The Sun. — London, England, 1860-01-04 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, VICTORINE. Messrs. Sant!ey, H. gaigh, H. Cori, G. Honey, Bartleman, etc. Misses Parepa, Thirlwall, Condactor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new grand pantomime, called PUSS IN BOOTS ; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden tem& _ _ . Doors open at hall-past 6—Commence at 7 o'clock. THEA TRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee. Yr..l. R Buckstone THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS. Miss Reynolds. After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto =me, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled igolercqs. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. ' Last night but one of the Spanish Dancers. THIS EVENING, the popular Drama of THE SISTER'S SACRIFICE. Genevieve (her orig,inal character) Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex travaganza and Pantomime, KING THRUSHBEARD, the LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. H. Marshall—Columbine, Miss Rosino. 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 sense 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. "PHIS EVENING, the new Petite Comedy, entitled GOSSIP. Messrs. Ryder, Meadows, H. Bland, J. G. Shore; and Mrs. C. Young. After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by H. 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. W THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL STEW Proprietor and \Tanager, 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 Kniuht and the Naiades. THIS EVENING, THE CHRISTMAS CAROL. Messrs J. L. Took, C. Selby, Paul Bedford, Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith. Romer: Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. Chatte rley, Miss Laidlaw. After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LURLEYBERG ; or, The Knight and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford, Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K. Keay, Laidlaw. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Oflloe 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. 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 the performances will commence with GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C. Young. Followed by MAGIC TOYS, supported by Miss Lydia Thompson, Clara St. Cassc, &C. Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. Miss Wyndham and Mr. 11. T. Craven. To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AN D 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, Is. The Box-ofhee open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform once commences at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his 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 Towler the Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, with songs by Miss Esther Jacobs.—Gorgeous and Dazzling m:chanical transfor mation scene. Harlequin, M. Richarde ; Pantaloon, Mr. P. Abbot, Columbine, Maddle. Mazzoni; Clown, Mr. Hilde brand ; a family of Sprites by the Elastic lncomprehensibles. Morning performances of the Pantomime, and Scenes in the Cirele 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 DINORAH. - - - Comic Vocalists —Messrs. eor-re Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting . Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant eights of the metropolis. ROSA BONHEUR'S ceiebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already maznificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is opeu from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—SUN OF - Fre - R. JAN. 4, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 55—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 52—this day at noon. BxßomETErt-28.95. "WiND, Westerly ; rather fresh, with fine sunshiny weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, 9h. 2Sm.—Afternoon, 10h. 4m, To-mortitow.-Morning, 10h. 41m.—Afternoon, lib. 16m, 711 4 : 1.%*,5" dA ti 're) _ • 41 . 4 • A r . 73 , ‘ QT. • 2,4~ 1 , 4; t. t • •, 3i* * THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4, 1860. Captain SHEPARD OSBORN, R.N.—a most COM petent authority—has certainly smashed with one sledge-hammer blow all the fine-spun fallacies built up on the subject of our " Third Chinese War," by a certain " J. C.," one of the Times' anony- Dens correspondents. The communication of " J. C."—or, for that matter, as it might just as well have been, " J—s"—we very well remem bered glancing through with a sense of derisive amusement the other morning, upon the date of its appearance. It occupied a corner of our contem porary's broadsheet somewhat in the same whim sical fashion as the winged dragons and sea monsters, unicorns and hippogriffs that the old geographers used to pencil in the waste places upon the maps of the middle ages : before VASCA DE GAMA had gone southwards, or CHRIS TOPHER COLUMBUS or AMERIGO VESPUCIO west wards—when Cathay rolled rivers of gold, and Cipango dropped fruits of gold, like the current of Paetolus and the apple trees of the Hesperides— when El Dorado was a city to be believed in as implicitly as the right-minded school-boy believes in the cat-won fortunes of good Sir RICHARD WHITTINGTON. Precisely in the same man ner that the waste places upon those rare old maps were adorned with effigies of hideous rep tiles that never existed—introduced there by way of filling up vacant places and hiding the ignorance of the old world geographers and hydrographers— that little missive penned by S. C. was filled to repletion with the most astounding pieces of unlooked-for and hitherto unheard-of information. It informed the world, among other things, for example, quite in an off-hand style—as if speaking of things so generally known indeed that they scarcely required even mention—that the Peiho river was altogether inaccessible by any class of war vessels! That where it was not naturally it might be rendered so easily enough artificially by means of a judicious application of warlike engineering on the part of the Chinese! That the allied armies of England and France, marching upon Pekin, would be alto gether without commissariat ! That Pekin itself was an open town, and easili , taken for that very reason it was true, but when taken wholly useless and indefensible ! That. the blow, if aimed at all at the Celestial Empire ought to be directed against Nankin in preference! With divers other equally novel, equally surpris ing, and equally overwhelming fragments of unexpected but oracular information. All this— the avroc Etre, of J. C. All this, the incontrover tible ipte dixit o f that Correspondent Extraordinary. ft was a series, in fact, of astonishing Chinese reve lations vouchsafed to us by—Somebody. The said somebody revealing his mysteries to the uninitiated with the voice cf Sir ORACLE and the nod of Lord B URLETGII. Several days have elapsed since the dis play of these very curious and enthralling dis closures. And now Captain OSBORN—not any other letter or letters of the alphabet, not N. or M., as the case may be, but Captain SHERARD OSBORN, R.N., C. 8., who has been in those Chinese waters, andtrodden those Chinese coasts, and who ac companied Lord ELGIN, a couple of years since, from those portions of the mainland of the Asiatic to the chief islands among the great Japanese Archi pelago. An authority no less reliable and instantly credible than Captain SHERARD