The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-30 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT -GARDEN. Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, VICTGRINE. Messrs. Santley, H. Haigh, H. Corri, G. Honey, Bartleman, &C. Misses Parepa, Thirlwall, Conductor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new grand pantomime, called PUSS TN BOOTS ; or, Harlequin and 'the Fairy of the Golden Palms. Doors open at half -past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. T HEA TRE-RO YAL, YMARKET. I,oace. B, Bnelrntime. . ~...... . _ THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS. Miss Reyno'd3. After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled Leclercqs. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS I•iVENING Planche's popular Drama of THE CHILD 01421 - IE WRECK. Maurice (her original charac ter) Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex travaganza and Pantomime. KING TIIRITSHBEARD, the LITTLE PET and the GIIEAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. H. Marshall—Columbine, Miss Rosin°. Commence at 7. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee. Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Danc , r, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of Mille. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan •euse of La Scala, Milan ; and first time of the Delapierre Family. These hiLihly-talented Children will appear every night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. THIS EVENING, (Thurssday), the new drama, HOME TRUTH'S. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews, Miss C. Lec'ercq and Mrs. Charles Young. After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by H. J. Byron, called JACK TIIE GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle quin King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin. Mr. Cormack - Panta loon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Three Morning Performances of the pantomime of JACK T HE JIANT KILLER, universally acknowledged the best of the season, MONDAYS, January 2. 9, and H. Doors open at half-past one ; commence at two o'clock. MEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Benj. Webster. _ _ Holiday Attractions.—The Christmas Carol and the New Spectacular Extravaganza, by H. J. Byron. Esq., the Nymph of the lurlyberg ; or the Knight and the Naiades. THIS EVENING, THE CHRISTMAS CAROL. Messrs J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Paul Bedford, Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith. Romer: Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. Chatte rley, Miss Laidlaw. After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LIIRLEYBERG ; or, The Knight and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford, Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K. Kelly, Laidlaw. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Moe open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for 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. 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 GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C. Young. Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. Miss Wyndham and Mr. IL T. Craven. To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND JUDY. Introducing Miss Lydia Thompson and the Corps de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and the wonderful Performing Dogs. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, ls. The Box-ofßee open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at hall-past six ; perform ante commences at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season. Great Attraction for the Holidays. The new bombastic hippodramatic, operatic Pantomime, abounding in comicality, called HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY; or, Old Towler the Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, with songs by Miss Esther .Jacobs.—Gorgeous and Dazzling m.chanical transfor mation scene. Harlequin, M. Richarde ; Pantaloon, Mr. P. Abbot, Columbine, Maddle. Mazzoni ; Clown, Mr. llilde brand ; a family of Sprites by the Elastic lncomprehensibles. Scenes in the Circle by the Star Riders of the World. Three Morning performances of the Pantomime, and Scenes in the Circle, on Monday and Saturday, Dec. 26 and 31, and Monday Jan. e, 1860, at Two o'clock each day. CANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY QUEEN. And a Grand Se action from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAII. Comic Vocalists - - Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchtleld, and E. W. Hackney. 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 opea from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 30. THEEMOMETEIt, IN THE SHADE. 54—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowegt this morning and during tb.. night. 52—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.54. WIND, South-Westerly ; fresh, with dull rainy weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, sh. 29m.—Afternoon, sb. 47m. To-moßnow.-Morning, 6h. sm.—Afternoon, 6h. 24m. rtit - Of' fl • 45, 4 4 .. , os %. 4 4. 1 ' • ~, T iebt, •14 (-4 THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 30, 1859. DEATH OF LORD MACAULAY. It is with the most poignant regret that we make this melancholy announcement. Here, in- deed, we have but too much reason to mourn the loss of a Great English Worthy, whose demise thus suddenly and unexpectedly, cannot but be regarded as in every way premature. A broken column here again would be the aptest monument—a noble Corinthian column incomplete and shattered, with its ornate capital splintered and rolled in the dust by the side of the broad and stately pediment. Lord .11AcAtTLAY has abruptly passed away from us in mid-career—his grand historic masterpiece yet unfinished. He has perished in the midst of his labours with the evidences of his herculean toil littered around him. Who will venture to take up the broken thread of that gorgeous tapestry, now but partially woven into the reticulations of that vast canvass ? Who will dare to handle that keen chisel ? Who can hope to wield that pon- derous mallet ? There appears almost a fatality about the continuation of our English History from the date of the Revolution. Here is the second inter- rupted attempt within the compass we may say of one single generation. Sir JAIIES MACKINTOSH had scarcely time, as it were, to sketch a few of the principle figures dimly in outline not so dimly however, but we could discern the touch of that master-hand and the dignity of those heroic proportions—when the brush was suddenly snatched from the artist's grasp—" Something having happened" to him, as TIIACKFRAY exquisitely expresses the solemn truth in Esmond, " Something which must happen to us all." Death has now renewed in a more painful and a more irreparable degree in the instance of Lord MAC.kULAY, the national grief and dis- appointment caused some years back in the instance of Sir JAMES MAcKlyrosii. were men of rare accomplishments, with a w ide and ample scope of knowledge —they were alike orators—they were alike states- men. But NIACAULAY was far, far beyond MAcK- INTOSII. ►Yhile Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH takes high rank among our most luminous writers and our most eloquent rhetoricians, Lord MACAULAY assumed by right not a high rank but the highest. It would s:arcely be exaggeralion to pronounce him at once to have been incomparably the noblest prose writer in the :English language. Of this his masterly essays form of themselves sufficient at testation. Considered altogether apart from