The Sun. — London, England, 1869-12-04 00:00:00

" THE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS THE MAN.": BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES, BEST WORKMANSHIP, and LOWEST PRICES, at E. MOSES and SON'S. Every description of Clothing ready-made or made to measure, br all ages, all occa sions, and all classes, at E. MOSES and SON'S. An immense assortment of WINTER CLOTHING, in all the newest designs and materials, at E. MOSES and SON'S. OVERCOATS from 19g. to £5. BOY'S OVERCOATS from 10s. Gd. to 455. For the convenience of Ladies accom panying their Sons there is a separate de partment for Boys' Clothing, and it is fur nished with a splendid assortment of Suits, Overcoats, and Clothing for all occasions, including all the favourite designs and the most fashionable materials. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measuro introduced by E. 3IOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless tit. Orders from persons who are not known to the firm should 7.0 accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be 2heerfully exchanged. or, if desired, the money will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps. end Boots and Shoes, is un aqualled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. A very largo assortment of BLANKETS, from 53. 4d. tho pair. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments ere closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Beady-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollen drapers, natters, 'Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turer, and General Ou If Ift r ; for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDON. CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER OF TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON ROAD. Country Branch BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. THE CHEAPEST DIAR POCKET DIA containing the followin; ZY EVER PUBLISHED. k.RY FOR 1870, in useful information:— Almanack Corporation of London TrAnsfer Days of Public Funds Postal Information Weights and Measures List of Bankers Stamp Duties Army and Navy Agents Foreign Moneys Cab Fares Ministers of State Ready Reckoner Al;o A DIARY, a*ranged oa the raoat approved plan, and neatly , .. printed on good writing pacer. Price One Penny, or post-tree for Twopence. E. MOSES and SON, MiNc)RIES and A I,DGATE, NEW OXFORD-STREET, ) LONDON, ET TOTTENAM-COURT-ROAD, And BRADFORD, YURKSIIIRE. To he obtained also at the Metropolitan Railway and other Bookstalls of Messrs. Willing and Co. METROPOLCTAN and GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS. WORKNIEN'S TICKETS, at a Reduced Fare c,f Four pence per day, will be issued at Hammersmith, Shepherd's Bush, L:Ltimer Road, Notting Hill, and Westhourne Park, to Moorgate Street, and intermediate Stations on ►he Me tropolitan Line, on and after the Ist December. For full particulars see special notices. A, GENTS WANTED EVERY W HERE 1. to introduce commodi ies valuable to every householder nigh and low. This offers a highly remunerative Commission Tradesmen, Travellers, Gentlemen's Servants. &c. Apply with two stamps to It. 3IA.RRISON, Great Orford-street,Norwich. (OHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY +-, TOOTLE PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d.-11ed Bull Wharf, 03, Upper Thames-street. London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hoe, no matter at what ago. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonuirful liquid. It is now offered to the public n a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. Gd., and 15e. each. including brush. Red Rill' Wharf, Angel passsage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. THEATRE ROYAL, 1) It URY Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F.E. ChattArton. THIS EVENECH, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA. new four-act Drama, by Dion Boucicault Messrs. Barrett. H. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright. Johi. Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald. and Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, at Seven, FAMILY JARS : Mr Compton ; Mrs E. Fitzwilliam. At a Quart e r to Eight, the New Comedy, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES : Mr Bnekstone, Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe, Mr Rogers, Mr. Braid, Mr Buckstone, jun. ; Miss Robertson, Mrs Chippendale, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam, Miss C. Hill, &c. Concluding with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY : Mr Kendall, Miss F. Gwynne, &c. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, MY PRECIOUS BETSY: Mr Atkins, Mr C. J. Smith, and Miss Eliza Johnstone. At 15 to 8, THE LONG STRIKE: Mr Benjamin Webster; Messrs A. Stirling. G. Belmore, J. G. Taylor, W. Rignold, C. H Stephenson, C. J. Smith ; Kiss Furtado. B.:c. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr a Belmore and Mrs. Leigh Murray. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. HOLBORN TIIEATRE.ROYAL. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, STATE SECRETS: Mr George Honey. At 735, Lord Lytton's celebrated Play of THE LADY OF LYONS: Barry Sullivan; Messrs. W. H. Stephens, Lin Rayne, Charles Horsman, Evans, Lunt, cite.; Mrs. Hermann Vez in Mrs C. Horsman &e. To conclude with THE LO fTERY TICKET. On Thursday and Friday (for the 3 at and 32nd times) Moore's Tragedy of THE GAM STER. On Saturday next the celebrated Play, in 5 acts, of LOVE'S SACRIFICE. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Proprietor, Mr. Sefton Parry. Immense success of Mr. II J. BYRON, THIS EVENING, at 7, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. Mr Henry Neville, Miss Lydia Foote. At 7.'5, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Sir Simon Simple, by Mr. H. J. Byron. Messrs. J. Clarke, Parselle, Rc Mesdames Hughes, Berend, and Stephens. To conclude with A BREACH OF PROMISE Box-office open from 15 till 5. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, TOO MITCH OF A GOOD THING: Messrs Ashley. D. Leeson, and Misses Maria and Neily Harris. At 7.45, BUY BLAS: Mr. Fechter; Messrs H. Marston, D. Leeson. A shley, Travers, Eburne, Romer; Mesdames C. Le clercq, M. Bremer, Addie, &c. II OYAL STRAND THEATRE. P - It Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanhorough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS : Mr CI Lrke. Followed by THE TOODLES: Mr Clarke. After which, INO; Messrs Thorne, James, Fenton, Turner Mesdames Sheridan, Newton, Maitland, etc. To conclude with THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL' SPORTING. —JOHN ROBERTS supplies the LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN" as soon as pub ishod.-4, Bath-street, City-road, E.C, THE "SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. GL,ENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware -road. delivers the LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " at the earliest possible moment after leaving the press. 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WILSON, newsagent, and special agent for the North-western District, 24, Delancey-Meet, Camden-town, THE SUN.—LATEST EDITION to be seem in the Coffee Room, at the "Southampton Arms," II igh street, Camden-town, where all :porting and Political events are freely discussed. THE LATEST or SPECIAL EDITION of "THE " every Evening, at Eight o Clock, at Mr ROBERTS', "The Black Cap," High-street, Camden-town. THE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " at J. SMITH'S, 39, Bow-street, Covent-garden. TIHE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at I. W. SMITH'S " Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden THE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" a t JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The - Wellington," Wellington-street, 3 rand. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE, ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. 21th Ncvember, 1869. The Court of Directors of the Corporation of the Royal Ex change Assurance do hereby give Notice, that their Transfer Books will he shut from TUESDAY, the 14th of December next, to TUESDAY, the 4th of January following; that the Annual General Court appointed by their Charter will be holden at their Office, on the Royal Exchange, on WEDNESDAY, the 22,1 of December, at Twelve o'clock at Noon; and that a Divi dend will be considered of at the said Court. ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary. ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. THE DIRECTORS have now the pleasure of submitting the following statement, showing the financial position of the Company: The CAPITAL availp,ble for the purpose of meeting any unusual calamity happening to the assured is Two MILLIONS STERLING. The amount actually paid up is £288,495. This, with the accumulated funds in hand, exceeds £1,800,000. For the satisfaction of the public the whole of the se curities belonging to the Company are annually submitted to the careful scrutiny of two independent auditors, and the following is as extract from their report to the last annual meeting: " The whole of your books have been audited ; every document, every account, every voucher, your bank-book, and every security - all have been most carefully kept, and there is not one doubtful security in the whole." A detailed List of the Investments of the Company, as already published, may bo obtained on application. Au independent valuation of the Life Liabilities, as at 31st December, 1868, has also been obtained from Mr. Samuel Brown, the result being— LIFE LIABILITIES AND ASSETS. I Net Valuei Accumu _ I Namber. °f '1 td l' 1 Surplus. I Assuranc* a e Fund , ' -- General Life As-1 surances, less' 1 re-Assurancesl 13,844 £765,021 £912,643 £177,622 Children's En-I dowments .....' 207 21,260 23,287 2,027 Annuities (Irn mediate and Deferred) i 421 137,514 156,345 18,801 Total.. 11, 172 1X923,823 C 1,122,975 .£198,450 The valuation has been made at 3 percent. interest, and the net premiums only I axe been taken, so that the loadings for future profits and expenses are entirely hold in reserve, and not brought into the valuation. The results show a considerable surplus in the Life branch, amounting in the whole to £198,450. JOHN H. 31‘LAREN, Manager. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. THEATRE-ROYAL DRUPX-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. P. B. Chatterton. Tins EVENING, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, FnIIMOSA : Stessrs. Barrett, El Irving, David Fisher, Brittain, Wright, John Rouse: Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Mac donald. and Katharine Rodgers. Conclude with BORROWED PLUME• S THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. I fFITS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, FAMILY JARS. After which, NEW MEN AND OLD ACR KS: Mr Buckstone. Concluding with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHt. rf n s EVENING, nt 7. MY PRECIOUS BETSY, Followed by THE LONG STRIKE: Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr A. ling, Nit. G. Belmore, Mr Stepheiasm, Mr Smith, kr itignold. Mr Taylor, Mi-s Furtado. &c. And .I)O3IESTIC ECONOMY 1r G. 13elnaore and Mrs L. Murray. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENING. at 7, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. At 7 .'5, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS BE LOOKS: Mr H. J. Byron. And BREACH OF PROMISE. Mr J Clarke and Miss Hughes. PRINCESS'S TII EAT': E. THIS EvTrxiso, at 7. TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING: Mr. Ashley and the Misses Hari is. With RITY BLAS: Mr Fechter, Mr Marston, Miss C. Lecicrcq, Mrs Addle, &c. THEATRE-LOYAL, HOLBORN. Tuts E vE,:rsn, at 7, STATE SECRETS. After which, THE LADY OF LYONS Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, &c. And THE LOTTERY TICKET. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanhorongh. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. With THE TOODLES. and ISO. Concluding with THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. CHRIStY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's -pack, OPEN daily (ex. o ept Sundays). Admission. Is.; on Mondays, Gd. Children u nder tweire, Fri ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET 3 Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-office open from 11 too. (1 .41 - 8 , : ‘. < ----4..„ 4 ", e ).-___ . , -,z-..._, LONDON, SAI LiI?DAY, DEC. 4, 1869. The Government appears resolved not to give the public the benefit of a very useful and sensible piece of legislation. A reform to which no possible objection can be made except by interested persons, a reform which would undoubtedly save many lives and avert the destruction!of much valuable property, is adjourned sine die for no apparent reason save that Mr. BRIGHT prefers the role of a roi faineant to that of an active constitutional monarch. In spite of the formidaLle statistics brought forward year by year by the Na tional Lifeboat Institution, in spite of the inexorable logic of the TVreck Register, and its dismal catalogue of disasters, " the Board of Trade do not intend to recommend to Parliament to make provision for any inspection of merchant shipping." Such, at least, is the language of Mr. LEFEVRE, who, as the representative of the Board of Trade, visiting the second port in the kingdom on an official visit of in spection, must be supposed to be pretty accurately informed of the views and intentions of his chief. The number of rotten and unseaworthy ships whic are annually sent to sea to find their end by the first stray rock or the first stiff breeze they encounter would be hardly credible to the uninitiated. The state ments made by volunteers and lookers-on, however, can be only too readily tested and examined in the face of the Board's own statistics. A certain number of ships are lost annually round our coasts—that much is certain. It is equally certain that of those only a small proportion perish from unavoidable disaster. Vessels of the:collier class are sent our, old, unsea worthy, ill-found, insufficiently manned, with cables and anchors alike defective; and the owner can hardly be startled when he hears, as he so often does hear, that he has one vessel the less, and that men and boys have alike gone down with the ship. Far more than half the shipwrecks that occur on our shores befall vessels concerned in the carrying trade ; and the steady waste of life that goes on round our eastern coast amounts at the year's end to a frightful aggregate. Surely it is the office of the Legislature to inquire into this systematic destruction, and to ascertain how far it is due to plainly preventible causes. If it merely resulted from accident, which might be averted by the march of scientific improve ment, it would be clearly the duty of the Board of Trade to recommend an investigation into the matter ; but when there is good reason to be lieve that culpable negligence and indifference to life, so long as money loss is insured against, cause annually the loss of many hundreds of English lives, it may well be asked what a Board of Trade is for if it refuse to act. We hope that since the right lion. member for Birmingham carries his theories of Government non-interference so far, some indepen dent member will take the matter up and put it clearly before the House and the country. WE are in the habit of hearing strange news from the United States; but assuredly the intelligence that a statue has just been erected to Mr. VANDER BILT 19 one of the most remarkable items that have lately come across the Atlantic. On the 10th of November a bronze effigy of this hero was un veiled. "A bishop," we are told, "invoked a blessing on him, speeches were made and verses recited in his praise, and the authorities of the City town. