The Sun. — London, England, 1858-12-03 00:00:00

NV -INTER. —NO GENTLEMAN during the Winter should be without one of MACDOUGALL'S FAMOUS HIGHLAND CLOAKS, Universally acknowledged to be the most comfortable, nsefid, and gentlemanly upper Garment now in use, either r Town wear, or the Rail, the Coach, Riding,'Driving, and Walking. They are made of Scotch Tweeds, in every variety I'lain Colours, and very pretty Mixtures : also in dark Grey and Black, for.Clergymen's wear. Good useful qualities from.... 2(ls. to 3(ls. The best do. d 0..... 38s. to 508. The Height and Size round Shoulders is sufficient measure. Patterns and price per post, free. Any number of Cloaks forwarded in four days from date of order, free to London. D. MACDOUGALL, THE ROYAL TARTAN WAREHOUSE. INVERNESS. TRUST AND LOAN COMPANY of UPPER CANADA.—At an Extraordinary General Meeting of Shawholders, held this day, at the Offices of the Company, N0.'65, Moorgate-street, T. M. WEGUELIN, Esq., M.P., in the Chair, the following Resolutions were passed unanimously : That the report and accounts submitted by the Directors be received and adopted. That a dividend, at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, be declared on the paid-up Capital Stock of the Company for the six months ending 30th Sep tember, 1858. That the Right Hon. Edward Pleydel Bouverie, M.P., be elected a Director of the Company. That the thanks of the Meeting be given to the Chairman and Directors of the Company for their zeal and atten tion to the interests of the Company. (Signed) T. M. WEGUELIN, President. 65, Moorgate-street, Dec. 2, 1858. This Day, I'ost Octavo, 7s. 6d., H A NW OR TH. Originally published in " Fraser's Magazine." London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. THEAT RE •ROY AL, ]RUBY-LANE.—Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, Auber's grand Opera, THE CROWN DIAMONDS : The character:, by Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne, Mr. Geo. Honey, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Henry Corsi, Mr. Bartleman, Mr 'l'crrott, and Mr. W. Harrison Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEUR D'AMOUR : Mesdlles. L. Michelet, Morlacchi, and Pasquale. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Tragedy s' MACBETH. Macbeth Mr. C. Kean ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by a new Farce, in one act, entitled TIIIILTY-THREE NEXT BIRTHDAY. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING will be performed SIDE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Mr. Buckstone and Miss Reynolds. A new Spanish Ballet, THE INFLUENCE OF GRACE, in which Perea Nena will appear. With WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. John Small, by Sir Wm. Don, Bart. And A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE SAVAGE. After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. WOOING IN JEST AND LOVING IN EARNEST: Miss Swanborough. And THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. Commence at 7 o'clock. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke. By Special Desire, for Five Nights longer. THIS EVENING, and during the week, will be presented Shakspere's Tragedy of KING RICHARD THE THIRD ; or, The Death of White Surrey, reproduced with all its origi nal splendid effects. The Duke of Gloater, Mr. Holloway ; Richmond, Mr. H. Phillips. Followed by SCENES IN THE ARENA, and a variety of inimitable feats of Equitation by those talented artistes, Madame Blanche, Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Fleurette, Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. Runnels, Mr. W. Cooke, jun., &c. On Saturday next will be produced, for the first time, a new grand Spectacle, with most peculiar effects, entitled LIFE IN THE EAST ; or, The Sepoy Revolt, embracing the entire strength of this vast Hippodramatic Temple. No fees to box-keepers. The art of riding taught. Commence at seven. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.-- Proprietor—C. MORTON. The public is most respectfully informed that 'the F INE ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW OPEN DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12 o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist ing Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the Kingdom. The MusrcAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at Seven o'clock. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, DEC. 3. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 55—highest since noon yesterday. 40—lowest this morning and during the night. 48—this day at noon. 111la°MET .1(t--ricing rapidly. WIND, South-Westerly; light, with fine weather. THE SUN. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1858. A noble-hearted, gallant English Tar has passed from amongst us in the person of Vice-Admiral EDMUND, first Baron LYONS of Christchurch. Peace to his ashes—honour to his memory. Let us hang a votive F,aziand up among the trophies won by his valour, and piled in glittering array by the couch upon which, now, " after life's fitful fever, he sleops well!" Conspicuous among those trophies the heraldric shield upon whicia the arms of his ennobled house are emblazoned—with the haughty motto beneath Noli Irritare Leones—with the bloody print upon it (A.D. 1840) of the hand of the baronetcy—above the escutcheon the baron's coro net awarded to him (A.D. 1856) by royal paten t under the great seal and under the sign- manual of the SOVEREIGN. There, too, by the dead sailor are the insignia of the orders of knighthood bestowed upon him in recognition of his high qualities and his great services to more than one of the chief powers of Europe—the grand cross and riband of the Bath—the star of the Guelphic order of Han • over—the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour— the Cross of St. Louis of France—the Star of the Medjidie of Turkey—the Grand Cross of Savoy—and the Greek symbols of a Knight Companion of the, Redeemer. There they all lie in the mortuary room at Arundel Castle—together:with .the brave Vice-Ad miral's sword, his medals and clasps, and the signs of his high rank, socially and professionaW as .2 peer of the realm, and as a naval-commander. It is a gallant display. Honour to whom honour is due—the palm to whomsoever deserves it. But— while there is a hackneyedold serapof Latin which says De mortuis nil nisibonum—there is also ano ther equally familiar, if not to all, at any rate to very many schoolboys, De mortuis nil nisi verum. Of the dead let nothing but " truth" be spoken. It Is a wise saying enough. And there is another almost as old—certainly equally sagacious in its way—which recommends the eulogist of a great man never to bring a greater into comparison with the theme of hi s p anegyr i c. Now, precisely this most mistaken kind of enco nium has been pronounced by The Times in a studied and deliberate manner over the inanimate remains of Admiral Lord LYONS upon the very morrow of his demise. Poor Lord LYONS had hardly breathed his last on Wednesday the 24th of November—when our contemporary, on Thursday the 25th of November—drevi a distinct parallel (according to its view) between Lord LYONS and—ye gods !of all men in th e wide world—Lord NELSON! One might as reason. ably compare General WOLFE and HANNIBAL— SPRAT and SHAKSPERE—SOULOUQTJE and NAPO LEON BONAPARTE. The comparison is altogether something quite preposterous. We honour the gallantry of Lord LYONS as much as anyone. , We have always done so. And certainly, if ever we have been disposed to do so with unaffected cor diality, it is at the present moment, when the noble • • 44 1 ? MA t '• : l' . , . /•,"„, ::/., I • ~. A • • ' . .. , • , lr l i , %.,,,1.,1;i:;,,,, ,' 1 „.. te 4% , A 4, a W r IL 4 : ,*Eto,, 4? \ 1; : - ai=:_• ,"----r-------=,....;^.