The Sun. — London, England, 1860-12-11 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.—Under the Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. The sensation created with the public on the first represen tation of Balfe's New Legendary Opera was most enthu siastic. Continuous applause marked its progress from the rise until the fall of the curtain. The demand for places daily at the Box-oflice to witness this great musicil work of our popular English Composer, places the Manag-ement in the proud position of announcing; the performance of BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE, Ev er y Evening until further notice. THIS EVEITING, and durin ,, the Week, Balleg New Legendary Opera, BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE : Miss Louisa _Fyne, Miss Thirlwall ; Messrs. A. Lawrence, J. Wharton, H. Corri, A. St. Albyn, G. Kelly, IVallworth, T. Mistin g Lyall, and IV. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. Orchestra of Eighty Performers. Chorus of Fifty Voices. Concluding- with a DIVEIIT ISSEMENT.—St w age maner, Mr. Edard Stirling. Acting-manager Mr. Edward Murra ag y. Doors w open at 7 ; commence at half-past 7. No charge for booking, or fees to Box -keepers. At Christmas a Grand Pantomime. Morning Performances every Wednesday and Saturday. R OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT , GARDEN —under the Management of Miss LOUISA FYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees. runs EVENING. BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE. Mi4s Louisa Pync, Miss Thirlwall ; Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. A. Lawrence, Mr. 11. Cord, Mr. St. Albyn, Szc. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. And a DIVERTISSEMENT. Doors open at Seven. Commence at Halt-past. TH EA TR E-RO YAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. E. Beckstone. TITTR EVENING the , performances will comm.nme with AN UNEQUAL MATCH% Messrs. Bucirstone, Compton, W. Farren, Chippendale, Rogers, Sc. ; Miss A. Sedgwick, Miss falLot, E. Fitzwilliam, &c. After which, JENNY LIND AT LAST. Jenny (her Bth appearance), Miss Rose Howard. And THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leelereqe. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Legoe and Itranazer, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with SUSAN SMITH. To be followed by, at S o'clock, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Supported by Messrs. Fechter, A. llarris, Meadows, Graham, Shore, and Miss Murray. To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.I Soie Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, THE PE VS OF THE PARTERRE. Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Writ Callcott. The Music by Mr. George Loder. Principal charactersby Mr H. Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris. Miss M. Ternan, Miss Neville, MissHudspeth, Miss Stuart, lifiss Turner, Miss Douglas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Atter which, a new Drama, entitled HANDY ANDY. Messrs. Campbell, Johnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, Villiers, Butler, and John Drew; Mrs. J. Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, Miss M. Ternan, and Miss Neville. Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNE ; or THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. A. Butler, Mr r . Villiers, Mr. G. Vining, Mr. Forrester , Mr. Campbell. Mr. Clifford, Mr. J. Johnstone ; Mrs. 'Keeley, and Madame Celeste. To commence at a quarter to 7, on account of the length of t entertainments. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. r Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Enzag,ement for a limited number of nights of Miss Agnes Robertson and lir. Dion Boucicault, who will aar ev ery evening in the highly successful Drama of "The Colleen Bawn." THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs..l Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E. Thorne. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Tloncleault, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woo'gar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. After which, THAT BLESSED BABY. Mr. Billington, Mr. J. L Toole, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at halt-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking,. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Es. ; Pit Stalls, 26.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, Aettne• Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WSI. BATTY. Astounding sensation created by the Lions and the ;real Brute Tamer. Miss Rebecca Isaacs every Evening. Notice.—There will be no half-price during the engage ment of the Lions, except for children under ten years of age, and then to Pit and Boxes only. This Evening, a new Spectacle, entitled TILE LION CONQUEROR; or, The _Death Jungle, expressly for the introduction of the Wonders of the World, " The Gronpe of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett . To he succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by talented Parisian and BH ish Artistes. Coneludincr with the First Ac" 7 of THE DAUGIISER OF TIIE REGIMENT. Marie, Piss Rebecca Isaacs. - - Doors open at half-Fast 6, performance commence at 7. Bos-oface open daily from 11 till 4 Stage Manager—Mr. W. WENT, Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. riIHE CATTLE SHOW ANT) CANTERBURY HALL. C. MORTON be.gg to inform visitors to London that the above lIA LT., with its Magnificent Gallery of Modern Paint ings, by all the best masters, is OPEN EVERY EVENING at 7 o'clock, GRAND SELECTIONS PROM BELLINI'S NORMA. AND FLOTOW'S MARTHA. PRINCIPAL ARTISTES, MISS RUSS - FILL MADAME MARIA MISS TYIIHEL :MISS WIT,KINSON Mr. HENRY _HERBERT and Mr. BERNARD. Conductor Mr. JONCIIM ANS. The COM ic Department comorises Messrs. A. B. Hollins worth, .T. Blanchard, ii. W. 1'el!, Charley Fox, and E. Mar shall, in his transformation song, "THE DOMESTIC DRAMA," personatinx five difil , rent characters. THE WEATIIER.-SUN OFFICE, DEC. 11, MO, THEr.3IO/IETER., IN THE SHADE. 4S—highest since noon yesterday. 38 —lowest this morning and during the night. 44—this thly at noon. BAROMETEP.-29.61. WINT--Northerly ; fresh breeze, with coldiainy weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DlY.—Morning, 12h. 12rn.—Afterncon,', 12h. 41m. To-uonßow.-Morning, 111. 9m.—Afternoon, lb. 35m. .067 so 0r.,11. • L__ 77 Se 4 )!Qi- •s t •••••, • Zrf;•trj.