The Sun. — London, England, 1860-02-18 00:00:00

EDITED BY W. H RUSSELL, Esq., Late Special Correspondent of " The Times," TIIE .ARMY and NAVY GAZETTE, and JOURNAL of the MILITIA and VOLUNTEER FORCES. Published every Saturday, in time for the Morning Mails. Office (where Advertisements and Subscriptions are re- Ceived), 16, Wellington-street North, Strand—Sold by all Newsmen and Booksellers. Price 6d., stamped 7d. WHITWORTH'S RIFLED CANNON. THE ARMY and NAVY GAZETTE of this day contains a full account of the experimental practice *t Southport during the past week. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, THE ROSE OF CASTILLE.: Messrs. Bantley, G. Honey, St. Albyn, and Wm. Harrison. Miss Louisa Fyne and Miss Thiriwall. Condactor, Allred Mellon. - - To conclude with the new grand pantomime, called PUSS IN BOOTS; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden Palms. Messrs. W. H. Payne, H. Payne. F. Payne, Barnes, Tallien, Infants Lauri, and Miss Clara Morgan. Doers open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buokstone. THIS EVENING, will be performed (by particular desire SHOCKING EVENTS. Soßowed by THE STRANGER. Miss Amy Sedg,wick. 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 Leelereqs. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. Last Night of Dona Isabel Cubas. THIS EVENING, a new Drama, called A TALE OF TWO CITIES, by Tom Taylor, Esq., from the story of that name by Charles Dickens, Esq. Principal characters by Mr. James Vininv, Walter Lacy, Villiers, House, Forrester, J. Johnstone, T. Lyon, Morton, Palmer, White, H. Butler, Clifford, and Fredericks ; Misses Kate Saville, Stuart, Turner, Mrs. Campbell, and Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex travaganza and Pantomime, KING THRUSEIBE &RD, the LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION, in which is pre sented one of the most novel, costly, and brilliant effects ever Witnessed -designed and painted by Mr. William Callcott.— King Thrushbeard, Miss Julia St. George. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. 'Janis. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan sense of La Scala, Milan ; and the Delapierre Family, These highly-talented Children will appear every night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. THIS EVENING, CAUGHT IN A TRAP. - After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by H. J. Byron, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle quin King Art'sur and the Knights of the Round Table. Jack, 3116 S Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack - Panta loon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. W THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI. NEW Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Ben j. Webster. Combination of Talent.—Engagement of these popular artistes, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, who will appear for a limited number of nights. THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE HOUSE, or THE HOME? Messrs. A. Wigan, C. Selby, Billington ; Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss H. Simms, and Miss Laidlaw. Followed by the petite drama of ONE TOUCH OF NATU itE. Messrs. B. Webster, Billing - ton, Eburne, C. J. Smith ; Miss H. Simms, After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LTTRLEYBERG; , 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. Boa- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor tar bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. Directress, Miss Wndham. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passengers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with ( sixth time) FIRST AFFEuTIONS. Messrs. H. T. Craven, G. Spencer, and Miss Wyndham. After which, MAGIC TOYS. Miss Lydia Thompson. Followed by a new burlesque called DIDO. Mr. Charles Young, Mesdames Wyndham, Clara St. Casse, Murray, Eliza Arden, C. Ranoe, A. Evans, and Corps de Ballet. To conclude with I WILL, IF YOU WILL. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, ls. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform ance commences at 7. A STLEY'6 ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Last Six Nights of Mr. W. Cooke's Management. THIS EVENING, to commence with a grand and spirit stirring Hippodramatic Spectacle. Graphic, Picturesque, and Fascinating Scenes of Horse manship by Miss Mice Maude Cooke, Miss Emily Cooke, and John Irenry Cooke, the leading Equestrian of the day. To conclude with the Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY ; or, Old Towler the Huntsman and the God dess Diana ; Diana, with Songs, Miss Jacobs ; Tom, Mr. Herbert; Patty, Mr. G. Belmore. Commence at 7. Stage Manager, Mr. It. Phillips CONCERTS.- CANTERBURY HALL THIS EVENING, LUCREZIA BORGIA, (Donizetti). Donna I ucrezia Aliss Russell. Mzfiio Orsini Mrs. Anderson. Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert, Don Altonzo Signor Tivoli. Conductor—Mr. Jongimans. Comic Vocalists --Messrs. (lecnce. Hort,ort (the Irish Conic , Man and Mimic), W. T. Critchteld, and E. W. Mackney. --- - Several interesting* Pictures ar,:. :idled to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of 1 falls have he. n ~e-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique itn.d brilliant sights of the metropolis. The aliery is °pea from 5 Liii II on Sunday Evening. OFFSCM, FEB. 18, 1860. THP.1114:0247,TER, IN THE SITADII. 44—highest since noon yesterday. 43—lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this day at noon. BAROMETER— 30.37. Warn, North-Easterly ; rather fresh, with cloudy weather. Rain yesterday evening, and slightly during the night ; now dry. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, Oh. Om.—Afternoon, 12h. 4m, To-moßßow.-Morning, 12h. 38m.—Afternoon, lh. 4Z„ it ~-,-,-5,-zl, _,j k4'; ' ,-, - ,;'''-', , .-.\27'542:&•,, kil•! -7 e -;.-e \ A al '. r - , - . v,e-g ~Ts z ':''. irlf2 , :,-- - • t f, , ,, .5- f .P ‘.,_ .4 ..'.,--:.,'_ -...r E...,,, ~ ,-- . 4.f.V. "/ • i! , )c.,-...Li nj . ..,4 ,... _ --Cl:. --- " --- _- - __;.