- I. "-- - ,(4 ..,, .„,i, . ...,, „,,,-1 , , 4 ...,,, .„„.. n... ' , Roy, .". , -.!. ...,.- ~ ,.,p, , -. - .. ,;-: 1 1 „,,,,;i ,_: _-~ - -- heart of the brave Sea Captain is still in death, and when these who had the honour of personal acquaintance with him are mourning for his loss, But—to compare him with NELSON, with our im- mortal NELSON, with the greatest warrior that has ever sailed the deep, the hero of a hundred fights, the victor of the Nile, of Copenhagen, of Trafalgar ! Why, we should have shrunk—as from the proffer ing of a very left-handed compliment indeed— from instituting any such farcical comparison be tween our glorious and matchless NELSON and a great Sea Captain, happily still living, with whom Lord LYONS cannot for a single moment be seriously compared—we mean THOMAS Coon- ItANE, the dauntless Earl of Dundonald. It would be perfectly ridiculous to compare Lord LYONS 9 with Lord DUNDONALD. It would, w e re peat, be a singularly dubious and left-handed compliment to eulogise even the Earl of DUNDO NALD (and a braver man than he, we nevertheless believe, never trod the deck of a line-of-battle ship) by comparing him with Lord NELSON, the greatest of all the world's sea captains. Yet what would be out of the question even in regard to Lord DUN DONALD, the Times has actually done in regard to Lord LYONS. Under the weight of all those extrava gant and overwhelming exaggerations of pane gyric, poor Lord LYONS' fair fame sinks down crushed and all but annihilated. It is the fate of TARPElA—crushed to death, beaten down into the dust, under the golden bracelets and the brazen shields. Crown an ordinary mortal with the diadem of a giant and a demigod--and the poor human hero is at once rendered a wholly ludicrous spectacle—he is fairly bonneted and extinguished. Funereal panegyrics, like the one just pronounced by the Times over Lord LYONS, are surely the very reverse of decorous. They are calculated to pro voke—not honour, but ridicule—not tears, but laughter—not sympathy, but scorn and indignation. An honourable testimonial, we rejoice to observe, has just been awarded to Captain H. JOHNSTON, for his admirable intrepidity in saving the passen gers and crew—two hundred and twenty-six souls altogether—of the ship Eastern City ; which vessel, it may be remembered, was totally destroyed by fire last August, in latitude 31 S. and longitude 32 W. The recognition of this heroic service in the cause of humanity was no other than the pre sentation to Captain JOHNSTON of a gold medal commemorating the event—the gold medal but rarely awarded by the Shipwreck and Humane Society of Liverpool. Than precisely this kind of tribute the British sailor can hardly receive any nobler decoration. It is the badge of true valour—equivalent, in its way, as a symbol of honour, to the presentation of a civic crown in the old classic era. A single medal like the one placed on Wednesday last in the hands of Captain JOHNSTON in the Underwriters' Rooms in Liverpool, weighs more in the balance than a thousand ordinary crosses dangling from a scrap of ribbon from the buttonhole. Here was a gold medallion, stamped with the record of an act of heroism far beyond the storming of a battery, or the rout of a squadron, or the leading of a forlorn hope. It was a blood less victory over the perils and horrors of the two dread elements of water and firc—on the deck of a flaming vessel, far out at sea—a victory won by nerve, by coolness, firmness, determined courage, and unflinching resolution, under a combination of the most appalling circumstances. With the mo desty becoming a man of true honour, Captain JOIINSTON deprecated the tributes of praise offered to him on Wednesday at Liverpool, remarking that he had done no more than his duty. But England, above all things, loves and honours those who do no more than this. The most heroic Englishman who ever lived has im mortalised the truth in the famous battle-signal by which he led his conquering men-of-war into action off Cape Trafalgar. Honour, then, to this gallant sailor who, by merely doing his duty in August last, saved the lives of 226 of his fellow creatures. And honour to the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society for its spontaneous recogn tion of so glorious an act of gallantry. Viscount BURY'S speech, on the 13th ultimo, at Toronto, we regard as full of happy auguries. It was expressive, above all things, of a confident anticipation of the possibility of certain future achievements in the new world—achievements to which we ourselves have for years past looked forward hopefully, and advocated strenuously upon every available opportunity. Speaking at Toronto so very recently, to an assembly of intelligent and influential Canadians, Lord BußY—a rising young member of the British House of Commons, a personal friendofseveral distinguished members of the present Ministry—expressed himself candidly and explicitly enough, as sanguine that the time would yet, before much longer, arrive, when, "in the present gene ration, men will see a railroad, a ship canal, and a telegraph between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans on British territory." This is precisely the triple enterprise we ourselves—in the columns of this journal—have for years and years past pleaded as a project worthy of eliciting the direct and earnest encouragement of the Im perial Government. The Trunk Railway across North America, as many as ten years ago, was a favourite scheme with an able officer in the QUEEN'S service, Major R. CARMICHAEL SMYTH. The mag nificent project was clearly sketched out by that gallant officer in one or two convincing and unan swerably pamphlets, in the shape of letters addressed by him to a shrewd British North American, " Sam Slick" to wit,the Hon. Justice HALIBURTON. Another advocate of the same enormous undertaking ap peared long since in the person of a clever Yankee, Mr. ASA WITNEY—who, after the dissipation of his own long-cherished hopes to the effect that the railway across North America might be carried through the territories of the United States, has magnanimously given in his cordial adhe sion (so to express it) to the still pos sible, rather let us hope, we may say, the still probable scheme of constructing this trunk railroad through the British Territories. These hypothetical enterprises in the New World, however, let us now believe, are coining within the scope of actual realisation by Englishmen—the trunk railway from the Pacific to the Atlantic, from Canada to Columbia, parallel with which may eventually run the stream of a ship canal and the wires of the electric telegraph. Mr. CHARLES PEARSON, the City Solicitor, is a true, practical philanthropist. His long-meditated and carefully-matured project has at length been happily made public under a conjunction of the most auspicious circumstances. If realised, it will cer tainly constitute the noblest of all our great metro politan improvements. It will give more freedom to daily traffic in the streets of the capital. It will tend at once to secure its comfort and to enhance its adornment. It will be a wonderful sanitary benefit to the population. It will be even yet more signally a great social amelioration. The pro position, moreover, in its