The Sun. — London, England, 1860-02-08 00:00:00

APUBLIC MEETING will be held at the THATCHED HOUSE TAVERN, on SATURDAY, the 11th of February, at Two o'clock, with a view to establish PRELIMINARY DRILL at Public Schools, in connection with the Volunteer Movement. Lord ELCIIO, M.P., will, take the Chair. BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of utechanisin."•—Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas. • Eilver Watches 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches ROYAL ENGI,ISIi OPER A, COVENT -G A R DEN. Under the manwement of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, THE CROWN DIAMONDS. Messrs. 11. Core, G. Honey, St. Albyn, and W.:Harrison. Misses Thirlwall and Louisa Pyne. 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. 11. Payne, H. Payne, F. Payne, Barnes, Tallien, infants Lauri, and Miss Clara Morgan. Doers open at hall-past 6—Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnekstone. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE STRANGER. Airs. Haller, by Miss Amy Sedgwick. After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimista the unrivalled Leciercqs. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.— Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. Due Notice will be given of the recovery of Dona Isabel Cubas from her severe indisposition. THIS EVENING, a new Drama, called A TALE OF TWO CITIES, by Tom Taylor, Esq., from the story of that name by Charles Dickens, Esq. Principal characters by Mr. James Vining, Walter Lacy, Villiers, house, Forrester, J. Johnstone, T. Lyon. Morton, Palmer, White, 11. Butler, Clifford, and Fredericks ; Misses Kate Saville, Stuart, Turner, Mrs. Campbell, and Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex :ravaganza and Pantomime, KING THRUSEIBEARD, the LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION, in which is pre sented one of the most novel, costly, and brilliant effects ever witnessed -designed and painted by Mr. William Calleott.— King Thrushbeard, Miss Julia St. George. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan sense of La Scala, Milan ; and the Delapierre Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. THIS EVENING, CAUGIIT IN A TRAP. After which, a new ghristmas burlesque pantomime, by H. J. Byron, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER; or, Harle quin King Arf.ur and the Knights of the Round Table. Jack, /IMs Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack • Panta ,non, Mr. eaulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. Reproduction of TIIE DEAD HEART, with all its power ful effects. TIIIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, David Fisher, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Billiagton, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly. After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LITRL EYRE RG ; or, The Knight and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford, /Churn°, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K. Keily, Laidlaw. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Mice open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor ter bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passengers all hours of the night. riiis EVENING the nortormances will commence with PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. Mims Wyndham and Mr. H. T. Craven. After which, a new Tragic Ballet, entitled MY NAME IS NORVAL. Supported by C. Young, Barrett, Miss Lydia Thompson, Clara St. Casse, &c. And A BORDER MARRIAGE. Messrs. IL T. Craven, Charles Young, G. Spencer, and Miss fVyndham. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, le. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at hall-past six ; perform ance commences at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Last Two Weeks of Mr. W. Cooke's Season. THIS EVENING, the Powerful Equestrian Drama of THE WOODMAN'S HORSE, in which is displayed the wonderful training of the Cream Palfrey, "Beauty," —Ex traordinary Acts of Hosemanship by John Henry Cooke, Miss Emily Cooke. and the great company of talented Pro fessors, French Pierrots, and facetious Clowns. To conclude with the Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY; or, Old Towler the Huntsman and the God dess Diana ; Diana, with Songs, Miss Jacobs ; Tom, Mr. Herbert; Patty, Mr. G. Belmore. Commence at 7. Stage Manager, Mr. It. Phillips The finflt Morning Performance of the Pantomime will be on Saturday, Feb.ll, at Two o'clock. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY QUEEN. And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAH. - - Comic Vocalists —Messrs. Georze Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. 'V. 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 Bights of the metropolis. ROSA BONIIEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is opea from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEE. 8, 1860. 3 I THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 47—highest since noon yesterday. 45—lowest this morning and during the night. 49—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.64. WIND, S.W. ; strong, with dull hazy weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Titre ])A7.—Morning, 2h. 39m.—Afternoon, 3b. 3m. To-moußow.-Morning, 3h. 24m.—Afternoon, 3h. 45*i. Whether England has " sold her birthright for a mess of pottage" in the instance of this signed and ratified commercial treaty with the French EMPE- ItOlt remains to be seen. It can only be seen with any distinctness when the Treaty itself has been laid upon the table, and when the Financial State ment has been submitted to the House. We are promised both the day after to-morrow. We are promised both the' Treaty and the Budget on Fr- day, the 10th of February. Yet, in the meantime, we know pretty well all about it. We have, at any rate, the broad outlines of the double project.A favoured few entrusted with these high State secrets have let them out. And, now that the cat is fairly out of the bag, we can already see plainly enough which way it jumps. The Times has found it impossible to hold its peace about the Income Tax—the Independence Beige has felt itself constrained to blurt out the chief terms of the Treaty and to enumerate some of its consequences. It has been known now for some days past that the abhorred Income Tax, instead of being allowed to " cease and determine" in this year of grace 1860, according to the formal promise and elaborate arrangement of the present Itig,lt Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is actu ally to be increased in this year of grace, that it is tc, be renewed at ninepence, that this ninepence is to be paid in perpetuity, and that all this is to be audaciously proposed by Mr. GLADSTONE !—the Very author himself of this illusory promise and this falsest of all false predictions. This pleasant truth was announced some days ~n 9 e by the Times, and has remained ever since "lelL uncontradicted. To-day it is reiterated yet more distinctly and as it were officially. The: , e is to be an Income Tax. It is to be p eipetual. It is to be an Income-tax of nine per teo. And the boon is to come to us direct from the .