The Sun. — London, England, 1860-02-15 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEB. 15, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 38—highest since noon yesterday. 32—lowest this morning and during the night. 42—this day at noon. lisnomuTzu-30.48 ; WIND. North-Easterly ; light, with fine frosty weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 7h. 47m.—Afternoon, Bh. 22m. To-moitatow.-Morning, 9h. 4m.—Afternoon, 9h. 50m. cA 2.0 ,M z . tri'-') . . ... 4•.. la :,. ~ , ..1- 7 . 4 , • 0 -t, -~~ _ 1 t i ii ~~ `~,-` i '' K'- ~a--` THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15, 1860. The difficulty and delicacy of the " situation" are evidenced plainly enough by a perpetually in creasing series of postponements. It is inconve nient as yet to enter into particulars upon this point. It is advisable to delay, a little longer, ex planations upon that. The interests of the Crown and the country will be militated against if such • a motion is persevered in: Any immediate discus sion upon the important subject brought under the notice of the House (Upper or Lower), by the Honourable Gentleman or by the Noble Lord, as the case may be, is earnestly depre cated upon a variety of pleas : now because additional information is almost hourly expected to be forthcoming; now because negotiations are still pending ; now because, for reasons it were prema ture at this moment to explain, such a course would be highly prejudicial to the national interests, and might even go so far as to imperil the general tranquillity of Christendom. And so generously complacent or awed into acquiescence by those solemn and sometimes most . mysterious assurances—noble lords and hon. gentlemen acquiesce, they bow to the demands made one after another upon their patriotism by the responsible members of the Government. And so—precisely in the same spirit as that which induced the House of Commons to agree to the delay of Lord JOHN RUSSELL in lay ing the Treaty upon the table until Mr. GLADSTONE should have recovered his voice sufficiently to make his Financial Statement—Mr. KING IAICE yields to the entreaties of both Foreign Secretary ecretery and First Lord of the Treasury, that for the present he would forego the luxury of yielding to the almost irresistible temptation of asking for further particulars in regard to the rumoured annexation of Savoy to France. It must be allowed, by Ministers themselves, that if their position is (as it undoubtedly is) surrounded by difficulties—they are aided upon all sides in the general attempt to stave off the evil day of public s, ,rutiny and public discussion in regard to ea eh and all of these same important and for z nidable difficulties. The Budget was post pore ed. The revelation of the terms of the Treaty was postponed. The day fixed for the introduction of e Reform Bill has been postponed. The exa mi ur ttion of the policy proposed to he carried out in Chi na has been postponed. The scrutiny of the mea ,tires in regard to Savoy and Nice has been post- Pone, I. The exposition of the Ministerial projecly in ref ( , irence to the solution of the complex problem known •, as the Italian Question, has been—for the most part, namely, as a whole—carefully and reso lutely postponed. And it is not simply that Minis ters have found in individual members of our own , Parliament a disposition to concede thus amiably to their anxiety for this systematic postponement — Imperial France has already very recently displayed in the same manner, in two distinct and extraordi nary particulars, what we have already termed in her regard an admirable reciprocity of retioense to the British Government. The Moniteur in this way has responded to the electric hint of the telegram—de laying for several days the pre-arranged publication of the Commercial Treaty, because of the procras tination of the English Budget, consequent upon the indisposition of our Chancellor of the Exche quer. And now, yet more recently, it would be impossible not to recognise in the delay still further (until the Ist of March) of the opening of the ses sion for 1860 of the Senate and Legislative Body, a generous solicitude on the part of the French Government not to embarass the English Cabinet by the necessity of agitating the Savoy Difficulty at a moment when both Treaty and Budget might perchance be thereby very seriously jeopardised. If our Ministerial oracles maintain and obtain silence in this manner upon other sources of very natural public solicitude, one of them at any rate spoke out very plainly indeed last night in the House of Lords in reference to the actual situation of things in Tuscany, in answer to the inquiries yesterday put to him by a Noble Lord who was so far privileged to speak upon the subject, seeing that during several recent years he occupied at Florence the responsible position of her Britannic MAJESTY'S diplomatic representative. The discus sion, in truth, which took place last evening in the House of Peers in reference to the state of affairs in Central Italy, will be found upon examination to be eminently worthy of perusal. Me interlocutors comprised, besides the Under-Secretary of State, Lord WODEHOUSE, two Marquises and Ave Earls the Earls, or, at least, the majorsty of them, talking most to the point, and the Marquises the most discursively. It will be seep that Lord NORMANBY, in giving rise to this dis cussion, moved, as it appears rather precipitately, that an humble address be presented to her MAJESTY for a copy of any instructions from the Secretary of State to her MAJESTY'S Chargfi d'Affaires at Florence, not accredited to the Pro visional Government there, directing him to attend the official reception on the lat of January of Signor BUONCOMPAGNI, now acting as Gover nor. General of Tuscany, having been nomi nated as such by Prince CARIGNAN of Savoy without any subsequent popular sanction on the part of the Tuscan people ! It will be observed, we say, that the noble marquis moved rather pre cipitately for a copy of those instructions—seeing that Earl GRANVILLE was enabled at once to reply --With regard to the despatch supposed to have been forwarded to her MAJESTY'S Chargé d'Affaires at Florence, instructing him to give an official recognition to Signor BUONCOM PAGNI, there was no such despatch in exis tence ! The President of the Council adding that the Chargé d'Affaires had been directed to re ceive Signor BUONCOMPAGNI in the same unofficial manner as he had received his predecessor. As to the details entered into by Lord NORMANBY, the Earl GRANVILLE did not hesitate to declare that they were for the most part, if not one and all, based upon anonymous communications, several of which having been investigated at the instance of her MAJESTY'S Government, proved to be entirely without foundation. Considerable light has, moreover (altogether apart from the discussion originated yesterday by the Marquis of NORMANDY), been thrown upon the state of affairs in Italy through the publication, by command of her MAJESTY, of the diplomatic correspondence which has taken place from the signature of the Preliminaries of Villafranca to the Postponement of the Congress. Further correspondence in regard to the question of the an nexation of Savoy to France is announced as very speedily forthcoming. Till the latter documents appear we shall lack the key to the mystery of the EMPEROR'S hitherto inscrutable policy to ' wards the Roman Peninsula. Till then Europe is left bewildered in regard to the designs