-. , 7 'I; 0 , F 11 bfkr "' •rt THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 11, 1860. - - Another telegram—a little fuller than its prede cessor of Saturday—has, within the last few hours, arrived in anticipation of the mails now en route from the Chinese seat of war. From this new fragmentary utterance of that avant courier of the regular mails—the Electric Telegraph — we now know that it was as early as the 13th of October that Pekin surrendered to the Allied Forces, " all demands" being yielded up, at that last gasp, by the Pekinese! Observe—" all demands"—even, the last line of this new telegram informs us, by means of its few final stereographic flashes, " Indemnity ready when demanded!" To what amount is not said, however. Though, whatever the amount now de finitively decided upon by the Allied Plenipoten tiaries, we may be tolerably certain that Lord ELGIN and Baron GROS would find but little diffi culty now in obtaining it. As to that, however, We shall see a little later on. The mere ques tion of the indemnity is already, virtually, in the fullest sense of the phrase, un fait accompli. What we are upon the instant far m ore " ci seatous about, just now, is that dread f«l and still inscrutable mystery still surround ing the fate of two of our captured countrymen. The fate of Azoaz and of BOWLBY yet remains, indeed, altogether unexplained. • A lamentable suspicion of a eine being, however, only too frightfully suggested by the more explicit record now furnished to us in regard to the lamented deaths of Ma. DE NORMAN and Captain AND"- soN . . As we concluded im mediately upon reading vague mention of the w ay i n which those two unfortunate gen tleman had s uccumbed, they have now been forma lly annou nce d as having died the death by the hand of the torturer. "DE NORMAN and AND ERSON," says REarrED.'s Telegram, this morning, have died from th e effects of brutal treatment." The non-appearance of either BOWLEY or BRABAZON, when the mail (now coming) left the seat of war, h as conse quently about it a terrible significance. Par ticularly when it is remembered that out of the whole party originally in the hands of the Chinese these two were the only two unaccounted for ! Thirteen private soldiers had been released when the mail left. PAP.RES and Lout and L'ESCITA.YR kC had been released upon the Bth of October. Captain ANDERSON and Mr. DE NOR MIN were known for certain to have fallen victims to brutal treatment. It is only in regard to the two unfortunate gentlemen still left altogether unaccounted for that we are left entirely to corjec ture—their actual fate being shrouded in hitherto impenetrable darkness through which gleam out alone the most sinister surmises. Our contemporary, the Times, is, perhaps, naturally enough, disturbed in judgment by its profound anxiety as to the fate of its gifted Correspondent; Its solicitude, indeed, as to that mysterious fate which has befallen Mr. BowLBY out at China in the discharge of his responsible and onerous, and, as it now proves :o have been, eminently perilous duties in quest of information, is, certainly, in itself honourable to the Times, is certainly, as we have said, perfectly natural under the circumstances. But in the anguish with which our contemporary broods over the lot of its vanished representative, and speculates at random as to the dim possibility of his reappearnee, it appears to us that its discretion fails under the weight of its blended doubt and indignation. In somuch that the Times, in commenting upon these recent telegrams—on one hand, urges upon those in authority the infliction upon Pekin of an appal ling and wholely disproportionate punishment, while, on the other hand, our contemporary does not even hesitate to throw out the most sinister, and, as we cannot but regard them, the most monstrous and atrocious insinuations against certain unnamed members of her MA JESTY'S Government. We cannot under any cir cumstances be regarded for an instant as among the apologists of the present Administration. We are most assuredly not among the number of the partisans of this or of any other Cabinet. We are not Whigs, nor yet Peelites, nor yet Canningites. Our political principles are not coloured by any one of the glaring hues constituting the rainbow or harlequin diversity of this particularly parti coloured Coalition. The independence of our views holds us still, as it has done unceasingly for years and years past, apart from all party. We can least of all perhaps be charged with anything like even (to use the mildest term) a predilection for that particu lar section of the present motley ministry known by way of distinction, among all the various parties having their representatives at the Cabinet Council table as the Peace-at-any-Price Party! Against whom it is quite clear that this atrocious insinuation, as we conceive, has been so unjustifyably directed by our contemporary the Times. The imputation here darkly hinted at, is expressed in the manner following by our chief morning contemporary, where expatiating upon the mystery yet enveloping the fate of the two missing Englishmen, it observes : " It is a sensitive and thrilling topic on which to touch while there are hearts here in England agonised by the uncertainty, and while there is a possibility, and, as we believe, even probability, that the two missing men may be by this time comfortably telling the tale of their captivity under the roof of some well-warmed joss-house within the English lines." GOD grant it ! " But," con tinues the Times, " instructions are now going out from a Cabinet which contains members who notoriously entertain strange notions as to the rights of belligerents even to poison wells." Now, we do unhesitatingly affirm that the cruelty and the baseness of the shameful insinuation underlying those words are absolutely beyond the reach of exaggeration. We are as firmly per suaded that the charge involved in that last sinis ter sentence (which we have here italicised) is entirely groundless as applied to anyone of the sixteen members of the present Government, as we are confident in our heart's core that they are one and all high-minded Administrators and generous-hearted, open-handed Englishmen. It is a monstrous imputation, and one that we hasten to scout as at once heart less and baseless, one that we hasten to scout thus all the more eagerly, because we are not in any way partizan adherents of the Govern ment, any more than we can be deemed other than directly antagonistic to the particular section of the Government here referred to, that already specified as composed of the Peace-at-any price representatives. Whatever their political deficiences or financial eccentricities, both the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the President of the Board of Trade are honoured and admired in this country, as they deserve, in truth, to be hon oured and admired, namely, as high-minded ad ministrators, as generous hearted, open-handed English gentlemen. It needs not the goad of any such cruel and poignant insinuation, as the one we have here par ticularised, to incite along the one bold and right onward course a Cabinet, presided over by Lord PALMERSTON—a Cabinet, the conduct of the Fo reign Department of which is confided to Lord J. RUSSELL, the War Administration of which is entrusted to the Right HOll. SIDNEY HERBERT. That the honour of England is safe in the keeping of such men (differ from them though we may, and very often do in detail) we rest perfectly well assured. As assured of this as we are in regard to this par ticular war in China, that the glory of our arms will be sustained out there under the guidance Sir HOPE GRANT, or that the dignity and integrity of our diplomacy will be secured by any negotiation that may be entered into by the Earl Of ELGIN and KINCARDINE, as her MAJESTY'S Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary. Whether we are to feel flattered or censured by Count DE PEE.SIGNY'S lecture to his Prefects on the Freedom of the Press in England, in relation to the French laws and administration of the press, it is hard to say. His opening paragraph gives us praise enough to make us blush for very modesty. "I have just been living (he says) among a people who may be justly proud of their institutions; where the liberty of the press is openly exercised without being a danger either to the State, to public order, or to the safety of persons and of things ; and where, useful to all parties, appealed to and respected by all, it forms the surest guaran tee of public liberty, of order, and of the prosperity of the country. I have long witnessed that noble spectacle, and if formerly I had not liked true liberty, I should have acquired a taste for it in that country." And these laudations of our liberty are penned as an introduction to his manifesto on assuming the Dictatorship which the ordinances of the coup d'etat confer on the Minister of the In terior. Surely freedom for the French Press is about to spring from the head of Count DE PER SIGNY, like Minerva front the Head of Jupiter, a goddess fully equipped. But stay a little, and England must hear some what not quite so much to her honour, and France a little showing that the English model has a doub aspect. Both the past and the present of England warn the French Minister that he must not abuse the fa c t p of an English free press. History tells that for long the law of the press was more severe in England than in France. From some time after the accession or the Hanoverian Dynasty, the press of this country was under the Common Law, administered by judges removable by the Crown; indeed, while any dang er f rom the STUARTS re punished with mained, the press might be s a id t o b e i n t h e hands of the G overnment who aee sever ity anything which it considered libelous. represen reflect t Th e following no t unfair :—" Now, if we tion i s that certainly thely judges nom i na ted by the Crown , were l chosen from among the most zealous p ar ti sans of the House of Hanover, and were even liable, up to 1760, to dismissa l b y the Crown, it may be imagined what was the liberty of the press for the partisans of the Sit.IARTs, for tht: Jacobites, the THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDIVC:EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1860. Catholics—or Papists as they were then called— and other enemies of the State. It was only at. the end of the last century, when the House of Hanover had been long consolidated, the party of the STUARTS annihilated, and that of the Catholics subjected, that on public opinion demanding a modification of this rigorous legislation, Fox obtained from Parliament a Bill for applying the verdict of the jury not to the fact alone, but to the character of the seditious publication or libel., which alteration naturally made the legislation on the matter considerably milder." But the Count comes ' down to more recent days, and adverts to the Acts of 1819, and even that of 1848, intended to meet the SMITH O'BRIEN, MITCHELL, and MEAGHER sedition in Ireland, as showing how determined the English Government and people have been not to tolerate any attack on the State itself—on the reigning dynasty, or the great institutions of the country. With this example before him, the Count argues that the application of our management of the press to that of France requires that no attack should now be tolerated on the NAPOLEON dynasty, or the institutions it has created, but that the measures of the GoTernmen and its administrative acts should be subjects oi free discussion. The example of England, he con. :ends, proves in the most striking manner that Liberty of the press must follow, not precede, the consolidation of a new State or new dynasty ; and, of course, as France is under the reign of a new dynasty, adequate restraint must still be ready for use. The sum of Count DE PERSIGNY'S practical remarks appears to be this—that his subordinates are to permit free criticisms of all merely admi- nistrative or legislative acts, but not to tolerate any attack on the EMPEROR or the form of govern, ment which he has set up, and that the personal and dictatorial powers of the Minister are to remain what they are. In other words, the laws of the Press are to remain unaltered, and these laws place it entirely in the hands of the Government officials. The only difference is, that PERSIGNY is now substituted for BILLAULT, and that the former thinks discussions of subjects safe and useful to the State, which the latter would think very inconvenient—indeed, it was but a short time ago that he prevented the editorship of a journal by certain most respectable persons, just because they were men of known moderation, and moderate men's opinions had mere weight and influence than those of a more extreme class. M. BILLAULT thought the very discussions inconvenient which Count PERSIGNY seems to wish to encourage. In all this we have, of course, merely a change of person, not of system or of law. M. BILLAULT may again supersede the Count, provided it should be thought in the highest quarter that a little more severity was again needed. Count PERSIGNY seems studiously to conceal the weak point of his new regime, we mean as one to be in any way compared with that of England—he does not advert to the vast difference between excluding all control of public opinion, and placing the whole administration of the law, such as it is, in the hands of officials who themselves may need the severest censure of the press which is in their hands— and the necessary intervention in every case here, of a jury. It is true that our laws are even now stringent enough—they ought, doubtless, to be modified, but the simple fact of every Attorney-General having to come before a jury is what makes us so easy under them. No Attorney- General in England can face popular opinion when it is very strong. LOUIS NAPOLEON and his Ministers could with ease have put down the Anti-Corn Law League, and stopped its orators' voices or the printing of their speeches ; but when Sir ROBERT PEEL applied to his Tory Attorney- General to prosecute the League, the reply was a tender of his resignation. The League was un doubtedly illegal, but it could not have been sup pressed without defending itself before a jury, and no English ;lawyer of standing, however Conservative he might be, would risk a defeat in such a conflict. It has been to public opinion acting through juries that we owe the practical liberty which we no w enjoy. Officials have found that juries in libel cases will give the utmost latitude to their oaths in defence of public liberty, and they have accordingly learned to submit with patience to criticism, of which they would too often be glad enough to make constructive sedition, did the temper of the public allow. To these functionaries the question is always terrific, " Shall we get a conviction ?" A French Minister has no such fears. He simply says to himself, " this kind of writing is very inconvenient to me—l will send a warning at least —or, shall I suppress for six months ?" On the whole, we must regard the Count's letter as a very ingenious defence of past severities towards the press, mingled with a persuasion that if it be possible, a little more freedom will be better for his master. The initiation of commercial free dom, the proffer of liberty to discuss the Royal speech and the projets de lot, and lastly this proffer of a certain amount of freedom to the press, are all consistent acts. Each by itself may go for little, but we