The Sun. — London, England, 1860-12-24 00:00:00

H ER M,AJESTY'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. SMITH. NOTIC E.—The Lessee respectfullyinformsthe Patrons, and Supporters of this elegant Theatre, that , "FOR THE FIRST TIME," he will attempt a Grand Pantomime. The greatest care has been taken to produce and make it suitable to the taste of children. Every objec tionable matter has been omitted in the Harlequinade , which has always been considered too long and tedious, and the Lessee has studied the tastes of the junior branches of society, for whom, at this season of the year, t his par ticular entertainment is produced. There will be Morning Performances of the Pantomime on Saturdays, December 29, January 5 and 12, at Two o'clock precisely. On Wednesday, Boxing-day, December 26th, 1860, and every evening during the week, an original Opera, entitled, QUEEN TOPAZE. Raphael (a Captain) ......... Mr. SWIFT. Anibalßarbiano (a Rich ...... tian) Francatrippa 1 (Gipsies) f Mr. PATTY. Fritellino 1 Mr. TERROTT. Gritti . Zeno Mr. BEALE. loredano (Young Venetian Mr. ST. ALBYN. Manfred Nobles) Mr. BAKER. Bembo Mr. THOMPSON. Topaze (a Gipsy) Countess Filomela hostess of an Inn .. Miss HEMMING. Nobles, Ladies, Male and Female Gipsies. The scene is laid at Venice, 1512. After which (the first ever represented at her Majesty's Theatre) will be produced, an entirely New and Original Grand Musical, Magical, and Comical Burlesque Ballet Pantomime, founded on one of the most popular of our Old National Stories, and entitled HARLEQUIN AND TOM THUMB ; - - - OR, MERLIN THE MAGICIAN AND THE GOOD FAIRIES OF THE COURT OF KING ARTHUR. .The Scenery, entirely new, under the superintendence of Mr. WILLIAM BEVERLEY. Artists, Mr. CHARLES BREW, Mr. SANDERS, &c., &c., &c. The Overture, Choruses, and the whole of the Music composed by J. H. TULLY. The Libretto by Mr. E. L. BLANCHARD, and the whole produced under the direction of Mr. ROBE wr ROXBY, assisted by Mr. R. PHILLIPS. The Panto mimic Physiognomy and Designs for :the Dresses by DYK WYNKYN. The Machinery by Mr. Tucker. The Tricks and Properties by Mr. NEEDHAM, Mr. GLINDON, and Mr. H. ADAMS. The Costumes by Miss DICKINSON and Mons. LAURI. The Harlequinade by the LAURI FAMILY. INTERIOR OF GAFFER THUMB'S COTTAGE. Gaffer Thumb Mr Forster. G o ody Thumb. Mrs. Linden. Merlin (the. Wizard of the Early Ages, and Professor of P a rlour Magic) ' .... Mr. Dixon. }l oc us Pocus, Popalorum, Shixtum Stixtum, Cockalorum Jig (his Four Familiars) Masters Quick, P a ss, Fly, and Begone. Tom Thumb (" The a brid g ement of all that is pleasing in man." Engaged especially for Juvenile Patrons) Miss LILIA ROSS. Schoolboys.. Masters Hop, Skip, Jump, Trap, Bat, Ball, Chevy, Bcc. &c. " The famous magician Merlin, being once in a dark forest, when he wanted food and rest called at a poor man's cottage. The Good Dame grieved, and shed many tears, because she was so lonely all day long, as she and her husband wanted a little child to keep them company. 'My husband,' quoth she, ' would be happy if he had but a child no bigger than his thumb,' and so-."---Legend of Thomas Thumb. ROSETiTATER LAKE AND ROMANTIC HAUNT OF THE FAIRIES. Rosalie (Queen of the Fairies) Miss Mason. Frangipanni, Musk, Petcheuli, Verbena, Heliotrope, Ron doletta, Violet, Moss Rose, Sweetbriar, Eglantine, Car nation, Bergamont Jasmin, Myrtle, Lavender, Eau de Cologne, &c., &c. Attendants, Toilet Fairies " And he danced with the young Fairies, whose eyes were like diamonds and whose hair was like silver thread, and whose skin was white and smooth like ivory, and they gave him wine made of the sweet smelling wild flowers."— The Legend. GAFFER THUMB'S COTTAGE. Tom the Tinker Mr. Solderwell. " Once he got into a playfellow's bag of cherry stones, and was shaken almost to death for his tricks ; and another time he fell into a large batter pudding, and the pudding was put to boil, but he kicked about in it so vielently that his mother thought some evil spirit was in the pot, so she gave it to the Tinker, when—."—The Legend. • FARM YARD AND DISTANT COUNTRY. " Another time his mother tied him to a thistle, whilst she milked the Cow, and the Cow did eat the thistle, but he kicked about so in the Cow's throat that he was soon up again in his mother's apr on ; when a great Crow . ff The Legend. TURRETS AND TERRACE OF GIANT'S CASTLE. Hurlothrumbo (the Giant) ....... Mr. Feefawfolum. " The Crow dropped him on the top of the Giant's Castle, when the Giant swallowed him, but he was soon glad to give him up, and he fell into the sea where —"—The Legend. BANQUETING HALL IN THE PALACE OF KING ARTHUR. King Arthur ("He was a goodly King." Minstrel of the Period) . Mr. E. St. Albyn. His Cook Mr. Kitchener. His Scullion Mr. Clearaway. Huncamunca (his Daughter) ....Miss Highbury Barnes. His Knights of the Round Table by distinguished repre sentatives of the days of ancient chivalry, and illustrat ing a Long Knight, a Short Knight, a Green Knight, a Dark Knight, a Wet Knight, a Baron Knight, a Box ing Knight, &c., &c. The Discovery! The Recovery I And the Catastrophe! " My name is Tom Thumb, from the fairies I come. 1 hen King Arthur shone, this Court was my own. In me he delighted ; by him I was knighted ; Did you never hear of Sir Thomas Thumb !" Metrical Legend. Changing to THE CHAMELEON TEMPLE OF THE FAIRIES, GRAND MAGICAL METAMORPHOSIS. Harlequin, Mr. J. Lauri. Columbine, Miss Jenny Lauri Clown, Mr. C. Lauri. Pantaloon, Mr. H. Lauri. Sprites by the celebrated Arabs. NOTlCE.—During the Pantomime the doors open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven o'clock. T HEATRE ROYAL, DRURY -LANE. Lessee, Mr. F. T. SMITH. NOTICE.—The Lessee has much pleasure in announcing his Ninth Pantomime at this.national establishment. Every care has been bestowed on it to make it suitable to the taste of his patrons who have honoured the theatre with their presence, and have pronounced the Pantomimes under his management superior to any produced. Great objections have been made as to the length of the comic scenes in pantomime. This has also undergone the necessary prun ing, and the pantomime will be so arranged as to leave off at Half-past Eleven, that the audience may avail themselves of the late Trains. The Lessee, having selected Wednes day morning for eight years for his morning performance, begs to inform his friends the Pantomime will commence every Wednesday at two o'clock. Re-engagement of Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES MATHEWS. On WEDNESDAY, Dec. 26, 1860, and during the week, her Majesty's servants will perform a new Comedy, in two acts, entitled THE ADVENTURES OF A BILLET-DOUX. Principal Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Tilbury, Nfrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss,. Arden, Miss H. H oward, &c. A:Wr which the new Grand Comic Christmas Annual, which, for a considerable time having engrossed the atten tion of every department, will be produced on a scale of unprecedented magnitude and magnificence, under 'the title of _ _ PETER WILKINS; or, HARLEQUIN and the PLY ING WOMEN of the LOADSTONE ISLAND. Founded on the most remarkable and beautiful romance in the English language, written early in the last century, and recording the " Life and Adventures of Peter Wil kins," a Cornish man, relating particularly his shipwreck near the South Pole, his wonderful passage through a sub terraneous cavern into a kind of new world, his there meet ing with a Gaurey, or Flying Woman, whose life he pre serves, and whom he afterwards married, and his extra- AardinarY conveyfince to the country of Glumms and Gauries er Men and Women that Fly. The new and splendid scenery by Mr. WILLIAM BEVERLEY (to whom is due the merit of originating and bringing to perfection the present