The Sun. — London, England, 1859-11-29 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA COVENT-GARDEN. Under the management of Miss L. Tyne and Mr. W. Harrison THIS EVENING, DINO RA H. Messrs. Santley, H. Corti, St. Albyn, and W. Harrison. Miss Pilling, Miss Thirl wall; and Miss Louisa Fyne. Conductor, Alfred Mellon. Ballet, LA FIANCEE. Messrs. W. H. Payne, H. Payne F. Payne, Mdlle. Lequine, Pasquale, Plerron, Clara Morgan and Mons. Vandris. _ _ . _ Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. T HEATRE -ROYAL, lIAYMARKET Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. TITTS EVENTNI I I , the performances will commeneo with A BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews: After which, THE BACHELOR OF ARTS. Jasper (his oriainal character), Mr. C. Mathews. And LIALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. ROYAL - Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the performariees will commeneo With a new Petite Comedy, entitled GOSSIP. 3ressrs. Ryder, Meadows, Shore; Miss Wadham and Mrs. C. Young. After which, a new farce, in one act. entitled NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. Widdicomb, Meadows, 11. Saker ; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs. Weston. To be followed by TTIE MASTER PASSTON, Messrs. Ryder, G. Melville. 'Graham, It. Cathcart, Garden; Miss C. Lee ercq and Mrs. Charles Young. KW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. ole Prnprietor and Manazer, Mr. Beni. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs B. Webster.J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart, C. .7. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Kelly. Followed by the successful niece of extravagance, called DINORAII UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs.. 7. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Ce open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for hills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment arc strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- Scl'e Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, a new Drama Fantasfique, entitled PARIS AND PLEASITBE ; or, Home and Happiness. Principal characters 1w Messrs. W. Lacy. J. Vininct, J. John stone, F. Villiers ; Misses Julia St. G eorg - e, Hudspeth, Kate Saville, A. Burdett, and Madame Celeste. To conclude with the Farce' of THE PHENOMENON IN A SMOCK FROCK. John Buttercup, Mr. Rouse, from the Theatre-royal. Bath (his second appearance in London). ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest The , itre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING, a new Comedy, LONDON PRIDE ; or, Living for Appearances. Messrs. R. Robins, Barrett, Charles Young ; _Mesdames Frank Matthews, Murray, and Melly Moore. After which, the new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE SWAN AND EDGAR. Messrs. Barrett, Francis, Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with WINTERBOTTOMS. Reduced Prices—Gallery, ; Pit, Is. The Box-ofne open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at hall-past six; perform ance commences at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cookr, his Farewell Season. Seventh Week of the new, Drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GAR I BALDI ; illustrating the principal events in the Lite of the Great Italian General. Supported by Mr. K. Phillips, Ennis Belmore, Raymond, Miss Kate Carson, &c. Full Stud of Lteautif ul Horses—Scenes in the Circle by John Henry Cooke, Herr Hartz, the Devil Rider e Misses Clarissa, Rosina, Francisco. and La Petite Elennora—Wonderful Per forming Elephant—Comical and Extraordinary Parisian Doe - s and Monkeys, from the Cirque l'lmperatricc, Paris.— Gymnastic Professors —Facetious Clowns. To conclude with a laughable Farce caPed CLEAN YOUR BOOTS. Stage Manager, Mr. IL Phillips CANTERBUR V HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con certs). And a Grand Se!ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAH. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. Georme TTolson (the Trish Come dian and Mimic), W. r. Critchtield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interestinr: Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of flails have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. ItrISA BONEIEUIVS celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is °pea from 9 a.m. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six pence. THE WEATHER.-SITN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 29. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 47—highest since noon yesterday. 42 —lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.83. WIND, 'Westerly; light, with dull cold weather. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins • DAY.—Morning, - 4h. 33m.—Afternoon, 4h. 52m, To-monnow.-Morning, sh. 12m.—Afternoon, sh. 33 rn 44... 4, .;•' , y • *Sti'' )0 . : 2 -;' ', *lO 4 . --;-:?,',-, •:-. , t - -j'. 41_, , '... .:_•,__:- _., •,,•>- , , v• 'Lk "Cr ? 7e {'teaT,..,„,, „:, ...„.......,..g, _ - , THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 29, 1859. Congress or no Congress--is the question of the hour ; and we must confess we do not envy those on whom the decision of that question lies. If Eng land refuses to join in one, it is quite possible that none will be held ; but it is equally possible that one may be held without her. If without her, her voice could have little effect on its proceedings, because she would be no party to the consultations. How could she presume to pronounce judgment. when she had not heard the pleadings ? If Eng land, on the other hand, were present, she and Sardinia would be in a minority of two, against what majority would depend on the number of smaller States which might be invited. If only the Four Great Powers—the liii niajores of Continental despotism—were permitted to vote, she might well expect to be on ever`• question of national liberties and independence in a minority of one. Which of all these positions would best comport with her dignity or with efficient action on behalf of these rights which English men wish others to enjoy as well as them selves, it is. not easy to say. Cold and un sympathising as we may he thought by con tinentals, there is no toast which we all drink with more zest, than that of " civil and religious liberty all- over the world." There is no nation upon earth, certainly not the United States, with its four mil lions of slaves, which so nobly exemplifies that sen timent. But what can, or rather will, a Congress do for the rights of nations. lEtherto they have been nothing better than the gatherings of the Robbers and Thieves of Liberty, to divide the spoil of popu lar rights amongst themselves. We do not remem ber that the consent of the people, not even in the most formal way, was ever asked to any of the ar rangements made ;—Poland, Venetia, Lombardy, Naples, the Rhenish Provinces, Belgium, Geneva, —what small Duchy, or larger state, was asked in 1813 how it wished to be governed, whether it preferred to govern itself, or whom it would have as its sovereign? The marriages of territories to this or that sovereign's domains were made ds irrespec tirely of their wishes as if they had been so many political brides sold to the harems of the polyga mist tyrants of the day. There is, we believe, floatin g in the political atmosphere just mow a certain opinion that nationalities and their leanings cannot be quite so safely ignored as they were in 1815. But we more than question, except