can hardly think that as a whole they are mere moonshine. If free dom in such humble measure seems at all injurious to Napoleonism, we may be sure it will be speedily ' withdrawn ; but we incline to the belief that the EMPEROR would be glad to reign with a little more of constitutional liberty, and its safeguards to the Crown. He and his faithful old servant have there fore concluded to make a trial of a measure of li berty, retaining the power to resume it again at any moment if necessary. The electors, the delegates, and the press, are all to have their chains conside rably lengthened, but by no means taken off. It may thus be seen whether they may not next be trusted with only a collar on their necks, to which the chain might_ be fastened again in an instant ; and if, after all, it be found that the pack gives no signs of turning on its master, then, possibly, con stitutional freedom may be fairly conceded. As ' suredly it is only as a constitutional Emperor that NAPOLEON can hope to leave his crown to his son. He stole it himself, but if before his death the nation feels that it is its own master, they may not be 'unwilling to allow the son to take quiet and p e aceable possession of moderate power. e His Highness.the Prince of Tour and Taxis has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from the Continent. Laura Countess of Antrim and Lady Helen M‘Donnell have arrived in town from visiting the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Pierrepont, at Evenley Hall, North amptonshire. Viscount and Viscountess Lismore and family have returned to town from the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, after a stay of :;even weeks. Lord Huntiogfield has left the St. George's Hotcl. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Saturday evening for llawarden Castle, Chester. Lady Musgrave has left the St. George's Hotel. A very graceful compliment to dramatic art has just been paid by two of the most eminent literary professors of the art pictorial. Messrs. Clarkson Stanfield, R. A., and David Roberts, R.A., in kindly remembrance of their old connection with the theatres as scene-painters, have jointly announced their intention of building a house in the Royal ramatic College, and adorning it with pictures from their I pencils. Mr. Robert Stothard, one of the sons of the de• signer, proposes getting up, in the. Spring, an exhibition a his father's works,—Critic, The Secretary of State for India has made the following appointments in his Council for the ensuing year :—Vice-President, Sir James Weir Hogg ; Chairmen of Committees—Finance, Mr. IV. Arbuthnot ; Military, Major-General Sir Robert Vivian, K.C.B. ; Revenue, Mr. T. Prinsep ; Judicial and Legislative, Sir T. Erskine Perry; Public Works, Colonel Sir Proby Cautley, K.C.8.; ! Railways, Mr. Eliot Macnaghten ; Political, Mr. W. J. Eastwick ; Public, Mr. J. P. Willoughby. The Right Hon. Sir John Young, formerly Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, will succeed Sir William Denison as Governor of New South Wales. The Empress of the French honoured M. Tassaud's exhibition, in Baker-street, on Friday evening with a visit, and was highly delighted. THE EMPRESS ETJGENIE AT THE CATTLE SHOW.— The pigs perfectly amazed the Empress Eugenie, and we are not at all astonished at the fact. So large, so fat, so round, so firm a collection was probably never got together. In former years this used to be the most noisy part of the show, but it is now got quite beyond that, for there is not a single grunt left in one of tho animals. There they lie, enormous cylinders of pork, and a gentle sign breathed heavily at intervals is the only symptom of vitality that comes out of any of the pens. Had the pigs been aldermen of the City of London, and been brought up on turtle, they could not have attained a greater perfection of happy obesity and dignified repose. Diplomatic relations between the United States and Peru are entirely suspended, and the matter in dispute goes before Congress for jurisdiction. Mexican advices are dated at Vera Cruz on the 21st ult. The news of the capture of Guadalajara is con firmed. Seven thousand men were expected at Morelia, to march with the liberals on the city of Mexico. The Challenger and Dewa Gungadhur have arrived from China with 1,206,4001b5. of tea, and 3,731 bales of silk. It is said in Paris that Mr. Gye has found a tenor in Italy; also, that among his operas of 1861 are to be given " Guillaume Tell," " L'Etoile" (with M. Faure as Peter), and a version of the "Pre aux Clercs." The Berlin State paper informs us that the Commission appointed to award the prize for the best drama of the last three years, has given its vote to the effect that no drama will be crowned this time. Amongst the papers of M. Frederic Braun, a celebrated amateur of Dresden, lately deceased, has been found the manuscript, of an unpublished opera by Winter, composer of the " Interrupted Sacrifice." Mr. and Mrs. Henri Drayton, according to recent American advices, have been appearing with success at Mobile. " Ways and Words of Men of Letters" is the title of the new work of the Rev. J. Pycroft, the author of " Twenty Years in the Church, &c. The intended performance of " La Traviata" in Berlin has been forbidden by the authorities on the ground that the libretto is unfit for the ears of a Protestant city, The Manchester letters to-day mention the sus pension of Messrs. Blagomenos and Co., in the Levant trade, with liabilities for £50,000, but with assets that will prove ample, if time be allowed. Another house is also stated to be in difficulties, but its liabilities are only £15,000, and it is thought that a resumption will be prac ticable. THE DEAD WEIGHT ANNUITY.—Some account of a transaction connected with the Bank of England may possibly interest the reader. In the year 1823 the several pensions payable to the retired officers of the army and navy, which were granted after the Battle of Waterloo, amounted to the large sum of five millions annually. The amount was lessening every year, and it was calculated that on the average of mortality the whole would come to an end in 45 years. This suggested the idea of offering to a great public body a fixed annuity for that term of years, in consideration of their relieving the public of a part of the immediate payment. The Bank of England accepted the offer, and advanced the sum of £11,000,000 towards buying up the pensions, receiving from the Government an en gagement to pay them an annuity of £585,710 until the year 1867. This annuity was, and is to the present time, very appropriately . . termed "the dead weight."—llloney Market Review. CRYSTAL PALACE.—The Poultry Show opens to morrow at 10 o'clock, in conjunction' with an exhibition of agricultural implements, roots, seeds, &c. Between 2,000 and 3,000 baskets and packages of all sizes and shapes had arrived yesterday at the palace. The four Lilliputian African horses, scarcely 30 inches high, were safely stabled under one of the counters, which had been specially fitted up for their accommodation. These are the same diminutive creatures which were exhibited before her Majesty the Queen, at. Windsor, on their arrival in England and after wards mounted to the top of the Duke of York's Column to take a survey of London. The owner expresses his intention of letting them occasionally ascend the water towers for a little exercise. Three sheep, weighing altogether about 501 b and six cows in miniature, to match the horses, also arrived. These curiosities will be shown in the centre transept. The naves of the palace are transformed into an immense fancy bazaar, replete with all kinds of articles suitable for Christ mas presents. One Shilling-day, Monday, Dec. 10.