between France and England was at length completed and received its final signatures yesterday. It was completed, that is to say, on the 16th day of November 1860—fully ten months after its original announcement in the Speech from the Throne on the occasion of the last inauguration of Parliament. During those ten in tervening months what an enormous amount of labour must there not have expended upon the task —the truly herculean task—of bringing this Treaty to completion! And upon whom, if not upon Mr. COBDEN, have those herculean labours devolved ? Bis shoulder has been the one applied all this while to the ponderous wheel of French Commerce —that Wheel of Fortune—deep hitherto--getting deeper and deeper as time advanced—in the rut of Monopoly. At length, however, the hon. member for Rochdale may be congratulated upon the close of these protracted and unremitting toils—toils in every way more suitable for a commission than for one single individual. We are deeply grieved, yet not in the smallest degree surprised, to find that, now that his labours are actually over and done with, our self-sacrificing Negotiator learns only too painfully how severely they have been telling all this while upon his constitution. According to a private letter received from Paris, simultaneously with the arrival of the telegram intimating the completion of the Commercial Treaty, it would appear that " Mr. COBDEN is completely prostrate," in consequence of his sedu lous application to the task he had taken in hand, and that, now that that task is actually finished, he has relapsed into that very same illness from which towards the close of 1859 he was, to the regret of us all, so great a sufferer. Whatever opinions may be entertained in regard to the character of the Commercial Treaty which Mr. COBDEN has been Negotiating—however much any among us may doubt its efficacy a -, as a means of pro mulgating directly the beneficent principles of Free Trade through the (certainly to say the least of it) very questionable agency of Reciprocity —no matter what may be the incredulity still felt here in various instances as to the p rospect i ve realisation by the operations of this Commercial Treaty of the halcyon vision of the a d vantages promised by its originator to accrue thereby a lik e to the mercantile world i n Fran ce and in Engl an d --there cannot possibly be two opinions here at home amongst. ourselves, or yonder abroad amongst our Gallic neighbours, as to the magnanimity, as to the the civism, as to the complete and absolute and most magnanimous self-abnegation of the hon. member for Rochdale. He who has all this time, while been dedicating 11w whole of his together with (very energy of his vigorous intellect, as well as of his unhappily T' thing but vize,'"°".;" frame, to the comprehensive supervision and the detailed elaboration of each minute particular in these vast and complicated transactions. Let it not be forgotten that immediately before under taking the conduct of these transactions, Mr. COBDEN had declined to accept office as a Cabinet Minister of the Crown—his reasons for so doing, 411 of them very noble and generous reasons—being frankly and right manfully stated in an eminently ) characteristic communication addressed by him to Lord PALMERSTON, in answer to the urgent rc quest that he should become a colleague,transmitted to him immediately upon his arrival in this country from America, by the noble viscount at the head of the present Govornment. Added to those high-minded considerations which thus induced Mr. COBDEN to decline the acceptance of the proferred seat in the Cabinet—at the time of his so doing his health was so far broke that it might almost be said to have been then quite shattered. Nevertheless, very shortly indeed after the rejection (thus peremptorily) of Power, this same public-spirited politician consented, apparently without a moment's hesitation, to accept all those enormous labours and all those solemn and weighty Re sponsibilities which were inseparable from the office the peculiarly anomalous, and therefore doubly difficult and singularly delicate office of Negotiator of a Commercial Treaty, involving in some way or other the revision of the whole of the mercantile relations between France and England. As to the Treaty itself it does not remain for us now to remark that we have all along, from first to last, regarded it with particular incredulity and especial repugnance. A reciprocity treaty of any kind we have insisted, and we are still disposed to insist, is, instead of an advance movement, a movement, on the contrary, of positive retrogression. The prin ciple of reciprocity is, in itself, notoriously, has always been notoriously, applicable rather to the system of Protection than to the system of Free Trade. Still persuaded of this we are yet inflexi bly. antagonistic to the root idea of this newly or ganised measure of reciprocity ; more particularity, remembering that we cannot but still recognise in it a scheme for doling out reciprocity of the most singular character surely ever yet dreamt of—a reci procity as Irish as reciprocity could well be—a reciprocity all one side, in fact, as we have again and again in these columns, had the melancholy task of demonstrating. Convinced of this all along. con vinced of this still, we are yet ready to acknowledge that the Negotiator of the Treaty has all the while had a perfect right, of course, to think quite other wise. It is impossible, moreover, not to admit just as frankly and unhesitatingly that he has spoken and written only in reason when deprecating any thing like adverse criticisms upon his Treaty until that Treaty should have been at length actually brought to a state of completion. To that state of completion it has now been brought—thanks to Mr. COBDEN'S indomitable energy, his self sacrificing devotion, and his unceasing applica tion. A little while more, now, and we shall at last know all about it. Conjectures will then give way to certainty. The Treaty itself in its entirety will at length be lying before us for the impartial consideration of all. Until then we may rest con tented with the knowledge, at any rate so far in the highest degree satisfactory, that the task, what. ever that task may have been, is done, that Mr. COBDEN'S labours are over, that the negotiations are at an end. In regard to the Negotiator we will yet most earnestly hope that his self-abnigation may have so far only exercised a prejudicial influence upon his health, as to have resulted in a merely passing indisposition. GOD grant that this self sacrifice manifested on his part by RICHARD COB DEN at Paris, may never prove to have been as disastrously complete as that other self-sacrifice which very recently signalised so fatally the laborious career of JAMES WILSON at Calcutta. Among all our great public men we have no second COBDEN. Among all of them "we could better spare," we will not say " a better man," or an abler man, for a better