-('-' 4 _ -17, - ;;:-.),:g. •$„,,,,,,__., ' THE SGN, lONDON, SATURDAY, FEB. 18, 1860. We apprehend the discordant Twins of the Treaty-Budget will not pass muster so easily as their foster-fathers wish. One thing is now pretty clear that many of the members who are really re presentatives of the people begin to open their eyes more widely, and to scrutinis e several of the parti cular items in the Budget as well as those Free-trade clauses in the Treaty. No doubt the Ministers have taken a freedom with our constitutional rights wholly indefensible in argument or likely to be beneficial in prac tice. We hope they may have reckoned without their host. There is one thing that strikes people as to the absurdity of making a treaty subject to the approval of Parliament—and yet to have that treaty ratified in all its anomalous assumption. Indeed, when Lord PALMERSTON was asked last night what might be the consequence if that treaty were rejected, and what provision or understand ing had the Government made or come to upon that supposition ? His Lordship coolly replied, that they had made no stipulation for such an unexpected contingency, fully relying on the good sense of Parliament to agree to the Treaty which was framed entirely in the spirit of Free Trade! Well, after that the force of effrontery cannot go much farther. Indeed, the cool assurance of the noble lord's manner in trying to tickle the House into a favourable acquiescence was received with shouts of ironical laughter, ',singled with cries of " Oh ! oh !!" and well they m i g h t. Some mem b ers suggeste d t h at the treaty was ratified so hurriedly in order that any opposition to its objectionable clauses might be construed as a breach of privilege —or as an attempt to curb the Royal Prerogative. And it looks very like it ; else why tningle two dissimilar subjects into one incongruous mass. The one is so interwoven into the other that a n y attempt at severance might jeopardize their , passing into a law. A great reduction or loss of revenue is contemplated by the treaty, which the provisions of the Budget are to make good at the expense of the Engtish people. And this is giving a wider expanse to the principle of free trade ! If it be so we cannot understand what free trade means in that sense; or what reci procity is vouchsafed to our side when taxation is pressed on the other. It is even more than „that—our raw material is taxed by coming here, and our manufacture of that same material is txxed again by going there ! France taxes us with double tides, while we are so simple minded as not to see it. It is a juggle THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1860. —a delusion, and a sham ; and for the belief in which we are to be taxed with our eyes open that our pockets may the sooner become emptied. But the tables may yet be turned on the concoctors of such a palpable monstrosity in the shape of such a treaty, and a Budget so framed as to keep it in countenance. If Mr. GLADSTONE will make suoh strange blun ders, and forego his own promises so solemnly made with respect to the Income•tax—that it was to cease and determine this year— how can he now have the assurance to break faith with the public by not only re-imposing it in all its cruel enormity, but in actually doubling it ? The attempt deserves not only reprobation, but actual defeat. Why, if he must needs want money to meet his demands for carry ing out his ill-concocted schemes, why does he not have recourse to a LOAN, and so spread the pres sure over all ? The expense incurred in our naval preparations—such as building new and the con version of old ships—is not for a day, but for years. The money laid out now will be returnable or prove good for many years to come. The ships will last long, and so save further expense to the country in time to come. Why, then, should we of the present day be saddled for the benefit of those who follow ? A loan can be raised on moderate terms, and so relieve the immediate pressure on the poor man, while the interest will not be felt, being spread over time till the loan be extinguished. The Income Tax is as odious as it is oppressive. It is unjust in its want of discrimination. It goads those who struggle for a decent livelihood, and leaves property untaxed in its due propor tion. Property is a realisation, while Income is uncertain and varying in its acquisition. Let Mr. GLADSTONE then have the courage to re vise his plans and make up what money he may require by a national loan, and so endeavour to dif fuse general satisfaction. After several hours had been consumed, last evening in the House of Commons, in desultory and discursive sharpshooting, directed against those full fledged birds of wisdom perched on the front Trea sury belhch—the House resolved itself into Commit tee, and the Secretary of State for War at length brought up the heavy artillery of the Session in the shape of the Army Estimates. After two of the most important votes comprised within the compass of these estimates had been (as a matter of course, we might say) agreed to—namely, first of all, a vote of 143,362 men for the army, exclusive of those in Her MAJESTY'S Indian possessions, and a vote of .£4,498,636 for pay and allowances for land forces at home and abroad; again, exclusive of the monies required for the like purposes in Her MAJESTY'S Indian possessions—the Chairman reported pro gress, and so forth, the House closing its sitting forty minutes after midnight, with a trifle of other pro forma business. Previously, however, the honourable and face tious baronet, the member for Tamworth, fired off what might be called, for the nonce (we won't say, for the nonsense of it), the feu de joie of the discussion what your pyrotechnists would term (pyrotechnically) the " bouquet" of the evening. The success of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S speech as a piece of broad humour is of course un deniable. To recognise this upon the instant, it is only necessary to glance down the report of it, when the hilarity caused by sentence after sentence, and pleasantly recorded by the reporter in the customary parentheses, will be found notified as plentifully as plums are sown in a Christmas pud ding. And certainly, reading the mere letterpress, we can't so very well wonder that the House should be entirely quit of its gravity for a while under so much good-humoured provocation to laughter. Sir ROBERT throughout merely aspired to be the farceur—he was obviously doing nothing more serious than "poking fun" at his listeners. With one hand he had the Committee by the buttonhole, and with the other l i playfully touched it up somewhere in the region of the midriff. It would be scarcely possible, we should imagine, for the brow of the gravest big wig of them all to resist the disposition to un bend at the hon. baronet's allusions, let us say, to the Rifle Corps of the Inns of Courts ! At his refer , ence to the possible chance of an encounter between the patriotic lawyers enrolled in that body of volunteers and the Cuirasseers (let us suppose) of the Imperial Guard ! At his enumeration of the happily-named sergeant in it—" soon to be made sergeant-major"—yelept Sergeant PARRY ! and his kindred associates in the corps, Dr. BALLS and (quoth Sir ROBERT) with a ludicrous reminiscence of some former pleasantry of his own of the same kind—" my old friend in the matter of the Conspiracy Bill," even—Lawyer BODKIN ! If one could effectually withstand the hon. baronet's appeal to our risibility, in reference to those busy bees of the Temple Gardens now rifling the sweets out of the Volunteer Movement, when he remarked, in a tone of mingled wonder and expostulation—" They are deserting Am- BROSE'S " Reports" and ". COKE upon LYT TLETON," for PLUTARCICS " Lives," CTSAR'S " Commentaries," and " The Rifle and