The Sun. — London, England, 1858-03-23 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with Sheridan Knowles' comedy of. THE LOVE CHASE. Con stance, miss A.. s e d gw ick ; Widow Green, Mrs. Wilkins, After which, JA.CK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Followed by PRESENTED AT COURT. Misses swan borough, Fitzwilliara, and Mr. Buckstone. To conclude with THE GALICIAN FETE. °m uc us Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6a. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. 4. Second price. s. d Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes . 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit 2 0 Pit 1 0 Gallery 1 0 Gallery R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, the Play of A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM. After whiA, the new grand coral* Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN WHITE CAT ; or, The Princess Blanche Flower and her Fairy Godmothers. The Princess Blanche (White Cat), Miss Kate Terry ; Harlequin. Mr. Cor tina ; Clown, Mr. Huila° ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and Columbine, Miss C. Adams. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Bea. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed RORY O'MORE. Mr. Barney Williams. After which, AN HOUR IN SEVILLE. To conclude with THE IRISH TUTOR. Commence at Seven. CANTERBII RY HALL, Wes tmi nster-road. OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of S )lections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, do., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Miss Brucell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, and Madame Marietta ; Herr F. Jonghmaus, Mr. Henshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Rime, Mr. Badgey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Bernard ; Messrs. T. Maclagan, W. T. Critchfield, G. Fords, and E. Mackney. Piano-forte, Mr. Cecil Ilieks; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Sappers, Ize., until twelve o'clock. Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening. HIGET WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIN DAY—Morn., 21 min. aft. 7—Even., 2 rah' aft. 8 To•MOBSOW —Morn., 53 min. aft. 8 —Even., 46 min. aft. 9 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 23. THERNONETEE, IN THE MADE. 60—highest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and daring the night, sa—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.49 —falling. WIND, S.W. ; light, with very fine mild weather. tl/4. 3T ..., 1 7 e _ ... ,, 14, _ a4,, -.,- 6., ‘ , i,,) A 11, ~ I. N ►-j ‘ji t-, itt: '" • ' LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1858. The Oaths Bill has once more, and we earnestly hope for the last time, been before the House of Commons. It is surely time that something de cisive should be done to carry out the views and wishes of every true-hearted Liberal throughout the length and breadth of the land, and to pre vent the partial disfranchi:ement of the metropoli tan City, which, in its determined assertion of a great question of civil and religious liberty, has consented for a series of years to relinq wish the benefit of the actual attendance in the House of one of its sitting members. This decision was alike honourable to the constituency and to Baron Rarilsesan. It proved that, from the highest to the lowest, from its 'merchant princes to the hum blest voters, all were willing to display the most convincing proof of their inflexible resolution. To Baron Liom Da ROTHSCHILD it was no ordinary compliment to be selected as the " representative" man in such a contest. We know the high esti mation in which he is held, not only by his fellow-citizens, but by every Government and State in the civilised world. In any pecuniary difficulty his aid and that of his family are eagerly sought after. And the absence of some members of the firm would be justly regarded as a doubtful circumstance, calculated to cast doubt on any im portant financial operation, and to depreciate the securities for which a bidding is required. And yet this man, so universally honoured and re spected, who "holds his head so high on 'change," is not to be entitled to take the seat to which he has been chosen by one of the most important con stituencies in the United Kingdom ! Baron ROTHSCHILD, whose mere word would be taken for millions sterling by the most suspicious capi talist, whose name is recognised in any part of Europe or America, we believe we might add Asia and Africa, is not to be entrusted with the manage ment of a turnpike bill, or with the application of any portion of the fiscal imposts to which he is so large a contributor. He, one of the largest fund: holders, would, if the opportunity were allowed of participating in the national councils to himself and three or far coadjutors, be disposed to injure his own securities! We may now ask, who was the only other Jew ever returned to Parliament Mr. Alderman SALOXONS—one who in all the relations of life, public or private, and as chief magistrate of the metropolis, and in many other capacities, won golden opinions from all who had the opportunity of knowing his worth. Although a Jew, his charities were not sectarian, and the son or brother of the most strenuous opponent of his right to take the seat to which he was elected, if he could win, might wear and enjoy the profits and emoluments of the scholarships founded by the Alderman. Let Mr. NEADEGATZ answer whether the Jew, or his Christian. opponents, appear to greatest advantage under the actual circumstances of the case. But althoigh we have thus spoken of the wrongs of Baron ROTITSCHILD and Alderman SALomoNs, they are not the parties most deeply injured. The. unquestionable privileges of the electors of London and Greenwich have been dis regarded. They were entitled to send to the Imperial Parliament the men whom they con scientiously believed to be best qualified to repre sent their wants and wishes. None can deny that 80 far as personal worth was concerned, their choices were discreet. But because the Persona selected disdained to avail themselves of an easy mode'of getting rid of that which never was 'intended to affect them or their co religionists which was directed against a danger, or rather an alleged danger, of a very different character ; because they would not meet one quibble by another—they were deprived of their seats, and their con stituents and the nation of the benefit of their services. The sceptic, the atheist, the scorner, might, join in the deliberations of the Legislature. Those who disregarded all obligations, human or divine, might speak and vote in their places in Parliament ; not so the honest and honourable 4 ". 'rho would not suffer it for a moment to be inlP " l4 t hat _ 1 1: abandoned his ancient faith, lor be might ikel,:iu,.4.l:batuitse under cover whereof The Bill is manisestia7o:iolzin qu v estior, so far as the Government is the House of Commons, th e p it*. Leader of of the Ad m iralty, the Attorney-General, L"aanti recorded their votes favour of th e measur e in Mr. .DISRAELI, rr Sir JOHN PAKINGTo, and Si r FITZROY KELLY supported the cause of truth and justice, while Mr. ViTALroLE, General PEEL, and Sir EftrGn CAIRNS were to be found in a different lobby. We believe, however, that the ques tion will really be Ettled during the present Session ; and the more so, that Sir B. BETHELL has pledged himself to bring forward a measure for the admission of Baron RoTIISCHILD, by a resolution of iihe House on his taking the oaths in the manner which he declares to be the most bind ing on his conscience. It certainly will not in any degree be impaired by the advent of Lord DEZBY to place and power. We can readily understand the soreness of the Roman Catholic members at the unwise and impolitic distinction maintained between themselves and their fellow-representatives. But, and we say it with the most perfect good feeling, it would have been better had they brought for ward their demand for relief in a