the opening volumes of his superbly written History, he holds his place as an author in the foremost grade of ozr literature. His style as a prose style approached as nearly as possible to perfection. And what is that famous axiom of BLITFON—" La style Vest l'homtne I Had MACAULAY been less of I a partisan he would have bee n almos t m at chless as a historian. As it is, even with the enormous drawback caused by his political prejudices and predilections —dimming the clearness of his per ception, warping the disc of his judgment, now blurring, now distorting their otherwise marvel lous reflections—this colossal torso, this fragment of a masterpiece, these incomplete annals of his native land, will carry the name of MACAULAY down to future times side by side with the names of TACITUS, Of LIVY, of HERODOTUS. The lamented death of Lord 'MACAULAY, it ap pears, took place at eight o'clock on Wednesday evening, the 28th of December, at his residence, Holly Lodge, Campden-hill, Kensington. It resulted from that formidable disease of the heart from which his lordship was known, for some years past, to be suffering. A severe attack arising from this fatal source had alarmed those about him as nearly as may be a fortnight since, but having rallied from this so far as to be apparently in his customary health or convalescence, Lord MACAULAY succumbed at last to a relapse as unlooked for at the moment as it was overwhelming. The noble and learned lord—and the adjectives are here in no way applied to him merely conventionally, for in his genius and in his knowledge he was indeed truly noble and truly learned—may be claimed as absolutely and essentially an Englishman. He was born in 1800, at Rothley Temple, in Leicester shire. That date reminds us how prematurely he has expired. He breathed his last in his fifty ninth year, when—but for that threatening disease at his heart, which has kept him (as an orator) dumb since his elevation to the House of Lords, and which has since carried him off abruptly, while his manuscripts lay strewn around him in disorder — he might have hoped for years yet to come, during which he might have perfected (as far as human life and human powers per mitted) his immense reputation. It will always be recorded of him, in his biography, that the eminent essayist, critic, orator, and historian, was son of a distinguished philanthropist. He was the son, in fact, of that ZACHARY MACAULAY whose memory will long be cherished in connection with the cause of the abolition of the Slave Trade, with the historic names of THOMAS CLARKSON and WILLIAM WILBERFORCE. The salient incidents in the career of Lord MACAULAY, like those in the lifetime of most men of letters, though his was also the pro gress of a politician, and, in a minor degree, like wise of one of our national administrators, may be readily enumerated. His academic achievements are still borne in remembrance in the annals and traditions of Trinity College, Cambridge. It was at that college that he graduated with high honour —winning rhetorical fame even beyond the pre cincts of the University, while yet an undergraduate by his brilliant oritorical displays at the celebrated Debating Society of the Union. In 1821, when scarcely of age THOMAS MACAULAY was elected to the Craven scholarship. In 1822 he obtained his fellowship, and four years later (1826) was called to to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. Previously, however, he had even as far back as 1824, given radiant evidence of his rare literary abilities. He was al ready an industrious contributor to several of the magazines—poems and essays, in some instances with his initials attached to them, were scattered up and down the periodicals. They were the prelude to those strains of music which rose at last to the Tyrtean melody of " The Lays of Ancient Rome." They were the precursors to those all but perfect masterpieces in prose later on, the papers on " Lord CLIVE" and " WARREN HASTINGS," in the _Edinburgh. But the Lays did did not appear till 1842—and the earliest of the Essays did not adorn the pages of the great Whig Review till 1826, when the criticism on "MILToN" appeared, and, becoming the talk of London, was the subject at once of mingled surprise and admiration. Yet earlier than that among those more youthful effusions of the genius of THOMAS MACAULAY we recal to mind, for example, a paper in Knight's Magazine : a paper signed "T. M." recounting an imaginary con versation between MILTON and COWLEY, a conver sation supposed to have taken place in a boat upon the River Thames in the hearing of a young Templar, who thereupon relates or rather reports from me mory the "high argument " between the two great poets—the one the champion of Royalty, the other of Republicanism—the one the exponent of Kin gcraft, the other of Democracy. It is a paper worthy of MACAULAY. It is a conversation not unworthy of COWLEY and MILTON, Yat to this day, we believe, it has never been (unless, it may be, pirati ally in America) republished, As we have said, however, in 1826, our great Essayist inaugurated with his exquisite criticism on MILTON his unequalled career as an Edinburgh Reviewer. In recognition of his high literary attainments, and already we may even say achievements, the Whig leaders nominated Mr. MACAULAY a Commissioner of Bankruptcy. Snbsequently, in 1830 (in ample time to take part in the Reform discussions), as M.P. for Caine (Lord LANSDOWNE'S borough), he entered Parliament. Not long after this entrance into the House of Commons, he was appointed Secretary to the Board of Control. having risen in Parlia mentary repute by his extraordinary powers rather as an orator than as a debater, Mr. MACAULAY was returned after the passing of the Reform Bill as M.P. for the newly-created borough of Leeds, having Mr. MARSHALL as his colleague. A couple of years had hardly elapsed, however, when there commenced with startling suddenness a hiatus in his home career. He accepted a lucrative appoint ment in the Supreme Council of India, and for three years discharged the duties of that respon sible and remunerative office in Calcutta. At the end of this interval he returned homewards, and resumed the interrupted labours of love, which had been previously building up for him simultaneously a. high literary and Parliamevtary reputation. The noblest of his essays—the two already particularised—duly made their appearance —Mr. MACAULAY himself accepting in 1839, the post of Secretary-at-War, and being returned to Parliament in 1840, as M.P. for the city of Edin burgh. How, upon the formation of the Whig Ministry in 1846, Mr. MACAULAY received the office of Paymaster of the Forces, and took his place in the Cabinet—how in 1847, he was disgracefully rejected by his former constituency of Edinburgh, by reason of his conduct in regard to the grant to the College of Maynooth—how in 1852 the citizens of Edinburgh, at length repentant, spontaneously returned him once more to the House without t h o i s o havingexpend on d a t sixpenceo raise o fi tn s . a e t r o t o f C u o t C utter r n a on s s yl w lab it l i e lo , end—how Mr. MACAULAY remained in the House of Commons as M.P. for Edinburgh until he was raised, in 1857, to the House of Lords as Baron MACAULAY—aII this, and much more, of him the nation proudly bears in its remembrance. Alas ! it has now only to bear himself also gratefully and honourably in its remembrance. In his regard we have now only to bury our dead. We have to accord to him a fitting sepulture in Westminster Abbey. His loftiest monument, fragment though it is, and faultless though it is not, is of course his "History." Yet beyond