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B E N S 0 N'S WATCHES. " Perfection of mechanism."--Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 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. Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, VICTORINE. Messrs. Merais, H. Haigh, H. Ccrri, G. Honey, Walworth, &c. Misses l'arepa, Thirlwall. _ _ Conductor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new grand pantomime, called PUSS IN BOOTS ; or, Harlequin - and the Fairy of the Golden Palms. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 10 minutes to 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Dlr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS. Miss Reynolds. which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto - After mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of' the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled LeclerCils. THEATRE-RaYAL LYCEUM.— Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. Re-engagement of the Spanish Dancers. THIS EVENING, the popular Drama of ST. MARY'S EVE. Madeline (her original character) Madame Celeste. Alter which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex travarzanza and Pantomime, KING THRUSIIBEA.RO, the LITTLE PET and the (HIEAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. H. Marshall—Columbine, Miss Eosin°. Commence at T. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta. Principal Dan seuse 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, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. After which, a new r,hristmas burlesque pantomime,by H. J. Byron, called JACK TIIE GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle quin King Arr.aur and the Knights of the Round Table, Jack, Miss 1 1.ouise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack • Panta loon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. EW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. NSole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, Jan. 15, the Theatre will be Closed, in consequence of the Company performing at the Royal Thea tricals, Windsor Castle. Reproduction of THE DEAD HEART, with all its power ful effects. TO-MORROW, VIE DEAD TIF.ART. Messrs. Benj, Webster, J. L. Toole, David Fisher, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, BilliTigton, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly. After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LU'RLEYBERG ; 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 charg e for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROY AL 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. rfi I,II7ENIIsIG the performances will oommense with PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Messrs. 11. T. Craven and J. Franois, Mesdames Murray and Eliza Arden. After which, a new Tragic Ballet, entitled MY NAME IS NORVAL. Supported by C. Young, Barrett, MISS Lydia Thompson, Clara St. Casse, 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, and Pantaloon, and the wonderful Performing Dogs. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, Is. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ance commences at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. The Last Five Weeks of Mr. Cooke's Season. THIS EVENING, the New Spectacular Drama by Mr. R. Phillips, THE WARRIOR'S CAREER, with full ' stud of Horses and great effects. — Scenes in the C ircle by Astley's world-renowned Equstria.ns, terminating with the Eques trian, Oporatical, and Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY ;' or, Old Towler thelinntsman and the God dess Diana ; Diana, with Songs, Miss Jacobs.—Costly and dazzling Transformation Scene.—llarlequin, M. Richard° ; Columbine, Mdlle. Mazoni ; Clown, M. Hilderbrandt ; Pan taloon, Mr. I'. Abbot --A family of Sprites —Epsom Races by Living Jockles and real Ponies, with ring and Stage com bined—Perforining Elephant, Dogs and Monkeys, and ate, Great Salamander War Horse enveloped by real fire. - • Commence -at 7. Not ice.—Th e , Grand Day performances, at Two o'clock, will tab- plade on Saturday, Jan. 21 and 28, and Saturday, Feb. 4 and 11. Mr. Cooke yespectfully intitnates his Farewell Benefit will take place on Monday, Jan. :-#O. CANTERBURY.HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY QU EE And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic),, W. 'P. Critchtield,,and E. W. INla.ckney. Several interestiwr Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Hails have been redecorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. ' ROSA. BON EU R' 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.-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 18, 1860. THEILMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. .53—highest since noon yesterday. 36—Lowest this morning and during the night. 3S—this day at noon. BAnomETEtt-29.82. WIND, Easterly ; fresh, with cold frosty weather. HIGH .WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 9h. 44m.—Afternoon, 10h. 24m. To-moßnow.-Morning, Ilh. 6m.—Afternoon, 'llh. 46m. . ___;:•:... ~ .1. l 'i , , • 42 ,4 ? • , 71.9 - ..- c -,—. ' . 4 . 4- ' ). -,S: . ,ni.. - - ts, - ,- , - ' - ' c lt•A ,Z." .. !;.''‘ '-,-. , ~ ,c ,....),/ , 4 ,-,•'-:,,,-- Os .t.;:`,-• . , r ri, . L , . r . : l , ' , ~. ~ , •,_ N...,.._,..4 '''' .414 - . '' •: ' . `'bli 0I 1 1 ..... ..,,,.....,,,\t'..-. S" 4 c - ' THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAN, 18, 1860. The return of Count CAVOUR to Power augurs well for Italy. It is, besides, an earnest of the Emperor NAPOLEON'S determination to carry out his splendid commercial reforms. The very name of CAVOUR will strike like the death knell of Austria's doom, for his ,policy was the hope of Italian regeneration. His late retirement from power caused much grief to his friends, and for a time inspired the enemies of his country with a too confident exultation that they would soon re gain theirlost ascendancy, but now their daydreams are in vain. The Emperor of AUSTRIA would now consult his own interest by giving up Venetia for a money consideration, and thereby anticipate the fate that so surely awaits her deliverance from his Iron Grasp. In fact he would be all the stronger by withdrawing his army from a country whose sympathies are all with their brother men while their hate has no bounds towards him. He ought to know that by this time, if he would but learn wisdom from the past. And now that the Empe ror NAPOLEON has cast the immensity of his power into the cause of Italy there is no longer any chance for Austria but surrender while yet she may, before the accumulated ven geance of the Venetians, backed by the strengthen ing freedom of the Italians, seal his destiny. To avert in time is far better policy than await the coming storm looming with portentous destiny. If he lose Venetia by the angry success of arms, he may not only incur the loss of Hungary, too; but even risk his crown, for the unfortunate have few or no friends, and but little sympathy. His late and even his present conduct have all but es tranged PIT ssia from him, and as for Russia she will neve r forgive him. Russia now looks upon her a s she did upon the " the sick man " with this eggs 'avation that he deceived her in the hour of her g reatest need. Her sympathies are with the Hung li.rians fora double purpose, that she new hopes to eu nciliate them