‘land and brain of Mr. GLADSTONE! Then, as to I 6 e heads of the Treaty, as they appeared jotted do NN? t quite frankly in the columns of the Mc/eye/I da sae e Beige ! Why, the general correctness of the s e heads was acknowledged last evening by the nol J e lord the Foreign Secretary. The version thus icy e rred to yesterday in the House of Commons by ;id JOHN RUSSELL, it is worth remembering, 61 .ows the Treaty to be thus distinctly one-sided! , sets forth in its items with—Firstly—The " abo• F .tion of duties on all the productions of French ru auufacture.” Secondly with the " Assimi -11 n of the duties on French spirits -with those on English colonial spirits. The rduty on those first-named is at present 15s. a tgallon, on the others only 7s. ; the duty on French Parandy would thus be lowered by Ss, a gallon.' Thirdly, with the " Immediate reduction of the duty on French wine to the extent of 2s. 9d.-a gallon, the duty at present being ss. 9d., the new duty will only be 3s. a gallon." It being im mediately added, " A second reduction of this duty from the Ist of April, 1861. The duty will be a minimum of ls. and a maximum of 25., accord ing to the quantity of alcohol which the wines may contain." Fourthly, there is to be a" merely nominal ) duty on corn, flour, and all articles made of flour." Fifthly, a" reduction more or less important of the duties on all other articles imported from France." Sixthly, comes a generalised intimation that "England reserves the right of allowing other nations to participate in these reductions, as well as of modifying hereafter the duties on wines and spirits, if the changes in our Excise shall render such modifications desirable" Then fol lows the announcement that " France on her part undertakes to make the following concessions." It is immediately succeeded, however, by the unwel come proviso," but none of them will take immediate effect !" The interval of grace being, as we know, just eighteen months clear—conceded meekly by England to the French Protectionists! And then when it may have become perfectly convenient to our neighbours we are to hope for a "reduction of the duties on English coal and coke to a level with those .imposed on the same commodities of Belgian pro duce." We are to expect in due succession—" The abolition of the duties on wool and cotton," a " re duction of the duty on iron and machinery," and the " abolition of prohibitions, fcr which ad valorem duties not exceeding 30 per cent. shall be substituted." For which we are to pay down in perpetuity an Income,tax of ninepence ! But then we are reminded—All this wonderful Treaty has been negotiated by a Free Trader—by the first and foremost of Free Traders ! True, but Mr. COBDEN is something more than a Free Trader. He is a champion of the ignoble and prepos terous principles of Peace-at-any-Price. And this is the price England is to pay for it according to his thinking. It .remains to be :seen whether the House of Commons concurs with his opinion. Let the constituencies throughout the country be at once astir upon this subject of vital and na tional importance. Let them communicate at once —before it is too late—with their representatives. Let them say quite plainly and distinctly will not have this permanent ninepenny Income-tax imposed upon the country, just simply for the advantage of the silk wearers and the claret drinkers in England ! For the benefit—in the name of Free Trade (!)—of the ignorant and obsti nate French Protectionists ! For the satisfaction of Lord. PALMERSTON'S inveterate desire to con ciliate the Imperial friend of whose hospitalities his lordship has personally partaken at Com piegne! Lastly, we will not consent to pay this price down to the powerful Emperor of the FRENCH, at the head of his great army of 500,000 heroic and victorious soldiers, merely to gratify the wretched whimsies of those fanatical advocates of the thoroughly un-English and miserably paltry doctrine of Peace at any Price ! With the very best intentions in the world, the noble lord the member for Colchester gained very little by his motion last evening, for leave to bring in a bill enabling the Court of Divorce to hold its sittings with closed doors. Leave to do anything of the kind was refused by a clear majority of 185 in a house of 351-83 having voted for and 258 against the proposed bill's introduction. Added to which Lord JOHN MANNERS was either coarsely sneered at or grossly reviled during the progress of yesterday's discussion, having, besides this, his abilities depreciated, and his views in many respects, we believe, misapprehended, upon the morrow, in the printed comments of more than one unsympathising journalist. The hon. and learned member for Sheffield facetiously and pitilessly raised the laugh against the noble lord by protesting that, to his mind, the motion appeared to verify the dictum of DEAN SWIFT that " the nicest people had the nastiest ideas :" adding that the whole project seemed to have originated in a state of feeling analogous to that which possessed the American fine-lady whose sense of modesty was outraged by the naked legs of her pianoforte. The house laughed, of course, at the pert and almost impertinent comparisons—although the comparisons were surely in themselves ridi culously false or inappropriate. No one ever had nastier ideas than SWIF r himself', who was anything but a "nice" person—save to Mesdames STELLA and VANESSA in their hours of erratic hallucination. And as to the filthy details that Lord Jouw MANNERS would fain keep as much as possible out of the glare of publicity—it is simply preposterous, of course, for Mr. ROEBUCK to compare these, save in a moment of thoughtless waggery, to the naked legs of a pianaforte ! Derision like that is simply absurd and flagrantly disingenuous. Again, when the Times observes this morning "Lord JOHN MANNERS did not urge the hardship of women being obliged to state revolting details in public"—the assertion is directly con tradicted by the Parliamentary reports of the noble lord's speech of last evening, in the course of which he particularly directed the attention of the House to the Attorney-General's objec tion last year—when the honourable and learned gentleman remarked " how a young, innocent, and puss-minded wife might be compelled, by this system of enforced publicity, to come before a court crowded, as this court notoriously was, with the most abandoned of both sexes, and before the recording penman of the publio press of England, to give evidence of the most painful and excruciating character !" The failure of Lord JOHN MANNERS' motion of yesterday, appears to us in truth, to have arisen out of the exceeding diffi culty of the subject-matter discussed, and in re gard to which he would fain have courted the in terposition of the legislature. The mere possibility of publicity being given to foul and revolting de tails of depravity and licentiousness is surely to be regretted by every right-minded Christian gen tlemen. But while thi s is indubi tably the fact—we have all of us, in this English land of ours, from time immemorial, a peculiar abhorrence of justice being administered anywh e re a d n o y o w rs h , e ,_ re under any circumstancesw before a secret .tribunal ! Rather than resort to a course so peculiarly obnoxious to the great mass of Englishmen, we are prepared to take our chance of the evil consequences. As it is, however, we believe that the gentlemen upon whom devolves the painful duty of reporting the proceedings in the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes already use a wise discretion very frequently indeed in suppressing much that must otherwise have run the risk of outraging public decency. If the prin cipals in these disgusting causes Will not follow the We recommendat;.on of the Great NAPOLEON — if they is trill not consent upon any account to wash their dirty linen at home—their's is the chief odium of public decorum being outraged by that foul stream of the dirty rinsings dribbling out to public view from the newly-built laundry. After all, then, England is to have some hand in the settlement of Italy. The " Five Points" to which she has reduced the controversy „. ''' ;: . f...; . ., . • ,-,.' ",-:-. ' i,,, z , . r i .44,,,„ .. . - ' illr- , •170 - , ~4 . ~•1 4 .! i t r'4".