The Sun. — London, England, 1858-12-09 00:00:00

mIIEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W Bar ris on. THIS EVENING (Last Time), Balfe's ROSE OP CAS TILLE : Miss Louisa Pyne , Miss Susan Fyne, Miss M. Pres cott ; Mr. Ferdinand Glover, Mr. A. St. Aibyn, Mr. Bar tleman, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEUR D'AMOUR : Mesdlles. L. Michelet, Morlacchi, and Pasquale. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Play of KING JOHN. ging John, Mr. C. Kean—Constance, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by a new Farce, in one act, entitled THIRTY-THREE NEXT BIRTHDAY. ' THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bneksione. THIS EVENING will be performed THE RIVALS. Mr. Buekstone and Miss Reynolds. A new Spanish Ballet, THE INFLUENCE OF GRACE, which PereaNena will appear. With WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. John Small, by Sir Wm. Don, Bart. " And A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE 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 Swanborong,h. And THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. Commence at 7 o'clock. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE , Westminster-road. Sole Lessee Mr. William Cooke. The Lessee has the honour to call public attention to the pro duction of a new grand military and equestrian drama, on Saturday, Nov. 4, for the first time. THIS EVENING, and during the week, will be repeated a new grand Spectacle, entitled LIFE IN THE EAST ; or, The Fugitives and their Faithful Steed. Written expressly for this amphitheatre by Mr. IL Phillips, and embracing the entire strength of this vast Hippodramatic Temple. Princi pal characters by Messrs. It. Phillips, Holloway, J. Anson, Mark Howard, Francis ; Miss Dowton, Miss Weston, &c. Followed by the inimitable SCENES IN THE ARENA, in which Messrs. W. Cooke, Runnels, W. Cooke, jun.; Mes dame Blanche, &c., will go through their unrivalled feats. No fees to box-keepers. The art of riding taught. Commence at seven. Carriages at Eleven. Prices of admission :—Dress Circle, 3s. ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls, ; Galleries, 6d. ; Private Boxes, from £lls to £2 2s. and upwards. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — Proprietor -C. MORTON. The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE 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* Musie 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 anionscombinatns within, will be found to be wholly without parallel Kingdom. The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at Seven o'clock. In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAITVLET FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied. instrumental performances have created so marked a sensa tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will perform every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock. THE WEIs.THER.—Sux OFFICE, DEC. 9. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 43—highest since noon yesterday. 43 lowest this morning and during the night. 44—this day at noon. BAuomrrEit-30.36—r18ing. WIND, South-Easterly; light, with foggy weather. THE SUN. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1858. The Hon. MILNER GIBSON addressed his consti tuents at a crowded meeting on Tuesday, the Mayor presiding. We may probably take his views as those of the working Radical members ol the House of Commons, the men who think not ol theory only but of action, and who ask not only what is perfection, but what can we do? After justifying his upsetting the PALMERSTON Admini stration, in which business he took so prominent a part, aid declaring that he would do it again if the circumstances should ever recur, that indeed he thought the Tories getting an "innings" had been of considerable service, and would do considerable good in the political training of the Whigs themselves, he came to the grand question which must now be the question of the next six months at least. Every one who speaks State. in public, and of course Mr. M. GIBSON, must de- liver their views on Reform, and Mr. GIBSON is in the very position to do so ; he is the old colleague of one of the three Reform Bill-makers for 1859, and he has a Radical constituency. Is Reform wanted ? What sort of Reform would we have ? And how is any Reform Bill to be car. ried ? These, says Mr. GIBSON, are the three im portant questions, and the last is practically the first one. Radicals, in their now quasi official capacity, feel the difficulties of office. They have to look obstructions in the face. We therefore find Mr. GIBSON, like Mr BRIGHT, insisting on the necessity of compromise. Those who wish to go a little way must be content to go a little further ; those who were prepared to go a great way must be content to stop somewhat short, and thus, by fair compromise, a valuable mea sure might be carried. The Bill of 1832 was car ried in that way. What we want is a real House of Commons as well as a Rouse of Lords. A house returned by the people, and not nominated by the Lords. This is the gist of the question fairly stated. At present the aristocracy possesses the whole of one house and nominates a majority of the other. Let the QUEEN and the people, through their representatives, be substantive powers in the We are pleased to notice that Mr. M. GIBSON decidedly asserts the absolute necessity of the Ballot to secure us fair representation. He dwells, indeed, on the importance of removing the anomaly that four millions out of five millions of adult males should not be represented, and avows himself in favour of giving the working classes a much larger share of political power ; but he will on no consi deration forego the Ballot. Many, he observes, think it an unimportant question : "he held it to be vital to freedom of election in a country like this." He might have said, in almost any country under heaven. So numerous everywhere are the unfair influences which may be brought to bear on electors, that if the object be that per sons shall " do their own voting," and not the voting of those whom they do not wish to displease, the Ballot is the only known means of enabling them to do it. They might depend upon it," Mr. GIBSON truly enough observed, "there was no real ground for opposing the vote by Ballot but a fear of the existing constituency of the country." With these views we entirely concur. So far from deeming the Ballot a "mere convenience," as some Reformers talk, or a device of cowardice, as those talk who are too great cowards to face the free votes of the people, we believe it to be, of all th e re f orms now demanded, the one which is by far the most important. It would create hundreds of thousands of independent electors out of the present limited constituency—out of men who now either do not vote, or who vote under fear or influence; and it would thus substitute election by the electors —that is, by the people—for nomination by the peers and the wealthier classes. The Duke of BEDFORD may enjoy the pleasure, so rarely known, of experiencing political gratitude. tw o He, has s, we believe, been noted, like his politica ricultural friend the late Earl .of LEICESTt , for his political liberality, never con straining his tenants to vote against their prin- , 1 . ..... ,,, .. • - ;2 ,' - , 4. •• * _,, •.". 4 j ` . 41\ ss"..- . . :. r 1 ML ) _ . AII I , lei, ~, . . . .` _ • ''''' tti l ri . ' -. . . ' "". q• ...-4 A /i '''' , --: " W' \ .''' ,: j.. 1. 1: , i•i.t * :.:* .' :- „t ' . CA . . ; "&:Y „, ,, , .. ~,. :Alll A : , . ' _/ . )0 "ri - 6 71 e ir - 41 , i,1 4.