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BENS 0 N'S WATC H E S. " Perfection of mechanism." --Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 v,uineas. Silver NVatelie3 33 nd , Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the manx4e . . - nent of Miss L. Pync and Mr.W. Ilarrison. THIS EVENING, SATANELLA. Messrs. Santley , 11. Corn, G. Honey, St. Albyn, and W. Harrison ; Miss P. Cruise, 3lis ;Pilling, and Miz , s Louisa Pyne. Conductor, Alfred Mellon. Ballet, LA FIANCEE. Messrs. W. 11. payro, H. Payne, F. Payne, Mdlle. Lequine, Pasquale, Pierron, Clara Morgan. and Mons. Vandris. Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. TTT TS' r. 141 N iNG the performances will commence with A CURE FOR TUE ItEA.IITACTIE. After which, by desire. TIIE CONTESTED ELECTION. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mr. Buckstone, &c. And A KISS IN TETE DARK. Commence at 7. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THU; EVENING. the new drama,' entitled HOME TKUTIIS. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews, Miss C. Lec'ercq and Mrs. Charles Young. Followed by A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr. A. Hands, Shore, Frank Matthews, and Miss C. Leclercq. After which, Mons, Espanosa (Premier Danseur Comique), will appear, with Madile. Nariquita, assisted by the Ladies of the Corps de Ballot, in Le Grand Pas du Dervish de Faust, as danced by him 150 consecutive nights at the Theatre de la Porte St. Martin, Paris. To conclude with NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. H. Widdicomb, Meadows, 11. Saker ; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs. Weston. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELP HI. Sole rroprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart, Billington , C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Kelly. Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called DINORAH UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box nlloe open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing ethic establishment for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, a new Vaudeville Comedietta, called THE KEY UNDER THE DOOR-MAT. Messrs. James V inning . , Job Rouse, &c.; Mesdames A, 11. Hatton and Julia St. George. To be followed by the new Drama Fantasfique, entitled PARIS AND PLEASURE ; or, Home and Happiness. Principal characters by Messrs. W. Lacy, J. Vining, J. John stone, F. Villiers ; Misses Julia St. George, Hudspeth, Kate Saville, A. Burdett, and Madame Celest e . Po conclude with ST. MARY'S EVE. Madame Celeste and Mr. Rouse. ROY AL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being; open to carriages and , foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING, A DEAD SHOT. With A DAY AT PARIS. Miss L. Thompson and Mr. C Young. After whichTTER-BOX. Messrs. Barret, Bra zier ; Mesdames F. Matthews, Murray, and Eliza Arden. Followed by MAGIC TOYS, supported by Miss Lydia Thompson, Clara St. Casse, &c. Reduced Prices—Gallery, (id ; Pit, ls. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ante commences at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. 'William Cooke, his Farewell Season. !!THIS EVENING, the grand melo-drsmatic production, by Tom Taylor, Esq. ' called GARIBALDI ; illustrating the principal events in the Lite of the Great Italian General. To be followed by New and Transcendant Equestrian Talent of Young Menoni, supereminent in his somersaults and inap proachable—The brilliant Lady Rider, Miss Emily Cooke— Tne Wonderfully-schooled Dogs and Monkeys, and Intelli gent Elephant—Amazing lErial Rondines by John Henry Cooke, the first horseman in the Universe—Equestrian Blind Man's Buff—Vaulting Ambition, by the treble-headed Won ders—Sig. Delavanti and his admirable Protegees, varied by those heralds of fun, the Clowns, Mimes, and Drolls. To commence at 7. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con certs). And a Grand Se-ection from litreyerbeer's new opera of DENORAII. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. 'l'. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. ROSA BONIIEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six pence. TH6 WEAI: HEB..—SUN OFFIC1:, DECEMBER. 10. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHIDB. 46—highest since noon yesterday. 33—lowest this morning and during the night. 4i—this day at noon. _ BAROMETER-30.72. WIND, North-Westerly; light, with fine frosty-looking weather. e "( *.i 414 .r.O4V I. 11f . 4 45.41 ) $ 4 Al . 11 0 . 47 44 " .6 - _ t. < THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 12, 1859. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Titre DA.Y.—Morning, 3h. Om.—Afternoon, 3h. 23m. To-molutow. -Morning, 3h. 47m.—Afternoon, 4h. 11m. Justice (? ) has at length been done to the descendants of that remarkable man who was the TUBAL CAIN of modern civilisation ! CouT, the inventor of the different systems now in use in the manufacture of iron, by means of his important scientific discoveries, has enhanced the wealth of England by an amount almost beyond anything like accurate computation. He has thereby, during the best part of the century last past, not only thus increased the material resources of the country, not only multiplied the advantages derivable toEn gland from the mineral treasures dug from the very entrails of her soil—he has beyond this, as a national benefactor, given (by means of his inven• tions) to one generation after another of the indus trial part of our labouring community, increased and increasing employment. It is difficult to arrive at any distinct or even any proximately accurate notion of the good such a man as this has done in one way or another, directly or indirectly, to the masses of his fellow-countrymen. His benefactions are of a kind so obvious, so numerous, so conspicu ous, so varied in kind and in magnitude, that had he lived in the old pagan days he would infallibly have had his effigy treasured up in many and many a household, as one among the beloved lares and penates of the land that gave him birth and witnessed the phenomenon of his intellectual development. Lesser benefactors of their race than CoaT have been deified by the grateful Romans and Athenians in the wild enthusiastic days of Classic Heathendom. In startling contrast to such appreciative ardour as that, has been the apathetic indifference displayed very frequently arAongst ourselves towards men who have worked more wonders in their way, dur ing a single lifetime, than such old mythic con querors and wonder-workers as BACCHUS or HER CULES. Data °bole Belesario ! is a cry that has only too often been audible. OTwAv's crust and BoycE's blanket are painfully remembered in this island in contrast to the antique tares and penates aforesaid. National benefactors, time and again, while filling the coffers of their country have by that very process been only the more effectually im poverishing themselves. A more striking illustra tion of this miserable truth could hardly be adduced from the whole of the varied records of art, science, or literature, than that of which the mere name of Cora is instantly suggestive. here was an inven tor, whose discoveries have added to the wealth of the United Kingdom so enormously that the sum already attained by this single means of increase maybe represented by the almost fabulous amount of £100,000,000! Ifere is a man who has given wealth —positive, substantial wealth thus immensely to Ms country, and who has at the same time been giving to it the more than equal advantage of work, constant, steady, remunerative employ ment, distributed through large masses of successive generations—here is a double benefactor, thus signally entitled to the homage and t.b e grateful remembrance of his fellow-citizens —wit h his name almost forgotten, with his childrua and his children's children, if not in a stato of positive destitution, certainly in very nazrow(!d