separate form. They are sufficiently influential to demand redress. We earnestly hope that the form of oath to be taken by every Member may be made identical ; that nothing should be allowed to remain to ex hibit distrust in one any more than another, :or to recognise a distinction. But still it is better not to embarrass the Jew question by an additional element. Let the Roman Catholics obtain ample relief, but let not the Jews be embarrassed in the attempt. The vexations attendant on the recent passport regulations will this evening be brought under the consideration of the representative branch of the Legislature. They may indeed be described as intolerable, and if persisted in must seriously im pair the intercourse that should subsist between friendly nations. As we have on several occasion explained, these "tickets of leave " afford but little, if any, protection against the conspirator, or indeed wrongdoers of any class. All these persons can easily provide adequate substitutes. But they constitute great annoyances and formid - able obstacles to those who may desire to visit France for purposes of business or pleasure. The former will find the loss of time and expense, and we may add degradation, of seeking a banker's or magistrate's recommendation, a matter that may induce them rather to entrust their affairs to resi dent agents than to see after them personally. The latter will consider more closely the claims of the many picturesque spots to be found in the United Kingdom. The railways and hotels of England, Ireland, and Scotland will largely profit by the virtual exclusion of those who have but a few days or weeks to spare, and there can be but little doubt that every inducement will be held out by the parties se strongly interested in taking advan tage of the favourable opportunity. But it will be at the expense of the railways and hotels of France, whose directors and managers have no objection to British gold. They will have ample cause to deplore the results arising from Imperial fears or Imperial jealousy. Even the schoolmasters and shopkeepers will participate in what, if persisted in, must prove a heavy blow and great discouragement to their respective callings. The Emperor has an unquestionable right to make such regulations as he may think expedient for the management of his own subjects, and be may refuse to permit any stranger to visit his dominions save on specified conditions. But we must say that he has no right to constitute our Foreign-office one of his bureaux of police. It is a principle of our law that every British subject is to be deemed innocent of crime until he is con victed by a jury of his peers. He has a right to the protection of his Government either at home or abroad, whithersoever he may please to go. He should not be compelled to enter into a history of his birth, parentage, and education, or have all his antecedents investigated, and days wasted before he could be allowed to visit Boulogne, Ostend, or Calais, which, for all practical purposes, should be as accessible as Liverpool or Manchester. At all events, if there is to be an impediment, that should not be obtruded on him at Downing-street. The French authorities should not frame regula tions to be enforced in the British metropolis against British subjects. If they want to estab lish a system of espionage it should be carried out through their own detectives. Our officials should lend no aid thereto. It is but justice to the present Government to say that they did not introduce the obnoxious system. It is not very easy to alter existing regulations. We are, however, convinced that tem perate but firm representations would be promptly attended to. The French police would easily understand the injuries arising both to England and France from an obstinate adherence to these highly injudicious rules. At all events,' a resolute course, on the part of intending tourists, will go far to remedy the grievance. For once let British scenery receive fair play ; let those who have a month to spare determine to devote it to an investigation of the beauties of their native land. Their time will not be wasted. They will not find " all barren " at home. There are matters worth seeing at the Lakes of Cumberland or Killarney, the Highlands of Scotland or Wales, Fingal's Cave, or the Giant's Causeway. Benlomond, Skiddaw, Snowdon, or Mangerton, will well repay a visit. Nor need we say a word in favour of Derbyshire, or Devon shire, Worcestershire, Wicklow, or Connemara. The most varied taste may be gratified. Every man may find a suitable place of recreation, without passing from under the protection of British law, or encumbering himself with a passport beyond that contained in his purse. Such a course pursued for a single season would have far greater effect than all the arguments of diplomatists. Let pleasure-seekers do their part, and railway and steam-packet companies and hotel-keepers fairly respond to the invitation, and in due time announce their intention of so doing, and the object will be accomplished. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESiDAV EVENING MARCEi L &TEST NEWS. THE CHINA MAIL. We have received the letters of our special and private correspondents from Canton and Hong Kong to the 29th of January. (FROM THE TIMES' SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) " GOVERNOR'S YAMUN, CANTON, JAN. 28. " Having gone down to Hong Kong with the last mail boat, I remained there a few days to get my letters and make some arrangements for a more protracted residence in Canton. The topics of interest in the city of Victoria were not very numerous. The arrival of the Princess Char lotte and the departure overland of Cap tain King—farewell dinners to Commodore Elliot, who takes home the Sybille—the ad vent of Captain Hall, to take the place of Captain E Igen as Senior Officer—deeds of heroism upon the walls, reported by the heroes upon leave—the circumstances of one or two past balls and the probabilities of the forthcoming races— the departure of the Madras troops and expecta tion of others to supply their places, were the chief matters talked over in that not very event ful city. Some benevolent individuals amuse themselves throwing pebbles into the stagnant socialities of the island by inventing some egre gious 4 shave.' Yeh was a frequent hero of these fictions. At another time Peh-Kwei bad ab sconded. Then the Tartar General had fled to join a camp of 20,000 men assemblel near Fort Lin. A Frenchman had been found outside a Canton shop skinned. The whole of the 90 villages were ready to march upon the invaders. A massacre of the English in Canton was in active preparation. The blockade was taken off ! " This last was th• all-absorbing 'shave. ' The island was immediately divided into two parties, who argued the question entirely upon public grounds. It was amusing to one a little behind the scenes to hear these disinterested and patriotic dis cussions. You never would have imagined that the disputants had any personal interest in the matter. Yet it does so happen that some of the Chinese houses have been buying large quanties of teas at high prices in the north, reckoning upon the con tinued suspension of the southern trade ; and it generally occurs that the representatives of these houses think the Chinese ought to be punished by keeping up the blockade until they have learnt that we can do without the commerce of Canton. On the ether hand, those Americans who have intimate relations with the Chinese, and people who could not run the risk of buying teas in the north at their present prices, are struck with the gross cruelty of stopping the poor China man's commerce in his own river. They never hint that they hope to buy 11,000,000 lbs. of teas at lower prices as soon as the river is open. The hope may be illusory, but it is a chance which costs them nothing. " The leaders subsequently conferred upon this subject of raising the blockade. The consultation took place on Monday, the 25th, and the day de termined upon is