on the part of England, whether the opinion is not a most unwel come one. The grand object of the crowned heads will be how to cajole and overpower it. They will prefer to trick public European opinion if they can ; if not, armi s of half a milli on eac h w ill b e arguments that public opinion cannot easily mas ter. England could give give utterance to the thoughts of the nations, but her courtly plenipotentiaries are too aristocratic themselves to do this. Sardinia if there might speak her mind, but she must do so in the presence of the man who aoc7pted Austrian handcuffs at Villafranca, and who seems now bent on proving them to be wrist ornaments merely. A Congress is incurably a confederation of despots. Liberty can hope nc thing from it. Even An Englishman at one breathes an infected atmosphere. A CASTLEREAGH or a CLARENDON is alike bewitched for the hour. We fear a RUSSELL would be so,"too—Vicnna ! To keep Lord JOHN RUSSELL right on Liberal ism we must keep him in Opposition, and to keep him right on Foreign affairs we must keep him at home. Take him out of a bracing atmosphere and he is not the same man. Here, surrounded by the opinions of his countrymen, he can speak brave words, and feel what he says, too. But he cannot, we fear, practise the English dogged ness of adherence to his notions, which he can show enough of at hoine when he is in daily Conference with the smooth-tongued continental diplomatists. They would wind round him, or shake him. His never very powerful faculties would begin to work in a maze ; he would be be wildered. He might be sorry when he got back, and had breathed afresh in the free air of his own country, but the mischief would have been done— irretrievably done. If, however, our Foreign Minister is not to go, who is. Our Prime Minister could hardly go himself. Yet, if we could have him clear of court influence, we should after all trust him much more as a plenipotentiary. He is not so easily got over. If he did wrong it would be with full consciousness of what he did. He would walk into congressional roguery with his eyes open—he may like to please as well as others ; but, he would think himself, not only the man of most experience but as good a man at seventy-five as the youngest of them ; and ha would like to show it too. Out witting is his delight ; and we should like to see him, if any man must, try his unfettered powers of outwitting on the diplomatic sharpers that will do their best at political thimble-rigging. Suppose however we keep away—it will be be cause of the demands which England is pledged to make. It will be because England will admit no arguing the case of the independent rights of the States of Central Italy. This is now, prominently, her question. It has always been her fixed opinion ever since the nefarious partitions of the Holy Al liance and their consequences, opened her eyes. It is not a doctrine manufactured for the occasion. We have acted upon it, in South America first, and in Belgium, in Greece, and more than once, France, in the changes through which she has passed ; in the last change above all. We make our demand with perfectly clean hands. We simply ask that the inhabitants of Tuscany, of Parma, of Modena, of Bologna, shall do what they will with their own. We are told in a letter to-day from Milan, that Austria is now quite sincere in her acceptanoe of peace ; that she begins to find herself relieved from incumbrances which weakened rather than strengthened her. It is even asserted that the oft repeated suggestion of the sale of Venetia and all its embarrassments is not likely to be unacceptable to her. If so, the work of England will be easy. The game of Lot Tis NAPOLEON in Central Italy is evidently up. He cannot intervene. And if, after all, Austria should become compliant when anything but compliance is useless, all may go off smoothly enough. We only wish for our Whig Ministers the honour, for the sake of Italy, of carrying out either with a Congress, or without it, the policy to which they have bound the honour of the country. Let them assert successfully the rights of Central Italy to act as it pleases, and it matters little whe ther we join the Congress or not. It is a very edifying spectacle, no doubt, that presented to view by the rapid growth of the United States' territory. Particular attention has been drawn recently to this swift expansion by a variety of peculiarly illustrative circumstances. Incidents have come to light—explanatory of the secret of this expansion —upon several distinct points re motely situated from each other along the frontier line of the American Republic ; incidents thus springing to view almost simultaneously. Every where the same system has become apparent. Everywhere we have been reminded of the singular truth and aptness of that whimsical notion once expressed by poor LEIGH HUNT, when he remarked somewhere, in one of those delightful essays of his (if we recollect cor rectly) reprinted in the two volumes of his Men, Women, and Books—to wit, that the United States always gave him the notion of a long counter con fronting us upon the opposite shores of the Atlantic, with Brother JONATHAN bowing to us from the other side of it ! Only the witty Essayist should have pictured also, thrust into the girdle of that queer tobacco-chewing, expectorating shopman, tucked under his apron, bulging it up on either side—here, the keen bowieknifc—there, the smooth-clicking revolver ! The characteristic na tional temperament yonder is that of the huckster grafted on the buccaneer—the callous resolution of the cutpurse blending with the sordid calculations of the mere mercenary speculator. A variety of extraneous circumstances have tended, of course, ail the while, to aid in multiplying, beyond all pre cedent in the world's history, the marvellously de veloped aggregate of the United States' popu lation. Insomuch, that the increase during the first half of this nineteenth century, namely, from MOO to 1850, shows an increase within that half century of just 17,885,000! The census of 1800 giving to the United States no more than 5,306,000 inhabitants ! The census of 1850, according to them no less than 23,191,000! Immi gration from foreign countries may be recognised at once, of course, as the chief source of this mar vellous rapidity in the increase of the population. But the simultaneous growth of the territories ? Ho w may that be accounted for—without the pos session of conquering armies, without the hope of the mere possibility of being able to raise forces, armed, skilled and disciplined for the purposes of spoliation, and of territorial aggrandisement ? Without armies, without the hope of armies, with out, we may say, the possibility of armies—the dominions of the great North American Republic have so spread meanwhile that they now comprise, as we know, no fewer than thirty-six sovereign States, besides three embryo States—territories which will be converted into States so soon as each shall comprise within it 60,000 souls as the minimum of its population! The enormous area of these dominions being such, that it embraces an extent of territory numbering in . square miles no fewer than 3,260,000 ! Without conquering armies—how has the United States' Government contrived to win such wondrous accessions of territory? By means simply of dealing with shrewdness acroes that gigantic counter, with a judicious employment ever and anon of the twin weapons under the apron, the bowie knife and revolver aforesaid ! The huck stering process we saw last