or abler we care not to go in search of with that cynical lantern of DIOGENES, but we will say we could any day better spare an administrator of more versatile aptitude and of more varied experience. There is more than a rumour of news which we hope will prove true. The POPE is treating with VICTOR EMMANUEL, it is said, for the sale of his, temporalities. CAVOUR and ANTONELLI are dis cussing the terms, of which the principal are these —That the POPE should receive annually 1,000,000 Roman crowns; the Italian cardinals to enjoy the dignity of senators, with a yearly salary of 10,000 crowns. His HOLINESS is thus to become a purely spiritual prince, and his cardinals, we presume, much such dignitaries as our spiritual peers. Whatever degree of exact truth may belong to these statements, no one, looking coolly at the POPE'S position from a distance, would hesitate to pronounce that he was making a wise arrange ment. Even Protestants would respect him far more as the purely spiritual head of such a vast proportion of Christendom, and Catho lics would be certain to feel more in terest in him in that capacity. We at least consistently think so ; for we have always considered that our own bishops would be far more highly regarded and useful, in their spiritual capacity, if they had the magnanimity to with draw, by their own wish, from the House of Lords. We can well understand, indeed, how a certain class of Catholics could ill endure the loss of his tempo ralities by the POPE. We have seen what an out cry there would be here, from a large section of Churchmen, were it seriously proposed to trench on the temporalities of our spiritual peers ; but that does not alter the fact, to which all history bears witness,'that a religious chief is not religi ously influential in proportion to his temporal re sources, but rather the contrary. Few men have exerted more religious influence in this country than WICKLIFFE and WESLEY, yet both were absolutely destitute of property; and we should like to know the value of LUTHER'S or of CALVIN'S temporalities ! And so it has ever been, and so it will ever be, where religion is a thing of con science, that its leaders will be venerated rather for poverty than wealth. It is needless to remark how much their poverty has to do with our veneration for the very founders of our faith; it is even a feature in that Divine character which we are taught to adore, that " for our sakes he became ioor." 1 But will the POPE be impoverished ? We ima gine precisely the reverse. His resources for spiritual purposes would be, we cannot doubt, larger than ever. We should blush for English and Irish Catholics if they did not do their part towards such support as might be desirable for the head of their faith. Indeed, they have already begun to seek contributions for him, and revived a name familiar to England's ears, and not perhaps with very pleasant recollections from our history—that oaf:kePEd, .r Ei is s P ence .. B u t P ETER ' S P ence, as now a totally diff eren t thi ng f rom P ETER ' S Pence demanded as a tribute. It were childish to clo;rfsovumnAdwsthings so t o t a ll y di st i nct. Cardinal tiP here, o r th a t o f t h e i - 1 7 rnch Bi s h ops P in a tibeir country, is but an appeal to the voluntary principle. The Liberation Society of Sergeant's-inn itself must approve of the prin ciple. The proceeding of the French Government , strikes us as exceedingly outrag rs eous and bash. A ( Government, indeed, which has just prosecuted to imprisonment a tradesman who sold even photo- visiting cards without a sancti on f rom the graph censorship of the press, might, perhaps, be suspici ous of the objects of those who arranged to collect the pence ; for what would it not suspect ? But the oppression implied in not allowing the POPE'S friends to ask money for him under a name of historical interest to Catholics, seems to us some thing frightful—a revival of the spirit of our Con venticle and Five Mile Acts. However, from the wholeof Catholic Christendom the POPE might as suredly rely for any income he needed. As to his situation, it certainly could not be in jured. What is he now but the restive puppet of the French General ? His own subjects are con fessedly not his supporters. In fact they are sub ject only to those who keep them down—to the French. He has not the credit of either morally or physically controlling them. He governs neither their hearts nor their bodies. The French do the latter for him, but their hearts are with neither General GOYON nor with the POPE, but with VICTOR EMMANUEL. What wiser thing, then, can he do than get rid of a rule of which the glory, such as it is, belongs to French regiments, and retire to an honourable position, quite at his command, with the applause of all Italy. We are toldthat ANTONELLI and the other crafty old politicians see that the day is gone by for adding to their immense wealth, and that they are ready to negotiate, but that the pious but weak POPE is, as such characters so frequently are, very obstinate, and that he had seriously thought of sharing the fortunes of the ex-King at Gaeta! If, however, both Cardinals and friends fail him, even a weak but pious man must bend to neces sity; he must bow to it as to Providence. A happier solution of the Central Italian diffi culty there could not, of course, be than the POPE'S selling out. Austria might then follow his ex ample, and plain money bargaining might smooth difficulties which are insuperable by diplomacy, and, in one sense, even by a conquest and victory. The latter might not secure formal recognition abroad; the other mode could hardly fail to do so. We can only, therefore, for the peace of Europe, and for the sake of humanity, hope that so peaceful a mode as that of sale and conveyance may accom plish, what must now be somehow achieved, the complete union of Italy. The Gazette of last night contains at length a long-looked for and most welcome announce ment. A formal official notice appears there in those columns of our English Moniteur intimating the intention of her MAJESTY'S Commissioners of Works and Public Bulidings to apply in the en suing session (1861) to Parliament for an Act empowering them to acquire somehow, by com pulsory purchase or otherwise, a site for the new Courts of Law —or, in other words, a site for the long-proposed new Palace of Justice. It is not our intention now to ventilate the whole question as to the necessity there is for this proceeding. That question has so far been already settled and decided. The notice here referred to as in the Gazette of last evening is proof posi tive that the question so far is decided. And what certainly completes our satisfaction in the matter of this notice in the London Gazette, is the announcement put forward in that notice that the site to which we ourselves years ago ac corded preference has been the very site defini tively selected by her MAJESTY'S Commissioners. The notice thus particularised is in effect as ap