—Ad missions on payment, 611; ditto, by season tickets, 649; total visitors, 1,230. ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.—WAR WICK, Dec. B.—A mast determined highway robbery was committed at Near-end, near Wroxhall, a few miles from this place, to-night. A pig -dealer, named Smith, was pro ceeding in the direction of Solihull, from the Warwick market, when he was stopped by three men, who no doubt expected he had some money, and who asked him if he had any pigs to sell. They immediately knocked him down, rifled his pockets of all they contained, viz., a number of receipted bills, and a certificate for shooting, and beat him about the head with crab-sticks until he was insensible. He was subsequently carried to a neighbouring farm-house, and on being examined by a surgeon, it was found that he had sustained such serious injuries that it is doubtful whether he will recover. DETERMINED SUICIDE IN GLASGOW. On Saturday morning, Martha Meikle or Hood, forty-four years of age, residing with her husband in Shuttle-street, Glasgow, committed suicide, cutting her throat from ear to car. Her husband was in bed in another room at the time, and had his attention drawn by hearing his child scream. The woman expired almost immediately. Her habits had been drunken and irregular of late, which doubtless led to the rash act.---Caledonians Mercury. A RUNAWAY POST-MISTRESS.—The Galashiels Record says !—" An officer of justice was in Galashiels last week making inquiry respecting a post-mistress in the far north (a town in Ross-shire) who has absconded and left the affairs of the office in a confused and discreditable state. The authorities in the north understand that she resided for some six months in Galashiels, during the year 1856, and that while here she had given birth to a child. The register books of Galashiels and Ladpolo for the year 185 G have been searched, but no entry applicable to the case can be discovered. It is probable that Galashiels may in this case have been confounded with Blackahiels, or some of the other places with similar dames. CAESAREAN SECTION.—This rare and fearful operation was performed at Bethnal-green yesterday with remarkable success, both mother and child being now alive and promising to do well. The medical gentleman attend ing the patient called in Dr. Edmunds of Spital-square, and, after an unavailing delay of five days, this operation appeared to offer the only chance for either life, as exten sive cancerous disease of the mother caused insurmountable obstruction to natural delivery. The operation was per formed by Dr. Edmunds, assisted by Dr. Giles and five other medical gentlemen, and the operator's wife, Mrs. James Edmunds, acted as head nurse on the occasion, and superintended some important arrangements. Thanks to chloroform there was no pain; when the mother returned to consciousness she found herself comfortably placed in bed, a living child by her side, and no sense of pain except the smarting of the closed incisions. SUDDEN DEATII.—A most awful and distressing instance of sudden death, and one, in its mournful coin cidences, perhaps without a parallel, occurred at Eden ham, near Bourn, in Lincolnshire, on Thursday last, December 6th. The eldest daughter of the Rev. William Emerson Chapman, rector of the parish, had just been mar ried;and the guests, to the number of about 40, were assem bled at the wedding breakfast, when among other healths that of the father and mother of the bride was proposed. Mr. Chapman got up to return thanks, and after speaking some few minutes, during which his voice and manner became unusually loud and impressive, he fell forward , ' and died instantaneously. The heartrending scene that followed may be more easily conceived than described. The deceased was 65 years of age, and has left a widow and nine children. He was domestic chaplain to Lord Willoughby De Eresby, ono of whose seats (Grimsthorpe Castle) is in the parish of Edenham, where Mr. Chapman had resided as rector for 40 years. He was widely known and respected. ESCAPE AND RE-CAPTURE OF A CONVICT.--Dar ing the time the convicts were at work in Chatham-dock yard on Saturday afternoon last, a most notorious character named Archibald Nicholls,who is undergoing a long period of penal servitude, contrived to elude the vigilance of the officers in charge and make his escape from the rest of the gang with whom he was employed. As soon as his escape became known every effort was made to recapture him, and ext ra police-constables placed on duty at the dockyard gates to prevent his passing out in that direction, the sentries of course allowing no one to leave the yard by water. On making his escape the convict stole a frock-coat belonging to one of the workmen, which was lying about, contrary to the express regulations to that effect, and then secreted himself in a secluded portion of the yard. Notwithstanding a vigilant search, nothing was seen. of him, and a reward of ,£5 was offered for his apprehension, it being believed that he had contrived to pass out of the dockyard with the men on their leaving their work. On Sunday night, however, one of the Metropolitan Police employed in the yard under Superintendent Richardson, succeeded in discovering him closely concealed behind some timber, where he had re mained ever since his escape, the convict having on the coat which he had stolen. He was at once removed to the convict establishment, St. Mary's, to await the punish meat which, will be imposed for being At large, LATEST NEWB. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PEKIN, OCT. 13. Pekin surrendered to the allies this day, yield .ng to all demands. Parkes, Loch, and L'Estrang© were released on the Bth inst. • Norman and Anderson have died from the effects of brutal treatment. Thirteen soldiers have also been released. There is little hope of the return of Brabazon, Bowlby, or the French officers missing. The Emperor and the Tartar army have fled, and none of the enemy are to be seen at Pekin. The Emperor's summer palace was taken and looted on the 6th of October, The quantity of spoil was enormous. The Pekin gates have been given up to the troops, who are all healthy and encamped on the wall. The allied army will winter in the north. Lord Elgin and Baron Gros are at Pekin. Indemnity ready when demanded. SHANGHAI, OCT. 20. All is quiet here. A new and distinct rebellion is reported in the province of Shensi. It is said to be headed by influential people. Little is known of the Taeping rebellion. PARIS, TUESDAY MORNING. The ffloniteur publishes a decree cancelling the avertissements given to the journals up to the present date. The report of Count Persigny, which precedes the decree, contains the following : Oblivion of the past will be a new token tendered by the general policy of the Emperor, which aims at the reconciliation and union of all the intelli gence of the country. I have invited the press to use great freedom of discussion. But against those who may attack the State my conscience will be so much the freer and stronger; because in effacing the past, his Majesty offers to writers a noble opportunity of displaying their pa triotism. The 111oniteur also publishes a decree organis ing the Government and superior Administration of Algeria. The Meniteur says :—The Marquis de Ploeuc, Inspector of French Finance, who is now on a mission at Constantinople, has not been authorised to accept the post of Commissioner for supervising the return of the revenues given as a guarantee for the new Turkish loan. The Dloniteur announces the appointment of Count Baciocchi, as superintendent of the Imperial Theatres. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 10. The Porte has stopped a Sardinian vessel coming from Genoa, loaded with arms and ammunition, and having false papers. The Porte has protested against this fraud and the violation of treaties which it constitutes. VIENNA, DEC. 11 The official Vienna Zeitung of to-day announces the appointment of M. Kameny as Provisional President of the Court of Chancery of Transyl- Dania. The Vienna journals publish a telegram from Pesth, dated the 10th instant, asserting that the city was splendidly illuminated on the occasion of the opening of the congregation of the comitat of Pcsth. Public order had not yet been disturbed. VIENNA, DEC. 10, The Austrian Gazette says : " The Ministerial crisis is over. " Baron Schmerling has been definitively ap pointed Minister of State, and it is reported was present at the Council of Ministers held yesterday. " Herr Plener has been definitively appointed Minister of Finance. " The future destination of Count Goluchowski, the former Minister, is not known." PESTH, DEC. 10. The congregation of the Comitat of Pesth was opened to-day. Count Karolyi and Nyari spoke in favour of the re-establishment of the laws of 1848. Agitation prevails in Pcsth, but no disturbances have as yet taken place. PARIS, DEC. 10 The Patric says :-- " It is not true that Austria has addressed repro. sentations to Turkey on the subject of the state 01 things in Moldavia and Wallachia." The Patric also says : "Agitation prevails in the Danubian Prinei, palities. " At Jassy, the Metropolitan and the Minister of the Interior have been arrested and conveyed to a convent, where they are provisionally undergoing imprisonment." The Paris journals announce that the subscrip• ,ion to the New Turkish Loan will be opened to. morrow. CALCUTTA, NOV. 8. The Government Committee has recommended he Bombay tariff for all India. MELBOURNE, OCT. 26 Mr. Stuart and his companions have been driven back by the natives, after having penetrated as far as lat. 19, long. 134. The country was found to be rich and fruitful. The following are the departures of gold ships : The Roxburgh Castle, with 41,703 ounces, and the Great Britain, with 118,560 ounces. The exports of wool reach 2,790 bales. Business is steady. Accounts from New Zealand are to the 12th Oct. The news of the rebels is still unsatisfactory. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 10.—The amount of business con tinues restricted within very narrow limits, but prices have been pretty well maintained, at about the rates of Saturday. For the Account, Threes are now at 69f 5c ; Mobilier, 780 f ; Orleans, 1,387 f ; Northern, 988 f 75c; Mediterranean, 910 f; Aus trian, 508 f 75c ; Lombard, 487 f 50c. The following are the last quotations:- 41 per per Cents 97 Do end month —1 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 95 I Bank Shares . 2950 Credit Mobiliar 775 Do. Account 776 25 Credit Fancier .... 920 Belgian 4i- 9B 75 Piedmontese Fives. 80 15 Roman . 73 75 Austrian Spanish Threes 49 75 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1 385 .. 1385 Northern New ditto 9OO .. 900 Lyons and Mediterranean 911 25 .. 912 50 Geneva — .. 392 50 Southern 526 25 .. 525 Western Eastern Sardinian 4Ol 25 .. 400 Austrian Lombard 485 .. 487 50 STATE OF HUNGARY• The discontent in Hungary seems rising every day, and finds each day new modes of expression. The sympathetic excitement in Poland and in Roumania. is also a striking sign of the times : "On the, 2d lot, the Cardinal Primate of Hun.- pry sent invitations to 100 notables to assemble at Gran on the 17th inst. 'The chief object of the meeting,' says his Eminence, ' will be the settle ment of the question relative to an electoral law, by means of which the Diet is to be constituted.' The ven. prelate writes in a despondent tone, and he has great reason to do so, for three-fourths of his fellow-countrymen refuse to obey the orders of the Government. In fact, the state of things in Hungary is to all intents anl purposes revolu tionary. Tobacco which has paid no duty is pub- iely sold by the peasants in the villages, and in more than one case gendarmes have been passive spectators of the illegal traffic. Six weeks ago Baron Vay was one of the most popular men in Hungary, but ho is now regarded with an eye of suspicion by persons who were formerly his devoted partisans. Count Szechen is so unpopular that his fellow countrymen openly accuse him of having " betrayed" the cause of his native country. The Count naturally has a bias in favour of a Govern- ment of which he is a member, but it is a notorious fact that no one has more resolutely upheld the rights and privileges of the Hungarian nation than he. A few days ago the German names of the, streets in Agram were daubed over with black paint, and on the 28th November there was an anti-Ger man demonstration in the theatre. The German actors and actresses were not allowed to perform, ind when they attempted to address the public :hey wero pelted with rotten eggs, and other equally offensive missiles. The orchestra played " God sate the Emperor," but the noise made by the audience was so tremendous that hardly a note could be heard. The disturbance continued untr a Croat actor appeared and promised his fellow countrymen that in future the Selavonic language should be used on the stage. During the follow ing night several howitzers and other guns were introduced into the capital of Croatia. "On the 29th of November, the anniversary of the Polish Revolution of 1830, there was a poli tical demonstration in the theatre at Lemberg, and a fraternisation of the Poles and Ruthenes. On the same day the students at Cra• cow committed an assault on M. von Czer. kawski, an Imperial employe, who is opposed to the introduction of the Polish language into the public schools. The troops were called out, and under their protection M. von Czerkawski was able to get to the railway station, and to leave for Lem berg in a close carriage. There has recently been a movement of Prussian troops towards the Grand Duchy of Posen, and Russian forces have been pushed forward to the western frontier of the kind- dom of Poland. The Austrian Government keeps a watchful eye on Galicia, but there is no reason to believe that the garrisons in that province have been reinforced. "Information has been received here (Vienna) that a great depot of arms is to be formed in the Danubian Principalities. In fact, artillery, rifles, ammunition, &c., have already been sent by the Sardinian Government to the Sulina." A letter from Vienna, dated Oct. 7, says :—All the Hungarians who come to this city tell me