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BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY./ the Earl of DERBY, M.P. for King's Lynn, ex- Price Half-a-Crown, Contents for JANUARY. No. CCLXXVII. Secretary of State for India Was not the noble OVINGDEAN GRANGE. A Tale of the South Downs. By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. mameme PART THE THIRD. 11. Before the Curtain. VIII. The Swan's March. 111. The Haunted House near I By Walter Thornbury Hampstead. A Story i IX. Caliban. By Monks for the New Year. By I hood. Dudley Costello. X. Silver Chimes and IV. "Un Pere Prodlgue." Golden Fetters : or, V. A German in London. How the Old Year VI, King Year. By Frederick I Went Out and the Enoch. I New Year Came In. VII. Rose's Diari es and 1 By Ouida. In Five Correspondence. I Chapters. London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. k• ROYAL EN GLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, VICTORINE. Messrs. Sant!ey, H. Haigh, H. CCCTi, G. Honey, Bartleman, Sze. Misses Parepa, Thirlwall, Condactor, Alfred Mellon. To ionclude with the new grand pautomime, called PUSS IN BOOTS ; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden Palms. Doors open at hall-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Bucirstone. THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS. Miss Reynolds. After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled Leclereqs. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Planche's popular Drama of THE CHILD OF THE WRECK. Maurice (her original chants ter) Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex travaganza and Pantomime, KING THRUSHBELRD, the LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. H. Marshall—Columbine, Miss Rosin°. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Re - engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, M ona. E sp i nosa. First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan sense of La Scala, Milan ; and first time of the Delapierre Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. THIS EVENING, (Thurssday), the new drama, HOME TRUTHS. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews, Miss C. Lecieroq and Mrs. Charles Young. After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by H. J. Byron, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle quin King Arthur 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. Morning Performances on Monday, January 9, 16, and 23 - commence at two o'clock. MW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI . ole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BenJ. Webster. Holiday Attractions.— The Christmas Carol and the New Spectacular Extravaganza, by H. J. Byron, Esq., the Nymph of the Lurlyber. ,c , •• or the Knight and th e N a i a d es. THIS EVENING, THE CHRISTMAS CAROL. Messrs J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Paul Bedford, Stuart, Billing-ton, C. J. Smith, Romer: Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billing - ton, Mrs. Chatte rley, Miss Laidlaw. 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 fer bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manit,, ,, er—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING- the performances will commence with GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C. Young. Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. Miss Wyndham and Mr. 11. T. Craven. To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND JUDY. Introducing Miss Lydia Thompson and the Corps de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, anCrantaloon, and the wonderful Performing Dogs. Reduced Prices—Gallery, od; Pit, is. The Ifox-ofEce open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ance commences at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season. Great Attraction for the Holidays. The new bombastic kippodramatic, operatic Pantomime, abounding i n c om i ca lity , called HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY; or, Old Towler the Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, with songs by Miss Esther .Jacobs.—Gorgeous and Dazzling mechanical transfor mation scene. Harlequin, M. Richarde ; Pantaloon, Mr. P. Abbot, Columbine, Maddle. Mazzoni ; Clown, Mr. Hilde brand ; a family of Sprites by the Elastic Incomprehensibles. Scenes in the Circle by the St ar Rid ers o f the World. Three Morning performances of the Pantomime, and Scenes in the Circle, on Monday and Saturday, Dec. 26 and 31, and Monday Jan. e, 1860, at Two o'clock each day. CANTERB UR Y HALL CONCERTS . - EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY QUEEN. _ _ — And a Grand Se action from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAH. Comte Vocalists —Weser.. George Tiolaon (the Trish Come dian and 3fimio), W. T. Critchfleld, and E. W. 'hackney. 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. ROSA BONITE UR'S 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 open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER..—STIN OFFICE, DEC. 29. THERMOMETER, IN TILE SHADE. 50—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 49—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.28. WIND, South-Westerly; fresh, with dull rainy weather. It rained heavily in the night. THREE o'CLocK.—Wind fresh and squally with con tinuous rain. It must be blowing a heavy gale in the Channel. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 53m.—Afternoon, sh. 11m. To-MORROW. -Morning, sh. 29m.—Afternoon, sb. 47m. Talk of economy, while our annual payments under the head of the Consolidated Fund remain to this day altogether unrevised It is about as absurd as it is to talk of any con siderable extension of the franchise without the previous adoption of the Ballot as part of the ma chinery of our popular representation. Although we have before now so very often directed attention to this systematic extravagance in our national expenditure, we cannot but deem it advisable to revert to a gripvance thus monstrous and galling in its character at whatever interval may seem to hold out for its exposure any singu larly tempting opportunity. Such we may not unreasonably regard the present political juncture, while we are close upon the eve of a session when Parliamentary Reform will have to be taken reso lutely into consideration by the Legislature. Reform generally must be accepted as a problem for solution one way or another during this fast approaching year of 1860, in a House of Commons expressly chosen to that very end. It must be remembered, indeed, that every man returned to that house is avowedly more or less of a reformer. Looking on either side of it—whether it be towards that of the Govern ment or that of the Opposition —all are Reformers. Even Mr. HENLEY and Mr. WALPOLE are refor mers. The introducer of the last comprehensive Reform Bill (passed now pretty nearly thirty years ago into an enactment) is happly there still in the present house—is there still in his full intellectual vigour —is there yet as one of the QUEEN'S Minis ters—is there, we might even say, as the second leader of her MAJEsTY's Government. Opposite lord JOIIN--there is Mr. DISRAEL I at the head of his united and formidable Conservative Opposition —an Opposition, however, which, while it is in dubitably Conservative both in name and in character, is still indisputably and pre-emi nently an Opposition of Reformers. Is there. not seated during session, there, next to Mr, DISRAELI on that front Opposition bench one of the most conspicuous arnon::,- the younger cham pions of that last Reform Bill