preciably a commencement of the new Palace of Justice upon that site as the turning of the first sod of a new railway is the beginning of that rail way, or as the beginning of any edifice is in dicated by the laying of a foundation stone upon a due proportion of mortar dexte rously spread by a silver trowel in the hands of a Royal Highness. The House of Commons, we may be sure, will offer no im pediment to the completion of the under taking. And before London is a very few years older we may be certain that conspicuous among its great public buildings will be a grand and noble edifice, sheltering under its roof all the now scattered Courts of Law—a structure occupy ing that particularly central site in the metropolis defined in the Gazette of yesterday as bounded on the north and north-west by Carey-street, Lincoln's inn -fields; on the south‘ by Pickett-street, the Strand, and Fleet-street ; on the west by Bell yard, Temple-bar; and on the west and south-west by Yeates's-court, Clement's-inn, and the vestry house of the parish of St. Clement Danes. Then at last London will have a Palace of Justice not unworthy of being the central seat of the Admini stration of the Laws of England. THE POPE AND THE KING OF ITALY: GENOA, Nov. 14. There is news that seems too good to be true. The rumours that are everywhere afloat about a possible reconciliation between the Pope and the King of Italy may still require confirmation, and we may have to wait a long time for it. They, however, are not undeserving our attention. Nego tiations are said to be pending between Count Cavour and Cardinal Antonelli for a formal renun ciation of the temporal power by the Pontiff. By way of compensation his Holiness would receive an annual revenue or civil list of 1,000,000 Roman crowns—to which, of course, every Catholic Power would be free, and n o d ou bt t oo h appy, to make its own addition ; and the cardinals--I suppose only the Italian cardinals—would be admitted to the dignity of senators of the realm, and receive a yearly stipend of 10,000 crowns. These terms may, perhaps, not be deemed very splendid, but what can be done ? The situation of the Pope could not be more desperate. The French protectors are becoming more obnoxious to the Court of the Vatican than its Piedmontese aggres sors. The troops of that nation hesitated, then came to a halt, and altogether gave up their march upon Orvieto. There was a turn, too sudden a turn, in the reactionary tide. Viterbo, and the other provinces nominally restored to Papal allegiance, were encouraged in their resistance; they held their plebiscite under the very nose of General Goyon. Monsignor de Merode has been weighed and found wanting. Lamoriciere issues none but despondent oracles. The Ultramontane and half- Legitimist Generals and diplomatists who were trusted with the protection of the Holy See are either shocked at prelatic quibbling, or, perhaps, disgusted at being caught in their oWn toils. 'There is, in short, "Discord in the camp of Agramant." A house divided against itself is ready to fall, and a fortress cut off from supplies must soon be starved into surrender. The Papal Government is said to have not a stiver to carry on public expenditure beyond the close of this forthcoming December. Even the 3,000 men to whom the Apostolical army is reduced have mouths to be fed. Rome is deserted ; actual misery stares the Pope and his subjects in the face. St. Peter's boat i s ev id ent l y unseaworthy ; shipwreck is inevitable, and the only man who is still unwilling to strike sail must be flung overboard. In plain language, the .situation of the Pope i s desperate enough to bring any man, except the soft-headed, and, therefore, most stubborn and peevishly obstinate Pius IX., to his senses. Auto nelli, and many of the Italian prelates, men dead to all enthusiasm, and loath to court martyrdom, are disposed to bow to necessity and to come to terms ; the shrewd Secretary of State has now no great occasion, and must relinquish all hope, to add to the boards of his immense wealth ; he clearly sees the game is up, and the Pope must either bend or break in his hands. As for Pius IX. himself, it was with great difficulty, it is said, that he was prevented from hurrying off to Gaeta to share the lortuncs of his devoted ally. Really that old man is a great stumbling-block in the way both of his foes and his friends. The recent reports that the Earl of Derby, although recovered from his late severe attack of gout, will not henceforth take the prominent part in politics which he has hitherto done, receive some encouragement from the assembly, at the country residence of Mr. Disraeli, of the other leading members of the Tory party, including Lord Mal mes brY and Lord Stanley. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1860. L TEST NE NV THE COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 16. The Commercial Treaty between England and France was this day completed, and received the final signatures.-3/prning Post. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) NAPLES, Nov. 13 (via Marseilles). M. Farini has energetically reprimanded the leaders of the Lazzaroni. Crowds of the latter as sembled yesterday and shouted " Long live Gari baldi ! The Dictatorship for ever ! Down with Farini !" They were dispersed by the regular troops. The King has prohibited the demolition of the forts of St. Elmo ; they are to be repaired and armed. The troops of the line replace the National Guard in the different posts in the city. The Nea politan Ministry has no portfolios for War, Marine, and Foreign Affairs, These departments are pre served for the Central Government. TURIN, Nov. 16. The Sardinian prisoners of war have arrived at Naples from Gaeta. The Ministers Fanti and Cosmos are about to leave for Naples. MADRID, Nov. 16. The Correspondencia Autografa states that the Queen is enciente, PARIS, Nov. 16. It is asserted that the directors of the Bank of France have adjourned till Monday next their decision on the question of raising the rate of dis- count. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 15. After the sanction (which is immediately ex pected) of the loan of 400,000,000 francs, which has been negotiated by the Porte at Paris, the pay ment of interest on former debts will be imme diately resumed. M. Billault, Minister of the Interior, has addressed the following circular to the prefects : " Paris, Nov. 10 " Monsieur le Prefet,—The general law which prescribes for printers the double formality of the declaration, and depositing a copy of all publica tions, and in certain cases that of the stamp, has received an exceptional repeal in favour of pastoi-al letters. In a spirit of generous confidence in the religious authority, the publication of acts ema nating from this authority has been in fact, by the tolerance of the Administration, freed from the surveillance implied by the deposit, and from the expense attached to the stamp. " But for some time many writings have been published under the title of ' Mandements,' or pas toral letters, treating of questions most foreign to spiritual interests—political pamphlets, in fact, in which the events now being accomplished in Europe are considered, in which the acts of the Government are discussed, and sometimes attacked with great vigour, thus usurping the exclusive im munities granted to the special acts of the episco pal jurisdiction. " This abusive confusion has provoked the atten tion of the Government. To remedy this, the sim plest and easiest measure would, incontestably, have been to withdraw the privilege granted, and, without distinction, to submit all its affairs to the common law. Sincerely desirous of not obstruct ing in any way the action of the ecclesiastical authority in its legitimate sphere, the Government has not considered it necessary at present to resort to that radical measure. The Mandements ' and Pastoral letters which do not depart from the spiritual domain, and which are printed as placards in order to be posted or read in the Churches, will therefore continue free of the stamp and the deposit. But those writings, whatever may be their title, which taking the form of a pamphlet in order to emerge from the sanctuary, too often mix themselves up with temporal politics, cannot profit by a dispen sation which was not established for them. Such writings, alhough enjoying entire liberty of publi cation, will be subject to the conditions of the com mon law. " You will point, Monsieur le Prefet, this dis tinction to the printers in your department. It is on them that are imposed the obligations of the deposit and the stamp. It is they who will be prosecuted if they do not submit to the same. " In preserving a generous exemption to publi cations of a spiritual order, but in opposing as much as possible the confounding of Mandements' with pamphlets, religion with politics, and the:decisions to which the Catholic owes obedience with opinions which the citizen may contradict, the Government is conscious of maintaining everything in its place, without prejudicing either the rights or the liberty of anybody. " Receive, Monsieur le Prefet, the assurance of my very distinguished consideration. " BILLAULT, Minister Secretary of State to the Department of the Interior." FRANCE. The Moniteur publishes the following notice : " The French and Sardinian Governments having admitted the necessity of fixing in a more precise manner the meaning of Art. 22 of the Treaty of the 24th March, 1760, as far as regards the reci procal execution of judgments, have for that pur pose exchanged the following declaration—Para graph 3 of Art. 22 of the Treaty of the 24th March, 1760, between France and Sardinia, is thus con ceived :—' To favour the reciprocal execution of decrees and judgments, the supreme courts will on either side defer to the form of law and to requisitories addressed to them for that end in the name of the said courts.' Wishing to re move for the future all kind of doubt or diffi culty in the application which the Courts of the two countries are called on to make of it, the French and Sardinian Governments, after the exchange of mutual explanations, have agreed that it is to be interpreted in the following manner: —lt is expressly understood that the Courts, in deferring to the form of the law and to the demands for the execution of judgments delivered in each of the two States, must not direct their examination except to the three following points, viz. :-1. Whether the decision emanates from a competent jurisdiction ; 2. Whether it has been delivered, the parties having been duly summoned and legally represented, or in default; 3. Whether the regula tions of public law or the interests of the public order of the country in which the execution is demanded is not opposed to the decision of the foreign tribunal being carried into effect. Ihe present declaration will serve as a rule for the respective tribunals in the execution of paragraph 3 of Art. 22 of the Treaty of 1760.—Made at Turin the 11th September, 1860. " TALLEYRAND. C. CAVOUR." BOURSE, Nov. 16.—The market has been rather more buoyant, and the business done has been at improved quotations. For the Account, Threes, which opened at 69f 721c,:are now at 69f 871 c; Mobilier, 751 f 25c; Orleans, 1,383 f ; Northern, 982 f 50c ; Mediterranean, 907 f boc ; Austrian, 502 f 50c ; Lombard, 486 f 26e. The following are the last quotations : 41 per per Cents ... 95 80 Credit Foncier — Do end month.... 96 —1 Belgian 4i 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 95 Roman Bank Shares . 2935 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 752 50 Spanish Threes 4Bi Do. Account 755 i Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto BB7 50 .. 890 Lyons and Mediterranean 908 75 .. 910 Geneva 377 50 .. 375 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian 395 .. 392 50 Austrian Lombard 486 25 .. 486 25 THEATRE-ROYAL, LYCEUM: The hold which the drama of " Adrienne : or, the Secret of a Life," has taken upon the public taste, justifies us in entering upon a more detailed notice of this production than we thought it necessary to do upon the occasion of its first representation. The piece in itself is a compound of comedy and melodrama, and although a severe criticism might repudiate such an alliance, still the actual merits of the conception and the brilliant execution of the play merit a more careful examination than we have previously had an opportunity of affording to its construction and plot. In the first act we are introduced to a certain Adrienne de Beaupre (Madame Celeste), a wealthy orphan, who, re siding in a villa near Rome, has acquired, as it appears, a deserved reputation for her charities and all the graces which should accompauy the prossession of great wealth. She has, moreover, surrendered no small portion of her affections to an art-student at Rome (Mr. Neville), who is engaged to paint her portrait. The scene in which this de licate interview is represented is exquisitely rendered in all those little nuances of hesitation and passion, of which Mme. Celeste stands without a rival on the stage. The lady' s sole attendants are a superior male servant (Mr. Campbell) and a faithful Mulatto (Mr. Villiers), the latter of whom attaches himself to the fortunes of his mistress with a fervor of the truly Oriental type, his life having been saved by the mother of Adrienne, who was of the pleasant Island of Martinique, the birthplace of Josephine, the Empress of France. A disagreeable and disturbing element now ap pears upon the scene, in the person of one Mr. Eugene de Grassac (Mr. George Vining), who is represented as a roué or a gambler as the case may be, but at any rate confesses himself to be a ruined man, whose only hope is in his marriage with the wealthy Adrienne. His claims on the hand of this charming lady, certainly at first sight, appear most preposterous. Nevertheless this de Grassac pretends to hold the