those interrupted volumes we are fain Both TUE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1859 to regard his superb and, many of them inimitable, essays, as the noblest contribution of this rare intellect to the treasures of our national literature. When a man has done his duty to the best of his ability—be that man a private individual or a public character, he may well feel his conscience at ease. Not but he occasionally reflects that many short-comings might have been better achieved did time and opportunity permit. In fact no man is ever satisfied with himself on the success of his labours be they ever so well accomplished while his ambition regrets that he has not done more. Such is the penalty of having done much and of hav ing obtained the applause, not only of his fellow men, but even of his country at large. But even in this regret there is a noble patriotism which stimulates others to like exertions, and so con duces to national benefit, while it serves to indi vidual excellence by the success of envied en terprise. Now this principle has been carried out to its full development by Sir JOHN PAR INGTON—Iate First Lord of the Admiralty, and previously Secretary for the Colonies during the two Administrations of the Earl of DERBY. In his latter position he was eminently instrumental in conferring a new constitution on New Zealand, to the grateful appreciation of the Colonists, and would have extended the same liberal spirit to the other Colonies did time permit, but he remained only some ten months in office, and found his re ward in the thanksgivings of New Zealand after he had resigned power. Then, as to his Administration of the Navy, the whole country—nay, even his successors, are loud in his praise. To be applauded by one's friends fos having done well is very grateful to the heart ; but to extort commendation from one's rivals is the very charm of political popularity. Now, all these have been accorded to Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, and he may well be proud of them. On his assuming the office of First Lord of the Admiralty he found that q the surest bulwark of our national safety had been wofully neglected. From what cause it were now idle to inquire. But the fact that that office had been filled for some years by SIR CHARLES WOOD may partly explain it. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON actually found that the number of our line-of-battle ships had been allowed to dwindle down below those •f the French ! while our frigates and other smaller vessels were infinitely less. On the other hand he found that we had gunboats far outnumbering those of the French, but to his surprise and mortification scarcely one of them would float ! No ; they were all neatly pigeoned up in rows on sundry dry slips, and to mend the matter, not one would come down again ! These were the indomitable Boats that were to destroy the Russians in the shallow waters of the Baltic, but, like all our other inscrutable manage ment of the Navy, the Boats were only built after the war was nearly over, and so they came for ward just in time to be too late. This was Whig management. It is possible they were never in tended to be in time to hurt the Russians. Then again our line-of-battle ships were mostly sailing vessels—mere logs on the water as opposed to screw line-of-battle ships. And what did Sir JOHN PAKINGTON do ? Why he not only ordered a fleet of screw vessels both of the line and frigates to be laid down and pushed forward with the utmost alacrity, but he also set about converting the sailing ships into screws, thereby work ing double tides to restore the British Navy to its old preponderance over every other. And for this patriot spirit, so wisely and so firmly carried out—aye ! carried out in the face end almost in spite of his own Cabinet, has Sir JOHN PAKINGTON obtained the applause of his QUEEN and admiring countrymen. But Sir JOHN did not work for applause—no! he exerted himself as a true patriot—anxious to protect his native land against any emergency—be it ever so accidental. And now his mantle has fallen, we hope and trust, on other worthy shoulders who will endeavour to give more efficiency to our ships, and more satisfaction to those who man them. The City and County of Worcester have don• themselves much honour by their appreciation of their fellow•townsmen (for Sir JOHN is of Wor cester), in presenting him on Wednesday last with a magnificent shield in token of their esteem. And Sir JOHN, in returning thanks in a modest but honest spirit of pride, made, among other ob servations, the following excellent remarks which, we cordially hope, may make a due and fitting impression on these who thought that the worthy baronet was only fit to be a chairman of Quarter Sessions—a post which he had so well filled for many years : • " I cannot refrain from an expression of my wish that this day, so memorable and so gratifying to me—so memorable to those dear to me—should, if possible, be of benefit to others. lam one of those who believe that we may always draw a moral lesson from such proceedings as these. There are not a few of those who are here this evening, and there are still more who will read what has passed here to-day, whose course of life is still before them. I hope you will not think that I am guilty of presumption or egotism if I venture to touch for a moment on those principles of action to which I mainly attribute the honour which on this occasion it has been my fortune to receive. Have I attained those honours through the exercise of any great or transcendent talent ? Certainly not. Have I gained them as the reward of extensive and varied acquire ments ? Certainly not ; but if it has been my good fortune to merit in any degree that favour which I have received from my most gracicus Sovereign ; if I have deserved any portion of that kindness which I have received in Cris my native county ; if 1 have been able to administer those various departments of the State which have been en trusted to mr, and which my noble friend in the chair has alluded to in such flattering terms ; if I have been able to administer them without disadvantage to the public service, and without discredit to myself, I firmly be lieve that I am indebted to the exercise of qualities and the adoption of rules which are equally in the power and com pass of those who hear me, and of any man who is desirous to take part in the public affairs of the country. lam in debted for whatever measure of success I have attained in my public life to a combination of moderate abilities with honesty of intention, firmness of purpose, and steadiness of conduct. If I were to offer advice to any 'young man anxious to make himself useful in public life, I would sum up the results of my experience in three short rules—rules so simple that any man may under stand them, and so easy that any man may act upon them My first rule would be—Leave to others to judge of what duties you are capable, and to what position you are fitted, but never refuse to give your services in whatever capacity it may be the opinion of others who are competent to judge that you may benefit your neighbours or your country. My second rule is—When you agree to undertake public duties concentrate every energy and faculty in your possession, with the determination to discharge those duties to the best of your ability. Lastly, I would counsel you that, in de ciding on the line which you will take in public affairs, you should be guided in your decision by that which, after mature deliberation, you believe to be right, and not by that which, in the passing hour, may happen to be fashionable or