The Sun. — London, England, 1860-12-08 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLIBH OPERA, COVENT- ' GARDEN.—Under the Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, Balfe's new opera. BIANCA, THE E BRAVO'S BRID. Supported by Miss Lou isa Fyne, Miss Thirlwall ; Mr. A. Lawrence , Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Mr. H. Cord, Mr. J. Wharton, Mr. T. Distill, Mr. Lyall, and Wm. Harrison, Conductor, Mr. A. Mellon.—Orchestra of f Ei g hty Performers ; Chorus of Fifty Voices. Doors op en 7 ; commence at half-past 7, OPAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT -IOP GARDEN—under the Manacrement of Miss LOUISA TYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE. 3Tias Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirlwall; Mr. Vr. Harrison, E. A. Lawrence, Mr. H. Corti, Mr. St. Albyn, &c. Conductor —Mr. Alfred Mellon. And a DIVERTISSEMENT. Doors open at Seven. Commence at HaU-past. EA TR S-ItOY AL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Lir. J. B. Baekstone. THIS EVENING the reriornannees will °gramme with JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Followed by THE BABES IN THE WOOD. Alter which, JENNY LIND AT LAST. Jenny (her 6th appearance), Miss Rose Howard. To conclude with MY Co HUS mmen BAND GHOST. ce at 7.'S 110YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-- to Lessee Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with SUSAN SMITH. To be followed by BUY BLAS. Supported by Mr. Pechter, Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond, Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose Leclercq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Soie Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, THE PE PS OF THE PARTERRE. Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott. The Music by Mr. Georze Loder. Principal characters by Mr IL Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Ternan, Miss Neville, Missfludspeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner, Miss Douglas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson. After which. a new Drama, entitled HANDY ANDY. Messrs. Campbell. Johnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, Villiers, tntler, and John Drew (hisl2th appearance) ; Mrs. J. Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, Miss M. Ternan, and Miss Neville. Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNE ; or THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal ch arasters by Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. John Rou se, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers, Mr. G. Vining:, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell„ Mr. Clifford, Mr. J. Johnstone ; Slrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste. To commence at a quarter to account of the length of the entertainments. A DELPHI - , NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. -FAL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. 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 Dram a of "The C o lleen Bavvn." THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs.ss E. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Mi Thorne. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boucicault, D. Fisher, Billin9, - ton, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolg,ar, Mrs. Billington, and Chatterley. After which, THAT BLESSED BABY. Mr. Billington, 3V:r. J. L Toole, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at halt-past s—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 0 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, Li. OroheOtra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Ss ; Pit Stalls , 25.; pit, is. Bd. ; Am p hitheatre, is ; Gallery, id. Aatthe Manager—Hr. Wm. Smith. STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Was. BATTY. Miss Rebecca Isaacs every Evening. This Evening, a new Spectacle, entitled THE LION CONQUEROR; or, The .Death Jungle, expressly for the introduction of the Wonders of the World, " The Groupe of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Croekett. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome and their Troupe of uneqnalled performers, &c., Including the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest Wonder of the age. Concluding with THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGI MENT. Marie, Rise Rebecca Isaacs. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.! Boa-office open daily f rom 11 till I Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. T HE CA TTL'E SHOW AND CANTERBURY HALL. C. MORTON begs to inform visitors to London that the above HALL, with its Magnificent Gallery of Modern Paint ings, by all the best masters, is OPEN EVERY EVENING at 7 o'clock. GRAND SELECTIONS FROM BELLINI'S N ORMA AND FLOTOW'S MARTHA. P RIN CIPAL ARTISTES, MISS RUSSELL MADAME MARIA MISS TYRREL MISS WILKINSON Mr. HENRY HERBERT and Mr. BERNARD. Conductor Mr. JONGIIMANS. The COMIC Department comprises Messrs. A. B. Hollings- Worth, W. T. Critchfiel4, J. Blanchard, G. W. Pell, Charley Fox, and E. Marshall, in his transformation song " tears. DOMESTIC DRAMA," personating five different characters. THI: WEATHER.-Sux OFFICE, DEC. 8, 1560. THERMOMETER, IN THE EHADB. 53—highest since noon yesterday. 45—lowest this morning and during the night. 48—this day at noon. BAROMETER-28.92; very low. WIND--South-Westerly; fresh, with rainy weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAT.—Morning, 9h. 31m.—Afternoon. 10h. 6m. To-monnow.-Yloming, 10h. 41m.—Afternoon.7s11h. 13m 'At - • 4 ,' ' .4, 14.1 !;..VV . .0 -- ) r, , ' l4' .1 ~ wy-C - , . , (._47. - .. , -f - - ‘..._ 1 ' ' ' W1:- . , '' . 1 _ , 1... , A ., , , -rIC, 6. ~ .,. ..,..z 0..„ . ,-.: i,..1,,---"., 4,,,.-4.,,.:,,,,,;;;!,74:rrr",...1...::..,,....,„...._':-11,....'",-",,,,1-i;-,-\ '''''',.:-...,.214-----,,,,....e. ::: . 4"; " :.,--- ' -.. , ~.... THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 8, 1880. A new coinego is an event that always excites considerable public attention, and calls forth a great diversity of opinion as to its merits. The new copper coinage is an exception to the rule. All the details of its size, appearance, " image, and superscription," have been minutely criticised. As far as our own opinion goes, we think the head too large, and the reverse excellent. It is altogether a pretty coin, and for lightness, freedom from unpleasant odour, richness of colour, infinitely preferable to the old copper coinage. But these are trifling advantages compared with the recognition which this coinage affords of the complete absurdity of the principle that the in trinsic and nominal value of money should go together. Lord LIVERPOOL, the founder of the bullionist currency school, laid it down as a principle that all money is not only a medium for the exchange of commodities, but " itself at the same time the ♦alue or equivalent for which goods are exchanged." Acting on the principle of Lord LIVERPOOL, the Government, in 1798, employed Mr. BOULTON to coin copper pennies, halfpence, and farthings of intrinsic value. A pound of copper was coined into 18 pence, 36 halfpence, or 72 farthings. The Soho Mint poured into circulation not less than 1,200 tons of copper. But this copper money being of intrinsic value, it became worth the while of dealers in copper to melt it down. This was ac cordingly done ; the expense of the coinage was thrown away, and the country was again subjected