of a ruler who simply and solely affects to be magnanimous at the very time when he appears to be only resolutely, inflexibly, and graspingly Machiavellian ! We all remember th© upstir caused in the United States by the publication of " Uncle Tom's Cabin" —it seemed as if the North would die of laughter, and the South go mad with rage. The genius of an almost unknown authoress, a descendant, too, of the gravest old Puritans, set all the civilised world a laughing at the angry Southerners. Books are great powers in these days. Even the Vatican roars with rage at an anonymous pamphlet, and now an other book is enraging the unfortunate slaveholders beyond endurance. For more than two months, on the testimony of the President himself, the House of Representatives has been without a Speaker, and unable to organise itself and proceed to business, because the Republican candidate had " endorsed the sentiments of HELPER'S Book." One notable, of the name of CLARK, even proposed a resolution that no man was suitable for the Speakership who had " endorsed HELPER'S book." And only yesterday we learned that the Republican candidate—Mr. SHERMAN—though he had repeatedly come within three v o t es o f hi s election:had at last withdrawn ; and that Mr. PENNINGTON, who we may suppose had not, patronised the terrible book, had taken his place. Even he, however, on the last trial, had failed by one vote. Tremendous, therefore, is the Southern wrath with this book ; and naturally enough. The effect it was producing in the American Con gress led us to procure it, and we ceased to wonder at the slaveholders' wrath. Its language is at rough and passionate imagine,is but a enough, oftensm l partbitter. o f That, h however, we grievance—the Southerners are used to the dialect, and indeed, the Northern men also have too much:of it. Unlike Uncle Tom's Cabin there is not a trace of genius in it—plenty of hot temper, but no flashes. The crime of the book is that it appeals to the point on which Americans are most susceptible. It says little, only indeed in a passing way about honour, morality, religion—others HELPER thinks have:worked those veins sufficiently, and got all that can be gained from them towards the abolition or slavery. He almost limits himself to the economical argument ; he proves that slavery has beggared the South and Freedom enriched the North ; he makes the Southerners feel, what JUVENAL tells us, is the hardest thing to bear in poverty—its ridicu lousness. And, having done this he shows how abolition can be effected quietly, constitutionally, Set. in the teeth of the two or three hundred thou sand slaveholders. Southern slavery, he says, can be abolished at once, abolished justly without compensation, and abolished by those who have the unquestionable right to abolish it, the non-slavcl&olding whites in the South itself. HELPER is himself a North Ca rolina man, but not a slaveholder. He had land there—an excellent farm in regard to situation and quality of the soil. He sold it for five dollars sixty cents. per acre; a similar farm, not farther off than Pennsylvania, was sold for one hundred and fire dollars fifty cents. per acre. Such a fact would naturally dispose him to look into the whole subject, and he has given us the results. He has collected the census returns of the States—they do not there shrink from agricultural statistics—and they form such a collection of unanswerable facts as must consign American slavery to the lowest hell of economical perdition. He shows that though the Northern States, which have since emancipated their slaves, started on a fair level with those of the South, and though the area of the Slave States is very much the larger, the Northern population is much more than thirteen minions, while that of the South is little more than nine millions and a half, including more than three millions of slaves. The South boasts of its agriculture the Free States' produce, which is measured by the b:ishel, shows a balance of 17,423,000 bushels in their forour, and a balance of value amounting to 44,782,000 k:1010. The same holds good in the very numerous re turns which he brings together and tabularia:s. Cotton, we should have supposed, would have brought up the wealth of the South to something like equality with that of the North. He shows that the " annual hay crop of the Free States is worth more than all the COTTON, RICE, TOBACCO, HAY, HEMP, and CANE-SUGAR produced in the fif teen Slave States." These products of the South were valued at 138,605,000 dole. ; the hay crop of the North at 142,139,000 dole.—that is at three millions and a half dole. more. The same dispropor tion holds throughout—in agricultural produce, for instance, of the kind measured by the pound weight, such as sugar (both maple and. cane), cotton, wool, butter, and cheese twelve principal articles in all. The Free States produced 28,878,064,9021bs ; the Slave States only 4,338,370,6611b5., with a difference of value in favour of the North of fifty-nine million dollars — nearly £12,000,000. Pretty well this for one year's contrast between the results of freedom and slavery in one class of produce only. Adding to it the balance of the value of crops measured by bushels, the agriculture of the North surpasses that of the South by fully £20,000,000 per annum ! The produce per acre of every crop is larger in the North ; even in the tropical production of Indian corn the produce is 31 bushels, the South only 20 bushels per acre. The difference of value of live stock is as 286 to 253 millions of dollars, and in the value of farms, live stock included, not less than £200,000,000 ! Indeed, he states, that if eight entire Slave States—Arkansas, Delaware, Florida,Maryland, Missouri Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas, and the district of Columbia—were put up to auction, New York—that is, the personal and real property of New York—could buy them all, and then have 123 million dollars left in her pockets. We might, however, quote facts and figures without end. They are, as we have said, the great offence of the book. HELPER has mirrored the contemptible poverty of the slaveholding South so clearly in the immense comparative wealth of the free North, and has so strongly connected all with slavery that he has sealed its doom. The dollars are shown to be as overpoweringly against slavery as the Bible, morality, civilisation, and the founders of the American Republic. He proves that emancipation will increase by more than twenty fold the value of southern estates, and he convicts the 250,000 slaveholders of being fools to their own interests, as well as traitors to their country's welfare, if they persist in maintaining slavery for the pure pleasure of being able to flog niggers. But if his facts make them ashamed, his pro posed policy enrages them. There are six millions of whites in the slave states, and but two or three hundred thousand slaveholders. The non-slave holding community are comparatively ruined for the fancied benefit of the few slaveholders. The larger proportion of them are the " miserable whites," of whom we have all heard. Nothing is wanted to raise these degraded whites but the abo lition of slavery, and thus rendering labour honour able. The non-slaveholders have each a vote as well as the few slaveholders. They could outvote them at once, and fill the State Legislatures with men who would take immediate measures to repress slavery. He advises them, amongst other things, to organise thordughly—never to vote