-1 'M " 5 4 ,:, )0. AO , tiLM, .." ' ....c.... 0 :0 " lac v ' S ciples. This is, doubtless, an easier virtue for a Liberal than for a Tory landlord. The middle classes, amongst whom farm-tenants rank, are the strength of the Liberal party ; left to themselves but a small minority of them would be Tories. The landlord of Liberal politics hi- little need, therefore, of self-denial in bidding his tenants to vote as they please. The pleasure of landlord, and that of tenants, in this instance, , coincide. A practical reason, by the bye, why Liberal landlords need not be hostile to secret voting. They would lose nothing by it of personal influence, and their cause would gain materially in the counties at large The fact alluded to in our first observation illus trates the truth of these remarks. Last Wednes day a public meeting was held in the Town-hall of Woburn on the subject of the Ballot. The Town hall was lent by the Duke for the purpose, and the assembly was a large one. There has been, for a month or so past, considerable excitement on the subject, in Woburn, in consequence of a lecture de livered some time back by Mr. WHITE, to prove that the Ballot was immoral, " because all secrecy was so." Lord CHARLES RUSSELL presided at the lecture delivered by Mr. WHITE, which, though a clever one, and unanswerable, if his starting point were conceded, could not be termed more than clever, since no one could allow that concealment itself is wrong, especially when the wickedness of others compels us to have recourse to it. If so, indeed, the whole system of expedients generated by the necessity of honest men protecting themselves against rogues would be wrong. The immorality of secrecy and concealment is indeed a doctrine, we should say, hopeless enough to preaeh to a nation distinguished almost equally by the seemingly incompatible qualities of reserve and out-spoken- ness. As Mr. WHITE was to be present at the meeting and a deputation from the Ballot Society to take the lead, the small town of Woburn was not a little excited. It was known that the Duke was not the man to be the least aggrieved by either a warm defence of the Ballot or a warm attack on it. His own family had walked, in Parliament, into dif ferent lobbies on the annual motion, and never, therefore, was the question put to a fairer test— " What do small agricultural towns think and wish on the Ballot?" All were free to speak and act as they pleased, and we may add, we believe, with truth, that every elector present—and every per son who hopes to become an elector by virtue of Lord DERBY'S or JOHN BRIGHT'S Reform Bill, or by Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S, as may yet be the case —that they all felt assured that under the Duke and his family they should not need the Ballot for themselves. Well, after the deputation from the Ballot So ciety had had full scope—after Mr. WHITE had replied—after the deputation had rejoined— and after a brisk fire of lively ques tions had been kept up for some time and with much spirit, and apparently to the great entertain ment of all—after all came the voting—and it cer tainly was a model vote—" That although this meeting feels that if all landlords were equally liberal with his Grace the Duke of BEDFORD the necessity for the Ballot would be lessened, it still feels that its adoption is most important, and that any Reform Bill which does not contain a provision for secret voting will be unsatisfactory." Who will say, after this, that the Duke's political clients at Woburn are wanting in political gratitude ? Lord JOHN RUSSELL will, however, permit us to remind lthn of the weight which this vote should have with him. It is the Abbey town itself which has voted for the Ballot. He has repeatedly, and we believe with perfect honesty, insisted on the value of our small agricultural boroughs, asserting that they possessed a peculiar character, and a considerable number of independent minds. He would, we suppose, rather group than abolish them. Woburn is just one of the small places which his Lordship would like to have representa tion, in some way, with other places of a similar class. Now, Lord JOHN may see, if he will, how one of his own favourite class of towns thinks on the important question of the Ballot. He will allow, we are sure, that not one small agricultural town in a hundred is better qualified to ask his ac ceptance of their opinion as a representative opinion L than Woburn. It is free to vote as it likes under the RUSSELL family—its inhabitants have fewer personal reasons to desire the Ballot than those of almost any small town in the kingdom—yet Wo [ burn advertises Lord JOHN most distinctly that his I Reform Bill will not satisfy without the Ballot. It is surely worth his while to review his opinion and position on thequestion, when Manchester and Woburn unite in their demand. His Excellency the Minister for the Netherlands has been confined to his residence in Lowndes-square for the last ten days with an attack of rheumatism. His Excellency the Saxon Minister has returned to town from the continent. The Duke of Buccleuch and the Earl of Dalkeith, M.P., have arrived at Montague House, from Boughton House, Northamptonshire. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are expected in town early next week from Alnwick Castle. The Marquis of Hartington has left town for Vienna. The Earl and Countess of Craven have left town on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Verulam, at Gor hambury Park, Herts. . . The Earl of Beverley has left Portman-square for Torquay. His lordship has recovered from his late in disposition. The Earl and Countess of Bective are on a visit to the Lord High Commissioner, and Lady Young, at Corfu. The noble earl and countess intend to return home for the meeting of Parliament. . _ - _ The Earl and Countess of Lichfield have arrived at Baron's Court, county Tyrone, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left Cam bridge House on Tuesday for Broadlands. The funeral of the lamented Lady Clementina Villiers will take place on Saturday. Her ladyship's mor tal remains will repose in the family fault at Middleton. Baron Lichtenstein has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel from Germany. The Baron von Hargen has taken his departure from the same establishment. Sir Hamilton and the Hon. Lady Seymour have left town on a visit to Mr. and Lady Charlotte Egerton at Mere Hall, Cheshire. Lady Peel has arrived at her residence in White hall-gardens. Sir Charles Rushout and the Hon. Lady Rushout have left Fenton's Hotel for Sezincot, Gloucestershire. LIVERPOOL, Dec. B.—The screw steamship Kangaroo, belonging to the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company, sailed to-day for New York with the United States' mails, 140 passengers, and a full and valuable cargo of fine manufactured goods, a considerable portion of which were Irish fabrics. On Saturday the Cunard Royal mail steamship Persia sails for New York with the Canadian and United States' mails. The Black Ball Australian passenger ship Marco Polo arrived to-day from Melbourne, which port she left on Sept. 3. She has on board 47,000 oz. of gold, valued at £185,520, and 113 passengers. ARRIVAL OF AUSTRALIAN GOLD.—The Black Ball clipper, Marco Polo, arrived in the Mersey yesterday (Wednesday) from Melbourne, which port she left on Sept. 9th. She brings 47,900 ounces of gold, equal to about £185,520, and 113 passengers. The voyage was protracted by aon mailth i er t e h e, oe e: o t ay h rlf e yo a u - s-y r gales, and also some very rough partwea golodf s t hi he ps vo w y e a l F e e. ad ß ve y rt t i h se e d las fo t r Aseuas, but by the arrival of the Dover Castle at London, in the early part of the week, a n d th e M arco P olo at Liverpool, yester day, the only vessels now at sea are the Janet and the Or well; the latter vessel, however, will not bring much gold, and would leave Melbourne about the end o f September. If the Janet left at her appointed date, Au g. she is now o ver 90 days at sea, and may be looked g for 30, very day. i THE FOG.