for the past wrongs she inflicted on : aungary for the sake of and at the crying request ' Austria, and furthermore that she may strengthoi t her own designs on the East by the downfall of her deceitful rival. Thus nations like individur d ; bide their time, and then woe to the scorned The oppress, 'ort of Austria has been as cruel as it was universal wherever her power was predomi nant. She ''e vimecd no mercy to the weak, but shrank with r: i cr ,svic'd malignity from the strong. Her policy s ae7 .11S thrOUghallt to be grinding, with out any co uc.,tliating care. What she obtained by fraud she e i• xasperated by coercive robbery. This systemati 0 . N , *ll has now lost her the fairest por tion I any v".tg' -- t, an d may soon cost Venetia; the soon( r the better, for Count CATOUR will be a thorn in her side until she be driven beyond the Alps. Therefore the sooner she makes a virtue of necessity the better for all. As Tuesday is the day fixed for the reassembling 1 of Parliament, and as according to annual custom we are certain to have the Legislature again taking the question of Parliamentary Reform int o consi- I deration, it is no matter of surprise to find an Independent Liberal like Mr. CONINGHAM address ing his constituency down at Brighton, or to find the Home Secretary waited upon (as he was yes• terday) by an important deputation from Chelsea, demanding for that vast suburb the boon of its enfranchisement. Incidents like these are in a manner mere matters of course, but for that reason they are none the less worthy of observation. They possess indeed a peculiar significance of their own, especially demanding at the moment the scrutiny of the journalist. The very circumstance, for example, of so wealthy, and industrious, and populous a community as that constituted by the Chelsea population, remaining up to this moment altogether unrepresented in the British House of Commons, invests with a particular interest the ar guments now very opportunely addressed to Sir GEORGE LEWIS by the principal spokesman of the deputation in favour of Chelsea being empowered henceforth by the new Reform Bill to return to that House two representatives ! The circumstance, on the other hand, that Mr. CONINGHAM is num bered amongst the little band of Liberal Indepen dents below the gangway renders it especially a subject of curiosity to note the views expressedby him politically, de omnibus rebus et cetera, when running through the most prominent topics of the ' hour with his ultra-Liberal and Reforming con ; , stituency ! Having scanned with awakened attention both the arguments advanced by the Chelsea Deputation and the sentiment expressed ' by Mr. CONINGHAM, we are constrained to accord • to the former our decided preference. There is a precision about the opinions enunciated yesterday by Mr. TORRENS APCULLAGH, and the other mem bers of the deputation, contrasting most favour ably with the indifferentism (for we can call it nothing else) characterising the views of Mr. CON ,INGHAM is his eminently responsible position as one of the little intermediate band of the liberal independents. Upon the course pursued during, the ensuing session by that numerically small but most ener getic and important phalanx almost everything, we cannot but think, is just now in a very great measure dependent. Apart from them—the two great divisions in the House of Commons are as nearly as possible equipoised. Such men as Mr. BRIGHT, and Mr. ROEBUCK, and Mr. LINDSAY, and Mr. WYLD, and their fellows, hold within their grasp—if they be but conscientiously united in action—the shape, tendency, and character of the new Reform Bill. And they do so simply for this reason, that they stand in a cluster midway upon the balanced beam of parties, and accordingly as they act together, according to the direction of the .united attitude assumed by them at the next mo . mentous division, they may elevate or depress at their own will and pleasure the good or evil for tunes of the Government or of the Opposition. Ap preciating to the full, therefore, the solemn responsi bility devolving, according to our view of things, at this juncture upon the group of Liberal Independents, we cannot but regret to find one of their number expressing, as Mr. CON INGHAM has just expressed to his constituents down at Brighton, such'exceeding indifferenae in regard to a question of vital importance like the Ballot—really and truly to our minds the " ques tion of questions," at this moment in reference to the forthcoming scheme of reform in our system of popular representation. Now, in regard to this, as we have termed it, really vital question, all that Mr. CONINGHAM can find it in his heart to say is this—" There was one more point," he said, " in the catalogue of Liberal policy to which he should re fer—that was the Ballot. The history of that ques tion was a very strange one. Sometimes the ques tion appeared to be gaining ground, then it receded, then it recovered its position, and again died away . as if there was a want of sincerity in the demand for it. He was not aware that Government were prepared to take action upon it, and he thought it must remain an open question, for even the Liberal party themselves were divided in opinion respecting it." Now this is precisely the course in regard to the Ballot, for the very reason here given by Mr. CONINGHAM, that ought not to be adopted. Such is our own often-expressed and unalterable opinion —and it is an opinion coincided in, we are satisfied, by the vast majority of the more resolute and devoted champions of Reform throughout the United Kingdom. Without the Ballot, as a sine qua non, in the new Reform Bill, we had far better for three reasons have accepted the Reform Bill laid upon the table of the House last year by the DERBY Government. Firstly, because we should have had Reform so far a year sooner; we should have been spared the unnecessary waste of another twelvemonth. Secondly, we should have been able to get just as large a mea sure of Reform from the late Administration by modifying and enlarging the original draught of the enactment in its passage through Committee, Thirdly, we should hare been secure under that arrangement of what we can by no means count upon under a Whig regime as certain, namely the ready passing of the measure through the ordeal of the House of Lords. For these three very plain and simple reasons we maintain that the Coalition ought to be compelled, through the concession of the Ballot, to compensate the country for the rejection in their favour of the substantial measure actually placed within the grasp of Parliament a year ago—(a plastic measure which might have been moulded in that powerful grasp into any shape)—by the Derby Government. The report of the meeting held at the Mechanics' Institute, at Pontefract, ou Monday night, is not without interest and importance. It was wholly disconnected with any political movement, being merely the celebration of their annual festival, but the speeches delivered on the occasion by Mr. MONCKTON MILNES and Mr. CHILDERS are well worthy of careful notice. The remarks of the hon. member for Pontefract were especially forcible and suggestive. After alluding to the stirring events of the past year, he commented on the valuable light thrown en the occurrences of the day by a study of the chief branches of education. An ac quaintance with history, he