The Sun. — London, England, 1859-11-24 00:00:00

RROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COYENT-GA RD le.N. Under the management of Miss L. ryne and blr.W. Harrison THIS EVENINO, DINO It A IT. Messrs. Santley, Corti, St Albyn, and W. Harrison. Misses Pilling, Thirl wall, and Miss Louisa Pync. Conductor, Alfred Mellon. Ballet„ LA FIANC2I4I Messrs. W. H. Payne, H. Payne, F. Payne, Mdlle. tequine, Pasquale, Pierron, Clara Morgan, and NI ong. Vandris. Doors open at hall-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMAItKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with HALLOWE'EN. After which, THE BACHELOR OF ARTS. Jasper (his orkinal character), Mr. C. Mathews. Followed by a new Comedietta, entitled THE LATE LAIIENTED. And MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER. Commence at 7. ROYAI P R INC E S S'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS TWINING, the performances will commence with a new Petite Comedy, entitled GOSSIP. Messrs. Ryder, Meadows, Shore ; Miss Wadham and Mrs. C. Young. • After which, a new farce, in one act, entitled NURSEY CHICKWEED, Messrs. liTiddicomb, Meadows, if. Saker ; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs. Weston. To be followed by THE MASTER PASSION. Messrs. Ryder, G. Melville, Graham, R. Cathcart, Garden ; Miss C. Leclercq and Mrs. Charles Young. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPIU. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Kelly. Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called DINORA,II UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedibrd, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM—SoIe Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste.—The Public is re speztfully informed this Theatre will OPEN for the Winter Season on MONDAY, Nov. 28, with a new and original Drama Fantastique, written by a popular author, entitled PARIS AND PLEASURE ; or, Home and Happiness. Full particulars will be duly announced. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING, a new. Comedy, LONDON PRIDE ; or, Living for Appearances. Messrs. R. Robins, Barrett, Charles Young ; Mesdacaes Frank Matthews, Murray, and Nelly Moore. Atter which (Bth time) a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE SWAN AND EDGAR. Messrs. Barrett, Francis, Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and the Corps de Ballet._ s ., ....._ To conclude with A DEAD SHOT. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d; Pit, ls. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform ance commences at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee Mr. William Cooke. Continued successful career of the new Drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARIBALDI ; illustrating - the principal events in the Life of the Great Italian General. Supported by a Powerful Company, including the fallowing popular favourites:—Mr. R. Phillips, Ennis including Raymond, bliss Kate Carson, &c. - Great Dramatic Tableux—Full Stud of Trained Horses—Scenes in the Circle by the Star Equestrians of Europe, John Henry Cooke, Madlle. Marguerite„ Miss Rosina, and the world's wonder, Little Menoni, also, the Extraordinary Performing Elephant—Clowns, H. Croueste, Rowena, French Pierrots, Gymnasts and Acrobats innumer able, concluding' with the exceedingly laughable Comic Ballet called LOVE'S VAGARIES. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips OANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS.- v EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con certs). And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer'm new opera of DINORAH. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critellilcid, and E. W. Hackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. ROSA BON II S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already ma.,crniticent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbuty Hall. Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six per se. THE WEATHER.—Surr OFFICE, NOVEMBER 21. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 52—highest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and during the night. 51—this day at noon. BARONETBIL-30.03. WIND, East-South-Easterly; light, with fine weather. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.—Morning, lh. 13m.—Afternoon, lh. 35m. To-monno'w.-Morning, lh. 56m.—Afternoon, 2b. 1.6 m. • yee ' Pr "IE . • lf Tfl E STN. LONDON, THURSDAY, NOV. 24, 1859. The Rifle Corps agitation has long since assumed to itself the grandeur of a national movement. It is not by any means surprising, therefore, that the time has long gone by when it was the fashion to sneer at the militia and the yeomanry. If there is any one fact that has been rendered conspicu ously undeniable by the different historians of the brief campaign in Belgium, ending with the crown ing contest of Waterloo, it is the fact that the conquerors in that last of the world's great battles were, for the most 'part, or at any rate in a very considerable proportion, raw recruits. This astounding fact demonstrated beyond the possi bility of misapprehension, we repeat, by all the most exact and reliable authorities, from the earliest to the latest, whether native or foreign, from SIBORNE down to, in point of time up to, in point of accuracy, BRIALMONT ! how many, indeed, of our gallant fellows ender Lord RAGLAN, how many of those brave troops who, at the man date of their chief walked up the embat tled acclivity of the hill of Alma, to a complete and signal victory, to a victory ter minating in all but a rout, had never before, save in review or sham-fights (as the phrase is) smelt gun powder ? Experience inde2d has long since demon strated, over and over again, that but a very small modicum, a mere handful, so to speak, of hardy and well-disciplined veterans suffice to give a heart, a will, a vivid and not easily irresistible im petus to a vast numerical preponderance of newly recruited, half-drilled, hastily-accoutred English- men. Another consideration beyond all this has served to forward the advance latterly of this newly inaugurated Rifle Corps movement. The growing conviction now is, that skill with . the rifle is, all . things considered, readily attainable., lIANs BUSK and all his colla borateurs agree in this, if in. nothing else. A steady hand, a keen eye, a little common sense, and a small share of perseverance, and your rifle volunteer may calculate in reason upon becoming speedily enough a credit to the corps of which he is a brother in arms. Hitherto, it is true, the move ment has been spreading, as it were, by fits and starts, in a.deiultory manner, according to the whim of particular localities, or the ardour of this or that individual. Nevertheless, even in this desultory manner, we believe an aggregate has already been arrived at that would sound scarcely credible if it were at this moment maszed together. We cannot help thinking that a stage has at length been reached in the development of the rifle corps move ment, when by a judicious interposition of the legis• lature (in aid and encouragement of the movement) the whole complex and hitherto scattered ,scheme might be: readily 'and effectually--there is no better word for it systematised. It militates nothing- whatever, of course, from the military strength and preFaredness of any country, that the extent of its military and maritime armaments are known (are ascertained and'published) to a man, to a ship, to a gun, to a bayonet. We cannot but think it would iinmensely advance our insular pre paredness, and St/ engthcn our position instead of weakening it in taw estimation of all the rest of the great powers o f the earth, friend or foe, if we had it ascertained a nd officially published