the 10th of next month. This mail will probably take home a copy of the pro clamation about to be issued at Hong Kong. We shall not get the Gazette here until the mail is gone. "On the 21st I returned to my quarters in Canton, and found that all the tender solicitude of the people of Hong Kong had been entirely thrown away. I traversed the whole city with my trunk and chow-chow baskets, myself the only escort to my four coolies. Along the great east And west thoroughfare a closed shop was become a rare exception, and the only difficulty was to push our way through the crowd. The people were cutting up their pigs and their fish (the abundance of immense carp, tench, and roach in the streets of the city is wonderful), and cooking their comestibles in full business-like security. Idlers were playing at Chinese hazard, and exhi biting their piles of coins upon the board. The curiosity shops, in incredible numbers, were spread with curious I :antiques of the newest fashions, and. were victimising credulous lieutenants in a way which Mencius would not Lave approved. The crowds are riot even afraid to manifest curiosity at the clothes and features of their European guests, And the shopkeepers invite you into their shops with a politeness that demonstrates that they have no misgiving that you will exercise any right of conquest except a conquest by purchase. Yet the spirit of insolence has departed out of them. Neither in word nor gesture is there any symptom of hostility or even of dislike. I have seen two peo ple frightened very much by a scolding for using the word " fan-quei," (foreign devil)—but I believe they used it in all innocence, having never heard us called by any other name. I would neglect no precautions, for the neglect of precautions would revive hopes now aban ' doned, and the neglest of precautions nearly proved our destruction at Ningpo during the last war ; but so far from there being any notion of retaking this city, I believe that no 10 Chinamen within sight of Canton would dare to raise a stick in the presence of a British or French soldier or sailor. " The street of the triumphal arches is the only exception to the general reopening movement. That street lay rather in the way of the Phlege thon's fire, and the lower part of it has suffered severely. The Chinese are engaged in clearing away the rubbish to rebuild their burnt houses, but the uninjured shops near the Treasury still remain sulkily closed. In the large western su burb, where the streets and shops are quite as good as in the city, not a shot fell, and business goes on as usual. " The commercial parts of Canton have been much over-estimated. We have believed that there must be some grain of truth in the bombast and brag of the Chinamen. Canton is big and popu lous, that is all. In other respects it is a very ordinary China city. Its temples are numerous, and the Confucian temple and the temple of five hundred gods are good of their kind, but most of the others are miserable and dilapidated. The nine-storied pagoda is in so ruinous a condition that the General the other day forbade the at tempt to climb the fragments of its broken stair case. Major Luard, whose success at the escalade seems to have inspired him with a mania for climbing, had previously risked his neck in getting some way up. Yet this pagoda is the great boast and lion of Canton. The Chinese boasted of it because foreigners could not get near enough to see what a miserable ruin it is. What can we think of a people who will not afford a few dollars to save their monu ments from mouldering ? When the General and his party went to the pagoda it had all the air of not having been opened for 20 years. I have already spoken of that great district of desolation the Tartar General's yamun. Hundreds of coolies are now papering and whitewashing, carpenters are shoring up, and I believe, even painters are painting. It is thought that when the jungle is cleared away, and the roofs and floors are secured, and the bats driven out, and the atmosphere sweetened, it will become good barracks, and that the surrounding grounds will become what I inno cently described them as being when I spoke of them on Chinese testimony—' capital camping ground for the British grenadiers.' " How different are all the realities of Chinese life from our English notions of Oriental magnifi cence ! Their ridiculous mandarins, whom our middle classes wonder at, and our great folk adore, live in houses in which an English gentleman would be ashamed to lodge his steward, and keep their retainers in places which an English farmer would think quite unworthy of his cows. It is xplained that they allow vast yamuns to fall to de cay lit cause their tenure of office seldom exceeds three years ; their luxuries, therefore, are for dresses, embroidered tunics, jadestono sceptres, loose silk chairco W v i e th rs, so and suchlike moveables. I found the yamun of Peh-Kwei in a much m pioi o nar r ter: b ra f ine s hi y :: :: : :e . than when I left it. I shall not forget the sensations of o t f ha our first night in that • p e a w vi e l r io e n s s u , ddenly left alone at sun downt,iirimeal. Fancy without t unknownso light,foreigners or rßabylon leftg u id in ofe, the dark in Vauxhall-garden s two days after London had been stormed, groping about the rotunda and the Alhambra and the side boxes for places where they might sleep secure from a night attack. It was not encouraging that when two of us penetrated to Peh-kwei's buildings to demand oil and tallow, a hundred fellows, headed by Peh-kwei, and his guest the Tar tar General, stormed at us in chorus, and twice pressed us out by the unhostile pressure of their bodies against ours before we could make our selves understood sufficiently to levy a pound of candles as the price of peace and quietness. " Now all this is entirely changed. Through the open yamun doors crowds of Chinese come and go. The Chinese tribunal of Peh-Kwei and the tribunal of three Commissioners (Colonel Holloway, le Capitaino Martineau, and Mr. Parkes) are cur petits soins. Thanks to the energy of the trium viri, the streets of Canton are as safe from Euro pean violence as the streets of Paris are from Chinese exactions. Colonel Holloway's Court takes all the mixed cases ; and, finding the other day that a Chinaman was in the wrong, he was sent over to Peh-Kwei with a statement of the circumstances. The Mandarin was so charmed with this compliment that he had the poor wretch bambooed nearly to death. " The New Court has also established a new Canton police. Captain Pym is the Colonel Rowan of Cantos. He has 100 soldiers under him armed with swords and revolvers, and the French have a separate body of 30 men. Associated with the European police are an equal number of Tartars. Five English and two French stations have been established in convenient parts of the city and suburbs, and the shopkeeping community are likely to obtain under British and French rule a security they never before hoped for. " Things were proceeding so happily that Peh- Kwei the other day wrote a note to Lord Elgin complimenting him very much upon the state of affairs, and suggesting that we were all now such very good friends that it was quite unnecessary for us to keep soldiers in the city. This polite imper tinence produced an answer which Peh-Kwei has not yet shown to his most intimate advisers. In stead of evacuating the city the General has been obliged to remind the Tartar General of a stipula tion that the arms of the Tartar soldiery should be given up. The Chinese dignitaries were pre pared to correspond upon this subject, to appoint commissioners, to receive reports, and to hold a discussion upon every giugal. The English General, with a barbaric promptitude, marched 1,300 coolies and a large escort into the three great depots, and, on Saturday last, lodged nearly all the rubbish within the English lines. The three Imperial armouries were in a high state of effi ciency. The double-handed swords were immense in numbers and terrible to look upon. There were rooms lull of those fear-inspiring shields which, in some quite moleru period of Chinese hiAory, 'probably gave to some piratical Greek the idea of the Shield of Minerva. There were arrows in thou sands, very carefully finished and preserved in cases, but the mandarin bows were very rare. Great stores of quilted war jackets filled the presses, and there were many complete suits of Chinese armour. 