state of grand scenic effects now adopted at this sea son of the year by every theatre in the kingdom), assisted by Messrs. H. CRAVEN, C. PITT, GOMPERTZ BREW, &c., &c. The Overture and Music composed and arranged by Mr. J. H. TULLY. The Grotesque Burlesque Opening invented and written by E. I. BLAN CHARD, author of the great Drury lane Pantomimes for the last eight years. The whole arranged and produced under the superindence of Mr. ROBERT ROXBY. The Masks, personal Appointments, and designs for the Costumes, from the best authorities, by DYKWYNKYN. The Machinery by Mr. F. TUCKER and Assistants. The Tricks, Properties, Changes, and Transformations by Mr. NEEDHAM, assisted by Messrs. H. LANGAN, I.ANDON, H. ADAMS, &c. The Costumes by Mr. p al-TARR and Miss DICKENSON. The Gas Appoint 'nerd' 1 4 Mr. HINCKLEY. The Dances and Chore graphic Arrangements by Mr. CORMACK. The Comic Scenes by Items. HULINE, CORMACK, R. POWER, &c. , Programme , of the Incidents and Scenery IN MINE IN CORNWALL. Black Ralph (Capt ain(aMiner r o , f the Mine) Mr Glindon. DAer The Earl Polw holfol t4 Mr. W. Templeton. ryddel Fitz A r thur T rov anion Constantia (his Daughter),.. Mr. R. Power. r zow the Cornish Men." 4, B y Tre, Pol, and Pen, ye ......... Miss Conway. e sndus, Politticks, Pol- Miners ..... Messrs. Tr p em oi o yt r, e t n, & c., & Lk, Poldig, Pendeve, Pol troon, Pencutay., Feldepur (Chief of the Kobolds or G o b lins Mr. Bars b. of the Mine) Little Kobolds or Goblins o f the Mine. adas, Top, -f!rs Tip, Tap, Grip, e o , NiP, Flip, How Peter is struck by the hard hands of Bla c k R h ancrthe soft eyes of the fair Const antia, and hoe, of pal r being driven to extremities, he takes a medium cou rse and gets a true communication per raps f rom the knock ing Spirits of the Mine—The Divining Rod —the Magical Mysteries of the Crystal, and the change to ELFIN LAND IN THE CRY.STAL SPHERV ITymphidia (Queen of the Elves—with an original Song, composed by Mr. J. H. Tully, " Starlight, Starlight") Miss 11. Howard. Mdlles. Attendant Elves GRAND BALLET FANTASTIQUE. How Peter, havinc , become invisible, finds, though out of sight, he is not out of' mind, and how the Elfin warning be receives causes him to change his situation. TREVANION CASTLE, ON THE CORNISH COAST, NEAR THE LAND'S END. Cornish Milk Girl Miss Pollychalk. Baker's Boy Master Treble. Maid Servant...... Miss Allwork. Cornish Fisherman,. Mr. Pennylot. Jeames (the Head Fuotuaan).. ......... Redplush. Black Page Domestics of the Castle, Messrs Fag, Brag, Lag, Gag, Tag, Rag, and Bobtail. Cornish Wreckers, Messrs. Smash, Crash, Dash, Flash, Splash, Breakup, and Goaway. a ckßobinson (first mate of theAd venturer) Mr. T. Matthews Giles Grogrum (the Pilot) Mr. Sowester. Second Mate How Pet er Mr, Rigout. runs away and goes to sea, and how 11e a 'the telegram from i Suez, in advance of the China Mail, was not received at a late hour on Saturday night, although it is daily expected. The mail itself cannot arrive (viall l l l o a u rs l e v il A le y s) R before the end of the week. berY, accompanied on Saturday Melton, near Portsmouth. Thomas Davis, of ceeding from his ho ROBBERY.—A daring highway rob , morning, with considerable violence, took place the head-quarters of th e a c t o possession amounting to usee in broad daylight, in the village of tmhouth. It appears that Pay. sergeant Royal Marine Artillery, was pro- Kingston to Fort Cumberland, ila r s ; , h fo r the purpose of paying s ;o with a sum of money in his hec 001-rooms in Melton at another' the men, and had reached the about half-past 7 o'clock, when on the right men tha in the received a violent blow weapon, and under the left ear from some turning round, immediately receivedon partially sfuTe4ssfullt their temple, il'hich felled him to the ground insensible. . par tially regaining consciousness he discovered twoeile. On g s i signs his s pockets, oryean irn a w t h i o o n n th o an s o t o h n e e y r act of gaverifiin victim off with their plunder. The men wore slouched hat 3 ; rn w a i d t e soldiers' grey coats thrown over their shoulders. A. clue is in the hands of the police, which it is fully believed w ill lead to tke cletection and capture of the thieyee, _ - wreckers, haying missed a prize, receive a quid-pro-quo from Jack Robinson. QUA.RTER DECK OF THE ADVENTURER. THE LOADSTONE ROCK. By NIGHT. FLIGHT OF THE FLYING ISLANDERS TO THEIR AERIAL HOME. Great Gathering of the Winged Women at the Trysting Place by the SPREADING BANYAN TREE. Descent of the Glumms and Gauries borne through the air on their beautiful wings, and BRILLIANT TRANSFORMATION. Harlequins—Mr. Cormack and Mr. St. Maine. Columbines—The Misses Gunnise. Pantaloons—Mr. Naylor and Mr. E. R. Martin. Clowns—Mr. Huline and Mr. R. Power, and a little one in by Young Huline. Sprites—By the celebrated Lavater Lee Family. Scene I—EXTERIOR OF A GREENGROCER'S, A PRINTING OFFICE, AND A PUBLIC TAVERN. Cormack, Huline, Naylor, E. Gunnies, and Lavater Lee and Sons. Cheap Publications--Plum Pudding and Pantomime for ever I—New Edition of Oliver Twist—The Ink-em-Tax —A Prima-facia Case—A new Sheet, just printed—The Head of a Staff well Chased—Clown kicked out of Office — Who's your Hatter—Heavy Swell (of Indignation)— Clown enters into the Hop Trade, and of course does his Duty—Dance, Mr. Huline and his Son, in their Pas de Polichinello, on Stilts—Harlequin well up in the Print ing Business—a Rise in Spirits—Change for the Better — Duty off Wines—Light Wines—The Spirit of Fashion — and as it is the Fashion (Pantomimic) to finish the Scene with Spirit, a Rally will really take place and place before you Scene 2.—A NURSERY GROUND AND SCHOOL. St. Maine, R. Power, Martin, Miss Gunniss, and Lavater Lee and Sons. Hop, step, and a jump—What are you at?—Out for an Airing—Bell ringing extraordinary—Clever at School, but you can't lodge here—Beware of Steel Traps and Spring Guns—No end of a distance to Turnhara-green—A change in Mile-stones and a fall of Finger posts—A miss as good as a mile—Fine Shooting, in perspective—The New Treaty —French Fruits—Pas des Dames des Halle, with Chinese Accompaniment, by the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet— True Blue for ever !—Rather a rise in the School, and a floorer for Clown. Scene 3. FARMHOUSE AND SPORTING C 0 UNTRY. Cormack, Haling, Naylor, E. Gunniss, and Lavater Lee and Sons. '• Harvest Home is a gloriousday, so jolly let us be I" — Old English Harvest Dance by the Ladies cf the Corps de Ballet, and a characteristic Pas de Deux by Mr. Cormack and Miss E. Gunniss—A farmer's life for me I—Clown and Pantaloon in want of employment—Not allowed to be drunk on the premises—Crinoline to its right use—Dog cart early laden with heavy swells—No end of pointers—A fall in game and a rise in turnips—The right man in the right place. Scene 4. EARLY MORNING AND EARLY CLOSING. St. Maine, Power, Martin, Miss Gunniss, Lavater Lee, and Sons. • An Early Breakfast—Have your boots cleaned P—Early lova—Why don't you pay the manf—Clown's true polish —Beware of the Police—Alas I poor Bobby—The true Young Englands—The present fashion—Clown v. Wright —Harlequin's cab, or wheels within wheels—My noble commander—A few Sandwiches, and Smith's advertising board—Flunkeyism the present fashion—Oh 1 what a Guy—A new mode of dog stealing—A sight_at the moon— A heavy cannon, with a heavy " troupe" of Volunteers—A slap at the bull's eye—John Bull and his wife—Always reward true merit. Scene—MlSTY VIEW. Characters in the dark, but oft a cloudy and rainy morn , ing brings forth " A bright and sunny day." REDUCED PRICES AS USUAL. Doors open at half-past 6. Commence at 7 o'olock. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.—Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. IMPORTANT NOTICE. The Management find it necessary to announce to their Patrons that it will be impossible for a few nights at Christ mas to perform Balie's eminently successful Opera with the Grand Pantomime. The time in representation and scenic preparation required for a Harlequinade of such magnitude, renders this temporary suspension of the brilliant Opera im perative. Boxes and places will continue to be booked daily at the Box-office for its reproduction at an early date. On BOXING NIGHT, Dec. 26, and during the week. Commence at Seven. Order carriages at half-past 11. On WEDNESDAY, Dec. 26, Mr. W. arrison's popular Operetta, THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE ; Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. H. Corri. After which, with entirely new Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, and Decorations, a Grand Christmas Pantomine, BLUE BEARD; or, Harlequin and Freedom in her Island Home. Written by J. V. Bridgman, Esq. ; pro duced by Mr. Edward Stirling ; embracing the chief panto mime talent of the day. A perfect galaxy of Mr. Harry Boleno, Mr. Henry Payne, Mr. Clowns ... 1 Hildyard, and the Lilliputians. Harlequins Mr. Milano, Mr. F. Payne. Pantaloons.... Mr. Barnes, Mr. Tanner. Columbines Miss Clara Morgan. Sprites.......... The Zelinski Family. Ballet f 26 Ladies. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mdlle. Lamon t reux, Mdme. Yierron, and Mons.Vandris. Gorgeous scenery, from the pencils of T. Grieve and Telbin, illustrating the moving events of the year ; decorations, by Blamire, on a sea e of magnitude and expenditure without parallel; fairy costumes, by Miss James and Mr. Coombes ; Eastern splendour, processions, marches, dancing, fun, and frolic, united to magical transformations by Sloman, pro ducing a combination of the grotesque and beautiful, recalling the golden days of pantomime for which Covent Garden stood alone and unapproached. Morning Performances every Wednesday and Saturday, commencing Saturday, Dec. 29, at Two o'clock. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. Stage Manager, Mr. Ed. Stirling. Acting Manager, Mr. Edward Murray. T 0Y AL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Managenunt of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees, On Wednesday, Dec. 26, MA RRIAGE OF GEORGETTE : Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. H, Corrie. To conclude with the Grand Christmas Pantomime,' BLUE BEARD ; or, Harle quin and Freedom in her Island Home. Clowns, Messrs. H. Boleno, H. Payne. Hildyard, and Lilliputians.' Harlequins, Messrs. Milano and F. Payne. Pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes and Tanner. Columbines, Mdme. Boleno and Clara Morp,:an. Sprites, the Zelinski Family. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mlle. Lamoureux, &c. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstnne. On WEDNESDAY (Boxing Night) SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Tony bumpkin, Mr. Buckstone ; Young Mar low, Mr. Howe ; Miss Hardcastle, Miss Fanny Stirling (her first appearance here). Alter which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD AND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un rivalled Leclercqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.. Lassen and Manazer, Mr. A. Harris. On BOXING NIGHT, Dec. 26, ERNESTINE. Messrs. J. G. Shore, R. Cathcart, Basil Potter ; Mesdames Heath, Car lotta Leclercq, Weston, and Murray. After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled ROBINSON ChUSOE ; or, Harlespin Friday, and the Bing of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres, will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest 4 DELPHT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Engagement for a limited number of nights of Miss Agnes Robertson and Mr. Dion Boucicault, who will appear every evening in the highly successful Drama of " The Colleen Bawn." THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Hiss K Thorne. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Poucicault, D. Fisher, BillinEr,ton, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolg,ar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. After which, THAT BLESSED BABY. Mr. Billington, Mr. J. L 'rook, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at halt-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. charg,e for bookinz. Private boxes, ,Z 2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, 55. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Ss. • Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6 d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, eci Aoting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. This Evening, a new Spectacle, entitled THE LION CONQUEROR; or, The Death .Jungle, expressly for the introduction of the Wonders of the World, " The Groupe of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by talented Parisian and British Artistes. Concluding with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto mime, for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE WONDERFUL HORSE ; or, Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery, by Mr. Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing in the coraie scenes Batty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade, and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger. Harlequin Mr. Sylvester. Columbine Miss Sylvester. Dalton. Pantaloon Mr. G. Perks. Clown Mr. James Cooke. Sprites—Messrs. Thorne, Lockhart, and Sons. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Bon-office open daily from 11 till 4 Stare Mannoer—Mr. W. WERT. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CANTERBURY HALL. Open Every Evening* at Seven. GRAND SELECTIONS (First Time) from LA FTGLIA DEL REGIMEN TO (Donizetti), NORMA, SONNAMBULA, and MARTHA. Principal Artistes Miss RUSSELL, Madame MARIA, Miss TYRRELL, MISS WILLIAMS, Mr. HENRY HERBERT, C. W. BERNARD, and Signor TIVOLI. Musical Director Mr. F. JONGIIMANS. The Comic Department comprises Messrs. J. BL Awe!! Ann, A. B. HOLLINGSWORTH, Master BARRY, G. W. PELL, CHARLEY Fox, and E. MARSHALL. The Fine Arts Gallery has been enriched by the addition of the late John Martin's three Grand Pictures—viz., "THE GREAT DAY of HIS WitATli," "TILE PLAINS of HEAVEN," and "THE LAST JUDGMENT," on view until 12 o'clock at Night. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1869. Tlll3, WHATHER.—Sim OFFICE, DEC. 23, 1860. THEATIONEETER, IN THE SHADE. 33—highest since noon yesterday. 23—lowest this morning and during the night. 23—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.63. WlND—Westerly to South—very light; with fine sharp frosty weather, the hardest we have had yet. Dzo. 24. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAM 29—highest since noon yesterday. 24—lowest this morning and during the night. 27—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.45—n0w up to 29.48. WlND—Westerly, inclining to South—light ; with con tinuous frosty weather, but fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. race DAY. —Morning, 10h. 51m.—Afternoon, 11h. 23m. To-MORROW. -Morning, 12h. —m.