The Sun. — London, England, 1860-01-26 00:00:00

GEOLOGY. King's College, London. Professor TENNANT, F.G.S., will commence a COURSE of LECTURES on GEOLOGY, on Friday morn ing, January 27th, at nine o'clock. They will be continued on each succeeding Wednesday and Friday, at the same hour. Fee, £2 12s. 6d. R. W. JELF, D.D., Principal. THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE. Edited by W. M. THACKERAY• No. 2 (for FEBRUARY), will be published on Friday. the 27th inst., Price ONE SHILLING, with Two Illustrations. CONTENTS. 1. Nil Nisi Bonum. 2. Invasion Panics. 5. To Goldenhair (from Horace). By Thomas Hood. 4. Framley Parsonage. Chapter IV. A Matter of Conscience. Chapter V. Amantium amoris integratio. Chapter VI. Mr. Harold Smith's Lecture. 5. Tithonus. By Allred Tennyson. 6. William Hogarth, Painter, Engraver, and Philosopher, Essays on the Man, the Work, and the Time. 1. Little Boy Hogarth. Unspoken Dialogue. By R. Monckton Milne.. (With an Illustration.) Studies In Animal lAfe. Chapter 11. Curious if True (Extract from a Letter from Richard Whittingham, Esq.) .Life among the Lighthouses. 11.Lovel, the - Widower. Chapter 11. In which Miss Prior is kept at the Door. (With an Illustration.) 12. An Essay without End. London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA ; COVENT -GA RDEN. Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THII3 EVENING, VICTORINE. Messrs. Santley, H. gaigh, H. Ccrri, G. Honey, Waiworth, Misses Parepa, hirlwalL Condactor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new grand pantomime, called PUSS IN BOOTS; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden Palms. Messrs. W. H. Payne, H. Payne, F. Barnes, Tallien, Infants Lauri, and Miss Clara Morgan. Doors open at hall-past 6—Commence at 10 minutes to 7. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS. Miss Reynolds. After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; er, Harlequin and the Fairy of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled Leciercqs. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. Last Nights of the Spanish Dancer, Isabel Cubas, THIS EVENING, the popular Drama of ST. MARY'S EVE. Madeline (her original character) Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex travaganza and Pantomime, KING THRUSHBEARD, the LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. 11. Marshall—Columbine, Miss Rosino. Commence st 7. — Mr. Tom Taylor's New Historical Drama, founded on Mr Charles Dickens's work, "A Tale of Two Cities," is post• poned until Monday. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan seuse of La Scala, Milan ; and the Delapierre These highly-talented Children will appear every night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. THIS EVENING, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. Alter which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by H. J. Byron, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER ; or, Flarle uin King Art:lur and the Knights of the Round Table. Jack, Miss I",oulse Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack - Panta .oon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Reproduction of' THE DEAD lIEART, with all its power• ful effects. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, David Fisher, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Billing - ton, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly. After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LIIRLEYBETIG ; or, The Knight and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford, Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K. Keily, Laidlaw. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment arc strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL 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 the performances will commence with PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Messrs. H. T. Craven and J. Francis, Mesdames Murray and Eliza Arden. After which, a new Tragic Ballet, entitled MY NAME IS NORVAL. Supported by C. Young, Barrett, Miss Lydia Thompson, Clara St. Casse, Scc. Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. Miss Wyndham and Mr. H. T. Craven. To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND JUDY. Introducing Hiss Lydia Thompson and the Corps de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and the wonderful Performing Dogs. Reduced Prices—Gallery, M ; Pit, Is. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform • ance commences at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Last Five Weeks of Mr. W. Cooke's Season, THIS EVENING, the New Spectacular Drama by Mr. R. Phillips, THE EMPEROR'S DECREE, with full stud of Horses and great effects.—Scenes in the Circle by Astley's world-renowned Equstrians, terminating with the Eques trian, Operatical, and Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY ; or, Old Towler thelluntsman and the God dess Diana ; Diana, with Songs, Miss Jacobs.—Costly and dazzling Transformation Scene.—harlequin, M. If leharde ; Columbine, Mdlle. Mazoni ; Clown, 31. Ifilderbrandt ; Pan taloon, Mr. I'. Abbot --A family of Sprites - Epsom Races by Living Jockies and real Ponies, with ring and Stage com bined. ;;17,4 Commence at 7. Grand Morning* Performances of the Pantomime on Satur day, Jan. 23, and Saturdays, Feb. 4 and 11, at Two o'clock each day. Mr. conke respectfully intimates his Farewell Benefit will take place on Monday, Jan. 30. CANTERBUR HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING. Sterndale BenneWB MAY QUEEN. And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAH. - - • - Comic Vocalists -Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. 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. BONHEUR'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 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—SVN OFFICE, JAN. 26, 1860.] THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 45—highest since noon yesterday. 35—lowest this morning and during the night. 40—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.85 ; rising rapidly. WIND, Morning N.W., now South -Westerly ; light, with dull frosty weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT.—Morning, 3h. 59m.—Afternoon, 4h. 15m. TO-MORROW.-Morning, 4h. 30m.—Afternoon, 4h. 45m. • . • , .4,...i.„ : N i .„,....:U1. 0 4., _. M i p , . 1 4 f: -..-,..,' ``.; ' _r . ' ,- \ 'if :Cirri/ a 0.4 . ' ' .......... r i 9' • - 1 . 0 '.‹ . '• ~.- -i-2.-;1-7, , /1011:1 . ' t , C V - - - ' . ' Thti..,7l'S4-6".•• '`^~_` THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. 