The Sun. — London, England, 1858-12-17 00:00:00

-VVINTE 11. - NO GENTLEMAN during the Wir Iter should be without one of - 3IA.CDOU GAL .L'S FAMOUS HIGHLAND CLOAKS, Universally ack aowledged to be the most comfortable, useful, and 0.1 qt l .emanly upper Garment now in use, either o r Town wear, or the Rail, the Coach, Ridine-,,-Driving, and Walking. Th, are made of Scotch Tweeds, in every variety of Plain Colon rs, and very pretty Mixtures : also in dark Grey and. Blacl for,Clergymen's wear. Go< 0 t useful qualities from.... 2(s. to Ms. Tt .e best do. d 0..... 38s. to 50s. The Height : and Size r4und Shoulders is sufficient measure. Patterns and price per post, free. A n y numbn r of Cloaks forwarded in four days from date of order, free to L0nd0 , 4.. D. 3IACDOUGALL , Timm ROYAL TARTAN WARRITOLSE,, INVERNESS. I„ ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVERT GARDEN, under the sole Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W . Harrison.—The public are respectfully in formed that this new and elQgant Theatre will be OPENED for the first _ENGLIsH OPERA SEASON on MONDAY. 20, whenD will be presented an entirely new and ort2-,inal entitled SATANELLA ; or, THE Opera, by Mr- W . Balfe. POWER OF L OVE. Playhouse prices. Tj OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Mk'nagement of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS KVENINO9rwiII be presented Shaksperc's Tragedy of 3IACIIETH. Macbeth, Mr. C. Kean ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by a new Farce, in one act, entitled THIRTY-THREE NEXT BIRTHDAY. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstonc. THIS EVENING will be performed a new Comedy, THE TIDE OF TIME. Messrs. Buckstone, Chippendale &c. ; Mesdames Reynolds and Poynter. A new Spanish. Ballet, THE INFLUENCE OF GRACE in which Perea Nena will appear. THE TOODLES. Sir Wm. Don, Bart. And A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Commeme at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATR E. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE SAVAGE. After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. WOOING IN JEST AND LOVING IN EARNEST : Miss Swanborongh. And THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. Commence at 7 o'clock. A sTLF.rs ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with the successful gorgeous Spectacle of THE REVOLT IN THE EAST; or, The Fugitives and their Faithful Steed concluding with a Grand National and Allegorical Tableaux. After which SCENES IN THE ARENA, introducing Mr. W. Cooke, and his beautiful horses, Mr. Runnels, Madame Blanche, Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Fleurette, and the first male and female equestrians in the world. Dress Circle, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls, ; Galleries, I3d. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — Proprietor --C. MORTON. The public is most respectfully informed that the FIN E ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW OPEN DAY AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12 o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec tion of - Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist ing Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the Kingdom. The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at seven o'clock. In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET "FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied fuatrumental performances have created so marked a sensa tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will pe rform every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, DEC. 17. THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE. 43—highest since noon yesterday. 1 39—lowest this morning and during the night. I—t h i s day at noon. BA RomETEA-29.98—falling. Wren, South-Easterly; light, with dull weather. THE SUN. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 17, 1858. Mr. BRIGHT has certainly reason to complain of unfairness when he is asked to produce at once his bill, with all its clauses complete. A great professed leader of public opinion taunts him with tellivg immense assemblies nothing more than we all kticw before, y i d wants to know why we have not the clauses and schedules of the BRIGHT Reform Bill cm replete. Now, we can assign plenty of good reasons' why; JOHN BRIGHT must be a man far less wise or shrewd than we or any one else takes him to be, if he were to be moved by such taunts as these. Very fairly, he is quite con tent with i% tie pope answer. Here is the Times writing every day, and writing on Reform, too, and as yet it has never got beyond the most vague suggestions, such as those presented viva voce the other day at Kidderminster on the subject. How is it that we have not already had the Times' Reform Bill ? Can the reply be—lt is oars to criticise only, not to construct ? but how can a critic criticise fairly who has not some fair con ception of the right on the subject he criticises ? The truth is, that at present no one wants details. We want to settle principles first. Mr. BRIGHT wants to takethe sense of the country as to the principles on which he would arrange his bill; having done this he will be in the position of the House of Commons when it orders a bill . to be brought in, founded on resolutions which it has already passed. In any case the hon. member for Kidderminster and the Tories are the last parties in the world to complain of Mr. BRIGHT for not giving them the details of the bill. How can they tell yet that- her Majesty's Government may not agree with him in many of its most important provisions. He will certainly wait till he sees what they propose to offer to the people. He also remembers something about the folly of casting pearls before swine. The meeting at Edinburgh, like that at Man chester, gives the lie to all the allegations of the people's want of interest in the Reform ques tion. Indeed, it does so more completely, for the Edinburgh folk - had not, like vast numbers-at Manchester, any special interest in Mr. BRIGHT ; yet the meeting was crowded almost to suffocation, and three or four times as many went away as could gain admission. Again, Mr. BRIGHT spoke with unusual moderation and propriety. He had no crotchets. He is addressing his vigorous busi ness mind to practical objects, and we must confess we have never read any of his speeches of late years with so much pleasure as these on reform. There is unusual absence of dogmatism, and, we may add, corresponding force of argument. " Our measure (he says) shall be moderate in its strength, but it shall be irresistibly strong in its moderation." And this tone of feeling pervades all his views and arguments. He is desirous to be fair to all parties, to the House of Veers itself as well as to the people—to the counties as well as to the boroughs. He justly conceives, however, that the people are the party who have not yet had fair play in the representation. Mr. BRIGHT contends that he is but carryin g eut the principles of the Reform Bill of 1832, " less individual influence, less of the influence of small classes, more of that general influence and power which in every free country must rest upon the great body of the people." He objects wisely, as we think, to new electoral divi sions, and would content himself with disfranehisements after the manner of the old Re form Bill, and enfranchisements of new places, with additional members to large constituencies. To the counties he does not seem disposed to.give more representatives. He would add to their prAsent electors the 400,000 additional voters which Mr. f S . c. p. 0.0 I. la, , ..