The Sun. — London, England, 1860-11-28 00:00:00

A FRENCH PLAYS.— BIJOU THEATRE.— At HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, Haymarket, (Grand Entrance_l f , Directeur—X„/Palay. THIS EVENING, LA MLLE DE L'AVARE. Madlle. Perig,a and M. Chaumont UN MONSIEUR ET UNE DAME. M. Chaumont and Madams Doche. L'HIBTOIRE D'UN SOU. Madlle. Bremont and M. Dupuis. Commence at 8 o'clock. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. —Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. SPECIAL NOTlCE.—Production of a new legendary ro mantic opera, by Balfe, BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE. The music composed by the popular English composer, Balfe. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss ; Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. H. Corri, Mr. St. Albyn, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. J. Wharton, Mr. G. Kelly, and T. Distin. Conductor, Mr. A. Mellon.—Doors open at 7 ; commence at half-past 7. OPAL ENCtLISR OPERA, COVENT i GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING:, THE AMBUSCADE. The new Operetta, THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE, Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. H. Corri. To conelnde with THE NIGHT DANCERS. Messrs VI. Valet, H. Core, G. Kelly, Distin, and Lyall ; Madame Palmieri, Hiss Albertazzi, Miss Lefir, Miss Thirlwall, and Miss Huddart. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Doors open.at Seven. Commence at Hal-past, 718 EA r!,-(-LOYAL, lIA YMARK T.,eseee, Mr. J. B. Buekstone. EVENING the nerformancep will commence with THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leelercqs. After which, THE BABES IN THE WOOD. Followed by THE LION SLAYER. To conclude with ANT PORT IN A STORM. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- LaAgee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, an adaptation of Victor Hugo's cele brated Play of RUY BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. ; when Mr. Fechter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown, will make his 28thappearance on the English stage, supported by Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond, Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose Leclercq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. To be preceded by SUSAN SMITH. To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. pins EVENING, THE PE CS OF THE PARTERRE. Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott. The Music by Mr. George Loder. Principal characters by Mr A. Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Ternan, Miss Neville, MissAndspeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner, Miss DOUSTIitS, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson. After which, a new Drama, entitled HANDY ANDY. Messrs. Campbell, Johnstone. T. Lyon. Forrester, Butler, and John Drew (his 3d appearance) ; Mrs. J. R ouse, Miss Hudspeth, Miss M. Ternan, and Miss Neville. Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNE ; or THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal charm - term by Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers, Mr. G. Vining, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell„ Mr. Clifford, Mr. J. Johnstone ; H rs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste. To commence at a quarter to 7, on account of the length of the entertainments. XD"" .1 ", NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Engagement for a limited number of nights of Miss Agnes Robertson and Mr. Dion Boucicault, who will appear every evening in the highly successful Drama of The Colleen Bawn." THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Messrs. W. Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and qrs. Billington. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Tioncicault, D. Fisher, Billinoton, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billing - ton, and Mrs Chatterley. To conclude with ICI• ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J, L. Toole, C. Selby, Billiagton; Mrs. Chatterley, Miss K. Kelly, &c. _ Doom open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking,. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, 1 - 1. Orchestra ;Italia, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, le ; Gallery, 6cf. 'Aotinz '.Manager—ilr. Wm. Smith. .A.STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. Notice.—ln consequence of the vast preparation necessary for the introduction of the Wonders of the World, " The Groupe of Performine• Lions" in the new Spectacle, their ap pearance is unavoidably postponed until MONDAY next, December 3. This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three Acts, by M. Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD; or. the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, Arc, Allan a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit chard. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome and their Troupe of unequalled perhrmers, Arc., including the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest Wonder of the age. Concluding with a laughable Farce. Doors open at half-Fast 6, performance commence at 7. Box -office open daily from II till 4 Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. T H E CATTLE SHOW AND CANTERBURY HALL. " C. MORTON be to inform ♦isitors to London that the above HALL, with its Magnificent Gallery of Modern Paint ings, by all the best masters, is OPEN EVERT EVENING at 7 o'clock. GRAND SELECTIONS FROM BELLINI'S NOBRA AND FLOTOW'S MARTHA. PRINCIPAL ARTISTES, MESS RUSSELL NADA ME MAR IA MISS TYRPEL MISS WI I. KIN SON Mr. HENRY HERBERT and Mr. BERNARD. Conductor Mr. JONGIIII ANS. The Comte Department comprises Messrs. A. B. Hollings worth, W. T. Critehtield, J. Blanchard, G. W. I'ell, Charley Fox, and E. Marshall, in his transformation song, "THE DOMESTIC DRAMA," personating-, five different characters. IVE;ITHER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 28 Iseo. "i'REEMOMET'ER, TN THE SHADE. 47--hi chest since noon yesterday. 40 —'owest this morning and during the night. 43 —this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.78. Wrxn--South-Westerly ; light, with dull weather. We had a few glimpses of sunshine, but they have vanished. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. DA Y. —Morning, lh. 32m.—Afternoon, Ih. 49w. To- M nßitow.-Morning, 2h. Bm.—Afternoon, 2h. 26m. 4, kt N 41 - • ••••$$ , , L. THE SUN. DIN1)0 1 N, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28, 13e0. Hitherto, it appears, we have been in a great measure groping in darkness for a clue to the real meaning of the late proceedings—both warlike and diplomatic--.op en the Chinese battle grounds be tween Tien-tsin and Pekin. The unlooked for spiriting -away of the Times Correspondent involved in unusual obscurity the majority of the recent events ‘,N, hich have taken place at that seat of war at tlye northeastern extremity of Asia. Insomuch have we felt this to be the case, that we yesterday F;kened the capture of that emissary of our chief "'morning contemporary to the cutting off the wires of the electric telegraph. Although that able and vigilant eye-witness still remains, according to the latest accounts, held prisoner within the walls of tlie Chinese capital, the public in England have 1 O - day received some degree of consolation for his con strained sil ence " upon compulsion "—a broad flood of light having now been thrown most oppor tunely into the latterly almost impenetrable dark ness of late occurrences out at the seat of war there in China—first of all, through the thrice welcome despatches of Sir TrIoPE GRANT, the British Com mander•in-Chipe., and, secondly, through the