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1869. bowed down and worshipped before his image." It is not usual to erect such a memorial to a man whilst he is yet living, as Mr. VANDERBILT is. Mr. PEABODY was a most worthy exception to the general rule; and possibly the reader who has net heard of Mr. VANDERBILT—though there can be few such—may conclude that he also has been a great benefactor to his kind. Unfortunately the orginal of the Now York bronze effigy is neither statesman, warrior, poet, nor philanthropist. He represents the modem golden calf. He is a rich man, perhaps the richest in America ; he has gained his riches by the most questionable means, and he has employed them to no good purpose. The honour that has been paid him is the worship of Mammon, pure and simple. That a statue should have been "sub scribed for" is, as will presently appear, by no means surprising ; but that clergymen, civic functionaries, and a large crowd, more or less respectable, should be found to countenance the inauguration is certainly a most melancholy sign of the time. It may be in teresting to skew who this deified personage is. "Commodore " VANDERBILT—the title is of his own choosing—is in every sense of the word a self made man. He began life on nothing; he was in dustrious ; and, above all, he was consistent. The series of evil deeds which make up the history of his life is unchequered by any of the good actions which most bad men commit in moments of weakness, in order to place a trifle to the credit side of their moral account. He began early, and the system which he adopted from the first has been continued to the end. Whilst a boy he assisted his widowed mother in working a small schooner which she owned, and which acted as a ferry-boat between New York and Staten Island. He soon saved a little money, bought a vessel of his own, entered into competition with his mother, and speedily ruined her. This brilliant performance won the admiration of a large steam-boat owner, who gave VANDERI3ILT the management of a line of ves sels on the Hudson. Here again the hero's perfect freedom from the trammels of moral conviction secured him a triumph. A. competing line of vessels was driven off the river. VANDERBILT himself became the owner of several steamboats, which he turned to the best account. Legitimate trade was too slow and too honest ; the rising star of com- merce adopted a system which had the double advantage of rapidly winning him both wealth and the execration of the entire mercantile community. Wherever a boat was doing a good trade, VANDERBILT started a vessel, not in legiti mate competition, but to carry passengers at nominal fares, for the sole purpose of being bought off. This practice he followed so systematically that many owners found it well to pay him a regular subsidy as the price of freedom from his competition. In a few years the Commo- dore embarked in a wider sphere, and tried on the ocean the trade which had succeeded so well on the rivers. Once, in endeavouring to levy a contribution from the Cunard and other great firms plying between England and America, he was severely bitten ; but for the most part his fraudulent competitions brought him vast sums of money. VANDERBILT next appeared in the field as a Government contractor. In this capacity he injured his country a good deal, and as a bait for more profitable business, he presented to the Repub lican navy a steamer which consumed so much coal as to be worse than useless. This exploit, was a fitting close to the Comoro• Bore's career on the deep. his fame had now be come great ; with the view of immortalising himself he went into the railway line in 1861. This doings in this new field of enterprise ex celled in grandeur and sublimity of moral destitution even his performances on the water; but the history is too long to be given in full. Suffice it to say that VANDERBILT now changed his tactics; instead of competing, he adopted the system of buy ing up lines which proved troublesome. He first made himself master of the Harlem railway, then of the Hudson River line, and, thirdly, of the New York Central. With these three important railways at his command, it re mained for him only to get possession of the well known Erie line, in order to secure the absolute con trol of all the commerce between New York and the West. For once, however, he found his match. On the directory of the Erie were the notorious JAMES FISK jun., and GOULD ; and these two men were as determined to keep the line in their hands as VANDERBILT was to get it into his. The memorable " Erie Railway War " was fought out in 1867. VANDERBILT tried to buy up as many Erie shares as would give him a con trolling voice in the management of the property. FISK and GOULD persistently defeated this project by fraudulently pouring new stock on the market. hundreds of thousands of illegal shares were issued, judges were bought, legislatures cor rupted, the shares flew from zero to above par and back again, like the gold heap of a roulette player ; but whatever the traffic on the line, or what ever the price of shares, there was no dividend for the shareholders. This strange contest revealed many remarkable facts, but the most curious of all was the clear proof that there existed in America a greater rogue than VANDERBILT. Mr. JAMES FISK, jun., was always ready to cross the limit at which his competitor stopped short. Hence FISK won, and VANDERBILT was beaten. The person uninitiated in the beautiful mysteries of American finance might imagine that the loss of such a battle would ruin even the Commodore. Far from it ; he was the gainer in money, though the " honour" (and money too) remained with Fax. The price of this conflict was paid by the shareholders. In July 1867 a truce was concluded between the two parties, VANDERBILT being bought off at an enormous price. When the public suspected the corrupt transaction, the Commodore wrote to a New York paper, denying that he had ever sold to the Erie Company any stock or had received any bonus ; but he seems to have forgotten that the maxim of " honour amongst thieves " does not usually apply to commerce, for FIsK immediately proved VANDER.. niLT's deliberate falsehood by producing two cheques paid by the treasurer of the company to the Com modore. Such are a few of the deeds which have just been ' commemorated by a statue. The getting up of this memorial was worthy of the man whom it is intended to represent. VANDERBILT gave orders to a satellite to farm a committee and receive subscriptions. It was soon announced that a generous world had come forward liberally, and the statue was ordered and paid for. Needless to say who furnished the money. The proceeding is entirely in keeping with VANDERBILT'S rules of existence, and he, therefore, thinks well of it. The Mayor of New York, who delivered an eloquent inaugural address on the occasion of the unveiling ; the bishop who . pronounced the benediction, and divers spec tators who applauded, must also think well of it. Bait what course . is the