in returns as authentiaand asi reliable as the returns periodi• tally revised at the Horse Guards, that we have had organised here voluntarily among the masses of the educated and industrial population themselves a vast National Guardof 200,000 or 300,000 skilled Rifle Volunteers. An armament like that, guaran teed to be accurate, so to speak, by having th:" timbre of the Government affixed to it by way of absolute authentication would be a judicious warn ing to any insidious enemy who might be meditat ing the heinous crime and bloodguiltiness of an unprovoked invasion. Regarding the matter in this light, we cannot but think that when Parlia shall have re-assembled in February, it might be advisable to have certain reliable returns moved for and ordered to be printed in the form of a goodly Blue-book of carefully collected and tabularly arranged statistics, showing us How many Rifle Corps have already been established throughout the United Kingdom, How many are in course of being established, and How many more are feasible or desirable, or in actual preparation. Another suggestion is likewise we cannot but think deserving of being taken at an early date now into the serious con sideration of the Government. The suggestion, that is to say which has been thrown out for some time past occasionallyinvarious directions to the effect that one uniform system of clothing for these Rifle Volunteers should be adopted by them under the advice and by the authority of Government. An admirably sensible letter, extracted by us from our chief morning contemporary, And published elsewhere in our columns this evening, throws a refreshing flood of light we cannot but think, upon this long-vexed question, and does so in the very nick of time, as follows :—" The uniform ? " asks the Royal Engineer, who immediately responds to his own query with a rejoinder somewhat startling, it must be allowed, in the prevalent bias in favour of grey or olive green or other colours scarcely visible in a sylvan or cultivated landscape—" The uniform ? What better could they wear than the common hunting costume with the scarlet coat ? Well, to save appearances and prevent the enemy having any excuse to hang a man who fell into their hands as an unlicensed soldier, let us throw in a helmet or a hunting cap with a funny plume. Oh, but how conspicuous a red coat would be ! Has it never struck any of the partisans of inaisible coats that in the confusion and smoke of action it is d'ffi cUit to tell friend from foe, and that the introduction of distinctive uniforms was, as with the rests in olden time, to guard against such mischance ? Has the in troduction of rifles and distant fighting done away with the necessity of this distinctiveness. Ask any one who was at Inkerman if he did not hear the men curse the hour when they went into action in greatcoats, instead of as a thin red line, saying that it was impossible till they came close upon him to tell a Russian from an Englishman. It was a drizzling, misty day ; are we not as likely to have misty days in England ? Then we are at close quarters, and one would imagine nothing could be more dissimilar than the outlines of our men and of the Russians in their flat broad caps and NOAH'S Ark greatcoats." Certainly the reasoning in this must be allowed to be sufficiently impressive. But the writer has not yet done with his force ful arguments. " When you come," he says, "to long distance rifle shooting, no human being can guess your country. Many, a poor fellow of the Rifle Volunteers will, if ever the occasion comes for active service, and he finds himself potted at from the rear, regret the hour when fancy was allowed unlimited sway in picking out inviable grayc_ T shmtltl Ray the erenter the dis tance at which you are to fight the more marked should be your uniforms, and certainly neither the French nor any other continental nation has made their uniform less marked in consequence of the in troduction of rifles. Why, sir, with us every vo• lunteer corps has a different and more curious uni form ; no human being except the tailor who de vised them knows what they belong to at 20yards' distance. If you ask, you are answered, Oh, I suppose it is a rifle volunteer.' In action a bullet may ask the question." An unpleasant considera tion so put, but really and truly one that ought to be dropped into his pipe, and reflectively smoked out by every contemplative Volunteer. Sir JOHN BOWRING has just now spoken to the English public most opportunely. His ex-Excel lency yesterday delivered before the Society of Arts a lecture, comprising within it the gist of all he hai to say , upon China and the Chinese. There condensed into that single prelection were the majority of Sir Join's observations upon that twin theme during his protracted residence upon the borders of China as her Britannic MAJESTY'S Representative. It is significant, we cannot but think, that at the very outset of his remarks, Sir JOHN BOWRING took occasion to utter one pithy sentence of warning to the British multitude, now that the nation is again plunging into a contest with that gigantic race which absolutelomprises within it one entire third of the whole population of the globe —Sir JOHN BOWRING actually estimating the present total of the inhabitants of China at an amount so stupendous as to be even in excess of the wonderful aggregate of 416,000,000. It is in the act of repudiating any intention whatever to touch upon political questions during the progress of his lecture that Sir JOHN BOWRING utters this to ,ars peculiarly significant Warning—when he avows it to be distinctly his opinion that as far as territory is concerned we have already enough of China. The mere Beware is a token of the direc tion in which the speaker conceives that we are now advancing—and the probability he beholds before him of new territorial acauisitions by Eng land in those remote borders of the eastern hemi sphere. However this may be, there is the warning —with a view to encourage us to attend to which the lecturer immediately begins, it appears to us, rather injudiciously, •to sing the praises of llong Kong. lie described it as exceedingly well chosen as a settlement, and men tioned, among other tokens of its astonishing rapidity of growth the circumstance that during the period of his own residence there Hong Kong had more than trebled its population. Whereas he had found in it but 30,000 Souls, he len; in it as many as 96,000 ! And while he avowed frankly that the place could never be expected to attain much commercial eminence by means of the exportation of its own products, lie certainly surprised us imme diately afterwards with the information that the pub lic buildings of the capital of California were con structed with granite quarried at Hong Kong. Refer ing to the vastness of the Chinese population already here specified, as comprising within it about a third of the human race, Sir iOIIN tells us that " The pressure on subsistence was in consc quence so great, that Chinese emigration mi g ht be reckoned by millions." Adding—" They pressed everywhere, and in a port in the Philippines which had only been three years opened, they already consumed British products to the amount of 400,000 dollars." Entering more fully afterwards into the statistics procurable in reference to the Chinese trade the Lecturer remarked that " the Chinese imports into England were above 11 millions in 1857, when there was an extraordinary demand for raw silk, THE SUN, LONDON . THURSDAY EVENINO. NOVEMBER 24, 1859. anti, the average annual export from China was all out nine millions. 