to the inconvenience of a deficiency o f copper money. In 1805 another issue of ° Pl 3 er money took place, and the principle of intrinsic 'value was tampered with-24 pennies, instead 01 18, being then formed out of a pound of copper, On the same relative scale of value 48 half-pence, or 'DC) farthings, were coined from a pound of copper. These coins not being absolutely of intrinsic value, were found to remain in circula tion ; they answered the purposes of money much better than the coins of really intrinsic value had done. They were neither melted nor exported. As time passed on these coins, however, became much worn and defaced. T hat did not prevent them from disch ar g in g the func tions of money; they passed for th e exchange of c ommodities. But the bad condition of the coinage afforded facilities for putting fictitious coins into circulation, In the Session of 1859, therefore, Mr. GLADSTONE intro_ duced a bill for making a new copper coinage. This coinage has just been issued. The metal is a kind of bronze, containing copper, 95 parts ; tin, 4 ; zinc, 1. And whereas in 1798 a pound of capper was coined into 18 pennies, and in 1805 into 21 pennies, a pound of bronze is now coined into 48 pennies. A penny of 1860 is half the weight of a penny o f 1805, and three-eighths of the weight of one of 1798. The new bronze coinage is, to all intents and purposes, a mere token. The intrinsic value of a penny of this coinage is less than a halfpenny ; i.e., with a halfpenny's worth of copper bearing the Mint stamp, a penny's worth of debt can be legally discharged, or a penny's worth of taxes Paid. This money can be useful only for domestic cir ; to the foreigner one bronze penny is only a piece of metal wort h less than a halfpenny. But what renders it comparatively valueless as a com modity is its excellence as money. The bronze penny will discharge perfectly its functions of money, for it is not liable to be hoarded, melted, or exported. It is expected that a considerable sum of money will be saved to the country by the issue of this cheap and convenient copper coinage. The silver coinage is at present also not of intrinsic value. But why should its nominal value approximate so nearly as it does to its intrinsic value ? If you have a little penny why not have a little shilling ? It may be said that the crime of coining would increase. Experience has shown that if we have a well executed coin, and the Mint does its duty in discovering and punishing the coiners of base money, the crime may be kept within the average limits of delinquency. But the most important consideration remains. Why, if we have copper tokens for a penny, and silver tokens for a shilling, should we not have gold tokens for a pound ? Why should we not have the cheapest and the most convenient token for a pound—namely, a one - pou nd note ? The disad vantages of such paper mo ne y are entirely phan toms of the bullionist imagination. The advan tages are many and great. Were an amount, demonstrated by long experience to be perfectly safe—such as 20 millions —of bank notes issued, under the sanction of Parliament, receivable for taxes, these notes . would maintain their value. Government, which issued them for a pound each, would receive them for a pound. They would, in fact, be less liable to fluctuate in value than a gold sovereign is. Foreign trade would be carried on, as it has ever in reality been, by barter. A foreign merchant who brought commodities to sell in this country would receive bank notes and ex change them for the commodities which he wished to carry back. If he wished to carry back gold he would exchange the bank notes at a bullion merchant's for gold at the market price of the day. The advantages of bank notes,. from £1 and upwards, for domestic circulation would be many and great. Unlike gold ,sovereigns of intrinsic value, they would not be _hoarded or exported, but would remain in circula tion, discharging the functions of money. The effect would be that the country would suffer no more from the exportation of a ton of gold than it does from a ton of iron. The pernicious system of raising the rate of discount, and contracting the eurrency, in order to force down the price of all commodities, and bring back gold to the country, would be at an end. Trade and commerce at pre sent exist in this country under the constant dread of a monetary crisis and a panic. Such would no longer be the case. A short time since the exportation of a few millions of bullion to France caused the rate of discount to be raised to six per cent. If political events in the United States cause a drain of gold from England, or should the large corn importations cause a few more sovereigns than usual to be temporarily with drawn from the Bank, a monetary pressure will recur. Anything which causes a drain of gold ' immediately disarranges our whole commercial system. This monster evil of modern times is owing entirely to the currency crotchets of the PEEL and OVERSTONE school of philosophical quacks. An end can be put to the evil any day by making the gold sovereign as completely a token as the copper coin now is, or as the silver coin, with a little alte ration, would become. We defy the whole race of bullionists to prove that any serious evil conse quence would follow. Is the Church Rate Question to supersede that of Reform next session ? The Conservative leader in the House of Commons has placed it in a position which looks like it. At a very numerous meeting of the clergy and laity of the deanery of Amers ham, the hon. gentleman summoned ChurChmen, lay and clerical, to a great political battle on this question. "He had (he said) always discouraged the clergy from entering into mere party politics ;" but now he told them openly that they must bring their influence to bear on members of the House of Commons. The clergy must make the members understand that though this was not a party, "it was a political question, and a political question on which, in their minds, there ought not to be, and there could not be any mistake." Is this the chief result of the Conservative Cabinet meeting at Hughenden Manor? Has it been decided by the the MONTAGUES, CECILS, and so forth, Lord STAN LEY, of course, being in a minority of one, that the Church-rate question afforded the most pro mising field for Conservatives to fight — if so, we venture to think that they may repent of their decision. Very sure are we that the advocates of Abolition will desire nothing more than to see their question elevated from a minor to a first-class topic ; and to see also the Liberals compelled to make it their question. As to its not being a party question when emphasis is laid so strongly on its being political, we do Mr. DIS RAELI the justice of presuming that such remarks were only made out of regard to clerical propriety. But let us look at Mr. DISRAELI'S platform, as our American friends term it—it is Church-rates whole and entire, and no surrender. He argues at length against all compromise. If by that term were meant anything to amend the law of Church rates in the sense of making them easier to collect, to secure their proper application in the district in which they were collected, or to collect them as a part of the general parochial charge from which the requisite sum might then be taken, these would be improvements. "But some of their friends would go further than this—they would exempt dissenters from the charge—that was not