26, 1860. On Monday, then, the 20th of February, the Bedford Architect is to lay the first stone of his " broader and firmer basis " for the Parliamentary representation of the people. There will, no doubt, be an ample attendance to witness the ceremony; though we fear it will be very much like a Queen's Speech, telling us merely what we have all long anticipated. There is, however, something of the wonder-loving even about us sober Englishmen ; and when a great matter has long been kept a pro found secret, it seems as if we could hardly help half-hoping to the last that some little and agree able surprise is in reserve for us. In the present case, we well know that the greatest surprise would be, not so much the marvel itself, as to have Lord JOHN' RUSSELL for the wonder-worker. However excellent any quite untried scheme might demonstrably be, it would be a positive objection with him that it had not a side blacked or mossy with time, which he could turn outside to make it look as like as possible to the rest. " nroadamlfirm," these are to be the watchwords till the 20 th ; and what, our readers will say, can a journalist find to c9mment on in these two adjec tives. Lord SouN, we are sure (for of course he drew up the clause), must have chuckled with de light to think how he had put the subject into her Majesty's mouth without giving the tiresome gen tlemen of the press opportunity for s p ecu l a ti on or for criticism. All turns, hovever, on whether he used the words cs " honourable," and ,‘ l earne d , ,, and " gallant," and " noble," are applied in Parlia ment to members, to lawyers, to soldiers, or to peers' sons, or whether he meant bona fide to pre sent the real characteristics of his fortheominr , bill. Our Representation ought to have a "broad and firm basis." Any Reform Bill ought to make it so; therefore, as all lawyers are learned, aril all soldiers are . gallant, so all Reform Bills must be assumed to observe the laws of political architsc titre, and to make a representation " broad and firm." "Mre incline, however, to the view that Lord JoHN's clause TIAS intended by him not for routine 1 language merely; he thinks his bill will give us a " broader and firmer basis," for the superstruc ture, which, resting on the people, is carried up through the Commons and the Lords and cul minates in the Crown. That it will be much broader probably few of us have any hope. Cer tainly it will not be much broader than that pro posed by Mr. DISRAELI last year. The six pounds' rental, as Mr. BRIGHT and his friends have shown, will largely add to the electors in constituencies already large—just where the increased breadth is least wanted—while in the small country towns, where" influence" has the election at command, it will add but slightly to the numbers. Of what avail will it be to form a " broader basis" for Man chester or Birmingham, for Marylebone or the Tower Hamlets, while the Thetfords and Arundels are left with constituencies as narrow as ever constituencies which have not the smallest title to be the basis of as large a portion of the House of Commons as those of the vast boroughs just men tioned. Possibly Lord JOHN may essay to make the petty boroughs into petty counties—that,how ever, is but a scheme for making constituencies of the most manageable class. constituencies in which the squires and parsons will be the real electors — the narrowest of all constituencies. We take leave to doubt, therefore, whether in the boroughs, as a whole, we shall receive from the hands of the noble lord availably broader con stituencies. They will be broader only where they are now broad enough. Still more will this be the case with the counties. Mr. DISRAELI'S franchise last year will, we presume, be Lord JOHN'S. It will double the county constituencies, some say. Be it so. But we deny that it will really give a " broader basis" to our representation there. The county electors will still be the great landed pro prietors. The THIRTY THOUSAND of the Duke of BEDFORD class will still be the real county consti tuency—not a thousand real electors to each county, nor anything like it! As reasonably propose to give greater breadth to the representation in the Southern States of America by increasing the num ber of slaves, as to effect it in the counties by enabling greater numbers to poll,. for the same landlord's nominees. No one acquainted with the country districts can doubt that extension of fran chise is but extension of subserviency. The truth is, it is childish to affect to talk of increasing "breadth and firmness," while the quality of the material you build with is over looked. Stone that will crush with the superin cumbent weight adds nothing to the strength of a building or of a buttress. We clearly need, as the first element of representation—security that every vote shall represent the voter's own opinion. To over look this is as absurd as for any manufacturer to overlook the quality of his raw material, or for an architect to employ Bath stone where granite is re quired. Lord JOHN'S bill, we predict, will utterly fail here. It will make a show of what he promises, but a show only. We speak our deliberate convic tion when we say that he is not one whit, really, in advance of Lord DERBY as a Parliamentary Re former. We know this may seem strong language, but we mean it. He is not one whit more willing than Lord DERBY-Ist, To surrender the trumpery nomination boroughs, because they are aristocratic boroughs. 2dly. To render the voter perfectly in_ depen dent of landlord and of other control. We were present yesterday at an important meeting of the:Council of the Ballot Society, and the testimony of gentlemen, both from boroughs and counties, was that without the ballot an extension of the suffrage would be an almost unmitigated evil. We cannot doubt it. Lord JoHN's will be a bill which will attempt to create a "broader and firmer basis" from materials which have already got the electoral dry rot. If the discussion yesterday in the House of Com mons was merely cursory, it was also eminently and significantly discursive. It resembled some what a sound familiar, we may presume, to the gallant member for Southwark—the sharpening of cutlasses. It was the reveillee of party—a prelimi nary flourish of trumpets that must have thrilled to the heart of many an old political war-charger among the ranks of the confronting belligerents. If we examine more carefully into the record of that first afternoon sitting in the Parliamentary session of 1860, we may readily detect here and there distinct indications that already the heat of debate is beginning to generate what Mr. TEN NYSON finely calls, in true Homeric phrase, "drops of onset." The exceeding, not to say suspi cious, politeness of the preceding evening was fairly thrown aside yesterday in several instances. And if the principal knights on entering the lists upon that first meeting of mere pageantry and com pliment, which annually inaugurates our legisla tive tournay at Westminster, may be described as having done so, as it were, with vizors raised and with a smiling obeisance from each to his future antago nist—upon the second gathering lances were being fitted firmly in rest, thong tightened, and the barred vizors locked down (like the spiteful lady's reticule in DICKENS)" with a snap like a bite." There are portents upon all hands of many a fierce en counter already actively in preparation. The only difficulty now appears to be the difficulty of selec tion. Which plea for a deadly struggle shall have precedence ? The Chinese - War ? The Treaty of Commerce? The Italian Question? The Budget? The lteform of Parliament ? Each has advocates for its being taken immediately and seriously into consideration. All are instantaneously ac cepted by the House as themes having a very great deal indce3 to be said upon both