13U - t there was a vast deal of Ct iina trade which was not represented in the ritish returns, so that he believed the real amount would be nearer 50 millions than 40 millions ster ling, and our revenue from it upwards of four n jUiens. The exports, also, had gone up wonder derfolly. In 1858 they were £2,876,447." And these statistics, it is especially observed, do not repreotmt in any way whatever either Opium or Silver What Sir JOIIN BOWRING now says upon Opium w n would most earnestly commend to the consideration and the conscience (if they have any) of all the thin-skinned MAWWORMS in the land. The lectm . er then remarked—" It had been said that we carried on the opium trade in violation of our treaties with China, whilst the fact was that the treaties made no reference to the opium trade whatever. It was said further that it was carried on in contempt of the wishes of the Chinese Government. Now he had resided ten years in China, and had had much intercourse with man darins, and he had never heard opium men tioned except when he introduced the subject himself. There was, it was true, a warm con troversy constantly being carried on in the Pekin Gazette, and hot arguments were held pro and con, some writers arguing against the legalising of the introduction of the drug, and others urging that a great revenue might be derived from it. If it were so abhorred by the Chinese as was alleged, he asked was it possible that it should be cultivated in eight provinces of China ; and so mach was that culti vation improving, that the monopoly of the India Company was in great danger. His argument had b ee n Always, legalise the trade, for you could not stop it, and the frauds committed under the present system were monstrous. It had been said that the Chinese perished by thousands from the use of opium. Now, from returns he had obtained in Hong Kong, he found that more persons perished out of EOO British residents of delirium tremens than among 96,000 Chinese from the use of opium. He had stated these facts as he had found them in returns, and had been accused of perverting them to suit his purpose, and of concealing the fact that the Chinese victims of opium at Hong Kong went to the main land to die. Nothing could be more unjust. He found that in ancient times the Chinese people had been notorious for habits of intoxica tion, but now he knew that they were perhaps the most sober people in the world. Neither did it seem to affect their longevity, for he knew one man, an opium smoker, who was 104 years old, and several others of ninety !" After this, what shall be said of the immorality of both our war and our trade with China? Certainly Sir JOHN BOWRING gives us a couleur de rose view of both one and the other. Listening to him, you would hardly think there could be anything pernicious in that insidious drug, of the evil influences of which we have caught glimpses so appalling through the me lancholy hullucinations of the poet COLERIDGE and through the eloquent ravings of THOMAS DE QUINCEY'S weird and impressive Experiences. Altogether, however, the lecture is worthy of pro found consideration. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Nov. 23. Tho dinner party to-day included their Royal Highnesses Prince Frederick William of Prussia, Princess Frederick William of Prussia (Princess Royal), Princess Alice, and the Princess of Leiningen, his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, Earl Cowley, Countess Lynar, Countess Hohenthal, Count Perponcher, Captain von Schwcinti, and the visitors who arrived in the afternoon. The first dramatic performance this season took place in Thpfnllnwine WftE4 the Drozramnie A comedy, -in three. acts, - by Mr. Bayle Bernard, en- titled— THE EVIL GENIUS. Hill Cooley, Esq. (aretircd East Indian) Mr. Chippendale Toni Ripstone (his old acquaintance) Mr. Buckstone Walmslcy (his new one) Docket (his lawyer) • Barton (his surgeon) Mr Villiers Toe Withers (the postman) Parker Bailiff Lady Aurora Ringwood Mrs. Montgomery Clara Fielding Time-1830. Scene—A Village and Park in Derbyshire. After which a comediatta, in one act, adapted from the French vaudeville, Un Service a Blanchard," by Mr. Tom Taylor, entitled— TO OBLIGE BENSON. Mr. Benson (a barrister) Mr. Trotter SouthdoWn. (his friend) Mr. John Meredith (a pupil of Mr Benson's) Mrs. Benson Mrs. Trotter Southdown Time—The Present Day. Scene—Mr. Benson's House in Thurlow-square Under the Management of and __ _ _ Under the Direction of — Mr. W. B. Donne Her Majesty's Examiner of Plays. The Theatre arranged and the Scenery painted by Mr. Thomas Grieve. Shortly after eight o'cloiik the Queen and Prince Con sort, with the Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia (Princess Royal), Princess Alice, the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, accompanied by the dinner company, entered the Theatre in St. George's Hall, when the per formance immediately commenced. The orchestra was composed of her Majesty's Private Band. PREVaFSS'S THEATRE. i -• A little comedy, adapted from the French, by Mr. Harris and Mr. Williams, was produced at this theatro last night with success. The dialogue is neatly written, and a moral is worked out with point and piquancy. The plot turns upon the evil propensity of gossip as in dulged in by a MI s. Chatterton (Mrs. Charles Young), who, during the dull period before the announcement of dinner, enlivens the company with a description of an interview to which she had been witness between a celebrated belle—a Mrs. Beresford—and an unknown gentleman, in Kensington Gardens. The husband of Mrs. Beresford happens to be among the company to whom this is narrated, and he immedi ately insists on her giving him the name of the gentleman. She is both unwiling and unable to comply, and he deter mines to persecute her into satisfying him. Every day ho calls at her'house, appears at her carriage door, follows her into shops, always with the one phrase, "If is name, madam ;" he even telegraphs to her the same odious phrase and renders her life insupportable by his constant persecu tion. She retires to the country house of a friend, and on her still refusing he threatens to challenge her husband. Then, finding from her grief at this threat that her heart is not in fault, but thather gossipping propensities are merely the result of an evil habit, he confesses that he himself was the gentleman who met his wife. The play was acted with great spirit, and the applause at the fall of the curtain was very great. The house was well attended. LIFEBOAT SERVICES CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN, Nov. 22.—0 n Saturday last, the 19th inst., the barque Ohio, laden with salt, bound from Liverpool to Stettin, was seen off Poolwash Bay (to the westward of Castletown), with a signal for a pilot, and apparently un manageable. She shortly afterwards anchored ; but both anchors dragged, and she went ashore near the centre of the bay at 4 - p.m. The wind was inshore, S.W., strong and increasing. At the time of her striking she was under the lee of the Carrick, a half-tide rock, and a harbour boat, which had left Port St. Mary with a pilot was enabled to take eight of the crew whore ; but as the title rose and the rock became covered, the surf prevented further communi cation with an ordinary boat. A messenger was then sent immediately to Castletown for the lifeboat of tho Royal National Lifeboat Institution ; but she was fortunately close at hand (earlier intelligence having reached the cox swain), and was launched at it pan., reached the wreck at o'clock, and succeeded in rescuing the remainder of the crew—consisting of the master, mate, and two other hands —who were safely landed at Port St. Mary, the nearest practicable landing place at 8 p.m. The barque, belonging to , Prussian owners, will probably become a total wreck ; she was in a leaky state when she struck. At the time the lifeboat was launched it was very dark with a heavy sea. The promptitude with which the lifeboat was on the spot has given great satisfaction, as but an hoar elapsed between the barque striking and the arrival of the boat, While two miles of road, including a high and steep hill, had to be tra versed. This valuable lifeboat has also once or twice this year saved shipwrecked crews. The station is in first-rate order. Amongst the new undertakings in respect of which application is to_ be made for the sanction of Parlia ment next session is one called the Milford Haven Railway and Docks. THE DEATH OF PITT.