vivid and picturesque narrative penned by the Daily News Correspondent. Thank s to these two sources of fully detailed and perfectly reliable information —sources both official and unofficial —we are at length enabled to appreciate at their true value the that character of the truly extraordin ary incidents have there been rece ntl y transpiring, that trans pired there upon our march between Tien-tsin and Pekin during the last mouth * hut one, nam e ly, during that henceforth memorable month of Sep.. tember, Reading the record of these remarkable occur rences by the light of Sir HOPE GRANT'S despatches, and of these last letters from the Paii.Y -News Correspondent—we are in the first place impiessod more profoundly than ever with a sense of the wholly matchless deceit, infamy, and turpitude of those lying and lawless .barbarians with whom we are at war. In the next place we are con strained to recognise the perillous plight in which these last flagitious proceedings of the Chinese have placed our captured fellow-country men: It is impossible at the same time not t• understand also the absolute powerlessness of those swarming hordes of Chinese when opposed to the serried ranks of the (viewing them simply in re gard to their numbers) comparatively insignificant bands of the English and French soldiers, having with them, these latter—here, the EMPEROR'S deadly brass rifled cannon—there our own terrific ARMSTRONG guns! Twice during this last Sep tember the Allied Forces, to the number of only 4,000 men, have been confronted by the armed and mounted legions of Chinese Tartary. Twice the Anglo-French expedition to the number, as we have said, of only 4,000 men, have found themselves opposed by the immense array of the Chinese Army—first, on the 18th of September —secondly, on the 21st of September. Upon both occasions the enormous masses of the enemy being swept before us by the charges of our cavalry and the discharges of our artillery—swept before our numerically insignificant phalanx to death and confusion—a confusion ending at the close of both the days mentioned in the enemy's total discom fiture. Reverting to the period from which has been all along dated the actual recommencement of hostili ties—namely, that 9th day of September, upon which the advanced guard of our little invading army left Tien-tsin and began a direct march upon the capital—it now appears that our forces having advanced at t rate of ten miles per diem for four days, halt hile at the command of Sir HOPE GRANT, u p t he 13th of September. They were so halted aethat point by reason of certain new Imperial Commissioners from the Chinese Government—Commissioners reported to be of the very highest rank among the great dignitaries of the Empire, and, what was yet more, reported also (this time) to be fully and completely authorised to treat with the Anglo-French Plenipotentiaries— because of these eminent and mysterious person ages having sent letters to her Britannic MA JESTY'S Ambassador, craving urgently for the opening up new diplomatic negotiations. Because of this, it now appears, chiefly, if not entirely, be cause, of this—Sir HOPE GRANT halted his forces at a distance of about forty miles beyond Tien-tsin, at a place called Hoo-sei-woo, upon the 13th day of September. Thereupon Messrs. PARKES and WADE, Consul and Interpreter, were sent forward by Lord ELGIN to meet the new . Chinese Commissioners. When two days had elapsed—namely, on the 15th of Septem ber—Messrs. PARKES and WADE return to the British head-quarters with the tidings that they have entered into a formal agreement with the enemy, that the Chinese themselves will forthwitll evacuate a convenient camping ground situated at the distance of twenty miles in advance, Koo-sei woo, an encampment only five miles short of the city of Tung-chow,at a place called Chang-tsia-wan. This encampment, it was thus arranged, after having been vacated by the Chinese, was to be occupied by the French and English forces, so that immediately the allied army should have there taken up their position, our Ambassadors might advance with an escort over the five miles inter vening between the encampment and Tung-chow, and there, at Tung-chow, negotiate and complet7 the proposed Convention in concert with the newly (and duly) authorised Chinese Commissioners. Directly the arrangements have been explained by Mr. PARKES, they are frankly accepted by the English and French Generals, and by the English and French Plenipotentiaries. Mr. PARKES is thereupon sent back by Lord ELGIN to Tung chow, accompanied this time by Mr. LOCH, his lordship's own private secretary. These gentle men are instructed to return to Tung-chow, sim ply for the purpose of duly preparing there for the reception of our Ambassador. Together with Messrs. PARKES and LOCH, the British Comman der-in• Chief sends forward Lieut.-Colonel WALKER, to the end that that officer may accurately mark out the site of the camp in accordance with the views of the Chinese military authorities. Sir HOPE GRANT sending forward, also, in company with Colonel WALKER and the civilians before named, Deputy- Assistant-Commissary-Gen. THOMPSON, instructed and empowered to receive the supplies which had been formerly promised for our forces upon their arrival at that projected place of encampment at Chang-tsia-wan. Thither—Sir HOPE GRANT fol lows with his little army on the 18th of September. It was only upon that very day—when the allied forces had arrived at a distance of merley one mile from Chang-tsia-wan—that the Commander-in- Chief found that not one iota of the agreement which had been entered into had been attended to by the Chinese. The encampment had not been evacuated—but, on the contrary, there still re mained in that strong position the whole mass of the Chinese army ! Soon afterwards comes back to the British head-quarters, now advanced to within view of the Chinese army at Chang-tsia-wan—comes back to Lord ELGIN, his lordship's Private Secretary with these not very readily reconcileable fragments of intelligence—. Ist, that the Imperial Commissioners at Tung-chow have been most obliging and complaisant, and 2dly, that the Chinese Commander-in-Chief is ra pidly throwing up batteries effectually command ing the Allied encampment ! The Ambassador's Private Secretary is, in consequence, sent back at once to Tung-chow with peremptory instructions commanding the instant return of his little party of comrades. Mr. LOCH goes back in obedience to this order —he returns to Tung-chow under the protection, under the sacred protection of a flag of truce ! Thu symbol—respected by all civilised races through. out the world—is deemed worthy of no considera. tion, howevor, by the Chinese Barbarians. No. merely does Mr. Locu—bearing in his hand that flag of truce !