—A very heavy fog prevailed in Lon don yesterday. From a very early hour the darkness ne cessitated the lighting of gas in all t n h sdo e ecim o e, ffi anp c office s and a ot a dh d se s os h ft o r t p e he s et . traffic c c on wastheriverwas considerably iemnptieredlyed.susApet day the fog appeared to us thicker and darker than any fog )ve ever remember to have observed in London, _-.LL~~~ THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMIIER 9, 1858. LATEST NEWS. The following. telegrams have been received at Mr. Renter's office : MARSEILLES, THURSDAY. Advices have been received from Constantinople to the Ist inst. The ambassadors of the Great Powers have met in conference, during two consecutive days, to de bate on the critical state of the Principalities. There is an extraordinary movement and activity among the members of the diplomatic corps. The reserve of the army in Asia has been called out. Notwithstanding the arrival of a part of the loan, contracted in England, the Turkish troops have not yet received their arrears of pay. There is also a delay in paying the salaries of the public functionaries. An incredible stock jobbing is going on with the deeds of the Seraglio debts. Advices from Persia state that a distinguished reception had been given to the French military mission. MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY. Advices have been received from Lebanon to the 25th November. Notwithstanding the death of several of the insurrectional chiefs and the submission of the Syrian tribes, disagreements and disorder increase continually, and the inhabitants of Syria implore the protection of the European powers. A fight has taken place near Damascus with a horrible slaughter of the Mutualis (a Syrian tribe' by the Nomades. ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. 7. According to news from the Caucasus the Cir cassians have been defeated at Bagnado. During September and Oetober 4,600 Circassians, with the Naib Schago and his brothers, have gone over to the Russians (emigres chez les Russel.) GENOA, DEC. 7. The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia has left for Villafranca. A distinguished reception was given to him by the authorities •of Genoa. ' MADRID, DEC. 8 Marshal O'Donnell declared yesterday that the Government has resolved to preserve the Constitu- tional system. Three per Cents. closed 43 65; ditto Deferred, 31 45". HANOVER, DEC. 8 The Ministry has been again defeated. The Second Chamber has rejected, by 44 votes against 36, the law presented by the Government to in- crease the income-tax. The following was received at Mr. Reuter's office from Naples, by letter : "NAPLES, DEC. 3. I have to communicate a fact not yet noticed by the press. " The King of Naples had, it is stated, some time ago, asked the Cabinets of London and Paris to allow his ambassadors to be sent to those places, in the hope that their visit to Queen Victoria and the Emperor Napoleon would tend to re-establish di plomatic relations which would facilitate the send ing of ambassadors to Naples by the Courts of St. James's and the Tuileries. "The English and French Governments not hav ing sent any reply, it. was feared that things would remain in static quo. But the English Cabinet has now quite unexpectedly sent an answer. I have been told that Lord. Malmesbury's despatch is to the following effeet I. " The Government of her Majesty has seen with satisfaction that his Majesty the King of Naples is anxious to renew diplomatic relations, which had been broken of " The English. Government hopes that the King will facilitate the means of doing so by no more refusing to the present Cabinet a measure analogous to that which was taken when Lord Palmerston was at the head of the Ministry. "The treaty with the Argentine Republic has not been ratified or carried out. Could not the King find any other means to apply those mea sures of clemency which he thought of at that time ?" SARDINIA. The Opinione of Turin states that the Sardini Minister of War has justvisited the fortifications of Casale, and found. them very far advanced. The same journal states from Lombardy, on the other hand, that the greatest activity reigns in the arsenal of Venice ; that the number of workmen there has been doubled, and that warlike stores of all sorts are being brought in. It adds that several arrests have taken place at Milan, and that 17 students have been arrested at Pavia, where several houses have been searched for arms many of which have been seized. The garrison has been increased by a field-battery. It has already been - stated that the Archduke Charles Louis, brother to the Emperor of Austria, lately visited the. Pope. The Opinione of Turin states that he is formally entrusted with a political mission, the object of which is to obtain permisoion from the Pope to occupy some new point of the Legation with Austrian troops, in order to be pre pared against an outbreak. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY The Moniteur publishes an official notification from Admiral Rigault de Genouilly, Commander in Chief of the French and Spanish forces in Cochin- China, to the effect that on and after the Ist of September, 1858, the bay and river of Tourane and the port of Cham-Callao are declared in strict blockade. All vessels attempting to fprce the blockade will be treated according to the usages of international law. _ _ _ A telegram has been received in Paris, an nouncing that Mehemed Djemel Bey, Ambassador from the Porte to the Court of France, had embarked at Constantinople to return to Paris. A second telegram received in Paris, announces the arrival at Alexandria of Mahmoud Pasha, the new Governor of Jeddah, who was appointed to that situation at the recommendation of M. Thou vend, the French Ambassador. The Turkish Government desired that Mahmoud Pasha should reach Jeddah previous to M. Sabatier, the French Consul-General, leaving that town. M. de Mornard, French Consul at Salonica, has arrived in Paris on leave of absence._ The 3loniteur also publishes a report from Mar shal Vaillant, approved by the Emperor, appointing a committee to examine into the best means for improving the manufacture of fire-arms in France. Marshal Bosquet, we regret to say, is again in a very unsatisfactory state of health. The last accounts from China (says the Pays) announce that Baron Gros, the French Envoy, who had left Shanghai on the 25th Sept. for Japan, on board the steam corvette Primauguet, accom panied by the Pregent, steam advice boat, had arrived at his destination. He was received in the most distinguished manner by the Japanese Govern ment, and after negotiations, which had been carried on with the best feeling on both sides, had signed a treaty of amity and commerce with that power. BOURSE, Dec: 7.—The market continued buoyant, and with a further advance of prices at the opening ; but the sudden rise induced sales for realisation, and caused a slight reaction. Threes, after having been 'done• at 73f. 40c., are now at 73f. 20c. ; Mobilier varied from I,ooof. to 990 f. ; Orleans, 1,405 f. to 1,400 f. ; Northern, 1,005 f. to I,ooof. ; Lyons, 886 f. 25c. to 882 f. 50c. ; Southern, 595 f. to 5901.; and Austrian, 652 f. 50c. to 650 f. The market rallied again before the close, when the following were the quotations ti per Cents. .... 96 50 I Credit Foncier 675 Do. end month .. 96 601 Belgian 41 3 per Cents. 73 05 Piedmontesa (5) Do. end month.... 73 35 Roman 93 25 Bank Shares. 3170 Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 997 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 1002 50 Rome Debt ..