%::” •"- ''' '` -• = ':' •'' • ''''l 4l ;' ir , ~ . "1.:, ~ ,,,p , A 144 0 . 4 ~: .• ,'-7,, '..",.. • •t , t , —. '- " ` , 7:::. • ''.' ' , ‘;' 24° -,.- • . • . *.';',....". THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8, 1860. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1860. are, with one exception —we hope an ap parent one only—as much as could be asked as things stand, and, if they can be carried, Italy will soon finish her own work. Absolute non-intervention; another vote in regard to an nexation on the part of the emancipated territo ries ; Sardinia not to interfere in the taking of this vote, but to be authorised to accept it if favourable; France to withdraw her troops from Rome and other parts of Italy; and " Venetia to remain apart from all negotiations concerning new territo rial arrangements, and to remain under Austrian rule." This last clause, we may hope, is an Austrian version of England's proposal ; though Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S statement in the House last night was by no means satisfactory. Strictly construed, it would implicate us in supporting a barbarous foreign despotism in Venetia, which all accounts show to be as much detested there as it was in the States now happily free from it. All Europe, and, of course, England's Ministers, know that the bayonet and the stick, arrests and imprisonments, are the regular course of things in Verona, Mantua, and Venice ; that the state of siege, foreign soldiers, and rifled cannon are the reliance of Austria, not for defending, but for governing its Italian subjects. Austria occupies, does not govern, south of the Alps, and the phrase should have been, " that Venetia is to remain under the Austrian yoke." We will hope, however, that it is all a mistake. In 1848, Austria would have surrendered Lombardy if England would concede to her Venetia, but Lord PALMERSTON then would not sign away Venetian liberties. We hope he I will not now. We hope so the more, because the other points appear to be unobjectionable. • The demand, indeed, for a second vote of annexation appears to be a little intermeddling. It is, of course, proposed to satisfy the Emperor of the FRENCH and to save ap pearances for him. He wants a second and more formal discharge from the obligations incurred at Villafranca, and ratified at Zurich. A second vote will be an irresistible proof that nothing but force could reinstate the Grand Dukes in their Duchies, and the POPE'S Legate in /Emilia. Espe cially, if that vote be taken by Universal Suffrage, will the double point be gained; that Louis NAPO LEON will have a good pretext to cease from oppo sition to annexation ; and that he will stand for ward in European history as the inaugurator of a new idea—that of the popular voice, as opposed to legitimacy and Divine right,—being the avowed foundation of Royal and Imperial rule. A dictator ship voted by the plebs, is his principle. In the Italian States, however, it will be a Constitutional Monarchy—does he relish this ? !Does he hope, in time, to leave his throne to his son, to have con verted France again into a constitutional monarchy? His present discipline is not the one, apparently, to train citizens to the free exercise of their political faculties ; unless, however, he leave him his cun ning, as well as his throne, he can hardly hope that the lad would keep it a year except as the head of free institutions. Count CAVOUR'S circular seems to know nothing of ;this appeal to universal suffrage. It states dis tinctly that the elections are being organised on the Piedmontese model; he says, indeed, that it is with the view of carrying the annexation into com plete and definite execution, the Governments of Central Italy have conformed their mode of elect ing delegates to that employed in Piedmont. We presume, therefore, his Majesty of France will,have to give vp his universal suffrage scheme for Italy, and, seeing that tho people there prefer another, to yield to facts as best he can. The Count's circular to the Sardinian agents at Foreign Courts is alto gether a very decisive one, and seems to show that Sardinia has made up her mind to palter no longer with so weighty a question, and one which, in truth, concerns only her and the States who appeal to her. The KING, he says, has done all he can to induce the States to wait and accept the decision of Europe, but Congress seems not likely to assemble, and " his MAJESTY has no longer the power of arresting the natural and inevitable course of events." But France is to withdraw her troops—of course, still maintaining that if Austria ventures beyond the Quadrangle, it will be a casus bell for the Liberator of Italy. What is to follow P All the States of the Church, including Rome itself, throw ing off the temporal yoke of clerics "persecut ing" POPE and Cardinals, as Archbishop CULLEN would call it, by relieving him of the pleasure of plaguing his subjects, and bidding him keep his in fallibility for spiritual matters. Then, he of Naples, not having enough on his hands in keeping up a system of Police Government as bad as that of the POPE himself, is said to be marching his troops to the frontiers of the dominions which the POPE still calls his. But, there is the King of SARDINIA on the other side; and if an English fleet would not throaten his shores, we may be pretty sure a French one would warn him to mind his own business and let the POPE and the Roman. alone. In a word, compel Anstria to keep, where perhaps her own beggary of funds will keep her, north of the Po and east of the Mimic), and Italy, to the very extremity of Sicily, will soon reckon with its oppressors—not impossibly form one great king dom—and buy or kick Austria out of Venetia, if the Hungarians have not compelled her to sell it long before. By one account we ►ere told that France wanted time to send the English proposals to Austria, but from Berlin we were told that England had actu ally sent them already—she had sent them to all three Governments. It told us also an amusing bit of fun. England seemed to engage that Sar dinia should let Austria alone while the settlement was going on. Poor Austria—beaten and bank rupt, like many individuals in the same plight—is but so much the prouder. She replies, " She knows how to defend Venetia." She might have added, and to surrender it or lose it too. A blessed day for Europe when the Jesuit ridden HAPSBURGS cease to lord it over any territory but their own little hereditary duchy; and, one would think, the sooner those poor, patient Germans got a better master the better for them too. LATEST NEWS The following telegrams have been received a Mr. Reuter's office : VENICE, FEB. 6, via AUSTRIA. The Commander of the Army has announced that in future all climel committed against the armed force of the State, within the district of Venice and Trient, will . be judged by military council (Standrecht), MADRID, FEB. 7. Tetuan has been taken by the Spaniards after the battle which was fought on the 4th. 800 large tents, forming the five encampments of the enemy, the artillery camels, and all other equipage of the Moorish army, have been taken. The brothers of the Emperor took to flight. A summons having been transmitted to the enemy to surrender Tetuan within 24 hours, a deputation from the city came into the Spanish camp to beg for mercy, as the Mussulmans had commenced to pillage and slaughter in the town. The division of General Rios entered the town without opposition, and was received with manifestations of joy. Immense popular rejoicings are taking place at Madrid, which is splendidly illuminated. The acclamations are general, and preparations are being made for grand public fetet. VIENNA, TUESDAY. The official Wiener Zeitung contains the fo' lowing : " At a bal masqus which took place on Sunday evening last, in the Hungarian Theatre at Pesth, the national Rakoezy dance was demanded. The students of tho University took no part in the manifestation. Three workmen, employed in a machine manufactory, were arrested, and in conse quence of their liberation being insisted upon, a body of soldiers, who had been kept in readiness, were summoned, and restored tranquillity without recourse to arms. Dancing was then resumed." " TURIN, TUESDAY. Signor Nigra leaves to-day for Paris. Signor Farini has returned to Modena. NICE (via TURIN), TUESDAY. At the theatre last night the national song was repeated three times, and was received with shouts of " The King for ever !" " Italy for ever !' " Nice Italian !" Perfect order prevailed. PARIS, TUESDAY. The Paris papers publish the following mes. sage, dated Antibes, Feb. 7 : " On Sunday last a spontaneous manifestation took place at the French theatre, where the air of Reine Hortense' was unanimously applauded." Yesterday 1,500 persons were present at the Royal Italian Theatre. A manifestation was pro voked by the performance of the " Royal Hymn," which had been announced in the playbill. 450 spectators, consisting only of soldiers and Italian functionaries, shouted a great deal, but half the audience remained silent. The boxes were empty. The Pairs,' gives a denial to the rumour that the 13th battalion of the Neapolitan Chasseurs at Avellina had revolted. ROME (VIA MARSEILLES), FEB. 4. It is stated that the Pope has received and replied to a letter from the Count de Chambord. The despatches from the French Government to the Pope, sent by the last steamer, have made a deep impression on his Holiness. Great agitation still prevails at Ancona. The French Ambassador gave a magnificent soirée on Tuesday last. Rome is quiet in consequence of the firmness shown by General Goyon. CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 28. The Turkish police force being insufficient, Riza Pacha has proposed to the Sultan the organisation of a " Gendarmerie," to consist of both horse and foot, and to number 60,000 men. A committee has been appointed for examining this project, which has been favourably received by the inhabitants. A considerable number of the inhabitants of Crete wish to become converts to the Roman Catholic religion, in order to defend themselves from the Patriarch of Constaatinople. The Patriarch, informed of this, has sent a delegate to the island. The Queen's Speech has provoked a sympathetic manifestation on the part of the Italian residents here. The Turkish Governor has commanded the sale of 40,000 kilogrammes of brass cannon, to con tribate towards the withdrawal of the Caime from circulation. The return of Kyprisli Pasha to the office a Grand Vizier is spoken of. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. The Imperial Government is said to be just now quite as much occupied with the state of Turkey as with Italy, or even Savoy. It is apprehended that before long some catastrophe will have occurred, if not to the Sultan personally, at least in Constan tinople. Under these circumstances it is considered desirable to be on as good terms as possible with England. The Duke of Montebello is reported to have had a warm discussion with Prince Gortschakoff, at St. Petersburg, on the subject of the annexation of Savoy to France, to which Russia is opposed. THE BOURSE, Feb. 7.--The market has been rather firmer, but with a limited amount of busi ness doing. Threes, after having been done at 67f. 45c., rallied to 67f. 60c.; Mobilier varied from 732 f. 50c. to 740 f.; Orleans, 1,347f.:50c. to 1,350 f.; Lyons, 872 f. 50c. to 877 f. 50c.; Northern, 900 f. to 902 f. 50c. ; Lombard, 540 f. to 542 f. 50c.; Au trian, 485 f. to 487 f. 50c. The following were the last quotations : 1 per Cents..... 97 35 Credit Foncier 735 __ Do. end month .. 97 45 Belem 4} — 1-- 3 per Cants. 67 80 Piedmontese (5) Do. end month.... 67 75 Roman 79175 Bank Shares 2BlO Austrian Credit Mobilior .. 742 50 Spanish Threes Do. Acceunt ..... 740 Home Debt — in an immense hall, where they partook of refresh ments. Here the Holy Father heard two short speeches, one from the director of the establishment and the other from Cardinal Barnabo. The Pope, immediately succeeding the cardinal, replied in sub stance, that he was grateful for the thanks expressed to him, but that his devotion to Catholicism was only that of his predecessors. The trials which he experienced, others experienced and remained triumphant. One remedy alone existed against the perverse doctrines prevailing in a portion of the Christian world, and against the dis loyal manoeuvres which attacked the Church— that remedy was constant prayer. What he asked from the Catholic world, in making an ap peal on behalf of the justice of his cause, was prayer, incessant prayer ; but he must add that never was there a bitterer trial or the peril more menacing. It was in Italy that the perversion of men's minds was most to be seen : it was in the Peninsula that a spirit of revolt against all which is sacred found nourishment and support. The dis tinction between truth and falsehood was lost ; vice became virtue—virtue was called vice. But neither humiliation, nor martyrdom, nor captivity, could shake the confidence of the Church nor the firmness of its head. " The words of Pius IX. produced a sensation amongst the auditors, and subsequently in the city. That, doubtless, which added to the natural effect likely to be produced by such a speech was the ex treme animation with which it was delivered." AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY. The Canadian mail steamer Anglo-Saxon, Capt. Ballantine, from Portland Maine, Jan. 28, arrived here at 4.30 p.m. She landed the Irish mails only. The Teutonia and the Nova Scotia had arrived out. There was no sign of the America or Fulton. 'WASHINGTON, JAN. 27. The Democrats united to-day, and Mr. Smith, of North Carolina, only ►anted three votes to be elected to the Speakership. The Government of Peru has refused to liquidate the American claims. LATER NEWS FROM MEXlCO.