observed, would be of immense importance to them in judging of the progress- of their own country and the state of other nations. A knowledge of geography was rendered necessary by the varied intelligence from all parts of the world which was daily reaching them. Mr. MILNES'S allusions to the recent achieve ments of British enterprise in two very different but almost equally perilous localities, must have impressed his hearers with the truth of his remarks on this point. If previously fami liar. with the chief features of geography and its branches, they would better appreciate the labours of BURTON and LIVINGSTONE in Central THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY IS, 1860 Africa, and the dangers and difficulties braved by 3PCLINTocK and his companions in the Arctic Seas. The study of biography it was less neces sary to inculcate. Few departments of literature are more generally attractive, and, we need not add, more generally instructive. Practice is always more powerful than precept, and the steady up rising of an honest and energetic man of the lower classes to wealth and honour teaches a more for cible lesson to those of his own early position than any institution or instruction can afford them. A working man can never call his situation hopeless or discouraging with the lives of GEORGE, STE PHENSON and many another British worthy before him. While on this topic, Mr. MONCKTON MILNES quoted a remark made to him by a nobleman who had risen to the highest judicial rank entirely by his own exertions, who said, " I can conceive nothing happier than the life of a man who was born in the lowest condition of society compatible with good education, and who through life has gradually risen to the highest position." Fortu nately the class spoken of now extends to very wide limits. A good education, in its plain Eng lish sense, is now, thanks to these and similar in stitutions, placed within the reach of all steady and respectable labourers. We may hope to see the beneficial effect of the diffusion of knowledge more clearly in a few years time than now ; when a knowledge of the laws of political econony will enable the working classes to see the short-sighted folly of strikes and combina tions, which are truly like children's passions— punishing themselves for the sake of wounding others. On the subject of national education Mr. CIIILDERS made some excellent observations. Having recently returned from a visit to the United States he took occasion to comment upon the degree of mental cultivation he met with in America. He spoke ♦ery highly of the system there adopted, and though not denying that great faults and evils ex isted in the government of the States, he thought they were far more advanced in national education than ourselves. While tra velling on railways he said he usually found two out of every three passengers reading. The new generation now springing up would, ho hoped, be in education and morals far superior to their We quote the following passage as worthy of notice . precursors. "No doubt America had great difficulties to contend with, and the existence of the abominable system of slavery in her midst gave rise to passionate ebullitions of feeling, and an apparent contempt for the obligations cf morality which shocked them in England ; but he could assure them that the great middle class of that country, forming three fourths of its population, was educated and temperate, and, so long as it remained so, he believed they would never hear of any serious disruption in the States. He might also say that that class, whatever might be said by individuals, looked upon war with this country as morally impossible. Their attention had been directed by Mr. Milnes to the im portance of studying political economy, and he would just say, that when he went to America one of the first questions he asked was, Have you any strikes here ?' They laughed at the idea, and replied by asking, Do you suppose that a reading people would indulge in such a thing ?' He was told that all classes were familiar with books, the knowledge of which in England was confined to few, and that the people were not only satisfied as to the absurdity of strikes, but that every time a strike occurred in England they de rived the benefit by a transfer of the wealth and enter prise of the mother country." The modifications of the French tariff, which we may hope will inaugurate an era of peace and free trade for the Continent, wen also alluded to by the speaker, who, in conclusion, begged his hearers not to shrink from the possession of a "little learn ing," if much were out of their reach. The meeting was addressed by several other speakers on similar topics, and we trust the members of the Institute separated impressed with the practical value of knowledge, and with their energies quickened and ambition excited by the sympathy and encouragement of able and intelligent men. his Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess de Persigny left Albert-gate House yesterday afternoon for "Windsor Castle. Madame Rucker, the wife of the Minister-Resi dent from the Hanseatic Cities, gave birth to a daughter on Monday last, at her residence in Eaton-square. The mother and infant are progressing favourably. The Duke of Newcastle arrived in town yester. day from his seat, Clumber Park. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and the Ladies Villiers will return to the Grove, near Watford, to day, from visiting Lady Marion Alford, at Ashridge Park, near Berkhampstead. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood will come to town to-day, from Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire. Lady Mary and Miss Wood are expected on Monday. DINNER TO LORD DERBY.—The Mayor of Liver pool has invited the Earl of Derby and several of the prin cipal magnates of South Lancashire to dine with him at the Town-hall, Liverpool. The date of the dinner is not at present announced. _ His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, on the eve of leaving England for Spain and Portugal, for the winter (says the 21 - oveastle Chronicle), directed his agent at Northumberland Houso, Mr. Thomas Williams, to send to Mr. Robert Story, our Northumbrian poet, a hundred bot tles of sherry, with his grace's compliments, and the ex pression of a hope that he would find inspiration in the The Liverpool papers announce that Garibaldi's youngest son is studying at a school kept by an Italian gentleman at New Brighton, on the Cheshire side of the Mersey. THE AMERICAN MAILS.—The United States Government have contrated with the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company for the con veyance of the United States mails between New York and Liverpool on the old Collins' days for the remainder of the winter. MAILS TO AND FROM JERSEY AND GUERNSEY.— The auxiliary mails to and from Jersey and Guernsey, by way of Weymouth, have ceased ; and the mails forwarded via Southampton have been increased to four each week. The mails will be despatched from London on the evening of Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, and will be received in London on the mornings of Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. THE OUTWARD WEST INDIAN AND PENINSULAR MAILS*,—SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday.—The La Plata, with the West Indian mails, left this afternoon. Her specie consists of £633,000. Also on board, quicksilver, value £1,860; jewellery, value £3,950; and a general cargo. The passengers number 73, and amongst them aro Lieut. 11. J. Coddrington, R.N., Lieut. F. L. G. Little, ILA., Captain Wray, R.E., Lieut. Clayton, Mr. Woodfull, R.E., Lieut. E. Barkley, R.N., Lieut. F. G. Shaw, R.N., kc. Ihe Nepaul, Captain C. Vincent, with the Peninsular mails, als3left this afternoon. She took out no specie, had 12 passengers, and a general cargo. The Atrato is expected hourly. THE BRITISII SOLDIER'S LOVE FOR HIS OFFICER. —An affecting instance of the British soldier's love for his officer has just been recorded in the beautiful church of Wyko Regis, near Weymouth, where a tablet of chaste &- sign has been erected to the memory of Lieutenant Sidney Swaffield, of the 51st Light Infantry, by the officers, non commissioned officers, and men of the company to which he belonged. A photographic sketch of the tomb erected to him in India has also been kindly forwarded to his parents, with many expressions of sympathy and condolence from the officers of his regiment. The tablet was designed by Mr. Hale, of Baker-street, Portman-square, who received much commendation for one executed by him in memory of the revered Captain H9dley Vicars, of the 97th Regiment, in Beckenham Church. PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Parir is about 1 per milled, and the short exchange on London is 25.071 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is at about 3-10ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 423 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.3 a per sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is therefore about 3-10ths per cent: dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of ex change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 109 per cent., which, when compared with the Mint proportions between the two countries, shows that the ex change is slightly against England • and, after making allowance for charges of transport and difference of inte rest, the present rate leaves no profit on the importation of gold from the United States. TUE FIRE AT MR. DARBY'S FIREWORK FACTORY. —Upon making inquiries last nig,bt our reporter was in formed that the hree unfortunate men who were so seriously injured by the ignition of firowork composition, and who a re still in the hospital, are progressing favourably, and it is hoped that they will in a few days be able to resume their eniployment. The accident, it now appears, was caused from a quantity of " coloured fires" drying in front of the stove becoming ignited and communicating with other goods in one of the back workshop s . Mr. Darby had taken every precaution to avoid 'such an accident as unfortunately hap pened by having wooden buildings placed upon his back grounds for carrying on each description of work used in the trade, and had it not been for the heated and sulphurous fumes of the composition, and the door being closed, every one in the building might have rushed out into the yard, as they can at Mr. Mortram's firework factory at Walworth, without sustaining any danger. - - _ MUSEUM OF PATENTS, SOUTH KENSINGTON. — Number of visitors for the week ending Jan. 14. Mornings, 1,081; evenings, 1,2 M, total, 2,335. Since the opening of the lkluseum free daily (May 12, 1858), 178,873. LATEST NEWS. FRANCE AND ENGLAND—THE CONGRESS. The following is an extract of a letter received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, MONDAY. The Emperor of the French, wishing to act with the greatest loyalty towards England, requested Lord Cowley to declare to the English Cabinet that, although desiring an intimate understanding with England on the basis of non-intervention, it should be understood that France always considers herself bound by the engagements of Villafranca and the treaties of Zurich. This reserve was maintained during the last negotiations between England and France. The assembling of the Congress is therefore still pos sible, its programme being founded on the treaties of Zurich. The Cabinet of the Tuileries has formally re sumed the negotiations concerning the Congress, and has by telegraph already informed the Northern Courts of this desire of Napoleon 111. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : THE PAPAL STATES: ROME, JAN. 17. The official Giornale di _Roma declares to all Catholics interested in the preservation of the States of the Chuich that the Pope, obeying his conscience, has negatively replied to the councils of the Emperor Napoleon. The official journal also states the reasons of the Pope's refusal to cede the province Romagna, of which is now in insurrection. PARIS, TUESDAY. Lord Cowley arrived here this morning at eigh o'clock. His lordship has had a long audience of the Emperor. M. Thouvenel is expected in Paris at the end o : the present week. The Pays of this evening says :—" Great activity prevails in the different Ministerial departments for the realisation of the programme contained in the letter of the Emperor to M. Fould." The Council of State is about to take into con sideration those measures which require the co operation of the Legislative Body. THE RESIGNATION OF THE SARDINIAN MINISTRY-APPOINTMENT OF COUNT CAYOUR. TURIN, JAN. 17. The official Piedmontese Gazette announces that the King has accepted the resignation of the Ministry, and has charged Count Cavour with the formation of a new Cabinet. Count Cavour will present his list of Ministers to-morrow. THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA ST. PETERSBURGH, lAN. 16. The Duke of Montebello has applied to the French Government for leave in order to accompany his wife, who is unable to habituate herself to the Russian climate. The French Ambassador will leave St. Peten burgh as soon as the weather permits. ROME (VIA MARSEILLES), JAN. 14. The note in the Moniteur of the 10th instant has produced a great sensation at the Roman Court. A meeting of Cardinals was held to-day, at the Vatican. Fresh despatches from France, for the Pope, arrived yesterday. His Holiness has received Count Buol in a pri vate audience. Great agitation prevails in the Marches. Bologna is to be fortified. BOMBAY, DEC. 27. Markets extremely dull. Cotton two to three rupees lower. All descriptions of gray goods and twist lower. Freights slightly hardening. Linseed in demand at 4r. 10a. per maund. Ex change on London 2s. lid. to 2s. lid. Money easy. BERNE, JAN. 17 The National Council has taken into considera tion the report of the Federal Council on the affair of the valley of Dappe, and has voted the following resolution : " Considering the nature of the negotiation in the affair of the valley of Dappe, and considering the actual state of political affairs, and being con vinced that the Federal Council well know how to protect the dignity and the national interests of Switzerland, the Assembly leaves the direction of the affair to the Federal Council." MADRID, JAN. 16. The division Rios has effected a landing on the banks of the river Tetuan without opposition. The forts did not reply to the fire of the Spanish squadron. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY, The Canadian mail steamer North Briton, Captain Borland, has arrived here with dates from Portland to the ith, and from New York by telegraph to the 6th inst. News from San Francisco to the 16th December announce that Fremont has obtained all the mines that had been adjudged to him without violence. BROWNVILLE, JAN. 2. Cortinas captured Rio Grande on the 24th u The Brownville troops recaptured it subsequently. Eight Americans were killed. Cortinas fled. Horna, tobacco merchant, has failed for 15,000 dollars. At Now York, on the 6th instant, money and exchange presented no new feature. Freights for cotton to Liverpool 9-16 d. On the Ist the Havannah sugar market was dull, but prices unchanged. Stock, 10,000 boxes. Exchange on London, 15 prem. GALWAY, MONDAY. The Prince Albert, from New York on the sth, and the St. John's on the 10th, arrived in this port to-day at 12 o'clock, making the passage from the latter port in about 136 hours and 18 minutes. She brings 150 passengers, of whom 40 are from New foundland. Owing to the severity of the weather, and the want of proper harbour accommodation, the mails were not landed in time for despatch by the mid day mail train. The Asia, for Liverpool, was detained on the 4th by a snowstorm. She was to sail on the sth, at nine o'clock a.m. She brings no specie. Among her passengers is the " Benicia Boy," who comes over to contend with Tom Sayers—the champion of the English ring. The odds in favour of the Ame rican champion are 5 to 4. By telegraph via Newfoundland we learn that the Atlantic, from California, had arrived at New York with 1,800,000 specie. The San Francisco news con firms the report that the Japanese Embassy will leave for the United States on the 22d of February ; and also that the English Consul at Jeddo had ad vised British subjects to go armed in consequence of the threatenings of the Japanese. The Arago and Glasgow sailed from New York on the 7th inst., the former taking 50,000 specie. The Bohemian, Arabia, Kangaroo, and Vigo had arrived out, the latter short of coal. Governor Letcher, of Virginia, recommends a Convention of all the States to settle the slavery question. At New York, on the 9th, the markets were generally steady and unchanged. NEW ORLEANS, JAN. 7. Cotton sales for the week, 62,000 ; middling, 10,1 c. to 11c. Receipts for the week, 69,000 ; in crease of all ports, 357,000. Sales to-day, 8,500; closed firm. A Sympathy with the Pope Meeting was held at St. John's on the 6th inst. A 24th ballot for Speaker was taken on the 4th. Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, Republican, had 101 votes, 104 being the necessary number of votes. The Mexican Treaty was sent by the President to the Senate on the 4th inst. It is supposed that it will be accepted, but that the 4,000,000 will not be voted. The Washington correspondent of the New F or k, Herald, of the sth, says : "Despatches have been received at the War Department from the officer in command at San Juan. Matters there were tranquil, and no further difficulties apprehended. General Harney, it appears, had declined to accept General Scott's offer to return to the Atlantic States, and take com mand of the Department of the West. He does not like the manner in which he was treated by the President in sending General Scott to super sede him in the settlement of the San Juan affair. His return to the Atlantic States may be shortly expected." The report of the Inspector of State Prisons shows an increase of 300 in the number of convicts during the past year as compared with 1858. The mails from Now Orleans of the 27th ult. and Havannah of the 30th had arrived. Business at Havannah was almost suspended on account of the holydays. The stock of sugars on hand were 20,000 boxes, against the same amount in 1858. No. 12 were held at 9to 91- rials per arrobe. No margin for speculation. A few contracts for - Muscovado sugars were made at 71 to 8 rials at our ports, and 1,000 hhds. clayed molasses at 4 (rials per keg of 51 gal lens, deliverable at Matanzas. Freights continue dull, and no better prospect ahead. Exchange was less active: On London, 60 days' sight, 15 to 151 ; New York ditto, 3 to 4; Northern cities ditto, 3 to 31 ; New Orleans, eight days' sight, 5 to 6. On the 30th ult. off the Moro, communicated with the United States steamer Crusader, Lieut. Maffit, beund on a cruise. All well. The report of the commissioners on the Crimean War was ordered to be printed. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times reports : " By her treaty with Honduras Great Britain abandons the position assumed in her rejection of the Dallas-Claren don treaty. The Bay Islands are unconditionally sur rendered to Honduras. The treaty yet remains to be rati fied in London. No doubt exists now of the success of the Mosquito treaty. Great Britain will then have washed her hands of Central America. " I have reason to believe that measures are on foot to bring to a speedy settlement the disputed title to San Juan Island, Both Governments are sanguine of an early and amicable adjustment." The accounts from the city of Mexico are to the 19th ult. It is stated that Cobas has been beaten at Tehuantepec, and is retreating. The Liberals are said to have gained a battle at Quarreto. Marquee is really in prison (in communicado), and the rup ture is complete between him and Miramon. The latter has marched from Guadalajara towards Colima. The Liberals under Valez, 4,000 strong, are at the barunca of Ateuquique. Another account states that an action has taken place between the Liberals and Miramon, to the advantage of the former. Reports from Vera Cruz are to the 22d ult. General Degallado, with Col. Benito Farias, ar rived from Tampico on the 20th inst. Senor Puerto Arroyo is expected here shortly, and it is supposed he will enter the Juarez Cabinet as Minister of War. General Uraga is left in command of the Liberal forces in the north, but no extended plan of operations on the part of the Liberals is as yet fixed upon, and cannot be until the fate of their treaty in the United States is known. They have recently received a large quantity of arms in Mo relia, and extensive preparations for action are being made at that point. Tho Mexican correspondent of the New York Times says : " The forced lean is being collected from the foreigners, they having been debarred from all protection by the stupid opinion of Attorney-General Black, that these forced loans —if called ' contributions'—are not in violation of treaties and international law. The clergy have refused to pay their quota ; and as they are the Government, no force can make them. The folly of the thing was in including them in the decree. " General NV 011 continues his oppressive acts upon the foreign merchants of Zacatecas. These occurrences have been made the subject of prompt action on the part of Mr. Mathew, who has succeeded in obtaining the promise of the clergy here to order the suspension of further oppressions upon Englishmen, but he has failed in obtaining any re dress for Americans, owing to the increasing hostility to the United States, principally stimulated by Gabriac, the French Minister." The overland mail from California has arrived. The territorial Enterprise of the 10th says, that the California Mining Company of Virginia, after six weeks of drifting, struck the main silver lead 55 fe©t below the surface. The ore discovered promises to rival in richness that from the original Comstock lead. Mining claims, in consequence of this discovery, had advanced 300 per cent. Two Russian corvettes had arrived at San Francisco with the:supposed