for a traf ficker in human flesh—not to co-operate with slaveholders in politics—in religion—in society ; to lay a tax of 60 dollars on every slaveholder for each negro from the present time to July 1863—an additional tax of 40 dollars for every negro found in his possession after that time, with other pretty stringent suggestions. Such is a slight sketch of the book which pits the Dollar itself against Slavery, and shows who can abolish it, how they can do it, and what a gain it will be to all. We need not wonder that the offence was inexuiable of having "endorsed HEL PER'S Book." APUBLIC MEETING will be held at the THATCHED HOUSE TAVERN, St. James'-street, on SATURDAY, the 18th of February (instead of Saturday, the,llth, as originally advertised), with a view to establish PRELIMINARY DRILL in Public Schools, in connection with the Volunteer Movement. Lord ELCHO, M.P., in the Chair. At one o'clock. Lord Ashburton, the Hon. Geo. Byn , M.P and the Hon. W. F. Campbell, will assist in the proceedings. • - r.. „BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of mechanism." --Morning Post. ""s Gold Watches 4to 100 guineas. •.: Silver Watches 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Vnder the management of Miss L. Fyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING THE ROSE OF CASTILLE. Messrs. Santley, G. Honey, , St. Albyn, and Wm. Harrison. Miss Louisa Pyne Condactor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new grand pantomime, called PUSS IN BOOTS ; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden Palms. Messrs. W. H. Payne, H. Payne. F. Payne, Barnes, Tallien, Infants Lauri, and Miss Clara Morgan. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Losvee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone._ nus EVENING, 'will be performed TIIE 3liss Amy Sedgwick. . . After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the True Loyal's' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled Leclercqs. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. Due Notice will be given of the recovery of Dona Isabel Cubas from her severe indisposition. THIS EVENING, a new Drama, called A TALE OF TWO CITIES, by Tom Taylor, Esq., from the story of that name by Charles Dickens, Esq. Principal characters by Mr. James 'Vining, Walter Lacy, Villiers, House, Forrester, J. Johnstone, T. Lyon, Morton, Palmer, White, H. Butler, Clifford, and Fredericks ; Misses Kate Saville, Stuart, Turner, Mrs. Campbell, and Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex travaganza and Pantomime, KING THEWS HBEARD, the LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION, in which is pre sented one of the most novel, costly, and brilliant effects ever witnessed —designed and painted by Mr. William Callcott.— King Thrushbeard, Miss Julia St. George. - - Commence at 7. It° YA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan sense of La Scala, Milan ; and the Delapierre Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. THIS EVENING, CAUGHT IN A TRAP. After which, a new c,hristmas burlesque pantomime, by H. J. Byron, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle quin King Art'Aur and the Knights of the Round Table. Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack - Panta loon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. MEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Ben). Webster. ' Combination of Talent.—Engagement of these popular artistes, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, who will appear for a limited number of nights. THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE HOUSE, or THE HOME? Messrs. A. Wigan, C. Selby, Billing - ton; Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss 11. Simms, and Miss Laidlaw. Followed by the petite drama of ONE TOUCH OF NATUttE. Messrs. B. Webster, Billington, Eburne, C. J. Smith ; Miss H. Simms, After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LURLEYBERG ; or, The Knight and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford, Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K. Kelly, Laidlaw. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor ter bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting. Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passengers all hours of the night. TB IS EVENING the performances will conunenee with (third time) FIRST AFFECTIONS. Messrs. 11. T. Craven, G. Spencer, and Miss Wyndham. After which, MAGIC TOYS. Miss Lydia Thompson. Followed by a new burlesque called DIDO. Mr. Charles Young, Mesdames Wyndham, Clara St. Casse, Murray, Eliza Arden, C. Ranoe, A. Evans, and Corps de Ballet. To conclude with I WILL, IF YOU WILL. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, Is. The Box-office open from 11 0 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ance commences at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Last Six Nights of Mr. W. Cooke's Management. THIS EVENING, to commence with a grand and spirit *Wring Hippodramatic Spectacle. Graphic, Picturesque, and Fascinating Scenes of Horse manship by Miss Alice Maude Cooke, Miss Emily Cooke, and John Henry Cooke, the leading Equestrian of the day. To conclude with the Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY ; or, Old Towler the Huntsman and the God dess Diana ; Diana, with Songs, Miss Jacobs ; Tom, Mr. Herbert; Patty, Mr. G. Belmore. Commence at 7. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips CANTERBURY HALL THIS EVENING, LUCREZIA BORGIA, (Donizetti). C ON emus.— Donna Lucrezia Miss Russell. Maffio Orsini Mrs. Anderson. Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert. Don Altonzo Signor Tivoli. Conductor—Mr. Jonghmans. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchtield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting; Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1860, LATEST NE WS. The following telegrams have bee; a received at Mr. Reutor's office : VIENNA, WEDNESDAY. The Wiener Zeitung says :—The n alysis pub lished in some foreign journals of an alleged answer of Austria to M. Thouvenel'a despatch is not founded:on any Austrian document. COPENHAGEN, FEB. 14. Bishop Monrad has undertaken the formation of a new Ministry. He left Paris yesterday evening and will arrive here at the end of this week: It is expected that M. Hall, his former colleague, will be entrusted with the portfolio for foreign affairs. TURIN, FEB. 14. It is stated that the Sardinian Government has received no confirmation of the report of a Con ference of the four great Powers. The Opinions says,—Such a Conference is less Likely than the Congress. PARIS, FEB. 14. It is not true that the Count de Cavour has ad dressed a second circular to the diplomatic agents of Sardinia. At this moment the Sardinian Government evinces great moderation. BERLIN, FEB. 14. The reports circulating in Paris concerning an approaching Conference of the four great Powers (without Austria) on the English proposals are here stated to be false. Prussia has not given in her adhesion to the English proposals, and probably she will refuse to do so. VIENNA, Fzn. 14. To-day the French Ambassador, the Marquis de Moustier, ;commenced his official reception of the diplomatic body, the Austrian ministers and high functionaries. The attaches of the embassy were present in gala costume. The Journal de St. Peterabourg of to-day pub- lishes news from Pekin to the 4th December. The Russian mission was going on well. The health of the Emperor of China had im