—fail in bringing back Mr. Consu PARKES and his companions, but he himself, in spite of his flag of truce, is taken prisoner, together with each member of that little cluster of military and civilians, whose names we ourselves in these columns have more than once particularised. The mendacious character of these proceedings cannot possibly be exaggerated, no matter how strong the language in which they may be repro bated. Scarcely has the General-in-Chief recognised the heinous nature of the act perpetrated by the Chinese in this lawless seizure of our Consul and his companions than the signal for a contest with the whole Chinese Army (there confront- ing him treacherously in battle array) is given by the all but miraculous escape of Colonel WALKER and his party from the midst of the Chinese encampment ! The fire opened upon that gallant officer as he returns at a gallop towards the front ranks of the Allied Forces — sounds the onset for the battle of Chang-tsia-wan ! Thereupon the Allies, numbering in all, as We have seen, but 4,000 defeat and rout the whole Chinese army, comprising within it fully 20,000 Tartar horsemen. The ARMSTRONG guns alone sweep such deadly de3truction through the dense masses of the Chinese, that while we ourselves could number on ly 2tineteen wounded, there lay upon the field of battle when the conflict was over six hundred Chinese KlLLED—seventy-five guns remaining in the hands of, the Allies as trophies of their vic tory- The subsequent contest, on th e 21 st Sep tember,signalised in a , kindred mann er the in vin c 6 e power of the Anglo-French Ex- pedition, as opposed to the swarming multitudes of those treacherous and flagitious Asiatics. Everything combines, in effect, to demonstrate more and more clearly that but one single and very simple course indeed now lies before the Anglo-French Generals and Plenipotentiaries. That course leading, in fact, directly in a straight path to the seizure and occupation of the city of Pekin, and the dictation there and nowhere else of the final terms of Pacification. Loud, and ludicrous as loud, have been the shouts for disunion from the Southern States. Once in the course, we may say, of sixty years, they have been thoroughly beaten in what is equivalent there to a general election here. And, unlike the country from which they sprung, they do not know to put up with a great political defeat. Slaveholders, by the aid of the great Democratic party, which may be said to have been organised by JEFFERSON in 1801, have ever since been increasing, consolidating, we may add, and abusing their power in the Union, till they know no bounds. They have forced Presidents, and an army of officials, to do their bidding, on the too patient north ; they have got fugitive slave laws, DEED SCOTT decisions, and even repeals of their own compromises, issuing in all the local and Federal atrocities of Kansas—till at length the North could bear it no longer. The twenty-one millions of the Free States could not submit to be transformed into Slave States. They have awaked and told the seven and a half millions of the South— We have done with you and slavery for ever. We proclaim FREEDOM, not SLAVERY, the basis of our Federal Constitution; we interfere not with you in your domains, but we solemnly pro hibit you from spreading further the.curse and blight of your sectional institution. At one thing we do not wonder—the despair of the South. Till this Month it has been the head of the Union. It gave law to the whole, admini stered the government, ruled in the Church, com pelled society to do it homage —now, all is gone ! hopelessly gone ! Slaveholding is a villany—yet, while attired in the robes of power, and dispensing all the favours of the State, its fascinations beguiled even those who ought to have known better; but once strip the DUESSA —expose the filthy hag, as what she is, and her power to enchant has vanished, and can never be regained. Slavery will now be looked at in its own repulsive nakedness. No prestige of the Presidential chair, and universal domination, will dazzle the mire fleeting, or bribe the time-serving. It will step down in American eyes to its true position—that of a loathsome social abomination, of which it will be an honour to be rid—a disgrace to retain it. To mention the Slave States now, will not be to speak of a power of which all stood in unaccountable awe, but to name a defeated section on which all the intelligence and power of the land will look down with contempt. Virtue or liberty fallen may arise the hundredth time—an anti-human institution, like slavery, once fallen, is prostrate for ever. How utterly absurd are the ravings of the South, a very few figures will show. The States which are making most noise are Georgia and South Carolina. Their relative population of white men and slaves stands thus : Slaves. Whites. South Carolina Georgia 906,598 .. 904,065 So that these two loud talking - States would, if left to themselves, have more than enough to do to watch their slaves ; indeed, remembering that the "miserable whites" form the majority of the free population, the slaveholders have but a wretched minority really interested in the preservation of slavery. Nor is that all. The mere populous and thriving States which still are, legally, slave States are fast losing that character, and will never, in any question of emancipation, cast in their lot with the wretehed slave States. Of these slave States with rapidly increasing white population, five refused to vote for BRECKENRIDGE, the Southern man ; four of them voting for BELL, the Union candidate, and one, Missouri, for DOUGLAS. Look at their population : Votes. Whites. Slaves. Kentucky Maryland .. 8 .. 519,300 .. 98,612 Tennessee Virginia Missouri 9 .. 735,573 .. 95,397 Total Remaining Slave States 64 3,465,794 .. 2,609,135 From these few figures the reader will see at a glance that, population alone regarded, the whites in the Slave States avowedly favourable to the Federal Union, States, too, which are daily approaching the time when they will gradually abolish slavery, are a considerable majority, and that the slaves in the remainder bear a most dan gerous proportion to the whites. To talk of secession under such circumstances is, indeed, to talk of a fatal and servile war, of the ruin of the seceding States by the insecurity of life and pro perty, and of their utter extinction as civilised communities. If we read, therefore, of all kinds of valiant defiances of the North by South Carolina and Georgia, we may be sure that it all means and can mean nothing. Burning Mr. LINCOLN in effigy is the sort of sth of November display we might expect ; it looks a little more grave when Federal officers resign in a body, when assemblies vote a convention of the people, when Governors recommend retaliation and reprisals on the Free States, when Slave State after Slave State holds meetings at which " Secession" is the watchword, whoa at Washington itself secession is talked of as probable, and it is proposed to give the seceders rope enough to hang themselves. We should not, indeed, be at all surprised if some of these foolish States should vote for secession, but the certainty that they would soon be obliged to nullify their own vote would merely exhibit their folly to the Union and to the world. They will, in fact, have no basis for action till some attempt is made on their sovereign or federal rights, and certainly it cannot be among these, that they should nominate the President and Executive of the United States for ever. When to all :this we add the enormous wealth, energy, and power of the Free States, in all of which they surpass the Southern States fully as much as in population, and that the South is deeply mortgaged to the wealthy North, whose mortgagees will firmly enforce their pecuniary claims, it is evi dent enough that the former cannot part connec tion with the latter. There will probably be no end of wanton freaks of impotent rage, both in Governmental and Legislatorial proceedings, and in popular displays, but the odds are too great. &vela Millions of Southern pauper whites, ham pered, too, by four millions of slaves, against twenty one millions of Northerns, free to act as they please, and with all the sinews of war in their power, are the elements of decision, and they leave no doubt as to what the ultimate decision must be. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the official residence of the First I. ord of the Treasury in Downing. street. 