sides, pro et contra. Ministers have (in this profusion of topics upon which Government and Opposition will inevitably in legal phraseology join issue with each other) at once to decide " the order of their going," and having done so, to impart to each the motive power " to go." Of course, as the Prime Minister observed very justly last evening—" It is impossible for the Government to satisfy the wishes and opinions of all the members as to the course of public business. The right lion. gentleman (Mr. HORSMAN) and others who agree with him are desirous that the Reform Bill should be the first measure proposed. The hon. and gallant member for - Westminster attaches great importance to an early discussion of questions connected with China. Other members think that the treaty concluded with France, in volving the interests of our commercial system, ought to be the first measure taken in this house. Other members attach great importance to the general review of our finances, and hope the Chancellor of the Exchequer will take an early op portunity to bring on his Budget." - Wherefore, observes Lord PALMERSTON at the close of this suc cinct resume of the Ministerial difficulty as to the \ arrangement, at the very outset of the session, of the mere ordering or sequence of public business— "lt is impossible for her MAJESTY'S Government to satisfy equally the wishes and opinions of all, and the chances are that it will be found that the course we have pursued is the one which, on the . whole, is best suited to bring the deliberations of the house to a satisfactory and useful result." Upon the perfect reasonableness of all this it were needless to expatiate. It must be obvious, surely, upon THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1860, second thoughts, to the most perverse, to the most obtuse, to the most cross-grained partisan upon the side of the Opposition, whether seated below the gangway or upon the back benshes immediately confronting her MAJESTY'S Government. The difficulties of administration, the toils of ad ministration in this country, are altogether to nu merous and too onerous in themselves not to render fair play the right of any, of every successive Government. Whether that meed of fair play was honestly, manfully, and generously dealt out last year to the late administration is not now the question. Besides—our views upon that point we have long since, and earnestly enough, articulated. Tho question at this moment is—as it was a twelve month since—shall Ministers be dealt with fairly, frankly, and magnanimously ? The very denial of all this (in 1859) to their an tagonists, by the present occupants of the Treasury Bench when their relative positions in regard to Mr. Speaker were distinctly reversed—only renders it now more than ever desirable that fair play should, in truth, be once more accorded to her MAJESTY'S Government. Grievous, indeed, would it be to the national interests, and little else could it by pos- sibility be but an outrage to the national character, were it in any way likely that the tactics of the Opposition in the earlier part of the session of 1859 would be adopted as a precedent. The past is past. Political parties have changed places in the House of Commons. The Tory Reformers, or enlightened Conservatives, have, without any dero gation to their own dignity, been removed from the side of the Government to the side upon which they proved, for example, during the Crimean war anything but a factious, on the contrary, we will say without an instant's hesitation, an eminently patriotic Opposition. - While the many-coloured Coalition opposite—the Coalition which consented, a twelvemonth back, at the instance of the author of the notorious Whig " dodge" to push their opponents from the seat of power in a pell mell scramble for the occupancy of those seats by themselves—Whigs, Radicals, Peelites, Canningites, Peace-at-any-Price-ites sit there cheek by jowl upon the benches they cove tted ! Prepared, moreover,to do battle with all comers manfully,upon any plea, it matters little what,a Treaty or aCon gress, Italy or China, Reform - or Finance—provided only they may receive what they would not give— " A clear stage and no favour "—in other words, just honest, simple English Fairplay. This they at least, we rest assured, will have. And that they will have it, we rejoice to know, for again we say it—Fairplay is the right of every British Administration. It is satisfactory then to be aware at once that the Ministerial arrangements for the course of public business will in no way be interfered with. Everything will be taken into account in due time and in properly ordered sequence. Our principal solicitude in regard to the conduct of public business in this seemly and per fectly constitutional fashion, having reference to the revision as soon as possible of tho singularly one-sided Commercial Treaty between France and England ! To the prosecution of the new Chinese war as rapidly and energetically as may be in any way practicable ! To the balancing of the national accounts as speedily as can be in any manner con trived, in no hair-splitting, or specious,or merely stop gap Financial Statement! To the unfolding of a policy in regard to Italy, such as may tend to secure the happiness, instead of ensuring the yet further deso lation of that beautiful peninsula! And last, but not by any means least, to the submission to the House of Commons not later than the 20th of February, of a bold and comprehensive, and not a mere shuffling or piecemeal scheme for a Reform in the national Representa tion ! One malign influence it is impossible not to recognise already as operating adversely to the popular interests in the councils of the Coalition. Allusion is made of course to the peace-at-any-price school of politicians. To what else than that—allied though its leaders are so intimately with the noble and beneficent Free Trade principles—to what °ther influence than that can be attributed the palsy foreshadowed to the Chinese expedition, through an ominous sentence in the Speech from the Throne ? To what else do we owe the disgracefully one sided character (for 18 months to come) of the new commercial treaty between France and England, Now about to be formally submitted to Parliament for its approval ? Peace-at-any-Price ! Remember the designation. Is this the Price? All these mercantile concessions to France during the next year and a half, without any reciprocation of advantages from our Imperial Neighbour ! All this possibility of eating ;(off China) humble pie— that has been cooked in the murderous ire kindled (was it by Russia ?) in that treacherous and das tardly Peiho ambuscade ! If anything like this, say we, is the ',Price to be paid by England in the East alai :in the West, at the bidding of the Peace at-any-Price; mongers—away with the Coalition ! The publication by the Messrs. BLACKWOOD of the two remarkable volumes* in which Mr. LAU RENCE OLIPHANT gives us the narrative of Lord ELGIN'S mission, in '57, '5B, and '59, to the Chinese and Japanese Governments, marks at once a new starting point in our own knowledge and a new epoch in the general development of Asiatic civili sation. It is like the opening