—A paragraph has been going . the round of the papers giving a totally inaccurate account of the death of this great statesman,- We have the best reason for knowing that in Mr. Rose's Diary, about to be published by Mr. Bentley, the real facts connected with his last illness and death will for the first time be made public, L m r A iN 1 W --...--_ --. The following telegrams have been received al Mr. Neuter's .office VIENNA, TIFURSDAY, An Imperial autograph letter orders the Millis ters to grant a fall amnesty to all persons compro mised by the part they have taken in Italian affairs. This amnesty will apply to civil as well as military persons. Criminal offences of no poli tical character are to be excepted. BRUSSELS, Nov. 24. It is stated from Paris, on reliable authority, that the object of Lord Cowley's visit to London is to lay before his Government a proposal from the French Government for a simultaneous disarma ment by England and France. PARIS, THURSDAY. The Marquis. do Bonneville has arrived from Zurich with the ratified treaties. On the day when the ratifications were exchanged, M. Armand de livered to the Austrian Plenipotentiary a draft at sight for twenty millions of florins. The remaining eighty millions will be paid by four instalments at short intervals. It is believed that Count Rechberg, assisted by Prince Metternich, will represent Austria at the Congress. The report of the departure of Marquis Antonin for Naples is false. NICE, Nov. 22. General Garibaldi left this place yesterday for Genoa. Before his departure h.J addressed the in habitants of Nice, and said : " I shall be ready to assume my command when necessary. Let us be united nnder Victor Emma nuel ; let us continue under arms as long as an inch of Italian soil remains oppressed." His Majesty the King of Sardinia is expected at Nice to pay a visit to the Dowager Empress of Russia. NAPLES, Nov. 19. The official journal announces that M. Paulin Talabot is expected at Naples, in order to consult with Messrs. Rothschild and Blount eoncerning the line and works of the railway from Naples to Tarento, of which M. Talabot is the founder. FRANKFORT, Nov. 23. Intelligence has been received here of the pro ceedings of the representatives of the minor German States at the conference at Wurzburg. The principal questions to be considered are the settlement of the right of domicile ; the establish ment of federal courts of justice; the national demonstration in favour of unity ; reform of the federal laws relating to the army ; the Hesse Elec toral and Holstein questions; and regulations for an uniform system of weights and measures for all Germany. AARSEILLES, Nov. 23. The Algerian journals deny the rumoured death of General Seriers. Advices from Tunis to the 15th inst. state that the new Bey is about to send an ambassador extra ordinary to Constantinople to demand a religious investitnre from the Sultan. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. THE BOURSE, Nov. 23.—The market has been rather more buoyant. Threes, after having been done at 69f. 95c.. improved to 701. 15c. Mobilier varied from 775 f. to 780 f.; Austrian, 650 f. to 653 f. 75e. ; Lombard 5-171. 50e. to 550 f. ; Lyons, 887 f. 50e. to 8901.; Northern, 9501. to 9521. 50c.; Eastern 645 f. to 6471. 50c. The following were the last quotations : 41 per Cents. .... 95 50 I Credit Foncier 695 lio. end montk .. I Belgian 4f 99 75 3 per Cents. 7O 151 Piedmonteso (5) Do. end month.... 70 5 , Roman B6 50 Bank Shares 2850 —lAustrian — Craft liobilier:.. 776 25 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 777 50 Moms Debt 431 be such as, in satisfying the wants and wishes of the Italian populations, may put an end for ever to the danger of internal revolutions and foreign interventions. Long delays would be fatal; any solution not guaranteeing the independence of Italy would only be a source of new calamities for the Italians, of uneasiness and conflicts for Europe. " I request you, Monsieur le Ministre, to commu• nicate this despatch to the Government of and to insist on an early meeting of the Congress, Accept, &c., " DABORMIDA." GARIBALDI. A Turin letter says—The resignation of Garibaldi gives rise to various comments ; but the event was foreseen by all those who were acquainted with the state of the relations of Garibaldi with General Fanti. It would appear that the last cause of the differences between those two generals was the following :—Garibaldi wished to have a general concentration of all the forces of the league on the frontiers of the States still under the power of the .Pope, and Fanti, from military motives, and pro bably also from political ones, energetically opposed the measure. Those who relate these details say, "Hence the resignation." What ought, however, to be said is, " Hence the last drop which made the cup run over, and led to a definitive rupture—a rupture in which the force of events and diploma tic necessities must necessarily place Garibaldi in the wrong." A letter from Nice, of the 19th, says—General Garibaldi has arrived here to the great astonish ment of everybody. Not a soul knew anything of his coming, with the exception of Colonel Deideri, who received a telegraphic despatch the evening before to apprise him of it. The proclamation ad dressed by the general to the Italians will excite great interest, as it throws light on what is passing in Central Italy, and seems to explain the real state of affairs. Garibaldi left Bologna some days ago, passed through Turin, only staying j ust long enough to see the King, and got here at the same time as the Turin journals which announced his arrival in the capital. I have seen the general ; he is in ex cellent health, notwithstanding all•the fatigue he has undergone. His position here imposes on him the strictest reserve. He is not generally very communicative, and now he is less so thaw usual, but his every -word betrays a profound irritation. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING. The screw steamer Nova Scotia has arrived from Quebec, with dates to the 12th inst. The steamer North American, hence, had arrived at Quebec, and the steamer Hungarian, hence, had put into St. John's, Newfoundland, to land 42 pas sengers taken from the wreck off Newfoundland of a vessel from Labrador. The City of Baltimore, hence, via Queenstown, had arrived at New York. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 11 Cotton advanced lc per lb under the Hungarian's news. Middling, 10,1 c to 11&c. Receipts of the week, 72,000 ; exports of the week, 74,000. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY. The Royal Mail Company's steam ship Tasmanian, Captain John H. Jellicoe, arrived, at two this after noon, from the West Indies, with the usual mails, in charge of Lieutenant Charles Bolton, R.N., Ad miralty agent. On her homeward voyage the Tasmanian left St. Thomas's on the 31st October. During the night of the 3d of November it was discovered that the ship had made a considerable quantity of water, which was caused by the packing of the sorew having given way. There were 15 feet of water in the after com partment, and five feet in the after hold. Not being able to repair the damage at sea, it was deemed advis able to proceed to Bermuda as the nearest port. The Tasmanian arrived off there on the evening of the sth, and anchored at Murra,y's Anchorage on the follow ing morning. Immediately on its being made known to Capt. Hutton, R.N., superintendent of the Royal Naval-yard, he despatched the Government steam vessel Kite, in charge of Lieut.lDyer, R.N., with the superintending engineer, and the foreman of ship wrights of the dockyard, and also a diver with his necessary apparatus, to her assistance, and we are much pleased to add that they were enabled to make the necessary repairs and effectually to stop the leak. She was detained for three days at Bermuda by 'strong easterly gales, but finally left Bermuda on the 11th, and had favourable weather until the 16th, subsequent to which she experienced strong north-east gales and heavy sea; in the Channel dense fog. ller latest dates are—Greytown, Oct. 17; Deme rara, 25 ; Trinidad, 25 ; Carthagena, 26 ; Barbadoes, 27 ; Porto Rico, 30 ; and St. Thomas, 31. On proceeding on board Dr. Wiblin, F.R.C.S., Medical Superintendent of Quarantine at this port, ascertained that there had been upwards of 50 cases of yellow fever, 10 of which had proved fatal on board, and two persons had been taken on shore at St. Thomas's in a dying state. The names of those who died on board are :—John Dutnz, French waiter; John M'Lellan, waiter; Thomas Naismith, William Franklin, A.B. ; Richard Short, waiter ; Henry Shrimpton, master-at-arms ; James Phelan, stoker; Wm. Fitzer, fireman ; Thos. Trelanen, quar termaster; Wm. Morgan, private of 41st Regiment; and Jas. Varndell, invalided from the Teviot. Mr. Busby, engineer, who was left at St. Thomas's by the La Plata, died there, but his three companions --Clapperton, Eldridge, and Stiles—have recovered. Since the departure of the last packet nothing has transpired in the colony worthy of even a pass ing remark in our summary for the mail. JAMAICA. Trade continues to be in a very depressed state, a circumstance rather unusual at crop time, but which may, in some measure, be accounted for by the fact that the season this year is unusually late owing to the protracted duration of the wet weather. Shipping is abundant, and freights are conse quently low. The exports during the past fortnight have been: —Sugar, 1,666 hhds, 146 trs, 380 brls, 1,576 bags ; ruin, 524 pns, 155 hhds, 123 brls; molasses, 88 casks ; timber, 13,993 feet ; charooal,.l,6Bo ; cocoa nuts, 4,450; shingles, 210,000. - CHILI. The most important news from this Republic is the assassination of General Vidaurre Lcal, Inten dente of Valparaiso. This event took place on the 18th September, the anniversary of Chilian inde• pendence. It appears that during the celebration of a high mass in the principal church, at which the General and an immense concourse of citizens were present, some of the populace attempted to possess themselves of the arms of the National Guard, who were drawn out in the square in front of the church. A riot ensued, shots were fired, and the General left the church for the pur pose of restoring order. " But scarcely," says the Mercurio, " did he descend the steps in front of the church than he fell mortally wounded by one of the insurgents' balls." LOSS OF THE BRITISH BARQUE PALIIYRA.---The British barque Palmyra, Captain Jamieson, fom Sydney, July 7, in ballast, with three passengers, bound to Callao, went on shore, September 25, three leagues south of Lambayeque ; all hands saved; ship a total wreck. The natives attempted to plunder everything from the passengers and what was washed ashore from the wreck, and the pas sengers and crew only succeeded in saving their effects by offering a determined resistance. The captain and crew remained at Lambayeque, and were to be sent down to Callao by the first oppor tunity. The wreck was to be sold on account of whom it may concern. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday. The Anglo-Saxon sailed to-day for Portland, Maine, with the mails for the United States and Canada, and a large number of passen gers. The screw steamer Edinburgh sailed the same day for New York, with the United States mails, and about 30 cabin passengers. On Saturday next the Cunard steamer Persia will be despatched for New York with , the mails for the United States and North. America. The box at the Post-office closes at 8.45 a.m., and on the landing-stage at 9,30 a.m. THE WATERLOO LIFE AND CASUALTY ~ ASSURANCE COMPANY. s%._._____ ANNUAL MEETING—(THIS DAY). The eighth annual meeting of the shareholders and policyholders in this company was held this day at the offices, 355, West Strand. The chair was occupied by . John Bishop, Esq., chairman of the board of directors. The :usual routine business having been trans acted, The CHAIRMAN called upon the manager to read the directors' report, which was as follows : " The eighth report of the general proceedings of the Waterloo Life Assurance Company affords the directors the opportunity of announcing the realisation of their often re peated expectations of the success of the company. The report of tne actuary, Peter Hardy, Esq., presented to the directors during the past year, a copy of which has been placed in the hands of every shareholder and assurer, jus tifies your directors in asserting that a great success has been attained, and that they have not misled those whose interests have been confided to their care by hopes founded upon other than careful and trustworthy calculations. In testimony of this assertion, the attention of the share holders, assurers, and all friends of the institution, is par ticularly directed to th e f o ll ow i ng extract from that report :—The present condition of the society may be regarded as satisfactory. The proprietors' share of the surplus affords them a frir amount of remune ration for the use of their capital, taken in conjunction with other advantages they have already enjoyed; and the sum to bo divided amongst the assured, gives to them a fair amount of bonus; in short, the results of this valuatian, in my opinion, arc quite as favourable as could reasonably have been expeeted when all the difficulties attendant on the establishment of a company are fairly borne in view." The directors attach great importance to the report referred to, and they feol convinced that the declaration of so satis factory a bonus, as the one advised by Mr. Hardy, will tend materially to strengthen the position of the company in pub lic estimation. That it has yet led to the only practical manifestation of such appreciation on the part of the public, the directors cannot assert ; time not hav ing been given it to accomplish that which, never • theless, may be looked for as a natural result. The past year has not been favourable to life assurance ; for, although there has been no scarcity of money, and labour has proved abundant and remunerative, there tas been a wide-spread neglect of th e great principles and pro visions of life assurance ; and o ffi ces h ave felt their progress has not been commensurate with the prosperity of the times. The year now closed has proved an eventful one in the history of the Waterloo ; it has been one of more than ordinary labour and anxiety to the directors, and they are glad to be able to report that its business has been of a progressive character. Negotiations having been entered into for the purchase of the business of the Magnet As surance Society by this office, and such purchase having been considered to be unattended with any unusual risk or responsibility to this company, your directors have com pleted the arrangements commenced at an early period of the year, and the business of the Magnet Society is now