The Sun. — London, England, 1860-11-21 00:00:00

OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT ' GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE NIGHT DANCERS. Messrs H. Haigh, H. Core, G. Kelly, Distin, and Lyall ; Madame Palmieri, Miss Albertazzi, Miss Lefllzr, Miss Thirlwall, and Wes Huddart. And II Ballet of Action Ambuscade. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Doors open at 'Seven. Commence at Hall-past THEATRT2,*-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lemee, Mr. J. B. Backstone. THIS EITEN LNG the pertormanoes will oommenee with THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leelenge. After which, THE BABES IN THE WOOD. And MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER. Commence at 7. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Mane:4 . er, Mr. A. Harris. "PHIS EVENING, an adaptation of Victor Hugo's cele br.-ated Play of RUY BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. %,vhen Mr. Pechter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown, will make his 22d appearance on the English stage, supported by Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond, Iforland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose Leolercq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. To be preceded by SUSAN SMITH. To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS 'NIVF , NIN(-1, the performances will commence with TFIE YOUNG WIDOW. Mr. IT Neville, Mr. J. Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, and Miss Ros , ! Howard. Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNE ; or THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers. Mr. G. Vining, Mr. Forrester. Mr. Campbell„ Mr. Clifford, Mr. .J. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste. After which, THE PE fS OF THE PARTERRE. Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott. The Music by Mr. George Loder. Principal characters by Mr IT. Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Ternan, Miss Neville, MissHndspeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner, Miss Douglas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7. AngLPHT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Ben). Webster. Eliza zement for a limited number of nights of Miss Agnes Rol>ertson and Mr. Dion Boneicault, who will appear every evening in the highly successful Drama of "The Colleen Bawn." THTS EVENING, THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Messrs. W. Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs. Billington. After whir h, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boneicanit, D. Fisher. Bill ington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith. Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Clhat'rerley. To conr;lade with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David Tighe r. Doors open at half-past s—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 25. ; Family Boxes,' 1. Orohr estra Stalls , ss. • Balcony, 4 s. ; Front C i rcle Stalls, h. • Pit Stalls, 24. ; ; Amphitheatre, Is ;Gallery, 6d . Acting m a nager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A S.,TL - EY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- .. 71.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY. Triumphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand Spectacle of Ronrc Hoot.. Last Six Nights. This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three .Acts, by NI. Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or. the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly trained Horses, Herd o f rea l D eer, Stag Hounds , A.lan a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit chard. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome and their Troupe of unequalled performers, &c., including the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest Wonder of the age. Doors open at half-Fast t 3, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4 Staze Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CA NTERB UR Y HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. Norma Miss RUSSELL. Adaldea .................... Madame MARIA, (Her first appearance in this country.) XI ter which the ETHIOPIANS, consisting of Seventeen Par formrcs, organised expressly for this establishment, for the Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley Fox. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS. Balcony, I e 'fall, ed. THE WEATHER.-53in4 OFFICE, Nov. 21, 1860. THERMOICETEN, IN THE SHADE. e 46 —highest since soon yesterday. 35—lowest this morning and during the night. 41—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.78 ; falling. WIND--Southerly to West; light, with dull weather, inclining to rain. ONE O'CLOCK.—Rain has begun. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Thin !)AY.—Morning, 7h. 44m.—Afternoon, Bh. 19m. ru -monnow.-Morning, Bh. 54m.—Afternoon, 9h. 27m. T E SUN. 'N'J( N, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 21, iseo. ;sl . r. BRIGHT has now been so long silent that Ws reappearance upon that broad political rostrum of England, the public platform, will be hailed, we are quite sure, upon all sides and by all parties with unalloyed satisfaction. Occupying as he does the foremost place among our few great living Orators —a place of absolute pre-eminence as the boldest and most outspoken among the still fewer great living Tribunes of the People—his opinions, how ever.much we are any of us constrained at times to differ from them, never fall upon inattentive ears ; they always command attention (even when we dis sent from them utterly and entirely) as the opinions of a keen-witted, liberal-minded, silver-tongued, and —contradictory though the phrases may seem when looked at—upright, downright Englishman. With a great deal of COBBETT'S arrogance in the enunciation of his views, Mr. BRIGHT has all COBBETT'S racy command of our good Saxon English vernacular in the mere manner of their articulation. To this, however, he adds an elo quence entirely his own, an eloquence that Old Gridiron never pretended to, an eloquence that he certainly would only have made himself ridiculous by even aiming at. But through all those rhetorical graces for which Mr. BRIGHT'S rare gift of oratory is remarkable, there runs at all times a lucidity, really only comparable to that which is the paramount and would be, but for Mr. BRIGHT, the wholly matchless charm of both the written and spoken style of the author of the " History of the Protestant Reformation." As with COBBETT so is it with BRIGHT in regard to this characteristic of lucidity. However much we may and do differ at moments from the e emolusions arrived at by both one and the other, we can never be under any misappre hension as to what they either of them mean ; nor, for that matter, can we be without an instant and en d ur i ng adm i rat i on for the way in which that meaning of theirs is expressed. Always remembering, always acknowledging that, in Mr. BRIGHT'S instance, our admiration is paid not only as in COBBBTT'S to the bold, manly reasoner, one who (rare gift even in these days) can call a spade a spade, but above all, and in a very particular manner, to- one of those Arch-Tribunes of the with the rarest powers of P eo ple who combines oratory an unflinching and conscientious devotion at all hours, and under all circumstances, to the great principles of his political cre e d. BRIGHT has often before now dishonoured him self, dishonoured his tongue of eloquence, di s _ honoured his otherwise f rank and