circum- stances ! Such, at any rate, has been the state of things up to to-day as far as relates to the position occu pied in regard to each other by CORT'S _family and by England. The anomaly of that position we ourselves have commented upon months since. We took occasion long ago to point out in these columns the cruelty and harshness of the apathy shown by England towards the descendants of this eminent national benefactor. And at last—at last— . something has been done towards compensating for this past indifference. Something has been done. How much done, the reader asks ? how much ? Observe how much—the Arabic figures repre senting the munificent return made by England to CoRT for his magnificent benefaction is exemplary—is what the Americans term eau . tionary ! We actually read there at length that " The QUEEN," it should be said more correctly Lord PALMERSTON [for the sums thus awarded arc in the gift or patronage of the Flat Lord of the Treasury], we read then that Lord PALMERSTON "has granted a pension of £l5O a year out of the Civil List pen sions to the daughters of FREDERICK CORT, whose inventions in the manufacture of iron have contri buted so much to the prosperity of the trade, whilst his family have been left in deep distress." So that actually England has, through the hand of her Prime Minister, doled out the miserable, little, trumpery, wretched sum of £l5O a year to the descendants of the man who is esti. mated to have added to the national resources of the country to no less an amount than the scarcely conceivable sum of £100,000,000 ! Are we not right in calling this—with an eye to the past — exemplary ? Are we not right too in designating it—with an eye to the future—what the Yankees term cautionary ? It is a melancholy and most in adequate sequel to a history of splendid achieve ments repaid hitherto by deplorablemisfortunes. It is an aggravation of the meanness, it is a mockery supervening upon the cruelty to add, as it is here added in this astoundingly cool announcement —that this miserable . dole of £l5O per annum is given to them at last because the " family have been left in deep distress !" Three pounds a week—awarded during their life-time—to the child ren of a man who has added to the riches of his ungrateful country already—[for it is a source of wealth that goes on perpetually multiplying] — already to the grand total of £100,000,000 ! Another addition to the Civil List pensions we note, at the same time, with a little more satisfac tion. The award we mean of £125 a-year to the sister of the late learned Dr. DIONYSIUS LARD NER. This is a recognition of great services a trifle less out of all proportion, and a recognition also, let us add, eminently well deserved. It is only with the public labours of Dr. LARDNER that we have now to do in any way when taking this pension to his sisters for one into consideration. Those labours have in their influence been from first to last only most praiseworthy. Against his erro neous opinion, in regard to the impracticability of a steam-vessel ever crossing the Atlantic, and so forth, how much may there not be placed in the opposte scale when estimating his scientific merits and literary achievements, now that he is gone, now that his labours have at length ceased ! His single volume upon the Steam Engine would be sufficient of itself to secure him a lengthened reputation. Perhaps the noblest monument, however more than justifying this pension to his sisters, attesting his scientific and lite rary attainments, the wide scope of his know ledge, and the magnitude of his efforts, made both directly and indirectly towards the diffusion and popularizing of that knowlelge among his fel low-countrymen-- perhaps his noblest monument (and we shall, we doubt not, be anticipated by the majority in naming it) is that repertory of information edited by and contributed largely to by himself, and called after himself, and remem bered as such under his famous name to this day —LA.RDNER'S Cyclopmdia. An accomplished diplomatist, who has done good service to the Crown in his day, has recently, in self defence, delivered a sledge-hammer blow at the Whigs—in the delivery of which blow he has rent asunder for once the veil of official etiquette hiding so many of the evil doings of that shameless Government. It had been incidentally remarked by a daily organ of the Whigs that Lord MINTo's " mission by the way [for the allusion was almost coolly and carelessly parenthetical] took its origin from the suggestion of the Papal Nuncio at Paris" meaning to the late Monsignore FonNAEr, then (1848-1849) accredited as Nuncio to the French Republican Government. Now, to this seemingly casual, but really insidious remark of the Whig journalist, what says Lord NORMANBY, then, at that transition epoch, at Paris, as her Britannic MAJESTY'S ambassador? The Marquis of NoRMANBY'S comment upon this is certainly sufficiently clear, laconic, and explicit—" I feel it due," he says, "to the memory of an amiable and excellent man to say that there is not a word of ruth in that assertion." And " thereby "—upon that contradiction—"hangs a tale!" Now mark what follows—for it is really the lifting of the official robe—revealing the cloven hoof of Whig gory! " What really happened," writes Lord NoRMANBY (dating his letter from " Brighton" as recently as this last 9th December), " What really happened was this. In conformity with the spirit of private instructions which I had received, I sounded Monsignore For.NAut on the manner in which an extra-official British agent would at such a moment be received at Rome ; the Nuncio listened to the inquiry with courtesy, and said he would write to Rome on the subject. I never herd anything further from on this subject, and concluded, of course, that there was no satisfactory reply to my inquiries." S 3 far Lord NorMANBY and the Nuncio had acted, but no further. " Nevertheless," writes Lord NORMANBY—in spite, that is to say, of the fact of no reply being made through the Papal Nuncio at Paris—" The mission of Lord MINTO proceeded, and after a time the whole of my despatch, recounting my interview with his Excel lency, and giving some opinion of mine as to his diplomatic qualifications, marked `private and con fidential,' came out in the Blue Book, with the words ' private and confidential' omitted. From this the Government newspapers attempted to infer what they could not assert, and this despatch proved that Lord MINTO's mission originated with the Court of Rome." And thereupon continues Lord NOR ' MANBY in this singularly naive revelation "I corn . Plained [poor, innocent Marquess I] at once, both ; to Lord PALMERSTON and to Lord J. RUSSELL, first, of the perversion qf the sense of my despatch, to i which its publication had led, and, secondly, of - the breach of faith in omitting its confidential character, which destroyed in that quarter one's public utility. In proof of this," adds Lord NORMANBY, "circumstances having afterwards in , ( - Need the Government to wish to have some confi dential communication with the Papal Nuncio at NUE SUN', LONDON, MODDAY EVENING; DECEMBER 12, 1859. LATEST NEWb. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : TURIN, SATURDAY. The Austrian letter of invitation to the Congress, signed by Count Rechberg, has arrived, and is couched in the same terms as that of France to Piedmont: FLORENCE, DEC. 10. The Provisional Government has, by allowing a discount, collected in advance the land-tax for 1860, amounting to between six and seven millions of francs. PARIS, SATURDAY. The Council of State is preparing a project of law reducing the customs duties, more especially on articles of primary necessity. Marshal ltandon, the Minister of War, has, it is said, tendered his resignation. DRESDEN, SATURDAY. A telegram from Frankfort, published by the Dresden Journal, says :—" In to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet, the committee on the affairs of Electoral Hesse was increased by the appointment of representatives of Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, and Saxony." MADRID, DEC. 10. The following despatch has been published : CAMP, ELOTTRO, Dec. 9, Evening. This morning the enemy impetuously attacked our redoubts, but were energetically repulsed by the garrison, and retired to the valley commanded by these redoubts. The enemy then came up again, but were at tacked and. repulsed by 10,000 men of the second corps, serving as our vanguard. The Moors lost 300 killed and 1,000 wounded; the approximate loss of the Spanish was 30 officers and 280 men wounded, and 40 killed. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. The sailing frigate Forte quitted Cherbourg on the 7th inst. for China, with 400 men of the Ist Regiment of Marines, and 200 seamen drilled to the use of the musket. The Andromaque, Vengeance, and Perseverante had previously sailed with an equal number of soldiers and seamen. The only ship now to sail for China from the ocean ports is the screw steamer Rhone, which is at Brest, and has on board the 2d battalion of Riflemen. It is expected that the Rhone will sail immediately. The Emperor having been informed that 800 men had been embarked on board a frigate for China, saw that the frigate must be inconveniently crowded and ordered that a steamer should be at once de spatched from Toulon to bring her back, in order that the men might be sent in detachments of 400 each. No French newspaper has, I believe, alluded to the fact. Is this silence a proof of the liberty of the French press, that no one ventures to mention a fact which redounds to the praise of the Emperor, lest it might be considered as implying blame to the Minister of Marine, and which perhaps would be followed by an avertissenzent ? A letter from St. Petersburg of the 3d inst. men tions that Count Maarawiew-Amourski, Governor- General of Siberia, has paid a visit to Jeddo, the capital of Japan, with a squadron composed of 12 vessels of the Russian Imperial navy, viz.,—the frigate Askold, bearing the Governor's flag ; the corvettes Rinder, Gridene, Waiewada, Nowik, Boiarine; clippers Plastonne, Djignitte, Opzitchnik ' transports Yaponez, `Vostok, and the steam corvette Amerika. It is added, that so large a foreign fleet was never before seen at the capital of Japan, and that it produced a profound sensation there. THE BOURSE, Dec. 10.—Large sales have con tinued throughout the day for realisation of profits, and the prices were rather lower. Threes, after having been done at 70f, 45c., declined to 70f. 25c. Mobilier varied from 845 f. to 8331. 75c. ; Austrian, 774 f. 25c. to 772 f,; Lombard, 772 f. 50c. to 7701. ; Orleans, 1,435 f. to 1,425 f.; Lyons, 942 f. 50c. to 935 f, ; Northern, 9821. 50c. to 9771. 50c. ; Southern, 540 f. to 535 f. The following were the last quo tations 41 per Cents. .... 96 75' Credit Foncier 710 D. end month .. I Belgian 4} ' 99 50 3 per Cents . 70 201Piedmonteso (5) — Do. end month.... 70 50 Roman B4 --- Bank Shares — Austrian Credit Mollifier .. 830 Spanish Threes Do. Account ' 847 50 Home Debt 43 25 Paris, at the time of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, Monsig,nore FORNAILI declined to have any confi dential communication with me, on the ground that his private conversation with ins had been published to the world, and upon them had been founded an erroneous impression as to the acts of his Govern ment: Such," observes the noble marquess in con clusion, "such are the mortifications to which English agents may be exposed when serving a ) Government which perverts private diplomatic com munications to serve diplomatic purposes." Alto gether, we cannot but deem this a very opportune revelation of the darker under-currents of dip lomacy in a Whig Government ! It reminds one of that suppressed Indian despatch that was whis t pered about together, not so very long ago, between Lard What's-his-Name (Mr. SMITH that was yes ter Say) and the present chivalrous Prime Minister of England the Lord Viscount PALMERSTON. THE HEART'S CHARITY. (From the OM-Fellows' Magazine.) BY ELIZA comi. A RICH man walk'd abroad one day And a poor man walk'd the self same way ; When a pale and a starving face came by With a palid lip and a hopeless eye : And that starving face presumed to stand And ask for bread from the rich man's hand; But the rich man sullenly look'd askance, With a gathering frown and a doubtful glance, " I have nothing," said he, "to give to you, Nor any such rogue of a canting crew. Get work, get work I I know full well The whining lies that beggars can tell." And he fastened his pocket and on he went, With his soul untouch'd and his Wisdom content. Now, this great owner of golden store Had built a church not long before, As noble a Pane as man could raise ; And the world had given him thanks and praise ; And all who beheld it, lavished fame On his Christian gift and his godly name. The poor man pass'd,—and the white lips dared To ask him if a mite could be spared. The poor man gazed on the beggar's cheek, And saw what the white lips could not speak. He stood for a moment, but not to pause On the truth of the tale or the parish laws ; He was seeking to give—though it was but small, For a penny, a single penny, was all : But he gave it with a kindly word, While the warmest pulse of his breast was stirred. 'Twas a tiny seed his Charity shed, But the white lips got a taste of bread ; And the beggar's blessing hallow'd the crust, That came like a spring in the desert dust. The rich man and the poor man died, As all of us must,—and they both were triad At the sacred Judgment seat above, For their thoughts of evil, and deeds of love. The balance of Justice there was true ; Fairly bestowing what fairly was duo ; And the two fresh-comers through Heaven's gat e Stood there to learn their eternal fate. The recording angels told of things That fitted them both with kindred wings ; But, as they stood in the crystal light, The plumes of the rich man grew less bright. The angels know by that shadowy sign, That the poor man's work had been most divine ; And they brought the unerring scales to see Where the rich man's falling-off could be. Full many deeds did the angels weig h, But the balance kept an even sway ; And at last the church endowment laid, With its thousands promised, and its thousands paid ; With the thanks of prelates by its side, in the stately words of pious pride ; And it weighed so much that the angels stood To see how the poor man could balance such good : When a cherub came, and took his place By the empty scale, with radiant grace ; And he dropp'd the penny that had fed White, starving lips with a crust of bread. The church endowment went up with the bean], And the whisper of the Great Supreme, As he beckon'd the poor man to his throne, Was heard in this immortal tone— " Blessed are they who from great gain Give thousands with a reasoning brain ; But holier still shall be his part Who gives one coin with a pitying heart 1" His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has returned to St. James's Palece from visiting the Earl and Countess of Derby, at Knowsley, Lancashire. The Princess Gagarine has taken her departure from the Brunswick, Jormyn-street, for Paris, His Excellency the Count Lavradio has left the Portuguese Legation for Trentham, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll have left Campden -hill to join the circle visiting the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Trentham, Staffordshire. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester passed through town on Saturday from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Aylesbury at Tottenham-park, on their return to Kimbolton Castle, Hunts. .The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor left the Marl and Countess of Derby's seat in Lancashire on Friday, to visit the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, at Trentham. Viscount Palmerston left London on Saturday for Brighton. His lordship returns to town to-day. Sir R. Peel, Bart., arrived in Whitehall•gardens on Saturday from Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. Sir Robert leaves early in the week for the Continent. THE ORDER OF TIIE GARTER.