—Afternoon, —h. —m. , ,y ' I I: r •° --tf- - THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 24, 1860. Another Austrian Reform Bill ! Not the last, however, we expect. There have been several already which might all date from Solferino. There was first the Patent for the Hungarian Protestants in September of the same year; then the Reichsrath, and the Hungarian scheme such as it was; then the plans for all the other States ; but all would not avail. Hungary would hear of nothing but histori cal rights, and 4he most faithful old provinces kicked at the shabby constitutions offered them. At last, therefore, another move was made. Baron VON ScImIERLINg, who was a good Liberal in 1848, and who has not been a very bad one for Austria ever since, was made Minister of the Interior in the place of the memorable Count GOLUCHOWSKI ; and, as was understood at the time, with the concession to him of such liberal demands as it was hardly expected the EMPEROR could have digested. What the chief of these are Mr. REUTER now tells us. Our information is from a circular addressed by the Baron to the Governors of provinces, apprising them of his intended policy. Referring to the Imperial manifesto of October, the value of which, doubtless, depended far more on the spirit with which it was worked than on the letter of the docu ment, he declares that it is "the mission of Minis ters of State to carry out fully and effectually the resolutions and intentions of the EMPEROR as therein expressed. And since Austrian Charters of every kind are always meant to admit of the narrowest or most latitudinarian construction according to circumstances, we may hope that the EMPEROR is convinced that he must adopt the most liberal interpretation of his own document. If we are to interpret Baron SCHMERLING'S own circular, as liberally as he proposes to construe his master's character, with two great exceptions, the promise to the ear is almost marvellous. Religious worship, education, the nationality question, the press, municipal administration, the administration of police, the provincial statutes, the Council of the Empire, are all adverted to, and past concessions retouched in the liberal sense. Freedom of reli gious worship is spoken of in singularly circumlo cutory phraseology—civil and political rights, it is said, shall in that respect be preserved against encroachment. A sentence which in England must express the common creed of our country, that no man should be damaged in his civil and political relations by his religious views ; but which in Austria might mean that such civil and political rights as the different religious confessions already enjoyed, should not be interfered with. We will hope, in such a circular, that the former is the real meaning, since with characteristic German senti mentality we are told that the different confessions are to be placed on an " equitable footing"—and more than that, .on footing of " real love for our neighbours." Happy sects ! Baron SCHMERLING might do us some good here too. Education is of course to be promoted in every way ; but what means the clause that " the free development of nationalities is to be accorded ?" It can be, from the clause relating to the Reichsrath, but a federal development ; it is not intended that the union of the provinces should be merely per sonal under the Crown of Austria. The Press is promised the removal of " every preventive inter ference." For some little time the Vienna papers, even under the former Minister, have been writing with unwonted freedom on. public matters ; we may hope, therefore, that even more freedom is intended than French editors yet enjoy. Agricul ture, commerce, and industry, Von SCHMERLING seems to think, like all Continentals, it is in his power to develope ; he means to work in the paths already pursued, which are in great part the paths of protection, not unmixed, however, with some liberality in the Customs' tariff. We fear the Baron will also need Mr. COBDEN for a guest, before he comprehends the gain of commercial liberty. The independence of the Communes, we in England hardly understand ; our municipalities are all so perfectly independent that we think of them in no other form. Pro bably the heads of the Communes have been hitherto nominated by the Crown. The admi nistration of justice is to be separated from the Government administration, and trials are to be public, and oral forms of proceeding introduced. But here we find one of the great omissions adverted to—there is no provision for trial by jury before irremovable judges. An open trial and a free press will do much, very much; they are great securities for justice; but we in this country know full well that, at certain times, despotic governments will face both these, and juries only have saved patriots from the vengeance of the Crown or a Cabinet. From the two paragraphs relating to the provincial statutes and the Council of Empire—the lteichsrath, we gather that the provincial assem blies will be elected in a tolerably liberal manner, and have power to originate business independently of the Government which had not at first been con ceded. it is especially mentioned that the previncial Diets will be competent to legislate only on provin cial questions; that the Council of the Empire will be composed of members elected unconditionally by the provincial Diets, and that it will, besides, " receive additional members." Who, and what will these additional members be ? We who have a House of Lords, however, cannot say much on that delicate subject. The Council is, however, to have the right of originating "projects of law with publicity of debate." It will be, on the whole, therefore, a body enjoying vastly greater constitu tional powers than the Chambers of Louis NAPO LEON, which can originate nothing, and are but scantily trusted even now with the right of discus sion and of amendment. Indeed, with the very important exception of• trial• by jury, if Baron SCHMERLING'S views are fairly carried out, Austria will be a country enjoying far more of civil and religious liberty than the nation which asserts itself to be at the head of European civilisation. But this leads us to the second important ex ception before adverted to—there is no mention °f Rungary. la it the intention of the Baron to assume that she is one of the provinces, and is that powerful kingdom to occupy a position similar to that of one of the petty provinces of the Empire. He must know that this will never do. He cannot govern Hungary, now, from Vienna. He ought not to be able to do so. The kingdom of Hungary, with its free dependencies, is the half or nearly so, of the Austrian Empire, and supplies the best part of its army. Not only its historical rights, but its actual importance at this day, de mand for it a feu much higher relation to the Empire than one which may suffice for Styria or Carinthia, or even the Tyrol. This is the difficulty SCHMERLING has to meet. Hungary contributes so much to the strength of the Empire that it will not submit to have its soldiers and money voted away by others. She will not rest till she secures those only guarantees for liberty, the power to say what military and pecuniary strength she will furnish her SOVEREIGN. We expressed a fear the other day that our Government would need looking after on this subject. If M. KOSSUTH be right, and on such a subject he is not likely to be wrong, it seems our Government, is, as we feared, not unlikely to pursue a course, in regard to Hungary, the opposite of that which has made it so popular at home as well as abroad in re gard to Italy. If Ministers do they will hear of it with the opening of the Session. The charge is, indeed, a serious one, that they are allowing again Russia and the Principalities to help Austria ! We refer the reader to M. KOSSUTH'S interesting letter to the Glasgow meeting ; and we warn the country that it must be on the alert. Uur Court always leans to Austria, and all Cabinets incline to their Courts. We also fear that, in addition, even Lord JOHN RUSSELL, unlike his conntry, cares more for Austria than for Hungary. The Frost is suggestive of the State of the Drainage. In reference to which latter subject the Registrar-General's accounts have recently shown how directly that affects the amount of the annual mortality. If anything could have tended to hearten the authorities at the Board of Health and at the Board of Public Works to the