tried in vain by the North American Republic in the instance of the island of Cuba. The United States wanting to absorb Cubs, offered to buy it from the Spaniards for so much hard gold paid down upon the nail in dollars! The filibustering process—meaning the system of territorial absorption effected by an adroit use of the knife and pistol before mentioned—we have ourselves more recently witnessed in the process of its accomplishment upon a smaller scale, but far more successfully, in the seizure and occupation of the little island of San Juan, midway between British Columbia and Vancouver ! These, how ever, are, comparatively speaking, but little insu- THE SO N, LONDON, TUESDAY EVE RING, NOV I ,MBER 29, 18b9. lar offshoots of the policy upon which is based the growth of the United States' territory — hardly worth attending to for a moment (as illustrative of that policy) compared with the colossal scale upon which the said policy is being developed southwards upon the mainland of the North American continent. There—in Mexico—the gangrene, or ulcer of ab sorption is spreading, advancing, widening with appalling rapidity. There, in truth, the spectacle of the United States' policy is, indeed, as we have said, exemplary ! So triumphantly has tha t Ame rican policy been carried out of late years in this one direction alone that, since the year 1836 — within the brief interval of the last three and twenty years— the States have absorbed as nearly as possible one entire half of the Mexican territory, this half, moreover, including within it the whole of the gold yielding soil of California! So sweepingly has the absorption been carried on, that Mexico at this moment numbers no more than 28 provinces, covers an area of no more than 100,000 leagues, comprises a population of no more than 8,500 000 ! And how cunningly this reduced population is now being kept by the ears with a view to its yet fur ther reduction whenever the pear shall be again ripe for the falling, a correspondent of ours explained as recently as our impres sion of the 28th inst. in a communication, giving a masterly and succinct narrative of the Rise of the United States proportionately with the Fall of Mexico, and of the actual situation at the present moment of the rival Mexican Govern ments ! The pear ripening all the while, it may be, slowly but surely—in readiness to fail at the right moment of concussion between the Constitutionalsts, under MIRA3toN, at Mexico, and the Anarchists, under JUAREZ, at Vera Cruz ! Is England (let us ask at length) altogether helpless for the preven tion of the development yonder along the frontiers ,of the United States of this organised system of lawless spoliation, political absorption, and terri torial aggrandisement ? VOLUNTEER NA VAL RESERVE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE .SUN. Sni,—l neither overlook nor forget, as you sup pose, that we are about to raise, or attempt to raise, 30,000 seamen as a naval reserve, but I confess I am not so sanguine of the result of the appeal to the seamen as the entire press throughout the country seems to be ; -indeed, I will be agreeably surprised if 10,000 of the needed class of seamen come forward, as comparatively very few of that class of seamen are engaged in the coasting trade (for those wanted are the prime men of the mer cantile marine), and it is a question for those to consider who man our foreign-going ships whether or not the inducements offered are sufficient to induce them to give up the foreign trade. There arc, no doubt, great privileges promised to those that join, in the way of pension in after life, but, unfortunately for himself, the sailor (as a rule), is no great thinker and does not look so much to the pension in after life, as to a liberal bounty on joining, though they seldom allow that to burn a hole in their pockets. No one shall be more happy than myself to see these 30,000 seamen come forward, as I plead guilty to a slight partiality for the navy, and nothing would disgust me more than to see a return to l' the penny wise and pound foolish" system, which was so long the fashion until the Derby Ministry came into office, in the beginning of 1857, and I am glad to see that their successors in office are energetically carrying out the work they began in putting our navy on a somewhat respectable footing. The army is equivalent to the seamen and . marines of the fleet, the militia to the coast-guard and to those 30,000 seamen to be raised ; and what I humbly suggested was, that we ought to have an equivalent afloat tothe volunteer rifles and artillery ashore. Of course it could not be expected that the Free Naval Volunteers would supply their own vessels for great gun practice, but it would not put the Government to much expense to station vessels along the coast, as we have them already. I believe, if the movement were gone into, it would have a moral beneficial effect in inducing sea men to join the proposed reserve, by their seeing large numbers of their countrymen giving their services free to the navy. _ _ I would not again have troubled you, but I was anxious to state my opinion that, besides these 30,000 men (if we should be fortunate enough to get that number) a free naval corps would be very useful, and still required, and that the fact of our enrolling 30,000 seamen is no more a reason for not having a free naval corps than our present increase of our regular army would be a reason for our having no more volunteer rifles. Leith, Nov. 20, 1839. A Sr,CTCIIMAN. ROYAL ENGLISH OPER 1. Balfe's popular opera, " The Rose of Castille," was performed for the first time this season last night, at Covent-garden, and attracted a large audience. Miss Louisa Pyne, who was in excellent voice, sustained her original part, as also did Mr. Efarrison, whose delivery of the ballad in the third set obtained an encore. Mr. G. Honey likewise ap peared, as heretofore, as Don Florio ; and his drol leries were received with as much laughter as ever. Santley, who has maintained on the operatic hoards the reputation he had acquired in the con cert room, undertook for the first time the charac ter of Don Pedro ; while Miss Thirlwall also made her first appearance as Donna Carmen. " The Crown Diamonds" is to be given to-morrow. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Col. the lion. James Macdonald, Captain Mildmay, and Commodore Drummond, had a capital day's shooting at the duke's preserves at Coombe Wood on Fri day last. The five guns killed, in little more than three hours, above 3.50 head of game. Their Royal Highnesses the Duko and Duchess d'Atunale left Hatfield House, Herts, on Saturday last, for Orleans House, Twickenham. His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess de Persigay arrived at Albert-gate House on Saturday, from visiting the Earl and Countess of Winchil sea at Eastwell Park, Kent, and left town yesterday on a visit to Mr. and Lady Caroline Townley, at Townley Hall, Lancashire. His Excellency the Austrian Minister and the Countess d'Apponyi.have returned to Chandos House, from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, at Hatfield House. His Excellency the Brazilian Minister has left Cavendish-square for Italy. During his excellency's ab sence Chevalier Aguilar de Andrada will act as Charge d'Affaires. Madame de Carvalho Moreira is staying at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. His Excellency Count Perponcher has arrived at Maurigy's Hotel, from Windsor Castle. The Marchioness of Abercorn left Chesterfield House yesterday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Dalkeith at Boughton House, NJrthainptonshire. The noble marquis anti marchioness will return to Brocket Hall the latter end of the week. THE 'WEATHER IN THE BALTIC.