mas. imputing the paltriest and culine reputation by even the basest motives to public journalists, who, like ourselves, have hhd the hardihood to give ex pression as ultra-Liberals to sentiments or opinions in any way in opposition to his own. From that miserablest retaliation of all, the lu quoque, we have always, throughout these differences, shrunk : not only from an instinctive repugnance to a course in itself sufficiently abhorrent to us, but because even supposing that instinctive repugnance of ours could by any possibility have been non-existent, it would have been as entirely ridiculous to have ever directed in retort any wretched insinuations of this kind against Mr. BRIGHT, as we believe it must long since have been in the estimation of every mind but Mr. BRIGHT'S, to have directed those obsolete jibes and _scurrilities against the guardians and con- I servitors of that Palladium of our English Liberties, the Press, against the responsible members of the band of English journalists. As one of that band we must yet continue to reserve to ourselves in Mr, BRIGHT'S regard, as in that of every other public man, no matter of what class or of what party, the privilege, whenever our conscience or our judgment so dictate, of avowing opinions wholly in opposition to those advanced by Mr. BRIGHT himself or by any one of Mr. BRIGHT'S contemporaries. Our principles upon so many important matters connected with the national polity being in a great measure absolutely identical with those advocated with such distin guished eloquence and consummate ability by Mr. BRIGHT, it is always with the more regret for that very reason that we ever find ourselves compelled to differ from him--as we have differed from him again and again before now, and as we doubtless may have to differ from him yet not unfrequently. Dissent from his views we certainly shall (how ever reluctantly) under the like contingencies, as we hold ourselves at perfect liberty under the same contingencies to dissent from the views of any one in the wide world. And we must certainly con tinue to do so none the less frankly in Mr. BRIGHT'S regard, because while so doing we may be liable again, forsooth, to become the target for those poisoned but pointless and barbless scurrilities which he has shown himself only too ready before now to direct (most unbecomingly and ungratefully on his own part) against that buckler of our na tional liberties, the iEgis of English journalism. The comprehensive address delivered by Mr. BRIGHT last evening in the Corn Exchange Build ings, at Wakefield, will be read now far and wide throughout England with the liveliest pleasure by all ranks and classes of Englishmen. It is expres sive of views in every way worthy of the represen tative of the Liberal constituency of Birmingham, and virtually of a far larger Liberal constituency than the constituency of Birmingham. The hon. member takes a clear, bold, bright-eyed survey of the political situation. As a good-humoured pre liminary to doing so, however, what possibly could be more thoroughly delightful than the momentary glance he took (by the way) at a description of public meeting entirely different from the one which he himself was then addressing in Wakefield— those meetings which he described as all having the same rule, all going generically under the name of " Agricultural Meetings ?" At those particularly pastoral and bucolic gatherings, Mr. BRIGHT observed, "he fouud that nearly every speaker, after just glancing at tur nips or some other agricultural matter, shot off at once into political disquisitions ; and that if he were a Conservative, he generally praised Lord PALMERSTON, and attacked Mr. GLADSTONE, or so humble an individual as Mr. BRIGHT." And then followed this deliciously humorous silhouette of the country gentleman proper, as depicted in the keenest outline by the Member for Birming ham. " The country gentlemen of the North," said Mr. BRIGHT, " were rather an odd class of men, and if there could be a photograph of one of those gentlemen, showing not only his outward and physical body, but his mental lineaments, there could be no doubt it would represent a man with a robust constitution, and of very confused notions." It is the very ideal of the country gentle man sketched out to aT. No wonder the " laugh ing audience" at Wakefield roared their apprecia tion. Disavowing any intention whatever of fol lowing in the footsteps of these same ponderous country gentlemen, Mr. BRIGHT further prefaced his survey of the political situation by yet more distinctly announcing his intention not to touch in any way upon mere party politics in the remarks that might afterwards fall from his lips. A wider and ampler survey in truth was the one taken yesterday by the great Tribune, who stands in fact intermediately,between all parties—apart from any party whatever—and therefore all the more capable of taking a strictly impartial view of the actual position of things around him from the elevation of his individual independence. Having referred to the wider and wider diffusion of a more correct knowledge of the science of political econo my which has marked the interval between the present time and the final abolition of the Corn Laws in 1845, Mr. BRIGHT uttered an opinion in reference to the Commercial Treaty recently con eluded at Paris between France and England, an opinion that falling from his lips in word so mea sured and emphatic, is entitled, in this country especially, to the most respectful consideration. He expressed his belief, the telegram already in forms us, "that those who lived as many years hence as had elapsed since the repeal of the Corn laws would have the same opinion of the advantage of the step which has just been taken with regard to France, wlich was now held as to the step taken in 1846 in regard to the Corn-laws." We shall see—time will show—let us only (now that the Treaty is actually signed and completed) wait patiently—trusting in the mean time that all these confident and most encourag ing predictions may be realised to the full—pre dictions falling from great masters of the science of political economy, such as the two great apostles of Free-trade, Mr. COBDEN, the negotiator of the Treaty, and Mr. BRIGHT, its original suggestor As for the rest of the important subjects touched upon by the hon. member for Birmingham last night down at Wakefield, we must now content ourselves with referring to the report of Mr. BRIGHT'S last speech, given elsewhere in our im pression of this evening, a speech in every parti cular worthy of this eminent and liberal English man. GARIBALDI has withdrawn to Caprera, but the spirit he has breathed into Southern Italy cannot be withdrawn. It has made the want of his pre sence felt already, and it is to be feared the want of it will be felt more and more. The KING and GARIBALDI in the South were as naturally asso. ciated in men's minds as the KING and Count CATOUR in the North, and the departure from the GARIBALDI policy has already begun to tell un favourably on the population. The KING has him self had audible illustration of the popular attach ment to the General since-the latter departed, and in a manner which seemed hardly complimentary to Royalty. We read also of insurrections in the Abruzzi, which certainly cannot be against GARIBALDI and his followers, for the moun taineers of that district cordially welcomed the Liberator : we sus p ec t th a t th ey cons i s t c hi e fl y o f those who preferred the Dictator and his volun teers to the KING and his regular army, and who hoped for legislation specially adapted to their wants and W i shes. Even the middle classes of Naples appear to feel annoyed that the Castle of St. Elmo, the badg e of their subjection to despo tism, the Bastil e of Naples, s h ou l d b e retained and armed afresh. Moreover, a s if the retention of the Castle, whose demolition GARIBALDI had decreed, were not enough, the National Guard were walked out of it, and the Piedmontese regulars walked in, by a trick, which produced the unpleasant impres sion that the Be Galantuomo had "done them." But, apart from all the lesser nnpleasantness es , i t may be reasonably doubted whether the KING and, the Count have pursued the wisest poTley in wil - i.".;:5,, :7..,:•-:;.: .. - • . ~ 4, : 5".41 ' ' ... . .... 