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

r CHE PI FLUID MAGNESIA of Sir 'TAMES. -YLCRRAY, M.D., re-carbonated, sparkling, and permanently saturated, is prepared by his last patented processes (1859), which render it perfectly effective for pre venting or removing acidities, gout, gravel, and indigestion, thus supplanting debilitating alkalies. N.B.—Sold by Barclay, Edwards, Sutton, and all respectable druggists; also by Bailey and Son, Wolverhampton and London, Shipping Agents. This improved fluid is now completed by the patentee in person, at his factory, lot, Strand, London, where orders, a ddressed to Sir J. Murray, or Mr. Linder, will be promptly attended to. __-•••••••••••••••••••••••• N G 1, I S , 0 P E RA, CO VENT-GA 11 DEN. . p 0 Y A 1, Under the manaT.ement of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, VICTORINE. Messrs. Santley, H. Haigh, 11, Curl, G. Honey, Bartleman, &e. Misses Parepa, Thirlwall, Conductor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new grand pautomime, called PUSS IN BOOTS ; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden Palms. ast 6 —Commence at 7 o'clock. Doors open at half-p THEA TRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. TAOISM Mr. J. B. Bnckstone. Tuts EVENING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS. Miss Reynolds. After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled Leciereqs. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.— So!e Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. Last nioht but three of the Spanish Dancers. THIS EVENING, the popular Drama of THE SISTER'S SACRIFICE. Genevieve (tier original character) Madame Celeste. After which. will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex travaganza and Pantomime, KING TIIRUSHBEARD, the LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. H. Marshall—Columbine, Miss Rosin°. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan seuse of La Scala, Milan ; and first time of the Delapierre Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. THIS EVENING, A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr. A. Harris Shore, Frank Matthews, and Miss C. Leclercq. After which, a new Ohristmas burlesque pantomime, by 11. J. Byron, called JACK. THE GIANT KILLER; or, Harle quin King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack - Panta loon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Tlvee Morning. Performances of the pantomime of JACK THE JIANT KILLER, universally acknowledged the best of the season, MONDAYS, January 2,9, and 10. Doors open at half-past one ; commence at two o'clock. .ISTEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Holiday Attractions.— The Christmas Carol and the New Spectacular Extravaganza, by H. J. Byron, Esq„ the Nymph of the Lurlyberg ; or the Knight and the Naiades. THIS EVENING, THE CHRISTMAS CAROL. Messrs J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Paul Bedford, Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith. Romer: Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, 3lrs.Chatter ley, Miss Laidlaw. After which THE NYMPHS OF TIIE LITRLEYBERG ; or, The Knight and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford, Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K. Keily, Laidlaw. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Bo x- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor far bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment arc strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS Els-MNING- the performances will commence with GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C. Young. Followed by MAGIC TOYS, sUpportad by Miss Lydia Thompson, Clara St. Cassc, &c. Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. Miss Wyndham and Mr. H. T. Craven. To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND JUDY. Introducing Miss Lydia Thompson and the Corps de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and the wonderful Performing Dogs. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, ls. The Box-ofEee open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past si x ; perform ance commences at 7. On Wednesday next, Jan. 4, 1 , 4(10, a Morning Performance of the Pantomime, at two o'clock, when the Children of the Duke of York School, with their Band, will attend. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE: Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, .1118 Farewell Season. • • - THIS EVENING, the grand entertainments will com mence at 7 o'clock with new and extraordinary features in Horsemanship by the best Riders in Europe. After which, the successful sporting Pantomime, abounding in comicality, called HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY; or, Old Towier the Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, with songs by Miss Esther Jacobs.—Gorgeous and Dazzling mechanical transfor mation scene. Harlequin, M. Richarde ; Pantaloon, Mr. I'. Abbot, Columbine, Maddle. Mazzoni; Clown, Mr. Hilde brand ; a family of Sprites by the Elastic Incomprehensibles. Morning performances of the Pantomime, and Scenes in the Circle every Saturday during the Holidays at Two o'clock. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips CANTERBUR v HALL CONCERTS._ EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY QUEEN. And a Grand Se ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAII. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. Georr , e Hodson (the Irish Come - Can and Mimic), W. I'. Critchlield, and E. W. 3lackney. 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. HOS A HON IIE ti S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR. is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—Strs OFFICE, JAN. 1, 1860. TIMINOMETEIt, IN THE SIIA.DE. 57—highest since noon yesterday. st—lowest this morning and during the night• 54—this day at noon. BAROMETER —Up to 29.85 ; now down to 29.60. WIND. South-Westerly; fresh and dull, with inclina tin to rain. JAN. 2. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAM 58—highest since noon yesterday. 49—lowest this morning and during the night. 52—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.80. WIND. W.S.W. ; light, with fine sunshiny weather. ....k•••••/ ••••••••• March, a majority of 29 pronounced against the' bill. On the 23d of April Parliament was dissolved ; and there was certainly some ground for complaint that this course should be taken when the state of foreign affairs demanded that her MAJESTY should not be deprived of the advice of her Grand Council. It was, however, a temptation too strong for party feeling to resist. The Government, as such, can generally command some votes at an election ; and it would not do to surrender such an advantage to their adversaries, and after they also had tried their hands at a more popular Reform Bill. Ministers, therefore, dissolved, and ingeniously took as long a time as possible over the election ; Par ' liament did not re-assemble till the 7th of June, and on the 10th a vote of no con fidence sealed the fate of the DERBY Administra tion. So far as we yet know, however, the chief difference between the Whig and Tory proposals is 40s. sterling rental ; it having been well understood that the Tories were now prepared to give an £8 franchise in the boroughs, while Lord JOHN RUSSELL suggested a £6 one. The Whig leaders are, however, quite as averse as the Tories to the Ballot; they will do nothing more than Lord DERBY and Mr. Dis. RAELI to confer a real vote on the present county electors, or to put a stop to bribery in the boroughs, and though we would not refuse an extension of the suffrage, without the Ballot we see in it little but an extension of the area for bribery and intimi dation. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts DAY. —Morning, 7h. 26m.—Afternoon, 7h. 53m, TO-MORROW. -Morning, Bh. 22m.—Afternoon, Bh. 51m. The new Ministry, not very easily formed, very soon threw over Reform for the session, and made it indeed a very short one, Parliament .having been prorogued on the 13th of August. They whispered something about an autumnal session, but scorned to fear the political malaria at that season of the year. The money was voted as fast as possible. We were made to pay for Sir JOHN PAKINGTON'S extra taste in shipbuilding by a nearly doubled income tax for the year, collected during the one half of it; and little of interest was done, except the unseating of a sufficient number of Whigs to reduce the Whig majority to a tie. It is, however, but fair to add that the Tory Parliamentary agents managed far better than their opponents, and got all the worst Whig cases heard first, that the peti tions against Tories have nearly all yet to be tried, and that there seems to have been nothing to elso)se between Whigs and Tories in those boroughs which have enjoyed the privilege of confessing their sins before a Royal Commission. Since the session there has been a pretty general lull in poli tics, and the Ministry has, in Continental matters, walked in the footsteps of their predecessors, with probably, however, a warmer zeal for Italian independence. Their anta gonists have proclaimed, at Liverpool, that they do not mean to try Government again by a chance majority; but, we admonish them, and the Whigs too, that no party will have more than a chance majority till one party makes up its mind to render itself the national party, by giving the nation the Ballot. Politically, we must mark the past year as one of faction fights: The year before witnessed many battles of the kind, but closed with the Tories in office, because the independent Liberals refused to be dragged through the mud, merely to reinstate Lord PALMERSTON as dietator. Last spring they were puzzled. The mistakes of the Government Bill annoyed them, and reasonably; yet they could get no offers much better from the Liberals, while they lost the certainty of carrying their measure through the Lords. Hence the indifference at the elections, hence the equal balance of parties in the House, and hence the general indifference now. Why should men put themselves to trouble about either party when the offers of each are so nearly alike. Let one party but come forward with proposals for what the people really desire, and the time of indifference, and of weak Governments, will be at an end. Commercially, the year has been a favourable one. Unusual disasters occurred amongst our first class steamers, but trade, as eviddenced by the Board of Trade Returns, has grown considerably and steadily. The staple manufactures of the coun try have been well sustained ; indeed, the rather more than usual prevalence of strikes has been pro bably caused by the briskness of trade. Wages, except in some agricultural districts, have been ris ing. The Masons' Strike has been a terrible lesson to thousands, and has painfully shoWn how un wisely the working classes can enslave themselves to each other, under the pleasing idea of controlling their employers. India has become quiet, and even financially gives indications that Lord STANLEY'S hopes were not ill-founded. Our other colonies, generally, have been prosperous. Australia especially so, at the same time, as she has been perfecting her civil and religious liberties. Canada has opened by far the vastest railway bridge in the world, but has also disclosed some painfnl political corruption. With her neighbour, the United States, we seemed likely to have a little quarrel, which is being smoothed down. But the States themselves have perpetrated perhaps their greatest political crime in the legal murder of a noble Liberator of their bondsmen. On the whole, as her Majesty would be made to say, we may congratulate ourselves on our amicable relations with all Foreign Powers, and the pleasant assurances we continue to receive from them all, but also on having this year completed such a fleet, and enrolled such a number of rifle corps that, while we mean no offence to any Power, we are in a posi tion to fear none from any ; that our trade is increasing and our revenue with it, and one day or other—this year or ten years hence—her Majesty's Ministers and her Majesty's Opposition will give us something which they will call a Reform Bill. We hope we may be able honestly to call it one too —and with such a good past, good present, and good hope for the future, we can wish all our readers A HAPPY NEW YEAR. LONDON, MONDAY, JAN. 2, 1860. The late year has distinguished itself in English history, but only by a change just sufficient to make its date clearer. It began DERBY et DISRAELI Cogs—it has ended, P- ALMERSTON et RUSSELL Coss —a general election, of course, heralding the change. Such changes have, however, been so common of late that they will be but slight helps to memory. Abroad, we have been little more than passive spectators, exerting little appreciable influence ; but that influence in the main for good. A Tory Administration might have been better dieposed to Austria till she made it look awkward by her' mad ultimatum ; but Whigs and Tories, equally, ad hered to the policy of non-intervention. And Lord JOHN RUSSELL, we too well remember, on an im portant occasion, would Albertise at Vienna. The late Cabinet entered on the Session pledged in honour to a Reform Bill ; but distinctly recognis ing it as, in their judgment, only an artificial neces sity created by the party spirit of the Whigs. Lord DERBY regarded Parliamentarylieform as something not demanded by the country, but repeatedly offered by his political opponents as a bait for popularity, and as a convenient stumbling-block to place in the way of a Conservative Cabinet. Parliament was opened on the 3d of February, and after a delay, which could do the Ministry no good, on the 28th, Mr. DISRAELI brought forward the measure of the Ministry. Its great merit was the £lO county franchise. Its great defects were the non extension (except by a few fancy franchises) of the borough constituencies, the subtraction of all voters resident in boroughs from the county constituencios, and the omission of the Ballot. The first two defects displeased many of the followers of the Ministry, and served as a handle for the Whigs. But the last was, as politicians, thegreat fault. Couldthe Cabinet have made up their minds to give electors the entire free dom of the Ballot, they would at an election have had a majority of at least two to one, and would have been remembered in history as a Cabinet which had done more for electoral purity and Eng lish liberties than all the Whig Cabinets together since the time of the Reform Bill. After just one calendar month, on the 31st of The official statement