OSBORN, R.N., has condescended to take the aforesaid J. C. in hand, to trot him out by way of display ing his paces over again, and then to show him up, succinctly and seriatim, for public edification. "So far as J. C. is con cerned," says Captain OSBORN with comical em phasis, at the very outset of his remarks, " I don't think I ever read more errors within an equal qnantity of print." Disclaiming, however, imme diately any intention whatever on his own part " to wade through as mueh manuscript to refute them," Captain OSBORN cannot help adding at once, " But I may tell your readers briefly that the idea of blocking up the Peiho river, which flows through an alluvial plain, is simply folly, and it affords water carriage to within 12 miles ofPekin, to a place called Tung-chow, and that few, if any, canals in tersect the province of Pecheli, and this because be tween the Peiho and the Great Wall the province is not overblest with water privileges." He imme diately goes on to remark, " J. C. sees nothing but difficulties—nothing but errors." Asking then with some reason, " Why should he write down Generals HOPE GRANT and MANSFIELD as consum mate asses, who are going to throw themselves, with 20,000 men, into the city of Pekin, like the leaders of P. mere African razzia, without looking to their supplies, their supports, &c. ?" Referring next to J. C.'s astounding piece of infor mation to the effect that Pekin is an open town, Captain OSBORN contents himself with rejoining in these few simple words—" We all know it to be a walled one !" And further quoth he—still speaking of J. C., and alluding now to his sin gular notion that Nankin should be attacked in preference to Pekin : " He ignores the fact that for five years, not only Nankin, but an area of 200 miles in a due east and west lino of the valley of the Yangtze, has been in the hands of the Taepings, without in any way alarming the EMPEROR for the stability of his empire. Our occupation of Nankin unaccompanied by operations elsewhere, would have about as much effect as the Taeping movement or the holding of Canton has had." It may be remembered by those who chanced to glance the other morning at the strange communication we are referring to, as having re cently appeared in the columns of our chief morning contemporary, that the writer there spoke of Lord ELGIN'S having been either coerced or cajoled into the insertion of certain clauses into his treaty o' peace between the English and Chinese—such, for example, as the clause requiring the Court of Pekin to have permanently accredited to it thenceforth a high diplomatic personage from the far West (from the outer barbarians) with the title of British Ambassador ! Upon this insinuation, or rather we might say more correctly this daring and even audacious assertion, what says Captain OSBORNE ? Quoth he, " Lord ELGIN was never coerced by home authorities or ' indiscreet indi viduals' in China to insert those two most impor tant clauses in his treaty—namely, the right of visiting the interior of China by our traders or missionaries, and the permanent residence of an accredited British agent in Pekin." The gallant sea captain observing still further, " I fancy his lord ship knew pretty well that he might as well have stayed at home if he could not wring these clauses from the Court of Pekin, and I have no hesitation in saying that without these clauses we had better leave all treaty making alone and trust to the mer chants and smugglers fighting and finding their own way to every part of China, and protecting them selves." For the rest we cannot do better than refer our readers to the gallant officer's admirable refuta tion of the rest of these absurdities, as given in full in that extremely lucid and unanswerable communication of his in another part of our im- pression of this evening. Happily, the course to be taken by our com bined military and maritime armaments along the Chinese coasts will be directed by some wiser and more skilled intelligence than that dictating J. C.'s egregious lucubration. A glance at an . y chart of those seas, at any map of that portion of the great Asiatic continent is sufficient, in truth, to suggest to a rational and reflective mind that the attack upon Pekin is pre cisely the one upon which the Anglo-French allies, or one or other of their armaments, ought in reason to adventure. It is the key of the whole position. It is the central point, the core, the nucleus of that vast network of a government extending north wards to the borders of Russia and Tartary ; south wards, to the Chinese Seas and the Gulf of Tonking ; eastwards to the frontiers of Assam and Burmah— extending far north, far south, far east, the net work of that huge authority through all its wide and complicated ramifications. Advance up the Yungtse Kiang, of course; and seize Nankin. But beyond doing that as all•essential in this new cam paign, carry your maritime armaments southwards across the Yellow Sea, and so through the Gulf of Pecheli, come direct upon the coast there within a distance of twenty miles from the imperial capital of the Empire. Nankin taken—Pekin taken — and the Anglo-French troops have but to attempt both to do both—the Allies would have merely to send a portion of their land forces southwards from the latter city, the capi tal of China, a little distance of some twenty-five or thirty miles or so to Tsang, upon the margin of the Jung Hang, and they would then be in possession of the whole of that immense Imperial canal of the Cha-ho, connecting Tcim with Hang-tchou, and all but uniting the remote cities of Nankin and Pekin by a broad and unbroken sweep of inland navigation ! Having Pekin and Nankin—and commanding the whole course of the Imperial Canal between them —we must have the Chinese Government at our mercy, at our dictation. We might starve them into any terms we might deem most advisable. England and France would have their heels upon the neck of the Celestial Emperor, and it would then be our own fault if this Third Chinese War did not form the last of the series. Upon the eve of appearing before the English public in a new character, namely, as Editor and Projector of the Army and Navy Gazette, Dr. WILLIAM - HENRY RUSSELL has once more taken pen in hand as the " Times' Correspondent." Ills communication has reference, this time, immedi ately to the . vitally important subject of our Mili tary Organization. It is an argument upon this theme, possessing the value naturally accruing to it from the fact of its being v, rit ten in the light of Dr. RUSSELL'S personal experiences in Italy, in India, in the Crimea—his experiences, that is to say as an eye-witness, of the working of the military systems of England, of France, of Russia, under circumstances of extra ordinary importance. Dr. RUSSELL, indeed, ob serves upon this point, in the first paragraph introducing his remarks—" I present them not as a system, but as stray thoughts, suggested by ob servations made during the two great wars of our times—namely, the war in the East and the late Italian campaign." Furthermore, he observes, " We see on these', two occasions the four most powerful nations of Europe, besides two second-rate Powers, display their military resources in the field after 40 years of peace." He reminds us that " Each of these nations had had, indeed, one or more smaller wars during that long period of peace — England in India, France in Algeria, Russia in the Caucasus, against