American people about to take in face of this unparalleled effrontery ? This bronze memorial is but the latest symptom of a gigantic social evil. VANDERBILT has piled up an immense fortune at the expense of his fellow - creatures. No misery that he brought upon his dearest friends, not to speak of his enemies, seems to have ever given him the slightest uneasiness. His own mother, his own sons-in-law, ' his most intimate associates, have all at different times become his prey. The able New York corre spondent of the Daily News doubts "if his warmest admirers could credit him with a single good action. No charity—here where almost all are charitable—can boast of one dollar which he has contributed to its funds, nor, in the length and breadth of the land, could one poor man be found who has ever benefitted by his hoards." But this is not all. VANDERBILT has been the great pioneer in a shameful cause, and it is by him that the commercial morality of America has been brought to such a pass, and that a reckless system of gambling has taken the place of legitimate trade, He, at least, undoubtedly set te first great example of suc cessful fraud. That a sttue should have been erected to such a man is a ntional shame. But it is to be hoped that a reactiti will come. Mr. VANDER BILT'S statue, if the Nei York mob spares it, will in future give its representtive greater fame than he at present bargains for. NAVAL AND 1111LPARY INIELLIGENCE. The following chan;es of stations have been made in-the various divsions of the Royal Marines Light Infantry during he past month :--Chatham Division.—Colonel-Conmandant G. Lambrick, Aide-de-Camp to the i,ueen, Captain J. is!. De Conroy Meade, and Francis Lean, from leave to headquarters ; Captain and Brevet-Major H. L. Evans, Captains A. H. larnes and W. H. Poyntz (adjutant), from leave o headquarters; Captain J. W. Vaughan-Arbuclie, from the Donegal on leave ; Lieutenants Shave, Parker, Short, Bird, and Quill, from headquaters on leave ; Lieutenants Nash, Tully, M'Neale, aid Sandwith, from leave to headquarters ; Lieuttnant E. A. Ford, from the Trafalgar on leave. Portsmouth Division. —Captain and Breve-Major N. W. Hunt, from leave to the Duke of Wellington ; Captain and Brevet-Major A. %Volrige, from headquarters on leave ; Captain E. B. Pritchard, from the Trafalgar of leave ; Captains W. T. Savary, G. F. Gambb, and E. F. Thompson, Lieuts. G. B. Morris (adjutant), Strong, Lakin, Gillman, Walker, and F.ext from leave to head quarters ; Lieuts. Agassiz Miller, and Morley, from headquarters on leave ; Lieut. Sharpshott, from leave to the Asia; Lieut. Dmvding from headquarters to the Duke of Wellington. Plymouth Division —Col. Second Commandant P. C. Penrose, C. 8., and Capt. and Brevet Major H. G. Davis, from leave to headquarters; Capt. J. Bunce, from the Lion on leave ; Capts. G. Bazalgette and J. C. Hore, from headquarters on leave ; Capt. G. Leslie, retired on full pay ; Capt. W. H. Clements, from the Royal Adelaide to headquarters; Second Capts. Kennicott and Pritchett, Lieuts. St. John, Turner, Stephens, Barham, and Ludgater, from leave to headquarters; Lieuts. Peake and Faulkner, from headquarters on leave ; Lieut. Byrcb, from head quarters to the Revenge ; Lieut. Edye, from head quarters to the Ocean; and Lieut. Pyne, from Hythe to headquarters. The Lords of the Admiralty did not, as had been expected, visit Chatham Dockyard yesterday ; they are to make their inspection to-day. The stores of gunpowder at Upnor Magazines, opposite Chatha m D oc k yar d , are i n f u t ure t o b e placed under the guardianship of a body of police men, instead of being in the care of watchmen. A number of the Metropolitan police doing duty in Chatham Dockyard will be detached to Upnor to take charge of the magazines. The strong military guard at Upnor will be still maintained. It is un derstood that since the people of Chatham and Rochester asked the Government to remove the powder from Upnor the amount stored there has been much diminished. The whole, according to the promise of the Minister of War, will eventu ally be removed to magazines less open to objec tions. The largest steam crane at Chatham, intended to lift 30 tons, but capable of doing much more if necessary, has now been erected on the Gun Wharf. Messrs. Taylor, of Birmingham, have supplied the machinery. A very strong foundation for the crane had to be built. The great weight of much of the ordnance now in use for ships has rendered it neces sary to provide so powerful a crane. BATES OF FREIGHT AND CHARTER. (From the Shipping and ditereantile Gazette) The tonnage leading on the berth for India, China, and the Cape of Good Hope amounts to 53,789 tons, and for Austialia and New Zealand to 28,641 tons. Berth freights are more active, and there is somewhat more inquiry for tonnage. Coal freights to the East are, for the most part, well maintained, the amount of tonnage offering being rather limited, 245. to 255. has been the quotation for Point de Galle. For Calcutta 28s. is quoted from Wales, and for the other ports rates are obtainable as particularised below. Steamers of moderate draught are in some request for general cargoes for the Indian ports rid the Suez Canal, but at present not many transactions have taken place. The homeward trade is much unsettled, and may be so, it is expected, for some little time to come. Better rates are now to be secured for coal from Newcastle (N.S.W.),and 275. Gd. is the quota- Lion for Bombay. Rates for iron to the United States are rather beau ;han last week. Chartering homewards for cotton is quiet, For the West Indies, coal freights arc low, with next to nothing doing. Operations in sugar homewards are rather restricted, but higher rates are quoted from Jamaica. For the West Coast of Africa there has been more doing in coal, and ships have within the last day or so been fixed at higher rates. Qnotations for coal to the River Plate are more or less nominal, and the requirements for most of the Brazilian ports easy. fhe rates from the West Coast of South America for guano are 70s. from Maiden Island to United Kingdom, 02s. Gd. Chinchas, &c., to United Kingdom, and 61s. 6d. to Antwerp. Mediterranean and Black Sea coalfreights continue to be well mainta'ned, more especially for the Italian and further ports. For forward vessels there is little grain to be got homewards, and hardly an order from Alexandria for cotton seed is to be found. • Mr. Charles Buxton will, it is stated, bring for ward next session a :notion on the question of the armaments of Europe. France, it is said, proposes a conference for the settlement of the Turco-Egyptlan dispute. The conference will confine itself to this one question. The Northern Echo, a halfpenny morning news paper of Liberal principles, is about to be started in the north of England. The chief office will be at Darlington. The Somerset Chamber of Agriculture has passed a resolution affirming that DO children be employed in agriculture without a certificate that they are able to read and wrto. It is stated that 11ir. Gladstone will introduce the Irish Land Bill at the very opening of next Session, and that he hopes to get it read a third time in the House of Commons before the Easter recess. The port of Maracaibo in Venezuela has been closed for some time on account of a rebellion. The revolt having been put down the port le now reopened to the commerce of all nations. It is intended to issue a new weekly journal called the Vatican, which will give full and detailed accounts of the CEcumonical Council at Rome. The publication is to bo published at the Tablet office. A series of meetings of the