lady in command, by•being in possession of evidences of her illegi timacy. This terrifies the Lady, and Savignie retires, not without a challenge to meet in the Pontine marshes, as it is alleged, in consequence of some rude remarks which had been made by de Grassac on the lady's cha racter and' position, upon the occasion of a soiree where the two gentlemen have previously met. In consequence of this the duel takes place, and a very splendid scene it is. The lights are admirably thrown on the combatants in the mist, and it concludes with do Grassac being wounded and retiring—not, however, before some angry words and the near revelation of the secret, which is only silenced by the appearance of Adrienne upon the scene, who consents to sacrifice herself to De Grassac, in order to keep sacred a mother's honour." Months are supposed to pass away. Savignie becomes an officer in the French army, and is stationed with his regiment near Rome, just at the moment when de Grassac, who has never ceased to suffer from the wound he received in the duel, is brought to our presence in the "lone chateau," tended by the broken hearted but patient Adrienne and her faithful Mulatto. This scene is inexpressibly beautiful, as well in design as in execution ; and is the pivot of the drama. The Mulatto burning with the deep-seated desire of vengeance, made up of the conviction of the unmanliness of de Grassac, and the love and affection which he bears to Adrienne and her family ; the self-denying devotion of Adrienne to the sick man, contending with her uncontrollable love for Savignie ; and the bye-play of a humorous underplot furnish, in this scene, opportunities of the beautiful confusion of contrasted emotions, which are essentially dramatic, and belong to the best school; and when at last it is discovered that de Grassac expires by poisoned bandages, and Adrienne is de nounced by the dying man as his murderer, the situation reaches its climax, and the curtain falls, not without the fact of Savignie's appearance at the chateau, only to bo dismissed as a presence not to be borne at so terrible a mo ment A lengthened period is supposed to elapse between this event, which releases Adrienne from de Grassac, but charges her with the crime of murder. From these troubles, it appears, she takes refuge in the mountains, accompanied by her faithful mulatto, pursued by the officers of justice; and here, in the midst of a bivouac of the troop, incidents oc cur in so hurried a manner, that we find we have exchanged comedy for melodrama, somewhat, perhaps, to the disparage.. went of a composition of very clever design, and sacrifled to the love cf sudden effects and extraordinary situations. Brigands are changed into family connections with extra ordinary celerity. The secret of the dead De Grassac is shown to demonstrate the legitimacy of Adrienne; and the confession of the mulatto to the murder leaves Adrienne as pure and unspotted as when in the first act the audience were introduced. We should notice that the underplot of the piece is sustained by Mrs. Keeley as Gianetta Scarotta, the daughter of a brigand, who contributes in the final act to the elucidation of the plot. Mrs. Keeley gives an artistic value to this part, which is beyond all praise. Mr. Rouse is, as usual, vivacious and appreciative of all the points which the author left for him to give pro minence to : and we may instance as evidence of the intel ligence which pervades the whole of the getting up of this piece, the admirable adjustment of the costume by the Mulatto, the accuracy of which will be recognised by every one acquainted with India. Of the acting and the miss-en-scene it is impossible to speak too highly. Madame Celeste, who is a host in her self, never appeared more completely alive to all the points of the situation, and inspired every one on the stage with a like feeling. The piece is admirably acted throughout, and has drawn fashionable and crowded houses during the week, receiving- on each representation the warmest marks of approbation. It is, indeed, as we have already observed, a most brilliant success, and promises to have, as it most richly merits, a very long run. The " Pets of the Parterre," which we noticed upon its first representation, fully justifies the opinion which we then expressed. It is a graceful and elegant composition, of depth and weight very far excelling the usual character of productions of this kind, and we are happy to say that the applause of the audience evidenced the success of Madame Celeste's liberal and tasteful management. Of the young ladies who support the charming ballet of action of the " Pets of the Parterre," one is always in danger of being charged with exaggeration when speaking of their artistic as well as natural graces. From so en chanting a bouquet the selection of any particular flower would be a very unamiable task TSB VOYAGE OF THE HERO. The following is the log of the Hero from her arrival at Portland to her arrival at Plymouth : "Arrived at Portland harbour on October the 16th, saluted flag of United States with 21 guns, which was re. turned ; Hero, Ariadne, and Flying Fish anchor e d, 17th, lying at Portland ; 18th, lying at Portland ; 19th, pre paring for sea; 20th, sent boats for luggage and State barges for Prince •, at 3 15 p.m. fired a Royal salute, in company ' with squadron and forts. On his Royal Highness embark. ing at 3 40 p.m. hoisted Prince of Wales standard, manned yards, and fired a Royal salute, on his Royal Highness coming on board with his suite, composed of his Grace the Duke of Sewcastle, the Earl of St. Germans, Dr. Ackland, Major Teesdale, Capt. the Hon. G. Grey, with nine ser vants, in barges and boats. At 420 weighed anchor under steam and proceeded out of harbour, in company with Nile, Ariadne, Flying Fish, and Styx. Saluted the American flag when passing Fort Prette with 21 guns. At 550 p.m. the Nile saluted Prince of Wales and parted company; also Styx. 21st, under steam, Ariadne in company. 22d, under steam. 23d, under steam and sail. 24th, lat. 42 30 N, long. 58 52 W, under sail ; heavy squall, wind variable ; split jib and part blown away. 25th, lat. 42 24 30 N, long. 51 29 W, under steam. 26th, lat. 46 348 N, no longitude, in tow of Ariadne. 27th, under sail and in tow of Ariadne. 