How to use it"—it would be scarcely possible to resist joining in the roars of laughter with which the Commons yesterday greeted Sir ROBERT'S recom mendation to these forensic volunteers " to stay at home and recollect the maxim, in meclio tutissimus ibis, which," said he, "being freely translated, may be interpreted to mean, You are a good deal safer in the Middle Temple!" Certainly no one can, seriously and with a grave face, quarrel with such a depreciator as this of the volunteer move ment. At the same time, when we have laughed oar laughter right out, enjoyinglY, when we have wiped our eyes clear of the hilarious moisture, and the droll speaker has said his say and sat down again—what does it all mean Merely the idle talk of a jokemaster ! Merely the humorous absurdities of a Parliamentary wag For, after all, there is manifestly nothing so exces sively ridiculous in any race or any class, in any land or under any circumstances, looking to it in earliest that their hearths and altars—that the generous mother country, the grand old fatherland, be at last, at the end of a period of monstrous and inconceivable apathy, placed in a state of adequate preparedness, of due defence against all evil possi bilities in the shape of invasion ! However funny the notion may appear in the eyes of Sir ROBERT PEEL, in the view of the nation it is otherwise. There was nothing outwardly very heroic in the appearance of a slim young man buttoned up to the throat in a civilian's frockcoat, and carrying in his hand no more f.or ,aidable weapon than a slight cane little better than a switch, as during three days of a certain July he flitted here and there through the throng the mid s t o f the flying bullets of the Bour bon army and the Revolutionists. A very unheroic spectacle in the eyes of Sii ROBERT PEEL,with very p ro b a bly, th a t young civilian his rattan in the streets of Paris! Yet, no other this, than ARMAND CARREL, of whom the late Lord STRANGFORD penned an im• not unworthy o f TYRT2EUS. It is passioned lylic r scarcely surprising, however, that Sir ROBERT should adopt (even in patriotism) nil admirari as his motto—sauntering though the world, as he seemingly does, Judging only from Appearances. While he is joking, however, England is arming ! While the House of Commons laughs at his drolleries, it is voting four millions and a half for military pay and allowances ! Whatever derision may be thrown upon the movement by a few pro fessional cynics like Lord MELVILLE, or an occa sional Parliamentary humourist like Sir ROBERT PEEL, there is the fact that England has already within the last few months mustered 80,000, very nearly 100,000 rifle volunteers ! And there is the additional fact that the House of Com mons evinces no apparently insuperable reluctance to vote at the behest of Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT £14,482,275 under the head simply of Army Esti mates—an amount in excess, by £1,982,600 of our last year's military expenditure. India is becoming a resort of investors, and for the sake of both India and England this is a grati fying fact. It will not continue to be so unless it be found to pay ; and if the investors are repaid, the political advantage of our wealthier citizens, having a pecuniary interest in the prosperity of India, cannot be overrated. The Indian Minister's speeches, and, above all, his financial statements, will not then be made to empty benches. The gains to be sought from shares in Indian railways, and Indian canal and irrigation companies, will be directly dependent on the traffic of the country, and the wealth, not of a few over-gorged civil ser vants, but on that of the inhabitants generally. With prosperity advancing amongst all classes, and that prosperity obviously the result of connec tion with the governing country, and with an ample revenue as the consequence, another mutiny will be very unlikely: And, while contentment among the people will ensure quietness, railways will doubly enhance the:strength of an European army. They will enable it to fix its quarters on the healthy plateaux of the mountains ; and they will yet convey troops a hundred miles more swiftly and with less fatigue than they could formerly march a fifth or even a tenth of the distance. It is, therefore, matter for congratulation, that there is every prospect of quite a new era opening on India, in regard to the introduction of English capital and enterprise into our vast Eastern Empire. All Imperial Acts notwithstanding, India has remained pretty much the close preserve of the haughty and costly civil service, who equally despised and dreaded men of business. The service has, however, seen its best days ; it nearly lost the country. The men of business must now step in and complete its salva tion. The home Government is opening its eyes to the broad facts of the case, and the routinists in India will be compelled to open their eyes also. Lord STANLEY began the new system. He was not the man, though he leaned strongly to old Indians as counsellors, to overlook the necessity of a bona fide opening of India to English energy and capital. And we are happy to have now before us a minute by Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN, "as President of the Council of Madras, relative to the conditions under which English enterprise and capital may best be applied in aid of Government in developing the resources of Madras in particular and India in general." As it is printed by order of the House of Commons, every one in every part of the king dom may obtain it for a trifle ; and, to those who are interested in Indian investments, it will be a paper of great interest. Sir CHARLES TREYELYAN had no sooner arrived at Madras on his recent appointment there than he upset with a stroke of his pen the miserable Court-of-Chancery-like system of endless waiting and copying, in duplicate and triplicate, of which the late Sir CHARLES NAPIER and every man of business has so long complained ; and, to the utter consternation of the scribes of the civil service, determined to transact Indian business on the same common-sense and timesaving plans by which English business is carried on ; and we are pleased to notice that this minute is written in the most practical spirit and full of sympathy with the great general object. Our readers may remember that some time back we described the proposed operations of the Indian Canal and Irrigation Company, and strongly com mended the company's proposals to public and Governmental notice. This company's scene of operations lies, of course, in Sir CHARLES TREVE LYAN'S own province, and Lord STANLEY having arranged terms with the company here, and re mitted the business to Sir CHARLES, he has already taken active measures towards commencing the parts of the work to be first attempted, and speaks in the most decided terms as to the certain results of the irrigation. " Our water-meadows on the Exe," he says, " with