present r i pene d f orm, i s no mere abstract imagining. It is something better than the indulgence of a delightful daydream, of THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY El TTNING, DECEMBER 3, 1858. a proposal less suited to us than to the ideal per sonages peopling the 'Utopia of Sir THOMAS MoRL , or the Arcadia of Sir PHILIP SIDNEY. The City Solicitor puts the matter to his essentially com mercial audience in the rational light of a plain mercantile enterprise. He announces, no doubt, distinctly enough at the outset that his suggestion, if carried into effect, will mainly tend to benefit the humbler classes—but he prefaces his argument there from, with a cluster of perfectly authentic and perfectly reliable statistics, clearly demonstrative of the somewhat extraordinary fact, that in the development of the railway system the measures adopted in favour of the poorer classes have proved in a remarkable degree more remunerative than those in favour of the wealthier part of the community. That in this way Fustian has greatly surpassed Broadcloth—has proved more lucrative, has yielded a larger per tentage of returns. The quotient is, in this particular, of the same satisfactory character as that furnished by the gradually reduced customs' tariff of Sir ROBERT PEEL—kindred with that of the postal system as re-organised by Mr. ROWLAND HILL. The smaller the individual payments required, the larger their aggregate. The more nearly you approach to the minimum in the cost, whether of duty, of postage, or of railway fares, to the units of the population, the more likely you will bring the aggregate of the returns to the maximum of remuneration. According to the Act of Parliament passed in 1844, the poorer classes were enabled to travel by at least one train daily on railways, at the speed of at least twelve miles an hour, at the rate of at most one penny a mile, and this in covered carriages. Consequent upon this enactment, Mr. PEARSON reminds the public that while, in 1852, the number of pas sengers by the., Parliamentary trains was nearly 24,000,000, within five years afterwards, namely, by 1857, it had been increased by as much as 89 per cent., exceeding in the aggre gate 45,000,000 of this class of railway pas sengers—the receipts from these Parliamentary train passengers having increased within the same interval of a single lustre as much as 66 per cent. — the aggregate in 1852 being £1,346,000, and in 1857, £2,245,000. Meanwhile the number of pas sengers by all these trains, within the same inter val of time, had increased only forty per cent. alto gether—the total under this head having increased from upwards of 49,000,000 in 1852 to upwards of 70,000,000 in 1857. The receipts from all other classes but the Parliamentary showing an increase of twenty-six per cent. (instead of the sixty-six per cent. secured, as already observed, under the head of Parliamentary passengers) ; these receipts in 1852 being £5,323,000, and in 1847 £6;753,000. Q. E. D. —as between Fustian and Broadcloth. Mr. PEARSON having premised thus much, then goes on to explain, as plainly as facts and figures can explain any the simplest proposition in arithmetic—how the labouring classes in London, the working men of our great metropolis, might be conveyed daily from the centre of the capital to respectable, comfortable, and healthy dwellings situated at an easy distance from town, say at Bamstead Downs or in Waltham Forest, at a rate of from 6d. to ls. a week— with considerable profit to the railway proprietors ! A wonderfully attractive proposal that is assuredly upon the very face of it ; for any such re-organi sation of our whole social condition in the metro. polis must obviously be fraught with very numerous, very various, and very important advantages to the whole mass of the inhabitants of London. There would no longer be that horrible crowding together in the byeways—at once the most squalid and the most thickly-populated quarters of the metropolis —an evil direful in its effects upon the health, the morals, the comforts, and the decencies of the humbler population. Already, in the heart of the capital, there is precisely the vacant site wanted for the construction of the grand central railway terminus—to which those trains of working men _might daily converge, from which they might daily radiate. It is in the valley of the Fleet. It is the empty spot upon which once stood the old Fleet Prison, immortalised by TOBIAS SMOLLETT, and more recently still by the genius of CHARLES DICKENS in his renowned" Pickwick." There we yet hope to witness the inauguration of a grand central railway terminus for London, through the medium of which " the best workmen in the world" might be secured the advantages accruing from the possession of comfortable, cleanly, wholesome, 1 extramural habitations. ROYAL SyMPATHY.--Her most gracious Majesty and the Prince Consort sent a special messenger from Windsor to inquire this morning after the health of Mr. William Cooke, jun., of the Royal Amphitheatre. CABINET COUNCIL.--A Cabinet Council was held at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street, yesterday. The Ministers present were the Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hard wicke, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir E. Buiwer Lytton, General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Yesterday the mar riage of Captain Charles Fursdon, of Fursdon House, Devonshire, with Miss Eliza Willis, eldest daughter of Mr. Henry Willis, the banker of Lombard-street, and Hill street, Berkeley-square, was celebrated at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, in the presence of a brilliant circle of the friends of both families. THE FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL LORD LYONS AT ARUNDEL.—Since the Norman Conquest great men have lived and died in the Castle of Arundel. Great men are entombed within the precincts of that old baronial resi dence ; and the ceremony of interring another of England's glorious sons has just been performed. The remains of Admiral Lord Lyons, whose death we recorded last week, were laid in the Ilowird vault of the Collegiate Chapel yes terday. It could not be supposed but that a funeral of so illustrious a personage should partake of a somewhat pub lic character. As soon as it was known that the gallant admiral was to be interred in the family vault of the Colle giate Chapel at Arundel, the MayOr and Corporation of the town intimated their desire to join in the procession, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased. This spon taneous offer on the pArt of the-local representatives was courteously accepted. The tradesmen of the borough closed their shops entirely during the ceremony, and the whole town seemed to participate in the solemnity of the occasion. ETON COLLEGE.—The students of Eton College will leavo the school a fortnight earlier this half-year than was originally intended, consequently they will now have five weeks' holiday instead of three. Several hun dreds have already returned home, and by to-day nearly the . whole school will have taken their departure in consequence of the following letter, which has been sent to the parents of the boys of the Rev. Dr. Goodford, the head master :—" Eton College, Nov. 30, 1858.—Dear sir, I think it right to inform you that illness has been prevalent lately in the neighbourhood of Eton, and that, as it now seems to be on the increase in the school (though the form which it has assumed is not at present infectious), and the holidays are so near, if you think it desirable to remove your son, no objection will be made to your doing so.