of a grand bivalve gateway to the East—letting a flood of light through the mists of obscurity and ignorance hitherto ob structing our view of those vast and remote regions, regions comprising within them very nearly one moiety of the vast aggregate of this earth's popula tion. The narrator, as such, possesses to that end a variety of rare and admirable qualifications. He is already widely known as a keen observer even in this peculiar age of keen observers. Already, though as yet apparently, and, as his readers will all hope, but in the early part of his career he has travelled to the north, to the south, to the east, to the west, as but few have travelled, even in this peculiar age of rapid and incessant locomotion. Talk of BELZONI in Egypt, of BRUCE in Abyssinia, or of those earlier men of enterprise who consumed a lifetime in penetrating into one single country, and then returned homewards with stories hardly less surprising than the records of LEMUEL GUL• LIVER, mariner : histories as veracious as the after dinner anecdotes of Major LONGBOW, as the ac count of the personal adventures of Major GEO IIEGAN, or as the autobiographic memorabilia of the brazen-faced and brazen-voiced Baron MUN CHAUSEN ! Why, Mr. OLIPIIANT, during the last half-dozen years, has been—with his eyes open and his vigilance ever on the alert—where has he not been He has traversed the umbrageous wilds of Minnesota in the far west of the great North Ame rican continent. He has wandered over the Steppes of Russia. He entered and scrutinised—immediately prior to the great Crimean war—the world-famous fortress and arsenal of Sebastopol. He travelled far and wide elsewhere along the borders of the Black Soa among the warlike tribes of the Caucasus. Lastly, it fortunately so happened that Mr. OLIPHANT accompanied the Earl of ELGIN'S ma- * Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, 18.58, and 1859. By Laurence Oliphant, Esq., Private Secretary to Lord Elgin. 2 vols. Bvo. William Blackwood and Sons. London and Edin burgh. 1860. morable expedition to China and Japan, in 1857- 1858-1850, in the responsible and confidential capacity of the Noble Lord's Private Secretary. It is from the notes and diaries accumulated by him during that mission that our indefatigable traveller has built up this singular, we believe we are strictly accurate in terming it this perfectly unique literary monument. The production about which we are now writing is here alluded to in our leading columns rather than in those customarily devoted to literary criti cism, because we cannot but regard the literary merits of the work, great though those undoubt edly are, as having been altogether surpassed by its political importance. More especially have the volumes an interest and a weight in the political world at the present moment, when we are but just now in the very act of embarking upon our third and most momentous war with the Chinese, a war the result of which must vitally affect the past policy of Lord ELeIN, and our future relations with both the Chinese and Ja panese populations. Not a statesman, not a journalist, aot a politician of any shade or colour, not any one of those about to be entrusted at the seat of war with either naval, or military, or diplo matic responsibility, but would do wisely to exa mine the lucid and brilliant record of Lord ELGIN'S three years' mission, for which we are indebted to the clear intelligence and the skilful and rapid hand of Mr. LAURENCE OLIPHANT, his lordship's Private Secretary. It were beside our purpose at the present moment to do more than direct particular attention to volumes abounding in timely and valu. able occasionally from its import invaluable infor mation. A little later on—it might perchance be to morrow, it would iu every event be at our ear liest opportunity—we may find occasion to revert to these volumes, examining some of their contents more in detail. As it is, our object is now simply, but very earnestly, to recommend these two really noble volumes ,embellished by maps and photographs, and a profusion of miscellaneous illustrations, to the consideration of all lettered Englishmen—but most of all to those who would read aright the genius and the character of our old foes, soon let us hope to be at length and permanently our fast friends, the Chinese. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received a Mr. Reuter's office : FLORENCE, JAN. 25. The Monitore Town° publishes an official ex planation of the reasons for the reserve manifested in the decree proclaiming the Sardinian statutes in Tuscany. The Tuscan Government only intended to reserve the organic laws of Tuscany on freedom of commerce and industry, and some other special laws. The National Parliament will decide whether those laws are to cease in Tuscany, or whether, on the contrary, they are to be extended for the com mon benefit. PARIS, WEDNESDAY The Patric, of this evening, gives the following as the principal points of the treaty of commerce between France and England. The import duty on French wines will be re duced in England from 150 to 30 per cent. Silk will be admitted free. The duty on iron imported into France will be 7f. per 100 kilogrammes. Wool and cotton manufacturers will be protected by a duty not exceeding 30 per cent., which will be fixed after the termination of the enquiry. Materials of primary importance will enter France free of duty after July, 1861. The prohibitions will be removed on the Ist of October. The treaty will be executed by England, from the date of its promulgation, about the beginning of February, 1860. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY, M. Thouvenel, yesterday, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, took the usual oath to the Emperor. The ad interim direction of Foreign Affairs, confided to M. Baroche, has now ceased. The Speech of the Queen of England on opening Parliament was transmitted to Paris by telegraph in the exceedingly short time of 42 minutes. The document, being divided into three parts, was com mitted each to a separate wire, the first words being sent off at 33 minutes past one, and the last at a quarter past two. TIrE BOURSE, Jan. 25.—The market continues heavy. Threes after having been done at 68f. 60c., declined to 68f. 40c., and are now at 68f. 55c. Mobilier varied from 760 f. to 757 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 890 f. to 895 f. ; Orleans, 1,355 f. to 1,360 f.; Northern, 900 f. to 905 f. ; Southern, 602 f. 50c. to 505 f. Austrian, 513 f. 75c. to 511 f. 25c. ; Lombard, 555 f. to 552 f. 50c. The following were the last quo tations:— 4f per Cents. 97 Do. end month 97 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 65 Bank Shares. 2830 Credit Mobilier Do. Account Credit Fonder 750 Belgian 41 991 Piedmontese (5) Roman Bl 25 Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt 43k - RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 907 50 .. 907 60 New ditto 822 50 .. 825 Lyons and Mediterranean 895 .. 895 Geneva 5lO 507 50 Southern Western 575 .. 575 • Eastern 632 50 .. 