of the last quarter's re venue will be found, upon examination, to be alto gether very satisfactory. It is given elsewhere with due tabular distinctness. From this authen tic record, giving the national balance-sheet from JOIIN BULL'S ponderous ledger for the closing quarter of the year 1859, it will be obvious, almost at a glance, that, according to those returns, there is a clear net increase upon that crowning quarter of 'fifty-nine, amounting to just a trifle over eighty thousand pounds sterling ! Against a total increase upon the quarter of £804,313, there is to be placed a total decrease of £724,l4l—leaving a balance "to the good" of precisely £80,172. It is some what startling at the first announcement — in a slight degree bewildering at the first blush—and, under every point of view sin gularly tantalizing to learn, almost in the same breath with the above announcement, that the total increase upon the quarter of £BO,OOO and odd, would hare been upwards Tc 1:700,000 sterling, but for a purely accidental decrease under the loose and comprehensive item of Miscellaneous. Honest lons (we may well imagine)—jingling his £BO,OOO odd in his breeches pockets contentedly. as he glances with a complacent cye down his last balance-sheet—pulls a long face enough at this supplementary intimation, and is fain to Ask the Reason Why, as anxiously as may be in the midst of his Christmas eomfortableness ! The reason of this enigmatically broad contrast between what is (i.e. £80,000), and what might hare been (viz., £700,000) the net increase upon the quarter, when examined into for a moment, turns out to be the simplest thing imaginable. To put it distinctly at once—this clear balance upon the quarter, then, in stead of being merely, as it is, a little over £BO,OOO would have been upwards of £700,000 but for the cessation of the sale of old naval and military stores under the head of Miscellaneous. This one circumstance, indeed, gives a decrease, under the head of Miscellaneous, amounting to no less than £683,141. In the corresponding quar ter of 1858 the sale of condemned and surplus stores, it may be remembered, was something ex traordinary. Hence this large diminuticav upon the final quarter of the year just expired to the tune under that one head of £683,141 ! Remem bering, in addition to this, that the return for the whole of this last year, 1859, shows a comparative decrease of £216,526, JOHN will probably feel dis posed, upon second thoughts, to cease jingling his odd eighty thousand so very complacently. Yet reverting to that falling off under the head of the Miscellaneous, and recollecting the very consider able diminution caused by the huge reduction in the rate of Income-tax, we find, nevertheless, there is, after all, only reason for general satisfaction. Because, literally, but for those reasons, the revenue for the whole year, 1859, just expired, would have yielded an increase of upwards of £2,000,000 ! Looking more closely into these returns for the last quarter, it will be observed that there are only three items constituting that aggregate increase of £724,141—the chief part of which we have already notified, namely £683,141, under the head -of Miscellaneous. Adding to this wholesale diminu tion caused by the sale of stores—a further dimi nution of £ll,OOO under the head of Stamps, and a yet further diminution, in round numbers, of £30,000 under the Post-office de partment—we have the total before men tioned of £724,141. Against that, however, we place the yet larger total of £804,313 net in crease upon the last quarter. A net increase of more than £BOO,OOO coming to us from five different sources. One of the five certainly a particularly small source, namely, an increase of £5OO from Crown Lands ! Another —bringing us an additional £15,813 from the Customs ! Another—giving an in crease 0f£41,000 (under the head Taxes) as compared with the corespondin g quarter of 1858. There are two other sources, however, of increase yet to be specified, really and truly of very considerable importance. Under the head of Excise we have a net increase of more than £350,000 upon the quarter, or, to give the precise amount, £356,000. While from the Pro perty Tax alone we have upon the quarter a net increase of very nearly £400,000, or, again to give the exact amount, of just £391,000. Thus from Crown Lands, from Customs, from Taxes, from Excise, and from Property Tax, we obtain in five amounts, ranging from the minimum of £5OO, to the maximum of £391,000, the total increase of £804,313 which—diminished by the subtraction of the total amount of decrease, namely, that of £724,l4l—leaves, as we have seen, the pleasant little balance in hand of £80,172 upon the quarter ! The net decrease upon the year, how ever, we have already notified (for two reasons—to wit, the cessation of the sale of 'stores and the reduction in the rate of Income-Tax) as amounting to £216,526—the gross produce of the revenue for the year ending the 31st of December, 1859, being £66,070,469, whereas the gross produce for the revenue ending the 31st of December, 1858, w as £66,286,995 ! Remembering the diminished Income Tax, however, and remembering the dropped Sale of Stores we cannot but regard the Returns of the Revenue of the United Kingdom with peculiar and perfectly justifiable satisfaction. LATEST NEWS. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 2. The China has arrived with the heavy portion of, the Bombay mails, 35 passengers, 3 packages specie (value not stated), 998 bales silk, 512 bales flax, 63 bales wool, and general cargo. On the 31st December she boarded the ship St. Vincent of Bristol dismasted. The China laid by 1 her till midnight when the St. Vincent made for Falmouth. Gibraltar advice: are to Dec. 24th. Marshal O'Donnell was awaiting reinforcements to hold his position in front of Ceuta before moving on against Tetuan. The fighting had been all on the extreme left of the Spanish army, where strong recon noitring'parties had been pushed out. Gibraltar Exchange on London at 20 days 511 to 51: ; on Paris 6, 33 fr. centimes. PARIS, JAN. 1. Today, at 1 o'clock p.m:, the reception of the diplomatic corps took place in the Salle du Trone. The Ambassadors, headed by the Papal Nuncio, and the first attaches of the Embassies, stood round the throne ; the Secretaries and other attaches re mained behind the Ambassadors. OP.ENIYG OF THE HAMPSTEAD etUNC TION RAHLwAr.