—l am, dear sir, your obedient servant. (Signed) CHARLES 0. GOODFORD. If any boys are left, the school will not close until the 13th December." A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 22d, says : " As far as depends on the Emperor himself, the question of emancipation makes rapid progress. His Majesty lately ordered that the serfs belonging to the mines placed under the direction of the Minister of Finance should be emanci pated within the delay of six months. Three com missions have been appointed to carry this order into effect; one for the workshops and peasants of the Government of Moscow ; the second, for those of the circumscription of Orenburg ; and the third, for the Oural. In order to form a correct idea of the value of this measure, it must be borne in mind that all the persons employed in those mines were originally free. Peter the Great, wishing to give an impetus to metallurgical industry in Russia, conceded to all who would devote themselves to that branch of industry, whether nobles or tradesmen, whole villages, as well as forests where they could procure all the wood they might require. The rights of those new pro prietors over the peasants who inhabited the villages were at first limited, but by degrees the nobles encroached on these privileges, and at length these peasants became real serfs. The hour of freedom has now at length arrived for their descendants." INCREASE IN THE INDIAN'. *TECCLESIASTICAL ESTABLISHMENT.--The Overland Nail says that a small increase will,shortly take place in 11. M.'s Ecclesiastical Establishments in each of the presidencies of India; and that vacancies in this branch of the service will be filled up as they occur, instead of the nominations being made an nually, as under previous arrangements. tth% morning : considenttion. (Sirined) g' Cm D. MONTALEMBERT. " ANOTHER ACCOUNT. The following telegram was received at Mr, Reuter's office, Dec. 3:— PARIS, FRIDAY, DEC. 3. The Moniteur of this morning announces that the Count de Montalembert, after having been informed of the pardon granted to him by the Emperor, still insists upon his appeal to the superior Court of Justice. Competent tribunals will decide whether the appeal can be sustained. The Moniteur also publishes the protestation of the Count de Montalembert against the pardon, saying " That having made his appeal against the sentence passed upon him within the time fixed by law, no power in France is at the present time able to remit a sentence which is not yet definitely decided." Count de Montalembert concludes thus : I am one of those who still believe in Right, and do not accept the pardon." The following telegrams have been received ai Mr. Reuter's office : MADRID, DEC. 1 The Queen ' . has opened the Cortes to-day, anc was received with great enthusiasm by the mem. bers and the people. PARIS, THURSDAY, The following is the increase in the receipts of the principal French Railways for the week ending Nov. 25 : Paris and Lyons 303,000f, Paris and Strasbourg Midi AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING. Shortly after midnight the screw steamship Kan garoo arrived at this port from. New York, with advices to the 20th ult., 181 passengers, and the United States mails. Her advices contain little beyond what the Indian, from Quebec, brought yesterday' Walker's movements were closely watched, and it was not expected his emigration expeditjon would be allowed to sail from Mobile. There was a report current in Washington, hav ing its birth in Madrid, that France and England intend creating Cuba and Porto Rico into a semi independent monarchy. The Indian's advices give the commercial news with the exception of cotton and freights. The sales of cotton embraced 1,300 bales on the bases of 11 1 c. for middling upland s , w ith a fi rm market. 2 There was little doing in freights, and nothing new to London and Glasgow. FRANCE. 'PARIS, THURSDAY. What value is set by M. de Montalembert on the "act of grace" announced with affected face tiousness may be seen from the following letter just received by his Eminence the Cardinal Arch bishop of Paris : " Paris, Nov. 29, 1858. " Monseigneur,—The number of the Indepen dance Beige received this day in Paris announces that your Eminence, after having already taken various steps in my favour, intended to intercede with the Empress in order to obtain a remission of the penalty which has been pronounced against mc.' " I am aware that entire credit should not be attached to assertions of this nature, but the im mense publicity of the journal that contains them and the emotion produced among my friends, im pose on me the duty of pointing out this language to your Eminence, and of protesting, if need be, against the intentions it supposes. " Proud and honoured by a condemnation which proves my fidelity to the political principles of my whole life, and which comes so opportunely to justify in the eyes of Europe and of posterity all that I have said or thought on the actual condition of France, I have at this 'lament no other desire than to leave to my judges the responsibility of their acts, and I could only regard in the light of a real wrong (injure) the slightest favour emanating from the Imperial Government. "In the midst of the changes of which I have been the witness, and of the, triiili of which I have been the victim, my honour has remained intact. It is to preserve it from all attempt, even in appear ance, that I take the liberty of expressing to your Eminence a disquietude perhaps superfluous, but perfectly legitimate. —I have the honour to be, Monseigneur, your Eminence's very humble and obedient servant, Cu. DE MONTALEMBERT." The Cardinal Archbishop replied to the foregoing in a letter dated the 30th of November, to the effect that he never had the intention attributed to him by the Indepenclance Beige. The following letter has been addressed to the Moniteur " M. le Redacteur,—The Moniteur of this morn. ing contains in its unofficial part a piece of news which I learn on reading that paper. It is to this effect— " H.M. the Emperor, on the occasion of the an niversary of the 2d of Dember, has remitted, in favour of Count de Montalembert, the penalty pro nounced against him.' " Condemned on the 24th of November, I have appealed, within the term allowed by the law, against the sentence pronounced against me. " No Government in France has had, up to the present the right to remit a penalty which is not definitive. " I am of those who still believe in right, and who do not accept a favour. " I pray you, and, if need be, require you to be good enough to insert this letter in your next number. " CH. DE MONTALEMBERT." The illegality of this remission of the sentence is clear. It is possible that the upper Court will reverse it, and until it be either reversed or eon- LATEST NEWS. COUNT DE MON'TALEMBERT REFUSES PARDON. PARIS, DEC, 2. The following appears in the Moniteur of this "M. de Montalembert lodged an appeal after having become cognisant of the decision of the Emperor relieving him from the penalties involved in the sentence passed upon him. The competent tribunals will give due consideration to the ques tions to which his appeal may give rise. " We see no harm in publishing the Protest : " Paris, Dec. 2, 1858, M. le Redacteur,—The Moniteur of this morn ing contains, in its non-official part, intelligence which reached me otherwise while I was reading it. It is in these words :—" The Emperor, on occasion of the anniversary of the 2d December, has relieved M. le Comte de Montalembert from the penalties involved in the sentence passed upon him." " ' Condemned on the 24th November, I lodged within the time specified by the law, an appeal against the sentence of which I was the object. No power in France has the right to remit a penalty which is not definitive. I am one of those who still believe in right, and will accept no favour. I request, and if need be I require, you, in terms of article 11 of the law of 1822, to insert this letter in your next number. " ' Accept, sir the assurance of my distinguished firmed no one has a right to say that M. de Mon talembert is definitively condemned, or that a penalty is remitted by favour which may be set aside by law. The IVoniteur has been rather premature in its announcement. The term allowed for appeal does not expire till Saturday. BounsE, Dec. 2.