—The doath of Earl De Grey would, under ordinary circumstances, have placed a Blue Riband at the disposal of her Majesty; but in consequence of the gracious gift of an extra Garter by the Queen to Lord Derby, he will now occupy the vacant stall in St. George's Chapel at Windsor, and the ordinary knights—subjects of the Crown—will stand at the usual number, and the present vacancy will not be filled up. REPRESENTATION OF READING.—The elevation of Sir Henry Singer Keating to the judicial bench creates a vacancy in the representation of Reading. Up to Satur day evening no address had appeared, but it is confidently stated that Sir Francis F. Goldsinid, Bart. (who issued an address to the electors some months since, in anticipation of Sir Henry's acceptance of a judgeship), will be the can didate on the Liberal interest, and Mr. Benson, it is anti cipated, will again seek the suffrages of the electors, so that, in all probability, there will be a severe contest. SIGNOR GIUGLINI IN PARIS.—The numerous admirers of Signor Giuglini in this country, where at Her Majesty's Theatre he first acquired a great reputation, will doubtless be pleased to hear of his new and triumphant success with the difficult public of Paris. Signor Giuglini made his debut at the Italians on Saturday evening as Manrico in " II Trovatore," and was received from first to last with enthusiastic applause. Tho grand air and the miserere scene (" Ah ! the la more") were both rapturously redemanded ; and the eminent singer was further honoured with numerous recalls. PENSIONS ON THE CIVIL LIST.—The Queen has granted a pension of £l5O a-year out of the civil list pen sions to the daughters of Frederick Cort, whose inventions in the manufaature of iron have contributed so much to the prosperity of the trade, while his family have been left in deep distress. The Family of Dr. Lardner.—Tho Queen has also been pleased to grant a pension on the civil list of £125 a year to the sisters of the late Dr. Dionysius Lard laer, whose contributions to science are so well known. CARDINAL WISEMAN.—With reference to the duration of Cardinal Wiseman's sojourn in Rome, it is stated in the Freeman's Journal that a general impression prevails that his Eminence is not likely to return to Eng land es a permanent place of residence. The state of the Cardinal's health (making a sojourn in a mild climate ab solutely necessary) and other circumstances will, in all probability, induce his Eminence to select Rome as the scene of his future labours. The Cardinal has delegated all his powers to the Re v. Dr. Hearn, of the Church of the Assumption, Warwick-street, who is Vicar-General of the diocese. • The British Government lately sent a traction locomotive engine to the Viceroy of Egypt. After receiv ing it, Said Pacha ordered the engineer to get up steam, and had the half - do zen carriages o the personages attend ing and his own attached to it ; then requesting thorn to get into their carriages, he started off with thorn—the loco motive at full speed—to the great dismay of its unwilling passengers. They thus passed through the principal streets of Cairo to the great amazement of its Arab inhabitants, and through the Esbequeh, or Grand-place, on the way to the Palace of Kav,er-el-Nil. The Europeans collected in front of Sheppard's Hotel to witness tho scene wore highly amused at this novel passenger train, thus exhibited through the city of the Kaleefs , in the suite of its present ruler. But Said Pacha is notoriously fond of a practical joke. "It is in contemplation," says the Algerie Nouvelle, " to fortify the ports of Algeria, and from 12 to 14 millions are to be devoted to the purpose. The Govern ment is said to have fixed on the roadstead of Bugia as the point of concentration for the French squadrons on the northern coast of Africa, and the vessels which may be lying there in a well-sheltered anchorage will bo protected by several strong forts. Algiers, Philippevile, and Bona are also to be fortified." The Journal de Geneve of the sth contains the following :—A dreadful accident occurred last evening at Laney. A ball was given at a wealthy inhabitant's, and just before dancing begal the fire in the room was carefully covered up with ashes to prevent the place from becoming too hot The first quadrille was over, and a w lady, before tthe e to fireplace, mustcommence, w hen a young have brought her muslin dress in contact with the embers, for it caught fire, and she was at once in flames from hoed to foot. She rushed into the middle of the room, and several of the Ladies endeavoured to extinguish the flames, but in so doing they set themselves on fire. In an instant five of them were in flames. In three cases the fire was extinguished, but three others were most seriously injured, and fears were at first entertained that the result would be fatal. Happily the remedies applied have proved effectual, and now they aro out of all danger." RAILWAYS. __ .. ___. Cash. Account. Orleans - Northern 975 .. 980 New ditto 855 .. 862 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 936 25 .. 940 Geneva — .. 553 75 Southorn Western 585 .. 590 Eastern Sardinian 432 50 .. 427 50 Austrian Lombard .. -- - - Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25 f. 10 c. ; m one y , 25f. 9e.; three months, paper, 24f. 95e. ; money, 241. 931 e. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 6th publish the fol owing proclamation, addressed by General O'Don nell to the Moors, from his camp at El Otero ; " Inhabitants of Morocco !—ln penetrating into your country we shall be neither your tyrants nor your enemies. Your Emperor, who has refused us justice, forces us to have recourse to arms to obtain it—it is he who has destroyed the generous friend ship which Spain has always accorded you! Do not fear, however, that we shall make an abusive use of our triumph or of your submission —Spanish soldiers are always generous in victory, and your submission will give you a claim to our considera tion and friendship. Continue with confidence your ordinary labours. I promise you the aid and protection of my soldiers. I promise that your re ligion and customs shall be respected by all! The Spanish soldier, faithful to his Queen and his country, is only to be feared in the moment of combat ! " LEoPOLDO O'DoNNELL, General-in• Chief." One of the journals says that though as a general rule the Moors will not allow themselves to be taken prisoners, yet that eleven were captured in the affair of the 25th ult. ; of these eleven, however, it adds, not fewer than eight killed themselves ! The same journal states that such is the desperation of the Moors that even when lying on the ground wounded they attempt to kill the wounded Spaniards who may happen to be near them. The chaplain of the battalion of Madrid riflemen, whose warlike exploits were referred to yesterday, dis tinguished himself it appears in the combat of the 25th. Seeing that some companies of the battalion were at one moment thrown into confusion by the loss of several of their officers, he led them up to the 'Moors, and with his own hand killed one of the enemy. AUSTRIA. The Press of Vienna, under date of the 6th, says :—" The Gazette of the Faubourgs has received a warning because, in its number of the 28th ult., it contains, under the head of The Fate of Central Italy,' an article at the end of which it puts for ward, contrary to the preliminaries of the peace of Villafranca, the canditlateship of an Imperial Prince, and thus infringes on the respect due to the mem bers of the Imperial family." The Minister of Finance of Vienna has published a notice, inviting all the