carried through both Houses under Lord GREY'S ever memorable Go vernment? And is there not upon the same front bench of the Tory Reforming Opposition besides Mr. DISRAELI and Sir BULWER LYTTON—that notahle young leader among the more advanced Liberals, though still numbered amongst the chies of the Conservative phalanx, Lord STANLEY, heir to , Earl himself, our late Premier, was he not (as Secre tary of State for the Colonies) among the most distinguished members, and as such one of the most eminent champions of Reform in the Earl GREY'S Reform Governments ? Recollecting these things—recollecting the new position the great Conservative Party took before the House and before the Country, when they wisely con sented to introduce a substantial measure of Reform themselves, placing it for scrutiny and consideration upon the table of the Lower House of Parliament, we have surely reason to feel more sanguine than ever as to the triumph of the cause of Reform at last within the walls of the Imperial Legislature. But—any reform, however otherwise comprehen sive and well-considered, will prove but the merest mockery, that is not accompanied by what we are disposed to call the two prime essentials of the Ballot and Retrenchment ! The Ballot as the very first part of the machinery , of our representative system—accompanied by a wise and judicious Retrenchment in the annual expenditure required in the mechanism of our national administration. The Consolidated Fund is, we know but too well, debited with a collection of the public expenses as onerous as they are miscellaneous. The sum total of these payments for the last financial year reached very nearly, indeed, the fearful aggregate of £2,000,000 sterling ! To be precise it amounted in the year ending the 31st of March, to £1,940,655. Examining the distribution of this grand total we find that out of it £157,665 went for salaries, 1 200,395 for pensions, £546,591 for Royal allowances and Royal estab lishments. The remaining £1,000,000 (with an odd 36,001 thrown in over and above it) being set apart for—" other payments !" As to the first class among these different sections, the one, namely relating to the half million and odd required for the Royal allowances and establishments what loyal subject is there in the the land that would be disposed for one instant to quarrel with the items apportioned for the uses directly or indirectly of the Sovereign ? Not one economist amongst us, we believe, will be disposed to quarrel with the supplementary £18,225 for pensions under Ist Vic., cap. 2, or with that grand and dazzling annual sum total poured each year into her MAJESTY'S privy purse —more than a thousand pounds for every day in the twelvemonth—X3Bs,ooo! Then follow—the PRINCE CONSORT, £30,000 the Duchess of KENT, £30,000; the Duchess of CAMBRIDGE, £6,000 ; the Duchess of MECKLEN BURG-STRELITZ, £3,000; the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, £12,000; the Princess MARY of CAMBRIDGE, £3,000 ; the Prince of MECKLENBURG-STRELITZ, £1,788 ; the King of the BELGIANS, £50,000 ; and the Princess FREDERICK WILLIAM of PRUSSIA, £7,578. Glancing through which gorgeous cata logue of resplendent means and incomes, we might wonder how it is that Uncle LEOPOLD can have the coolness to pocket yearly his £50,000, while the PRINCE CONSORT himself draws actually £20,000 less than that from the national treasury—but that, we believe, the whole of that £50,000 per annum (with the exception of a yearly sum of £15,000 set apart for the keep ing up of the Palace of Claremont) is honour ably poured back by Uncle LEOPOLD into the English Treasury ! And the Palace of Claremont (it is also worth remembering) has been set apart too in its turn during the last twelve years as the home and refuge of the exiled ORLEANS family. Under the second class one is left still to marvel less over, the naval and military pensions absorbing £37,825; pensions for civil services, £38,977; pensions for judicial services, £48,965 ; that over such items as the hereditary pension to the Duke of Marlborough, £4,000 ; that to the heirs of the Duke of Schoenberg, £2,160; a moiety of the Earl of Bath's pension, £1,200 ; the servants of George 111., Queen Charlotte, and Queen Caroline, £2,925 ; pensions formerly en the civil list of GEORGE IV. and WILLIAM IV., £38,048 ; and Irish compensations for loss of emolument, judicial pen sions, and pensions formerly on the civil list, £26,294. A pleasant list truly one abso lutely exhausting our patience ! So that we have little surprise or indignation left for any particular item specified in the record of the salaries : namely—the Speaker of the House of Commons, £6,200; the Controller-Gene ral, £2,000 ; the Commissioners for Auditing the Public Accounts, £6,300; the Lunacy Commis sioners, £12,487 ; stipends augmented to Scotch clergy, £17,039; ecclesiastical establishment in the West Indies, £20,300; civil government of the Isle of Man, £10,158 ; the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland, £20,000; Maynooth College, £26,360 ; the Queen's Irish Col leges, £21,000 ; and miscellaneous, £15,818. Or even for those wonderful " other payments," in cluding among them payments for the diplomatic service, £161,314 ; for judges and officers of courts of justice, £697,056; for interest and sinking-fund on Russian-Dutch Loan, £82,978 ; ditto on Greek Loan, £47,400; Commissioners of Greenwich Hos pital, £20,000; secret service, £10,000; and com pensation for the loss of the duties on the coinage of tin, £17,246. It is but small consolation besides to find that, since the previous financial year, these "other payments" have grown from an aggregate sum of £900,188, to a total, as we have seen, of £1,036,004 ! Certainly there is some need here for a Parliamentary Bill-book of Retrenchment ! - Irish laymen call meetings to sympathise with the POPE ; English laymen call them to sympathise with Church-rates. Lord NELSON and Mr. BANKER HOARE bewail the rebellion of the majority of in telligent Churchmen, who think it high time that Church-rates should be abolished, just as Archbishop CULLEN and the laymen he convenes by " beat of drum ecclesiastic" bewail the refusal of the Bolognese to pay taxes to papal legates ; and the suppressed rebellion of the Romans themselves, who would not pay another penny if French soldiers did not make them. 'We have spoken freely of the blindness and absurdity of the Catholic clergy and laity in regard to their folly; we have laughed at them as behind the age; we have remonstrated with them on the absurd light in which they have placed their religion ; we have warned them that so much noise about the temporalities of the Church is not unlikely to lead people to think that these are much more cared about than its spiritualities ; and we must deal e w q huoal There followl y plain sntoh l y te we thatxi a t h mwp t lleieecoCarnhtushereee,hei in o i pi f eou }: ni t n te g so. l r a nd men position and principle anything to choose between Lord NELSON, Mr. HOARE, Mr. BERESFORD HOPE, and Mr. LANGDALE, and a few Irish gentlemen, who can be dragged together to proclaim that tempora lities are all in all for their respective churches. Both these sets of—fanatics, we Were going to say— enthusiasts for the earthly things of their churches, we suppose we should say, agree in the main point —preservation of temporal power for their churches. This was the one object in which the speakers at Free mansons'Hall last week, agreed. On otherpoints they differed. But in retaining power over men's bodies as well as over their souls, they were all as one. DIMINUTION OF CRIME IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. —ln no county of England has the diminution of crime during the past seven years been more marked than in Glou cestershire. Within a year or two, four prisons—Lawford's Gate, Littledean, Gloucester City, and Tewkesbury—have been closed for want of prisoners; and as the County Gaol for some time past has not been more than half occu pied, it is understood that at the quarter sessions to be held the first week in January an order will be given to close the two remaining houses of correction at Northleach and Horsley. Thus no less than six prisons will have been closed in two years, and theses are still "lodgings to let" at the county gaol.