9e , P...,. *,-,•'. ''' .. - '' " 41/ ": t _ .'• 496 ' N ~. ` — '4' ...,,, :. • ~..:: 4. * - — le ........,, !4 •••...., „.. _;,, ~,,,,, ~ .4.,ifi , ~., •,,.. 9..,„ , •-. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1860 fering GARIBALDI to leave, and his noble band to be broken up. The difficulties of retaining I them were many and obvious, but might they not have been overcome ? There is a general feeling throughout Europe, that the noblest patriot this generation has seen, or is likely to see, has with his patriot band not received the treatment they merited. If we might Frenchify in expression a little, we should say, the liberal conscience of Europe is not satisfied, while the enemies of VICTOR EMMANUEL and of free institutions can exclaim —see how those are treated who deserved well, assuredly,of those who have slightsd them. But look ing only at the desirableness of working the great revolution quietly, ought not the Garibaldians to have received full satisfaction. They had deserved it ; and to them the newly emancipated people chiefly looked. It was not the King of PIEDMONT'S name which gave GARIBALDI a place in the hearts of the Southern Italians; but just the reverse — VICTOR EMMANUEL was accepted because GARI BALDI trusted him. Could it be wise in Count CAVOUR to advise his Monarch to break the wand with which he charmed ? Has he not by so doing opened the door to the causes of coldness and dis union among his new subjects. Had he any means of attaching them to his will so effectual as using merely the influence of GARIBALDI. The principal demand of the great General was on behalf of his followers. He wished his decrees to remain in force, none of them being in any way in conflict with constitutional Government ; if any of these were not adapted to bo permanent, that of course could have been matter of after discussion, for GARIBALDI has not shown himself an imprac ticable man. But dearer still to him than this was the position of the remnant of that noble band which had landed at Marsala, had triumphed over the hundred thousand of the Royalist troops, and after their miraculous campaign had placed a Crown in VICTOR EMMANUEL'S hands. Was any honour too much for them at the hands of the King and the Italians ? At almost any inconve nience, it will appear to distant observers, these men ought to have been scrupulously guaranteed all the honours, promotions, and and posts assigned them by GARIBALDI. They would have been but few in number in the much larger Piedmontese army ; they Might have needed a little more discipline and training; but means should have been found to save the pride, at least in no way to wound the natural feelings of men in their position. Unless better proof to the contrary than we have yet seen be furnished, the general opinion will be that CAYOUP. would have done better to retain the Volunteer Army, to let it act as a corps by itself, to retain, in great part, their peculiar habits which have proved so useful, and thus to have had at command a body of Irregulars, as they might be termed, which would assuredly not have been one of the least formidable portions of the Italian army. Count CAVOUR and his master evidently antici pate war sooner or later with Austria. The spring is looked forward to by all parties with not a little anxiety. And then Italy's great neighbour, who boasts of having initiated her liberation, while she holds her capital in servitude, will treat Italy with respect in proportion to her strength. We believe that both Austria and France would fear more an Italian army, one of whose wings was composed of such men as skirted the foot of the Alps in the Italian campaign, everywhere routing the Austrians, or as marched from Marsala to Naples without a defeat, than an army com posed wholly of regular troops. For the defence of Italy surely a body of troops could hardly have been devised more suitable than one on whose movements no foe can calculate, and whose onset at an unexpected hour no regular soldiers have withstood, or probably can withstand. We do not doubt Count CAVOUR'S loyalty to his great object, but we Lust doubt whether all the wisdom is with him. There has ever been an in spiration of genius as in NELSON, DUNDONALD, NAPIER, GARIBALDI, • and their class whose value is unfelt by routine statesmen and commanders. They thwart it. They condemn the prophet, whose sword can fulfil his own prodictions, to inaction ; but another generation rectifies the appreciation when it is too late to rectify the error. And the monument to the great becomes a monument also to the blindness of their contemporaries. His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess Bernstorff gave a grand entertainment on Mon day evening at Prussia House, to their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Holstein-Augustenbourg and their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen. The following were invited to meet their serene highnesses: —His Excellency the Bavarian Minister, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, Baroness Usedom, Count Blucher, Count Brandenburgh, Sir Thomas and Lady Cochrane, &c. Their Serene Highnesses the Hereditary Prince and Princess itolstein•Aug,ustenbourg have left Howchin's Hotel for Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. His Excellency the United States Minister and Mrs. Dallas returned to town oa Monday from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle. The Countess de Itottermund and General and Madame liermacloff have taken their departure from the Brunswick Hotel for Paris. Lady Catharine Allen and Miss Allen have arrived at Howchin'a Hotel, from their seat in South Wales. The Right Hon. Sir William Jolliffe and Colonel Taylor, M.P., have returned to town from Hughendon Manor, where they have been on a visit to the Right Hon. B. Disraeli. Sir William and Lady Hayter arrived at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, on Monday, from the Conti nent, and left on the following day for Southill-park, near Wokingham. COMPANIONS OF THE BATII.—Soap aid towQls. —Punch. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—The performances at this theatre on Thursday evening will be for the benefit of Mr. Wilde, the treasurer, a gentleman who performs not only the immediate duties of his office, but many others in which the comfort and convenience of the audience are in timately concerned, with a zeal, a thoughtfulness, and a courtesy which give hint the strongest claims upon the support of the public. The entertainments announced for the occasion are varied and attractive ; and a new farce, to be called " The Lion Slayer," with Mr. Compton in that formidable character, will be represented for the first time. DEATIL OF MR. WARRE, M.P.