The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-28 00:00:00

A greased cartridge, we all know, was the plea for the Sepoy Revolt throughout the Bengal Pre sidency. A pig—nefariously killed, like that cele brated animal in the nursery legend of which Tom the Piper's son is the felonious and blatant hero positively, and literally, A Piq originally gave rise to that San Juan Difficulty which not many months since seriously threatened to provoke a disastrous collision between the British and American Govern ments. A veritable grunter belonging to a British sub ject out in those regions having been wantonly killed by an American citizen, there was under stood (among some of the countrymen of the lat ter) to be an intention on the part of our authori ties to summarily abduct the offender. Hine ill lachrynce! The blood of HARNEY was " up" at the rumour. His chivalrous soul was fired with in dignation. Tantance animus ecelestibus irc ! Captain PICKETT'S company of fifty American sol diers was suddenly landed—in obedience to the orders of General HARNEY—in obedience to hiE orders individually, for no authority whatever for any such proceedings had been received from the Government at Washington. It was an illegal act --an act resulting from one man's petulance—an act perpetrated wholly and entirely on his•own per sonal responsibility. How the original offence of this lawless and unjustifiable occup ttion of Sa n Juan by the fifty troopers under Captain PICKETT, was enhanced very soon afterwards by the pouring in of other bands of American soldiery, by the military occupation, in fact, of the whole of the disputed territory, by the building of fortifications and the encouragement given to American squatters in the name, and on behalf of the United States' Confederation, we have known full well long since, not only on the eastern borders of the Pacific, but upon both sides of the Atlantic likewise. Remon strances, correspondence, negotiations followed in due succession. And after a good deal of angry feeling had been excited upon both sides, the mis understanding, if not definitively settled (which certainly, in honest truth, it must be acknowledged. as yet, it is not by any means), is at least in a fair way to be brought to something like a satisfactory settlement. Already it has been now some time brought to the knowledge of people • in this country that the American Government (having indeed before it but a very feeble alternative) found itself con strained in a manner (it matters little to us how unwillingly) to repudiate General HAItNEY'S illegal, unjustifiable, and wholly unauthorised proceedings. To that end, indeed, General HARNEY was some time since replaced in the command of the American troops in Oregon and Washington Territory by General SCOTT, who we now hear has promptly taken occasion to evidence his readiness to enter upon a course of conciliation and reconcilement. Having offered to Governor _DOUGLASS (as the American proposition for the solution of the San Juan Diffi culty) a joint military occupation of the island—a proposal at once rejected by his Excellency—Gen. SCOTT in his own turn declined to accede to the Englioh proposition—the one emulating from the Governor of British Columbia, namely, in lieu of a joint military, a joint civil occupation of the dis puted territory ! The result of all this parleying (of this proposition and counter-proposition) being, that Gen. SCOTT has resolved upon the removal at once from San Juan—of all the American troops and artillery ? Alas, no—but, if not that, at least of all, saving and excepting only Capt. PICKETT'S little company of fifty soldiers, the original occupiers or invaders of San Juan. So the affair rests—until the matter can be brought to a definitive, and we will hope a mu tually satisfactory settlement. All the other eom panies are ordered away from the island, back to their former quarters on Oregon and Washington Territory. Captain PICKETT and his fifty men alone remain. It is in wretched bad taste—having conceded so much—that the American Government still in sists upon the continuance there of that company of half a hundred. Besides which, the admission on their own part of the other concessions, amounts virtually to an acknowledgment of the illegality and indecorum of Captain PICKETT'S presence there with his fifty followers. Against this persistent occupation of San Juan our rulers ought assuredly to protest, insisting peremptorily upon the restora tion of the status quo ante—happily we cannot say the War, but at any rate this very serious, and at one time very threatening Difficulty. During this lawless occupation of San Juan by the Americans, it appears that while the Republi can officers there have displayed at all times the utmost amenity in their demeanour, behaving, indeed, from first to last, in a manner, we are told, than which " nothing could be more correct, officer like, and gentlemanly"—others of the United States authorities have been guilty of outrages in regard to British subjects, outrages of the grossest and most wanton description. " For instance," writes the Times' correspondent, from Victoria, under date the 10th ult., " they arrested, fined, and imprisoned a British subject for selling a few bottles of spirits on the island, and only liberated him after he was mulcted in some of the dollars found in the poor fellow's pocket, and of which he was eased. Again, some American, usurping the authority of collector of Customs, seized the baggage of Major DE COURCY, the English stipendiary magistrate resident on the island, on occasion of his return from a trip on offi cial business to Victoria the other day, and the bag gage was only restored at the instance of Captain PREVOST, in command of her Majesty's ship Satellite, stationed off the island. Both these outrages were perpetrated under colour of the exclusive sove reignty assumed on the first landing of the Ameri can forces, which it is pretended justified the ex tension of the United States' revenue laws to San Juan." Certainly, as the correspondent adds— " Considering that General HARNEY admitted his proceedings were taken on his own responsibility, and without authority from the United States' Government, the commission of such acts as these, pending the receipt of advices from Washington, could only have been prompted by wantonness, or as a direct insult, or on purpose to provoke a national quarrel." In spite of alI which systematic and insolent provocations, the peace has, without any derogation from their per sonal dignity, or any deprivation of national honour, been nobly and magnanimously pre served by the English authorities out there from Governor DoUGLASS downwards. It is a fact—that —which we think redounds to their credit singu larly and signally under the circumstances—doing so all the more because in no one particular has the original offence, almost we might say crime, per petrated by General HARNEY, been in any respect, even by implication, condoned by her Britannic MAJESTY'S representative. Never has any power met with more just and appropriate retribution than Austria. She has been perfidious—perjured is the fitter word—beyond all precedent, in Hungary, and combined atrocious cruelty with the perjury, and now, in the hour of her distress, Hungary, which might have been her strength, is tho cause of her weakness. She ob tained power to perpetrate the butcheries of Arad, and to abrogate a constitution older in its essentials than her own, by the arms of Russia : and now Russia herself flouts Austria with being behind her time, with " having forgotten nothing and learned