unemployed are an nounced to be held almost immediately throughout the me tropolis, and will be followed by a demonstration behind the Horse Guards on the reassembling of Parliament, "to de mand," as the projectors state, "of the Government a prac tical recognition of the right of the poor man to live." Dr. Featherston and Mr. Dillon Bell, the Commis sioners from the Now Zealand Government to the imperial Government, will arrive in F:1209314 ill January, or early in February. The Commissioners are empowered not only to make terms for the retention of a regiment, but to enrol a special force under the advice of the Qolouial Office and the War Office. After passing several resolutions, described as of a "democratic" character, the lay delegates of the Dublin Synod, who had continued in session after the departure of the Archbishop, separated. On Thursday &private meet ing was held in another Dublin hall of a number of the lay delegates who dissonted from tho line taken by the majority. It appears (according to the Scotsman) that there is after all to be a contest for the Rectorship of Aberdeen University. Sir William Stirling-Maxwell's friends persist in putting him forward on political grounds, and therefore a largo body of students have requested the present rector, Mr. Grant Duff, M.P., to offer himself for re-election. It is be lievcd that he will do so. We announc(.d months since that Mr. Fitzjamca Stephen, Q.C., had received the lucrative appointment of legal adviser to the Indian Government in the place of Mr. Mayne, who returns superannuated., but still young and in vigorous health. The salary is (says the Law Times) to be no less than £lO,OOO per annum, and the term of service only seven years. In connection with the Grenville-Murray case, Thomas Rosekelly, the warrant officer at Marlborough street police-court, has offered a public apology to Mr. John Hill, of the Flying Horse, Oxford-street, who became bail for Mr. Grenville-Murray, who, it will be remembered, did not reappear. Rosekelly says it may have been in the course of conversrtion and through his representation! 014 3 . Y . Hill beoam~ bail Al4:t M re4 Y 4l . l ? -311 1.F. a 3 . •-- : MARTIN FOR LONGFORD. The following circular has been published in reference to the Longford election : "Longford to the Rescue ! "A committee of the electors of Longford has been formed for the purpose of securing the election of John Martin, of Kilbroney. Electors of Longford, we appeal to you not to desert the cause of your country in this crisis of her fate. The name of John Martin is, by his heroism and his sufferings, inseparably associated with the cause of Irish nationality. As you value that cause, as you would have self-government for Ireland, vote for John Martin. As you would liberate your imprisoned brothers, vote for John Martin. As you would unite all our countrymen in a struggle for the rights of Ireland, vote for John Martin. As you would strike a blow at political jobbing, vile cor ruption, and place-hunting, vote for John Martin. The glorious example of Tipperary is before you. The elec tion of O'Donovan Rossa has struck a blow at the oppres sors of your country which has been felt throughout Europe. The election of John Martin will follow it up by a triumph that will have even more influence on the des tinies of your country. John Martin, although he has in curred the patriot's doom, being imprisoned for treason felony, is perfectly capable of being elected. Your votes for him will not be thrown away. No man stands higher, even in the estimation of his opponents, for his blameless life, his high-souled purity, and his noble and disinterested services to his native land. In him the awakening cause of Irish nationality will find a fitting representative. In the name of your country do not let this opportunity pass. Listen to no counsels of weakness or of corruption. Return John Martin as your representative and you will earn the blessings of unborn generations of Irishmen. "Far dearer the grave or the prison, Illumin'd by one patriot name, Than the glories of all who have risen On Liberty's ruin to fame." GOD SA.VE IRELAND! "TOTE FOR JOHN MARTIN' BREACH OF PROMISE ACTION AGAINST A CLERGYMAN. On Thursday an action for breach of promise was tried in the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench before Mr. Justice O'Brien. Damages were laid at £l,OOO. The plaintiff is a young lady residing as governess in the city of Cork, Sarah Anne Jackson ; and :the defendant is the Rev. Alexander Blair, a clergyman of the Episcopal Church, lately principal of the Fermoy College, but now holding the position of curate at Sherburne, in Yorkshire. The defence entered was a denial of the promise. —The Solicitor-General, in stating the plaintiff's case, said it presented some features of peculiarity, and he regretted to be obliged to say that the peculiarity consisted largely in the peculiarly bad and unjustifiable conduct of the defendant, whose position , as a minister of religion, as well as a gentle man, would lead to the expectation of a different course of conduct. Having described the nature of the case, the learned council read the following letters : "My darling Pet,—l have just received yours, and have read it all over, I believe three times. Do you not, at all events despond. I care for nobody but you, and for a very good reason, that I ought not to. I shall not write any more desponding letters, but, my darling, it is very hard to avoid it sometimes ; but you have at all times borne with me, and often cheered me when in my distress of mind. I will send you money early next week without fail, no matter where it comes from ; do not be the least cast down, wo will be happy yet. I would be all right. Poor Bessie tells me to bring you at once. She knows well enough how I feel the cause of it I will see you on Easter Monday, and then we will talk over every thing. This day, which formerly used to be the happiest day, is now the most miserable. . . . I do not much care who knows that you correspond with me. . . . Good bye my darling, and believe me ever yours faithfully and affectionately, " A. BLAIR." It was stated that they had only a friendly intercourse He would read one of the letters in this friendly intercourse. "My ever darling Annie,—lt would take a great deal to make me write to you in the strain that you have written to me. Indeed I might have reason to suspect the sin cerity of your love from such language more than you have reason to suspect mine. . . . lam miserable. I never thought you couid write to me in such a way with regard to loving you. I give up all for you. I was only happy in your company; to deceive you never entered my mind. My reason for not complying with your wishes at once you know. lamin a state of uncertainty here—not knowing what I shall do. I told you I would never leave you. Why my darling, do you say I am so bad—how could such Linguage ever proceed from your lips? I had no object whatever in not meeting you at your friend's house—l say this emphatically—only just that I did not like the people. You say the strongest love is the fiercest hate. Oh, my darling, don't speak that way to me. You do not knowhow I feel while writing this. I valued your love and do so still. I have not trifled with your love in a wiekedmanner. Your letter has put me in a terrible state. Do forgive me. I care for nobody but you, and never will. Do write to me again by to-day's post, and oh, my pet, do not speak to me in such a way. You know how sensitive I am. When may I see you and tell you of my future plans ? I am not going to leave you or desert you. I never intended to