—The market at the opening was steady, with an advance of prices ; but the im provement was not of long standing, as the rates of continuation, which had been at first very mo derate, became rather heavy on the Mobilier and railway shares for the liquidation, which took place to-day. Threes, after having been done at 74f. 50e. and 74f. 60c., receded to 74f. 45c. ; Mobilier varied from 1,050 f. to 1,032 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 625 f. 50c. to 653 f. 75c. ; Orleans, 1,402 f. 50c. to 1,405 f. ; Northern, 997 f. 50c. to I,ooof. ; Lyons, 877 f. 50c. to 882 f. 50c. ; and Southern, 587 f. 50e. to 590 f. The following were the last quotations : 1 per Cents. 96 50 Do. end month : 3 per Cents 74 Do. end month 74 20 Bank Shares. 3170 Credit Mobilier Do. Account Cr 6 ditFoncier 675 Belgian 41 — Piecimonteso (5) Roman 93 Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Ac coun t . Orleans - Northern .. 992 50 New ditto. B4O • • 837 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 875 .. 876 New ditto Geneva Midi Southern Western 6lO 610 Eastern Grand Central Sardinian 457 50 .. 460 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 e. ; money, 25f. 11c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 956. ; money, 24f. 921-e. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. Mr. Gladstone arrived at Corfu on Wednesday, the 24th of November, at 11 o'clock, in the Ter rible. He is accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Glad stone, and by his Secretary, the Hon. Archibald Gordou, son of Lord Aberdeen. His arrival had created quite a sensation in the island. PIEDMONT. A Turin letter says:—" The warlike dicourse of King Victor Emmanuel to his troops, is reduced to a few simple words which he spoke to Colonel Rolland, after having reviewed the brigade of Savoy, which loudly cheered his Majesty :—' The bearing of these troops pleaseime exceedingly—it is truly warlike. This is a great satisfaction to me, for if in the spring, or at any other time, we had to take the field, I may rely on the excellent feeling of the army.' " The Piccolo Corriere d'ltalia of Turin says :--- "The fortifications of Alessandria, Cassale, Genoa, and La Spezia are being actively pushed on. The fortifications of Alessandria are to receive 300 guns, already cast and placed on their carriages, The arsenals of the State contain pwuads of 200,000 muskets, besides other weapons in propor tion. There are large quantities of ammunition, and uniforms for 100,000 men. There any 20 field batteries in reserve." THE EARTHQUAKE IN PORTUGAL, ST. ÜBES, Nov. 22.—0 n the 11th inst., at 7.36 a.m., I was suddenly aroused from my slumbers by the sensation of a most violent shaking. I sat up, but was so terribly frightened that I could not leave my bed, whilst it seemed as if every moment the walls and ceiling must have fallen on me. Books, crockery, and in fact all that was not positively fixed in the house, came down in quick succession. It lasted from ten to fifteen seconds, but the sensation I experienced was most unpleasant. I first felt jerked backwards and forwards, then sidesways, and finally had a good up and down shaking—it then ceased, and all was quiet; but alas, the shrieks which now reached me from the distance told me the lamentable tale, On looking out a most melancholy spectacle presented itself before me. The whole of that part of the town known as Bairro do Traino, was a complete mass of ruins. Walls and roofs were falling in all direc tions, threatening those who fortunately had been spared with a living tomb. A continued stream of terror stricken human beings hurried forth into the square through every opening, and now the accuc - was really impressing and solemn. Men, women, and children knelt and joined in one common prayer of gratitude to the Almighty for their miraculous deliverance. This holy thought filling their minds protected the usual feeling of natural modesty which exists betweon sexes towards each other—for alas, there were many whose only garments consisted of a night dress. There we stood in dread of a repetition, so ima gine our great terror when at 10.25 a.m. we again experienced another shock, which lasted six seconds. Oh, it was frightful to behold the dreadful destruc tion of property which this caused ; I shudder to think of it. A great number of men are even now employed, chiefly under the able direction of our indefatigable townsman and official, Mr. Severino and Jose da Roza, junior, who since the lamentable visitation has never ceased night or day to devote all his energetical exertions in alleviating the sufferings of his fellow-creatures, personally directing the workmen engaged in extricating the unfortunate victims from amongst the ruins, procuring shelter for the unhoused, and finally, not content with the liberal use of his own purse, begging from his neighbours, and distributing alms to the needy. Such a noble example as this I am happy to say has met with many folloWers. A temporary econo mical soup kitchen has been established under the superintendence of Messrs. J. E. Carvalho, Novaes, Perdigao, Nasimento, Don Manito, F. Coelho, Lima, and others. At least I,ooo,families have been shel tered in boats at the Praia (shore), and many houses although comparatively in ruins, afford refuge to two and three families. Troino and Queimada, Herdade and Outeiro streets are entirely deserted, and present a painful and sorrowful spectacle. Mr. Chas. Galloway has displayed great gene rosity by throwing open his cork stores to •shelter the unhoused, and it is said providing them with food. The town-hall, the market plate, convents of St. Domingo and Carmo, as well as other ware houses have also been thrown open to the poor. On the 17th the image of the Senhor Jesus de Bonfin (patron saint) was taken out in solemn pro.. cession, thousands of devotees joining the same. Fortunately Lisbon has escaped without much damage, but the towns of Alcacer, Grandola, and Sines have suffered terribly. The number of vic tims, very numerous, has not as yet . been ascer tained, and it is heartrending to hear the laments of those who, through the mercy of God, have been spared, but have lost all their friends and all their property. The Lord have mercy on us in the midst of this scene of desolation and misery, for it requires a stout heart to face it. M. Pierre Jean de Kock, a brother of the cde biated novelist, Paul de Kock, has just died• The deceased was a colonel of the Imperial Guard of the first empire, an officer of the Legion of Honour, and a chevalier of the order of St. Louis. One of his brothers was formerly Minister of War in Holland. The many English readers of the light writings of Paul de Kock will perhaps be surpriseditorearn hat he belonged to so distinguished a family.l PALACE OF THE PEOPLE, MUSWELL-HILL.