the rivers and channels for irrigation, and distributing sluices, give only a faint idea of what may be done with the mon soon waters of the Deckan;" and he considers that there is no doubt whatever of the possibility of widely irrigating " these thirsty plains." He has appointed on his part Colonel ARTHUR COTTON, who has devoted his life to the subject, and to whom the company equally looked, as the person who shall make the selection of the work to be done. We cordially wish this enterprising Eng lish company in India the success it so well deserves, and seems certain to achieve, and hope that it will be only the precursor of numerous fol lowers. In discussing the general question of carrying on Indian works by the Government or by'private companies, Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN assigns, as might be expected, the most satisfactory reasons for preferring private companies. The Govern ment superintendence of such railways as it has guaranteed is of a very imperfect kind, and can never equal that of private companies. He thinks the guarantee system has been carried much too far,though it was necessary at first, because Indian works were strange to the capitalists of this country. But a s regar d s nav i gat i on an d i rr i gat i on com panies, h e says t h ere i s no need whatever of gua rantees.workssoraorteo p p e a r y fe , c t t h ly at ui h i d o ei•stoodin India. They Sueh are so considers the exigency to be of the opposite kind. Govern ment should take its guarantees that if it surrenders the public water to • a private company, it should secure a countervailing public advantage—such, WD suppose he means, as fixing a .maximum rate of supply to the public, or of profit to the companie:. The irrigation works constructed hitherto by the Government in India are, he says, not to be com pared with those of private individuals, and private companies are much more effective instruments for communicating English ideas than the Govern ment. And as to the sacrifice of contingent gain by the Government, it is of no use to talk of that unless the Government were prepared to do the work. Its duty is to watch that the public derives a fair advantage for the surrender of the public waters. NEW THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL—Her Royal Highness the Euchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary and suite honoured the performance with their presence this evening. THE VOLUNTEERS.—The Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief, has signified his intentit:n of pre siding at the dinner of the vounteer officers, to be given on the ith of March. LATEST NEW t; The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : BERLIN, FEB. 17. It is asserted that M. Thouvenel has forwarded a despatch to the Marquis de Moustier, the French Ambassador at Vienna, instructing him to remind Austria of her promises concerning Venetia. MADRID, FEE. 16. Gen. Uhtarez has left for Tetuan. He is the bearer of the conditions upon whish peace would be granted by the Queen. The Correspondencia Autografa believes that the war with Morocco will continue, The Duchess of Tetuan is about to leave for Tetuan. ROME, FEB. 14 (via MARSEILLES). The new loan has been negctiated with Belgian capitalists—the 3 per Cent. at 56, and the 5 per Cent. at 93. Nine hundred Bavarians, enlisted for the Papal army, have arrived at Ancona; others are expected. The Italian patriots in Spoleto, Ferri, Rieti, Jesi, Perugia, Todi, Amelia, Narai, and another town have sent 10,000 fr. to Garibaldi. FERRARI, FRIDAY EVENING. The , Governor Farini, arrived here to-day, and was enthusiastically received by the inhabitants. A general illumination has taken place, and a grand ball has been given by the Marquis de Costabili. BELGRADE, FEB. 17. Prince Michael Obrenovich has forbidden his house to the French Consul-General on account of his offensive conduct. INDIA. BOMBAY, JAN. 26. Shirtings, 811 b, sr. Ba. per piece. Exchange on London, 2s. 11d. Money tighter. Cotton, 118 r. to 121 r. per candy. Malwa opium, 1,305 r. to 1,310 r. per chest. Discount 9 per cent. Copper sheathing, 72r. ; tile, 64r. to 64r. Ba. per cwt. ; 40's mule twist, Br. 12a. to 9r. 2a. 7p. per bale. Markets generally dull. nvights advanced to 40s. to 455. INDIA AND CHINA. By extraordinary express, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, we have received our letters and papers from India and China. The dates are— Calcutta, Jan. 10 ; Hong Kong, Dec. 30. The 43d Regiment of Light infantry leave for Calcutta as soon as the 80th Regiment relieves them. They (the 43d) are under orders for Madras, and will probably be on the road by the 12th inst. The following are extracts from an article in the Calcutta Englishman : A reference to our date will show that availing ourselves, though at some cost to us, of the after packet leaving Calcutta at two p m. this day, we are enabled to give a day's later intelligence than any other journal. Up to the time of going to press we have no intelligence of the arrival of the incoming mail steamer at Galle, which is now two days overdue. The first year of direct assumption of the Indian empire by the Crown has closed, and it is no slight mark of its value and its resources, that notwith standing the recent tremendous struggle for mere existence, and in spite of one of the most inefficient and obstructive Governments ever inflicted upon a British territory, India has so far attained not merely restored tranquillity, but prospects of pro gression. In our first despatches of the year now passed we had to report that Oude was still unsettled, that bodies of rebels, partly by fighting, partly by bribes, were forcing their way into Nepaul ; that Central India was still disturbed, and bodies of rebels extant in Behar. The Begum, the Nana, Tantia Topee, and other rebel leaders were still at the head of large, though demoralised and distressed forces. With the close of the year has come the absolute close of the campaign against the last of the rebels. By the sword, by disease and want, and by gradual deser tion and escape, the last rabble of the vast mutin ous army have melted away. The Begum is still at large, but altogether deserted, a powerless and impoverished fugitive. Tantia Topee has been hung. It is almost certain that the Nana died miserably in the jungle, and the principal agents and abettors in his atrocities are now undergoing or waiting for their trials at the hands of our Com missioners ; and as it is unlikely that these are of Major Barrow's stamp it is probable that the pri soners will meet the just reward of their ruffianism. Oude is disarmed and tranquillised, and has afforded the Viceroy a field for full display of the "pomp and circumstance" of a triumphal progress. Just now many of the loyal chiefs who have shared among the honours of the Durbars are in mortal fear lest the possible disclosures of Mummoo Khan and others of our