„ 1 ; 1 4 ! 0. n i4 ' . ,14 -7 M t i",, ° , , ~ . .;;;I • 4-k ' r . ' `,.. 1 1 •Aiff . , ..7iiii . : , ..:::,t - 0. ). ..., • . ... LOCKE KING'S motion would give; and he shoived, ' by an obviously correct calculation, what we know to be true in point of fact, that the £lO householder in the county must be a man of £5O a year rental. When, however, the county franchise is thus extended, and extended with the protection of the Ballot, the county constituencies would be as popular and independent as those of the towns. Mr. BRIGHT, however, points to the House of Lords, and asks, what do they represent—them selves only, or the counties in which their immense estates arc situate ? If the former, then the in quiry is forced on us, what right have some 400 persons to set themselves, whenever they sec fit, against the wish of the whole nation, as expressed by its representatives ? The Crown has long sur rendered all pretensions to veto the demands of the nation; it has not rejected a bill for perhaps 150 years. Can it be tolerated that the Lords, if they repreSent themselves only, should assume this power, as they did lately for instance, for years together, in regard to the Jew Bill—the House of Commons having, moreover, no kind of control over them, as they have over the Crown by stopping the supplies. But if the Lords represent the landed estates of the county, what becomes of the demand for more representa tives for the counties ? Mr. BRIGHT has certainly given Mr. NEWDEGATE a puzzle which he will not easily find a key to. The less the landlords say about defective county representation the better, unless they are prepared to discuss at the same time some radical change in regard to the House rf Lords. The extraordinary enterprise displayed by the Atlantic Telegraph Company renders it, we cannot but think, exceptional—entitles it, we still con ceive, to more than ordinary consideration on the part of the Government. Hitherto -that remark able enterprise has been baulked by means of a most untoward casualty. An apparently irrepar able flaw in the cable• actually laid down between Valentia and Newfoundland closed the electric in tercourse between the New and the Old World within a week or two from the date of its esta blishment along the bed of the vast ocean sepa rating the two hemispheres. That intercourse, it cannot very speedily be forgotten, was wonderfully established for an interval, so that the opposite shores of the Atlantic were literally brought into all but instantaneous communication. The feasibility of this hitherto fabulous and even, when accomplished, scarcely less than miraculous project —its practicability (if not its permanence) was distinctly and practically demonstrated. Until then it was no more than a splendid day-dream. But after those magical needles had simultaneously vibrated by means of the connecting thread of two thousand miles of wire submerged in the Atlantic, that glorious day-dream was _actually realised. Granted. that the marvel continued in working order during only a comparatively brief interval—during that interval it was incontestibly in operation. Rapidly though the time passed away, it was still sufficient to afford proof positive that the wondrous feat could actually be ac complished. For that—England and Canada, rather it should be said Europe and America, all the nations of the earth civilized, and uncivilized, are beholden to the enterprise of the adventurous, and seemingly to many doubtless, at the onset, merely visionary association. The Atlantic Telegraph Company, though they have failed as yet to connect the two hemispheres permanently—though they lost a fragment of a cable at the first venture and the whole of the cable at the second venture—have established incontestibly the fact that the New World and the Old World. can be, simply because they have been, brought together by means of elee trio-telegraphic intercommunication. It is ungenerous and ungrateful, we think, at this stage to insist that the. Atlantic Telegraph Com pany ought to be placed in the same category with all other companies that may from this time forth be organised for the laying down of submarine cables. It is invidious, moreover—it is even mean — to argue that if any one Telegraphic Company ought to be encouraged by a direct guarantee from Government, that company ought to be the one having for its aim the establishment of a line of electric intercourse eastwards and not westwards—to the Indian Peninsula, and not to the North American Continent. While we heartily concur with those who, upon principles deprecate the notion of submarine tele graphs generally being subsidised by the State, we are yet prepared to insist upon the advisability, to say the very least of it, of making the trail of the first permanent cable to North America and the trail of the first permanent cable to Hindostan great and resplendent exceptions. It does certainly appear to us that there is ample justification for this double plea under the circumstances. Recol lect, for example, in regard to the former enter prise, that the first grand sub-oceanic cable ever attempted to be laid down is this very one which has already been submerged, and for a while suc cessfully, by the Atlantic Telegraph Company. The enterprise here, in its way, was as entirely without precedent as the immortal enterprise of the first American navigator. Voyages of discovery had been made before COLUMBUS—but never before, such a voyage as that ! Submarine cables had been submerged before the one laid down between Va lentia and Newfoundland—but none before that one in any degree comparable. The first attempt on that occasion was a failure, by reason of the stormy weather and the snapping asunder of the electric cable shortly after it had begun to be paid out into the depths of the Atlantic. The second attempt was a failure later on- 7 -ft was a failure only after it had been a brilliant and unparalleled success—after messages had thrilled to and fro along the cavernous abysses of the ocean—messages first of all expressive of homage to the SUPREME BEING, and afterwards of goodwill and fellowship between man and man, between nation and nation —signals of peace and courtesy flashing, under all that world of waters, between the American PRE SIDENT and the British SOVEREIGN. " The third is the charm"—the third attempt would, in all human probability, be not only eminently, but pre-eminently - successful. Of this we have within our grasp, as it were, substantial gua rantees, in the encouraging and incontrovertible truths established during the first momentarily successful realisation of the undertaking. Every thing combines to satisfy us that there are valid reasons for Government still continuing to act to• wards the,Allantic Telegraph Company as one in every respect exceptional. This project is the first attempted to be carried out upon so grand a scale —and as such, until its designs have been fully realised, it is, to our thinking, in a manner entitled to direct encouragement from the State. So also is it, from a variety of weighty