'I he swords, and pikes, and gingal4, and matchlocks were innumerable ; but the chief attraction was five brass gnus, which were followed by covetous eyes as they were walked off by the coolies. In another establishment we found collected all the shot that could be recovered after the last year's bombardment, and also some of the unexploded shell, which had been fired upon the city on the 28th December. There was also a great depot of infernal machines in form like a dark lantern made of tin ; many flags and banners were also carried off. " I have takeu some pains to ascertain the loss suffered by the Chinese during the bombardment and the storm. We have all the official returns of the first day in our possession, and no account that I have seen places the deaths during the whole operations higher than 200. Some distrust the Chinese accoun's, but I am inclined to put frith in them. Unless you surround Chinese soldiers you never kill many of them. You never catch them upon an island, or in an isolated position. They act upon the principle of the Wife of Bath, that " 'A mouse who trusts to one poor hole, ' Can never bo a mouse of any soul.' They fire very fiercely upon you as you are coming up to attack them, but escape by the back door as soon as you get too near. Our escalade was a com plete surprise upon them. They fancied you were advancing under the fire from their walls to attack Fort Gough ; they never expected that you would turn aside and jump upon wooden legs' over the wall Howqua's Comprador, with whom some of us talked the matter over, declares that it is impos sible that the numbers killed could be greater than is sta'ed. The people, he says, knew perfectly well the line the fire would take and got out of the way. The troops who were obliged to remain on the walls kept very much under cover, and great quan tities of the missiles missed the wall and fell into the ditch. The dead must be buried outside the city, and as the western gate only was open, it was easy for any one to calculate how many were carried out. It says little for the destructive power of our warlike engines that so small a loss should have been occasioned by so large an expen diture of shot and shell, but the probabilities are that the fact is as the Chinese state it. It is placed beyond doubt now that the loss of the Chine-e dur ing the bombardment in 1856 was not more than 43, and I quite believe in the probability that the recent list of killed doss not exceed 200. " The Staff arrangements have undergone some change. The last accounts from India showing that Crealock's regiment was actively engaged, he resigned his Staff appointment here, and is gone off to his regimental duty. Captain Pellew, the Gene ral's aide-de-camp, has pursued th e same c o urse. Captain Cooke, of the Marines, succeeds Major Crealock, and Capt. Carrington, who has hitherto acted as Provost-Marshal, has been removed to tho Adjutant-General's department. The General has not yet chosen an aide-de-camp to succeed Captain Pelle w. "Our great want is interpreters. It would ap pear that there are only three English interpreters available for our use iu all China. Mr. Wade and Mr. Parkes aro worked beyond all reason, and, what is more to the purpose, they toil in vain to overtake the exigencies of the public service. Mr. Alabaster, a young man of some acquirements in Chinese, is in attendance upon Yeh. There is a Wang, and a P or t u guese named named d re the only mouth s through which C L h oz in a a ri m o. an T n h a e m se we can communicate with this people. Peh-Kwei has been asked to take some steps to wards alleviatingthe misery o f t h e d est i tute classes,does not see his way t o t h e employ mentbut h of any less efficacious methods than the head cutting knife and the bamboo. The life of these high dignitaries must be very' dull. Peh-Kwei is ' too great a man to do anything. He sits all day in an uncomfortable straight-backed chair, and re• ceives a few reports, and writes occasionally —or ra ther dictates, for his handwriting is unpresentable to the Emperor. Seeing him the other day in this positio ednasokfdigeified discomfort, one of th e inter pretershim whether he passed much of his time in reading ? His answer was, ' No, I never read ; my heart is heavy. I cannot laugh over roe mances, and if I read good books I go to sleep.' " Yeb, on board the Inflexible, exhibits much th e smile spectacle; and it naturally occurred to the Anglo-Saxon mind that ho also must want books. nwoasrnegjeacbtoeudtcomances. His answer was, What but Yeh is a religious man al:hnde offr nothing saide s hould Ido with books? All the books that are proper to be read I know by heart.' He quoted Caliph Omar without having ever heard his name. He passes his time in praying to Buddha and telling his fortune. His papers abound in for tune-telling schemes, analogous to our SortesVir eilianee 'or Sortes Biblicm.' One of them is headed Scheme to determine when the Kwangsi Rebellion will terminate.' The Chinese are very indignant with hi m for not killing him self. They say Eep number one fools ; he no make wr i tee pigeon, h e no ma k e fighteo Pigeon ; he number one bad Man dalin, he no cuttee thloat.' The wretched crea ture seems to have been influenced in his conduct by these fortune-taEng tricks, which are as hetero dox in China as they are id tiglaud. Respire his state p rivalcs Divora nt . Yet; although the revelations uf aper s anti our observation of his personal demonst,rate that he is without conduct or judgment, or even the rt ong cernmon-sense of an that ord inaryare ehtiolirithalt his h is pre official , ecreat the i s so ca g u r t e o, a l t river exercises an unfavourable influence upon our dealings with the Chinese people. Unless early news of his degradation should be received. he will be sent away. The present idea is to send him to Calcutta, where he will p ro b a bly have an oppor tunty of cultivatlng the frieniship of the King of Oude within the walls of Fort-William. HONG KONG, JAN. 29. Our latest advices from England are tD the 26th November. The steamer with the mail of the 10th December keeps out. The steamer Ottawa, with the outward mail, leaves to-day. By a Government Gazette _Extraordinary, pub lished late last evening, we learn that the bluctiade of the port and river of Canton will be raised on the 10th February next. The city and suburbs will be open to foreigners under certain conditions, 28, and martial law will continue during th© occupa tion by the Allied Forces. By this opportunity we have little to report from this. At Canton matters remain quiet, and the system of government adopted seems to work satisfactorily. It will probably be some time before entire confi dence is restored, and we learn that a good many of the wealthy inhabitants are still leaving the place. When the restiutions to trade are removed we look forward to a better understanding between foreigners and Chinese. Their Excellencies Lord Elgin and Baron Le Gros still keep their stations off the city. It is said the Ambassadors will proceed north as early as practicable. Yeh, the late viceroy, is still on board her Ma jesty's steamer Inflexible, stationed in the river. We believe it is not yet decided what will be done with him. His being allowed to remain so near his former seat of Government is considered to exert some influence over the present Chinese Commis sioners, who previously acted under him. One or two regiments of native troops are ex pected in here shortly, from Bengal. Her Majesty's ship Sybille, Commodore Elliot, sailed for England on the 21st inst., and her Ma jesty's ship Comus on the 26th inst. We have to mention a most daring robbery and murder which was committed in this place on the evening of the 26th inst. At about 5 o'clock in the evening the shop of a watchmaker was entered, and property to a considerable amount taken away. The European boy in charge was killed, having been stabbed in several places. The Chinese house servant has been taken into custody, and a China man connected with the establishment, supposed to be the murderer, has been captured at Macao. Watches were found in his possession, and a knife soiled with blood. At Hongkong business during the past fortnight has been very inactive, partly owing to the state of Canton matters, and restricted also from the approach of the Chinese new year, 12th proximo. Cotton.