compromise, it was surrender." He acknow ledged that he was opposing the advice of the Lords' committee of 1859 in this ; but profound as was his respect for the wisdom of the Upper House, and of their committees, which he deemed superior to those of the House of Com mons, he thought the House of Lords could—they really could ! sometimes be precipitate ; and that they were so in this instance, because they had " mistaken public humour for public opinion." In any case, Mr. DISRAELI is for fighting the battle for Church Rates as they are. " The Rate, the whole Rate, and nothing but the Rate !" Of course Mr. DISRAELI must assign strong reasons for such an ultra position ; and strong they are, were they but sound. We are, however, sorry to say that he has adopted the creed of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, that at least which the noble lord openly avowed a few sessions back, hashe we whollynot know aba nd o t n h e a d t w i e h are ha e s n y ti o t t l e e d d and which _ to say for abolition lately, a s a politicaltecessity, but we do matternot of t remember e x in p e h d e iy, of r e t n h e at , he has formally disavowed his previous assertion, that House o f L or d s, an d th Q Throne, wonl would Church, hothe shaken aken by the r e p ea l o f th e Churc h -rates. Mr. DISRA ELI ' S the present argu ment is similar to that of the Whig Lord. It is now, ho says, understood that " the discussion of thel question of Church. rates involves th at of a National Church." An d then he proceeds to show the importance of 9, SUN, - LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER S, 1860. Nati'jnal Church. Our parochial system would 1 ranish with it—with the parochial system local gs Ivernment would perish also,—and on local gov, Irnment political liberty depends. There fore, t political liberties depend on . 'ur main taining Church-rates ! This certainly will be news to Sir JOHN TRELAWNY and to all the Ra. dicals in the House who, we believe , have, to a ma n, voted with him. Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S Ilppee:l to the Lords and the Crown touched them but little, but they must reconsider their position, \ when they find, by the undeniable logic of Mr. Dim , kELI, that in demanding Church rate abolition they are endangering not the House of Lords but :,he liberties of the nation. Nor were the social dangers less, from overthrow ing the National Church, (by surrendering Church rates) —here is an appalling picture for the thoughtless supporters of abolition, " M for the social relations of the Church with the com munity, they were so comprehensive and so complicated, so vast and various, that the most farseeing could not calculate the conse quences of the projected change. It was not merely the education of the people that was con cerned; it was even their physical condition. He would almost say, that if, by some convulsion of nature, some important district of the country, one on which the food and industry of the community mainly depended, were suddenly swept from our surface, the change would not be greater than would arise by the withdrawal of the influence of the Church from our society. The fact was, the Church of England was a part of England—a point of view not sufficiently contemplated by those who speculated on changes in its character and position." Now, with all due respect to Mr. DISRAELI, we think that he has been like the House of Lords, according to his account of it, " a little precipitate" --precipitate in assumptions necessary to his argu ment. He first assumes that abolition of Church rates would be followed by abolition of the Estab lishment. He hardly argues for them at all on their merits—at most he only asserts that a Peace Society man may be equally indulged in refusing to pay war taxes, a landowner in refusing to pay the public creditor, and the like— as if Church-rates were as unequivocally as other taxes for the equal benefit of all. The gist of his argument is, that if Church-rates go, the National Church will go too. We beg to inform the hon. member that we are of the same opinion as the vast majority of Liberal Churchmen, that to sur render this irritating impost would materially strengthen the National Churoh ; while we know well that ultra Dissenters rejoice that the obstinacy of the Church retains for them such a battle-field; such a convenient platform for Anti-State Church agitation in every parish in the kingdom. Another assumption quietly made by Mr. DISRAELI, is, that a National Church and an Establishment are identical. They may be so in common parlance, but surely not in principle. It cannot be essential to the Church of the nation that the physical force of the nation should be its reliance for support. That it should depend on taxes levied by law, that is, in the last resort, by the constable, and even by the soldier. The more really national it is, the better could it dispense with such aids and be a voluntary Church. Mr. DISRAELI must be well aware that the oppo nents of the Establishment are, avowedly, we believe sincerely, not opponents of the Church which is established. On the other hand he must remember the eloquent declamation of the Bishop of OXFOUD, on the independence of the Anglican Church on such accidents as State favour or State persecution. Even, therefore, should Church rate abolition involve anything further, it could be but the destruction of the Establishment, not of that Church which, if it be a true Chruch, cannot, of course, be "in danger." Nor is this mere theory. Churches do exist and prosper, not only in America, which, of course, must not be appealed to, but in this country. In England, Scotland, and Ireland, the non-Established Churches have, at least, quite as much religious influence—the object for which churches exist—as the Church by law established. We strongly suspect that Mr. DISRAELI has taken up with a wrong cry if he means to try and rouse the country on Church Rates. The reference to the petitions of last session is by no means in his favour. He spoke of 5,000 petitions, and de manded 15,000 for next session; but suppose the result should resemble that of last year, —it would be that of five to one against him. The numbers were— Pennons. Signatures, Against Church Rate Abolition 5,575 197,687 For Church Rate Abolition 5,538 610,877 The fact is, Mr. DISRAELI himself was obliged to admit, that the pro-rate petitions were too often signed by only the clergy and churchwardens. If Mr. DISRAELI fairly throws down the gauntlet, he may be sure that all the towns in England and all the liberalism of the country will be roused to join in the battle heart and soul. When that is the case ignorant country parishes will go for little indeed. His Highness the Grand Vizier has recently (as will be seen from the report published in another column of our journal of this evening), but very recently addressed a State paper of considerable importance to his Imperial Majesty the Sultan Caliph ABDUL MEDJID. It is literally, in point of fact, a sort of Turkish Blue-book in miniature—a report of an Imperial Commission. And viewed in that character, it will certainly be found upon examination to be extremely edifying. We all know surely by this time something about the condition of Turkey—something, just something, about the state of things in the Ottoman Empire, whether considered socially, morally, or politically. The Crimean war alone could not but open the eyes of