—Bristol rime& GALLANT SERVICES IN SAVING LIFE.—The barque Sunda, of Jersey, was observed by Mr. Talbot, M.P., from his house, Moyam, on the Glamorganshiro coast, drifting and dismantled in the Mile of the gale of last month. Perceiving thot she must go ashore, he im mediately ran down to the be .3aeh to render assistance to the crew. When he got they. e, she had grounded in the breakers, and the captain, hiis wife, and f o u r men h a d come on shore in th e quar ter-boat . They seemed disinclined to make any attempt to row back again and save the re mainder of the crew. It wee; supposed that they were sta. pified by their long exposer cc to the weather and danger. It being nearly low water, ;and every probability existing that the ship might hi reek up, or roll over, if left thumping on the sand Of 1 the flood, Mr. Talbot endea- Toured to persuade the cap tain to adopt some means to effect a junction between the, ship and the bystanders, who unfortunately were not sea tnen, and could render little assistance. The captain seemed disinclined to take any steps whatever. Mr. Talh t thereupon courageously at tempted to reach the ship by. wading into the surf until he was within hail, but he wags compelled to desist by the irresistible force of the outcl rift. A gallant attempt was then made by Mr. Willial a,s, a farmer, to approach the ship on horseback, but he' was also frustrated by the same cause. It was now getting dark, and the tide was beginning to flaw, whe n. the crew on board the wreck at last lowered their second . quarter boat, but from clumsy management she won capsiz e d, and rolled over in the surf'. One man regaineid the wreel c , one was drowned, and the remainder were hot out by r. Talbot and others by link ing hands togethor and wadi lig into the surf. When taken out the pool. fellows were f ound insensible, but they gra dually recovered censeiouse tass. The remaining man on board was rescued by the sea a nanlike conduct of one of the Port Talbot pilots, and th, master of the Port Talbot steam-tug, who, under Mr... Talbot's directions got the ship's boat well to windwar 6', and then, by watching the boat into eat\ys. w hi a r t yp e i r . run of the sea, and having a line fast on shore to prevent broken t fir ia s a t u t the contingency of the under tow carrying the et t e t h r v e c a t e n r,e, management a b g l and e e d i. thusne nto t he remaining man on. a bore. If these men had been ;" I ran used theydropu se d t o o NiV. of boats, no one wo uldh s a n v - e Ten drowned. The sea was probably not less than five fec i i ihe ght 'and on that flat beach 150 to 200 yard 5, sin that it was onlyranginga fully-watched intervals that a ay approach to the caul be made. The man who was drowned was certainly ') no more than four f ee t water, yet , his body never came a in shore, and probably ne ver w ill . Tik , s highly meritorious ease has been forwarded to the Nation .al Lifeboat Institution. Mr. Talbot has recently assisted , in conjunction with other gentlemen, in forming a li' daoat establishment at Porth cawl. • If' 4 "Pr.r,'l. - .1 , • ••••• >-• THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 29, 1859. They might differ about conserving the new Mar riage Law (the old one they called it, but it is only as old as Bishop BLOOMFIELD)—they might differ about conserving every word and rubric of a prayer book which certainly some of the best Churchmen desire to purify and shorten—they even seemed to differ on the question whether Church-rate's should be fought for as they are, or Churchmen, only, made liable to them ; but on the grand point there was no difference of opinion—temporal power, over Dissenters and Churchmen if practicable, if not, over Churchmen at least—this was the creed of LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : BUCHAREST, DEC. 28. Prince Couza intends to contract a loan of 60 millions of francs in Paris, under the guarantee of France, Prussia, and Russia. The Principalities offer to mortgage, as security for the loan, the in come resulting from the salt-pits, the customs, and the landed property belonging to the convents. The French Consul at Jassy is about to proceed to Paris, where M. Beclaud, Consul-General of France in Bucharest, has already arrived, in order to hasten the conclusiou of the loan. the meeting. We think it only fair to our Catholic fellow sub jects to show broadly that some, in point of social position, most respectable members of our own Church are as infatuated as we think too many of our Catholic neighbours to be ; they cannot believe their Church to be safe without she can use the secular arm. One, indeed, wants to be able to compel its subjects in Italy to obey the be hests temporally, of the POPE, and to pay such taxes as he levies, under penalty of his temporal terrors; the other, that is the most moderate of them, only want the Church to have power to in flict temporal penalties on those of her subjects who will not pay what the Church wishes in order to repair and adorn it, or to defray the cost of its services, however fantastic some of the Bishop of OXFORD'S or EXETER'S disciples may wish to make them. We admit a difference, indeed, in degree, a difference corresponding to the different degrees of latitude which define the position of Rome and London. But the principle is one. Temporal power is the demand of the Roman Catho lic for his Church ; temporal power the demand of these Church-rate laymen for theirs. Both parties live in an age in which society has outgrown these degrading views of the layman's position, and of the inherent strength of any religion which really comes from Heaven ; but these parties themselves, as Russia says of Austria, " Can learn nothing or forget no thing" —at Rome the Church of one must wiel d a priestly sceptre; in England the Church of the other must flourish a policeman's baton, or the vil lage constable's staff—or—the true Church is in danger ! ROME, DEC. 29, The Minister of Finance has been obliged to sell Consolidated Funds to an amount double that pre viously stated (2,000,000 francs). PARIS, DEC. 29 The Russian Ambassador, Count Kisseleff, has declared to Count Walewski that the pamphlet, " Le Pape et le Congress," contains—without con sidering the religious question, with which Russia does not intend to interfere—principles in opposi tion to the respect of authority on which the Rus sian Government is founded, and that consequently Russia will oppose the programme drawn up in this pamphlet. It is asserted that Austria, Naples, and Spain will not send Plenipotentiaries to the Congress should the Pope not be represented; The Constitutionnel publishes the letter of a Catholic journalist refuting the views of the Bishop of Orleans on the pamphlet "Le Pope et le Con- g ress." MARSEILLES, THURSDAY. The Admirals Rigault de Genouilly and Rey naud arrived here yesterday from China. Letters received from Naples state that the King had sent decorations and presents to M. de Moni seales, director of the police, whose assassination rotes lately attempted at Palermo. Then let it be in danger !