intention of surveying the harbour and then returning to Cronstadt via New York; The shipment of golddust from Victoria during September, October, and November amounted to 450,000 dols. The Prince Albert brings from St. John's the Captain and nine seamen of the Jessie, bound for Jersey, wrecked off Cape England on the 2d, and five seamen of the wreck Jenny Lind. THE WEST INDIA MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY NIGHT. The Royal Mail Company's intercolonial steam ship Medway, appointed to leave St. Thomas on the 27th December for England to undergo repairs, was detained until the 2d January. It was expected that she would leave with the Atrato to accompany that vessel during her home ward voyage. MUSICAL, D.RAMATIO, 4' EQUESTRIAN SICK FUND ASSOCIATION. A special general meeting of the members of the above association was held yesterday in the saloon of Drury-lane Theatre, for the purpose of taking into consideration two important proposi tions in reference to the new Dramatic College. A considerable admixture of lady , professionals evinced the interest taken by them in matters af fecting their benevolent institutions. Benjamin Webster, Esq., the president of the association, oc cupied the chair, supported by Mr. Anson, t he secretary, Mr. Jerwood, the honorary solicitor, and Mr. Phillips. e one id la he T wantedh The C A C the HAIRMAN, meeting opening t e e confirm t fi h r e m p a r oce speciale din g r s e , s s e a l hu tieorn, p fe as r se g d ra b u y t t in h g e ctohmemsitutmee o_enf.tx.h2es2o to 9t bui ld h _ ofD house of the Royal Dramatic would soon (Cheers.) eight houses, the vote were passed, they w houses, but the Dramatic College Fund would have only two houses to build, the others com ing from the Drury-lane Fun d, the G enera l Theatrical Fund, and other sources. The resolution, on being seconded by Mr. BASIL POTTER, of the Surrey Theatre, was carried unani mously. Mr. ANSON, the secretary, moved the second re solution, to the effect that the sum of £250 be set aside to form the basis of a superanuation fund for those who, although members of that association in the musical and equestrian departm en t s , were not eligible for admission into the Dramatic College. The mover explained the nature of the proposed fund, and said he had been in personal communiea. tion with Mr. Tidd Pratt, and that gentleman's managing actuary, Mr. Tonks. They had approved of the scheme, and drew ou t t a bl es of pay ments a sire foundation, wher e by, th rough a series o f small monthly could be secured sums e i e namoun se t, red v a ry i ng on from m nth s l s y ay ss. t p e2 m os e . n p t e s r , week a fter age of 60 years. Mr. Anson read the tables to the meeting,A committee an d th w e amotionn nweams carriedteuneranaimniosuestlhye. new fund tinder the di rec ti on o f M r. Tidd g Pratt and Mr. FinplaHisloLnL,lpthz actuar y. Gafotveerrnpmaessniteg eulogium on Mr. E. T . S m i th their charities, b egge d to propose w Mr. for ell.merited his votesup support thanksall to that gentleman for his usual kindness in lending them the saloon of the theatre in which to hold their meetings. Mr. SLOMAN seconded the motion, and it was carried with acclamation. The meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman, to which Mr. WEBSTER replied by saying that his pride was to raise the theatrical profession to the highest possible social status. When the Dramatic College was completed and its inmates were at their ease, he should feel there was nothing left fez him to do except retire. They had elected three ladies, and were about to elect three gentlemen. Until the houses were built they would be allowed a small sum as rent elsewhere, with coals. candles, apart ments, and £25 a year. He thought they had now something comfortable to look forward to in old age. (Cheers.) The proceedings then terminated with warm ex pressions of approbation to Mr. Webster, the presi dent. FRANCE. TILE BOURSE, lan. 17.—The market opened firm, at a slight advance, but afterwards receded. Threes, after having been done at 69f. 10c., and 69f. 20c., declined to 69f. ; Mobilier varied from 780 f. to 772 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 925 f. to 922 f. 50c. ; Western, 580 f.; Lombard, 567 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 542 f. 50c. to 538 f.. 75c. The following were the last quota tions : , 41 per Cents..... 96 95 Do. end month .. Credit Fonder 727 50 Belgian 43 — Piedmontese (5) Roman M 50 Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt 43 25 3 per Cents , 69 Do. end month 68 95 Bank Shares 2820 Credit Mobilier .4, 778 75 Do. Account RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 920 .. 923 75 New ditto 837 50 .. 837 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 922 50 .. 922 50 Ovneva 520 .. 520 Southern Western 584 25 .. 582 50 Eastern Sardinian 405 .. 405 Austrian Lombard .... • 666 25 .. 666 25 Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 23f. 9c.; three months, paper, 24f. 95e. ; money, 24f. 93f c. HUNGARY. A letter from Pesth, dated Jan. 10, says :—The great Protestant assembly will be held at Debraczin on the 14th inst. The Government is taking ener getic steps, overt and secret, to deprive this great demonstration of its importance, but all in vain. It will be a great social, political, and religious manifestation ; the Protestant party will again re sume their title to the epithet which marks their creed—they will rise up and " protest" against the wickedness of their oppressors. It is expected that many stalwart defenders of the faith in foreign countries will be represented on this occasion. The meeting will be presided over by the Baron Nico las Vaz, and will be attended by a numerous and influential gathering of Protestants. It is evident that apprehensions are entertained that the Go vernment will attempt something serious, as seve ral of the leading members of the Protestant faith have made their wills prior to setting forth to attend the meeting. The Baron Zsedinyi has appealed against the sentence by which he has been condemned to four months' imprisonment. He, as well as his fellow prisoners in the affair at Kaesmark, have received most flattering ovations since their incarceration. Thousands of persons—amongst them some of the most distinguished Magyars—have called to pay their respects to the Baron, with whom they had no personal acquaintance. Strong disapprobation has also been exprewsed against the Government for the unnecessary severity manifested by the Pre sidemt of the Tribunal, who demanded that Baron Zsedinyi should be stripped of all his hereditary titles and honours. The Court declined to accede to this vindictive aggravation of the penalty. We must weary you with a repetition of our grievances, for unfortunately every communica tion which you receive from this quarter must necessarily be but a recapitulation of persecutions and oppressions. The increasing encumbrances of the Government had given rise to a suspicion that the Crown domains of Hungary would be sold. The suspicion of some such intent became openly manifest ed—it reached the ears of the Government— and 'was officially repudiated by the Government journal. This calumnious rumour, we were told, had been got up by the revolutionary party to exasperate their deluded followers against the paternal Government. But, after all, it appears that