— DEATH D, ESQ. We have this day to note, with no ordinary sor row, the death of the proprietor and editor of this journal. There is always something especially sad in recording in his own paper the last notice of one who has long watched over its interests, and in this instance that peculiar feeling which almost in variably makes the relationship between the editor and the sheet in which he sends forth to the world his every-day thoughts, was powerful in the ex treme. Only a few weeks have rolled away since Mr. Seed was busy in the maze of mercantile events, collecting material for his paper, and criticising with scrupulous attention every single note of pass ing events, in order to ensure perfect accuracy in the statistical department of the journal. On Mon- day, the Bth ult.. he took suddenly ill, and was obliged to leave the office long before his usual hour. Some partial rally of the system took place about ten days ago, but the change was only tem porary, and he gradually sunk, until an early hour on Thursday morning last, when his death took place, leaving a wife and six children, the youngest only a few weeks old. Of Mr. Seed's abilities as a commercial journalist, we can speak in terms of unqualified eulogy. There was about his entire habits a matter of fact system of action, and at the same time a spirit of keen inquiry, which invested him with peculiar fitness for the discharge of his duties as editor of the Mercantile Journal. The greatest man that wielded power over the local press —he whose remains have been suffered to rest without a single line to record the name of the tenant who sleeps in that silent grave—once said that the conductor of a paper should be as careful of the authenticity of his editorial matter, as he would be of the statements he uttered in his capa city as a private gentleman. The important aphor ism seemed to rule in all the details of Mr. Seed's commercial literature, and the result was to bring out week after week, in the columns of his paper, a mass of mercantile information, which, for variety and truthfulness, could not be equalled by any pro vincial journal in the United Kingdom. The following graceful compliment to the memory of the late Mr. Seed appeared in the Northern Whig of Saturday : "In our obituary column of yesterday we had the melancholy duty of recording the somewhat sudden demise of this highly-respected gentleman. Mr. Seed, though still in the prime of life, had long held an important position in the commer cial affairs of this town, and, as au honourable and straightforward man of business, he stood deservedly high in the estimation of his fellow citizens. The title, however, by which he will be more especially remembered, in relation to his public character, is that of Editor, of the Belfast Mercantile Journal. By his exertions and adap tive talents, he not only raised that paper into considerable popularity with the mercantile pub lic, but he, at tha same time, did good service to the commercial status of Belfast. From the first day on which he took charge of the Journal—even to the latest exertion of his official duties—he in fused a new spirit into the dry details of mercantile statistics, and ultimately stamped the paper with the character of an authority on all subjects con nected with the history of Ireland's trading enter prise. So far r therefore, as an exceedingly valua ble department of editorial labour is concerned, the death of Mr. Seed leaves a blank in our local literature which will not easily be filled up. On leading points connected with the industrial pro ducts of this country, the late respected gentleman was remarkably well informed. He possessed an intuitive taste for statistics, and the bent of his mind was peculiarly fitted to give full play to his idea on the questions in which he took such interest. " The merchants of Belfast will readily recollect with what zeal 'Mr. Seed took up the case connected with our export trade, and dealt with it in a style that called forth the attention of the ' leading journal.' In the Board of Trade Returns, Belfast is usually set down as exporting about £70,000 or £BO,OOO a year. The actual value of all our exports has averaged nine millions for the last six years; but, as the vast proportion of these exports are sent via Liverpool, and not direct, the latter-named port gets credit for every pound's worth of goods sent from thence, as if the total had been the result of local industrial enterprise. Mr. Seed put this question into its legitimate shape, and had he never done a greater service to our mercantile character that one act is worthy of the grateful recollection of the inhabitants of Ulster's capital. In private life Mr. Seed was a gentleman in every sense of that com prohensive term, and one of the best of all his practical virtues was that of never forgetting an act of friendship. " It is no disclosure of private arrangements for us to gratefully acknowledge that the late Mr. Seed was, for very many years, connected with the Northern Whig in its trade reports and commercial news, and that we have frequently been indebted to his pen for many valuable and important contri butions on local commercial topics.—Belfast Mer cantile News. FEARFUL RAILWAY COLLISION. A collision, involving injury to several passen gers, happened on Monday evening during the fog at the Lea Bridge Station of the Eastern Counties Railway, about the same time as tha unfortunate event on the North London, and, - as will be seen, arose from the want of proper precaution in run ning heavy goods trains in such weather close in the rear of passenger trains. As this section of the line passes over the Hackney and Tottenham marshes, the fog, if possible, was more dense than in the adjacent suburbs • so black was it that the drivers could scarcely . discern the funnels of their engines, and all the signal lamps were blank to them until they were within a few feet of where they were fixed. It appears that a train which had left Shoreditch terminus about four o'clock, broke down somewhere between Lea Bridge and Tottenham Station, blocking up the down line to all out-going traffic. The five o'clock express was brought up, and on the approach of the 5.10 train from London to Hertford, it was stopped at the Lea Bridge Station. This was followed by the Enfield train from town, which left Shoreditch at 5.20, and as the Hertford train occupied the line in the station, the Enfield train was brought to a halt on the London side of it. What precautions were taken to communicate by telegraph to Stratford of the break down and of the blockage of the trains, so As to prevent any further trains, especially goods, being sent on, until the obstruction was removed, has not transpired, but from the sad consequences that followed it would appear that if any orders were forwarded they must either have been mis understood or most seriously disregarded. The Enfield train had been standing scarcely five minutes, as we were informed by a person who was on the spot, when the passengers were alarmed by the noise of a near approaching train at their rear, and ere they could do anything to protect themselves a most serious collision took place, partially demolishing the hinder carriages. One of them was a first-class, in which was Mr. Sin clair, one of the superintendents of the line, who was seriously cut and hurt about the head. A third class, which was filled. with clerks and others from the City, suffered the most. The end compartment was shattered in, and almost every one of the occupants met with some in jury. Mr. Gee, a person of independence, living in Green-leaf Lane, Walthamstow, was found almost in an insensible state. Besides a contused wound on his head he had sustained a severe injury in his back. The density of the fog added to the difficulty of extricating the wounded passengers and removing them to a place of safety. They were at length got to the Greyhound Tavern, ad jacent to the station, when everything way done to alleviate their pain. Mr. Pinchin and other surgeons from Walthamstow were in attendance as soon as practicable. Most of the passengers, after their wounds were dressed, were forwarded to