Western Europe to the frightfully degenerated and demoralised condition of the Mussulman race and the Mussulman rule—of the Turkish people, and of the Turkish Government. We know now perfectly well how grievously diseased is the body, and (so far as we may be permitted to judge) how tainted the soul of that Sick Man who has been so long sick—yea, sick even unto death. The half liberalised system of administration carried out during the reigns of the present SULTAN and of his MAJESTY'S illustrious father, the system inaugu rated, in fact, by that great man the Sultan Caliph Marimoup, has only—we all feel that, we all know that for certain—has, after all, only retarded what is quite inevitable sooner or later—namely, the " passing away" of the Mussulman power in Europe, the return of the Turks into Asia, the recrossing (by that fated race) of the rubicon of the Bosphorus. Tne rule of the Turk in Europe has for four hundred years been an anomaly the has remained, but basely tolerated, by the Euro• pean Powers because of the jealousies and conten tions of those European Powers amongst them selves. The day will come, must come, when the signal shall be pronounced for the disappearance of the Mahometan Government as an European Power, and the rolling back of that non-civilised race from the borders of Christendom. The Grand Vizier's official communication to his Imperial master will be found upon examination to be a most farcical travestie upon the style and manner of documents of this class among the more civilised of European statesmen. He reminds his MAJESTY of the important commission intrusted to his care and abilities by his MAJESTY—namely, that of inquiring iato the validity of the complaints put forward in the complaints of the Christian population of Roumelia. With what result the mission has been conducted the reader will see from the paragraph in which the Grand Vizier writes : —" Your Imperial MAJESTY will see by the docu ment submitted to your high appreciation, and I affirm it in the most solemn manner, that I have found no indication of the alleged system of perseeu tion organised by the Mussulman fanaticism against the Christians ; the assassinations, violations, rob beries, and spoliations, the list of which had even been put before friendly and allied Courts, have almost all disappeared before the conscientious examination of the court. Each matter has been the object of special inquiry; no legal method has been omitted." It is the Turkish mode altogether of reading the Christian axiom, as articulated by PoPE— " Whatever is, is right." All the complaints from Roumelia go for nothing—they have been inquired into, saith his Highness, and have proved to be in every way purely imaginary—purely visionary. Not—quoth the sapient Minister of the " Turbaned Turk" at Constantinople—not by any means that he would wish to insinuate that he has had in Nish and other contiguous provinces to repress no crimes, to punish no misdeeds. Far from it. All that he undertakes to assert is this, and he does assert it most formally,—" That it is completely untrue that your Christian subjects have to eom plain of the least systematic persecution on the part of their Mussulman fellow-countrymen; that, as in all human society, each community furnishes its contingent of criminals calling for the seve rity of justice; and that the contents of the list above named have existed only in the minds of those who seek to lower us in the sight of foreign Powers." And all the while—let his Highness aver the fallacy of such measures as energetically as he pleases—all the while it is notorious that the evils he declares to be absolutely non-existing abound to an extent frightful to bear for an instant in consideration. Having simply given this gross denial—a denial of the most generalised and com prehensive kind, as will have been remarked —the GRAND VIZIER has the effrontery to finish up his task with a flourish about the reforms more urgently called for, and intimated by him to be actually in contemplation ! Enume rating the more conspicuous abuses visible in Turkey to even casual travellers, " The method of farming," he writes, " the tithes, the organisation of the rural police, the state of the roads, give to all subjects without distinction just cause for com plaining of the administration. The creation of a few criminal courts offering to accused persons all kinds of guarantees, is one of the reforms which would answer to the wishes of the country and to the paternal desires of your Imperial MAJESTY. The regulations which at present establish the levying of the land-tax, and of the indirect taxes, also require some reforms." Later on in his state-paper his highness observes,very suavely,very charmingly, " Your MAJESTY'S Government, in conformity with your commands, sire, is occupying itself actively and seriously with the preparation of measures for each of the matters in question ; these measures will shortly be submitted to the high approbation of your MAJESTY." Precisely. It is the normal state of the Turk and of Turkey. " Man," there (again to quote the Christian poet from whose works we have already here made one brief excerpt)—" Never is but always to be blessed." Before that time can arrive, we may rest perfectly certain of this—that the Turkish Power in Europe will have to take CIIARON'S boat and re-cross the Bosphorus into Asia. THE TRIUMPH OF BRITAIN. BY WILLIAM BEATTIE. The really remarkable gifts of Mr. Beattie as a sculptor we have already more than once had occasion in these columns to signalise. In this very noble group, however, a group emblematic of the Triumph of Britain, we fail not upon the instant to recognise the sculptor's most ambitious effort, and in every essential respect, among all his now numerous productions, unquestionably his most successful achievement. And it is in truth a work of art so simple and .yet grand in its design, and one at the same time so peculiarly and imperially national in its character that it is not unworthy of being designated in plain matter of fact, as—an achievement. The allegorical group is composed simply of Britannia and her Lion. Britannia holding in her left hand, supported lightly and gracefully upon her left arm, an ingeniously abbreviated sceptre-like trident—while her carelessly down stretched right hand is toying caressingly and lovingly with the mane of the King of Brutes, her immemorial companion. It is by an admi rably artistic effect merely of proportion that the grandeur of the lofty stature of the Island Goddess is realised by the spectator. This occurs too, even upon the first momentary glimpse of what we cannot but regard as Mr. Beattie's masterpiece. Although the height of the now perfected clay model is no more than four feet in all—certainly a very considerable height in itself, when we bear in remembrance the fact that this work of art under notice is about to be reproduced by the artist in parian—y et the sculptor has contrived through a group thus moulded upon a scale in itself so intrinsically minia ture, to produce an effect actually colossal, an effect realised with the cunning of a true artist, simply through the agency, as we have said, of proportion ! Contrasted with the majestic Goddess, by whose knee the Lion is fawn ing. the glorious creature appears dwarfed to the merest cub in its dimensions. Yet is it, when scruti nised apart from its Queenly mistress, a noble type of the Lord Imperial among the