---A. deputation had an interview by appointment yesterday with Lord Brougham, at his house. Grafton-street, to explain to him the educational features of the proposed Palace of the People On Muswell-hill. His lordship entered fully into the subject, expressed himself highly satisfied with the contemplated arrangements, and agreed to accept the office of president of the proposed council of education in con nection with the institution. The deputation consisted of Sir Charles Fox, the Rev. Dr. Booth, F.R.S., Mr. Owen Jones, Mr. Hughes, Mr. C. Ratcliff, of Birmingham, Mr. H. Masterman, Mr. Chamerovzow, Mr. Scott, F.H.S., Mr. Bell, and Mr. Stevens. Th e Ri g ht the Lord Mayor, Alder man Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., Mr. Alderman Wilson, and other gentlemen were prevented attending the deputa tion by special business. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION. Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners chartered yesterday afternoon, the 2d inst., the Sapphire 749 tons, to sail from Liverpool for Sydney, New South iVales, at £l4 9s. 3d. per statute adult, to he ready for the reception of passengers on such day as the Commissioners may appoint between the 7th and 14th of January. They have also given notice of their intention to receive tenders next Thursday, the 9th inst., for a ship to proceed to Sydney, to be ready to sail any day the Commissioners may fix upon between the 14th and 21st of January. PERSIA.--The Ojicial Gazette of Teheran, from which city we have advices to the 14th of October, publishes an account of the reception givento the new Belgian chargeTi r d'affitires and the person s attached to his mission. arrival in the city was attended with all the formalities_ observed to foreign diplomatists, and followed by the usual visits from the ministers. On the following day the Shah gave the charge d'affaires a reception in dueform , when.th e latter presented his credentials. THE SUEZ CANAL.—The subjoined is a corn munication stating that the subscription lists for the S uez Sir, —The subscription lists Canal have been completed for the project of the Suez Canal being closed on Nov. 30, I am now able to convoy to you the intelligence that the amounts subscribed exceed the required sum, and that the formation of the company will be proceeded with.—l h ave the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, DA.Nizi, A s LANGE ) Suez Calla-office, London, Dee, 2," THE THEATRES. OLYMPIC. Last night, by their performance in a new domestic drama entitled the Porter's Knot," the Olympic company, with Mr. Robson at their head, sUccessfully endeavoured to con vert their stage into a highly-finished picture of English humble life. The personage who stands prominent above the'rest is Samson Burr (Mr. F. Robson), a porter on the Kentish coast, who having saved sufficient money to retire upon, and to send his son Augustus (Mr. Walter Gordon) to walk the hospitals in London, thinks when the young gentle man has returned with his diploma, that he is the happiest of mankind. " Gussy," as he is affectionately called, is to live in his native town, the pride of his father and mother (Mrs. Leigh Murray), who has selected for his wife their orphan niece (Miss Hughes). But Gussy has not only obtained his diploma in London ; he has contracted debts to the tune of £2,000, and when a mysterious personage named Smirk (Mr. H. Wigan) calls upon old Burr, and explains to him that he holds the youth's ac ceptances to that formidable amount, the poor old man is nearly distracted. However, he resolves that his son's debts shall be paid, and that his mother shall know nothing of his delinquency, so he packs Gussy off to Australia, and pretends that ho himself has wasted all his money in un fortunate speculations. After two years have elapsed the second act commences. Samson Burr, no longer a cosey old man, resting himself in a snug home, is once more a porter, wheeling about loads that are far beyond his strength. However, he keeps up his spirits amid all his pri vations, his chief anxiety being to alleviate the uneasi ness of his wife as to the fate of her son. He even in dites a letter, purporting to come from Gussy, and Alice writes it, that the old lady may be consoled by the de ceit. The necessity for this sort of kindly fraud does not long continue. Gussy returns to his native land, hav ing saved from destruction the ship which carried him, to gether with all its cargo, and is, in consequence, taken into partnership by an eminent mercantile firm. Mr. F. Robson has thoroughly grasped the character of Samson Burr. His impersonation is a fine study from nature, abounding in effective details, and rendered even more natural than it would otherwise be by the assumption of a strong Kentish dialect. At the end of each act he was called with enthusiasm by a crowded audience. The other characters in the piece are by no means insig nificant, and are exceedingly well played. After the fall of the curtain the piece was announced for repetition, amid loud and continued applause. NATIONAL STANDARD. For a considerable time this house, ever influenced by circumstances, has retained an Adelphi aspect, owing to the perpetual presence of Madame Celeste. Melodramas that once flourished in the Strand, " Flowers of the Forest," " St. Mary's Eve," " The Mysterious Stranger," and others, find an admiring audience in the vicinity of the Eastern Counties Railway, and the heroine of them all, who is accompanied by Mr. Paul Bedford and Miss Eliza Arden, is rewarded with nightly demonstrations of approval. At length, after a constant supply of dramatic fare from the West-end table, the playgoers of Shoreditch have been supplied with a new drama, entitled the " Little Sutler," one of those light courtly pieces for which the category of "petite cornedie" has been invented. The whole interest of the piece turns on the game carried on between the sutler, who is at once shrewd and sentimental, and the Emperor, who is one of those popular personages —a despot with a rough exterior and a good heart, the contending parties being represented with great spirit by Madame Celeste and Mr. J. Johnstone. Let us add that the lady wears a costume of a novel and highly picturesque charac ter, the Muscovite sutler being a figure totally distinct from the French eantiniere. MR. HENRY LESLIE'S CHOIR . Mr. Henry Leslie gave the first concert of the season last night at St. Martin's Hall. ,The performances of his choir are always a treat to the lovers of good music, and last night was a very successful opening concert. One of the • promment features in the programme was the production of Sebastian Bach's motet for double choir, " The Spirit also helpeth us." It has been previously performed at Exeter Hall, but it has all the freshness of novelty from the unde served neglect with which this master's works have been until lately treated Since the taste for classical music has so largely increased they have been frequently brought forward, and are constantly gaining in popularity. The difficulties of the one given last night, No. 6, in B flat, render the performance of it highly creditable to the choir. Another remarkable incident was the production of a MS. duet for two