2801, lat. 45 56 N, long. 43 OW, under sail. 29th, lat. 46 38 54 N, long. 39 19 W, under sail. 30th, lat. 47 530 N, long. 33 53 W, under steam and sail. 31st, lat. 47 52 30 N, long. 29 26 W, steaming, and in tow of Ariadne. Novem ber 1, under sail and steam ; 2d, lat. 47 27 16 N, long. 21 47 W, under steam and sail; 3d, lat. 48 46 46 N, long. 20 42 W, under sail; 4th, under sail and steam; sth, lat. 49 56 N, long. 15 49 W, under steam and sail ; 6th, under sail ; 7th, lat. 52 16 25 N, long. 13 26 W, under sail; Bth, lat. 51 26 N, long. 14 36, under sail; 9th, under sail; 10th, under sail; 11th, under sail ; 12th, ander sail; 13th, under sail; 14th, let. 48 N, long. 745 W. Seen nothing of Flying Fish since they left Portland. Foul mind all the passage, except one day, fine, N.W. Easterly gales, heavy. Prince in good health. The Duchess of St. Albans and Lady Diana Beauclerk and Viscount Falkland have returned to York shire, from visiting the Marchioness Frances Anne of Lon donderry, in Durham. It is rumoured that the Duke of Newcastle will receive the Garter in the gift of her Majesty by the death of the Duke of Richmond. The funeral of the late Earl of Cawdor took place on Tuesday last, at Chilton Church, a short distance from Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire. It was conducted in a private manner, the mourners being confined to the pre sent earl and the members of the family. Lord and Lady Norreys leave town in a few days :'or Townley Hall, Lancashire. POSTPONEMENT OF THE HOP I)UTY.—" Somerset House, November 15.—The collection of the second moiety of the hop duty, due on the 16th of this month, has been postponed to the Ist of March, 1861, in the case of those planters who may desire the indulgence, on their giving security for payment with interest at the rate of 5 per cent. ; and the collection of the present year's duty has been postponed front the Ist of March to the 16th of August next, in the like terms and conditions." A RARE BONFIRE.—The firemen stationed at the Bank of France were the day before yesterday called on to superintend the burning in the courtyard of that establish ment of a large mass of cancelled bank-notes to the amount of 96,000,0001. The operation was performed in an appa ratus of sheet iron, and occupied about an hour and a half, GAETA. The following letter from Gaeta of the 9th inst. gives an interesting account of • the operations of the Neapolitan army :-- "The Neapolitan army is still retreating,' might almost say that it is in full dissolution. Since the day when Salzano lost his presence of mind at Garig liano, matters have been going from bad to worse. The officers of the Staff, in place of giving an example of firmness, show themselves to be perfectly unde cided, and quite incapable of directing any opera tion. It is a miracle that the soldiers do not throw away their arms in despair, and there are some old and well-disciplined armies which would not have so long resisted under similar circum stances. On the arrival of the troops at Mola on the evening of the 3d, the general planted but a single cannon to barricade the road from Garigliano and to reply to the fire of the Sardinian ships. On Sunday morning, Nov. 4, three rifled cannon, 12- pounders, were placed in position, and a Swiss bat. tery was likewise placed on the seashore. On the afternoon of the 3d the Sardinian fleet began to bombard Mola, a town of from 8,000 to 10,000 in habitants. The fire of the battery was of course very feeble, but some shots, nevertheless, reached the ships, which kept at the greatest distance possible. The bombardment caused a great destruction to the houses, and but little loss to the troops. The sick in hospital were about to be removed to Gaeta when the King, who believed that the French fleet would have prevented the bombardment, gave a counter order. At 9 o'clock on the morning of the 4th the bombardment was resumed with additional fury from the Sardinian ships. I witnessed the affair from the window of our house. Shells fell on the hospi tals, and the sick quitted their beds to save them• selves. Towards 11 o'clock everybody fled in disor der to seek shelter under the ramparts of Gaeta and on the rood to Fondi. The Piedmontese entered Mola by the road to Garigliano. At the same time the commander of the French ship of the line Alex andre made a signal to Admiral Persano to cease firing, but he appeared not to see it. The three rifled cannon were abandoned to the enemy. Three officers of artillery are remarked, and among them Capt, Fevot, a S wiss,who behaved heroically. They served their pieces as simple artillerymen, and were killed at their guns. Col. Mortilliet, who com manded the foreign battalion, and was not much loved by his men, behaved with great courage on this occasion. The Neapolitans did not lose many men in either killed or wounded, but the soldiers are very much dissatisfied with their generals, and I may add that the same discontent prevails in the upper regions of the Government. A great many of these generals would not have preferred Capua and Gaeta to Naples, but that they expected fortune to change quickly in favour of Francis 11. We see shadows of Generals passing in the streets—mere mummies, who would be better placed in the Egyp tion Museum in Naples. Orders have been given to send the three foreign battalions to Terracina. They are reduced by disease to 2,500 men, and the German element is extinct. The consent of the Roman Government has been obtained for this movement. Since the evening of the 4th, when the Piedmontese entered Mola, we have not heard the sound of cannon. The Piedmontese have sent an advanced guard to Fonti, the last town in the king dom of Naples on the Roman frontier which they have occupied. It will be necessary to send from this place half its nominal defenders, who are worse than useless. The question now is, shall Gaeta be bombarded? It would be an act of useless crueity to do so, for the inhabitants alone would suffer from it. The troops are safe in their casemated bar racks. We do not fear the Piedmontese outside the walls, but we apprehend treachery within Gaeta. This is so little a mystery that Colonel Nosano, one of the most distinguished officers in the army, who has been appointed to the command of the artillery by the King, refused to accept the appointment except on condition that he should not be placed under the command of any general. He required, further, that he should have the appointment of all the officers serving under him. The Patric, whose news from Gaeta I can never read without laugh ing, speaks of Spanish, Austrian, and Bavarian volunteers who arrive here every day to reinforce, the Neapolitan army. The writer must use magni fying-glasses, for with my two eyes I have not yet discovered one Spanish, Austrian, or Bavarian volunteer. A few Frenchmen have arrived here, most of whom served with General Lamoriciere, and who belong to noble families. General Bosco will be here on the 14th. He landed the day before yesterday at Civita Vecchia. The'Prussian Minister here lately requested leave of absence from his Government, but he was told not to quit the King for a moment." THE ORANGEMEN OF BELFAST AND THEIR BISHOP. The Northern Whig gives a full account of the disreputable conduct of an Orange mob towards the Bishop of Down and Connor at a meeting of the Propagation Society in Belfast on Monday night. It was well-known (says the Whig) that the Orangemen intended to insult their Bishop by pre venting his taking the chair, and placing Dr. Miller there in his stead, in consequence of the antipathy which they entertain towards him for having inhi bited the