brute creation ! A specimen of its genus, so far Miltonic in its every limber movement, that it might have originally emerged to view' from the crumbling earth, as the representative of its ancient prototype— " The tawny Lion pawing to get free Its hinder parts—then springs as broke frombonds— And rampant shakes his brinded mane I" Yet, it is this formidable King of Brutes that in Mr. Beattie's sculptured representation of "Britain Triumphant,"dwindles down to a whelp by the knee of the Goddess, round whose feet he is frolicing as innocently as though the millenial age had already come, when the tiger is to dandle the kid and the child toy unharme with the basilisk. As for the artist's sculptured embodiment of the tutelary form of Britannia—from helmet to sandal the figure stands before us as an unquestionable masterpiece. Scarcely "stands" either—that is hardly the word—the " Guardian Goddess" of England (usually represented by sculptors and medallists hitherto as seated) "slightly reclining" —in this impressive group from the hand of Mr. Beattie—against an oak-stump near the rocky seashore—reclining thus, manifestly in indication of Britain's blended majesty and composure in the midst of all the storms and tumults around her. Scrutinizing the details of the work under con ,ideration, with a critical regard even for the ininutitn of its mere subsidary adornments—the observer will hardly fail to recognise the adroitly delicate interweaving of the rose, the shamrock, and the thistle indicated along the torque-like band upon the Minerva-helmet of Britannia. Altogether the work reflects honour upon the patriotism, no less than upon the artistic genius of William Beattie, hitherto known chiefly as the sculptor of Wallace, henceforth certain to be known yet more ' widely as the sculptor of Britain Triumphant. BRITONS, THE SLAVES OF THE MONIED INTEREST, AND THE VICTIMS OF THE MONOPOLY IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BANK NOTES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sint,—Another artificial monetary pressure in the face of abundance of money, and possibly another monetary panic, is at hand ; which will yield a rich harvest to the owner of money, but great loss to the owners of all other kinds of property, and to the sons of labour. When will our landowners, merchants, manufacturers, and operatives awaken to the direful action on their interests of our monetary laws, and especially of the Act of 1844 ? Let them look upon money of all kinds, from cowrie shells to bank notes and sovereigns, simply as " a security for the transfer of capital, and regard it as perfectly dis tinet from capital, insomuch as money of itself cannot add to products of the world, whilst capital can. Money, so long as it is retained as money, and not exchanged for capi tal, cannot increase wealth, for although one person receives interest for its use, another person pays it, and the general wealth remains the same. Let them consider further, that the true meaning of raising the rate of discount is the stoppage of trade, the interchange of their respective commodities by making mo,ney, the instrument for carrying on trade, dearer; that the effect is precisely the same as when the directors of a railway by raising their fares and rates diminish traffic. To restrict the supply of money—of "perfectly seund secu rities for the transfer of equivalent values of capital," is surely as absurd as it would be to limit the number of trucks and carriages on a railway. Should not the sound rule be, to take care of the quality of the circulating medium and leave the quantity to take care of itself. On this principle the business of the Bank of England was conducted prior to the Act of 1844, the directors being subject to no other restriction than that which their liability to pay their notes in gold on demand imposed on their dis cretion. The market rate of discount then depended upon the demand and supply of the various kinds of ready money, viz., deposit money, Bank notes, and gold, but since the Act of 1844, therate depends on the demand and supply of gold alone ; as the notes of the Bank of England are made to increase and decrease with the gold in the issue depart ment of the Bank of England, and their amount governs the Bank rate of discount, and the 'Bank rate regulates the market rate. For 140 years previous to the Act of 1844, the rate of discount of the Bank of England never fell below 4 per cent., nor exceeded 5 per cent., excepting for a few months in 1839, whilst, since the act, the fluctuations have been incessant and often violent, ranging from to 2 to 10 per cent. ; from the Bth to the 15th of November last the variation was from 4 to 6 per cent., a rise 4 . 50 per cent. in eight days. And into whose pockets does the extra rate go, and from whom is it taken ? Is it not transferred from landowners, merchants, and manufacturers, to bankers, money-dealers, and depositors ; from productive to non-productive classes; for although bankers are most valuable and essential in providing money, the means of obtaining capital and car rying on production, they do not themselves produce any thing. Whence comes it that these powerful bodies of land - owners, merchants, manufacturers, and operatives so tamely submit to the gross injustice of our monetary laws; and more especially how comes it that Chambers of Com merce, the appointed guardians of the interests of the com mercial community, are so supine on the subject ? Is it that the members are so much engrossed with buying cheap and selling dear that they neglect the due consideration of the laws which so often upset their calculations ; or is it that they are so little acquainted with the science of money, the most important branch of political economy, that they shun the discussion of the currency ? Or is it, that the majority of the members are under such obligations to their bankers that they dare not protest against the monopoly in the manufacture of bank-note money which their bankers possess, that as borrowers they 'cannot well con tend with lenders ? Are they not aware that as the value of money rises, the value of their property (capital) falls, and that all fluc tuations in the value of money, not proceeding from the natural law of demand and supply, but artificially created by unsound laws, are most prejudicial to their interests ? Are they insensible to the fact that our laws by restrict ing the supply of money make it dearer to them than to their foreign competitors, that the difference to their dis advantage with France was lately If per cent., the rate of the Bank of France being 41 per cent. and of the Bank of England 6 per cent., and that at the same time the market rate of discount in Brussels was 3 per cent., and at Ham burg only 2f per cent. If these influential classes will not bestir themselves to obtain emancipation from the thraldom of the monied inte rest, how can we expect that any Government, unsupported by public opinion, will undertake the task. The monied interest in the House of Commons is more powerful than the landed interest ; from the latter we did obtain the abolition of the monopoly which the Corn-laws gave them, but the monopoly still remains which the Money Laws create—a reproach to all Freetraders. It is strange, but true, that no deference is paid in the House of Commons to the opinion of a member on the subject of money unless he be a banker, the party most interested, and that the more