say one word or do one act that would pain you,—Your darling pet, ALEXANDER." That was one of those lovers' quarrels with which the jury was familiar. He would not trouble them with any more letters. The only question with them would be one of damages, and he asked them to give large damages against this erratic gentleman for the gross ill-treatment the injured young lady had received. Miss Sarah Ann Jackson, a young lady of good appear ance, was then examined : I am plaintiff in this action. In the year 1867 I was living with my brother, at 22, Nile street, Cork. I first saw the defendant on St. Stephen's Day in the year 1866. I saw him in the Rev. Mr. Grant's lodgings in Cork, having gone there to answer an adver tisement. I went to Fermoy College as manager on the 15th of January, 1867. I was not more than a month there when the Rev. Mr. Blair used to come into my room to write his letters, eat his lunch, Sc. I told him I felt sure the boys going in and out might remark his coming to my room so often, and I thought it better for him to confine himself to his own sitting-room ; he then said what was on he mind might as well be said, and he asked me to be his wife. I told him he ought not to say anything in a hurry, and that his proposition came to me very suddenly ; that I heard he had been engaged to another young lady; that if at the end of a fortnight he was of the same mind I would give him an answer. At the end of that time ho came into the room. He said his mind was the same as when he had spoken to me a fortnight before, and asked me for my answer. I then said that as his mind was the same I consented to be his wife. It was arranged between us that if the school got on we would bo married the following Christmas. A few days before Christmas Day he said ho would go up to Cork, that he would write for me to follow him in a couple of days, and that we would come to Dublin to be married. Having received a letter from the defendant, I went to Cork on Christmas eve, and he met me at the railway station. I spent part of Christmas-clay with the defendant, and he said we were to leave for Dublin by the first train on the following morn ing to get married. On the following morning the defen dant told me that on thinking further over it, it would not be prudent to go to Dublin, that people might pass remarks about our getting married so soon. I objected strongly to the postponement, and I said I could not think of going back to Fermoy, or keeping up any correspondence with him unless he told my friends of our engagement. Ho said I seemed to doubt his word. I told the defendant I would not go back to Fermoy, and remained in Cork in lodgings. When he was going to Fermoy that day he said he would expect a letter from me in the morning. I told him I would not write. During the vacation in June the defendant again came to my lodgings ; we had in the mean' time kept up a correspondence ; he told me ho was think ing of giving up the school, that he did not like teaching, and I said I believed it would be a foolish thing ; he said he would take a curacy in the diocese of Cork if ho could' get it, and if not, he would go to England, but he said he thought it would not be prudent to get married until he got settled down ; he wished me to enter the Governesses' Home in Dublin, and remain their for some time ; I did so, and he left Englana the first week in August; our correspondence was constant. In October I went to an engagement in the county of Limerick ; in October and in August last I went over to Yorkshire, where I saw the Rev. Mr. Blair ; the first Sunday he and I had a walk for a couple of hours, and the next morning he called on me ; he said he supposed I was looking forward to the fulfilment of his promise to marry ; I said yes ; that my friends were very angry for allowing it to be hanging on so long; in reply, he said I was speaking as if I belicvod he was going to marry some one else, but that he had no intention of it; I said he was hindering me of getting married, as I might have been in the county of Limerick. He said he could say the same, that one of his parishioners was a young lady who had £lO,OOO, and that the vicar promised to speak for him. I said that from the way in which he was then situated I saw no season for furtherpostponement of the marriage. He said he did not think he was long enough in England to.morry.—His Lordship charged the jury, and said tho only quesil,?u which they had to consider was one of dam ages . Th e = dal: of the defendant was quite irreconcilable with their no: ion of what was right. —Th e Jury after a brief absence re t uri . •:(1 a verdict for the plain-- tiff, with £3OO damages and 6d. costs. ,The 71 1 1ye9_,,,. , 'A : rejcle4 eon Maekeilzie :he • - OI fa ,E92CYCW:10111:10e0 b01 11 t) t a zi a ia jaa Pla Purtrizan 3316120 SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIO JOURNALS. The leadership of the Conservative peers, says the Satvrday Review, is at the present crisis one of the most important posts of political life. The Conservatives cannot govern, but they can control and modify the action of the Government ; and they can do this principally by the com mand which their majority in the Lords ensures them. But their power is of a kind which it requires great wisdom, forethought, and moderation to use so as not to abuse it. If the Lords do not resist at all, they sink into the servants of the Commons; if they resist too much, they come into collision with a force far stronger than their own. If they merely cause difficulties and delays, they will disgust the public, and make a reform of their House demanded, in order that parliamentary institutions may not be rendered futile and unpractical. To manage the Conservative peers properly is a most difficult task, and the Conservatives have no one to whom they can turn with confidence for the task. Whether Lord Derby is a Conservative at all, and will openly join the party now that he is a r eer, yet remains to be seen ; and it is out of the question to suppose that he will work in anything like the same groove with the old jog -trot clerical party which looks to the House of Lords to defend it, and which is one of the great buttresses of the Conservative fabric. Lord Salisbury would be much more at his case in guiding Censer': ves on such matters, and he would be personally acceptable to Conservatives of most shades of opinion. He would also fight the battles of his party with almost too much ardour and vehemence. But it is necessary that the Conservative leaders in the Commons and the Lords shall :work together, and have confidence in each other. Can old sores heal so soon that Lord Salisbury should make Mr. Disraeli his confidant, and share his councils with the man who he thinks deceived him ? or could Mr. Disraeli retain his position in the party and the House of Commons if the Lords were led by a Conservative peer who disliked and dis!rusted him ? Even if this difficulty could be surmounted, it may be doubted whether his followers could be brought to believe that Lord Salisbury would be as safe as they could wish. It would be perfectly easy to find some peer of inferior eminence and ability, without any Liberal leanings, whom Mr. Disraeli can trust to work under or with him. There are a dozen peers who all would do tolerably well for the post, if it is to be filled on such terms. But the conse quence will inevitably be, that there will be a third party formed in the Lords, without whose assistance the Conser vatives will be powerless, of whom they will be both proud and afraid, and to whom they will really look for guidance on all critical