prisoners—their late dear friends, should display the nature of their loyalty rather too fully to be quite pleasant to them. Having completed the destruction of the rebel army, our Government contrived the dissolution of a large portion of the European army who had so nobly done that work. Not fewer than 10,000 men have been sent home at great cost, to illustrate the sound sense and admirable tact of Earl Canning, who can exclaim with Coriolanus, " Alone I did it." Perhaps Lord Clyde, who is about to follow the malcontents to England, may enlighten the Viceroy's friends in the Ministry how it was managed. Having now no active internal enemies we have breathing space to fit our contingent for the China force. The Government have purchased two of the old Peninsular and Oriental steamers, and are taking up vessels for the despatch of every large force, in all it is said some 15,000 troops- The Quartermaster- General of the Forces has already gone in advance, and we hope that this time the terrible losses caused in the commencement of most of England's wars for want of pre-arrangement may be avoided. Our latest China advices bring us nothing new. SWITZERLAND. The Journal de Geneve publishes an account of a meeting held in that city by the Savoyards residing in the Canton. The following declaration was unanimously adopted : " The undersigned inhabitants, &c., anxious about reports in circulation, according to which Savoy would cease to form part of the States of his Sardinian Majesty, are desirous of publicly stating their devotion to the King and their wish to see no change made in their union with the Sar dinian Monarchy. " But, on the other hand, and in case political reasons, of which they do not wish to make them. selves judges, should render a separation inevitable, they are convinced that their Sovereign will not dispose 'of his faithful subjects without allowing them to express their wishes under circumstances so important for their future welfare. " Consequently, and despite the sympathies which a great and glorious empire may arouse, they ex press their sincere wish to be united to the Swiss Confederation, with which they have been so long connected by common interests and sentiments, as well as by those friendly relations of which they have received so many proofs." AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY. The United States mail steamship Fulton, Captain J. A. Wootton, with mails of the 4th inst. from New York for England and France, arrived off Cowes this morning and proceeded for Havre. She has a small quantity of specie for France, but none for England. Among her passengers are the Hon. C. J. Faulkner, United States' Minister to France, and family; also the following exiles from Hayti: —General M'emlla Clemene, Lieutenant-Colonel Richelieu St. Martin, Lieutenant-Colonel Brener Prophete, and Lieutenant-Colonel Sydney Pro phete. The long-pending battle for the Speakership was brought to a close on the afternoon of the Ist by the election of Mr. Pennington, of New Jersey, a Republican of moderate views. He received exactly the number of votes necessary to effect an election. Upon the first ballot, 233 mem bers being present, and 117 necessary to a choice, Mr. Briggs, of New York, added his vote to those which Mr. Pennington had secured the day before, and Mr. Pennington having thus 117 votes was declared elected. He was conducted to the chair by Messrs. Sherman and Bocock, and the oath of office having been administered the members were also sworn in. After a scene of much confusion a committee was appointed to inform the Senate that the House was ready to proceed to business, and then an adjournment to Friday was carried. The Senate, after the transaction of unimportant business, went into executive session, and subse quently adjourned. In the Senate, on the 2d, Mr. Davis, of Missis sippi,S introduced resolutions on th e re l a ti ons be tween the several States, and between the States and Government: Mr. Fitch, of Indiana, then took the floo r t o spea k upon M r. the Federalseral tes ta Brown's resolution. He praised the Administra- tion, upheld Slavery, and denounced Mr. Douglas The House of Representatives was not in session. The Republicans in Washington were jubilant at night over the election of Forney. They paraded the town, accompanied by a band of music, and called upon Forney and his especial friends and supporters. Forney, Hickman, and Haskin made speeches, and Haskin read a letter of Forney's, apologising for the celebrated Forrest letter. A Washington correspondent of the New York Times transmits to that journal what he represents to be a Presidential programme arranged between the Republican and American members of the house. According to this story, Mr. Edward Bates, of Missouri, is to be brought forward as a candidate for , , with General Cameron as Vi ce - President. the id e nt. he "platform" is to be distinctly na tional and CoNervative, and Mr. Seward is to be compensated, for the omission of his name, with the French mission, and the reversion of the higher office in 1864. The Maryland Legislature had received a series of resolutions from the Legislature of South Caro lina, proposing to call a Disunion Convention. Out of respect to a sovereign State the resolutions were allowed to be read, but in the debate which followed only two members sustained them. In a letter to the Governor of South Carolina Governor Hicks writes that Maryland can see nothing but injury to herself in the establishment of a foreign asylum for her fugitive slaves on the borders of the State. Ex• Governor Chase, of Ohio, had been chosen United States' semator by the Legislature of that State. The vote stood, for Chase, 75 ; Pugh, 54 ; and Corwin, 5. The Senate Committee for investigating the affair at Harper's ferry discharged Realf from further at tendance. on the 3d, and he left for New York. Senator Wilson was examined, and detailed an in terview he had had with Col. Forbes in the Senate Chamber, early in May, 1858, wherein Forbes re peater? the thrice-told tale of his Kansas work and the sufferings of his family, and warned the senator against the rash projects of John Brown. Mr. Wil son at once wrote to Dr. Howe, mentioning the suggestions of Forbes, and urging him to place be yond the reach of Brown the arms sent to Kansas by the Boston Committee. This recommendation Ml. Wilson had supposed to have been adopted, and had known nothing more of the matter until the outbreak at Harper's-ferry had occurred. While these innestigationa were proceeding at Washington the trial of Stevens was going on at Charleston, and ended in his conviction as one of the conspirators in the Harper's-ferry outbreak. THE FORCE FOR CHINA. The appointments on the general staff are verg ing towards completeness. The following we (Bombay Times) believe, may be relied on : Commander—Lieut.