money he possesses the more sound and disinterested his opinion is considered to be; in the Com mittee on the Bank Acts, the evidence of Lord Overstone, a millionaire, was preferred to that of 3. S. Mill, Esq., the first political economist of the age. What Ministers, be they Whig or Tory, dare go down to the House of Commons and grapple with the over whelming influence of the Bank of England and monied interest there, by proposing that the powers of issuing up wards of £30,000,000 of Bank-notes, given by the Act of 1844 to certain privileged bankers, should be taken from thsm, and transferred to a National Bank of Issue for the good of the nation ? Were a national Bank of Issue now in action, where all could have legal tender notes payable in gold upon demand, on depositing one-third of the amount in gold, and two-thirds in Government securities, these drains of gold to France and America would be comparatively little felt ; the value of gold would rise naturally, according to the law of supply and demand, and the rate of discount would be raised pro portionately, but there would be no diminution of our domestic currency, nor apprehension of a deficiency of legal tender money, the real cause of monetary panics; both of which evils are created by the Act of 1844. Verily we are the slaves of the monied interest, and with little chance of emancipation, unless bankers are high-minded and patriotic enough, and many are, to prefer their country's good to their individual advantage, and will themselves move for an amendment of our Monetary Laws ; or, a third dreadful monetary panic be inflicted upon us, as in 1847 and 1857. These convulsions are the certain results of the conflict ing principles at work, of Free-trade in commodities and restrictions on the quantity of money requisite to pay for them. Nature's offended laws will eventually vindicate themselves. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, HAMER STANSFELD. The Grange, Burley, near Otloy, 6th December, 1860. P.S. Were the public aware that the writer of the City Money Article in the Times is the Secretary of the Treasury Committee of the Bank of England, the giant monopolist, they might account in some degree for the support given to the Act of 1841 by the leading journal. ASTLEPS _ROYAL AMIIIITIIEATRE. A novelty of a very startling description, viz., a new two act melodrama, has been produced here with immense success. The piece, which is from the pen of:Mr. Thomp son Townsend, has been written for the purpose of intro ducing Mr. James Crockett and hie troupe of trained lions, and is entitled " The Lion Conqueror, or the Death Jungle." oneraily speaking, pieces of this description have but little interest except the special purpose for which they are in tended, but this production is an exception to the rule, and is crowded wi.h the most startling and thrilling situations, The grand climax of the drama is the encounter by Mr. Crockett with four lions ; and,'without exception, it is the most daring performance ever witnessed in a theatre. The animals seem of a class very different to those exhibited by Van Amburgh some years ago. There is not that sleepy, cowed appearance that was so palpable in that gentleman's collection ; but, on the contrary, Mr. Crockett's all appear as if they had a will of their own, and one espe cially, a small lioness, does not seem at all backward in evincing her dislike to the commands of her master. To show the complete mastery Mr. Crockett has obtained over these denizens of the forest, he enters a cage armed only with a small riding whip, and there makes them play all sorts of curious antics. A dish of raw beef is then handed to him, and it is very amusing to witness the patient man ner in which they all wait their turn to be served with the savoury morsels. By way of a relish, we suppose, Mr. Crockett discharges a pistol in the midst of the animals, but they took the surprise quietly, and then " the Con queror" emerges from the cage to receive the applause of the audience. To all those who are fond of the wonderful we recommend a visit to the Royal Amphitheatre, feeling certain they will witness a novel and interesting exhibi tion. The drama is followed, as usual, by the pretty equestrian acts in the arena, and Miss Rebecca Isaacs dis misses the audience in a delightful mood by her pretty singing in " The Daughter of the Regiment." Mr. Batty, we believe, is making extraordinary efforts for his Christmas entertainment, which, if repert can be believed, will be one of the most splendid ever produced at this theatre. At the Durham Assizes, yesterday, Thomas Smith was found guilty of the murder of a pitman, named Batty, at Winlaton, and was sentenced to death. The heavy rain of Thursday night had the effect of swelling the Medlock and Irwell to an unusual height. Considerable damage was done in Ardwick and the neigh bourhood of Oxford Road by the overflowing of the Med lock ; while the lower lands of Broughton were completely inundated by the In Lower Broughton the cellars aa iniulaber of dwelling - houses werefleoded to the cei4g, THE PRINCESS ALICE.—We have good authority L r for announcing that the Princess Alice is betrothed to his Grand Ducal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse. The Duchess of Sutherland left Stafford House, St. James's, yesterday, to join the duke and fathily at Trantham. The Marquis of Bath is entertakting a select circle at Longleat, Wilts, The party have had good shoot. ing over the game preserves on his lordship's estate. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury have been surrounded by a large circle during the week at Hat field House, Herts. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury ar rived in town on Thursday from visiting the Countess of Dunmore at Dunmore Park, near Falkirk. The noble mar quis and marchioness are expected to leave to-day for Tot tenham Park, Wilts. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have been entertaining a succession of distinguished friends:at Bretby Park, Derbyshire. The Countess Cowper is on the eve of receiving a large party of visitors at Wrest Park, Beds. Lady Marian Alford is:entertaining a select party at Ashbridge Park, Herts. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have de- ferred leaving town for Broadlands, Hants, till Monday next. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Herbert left town yesterday for Wilton House, near Salisbury, where a large circle of visitors are about to assemble. The Hon. Algernon Egerton, M.P., and Lady Blanche Egerton left. Trentham, whero they had been on a visit to the Duke of Sutherland, early in the week to visit Lord Pnd Lady Bagot at Blithfield, Staffordshire. ACCIDENT TO LORD SALISBURY.—WhiIe out rabbit shooting at Hatfield-park the noble Marquis was unfortunately struck in the leg by several shots. We are happy to add that no further result is apprehended than a confinement to the house for a few days. A monument to the late Major-General Sir Wm. Reid, K.C.8., is about to be erected at Bermuda. He was governor of Bermuda from 1829 to 1846. There is' no foundation for the statement origi nated by a local paper, and copied into other journals, that Mr. Disraeli had consented to preside at a temperance demonstration at Leeds. During Mr. Bright's recent visit to Paris he and Mr. Cobden had an interview with the Emperor. Mr. Cobden is about to proceed to Algiers, and will return to England in time for the opening of the Parliamentary session. Trieste has sent a deputation to Vienna praying he Government to be released from the liability of conscrip ion in the present arrear. THE GARIBALDIAN RED SHIRT.