—we say. If grinding Italians into slaves, and seizing a fellow-church man's goods be, as they express it, " the bulwark" of a Church, the sooner churches resting on such a sandy foundation, or, if they prefer it, protected by such bulwarks, fall, the better. They can have but little hold on their members, and have produced but little effect on their minds. We suppose nothing can be more indisputable than that the Apostolic Churches, such as the apostles left them, never thought of levying a rate and asking any Roman authority to enforce it. Apostolic writings rebuke the Churches for long catalogues of sins, but it would puzzle Mr. HOARE or Lord NELSON himself to find in the list the sin of " subtraction of Church-rates." No, it will not do to impose on men now. Coercion for religion cannot be found in the Christian records. Coercion to believe in creeds, or even to conform to public worship, has long since been abandoned by all thoroughly civi lised countries. Coercion to pay for Christian wor ship, and for the maintenance of the buildings in which it is celebrated, must be forthwith abandoned ' also. It is a relic of a mediaeval age. None the worse, of course, in the ages of Lord NELSON and Mr. BERESFORD HOPE ; but they ought to know that while the country can afford to laugh at Puseyite mimicries of the antique, it will not laugh at such mimicry of old religious coercion as shows itself in enforcing antiquated taxes. NEW MUSIC. The Elopement : Ballad. Written by R. C. Wright son. Composed by W. T. Belcher. H. J. Jewell, Great Russell-street. New ballads are plentiful as plum-puddings on Christmas•day, and we may mention the above one as being among those which will please young lady singers, and prove generally attractive. The melody is flowing, and within easy compass of voice, and the words harmoniously in unison, with a strong dash of olden romance to add to their effect. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset have arrived at Broadlands, - Hants, on a visit to Viscount and Vis countess Palmerston. The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford leave Stafford House, St. James's, this morning to join the circle staying with the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Trent ham. The Marchese di Campobianso has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Italy. The Earl Grosvenor, after a sojourn of a few days in town, left yesterday to join the party assembled at Trent ham on visits to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. Viscount Clifden has arrived at Trentham, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, from staying with Lord and Lady Begot at Blithfield. Lord Panmure, who has been laid up at Edin burgh, by a severe attack of gout, is, we are glad to learn by letters received yesterday frorn Scotland, much better. Lady Emily Peel arrived in Whitehall-gardens yesterday from Drayton Mar.mr, Staffordshire. Sir Robert Peel is expected home in a few days from Geneva. General Lord Seaton, G.C.8., commanding the forces in Ireland, arrived in town on Tuesday evening from Dublin The Right Hon. William F. Cowper, M.P., and Mrs. Cowper and the Hon. h.. Ashley, left town yesterday to join the circle visiting Viscount and Viscountess Palmer ston at Broadlands. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, ISYQ,'. contrary to the duties of a Christian sovereign and to the resairements of the present state of civilisa tion. The author of the pamphlet has given proof of a moderation so much the more difficult that the passions are more violent and that the advocates of a past which it would be madness to revive are more ardent. He has considered the question in every part. The separation of Romagna is not in his opi nion a necessity because a fait accompli cannot be destroyed, but because the temporal power must be done away, and the sovereignty of the Pope be limited to Rome, transformed by the municipal fran • chise into a free cfty. The religious question with drawn, what remains ? The political one. After four revolutions, after innumerable proofs of the inca pacity of the Papal Government, can there remain a doubt of the necessity of putting an end, onc3 for all to the temporal power, giving the Pope as a com pensation revenues from every Roman Catholic nation ? If this pamphlet, as there is every reason to suppose, faithfully represents the ideas of the Emperor of the French, the certainty exists that this view will be maintained in the Congress, and we may add that it will triumph there; since every power must be weary of periodical commotions, and desirous of giving to Italy an organisation which shall be for Europe a pledge of peace and order. Will not this arrangement entirely satisfy the Italians ? Let us not he too exacting or greedy. Let us each lend our efforts to bring about a practical solution of the question, and strengthen the hands of those who aim at it. If the Emperor of the French succeeds in realising the ideas developed in the pamphlet, he may boast of having solved the most arduous problem of our times, and of having acquired new claims to the gratitude of Italy and of Europe." THE CALCUTTA MAIL. The Valetta, with the mails from India and China, arrived at Marseilles at 8 a.m. yesterday (Wednes day). The left for London at 10 a.m. THE BOMBAY MALL. The Northern left Aden for Suez on the 19th inst. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. The Madrid Gazette of the 23d inst. publishes the following despatch from the Commander-in- Chief of the Spanish forces : " Heights of Serrano, Dec. 22. " General Prim advanced this morning with his division on the Tetuan road to continue the works. At 1 o'clock he was attacked, which did not prevent the works being continued till 4 - p.m., the hour appointed for returning to camp. The troops hav ing commenced their return the Aloors renewed the attack, extending it to the Quesada divi sion, which was well placed to cover the work men. I had expected an attack here, and had placed myself in the position of that division. The enemy was driven back on all sides. The Tetuan road is completed as far as Castillejos. The number ot the Moors was very considerable, :as their line of fire was more than a league in extent ; but their fire was so badly directed that, though it lasted five hours, they only hit 40 of our men, of whom 12 were severely wounded and four killed. For the first time our cavalry charged the enemy,. who fled with out awaiting the shock. Generals Count de Reuss (:Prim) and Quesada distinguished •themselves by their perfect arrangements for thu to auk)." FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. " The rumour was generally prop agated during the day," says the Presse, " that thee envoy of the Holy See had applied to the French Government far a disavowal of the late pamphlet. Another re port was that the publication of the production in question had modified the resolution s of the Court of Rome relative to the Congress, and that the corn ing of Cardinal Antonelli was more doubtful than some days back." Mgr. Coeur, Bishop of Troyes, has written to the Gazette de France to say that the awssertion of his being the author of the pamphlet ": Le Pape et le Congres" is quite unfounded. Nantes was visited two days back by a tremend ou.s hurricane of wind, accompanied by thunder, lightning, and rain. The barometer fell in a most extraordinary manner. A murder, followed by an attempt: at suicide by this perpetrator of the crime, took place the day before yesterday in the Rue de Charonne. A man n: tamed D- had for some years pasi: occupied part of a heuse in that street, keeping an. eating-house, and letting furnished lodgings. 