—CEONSTAHT! , Nov. 19.—The ice extends westward as far as the lighthouse; 'Rolle have crossed on foot from Oratnenbaum to Oronslot. The brig and schooner are still in the ice ; the former is the Sir George Brown, Captain Ross, from Cardiff, with railway iron. An agreement has been made to cut her into the Mole. Nothin git to be seen of the Saseha. A brig and a barque made the... appearance from sea this morning, and are cruising below the lighthouse. Pillau, N.ov. 23.—Frost has set in litre since a few days, part of the rivers are already covered with ice, and the navigation from Kot,i. - ;sberg and _Ming to this place can only be carried on by the assistance of steamers. A few lighters on the passage front Konigs berg to this place were cut through by the ice, one - of them sunk, and the cargo was totally lost; another - ,was kept afloat by pumping until her arrival here, when she was im mediately diseharged, and only about 50 scheffels of seed wem damaged by water. VITASIIERAVOM EN PAIITY.—The Brechin 21(1,:ner ti.3cr mentions a meeting that was held in that city 4 al, Fri day evening week, when about twenty washerwomeA., em ployed at the washing-house and baths in Inch. B leach, field, entertained Mrs Jean Webster or Carnegie to si ipr er, and pres?nted her with a gold ring on the occasion (tf I ier leaving the premises, which she had occupied for a lot rg period. The chair was occupied by Mrs. Isabel Belfort and, according to the Adrertiser, the usual loyal toasts preceded the complimentary business of the evening, a ft ( regular speeches appear to have been made. Li' CB UM THEATEE. Last night Madame Celeste commenced her managerial reign at this theatre, and if a first night can be taken as any criterion, then a success equal to any that has. been secured since the theatre has been erected may be safely predicted. On the rising of the curtain, the talented directress ap peared before a brilliant audience to deliver her inaugural address, and the reception she met with was enthusiastic in the extreme. It was fully five minutes before the cheering and waving of hats and handkerchiefs ceased, when Madame Celeste came forward and spoke as follows : " Ladies and Gentlemen.—lt is with the sincerest grati fication I have the honour of appearing before you this evening. It has been my good fortune for so many years to enjoy your applause when, perhaps, you have too much flattered my poor endeavours—(` No, no')— that—and this is the penalty imposed upon you for your good nature—l have taken courage to assume the managemen.t of this theatre—(loud cheers)—a responsibility which will extend the sphere of my exertions to gratify you, and demands the full exercise of all the artistic ability for which you have been pleased to give me credit. (Cheers.) Had I listened too attentively to the recommendations of my more cautious advisers I should probably have retired from an enterprise in which success can bring me no more dramatic triumph than I have already received at your generous bands. (Loud cheers.) I feel bound to give you an outline of the general programme of my first campaign. In the first rank I propose to place romantic drama, which shall be sup ported with the lighter elegancies of the comedietta and the Tandeville. Nor shall the eccentricities of farce be wanting to finish your histrionic feast. (Continued ap plause.) And now, having briefly described my intention, I am anxious to make a formal announcement of my deter mination, in the selection of new pieces, to give a preference to the original productions of English authors. (Loud cheers.) I have one word to address to Messieurs the Critics. I pray you, gentlemen, from whom personally I have always received so much indulgence—l pray you, if you detect our failings (and of course you will, for perfec tion is not given to mortals), to deal with us kindly—to ;do your spiriting gently'—(cheers)—for a word well and generously meant gives encouragement and provokes emu lation at the same time that it gives counsel and advice. Of one thing you may rest satisfied—that whatever pro mises I make I shall most assuredly perform. (Loud cheers.) I will do my best to please you—the best can do no more. Entirely shall I be dependent on your kind patronage for 21y future prosperity. If that is granted me I may hope to enjoy a long and happy reign. In giving you a most affectionate welcome to the Lyceum under my management we part to meet again very soon." (Enthu siastic applause.) In a few minutes the curtain rose on the new melodrama, entitled " Paris and Pleasure, or Home and Happiness," which is a clever adaptation by Mr. Charles Selby, of MM. Beauvoir and Tri houses " Les Enfers de Paris" and presents a vivid representation of the gaieties of Paris, and the vor tex of pleasure in which fast youths with more gold than sense speedily become engulphed, but from which they were sometimes rescued, before being wholly lost, by the intervention of one guardian angel or watchful friend. The piece opens with a bril liant scene representing a " Cabinet Particulier at the Cafe Anglais." The revellers are assembled after the opera bal masque in their fancy costumes, making a merry night of it. Two visitors from the opera introduce themselves, dressed as Punchinello and Crespin, and are welcomed by the members of the boisterous party. They are George Kerven and Jolicceur Desgenais, two young gentleman farmers of Britanny. They have recently come into the possession of a large property, and have started to the French capital to see and enjoy life in Paris, leaving behind them, in a most disconsolate state, the young peasant girls to whom, before this wind fall of good luck, they were affianced. At the height• of their revelry, a masked figure of his Sa tanic Majesty enters, and endeavours, contrary to all the notions of that personage, to dissuade the youths from their vicious courses and return to the. paths of virtue and their homes in Britanny. The warning voice is disregarded, and they rush head long into the follies of fast life. The morning after the ball a Britanny farm girl makes her way into the lodgings of the gay youths, deli vers to them letters from the absent Madeline and Trouquette, and upbraids them with having left the pleasant fields and home of their native land to be fine gentlemen in Paris. They are, however, intent upon following the course which they have commenced. They. are about to become the victims of some unprincipled chevaliers d'industrie, have signed some acknowledgments for shares in some swindling joint-stock concern, when, just at the moment they are about to hand over the documents, a Commissary of Police makes his appearance, the sharpers are arrested, and the fraud is prevented. George forms a connection with one of the gayest of the gay lorettes of Paris, Mdlle. Carmen, and a lady of fashion - waits upon her, imploring her to sacrifice her self-interest and feelings, and permit her adorer to return to the heartbroken peasants whom he has left in the country. The struggle to let him go is a vain one, and her self-interest triumphs over her better feelings, and she is re solved still to drag the hapless youth a captive at her chariot. Funds begin to fail the youths, and they resolve upon selling the fee simple of their estates. A commission