proved, and his Majesty had left his palace in tho country to return to the metropolis. The rebels were not agreed among themselves, and the imperial troops had been victorious over them. European men-of-war were off the mouth of the Peiho. FRANCE. Marshal Niel has been called up from Toulouse tio Paris by telegraph. Admiral Remain-Desfosses lately reviewed at Toulon several companies of Marines to be em ployed in landing on an enemy's coast. Each man is provided with a six-barrelled revolver, a bag of grenades, and a hatchet. He carries as a crossbelt a rope ladder six feet long, and round his waist a cord, having at its extremity a grappling iron with four prongs. This grappling-iron will attach itself to the least projecting object of a rampart, and will enable a trained man to scale the highest wall without difficulty. " Formal instructions," says the Constitutionnel, "have been sent by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the consuls, vice-consuls, and consular agents of France in the States of the Church, not to allow any demonstrations to be made in their honour or in that of France ; and to avoid being mixed up directly or indirectly in such scenes." THE BOURSE, Feb. 14.--The market has been rather more buoyant, and prices have generally improved. The following are the last quotations : tf per Cents. .... 97 50 I Credit Foncier 740 Do. end month .. 97 50 I Belgian 41 97 50 3 per Cents. 67 75 Piedmontess (5) Do. end month.... 67 65 Roman 79 50 Bank Shares 2BlO Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 740 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 738 Home Debt 42 75 RAILWAYS. Card'. Orleans .. 1355 Northern . — 905 New ditto .. 825 Lyons and Mediterranean — 877 50 Geneva — 490 Southern Western Eastern 632 60 Sardinian Austrian - .. 395 -- - - 07 50 -- - - Lombard ..... .. SARDINIA. Count Cavour has addressed the following letter to Commander Buoncompagni, president of the Liberal Union, in reply to an address from that body on the subject of the annexation of Central Italy to the subalpine kingdom : "I am most grateful to you for the expressions of sympathy and esteem which you address to me in the name of the Liberal Union. The King's Government has imposed on itself the noble and difficult task of giving to the provinces of Italy, freed from all foreign influence, those liberal insti tutions which have given so much moral strength to Piedmont. And since, for our happiness, the national idea cannot be any longer separated from that of liberty, no administration can direct pub lic affairs with advantage and efficacy if it has not the confidence of the King and of the Parlia ment. Actuated by this principle, my colleagues and myself will hasten the coavocation of the Chambers as much as circumstances will allow, and labour without ceasing to remove all the difficulties which still oppose the annexation so ardently de sired by every true Italian. lam happy to assure you that Europe, more and more convinced by the fresh proofs of concord and constancy which we have given, will no longer hesitate to accede to our ardent wishes. It is no longer a secret that diplomacy demands, as a condition of its consent, a new manifestation of the wishes of the people of Central Italy. This final demonstration of firmness and unanimity might appear superfluous to us, who have witnessed the noble fervour and sponta neousness of the wishes already expressed by the popuiations, but it is desirable to obviate every pretext on the part of those who would represent these manifestations of the popular will as having been dictated solely by the imminent danger of an armed restoration. New the principle of non-intervention is about to receive public and more explicit confirmation, the sublime significa tion of this great act of the national will will not be lessened in the eyes of Europe and of pos terity. I therefore hope that the new assembly will be able to give its legal sanction to this fact, which will immediately open a new era in the history of Italy. It is of the utmost importance that the electors should send to Par liament representatives worthy of Italy's past, worthy of the splendid future which opens before her. Such is precisely the object of the association over which you preside, and I feel confident that, thanks to its co-operation, the new members will be, by their wisdom and unanimity, worthy mem bers of the new Italian Parliament. Will you express, Sir, my gratitude to the association, and receive, &e., " C. CAVOUR." The following is the text of an address which the citizens of Geneva have decided on sending to the Federal Council : " Faithful and dear co-Federates—ln presence of the grave events which are rising up near our frontiers, and which menace the neutrality of our country, and perhaps the integrity of its terri tory, the people of Geneva, who are particularly threatened, have at an imposing meeting, where all opinions were represented, decided on ad dressing themselves to the Executive Power of the Confederation to communicate to it their apprehen sions and their wishes, Thc 111:1144 o Savo r y to ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA. Miss Parepa, who has been constantly rising in public estimation ever since her debut at the Royal English Opera, achieved new and most brilliant success on Monday evening, as Amina, in "La Sonnambula." No operatic character is more familiar to the London public, and none has been peformed on the metropolitan stage by so many first-class artists. Miss Parepa had, therefore, to contend with reminiscences of other celebrities— that is, with preconceived ideas of how the part should be played and the music should be sung, besides the necessity, deeply felt by all really ar tistic natures, of creating beauty—of displaying a truth, however old, in a new and striking light. With, on the one hand, the danger of not being understood (which attends all originality), and, on the other, the fear of falling into conven tionalism, Miss Parepa had certainly no light task to perform ; but us the result of her efforts was so triumphant we need not dwell upon difficulties which were completely surmounted further than justice requires for an adequate expla nation of all the accomplished singer's merits in this particular instance. Whether for histrionic power, genuine musical sentiment, or the dainty fancy and wondrous fluency of the vocal embellish ments (for the most part new as they were charm ing), Miss Parepa's Amina may be praised without reserve ; and that the audience thought as we do was indisputably attested by the enthusiastic applause and frequent "recalls" with which the fair artiste was honoured. Ni iss Parepa was efficiently supported by Mr. Haigh as Elvino, and the opera, in other respects well performed, was received with great favour throughout. The new cpera, entitled, " Lurline," from the pen of \li. Vincent Wallace, the popular composer of "\faritana," is in active preparation at Covent Gar den Theatre. The musical world of London looks forward with much interest to its production. MEETING OF THE CONSERVATIYE PARTY.—It is understood that at the meeting of the Conserva tive party convened yesterday by Lord Derby, a decision was come to to oppose Mr. Gladstone's budget. We hear that, in consequence, a resolu tion will be moved on Monday , generally condem natory of the financial scheme. The grounds of this opposition are stated to be disapproval of the additional penny on the income tax, the repeal of the paper duty, the extension of the licenses for the retailing of wine and spirits, and the provisions of the treaty with France relative to the export of coal from this country.