popular. Fashion has its uses, and is all very well when applied to the light and trivial things to which it relates; out fashion in public affairs is out of place. Popularity, in the lowest and most common sense, is not worth the having. Do your duty to the best of your power—win the approba tion of your own conscience, and popularity in its best and highest sense is sure to follow. I would not ex change the recollection of this day for all the acclama tions that ever greeted the most popular man in England." These are the sentiments of a man who may as well be proud of himself as he is worthy of his country. But it is the consciousness of the honest performance of his duty that is uppermost in Sir JOHN PAKINGTON's mind. He seeks no vain glory for himself, but is anxious that others should profit by his experience, and therefore. he unfolds his heart to his hearers with an earnestness worthy of all commendation. To him, like the patriot of old— " One hour of self-applause, whole years outweighs, Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas ; And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels Than Cesar with a Senate at his heels I" Honour ! long and lasting honour be to Sir JOHN PAKINGTON as the Regenerator of the British Navy, and may all his successors follow so good and so patriotic an example ! A very interesting public meeting was held on Tuesday last, in the city of Dublin, for the purpose of prsenting an address to Captain Mc CLINTOCK, R.N. Few public testimonials have been more richly merited, than this recognition of the emi nent services rendered by the gallant captain in the cause of Arctic discovery. Gratifying as such a ceremony must always be to the recipient of the honour, it is doubly so when those who present the address are fellow citizens, who acknowledge the distinction reflected upon them, and regard his triumph in some sort as their own. The claims which Captain M'CLINTOCK possesses upon the gratitude of his country are succinctly stated in a paragraph of the address --" We deem it a duty to recognise your last Arctic expedition as the fourth in which you have engaged—the three preceding having been in the service of the Crown—to call to mind that you have passed six winters in the Polar sea—that during that time you have travelled be tween 5,000 and 6,000 miles on foot within the Arctic circle, the laborious employment of 416 . days, of which more than 2,000 miles have been in the geographical exploration of coast line—that you organised and improved sledge travelling to such a degree as to extend your journey from 500 miles on your first expedition, to 1,500 miles on you( third." Captain MCLINTOCK might well say in his answer to the address, that the motto of the executive office should be, " Deeds, not words." He has proved his right to such a motto by a long course of arduous and perilous services, happily crowned at last by the discovery of the last sad relics of the hapless crews of the Erebus and Terror. It gives, however, additional poignancy to our sor row for the untimely fate of those brave men, when we reflect that had the plans of Dr. KING, which we have so often strenuously advocated, been adopted by the Admiralty, very probably many of the survivors of the expedition might have been restored to their country. It is another proof of the evils of official obstinacy and routine ; but it is paying a dear price for the lesson, to reflect that we have lost the chance of rescuing any of those sufferers whom we have despatched so many expeditions to relieve. The tone of Captain M'CLlNTocies reply to the address was all that could bo expected from an officer of his high character and genuine merit. After acknowledging the compliment paid him by the citizens of Dublin—an honour they rarely accord to public men—he briefly re ferred to the motives which had actuated him in his undertaking, and ended by pass ing a warm eulogium on the heroic perseve rance of the noble lady who projected the expedi tion on her own responsibility. The praise awarded to him individually he shared with his companions in toil and danger, and expressed his sentiments that the success of his efforts fully repaid him for his years :of painful search. We are glad to find the citizens of Dublin have taken this early oppor tunity of expressing their admiration of the heroic qualities of a countryman of whom they may well be justly proud. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at lir. Reuter's office : ROME, DEC. 29. Today, Cardinal Antonelli had a long interview w:th the Due de Grammont. The French Ambassodor has received by a courier, who left Paris on the 24th inst., some explanations destined to re-assure the Holy See on the object and bearing of the pamphlet, " Le Pape et le Congrea." PARIS, FRIDAY. The Couneil of Ministers has resolved upon not giving any official denial to the pamphlet " The Pope and the Congress." As the 21Ioniteur, the only official organ of the French Government, has not mentioned the pamphlet, its publication is to be considere I as a home affair (affaire interieure), which the foreign Powers could not notice in their diplomatic intercourse with France. PARIS, DEC. 29. The Pays of this evening contains an article signed by M. Granier de Cassagnac on the pamphlet " The Pope and the Congress," which, the article:states," has been wrongly interpreted by the newspapers." The pamphlet does not propose to deprive the Pope of the Legations, but advises his Holiness to submit to the present state of things, and proclaims the necessity of maintaining the temporal power of the Pope. M. de Granier adds, the pamphlet confines itself to pronouncing an opinion ; the Congress alone will decide, and even after that the Church will remain full and entire. BIG BEN.-MEARS v. DENISON. LITERATUR.E. Lucy Crofton. By the author of " Margaret Maitland," &e. Those who have read " Orphans," a former pro duction by this author will willingly avail them selves of this opportunity of learning more of tho fate of its heroine. The work before us is charac teristic of its composer in many a truthful record of home life, and in many a thoughtful passage. It cannot be compared to some of those brilliant fic tions which have preceded it, but as it is, in its sim plicity and grace, it is well calculated to impress the reader. Lucy Crofton, the heroine, is a most repulsive character, which in itself is some sort of novelty from the fascinating persons who are often introduced as the most prominent actors on the stage. Luey is one of those disagreeable individuals whom all must have encountered at intervals in their intercourse with the world. She did not commit any open offence, but she nevertheless irritated one beyond endurance. She was always the same, un ruffled and plausible, but one had far rather that she had done some definite injury that could be preferred against her, than be for ever annoyin g i n that indescribable manner. It is eminently satis factory to know that she was at last induced by self-interest to leave the happy home at Hilfont over which her presence cast a blight from the first day on which she entered its domains. Clara Nugent of Estcourt is a delightful person, rather sentimental at times, owing to her life of seclusion, but ever alive to the claims of others on her bounty, and ever zealous to further the best interests of all who were in any way connected with her. Bertie Nugent is a straightforward young man, whom it is sad to see attracted by the deceitful L uc y. The success of this lady in her designs on Plantagenet Hall is only natural when her energy and dexte rity are taken into consideration. The passage which