incorporated with that of this company. It is not pos sible to speak here with anything like certainty as to the beneficial result which may follow upon the connection thus formed. The acquisition of a number of policy-holders and agents is ordinarily an advantage to a company; and the directors have great pleasure in expressing their opinion that such will in the present instance be the case. Your directors have limited the business of the year to transac tions of a safe and durable character ; they have not under taken any hazardous or speculative risk ; and, by the adop tion of this course, they have been obliged to decline many proposals for assurance which, if accepted, would have in creased the result this day reported. The increase made to the company's business during the year, taking into ac count the policies transferred from the Magnet, is re presented by 751 policies for £214,010 yielding in an nual premiums the sum of £8,206 2s. 3d. The average amount of each policy is £283 12s. Bd., and of premiums under each £lO 18s. 6d. As, how ever , in every instance of the transfer of a business some policies transferred are not renewed with the office purchasing, and as only a few 1 months have passed since the transfer of the "Magnet" was effected, wherein but comparatively few policies were renewable, the directors consider it desirable to furnish a statement of the business of the year in another form, which embraces only such transferred polices as have been renewed, and the ordinarily acquired business of the company, from which it appears that 482 policies have been issued for sums amounting to £133,320, and yielding, in new premiums, £4,941 12s. 3d. per annum. Your directors have been called upon during the east year to pay the sum of £3,712 10s. to the representatives of deceased members; the claims which have arisen during that period being thirteen in number. The smallness of the amount is a fair subject for congratulation, seeing that this is the eighth year of the company's operations, and that during the seven preceding years the whole sum paid under this head amounted to only £11,849. Some of the amounts paid by the company have proved the only means of support or assistance to the widows and families of deceased members ; the knowledge of which fact will, your directors trust, lead all the shareholders who may not yet have made provision for their families, to adopt the easy and safe method of so doing which an assurance of life yields. Several of the agencies are extending the business of the company in a satisfactory manner. New agencies have been appointed wherever such appointments have been deemed con ducive to the interests of the company, and some of an important character have been added to the list of the company's representatives by the transfer of the " Maknet ;" the directors hope after the exer tions of another year, to report a considerable increase to the business of the company from these agencies. The retiring directors on this occasion are, George M hell, Esq., and Henry Smith, Esq., who being eligibkli offer themselves, and are recommended for re-election. In ac cordance with the deed of settlement the auditor who retires is, James Andrew Durham, Esq., who is eligible for re election, and is recommended by the board for re-election. The statement of accounts for the past year, which is now submitted as part of this report, has been carefully examined by your auditors, who report the perfect accuracy of the same, and entire agreement with the books and vouchers of the company. Interest on the capital stock of the company after the rate of 6 per cent. (free of income-tax) is recom mended for payment; and such rate of interest is hereby declared accordingly. While the directors are able to speak satisfactorily of the past, the position acquired should only be regarded as the starting point for the future. The work of life assurance is essentially progressive, and there is a wide field for progression, seeing that but 300,000 of the population of our empire are at the present time assured. New business is essential to the success of an assurance office, and if this be obtained year by year, in the proper proportion, there is no rational ground for fear as to ulti mate results. -The directors would, at the close of another report, very earnestly renew their appeal to all friends of the institution for influence and support, reminding them of the powerful results which unity of action may at all times command ; the more so when employed in works, or for purposes, so beneficent as those involved in the success of a corporation established upon the principles of the Waterloo. Believing that that influence and support will be readily accorded, the directors cheerfully pledge them selves to a constant and unremitting watchfulness over the interests of the company.—JosEpu BISHOP, Chairman." The CHAIRMAN then rose, and after detailing the proceedings of the company for the last year, moved the adoption of the report just read. Mr. VAUGHAN had great pleasure in seconding the motion for the adoption of the report. The motion was unanimously carried. Mr. CRICK moved the re-election of the retiring directors. The Rev. Dr. HEWLETT seconded the motion. The resolution, together with -others declaring the dividend of six per cent., were - carried unani mously; and the proceedings terminated with a cordial vote of thanks to the chairman, and Mr. Willams, the manager: 7BIS DAY'S MARKETS. RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 950 .. 950 New ditto 837 50 .. 840 Lyons and Mediterranean BB3 75 .. 885 Geneva Southern Western 563 75 .. 565 Eastern -15 .. 642 50 Sftrdiniaß Austrian Lombard 546 2.5 .. 547 50 - - -- - Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money 25f. 71c.; three months, paper, 24f. 95c.; money, 24f. 921 c CENTRAL ITALY. The following despatch has been addressed by the Sardinian Government to its diplomatic agents relative to the affairs of Central Italy : " TURIN, 1.5t1 - 1 November. " Monsieur le Ministre—The Assemblies of Cen tral Italy have offered,ms you are aware, the Re gency the Prince of Savoy-Carignan. Taken with the same calmness and the same order that had presided at the vote of the annexation, their deliberation was equally spontaneous and nnanimous. " The Government of the King was completely unconnected with that resolution. " It is solely and simply the result of the na tional tendencies, which the fear of a restoration has only rendered to the monarchical principle ; a new proof of the firm resolve of those countries to maintain order and authority perfectly secure by increasing theprestige of the supreme power. This resolution further attests the ardent desire of the population of Central Italy to bring about the con summation of their union with the monarchy of Sardinia, which alone, in their opinion, can give them the solid guarantees of, liberty and national independence. " In presence of a vote so imposing and motives so powerful, the King, our august sovereign, might have thought that his first duty was to obviate the dangers of disorder and anarchy which might be reasonably apprehended if the offer of the Assem blies was not accepted. But being assured of the early meeting of a Congress, convoked to solve the questions raised by the situation of Italy, his Majesty at once deferred to the councils of Europe by abstaining from any decision which might be regarded as of a nature to encroach upon their liberty of examination and deliberation. "In conformity with the intentions of his Ma jesty, the Prince de Carignan, notwithstanding his sincere sympathy with the populations which thus called on him to govern them, did not think proper to accept the regency offered. " However, it would