—Small sales of Bombay. Quotations nominal $l5. Cotton Yarn.—No sales. Prices ara somewhat lower. Silly.—No purchases have been made at Macao for Great Britain. Exchange on England, 45. 9 d. ; on India, 220 r. The present steamer takes a large amount in treasure for India and England. Freights.—Little demand tor tonnage. At Foochow the tea market was very dull. Set tlements reported at 6,000 chests congou and about 1,000 half chests Oolon g s, at a decline of about 1 tael. Remaining stock 65,000 to 70,000 chests congou (mostly common kinds), and 15,000 half chesth Oolongs. One vessel had sailed for England and two were loading. Our Shanghae advices are to the 23d inst. Busi ness in imports and exports had been limited. Total exports of tea to Great Britain, 38,000,000 of lb. against 46,000,000 last year to the same time, being a decrease for the present year of 8,000,000 lb. Silk.—Transactions had been very small, esti mated at 1,000 bales, at a decline in price of 40 taels. Freights to England, 27. 10s. for tea, and 47. 10s. for silk. Amoy advices are to the 24th ine. Transactions in imports and exports very limited. Manilla advices are to the 23d inst. The quota tions for exports were nearly nominal. Our latest dates are—from England, Nov. 26 ; Calcutta, Dec. 19 ; Bombay, Dec. 16 ; Singapore, Jan 2 ; Manila, Jan. 23 ; Sydney, Nov. 10 ; Mel bourne, Nov. 16 ; Shanghae, Jan. 23. THE LOSS OF THE AVA. POINT DE GALLE, CEYLON, FEB. 23. The Peninsular and. Oriental Company's steamer Ave, with mails from Calcutta and Madras for England, went on shore on the evening of Tues day, the 16th instant, on Pigeon's Island, off Trincomalee, and has since gone in halves amidships, and become a perfect wreck. She was on her way to this port, but had to touch at Triucornalee to land money ; how she came in the locality where she was lost remains to be explained ; it was within 1i mile of the shore and 10 miles from the harbour of Trincomalee. No portion of the mails has been saved ; of the treasure which she was bringing for the Bombay Government 152 boxes out of 500 have been re covered, containing 78,5001., out of 253,0001. ; 400 bales silk, and 500 chests of indigo, and other valu able merchandize to a large amount, have been lost. The Admiralty agent, Lieutenant Percival, re mained by the wreck after the captain and officers had lefr, in the hope of saving some boxes, but there appeared slight chance of his doing so. Pro videntially no lives have been lost. The passen gers include many ladies from the garrison of Lucknow, and several wounded officers, 70 in all, besides 19 children and many European female servants. We have as yet no list ;we only know that among them are Major-General Michel and Colonel Greit')ead for Bombay, and Mrs. Inglis (wife of the gallant Commander at Luckuow), and her three children. Unfortunately, Mrs. Inglis's journal of the siege, not the least valuable article among what has perished, has not been saved. All the passengers arrived here this morning in the Granada, a small Peninsular steamer, which happened to be here for commercial purposes, and which was promptly despatched to the scene of the wreck by our Master Attendant, Captain Twynam, within a few hours after the loss of the Ava had been communicated to him by telegraph from Colombo. The Ave had on board a new shaft for the steamer Alma, which remains at Aden, waiting for it, be fore she can resume her work on the line. The loss of the Ave is a parallel to that of the Erin, which took place about a twelvemonth ago, and concerning which little inquiry appears to have been made by the Company. The Granada will leave this with passengers and the mails from Ceylon and China to-morrow, at daybreak. They have been detained,a week by this accident. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. There is now no doubt of M. de Persigny's resignation of the London Embassy being defini tively accepted. The Marquis de Moustier will probably succeed him. It is not believed that M. de Persigny will for the present enter the Cabinet, notwithstanding the rumours to that effect. He will, probably, be more useful in the Council of Regency, of which he is a member. BOURSE, March 22.—The following were the closing quotations :- 4i per Cents 93 50 Do. end month — 3 per Cent. ..... 69 75 Do. end month 69 90 Bank Shares Credit Mobilier Do. Account B3O - RAIL Orleans Northern New Ditto ' 695 Lyon and Mediteran. 810 New Ditto BOO Geneva Credit Foncier Belgian 44 Piedmontese (5) Roman Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt 37} 'AY S. Midi Western 6621 Strasburg Grand Central Sardinian Austrian LLOYD'S SHIPPINO.—(This Day.) LONDON, March 23.—Wind .this day at noon, S.E.; calm, with dense fog. OFF FALMOUTH, March 22.—Wind N.W.—Arrived— Young Sam, for New Orleans for Havra; Johanna, Ha vaunah. _ ...---. CLYDE, March 21.—Wind S.—Arrived—Bellona, from Cardona% . _ _ _ FALMOUTH, March 22.—Wind N. W.—Arrived--Friar Tuck, Shanghai; Edith Roab, from Newcastle for Monte Video. PORTSMOUTH, March 22.—Wind S.E.— Sailed—An drilla, for Corfu. _ _ NEWPORT, March 22.--Wind W.—Sailed—Conrad, Fernando Po. LEITH, March 22.—Wind S. E.—Arrived —Knight, from Callao. QUEENSTOWN, March 22. —Wind S.W.—Arrived -11-,nnah, from Callao. SHIELDS, March 22.—Wind) W.N.W.—Sailed—Julia, for Cahutta. CARDIFF, March 22.—Wind E.—Sailed—Danube, for Havan nab. JERSEY, March 21.—Wind S.E.--Arrived—Bassie, from Demerara. Sailed—Susan, for Barbadoes. GLOUCESTER, March 21. —Arrived—Melodia, from Huela. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Calm and fine. Arrived—Express (s), from Jersey; Bury, Briaport ; Havre (s), Havre. Sailed—Alliance (s), for Havre. LIVER 00L, Tuesday Morning. Wind N. W. Arrived, March 22—Sarah Ellen, from Rouen; Rita (ss), Bilboa. Sailed, Ma rc h 22 . —L ou i s, f or B a hi a ; Q uee n Bee, for Jamaica. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH•) GRA gP,SEND, Tuesday Morning. Wind E.; tide tbree hours' ebb ; weather tine. Arrived, March 23—Acis, from St. Michael's. Sailed, March 22—White Star, for Halifax. Sailed, March 23—Panther, steamer, for Boulogne. The specie by the Parana was delivered yesterday, and the greater part of the g.)1.1 was taken up for the Continent ; the remaining Brazilian gill by the A von will also go abroad. Tile bar silver brought on this oc casion has been disptsed of at 61g- 1., showing no alters,. tion. The dollars are not yet sold, the market being sat. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty the Queen held-a Court yesterday after noon at Buckingham Palace. Baron de Brunnow had an audience of the Queen, and delivered his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias. His Excellency was intro duced by the Earl of Malmesbury, the Queen's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cast, 'C.C.S., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Down ing-street. The Ministers present were—the Earl of Derby, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hard wicke, the Right Eon. B. Disraeli, Mr. Secretary Waloole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Stanley, General Peel, Sir John Pakington, the Earl of Ellenborongh, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. The Countess of Caledon enters on her duties as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty, in the room of the Duches:- of Wel!ington, to-day. • Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday, from St. Leonard's-on-Sea. Her ladyship, who will return to town to-morrow, has issued cards for an assembly on Saturday next. The Right Hon . the Speaker of the House of Com mons will have his sixth and last full dress Parliamer. tail, dinner to-morrow (Wednesday), instead of Saturday nex.. Rotel, "Upp er N orwoo d . M rs. an d Mi ss P owys h av Mr. and Mrs. Mu rra y h av e arr i ve d a t the Q Alen' t s , arrived at the same establishment. nil Royal Highness the Prince Consort paid a visit to the residence of the F renc h E m b assy yester d ay, t'' •iesr the caller f .." 