-General Sir G. Hope Grant. Chief of Staff—Colonel Haythorno (now in China.) Adjutant-General—Colonel Mackenzie (Deputy-Adju tant General, Bengal). Deputy-Adjutant-General—Colonel Stephenson (now in China.) Deputy-Adjutant-General, Moran Force—Colonel Bruce (Chief of Police, Oude). Assistant-Adjutants-General—Major Drummond and Major Taylor. Quartermaster-General—Colonel Holdich, C. 8., corn mending Gondah Station and Trans Gogra. Deputy-Quartermaster• General—Colonel 0 usely (De. puty-Assistant-Quartermaster-GeneralOude Division.) Assistant Quartermasters G eneral—Captain P. S. Lums den (60th Native Infantry) ; Captain G. Allgood (49th Native Infantry). Generals of Division—General Napier; General Michel. Since last mail several additions to the Bengal portion of the force has been sent to us. The whole list at present stands thus : BENGAL: EUROPEANS. No. 2 Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery. Cavalry (not detailed). 4th Company Royal Engineers. 23d Company ditto. Her Majesty's 3d (or Buffs) Foot. Her Majesty's 6th (Royal Ist Warwickshire) Foot, lit Battalion. Her Majesty's Bth (King's) Foot, Ist Battalion. Her Majesty's 23d (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) Foot, Ist Battalion. Her Majesty's 37th (North Hampshire) Foot Her Majesty's 60th (King's Royal) Rifle Corps, Ist Battalion. Her Majesty's 67th (South Hampshire) Foot. Her Majesty's 73d Foot. Her Majesty's 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Foot. Her Majesty's 99th (Lanarkshire) Foot. NATIVES. Irregular Cavalry (not detailed). Five Battalions Infantry (each 800 strong). MADRAS. EUROPEANS. No. 7 Battery 14th Brigade Royal Artillery. Her Majesty's let (King's) Dragoon Guards (two squad rons). A and K Companies Sappers aid Miners. Her Majesty's 44th (East Essex) Foot. Her Majesty's 66th (Berkshire) Foot. NATIVES. A Company sth Battalion Artillory (Golundauze). Ist Supplemental Company (Golundauze). BOMBAY. EUROPEANS. Her Majesty's 31st (Huntingdonshire) Foot. Her Majesty's 56th (West Essex) Foot. NATIVES. 3d Regiment Native Infantry (1,000 strong). bth Regiment Native (Light) Infantry (ditto). The only information we have of the Cavalry is afforded by the Mefussillte of the 10th—" On dit, that it is to consist of a troop or squadron of the 2d Dragoon Guards." Of the irregular cavalry the same journal has heard that it will comprise " 600 volunteers from the four regiments of Sikh Cavalry." The Delhi Gazette also says that three squadrons irregular cavalry, under Capt. Fane, are going, and that volunteers are wanted. Capt. Fane is second in command of the 3d Cavalry Regiment Punjaub Irregular Force. Of Queen's troops (Infantry) the Oude Gazette, usually reliable, has heard that the 24th (Ist Batta lion) are likely to go; and the Poonah Observer mentions the 43d, it being ordered to Calcutta. The latter, however, is more likely to remain at the Presidency, to supply the place of the 60th and 99th. Towards completing the five battalions of Native Infantry, the sth and 15th Punjaub Infantry, the 33d Bengal Native Infantry, now at Peshawur, and the 60th Ghoorkas, have volunteered their services. Sir Hope Grant is said (Lucknow Herald) to have applied for an escort of the Bays to accompany him to China. The Delhi Gazette has been informed] that intel ligence has been communicated to Government to the effect that the Nana was seen some little time ago on his road to Badrinath, disguised as a jogi or religious mendicant ! He is being looked after. —Bombay Times, Jan. 17. COMMERCIAL. CALCUTTA, JAN. 10. PRODUCE MARKET.—Business has been brought t o a stand in consequence of the late advance in freights. It is evident that produce must go down t o cover this rise in freights. The only articles that are at all stiring are indigo and raw silk. Rice is higher on account of lar ge d emands for the Mauritius and China. Oil seeds flat, with a declin ing tendency. Jute lower and out of favour. Saltpetro in less demand, and slightly lower. Silk Piece G oo d s i n no demand, unless at still lower prices. IMPORT MARKET.—In piece goods a fair business has been done at gradually advancing prices, and there is a general expectltion ~f t bo.tfer f.'eling in the market. MONEY MAaKET.-31uney coutinues very easy, and ib likely to continue so until trade recovers from the depres sion under which it now suffers. CHINA. The following is from the China Mail of Decem. ber 30 : The London mail of the 10th November arrived here on the 27th inst, The most important intelligence of the fortnight comes not from China but from Japan, where trade has been suspended by the native authorities, but with the approval of the British Consul-General, on account of the improper conduct of some of the British residents there, and because of outrages committed on Japanese by drunken sailors. Mr. Alcock, our consul general, is distinguished by great caution and by even a timid regard for the good opinion of the local communities in which he has been placed, so that it is improbable that his severe circular, has not been more than warranted by the circumstances of the cases. In it he asserts that inquiry into murders committed lately on foreigners in Japan, "marked by circumstances of great atrocity and vindictiveness," and into alleged insults committed by Japanese officials, " has only tended to prove how much foreigners, in a marked degree, have themselves to blame for so deplorable a state of affairs." Sailors from ships of all nations have been allowed •to go about on shore intoxicated, offering violence and insults to respectable Japanese ; and Mr. Aleock even asserts that the permanent foreign residents have given just cause for complaint by violent or inde corous conduct to native officials as well as to others. The consul-general says that British mer chants at Yokohama have made " insane demands" on the Japanese authorities, " often with menace and violence," while there has been procrastination and want of system on the part of the Japanese. In the desire to purchase gold coins, on which there is a profit of nearly 100 per cent., demands have been made on the Japanese treasury in violence of the Treaty regulations, under fictitious, often indecent, names, and for fabulous sums which no language can express. In addition to all this, there appears to have been smuggling going on. It is not pos sible that the interests of legitimate trade in Japan (which can only be slowly developed), and the hon our of England in the East, should be suffered to be perilled by such proceedings as these. The personal relationships of foreigners in Eastern Asia is a subject on which little has yet been said, but it is one of great and increasing importance, for personal insults are rarely forgifen until they are avenged in blood. They often exercise a very wide influence on the progress of public affairs. The conduct of the French at Tien-tsin last year, both towards women and respectable Chinamen, had no doubt a good deal to do with the determination of the Chinese Government