—. Post. France bas just been decided on ; the neutralised ground is about to form part of the French terri tory, and Geneva will be hemmed in by that vast empire. As the key of the road of the Simplon, and forming part of the line of defence which ex tends from the Maritime Alps to the Tyrol, may not the canton of Geneva, as well as that of the Valais, have to fear from one moment to another an occupation for which political necessities would serve as the pretext ? These fears are not exaggerated, for history is a proof of them. Faith ful and dear co-Federates—The Powers around us are in arms ; our frontiers, open on every side have not a single soldier. Switzerland alone appears tranquil and without mistrust, and only deriving her strength from her good faith and the goodness of her right. Nevertheless, the annexation of Savoy to France is a dismemberment of the Swiss territory, inasmuch as it comprises the neutral part of the Sardinian States. Faithful and dear co- Federates—Let the old motto One for all, and all for one ' be a truth for the powers which direct the nation. The Genevese people will shed their blood for the country and for the integrity of the Swiss territory. Patriotic salutation." SWITZERLAND. The following is the text of an address which the citizens of Geneva have decided on sending to the Federal Council : "Faithful and dear Confederates,—ln presence of the grave events which are rising up near our frontiers, and which menace the neutrality of our country, and perhaps the integrity of its territory, the people of Geneva, who are particularly threat ened, have at an imposing meeting, where all opi nions were represented,decided on addressing them selves to the executive power of the Confederation to communicate to it their apprehensions and their wishes. The union of Savoy to France has just been decided on ; the neutralised ground is about to form part of the French territory, and Geneva will be hemmed in by that vast empire. As the key of the road of the Sim plon, and forming part of the line of defence which extend from the Maritime Alps to the Tyrol, may not the Canton of Geneva, as well as that of the Valais, have to fear from ono moment to another an occupation for which political necessi ties would serve as the pretext ? These fears are not exaggerated, for history is a proof of them. Faithful and dear Confederates—the Powers around us are in arms; our frontiers, open on every side, have not a single soldier. Switzer land, alone, appears tranquil and without mis trust, and only deriving her strength from her good faith and the goodness of her right. Nevertheless, the annexation of Savoy to France is a dismemberment of the Swiss territory, inasmuch as it comprises the neutral part of the Sardinian States. Faithful and dear Confederates, let the old motto, One for all and all for one,' be a truth for the powers which direct the nation. The Gene vese people will shed their blood for the integrity of the Swiss territory." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 10th contains accounts of joyful demonstrations made in various provincial towns in honour of the taking of Tetuan. They state that the Austrian Ambassador had, by order of his Government, congratulated the Queen on the success of her troops ; and that a crowd, on passing before the French Embassy, had not only raised shouts for the Queen and the army, but had cried, " France for ever !" " Long live the Emperor!" A statement was made by some journals that an official protest had been delivered to the French Government by the Chevalier Desambrois do Ne vache, who was received two days ago by the Em. peror to deliver his letters of recall, is contradicted. The Sardinian Minister merely pointed out the enlistments made in Austria, for Naples and Rome, as being contrary to the principle of non-inter vention. A letter from Nice of the 12th says :—•' The A venir was seized yesterday for publishing an article relative to the demonstration of the Bth. The seizure, it is stated, was only effected after the Government at Turin had been consulted by tele graph. It is asserted that the governor has given formal orders to prevent another Italian manifesta tion which was projected. Several families having declared to the director of the theatre that they will never enter the house again if disorderly scenes are tolerated in it, no more demonstrations will take place there. At the request of tho French Consul, the director of the Tiranty Theatre has resolved not to allow the French air of " La Reins Hortense" to be again played." THE POPE'S ENCYCLICAL LETTER. The Journal de Francfort publishes a circular which the French Minister, M. Thouvenel, has ad dressed to the diplomatic agents of France in reply to the last encyclical letter of the Pope. No date is affixed in the above-mentioned journal to the document, which runs as follows : " Sir,—You have read the encyclical letter which the Pope has addressed to all Patriarchs, Bishops, and Primates of the Catholic Church, and in which his Holiness, exposing in an exclusive point of view the origin and nature of the difficulties presented by the existing situation of the Romagna, exhorts pastors and the faithful of the whole world. to em ploy zealously all their efforts towards the main tenance and defence of the rights of the Holy See over that province. " Not doubting that this document has at tracted the serious attention of the Government of —, I consider it my duty to enable you to make known how his Majesty's Government appreciates it. ... " I will not for the moment stop to notice the reproaches, more or less explicit, which are directed by the encyclical letter against the line of policy followed by the Emperor with regard to the Holy See, in the difficult circumstances of these latter times. History in its impartially will one day say whether the responsibility of the events which have occurred falls on the Sovereign whose efforts have been constantly employed to prevent them, or on those who, refusing any concession or any reform, and confining themselves in inexplicable inaction, have allowed things to grow worse and worse, until they threaten to reach a point at which the evil becomes so great that it cannot be remedied. " What in particular has attracted the painful attention of his Majesty's Government is the for getfulness of diplomatic usages which, in so im portant a matter, the Court of Rome has displayed, by transporting directly to the field of religion a question which before all things belongs to tem poral order. We see with sentiments of sincere and profound regret the Holy Father appealing to the conscience of the clergy, and exciting the ar dour of the faithful, with respect to an affair the discussion of which can only take place advanta geously between Government and Government. " It is not intended, in fact, to make the slightest encroachment on the spiritual power of the Sovereign Pontiff, nor on the independence required for the exercise of that power within the limits of his rights. The question of Romagna now as at other periods, has arisen from political circumstances ; and it is in its political aspect that we should examine it, by seeking the best means of satisfying necessities in the presence of which the Pontifical Government would not find itself fatally placed, if, instead of imprudently