nothing," and with being quite unaware that " humanity has made great progress since 181 i." Russia, a parvenu in the family of European civili sation, is actually lecturing Austria on being be hind her day ! And with good right too ; for Russia, we must confess, if behind Western Europe, is making progress. It would be most ungenerous to withhold from her Government the highest prise for its firmness in pressing the emancipation of the serfs. The resistance made by their proprietors is the measure, at once, of the difficulty of the task; of the firmness of the Government ; and of its enlightened perception of the value to the nation at large of free as compared with serf labour. We must judge nations and individuals, not by their absolute condition, but by their enlightened attempts to improve it, and thus judged, Russia is far ahead of Austria. Russia extends liberty, Austria represses it ; and the former thus stands forward fairly as the preceptress of the latter. In thus schooling the stupid unteachable Haps burgs, Russia is but repaying the utterly con temptible conduct of Austria in the Crimean War. Her dastardly and selfish measures then can never be forgotten. She might have said that her obli gations to Russia were such that she must in grati tude take her part; or, she might have told Russia that gratitude itself compelled her to warn that Power that her proceedings in Turkey were such an infringement of the rights of independent states that she•must remonstrate and side with the Allies if Russia went to war ; which course would pre bably have saved NICHOLAS and Europe this heavy calamity. She did neither. She hoped,--she actually attempted, so far as in her lay—to pilfer a portion of the Principalities for herself ! She sent her plundering, robbing, bullying, soldiers thither, to march on if the Russians retreated, to march back, if the Russians turned towards them ; and to stick in the provinces as long as they could ; which was, till all parties told her that if she did not take her brigands out of the Principalities, they would make her: This detestably mean and selfish Power now finds that instead of gaining territory there, she. has gained the undying contempt and hatred of her great neighbour. Sardinia, again, she has hated with the bitterest hatred, because that state mirrored to all Italy the hideousness of Austrian rule south of the Alps; and because, to gain an European status on behalf of Italy, she took part in the Crimean War•—a part so much more manly and noble, that Russia has shown her sense of it, by her friendship ever since. But the great offence was, that Sardinia proved what the Italians were capable of. Count CAVOUR, though quite a conservative, is a Conservative of the English school, one who prizes constitutional liberty quite as much as the hottest Radical whom he resists. And that able Minister, enjoying the full confidence of a brave and patriotic monarch, showed to all Europe that Austrian dungeons, and bastinadoing, and scaffolds were not necessary to the good government of Italy. Austria gnashed her teeth at political up rightness in vain. All Italy and all the world saw that Austria was gratuitously brutal; no sentiment has become more general and deeper from year to year than that Austria was the curse of Italy. And there she now lies—trembling before this smaller and hated Power. Her armies, left to themselves, could have crushed Sardinia by mere weight of numbers; but an equal—a superior, as it proved—threw his armies into the Sardinian scale, and Austria kicked the beam, and kicks it yet. May she never come down again ! Her bitter spite would not know Sardinia at Villafranca and at Zurich ; but now she has to go into a Congress in which the despised Sardinia will have more weight than her representatives and those of her ejected lieute nants together. But it is Hungary which really paralyses her more than all. Had she not made peace at Villa franca, an Hungarian army, enlisted and drilled in Italy, would soon have been on the borders of their fatherland, and the whole of the largest and most powerful, and most oppressed of the Austrian nationalities would have been in a blaze, which, this time, Russia would assuredly not have helped her to extinguish. FRANCIS JOSEPH, at Verona, feared the Hungarians more than the Frenchmen. He saw that he must propitiate the kingdom of which to this day he is not legally King. The kingdom whose constitution he abolished by force of arms, not by law; and which he has vainly endeavoured to amalgamate by the STADION process of centralisa tion. Hungary refuses to be centralised from Vienna. Hungary says, and says justly, We are a treater, older, more energetic kingdom than the petty German archduchy of the —TT ArsnußGs. They might have been our constitutional kings had they pleased ; since they have refused that—since their whole treatment of us is nothing but a violation of all treaties, and of national independence, and of order, we have nothing for it but to resist. Hence the present situation of things in Hun gary. Blinded by the confidence of Jesuits and centralising statesmen, in their own cunning, the now famous patent was issued to conciliate the Protestants. To efface the national character of the Protestant Church the old synodal divisions were changed, and sly clauses introduced which might have made a Jesuit at Vienna master of the Protestant Church in Hungary. The trap was soon detected—the bait of apparent liberty ridi culed. The Constitution as it stood in 1848 was demanded—the people and clergy, notwithstanding all the efforts of Government, met in their old districts, and threats and violence were all in vain. The Hungarian Roman Catholics—men who knew of no Catholicism adverse to liberty—boldly took the part of the Protestants and demanded their old rights for their neighbours ; and now we read that Austria is in such fear that she not only shrinks from the wholesale arrests and persecutions she had threatened, but has been obliged to liberate those whom she had actually arrested. The Hungarians, counselled do4tless by KOSSUTH, have determined, as they are now situated, to try passive resistance to the uttermost. They cannot do better. Their cause will advocate itself before Europe if they resolutely hold it up to the world as quietly and persistently as Central' Italy has done. What if, in gratitude for Austria's favours in the Crimean war, ALEXANDER should become the NAPOLEON of Hungary ! Mr. Charles Godfrey, jan., son of Mr. Godfrey, of the Coldstream Guards, has been appointed band master of the Scots Fusilier Guards. Marshal the Duke of Malakoff hae boon visiting the Duke and Duchess of Wellington and the Marchioness of Ely during the past week. The Marshal returns to Paris to-day. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough and family are passing the winter at the Bedford Hotel, Brighton. Sir G. C. Lewis returned to London yesterday, from a visit to the Earl of Clarendon, at his seat, the Grove, Watford. The Right Hon. Edward BouTerie, M.P., has arrived in town from the Earl of Radnor's, in Wiltshire. Mrs. Lane Fox has left the St. George's Hotel for Buckhurst-park, Sussex, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Delawarr. TIIE INDIAN MAlL.—Another of the inconve niences irrationally inflicted from the total want of general understanding whenever a public holiday is agreed upon was furnished yesterday in connection with the outgoing India mail via Marseilles. Although the mail was post poned till this evening, notice of the fact was not given until it was too late for the employes in the principal Indian establishments to change their arrangements and avail themselves of the opportunity of leaving London. The settlement in the debentures of the East Indian Railway Company's Five per Cent. Loan of £1,600,000 is fixed for Monday, and they are to be officially quoted. LAUNCH OF THE DOVER MAIL PACKET THE JOHN PENN.