to close the Peiho against foreign ships of war ; and when, as happened the other day at Macao, some of the crew of an Ameri can ship entered a :respectable merchant's house and caused the ladies to flee, we can easily under stand what ongoings there are in more distant places, where there is hardly any appeal to the public opinion of the civilised world. On this matter the Indian mutiny has held up a terrible warning, which appears to have been almost lost. The deficiency of the rice crop is now telling on the price of that necessary of life, and much suffer ing, if not even famine, is anticipated. From Shanghae there is no news of any interest except an ominous interdiction of (Roman Catholic) missionaries travelling in disguise. This is grounded by the Chinese on there being " a crisis in military operations," which should not be laid open to spies. Faint rumours of hostile preparations are still heard. The first ship with emigrant coolies for the West Indies has already been dispatched, containing a fair proportion of women and children ; and another will soon be sent almost entirely filled with families. A very fair idea of the knowledge which many old English residents here (who never mingle with the natives) have of China, is that they at first ridiculed this scheme, and declared that not a single Chinese family could be got to emigrate. At Canton last week there was a conflagration in the commissioners' yamun, which destroyed a great part of it. A new hoppo has been appointed ; and the customs service, after having to undo two or three false steps, seems to be settling quietly down as a settled and important institution. On the evening of the 27th and yesterday morn ing there were two fires in this town, but neither of any importance. The work of cutting an easy path up to Victoria-peak, and erecting a sanatarium and flag-staff up there continues to be carried brisklyon. His Excellency the Governor proposes also to have a summer bungalow upon it for his own use, and if the experiment turns out successful, as there are many reasons to hope it will, next cold season may see the erection of a email town on and about the peak. We regret to hear that the sisters of charity propose to remove from this and locate in Macao. They have been of much use here in administering both to sick foreigners and Chinese, and in training up infant children. Some annoyance has been caused in Victoria by house property being assessed at enormously high rates, much beyond its value or the actual rent paid. COMMERCIAL. HONG KONG. Business at Hong Kong has comparatively been at a stand in consequence of the want of stock. Cotton continues neglected in this market. Yarn is lower, and there is little, if any, demand for low numbers. Piece Goods.—There has as yet beon barely time to test the market with the piece goods brought out by the two vessels above named. Small parcels have changed hands. Six and a half catty grey shirtings are quoted at 2 dole. 65c. White shirtings are unchanged. Woollens.—Long ells are much wanted. llll.searlet would readily command 12 dols., and assorted 10 dols., and H-goods Il dots. 50c. and 9 dole. 50c. respectively. Exchanges has declined considerably since our last. CANTON. Business is extremely depressed. The new Custom House officials seem to do their work well, and without unnecessary impediments to trade. Cotton as compared with last mail, occupied a much worse position. The sales of the fortnight are 860 bales only, the stock amounting to 13,000 bales. inclusive of the quantity in the river. Yarn has declined fully 2 dols. per picul, and as far as low numbers are concerned is for the time unsaleable. Piece O. oods.—Grey shirtings have experienced a marked improvement. The stock is, however, small, and will soon be exhausted. White shirtings are unchanged. WIIITTFORTIPS RIFLED CANNON: The experiments with Mr. Whitworth's rifled cannon were continued on Thursday on the South po t st. The practice with th e 3 -pounder at long r range coa gave results still more astonishing than those recorded in yesterday's paper. Six shots were fired at an elevation of 35 degrees ; the results were iv follows : Angle of Eleva- Range in Deviation from the Lino tion. Yards. of Fire. 35 deg. .. 9,463 .. 68 to the right. ” 9,503 72 f f „ 9,547 .. 57 ” .• 9,611 . 89 f . . 9,645 .. 31 9,688 34 „ When it is remembered that this gun weighs only 2081 b., and that not only a range of above 5-1 miles was attained,—greater than has been recorded of any gun ever made,—but that good practice was made at that enormous distance, the epithet "astounding" as applied to the results is fully justified. The notice of the practice with the larger guns is deferred to another occasion. GUN ROATs.—Tne gun vessels ordered by the late Government from various contractors are progressing rapidly. Messrs. Miller and Son, of Liverpool, launched two of them —the Pelican and the Steady—several days ago, and Mr. Charles Lungley, of Deptford Green Dockyard, got his—the Mullet —into the water in a very forward state on Monday last. The latter vessel was removed at once to the Royal Victoria Dockyard, where she will he equipped for sea. The dimensions of these vessels are-- Ft. In. Length between the perpendiculars ~. 146 0 of keel for tonnage .. . 127 101 Breadth, extreme .. 25 4 for tonnage . moulded 24 6 Depth in Hold Burthen in tons The:( are each to be fitted with engines of 80-horse power. -- liechanies' Magazine. FLOGGING IN TILE ARMY.—Yesterday (Fridayl ramming at an early hour, Private Beacroft, of the 2n battalion of Grenadier Guards, now in garrison duty at Windsor, received, pursuant to: his sentence, fifty lashes in the barrack-square, and in the presence of the battalion. He was also sentenced to 165 days' imprisonment. The man, bears an exceedingly bad character in the regiment, having repeatedly robbed his comrades. He has also been guilty of divers other offences against military discipline, and we understand the greatestforbearance has b een shown to him, and various punishm en t s , s h or t o f thi lash, has beer' inlicted on him without 10.T.til, GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. HALF-YEARLY MEETING—(THIS DAY). The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this company was held this day at the London Tavern. Mr. Packe, deputy-chairman of the board of directors, filled the chair. The usual routine business having been transacted and the report taken as read, The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, stated that the reason he occupied the position he did at that moment was solely caused by the illness of their chairman, Mr. Denison. It was a source of regret, he felt, to all, that he was not present ; but as he (Mr, Packe) had to discharge the duty of chairman of that meeting, he would acquit himself of the task as briefly as possible. The capital ac count showed that, up to Dec. 13, 1859, the total expenditure amounted to £11,489,748 6s. 7d. In the revenue account, it would be seen that the balance available for dividend, in the original and A and B stocks, was £168,273 1 ls. lid., being an increase over the corres ponding half-year of 1858 of £21,237 Os. 3d. which would leave a balance of £387155. Bd. to be carried forward to the next half-year. The ex penditure account showed that the maintenance of the permanent way and works was £5,153 in excess of the corresponding period of last year, but this sum included £5,000, the balance of the "fishing" account carried forward from last half-year. The total working expenses of the half-year amounted to 49'53 percent. of the gross receipts, but by excluding the items of compensation and bad debts, which were exceptionally high, the per tentage would be re duced to 47.1. The Metropolitan Railway Company had commenced the construction of their line from Paddington to Farringdon-street, and arrange ments were in progress for the formation of junctions with the Great Northern Railway at King's-cross. The Chairman having alluded to the bills in Parliament affecting the Great Northern Railway, concluded by moving the adop tion of the report. A long discussion then ensued on the increase of the working expenses of the line. Mr. GOODEVE said the item of working ex penses had increased £73,000 in three years. The adoption of the report having been moved, it was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then moved the following reso lution, which was agreed to : "That a dividend, at the rate of £6 per cent. per annum upon the perpetual preference stock of the company; of £6 per cent. per annum upon the 5 per cent. preference stock of the company ; of £4 10s. per cent. per annum upon the 4} per cent. preference stock of the company; of £5 per cent. per annum upon the 5 per cent. preference stock of the company ; of £7 per cent. per annum on the original undivided stock of the company; of £3 per cent. for the half-year on the B ' stock of the company ; and of 44 per cent, for the half-year on the A' stock be declared." Three vacancies having occurred amongst the directors by the deaths of Messrs. Arbouin, Chaplin, and Pym, it was agreed that the number of directors be reduced to thirteen. The retiring directors having been re-elected, and thanks re turned to the Chairman, the meeting separated. BOA-RD OF TRADE RETURNS. The Board of Trade returns for the month of Decem ber were issued yesterday. We subjoin a statement of the total declared value of the exports of British and Irish produce and manufactures during the month and twelve months : Month of Dsc. The twelve months. 1857 1858 1859 10,827,242 The aggregate shipments in December were larger by £768,473, or 7f per cent. than in Decem ber 1858, and larger by £3,679,201, or 50 per cent., than in December, 1857. Those for the twelve months of 1859 were larger by £13,831,671, or 12 per cent. than in the twelve months of 1858, and larger by £8,374,320, or 71 per cent., than in 1857. Examining the chief items of these exports, we arrive at the subjoined general figures for the month, viz. : Month of December. 1857. -- 18E87 --- - 1859. Apparel and slops £181,371 £194,191 £223,593 Beer and ale Books 31,260 29,996 . 49,424 Butter Coals and culm 186,121 196,975 194,095 Cottons Cotton yarn Counterpanes and small wares 29,322 36,329 28,930 Earthenware and porce lain 84,073 83,115 95,579 Furniture Glass, common bottles.. 26,215 24,678 30,838 Haberdashery and mil linery Hard wares and cutlery 275,584 293,756 360,549 Leather, unwrought Ditto, wrought 123,502 91,210 132,124 Saddlery and harness 28,256 22,474 26,132 Linens (doths of all kinds and cambrics) Linen yarn Machinery, steam en- gines 59,352 61,175 ',- Ditto, other sorts 152,395 192, ? 111 138,73 i Iron, pig Ditto, bar, bolt, and rod 155,615 172,927 147,310 Ditto, railway of all kinds - ---.. 204,021 166,831 183,525 Ditto, cast Ditto, wrought 184,535 183,719 240,770 Copper, unwrought Ditto, sheets and nails 72,133 149,260 178,498 Lead Tin, unwrought Tin-plates 38,775 92,529 64,543 Silk manufactures (silk only) Other articles (of silk only) Silk, thrown 21,053 55,673 44,824 Ditto, twist and yarn Spirits (British) wool Woollens (cloths, &c.) .. 177,659 205,835 215,196 Ditto (mixed stuffs, .. flannels, &c.) Worsted stuffs Woollen and worsted yarns The increase is almost genera l , b ut t h e grand movement is still in cotton goods. There is a marked increase in the export of haberdashery, hardwares, beer and ale, and woollen and worsted goods and yarn. Pig and bar iron show a falling off. The exports of linens have also been decidedly below those for the corresponding month of 1858. The annexed shows the quantities of the chief articles of food taken for consumption during the month : Month of December. 1857. 1858. 1859. Cocoa lbs. 147,645 204,063 236,129 Coffee lbs. 2,748,449 2,591,219 2,793,012 Wheat qrs. 486,299 286,906 294,261 Flour cwts. 509,812 237,526 223,860 Butter cwts. 25,155 28,019 43,531 Rice cwts. 141,258 130,898 95,248 Cheese cwts. 36,083 30,508 39,307 Eggs No. 7,531,200 7,024,800 7,672,600 Pepper lbs. 343,814 372,464 320,686 Rum gals. 373,684 417,372 474,529 Brandy gals. 101,491 111,433 123,128 Sugar, unrefined,owts. 614,405 557,390 604,431 Tea Wines gals. 433,937 497,178 620,790 The consumption of foreign grain, flour, and rico has been rather limited. Wines and spirits present an increase. As regards sugar, tea, and coffee-all important articles-the figures are very large. THIS DA Y'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Feb. 18.—Wind this day at noon, North; roodsrate breeze and cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 17.—Wind, 8.Y.E.--Arrived—Thy Jeannett, from Batavia for Rotterdam -11. M. Str. Alecto, from Woolwich. CROOKHAVEN, Feb. 15 .—Arrived—Unele Joe, from Sa vanuah for Liverpool. CARDIFF, Feb. 1 7. — Soiled—Gideon, for Havana. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) PLYMOUTH, Saturday, 10 a.m. The ship Rafael, Captain Phillips, 69 days from Alpe Bay, after landing four passengers here, has proceeded on for London. Her cargo includes 1,000 bales of wool, 4,000 horns, and 300 bags transhipped seed. She spoke, on Jan. 14, the Dutch ship Hoogly, for Antwerp, and 28th the Morning Star for Boston. Her Majesty's screw steamship Brunswick, 81, from Lis bon, is now entering the sound. SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning. Wind, N., hazy. Arrived—Lively, from Seaham ; Marquis Bute, from Sunderland. Sailed—Sultan, steamer, for Lisbon ; Tamar steamer, for St. Thomas; Havre, steamer, for Havre; Despatch, steamer, for Jersey; Charlotte, for Guernsey. LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning. Wind N.N.W. Arrived, Feb. 17—Cultivator, from Now York; Mar nolia, from Huaska ; Glacno, from Pernambuco. Arrived, Feb. 18—Typhoon, from Bombay. (By SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) 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