the atrocious calumny was not so ill-founded. The castle and domain of Vajna Hunyad has just been sold, one of the finest appanages of the Hungarian Crown ; and, when the mutilation of the edifice has once commenced, every passer-by will carry on the work of demolition until the Crown will be despoiled of its possessions. The Government has the art of keeping the weak in sulajection, but making way for the strong, and we are now becoming sufficiently strong to make ourselves seen and heard in the world. The police had received orders to oppose furtively the cele bration of the hundredth anniversary of Kaszynzy. But it became known that no heed would be taken of this interdiction—that the .fete would be cele brated quand mente, and no notice would be taken of the interdiction whereupon the Government believed discretion to be so much the better part of valour that they resolved to shut their eyes to avoid an altercation which might have terminated unfa vourably for them. The following letter from Pesth, dated Jan. 11, has been lithographed and circulated in Paris " In small things, as well as great, the Viennese Cabinet exasperates the Hungarians. Following close on the projected sale of the Castle of the Hunyadis, an act of ' spoliation which has deeply wounded their national sen timents, comes the suppression of their Bulletin of Laws, which was printed in their own language ; and in place of this publication, one printed at Vienna, in German, is to be established. Thus the Hungarians have the morti fication of seeing their national language proscribed by the Government, and there aro few things, I fancy, more offensive than that to a high-spirited people. More over, they ara subjected to the very serious inconvenience of being obliged to spell out, in a language they do not understand, the ordinances and soi-disant ' laws' which the Viennese tyrants may think fit to impose on them. "The Government, alarmed, and not, it must be con fessed, without reason, at the menacing attitude of the popu lation, is in all parts of the country, and particularly at Pesth, Grosswardein, and Debreczin, causing persons to be arrested, houses to be searched, and measures of pre caution against an outbreak to be adopted. The Govern ment is also acting with much rigour to the Press; but the newspapers dare not record, nor even refer to, the numerous acts of tyranny and atrocity which are perpe trated every day. To such an extent, in fact, is the per secution of journals carried, that the conductors of the leading native organ, the Testhi Napolo, contemplate suspending it until better times shall come. The Hun gariarns who go to Vienna on business—and no Him garian now goes there for anything else—are not only required to proceed to the police-office, and show their passports the moment they enter the city, but they are placed under the surveillance of police spies during all their stay. They are, moreover, particularly ordered, un der pain of immediate expulsion or arrest, not to com municate with officers of the Austrian army. The reason for this strange order is not stated ; but I strongly suspect that it is no other than that officers are so notoriously discontented with the service, and with the state of things in general, that the Government feels that by communicat ing with Hungarians they would be easily won over to the Hungarian cause, or perhaps eagerly offer to serve it. " At the recent demonstration in honour of the poet Kacinczy, at Szephalon, his native place, the Rev. Mr. Lakinczy created profound sensation by a speech he deli vered, and that speech is now producing a sort of electric commotion throughout the land. 'lt is now 28 years ago,' said he in the course of it, ' that I and 15 others carried the remains of our patriot poet to the tomb. But in spite of his pattiotisra and his genius, he was not appreciated as ho ought to have been by his countrymen. Now, however, the whole land is ringing with his praises, and everywhere the people are holding meetings to do honour to his memory. In this I see demonstrated the great fact that public merit is sure, sooner or later, to be acknowledged and recompensed. My friends and my countrymen ! let us deduce from this fact the lesson that a national cause is like the patriot's worth—sure, however oppressed, to shine forth in glory sooner or later, Yes, my friends, the cause of Hungary will triumph ! lam an old very old man ; 70 winters having passed over my brow ; but even I may live to see, from the present appearance of things, that triumph ! And, if the Almighty should grant me that inestimable blessing, with what joy would I slightly paraphrase the words of Simeon, and cry, Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for mina eyes have seen the salvation of my country !' " ITALIAN STATES. The great struggle for Constitutional freedom of which Italy is now the scene, claims the deep sympathy of every man who believes in the right of his fellow men to think for themselves, and openly to profess their opinions. The conflict, though local and limited in its scene, is universal in its relations to the rights and interests of . humanity. On one side we have the tyrants who wish to throw their death-pall over the minds and hearts of their fellow men, we have despotic Dukes and Duchesses, the Pope acted upon by the crafty Antonelli, and the Emperor of Austria the prop and crutch of Rome; on the other, we have the people in the Italian States who have embraced the first opportunity to assert their freedom, and are determined to maintain it, and rejoicing in the shelter they derive from the King of Sardinia. Of the position of the Emperor of the French it is difficult, but unnecessary, now to speak ; but our ' present object is just to show by a most significant fact that the real question at issue is, whether or not men may call their souls their own, whether they are to be trodden down by armed force and held in priestly chains, or to stand up among free people as those who have happily been rescued from the grip of political and spiritual tyrants. Let us look, then, at the present state of Flo rence, and at the largo concessions made to the principles of civil and religious liberty since the flight of the Duke of Tuscany from the country he had so long oppressed. The day after the des picable tyrant fled from his irritated subjects— that is, on the 28th of April last—the Provisional Government proclaimed liberty and equality of worship to all Tuscan subjects. There is, there fore, no legal right in Tuscany to interfere with any Protestant congregation, or with its open pro- • fession of faith, and the people who have been convinced that the purest form of Christianity is something very different from that taught by the priests, are now meeting in a thoroughly Protes tant congregation, without the dread of being pro secuted for heresy. The position of this body has been already represented to the public, but it is too interesting to be dismissed in the report to which we have already given insertion. There is now in the city of Florence a temporary. place of Protestant worship, consisting of a car penter's •," shop fitted up as a sort of meeting-house. The peculiar form in which Protestantism ap pears in Florence it is important to notice. If we were speaking of an English Protestant church, or one of the acknowledged reformed churches, for the accommodation