Austrian creditors of the Lombardo-Venetian ex Monte to bring forward their claims before the 15th January next. The Vorstadt Zeitang has received a written warn ing on account of an article entitled" The Fate of Central Italy," in which mention was made of the Archduke Maximilian "without that respect which is due to a member of the Imperial family." If my memorysfGpuatoukzereotnt of is not at fault, his Imperial Highness was Gazette eulogises enug Id a oo s a anilseo sfcandidateEtruria. for ttiliiiie t o h u e r e t throne er n v e s oo Augs b u r gff t t I h l ee Austrian Government, it could not refrain from observing, that if Paragraph 4 of the supplementary Press Law should be strictly up held, " a paper could publish hardly anything without being in danger of punishment." Fortu nately for Government, paragraph 4 cannot be car ried out, as it is so loosely worded that the judges are unable exactly to understand its sense: As half a-dozen papers have received warnings during the last three or four days, it is probable that the Go- vernment will hold its hand for a time, as it must know that the line which separates the serious from the ridiculous is a very narrow one. The Imperial Government thinks of proceeding against the 140 persons who signed the Kfusmark protest against the Imperial Patent of September Ist, so that there is likely to be a " monster process" in Hungary. The man who printed the protest—the Hungarians call it a " petition"—was sentenced to imprison ment for 30 days, or a fine of 15011. The pay ment of the money was at once offered by some Hungarian patriots, but the printer declared that he wished to be locked up " for having done his duty to his country." It strikes me that it is unwise of Government to proceed against the licesmark Pro testants, as it will be at a loss to know what to do with them if they are convicted. The Hungarians are in a state of great excitement, and one false step on the part of Government might bring about a conflict, which would lead to a regular Hungarian question. It affords me pleasure to be able to in form you that the Minister of the Interior has in formed the Saxon Protestants in Transylvania, that they are at liberty to dedicate 50,000f1., their an nual contribution to the provincial treasury, to the improvement of their schools. "If there is money enough in the Treasury " the arrears due since the year 1851 are also to be paid up. It is said that the taxes are to be raised in all the provinces, but the report can hardly be true, as the Hungarians, Croats, &e., are unable to pay the taxes already imposed. RUSSIA. The St. Petersburg Gazette publishes the fol lowin g speech from the Emperor Alexander to the nobles of Pskoff on the 22d ult., on the occa sion of a general presentation of the nobility : " I have long been anxious to visit you. The nobility have always promptly responded to the appeal of the Czar, and I have ever addressed them with entire confidence. It was with the same con fidence that I appealed to you, gentlemen, in the question of the peasants, and I thank you for having responded with sympathy to my application. At pre sent that affair, with God's help, is drawing to a close ; I hope you will await its conclusion with the same confidence that I myself have shown in ap pealing to you, and with the full conviction that this affair will be terminated to the common advan tage of both parties, in such a manner that the in terests of the nobles may be, as far as possible, guaranteed, and that the condition of the peasants at the same time will be really improved. I am convinced that you will justify my confidence." The next day, at the moment of leaving Pskoff, when the marshals of the nobility presented them selves before his Majesty to thank him for having been present at a ball given on the previous even ing, the Emperor addressed them as follows :—" I thank you for your cordial reception, and I shall remember with pleasure the agreeable evening I passed with you. Remember, gentlemen, my words of yesterday. lam convinced that you have confi dence in me, and I have equal trust in you. Be assured that your interests are always near my heart ; I hope that, by our common efforts, and with God's help, we shall attain the end desired in this matter, to the advantage of everybody. I pray you to give no credit to reports spread abroad by the evil-disposed, but confide in me alone and in • my word." THE GREAT EASTERN STEAM-SHIP, The directors of the Great Ship Company have rescinded the resolution to which they had come a few days since, to call together the shareholders on the 15th, and have postponed the holding of the meeting until the 11th of January. The reason assigned is that they would not then be able to enter as fully into all matters connected with the company as they would desire to do, owing to the fact that the questions pending between the contractor and the company are still under arbitra tion. An approximate statement of the liabilities and assets of the company, identical with that which would have been laid before the meeting, had it l i been held, has been issued to the shareholders. One of the objects which the meeting of the 15th would have had to consider has been already dis posed of, arrangements having been entered into for meeting all the engagements of the company as they may fall due during the ensuing three months. A sum of £40,000 has been borrowed by the direc tors, on the security of the ship, and this will be sufficient to meet all existing liabilities. The diffi culty in which the company finds itself placed at present arises from the liabilities for ship stores and provisions which are still on hand. There is an item of about £lO,OOO for coals, and £20,000 for wines, spirits, &e., most of which are still on board. Had the great ship gone on its voyage to America, or made the trial trips, as originally projected, with passengers on board, the receipts would of course have come in aid of those liabilities. The balance of £8,750 of temporary loans is covered by the ba lance at the banker's and the amount of arrears on calls, all of which are considered good. The capital of the company originally was £330,000, but of this sum only £303,250 has been issued, leaving £26,742 yet to be issued. These, at the present low value of the shares, with the stores in hand, are nearly equal to the amount of the liabilities. In addition, however, to these items, a sum of £15,000 will bo required to carry out all the requirements of the Board of Trade, which include feed pumps for the larger engines in substitution of the donkeys, and some other arrangemnts. Whatever defi ciencies may be ultimately found by the arbitrators to exist in the work performed by Mr. Scott Rus sell will, of course, have to be.made good by him, and the company holds security of the contractor to the amount of £25,000. The arbitrators meet twice a week at the offices of Mr. Hawkshaw, and an enormous amount of evidence has already been given on both sides. The claim of the company, as against Mr. Russell, is of a very large amount, and it includes an item of £60,000 for losses sus tained by the company in consequence of the works not having been completed in a proper manner, and thus preventing the ship from going to America at the time originally specified. Had the ship made the voyages expected all would have gone well, an immense sum would have been received for visitors and passengers, and the large amount of stores and provisions which lie as dead weights upon the concern would have been consumed, and paid for by the recipts or earnings of the ship. THE FOG YESTERDAY.