agent interferes very cleverly with the old usurer who is about to clutch the estate, and the sale is prevented. Finally, want and poverty overtake the gay Lotharios, and they are the wretched inmates of Cliehy, the debtors' prison in Paris. Hopeless and desponding for the future, Joliceeur resolves .upon selling himself to the Devil, whom he supposes he has recognised in each of the various personages who have interfered in his and his friend's behalf. In obedience to some grotesque incantations, the gentleman on town ap pears. Apologising for the absence of the usual physical adornments of his Satanic Majesty, cloven hoofs, horns, Sc., and for proffering advice so much against his own interest and inclinations, he offers the prisoners their estates free from encumbrance, on the condition of their preferring in future " Home and Happiness" to " Pleasure and Paris." Distress and poverty have brought about a feeling of repent ance, the offer is accepted, and the prisoners obtain their liberty and return to their homes in Bri tanny, to receive a hearty greeting from the ill used Madeleine and Trouquette. The good genius of the young men has been after all but a long-lost sister of the two forsaken peasant girls, who has obtained a high position in her profession as an actress, known as Mdlle. Chamrfieure. She had recognised in the pleasure-seeking youths the com panions of her former years, and the suitors of her sisters, and enjoying access to numerous sources of information, she had been enabled to keep a watch on their career, while her abilities as an actress en abled her to assume readily the various disguises which she thought necessary in order to protect their interests, or restore them to a life of rectitude. The principal part, that of Mdlle. Champfleure, an actress, was of course sustained by Madame Celeste, and a rarer exhibition of the dramatic art we have never witnessed. In each of the charac• ters she represented, and there were six or seven of them, she acted as she alone could act, and the rapidity with which the numerous changes were effected were really marvellous. The peculiarities of each of the difforent characters were brought out with that rare artistic finish for 'which the talented managress has been so justly celebrated. Mr. Walter Lacy and Mr. F. Villers, as the runaway lovers, were excellent, while Miss Julia St. George as Trouquette and Miss Hudspeth as Madeline acted with a piquancy that was really refreshing. " Paris and Pleasure" has been put upon the stage in the most brilliant manner imaginable, and it is very rare nowadays we see such evidences of extreme taste and knowledge of effect. Nothing certainly can be more brilliant than the co lours of the holidav-makers' dresses in the café or more chaste than the tapestried boudoir of Ma dame Carmen, or the Breton cottage. At the fall of the curtain the applause was im mense, and the new drama may be pronounced " a decided hit," and most deservedly so. The " National Anthem" was then sung, and the entertainments concluded with the farce entitled, " A Phenomenon in a Smock Frock," in which Mr. Rouse sustained the leading comic part with much genuine humour. The subscription to the East Indian Railway 5 per Cent. Debenture Loan of £1,600,000 was completed this morning. The company have declined to allow brokerage to members of the Stock Exchange on the amounts origi nally subscribed through their agency, although they have paid it on each subsequent sum. LATEST NEWS. AUSTR ALIA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY MORNING. The Red Jacket has arrived from Melbourne with 40,000 ounces of gold. She left Melbourne on the 10th of September. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : THE CONGRESS. PARIS, Nov. 29. The letters of invitation to the Congress were despatched today to the different Powers. The Congress will assemble in the early part of January next. PARIS, TUESDAY, Nov. 29. TE e 2loniteur of this morning published the text of the treaties signed at Zurich ; the stipulations of which are in conformity with those which have already been made known to the public. MARSEILLES, Nov. 28. Letters received here from Rome confirm the rumour that Cardinal Antonelli will represent the Pope at the Congress. The official journal of Rome, of the 24th inst., says :—" Certain journals exaggerate the reforms which are to come into operation. The Propaganda has received reports from. Cochin China, that perse cutions and ill treatment of the missionaries have again taken place." TURIN, Nov. 28. The Piedmontese Government has received no communication intimating the opposition of Austria to the Congress on account of the nomination of M. de Buoncompagni to the Regency of Central Italy. The difficulties made by Tuscany to the delegation of the Regency to M. de Buoncompagni have not yet been settled. Mons. de Desambrois will leave for Paris in the first days of December. PARIS, Nov. 28. It is asserted that the letters of convocation to the Congress will not be sent out before to-morrow. Count Walewski and Prince Richard Metternich had an interview to-day at two o'clock. BERLIN, NOT. 28. Prussian agents have left for England, in order to inspect those places on the south coast which might be suitable for his Majesty the King to re side at during the winter months, and to make such I preparations as are requisite therefore. Besides the llsle of Wright, Dorsetshire is also to be inspected. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, Nov. 28. The Danish Government has made to the Federal Diet, through the medium of its representative at Frankfort, the following proposal for settling the difficulties of the Holstein question : A committee, one half of the members of which is to be appointed by the General Council of State of Denmark, an d the other half by the Diet of the D uchy of Holstein, is to be assembled at Copenhagen. This committee is to propose the modifications which are to be made in the constitution of Holstein. The proposed modifications are to be submitted to the direct examination of the Diet of H9lstein before the Danish Government is to decide definitively on the subject of the proposals of the committee. The Diet of Holstein would in that case have a consulta tive vote on the project of the proposed reforms of its constitution. It is said that Prussia is not quite satisfied with this proposal of Denmark, and claims the full acceptance of all the reclamations of Holstein, and also that the Diet of Holstein is not to have a consultative but a 'deliberative and defi nitive vote. As it is likely that the Court of Co penhagen will not agree to this demand of Prussia, it is said that the whole question of the German Duchies will be submitted to the approaching Congress. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. ';A Paris letter, in the Independance, says—" It is unnecessary to again remark that the delay in the convocation of the Congress is now caused not by England, but by Austria; but it may be ob served that though the latter has not yet, on account of the nomination of M. Bouncompagni to the Re gency, given her consent, no doubt is entertained that she will soon do so. Although the visit of Lord Cowley to London was not caused by any project of disarming, it will at least have the ad vantage of bringing about a better understanding between England and France as regards Italy and the Congress. On this point all our letters agree." The steel-plated frigate Gloire was launched at Toulon, at half-past 11 on the morning of the 24th inst., in presence of an immense concourse of spec tators. A vast multitude, anxious to see the launch of this frigate, of a late invention, at an early hour occupied every point from which the dockyard of the Mourillon is visible. The harbour presented a most animated appearance. Thousands of boats formed a line to hail the Gloire on her 'passage to the sea, which she accomplished with perfect success. The 7th Regiment of Artillery, under orders for China, proceeded on Saturday from Strasburg by railway to Brest, where they are to embark for their destination. A part of the 102 d Regiment of the Line arrived at Toulon on the 25th inst., and were lodged in tents preparatory to their being embarked on board the Dryade fo:- China. The frigate Perseverante, commanded by Count d'Harcourt, sailed on Friday last from Brest for China. General de Montauban, Commander-in- Chief of the French expedition to China, is to sail from Marseilles on the 11th of January, on board the Peninsular Company's steam-packet, for Alex andria. THE BOURSE, Nov. 28.—The market has been steady, but with a limited amount of business doing. Threes have been done at from 70f. 40c. to 70f. 20e. Mobilier varied from 772 f. 50c. to 780 f. ; Austrian, 552 f. 50c. to 555 f. ; Lyons, 8861. 25c. to 888 f. 75c. ; Orleans, 1,367 f. 50e. to 1,370 f. ; Lombard, 545 f. to 547 f. 50c. The following were the last quotations:- 41 per Cents. .... 96 Credit Foncier 695 • Do. end month .. I Belgian 4} per Cents. 7O 25 Piedmonteso (5) Do. end month.... 70 25 Roman B6 Bank Shares. 2875 Austrian Cr6dit Mobilier .. 777 .50 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 782 50 Home Debt 43 50 RA ILWAYS. Cash. Account. .. 1368 75 Orleans . 1370 Northern 955 .. 955 New ditto Bl5 .. 845 Lyons and Maditerranean BB5 .. 888 75 Geneva 527 :50 .. 525 Southerti Western 56.5 .. .565 Eastern Sardinian 50 410 5;2 .. 552 50 /lust rian Lombard . 547 50 .. 54 7 50 JAPAN. Advices from Hong Kong state that the diffi culties which had arisen between the Europeans and the Japanese, relative to the recent treaties, had not been removed—the Japanese persisting in their refusal to accept European coin in payment for their goods, and requiring to be paid either in Japanese or Chinese money, the sole specie with which they are familiar. This pretension do3s not, strictly speaking, violate the treaties, but it eludes them. It is said that in order to remove the diffi culty, the English consul had suggested the propriety of establishing a bank at Nan gasaki, with branches in other ports, for the purpose of making exchanges, Many years back a bank was established at Hong Kong to facilitate relations with China, and it rendered im portant services. Another difficulty also exists in Japan—the Japanese Government refusing to allow certain articles to be exported and certain others to be imported, though those articles are mentioned in the treaties. This matter, the jour• nals remark, calls for the intervention of the Euro pean Governments, and they express an opinion that it can easily be arranged. As to the religious question, it is said that the French consul, who arrived in Japan at the end of September, had sub mitted to the Emperor a series of regulations rela tive to the exercise of the Christian religion, drawn up by a missionary, who has been engaged as inter preter to the consulate, and it is said also that his Majesty has adopted them without objection. GARIBALDL The Corriere Mercantile publishes the following proclamation, issued by Gen. Garibaldi on his arri• val at Genoa : "To My COMPANIONS IN ARMS IN CENTRAL ITALY. "Let not my temporary absence cool your ardour for the holy cause that we defend. "In separating myself from you, whom I love as the re presentatives of a sublime idea—the idea of Italian deliver ance—l am excited and sad ; but consolation comes in the certainty that I shall very soon be among you again, to aid you in finishing the work so gloriously begun. " For you, as for me, the greatest of all possible misfor tunes would be not to be present wherever there is fighting for Italy. Young men who have sworn to be faithful to Italy and to the chief who will lead you to victory, lay not down your arms ; remain firm at your post, continue your exercises, persevere in the soldier's discipline. " The truce will not last long ; old diplomacy seems but little disposed to see things as they really are. Diplomacy still looks upon you as the handful of malcontents which she has been accustomed to despise. She does not know that in you there are the elements of a great nation, and that in your free and independent hearts there germinate the seeds of a world-wide revolution if our rights shall not be recognised, and if people will not allow us to be masters in our own home. " We desire to invade no foreign soil ; let us remain un molested on our own l Whosoever attempts to gainsay this our determination will find that we will never be slaves, unless they succeed in crushing by force an entire people ready to die for liberty. " But, even should we all fall, we shall bequeath to future generatians a legacy of hatred and vengeance against foreign domination; the inheritance of each of our sons will be a rifle and the consciousness of his rights ; and, by the blessing of God, the oppressor will never sleep soundly. " Italians, I say again, do not lay down your arms ; rally more closoly than ever to your chiefs, and maintain the strictest discipline. Fellow-citizens, let not a man in Italy omit to contribute his mite to the national subscription; let not one fail to clean his gun, so as to be ready—perhaps to morrow—to obtain by force that which to-day they hesitate to grant to our just rights. " Genoa, Nov. 23. " GARIBALDI." MOROCCO JEWS AT GIBRALTAR. Mr. Alderman Salomons will feel greatly obliged to the Editor if he will kindly insert a letter he has just received from Sir W. Codrington. Lothbury, Nov. 28. " Gibraltar, Nov. 20, 1859. "Dear Alderman Salomons,—l have received and paid to the committee of relief the £lOO from Baron Rothschild and 'the 200 dols. from yourself. I think this the best way of benefitting those for whom it is intended. I have requested them (the committee) to keep an account of disbursements and arrangements, in order that you a n d o th ers w h o ass i st may know that the funds have been usefully employed. " The Government giving a ration of bread to the neces sitous in camp has relieved the local fund much, and enabled the committee to devote money to other requirements, of health and clealiness i as well as additional food. The ration of bread is given into each tent every day according to cer tified lists of inmates, and it is distributed direct by military people. Tho machinery was at hand, required but little addition, and secured regularity and certainty in the daily receipt of the loaves. " We ration every morning about 1,600 souls ; but we have weather during which it is scarcely fit for families to be under canvas, and yet there is no room elsewhere. " Yours sincerely, " W. CO DRINGTON." TILE 81112111-VG lIA 211 CATTLE SIIOIV. BIRMINGHAM, MONDAY. The 11th annual exhibition of fat cattle, pigs, and poultry opened this morning at 13ingley Hall, and is one of the most successful which has yet been held. Among the company assembled yesterday were : —Lord and Lady Chesterfield, Lord Southampton, Lord Howe, Lord Mountgarret, Lord Berwick, Lord Henry Lennox, Lord Stanhope, Earl Spencer (the president), Lord Macclesfield, Lord Calthorpe, Lord Hatherton, Lord