wait• ing for the development of the situation, it had listened to our counsels and seconded our efforts. No, whater a party which does not fear to assume the appearance of religious zeal may say ; no, what ever may be done to lead to the belief that the in terests of the faith are in peril, the question in dis cussion between the Government of his Holi ness and that of the Emperor is, thank God, a purely temporal one. We may thoreforo discuss it with out failing in the deference and respect which all France feels honoured in entertaining for the Father of the Faithful, and of which his Majesty ha s al ways been happy to be the first to give the exam ple. I do not hesitate to say, Sir, that the Court of Rome has n - )t been well inspired in endeavour ing to establish, as the encyclical letter attempts t o do, a sort of indissoluble eunueetion between two sorts of interests which cannot be mixed up and confounded without danger. In the first ava of the Church, when the tendencies of ciyilisittion were merely theocratical, that confusi OR was possible and natural; it weB ampted without difficulty by every b o a s , h euaase it was i n accor d ance with the state of opinion and of men's consciences; It was thus at the outset one of the 01ei41,94_,0f po,Wer og the Papacy, 4 1 14 1 4 99:4 ) ,VV0y0 111 4 fu,reamin ald de- YeleVilefit Af its tqlitqlcki§QTQT9iglity. Still, if we interrogate history with attention, we shall see clearly that it was not solely by invoking motives de rived from its divine mission, and by putting forth, as it were, claims in the name of Heaven, that the Papacy, sometimes with the support of the popula tions themselves, sometimes with the help of foreign Sovereigns, succeeded in gaining possession of a part of Italy. It would be seen at the same time, and the fact must be proclaimed to the honour of the Holy See, that the Pipes found in their wis dom, their enlightenment, their lover of order and justice—in a word, in the better government which they offeredlte the'people, in those times of violence and anarchy, one of the essential elements of their political authorit. " I will not dwell longer on this point of view, from the fear that were I to do so I should lead to the belief that I am desirous of seeking in the con trast an allusion and of borrowing from the past a lesson applicable to the present times ; whereas nothing is further from my thoughts. But I may be permitted to say that in our days, in conse quence of a progress which the Emperor's Govern ment cannot consider other than as a benefit irrevocably acquired to modern societies, separation has been effected between the two domains--the religious order and the civil and political one. The Holy See has therefore placed itself in disaccord not less with the general spirit of tho time than with international rules, by making an appeal to men's consciences in the name of faith, for an inte rest which, when rightly considered, is simply tem poral. " I add that this attempt is far from being sup ported by the authority and the precedents of his tory. In fact, this is not the first tine that, at periods not far distant from our own, the situation of the Romagna and the possession of that district have been the subject of political discussion. In 1797 the Pope, in consequence of events of which he was obliged as sovereign to accept the respon sibility, ceded by the treaty of Tolentino that province to France, and at the same time aban doned the ancient rights of the Holy See to the territory of Avignon ; and great as was the regret he felt at a diminution of his domains, Pius VI. no doubt believed that he might subscribe, to that con vention without failing in his duties as Sovereign- Pontiff and as guardian of the faith. The two con tracting parties were not the only ones who saw in this transaction only a temporal act, in nowise en croaching on religion. The preliminaries signed at Leoben two months later between France and Austria prove that the Court of Vienna did not think differently from France on the subject. After having maintained during the war close relations with the Court of Rome Austria nevertheless sup ported an arrangement which awarded to her part of the States of Venetia and indemnified the latter by transferring to them the possession of the three legations of Romagna, Ferrara, and Bologna: The treaties of Campo Formio and Luneville confirmed, in another form, the separa tion of those provinces, and in the different arrange ments which were then entered into it is never seen that the Governments which took part in them had to pay any attention to the prerogatives of the Holy See, as regards its spiritual power and reli gious interests. " If we were to interrogate contemporary his tory on other points, who would not remember that at the beginning of this century ecclesiastical ter ritories, such as the Bishopric of Salzburg. the provostship of Berchtelsgaden, and the bishoprics of Trent, Brixen, and Eichstadt, served on the de mand of Austria to indemnify its Archdukes dis possessed in Italy ? With regard to these terri tories, as for the legations and for the Electorate of Mentz, no solidarite was recognised between the temporal rights of the possessor and the in terests of religion ; the ecclesiastical character of the sovereigns was not an obstacle to the combina tions which circumstances had rendered necessary. The participation of the Court of Vienna in these different transactions certainly does not permit re garding them as an application of new principles for the use of Franco. Nothing can be a better proof of this than what occurred some years later. Pope Pius VII. was returning to Rome, and re suming the exercise of his temporal power, when, by a secret treaty signed at Naples on Jan. 11, Igl4, the Emperor Francis, with a view to attaching King Joachim to the cause of the European coali tion, engaged, 'in order to procure him a strong military frontier in accord with the political neces sities of tie two Powers, to assure to him an addi tion to the extent of 400,000 souls to be taken from the Roman States, and to lend his good offiees to obtain the consent and sanction of the Holy Father to that concession.' " Thus therefore the principle of partitioning the Legations and even the Marches between the king dom of Naples and Austria was plainly laid down, and its application appeared so independent of every other circumstance that in the following year we see the King of the Two Sicilies when restored to the Neapolitan throne, endeavouring to maintain for his own advantage the clause which we have just cited. Austria, on her side, was more successful in her pretensions, as she retained at the expense of the Holy See part of the Legation of Ferrara on the left of the Po, a territory which had never belonged to the State of Venice. The Pope protested in vain against that arrangement, as he protested against the non-restitution of the county of Avignon and of the territory of Parma to the Holy See. His demands, which he based both on ancient rights and on reasons of utility to the Church, were not admitted by the powers, and we shall not be con tradicted by the documents relating to the nego• tions of 1815, if we add that Romagna had then a:very narrow escape from remaining separate from the Pontifical States. More than one combination, conceived in that sense, was brought forward in the Congress of Vienna ; and it is well known that Prussia, for instance, proposed to dispose of the Legations in favour of the King