Rev. Mr. Potter from preaching in the parish church, on an Orange anniversary. Imme diately upon the Bishop making his appearance, accompanied by a number of ladies, the deputation and about 20 clergymen, he was received with tre mendous groaning and hooting, which was kept up for several minutes. Dr. Miller was received with the warmest enthusiasm, for which he gracefully bowed, seemingly overcome with the honour. A Voice, " Down with the Bishop !" (Tremendous groans.) Another Voice, " Don't dare to go into that chair---you'd disgrace it!" (Hisses and groans.) " Order, order." (Kentish fire.) "Put the Pope out of him." (Kentish fire.) "Heis a Pusey ite." "To with the Pope !" (Groans.) The Bishop took the chair. A Voice, " Put him out—out with him." " No Puseyite." " No surrender." "Throw him out of this." (Tremendous cheering and Kentish fire.) " Three cheers for Dr. Miller." (Cheers.) " Groans for the Puseyite." (Tremendous groans.) Dr. Miller here rose to his feet simulta neously with the Bishop. A Voice, " Hear Dr. Miller." Another Voice, " You'll beat him Miller, my boy." (Cheers and Kentish fire.) The Bishop here looked round him and faced the raging storm. Nearly the whole audience got on their feet and groaned and hissed. This lasted fully five minutes. The Bishop, " I call upon Dr. Miller to open the proceedings." A Voice, " There will be no proceed ings opened till you leave that." (Cheers.) The Bishop, "To open the proceedings by prayer." A Voice, " Will you go out of that at once ? No more of your gammon." (Kentish fire.) Here the groan ing continued for about two minutes. The Bishop (as understood), " You just needed one more ex hibition to ruin you, and you have got it." A Voice, " What is that he says ? What are you saying?" (Shouting and groaning.) . This went on for a long period, the Bishop being assailed with such cries as "He is a nuisance ; away with him." His Lordship during the time this whole scene of scandalous insult was progressing, looked steadily upon the raging mass of faces, apparently deeply moved. At length he rose, as if to say something. His brother and several ladies im plored him to leave, which he did in their com pany, after a last look at the savage scene before him. Four-fifths of the clergymen on the plat form accompanied the Bishop.. The members of the deputation remained behind. Their o bj ect being accomplished, in a scene. which baffles de scription, a long round of .Kentish Fi re inter mingled with such epithets ,, as The Pop e i s gone ;,, "The Puseyite is chased; ", .Down with him ;" A wa y with him ;" brought this part of the per formance to a close , by a man shouting, "'they're a parcel of scandalous ruffians ; they're well away." (Great cheering.) A resolution was then p asse d , condemning his Lordship's inhibition of Mr. Potter • and the vicar, Dr, Miller, took the chair from which his diocesan ' had been rudely expelled. The Proporration Society's deputation then quitted the building, and Dr. MILLER addressed the crowd. He said—A little agitation has passed over your minds, and if anything can allay that agitation it is the spirit of prayer. I would ask you now to put away from you emery agitated feeling, and draw to the Throne of Grace. Join with me now, this great meeting, in approaching God in prayer. The vicar, having offered up a prayer, said,—You have placed me in a position that I do not covet under the circum stances, but I felt that when you called upon me to take this place, and to engage in the exercise of prayer, that it was my duty to do so. Duties are ours; events are God's. I do not wish to refer to what has passed but a few minutes ago, or call it to your recollection. Painful feelings have been evoked. I believe in my heart there is not a man or woman that. I see before me that does not lo7e our church, for I see the same faces before me at the anniversary of every meeting of this society, esta blished by the glorious William. (Cheers and Kentish fire.) But circumstances have arisen, and circumstances have caused a change ; and, if there be a man in the face of creation that more than an other regrets that change, it is the humble indivi dual that now addresses you; and I will say that, of all the clergy in the diocese, or in Ireland, there is no man reveres and respects episcopacy more than myself. It may be said that you have this evening been carried away with bad feeling—that you allowed a little bad feeling to get the better of you ; but, my friends, let it go forth on the wings of the wind, that Protestants cannot allow their principles to be interfered with. (A Voice, "No Pope, no Puseyite.") I iftust confess that the minds of the people of Belfast are agitated about this solemn litigation which is impending. (A Voice—You'll win.) (Applause.) Every thcught is on the tiptoe of expectation about it, and I must say that of our bishop— (A Voice—A Popish bishop) —it was not wise or judicious when he came here to preside over a Protestant meeting. (Kentish fire.) I trust there is not a man in this room to night who world say a harsh word against the orders of our Church, that there is not a man in this room to-night that would give way to a loose expression about the sacred office of the episcopate ; and I believe every man in this room to night would like to see than made subservient to the pro mulgation of good and true Protestant principles. (Applause.) Now, my friende, let us in this grave assembly of grave and solemn men try to let no unkind word pass our lips. This extraordinary outrage was wound up with the Doxology and Benediction. COAL MINE.RB. Among the Acts pass — ed last session is one for the further regulation of mines; and the reports of the inspectors of coal mines, which have lately been issued, show the need of such legislation. The law allows the employment of boys of 10 years old ; the ' new Act adds an educational condition, and pro vides that after the Ist of July next no new boy (not at work when the Act passed) shall be em ployed under 12 in a mine, unless he can read and write, or else attends school for three hours a day or two days a-week. An inspector reporting 54 fatal explosion last year in a colliery near Leeds has to state that neither the under-viewer nor his son who helped him as a deputy could read, and consequently they were almost totally unacquainted with the precautionary expedients suggested by the rules of the colliery. '1 here must always be risk in mines for boys so young as 10 or 11 ; they are incompetent to comprehend the premonitory signs of danger, and unable to protect themselves, and in wandering and playing about they find their way into fiery places. It has been thought necessary to require in the Act of last session that the entrances to places not in actual course of work ing, and suspected to contain dangerous gases, shall be fenced off, so to prevent access to them. At the last census the coal miners of Great Britain were stated to be 219,000 in number; the deaths by col