-Yesterday afternoon a now steam packet for the Dover mail service, designed by Mr. Ash, was launched from the yard of the Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding Company, Orchard-yard, Blackwell. Her dimensions are —Length, 170 feet; breadth, 20 feet; depth, 11 feet; ton nage, 340. She was named on the slip by Mrs. Penn, wife of the celebrated engineer; and as she floated into the water she was acknowledged by sli present to be a most beautiful model of naval architecture. She has been named the John Penn in honour of the firm who supply the engines —nomi nally to be of 120 horses, but constructed to work up to a very high effective power. From her appearance and the well-known high character of builders and engineers, it is anticipated that, as a seagoing steam-packet, she will be superior in every respect to anything that has yet appeared on the Dover station. TIIE RIGHT OF MASTERS OF VESSELS.—A special report has been printed of a trial at Liverpool on the 9th inst. involving a question as to the right of masters of vessels to retain commissions, gratuities, or passage money. Mr. Benson, captain of the ship Pomona, had retained on his return from Calcutta certain sums which had been handed to him by persons at that port whom he had employed to execute work upon the vessel, and which he had received as commissions or gratuities. He was also charged with having appropriated to his own use two sums respectively of £1.5 and £45, received from passengers. A verdict of acquittal as regards embezzlement was rendered in each ,case, but it is important to observe that the bench and the jury concurred in expressing distinct condemnation of the course that had been pursued, and a hope that the disclosures made would operate as a warning. Whether they used the term gratuities or presents, or discounts," observed the Deputy Recorder, "nothing could be more monstrous that; that a captain, who had under his charge his employer's interest, should take money from the tradesmen with whom ho made bargains, and over whose conduct he was the only person who really exercised any control." At the close of the case the Court advised Captain Benson to account to his owners for the money which was defaulting, intimating that, although he had been acquitted on the criminal action, it was still open to them to take such civil proceedings as they might think fit, HORRIBLE MURDER NEAR NOTTINGHAM.-A shocking murder was perpetrated on Monday eyening, the 26th inst., at New Lenton, a village about one mile from Nottingham. Tho facts of the case are these :—About 11 o'clock en the evening in question two men, named Herbert and Alfred Slack (brothers), were proceeding across the park which leads from Nottingham to Lenton, when they overtook two other persons, named Goo. Clark and Wni. Weston, who were going in the same direction. Shortly after Herbert Slack commenced annoying Weston, and then as saulted him. The affair between them, however, was made upon Slack promising Ito give him a half-sovereign. About 10 minutes afterwards the whole party arrived at Lenton. The two brothers then whispered to each other, and the younger Slack went to his brother's house, a short distance off, and in a few minutes returned with a dagger stick. Clark, not liking to see his comrade unfairly used, inter fered in his behalf, when the elder Slack immediately seized the dagger, saying, " I'll do for you!" and stabbed Clark in the neck. The weapon severed the windpipe and entered the body five or six inches. Tho unfortunate man ex claimed " I'm done !" fell to the ground, and almost in stantaneously expired. Information was given to the police and the two Slacks were taken into custody. The mur dered man was said to be very harmless and inoffensive, and was very seldom known to quarrel with any one. He was a tanner in the employ of Messrs. Bailey and Shaw, and was universally esteemed for the propriety of his conduct. He has left a wife and four children to lament his untimely end. The elder prisoner states that he did not tell his bro ther to fetch the dagger, but a half sovereign to recompense Weston, and that wile the scuffle was going on between himself and Weston, Clark ran on to the dagger and killed himself. A coroner's inquiry was instituted on Tuesday afternoon, before Mr. Coroner Swann. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY AN ABSCONDING CLERK. —On Monday a young man, named Jhn Ferguson, attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself on board the ship Empire of Peace, at Liverpool. It appears that he was a clerk in the employ of Messrs. W. Holmes Brothers, of Manchester, and had absconded on Friday last with £370 belonging to his employers. He was traced to the above named vessel, which was bound for Australia, whither he was going as a second-class passenger. Two officers visited the vessel on Monday, when they found the young man in bed ; on being told to get up and dress himself he raised himself slightly in the bed, and, without even disturbing the bed-clothes, raised a- loaded pistol and shot himself through the left side, the ball penetrating the lower rib. He was promptly removed to the Southern Hospital, where the ball was extracted, but faint hopes are entertained of his recovery, 5 , b., . ' k t ~,,,.. ~„......4, " 1.- -- ' 4 4 41.. ' ~.' ...,E f• . ~, 1ii,.., , ~,, ,, „,te ).„.. • ,0 r THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28, 1859. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and 31r. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, VICTORINE. Messrs. Sant!ey, H. Haigh, H. Ccrri, G. Honey, Bartleman, Misses Parepa, Thirlwall, Conductor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new grand pantomime, called PUSS IN BOOTS; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden Palms. boois open at half-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Lessee. Mr..J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS. Misi" Reynolds. _ After which, the new Haymarket Comte Christmas Panto mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled Leclercqs. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Planche's popular Drama of TIIE CHILD OF THE WRECK. Maurice (her original charac ter) Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex travaganza and Pantomime, KING TIIRUSHBEARD, the LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. H. Marshall--Columbine, Miss Rosin°. Commence at T. O YAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.— Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, :Irons. 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. THIS EVENING, (Wednesday), the new drama, HOME T :t137 KS. Messrs. G. Ifelville, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews, Miss C. Lee erc,q and Mrs. Charles 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. Morning Performances on Monday, January 9, 16, and 23 - commence at two o'clock. NW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL .Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Holiday Attractions.