pianofortes, composed by Mr. C. E. Stephens, and played by himself and Miss Eliza Ward. The most arduous part fell to the lady's share, who acquit ted herself most ably, and whose brilliant execution elicited the applause of the audience. It has considerable merit as a composition, but is somewhat too long. The composer will doubtless condense and improve the latter portion. The madrigals and part songs were of varying merit, and, as usual, were all well received. Altogether, the concert reflected great credit on the amateur choir, and on Mr. Henry Leslie, their talented and efficient director. ADELAIDE ROOMS, STRAND. Within the last few days another very attractive enter tainment has been added to those already delighting the denizens of the metropolis. The latest is that now given nightly by the " Ohio Minstrels." The troupe consists of fifteen artistes, and the entertainment em braces the songs and sayings of the negro race, given with a gusto quite invigorating. Last night we paid the Ohio Minstrels a visit, and we confidently recommend those who wish to pass a couple of hours pleasantly to follow our example. The programme contained very many beautiful melodies, but that which particularly pleased us was " Hazel Dell" and " Willie we have missed you," sang by Mr. Longfield and chorus. Between the parts into which the entertainment is divided, Mr. Brandell gave some wonderful imitations .of the violin, bagpipes and ether instruments we ever heard, on the " Orchestrina," which elicited unanimous applause. In the second part we had nearly all the most popular negro songs of the day ; but those which seemed to please the audience most were " Ohio Boatman,"," Kentucky Home" (by Mr. Longfield), and a part song, entitled, "Banish, Oh, Maiden !" by Messrs.!Delaware, Longfield, Brandon, and Stuckey. All lovers of negro melodies cannot do better than pay the Ohio Minstrels a visit, at their new home in the Strand ; for assuredly they will bo delighted to the utmost. THE LATE ACCIDENT AT ASTLEY'S. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sln,—Xany exaggerated reports having appeared as to the melancholy accident which occurred at the above theatre, I am commissioned to inform you that, severe as it was to Mr. William Cooke, jun., that gentleman has not been under the painful necessity of having his limb ampu tated. The accident occurred at a rehearsal of the new drama on Tuesday morning, by which the horse called Tempest fell upon Mr. Cooke's leg and most severely in jured it—so much so that it is feared it will be many months before the young gentleman will be sufficiently re covered to resume his professional duties. All that the most skilful surgeons could do has been done. Many mem bers of Mr. Cooke's family reside at a distance, and a report of this kind is calculated most needlessly to alarm them ; may I beg the favour of your giving insertion to this, the true statement of the case ?—I am, Sir, yours obediently, Astley's Amphitheatre, Dec. 3. F. COOPER. COWES, ISLE OF WIG-HT.—Dec. 2. PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. RETURN OF THE Count—Her Majesty is ,ex pected at Osborne on Monday next. The sojourn is not expected to extend beyond the 23d inst. COWES AND NEWPORT RAILWAY.—The plans for this railway were deposited with the clerk of the parish of Northwood on the 30th ult. The inhabi tants of Cowes are unanimous in favour of this line, and as the owners of the land over which it is pro posed that the rail shall pass are all favourable to the project, the bill is not likely to meet with any opposition in its passage through Parliament. THE BOMBAY TRANSPORT, ADMIRALTY, DEC. 2, 8 p.m. The following telegram has been received from Cork The Bombay was spoken at two p.m, on the 29th ult., in lat. 50 . 35 N., long. 15 W., under jury masts, making good progress, and steering for the English Channel. Wind north-west at the time." TIIE WESTERN BANK.—We understand that the amount paid of the £lOO call now exceeds £900,000, and that several parties applying for suspensions of the call have now agreed to pay with others, and considerable addi tions are expected by the liquidators. A petition has been presented to the court for summary decree against a num ber of the contributaries. We are glad to say that those best acquainted with the true state of matters in the bank now entertain a very confident anticipation that, in any event, no further calls upon the partners will be necessary. —Daily Scotsman. THE CONFESSIONAL vestry of St. Pancras have almost unaniißously, and in a very large meeting of the representative body, passed a resolution to send a peti tion to the Queen, based on the resolutions passed at the great meeting at St. James's-hall, prayi ng f or th e exerc i se oil oiler power in putting a stop to the doctrine of the confes sional in 'the Church of England. On the resolutions, which had been forwarded by Mr. Westerton, of Knights bridge, being read, Mr. Goodwin, a dissenter, moved th e appointment of a committee to draw up the petition. It was seconded by Mr. Hearnden, and supported by Mr Farrer and Mr. }lather, late churchwardens, as well as the present, Mr, W. Turner, Mr, Hudson, and others. DEATH OF THE EARL OF HADDINGTON. We regret to announce the demise of the Earl of Haddington, K.T., who died on Wednesday a t Tyninghame-house, Haddingtonshire, after a short illness. The venerable earl was attacked about three weeks back with jaundice. from which he never recovered. The deceased, Thomas liamik ton, Earl of Haddington, Baron of Binning and Byres, in the peerage of Scotland ; Baron Melrose, of Tyninghame, county Haddington, in the peerage of the united Kingdom, was the only son of Charles, eighth earl, by his marriage mitt; Lady Sophia Hope, third daughter of the second. Earl of Hopetoun. He was born June 21, 1780, and married Nov. 13, 1802, Lady Maria Parker, only surviving child of George, fourth Earl of Maccles field, who survives her husband. The late peer sue' ceeded to the earldom on the death of his father in 1828. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford , where he graduated B.A. in 1801, and M.A. in 181. He sat in the House of C o m mons f rom 181° to 1826, as representative for Rochester. On the formation of the late Sir R. Peel's first admistro tion in Dec., 1834, his lordship was appointed Lora Lieutenant of Ireland, which he held up t o the break up of the Government. When Sir Robert Peel again took office in the autumn, 1841, his lord ship was selected for the post of First Lord of the, Admiralty, with a seat in the Cabinet. H e h e ld that office up to Jan., 1846, when he w as ma d e Lori' . Privy Seal, and retained that position until the final dissolution of the right hon. baronet's govern' ment. His lordship, although opposed to the Reform bill and other liberal measures of the Governments of Earl Grey and Viscount Melbourne, adopted the enlarged views of Sir R. Peel on the repeal of the corn laws and the commercial _reforms which fel; lowed. Since the retirement of Sir R. Peel aw; party from office the late earl has rarely interfered in politics. In 1814 his lordship was made a prici, councillor, and in 1853 he was made a Knight 0' the Order of the Thistle. He was hereditary keeper of Holyrood Palace, one of the elder brethren of the Trinity-house, a trustee of the British and Hunterian Museums, and a deputy' lieutenant of Haddingtonshire. The earldom devolves upon Mr. George Baillie, eldest son of the late Mr. George Baillie, of Jervi 9 ' wood, N. 8., by