—General Acapulco states that only 2,000 men of the army of the Liberals were engaged in the battle of the 21st December, the main body having failed through the treachery of General Cortinas who detained them above Matanora plundering the Texians. New York, Jan. 27. Stocks dull and heavy, money unchanged, bread stuffs dull and also unchanged, cotton steady. New Orleans, Jan. 27. Cotton sales of the week : 62,000 bales, at 11c. to 11c. for middling. Receipts amount to 84,000 bales, against 60,000 last year. Export, 88,000 bales. Freight to Liverpool, 9-16 d. Mobile, Jan. 27. Cotton firm, but unaltered. Sales to-day,3,500 bales. Flour dull, and sales limited. LITERATURE. The _Little Beauty. By Mrs. Grey, authoress of " The G3.mbler's Wife," " Cousin Harry," &c, 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. This is a most painful story, and discloses some sad secrets of domestic life. The authoress has dis played great skill in the peculiar delineations of the persons described. At first sight some of the events may appear exaggerated, but they are all possible, and even probable in some cases. The heroine was indeed to be pitied, and to her might well be said, " Thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty." Her mother was a vain woman, and her father was most reprehensible in giving way to the airs and graces of the consequential woman, who carried with ker, into her humble dwelling, all the absurd notions she imbibed in the great house where she had so long lived. It is a poor preparation for the toils of a labourer's wife to have been enervated in that sphere of idleness and self-indulgence in which the favoured servants of wealthy establishments so often unfit themselves for everything. They gain the faults of those they serve without their sense of responsibility, to stem the storm of passion or militate against the practice of self-indulgence to an unlimited extent. Violet was a very weak girl, but, indeed, no one else could have fallen into such a snare as that prepared for her by the cupidity of her mother, and the unworthy conduct of Lord Victor Lyle. Few such atrocious actions are per petrated now-a-days it is to be hoped ; but those mothers, whose every hope and thought is to make their daughters contract grand or wealthy mar riages, would do well to peruse these effec tive passages in the life of the little beauty, and to note how such wicked desires may be realised in their children's anguish of soul ana body, and to mark how the small beginnings of petty plans of deceit to attain the desired end will be consummated in tho perpetration of deadly sins, which will weigh heavily against them in the dread day of account. There is nothing more re volting and unnatural than a mother thus wilfully purposing and deliberately planning the ruin of her child. The circumstances of the case do not con fine themselves to the isolated instance here re corded, for had Violet been the daughter of a lady her misery would have been the same. It is a posi tive relief when she at last escapes from the bitter s l ave ry in which she had been so long chained down, and flies for refuge to her old an d va l ued friends. There are some individuals met with in the story in the earlier portions of it that are a de lightful contrast to the darker scenes of strife and misery that enshroud its conclusion. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon, Sylvia, and Juli an : are , i n t h e i r several ways, most estimable an d c h arm i ng portra i tures. The happy days of the young people passed in that beautiful country retreat to which we are first introduced must have left an indelible impres sion on their minds. With Violet especially, it was lik e looking back from a polar winter on the summer of some tropic clime. The spring of her lif e was no meet harbinger for the after blight ing of the blossom. Well might she exclaim, When May is gone of all the year the pleasant time has passed." Her kind-intentioned friends did very wrong in unfitting her so completely for her after sphere of life. It is a cruelty and an error even to raise expectations in the young that cannot or ought not to be fulfilled, and for much of the misery that afterwards ensued the family at Glen more House were to blame. Had they judiciously and yet firmly repelled all intimacy save a proper intercourse with their former dependents, had they reproved her guady apparalleling of the child, and insisted as far as lay in their power in pla cing the mother and child on the footing of the father's occupation, not on the visionary founda tion of past luxuries and futuro fancies, all would have worn a very different aspect. " One sows that another may reap," was verified in the fate of Violet, whose bitter harvest was such as few could excel in terror and trouble. She felt it the more from being so gentle and timid ; but at last even she was roused, and no angry ebullitions or vehe ment attempts can crush the spirit of the meek when once it is fairly awakened. Had she been of a more fiery nature, there would have resulted more serious effects from the treatment to which she was subjected; but her quiet wretchedness of expression broke the mother's heart, when she one day naught a glimpse of her riding by in state. Her sufferings wore fully deserved, and she merits no pity. The end of the narrative is softened of its horrors, as Lord Victor is killed by an accident, and Violet, after some time, marries again ; but during the exciting passages which chronicle her splendid misery, ample evidence is adduced to prove the false position into which she had been forced. Her trouble, though severe, was brief, but there aro many whose burden is not so effectually to be re moved. Death does not call away their oppressors, and even if friends interfere, there may be their children to detain them in their wretched homes. The authoress could not have exposed the system more-forcibly than she has done, and those who are willing to learn might do so, and cull a moral from the sad story of the sufferings of the fair young girl, whose gentle nature so ill fitted her for the rough usage she met with. This novel h as every chance of success from its powerful descriptions and clever illustrations of character. The plot may not be new, but the ever recurring incidents o f human follies in the promptings of vanity., an d the faults that are committed from ths -,tithience of ' passion, are exhibited in so striking a manner that few can fail to be impressed. All who are actuated by the motives of Mrs. Millet' will find some time be foro their life is over that “11 around them is vexation of spirit; „hil t; th ose lik e Vi c t or L y l e, who despise prinviplo, and trample feeling under their feet, will meet, even in this world, with some limits to their course, when even they must feel at last, and When reflections lisstory is Rill the long pent-up tide of unwelcome ov erwhelm their guilty minds. , i eve ry way equal to its waessions, and the authoress could not more entirely have illustrated her inten tins, in sonic of her sketclwa of hole scenes she _..