- The Christmas Carol and the New Spectacular Extravaganza, by 11. J. Byron, Esq„ the Nymph of the Lurlyberg ; or the Knight and the Naiades. THIS EVENING, THE CHRIS rmAs CAROL. Messrs J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Paul Bedford, Stuart, Billing - ton, C. J. Smith. Romer: Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billing - ton, 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- Mice 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. ROY AL 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. THTS trENINO the performances will commence with GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C. Young. Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. Miss Wyndham and Mr. H. T. Craven. To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND JUDY. Introducing hiss Lydia Thompson and the Corps de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and the wonderful Performing Dogs, Reduced Prices--Gallery, 6d ; Pit, ls. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at hall-past six ; perform ance commences at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season. Great Attraction for the Holidays. The new bombastic hippodramatic, operatic Pantomime, abounding in comicality, called HARLEQULY TOM MOODY; or, Old Towier the Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, with songs by Miss Esther Jacobs. —Gorgeous and Dazzling mechanical transfor mation scene,. Harlequin, M. Richarde ; Pantaliion, Mr. P. Abbot, Columbine, Maddle. Mazzoni; Clown, Mr. Hilde brand ; a family of Sprites by the Elastic lncomprehensibles. Scenes in the Circleby the Star Riders of the World. Three Morning performances of the Pantomime, and Scenes in the Circle, on Monday and Saturday, Dec. 26 and 31, and Monday Jan. e, 1860, at Two o'clock each day. CANTERBUR HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY QUEEN. _ - And a Grand Se ection from Ireyerbeer's new opera of DINORAH. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. Georze godson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. C. Critchtield, and E. W. _Hackney. . . Several interesting: Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. - ROSA BON HEU R'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is °pea from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 28. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 48—highest since noon yesterday. 48—lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.70. WIND. South-Westerly ; fresh, with dull rainy weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 4h. 19m.—Afternoon, 4h. 36m. To-moßßow.-Morning, 4h. 53m.—Afternoon, sh. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENT. NG, DECEMBER 28, LATEST NE WS. The following telegrams have been re. zeived at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, DEItC. 27. Lord and Lady Cowley have received a t their country seat at Chantilly the elite of the English residents in Paris. His Lordship will return to Paris on Thursday. To-day the Princess Metternich paid her official visit to the Princess Clothilda and the Princess. Mathilde. VIENNA, DEC. 28. Accor'ding to a telegram received by Count Rechberg from Prince Metternich, Count Walewski has declared to the diplomatic corps in Paris that, as long as he remains at the head of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the pamphlot " Le Pape et le Congres " should not he considered as the pro gramme of the French Ministry. PARIS, DEC. 28. The Emperor will proceed to-morrow to Fon tainebleau, where his Majesty will stay two days. There will be a grand hunting party, and Prince Metternich is among the persons invited. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. The Iberia of the 21st inst. publishes the follow ing official bulletin from the Spanish Commander in Chief : " Heights of Serrallo, Dec. 20. " At noon I learnt that 7,000 or 8,000 Moors were visiblo on our right. I immediately mado every preparation for battle, and took my place near the redoubt Isabella 11. The enemy had occupied in great force the wooded ground in front of that re doubt and of that of Francisco d'Asis. I ordered 20 pieces of artillery to be placed in line. The grape and shells thrown into the wood struck terror into the enemy, who retreated in confusion, after great loss, Two battalions charged them at the proper moment. At the same time 1,000 cavalry and 2,000 foot sldwed themselves on our left. They were driven back by General Ros. Our loss was three officers and 48 men, more or less seriously wounded. The Moors did not attack with their usual daring ; they appear discouraged. The affair was of short duration. The troops fought admirably, as usual.' FRANCE. PARIS, DEC. 27. M. David Harmand died on Christmas-day, at Montmartre, in the 109th year of his age. He served under Louis XV. and XVI. during the Ame rican war, and made the first campaigns of the French Republic. H. Harmand retained full pos session of all his intellectual faculties to the last, moment of his life. PARIS BOURSE.—The market has been in much agitation owing to the approaching liquidation. Threes, after haviffg been done at 70f. 10c., de clined to 69f. 75c., and are now at 69f. 85c. ; Mobi her varied from 830 f. to 822 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 9301. to 925 f. ; Orleans, 1,410 to 1,405 f. ; Southern, 527 f. 50c. to 525 f. ; Austrian, 565 f. to 562 f. 50c. ; Lom bard, 571 f. 25e. to 568 f. 75c. The following were the last quotations : 4f per Cents. .... 96 25 Credit Foncier 72.5 Do. end month .. 96 49 Belgian 4} — 3 per Cents 69 75 Piedmontese (5) .. 85 50 Do. end month 69 9) Roman Bl Bank Shares 2830 Austrian — Credit Mobilier .. 820 Spanish Threes Do. Acceunt ..... 826 25 Home Debt 43 25 RAILWAYS. Cash.. Account. Orleans Northern 968 75 .. 968 75 New ditto. B6O 860 Lyons and Mediterranean 927 50 .. 930 Geneva 537 50 .. 540 Southern Western 570 .. 572 50 Eastern n.rainian 41.7 GO - Austrian Lombard Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 25f. 90.; three months, paper, 24f. 95c. ; money, 24f. 931 c. ITALY. The Milan Gazette announces that the ex-Duke of Modena has advanced with his troops towards the frontiers of his former states. Part of his army is already at Gonraga, quite a frontier town. The communal and provincial elections in Pied mont are to take place on the 7th January, those of Lombardy somewhat later, the preliminary opera tions not being yet completed. The political elec tions will not take place until February. A Turin letter says :—" The Marquis Migliorati, formerly Sardinian Chargé d'Affaires at Rome and the Hague, has re-entered the diplomatic service, which he relinquished some time since for admini strative functions in Central Italy, and has just been named Sardinian Ambassador to the Court of Sweden. The Marquis will start for Stockholm al most immediately." AUSTRIA. The Austrian press, as might be expected, is anything but pleased with the compromise proposed in the pamphlet which is the event of the day. The Ost-Deutsche Post condemns it on the ground that it is a complete abandonment of the policy which that joirn al has attributed to France since the day of Villafranca. The Post ..dmpt Gazette looks on it as a direct menace for Austria, and exclaims : " If Austria has no longer any rights in Italy, none exist anywhere for anybody." The two finance commissions at Vienna have pro posed to reduce the ordinary budget of the army to 70 millions of florins (150,000,000 fr.), which would be diminishing the effective of the land troops by one half. TURKEY. We have received Constantinople journals and letters to the 14th. The contract with the bank Itodocanachi had been definitively signed on the previous day, and the establishment was to com mence operations immediately. Its capital will be £1,000,000, with the power of issuing notes for £2,000,000, thus making £3,000,000 or 75,000,000 f. its only