1-t-. - vas- attended by Viscount Palmer ston, Earl Granville, Sir G. Cornwall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sydney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exche quer, the Duke of Somerset, Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. His Ex ce ll ency t h e P ortuguese Mi n i ster has arrived at hi s res i dence in Gloucester-place, from visiting her Maje s t y at Windsor Castle. THE SU, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1860. L.ATEST NEWt*.7). (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PARIS, Nov. 28, The Moniteur contains a decree appointing Count Flahant Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, TURIN, Nov. 27. Victor Emmanuel was to leave Naples for Palermo to-day. It is believed that King Francis 11. will quit Gaeta in a few days. The right of constructing railways on the Ligu rian frontiers has been awarded to a company repre sented by the Credit Mobilier and several commercial houses of Italy. NAPLES, Nov, 27. The departure of King Victor Emmanuel for Sicily has been deferred on account of bad weather. The offices of Councillors of Lieutenancy without portfolio have been suppressed. The General Consulta has been convoked for the 2d December. Tranquillity prevails everywhere. The Sardinian General Pinelli has entered Avezzano, the district surrounding which has been pacified. The Cardinel Archbishop of Naples is expected here. The public funds are firm. The deputation has presented the address from the Sardinian Parliament to the King. His Majesty received with satisfaction the expres sion of the national sentiment. The dour that Francis 11. has fled from Gaeta is wide* circulated here. ROME, Nov. 24 (via Marseilles). Sardinian customhouses will be established round Rome on the Ist December. Although the duties will be light, a general rise has taken place in the prices of merchandise. Two French regiments are preparing to depart, but it is said that others will come to replace them. FRANCE. The Emperor has left Paris for Compiegne, where his Majesty intends to pass a few days. _ _ _ Mr. Bright, M.P., has arrived in Paris. Mr. Cobden has also returned to this city from his visit to Nantes. " General Benedek," says a letter from Venice, "is constantly threatening. On arriving at Verona he informed the municipality that he would ravage the whole country with fire and sword at the least symptom of insurrection." The Persoveranza, of Milan, persists in the statement that Francis 11. is ill, adding, on the strength of a telegram, that Dr. Prudenti has left Naples for Gaeta on that account. BOURSE, Nov. 27.—The arrival of the English funds with a decline, induced speculators to sell for realisation of previous profits, and prices have receded. For the Account, Threes are now at 70f 25c ; Mobilier are quoted 768 f 75c ; Orleans, 1,387 f 50c; Northern, 987 f 50c; Mediterranean, 912 f 50c ; Austrian, 513 f 75c ; Lombard, 488 f 75c. The following are the last quotations :- 41'per per Cents 96 25 Credit Palmier .... 920 Do end month - —i Belgian 9% 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 251 Roman Bank Shares 2945 —1 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 765 Spanish Threes 49 25 Do. Account 767 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1387 50 .. 1387 50 Northern New ditto 895 Lyons and Mediterranean 910 Genova 405 .. 911 25 Southern 522 50 .. 525 — lVestem Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard , 4BB 75 .. 488 75 AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna, dated November 22, says : " tiWheu the civil and military Governor of Tran sylvania, General Prince de Lichtenstein, was lately summoned here by telegraph, it was supposed that modifications were about to be made in the Govern ment of the province. But it is now known that the object of his coming here is very different; namely, to confer on the military measures which it is thought necessary to take without delay in Tran sylvania, to defend the frontier of the Empire against grave eventualities; the Government hav ing learned that a number of Hungarians and Italians, assured of the co-operation of the Govern ment of the United Principalities, are disposed to make an attack on Transylvania in preference to one on the Illyrian coast." Pass's Gazette of Berlin, of the 24th, says:— " The elections of the municipal council are nearly terminated. Out of the 27 members already chosen, 15 belong to the Liberal party, and 12 to the Conservatives. The five members which remain to be elected will be taken from among the Liberal candidates. Out of the members whose term of office has expired, 16 have not been re-elected, and 15 of those ere Conservatives. The Liberal party, which took part in the communal elections for the first time in 1858, acquires by the present voting a majority in the municipal council." AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY. The Hamburg American Company's ship Hammonia, Captain Schwensen, from New York, on the 15th inst., has arrived off Cowes. She brings 107 passengers, 45,000 dols. in specie, For England, and a large cargo consisting of 1,600 tons of hops, cotton, &c. On the 27th inst., off the Lizard, she spoke the Dutch barque Alexander, for Batavia. The reports from the Southern States were more satisfactory. The Savannah merchants had written that pending political agitations will not be suffered to interfere with business. At Charles town business was suspended, but dispatches had been received stating positively that the legislature had not passed the bill authorising the banks to suspend specie payments, and that the banks will not suspend. From Mobile news was generally more cheerful. From all parts the intelligence was, that slave and cotton lands were declining in value. The New York Money Market was easier. First class paper was quoted Bto 9 per cent. Bankers lend on call at 7 per cent., and were curtailing to protect their gold. AN ACTOR MORTALLY STABBED IN TIIE PRE SENCE OP HIS AUDIENCE.—The New Orleans Bee of the 29th records the following tragic occurrence of the pre vious night :—"At ten o'clock last night a shocking tragedy was enacted in reality on the stage of the German Theatre or Concert Hall, in Poydras-street, between St. Charles and Carondelet. They were playing in the drama of "The Wolf," and at that moment were acting a soene in a gambling-house, where a young man is fleeced of his last dime, and when he charges the gamblers with cheating is stabbed and killed. John Kruger was playing the part of the gambler, Emile Stoner that of the ruined y oung man . Kruger had not been furnished with a stage dagger by the property man, and borrowed a real one from officer Berwin, who was the special policeman in Concert Hall. In acting such scenes with real daggers on the stage, the person who strikes the blow keeps his elbow out further than the point of the weapon, and the person who pretends to receive the fatal thrust leans backwards, so that the striker's elbow coming against his breast stops the motion. Stoner was un happily somewhat intoxicated, and when he should have thrown himself backwards he suddenly stooped forward, and before Kruger could check the impetus of his arm the dagger had gone into the right side of Stener's neck, open ing a gash to the backbone. The unfortunate actor was instantly carried off the stage, and sent to'the Charity Hos pital mortally wounded, while Kruger was taken to the lock-up by officers Dalton and Berwin. The curtain was down but a short time, the pool of blood was washed up, and then it was announced to the audience that the drama could not be concluded, but that a farce would be substi tuted. The audience applauded, up went the curtain, and for a whole hour the fellow-actors of Stener exerted them selves to make fun, while the auditors laughed and ap plauded as if the spilling of a man's life-blood was a mere THE