-LOSS OF LIFE The metropolis yesterday afternoon was enve loped in, the most dense fog we have been visited with since October, 1851 ; from half-past twelve at noon until two o'clock the darkness was so intense that it was dangerous to attempt crossing the car riage road. In Newington-causeway, Mrs. Willott, with an infant in her arms, was knocked down and run over by an omnibus; the unfortunate woman had her arm broken, the child providentially escaping any injury. Several cases were brought- into the hospitals, owing to accidents which occurred to persons re turning from places of religious worship. F ew , however, were serious. At half-past one o'clock the darkness had attained its climax, and the lights in Licensed Victuallers and other shops, imperfectly observable, only tended to render it more visible. On the river the opacity of the atmosphere was much more dense, objects at a few yards' distance not being discernible. The steam boat traffic for nearly two hours was totally suspended, and the large Continental, Scotch, and Irish screw and paddle steamers were compelled to bring up at Blackwall, in order to avoid the intricate naviga tion of the upper and lower pools. On the ebb tide much damage was occasioned in spars and rigging by vessels dropping down and coming into colli sion with others in the tiers. At Blackfriars bridge, at the commencement of the fog on the pro ceding night, a man and a boy were drowned from a barge. The bodies were not recovered at a late hour last even'ng. The Moniteur publishes the text of a law which the Legislature of the State of Louisiana passed on the Ist September, absolutely interdicting people of colour, not born in the State, to sojourn in the territory; declaring that a free coloured man on arriving in a port shall be put in prison and be maintained there at the expense .of the captain bringing him; also that if the free black shall not consent to quit the State within a given period, he shall be condemned to not less than three and not more than 12 months' imprisonment, and in the event of his coming a second time, to five years' imprisonment. The law adds that any private person or police officer arresting a free black wan in Orleans shall receive a reward of 10 dollars, NEW 11USIC. The Flower Queen. Vase a deux Temps. By . Frederic de Bernhardt. Bouton de Rose Quadrilles. By Frederic de Bern hardt. Evans and Co., 77, Baker-street, Portman-square. Monsieur Frederic de Bernhardt, the composer of these two very charming productions, has not only evidenced throughout them both his mastery of the science of musical composition, but ho has revealed in each that rarest gift of all for the musician—the gift of melody. This is particularly observable in the " Valse a deux temps," though it is noticeable also in a lesser degree in parts of the graceful Rosebud Quadrilles. Danced to, as the Flower Queen Waltz will doubtless be, during the present and coming season in many a ball-room of Mayfair and Belgravia, the delicate melody which is its theme will haunt the memory of many a light footed sylph in crinoline long after she has ceased her gyrations to its harmonious measure. The composer's success, here, in dance-music, is such to our thinking, is so daintily refreshing in originality, that we shall hope to have an opportunity of recog nising M. de Bernhardt's ability as a melodist in the production of a ballad or love-song, a branch of his high art in which we conceive him to be naturally qualified to excel—estimating his qualifi cations, though we do at the present moment, merely through the graceful medium of this " Flower Queen Waltz" and these " Bouton de Rose Quad rilles." A rivederla ! LITE.RATUR.E. Life in Spain. By Walter Thornbury, author o, " Art and Nature," Ste. 2 vols. Smith and Elder. Two volumes of travels in such a romantic locality, sketohed by the brilliant and facile pen of the author of " Shakespeare's England,' " Art and Nature," and many another contribution to the literature of the day, will probably attract many readers. The work consists of a series of papers which orignally appeared in " Household Words," enlarged and added to. While we can trace some of the diffuseness and carelessness of style to which such a. method of writing naturally gives rise, we can discover more vivacity and entertainment than are often encountered in more serious and solid re cords. The volumes are lively, varied, and full of animation, telling the author's impressions in a free careless manner, as though he were giving, viva vote, on his return, an account of his adventures to some enquiring friend. He troubles himself but little about the intrigues of the Court or the cabals of the politician, the errors of the Government or the state of the national finances. All such subjects he leaves in silence and obscurity, at once merciful to his late hosts and to his English reader. He would not be a trustworthy teller of travellers' tales, however, if he returned from Spain without glean ing anything about the two national institutions of the Inquisition and the bull fight. Accordingly, wehave a thrilling account of the one, drawn from a rare old Spanish volume, the work of one of the sufferers ; and a vivid picture of the other, taken from the writer's own experience. The verdict pronounced on both is one which most of us will subscribe to—that the Inquisition is a compound of tyranny, bigotry, and cruelty, diametrically op posed to the great principles of Christianity ; and the bull fight a ferocious and barbarous sport, de teriorating to the national character of the people who so frequently witness it. The visit to the Spanish wine merchant is amusingly told, and tells some truths very disagreeable to the purchasers of cheap sherry : " In Xeres there were five hundred thousand arrobas of wine—thirty of which went to a bota (butt)—made an nually. This made thirty-four thousand butts, nine thou sand of which were of first quality. Sherry is too strong and too dear for Spaniards, and too feverish for the climate. The best is, in Xeres, a dollar a bottle. The best in the bodega is worth from fifty to eighty guineas a butt ; and after insurance, freight, and sale charges, it stands the im porter in from one hundred to one hundred and thirty guineas before it reaches his cellar (say) in Belgrave square. " ' How many gallons in the butt, Don Sanchez ?' " ' About one hundred and twelve. This will bottle into about fifty-two dozen, and the duty is five shillings and six pence the gallon. So you may form your own opinion about cheap London sherries, which are generally ver ' curious' indeed—mere doctors' draughts, in fact, made up according to certain swindling prescriptions.' " Here was a blow for my old friend Binns, who opens a bottle of forty-eight shilling sherry with the air of an anti quarian unswathing a mummy Pharaoh. Thought I, the next time the deluded man points to the oily stickiness of his glass, I will leap up, seize him by the white cravat, and say in a hollow voice : Binns I you are the victim of a life-long delusion that stuff you drink, you think is the juice of Spanish grapes, plucked by men playing guitars, and smoking cigars ; you call it, in poetical moments, bottled sunlight, gunfire, and so on—bah (after the manner of Napoleon) it is only a chemical compound made up of drugs and Infu sion% like Daffy's elixir or James's powder. It is cooked up with boiled, treacly wine, and brandy. It is a compound mixed with a dozen barrels, and made to order for a parti cular market. If the vines of Xeres grew till they got black in the face, Binns, they could not yield wine like your forty-eight shilling sherry.' "The Don laughed, and said that certainly the sherry wine district was very small; not more than twelve miles square. Therefore, it could not yield honest wine enough even for half London. The sherry grape grew only on cer tain low, chalky hills, where, the earth being light-coloured, is not so much burnt—did not chap and split so much by the sun, as darker and heavier soils do. A. mile beyond these hills, tho grapes deteriorate. The older the plants the bettor, but the fewer the grapes." Another amusing chapter is that on Spanish pro verbs. We subjoin the introductory passage : " The Spanish proverbs, the floating