considerations, with reference to the proposed company for the laying down a chain of electric cables in the opposition direction eastwards, instead of westwards—bring ing England into momentary communication with her vast Asiatic possessions. The North American line, and the East Indian line ought both of them, as a matter of prudence and of justice, of economy and magnanimity, to be laid down under the direct encouragement and guarantee of the Government. The former, because, as already intimated, it is the first enterprise of the kind of such magnituile. The latter, because it is the first projected in that direction upon the very morrow of Hindostan being brought under the sway of the British Sovereignty. Afterwards let all other lines of submarine wire be paid out, if you will, by bold, unaided, and perfectly independent speculators. But—until the prac ticability of these undertakings shall have been not merely proved, but securely established—it is but due to our imperial interests that the line eastwards to Hindostan and the line westwards to Newfoundland should be laid down under the direct encouragement, superintendence, and gua rantee of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Government. A cry for Protection has gone forth. The British shipowners declare that they are unable to meet foreign competition, and that unless the Govern ment are prepared to enter on a retrograde policy, they must succumb to the difficulties of their position. They do not apply to Parliament, or appeal to the country. They know that the demand would be worse than useless. Unfortunately, how ever, there is a mode by which the matter may be managed without legislative interference, and they seem to think that Lord DERBY and his col leagues will consent to be dragged through the mire at their heels. At the time of the repeal of the old Navigation Laws a matter demanded alike by justice and expedi ency--what was termed " a reciprocrity clause" was very injudiciously inserted. This enabled the Sovereign without consulting Parliament to place restrictions on the vessels of any nation that imposed difficulties in the way of British shipping. This was both unfair and unconstitutional—uncon stitutional, as it was, such as divested both Lords and Commons of their legitimate functions; and unfair, because it might have occasioned consider able difficulty to future Administrations. Had it not been for this most unwise provision we should have heard nothing of the present agitation, and much futile labour would have been spared to orators, and considerable annoyance to the nation. We should have thought that if there were any class in the community that could fearlessly have engaged in " unrestricted competition," it would have been the shipowners of the United Kingdom. It is true that the thoroughbred English sailor may require better food, kinder treatment, and higher wages than a foreigner ; but if he costs more his services are more valuable, and it is a sound rule that the best article is cheapest in the long run. It is not altogether pure patriotism that now induces the British shipowner to employ his countrymen. He finds that it pays better than hiring men that will consent to be under paid and. badly fed, and who cannot be relied on in• situations of difficulty or danger. Besides it must be remembered that all classes in the United Kingdom have had their cycles of prosperity and adversity since the passing of the Bank Charter Act. Manufactures have been sus pended, mills and factories closed, merchant princes changed into paupers, and houses of unquestionable solvency, which had stood the test of ages, compelled to suspend payment. Why should shipowners hope for any exemption from the general law ? During the wars in the Crimea, in China and in India, there was an extraordinary demand for transports. We believe that it is not too much to say, that in those palmy days the first cost of a vessel was nearly defrayed by her first year's earnings. Then " all went merry as a marriage bell." But when these exceptional circumstances were altered, when the extraordinary traffic in Government stores and troops, which " are not included in the shipping returns of the United Kingdom," is taken into account, it cannot be regarded as matt? of astonishment if the large profit s -- so recentliob tained could not still be realised. There has, how ever, been no serious attempt to show that the shipowner does not still receive a fair —nay, more, an ample return for the capital invested, or that he could make a better investment than in English ships. It is not a single year that is to be:looked to,•but the average of a reasonable number, and whether five or seven years be taken, we believe that the shipowners will find themselves much better off than they would wish the public to believe. It has been said that statistics can be got up in support of almost any proposition. If, for instance, you strike an element from one side of an equation, omitting the corresponding one, there will, of course, be an excess. When the increase of foreign shipping in English ports is harped on, without any allusion to that of British shipping in foreign ports, it is manifest that there is a fallacy somewhere We have a sincere regard for the maritime interests of Great Britain. We wish well to its enterprising shipowners and hardy sea men. But we would tell them that the way to achieve prosperity is to deserve it, and that they should rather set their own shoulders to the wheel than put forward unavailing petitions to the ITEnctLEs of Downing-street, whose tasks are suf ficiently onerous without assuming their burdens, in addition to those whichle is compelled to sus tain. THE PRINCE OF WALES.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales reached Dover, from Ostend, in the Black Eagle, at 11 o'clock last night. The Prince was received by the naval and military authorities of the port, and conducted to the Lord Warden Hotel, where his royal highness passed the night. The Prince left Dover early this morning en route for Osborne. The Right Hon. Major-General and Lady Alice Peel returned to town this day, from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, at House. ..- The Duke and Duchess of Manchester intend to leave Kimbolton Castle for town on Monday next, en route for Germany. The Duchess Dowager of Somerset entertained his Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Duchess de Malakoff, and a select circle, at dinner, last evening, at her residence in Park-lane. The Marquis of Hertford is shortly expected at his mansion, in Manchester-square, from Paris. The Earl of Malmesbury, who has been staying on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, at Hatfield, since Monday last, has gone to join the party visiting the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke at Wimpole Hall. BAHAMAS AND HAVANNAH. — After the despatch of the packet of the 17th inst. the mails for the Bahamas will be forwarded via New York, •• instead of via St. Thomas, and will be conveyed from New York to Nassau by a branch steampacket under contract,with her Majesty's Government. The first mail under the new arrangement will be made up at the Post-office on the evening of the 24th inst. for transmission from Liverpool on the following morning by the British mail packet for New York, and subsequent mails will be forwarded from Liverpool on the following days in the year 1859 :—Saturday, Jan. 22 ; Saturday, Feb. 19; Saturday, March 19; Saturday, April 16 ; Saturday, May 14 ; Satur day, July 11; Saturday, July 9 ; Saturday, August 6 ; Saturday, Sept. 3 ; Saturday, Oct. 1; Saturday, Oct. 29 ; Saturday, Nov. 26 ; Saturday, Dec. 24. The branch packet from New York, after landing the mails at Nassau, will pro ceed to the Havannah, and letters, &c., addressed to Cuba may be forwarded by this opportunity, if specially addressed " via New York and Nassau. Letters and newspapers sent to Cuba by this route will be liable to the same rates of postage as those forwarded by the West India mail packets. Mails from Havannah and Bahamas will be due at Liver pool by the packet from New York appointed to arrive on the 17th of February next, and by each alternate packet from New York. JAMAICA EXPORTS FOR 1857-58.