of Protestant residents in Flo. • rence, we should have no proof that the principles of religious freedom had been adopted by the Go. vernment. There, however, we have a congrega- fr" tion more resembling the Dissenters of this country than our national Protestant Church. The reli gious officers of this church are not regularly or dained and recognised ecclesiastics like those of France or Germany. The only person who ap proaches to such a character is the humble car penter in whose workshop the congregation as sembles. Nothing could be much more humble, or destitute of any political influence. A synagogue of wealthy Jews, whose monetary aid was felt • to be of importance, might be tolerated simply on the ground of expediency or necessity, without the State being committed to the broad principle that every man has a right to worship God in a mode according with his reli g i ous conv i c ti ons . No greater test could have been applied to the Government than has been applied by such a body of Dissenters as that now under consideration, and therefore no greater opportunity could be given to the Government of Tuscany to assert that, so long as it is allowed to remain, the principles of religious as well as of civil freedom shall triumph. This congregation, to which the aid of rank and wealth are not accorded, is allowed to assemble in open day, and really with open doors—for the doors are left ajar—and any person may be ad mitted as long as sitting or standing room remains. The only test that is applied by the congregation is as to whether the applicants believe in the Pope. Happily the faith of the Italians in the Pope is rapidly on the decline, so that there are hundreds who can conscientiously qualify for admission by giving their reply in the negative. The only per sons refused admission are the lying informers, who wish to enter that they might carry away false reports to their patrons, and represent as political and treasonable the meetings that are purely religious. Wonderful, indeed, is the fact that this congre gation, which now reaches three hundred, should have been gathered so soon after liberty of worship had been proclaimed, and that its members should openly assert their confidence in the safety ac corded to them under the now regime. These Evangelical Brethren," as they are termed, are not under the slightest apprehensions as to their safety: The confidence they display is the more significant as they, from their social position, must be well acquainted with the feelings of the people as to the right of men to profess a religion different from that of the Pope. Their language is, "Why should the Government show uneasiness on our account ? We neither humour the priests uor give them any good reason for complaint." We have also the remarkable statement of Barsali, the carpenter and minister of the flock, that " the rage of all the Tuscan priesthood could not find twenty-five per sons out of the very worst Florentine rabble willing to do them harm, or disturb their peaceful and ex emplary reunions ;" and this confidence is justified by the opinion of an intelligent observer on the spot. Meanwhile the Romish clergy are straining every nerve for the purpose of depriving these people of their newly-acknowledged rights. We hope that the noble stand taken by the Govern ment of Tuscany will be maintained without flinch ing, and that the people of this country will not fail to give to that Governmeat the whole of its moral force. We have not the means of pro nouncing on the religious opinions and worship of the Dissenting congregation in Florence. They may be very orthodox or otherwise. Our position is, that so long as they do not interfere with the order of society, cause disturbance, or break out into offences against morality, the people are on titled to'the protection of the Government against all the opposition the priests may try to excite against them.—. Advertiser. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LOND ON ) J a n. 18.—Wind this day at noon, S.E. light breeze, and hazy. The Caledonian, Chapman, from St. John's, N. 8., to Crew arrived a t G reenock. i L o i n ve 2 r 7 po l o y l . , has been aband one d , waterlogged, in lat 46 N, PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 1 7.—Wind, S.E.—Arrived—Her Majesty's steam ship Perseverance, from Channel Islands. CARDIFF, Jan. 1 7.—Wind, N.E.—Sailed—Benjamin Sawyer, for Bombay ; Margaretha, for Singapore. OFF DOVER, Jan. 1 7.—Arrived—Mauritius, from Lon• don for China. FALMOUTH, Jan. 17.—Wind, S.S.W. ; fresh.—Sailed Maria, for Rio Janeiro. Conic, Jan. 16 .—Sailed—Jeanne, for Barbadoes. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 17.—Wind, S.E.—Arrived—Ells A. Clarke ' n from London for Port Philip, l ea ky ; lio up from lon 11 W. CLYDE, Jan. 17.—Wind, S.E.—Arrived—Brenda, from Demerara. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 17.—Arrived—North Briton (as.), from Portland, U.S., bound to Liverpool. GRIMSBY, Jan. 16.—Sailed— Johannes, for Hayti ; tha Clara, for Havana. HELIGOLAND ROADS, Jan. 18.—The Barnsley (steamer) aground ; screw propeller broken ; assistance ordered from Hambarg. HAMBURG, Jan. 16.—The whole breadth of the river is full of drift ice. The lightships off Scanlan, the Luhe, and Krautsand have been compelled to leave their stations in consequence of the ice. BRUNSHAUSEN, Jan. 16.—1 n consequence of the south west wind the river hero is tolerably free of ice. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LivzarooL, Wednesday Morning. Wind S. Arrived, Jan. 17—Lizzie Moses, from New Orleans; Favourite, from Magaquadavic. Arrived, Jan. 18.—North Briton Royal mail screw steamer, from Portland. V The De Witt Clinton, for New York, and Charmer, for Shanghai, were in collision last night in the river. The Charmer received considerable damage. SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. Wind S.S.W. kr;i;ed—Hannah, from Neath ; Una, from Parehani. Sailed.—La Plata, steamer, for St. Thomas ; Nepali!, steamer, for Lisbon ; Capricolo, steamer, for Santander; Sir George Grey, steamer, for Cardiff; Wonder and Ata lanta, steamers, for Jersey. (EY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Wind, E. ; tide, ono hours' ebb ; weather, fresh and frosty. Arrived, Jan. 17.—Griesland, from Worcum ; Star, from Seville ; Lima, from Boston ; Princess Clotilda, from Table Bay. Arrived, Jan. 18.—Spirit of the Deep, from Foo-chow foo ; Fiddle, from Emden; Antagonist, from tho North Sea, with wrecked good ; Providence, from Gravelines. Sailed, Jan. 18.—Vulture, for Genoa; Secret, for St. Kitts. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Wind S.E. ; fine. Anchored.—Demerara, from London, for Glasgow. THE SCOTCH REFORM BILL.—We have every - reason to believe that the Reform Bill for Scotland has been prepared, and that it does not contain any clauses placing Scotland on an equality with England in the matter of the county franchise. It is said not to go further than the out• line given by Lord Advocate Baillie and Mr. Peter Black burn, of what the Scotch bill of the Derby Government was tc consist—viz., a £lO occupancy and £5 property franchise. We ate neither to have a £2 property franchise like Eng land, nor any right to the burgh freeholders to vote to the hcounty,—Edinburgh ThE accou Engh stopp, at ha speck a wee metal Joint- kain yei 'lon and 48 ; and: •••••Alicz 310