632 50 Sardinian 4OO 400 Austrian Lombard Exchange on London, at eight, paper, 25f. 6c. ; money 25f. 5c.; three months, paper, 24f. 91c.; money, 24f. 90c. CENTRAL ITALY. A letter from Florence, dated Jan. 20, says : Yesterday Prince Alfred left Florence, to return to Leghorn, where the Euryalus is stationed for the present. lam glad to inform you that on entering the harbour of Leghorn she returned the national salute, a circumstance which has been the topic of much conversation in this town. Political news is rather scanty to-day, but general regret prevails here on account of the sad intelligence of poor Poerio's dangerous illness. In consequence of this momentary dearth, I cannot do better than send you the grotesque, half Chinese, half mediaeval edict of the Holy Inquisition just fouud at Bologna. Who can read this document without shuddering at the idea that a poor population have been for long years under the demoralising action of such dark and iniquitous power! An Englishman could be hardly brought to believe that in our century a man who calls himself a minister of the God of peace and mercy could find the courage to publish and sign such a revolting document. " We, brother Filippo Bertolotti, of the order of preachers, professor of theology in the towns of Pesaro, Rimini, Fano, Pennabilli, and the sur rounding places, inquisitor-general of the holy apostolic see, and especially appointed against heretical depravity According to the charge imposed upon us by this holy office we desire to maintain the Catholic faith pure from every heretical contagion ; but it being manifest that many, from malice, disobe dience and ignorance are slack in fulfilling their duty to denounce such crimes to the holy office, giv ing thus cause to great inconvenience and errors, not only against good morals but expressly against the Catholic faith, we, who are bound to take the glory of the Lord to heart, and to promulgate and preserve the holy faith, to watch over the salvation of the souls, command accordingly, under pain of excommunication and other penalties.of the Pontiff, to all, no matter of what condition or dignity, eccle siastical or laical, to reveal and make known to us, and to the holy office anywhere and everywhere, within the period of a month, everything they have known or may know of offenders. "Whether they are heretics, or suspected or sup posed to be heretics, or whether they adhere to Judaism, Mahomcdan or Gentle, or whether they have become apostates from the Holy Catholic Faith. "Whether they have practised or are practising acts that may be ascribed " to an express or tacit compact with the devil," such as incantation, witchcraft, &c., prayers to discover treasures, or for other purposes of the kind, all sorts of invo cations where his name or his acts are concerned. Whether they exercise necromancy or any other magic, abusing the sacrament or the holy and blessed things. " Whether, not being priests, they have usurped with sacrilegious daring the right to celebrate mass, or to administer to the penitent. " Whether they keep or have kept secret con venticles, or reunions likely to prejudice the holy Catholic religion. Whether they have been guilty of making use of oaths against the blessed Lord, the Holy Virgin, or the saints, or otherwise been guilty of any act against holy images. " Whether, in spite of their oaths, they have entered, or endeavoured to enter, into a contract of matrimony. The first wife living or the first hus band, they have taken a second, or attempted to do it, or have in any way interfered with the holy office of the Inquisition, or with the Bull of his Holiness Pius V. Whether they have written satires or published writings against the Pope the Sacred Col lege, superiors, ecclesiastics, or religious orders; or composed and distributed writings likely to be detrimental to the holy word; or if they possess writings or prints containing heresies, or books of heretics, speaking ex-professo against religion ; or whether they read, print, or allow to print and dis tribute such things under any pretext : If they are persons who without a license have eaten, or given to eat, meat, eggs, and the like on a prohibited day ; whether they have induced a Christian to become a Jew or any other sect ; whether they have prevented a Sew or a Turk becoming baptised. Wo declare that those who do not denounce such acts cannot te absolved and must be excommuni cated. On purpose that this edict shall be pub licly known, we command its publication in every church anti public place, so that nobody shall remain ignorant of it and nobody evade its obedience. We charge all publishers, librarians, shopkeepers, and hotels to stick up the present edict in their respective places publicly, where every body can see and read it. " The first, nay the only object of the tribunal of the holy office being the glory of the Lord, the glorification of the holy faith, and the salvation of souls, we have commanded and command as above, that all those who should consider themselves guilty, or who know others to be guilty, be pre sent themselves before us or substitutes volun tarily, before being denounced by others, and to confess sincerely and honestly their errors and failings, assuring them that, " unless accused by other legitimate eecclesiastical tribunals" they will be received with a charitable heart and treated with particular mercy—a mercy so very natural to the Holy Inquisition—and they will be expedited and delivered without any expense, or any public penitence. " According to the obligations imposed upon us concerning prints or books, we expressly command that no one dare to print, import, sell, or distribute books within or without our jurisdiction, unless such books have been previously submitted to the holy office. Adhering, besides, to the edicts of the supreme tribunal of the holy office at Rome, concerning any intercourse with Hebrews, viz. : cohabiting, associating, or living in familiar con tact with them,' we command that nobody dares to transgress such edicts, under the penalty therewith expressed and promulgated. " Given at the holy office at Pesaro, on the 15th September, 1841. " Brother FILIPPO BERTOLOTTI, Inspector- General. ANTONIO SEVERINI, Chancellor-General of the Holy Office." THE FRENCH BUDGET. The Moniteur of yesterday contains the financial report of M. Magne to the Emperor. The Minister congratulates himself that the state of the treasury is flourishing. The arrears, which were 886 millions of francs, do not now exceed 660 millions. The Minister says that he has communicated to the Council of State the documents necessary for the preparation of the budget of 1861. 