0„ * „ ~ . y o pi.tures collected by his Excellency i 1,4::: at . ,: thzpora... ll l : :: P i: hi c r 1 1 7 1 1 1 l a : G .. r e i rp o i v r ae g er e t ti o . n f Saxon London,, at the 1 4.11.4,1 t A t , ton, M . P., have left Devormikiirolto near Milnethorpe. Mr. and The familyh of L ond o n argnis of Harting av e arr i ve d University Lothiana t . D evo o ..Z.: - Er:',i7 i x ll 3 Re ward e i t i k a a t ti:d . and ill Countarcbi M o nAae Marquis i v a v i a t s 1 B e o n f l i e e k h l a l n s g Language Hall, Norfolk. appointed by the Connell' College Professor of Italia n Literature,been 1858. LITERATURE. Recollections of the Last Four Popes, and of Rome in their Times. By Cardinal Wiseman. Hurst and Blackett. Cardinal Wiseman, whose name has long been eminent among those of his own faith for his lite rary as well as his theological attainments, is not unknown as an 'author to a wider circle. His charming romance of the catacombs, "Fabiola," was an universal favourite, and the volume before us is by no means restricted iu its interest to those of the same creed. Though of course maintaining the spiritual and temporal authority of the Pope, and tinged throughout with the author's peculiar opinions, the work is written in a tone of modera tion, and freedom from asperity that prevents it from offending the feelings and prejudices of bis opponents. There are not many persons who can boast of having seen five successive rulers, and those who have must have witnessed changes in nations and manners which must interest all classes of cultivated readers. An observer of the taste and abilities of Cardinal Wiseman cannot fail to find a congenial subject in the artistic remains of the Eternal City. His first introduction to it was in early youth, when, in company with five others, he was sent to colonise the English college in that city, which had long been desolate and deserted. He gives an amusing list of the misadventures of the journey, then a formidable one. He tells us how the embarkation took place on the second of Octo ber, and the arrival late in December ; how a fort night was spent in the passage from Savona to Genoa, how a dog went mad for want of water, how the ship went on fire, how a sudden squall nearly destroyed them, and how, at length, they heard the joyful sound "Ecco Rama." Pius the Seventh was the Pope who then wore the tiara, who bad witnessed the convulsions of Europe, who had seen the fall of the Emperor who dethroned him, and who had been restored to power by the course of events. In his long life of more than eighty years what vicissitudes had that old man seen and experienced, what thrones and dynasties swept away before the march of the conqueror, or crushed by the Im perial tread to lift their heads again when he had passed by. The Cardinal thus describes his senti ments on his first interview : The feelings- of any one permitted to 'approach that most venerable man had necessarily a colour and vivid ness beyond those inspired by his dignity and office. • His history had been mixed up with that of the world, and its very anecdotes were fresh in memory. To the young especially, who remembered him only in a posi tion so different from his natural one, as a captive and a persecuted Pontiff, who had almost learnt to disjoin the idea of the supreme rule of the Church from all the pomp and even power of worldly state, and to associate it with prisons and bonds, as in the early stages, there was the halo of the Confessor round the tiara of Pius, that eclipsed all gold and jewels. His portrait had been fa miliar to us, but it was that not of a high priest, clad in "the vesture of holiness," but of an aged man bending over the crucifix in search of its consolations, and speak ing those words which had been made sacred by his con stant utterance—" May the holy and adorable will of God be ever done!" Then had come the news of his wonderful triumphs, his humble victory, scarcely less astonishing than that of arms. He had been rescued fram his durance not by the power of man, not by the armies that almost hemmed in his prison, but by that higher will that keeps in its own hands the hearts of kings, and turns them at pleasure. The same stern com mand which had torn him from his palace and borne him away, had set him free, or rather ordered his restoration. To this, indeed, had succeeded another danger and tem porary retreat; so that the final settlement of the Holy Pontiff in his dominion., and their restoration in their integrity, had only occurred three years before, and bore the character of recent events. As yet, indeed, one might almost have said that the triumphal arches and garlands of his joyful entry into Rome had scarcely faded, and that the echoes of the welcome cries that greeted him still lingered among the seven hills. For the people all spoke GE them as things of yesterday. He gives an interesting account of the Pope's endeavours to restore and embellish the artistic marvels of Rome, a task that was carried on with energy by his second successor, Pius the Eighth. To the library Pius made considerable additions, not ,only of manuscripts, but of many thousands of printed volumes. Among these was a magnificent collection of bibles, and biblical works. The Pantheon had long been to Rome what Santa Croce was to Florence, and Westminster Abbey used once to be to us ; the mauso leum of great men. The busts of distinguished Italians were arranged round its walls, and gave a profane ap pearance to the church. By order of the Sovereign Pontiff a new gallery was prepared in the Capitol, under the name of Protometheca ; and iu one night of 1820, the whole of the busts were removed from the Pantheon, and carried thither. It is, however, one even greater glory of Pius's reign, that he commenced that series of excavations round an cient monuments which have been continued till the present day, and have done more for solid antiquarian learning than any previous study. Former excavations had been carried on mainly to obtain works of art, and were filled up again as fact as made. But, in 1807, the Arch of Septiraus Several, which, as may be seen in Piranesi's. pints (not here the lying Piranesi," as For . syth calls him), bad been more than half buried in the ground, was cleared of all rubbish, and an open space lrfc quite round it. Au immense spur, too, was added to the Colosseum, to prevent a large portion of its out. ward wall failing. The excavations and restorations of ancient monuments were continued I,y the Freuch au thorities under the Empire, and often with a bolder hand, for churches were destroyed or desecrated to dis cover or restore heathen edifices. But after the restora tion the work was resumed with greater vigour. A tichseologists were wonderfully disappointed when on excavating round a column in the centre of the Forum, which bad been the very pivot of systems, it displayed on its pedestal an inscription of Phocas a monarch totally out of the pale of classicalsociety. Besides, however, other interesting restorations, that of the arch of, Titus reflects the greatest credit on the commission appointed by Pius for the preservation of ancient edifices. This, not only beautiful, but precious monument bad been made the nucleus of a hideous castellated fort, by the Frangipani