that the disturbances which daily occur in one or other of the cities and towns are of little import ance, but the' Magyarised Germans are ill at ease, and complain of difficulties being thrown in the way of those who are desirous to maintain peace and order. On the 4th inst. M. von Mailath, the Tavernicas, addressed a letter to M. Leopold Rot tenbiller, who was burgomaster of Pesth in 1848, requesting him to take the direction of municipal matters for the time being, and to do all in his power to prevent any further excesses being com mitted Rottenbiller, who belongs to the Liberal party, readily consented to do what was requested of him, and his first step was to send for a certain M. ElakThaiss, and to make him captain of the city (police director) ad interim. A better choice could not have been made, for M. Thaiss, a man of Herculean proportions, is the idol of the students, because he has always had the courage openly to ' express his political opinions,which are very liberal. As soon as he had received his appointment, M. Thaiss—who passed a year and a half in a Bohe mian fortress after the revolution was at an end— sent for some of the more influential students, and told them that he needed their support. It was promised, and as all the metallic double-headed eagles have now been removed from the municipal buildings, it is possible that order may be tolerably well maintained until M. Thaiss has had time to organise the municipal police. The disturbances which occurred at Nyiregyhaza on the 2d inst. were of a very serious nature. The people, who were armed with prongs, axes, and clubs, not only smashed many windows and window frames, but burst open the gates and doors of houses which were inhabited by persons distasteful to them. 'The fury of the mob was directed against the so-called " patental Protestants," that is, against those Sla vonic Protestants who accepted the Imperial Patent of September, 1859. The intervention of the armed force was required, but the people were so excited that they stood their ground until a detachment of curassiers charged into the very midst of them. Several persons were wounded, and many more arrested. The state of siege has not been proclaimed, but no one is allowed to carry an axe or a stick. At 8 o'clock in the evening all the inns are closed, and after that hour every person walking in the street must carry a lantern. There have been disturbances again at Debreczin ; and at Nagy Koros, a town with 18,000 inhabitants in the county of Pesth, a violent collision between the troops and the people. It appears that a crowd of peasants rushed into the barracks used by the Finance Guard, and took possession of all the guns they found there. The employes in the tax and police offiges ran away, and as soon as their backs were turned the double-headed eagles were hauled down. The Jmgers were called out, and after a charge had been made with the bayonet all the peasants who were able to do so took to their heels. Several families have altogether removed from Nagy Koros to Pesth. In substance the petition sent by the Croato- Slavonian Banal Conference to the Emperor is as follows : " 1. That the Slavonic may be the official language of the country and of its employes. 2. That a provisional Croato-Slavonic Court Chancery be formed until the ques tion of the union with Hungary has been settled by the nation, as the Minister of State cannot legally manage the affairs of Croatia and Slavonia. 3. That a Croato-Sla vonic Court Chancellor be appoiuted immcdiaely, and that he make known to your Majesty the names of the persons who wish to have as Obergespone of the counties, 4. That Dalmatia, the islands of Veglia, Cherso, and Lussin, and the districts of Castelnuovo, Volosca, and Albona may be reunited, and for ever reunited to Croatia and Slavonia." It is related that his Majesty has agreed to do what is required by his Croato-Slavonic subjects, but it will assuredly be seen that the report is incorrect. TURKEY. ----- A letter from Constantinople, dated Nov. 30, says : —I have more than once alluded to the.scarcely dis guised intention of the French Government to keep its troops in Syria beyond the term fixed for their withdrawal. This is a matter which appears to me to demand the most serious attention of the other Powers. The question will probably be found to resolve itself into a discussion of the terms on which a continued occupation shall be allowed, and whether other Powers besides France should not send troops. Whatever may be my own op i n i on , it is worse than useless to attempt to conceal facts such as the following, which I extract from a letter recently received from Beyrout, The writer is no f r i en d to an exclusively French occupation. "It seems certain that the occupation will last a great deal longer than it was first :stipulated ; and there see ms really some necessity for it. The population wish it, and the opinion among th3m (Arabs as well as Europeans) appears to be, that the moment the French leave there will be fresh disturbances. The French, on their part, do all they can to spread and strengthen this opinion." A communication was some days since made by the Austrian Government to the Porte, to the effect that six vessels had started from some of the Sar dinian ports laden with arms and munitions of war. It was supposed that their cargoes were destined for importation into Hungary by the Danube, and the Turkish authorities were requested to intercept e them, It is believed that two or three of these Tee- sels had passed through the Bosphorus before the communication in question was made to the Govern ment. One vessel, carrying the Sardinian flag, and supposed to be one of the six, was in the port of Constantinople at the time. Her captain refused to allow the Turkish authorities to go on board. While application was being made by the latter to the Sardinian Legation on the subject the ship was got under way. She has since been stopped at the mouth of the Danube, but, on search being then made, nothing of an objectionable nature was dis covered on board. On Tuesday, in last week died, in the Seraskierat, Ferhad Pasha, better known as Brigadier-General Stein, of the Hungarian army. The deceased Pasha accompanied Bern in his flight when the Hungarian cause was lost, and has since been employed fre quently in active service in the Turkish army. He was lately arrested on a charge of supplyidg ma terials for a libellous pamphlet published by one Grossman, at Berlin, and directed against Riza Pasha, the Minister of War. Tried, and found guilty on this charge, Stein was awaiting his sen tence at the time of his death. That death, it has been hinted in no obscure manner by one of the papers of the place, was occasioned by poison. Grossman, who in consequence of a quarrel with Ferhad Pasha had informed against him, is also under arrest, and is said to be seriously indisposed. Fuad Pasha's family and harem left Constanti nople, for Beyrout, on Wednesday last, the 28th, in the Austrian steamer. Last week Mr. James Herdman, Superintendent Engineer in the Imperial Arsenal, was presented with a service of plate, purchased by a subscription of the engineers in the service of the Turkish Government. At a dinner, given in Pera on the occasion, Mr. Cross expressed on behalf of himself and the other engineers the high estimation in which, after more than 20 years' service, Mr. Herd man was held by all who had served under him, and an earnest wish that he might long continue to occupy the position in which he had gained such golden opinions. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Mr. Drew, whose first appearance before a London audi ence we took occasion to notice at some length at the time, in terms of deserved commendation, last night confirmed the good opinion which we then expressed, by a very able impersonation of Sir Patrick O'Plenipo, in Kenney's well known comedy of " The Irish Ambassador," so familiar to theatrical critics and the public, in association with the memory of the brilliant and lamented Power, whose deli neation of this character can never be forgotten by those whose recollection includes that singularly talented co• median. It is more than probable that Mr. Drew's merits as an actor will be tested by a comparison with Power in this character of Sir Patrick, as has, indeed, been the case in this artist's representation of Handy Andy, in the adap tation of Lover's story, which has been playing for the last fortnight at this house. The success of Mr. Drew in that character is undisputed, but a decision upon his gene ral merits has for the most part been reserved for a more varied exercise of his undoubted ability. It was, therefore, with no ordinary interest that the play going public watched the representation of last night. In the development of this character, which, as every one knows, is a strained dramatic effort to realise the assumed and romantic points of Irish character as we find it in the chronicles of fifty years since—a curious combi nation of imperturbable forgiveness, not to say recklessness, with an amount of impudence which would not hold the ground for an hour in society at the present day, Mr. Drew was perfectly at home. At the same time that the inevitable scrapes in which he is placed by the force of this very characteristic were redeemed by that dash of courage and resolution under difficulties ; a gentlemanly bearing, and a chivalrous devotion to the fair sex which have from time immemorial formed, as they continuo to form, the brilliant features of our Celtic brethren. In truth Mr. Drew was very happy in all the points of this amusing comedy, and fully entitled himself to the ovation which he received. We must observe that the parts of Lady Emily and Isabella were sustained with great spirit and talent by Miss Ternan and Miss Hudspeth, and we cannot allow the opportunity to pass of complimenting Miss 'Amax upon her rare appreciation and lady-like impersonation of the Countess—an impersonation which leads us to hope that we may have the gratification of welcoming this lady in a higher range of comedy, in which the excellent school in which she has studied evidently entitles her to claim a distinguished position. The rest of the dramatis personce were well filled, and the curtain descended amidst the unanimous applause of a very full house. .EHE ALHAMBRA .PALACE HALL. A , This gorgeous building opened last night for the per formance of varied selections of instrumental and vocal music. The house was crammed to the topmost galleries, and any attempt to form an estimate of the numbers who were present would be futile. The performances com menced by an overture played by the band, at the close of which the National Anthem was sung with great effect. Great cheering followed, and there was an immediate call of " Smith I Smith !" After a few minutes' delay, during which the enthusiasm of the audience did not flag, Mr. Smith advanced to the centre of the stage, and bowed his acknowledgments to the hosts of friends and patrons who had assembled together to greet him. The full orchestral band played selections from the most popular dance music, including Coote's " Robin Hood Quadrille," and airs from that popular opera. These were succeeded by selections from Flotow's opera of " Martha," in which Madame Valkener, Miss Emma Heywood, Messrs. W. M. Parkinson, and E. Rosenthal took part, and acquitted them selves in the most creditable manner. The selection of sub , jects was judiciously made, inasmuch as it was of a charac ter to please those who look to enjoy an evening of popular music at the marvellously cheap rate of sixpence. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. At the meeting of this society yesterday—Sir Roderick Murchison in the chair—two papers were read on the subject of opening communication with the south-western provinces of China from the Bri tish possessions in the East. The first paper was read by Captain Sprye, who advocated the route from Rangoon to Eskok, a Chinese frontier town in the province of Yunnan. The distance was esti mated at 600 miles, but a great portion of it would be through British Pegu and the remaining por tion through Burmah. Captain Sprye read quota tions from several authors who had written on China to show that the province of Yunnan and the adjoining province of Szechuen abound in mineral wealth of all kinds, that they are particu larly fertile, and that by opening commerce w ith that part of China all the riches of the country might be obtained near the places where they are produced. Captain Sprye especially quoted from from Mr. Crawford's work on China to show the advantages that would result from establishing relations with Yunnan. The second paper was rea d by D r . M'Cosh, who a dvocated a route from Calcutta through the commercial direct mountainous districts of Assam, and thence by a more northern portion of the Burmese Empire. He pointed out several routes by which this communication might be effected, and, judging by the published accounts of the great riches that abound in that country, he considered it would be an important means of communication regarded commercially, and that the opening of inter course with that part of China would be also of great value geographically, as it would supply in* formation respecting a country of which little is at present known. A long discussion took place after the reading of the papers, which was commenced by Mr. Craw' ford, who protested against being held responsible for the opinions that had been attributed to hint He said the book that had been published in his name had been written by a clerk of his named Peter Gordon, who had used his name without eel authority. So far Was he from assenting to the, opinion that the province of Yunnan is fert ile and productive, that he believed it to be the most barren spot in the whole of China, and it was kno wn that the comparatively thinly scattered population imported tea and rice from the other provinces. it is well known, he said, that the fertility of Chine increases towards the East, to which there Was direct communication by water, and such minerals as were extracted from the mountainous provinc e the of Yunnan could he procured more readily by river Kiang.tse-Kiang than by an overland route. Sir John Davis, Captain S her. rd Osborne, Ole Oliphant, and Mr. Lockhart took part in the dis oussion, and contended generally for promoting communication with the south-western provinc e ,. of China by the route proposed by Captain Sprr; Mr. Lockhart particularly noticed the mines riches riches of those provinces. 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