~:' is very superior in her efforts, and altogether the history of " The Little Beauty" bids fair to be a favourite among the fictions of the present season. Travels in Eastern Africa. By Lyons M‘Lood, Esq., F.R.G.S., late her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Mozambique. Two vols. Hurst and Blackett. The author of these volumes lately filled the dignified but unenviable post of British Consul at Mozambique. He is a staunch adherent to the abolitionist doctrines, and willing to uphold his principles rigidly, by the most self-denying and inconvenient practice. He was therefore admirably qualified for his positionjiad he been supported by the proper authority ; but to allow him to remain there without any other assistance was to expose a British subject to a succession of insults and an noyances, and to bring the British flag into con tempt. The Portuguese slave-holders main tained a system of persecution, refusing to let the Consul have one of their houses, servants, ormedical attendance ; sending troops of their slaves to make a disturbance under his windows at night, and in sulting and thwarting him by every means in their power. If Mr. Macleod's narrative be not greatly exaggerated or extremely biassed, the prime movers in this affair should certainly be called to account for their treatment of a British Consul. It is a farce for Great Britain to send an envoy to such a lo cality, if the Government which he represents does not insist on proper respect being paid to his posi tion. The governor of Mozambique was dismissed from his post for slave-dealing, and the new corner, Colonel Almeidas, at first showed every courtesy and attention to the representations of Mr. Mac leod ; but finding that ho was quite unsupported, especially after his desertion by an English ship in the harbour, he paid little heed to his complaints of personal ill-usage or to his information respect ing the nefarious traffic in slaves. The account given of the Charles et Georges affair will be read with interest. Mr. Macleod does not write with the skill of a practised author. He sometimes attaches undue importance to trifles, and is occa sionally diffuse and extravagant in his style. But his object does not seem to have been to write an attractive book, so much as to set plainly before his countrymen .the immense extent to which this shameful traffic is carried on under the very eyes of their representatives, both openly by the Portu guese slave-owners and secretly under the disguise of the French free-labour emigration scheme. To this latter plan the author is strongly opposed, seeing in it only a modified form of slavery, and asserting that the same cruelties are practised in entrapping and securing the so-called free emi grants and in bringing them to the French vessels, as are carried on by the regular slave ships. An American in Mozambique told Mr. Macleod that if Great Britain permitted France to continue this system, vessels would soon be found there from the Southern States of America authorised to purchase slaves and call them American free labourers. The determined hostility to the English Consul shown by the Portuguese residents at Mozambique, prove the large, gains they make by their secret slave dealing, while the cruelty with which their unfor tunate slaves are treated is strongly denounced by the author. Of the climate itself he speaks highly, giving quotations from some good autho rities on the point, and asserting that the extreme unhealthiness of the Portuguese settlement in D& Lagoa Bay is entirely owing to the situation chosen for the town. " There is a slimy mud bank between Waterloo and Southwark bridges on the Thames, the occupant of a hut built on that mud-bank, would, in the height of our summer, be nearly as liable to marsh or putrid fever as the inhabitants of Loureneo Marques." His work is dedicated to the merchants of Great Britain, and a great portion of it is especially directed to them, for the author treats largely of the resources of Eastern Africa, and its capabilities in a commercial point of view. The slave trade he regards as a great drawback in every respect, but his opinion of the fertility and vigour of the soil, if properly cultivated, is most encouraging. We commend his volumes to the attention of all who are interested in the extension of our commerce, and in the effectual extirpation of the slave trade in all its branches. THE RED SEA TELEGRAPH. We have received the following from the Red Sea Telegraph Company : " M. EVANS, ALEXANDRIA, TO C. L. PEEL, ESQ., LONDON. _ _ _ "Line from Kurracheo to Muscat laid with per fect success on the 17th of January. Newall started from Muscat (to lay the line to Aden) on the 21st." THE WARWICKSHIRE RIFLE CORp_ Th Bir mingham Companies of the Warwickshire Volunteeer gradually rising to a number commensurate w ith the e arex t e nt and importance of the town, and if the present rats , be maintained, we may soon expect to see over a thousand men enrolled. It was stated on Friday, at a meeting of the llifie Association Committee, that there is now no lack of 111(2n—till that is wanted is an fun omit of money adequate to the cost of clothing and equipping those who cannot afford to provide their own uniforms. According to au estimate framed by the Mayor, an annual income of £l,OOO is required for the purposes of the corps. Surely Binning ham is rich enough to clot he and maintain an efficient regiment at so small a cost as this. A worthy example has been set by Mr. Charles Ratclilf, who has announced his intention to equip a company of 100 men at his own cost, only the sum which the ru les of the association oblige every volunteer personally to contribute. We com mend Mr. Rateliff's very handsome offer to the emulation of other gentlemen who have not taken any part in the movement, but whose position imposes on them the duty of affording both pecuniary assistance and personal service, RA I L WA Y 8 . Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 905 905 New ditto 825 .. 825 Lyons and Mediterranean BBO 880 Geneva 492 50 .. 490 Southern Western Eastern Strdiniaa , 393 75 .. Austrian Lombard .... Exchange onl London, at sight, paper, 25f. ac. ; money, 25f. Se.; three mouths, paper, 241.85 c. ; money, 241. 821 c. ROME. SPEECH BY THE POPE. The Juarit«l des Debats of yesterday morning publishes the following extract of a letter from Rome, dated the 31st ult.:— " The Holy Father went the day before yesterday to Umilta to visit the new seminary which is being established there for giving some young people of South America, who are destined for the priesthood, an ecclesiastical education. His Holiness personally administered the communion to the pupils and to many persons admitted to the solemnity. Immediately after the termination of the religious ceremony the guests Assemb THE FRANCHISE AND THE BALLOT'. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—On the eve of a Reform Bill 1 beg to crave your indulgence while I briefly Gall attention to the subjeet through your columns. In my vocation I have laboured for some years for the good of others, and have seen the great necessity of encouragement. In a word, to interest the work ing man in his own behalf is to stimulate his hope. It appears to bo the desire of the nation that edu cation should make progress in the lower ranks of society. To accomplish this on a larger scale than is at present being effected by Government expen diture, it will be necessary to create a des i re for education, which Government grants have hitherto failed to do amongst those we seek to benefit. Those grants tend to promote a thirst for learn ing in the middle class —amongst traders ; but the labourer has not been reached. What, then, do we want in order to attain an object so generally ac knowledged as beneficial to the working class I maintain that the surest, the most effectual, and the cheapest way, is as follows :- 1. To every man (being twenty-one years of age) not having been convicted of crime within three years last past, nor having received parochial relief within the same period, on producing his re ceipt as having paid poor's-rate, and BEING ABLI TO READ AND WRITE, grant the privilege of the Franchiss. This would encourage