of Saxony, who would have received them as a compensation. It was not without difficulty that the Pope suc ceeded in retaining them and in making the right he invoked prevail over the opinion, so worthy of remark, adopted by the plenipotentiaries, that the Legations were at the disposal of the allies by right of conquest. In any case, the discussion as to the Roman States was constantly maintained even by the Catholic powers in an order of considerations exclusively temporal. " Such is, Sir, the sole argument I wish to draw from the examples I have cited, and which prove to what extent the doctrine advanced in the last encyclical letter, if it be at present in conformity with the ideas of the Court of Rome, is in con tradiction with the most positive data of politics. I have no intention of drawing from it arguments against the acknowledged rights of the Holy See ; but I have felt bound to furnish you with the means of rectifying around you the erroneous im pressions which might tend to represent an opinion emitted on a temporal question as an attack on the imprescriptible and sacred prerogatives of the Catholic Church.—Accept, Sir, &c., " THOUVENEL." THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Feb. 15.—Wind this day at noon, N.W. light breeze and fine olear weather. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 14.—The Barbadoes, from Grimsby to Barbadoes, brought in here yesterday, after being ashore on Seelsby Bill, has knocked oil' part of her false keel, but makes no water, and will proceed. DARTMOUTH, 'eb. E.N.E. Arrived Wilhelmine, fror4 Macao and Falmouth f or Hamburg, leaky. The Mina, from Liverpool t o St. S e b astian, which put 414 Jan, 24 damaged, has been condemned. MelbournePL - vuouTH, Feb. 14.—Wind, N.E.—Sailed—O rwell, for PernambuCLYDE, Feb, 14.—Wind, N.—Arrived—Ellen, from co, CARDIFF, Feb. 14.—Wind, stoat), for Singapore—Veloce, for Havana—Token, for Modena. (RY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. Wind, N.E. ,• frosty. Arrived —lnduna, from Stathella ; Alliance, steamer, from Havre ; Ceres, steamer, from Dublin ; Pet, from Shields; Mary Ann, from Sunderland. Sailed--Cores, steamer, for London ; Despatch, steamer, for Jersey. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning. Wind, N. Sailed, Feb. 13—Tonowanda, for Philadelphia • arnabas, Webb, and Jura, screw steamr, for New York; Isis, fur Bahia, Arrived, Fob 13—Ariel, and Monarch of the Seas, from Now Orleans. Sailed—Bleny, for Valparaiso; Cherokee, for C ar d enas ; Melila, scre w steamer, for Constantinople; Detmar Hein rich, for N ow York • British Queen, screw steamer, for Harm ; Asia, for Bombay ; Eleanore, for Arica • Conquest for Rio Janeiro ; Alice, screw steamer, for Barcelona. Arrived, Feb, 13 .—Lanamergier, from Mobile; Martaban, from Calcutta, (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Wind, W.; tide, two and-a-half hours' ebb ; weather, cloudy Arrived.—Sikjo, from Engelhohn ; Anna, from Frede rickshall ; Eldos, from Arondal. Sailed. —Avery for Canterbury, N.Z. ; Panther, steamer, for Boulogne. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Wind W.N.W.. moderate. PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Pari, is about per milled, and the short exchange on London is 26.10 per £1 sterling. On comparing those rates with the English Mint tritee of £3 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it nppears that gold is at about 2-10ths per cent. de arer 1 4 ratio than in London. By advice. from Hamburg the prio• of gold is 422 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.31 p 11 sterling. Standard gold a t the lZnglish Mist price is therefore about 2-10ths per cent. dealer in Hamburg than in Landon. The course of ex change at New York on Landon for bills at 60 days' sight i s about 10819 per cent., which, when compared with the Mint proportions between the two countries, shows that the ex cioAge is slightly against England ; and, after making allewance for charges of transpost and difference of into rest, the present rate legume no prott os the isavortation of gold from the Vaitsd Eta*. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Mr. Justice Wightman.) The Court was occupied the whole of the morning with a cause of disputed acccount on the termination of partner ship, which was not of the slightest public interest. The case of Barry v. Shipley was not proceeded with. In the other courts the business was totally uninteresting. In the Court of Common Pleas an action for breach of contract was being tried ; and the Exchequer Court was occupied with a case relative to the purchasing of certain railway shares. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before Sir C. CreEswell.) MARTIN V. MARTIN. This suit was instituted by Jane Martin for the purpose of obtaining a judicial separation from her husband on the ground of his cruelty and unkindness, which rendered co habitation with him unsafe. The respondent entered an appearance and pleaded a denial. Dr. Twins, Q.C., and Dr. Spinks, were counsel for the petitioner; and Dr. Phillinaore, Q.C., and Mr. Coleridge, for the respondent. It appeared that the petitioner was the daughter of a farmer, and that the respondent was carrying on business as a grocer, at Guildford, at the timo of the marriage, which took place at Long Parish, Hants, in the month of September, 1851. The alleged ill-treatment commenced shortly after the marriage, but the petitioner gave birth to four children, three of whom are living, and, with the ex ception of occasional separations, she cohabited with the respondent until 1859, when she left him finally. Mrs. Martin was examined, and deposed that about six months after the marriage the petitioner behaved with great unkindness towards her, and while she was in a state of pregnancy with her first child, he got Tito a great passion and shook her violently, She was compelled to go to her bed and had a very bad confinement. In the April of 1853, he left her, taking a quantity of money with him and stated that he intended to emigrate. He did not carry his threat into execution, and wrote to her from London, requesting her for giveness, and desiring her to communicate with him by tele• graph. She complied, and he returned, and they continued to reside at Guildford till 1854. In that year, from various rea sons, the business fell off and they removed, living for some time in the Isle of Wight, and other places. In 1856 the respondent was unable to maintain the petitioner and her children and they wont to her father's, but he rejoined her in March 1857, having :succeeded in obtaining some employment. They afterwards re sumed business at Woking, and here the treatment of the respondent became most cruel. He compelled her to attend the shop at a time when her health was very deli cate. He struck her with a weight, which made her knuckles bleed, threatened to kill her with apokor, left her without food, and he frequently trod upon her toss, by which he hurt her severely. The witness detailed other acts of unkindness, and stated that her health suffered severely from his violence. She was compelled to leave him in 1859, and went to live with her mother. She had not since cohabited with the respondent, who wrote several letters entreating her forgiveness, but she did not answer them. In cross-examination she said that she had not given the respondent provocation, and that she had done xothing to wards him that she would not repeat. Her first child, which died in 1858, was paralysed and subject to fits, which she believed were caused by the ill-treatment of the respondent to her prior to its birth. Sha admitted having thrown a box of steel pans at the respondent, but it was when he irritated her by him ill-treatment. Shortly before leaving the respondent in 1859, one of his medical attendants stated he had over charged his brain with business, and that he must not be thwarted. Dr. Watts considered that ho was not of sound mind some months before their final separation. For some time she believed him to be insane, and treated him in a soothing manner. [The ease was not concluded when we went to press.] POLICE INTELLIGENOB-( THIS DAY.) M ARLBOROUGH -STREET. APPLICATION TO TILE MAGISTRATR.