business is to consist in discounting bills a d negotiable securities. Another bank, composed of a number of capitalists of Galata, had also ter minated its negotiations with the Porte, but it can not commence operations until all the paper /Roney has been withdrawn, and no mea sure to obtain that result had yet been adopted. The Government has rescinded the order ft 'r seizing at the custom-house all arms of war or o f luxury, but it has , at the same time given notice thkit the importation will only be permitted to a very ,limited extent. The journals state that the weathe r in the Bosphorus and the Black Sea continued vory boisterous, and call the attention of the Government to the necessity of having signal guns fired every five minutes from the forts on either side at t imes when from the thick fogs or snowstorms the lights cannot be seen. CYPRUS. A letter from Nioosia, in the island of Cyprus, gives an account oh" a terrible inundation which recently took place there : —" On the 10th November the wev,ther became cloudy, the wind blew with violence, and the thunder and lightning were most violent. At noon the rain be gan to fall in torrests, and in a short time after the river overflowed its banks. 1 he inhabitants not having time to shut th e gates, the water rushed in with fearful impetuosity, and inundated the town. The bazaar soon hatl six feet of water in it, and to add to the misfortune the gate at the end of the town opposite to where i he water had rushed in became closed, and there being thus no outlet for the torrent nearly every house was soon filled. To wards evening the gate gave way, and the water began to gradually subside. No fewer than 47 houses and 150 shops were undermined and fell; and 4 men, 11 women, and a child perished beneath the ruins. Co ns id era bl e i n jury was d one t o th e I merchandise in the bazaar. Upwards of 100 mules also perished, and the total loss cannot be estimated at less than two millions of piastres." A Wiesbaden letter says :—" In spite of all the reports that have been spread about, I am able to assert positively that the Government of Nassau has not concluded a concordat with Rome, and has no intention of doing so. Besides, by our public law, such a convention could only be made with the reserve of the states giving their approval." The AFrbski Dnewnck states that the pacha of the fortress of Belgrade has ceased his relations with the Servian Oovernment. The pacha had demanded the extradition of a Turkish subject, which was refused by the Government of Ser via, and that circumstance caused the relations between them to be broken off. The Servian Minister of Foreign Affairs has addressed a me morial on the subject to all the foreign consuls resident at Belgrade. , " A new era," says the Independance of Brussels, "is about to dawn upon the Jews in Austria. If the information transmitted to us by our correspon dent at Vienna is correct, the Austrian Cabinet after much discussion, has decided at a late sitting, under the presidence of the Emperor, that the Jews shall henceforth be authorised to purchase real estates in any part of the empire except Gallicia. To emtitled to this new immunity, a man must be able to read and write." CENTRAL ITALY. Upon entering the Tuscan territory Commander Buoncompagni issued the following proclama tion :-- " Populations of Central Italy !—I come among you, appointed by his Royal Highness Prince Eugene of Savoy Carignan, in order to contribute to the maintenance of the laws you have established until the fate of these provinces have been defini tively settled. I come among you to assure you of the King's friendly feelings towards you, and of the affection of Piedmont. When the war was in terrupted which was to render Italy her own mis tress you, firmly attached to the idea which had inspired that great enterprise, resolved not to ac kuo•wledge any authority in those who had opposed it, and you united yourselves that your combined forces might be better able to repel any violence -which might be attempted against your rights. While the Government of Tuscany and those of the Trans-Appennine provinces, stronger now than they were, since they are now united under a single hand, preserve all the powers con ferred upon them by the Assemblies, I, ac • cording to the agreement entered into between them and the Government of the King, assume the su preme direction of the league, in order that the bonds which unite the allied provinces may be strengthened and their relations with Piedmont be come more intimate. The political bonds established between you are the symbol of the bonds of con ' cord which unite all hearts in love for Italian • independence, and which facilitate that persever ance to which King Victor Emmanuel exhorted you when he gave ear to your wishes. It is not his desire that this perseverance should be • im peded either by foreign intervention, or internal disturbances, or financial difficulties. He is at the head of a strong aid free people, indissolubly united to its King for the defence of Italy either in peace or war, and, thankful for the high proof of confidence you gave it, in declar ing that you wished to be united with it, it is ready to defend yourrights as its own. The civilised world admires what you have done in order to secure to these regions the blessings of indepen dence and liberty. He whose name will be im mortal in history for having been the first among • foreign rulers to proclaim the indubitable rights of Italy, and for having himself led the chivalrous French army to our aid, the Emperor Napoleon 111. assures you by his august word that your work, shall not be prevented by foreign violence, which formerly was wont to suffocate the germs of liberty lln Italy. The Povrcrs of Europe are about to as semble in Congress in order to deliberate on the means of settling the affairs of Italy and repairing the evil done by the treaties of 1815, which regulated the rights of Princes, but forgot that there was in Italy an Italian nation. King Victor Emmanuel will appear there by' means of his representatives to ' uphold your rights, which are those of Italy, sanc tioned by eternal justice, and consecrated by the blood of our brethren who died for our country. It is now more than ever necessary that temperate coun sels, unity of will, an unshaken constancy in your re solutions, respect to the laws and to those to whom the will of the people has intrusted the manage ment of public affairs may prove you worthy of the destinies to which you aspire, and, while averse to all imprudent acts and aggression, yet ready to repel by force whoever, either from within or from without, may attempt to destroy the poli tical edifice erected on the foundation of union, order, and liberty. My affection for these pro vinces is known to you ; I have no other ambition in coming among you but that of seconding the Italian policy of Piedmont, and of contributing to your great enterprise. I rely upon your confidence and the co-operation of your governors, who, by animating and directing your efforts, have already I deserved so well of the country, and who, by con tinuing to exercise the authority entrusted to them, will acquire further claims to its gratitude. " The Governor-General of the United Provinces of Central Italy, " Leghorn, Dcc. 21." " C. RUONCOMPAGNI. The light portion of the Australian mail is ex pected in London about the 4th January, and the heavy portion about the 12th. The tallow market yesterday was rather dull, but the rise since yesterday week amounts to ls. to Is. 6d. per cwt. This advance is in anticipation of the settlement of speculative transactions on the 31st inst. The Brighton Rail way traffic return shows this week an increase of £548, and the South Eastern an increase of £1,120. The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed Monday, the 2d January, a special settling day in the East Indian Railway Company's new Five per Cent. Deben tures for £1,600,000, which aro to be quoted in the official list. A meeting of shareholders in the Commercial Bank of London is called for the 17th January, and of shareholders in the Bank of London for the 19th January. CYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY, Mon day, December 26.