develop ment of the Main Drainage scheme, it would have been the record given by the Registrar-General throughout the chief part of the expiring twelve month. That record was demonstrative of the remarkable fact that the last spring, summer, and autumn, the most humid seasons consecu cutively almost within any one's recollec tion, have constituted at the same time one of the most salubrious years of which London holds remembrance. This—not in spite of, but by reason of, the extraordinary quantity of rain that has fallen flooding the streets, flushing the sewers, and thereby sweeping them clear of all their feculent and pestilential contents. Nothing, we repeat, could more distinctly have proved than this has done, the direct, manner in which the Drainage of a great city affects the state of the health, affects the extent of the mortality of its inhabitants. The result of that prolonged rainy season beginning, as far back as September, 1859, and ending only in September, 1860—a steady and almost uninter rupted downpour of one whole twelvemonth, the lengthened cataract of rain, rain, rain, very nearly without any intermission. The result of that unusual humidity has shown quite clearly, now for once and for all, that by clearing out the shores of a great and populous capital, the deaths numbered up among its inhabitants are inevitably brought down very much indeed below the average. It is no longer matter of conjecture. It has become, in regard to 1859-1860, in reference to London, matter of absolute certainty. Given such and such a fall of water to bear away the impurities of the metro poiis from the subterranean channels through which those impurities are ordinarily allowed to pass sluggish on towards their destination, and you may be quite sure that within that current season and the season immediately following the mortality will be found to have appreciably diminished. This happy consequence of the heavy rains, the Regis trar-General has recently computed through the medium of his periodical statements. And it is a consequence that has come upon us at the very time that the destination of the contents of the slums of London has still continued to be the River Thames ! The tide of that river or open sewer of the metropolis twice every day, carrying the filth poured into it up and down be tween bridges to the pollution of the water itself and to the inevitable pollution, more or less, of the whole atmosphere. Let the outlet of our drainage system be removed to a reasonable distance from the capital, and the dimunition recently noted in the amount of the annual mortality among its in habitants must inevitably under similar circum stances —that is to say with a recurrence of plen tiful and prolonged rains like those excessive rains of the last year—be far more noticeable. Diminu tion upon diminution, in point of fact, might be insured equally well by the diver gence of the: channels of the Main Drainage from the river Thames itself, the great tidal river, almost bisecting the twin cities of London and Westminster—by the divergence of those channels from the river away either to a sufficiently remote part of our coastline or (after the deodorisation of the sewage matter) far and away, for the purposes of manuring, into the agricultural districts. Only let the drainage of London be facilitated—only let it be diverted from the tidal river—only let it be carried away with sufficient rapidity and with suf ficient completeness either to the distant seashore, there to be emptied as rrefuse into the great deep, or (better still) to the agricultural dis- tricts, there to apply the deodorised sewage matter to the purposes of cultivation—and the already diminished and diminishing mortality of the metro. polis must be brought down to a still more remark able minimum. Happily for the people of this vast metropolis the simple truths here insisted upon have already ong since come to be recognised, not as they were a few years back by an inconsiderable minority, but by a very considerable majority of the thinking part of the population. Nay, these wholesome and most salutary truths are more than merely recognised—they are being energe tically acted upon to the general satisfac tion of the public, under the express autho risation of the Legislature, and through the resolute labours of the active officials working under her MAJESTY'S Government. The Herculean task of cleansing more than an Augean stable, of purifying a city ten miles in length, seven miles in breadth, and peopled by 3,000,000 of inhabitants, this immense Herculean labour is no onger being talked of, it has literally and posi- tively been commenced. The excavations are being made simultaneously in various parts of Lon don and Westminster. Larger and larger channels of purification are worming their way under this wilderness of dwelling-houses. Little by little, inch by inch, gradually it will come in the end to be mile by mile the main Drainage Scheme resolved upon to bo carried out by the Imperial Legislature, will have bored and moled its way under the whole of the metropolis, until London shall have been undermined by the salubrious network of one completely organised subterranean. labyrinth. The hastening of this admirable work towards its conclusion ought to be among the most cherished designs of every Administration in this country holding the reins and entrusted with the responsibilities of Government. Professor Storndale Bennett is busy upon a new oratorio to be brought out at the Leeds Festival next year. Mr. Bailey, curator of the Soane Museum, died on tho 17th inst. The appointment of a successor rests with the Royal Academy. The Royal Mail steamer Tasmanian left South ampton yesterday for St. Thomas. She will bring home the West India mail due at Southampton on the 29th proximo. She took out a mail for St. Thomas, and cargo, but no passengers. We are authorised to state that there is no truth whatever in the very scandalous report which appeared in the Manchester Guardian, and copied into several other papers, of certain proceedings on board the yacht Sylphide, at Naples, letters having been received from Captain ' Grandy on the 23d inst., dated Dec. 11, at Naples, all well on board at that date. REINFORCEMENTS FOR NEW ZEALAND.—The Bombay Government, in pursuance of instructions from England, have chartered the Castilian, 1,064 tons, at £24 per head, and the Star Queen, 836 tons, at £l9 10s. per head, for the conveyance of her Majesty's 57th Regiment from Bombay to New Zealand. THE CATTLE TRADE.—NORWICH, Dec. 22.—To day's market was only tolerably supplied with store cattle, but the miserable state of the weather—snow falling at in tervals all day—caused a thin attendance of buyers, and trade was extremely dull. Prices tended downwards, and were ss. to 10s. per head below the quotations current three weeks or a month since. Sheep, which were in small supply, were also dull. Fat beasts and 'sheep made full rates. THE RISCA COLLIERY EXPLOSION,—NEWPORT, SATURDAY.--Public announcement has been made to-day of a meeting in aid of the sufferers by the Risca Colliery explosion. The meeting will be presided over by the Right Hon. Lord Tredegar. The notification has been received with general satisfaction, as a desire to subscribe had bean already manifested in many quarters. SUICIDE OF A GAMBLER.