—We regret to announce the death of Mr. Warre, M.P. for the borough of Ripon. The event took place at his marine residence, West Cliff House, Ramsgate, on Sunday night. A fortnight previously he had attended the evening service at Christ Church, Ramsgate, and returning home took cold, which, acting on an enfeebled constitution, accelerated his death. Mr. Warre was a supporter of Lord Palmerston's adminis tration. He had just reached his 74th year. PRICE OF GOLD.--The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mille premium, and the short exchange on London is 25.271 per £ sterling. On comparing these rates with, the English mint price of £3 17s. lOid. per ounce for standird gold, it appears that gold is about 1-10th per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hitinburg the price of gold is 4241 per mark, and the short exchange en London is 13.4 k per £ sterling. Standard gold at the English mint price is, therefore, at about the same price in Hamburg and in London. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at sixty days' sight is about 108 per cent.,which, when compared with the mint par between the two countries, shows that the ex change is against England ; but, after making allowance for charges of transport and difference of in terest, the pre sent rate leaves no profit on the transmission of gold be tween the two countries. MANCHESTER UNITY OF ODD FELLOWS.—On Monday the Ancient Abbey Lodge at Waltham was visited by the officers of the North London District. A large number of members were assembled, and the evening's pro.. ceed lugs were of the liveliest character. P.P. G.M. Phipps, of Waltham, addressed the meeting on the progress of the Abbey District, which had but a small beginning twelve years since, but was now prosperous in numbers and funds. As usual, success depended on their exertions, and the members had worked well to spread the usefulness of the institution, and meant to do so. It was gratifying to End the parent district testified its approval of these efforts, and he asked them to give the honours of the order to their visitors, with P.G.s Gore, Shorgold, and Toms, from the other London lodges. Prov. G.M. Rough roturned thankr, and said his district looked with pleasure oat the success of its off-shoots, and was itself in a better position than it had ever been, and he proposed " Continued Prosperity to the Waltham Abbey District. C.L. Findlay replied, and said that in Enfield and Waltham they had new more than 800 th law:bet' etories ', a great number being workers in the Government L .‘ T E SNEW. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) MADRID, Nov. 20. The Marquis de Miraflores has been appointed Spanish Ambassador at Rome. The Queen has presented a rich sword to General Goyon. ROME, Nov. 17. The Piedmontese have occupied Terracina, and are marching upon the territory of Ponte Corvo. Cardinal Antonelli has protested against this fresh invasion of Roman territory. General Goyon has intimated to the Piedmontese to evacuate Terracina. Gaeta still resists, and its reduction offers diffi. culties. NAPLES, Nov. 17. Reactionary movements continue. The provinces of the Abruzzi have partly risen in insurrection. FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 20. The Patrie says :—" Austria is about to send an army of observation into Transylvania, on the Moldo-Wallachian frontiers." The Pays says :—" Five Neapolitan provinces are in a state of siege caused by the movement of the anti•annexionists." By a decree in the Moniteur, the Artillery Schools established at Vincennes, Douai, la Fere, Metz, Strasburg, Besancon, Toulouse, Rennes, Grenoble, and Versailles are maintained ; that at Lyons is suppressed ; that which had been estab lished provisionally at Valence is made permanent, and the one which formerly existed at Auxonne is re-established. These schools are divided into two classes—those of the first are at Versailles, Vincen nes, Metz, Strasburg, Grenoble, Toulouse, and Rennes; and those of the second at Douai, La Fere, Besancon, Auxonne, Valence, and Bourges. BOURSE, November 20.—The market has lost some of the buoyancy which was apparent yester day; stock has been rather offered, and prices are lower. For the Account, Threes, are now at 70f 15c. Alobilier, 768 f 75c ; Orleans, 1,390 f ; Nor thern, 987 f 50c ; Mediterranean, 941 f 25c ; Austrian, 547 f 50c; Lombard, 488 f 75c. The following are the last quotations : 4t per per Cents ... 95 Credit Fancier 915 Do end month.... 96 15 , Belgian 41 9Bi 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 15 Roman Bank Shares 2945 I Austrian Credit Mobilier.... I Spanish Threes — Do. Account 768 75 Home Debt 114ZZIN1 AND GARIBALDI. THE LATE LORD DUNDONALD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIIN. Sir,—Will you kindly oblige me by the insertion of the accompanying letters as being of importance to my father's memory no less than of some his torical interest ?—Your faithful servant, DUNDONALD. " 12, Queen's-gate, Kensington. "My dear Lord Brougham,—l have the pleasure to forward you the second volume of my auti biography, in which you will find that use has been made of the kind expressions towards myself contained in your works. " Of the injustice done to me I need not tell you who are so well acquainted with the subject. If the accompanying volume succeed in impressing on the public mind the sentiments so unflinchingly set forth in your works, it will have answered its pur pose, and that it will do so I see no reason to doubt now that the subject can be canvassed apart from political rancour.—l am, my dear Lord Brougham, every faithfully yours, " DUNDONALD. " The Right Hon. Lord Brougham." " Brougham, Oct. 31. " My dear C—.,—l have just received your very kind letter, and I daresay the volume which you tell me has been sent to Grafton-street will speedily reach me. Accept my best thanks for it, and for all you say of your obligations to me in connection with your trial. But I must remind you that both in my correspondence and in my book, though I expressed the clear and unhesitating opinion which I have always had in common with the rest of your counsel, yet I never approved of your charge against Ellenborough in the House of Commons, and in my book I have stated that he tried the cause as he would have tried any other in which he thought there was conflicting evidence. I think he was quite wrong in the opinions he had fbrmed, but honestly wrong, and the only complaint which we considered we had a right to make, and which we loudly made, was his forcing us to go on with our case, instead of adjourning at nine or ten o'clock. " I say nothing of the sentence, in which the other judges were quite as much to blame as the chief. I think justice to the departed requires that I should remind you of my opinion respecting Ellenborough, the more so because I have little doubt that I shall find a good deal said against him in your second volume. " One thing, I fear, you do not come down late enough to relate. I mean the impression made upon all present when I took you to the Tuileries, and when the name, so well known to them, C (and which I cannot bring myself to change for your present title), was no sooner beard than there was a general start and shudder. I remember saying as we drove away that it ought to satisfy you as to your disappointment at Basque Roads, and you answered that you would rather have had the ships. " Believe me ever, most sincerely yours, " H. BROUGHAM." " Paris, Nov. 1, 1860. " My Lord,—l have just finished the second volume of your lordship's instructive and agreeable work, with an amount of interest naturally height