—A Custom house return received by the West India mail shows.the following as the exports from the island, of the principal staple articles of produce, during the year ending on the 30th of September last :—Sugar, 33,032 hhds. ; rum, 18,193 puncheons ; cotton, 5,8761 b. ; coffee, 5,237,6891 b. ; gimento, 9.465,2611 b. ; ginger, 7”,620113. ; arrowroot, 72,0231 b: '' 16 - 0-b - od; 12;538 'toils;- honey, 8,108 gallons beeswax, 794 cwt. 1 qr. lllb. ; cocoa nuts, 784,4221 b. ; lead ore, 23 tons ; copker ore, 40 tons. rHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1858. LATEST NEWS. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 15. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sour, in Syria, has been ill-treated in the church where he was officiating. Tevfik Pacha has been sent to Candia. Rumours of Ministerial changes are in circulation. Fuad Pacha is spoken of for the post of Grand Vizier. The cordon of the White Eagle of Russia has been conferred on M. Thouyencl, the French Am- bassador. An electric cable has united Constantinople to Gallipoli. Letters from Teheran state that a magnificent reception had been given to Feruck Khan, and that he is already occupied in preparing important reforms, both civil and religious. The official journal of Teheran has published a long article, pointing out the advantages which Persia will derive from her European relations. BERLIN, DEC. 16. The Prussian Gazette contains a circular, yester day issued by the Minister of the Interior, Baron Flottwell, addressed to all provincial Governments Regierun gen ). The circular relates to the withdrawal of trades concessions, based on the paragraph of the trade laws (Gewerbe-Ordnung), and promises an improved regulation of this subject by the Legislature►. The provincial Governments are directed to desist from withdrawals and warnings of withdrawals of all trades-concessions, and to send in to the Minister of the Interior the docu ments of judicial proceeding (Acten), together with their report. According to confirmed intelligence, his Royal highness the Prince Regent has conferred upon hic Royal Highness the Prince. of' Wales the Order of the Black Eagle. MADRID, DEC. 16. At the nomination of members for the Congress Committee, Government has again been victorious. The Senate has commenced the discussion on the address, in reply to the Queen's speech. General Prim has withdrawn his amendment, which de clared that Spain had not sufficient cause for entering into hostility with Mexico. The budget has been presented to the chambers; .it estimates the expenses at 1,786,000,000 reals, and the receipts at 1,794,000,000 reals. The French Ambassador, M. Barrot, will: be received by the Queen this evening in a private audience. A Paris letter in the Nord of Brussels says:— " The English journals, and especially the Times, appear to have understood neither the character nor the consequences of the pardon accorded to Count de Montalembert, nor yet the nature of his appeal. According to the Times, which has not seized the force of the allusion made in the note of the Moniteur to the 2d December, the pardon was a moral victory achieved by the Count. But the fact is quite the contrary, and if the appeal had not been made, all the advantage belonged to the note of the lfloniteur. The Times adds that, in re jecting the Emperor's pardon, the persistence of M. Montalembert is an agitation without any serious object. That assertion displays a profonnd ignorance of the real state of the French legis lation and amuses the French lawyers. If the Times had paid more attention to the articles of the Nord, it would have spared itself these blunders. In short, and in view of the new discussion about to arise, it will not be without use to repeat that the pardon, while relieving M. de Montalembert from his six months' imprisonment, does not annul —lst, the declaration of culpability; 2d, the dis• honouring reasons given for the judgment; 3d, the suppression of the work; 4th, the right given to the Government to apply to M. de Montalembert the law of public safety, that is to say, confine him in the interior, or send him to Algeria, or exile him. An appeal which aims at relieving him from these grave consequences of a condemnation is what the Tunes calls an agitation without object.' The English journal evidently speaks of it quite at its case, and understands nothing either of the French judicial procedure or legislation." SARDINIA. The Independance of Brussels, which had stated that the Sardinian Government had issued a cir cular on the subject of the rumoured war with Austria, now declares that no circular had been sent, but that several European Courts, moved by the projects ascribed to the Piedmontese Govern ment, requested explanations from it, and that the verbal replies given by Count de Cavour were in the spirit ascribed to the circular, reassuring as to the intentions of Piedmont, but less satisfactory as regards the state of public opinion in Italy and the eventualities of the future. The Piedmontese Gazette publishes the reply of Count de Cavour to the address presented to him by the merchants of Genoa. In this reply the President of the Council thanks the mercantile com munity for their friendly sentiments, and promises that the further reforms alluded to in the address shall receive his careful consideration and firm sup port within reasonable limits. A letter from Lombardy, in the Opinione of Turin, states that on the night of the Bth the sentinel Stationed at the Military Forage Ma gazine at Pavia, perceiving a flickering light at some distance, went to the spot, and found that an attempt had been made to set fire to one of the doors of the depot, by laying on oil of turpentine with a brush and then applying lucifer-matches. The flame which had begun to rise was easily put out, but the culprits were nowhere to be found. During the same night, the letter states that sever ral Austrian soldiers were pelted with stones by an unseen hand in passing through a lonely street. A telegraphic despatch from Malta, dated the 14th, received at Marseilles, states that the steamer Tamise, from Alexandria, had sustained some slight injury to her machinery in the port of Alexan dretta, and that consequently her arrival at Mar seilles would be somewhat delayed. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. The Grand Duke Constantine will reach Paris on Sunday or Monday 'n ex t . His Imperial High ness was expected earlier ; but as the health of the Dowager Empress has slightly improved he will probably proceed with less rapidity towards St. Petersburg then originally intended. The Grand Duke travels Incognito under the name of Admiral Itomanoff. It is stated in some of the journals that the Government intends to propose in the budget to be submitted to the Legislative body that the indem nity to deputies shall not be a certain sum per month according to the length of the sessions, as heretofore, but 40,000 fr. a year, which is what the deputies under the first empire were paid. Several of the Paris journals publish articles on the speech delivered by Mr. Bright at Manchester, and give a running commentary •on the various topics of Parliamentary reform touched on by that gentleman in his address ; but, generally speaking, the remarks are but a repetition, in different terms, of the opinions which they had expressed when that gentleman maaehis first appearance this season at Birmingham. The Univers seems to think that the opinions of Mr. Bright, advanced as they are, will in the end be far outpassed by the general body of reformers, for the reason that England is becoming each year more and more democratical. The Presse considers that the House of Lords must yield, to a certain extent, if they wish to avoid the danger which is impending. The price of bread for the second fortnight of the present month remains fixed at 32c. the 21b. loaf, first quality. Light snow fell for upwards of an hour yester day morning in Paris, but melted as it came down. BOURSE, Dee. 16.---The tone of tke market has been somewhat better, owing to a report that the Board of Directors of the Bank of France would debate to-day on the proposition to reduce the rate of discount to 21 per cent. The settlement of shares has passed off easily, but prices continued heavy. Threes have been done at 73f. 5c., and arc now at 73f. 20c. ; Alobilier varied from 907 f. 50e. to 975 f. ; Orleans, 1,390 f. to 1,395 f. ; Lyons, 876 f. 25e. to 880 f, ; Southern, 580 f. to 582 f. 50c. ; and Northern, 995 f. to 997 f. 50c. The following ,are the last quotations 41 per Cents. .... 97 Do. end month. 3 per Cents. 73 1.5 Do. end month 73 30 Bank Shares. 3050 Credit Mobilier 9BO Do. Account' 9Bl 25 Credit Fonder Belgian 41 . Piedmonteso (5) Roman 93 Austrian Spanish Threes 48 Home Debt 43 75 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . lOOO .. 1002 50 New ditto — 840 Lyons and. Mediterranean BBO 880 New ditto Geneva Midi Southern Western 6lO 607 50 Eastern Grand Central — Sardinian 4lO .. 415 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money, 25f. 10c. ; three months, paper, 241. 971 c. ; money, 24f. 95c. 621. 25 PRINCE ALFRED. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. Prince Alfred landed at Gibraltar from her Majesty!s ship Euryalus on the 29th nit., amid great honours. His Royal Highness took up his residence at the Convent, where he received the principal persons in Gibraltar, who were intro duced to him by the Governor, Sir James Ferguson. In the course of the day the Prince was present at a review held in the Alameda. On the Ist inst. the Prince visited the galleries, signal-station, and St. Michael's Cave, and in the evening honoured by his presence a ball given by the Governor. On the 2d the Prince took an excursion in her Majesty's steamer Redpole round the back of the rock, beyond Catalan Bay. The Redpole after wards crossed to Algesiras, and the Prince visited the town privately. On the 3d his Royal Highness hunted with the Calpe hounds, and in the evening dined with Cap tain Warden. On the 4th, the Prince, attended by Major Cowell, and accompanied by a small party of ladies and officers of both services paid a visit to Ceuta in her Majesty's steamer Redpole. Don Manuel Gosset, the Governor of the place, accom panied his Royal Highness round the fortifica tions. Horses were then provided, and an excursion was made beyond the walls and the Moorish out posts. After returning to Gibraltar the Princ e dined with Lieut.-Colonel Hamilton and the officers of the 25th, at that garrison. The Euryalis left Gibraltar on the 6th. Crowds of soldiers from the garrison cheered the Prince on his departure. The Tangier correspondent of the Gibraltar Chronicle supplies the following part cul ars to that journal : " TANGIER, DEC. 7. " Her Majesty's - steam frigate, Euryalis, Captain Tarleton, C. 8., with his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, arrived in this bay yesterday at one p.m. Tier Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, Mr. Drummond, proceeded in a Moorish launch to the ship soon after her arrival to wait upon his Royal Highness, and was saluted by the Euryalus with 11 guns. The Prince disembarked shortly afterwards under a salute of 21 guns from the town batteries, a com pliment which was immediately returned by the ship, and was received on landing by the Moorish Minister fol. Foreign Affairs, the Governor of the town, and a numerous guard of honour. Saddled horses were also in attendance in case his Royal Highness should wish to ride into the town. Accompanied by the above escort the Prince walked up to the British Mission, where he took up his quarters for the period of his stay at Tangier. His Royal Highness, with Mr. D. Hay, Captain Tarle ton, and a large party of British officers (naval, military, and civil), called in the afternoon upon the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Governor of the town, and made a tour through the place, visiting some of the Jews' houses and bazaars. This morning the Prince rode out into the country, nu merously attended, and witnessed the manoeuvring of a large body of cavalry, under the command of the Lieutenant-Governor of the town. His Royal Highness was present a little later in the day at the marriage of a beautiful young Jewess, the daughter of one of the principal merchants in the place, and re-embarked at two p.m. in the Eury alus. which took her departure immediately after wards." TILE WA Vl'. The Government transport Enthusiast arrived 'estcrday at Woolwieh pier laden with war stores 'r©m Gibraltar. The screw steamer Tweedside, Capt. Watt, ar rived at Spithead at 7g,m, onWednesday last froth. Calcutta for Lmidon. She has been engaged in car rying troops to India, also between Madras and Calcutta. The Tweedside sailed from Gravesend with detachments in March-last for Madras, which port she reached in 73 day's, including stoppages. She proceeded to London after coaling. On entering the Humber last Saturday night, her Majesty's gunboat Sandfly ran down the brig Her mann, coal-laden, from Sunderland to London. Most of the men on board the brig were in bed, and just saved themselves by scrambling on board the gunboat in their night attire, leaving a man at the wheel, whom they afterwards saved. In about 20 minutes the brig went down with all sails stand ing. After being taken to Hull, the rescued crew, who were destitute, were forwarded to Sunderland, after being lodged and provisioned, and having some clothing given to them by Commodore D. Brown, on behalf of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Association. The naval cadets belonging toiher Majesty's train ing ship Illustrious, Capt. It. Harris, at Portsmouth, break ap to=day. They will have six weeks' holi day, and on their return will join the Britannia. Capt. H. Eyres, C. 8., is progressing favourably from his late attack. Her Majesty's troop and store paddle-vessels Rha damanthus, Mr. Sturdy in command, and Dee, Mr. Pullen, arrived yesterday morning at Portsmouth from Cork, with Government stores, which are being delivered at the Royal Clarence Yard. Her Majesty's troop-frigate Himalaya is being supplied with coal from colliers admitted into the e steam-basin at Portsmouth. Her officers and crew are berthed on board the Victorious hulk. The Eagle, coast-guard depot, at Pembroke, has received a large number of coast volunteers on her bo)ks during the past six months, the corps having become much more popular in the district, owing to the judicious management of her captain to en sure the comfort and well-being of the men while under his command. The Admiralty have algo provided accommodation for the officers. The Greyhound, 17, screw, at Pembroke, build ing.