literature of Spain, handed down by verbal tradition, smell of garlic and orange peel, and are as profoundly national as the English nauti cal song or the Welsh triad. " They aro shot at you, or stabbed into you, or pelted at you, at every tavern door and at every table d'hote. They are the grace for the sour gaspacho and the unsavoury salt cod-fish (bacalao). They are the Spaniard's shield and stil lotto. They aro the wisdom of the age before books, and as Spain changes no more than China, they are the wisdom of the present day. They aro to the cigarette-smoker and melon-eater what quotations are to the club man, and to the debater in Parliament whom country gentlemen always cheer when he quotes Horace—thinking it Greek, and to show they understand him. To many who do not think at all they supply the place of books altogether, and aro the traditional Corpus Juris of traditional wisdom bequeathed them by their ancestors, who did think. It might bo a question, indeed, worth the theorist-spinner's while to trace the effect of these floating proverbs on a race to which they serve as creeds, statutes, and guides of life; of which they express the mode of thought, and, at the same time, influence and direct it—moulding andbeing moulded. In these pro verbs we find every phase of the Spanish mind exemplified --its ' pundonor,' its punctiliousness, its intolerable and mean pride, its burning fever for revenge, its hardness, that we call cruelty, its love of ease and pleasure, its unprogres siveness, and its ardent religious instinct which degenerates to superstition. For all those pleasant national vices that brought their own special scourges, these proverbs have warning or encouragement. The ir kindlier feelings, too, donot pass uninstanced. Proverbs with men are the small change of wit ; but with the Spaniard they aro too often his whole mental capital. By an apt quotation a good memory can always appears genius in Spain ; and proverb-writers being all anonymous when living and forgotten when dead, there is no indictment in the High Court of Plagiarism against the appropriator who lets off hi s m en t a l fireworl with out saying that he purchased it, but yet was not the maker. When a man in England is witty we suppose the wit is his own; but when a Spaniard is witty in r o lli ng dili ge n ce or in striving steamboat., you may be almost sure it is the proverb of some contemporary of Cervantes, dead these two hundred years, that tickles your diaphragm, and which you swallow with a smile like a French sweetmeat. It acts as a sort of mental snuff, pleasantly irritates, and leaves yon refreshed. A man must be very mentally dyspeptic, indeed, who cannot:digest a proverb without inconvenience or strug gle. If a Spaniard sees you smiling at a Spanish street• group rather overdoing the bowing, as Spaniards sometimes will, he will say in a rhyme, ' A civil tongue is not expen sive, and it is very profitable.' As the old Italians of Ma chiavelli's time used to say : It is a good outlay to spoil a hat ,with often taking it off.' You feel at once that you have heard a shrewd proverb intended to explain to worldly people the courtesy of a proud race." The chapter on Spanish Ballads is decidedly infe• rior to some of the others. It disappoints the reader, who might have expected better things from the author of " The Songs of the Cavaliers and Round heads," and the illustrations must certainly be of a very different quality from the originals if the latter have endured for so many centuries. But of the author's prose there is little reason to complain. It is true he gives us sometimes a more prominent impres sion of himself and his own doings than of the places or people he is describing. Still the freshness and vividness of the style will be pleasant to the reader who is wearied with dry details and guide-books. Occasionally the writer passes into a graver style, and the chapter on the Spain of Cervantes is an example of this manner. After remarking, as none can fail to do, on the sudden and complete decay of the Spanish power, he says : " Andnow we know Spain only as a sluggard's garden of a country, where men dance a good deal, stab a good deal, and do a good deal on the guitar; and from which we get sherry (some of it), our nuts, oranges, melons, and chesnuts. We turn up our noses when we tak of it, and lament, with insolent pity, its undeveloped resources, its big oted religious queen, its pride, its laziness, and its hopele ss p overt y . •' It might make the thoughtful man weep to take now f t o h r e sa m k a e p n o s f ea Sr t i t n s , r a n nd ine l d oo o k tt a ie t s i , ts it c s ho s k in e g d g - u ts p hpeople, harbours and ople,eager only for vice and folly, slow to work, and swift to stab. To away mines todeser unheeded, ts, its t ports unused ; the very limbs o f this g reat countr y festerin g s p s eaes tintsrepslaciannskoerfiPtigaritoidtoiseni o ulbarrennes s, derin t a s s sro from the trunk ; the land t hat could p roduce all the trea sures of east and west, the wheat of Europe, the rice of Asia, the sugar cane of Scuth America, the palm tree of Africa, now lying the dustheap of the nations ; the beggared, despised, neglected, sightless country, ready, like a sick sheep, to be torn in pieces by the first eagle that pounces on it from the peak of the Pyrenees." We must not omit to mention the tinted illustra tions, which add largely to the attractions of these pleasant volumes . MODEL OF THE PROPOSRD 311.4 R AND Rzinir A IS IN SMITHFIELD. full ---,-- An elaborate model, with ground plans a... information, in respect to t he proposed d poultry, and vegetable markets, pre for erec tion pared by the City's architect, W. B. Bunning, Esq., upon the north side of Smithfield, in conn nec tingec the tion with a subterranean line of railway cono same with the New Cattle-market, Copenhaorth gen North fields, and the existing term ini of the G d o reat N rail ern, r oom, a t ern, North-Western, Great Western, anther ways, is now placed in No. 1 Committee- Guildhall, where on Satur da y last it was viewed by several members of the Corporation. The committee have give n directions fo to-day r the model and plans to be shown during (Monday), and the two following days to mew" bens of the Corporation, the Associated Society of Meat Salesmen, to ward or parochial com mittees, or any other bodies of gentlemen who may desire to inspect it ; and we are instructed to state that upon application to the City architect, at his ttne that du purpose. offices in Guildhall, that gentleman will at all for i during the above term , make arrogements That portion of the model (which is in the form of a parallelogram, about five feet in length bY eighteen inches deep, and of corresponding a re a of represents a space of ground embracing all ar ea ° 150,000 superficial feet, surrounded on all sides by a roadway, 60 feet wide (with a double frontago of 625 feet by 240 feet), intended form arket por" poses only, occupies in plan the north side Chart erL lane, Smithfield, bounded on the east by house-street, on the west by King-street, and ° ,. 