EMPRESS OF TILE FRENCR. The Empress Eugenie arrived at Birnam Hotel, Dunkeld, at 2 p.m. on Friday. A Dunkeld cor respondent writes that her Majesty intended to have proceeded to the west on Saturday morning, but that she was so delighted with the locality that she intended to remain there till Monday. On reaching Dunkeld, she posted to Blair Athole, where she was received by the Duke of Athole, who conducted her to view the romantic scenery of the Pass of Killiecrankie. She stayed at Blair Castle all night, and then left for the north. The Empress was on Saturday at Taymouth Castle, visiting the Marquis of Breadalbane. On Monday morning she left Taymouth Castle, and, accompanied by her suite, travelled by Sma' Glen and Crieff to Stirling, arriving in the aft ernoon , a b ou t fi ve o ' c l oc k , at Mr. Campbell's Golden Lion Hotel. She proceeded afterwards to visit Stirling Castle in a private car riage, accompanied by his Grace the Duke of Athole and others, followed by a second carriage. On her return from the castle she was loudly cheered at the door of the hotel, and gracefully bowed her acknowledgments. At the castle she was received with all honour by the military au thorities, the guard being mounted, and as her Majesty left the gates she was followed by loud cheering. Her Majesty left Stirling by the usual north mail train at 7.20 pan., in a saloon carriage, reach ing Glasgow city by the Dundas-street terminus of Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, at nine o'clock. On alighting her Majesty was received by J. Boyd Thomson, Esq., superintendent of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. Her Majesty was conducted to a carriage, leaning (on the arm of the Duke of Athole, and drove off to the Queen's Hotel, where arrangements had previously been made for her accommodation, amidst the loud huzzas of the few persons who happened to be at the station at the time. The cheering was continued all the way to the hotel, and by the time her Majesty had alighted a considerable crowd had assembled, whose conduct was most exemplary. A broad carpet of matting was laid down from the hotel hall to the carriage door, and without the assistance of the police or any person in authority the passage marked by the carpet was carefully maintained quite clear. A long and loud welcome was given her when she alighted from the carriage —such a welcome as a Scotch audience alone can give. We understand that to-day (Tuesday) her Ma jesty contemplates paying a visit to the cathedral and other places of interest in our city; and we suppose that the Lord Provost and magistrates will seek an audience in order to present an address.— North British Mail. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE AT THE WAR-OFFICE. Yesterday morning, at an early hour, an act of self-destruction of an extraordinary character was discovered to have been committed on the premises of the War-office , adjoining the Ordnance Office, in Pall-mall, under the following circumstances :—lt would seem that amongst the employees engaged on the premises of this department of the Govern ment was a man named George Stiller, who had acted as messenger for some time past; he was 47 years of age, and much respected as a good ser vant. At a few minutes after midnight one of the parties whose duty it is to inspect the premises at night, proceeded to that part of the building known as the Lower Book-room, and there to his horror was found suspended from one of the shelves of a large bookcase the unfortunate man Stiller. An alarm was at once raised, and the body was cut down, and every means used to re store animation, but without avail, and on the ar rival of Dr. Miller, of 27, Bing-street, St. James's (who had been sent for and arrived in a few mi nutes), that gentleman declared life to be quite ex tinct, and gave his opinion that the man had been dead some four or five hours. The peculiarity of the unfortunate case is, that the deceased was suspended by the meek with a very thin piece of string, the other end of which was tied round one of the shelves of the bookcase, and passed through an opening at the back, used for the purpose of brushing the dust out. Looking at all the circum stances the greatest determination seems to have existed on the part of the unfortunate man in put ting an end to his existence. Information was yes terday morning forwarded to Mr. C. St. Clair Bed ford, the coroner for Westminster, and an inquest will be held on the body at St. James's Workhouse, Poland-street, where it was conveyed in the course of the morning. At present no cause can be as signed for the commission of the act. THE FRENCH INSTITUTE.—The Rev. W. Cureton, D.D., canon of Westminster, and rector of St. Margaret's, Westminster, the eminent Orientalist and Syriac scholar, has been elected a foreign member of the French Institute, Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, in the room of M. Lobeck, of Konigsberg. M. Lassen, of Bonn, has also recently been elected a foreign member of the Institute, in the room of Professor Horace Wilson. DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FROM WINDSOR.— According to the present arrangement, her Majesty the Queen, the Prince Consort, and Royal family, will leave Windsor Castle for the Isle of Wight either on Wednesday, the sth, or Thursday, the 6th proximo. The Court will remain at the Isle of Wight about a fortnight, and then re turn to Windsor for the Christmas holidays. It is expected that before the Empress of the French takes her departure from England, her Majesty will pay a visit t• the Queen, either at Windsor or Osborne ; but, as the Royal visit must necessarily be of a private character, it will most probably take place at Osborne. THE LATE MARQUIS OF ANOLESEA.—A statue to the memory of the late Marquis of Anglesea, the result of public subscription, was on Saturday last raised on the column already erected on a commanding site in the Isle of Anglesea, opposite the great tubular bridge over the Menai Strait. The column itself, 100 feet high, was erected after the campaign of Waterloo, as a memorial of the late Marquis's military achievements, and is on the summit of a rock 250 feet above the level of the sea ; so that, with the statue superadded, the entire monument is upwards of 360 feet above the sea level, and is now a con spicuous object for many miles round. THE EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.—The retirement of M. Fould is due to the impossibility of his continuing to be received at the Tuileries. These are the facts :—On the death of the Duchess of Alba, M. Fould refused all official participation with the Court, and nothing in the funeral cei emony recalled the near relationship of the deceased to the Ruler of France. The Duo d'Alba complained to the Empress, who, in extreme anger, said she would never more receive M. Fould or any one of his family. The Em peror replied, " All very well ; but as a Minister you must receive him." The answer was, "Then I will henceforth receive no Minister." Since her Majesty's return she has received no Minister. But M. Fould discovered, or thought he had discovered, a manner of Ultramontaneplot in favour of the Pope, at the head of whiehhe thought fit to place the Empress. The consequence of all this was scenes of the stormiest description. ller Majesty left for Scotland, and M. Fould has yielded his place to Count Walewski. No body believes, however, that M. Fould's influence is lost, for he has underhand connections with the party of the Princess Mathilde, who is just now very influential.— Manchester Guardian. INUNDATIONS IN YORKSHIRE.