—Admissions on payment, 31,008; ditto by season ticket, 3,356 ; total visitors ' '34,364. The fancy fair and entire range of amusements will be continued daily. CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY, Tues day, Dec. 27.—Admissions on payment, 10,196 ; ditto, by season tickets, 1,439. Total visitors, 11,635. FURTHER ISSUE OF ENFIELD RIFLES TO VOLUN TEER Cours.—By a circular, dated Dec. 20, 18,59, Mr. Sidney Herbert informs the lords-lieutenants of counties that her Majesty's Government have determined to issue to rifle volunteer corps, after the Ist of January next, an additional supply of long Enfield rifles (pattern 1853, to the extent of 50 per cent, on the effective strength of tho corps. This supply will raise the aggregate issue to 100 per cent. on the effective strength of the force. The commanding officers of corps should at once forward the prescribed requisitions to the War-office for such portion of the supply as they may be entitled to under the regulations. The Secretary for War hopes to be in a position in the course of next year to exchange these rifles gradually for the short Enfield, in the case of any corps which may desire it, on the understanding that the long rifles must be re turned in good condition, fair wear and tear excepted, or that the corps must pay for any damage they may have received. EMIGIATION RETURNS.—It appears from a Par liamentary return just issued, that the total number of emi grants landed at Quebec during the year 1853 was 12,810 (4,442 male adults). The emigrants included 6,441 English (cabin and steerage), 1,153 Irish, 1,424 Scotch, 922 Ger mans, and 2,656 Norwegians. The emigration of 18.58 ex hibits the large decrease of 19,287 souls. The average,per annum from 1829 till now has been ab ou t 30,000 ; the gee gate number during that period i s 913,815 souls. The total number of persons assisted to emigrate Iv'as 353-41 male adults, 246 females, and 63 children, and the amount paid among them on arrival was £286 17s. sterling. Th e num ber sent out from England was 118 persons ; 49 of whom, 21 bays and 25 girls, were ST t out by th e L on d on Refor matory Schools ; and 15 men, 20 women, and 34 children were sent out by the parishes. From Ireland there were 232 persona. LYCEUM THEATRE.—Madame Celeste, determined not to behind in catering for the amusement of her friends, the public, notwithstanding the enormoussexpense which she has incurred by the production of the vrgeous trans formation scone in the new pantomime, has, we understand, entered into an engagement, for ono week only, with two of the most talented and most celebrated Spanish dancers from the Theatre-royal, Madrid. La Senora Isabel Cubas and Don Juan Ximenes, who have lately been creating a furore at the Theatre of the Sultan at Constantinople, the Imperial Opera at Odessa, and the Operas at Milan, Turin, Vienna, and Pesth. They are now here on their way to Paris to fulfil an engagement at the Grand Opera there, and will appear to-morrow (Thursday) evening, at the Lyceum. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) QUEENSTOWN, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The Canadian mail steamship Anglo-Saxon, which sailed from Portland on the 17th instant, arrived here about midnight : and, after landing mails and passengers, proceeded for Liverpool. She brings no specie. The steam-ship Nova Scotia arrived at Portland on the 15th inst., and the Bremen, from South ampton, reached New York on the same day. Advices from Washington state that on the whole the mission of General Scott to San Juan proves satisfactory to the Government, although it has not accomplished quite all that was desired. The tem porary engagements entered into are approved by the President and Cabinet. The British autho rities are to join in the military occupation of San Juan, and each nation is to have 100 men on the island. The House of Representatives had not elected a Speaker, and tho President's Message had not, therefore, been communicated to Congress. The remainder of the prisoners in the Harper's Ferry affair were executed at Charlestown, Vir ginia, on the 16th inst. All passed off quietly, no attempt at rescue having been made. NEW YORK, DEC. 16, EVENING. The sales of cotton in this market to-day amounted to 1,600 bales, on the basis of llac. for middling uplands. Flour is dull, and sc. to 10c. per barrel lower; Canadian sells at 5 dols. to 6 dols 50e. for extra. Wheat is dull, and lc. to 2c. per bushel cheaper. Indian corn is scarce, and well supported; sales of new yellow, at 90c. to 92c. per bushel. Freights are unchanged. NEW ORLEANS, DEC. 15, EVENING. Our cotton market to-day has exhibited no change. The sales have been about 10,500 bales, at 101 c. to 11c. for middling. Indian corn has ad vanced to 90c. MOBILE, DEC. 16. The sales of cotton to-day have been small, and prices are the turn in favour of buyers. Middling is quoted at lOic. per lb. SAVANNA 11, DEC. 16. Our cotton market is without any change. The sales of the week foot up 7,750 bales, and the re ceipts 1,950 bales. The receipts at all the southern ports are now 351,389 bales in excess of the same date last year. MONTREAL, DEC. 17. Our market for flour is dull--prices range from 500 dols. to 650 dols. for superfine to extra. The market for ashes is inactive, and prices show no material change. The river St. Lawrence is full of ice, and is rising rapidly. The Victoria-bridge is now opened for traffic, and passenger trains commenced running through it to day. Canadian political news is unimportant, while in political matters dulness prevails. Jean Baptist Beauregard was hanged yesterday for murder. FATAL RIOT AT ALDERSHOT. We regret to learn that a serious riot took place at Aldershot on the evening of the 25th inst., be tween some men belonging to the 2d battalion of the 24th regiment and a company of the King's Own Light Infantry (Tower Hamlets) Militia, and which was unfortunately attended by the loss of one life, besides three men being wounded. It is the custom in most regiments for the officers of each company to subscribe a certain sum to pro vide their men with a Christmas dinner. This has tended to promote and keep up the good feeling and sympathy which should always exist between officers and their men ; but unfortunately, in the present case it has been distorted into the absurd cause of getting up a row between the above-mentioned corps. The 2d battalion of the 24th Regiment occupy the perma nent barracks of the west block in the South Camp, each side of which cansists of three stories opposite to one another joined at the top with a covering of glass, so as to admit of a whole regiment being formed for parade on the space below, in case of rainy weather. According to the usual fate which seems to regulate all projects undertaken by Government, these barracks or blocks as they are termed are too large for any one regiment, but not sufficiently capacious for two. One company of the Tower Ifainlets Militia was quartered in the