relates the discovery by her aunt of the shameful trick practised on the entire family by the unknown lovers is a very excitin g one, and the conduct of Dervent is just what i 8 probable under the circumstances, he thinking himself remarkably wise in his own perceptions, and believing his wife to be prejudiced. Before this fi na l escapade Lucy had created great disturbance in the house by being nearly the agent in breaking off the marriage of Hugh Sedgwick with the gentle Clara Harley. He was a member of Parliament and a distin guished man in his county, while she was only a school girl. However, no one had a right to interfere with them, still less Lucy, who was secretly engaged to Broom at the time. Fortunately for their welfare Clara had the courage to speak boldly in vindication of her in jured dignity, and Sedgpickpossessed the justice to rectify his mistake. ?here are many characters introduced in these pad s who form a sort of back ground to the chief perbne ; and the chronicles of the Christmas festivities,}resent a bright and attractive picture of home life , Wth its minute cares and simple joys, nothing in themselves, yet contain within they the happiness or misery of a that seem is a work of fiction that, lifetime. " Lucy Lofton" without making a 7 - pretensions, has a fair chance of success, from Its truthful pictures, its earnest tone, and its pleati ng delineations. It is written by one who has lotg been a favourite with a numer and who may lay claim to ous class of reade rs having impress] them more successfully than many authors authors tvho are greatly her superiors in point of literal_ ability. The effect of a simple s tyle that is O f result of a feeling heart is always effective in galling the approbation of those who j are the best qges, and to the ranks of those who charm with anadorned eloquence, this authoress belongs. FRANCE. PARIS BOURSE.—The market continues very agitated. Threes opened at 69f. 60c., and after declining to 68f. 85c., are now 69f. sc. Mobilier varied. from 817 f. 50c. to 790 f. ; Lyons, 917 f. 50c. to 910 f. ; Orleans; 1,395 to 1,385 f.; Southern, 515 f. to 510 f.; Lombard, 565 f. to 555 f. The follow ing were the last quotations : 41 per Cents. .... 96 25 Credit Fonder 720 I Do. end month .. Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents 69 —lPiedmonteso (6) .. 85 25 Do. end month 6B 8, . Roman B4 Bank Shams Credit Mobilier .. 797 50 Spanish Throes Do. Account ..... 792 50 I Home Debt 43 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 960 955 New ditto 855 850 Lyons and Mediterranean 907 60 910 Geneva 532 50 535 Southern Western 570 .. 565 Eastern Sardinian. 415 410 Austrian Lombard Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 25f. 9c.; three months, paper, 24t. 95c. ; money, 24f, 931 c. AMERICA. (By ELECTRIC TELEGRAM.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The Fulton, steamer, with mails from New York of the 17th inst., passed Hurst at 9.10 a.m. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. The screw steamer Edinburgh, which sailed from New York on the 18th inst., after having been de tained in the harbour 24 hours by a heavy storm, arrived at Queenstown to-day at 2.30 p.m., and lett for Liverpool at 3 p.m. She brings 227,200 dols. specie on freight. On the 18th spoke the steamers Borussia and Vanderbilt, and the ship Resolute. The advices are unimportant. Nantes was visited two days back by a tremend ous hurricane of wind, accompanied by thunder, lightning, and rain. The barometer fell in a most extraordinary manner. SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) This was originally an action brought by Mr. Mears, the eminent bell-founder, of - Whitechapel, against Mr. Edmund Birkett Denison, Q.C., to recover damages for a libel. The plaintiff was the founder of the present bell which hangs in the tower in Palace-yard, but which has, for some time past, ceased to be of use in consequence of its being cracked, and Mr. Denison was one of the gentlemen appointed to judge of and decide upon the merits of the bell before it was hung. In order to make the matter clear, it may be stated that, on Saturday, the Ist of October last, the bolt sounded for the last time, and that while in the act of striking, Big Ben became dumb for ever. It was soon afterwards discovered that it was undeniably cracked. On the sth of October Mr. Denison wrote a letter to the Times, which appeared in that journal on the 7th of ()deer last, and this letter constitutes the alleged libel. In the course of the letter Mr. Denison said that a week previously he should have joined with the editor in praising Mr. Mears' bell, and then went on to say—" It certainly suited to my pattern, and the weight, size, and tone were exactly what had been re quired, and everybody believed it to be a magnificent cast ing, everybody, that is, except certain persons at White chapel, who knew a very different secret. Last week, how ever, Mr. Dent's men found out, and I was immediately in formed, and sent the representation to the Board of Works, that this magnificent casting was, like many other things, a magnificent imposture, for that there is a place in the bell, on the soundbow, but far from where either clapper or hammer ever struck (and this is probably not by accident) full of holes, some a quarter of an inch wide and more, and others smaller, of depths not certain yet, but some probed down nearly half an inch ; and, in short, every ex ternal indication of a perfectly unsound casting, and that from two or three holes cracks were visible nearly a foot long, and of depth unknown yet, but with some in dications of still wider holes within them. But how did Mr. Taylor and I come to certify such a bell as sound ? And how did such unsoundness as this elude the observation of the indefatigable clerk of works (Mr. Quarm), who examines all the castings that come to the Palace, and of Sir C. Barry's engineer(Mr. jabez James), and of the hundreds of people of all classes who came to see and hear the bell ? For a very good reason, because the holes were all as carefully stuffed as a bad tooth by a dentist with some mineral succedaneum,' of which a piece has been sent to me, and which can be shown to you at Mr. Dent's, or on the bell itself ; and to make all still safer, the bell was washed over with some colouring stuff which the atmosphere has now removed. Some persons noticed this colouring as suspicious at the time, but still, with the suspicion to help them, nobody could find anything wrong. It is certainly strange that the unsoundness should not have betrayed itself in the tone of the bell to many better ears than mine, which carefully listened to it, and that the bell should have been considered by so many good judges as you say, ',the finest ever cast in England.' But so it is, and the disease was not less mortal, and not less congenital because nobody at Westminster found it out until it was at the point of death. . . The contract was given to one of our eminent bell founders, who has passed his life and made a fortune in the manufacture of bells, and he was told what was wanted, and was made responsible for its being:forthcoming. We see what has come forth for all that ; how far his re aponsibility may extend is a matter for other people to settle with him and not for me to discuss here." I (In consequence of the publication of this letter, of which the above are the more salient portions, Mr. Mears com menced an action for libel against Mr. Denison. The cause was entered for trial for the sittings after Michaelmas Term in London, and would have been tried by Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a