occasions. Many of the more distinguished, able, and prudent of the Conservative peers would prefer belonging to the third party, which would be brilliantly led and would leave their course open for the future, rather than throw in their lot with Mr. Disraeli's dummy, and with the nick of the more frantic Conservatives. There can be no question that the Conservatives are in a position of much difficulty, and must be much puzzled to make their choice. The Spectator thinks that affairs in Ireland look very serious, so serious that if Mr. Gladstone summons Parlia ment and proposes to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, he will, we believe, obtain the support of an undivided House of Commons. Tho Fenian leaders, exasperated by the rapid decay of their influence among the priesthood, whose great grievance has been removed, and among the farmers, whose reasonable claims are about to be satisfied, are re doubling their exertions to secure adherents, and have addressed themselves to a class hitherto of little account in politics—the agricultural labourers. Almost as numerous as the farmers, more ignorant, less subject to clerical influence, and with less to lose, these men have, in some counties, responded so eagerly that the agitators have been able to establish a reign of terror of the most unen durable kind. Of the 10,000 persons and upwards who hold votes in Tipperary, that is, who occupy holdings rated above £3 a year, not £1,200 could bo found to vote for the Fenian nominee ; but those 1,200, backed by the labourers, were able to frighten some 7,000 voters from recording their names, and to establish a terror so great that no employer feels the law strong enough to protect him. Representation in the constitutional sense is consequently at an end. The landlords live in fear, the priests, for the first time in Irish history, are openly threw. tened, and the farmers complain that they receive no " encouragement " from a Government which does not or cannot enforce the law. We advo cate the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act with the more readiness, because we have always declared that when ascendancy had been abolished and the tenure settled, it would bo necessary to reform the entire ad ministration, civil and judicial, throughout the island, the system now existing being equally unsuited to the genius and to the circumstances of the people. Like the race everywhere, they need, not the least amount of govern ment compatible with order—which is the Anglo-Saxon ideal—but the greatest amount of government compatible with freedom—which is the French ono. The ideal Ad- ministration for Ireland would be the French, plus honest judges ; and although we may not be able to secure that, it is towards that that our efforts should be directed. With a Commissioner for each county, exercising all the powers of government and controlling all police, a stipendiary magistrate for each district, strictly subordinate to the Commissioner, trial by judges instead of juries, and strong detective police, there would be no necessity, oven in times like these, for the suspension of the Habeas Corpus, while in quiet times the owners of property would anjoy a security to which in Ireland they have always been more or less strangers. It is the persistent attempt to introduce English ideas as if they were divine which this destroyed respect for law in Ireland, as a similar attempt to introduce the Protestant creed has made the people Ultramontanes, while English tenure has made the most agricultural of all countries the chosen home of every agrarian crime. The John Bull considers that the Bishop of Lincoln has solved another Church problem after the same practical fashion in which Convocation was revived some sixteen years ago. Instead of wasting his time and putting him self in a false position by advocating impossible schemes, lie has done what he could. Boldly applying to the Crown, 'le has found that whatever may be the dislike of Whig politicians and their lawyers, it cannot prevail against the provisions of the statute, and the lawful claims of the iocosan. He has sent in his two names in the pro-. cribed form, and one of them will shortly be consecrated Is an additional Bishop in the vast diocese of Lincoln. The ping is done the moment it is attempted in good earnest. Solvitur antbulando. Of the names so submitted to the Yrown, one is the Archdeacon of Nottingham, and the Dther the vicar of the Mother Church in that town. need hardly say that ether of Bishop Wordsworth's nominees will be received with thankfulness by the Church it large. Archdeacon Mackenzie is the better known, from tiis labours at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and in Convoca- u,ion. His appointment would give universal satisfaction. Mr. Morse, too, has a high local reputation as a preacher Ind a parish priest. Both are emphatically working men; Ind we can trust Mr. Gladstone to choose between them. Whichever be taken the endowment difficulty vanishes with the rest, at the first touch of a resolute hand. We shall look with more than curiosity to see which of our over- burdened prelates will be the next to discard his doctors, throw away his crutches, and—walk. Would that the Chapter of Exeter tad tested with equal resolution the long latent power of a conge d'elire The Economist remarks that the turn of affairs in the grain trade during the last week or two has been rather unexpected. Just before the harvest, and almost during the harvest, the general expectation, it would be hardly going too far to say, was of a very deficient crop, causing sigh prices, large importations, and the usual bad conse luences. These effects, it was supposed, would be modified by the general excellence of the harvest in other respects, but the rough opinion was in favour of a rather high price. Our own view was different —that the price of wheat and of bread would not be high, and that the usual after consequences of a good harvest might be looked for; ut a very different opinion had prevailed. The events have gone beyond our anticipations, and have quite falsi fied the common view. Instead of prices going higher, they have steadily fallen, and the result has been accumu lation of stocks at the ports, cautious buying by the con , mmer, and a steady fall of price, by which several large firms have been ruined. There is now a great conflict of odni m as to the prospects of the market—whether the price will now fall or rise. Weighing all the facts before us, we think that for some time the contingency of a ma terial rise in price must be considered very improbable. The excessive accumulation and holding back of stocks implies that there are large quantities waiting for a market. And without believing all that is said of quan ties afloat or ordered, we have pretty certain evidence that the present tide of imports will not ebb for a little. A very large quantity, for instance, is reported to be , :owing from San Francisco. The tendency in the trade again is not to hold but to sell, and a very :light increase in price will be sufficient to bring forward upplies. There is a better chance, we consider, of he price going lower; but we have got to a very low oint, keeping in view what the last harvest was, and we should not expect a great immediate reduction. Probably there will be a great deal of uncertainty and obscurity as to the way things will go, until the anticipa pations of next year's crop begin to affect the ma r k e t . One good result of the excessive importations will be cheaper bread. The effect, which we anticipated two months since, will be so far intensified. The masses of the people will have more money to spend; one trade after another will be set in motion ; the margin of profits will be increased, although the total business m a y no t b e much larger than in these years of depression. We shall now reap, as we have said, an indirect benefit from the short harvest and high prices of 1867, through the impulse then given to wheat growing, which is the caw IM After a barely average harveat.2' ...2e.7 t ve. 11,4 t40 nab HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 3 . Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High ness the Princess of Teck, drove out this morn• LATEST INTELLMENC3 (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORNIDec• 3 . The Inman Royal Mail steamship City °f Antwerp arrived here to-day. The steamer Europa (of the Anchor line) al s° arrived out to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE . CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1221 ; the highest quotation do' ing the day was 1221 ; the lowest, 122. Sterling Exchange on L0nd0n............ 1081. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ................... 1131- it " 1885 ................... 1111. cc " 1865 ................... 114/. 10-40 cc 11111101 S ......................................... 133i' Erie ...... 26i. Cotton—Mid. upland 2SIC. Petroleum—Standard White. Flour, extra state, $5.35c. to $5.95c. Corn, ola mixed, sl.llc. According to Messrs. Moffatt, Davidis, and CO:5 all port: report the week's receipts of cotton at have been 103,000 bales, and since the Ist () September 910,000 bales; shipments to Eng land ' 55,000 bales ; to France, 8,000 bales ; to the Continent, 13,000 bales ; and since the Ist Sept., 453,000 bales. Stock, 281,000 bales. Midd ling ' 10 15-16 d., cost and freight per steamer. QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 4. The National Steamship Company's steat7,fr llelvetia, from New York, arrived off he re At ‘. a.m. to-day. She landed passengers, and pro ceeded for Liverpool. All well. EGYPT. tpe Server Effendi, the Turkish CAIRO, Envo3, Dee Envoy, 3 note of the Porte to the Khedive, arrived ho e t " 1•- afternoon. The Prince of Prussia has returned from Upper Egypt. SPAIN. MADRID, Dee. 3. In to-day's sitting of the Cortes the discussio on the sale of the Crown property was continued. Marshal Prim br o u g ht forward a bill abr o g atlno. the law suspending the Constitutional guarantees. The two Republi cans , w h o w ere sentenced to death for complicity in the late rising, have been executed. ITALY. BRINDISI, Dec. 2 . The Adriatic and Oriental Company's steamer Brindisi, 88 hours from Alexandria, has arrved her e with 82 passengers. She experienced severe - yea: ther and contrary winds. Letters may be expected in London to-morrow evening. INDIA AND CIIINA MAIL. SUEZ, Dee. 3 . The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steornerd° Surat from Calcutta, Nov. 9, arrived at 7 a.ll l - , au the Bengal, from Bombay, 20th Nov., at 1 1 3.133. to-day. FRANCE. PARIS, Dec. 4 . The Constitutionnel of this morning announces that M. Clement lluvernois has resigned his s eat in the Legislative Body, but will present himself Of re-election. The Soir of yesterday asserts that the Italian CA ' binet is now definitively arranged. .ee o'clock—The markc BOURSE, Dec. 3.—Th closed as follows : Bank Shares •••••.2r67 --- Ital 4 an Fives .....•• 54 --- A us t r ian Fives ... 65 --- Ottoman Loan ... 330 ":" 30 Do. Debt ........• 44 Spanish Th re es ... 251 ...... Home Debt...... Strasburg ty r re l oa e sn a st o n 937/ Western n . Deferred ......... -- Cash; 6261 Northorn s bu a r n g d Mediterranean. ., ...... 10981 578 i 965 Southern..... 5831 Sardinian Austrian Lombard 5021 North of Spain 47* Saragossa 610 Roman 45 4f per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 7l 72i Credit Mobilier 202 50 Transatlantic 230 Credit Foncier 1612 Paris Gas 1597 50 RAM WA' GREA7 DESTRUCTION OF PROPER BY FIRE. This (Saturday) morning, between three and f° „f o'clock, an alarming fire broke out on the estate; C. Druce, Esq., Denmark-hill, Camberwell. 5: discovery was made by one of the servants notien: smoke pouring forth from the stabling. An ala t r ba was given, and the engines were soon on e d spot, but although only a f ew m i nu t e s bad ele1 ;6 0 the whole of the stabling, stores, &c., were wrilln: he in flames. The engines were se t to work, but the fire could not be conque re d un til the whole rang of buildings were destroyed, and two valua ble 05 riage horses burned to death. MUSICAL 111 EMS. (From the Era.) 1a134 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Matthews leave gag for Australia in January next, and will not rot until 1872. o f the Mr. J. Billington joi n s the company Prince of Wales's Theat r e, Li v erpool, at Christi:at:lt Miss Lotty Harris has accepted an engeg eWe at the Prince's Theatre, Manchester. c ress Mr. Sotheron has been playing with great su in Dublin. Mr. Belford has joined the company a t the Queen's. Miss Helen Faucit is playing with great sne ecE4 at Edinburgh. Mr. Roberts, late acting manager to Mr . g; Vining, takes his an nua l b ene fit a t the Princ ess's on Monday and Tuesday, the 13th and 14th ins t ' He then joins the Ly ceum i n J anuar y in the O ra° capacity. MARKETS.-7hiS Day. LIVERPOOL COTTON. rko I Dee. 4.—S a l es pro b ably 10,000 iba es•' l J The m a dull. ____ The very extensive Distillery now being erect at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture Oa' Irish whisky, by M essrs. DUNVILLE S t Co., who have gsi°l3°, a world-wide c e l e b r i ty f or their fine old Irish whisky, Is t° called "The Royal Irish Distillery." ------: HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDCI-E• s et moRNING. vEras SATURDAY SUNDAY 16 min past 2 ...... 40 m in Pak!' 3 0 min past 3 ...... 25 m in p as ! 4 MONDAY 48 min past 3 10 min ro b 4 TUESDAY SO min past 4 ...... 50 m in P a WEDNESDAY s! 10 min past 5 ...... 30 min past 6 THURSDAY ....,.. 55 min past 5 20 mi n p / FRIDAY ..... , .„ .... „,10 min pot 6 ..... ,!..5 Illy Pas COIL 'Basin( by no n America dulness, Coils° ditto, fc duced, Exchequ 2 7 prep 1 prem. 4-1 per C India ditto 5 per Cent. 6 per CI ditto Boi In thi Argentin 85i to 8 to 54 ; N Orel- Vit Spanish, to 43i ; a In the Great Na Metropol 831 ; Great Ez 55k; London a ham, an( Western, ern, 93 ti Eastern, 85i ; the 851 to Eric Sha better, a Great Lo mbarC In Tel, Anglo-Ai Mainteue In Ban don and London Oriental, 323- ; Un to 131 ; a In MI quoted L 11 to 11f national The I Loan is q The su the Bank The st( in gold £lO,OOO £47,700. The su Half per dian Rail ceeded fa exceeded The co quiet, the the demai activity v remains d the sales sirable (it tion offer ket dulne kinds mc are scare with fres] been die( terms. The re mited), tl an iuteril The off ance Com rangemer does not 1 An arran a c, with the : tion with rest of till the liquid to corinnu The fo nada : " received New Gra: Sabanilla £12,770." The an Council A petit surance those am heard on Mathis, 1 the firm dator. At am and Slate was una: bankrupt At an Messrs. Ironfouni ness undi amount t A petit Provineif before V A peti Assuranc Chancell petition tory Con A gen Property 6th inst. dividend An e Compan the purp liquidate Uovl 3 per Con Ditto fc 3 per Con New 3 pi Now 21- p Do. Annuities Do. for Do (Re Exchoqua De. Bank of I Da. op( Canada 4 inter-Col INDIA Op( Do. a p Do. 4 p D,). Oar Do. En . Do. 5p Do. 5i D. sp , Tic Du. De Do. 80l Do. tin E( Augeutiu 9 ultrian Brazilian Do. 4i Do. Do. Do. Do. 5 Dc. A( B.ienos Do 2p Cuba, 6 Oatllan 6 Vo. Do. 3 year. 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