'The following are his remarks on this part of the report : These documents would lead us to anticipate an excess of revenue equal to about three millions. Your Majesty, wishing to encourage national pro duction and to place industry in a state more advan tageous for competition, has conceived a vast pro gramme of internal reforms, among which figures the release of raw materials and certain articles of great consumption from ditty. The reduction of the duties might entail a disturbance in the balance of the budget ; but your Majesty, so rightly desir ing to preserve our finances from all injury and to maintain good order in the budgets, proposes to compensate the momentary loss that the treasury will experience by the resource of the sinking fund. As I said to your Majesty in my report of 1857, " to produce its full effect, the sinking fund ought to result from a positive excess of income. If it be otherwise the money it absorbs will occasion a deficit in the budget. The deficit increases the floating debt, which latter ends sooner or later in the creation of consols," that is to say, the sinking fund in this case, instead of extinguishing the public debt, tends to increase it at a loss to the trea sury. Consequently, however good in itself—however just and wise the sinking fund may be, as a measure of foresight especially, as a check upon and obsta cle against the increase of the expenditure, it is intelligible that its action may be suspended in the presence of an inevitable deficit. But, since the sinking fund is of itself a guarantee of order, your Majesty would not resign yourself to this sacrifice, though only temporary, save in a case of absolute necessity. lam convinced that you will be happy to maintain it in activity, should the loss to the treasury be capable of being compensated, wholly or in part, either by the progressive amount derived from the taxes, or by savings effected in the public expenditure. Nothing, in fact, is impossible with the lasting peace of which your Majesty holds out the hope in your programme. Economy keeps in reserve abun dant resources, and in a country like France, pre pared as it now is, it would be difficult to estimate too highly what may be produced by confidence in the future. To sum up, Sire—The era of peace inaugurated by the programme traced out in your Majesty's letter to the Minister of State opens under the fol lowing financial conditions : The excess on the debit side of the old budgets is reduced from 886 to 660 millions. The budgets of 1855, 1856, 1857 are balanced without deficit. The budget of 1858, though deprived of all ex traneous aid and charged with the expenses of the Chinese war and of the public works, ends, never theless, in an excess of income by more than 12 millions. The fl )ating debt, which threatened to go beyond a milliard, is already reduced to 750 millions, and placed in presence of disposable resources, which within a very brief period will make it sink below 700 millions. The Treasury bonds, which in 1858 had reached the sum of 345 millions, now hardly amount to 133 millions, and the interest lowered from 4 to 21; per cent. The treasury, notwithstanding the considerable reimbursements it has already effected on the float ing debt, is in a state now for meeting all the ordi nary and extraordinary current demands, for the office was closed yesterday at Paris with 261 mil lions in cash, and 150 millions in notes. The taxes and indirect revenues advatiee so steadily that the gravest circumstances have scarcely been able to in odueo a check, wad hate 3 iclded, silee the commencement of this reign, an increase that sur passes, not including the new imports, the enormous and really characteristic sum of 268 millions. The special commerce of France with foreign nations has increased during the same period at the rate of about 80 per cent. The anonetary circulation has been enriched by nearly one milliard and 500 millions, arising from the difference between the exports and imports of the precious metals. The Bank of France is provided with a metallic fund of 551 millions, and enabled on this basis to extend the circulation sufficiently so as to promote largely the development of commercial operations. The Bourse has been reorganised, and affords to the public greater guarantees, without depriving business of legitimate facilities and the necessary intermediate agents. If, owing to the wise foresight of your Majesty, and to the marvellous fertility of the country, it has been possible to obtain this favourable situation in the midst of the complications, wars, scarcities, crises of every kind, that for five years have im peded the financial services of the state, is it not permitted to hope that, with peace and the like prudence, the general progress will not be arrested, and that the sacifices about to be imposed on the treasury in favour of agriculture, commerce, and industry, will not fail to receive compensations that will maintain the good state of the finances ? THE BALLOT. Last evening a numerously attended public meet ing was held at the Whittington Club, Arundel street, Strand, with a view to the consideration of the best means of bringing the question of the ballot before the House of Commons ; the Hon. F. Berke ley, M.P., in the chair.' On the platform were Mr. C. E. Whitehurst, Mr. Wyld, ALP., Mr. Ayrton, M.P., Mr. W. Lawson, M.P., the Hon. W. F. Campbell, M.P., Mr. G. H. Whalley, M.P., Gen. F. P. Thompson, Mr. S. Nodes, Mr. W. Wilke (Carlisle), Mr. Sergeant Gaselee, Mr. Sergeant Storks, Mr. W. A. Smith, Mr. S. Tulk, Mr. W. E. Dawes, Mr. S. Elliott (Plymouth), and other gen tlemen interested in the movement. The CHAIRMAN said, the meeting had been con vened by the committee of the Ballot Society for the purpose of inviting the attention of the gentle men of the metropolis to the question of the ballot. It was not so much his province to address them on that subject as to direct their proceedings. The gentlemen who would address them that evening would explain the state of things as they existed at present. There had been a meeting of the council of the Ballot Society, who had come to the conelu sion, in conjunction with a large number of consti tuencies, to bring the question before the House of Commons, and also before the House of Lords. The great council •f the nation, the House of Commons, merely performed duties which were delegated to them, and it was their intention to bring the ques tion before them at the earliest opportunity to test the members of the present house as to the manner in which they performed their duty in respect to a question without which no reform would be perfect. The great principle of elections should be that the elector, whatsoever his quality might be, should be enabled to go to the poll, remain there, and return free, with no punishment awaiting him. He con gratulated the meeting on the advantages they had gained by discussion, and referred to the Times, the vast ability of which he was prepared to admit, but against which they had to struggle on the present question, but he did not see that they were in any way shaken. He believed that nothing could carry the measure-but the majesty of the people, and ft was necessary for them to speak out. A body of gentlemen might use their utmost endeavours to bring the question to a successful issue, but they were of little use without the support of the body , of the people. He would not enlarge upon the sub • ject further, as they were about to be addressed by • a member of one of the largest constituencies of this great country. Mr. AYRTON, M.P., said he had been invited by the Ballot Society to address them that evening, and he considered that occasion a very opportune one. So long as it continued a part of our Government that everything should be discussed out of doors, the council of the Ballot Society had adopted a wise course in inviting discussion. After referring to the