their respective residences, but Mr. Gee's condition was such as to render his detention at the tavern all night necessary. The train which cansed the col lision was a heavy goods' train, for Norwich, drawn by two of the large engines, and why it was allowed to leave Stratford so soon, in such dense weather after the Enfield train had passed, before the pre caution was taken of asking Lea-bridge " whether the line was clear," seems unaccountable. It is stated by the company's officers that the Enfield train was protected at the rear by four fog signals, the furthest of which was 800 yards up the line, and that the goods train had passed over them ; and if they really were so placed, for there are doubts, it is difficult to conceive why the train was not brought to a stoppage within that distance. The board of directors met yesterday afternoon to investigate the unfortunate occurrence. Mr. Robertson, superintendent of the line, was exa mined on the matter, but the result had not been communicated. The following is a list of the per injury to b - ack sons hurt : an A d i c%n G tus ee 'ed head. Greleaf-lano, Walthamst ow, Mr. Sinclair, one of the superintendents of the company, injury to the head. Mr. Jones, Tottenham-green,internal injury. Mr. Hunt, Marsh-street, Walthamstow, contused face. Mr. Rolph, Walthamstow, injury to leg. Mr. Atkins, Tottenham, injury to face. Mr. Richards, Higham-hill, Walthamstow, contused head. -Rel.'. Mr. England, oMarsh-street Waltha , nastow. Mr. Nelson and son, of Mark House Corner. . Mr. Whittingham, residing , secretary to a land soci e ty, at Walthamstow, injury to legs. , 4.4.. , ..---- RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto. 842 50 .. 845 Lyons and Mediterranean BB5 .. 885 New ditto Geneva -- - • 62,5 - .. • , 627 50 Midi - • • Southern Western 612 50 .. 610 Eastern .., Grand Central Sardinian . Austrian _ . . 651 25 .. 655 -- ___ ..... Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 12p. ; money, 25f. 10c. ; threelmontha, paper, 241. 951 c. ; money, 24f. 95c. PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 3d says :--" A part of the suite which accompanied the King and Queen to Meran have returned to the capital. General de Gerlach soon after waited on the Prince Regent and delivered a letter from the Queen. Different versions were in circulation as to the contents of this letter. It is said by some that the Queen complains bitterly of the changes which the Regent has effected among the high functionaries of the. State, and particularly of the speech made by the Prince to the ministers, and in which, it may be remembered, he alluded to the faults committed under the preceding Government. The Queen, it is said, observed in her letter that it was rather premature on the part of the Prince to pronounce such an opinion while the King wa still alive, and might at any moment resume the reins of Government." " The Emperor of Austria on the 2d received the Archbishop of Vienna, who took leave on his de parture for Rome, where he goes to receive the hat of cardinal. His Majesty also received the reign ing prince of Leichstenstein, who had arrived the day before from his country seat at Eisgrieb. LITERATURE. Maiden Sisters : a Tale. By the author o " Dorothy." Parker. Written in a simple style, there is much to charm in the stories of this author. The one before us is very melancholy, and the reader naturally feels in dignant at the authors of such needless suffering as the unfortunate young heroine endured. Ellen Kerr was indeed to be pitied, chiefly for having had her education so "wofully neglected, and her mind, which was not naturally strong, totally un prepared and unfitted for struggling with the world. The conduct of her elder sister was indeed a crime. She knew that the young girl she tyran nised over, however yielding and helpless she then seemed, would one day have to take her place as a responsible member of society, and her sin was a grievous one, in stifling al l expressions of feeling, and in destroying all efforts at self-knowledge. There must be a fearful reckoning on the great day of ac count against those who pervert their powers to such unworthy ends, and thus trifle with the soul i that is to live for ever. Norah s a delightful char acter—the only really estimable one in the family . ; for, in consequence of the crushing system employed, Ellen's energies were so paralysed, that we can hardly form an opinion of her real capabilities, and she appears almost a nonentity, not daring to assert an opinion of her own, and occasioning sorrow to others and misery to herself by her weakness and cowardice. Col. Oliphant has some striking quali ties, but he is hasty and suspicious, and he was very much to blame at the last for sacrificing his own happiness, and still more that of Ellen, to false pride and offended dignity, when he might have reflected that Anne Kerr wa§ his enemy, and she was sure to tyrannise over her young sister. It is not surprising; considering her delicacy of consti tution, that the continued sufferings and the harassing recollections should have done the work of the destroyer, and sent the persecuted young girl to an early grave. It was not likely that the har dened heart of Miss Kerr should be alive to any kindly feelings of regret or sympathy, at such sor row, so meekly borne, and so fair a life un timely' -withered, but in the still times that will intervene in the most busy life, her conscience must have risen up in judg ment against her, for her actions admitted of no palliation. Lord John Oakleigh is a weak, irresolute man, who might have created great mischief had not Ellen been so straightforward and true. Cecil, his sister, is a charming character, with no pretentions, and she maintains her ascendancy over the regard when we find her no fashionable acqu a i n tance of the hour —but a true friend, and under no very pro mising ci rcumstances. A sad page from life's his tory is here placed before us, a n d it will interest so me from its pleasing style and natural descrip tions. The spirit with which the author is actuated is a noble reverence for the pure and the good, and thus the work possesses a merit apart from its at tractive story, in its skilful delineation of social e vils, arising from prejudice and pride, and may be regarded as a successful attempt to combine in struction with amusement. Haworth. Originally . _ published in Fraser's Magazine. J. VW. Parker. Those who have read this tale in the pages of Fraser's Magazine will be glad to meet it again in a more connected form. It is a story of English social life very pleasantly told. The characters are varied and cleverly drawn, their individuality is preserved, and many of them are lifelike. The two chief characters, Margaret and Edith, though attached friends, become unconscious rivals, and the unimpressionable hero who has defied the attractions of all fair heroines, unfortunately makes a mistake in his selection, and receives a somewhat ungenerous rebuff. The two friends are the most prominent figures in the scene, but there are many others. Lord Hanworth himself is an: attractive character in spite of his want of penetration, and a slight degree of self-satisfaction. Mr. Stirling does not divide the interest appertaining to the hero at all. Mr. and Mrs. Charlton, the poet and his wife, are charming characters, and Mr. Vernon is a quaint and original portrait. Sir Simon Howell, , the prosy and pompous country gentleman, is ably sketched, and his wife is a fair sample f a cor rect and mediocre woman of the world. Lady miakton, her spirited friend, is a sketch often met wit,b. in the pages of fiction, as well as in ' society. ;Many minor figures are introduced, such as the lady who enjoyed her friend's troubles, and who fill up the scene. The story is an interesting one, though &pending more upon the develop ment of charactex than the excitement of events. The conclusion is A: little too abrupt, and the reader would have been more satisfied if it had seemed less hurried. It is agreeable volume, nevertheless, showing some knowletlge of life and character, and will add pleasantly to the shelf of fiction in many a library. 