—The launch of this vessel has been postponed until March next. The London 90, at Devonport, was taken out on Wednesday and tried at the measured mile, wheri het engines gave, perfect satisfaction: MT. Dennen was in attendance. The Revenge, 91, screw, is now rapidly progress ing towards completion, at Pembroke, and will be launched at Pembroke yard early in the ensuing summer. The Dee, 4, paddle troop and store ship, Master Commander Thomas C. Pullen, arrived on Wed nesday at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and went into Portsmouth Harbour yesterday. She is freighted with stores and provisions from Cork. The Bustler, steam vessel, left Woolwich yester day, having in tow barges laden with about 100 tons of antiquities, which were landed at West minster, and conveyed to the British Museum. The Supply, steam vessel, is ordered to undergo repairs to her machinery, and will then leave Woolwich, for Boudroun, Asia Minor, to receive a similar cargo. The Rifleman, steam vessel, having undergone repairs in the basin at Woolwich, will be removed to No. 2 dock to-day for completion, and be brought forward for service. We understand an application has been made to the Admiralty to make the distance between the Breakwater and the Eddystone Lighthouse the line and distance of trial of steam ships at this port. The present measured mile, running parallel with the Breakwater, is neither considered a sufficient distance for a fair trial, nor is it considered safe, as there is not sufficient space to round a ship with trial speed on her without a risk of touching the shoals.—Plymouth Mail. DOCKYARD PENSIONS.—The following important Admiralty order, relative to the pensions to be granted to first-class dockyard labourers, was yes terday posted at Woolwich Dockyard, by direction of the admiral superintendent :—I have to make known to all concerned that their lordships have been pleased to notify to me that leading men of labourers, single-stationed labourers, labourers at machines, and labourers employed with skilled mechanics, who are selected from the ordinary labourers, and who are permanently in receipt of a higher rate of pay than that granted to ordinary labourers, are to be allowed pensions, although entered since the year 1833.—Signed, JOHN SHEP HERD, Rear Admiral Superintendent, Dec. 16, 1858." This order, which will take effect in the whole of her Majesty's naval establiqhments, has given the, utmost satisfaction, and will prove a great boon to a large and deserving body of men. The following . appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty : Assistant-Paymasters—Henry J. Ray and John Evans to the Royal Albert. Master's-Assistant—Alfred Thomas to the Liffy. THE AR11.1.17. THE STAFF COLLEGE. The following General Order was issued yester day : " Horse Guards, S.W., Dec. 6. " The subjoined list of successful candidates for admission to the College Staff on the Ist of Feb ruary, 1859, with the number of marks gained by each, and the examination numbers of those who were successful, are published with reference to the last paragraph of the general order, dated 3d of June, 1858 : LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANK. An adjourned meeting of the shareholders of the Liverpool Borough Bank was held at the Banking house, Water-street, Liverpool, yesterday afternoon. At the original meeting on Thursday (last week), the liquidators submitted a report and statement of accounts, showing the progress which has been made in the winding up of the affairs of the bank; and a sub-committee of five gentlemen was then appointed to inquire into the accounts so submitted, and to decide what steps should be taken in refer ence to them. That sub-committee drew up a series of questions which it was resolved should be put to the liquidators at the adjourned meeting yesterday. A copy of the questions proposed to be asked had been forwarded to the liquidators, in order that they might be prepared with answers. The chair was occupied by Mr. Joshua Dixon. The CHAIRMAN said,—The first question was as to the good debts, property, &c. " Mr. Banner's statement of Oct., 1857, exhibited goods, £758,000; of this there appears to have been collected £516,678, and further expected £147,000, making ix all, £664,000, leaving a balance of £941,000 apparent loss on this account. Is this a correct view to take of it or not ?" Mr. BANNER, accountant—That view of it is' not correct—(hear, hear)—and this is the explanation of it. If the account of February is referred to, it will be found that £81,867 is put down for letters of credit. In the present account you find the apparent loss on the account to be £94,000, which is reducible by £40,000 letters of credit. Besides that, we have in hand bills of exchange, which are not used, and we have also in hand £193,000 ; and there will, belonging to credit and calls, pass to credit, when received, £48,821, making £89,000 against the £94,000. _ _ _ - Mr. BLYTHE—As to £49,000 of bills not yet re ceived, I think there is some doubt about this. Mr. BANNER—I don't suppose so, The CHAIRMAN—Your nest question, Mr. Blythe, is—" Doubtful and bad debts." In Mr. Banner's statement of the 27th of October, 1857, this item was thus represented :—£987,956, estimated then to produce £361,842 ; received on account of this to date; £90,410, and further estimated to produce £172,109, making a total of £262,520, showing an apparent loss on this account of £99,322 ; " w anted some information as to how this loss has arisen— whether from depreciation in property, debts, or what. cause ?" Mr. BLYTHE—I simply wish for the explanation. I want to knoiv how it has arisen. I see you esti mated the formidable amount to produce £360,000, but it has only produced £260,000, which makes an additional loss of £lOO,OOO. Weare £89,000 worse than we were twelve months ago, bad as we were then, even upon the last account. Mr. BANNER—£IO,276 is applicable to that ac count, leaving the loss as you state. The CHAIRMAN—The next question is, "Doubtful of bad debts for calls, £96,355—a list of these re quired." The chairman referred to the unadvis ableness of submitting such a list in the presence of the reporters, as such' a course was likely to be prejudicial to the interests of the bank, as the list included many names from which something was still expected. After a lengthy discussion the list was read. Another request by the shareholders was for permission to employ an accountant to examine the books belonging to the bank respecting any period that might be thought necessary. 