-(THIS DAY.) On entering the Salle du Trone his Majesty first met the Papal Nuncio, Monsignore Saccone, who presented to the Emperor, in the nerve of the Dip lomatic Corps, their resiiectful wishes for the hap piness and prosperity of his Majesty and of his august family. The Emperor in reply said " I thank the Diplomatic Corps for the wishes they have kindly expressed to me, and I am happy to be able to remind them on this occasion that, since I came into power, I have always respected recognised rights. I shall also prove to them in future that all my efforts have no other aim than the maintenance of peace." His Majesty afterwards passed before the diplo matic circle, and spoke a few words to cash Ambas sador respecting the health of their Sovereigns. The new line of railway which brings the healthy and picturesque districts of Hampstead-heath and Finchley within half an hour's ride or so of the City and the north and east end of London, was opened to-day for passenger traffic. The line, which is six miles in length, commences by a junction with the North London Railway, near the Camden Town Station, and terminates by a junction with the Kew and Acton Railway, at Willesden. On its route it passes through Kentish Town by the foot of Highgate hill, near to Hampstead-heath, and across the Finchley and Edgware-roads, at each of 'which places substan tial and commodious passenger stations have been etected. This new railway, in fact, forms a loop line to connect the North London Railway with the line which runs to Kew, and thus avoids the passage of the Kew and Richmond trains in connection with the North London along and across tke crowded section of the North-Western main line which is crossed at Willesden by a bridge. The principal work on the line is a tunnel, three quarters of a mile in length, perfectly straight, which passes under portions of Hampstead-heath. There are four sta tions, viz.:—Kentish Town, Plampstead-heath, Finchley road, and Edgware. Both in view and traffic it will be truly a pleasure line, for shortly after leaving Camden Town a very pretty country is entered upon. There has been some delay in opening the lino owing to certain re quirements on the part of the railway department of the Board of Trade, with respect to the junction signals, so as to afford the utmost !possible security to the passenger trains. The difficulty has been overcome by an ingenious arrangement, invented by Mr. A. Chambers, by means of which an accident is scarcely possible. Twenty-three trains are announced to run to and from Fenchurch-street, each way, in the course of the day. The reception lasted 25 minutes. Another message, also containing the Emperor's speecg, was received at Mr. Reuter's office. It gives the conclusion of the speech thus— " Be convinced, therefore, that the constant aim of my endeavours will always be to re-establish everywhere, as far as lies in my power, confidence and peace." The Moniteur of to-day contains numerous nomi nations to the Legion d'Honneur. Admiral Ro main Desfosses has been appointed Grand Cross of that Order. PARIS, JAN. 2. The Moniteur of to-day publishes , an account of ;he reception of the diplomatic corps at the Tuileries. The Moniteur also states that yesterday Cardi nal Morlot celebrated mass at the Tuileries. MADRID, JAN. 1. On Friday evening the Moors vigorously attacked our encampment, but were repulsed with great loss. The Spaniards displayed great bravery ; their Loss, however, was not considerable. A forward movement of the army was expected shortly. The rumour that peace had been concluded is altogether false. The Correspondencia Autografa says that the English Minister continues to demand payment of the old debt due to England. TURIN, DEC. 31. The Sardinian Government has boon informed of the prorogation of the Congress. The time for its definitive assembling will benotified to the Powers later. II:LA r rblrinimj VIENNA, JAN. 1 According to the ceremonial observed at the Austrian Court, the Grand Chamberlain of the Em peror received to-day, at 12 o'clock, in the name of his Majesty, the congratulations of the Diplomatic Corps. ,-;( f‘t BERLIN, DEC. 31. In reply to a statement in the Kreuz Zeitung of yesterday the Prussian Gazette says " The report that the Prince of Hohenzollern intends to resign the Presidency of the Council of Ministers is totally unfounded." • wait oat COPENHAGEN, DEC. 30. The Chamberlain Berlin, Private Secretary to the King, has been dismissed. He will leave to morrow for Algiers. - • bulazti'd ( us ,v9ilAl MR. HUGH ROWLEY AND HIS LATE WIFE.— We believe the proceedings as far as relates to a prosecution for perjury have been abandoned. The "happy pair," however, will be in attendance at the Westminster Police court on Wednesday next at three o'clock, in order that certain explanatory statements may be made by the learned counsel engaged for the respective parties. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Herbert are entertaining a large circle at Wilton House, near Salisbury, the guests including the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl of Clanwilliam, Count Strzelecki, Viscount and Viscountess de Vesci and Hon. Miss Vesey, Viscount Gilford, Lord Ashburton, Hon. Sid ney and Hon. Herbert Meade, Mr. Gerard and Lady Augusta Sturt, &c. The Right Hon. W. F. and Mrs. Cowper are staying on a visit to Viscount and 'Viscountess Palmetston . at Broadlands. THE LATE BRIBERY INQUIRY AT NORWICH.— It is understood that certain parties who have entered into a subscription for the purpose of continuing the inquiry com menced into corrupt practices at Norwich, intend taking the opinion of the law officers of the Crown as to the course which it will be most prudent for"them to pursue. Sub-: scriptions to the amount of between £6OO and .£7OO are re ported to have been collected. FINANCIAL LIABILITIES OF CANADA.—A very' important proposal from the Government of Canada was communicated on Saturday to the Stock Exchange by Messrs. Baring and Co. and Messrs. Glyn and Co., the financial agents of that province. The total of ,the various liabilities of the dolma) , is £11,661,010, and the holders are now presented with the option of converting them into one Consolidated 5 per Cent. Stock, irredeemable until 25 year front the Ist of January, 1860. A por tion of these liabilities, however , consists of £700,000 to the English Government for the balance of a guaranteed loan ; -100,000 to the current revenue for amounts of debt recently paid elf; £250,000 for certain indemnity claims on the " Feudal. Tenure Fund ;" and £1,250,000 currency debt, making a total of £2,600,000, which it is contemplated to meet in cash. For that purpose an issue is to be made on, the London market, which will be increased to £2.800,000, by a requirement of £200,00) for the ptiblie build ings at Ottawa, the now capital. By this condensation of a number of securities, sonic of which are of an indirect character, into one sole stock, increased marketability will be obtained, and £39,0043 in annual interest will be saved.' A scale is published of the rates at which the existing ster ling 6 per Cent. Government Bonds, payable in London, will bo allowed to be converted, £lO9 108. of the now 5 per Cent. stock being given for £1.00,0f the 6 per Cent. bonds, dno in August, 1854, and the rate gradually rising to 4113 10s. for those which do not mature till 1884. The new • stock will be transferrable in London, and the dividends will be paid here, or the proprietors may have coupon bonds instead, which they can turn into stock at pleasure. There is also to be a sinking fund of a-half per cent. The £2,800,000 now to be subscribed (only £200,000 of which is as addition to the existing liabilities of the colony), are to be applied for on or before Tuesday, the 10th of January. The issue is to be at par, but as the instalments are to ex tend over a year, while the full interest is to commence iin • mediately, the actual price will be 971. The entire measure seems a wise one, end calculated to add greatly to the stability of Canadian finance, LISBON, DEC. 31. The Tyne has arrived with the Brazil mails, and advices from Rio Janeiro to the Bth of December. Peace had been concluded between the Argentine Republic and Buenos Ayres, by the mediation of Paraguay. Buenos Ayres was again to be incorporated iato the Confederation. `•''ttyjq. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Exchange on London, 251 2.5 k. au Coffee flat at 3,800 to 5,900 rein. Exportations since the departure of the last , mail to the United States, 49,565 bags ; to the Channel, 14,616 ; to Havre, 10,156; to Marseilles, 13,091; and to the Mediterranean, 7,406. Stock, 220,000 bags. it'-‘ Coffee crop very abundant. 1 91 ` ja • t•-••frryt tndi LISBON, DEC. 31 The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Tyne, from Brazil, would leave Lisbon on the evening of the 31st ult., with 36 passengers, specie £11,391, and 28 shipwrecked seamen. QUEENSTOWN, JAN. 1 The Royal Mail steamship Europa arrived here at 9 15 p.m., embarked mails, and proceeded at 10 p.m. for America. All well. THE SiJN, LONDON, MONDAY .EVENDTG, JANUARY 2, 1860, Cesare Ragnotti, professor of literature and ra tional philosophy, and Annibale Vecchi, a chemist." The Perseveranza'of Milan states that Garibaldi was the object of a popular ovation there on the 26th, and that he addressed a few patriotic words to the people, declaring that they must not cease to arm until all Venetia was evacuated. -:'..:,-. • • •,..,A. i. ~ , , , ,, r , . • .I'. ~aL •g, 4. . t'•-• .9? ~... ....4,„,!.-,, , , 11l . 4, 5111 4 s 6 r— —• , - s -1 , .... .l!' ~. - 0 4 3 \ 0 , 4-4. ~.- 1 ,.._, 11 . .. 4. ' - - t- ....; 1.. ~ i% 44k .11, THE SUN. TURIN. The Opinione of Turin of the 29th, in noticing the rectifications of some sentences on the affair of g Perugia il,es l the ate flo fol l ow i ng pronounced o we details by concerningt he who have been condemned either to death or to the gal leys :—Condemtel to Dcath—l.Francesco Guarda bassi, aged 65, the landlord of a hundred farms, and father of four children, beloved by all for his kindness and generosity ; 2. Zeffirino Faina Bal dini, aged 35, a rich banker, who had foundeel several manufactories at Perugia, and considerably increased its prosperity ; 3. Tiberio Berardi, aged 45, an advocate, generally respected; 4. Carlo Bluschi, the son of the distinguished physician, Professor Domenieo Bruschi.—Condemned to the Galley.-1. Baron Nicola Danzetta, aged 40. one of the most influential among the nobility of Perugia ; 2. Count Antonio Cesarei, past the middle age, generally beloved by the people ; 3. Filippo Tan tini, one of the most active and enterprising manu facturers of tho country. Among the exiles are AUSTRIA. A letter just received from Vienna, dated Dec. 30, says :—Prince Metternich, a few days ago, re quested Count Walewskl publicly to disavow all knowledge of the pamphlet entitled " Le Pape et le Congres," but he must have declined to do so, as a very unfriendly feeling towards the French Go vernment now prevails here. The word " dis loyalty" is freely used, and the conviction expressed that the Emperor of the French will have cause to rue the day on which he ordered a pamphlet to be written, " which must necessarily give offence to every Roman Catholic." During the last few days I have had many opportunities of hearing the opinions of devout Catholics in regard to M. de Laguerronii‘!re's work, and almost all of them have spoken favourably of it, it being well known here that no country in Europe is worse governed than the Papal States. Very many Catholics in this city think that the spiritual power of the Pope would be greater if his temporal power were less, but the Jesuits are almost beside themselves if such an opinion is expressed in their presence. A violent Ultramontanist of my acquaintance declares that the Pope will be little more than a Christain Dalai' Lama if M. do Laguerroniere's " infamous plans' are carried out. The Volksfreund, the Univers of Austria, thus speaks on the subject : " As we well knew what kind of sympathy was felt for his Holiness in French Government circles, and what projects were likely to be brought forward in Congress, it is not so much the object proposed which shocks us as the way in which it is to be effected. The pamphlet is the expression of the most bitter scorn for the mission of the Church and for the position of its head, and it is evident that this mighty, this richly endowed mind (Louis Napoleon's) has, after due consideration, resolved to risk a conflict with Rome." The Austrian Government professes to be opposed to Napoleon's plans in respect to ltome " because the principle on which they are based is so exceed- ingly dangerous ;" but the truth of the matter is that the Imperial Court sees with dismay that it is in imminent danger of losing the whole of its in fluence in the Italian peninsula. The object of Austria in concluding a concordat with Rome was to secure the support of the Church, and she now discovers that the pillar on which she ex pected to be able to lean is so much decayed that it is nodding to its fall. It is generally believed that Count Hochberg will not attend the Con gress unless the French Government disavows the new pamphlet, but Austria has no choice but to do as she is bid by France. A letter dated Vienna, Dec. 28, says : " An Italian, who has just arrived from Venice, states that things are going on badly in Venetia but he denies that his fellow-countrymen are ill treated by the military authorities. It appears that the taxes are not heavier in Venetia than they are in the other provinces, but the people are greatly impoverished, and consequently unable to pay them. " The agents of Government try to persuade the independent organs of the Austrian press to speak unfavourably of M. de Laguerroniere's pamphlet; but they one and all respectfully decline to do so. The Imperial Cabinet is exceedingly displeased that such a work as Le Papo et le Congres ' has been permitted to appear at such a critical moment, but the public is delighted that such a heavy blow has been dealt to the Ultramontanists. Two batta lions, of 750 men each, have already been raised in Austria for the Papal Government, and a third battalion will soon be complete. All the men en gaged are soldiers who have served their full time (10 years) in the Imperial army." FRANCE. The Emperor and the Empress returned to Paris this morning at ten o'clock from Fontainebleau. In accordance with long-established usage, the bands and drummers of the regiments forming the garrison of Paris and those of the national guard assembled this day on the Place Vendome, at one o'clock, and proceeded to the Tuileries, where they gave the usual musical salute to their Majesties on the occasion of the new year. PARIS BOURSE.—The market has been rather heavy, but prices were pretty well maintained. Threes were done at 69f. 20e. and 69f., afterwards rallying to 69f. 10c.; Mobilier varied from 800 to 803 f. ; Austrian were done at 560 f. ; Lombard, 566f.:25c.; Lyons, 917 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,392 f. 50c. ; Eastern, 646 f. 25c.; Southern, 515 f. The follow ing, were the last quotations:- 41 per Cents. .... 95 75 Yo. end month. .. 96 Credit Fonder.... 720 Belgian .. Piedmontese (5) .. 8:5 Roman B4 Austrian Spanish Threes ;Home Debt 431 RATS. 3 Per Cents 69 Do. en 3 month 63 9.) Bank Shams 2830 6redit Mobilier BOO Do. Account RAIL' Orleans Northern New ditto. Lyons and Mediterranean 920 916 25 Geneva .. 630 Southern Westel Eastern Sardiniah Austrian Lombard .. Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10e. ; money, 25f. 9c.; three months, paper, 241. 95c.; money, 24f. 931 e, Cash, Accoutv ... 1395 .. 1390 ... 957 50 .. 960 WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 1 The Royal Mail Company's steam ship La Plata, Captain Charles G. Weller, arrived this morning. The latest dates brought by the La Plata are : Tampico Dec. 4 Jamaica Dec. 10 Vera Cruz Colon Havannah Demerara Trinidad .. is Carthagena .. 11 St. Thomas ,, 17 The La Plata brings on freight-982,393 dol. 18c. on merchants' account, 4,289 dols.Boc. for the Mexi can dividends, 148 serons of cochineal, 86 serons of jalapa, 14,812 dols. pearls in 8 packages, 181 bags of cocoa, 40 boxes of succades, 1 case of vanilla, 185 bars of tin, 15 cases of cigars, 347 bales cf tobacco, 106 packages of bark, and a general cargo consisting of 256 packages sundries. Ships spoken with on return voyage :—Dec. 20, La Plata spoke and gave longitude to the Meteor, of Bermuda ; Dec. 22, signalised the Bremen ship Orpheus, running to the WNW. The Indian Queen, recently wrecked at Valpa raiso, had been sold for 1,100 dollars. The latest advices from Mexico state that Mira mon continues in power as President at Mexico, and Juarez at Vera Cruz. Three skirmishes had taken place—the first at Tchnachan, the second at Juancha, and the third at Apasco; in all of which Miramou's party proved successful. CARTIIAGENA, Dec. 11.—An express arrived with news of the taking of the town of Baran quilla, on the 9th inst., by the Liberal forces, after three hours' conflict ; General Posada dangerously N't ounded. The ports of Carthagena and Savanilla still remain closed. The news from Jamaica is confined to the busi ness of the Legislature, and even that is of slight importance, being limited to the question of postal government, and to the discussion of bills for the encouragement of Chinese immigration. The return of exports for the year ending 30th of Sqtember, 1859, shows that with the single exception of the article of coffee, the exports of the island for the present year had been materially under those of 1858, and with the exception of ginger, also largely under those of 1857. THE SOUTH PACIFIC. The Pacific Company's steamer Callao arrived at Panama on the 6th ult. ; she had treasure for Eng land to the amount of 412,283 dollars. The ship Indian Queen was taken into Valpa raiso by Mr. Lyveret, the second mate, after having struck on an iceberg in lat. 59 49 S,, long. 140 49 W. The captain and hands, who abandoned the vessel, aro supposed to have perished. VALPARAISO.—News has been received of the saving of a part of the cargo of the French vessel Mozambique, shipwrecked on the coast of Acanco. ; The ratification of the treaty of friendship, corn merce, and navigation, concluded between Chili and Belgium, has been exchanged. The electric telegraph, which has been established in the province, is making rapid progress notwith standing the earthquake of last October. The mines improve, and new discoveries are confirmed. The republic continues tranquil. The disappoint ments of the last crisis tend towards a real reaction in favour of the tranquillity of the country. From Ecuador the news is of considerable in terest. General Castilla had landed with about 6,000 men, and was encamped at Mapasingue, a plain about three quarters of a mile from Guyaquil. This step was taken with permission of Generals Franco and Espantoso, who are suspected of being in treaty to sell the country to the Peruvians. This suspicion, for which there appears to be good reason, has created a strong feeling among the people and soldiers of Ecuador against the Franco-Espantoso Government, and, it m as supposed, would speedily lead to a revolution. On the 27th of November Castilla and Franco had an interview, which resulted in several conferences, General Pise and Signor Morales acting for Peru, and General Villamil and Col. Bodero for Ecuador. What occurred in these conferences is not known, but they ended without determining anything. On the 30th of November Castilla and Franco had an other interview, when the former granted an ar mistice of 40 days for th© respective governments of Ecuador to come to terms among themselves, and form one government. If they cannot agree within that time, Castilla has declared his determination to enter Guayaquil and commence hostilities. The Bcuadorians have about 3,700 men under arms, and can probably give old Boots a pretty hard brash, especially as his soldiers must suffer very much now from the heavy rains. Two Peruvian frigates were anchored off Guayaquil. Garcia Morena is still well supported in the inte rior, the revolt at Riobamba, among the soldiers, having been created by Peruvian agents, who were sent for that purpose with a large sum of money. There exists a great degree of hatred against the Franco-Espantoso Government among the people of Guayaquil, on account of their arbitrary conduct. The latter has suspended the payment of all debts except that due to France, the interest on which, with the share of the capital previously agreed upon, has been promptly paid. This may be accounted for by the fact that there is a French ship of war stationed opposite the town. He has suspended the payment of the English debt, 30,000 dollars of which was due last month ; both of these debts have always been promptly paid hitherto. He has passed a decree authorising the payment of an old claim he held against the country for services as governor in 1845. This claim was originally 10,000 dollars, and he has now paid him self, with interest included, 26,000 dollars. He has decreed that all duties formerly payable in six months shall lee paid in cash, so that if he is upset there will bo no funds in the Custom House except what he has received. He has com mitted a great outrage on the Baltimore Gas Com pany by putting a stop to their works because they would not contract to light the city for 3 dols. 50c., instead of five dollars per month for each light. This company had commenced their works in good faith, got out all their materials and mechanics from the States, entered into contracts to supply the majority of the families in the city with gas; had received a grant of land for their works from the government, laid down 3,000 feet of main pipe, sunk their reservoir, and spent upwards of 75,000 dols. in carrying out their ob ject, and they are now obliged to abandon the whole affair to please a petty despot. Under existing circumstances foreign commerce is suffering severely, and foreigners can hope for little protection unless what their own governments think fit to extend to them. At Callao charters remain at 15 dollars to the States, and £3 to England. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, The Royal Mail steamship Persia, Captain Jud kins, arrived this afternoon, with advices from New York to the 21st ult., and 151,512, dols. 50c. The America, City of Washington, Vanderbilt, and North American had arrived out. Congress not having been able to agree in the se lection of Speaker, the President had not delivered his Message. On tho 17th Mr. Larrabee, of Wis consin (Democrat) had the floor of the House, and followed the lead of Mr. Vallandigham, of Ohio, in defining the position of the North-Western De mocracy. The two ballots that followed signified nothing. The whole number voting was 228, ren dering 115 necessary to a choice. Upon both ballots Mr. Sherman had 111 ; upon the second Mr. Bocock fell from 85 to 84, and Mr. Boteler from 23 to 15, the votes thus lost going to Mr. Briggs, of New York, who had in the interval been nomi nated by Mr. Bouligny, of Louisiana. The scatter ing votes in both instances amounted to nine. On the 10th the house listened to a speech from Mr. Singleton, who declared unequivocally for disunion. Were Mississippi, he said, to accept his advice and that of his colleagues, that State would not remain another hour within the Confederation. A ballot for Speaker followed, resulting—Sherman, 112 ; Bocock, 85 ; Boteler, 21; scattering 12 ; necessary to elect, 116. Mr. Bocock then arose to with draw his name from the contest, declaring it to be the duty of all the C onserv ative men to unite upon some other able to defeat the Republicans, and ex c pressing his thanks for the generous usage he had received while a candidate. Another ballot was was then taken of 230 votes—Sherman securing 112, Boteler 29, Miles Taylor 12, Phelps 16, scat tering 42. A third ballot gave Sherman (out of 226 votes) 110, Bot eler 31, Barksdale 20, Boco ck 12, Miles Taylor 9, scattering 46. On the 20th, the house was e ntertained by a speech, not wanting in telling points and shrewd W es t ern sense, from Mr. Holman, of Indiana, De mocrat. Mr. John Cochrane, of New York, followed, with a defence of th e course a d op t e d by the Administration party in the house, and with additional arguments for the necessity of Conser vative union against a Republican organisation. Three ballots for Speaker succeeded, the prominent candidates being Messrs. Sherman, of Ohio, M'Cler nand, of Illinois, Boteler, of Virginia, and Barks dale, of Mississippi. Sherman fell uniformly short of election by four votes. Mr. WClernand rose from 21 to 28. Mr. Boteler started with 39, as cended to 43, and fell finally to 38. Mr. Barks dale, setting out with 15, vanished into the indis tinguishable herd of " scattering" before the third ballot. In the Senate on the 17th some sensation had been created by the restoration of Mr. Douglas to the chairmanship of the Committee on Territories, Mr. Green, of Missouri, resigning to make way. A very large and influential meeting was held in the New York Academy of Music on the 19th in aid of " Justice to the South." After the meeting had been opened with prayer the following resolu tions were proposed and adopted : PREAMBLE. Whereas the people of the United States, "in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domes tic tranquility," as set forth in the Preamble of the Constitution for the United Stater, have ordained a Govern ment of non-slaveholding and of slaveholding States; and whereas the Government is a Government of compromises and concessions : 1. In the clause of the Constitution (art. 1, sec. 2), re• cognising slaves as persons to be represented by their mas ters, and as property to be taxed upon these masters. 2. In the clause (art. 1, sec. 8), that Congress shall have power to suppress insurrections. 3. (Art. 1, sec. 9) in prohibiting Congress to suppress the slave-trade prior to 1808, and in giving Congress the power to impose a tax or duty upon each slave imported before that time, not exceeding 10 dollars for each slave. 4. In the clause (art. 4, sec. 2), to deliver up, on claim of the party to whom slave service may be due, the per son or slave held to such service or labour. (Applause.) 5, In the clause (Art 4, sec. 4), upon the application of any Legislature or Executive of the State, to protect said State against domestic violence. And whereas the Federal Government has, from its origin, been administered by the Executive, by Congress, and by the Supreme Court of the United States, not only in the letter but in the spirit of these compacts :- 1. Before and after the old Confederation, in the divi sion of the then unsettled territories, by declaring all north of the Ohio to be non-slaveholding, and all south of the Ohio to be slaveholding. 2. In the ordinance, July 13, 1787, making free the terri tory, now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan, but pro viding therein, also, for the surrender of fugitive slaves (Applause.) 3, In the Acts, President Washington approving, admit ting into the Union the territory of Kentucky, slaveholding, then the property of Virginia, and afterwards the territory of Frankland, slaveholding, now Tennessee, then the pro perty of North Carolina. 4. In the ordinance, April 7, 1798, John Adams approv ing, organising the Mississippi territory, then belonging to Georgia, now Alabama and Mississippi, in which was espe cially excepted therefrom the anti-slavery cause of the North-western Territory, in these words : "Excepting and excluding the last article of the ordinance of 1787," 5. In the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793, George Washing ton approving, which passed the Senate unanimously, and the house ayes 41, noes 7. _ _ , - G. In the purchase of Louisiana, President Jefferson ap proving, all that vast region west of the Mississippi, stretch ing to the Pacific Ocean and to the British possessions, all of which was under the laws of Spain or France, slavehold ing, and larger in extent at that time than the whole of the United States. 7. In the treaty of 1783 (9th Article) providing against the deportation of slaves, with the official correspondence of Washington, Randolph, Gouverneur Morris, and John Jay, thereon. 8. In the Judiciary Act, 1789 (34th section) adopting the constitutional laws of the several States which recognise slaves as property as well as persons. 9. In tho Acts enumerating slaves for the purpose of direct taxation, especially the Act of 1813, James Madison approving, which assessed taxes upon the land, dwelling• houses, and slaves, at the value each of them was worth in money. 10. In the Treaty of Ghent (1814), under which from Great Britain our Government received 1,200,000 dole., and paid it over to the owners of deported slaves. 11. In the purchase of Florida, in 1819, a slave-holding territory, frora Spain. 12. In the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States of the constitutionality of the Act of 1793, in Priggs' ease, and of the like Act of 1850, in every case, before any of the high Courts, Federal or State, unless in ono State Court in Wisconsin, and in divers other decisions upon laws, ordinances, and treaties. Therefore, be it resolved, that the Union thus formed, constituting as it does the closest, most delicate, and im portant relation that can exist between communities of people, demands from each part a warm and earnest con sideration for the safety, prosperity, and happiness of the other ; and that whatever policy tends to subvert these ends (hear, hear) is hostile to the true spirit of the compact. That the Constitution, the treaties, the laws of the United States, and the judicial decisions thereupon recog nise the institution of slavery as legally existing, and that it is our duty, as good citizens of a common Government, in good faith to stand by that Constitution, those treaties (cheers), those laws, and the decisions of that final arbiter of all disputed points, the Supreme Court of the United States. (Vociferous