11M1M111 I?UMOU.RED TRAGEDY IN AMERICA We have great satisfaction in beilng enabled to contra dict, on the authority of the latest intelligence received from the spot, a report which has been copied into several Eng lish journals from an American newspaper, to the effect that three English gentlemen, younger sans of the Duke of Devonshire, the Marquis of Westminsi ei; and the Earl of Shaftesbury, had been murdered wig: te on their journey across the Prairies from the Mississippi to the Red River. The story seems ttf have originated in the murder of two Canadians who were killed in a dramken quarrel with a tribe of Sioux Indians in that country.- —Morning Post. THE ATLANTIC CABLE.—VAL F:NTIA, Dec. 6. The shore end of the cable has been lo id and a splice made with the deep sea-line, five miles out; at sea. Capt. Kell, who has been laying this portion of t3'€' cable, and has been here since the middle of October, le ayes for London to morrow, but expects to return in t. spring to underrun more of the deep sea-line. The se.k ooner Stag, which arrived here on the 26th of Octol with seven miles of shore cable from London, leaves iml ucdiately with all the spare cable and stores. Mr. Collet t is the only member of the Atlantic Telegraph staff left, IL ad he is to remain in charge during the winter. AMERICAN MAILS.—The Liv erpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer • Kangaroo left the Mersey at half-past 12 yesterday (' Nednesday), for New York ; with the United States mails, 140 passengers, and a full and valuable cargo of fine maw tfactures, a consider able portion of which were Irish Jit lens. The Cunard steamship Asia sails for New York or t Saturday, the 11th instant, with the usual mails. LE tiers received at the Liverpool Post-office until ten a.m., with late fees till eleven a.m., and on the landing stage until twelve noon. MAILS FOR SWEDEN.—Notice has been issued from the General Post-office that tle? packets conveying mails once a week between Grimsby and Gothenburgh, under a contract with the Swedish Go•ire rnment, are about to cease their voyages, the last vessel being appointed to sail from Grimsby on the morning of th©, 11th instant, after which date, therefore, no mails can be se nt by that route until the re-opening of the navigatipl t next spring ; of which due notice will be given. THE ATLANTIC CABLE. The question as to the replacing of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable is likely to be decided in a few days. The company have made application to the Govern ment for a guarantee of 41 per cent. on, £537,000, subject to the same conditions as that of the Red Sea line, and this has been backed by memorials signed by the leading firms, not only of London, but of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Halifax, Bradford, Hull, Glasgow, Paisley, and Norwich. Supposing it to be granted, contracts will immediately be concluded for a new cable, and any negotiations that may be thought de sirable with the American Government will subsequently be entered into. No attempts can be made, with any prospect of success, to lift the old cable until the return of calm weather at the end of April or May, and, even under the best circumstances, the expectations with regard to the operation are not favourable. Meanwhile it has been definitively ascertained that the existing damage was not at the shore end. The laying of the new end has been completed to a distance of 12 miles out from Valentia, and the portion taken up was found to be in a perfect condition for all electrical purposes. Experiments lately under taken by a person previously unconnected with the enterprise strongly support the original infer ence, that the main fault is about 270 miles from the Irish coast, at a depth probably of 900 fathoms. There is also a fault on the other side, which is thought to be about 300 miles from Newfoundland. Currents, however, still continue to be received, although of a kind so feeble and uncertain as to be useless for any practical purpose. At present the telegraph is in charge of Mr. Henley, who is manufacturing an apparatus such as his expe rience on the spot leads him to think may yet possibly lead to some results, but in no case could there be a hope of achieving permanently any satisfactory communication otherwise than by an entirely new line. After the unanimous ext•ression of opinion, not merely by the 6ammer cial towns but the people at large, that the work is one the nation should not allow to fail, it may be presumed there is little doubt of the required help being accorded, subject to such stipulations as may protect the general interests of the public. Among other provisions some modifications in the construc tion of the Board might, perhaps, be advantageously demanded. FRANCE AND THE ENGLISH PRESS. and dwindled under the superincumbent shadow of the Imperial throne. The manly virtues died away in an abject deliquium of self-contempt. The Roman world dozed and rotted into corruption, with the rescriptS of livinc , Emperors for its law, and the worship of_ dead Emperors for its religion. But is our Europe ripe for this degeneracy ? Have the heroic struggles of the past, the restless ten dencies of the present, the irrepressible hopes of the future, no other goal than this ? Is the modern world prepared to precipitate itself into this " obli vious pool" of silence and torpor ? We know that it is not. Here and there, even in this land of free dom, the dotage of senile selfishness may fold itself in its cloak of comfort, and sink resigned to this in glorious death. But the base contagion has not spread. The heart of this people is sound, and its spirit is fearless and strong. Elsewhere there may be torpor and apathy, but there is health and life left here. As we think and feel, so shall we speak and write. As journalists and Englishmen we re spect in others the privileges we exercise ourselves. Leaving the Bubble-blower and hi: admirers to the well-earned contempt of freemen, we hereby tender our thanks to the great Journal which has never more nobly exerted its power and eloquence than in confronting, against the most dangerous and insidious despotism of modern times, the bold ex pression of Engish indignation and the broad prin ciples of English freedom.—Dady News. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. An elderly gentleman of some literary accom plishment has put himself at the head of a forlorn hope of the abject and the timorous, in an attempt to c i r cumscribe the outspoken freedom of the English Press. The letters of Sir Francis Head, though in terms addressed to a distinguished cotem porary, must be regarded as an indirect attack upon all those English journals which, with less literary power it may be, but certainly with not less bold ness of language, nor with less strength of convic tion, have spoken what they have felt to be the truth of the Emperor and the Empire. This sin cerity and plain speaking are repulsive to the taste, and di s tressing to the nerves, of the accomplished valetudinarian. His sense propriety is offended ; his nice perception of what is due to the comity of nations is outraged ; above all, his apprehensions excited up to the panic point. Trembling with suppressed disgust and pale with ill-concealed terror, the old man of the " Bubbles" and the " Faggots " adjures us to be gentlemanly, and silent, and base. " For God's sake, gentlemen, whatever you may think and feel, don't express it. The Emperor and the Empire are no business of yours. France has chosen the one and likes the other. No