—At Frankfort two suicides were committed three days back from the same cause—losses at play ; and in the same way—the discharge of pistols at the head. One of the victims was Prince Von —, proprietor of a large estate in the Grand Duchy of Posen, who is said to have lost at Hamburg about 100,000 thalers (380,000 fr.) ; the other was a commercial traveller named Mayer, who lost at Nassau 2,000 thalers (7,600 fr.), belonging to his employer, a merchant of Lubeck. The following particulars have been furnished of the accident that occurred to the William Cory while laying the submarine telegraph cable destined to connect Toulon with Algiers. The shore end of the cable was safely landed in the Bay of Sablettes on Friday, the 14th inst., and the William Cory got under way in the afternoon about 3 o'clock. The following day, at noon, having run a distance of 89 miles, she signalled the Gomer (a frigate appointed by the French Government to attend upon her) to commu nicate for the purpose of exchanging observations. In doing so the Gomer ran stem on into the William Cory, striking her on the port side just abaft the main rigging, and carrying away funnels, mizenmast, steering wheel, and paying out machinery. It being then impossible to pro ceed with the operation, the cable was buoyed in about 1,300 fathoms' water, and the Gomer towed the William Cory into Toulon harbour. Up to the time the cable was cut (after being buoyed) the communication between the ship and the shore was perfect, and there is said to be every hope that as soon as the William Cory is repaired the operation will be successfully completed. The steam cor vette Caton has been despatched by the French Govern ment from Toulon to watch the buoy. SHIPWRECK ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.--RAMS - GATE, Saturday.—During the sharp snow-squalls of yes terday, the wind blowing fresh from the north, a shocking shipwreck took place on the Goodwin Sands. A Deal lug ger, which has come in, reports that about noon yesterday they were cruising near the North Sand Head, where they observed a brigantine with painted ports (apparently laden) go upon the Goodwin. The snow was falling heavily at the time, and almost immediately after the ill-fated vessel struck. She disappeared, and there is little doubt that the whole of the unfortunate crew perished. The state of the weather prevented any assistance being ren dered them, even if the destruction of the ship had not been so rapid. THE HENLEY-HILL MURDER.—The inquest on Martha Anne Greenway, who was murdered by her husband a few days ago, was resumed on Saturday morning at Ease bourne Union Workhouse, near Midhurst, before Mr. R. Blagden, coroner for the western division of Sussex. The accused, William Greenway, was present in the custody of the keeper of Petworth Gaol, and appeared much depressed. Witnesses were examined whose evidence corroborated the account already given of the occurrence, and the jury, after a brief consultation, returned a verdict of "Wilful Mur der" against William Greenway, who was committed to Petworth Gaol, to take his trial at the next Sussex Assizes. SEMI-OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.—We under stand that Margaret Hannah, the young woman recently sentenced to death at Edinburgh for the murder of her infant, will not be executed, and that her Majesty has been pleased to commute the sentence to penal servitude for life. No female has been executed for an offence of this descrip tion for several years. The sentence of death passed upon Thomas Richardson at the last Lincoln Assizes for the mur der of a police-officer has been respited during her Majesty's pleasure. It appears that the deceased officer was entirely unknown to the prisoner, who could have borne him no ill will, and that the fatal shot was fired at the impulse of the moment, probably without any intention of destroying life. Mr. Henry Thring, conveyancer, of Lincoln's-Inn, who has had considerable experience in preparing Government bills, is appointed Parliamentary draughtsman to the Home-office, in the room of Mr. Waller Coulson, Q.C., deceased. The Rev. Hamilton Dicker is appointed chaplain to the British Consulate at Dunkirk. THE MURDER OF A FRENCH JUDGE.—The Journal de la Haute-Saone publishes the following docu ments :—" A murder was committed on the night of the sth December in one of the carriages of the Eastern Railway, on the person of M. Poinsot, Presidentof the Imperial Court of Paris. The murderer carried off the following articles :- 1. A black and white travelling rug, of English manufacture; 2. A leather travelling bag, containing some books on gar dening, a work of Debreuil, and a knife with buck-horn handle; 3. A gold watch, No. 2,638, by Souriau, Rue de la Paix ; 4. A gold chain having a key attached, set with a ruby, engraved with the letter P ; 5. A porte-monnaie, in black morocco, with a steel clasp. The undersigned requests all officers of justice to arrest any person having such articles in his possession. Paris, Dec. S, 1860. Cordoeu, Procureur Imperial." The same journal gives the following description of the murderer :—'• Murderer of M. Poinsot—Charles Jud, 27 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches in height, brown hair, high forehead, long and thin face, a scar above the left eyebrow, I come of his teeth broken; beard reddish brown, and, if worn, not more than of ten days' growth. He has some times gone by the name of Jud, and at others of Montalti and Matricou. A. warrant has been issued for his arrest. The undersigned requests all officers of justice to endea your to arrest him.—Paris, 10th Dec., Uordoeu, Procureur Imperial." FATAL EXPLOSION.—Some additional particu lars are now known of the fearful and destructive explosion which occurred in Hetton Pit, in the Wear coalfield, on Thursday night. The colliery where the sad calamity has taken place belongs to Messrs. Archibald Cochrane and partners, and is under the management of dr. N. Wood, the well-known north country viewer, and president of the Northern Institute of Mining Engineers. Mr. John Dag leish is the resident viewer. The accident, the exact nature of which has not been ascertained, occurred about 9 o'clock on Thursday night, destroying, it is feared, 23 men and lads in the pit, for that is the number unaccounted for. The ordinary pitmen, about 200 in number, left their work about 6 in the evening and came to bank, having completed theirday's work and the men who went down about the time when they came up, and were employed in the mine at the time of the explosion, were stonemen—masons whose duty it was to repair the road or roller-way, and do other work of a similar character in the pit. The very valuable stud of horses and ponies employed in the pit have been destroyed by the firing of the hay and straw in the stables near the shaft. The Hetton Pit was reported to be one of, the best ventilated in the north of England. Through its down-cast shaft between 170,000 and 200,000 cubic feet of air is stated to pass to the workings every minute. The pit is a very old one, and the regulations appear to be of the strictest character. The surgeon of the colliery, Mr. Edger, has been most diligent in his attentions to those who have beengescued. The men saved are 12 in number. Four bodies have been recovered, and according to the last intelligence from the colliery either 18 or 19 men and lads are missing. TERCENTENARY OF THE SCOTTISH REFORMA TION.—At its meeting in May last the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland appointed Divine service to take place in all the churches and chapels on Thursday, the 20th of December, being the tercentenary of the first meeting of the Assembly and the establishment of the Presbyterian Church. The Free Church and United Presbyterian Church also appointed the day to be observed as one of thanksgiving for the blessings of the Reformation. The celebration, though a Presbyterian rather than a national one, received the sanction of themagistratrs of Edinburgh, who recommended the suspension of business, but in Glas gow and various other towns the magistrates declined to issue any such recommendation. In Edinburgh, notwith • standing magisterial patronage, the attendance at the churches was extremely small, this being partly owing to the fact that the law courts, banks, and public offices were all open as usual, and at least half the shops and work shops, and partly owing to the very severe snowstorm. Several of the churches held only ono diet of worship through the day, and others met only in the evening, and various puble, meetings were held at night and speeches delivered on the events of 1560. On the whole the dfrpon strati= may be pronounced a failure, having been felt by the great majority of the people of Scotland to b e wholl y superfluous, and only serving as an occasion to the " No Popery" party. LATIET NEWS. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. ROME, DEC. 21. The posting up of the bills in favour of annexa tion to Sardinia has not led to any arrests. Crowds of people are reading the bills. NAPLES, DEC. 21. The insurrectionary bands have intrenched them selves in the mountains. It is said that a decree is in course of preparation ordering an extraordinary levy of men between 18 and 55 years of age. NAPLES, DEC. 21 (EVENING). It is stated upon reliable authority that the French fleet is about to quit its station off Gaeta. Great demoralisation prevails among the besieged army. The batteries planted on the heights of Tortola reply to the fire of the city. Naples is tranquil, and the state of things in the provinces is satisfactory. A reactionary conspiracy, organised at Rome, has been discovered. The city of Naples will give a grand ball to the army. A great rise in the Neapolitan and Sardinian funds has taken place here. VIENNA, DEC, 21. The official Wiener Zietung of to-day publishes a circular addressed by Baron von Schmerling to ,the governors of the provinces, explaining the leadins principles of his policy. The Baron says : " It is the mission of the Ministers of State to carry out fully and effectively the resolutions and intentions of the Emperor as expressed in the Imperial Manifesto of the 20th of October. " As regards freedom of religious worship, it ix the will of the Emperor that political and civil rights shall in this respect also be preserved against any encroachment, and that the mutual relations of the different confessions shall be established upon an equitable footing, and upon the real love for one's neighbour (Nachstenliebe). " Public instruction will be promoted by every possible means. " The free de'velopment of the nationalities is accorded. " With respect to the public Press, every pre ventive interference is removed. " The development of agriculture, commerce, and industry will be pursued with redoubled energy on the path hitherto followed. " The communes will enjoy an independent exis tence. " The administration of justice is to be separated from the Governmental Administration. " Publicity and the oral form of proceeding are to be introduced into the civil and penal courts of law. " As regards the Pontifical Statutes, the Ministry of State has been authorised to introduce into the fundamental laws the principle of representation of the different interests by means of direct elections, and the extension of electoral rights and eligibility, the right of initiative, and the publicity of debates. " On the Council of the Empire, to whose pro vince belongs the general legislation—while the Provincial Diets are only competent to legislate on provincial questions—is therefore conferred the right of originating projects of law and publicity of debate. " The Council of the Empire will be composed of members unconditionally elected by the Provincial Diets, and will besides receive additional members. " The provincial Governmeats of the minor Crown lands, recently suppressed, are to be re established." In conclusion, Baron Schmerling exhorts the public functionaries to a conscientious discharge of their duties, to the furtherance of the interests of the inhabitants of their• provinces, to a strict observance of the laws, and to candour in their official reports on the condition of the country, ROME, DEC. 21. The Pope delivered an allocution in the Con• , sistory held on the 17th inst. His Holiness spoke of the persecution of the Christians in Syria and China. He condemned the pamphlet of M. Cayla. entitled Le Pope et l'Empereur, and announced that the Grand Duke of Baden had violated the e Pontifical Concordat. The Roman patriots have posted up on the walls of Rome bills bearing the arms of King Victor Emmanuel, and the words, " We desire annexation AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. The Royal Mail steamship Arabia, Captain Stone' which left Thaston on the 12th, and Halifax on the 14th, arrived in the Mersey at noon to-day, bringing 81 passengers. On the 16th passed the steamship Persia, and on the 19th the steamship Canada, bo th bound west. The Arabia touched at Queenstown yesterday (Saturday). The steamship Europa was intercepted off Car e Race on the 11. th instant by the newsboat of the Associated Presf3, Advises front Washington sh ow a mor e hoPefe l political feelin g and some slightly b e tt er prospec t of the pacification of the country. The New York Times of the 10th says :—C° ll ' gress, after resting since the 6th, will meet aga in to-day, when the final determination of those nie nl ' bers of the house who have expressed a disinclin! . tion to serve on the Special Co mm itt ee will be known. It will probably be an exciting seas lei) ,l and the reports of the proceedin gs w ill be look ed for with much anxiety. Meantime our despatc hes from Washington are not of a very encouraging character. The senators from the slaveholdi e g states held a conference at the capitol on SaturdeP at which the present condition of the country was freely discussed. The only result which see n° to have been arrived at was the convict° that secession is a certainty. A large major it i: according to our correspondent, cons id ere d it to o late to save the present confederacy ; but thel expressed the belief' that a new one would b e speedily formed. They do not seem to have giv e ? any opinion as to the basis on which it would be constructed. Persons recently arrived at Washil i g:, ton from the south report the exc it emen t there intense. At Charleston, if we are to he : iieve the statements which reac h us, misunderstanding has already arisen betife e " the Federal authorities and those of the ell or State. Major Anderson, commanding P ar n , Moultrie, has been refused the privilege of sendl e° o to the arsenal for supplies, and his messengers hale been sent back without them, simply because awl the articles desired were some percussion caps. 'r h o Government, it is understood, has been appealed ' 0 to send an additional force, as Major Ander ee v has at present only sixty or seventy men pe° r ,', supplied ; but the Administration has absolute 4 refused to do so. In connection. with t bj s l refusal vague rumours prevail that a for% notification will soon be given by S oe ti Carolina that she intends to capture the 0 when the Government will order it to be evacua ted Nvithout a contest, to avoid a civil war. Of eon b' ' it is impossible to tell how much truth there In_ et e ' be in such rumours. Secretary Cobb, it is assert e : has already resigned, and will vacate his post tu l day, in which case it is believed he will be fn ; lowed by the representatives from South Carol ie b and others. There is one thing, however, Wh ie l may serve as a check upon too hasty actiont4 s that is the character of adVices from England. sympathy expressed there for the Federal Gover e : / ment on the reception of the first reports of t; secession movement somewhat surprises the 9 unionists, and they have no hesitation in sai le d that it is not what they expected. As a m easure financial relief to the Government the House e e r mittee of Ways and Means have resolved upon tw issue of treasury notes. The Hon. Mr. Cobb, the Secretary of the Tr es t d resigned his office on the 11th instant. i e j ii Secretary of the Navy would fulfil the duties lin` a successor to Mr. Cobb was appointed. The New York Times of the 11th says session of Congress yesterday was attended wit' far less excitement than we were led to anticill o from the tenor of our despatches on Sunday nig h The discussions upon all topics connected with t_ . ," subject of secession were conducted with calm o 7, .and altogether a decidedly better feeling was o , og bited on every side. In the Senate, the stenc il A committees of the last session were continued. 