views of the Whigs of 1831, which were their views now, he said if the ballot were necessary then how much more necessary was it now ? It was a great political inheritance, and every one must be aware of its principle; it came in with the Saxons, and there was no change pro posed that was not constitutional. They were not radicals nor revolutionists, but desired t o give effect to the ancient principles cf the constitution. Inti midation was the earlier form in which freedom of election had been attacked; then Governments be came more settled, and the last phase came in with William 111., and the last change in the constitu tion. The great contractors, professional men who came in then, found that they had opportunities of jobbing and intriguing; then came tippling and treating, and the member go* the great places and his supporters got the small ones. The last phase of political corruption was that of buying the voters. The borough was either bought wholesale, patron, voters, and all, or else it was purchased re tail. Then stringent acts were passed, and almost everything connected with an election was rendered the subject of legislative enactment. Still bribery prevailed, and a plan was at length adopted whici was to prevent anything of the kind—that was by the appointment of an election auditor. The most recent scheme was that of the declaration. Having pointed out what he conceived to be the fallacies of this plan,. he wont on to say that he did not see why the scheme they proposed should be considered as something so very startling and novel. Was there anything so extravagantly new in it ? It principle was not new, and its operation was cha racterised by simplicity ; the mode of taking votes was eminently simple and perfectly pure. The best thing was that the voter should not be ex posed to annoyance in giving his vote or after wards. The ballot might not be a nostrum that would cure everything, but it would diminish an acknowledged evil, and would deal with intimida tion, one of the greatest evils to which an elector l c e o n u g ld th b t e he subje ct.evils fHteherpevreieswened tsyasttemconosfidveortaibnlge which the adoption of the ballot would remove, and concluded by urging on the meeting the adoption of the measures best calculated to insure the attain ment of the object they had in view. Mr. W. F. CAMPBELL said he had come do wn there to-night, not to deliver arguments in favour of the ballot, but to protest against the doctrine which had been broached, it o u c g ou t l could 0 leastpa pass s have been anticipated, thatreformers the opportunity afforded by the impending mo be ea• sure of the Government it change,was t of all however n organic silent on the b allot until that meas ure was a law, and to support it, devoid concessions to the object they had most at heart, and had met that night to urge upon the public. The doctrine was condemned at once by reason and e xperience. Reason pointed out that after tillan or ganic change had been thus effeeted, the passions of the country would flow for s i o t m h that'bill `vanedlv in nhe other Government had ; carriedand if f a ballot, they would wait until the public ear was a ltogether deaf upon th a t subject. oeuttililhee avowed purpose of a ch ange i n the Reform A c t now among all parti es i n the LegislatureVhyw'as to the close discussion, to p u t an end to agitation, and keep all other changes at a distance on this topic. Before . 1831 the vindi xlopterwi e a n s c s e ; ripe as it was at present. N ca o ti w on th of eli th f e or ba e l In 1832 reformers might as easily as they did put an end to the have carried it . Gatton or Old Sarum. A whisper existence of eit: der ham would have been sufficientisper from RSlming the spare the Government of thatd on pc'iint. To fortunate and mistaken e ay . they 'mid the un hoping to have it by the f n o !rosAi v - ~ to waive it, when the new law arose. - ~',:,eo of the new law The world was satiate,' Vv. nat was the result? questions crowded 1.: 'with these to • pics. New public spi r it, eriel' ' l l-)011 Parlia men t . N ot all the Awn, and not all the r etuar k able acumen of Mr. G a l e — Moleswortli—not all a°°°mplishnaent s o f Si r W . not the the genius. f t• and authority of Lord Mac au l a - v all Ind h of the ch a i rman who sat thereCoe to night—had been able to mo ve th e H ouse of Onco mor e a cr i s i s h a d arisentamons on th e su bj ect. ; re presentative arrangements would nnee more our more it was in th e i r p ower to be opened ; o nce ge want it. Would they again committ the Ballot or t o helhad p o i n t e d t o ? Would they the fatal error pass by, and only launch their vessel again let the tide strand it left behind it ? ssel F ortune never aid e d on the muddy those who refused to aid themselves' And in such a ease they would deserve the humiliation whi c h they courted. If, however, they d esired to b e moderate and tender to th e Government, for whom he had himself a great esteem, their moderation and forbearance might assume a wiser and safer course than that against which he had piotesfeul. They might re solve upon a proposition calculated to secure the eventual adoption of the ballot in every town and county of the kingdom, but so limited and guarded in the outset that the Government would not be restrained by any of their previous deliberations from conceding it. He had already laid before the world a proposition of that character. If it met with the approbation of reformers, it was in their power to extort it ; for it was in their power to say to Government, " Your measure shall not be carried without some arrangement on the question of the ballot, and here is an arrangethent you are all at liberty to take, and none of you are pledged against it." As regards the whole topic, it had been long ago exhausted by the distinguished men he had re ferred to. They knew that Lord Macaulay in his youth had gained a lasting reputation by the speeches in which he vindicated the Reform Bill. Soon after 1832 he went to India for five years. When ho came back the House of Commons listened with eager curiosity to the fervency and eloquence of the voice which had before so powerfully touched them. The ballot was the first cause to which those accents were devoted. On June 13, 1839, although the general supporter of a Cabinet opposed to it, he gave the vast resources of his mind to entice the House of Commons to adopt it. His speech had never been refuted, and, what was better still, had never been retracted. And who had a better right to point out the first amendment which the Act of 1832 ought to receive than the person who, if that act should ever pass away, would yet have rendered it immortal by the splendour of his advocacy ? The public grief was fixed upon his tomb. The public admiration clung about his memory. Activity and ability were busy in devising monuments, and busts, and statues to his honour. But by far the most satis factory memorial you can raise to departed merit is to act upon its counsel, and give effect to its convictions. It was far better for great men to live in the institutions than it would be in the temples of their country. And if in the Abbey you gave his frame a place ofrost,you