have been impossible for his Majesty, as for the Prince, not to take into serious consideration the motives which dictated the offer of the Assemblies of Central Italy, and not to con cur, so far as high political considerations permitted, in guaranteering from perturbation the countries which repose all their confidence in the house of Savoy. His Royal Highness, therefore, thought proper to designate the Chevalier Buoncompagni to take the regency of those provinces, until assem bled Europe shall have regularised their position. The King's Government trust that this proof of solicitude will tranquillise the public mind. Con centrated in a single hand, authority will be stronger and more effective. It will hold in respect those factions which, taking advantage of the pubic im patience, might attempt to instigate the people and the army to ill-advised and dangerous acts. It is, in short, a pledge given for the security of Italy, for the tranquillity of Europe, whilst the Congress deliberates upon the questions brought before it. "But we cannot conceal the fact that this mea sure, owing to its essentially provisional charac ter, would not completely reassure you, if too long protracted. It is urgent that the Congress should meet as early as possible ; as it is most necessary that the solution it may in its wisdom adopt shall METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. To-day's market was scantily supplied with boasts, in, for the most part, middling condition. Prime breeds moved off steadily, at fully Monday's quotations. Otherwise, the beef trade was in a sluggish state, at late currencies. The show of sheep was limited, and the mutton trade ruled firm, at full prices. The best Downs sold at fully 5s 2d per Blba. Prime small calves were in request, at extreme rates ; but inferior veal was dull, and quite 2d per 81bs lower.' The supply was only moderate. We had a fair demand for pigs, at full quotations ; but mulch cows were a slow inquiry. Per Blbs. to link the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. & inf. beasts 3 0 3 ' 2 Second quality do. 3 4 3 8 Prime large oxen• - 3 10-4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 5 0 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 2 3 4 Second quality do. 3 G 4 0 , s. d. Primecrs-wool do. 4 2 4 6 Pine. S'thdowndo.4 10 5 2 Largo erse. calves 4- 0 4 6 Prime small do 4 10 5 2 Large hogs 3 6 3 10 Small porkers Suckling calves, 18s to 225; and quarter •old store pigs 22s to 21s. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep 3,041 Sheep Calves Pigs 360 Pigs MEAT MARKET S. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL. - The supplies of meat are tolerably good, and the trade rules steady, as fol lows :—Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s Gd ; m u tt on , 3s 2d to 4s 6d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3 s 8d t o 4 s 6d ; pork, 3s Gd to 5s 2d per 81bs. by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Nov. 23..—The supplies of fat stock here were only moderate, and trade generally ruled steady, at very full prices:—Beef, from 3s Gd to 5s Od; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 2d; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d; pork, 4s Od to 5s Od per 81bs to sick the offal. itomFoßD, Nov. 23.--We had a steady demand for each kind of stock, at extreme quotations :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 5s Od ; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 4d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od; veal, 4s 2d to 5s Od ; and pork, 4s Od to 5$ Od per Blbs ; suckling calves, 15s to 19s ; quarter old store pigs, 21s to 28s each ; milch cows, £l4 Os to £l9 each. HAY MARKETS. SMITTIFIELD.—Moftdow hay, £2 153 to £4 4 ; clover, £3 15s to £5 53 ; and straw, £1 63 to £1 12s per load. A fair demand. CUMBERLAND.--Meadow hny, to £4 4s; clove?, £4 N to X 5 Ss ; and straw, £1 is to V. 12s per lead Trade firm. lirunEcitArEL:—Meadow hay, £2lss to £4 4s; £3 15s to £5 5s ; and straw, £1 6s to £1 12s per load. A molerate inquiry. The paddle steamer Emperor, of 1,350 tons, the property of Messrs. Gee and Co., Hull, clears to-day at that port for Santander. She is chartered by the Spanish Government for the war service in Morocco, and is the first of a line of British steamers taken up in this country for the SpaniSh war, being the only paddle steamer specially en gaged for superior service. The Emperor was the stemer selected to convey the staff officers out to the Crim ea i n th e late Russian war, with the Into Captain Christie as commo dore, and was also appointed to be the flag and signal ship during the transportation of the British army fr om B a ldjik Bay, near Varna, to Old Fort, previous to the battle of the Alma, SIR JOHN BOTVRING ON CHINA• ,f Arts, At a crowded meetin of the Society et s- _ yesterday evening, Sir John Bowring et red . 11 ; long and highly interesting discourse on China and its relations to British commerce. Numerous per" sons could not obtain admission, and the confusros round the entrance, owin g to the crush of visitor struggling for entranc e , rendered the commen ce men of Sir John Bowring's o b serva tions ind l r . tinctly audible He began by describing the vas,' ness and importance of China, its immense per' s. tion of 400,000,000, the general character ex ports. country, and the extent of its imports and The average exports of China to this country.' during the last five years was stated to excri ee,a £9,000,000 sterling, and its imports of manufactures amounted to only £2,000,000 ; an but for the opium imported from India the balance would be required to be paid in bullion. Sir J. 13eN t c s ring dwelt with much force, and at some leng on the misconceptions that prevailed in this countr se , with respect to the trade in opium, for the Put,l 3 , ° p d of disabusing the public mind respecting the alteo ns immorality of the trade in opium and the injurio. of ;the effect the drug is represented to produce on the people. To prove that the use of opium is not bidden by the Chinese law, it was sufficient, a said, to state that opium is cultivated in Chi na .. .t ° ed great extent, and that th e qu antity of it imP e " o . from India does not amount to so much as the Pf eet duce of China itself. Hi s ex p er ience of the eJohn of the use of opium on the people led Sir Bowring to conclude that it is far less panicle than spirits ; and he mentioned that in Hong, l( , °l l: during the period he was governor of the Is i ns. there were two-thirds more deaths caused by ae ed rium tremens than by taking opium. He add u ce d instances in which the introduction of opium' had tended to improve the morale of the people biP rs ; ting a stop to the excessive u s e of spirituous NV ° and the effects of the two kinds of excess were, he ss 'i s greatly in favour of opium. The effect of opium ¢ s different from that of spirits. It 11111 ‘ s deaden the faculties and produce stupor, but it do ng not incite to the commission of crime ; and 6111 ? ss a people who take opium there is a much bests amount of robberies, assaults, and among those who indulge too freely in spirits• It had been stated, he said, as one of the evil e° 4 l r s t quences of the encouragement of opium.eating',.