Mary, youngest daughter of sir, James Pringle, Bart., born April 14, 1802, and married to Georgiana, daughter of the Venerable Archdeacon Robert Markham. PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUM.. Yesterday an adjourned special Court of Common Council was held for the purpose of considering the subject of providing a lunatic asylum f or th e City of London. The motion of Mr. MORRIS was : " That the re' solution of this court of the 22d January last be rescinded, so far as regards the cost of erecting the proposed lunatic asylum being paid by a county rate, and that the asylum, if erected, be paid 1 1 ° out of this City's cash." Mr. WOOLTORTON's amendment was : " To omit all the words after the word rate,' and substitute the following in lieu thereof, viz. and that it is the opinion of this court that there is no neceisiti whatever for the erection of a pauper lunatic eel' lum for the City of London.' " Deputy DAKIN had the following amendment UII the paper of business :—" That the memorial and petitions to this court be referred to a ward cony mittee, with the aldermen present, to ascertain th e , average number of pauper lunatics of th e City o'• London ; to consider their present mode of treat' ment, and to inquire and report to this court wile' ther the government and funds of the Royal 1 - 10 5 " pital of Bethlehem are administered in accordance with their original intent, and with power to car fer with the present Home Secretary, with a vlel to the satisfactory settlement of the ques ti o n, 9 11 to report to this court." Several petitions against the erection of the PO' posed asylum having been presented by member° of the Co urt and read at the table, Congiderable discussion took place, in which 1 0 Alderman Salomons, Mr. Deputy Harrison, Mess'? Abraham, De Jersey, Fry, and. Jones took par': after which the motion of Mr. Wooltorton was put and negatived. Deputy DAKIN then introduced his amendment, which was seconded by Mr. BESLEY. Mr. Ross suggested the addition of the follow' ing words to the amendment :—" And that, in tin meantime, the proceedings of this Court be lag' before the justices, and that they be requested t ° suspend the levying of a county rate until the cos' mittee have brought up a report." Deputy DAKIN'S amendment, after being alterea, in accordance with the suggestions of several members, was carried as an original motion in the following shape, only four hands beitlfr held up against it :—" That the memorial and 10 0 , - tioni rresentea to this Court be referred to a won' committee, with the aldermen present, to ascertain the average number of the pauper lunatics of the, City of London, to cons id er th eir presen t mo de a treatment, to inquire and report to this Court whether the government and funds of the royal hospitals of Bethlehem and Bridewell are adminis; tered in accordance with their original intent, an d to inquire whether the erection of a pauper lunatic asylum is necessary; and with power to confer with the Home Secretary, with a view to the satis factory settlement of the question, and to report to this Court." The LORD MAYOR—The justices will proceed 0 11 Wednesday next, the day appointed, to lay th e basis of a rate ; b u t, i n d e f erence to the w i shes of this Court, I am sure they will not proceed to lei, it until this com m itt ee h ave h a d an opportunity 01' considering the subject. (Cheers.) A ward committee having been appointed in conformity with the resolution agreed to, the Court adjourned. THE CONTEMPLATED BANK OF TURKEY. The following relates to the position of th e Turkish Government with regard to the firman for , the establishment of th e con t emp l ate d Ban k o' , Turkey. It coincides with the facts of the case 11 they were understood previously to the circulation of the statement yesterday that the undertaking is to be placed in the hands of the Ottoman Baal"' In the absence of official explanation any opinion on the dispute would be premature, but it may he remarked that as matters at present stand the Turkish Government or some of its members ar pear to have pursurd an obscure or irresolute course, which, looking at the especial necessity for, straightforward dealing to establish their financin , reputation, and the universal prejudice already existing from the prevalence of intrigue a t Con stantinople, is at this moment especially to be re gretted _ _ "Royal Exchange-buildings, Dec. 2. " Sir,—Referring to the remarks in your Money Article, of to-day in reference to the proposed ' Bank of TurkeYi allow me, as one of the concessionaires of that bank, t° state that you are entirely misinformed. That the con" emsionaires hold the written official promise of the firman, from the Ottoman Gov ernment ; that they have receive,' from his Excellency the Ambassador the engagement (al the presence of several parties) that he would deliver the firman to them an d t o t h em only, and that they might regard the matter as settled, as he only waited the comple tion of a slight formality ; that the Ottoman Bank have been using every exertion to procure the firman, we sr! well aware ; but your observation that the Ottoman Ban' is bharged with the formation of the Bank of Turkey can not be true, without a sacrifice of honour on the part of the Ottoman Government, of which I am convinced it is not capable.—l am, sir, your obedt. servant, G. KLAPICA." MEXICAN BONDHOLDERS. The subjoined memorandum has been forwarded for publication by the committee of Mexican bond holders. It is evident from the contents that foreign residents are suffering greatly through the lawless state of affairs, and that protection of some description is immediately requisite. The agent of the bondhold ers i s exercising every vigilance to secure whatever funds are available in the existing state of anarchy, but the amount he can advise is necessarily small, as payments are temporarily deferred, or when made are speedily absorbed by the parties whose authority is for the moment supreme :—" The committee of Mexican bond holders have received advices from Mr. Whitehead , dated Mexico, the 21st of October and Ist ult. The rejoicings at the capital for Miramon's victor)" over Vidaurri were, on the 14th October, suddenly checked by the news that a body of Constitu tionalists had taken pos sess i on of Tacubaya (five or six miles distant). Next day they a p pea red !. 3,000 men strong, b e f ore th e cap it a l , t h e garrison 0 f which did not count half their number. They aid not, however, venture an assault, and after hovering about there for a couple of days retired. TheY afterwards (about the 20th October) sustained a rout beyond San Augustin, and the danger which the capital ran is considered to have passed. The ommunication between Mexico and Vera Cruz was very difficult, but Mr. Whitehead had received 7,354 dols. more from the a gen t s o f t h e b ondho ld e rs iere in short bills on the capital, making the ba lance in hand about 41,000 dole. The American minister had left on the 20th 'October, and it was anxiously expected that a naval force from Jamaica would put an end to the violence and outrage r against foreign res id en t s comm i tted i n Tampico. Judge Longfield h as i n ti ma t e d hi s i n t en ti on to give Judgment, at Dublin, on Monday next in the case in which the London and County Bank and the assigneo of the Tipperary Bank are claimants for the produce of the Irish estates el' the late John Satllier. con 185 Do. d Do. d Do. 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