Turkey, Persia, and in Hungary ; Attstria. against Piedmont and in Hungary ; but," he adds yet further, "in each of these cases the strength between the two combatants was so dis proportionate that it does not offer a fair compari son as to the real advantages and shortcomings of their military organisation, which could only be judged of in a trial where the forces were more equally balanced." And now what is the con clusion deliberately arrived at by this keen-witted eyewitness ? Eyewitness especially of the working of the rival systems in the Crimea, and afterwards at remote points in India and in Italy. It is a con clusion stated quite clearly and uncompromisingly. It is this :—" The only Power," writes Dr. Rus- SELL, " which stood the test on both occasions [that is in the Crimea and in Lombardy] was France." And he take care to remind us particularly that upon those two occasions the trial was stood by the French military system under entirely different circumstances. " The military organisation of France," he says, and says most truly, " proved good in a long siege, carried on at 2,000 miles from her shores, and it proved itself efficient in a short and brilliant cam paign in the open field." And he adds, "These two occasions offered almost every species of trial to which an army can be subject—camping out in a severe winter on an inhospitable shore, subject to all kinds of privations, forced marches under an Italian sun, tedious trench duties and roadmaking, brilliant attacks, and ob stinate defences ; and through all these trials the French army passed successfully enough to insure ultimate victory." Having recalled these facts to recollection, this able and competent writer then goes on to ask point-blank the Why and the Wherefore ? The Reason of this painful and at the first blush, perfectly inexplicable difference between the admirable working of the French, and the utter and deplorable break down of the British scheme of Military Organisation. The deductions drawn from these premises in the course of the immediately ensuing argument are of such obviously vivid and vital importance that to direct attention to them by another word of reference were surely an act here of the merest supererogation. THE BRAZILIAN MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Tyne has arrived with the Brazil and River Plata mails. Amongst her passengers are Mr. Stuart, H.M.'s representative at Rio ; Mr. Fagan, charge d'affaires of Monte Video; Prince Hohenzollern Sigmaringen and suite, from Lisbon. The Accrington, from Liverpool, with soldiers' wives, put into Pernambuco on the 4th December, in charge of the second mate, the captain and chief mate having died from poison administered in their food. Surgeon recovered. Scarlet fever on board-69 dead. Ship under Consul Cooper's inspection. BUENOS AYRES;—The news of the conclusion of peace between Buenos Ayres and the Argentine Republic is confirmed. Treaty of peace signed by Commissioners of both parties, countersigned by General Lopez, and ratified by General Urquiza. A disbandment of the National Guard had com menced. The election of deputies to convention was fixed for the last Sunday in December. Parties at the head of affairs bound up in peace and tranquillity the Argentine provinces, now one Federal Government. Business is improving daily. Doubloon, 365 to 42. Last quotation on balsa, 3 46. Exchange on England, 695. to 695. 6d. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1860 INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY. The Delta, Captain Black, with the heavy por tion of the Calcutta and China mails has arrived, and brings 90 passengers, a general cargo, and news from Gibraltar to the 30th ultimo. The Indus left Gibraltar on the 28th for Alex andria. The schooners Dreadnought and Resoloido and the brig Carolina were ashore. Gibraltar Exchange on London as last quoted. THE WAR IN MOROCCO.—The action on the 25th December was the severest yet fought. A Spanish General jumped from his horse and led his men against the enemy's positions, and took them at the point of the bayonet. The dead bodies of 38 Moors were found on the spot. Ten Spanish ships had been ordered from Havannah to Morocco. The Spanish army was to be increased to 80,000 men. Battalions of Spanish infantry were marching overland to Algeciras, there to embark for Ceuta. Up to the 30th ultimo, the Spanish casualties were 6,000. Viscount Palmerston arrived in London yesterday morning, from his seat, Broadlands. His lordship will give a grand full-dress Parliamentary banquet on Monday, the 23d inst., at Cambridge House, to the Speaker and a large party of the leading supporters of the Government in the House of Commons. His Excellency Lord Cowley, British Minister at the Imperial Court of the Tuileries, arrived in London on Tuesday from Paris. Lady Anne Beckett has left town on a visit to the Marchioness (Frances Anne) of Londonderry, at Wynyard Park, Stockton-on-Tees. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., who came up to town yesterday in order to attend the Cabinet Council, returned to Wilton last evening. The Duke of Newcastle arrived in town yester day from his seat, Clumber Park. Notts. The funeral of Lord Macaulay will take place in Westminster Abbey on Monday next, January the 9th, at one o'clock. The members of the Legislature and the gentlemen of distinction in letters, science, or art, who may Le desirous to show their respect to his memory, are re quested to signify their wish to Mr. C. Buxton, M.P., 7, Grosvenor-crescent, as the space in the part of the Abbey chosen for the interment is limited. No one can be admitted without a ticket. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing street. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Elgin, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. _DEATH OF LORD JOHN SCOTT. —We have to an nounce the demise of Lord John Douglas Monta:uo Scott. The unexpected and melancholy occurrence took place yes tez day morning, about four o'clock, at his seat. Caneston Lodge, near Rugby. His lordship was a keen supporter of our national sports, particularly the turf and the chase. The deceased lord was second son of Charles William, fourth Duke of Buccleuch, and the Hon. Harriet Katherine 'rownshend, fourth daughter of Thomas, first Viscount Sydney, and was born 13th July, 1809, and married, 16th March, 1836, Alicia Anne, eldest daughter of Mr. John Spottiswoode. His lordship, who does not leave any family, was a deputy-lieutenant of Berwickshire. By the lamented death of his lordship the families of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Earl of Rnraney, the Earl and Countess of Courtown, the Earl and Countess of Home, Viscount Sydney, are placed in mourning. LATESI N E S . The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, JAN. 4. A decree of the Emperor confirms the nomina tions of Secretaries of the Senate of the preceding year for next session. The Constitutionnel, in a note signed by its secretary, M, Boniface, says : " We are authorised to give a denial to the asser tion in the Parisian correspondence of the Indepen dance Belie that the Archbishop of Paris had ad dressed to the Metropolitan Chapter words full of profound uneasiness on the state of the Church. The Archbishop, alluding to the present occupa tion of the Catholic States, on the contrary exhorted the members of the Chapter to prayers for obtaining tranquillity and peace, recommended them to have confidence, and reminded them of all the proofs of devotedness the Emperor had given to the Church." MARSEILLES, JAN. 3. Letters from Rome to the 31st ult., state that Cardinal Antonelli had announced that he would leave for Paris on the 12th of Jsnuary next, and that no counter order was yet positively known. In reply to a demand of the Financial Consulta the Pope said that he had received offers amounting to 12,000,000 Roman scudi, made by Catholics, but that he had provisionally refused them. NAPLES, DEC. 31. The general amnesty had been deferred, but 50 individual pardons have been granted. The following telegram was—very unintelligibly —transmitted to Mr. Reuter, and he gives it under reserve : PERA, DEC. 28. BOMBAY, DEC. 15. Two thousand rebels and their leaders, Mammoo Thadoor Benimah (?), and his sons, were made pri soners at the frontiers of Oude. The Begum escaped. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. PARIS BOURSE.—The market has been without much animation, but prices have been maintained. The liquidation of the Shares has been difficult, with heavy rates of continuation. Threes, after having been done at 68f. 70c., declined to 68f. 30e., but afterwards recovered to 68f. 60c, and 68f. 6.5 c. Mobilier varied from 762 f. 50c. to 775 f. ; Lyons, 900 f. to 906 f. 25e. ; Orleans, 1,370 f. to 1,375 f. ; Lombard, 557 f. 50e. to 560 f. ; Austrian, 550 f. to 553 f. 75c. The following were the last quotations:— If per Cents. 96 Do. end month 3 per Cents. . 63 60 Do. end month 68 75 Bank Shares 2830 Credit Mobilier 777 50 Do. Account ... a . 777 5,.) Cr&lit Foncior Belgian 41 — Piedmontose (5) Roman B2 50 Austrian Spanish Threes 44 25 Home Debt 43 75 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 955 .. 955 New ditto 845 .. 838 75 Lyons and Mediterranean 907 50 .. 910 Geneva 535 525 Southern Western 565 .. 565 Eastern Sardiniaa. Austrian Lombard .... Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 25f. 9e.; three months, paper, 24f. 95c. ; money, 24f. 931 c. AUSTRIA. The Vienna Gazette publishes the names of the persons appointed members of the new committee of the public debt. Among them are Prince Col loredo, the Marquis Pallavicini, and Baron Anselme de Rothschild. A Vienna letter of the 29th ult. says :—" The conferences between Count de Rechberg and the Apostolic Nuncio have been very frequent of late ; tkey even met twice yesterday. After the last of these interviews the Nuncio had an audience of the Emperor, which lasted above an hour. Two messengers left yesterday for Rome ; one of them from the Nuncio to Cardinal Antonelli, the other from Count de Rechberg to Baron de Bach, the Austrian ambassador. Prince Albert, governor of Hungary, is now here, and assiduously attends the councils held daily for the purpose of devising measures to satisfy national opinion, as far as practicable, without derogating from the dignity and authority of the Sovereign. Prince Albert's presence and co-operation are a sufficient contradiction of the rumours about his intended resignation and retirement from public life." Another letter from Vienna says :—" A new office of the press is about to be created which will be under the orders of both the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and of the Police. The chief of this office will be Baron Witt de Deering, having under him three sub-directors, one of whom is M. Arnoth, author of the History of Prince Eugene of Savoy.' The principal object of this office will be to influence the press, the surveillance of which will be left to the police. It will also probably be charged with addressing correspondence to foreign journals. The creation of a new Governmental organ is also said to be in contemplation, but doubts are entertained whether this project will be carried into execution, as two of the principal journals of Vienna are already in relation with two of the Ministries." AMERICA. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : QUEENSTOWN, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The steamer Nova Scotian has just arrived with dates from Portland to the 24th December. She brings the mail of the Ocean Queen, of the Havre line, that vessel having been withdrawn. The Asia arrived out on the 22d. No speaker having as yet been elected, the Pre sident's Message still remains in abeyance. It is rumoured that it would not be communicated until the 3d January. Advanced copies of the speech had been sent to New York, but had been retained by the post master. Later news from California states that Judge Terry had been arraigned for killing Senator Bro derick. The steamer Diligent was aground above St. Louis. Eighty persons on board were without food, the ice preventing any communication with the shore. NEW YORK, DEC. 23. Money active. Stocks active, and higher. Cot ton unchanged. Flour dull, and lower. Wheat quiet, but firm. Pork firmer. Beef and lard dull. Bacon quiet. Sugar, coffee, and molasses are firm. All other articles are unchanged. NEW ORLEANS, DEC. 23. Cotton market steady. The sales of the week amount to 61,000 bales. The receipts of the week are heavy, and 33,000 bales in excess of last year. Sugar has declined cent. MONTREAL, DEC. 24. Flour firm, but business in general is dull. THEATitE ROYAL, LYCEUM.—Madame Celeste, the sp rited proprietress of this elegant place of amusement, has succeeded, not without considerable difficulty, in re newing the engagement of the celebrated Spanish dancers, La Dona Isabel Cubas and Don Juan Ximena, whose appearance every evening is hailed with the most enthu siastic marks of approbation. This evinces a determination on the part of Madame Celeste at least to deserve success, and we trust her endeavours will lead to that end, THE IVA G. 4. ZINES. Blackwood's Magazine. There is a new story commenced in this number entitled " Norman Sinclair." It begins well, and displays some capital descriptions of character. The bachelor recluse, Dr. Alexander Buchanan, is admirably pourtrayed. His idle hanger-on Jaap is a likely sketch—his final discomfiture is most satisfactory. There is likewise an account of George the Fourth's visit to Scotland, which forms an ex citing chapter. There is every reason to expect that this tale will prove an attraction to the readers of Blackwood. " The last French Hero" is a very amusing sketch, initiated very successfully from the French, in which the extravagant ideas that characterise continental fictions are aptly copied ; and altogether these chapters are deserving of notice, from their smart sketches and piquant anecdotes. Besides these new instalments, the old story of the " Luck of Ladysmede" is con tinued in some very exciting chapters, which re late the dangerous capture of Lady Gladice, and the opportune arrival of Waryn Foliot, who for tunately arrived in time to rescue her. Also we meet with the discomfiture of the wily and un scrupulous Prior Hugh. There is some historical incident mixed up in the story, relating to the schemes of Prince John to obtain the Crown during the absence of Richard in Palestine. As it ap proaches its conclusion, this tale, which in the earlier numbers was heavy, has become much more attractive, and, in its peculiar style, is a decided success. There is an article ox " Ruskin's Elements of Drawing," which is well worthy of perusal, containing much good sense in. some of its arguments; it is, however, rather too severe in its strictures