Sondes, Lord Leigh and party, Earl Denbigh, Lord Alfred Churchill, Lord Curzon, Lord Loughborough, Sir John Ratcliff, Colonel Towneley, Sir H. Deveaux, Lady Evelyn Stanhope, Lady Dorothy Neville, Sir George Chet wynd, Sir Francis Goodricke, Hon. Mr. Russell, Edward Greaves, Esq., M.P., C. N. Newdegate, Esq., M.P., Sir William and Lady Hartopp, Sir Francis and Lady Scott, Right lion. C. B. Adder ley, M.P., and many others. The: entries, it is true, are not quite so nume rous as last year, but the quality of the stock is excellent ; in fact, it would be exceedingly difficult to attain a higher degree of perfection than that displayed in the various classes of the present ex hibition. The show of pigs, always an important feature of the exhibition, is far above the average, and a more complete demonstration of porcine ex cellence it would be impossible to witness. In some of the classes the competition was very severe, so close that the judges experienced considerable diffi culty in makicg their final awards. The exhibition ' of poultry is superior in every respect to any previ ously held in the county, and throughout the day this extensive department was completely crowded with visitors. Returning to the cattle, the Hereford breed is well represented, there being no less than 31 exhibited, the greater portion coming from Here ford, Salop, Brecon, Montgomery, and the adjacent counties, The most notable of this class was a mag nificent animal belonging to Mr. Richd. Shirley, of Bawcott, near Shrewsbury, -,vhich carried off the lion's share of the honours of the yard. It was not only declared first in its class, but the judges awarded it the extra premium for the: best Here ford, the gold medal as the best ox or steer, and the president's silver cup as the best ox or steer of any age or breed bred and fed by the exhibitor, a con dition with which it was the good fortune of Mr. Shirley to be enabled to comply. The beast is a dark red, with a spotted face ; well up in all points, of ripe condition, and considering its age, only two years and six months, exceedingly heavy. The short horns are more plentiful than they have been in several preceding. years, 29 animals being exhibited in the yard. Mr. Stratton takes the leading premium in the first class for a noble beast, three years and eight months old, exhibited as a steer last year, and which afterwards won a gold medal at the Baker-street Exhibition. It is of enormous size and weight, of excellent quality, thick in flesh, with a fine head and neck, and its symmetry admirable. The Derons are not so numerous as last year, but they nevertheless take a high position, e ver y one of the competitors receiving the marked approval of the judges. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort appears again as an exhibitor in this class, and takes' the lead with a neat, compact, and highly conditioned beast, which attracted great attention. The exhibition of sheep is quite equal to the best of its predecessors, and in some respects probably superior, and the Leicesters, in the opinion of the ,judges, are better than usual as regards size and substance. The Shropshires maintain their high reputation, and the Southdowns are all (that could be desired, either in point of symmetry or quality, both of wool and mutton. In the classes of fat pigs and pigs of a small breed, two neat animals, exhibited by his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, were highly corn 'mended. The total entries of domestic birds amount to 1,565, and embrace every description of poultry, and amongst them some of the choicest specimens ever exhibited. The exhibition of roots has assumed a most im portant character ; entries having this year been made. by growers in not less than seventeen coun ties. The improvement in this department of the show may be accounted for by the liberality of Sir John Rateliff, who, to encourage this description of farm produce, has, for the second time, generously given two prizes of elegant silver tankards. The roots in competition included the long and globe varieties of mangold-wurzel, swedes, common tur nips, and carrots ; and the prizes were awarded to Sir William lledtheote, Bart. M.P., and Itichal d Benyon, Esq., of Eaglefield-house, near Reading. The. show opened this morning at ten o'clock, and from that hour until six this evening, every de partment has been literally crowded with visitors. The nuMber of adiniseions has not as yet been ascer tained, but it is believed it will exceed that of any previous show. RAILWAY TO THE BANK OF ENGLAY The citizens of London and others interested in the trade and traffic of the metropolis will learn with satisfaction that in the next session a bill wiy. be presented for the purpose of construc tin g a rail way which will tend much to obviate the hourly troubles and discomforts occasioned by the huge. armies of foot passengers, cabs, omnibuses, and waggons now massed together in the leading tho roughfares, and striving vainly to acquire space and speed in their progress. Old associations may be against this intrusion, if it shall be so described. These must, however, succumb to inexora of ble fata and the demands of stern necessity. The traffic f the City has long since overgrown the capacity ° its crowded thoroughfares, and means must he adopted for relieving them of some portion of their extensive business. The p l an which has on Pre vious occasions been referred to in this journal for constructing a railway from the London-bide terminus of the South Eastern Railway to Charing: cross will do much to relieve the traffic going east and west by diverting it to the south side of red river. This, ho w e ver , is not all that is required Some scheme is necessary for affording the sam, ° relief to the City for the stream of trafficwhica ours intov it from the north and west. With this iew there has been projected a line of railway something short of three miles in length, which, connecting itself with the Great Norther n and with • the London and North Western systems by mw ea n h s it of the North London Railway, and pro babl y the the Great Western station by means of long-talked-of Metropolitan Subterranean B,atlwal will provide a ready and direct access into the heart_ of the City for the passengers and goods from these lines. The proposed railway will commence by , a . junction with the branch line of the Great Ner t ," ern Railway Company leading to their goods "f: partment, and will for a short space proceed ju t % course over territory of that company, and with their wall. The point of this junction will be few yards to the south of the North London Rairit way bridge, and the Copenhagen tunnel, at 0 , s bo te distance from the Regent's canal, and in inalued ia proximity to the great cattle market in Copei; hagen-fields, with which important spot a will be easily formed. From this point the lin es will gradually ascend until it crosses the Beg en d canal, and from this crossing it will be continue_ on arches throughout the remainder of its con rsu to the terminus immediately north of Token yard, Lothbury. The railway will cross Bathelre bridge upon an appropriate girder bridge, an d t The will be placed the first station on the line. ;no . railway will then pass on parallel with Gral?, - ,' be road, and on the eastern side of it. There will sr a station near the Bagnigge-wells-road, a t.the re p _ of Mr. Cubitt's factory. Thence the line will i , e t n he junctioe time its course to Holborn-hill, forming a ' con corner of Gray's-inn-lane