—TIIII GERMAN FAIR.-Mr. Cremer, proprietor of the German Fair, re cently held at the Portland Gallery, opposite the Poly. technic, applied to Mr. Beadon for a summons spinet Robert Green, furniture broker, of tho Portland Bazaar s under the following circumstances :—.. The applicant said that Mr. Green had placed some tort on one of his two counters of the Bazaar, and assumed this title of " the German Fair," and engaged several men to parade Regent-street with boards, for the purpose of adver tising the place ; one man, in particular, being stationed at the door of the Portland Gallery, where the German Fair has been so recently held, and the complaint he 'wished to make was for the man stating to all partite, on their arrival at the Gallery, that the German Fair was removed a few doors further down, of course misleading the public, and at the same time injuring the reputation which he (Mr. Cremer) had gained. In answer to Mr. Beadon, applicant said he commenced proceedings in the Court of Chancery for the assumption of the title of the German Fair, and he wished to know whe• ther ho could not stop men acting as they were doing P Mr. Beadon said, as he (Mr. Cramer) had applied for ait injunction to the Court of Chancery, and as that was the highest court that he could go to, he had better wait the result of that before proceeding further in the matter. Mr. Cremer thanked the magistrate for his advice, as! retired. SINGULAR CHARGE.--FORGETTING TO RETVRN Wing CHANGE,—James Donahoe, a porter in the employ of Mr. William Samuel Burton, formerly Rippon and Burton, ironmonger; &c., Oxford-street, was charged before Mr. Beadon as follows : George Frampton, till cashier to Mr. Burton, said ths prisoner was a porter in Mr. Burton's employ, and that 01l the previous evening, about half-past six, he gave the pri.. soner a £lO nets to get changed for gold. The prisoner left for that purpose, but never returned with the change. In answer to Mr. Beadon, the prisoner said he had no questions to ask, and that what had happened was througk his being subjected to fits. Ho remembered changing tha note, but had lost his senses for half an hoar, and mom" bared nothing further. Sergeant Edwards, of the C division, said that two medfa cal men who had seen the prisoner certified that ha WY drunk. Inspector Grant said that £5 2s. 7d. was found on him when he was searched at the station. Mr. Besdon said he should remand the prisoner for • week, to find out if possible where he had spent the money. THAMES. STEALING Lnizrz.—Williara Lewis, a sanctified-looking fellow, about 23 years of age, described as a shipwright, who was formerly a distributor of religious tracts, and Thomas Cooper, a rough-looking and neglected boy, aged 15, were brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with stealing a quantity of linen from a yard in the rear of the house No. 3, William-terrace, East India-road, Poplar. Abbott, a police - constable, No. 322 K, said that he met the prisoners at half-past one o'clock this morning, neat' Limehouse Church, at the eastern end of Commercial.. road. Lewis was carrying a bundle of linen. He stopped the prisoners, and asked Lewis where he had obtained the linen, and where he intended to carry it to at that time of the morning. Lewis pointed towards Whits. chapel, and said that ' was where he obtained the linen. Cooper said, " Why don't you tell the truth, and say where you got the linen from." He took the psi• sonars to the station-house, and Lewis then said he took the linen out of a yard in the rear of a house at the corner of William-street, occupied by Mr. Wyatt. Mr. G. Wyatt, clerk to Young, Son, and Magnay, iden tified the handle of linen, consisting of a sheet, a tablecloth, a towel, two shirts, three night-gowns, two chorale's, and a bolster cover. The clothes' lines in the yard on which the linen was hanging were lowered last night, and the street door was locked and barred. Thismorning he found the door unbarred and the linen gone. The prisoner Lewis was the son of a respectable woman living two doors from him, but had lately become a great reprobate. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the charge, and Mr. Selfi put some questions to the boy, who said he had been in the Bethnal-green Workhouse a year ago, and left it, and had been since wandering about the streets, getting his living how he could. He met Lewis at a coffee-stall last night, and he took him to Poplar, put him over a wall into the prosecutor's garden, and proposed to break into and plun der his (Lewis's) mother's house, and plunder it of a box of ivory, money, and other valuables. There was a light in the back-room, and Lewis said it would not be safe to commit a burglary at his mother'* house, and he took the linen off the lines in Mr. Wyatt'* yard, passed through the yard and unbarred the street door. Lewis gave him the linen to carry, and soon afterwards took the bundle from him and carried it until stopped by the constable. Mr. Selfe—Have you any parents living ? Cooper—My mother is dead, and my father ran away from the Bethnal Green workhouse two years ago, and I have not seen him sinco. Mr. Selfe--Well, Lewis, what have you to say to thil boy's statement? Lewis hung his head but made no reply. Mr. Selfe sentenced Lewis to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour, and Cooper to be sent to Fulham School for throe years. PORTSMOUTH, Feb.—A sudden squall of wind and snow burst over hero yesterday about flee p.m. Al t uidper portion of a wall in the dockyard, which had been erected to prevent the escape of convicts in that direction, was blown into the street adjoining, through which at the time luckily no one was passing. No damage was dose beyond the destruction of the wall. In the harbour as accident occurred nearly attended with a loss of life. At' man-of-war's boat was leaving the Asia steam guardahiPl for the Duke of Wellington, lying up the harbour, eIT before getti ng c l ear o f th e s hi p ' s lee , hoisted the lug e s t . On clearing the bow of the s hip the whole force of the Kw"' which was at that moment rushing down the harbo/ struck the boat's sail, and in s t an tl y caps i se d h er . Fou r 1 0; the six men in the boat got on h er keel, and held on u ntil boat came to their rescue. Th e t wo remaining wen l e,* li a picked up out of the wat er a t th e same t i me b y a boat w had put off from the Asia on witnessing the aocideat• 4 Fox 6, 1 111 Gni 101 to f, a oh pro , Ste 158. B Bang 3 pet 2 pet N Inll Di Di nitta C inA tzci PRII Mom Dit Turk Lit Dii Vidif Ou lish i freel3 at WI Th show •Arg( 111 Were Fil wer• w. tions Bo more highs • Eng] Irish Fero: Ou riomi Bel Ca to klub, C( a m a Niad Orrn Ri Pinie Carol ~•L. Pie T 4 Oa Tv►ic Ti to-d a 4 reSi T 1 f ew d Ti Lotto Ti 411( 1 -from