applause.) That, inasmuch as the proceedings of the Convention which framed the Constitution were brought to a stand, as appears by the declaration of Roger Sherman, one of its most distinguished authors, until a compromise was agreed to on the various propositions relating to domestic slavery, which compromise embraced a restriction on the power to prevent the importation of slaves prior to 1808. Mr. Brooks, in moving the adoption of the rese• lution, said— There are those who tell us, and they are many, " All tide is well, very well ; but there is a law higher than tho Constitution, and in conflict with that Constitution, which conscience forbids them to obey." Such men have broken up our missionary stations, throws. discord into tract socie ties, and rent the Church of God in twain. If they are right, Constitutions, compacts, laws, aro all wrong. This is not the place, this is not the hour for theology, but a word or two are necessary, in my judgment, to make our argument complete. When our Saviour was on earth He was a subject of that vast slaveholding Roman Empire, which stretched from the Euphrates in the east, beyond the Pillars of Hercules in the west, and sixty millions of slaves, it is esti mated, were in that empire. Hence, when His eyes first opened on pleasant Bethlehem, His feet trod on the shores of Galileo, or on the plain of Jericho, to be baptised in the Jordan, slaves must have ministered, if not unto Him Of His disciples, unto all about Him. And when on the Mount of Olives His foot was last printed upon that rock which tradition or superstition now shows, while ascending into Heaven, His eyes, as they overlooked Jerusalem, and glanced from the mountains of Moab to the vale of Sharon, must have rested upon thousands and tens of thousands of slaves. Judea, where He was born; Galilee, where Ho lived ; Egypt, that Ile visited, all were slaveholding States. And Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, the Fathers and Patriarchs, were holders of bondmen and bondwomei. And now if there be in the Holy Bible any such denun ciations of slavery, or of slaveholders, as wo now daily hear from men calling themselves the servants of God, it is not in King James's or the Douay version of the Bible. Far be it front me, Mr. Mayor, to speak irreverently of the ministers of God. I respect their high and holy calling. I bow down in humble re verence before their august mission. When first we open our infant eyes in our mothers' arms the man of God takes us to the baptismal font, and there consecrates us to heaven ; when in the full flush of youth, our hearts beat• ing with love, he ties the nuptial knot and blesses, with us e the partner of our bosom on our voyage of life; and when that voyage is over, and the deathbed, wife, children, all. have given us up, and the spirit is parting from its frail tenement of clay, our eyes last rest upon him, interceding for us before the throne of God. But, oh, ye Scribes and Pharisees, who rail against us publicans and sinners, that rail not as ye do !—yo men of Sharpe's rifles and Bowie knife pikes !—ye Beechers and ye Cheevers, wiser and better than our Saviour when on earth—go with your now version of the Bible into all the world, and shoot your gos• pel into every living creature ! The Bible, then, is not in conflict with the Constitution." Mr. O'Connor followed, and pointed out that the North and South would not flourish separate, and maintained that slavery was not unjust. On being hissed for the latter sentiment, he compared the hisser to the serpent who beguiled Eve. His main argument in support of existing institutions was as follows :-- "We were, gentlemen, white men of what is commonly called by way of distinction the Caucasian race; we were a monogamous people—that is to say, we were not Mahome dans, ner followers of Joe Smith, with a dozen wives a-piece. It was a fundamental principle of our morality that no State coeld exist or be tolerated in this Union which should not in that respect resemble all the other States of the Union. Many other distinctive features might bo stated which mark us as a people distinct from others, and Inca. pablo of associating on terms of perfect political equality as friends ;and fellow-citizens with the same kind of people that are to be found upon the face of the earth. As a white nation we made our constitution, and we made our laws, vesting political rights in that race, the white Ameri can people. (Applause.) And as the negro, we allowed him to live under the abode and protection of our laws ; we gave him, as we were bound to give him, protection against outrage and contumely, and we denied him, however, poli• tical rights or the power of Government, and we left him, so long as tho community in which he lived should please so to ordet, we left him in the condition of the bondman. (Applause.) Now, gentlemen, to that condition the negro is assigned by nature. (' Bravo,' applause, and ' That's so.') The history of mankind shows that his class cannot prosper; they die out and become extinguished in any cold or in any very temperate climate. But in the extreme warm regions his race can prosper and be perpetuated. Ile has strength and is potent to labour ; but the nature which created the power denied him either the intellect to govern or the willingness to work. (Applause.) Both wore denied him—both were denied him I And that nature which deprived him of will to labour gave him a master to coerce that will and to make hint a useful and valuable servant to the clime in which he was capable of living for himself and for the master who governed him. (Applause.) Now, gentlemen, I maintain that it is not injustice to leave the negro in the condition in which nature placed him—to leave him in a state of pupilage, to give hint a master to govern hi m an d supply his deficiencies , nor is it depriving him of any of his rights to compel him to labour in return, and afford to that master a just compensation for the labour and the talent employed i n governing him, and rendering him useful to himself and to the society in which ho lives. (Cheers.) These are the principles, gentlemen, which the extreme measures of the ,abolitionists compel us to meet. This is the ground that we must take. We are not to talk about slavery being an evil—slavery being a thing which, though pernicious, must be tolerated. Besides we have made a bargain to tolerate t we are to look at it as it is, we are to look at it by the voice of inspiration which is to be found in the sacred volume, and which nowhere condemns the bondage of those who are naturally fit for bondage." The ex-Governor of New York, Mr. Hunt, who followed, in the course of his remarks said : " A provision binding on each State and upon the Union to surrender fugitives from service ; a representation in Congress, founded in part on three-fifths of the slave popu. lation ; and a guarantee to protect each State against do. inestic insurrection; thus providing, under the Constitu tion, for the introduction of slaves for a limited period, and for the protection of the system ; therefore, it is the duty of every citizen and State sharing in the great blessings of instrument faithfully to fulfil these obligations. That we protest against and denounce, as contrary to the plighted ' faith on which the Constitution was established, all acts, of 1