a station of great..., pro venience to the legal profession. The line Will north teed eastward behind the houses forming the treet side of Holborn-hill, and will cross Victoria-still, at about 100 yards from the foot of Sill''' . ft where there will probably be another station. ith , will then continue its course through w ill • field, passing on its north side, a nd lert, cross Goswell-street, Barbican, Recicross.ll of Whitecross-street, keeping to the n or ' t here the prison, to Fore-street, w here th is will be a largo goods station. F i r l finallt point it will cross Finsbury-pavement , an" wretched London-wall, and opening up a number of aw in courts and alleys in the neighbourbood, and of terminate in a commodious station at a di s e nra cter 360 feet from the Bank of England. The character of the property required within the city mNo is almost entirely of the poorest description:strict person who is not well acquainted with the d a l wen , can form an adequate idea of the miserable ware ings which abound in close proximity to the of houses and banking establishments of the ei ..Abe London. From Finsbury-pavement to Barbi ca ' ete r. property is even or a more deplorable clni r . a r a nd There arc courts and alleys into which pure In ibu te sunlight can never penetrate, and which contr ta iitf in no small degree to swell the statistics of Ini°rarub in the metropolis. All around the famo us " b " .. mi ltou? street, now bearing the honoured name n,"-w-bito which street will b crossed by the line , and bero street—where Thistlewood and some o f them ernieet of the Cato-street conspiracy fled for conrcrbieti —there are nests of disease -breeding' hn ve ' s it would be a vast benefit to the health of the P d w as to demolish. The house in which Thistlewe° nosy arrested—No. 10, White-street—and which e4 O remains in the same condition as it was chore of years since, is within a stone's throw of the lianc, the proposed railway. At King's-cross a j ose ct tion may easily be effected between the P r l a at line and the Metropolitan Subterrane an, - the this point facilities exist for so raising s to gradients of the under-ground railway' gttiog' admit of its coming above the road an „ a fl i s rat to the level of the arches of the Bank Je n - n oble The junction would serve the whole fusiTpay's: district of Tyburnia, and to a great exte o " 4 , o ue water. not to mention the less aristocrati c, '-nond marvellously increasing, neighbourhood suitt uo ing the Royal Oak ; and it is to be hoped t .. s cith party feelings or other obstacles will inter fer ' bo ald this very desirable janction. If, however, it s t ionr cot be considered desirable to form this ..P inc i e sel course, and emerge to the light of day, astersgi s t he the Metropolitan line can still pursue its lo. na ill proposed, in Victoria-street. The prom °I re new line are confident of bein et ab ' s e the l e to rat. ar e • also convinced that the traffic will yield a v°rY ho le The 'o' some return on the money invested. e length of the line is a little short of thre e the From the station at King's cross to the n„ li d frOln distance will be two miles and a qua rter, a.y e. Air King's-cross to Holborn-hill exactly one r i tatt other vastly important point for metrope,lins, venience in connection with this under 1,200,000, anicltand, shave the engineer of the line, been under the careful consideration of 1\ 11. ,',, oossi nanselY, the posse au bility, as an adjunct to the scheme, of for T..," ia ordinary carriage road parallel to the ra,n : `,l , ;ad its course along the north side of Holborn' the reby extending to the top of Skinner-street, r ie nce of abolishing the long-standing public grit of Skin the descent of flolborn-hill and the ascen t . little to ner-street. This crying evil commences ascent. sour; the east of Furnival's-inn, and ends at rou" core's Church ; and the suggested carriaestreetB being upon arches the traffic of the e xisting t be I' will not be interfered with. Ther e con° 10 rece doubt but that this important ques tion W i hositl e° the deliberate consideration of t he civic ant and of the Metropolitan Board of Works. q ri p°. " i n " f i g l i t g e - r : iIIURDEI? AND ATTEMPTED k r A fliesiherilete One of the most cold-blooded murders which has ever been known bourhood was perpetrated, on the eveninee. 'l ll , e day last, at North Nibley, Gloucestershlrbont murderer's name is John Shepherd ; is ti n ts, wh years of acre, the son of respectable par e _ rn e P have been farmers and were possessed of en 6 pen'' party, but the whole, or nearly so, has ° ba d cll! by the son. Shepherd has always borne ratter, and is of a very vicious tur n of nutl o. era has been in several police forees , _ d for 133 Somerset county police, but was discharge_thing to conduct. For some time he has done n u _ tne tiul° gain a livelihood. It appears he had for s a e n val ue: been paying his addresses to a young vve m icea ver Ann Smitheram, the only daughter of 3 to h e Nibley, but from circumstances which car e a ftel,r knowledge she determined not to recetc e , e ' r y 01 0.7 tions any longer. This exasperated him and he has been heard to say that he i " .O wow. her; it was not however thought that _ll...pia, carry out his threat. Last Saturday' ev e n cottagil about six o'clock, he was observed nea r ! l a te, of the Smitherans, as was his custom 01 tiefaiA on the inmates hearing a noise outside aur tunate woman looked out to see what it, ` ere you finding it was Shepherd said, " Whatiter the ' L. ; there again, then?' and immediately a fell port of a gun was heard and the deceas'', a fter: the ground with a scream and never lue ve n u o icat e4 re wards. The plies were at once couliek;eit) with, and medical assistance (Mr- Bm, n e /ram._ cured, but life was pronounced extinct. .a.,,,nosi.rti nation was made and a round hole we s t ., o ; whi t s her breast, just below the left shoulder, P,_, oo d o ,l_o the blood flowed in great quantities ; ° A I ftcr thoe, or ..,n e l s g d i l sc oc L IT ; was running from her nose and mouth-be l' fba ud .tb ! discharge of the gun nothing coul d de, but w lo ck i Shepherd, and search was instantly' ma . t out success until half-past seven the next morning (Sunday), when b e — f a ce, in e. " - e r. in a small orchard with the half' of his i . tti m ann t ing the nose, shattered in a most fea l r4it e lia r ; He was at once conveyed to the, a nd n o m and medical assistance procure", state. stns he lies in a very precarious _ he iitt a examination of the hie found was made, and it is supposed dS I from whe n _ shot himself in a shed about 15 Yal e ' s traW co ne he was lying, for blood was on 's "'‘„ c i t ie i v , tamed in the shed and over the doors , der wider the (which had been ben rowed) wo. i d iii straw. Shot corresponding with tl ali t "; wa dV e wound was upon him, also esb J)0 inquiju He is not expected to recover. A " to f too W t ` c held on the woman the Par tha t place wherehat s ta.- 41 llth inst. hat the from Trieste of the _ tvv d t o the dethroned Princes of Central Italy are ,;r o port e o bo o the young Grand Duke of Tuscany :Lloyd's in e re ha v e couple of steamers front the Austria! „ ...t v o y r,10 , 0 0 money in anticipation of the Congress . , s f r i e ; to Pu t r ti nag - - ill bo 111 a hat - clits as yet declined to sell. Attempt!, It t _ c o from some other companies, lt is to 1-Ai:pukes any of one of the commercial houses of Malta) "de to j„' one will be fool enough to give these ex-Ora asi I