—When the Prince of Wales visited this city nothing astonished him so much as the display of red shirts. As many as 6,000 or 7,000 of our firemen marched before the future King of England, each clad in the scarlet vestment, which has be come the recognised uniform of the department. When Garibaldi was at work making candles on Staten Island our red shirted fellows attracted his attention. Their cos tume was strikingly free and easy—their bearing that of men who feared nothing —and who would die in the last ditch to maintain their freedom—so ha adopted the red shirt.—New York Herald. PHOTOGRAPHING ON SUNDAYS.—At the Man sion-house yesterday, Mr. Alexander Henderson, a photo• graphic artist, was summoned for unlawfully carrying on his ordinary occupation on Sunday, the 2d of December, whereby, under the provisions of a statute passed in the reign of King Charles tie Second, he had forfeited a penalty not exceeding ss. The taking of portraits on Sunday having been proved, the Lord Mayor fined the defendant ss. ; and, as he said he would continue the practice, the magistrates allowed the witnesses 2s. 6d. each, which, with the penalty, amounted to 14s. THE CHILD MURDER AT ROAD.—We are informed that Inspector Norris, of Bristol, and Superintendent Hughes, of Bath, have so far succeeded in their investiga tion of this mysterious case, that they are already in a position to establish a prima _facie case against a certain person. In a few weeks they hope to have so matured their case as to be able to apply for judicial assistance. Meanwhile the Wilts police are very active in pursuing their inquiries, and we have reason to believe that they are in possession of a clue that may lead to important disco veries. In connection with this Superintendent - Wolfe has visited Frome and Road. Mr. Sylvester, the coroner for North Wilts, has taken steps to show cause against the application of the Attorney- General to the Court of Queen's Bench. Yesterday his solicitor visited Frome with a view to prepare affidavits in support of Mr. Sylvester's conduct of the inquisition on the body of the murdered boy. MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE IN THE CHANNEL.— A communication from Scilly, dated Friday last, gives the following :—" The French schooner Jeunne Rose, of Bor deaux, was met with (in company with the French brig Marie Adele, of Redon), about 20 miles west from Scilly on the morning of the 29th ult., with jibboom and foreyard gone, by the pilot cutter Agnes of Scilly. It was repre sented that four of the schooner's crew had been lost over board, and that two men had been sent on board from the brig to assist in navigating her to the nearest port she could make, and she was taken in tow by the Agnes, and assisted into stilly the same evehing. Capt. Dorrigue, of the Marie Adele, now reports that on the morning of the 27th ult. he fell in with the Jeune Rose, about 2Q miles west from Ushant, abandoned, and apparently plundered, the cabin being much broken and ransacked, ‘. 9 z . c., and that he put part of his crew on board of her, and, took her in tow for some time until the rope broke, and they were driven to the west of Scilly ; and that as she was found in French waters, and he thought she might probably belong to some poor per sons, he intended taking her to France for the benefit of those concerned ; and that the misrepresentation was made to prevent the fact of her being a derelict, &c., becoming known in England. She is coal-laden, but no papers were found on board to show what port she was from, but she is supposed to have been from some port in Wales for France. The master's name is supposed, from a document found on board, to have been Roso. She will now be delivered into the custody of the Receiver of Wrecks at Scilly. The Jeune Rose was for some time at Bristol, and was to call at Cardiff for her coals."—Plymouth Journal. THE POST-OFFICE.— In addition to the particulars published in The Sun a few days since respecting this department of the public service it may be interesting to add that in the last financial year the expenditure was £1,905,568, besides £41,489 for superannuation and com pensation allowances, as compared with £1,854,808 and £40,108 in 1853-9, £1,776,041 and £36,400 in 1857-8, £1,610,325 and £26,861 in 1856-7, and £1,291,550 and £23,500 in 1855-6. The growth of expenditure in the five years consequently amounted td £579,866. In the same period the income advanced from £2,767,201 to £3,310,655, showing an advance of £543,454. The expenditure last year was returned as follows :—Chief offices in London, Dublin, and Edinburgh, £496,906; surveyors in the United King dom, £43,107 ; provincial establishments in England and Wales, £454,606 ; ditto in Ireland, £51,675 ; ditto in Scot land, £73,585 ; establishments in the colonies and agents abroad, £24,287 ; conveyance of mails in the United King dom, £632,555 ; buildings and repairs, £51,028; manufacture of postage labels, £27,815. In 1855-6 these various items stood thus :—Chief offices in London, Dublin, and Ediri burgh, £412,292 ; surveyors to the United Kingdom, £39,205 ; provinoial establishments in England and Wales, £336,392; ditto in Ireland, £36,346; ditto in Scotland, £52,568; establishments in the colonies and abroad, £18,365 ; buildings and repairs, £18,620; manufacture •f postage labels, £24,411. STRONG DRINK.—A Parliamentary return has just been issued, moved for by Mr. Baines, showing for a series of years the actual or estimated consumption of spirits in the United Kingdom. The quantity consumed in the year 1852 is stated to have been 30,067,139 gallons; and the consumption has ever since been on the increase in England, and that at a rate faster than the growth of the population. But in Scotland and Ireland the consumption received a severe check in 1854 and 1855 through a large increase in the duty on home and colonial spirits (the duty there having been much below the rate for England), and the Scotch drinker had at the same time to encounter the Forbes Mackenzie Act, which has made it more inconve nient to obtain spirits. The result has been that the con sumption in the United Kingdom in the year 1852 was no more than 28,661,674 gallons, or scarcely a gallon a head — the quarter to which the enemy is considered to make its way. Compared with 1852 the consumption in England had increased nearly 3,ooo,ooogallons, that of Scotland had decreased neatly 2,000,000, and that of Ireland 2,500,000. Not, however, that these last two portions of the kingdom are now behind England, for while England, with its 20,000,000 of people, consumed 17,000,000 gallons of spirit s last year, Scotland, with its 3,000,000 of population, took 5,600,000 ; and Ireland, with perhaps only its 6,000,000 of inhabitants, very nearly that precise number of gallons ; so that in England we do not take quite a gallon of spirits a year a piece, but Scotland drinks the deficiency for us, so as to bring the consumption of the United Kingdom up to about that rate. Still, while in 1851, with a population of 2,888,742, the consumption of spirits i n S cotland reached 7,090,894 gallons, and wets still higher in the next year, in 1859, with an estimated population of little over 3,000,000, the consumption was only 