could not decently refuse his mind a habitation in the statute-book. En conclusion, he had ventured to point out the case against which reformers ought to protest, and to explain the course by which a speedy triumph on the question of the ballot might be open to them. And if he took no further part upon the theme, by their kindness ho should feel that he had been enabled to discharge his duty to the public. Mr. WYLD was there as one of the 235 members of the House of Commons who had voted for the ballot, and he was there to ask them, not merely to pass resolutions and listen to speeches, which might perhaps be forgotten, but to make evert effort in their power to affix the ballot to the pro posed Reform Bill. There was an American pro verb, " First know you are right, and then go ahead." if the suffrage were extended without the ballot to a class who wanted protection more than any other class, it would be a curse instead of A blessing. If Government would assent to a permis sive ballot, it would be best to adopt it ; for once the Government were pledged to the ballot is any form, they would be sure to get it complete at last. Mr. WASHINGTON WILKS, who spoke as a re presentative man, being well acquainted with some of the most populous districts in England, said be read in the papers that Lord Brougham, on the first night of this session, declared that he had found no response in the north when he spoke of reform. He was afraid that was because he did not speak loud enough. The voice of Henri Brougham never spoke aloud to the men of the north on the subject of reform and failed to get I , response. It was only the muffled voice of the ex-Chancellor that obtained no response frog the iron voices of those iron men. (Cheers;) He himself had attended many meetings ii the north, and had found one universal &nova to every allusion to reform—" Manhood suf frage or the ballot." Lord Brougham ha° admitted that there was a great deal of indir nation excited by certain recent cases of corrilr: tion. Well, no one could help feeling indignation 0 ' those disclosures ; but it was not against the We; who were bribed, bad as they were, nor again"; those wh o b r ib e d th em , worse as they were, 12 ' against the system, which allows, or almost eeisl pels such things. (Cheers.) Commissions had het: found useless to check bribery, and indeed thought them unconstitutional. If a man was cused of breaking the law let him be tried 1 1 0 jury, and not send three gentlemen in herseha e r ce , hold a sort of Fren c h t r ib una l on hi m . 13 0 t indictment was di ffi cult, It was exceedingli a r- a os th ti/ e and the result uncertain. Th e ballot afforde d only solution. It would step in not between tk briber and the bribed, but between the briber end the voting place. He could then no longer folio*. up his victim to see that he kept his contract. No s the bargain made in th e d ar k was f u lfill e d in th e light ; make it dark all through, and it would not be made at all. Some working men thought that if ther i had manhood suffrage they could carry their olv,, candidates, and they should not then want the bit lot. He did not believe it. The present syste m~ made the elections so dear that a working man CO I L not get into Parliament. The ballot was so inexP eP sive that it might almost be said to cost nothing: Now there were many men, even Conservativ e "! in the house who would be glad to see two or thre: real working men in the house. He believed 0 ' whole house would welcome two or three, brat 04 wou ld be very much alarmed if a larg e nurrAber We ro to get in. (Cheers and laughter.) After some fu r; ther observations, Mr. Wilks sat down a midst 'oli o and general applause. The CHAIRMAN then announced that the meeting' would be adjourned until February, and due netiT a would be given of the fir e ' eakers who would attend' The proceedings tten terminated. e e IeOrAZ ENGLISH OPER4. The revival last night of Auber's ever-fresh an delightful " Crown Diamonds " reintroduced to tho public Miss Lousia Pyne and Mr. W. H a rrison! who both appeared to have derived much benefit . 5 from their recent rest of more than five weeks' durr tion. Miss Louisa Pyne, who on first coming up/ the stage was w e l comed with several rounds ° unanimous and enthusiastic applause, sang the, sparkling and vivacious music of Catarina e'r ee better than us ua l ; f or, to the unerring skill an,* masterly finish by which her vocalisation is invari ably_, distinguished was united an amount of physics' force such as Miss Pyne, overworked as she 0 0 : rally is at Covent Garden Theatre, cannot alwar command. All requisite breadth of tone in the sus taitlea_ notes, brilli ancy , an d j oyous sp i r i t, no l ess tha n mechanical perfection in the florid passages, Wer e , again p resent to enchant the ear, and rea li se ! general result such as certainly no other eopralw now before the public could surpass. Miss Louisa Pyne was energetically supportoi by Mr. Harrison, who, as Don Henrique, displaye' uncommon zeal and animation. He, too, was loudli applauded throughout the opera. The other characters were ably sustained, 0. 4 Mr. Alfred Mellon conducted the band with all h 1 well-known spirit and skill. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Ever since Mr. E. T. Smith became lessee of thi s national place of amusement, pantomime has bee° his especial favourite, and great. to an almost 1111 ' precedented extent, has been hi s success in the production of that highly atAractive entertainment' To his great many succe!,ses he has now to add hi' Christmas tribute for 1859, " Jack and the Bea° Stalk ; or, Harlecr:in Leap Year." Every nigh t since its product!ion the theatre has been crowded t° excess, and 2 - ..nple as are the dimensions of Old Drat accommoA L ' n.tion for all who nightly congregate ow side 4 :tie doors, braving the inclemency of the se e : 51 :4 has been utterly impossible. His remarkab le success, without doubt, is mainly owing to to / great care Mr. Smith has devoted to this species Oh t entertainment; for in the present, as in all his Pa. pantomimes, is to be found combined mode rP , burlesque, extravaganza, acrobatic feats, ballet the highest pretension, mingled with all the chiv e racteristic drolleries of tho old harlequinade, th e whole being set off by scenery, costume, and decors; tions of the most beautiful and gorgeous descrir tion. The morning performances have been so succesg; ful that the pantomime is to be performed ever , Wednesday, at two p.m., until further notice. ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE. Next Monday, Monday, the 30th instant, Mr. INrillioo Cooke, the enterprising lessen of Astley's A„ 11:1 ,,; phitheatre, takes his retiring benefit, ail% which evening the management of this 1 0 nowned place of amusement passes into ?, hands of his sons. Setting aside the attracti Y , nature of the entertainments selected for the ° co l t ston, such an event would most certainly drams' 111 immense audience, for the habitues of Astley's all be anxious to testify to Mr. Cooke their acrd ration of the manner in which he has condo ° the theatre 4inqc he became lessee. I hi - hi at In tb 'Ce Ce 41 in Itr tb CI tell 114 Or ~``~.