—The recent heavy rains have caused the Derwent and its tributaries to over flow their banks, and on Friday and Saturday the vast tract of country watered by that river and the smaller streams was laid under water. In many places the waters rose to a height of four feet, and even more, the hedges having for miles quite disappeared. The consequences of the inunda tion will prove most destructive to the lowland farmers, the unusually rainy season having already done much in jury in retarding the sowing of the wheat crop, which will now be rendered quite impossible. Many thousands of acres will thus be thrown under spring crops. The after math in the grass lands will be quite spoilt by the deposit of sand and mud, and the cattle will now be totally depen dent upon the scanty root crops. Several stooks are floating down the stream, one farmer alone being said to have lost upwards of 20 acres of oats, In the marshes se veral beasts are reported as having been found drowned. PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per mule premium, and the short exchange on London is 25.171 per £ sterling. On comparing these rates with the English mint price of £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 1-10th per cent. dearer in Paris ithan in London. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 424 f ner mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per sterling. Standard gold at the English mint price is, therefore, not quite 1-10th per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at sixty days' sight is about 107 to 1071 per cent., which, when compared with the mint par between the two countries, shows that the exchange is against England ; but, after making allowance for charges of transport and difference of interest, the pre sent rate leaves no profit on the transmission of gold be tween the two countries. The exchange market at New York was very unsettled at the time of the last advice. leaving, and even lower quotations than the above are given for some descriptions of paper. SUCCESSFUL EXTRACTION OF A RIFLE BALL FROM TEE HEAD OF A CRIMEAN VETERAN.-Mr. Ferguson, her Majesty's Veterinary Surgeon in Ireland, recently extracted a bullet from the head of a brown charger, received at the battle of Balaclava. It had entered the forehead between the eyes. The external wound shortly healed, but occasion ally there was a fetid discharge from one nostril, always preceded for some time by a whistling noise in accelerated breathing. In the course of time ono side of the face swelled, as frequently observed in cases of glanders and farcy, and the upper lip became partially paralysed. Mr. Ferguson extracted the ball through the nostril of the affected side, to accomplish which he made a passage for its exit tbrongh some of the thin bony structures within the nose. The paralysis of the lip rapidly disappeared, as did also every other symptom of disease and inconvenience to the animal. MISS AYLWARD IN PRTSON.—This Roman Catho- lic heroine lives on the fat of the land, and holds her 'evens of friends in Grangegorman prison. Even Dr. Cullen has paid his devoirs to her martyrship, and w hil e he condemns kidnapping in his pastorals, sympathises with the kidnap perin her pleasant confinement. No doubt Miss Aylward and her numerous company of consoling priests laugh at the mockery of her nominal punishment, and look to the joyous passing away of the six short months of cor gratulati?ns and compliments. But we ask, what has been done with the impounded documents, which the Lord Chief Justice said were, or should be, handed over to the Attorney- General, that he on his part may eater proceedings for a combination or conspiracy to make away with the child? Are no fur ther steps to be taken to enforce the production of the child . ? Are all kidnappers to escape after the manner of Mu. Martyr Aylward,—Eveniteg Packet. ELECTION INTELLIGEACE. SOUTHWARK. Yesterday evening a meeting of the friends and supporters of Mr. A. H. Layard was held in the Temperance-hall, Mill Pond-bridge, Bermondsey, for the purpose of hearing the enunciation of that gentleman's political principles. Mr. MEEK was unanimously called to the chair, and expressed his belief that if Mr. Lai and were elected he would give them entire satisfaction. (Cheers.) Mr. LAYARD came forward and was well received. His friend had called him their member, and he hoped the result some ten days hence would verify his prognostication. He was surprised to see, by a speech that had been reported of Mr. Scovell's, that he had asserted that he (Mr. Layard) had been brought forward by a clique. Now, from the en thusiastic meetings he had attended he could only say that if he were brought forward by a clique, the cliques:of Southwark were very different from those of other places. He then disclaimed having said anything derogatory to Mr. Scovell on Satur- , day last, but, on the contrary, had spoken of him in the highest terms of respect. He commented with some severity on Mr. Scovell's putting forward a letter in which another gentleman, who had retired, had handed over those who would have promised to vote for him. He would scorn to do that, but would ask the electors to vote only ac cording to their own consciences. (Hear.) He had certainly met with many friends in Bermond sey, but he had met with one whom he could not always depend upon. He referred to Punch, who had come to his assistance, and had threatened Southwark that if they did not return him he would reduce the borough to that state in which he (Mr. Layard) had found Nineveh. (Laugh ter.). He could only say that if that event did take place he would come and dig them out. (Renewed laughter.) Now he was what was termed an independent member, and in stating that he would say that nearly every great question that had been carried in Parliament had been origi nated and carried by those who were stigmatised as " independent members." (Cheers.) He might refer to the laws which oppressed the Dissenters, the Catholic emancipation, the Reform Bill, the Corn laws, and other such measures. He approved of the conduct of the Government in their measures, one of the most important of which was the treaty with France, the result of which would show that it was better to have treaties with peoples instead of with Governments. (Hear, hear.) He was an advo cate for retrenchment and economy, and that was to be effected by having our foreign policy placed upon a different footing. The vast sums that were spent in keeping up large armies and navies arose from the treaties being made with cliques and kings instead of with peoples. (Cheers.) The taxes of this country were very great, and large sums were extravagantly expended, but he regretted to see that the system of retrenchment generally commenced at the bottom instead of the top, and the persons who felt the effects of it first were the poor clerks with salaries of £BO a year, instead of commencing at the head of the list—those who had £BOO and £l,OOO a year. (Hear, hear.) He felt that the present Government were proceeding in the right direction, and the only black spot in their administration was the Reform Bill. He believed that that bill could have been passed—(hear, hear) —and he hoped that during the next session a strong and practical measure of reform would be passed. (Hear.) Having canvassed the con duct of the various members, he called upon the electors of Southwark to show that the borotigth could carry an immaculate election by returning a member independently of any considerations of pecuniary influence. He concluded by expressing his readiness to answer any questions that might be put to him. Mr. LAYARD, in reply to various questions, said that he was for the equalisation of the poor rate, and also for the reform of the Bankruptcy Laws. He should have voted for the bill brought in had h• been in Parliament. On the motion of Mr. GALAGHER, seconded by Mr. HICKMAN, a vote of confidence in Mr. Layard, and pledging the electors to support him, was car ried unanimously. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. Mr. LAYARD also addressed a crowded meeting of the electors at the Ragged School, Russell-street, Bermondsey, last evening, and was most enthusias tically received—resolutions of confidence and sup port being unanimously passed. RIPON. Mr. Reginald Vyner has issued his address as a candidate for the suffrages of the electors of Ripon. He states that he is prepared to give his hearty support to Lord Palmerston's Government, and cor dially agrees in the sound and liberal principles which have guided the policy of that Government, and desires to see the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of other countries maintained and enforced, while our sympathies for the cause of free institutions and good government are not con cealed. Mr. Vyner is brother-in-law, as well as half-cousin, to Earl de Grey and Ripon, the noble Earl having married Mr. Vyner's sister. There is little or no doubt Mr. Vyner will be elected as successor to the late Mr. Warre. PEMBROKESHIRE. Two candidates are now fairly in the field, and actively canvassing for the representation of the county of Pembroke,' vacant by the accession of Viscount Emlyn to the House of Peers on the death of his father. Mr. George Lort Phillips, of Lawrenny, and relative of the sitting member for Haverfordwest, is the Conservative candidate. Mr. Hugh Owen, of Londcn, is the Liberal candidate. THE BANK BATE OF DISCOUNT. (From the Times' City Article.) The confident expectation that a reduction will be made in the Bank rate of discount at the Weekly Court on Thursday prevents applications from being made in the interval. Out of doors the transac tions are on terms considerably below the Bank minimum. In the Stock Exchange loans on Go vernment securities can be obtained at 3 per cent. (From ‘.6e Daily News.) Great ease prevails in the discount market. The best bills were taken yesterday at 5 per cent., and scarcely any applications were made to the Bank of England. Indeed the dulness of business at that establishment was extreme. Applicants are waiting to see if a reduction in the minimum will be made on Thursday. If the Bank wish to follow the market, they will adopt this course ; but it is not the cus tom of the establishment to retrace its steps hastily, and the adverse balance of trade between England and America may be held to counsel delay. It is probable that, even should the rate not be lowered on Thursday, there will be some revival of the de mand, as the persons who are now holding off will come in to get their wants supplied. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The Money Market remains remarkably abun d..lnt ; the rate of discount is 5 to 51 in Lombard street ; the business done at the Bank of England h Is been insignificant, and were it not for the Ame rican exchanges, there is no doubt the Bank of England would lower their rate on Thursday ; as it is, the directors may prefer to strengthen their position by letting the " other seaurities" run off. But whether the Bank of England lowers the rate of discount or not, we have but little doubt that the joint-stock banks and the discount houses will come to an understanding to lower the rate they allow for money at call, which is quite out of pro portion to any rate at which, in the present abund ant state of the Money Market, they can employ it, having a due regard to a fair margin of profit and the risk they run. In fact, we do not think the joint-stock banks and the discount houses ought ever to allow a callhig a l;r a r n a d te th f e o r r e m is on so e m y e a t t hinh a th s a o n - Exchequer bills p lutely absurd in their all owin g 4 1 on mon g ey at call, and 41 at seven days' notice, when they cannot re-employ it either on the Stock Exchange or elsewhere on Government securities at more than 3 per cent., and at present they cannot do so even at that rate. Besides, ever since the deter mination of the Bank of England not to rediscount, much larger money reserves are obliged to be kept in hand. All are now working under a perfectly new order of things ; therefore it is imperative on the, o int-stock banks and the discount house to alter the old method of doing business, especially with money at call. It would be well, therefore, for those who regulate the price allowed for money at call to meet and discuss the matter. They had better abandon the principle of taking money at call altogether, than continue to take it on such terms t as, we will not say must n ecessar ily en t a il less, which certainly does not leave a margin of profit commensurate with the risk. A time may arrive, if the Bank of England is determined to work out the Act of 1844, when the Bank of Eng land rate may be 10 per cent., and the current rate of money may be 5 per cent. ; nay more, we expect to see the day arrive when the Bank of England will pray to be relieved from the onerous duty of working the Act of 1844, and to be placed on the % same footing as any other joint-stock bank, ALDERMAN SALOMONS AT DEPTFO.R.D. Last night Mr. Alderman Salomons addressed a portion of his constituents at Deptford. The hall in which the meeting took place was crowded. Mr. Duvall was called to the chair. Mr. Alderman SALOMONS began by expressing his belief that when the feeling excited by the budget had subsided the last session of Parliament would be classed among those which had been most useful to the country. The budget, no doubt, dis turbed many large and important interests while I the French treaty was alw a y s o p en t o th e objection that it gave a great deal to France and secured com paratively little to England in exchange. But the testing time was near at hand. All the negotiations which were left unsettled when Parliament was prorogued had now been brought to a conclusion, and we should soon see whether 1861 was destined to realise the anticipations of those who supported. the financial measures of Mr. Gladstone. France was our nearest neighbour, and contained an inge nious and gifted population, and it would be very strange if, when we had arranged a tariff by which the productions of France could be freely received in this country, and those of England be sent to France at moderate duties, there should not be a large extension of trade to the benefit of both nu.- , tions. (Hear.) As the budget was the chief measure, so the Reform - Bill might be called the great mis carriage of the last session. He believed that the ' passing of a Reform Bill in the sense of a whole ' sale amendment of the constitution did not so much depend upon the state of opinion within Parliament as upon the state of opinion without. (Hear.) It was for those who felt that they were deprived of privileges which they thought they ought to possess to call for a Reform Bill, to urge on the Govern ment of the country, and to act by every means in their power upon the members of the House of Com mons. He was afraid, however, after the experience of the last few years, that a thorough amendment of the constitution in one session was impossible without such a combination of parties, both in Parliament and in the country, as existed in 1832. Reformers, therefore, should make up their minds to get that by pietemeal which they could not expect to secure as a whole. An extension of the , borough and county franchise, together with a more equal distribution of seats, could never be carried in one session without such a tumult in the country as few would wish to see. In 1832 almost all classes of the community were determined