11 the north by St. John-street and Cowcrosstreo. The entrance from the south, or Lone,ff:lnee" frol; tage, is by a wide thoroughfare leading to t northern side, facing St. John-street, d there we . s ti are other entrances at the east and, ends. The market thus proposed would meat, a sufficient number of shops for the sale of 10, 1 ' 1 the internal fittings to be arranged subsequently, " as the model," the City solicitor has pointedly eraD" served, ~ may be considered rather as the illustioi tion of a principle than the definition of a deta il a plan." The learned gentleman has further state • " that it is not impossible that practical men In i : e l d discover some objection to the princele in a t in the plan," and it is certain, tins, t id such parties " would see many details which Wel. require alteration even if the principle were a t" proved by them." 0 Independently of the proposed market;ilsoen, " proper," the City architect has prepared, in c 0„ nexion with it, if deemed desirable, plans for bring ts: ing into the basement of the market lines of ra .t i_i tu .. be united with certain trunk lines, and with h oc ! politian Cattle Market at Copenha proposed lino communicating with the New l ‘o e e a P for saces are left above the market standings and the admission of light from the glass roel, l g' a re places of ingress to and egress from the train s noes provided at separate doors from the market 00100 in Charterhouse-street and West-street. These lead to or from the staircases, by which West-street. it is proposed to " lift" the meat, Copenhagen-fields. may be approached and quitted. For the railways, en d masse to the level of the market -place, eLitlg. raulic power, provision for several such lift s ii;ira shown in different parts of the m odel. A I , e the feature, also shown, is a superstructure above and market, suggested for the purpose railways'eeeivin;hi .warehousing goods brought by the receptacles la it is proposed to " hoist" into these foci, the same manner as the vans containing A Sothi c sions. The elevation is in the pointeL- ra pe. Sze., and the trucks s T tyle, and is of neat but substantial appea.roilas the architect estimates at £235,000, The cost of the proper market's site and. the sum actually paid by the Corporation dual' and last 40 years, for ground which is noW oc an s heep, market for , s h e ep, which was formerly occupied as a &c. cost fer and. the . Mr. Bunning further estimates that the „ co la both market sites and railways, cuttings, c ' - o ar reach .E 280,000 • and with the proposed on zeri s szco , bent structures for warehouses, goods, etati9nro' / id. £376,000, leaving the railway companies t i P ro B aa the sum of £139,000 for their accorn for the use of the markets. Independently hhfount, h model, there is also a ground plan of the fneedet'Ail° ood surrounding the proposed site , . 1 / 1 to v.. ° being furnished of its anticipated eontlgegeture. ea 0 several streets adjacent to the prots, —______—_-----_-'---------ry Toiaja ,j. 1 PALACE FOR TFIE (701011°''- )ry I OF SETVERS•irodationo,_ t. • tmoshpoeeFmeenteit ;ani timethe public has reportedora long been amused a__too by conference of this august apart g ae a rs m t ff a or z uo e nm d a counsels were divided, and their proceelle-leerlrg even and so the altercations which arose T o on t all vheo straift businesstahnaednbdoohapirrnaor;asatsinii oeonniatitect c fr a o u m sesof difference the removal of the &P a y, 0 00' the old site of Greek-street was str° l4.l s ok tested. Mr. Leslie, with a small rainoritY, i f a nd dered the office commodious and good n e ougud oro m, urgedthat, having a good solid house' all4ooo, almost as large as that chasm in Spring•P' it would be unnecessary prodigality to cligngei t he Such is in fact the case; but the tastes ° 00 0 f o gentlemen commissioners, most of whom 911 o itls now in rhave been tradesmen, aspired to a pas A d. m. other great national departments, such es ,tu e fe jots Offices, iralty, the Treasury, the Home and -r° lo ." 0 11 &c., with which the proposed strlic' The house of being grouped. ;on the w e n E o s u t s a e te oT it th lo e ok E s a t r o l trite i/I:ircdtitinagdetii:r4l:oooo, Cro and forms one of the lustrous circlet t' occurs to around the Mall and Parade. Now, itl de' many who know how very many Geve rlinleuts ht 014 into are dislocated and divided, some -, air Lance hired houses, others at an inconvenieTnow ance from the active centre—that the Pl° 1 ; 0 010 permanent Bureau of some open the at Spring-gardens wicket ought to b° r a on e or °th e th e e A se s public departments so disointed. roll sg e foror theall theol d requirements hous e in Greek- of s t t i r i e e e s t, e w i a i g : e n . e t 01 1 3 :i m lar yvaluable neighbourhood, to enlarge very ; besides there is scope enough in tP"'„isko or i - fin t, additions to the old building—if additions b° burin mening—but much more business is done by 9O in the City in premises of smaller Ot en , " o pi , even less commodious. Such wane Mr. Leslie.% of nion, mentary or Cabinet connections , Sewers, and as it is clear that t Commissrioriir as at present constituted, have no ex tra' it does see ln :',,v in London that the very finest available posit i v o of on should be so prostituted, and unit a r sn he at least £lO,OOO should also be lavished ;Or purpose l of dedicating a temple to it was es' It is pretty well understood, who it was ' 0 01 f _posed_ 0 the heedless waste of £30,000 (or SOlositi ty: in below figures it—the L_ r ls, 00), in one of the six contraets for th e h c or tdraiatnage. satili If the men who sanctioned on e e er are so b thin e , were not above their business, they :nil: wag ; 0 or , although tradesmen they ought to have some trade — res th an ey d a a e r e e n n u o n t ts civi n l i inendilferent have signalised themselves in walks far ~,i r ro ingr from their avocations—one, notably' in '" r oof another wh in architecture, and so forth ; b u t Hop ose greatest celebrity has been for 41001°.n tbo inter se, and for making gigantic roistako 1 1,. to expenditure of public money, ought net sureodthe be further intrusted, either in deterinining4l,°o eor sanitary st works of a great metropolis, or in 1- 0 00 1- m ri d ietion of a pavilion for their own private it 4 , it th o eir ation and glorification ; more particalarvitb• whimies and mistakes are set deign ' public cost. inig Plot It ma be ibe here remarked that the li.ll-1 „ t , bs in ma question might, in the hands of Govertune_%or row and of inappreciable value ; at present it l o s . ; 0 1 that and elongated towards the park frontl e 'oest the construction is occasioned by t f no lo. hideous,_ the most out of place, and the M ott to w it, the all buildings piled on public grarld° he T stables of the late Carlton Palace- ,! „,, o stat ef This • • site, if thrown into the Fitzbara'nb- 0004 n w i ould form the most 'utilitarian, the in 1,00, _ ent, and the most beautiful position in ,nl i _ a f e et don ; it is open to the park for several hundrciee,sod t —to the passage of Spring-gardens on one f‘ i fec t ia . o Carlton-terrace on the other--and if P,, eiro und , sulation, combined with open frontage n"A".,,altri h were required, then the range of old anrtabie• ouses extending from Charing-.cross to tbeoPaerste mew entrance might be obtained at 14 rri b e yon 4 cost. Such a consummation would fen! lin g il l com parison the finest site for a public bol d ing London: 0 to ; the tiro s Before G ' a othism is peroctrated, .s 11,00 look after , v e the right appro-priation of ca id, public sites, and unless some attention he psi ;pore than hitherto, to opportunities like tu, o bel i h i there is little hope for the iinProvenient or - . s ment of our city. disgra ce A long time back we alluded to the disgr o to y, old tiled stables which disfigure the gall at ti l ie tea of the Admiralty—another fling at that neg of property of the Crown in this 003 localitlf not be out of place.—Building News. _______----,..........•""".......- MONUMENT TO MOZART AT VIEN.._.--- v 4 The 1138°1'0 morial to this great composer which has beei.i. erected_....ooj.e memory by the inhabitants of Authorities,Vaw in)ig.,l:o` otitiot Monday in the presence of the ,„101'C'Oroo Yo Hans Gassier, and an immense assemblage. 1. P foliated let was preceded by a short choral performance, _ „ tot , speech by the burgomaster, and succeeded. v . , g oo . .' musical display. Tho monument consists 0! `ccoserlf:', Mozart, around which are grouped symbolical a rrovifillir ri'• amongs which is a mournful muse looldng sot holdsrl wards the nscri • The names of the ge“teB il'icll works are inscribed on foliage which the rill's° 01 .0, Oro- - left hand. Four candelabra ornament the wee' also boars several inscriptions. , to s. I