family. Its masonry, however, embraced and held to gether, as well as crushed, the marble arch ; so that on treeing it from its rude buttresses, there was fear of its collapsing, and it had first to be well bound together by props and bracing beams, a process in which Roman t architects are unrivalled. It was in this condition that I first remember the arch of Titus. The seven-branch candlestick, the table, trumpets, and other spoils of the temple which Roland has so well illustrated in a learned little treatise, as collateral and monumental evi dences of Scripture truth, were invisible in great mea• sure behind the Wooden framework, which also corn pletely hid from view the beautiful relief of the,apothe . xis in the key stone. The simple expedient was adopted by the architect Stern of completing the arch in stone ; for its sides had been removed. Thus encased in a solid structure, which continued all the architectural lines, and renewed its proportions to the mutilated centre, the arch was both completely secured and almost restored • to its pristine elegance. The Cardinal's first view of Leo the Twelfth was on the imposing occasion of his coronation. He thus describes the gorgeous spectacle : For the first time I witnessed pontifical high mass in St. Peter's. All was new—the ceremony, the circum stances, the person. As has been before observed, the infirmities of Pius VII. had prevented him from officiat ing solemnly ; so that many of us who had already passed several years in Rome had not witnessed the grandest of pontifical functions. But, strange to say, though some of our body had shortly before received holy orders from his hands in his private oratory, as I bad not enjoyed that privilege, the countenance, hem wh.ch later I had to receive so many benign looks, was all but new to me. And the peculiar moment in which he stands painted, clear as an old picture, in my memory, was one which can only be once passed in each pontificate. As the procession was slowly advancing towaids the high altar of the Vatican basilica, it suddenly paused, and I was but a few feet from the chair of stare, on which, for the first time, the Pontiff was borne. No other court could present so grand and so overpowering a spectacle. In the very centre of the sublimest building on earth there stood around a circle of officers, nobles, princes, and am ba-sadore in their dazz ing cos; umee ; and within them the highest dignitaries of religion on earth, bishops and patriarchs of the western and of the eastern Church, with the sacred college in their embroidered robes, crowned by heals which an artist might have rejoiced to study, and which claimed reverence from every be holder. But rising on his throne, above them, was he whom they had raised there, in spite of tears and remon strances. Surely, if a life of revere discipline, t f con stant suffering, and of long seclusion had not sufficed to extinguish ambition in his brea,t, his present position was calcult.ted naturally to arouse it. If ever in his life there could be an instant of fierce temptation to • self-applause, this might be considered the one. And wherefore this pause in the triumphant proces sion towards the altar over the Apostles-' tomb, and to the throne beyond it ? It is to check the rising of any such feeling, if it present itself, and to secure an anti dote to any sweet draught which humanity may offer; that so the altar may be approached in humility, and the throne occupied in meekness. A clerk cf the papal chapel holds right before him a reed, surmotitted by a handful of flax. This is lighted : it flashes up for a mo ment, dies out at once, and its thin ashes fall at the Pontiff's feet, as the chaplain, in a bold sonorious voice, chaunts aloud," Pater Sancte, sic transit gloria mundi." "Holy Father, thus passeth a wa y th e wor ld' s g l or y I" Three times is this impressive rite performed in that procession, as though to counteract the earthly influences of a triple crown. The character and policy of Leo he describes at length, as well as his reforms and alterations which were doub,less actuated by a sincere desire of re formation and improvement. Tue brief pont,ficate of Pius the Eighth did not affuid scope for many remarkable events. He was distinguished, as we remarked above, by his love of arts and learning. He was succeeded in 1831 by Gregory the Sixteenth, the civil and domestic questions of whose time arc beyond the scope of this volume of pleasant infor mation and agreeable personal recollections. The artistic associations of his reign are, however, above the stormy elements of political strife,' and they thus are alluded to : Let us begin with these higher proofs of genius. The f Roman galleries were rich till his time, in masterpieces of Greek and Roman art. Indeed, one only wonders how so much that is beautiful remains there after Rome • has enriched the rest of the world. Unfortunately, in ancient times, many of the sculptures excavated, when the soil was for the first time upturned, were placed in the palaces or villas belonging to the family of the reign ing Pope, and thereby became appropriated to its own use. Thus, the Medici Villa received those matchless statues and groups which make the Tribuna at Florence a temple of highest art, though adorned only with spoils secretly conveyed from Rome. Thus also, whatever in the Museum of Napl es b ears th e name o f Farnesian, as the Hercules and Di rce , came f rom th e g i gan tic palace of that family in Rome. Let us imagine these two col lections poured back into their original source, and what would the Vatican he now I Then add to the sum of Roman artistic wealth the innumerable pieces of sculp ture collected or scattered in other places ' and even in other parts of the city, in the villas and palaces of Rome, in the Louvre, at Munich, in London,-and it well may be said that the Eternal City has not only heaped up artistic treasures for herself, but that she has enriched with them the entire world. With this inexhaustible mine of wealth, she had not thought of going beyond her own soil to increase her store. She watches indeed more jealously over it, and over every new discovery, and does not allow the stran ger so easily as formerly to be a v ainer by her own losses. The consequence has been most beneficial. Unable any longer to look to Italy for the accumulation of master pieces, we have turned to the original fields where she reaped her golden harvests, to Greece and Asia, to Lycia and Halicarnassus. It was Gregory XVI. who first en larged the boundaries of artistic collection in Rome, and brought into near connection the monuments of earlier schools, those from which it had always been supposed that the more elegant and sublime productions of Grecian taste and genius had received their first inspirations. The discovery of Assyrian monuments has indeed materially modified these theories. Egypt can no longer claim to be the cradle of artistic Greece ; no lawgiver of her future code of taste ever lurked in the bulrushes of the Zile. And Etruscan art is no antecedent preparer or modifier of Grecian grace, it is a portion finished and refined of it, though corresponding with it in progres sive development, from rigid archaism to unzoned luxuriancy. Gregory added to the Vatican, but kept unblended with its chaster treasures, most valuable collections of these two classes of monuments. He began nearest home. Mention has already been made of the Etruscan discoveries commenced a few years earlier in the Papal territory. Campaigns had long supplied Europe with what are still called Etruscan vases, probably the same objects of commerce as figure in our customs list under the designation of " Magna Gracia ware." The Museum at Naples was rich in its collection of them ; and most other countries possessed a few specimens. North of Rome, most Etrurian cities contained local museums, in which were deposited curi osities, as they are called, picked up in the neighbour hood. Chiusi, Volferra, Cortona, and other successors of