211 is customers were for the most part journeymen !gardeners, for whom he occupied himself with finding employ ment when they were out of work.. He lost his wife about six months ago, and soo ci after formed an acquaintance with a widow nip med M--, who came to live with him, bringing with her the furniture which she possessed. Lat t erly quarrels frequently took place between them, :and at length became so violent that the woman', four or five days ago quitted the house, leaving her furniture behind. The day before yesterday she called to claim and remove her property, when a violent altercation took place, and at length. D-, find ing the woman was determined on. leaving him, rushed on her with the large kn,fife which he usually wore in a sheath at his side, and plunged it up to the haft in her breast. Stle at once fell to the ground, and when ho saw leer weltering in her blood, he laid hold of a sword-stick which stood near him, and with the blade stabbed him self in several places in the breast azni abdomen, and at length fell fainting with ewhaustion on the floor, and with the blade still sticking in his body. At the commencement of the qiarrel, several persons had stopped before Ow place, but had not interfered ; when, however' s! , they heard a noise indicating that from wordli the parties had come to blows, they rushed in, but it was too late. Both D and the woman were con veyed to the Hospital St. Antoine 1.; the latter te expired just as she reac h e d that pLace, but h former, although his wounds were -very severe, is not considered in a hopeless condition. PARIS BOURSE.--Th e market continues heavy, and with a downward tendency. Uhrees, after having been done at 69f. 70c., decline al to 69f. 55c., Mobilier varied from 807 f. 50c. t o 817 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 920 f. to 925 f. ; Orleans, 1,43. C► to 1,402 f. ; Southern, 520 f. to 522 f. 50c. ; Austrinn, 575 f. 50c. to 560 f. ; Lombard, 565 f. to 567 f. 50c. The follow ing were the last quotations : 41 per Cents. 96 Do. end month 96 25 3 per Cents 69 75 Do. end month 69 70 Bank Shares. Credit 3rlobilier Do. Account Credit Foncie r .... 720 Belgian 4/ .... 99 Piedmontese 1:5) .. 85 Roman .... 84 Austrian , Spanish Three a.. 45 50 Homo Debt • ... 43 25 RAILWAYS. Cash. Orleans Northern 965 New ditto BOO Lyons and Mediterranean 925 920 25 Geneva 537 50 537 50 Southern Western 575 572 50 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard .... Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f.. 10e. ; money, 25f. 9e.; three months, paper, 24f. 95e. ; motney, 21f. 931 e. Account. .. 1403 .. 065 - SARDINIA. The Opinione of Turin publishes the following article on the pamphlet Le Pape et le Congres : " This production may be regarded as a pro gramme of the course that France will follow in the question of Romagna. The temporal power of the Pope is henceforth condemned. rt is a regime NAPLES. A letter from Rome in the Union says :—" France has obtained from the young King that he would not oppose the formation of an Italian Confederation. The exceptional position of the kingdom of Naples, protected on every side by the sea, or the univer sally recognised plurality of the Pontifical States, renders of little advantage to him the forma tion of such a Confederation. At first the Nea politan Cabinet was disposed to refuse all con currence in the realization of the project ; but being urged by the French Government it agreed to take part in its organization, pro vided the Confederation was established on solid bases, which would ensure order and tranquillity, and effectually protect the Italian States from all propagandism or attempts at revolution. The French Government would also have wished to ob tain from the young King a promise of political re forms and the concession of a liberal constitution, and to that end it has made several attempts, either through its Ambassador, Baron l3renier, or its En voy-Extraordinary, General Roguet, but every effort has failed in shaking the firmness of the young Sovereign. Francis 11. has always replied that the constant aim of his cares should be to in troduce into the several administrations every pos sible improvement that did not tend to the detri ment of the Royal authority." "A German journal announced some days since," says the siecle, " that Prince Cousa had narrowly escaped being the victim of two attempts against his life. Letters from Jassy which reached Paris yesterday make no allusion to any such acts. The principalities are stated to be tranquil. All intel ligence respecting Moldavia and Wallachia, given by the Austrian journals, should be received with duo reserve. The elections of Louvain having been annulled by the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, the Electoral College of that arrondissement has been convoked for the 19th January to elect two senators and fur reprntativesso. ee INDIA AND CHINA. We have received, via Trieste, in anticipation of the mail, files of papers from Calcutta to the 22d of November, and from Hong Kong to the 15th of November. INDIA. We take the following from the Calcutta English , man of the 22d of November The condition and prospects of commerce are certainly not improved sisse our report of a fort night since. In exports there is almost literally teething doing, as will be seen in our Price Cur rent. The prices here of all leading produce are too high to admit of speculation, nor do reports from home give any hope of improvement in a general way. On the 19th instant the Peninsular and Oriental steamship Nubia arrived with passengers, being an extra steamer put on to enable the company to bring out the number of passengers in excess of the accommodation afforded by the regular mail steamers. There has been bad weather down the Bay of Bengal, so that we are yet without the usual telegram advising the arrival of the Nemesis at Galle, where she was due about the 20th instant, so that we are yet without the actual announcement of Mr. Wilson's advent, which we expect by that ship. THE VICEROY'S PROGRESS. The following is from Cawnpore, dated the 56 . of November : " The Governor-General left us this morning. Kis Excellency now moves towards Futtyghur, and after a short stay there proceeds to Agra, Delhi, Meerut, Lah o ,, e and Peshawur. He returns thence to Umballah, where the Governor-General's camp is to be broken up, and whek s a great portion of the staff accompanies his lordship to the hills of Simla. " There have been grand doings here. On the ad a public Durbar was held, which came off with great rant. From twelve o'clock to two the principal street op the camp was filled with one continued procession of eleph ants, horsemen, and magnificent equipages, the native chiefs sprkling in gold brocade and jewels, and others of Minor importance dressed up in silks and shawls of every one of the rainbow, all accompanied by spearmen, , arers, and chobdars, the whole forming a scene of no ordiN ty in terest. The Durbar tent, large and commodiou s, was densely crowded. In the middle were placed two thrones cushioned with red velvet, and supported by goldei l To the right of the entrance were the places occupied by the Europeans, to the left those of the natives. The bright uniforms of the