special jury. Mr. Denison had pleaded a justification to the libel with which he was charged. Be fore the time for hearing, however, the cause was with drawn, Mr. Denison having abandoned his defence. The plaintiff took, therefore, a judgment by default, and the only matter remaining to be determined was the amount of da mages which had, according to the usual course, to be as sessed In the Sheriffs' Court. The proceedings commenced this morning, and for the convenience of all parties, were held in the Court of Com mon Pleas, before Mr. Secondary Potter: and a jury of merchants and gentlemen specially empanelled. Mr. Bevil', Q.C., and Mr. Colerid g e appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Knowles, Q.C., Mr. Grove, Q.C., and Mr. Garth appeared for the defendant, Mr. Denison, Q.C., who occupied a seat with his legal representatives. Mr. Bovill, in opening the proceedings, said the jury was summoned to inquire into damages sustained by Mr. Mears by a libel upon him which Mr. Denison, the defen dant, had published against him. The learned gentleman having explained to the jury the agreement of both parties, that an assessor, not a Queen's counsel, should be selected to act as judge, /at great length detailed the whole of the facts relating to the contract for, the quality of metal, the casting, &c., of the bell. Ho then proceeded to notice the libel as published by Mr. Denison on the plaintiff, which had done him immense mischief, as he had denounced him as unskilful in his trade, and of having sent down the great bell unsound, well knowing it to be so. The correspondence, with which the public is very familiar, having been noticed, the learned gentleman said that the last letter of Mr. Deni son, which he (Mr. Bevil') called a half-and-half apology, had been published by the defendant wholly and solely for the purpose of reducing the amount of damages, and not for removing the stigma he had cast upon the character of Mr. Mears. The learned gentleman havinc read and com mented on the letter written by Mr. Denison and published in the Tio.es on the 7th of October, which contained the alleged libel, said under all the circumstances Mr. Mears had no alternative but to come to a jury for damages. Mr. Knowles, Q.C., suggested that no special damage had been sustained. Mr. Denison admitted his mistake, and as Mr. Mears did not require money, he thought the case might be stopped by mutual consent. This suggestion was after a consultation agreed to, Mr. Denison retracting all he had said in disparagement of Mr. Mears and paying the costs. POLICE INTE'LLIGENCE-(TIIIS DAY, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT MRSSRS. NICOLS', Rl GENT-STRUBT.—John Brooks, a respectable-looking you, man, hi the employ of Messrs. H. G. and D. Nicol, nt" . chanttailors of Regent-street and Warwick-street, as ewe r and clerk, was charged with stealing sever al len g th !: cloth of the value of £5, the property of his employers. '1 It would appear that, though the amount of properi. the present charge is only £5, that at present MSll* In Nicol are unable to ascertain the amount of their lose but it is believed to be several hundred pounds. Inspector Charles Webb, of the C Division, said information he received, and inquiries which ho hadinmde, he went to Messrs. Nicola', of Regent-street ye afternoon, and saw the prisoner, who, ho had NI d ay viously. informed, was in the employ of the firm as ckpres and cutter-out. He told him he was charged with stealif seve ral remnants l of cloth belonging to his employer. , re plied, "Remnants ? I don't u nderstand you,e M e . Henry Nicol then said, "lengths," and the prisc‘ " I've taken lengths Those len g ths have been 1. said ,"de , into garments and disposed of by me." He asked, UP Boner if it was not the rule of the house to have a goods in a book, and he said , " It was truetl red the not entered the lengths." Mr. Nico l was in he had could tell them that they were not e ntered, and Or' and soner had no right to take the prope rt y away. the pri- Mr. Bingham asked Mr. Wobb whether he tnew the amount of Messrs. Nicola' loss. Inspector Webb said he did not, but he belie l it a large extent. He found in the prisoner's was to Session a gold watch and chain. There were also a secl and the duplicate of a third, severa l r in g s, ear, °ld watch quantity of jewellery, altogether of the value oillgat and a some of it being given up by a fema le he was least £ 5O ll _ dresses to. "mg his . The prisoner, who said nothing in answer was remanded for a week. the charge, EXECUTION OF THE CoP, MURDERER. NTIZY (BY ELECTRIC TELIGRAPh WARW , FRIDAY. Yesterday the workmen began their p the z (i erection of the scaffold for the execution (Johnrations for Kington, for the murder of his wife , at Coventr ) November last. on the 12th of Since his trial ho had fully resigned he fate. Yesterday ho had an interview Is to his awful the Rev. S. IL Widdrington, v i car 4 his father, and Coventry, also visited the condemzf h is at prayed with him. After expressing I criminal, and God would forgive him for the crime conviction that after he was gone he hoped just ington said that to some parts of his character, k j would be done visor left hint under the impression his spiritual ad dered his wife from the combined feerhat he had mur ousy. She would not live with him, gs of love and jeal says, as he could not enjoy her himtd the unhappy man the way. He was glad he had done ff he put her out of now he knew site was gone. Md should die happy Shortly before twelve this morn toll, and the mournful procession t the bells began to gallows. The usual preliminaries 1 1 ,,1en proceeded to the the unfortunate man was launcheekg been gone through, The executioner was George S a lto eternity. county of Stafford, who perforrae , the hangman for the Palmer. his odious ofice upon - .......... Kington was formerly in the i wickshiro Militia, and was in Regiment of the War irtsmouth with it. He afterwards volunteered into the charged through his being atllif.h Hussars, a nd was dis d with fits. A further sum of from the Bank yesterday fop in bar gold was taken Cadiz. About £35,000 of the,xportation : £30,000 is for Charter was also sold for abri . ld recovered from the Royal at the Bank, unsold. 11 . There is still somo amount COWF CA YOUR IN PARIS. The e ffi lal announcement in the Piechnontese • G azette Of Count Cavour's nomination as represen tative o f Sardinia in the approaching Congress ' coincides lith the publication of the remarkable PainPhletin the Papacy, and confirms the belief to which itsip_ pearance has given rise, that the corn , meleemet of the year 1860 will be marked by a joint actin of the French and Sardinian Govern ments °'behalf of the Italian people, not dissimilar to that I hich signalised the commencement of the year 18 §. Count Cavour's retirement from office was caused by his unqualified disapproval notoriou y _ of the inditions of the peace of Villafranca; and the lan, age. by no means measured, in which that disaPlbval was communicated to his Sovereign "erne; during a short period, likely to convert the politic' difference between King Victor Emmanuel and Is Minister into a personal quarrel. The franl fearless honesty of the Sovereign, and tho elf- sacrificing patriotism of the statesman, hav( been evinced in the speedy termination of a P nli teal separation which, on Lord Normanby's thety of political separations, " ought to have bec t eternal." It is not only in the country of L ei Palmerston and Lord John Russell that the • d uly of all public spirit is revealed in the willing ' 11 % of public men, at a great national, crisis, to 8 4nee