other government is possible there. If an evil (which for my part I don't believe), it is a necessary one. Remember, too, that this Imperator is the master of 400,000 legionaries. The French nation is irritable. The French soldier is impetuous. London is defenceless. Beware." Such is the quintescence of the Head letters. Sweep away the seugce and the focci, and this remains. This is the plausible baseness whose echo is now great in all Clubs, and whose sound has gone forth into all the regions of servility. These are the sentiments which everywhere find ready currency with the elderly and the, selfish ; with the cold egotists whose gods are comfort and cent. pet cent. ; with the feeble and contracted natures to whom the vigorous play of free institutions is a bewilderment and a terror, which they would gladly exchange, though they shrink from the infamy of the avowal, for the silence and order of servitude. Now, then, let us tell, not these men, for they are incapable of conviction and unworthy of argument, but those who may have for a moment been misled by their fallacies, why the free Press of England _cannot, withou' base treason to its highest func tions, prostrate itself before that image of iron and clay to which they offer up their feeble and fulsome incense—the homage of meanness and fear. What is it that we mean when we talk of the free Press of England ? The free Press of England is the free expression of the moral sense of England—not of the conventional basenesses of society—not of the guarded unmeaningness of diplomacy—not of the solemn and measured conclusions of administrative power—but of those deep convictions and of those high instincts which reside, and by God's blessing will ever reside, deep in the heart of this people, whose proud prerogative it is and ever has been " to teach the nations how to live." The free Press of England is charged with the function of acting as chorus in the eventful drama of European history ; as Tribune in the complex polity of modern civilisa tion. The free Press of England cannot without base recreancy to the high duties thus cast upon it, consent to assist in silence at the triumphal pro -1 cession of the ,successful conqueror of a nation's liberty. Where public outrage is done to freedom —where the landmarks of ancient right are defaced and trampled down—where the expression of free thought is made a crime, and the admiration of free institutions the passport to a prison,—there the free Press of England, under pain of forfeiting all that has made it a power and a shield, is bound to speak boldly and aloud. It is its imperative and solemn duty to proclaim to Europe that the moral sense of England protests against these things. It is there for the very purpose of making that pro test. It is of high concern for the future of Europe that such protest should be made. What would be come of the hopes of the nations if the only power that can speak out, among the only • people that dare speak out, shoullook on calmly acquiescent at each evolving seen M that great drama of force and fraud P Are the old gentlemen who button themselves up in the placid ignominy of comfort content with the prospect of the Empire every where and England nowhere ? Is even their fright ened Ancient, the literary blower of " Bubbles" and colleetor of " Faggots," resigned to such a future? If not, let even these men for once seriously bethink themselves of the mighty force of opinion in regulating the destinies of the world. If the English press had accepted the empire and its con sequences in silence, what would have been the inevitable conclusion of Europe? Simply this—that the foremost free State of the modern world had no real value for her own institutions—cherished, in fact, an intimate conviction that orderly despotism was preferable to turbulent freedom. Let these opinions be once firmly established, and the moral influence of England as a paramount power in the world's history is at an end for ever. It is our freedom that has made us great, and our freedom that keeps us so. It is the general conviction that we treasure this freedom, that we would shed the last drop in our veins before parting with it, that gives hope and vigour to our only natural allies— the friends of liberty throughout the world. The press of England us charged not only with the maintenance and defence of English freedom, but with the hope of the world's future. A function thus grave is not to be discharged without gravity and earnestness. What the heart feels deeply, the tongue and the pen will express manfully and boldly. It is oily the fribblers of fashion or the sycophants of slavery who are offended with the outspoken utter ances of a deep conviction, because their phrase olOgy may lack something of the emasculate repose " which marks the caste of Vere de Vere." There is another consideratien not altogether to be forgotten. It is not only the ruled but the rulers who have a deep interest in the maintenance of this salutary freedom of speech. Power itself stands greatly in need of the untrammelled expres sion of free opinion as a corrective to those excesses which, if uncorrected! lead by an unerring Nemesis to one of two conclusions—universal degeneracy or universal revolt. The great historian of the Decline and Fall of Rome has noted it as one of the worst a ggravations of the old world's splendid servitude, that the bounds of the Imperial despotism were conterminous with the limits of human civilisation, so that the victims of tyranny had no refuge or asylum from its pu rsu it. It may well be doubted whether it was n o t a t l eas t as great an evil that over that vast region there brooded the enforced silence of stifled opinion and enslaved 'thought. The excesses of tyranny were unchecked by the voice of opposition ; the extremity of servitude found no solace in the freedom of remonstrance or complaint. When the Roman world was one wide scene of leaden peace and languid contentment; when material prosperity was at the highest point; when all was luxury and ease and enervating voluptuousness ; when no free thought stirred the languid air, no free voice broke the abject silence, then the Utopia of enlightened despotism, of or dered and regulated obedience, seemed to be realised on earth. But we know the issue of these things. It was no healthfUl calm that then held mankind tranquil, but a fatal trance. The faculties and energies of the race dwarfed The wisdom of the course adopted by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton in entrusting an important mission to 'Mr. Gladstone is already justified by the results. The last mentioned gentleman' arrived in Corfu to wards the end of November, held communication with the principal authorities, addressed • the lonian Senate, received a reply, and had within the lapse of a few days produced a favourable im pression upon those with whem he came in con tact. The people seem generally gratified at the dignified yet conciliatory policy of the British Go vernment, and. instead of clamouring for imprac- ticable schemes, or evincing an unwillingness to co-operate in a well-meant endeavour to improve their condition, display an anxiety to aid the Lord High Commissioner Extraordinary in his investi gations. In fact, the anticipations formed by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton in seeking the valuable assist ance of Mr. Gladstone, have been fully realised. The reputation and the lofty attainments of the member for the University of Oxford command the respect of the lonians, of all classes, and they feel convinced that in entrusting such a mission to a statesman whose character is so well known and appreciated in Europe the Government were ac tuated by a sincere desire to find a satisfactory and therefore an honourable, solution of the difficilty. In reply to the unjust remarks of captious critics, a