'Pith this request the chairman stated the liquidators had not the power of complying without an order from the Court of Chancery. After some further questions had been asked, the shareholders appointed a sub•committee to confer with the liquidators from time to, time, and the proceedings terminated. t 71 • Rank and Name. Corps, Station. .3 1 " Remarks. Lieut. R. Grant RI. Engnrs. Jamaica. 10 2226 Passed. Capt.W. C.Nangle RL Artllery Home 16 1802 Do. Lieut. and Adjut. .R. C. Goff 50th Reg - t... Ceylon... 40 1589 Do. Lieut. A. ll.Wavel 41st Regt.... Jamaica. 5 1495 Do. { Cpt. H. Wilkinson tat Bat. Home .. 23 1445 Do. 9th Ft. (Qualified, but there is no va- Lieut. J. B. King. Rl. Artilery Malta .. 2 1317 cancy for a-3d offi cer of the • Ord. Cor. Capt.lLF.Morgan 28th Reg,t... Malta .. 1 1230 Passed. Capt. A. S. Jones, V.O lBthH'ssars Home .. 14 1197 Do. Cpt. E. M. Pal liser Mltry. Train Home . . 17 1013 Do. Capt. It. B. Stokes 54th Reg,t Bengal.. 1 845 Do. W. Ids. 1 521 Fled in mat E. Inds. 1A 515 Do. Home .. 19 299 Do. ADMITTED is SUPERNUMERARY BY SPECI. Lieut. IL Taylor ILMarines I Home 120 AL AUTHORITY 756 I Qualified. " The examination, which was conducted by the Council of Military Education, comprised mathe matics, military history, fortificatim, military drawing, French, German, chemistry, and geology. It was obligatory on every candidate to gain at least 300 marks in mathematics and 75 marks in French. " By command of his Royal Highness, " The General Commanding in Chief, " G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General." The proceedings and finding of the general court-martial which assembled at Chatham garrison on the 20th of Nov. last, under the presidency of Lieut.-Colonel C. E. Fairtlough, for the trial of the traitor Thomas Tole, a private in the Ist battalion 7th Roy al Fusileers, who when serving with his _regiment before Sebastopol basely deserted to the Russian enemy having been approved and confirmed by his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, orders were yesterday issued at Chatham for a general parade of the whole of the troops, coin• prising the first battalion of infantry, for the pur pose of hearing the sentence of the Court read. The entire battalion was formed on the parade ground at 10 o'clock yesterday- morning, under the command of Major H. D. Ellis, and, the depots having been arranged in close column, the prisoner was marched to the front of the battalion. The pri soner deserted to the Russians in the month of Jan. 1855, and it was doubtless the information he then gave which led to a general attack on the English lines shortly after. At the temination of the war the prisoner, being afraid to return to England, re mained at .St. Petersburg until last year, when he was sent home by Lord Wodehouse, and was shortly afterwards apprehended in Manchester and charged with being a deserter. Owing, however, to the difficulty of proving that he was a deserter lie was released, but further proof having afterwards been obtained he was again arrested and brought to trial. The proceedings of the Court were read to the battalion by Captain Sidebottom, the adjutant. The Court found the prisoner guilty and sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for life. After the sentence had been read the prisoner was removed in charge of a strong escort, and will be sent to the convict establishment at Millbank. Yesterday the East India troopship Bloomer, $9O tons, Captain C. F. Smith, embarked the following officers and reinforcements for Bombay and Kurra chee, from Custom-house-quay, Gravesend, viz.:— Captain S. T. Ling, 2d (the Queen's) Dragoon Guards ; Lie,ut. William S. C. Pinwill, 27th En niskillens ; Ensign Henry W. L. Paddon, Ist batt. 7th Royal Fusiliers ; and Ensign C. Rochfort, 81st Regt., with the following troops, the whole of whom proceed to Kurrachee :-32 men of the 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards, 1 man of the 70th Regt., and 16 men of the 98th, from Canter bury; 18 men of the 81st and 20 men of the 94th, from Chatham; and 28 men of the 27th Enniskillen s and 11 men of the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers; from Buttevant. ' The following proceed to Bombay : Lieut. W. C. E. Scott, 51st Light Infantry ; Cornet W. A. Atcherley and Cornet H. R. Abadie, 14th Light Dragoons ; Ensign J. Y. Allan, 71st gh landers, and the following non-commissioned officers and men :-12 men of the 14th Light Dragoons, from Maidstone; . 32 men of the Bth Hussars and 32 men of the 17th Laneds, Nth eanteklitity ; 32 men of the 56th Regt., froM Colchester ; 20 ;Oh 71st (Highlanders). from Stirling ; 16 men of tiid 89th and 14 men of the 95th, from Fermov ; and 15 men of the 57th, from Cork. The above draughts complete the number of reinforcements held in readiness to proceed to India. . Col. E. Wilmot, R.A., Superintendent of the Royal Gun Factories, Woolwich Arsenal, yesterday gave an interesting lecture, in the Artillery school room, at Woolwich, to a crowded assembly of offi cers, non-commissioned officers, and gunners of the Royal Artillery, on the manufacture of ordnance, as carried on in the Royal Arsenal gun factories. The lecture was the second of a series commenced a short time ago by Col. Wilford, R.A., Governor of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. The lecturer entered into a minute description of the va rious phases of the art of gun-making, and addressed his discourse mainly to the non-commissioned offi cers and privates, taking peculiar pains to elucidate his remarks by the most intelligible matter-of-fact details suitable to the understanding of each of his hearers, referring principally to the casting and turning out of brass guns alone. He enlarged his dis course considerably by an historical reference to the ancient custom of casting in bronze, and illustrated his remarks by constant allusions to various sketches nailed to the walls of the room, which afforded his hearers great facility in understanding the matter before them. The lecturer took the opportunity of introducing several specimens of the rude weapons used in ancient warfare, such as spears, bows, breast plates, &c. The colonel then explained to his audi ence the nature and composition of gun metal, the various chemical and other tests employed to ana lyse its character, &c., and remarked that as the knowledge of gun-casting had hitherto been, as it were, " a sealed book" to the professional soldier, his endeavours to elucidate the matter could not be • considered a task of supererogation. The informa tion; he said, was of importance ; and he was happy in being able to edify them ona subject with which it was the duty of the Artillery soldier to be made acquainted.' He then gave a concise detail of the present method of moulding and casting guns, so manifestly superior to the old system, and preyed, with the assistance of a number of diagrams laid out for the purpose, that the science brought to lkar now-a-day will be the means of an immense saving to the country both of time and money. The lecturer remarked with reference to the rifled cannon that if a rifle can be constructed so as to fire from a man's shoulder a similar weapon can be made, of larger dimensions and calibre, and with equal utility