ened to one whose recollections extend over so much that you record ; but I have dwelt with more pain ful interest on that part which relates to your trial in 1814, and to the proceedings consequent upon it. " I deeply regret that after the receipt of the letter which your lordship addressed to me on the motion of which I had given notice in the House of Commons I did not act on the impression which that letter conveyed, and ground my motion on my belief of your innocence. But, though I felt bound to give credit to your asseveration, I was not pre pared to say that the verdict of the jury appeared to me wholly unsupported by the evidence brought before them. I thought it best, therefore, to abstain from comment on the trial, and to confine my speech (the first that I ever made on any public question in Parliament) as much as possible to reprobation of the brutal and barbarous sentence pronounced upon you. " Your lordship has quoted in your favour the opinions of the two greatest constitutional lawyers of our time, still happily spared to us in the full vigour of their intellectual powers. "To their authority might be added that of the late Lord Abinger, whom I myself heard declare some years after he became Chief Justice, at a dinner party at the late Sir George Phillip's, where the conversation happened to turn on your trial, that, having been one of your counsel, and fully acquainted with all the facts of the case, he was satisfied of your innocence, and that he believed it might have been established to the satisfaction of the jury if the judge had not arbitrarily hurried on the de fence at a late hour in the evening, and when all parties were wearied with the fatigue of a 12 hours' continuous sitting in court, though he had been ap plied to for an adjournment till the next morning. " I apprehend, however, that all question of your innocence was set at rest by your restoration to your naval rank by the Government of King Wil liam IV., in 1833, and to the Order of the Bath by that of her present Majesty in 1844, and, as I am at a loss to conceive why your restoration was not made as full and complete as that of Sir Robert Wilson, to which you refer, I cannot but hope that that tardy act of justice will yet be done to you by her Majesty's present honest and high-minded ad visers. " Every lover of his country ought to feel grateful to your Lordship for your able exposure of the manner in which the administration of justice, whether by courts-martial or courts of law, has heretofore, but within our own times, been per ♦erted to some party objects or personal resent ment, and every one will, I am sure, wise with me to receive from your powerful pen some further account of your eventful and distinguished career. —I beg to subscribe myself, with true respect, your Lordship's faithful and obedient servant, " FORTESCUE, "Admiral the Earl of Dondonald, G.C.8., Bcc." ELECT TON INTELLIqEIV CB. READING. READING, Nov. 20.—The quietest election which ever took place in Reading ended to-day in th• return of Mr. Sergeant Pigott. The learned gen tleman took the lead at the opeiling of the poll, and kept it until the close, when the numbers stood as follows : Pigott Walter 447 Majority for Pigott.... 130 There was a good deal of bustle during the day in the market-place, where all the polling-booths were congregated, but elsewhere the contest pro duced little differeuce in the aspect of the streets. At the close of the poll there was some cheering from the friends of Mr. Sergeant Pigott, but it was almost drowned in the acclamations with which Captain Walter, who seems to be a great favourite with the populace, was received by his supporters. The gallant captain, as soon as he entered the mar ket-place, was surrounded by a great crowd, com posed of both electors and non-electors, by whom he was vociferously cheered. He told them that, although defeated, he was not disheartened, and returned his most cordial thanks to those who had recorded their votes in his favour. The gallant gen tleman retired amid the renewed cheering of his friends, who followed him to his hotel, shouting at the top of their voices all the way. The result of the poll will be formally declared to-morrow in the Town-hall. 2CAILWA.YB. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 912 50 .. 912 50 Geneva 3BO .. 380 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian LowbArd 3 496 25 .. 488 75 THE BOMBAY MAIL. By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re ceived files of papers from Bombay to the 27th October, and from Calcutta to the 18th October. We take the following from the Overland Times and Standard of the 27th October : " The heat of the last fortnight in Bombay has been very distressing, and there are many who de clare it to be greater than they ever before remem bered in the island. During the former part of the air was moist and heavy, and charged with elec tricity. The thunder clouds heaped above the ghats during the day spread rapidly over the horizon towards sunset, and ere the sun was well down the Elephanta wrapped the island in gloom, relieved only by the magnificent display of light ning that accompanied it, while the rain came down in torrents. The nights are now cool and the air laden with moisture. Two important resolutions of the local Government will be forwarded to the Se cretary of State by the present mail, if we are not misinformed. The first has respect to the removal of the seat of government from Bombay to Poonah. The other resolution has reference to the old inquiry as to whether a deep water pier or wet docks are better suited to the wants of the place; Govern ment has decided finally against docks, and as we think rightly, the objections that lie against such works in a place like Bombay being considered by competent men altogether insuperable. " The President of the Calcutta Chamber of Com merce and the Hen. Ashley Eden have been ap pointed Commissioners to act under the presidency of Mr. Spooner in the re-adjusting of the import tariff of that Presidency. At a meeting of the prin cipal merchants of the place with the Commissioners, a few days ago, the Bombay system of valuation was unanimously approved of, together with the values for staple goods recommended by the Bombay Chamber. It will be some time ere the Commis sioners bring their labours to a conclusion, but when they do so it is believed the results will be setisfac tory to all parties interested in the piece goods and yarn business with India. The Englishman an nounces that the duty on cotton piece goods, and yarns, and twist, will be immediately reduced to 5 per cent., and that there will be certain modifica tions in the system by which duties are levied, which will facilitate business, being a great im provement upon the old and very complicated plan. " The Waghers have played their old D warka game, by sacking the fortified town of Korinar to supply themselves with the sinews of war on the Bth inst." The Bombay Gazette has the following : The volun t eer movement progresses satisfac torily. In Bombay upwards of 50 names have already been enrolled, and the corps may be said to be actually established. One difficulty is much felt here which at home is of course unknown. Not only the half-castes and Eurasians, but Parsees and other natives, seek admission as volunteers. Now, it would be as impossible for men of all these various races to serve cordially and well together, as it would be for European soldiers to serve efficiently if they were distributed among the native regiments instead of being formed into corps of their own. Some attempts were made a few months ago in Bom bay to - compose a corps of members of all sections of the community, but the proposal was at once discredited, and it was found necessary, in order to obtain even a partial success, to preserve the dis tinctions of race. The Bombay Volunteer. Rifle Corps will, therefore, consist of Europeans only. Mr. Wm. A. Russell, M.A., of Magdalen-hall, Oxford, has been appointed Principal of Poona Col lege, in succession to Mr. Arnold, and is expected out here by the mail due about the 10th or 11th of November. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. BOMBAY, OCT. 27. The past fortnight has been a remarkably quiet one in trade, both import and export. Transactions have been confined to the supply of bare wants, at and about the prices last quoted, and have been totally void of all specu lative feeling. Imports.—Gray ehirtings have been dealt in to some ex tent at about previous prices, 40-inch 6 lb. selling at 3r. 9a . to 3r. lla., according to finish and quality; 7 lb. at 4r. 9a. to 4r. 101 a. ; 8 lb. at 6r. ; and 81 lb. at 6r. 6a. 45-inch cloths are still attracting less attention than the other kinds, and sales are reported of 81b. goods at 5r., which shows a slight falling off in value. The wider aorta of shirtings, 50-inch, 54 inch, and 60-inch, are in very small demand at very poor prices. 11 lb. 54-inch has changed hands at 7r. Ba. White shirtings of the superior qualities are ready of sale, but there is very little doing in common descriptions. Maddapolams aro neglected. Exchange on England opened at 2s. O'd. for six months' sight. Bank bills, at which, however, but a limited amount of business was done, and drawers, in order to find a free sale, had to advance the rate to 2s. O'd. Among the railway applications for next session is one for a tubular underground line, of a mile and a half, from Regent's-circus to the Metropolitan line at Smith field, by which a communication to the Bank will be esta blished. The contemplated capital is £200,000. Ulti mately it is intended to extend the line from Regent's cireu.s to Kensington. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—lt is with pain that, during a visit to Naples, I have been shown the letter of which the enclosed is a copy. This letter, written by the secretary of the fund for the purchase of the " rnilioni fucili," and declaring in such ucequivocal terms the sympathies of " honest and thinking men" in England for the Red-Republican principles of Mazzini, I found being made the theme of dis cussion among several Italian gentlemen who had had the letter circulated among them. Since then more than one Italian has asked me if the opinions therein expressed were in truth those of a large section of the people of England. You, sir, will be able to give an answer to this question better than I could ; but I cannot avoid stating that it has come under my observation that the Mazzinist party in South Italy is not altogether composed of honest men, and that those of that party who are thinking men are wrong-thinking. Indeed, as an Englishman, a warm admirer of Garibaldi himself, I cannot but feel that I have a right to speak out when I find in circulation a letter, bearing the signature of the receiver of the subscriptions of the English public, and addressed to the Dictator himself, upholding principles which I feel to be so dangerous to the welfare of Italy, and making statements which I would fain hope are not founded on legitimate grounds. It would be a day of shame to myself (and I trust my feelings may find an echo among many, very many, of my countrymen) on which I should come to the knowledge that there is in England a large and powerful section of the educated classes advocating the teachings, principles, and example of Mazzini ; and I trust that you, sir, the most powerful representative of public opinion in Eng land, will assist united Italy to see and know how far the intrigues of Mazzini have been supported in England, and how far the words in the letter I enclose may be justified by the facts of the case. A vast number of my countrymen have subscribed to the fund for the " milioni fucili." Did they know that of their subscriptions £2,750 were sent, between the months of May and August, to Genoa, to Dr. Bertani, the agent of Mazzini, and the man on whose removal from Garibaldi's secretaryship the Government of Victor Emmanuel were forced to insist, and that since that time another sum, nearly as large, has passed into the same agency ? In fact, did the English public subscribe to place united Italy under the constitutional sceptre of Victor Emmanuel, or to foster and assist a san guinary revolution to raise Mazzini to the head of a republic? I call on them to answer. I am, sir, yours, &c., Nov. 13. X. " 6, Old Jewry, Oct. 5. "My dear General-1 send you a few lines, by the hands of 'William de Rohan, to tell you how strongly we have all sympathised in the glorious work you have undertaken, and with your difficulties in the prosecution of it. Your stanchest and truest friends in this country—not those that are merely led away by popular clamour and the enthusiasm attend ant upon success—are those whom the teachings, the prin ciples, and the example of Mazzini have inspired with a deep interest in the Italian cause, and the feeling of duty to aid it by every means in their power. 'Whatever the Times may say to the contrary, honest and thinking men here recognise the fact, that Mazzini is the founder of the great modern Italian idea, The Unity of Italy,' of which you are the great and successful champion. 'We have not done much—not nearly so much as we ought ; but we of the committee still hope to gather together funds to reduce the heavy claim made upon you for the expenses of the British Legion. Indeed, we cannot consider that this coun try has done her duty towards the cause while their equip ment and journey is a charge upon your treasury. " I have already suggested to Capt. de Rohan a means by which I see my way to relieve you of the whole expense; of all that he will speak to you. Meanwhile, I say to you most cordially go on and prosper,' and in the firm trust that you will never leave the great task you have under taken until Rome is the seat of Government of Italy, and Venetia forms part of the nation.—l remain your sincere friend, " W. H. AsnunsT. " General Garibaldi." DUNDONALD IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. (From Puneh.) Ash es to Ashes Lay the hero down Within the gray old Abbey's glorious shade. . In our Walhalla ne'er was worthier laid Since martyr first won palm, or victor crown. 