few days since, we explained the nature of Mr. Gladstone's mission, showing the question raised-in the dispatches, fraudulently obtained and hastily published, did not come within the scope of the same. Mr. Gladstone, in his temperate and judi cious speech to the lonian Senate, clearly enforces this view. After some preliminary remarks on the ~ nature of his commission, the anxiety of her Ma jesty for the welfare of the lonian people, and the embarrassments that have heretofore from time to time beset the action of the institutions established under the Treaty of Paris, he proceeds to explain the actual terms of the relationship existing be tween Great Britain and the lonian Islands, and the objects of his mission, in these words :—" On the one side the British protectorate over these islands, on the other the substantive existence of the lonian state and its title to constitutional government, having their respective roots in the Treaty of Paris, are derived from a source higher than the will of any single state, whether sovereign or subordinate. They form a portion of the pub lie law of Europe, They cannot be infringed or altered by any authority inferior to that from which they flow. It is, therefore, readily to be understood, alike from the terms of the commission and from the reason of the case, that my mission avoids every ulterior question that could derogate from the relations in which, by the - concert of so many great states, England and the islands have been reciprocally placed. The liberties guaranteed by the Treaty of Paris and by the lonian law are, in the eyes of her Majesty , sacred. On the other hand, the purpose for which she has sent me is not to inquire into the British protectorate, but to examine in what way Great Britain may most honourably and amply discharge the obligations which, for purposes European and lonian, rather than British, she has contracted. There are certain sapient authorities who pretend that the Ministerial interpretation of the treaty by which England wields the protectorate over these islands is altogether untenable, and they will doubtless not abandon their error on account of its exposure by Mr. Gladstone. The majority of the public will, however, receive the clear and just a% - position given by the honourable gentleman preference to the prejudiced views of dissatisfied writers. It is not, therefore, to upset but to deve: lope the advantages of existing institutions, to find . a remedy for what is bad, and to strengthen wh at is good, that her Majesty has been pleased to all" point, and Mr. Gladstone to accept, this importan t mission. England, as the protector of the lonian, Islands, wishes to ensure the welfare and repose of their inhabitants, and with that view will do ail' thing consistent with her own dignity as well as with that of the lonians themselves. Any viola: tion of the obligation of existing treaties could lie' be for a moment entertained, and those writers Nvll ° have attempted to misrepresent both the intention s of the Government at home, and the objects of gr' Gladstone's mission, will find in the proceeding s before the lonian Senate a complete refutatio n of the fallacies which they have put forth, and the, severest condemnation of their unconstitution al proceedings. Information andEcoun;il on the state of th e islands and the laws are sought by Mr. Gladstone: and more particularly information and counsel thin', may assist the protecting power in the benevole 7 object for the attainment of which a Lord Commissioner Extraordinary has been specie t o appointed. The President of the lonian Sol responded to Mr. Gladstone's appeal for aid an_, co-operation, promising that every informatt every document and assistance that might 1- 0 required, should be readily furnished. Thus, in 0 short time, the way has already been paved for a better understanding between Great Britain 01 1 0 the lonian Government and people, as evinced the reception accorded to Mr. Gladstone, and r„ the favourable impression the honourable gentl,'l, man has made upon members of all classes, b c ' o , those who have had personal experience of his 111 , 0 , deration and sincerity, and those who only 1 0 , ° t4 of them from the report of others. A differ encountered in this manner may be said to be be st conquered, and we venture to augur the nr ii , auspicious results from this much-maligned mise l l l o A better feeling is rapidly springing up amongst ' 0 lonians themselves, and we have reason to belle ° , that many are already convinced of the folly of ad s ;l l eating impracticable schemes while the Brit do Government displays such a strong desire to,l everythill• to promote the welfare and to lons, the liberties of the inhabitants of these isla n by placed under its care. At a public levee, held Mr. Gladstone at the Palace of St. Michael an d " o f George, the attendance of the respectable portl exi b ie the inhabitants was, in spite of very u nfavoura_ e , weather, most numerous ; and the honourable gl, tleman is hourly . growing more popular, and ning golden opinions from the lonian people every shade of opinion and rank in life. tioa It is more than probable that a satisfactory sol n of this perplexing and. long-agitated question vv ii, I •L e t amongst the services rendered by Sir E. Lytton during his career at the C o l on ial-ow c e j The influence of a better and mor e enlightets9 policy in this department of the Government iief already made itself felt, and we can hardly vi" 01 1 61• at the annoyance and h ars h cr iti c i sm o f the. - 0e • mirers of the old system of red tape and ren,t„ l e je What they declared t o b e an ins u p er able el's,' 0 0 is speedily rem ove d, an d by the exerc i se of ono sense, impartiality, and sound principles, even it o most formidable perils are overcome. Had the t'ity Ministry remained in office the lonian di o lli c i o would in all probability have gone on increa 9 o4 until either menace or calamity suddenly 0; 3 8 , 0 0 public attention to the matter. Sir Bu s e dfe Bulwer Lytton had the sagacity to Per o ia that prevention is infinitely better than curT e oce, determined to put an end to a state of affairs 3 % 0 o f unseemly and embarrassing. Hence the orig„ ea i 0 Mr. Gladstone's mission, from which the hetrdo; results are already anticipated. The Englis'tat vernment, by entrusting to this distine - ;00 statesman so delicate a task, have convinced a ief, the lonians themselves of their desire to r e justice, and whilst maintaining the IntegraJoil treaties, to place their institutions upon a 8r 133 005 ° satisfactory footing, and to secure to then' f ace; blessings which invariably follow a r igid en ( 0 ` menu of righteous laws. A chronic condit l° ol 4 agitation is not favourable to progress and prosP eo pl° and none have suffered more than the lonian p t tb o from the idle and useless clamour raised agate tartish protectorate. THE ATLANTIC CABLE.--LA memorial ba' s h estr o , forwarded to the Lords of the Treasury fromthe Chamber of Commerce, praying them to afford im c ob, assistance towards the laying of a new telegraPu'"bl between Great Britain and North America, eithero guarantee upon fresh capital subscribed, or by a sil b 0 t o aid of renewed operations, or by such other rueatill their wisdom may appear best calculated""cftet' secure the desired object. ~-~` TB Th ere any imp, Cnp caz Lieut. Commas Lieut.( Sur ge , Clark; ALCM Duni Present Which the cli Other s annual Inents. PrOspei at hOT du r i ng be g i vc all the corresp a 'nark Propri( ls also operate The to this bale s Rail' taatioi The arrive have t. The in Lo Condi] COnsec Witne specie not the c there lank Abou whiel gate i days. TIIE 6s. be( TAB Th th e n mean surpt Th dull Well tinu€ Savii bong tion gage ferre The) alter pries The NeNi ties, Mar ditt< deal doz( 92 issu is n Nei eel) Spa bee tai tur Noi lan lit Ul Ei