old Etruscan towns, treasured up with chre the re mains and evidences of their ancient taste and splen dour. Sometimes an antiquarian academy or society occupied itself with resea:cues and discussions on the spot, rod published learned and useful transactiong. Such are those of the academy of Cartons, which extend to many volumes, full of interesting matter. Among the eminent characters whom the author met in Rome was Cardinal Mezzofanti, His ac count of this remarkable linguist though brief is full of interest. The name of this eminent mun is too well known throughout Europe, for it to require any eulogium here. Moreover, a most accurate and full life of him has been compiled by one who has spared no pains or research to make the biography complete. I allude to the Very Rev. Dr. Russell, President of St. Patrick's college, Maynooth, to whom I have transferred wy little stock of anecdotes and information concerning my good and gifted friend. Having made this sacrifice to the desire of an other, whom I may describe by the very same terms, I will not anticipate - here what will be adorned by the graceful pen of his biographer. I will but say that I can attest his perfect utterance and expression in the few languages with which I happen to be acquainted, and that I nave heard natives of almost every country in Europe and Asia, not to mention California, who have borne witness in my presence to his perfection in accent and phrase, when speaking their various languages. The general observation used to be, that they would easily have taken him for a native each of his own country. This magnificent gift of universal speech was not thrown away in any sense. It was habitually employed in good, is instructing and assisting spiritually many who, without him, might have remained ignorant or helpless. Though it was natural that he should be fond of conversing in his many languages, I should doubt if ever it was done from love of display, for he was humble and shrinking on every occasion. I n d e ed he knell! his powers to be a gift rather than an acquisition. His I.qs p aaranoe certainly did not bear the seal of tu• high in tellectual mark ; for his learning on all subjects was accurate, extensive, and solid. The countenance, whic h was the dial to the busy and complicated works above it, was not ample or noble in its traits. His brow was a problem to phrenologists : though his eyes were - heavily pressed outwards by what they may have con sidered lingual faculties. Oae of this order once told him gravely that he had great facility in learning lan gua‘es. "But then," Mezzofant t arc hl y a dd ed i n telling me this wise discovery, "he knew that I was already acquainted with fifty." Most amiable too he was, simple and childlike, charitable to excess, and ready to help any one with head or hand. With Pope Gregory's death the record closes, having embraced a period of twenty-eight years. The length of the.tivae, the various subjects of the memoirs, the character and position of the writer, the exciting events that have him taken place, all combine to render this volume attractive alike to thou who sympathise, with the Cardinal in his reverence for the Pontificate, and to those who are desirous of extending their acquaintance with the thief characters as well as the artistic records of the City or the Seven Hills. ACCIDENT ON TIM NORTH- WESTBEN RAILWAY. A correspondent of a contemporary this morning writes as follows :—Yesterday I got into the 8.15 a.m. express train at Rugby for London ; when we arrived at Wolverton, where the tickets were collected, the train proceeded for London at the rate of from 40 to 45 miles per hour. The train passed Watford station, and, on looking out of the window, I saw we were on the Watford embank ment, which is at least from 50 to 60 feet high. All on a sudden the carriage seemed to sink under us, and then followed a series of the most violent oscil lations and bumping of the carriage for a period of 10 or 15 seconds, the speed of the carriage became less and lees , an d a ll a t once i t turned' over flat on its side, myself undermost, and the Whole of the passengers on me. While all was in eonfusion some laersous made their appearance on the topside of the carriage, and drew us out one by one ; the first inquiry naturally wa% "Is anybody killed or hurt ?" and we were pleased to find, beyond a few scratches with glass, and a few shakes, no personal damage was done. On looking at the train and the line it presented a perfect wreck. The train, which consisted of an engine and seven carriages, was divided or broken up into three parts, and lay scattered as follows :—The engine was about 100 yards in advance of the train, imbedded axle deep in the sand ; the guard's van, which was next to the engine while the train was in.motion, was lying on its side on the edge of the embankment; it has broke down the, tele graph pcist ; opposite to the van were two carriages coupled together, with the two ends sticking up, while at the place where they were coupled they were axle-deep in the ground. A few yards fur ther on was the carriage in which I was, lying Sat on its side. The remainder of the carriages were in various positions, axle-deep iu the sand or ballast. The carriages were all more or less da maged, the axles bent, and the windows smashed. Looking back at the ground over which we had passed, the sleepers were dashed to atoms, the rails were bent, the chairs were broken, and broken axle and grease boxes lay about in all directions. I was the first paqsgnger who ran back to look at the road, when the cause of the accident was at once apparent. A gang of men were employed in repairing the permanent way, putting now sleepers, and doing general repairs. On looking at the work only one chair out of every two was spiked to the sleeper, and those which were fas tened were, fastened with wooden pegs about one inch in diameter. In one place no chair bad been placed on the sleeper to support the rail, but tee rail was left to a distance of 6 feet 6 in. without any support whatever. The result was, as soon as the train came on the unsupported part of the rail the rail bended outwards, the chair on the next sleeper broke in two, and at the second sleeper the engine ran off the rails. From the impression of the wheel made on tha rail it was quite evident the engine commenced to leave th e ra ils at the spot where the rail gave way for want of a chair to support it. When the engine got off the rails it ploughed up the road f or 50 o r 70 yards, dash ing everything to atoms. When I arrived at the spot where the roal w l broken up, the fist question I asked was, did you not signal to the engine driver tosjec T k h en e his speed ? Where are your signal flags,=,v ‘,INO men replied, "We have no signal flags• w as the signal flags ?" I repeated. "No Sir," theref "but wrdy ; a : ford w them ow T h e e state signalso were f the e station." told station 1 am unable to say. The chief cause of our preservation undoubtedly was the sand ballast which was put fresh on the road, and which checked the force of the tram as it ploughed through the sand after the engi ne and , roaatdtht train got off the rails. The next cause which pre vented us from being hurled over the embankment was, train happened to b e bankment for three lines of rails, and_ was, the company our are widening their road 1 on the middle line. The invitations for the new Indian loan of 8,000,0 001 . are expected to be issued to-morrow. According to some reports it is to be raised on 4 per cent. debentures redeemable in woven years. Mir are qu Job are at about of Lo] land, 4 per laths 1 Hitt( Co soll Zzo.l Exct Ditti ?RIC] Brasiti, Ditt( ?amyl Ditto Ditto Ditt, Russia] Ditti BD trite Ditt Ditt' Ditt Eipanisl Tarkie Ditt, The Looda Place i Monti 2,000, FAI MICA' Jeffre garde' upon and h tl fright A. r to his from ] enter while on wt adopt mime not tc Weste T are quc mo quc was Eng as t of nee( heres BRIT Ab tt rda. being Al tion Mani anon] bands Some fire. times the h arreel With