'Tis well the State he served no farthing pays To grace with pomp and honour all too late His grave, whom, living, Statesmen dogged with hate, Denying justice, and withholding praise. Let England hide her face above his tomb, As much for shame as sorrow. Let her think Upon the bitter cup he had to drink— Heroic soul, braided with felon's doom. A Sea-King, whose fit place had been by Blake, Or our own Nelson, had he been but free To follow glory's quest upon the sea, Leading the conquered navies in his wake— A Captain, whom it had been ours to cheer From conquest on to conquest, had our land But set its wisest, worthiest in command, Not such as hated all the good revere. We let them cage the Lion while the fire In his high heart burnt clear and unsubdued ; We let them stir that frank and forward mend From greatness to the self-consuming ire, The fret and chafe that wait on service scorned, Justice denied, and truth to silence driven ; From men we left him to appeal to Heaven, 'Gainst fraud sot high, and evidence suborned— We left him, with bound arms, to mark the sword, Given to weak hands ; left him, with working brain, To see rogues traffic, and fools rashly reign, Where Strength should have been guide, and Honour lord— Left him to cry aloud, without support, Against the creeping things that eat away Our wooden walls, and boast as they betray, The base supporters of a baser Court, The crawling worms that in corruption breed, And on corruption batten, till at last Mistaken honour the proud victim cast Out to their spite, to writhe, and pant, and bleocl tinder their stings and slime ; and bleed he did For years, till hope into heart-sickness grew, And ho sought other seas and service new, And his bright sword in alien laurels hid. Nor even so found gratitude, but came Back to his England, bankrupt, save of praise, To eat his heart, through weary wishful days, And shape his strength to bearing of his shame. Till, slow but sure, drew on a better time, And statesmen owned the check of public will ; And, at the last, light pierced the shadow chill That fouled his honour with the taint of crime. And then they gave him back the Knightly spurs Which ho had never forfeited—the rank From which he ne'er by ill-deserving sank, More than the Lion sinks for yelp of curs. Justice had lingered on its road too long : The Lion was grown old ; the time gone by, When for his aid we vainly raised a cry, To save our flag from shame, our decks from wrong. The infamy is theirs, whose evil deed Is past undoing ; yet not guiltless we, Who, penniless that brave old man could see, Restored to honour but denied its weed. A Belisarius, old and sad and poor, To our shame, not to his—so he lived on, Till man's allotted fourscore years were gone, And scarcely then had leave to 'stablish sure Proofs of his innocence, and their shame, That had so wronged him ; and, this dome, came death, To seal the assurance of his dying breath, And wipe the last faint tarnish from his name. At last his fame stands fair, and full of years He seeks that judgment which his wrongers all Have sought before him—and above his pall His fl ig, replaced at length, waves with his peers. Ile did not live to see it, but he knew llis country with one voice had set it high ; And knowing this he was content to die, And leave to gracious Heaven what might ensue. Ashes to ashes ! Lay the hero down, No nobler heart e'er knew the bittor lot To be misjudged, maligned, accused, forgot— Twine martyr's palm among his victor's crown. SIR JAMES BROOKE, K.C.l3.—Sir James Brooke sailed yesterday from Southampton in the Pera for the seat of his government at Sarawak. The numerous friends and admirers of this distinguished man will learn with pleasure that his health is completely re .established, and that he is enabled once more to give the benefit of his temporary pre sence and advice to the enterprise with which his name is identified. The report of the Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada, issued preparatory to their meeting on the 30th, recommends a dividend for the half year at the rate of 8} per cent, per annum, and the usual appropriation to the reserve fund, which will then amount to 430,830, THE WAR 1N BINA. A letter just received at Plymouth from a young officer on board a Government transport at the seat of war says,—" I have been inside one of the forts at the Peiho, and have had a good view of all four. They are built almost entirely of mud and the guns, which are numerous and of heavy calibre, are for the most part fixed, but suchtas are not are clumsily worked by capstans on each side. The north fort was taken with great difficulty, the Chinamen standing to their guns, and defending themselves to the last, when they were overpowered and bayoneted. After the north fort was taken the allies turned one of the guns on the other forts, which soon after surrendered. The forts are very little elevated, except a kind of inner fort inside each. They are surrounded by two, and, in some places, three ditches, the strip of land between the ditches being stuck as thick as possible with sharp pointed sticks about two feet high—a most valuable protection from attack in that di rection, as the Chinese could easily have shot down their opponents while embarrassed among the sticks. There is nothing to see ashore but mud—everlasting mud. The first time I landed the tide was low, and there was about four miles of mad, which rose so gradually that in our boat we did not know but that it was water till we stuck on it, and then with difficulty managed to get off again. I saw the very place where the troops were landed in the mud and massacred at the former attack on the forts. My last letter was directed to you from the Peiho. Since then we have sailed round to Odin Bay, and are now taking in water, with which we are to fill up. Everything is very cheap hue - except dollars, which, I believe cost much mere than they should. We can get 150 eggs to the dollar, and a fine full-grown bullock, in good condition, for 30 dollars, Similar bullocks - at home would cost from £lB to £2O. Calves from 4to 7 dollars, and so on upwards. Peaches, pears, and apples are plentiful and cheap. Fowls at the rate of four large or six small to the dollar. captain n it i l s s also are as plentiful as can be. We have fresh m ea t very often while we are here, a going to take some bullocks to sea with him for us. When we left the Peiho the troops were at Tien tsin. A rumour is afloat here, in Odin Bay, that the Chinese have broken out in all parts again, and that the troops will have to fight their way to Pekin, but I cannot vouch for the truth of it. It appears to me that if the negotiations are not carried on quicker we shall be like the French army at the taking of Moscow —that is to say, cold weather is gradually coming on, and is likely to nip us. The Magicienne, in company with the despatch-boat Sparrow Hawk, is lying at anchor here, the former in charge of our division, which is watering as fast as possible ; the latter is stationed here on the look out, at least I think so. It is said that all the soldiers and sailors in Odin Bay are to keep holiday some day next week. The captain of the Magicienne has headed a subscription with 40 dols., and the captains of the different vessels and the military officers are likely to follow his example. I suppose they will have boat racing and jumping in sacks, donkey racing, &c., and perhaps a public dinner." SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Night —The steamship Dublin, of Waterford, bound from London to Bordeaux! with a general ca rgo, h as put i nto this port for repairs, be ing in a leaky condition. Tho captain reports that, when off the Isle of Wight and near St. Katharine's Head, the ship struck up on w h at h e suppose d to b e a sunken wrec k . Finding the vessel had sustained damage in the after run, and was making about four inches of water per hour, he unmediately bore up for this port. She is taken into the inner dock, where she will discharge her coals and the greater part of her cargo. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, Tuesday Morning.—lt is confidently stated here this morning that the Con servatives will bring the Hon. J. S. Wortley for ward to contest the vacant seat witil the Liberals. His address is expected to be issued to• day. At any rate they seem determined not to let the election go unchallenged. THE FLYING FISH. Our correspondent at Plymouth has been favoured. with an abstract of the log of the Flying Fish, which left Portland, United States, on the 20th of October, in company with the Hero, and parted. company during the night : Date. Wind. Force. Latitude. Longitude. Oct. 21.. E.S.E Oct. 22.. Easterly 3 .... 