that the old state of things should be changed ; but now there were great differences of cpinion on the sub . ject of Reform, and the existence of those differences made it very difficult, if not impossible, to pass a comprehensive measure without Governments being overthrown and Parliaments dissolved. But Go vernments disliked being overthrown, and Parlia ments had a great aversion to dissolution, and hence the necessity of accepting what was called bit-by bit Reform. His own opinion was that Reformers should abandon reconstruction and confine them selves to reparation. The edifice of the constitu tion was reconstructed in 1832 • it now only re quired to be repaired and improved. (Hear, hear.) The last session was further distinguished by the labours of numerous committees appointed to con sider local and social questions. Among the sub jects thus dealt with were the affairs of gas com panies, the Local Management Act, drainage, and the embankment of the Thames: There was also a committee on merchant shipping, and he believed one of the results of its labours would be the abo lition of compulsory pilotage, so that henceforth any competent person would be allowed to pilot any ship up and down the river without the neces sity of becoming connected with Trinity-house. That would be a great advantage to the watermen of the. Thames. (Hear, hear.) In the last session, unfortunately, Parliament was obliged to impose very heavy taxes in order to meet the expenditure of the country. Some people were for direct, others for indirect taxation. We had got abundance of both, so that all parties ought to be satisfied. (A laugh.; For his part, he hoped that taxation had d atai;its culminating point. (H ear , h ear .) awrrrei wereve I:) ,:ace, but we had a war expenditure. He was afraid a good deal of it was inevitable. We had a very powerful neighbour, who had a large army, and wanted to have a large navy. All the other Continental States had large armies, and Europe was very unsettled. No one could wish a great country like England to depend upon the for bearance ofits neighbours. We always liked to have the last word, and we sometimes said a saucy word Hence it was necessary that we should be prepared to defend ourselves. But our interest was to be at peace with all other nations, for we were the great buyers and sellers of the world. In J 859 the total value of our imports amounted to the Astonishing SUM of £179,000,000 while our exports reached the enormous figure of £130,000,000. England was a great trading country, with an immense productive and purchasing power, and it was therefore her in terest that large standing armies, which wasted the substance of nations, should not be maintained. But at the same time, he did not mean to say that we should disband our army, dismantle our fleet, and discourage our Volunteers. No; let Englishmen show that they were patriotic, and in proportion as they proved themselves capable of defending their own they would be treated with respect by sur rounding nations, and be quoted as an example of how a people could be at once free, powerful, and independent. (Hear.) The hon. gentleman next re ferred to the coming session, stating his belief that Parliament would be caik'd upon to deal chiefly with social questions. One of the first measures in troduced, he said, would be a bill to amend the bankruptcy and insolvency laws, which were at present in a very unsatisfactory state. The subject was not a very easy one; it would be difficult to frame a bill to please all the interests represented in Parliament, but he trusted something would be done to remedy an acknowledged evil. Some attempt would doubtless be made to deal with the city of London. Old lines of communication must be im proved, and new streets must be opened. The Me tropolitan Board of Works would also come again befcre Parliament. Hitherto they had done nothing but raise money and burrow in the ground. Their tax papers were everywhere, but the ratepayers knew nothing of their performances. He had no doubt that any bill which they might lay before Parliament would be well and carefully considered, and he, for one, would make it his duty to watch over the interests of his constituents. Hitherto he had striven to redeem the pledge which he had given at his election, and he hoped not altogether without success. In the future he should act upon the same principles as in the past. He was opposed to church rates, and he trusted that during the coming session some means would be found for bringing that vexed question to a happy and satisfactory settlement. He should continue to vote for non-intervention, economy, and the Ballot. The Chinese war was very expensive; it did not seem likely to add to our glory, and he trusted it would be terminated as soon as possible. (Hear.) The hon. gentleman then adverted to some local topics, upon which his state ments and explanations seemed to give unqualified satisfaction, and he concluded amid loud cheers by thanking the meeting for the attention paid to his address. _ A vote of thanks to Mr. SalomQns for his ser vices in Parliament terminated the pNceedings. TILE PRESS IN FRANCE. A letter been fromalle d t ' PaiiS:Sa;S The editors of the tr c tain whethe r th e Opposition—th a t i s to say, the independent papers —have y p o r g e together h b e y s a u u p t p h r o e r s i s t i y o n t o o a f s ctehre . system of avertissenzents, or, whenever they com mit a mistake as to fact or opinion, being handed , over to be tried by the Police Correctionnelle. After some consultation, I hear, they thought perhaps that of tw o ev il s i t were better to choose the less. They considered probably that if they were offered a choice between strangling by the bowstring and roasting at a slow fire, the latter was preferable. Of their fate by the former there could be no doubt; out the latter process was slow, and before the flames attacked the nobler parts a shower of rain might come to put it out, and give them a respite. The unfortunate writer who has so far committed him self as to have announced that M. Pesigny, for instance, arrived in Paris at 3 o'clock p.m. on any given day, whereas he really did not arrive till 6, is liable to be proceeded against for the dissemina tion of false news, and summoned before the Pollee Correctionizelle, where he meets with no mercy. No journalist who enters the doors of that tribunal hopes to escape. A jury might take the intention of the accused into consideration ; but the stern, inflexible, a n d as pi r i ng Police Jud ge takes nothing into account but the fact of publica tion, and he punishes acc or di ng ly. Then the sys tem of avertissements has been carried to such a pitch, through the zeal of the functionaries charged with administering them, that it has inflicted seve ral severe blows on itself. Unfortunately it has not fallen into disuse, but has fallen into contempt. Moreover, we have seen that, as a Minister may, when in a pleasant temper, or through caprice, undo what a Prefect, or even a predecessor, has done, there is now and then a chance for escape from ruin. On the whole, between the bow-string of the Police Correctionnelle and the slow fire of the arertissement, the journalists seem to prefer remaining under the regime of the avertissenzent. The Bishop of London has conferred the Hono lary Canonry in St. Paul's Cathedral, vacant by the resig nation of the Rev. Robert William Browne, M A., preferred to the Archdeaconry of Bath, upon the Rev. William J. Irons, D D., incumbent of the Church of th Holy Trinity, Brompton, In 'TI ai~ C] A he Ne An Inc Th being tealie Vette In Oriel St oat Stood In as ,; 111€ Soi Of A lion, trazi pit nit Dil Ilen ew Di Span Di Turk Di Di Irene D 11t(