0 4 memorial from Mr. Thaddeus Hyatt, presen t by Mr. Sumner, relative to the suffet li ; people of Kansas, was referred to s o committee on Territories and the H omes tead „ was read the first time. Mr. Powell, of Kenttle'rfl then called up his resolution, presented on Tht i day, relative to the present condition of ' mP ( country, and made a few remarks expressiv e # his views. Mr. Collanner, of Vermont, ma de t o motion, which was agreed to by Mr. Powell , I , strike out everything from the resolution e%n e l ) d ing that which referred to Federal affairs , ° et that it be referred to a Special Comolitto, Daring a discussion which intervened Mr. lath /J° of California, said that his state would rei ti, Nvith the Union under all circumstances, I° 4 mating that she could otherwise never secure great desideratum, the Pacific Railroad. Mr. Douglas hoped that there would be no nv3re talk of party until this grave question was set tlea, • Mr. Dar - is, of Mississippi, did not regard tb proposition asi one promising a good result. t ' Several other speeches were made on the so b j ee amongst which WAS one by Mr. Dixon, of Conn ea cut, who combated the idea that it is irapoeg bi for the two systems of free and slave labontd exist in the Confederacy, and the Senate adjo urn at a late hour. In the house Mr. Hawkins, of Florida, proceeod to give additional reasons for asking to be elL ee t o from sitting on the Special Committee on Je tl Perilous Condition of the Union. He cone ln .`;lo, by a warning that Mississippi, Alabama, Fi° l c ie, Georgia, and South Carolina were certain to seee 4 and to be followed by Arkansas, Louisiana , . e. ,0 Texas. The tone - of his remarks, however, rather more moderate than was expected. takTehne, being vote i o n n ter M ru r p . tHedabwyktinbse' introduction,r e ques t was f 1. 5 the Committee of Ways and Means, of a 1 4 authorising the issue of ten millions in Trees' notes for the relief of the Government. t h° The bill was passed after a brief debate, Oa house adjourned. 13 011 The Ten Million Treasury Note Bill, 1 1 be passed the House on the 10 th , gives power t o 00 Secretary of the Treasury to sell them at of market rates, as the wants of the Government requiie, bids being limited by a ten days' nod e the A . Washington telegram of the 11th, t o „re' Boston General Scott ha ° 4ee p says adjustment " which the eorattilfare of f a thirty-three Journal, of : desire should be placed baall them. The select comm itt ee was organ i s ed to . so d the members o f it f rom A r k ansas, Floricl ° ' m ap South Caroli na d ec li n i ng to appear. Mr. 14°u„si'res' of Alabama, urged prompt action, freely Or t a sing an opinion that the committee might acll O , id report whi c h wou ld res t ore th e U n ion feelw e b oor the South, an d th us aver t secess ion. Th e to' mittee, after organising, adjourned un til morrow." t" The Democratic members of Congress fro m 0 01 North West have had several conferences' generally adopt Mr. M'Clarnaud's and Va lle : 6 0i ham's position that the Union cannot be p eace the dissolved, and that under no circumstances v" North West consent to be cut off from the i dea Mexico or the city of New York. The lea the _bichl is that of a central government, embracing middle, Western, and border Slave States, w,..cuta' however, is to be dependent . upon futur e el.' e , an stances for its consummation. from eh The President has just been assured Con' authentic source that the authorities of Sv ibe Carolina will make no resistance either W i 1 4 0 collection of duties, or to the possession of the.°der guarding Charleston harbour during the relnal' of his administration. There is a better feeling among politicians' Al s• • every mail brings news of the spread of t. union sentiments. 0 0 On the 10th the extra session o f the L0u.,51 in Legislature commenced, and the Governor sa t an d his message. He recommends a convention, °lief says that Louisiana ought not to refuse to ill eet , of sister slave stases in de man d in g a repes' of obnoxious laws at the North, and a gu ar3 agunst such legislation in the future. ang el These questions sho uld be met be fore the in ration of Mr. Linco ln, and b ecause the hen°llr,let f selrespect of the State does not comport wit" - to Sardinia. DRESDEN, DEC. 22. The official _Dresden Journal of to-day announces that the King, after having suffered during six days from a severe cold, was attacked en Friday by measles. BERNE, DEC. 23. The sittings of the National Council and the Council of the States were both closed yesterday by their respective Presidents, who in their speeches reviewed past events, and exhorted the members to union. Dr. Blumer, President of the Council of the States, especially alluded to the internal differences which had arisen in reference to the question of Savoy, and warned the Press to avoid raising suspicions against those who may entertain a different view of things to their own. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 22.—The market continues heavy, and Stock having again been offered, prices have undergone a further decline. For the Account, Threes are now at 68f 25c ; Mobilier, 755 f ; Orleans, 1,380 f ; Northern, 985 f ; Mediterranean, 910 f ; Austrian, 505 f; Lombard, 481 f 25c. The following were the last quotations : 4f per per Cents 96 40 Credit Foiacier 930 Do end month 96 50 ; Belgian 41 ........ 3 per Cents Do. end month..., 68 30 ' Roman .......... 73a Bank Shares 2940 Austrian ........ 73 50 Credit Mobilier 755 Spanish Threes.... 50 Do. Account 760 I Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1382 50 .. 1382 50 Northern New ditto..... 895 .. ..._ Lyons and Mediterranean 910 .. 912 50 Geneva 375 .. 375 __ Southern —. Western Eastern Sardinian ....... 395 • • 391 25 Austrian .............. 503 75 . . 506 25 Lombard . ..... THE CORNISH FISHERIES.—During the past few days large quantities of herrings have been brought into Porthleven, which were taken off Plymouth ; one boat had 32,000, others 10,000 and upwards, amounting in the whole to 80,000, which were freely sold at 2s. 6d. ter 120. The pilchard fishery at St. Ives is closed for the season ; nearly all the seines are in the lofts, and the boats are hauled up. Not many herrings have boon caught there during the week. COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL—DOTER, DEC. 22.—Last night the brig Mary Willie, laden with slates, from Bangor, for Sunderland, was run down by the barque West Indian, off Beechey Head. She sank immediately. The captain and crew were picked up by the barque, and were landed at Dever, at 11 a.m. The men lost everything, and were in a very destitute condition ; one poor fellow's arm w crushed by the anchor. They were all received at the Sailors' Home, where every possible care was taken of them till passed on to London by the South-Eastern Railway. The weather was clear at the moment of the collision, but the barque must have nearly closed in upon the brig in a previous pnow storm, wIPU. • t al 3 Zre Ind 80c att, 1111, Ita ate, tdi