`this it prevented the diffusion of Christianity; b ut •et war so far from being the case that in one distriti.. into which opium had been introduced as a s n ,„ bs en tute for intoxicating drinks the people had u' is ,„ found particularly willing to receive Christian his sionaries, and had become ready converts. s lll e se intercourse with the mandarins and other Cio n bein officials he said he had never heard any Of vice t °Af he felt speak against the importation of opium ; an d persuaded that the prejudice that had been excited this country against th e op i um t ra de was I ' i and foundation, and that the recognition of the t rade the import of opium i n t o China at a low du t Y d be one of the most beneficial measures that coul adopted for the prom o ti on o f commerce. The average annual imports of the drug into China bu t but amounted to about se v e n m illi ons sterling ; ha for the teas and silks exported there been a most exhausting drain of the precious nte' ra ' l from this country. After entering into sev e e no statistical details of the exports and i m ports s b r een China and Hone. Kong, which have alreadY n otice published ; Sir John Bowring proceeded to, 11 " the the ports which had been opened to trade .by treaty with Lord Elgin, some of which, f or Ning-po, he considered had been ill chosen', os s would 11 ...4 0 ar was not the place of residence of any rahof officers of the Chinese Government. The porte of Tchao-Tchou, h owever , w hi c h was the reside nt , mandarins of the first rank, had not proved Chi o far, able for commercial t ransac ti ons w ith the t, ha i though possessing those advantages. Sh aep for has _become the principal shipping Irb o ur- Chinese produce ; and as it is in the nelg" the hood of the tea di s t r i c t s , it is favourable Or ea export of that commo dit y , more than half the rt, exported from China being shipped from that PS o f Sir John . Bowring observed that all the sea b l a rge China is remarkable for the absence of any the towns; the principal ports being situated ell the estuaries of rivers, as remote as poss ible from sea, for the . sake of protection against the lit ne . ee d uoti sir pirates who infest those waters. Having at length, the statistics of imports and exPeAl' a ud John Bowring proceeded to consider the hav" - ss of qualifications of the Chinese, and the prospecs,ich extends 5,000 miles in length, an increasing trade with that vast country'sw3"6oo an d u pwards 01 „' miles in breadth. That vast territory is scarcely to accommodate its 400,000,000 of in' h i e k tants, and the rivers swarm with boats in W„ en d hundreds of thousands of the people live and ° r o t their lives. Some of their institutions are bee n more republican character than could hav e COr supposed possible in so despotic an empire• b e en pEtitive examinations for publi c offices har po ol established in China, and some of the P r ' n i,:oes officers of State had risen to those positions sew. low conditions of life. Am ong th es e was t11 e ,,, c t brated Commissioner Lin, w h o , i n early life' 'les small stationer's shop. In many of the mall fat turing arts the Chine se , it i s we ll-known, W ere -s -in advance of Europeans. It appears from their.Z, cords, that silk dresses were worn 4,000 years 'lntl though woven silks were not known in Ding ' t w ee 200 or 300 years after the Christian era, an d v i e not much worn, even in Italy, 600 years ater..ness mariner's compass was also known to the C . lll the long before it was applied in Europe, and In r . ceramic arts the Chinese were celebrated for tbe ie P 0 fection they dim attained. The great Obstac l e the progress of provement in China is the. con, stant recurrence to the past instead of lookin.g.,„"" advance, and many of the Chinese manufactures acs not now so good as they were hundreds of a Y res t ago. This state of circumstances presentee was advantages to a manufacturing country a ev at enabled to supply goods by the aid of nia i c_ ll T h e e d o ld a much cheaper rate than can be made e)' • ee r y loom. At present, - however, the Chinese princiPrery weave for themselves, as there is a loom in e to house, but if their attention were directed re a e o r d the cultivation of the raw produce of cotton of ss .i s silk to supply the manufacturing country, we might be enabled to supply thou ; 0 cotton and silk manufactures at a cheaper ra te in to they can make them. The cultivation of tort that China is a subject, Sir John Bowring o bserve e a deserves earnest consideration. There is at Prial ive a large amount of cotton grown to supply t he s e n a an looms; and by the introduction of better soul s - hitle ss, improved mode of cultivation the u rif " us machines 01_100 might be in a condition to suP 2 might with the raw produce, which we ~a t ad then return to them i n muslins. The g r i o glish vantages of machinery had enabled the joss we John .T e ht manufacturers to surpass the celebrated Daces have lips both in cheapness and quality, andd now possession of the Dacca markets; andshe earn s that in the course of a few years a v ow result would occur in China. One of th e : H es s tages attending the commerce with th e °o e was that they were always ready to pure h as s l-tett best article at the cheapest price, withoutsectid,ir the country whence the goods might come' unlit. the British. manufacturer could produce hi s pods in the Chinese markets of and cheaper than they could be made there, lo bs would be bought without any prejudice. Si r ht tang Bowring said that the result of his experience, w ill him that the Chinese are a people who may "„ e at the deceived ; and he expressed the opinion t" nee of Emperor of China hud been kept in ign er o a ii tered the full effects of the treaties that had been ', m ica' into with the English, and that if direct coll ie no tion were to take place with the EmPere r ' t wi sted , sent difficulties might be reconciled. I,ll° Chinese, at least, that a b e tt er k now l e dge of the orels and of the import ance o f i mprov ing our co ln i m ,lifir relations with th em , would have the effect 0 e go ins* the present angry feelings, and be them s t be of bringing hostilities—if hostilities there must —shortly to a close. At the end of Sir John Bowring's CHAIRMAN (Mr. Bodkin) complimented hill t se a to able address, and a vote of thanks was pas him with loud applause. a n Sir J. BONN - RING again rose to return than and in doing so he alluded in a very , energetic Ill ne s , s the de ° Chines e to the circumstance of his ref • refusing the Chinese .Commissioner to give up the sailors who had taken refuge under the -V ni ars flag. The demand, he said, was made by "man who had immolated more victims than any 'n o vss being who ever existed ; and if he (S idrisilli u eri n ' a tile ring) had delivered over those men, who w ere d he protection of the Briti s h fl a to be victimise 'lle should never after war d s h av e enjoyed rep felt assured that th ere was no Eaglish llllo c , 1 4 11/ 0 under the sam e circumstances, would n" of don the same. He sat down amid a tumult ap plause. a cte sdr.l The mntine. was then adjourned till lire next. - os. who, TIIE MURDER ON TIIE HIGH SEAS,---We nre l? formed th a t th e Sh er iff s o f L on d on awl ikliddlasoxeniber received a further respite, until the 26th day. of P e , c , a tc. next, for th e convict under sentence of deat h in Noc,bero STATISTICS OF PRINTING IN EUROPN. are now in Fr anco 1,037 pr i n ting offices, whicliterfa,,a 9,500 composit ors , 3,000 pressmen, and 900 correc tl ev overseers. The printing force of Londonalone gleitc•iti' coeds that of all France. The little kingdom of . „ co tind has, at the present time, 262 periodicals, whilst Fr3'nd hag l E o n o g ; la p n i d u c ss o i v a n t7oon;lyAfurositnria2,7o4oto; Spain, 51 ch. golla 28; Portugal ' , 13; Denmark, 14. Theresta;reSasby°illlit_ll2's°El periodicals published in Europe at the present tiSited nearly 1,500 in tbe rest of the world, of the DO United States, where, should the present ratio of increasOL"ouso l retarded by a money panic, we shall soon have five L to 1 1 regularly publi s h e d p er i o dicals, or more than arloority found in all the rest of the world put together.-- Echo. I I