fitted to a carriage. The colonel con cluded his lecture by many interesting remarks on the mode of working the present factories, the boring and finishing the guns, and passed a high encomium on the former scientific officers in charge of the proof department. He stated that the use ful records left by them were in a great measure the means of the growing success of the establish ment, which he hoped, by the perseverance of all concerned in it, would eventually prove to be worthy.. of the name of this great nation. After a few en couraging remarks specially intended for the young soldier, the audience withdrew. A number of the non-commissioned officers and gunners ap proached the tables on which were deposited the various models, specimens, &c., on which the colonel entered into'a courteous conversation explanatory of the different items of ancient warfare on which they expressed a desire to be further enlightened. The War Department yesterday chartered the transport Eleanor for the conveyance of military stores from Woolwich to the Isle of Ascension, and the Chebueto for Jamaica. Major-General Sir W.F. Williams, Commandant of Woolwich Garrison, has returned to Woolwich from Nova Scotia. PRESIDENT BUCHANAN UPON THE FREEDOM OF THE UNITED STATES. At the centennial celebration of the occupancy of Forts Duquesne and Pitt, held at Pittsburg on the 25th of November last, among the letters of excuse for non-attendance was the following from the President of the United States. Having regard to the present unsettled state of the country, the opinions expressed by Mr. Buchanan possess a peculiar importance : " Washington, Nov. 22. " Gentlemen,—l have had the honour to receive your invitation to be present on the 25th inst., at the centennial anniversary of the capture of Fort Duquesne, and I regret that the pressure of public affairs, at a period so near the meeting of Congress, renders it impossible that I should enjoy this privi lege. " Every patriot must rejoice while reflecting uppn the unparalleled progress of our country within the last century. What was at its com mencement an obscure fort, far beyond the western frontier of civilisation, has now become the centre of a populous commercial and manufacturing city, sending its productions to large and prosperous sovereign States still further west, whose tcrritories were then a vast, unexplored, and silent wilder ness. " From the standing point at which we have arrived the anxious patriot cannot fail, while reviewing the past, to cast a glance into the future, and to speculate upon what may be the condition of our beloved country when your posterity shall assemble to celebrate the second centennial anniversary of the capture of Port Duquesne. Shall our whole country then compose one united nation, more populous, powerful, and free than ony other which has ever existed? Or will the federacy have been rent asunder, and divided into groups of hostile and jealous States? Or may it not be possible that ere the next celebra tion all the fragments, exhausted by intermediate conflicts with each other, may have finally reunited, and sought refuge under the shelter of one great and overshadowing despotism ? " These questions will, I firmly believe, under the providence of God, be virtually decided by the present generation. We have reached a crisis when upon their action depends the preservation of the Union according to the letter and spirit of the con stitution, and this once gone all is lost. " I regret to say that the present omens are far from propitious. In the last age of the republic it was considered almost treasonable to pronounce the word disunion.' Times have since,sadly changed, and now disunion is freely prescribed as the remedy for evanescent evils, real or imaginary , which, if left to themselves, would speedily vanish away in the progress of events. " Our revolutionary fathers have passed away', and the generation next after them, who were inspired by their personal counsel and example , have nearly all disappeared. The present genera tion, deprived of these lights, must, whether they . will or not, decide the fate of their posterity. Let them cherish the Union in their heart of hearts —let them resist every measure which may tend to relax or dissolve its bonds—let the citizens of different States cultivate feelings of kindess and forbearance towards each other—and let all resolve to transmit it to their descendants in the form and spirit they have inherited from their forefathers , and all will then be well for our country in future time. • " I shall assume the privilege of advancing years in reference to another growing and dangerous evil. In the last age, although our fathers, like ourselves, were divided into political parties which often had severe conflicts with each other, yet We we never heard until within a recent period of the emplyment of money to carry elections. Should this practice increase until the voters and their representatives in the State and national Legisla tures shall become infected, the fountain of free, government will then be poisoned a t it s source , and we must end, as history proves, in a military' despotism. A democratic republic, all agree, cannot long survive unless sustained by' public virtue. When this is corrupted and the people become venal, there is a canker at the root of the tree of liberty which will cause it to wither and die. Praying Almighty God that your remote pos . terity may continue century after century, for age° yet to come, to celebrate the anniversary of the capture of Fort Duquesne in peace and pros perity, under the protecting banner of the con stitution and the Union,—l remain, very respect fully, your friend, " JAMES BUCHANAN." ESCAPED FROM THE ICE.—The fine steame r Edinburgh, which sailed a short time ago from Leith, 'O 5 frozen in at Cronstadt. It was feared that she would I main in that position for some months, and it was p r opose° , rather than bring the crew home, to place them on half pay. The intelligence, however, has just arrived by tele' graph that the ice has been broken up by a sudden than' , and that the Edinburgh last Sunday morning was once more on her way to the port of Leith. WESTERN BANK OF SCOTLAND.—AII the judgl °lithe Court of Session, except Lord Murray, have decide that the decree sought by the liquidators of the Wester: Bank of Scotland against the' contribut or i es wh o have rt paid the late call of £lOO per share ought to be g rant without notice to the parties, and on the ex parte statement of the liquidators ; further that the minute of the 4th °f October, 1858, of the liquid a to rs , s t a ti ng the a ssets and lift' bilities of the bank, and intimated to all the shareholderis prima facie evidence that a dccreo for the call would just and 'beneficial, and that it will be competent to each: individual contributory to suspend the decree, and raise 0 question of his special liability ,by suspension. ro . bur more Colon; varied ext ren Sugar been good and and in has at a sligi fiv e , a been d In I ave ral Prices sales a Mark ( down, Th e 'West Part c Loan. As 111 the viz., bills, At th negoti which Bank, acco m th e rn ent to the l'equir of the Ai Paris bit= Po: ''ally 6 per ciis. 12 t ste a d r ema: 44} t Defer Th have ult. Cabe ti ng . print rover it is teres 275,( calm: cont] debt Is t] tni.l n o . . 1 11a' Ken 11Iar Ras Dc Pa ID( I