upper story of the west block, with men of the 24th Regi ment livin g under them and exactly opposite to them, the interval between the two being about 15 yards, while the remainder of their own regiment occupied huts some little wily off. After partaking of a hearty Christmas dinner it appears that some of the Tower Hamlets and 2d battalion of the 24th betook themselves to the canteen of tho latter regi ment, where an argument began, mooted originally, it is said, by the men of the 24th, as to which regi ment had had the best dinner provided for them by their officers. This took place between the hours of seven and eight p.m., at which time the canteens are closed. As far as we can learn, a great d ea l o f bi tter feeling had now arisen, and on leaving the canteen the men of the 24th went up stairs to the rooms occupied by the Tower Hamlets, and commenced a warfare with mops and brooms. So far, though it was a case o f go i ng to war for an "idea," the combat did not assume more serious proportions than " Molly's" battle royal, as de scribed by Fielding ; but both parties appear to have become gradually more exasperated, and at length th e men of the 24th Regiment betook them selves to their own quarters in the opposite gallery, and began to load their rifles with ball cartridges. It seems astonishing that the officers were not sum moned from their mess-house, which was close by, before things arrived at this pass ; but when they were sent for rifles had already been discharged by the 24th rioters against their opposite neighbours. It was some time before the officers could quell the tumult, and when they did so it appeared that four men of the Militia had been wounded, and from the marks left by the bullets several shots must have been fired. We cannot hear that the Militia fired at all; at any rate, if they did, they did so without effect, Of the wounded men, one expired after great suffering, at eight o'clock this morning (26th inst.) ; the others are said to be progressing favour ably. The Colonel of the 24th Regiment has been telegraphed for, and all the officers who were on leave have been recalled. A searching investiga tion has, we hear, been already instituted into the origin of these disgraceful proceedings, and when our report left Ald ers h o t th e waggons o f th e Mai , tary T ra i n were wait i ng to receive the baggage belon g i ng on di!, to the 24th Regiment, which corps will, be removed to the North Camp, pending instructions from the higher authorities. Any one who has seen the window frames riddled with bul lets must have wondered that many more lives were not sacrificed. Strong pickets belonging to the other regiments in the South Camp were stationed on the spot all last night, and will be again this evening for fear of any . further collision. As far as we could learn, not a single man of the 24th Regi ment had received any serious injury. Forty-seven men of that cor p s are in confinement in the guard room for having taken part in the riot. Up to the present time the conduct of the troops in camp had been so exemplary and the diminution of crime so marked, when compared with regiments quartered in other places, that great regret is expressed at this unfortunate affair. We, however, feel bound to state, from inquiries made in all quarters, that the Tower Hamlets Militia were not only not the aggressors, but that they, on the contrary, behaved with the greatest forbearance. We are the more constrained to say this, as we believe that from their previous history they had not been in great favour with the higher authorities. Wunnwisps IN TIIE DOWNS.—A few days ago four or five whirlwinds, having a spiral form and vertiginous movement as if circling about an axis, were observed at Deal progressing rapidly, sometimes in a rectilinear and at other times in a curvilinear direction on the surface of the sea. Ono of them which reached the town resembled the rushing noise of a violent wind, and afforded an alarming proof of its power as its swept along by nearly capsizing a boat and •scattering the snow about in all directions. A lady who was quietly proceeding along Bench-street had a narrow escape, and must have fallen but for the prompt assistance of a boatman who hastened to her support. As an instance of the power of these extraordinary phenomena to carry bodies of considerable weight upwards as well as downwards a waggon laden with straw near Didham barn, on the road to Shou'den, was suddenly raised from the wheels of a tug and partially lodged on the hind horse of the vehicle. It is generally supposed that these visitants owe their production to the combined effects of currents of air meeting together from different directions. At sea they havelmuch the ap pearance of water-spouts.—Rentish Gazette. We ( Manchester Guardian) learn, on authority which we consider perfectly reliable, that Government has decided upon providing Dr. Livingstone with a new steamer for the purpose of enabling him to carry out his exploration of the Zambesi. In addition to this pleasing evidence of the interest with which the present administra tion views the efforts for opening up Central Africa to the influence of civilisation. Mr. Gladstone, we are informed, has appropriated a sum of £2,500 to the further exploration of the great Nyanza chain of lakes. The command of this latter expedition will In entrusted to Captain Speke. I.ILE NAVY. 4- The seamen who were committed to gaol by sen tence of court-martial, in connexion with the dis turbance on board the Princess Royal, and the re mainder of whose sentences has been remitted on the recommendation of th© Admiralty by the exer cise of her Majesty's gracious pardon, arrived at Portsmouth from the gaols of Lewes, Salisbury , Southampton, Winchester, and Dorchester yester day, at different periods of time, and all those who arrived in time were at once paid their wages in the dockyard ; and the remainder of the men who arrived after dockyard hours will be pa id this morning. Considerable excitement was manifested on the first appearance of the men in passing through the town. The Urgent screw troopship, Commander Hire, which sailed from Spithead on Monday morning, for Kingstown, the Cape, and Hong Kong, put back to Spithead yesterday morning, w ith a portion of her expansio n gear damaged. She was expected to have the necessary repairs completed, and sail again for her destination early this morning. From the Cape of Good H o p e th e Urgent conveys t he Ist battalion, 2d Queen's, to Hong Kong. The Firebrand, 6, paddle steamer, at Spithead, requires considerable repairs to her hull, having been several times in contact with the iron steam dredging vessel, when having the latter in tow on her voyage out from Spithead to the Mediterranean- The Mutine, 17, screw, Commander W. Graham , got up her steam yesterday, and proceeded out of Portsmouth harbour to Spithead to test her inaelii" nery and the improvements which have been intro duced at the suggestion of Mr. John Dinnin, miralty Inspector of Machinery Afloat, for the purpose of giving a more free ventilation to her stokehole. They answered erfectly. The Charybdis, 21, screw c p orvette, was undocked at Chatham yesterday afternoon, having completed her rigging and fitments, and made ready for e steam reserve. The Galatea, 26, screw frigate, 800 horse power, is to be docked in the same basin, la order to be brought forward for the steam reserve- The new building which has been erect ed within the Royal Marine Barracks at Chatham for theatrical performances by the officers and me ; of the division and those of the gar rison . now completed, and