liery accidents are seldom much below 1,000 in a year—a regiment swept away every twelvemonth by violent deaths. Last year the number was only 905, but the reduction was in one class of accidents alone, and arose entirely from there being an un usually small list of explosion of fire-damp. The deaths by accident were about 13 to each million of tons raised. Between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 tons are brought to London every year ; to get them to the pit's mouth costs a life every week. Concern ing the causes of these disasters one of the inspec tors bears this testimony ;-69 lives were lost last year in his district (West Lancashire and North Wales), and he states that the loss was purely ac cidental in only 26 instances, 19 were lost princi pally through the ignorance, negligence, or reckless ness of the sufferers themselves, and the remaining 24 through unskilful engineering, incomplete ma nagement, or under circumstances not very clearly defined. This shows what a waste of life there is in the mines. On an average there was a death in the shaft every other day in 1859; but these accidents are generally preventible by proper apparatus and care. With reference to one class, occasioned by falls of coal from the uncased sides of the shaft, the new act steps in and provides that in future the cage in which the men ascend and descend shall be covered if required by the inspector. But most of the accidents occur in the pit itself. A man un thinkingly walks with a naked candle into a spot where gas accumulated ; he has walked into his grave. A lad halts to adjust the harness of the pony he is:driving ; he raises his candle, it sets fire to gas luring above, and he is flayed alive. These explosions are mainly attributable to the imprudent use of naked lights in critioal situations, and to sa large number of pits being without competent ' viewers or efficient artificial ventilation. More than a life a day is lost by falls of roof; a large pro poi tion of these would be prevented if props were placed to support the coal as it is undermined, how ever strong the roof may appear. It might be thought the men would see to this for their own sakes, but they often neglect this in their anxiety to make a profitable day's work; and they are so accustomed to danger that it is difficult to make them feel any fear, or exercise any caution. But, upon the whole, the inspectors' reports are not un satisfactory. •ne of them says of the Manchester district, that it presents a pleasing contrast to what it was when he first visited it as inspector in 1850; and the Yorkshire inspector reports that in nine years the collieries there have grown from 260 to 383, but the number of lives lost has not increased. As far as they can, the inspectors see to the observ ance of the general regulations laid down in the Acts of Parliament, and of the special rules esta blished for each mine under the sanction of the Home Secretary ; and if they observe any cause of danger not provided for by the rules they are to re quire it to be remedied, subject to an appeal to arbi tration if the owners dispute the point. In such a. work, fairly conducted, public opinion will give its aid, and it will be considered a reproach for a col liery to have accidents materially above the average year after year. But there is a growing disposition among colliery owners to lay out their mines with a careful regard to the safety of the men, and each succeeding year, as the old works become exhausted and new ones take their place, it may be hoped that the loss of life will be lessened. Efforts also are made for the improvement of the men. A mining school was opened at Glasgow a year ago, in which instruction is given in the principles of mine manage ment, and the men have an opportunity of qualify ing themselves for higher posis in the mine. The school is attended by operatives from the mines around Glasgow—industrious men bent on self improvement, and deserving success. The South Wales inspector pleads for such a school at Merthyr or Aberdare—and ought not to plead in vain. DRAIN OF BULLION FRO .01 TILE BANK OF ENGLAND. FRIDAY EVENING. There have been specie arrivals to-day from Aus tralia to the amount of £570,000, and these seen likely for a short time to meet the wants of the buyers on behalf of the Bank of France, no further with drawals having taken place from London. The stock market is comparatively firm, and in all de partments of business there is an absence of distrust or excitement. The advises from Paris state that the Bank of France do not intend—at all events for the present, to make any further advaice in their rate of dis count. As the run for gold is known still to be very active, it must therefore be inferred that they will continue their system of obtaining supplies from this side. This contingency, however, need excite no uneasiness. It is said " the Bank of France are deter mined to get gold, and do not care what price they pay for it. "This may be quite true, but the Bank of France cannot obtain more from us than we owe. Their present plan consists in buying up all the bills upon London that have been lying in the portfolios of the Paris bankers waiting maturity. There is always a very large reserve of these, espe cially when the rate of discount is higher here than in France, and by suddenly causing the whole to be transmitted hither for discount a great sum can be raised. But when the whole has been obtained, and gold is still wanted, what is to be done? Fora little time there is a further resource. By bidding still higher terms the Bank of France may attract considerable further quantities of these bills from the tills of the various bankers in all the conti nental cities. But with this operation the extreme limit is reached. No one can come upon us for any thing more. Meanwhile the advance in our rates of discount caused by the sudden demand for the payment all at once of liabilities which, under or dinary circumstances, would have ranged over 90 days, of course causes capital to be attracted to us from every quarter. If a French merchant can get his bills discounted in gold at the Bank of Franco for 41 per cent., and can employ the amount at 6 per cent. by sending it to his correspondents in London, he is sufficiently acute to do so. The same will be the case in all the principal cities of the continent. Money-dealers sending their London bills to Paris for sale will direct the proceeds to be transmitted to the best market for employment. After the first difficulty, therefore, the entire affair adjusts itself by a natural and infallible process. At the same time the limitation of orders for foreign produce and the postponement of investments opc. rate to reduce our commitments in every quarter, and e t h r e t g h r e o s u e n c cl i w r c o u r is m k ta n laid ee of a s all pgeernsoenraslcraefftuilolny. estimate future possibilities, and free themselves from vague apprehensions.—limes City Article.