the parent and en courage the child ; this would create a thirst for education ; this would stimulate the young man, instead of squandering his penes in the alehouse, to spend themlon a night school, in order to raise himself from ignorance and de basing pursuits to the required standard whereby he might have a voice in the government of his country. This would put it into the hands of the peo ple to have almost uni versa l su ff rage, sat i sfy i ng t h e Libe ral on the one hand, and the Convervative on the other hand, by confining the franchise to the intel ligent ratepayer. _ 2. Negatively, I would by no means give a vote to lodgers, or those whose names are not on the rate-book. It is only just and equitable that the stake one has in the country, together with knowledge, should constitute the balance of power. Having said so much on this point, one word upon the channel by which such votes should be recorded. The whole masonic fraternity—loyal, ancient, and conservative as it is—transacts its im p9rtant business by the Ballot. It Is just, perfect, and regular in its working. Why, then, should we not have vote by Ballot in political elections ! The trader and the labourer demand protection, to secure to them freedom of thought and action in their political rights. Why not let them have it, if we are moral and consistent ! Gi v i ng a place to this letter in your valuable journal will greatly oblige Your obedient servant, PERICLES. Feb. 7, 1860. 71118 DA Y'S IVARKBTS. CORN EXCHANGE. Fresh up to .day very little English wheat came to hand coastwise or by land carriage. The attendance of buyers was by no means numerous, yet the demand ruled steady, and Monday's prices were well supp3rted. Only 60 quarters of foreign wheat have arrived this week ; but the show of granaried samples was large. The business done was by no means extensive ; nevertheless, the quotations ruled firm. Floating cargoes of grain were a slow sale, but not cheaper. There was a good consumptive demand for all kinds of barley, at extreme quotations. Fine now malt was steady in price, but old parcels were very dull. There was a steady consumptive inquiry for oats, beans, and peas at Monday's currency. Flour sold to a moderate extent on former terms. ARRIVALS THIS WREN. English .. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats Flour. Irish - • '''' - • i '9lO 1 , 2 30 , 1,520 ' 620 i 1,040 ........ f 400 i Pfurdigu .... 60 I 1,470 --- 4,010 ( eke. I 300 tils. BOROUGH HOP. Thero is a good business doing in all new hops, at very full prices. Fine yearlings are steady. WITITECTIAPEL. The supplies of meat aro moderato, and the demand may be considered steady, as follows : Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s Od to 5s Od ; and pork, 3e 6d to 5s Od per 81b., by the carcase. Colonel the Hon. J. Lindsay, MT., and Lady Sarah Lindsay have arrived at their residence in Portman square, from Lancashire. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) HOUSE OF LORDS. (Peers present—The Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Crauworth, Lord Chelmsford, Lord Wensleydale, and other peers.) APPEAL-KER V. WILKIE AND ANOTHER. This was an appeal from a decision of the Court of Ses sion in Scotland against the appellant. The appellant, by his action of reduction and repetition, claimed payment of surplus rates charged against him for building Kelvin bridge, near Glasgow, in respect of his property of Hill head, within the parish. The applicant alleged that the board of trustees levying the rate had not been legally con stituted in terms of the Act of Parliament, and that no notice was given of the adjourned meetings at which the rate was made. The Lord Chancellor was of opinion that the Board of Trustees was legally constituted, and that notice of the original meetings was sufficient notice of the adjourned meetings, and that the rate was lawfully made. Lords Brougham, Cranworth, Chelmsford, and Wensley dale were entirely of the same opinion. The Lord Chancellor dismissed the appeal with costs. The Lord Chancellor intimated to the gentlemen of the bar that this house would not sit to hear appeals to-morrow (Thursday), but would sit again on Friday. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) His Honour was the only Commissioner sitting, and there was only one meeting for the consideration of the certificate of Messrs. Francis and Freer, bottle merchants, Great St. Helen's. The case has already been entered into at. groat length by Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque, who being pre vented from attending through illness, the meeting was again adjourned. The other business consisted of audit and dividend meet. ings, but nothing of the slightest interest transpired. POLICE INTELLIGENOE-( THIS DAY.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OP A GILNTLEMAN.—• CARRYING A DANGEROUS WEA.Pox.—Mr. Charles Stop ford, a gentleman residing at 20, North Audley-street, was charged before Mr. Beadon with drawing a sword and threatening to stab, while in a state of intoxication, police constable Lazarus Howes, 95 C, in Duke-street, Grosvenor. square. Howes, 95 C, said that at half past seven :the previous evening he saw a crowd of persons collected round the de fondant in Duke-street, Grosvenor-square. The defendant was very drunk, and was laying hold of a lamp-post, with his head bleeding at the time, and a gentleman said he had ()tiered to see the defendant home but that ho refused to go with him. He (Howes) asked the defendant where he lived, ant he said in North Audley-street, but refused to let him put him in a cab or to go away. Upon this he told him that if he did not go away he should be obliged to take him, and put his hand on his shoulder for that purpose, when the defendant called him a - bully, &c., and seizing the handle of an umbrella he had in his hand drew out a sword from the stick fully two feet in length, and made a:thrust at his breast with it, saying "I'll give you this." He (Howes) however caught hold of the blade and wrested it from him, and several persons seized hold of the defendant, and with assistance he took the defendant into custody. The de- fendant had at the time a quantity of spirits in his posses sion. The sword, a most formidable weapon, about 2 feet long with a sharp point, was here handed to the magistrate for his inspection. ' The defendant said he had no questions to ask. Mr. Beadon said it was a monstrous-looking thing. H. did not make use of such a weapon ? The Chief Clerk said such a weapon was all very well is New Orleans. Was he an Englishman ? The defendant said he was. Mr. Beadon said such a weapon was only for a lawleaa country. lhe defendant said it should nat occur again. He would not carry it any more. Mr. Beadon said he would take care of that. He should send the sword to the police stores. The defendant said he took it out by accident. Mr. Beadonsaid that might be, and he might have killed the sonstable by accident. He should order him to find two sureties in the sum of £io each for three months. Sergeant Glass asked what was to be done with the weapon. Mr. Beadon said the defendant could have his umbrolla, but certainly not the sword, and he would caution him to take care, for if such a thing occurred again, and ho . iaaa brought before him, ho would send him for trial. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAT. Soon after mid-day the subscribers began to muster more numerously than we have seen the ca do for some time t up u ; andnttlirl late in the afternoon, and which became strong, was kept at the close, upon referring to our note-book, we found that the business that had been transacted was upon an extensive scale, and might be taken so a proper indication that the betting, as soon as the racing sets in, and the stable commissions are issued, will be far more brisk than casual observers during the winter months could have anticipated. Of course the Lincolnshire Handicap was the first, event introduced, and 100 to 8 was currently offered, bar two; but, contrary to expectation, neither of the favourites held their positions firmly ; 7 to 1 became the current offer against Curlew, and takers of 8 to 1 had no occasion to go begging for that price about Tommy Noble. For the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, the Wizard, without any outlay, remained nominally at 7to 2. Lupullus would have been supported at 6 to 1, and although Buccaneer was invested upon to a small sum at 8 to 1, those odds could have been obtained to money. The colt by Andover out of General Williams's dam, was decidedly the lion for the City and Suburban Handicap, 20 to 1 being the most odds obtainable against him. Nucleus was backed to win about £2,000 at the rate of 100 to 3. Those odds were offered in many places against Curlew, and no one ventured to say what he would take about Fitz Roland. 40 to 1 would have been taken about Comforter, and a little money was en• trusted to Musjid at 50 to 1. The Chester Cup, which has this year been so unlike its predecessors as regards speculation, was extensively touched upon to-day. An apparently unlimited commission WAS in the market to take 12 to 1 about Longrange and Viatka, and at that figure the two were supported as long as the odds could be obtained ; the commissioner, who was allowed to proceed uninterrupted, suc ceeded in investing a large sum of money, the layers of the odds being the first to cry, " enough." Petro was supported at the rate of 100 to 3 to win a few thousand pounds ; afterwards, 30 to 1 was taken as leng as obtainable, and finally, offers of 25 to 1 be came scarce. This movement had the effect of ' causing a disposition to bet against Promised Land; 40 to 1 each was taken freely about Arsenal and Blue Ruin. For the Derby, 10 to 1 was taken to £25 about Umpire; the taker being anxious to go on at that figure; the horse, however, had only one friend, who refused to take 900 to 100, and other sums at that price. 100 to 7 was offered against The Wizard, and less than 20 to 1 was refused about Buccaneer. 1,000 to 15 was taken a time or two about Sir William, and ultimately 50 to 1, when obtainable, was quietly taken about him. CLOSING PRICES. LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP. 7to 1 agst Curlew (taken and offered) Sto 1 agst Tommy Noble (taken) 100 to 8 agst bar two (offered) LIVERPOOL STIIMPLECUANIE. 10 to lon the field (offered) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. • 7 to 2 agst The Wizard (nom.) 11 to 2 agst Lupullus (take 6to 1) Bto 1 eget Buccaneer (taken and offered) CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP. 20 to 1 agst Andover colt (take 22 to 1) 100 to 3 agst Nucleus (taken freely) 100 to 3 agst Curlew (offered) 100 to 3 agst Fitz Roland (offered) 100 to 3 agst Comforter (take 40 to 1) 60 to 1 agst Musjid (taken) CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst Birmingham (t. 22 to 1) 22 to 1 agst Longrango (offered) 25 to 1 agst Viatka (take 30 to 1) 25 to 1 agst Petra (taken) 25 to 1 agst Satellite (take 30 to 1) 100 to 3 agst The Squire (offered) 100 to 1 agst Promised Land (taken and offered) 40 to 1 agst Blue Ruin (taken freely) 40 to 1 agst Gaspard (taken freely) 50 to 1 agst Arsenal (taken) 50 to 1 apt Tame Deer (taken and offered) 12 to 1 agst Longrange and Viatka coupled (UAW freely) DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Umpire (take 10 to 1) 100 to 7 agst The Wizard (offered) 100 to 6 agst Buccaneer (take 20 to 1) 40 to 1 agst Cramond (taken and offered) 40 to 1 agst King of Diamonds (taken) 40 to 1 agst Restes (take 50 to 1) 50 to 1 agst Sir William (take 1000 to 15 freely) The screw steamer Milford Haven, Captain Champion, arrived at Lisbon on the 31st of January, landed mails and passengers, took in cargo, and sailed on the 1 61 of February. The screw steamer 13razil, packet of the 24tb. of December from Milf or d H aven, i s reported at St. Vizi; cent's 12th J anuar y, h av i ng l an d e d ma il s an d pass engers s' Lisbon and Madeira. FLOGGING IN THE NATY.—A return to at order of the H ouse o f C ommons g i ves th e f o ll o wing resu l ts of an inq u i r y i n t o th e num ber o f p ersons fl o gged in the British navy in the year 1858. Total number of puniA, ments, 997 ; total number of lashes inflicted, 1,2 30 ; to number liable to corporal punishment, 47,646; total nu!". ber of lashes inflicted by sentence of court-martial, 7 highest number of lashes, 50 ; lowest number of lashes, 3• 110 Notw of discc specie u sive ren tinent, the Au still ha althougl days ha' less inc exportat importei will yet tities, an prising t unfavour market. that a fir minimum business circles. The wi land yest by the I taken for The Fc hibfted a The dir Way prop 31st Deue annum. Letters Market yi and price 6,000 bale moderate 1 exhibited The first for the pri quantity t 4 and compri The biddii prices were advanced 3 diac, 2d. I October lay quite negl( passed the ln, and 361 A meetin Royal Mail man stated expected II 6d. per shat the next n 1 directors .£.l until the ex There has for English the account, A few sales, being 941, " March acco have been Prefer New former beinh The New . Reduced at ditto New Lc faced Paper I ceded to 103 at Exc Prem., and ] 2301. In th• For Moderately ai Turkish 6 poi to 66f ; the 4 div. ; per Cents., to 441. Pernvii Dutch 4 per The Ocean Prem.; the U: of Turkey is 2 i prem. In the Rai hitve been li tQuch ♦ariatic Caledonil !aid Vale of _ ...... 4 tidland_ have kid Laacashil T der h oE e di..m\ae Fo scertlnri r nleo e nevt i ida g eaij ~ula Joint-Stock %t slightly im advanced 55.: Stock, 55.; R 1 -heron's Lan Zaiuwl Fr] ?auk Stock ... 41 ,, per Cent. Roth !Per Cont. Cone uw 3 per Cent. arms. 30 Years, li lia Stock Ditto 5 per C©l Ditto it iifaced Ditto 5 per Ce: Ditt• 5} per CI +Ditto Debenture: unu D odn i e t d t ra s l,o , 11,1 2"likols for Accoi Ditto Bills, uitte 4500 likens sr 71 H rasilien 5 per C ~bitto 4/ per C 'uilian" 6 per Ca Ditto 41 per a 'eruvian 41 per Ditto 3 per Cei ro rtuguese. 1853 ~ bike mall a ussian, S l322, £ Ditto 41 per ce `flastish 3 per Ce Ditto Passive 411 1leish 6 per Co Ditto New Loa bitte 'Account bitte Gwent, 'Dividend 'latch ichange Ditto Certitical Con/wig, Ditto TB. Lownow, Fet Vary strong, but The Salosia, sa W ith sugar, and CARO', Fel for Coylou—Falc PouTsmount t "'sd—Gibloeut; 1 ) ova it, Feb. ew York, suppl ItAMSG.A.TE, FE 4ered last night t ; ; I l i I i l n e vd d a e, — vdWre—; 3tr ema : i La , Poul FoL T y Et o le, at jaimtyti I Yind, W. ; Btl rrived Feb. Rutl ' and, fn f ro " 4 ; Almira, fr c io n l Dantric • I Nt i L Ba !ls • J A" Dora, it. ft Pr o -4 rived, Feb. ton' Jamaica ; Jo Ntyrtle, fron (BY g ÜBMA Wi nd) W.S W Sou homed, n nia. t ti ll ,"ed, Feb. " 4 1 steamer, fa 'tt mod, W. by rait fr om kY , from Londe d—F ranc ' Pled with anchor ari l 'd with others, dire ,N DON AN th e t ors of thi s c , 31 4 t Payment f D o a ecerahor