only awaits the emetics of the scenery, which is being painted in Lun d ?! for the opening performance to take place: T he building has been erected by the express sancton of the Lords of the Admiralty, under the direction of the commandant of the division, Colonel BF!: who has shown himself most anxious to prOViu7 for the amusement of the non-commissioned office!! and men under his command. The interior of the building consists of a commodious stage,an large as that in many provincial theatres, togethex with an orchestra, the dressing-rooms being beneath t stage. There is a raised " pit," capable of seatinge about 400 persons, and at the extreme end of th building, and directly facing the stage is large gallery, which will be fitted up as "stalls" for til. h e . officers and visitors of distinction desirous, of 15 : 11. _ nessing the amateur performances. The nterior is brilliantly lighted and warmed. The building will not only be used as a theatre, but it is also in tended to provide occasional concerts fo r the men during the winter months, together with Par' e exhibitions, to all of which the troops will gratuitous admission, it being the great aim of Me military authorities connected with Chatham gar rison to provide healthful amusement and harm" less recreation for the troops. ARRIVAL OF TROOPS FRO3I INDIA. O PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 2 7 . The ship Maggie Miller, Captain F. Johns, fr °°l , Calcutta, with 500 discharged Europeans on boaruP arrived at Spithead this morning. The ship, l'ill bound to Plymouth, had got blown . past that Per" by the violence of the weather, and now remorse waiting her orders, at Spithead from the g Guards. The Maggie Miller has made an extraor dinary passage home, having left the Sandheads oil the 26th September. On nearing the 'Western Islands fell in with heavy easterly gal es, which con tinned with more or less violence until in the. Channel, when the wind become mor e variable, but the weather still continued violent. A large Van' tity of wreck was passed in the Channel between St. Catherine's and the Start , a portion a w hite. which consisted of bulwarks pa inted Captain J. Holland, Bengal Artillery , is in militil command of the discharged soldiers ; a nd Dr. Smil in medical charge. Eight deaths have occurrave ed during the voyage, and one birth. The men h been remarkably healthy the whole voyage home. The following . officers have come by her as Fab' sengers :—Captain Cox and wife, Bengal Artillery ; Lieut. Grant, 45th Native Infantry ; Lieut. Macksit Bengal Horse Artillery; Lieut. Mu rra y , illery 60th No' tive Infantry ; Lieutenant Davis , Bengal Artt! Lieut. Alexander, Bengal Artille r y; and Lieu Brown, Bengal Artillery. Ships Spoken—Oct. 7, the Art Union, from Cal cutta for London, in lat. 5 N., long. 95 E.; the Malacca, from Penang for London, in lat. 5 N., long. 95 E. Nov. 7—The Early Morn, from Natal for London, off Algoa Bay • 9th, the George D waite, from Mauritius 'for London; the Northern Light, from Bombay for Liverpool, both off cape Aguilar. Nov. 21, the North, from Kurrachee for London, in lat. 13 S , long. 7 W., with troops the Queen of the Seas, from Calcutta for London, in lat' 13 S., long. 7 W., with troops. Nov. 30.- 4 T: Dartmouth, outward bound, in lat. 6 N., 1011,1. 23 outh - W., with troops. Dec. I.—The Eliza Henrietta, all well; outward bound, in lat. 8 N., long. 25 W., the Southern Cross, from London for Hong Xon,' in lat. 8 N., long. 28 W. ; the Norman, frau 7 . Mauritius for London, in lat. 8 N., long. 25 , , Dec. 14.—The Great Western , f rom Maranham, 10 Liverpool, in lat. 39 N., long. 42 W: The brig Greenwich, Captain Teleau, which ar rived at the Motherbank yesterday from Algoa 1,4_ (having put in to procure anchors and chains) 00! reports having met with fearful weather the lattFr part of her voyage. On the 9th inst., in lat 23 N . long. 22 W., the ship was thrown by the violetT! of a severe hurricane on her beam-ends, were 05 7_ remained with part of her bulwark s under water for four hours. ---... SI'EAM 114111111 ER FOR WOOLWIC. A I? S RYA For some time past a steam hammer, intendedly be employed in the forging of Armstrong guns 14 Woolwich Arsenal, has been in c ourse of construv tion on the works of Messrs. IL Morrison and Co., Ouseburn. The apparatus , w hich is on the prin ciple of the well - known pa tent possessed by the Messrs. Morrison, will be one of immense power. The hammer bar and face weigh four tons, and ndSthe cylinder in which this bar work s with its gla within . a few hundredweight of six tons. The cylinder is supported on two frames --each of nine tons—and each of these again rests on a o . f the same weight. Through these bed-Plates.pro pets the anvil, which is a mass of wrought iron, faced with steel, and embedded in an immense bit! of cast . iron, weighing upwards of 21 tons. 111 S casting of this block, which was of course: ove ~ ot the heaviest operations in connection th 0° bed -plate apparatus, was very successfully accomplish. ed . on Saturday . afternoon. About nine o'clock In the morning 25 tons of metal were placed in thenllP furnace—one of Wright and Brown's—us theme works for castings. By two o'clock the metal woo thoroughly fused, and the necessarfarrangelnetnwo having . . been completed, about a quarter-East t_ 9ie liquid mass was run into the mould. 1" cast the ing was pronounced by those who were present b e one of the most successful ever witnesou• immense . block thus formed measures at the.base Eft. 7in. by Oft. 2in., and is 4ft. loin. in li.eigbti .The anvil proper, as already mentioned, Is l e into tho top, and, when placed, the base will re nt Oa two layers of heavy logs, about 14 feet square. ponderous machine which we have just describe., and which will soon be sent to its destination, I! by no means the largest that has been fabricated a . t the Messrs. Morriso n ' s works, similar ones h. h' f' ing been formerly se nt out with hammers, whic h ing no less than 7 to ns. The p rinciple on whl the Messrs. Morrison's steam-hammeris constructed sums to afford great and peculiar advantages. One of these consists in the placing of the cy which is so bolted between the support of the frames . that instead of forcing them asunder, it tends,. by its pressure, to keep them the mor e firmly in their places. In the management of the hammer, again, great perfection has been attained. The most remarkable thing about it is the perfect command in which it is held, so that it can be made . to pound with prodigious force a mass of linder , glowing iron or to crack a nut in the gentlest ma.n ner. Mr. Morrison's hammer can be worked with a great diversity of nower. The stroke cant be given . with a force exactly corresponding with he weight of the hammer; while, on the one hand, this force can be diminishe d at pleasure,or, ou the other, greatly increased by the application. of the propolling steam above or below the piston. In regard to speed of working also, it possesses ca pabilities which seem to adapt it to almost every variety of work, for it can either be made to de scend like the herivy sledge" with measured beat and slow," or to deliver from 200 to 300 strokes a minute—a speed , on e would think, which can very seldom be required.—Arorthern Daily _Express. The. Cunard steamer Africa, on her last passage, brought from New York, en route for Italy, 82,000 ounces of silkworms collected in China, whenae they were shipped by steamer to San Francisco. The atfltir has been a private mercantile speculation, and is said to ha een vory pro fitable, the worms Aellizig in Italy at Per, °woe. an an vii