and stifle their private animosity. The Ndemic of mutual forgiveness has too evidently tended to Piedmont. There is even a probability hat its ravages may be felt in Paris ; and that thatever bitterness was at first occasioned by the bnditions announced at Villafranca will disappear 'efore the open avowal that the fulfilment of those 'conditions has been found quite impossible--that Prance will not restore by an armed intervention the authority of the Pope and the dethroned Arch dukes_ over Central Italy, and that still less can she allow Austria to perform the task from which she recoils. _ It is the decided, unequivocal, unmistakable character of these declarations in the pamphlet which explain and justify the nomination of Count Cavour as Sardinian representative. We cannot for one moment imagine him quitting his retire- ment and lending his great talents and European reputation to carry out a policy whieh he has so energetically condemned. The presence of Count Cavour at Paris means simply the continuation of that diplomatic war which Sardinia, during the last 10 years, has successfully waged with Austria and Rome—a war of which the successes were, in their way, quite as brilliant and scarcely less decisive tnan the military achievements of this year's campaign. To Count Cavour it was mainly owing that Aus tria was merely vanquished in the public opinion of all Europe before she even crossed the Ticino. But his great political tact has been chiefly exhibited in the skill with which, whilst resisting the pretensions of the Court of Rome, he has yet been able to prevent the opposition of the Sardinian bishops and clergy from creating disturbance, or exciting discontent, in the dominions of King Victor mmanuel. Thoroughly acquainted with all the intrigues and manoeuvres, with all the audacity and craft, of the Papal agents, his pre sence at the same council board with Cardinal Antonelli (if indeed his eminence is to honour the council board with his presence) will furnish a guarantee that the Papal phase of the Italian question will receive full justice in the discus sions of the Congress. If in these discussions any clerical or lay defender of the Pope's temporal sovereignty should venture on the statements which find a ready credence at meetings of the Irish Catholics—statements to the effect that the revolt of the Romagna is the mere work of a small but audacious minority —we know the answer which such statements will call down from the well stored memory and well-trained logic of Count Cavour. Nor is it the least merit of the Sardinian statesman, nor his least qualification for the duties he must discharge at the Congress, that whilst at home beyond all other Italians in every detail re specting the policy and the administration of the separate Italian States, he is not less familiar with the modes of thinking and reasoning of other European politics. Count Cavour is emphatically a European statesman, He has often been termed the Robert Peel of Piedmont. His first distinction as a political writer was acquired through his familiarity with English principles of constitu tional government, and English views of commer cial legislation—principles and views which he endeavoured to transplant and ac c li ma ti se i n hi s own co untry. Of his influence at the Court of France, of the influence which he has exor cised over the mind of the French Emperor since the commencement of this Italian question, it would almost be superfluous to speak. It was Count Cavour, not Count Walewski, whose counsels determined the Italian war. And the reappearance of Count Cavour in Paris must, we repeat, be viewed as the strongest proof that the same policy which led the armies of France to the Lombard plains is once more in the ascendant, and that not many weeks are likely to elapse before France and Sardinia will be found presenting the same combined front toAustria in the coming diplomatic warfare, which they exhi bited amidst the shock of battle and the clash of arms.—Morning Post. At the meeting of the Canada Onnpanv, held yesterday, the receipts for the year wort:, stated at X 51,488, being £13,958 over those of 1609. Out of th e ava il a bl e balance a dividend of £1 per ftliare, free of income tax, was declared, leaving about 41,000 to be carried forward. Mr. C. GILPIN, M.P.—We regret to learn that this gentleman remains in a precarious state. He has re turned to town after a stay of some weeks at Folkestone, from which, however, he derived little or no benefit. The nature of his disorder being such ai to prevent his swallow ing more than the smallest possible quantity of nourish ment, his strength is of course much reduced. His atten tion to business of any kind whatever is strictly forbidden by Sir 13. &odic and his 9ther medical advisers. SPANISR HONESTY. Among the sundry acts of malice imputed to England on the occasion of the Spanish expedition , against Morocco is that of having seized the oppor tunity to embarrass the Spanish Government by suddenly presenting an old half-forgotten account, and requesting payment for the same. Such a pro ceeding would, of course, admit of unpleasant in terpretations. When an old friend who has been your creditor for a long while, and has said nothing about it, comes abruptly upon you with a demand for a settlement just as you are in want of every sixpence you can raise for a pressing and manifest emergency, the proceeding undoubtedly savours of hostility or spite, and, though the case is not ex actly analogous when the parties concerned are States instead of individuals, we should be free to confess that if the facts were as they have been de scribed the conduct of England would have been rather shabby. It happens, however, that the facts are otherwise, and that there is not the slightest foundation for the story so freely circulated. We are in a position to place the whole truth of the case before the public, and, if the affair is not a very important one, yet right may as well be done us in small matters as well as great. During the civil wars in Spain, when the liberal part of the nation was struggling for constitutional rights against the partisans of absolutism, the assis tance of England was contributed in various forms to the supporters of Queen Isabella. In particular we supplied them with the stores and munitions of war indispensable for the contest. Muskets, bayonets, uniforms, and equipments of all kinds were de spatched from the arsenals of this country for the use of the Constitutionalists, and these supplies aided very materially in securing the Spaniards their freedom and the Queen her throne. As a matter of course, the stores in question, being public stores, were public property, and of this property the British Government of the day had to render an account. There was no vote or resolution of the Legislature sanctioning a free gift of such supplies to Spain, nor can we suppose, indeed, that the Spaniards would have desired them on such conditions. They were de livered in the ordinary way at the ordinary price, and, though it was not a ready-money transaction , there was a perfect understanding on both sid es that sooner or later the stores were to be paid fo r. Accordingly, when the account was made up , it appeared that Spain was indebted to England in the lawful sum of £440,000 for goods delivered. These transactions took place in the year 1834, and in the very next year the Duke of Wellington , in a true businesslike spirit. called the attention of the Spanish Government to the state of the account. At the same time he observed that it was not the intention of the British Government to press for payment at a period