former, the dazzling scarlet and gold of the staff and infantry officers, the gold-laced blue u, - Norm of artillery and the cavalry, admirably relieved by ' lsm and there a black coat, formed no mean contrast to t he purely Oriental magnificence the opposite side Presented!' The natives are passionately fond of 'display and ostentation, and they did not lose the opportunity of indulging k them on this occasion ; pearls, emeralds, rubies, diamonds, some of wonderful size, glittered on many a sable neek sr arm, or adorned many a gold-brocaded turban. The Rajah of Rewah and his Prime Minister seemed to be the stars among the gorgeously-habited crowd, but others, in No d barbaric splendour of native chiefs armed with sword andl 34 „,_, scarcely less remarkable. The Durbar was wel l 4uer were attended. Profound silence reigned throughout the asse rzbiy. At a little after 2 o'clock the National Anthem, played by an ex cellent band, proclaimed the Governor-Generals approach, preceded by Secretaries of State in uniform, elr. Beadon, General Mansfield, General Birch, Sir H. Shakespeare, and other high officials, who as the procession advanced, ranged themselvs on either side. Lore Cantlkg and Lord Clyde took their rests amid a Royal salute of 11 guns. "' The native chiefs now, presented by Beadon, offered their nuzzers, consisting mostly of gold mohurs, shawls, and sweetmeats, some of them carried by ing coolies, a striking contrast to the Governor! dirtylook- G ene ral' s do - niestics in theirneat liveries. The prosentatie 4s l aste d above an hour. Then came the investiture of th e visitors, some with khiiluts, jagheers, and pensions, none e without at least some marks of having been in the presence. The Governor- General's presents, all of them costly and n - -Ppropriate were many of them accompanied with a few traceful words, which Lord Canning certainly knows how to deliver with ease and dignity. One chief was by him particular G°lr e notice of Lord Clyde, the introduced to the ttor-General ex pressing a hope that every British ()freer would, should he ever have occasion to assist the t' chi° not fail to show his regard and his appreciation of b: Ns services to us dUring the late war, the Rajah not o nly giving us succour, but, besieged in his own tort, resisting all attempts to deliver up the refugees w h o h a d found a shelter under his roof. Another °4l native gentle man, huge as Falstaff, yet apparently strong and muscu lar, armed with an immensely broad sword, sw athed like a babe in shawls, silks, and satins, a large, round, rhinoceros hide buckler on his back, afforded us Do little amusement, He was rather awkward, and Lord Carin g remarked to him he had rather a large sword, but he hoped he knew how to use if. He brandished it at once, and 411antly replied that, wherever the Government required A4is services there he would employ it in its defence, The manner was, how- ever, so ludicrous that a titter ran throughout the assembly, in which Lord Canning and the chief were not the last tc " At four the Durbar was over, and their lordships left amidst a royal salute, followed by all the native chiefs and European officers. In the evening there was a dinner party. , ~ COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CALCUTTA, Nov. 22. Imports.—Tho general position of the market continued very dull and quiet during the last fortnight. Exchange.—The rates on London have advanced since the departure of the last mail £2 oa to £2 0; ; for Bank bills, £2 01 to £2 Oi ; for credits, £2 Ito £2 1 for docu mentary. At these rates there is a fair demand, and, as the supply is not large, there will not probably be much change for the next mail. On China, sales have been made at 224 for 100 doll. Money -market.—Money is somewhat more in demand in the Bazaar, but is sitill obtainable at the Banks upon Go vernment Securities at from 5 to 6 per cent. per annum. Freight. --There has been considerable engagements in retail for London and Liverpool, at rates fluetuatin g be tween £1 17s. 6d. and £2 for the former, and at £1 12s. 6d. to £1 15s. for this latter all round. join. CHINA. We take the following from the Hongkong Over land .Mail of the 15th November : " The London mail of the 26th of September had not arrived here up to the hour of our going to press, but intelligence has been received from England via Bombay, up to the 19th of September. "It is reported that the Americans a re already in the field as mediators between China a nd the two offended European Powers. At lea s t his Excel lency, Mr. Ward, left Shanghae on the 2d inst., to meet the Governor-General of Kiang su . Kwanshan, the place of meeting, is whore 'Hang received Colo nel Marshall and Mr. McLane; and the Chinese believe that Ho has been instructed by the Emperor to see if the Americans ein do anything to arrange matters with France and England. At the same time the Imperial Governmenti s gathering together its very limited means of defence, lest matters should be pushed to extremi. The scanty supply of rice at Pekin, and its consequent high price, may lead to the starvation of hyriads of helpless and unoffending persons in the event of energeti c mea sures being adopted by the foreign powers. " From Japan we leak that Mr. Consul-General Alcock has made arrangements, at Hakodadi (a small town with few Plthlic buildings), for the esta blishment of the Conalllship there under Mr. C. P. Hodgson. The currevey question has at last been satisfactorily arranged, and Itzebnes are to be exchanged for Mexicans at the rate of 311 f or 100. Increasing confidence exists between foreign ers an d the Japanese Govekrnent. The most important an is that Commissione rs are intelligence from Ja r , to be sent from it to the United States, as was provided for in th e treaty concluded by Mr. Townshend Harri s . It was hardly expected that that clause of t o e treaty would be car r i e d ou t, but the Japanes e Government has si gn ifi e d it s intention of doi ng so, and has already appointed Commissioners, who are to leave in th e P ow h a t an in February next, the date fixed by the tr ea ty, The mission Will consist of two Commissi oners , t wo censors, who )aye to report on the conduct of the Commissioner s , three Lieutenant-Governors, eight enerals and colonels, two interp re t ers , t wo physi cians, and 4Q servants. "Laou, lat e ly the Acting Governor of Canton, has been Inkle Governor of the Two Kwang, and Riling, a Native of Ki•ying, and lately Governor has been made G overnor o f C anton of Kiangsu, city. " We an glad to hear that th e lib era l sc h eme of emigration to the West Indies sanctioned by the British Government, is meeting with success, and families ha ve a l rea d y b een secured, that so rai ny that a lam e supplymay be looked f or wh en th e r i ce crop is allgathered in. It was one of the old China notions that respectable Chi nese women could not be got 4 emigrate at any price ; but the native G Aent of Kwang-tung has co - o p era t e d i n t h e regulation of the traffic, and m uc h h as been effected re rn of European gen tl emen w h o k now Pealantry well and enjoy th e i r con fid ence , t b h y e the il e tivity Laou, the new Governor-General, urge d by th e C°mmitaioners of Canton, promises his active sup port to emigration so long as it is properly con ducted, and nothing will do more than a really good 'stem to check the irregularities and atro connected with that to C u b a ." cities COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The London letters of the 10th of September reached Sha tighae on the 29th ult. Our