regarding the dis tinguished subject of its criticism. Those who read the extracts here taken from Mr. Ruskin's works will regret that so brilliant a writer cannot be more consistent, and combine more solidity with his rhetorical flourishes. The paper on " The Public Service" takes a most gloomy and unsatisfactory view of our public affairs, and it is not easy to find out what is intended to remedy the deficiencies. It is always easier to discover errors than to find out the means of rectifying them. However, nothing can be done without trying, and therefore remarks like these before us are not without their use in bringing the subject under notice. The concluding passage of this article is noticeable— If the public require, as they unquestionably do, the best servants in tho world, they ought to be the best mas ters in the world. But it is very questionable whether they take proper steps to obtain the best servants. They have a vague impression that they are not well served, and every now and then there is an unmeaning cry against one of the public departments, or against some unfortunate statesman who happens accidentally to be at its head. And then there is a demand for • the right men in the right places ;' but no one suggests that the way to get the right men is to hold out sufficient inducements for them to enter the public ser vice, and sufficient encouragement for them to work zeal ously and energetically when they are at it. But a profes sion, in which neither wealth nor honour is to be obtained, is hardly one that can command the best available capacity in the market. The command, however, of this capacity is at the bottom of all cheap, as of all good government. The prizes of the public service should be the highest drawn by the intelligence of the nation. An incapable public servant may cost the country more in a year than it would require to command the services of scores of capable men for a quar ter of a century. Financial reform does not consist in re ducing public salaries, any more than administrative re form consists in depreciating public men. If we want our work done cheaply and well, we must elevate the public service. At present it appears to us to be unwisely and unjustly depressed. The real working members of the great Government firm are not in their proper position ; and until they are, although the work may be, as we believe it is, done well, the Administration of the country cannot attain to that point of vigorous efficiency which might be reached under a better system. "Rambles at Random in the Southern States" and " The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas" are the subjects of the other contributions. We have before adverted to the admirable poem, " St. Stephen's," which is the most attractive feature in the contents of this month's number, that begins the year in a most promising manner. Dublin University Magazine: " Vonved, the Dane," is a very exciting narra tive ; the first part of it is at the commencement of the contents. The most remarkable incident is that in the cabin of Captain May, in which he questions the shipwrecked stranger his crew had just rescued from the waves. The answers returned to him were very enigmatical, but the most asto nishing thing was that, while both deplored the loss of the vessel from which the stranger had been the only one saved, he had really been its destroyer, and not, as the captain thought, the rocks of the Jomru reef. The conclusion of this man's career will most likely contain other passages of marvel lous occurrences and daring adventures. The second part of the criticism on Thackeray is here met with, and will be found very interesting. This summary of the life of the " Great Satirist and Humorist . ' renders a well-deserved tribute to his superior attainments, and it is is especially welcome at the present moment, when he is appearing before the public in a new capacity. This essay relates his rise to the authorship of " Vanity Fair," which work many regard as his masterpiece. It is ob served that, " the serial issue of the narrative began almost unnoticed ; it was scarcely midway, however, when throughout all the various literary circles of the metropolis it had become the theme of wonder ing and delighted conversation. " Artist and Crafts man " is continued, and presents some pleasing chapters. The energetic Mark Brandling obtains a great triumph in his daring enterprise of making the tunnel; and, though there is nothing remark able in it, the tale is well carried on. " A Rainy day with Tennyson and the Poets" is an excellent article, and one that contains much to attract the reader. The most delightful quotations are those from Kingsley's works. It is said that songs and ballads suit his genius best ; (" the mingled firmness and delicacy, suggestiveness and concentration") which can condense a tragedy into a line are there ; the admirable ballad of "The Three Fishers" is quoted, and it is a complete illustration of the words above, for it is more forcible in its terse expression than volumes of every-day poets. It is truly said that Mr. Kingsley is one of the most pleasing of our contemporary poets. " Some of his songs will,we suspect, only perish with the language in which they are written." The lines in praise of the East Wind are most characteristic of their peculiar author. Of the South Wind ho says : " What does he but soften Heart alike and pen, 'Tin the hard grey weather Breeds hard Englishmen. What's the soft South-Wester' "'ls the ladies' breeze, Bringing home their true-loves Out of all the seas. But the black North-Easter Through the snow-storm hurl'd Drives our English hearts of oak Seaward round the world. Come as came our fathers Heralded by thee, Conquering from the eastward, Lord by land and sea. Come : and strong within us, Stir the Viking's blood, Bracing brain and sinew, Blow, thou wind of God." " The Czar and the Sceptic " is a ludicrous re cordof the adventures of a Frenchman who had the hardihood to doubt the veracity of the im perial bulletins. To revenge this insult he was taken at midnight in unsuitable attire to behold for himself the glorious position of the Russian troops at Silistria. M. de la Jobardiere proved that seeing is believing, but he would rather have done so in any other fashion, and the memory of his compulsory journey must have been a nightmare in his recollection to the last day of his life. " The Season Ticket," in its tenth number, continues its sparkling career, furnishing an inexhaustible fund of laughable reading. In the remarks on " The Improbability of a War with France," there is much truth met with. In the course of its observations it is truly said, that they mistake who think that the British character, when roused, is not so warlike as the French. The last article, on "Edmund Burke," is a good one, and in it there are some allusions to remarkable events that demand attention. Fraser's Magazine. The agreeable writer who has furnished so many pleasant essays to the pages of Regina contributes another, bearing the suggestive title of i " Concern ing Disappointment and Success." It s written in the author's usual dreamy fashion, wandering now here, now there, fluttering over his subject like th e butterfly over a flowerbed, yet withal extracti ng honey with the ability of a wiser insect. A sli g ht tendency to repetition and diffuseness might be avoided with advantage, but the liberality of f ee li ng and extension