when the embarrassments of the struggle were still felt, and the resources of the country so imperfectly available. He proposed, therefore, that the settlement should stand over for the time, but that the Spanish Government should fix a period at which, with less inconvenience to • the Treasury, the claim might be liquidated. To these reasonable proposals the Spanish Minister, M. Martinez de la Rosa, replied, with a most ample acknowledgment of the obligation, though with a less definite response to the Duke's concluding suggestion ; but Count Toreno went, at any rate, so far, in communicating with Mr. Villiers on the subject as to say that her Catholic Majesty would proceed to an arrangement as soon as circumstances would permit; and he further intimated that, though little could be done until the termination of the civil war, the debt would then undoubtedly be discharged in full. With these assurances, there fore, the British Government contented itself, and the matter was allowed to rest on this footing till the year 1840, when Mr. Aston, our Minister at Madrid, was once more instructed to open the cal* and to inquire whether the Spanish Government could yet see its way to that period of convenience which had been fixed for the liquidation of the debt. As this application produced no results, he was de sired to take another step in the year following and to express the hope entertained by the British Govern ment that the Spanish Ministers would be able to provide an instalment of £lOO,OOO in the course of the year, and to authorise an announcement to that effect in the House of Commons. To this request also, however, the reply was unsubstantial, for the Spanish Government simply promised to occupy itself without delay in providing the means of com plying with Mr. Aston's desires. Such being the position of the affair, and the state of Spain being notoriously such as to furnish some explanation of the case, the account was allowed to stand over. It would have been neither dignified nor politic on the part of England to press the demand year after year upon an impoverished exchequer. Spain had acknowledged the debt, and had undertaken. at -11 convenient season, to discharge it. That appeared sufficient, and in that arrangement, therefore, we acquiesced until the finances of the Spanish nation had experienced a most material improvement. When, however that fortunate circumstance became known, and when the resources of the Spanish Go-' vernment were matter of common boasting and gra- , tulation, we moved once more in the affair, and in November, 1858, Lord Malmesbury instructed Mr. Buchanan to bring our claims again under the no• tice of Queen Isabella's Government. Once again, too, that Government acknowledged with alacrity its liabilities and its obligations, and entered promptly upon a discussion of arrangements for liquidating the account. The foregoing statement, which may be received' as authentic, will distinctly show that England is not chargeable with the petty act of spite, which has been so volubly talked about. Our claim is s just claim, and admitted to be so by the Spaniards themselves. It was never pressed upon them in their times of difficulty ; it was always suspended to suit their convenience ; and, though it was re vived after a long interval by the late Foreign Se cretary, that proceeding was suggested only by the improved circumstances of Spain, and was adopted, be it remarked, before the expedi tion to Morocco had entered into anybody's conception. The application for payment had been made and entertained, and the dis cussion of the matter was pending at Madrid, be fore it was even so much as rumoured that a Spanish army would cross the Straits of Gibraltar on a cam paign against the Moors. We venture, indeed, to think that we deserve credit rather than censure for our conduct in this affair, and that our proceed ings are characterised rather by extreme liberality than malicious rigour. We may further remark, for the information of the Spanish people, that we are really not jealous of their progress or desirous' of their discomfiture. We do not think the war was unavoidable, and, in the interests of humanity, we would fain see it terminated, but we acknow ledge that the Moors gave their antagonists some provocation, and we are by no means certain that they offered sufficient amends. However, on that point we will add no more at present. Our purpose in these remarks has been simply to show that the report of our proceedings in the matter of the debt is utterly unfounded, and the proof, we submit, is undeniably complete.—Times. THIS imrs SHIPPING. LoKnox, Dec. 30.—Wind this day at noon, South lVesterly ; moderate breeze an d sq ually weather, with ral la at times. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Wind, W. Arrived—Havre, steamer, from Havre; Atalanta , s teamed, from Jersey. Sailed—New Yo r k, s t eamer , f or N e w York.; Ondine, steamer, for Dublin. LivmnrooL, Friday Mornlg• Wind, W.S.W., strong. • (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPR.) G RAVESE ND, Friday Morning. Wind, W. tide, three quarters' ebb ; weather fine. Sailed—thitlands, for Algoa Bay; Propontis, for Moul.. main. DEAL, Friday Morning. Wind, S.S.W. ; moderate. Anehorod—St. Helier, from New York; Herefordshire, from Bombay—both for London. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. READING STE Acceptances for the Berkshiri three miles. 28 subs., 7o: iIEPLECH.ASES. e Open Steeplechase. About ,f whom paid 2 sovs. each. g 11 Tamworth ............ 910 Border Chief .......... The Unprotected Female (late MiSS Somerville) 9 Topsy .................. Physician. ............. 9 ' Roscommon ............ 9 4 Broadway Swell ...... 9 Heads or Tails ........ g Pyrrhus the Second.... 9 9 0 C0rk5crew............ i Stakes. Three miles' st lb Brunette Escape Mr. Sykes lO 12 Omar Pasha Hazard (late Chance) Lottery lO 0 Fanny The Premier Wee Willie 9 10 Glautias The Curate Weights for the Erleigl et lb Brunette Hzard lo 2 ttery lO 2 Fanny Border Chief TATTERSALL' st lb 10 the Curate ............ g 5 heads or Tails ........ 4 Broadway Swell ...... 5 Nicholas .. ............ No betting,. Eghaux Races will take plat August. S--.TIIURSDA Y. Leo on the 14th and 15th of The Limerick Reporter announces that the Earl of Derby has withdrawn the notices to quit their holding. which his lordship caused to be served upon several of the tenants on the Coogey estate, in Tipperary, immediately aftor the savage murder of Mr. Crowe. day, Fund at pal dai ha stances and GI North - (Berwi decline Great 10s. The depress and GI shade i Grand ' of Cans Joint shown : 'bib MIN 3 per Cei Row 3 pi India St Ditto De Ditto Bo Ditto 11111 Consols I 14 (114 SI/c Ditto, Ezchequ Ditto al Pitient &lexioan Ditto Po rtuguf Lrdinias Turkieh Ditto Ditto Is Ditto Venezuel bittch E: Ditto ( During Rah whea ',hafted sc Moderate, 41 7 whea currency. The sib Considers 4r B ; but qt late cui *ince Fric The im kale. G 4111 Y prey ; New m terms. We hac Prices. Beans, but the d, elish In 'r *reign The sui P • rim e mu Otherwise 'inferior B Mid. do.. large, Do. 'mall ( Large por There ii the late a 'Wind ext./ at fully la Suo 1 4 Most di UPward to COFFEE tation a of ItICE rat es, gent OALTP E peen exter all qualitic TALLOW and p r i„ s 6 88 per cvu A tele/ ,tratlan ma 'me of the former has ~.I ‘ l l 3out a . 4 torning Was off Ca that the B ° curiae. f rom. Live g'i'ants, all the disaate SCOTCI raereial B adopted th Pitalise Capitaltip "le additio anion; atock for e Partici to proii payir 423 7,537. :o r L of tho Past yearthi a u _ t o b e e p m ia bie rve fund The is c bus the 'rah iota the abou Roye