latest dates from that port are do wn to the 7th inst. There had been little change in the rnarkets for either imports or exports since the depar ture o f tho previous mail. Political matters remained in st4l l , im o. News of the effect of the Peiho disaster on the E nglish public was anxiously looked for. There are ru nlottrs that H. B. Mr. Ward, the American Minister, had Il ad an interview with an Imperial representative, and that 14ightier matters than the carrying out of the recently con ttacted commercial treaty had been discussed. The Chi teso positively assert that the representative of their Itoperial master was empoweied to solicit the good offices of the American, with a view of bringing about a settlement between the British Plenipotentiary and the Imperial Go perm:Lent without a resort to arms, but the latter appears to be making every preparation for a determined resistance (should their pacific endeavours prove ineffectual. Little truth should be attached to the former part of this stew, but that the latter portion is true there is no doubt. Large su pplies of rice are being brought up for shipment to Pekin, and the "national defences" are being put on a war footing. Notwithstanding those wars and rumours of wars busi ness in the several ports goes on as usual, and confidence is felt that trade will not be interrupted. Tea—The mail of 10th September did not bring very en curaging accounts of the home market, but, notwithstand ing that, buyers display less eagerness to purchase in con sequence of the dull trade and gradually softening prices i n England. Teamen remained firm in their demands; rates ruling at the departure of last mail were current for this. Green teas were lower. A large business had been done, chiefly on American account, at a reduction of tls. 1 to li. Silk was lower from tls. sto 10. Buyers were reluctant operators in the face of last accounts from Europe. Holders were, however, very firm in their demands. Exchange was quoted, Bank-bills, 6s. 73d. to 6s. 7d. ; credits and documentary paper, 6s. Bd. to 6s. 81d. Shipping continued abundant, notwithstanding that the north-east monsoon had considerably diminished the num ber of seeking vessels. Freights were as last quoted, £1 10s. to £2 for tea, and £3 lOs for silk to London. The dates from Amoy reach down to the 7th inst. Civil commotion continues to prevail in the country round about this important outlet for our manufactures. The people offer a determined and apparently successful resistance to the exorbitant demands of the Mandarins, and it would seem as though the latter were about to concede a portion of their excessive impositions, and were turning their atten tion to more praiseworthy occupation, in the extermination of the pirates who invest the rivers and seaboard, com pletely cutting off fluvial communication with the interior, At Canton, notwithstanding the arrival of troops to rein force the "Army of China," business has improved, the Chinese displaying the utmost indifference to the military preparations by which they are surrounded. Tea.—Large sttlements and reduced stocks have caused increased firmness on the part of holders who demand higher rates. The quantity at market is however small, and we shall probably soon see a considerable falling off in shipments. Silk has advanced fully 5 dole, since our last. The fifth crop has realised - the most sanguine expectations as to quality. Small parcels of the sixth crop have coma in, but the quality is decidedly inferior, and report speaks of a short yield. . - Exchange has advanced. The Commissariat have been sellers at 4.10, 30 days' sight. Bank Bills, six months' sight. are quoted at same rate, while the leading mercantile establishments here have been sellers at 4.101. Indian paper has participated in the improvement, and may be quoted at 231 r. to 232 r. Bar silver and Sycee are much wanted, but not to be obtained. Gold leaf, 23.20 dols. per tad. BIG BEY-NEARS v. DENISON. In this case, defendant having suffered judgment to go by default, the writ has been sent down to the Sheriff, calling upon him to empanel a jury to assess the damages. In all probability the case will come on at an early day. The declaration, which is very lengthy, sets forth that when the first bell, cast by Mr. Warner, became cracked, plaintiff was invited by the defendant to recast it, providing any new metal of pore copper and tin that mi g ht b e required. It was also stipulated that the defendant and the Rev. William Taylor were to give certificates in writing. The bell was cast, and plaintiff says the certificate was given to Sir B. Hall, First Commissioner of Works and Public Build kegs. The bell became cracked, and then defendant published a letter in the Timcs, in which is contained the al aged libel complained of. Defendant in this letter says that the bell was a "magnificent imposture ;" that Mr. Dent's men found it out; that it had been very imperfectly cast; that there were holes in it which had been filled in with " mine ral succedaneum," and the whole bell washed with a com position which the atmosphere had now removed. Plain tiff says this accusation of fraud has injured him greatly in his business, and that he has suffered considerable damage in consequence of it. He lays his damages in the suit at £5,000, and the jury will have to decide and assess them. Numerous counsel are (engaged on each side, it being stated that Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., M.P., and Mr. Bovill, Q.C., will be for the plaintiff. Mr. Garth is mentioned as junior counsel for defendant. LITE_RATUR.E. English Phraseology : A Series of Practical Exer cises to be Translated' into French. By F. L Wattez. Parker, West This volume undertakes to supply a deficiency which has long existed in educational works treat ing of the correct translation of our idiomatic ex pressions into the French language. Pupas who have studiou s ly l a b oure d t o acqu i re a thorough knowledge of Fr enc h, w h ose gramma r is tolerably correct and compo s iti ons hi g hl y cre dit a ble, are sti ll awkwardly ignorant of it s idi oma tic constructi on, and frequently commit bl un d ers o f a n absurd cha racter. For instance, it wou ld puzz le one, thoug h tolerably well up i n th e l anguage , t o rightly settle the form of wo r d s fitti ng to convey the different idiomatic meanings which we give to the ad jective " cracked. We say a china basin is cracked, a wal nu t i s crac k e d, a post -boy s whip is cracked, a joke is cracked, and a Prime Minist er i s crac k e d . I n th ese pages such difficulties are expl a i ne d an d o b v i a ted, and upwards of four thousand English idiomatic words and phrases are given for exercises, though these by no means contain the whole list of our idioms. The book will be of infinite service to those who wish to attain a finished and elegant conversational pro ficiency in the French language, an reflects the highest credit on the compiler. The Graduated Series of Reading Lesson Books. Longman and Co. This is the fourth b oo k o f a se ries of five volume d intended for all clas ses o f English Schools, con taining well selected portions of sound literature, and embracing a variety of subjects calculated to elevate the taste while increasing the knowledge o . f the pupil. Most of our "reading books" abound in abstract essays, rhetorical or poetical common places, technical outlines of some of the branches of science, or enquiries into the construction and phenomena of the material universe, and frequently in such form as to lie beyond the sphere of the