of sympathy displayed are hi g hl y commendable. A paper on British nov e li s t s tracts the history of our national fiction from its earliest appearance to the close of the reign o f S cott. S ome curious statistics respecting the publi ca ti on o f t hi s class of works are given : Some statistics given in Professor Masson's volume on British novelists afford what is probably a correct motion of the actual achievements of recent English authorship in the deparimcnt of the novel. By resorting to a process of stocktaking in that vast warehouse of books, the Library of the British museum, it has beon ascertained that the num ber of novels printed in the year 1820 (taken as the year when the Waverley novels were at the height of their popularity) was 26, consisting of 76 volumes. The produce of the year 1830, ten years later, as indicated by the num ber of books deposited on the shelves of the Library, was increased to 101 works, or 205 volumes, and this year is taken as the time when the - Waverley series was nearly completed. In 1850, twenty years later, the yield was 98 works, or 210 volumes ; and for 1856 there were 88 works, or 201 volumes. The result is, that since 1820 the number of new novolscoming out has been nearly quadrupled, and that the recent issue has been at the rate of about 100 a year, or nearly two for every week—in all, about 3,000 novels, amouating to 7,000 separate volumes, have been printed since ibo viblie9.tion of " ‘Vavelley." The chief objects of the writer's critical discussion are Richardson, Miss Austen, and Scott, though, in his preliminary observations, he necessarily treats of many others. In speaking of Fielding, he remarks that the fact, that he was seven years writing " Tom Jones" should never be forgotten by " the many who are now ambitious of adding their contingent of three volumes to the army of one hundred novels which, it appears, is annually in vading us." Leaving this paper we come to a continuation of Mr. Cairno's careful "Essay to wards a solution of the Gold Question," to which we direct the attention of those who are interested in the thoughtful discussion of currency questions. " The Shakespearian Discovery" is the title of a paper on the reported fact of the manuscript notes in Mr. Collier's edition of the great dramitist being modern fabrications, in imitation of an ancient hand. It is proposed to continue the consideration of the question on a further occasion, when a forthcoming pamphlet is expected to throw light on the subject. " Holmby House" advances with interest, and pro bably approaches its conclusion. The opening chapters of another tale, entitled "Wheat and Tares," are full of promise. The second paper on the " Memoirs of Shelley," promised to the reader some months since, has been called forth by the pub lication of the recent volume of " Shelley Memo rials," edited by Lady Shelley. Some interesting details of the incidents of the poet's life are given, which, considering the many injurious misrepre sentations which have been made respecting him, it is well the public should be made acquainted with, but there is little new in the way of reflec tion or criticism. Mr. Peacock, the author of the article in question, is well qualified for his task by his intimate acquaintance with the poet. " Two Life Stories" is the title of some very graceful and pleasing verses, where refined and poetic thoughts are prettily expressed. We could have wished that the conclusion had been a little more clearly put, but the general character of the poem is superior to the general style of magazine verses. A pleasant paper, on the " Literary Suburb of the Eighteenth Century," treats of the notabili ties of Twickenham, and will probably be con tinued. There are also papers on Prince Metter nich, and the Suez Canal Project. Bentley's _Miscellany. A preliminary glimpse at the state of affairs, public, literary, and theatrical, precedes the general contents of this number. The editor continues his new romance of the stirring times of the Round heads and Cavaliers with the diversity of charac ter and vivid descriptive power belonging of right to the pen of Harrison Ainsworth. The latest con tribution of Alexandre Dumas the younger to dramatic literature is discussed and described in a paper bearing the title of the play, " Lin Pere Pro digue." Certainly there is some truth in the critic's opinion that the fashion of adapting from the French must soon be discontinued, since although the piece in question has achieved a brilliant success on the Parisian boards, we flatter ourselves that no possible adaptation of it would be tolerated on the English stage. Dudley Costello furnishes a ghost story for the new year, under the sugges tive title of " The Haunted House near Hampstead." It will delight the lovers of the marvellous and horrible by its dismal midnight adventures, while readers of more rational tastes will be satisfied by the curious solution of the mystery. Monks hood's " Mingle-Mangle" analyses the character of Caliban, and gives some interesting extracts from foreign critics. An amusing paper, " A German in London," shows us the opinion which a son of the Vaterland formed of ourselves and our country. There are two poetical contributions, neither of which rise above mediocrity. The New Monthly Magazine. A lengthened paper paper on " Morocco " is tile first that meets the reader of Colburn. It contains a good deal of varied information, and at this epoch is not without interest. The indefatigable author of " Ashley " commences another tale, in which the interest promises to be of a truly sentimental cha racter. Two heroines are introduced to us—the Lady Isabel and Barbara Hare. The former of these fair ladies is by far the most attractive. Nicholas Michell contributes some verses on 1860, which are scarcely equal to the general character of his poems. There are also some pretty poetic conceits of the author of " Stereoscopic Glimpses," entitled " Wild Sown Flowers." The "Notes on Note Worthies " devote their twenty-fifth number to Lord North, one of the most amiable of men, as well as one of the most unfortunate of statesmen. Many instances of his habitual pleasantry and good humour remain on record. " Thus, when a vehement declaimer, call ing aloud for his head, turned round and perceived his victim unconsciously indulging in a soft slum ber, becoming still more exasperated, denounced the minister as capable of sleeping while he ruined his country; the latter only complained how cruel it was to be denied a solace which other criminals so often enjoy, of having a night's rest before their fate. So again, when Mr. Martin proposed, Hot spur like, to have a starling placed near the chair, and [taught to repeat the cry of Infamous Coali tion,' Lord North suggested that this importation would be quite superfluous, while a Martin was in the house doing the proposed starling's work." After the unexpected resignation of the Premiership in 1782, the house immediately broke up and the members thronged the doorway waiting for their dis missed vehicles. It was a bitter snow-storm, and as Lord Northpassed through the crowd of his enemies, ho said pleasantly, I have my carriage. You see, gentlemeN the advantage of being in the secret.'" " The Night before the Duel" is a tale of the South American War of Independence, and relates the warning visit of a man unjustly executed, to the false friend who had been the means of his death. A