5,638,882 gallons. Whether the balance upon spirit drinking, as between England and Scotland,wine anis maltadifference in respect of t liq a u ll or r s ed i r s essed by a another question ; but the spirit accoun ts stands as we have stated. Th e malt charged with duty in the United Kingdom has only risen from 41,072,486 bushels in 1852 to 44,219,300 in 1859; but little malt is charged with duty in Scotland and Ireland. The quantity of foreign and colonial wine retained for consumption in the United Kingdom was 6,346,001 gallons in 1852, and had risen to 6,775,992 gallons in 1859 ; what the new " re freshment houses" will do time will show. The gross amount of the taxation laid on all these liquors and on licenses to miinufacture and sell them amounts to the enormous sum of x 21,000,000: but that is subject to a deduction for aver entries and drawbacks on exportation or use for excepted purposes. The return from which we have been quoting makes no mention of hops, on which a duty of above XlOO,OOO was charged last year. S T ANT , (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) \V i.; L . VIENNA, DEC. 8. King Francis 11. has concluded a loan at Vienna. The Neapolitan army in the Roman territory has diminished to 8,000 men. NAPLES, DEC. 5. Reactionary disturbances have taken place at Caserta, occasioned by Royalist agents and a por tion of the inhabitants. These disturbances were followed by a serious counter manifestation. The whole Garibaldian army hastened to the spot to crush the movement. About 100 persons were arrested, and several ringleaders shot. Numbers of the inhabitants have taken flight. The city of Aversa hag also risen in insurrection against the Garibaldians, who, however, remained masters. The Cardinal Archbishop having arrived at Naples manifestations against him took place before his palace. Some shouted, " The Pope for ever !" and others, " Garibaldi for .ever !" A riot then ensued. The mob besieged the palace and attempted to set it on fire. The disorders lasted 18 hours, and only terminated when the Archbishop appearei on the balcony holding the Italian tri-coloured flag. King Victor Emmanuel is expected here from Palermo. It is rumoured that the Government is about to contract a loan on account of public works. PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING. The Noniteur publishes a long circular addressed by Count Persigny to the Prefects, explaining in what spirit he intends to use the discretionary power conferred upon him by the press law. Count Persigny examines the English laws, and points out their severity for all attacks against the Crown and State. He also mentions the great liberty enjoyed by the English press of discussing all acts of the Government. M. de Persigny then says :—" If all parties and all writers, respecting the wish of the French people, only desire liberty of the press to maintain the prosperity of the state, they have liberty of the press in France,,as in England, and the avertisse ment law becomes a dead letter. Let abuses in society or government be disclosed, let the acts of the public administration be discussed, and injus tice be revealed, but should parties endeavour to overthrow the State and dynasty, the law will not permit discussion, and the system of warnings will then be enforced." The Minister concludes as fol lows:—"I declare that although disposed not to flinch before anyresponsibilityin prohibiting attacks by the press against the State, on the other side I shall not consult any private considerations in the resolutions which I shall take to encourage the habit of free discussion in France." NAPLES, DEC. 7. A reactionary movement has taken place at Sorg, but public order has been re-established. A grand military. review will be held to-morrow. MADRID, DEC. 7. The Correspondencza Autografa gives a denial to the report of the organisation of 13 battalions of volunteers in Catalonia. The garrison of Tetuan will be replaced by troops from the Peninsula. VIENNA, FRIDAY EVENING. Endeavours are being made to bring about all understanding between England and France con cerning the prolongation of the French occupation of Syria, which will not, however, take place with out the acquiescence of the European Powers, and without being approved by another Conference at Paris. The Fortschritt states that in a Council of Ministers held within the last few days the pro gramme drawn up by Baron Schmerling for the inte rior development of Austria was agreed to by the Government. It is to be expected, therefore, that Baron Schmerling will enter the Cabinet. The Wanderer of this evening says :—" We learn from an authentic source that Baron Schmerling was yesterday appointed Minister of State, in place of Count Goluchowski, and that the baron hao accepted this appointment." BERNE, DEC. 7. The elections to the Federal Council took place to-day. The former members were reelected in consequence of the parties not being able to come to a compromise. M. Kniisel has been elected President, and M. Staempfli Vice-President. The following are the members elected, and the votes for each : M. Furrer • 138 M. Staempfli M. Knusel M. Fornerod B7 M. Naeff M. Herose B6 M. Pioda .... 76 MADRID, DEC. 7. As General O'Donnell was leaving the Senate to-day he was wounded in the left shoulder by pistol-shot. The assassin, whose name is Imaz, was immedi ately arrested. He is known to be a man of extreme opinions. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 7.—There has been but a veri limited amount of business transacted, but the price of yesterday are well maintained. Threes, for the Account, which are quoted to-day ex dividend , are now at 69f 10c ; Mobilier, 782 f 50c ; Orleans 1 , 385 f; Northern, 990 f ; Mediterranean, 910 f Austrian, 507 f 50 c ; L om b ar d, 487 f 500. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents 96 90 I Do end month 97 —1 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 10 Bank Shares 2950 Credit Mobilier 777 50 Do. Account 778 75 Credit Foicier .... 920 --- Belgian 4f —..-- Piedmontese Fives BO 2 5 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes -- Homo Dobt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 991 25 .. 990 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 910 .. 910 Geneva . Southern 525 .. 523 75 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lon-bard . 48:5 .. 486 25 MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.—Great sensatioo has been excited in the neighbourhood of Hawkhurst, lientt by the disappearance of the daughter of a respectabl e tradesman residing in the Throws. Her departure from' home took place on the 13th of Sept. last, and from that day to this, with the exception of a newspaper fro n Brighton, apparently directed by her, her parents have no t obtained the slightest clue to her retreat, and they are no t even certain that she is living. Inq uiries were set on foot immediately on her disappearance, in the first instance among her relatives and friends, and on the following Sunday the case was put into the hands of the police. There had been no previcus misunderstanding with her fansilio and nothing can be imagined to have occurred which lea to this rash step being taken; but it is conjectured the't she must be under the c ontrol of som e person , a s she is 111 supposed to have had sufficient means to carry her ber n" the range of the inquiries of the police. 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