42 6 .... 66 3 Oct. 23.. E S.E 4 .... 41 25 .... 63 20 Oct. 24.. W.N.W, 7 .... 41 20 .... 60 20 Oct. 25.. Variable 3 .... 42 33 .... 58 0 Oct. 26.. Easterly 3 .... 41 34 ..., so is Oct. 27.. Variable 6 .... 42 36 .... 53 0 Oct. 28.. Northerly • Oct. 29.. N.E 7 .... 42 30 .... 47 6 Oct. 30.. N.N.W.5 .... 42 42 .... 44 8 Oct. 31.. N.N E 6 .... 42 55 .... 41 10 Nov. 1.. Easterly 8 .... 41 10 .... 34 1 Nov. 2.. E. by S. and N 5 .... 42 16 .... 37 14 Nov. 3.. Variable 4 .... 42 0 .... 3.5 10 Nov. 4.. Easterly 8 .... 42 59 .... 34 40 Nov. 5.. N.E 8 .... 43 0 .... 33 50 Nov. 6.. N.E 9 .... 42 22 .... 33 49 Nov. 7.. Northerly Nov. K. Northerly Nov. 9.. Easterly N0v.10.. N.E.7 .... 42 28 .... 24 35 N0v.11.. E. by N 5 .... 42 19 .... 22 14 Nov. 12.. N.N.E 6 .... 42 28 .... 20 15 N0v.13.. Northerly 5 .... 42 49 .... 17 33 N0v.14.. West 7 .... 44 16 .... 15 39 N0v.15.. Northerly 5 .... 45 25 .... 13 13 N0v.16.. S.E., light., 3 .... 47 1 .... 10 8 • N0v.17.. Northerly 6 —.. 49 4 . 642 N0v.18.. North . 6 Anchored at Plymouth. On the 23d of October the foretopsailyard of the Flying Fish was sprung, And a heavy swell was experienced from the eastward ; on the 24th con fused sea. November 6th, ship was struck by a, heavy sea ; 7th and 9th, heavy swell from the north ; 10th, very heavy sea from north-east ; 12th, same from north ; and 13th, from north-east. The log of the Hero was reported in The Sun of Satur day last. HEALTH OF LONDON . DIMING THE WEEK. (From the .Registrar-Generare Weekly Return.) The weekly return issued by authority of the Registrar-General states that the mortality now exhibits that increase which usually attends the closing months of the year. From 1,026 in the last' week of October, the deaths in London have risen to 1,183, the number in the week that ended last Saturday. The average number of deaths, as ob tained from corresponding weeks of ten previous years (1850-9), and for the purpose of comparison, corrected for increase of population, is 1,264. Hence it appears that the deaths in the present return are less by 81 than they would have been if the average rate of mortality for this period of the year had prevailed. The births of last week exceeded the deaths in the same by 677. While zymotic diseases in the aggregate show sa decrease for last week, there is an increase gene— . rally under other heads, but particularly under pulmonary diseases (chie fly bronchitis and pneu monia), the deaths from which rose from 207 to 270.. In addition to these numbers phthisis rose from 109' to 156. There were only 3 fatal cases of small-pe`x• 43 of measles, 38 of scarlatina, 12 of diphtheria, 415 of whooping-cough, and 24 otyphus. Six deaths, 5 of which were those of infants, were from syphili tic disease. Five children died from measles in the sub district of Poplar. A cooper aged 44 years died in consequence of his clothes taking fire from rum spurting into a candle when he was tapping a cask. A girl aged 2 years was fatallyscalded by falling back wards into a pot. A child died from poppy-syrup administered medically by its mother, and a young man from an overdose of laudanum. Eight nono. genarians, all women, died in the week, the eldest of whom was a spinster who had attained the age of 96 years. Last week the births of 997 boys and 863 girls, in all 1,860 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1850- 59 the average number was 1,589. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 . 416 in. Ihe barometer fell from 29.82 in. on Sunday to 29.10 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 41.7 deg., which is 1.6 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The ther mometer in the shade fell to 33 deg. on Monday, and rose to 52 9 deg. on Thursday, being the 'lowest and highest points respectively in the week. The extreme range of temperature was therefore 19.9 deg. The mean daily range was 11.5 deg. On Sunday the range was only 5.6 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was only 1.7 deg. The mean degree of humidity in the air was 94, complete saturation. being represented by 100, which point the hu midity almost attained on Monday and Saturday. The wind blew from the south-east and east in the early part of the week • on Wednesday and two subsequent days from the south-west. Rain fell to the amount of 0.92 in., about two-thirds of which fell on Saturday, which day was wet and gloomy throughout. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 46.5 deg. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Nov. 20.—We have had a very unsatisfactory market for cloths, with prices still tending downwards. Manufacturers have not accepted the low prices offered, having contracts to fall back upon. The business has been very limited. Cotton is about id. per lb. lower, and light makes of 40-inch India shirtings are reported at 3d. per piece decline. Heavier makes 40. less. For long-cloths, T-cloths and printers also lower prices were offered. Telegrams from Calcutta And Bombay are unfavourable. The tightness of the money market has also a depressing effect on busi ness, and especially on operations for India. The yarn market is very dull, and very little business could be done for any quarter. Most descriptions of yarn were id. per lb. lower than this day week. For India nothing doing. For China there was a good deal of inquiry, but there as not sufficient business to test prices fairly. There are orders in the market, but the holders are keeping them back in the hope of doing better. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report—" Since our last report there has been little or nothing done in goods, the great ad vance in the Bank rate of discount having caused buyers to withdraw from the market as much as practicable. India shirtings are nominally 3d. per piece lower than on this day week, mid other goods in proportion ; but at this decline buyers are not • inclined to operate, except now and then for small quantities, and the business of the day is altogether inconsiderable in amount." LEEDS, Nov. 20.—The cloth-halls have had a moderate attendance of buyers this morning, and in seasonable goods a fair amount of small purchases was made. The weather is winterly, the ground being partly covered with snow, and the tempera ture low, so that winter goods are likely now to go into immediate use. This gives a little improve menthas been firm, a t n o d th p e ri m ce a s r a k r e e t, ve t r l y i e st t e o a n d e y o . of which Some parcels of wool just purchased at the current colonial sales in London have come to hand. The condition and quality are of a full average character, if not rather 19.—The flan ne l t ra d e h as b een aLittle better. ROCHDALE, a llov. animated to-day, b ut st i ll there has not been a great deal of business done. The demand more is confined almost entirely to seasonable articles, and fancy flannels are greatly in request. York shire goods, unless it be linseys, meet with fair sale. Prices in general are well maintained. Wool is very firm in price, but purchases are made only to supply immediate wants. ga ' ho• tra 1118 Th till Diti Zzeh( D ti Ditt Brae] Dit Now Dit Peru) div for kir of 1 ' I the of i Cor a vi Coo brir and CRETI of Dit rortu Dit hues] bit Dit °Pan Tu r k Dit Dit Dutel Dit te n& 'Con.f ki n b o d y 'ours the, ha fe e ree coil and on t th e et At Bpi