paper on " Medieval Demonology" will attract the lover of ancient and curious lore. Central America and the - West Indies is the title of a paper founded on recent works of travel, foremost among them being M. Julius Froebel's thoughtful and laborious account of his Seven Years Travel in Cen tral America and the Far West of the United States, and Mr. Anthony Trollope's vivid and popular nar rative of his trip to the West Indies and the Spanish Main. Among the remaining contents are papers on the Mysteries of the Desert, and the State of the Channel Fleet. Colburn's United &race Magazine. We always expect to meet with a number of well written and able articles in this journal, and we are seldom disappointed. The present number suc cessfully maintains its high reputation, and offers much for the consideration of those in naval and military power. The first paper, containing a retro spective view of the navy during the past year, is particularly clear and sensible in its points and observations; and "A Few Words on Military Education and the Staff College," is well worthy of perusal, as it presents many wholesome sugp::, s _ tions and home truths much needed by thop . -, con nected with such imp ‘ or t an t na tional es , tabY is h ments. An article on " Morocco and the ..d.oorish War" will be read with interest at this epoch, and we give the following extract touching the existent population of the country, which is of singularly various origin : " The Libians and G e tulians spoken of by early G ree k an d Roman authors as the aboriginal natives of North Africa, were conquered, says Sallust, at an epoc h unknown, by hordes of Medes and Persians , The Persians, allying them selves with the inhabitants of the coast, fermed tribes, called Numades or Numidians, whilst the Medes, connecting them selves with the Libians, gave existence to the race of Moors, the term Metes being changed into that of Moors. The other natives, mostly Getulians, refusing to mix o r to h o ld i n t erco urse with the immigrants, have to this day remained wild, and all but free from all law. They were called, there fore, as they yet are, Berber, or barbarians, whence is de rived the name of Barb ary S tates. Precopius mentions also anotherinvasion of Africa, by the Canaanites expelled from Palestine by the victorious armies of Joshua, and says that i n his time there wasa column standing at Tegisis (perhaps Tangier) with the inscription, We are those who fled from the robber Joshu a , th e son of Nun. ' The story of the Phoenician or Carthagenian invaders of thi s country, an d of their Rom an conquerors. is well known. Towards the middle of the seventh century, it fell, by another conquest, into the possession of the Arabs, who also subdued . a great part of Spain, where, as they came from Mauritania, they got the name of Moors. On their expulsion from Europe they returned to Barbary, and built most of the maritime Cities, especially Algiers:; being ill-received by their country men in the interior, they took to the sea, became the terror of all sea-faring nations, and for many centuries levied a tribute on the proudest states, for the protection of their flag. These Arabs, improperly called Moors, are the domi nant rate again in Morocco. All the races which have existed there from the beginning are still distinct, though they are so much intermixed in their ordinary occupations and man ners that it is difficult for a stranger to distinguish them." Macmillan's Magazine. The first article is a summary of the " Writ ings of Louis Napoleon," in which a tolerably just estimate of his mental acuteness, and poli tical tendencies is formed. We have the full list of his productions, from the " Political Reve ries," written in 1832, when the author was in his twenty-fifth year, to his " Miscellanies" and " Essays," published in 1842. It is stated that the general impression left on the mind, by a perusal of these writings is Louis Napoleon's singular strength of his hereditary conviction that it be longed to him, as one of the family of Napoleonm, to concern himself with the interests of nations and of the world as a whole—an impression he has pretty well verified. " Tom Brown at Oxford" still entertains us with his doings and sayings ; and " Sea Dreams ; an Idyll," by Tennyson, will doubtless attract the notice and rapturous admira tion of his worshippers; tliough we cannot help expressing our own opinion that it does not con tain many elements of poetry. A paper on " American Humorous Poetry ' presents some amusing extracts, and pointed and sensible corn mentary on the various authors discussed. A ske tel. of " Morocco and Northern Africa" is extremely well written, giving their history from the Roman times to the present, which, under the present political aspect, is highly interesting and enlighten ing. We may pronounce the average contents of this number to be of superior character, and we shall conclude our notice with the following apt paragraph from a pleasant gossipping page or two on the " Subject of Clothes," by the author of " John Halifax " : "A woman should always remember that her clothes should be in expense and quantity proportioned to her own circumstances, and not those of her neighbour. The mingling of classes is good—that is, the frequent associa tion of those persons who in effect form one and the same class, b3ing alike i n t as t es , sympa thi es, mora l purpose, and mental calibre,—however various be their degrees of an nual income, worldly station. profession, trade, or unem ployed leisure. Provided always that the one meeting point, which likewise can alone be the fair point of rivalry, lies in themselves and not in their externals. How can I, who have but £2OO a-year, dress like my friend Mrs Jones, who has £2,000 ?—but is that any reason why I, who am, I hope, as true a gentlewoman as she is, should eschew her very pleasant society, or, out of mere cowardice, ruin my self by mimicking her in the matter of clothes?—Nothing is so fatal as the ever-increasing habit that I notice, of each class dressing, or attempting to dress, in a style equal. to the class above it—the maid imitating her mistress, the young shop-girl the woman of fortune, and so on. Even mothers of famili es one sees continually falling into this error, and wearing gowns, shawls, &c., that must of neces sity have pinched the family income for many a day. My dear ladies, will you not see that a good daily joint of meat on your table is far more conducive to the health and hap piness of those sitting round it, than the handsomest silk gown placed at the head of it ? that a good, well-paid domestic servant (and you cannot expect a good one unless well-paid) is of more worth to you and yours, in absolute comfort, than the very grandest of milliners or dregs makers ?" The Constitutional Press. " Hopes and Fears," the story by the author of " The Heir of Redcliffe," is continued ; it progresses satisfactorily, and will, no doubt, prove as great a favourite as its predecessors. There is considerable skill in the relation of the love affairs of Robert and Lucille. Robert, with his good sense and grave staid demeanour, was completely outwitted by the saucy damsel, who seemed determined, under the guise of amusement, to outrage the claims of rela tionship and to insult the honest affection that was offered to her. Phoebe Fulmort is a charming character that improves upon acquaintance. There is something very