reader's sympathy and comprehension. It Is a point of cardinal importance that youth should • read" that which healthily excites the feelings and awakens the interest. The element of attrac tiveness is indispensable, and these judicious l y compiled volumes are most desirable for bo th teacher and scholar, being fitted to stimulate a wholesome love of acquirement, and facilitatein tellectual development. How to Brew Good Beer, By John Pitt. Long- man. We may consider the firm of Barclay and Perkins as being among our n ational institutions, and every man who seeks to improve the worldly condition of Sir John Barleycorn as a social patriot. Mr. John Pitt stands out conspicuously in the latter character, and has entered heart and soul into his subject. The fullest practical details of the whole process connected with brewing are lucidly given, together with valuable information respecting brewhouses, cellars, and apparatus, with various diagrams and measure tables, consti tuting a perfect " handbook" in this popular de partment, and affording valuable assistance in pre venting our favourite beverage becoming " bard, cloudy, or sour," which, if prevalent in our beer, may extend to our temper, by the natural influence of indigestible effects. Ifarmonious Colouring as applied to Photographs. By an Artist Photographer. Newman, 20, Soho-square. Photography is now an important feature . of pictorial art, and the great advance lately made 111 it by the additi on o f co l our i ng h as ren dered it still more prominent and far more pleasing in its effects. This little book contains a store of information on the subject, which will doubtless give it permanent value in the hands of professors and amateurs. Blackwood's Shilling Scribbling Diary for 1860. James Blackwood, Paternoster-row. This is among the numerous cheap and useful annuals which greet us at this season, containing an almanac for the year, a postal district map, and copious lined pages for diary notes, interleaved with blotting-paper, and altogether neatly and well got up. LOSS OF THE _ROYAL NAIL STEAM- SHIP PARAJTATTA. Yesterday the Board of Trade issued the report of Mr. Trail, the Greenwich police magistrate, who, with Capt. Harris, as nautical assessor, held the recent inquiry into the circumstances attending the wreck of the Boy-al Mail Company's steam-ship Paramatta, which was wrecked on the Horse-shoe Reef of the Anegada, near St. Thomas's, on her first voyage. The Paramatta was an iron paddle-wheel steamer, of 2,166 tons, commanded by Capt. E. J. Baynton, an old officer in the company's service, and the report, which is of some length, after notic ing the equipment of the ship and her course on ap proaching the Sombrero Channel, thus proceeds : —" It appears by the evidence that the outward bound ships of the Royal Mail Company always take the Sombrero Channel when bound for St. Thomas. This channel lies between the Island of Sombrero to the east and Virgin Gorda to the west, and is about 40 miles in width. The Horse shoe Reef, on which the ship was wrecked, lies nearly west from Sombrero about 40 miles. Som brero is a low island of about one and a-half miles in length; Virgin Gorda is high land; and the Horse-shoe is a dangerous reef, level, or nearly so, with the water's edge. On the night of the 30th June, Captain Baynton states that Sombrero might have been seen six miles off, and Vir gin Gorda, 18 or 20 miles. In passing through the Sombrero Channel, if not absolutely necessary, it is at least most desirable to sight the island of Sombrero, if only for the purpose of verifying the longitude of the ship before entering a channel where currents are known to exist. A current is supposed to run at about the rate of one mile an hour, in a westerly or north-westerly direction, but the exact direction or strength is dependent on the wind, and is not always known with certainty. To avoid any risk from this or other possible causes of deviation, those best acquainted with the lo cality consider it prudent, when Sombrero has not been sighted, to steer a course S. by W., or S.S.W., till as far to the southward, probably as the lati tude of Virgin Gorda, in 18 30 N., and to go at moderate speed till land is sighted. By steering a southerly course, a ship gets into an open sea, away from the dangerous reefs and shoals in the neighbourhood of Anegada, and by slowing her engines she can stop to take soundings, in time to escape danger, should she, as was the case with the Paramatta, have run much further to the west ward than appeared by the reckoning. These pre cautions, however, were wholly neglected by Capt. Baynton, and the reason he gives for neglecting them was that he had full confidence in his obser vations. There does not, however, appear to have been any good reason for such confidence; for having been disappointed in confident expectation of sight ing Sombrero at 6.50 p.m., when he had run his distance, he ought to have suspected the accuracy of his observations, and having no certainty as to his longitude, lie should have kept on his course of S. by W. for another ho ur at least, which wou ld , have brought him clear of the danger, or even b a d he put the ship on the S.W. course at 6.50, instead of at 9.15 p.m., and had slowed his engines, so o n to have been able t o s t o p th e s hip immediately. the appearance of dan ger , h e m i g ht have av oided the loss. His not taking these proper precautions, therefore, but proceeding at a speed of 12i knots an hour on a course which w"mld only have beep safe after having sighted Sombrero, was a great default, and was the cause of the loss of the ship. There was the less excuse for this want of pro per caution, that Capt. Baynton was not pressed for time, and acted in utter disregard of the , printed instructions issued by the company-, The instructions are then set forth, a nd the report, after adverting to the high charac ter of Capt. Baynton, concludes:—" The circumstances of this case, and of many of a simi lar nature within a short period, lead one to sup pose that the desire to make rapid voyages is gra dually supplanting the proper caution which ought to be observed by shipmasters. This is a natural effect of tho general use of steam at sea, and the, great improvement so far as sailing is concerned in • the construction of the ships. Unless, therefore, care be taken to keep this desire within bounds, it may in time create the impression in the minds of seamen that their first duty is to regard not the safety of the ship, but the quickness of the passage. Your lordships wili observe that strong opinions were expressed by many of the witnesses as to the absolute necessity of a light for this channel. There is no doubt that the want of a light to guide ships through this dangerous channel has been the cause. of much loss of property, and that the Paramatta would, in all probability,: have been s aved b y a light on Sombrero." Captain Harris having expressed his concurrence in the report, the Lards' Committee of Privy Coun cil for Trade have directed that Captain Baynton's certificate, of competency be suspended for twelvo months, and have intimated that the suggestion as to placing a light in the Sombrero Channel will receive attention. THE GREAT EASTERN AT A " DEAD-LOCK. "— Tlie expenses on board have been reduced to the smallest pos sible amount, and, pending the inquiry geinr , r' on before the arbitrators between the company and Mr . Scott Russell, no works other than those which are absolutely necessary are being carried on. 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