pleasing about her, and she alone renders the story attractive. This authoress espe cially shines in her first-rate delineations of home life, it is indeed impossible to expect that the events of every-day existence could be better brought before us. The other contents of this magazine are not so pleasing as they were in the last month's number. The " Romances of Balzac," form the subject of a brief sketch that is entertain ing, it will be found to convey a fair idea of the great writer's general character and peculiar class of works. " The Congress" refers to the state of affairs abroad, and censures the Government for sending representatives to the Congress. It is said that, in the present position of things, England can do no good at the conferences in Paris. Lord. Cowley, it is said, may be an able man, but he is " nothing but a toy to the diploma tists of Continental Europe —a mere child, ask ing questions, and b e i ng soo th e d i n t h e hands of men who have studied deeply the doctrines of Machiavelli, and gathered inspiration from the Metternichs and Taileyrands of a past generation." " The Supper of the Tories" contain, among other amusing tirades on the follies of the day, a satirical allusion to the four Liverpool merchants, whose political feat is certain to afford scope for humourists of all classes for many a day to come. There is a long paper on the " Reform Question" at the end of this magazine, which in itself is rather out of place in the pages of a periodical like the pre sent, and which cannot lay claim to being the re presentative of the views of the party, since it has been authoritatively announced that it is not sanc tioned by the leaders of the Conservatives. In it self the suggestions it makes are in some cases fair enough, and the whole bears evidence of consider able research, but the essay would have appeared to greater advantage in the form of a pamphlet. A TRAGEDI OF ERROR c'. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—lt would seem from an announcement in the Naval Intelligence of this day that Admiral Bowles has, in direct contravention of the rules of the ser vice, published in the newspapers, without the knowledge or sanction of the Admiralty, a series of confidential letters and official documents, which " my lords" had not purposed to impart to the public. It is difficult to assign any reason for this act of insubordination on the part of the gallant admiral, inasmuch as he had especially declared to Admiral Pelham, in his letter of December 7, that " having, during a rather long public life, uniformly disre garded the newspaper attacks to which he had been frequently exposed, he was perfectly content to wait until public opinion as to his conduct in the affair of the Princess Royal righted itself, by the discovery that a mutiny in the fleet at some critical moment was a very awkward occurrence." " My lords " had severely reprimanded. Captain Baillie in private for his share in the matter. By this unauthorised disclosure Admiral. Bowles has inconsistently taken upon himself to convert their lordships' private reprimand into a public one. If " my lords " are disposed to adopt the gallant admiral's advice, that the severest measures should be taken to crush a rising spirit of insubordination which he discerns in the British navy, it is to be hoped that they will not begin by dealing more leniently with that crime when it is deliberately committed by an experienced port admiral than. when they detect it in a ship's crew of excited and disappointed seamen, eager to see their families and friends after a four years' absence. It is curious to observe huw completely everybody connected with the affair of the Princess Royal has contrived to place himself in the wrong. That the seamen were in the wrong in being guilty of mutinous conduct everybody is agreed. That the court-martial was in the wrong in award ing them an excessive punishment the subsequent clemency of the Crown indicates. That Captain Baillie and Commander Josling were more or less in the wrong the reprimands which they received from the Admiralty show. That, "my lords" were, and still are, in the wrong in treating the crews of ships paying off " injudic , i_ollsly and unj us tl y ," Ad m i ral B o wles's letter of .November 20 argumentatively demonstrates..ng rout Ad m i ra l P e lh am was in the wrong in writA a private l e tt er o f appro b at i on to Admiral Bowles, his own good sense must by this time 4;e told him. That Admiral Bowles was in the 7 aong in forwarding to the alorning Post his e 'unfidential official correspondence with the Admi ralty for publication, nobody will feel disposed to deny ; and that the public press were, and more especially the Times, in the wrong for presuming to comment upon the mismanagement which caused the outbreak, for denouncing the excessive punish ment awarded to the seamen, and for urging the propriety of its mitigation, few Admirals of any standing will be inclined to dispute.---I am, s i r , your obedient servant, H. Jan. 3. ARREST OF TWO SUPPOSED .711EIR- DERERS. It will be in the recollection of our readers (says the Dublin Express) that a man named Thomas Geraghty was murdered in the neighbourhood of Castlepollard, on the fair night of that town, Oct. 10th last. From that to the present time, or at least a few nights since, the four suspected perpe trators of that brutal murder—namely, Thomas and James Fagun, and Hugh. Kennedy—succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the Patrick Gerety, constabulary, although no exertion was spared in order to discover their whereabouts. However, in the course of the past week information was re ceived of the four having proceeded to North Wales, and immedi a t e l y t wo o f the most act i ve o f the Westmeath constabulary, and who personally knew the parties—namely, Constable Morton and sub-constable Tracey—were sent in search of them. Having reached a remote part of North Wales, they there found that the objects of their pursuit had left, but from information obtained they traced the fugitives to the town of Conway. There again they found themselves at fault, but once on the track, they were resolved not to give up the chase ; and having ascertained some further particulars, they steered their course for Stockport—and here at length their labours were partially rewarded by the capture, on the night of Dec. 26, of J. Fagan. Some judicious hints received here induced the constable and his sub to make for Oldham, where they again were partially successful, and laid fast hold of Thos. Gerety, another of the party. Encouraged by their success they proceeded to a place in the neighbour. hood of Manchester, where they had some mum to suspect the other two of the party, P. Gerety and. H. Kennedy, were lurking ; but by some mischance the game escaped. Kennedy having gone out, it was said, on a spree, but, much more likely, having got a hint of the hot pursuit after him, made his escape. Of Gerety no direct tidings were obtainable. On the evening of the 29th the constable and sub constable arrived in Mullingar with their unwilling companions, who were committed to the county prison by J. L. Cronin, Esq., R.M., to take their trial at the ensuing assizes of Westmeath for the murder of Thos. Geraghty, on Oct. 10, 1859. Strong hopes are en tertained that Gerety and Kennedy will. also be made amenable in time for trial, with their associates in crime, at the spring assizes.